Nerdy Trivia: October 25, 2025

No restaurant owns a food item like Olive Garden owns breadsticks. You can say "pizza" and think of dozens of places, or "tacos" without automatically picturing Taco Bell, or even "pancakes" without heading to IHOP. But breadsticks? Your brain went straight to those warm, garlicky sticks and unlimited refills before you could stop it.

The year was 1978, and John Carpenter was trying to make "Halloween" on a shoestring budget. He needed a top-tier mask for his killer, but at a bargain bin price, and sent production designer Tommy Lee Wallace to a costume shop to get the job done. For less than five dollars, Wallace came back with a mask that, after a little bit of movie magic, would go on to become one of the most recognizable faces in horror history. What famous mask did Wallace transform into Michael Myers' terrifying face?

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54 years ago TODAY, after-school reading got extra funky when “The Electric Company” premiered on PBS in 1971! From Children’s Television Workshop, it was aimed at kids who’d “graduated” from Sesame Street and turned phonics into sketches, songs, and comic panels. Rita Moreno’s “Hey, you guys!” became a battle cry, Morgan Freeman stole scenes as Easy Reader, and even Spider-Man swung through in word balloons to boost sight-word skills.

Look, I’m not saying that The Simpsons 35 seasons-and-counting run isn’t impressive, but I am saying that’s simply too many seasons. You’ll never convince me that seasons 2 through 8 aren’t by far some of the best television ever made — sure, there are still some good moments after that, but it’s been a steady decline ever since.

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