For too long, we’ve relied on the human brain’s limited potential to dream up our mascots. While this approach has given us plenty of fascinating creations over the years, there’s always some unwelcome bit of organic logic that creeps into our minds to interrupt the sheer lunacy of what a mascot could be.

The natural world overflows with incredible sights—the kind of things that fill with awe and force us to view ourselves as one part of a greater whole, tiny atoms in a universe impossibly vast and beautiful in its magnificent design. Unfortunately, nature is also outside and outside can be too cold or too hot, and…

What else is there to say about the platonic blockbuster that is James Cameron’s Titanic as we near its 25th anniversary? Like, it’s Titanic. The film—soundtrack, star-crossed lovers, steamy horseless carriages, and all—is arguably a bigger part of our cultural history at this point than the damn sunken ship itself.…

The natural world, understanding that it has to try out something new if humanity is ever going to be convinced to stop destroying it, seems to have hit upon an innovative approach: Releasing brightly colored animal variants so fascinating to look at that we may, possibly, be convinced to protect them.

The early hook on Disney+’s WandaVision, before everyone started arguing about which classic Doctor Strange villain Kathryn Hahn is supposed to be, was that each episode covered a decade or so of sitcom history. The show hasn’t totally stuck with that as its larger mysteries have spiraled out (Is she Mephisto? Is she…

Over the course of four years and nearly 400 episodes, John Simmit played the green Teletubby, Dipsy, to the delight of children and stoned adults alike. While these viewers clapped their hands together in relaxed, foggy-brained joy at home, the actors responsible for bringing the ’Tubbies to life had a much harder…

One can only imagine the ball-busting fun real-life friends Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Bateman, and Will Arnett must have. At least that’s judging from what a good time Kimmel and Arnett had in the no-show Bateman’s absence from Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday. One might think that, in this blighted time of hiatuses and…

Well, that explains that sudden Mr. & Mrs. Smith announcement: THR reports that Donald Glover has just signed a hefty, multi-year first-look deal with Amazon, which, among other things, will end a similarly long relationship the actor, writer, director, and producer had with FX. (Don’t worry, Atlanta is still…

Time, as reckoned by the horrifying creatures, living tacos, vaccine deniers, and other eldritch monsters of The Masked Singer franchise can be a tricky thing. How else are we to explain the fact that the show—which debuted back in 2019—is already gearing up for its fifth season, a relentless tide of B- and C-list…

Having already lost fully half its Moms in a tragic de-Faris-ing incident at the end of its 7th season, CBS sitcom mainstay Mom will now be ending its run at the end of its upcoming 8th. Variety reports the news, quoting creator Chuck Lorre, who praised star Allison Janney, and everyone else involved in the show’s…

What is it with John Constantine? What is it about DC Comics’ resident magic-slinging bad boy that drives the networks wild? Is it the smoking? The trench coats? The British words that sounds like curses but are probably just another word for “biscuits”? Why are we getting another damn Constantine show?

The en-Plemons-ing of Hollywood continued apace today, as Deadline reports that Jesse Plemons—he of Fargo, Breaking Bad, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, and an increasing number of projects in which a man is required to be both very nice and also maybe a multiple-murderer—has signed on for a starring role in Martin…

We know you don’t need anyone to tell you that the last year has been hard. But also: The last year or so has been hard, huh? Lots of chaos, lots of pandemic, very little marmalade, or the small brown bears who crave it. But no longer—on that last front, at least, as Studiocanal has confirmed that Paddington 3 is,…

Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after being diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2020, his wife, Kathryn, announced on his eponymous radio show on Wednesday morning. The right-wing talk radio host will perhaps be most remembered for his long history of controversial provocations, insults, and hate speech…

Twenty-five years ago, the world was introduced to famed athlete Happy Gilmore—an ex-hockey player with a knack for driving golf balls really hard and yelling angry adult-baby noises when upset. Now, to mark the date when Gilmore first made himself known to the world, Adam Sandler—and a pair of his character’s…

Ah, murder: Truly, a game of kings. And few play it better than the Hitman franchise’s Agent 47, at least if, by “better,” you mean often doing extremely goofy coin tricks in an attempt to lure his targets into his latest Roadrunner-esque run at highly convoluted killing.

Life is dotted with moments of clarity. Tiny forks in the long road of existence, if you will. For example: When you find yourself at prom with a real dipshit because the person you really liked was too cool for a dance—emphasizing your shitty taste in both crushes and revenge—that’s a real moment of clarity. Losing…

Conner O’Malley, creator of the world’s most popular bike- and river-based talk shows, has returned with another heartwarming story about Corb Fucker. When last we saw Corb, he was experiencing the incredible success and overcoming the hardship associated with being a celebrity trailblazer in the fields of talking to…

While some futurists from decades past managed to come up with pretty good predictions for how we’d be living these days, their visions are nowhere near as fun as those centered around the flying cars, teleportation devices, and robot maids (sorry, Roomba) we still don’t have. A 1967 CBS special about the “future…

After getting essentially blacklisted last month following its role in helping foment the deadly January 6 MAGA putsch on Capitol Hill, the social media app and hate-speech breeding ground known as Parler (not to be confused with Parlor) is unfortunately back online for the segment of the Internet that looks at…