The moral of the GameStop story?

“Here’s the story, of a man named Brady…”

“Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed…”

“It’s a love story, baby, just say, ‘Yes’”

For our younger readers, the first two, of course, are lines from well-known (if a little dated) TV sitcoms, The Brady Bunch and The Beverly Hillbillies.

The last one is from Taylor Swift’s song ‘Love Story’… but you knew that.

More than just leaving you with an earworm (or three) you’ll be stuck with all afternoon, I wanted to highlight the one thing these three lines have in common — the concept of a ‘story’.

I’ll let you judge my taste in music and television shows for yourself, but one thing each highlight (Tay Tay’s song takes its inspiration from…