Juvenalia

Happy Halloween! When Julie Hough was on the show for episode 135, she mentioned that it would be cool if we did a Halloween Special about Halloween Specials and she was absolutely right! So we got Julie and our most knowledgeable telly friend Jenn Gannon to come back and have a chat with us about our favourite ever Halloween Specials! We talked about Sabrina, Community, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy, and more. A spooktacular time was had by all...

Happy holidays to one and all! We had planned to do something big and special in the studio but well, y’know, so instead we gathered some of our Juvenalia family remotely to talk about our favourite Christmas music. We accidentally talked about Baby, It’s Cold Outside for far too long even though it wasn’t on any of our lists but you’ll be glad to hear that we’ve finally sorted that whole situation out.

Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us this year...

Hello! We had a scheduling mix up. It happens, no big deal but it means we don’t have a new episode this week. We thought you might like our most recent Patreon bonus episode though. It’s from our bonus series Started/Finished where we talk about what we’ve started and finished recently. In this episode we talked about Yellowjackets (no spoilers), Get Back, Wytchwood (no spoilers), and Succession (spoliers, big spoilers)...

Ok, so we definitely thought we had this scheduled to go up over Christmas but we just came back from our holidays and it turns out we messed up. Sorry. You’re probably still making your way through all the Christmas specials from other podcasts anyway so what’s one more eh?

Alan and Sarah have never seen It’s A Wonderful Life. Sarah and Cassie have never seen Die Hard...

Happy Weird Inbetweeny Bit of the year where nothing’s really happening. We realised that people don’t get around to Christmas episodes of podcasts until January so we just talked about some non-Christmassy things we’d been watching lately. We also did our Off Menu menus just for the hell of it.

We’re going to take a break for a couple of weeks while we get everything lined up for 2024 but we’ll back soon. Thanks for sticking around.

Alan, Sarah, and Andrea...

Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam talk to writer Sarah Maria Griffin about a film that was important to her as a teenager, The Fifth Element...

Alan and Ellen talk to comedian Damon Blake of Fox and Blake about the mind-bending 1990 anti-drugs cartoon Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue in which The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Alf, Garfield, Winnie The Pooh, Slimer, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Muppet Babies, and Bugs Bunny team up to convince a drug-taking teen to change his ways. It’s powerful stuff...

Writer Jeanne Sutton joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast...

Giles Brody of The Mess Around and The Sunday Sermon Podcast talks to Alan and Ellen Tannam about Ghostbusters. At least that was the plan. It turned into more of a Ghostbusters-themed chat. We enjoyed it though, hopefully you will too...

Academic and writer Sinéad Burke of Minnie Mélange joins Alan and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about the many ways in which Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been a part of her life...