Breaking Mayberry

Marty and Dan return with good vibes for the new year and a new sidekick for Andy. Opie almost kills a baby and Marty has a scuffle in a government office. Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 24 and 25 "A Baby in the House" and "The County Clerk."

Honestly somehow our most Catholic episode, in spite of the slurs not because of them. We deal with some gross episodes from Season 6, including one we can't write the title of without using a slur, so have fun with that!

POP QUIZ HOTSHOT! There's an episode of Andy Griffith that's actually good and Dan doesn't want to talk about it, but if you don't do a schtick the podcast will explode.  What do you do? What do you do? Well in our case you vamp and try to figure out the exact amount of lung damage needed to do a perfect RFK Jr impression. It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, Episodes 21 and 22 "Aunt Bee Learns to Dr...

No longer in GLEE-land, the boys can't help but talk about Tombstone and funerals. A wild west show moves into town and Aunt Bee commits insurance fraud in Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 19 and 20 "Lost and Found" and "Wyatt Earp Rides Again".

As we cover our final Glee episode, Season 6's "Child Star", we break down our final therapy feelings about the New Directions, what happens when nostalgia comes for us, and the rich history of tentacle porn.

We spend a lot of this episode talking about Lea Michele's insane broadway career because it's the least upsetting part of what we're going to discuss. This is the Season 5 Glee episode "The End of Twerk" (or something like that, I'm not looking it up) and there is... SO MUCH here. None of it good. Some of it horrifying. We hate this.

NOTICE: This is the Glee school shooting episode. We talk about the school shooting parts from about 40:00 to 51:30. Okay look there's really nothing funny here but Glee's gonna try to find something they can use! Ryan Murphy's never met a tragedy he couldn't exploit. Also, there's some stuff in here about catfishing which is INSANE. If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Blues...

Host, gamer, and mighty little man Jeff Stormer from the Party of One Podcast comes by to talk about some TV with RPG elements - namely 00's Disney Channel hit Lizzie Mcguire and the hottest TV show we almost did a podcast about - Young Sheldon! We talk about Lizzie's fashion and their weird hatred for liking stuff, and Marty has a real revelation about his viewing habits. Listen to Marty play Lig...

The Glee Club is back in session and the boy's recording studio - like the Glee club's practice room on GLEE - is in a state of flux. There are crushes that make no sense, songs that shouldn't be good, and a joke that didn't not-age-well because it was already gross as hell to begin with. If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email us at breaki...

Okay, so the Glee-kend continues and we were pretty drunk at this point, I don't know what to tell you. Angry showers and Duran Duran montages happen in this one. Also, texting and driving is bad, kids. It's Season 3, Episode 3, "Big Brother" Special thanks to Kae Lani Palmisano for helping us narrate this intro.

Marty and Dan meet the Susan and Sharon, the 80s TV Ladies for a two-parter dedicated to the magical '60s sitcom Bewitched. We learn the barbaric nature of early pregnancy tests, talk about the "secret sexy magic lady" subgenre, and mostly have fun with a chimp wearing little people clothes! Check out 80s TV Ladies for the other half of the crossover! If you like this, leave a rating and review, f...

Hey pal, are you going through a tough time? Trouble at home? Parents not doing well? Well, how do you think that makes ME feel, huh?! I gotta like, live while you're over there being sad?  Have you ever thought about how your being sad affects me, the star of Glee and also reality? (These people are all sociopaths, holy shit.) It's Season 2, Episode 3 of Glee - "Grilled Cheezus" If you like this,...

Marty and Dan leave the '60s for the bizarre 2010s. We meet the Glee Club, the weirdest, meanest, most annoying group of people ever to make your grandparents uncomfortable. It's all pop tunes and Obama-era optimism here in the Gleekend, and it makes us sick! It's Glee Season 1, Episode 3 "Acafellas" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email...

Ol Barn's back in town, bay-bee and he is as infuriating as ever! We finally get #justiceforthelmalou and the Manhunt franchise ends with an inevitable wet thud. At least Warren's almost gone, though. Season 6, episodes 17 and 18 "The Return of Barney Fife" and "The Legend of Barney Fife"

Okay so you know how just like... the general concept of "art" is mostly considered good, like a good thing that most people enjoy. Well, that's wrong, and Andy Griffith is gonna tell you why. It's Season 6. Episode 14 "Otis the Artist" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on  Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

Content Note: This episode discusses media's portrayal of sexual assault for laughs Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like these. We start with an episode that is absolutely nothing, and then move to a deeply upsetting one, one of the weirdest and grossest things put to TV. Also, Dan might get whacked for getting a haircut. AG Season 6, Episode 14 "The Church Organ"...

In an episode that's dedicated to talking dogs, we focus on a famous talking cat.  It's AG Season 6, Episode 12 "Man's Best Friend" and Episode 13 "Aunt Bee Takes the Job" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on Bluesky , visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

Okay a lot of weird stuff happened to Marty before and during this episode and we're going to talk about it a lot. But you'll be thanking us because it's a lot better than talking about Andy Griffith Show season 6 episodes 10 and 11, "Aunt Bee on TV" and "The Cannon." If you like this, leave a rating and review or visit our  Patreon  or email us at breakingmayberry@gmail.com.

It's an extra-long BREAKING MAYBERRY ALL-STARS featuring three of our favorite returning guests to talk about the three-no-wait-four-part Andy Griffith Epic - "The Hollywood Arc". Yes, for the first (only?) time in the show's run, the Taylors are leaving North Carolina, and this causes everyone to lose their damn minds. We brought in backup for this one, and our returning guests are bewildered and...

Dan and Marty take a little break from the doldrums of Mayberry with the classic(?) action movie TimeCop, starring our favorite cokehead gymnast Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dan remembers a repressed shame, we talk JCVDs terrible acting, and we fantasize about using time travel very irresponsibly. 

We go back to the 80s-restaurant-of-debatable-quality of "It's A Living" with Max Ludwig. This time around we explore a few episodes with Andy Griffith ties, including one where a group of grown adult women dress as children's fairy-tale characters in a way that's not at all creepy! Also Marty absorbs so much content it breaks him. It's "It's a Living" Season 3, Episode 14 "The Doctor Danny Show"...

Filmmaker and author David Dylan Thomas stops by the Mayberry studios to talk about 2024's I Saw The TV Glow, a movie that's about the horrors and freedoms of nostalgia but also about trans/queer stuff and also maybe about a short-lived McDonald's Ad Campaign. Support Dave's Kickstarter for "White Meat: Appetizer": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daviddylanthomas/white-meat-appetizer Listen t...

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone... Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that not even the Andy Griffith Show can tolerate it for very long. Warren Ferguson has arrived, despair all ye mortals. It's Andy Griffith Show Season 6, episode 5 "The Bazaar" and 6 "A Warning From Warren" If you like this, leave a rating and rev...

Like Billy Pilgrim, Dan has become unstuck in time. That's why he keeps saying how tired he is after mentioning perfectly normal amounts of time to be awake. We say good-bye to the weirdest recurring characters, right as we were starting to like them. We also say "hello" to Aunt Bea's new boyfriend, and then we say goodbye just as fast. It's a very bittersweet turn of events on Season 6, Episode 3...

We're back in Mayberry for season 6 and the vibes are OFF for reals. Everyone's really tense and awkward and somehow Goober is the highlight. It's a really low point friends. But on the other hand, Marty gets to use a joke he's been holding onto for a while. It's Season 6, Episode 1 "Opie's Job" and Episode 2 "Andy's Rival" If you like this, leave a rating and review or visit our  Patreon  or emai...