Color Me Badd
The geniuses at Crayola always crank out crazy crayon names, from "Mac & Cheese" to "Inchworm." Can you deduce real crayon names from ones we made up?
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Get Them To The E.R.
All the answers are celebrity names that end in the letters "e-r." What Community star would throw down the gauntlet in a rap battle against his alter ego Childish Gambino? Hint: Not Danny Glover.
Pair It Down
Why are Doc Holliday and Dr. Martens a paradox? Because they're a "pair of 'Docs.'" Every answer is a word that begins with the letters p-a-r-a, followed by the word that two clues have in common.
Measure For Measure
Go the distance for this final round, where all the answers contain some form of measurement. For example, the nickname for London's Metropolitan Police Service is "Scotland Yard."
Born To Run And Fail
A rewritten Bruce Springsteen classic--growled to perfection by They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh--recounts candidates who ran for President, and lost. "Champs like us, Joey we were born to run!"
Jokes, Fights And Controversy In A Frictionless Void
The way conversation works in the age of Twitter, it's hard to figure out where to pause and put a controversy in perspective once it's underway.
'New Yorker' Cartoonist And TV Producer Writes 'Honest Portrait' Of His Parents
Bruce Eric Kaplan's illustrated memoir I Was A Child describes his life in Maplewood, N.J., in the '60s and '70s. He says it's a way of keeping his parents alive, "not just for me, but for the world."
Voyage Through An Adventurous Alternate Universe With 'Basilisk'
Voyage of the Basilisk is the latest book in Marie Brennan's Memoirs of Lady Trent series; critic Genevieve Valentine says if you love dragons like Lady Trent does, now's the time to get acquainted.
