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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 [...]

We remember obsessively checking Fox’s now-defunct auction website to see how much a seat from the X-Men’s airplane was going for. We’re not sure what price it ended up fetching, but our bid of $26.95 sure didn’t last long. Clearly, though, that was just small peanuts compared to the prices some folks pay for a [...]