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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. [...]

We always feel a little girlie wearing bandages, you know? It’s like a really childish sort of symbolic castration, which in a way is even more debilitating: not only are we injured and unable to conceal it, but we have to treat the wound with a really small and precious strip of adhesive (remember Nelly?).
Fortunately, [...]

On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

Ever notice how atmospheric science fiction thrillers have their heroes gazing down ominous hallways before they finally meet the true objects of their fear (be they alien, human, otherworldly or psychological)? The creepy corridor is a sci-fi staple and the meticulous artistry that goes into conveying the off-screen threat is truly something to behold, as [...]

Recently, while recounting some of the greatest old school screen exploits of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, we’ve come across some pretty questionable cartoons. Between Daffy fighting Nazis and Japanese army pilots and Bugs Bunny being chased by a blackface Elmer Fudd, well, we thought we’d seen it all. Apparently not, though, as mental_floss’s listicle [...]

Sure, we admit that in this advanced age of corporate synergy and super-sophisticated PR, getting video artists to make ads for giant corporations is a dubious enterprise to be applauding. However, to make it in such a competitive art world and design marketplace one has to, as they say, “pimp the system,” so we applaud [...]

It’s the season (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) for drinking under birches, drinking at beaches, drinking on benches, drinking on bleachers, drinking on roofs one has gained access to semi-legally and drinking on stoops of buildings one has never been into. With all the running around we tend to forget bottle-openers at least [...]

Call them victims of the dire and pre-emptive business of declaring species extinct in this day and age, but the animals featured in BuzzFeed’s listicle of 14 Extinct Animals That Were Rediscovered have basically come back from beyond the grave. Perhaps the most extreme case of this is the Coelacanth (pictured below), a semi-amphibeous fish [...]

We’d love to ride around town stuntin’ on our blinged-out bike (we’ll refrain from using the term “pimped” because we find it offensive), but honestly, the more inconspicuous your bike can be, the better. It won’t get stolen, it won’t matter when you fall (as we did, very drunkenly, on Friday) and it gets banged [...]

Beloved Metropolis resident (and Kryptonian by birth) Superman (aka Clark Kent) turns 71 today, though he hasn’t aged a bit. In fact, befitting his “superness,” he actually looks younger now than he did then. The heroic character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first appeared in print on June 30, 1938, and since then [...]