Onesies

In the season finale, Emily and Andrew close the holographic book on AUTOMAN, the apparently partially true story of a Hollywood megastar's son and his imaginary friend. They also talk about Heather McNair's gradual improvement, the captain's drinking, the confounding mystery, and the wanting special effects. And, of course, Cursor.

With one episode of Automan (and Onesies's season three) to go, Emily and Andrew discover the show still does have some surprises in store. Surprises, bad acting, reused footage, a strange confession from one of our hosts, and then some musings on possiblities for a remake.

As Automan: Season One (and Onesies: Season Three) wind down, Emily is inconsolable after multiple Auto-disappointments this episode, though Andrew manages to cheer her up with some talk about "enthusiastic" Cursor, Lee Pace for some reason, and Roxanne's surprising story arc.

Lights, camera, Automan! Join Emily and Andrew as they discuss Auto and Cursor's potential Hollywood fame, bad guest stars (and a good one), how Robert Lansing's become the show's greatest asset, and how unfair Michelle Phillips gets treated.

Running after Auto and Wally, Emily and Andrew gotta get them somehow as they watch this early eighties time capsule guest starring pop star Laura Branigan! Listen as we see Auto in his honkytonk disco suit, watch Wally do kung fu, enjoy Cursor's baking, and much more.

Emily and Andrew get their holographic motors runnin' and head out on the highway, lookin' for Wally and Automan's adventures, and whatever comes their way. Listen as they head to Bishop, Arizona, where actually recognizable guest stars terrorize the show's heroes and force Automan to prove why he's a real wild one. On his dirt bike.

Emily and Andrew are off to a 1983 computer convention where Wally and Automan discover not all computer nerds are well-meaning. Listen as Emily warms to Lt. Jack, Andrew compliments a car chase, and other oddities occur.

Emily and Andrew struggle to stay awake through a magical but not magical AUTOMAN. There's no Lt. Jack being kidnapped, there's no Auto-romance, there's not even naughty Cursor. Instead, it's just the too real tale of dirty cops hurting people. Oh, and tennis. There's tennis.

Join Emily and Andrew as they discuss another episode of AUTOMAN! But one where Desi Arnez Jr. doesn't just whine the whole time, Automan falls in love (with a guest starring, not Southern Delta Burke), the villains are all unrecognizable and acting poorly, and the car chases are inept and tedious! Recorded June 24, 2022 so special thanks to Emily for the editing! 

Emily, Andrew, Auto, and Wally are off on a Carribean vacation, complete with inappropriate patois! Not from Emily or Andrew (or even Cursor). Listen as they discuss off-screen dating, power grids, bad friends, helpless old white men who still manage to catch the eye of too good for them ladies, and much more!

Okay, y'all, Cursor got angry Andrew called him a sex pest and caused some technical difficulties. We got through them though. #cursorsajerk. As for the episode, Emily and Andrew discuss bad weddings, legitimate stars' jerky kids, and successful energy discharges!

Emily and Andrew discover Chuck Wagner is too sexy for his shirt and auto-car while he's disco dancing. Listen as they discover the (relative) charms to shorter AUTOMAN episodes, even though it's still sexist af.

Season three premiere! Emily and Andrew take their turns at 90 degrees this season with the 1983 ABC sci-fi procedural AUTOMAN, created by Glen A. Larson, starring Chuck Wagner as Automan and Desi Arnaz Jr. as his human creator and sidekick. Listen as Andrew blames Emily for picking the show, they discuss Chuck Wagner having a very good voice actually, and the very bad acting.

Hey Onesies listeners. We will be starting season three at the end of May 2022! We will be discussing the 1983 ABC series auto man starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner and Heather McNair among other people. So please bear with us and see you when a couple of weeks!

Emily and Andrew reach the end of FREAKS AND GEEKS (and Season Two of Onesies!) with a de facto flashback due to air order hijinks. Listen as they discuss the problems with not airing your best episodes in your initial run, one of the best scenes of television, and talk through a better conclusion to the series. Also lots of verklemptness and the Season Three subject announcement.

It's the penultimate episode of Onesies Season 2! Emily and Andrew dig into the... series finale of FREAKS AND GEEKS, then jump back to the fourth episode (in production order) and see how much has changed. More dippy hippies, less period jokes, but also a lot different writing and acting. Different happening to mean better. Join them as they prepare for the season finale!

Emily and Andrew discuss Freaks and Geeks's most ambitious story to date, along with the culmination of the first crush arc, the most political the show's gotten, the sad realities of bad writing and bad acting, along with the continued "no notes" glory of Martin Starr.

FIXED AUDIO. Emily and Andrew tackle the next pair of FREAKS AND GEEKS episodes, which include stand-out episodes for Seth Rogen and Martin Starr. In addition to those highlights, there are some great guest stars, but they also have to again discuss the show's very bad gender politics opinions, not to mention its new anti-drug and pro-God messaging.

Emily and Andrew celebrate season two's halfway point as they talk about episodes 9 and 10 of FREAKS AND GEEKS (1999). They discuss prank phone calls, character actors, female agency, and timeless fashion styles.

This episode, Emily and Andrew remember how cool it'd be if the show let its protagonist siblings ever have any scenes together, try to decide what's cringey for when they made the show in 1999 and what's just cringey because it's set in 1980, and once again have no notes for the wonderful Martin Starr. Also SLC Punk is a great movie and people should see it.

Emily and Andrew talk some more FREAKS AND GEEKS, the 1999 NBC comedy-drama about early eighties high school created by Paul Feig and executive produced by Judd Apatow. Listen as they discuss getting fed up with bad female protagonists (agency, what's that), have no notes for Martin Starr or Dave (Gruber) Allen (just fawning admiration), and "Canada" Joe Flaherty is finally starting to appeal to A...

Emily and Andrew continue their discussion of FREAKS AND GEEKS, Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's 1999 NBC comedy-drama about high school in the very early eighties. Amid their episode recaps (going in airdate order), the hosts also focus on such topics as The Bionic Woman, Mary Sues (and the weight of using such a phrase), and the joys of sight gags.

Emily and Andrew kick off Season Two with a look at FREAKS AND GEEKS, an NBC television series created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Judd Apatow. Listen as they talk about Ben Foster in a problematic part, baby Martin Starr, argue over Joe Flaherty's Canadian heritage, and so on!

We had an audio hiccup but that's fixed here. Sorry about that early listeners! In spite of mostly disappointing or dreadful guest stars, majorly creepy plot points, and bad sitcom fatigue, Emily and Andrew successfully complete their watchthrough of 1989's FREE SPIRIT, the story of a witch (Corinne Bohrer) and her unlikable human charges. They also announce next season's show, which hopefully wil...

In the penultimate episode of season one, Emily and Andrew realize FREE SPIRIT--despite being an ostensible Corinne Bohrer vehicle--might not be a  brilliant-but-cancelled situation (or even, unfortunately cancelled). Instead, the show might've had it coming. Especially with this batch of episodes.