Mission: Hollywood - where bad ideas aren’t just rewarded but encouraged.

Hollywood is not like other places. Chances are that when you have a bad idea at work, you get an irritated memo from your boss, maybe a black mark in your employment record, or perhaps a friendly escort to the curb and a vigorous iron-knuckling by corporate security.

Not so in Hollywood, where bad ideas can become the stuff of legend; where today’s bad idea is tomorrow’s first-look studio deal. Nevertheless, Mission: Hollywood valiantly tries to expose some of Hollywood’s most recent examples of faulty logic, uninspired concepts and just plain wrong-thinkery:

Hugh Jackman bursts with giddy pride as he chats with Sci Fi Wire about his upcoming film The Fountain. “[It's] one of the most extraordinary things that I’ve ever seen”, he says, going on to praise the film’s soundtrack and attributing Kubrickian levels of genius to its director Darren Aronofsky.

Why is this a bad idea? Because he said all of this while doing publicity for X-Men. Directed by another guy. Who probably isn’t a genius.

TMZ.com has a delightful slideshow depicting Britney Spears’ most recent near-baby-tragedy (that we know of) in which, thanks to the catlike reflexes of her obviously underpaid bodyguards, Sean Preston Whatever Whatever narrowly escapes serious bodily harm.

Where’s the bad idea here? We’re thinking that it’s a bad idea for Britney to leave her house. Assuming there are no paparazzi lurking in her bathtub, she should be able to draw the blinds shut and go for a week or two without appearing in the press as a complete moron. Really, look at her face in the last two photos in this series - she knows exactly what her next few days are going to be like.

Will Smith figured he had an A-ticket back to Blockbustertown when he jumped on board the superhero-deconstruction-action-comedy (soon to be a trademarked genre tag!) Tonight, He Comes - but now the project’s lost its second director and seems to be sinking even deeper into the Development Pits of Doom.

Who had the bad idea? We’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with “spleenwriters”. Perhaps the two directors who abandoned this project weren’t able convince Columbia to change a title destined to inspire more derisive headline puns than Poseidon, Just My Luck and Failure to Launch put together.

You’ve probably already seen these swell Mos Eisley Cantina bookends for sale - a must-have, preorder-while-it’s-hot item for all of the Star Wars urkels on your gifting list.

Now how could this be a bad idea? You know how it goes - you’ll pay a lot of money for these today and next year they’ll simply come out with that other version that you wanted all along.

Word has it that David Hasselhoff will be one of the judges of America’s Got Talent - an upcoming competition series from creatively-challenged Simon Cowell, who seems to be running for popularity reelection on the oft-used Make Every US Citizen a Third-Rate Celebrity platform.

Bet you can’t see this one coming. Hmm…a bad actor, well-known for pop-culture-friendly but empty-headed drivel, in the twilight of his career, judging other actors…where could Cowell have possibly found inspiration for this…?

MTV.com is reporting that Eddie Murphy will be back in heavy prosthetic make-up for his next movie Norbit. Oh, and he’ll be in drag, too. And that’s right, he’ll also be playing multiple roles again. And the movie’s about a sheepish sad sack who has to Learn What’s Important In Life.

Really, is there anything not bad about this idea? The film grips have barely started pulling cable and there’s already speculation whether or not this signals a “comeback” for Murphy or - how many times shall we still speculate about it - Cuba Gooding, Jr.