They Thought I Was You

Today we continue our journey watching Mary-Kate and Ashley’s fourth and final television series, Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action. In this episode, we review episodes 2-6, and we also give a brief history of the cartoon series. We go over the myriad merchandise Dualstar created before it knew that the cartoon was a failure (including action figures, bed spreads, birthday party favors, etc), and the...

Incredible news!!! Ashley Olsen and her husband Louis Eisner had a BABY!! His name is Otto Mozart Eisner, and we are absolutely thrilled for them and Mary-Kate (AND Lizzie!!) for becoming aunts. We also think Otto is the cutest name ever, and will referring to him as Otto Olsen whether that’s his full name or not. But also, the biggest story here is how Ashley managed to keep an entire pregnancy a...

Come on, let's save the world-- AGAIN! On October 20, 2001, Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action premiered on the ABC block Disney's One Saturday Morning (according to Wikipedia, but we know it from ABC Family). The show was the first and only animated television series starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and featured the twins fighting crime around the world with their robot dog, Quincy.  Ne...

What is your favorite Mary-Kate and Ashley podcast doing watching a Hilary Duff movie?! First of all, don't come at us, second of all, of course we are. During our deep dive of Mary-Kate and Ashley's When in Rome (2002), many of our listeners pointed out to us that we *needed* to watch The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). Not only did it come out just one year later and take place in the sam...

Ciao! Bellissimo! Rigatoni! Today we travel to Italy, but not only that, we also travel back in time to 2002 when Mary-Kate and Ashley posted their virtual diary of their European travels on mary-kateandashley.com . And we read every single entry. Mary-Kate and Ashley's trip first starts in Venice where they buy towels and etched glass, then they fly to Florence where they shop at the Prada a...

Hello our beloved listener/learns-- we're back!! Today, we're soft launching our new season with a mini episode all about When in Rome's alternate ending. This was shared with us after we recorded our When in Rome episode, which is tragic because this ending changes everything. We could have talked for 5 hours about it, but we kept it under 30 minutes because we know you all have BB...

Happy Birthday, Mary-Kate and Ashley!! To celebrate this national holiday, we decided to do the most exciting thing we've ever done-- host a real life birthday party for Mary-Kate and Ashley ourselves! And unlike the time Becca was a child and saw the commercial for "You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's Sleepover Party" and thought she was literally invited, this time...

Today we watch what (we think) has been collectively agreed upon by Mary-Kate and Ashley fans as their worst movie. The movie that for some singlehandedly ended their Mary-Kate and Ashley obsession: When in Rome . On November 26th, 2002, When in Rome was released straight to DVD and VHS and followed Charli (Mary-Kate) and Leila (Ashley) as they interned for a top fashion designer in Rome, Italy. W...

Last episode, we used the Wayback Machine to take a deep dive into marykateandashley.com . We clicked through the clickboards, sent a web-based email, and learned all about the hot new "fash" tips and best highlights for your hair (not the kind you're thinking). But after recording our episode, we realized there was one link we didn't click: the full transcript of a Q&A wit...

In the late 90s, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen launched one of the most epic websites of all time: marykateandashley.com. For today's episode, because of a wonderful tool called The Wayback Machine, we were able to travel back in time to visit this website in all its glory. In typical They Thought I Was You fashion (or shall we say "fash"), we thought we could cover every iteration of...

DISCLAIMER: We had an audio malfunction while recording, so the quality of the audio in this episode isn't great. But the conversation is, so please bear with us! On October 27, 2000, Mary-Kate and Ashley released their first video for PlayStation, Mary-Kate and Ashley: Magical Mystery Mall . They already had some success with their Gameboy games The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley  ...

We have finally come down from the high of having one of the best conversations of our lives with Jane Sibbett two weeks ago, and we are back this week to talk about serious business: Mary-Kate and Ashley's enormous power in 2002. Today, we're talking about a feature " Downtown 20/20 " did on the Olsens in February 2002. This caught our attention a few weeks ago when we were re...

Yes, you read that correctly. Today we're talking to THAT Jane. The queer icon of Friends . The terrible, fabulous villain of It Takes Two . Ms. Clarice Kensington herself, whom we absolutely adoooooore, Jane Sibbett. We were thrilled to sit down with Jane and talk about her career and positively iconic roles in projects that shaped our childhood. Jane told us about her early work on sitcoms...

Two weeks ago, we talked about Mary-Kate and Ashley's appearance on Jay Leno in 2002, and we noticed a pattern. Every talk show host who ever interviewed Mary-Kate and Ashley (with the exception of Rosie O'Donnell) always did a terrible job. They always ask them if they have boyfriends, they never ask them serious questions about the projects they're working on, and the conversation...

We hope ya'll are ready for this one. We had the tremendous honor of speaking with the actress who played one of the most tragic characters in American cinema (or at least in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Universe). Today, we speak to Holly Towne, aka Lyndi, from Getting There . Holly Towne is actually our very first guest who was also a Mary-Kate and Ashley fan before getting cast in one of their...

Happy Valentine's Day! And what better way to celebrate the day of love than with the thing we love the most-- Two of a Kind! Today, we're jumping out of our timeline to go back and review Two of a Kind, Ep 15 "No Man's Land" (aka the Valentine's Day episode). Last week, Lani corrected Becca's memory of this episode saying that Ashley's sports date was with...

We're continuing our journey through 2002 with a type of episode we haven't done in a while-- unpacking a Mary-Kate and Ashley interview and its implications in their larger treatment in the media! Today we're talking about Mary-Kate and Ashley's appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Getting There ... weird! In 2002, Mary-Kate and Ashley were simultaneously ou...

We're jumping backwards in our timeline just a bit to revisit a topic that will always be on our minds: the Mary-Kate and Ashley cruises. And today, sharing her truly remarkable experience on Mary-Kate and Ashley's 2000 cruise on the Baltic Sea, we are joined by the one and only Chloe Schildhause. Chloe first shared her cruise story in 2014 in an article for Vanity Fair and has recently...

You asked, we answered. Well, some of you never asked, but others of you have insisted for months that the Mary-Kate and Ashley books are a very important part of the Mary-Kate and Ashley Universe and have been begging us to talk about them. So today, we read our first Dualstar book, Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16: Getting There . After reading this book, we realize this was a very chaotic book to...

We cannot believe we kept this interview a secret for an ENTIRE month! It has been absolutely excruciating, and we are so relieved and incredibly excited to finally share our special guest this week. We had the honor of talking with everyone's favorite annoying neighbor, Mary-Kate's best unrequited love, and the sweetest pony-loving, guitar-playing, lobster costume-wearing guy, Larry Slo...

We're BACK for Season 4 with an episode we did not plan on doing. But when one of our girls is in the news, we have no choice but to drop everything. And last week, we got some big news... Ashley Fuller Olsen got MARRIED! But of course in true Olsen fashion, details about the matrimony are not widely available. And since we respect our girls, we tried our best not to speculate, but instead ta...

As we come to the end of the year and Season 3 of our podcast, we thought we'd do something we've never done before-- a Q&A episode with YOUR questions. We asked our listeners, Instagram followers and Patreon subscribers to send us questions about the podcast, Mary-Kate and Ashley, or us personally, and you came THROUGH. We got so many truly fantastic questions like which MKA film wo...

Today we conclude our two-part epic journey discussing Mary-Kate and Ashley's sixth direct-to-video full-length feature film, Getting There, about Mary-Kate and Ashley's misadventure getting to the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Picking up right where we left off with the gang stranded at home for a third time, in this episode we get to see them finally leave California. We discu...

Today we talk about the film this podcast has been waiting for. The film that divides Mary-Kate and Ashley fans around the globe. The film that made some some of us double down on our MKA obsession and some of us take a step back. Whether you loved it or hated it, chances are you never forgot it. Because it's not about the journey, it's all about GETTING THERE. On June 11th, 2002 (we fin...

Our green bean casserole has finally digested, and we're back talking about the world's most iconic twins. But in today's episode, we're focusing on only one twin, just like the Emmys did in twenty years ago. On May 17th, 2002, the 29th Daytime Emmy Awards Ceremony took place at Madison Square Garden, and notably only nominated Mary-Kate Olsen for So Little Time , not Ashley. T...