FYI, the Packers Won the Super Bowl
If you only watched the Super Bowl yesterday for the movie trailers — or avoided it altogether, knowing that those trailers would be on 95% of the internet today for quick perusal — you might not have realized that the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers last night (which was fine by me; the Steelers have enough SB wins, and the Packers winning probably made Brett Favre sad, which is all I could ask for). Luckily, these prophetic clips from Mystery Science Theater 3000 — specifically, the episode where they riff on The Giant Spider Invasion — has you covered, explaining the results in a manner nerds can easily understand.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.