Breaking Mayberry
Two idiots and their much more intelligent guests take on classic TV (mostly the Andy Griffith Show) to see the weird messages they broadcast into American homes, and assess what holds up and what caused permanent damage to the psyche of an entire generation. Join hosts Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig as they descend into the madness of Boomer television, and occasionally break down their own childhood television addictions. New episodes bi-weekly on Thursday mornings!
Episodes
October 30, 2025 • 61 mins
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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October 14, 2025 • 86 mins
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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September 23, 2025 • 75 mins
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.
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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.
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September 4, 2025 • 92 mins
Host, gamer, and mighty little man Jeff Stormer from the Party of One Podcast comes by to talk about some TV with RPG elements - namely 00's Disney Channel hit Lizzie Mcguire and the hottest TV show we almost did a podcast about - Young Sheldon!
We talk about Lizzie's fashion and their weird hatred for liking stuff, and Marty has a real revelation about his viewing habits.
Listen to Marty play Lights Out on Party of One: https://www....
We talk about Lizzie's fashion and their weird hatred for liking stuff, and Marty has a real revelation about his viewing habits.
Listen to Marty play Lights Out on Party of One: https://www....
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August 26, 2025 • 65 mins
The Glee Club is back in session and the boy's recording studio - like the Glee club's practice room on GLEE - is in a state of flux.There are crushes that make no sense, songs that shouldn't be good, and a joke that didn't not-age-well because it was already gross as hell to begin with.
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August 7, 2025 • 56 mins
Okay, so the Glee-kend continues and we were pretty drunk at this point, I don't know what to tell you. Angry showers and Duran Duran montages happen in this one. Also, texting and driving is bad, kids.
It's Season 3, Episode 3, "Big Brother"
Special thanks to Kae Lani Palmisano for helping us narrate this intro.
It's Season 3, Episode 3, "Big Brother"
Special thanks to Kae Lani Palmisano for helping us narrate this intro.
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July 30, 2025 • 72 mins
Marty and Dan meet the Susan and Sharon, the 80s TV Ladies for a two-parter dedicated to the magical '60s sitcom Bewitched. We learn the barbaric nature of early pregnancy tests, talk about the "secret sexy magic lady" subgenre, and mostly have fun with a chimp wearing little people clothes!
Check out 80s TV Ladies for the other half of the crossover!
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Check out 80s TV Ladies for the other half of the crossover!
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July 25, 2025 • 68 mins
Hey pal, are you going through a tough time? Trouble at home? Parents not doing well?
Well, how do you think that makes ME feel, huh?! I gotta like, live while you're over there being sad?
Have you ever thought about how your being sad affects me, the star of Glee and also reality? (These people are all sociopaths, holy shit.)
It's Season 2, Episode 3 of Glee - "Grilled Cheezus"
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Well, how do you think that makes ME feel, huh?! I gotta like, live while you're over there being sad?
Have you ever thought about how your being sad affects me, the star of Glee and also reality? (These people are all sociopaths, holy shit.)
It's Season 2, Episode 3 of Glee - "Grilled Cheezus"
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July 17, 2025 • 73 mins
Marty and Dan leave the '60s for the bizarre 2010s. We meet the Glee Club, the weirdest, meanest, most annoying group of people ever to make your grandparents uncomfortable. It's all pop tunes and Obama-era optimism here in the Gleekend, and it makes us sick!
It's Glee Season 1, Episode 3 "Acafellas"
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It's Glee Season 1, Episode 3 "Acafellas"
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June 26, 2025 • 63 mins
Ol Barn's back in town, bay-bee and he is as infuriating as ever! We finally get #justiceforthelmalou and the Manhunt franchise ends with an inevitable wet thud.
At least Warren's almost gone, though.
Season 6, episodes 17 and 18 "The Return of Barney Fife" and "The Legend of Barney Fife"
At least Warren's almost gone, though.
Season 6, episodes 17 and 18 "The Return of Barney Fife" and "The Legend of Barney Fife"
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June 5, 2025 • 56 mins
Okay so you know how just like... the general concept of "art" is mostly considered good, like a good thing that most people enjoy. Well, that's wrong, and Andy Griffith is gonna tell you why. It's Season 6. Episode 14 "Otis the Artist"
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May 21, 2025 • 57 mins
Content Note: This episode discusses media's portrayal of sexual assault for laughs
Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like these. We start with an episode that is absolutely nothing, and then move to a deeply upsetting one, one of the weirdest and grossest things put to TV. Also, Dan might get whacked for getting a haircut.
AG Season 6, Episode 14 "The Church Organ" and 15 "Girl-Shy"
Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like these. We start with an episode that is absolutely nothing, and then move to a deeply upsetting one, one of the weirdest and grossest things put to TV. Also, Dan might get whacked for getting a haircut.
AG Season 6, Episode 14 "The Church Organ" and 15 "Girl-Shy"
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May 9, 2025 • 65 mins
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April 29, 2025 • 90 mins
Okay a lot of weird stuff happened to Marty before and during this episode and we're going to talk about it a lot. But you'll be thanking us because it's a lot better than talking about Andy Griffith Show season 6 episodes 10 and 11, "Aunt Bee on TV" and "The Cannon."
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It's an extra-long BREAKING MAYBERRY ALL-STARS featuring three of our favorite returning guests to talk about the three-no-wait-four-part Andy Griffith Epic - "The Hollywood Arc".
Yes, for the first (only?) time in the show's run, the Taylors are leaving North Carolina, and this causes everyone to lose their damn minds. We brought in backup for this one, and our returning guests are bewildered and mystified and one case, deeply upse...
Yes, for the first (only?) time in the show's run, the Taylors are leaving North Carolina, and this causes everyone to lose their damn minds. We brought in backup for this one, and our returning guests are bewildered and mystified and one case, deeply upse...
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March 25, 2025 • 80 mins
Dan and Marty take a little break from the doldrums of Mayberry with the classic(?) action movie TimeCop, starring our favorite cokehead gymnast Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dan remembers a repressed shame, we talk JCVDs terrible acting, and we fantasize about using time travel very irresponsibly.
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March 17, 2025 • 87 mins
We go back to the 80s-restaurant-of-debatable-quality of "It's A Living" with Max Ludwig. This time around we explore a few episodes with Andy Griffith ties, including one where a group of grown adult women dress as children's fairy-tale characters in a way that's not at all creepy! Also Marty absorbs so much content it breaks him.
It's "It's a Living" Season 3, Episode 14 "The Doctor Danny Show" and Season 5 Episode 4 "Sweet Charit...
It's "It's a Living" Season 3, Episode 14 "The Doctor Danny Show" and Season 5 Episode 4 "Sweet Charit...
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February 25, 2025 • 95 mins
Filmmaker and author David Dylan Thomas stops by the Mayberry studios to talk about 2024's I Saw The TV Glow, a movie that's about the horrors and freedoms of nostalgia but also about trans/queer stuff and also maybe about a short-lived McDonald's Ad Campaign.
Support Dave's Kickstarter for "White Meat: Appetizer": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daviddylanthomas/white-meat-appetizer
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Support Dave's Kickstarter for "White Meat: Appetizer": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daviddylanthomas/white-meat-appetizer
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January 31, 2025 • 86 mins
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...
Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that not even the Andy Griffith Show can tolerate it for very long. Warren Ferguson has arrived, despair all ye mortals.
It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, episode 5 "The Bazaar" and 6 "A Warning From Warren"
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Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that not even the Andy Griffith Show can tolerate it for very long. Warren Ferguson has arrived, despair all ye mortals.
It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, episode 5 "The Bazaar" and 6 "A Warning From Warren"
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January 20, 2025 • 72 mins
Like Billy Pilgrim, Dan has become unstuck in time. That's why he keeps saying how tired he is after mentioning perfectly normal amounts of time to be awake.
We say good-bye to the weirdest recurring characters, right as we were starting to like them. We also say "hello" to Aunt Bea's new boyfriend, and then we say goodbye just as fast.
It's a very bittersweet turn of events on Season 6, Episode 3 "Malcolm at the Crossroads" and Epis...
We say good-bye to the weirdest recurring characters, right as we were starting to like them. We also say "hello" to Aunt Bea's new boyfriend, and then we say goodbye just as fast.
It's a very bittersweet turn of events on Season 6, Episode 3 "Malcolm at the Crossroads" and Epis...
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