Out Of This World
This microscopic, eight-legged "water bear" can survive the vacuum of space, extreme radiation, and boiling heat.
What is a tardigrade?
Before streaming, movie nights in the '90s meant driving to this blue-and-yellow video rental giant, where the golden rule was "Be Kind, Rewind."
What is Blockbuster?
Bait-and-switching viewers with a snippet of the music video for this 1987 Rick Astley pop hit is an internet prank known by this specific compound verb.
What is Rickrolling
A swamp-dwelling recluse is forced to become a government contractor, evict a group of squatters, and illegally traffic a princess to a local politician.
What is Shrek?
Generating temperatures as hot as the surface of the sun, this crustacean snaps its claw shut so fast it vaporizes water and creates a shockwave to stun prey.
What is a pistol shrimp?
Millions of '90s kids grew up frantically pressing buttons to feed, clean, and play with this egg-shaped keychain virtual pet from Japan.
What is a Tamagotchi?
his Shiba Inu named Kabosu, who sadly passed away in 2024, became the face of a massive 2013 meme and eventually inspired a prominent cryptocurrency.
What is Doge?
An overly fastidious serial killer meticulously critiques 1980s pop-rock discographies and compares business card typography before completely losing his grip on what is real and what is a hallucination.
What is American Psycho?
On planets like Neptune and Uranus, extreme atmospheric pressure crushes carbon atoms, causing it to literally rain this precious gemstone.
What is a diamond?
Clipped to belts by doctors, business people, and teenagers alike, these small electronic devices beeped or vibrated to display a phone number before cell phones became mainstream.
What are pagers?
This 2024 viral street interview sensation from Nashville saw Haliey Welch become an overnight celebrity thanks to her highly onomatopoeic, southern-twanged advice on romance. [1, 2]
What is Hawk Tuah?
A sociopathic, milk-drinking hitman plays a series of high-stakes coin tosses with rural convenience store owners while tracking down a stolen satchel of cash in 1980s Texas.
What is No Country for Old Men?
Due to its incredibly sluggish rotation, a single day on this scorching planet lasts longer than its entire 225-Earth-day year.
What is Venus?
This 1996 Spanish dance craze and accompanying song by Los del Río spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, forcing everyone to flip their hands and rotate their hips.
What is the Macarena?
Originating from a 2019 TikTok sound, this passive-aggressive, two-word dismissive catchphrase was famously used by a New Zealand politician to shut down a heckler during a climate speech.
What is "OK Boomer"?
An underemployed, middle-aged man creates an illegal underground support group to cope with chronic insomnia, only for the group to rapidly morph into a domestic eco-terrorism cell.
What is Fight Club?
Orbiting our Sun past Neptune, this vast, icy debris field is home to millions of comets and dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris.
What is the Kuiper Belt
Introduced by Ty Inc. in 1993, these small, pellet-filled plush toys became a massive speculative bubble, with people buying them up as "investments."
What are Beanie Babies?
In 2023, a bizarre, surreal series about human heads inside toilets fighting people with cameras for heads went massively viral under this name.
What is Skibidi Toilet?
A cynical logistics employee undergoes a severe involuntary lifestyle change, develops an intense psychological attachment to a piece of sports equipment, and loses a tooth using a pair of ice skates.
Cast Away?