E Motion Sickness A Love Boat Re Watch

Our guest passenger Chris Giarusso joins us to discuss Charro's debut as recurring character April Lopez , the stowaway, who lept into our hearts for 9 future episodes. Plus, Bill Bixby pre-Hulk in a weird attempt at a dramatic story, and the first king of variety tv Milton Berle as a practical Joker who never knows when to quit. 

It’s time for another voyage of E-Motion Sickness: A Love Boat Re-Watch, and this one’s got everything you want out of classic late-70s TV chaos. Joining John and Franco this trip is artist and pop culture lifer Andy Price, ready to break down Episode 3. An hour packed with crushes, awkward reunions, and Julie getting absolutely zero help from the romance gods. You’ve got Kristy McNichol going all...

Ahoy again, cruise lovers! Welcome back to E-Motion Sickness, the Word Balloon Love Boat re-watch where we climb aboard the Pacific Princess and relive the romance, comedy, and wonderfully over-the-top guest stars that made this show a Saturday-night TV institution. Today we’re diving into Season 1, Episode 2, which originally aired October 1st, 1977 — and already you can see the formula that woul...

“Captain & the Lady” Captain Stubing’s ex-wife, Stacy Skogstad (Bonnie Franklin), comes aboard with her new husband, Aubrey Skogstad (Robert Symonds), who is a cruise line executive and Stubing’s boss. Stacy makes the trip miserable for Stubing by taking out her resentment on him and the crew. “Centerfold” Sandy Rytell (Meredith Baxter) is engaged to Congressman Brad Brockway (Shelly Novack) a...

The third pilot movie of The Love Boat is The Love Boat II (1977). It’s the one that essentially locks in the final core cast, bringing in Captain Stubing and Julie McCoy and forming the crew viewers would see in the weekly series. And the passenger-story breakdown attached to them is: Georgia Engel as a stowaway, in love with Gopher Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a nervous newlywed couple Stell...

All aboard for a brand-new podcast that dives headfirst into smooth seas, wild guest stars, and peak pop-culture chaos. E-Motion Sickness: A Love Boat Re-Watch is hosted by John Siuntres and Franco from the Word Balloon Network, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a loving, clear-eyed, occasionally seasick revisit of The Love Boat, episode by episode. This isn’t just a recap show. Each episode b...