Boob Tube Boys
Boob Tube Boys is a comedy podcast where three friends talk about TV shows from days past. Each week, Van Lee, Spencer Hendricks, and Brian Vaughan tackle a different episode of an old show, offering insight and inanity along the way. If you're into abject silliness, television tropes, and joking around with your friends, you've come to the right place!
Episodes
April 25, 2024 • 85 mins
It’s time to put on your coolest leather jacket and join the Boob Tube Boys in the swingin’ 1970s! Err… the 50s rather… whatever, it’s a show about Happy Days
That’s right, Happy Days. Not Sad Days, not Favorable Days, not Jocular Days, and certainly not Infuriated Days, it’s Happy Days! That’s show where Henry Winkler plays a young cool guy who says cool things and hangs out in a public bathroom a bunch. Of course it’s not just tha...
That’s right, Happy Days. Not Sad Days, not Favorable Days, not Jocular Days, and certainly not Infuriated Days, it’s Happy Days! That’s show where Henry Winkler plays a young cool guy who says cool things and hangs out in a public bathroom a bunch. Of course it’s not just tha...
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April 18, 2024 • 83 mins
The BTBs finish talking about Family Matters with an episode chock full of hunks, low-stakes deception, and wholesome parenting. That's not all, though, because it's time for the second annual Boob Tube Boys Hall of Fame Ceremony!
Laura is tired of her friends sassing her for following the rules, so she decides to join the cheerleading team at Club Buff, a male strip club that turns out to be a frequent stop for Mother Winslow. Ste...
Laura is tired of her friends sassing her for following the rules, so she decides to join the cheerleading team at Club Buff, a male strip club that turns out to be a frequent stop for Mother Winslow. Ste...
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April 11, 2024 • 65 mins
It's finally time for the Boob Tube Boys to cover the only sitcom that once had all of America asking, "did I do that?!" Family Matters coverage begins with a bang, as Steve Urkel infiltrates a local gang with a surprisingly talented artist in its midst
Brian, Spencer, and Van discuss their childhood hours spent with Family Matters, how Urkel's antics hijacked a show that was supposed to be centered around Reginald Vel Johnson, and ...
Brian, Spencer, and Van discuss their childhood hours spent with Family Matters, how Urkel's antics hijacked a show that was supposed to be centered around Reginald Vel Johnson, and ...
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April 4, 2024 • 87 mins
Quantum Leap leaps right back into your ears as the BTBs take one more trip into the past alongside hologram man Al and handsome Frankenstein man Sam. This time around Sam finds himself stuck not in the body of a glam rocker, nor in the body of one of those women, nor in the fleshy meat tomb of a gangster or something. No this time around he's in the body of one of man's closest relatives... a chimpanzee!
Sam's mission is to save th...
Sam's mission is to save th...
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March 22, 2024 • 85 mins
The story of Quantum Leap is simple, well no it isn't but let's say it is. Sam (Scott Dracula) goes back in time and inhabits the bodies of random people while his friend Al (Dean Stockwell) helps him out using a computer that's real good at probabilities. This time around Sam finds himself inside the body of a guy called Tonic, a 'glitter rocker' in the vein of KISS who is due to be stabbed in a few days if Sam and Al can't figure...
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March 14, 2024 • 62 mins
Batman Begins is on the docket once more as Spencer guides Van and Brian through the mean streets of Gotham City. This time around there's a mad bomber who is way cooler than Batman, but problems arise when instead of just stopping the villain Batman bludgeons him to death with a nuclear bomb
The guys talk their new love Mad Stan and Brian quizzes the other two about other Batman villains!
The guys talk their new love Mad Stan and Brian quizzes the other two about other Batman villains!
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March 8, 2024 • 66 mins
It's a cold day in Gotham as the Boob Tube Boys arrive just in time to see a sexy sultry voiced doctor show up and do some quasi-necromancy to give noted Batman villain Mr. Freeze a new lease on life!
The BTBs show up to watch a show that all three thought was beneath them when it came out in the late 90s. Also there's mention of a Batman villain called Dr. Phosphorus? It turns out he was actually the inspiration for this show's big...
The BTBs show up to watch a show that all three thought was beneath them when it came out in the late 90s. Also there's mention of a Batman villain called Dr. Phosphorus? It turns out he was actually the inspiration for this show's big...
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March 1, 2024 • 67 mins
The BTBs are back to talk more about True Detective: Night Country, a show about Jodie Foster yelling at her loved ones, Kali Reis whooping ass, and John Hawkes having a cool face
The fellas last left their Alaskan character friends at the outset of a grotesque crime scene, but things are about to get even creepier. Brian, Spencer, and Van talk about fun character interactions, the intermingling of ambitious storylines, and hanging ...
The fellas last left their Alaskan character friends at the outset of a grotesque crime scene, but things are about to get even creepier. Brian, Spencer, and Van talk about fun character interactions, the intermingling of ambitious storylines, and hanging ...
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February 23, 2024 • 86 mins
The frozen expanse of the podcasting universe holds many secrets, but don't worry, the Boob Tube Boys are here to guide you across the icy ground. It's time to talk True Detective: Night Country, the latest installment in HBO's long-running anthology series!
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are detectives tasked with solving an impossible and terrifying mystery in Alaska's dark season, and they might even be up against forces bigger than...
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are detectives tasked with solving an impossible and terrifying mystery in Alaska's dark season, and they might even be up against forces bigger than...
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February 9, 2024 • 78 mins
Where's the Beef? Right here you dumb old lady!
That's right the Boob Tube Boys have returned to the spiteful world of Netflix' Beef where Steven Yeun as Danny pees all over the place and Ali Wong as Amy plots her revenge. We're picking back up right where we left off last week and despite being given the opportunity to take the high road Amy has chosen instead... for vengeance
The tubers marvel at some of the background jokes in the...
That's right the Boob Tube Boys have returned to the spiteful world of Netflix' Beef where Steven Yeun as Danny pees all over the place and Ali Wong as Amy plots her revenge. We're picking back up right where we left off last week and despite being given the opportunity to take the high road Amy has chosen instead... for vengeance
The tubers marvel at some of the background jokes in the...
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February 2, 2024 • 81 mins
It has been a hot minute since the Boob Tube Boys watched a show that wasn't hot garbage, so no matter what the critically acclaimed 2023 first season of Netflix' Beef should be a change of pace for the fellas
The show isn't about choice cuts and it's not about a family who own and operate a small town meat packing plant but the son doesn't want to follow in the father's footsteps and take over the plant, instead choosing a career i...
The show isn't about choice cuts and it's not about a family who own and operate a small town meat packing plant but the son doesn't want to follow in the father's footsteps and take over the plant, instead choosing a career i...
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January 26, 2024 • 111 mins
This is going to be a good one, folks. And it doesn’t even have a magician!
You see this time in the cinematic universe of Touched by an Angel your everyday Y2K family seems to be all smiles and love, but deep inside something sinister is brewing. One night, daughter Evan Rachel Wood decides to climb on her state-of-the-art computing device and do some research about Hawaii so that she could finish her school report. But unfortunate...
You see this time in the cinematic universe of Touched by an Angel your everyday Y2K family seems to be all smiles and love, but deep inside something sinister is brewing. One night, daughter Evan Rachel Wood decides to climb on her state-of-the-art computing device and do some research about Hawaii so that she could finish her school report. But unfortunate...
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January 18, 2024 • 113 mins
Do you believe in magic? Have you come here merely to hear the Boob Tube Boys DIE?! Well you're in for a treat as the fellas take a dive into the 1990s Christian television show Touched by an Angel, a program in which several benevolent angels kind of screw around and occasionally yell at a man with serious mental problems
That man is noted actual actor and religious weirdo Corbin Bernsen playing a nutso magician named Eric Weiss, o...
That man is noted actual actor and religious weirdo Corbin Bernsen playing a nutso magician named Eric Weiss, o...
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January 11, 2024 • 52 mins
The BTBs are relieved to be near the end of their Hanna Barbera run, but they still have plenty more to say about The Jetsons. This week, a lawyer turns up at the Jetson home asserting that Astro (the family dog) has a secret past under a much cooler name
Brian, Spencer, and Van discuss what The Jetsons believes court systems will be like in the 2060s, why Astro is among the least appealing cartoon animals in history, and the danger...
Brian, Spencer, and Van discuss what The Jetsons believes court systems will be like in the 2060s, why Astro is among the least appealing cartoon animals in history, and the danger...
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January 4, 2024 • 74 mins
The holidays are over, which means Boob Tube Hot Potato is back! Spencer tasked Van with covering The Flintstones a few weeks back, and now he's decided Brian's should lead the '60s Hanna Barbera discussion, so it's time for The Jetsons whether anyone likes it or not!
The Jetson family hosts their 110 year-old grandfather/great-grandfather thinking it will be a relaxing visit, but ol' Montague has other plans. Is the ancient scoundr...
The Jetson family hosts their 110 year-old grandfather/great-grandfather thinking it will be a relaxing visit, but ol' Montague has other plans. Is the ancient scoundr...
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December 29, 2023 • 75 mins
For their final holiday episode of 2023 the Boob Tube Boys are rocketing way back in time to the 1950s where the wassail is thick and no ones pipes could ever burst. Well maybe that last one isn't accurate, because just that happens at the Anderson household and wouldn't you know it, that old spinster Aunt Neva is in town so she can't even take a warm bath!
The boys discuss how young wrecking ball Kathy really doesn't get along with...
The boys discuss how young wrecking ball Kathy really doesn't get along with...
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December 21, 2023 • 58 mins
Spencer takes us all on a trip back to the Barone household as the Tubers cover a special Christmas themed episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. You're not going to believe this, but everyone in the show is a complete jerk!
Ray wants to go golfing and rather than just simply talk to his wife about it, he's got a whole malicious plan laid out involving his Christmas gift to her. Robert is real big, however, and that throws a giant wren...
Ray wants to go golfing and rather than just simply talk to his wife about it, he's got a whole malicious plan laid out involving his Christmas gift to her. Robert is real big, however, and that throws a giant wren...
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December 14, 2023 • 84 mins
The weather outside may be frightful, but the Boob Tube Boys are so delightful! It's the holiday season again, which means the Tubers are picking seasonal episodes of shows they previously covered. Unable to restrain himself, Brian leads things off with a truly bonkers episode of Bones for the second year in a row
Santas are not safe in the Bones universe, a truth "The Goop on the Girl" doubles down on by blowing one up in the cold ...
Santas are not safe in the Bones universe, a truth "The Goop on the Girl" doubles down on by blowing one up in the cold ...
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December 7, 2023 • 91 mins
The BTBs hoped their second trip to Bedrock would be more entertaining than their first, and while they will agree it's better... that's not exactly high praise. This time around Fred's rich uncle has died and is leaving his estate to the rectangular caveman. There's only one catch- Fred must stay an evening in a haunted mansion!
Tune in to listen to all the homo-erotic caveman talk that you could possible handle!
Tune in to listen to all the homo-erotic caveman talk that you could possible handle!
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November 29, 2023 • 89 mins
The BTBs are taking a trip back into the stone age as they cover the very well known show from the 1960s which is about cave people and dinosaurs being used as appliances. In today's episode the guys are covering the season one episode "The Drive-In," in which Fred and Barney, aka the decision making MEN of the show, decide to up and quit their jobs to open a drive-in restaurant. They also don't tell their wives about this major de...
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