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Jodi Sweetin attends Chiller Theatre Expo 30th Anniversary Fall 2021 at Hilton Parsippany on October 29, 2021 in Parsippany, New Jersey. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

LAPD shoves "Full House" star at protest

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

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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

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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

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"

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J.K. Rowling (Getty/Angela Weiss)

J.K. Rowling bamboozled by Russians

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

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

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

What we learned from "The View" reunion

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

Colbert on Fox News targeting dog puppet

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

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Peaky Blinders (Netflix/Matt Squire)

"Peaky Blinders" & the crime of sobriety

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

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