7 Professional Wrestlers Who Unsuccessfully Tried Becoming Musicians

There comes a time in a professional wrestler's career when cutting a mean promo on the Ultimate Warrior isn't creatively satisfying. They need more. They need to write and perform terrible songs for people to laugh at. Maybe they overestimated...

Five Searches Wikipedia Does Wrong

As the authors of such seminal columns as "Cars Crashing Through Walls in Sitcoms" and "The Ten Grossest Hollywood Thumbs-Into-Eyes," we end up at Wikipedia a lot. Sometimes you want to research one thing, perhaps a rogue intergalactic smuggler,...

11 Alternate Dinosaur Extinction Theories

For centuries Man wondered what wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Then a bunch of know-it-all scientists ruined our fun and told us it was probably just a big rock from space. But that hasn't stopped science fiction from offering its...

Seven Sci-Fi Creatures Who Based Their Behavior On TV

Most science-fiction considers humans a pack of morons floating on a rock to be sneered at by more intelligent planets. So the poor saps who choose to learn from us are particularly absurd. Here are seven aliens, cavemen and other beings who study...

The Seven Least Convincing Movie High Schoolers

There's a reason filmmakers rarely cast actual teenagers. Real adolescence is full of insecurity, change, stickiness, and other things no one actually wants to see on a big screen. However, there's a fine line between comfortably post-pubescent...

6 Musicians Who Left Bands Right Before They Got Famous

Pete Best, Former Drummer, The BeatlesThe only thing worse than being fired right before your band hits it big is being fired after writing the songs that make your band big. That's exactly what happened to Doug Hopkins, who after penning "Hey...

Ten Original Singles Way Better than the Movies they Came From

When good music meets good movies, it's a beautiful thing. When great music meets terrible movies, it's a hilarious thing. Here are 10 classic singles originally written for 10 not-so-classic films.Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (...

12 Television Characters We Never See (Even Though They Were On TV)

Since Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot," the characters we don't see have been far more powerful than the ones we do. We've never seen Waiting For Godot and never go to the theater, so we looked at Wilson, Nanny, and 10 other TV personalities...

Sudden Impact: Nine Fictional Characters Who Were Suddenly Killed by a Truck (or a Similarly Oversized Vehicle)

LostBefore helming this summer's reboot of Star Trek, Lost mastermind J.J. Abrams was the patron saint of sudden bus accidents. Abrams is known for creating drama through mystery and the unknown, but sometimes all the drama in the world can't do...

Seven Movie Posters That Almost Were

Traditionally, historians don't like to play "what if" with history. You can't change the past, so better to focus on what did happen, not what could have happened. Of course, while history majors were getting their PhD's, the rest of us were...

7 Bands Still Missing From Guitar Hero

As games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have grown increasingly mainstream, so has the music inside the game. Most of the songs in the original Guitar Hero were covers, but newer games like Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band 2 spoil would-be musicians...

Heavy Metal Superpowers

When Bob Dylan and Bono talk about the power of music, they're clearly speaking philisophically. They don't actually believe music gives them supernatural powers. Heavy Metal bands do. Here's a sampling of some famous '80s guitar gods who used the...

The 10 Grossest Hollywood Thumbs-Into-Eyes

(Compilation video after the jump)Blade RunnerHorror films enjoy including eye-gouging for gross-out effect. Philosophical films like Blade Runner, however, tend to use the move as a sophisticated Oedipal metaphor. Either way, we the audience get...

9 (Very) Short-Lived Celebrity Talk Shows

The Magic Hour with Magic JohnsonHow long did it last?: Eight weeks.Just because someone is good at something, doesn't mean they are good at everything. You wouldn't ask David Letterman to play point guard. Yet someone at Fox decided Magic Johnson...

Your Guide to Fictional Little People

Seven Jokes That Came True

Some jokes are funny because they're true. Here are seven jokes that were funny because they weren't true, yet. Joke: The Chris Rock Show (1997) Reality: OJ Simpson's "If I Did It, Here's How It Happened" (2006) In...

Seven Cinematic Sub-Sub-Genres

"Mr. Mom" ComediesIt's easy to see why producers are attracted to stories of souls swapping bodies. It's like two fish-out-of-water comedies for the price of one. The old guy's trying to skateboard! The woman is burping and scratching herself! The...

10 Films Not Good Enough For DVD

When "Waterworld" and "Showgirls" can claim DVDs of their own, it takes an especially bad movie to remain stuck on VHS in 2008. The following 10 films are not on DVD... and should probably remain that way.Howard the Duck (1986)Casual Star Wars...

A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms

One of the defining characteristics of the traditional sitcom is the presence of three walls, which means driving a car through one of those walls is one of the most exciting things that can possibly happen. Here, collected for the first time...