My World of Flops — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

This Vintage My World of Flops Piece of Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign Has Aged In a Really Interesting Way

My World Of Flops returns with a bleakly comic post-mortem on the biggest political debacle of the millennium (excuse me, WILLenium), Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 Presidential campaign

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJuly 28, 2024My World of Flops, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Presidential Election, The A.V Club, The Dissolve, failure, fiasco, you're fired, secret success

Enjoy this Rerun of the Trump Prophecy, a Nutty Movie About the Ex-President Being a Literal Godsend

Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University made a part-narrative/part documentary film about how Jesus chose Trump to be president that’s pretty fucked up.

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinJuly 21, 2024Donald Trump, Christianity, Christian films, My World of Flops

The Happytime Murders Is the Rancid Sesame Street Spoof We Never Knew We Never Needed

This was a bad idea.

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops II, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinJanuary 17, 2024Mellissa McCarthy, Joel McHale, Maya Rudolph, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Flops, My World of Flops, My Year of Flops II

So It Turns Out There WAS Something Jeremy Renner Could Do To Make Us All Forget His Dumb App

Some pieces age better than others. This piece from 2020 that is collected in The Joy of Trash flippantly argued that there was nothing Jeremy Renner could do that would make us all forget his dumb app. Turns out I was VERY wrong.

Big-ass articlesNathan RabinAugust 22, 2023Jeremy Renner, Avengers, Marvel, celebrity, app, Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, bad ideas, My World of Flops

2017's The Book of Henry Doesn't Get Enough Credit For Being One of the Craziest Pieces of Shit in the History of Film

If ever there was a movie meant for My World of Flops, and not public consumption, it’s the notorious 2017 flop The Book of Henry

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinJune 14, 2023Naomi Watts, My World of Flops, Star Wars, bad movies, bad movie culture

Loqueesha is Somehow MUCH Worse Than It Looks, and it Looks Like THE Worst

Like a knight in olden times, I met Loqueesha alone on the field of battle and emerged victorious. Buy The Joy of Trash! It’s got a whole bunch of stuff JUST like this.

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinMay 31, 2023Loqueesha, Racism, viral, The Test, My World of Flops, Outrage, Sexism, Narcissism, Vanity project, The Room, Fateful Findings, Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

The 2004 Feature Film Adaptation of Fat Albert is Weird, Depressing and Weirdly Depressing

What's it like to watch a lighthearted Bill Cosby family movie in 2017? Really fucking weird, and expectedly and unexpectedly sad and dark.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinMay 28, 2023Bill Cosby, tragedy, Fat Albert, My World of Flops, sexual assault, Kenan Thompson

The Notorious MTV Prank Show H8R Confusingly Posited Nobodies Who Criticize Obnoxious Celebrities Online as Bullies Who Must Be Taken Down a Notch

In this piece collected in The Joy of Trash, toxic celebrities get their revenge on random people who dislike them in the appalling reality boondoggle H8R.

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinMay 1, 2023Joe Francis, Snooki, Reality television, My World of Flops, The A.V Club, The Dissolve, Pop culture media

Giving Superstar Chef Emeril Lagasse His Own Sitcom Was Maybe the Worst Idea Ever

Did 9/11 sink Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom or did it fail because it was literally the worst idea ever? Read and find out!

This Looks Terrible, Literary excerpt, The Joy of TrashNathan RabinApril 19, 2023Emeril Lagasse, Food, food porn, flops, My World of Flops, My Year of Flops, Robert Urich

The Dwayne Johnson Baywatch Movie is Bewildering, Awful

Baywatch spent thirteen years in Development Hell so that it could give audiences two hours of cinematic Heaven. Nah, it's fucking garbage that won't even make your penis sneeze.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinApril 14, 2023Dwayne Johnson, Baywatch, masturbation, T&A, My World of Flops, The Rock