TVSquad

When I first heard about VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, I decided not to try out. As much of a pop culture whore as I am, I figured that the questions were going into dive into so much minutiae that I was going to be out of my element. I mean, I was expecting questions like "On The Wonder Years, what were the colors of the stripes on Kevin Arnold's gym socks?" or something like that.

But then I watched a preliminary round on Thursday night, and I slapped myself in the head. Most of the questions were completely easy! I think the hardest round to me was the one about hip hop artists in the movies, but I at least got a few of those questions, like the movie series that Kid 'n' Play was in (Answer: House Party, which at least one contestant didn't get). Another question: What was the name of Arnold Jackson's fish on Diff'rent Strokes? Even the tie-breakers weren't hard: Name the eight actor's names (besides Ann B. Davis) from The Brady Bunch. As GOB Bluth would say: Come ON! Had I known the questions were going to be this easy I would have applied myself. Between me, my brother Rich, and Bob Sassone, we would have kicked major-league trivia ass. Granted, we would have been older by any of the other teams by a good seven to ten years, but so what? I refuse to be ashamed if a quarter-mil is at stake.