Anidorks: An Animorphs Podcast!!

Reading 5 star reviews and responding to a fan [sic] email in this week's episode!! Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real though: Leave us a 5 star review and we'll read it on the air! New episodes every Wednesday!!! 

Terrifying light rail technology! Swaggering Hork Bajir! Andalite mystics! Mountain Taxxons!!!! Do Gedd really make the most sense as entry-level hosts for Yeerks? How does a burst Taxxon demorph? And who is that charismatic Hork-Bajir over there that sounds oddly like Julia Childs? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to...

How important is it to distinguish between a creep like Alloran and a sicko like Visser 3? Does the liquid of a Yeerk pool look like grey SoftSoap? Did Ax pass his morphing proficiency test? Which alien species has the tastiest heart? And will we ever manage to finish part 1 of this book? (Yes!! Next week.) Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on tw...

We dig into Andalite bigotry, their general condescension towards the rest of the universe, and wonder when we’ll finally meet a character critical of the Andalites who isn't an asshole. Is it possible that we like Chapman better once he’s Yeerked? Will Alloran's wife be detectable by Taxxon scanners? Did Arbron and Elfangor make out?   Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www...

Andalite Chronicles might seem like an indie meet-cute about Elfangor and Loren, but maybe it's actually about Elfangor meeting Alloran. Are Loren and Chapman prisoners of the Andalites, or just unhappy guests? Can an Andalite harmonize with themself through their four hooves? Would anyone watch Chris' Cheers-in-space sitcom Docking Bay 7? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://...

We’re docking and hatching our way through Andalite Chronicles, not getting stuck in the slightest on matters of hoof mouthes or Andalite poop.  Are Andalites space cops? Do Skrit-Na seek out the most inconvenient spots to cocoon? Is Elfangor really into being called a horse boy? And why, why, why is Chapman just the absolute worst? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/a...

We are finally reading The Andalite Chronicles and we can’t stop talking about it!! Is this the first necessary prologue we’ve read in the series? Did Loren frolic in a Dome Ship with Elfangor so Natalie Portman could change Zach Braff’s life in Garden State? If you keep a Time Matrix on a Time Ship, do you park the Time Ship in a Time Garage? And if Andalites don’t have taste, why the hell are th...

Only twelve books in and we’ve solved the series. The Howlers are secretly complicated like Daria. The Taxxons are hapless British commuters with their umbrellas turned inside out. And Jake? Jake is a grocery store. Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real though: Leave us a 5 star revie...

Are we the only Animorphs podcast to go long on Book 12? Should we feel sorry for Jeremy Jason McCole? Will we ever see Rachel have deep relationships with the other Animorphs? And is the verb “scooting” the invisible thread holding the Animorphs series together? All this and more as we finish Book 12: The Reaction! Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorks...

An especially silly book introduces some game-changing (game-breaking?) mechanics in its back half, and we have *questions*. Could Rachel’s morph allergy be exploited to produce countless clones? If Cassie can acquire Rachel as a morph, why doesn’t the gang just all start morphing their parents? Is Marco the llama our favorite thing in this series yet? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https...

Book 12!! Part 3!! We are hurtling through book 12 with the force of a lebtin javelin fish’s spear! By this point, at least one of us can confidently say child star Jeremy Jason McCole’s name from memory. Why does Marco want to wet himself? Did we just get KA Applegate’s first successful description of an alien? Does Visser 3 babysit for all of his human controllers? And why why why is no one catc...

Book 12!! Part 2!! Itchy, warm feelings and uncontrollable bodies abound in our most puberty-brained episode yet. Rachel involuntarily morphs into an elephant while reading about her crush— and then just keeps morphing…   Why do adults seem to be especially dangerous in Rachel books? Do finger guns have bisexual energy? Will any of us be able to remember Jeremy Jason McCole’s name by the end of th...

Book 12!! Part 1!! The Anidorks have gone from the ant colony to the Amazon rainforest, from a dystopian future to space itself. But nothing— nothing!!— could have prepared us for the hormonal, parasocial chaos of Book 12. Have the Anidorks ever been this divided on a book? Is Rachel stupidly brave or lovably impulsive? Is Jeremy Jason McCole just Jonathan Taylor Thomas? And what the hell do you m...

Hello fellow Anidorks,  We’re taking this week off as a little catch-up before we drop the first episode of book 12 next week. Then we’re going to end our second season with five or six episodes of The Andalite Chronicles. Assuming that we do another megasode where we talk about the season as a whole and catch up with our new friends the Veleek, the Chee, Charise, that’ll push us out to early to m...

Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look, what's going down? Eddy test Miranda and Chris's memories of sounds they've never actually heard. Lots of big text like "WHOOOOMP" and "RRRRRAAAOWOWOWOWOWRWRRRZERS". Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For real t...

Book 11!! Part 4!! The Animorphs are still lost in the rainforest, and the Anidorks are still lost in Book 11. Eddy can’t tell jaguars from cheetahs, Miranda will never forget Eddie Murphy’s 2003 movie The Haunted Mansion, and Chris is convinced that the Anidorks are stuck in a (Ro)Sario (Dawson) Rip of their own.  Is Visser 3 the first character to successfully execute a plan in the series? Did w...

Book 11!! Part 3!!! Things get strange once the gang crash lands in the rainforest and Jake’s the last one to reunite with the group. Miranda believes things might be weird in a “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” kind of way, which leads Chris to ask: does being the last to show up to a party always mean that all of your friends are already dead?  Meanwhile, Eddy’s wondering if piranhas are reall...

Book 11!! Part 2!!! Most of Book 11 takes place in the rainforest, but you wouldn’t know it from the pace at which the Anidorks are reading it! Shit truly hits the fan in this  episode and we are doing our best to keep up. Does Jake’s dad have work friends or “work friends”? Does Chris know at least one thing about every sport? Do Taxxons have asses? Support the show Support us on Patreon: https:/...

We launch into Book 11, our third Jake book, and it’s a pageturner!  We’re not sure anything actually happens in The Forgotten, but we loved it. Is Anxious Jake our most interesting Jake yet? Are all of his books really about perception? Could all of this recent Tobias drama be leading to another of his books? And is there a missing link in the furry chain? @anidorkspod on twitter! Send questions...

Minisode Mailbag!!! This one is real fun! Back with Book 11 next week! @anidorkspod on twitter! Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com. New episodes every Wednesday!!! Hey! For real though: Leave us a 5 star review and we'll read it on the air! Support the show Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidorks @anidorkspod on twitter!  Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com Hey! For r...

This week we're doing something special and releasing a preview clip from our Patreon content! We will be back next week with a "Minisode" and then we get to tear into book 11 like Rachel tearing into a Hork-Bajir! @anidorkspod on twitter! Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com. New episodes every Wednesday!!! Hey! For real though: Leave us a 5 star review and we'll read it on...

Book 10!! Part 4!!! Just how overpowered are the Chee? Do androids dream of electric dead?? And who will win our first ever award for Scamp Of The Book??? (Spoiler: it's Marco and you should have known that by now) @anidorkspod on twitter! Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com. New episodes every Wednesday!!! Hey! For real though: Leave us a 5 star review and we'll read it on the air!...

Book 10!! Part 3!!! The Anidorks are all in on Erek. The human condition is to not appreciate Charise’s work! Girl wants to meet Glop-Gloop Boy Marco. Seriously, who the hell is Young Jenny? Erek has lived forever and will never die, and if he wanted you dead you’d be dead. Chris doesn’t know what “short and curlies” are? Dinner with Dad!! “PREMIUM, I said PREMIUM!!” Dad drops the bombshell that h...

Book 10!! Part 2!!! Things are getting slippery as we dive deeper into Book 10. Marco’s dealing with all kinds of urges, violent and otherwise, but all we care about is z-space. Eddy’s pondering if a human Controller swimming in a lake gets homesick for the Yeerk pool. Chris is edging beetle horny. Miranda’s keeping it casual, wondering aloud about the glorious, unnatural cycle of rebirth and rede...

Book 10 begins and Marco is already gifting us with more rascal energy than we thought was possible. The gang sneaks into a concert and stalks an old classmate.   Do Yeerks smell? What is the significance of thrice mentioned Cherise? Just how much thermal porn (Playbird? OnlyThermals?) can be squeezed into one chapter? @anidorkspod on twitter! Send questions to anidorkspod@gmail.com. New episodes...