Our guests are Josh's mom Korky (with a K) and Molly's mom Cathy (with a C). ###Discussion points include: Josh's childhood Snoopy slippers; Molly's childhood "Happy Tape"; the Rankin-Bass classic, "The Monster Who Had A Toothache"; distracting your children with a Hawaiian Ice machine so you can finish your margarita; why Korky was asked to leave …

Topics of discussion RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc (RIP); a pile of kid bones inside a general store; Easy Rider & MAS*H references… you know, for the kids! America's new favorite game: "Is That A Lump?"; Spearmint Suzy, who never found an audience; Dunderson Gunderfoot & other reasons to get picked on at camp; multiple kinds of adults in the PAU: Lu…

Topics Of Discussion: international sports star Caitlyn Jenner; the expansion of Charlie Brown's wardrobe; a refreshing departure from everyone just taking a dump in Charlie Brown's mouth; "The PN," our dark gritty reboot of The Peanuts; the Igloo Australia / Men In Black / Erase-O-Matic things; Freddy Fabulous From Fremont & The Fosbury Flop; a fu…

Content warning: This Peanuts special largely takes place in Snoopy's nightmare, so there is mention of dog death. ###Discussion topics: egg milk: what is it??; how to "under-dogify" your dog; why it is so hard to recreate dream logic in any medium; getting technical about harpy boobage; knowing neither when to hold 'em, nor when to fold 'em; the p…

###Discussion points being personally offended by humidity; feminizing gendered signifiers in the Peanuts AU; the second Brazil reference of the season; Mandatory Smooching Day in 7 Year-Old Land; grade school square dances and other theme days; a blur of conscripted smooches. Maurene Goo is the author of several acclaimed books for young adults, i…

Topics of discussion include: using your blandishing budget to show children planting trees; the Showgirls of the Peanuts AU; the concept of victory gardens (and other hot WWII references); a brief tangent about old timey margarine; lump locomotion & the lump-industrial complex; the Peanuts AU's Shyamalan-like roots; sports that we would watch tree…

Topics of discussion include: Rerun: the Scrappy Doo of the Peanuts universe; a display of despicable childhood behavior; Joe Cool is a dog with sunglasses, but not every dog with sunglasses is Joe Cool; another victory for women's lib! that time Josh was dropped off a clip (and was fine); Jeff Bezos's secret plan to beat the Mariners at baseball; …

[note from management] We recorded this episode through a yet-unnamed intermediary app, and some syllables of our conversation got totally meatlumped. We're not sure what it means or how to fix it, so you'll just have to pick it up from context clues. Also, this episode is like 2 hours long, so you can thank this weird sound lump for shaving second…

###Topics of discussion include: baffling personalities & try-hards; choking on privilege & dying of honor; how great it would be to get a rose from a boy, whichever boy, it doesn't matter; balloons, anonymous roses, orange juice & other failed romantic gestures; the immersive theater sensation Snoop No More; keeping poundcake in your briefcase: a …

Animator & writer Leigh Lahav brings a fresh perspective on Christmas, America, Stranger Things, and more in our annual revisit of A Charlie Brown Christmas. ##TALKING POINTS Snoopy, the Hello Kitty of North America; like when Neo learns Kung Fu in The Matrix, except it's Christmas; Googling "tweening," a totally SFW animation term; a giant silver …

Renée Colvert & Allegra Ringo (hosts of Can I Pet Your Dog?) join us for a slog through 1972's Snoopy Come Home, an ardously strained metaphor for divorce that tanked at the box office & traumatized thousands of children in the home video market. Talking points: putting a regular special through a taffy pull; 1972's hot new "tear animating" technol…

Our guest is Hal Lublin, a voice actor, improviser, and podcaster. He is host of We Got This With Mark & Hal, Tights & Fights, and Surprisingly Nice, and has guest-starred on so many podcasts the "Hal Lublin Number" is the podcast equivalent of a "Kevin Bacon Number"*. *Note: We just made that up, but really want it to become A Thing. Topics of dis…

Fasten your pants belts for a marathon of minutiae with armchair Peanuts scholar Kathleen DeVere. This episode is so CHOCK FULL of Peanuts trivia that we also have an unabridged episode for folks who want to go down every rabbit hole with us. Our guest this week is Kathleen DeVere. She can be found on Twitter as @Kathleen_LRR, and she can be found …

Fasten your pants belts for a marathon of minutiae with armchair Peanuts scholar Kathleen DeVere. This episode is so CHOCK FULL of Peanuts trivia that we also have an abridged episode for folks who insist that we stay on the topic of It's A Mystery, Charlie Brown. Our guest this week is Kathleen DeVere. She can be found on Twitter as @Kathleen_LRR,…

Today we turn our lens of lumpy scrutiny to 1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, the tenth Peanuts animated special and the third ever holiday special. Joseph Scrimshaw joins us as we talk about the importance (or lack thereof) of holiday traditions, and how maybe Snoopy's doghouse isn't a TARDIS but in fact a Portal. Topics of discussion include: …

YA authors Kayla Cagan & Amy Spalding (& Banjo L. Cagan, silently) join us for a spirited roundtable about 1973's There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown — a salty indictment of pop art, in which we learn about the disappointments of the public school system, as well as the theory of transitive kissing. Topics of discussion include: getting Charlie…

Josh and Molly run at 1972's You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, a thin gruel of a political sendup. Topics of discussion include: Josh singing more than usual; Melendelson's Razor; watching television with a big foam finger that says "TELEVISION" the Charlie decimal system (try it at home!); rousing breakfasts; the popular mandate for MORE DOGS EAT…

WE ARE BACK. Angela Webber (of The Doubleclicks) joins us for Play It Again, Charlie Brown, a fascinating examination of the feminine responsibility, all the rocks, and convincing people you're from the future – all sandwiched between about 15 minutes of uninterrupted Beethoven music. Topics of discussion include: the marketable skills of the Peanu…

Happy Totally Normal Day In December, everybody! It's our HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGOON, and instead of revisiting the animated A Charlie Brown Christmas like we originally intended, we saw a stage adaptation of the same, at the Taproot Theater in Seattle. In our first segment Nicole Dieker joins us for a roundtable about the merits of adapting a Peanuts ani…

This episode we tackle 1969's A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN, Charlie Brown & the Peanuts gang's first animated feature, in which Charlie Brown is humiliated on a big screen several times over. Special guest Allie Goertz brings with her a wealth of knowledge of sad cartoon characters, to help us round out the 1960s season of The Peanuts Gallery. A Boy N…

We wrist-wrestle with 1969's IT WAS A SHORT SUMMER, CHARLIE BROWN, in which the boys take on the girls in a summertime battle of the sexes, and get their dumb, uncoordinated butts handed to them for the better part of a half-hour. Special guest Nicole Dieker joins us in an episode recorded in the middle of the damn ocean during this year's JoCo Cru…

Special guest Kayla Cagan joins us as we review 1968's He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, in which Snoopy is an irredeemable sociopath with little to no consequences. Don't believe us? See for yourself! Topics of discussion include: a nesting doll full of bad decisions; what NOT to do when your dog is setting sink fires & kicking people in the taint; th…

We review 1967's You're In Love, Charlie Brown, in which Charlie Brown repeatedly divests himself of all responsibility for his foolish, self-defeating choices. This largely embarrassing specimen of a Charlie Brown special is redeemed by the introduction of Grown-Up Trombone Voice, the Little Red Haired Girl, & Peppermint Patty! Topics of discussio…

We review 1966's It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which spends surprisingly little time beating up on Charlie Brown Topics of discussion include: Lucy's unchecked power; the briefest suggestion of functional sibling relationships; denominational divisions; the existence or non-existence of a restaurant called "Broccoli Hut"; gauntlets of scol…

We review Charlie Brown's All-Stars, a 1966 romp about baseball and surfing and ???? Topics of discussion range from: drift-compatible hatred; what happened to Shermy's voice? what did they do with Shermy Prime?; skateboarding harumphily; the Peanuts universe's brief (but no less horrifying) acknowledgement of sexuality; Charlie Brown blindly accep…

Josh & Molly kick this podcast off with the quintessential Charlie Brown TV special, in a discussion ranging from commercialism; dog germs; meatlumps; the Christmas Queen; totally bitchin' fake trees; ...and much more! Audio blandishment by Ken Plume.By Molly Lewis & Josh A. Cagan