If you were a child in the United States at any point in the last 50 years or so, chances are you’ve whiled away at least a few hours playing Mad Libs, amusing yourself on a long car ride by turning the word “fart” into as many parts of speech as possible.
The fun of the game — in which players fill in the blanks using randomly selected words — comes from the nonsensical, puerile and strangely evocative sentences that result from tossing a bunch of nouns, verbs and adjectives together. It has been ubiquitous for generations, selling more than 100 million print copies. It has inspired numerous novelty editions, been spun off into an app and evolved into a shorthand term for any kind of incomprehensible linguistic jumble.
2019 brought the evolution of a new, unsanctioned form of the game: pop culture, Mad Libs-style. The chaotic and absurd spirit of Mad Libs seemed to infuse much of the year’s entertainment in ways that were sometimes amusing, at others unsettling.There’s always been weird news. But this year saw a proliferation of headlines that read like a screwball patchwork of incongruous cultural references.
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