A look back at the life and legacy of a legend.
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Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place readers and commenters: today is YOUR time to shine with the second official open thread! Talk amongst yourselves, and make it good!
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Like the first two decades of Sesame Street, the 1980s Muppet Babies has never been available on DVD, but this time it’s easy to figure out why.
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An ode to the soothingly tedious, hopeful ritual of voting.
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Memes and gif brilliantly/annoyingly re-contextualize familiar images and clips but what happens when they BECOME the new context?
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Here’s to Odie’s quickly forgotten original owner Lyman, and all of the luckless souls who were quickly abandoned by pop culture institutions that would go on to conquer the world.
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I don’t like Kiss’ music and think Gene Simmons is one of pop culture’s biggest creeps. So why am I so tempted to pay a shit-ton of money to see them live on their “farewell” tour?
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In our fractured, divided country, our response to tragedies like the recent synagogue shooting represents a tragedy in its own right.
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Guess what, readers? It’s YOUR time to shine in the not at all lazy first-ever Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place open thread!
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Sesame Street is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the 20th century. So why is so little of its auspicious history available online in complete form?
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