Harmon - Super pop!: pop culture top ten lists to help you win at trivia, survive in the wild, and make it through the holidays

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Text copyright 2013 Dan Harmon
Illustrations copyright 2013 Meghan Doherty

Photo Credits: Cover: (top and bottom right) courtesy of the Everett Collection, (bottom left) courtesy of Photofest; : courtesy of the Everett Collection.

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Young Adult Nonfiction / Humor / General
Library of Congress control number: 2012943318
ISBN: 978-1-936976-36-2

Cover and interior design: Marissa Feind

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Here is a partial list of people, places, and things (aka nouns) without which this book would never have happened: Dave Lettermans list of the Top Ten Numbers from One to Ten, the new canon being established at Criterion Collection, the continual surprises at NYRB Classics line, and the life-saving Saturday Night Movies series on New York public television (which in the year 2005 aired such new classics as Im Not Afraid and Eat Drink Man Woman). Also, libraries like the SFPLs Taraval branch, the St. Johns College library in Annapolis, the Westport library in Connecticut, and the Mechanics Institute Library in downtown San Francisco. Also (more recently), email, panic, coffee, jokes about the necessity of coffee, the necessity of coffee itself, more coffee, and podcasts (especially the endorsements and whats making us happy segments from the Slate Culture Gabfest and the Pop Culture Happy Hour, respectively).

On a more personal note, I owe a special debt (payable in special dollars) to the vicious dog that hounded me throughout the writing process (Beatrice), the real laughter and equally real skepticism of one Caroline Caviness, and all of my collaborators, including, in particular, Ann Edwards, Eddie Lee, Nikki Roddy, Michael Caviness, Pam McElroy, Nick Harmon, Wyatt Harmon, Dilip Aidasani, Ethan Alter, the Zest teen advisory board, and the irrepressible Dr. Internet.

Theres no way I would have ever been so devoted to this task (or so excitable when discussing the 400th item) without the example set by Greg Harmon, and theres no way I would have tried to make an argument about why Armageddon matters without the dubiousness of Anita Harmon (who also stocked our home with an endless supply of truly great romantic comedies throughout the 1990s). Also, thanks to everyone at Zest Books and at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for sticking with this book even after I revealed I was thinking of writing it myself.