Episode 1: Salute Your Shorts
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Posts by Matthew Wrather on Overthinking It
Oscar Week: There Will Be Spoilers
Finally, presumptive Oscar® winner There Will Be Blood. Belinkie Cobbling is apparently amazing acting training. Also, there will be mustache wax. Best bowling alley scene since Lebowski. Damn right, it’s better than yours. Stokes There Will Be Blood. No, really. … Continued
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Oscar Week: Call It
Oscar® week. *grunt* Six Words. *grunt* It’s a beautiful landscape, but it’s No Country for Old Men. Belinkie FYI: He does mind riding bitch. Moral: Never bring wounded men water. Honestly, who uses the word “caliche?” This Oscar is really … Continued
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Oscar Week: Nobody Saw This Post
Oscar® week continues at Overthinking It with still more six word summaries of Best Picture nominees. I tried to tell the guys to write even if they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, but a couple of them … Continued
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Oscar Week (Or Is It?): Unreliable Narrator Edition
Oscar® week continues at Overthinking It with more six word summaries of Best Picture nominees. We start today with Atonement. Belinkie Chick flick that men can tolerate. Wait, there were non-Americans in WWII? Prepare for the original Gossip Girl. It … Continued
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Oscar Week: Honest To Blog
It’s Oscar® week, and we here at Overthinking It are celebrating with more six word summaries, this time of the Best Picture nominees. We start today with Juno. Stokes Cera and Bateman together again? Awesome! Sheely Teen Pregnancy? I like … Continued
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Six Words or Less
The authors of Freakonomics posted on their NY Times Blog an invitation for readers to submit a six word motto for the US. Being industrious, the crew of Overthinking It individually submitted some suggestions, which were denied (!) by whoever … Continued
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The ANSiversary: And Finally
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The ANSiversary
The crew at Overthinking It are committed to reflecting thoughtfully on even the most crass of cultural phenomena. We’re like doctors: you can tell us all your embarrassing secrets. We will nod sagely, and prescribe a cream you can put … Continued
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Super Bowl Ads and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Aside from ethnic stereotyping that didn’t even skirt the issue (Mariachis are sexy! Indians are crass capitalists! Chinese are pandas!), there was an overriding theme to this year’s Super Bowl ads. It started with the Audi Godfather spot.
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