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    What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading, viewing and listening

    Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: 5-Second Films, an eye-opening Melrose Place article, the song "Ça plane pour moi" and rewatching 30 Rock.
    by Glen Weldon Dec 29, 2023 3 minutes
    The cast of <em>Melrose Place</em> in 1998.

    This week, the Obama movie list came out, Chris Harrison was a little bit late to the news, and we bid farewell to Tom Smothers.

    Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

    5-Second Films

    is exactly what it sounds like. It's a group of folks who make these incredibly distilled, often very funny movies that are five seconds long. They've been at this since 2008. It's an exercise in narrative essentialism. You get just enough to establish the premise, the game, (formerly Twitter), and .

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