BY Kevin Dillon Happy 2024 Tony Nominations Day from the Great Pop Culture Debate! I will start by saying this 2023-2024 Broadway (Tony-eligible) year is one of the weirdest I have seen. The divide between…
BY Eric Rezsnyak Raise your hand if you have ever been personally motivated by the movie Mean Girls. Many people have in the 20 years since its release. So many, in fact, that in the…
TOP 10: Fake Shows on “30 Rock”
- April 19, 2024
- Tagged as: 2000s, 30 Rock, bonus, Nostalgia, television, Top 10 Lists, TV
BY Eric Rezsnyak In addition to being an absolutely terrific sitcom on its own, NBC’s “30 Rock” also poked fun at the television landscape with a host of TV show parodies. Over the course of…
TOP 10: Songs of 2004
- April 12, 2024
- Tagged as: 00s, 00s music, 2000s, Music, Nostalgia, Top 10 Lists
BY Eric Rezsnyak Full disclosure: when we began work on Season 9 of our podcast, we fully intended to do an episode devoted to the Best Song of 2004. Looking back at songs from 20…
BY Eric Rezsnyak We here at the Great Pop Culture Debate could not be more excited about Marvel Animation’s “X-Men ’97” project, debuting March 20 on Disney+. Picking up right where the classic “X-Men” animated…
BY Bob Erlenback The story Les Miserables has been a total bummer since Victor Hugo first penned the text in the mid 19th century. The story follows the lives of many depressed and down-on-their-luck characters set…
TOP 10: Nintendo Accessories
- February 18, 2024
- Tagged as: N64, NES, nintendo, Nostalgia, SNES, Top 10 Lists, Wii
BY Eric Rezsnyak While working on this week’s episode devoted to the Best Nintendo Villain, we also thought about Nintendo’s storied history with very cool peripherals — objects that impacted the way you played games,…
BY ERIC REZSNYAK This week we released our episode devoted to the Best “Drag Race” Runway Looks (Season 7-Season 12). In it, we made the specific caveat that we were looking specifically at looks that…
TOP 10: Songs About Sex Work
- February 1, 2024
- Tagged as: 70s music, 80s music, bonus, Music, Top 10 Lists
BY Derek Mekita Ladies of the evening. The world’s oldest profession. Working girls. Sex workers have inspired innumerable works of art throughout the ages. Fine art! Theater! Film! And yes, plenty of amazing songs have…
BY Eric Rezsnyak As of this writing (February 2024), the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in a vulnerable position, and its Avengers film franchise is reportedly undergoing significant retooling behind the scenes following negative reception to…
BY Eric Rezsnyak The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences will hold the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4, 8pm, with even televised on CBS. While we can reliably expect some outstanding performances…
BY Kevin Dillon The 2024 Oscar nominations came out this morning. Overall the list of nominees was pretty solid, and interesting. With that said, the Academy always seems to make some mis-steps — I hate…
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