Finished: 9:35
Website: cracked.com
Synopsis: Explains six mysterious pop culture mysteries, ranging from movies to books to video games, and the circumstances and methods in which they were unraveled. Topics include, in order: [I]2001: A Space Odyssey[/I]'s IBM analogy, a fan's unraveling of the [I]Saw[/I] franchises final twist, the secret alphabet used in the [I]Legend of Zelda[/I] franchise, the famous but mysterious twang in the Beatles' [I]Hard Day's Night[/I], a riddle in [I]Alice in Wonderland[/I], and a mysterious woman in Charlie Chaplin's [I]The Circus[/I] who appears to be carrying a cell phone in 1928.
Highs: The Charlie Chaplin and Saw ones I found particularly fascinating, as well as the HAL mystery in [I]Space Odyssey[/I].
Lows: Zelda and the Lewis Carroll riddle. I found those to not really be in my interest and the payoff was so bland in both.
Final thoughts: Cracked articles that tend to investigate nuances in pop culture, such as this one, are my favorite articles. Not much else to say about this one, except that it was pretty entertaining throughout and each category was structured in a way to set up the mystery and then unravel it.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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