As You Know

Our one-season series comes to a close with the most normal show of the bunch, the cult ballet favorite Bunheads. It's our first foray into the career of Amy Sherman-Palladino and her world of quaint small towns and quippy one-liners.

Child labor laws: who needs 'em! It's time to discuss the reality TV catastrophe that was Kid Nation, in which 40 children are let loose on a New Mexico ghost town and instructed to create a functioning society for 40 days. Our most ethically dubious pick yet!

We continue our one-season miniseries with an idea that was perhaps even worse than Cop Rock: Cavemen. Somebody thought an adaptation of an insurance ad campaign in which the primitive characters are stand-ins for specific minorities was worth making. The result is our first ever episode where we only discuss unaired content.

Welcome to AYK season 3! We're kicking off with a miniseries of shows that lasted one season or less, starting with one of the most baffling ideas of all time: Cop Rock. It's a completely earnest musical police procedural from Steven Bochco with music by none other than Randy Newman. We can't believe it failed!

For our season finale we watched three hours of the phenomenon that was ER. The stars are out and getting covered in viscera.

We're crossing the Atlantic again with the hit British crime/period drama Peaky Blinders. With serious acclaim and a star-studded cast, does it live up to the hype? Can we keep any of the characters in the finale? And is there a stupider name for a criminal underground organization than Peaky Blinders?

Halloween may be over, but there's always one final scare! In this case it's our discussion of MTV's Scream, which stretched the metatextual slasher franchise into TV series length, made a dumber mask, and had a hard reboot within three seasons.

Do you remember the longest podcast you've ever heard? Can a host do an extended bit that even he doesn't understand? Has a show ever started every episode with a different optical illusion? Prepare to toe the line between fiction and reality as we discuss the show you know from the memes.

Our methodology really pays off with the constantly changing TBS -> HBO Max dark comedy Search Party, which has an ending nobody could've predicted from the start.

We take a trip to the "twin cities" as we look at the definitive workplace sitcom, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, starring an all-time dime (Ed Asner) and a murderer's row of entertainment legends both on and off-camera.

We enter the game show genre with Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, which is apparently harder than it sounds. We get the most jarring "main character recast" ever with Jeff Foxworthy on one end and John Cena on the other. Find out if your hosts are dumber than a 10-year-old.

We reunite with podcast mother Connie Britton to discuss the ABC/CMT series Nashville. Join us at the honky tonk as we slander a character played by Whose Line alum Chip Esten because Travis tragically misread this show's TVTropes page.

It's time for another edition of "shows you haven't heard of unless you watch the NBA on TNT." Did you know they made a TV series out of the Australian indie film Animal Kingdom? And that it ran for six seasons? It just ended a few weeks ago. It's a grimy show about hanging out with your gross uncles and weird grandma.

Magic! Romance! Girl power! Somehow we're only just now during our first Aaron Spelling joint, the WB witch drama Charmed. It's got another one of those weird finales where everyone is time traveling or on a different plane or whatever.

We finally discuss Gunsmoke, which for a long time was the longest-running primetime television program. Except we didn't watch any of the show. We listened to a radio broadcast and watched the final TV movie, aired nearly two decades after the show's cancellation. So come join us as Matt completely breaks our format.

With Bob Odenkirk's role as Saul Goodman coming to an end, we felt it was appropriate to take a look back at his (and David Cross') cult comedy origin, the HBO sketch series Mr. Show with Bob and David. Hopefully our first foray into sketch comedy turns up more hits than misses.

It's time for another quirky 90s comedy-drama with the Emmy-winning Northern Exposure. The pilot is about New York's most annoying man having to adjust to small-town Alaska, and the finale is not about much of anything but does have Jerry Adler parachuting in from the sky.

It's time for some edutainment with the long-running PBS favorite Arthur, a show about horrifying humanoid "animals" solving mundane problems. Gaze upon Matt Damon and despair.

It's time for another show forgotten to TV history, the police procedural Jake and the Fatman. It's about a guy named Jake and a fat man and they investigate crimes. Women are very disposable also. The dog is pretty good.

More like the Incredibly Dull. The Incredible Bore. The Unwatchable Hulk. The Untenable...

It's time to talk about the real issues with the experts: Vegas magicians Penn & Teller. Their Showtime series cut through the BULLSHIT that is psychics and the OTHER BULLSHIT that is the relatively quaint anti-vax movement of 2010. Did these Cato Institute fellows have a good read on the situation? Let's find out.

We have fully liquefied our brains with arguably the most demented show we've ever covered: Once Upon a Time. It's a series for all of the worst Disney Adults in your life to indulge in a combination of fanfiction and Lost.

It's time for a cult favorite this week with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Does noted shitbag Joss Whedon's signature writing style hold up after 25 years or is it ruined by his influence on movies and television at large? Are our hosts Buffy guys or Willow guys? And why does it always come back to Ohio?

Do the monkey with us as we get into Cartoon Network’s Johnny Bravo, one of the most “who is this for?” shows we’ve ever discussed.

Drunk with power, Matt has made us watch a show with so little impact that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. It’s a reality series about the home life of former American Idol contestant and mild country star Kellie Pickler along with her songwriter husband. They adopt some chickens and take an Alaska vacation.