Simpsonomics: Did Homer Help Cause the Financial Crisis?
Twenty years of Simpsons = Twenty years of buildup to the 2008 crash?
Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
Hate the “Avatar” Font? It Could Be Worse.
He could have used Comic Sans.
Chris Brown, Rihanna, Terminator, and Transformers: a Venn Diagram
When R&B meets bad science fiction.
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Steel Panther: The “Starship Troopers” of Heavy Metal?
Steel Panther: brilliant metal parody, or just exploitation artists? Either way, they sure do rock.
Total Recall: Dream or Not A Dream? Let’s Settle This Once And For All
Let’s settle this once and for all. Did Quaid get his ass to Mars, or didn’t he?
The Musical Talmud, Think/Counter-Think Edition: “Party in the USA”
Sheely and Lee spar over the political science interpretation of “Party in the USA.”
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Family Guy and Windows 7: Double Fail
A shameless marketing grab meets total pop culture cluelessness.
The Blockbuster Bell Curve, Revisited: Changes in the IMDB Top 250 List, 2008-2009
Was 2008 the best year for movies ever? According to IMDB, it was.
Time Out! Music, Football, and Suspension of Disbelief in “Glee”
“Glee” is a show about music, not football. It should stick to what it knows best.
The Musical Talmud: I Gotta Feeling
A series of non sequitur party-related cliches, or a treatise on power and predeterminism? (It can be both, I suppose).
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