The famous clip that featured the debut of Mickey Mouse as we know him, Steamboat Willie, first aired on November 18, 1928, making today Mickey’s 81st birthday. (He appeared in Plane Crazy six months earlier, but that version of the character, considered by many to be more interesting, was scrapped and re-worked for Steamboat.)
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Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, and has since become as intimately bound to American life as hamburgers and guns. As such, the show has had a perfect vantage to observe and lampoon most of the great cultural milestones of the last 4 decades (most recently, Mad Men) and [...]

Few things stir our nostalgic hunger for the 90s more effectively than the imaginary smells wafting from the restaurants that often doubled as hangouts for our favorite TV characters of the time. That’s just the odor BuzzFeed is after with their listicle of the Top 10 Fictional Burger Joints of the 90s, which features Krusty [...]

Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

Traditionally (meaning before WWI) ghosts were pretty much the scariest creatures humanity had invented, what with all the floating, ominous chanting, curtain-rustling and door-creaking. Over the last century we’ve proved that we’re actually the scariest things on the planet, and now ghosts are played for comedy more often than straight scares. Holytaco’s listicle of 25 [...]

Well, it’s officially Halloween week, and there doesn’t seem to be much point in being stingy with our Halloween listicles, so we’re giving them out by the handful now. First off, we’re loving Joy Hog’s listicle of Saturday Night Live’s Top 10 Halloween Sketches, and since we’re still working on a costume, we especially appreciated [...]

We love a science fiction film that plunges us into a completely different setting, where we get to rediscover everything from the language to the fashions to the laws of physics. Even better, we love a sci-fi movie that, within its imaginative new universe, sprouts a crazy dream sequence where the laws and rules are [...]

Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss [...]

If you’re at all familiar with the recurring jokes and comic tropes of the best sitcom pre-AD (Arrested Development), you’ll know that one of Seinfeld’s less well-known but still delightful pleasures are Kramer’s (Michael Richards, yes, that one) entrances into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment. To illustrate their subtle comedy, some seriously nostalgic person has assembled a [...]

There are few pop cultural motifs quite as cool as the moniker “Mr.”, which is a perfect conflation of classy, sleek, cultured and mysterious, with an air of authority and cold, calculating power. Whether or not you’re aware of it, many of your favorite characters were Misters, from Rogers to T to Spock, Bean and [...]