Nerdy Trivia: September 6, 2025

Procrastination is the art of convincing yourself that future you will somehow be more motivated, organized, and capable than present you. This magical thinking persists despite mountains of evidence that future you is just present you with less time and more stress. The good news is that starting literally anything counts as progress, even if it's just opening the document you've been avoiding for three weeks.

"The French Connection" hit theaters in 1971 like a slap in the face to anyone expecting glossy Hollywood entertainment. William Friedkin's gritty crime thriller threw audiences into the grimy streets of New York with Gene Hackman's obsessive Detective "Popeye" Doyle pork pie hat and zero-tolerance approach to drug dealers. When Oscar season rolled around, how many Academy Awards did "The French Connection" manage to take home?

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50 years ago TODAY & 45 years ago TODAY, we saw tw0 very different versions of Tom & Jerry! In 1975, "The Tom and Jerry Show" premiered on ABC with a unique idea: What if Tom & Jerry were friends? Well, MGM was not a fan of that idea. When they had the chance to create "The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show" in 1980, MGM left Hanna-Barbera and went to Filmation to return the series to the slapstick cat-and-mouse-chase that made it famous.

When SEGA needed a sidekick for Sonic in 1992, they created Tails, a character who could keep up with the blue blur's incredible speed. His twin tails spin like helicopter blades to lift him into the air. What kind of animal is this high-flying companion?

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