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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Silicon Valley' And 'Bob's Burgers'

This week, the roundtable discusses the HBO comedy Silicon Valley and Stephen Thompson sits down with Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard.

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Left to right: Melissa McCarthy in Ghostbusters, Chris Evans in Captain America: Civil War, Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Dory, Will Smith and Jai Courtney in Suicide Squad.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our 2016 Summer Movie Preview

The panel discusses its most anticipated summer blockbusters and makes some bold predictions. And, as always, we take a look at What's Making Us Happy this week.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our 2016 Summer Movie Preview
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Pop Culture Happy Hour Small Batch: Remembering Prince

Linda Holmes and Stephen Thompson discuss the way Prince changed music, supported other artists, defied creative constraints and challenged the notion of what it means for a pop singer to rebel.

Pop Culture Happy Hour Small Batch: Remembering Prince
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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Mindy Project' And Romantic Comedies

This week's show brings in Audie Cornish and Margaret Willison to talk about Mindy Kaling's just-returning OB/GYN comedy and about the state and ways of romantic comedy in general.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Mindy Project' And Romantic Comedies
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Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton star in Twister.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Best Bad Movies And A Punishing Quiz

On this week's show, original PCHH panelist Trey Graham returns to chat about bad movies and to be less humiliated than the rest of us by a quiz about pop culture returns.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Best Bad Movies And A Punishing Quiz
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Kelly Clarkson won the first season of American Idol in September 2002 over Justin Guarini, in front of co-hosts Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman, who almost looks aware that this would be his only season.

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Television

A Fond (No, Really!) Farewell To 'American Idol'

Built on telephone dialing and the sting of a British tongue, American Idol shuffles off this mortal coil on Thursday night, having provided just enough good moments to survive.

A Fond (No, Really!) Farewell To 'American Idol'
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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Batman V. Superman' And The Objects We Desire

We look at a big new movie and discuss what we want from our blockbusters. Then it's on to a discussion of the pop-culture objects we covet, plus What's Making Us Happy this week.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Batman V. Superman' And The Objects We Desire
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All Things Considered's Audie Cornish and NPR Music's Stephen Thompson.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: SXSW And Life-Changing Songs

On this week's show, we talk through the Austin experience and air some stories of songs that made big differences in our lives.

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Marquis de Lafayette (Daveed Diggs), Hercules Mulligan (Okieriete Onaodowan), John Laurens (Anthony Ramos), and Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) in the acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hamilton'

It's Broadway's current phenomenon, so we went to see it and report back on what it is, how it works, and whether we loved it as much as we wanted to. It's our Hamilton show.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hamilton'
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Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hamilton,' Kanye And 'Gilmore Girls'

With the panel on pause this week, we bring you three great conversations about theater, music and TV.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hamilton,' Kanye And 'Gilmore Girls'
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The series finale of Downton Abbey airs this Sunday.
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Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Fond Farewell To 'Downton Abbey'

Barrie Hardymon and Audie Cornish sit in for a chat about saying farewell to the Crawleys, and about the general pleasures and challenges of entertainment that lives in the past.

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Donald Trump, seen here in 2004, has appeared on The Apprentice (and then The Celebrity Apprentice) from 2004 until 2015.

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Trump: The Reality TV Years

Before Donald Trump was a presidential candidate, he spent many, many seasons headlining the show The Apprentice, where he was presented as the embodiment of success and an enemy of weakness.

Trump: The Reality TV Years
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Leonardo DiCaprio and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu celebrate their awards on stage at the 88th Oscars on Sunday.

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Awards Season

A Big Night For 'Spotlight,' DiCaprio And Earned Discomfort

Sunday night's Oscars gave best picture to Spotlight, best actor to Leonardo DiCaprio and a lot of opportunities to host Chris Rock.

A Big Night For 'Spotlight,' DiCaprio And Earned Discomfort
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Leonardo DiCaprio is considered a frontrunner for an Oscar for his lead role in The Revenant.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our 2016 Oscars Preview

It's time once again for our annual Oscars Omnibus: a roundup of every Best Picture nominee, many notable performances, and the movies we'd have nominated to improve the awards' diversity.