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The Best Joke from Each ‘SNL’ Weekend Update Anchor

The Best Joke from Each ‘SNL’ Weekend Update Anchor

Alyson Lewis
August 28, 2023

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This issue is about ‘Tom and Jerry,’ mysterious orders that fell off, the funniest tweets from last week, movie-ruining scenes, and more.

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15 Badass Institutions and Mysterious Orders That Really Fell Off a Cliff

The past involves a lot of secretive organizations doing badass shit. There’s something inherently cool about secrecy, and people banding together to make changes under the radar just feels exciting and anarchic.

But now, there’s something about the idea of secret societies that feels a bit passé. The exclusivity involved in a lot of them feels a bit shitty, and scratching the surface of a lot of interesting-seeming historical fraternal organizations leads pretty quickly to more “Rule 6: No Jews” type regulations than anyone can really deal with.

Or, they just turn out to be pretty dull. A lot of secret societies and brotherhoods were pretty much ways of organizing group insurance while wearing funny hats and drinking beer. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s a lot less exciting than it could be.

15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Tom and Jerry’

During the 1960s, Tom and Jerry became the highest-grossing animated short film series of the decade, surpassing even Warner Bros. own legendary animated films featuring Bugs and the gang. Since their conception, the best friend duo who also want to murder each other has appeared in comic books, video games, comic strips, a musical and a Japanese comics series, and they’re far from done. The savage pair has inspired famous offshoots like The Itchy & Scratchy Show and Happy Tree Friends, and they’ve won more than half a dozen Oscars trying to decapitate and blow each other up.