The Best Nerdy Super Bowl Ads of 2024

Patrick Stewart as an old-time football player holding Hey Arnold's head, Beyonce dressed as a pink Barbie, Christopher Walken, and Ben Affleck screaming in an orange Dunkin Donuts track suit

The 2024 Super Bowl saw the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in an overtime thriller. Do you care? Maybe! Maybe not! But if you’re visiting us here at Nerdist, we’re pretty sure […]

Here’s Where You Can Watch 2024’s Nerdy Oscar Nominees

Rocket Raccoon in a space suit flying a ship in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Margot Robbie in a pink outfit and white cowby hate smiling in barbie, Miles Morales with his mask half off in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Harrison Ford sitting as Indiana Jones in the Dial of Destiny

If its leading 13 nominations are any guide, Oppenheimer is going to have a big night at the Academy Awards on March 10. Christopher Nolan and his cast and crew aren’t the only ones who […]

‘We were naive and nerdy. No one cared about us’: how American Football became indie legends against the odds | Indie

The house from the American Football album cover in Urbana, Illinois.

American Football didn’t intend for a dilapidated student house in Urbana, Illinois to become a cult musical landmark. As with much of the band’s career, it just happened. They’d chosen the now iconic photo of […]

A Nerdy Christmas Playlist for Great Holiday Songs You Won’t Hear on the Radio

The Nerdist logo and name in gingerbresd surrounded by gingerbread cookies in the shape of trees

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special was a perfect MCU gift for lots of reasons. One of the biggest is that it gave us the Old 97’s “I Don’t Know What Christmas Is (But […]