Bedste The Small Screen Podcast-podcasts (2024)

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Ep43—Special Halloween Episode: An American Werewolf in Washington 49:48

14d ago49:48

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The time of witches, ghosts, and pumpkins has arrived, dear folks. Welcome to our spooky special, uploaded under the wire and in time for the holiday season! In tonight's tale of macabre, Jake, Becky, and Sammy the cat take you to an unlikely place for cursed creatures—the haunted halls of our nation's capital as seen in the 1973 tv special, The We…

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Ep42—The Gambler Didn't Start this War! (The Gambler: The Adventure Continues Pt. 2) 1:00:17

1M ago1:00:17

1:00:17

The hour has struck, everyone. It's time to brush the dust off our badges, shine our spurs, and....oh wait. We did all that in the last episode. At long last—about a month by my reckoning—the time's come for us to mosey down the dusty trail with Becky, Jake, and Sammy the cat as they take on the second part of Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adven…

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Ep41—Kenny Rogers Gambles Again! 57:45

2M ago57:45

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This month's episode is proof that good things can come in pairs, card pairs preferably, or a pair of deuces if the odds favor you. And good fortunes are ever in the court of Kenny Rogers in his second outing as gambler Brady Hawkes in The Gambler 2: The Adventure Continues. In this first part of a three-hour film, Kenny Rogers and Billy Montana ar…

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Ep40—Parent Trap Triplets 49:26

3M ago49:26

49:26

When twins aren't enough to cause mayhem among their parent's choice of fiancés, why not increase the number of identical kids for an extra dose of abnormal? That's the formula Disney followed in the third movie of their Parent Trap saga, Parent Trap III, which is the topic of discussion for today's podcast episode. When triplets Lisa, Jessie, and …

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Ep39—Combat Academia 1:00:39

4M ago1:00:39

1:00:39

Today's episode of Seen on the Small Screen finds Jake and Becky heading back to school, transferring from the public education sector to military school as they talk about the 1986 television movie Combat Academy. When high school jokers Max and Perry cause enough mayhem to get suspended from school and arrested on the first day of class, they fin…

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Ep38—An Emergency! Budget Inferno 53:17

5M ago53:17

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Take a trip back to the groovy decade of the 1970s with Sammy the cat, Jake, Becky, the EMTs of Station 51, and the doctors of Rampart General Hospital in the first of many TV movie from the television show Emergency! (And most of the original cast are back, which is pretty good for a near reunion TV film.) When a sketchy painter, a bunch of inflam…

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Ep37–Beethoven's 3rd in E Flat Major 47:02

6M ago47:02

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Another day, another beginning, this time of another DVD value pack purchased from the wonderful world of Wallymart. Our feature is the third in a series of films about a St. Bernard from the 90's and 00's, a dog named for a classical composer. It's Beethoven's Third, kicking off your summer of vacationing with the further adventures of the Newton …

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Ep36—Still Dream'in of Jeannie 1:02:14

7M ago1:02:14

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So it ends...one of the funniest television series from the 1960s fast forwarded to the far off year of 1991. It's the final television movie based on the I Dream of Jeannie series titled as if by anagram, I Still Dream of Jeannie, and Sammy the Cat, Becky, and Jake are on hand to grant your every wish, at least as it pertains to reviewing this epi…

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Ep35—To Build a Six Million Dollar Man 55:09

8M ago55:09

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Steve Austin. Astronaut. A Man Barely Alive... So it begins...one of the most iconic television series of the 1970s. The only irony is these opening lines are nowhere to be found in the pilot episode, The Six Million Dollar Man, today's offering by bionic lovers Becky, Jake, and Sammy, the "laser-eye" kitty. When test pilot and all-around good guy …

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Ep34--101 Dalmatians Minus One 1:04:12

9M ago1:04:12

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What's grooving, everybody? Becky Jake and Sammy, the original cool kitty, have your number and a pleasant trip back to the early 2000s with another animated Disney sequel. What sets this one apart from the other Disney sequels the SoTSS crew have watched is the soothing tones of hip jazz music. And the name of this wacked-out cinema feature? 101 D…

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Ep33—A Man from Atlantis and his Yellow Swimming Trunks 55:05

10M ago55:05

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Don your swimming gear and swim the depths of the deep blue in a banana-colored swimming suit because Jake, Becky, and Sammy the cat have the television movie Man from Atlantis in their periscope sights. In this 70s science fiction pilot film, young Patrick Duffy plays a John Doe who washes up on the beach after a storm—a man barely alive. A group …

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Ep32—I'm Getting Cyclones for Christmas! 50:15

11M ago50:15

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Season's greetings to everyone from Becky, Jake, and sometimes Sammy the cat. They've got the tinsel on the tree, mistletoe by the manger and a movie to discuss, that singular thing we all think of during the happiest time of the year...tornados? That's right, and the film's name is Christmas Twister. The holiday hijinks start when Ethan, a meteoro…

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Ep31—The Facts of Life and the Thunder Down Under (Rated G) 59:25

1y ago59:25

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The gals from the Facts of Life are back for a trip to another exotic locale and Becky, Jake, and Sammy the Cat will be the tour guides as the hosts talk about the movie, The Facts of Life Down Under. On a summons from their sister school counterpart, the crew tag along for a free vacation with Natalie who will be giving a graduation speech in Aust…

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Ep30—Halloween Town 2: Whose Revenge? 1:03:29

1y ago1:03:29

1:03:29

Return with Becky, Jake, and Sammy the Cat to a city of magic and monsters in a world set apart from ours until the night when America's sugar threshold goes into overdrive; It's the sequel to Halloween Town, simply titled Halloween Town 2: Calebar's Revenge. A few Octobers have passed for the heroic Cromwells of the first film, when a pair of stra…

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Ep29—The Shriekening 1:02:59

1y ago1:02:59

1:02:59

What do you get when you mix a cast of misfits with burrowing sand creatures who have nothing whatsoever to do with the geriatric spice melange? What you get is the movie Tremors 2: Aftershocks; and, Becky, Jake, and Sammy the cat are on hand to get you on rocky ground by any means they can. When Earl, played by Burt Ward from the first film, falls…

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Ep28–Lady and the Scampules 51:48

1+ y ago51:48

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String the lyre and gather, oh listener. Gather round and hear a tail of a tale involving a Disney animated sequel from the 2000s. The story's narrated by none other than Becky and Jake; the movie's name is Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. (And of course, Sammy the Cat makes a cameow or two as well.) When Scamp, the mutt offspring of Lady a…

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Ep27–Yabba Dabba Friends 1:08:23

1+ y ago1:08:23

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It's around the year 1987 and a group of somebodies in the Hannah Barbara animation studios have decided to answer the ultimate question for their ultimate franchises. The question they intend to answer is this: What would happen if the modern stone-aged family met the ultra-modern family of the future? What we get is The Jetsons Meet the Flintston…

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Ep26–Back to the Classroom Part IV (Featuring Special Guest Gregg Paschall) 1:19:17

1+ y ago1:19:17

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Editor's Note: This episode was recorded with equipment I hadn't used before in order to connect three microphones. Because of that, the sound levels clipped a lot during the recording. I did my best to lower the loud audio during the post process, which took away most of the peaked audio. However, there are a number of spots where the audio sounds…

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Ep25—Bats v. Supes in Technicolor 1:00:13

1+ y ago1:00:13

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Ep. 25 Bats v Supes in Technicolor Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all meta humans fighting for truth and justice. Welcome to a special edition of the Metropolis evening news. We have a breaking story on hand courtesy of cub reporters Becky, Jake, and their trusty companion, Sammy the cat. The Joker, Gotham City's notorious super criminal, ha…

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Ep24—Kenny Rogers and the Train that Gambled 58:31

1+ y ago58:31

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Well, I'll be hornswoggled! Not that anyone on this podcast presently is; I just wanted to use that term in some context and today's episode makes it possible. It's a journey to the time of the Old West, and you'll be riding with the likes of Becky and Jake who will reckon the adventures of country star Kenny Rogers in The Gambler. Taking a cue fro…

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Ep23—Great Valley Adventures 57:27

1+ y ago57:27

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If we hold on together, Becky and Jake just might stand a chance as they begin their perilous journey through The Land Before Time series, starting with the second film, simply titled, The Great Valley Adventure. Join the dino gang: Little Foot, Cera, Duckie Petrie, and Spike as they're forced into premature adulthood via the task of raising a dino…

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Ep22--Part Reptile. Part Machine. All a Croc. 50:53

2y ago50:53

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The title for Becky and Jake's latest small screen review may be the most bizarre yet—the movie, Robocroc. What is a Robocroc? It occurs when a rocket payload of flea-like robots crash land in the middle of a crocodile enclosure in the oddest amusement park ever conceived by humankind. And only Duffy, played by Parker Lewis Can't Lose alum Corin Ne…

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Ep21--How to Train your Dragonheart 51:27

2y ago51:27

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Welcome and well met, traveler. Your quest is to assemble a party of podcasters: Jake, Becky, and Sammy the kitty. They have been chosen to unravel the yarn of Dragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct sequel left with the task of continuing a story meant to be a singular cinema experience. When Geoff, Christopher Masterson's Francis from Malcom in th…

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Ep20--St. Gottfried's Redemption with Extra Star Power! 1:00:44

2y ago1:00:44

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(Editor's Note: The sound quality on Jake's microphone suffers a bit in this episode. The truth is our mixer was dying a slow death, but we didn't realize that until a few more episodes had gone by. We apologize for the inconvenience.) If you're feeling the chill of winter setting in this holiday season, take an imaginary desert trip on a magic car…

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Ep19--The Wedsworth-Townsend Emergency! Act 54:16

2y ago54:16

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This month's TV movie takes us into the time machine for an extra long trip, traveling further back in time than Becky and Jake have gone before. It's the year 1971 in the greater Los Angeles area. Here we meet Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto, two firefighters who join a pilot program to become something new in the world of emergency services, a fireman…

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Ep18--Down, Down to Halloween Town You Go! 54:27

2y ago54:27

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(Disclaimer: It happened again. Much as the Munster oddity before it, we recorded the Halloween Town episode earlier this year, and it was entirely due the lottery of titles we randomly select, again at the time of recording. If there is blame is to be placed, it should fall to Random.org. But we're happy to present you with another offering that's…

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Ep17--Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Munster 51:22

2y ago51:22

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(Disclaimer: This episode came up in the manner we chose our most recent episodes, from the ether of random chance. We recorded this back in January and had no idea it would be released this close to Halloween. So, enjoy this unintended near-to-Halloween treat!) New this month, we ring in the Fall season with the Halloween hijinks of America's favo…

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Ep16--You Can (Can't) Return to Green Acres 45:56

2+ y ago45:56

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Gather round good people of the soil and listen to a ballad of the year 1990 and a return to chores, stores, fresh air, and Times Square Super Mario Bros. time capsules in the television film Return to Green Acres. In yet another movie that reunites most of a television cast past their primes, we find Oliver and Lisa Douglas still struggling to mak…

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Ep15--Who Traps the Parent Trapper? 43:22

2+ y ago43:22

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Who traps the parent trapper? This is the phrase foremost on Becky and Jake's mind as they discuss today's tv Sunday Movie by Disney: The Parent Trap 2. In yet another sequel that takes place decades after the original, we find the Haley Mills twins all grown up and far removed from the success of reuniting their parents in wedded bliss. When Sharo…

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Ep14--Honey, We've Exhausted the Franchise 45:21

2+ y ago45:21

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In a cookie-cutter house in the middle of suburbia, there is a stairway. At the top of those stairs is an attic with a dark scientific secret. Will you, the listener, walk those steps and risk the shrinking machine? Today, Becky and Jake are talking about Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, a Disney adventure of miniaturized people who have no affiliation …

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Ep13--Satan's Amazing Monsters Game 51:32

2+ y ago51:32

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Greetings, weary traveler. Do come in and shake the rain from your cloak. Take a place near to the hearth and sip on honeyed mead while our resident minstrels, Jake and Becky, perform for you a perceived interpretation of table top role-playing games in their 1980's infancy. The tale's name? Mazes and Monsters. It stars a young Tom Hanks and some o…

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Ep12--You Take the Good, You Take the Bad, and le Risque 53:27

2+ y ago53:27

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When you take the good and the bad along with a slew of chances, there you have this episode's subject material, The Facts of Life go to Paris. In a movie placed in the middle of the television series, the girls from Eastland Academy and Mrs. Garrett pack their bags and head for vacation and study in the land of the brie. But after being sentenced …

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Ep11--El Auto Fantastico Meets the Stuff 56:24

2+ y ago56:24

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In a world where criminals operate above the law and mullets reign supreme, Jake and Becky talk about an attempted spinoff of the Knight Rider television series titled "Code of Vengeance." When martial arts dramas and westerns mix together, we get Dalton, a war veteran with a mysterious past who might as well be the man with no name. Dalton's vagab…

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Ep10--Where a Few Adaptations Have Gone Before 51:10

2+ y ago51:10

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Children's musical theater and tv stars assemble one last time for Lewis Carroll's nearly never adapted journey of Alice going through the looking-glass. Pursued by a monster bred of her fears, Alice gets temporarily distracted from going home by taking on a pawn's quest, advancing to queenhood by reaching the vaunted eighth square. But Looking-Gla…

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Ep9--An American Alice in Aria Land 56:22

3y ago56:22

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In this episode, your hosts discuss musical mishaps in the first part of a live-action adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, brought to us by the disaster master of film, Mr. Irwin Allen. With a story familiar to many, this particular version of Alice's journey is chock full of song and dance routines, fantastic costuming minus one lizard outfit, and …

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Ep8--Gilligan's Island Presents the Great Globetrotter Robot Smackdown--Featuring Special Guest Gregg Paschall 58:22

3y ago58:22

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Sit right back again, or stand, if that's your preference, and hear a tale of how two intellectual properties joyfully collide in the third TV movie installment of Gilligan's Island, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island. This time, the castaways delve deep into Fantasy Island territory, inviting to their tropical nest the basketball kings …

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Ep7--Probation from Gilligan's Island 53:50

3y ago53:50

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Sit right back and hear the tale your hosts relate as they visit everyone's favorite castaways in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. One decade and a half after they were originally shipwrecked, a hut boat and a non-Russian satellite's golden CD enable the gang to escape their island prison and travel to the far-off future world of 1978. Will bumbling …

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Ep6--Do Jeannies Dream of Electric Sheep? 51:54

3y ago51:54

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Today's small screen offering is the magical adventure “I Dream of Jeannie,” with the 15 years between the original series and the movie built right into the title. After a spell of hiding her powers, Jeannie Nelson is forced out of housewifery to match wits with her evil twin and Haji who plot to break up the Nelson family, including young son T.J…

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Ep5--Benji, the Kaiju Superhero 50:49

3y ago50:49

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In this episode, your hosts dare you not to have a feeling whilst gazing into the soulful eyes of Benji, the stray canine from the tearjerker movies of the 70s and 80s, now starring in a new Netflix movie. Is this film a reboot or a remake? Regardless of what your opinion might be, this a great option for anyone, young or old, who believes that dog…

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Ep4--Many Bionic Returns 56:26

3y ago56:26

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Join your hosts as they make silly sound effects and talk about “The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman." In a reunion movie that takes place many years after the original series, retired OSI agents Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers are given another chance to rekindle their relationship and bond with the long lost son no one kn…

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Ep3--Charles, Arbors, and Elections 38:36

3y ago38:36

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Follow along as Becky and Jake review two Charlie Brown television specials you're guaranteed not to find in a movie clearance bin. In “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown,” the Peanuts gang experience the gaffes and frustrations of the election cycle as they advance their reformatory man of the people, Linus Van Pelt, into the office of student body…

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Ep2--Moontrapped--Target Mirth 49:05

3y ago49:05

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Jake and Becky experience pure cinematic chaos in this episode's offering, “Moontrap: Target Earth." Made as a sequel to a movie released over 30 years ago, this film features a shred of the original storyline and none of the original cast. Join Scout, code named Susan, as she races to uncover the secrets of an ancient alien artifact while escaping…

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Ep1--Buck Roger's Awakening 56:34

3y ago56:34

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In the premier episode of Seen on the Small Screen, Jake and Becky discuss the pilot episode of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which is based on the 1930s comic book series. Frozen in time for 500 years, Captain Buck Rogers finds the Earth of the future is not as he knows it. On his many adventures, Buck encounters seductive space vixens, cursi…

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Ep0--Introductions 6:42

3y ago6:42

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It's a typical episode zero. The hosts say hello and mention a few ground rules for the podcast. No real surprises here. Tell us what you think! We'd be happy to hear your comments and perhaps suggestions for any of our future episodes.Af Jacob and Becky

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Episode 51: So Much For HAPPY ENDINGS 34:13

11+ y ago34:13

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During this episode, Kristal (@kristal_bailey) and Marcos (@poppas2cents) discuss HAPPY ENDINGS being moved to Fridays, NEW GIRL and THE MINDY PROJECT getting a Thursday night tryout, THE AMERICANS renewal, and the most recent episodes of BEING HUMAN and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. Plot details are discussed, so SPOILER WARNING! Intros: Start - 1:00 TV NE…

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Episode 50: 2 Short 2 Sweet 31:57

11+ y ago31:57

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Kristal (@kristal_bailey) and Marcos (@poppas2cents) are back with another short and sweet episode to talk about the CW renewals, the possible last season of PSYCH, THE WALKING DEAD, and SMASH. Check out the episode breakdown to avoid any spoilers. Intros: Start - 1:04 TV News: 1:05 - 9:26 CW renewals: 1:05 - 3:09 PSYCH: 3:10 - 7:51 THE WALKING DEA…

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Episode 49: Short and Sweet 29:03

11+ y ago29:03

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Kristal (@kristal_bailey) and Marcos (@poppas2cents) chat about DO NO HARM's cancellation, Christina Applegate walking out on UP ALL NIGHT, David Walton getting attached to another NBC pilot, and the latest episodes of NEW GIRL and COMMUNITY. And it's all done in less than a half-hour! Spoilerphobes, you know what to do. BREAKDOWN: Intros: Start - …

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Episode 48: It's Been Awhile 56:43

12y ago56:43

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Kristal (@kristal_bailey) and Marcos (@poppas2cents) are finally back to talk about THE VAMPIRE DIARIES spin-off, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER's final season, what they've been watching, and what they're looking forward to. Check out the breakdown to avoid any possible spoilers. BREAKDOWN: Intros: Start - 1:07 TV News: 1:08 - 15:30 THE VAMPIRE DIARIES spi…

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Episode 47: 'Tis the Midseason 57:37

12y ago57:37

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Kristal (@kristal_bailey) and Marcos (@poppacos) are back to talk about the AFI Top Ten List, the Golden Globe nominations, and they check in on a few new and returning shows since the first part of the season has wrapped up. Look over the episode breakdown to avoid any spoilers. BREAKDOWN Intros: Start - 1:27 TV News: 1:28 - 17:10 AFI's Top Ten TV…

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Episode 46: Riding Through This World All Alone 54:50

12y ago54:50

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Marcos (@poppas2cents) and Screen Invasion's Cat Edison (@CatEdison) talk about Season 5 of FX's SONS OF ANARCHY. If you haven't seen the finale, then come on back when you're done because there are major spoilers throughout. Intros: Start - 5:15 Season 5 Recap: 5:15 - 20:00 Finale Recap: 20:01 - 47:37 Season Highlights: 47:38 - 51:05 Final Thought…

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