Your Guest Idolator has spent much of this week with his sweaty palm wrapped around the TiVo remote, driving his wife crazy watching VH1's
World Series of Pop Culture. Any snobbery this pop-trivia nut might have had about the show melted away when it debuted last summer: props to the
Entertainment Weekly dweebs who produce the show, 'cuz many of these questions are actually challenging! Of course, as a guy born in the early '70s who somehow managed to never watch
Brady Bunch reruns as a kid, the entirety of the TV categories generally stumps me. Then again, the other day I actually froze when the lyrics to the Killers' "Mr. Brightside" were read aloud, so go figure. Anyway, if your built-in bullshit detector or urbane snobbery have kept you from watching the show, give it a try; emcee Pat Kiernan has a good sense of humor (you haven't lived till you've heard him read the lyrics to E.U.'s "Da' Butt" aloud), and hey—what else are you gonna watch in July?
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