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Brian VanHooker

Brian VanHooker is a writer at MEL. He is the co-creator of the John O'Hurley pilot ‘The Tramp’ and co-created 'Barnum & Elwood.’ He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast.

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The Grownups Who Never Saw ‘E.T.’ Because E.T. Freaked Them Out

Objectively speaking, he’s NOT THAT CUTE

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I Spent a Week Using an 85-Year-Old Sears Catalog as Toilet Paper

Allegedly, this is what Americans did before the advent of T.P., and given our recent shortage of the stuff, I thought it was worth going back in time to see how our forefathers wiped

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I Drove Two Hours to See if ‘Pasqually’s Pizza’ Is Really Any Different From Chuck E. Cheese’s

We know it comes from the same place, but is it really a different pizza? I had to know. Oh, and I got the voices of Chuck E. Cheese and Pasqually to weigh in too

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These Five Geniuses Turned Their Backyards Into Putt-Putt Golf Courses

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Three Vegetarian Chefs Tell Us How They’d Eat Groot

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Getting to the (Literal) Bottom of Every Myth and Controversy Around Pantless Cartoon Characters

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Why Were We So Obsessed With Big-Screen TVs in the 1990s?

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What Do Roadrunners Taste Like, If You Can Actually Catch One?

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A Supremely Heartfelt, 120-Year Cultural History of Athletes Thanking Their Mom

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Just How Old Is That Frozen Pizza You’re Eating?

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Six Baseball Historians on Everything Wrong With John Goodman’s Shitty Babe Ruth Movie

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How ‘Osmosis Jones’ Ended Up Teaching a Generation of Children About Germs