Middlebrow 27 May 2026

Neverlane


  1. 2:13

    Seinfeld Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld, 1989

    Invoked on the adult tennis ladder: Kramer sparring with children for easy glory. Dan Rosen

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  2. 5:57

    The One James Wong, 2001

    Brian's tennis vendetta explained via Jet Li killing every version of himself across the multiverse. Dan Rosen

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  3. 13:10

    Saturday Night Live Lorne Michaels, 1975

    Dan at the season finale: cardboard sets, dancing cue card men, celebrities reduced to children. Dan Rosen

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  4. 16:14

    Help! The Beatles & The Carpenters, 1965

    McCartney played it after the cameras stopped, with Will Ferrell adding unsolicited cowbell. Dan Rosen

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  5. 19:22

    Rockefeller Center Raymond Hood & Wallace Harrison, 1933

    What Jeff Koons wanted to talk about at the after party, sincerely and at length. Dan Rosen

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  6. 19:59

    Seated Ballerina Jeff Koons, 2017

    Koons cheerfully cataloguing his own past installations around Rockefeller Center while Dan pretended not to know. Dan Rosen

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  7. 35:15

    Café Carmellini Andrew Carmellini, 2023

    Catered the champagne dinner Brian couldn't drink at, and the duck ravioli still haunts Dan. Brian Park

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  8. 41:11

    L'Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) Alberto Giacometti, 1960

    Offered as a Brancusi comparison and corrected within one second, on the record.

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  9. 42:17

    Golden Years David Bowie, 1975

    Soundtrack to Nicole Kidman's sensual Christie's dance around a Brancusi nobody watching could ever buy. Dan Rosen

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  10. 44:46

    Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund, 2022

    The Park Avenue Armory crowd behaving exactly as the film warned they would. Dan Rosen

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  11. 53:08

    When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi, 2016

    Misremembered into the episode's best accidental punchline: when art becomes NFT.

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  12. 54:22

    In Advance of the Broken Arm Marcel Duchamp, 1915

    A hanging shovel that changed art history, and cost 2.9 million, to Brian's fury. Dan Rosen

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  13. 56:27

    Noguchi table (IN-50) Isamu Noguchi, 1947

    Cited as the thing everyone dupes, prompting the question of whether you can dupe a Duchamp.

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