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Geek Tyrant
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Series Reboot Gets a New Subtitle Name LIFE'S STILL UNFAIR — GeekTyrant
The Malcolm in the Middle limited series reboot wrapped production last month, and we are just hearing about the new name the episodes will go by - Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair , a reference to the show's theme song, 'Boss of Me,' by They Might Be Giants, which concludes with the words, 'Life is unfair…' It's a great throwback title, and not only does it get that song stuck in our heads, but it brings back memories of the show, and gets us excited to revisit these characters. The reboot will follow Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) and his daughter (newcomer Keeley Karsten) as they are drawn back into the boisterous family's chaos when Hal (Bryan Cranston) and Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) demand his presence at their 40th wedding anniversary festivities. Also reprising their roles are Christopher Masterson and Justin Berfield, who portrayed Malcolm's older brothers, Francis and Reese, respectively. Caleb Ellsworth-Clark is taking over the role of genius Malcolm's younger brother, Dewey. Additional newcomers include Kiana Madeira as Malcolm's girlfriend; Anthony Timpano, cast as Malcolm's youngest brother, Jamie, who was seen as a baby and toddler on the original series; and Vaughan Murrae as Malcolm's youngest sibling, Kelly (who, like the character's actor, is nonbinary), whose existence was revealed in the series finale when Lois revealed her positive pregnancy test. Stay tuned for the announcement of the release date of the new episodes of Malcom in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair .
Forbes
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints Today: Clues, Answers For Wednesday, April 23
Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. Looking for Tuesday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another round of Connections! I like to see the positive side of things as much as possible. It's always more fun to enjoy things wholeheartedly than to dunk on them. Being enthusiastic is cool, actually. But there are certain things I don't like at all, and that includes some songs. I've never been able to put my finger on why this is the case, but 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' by They Might Be Giants is one of my least-favorite tracks. There are lots of genuinely repugnant songs in the world, and this one isn't anything like those. Broadly speaking, it's inoffensive. I have nothing against They Might be Giants. But there's just nothing sonically I can get onboard with here. The song used to come on the radio all the time in the convenience store where I had my first job and I always changed the channel when it did. I didn't expect to lead off the column with so much hater energy today, but sometimes the thoughts appear and I just have to go with 'em, you know? Before we begin, I've set up a discussion group for NYT Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot. It's also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up since I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 23, are coming right up. Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Today's Connections groups are... Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... That's now 66 wins in a row for me, more than double my previous best streak! Here's how I fared: 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 A regular ol' rainbow for me this time around. A pretty easy one, I thought. That's not ideal for #content and giving me something to work with in terms of spelling out my thought process in an interesting few paragraphs, but hey, the game is like that sometimes. TRUNK could have gone with animal-related words like PAW, FUR and TAIL. But nope, like the rest of the yellows, it is a part of a tree. MUZZLE, naturally, went with the greens. SKETCH made the purples clear as day and the purple connection was straightforward too. So, uh, that's it I guess! This iced tea I got for free with my grocery order that I'm having right now is pretty good, so that's something I can talk about. Oh wait, I can just wrap this bit up and get on with the recommendation. That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them. P.S. I feel obligated to balance out the hater energy of today's intro by bringing you one of my favorite songs of all time as a recommendation. I think the first time I heard 'Us' by Regina Spektor was in an ad, though I was aware of her before that. This is obscenely beautiful. It can be interpreted in a number of ways. Some see it as a love song, others believe it references Stalin and Lenin (when she was a child, Spektor and her family fled the Soviet Union). In any case, it often makes me tear up. I've long had the image in my head of this playing over a specific shot at the end of a movie. Maybe I'll make that film someday. In the meantime, I'll continue to love this song with every fiber of my being: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love! Please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too. Also, follow me on Bluesky! It's fun there.
The Guardian
29-03-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
Magnificent, rare worm with its own campaign song: the giant Gippsland earthworm
The giant Gippsland earthworm already has an upbeat campaign song. 'I am a real worm, I am an actual worm,' bangs the chorus of Doctor Worm, a late-90s novelty hit by the American indie rock band They Might Be Giants. Of course, Gippsland's worms definitely are giants – some reportedly stretching as long as 2 to 3 metres. And they are actually earthworms, albeit magnificent ones. Their size is truly remarkable, says Dr Beverley Van Praagh, a species specialist. A garden variety earthworm might be the length of your finger, whereas an average giant Gippsland earthworm is longer than an outstretched arm, its body as thick as a thumb. 'To be really honest, little worms kind of freak me out,' she reveals, 'they're all squiggly and squirmy.' These earthworms don't move like that, she says, they move slowly and gracefully. Yet despite their immense size, a song is needed, as you won't see these introverted invertebrates on the campaign trail, if at all. Giant Gippsland earthworms live underground in burrows, in small, isolated colonies scattered across 40,000 hectares (98,842 acres) in south-eastern Australia, and rarely come to the surface. Experts prefer not to dig them up, as doing so causes harm. 'There's an old rumour that if you cut a worm in half, you get two worms,' says Simon Hinkley, the collection manager of terrestrial invertebrates at Museums Victoria Research Institute. Don't even think about doing that with a Gippsland giant, he warns. 'If you cut a giant Gippsland worm in half, or even nick it, it's not going to survive.' Instead, scientists study the species by stomping about on the surface and listening for the sucking and gurgling of live worms squelching through their subterranean tunnels. 'The worm in the burrow gets a fright, and pulls back, retracts back down its burrow to go deeper,' Hinkley says, producing a sound like water draining from the bath. 'As far as we know, nothing else makes that sound.' Sign up to Down to Earth The planet's most important stories. Get all the week's environment news - the good, the bad and the essential after newsletter promotion These curious noises inspired an early 'talkie' in 1931 featuring the giant worms, filmed near the village of Loch in Gippsland, Victoria. The lead was a 6ft specimen, which lifted its head inquiringly for the camera, according to newspaper reports at the time. Seventy-five years later they starred again, alongside Sir David Attenborough in Life in the Undergrowth, who declared them 'one of the rarest and most extraordinary of all earthworms'. These giants have little need for such notoriety. These elusive animals seem to prefer a humble life, a colony of one or two worms might occupy a patch of suitably moist slope or creek bank as small as 10 square metres. Hinkley says: 'Everything about them is big and slow.' The Gippsland worm is thought to live to more than 10 years, possibly even 20, and produce only one amber-coloured egg cocoon each year, which emerges about 12 months later as a 20cm-long big baby. Patient, gentle and understated. If this sounds the perfect antidote to 2025, catch the earworm and cast your vote for the giant Gippsland earthworm. Between 24 March and 2 April, we are profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on Friday 4 April, and the winner will be announced on Monday 7 April.
