Put on your time-traveling skin suit and get ready to feed some bees to some birds, because we’re headed back to the ironic 1990s! On this episode, we cross over MTV cartoon legend Daria with the dynamic duo of action thrillers, The Terminator and T2. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher as we discuss inappropriate things to watch at sleepovers, who would win in a fight between a baby and a murderbot, and hot new polka sensation The Dariadorfers. We would also discuss some red-hot intergenerational time traveling hookups, but Annie puts a stop to that right quick.
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Ep51 – Charlotte’s Web + Fargo
Get your badges ready, because the Truffle Division is on the case! This week, were crossing over children’s literature classic, Charlotte’s Web, and Midwestern black comedy crime caper, Fargo. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a discussion of why freelancers deserve payment, the syrup that holds everything together, and the continued history of Annie’s musical theatre background. Also: if you send us pictures of spiders, Annie will block you from all social media feeds and cannibalize you.
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Brace yourself for some misplaced nostalgia and mid-century Justin Biebers, because this week we’re mashing up classic Americana musical Bye Bye Birdie with perspective-bending classic novel The Sound and the Fury. We talk about the redundancy of this crossover in a world where Mad Men exists, why Brady Bunching it isn’t always the best solution to a crossover, and how much more expensive it’s gotten to do the show now that Annie’s cashed in her middle-school musical points and gone Equity. Check us out iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for more content and fun discussions, but make sure to do it quick, before a meteor crashes into the city and kills everybody.
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We’re back from vacation, and ready to whip up another claymation animation that will never be complete! This week we’re mashing up the canceled-too-soon baseball series Pitch with the space-opera paper people of Saga, and no game of intergalactic spaceball sportsball is safe. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about the burdens of being a traiblazer while also trying to be normal, the wages of post-colonial interstellar war, and why it’s finally time to consign Rookie of the Year to the dustbin of history. Just remember: the true baseball has been inside you all along, and it’s gross.
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It’s our longest title yet, but don’t panic! Pull up a chair to the Starship Bistromath instead, and study up on your Eugene Levy-adjacent acting, because this episode is all about smart adaptations and what it takes to be funny. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about unproblematic-by-adaptation-or-death faves, staying far away from Incesttown, and the tragic fate of Bogey Lowenstein!
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Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by midnight (or your coach turns back into a pumpkin)! This week, we’re crossing over girl-powered anime classic Sailor Moon and classic Broadway musical Into the Woods. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about magical ladies, the power of formalwear, and how there are no dogs on the moon but there sure are cats!
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Get ready for some montages and mayhem, as we take a vacation trip to the Catskills, and Robbie the waiter is happy to see us. We reach into our Mysterious Media Void and take the arguable Dance Movie to Rule Them All, “Dirty Dancing,” and cross it over with that classic of Dark Scary Christmastime, “Gremlins!” Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about shirtless men, life before Roe v. Wade, and Willy Loman are all discussed, and Walt getting Annie on board with the greatest Jerry Orbach pun ever.
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Strap on your bear armor, and get out your dimension-hopping knife, because today we’re jumping into the cozy familial love-fest of Netflix sitcom Once Upon a Time, and mashing it up with the bonkers philosophical adventuring of the His Dark Materials series. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for an episode that hits harder than a bear wearing armor, as we discuss the way that issues work best in a sitcom setting, what daemon various family members would have, why physicists can be moms or not, and the absolute joy of Rita Moreno, whether or not she is eating a baby owl.
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Load up your t-shirt canon and get your bowling balls ready, because this episode is coming at you like a flying monkey drunk on white russians. This week, we’re mashing up the Broadway smash hit Wicked with the Coens cult classic The Big Lebowski. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about unicorns cakes and salads, letting your heart jump out of your mouth, and the true loneliness of Real Life Sam Elliott. This one is also essential listening for you Eagle People out there; they can’t keep you down, because you can fly.
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Get ready for a roll in ze hay and a barnyard revolution, as we struggle to decide whether this will be a comedy or a drama! This week, we’re crossing over political satire/allegorical novel Animal Farm and monster movie parody fun-fest Young Frankenstein. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation on zombie horses, Mr. Manifesto himself, amazing ladies in comedy, and the newest subscription service, barn box (a new barn every month!). As always, we ask the important questions, like “what if animals, but too much?”
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