Nick Vrchoticky
School
University Of Iowa, Kirkwood Community College
Expertise
History, Culture, Science
- Nicholas has written for publications such as Cracked, Listverse, Glossy News, Points in Case, and many other small online publications.
- He has an education history ranging from his degree in philosophy to studies in engineering, biochemistry, anthropology, and the medical field.
- Nicholas is currently engaged in the creation of a short anime production and a webcomic with a startup production company.
Experience
Nicholas has been a professional writer for more than a decade. His work can be found on websites such as Grunge, Looper, Cracked (humor), Glossy News (satire), Listverse, and Points in Case (humor). When Nicholas isn't pounding out words for his favorite publications, you can find him loitering in dank holes while he desperately attempts to make it through his ever-growing reading list.
Education
Nicholas holds a dual degree in religious studies and philosophy and several certificates in the medical field. His transcripts also show a few hundred extra credits from engineering and anthropology programs that would've made his parents proud had he not fallen in love with writing about the weird and esoteric.
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Stories By Nick Vrchoticky
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a hit that aired from 1990-1996. The set was a home for many Americans who were practically raised by their televisions in the '90s, and that set contained a hidden gem that most of us never knew about.
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As actual neuroscientist Dr. Mayim Bialik, who plays Amy Farrah Fowler, would probably tell you: Safety has to come first in the laboratory. If only Johnny Galecki had the same pedigree, maybe Leonard wouldn't have been so reckless with his laser.
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COPS certainly is not the only show that has ever featured highlights from police chases — but it's definitely the longest-running TV show of its type. Notice the use of present tense, there? That's because, contrary to what you may have heard on the grapevine, the show is still filming.
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Disney World is the home of hopes and dreams, for small children ... and, for the rest of us, terrifying life-size cartoon figures. Most good times come with their drawbacks though, and with Disney World, there's an awfully big one in the landscape of 2020 — crowds.
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The Seven Deadly Sins are all pretty powerful, but the mightiest of their number isn't who you might be expecting. Who reigns supreme? Read on to find out.
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Walkers have been ambling around since The Walking Dead aired its first episode in 2010, and widespread zombie obsession hit a peak it hadn't seen before. From then on, it seemed like people wanted to step into the Walking Dead's world as much as possible ... in real life. Here's how you can.
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People love watching American Pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz dig through other people's garbage-filled hoarder barns in search of "rusty gold." One of their best finds to date occurred in the episode "Roll Like a Rock Star," when the pair found a van that once belonged to Aerosmith.
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Why was this live-action film adapted from an anime successful where so many others failed? For one, it actually hews closer to the source material than the anime ever did.
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Let's be honest, this crew has caused at least as many catastrophes as they've saved. One of these catastrophes stands out clearly as the worst thing the crew ever did on Futurama: They caused the massacre of hundreds of billions of alien infants.
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Myrtle Snow was introduced in American Horror Story: Coven, played by Frances Conroy. Conroy has acted in nearly 100 productions, proving that she has a broad range of skills to bring to the franchise. One of those skills is making her characters look exactly like their inspirations.
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Thanks to Sons of Anarchy's popularity, people who had never touched two wheels to pavement were wearing leather from head to toe and wrecking Harleys everywhere, while motorcycle clubs popped up as a million wannabes decided they were the next Jax Teller. But how much of the Sons of Anarchy world is really accurate?
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Oh, Mom. She's the sweet old lady of the Futurama universe, who is simply trying to make the world a better place ... yeah, right. The character is pretty developed, with many nuances, but there's one aspect of Mom's history that has fans scratching their heads.
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Dialogue can change a show, and Sailor Moon was two completely different shows depending on in what language you watched it. Once the show made it over to the States and was dubbed in English, weird things happened. Here's one of the weirdest.
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For many fans, Sons of Anarchy kicked off a love for all things motorcycle. Since the program's premiere on FX in 2008, countless motorcycle clubs have popped up all around the United States with the sole purpose of — what seems to be — coming up with the most cliche biker gang names possible.
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A character named Carol Miller, but better known as "Mom," is the head of a multi-billion-dollar company that seems to have a monopoly on all things robot, and she flexes that wealth quite a bit. Just how much dough has she really accumulated, however?
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Unlike the catastrophic finale of first season, The Umbrella Academy season 2 finds the Hargreeves siblings triumphant and returning to their own time — or so it seems. Here's the major question raised by that cliffhanger ending that The Umbrella Academy season 3 needs to solve.
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Every character in Rick and Morty is mean to poor, old Jerry Smith. Neither Summer nor Morty is exactly a genius, but they can catch the cues that usually go over Jerry's head and, in times of frustration, they aren't above pointing them out, even if they're super harsh.
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The long-running sitcom The Big Bang Theory is full of questionable moments and instances of characters doing pretty terrible things to one another. Here's the worst thing Penny ever did to Amy on the show.
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The rivalry between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do is handed down to new students, all of whom are in high school. Some fans, however, are taking it even further.
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Netflix managed to turn Dragon's Dogma into a seven-episode show, taking a create-your-own-character RPG and adapting it into a singular storyline with a static protagonist. Here are some of the changes that were made to the source material in the process.
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The big reveal of Black Noir's true identity is bound to happen at some point, maybe during the current second season, and will inevitably serve as a big twist in The Boys' storyline. Some fans think they've already figured out who's hiding behind the mask.
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CBS' official 'About' page for the series describes Danny Ragan as a 'source of pride and concern' for his police commissioner father, which pretty much sums up the character, though there's one detail about him that bothers Blue Bloods fans to this day, and they've been airing it out online.
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We've seen a lot of versions of Sherlock Holmes over the decades, but Enola Holmes takes a different approach, focusing instead on Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock's younger sister. Are we ever going to get an Enola Holmes 2? Let's see if we can deduce the answer to this mystery.