Animorphology

Animorphology

Ted, Jenny, and Gray read and discuss the Animorphs series.

Episodes

February 7, 2025

Episode Notes

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Before reading anything, Jenny and Ted discuss Worm generally and introduce the podcast. NOTE: We had some technical issues with the audio in this one that should be resolved ...

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In this episode, Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Vegemorphs (part 2).

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In this episode, Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #10: Understand the Unknown.

Why Everworld 10 is like Kingdom Hearts 2

Whether David is qualified to be the Mayor of Atlantis

Why these books aren’t interesting

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In this episode, Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss the 1998 Animorphs parody book, Vegemorphs.

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Content warning: mention of rape and false rape accusations in a fictional context

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Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #9: Inside the Illusion.

Senna's actually a pretty good narrator

But also she’s...

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Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #8: Brave the Betrayal

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In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #7: Gateway to the Gods

A wild plot appears!

Theological discussions

We hope you aren’t still playing the “Animorphology Drinking Game” because Gray s...

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In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #6: Fear the Fantastic

The “very special episode” about homophobia

Impatiently acknowledging that Christopher has “an arc”

Hetwan sexual dimorph...

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Content warning: sexual abuse of a child, attempted sexual assault of an adult

In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #5: Discover the Destroyer

Gray spills some more tea about leprechauns

Fairies are normal...

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In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #4: Realm of the Reaper

We get TWO quality mythology rants from Gray!

Ted learns where 8-legged horse babies come from

Jalil proves himself to be our most competent nar...

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In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #3: Enter the Enchanted

The glimmer of a larger plot

What should the teens do about Senna?

RENT is surprisingly useful

April is...

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In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, Gray, and Meg discuss Everworld #2: Land of Loss

What we think of Christopher and his book

Christopher’s “humor” and “difficult personality” i.e. his racism and sexism

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In this episode:

*Jenny, Ted, Gray, and new host Meg(!!) discuss Everworld #1: Search for Senna

*This is classic Applegrant in so many ways

*Where does this book fall on the Swear Scale?

*The pants-wetting plothole

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In this episode:

*Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss The Invasion: The Graphic Novel

*We got the band back together!

*Spoiler-free discussion (no hints about the way Grine adapted it) during the first 12ish minutes

*Chris Grine feels the same way about morphing as Gray does, but with more glee

*Overall thoughts: We really like it!

*Some spoilers on:

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August 17, 2020

In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, and Gray host returning guests Liz, K.C., John, Lauren, Catie, Nicole, Jeremy, Emily, Claire, Rena, Meg, Joysweeper, and Kevin for a wide-ranging series retrospective

How did we feel about the end of the series, either now or twenty years ago?

What happened in the last chapter, and why did it only happen to the boys?

Cassie: the good, the bad, and ...

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In this episode:

*Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss the ending of Animorphs and the series as a whole

*The ten-second series recap

*Did Animorphs cause us lasting trauma when we were kids?

*Our desires for book characters can be very cruel

*Jake needed to fall apart to teach us that war is bad

*Applegrant's letter to readers after the ending

*Does t...

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In this episode:

CW: Major character death, crying noises

We read together and discuss one section at a time.

Chapters 1-4:

*Trauma at the hands of a paperback

*A warrior’s death

Chapters 5-9:

*More emotions, especially about Tobias

*Living with ambiguity

Chapters 10-13:

*Jake needs therapy. So. Much. Ther...

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Animorphs #53: The Answer

In this episode:

*Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #53, The Answer for, like, a really long time

*The most important answer of all: how tall is Jake?

*Actually it’s mostly discussion about the tragedy of Jake, but also:

*We celebrate the triumphant return of Applegrant

*Jenny explains Jake’s last name

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Animorphs #52: The Sacrifice

In this episode:

Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss Animorphs #52, The Sacrifice

*Gray thinks they might kill off Rachel, and she's real mad about it

*Jenny revises her end-of-series feels

*The REAL secret plans of the Andalites

*Why are we doing this dance with Ax's loyalties again?

*This ghostwriter was set up for bad c...

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Mailbag 4!

In this episode:

*Jenny, Ted, and Gray discuss comments and questions from listeners

*Middle grade authors on Twitter

*Trans Tobias

*Esplin’s Gender

*Australia

*Stuff Ted Laughed At

*The Council rules against war crimes

*Taxxonomy

*Animal insights, starring antechinus

*Science corner,...

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