Anidorks: An Animorphs Podcast!!

The kids wade in the ocean, watching the world end. Then they go home to watch TV.  Does KA Applegate know where this series is going or is she making it up as she goes? Why do Ax and Tobias both always seem to possess mysterious knowledge to which the other Animorphs (and the readers) don't have access? Ax always about the broader universe, while Tobias seems to gained a cynical, almost adul...

The Animorphs encounter the Mercora, a lovable, crablike people attempting to build a home on Earth, and immediately become conscripted into someone else's war.   What does the introduction of the Mercora tell us about the series' stance on nonviolence? Is Cassie doomed to be hardened to violence and harming others over the course of this series? Is Tobias inevitably going to become an A...

The Animorphs continue their dinosaur journey!! We meet a an alien race of ant-like beings, the Nesk. Dino-Tobias hunts human Rachel. Jake morphs into a T-Rex while inside the throat of a T-Rex.  Why does KA Applegate hate ants so much? Could the Nesk have possibly learned English that quickly? Did eating T-Rex meat upset Jake’s tummy? The Nesk fly pyramidal spacecrafts-- are those pyramids with s...

The Animorphs get nuked back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs. Rachel and Tobias get eaten. Cassie rolls a nat 20 on a survival check. How will Tobias deal with being attracted to humans in the body of a hawk? Are CheesePuffs good? Who taught Eddy about vore? What's with that volcano? Is there anything to the fact multiple characters in this book are rescued by external manifestations of thems...

*Heads up!! We will be off next Wed, April 30th and plan to begin releasing MegaMorphs 2 (not Book 19!) on Wed, May 7th.* The AniCool Kids went together to see an immersive theater performance and now they can’t stop imagining what an Animorphs immersive theater experience might be like. Escape from the Yeerk Pool? A simulation of a morph gone wrong? A day in the life of Eileen the Dolphin Trainer...

Book 18 concludes with the reveal of the City of Worms (!!!) and a journey to a Bright Hole. Ax laughs.  Do rebellious Andalites ever run away to join the Andalites circus? Should we explore the human instinct to slap a mosquito as a solution to waking coma patients? What is Andalite art like? What are the implications of how Z-space is deployed in this book? If the Andalites have Z-space tech, wh...

The Animorphs chomp on some Leerans and are weirded out when they suddenly can read each other’s minds. For once the kids solve their problems through actually just talking about their feelings.  When is it appropriate to touch someone’s face without asking? Will we ever meet an Andalite who isn’t a jock? Why haven’t the Animorphs questioned whether the Ellimist is interfering in this book yet? An...

Ax finds himself more torn than ever between his allegiance to the Animorphs and to his own people. A traitor is revealed aboard the Ascalin and the kids are forced to seek out possibly the most tragic Andalite of all.  What might be the translation for the Andalite curse “yaolin”? Why are the Yeerks so determined to take the only landmass on a planet inhabited by a species that lives underwater?...

Sometimes you have to close a door to open a window, yes, but sometimes you have to open a window to Hulk-smash out of another. The Animorphs morph into mosquitoes and develop a lust for blood. The kids go to Z-space.  Is it rude  to ask an Andalite to lift their hoof to reveal what exactly is going on down there? Does Eddy know how to say the word “irreparably”? (Answer: no!!!) Do any of the Anid...

Ax tries to get a part-time job and fights Visser 3 on top of a McDonalds. Chapman hits a guy with a minivan.  Who is Jane Carnegie and where is she?! If every Aristh gets a kafit morph, why is Ax so suspicious that Visser 3 has one? Where we robbed of an entire book of the Animorphs trying to prove that Chapman hit a Secret Service agent with a minivan? And isn’t the roof of a McDonalds the perfe...

We empty the mailbag and take a quiz for babies to test our knowledge of the series so far.  How would Ax place the other Animorphs on his MySpace Top 8? Is Eddy being contrarian for the sake of the podcast? And is Cassie a little more comfortable with violence as a solution to the problems that the Animorphs faced than we realized? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/a...

The kids humiliate Visser 3. He retaliates by morphing into a very slow porcupine bird with bad eye sight. Has any book in the series come together so well in the ending as this one? Shouldn’t the Yeerks be cleaning all of those dead bats out of the Yeerk pool? Now that George Edelman is free, is he destined to play on the next season of Animorphs Survivor? And okay, Chris gets it, hoof tongue doe...

The Animorphs return to the Yeerk pool. Rachel goes for a swim.  How do Yeerks communicate in the Yeerk pool? Can the Animorphs ever go home again? What's with all the meaningful falling in this book? Did the Beach Boys invent The Sharing's aesthetic? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com...

*trigger warning for discussions of SA and SA-related imagery* The gang orders the happiest of Happy Meals. Rachel has a terrifying dream. Morphing into moles takes the Animorphs all the way from womb to tomb.  Why is Rachel’s nightmare of being infested by a Yeerk so much more powerful than Jake’s experience in Book 6? Who invented the Gleet Bio-Filter, and why does it feel like a trademarked pro...

*content warning for self-harm and sexual assault imagery* The Animorphs survive a fruity, Freudian hellscape  and infiltrate a mental institution. Meanwhile Miranda, Eddy, and Chris try to figure out what, if anything, in Rachel's past led to her self-destructive tendency to throw herself into harm’s way.  What do you mean the nail is as tall as a tall woman? Are the chefs union-approved to...

Book 17!! Rachel and the others head downtown to attend the grand opening of a Planet Hollywood, but end up saving a man’s life instead. Why doesn’t Ax thought-speak in his human morph? Could six raptors really carry a man falling from a skyscraper? Is Rachel the first of the Animorphs to say that she would give her life to save another of the Animorphs-- in this case Cassie? And since when does B...

As Chris would say: hellooooo Anidorks! We’ve printed out all of your letters (one-sided! double spaced!) and stuffed the mailbag full of that wonderful paper— just so that we can empty it. If the uncontrollable urges of the animal morphs speak to a fear of puberty, does the threat of losing control to a Yeerk speak to fears of growing up and conforming? What makes Marco such a compelling characte...

Book 16 ends with Joe Bob Fenestre revealing that he’s been slurping Yeerk. Jake’s mother shares that she is in possession of two weapons, though unfortunately neither of them is a broad sword.  Are we the only ones who find the ending of this book to be incredible, but the beginning and middle to be a bit forgettable? How disappointed was Jake to learn that his mom’s secret “weapons” were figurat...

The gang wrecks a mansio. Jake the Tiger radicalizes some armed guards. Joe Bob Fenestre shows off his very cool bedroom.  How is it that these books can pivot between a deranged millionaire confessing to Yeerk cannibalism and the cartoon antics of Jake trampling humans as a rhino without harming anyone? Does Jake's movement speed as a tiger obey the rules of 5E? Is any species better designe...

In which Rachel gets tased, Ax gets shot, and Jake morphs into a battering ram.  Why is Fenestre more capable of fending off the Animorphs than the US military or even Visser 3 himself? Is Jake's failure to delegate tasks his fatal flaw? Just how many butt slaps are there in sports nowadays? What type of video game makes most sense for an Animorphs adaptation: a visual novel, a Telltale game?...

The gang breaks into an office building and puts on a little show for the employees. Jake nearly dies and then has a totally normal dinner with his totally normal family. In this book, Jake is the leader of the Animorphs, but he’s also pretending to be a leader, as well as a son and a brother. In a different way, Tom is Jake’s brother, but he’s also a Yeerk pretending to be his brother. What is th...

Book 16 is gross and dark, with everything from Yeerk cannibalism to Jake getting eviscerated as a fly to dirty diapers to... Tobias almost getting crushed by poop in an airport toilet? The Animorphs meet the Internet and talk to strangers in a chatroom who may or may not all be Yeerked.  Did they seriously almost kill Tobias in a toilet? Does Chris still hate Eddy and Miranda? What would be a bet...

The concusion of Survivor: Dorks Vs Cool Kids!! Will Captain Torelli finally catch those pesky Animorphs now that he has them trapped on the island? Will Cassie’s mother Michelle leave her husband Walter for the Living Hive? Will Rachel’s father Dan find love after Naomi on the island? Is Arbron a Challenge Beast? Can the Shack Lady from Megamorpha 1 survive through Tribal Council? And will the Li...

A new round of NPCs (also known as Minor Humans) go up against the Animorphs in Survivor: Dorks Vs. Cool Kids. Part 2 will be released tomorrow!! Will Captain Torelli finally catch those pesky Animorphs now that he has them trapped on the island? Will Cassie’s mother Michelle leave her husband Walter for the Living Hive? Will Rachel’s father Dan find love after Naomi on the island? Is Arbron a Cha...

Book 15 concludes with a standoff between Vissers 1 and 3, Marco finally revealing the truth about his mom to the rest of the Animorphs, and the question of whether Marco will remain a prisoner of hope.  What do you mean this is a book for children?! Why does this book feel like it has the emotional weight of a main series book, but the self-containment of a bubble episode? Rachel is mad at Marco...