From the darkest corners of tumblr comes a podcast where we take two of your favorite fictional characters and ask… do we ship it? Each week, Greg and Zach are joined by a guest as they take two singles from different fandoms and debate whether they'd make it as a couple.
Don't Rebel! We've got a truly epic spacey love story this week when Star Wars' AHSOKA TANA meets the Guardians of the Galaxy's GAMORA. Will these two find their love to finite or... INFINITE? Find out! Plus: is Gimli the dwarf that Snow White has been waiting for all this time? Find out with our guest BLYTHE KALA!
Can you date someone who's just like you? Can you date someone who's a fan of you? We strive to answer these hard hitting questions and more as we ship INDIANA JONES with RICK O'CONNELL (The Mummy) as well as the musical pairing of RAMONA FLOWERS (Scott Pilgrim) and DAZZLER (X-Men). And who better to join us then the one and only, YAEL TYGIEL. Ship with us won't you?
It's Mario's 35th birthday! So we're celebrating by trying to find love for two of his oldest friends... We're shipping DONKEY KONG with the ape from Skull Island, KING KONG! Then, we're going to the fastest Karter around TOAD and we're shipping him with a mushroom-taking mystery solver... SHAGGY (Scooby Doo). What will happen when Shaggy sees this walking psychotropic at Burning Man? Listen to find out!
The wonder thing about an ALL TIGER SHIP is that we're releasing this kind of, not really Tiger King themed episode months late! Find out who's the real Tiger King top when we ship TIGGER (Winnie the Pooh) with HOBBES (Calvin & Hobbes). Then let's dig into some real literature as we ship GOLLUM (LOTR) with MRS. HAVISHAM (Great Expectations). All that and more with our guest Nikki Urban!
A relationship more powerful than any Ships in the Night has ever seen before.... can a relationship last between the Almighty himself GOD (the Morgan Freeman one) and Watchmen's own god DR. MANHATTAN. Who watches the sex tape the Watchmen make? Then it's time for a talking to on a talk show ship with SPACE GHOST who'll be shipping on the east coast with SNL's THE CHURCH LADY. All that and more with returning guest, comedian DAVE CIACCIO!
No ships for you! Just kidding, we're nicer than this guy. But tune in to hear what happens when we start a ship between Seinfeld's THE SOUP NAZI and The Muppets' SWEDISH CHEF. Then we're going case solving with two badass detectives, JESSICA JONES and SHERLOCK HOLMES. And we're not going alone, we've got KATY DOLLE to join us for this one...
It's not just a fantasy, we're shipping that stylish, boyish doctor JD (Scrubs) with that excitable, friendly, time-traveling doctor THE DOCTOR (the 13th one, specifically). How will these universes unite in beauty and smut? You'll have to listen to find out. Plus a ship of pure unbelievable power... ONE PUNCH MAN and SUPERMAN! And this episode welcomes back the wonderful, amazing ALEXIS TORRES!
They may be villains, but they're wearing masks in public, so we think they deserve love; can SHREDDER and DARTH VADER take a break from trying to kill teenagers long enough to hook up? Plus, we inadvertently realize GREASE is the most confusing love story of all time as we pair SANDY with WOLVERINE. SAM HORWITZ is back on the pod, and he desperately wants us to find love for JONNY QUEST. One of us presents possibly the least-convincing matchmaker argument in the show's history... come laugh at our failure!
It's our two-year anniversary! We didn't make a big deal about it! Can the purr-fect crime make purr-fect lovers with CATWOMAN and KITTY PRYDE? Can the dulcet tones of Ringo Starr help OPTIMUS PRIME grab hold of THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE'S caboose? Plus, guest EVE ESQUIRE provides us with an unseasonably spooky matchmaker segment when she brings in Marvel's AGATHA HARKNESS (we know... we had to look her up too!)
What does it mean to be truly isolated? Well TRUMAN BURBANK (The Truman Show) and RAPUNZEL (Tangled) certainly could spin us a yarn about it. But what if they hooked up? Then! It's the miniature horse with the biggest heart LIL SEBASTIAN (Parks and Recreation) and the sitcom horse with the smallest heart of all BOJACK HORSEMAN, how will this celebrity pairing go? Let's find out with returning guest YAEL TYGIEL, this week on SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Join us and guest Meredith Paul for a special all matchmaker episode of Ships in the Night Live! This week, we try to find love for loveable, yet lonely, singles PORKINS (Star Wars) and NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM (Harry Potter). Will we be successful? You'll have to listen in to find out!
What happens when a capitalist raccoon starts a relationship with a middle-manager? Find out as we ship everyone's favorite capitalist, TOM NOOK (Animal Crossing) with jerk boss BILL LUMBERGH (Office Space)! Then we'll make time for some "foxy" love with FOX MCCLOUD (Starfox) and ROBIN HOOD (Disney's Robin Hood)! And we're doing it with the host of the Sweet Virgin Brian podcast... Brian Inciong! Recorded live (but isolated) on Twitch 4/8/20
Join us for the first of a few live taped specials for 'Ships in the Night! Originally broadcast live on Twitch with The Pack Theater. We play an extended matchmaker game with the live chat and our guest Elizabeth Hayhurst. Settle in as we find love for characters like Ford Prefect (Hitchhiker's Guide), McLovin (Superbad), and... Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)? As long as Los Angeles is locked down, join us for these live episodes weekly at 8pm PST at twitch.tv/packtheater
Venture down a path of sadness... horny sadness that is! We're shipping MOANING MYRTLE (Harry Potter) with DEBBIE DOWNER (Saturday Night Live) for some weirdly downtrodden fan fiction. Then, we come up with the story of a manly man's love affair... the story of RON SWANSON (Parks & Rec) and CHIEF HOPPER (Stranger Things). Can you BEAR such a ship? Join us with our special guest, stand up comedian KELLY MCINERNEY!
EMPEROR PALPATINE may not have had a partner when he made a clone son, but he deserves love too! On today's election special, we run off a long list of possible romantic interests submitted to pair up with ol' Darth Sidious. Join us and returning guest ALEX SALEM as we run through 23 candidates for the heart of Emperor Sheeve Palpatine!
WHO WILL CONQUER WHO? When CONAN THE BARBARIAN and SAMANTHA (Sex and the City) hit it off, will this lead to the destruction of New York? Or the true 'filling' of Samantha's needs. Then is a sidekick love affair when a farmer's market meeting leads to a secret relationship between RON WEASLEY (Harry Potter) and SAMWISE GAMGEE (Lord of the Rings)! Plus the deepest cut matchmaker character ever: NIDDLER (Pirates of Dark Water)! All that with our guest FRANKIE GRIFFEN!
This week we are down to clown... because we're shipping KRUSTY THE CLOWN (The Simpsons) with Gotham's own HARLEY QUINN! Will this rebound be the end of the two of them? Plus, two royal felines meet up as we ship MUFASA (The Lion King) with OLD DEUTERONOMY (Cats). Will we make the jellicle choice? Find out as we welcome our guest RYAN NILSEN for all that and more on this week's SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Let's fly away to love! This week we ship SUPERGIRL with someone else who knows what it's like to live in a family member's shadow... LUIGI MARIO! Then, can two of the wealthiest characters on TV find love together? Let's find out when we ship TAHANI AL JAMIL (The Good Place) with SCROOGE MCDUCK (Ducktales)! Plus, we play matchmaker for one of Westworld's underlings... All that and more with our guest ADRIAN SNOW!
What's allowed while on a break? And does that determination stand up while dating a purple dinosaur? Find out the answers as we ship paleontologist ROSS (friends) and BARNEY THE DINOSAUR (Barney & Friends)! Then we're journeying through Springfield and then under the sea as we find a crossover romance between BART SIMPSON (The Simpsons) and ARIEL (The Little Mermaid). Join us and special guest CHLOE ZAK on the first 'Ships in the Night of 2020!
What better way to celebrate a new year than with pointless nostalgia?! This special retrospective looks back at some of our favorite segments from 2019... stroll with us down the suspiciously sticky sidewalks of memory lane! Thank you all for a great year!
It's another all holiday special! Get in the giving spirit as find the hard working romance between DOBBY THE ELF (Harry Potter) and BUDDY THE ELF (Elf). Then you're going to see something grow three sizes this day as we ship THE GRINCH and MR HANKEY (South Park). Plus a holiday matchmaker from a galaxy far far away... All that and more with our guest CHRISTIAN BLADT!
This week's ship is kind of a big deal. We're shipping ROB BURGUNDY (Anchorman) with CARRIE BRADSHAW (Sex and the City)! Then, it's the undercover love crossover that is groovy baby, yeah! Spy our fanfic lovestory between AUSTIN POWERS and JAMES BOND! All that and more with our guest, live-action Cathy, Susan Sassi!
Let's make some REAL magic as we ship Harry Potter's LORD VOLDEMORT and the Wizard of Oz's WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST! Can love spark in the face of their evil plans? Then it's a rodent romance as we ship CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE with STUART LITTLE! All that and more with our guest Elizabeth Hayhurst on Ships in the Night!
Take a ride on the Magic School Bus indeed... see what happens when we ship two transforming travelers of space and time... THE TARDIS and THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS. Then it's a musical name mashup when we ship the Guardians of the Galaxy's ROCKET RACCOON with The Beatles' own lovesick gunslinger ROCKY RACCOON. PLUS we play matchmaker for the Ghostbuster's EGON SPENGLER. All that with special guest Dave Child! This is 'Ships in the Night!
Two shiny metal asses for the price of one! That's what you'll get when we do some fanfic shipping for THE TERMINATOR (T2) and BENDER (Futurama)! Then a surprising suggestion turns into a tragic cross-town romance as MINNIE MOUSE hooks up with TOM (Tom & Jerry). Will it be a sexy game of cat and mouse... or a tragic one? PLUS, we try to find love for Clash of the Titans' BUBO THE OWL! All that with our guest Dan Villalobos!
For our third and final spooky special, horror enthusiast Megan Salinas joins us for some truly horrific ships. What happens when CHUCKY (Child's Play) meets the horror of parents' Christmas shopping... TICKLE ME ELMO?! Then, it's as classic as horror can get as DRACULA meets FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER. Plus, we play matchmaker to find love for PINHEAD (Hellraiser)! Can we find pleasure for this pain demon? Find out on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
BOO! Don't be scared, it's just another October SPOOKY SPECIAL! This week, get a frozen banana and be careful around the shower because we're shipping NORMAN BATES (Psycho) and BUSTER BLUTH (Arrested Development) in a meeting of the mama's boys. THEN, it's an '80s monster fighting battle as ASH WILLIAMS (Evil Dead) falls for LAURIE STRODE (Halloween). PLUS, we try to find love for the Exorcist's Reagan (and her passenger Pazuzu). All that with horror expert Jen Saunderson!
Beware ye shippers who enter here, for a horror filled special of 'Ships in the Night is near! That's right, for October we're going all horror! Our first spooky special welcomes horror filmmaker Charlie Pieper (Malacostraca) to make some Halloween love stories between JACK TORRANCE (The Shining) and ANNIE WILKES (Misery)! Then, is an existential-monster mash when we write a fanfic crossover romance between SETH BRUNDLE (The Fly) and GREGOR SAMSA (Kafka's The Metamorphosis). Take venture into these truly horrific stories on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Writer Supreme Matt Key drops by to share his Doctor Strange expertise with us as we tackle the magically medical relationship between DOCTOR STRANGE and DR. GREGORY HOUSE! Can the world survive this one? Then, what happens when two environmentalists bond over their love of life? Let's find out as we write the fanfic story between THE LORAX and THANOS! (We're really putting the Earth in danger this week). THEN, we try to play matchmaker for the smartest being in the universe: STATION from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey! All that on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Chill out with this week's latest fanfic ship: ELSA (Frozen) and SUB ZERO (Mortal Kombat). Can Elsa let it go enough to join the Mortal Kombat tournament? Then, will ISABELLE (Animal Crossing) want to smash or SMASH the Guardian's of the Galaxy's own ROCKET RACCOON? Plus, we play matchmaker for Reba McEntire's COLONEL SANDERS! All with our guest, Chandler Garber. We don't know about you, but WE SHIP IT!
Our first narrative episode! The Shape of Sewer Water tells the tale of the day Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) meets Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle) and it gets.... passionate. WARNING: This episode is extremely dirty. Like, more dirty than our normal episode. Headphones recommended. Starring Zach Wilson (Narrator, Neville Longbottom), Greg Goodness (Donatello), Elizabeth Hayhurst (Hermione Granger) Written by Greg Goodness & Zach L Wilson, Story by Greg Goodness, Zach L Wilson, and Matt Lieberman
Guest Andra Moldav stops by to help fanfic some ships from Star Trek, The Office, 2001, and Her! Plus a very special matchmaker featuring KRANG from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Will MARIO wreck Wreck It RALPH? Will GODZILLA and CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG fall in love, or create chaos? Find out the answers to those and join us in trying to find love for SALACIOUS B KRUM with our guest Hayley O'Connor!
It's Must See Ship Thursdays as we take two of NBC's leading ladies and create the crossover love story of APRIL from Parks & Rec and PAM from The Office! Will these two hit it off? Then, it's another corporate mascot love affair with the depressed Zoloft Circle Blob meets another round mascot, the YELLOW PEANUT M&M! Plus, we play matchmaker for Rent's MARK COHEN! He never got love in the musical, but can we find him love in less than 525,600 minutes? We'll certainly try!
Travel the stars for a ship of two powerful women as we write some fanfic for CAPTAIN MARVEL (Carol Danvers) and the PINK RANGER (Kimberly Hart)! Then, we go back to the '40s for a ship between Casablanca's RICK BLAINE and Indiana Jones' MARION RAVENWOOD. Here's looking at you... ship! Then, we play matchmaker for Outlander's lovelost Laoghaire MacKenzie! Join us and our guest Rachel Goodman on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Psychiatric Help 5¢: The Shipping Doctor is IN. This week's episode features a schoolyard romance between two big ol' bullies: ERIC CARTMAN (South Park) and LUCY VAN PELT (Peanuts). Will they simply pull the proverbial football out on each other, or will they find love? Then, try not to get caught up in the wind as we tell a love story between TAZ (Looney Tunes) and THE TORNADO (Twister). Can an intelligent tornado and a spinning Tasmanian Devil find happiness? FIND OUT on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Tossed salad and scrambled meth? This week we're writing the crossover slash-fic for Breaking Bad's WALTER WHITE and Frasier's DR. FRASIER CRANE! Will the one who knocks fall for the one who is listening? Then, venture into the world of first person shooters as MASTER CHIEF hooks up Doom's unnamed DOOM GUY. Plus, Quaid may have started the reactor, but can we find love for Total Recall's KUATO? Find out as AfterBuzzTV's Stephen Lemieux joins us on this week's 'Ships in the Night!
Oh I just can't waaaaaiiit.... to ship it! We're shipping The Lion King's SIMBA with another lion running from his problems, Wizard of Oz's THE COWARDLY LION! Then see if you can find our second ship: it's WALDO (or Wally if you're British) and that daring, country/time-hopping thief: CARMEN SANDIEGO. And we play matchmaker for BABE THE PIG! All in one episode of Ships in the Night? That'll do shippers, that'll do.
Twitter voted on this week's poll and we have the a partner for Blade! And the audience decided on.... Buffy! So what happens when Marvel's vampire slaying daywalker meets Sunnydale's own Slayer, Buffy? Find out! Then, Brian Michael Bendis suggested it, and we ran with it: we're shipping Lorelai Gilmore and Bruce Wayne! PLUS, can we find love for Killjoys' sassy spaceship Lucy? It's possible only on... 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Down here it's wetter, this Aquaman likes leather, under the sea! That's right, it's time to ship two Atlantean royals as The Little Mermaid meets Arthur Curry aka Aquaman! Then, it's a big avian ship as Sesame Street's BIG BIRD falls for Looney Tunes' FOGHORN LEGHORN! Plus, can we find love for Mario's adventuring hat Cappie? Find out on this week's 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Oh the places you'll go, and the ships that you'll make, this one gets pretty dirty, for our listeners sake. That's right, we're getting some Dr Seuss shipping in this week, when THE CAT IN THE HAT meets Garfield's ODIE. Plus, when SUPERMAN meets JEAN GREY aka the Dark Phoenix, the two of them might just be too OP... to ever break up. PLUS, we play matchmaker for Marvel's Loki. Let's find love for the god of mischief with our guest Lauren Cupp on this week's episode of SHIPS IN THE NIGHT.
Can you see who we'll be shipping this week? It's Dora the Explorer and another childhood adventurer, Jonny Quest! Then, it's a love between two of New York City's finest as Jake Peralta meets and falls for his hero, Die Hard's John McClain! To close it out, we step into BoJack Horseman's universe to try to find love for Vincent Adultman, who is definitely NOT three kids in a trenchcoat... definitely not. THIS IS 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Whoops, maybe we shouldn't have started there... While we deal with our current haunting, listen in to our fanfic as we ship BEETLEJUICE with the hostess with... well you know what she has, it's ELVIRA! Then we search some respect, self or otherwise, as we ship Hanna Barbera's JABBERJAW with the best known shark of all time BRUCE from JAWS! Plus we play matchmaker for Sprited Away's NO FACE! Because even greed monsters from another plane deserve love. Join us and our amazing guest KANDICE MARTELLARO!
What's west of Westeros? Our guest Heather Woodward believes it might be... GOTHAM! What love connection would the result in from Sansa Stark and Mr. Freeze? Find out! (G.O.T. spoilers within). Then, it's a Scottish accent fueled romance when Shrek and Groundskeeper Willie put the "pipe" in bagpipe! AND we try to find love for the forgotten bottom half..... Darth Maul's legs! Get in on all the love connections on this weeks' SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
It's a mystery! But can Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock) solve the case while also falling in love with Detective Pikachu?? Will Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) be the missing piece that truly makes Severus Snape a good person? AND who should Marvel's newest king, Valkyrie, settle down with? Find out those answers as we welcome back our guest JOELLE MONIQUE! This is 'Ships in the Night!
Roxy Striar joins the boys to dive into another big Marvel-DC story! Will the blur of black and red that is a Harley Quinn/Deadpool romance end in tears... or blood? And is the bloody ending somehow the happy one? Find out! Then, it's a bizarre one as we come up with the fanfic crossover between Friends' Monica Geller and Pac-Man! Will food bring these two together? And how exactly would they have sex? Let's get the bottom of it! PLUS, we play matchmaker for star of hit sitcom Joey... Joey Tribbiani!
Special Guest Coy Jandreau stops by to help us tackle our most requested ship, CAPTAIN AMERICA and WONDER WOMAN! Will it go as perfectly as we initially think? Or is there danger for these star spangled heroes? Then, can earth survive a love affair between King of the Monsters GODZILLA and the Great Dreamer CTHULHU? Plus, we try to find love for Fight Club's TYLER DURDEN! Can such a feat be done? Find out on this week's episode of 'SHIPS IN THE NIGHT!
OUR 50TH EPISODE. For our 99th and 100th couple we dive into a love affair between two flying pieces of fabric: Aladdin's Magic Carpet and Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation! Then, what happens when Lando Calrissian meets a young community college student who looks just like him? Will Lando and Community's Troy Barnes hit it off? After we find out, we'll also play matchmaker for the super green hero, Captain Planet! Can we save the Earth AND his love life? Find out as Greg and Zach welcome Jesse Klein back to celebrate FIFTY episodes of wonderful fictional depravity.
Fatality... for love? Find out what happens in the crossover that brings Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) to fall in love with The Scorpion King (The Mummy)! Will their love be romantically violent or violently romantic? Then it's a rivalry turned love affair as KFC's Colonel Sanders falls for Burger King's The King. What monstrosity will their love birth? FIND OUT! Plus, we try to find love for the Joker's number one man, Bob the Goon! All with this week's guest, comedian Nick Gligor!
Evil Dead deadites have invaded Pallet Town and there are only two men who can stop them, Ash Ketchum and Ash Williams! But will the two Ash's find love while being the very best monster killers? Then, are the corporate high seas the perfect place for some fanfic love between Captain Morgan's rum fueled party life and the Starbucks Mermaid's business driven high-caffeine life? Find out! PLUS, we try to find love for Taneleer Tivan aka Marvel's The Collector!
AfterBuzzTV's Briana Phipps stops by to help us save the princess! Princess Peach finds herself in a whole new world as we build a fanfic romance for her and Aladdin! Then, will Marty McFly get along with a DIFFERENT grey haired time traveling Doctor? And finally, Greg and Zach try to find love with a side of fava beans as we play matchmaker for Hannibal Lecter!