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When we were kids and that first cool downstairs neighbor got Super Mario, it never really made us want to go chasing after turtles, mushrooms and princesses with our tall and lanky plumber friend. As someone’s parent said at the time: “Sounds like a bad acid trip.” Now, though, we’re kind of impressed by these [...]

Between creepy robots, incomprehensible game shows, unfamiliar modes of addressing audiences and cameras, and generally unfamiliar aesthetic sensibilities, Japanese TV not only offers a hilariously foreign viewing experience, but also throws our Western televisual expectations into a strange light. Why should TV robots be strictly utilitarian? Why should game shows be more about the plebeian [...]

Real weapons are scary, but made-up weapons can be a great deal of fun. Why, just the other day we were reading about the Condiment Gun, which we used on each of our roommates at least twice before the ketchup, mustard and relish ran out. Of course, our collective fictions are also full of fancy [...]

Hollywood seems intent on gutting the TV Guide archives for script ideas. Sometimes these small-screen-to-big-screen endeavors work (The Fugitive), sometimes they don’t (A Night at the Roxbury), and sometimes they really, really don’t (Bewitched). Here are the upcoming and rumored adaptations that better not ruin my memories:

The A-Team Oh, A-Team movie, my requests are few: [...]

Professional sports, much like Star Wars, are riddled with pros and cons that, when taken too far, can be disastrous, delightful, or both. Someone who knows the starting line-ups of The Chicago Bulls for every NBA season during the 1980s is, we think, kind of sad. Likewise, someone who knows by heart the ventilation systems [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

In our effort to not become too distressed by Paul Blart: Mall Cop’s extremely wide release (3,144 theaters nationwide!) and huge box office returns ($33.8 million from Friday to Sunday), we kept ourselves busy over the weekend with Vulture’s mall movie listicle. Though we never think of malls as the setting for high art – [...]

Our ability to lose ourselves in endlessly repeating the antics of Seinfeld’s Kramer was trumped somewhat by an incident a couple years ago that you may remember. That said, we’ve been off the Kramer wagon for long enough now that even a little dose of the nutty next-door neighbor is enough to keep us chuckling [...]

Here at Listicles, we’re very much in favor of new beginnings, fresh starts, re-inventions and re-definitions (did you notice we re-vamped our logo about a month back, huh, isn’t it new, sexier and therefore better?). That said, we’re also very much not in favor of being given something packaged as “new” that is in fact [...]

Moments of crisis are ripe for nostalgia, so today we invite you to take an hour or so’s refuge in the comforting pop-rock TV cartoon themes of the 80s. Judging by our audience research you, friendly reader, were either a young child, troubled student, confused post-grad or mid-life crisis-riddled adult in the 80s, so you [...]