BONUS: 12 Memorable Pop Culture Moments From 2020
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🗓️ 27 December 2020
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Here's the full list:
1. Moira's wedding officiant outfit in the series finale of Schitt's Creek
2. Ted Lasso and the year in escapism
3. Uncle Clifford and Lil Murda in the season 1 finale of P-Valley
4. Michael Jordan watching interviews about him on an iPad in The Last Dance
5. Parasite winning best picture at this year's Oscars, portending the further rise of non-English-language powerhouses
6. The first 10 minutes of The Invisible Man
7. Kentucky Route Zero
8. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" from David Byrne's American Utopia
9. Fiona Apple chirping like a dolphin on "I Want You To Love Me"
10. Cassidy Diamond (played by Shalita Grant) in the third season of Search Party
11. "Uncle Naseem" (Season 2, Episode 9) of Ramy
12. The Good Place series finale
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners. It's Sunday and we have a bonus episode for you. |
| 0:04.3 | It comes from our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Every year they round up the best |
| 0:09.5 | in film, TV, music, and more, and that's what we're bringing you today. |
| 0:13.9 | So here's Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts, Glen Weldon, Steven Thompson, Aisha Harris, |
| 0:18.9 | and Linda Holmes to take it away. |
| 0:24.5 | At the end of the year, even a year like this one, we look back on some of our favorite things |
| 0:29.8 | from the last 12 months of Pop Culture. We revisit some of the moments, achievements, and just plain |
| 0:36.1 | delights that helped us make it through. This year we went daily. We got a new host and now we've |
| 0:41.6 | got 12 more pieces of good tidings to share. I'm Steven Thompson. And I'm Linda Holmes. We're |
| 0:47.8 | talking about our 12 favorite things of the year on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Also, |
| 0:53.4 | with us is Glen Weldon of the NPR Arts desk, High Glen. Hey, Linda. And joining us at the center |
| 0:59.2 | of one of our favorite things to happen this year, it was the arrival of our newest cohost and her name |
| 1:04.5 | is Aisha Harris. Hi Aisha. Hello, Linda. So good having you here with us. It wouldn't be the same |
| 1:11.6 | with just the three of us. Now there are four of us. We are going to dive right in. We're just going |
| 1:18.2 | to go around the circle three times. Glen, I'm going to start with you. Give me something that was |
| 1:23.3 | one of your favorite things of the year. I went with the ensemble that Moira Rose, the character |
| 1:31.1 | played by Catherine Ara, chose when she officiated the wedding of her son David on the season finale |
| 1:37.4 | of the show Shits Creek. Now a lot of pressure was put on this outfit, both within the show, |
| 1:44.1 | the reality they're shown without, because it was going to be for the viewers at least the |
| 1:47.9 | really last statement look that we'd get from a character who we had come to associate with |
| 1:53.6 | a very distinct, very fashion forward sensibility, but it also had to do a lot of character work, |
| 1:58.5 | right? For the people of Shits Creek, that town and for the viewers, it had to say |
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