We won’t lie to you, we were a little disappointed when we couldn’t get the money together to buy that clown motel out next to the old miners’ graveyard. But now a new, even more exciting way to fritter away a mountain of cash that we don’t actually have has come along: Anybody want to pool some funds and buy the…
Given that we reported yesterday on one of the more depressing, anger-inducing theme park stories in recent memory, it seems fitting today to counter that with something a little more, well…amazing. Like this footage, of a giant animatronic T-Rex that caught fire at a dinosaur park in Colorado this week, eventually…
Thanks to a team of European paleontologists, the Velociraptor just got a new, extremely awkward cousin: the Halszkaraptor. According to a story in The Atlantic, their study, published today in Nature, is based on a fossil that had been smuggled out of Mongolia and found its way into the hands of a Belgian…
Dinosaurs pretty much dominated pop culture in the ’90s, from the seismic success of Jurassic Park to the crowd-pleasing antics of ABC’s Dinosaurs to the indie rock dominance of Dinosaur Jr. All were unsettling in their own ways (anyone else remember the terrifyingly apocalyptic finale of that otherwise lighthearted…
Everyone knows that the Tyrannosaurus rex was a vicious predator, but ever since Jurassic Park brought those fearsome beasts to the mainstream, people have wondered what they were like in the boudoir. Finally, thanks to some dirty-minded scientists, we now actually have some idea. According to The Guardian,…
If anything, there are too many pop culture parallels to make to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. He’s Biff Tannen from Back To The Future, Paul Rudd’s Bobby Newport in Parks And Recreation, Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons, and Mr. Potter from It’s A Wonderful Life. But YouTuber Matt Orfalea has found what he…
In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. The reasons for their picks might differ, but they can all agree that each episode is a must-watch. In this installment: ABC’s throwback, which makes its old shows available for…
Musical groups targeted at kids tend to be pretty safe and silly, with lighthearted pop music and matching t-shirts, but a band from Finland called Hevisaurus has found a way to appeal to children and be totally badass at the same time by playing heavy metal while dressed as dinosaurs. This comes from Consequence Of…
On closer examination, Barney the purple dinosaur and Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., had a few important things in common. Both exerted enormous influence over young people in the 1990s. At the same time Biggie was dominating the airwaves with the Isley Brothers-sampling single “Big…
Having now reached adulthood, the children of the 1990s need to take stock of their lives. Where, for example, did they form their most cherished and long-held memories? At school, maybe? On the playground? Around the dinner table with their families? Ha. If their lives were at all typical, they probably spent most of…
Self-obsessed xenophobe and human falafel ball Donald Trump tweeted out a picture today in celebration of Cinco De Mayo, featuring himself eating a Mexican taco bowl from Trump Café. (As Vox has already noted, a previous review from Eater calls the “tacos fiesta” meal option “so devoid of flavor, it rendered an insult…
For some, the dawning of a new year can be a clean slate, a time of renewal and redemption. For others, it is a challenge, a call to greatness. And for Christopher Fittz, it was simply a reason to watch all 65 episodes of ABC’s prehistoric, puppet-based 1990s sitcom Dinosaurs back to back in one sitting. In defiance…
The Good Dinosaur is the rare dinosaur movie that has managed to stir hopeful expectations among film critics (its troubled production history aside). The project’s reputation is buoyed by its prestigious studio, Pixar, and by its 20-year distance from Hollywood’s last dino craze. There was a stretch, peaking in the…
With Jurassic World conquering box office records, dinosaurs are in again. And who hasn’t dreamt of having their very own terrible thunder lizard? As the new web series “We Have A Dinosaur” explores, that dream may not be so great when it meets reality. Especially around breakfast time.
Jurassic World has arrived and with it fresh new toys to assuage viewers’ dino-fever. These toys join the ever popular and ever-growing number of dinosaur toys on the shelves that kids play with every day, imagining themselves in control of these terrible thunder lizards. And while many of them can be found in science…
Remember Dinosaurs? For those that don’t, it was a ’90s sitcom that ran for four seasons before ending on one of the biggest downers of all time. The creature effects were handled by the Jim Henson company, with lots of puppeteers in large costumes and expressive, animatronic faces portraying the Sinclair family. It…
“Music’s Biggest Night” may be an expression America uses to patronize the drunk Reese Witherspoon of awards shows, but it’s also a trademarked phrase, one the Grammys wield in much the same way that losing T-ball teams proudly display their ”Participant” trophies. That fascinating fact and others came to light…
Like the ladies of Wisteria Lane—who tried to mask their suburban strife and murderous, adulterous, dirty laundry with manicured lawns—the soundtrack companion to Marc Cherry’s prime-time soap hides behind the dreaded “music from and inspired by” tag. The only things connecting this compilation and ABC’s Emmy-winning…
1. Mister Terrific, The Golden Girls
Jim Henson didn’t operate alone. There are solo-project exceptions within the staggering body of work he produced from the mid-1950s until his death in 1990—animated inserts from the early days of Sesame Street, for instance—but even an intensely personal work like the Oscar-nominated short film “Time Piece” was the…
