Hosted by Bianca & Dave! Every episode we each suggest a notable episode of television history... covering sitcoms, animation, kids shows, teen dramas, talk shows, sketch shows, whatever we feel like watching! We'll watch the two episodes together and then discuss the issues brought up therein, including sex, science, religion, dating, gender, race, BDSM, polyamory, bondage, fetish, philosophy, dinner and more. Watch the sitcom episodes along with us in real time by subscribing to the Patreon! We've covered shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, South Park, Community, The Office, The IT Crowd, Bojack Horseman, Cheers, ALF, Seinfeld, Friends, Rick & Morty, Mork & Mindy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Atlanta, Our Flag Means Death, What We Do In The Shadows, Los Espookys and many more!
B & D take a look at This Fool S01E02: Putasos and Rutherford Falls S01E02: Buckheart Lodge and chat about fighting, holding grudges and getting old.
We're back for another season! B & D get techno with a robot-heavy episode of Kimmy Schmidt and the 1986 pilot about a mad scientist/superhero/toy maker, The Wizard! We watch UKS S01E07: Kimmy Goes To A Party! and The Wizard S01E01: El Dorado, and then talk about technology, AI, and the near future! Is the singularity upon us? Youbetcha!
B & D watch The Good Place: S03E09 - Janet(s) and Party Down: S02E1 - Jackal Onassis Backstage Party and discuss the afterlife, charisma, being thirsty, misogyny, body switching, and what it means to be you.
B & D view "Get a Life" S1E2 ("The Prettiest Week of My Life") and "Will & Grace" S11E16 ("We Love Lucy") and then explore love languages, couple goals, the Handsome Boy Modeling School, and the power of '90s TV to introduce middle America to alt comedy (and lifestyles)!
B & D watch MASH S05E19 ("Hanky Panky") and Fishing With John S01E02 ("Tom Waits"), where John Lurie drags a reluctant Tom Waits to Jamaica to go fishing, and the soldiers of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital learn about fidelity, to get to the gritty truth about sexuality, monogamy, masculinity, friendship and the existential absurdity of almost everything!
B & D watch Big Bang Theory S03E12 - "The Psychic Vortex" , and the Bewitched pilot S01E01 - "I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha" and discuss Fortune Telling, Astrology, Psychics, Witchcraft, Magic and more!
B & D watch Big Bang Theory S03E12 - "The Psychic Vortex" , and the Bewitched pilot S01E01 - "I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha" and discuss Fortune Telling, Astrology, Psychics, Witchcraft, Magic and more!
B & D watch two very different takes on technology -- Silicon Valley S01E06 ("Third-Party Insourcing") and Look Around You S02E05 ("Computers") -- and discuss intelligence, neurodivergence, A.I., social skills, being weird, compersion, nerddom, and the different types of computer programmers. This episode was brought to you by Staplers.
B & D watch Reservation Dogs S01E05: Come And Get Your Love and Freaks and Geeks S01E17: The Little Things, and then discuss shit asses, dating, freedom, trans rights, intersexuality and more!
B & D talk about BDFMs of yore and yet to come as we present, all the improvised commercials from all of our episodes. Enjoy this 2024 New Year clip show, we have many more shows to come. Thanks for listening!
B & D talk about BDFMs of yore and yet to come as we present, all the improvised commercials from all of our episodes. Enjoy this 2024 New Year clip show, we have many more shows to come. Thanks for listening!
B & D watch Frasier S5E14: The Ski Lodge and Bob's Burgers S3E3: Bob Fires The Kids and discuss class structure, work passion, universal income, and the evolving ways that we think about relationships, sex and drugs over the decades.
B & D watch an infamous episode of the 70's classic sitcom about the 50's, Happy Days, and try to link it to the modern Spanglish classic, Los Espookys. They talk about Hollywood and endings and Hollywood Endings; whether it is nobler to go out on top or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; and as usual, The Writers and Actors Strikes.
D & B watch Bojack Horseman: S06E06 - The Kidney Stays In The Picture, in which Todd ponders giving a kidney to his mother, Bojack is forced to leave rehab and the Hollywoo assistants go on strike, and Stella: S01E06 - Novel, the one where writer Jane Burrows (Janeane Garofalo) inspires Michael, Michael and David's to write a novel, the tries to steal it for herself.
B and D watch The Nanny S02E11: The Strike and Angel the Series S02E10: Reunion and discuss life, death, the right to strike, and the residual payments owed to TV writers even for clunky scripts like these!
B and D watch Arrested Development S02E12: My Hand To God and Flight of The Conchords S01E08: Girlfriends and then discuss story structure, cynicism in writing, gender roles in dating, lying in dating and more!
B and D watch NewsRadio S3E20 - Our 50th Episode and Parks and Rec S3E15 - The Fight and discuss Snake Juice, snake oil salesmen, integrity in journalism, and celebrities behaving badly!
B and D watch Ren & Stimpy S01E06: Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention where Stimpy invents The Happy Helmet, and Buffy S05E03: The Replacement, where Xander is split into two, and discuss meeting John K, being happy, our best selves and toxic love. Featuring the Happy Happy Joy Joy song by Stinky Wizzleteets!
B and D watch Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 S1E5 - Making Rent and Community S3E4 - Remedial Chaos Theory and explore a multiverse of ideas around making rent, making choices, adapting to our choices, chances, randomness, chaos, and drifting through infinite space!
D and B watch The Simpsons: S08E18 - Homer Vs The Eighteenth Amendment and Friends: S01E15 - The One With The Stoned Guy and discuss drugs, alcohol, therapy, self-medication and being weird.
Join B and D as we watch Rick And Morty - S02E02: Mortynight Run and Magic For Humans - S01E05: Guilt Trip. We talk about magic, science, religion, polytheism, simulation theory, as well as The Matrix, Harry Potter, Ender's Game, The Prestige and Infinite Jest!
On New Years Day 2023 B and D watch Small Wonder: S01E01 - Vicki's Homecoming and Our Flag Means Death: S01E04 - Discomfort In A Married State. We then discuss how far Artificial Intelligence has come as well as the joy and freedom of non-traditional life paths.
B and D watch Spaced S01E03: Art, and Bored To Death S0203: The Gowanus Canal Has Gonorrhea! We discuss the implications of friendship hierarchies and men who are little boys running around playing like adults. Sound delicious? Wait til you see what's for pudding!
B and D watch Fresh Off The Boat:S03E15 - Living While Eddie and Cheers: S02E13: Battle Of The Exes. We then talk about family identity, values and generational change.
B and D watch Buffy S02E04: School Hard and Alf S04E16: True Colors. We then talk about art and creativity, writing and character, intelligence and free will, and this pointless Plinko game of life.
B and D watch Baskets: S01E06 The DJ Twins and Atlanta: S01E06: Value. We then discuss the ways rivalry and jealousy affect family and friendships. Also some drug testing stories and D's The-Prestige-based theory about magician Justin Willman.
B and D watch It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S14E02: "Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool" and Mr. Show: S03E01 "Heaven's Chimney". We then discuss the limits of science, progressivism, technology, and the future of streaming entertainment. Also, why we don't want to go back to the uncomfortable theater for every release. Just give them to us on streaming!
B and D watch the Futurama S04e0?:Godfellas and The Office S03E13: Traveling Salesmen, and discuss road trips, and the drudgery of work and office politics.
B and D watch 30 Rock S05E16 TGS Hates Women and The IT Crowd S04E05: Bad Boys. We then discuss sexual harassment, misogyny, sexism and dating in the workplace, and the future of human work life after the pandemic.
In this episode B and D watch The Office S07E08 Pam's Replacement and Seinfeld S05E22 The Opposite, and then discuss the origins of Jealousy and how gut instincts can lead us astray. We also discuss Truthiness and The Colbert Report pilot episode as well as the Elizabeth Holmes biopic The Dropout.
In this episode we watch WWDITS S04E02 The Lamp, where Nador uses a Djinn to attempt to re-find his one true love, and Bojack Horseman S01E11, where Bojack, Todd and Sara Lynn try to do enough drugs to write a book. Then we discuss the sexual dynamics of a Harem in the light of modern poly-sexual dynamics, and the pluses and minuses of spiritual drug-taking.