Gen X, This is Why.

Edwards buys a gun from Mark Twain and almost dies because he made John Jr. go hunting in this classic bear attack episode. Even Amye wasn’t  able to ruin our bear-mauling high with her recitation of a Lord Byron poem from 869 BC. Mary’s crush on John Jr. deepens and we finally find out what the hell the deal is with her glasses. Caroline, the sorcerer, makes ice cream with a lump of ice and OF CO...

Little House gets all Ozarks in this episode when Laura and Jonah embark on a plan to collect what they believe is gold from the river. Jonah seems like a liability at first, but turns out to be a solid lieutenant when he “borrows” the Olsen’s entire screen door to improve their panning operation. Amye rewrites the script and renames the episode a few times. Jennie reveals a passion for the metric...

Join us for one of the saddest Little House episodes, that ended in a pint of Ben + Jerry’s Netflix and Chilled for Amye. The episode opens with the attempted murder of three puppies, and doesn’t get much better. You’ll be as exhausted as we were after an hour of carrying around Michael Landon’s 250-lb metaphor of Laura trying to find homes for the rescued pups, while Charles is trying to find hom...

Jump into this $31 million dollar dumpster fire with us as we follow Howard, an evolved duck from another planet who falls for a heavy metal vixen in Cleveland, Ohio. Yes, that is a sadly accurate summary. If you need more convincing, Tears for Fears attacks Lea Thompson and the principal from Ferris Bueller turns into a dark lord of the universe. This goes from a bad Roger Rabbit to a high-budget...

Through some plot writing sorcery, the Ingalls family and the Olesons end up on a camping trip together. Much to Pa’s dismay, even his juvenile temper tantrum doesn’t prevent Harriet from coming along. Laura and Mary join forces against a common enemy as they let Harriet and Willie rub poison ivy all over themselves. Nellie falls into a river that is 6 inches deep and Laura tries to help her (fool...

You have to love a Little House in which a ghost pops up in the first 10 mins. The town gossips and makes sweeping assumptions about a bad-ass loner in town, Mr. Pike, whose only crime is hating kids and being tall. Laura invades his privacy and finds out that his wife has “moved back to the city,” but it turns out she died 20 years earlier. Jack reveals himself for the traitor and coward we all k...

Join us as we go on holiday with the Housemans in the summer of 1963 and meet Baby, Insane Lisa, Gorgeous Penny, Johnny (the fonz), Douchebag Robbie, and Pencil D*ck Neil. Twenty-five-year-old Amye apologies to fictional Johnny for some insensitive jokes. We also discover that Jennie would have never given Baby that $250 if she were her dad, because nobody in our family is that innocent. We learn...

We're proud to announce our new Facebook Group - The Me-Me B's! History of the Name: The Me-Me B's was an exclusive social club created by Amye at the age of four. The name Me-Me came from Amye's inability to pronounce her own name. The B represented the first initial of her last name. The club consisted of Amye's then-closest friends and cousins and she reluctantly truste...

It’s report card day and when Mary doesn’t have the best grades in class, it throws everyone into turmoil. It turns out that she needs glasses but it takes almost a full episode to figure that out. The kids and middle-aged students in Miss Beadle’s class make fun of her, by calling her by the super creative name “four-eyes.” Mary gets back at everyone by OWNING yet another history test but she has...

Nels and Harriet get into an epic fight and Nels gets some double yolkers over the head. Hansen and Doc make a bad situation worse when they employ some school yard strategies to a situation with grown-ass adults. Amye adds the most irritating sound effect, second only to Charles' constant chuckling in this episode. Jennie has to call Amye out when she dials in her revelation at the end of th...

Tragedy strikes the Ingalls family, which causes Laura to run up a mountain to get closer (literally) to God and ask to be a human sacrifice to give Pa his son back. She meets Jonathan, played by Ernest Borgnine, who is either an angel, pedophile, or an imaginary friend.  Amye relives a traumatic bird attack and Jennie learns about reality TV “crisis hair.” Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Face...

Mary almost burns down the barn and that’s the least dramatic part of this episode. Ma redeems herself in Amye’s eyes when she pulls animals out of the burning barn in her nightgown. Jennie can no longer defend Mary’s nerdiness when she falls in love with a dictionary and there is a bit of live theater that almost makes up for Broadway being closed. For MORE content, become a Premium Subscriber! F...

We journey into the dark and complex world of the Walnut Grove school yard, where we meet Laura’s first crush, Johnny Johnson. He’s an older boy (supposed to be 15 but we are guessing 37) and unfortunately he has a thing for Mary (because of course). Mary wants nothing to do with this shoeless Joe but it still causes a rift between sisters. For MORE content, become a Premium Subscriber! For as lit...

More like "Mr. Edward’s Kidnapping" as he is pressured into giving up his carefree single guy lifestyle in Mankato to join the Ingalls in Walnut Grove. He goes from zero to wearing a suit in church faster than he can empty that whiskey jug. We realize how much Mr. Edward’s character shaped our lives but for very, very, very, very, different reasons.  For MORE content, become a Premium Su...

Gen X, This is Why is a podcast that re-examines the sometimes bizarre and often scarring media from our shared childhood. Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes frienemies, are your hosts. Our first stop is Walnut Grove as we take a fresh look at our favorite frontier family (as if we can name another), the Ingalls. There is some seriously weird sh*t in this show that answers a lot of questions.....

Welcome! From the dumpster fire that is 2020, we take a long overdue journey back to 1874 to check in on the Ingalls family. Walk with us through wolf attacks, fires, blizzards, gaslighting, locust swarms, earthquakes, racism, famine, tidal waves and government overreach (some of these may be an exaggeration) as one of us discovers an old nemesis and the other gets brainwashed by Pa. For MORE cont...

When the Ingalls family finally arrives in Walnut Grove they meet a new cast of characters (literally) as we are introduced to Dr. Baker, The Olsens and that relentless gossip Hansen, who all lend a hand (literally) when Pa takes on more than he can handle. Join us as we are faced with acute trauma when we see a kite stuck in a tree and hear the sound of Carrie’s voice. For MORE content, become a...