Exploring Authentic Reactions in Pop Culture

At the end of every year, the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour like to look back on some of their favorite things from the last 12 months. In this episode, they revisit some of the TV, film and music that helped us make it through 2020.

Here's the full list:

1. Moira's wedding officiant outfit in the series finale of Schitt's Creek

2. Ted Lasso and the year in escapism

3. Uncle Clifford and Lil Murda in the season 1 finale of P-Valley

4. Michael Jordan watching interviews about him on an iPad in The Last Dance

5. Parasite winning best picture at this year's Oscars, portending the further rise of non-English-language powerhouses

6. The first 10 minutes of The Invisible Man

7. Kentucky Route Zero

8. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" from David Byrne's American Utopia

9. Fiona Apple chirping like a dolphin on "I Want You To Love Me"

10. Cassidy Diamond (played by Shalita Grant) in the third season of Search Party

11. "Uncle Naseem" (Season 2, Episode 9) of Ramy

12. The Good Place series finale

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