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Antony Starr as Homelander in "The Boys." (Courtesy of Prime Video / Amazon Studios)

What "The Boys" has learned from the MCU

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
Gorgeous Samoyed smiling for photo (Getty Images/zhao hui)

20 scientifically cute dogs

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
Aaron Paul and Thandiwe Newton in "Westworld" (John Johnson/HBO)

We're doomed. Let "Westworld" robots win

Melanie McFarland
Zahn McClarnon in "Dark Winds" (Michael Moriatis/Stalwart Productions/AMC)

Don't call Zahn McClarnon an artist

Melanie McFarland
Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Kids” milestone 200th episode from "Bob's Burgers" (FOX)

The loving queerness of "Bob's Burgers"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Joel Kim Booster in Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual (Terence Patrick/Netflix)

Joel Kim Booster, radically transparent

Melanie McFarland
Singer Elvis Presley, looking tired and somewhat dejected, leaning over railing in recording studio during break from cutting new record. (Don Cravens/Getty Images)

Was there anything real about Elvis?

Michael Bertrand - The Conversation
Portrait of American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 - 1992) on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March), New York, New York, June 27, 1982. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

8 trans activist Marsha P. Johnson facts

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Mental Floss
Jinkx Monsoon in Season 7 of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (Jordin Althaus/World of Wonder/Paramount+)

What Drag Race's new rule teaches us

Lauren Piester
Protesters from both sides of the abortion debate wave competing scripture interpretations during a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC., United States on June 21, 2022. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The young anti-abortion "foot soldiers"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (A24)

Jenny Slate on being "Marcel the Shell"

Gary M. Kramer
J.K. Rowling (Getty/Angela Weiss)

J.K. Rowling bamboozled by Russians

Kelly McClure
Asa Butterfield as Billy Rubin, Fatma Mohamed as Elle Di Elle, and Ariane Labed as Lamina Propria in Peter Strickland’s "Flux Gourmet" (IFC Midnight)

"Flux Gourmet": food sounds & absurd art

Gary M. Kramer
Squid Game (YOUNGKYU PARK / Netflix)

Netflix is hardly doomed

Dan Selcke - Winter is Coming
Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves and Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves in "The Umbrella Academy" (Netflix)

The power of Umbrella Academy's Viktor

Melanie McFarland
Joy Behar on "The View" (ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua)

What we learned from "The View" reunion

Joy Saha
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Colbert on Fox News targeting dog puppet

Joy Saha
P-Valley (Photo courtesy of STARZ)

All hail Uncle Clifford of "P-Valley"

Melanie McFarland
large printer format inkjet working (Getty Images/koktaro)

Are AI-produced images art?

Aaron Hertzmann - The Conversation
Peaky Blinders (Netflix/Matt Squire)

"Peaky Blinders" & the crime of sobriety

Alison Stine
In this photo illustration, a Tumblr logo is seen displayed on a smartphone on top of a computer keyboard. (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Tumblr's enduring appeal

Jeanna Sybert - The Conversation
Kate Bush - Peter's Pop Show - 1985 (ZIK Images/United Archives via Getty Images)

Why Kate Bush's music spans generations

Lorna Piatti-Farnell - The Conversation
Mel Brooks in History of the World: Part I (1981) (20th Century Fox)

11 "History Of The World, Part I" facts

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
Shaun Evans as Morse in "Endeavor" (Courtesy of Mammoth Screen and MASTERPIECE)

The alluring mystery of "Endeavour"

Melanie McFarland
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