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Friday, 16 January 2026

The Otto Show (aka That's One Palindrome You Won't Be Hearing For A While)

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I like to begin each year by devising a rough plan of the Simpsons episodes I intend to cover each month. Even if I don't stick to it a...
Thursday, 8 January 2026

Safeway: Little Harry Goes Shopping

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Shopping at Safeway is an undertaking I never got round to in this lifetime. Growing up, they were this inoffensive brand that was always th...
Tuesday, 6 January 2026

The World's Most Horrifying Advertising Animals #54: Gold Label Retrieval Squad

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Paranoia over light-fingered pub patrons was the basis for this early 1980s campaign for Gold Label brand lager, which proposed several crea...
Thursday, 1 January 2026

The Mourning After (Brought To You By Seagram)

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At first glance "The Mourning After" seems entirely self-explanatory. The onscreen title makes it obvious that this is a piece on ...
Monday, 22 December 2025

The Man Who Blew Away (One Foot In The Grave)

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 Content warning: Suicide The Christmas of 1994 was a Christmas quite unlike any other, all on account of what was happening at Victor Meldr...
Monday, 15 December 2025

When Flanders Failed (aka Those Germans Have A Word For Everything)

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Last month, our coverage of "The Homer They Fall" prompted an interesting question. How can we tell when a particularly happy or ...
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Yet it isn't the gold I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold...it's the beauty that fills me with wonder, it's the stillness that fills me with peace.
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