Art | Books and Literature | Film and TV | Music | Other
Art
| Ecce Homo (García Martínez and Giménez) | ○ A fresco known for an *interesting* restoration attempt |
| Knoedler | Former historic art dealership known for Nazi-looted art and an $81 million art fraud scheme |
| Looted art | 🐇 Europe really didn’t like their own art |
| Piss Christ | It’s exactly what you think it is |
Books and Literature
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | ‘Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power: How to Use the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts‘ was written by a man |
| Codex Seraphinianus | An encyclopedia with surreal images and asemic writing system |
| List of best-selling books | 🐇 It is thought the Bible is the best-selling book of all time |
| List of books banned by governments | 🐇 Where one country bans Mein Kampf, and another Fifty Shades of Grey |
| List of most commonly challenged books in the United States | From witchcraft (Harry Potter) to LGBT themes to racism, many books have been challenged in the US for a plethora of reasons |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | 🐇 2 + 2 = 5 |
| The Anarchist Cookbook | 1971 book containing instructions on making bombs, drugs, and weapons; the author later regretted writing it (note: illegal to own in the UK) |
| The Three Musketeers | ● Is d’Artagnan the OG third wheel? |
| Voynich manuscript | ● A mysterious codex, still undeciphered |
Film and TV
| Bechdel test | A popular test to measure the representation of women in films |
| The Cassandra Cat | ○ A Czech film about a cat who wears sunglasses |
| Censored Eleven | ❗A group of Looney Tunes cartoons containing offensive ethnic stereotypes |
| Found footage | 🐇 A cinematic technique commonly used in horror films |
| Ghostwatch | ❗ A controversial British horror mockumentary people didn’t realise was fake |
| Golden Raspberry Awards | 🐇 Awards for the worst films |
| Guy Goma BBC interview | ○ Man who was mistakenly interviewed on live TV having turned up for a job interview |
| Hunted (2015 TV series) | British reality TV show where contestants go on the run for 28 days. What would your strategy be? |
| Kubrick stare | ○ Film technique named after Stanley Kubrick. Thank you to the person who provided the picture of a ‘successful’ stare |
| List of banned films | 🐇 Shrek was briefly banned in Israel |
| List of film and television accidents | ❗●🐇 Turns out quite a few people have died on film sets |
| List of filmmakers’ signatures | ○ Easter eggs and recurring trademarks used by filmmakers |
| List of films featuring slavery | ❗●🐇 Not necessarily a family movie selection |
| List of highest-grossing media franchises | 🐇 Who do you think is at the top? |
| List of stories set in a future now in the past | ●🐇 Where are the hoverboards!! |
| Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon | A game involving connecting Hollywood actors to Kevin Bacon |
| The Scottish Play | Spit over your left shoulder to avoid injury |
| The Wizard of Oz | ● An iconic film where some were lucky to survive the filming process |
| Twin films | 🐇 Films released at the same time with similar plots |
| White savior narrative in film | 🐇 A trope where the white character rescues non-white characters from their unfortunate circumstances |
| Whitewashing in film | ❗ The casting of white actors for non-white roles |
| Wilhelm scream | An iconic scream sound effect to look out for in Star Wars and other movies |
Music
| As Slow as Possible, and Longplayer | Insanely long music pieces |
| Cultural influence of Holst’s The Planets | Inspired some of the music in Star Wars and… Bluey? |
| List of classical music composers by era | 🐇 Pass the aux, new Rachmaninoff just dropped |
| List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response | 🐇 It’s not just ‘kids these days’ |
| List of controversial album art | ❗🐇 Album art featuring nudity, violence, religious imagery, and/or plagiarised images |
| List of references in We Didn’t Start the Fire | ● 🐇 In all, the song contains 119 references to real world events |
| List of music considered the worst | ❗●🐇 Comical, offensive, or just terrible music |
| List of musical supergroups | ●🐇 When some of the best artists come together |
Other Related Articles
| Black comedy | ❗ ○ Humour based on dark or taboo subjects |
| Doctor Who in popular culture | 🐇 Doctor Who references in other media |
| Fictional brand | Non-existent brands |
| Gag name | Please don’t use these for your Starbucks order |
| Pirates in the arts and popular culture | 🐇 Where pirates are fun fictional characters and not terrorists |
| Trial by media | ○ Where guilt or innocence is largely decided through media coverage before or during the court trial |
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