Anidorks: An Animorphs Podcast!!

Cassie nearly dies and then talks Marco down from being stuck as a giant flea. David the Lion behaves badly beneath a fancy table. Something something force field enforced holograms.   How sanitary are Yeerk pools if they're always exposed to the open air? We’ve already seen Rachel the bat fall into one in a cave and now there's one beneath a gaping hole in a roof! Is saying "bite m...

The gang bites Jake. David just wants to watch tv.  How would Tobias narrate David’s violence against birds? Why is this book sort of like watching the Rugrats crawl into a cannon? Has David even seen Tobias in his human form? How do we balance David's genuinely terrible situation with the  fact that he's kind of an asshole? Where is Ax?!  Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://...

The gang gets ray-gunned by a man in Ray-Bans. David goes missing. Is the David trilogy the prestige tv of the Animorphs series? Why do these book feature so much falling? Is holding hands more or less intimate than locking arms? And who the hell is cousin Saddler? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail...

We empty out the mailbag and discover emails from all the way back in May, giving us a chance to revisit the dinosaurs of MegaMorphs 2 and the ethical quandaries of Book 19. Plus, we bring in the most special guest of all, the Ellimist! What dinosaur morphs do we all wish that we could have seen in MegaMorphs 2? How would Visser 3 do on an episode of Undercover Boss? Could someone die of natural c...

Yeerk stealth technology returns. David freaks out.   How do you fire an Animorph? What is a locker but a kind of closet? Why is Marco so preoccupied with transitions and the moment when one thing becomes another? Did David wet the bed at Marco's house? What are the ingredients of a Slim Jim? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Se...

The Animorphs learn the importance of having on-boarding procedures in place before making your first hire. Who is the war-daddiest of all war daddies? Is David’s reaction to the news of the Yeerk invasion actually kind of normal? Are Apple products the secret weapon that the Animorphs need? Is an Animorph handshake ever just an Animorph handshake?  Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://...

The Animorphs and the Yeerks have a house party in David's bedroom. The kids debate whether David should join the team.  Can someone become a nothlit mid-morph? Is David's father the kind of parent to attend PTA meetings? Should the Animorphs be incorporating more cute dogs into their morph rotation? Is any population more Yeerkable than kindergartners? And when Visser 3 morphs into a hu...

The kids bungle their first attempt to burgle the Escafil Device. Marco becomes Spawn. Is David Boy-Rachel? Are the Animorphs fundamentally different from David as people they acquired their powers in Book 1?  What does David naming his cobra Spawn tell us about him as a character, and how bad is it own a cobra? And is Marco really as ditzy as he seems this book, or is he just looking for more exc...

Marco flirts with everyone at school and meets a totally unremarkable boy named David.   Should T’shrondra be our new Animorph instead of David? Will Erek King only show up for mission briefs from now on or will we eventually get another Chee book? Has Rachel not learned anything about bursting through windows after her close call in Book 16? Does "the dark triad" refer to a theory of pe...

Longtime listener and mailbag mainstay CJ discusses us to wrap Book 19! We discuss Cassie as a controversial character in the fandom, whether you can get nothlited as a skrit and then regain your morph powers as a na, and what we can expect in the coming years as we venture out of the Golden Era of Animorphs books into the spooky-scary era of ghostwritten books.  Support the show Support us on Pat...

Cassie makes the ultimate sacrifice. Then she comes back.  Who is Cassie proving something to in this book: to herself, to the other Animorphs, to the Yeerks? Why wouldn't the Yeerks just re-infest Karen once Aftran frees her? Are Controllers a kind of flesh mech? Does Jake spend the time between each book just journaling about his fellow Animorphs? Red or blue?! Support the show Support us o...

Cassie gets Yeerked. Aftran delivers an ultimatum.  Whose plan was the Yeerking of the Unibank President: the methodical Visser 1, the theatrical Visser 3, or the zany but mysterious Visser 2? Does having Visser One as his mother mean that Marco is a nepo baby? And even if he is, wouldn't he be a wonderful Sub-Visser? Just think of the uniforms he could implement with the Yeerk budget! Have w...

Cassie and Karen argue about ethics until a leopard attacks. Marco saves the day.  How does Cassie explain all of her torn morphing leotards to her parents given how often she is ripping off strips of material in order to help others? What the hell are we supposed to do with Karen’s truly unhinged line that “slavery is a human concept” and how would that line read to a child? Did Karen's Yeer...

Enter: leopard!!! Cassie thinks about clubbing a child.  Just where did Yeerks find all of this ambition? Are lazer pointers to cats what dracon beams are to leopards? Is Cassie truly considering killing Karen? What would Marco or Rachel do if they were in Cassie’s situation? Does Eddy do anything between recording sessions except imagine episode titles? Support the show Support us on Patreon: htt...

Cassie quits the Animorphs. The rest of the gang stages an unsuccessful intervention. Karen tries to pet a bear.  Did the other Animorphs overreact to Cassie's big news? Is this the most violent main series book we've read yet, even if most of the violence is imagined? How are the Animorphs not getting alien flesh stuck in their teeth all the time? Should Cassie really be sitting on the...

Animorphs Survivor 3 Kids Vs. Grow-ups (I'm not writing Grownies) comes to an exciting end! Will Cassie make it to the merge? Will the mighty tyrant Gump burn all his bridges? I don't know! Quit asking me and listen to the episode!! Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real thou...

This week on Survivor!! Ummm... something clever hmmmm Yeah yeah Eddy would write something clever here... like: On Anidorks Survivor Season 3 it's Kids vs. Adults. Will the kids optimism and penchant for death give them the edge or will Minivan Chapman mow them all down? Find out on this weeks episode of... Survivor! Yeah yeah. Eddy will like that. Support the show Support us on Patreon: htt...

A double mailbag ep! We finally release the MegaMorphs #2 mailbag episode (all the way back from May!) along with a more recent email.  Also— who the hell is this David everyone keeps talking about and why does he have a trilogy? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real though: Leave us...

Or, The Unbearable Anda-Liteness of Being  Esplin is spared. Dak and Aldrea have each other— for now.  Why do Aldrea and Dak seem unable to imagine being together as different species? Is Hork-Bajir Chronicles just Grease? Is every coincidence in this series always also a possible Ellimist intervention? How does Dak feel about the fact that Aldrea's Hork-Bajir form is just his friend Delf? An...

Esplin gets a promotion. Dak and Aldrea uncover Alloran's plan.  Why is the world building in this book more satisfying than in the main series books? Why is the Arn's plan to foil the Yeerk attempts at Arn infestation to basically turn themselves into fainting goats? How does Visser 3 compare to Power Rangers’ Ivan Ooze? What the hell do you mean that Z-space shifted? Support the show S...

Dak and Aldrea build an army of monsters, then Hork-Bajir. Quatzhinnikon reveals all in his PowerPoint. Esplin knocks over a tree phone to build a big pool.   Is this scene of the Hork-Bajir squashing the Yeerks the most upsetting act of violence described in the series yet? If Aldrea is the Rachel of this book, does that make Dak more of a Tobias or a Cassie? Why does Quatzhinnikon seem so eager...

Introducing: the Arn! Esplin discovers his love for method acting. Aldrea asks to speak to the Arn's manager.  Was Aldrea the first “unlikable” narrator for many young readers— or at least the first narrator who behaved in such unlikable ways? Is Dak really the first Hork-Bajir to make it through the blue mists of the Arn's Zone, or are the Arn just pushing the others into planet's...

Aldrea loses everything. Dak Hamee faces an impossible choice. Esplin experiences some back trouble.  Why does Seerow get all of the blame for what happened with the Yeerks? What does the Andalite response to what happened on the Hork-Bajir planet tell us about how the Andalites will respond to the Yeerk invasion of Earth? Why didn’t Seerow encrypt his messages back to the Andalite home planet? Wh...

Enter: Esplin!!! Aldrea becomes ChaDude— err, Chadoo. Dak goes tree-sliding. Chris introduces us to the transfixing sounds of the Speaking Tree.  Does Esplin want to get with an Andalite, or does he want to be an Andalite? How do Yeerks manage to form an organized queue in the Yeerk pool among all of their cavorting colleagues? Why don’t the Andalites touch their own Untouched Wilds before they st...

Wer're finally talking about Hork-Bajir Chronicles! Aldrea the Andalite meets Dak the Hork-Bajir. Tobias takes the day off. Seerow screws everything up.  Sure, this book has valley depths concealed by a strange, blue fog, but is there anything more mysterious in this novel than Aldrea's mother being born without a name? Why has no one told us about cloud artists before now? Is there anyt...