Just like The Room is so hilarious because Tommy Wiseau didn’t set out to make a comedy, many of 2023’s funniest moments weren’t exactly intentional. You never have to look far to find silly stupidity in […]
Over the past month, Generation Z has spent an inordinate amount of time dunking on one of their fallen heroes, the controversial stand-up star Matt Rife. Little did they know that the first kid to put Rife […]
If you claim a writer has never been good enough to emotionally attach you to a character so hard that their inevitable death leaves you almost as devastated as if a real friend had died — […]
Though most Simpsons characters could hardly be described as “well read,” the series itself has made many meaningful contributions to the written word — like how it came up with an alternate ending for Little Women. The world […]
This post is brought to you by the letter “G” for Gabagool. There is, perhaps, no pair of TV shows that are as universally celebrated as they are completely dissimilar as The Sopranos and Sesame Street — except, maybe, for The […]
It’s safe to say that animals don’t have it particularly good these days. Honestly, being any part of the natural planet that isn’t “a human” is not great generally. If you’re really, really lucky, you’ll be cute […]
Determining George Carlin’s best and worst jokes is a fool’s exercise — with 15 HBO specials, 20 comedy albums and countless talk and variety show appearances, how does one single out a solitary joke as […]
There are two kinds of people: People who think everything can be divided into two groups, and people who think this is an oversimplification. There are additional kinds of people as well — namely, people […]
You know how a book has to grab you with the first sentence or you’ll wander off to whatever Colleen Hoover published in the last five minutes? That goes double for movies. We all have […]
Don’t believe your eyes. They lie to you every day. The only way to accurately perceive the world is to wear a blindfold and grope anything within reach, to feel what’s truly tangible. Either that, […]
Back in February, Hulu released the third and final season of the rebooted Animaniacs series. But if you’re still hankering for another dose of the Warner siblings and Pinky and the Brain, there is hope for you […]
We started out as weird single-celled organisms, a few billion years ago. In time, we evolved into the complicated marvels we are today. But if you think it’s a one-way path, with humans growing more […]
In our modern, scientific age, we have systems of careful quantification for pretty much anything that might require it. In a lot of ways, this is good. Recipes are a lot easier to follow now that they […]
Comedians like Jerry Seinfeld craft jokes in the way that Michelangelo chipped away at tiny bits of marble to arrive at his David statue. “Word choice is crucial,” he once told The New York Times. “If it’s just […]
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but you can’t judge a movie by, well, anything. There’s just too many variables involved: disastrous marketing campaigns, underrated actors, head injuries that suddenly turn schlock jocks […]
You know what’s even better than your favorite TV show? More of your favorite TV show. But spin-offs are tricky business. Follow the wrong character or time period or lose the creative team that drives it, […]
Too young to remember the show Star Search? The late Norm Macdonald has you covered with this description in his not-a-memoir, Based on A True Story: “Star Search was a show where they searched for stars,” he helpfully […]
At some point in the last half-century, filmmakers realized women could be more than just sexy plot points. That’s nice, but in their haste to make up for misogynist time, they went too far in the […]
“Woman goes on a journey of self-discovery following a breakup” is practically a whole genre of movie. Legally Blonde, Under the Tuscan Sun, Kill Bill — women be eating/praying/loving. Most of the time, the dude is […]
Ever since the first Garfield strip in 1978, Jon Arbuckle has been kind of a loser. His human friends are nearly nonexistent, and until finally nabbing Liz (Garfield’s vet) in 2006, he was constantly getting rejected by […]