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All Roll Is B-Roll: Adam Curtis Goes Quiet
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Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021)
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The Chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017)
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The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)
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The Big [Censored] Theory
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Disneyland with Death Penalty
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Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)
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An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’
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Digging through the archives of Scarfolk
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The original “Bambi”
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Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
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The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them (2016)
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Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (2019)
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Idiocracy: A disturbingly prophetic look at the future
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Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
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Can't Get You Out of My Head
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David Zucker reflects on "Airplane!" in 2021
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50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to boost kids' reading skills
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The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever made?
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'Sesame Street': from radical experiment to beloved TV mainstay
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Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
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New six-film series from Adam Curtis
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Adam Curtis Explains It All
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Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit
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The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (1971)
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Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018)
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X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (2011)
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“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World
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Robin Williams, an acid trip, and moral panic: “Blame Canada” at the Oscars
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Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]
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The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather
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‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of
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David Lynch’s TV commercials (2017)
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Monty Python at 50
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Life of Brian: The most blasphemous film ever?
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Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
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Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes
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'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game
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Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series
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The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)
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The Church of the SubGenius Finally Plays It Straight
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Unlikely Story of the '90s Cartoon Hit
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When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
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The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends”
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, sandbagger: sometimes TV from the 70s holds up
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Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood
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‘The Wire’ – Game Day
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The creators of This is Spinal Tap have been paid almost nothing
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The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains visceral and urgent
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Ranking TV Shows That Got Canceled
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The Simpsons by the Data
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What Danes consider healthy children’s television
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The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs
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Bad reviews for Taser documentary seem to come from Taser employees
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When You’re Just Drawn That Way: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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When Disney Got Adult and Trippy
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How an episode of the Simpsons is made
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This American Life: Batman
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Marvel Comics and the “most intricate fictional narrative in history” (2013)
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Futurama Canceled Again
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DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared
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Aaron Swartz: What Happens in The Dark Knight
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4chan "blacking out" (or, "spoilering") all comments as SOPA protest
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Maddox - I hope SOPA passes
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Baseball stats show June 5th was Ferris Bueller's day off
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Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space
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Lost "Doctor Who" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
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Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)
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Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
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Comics I Loved in 2023
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Visiting Scarfolk, the most spectacular dystopia of the 1970s (2016)
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Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”
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Tales from the Far Side
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