What Else Doesn't Andy Rooney Know?
Self-described "average American" Andy Rooney was recently startled to discover the existence of such rare pop culture creatures as "Lady Gaga" and "Usher." What other mainstream, vastly popular phenomena has professional old person Andy Rooney never heard of?
To hazard a guess, here's a collection of random things that most people in America know, that Andy Rooney probably does not.
- Viral videos
- "Fierce"
- Why Kim Kardashian is famous
- Edward Cullen
- Keyboard Cat
- Avatards
- The Master Cleanse
- World of Warcraft
- #FF
- Hashtags in general
- Come to think of it, Twitter in general
- Hulu
- "Hipster"
- Pedobear
- Blingee
- Reality TV recaps
- Pregnancy pacts
- Bubble tea
- The Witches of Waverly Place (Or, let's be honest: Hannah Montana)
- Disco stick
- Photo bombs
- TL;DR
- McSteamy
- "Meme"
- Paris Hilton's wonky eye
- Paris Hilton's ass flap
- Net neutrality
- "You're Not a Single Lady"
- 4chan
- Solange Knowles
- Dora the Explorer
- Peaches Geldof
- Bots
- Twihards
- "Harmony Harmony"
- The Olsen twins as designers
- The Olsen twins
- Hermione Granger as a sex symbol
- Hermione Granger
- [citation needed]
- Crowd sourcing
- Manga
- iCarly
- iJustine
- Oprah Winfrey's lesbian rumor
- Anderson Cooper's gay rumor
- POIDH
- How Hitler became funny
- "Fail"
What else? And, is there a unifying principle or lesson to be gleaned from the things Andy Rooney does not know? It's like a portrait of modernity, drawn with negative space.