Episodes

  • 14.1 Something About This Seems Familiar (Not Just the Sexism), or: Dweebs (1995), 1 of 10
    Sep 16 2024

    Emily and Andrew make sure there's no one using the phone line, then pop in the latest AOL CD that came in the mail, and zoom back in time to 1995 when the world hadn't yet given up on American sitcoms centered around computer nerds. What do they learn? Not a lot, but it's only ten episodes and at least it wasn't on ABC. Plus, Stephen Tobolowsky!

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    30 mins
  • 13.13 Mel Mansplains Jazz (Of Course, He Does), or: World of Giants (1959), 13 of 13
    Aug 26 2024

    And now, the time has come, Mel's faced his final mission, He's walked the smallest steps, and now Emily and Andrew can run away.

    Da do run run.

    But, yes, it's true: WORLD OF GIANTS has reached its conclusion. Does it go out on a special effects spectacular? No. Is it at least not racist about its first Black character? It is, which is a welcome surprise. Does that mean Mel isn't going to talk jazz? Oh, baby, he's got to. He's got to explain that swing. What's the swing? Tune in and find out!

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    28 mins
  • 13.12 Who Likes Short Shorts? (Mel Likes Short Shorts), or: World of Giants (1959), 12 of 13
    Aug 19 2024

    It's the penultimate episode and Mel spends the entire thing in a pair of shorts to make Jack Tripper blush. He's got to defeat some evil spies who have snuck into the apartment. Listen as Emily and Andrew discuss the juvenile version of mooses, scale discrepencies, character development discrepencies, and--at long last--giant hands!

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    42 mins
  • 13.11 What's the Scale on That Thermometer (Sorry, Jack), or: World of Giants (1959), 11 of 13
    Aug 12 2024

    Emily and Andrew tag along as Bill goes magazine shopping for a sick and whiny Mel, who's at home berating Brownie because the only pleasure in a man's life is tormenting his lady employees. But when Bill profiles the pharamicist, things start getting interesting. I mean, at least it's not boring. Tune in as our intrepid hosts ask the age old question--if a six foot tall man is shrunk to six inches, how big is his thermometer?

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    42 mins
  • 13.10 Could've Been Worse (Is Erasure Good?), or World of Giants (1959), 10 of 13
    Aug 5 2024

    Emily and Andrew join Mel and Bill on their trip to Hong Kong, which features very few people of Chinese origin, mainland or HK. Instead, Mel and Bill are trying to help foil people trying to escape to capitalism. Because 1959's weird.

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    29 mins
  • 13.9 Here Be Donkey (The Jezebel Agenda), or: World of Giants (1959), 9 of 13
    Jul 29 2024

    Another week, another whirlwind trip to questionable locales. In this case, an unnamed Carribean island where the U.S. government has lost a spy rocket. Luckily, crack counter-espionage doll man Mel Hunter is on it. Well, maybe not luckily. Not since Emily and Andrew had to watch it to talk about it. Yes, there's a talking donkey, no, there's not any good miniature. And does Brownie get another exceptionally problematic story arc just because she's the girl? Oh, yeah. Luckily. Harumpf.

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    32 mins
  • 13.8 There Will Be a Donkey (After-Thirst, Never)
    Jul 22 2024

    Emily and Andrew (especially Andrew) are a little punchy with the news J.D. Vance grew up in suburban Ohio and not impoverished in Appalachia and he's just a liar. Anyway. Mel and Bill are on assignment in Miami, they treat Ms. Brown like dirt, get into slight intrigue, oogle, there's a lot to talk about even beyond J.D. Vance being a liar. Also, some ideas about feedback formats for the pod.

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    50 mins
  • 13.7 We Stand on a Great Threshold (Or Not), or: World of Giants (1959), 7 of 13
    Jul 15 2024

    Emily and Andrew come to the awkward realization, no matter how adorable the low-fi special effects can get, the show being about a giant twerp, all two to six inches of him, is too much. But they do have some fun talking... and sometimes about the show!

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    31 mins