This story originally ran in 2019 and is being republished in honor of Schitt’s Creek’s finale. Canada is a special place: It’s a country that nurtured the invention of basketball, the discovery of insulin, and the development of sketch-comedy talent. Down here in the States, even the casual comedy fan is familiar with the likes of Canadian’s great sketch history: The Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Baroness von Sketch Show, and You Can’t Do That on Television; that great sketch comedy comes from Canada is widely accepted by now.

People say comedy and horror are intrinsically linked because they both go for a visceral reaction. A laugh or a scream: Either way, your higher brain functions aren’t really supposed to be getting involved. But horror-comedy succeeds often not just because the genres have similar aims but because death is kinda funny. The failings of the human body are absurd, disgusting, and dumb. Many of the best horror-comedies are gross because the joke and the horror are coming from the same place: your disgusting, vulnerable body.

Last week, I put some miles on my DeLorean GIF, traveling through the last 30 years checking out the soundtracks to hit No. 1 since the reign of Purple Rain. It got you guys talking! It got me Spotifying! So, for this week’s installment of Somewhere in Time, I’m following it up with a look at 25 other significant, hit-spawning soundtracks from the past 30 years that, for one reason or another, failed to make it to the top of the charts, even though it seemed like you and everyone you know listened to them all the time.

Community is braided with looping, concentric jokes. Like a pretzel. Last Friday, NBC canceled Community after five seasons and, unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the cult hit sitcom will be brought back for more episodes on another network or streaming service. It is amazing, though, that Community did manage to stay on the air so long, having been on the verge of cancellation every year, and fans can take comfort in the fact that they at least did get five seasons (four of them with creator Dan Harmon) and 97 episodes (86 with Harmon) of the show.

3 Body Problem The Stars Our Destination Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » 3 Body Problem The Stars Our Destination Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » After a few heavily plot-driven episodes focused on getting straight to what the hell is happening, “The Stars Our Destination” feels like a necessary cooldown.

Episode 22 What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year? Episode 21 The Return of Avery Jessup Episode 20 Queen of Jordan 2: The Mystery of the Phantom Pooper Episode 19 Live From Studio 6H Episode 18 Murphy Brown Lied to Us Episode 17 Meet the Woggels Episode 16 Nothing Left to Lose Episode 15 The Shower Principle Episode 14 Kidnapped by Danger Episode 13 Grandmentor Episode 11 Standards and Practices Episode 10 Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky Episode 9 Leap Day 30 Rock Recap: Rebecca Birdstein Classic Leap Day traditions include wearing yellow and blue, eating rhubarb, and telling tales of Leap Day William, who lives in the Mariana Trench and emerges every four years to trade children’s tears for candy.

Including Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Michaela Coel, and more. Fall Preview A cautiously optimistic guide to an (almost) normal season. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Courtesy of Publisher Fall Preview A cautiously optimistic guide to an (almost) normal season. The leaves are dropping, anxieties are spiking, and at the center of everything is a warbling uncertainty. Sit down. Read a book. Make your world as big or as small as it needs to be so you can power past whatever’s hunting you outside.

Are you ready to go beyond the Upside Down? Stranger Things, Netflix’s Zeitgeist-y ’80s sci-fi–horror series, is one of the most popular and acclaimed TV series of the past decade. It’s also a love letter from its co-creators, the Duffer brothers, to the genre movies they grew up watching — E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goonies, and more — which contain a magic they hoped to re-create. The giant final episodes of the show’s fourth season have finally dropped, but if you find yourself wanting more, why not sate your Stranger thirst by watching the works in its (jugular) vein?

As part of our ongoing investigation into how movies are written now, Vulture talked to some of Hollywood’s most powerful executives and producers about what exactly they’re looking for in a script in 2017. Below, find out what drives these gatekeepers nuts, why they do (or don’t) care about spelling and grammar, why page length matters, how Trump has changed their tastes, and what goes into the oft-forgotten art of saying “no.

A lot of people like this Mulaney guy. In the immortal words of the type of people who say things like this, You gotta laugh! Now more than, if you can believe it, ever. The challenge is that most stand-up recommendation stories are built around the taste of the writer, and while that has value critically, what about the tastes of readers? What if you’re looking for new comedians to check out who are similar to the very specific ones you already know and love?