The thinking behind Achievement Unlocked, a video game improv show, and translating video game artistic experiences into performing arts.
Achievement Unlocked: Video Games as Performance Art
Geek Week on Overthinking It
OTI at Geek Week 2012
We’ll be returning to Improv Boston’s Geek Week Episode VI for the next installment of Overthinking It LIVE!
Open Thread for December 23, 2011
Comments piling in an Open Thread … Movie clips and corny gags … We throw together some Metacritic links And hit “Submit” while Wrather nags … Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Are there other holidays? I don’t know! (It’s not Tet … Continued
Tik Tok Blues: The Music Video
Muddy Waters gives a soulful rendition of the Ke$ha classic “Tik Tok”
Open Thread for April 29, 2011
The Hanna Soundtrack Bad Parenting contest: Whoever wins, the children lose.
Open Thread for April 22, 2011
Thank you for calling Overthinking It. If you’re here for unstructured discussion of pop culture, say “Open Thread.” If you have a question about billing, please say “Accounts.” Para continuar en español, dice “español”. What goes on? “Weird” Al Yankovic … Continued
Geek Week Rewind: “Gold chains and social capital: Subaltern strategies of resistance and the coercive authority of the state in Mr. T-oriented fool-pitying”
The highlight of our Geek Week performance, in which Fenzel, Sheely, and Shechner present the political and sociological implications of our favorite hero, Mr. T.
Open Thread for May 7, 2010
Good morning, Open Thread! Every day’s like an Open Thread! (sung to the tune of “Good Morning, Baltimore”, what, it’s a good song, anyway) The big pop culture news this weekend: some comic book movie is kicking off summer movie … Continued
Open Thread for April 30, 2010
Morning, y’all! Let’s slip the surly bonds of threads and touch the face of chat, shall we? Two quick downers then some uppers: first, Bret Michaels suffered a brain hemorrhage this week and remains in the hospital. His sister and … Continued
Open Thread for April 16, 2010
Ah, good evening m’mselle, m’sieur. Can I open a thread for you this evening? First off, if you’re reading this on the site and not through an RSS feed, you may have noticed our new layout. You like? Please let … Continued