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Peter Sagal

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

That explains the look in their faces in their little cat carriers.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

A movie, that's right.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

We all remember when the teacher rolling into TV and playing a movie was the best thing that could happen in a classroom, but now professors complain that even film students no longer have the attention span to make it through an entire movie.

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If you are a film student, you're signing up to watch boring movies.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

That's how we know they're art.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

That's probably the problem.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

They can't do it.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Yeah.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Some professors got, this is all true, got so tired of trying to get their students to come down to the screening room and sit through a whole movie, they said, okay, fine, you can stream the movie for the assignment online, but then they found out that they often don't finish the movie.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

This is true, one professor did that, and then, as a test, asked the students how the movie ended, and half of them did not know.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

They're all like, what, the Titanic sank?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Bill, how did Lee do in our quiz?

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

3-0.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Congratulations, Lee.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Well done.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Thank you.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Thank you so much for playing.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Now it's on to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many Fill in the Blank questions as they can.

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Librarian Mychal Threets talks rebooting Reading Rainbow and our panel eats goo

Each correct answer now worth two points.