Top Five Strangest Pumpkin Spice Things
So we are in mid-August and that means just one thing: the spice is upon us!!! Starbucks typically unveils its pumpkin spice drinks in the last week of August, so our long… Read More
Top Five New Secret Service Code Names for the 2020 Election Cycle
It's election season! And you know what that means: a new array of secret service codenames.… Read More
Top Five Works of Art Destroyed By Idiots
It can take years to create a masterpiece, mere seconds to ruin it. Let's have a look. … Read More
Top Five Rules of Time Travel
It’s coming. Soon. Eventually. Already. I’m taking about time travel. Scientific advancement is coming at a faster and faster rate. We’ve got driverless cars in our roads and a driverless car in… Read More
Top Five Recent Theater Controversies
Live theater has lost much of the influence it had in its heyday, but lately there have been a number of social controversies that have spilled out into the theater and then… Read More
Top Five Movies from 2017 in which a Person has a Relationship with Someone who Turns out To Be a Monster
Monsters are all around. Beware. Bethany tells us how movies are trying to warn us. … Read More
Top Five Eerie Underwater Scenes
I love a good eerie underwater scene. The weightlessness and flowing hair adds a gracefulness to the scenery, while the inability to breathe adds tension. And looking at sets that should be… Read More
Top Five Weird Things about Trump and Food
Where there is no love in a relationship, even the way a man holds his fork annoys you; where there is love, he could eat off the floor and you wouldn’t mind.… Read More
Top Five Reasons Why Ants are Evil
The movie Ant-Man is coming out on July 17th. I was lucky enough to see a sneak preview of it, and it was quite good. There was only one problem: ants. Ants,… Read More
Top Five Similarities Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Il
Kim Jong-Il, the Dear Leader of North Korea, passed away in 2011, but his memory lives on. He is the star of movies like Team America, World Police and the producer of… Read More
Top Five People who Died By Falling Down
OK, this top five is going to be a downer. An elderly but healthy and strong family friend recently stumbled and fell while walking down the street. He died of his injuries.… Read More
Top Five Things in the Musical Grease that are Really Bad Now but Were just Good Fun back Then
Grease: Great musical film, or greatest musical? OK, maybe there are better ones, but there was nothing better for a 1970s tween. And it’s still just as fun to watch today. But… Read More
Top Five Best Trump Impressions
Let’s face it. Trump is a caricature of himself. Nevertheless, comedians and actors are having a lot of fun doing impressions of him. Here are the five best I’ve seen.… Read More
Top Five Phobias of World Leaders
A lot of world leaders have a secret—or not so secret—phobia. Here are the top five!… Read More
Top Five Creepy Things Noticed While Rewatching Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
Watching old Woody Allen movies can sometimes be a treasure trove of unpleasant observations about the way Woody Allen thinks, particularly given what we’ve subsequently learned about his private life in the… Read More
The Top Five Times Disney Tripped Balls
In the Golden Age of Disney films, the style veered towards relatively realistic and extremely wholesome—no sex, drugs, or wild music. But every once in awhile, It would get trippy like the… Read More
Top Five Kevin Spacey Movies That Seem Creepy in Retrospect
From CNN: Kevin Spacey made the set of Netflix's "House of Cards" into a "toxic" work environment through a pattern of sexual harassment, eight people who currently work on the show or… Read More
Top Five New Vocabulary Words of the Trump Presidency
In preparation for the Trump presidency, Bethany brings us a few new vocabulary terms we might find ourselves using. … Read More
Top Five Most Tasteless Holocaust-related Artistic Things
In America, we tend to be very careful around certain topics . . . like the Holocaust! But that's not true for everyone, certainly outside of the US. Bethany takes us through… Read More
Top Five Anti-Christmas Christmas Songs
Christmas has more songs than any other holiday, maybe all the others combined. That means it also has the most songs written against it. Let's have a listen. … Read More
Top Five Dystopian Movies that Will Give You an Idea of What is to Come
Obviously, the world won't turn into these dystopias simply because Trump is president, but they'll give you a taste of the issues we'll be facing with him as president. And speaking of… Read More
Top Five New Measurements for Judging Beauty
I think we can all agree that most women are ignorant of the vital importance of being beautiful. Likewise, some key features of a woman’s body may very well avoid public scrutiny… Read More
Top Five Suggestions for a Mazel Tov Cocktail
So today (November 7, 2016), a Trump spokesperson referenced a Jay Z video, which she says features protesters throwing "Mazel Tov Cocktails" at police (instead of Molotov cocktails). So this of course… Read More
Bethany’s Top Five Diseases Hillary Clinton has Been Accused of Having
For many months now, the Trump camp, Sean Hannity, Fox News, the Drudge Report, and Alex Jones have been accusing Hillary Clinton of being gravely ill. They keep pointing to videos and… Read More
Top Five Ways Trump Has Been Influenced by Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
Alex Jones is an increasingly successful conspiracy theorist with his own media empire. He's the one saying that Sandy Hook was faked using child "crisis actors." He's the one behind the stories… Read More
Top Five Ways the 2016 Presidential Election is all about Penises
This election is a departure from our usual expectations in many ways. There's never been one quite like it. But what really makes it stand out? In other elections, we haven't had… Read More
Top Five Indications that Donald Trump is a Vampire
Well, it's Halloween and almost election day here in the US. Hard to know which presents the scarier prospect. In fact, what if the two are directly related this time? What if… Read More
Top Five Dickensian Nicknames for Donald Trump
Charles Dickens was a master at conjuring evocative names for his characters. This popped into my head while watching the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, so I came up… Read More
Bethany Brings Us Another 25 of the Most Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Banned racist cartoons, Nazi sex dolls, the "Man of the Hole," Ego Depletion, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, massacres you've never heard of, and so much more!… Read More
Top Five Anti-Trump Spoofs You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
So: Donald Trump, presidential candidate. It’s here, it’s real. And it’s inspiring a lot of anger toward Trump. Some of you may not be aware of how long this distaste for the… Read More