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There's Never a Bad Time to Rerun This Piece on It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, Starring Snoopy's Loner Brother and Charles Schultz's Own Daughter

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

The Eerily Prescient, Wildly Ambitious 1993 Science Fiction Mini-Series Wild Palms is Like Megalopolis, But Good!

You know what’s aged in a really interesting, prescient way? The David Lynch meets Phillip K. Dick 1993 prestige miniseries Wild Palms.

Red Dwarf's Third Season Gets Off to a Rip Roaring Start With the Trippy "Backwards" and Bottle Episode "Marooned"

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinDecember 18, 2024Red Dwarf, TV, sitcom, science-fiction, cult, British

Backstrom Investigates a Murder in a Scientology-Like Cult in the Latest Episode of the Rainn Wilson Detective Vehicle

My journey through the one season non-wonder Backstrom continues with a look at an episode where he solves a murder at a Scientology-like cult.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinNovember 15, 2024Rainn Wilson, Sarah Chalke, Dennis Haysbert, TV, detective, procedurile

Season Two of the Beloved British Cult Science Fiction Sitcom Ends on an Audacious Note with "Queeg" and "Parralel Universe"

The second season of Red Dwarf ends on a high note with the audacious “Queeg” and “Parallel Universe.”

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinOctober 30, 2024Red Dwarf, TV, cult, British

This Halloween, Relive the Horrors of Louise Lasser's Disastrous Hosting Stint on Saturday Night Live

Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.

Kevin Can F**k Himself is the Kevin Can Wait/Breaking Bad Hybrid We Never Knew We Needed

I finally got around to watching Kevin Can F**k Himself, a unique blend of traditional sitcom and heavy drama. I loved it!

Lukewarm TakesNathan RabinOctober 2, 2024Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek, Sean Clements, Tom Scharpling, sitcom, TV, post-modern, self-referential

The Hugh Hefner Episode of Saturday Night Live is Creepy For Reasons Beyond the Host's Enthusiastic Rendition of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"

Noted creep Hugh Hefner hosted a third-season episode of Saturday Night Live that is a uniquely unpalatable combination of cringy, fawning, and unfunny.