Famous novels
The standard for all dystopian futures, this George Orwell novel warned of what could be of the world
1984
This spore latches onto ants and turns them into mind-controlled zombies, often violently bursting out of their heads
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
This slow-witted, laid back hound was the star of this TV cartoon show
Huckleberry Hound
In 1998, he declared "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", to the whole world
Bill Clinton
This novel forced change in the meat industry, after its bombshell prose revealed the ugly truth of the working conditions & practices involved
The Jungle
This is the season where worker bees are booted out of the hive
Fall
This orange cartoon cat was the total opposite of Garfield, who would likely perish in a showdown between the two
Heathcliff
He was wheelchaired from a bout of polio, but it didn't stop him from serving as president in WWII
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mustached and sharp-witted, this sleuth is one of the more popular characters in the Agatha Christie canon
Hercule Poroit
T-t-t-this Warner Bros. character serves as the straight man of the Looney Tunes gang
Porky Pig
This president was sworn in hours after the assassination of JFK, his presence was another sign the innocence was over.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This short story inspired Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie about avians gone fowl
The Birds
Boris & Natasha
This president was in the middle of reading to a class of young children when he received word the Twin Towers were struck
George Bush
The basis for the British television series Midsomar Murders, this novel marked the debut of hardboiled detective DCI Barnaby
The Killings at Badger's Drift
Huh huh, these two dimwitted teens were the lead characters in this MTV cartoon show
Beavis & Butthead
This president was assassinated in the middle of attending a stage play
Abraham Lincoln