In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture – ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In some cartoons, quicksand is an omnipresent, almost guaranteed, threat. In his stand-up comedy special “New in Town,” comedian ...

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