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• tv Read this: The origins of the "sad blob" from those early '00s Zoloft commercials By Reid McCarter August 27, 2021 | 9:30pm
• film Read This: The story behind the first film rated X for “extreme violence” By Andrew Paul August 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
• tv Read this: Succession's creator on literary influences and inventive insults By Reid McCarter August 24, 2021 | 8:00pm
• books A new Sally Rooney, Joy Williams’ first novel in 20 years, and more books to read this September By Laura Adamczyk, William Hughes, Danette Chavez August 24, 2021 | 11:00am
• aux Read This: How dollar stores scammed America to become worth more than Coca-Cola By Andrew Paul August 18, 2021 | 5:00pm
• aux Read this: An exploration of why Twitter saw red over a display of excellent parallel parking By Reid McCarter August 3, 2021 | 8:30pm
• tv Read This: Inside the early days of The Daily Show By Andrew Paul July 20, 2021 | 7:30pm
• aux Read this: How Quad City DJ's ended up getting the chance, doing their dance with the Space Jam theme song By Reid McCarter July 15, 2021 | 5:00pm
• aux Read this: Those harrowing tales of Subway's mystery tuna sandwich might be greatly exaggerated By Gabrielle Sanchez June 23, 2021 | 3:56pm
• film Read This: What the nerf herders at Disney got so wrong about Star Wars By Andrew Paul June 22, 2021 | 8:00pm
• film Read this: How Planet Hollywood withered away by selling food nobody wanted to eat more than once By Reid McCarter June 11, 2021 | 3:32pm
• film Read This: An interview with the guy who restored the Super Mario Bros. movie By Andrew Paul June 10, 2021 | 8:00pm
• film Read this: How Johnny Knoxville became Hollywood's crash test dummy By Matt Schimkowitz May 26, 2021 | 12:36am
• music Read this: Travis Barker talks about having beef with Modest Mouse in 1999 interview By Tatiana Tenreyro May 11, 2021 | 8:20pm
• tv Read this: An oral history of The Sopranos' "Pine Barrens" By Reid McCarter May 5, 2021 | 5:55pm
• film Read this: Vice caught up with Billy Madison’s O’Doyles, confirms they still rule By Matt Schimkowitz April 28, 2021 | 1:32am
• aux Read This: Japan is too fluent in conspiracy theories to fall for QAnon's tricks By Andrew Paul March 30, 2021 | 11:00pm
• aux Read this: The people who write those wild Twitter "What's Happening" summaries, in their own words By Reid McCarter March 24, 2021 | 5:30pm
• tv Read this: Aliens apparently won’t let us have a channel 37 By Andrew Paul March 16, 2021 | 5:47pm
• aux Read this: Remembering when Star Wars did an immunization PSA By Reid McCarter March 2, 2021 | 8:22pm
• tv Read This: Only COVID could flatten Peak TV By Alex McLevy March 1, 2021 | 7:22pm
• aux Read This: The newspaper profile that killed Marvel’s mightiest team-up By Andrew Paul February 16, 2021 | 5:06pm
• aux Read this: Does Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Muncher "reflect a profound crisis of American meaning"? By Randall Colburn February 9, 2021 | 4:16pm
• aux Read this: Mads Mikkelsen's tips for acting drunk onscreen By Reid McCarter January 26, 2021 | 8:04pm
• aux Read this: One woman's arduous, beer-soaked journey to recreate a viral TikTok By Dan Caffrey January 25, 2021 | 9:05pm