Clickbait — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

RDJ's Casting as Doctor Doom Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Why Iron Man is the best Avenger

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments!

ClickbaitNathan RabinAugust 1, 2024Iron Man, Marvel, Tony Starks, Clickbait, Shane Black, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow

Six Marginally Funny Vin Diesel "Family" Memes Absolutely Destroyed by Overly Literal Explanations

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

ClickbaitNathan RabinJune 12, 2023Clickbait, Vin Diesel, memes, lazy writing

Best of 2022: Schitt's Creek and Nine Other Beloved Movies or Television Shows We're Pretending Are Forgotten Solely For the Hate-Clicks

We know you remember and love all of these classic but we need clicks, baby! Sweet, sweet clicks!

ClickbaitNathan RabinDecember 30, 2022Schitt's Creek, Get a Life, Office Space, The Office, Clickbait

Nathan Rabin's Happy Place's Definitive 30 Day Film Challenge

The Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place 30 Day Film Challenge isn’t the first of its kind, but it is the best.

ClickbaitNathan RabinDecember 23, 2022Film, Freddy Got Fingered, Tom Green, Rip Torn, Clickbait

The 23 Most Outrageous Lines in a Press Conference I Hallucinated Donald Trump Holding While I Was Absolutely Fucked Out of My Mind on Peyote

Here’s what we saw and heard and felt when we took a potentially fatal dose of hallucinogens and hallucinated a particularly wild and outrageous Donald Trump press conference.

ClickbaitNathan RabinJune 10, 2020Donald Trump, CNN, Clickbait

Celebs You Sadly Didn't Know Passed Away

The media generally does an okay job alerting the public to the deaths of the super-famous but occasionally they screw up, which is where totally honest, non-clickbait articles like this come in.

ClickbaitNathan RabinOctober 22, 2019Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Chris Evans, Taylor Swift, Harrison Ford, Clickbait

Cary Elwes and Me

We got a weird viral thang going on

The Big Whoop, ClickbaitNathan RabinSeptember 11, 2018Cary Elwes, Clickbait, David Hyde Pierce, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

I Just Watched Seinfeld for the First Time and, OMG, It Was So Bad That I Can't Even!

Sorry, Seinfeld. You may be one of the most popular and acclaimed television shows of all time but our twenty year old intern watched you for the first time and determined that you suck. #Truthhurts

Clickbait, Satire, Big-ass articlesNathan RabinJuly 2, 2018Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Buzzfeed, Vice, Clickbait, Bee Movie

Tony Shalhoub Loudly Critiqued Avengers: Infinity War And I, a Real Moviegoer to Whom This Real Thing Totally Happened, Have all the Deets! (That’s Young Person Talk for ‘Details’)

In a crazy, not at all fake or made up stroke of luck, Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place ended up watching Avengers: Infinity War in a theater with a very chatty, possibly insane Tony Shalhoub. Want to know what totally real, insanely viral things he said and did? Then click! Click, dammit! We beseech you, weary reader, to click as if your very life depends on it!

Clickbait, Big-ass articles, SatireNathan RabinMay 16, 2018Greta Gerwig, I Feel Pretty, Clickbait, Satire, Tony Shalhhoub

The Clickbait Conundrum

What happens when the fake clickbait you've created to satirize the form begins to function like real clickbait? What do you do when cheeky little goofs become entirely too popular?