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One of the many, many things that’s WandaVision so compelling to watch are poked and prodded at the format of television to tell the story of unlikely love . But in an episode that was all about the fakeness of that metatext finally breaking down , a sincere turning point in their relationship was made potent. Advertisement “Breaking the Fourth Wall” keeps Wanda and Vision apart for its runtime, as it focuses on the former uncovering some major secrets about the powers behind Westview, and the latter trying to find his way back to his wife after the mother of all fallings out. On the suddenly-expanded edge of Westview’s magical boundaries, Vision finds himself teaming up with an unfamiliar ally—using his synthezoid abilities to awaken Darcy Lewis from her hex’d role as a circus escape artist. What follows is a farcical escape attempt in a carnival food truck that is befitting of the wider episode’s riffs on contemporary sitcom styles—it …

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In our series, A Scientist Responds , we’re dredging up the great and terrible science fiction flicks of days past—and we’re making scientists watch them. Today’s movie: David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the B-movie screamer, The Fly. The scientist: Throb editor and resident biologist, Diane Kelly. Advertisement The Movie: The Fly The Fly is a story about the dangers of sloppy lab techniques, the perils of poor communication, and, oh, also Jeff Goldblum’s terrifying transformation into some sort of human-fly hybrid. The story begins when eccentric inventor Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) brings science journalist Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) to his warehouse apartment cum laboratory to show off the teleportation device he’s been working on. Naturally, she wants to publish an article about the device— who wouldn’t —but he begs her to wait, offering her exclusive access as he attempts to make the machine capable of teleporting living …

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A team of surgeons at NYU’s Langone Health medical center recently managed to successfully transplant a pig kidney into a human patient without the body rejecting the organ—the first major operation of its kind, and one that apparently is raising a lot of (human) eyebrows. Advertisement As reported by the BBC , said donor pig had previously been genetically modified so that its kidney would essentially fool its mammalian cousin’s body into accepting it. Creepy, no? Not only that, but the experiment’s human is technically brain-dead “with no prospect of recovering,” so... Anticipating ethical questions, lead investigator Dr. Robert Montgomery threw some shade towards critics, telling the BBC , “I certainly understand the concern and what I would say is that currently about 40% of patients who are waiting for a transplant die before they receive one,” later adding that, “We use pigs as a source of food, we use pigs for medicinal uses—for valves, for …

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In 11 Questions , The A.V. Club asks interesting people the same 11 interesting questions. Bill Hader is one of those people who just never seems to stop working. Even now, between seasons of his Emmy-award-winning HBO series Barry , the Saturday Night Live legend is doing voiceover work in everything from Adventure Time: Distant Lands to Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. Right now he can be heard as Cyrus Strange, the mad scientist nemesis of the Addams Family in The Addams Family 2 . In conjunction with that film’s release, Hader took a few moments to run through our 11 questions, giving us a chance to learn about a really gross moment on a family vacation, what jobs he has excelled and sucked at, and his biggest embarrassment in the Barry writers’ room. Advertisement 1. What is the best trip or outing you remember as a kid and what made it great? Bill Hader: We went to Disney World in 1987, and I thought it was cool …

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Having secured its fashionable standing among millennials by giving a clown a vest , McDonald’s has since focused its rebranding efforts on young children, in the hopes that—through the fresh repurposing of trademark properties and targeted marketing—it can somehow get them to want colorful boxes full of toys and hamburgers. To that end, today it’s introducing American kids to “Happy,” a character and “ambassador for balanced and wholesome eating.” As part of promoting that healthy diet, Happy will terrify children into never eating McDonald’s again. Advertisement “Happy” is an animated Happy Meal box who was first introduced in 2009 in France, a nation well-versed in the existential angst that its name so ironically conveys. (“How can one be happy if our only destiny is to become food?” asked the children of France, before puking wine into the ball pit.) He’s since traveled to Latin American countries that now have more reason to hate us, and today made his …

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