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The Chris Gaines Special Offers a Fascinatingly Cringy Look at a Flop of Legendary Proportions

One of you kind souls paid me to experience a fascinatingly awkward 1999 NBC special where Garth Brooks does a terrible job of promoting his ill-fated alter-ego, Australia-born pouty rocker/blue eyed soulman Chris Gaines.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 18, 2025Garth Brooks, Chris Gaines, vanity project, self-indulgence, television special, TV, Television

There's Never a Bad Time to Rerun This Piece on It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, Starring Snoopy's Loner Brother and Charles Schultz's Own Daughter

Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinMarch 18, 2025Snoopy, Charles Schulz, Spike, animation, live-action/animation, flops, television special, TV, Television