The week that was, Aug. 17-23 | Ice buckets, haters and ‘The Simpsons’

Oh, these “Ice bucket challenge” videos can never get old, right?

R.I.P., Don Pardo, announcer for “Saturday Night Live.”

“You have to have more fun than they do,” Taylor Swift says on “Today” of the “haters” she sings about in her poppy new song “Shake It Off.” Know what we hate? That we just can’t shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it out of our heads.

The Washington Post reports that a poor hazelnut crop in Turkey could conceivably cause a shortage of Nutella and … hey, hey, hey, where is everybody going?

FXX begins airing all 522 episodes of “The Simpsons” because you really didn’t have anything else to do over the next 12 days.

“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” is the sequel that was nine years in the making. And, yes, kids, there was a first “Sin City.”

This story was originally published August 22, 2014 at 7:00 AM with the headline "The week that was, Aug. 17-23 | Ice buckets, haters and ‘The Simpsons’."