Imagination is the world’s greatest spice. In the real world, nothing about the idea of blue-colored milk sounds good, it sounds straight-up frightening and if you saw it in real life you’d probably be too scared to smell it, let alone drink it. Yet, for whatever reason, Star Wars fans of all ages have been absolutely f*cking captivated by the concept of blue milk ever since we first saw Luke Skywalker pour a glass in Star Wars: A New Hope.
What does this stuff taste like? Blueberry Nesquik? Does it have a raw milk vibe? Does it taste good in espresso? All valid questions.
Blue milk is such a part of the Star Wars expanded universe and mythology that when Rian Johnson dared to give us an image of an old curmudgeonly Luke Skywalker drinking *gasp* green milk straight from the teet of… whatever the hell this thing is in The Last Jedi, a certain sector of the internet lost their shit. Which is exactly why when Disneyland put together their Star Wars land, Galaxy’s Edge, they capitalized on our unhealthy obsession by giving us our first official taste of the stuff.
I’ve been wanting to know how the Disney-fied blue milk tastes for a while now, ever since Galaxy’s Edge first opened in the summer of 2019 (full review of the park incoming) and… then the pandemic hit. The pandemic is by no means over, but since this is seemingly a permanent part of our lives now I decided to risk it all, make the trek to Disneyland rocking an N95, and try this milk for myself in my own private corner of the busiest happiest place on Earth.
While at the park, I actually discovered that isn’t just one flavor or colored of milk, there are three. Naturally, we reviewed them all!
Blue Milk
Dane Rivera
Price: $7.99
The Milk:
Available at the unimaginatively named “Milk Stand” in Galaxy’s Edge (on the planet Batuu), I was pleased to learn that this “blue milk” is thankfully, not milk at all and is mostly dominated by a hard to decipher fruity flavor. In an attempt to, I’m certain, cater to the widest audience possible ($$$), this milk is entirely plant-based, featuring a mixture of coconut and rice milks.
I think that makes for a better drink. But I don’t know that it’s going to satisfy Star Wars fan’s expectations.
Disneyland could’ve gone with a food coloring and made this a simple milk tea inspired drink (I’m not opposed to adding boba to this thing either) but instead this relies on fruity characteristics above all else, a tasting note that I don’t think any Star Wars fan expected out of the legendary piece of set design.
The flavor is dominated by notes of sweetened coconut and the slightest hint of pineapple on the back end.
Dane Rivera
A bit like a piña colada, but leaning much more heavily on the coconut than anything else. The drink features an icy consistency that comes off a bit like a loose slushy with shavings of ice present throughout. It tastes nothing like I expected it, or even wanted it to. To be fair to Disney though (because Disney needs/deserves/reciprocates fairness?) this isn’t Bantha milk, which is what Luke was drinking, it’s “Batuu’s legenadary blue… treat, served frozen.”
So you could argue it’s not what Luke drank anyway. But then… why are we drinking it?
Green Milk
Dane Rivera
Price: $7.99
The Milk:
Next up was the green milk. It looks much less appetizing than the blue, but the two flavors are pretty interchangeable at the end of the day. While the blue milk had a cooler more refreshing vibe to it, the green has a more tropical quality. I’m tasting more coconut but also mango, and maybe even a hint of citrus.
It’s really hard to decipher the fruity notes of each drink because they are primarily dominated by sweetness. There isn’t a lot of subtlety here at all, but I can see the green milk being more enjoyable on a hot day when you’re looking for a refreshing snack between waiting in punishingly long lines.
The Milk Bar’s description of the Toydaria Swirl is a bit misleading. The signage suggests it’s simply a mix of flavors but it’s actually a lot more crafted than that. The drink doesn’t utilize both flavors, instead it uses the green milk as a base with a swirl of mango fruit sauce topped with a dusting of chili lime seasoning. The flavor is akin to sprinkling Tajín on a tropical mango raspado and drinking the syrupy ice at the bottom. I got mango, coconut, lime and orange citrus, and a subtle and spicy aftertaste that lingered brilliantly between brain-freeze inducing sips.
As a drink it has absolutely no connection to Star Wars whatsoever and it’s kind of better for it, even if that does ruin the immersion a bit. To get one last little nerdy rant in, I find it puzzling that Star Wars branded this drink the “Toydaria Swirl.” The most famous Toydarian in all of Star Wars is Watto, you know, the Mos Espa junk dealer that literally owned Anakin Skywalker and his mother before losing the former in a pod race bet with Liam Neeson.
Very weird move, Disney. Why not the Dagobah Swirl? Same planet color, but I digress.
The Bottom Line:
Blue milk in the winter, green in the summer, swirl for the best bang for your buck. Ultimately, the legendary blue milk will forever taste best in our imaginations (or as a milk tea with food coloring). If you’re really going to shell out close to $10 for what is essentially a 12oz coconut slushie, go all out and get the Toydaria Swirl. It won’t feel like you’re drinking something from the Star Wars universe, but look around you, you’re in Galaxy’s Edge and it’s inarguably one of Disneyland’s best creations and absolutely chock full of other references for you to nerd out on.
Gunna released his third album DS4EVER this past Friday and fans quickly noticed that a notable collaboration was missing from it. Gunna’s “P Power” track with Drake — which was previously titled “P*ssy Power” — was absent from the project when it was made available on streaming platforms last weekend. A reason for it was not given by Gunna, Drake, or their respective teams, but at long last, the song is finally here.
The track is carried by a sample of Donna Summer’s “Could It Be Magic” thanks to excellent production from Metro Boomin. “P*ssy Power” as a whole is an erotic record dedicated to women and their sexual prowess. Both rappers detail drug-driven moments with the women in their lives and how they cater to them thanks to their lavish and wealthy lifestyles.
With the release of “P Power,” Drake joins a healthy cast of guest acts on DS4EVER which includes Future, Lil Baby, Young Thug, Kodak Black, 21 Savage, Roddy Ricch, Chloe Bailey, G Herbo, Yung Bleu, and more. The release of “P*ssy Power” also comes after Gunna shared a video for “Pushin P” with Future and Young Thug. Gunna also shared a deluxe version of DS4EVER with four additional songs, but it was quickly removed from streaming platforms.
You can listen to “P Power” in the video above.
DS4EVER is out now via YSL / 300 Entertainment. Get it here.
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The Golden State Warriors got a boost in the form of the return of Klay Thompson this week, as the star shooting guard played in his first game since the 2019 NBA Finals on Sunday, but one large piece remains missing from Golden State’s rotation.
Last year’s No. 2 overall pick, James Wiseman, has been sidelined for over nine months due to a torn meniscus suffered late last season, and on Thursday, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said they were hopeful Wiseman would begin contact work soon, either in 1-on-1 or 3-on-3. Every person responds differently to the rehab process, so timetables for one player won’t be the same as another, but many fans were wondering why there seemed to be an additional delay to Wiseman’s return compared to others who have come back from a meniscus tear.
What’s the explanation for the elongated recovery? Another previously unreported surgery was needed. Because of some minor-yet-persistent swelling, Wiseman needed a scope and cleanup in mid-December, flushing out some loose bodies, sources confirm, which slowed his anticipated comeback.
It is for the best that Wiseman got it fully taken care of, but it does come as a surprise given the Warriors chose not to divulge that information publicly via a release when he had the procedure. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here for Wiseman in his recovery, but for fans hoping for the big man’s return this month, it seems it might take a bit longer before he gets to begin his sophomore campaign.
Distiller Freddie Noe knows that you probably have preconceived notions in your head about Jim Beam. As the eighth-generation distiller at the best-selling bourbon brand in the world, he knows that’s unavoidable. So he decided to lean into his family history and bourbon heritage, while also making serious craft-driven adjustments to the distilling process sure to completely alter everything you think you know about Beam and their brands.
The biggest example of Noe’s approach is the brand-new Fred B. Noe Distillery (named after Freddie’s dad and Beam’s current Master Distiller), which is a true small-time craft distillery right in Clermont (KY) and surrounded by the freshly refurbished and re-opened James B. Beam Distillery with a new visitor’s center, tours, tasting rooms, and restaurant (don’t sleep on the Hot Brown pizza, trust us). The new distillery was Freddie Noe’s brainchild, based on his Little Book creations. We’ll get into how that played out below, but the curious can go and visit this craft distillery, drink some great cocktails, and even practice their own blending skills, right on the larger Beam campus. The Fred B. Noe Distillery has also teamed up with the University of Kentucky’s James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits to bring classrooms right into the distillery to educate the next generation of whiskey makers.
To illuminate Jim Beam‘s new era, I sat down with Freddie Noe in his distillery to talk about how Little Book came to be and then helped build the space itself. We also touched on what it’s like taking on the mantle of “Beam” as a brand reaching back to 1795 and how new whiskey expressions are built. Let’s dive in!
You know, ten, 20, 30 years ago people would know the name Jim Beam but not know much about it other than it’s Kentucky bourbon. Today, we know how big the brand is, how it’s made, etc. Jim Beam is the number one selling bourbon in the world. Does that give you a focus of like, “Hell yeah, let’s keep going,” or do you feel like it puts a spotlight on you for people to nitpick you more because you’re in that spot?
I think it’s a little bit of a both. The thing about me, when you say, “World’s number one bourbon,” I’m so proud of that fact. Jim Beam’s been the world’s number one bourbon since the ’70s. But what I’m striving for … I want to see Jim Beam be the world’s number one whiskey. That’s kind of one of my goals.
Watch out, Johnnie Walker.
Exactly. It’s a lofty goal, but through things like Booker’s, Baker’s, the things we’re going to be doing in this facility, hopefully, it amplifies what bourbon is about, drives more education on Jim Beam, and bourbon in the overall whiskey category.
I get a lot of silly questions. One of the biggest misconceptions is that Booker’s and Baker’s or the Little Book is all just Jim Beam in a fancy bottle. But those bottles are built around craft and what we’re doing is craft and that craft isn’t a science. It’s great and I love it.
It sort of blows my mind that I can be in Berlin and I can walk into a shop and get a bottle of Jim Beam for 9.99, about 12, 13 bucks and it’s identical quality and exactly what I want. The fact that I can get that quality of straight bourbon from right here in Clermont for that price…
It’s crazy.
… It’s kind of a miracle.
One of my favorite ads for Jim Beam is from when he was out kind of traveling and just getting this thing going was, “Beam Whiskey, no finer in all this world, yet moderately priced.”
That was the point. He knew he had good whiskey and he knew he was making money off of it. He didn’t need to make a million dollars off of everybody, right? He wanted to get our whiskey in everyone’s mouth because he thought it was the world’s finest whiskey.
I think that’s what you and the Russells [the family behind Wild Turkey] understand is, “Hey, let’s keep this accessible so that everyone can buy it.” Then, of course, that’ll lead people to the Booker’s, Little Book, etc.
Absolutely. You have to have that because I want to find an American whiskey for everyone in the world. I think there is the possibility of that. We have the most levers to pull. It’s holding those levers in, delivering products like Booker’s or even like Booker’s Rye that kind of elevates things, but you never lose sight of that Jim Beam. That was one of the last things that my granddaddy said to my dad is, “Take care of my Booker’s, but don’t ever lose sight of Jim Beam because that’s what got us here.”
And when I was a kid I was like, “But my granddaddy’s got a product named after him. Why does he care about that?” Now, I know. If they call me and there’s a Jim Beam quality problem. I’m probably more up their ass than if they said, “We got a problem with Little Book.” Because I know I can correct that. That’s mine, right? I can deal with those problems. But if you are in Berlin and buy a bottle of Jim Beam and it’s at all off from that quality mark, we may have lost you as a consumer.
Guess what’s sitting right next to Jim Beam on the shelf?
Exactly. There’s something else sitting right there now. There’s so much sitting there. We have to be the biggest upholders of integrity.
Beam Suntory
Building off of that. There’s always going to be something different these days. Somebody’s always going to be coming along with new ideas and making new expressions, which sort of leads me to this new craft facility because I feel like this is a new idea that you don’t see in a lot of distilleries this size. What was the “aha” moment where you knew this was the step forward for Beam?
When I first started working on Little Book, I didn’t know anything. I was just doing some blending. It wasn’t even called Little Book yet. It was just “Freddie working on this idea he had.”
Right.
Right around that same time, it became “Little Book” because someone was reading my granddad’s book where he called me “Little Book” as a child. And they’re like, “Look, your granddad’s got Booker’s. How cool would it be to name it Little Book?” And I hadn’t even thought of that, but that’s perfect.
So, as I was working on that, I got to a place where I had a couple of blends I really liked. And no one really knew what I was doing except for one other fellow and my dad and a couple of marketing people who said, “Go for it.”
So I’ve done this, we got this place and I’m like, “This is pretty fucking good.” So I take it to a couple of people to taste it and they’re just, “Wow, this is good stuff. What is this?” I said, “It’s a blend.” Silence.
“A Blend?”
One of them actually called my dad up. “What the fuck is Freddie doing doing blends? Are you sure we want this kind of publicity coming?” And Dad was kind of like, “Let him do his thing and we’ll see what happens.”
As if Four Rose’s didn’t already exist.
Exactly! So a few months go forward, we’re about to launch Little Book, and our CEO, Matthew Shatter, comes down for my grandmother’s wake. I hadn’t seen him in a while but he was my mentor. He come down and after the service, he come to the house, and then we had a drink. He’s like, “What are you working on these days?” So I slid him that glass of Little Book and he was like, “What do we need to do to get more of this?”
And I said, “I need a distillery.” He’s like, “You got two distilleries, right?” I said, “We need a small distillery because these are very differentiated products that I blended together very delicately and patiently.”
To get to this kind of stuff, you can’t just take your everyday whiskey. You need to go and stretch the boundaries of what the flavor is to get into the different areas I was looking for.
Beam Suntory
Where did you start finding these whiskeys, to begin with?
It’s kind of funny. It started when I was working in the distillery, just learning about corn, rye, and malt and the flavor that each of them individually attributes to our mash during fermentation and then to the distillation. I always thought we should put all these together from each part. Each of them has its own flavor individually. Could you maximize what flavor is available and then blend them together?
Or, I didn’t say blend because back then it was a dirty word. If I said “blend,” dad or grandad would’ve beat me with a stick. That was a terrible word.
It was “mingling,” right?
It’s “mingling,” exactly.
But I thought if you put them together after you made the whiskey, what’s that like versus cooking it together? And the distillery guys are all, “This guy will never fucking make it around here. He’s going to separate how we cook all of this?!?”
I did a little bit of a stint where I went to quite a few different departments and spent three to six months there. I got invited to go to R&D and they tasked me with coming up with a new product. So I just asked the lady I was working with, “I want to do a blend of corn, rye, and malt whiskeys. Do we have that?” And she’s like, “I think we do.”
And that’s where Little Book started. What I used was corn whiskey that was existing stock, a rye whiskey which was our normal rye that had lower content rye right above the 51 percent. So it still had quite a bit of corn in it. And they were four years old. There were still a lot of immaturities that those liquids were bringing about. It wasn’t that good, but I did it as an exercise.
Then a couple of years later, it comes back up as an opportunity to work on innovation. I thought, “I did this and did it at 80 proof and four years old,” Then I thought, “What can I do differently?”
So some of it was a different age, maybe utilize more of that kind of rye, like Booker’s rye. Could we utilize some of that? So that’s essentially what I did was assemble a high rye content older whiskey with that corn whiskey with some older malt whiskey. The corn whiskey was actually 13 years old and that’s where it all started to really come together. But it all stemmed from a thought of, ‘if we cook these together and it comes out like this, what would happen if you cooked them individually, distilled them individually, and then mingle them together?’
Right.
I always want to know the what if? What if we did it this…? If we do it this way and it does this, but what if we do this, what happens?
It doesn’t always work out the best in the distillery because you lock things up and you have to shut things down to do something different. That’s why I was telling the CEO that we need a place where I can essentially lock it up and no one’s going to be calling me saying, “Gosh damn, we missed 400 barrels of whiskey yesterday because you shut the distillery down for 14 hours.” You know what I mean?
It gives you time to think.
This place gives me that opportunity to do that and it literally all stemmed from that Little Book conversation about how we can extend further into whiskey and the differentiation that we can do.
Then there’s the added layer to this spot in that it’s an experiential location for people to come and watch you, watch the experience, and watch this literal craft whiskey get made live while drinking a killer cocktail.
Correct.
Beam Suntory
What are some of the things that you’re looking forward to people actually experiencing when they come here?
I think the biggest thing, it’s a quote from what we’ve been saying, “Genuine in the making.” Everything we do here is genuine. I pointed out when we were walking around, we run natural fermentation so we don’t use synthetic enzymes. We propagate our yeast here on site. It’s in the room in the corner over there, right under my watchful eye. A lot of people have outsourced those things. They get them in bags.
But to me, I think it makes you a better distiller when you have to watch everything, you have to make sure your assets stay in touch, or you got to cut out your setback. So there are things that we do here that are purposefully inefficient because it’s all about the quality that goes in the bottle. It’s not about making more whiskey. It’s not about selling thousand-dollar bottles of whiskey. It’s about always making sure the quality hits.
That’s what it’s about is that people come here and they get to experience that genuine in the making, that we’re still doing this. I say this and I think some people in our company maybe get a little nervous when I say it but “It’s the Beam way and it’s the right way,” because we’ve been doing it for a long time.
There have been opportunities to maybe grab synthetic enzymes or to take our yeast and let it be outsourced so we just come in perfect every time. But we own this process. My family’s owned this process for 226 years now. And my dad said it and I say it too, “I’m not going to be the guy that’s going to change that authentic process or alter that.”
If anything, you lean in.
Exactly. I’m going to lean into it. I’m going to help us maybe make it a little bit less inefficient if we can, but we’re still going to do things the Beam way and so that’s what I hope people experience.
When you come here and you take away the Beam way, when you see the products we create and the liquids that are here, hopefully, it rises that word “craft” as what’s genuine in making. You see we’re doing craft and not science. I think if you come here and you see this stuff, it’d be hard for you not to be very inspired. You’ll see that the world’s number one bourbon maker is still doing things so inefficiently for craft, right?
For sure, I think a lot of people see Jim Beam as so big that It must be a huge, faceless factory. And that’s the opposite of what we’re sitting in right now, which is pure character, but also pure craft. I mean, this is really the antithesis of what people probably have been programmed to think about Beam.
Correct. If we were to walk around the facility just on that side of the building, or if I took you through the bottling house, or around the warehouse team, or when we walk through that door, I’ll be a little bit nervous about the shit they might give me because we’re all very close.
That’s good though.
Right? Because they’d be excited to see me and they’d be excited for you to be here. That’s what’s cool is our people interact with people like they’re in church. It’s not because we’re telling them, “You got to talk to these people.” They’re proud of what they do here and they want to showcase it to anybody and everybody who will come through.
So luckily, since we’re opening back up. we’ll hopefully have more people coming in, getting a chance to see it. They’ll see that everybody here is an extension of me and the Beam and Noe family. And that they’re proud of this place and proud to showcase what we’re doing here.
Alec Baldwin, who just last week said he was cooperating with authorities, has yet to actually cooperate with authorities regarding the shooting the occurred on the set of his movie Rust, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office.
According to the sheriff’s office, a warrant for Baldwin’s phone was approved nearly a month ago on Dec. 16th, nearly two months after the shooting incident that tragically killed Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin has yet to hand over his phone for investigation, despite the Baldwin’s lawyer becoming aware of the warrant on Dec. 20th.
Less than a week ago on Jan. 8th, Baldwin took to Instagram to ensure his 2.4 million followers that he was, in fact, cooperating with the investigation: “Any suggestion that I am not complying with requests or orders or demands or search warrants about my phone, that’s bullsh*t, that’s a lie.” As of Thursday, January 13th, authorities confirmed that Baldwin has yet to hand over his phone.
Despite not helping the police with the investigation, Baldwin has been giving interviews that suggest he didn’t pull the trigger, and isn’t to blame for the incident. The shooting has brought awareness to movie safety protocols on Hollywood productions. Just yesterday, the on-set armorer filed a lawsuit against the ammunition company that provided bullets for the production.
In a watershed moment for the investigation into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building following Donald Trump‘s “Stop the Steal” rally, 11 members of the Oath Keepers have been charged with seditious conspiracy. These charges are the most serious to be levied against participants in the failed January 6 insurrection, and one of the members named by the government is Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes, who was believed to be working closely with notorious Trump ally Roger Stone. Rhodes, along with the other men, are looking at significant charges that include allegedly bringing weapons into Washington D.C., which scuttles the far-right narrative that the January 6 riot was a “peaceful protest.”
The new indictment brings to light planning the Oath Keepers are accused to have done ahead of the Capitol attack, as they allegedly recruited members, stocked up on weapons and organized to disrupt Congress’ certification of the 2020 election. Prosecutors say they also continued to plot “to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power” after the Capitol riot failed to block the electoral college vote, according to a Justice Department statement on Thursday.
Rhodes has been repeatedly linked to Stone, who should probably be very concerned right now, according to political commentator Ron Filipkowski.
“I’m sure Roger Stone doesn’t have to worry about these Oathkeepers flipping on him,” Filipkowski tweeted after the seditious conspiracy charges were announced. “Yeah, they’re facing 20 years in prison and the government is willing to negotiate with them for full cooperation, but these guys are solid. I’m sure they won’t say anything to save themselves.”
I’m sure Roger Stone doesn’t have to worry about these Oathkeepers flipping on him. Yeah, they’re facing 20 years in prison and the government is willing to negotiate with them for full cooperation, but these guys are solid. I’m sure they won’t say anything to save themselves.
As for how the Oath Keepers’ plans were uncovered by the government, that should concern Stone, too, along with any other suspects involved in the January 6 plot. According to CNBC, the feds were able to gain access to encrypted Signal messages. As for how, the feds aren’t saying, but that should raise concerns for any participants who thought they were protected by using the supposedly secure platform.
A couple of years ago, Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free mystified the world with the announcement of their new company, PgLang. Nobody seemed to know what PgLang was or what it’d do, but in the intervening years, we’ve seen glimpses. In 2021, the company collaborated with Calvin Klein on a new ad campaign and backed the release of Kendrick’s cousin Baby Keem’s debut album The Melodic Blue on Columbia Records. According to Deadline, though, they’ve now got bigger plans, expanding into the world of film with the creators of long-running animated comedy South Park.
Kendrick, Dave, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker have teamed up to produce the live-action comedy with Paramount Pictures. The premise is probably par for the course for the provocative South Park creators, following “a young Black man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum” who finds out that his white girlfriend’s ancestors owned his (does this make them many-times-removed relatives? Probably!). The script was written by Vernon Chatman, who created the MTV2 comedy Wonder Showzen and voices a handful of characters on South Park, but no director has signed on yet, despite production being scheduled for this spring. The film will have theatrical distribution, as well as streaming on Paramount+.
The season one finale of Showtime’s fantastic Yellowjackets airs on Sunday, so if you have any theories about the identify of the Antler Queen or how many times Misty has forced her poor parrot to watch Caligula with her, you should post them to Reddit now.
Who knows, the creators might even be reading.
“I shouldn’t admit this but I have been, along with the entire cast and most of our EPs, trolling Reddit a little bit and watching Twitter a little bit,” co-creator Ashley Lyle told ET Online. “I would say that somebody out of the thousands of comments that have come up has rightly predicted almost everything. And it’s not always the most popular of theories, which I find interesting.” She added that’s especially fun to read theories about the Antler Queen, a fan term that has become canon:
“I like that as much as I actually enjoy the completely off-the-wall theories that are completely insane sometimes, but really creative. So, I salute everyone who’s coming up with [those]. It’s fun to see.”
Here’s my theory for the finale: all the teens (and Ben, can’t forget Ben) recreate the plot of the 1996 film, Mars Attacks. I guess that’s not so much a “theory” as a demand. If you’re reading this, Ashley Lyle and/or co-creator Bart Nickerson, thank you in advance.
Yellowjackets airs at 10 p.m. EST on Sunday on Showtime.
You gotta give it up to Sesame Street and the stellar slate of musical guests that have already appeared in the show’s 52nd season. The lineup of artists once again looks like it was picked by a team of people who clearly have their finger on the pop culture pulse. First, it was Billie Eilish and her ode to the Number 2 (the actual number, not… you know) with the Count. Then it was Kacey Musgraves‘ bouncy disco-pop tune about colors. And now in the latest episode, the multi-talented Anderson .Paak joined Elmo and Cookie Monster to sing about the many Holidays we all celebrated (in case you didn’t know, holiday starts with the letter “H.”)
.Paak began by walking down the step of the timeless Sesame Street stoop with flannel pants, a cardigan sweater, a newsboy cap, and an ear-to-ear smile that never leaves his face. He’s quickly joined by Elmo and Cookie Monster as .Paak leads the trio through a laundry list of notable holidays, paying homage to all denominations in the process. Among them they nod to M.L.K. Day, Indigenous People’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Hannuakah, Ramadan, Diwali, Passover, Dia de Los Muertos, and Cookie Monster’s personal favorite, Christmas. “Ooh that makes me jolly!” he says while taking a bite out of a cookie shaped like a Christmas tree.
Paak closes out the song on the drums, and the best moment in the clip comes when he and Elmo prank Cookie Monster. “The world is out of cookies!” .Paak says to a noticeably distressed Cookie Monster. “No I’m serious! Ain’t no more cookies in the world, fam!” before Paak and Elmo shout in unison: “APRIL FOOLS.”
Nice work, Sesame Street. Nice work.
Watch Anderson Paak’s appearance on Sesame Street above.
Peacemaker: Season 1 (HBO Max series) — One of The Suicide Squad‘s characters who seemed least likely (well, there actually were a lot of them, including poor Boomerang) to make it out alive has his own spinoff series. That would be John Cena’s horribly patriotic bro, and it’s still hellaciously funny that this is happening because James Gunn got bored during quarantine and decided to write this TV show. Never fear, though. He Of the Butthole Jokes is still as worthy of contempt as always. There’s no telling whether we’ll see another Squad movie, so soak up as much of this end of the DCEU while it’s hot.
Wolf Like Me (Peacock series) — Isla Fisher and Josh Gad star in this series about a widower who meets a lady stranger. They end up dating, but each of them have so much baggage that one shouldn’t expect a smooth ride.
My Mom, Your Dad: Season 1 (HBO Max series)– Comedian Yvonne Orji (Insecure) hosts this reality show about single parents looking for love at the behest of their college-age kids. The parents end up living in a house together, Big Brother-style, while the kids are also living in a house together and pulling parental strings. Oh boy.
The Journalist (Netflix series) — This adaptation of the 2019 Japan Academy Awards-winning movie similarly confronts Japanese scandals and political crimes in a controversial-yet-acclaimed way. The story follows a reporter, Anna Matsuda, who’s a “maverick” and keen to expose injustices within society.
Brazen (Netflix film) — Alyssa Milano stars as a celebrity mystery/crime author, who’s attempting to figure out who murdered her estranged sister (who’s been secretly making a living as a webcam performer). Naturally, Milano’s Grace ends up diving into the case, against the advice of Sam Page’s detective.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 23 (NBC, 8:00pm) — Benson’s coming to grips with how to help her bullied son, all while the SVU attempts to track a missing boy.
Law & Order: Organized Crime: Season 2 (NBC, 9:00pm) — Dylan McDermott recently returned, and Chris Meloni’s beard has been getting lost. This week, Stabler’s pretty damn sure that Wheatley is responsible for cyber-attacks on New York City.
Ghosts: Season 1 (CBS, 9:00pm) — Bela’s been (somehow) communicating with a familiar soul on a dating app, which is shocking for Sam and Jay to discover.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — Peter Dinklage, Fortune Feimster, Oliver Tree
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Willem Dafoe, Ariana DeBose, The Lumineers
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Liev Schreiber, Allison Russell
Late Night With Seth Meyers –Tracee Ellis Ross, Bridget Everett, Bianca Richardson
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