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Who Do You Wish Would Guest Star on the Muppet Show?

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Lon Harris

Lists of toys, action figures, and stuffed animals that have entertained and enraged you since childhood.

Playing with Toys

A look at the decade-long heyday of brightly-colored, ridiculously loud, direct-to-children marketing and the many toys, foods, and products you begged your parents to buy you.

Big Spending in the '90s

Toys

In trite, cliched movies and sitcoms of the '70s, '80s and '90s, boisterous children are often gifted with drum sets by vengeful family members or ex-spouses. This, we learn, is really a punishment for the child's parents, who will now have to listen to a burgeoning Keith Moon awkwardly learn about rhythm, thus missing out on next several hundred sleep cycles. But assholes who wanted to screw up their friends and colleagues' lives didn't really have to plunk down the cost of an entire musical instrument – there were an abundance of relatively inexpensive, widely available toys and amusements for children of all ages in that era that would prove equally irritating. If your parents kept some of these around the house for you when you were young, call them and thank them. (NOTE: You should be doing this anyway.) If your parents kept more than 10 of these around, definitely call and thank them, then promise to move them into a better home. One where the orderlies don't steal their antique rings and give them more than 1 hour of outside time a week. They dealt with the most annoying kids toys of all time. They deserve the best. It's okay... they'll probably forget you even had this conversation soon enough...

Hungry Hungry Hippos

20 Annoying Toys That Prove Your Parents Loved You

General

Entertainment

The Best Singers Who Kind Of Mumble

Band/Musician

The Most Anticipated 2012 Films

Film

The Most Anticipated 2013 Films

The Greatest Living American Directors

Person in Film

Limiting to just a Top 20 turned out kind of challenging this year, which either means I listened to a lot more music in 2012 or that it was just a far better year than most. Not sure which. Spotify certainly makes the former more likely, and also is the main reason I found myself trending more towards playlists and individual songs this year than listening to albums straight-through, which used to be basically the only way I listened to music. So I think a Top Songs of 2012 might actually be more telling about the way I heard new music this year... but still, a Top Albums list is standard and, as I said, there were more than enough complete album experiences I enjoyed in 2012 to fill out a good list. In particular, this is an intense Top 5. Fiona Apple returns with probably her best overall collection of songs to date, Tame Impala made the year's most listenable rock album - and probably the one that will hold up the best after another year or two of listens - Dinosaur Jr. continued the greatest rock reunion imaginable, Kendrick Lamar proved definitely that rappers are the only ones who can pull off a concept album any more, and Grizzly Bear continued to mesmerize.

The Idler Wheel...

Lonerism

I Bet On Sky

I Bet on Sky

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Shields

Celebration Rock

The Best Albums of 2012

Musical Album

Alcohol

The Best Tasting Whiskey

Beer

Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale

Stone Brewing Co. Arrogant Bastard Ale

Stone Brewing Co. Levitation Ale

Stone IPA

Stone Brewing Co. Ruination IPA

Stone Brewing Co. 2006 Imperial Russian Stout

The Best Stone Brewery Company Beers

The Best Beatles Songs

Song

The Best TV Dads of All Time

TV Character

TV Shows That Should be Canceled

TV Program

The Best Seinfeld Characters

The Best British Sitcoms of All Time

The Best Game of Thrones Characters

The Best to Worst Harry Potter Films - As Rated By Fans!

My 105 Favorite Directors

The Worst Movie Directors of All Time

Film director

The Greatest TV Characters of All Time

Fictional Character

Favorite Movies of the 00s

The Best Characters from Batman Comics

The Best Teacher Movies

Internet

A test list that I'm using to test out things about these four websites, which I will not name because it might skew the results. I've chosen these four websites in a random fashion; it has nothing to do with them specifically. This is only a test, but I need it to be public for just a short time in order to conduct the test properly. Putting this text here at the top is part of the test as well. If you have arrived here, what are you doing here? You should click somewhere else. This is only a test.

Test List 250

Website

The Best Movies Based on Marvel Comics

The Best Superhero Movies Ever Made

It’s not exactly Mai Tais and Yahtzee out here, but let’s do it.

The Best of Nic Cage

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage has a rare combination of gifts amongst Hollywood stars. He&#39;s simultaneously a wonderful actor (consider Cage&#39;s award-winning performances) and, clearly, a totally out-there&nbsp;person. When you&#39;re watching a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/nicolas-cage-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference" target="_blank">Nicolas Cage</a> performance, he&#39;s expertly portraying a character while also showing us the most insane possible incarnation of that character.

So Honeymoon in Vegas isn&#39;t just about some poor schmo whose new bride gets stolen away by a scheming professional gambler. It&#39;s about that same set-up happening to a nutcase whose response is to run around Hawaii eloquently swearing at strangers. Face/Off could have been a story about a government agent who trades identities with a mercenary in order to foil an act of terror. Instead, it&#39;s about John Travolta assuming the identity of a drug-addled, oversexed bug-eyed lunatic. You see where we&#39;re&nbsp;going with this.

Perhaps this rare combination is what makes Cage such a compelling presence on screen, and why so many different filmmakers over the years have been tempted to cast him as larger-than-life on-screen characters.

Cage has not only completed dozens of films in which he plays over-the-top heroes and villains, but he&#39;s also been considered for dozens of roles that, for whatever reason, he never got a chance to realize. Sometimes, the movies got made with other actors. On occasion, the films simply fizzled in turnaround or had wildly different visions realized years later by other filmmakers.

Still, looking over the list, you can&#39;t help but wonder... &quot;What if that guy had been played by Nicolas Cage?&quot; And then feel a twinge, knowing that you&#39;ve missed out.&nbsp;For more true stories about your favorite actors, check out these <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/10-famous-roles-almost-played-by-bill-murray/adamhb" target="_blank">roles Bill Murray almost played</a> and great <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-7-greatest-_true_-johnny-depp-stories-ever-told/joanne" target="_blank">true stories about Johnny Depp</a>.

10 Amazing Roles Almost Played by Nicolas Cage

Roles Nicolas Cage Turned Down | List of Characters Nic Cage Almost Played

What were you doing in the '90s? Whether you were rocking flannel, Docs, and brown lipstick or just happily gumming down strained peas, these lists are for you.

'90s Nostalgia

Ranking the very best songs, bands, and musicians of the greatest decade for hit jams.

Music for Your '90s Playlists

90s Music

Want to listen to all these songs as a playlist? Switch to &quot;Info View&quot; to get all the videos on one page for easily playability!Ranked in order of preference for their one big hit song. Clearly, there are going to be a lot of artists who had big singles in the '90s and didn't make my list. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comments, but I'm not putting &quot;How Bizarre&quot; on the list...so don't bother asking...NOTE: I'm considering an artist a &quot;one-hit wonder&quot; if they had a big breakout single, and then basically faded from mainstream public view. Many of the artists listed below went on to release other singles (even if only from the album that also featured their big breakthrough hit) and other albums, particularly if you include their respective native countries. Some of them have even built up a devoted or cult following over the years. Many of them are still together. But for the purposes of this list, these are all artists who popped up on pop culture's radar between 1990 and 2000 and haven't really been heard from since.Who is the greatest one-hit wonder of the 1990s? It's up to you to decide.

Crash Test Dummies

Great One Hit Wonder Artists of the '90s

Fascinating things you didn't know about your favorite entertainers, and lists that rank the greatest rock singers and musicians ever to grace the spotlights.

True Rock Stars

The best, most popular music, movies, and TV that should be on your radar.

Entertainment Happening Now

poll

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-songwriters-of-all-time/music-lover?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Who is the best songwriter</a> alive today? The musician responsible for the lyrics and music that's the most memorable, significant and lasting in all of rock history, who is still with us today. We're talking, over the course of an entire career, the person who has written the most great songs--the best songwriters of the 21st century. A few things to keep in mind: (1) Songwriting teams are acceptable if they truly worked together (for example, Elton John writing music to Bernie Taupin's lyrics). When possible, as in the case of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, separate them and focus on individual songwriting. (2) LIVING songwriters. Living. (3) I think the ratio of "great songs" to "not good songs" is important to consider. If someone has 2 classic albums of great songs and then 5 albums worth of garbage, that impacts the overall view of the career, no matter how good the original work was. Something to keep in mind.Add your own selections below and vote up the people you feel are worthy of the title of Greatest Living Rock Songwriter. PLUS, if you have Spotify, you can listen to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://open.spotify.com/user/lonharris/playlist/2uw11W4F6dIPW4N3qptBFq">full songs from each of the listed songwriters on our Ranker playlist!</a>

John Fogerty

The Greatest Living Rock Songwriters

Greatest Living Songwriters | Best Rock Song Writers

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." -Robert Browning

Celebrating Moms

Evil movie mothers are so rotten to the core tha after seeing one of them on film, you may go crying to your own mommy positively joyous that you weren't at the receiving end of some of these evil movie moms.Who are the most evil <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-inspirational-movie-mothers/jocelynicoleo?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">mothers in movies</a>? This list of bad, cruel, horrible, twisted, evil, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mothers from a variety of movies, new and old. From Faye Dunaway's portrayal of a career-obsessed mother in Mommy Dearest to Mo'Nique's Oscar-winning turn as a physically, emotionally, and sexually abusive mother in Precious, there's no shortage of terrible&nbsp;movie moms on this mean movie moms list.CAUTION: Some descriptions may contain spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie in question, maybe skip that entry! (And yes, I know that cat Shaft is a bad mother... but he's still ineligible.)

Joan Crawford

The Meanest Movie Mothers of All Time

Film character

Bad Movie Moms | List of Terrible Mothers from Film

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