In this episode, we finally investigate the Pagan origins of Saturnalia and Ernest P. Worrell’s role in them. 

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Designing Women is a show about women who design. You can see this demonstrated because sometimes one of them is holding a book of fabric swatches.

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The Golden Girls is a show about finding new life, finding chosen families, starting new beginnings, bonding, friendship, and cheesecake. Also, Blanche is a slut.

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Someone’s murdering the beautiful and suspiciously twenty-five year old looking students in a California High School! Who? What? Where? How?!

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This week we watched Matrix Revolutions and have all our questions... ...well... I mean, I don’t want to say “answered” so much as “acknowledged.”

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It’s time to get Neo’s groove back… AGAIN!

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What’s clearest takeaway from a movie directed by two trans women with the most diverse cast of 1999? MAGA, apparently.

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Be prepared... for some hot lion-on-lion action. 

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Join us as we look back on the movie about a man who ran across the continent, met three presidents, started a shrimping business, fought in Vietnam, founded the city of Detroit, established Republican nomineees’ “Southern Strategy,” invented the cantilever, planned Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps, created the word “guesstimate,” set down the basic elements of falconry, and drew the newspaper comic strip “The Far Side” for a decade: Forrest Gump.

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This week’s movie is set on an airplane transport that transfers prisoners.

The plane in the movie is dubbed “The Jailbird.”

“Jailbird” is slang for prisoners. It is a compound word made from “jail,” a synonym for prison, and “bird,” an animal many associate with flight.

The movie is titled “Con Air.”

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You ever play a Mario game? That.

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Watch several traumatized children fight their parents’ will and run from a horrifically abusive private investigator so that they can synergize with the multinational corporation Nintendo Co., Ltd.

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“What is life?" It’s a question that has stumped philosophers, clerics, scientists, and politicians for millennia. But it didn’t stump an 80s comedy about a kooky robot! Today, our live 100th episode: Short Circuit.

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What if we made a Batman where EVERYONE’S The Joker?

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Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child whose kindness to his community doesn’t absolve him of disturbing fits of anger.

But this time, he’s a wedding singer.

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Do you know golf balls live in golf holes? They do. But, counter to prevailing thought, golf balls are not, in fact, too good for their homes, as their homes are being decimated by man-made developments. Please give generously to the world wildlife fund to stop this habitat destruction.

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If there’s anything we learned in this love letter to both the American educational system and the techniques that the moneyed class use to insulate themselves from actual consequences, it’s this: O’DOYLE RULES.

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Today, we discuss 10 Things I Hate About You, JoGoLev’s “nice guy” talk, Julia Stiles’s joyless dancing, and sex-god Larry Miller.

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Freddie Prinze, Jr. mom-smiles his way through a date with deformed crone Rachael Leigh Cook.

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Ssssssssssomebody stop me! ... No, seriously. This is our second Jim Carrey movie in a row. Dear god, somebody stop us.

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I don’t know if we’ve watched another movie that made us say, “Jesus...we were pretty terrible when we were tweens”. Out of our butts, of course.

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What was the original Gremlins missing? The vocal stylings of Tony Randall!

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