Breaking Mayberry

Breaking Mayberry

Breaking Mayberry is a classic TV podcast without the nostalgia-bait. Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig take a hard look at the history of television, breaking down vintage favorites and cultural oddities from the 1950s to the early 00’s. We’re finding all the hidden ways TV impacted America’s psyche - and making fun of them. Watch us break Mayberry before it breaks us.

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June 26, 2026 94 mins
What if the biggest problem with Dracula wasn't the whole sucking-blood thing, but really just that he's kind of a dick? That's the question we explore in this unlocked former-Patreon exclusive. Marty and Dan redisocer the lost anime Dracula:Soverign of the Damned - a technically-Marvel movie where Dracua takes Satan's girlfriend.

No, I don't mean they have an affair, he just kinda takes her. Not like kidnapping per se but l...
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New Mini-Series Alert!

Welcome to Goon Royale, a tournament where we'll answer the incredibly dumb question: which movie has the best goon deaths? For the full bracket and list of films, click here.

Our first matchups are: 
Kill Bill Vol 1 vs. Shogun Assassin
Tombstone vs. 13 Assassins

SPOILER ALERTS for all movies

Will the shogun's ninja pull off an upset against the Crazy 88? Does John...
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On "Mad About You", Jamie strips at a job interview and Paul still manages to be the reason the job is endangered.

On our show, Marty saw a play and now it's everyone else's problem.

Mad About You Season 4, Episode 9 "I Don't See It"

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Sex educator, friend of the show, and woman of many talents Dr. Timaree Schmit stops by the show to talk about Paul and Jamie's bedroom trouble, and how it becomes everyone else's problem. We talk up Dr. Ruth and Marty has to do a little therapy of his own.

It's Mad About You, Season 3, Episode 9 "Once More, With Feeling".
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Show friend Harris "Dr. Nerdlove" O'Malley is back to talk about THE FUTURE of 1994. In this episode of Mad About You, Paul has a steamy virtual reality encounter with a computer-generated Christie Brinkley and that's somehow the second thing Jamie is mad about.

Dan, Marty, and Harris dissect this AI affair in Season 2, Episode 15 "Virtual Reality"

Check out Harris' new podcast "Do As We Say, Not as They Did" and chec...
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It's a brand new mini-series! We're taking it to the 90s with the bickering banter of Mad About You! In this series, we break down the relationship of TV yuppies Paul and Jamie Buchman, two crazy kids in love trying to make it despite being completely unable to ever stop fighting, like ever.

This episode breaks down the pilot and Season 1, Episode 6 "I'm So Happy For You", we discover new phrases, find a new guy to hate, and...
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April 6, 2026 13 mins
Introducing our new Patreon Series, Goon Royale.

Over the course of 31 head-to-head matchups, we'll be determining once and for all which movie has the best goon deaths. That's henchmen, hired thugs, and devoted followers and the various ways they get blasted, stabbed, exploded, whatever. 

It's fun, it's rowdy, it's deeply macabre! Get all these episodes and other bonus goodies for $8 a month at Patreon.com/...
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It's our Seson Finale, and we're talking about 1998's Pleasantville, a movie where a black-and-white sitcom turns color and everyone gets really mad about it! Sound familiar?

We talk about all that P-Ville has going on, which is a lot - and everything it does really well, which is most of it, and the stuff it doesn't do well, which is... whooo, buddy.

Anyway, remember if there's an issue with this movie, Gary Ross kno...
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March 26, 2026 77 mins
In this episode we take on the worst Twilight Zone episode, featuring TV's most irritating man. Also Marty read a book and now everyone has to hear about it.
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Note: Chuck Norris has died. In "tribute", enjoy this 2019 bonus episode we recorded about a particularly terrible episode of Walker Texas Ranger. For more bonus episodes, subscribe to our Patreon!

Original description: 
It's a special bonus episode are Marty and Dan meet another CBS lawman, Texas Ranger Sergeant Cordelle Walker. We're amazed as Walker takes on the Yak-a-za, in an episode that's not as racist as...
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March 11, 2026 89 mins
This episode gets weird as we talk about Ringo Starr's hypothetical podcast, decide another thing is a CIA psyop, and debate philosophically about threesomes. We relate to teens with the most relatable teen show in the country, a show loved by teens in a way we definitely understand.

There's music in this episode too and all of it is bad. Season 6, Episode 30 "A Singer In Town"

A podcast that's actually about Dragnet ...
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February 19, 2026 73 mins
In this episode we get into the TRUTH and ask HARD QUESTIONS. What really happened at the Battle of Mayberry? Who's horny for commercial pitchmen? How far will Dan go to avoid talking about an episode he hated?

It's Season 6, Episode 27 "The Foster Lady" and Episode 29 "The Battle of Mayberry"!

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January 29, 2026 64 mins
In this episode, Marty has some questions about a potato chip brand and Andy Griffith tells us all why it's bad for women to have jobs.

It's Andy Griffith Season 6, Episode 28 "Goober's Replacement"











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January 12, 2026 82 mins
Marty and Dan return with good vibes for the new year and a new sidekick for Andy. Opie almost kills a baby and Marty has a scuffle in a government office.

Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 24 and 25 "A Baby in the House" and "The County Clerk."
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December 12, 2025 73 mins
Honestly somehow our most Catholic episode, in spite of the slurs not because of them. We deal with some gross episodes from Season 6, including one we can't write the title of without using a slur, so have fun with that!
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POP QUIZ HOTSHOT!

There's an episode of Andy Griffith that's actually good and Dan doesn't want to talk about it, but if you don't do a schtick the podcast will explode. 

What do you do? What do you do?

Well in our case you vamp and try to figure out the exact amount of lung damage needed to do a perfect RFK Jr impression.

It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, Episodes 21 and 22 "Aunt Bee Learns to Driv...
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November 12, 2025 81 mins
No longer in GLEE-land, the boys can't help but talk about Tombstone and funerals.

A wild west show moves into town and Aunt Bee commits insurance fraud in Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 19 and 20 "Lost and Found" and "Wyatt Earp Rides Again".









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As we cover our final Glee episode, Season 6's "Child Star", we break down our final therapy feelings about the New Directions, what happens when nostalgia comes for us, and the rich history of tentacle porn.













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We spend a lot of this episode talking about Lea Michele's insane broadway career because it's the least upsetting part of what we're going to discuss. This is the Season 5 Glee episode "The End of Twerk" (or something like that, I'm not looking it up) and there is... SO MUCH here. None of it good. Some of it horrifying. We hate this.

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NOTICE: This is the Glee school shooting episode. We talk about the school shooting parts from about 40:00 to 51:30.

Okay look there's really nothing funny here but Glee's gonna try to find something they can use! Ryan Murphy's never met a tragedy he couldn't exploit. Also, there's some stuff in here about catfishing which is INSANE.

If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on Bluesky, visit our&nbs...
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