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Matlock star Jason Ritter shares videos of his 'interpretive dances' set to show's theme song

He’s not afraid to let loose and be weird, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Beloved television actor Jason Ritter, son of the late, great John Ritter, is currently starring in CBS’s reboot of Matlock, the long-running 1980s-1990s legal procedural that once starred Andy Griffith. This version features renowned actress Kathy Bates in the title role, with Ritter as Julian Markston, a senior partner at the law firm where Bates’s Madeline “Matty” Matlock begins working. As of last year, though, Ritter has also been starring on his own social media accounts as an interpretive dancer. With the original Matlock theme song as his muse, Ritter has been posting videos of himself in various modes of freestyle and interpretive dance, much to the delight of followers.

His most recent video has 1.2M views on TikTok and 29K likes on Instagram. Fans from across the internet are delighting in the actor’s joy and freedom of movement. Among them, is the Matlock series Instagram itself, which wrote, “These dances are one of the highlights of new episode week!”

Toddler’s nature walk turns into amazing recovery of an ancient Egyptian artifact

You never know what a kid might find when picking up rocks.

Ziv Nitzan is your typical three-year-old who runs around and picks up rocks during nature walks with her parents. It’s not unheard of for a toddler to just pick up random rocks, sticks, and such, and then maybe take them home much to their parents’ chagrin. However, on February 8, 2025 during a family trip to Tel Azekah, Ziv picked up a rock that looked a little funny and showed it to her mother. That little rock turned out to be an ancient Egyptian amulet.

After her mother sent the amulet to be analyzed, Daphna Ben-Tor, curator for Egyptian archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, found the amulet to be a genuine artifact. Upon further study, the Israel Antiquities Authority concluded that the little girl found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet from the Middle Bronze Age, a period from 2100–1600 B.C.E. Scarabs were symbols of manifestation, existence, and growth within ancient Egypt.

English schoolgirl victorious in the war for pants pockets

“Girls need to carry things, too!”

In 2024, eight-year-old English schoolgirl Georgia from Ipswich had enough. While shopping for her school uniform, she searched and searched through her local Sainsbury’s store for a pair of pants for the one simple feature boys’ pants had that girls’ pants lacked: pockets.

"They didn't have real pockets; they just had fake ones and then we went in the boys' and they had pockets and I thought it was unfair, so I bought boys' trousers," Georgia told the BBC. While she ultimately found pants she wanted in the boys’ section, she refused to do so without giving the store a piece of her mind.