Boob Tube

Boob Tube

Comedy EN ↓ 266 episodes

Pop culture scientists and best friend duo Gabby and Zoe recap your favorite tv shows from yesteryear! These “scholars” will examine television from a variety of  eras, distilling narrative decisions down to only their key elements. We will interrogate characters, plot lines, iconic dialogue, media stunts, and provide key cultural context for some of the most beloved shows the old boob tube has to offer.  We get real, we get nasty, and we get real nasty.  New episodes every Wednesday, not safe for work or children. 

Author

Boob Tube

Category

Comedy

Podcast website

boobtube.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Gilmore Girls: S2E4 - The Road Trip to Harvard 29.02.2024

And just like that, the wedding is OFF and our girls are ON the road in season one, episode four “The Road Trip to Harvard.” In a new and exciting twist we have a lot of Boston / New England thoughts. We also talk about the war on B&B’s, Lorelai’s mental health, and the logistics of wedding plan cancelations. Goodbye Max, we barely knew, liked, or remember you 🥲 Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S2E1 - Sadie, Sadie 15.02.2024

We’re talking about a soon to be married lady ON VALENTINES DAY to kick off season two with “Sadie Sadie.” Open your chrestomathies to page one and follow along with our hottest takes on matrimony, Dean’s plunging neckline, and Richard letting his evil flag fly.  Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E21 - Love, Daisies and Troubadours 08.02.2024

This season finale has it all! A reunion, a proposal, and… troubadours? It is, in point of fact, season one, episode twenty one “Love, Daisies, and Troubadours.” We’re getting closure on Rachel (GAY) and the Rory and Dean separation and returning to a status quo with Paris on the enemies list. What will season two bring? Tune IN find OUT trouba DOUR. Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E20 - PS I Lo... 25.01.2024

Rory’s struggle to say The L Word comes to the fore as she rages through season one, episode twenty “P.S. I Lo…” Will Emily smugly adopt Rory just to torment her daughter? Why does Lorelai have her hands BURIED in Luke’s belt loop region? DOES Kirk have asthma? Tune in 2 find out!! Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E19 - Emily In Wonderland 18.01.2024

Time to throw on your most blinding white sneakers and start the baseball cap fashion show because we are down the rabbit hole with Emily in Wonderland. Rachel and Lorelei’s relationship continues to mystify and titillate us and we’re vaguely aware of Lane’s romantic shenanigans but the headline here is definitely our emotional Emily rollercoaster. Where do we land with this mad hatter and backsid...

Gilmore Girls: S1E18 - The Third Lorelai 04.01.2024

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Thats right, its Lorelai: Original Flavor in the form of Trix, Emily’s nemesis and mother in law, she's coming to town and offering to advance Rory her quarter mill trust fund to help her pay for Chilton. Emily “Iago” Gilmore starts whispering in Lorelai’s ear, and its not long before the offer is rescinded. Ignore the Smaug’s horde of gilded Mother-In-Law gifts...

Zoe & Gabby's Fireside Holiday Address to the Nation 29.12.2023

Gather up, Kiddos - time for your old pals Gabby and Zoe to gently wash away the stress of the holiday season with their warm, soapy tones. These two chuckleheads talk holiday specials, Rory Vs. Joey, and dreams for the new year amongst other chaotic off-the-cuff musings. Happy Holidays, Tubers. We love you more than Christmas Magic <3 Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E17 - The Breakup Part II 22.12.2023

Ho ho UH OH we had a break DOWN in technology for season one, episode 17 the break UP: Part 2. Not sure what your humble hosts did to anger the audio gods but this is our second hiccup of the holiday season. So follow us down this trash filled alley of Rory repression and a Max reunion but be ready for the feral cat of Gabby’s audio going bye bye from approximately 58:00 - 10:10 and 1:20 - 1:26. H...

Gilmore Girls: S1E16 - Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers 07.12.2023

We’ve brought you a real treat today tubers - tragically not a meatball but a delightful to-go box filled with our thoughts on season one, episode sixteen “Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers.” Rory and Dean are celebrating a three month anniversary with PAIN, Laurelei is dodging potential suitors, and your humble hosts are slangin unresearched mental health takes and star shaped hotdogs. So g...

Gilmore Girls: S1E15 - Christopher Returns 30.11.2023

We mean it, it's for real this time Lor, cause this is season one, episode fifteen “Christopher Returns.” Shady’s back and he’s here to demand a bed for being an absent father, bathe in big business praise when he knows he is a human L, and brow beat Rory into keeping his financial secrets. NOT the daddy we signed up for.  Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E14 - That Damn Donna Reed 16.11.2023

Throw on your bumpit, squeeze into a pair of kitten heels, and encase something in Jell-o cause this is season one, episode 14 “That Damn Donna Reed.” Join our nuclear family as we track down a loose chick, a kitten, and what the heck the message of this episode re feminism is. Don’t forget to rate, review and heck join our patreon so we can afford to live in single earner traditional households!!...

Gilmore Girls: S1E13 - Concert Interruptus 09.11.2023

Get ready for a case of Bangle Balls because we’re talking season one, episode 13 “Concert Interruptus.” Of all the concert showcase tv eps we’ve watched, this is certainly the latest. But we still find oodles to say about the early 2000s fashions, crimes against friendship, and Luke’s fingerless gloves 👀 Text us! Support the show

Gilmore Girls: S1E12 - Double Date 02.11.2023

Double your pleasure, double your fun, cause Zoe and Gabby are double teaming season one, episode twelve “Double Date.” We throw on our stethoscopes for a hot second to make some diagnoses, contemplate the mysteries of Todd (code name Tom), and yearn to step on Rune (code name Lune). Want to double up on your enjoyment of this weird little dog and pony show of a podcast? Join our patreon!  Text us...

Gilmore Girls: S1E11 - Paris Is Burning 27.10.2023

We were certainly aflame for more of our favorite tightly wound sapphic queen bee but all we got was season one, episode eleven “Paris is Burning.” More potholes on the road of love for Lorelei and Max as the Gilmore Girls guide to GUYS rules are bent and broken, Sookie makes some romantic moves of her own, and we get just the most tantalizing second hand smoke from Paris and her parents’ divorce....

Gilmore Girls: S1E10 - Forgiveness and Stuff 19.10.2023

For the love of god loosen your ties Tube-heads cause we’re having palpitations and EMOTIONS in season one, episode ten Forgiveness and Stuff. We talk tarts (apple) and medical incidents (scary) and generally gush about how good this ep is. We’re sure dancing cheek to cheek with death was a wake up call for the Gilmore clan and we’ll never see any of that pesky parental conflict ever again! Amen. ...

Gilmore Girls: S1E9 - Rory's Dances 12.10.2023

Put on your dancing shoes and grab a taco because we are cutting a rug with season one, episode nine “Rory’s Dance.” The title may be a dud but the ep delivers on foundational fights, young love, and mashed banana on toast. Stay gold Ponyboy! Want to keep us in bananas and muscle relaxants? Join the patreon , rate, review, subscribe, do it all.  Text us! Support the show

Boob Tube: The Trailer 04.10.2023

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Gilmore Girls: S1E8 - Love and War and Snow 28.09.2023

Scent the air and batten down the hatches Tube-heads cause we’re forecasting at least 10 inches of “Love and War and Snow.” We join a horned-up-for-snow Lorelei on the most whimsical date of our times and follow Rory through the labyrinth of family and friendship dysfunction.  Want to get all the dirty dish on our friendship and various dysfunctions? Join the patreon ! You also get piping hot frie...

Gilmore Girls: S1E6 - Rory's Birthday Parties 21.09.2023

Drape yourself in a feather boa and grab your guitar shaped purse because you’re headed to two, count em two, birthday blowouts in season one, episode six “Rory’s Birthday Parties.” We continue to be terrified of Emily’s emotional machinations, yearn sensually for that indigo Apple iBook, and deliver so much more with this bouncing baby of an episode. Give yourself the gift of a Patreon subscripti...

Gilmore Girls: S1E2 - The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton 13.09.2023

It’s our second day at Boob Tube school and Rory’s first day at Chilton in season one, episode two “The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton.” We’re just like Rory aka Lorelai Jr. aka Mary - finding our footing and trashing dioramas. Extra credit points for cowboy boots, DSL, and Al’s Pancake world. Join us next time for Too Much Birthday and don’t forget to register for our seminar in silliness on...

Gilmore Girls: S1E1 - Pilot 02.09.2023

WELCOME BACK, BOOB TUBERS! You’re joining this program already in progress: we have successfully landed in Stars Hollow and we are foaming at the mouth to tell you all about it, as well as these Girls we call Gilmore. Meet us at Luke's, we’ll be sitting at the counter, trolling for fresh meat - as per ushj - and we’ll split pot a’ the good stuff. Welcome back once more, you hunks of burning l...

Epilogue - Few Loose Ends 11.05.2023

Somehow despite multiple potential endings, the actual end of our podcast really snuck up on us. We’re here to bid a fond farewell to an assortment of odds and ends characters and give this show one last lingering kiss goodnight (NOT goodbye). We also preview our brand spanking (emphasis on spanking) new show: Boob Tube. We really hope to see you there but either way thanks for letting us climb in...

Epilogue - Jennifer Lindley (Queen of the Universe) 04.05.2023

The culmination of YEARS of vigilant punishment watch documentation is HERE. We are saluting the one, the only, the bow legged, the bright, the bitch, the tease, the goddess on her knees: Jen Lindley. See you soon child!!!!!!!! Join our patreon if only because I cut a LOT of silliness out of the  podcast version of this episode - you can see it all (and THEN SOME) in the zoom episodes over on our...

Epilogue - Pacey J Witter 20.04.2023

 Set phasers to STUNNING and tips to FROSTED, Creeps, cause we are going where no Pacey has gone before. We’re talking academic trauma, dysfunctional family, and True Love. Tune in for his sign and American Girl doll intel as well as the DEFINITIVE ranking of his many romantic entanglements and lewks, not to mention the stunning revelation of what the "J" in Pacey "J" Witter st...

Crossover Episode: Dawson's Critique! 13.04.2023

A couple of worms (us) were #BLESSED to have the celestial beings of Dawson’s Critique with us for a crossover fantasmagoria! We bond with Julia and Erin over our shared podcasting trauma and talk more about our unique relationships with the show, the characters we see ourselves in, imaginary spinoffs, and so much more. Don’t wait for your lives to be over to follow @erin.hensley and @pesty1079 fo...

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