A DUDE IN FLUX

“A declaration of unity and love and respect.”

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Awesome! But the RUN? reunion we really want to see is Jihyun with Iroha, not Minju.

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Rich Paul: "If you unplug Pippen off that team, Jordan's 0-for-6!"

The correct response to that nonsense is: "If you unplug Pippen and replace him with LeBron, Jordan still wins at least five rings." Rich Paul's head would explode!

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I wasn't expecting to like Deep Six so much! Easily the highlight of Week 1 for me.

UPDATE: Here's the sticker set that inspired the "Battle in a Box" Snake Eyes.

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G.I. Joe #22, Joshua Williamson and Andrea Milana

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I tuned in to THE SHOW in the middle of this stage and for a second I thought Wumuti was Somi.

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“He said to me he said, ‘Mr. Trump, sir, you are the Milli Vanilli of presidents.’ And I said, ‘Girl ... You know it’s true.’”

Trump meets Milli Vanilli, as imagined by Seth Meyers

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Not really "a summer song," but OMG THAT PRECHORUS!!! And the title hook is fun AF! MEOVV wins the night, not that I'm surprised.

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Since THEBLACKLABEL dropped the ball and MEOVV's new MV is nowhere to be seen, this is my consolation prize.

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I love that this exists and that the algorithm thought I needed to see it!

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I was worried that Hana's absence* would ruin this for me, but I still love it!

*Chaewon, Moka, and now Hana. It's a bad time to be on my bias list.

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Welcome to Summer 2026!

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🍊👈🤣

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Grogu looks at Hayeon and thinks, "Holy shit! The cutest thing I've ever seen she is!"

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Manchae's on fire in this one!

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I love a good ending fairy, but I love it even more when an ending fairy goes wrong! The weirder the better.

Minju *really* didn't want to steal Wonhee's (or Moka's) spotlight!:

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“That’s not that weird. You’ll watch a big purple man get six colorful stones and that’s normal, but you can’t watch a girl just try to make everyone happy?”

Tash responds to Ian calling Yena's smiley superpower "so bizarre"

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I get strong "Zimzalabim" vibes from parts of this MV, and (not that it's patented or anything) NingNing crawling on the table obviously recalls Joy in "Peek-A-Boo." Maybe I'm imagining things, or maybe there are other references I don't know enough SM lore to get. Whatever's going on, I love it.

If Seulgi's ever done this, please send a link! 😘