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Home of Nick Knacks, a show-by-show retrospective on Nickelodeon. You can call me Gregiffer. Bi, they/them. youtube.com/user/poparena

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · Nov 15

I should probably have a pinned intro post, huh? Hi, I'm Gregiffer, I'm a queer Youtuber running the Pop Arena channel. I cover a lot of stuff, but my main project is Nick Knacks, a history of Nickelodeon that looks at every single show that ever aired on the channel.
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The Pop Arena! Home of Nick Knacks, an show-by-show retrospective on the entire forty year history of Nickelodeon! Also, the Animorphs Book and Episode Guide, The Goosebumps Monthly, the Doctor Who Bo...

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 3h

I need baseball friends

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 3h

my best friend and total chonker

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 6h

When this ad was posted, these characters were 49, 38, and 29 years old.

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 18h

Don't worry, American culture was also threatened by the ninja turtles based on nothing but "New is bad, old is good"

An ad with classic cartoon characters Fred Flintstone, Dennis the Menace, and Woody Woodpecker with the caption "Turtles Come And Turtles Go, But We Go On Forever"

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 10h

I am interested in Brennan Lee Mulligan running Critical Role, how the show will be different with him and how he'll be different not running for professional comedians always trying to do bits, but it takes me like nine days to get through a CR episode, they're so looooooong.

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 16h

Well into the Halloween season
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My four most recent watches on Letterboxd. THE ADDICTION (1995, 3 1/2 stars), RED LIPS (1995, 2 stars), LAKE MUNGO (2008, 4 stars), POSSESSION (1981, 4 1/2 stars)

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, at least you actually buy it. *approving nod*

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍁 @thatretro.bsky.social · 1d

Only real time it's ever been referenced was in Behind the Laughter.

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 1d

Today on Forgotten Comic Strips, a Simpsons Sunday strip produced by Bongo, the Simpsons comic books guys, that seems to have slipped through the cracks so much that not even the Simpsons wiki has a page on it.

Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 1d

"The Simpsons" by Sherri L. Smith, Jeanette Bose and Jason Ho, 1998-2002
September 22nd, 2002 as seen in the Sacramento Bee

Sunday comic strip "The Simpsons," a tie-in to the animated show of the same name. Homer takes Lisa to a museum exhibit on neanderthals. While the museum guide details how ancient man gathered food, a hungry Homer spies a vending machine. When his food gets stuck, he starts to violently rattle the machine, reflecting the guide's description of neanderthal behavior. The vending machine falls on top of Homer, and the guide tells Lisa to leave him, "it's nature's way."

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 1d

Hippy bathday!

Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 2d

My Own Private Idaho, The Whale, Napoleon Dynamite, The Being, in that order.
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SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.social · 2d

What's the other four?

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 2d

That old Stacy Keach Mike Hammer show is streaming, never watched it, decided to check it out, half hour into the first TV movie Keach is sitting on a stoop lamenting on how there's not enough people on death row.

He describes a woman "having a real strong handshake," and I know where that's going.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 2d

The fourth best movie set in Idaho! (out for four)

Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 2d

SCHLOCKTOBER 2025 🎃

"THE BEING" (1983)
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SCHLOCKTOBER 2025: "THE BEING" (1983)

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 2d

Because it's Halloween season, "Def by Temptation" from director James Bond III.

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COUNTING WORMS MOSH CALL @hyenablood.yeen.world · 2d

I legit think all the time about how a polypropylene cone shaking really fast somehow can reproduce the sound of like a bunch of people talking and an orchestra playing all at the same time from 1 source like that's so fucking cool dude what the fuck that sounds impossible and made up but it's real.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of being forced to talk about Big Tech's fake inventions we should celebrate the truly life changing feats of genius that we don't think about. The incredible "head phones." The humble toilet

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 3d

lol, if you think this is a problem, then the thing you value in Predator movies is hyper-masculine macho men calling each other homophobic slurs.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

'Predator: Badlands' will be PG-13

• Will still be as violent as possible

• There's no human red blood

• First mainline Predator film to not be Rated-R

(via IGN)

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Fat Succubus @kaijunellie.bsky.social · 3d

People are so mad about this for absolutely no fucking reason. Like I highly doubt that after the success of Alien Romulus and Prey that they were going to play it safe with a PG-13 rating.

Sounds like MPAA didn't think the oozing white android goo was the same as blood so they gave it a pass.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

'Predator: Badlands' will be PG-13

• Will still be as violent as possible

• There's no human red blood

• First mainline Predator film to not be Rated-R

(via IGN)

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Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 3d

There's a very, very small but not zero percent chance J.R.R. Tolkien played Pong. That Charlie Chaplin watched Star Wars. That Ginger Rogers drank an Ecto Cooler. That Samuel Beckett tuned into Miami Vice.