Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. tags: SNL | Queer History People use the term “the lost years” differently when speaking of Saturday Night Live, but this podcast is using it specifically from the time Lorne Michaels left the show after season five up until season eleven. [...]
tags: Nintendo | Princess Peach " The release of Princess Peach: Showtime! has me bummed, I’m sad to say, because this new game makes me think Nintendo didn’t learn the right lesson from the last time they tried to give this character her own solo adventure. The [...]
Just like the Langoliers, the Monday Afternoon Movie marches on. Covering part two of the Stephen King (or Stephanie Queen if you prefer the drag version) two-part miniseries The Langoliers. The film stars some heavy hitters of television at the time: Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers, Dean Stockwell from Quantum [...]
by Katherine Spiers - with a piece by Jennifer Henry "Did you hear about all the Napa Valley winery owners getting subpoenaed by the FBI? WHY are all these millionaires in at least a little bit of trouble? Something has gone wrong. I bet it has to do [...]
Let the horror continue on the new season of Monday Afternoon Movie, with your host Sam Pancake. We are bringing out Stephen King for this episode, specifically the 1995 TV mini-series THE LANGOLIERS, starring Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Bronson Pinchot, and Tom Holland (no, not Spider-Man). Joining Sam on this [...]
by Katherine Spiers " We had a discussion a while back in the Smart Mouth Patreon about raw milk, but since then it’s become an ever more popular topic. And, a few weeks ago, the farm I buy raw milk from had a recall. I came to raw [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “Evolution” (August 19, 1999)If you came of age in the late 90s or early 2000s, you live in a world informed by Sex and the City — whether you realize it or not. It’s probably one of the most influential TV shows to [...]
" I am currently working on a third part to an accidental series on Bowser that began with me guesting on a Retronauts about him. This third part will be about how the Super Mario games ended up pitting mushrooms against turtles as if they had some age-old [...]
by Katherine Spiers " We eat the way we do because the powers that be have us normies existing to serve the economy. So many of our processed foods were initially invented to feed the troops during wartime; some others were invented to make a profit off by-products. [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. "Homes and Jojo" (May 1, 1989) Newhart is a show about white people who live in the snow, and while 70s-era Bob Newhart sitcom is the one pop culture remembers better, this is the longer-lived, more-Emmy-nominated of the two. What the 80s-era [...]
