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Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are Bronson Pinchot talks about his co-star's breasts

Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are

The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs The cast of Only Murders in the Building Season 5

The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs

‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’ The cast of Sex and the City and Just Like That

‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’

When Defending Plot Points That Seemingly Evoke Negative Tropes, At Least Address the Trope John Adams and Oscar van Rhijn on The Gilded Age

When Defending Plot Points That Seemingly Evoke Negative Tropes, At Least Address the Trope

I Love to Rip MLB for Being Hypocritical, But Punishing Cheaters While Allowing Gambling Isn’t It Clase is suspended

I Love to Rip MLB for Being Hypocritical, But Punishing Cheaters While Allowing Gambling Isn’t It

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Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie? 1

Who Was the Garage Band Singing ‘Daddy Cop’ in the Latest Episode of The Rookie?

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars? 2

Does Neal McDonough Really Refuse to Ever Kiss His Female Co-Stars?

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship? 3

Do Christina Applegate and Ed O’Neill Have a Good Relationship?

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space? 4

How Did The Big Bang Theory Film Howard in Outer Space?

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’? 5

Why Wasn’t Madonna Included In ‘We Are the World’?

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs 6

All Ten of the Only Murders In The Building Opening Title Easter Eggs

Taylor Swift’s New Song is Breaking People With ‘I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either’ Taylor Swift on a talk show 7

Taylor Swift’s New Song is Breaking People With ‘I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either’

Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are Bronson Pinchot talks about his co-star's breasts

Regis and Kathie Lee Can’t Figure Out if It’s Cool for Bronson Pinchot to Talk About How Big His Co-Star’s Breasts Are

Brian shares the time that Regis and Kathie Lee didn't know what to do with Bronson Pinchot talking about his co-star's breasts
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The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs The cast of Only Murders in the Building Season 5

The First Three Only Murders In The Building Season Five Opening Title Easter Eggs

The openings of each episode of Only Murders in the Building all have Easter Eggs. Here are the first three of Season 5!
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‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’ The cast of Sex and the City and Just Like That

‘We Decided to Make Season Three of And Just Like That the End…And Not Tell The Actors’

Brian explains how absurd the explanation being give for the finale of And Just Like That is.
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When Defending Plot Points That Seemingly Evoke Negative Tropes, At Least Address the Trope John Adams and Oscar van Rhijn on The Gilded Age

When Defending Plot Points That Seemingly Evoke Negative Tropes, At Least Address the Trope

Brian explains why creators should at least address the negative tropes surrounding their plot points when "defending" them.
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I Love to Rip MLB for Being Hypocritical, But Punishing Cheaters While Allowing Gambling Isn’t It Clase is suspended

I Love to Rip MLB for Being Hypocritical, But Punishing Cheaters While Allowing Gambling Isn’t It

Brian explains why Emmanuel Clase being suspended for possibly cheating on games and Major League Baseball embracing legalized gambling is not a hypocritical position.
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We Get You’re Hard Up For Words, But LORIS Simply Can’t Be a Wordle Answer

We Get You’re Hard Up For Words, But LORIS Simply Can’t Be a Wordle Answer

Brian looks at the absurdity of LORIS being a Wordle answer.
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There’s Nothing Wrong With the Shows With the Best Casts Getting the Most Nominations The White Lotus cast together

There’s Nothing Wrong With the Shows With the Best Casts Getting the Most Nominations

Brian explains why he doesn't think it is a problem for the TV shows with the best casts to have the most Emmy nominations
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The Enshittification of Royal Match Continues Royal Match cut its rewards in half

The Enshittification of Royal Match Continues

Today, we look at how the enshittification of Royal Match continues apace. Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of pop culture history that interests me that doesn’t quite fit...
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Marvel Promotes Their Marvel Rivals Follow-Up Game With Variant Covers Spider-Man swinging ahead of Tony Stark and Scarlet Witch

Marvel Promotes Their Marvel Rivals Follow-Up Game With Variant Covers

Marvel is doing a series of variant covers to promote Marvel Mystic Mayhem, the mobile video game follow-up to Marvel Rivals
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Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off Dakota Johnson in one of her movies

Don’t Tell Me a Celebrity Was ‘Cut Off’ When She Wasn’t Cut Off

Brian complains about how a series of articles online are pushing an inaccurate story about Dakota Johnson being cut off financially by her family
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