Not If I Reboot You First!

All Musicals are adaptations, and since this episode comes out on (the day after) Power Rangers Day, it's time for a Mighty Morphin' Musical! Tanner still cannot write musicals but they also cannot be stopped and Lindsay just has to deal. But don't worry because this particular musical is gonna have sick guitar riffs, Ashley Tisdale, and a fight with your local mascot! Our friendship promo this we...

Destination...Unknown! The only Agatha Christie novel to 1) never be adapted, 2) be a spy drama, and 3) get horny in a weird way. Lindsay wants to give this the full Night Manager treatment on HBO (or Amazon, or whoever gives us their MONEY). Tanner is pretty sure this is just a weird predecessor to Sky Captain. Also discussed this week are Arnold losing his accent, uttering "lesbians" in a hushed...

For People's Choice this month, Tanner is talking about nothing but a fat Rate Race...and maybe throwing in a bit of a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? They'll tell Lindsay how they're expanding the rocket car, bus full of Lucys, and cow-in-a-hot-air-balloon into a Rashomon-style miniseries that lets us see more character dynamics play out. Also discussed are billionaire charity donations, our first PG-13 m...

This week we are joined by Annie so we can do a remake of Beauty and The Beast! No, not the cartoon. No, not the french one. No, not the live action one (though don't worry, we'll definitely roast it). She, Tanner, and Lindsay will make a very hot monster boyfriend who's very said  but very beautiful (UwU). Also discussed are shipping Pooh Bear, Gamer The Beast, and Tanner definitely not losing po...

Marvel Magaverse? More like Marvel mangle-verse, amirite? Hahaha, CB Cebulski pretended to be Japanese in order to get in with Marvel and THIS is where it started: a poorly thought-out attempt to appeal to anime-loving kids in the 2000s by doing...basically nothing different except for a few stereotypes. Lindsay would like things to be a little better, so she and Tanner spend this episode saying w...

The annual crossover is upon us, and this week Cassidy and Lava from Kids and their Dog are here to break a story wide open. Gravity Falls: it's a reboot! Yes, we've gone back in time and made Gravity Falls in 1989 in order to inspire Alex Hirsch in 2012! We reverse engineer character origins and what gave Alex nightmares back then. Also discussed are real Dracula, X-Files Babies, and a guy with a...

It appears we have both touched this podcast at the same time! Then let us begin a reboot of Xiaolin Showdown! No, not Chronicles. Nobody wants Chronicles. Instead we're headed to the CW, with longer episodes, shorter seasons, more character growth, and Jermaine! Everyone loves Jermaine. Tanner and Lindsay will also discuss emo hotness, a catboy army, and saying "oh" in italics. Our friendship pro...

This week we managed to scoop Jake Mason again, right in the middle of his post-dose fever, but he was happy to show up with some ideas about a Zelda cartoon that tries to take advantage of the fact that there's like...a timeline? Timelines? Some manner of time soup. He's gonna tell Tanner and Lindsay about Twilight Princess being good, Zelda doing things, and how Link is Mabel Pines. Also discuss...

Comic Book Heroes and Tokusatsu heroes are already so similar, so when Lindsay decided to make a Catwoman TV show she decided to add some flair by mixing the genres together! Now Selina has a magic necklace that let's her and the other Sirens transform into a classic henshin heroines! Tanner will learn about Selina having too many backstories, the overlap between this and Cybersix, and Batman sayi...

This week Tanner is rebooting the story of a man named Brady and his lovely lady - or is it fella? It'll definitely get called "The Gay-dy Bunch", that's for sure. Them and Lindsay are going to give personalities to the various kids, throw in some butch lesbians, and turn the disappeared husband into a supervillain ex-wife. Also discussed are syncing our college schedules, putting Diana Agron in a...

"Them Duke boys are at it again, leading the police on a wild goose chase and distracting them from an ongoing protest!" With these words, friend of the show Cassidy has inspired Lindsay to reboot The Dukes of Hazzard into the most leftist, anti-cop show we can! It's a short one because Tanner doesn't know much, but we do discuss topics like the importance of rural Leftism, renaming the Charger, a...

Welcome back to the podcast where tonight's top story is Sports Night! An Aaron Sorkin sitcom that Tanner can't stop thinking about partly due to the way they wove social issues into sports without needing you to actually like sports, and partly due to a friendship between male leads that became incredibly homoerotic. They'll explain to Lindsay how they'll twist the original plotlines towards this...

This episode belongs in a museum! But a lot of artifacts don't, which is one thing Indiana Jones will be learning this week when Lindsay creates the fourth movie that we should've had, rather than the Mutt we got. There's a daughter-figure, a cult based on a lot of BS, and most importantly THEMES. On this trip she and Tanner will also discuss Lady Dimitrescu, ancient aliens, and being valid in the...

Kingdom Hearts! It's a lot of things, but it's never been an MMO! Or a kart racer, but we'll get to that. In the meantime Tanner is brainstorming ideas for what Kingdom Hearts: Master's Memory Oratorio could look like while Lindsay gently holds their hand and asks them what the hell is going on. Also discussed are bad Donald impressions, phone games killing your battery, and becoming furries to sa...

This People's Choice Episode is the same as the last one, except not. Dark Shadows was the first supernatural soap opera, but after it was cancelled in...oh wait. It's still going via Big Finish? Well ignore that, Lindsay's starting from the top and making her own horror podcast for it! It's going to have all the Paudio Drama staples and also Laura Dern as a large bird! Tanner's along for the ride...

This week we wrap up guest-a-palooza with Jenny, who's decided that there's a very good way to fill in some of the gaps in the MCU's storyline: comics. Y'know, those things that the movies are based on? She's going to give them the Star Wars treatment by finding canonical places to fit them in and hopefully give comics themselves a better way to succeed in the world. Along the way Jenny will make...

This week, our guest Crest is taking to Avalon High! A novel-turned-DCOM, Crest thinks it has more story to tell in the form of a comic book - or maybe another few DCOMS of our own. Tanner and Lindsay back him up by bringing in fun facts about Arthurian lore, like the various Round Table OCs and a spooky forest of no return. Along the way we'll talk about Disney Channel sitcoms, a new cryptid, and...

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, Harley's audio isn't the best quality. It's listenable, but you might have to pay attention to it a little more than usual. This is a NIIRYF exclusive! Harley is sharing with us his ideas for a Blue Bloods TV show (not the Tom Selleck one), ideas that he's also officially submitted to author Melissa de la Cruz - but y'all get to hear it here first! Lindsay and...

This week we're rebooting everyone's favourite collection of war criminals! Bryan and August are rebooting Metal Gear Solid, with a few twists (mostly related to the women characters and not writing them so bizarrely). Tanner and Lindsay are just along for the ride as they regale us with tales of ludo-narrative dissonance, a big motherfucker with a gattling gun, and fist-fighting shirtless atop a...

Breathe in, breathe out, but don't be too loud because Passions is on the telly! Tanner read like 5 wikipedia pages and they've become almost as unhinged as the show. Lindsay is getting wine drunk while Tanner tells her about the bird statues, clones, and imagine spots they're putting in this thicc miniseries reimagining. Also we just read the wikipedia pages because they're bonkers. Our friendshi...

It's Bad Wizard Time. JD and Alex from Sorted are here to burn Harry Potter down and build it back up again, and Tanner and Lindsay are rapt as they pick apart every single problem with this franchise - all to show that there's still some good ideas in there despite the problems of the text and the author (WHOO BOY THE AUTHOR!). So join us compile many fixes like no more fatshaming, more diverse v...

Beware the Ides of March! Lindsay's taking us to history class as she explains the ins and outs of the Roman Empire - or at least the years from Caesar to Nero. HBO did Rome dirty and she wants to finish it not with 2, not with 5, but with 8 seasons of historical debate that eventually devolves into a dark sitcom. Tanner's only here for Cawiguwa though. Also discussed is Caesar bottoming, the Part...

This week, Tanner is taking their favourite teen comedy Easy A and turning it into a musical! A tall order considering they don't actually know anything about making music, but at least there's one song that they can put in that they don't even have to write. What's more important is focusing on the movie's lessons about minding your own business about others' sexual proclivities. Also discussed w...

We've dialed up your address to send you this episode from across the galaxy! Lindsay is rebooting Stargate with a simple concept: what if it was all declassified today, and how would things play out? She and Tanner play around with the bureaucracy and mundanity of this and the show in general before coming upon an idea involving a mysterious force chasing people to Earth and a split narrative bet...

This episode begins many aeons ago...back when Hercules was Disney's hottest mythological-gospel-sports movie. The best part was the music, so why not give the Muses their own time to shine? Tanner thinks there's an origin story in there that can be cobbled together from other various and sundry Greek myths - look, it's not like they can do worse than the original movie, right? Together with Linds...