Mere weeks after it was announced, last weekend Lifetime aired The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story, a TV-movie about the behind the scenes action of NBC’s 1989-1993 Saturday morning sitcom Saved By the Bell. Here are some Saved By the Bell facts you might not have known.
Micro-photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher is best known for her book Bee, a compilation of photographs of bees magnified anywhere from 10 times to 500 times. Among the remarkable things Fisher captured: that bees’ eyes are hexagonal, just like a honeycomb.
Just in case you aren’t getting enough Simpsons via FXX’s two-week-long “Every Simpsons Ever” marathon, here is some Simpsons trivia you might not have known about the longest-running comedy in TV history.
These have been troubling us for years, so we decided to do some research and get some answers once and for all: “On the classic ’70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, why were the tough kids called “sweathogs”?” and “On the classic ’80s sitcom Who’s the Boss?, who was the boss: Tony or Angela?”
If you have something to say, write a letter. You might just get exactly what you want…even if you’re only seven years old.
You’ve probably heard by nowthat Archie Andrews, “America’s favorite teenager” is being killed off after more than 60 years in comics. But that’s only one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to the Riverdale gang.
Because why would you want your house to smell like lilacs or fresh basked cookies?
Unfortunate news from the world of gigantic rubber duckies.
Occasionally over the past year, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has been your “number one news source” (see what we did there?) for updates on the five-story-high rubber duck that’s been traveling the world’s waterways and showing up in the harbors of major cities unexpectedly.
It started off as a coincidence—perhaps it just has a good rhythm—but the number 27 makes many, many appearances in the works and life of so-hot-right-now parody rock star “Weird Al” Yankovic.
The Star Wars saga has spawned comic books, video games, toys…and a terrible exhibition in Leipzig. Until recently, the German city was hosting “Space Expo” at its old fairgrounds. Instead of offering visitors interactive kiosks or props from the films, the touring exhibit consists of a series of halfhearted displays put together by a group of people that likely know next to nothing about Star Wars.
Back in May, we told you about Action Park, the notoriously dangerous New Jersey theme park. While it’s about to be reopened, there’s another destination in the Garden State that’s unlikely to be back anytime soon.
For the better part of the last decade, Seattle man Ben Fodor has patrolled the means streets of his city dressed as a costumed vigilante named “Phoenix Jones.” He’s also the leader and founder of The Rain City Superhero Movement, a group of Seattleites who, inspired by Fodor/Phoenix, defend truth, justice, and the American Way.
Does The Simpsons know more about geopolitical affairs than they’re letting on? Here’s a look at the “evidence.”
It’s the end of an era. Colossus, one of the world’s most famous roller coasters, is about to bite the dust.
In which Uncle John corrects widespread grammatical and language abominations. Here are a few celebrity names that you may be pronouncing wrong. Can you name any others?
The world’s most famous Icelander and swan dress-wearer pronounces her name “b-yerk,” not “b-york.”
These three actors rode the waves of fame at an age when most of us were still picking bubblegum out of our braces. But once those careers slowed down, they chased a different spotlight into the music business.
The stories of how we came to use these silly abbreviations, on the Internet, in our texts, and even in real life.
Okay, so these aren’t really about mythical creatures—after all, they’re mythical. These are stories about human beings dressed up like mythical creatures.
