NL East: What you don't know *can* hurt you

Philadelphia Phillies

“No gnus is good gnus with Gary … Gnu.” – The Great Space Coaster

American children of the 1970s rarely feel more seen than when someone brings up The Great Space Coaster, a truly madcap kids’ show featuring a mix of humans, puppets, and animated shorts that in retrospect could easily pass for a contemporary techno-libertarian fever dream about colonizing asteroids. One of the recurring sketches involved a puppet gnu—or wildebeest—newscaster named Gary Gnu. His whole shtick was adding an over-enunciated “g” sound to every word beginning with the letter “n,” modeling the pronunciation of his own animal species. Those were simpler times.

The character’s catchphrase, quoted above, is a take on...

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