I can feel death's clammy hand on my shoulder...wait, that's my hand.

Get It?! A Simpson's Reference is the Title. That is how you know I'm pop culturally relevant. I could have gone for one like "Don't have a cow man" or "That's not the wallet inspector" but that might have been too easy.

Did you think this was going to be about The Simpsons and how its way better than Family Guy or God, The Devil and Bob (Check that out, another obscure reference to a short lived NBC animated who)? Well its not because there is no argument. The Simpsons is hilarious and nuanced and slapstick and everything that a good comedy show should be. Let's forget about the last 10 or so seasons though. Those last few years are the equiavlent to your Uncle who you used to think was really cool and was funny but as it turns out is actually an alcoholic and he lost his job 3 years ago so now he just works part time and its usually during the summer roofing houses.

Also this is absolutely not news for basically anyone who is remotely aware of pop culturally relevant news but Josheph Gordon-Levitt after disappearing in to the underworld of minor gigs following his stay on Third Rock From the Sun has started appearing in more and more critics darlings like Brick and The Lookout. Sure, he is in fact in what will inevitably be a terrible G.I. Joe film but thats besides the point. He is starting to show up on more magazine covers but I'd just like to point out that he is probably my new male idol. And so this stops being a wankfest in honor of one Joseph Levitt I'm going to change subjects now.

According to Google Trends, "Howie Mandel" is the 3rd most popular search term at the moment. This is absolutely mindblowing for reasons I can't really articulate. I realize that Howie Mandel is the host of the game show Deal or No Deal but why the fuck is he the third most popular search term on google. As far as career trajectory though i'd definitely say he has had a sudden turn from being pretty popular to not culturally relevant at all to now being some sort of pop culture force. Its a bit weird.

One could draw parallels to Louie Anderson's career. Both had their own animated show. Both hosted game shows (Anderson did an iteration of Family Feud). And both were black mailed by a person threatening to reveal that they were solicitied for homosexual acts! Wait no, that was only Louie Anderson.