Ned has one of the worst moments of his life and still manages to spend it loving the kids. Fi saunters into the underworld without a second thought. Clu milks a cow. Chelsea shares her cancer-survivor perspective on Gabe. Hannah desperately hopes Patrick Levis didn't experience too much Satanic Panic backlash for his involvement in this show. This entire episode is full of people loving and protecting each other, and it gives us warm fuzzies.
Dec 17, 2022
26 min
Fi and the crew have to fix a flat tire by preventing Elon Musk from launching Starlink. Molly learns to "walk up, not out." Erik Von Detten may have invented the word "boomer." I am not exaggerating nearly as much as I should be.
Dec 10, 2022
24 min
Quick question: did we all have fantasies about being able to astral project when we were kids, and did those fantasies evaporate once we all got our drivers' licenses? Asking for a friend!Astral projection acts as an allegory for escapism from the stresses of life in this episode. Capitalism sucks, the 90's treatment of "gifted children" was highly misguided, and it turns out humans need enough free time to experience boredom in order to live up to their full potential. Sometimes that full p...
Nov 14, 2022
27 min
PUPPY!!!!!!And by "puppy" we do mean "Bigfoot." Join us for the "feel good episode" in which Fi literally finds the corpse of a Civil War soldier.Themes include giving your life for someone else, self-awareness, compassion for outgroups, communication, Colonialism, ecological preservation, intent versus impact, respecting autonomy, and bringing families together.Tangents include Desperate Housewives, Tarzan, and gawking at how incredible the creators of this show were (as always).
Oct 15, 2022
18 min
What if you can't trust your own mind or memories? What if you don't have the resources you need to stay alive? What if you are under the control of people who are not in their right mind and they make poor decisions that put you at risk? Each of the characters respond to this situation wildly differently, and deciding who is right and who is wrong is not straightforward. Drugs? Mental illness? Alzheimer's? Caregiver neglect? Lack of resources? Somehow this episode about aliens is releva...
Oct 6, 2022
29 min
This week we talk about plots that got scrapped on the writing room floor (thanks to the other So Weird podcast that did ALL the research and archiving to keep this show alive during the dark years), Molly's (and Mackenzie's) triumph over addiction, the season 3 that could have been, the pure brilliance of the theme song, Henry Winkler's contributions to Millennial culture, and that's all before we even start talking about the episode at hand.In this episode: phenomenal rapport between the ch...
Oct 4, 2022
25 min
Let's meet the characters, gush about our bisexual neurodivergent icon Fi, responsible older brother Jack, stoner-coded comedic relief Clu, mother-of-the-year Molly. Chelsea the elementary school teacher and Hannah the former homeschooled kid agree; Ned is teacher of the year. This episode begins with images of corpses being pulled out of a shipwreck, builds up to parents watching their child fall to their death, and ends with absolutely iconic 90s fashion. Along the way we compare it to...
Sep 10, 2022
54 min
There are a thousand reasons us kids that grew up watching So Weird have never fully forgotten the show. Join us as we revisit the show and gush episode by episode about why it was SO GOOD!
Sep 10, 2022
18 min
I'm not saying I am done talking about Animorphs, but I am saying WELCOME TO SEASON TWO OF HANNAH CAN'T SHUT UP ABOUT 90S CHILDREN'S SCI-FI!If anything else about Animorphs comes up that desperately needs to be said, I'll say it, but in the meantime Chelsea and I have decided that the Disney show So Weird MUST be discussed. I am convinced that the Venn diagram of people who would love Animorphs and people who would love So Weird is a circle. Its on Disney+ right now; go make your life 1000 ti...
Sep 4, 2022
7 min
GET IN, SHORMS, TODAY WE ARE FACING OUR TRAUMA.How traumatized were each of the Animorphs before the war? How about after? What methods exist for reducing the impact of traumatic events? Why does the Animorph fandom seem to be so full of people who had shitty childhoods? Join us as we analyze each character's (modified) ACE scores before and after the war and learn about the healing power of shorms.Safety warnings:- This episode talks about some heavy shit. If you are not in a mental place wh...
Aug 6, 2022
1 hr 27 min
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