Murder, We Watched

If arm wrestling at a wake, recycled Quantum Leap production sets, and alleged murder by an ambidextrous horse sounds like a rootin' tootin' grand ol' time - you are 100% alone. It wasn't. But talking about it was! Jake and Spencer kick the dusty tumbleweeds off this long-ago recorded episode and finally experience Season 1 of Murder, She Wrote's end in the only way they could - confused about what decade any of this takes place. Featuring Special Guest Jeffrey Solomon

Before he can get his regularly scheduled nighttime glass of milk delivered to him, a curmudgeonly show biz personality guy (who also has a tennis tournament named after him for some reason) is killed in his den that bizarrely also looks like the waiting area of a Red Robin. Was it his ex-wife or one of his kids that he's traumatized countless times? Was it his buffoon hype man Buster that he bosses around like a servant? Was it the...desert resort mob? Worry not, affluently dressed resort residents - Jessica Fletcher is on the sleuth-tastic case! Featuring Special Guest Hannah Milam

Wait...where were we? ….Oh yeah! That podcast we're making! Much like every episode of "Murder, She Wrote", right before our season's climactic finish, we thought we'd discombobulate you and take a month off. But we're back! With a highfalutin', hunk-doctor feudin', Texas-lawyer man rompin', Jessica Fletcher sleuthin' episode in which, somehow someway, carrot juice helps reveal to JB the entiiiiire murder to-do-about. Featuring special guests Jamie Vaught & Austin Vaught

Jessica and Sheriff Amos "Bumbling Idiot Buffoon Moron" Tupper board a bus bound for Portland. But when one of the passengers is murdered by a - *checks notes* - screwdriver to the shoulder, Jessica and Amos must band together to find out which fellow passenger done the killin'! Special Guests Jill and Colin Stuart!

A rollerblader in the rain, a persnickety novelist, a drunk poet with a gun-shaped lighter, unconscionable advances from gross sweaty men, an Al Pacino-rip off district attorney: what-the what-the has JB Fletcher gotten her sleuthing tuckus into this time? Spencer’s Cousin Amanda joins the pod to emotionally unpack another convoluted caper of a mystery plot with us.

Jessica Fletcher owns a….football team?? Oy vey - how many more rails can this show keep getting off just in Season 1? JB learns that she’s the sole beneficiary of her suddenly-dead uncle’s assets, which apparently amount to 4% of stonk in a definitely-not-the-XFL football team. In fact, it’s a very, very valuable stonk coveted by some very, very skeevy people. Sure. Fine. Totally normal. Let’s go with that. Oh! And let’s also hail mary the holy hell out the rest of the plot by throwing in semi-naked Dick Butkus, Bruce Jenner driving a giant football helmet go-kart, a contraband adoption of a deaf girl, and maybe the most egregious of all of these moments: a squelching, sopping wet carpeted bathroom. Featuring Special Guest Evan Moore

Yet another confuzzling smorgasbord of tertiary whomevers! Our gal JB seeks out who was in cahoots in the killin’ of her private investigator pal, as she unravels three separate cases the PI was working on hoping that someone connected to those cases maybe/sorta/might’ve done the killin’. All the while, she butts heads with the dead PI’s gruff partner: the enigmatic Chinatown-noir cosplay man, Harry McGraw. Has Jessica finally met her sleuthing match? Or is Harry just another horny buffoon in a long line of law enforcement men not up to snuff to JB’s investigative might? Featuring special guest David Honeycutt

Elderly Casanova & hack painter Diego has invited all of his pompous rich pals who are jealous of his wealth and fame to his private secluded island. Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong! This episode has everything: Roger Stone in a deep v-neck bathrobe, Robert Goulet almost dying via anal-I MEAN amyl nitrate, a misogynist man in a tweed fedora describing women as “cold fish”, horribly crude paintings of starving children, and oh yeah - Jessica Fletcher shows up at some point for some reason. What a rip-roaring romp of WTF! Featuring Special Guest Jordan Spayd

Jake and Spencer transcend into schlock nirvana. The perfect amalgamation of wackiness washes over them in this fantastic episode of “Murder, She Wrote”, including such hit moments as Leslie Nielsen being a cruise ship captain, an indiscernibly European deck hand offering to show Jessica Fletcher his “hoochie coochie”, a rowdy lady flirting with Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome, and JB pretending to be drunk in a trench coat in order to coax the killer into revealing themselves. It’s bliss. Absolute bliss.

Come on sleuthys! Let’s jump on into Lafayette’s ludicrous speed Crazy Taxi ride - we’re going to New Orleans! What a gumbo-tastic time we had watching Jessica Fletcher somehow finagling herself into solving the mystery of a hotshot asshole jazz musician being murdered by former NBA player Scottie Pippen via some obscure South American poison on a clarinet reed…..wait….what?? Featuring Special Guest Nick Gast

Fan un-favorite “Gravy” Grady returns! JB's doofus nephew somehow lands a job handling a musical theater production’s money - a musical theater production involving a former Golden Age of Hollywood starlet trying to revitalize her career. This broadway bash really kicks into Hydro Thunder-turbo speed when the lead actress’s co-star/daughter is gunned down in an alleyway, and it’s up to reliable ol’ Jessica Fletcher to sleuth-save the day! Returning special guest Mara Baldwin hops back aboard the confuzzling murder mystery train to help us uncover who did the almost-killin’ and reminisce about our awkward high school theater experiences.

Jessica Fletcher becomes... a congresswoman?? That’s right, sleuthys - our dear JB somehow someway is roped into serving as interim congresswoman of Maine. Because her predecessor DIED. Was he murdered? Was it the spy hooker? What about the cannery bill? Why does the detective lieutenant man make decisions based on different body parts of his hurting? Who let this cat eat in this damn restaurant?? All this hullabaloo is really hurtin’ our heads...which obviously indicates murder definitely occurred. Starring special guests/friends of the pod Liz Grow and Patrick Pope of Grow House ATX!

Our first foray away from “Murder, She Wrote” path! In this season’s Bonus Episode, Spencer introduces Jake to the landmark Angela Lansbury flick “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”: a bonkers live-action Disney tale about a ho-hum witch, three children with laughable cockney accents, a pervert mustachioed conman, psychedelic flying beds, a quasi-racist street market, animated animals playing soccer, floating suits of armor fighting Nazis, and a bunch of singin’ and dancin’!

The Bad Boy of Hypnotism, Cagliostro, flies a lil’ too close to the sun of fame and adoration. When he is murdered during a hypnosis demonstration, Jessica Fletcher begrudgingly sleuths around a grimey Reno resort casino to figure out who killed this mysterious man, and why multiple beautiful women are bewitched by his wrinkles and snoozefest show. Featuring returning special guest Grant Nielsen.

Spencer’s Cousin Amanda joins the show to break down a Russia-tastic journey through anti-communist fear-mongering, bumbling misogyny, and breakneck jogging! Is Jessica Fletcher unknowingly aiding and abetting murderous ballet dancers? Or will her infallible judgment of character help protect innocent lovers looking to defect from the scary KGB with community theatre Russian accents?? Let’s sleuth it up, ya sleuthys!

A gross theme park tycoon accosts JB Fletcher in hopes of reimagining her murder mystery novels into a bunch of spooky and gruesome roller coasters for….children? Special Guest Nicholas Arcos, actual real-life fan of “Murder, She Wrote”, helps illuminate this dark and dank nightmare of an episode filled with predatory behavior, convoluted phone call forwarding, hiding from security guards via a turtleneck sweater, and child-actor Joaquin Phoenix scarfin’ down hamburgers!

A Ghost Assassin Car roams the Maine countryside, ready to kill at any moment! BEWARE! Jessica returns to her hometown of Universal Studios Backlot Tour- I mean, Cabot Cove, only to be pulled into yet another murder mystery. This time, it involves a mysterious, self-driving, killer car - bent on killing tech industry moguls! Watch out JB, that Station Wagon could strike at any time! Featuring special guests Kendra Ann Sherrill and Adam Gaulke

The killin’ takes a back seat to the flirtin’. And by flirtin’, we mean STALKING. Jessica Fletcher encounters a slew of dastardly creepazoids while visiting Seattle to give some lectures at a university. One particular young man, her newly-hired assistant David Tolliver, is smitten beyond compare with her...but might also be a liar, and a con man, and a murderer of affluent old ladies. Watch out, JB! Seattle is a scary place to sleuth about. Featuring special guest Alexa Ymer!

Jake & Spencer candidly commiserate about their world’s woes, sing Dame Angela Lansbury a very happy 95th birthday, and leap into possibly one of the worst episodes of television in the history of forever! An endearing horndog of an old rich man dies by way of a buck wild horse, and the cute basset hound that inherits his entire estate might the one to blame. No seriously. We wish we were joking. Throw in a Foghorn Leghorn-esque Southern lawyer, an astral projecting daughter, something about a bike chain, and a nice set of withers, and you’ve got yourself one of the most bonkers snoozefests of an episode yet. Oh yeah. And Jessica Fletcher is there too, we guess.

Murder She DID?? In attempt to stop a scuzzy Hollywood producer from turning one of her murder mystery novels into a film and drag it through the sex & violence-crazed mud, a real life murder happens and Jessica Fletcher becomes suspect numero uno! Will she clear her name? Will this strobe light nightmare film ever get finished? Is scotch mixed with diet cola any good? Let’s find out, ya sleuthys! Featuring special guest Grant Nielsen

How many nieces and nephews that are two degrees of separation from a murder suspect does this writer lady have?? Nosey Jessica Fletcher pressures her niece to snoop on her husband-to-be at a San Francisco nightclub. When they barge on in, they find out a heck of a lot more than they bargained for. Drag queens, comedian drummers, bug eyed talent agents: with this rotating cast of characters, it’s no wonder we, guest JJ Pollack, and *insert forgettable detective man name here* are too discombobulated to figure out who did the killin’, and why Fletcher is somehow qualified to do the investigatin’.

A murder-peculiar hurricane strikes the town of Cabot Cove! Cosmetics tycoon Stephen Earl goes missing at sea, and his four daughters are the prime suspects to potential foul-play. Who killed him? Is he actually not dead and instead a very-dapperly dressed homeless man? When will people in the state of Maine stop inviting random strangers into their homes for breakfast?? Jessica Fletcher may be jogging about with a towel wrapped around her neck again, but we’re still struggling to keep up with what-in-the heck is going on here. Join us, and guest Alexa Ymer, ride the hurricane waves of yet another convoluted caper!

Rut roh! A two-parter right out of the gate?? After “real life professional detective work” uncovers a wrongly-defined dead body in the Sherlock Holmes costume, nephew Grady is deemed the prime suspect. I guess?? Jessica now decides to do anything in her power to prove his innocence - even if that means framing literally anyone else she can for the crime. Let's run out into the night like Angela Lansbury's 20-something-year-old blonde stunt double and rapidly wrap this Pilot episode up!

Quaint Maine writer Jessica Fletcher deals with the pressures of being published by a big city publishing company, falling in flirtation with the geriatric CEO, and helping solve a murder at a summer BBQ/costume party. Was it the New York Chowder King? His alcoholic wife? Maybe it was Jessica's creepazoid nephew? There’s only one way to find out! Join us, and inaugural guest Mara Baldwin, as we embark on this nightmarish journey!

Join Jake Sanders and Spencer Mirabal, as they embark on a nightmarishly-fun journey - to watch and breakdown every episode of the 1980s crime serial, "Murder, She Wrote".