
Why I Hate Tweety
Why I hate Tweety Bird, from his treatment of Sylvester to his strange origins, boy-or-girl mystery, and the cartoons that make him look less innocent.

Why I hate Tweety Bird, from his treatment of Sylvester to his strange origins, boy-or-girl mystery, and the cartoons that make him look less innocent.

The 1947 classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is more than a romantic ghost story. Here’s what the movie changed from the novel and why Captain Gregg may be more controlling than protective.

Why is Halloween Is Grinch Night so strange? A look at the forgotten Grinch special, Euchariah, Max, Hans Conried and its surprising Emmy win.

Bela Lugosi, Jerry Lewis imitators, a gorilla suit and Hollywood controversy collide in this bizarre 1952 cult movie.

What if evil isn’t a thing at all, but the word we invented for what happens when one person meets their own needs by dominating another person’s life?

There is no evidence that Salem’s accused witches wore the stereotypical pointy hat. Here’s how fashion, prejudice, art and popular culture created the iconic witch hat.

Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy takes us back to 1967, when Snoopy, Woodstock and the Flying Ace were becoming the characters we know today.

Madeline Miller returns with Mestra, revisiting a forgotten Greek myth about family, survival, transformation and the power to resist impossible odds.

Old cookbooks weren’t always harmless. Some mixed food, medicine and household chemistry in ways that can make Grandma’s apple pie look downright safe.

During the Siege of Paris, starving Parisians ate zoo animals. Here’s the bizarre story behind elephant, camel and kangaroo appearing on a Paris menu.

That stupid little pocket in your jeans has a long history, from pocket watches and the real 5th pocket to its cheeky modern reputation as the condom pocket.

Why did missing children’s faces appear on milk cartons? We look at the strange history behind the campaign, the kids who recognized themselves, Milk Carton 2.0 and Canada’s famous milk bags.

When did 81 become young? A funny look at aging, retirement, baby boomers and how our idea of old age keeps changing.

Scratch-and-sniff was once everywhere, from Raspberries albums and MAD Magazine to John Waters’ Odorama. Now the strange little fad is making a comeback.

Matt Kirkland has a strange solution for giant books: chop them into smaller, manageable volumes. Chop the biggest books and why it might make sense.

Apple’s new iPhone Duo starts at $2,999 in Canada. Is it really one phone, or are we paying for two devices cleverly folded into one?

Kim Deitch’s How I Make Comics blends underground comix history, surreal memoirs, and pop culture oddities into one imaginative graphic odyssey.

The Bic 4 Colours Pen changed classrooms, offices, and doodles forever. From rotary phones to nurses’ charts, this 1970 icon still clicks on.

The dark history behind nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Ring Around the Rosie is revealed through folklore, war, plague, and poverty.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe trailer drops, teasing multiverse chaos, Kripke as a dictator, and Stuart Bloom saving reality on HBO Max July 23.

Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto revealed hidden clues about his identity through forensic linguistics, stylometry, and unique writing patterns.

SPAM Dog combines the iconic canned meat with a classic hot dog for one of the wildest convenience food launches in years.

The Telephone: A New History by James Gleick explores how the phone transformed communication, business, intimacy, and modern life forever.

Black Sabbath’s The Eternal Idol survived lineup chaos, toxic album shoots, and a Van Halen-style rock experiment song during the turbulent Tony Martin era.

The Office returns in a massive 30-disc Superfan Blu-ray set with 25 hours of deleted scenes, extended episodes, and even more Dunder Mifflin madness.

Quebec’s unique French dub of The Simpsons uses joual slang, local jokes, and Montreal culture, making it wildly different from the French version from France.

Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood redefined 1940s animation with surreal humor, censorship battles, and a subversive Wolf who became a cartoon legend.

Wallace & Gromit’s official 24/7 YouTube livestream loops classic Aardman adventures, claymation nostalgia, cheese jokes, and handmade comfort viewing.