Current Goos
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, May 21, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, May 28
category: 
Television
clue: This unapologetically dark writer set the comedic voice of Saturday Night Live from the very first line, creating popular sketches like "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" and "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Tales," but his post-SNL career fizzled in the late 80s due to his scrooge-like personality.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, May 27
category: 
Music
clue: He recorded one hit as a singer, about a California destination where people arrived wearing flowers in their hair, but he also had another as a songwriter, about a Caribbean destination way down where the Beach Boys wanna go.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, May 26
category: 
Sports
clue: His competitors try not to be grouches whenever this Australian wins another Grand Prix.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Monday, May 18, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, May 25
category: 
Literature
clue: It's a good thing that publishers rejected her early manuscripts about an investigator so unremarkable that he may as well have been named Guy Detective, because as she conducted a post-mortem on the failed project, she realized correctly that a forensic scientist would make a far more compelling and long-running protagonist, especially if she looked like Nicole Kidman.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Sunday, May 17, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, May 24
category: 
Cuisine
clue: The fifth of six siblings turned his family-table experiences with his famous sister and infamous brother into a Food Network series and a cookbook for families who eats as much as they do.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Saturday, May 16, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, May 23
category: 
Military
clue: In his government job, he was so committed to the plan to rebuild what he had blow up in his military job that he became the only American general to receive a prize for peace.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Friday, May 15, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, May 22
category: 
Movies
clue: Long before his current blockbuster about a singer who faced criminal charges and was fond of military-style jackets, he made a series of action movies about soldiers and law enforcement officers, starring Denzel Washington as a corrupt narcotics officer, Bruce Willis as a Navy SEAL on a rescue, Denzel Washington as an equalizing retired Marine, Mark Wahlberg as a framed sniper, and Denzel Washington as an Old Western warrant officer.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
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Bob Odenkirk
Odenkirk starred in the movies Nebraska, Nobody, and Normal. He also guest-starred in the TV shows Nobodies and NewsRadio, and filmed material for several episodes of a show called Next! that never aired. Go »
Margaret York
York was the first Deputy Chief in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department. Her success working in the homicide department with a female partner was reportedly the inspiration for the TV series Cagney & Lacey. York's husband was Lance Ito, the judge in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Go »
Sgt. Slaughter
Robert Remus, better known by his ring name Sgt. Slaughter, was a military-themed professional wrestler most active from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He became a G.I. Joe figure in 1985 and a Masters of the Universe figure in 2021. Go »
Sananda Maitreya
Born as Terence Trent Howard, he soon gained a stepfather and became Terence Trent Darby. When he became a professional singer, he added an apostrophe to make it Terence Trent D'Arby, the name under which he recorded his best-known songs, including "Sign Your Name" from the album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby. Later, he legally and professionally changed his name to Sananda Francesco Maitreya, and arranged for his prior works to be retitled accordingly. Go »
Ma Barker
Kate Barker, popularly known as Ma Barker, was widely accused of running the Barker-Karpis Gang in the mid-1930s, a criminal gang that included several of her sons. But historians have largely concluded that this reputation was manufactured by Hoover to justify her death in a sting operation, and popularized by newspapers to sell more copies. Instead, they found evidence that Barker merely traveled with her sons to provide cover as a vacationing family and otherwise had zero involvement in their criminal activities. Go »
Gout Gout
In April 2026, Australian runner Gout Gout, a childhood soccer player, set a new world record of 19.67 seconds in the 200-meter dash. Go »
Graham Platner
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