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Join Amye and Jennie as they discuss the 2023 Netflix documentary Wham! This doc was light-hearted and fun and just what we needed. It’s a straightforward story of George and Andrew and how they took Wham! Across the globe with almost no drama. 

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Amye is joined by her older sister, Jennie, to talk about The Bear: Season 2

Everything you need to know about season 2 before watching season 3! 

We loved this series and season 2 was far and away some of the best writing on TV. Fro...

After-School Special: What Are Friends For? (1980)

This episode is from our Patreon archives and originally aired in February of 2021 and remains one of our favorites of all time!

Twelve-year-old Amy Warner is the new kid on the block after she and her freshly-divorced mother move to California. All is fine until Amy meets Michelle Mudd, a tween who loves dogs, rainbows, shoplifting, and blood sacrifices. Amy grows c...

Trigger warnings for this episode include: child pornography, rape, sexual assault 

We are joined by Tess and Brooke from Psych Legal Pop Podcast to discuss Hulu’s Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.

If you’re a Gen Xer, you might feel like you grew up with Brooke Shields, and in many ways you did. She was the quintessential 80’s icon complete with her bushy eyebrows and tight-fitted Calvin Kleins. But few knew what was happeni...

Trigger warnings for this episode include: suicide ideation, murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, and rape. 

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare, the image of your child’s face helplessly peering out the rear window of a stranger's car as it drives away from you and slips into the unknown. For Kay and Dilbert Stayner, this nightmare became a reality when their seven-year-old son, Steven, was kidnapped on his way home fro...

Ma and Pa leave town for a bang trip and leave the children in Edward’s care. What could go wrong? Edwards almost shoots the girls, never changes his clothes, shoots a snake and makes the girls eat it, and nails Carrie to the roof. Meanwhile on the bang trip, Pa is really frustrated as Caroline’s mind is on Walnut Grove and not much else. Bottom line: this is a wasted chance for hotel sex.

Thank you to Pamela Bob, writer, creato...

Well, here we are. It’s the end of our run. In this final TV movie, a big, bad band of capitalists reveal they actually own the town of Walnut Grove because of some questionable “laws.” Laura goes berserk and smashes up her house, Hey Everybody disarms himself before a big fight, Faux Pa and Sarah leave town unaware they almost lost everything, and Jason's Junior isn’t here for Jeb’s big brother energy.

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You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S3:EP19 The Music Box. Nellie starts a club for the sole purpose of making fun of Anna, a kind, quiet girl with a stutter. Fueled by her hatred of Nellie, Laura turns to a life of crime. Mary is useless as usual and does nothing but pile on as Laura tries to juggle being blackmailed and her guilt over abandoning Anna. 

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You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S2:EP17 Troublemaker This one had it all! After Miss Beadle refuses to beat the crap out of the 40-year-old kids in her class, they bring in a stern d**kbag who is more than happy to exercise corporal punishment on no other than sweet little Laura. Pa gets wind of this and goes to bananatown, all while Nellie pulls the strings.

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You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S1:EP2 Country Girls

Well it’s so lovely to be back in season one where Pa was stunning and we could hate on Mary with ease. This is the episode that establishes all of the “beefs,” Laura and Nellie, Harriet and Caroline, and Pa versus anyone in WG who looks at Caroline sideways. Laura and Mary struggle to fit into their new school where Nellie calls them ...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 21, Hello and Goodbye, a very annoying writer, Mr. Montique, arrives in town to…oh wait, we have no idea why. After shunning Harriet, he moves into the Wilder boarding house where Manly is running around destroying precious antiques. Matthew’s...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 20, May I Have This Dance? Willie is finally graduating! Just in time to get his AARP card and sign up for the Senior discount at his local grocery store. Just as he’s settling into retirement, we meet Rachel Brown, a rando who he’s already in...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 19, For the Love of Blanche, Michael Landon gets his final revenge on Victor French when he gives him the stupidest storyline ever. Blanche is an orangutan. That’s the joke. Amye is so mad she’s channeling Kody Brown, Jennie is again raving ov...

In season 9, episode 17, A Child with No Name, Victor French makes his directorial debut! Laura and Manly face a devastating loss and finally realize Doc Baker’s ocular pat downs haven’t been working. After Laura slanders Doc, he mopes around Low-Energy Jennie style. We work to decipher some of Edward’s expressions, Jennie tells us about some wild cathedral she visited, and once again Baby Rose steals the show AND gets packed i...

In season 9, episode 16, Home Again Part 2, Doc finally figures out someone is stealing his morphine and they quickly figure out it’s Albert after he acts erratic for a week and then punches Etta Plumb. Charles takes him out to Edwards’ shack to dry out. Doc rubs his gums with morphine, Laura offers to help and quickly rescinds when Albert starts puking up milk, and Albert and Charles go for a midnight run through the woods set to ...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 16: Home Again Part 1, We get a glimpse of Charles working his retail job. Nothing seems to be going well for them in the city, as Albert is thieving and getting arrested and Caroline is nowhere to be found.  After Albert is caught steali...

Amye's sick and under Doc Baker's care, so we don't know what's going to happen to her.

We will not be releasing a new episode over the holidays, so please enjoy S1:EP15: Xmas on Plum Creek, which we originally covered on Patreon in 2020.

Our episode starts with Jennie throwing a fit about Bunny, so enjoy that. It’s Christmas time and the Ingalls steal our family tradition of “cheapest Christmas ever.” At Oleson’s Black Friday ...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 11: Alden’s Dilemma, a HOT new preacher shows up and causes a stir amongst the women of Walnut Grove. Manly and Faux Pa (John Carter) head into the bowels of humanity, a real hell on earth: San Francisco. Mr. Edwards is made a fool when he ass...

Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie.

In season 9, episode 10, Love, Jane-a blind school student and Laura’s old childhood pal we’ve never heard of- comes back to town. She and Mr. Edwards strike up a friendship and after an afternoon date to Sleepy Eye seem to fall in love.  Everything is fine u...