A Very Special Podcast

Episode #69: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Original Release Date: January 3, 2017 Who knew that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York could stir up so many emotions? Be sure to listen because a little argument breaks out around fifteen minute mark and Kat may have walked out of the recording for a few minutes. But fret not! We patched things up and we agreed on one thing; The McCallister family a...

Episode #68: A Different World - "For Whom the Jingle Bells Tolls" Original Release Date: December 24, 2016 Whitley Gilbert has one too many souvlaki's on a stick while shopping at the mall and her guilty conscience of humbugging her way through the holidays conjures up the familial Dickensian Christmas ghosts that have invaded every American sitcom since the dawn of television. The situation gets...

Episode #67: To Grandmother's House We Go Original Release Date: December 16, 2016 This week, Patrick and Kat watch a very special made-for-television movie that helped launch a thousand plus direct-to-video films for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Crime pays; unless you kidnap pre-billionaire Olsen Twins for ransom… in To Grandmother's House We Go ! Plus, Leah Remini's Scientology show, what it must...

Episode #66: Mad Men - "Christmas Comes But Once A Year" Original Release Date: December 5, 2016 This week, Patrick and Kat's journey into televised nostalgia lands them in 1960s New York City via a 2010 episode of Mad Men . It's Christmas time on Madison Avenue and the people of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce are scrambling to entertain that dude from Lucky Strikes. Plus, Patrick and Kat mourn t...

Episode #65: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Today I Am Ma'am" Original Release Date: November 30, 2016 This week, Patrick and Kat's journey into televised nostalgia lands them in 1970s Minneapolis where they spend a night with Rhoda and Mary; who are both feeling downtrodden because they are thirty and single. Rhoda gets the wild idea to chase the blues away by inviting over some men. Shenanigans en...

Episode #64: Mad About You - "Giblets for Murray" Original Release Date: November 23, 2016 Patrick and Kat serve you a second scooping of a Thanksgiving Day themed podcast. This time around it's the classic 1990s NBC sitcom, Mad About You and how Paul and Jamie Buchman fared during the first Thanksgiving they decided to host in "Giblets for Murray." Plus, what it's like to have your apartment be a...

Episode #63: Saved by the Bell: The College Years - "A Thanksgiving Story" Original Release Date: November 18, 2016 Patrick and Kat slip into Thanksgiving season with a early 90s cranberry jam that took the playful innocence of Saved by the Bell and plunged it into the murkier waters of primetime with Saved by the Bell: The College Years . Anything goes at Cal U, including anal probes with a turke...

Episode #62: The Golden Girls - "Mrs. George Devereaux" Original Release Date: November 9, 2016 Halloween is over and Patrick and Kat had too many Krackle bars, so we are settling back into normalcy while discussing a fun dream sequence episode of The Golden Girls . This is the one where Blanche receives a shitload of roses from a secret admirer and they turn out to be from her not-so-dead-anymore...

Episode #61: The Middle - Halloween Original Release Date: October 30, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat watched ABC's The Middle and channelled our inner Sue Heck with shared tales of awkward middle school dances, horrible acne, talking to boys on the phone late at night, and growing up feeling like Janeane Garafalo in The Truth About Cats and Dogs . Plus, millennials are horrible at making lists th...

Episode #60: Scream 2 (1997) Original Release Date: October 19, 2016 Sorry for the delay, y'all! Hurricane Matthew nearly wiped Patrick's home off the map, but he has risen from the ashes and proud to bring you another Halloween edition of A Very Special Podcast, or Here Comes The Boos as we've been calling it. This week Patrick and Kat decided to watch Wes Craven's slasher classic, Scream 2 . Plu...

Episode #59: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) Original Release Date: October 5, 2016 It's another Halloween edition of A Very Special Podcast and this week Patrick and Kat decided to watch the animated Walt Disney Classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ! We have some great stuff coming up, so don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes . Website: http://www.averyspecialpodcast.com Twi...

Episode #58: King of The Hill - "Hilloween″ Original Release Date: October 1, 2016 It's officially October, so Patrick and Kat decided to watch the classic King of The Hill episode in which Hank Hill tries to reclaim Halloween from some religious zealot who finds the holiday offensive. Plus, Jenny McCarthy Mania, America's deadliest candy related fire, Charles Manson, Jerry Falwell's Hell House, a...

Episode #57: Sunset Beach - "Pilot Episode: January 6, 1997″ Original Release Date: September 23, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat take a break from their busy Halloween schedule to celebrate 2 Years 2 Furious. Can you believe it, two years of A Very Special Podcast ? Anyway, this week they dialed in their pal Steven DiFiori to discuss the first episode of the short-lived late 1990s NBC soap opera,...

This week Patrick and Kat deliver another installment of Here Comes The Boos, a Halloween themed podcast within the podcast; this time around we check in the groovy world of The Brady Bunch. The Brady boys trick the girls into thinking their house is haunted, but then the girls get back at the boys, and then they team up to scare Alice! Oh, and while all this is going on Carol takes up clay sculpt...

Episode #55: Roseanne - "Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down" Original Release Date: September 10, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat temporarily rebrand themselves as Here Comes the Boos , the Halloween themed podcast-within-the-podcast. I know what you're thinking, it's technically still summer; but if Starbucks can sell pumpkin spice lattes already we can pump out Halloween themed episodes this early in Sep...

Episode #54: Bosom Buddies - "Macho Man" Original Release Date: September 2, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat take a trip back to a simpler time when an Oscar winner dressing up in ladies clothing with the goal of attaining cheaper rent was done for laughs. But what happens to your masculinity when it is covered by your feminine side? Find out on a very special episode of Bosom Buddies . Plus, what...

Episode #53: Mixology - "Tom & Maya" Original Release Date: August 27, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat take a peek into the lives of ten strangers who are brought together in some swanky bar none of us could afford with one common goal: to get laid. No, not MTV's The Real Word , but ABC's short lived Mixology . Plus, is the curse of Geena Davis mimicking that of Ted McGinley? Was The Simpsons a loo...

Episode #52: Lost - "Exposé" Original Release Date: August 21, 2016   Despite being regarded as one of the worst episodes of Lost , Patrick and Kat decide to tackle the upsettingly shoehorning of everyone's least favorite castaways, Nikki and Paulo, into the wonderful world of Jack Shepard and friends. It was a bumpy road for those murdering diamond thieves and they would have gotten away with it...

Episode #51: Fuller House - "Our Very First Show, Again" Original Release Date: August 8, 2016 Patrick and Kat decide to watch the Fuller House pilot episode and check on what the Tanner clan has been up to the last two decades. Michelle is missing in action, DJ is a widower and mom, Stephanie is a globe-trotting DJ named DJ Tanner, and Danny Tanner, well, he now dresses pretty sloppily. We have s...

Episode #50: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - "The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs" Original Release Date: July 26, 2016 Fifty episodes later and Kat and Patrick are still up to this nonsense and this week it's a listener request episode; shout out to Ryan of Missouri who suggested we watch The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis . On the surface it may be a lighthearted teenage sitcom, but peel off the...

Episode #49: Murder, She Wrote - "Family Jewels" Original Release Date: July 17, 2016 This week on the podcast, Patrick and Kat watched Murder, She Wrote and it's a murder most foul when Jessica Fletcher gets mixed up with  some wealthy New Yorkers and some kind of jewelry scam. Plus, why does Jessica Fletcher have to get involved in EVERYTHING and how come no one has the balls to tell her to buzz...

Episode #48: This Is America, Charlie Brown - The Birth of the Constitution  Original Release Date: July 3, 2016 In the summer of 1786, America's favorite thumb sucking, blanket carrying eight year old spies on a group of sweaty older men who locked themselves up for months at a time to help shape the great United States of America. Plus, Charlie Brown haphazardly invents a bunch of sports and wat...

Episode #47: Big Brother 18  Original Release Date: June 27, 2016 [ download the mp3 ] In a very special episode of A Very Special Podcast , Kat holds Patrick's hand as he dives into the deep end of a world that would even make Alexis Carrington blush. Plus, Julie Chen puts the houseguests lives in danger when she unleashes Latin Dracula into the compound. We have some great stuff coming up, so do...

Episode #46: Boy Meets World - "Boy Meets Girl" & Girl Meets World - "Girl Meets the New World" Original Release Date: June 24, 2016 Here it is! Our first official double episode! This week Patrick and Kat take a trip back to the angsty early nineties and take a peak into the beginnings of Cory and Topanga's relation on Boy Meets World and then see how things end up over twenty years later on Girl...

Episode #45: Dance 'Til Dawn (1988) Original Release Date: June 17, 2016 This week Patrick and Kat watch the classic NBC made for television event Dance 'Til Dawn and anything is possible at a 1988 senior prom; nerds are paired up with the popular folk, first dates, first kisses, and even first break ups. Despite being a film about the prom, the movie premiered in the fall of 1988 and starred a pl...