Berri's Couch

Two children's entertainers both alike in possibilities, in fair Australian lounge rooms we lay our scene. In one corner a long running formerly 4 man troupe that became a global phenomenon and in the other 3 dags on an obvious soundstage. Who shall reign victorious The Wiggles or The Hooley Dooleys?

SOMEONE LET THIS BE SHOWN TO CHILDREN! AND THEY ENCOURAGED IT! So we go to the other end of Australian kid's programming spectrum this time with the mentally scarring Round the Twist. We try to explain this mess but I believe it would be easier to describe an intense trip to a sober friend then summarise this *gestures disgustedly* mess.

It finally happened we are now talking about the blue heeler who took over the world of kids media and made adults cry. In a quite abridged form (we are not joking this could have been hours longer) we discuss a selection of episodes that we feel explain why this show took the world by storm.

Finally a movie that's theme is so obvious we can are forced to discuss how something a small as a change in voice actor can dramatically change a character and their reception.

We are gong al the way back to the beginning. Wind, bugs, and war define this early Ghibli film but does it come in like a hurricane or should it be lost in the breeze? Let's get on the gliders and find out.

A little story about how saving a cat can backfire quickly while also being about finding yourself as a person, and it's the only made for TV Ghibli movie. Come lay in the grass in the bright sun with us as we rest pleasantly through this nice film.

If we had a nickel for every time a piece of childhood media involved people being turned into pigs we'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice.

We end the month wrapping up with the emotion of love in media it was just too big to fit into one episode so here ya go, the vivisection of true love. The limitations of elevating only romantic love under the false belief that your romantic partner will just get you with no work.

So we're all supposed to want to seek love but then why does media make out long term partnerships as a burden and war? Why are there so few loving couples once they tie the knot? Let's walk down the aisle and try to find out.

It's not bad but, its not necessarily good It feels sudden but, it's not. It's a simple emotion until, it isn't. Anger is so personal but so easy to misinterpret so how does visual media handle this problem child? With simplified over easy boxes that everyone gets shoved in, listen in as we explain further.

Sometimes media leads to unhealthy views being continued and made worse in society more often than not unintentionally. Join us as we discuss how this family film address the harmful idea of toxic positivity or at least starts to begin the dismantling process.

We unearth the "legally distinct and totes not Dracula" vampire film that has secured itself in pop culture but yet somehow remains almost entirely untouched by the ghoulish hands of soulless studio executive husks. Truly a marvel for this uncanny valley-esque film even if it perhaps does not elicit the feelings it once did in a modern audience.

Notorious. The most notorious rendition of Dracula to date, trashed in its time but was it earned? Yes, but now it's campy and retro funny. We look back on this and discern what could work about it and why it should be revisited in correct company.

Now for the most told untold story since Coppola introduced the worst addition to Dracula. How does the more modern take on a badly written and re-enacted faux history based on true history hold up in the line of the undead? Badly but lets view a sad, broody Dracula that absolutely no one wanted or asked for.

Time to take the kids out for some blood Go-gurt. We take two sequels to 1931's Dracula to school and look at them to find out who excels in their studies of vampirism and who really doesn't test well.

A hidden gem buried in the late 70's has been unearthed and unleashed upon us. A movie that neither of us expected to be good but instead quickly grabbed us by the ghoulies and put us under its spell, a true great return to discussing Dracula's and their derivatives.

Why does a TTRPG garner attention from a genre that otherwise is against one of the hosts? Now that we've taken a turn around the promenade of the regency genre we shall share partake in the salaciousness discussion about it, the titles there in and why adding modernity to it is at best a fun deviation and at worst pain inducing.

Well this was the dullest of affairs. We look Sense and Sensibility or rather we report back the ennui that is watching the BBC miniseries of Sense and Sensibility. What is good, what is bad and why did Regency stay around into the modern age?

It's sad girl hours as we dive into one of the other pillars of this genre Jane Eyre and weigh in on the classic debate Darcy vs Rochester (one of the original Team Edward vs Team Jacob). Specifically the 2006 miniseries adaptation, what we liked, what we found funny despite the intended tone, and whether or not this has undone some Regency trauma in Bee.

Behold the most well known regency long form essay that could be ended if anyone had actually had a succinct conversation. Bee begins to visit her trauma relating to this era of writing and Jerri explains the fundamentals of this literature and why it can be difficult to absorb if you are not its intended audience. #marywasrobbed

We reach the end of Arthurian film adaptation with Guy Ritchie's.......attempt(?) at starting a new wave of Arthurian movies. Does it work? How do we feel about this as a film vs adaptation of Arthur? What are the rankings of this month's media? And finally which hurt us more Robin Hood adaptations or Arthur? It's a long one so put your feet up, get a drink and maybe a pillow to scream into.

It is here, the most Arthur movie to ever Arthur, while feeling like it was made on a bunch of cocaine. This movie is sufficiently 80's but how does it stand as an adaptation and what did we like? And why is that man wearing only gold?

From fanfic AU takes on Arthurian canon, some downright bad changes that should have just been its own I.P, to the right out of left field bug nutty decisions, we do a quick look at Arthur as he appears in episodic content. If you are a fan of Cursed you may want to sit this one out.

How does kids media handle the lofty burden of the Arthur and his adventures. We don't know but we found they accidentally reinforce a subtext across multiple forms and use not the original canon but books based on canon. And why does Bee call physics a philosophy?

While Bee suffers through her Victorian Lady Illness (sick symptoms but not infectious) we delve into the complicated mess that is what is that actual canon of the Arthur mythos and the problems changing it to screen, along with historical additions/removals to the stories.