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Originally Broadcast 2025/02/03 : Sean and friend of the show Celeste join Casual Trek to recap a quarter each of this "film", and give their own pitches for a Section 31 film. To celebrate, Charlie and Miles have formed a ragtag band of bantering ne’er do wells including Cele from Celeste is Best and Sean from Famicom Dojo. They carry out a four-person relay recap, pitch their own versions of a S...

Originally Broadcast 2024/09/30 : Sean gets to run down the Discovery episode of this multi-part story, on his birthday no less! INTERLOPER! We have an interloper in the podcast! It’s Sean Corse of Famicom Dojo and Two Boobs Watch the Tube fame, here in the spirit of Nerd & Tie unification. This episode we’re looking at the Unification trilogy, a multi-part story that spans multiple Star Trek...

Fifteen years ago, The Doctor had to wipe Donna Noble's mind or else the knowledge of a Time Lord would burn her up. While he put in a failsafe to make sure that she would never remember him, fate has returned the face of the 10th Doctor and reunited him with Donna and her family. Can he save her life, and protect the world from the return of the Toymaker? Vinnk and Sean review the three specials...

It was only a year into the Doctor Who revival of 2005 that David Tennant took over as the titular Time Lord. Would the show survive changing its lead so soon when it had barely found its feet? Four years later, we scarcely had to wonder, as arguably the most popular incarnation of the new era (and possibly all time) said goodbye. (Well, technically he said "I don't want to go", but still...) With...

In the near future of 2033, Nathan is working on a free version of the software that runs the digital afterlife, only to be uploaded to one of the poshest versions around after his self-driving care malfunctions and crashes. Nora is an "Angel" who works at Lakeview, in charge of Nathan's comfort and digital appearance in his forever-after. Sparks fly! And we're not talking about the crashed car. A...

You can't go back to Schmigadoon. So when Josh and Mel find out that their happy ending got them stuck in a rut, they wind up in the land of Schmicago, but populated with a lot of familiar faces, and -- if you're a music fan -- familiar leitmotifs. For the first time ever, Vinnk and Sean review a new season of a show that was previously reviewed on the podcast. How does Schmigadoon's sophomore out...

When The Super Mario Bros. Movie was first announced with scant details except an all-star cast, rumors ran wild. Will they try live action again, or is it animated? Will they try one of the many recent video game plots, or will this be an all-new story? Is this a complete and utter financial folly, with $300 million in development and promotion? Vinnk and Sean review the highest-grossing film of...

Doctor Who tried to come back in the '90s, but it didn't take. Christopher Eccleston's short 13-episode run re-ignited the show into a new cultural powerhouse, which also spawned two concurrent spin-off series. Vinnk and Sean, along with guest host Miles (from sister podcast Casual Trek) examine what made the 2005 relaunch successful, areas where Davies wasn't so strong, and some of what we can lo...

Originally Broadcast 2022/12/05 : Last week we took a look at the beginning the current era of Doctor Who. This week, our friends at Casual Trek break down the end of the Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall era of the show. Once more we throw ourselves into very un-Casual waters as Miles tries to tell Charlie whether or not it's worth Charlie's time to watch Jodie Whittaker's final episode of her t...

When Doctor Who relaunched in 2005 on the BBC after a failed (but serviceable) Fox US movie/pilot barely a decade earlier, many of us didn't know what to expect. We didn't expect Christopher Eccleston, and we certainly didn't expect Russel T Davies and his eccentric touch, but both rocketed the franchise into a new golden age the likes of which could only have been imagined by fans of the classic...

Johnny Lawrence is long past his glory days, estranged from his son and mother of his child. That is, until he encounters a kid who needs help. Fortunately, Johnny is still bad-ass, and beats up a bunch of minors Miyagi-style. Miguel Diaz becomes the first student of the new Cobra Kai dojo, where Johnny teaches him how to deal with the bullies from West Valley High. Miguel has eyes for Sam, daught...

Originally Broadcast 2022/11/04 : Originally released 2022/11/04 on the Famicom Dojo Video Game Podcast feed! Since it's (mostly) about TV shows, and a game that's really an interactive movie, we thought the episode would do just as well on this podcast. We've talked before about movies based on video games, and video games based on movies (sometimes themselves based on video games; looking at you...

Welcome to Gravity Falls, a sleepy Oregon woodland, backwater town with its own kitschy roadside, supernatural attractions... that are totally real. Dipper and Mabel Pines spend an adventure-packed summer with their great uncle "Grunkle" Stan trying to uncover the mysteries of the town, and just who wrote the mysterious journals chronicling all of the strange goings-on. Vinnk has been waiting for...

Lumon Industries has developed a technology to protect its business secrets by severing the minds of some of its employees between their work and home lives. The "outie" only needs to commute to and from work, never experiencing in-office life, and having no idea what they do every date. Their "innie", in contrast, is effectively born the basement of the office building, and from their perspective...

In the wake of the modern day Star Trek explosion, and especially Strange New Worlds featuring the crew of Captain Christopher Pike, it only seemed appropriate to journey back five decades to where it all began to compare and contrast without the rose colored glasses. Vinnk and Sean discuss how Star Trek got its second chance with its new pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, comment on the costume...

Sometimes a superhero show comes along that is so beloved, the only thing left to do is make another version of that same show and Seinfeld-ify it to make it about "nothing", but with superheroes. Vinnk and Sean trod over as much of this not-a-sequel cartoon as the are able to find in this online streaming hellscape, and how pointless it is to criticize showrunners who will gladly drink your tears...

Originally Broadcast 2022/08/08 : Since we're taking our sweet time talking about Star Trek on our show, why not listen to the newest Nerd & Tie series that's all Star Trek, all the time? Talking points include: Ball aliens or butt aliens? Alf. 80's Mall Chic. Detaching The Saucer. Reading your character description out loud instead of acting. Babylon 5. The British in Space. Oh, and occasionally...

Kyosuke Kasuga is 15 years old, living the springtime of his youth. He's dating the adorable and bubbly Hikaru, but he's interested in her friend Madoka. Oh, and he has magic ESP powers that can do just about anything the plot requires, including time travel. Vinnk and Sean review their first anime, live at No Brand Con 2022! Logo by by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk . This podcas...

When the Angel Aziraphale first meets the demon Crowley (then Crowley) outside the Garden of Eden, an unlikely friendship forms that spans the next six thousand years. The coming of the Anti-Christ, and the march of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, threaten to unmake the Earth and everyone on it. This unlikely pair have only seven days to prevent it. Vinnk and Sean talk about the first season...

Today, Maximo is a wealthy multi-billionaire who owns scores of companies across the globe, but in 1984 he was a poor kid who lived near the Las Colinas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, who dreamed of one day having a job at the resort like his hero Don Pablo. Maximo tells the story of this transformation as a birthday present to his nephew Hugo, who is also starting to come of age, humorously embellis...

Third Technician David Lister, lowest-ranking member of the Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel Red Dwarf has awaken from stasis millions of years after everyone else onboard was killed due to a radiation leak from an improperly sealed drive plate. Now possibly the last human in existence, Lister must make his way back to Earth aboard this ghost ship with only Holly, the ship's computer, a life form...

Some time in the near future of the 1990s, Dr. Sam Beckett prematurely entered the Quantum Leap accelerator himself to prove that his theory of a finite but expanding universe allowing one to time travel within their own lifetime. His theories were correct, but with the side-effect that he trades places with someone from the past, with everyone believing he's the person he has "leapt" into. He als...

What is the meaning of true love? Schmigadoon! explores the answer through the absurd story tropes, and casual racism of American musicals. When emotions are so strong you can't speak, you sing. When you can't sing, you dance. And the blonde heiress is totally a Nazi. Vinnk and Sean review this Lorne Michaels production, which other (possibly better) musical-inspired series it reminds them of, and...

Originally a novel by Walter Tevis published in 1983, The Queen's Gambit tells the story of Beth Harmon, orphan, drug addict, and chess prodigy as she climbs to the top of the world rankings to face off against the toughest opponents of the Cold War: the Russians. Vinnk and Sean wonder how a TV show could not only make chess exciting and suspenseful, while barely explaining the rules, but also mar...