At least initially, this was a charming idea. It was mainly a way for them to write about things that would normally be nonsensical to cover, and it dovetailed nicely with the primary cultural obsession of all people born between the years of 1968 and 1980 (i.e., comedic nostalgia for the extremely recent past). Entertainment Weekly still does this feature annually, although now they just try to pick crazy shit to confuse soccer moms in Omaha (I question whether any contemporary person derives pleasure from—or feels guilty about—Mr. Rogers’s puppet-saturated Neighborhood of Make-Believe, which
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