Three years ago, Adam Sandler blew minds with Uncut Gems, an almost unbearably intense gambling thriller that teamed him up with Benny and Josh Safdie, who had previously made Robert Pattinson unrecognizable in Good Time. The star of Little Nicky and Blended got arguably the best reviews of his career. There was Oscar talk. When he was nominated, there was snub talk. And there’s a chance Sandler and the Safdies may try again.

As caught by The Playlist, buried in a new IndieWire report on actors, like Jim Carrey, struggling to find new and exciting auteurs to work with, is this claim: Sources say Sandler and the Safdies are “already cooking up another project.” New details are given. It’s not clear if it’s a film or a TV show, or whether Sandler would even be in it. (He could simply be a producer.)

Needless to say, it’s big if true. Sandler doesn’t venture far outside his Happy Madison bubble often. When he does, as with Paul Thomas Anderson’s bonkers Punch-Drunk Love, he tends to earn acclaim. Uncut Gems was his most extreme venture yet. He even almost got choked while shooting a particularly raucous scene. But if another Sandler-Safdies project winds up happening, please remember that it wouldn’t be the first time the three had reunited: You might recall that short film they made together not long after Uncut Gems first started blowing minds.

(Via IndieWire and The Playlist)

There’s no way to sugarcoat it; the planet is in crisis. Each day, we dump more and more plastic into our waterways. And scientists everywhere agree that if we don’t act now, the damage will be irreparable. But what does that actually mean for regular everyday people?

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When it comes to pollution and climate change, it’s easy to blame corporations or the government. But we also have to look inward. The choices we make in our everyday lives impact the world around us. If we want to make the world a better place, we all have to make better choices. Fortunately, some companies are working hard to help consumers make good choices. And one of the best is Grove Collaborative, an online retailer specializing in plastic-free, eco-friendly home products, including household cleaning, personal care, baby, kid, and pet products.

Why Grove Collaborative?

The term “eco-friendly” is used pretty loosely. But Grove Collective actually means it. The company specializes in healthy products made from non-toxic plant-based ingredients, and it only partners with producers that adhere to ethical and sustainable business practices. As a result, it only sells plastic-free or plastic-neutral products. And it’s committed to being 100-percent plastic-free by 2025.

Why does all that matter? It matters because, each year, only 9 percent of plastic gets recycled, while 6.4 billion tons are dumped into the ocean. It matters because toxins from conventional household products are getting into our waterways and wreaking havoc on our ecosystems. And it matters because studies have linked conventional household products to numerous health problems, including asthma and cancer.

At Grove Collaborative, they think we can stop all that. So if you’re looking for an easy way to do your part, you should check out some of the amazing home essentials they offer.

Refillable Deodorant Sets

We all want to smell good. Thanks to Grove Collaborative and a company called Peach, we can do so without toxic substances that cause cancer and without sending more plastic into oceans and landfills. Peach Refillable Deodorant Sets are available in four different natural fragrances, all of which come with a reusable metal case and an aluminum-free deodorant refill stick. When the stick runs out, all you have to do is pop a replacement into the container, and you’ll be fresh as a daisy without killing a single baby sea turtle.

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Plastic-Free Soap

Almost all of the soap you buy at the supermarkets or big box stores come in a plastic container. But they don’t have to. All it takes to eliminate plastic is a little creativity. And Grove Collaborative offers a huge variety of plastic-free soap products, from zero plastic handwash powder to dish soaps in infinitely recyclable aluminum bottles. They even offer bars of solid shampoo. And they’re all certified to be ethically made, natural, and 100-percent effective.

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Antimicrobial Reusable Face Masks

The pandemic has been an absolute nightmare for the sustainability movement. In many cases, it’s forced people to choose between doing what’s best for their health and safety or doing what’s best for the planet. However, Grove Collaborative is doing its best to make things a little easier. They have a nice variety of reusable face masks made from three-ply organic cotton with an antimicrobial silver ion coating that lasts up to 40 washes—which means they are better for the environment and better for you.

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Natural Lip Care Products

Just because you care about the planet, that doesn’t mean you can’t have gorgeous lips. Grove Collaborative has a wide array of sustainably produced cruelty-free lip products made from various natural, organic, and non-toxic ingredients. Many of these luxurious products, including the Lip-to-Lid Balmies Set, come in innovative no-plastic or zero-waste packaging. But for those that don’t, keep in mind that Grove is a plastic-neutral company. For every ounce of plastic you purchase, they collect and recycle the same amount of plastic pollution.

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The prevailing logic in today’s political world is that polarization is worsening because people live in media echo chambers where they are only exposed to outlets that mirror their views.

People who live in echo chambers come to distrust any opinions that exist outside of their bubbles and when they’re not exposed to any conflicting information. This creates a scenario where the person becomes increasingly entrenched in their worldview.

One would assume that after a person becomes fully entrenched in an echo chamber they have little chance of changing their views. However, a new working paper by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities has found that when people are removed from their bubbles there’s a chance they’ll change their minds.

David Broockman of Stanford and Joshua Kalla of Yale conducted a study where they paid regular Fox News viewers $15 an hour to watch CNN for around seven hours a week for a month. The researchers then surveyed them about their political beliefs and knowledge of current events.

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The study is titled “The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers.” The research was done in fall 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and lead-up to the presidential election.

When the participants were polled, researchers found that they were 5 percentage points more likely to believe that people suffer from long COVID, 6 points more likely to believe that other countries did a better job of controlling the virus and 7 points more likely to support voting by mail.

“CNN provided extensive coverage of COVID-19, which included information about the severity of the COVID-19 crisis and poor aspects of Trump’s performance handling COVID-19. Fox News covered COVID-19 much less,” said the study.

​After the Fox viewers switched to CNN, it changed their opinions on the social justice protests happening at the time as well. The switchers were 10 points less likely to think that Biden supporters were happy when police got shot and 13 points less likely to believe that if Biden gets elected “we’ll see many more police get shot by Black Lives Matter activists.”

Many of the participants also realized that when it came to Trump, they weren’t getting the whole story. After switching to a steady diet of CNN they were less likely to agree that “if Donald Trump did something bad, Fox News would discuss it.”

“Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views,” the authors of the study said.

The study shows that Fox News isn’t just a media outlet that affirms its viewers’ worldviews, it also feeds them a distorted version of reality that pushes them toward more extreme opinions. The good news is that some of these people can be changed when exposed to better information.

It should also be noted that Fox News viewers aren’t the only ones living in information bubbles and that there are plenty of ideological traps that ensnare people on the left as well.

The study should give everyone hope that all is not lost and that America’s political divide may not be impossible to bridge.

Gilbert Gottfried was a legendary stand-up comic, who somehow managed to pull off bizarre, even crude humor with a sense of lighthearted charm. He also appeared in countless films and TV shows as an actor, including “Saturday Night Live,” “Beverly Hills Cop II” and more recently “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

But for many ’90s kids (myself included) he was quite simply the one, the only … Iago.

Gottfried brought a wisecracking, chaotic Disney parrot to life in a way that no one else could. In fact, fellow “Aladdin” actor Jonathan Freeman credited Gottfried for bringing out his best rendition of the movie’s sinister villain, Jafar.

“My performance was much improved by having had Gilbert as the parrot because I didn’t have to be psychotic. I could let him be psychotic,” Freeman said in an interview for Theater Mania.

And while nearly everyone on the planet might know about Gottfried’s Iago, they might not know how his beloved character helped one father connect once again with his autistic son.

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In 2014, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind wrote an article for The New York Times sharing how his son Owen’s regressive autism diagnosis came as a frustrating, confusing and painful shock.

Unlike children born with it, those with regressive autism seem to be developing typically then will suddenly experience a rapid loss in communication and social skills. This meant his once “chatty, energetic” boy stopped speaking. For four years.

In the midst of the family’s upheaval, one saving grace provided comfort and stability: Disney.

Movies such as “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and even old classics like “Dumbo” and “Bambi” still held Owen’s interest. And eventually, Suskind discovered that they could also be the key to communication.

On his brother Walt’s birthday, Owen used a Disney reference to speak a complex sentence: “Walter doesn’t want to grow up, like Mowgli or Peter Pan.”

Eager to find a way to keep the momentum going, Suskind followed Owen into his room.

As he tiptoed up the stairs, Suskind saw a puppet of Iago, one of Owen’s “favorite characters.”

Owen had been doing lots of Iago echolalia, repeating certain character lines. Echolalia is commonly described as both a symptom of autism and as a point of entry for a parent.

Suskind joked that it was “easy to identify because the character is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, who talks like a busted Cuisinart.”

Suskind successfully grabbed the Iago puppet, then froze, not knowing what to say. Suddenly, an idea came. “What would Iago say?”

Doing his best Gilbert Gottfried, Suskind started to ask Owen simple questions.

“How ya doin’?”

“How does it feel to be you?”

He must have done a convincing Gottfried impression, because it worked. Owen and “Iago” had a long, heartfelt conversation. Owen even channeled his inner Jafar. They were playing together. A miracle.

“I hear a laugh, a joyful little laugh that I have not heard in many years,” the father wrote.

That breakthrough would eventually lead to Suskind writing a book about the life-changing discovery. He even teamed up with Owen (now all grown up) to adapt the book into a documentary called “Life Animated.”

Owen now seems to be a happy, healthy adult (a picture of him next to Gottfried below) with a fulfilling life—and yes, still a love of Disney, thanks in part to a wisecracking, chaotic parrot.

Gottfried’s voice was indeed iconic. But, as with many great artists, it also helped others find their voice. His talent made a lasting positive impact, and he will be missed.

The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from Coi Leray, Fivio Foreign, Vince Staple, and more.

Friday saw the releases of BIA’s “London” featuring J. Cole, Doechii’s “Crazy,” Guapdad 4000’s “Black Iverson,” Jack Harlow’s “First Class,” IDK’s “Taco” produced by Kaytranada, Lil Baby’s “In A Minute” and “Right On,” Rowdy Rebel’s “Rowdy Vs. Rebel,” and Tyga’s “Lifetime,” along with the releases listed below.

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending April 8, 2021.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

42 Dugg & EST Gee — Last Ones Left

These guys have proven that they have bulletproof chemistry over the course of several appearances on each other’s projects and tag-team performances on other rappers’ posse cuts, so it’s only natural that they would team up for a full album showcasing that chemistry. With standout cuts like “Thump Sh*t,” “Everybody Shooters Too,” and “Free The Shiners” setting the stage, they get the point across with streetwise panache.

Coi Leray — Trendsetter

The XXL Freshman has made a name for herself with her unique approach to rap over the past few months and with her debut, she cashes in that credit to explore even more eclectic sounds. The release received high praise from “Blick Blick” collaborator Nicki Minaj and certainly has the potential to live up to its title.

Fivio Foreign — B.I.B.L.E.

Brooklyn rapper Fivio Foreign is among the most successful members of the New York drill rap wave and finally carries the flag across the border to the mainstream. Rather than adjusting his approach to suit the radio-friendly styles of his guests, he instead pushes them to tackle his home form, establishing himself as a leader worth following for the underground scene in Brooklyn.

Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart

Long Beach native Vince Staples delivers his magnum opus with his new album, finally delivering an album that challenges listeners emotionally as much as it does aurally. Delivering his most accessible production yet allows Vince to put the focus decidedly on his gut-wrenching storytelling and unflappable delivery.

Wiz Khalifa, Big KRIT, Smoke DZA & Girl Talk — Full Court Press

If you asked me to put together a more unexpected supergroup lineup, I’d have to really, really think about it. Yet, despite the seemingly disparate sounds and personalities of each of this album’s contributors, it works, creating more than the sum of its parts.

Singles/Videos

Bankrol Hayden — “F*ck Love”

Bankrol Hayden has become a consistent million-view creator on YouTube, and it’s easy to see why here. He’s kind of a master of using the prevailing modern style to make relatable pop-rap that appeals to younger fans, yet distinguishes him from similar acts like 24KGolden.

Blac Youngsta — “Can’t Spell”

Memphis standout drops a combative trunk thumper for the streets. He doesn’t cover much new ground, but he keeps it as consistent as ever, delivering exactly the vibe his longtime fans look to him for.

Rexx Life Raj — “Jerry Curl” Feat. Larry June

Two of the Bay Area’s smoothest rappers make for one clean collaboration.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Back in October, a lawyer for Jennifer Hough, who filed a lawsuit against Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty, filed a motion for default judgment. Hough’s lawsuit is based on her allegation that Minaj and Petty intimidated and harassed her in hopes that she would “recant her legitimate claim that defendant Petty raped her.” At the beginning of this year, Hough voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit (only to refile it in California), but the default judgment motion has Minaj calling for Hough’s lawyer to be “severely punished.”

According to Rolling Stone, Minaj and her lawyer Judd Burstein are seeking fees and costs as well as a referral to the federal court’s Attorney Disciplinary Committee against Hough’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn. Minaj’s team says Blackburn pursued “frivolous” and “extortionate” litigation against her “in such a reprehensible manner.” In the motion that was filed in October, which Minaj won, Blackburn alleged that Minaj was a member of the “Makk Ballers,” a street gang in Queens.

“Given that Mr. Blackburn had no evidence in his possession that would have remotely supported even an inference that Ms. Maraj belonged to the gang, and the allegation was entirely irrelevant to the issue of whether a default judgment should be entered against Mr. Petty,” the motion reads, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Mr. Blackburn surely acted in a bad faith effort to generate extremely negative media coverage about Ms. Maraj which also depicted Mr. Blackburn as a lawyer who was seeking to bring her to justice.”

Minaj and her team also claim that Blackburn falsely accused his former plaintiff’s co-counsel, Steven N. Gordon, of working as a “double agent” with Burstein to help Minaj. Furthermore, Minaj and Burstein were able to obtain a sworn statement from Gordon about Blackburn’s behavior. In it, Gordon claims Blackburn made “harrowing, slanderous, false and misleading personal allegations about me that are entirely irrelevant to the motion for sanctions.”

“He regularly and shamefully attempts to use personal information — or purported personal information — to disparage, insult, harass and intimidate other,” Gordon adds. “I will be seeking to the court’s permission to intervene in this matter to move to strike the Blackburn Declaration and for sanctions against him.”

David Lynch hasn’t directed a movie in over 15 years. Yes, some have argued Twin Peaks: The Return, which bowed over the summer of 2017, is a 17-hour film, but if you’re being technical, his last film-film was Inland Empire — and that was a bonkers experimental epic that only played during special engagements. (And before that he hadn’t made a movie since 2001’s Mulholland Dr.) So when word spread Monday that a super secret new Lynch motion picture was headed for the Cannes Film Festival in May, people freaked out. Alas, it was not to be.

During a chat with The A.V. Club, the filmmaker, transcendental meditationist, and amateur weather reporter was asked to confirm a report by Variety that a new Lynch feature film, which had somehow eluded all reportage, and which featured regular Laura Dern in some capacity, might be on the lineup for the world’s most prestigious film festival. No so, Lynch replied.

“I have no film at Cannes, no,” Lynch said. “In fact, no one has ever even asked me that. You’re the first person that’s actually asked me, ‘David, do you have a film at Cannes?’ I say no, I don’t have a film at Cannes.”

When asked if he actually had something else due for Cannes, he again responded in the negative. “I’m not trying to trick you, I have nothing at Cannes,” Lynch replied, then added, cryptically, “But there’ll be something new from somebody else. It wasn’t me, though. It isn’t me.”

What could that mean? Is it a strange slip of the tongue? Was he simply saying that the festival will have other film by other auteurs? It’s both hard to parse and charmingly playful, much like some of his movies and TV shows. But even if you may not see another Lynch movie any time soon, at least you’ll definitely be seeing him act for Steven Spielberg.

(Via AV Club)

One of the defining traits of this console generation so far has been formerly-exclusive games breaking away from their exclusivity and becoming multiplatform titles. The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, in particular, have seen a handful of its games move away from being exclusive and moved over to PC, the most notable of these being God of War.

On Tuesday, we saw a game that was originally a PlayStation exclusive not only announce it was going to soon be available on the PC, but also on the Xbox and Nintendo Switch. Bugsnax, a game that was a PlayStation 5 launch title, is going multiplatform. Not only that, but it’s coming to other consoles with a free DLC update that will add about three hours worth of new content to the game.

Bugsnax going multiplatform is a bit of a surprise, as a PlayStation launch title is jumping away from exclusivity so soon. It helps fuel the theory that permanent exclusivity is soon going to be a thing of the past. With places like Steam and Game Pass having huge user base potential, it doesn’t make sense for a third-party developer like Young Horses to remain on one console permanently. We’re even seeing PlayStation itself embrace this idea by putting more of its games on PC.

Bugsnax and its DLC will be available on PlayStation, PC, Xbox, and Switch on April 28. Game Pass subscribers will have access to the game on April 28 as well.

Michael Bay, director of Armageddon, The Rock, the Transformers movies, and that Aaron Burr “Got Milk” commercial from the 90s (probably still his finest work) has, shall we say, a recognizable style. So recognizable in fact, that it even has a name: “Bayhem,” (possibly coined by Bay himself) which UrbanDictionary (in an entry dating to 2007) defines as “The cinematic conceit of blowing shit up on a large scale, in slow motion and (usually) at sunset.”

Bay’s persona has followed the general arc of anyone similarly parody-ready: from initial fame to oversaturation, to the general stink of uncoolness that attaches to anyone or anything with tics familiar enough to be identified and quantified (see: Nicolas Cage, the mullet), followed by brief quiet period followed by the inevitable renaissance that comes when people realize that they’ve missed that person or thing. Someone cool grows an ironic mullet and soon enough, the irony disappears. (Remember how hilarious the idea of anyone having a mustache was in the late aughts?) The tongue-in-cheek aspect of Michael Bay appreciation has been slowly evaporating for at least five years now.

Ambulance might be the earnestness inflection point. Our cinematic era feels analogous to the one Norma Desmond describes in Sunset Boulevard, when she says “it was the pictures that got small.” Michael Bay, with his penchant for explosions and outsized persona, seems like the perfect guy to re-embiggen them.

We don’t really have big movies anymore, only big “properties.” Like glorified NFT schemes, even the biggest movies these days seem more like flashy commercials for that studio’s “IP” (intellectual property). The purpose of Eternals was to raise the value of the Eternals characters much more so than it was to create a huge movie in its own right. As an artistic gesture it feels more like Paris Hilton pumping her Bored Ape on Jimmy Fallon than “cinema.”

In that sense, it’s refreshing to see Bay lending his personal grandiosity to something like Ambulance, the kind of mid-budget ($40 million, reportedly) action blockbuster that filmmakers frequently lament don’t get made anymore. It’s actually a remake of a 2005 Danish movie if you want to get technical, and Bay is determined to make it look like it cost $200 million dollars. It’s got car chases, explosions, and hot people; it’s fairly stupid and very exciting. In many ways, it’s the movie the last Fast/Furious should’ve been. (But couldn’t be, because the Fast/Furious “movies” shoulder the burden of being property).

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Will Sharp, a down-on-his-luck Marine whose wife needs an unnamed surgery he can’t afford. He goes to his adopted brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) for the loan, but instead gets roped into bank robbery that just so happens to be going down later that afternoon. And wouldn’t you know it, they still need a driver. And Will just so happens to be the best driver. Bet you haven’t seen that plot point in a movie before.

The robbery, borrowing heavily from Heat and the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, goes sideways, putting the fleeing Sharp brothers on a collision course with Cam Thompson (Eiza González), a no-nonsense EMT about whom her colleagues say “she can keep anyone alive for 20 minutes but no one wants to be her partner.”

The Sharp brothers end up commandeering Cam’s ambulance (the Cambulance, I call it) on the run from the entire LAPD and eventually, a Fed played by Garret Dillahunt. Imagine if the robbery in Heat had turned into Speed and Michael Bay shot the entire thing like he was trying to make his own version of Uncut Gems and you have something like Ambulance. (With a brief, delightfully weird late second act sojourn into Robert Rodriguez territory).

Yes, Ambulance‘s Sharp brothers — and especially Danny, who Gyllenhaal plays like Bay was three feet away screaming “I need to see more neck vein!” the whole time — keep making poor decisions. Which somehow leads to a shootout with a helicopter, an impromptu surgery, and one wild scene involving what I can only describe as a cholo-built chain gun.

The beauty of Ambulance is that with all that going on, Michael Bay doesn’t have the time to fill space with his usual brand of creakingly stilted improv (I’ve always said that Bay could be our greatest action director if only someone could talk him out of thinking he’s the funny guy). There is one scene where a pair of cops discuss the movie The Rock, famously directed by Michael Bay, but for the most part, Bay has his hands too full trying to sell this ornate script to shoot much that would end up on a blooper reel during the credits.

Ambulance careens breathlessly from one massive set-piece to the next, with nary a CGI alien in sight, and Bay manages it all beautifully, with claustrophobic closeups, amber-tinted pyrotechnics, and a script (by Chris Fedak) that deftly rides the line between just-believably-enough and so-hilariously-stupid-that-you-won’t-care.

In classic Bay fashion, basically all of the non-name actors feel like police and military consultants Bay gifted speaking roles. I used to joke that Bay divides the world into two essential types, sluts and clowns, and in characteristic fashion, all of Ambulance‘s characters either have great hair and chiseled features or a character gimmick obvious from the first instant they appear on screen and hammered home in every subsequent second thereafter. “Randazzo,” for instance, played by Marc Randazzo, was such an Italian-face parody that I was tempted to call the Anti-Italian-American Defamation League.

At this point, certain Bay tics are part of his charm. And by building the story around Abdul-Mateen’s in-over-his-head Marine and Gonzalez’s toughgirl EMT, Bay mostly avoids the momentarily unfashionable “copaganda” upon which he built a substantial portion of his career. You can sense his newfound restraint in the single, brief shot of a fluttering American flag, which in the past would’ve lingered for at least five more seconds. Bay, ever the canny propagandist, seems to have shifted seamlessly into “healthcare workers are the real heroes.” EMTs are the new troops! Look, if it wears boots and requires a uniform, Michael Bay can make it look cool and sexy.

Exploitation has always been Bay’s foremost skill, and in this era when movies have begun to seem chintzy and distinctly unglorious, Bay’s talents as a hype man and product pornographer seem oddly refreshing. If anyone was going to make a mid-budget action movie feel like the biggest, coolest, sexiest thing in the world, it was Michael Bay.

‘Ambulance’ is currently in theaters. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. More reviews here.

On Tuesday, news broke that legendary comedian Gilbert Gottfried had passed away. He was 67. A king of insults with arguably comedy’s most distinctive voice, the performer died, his family said, after a “long illness.” They also told people that, while it’s a “sad day for all of us,” people should “please keep laughing as loud as possible in honor.” And so they did. Tributes poured in, as did copious sharing of his prolific stand-up work and his countless TV appearances, from awards shows to hosting gigs to game show stints.

One of them was a particularly wild appearance on the late ‘90s revival of Hollywood Squares. In an episode that aired on October 1, 1999, Gottfried, who was a recurring guest on the show, occupied the top right square. At one point, his spot became the deciding square in a showdown in which whichever contestant nabbed it won the round.

But Gottfried made it difficult for them. For five full minutes, Gottfried kept feeding them incorrect but right-seeming answers. For example: When asked what piece of women’s clothing a French designer called “the atom” due to its small size, Gottfried replied, “The tube top.” (The correct answer is the bikini.) Nine times Gottfried gave trolling answers and each time the contestant in question thought they were right, meaning they were wrong.

Gottfried eventually starts shouting “You fool!” when they agreed with him — a line that had previously been used by Penn and Teller, perched in the box next to him. After five minutes, he finally took pity and fed one of them a correct answer.

Upon news of Gottfried’s passing — and a time when game show contestants keep flubbing answers, too — the clip was among the most shared clips featuring his special brand of funny.

You can watch Gottfried’s most famous Hollywood Squares bit in the video above.