Onesies

Will there come a day when intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew get to leave Central City, city where the corn dog was created (which they forget to discuss)? Someday, but not until they get to talk about the acting stylings of David Bruce Cassidy. Slightly less worse, they get to talk about CBS's attempts at promoting a soap star to primetime. On the same worse level, they get to talk about poor A...

It's not just a clone episode, it's a CHILDLIKE CLONE episode! Join intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew for a (not too) lengthy discussion of various tropes, principally the twin trope, but there are many others. There's also Tina reduced to unappreciated... "friend-zoned" sidekick, Julio reduced even further, and then lots of acting (or lack thereof).

Allow me to break the ice: It's another lackluster episode, which sadly gives intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew much to discuss. Including various tangents unrelated to the pat weaponized internal misogyny of network television, Julio having nothing to do but whistle, Tina having nothing to do but whine, and continued missed opportunities with the supporting cast. But Emily does get to hear Capt...

Emily and Andrew find a lot to critique in an episode they both generally enjoy. There's just too much rampant misogyny (overt and ingrained), bad writing, goofy writing, fun if poorly executed guest spots, cringey flirting, but also Jason Bernard's back! Ooo, but he's doing the misogyny, which is okay because it's because guest star Denise Crosby doesn't like the Flash! Ugh. T...

Emily and Andrew hope in the Delorean (which Andrew mansplains about) to head ten years into THE FLASH's future--a dystopian 2001 full of future-y cars, dreadlock wigs (for Julio but still), and weird story beats. It's not a good trip to the future, and as our intrepid hosts travel time's arrow in reverse to get back from it, they've got plenty of discussion fodder. Tune in!

Future Emmy winner Bryan Cranston appears on this week's FLASH, giving our intrepid hosts, Emily and Andrew, lots to talk about in terms of growing ability and so on. They also get to talk about the MR. MOM episode, which has Barry taking care of multiple babies. Our hosts also begin leaving hints for next season's subject show this episode, so get out your Little Orphan Annie's Secret...

Emily and Andrew head down to the latest magic show for the stylings of guest star Mark Hamill (getting to discuss plenty about his more and less successful choices), but get somewhat distracted by the show's first costumed villain episode when there's lots of chemistry between Barry and a guest star to discuss. Plus, good old fashioned brain teasers like why does England-born Tina know mo...

For the sake of continuity in long-form actors' character work, Emily and Andrew watch a couple episodes out of airing order so they can fully capture Amanda Pays's "back nine" character development. Ha. Sadly not so much. Instead it's dream sequences, vanishing supporting players, public displays of affection, and hacky, hacky work all around. Don't miss it!

It's another bottle episode, if the bottle is a cell on death row with someone playing a sax the whole time, and Emily isn't particularly interested in hearing about the jazz. She and Andrew have an unpleasant task at hand: surveying a wanting episode with some baaaaaaaad acting, weird retro stuff, and less action than a "counting down the clock" episode should have... Tune in!

An invisible man has released a toxin into the Star Labs air supply and Barry's only got four hours to save Tina! Emily wasn't paying attention so Andrew mansplains why she would've loved the episode--cheesy invisible man special effects, women supporting women, sticking it to the mediocre white man, and some references to modern superhero movies Emily will never see! Plus a potentiona...

It's another cyberpunk odyssey, this time with a retro flare as the bad guy travels to the future (albeit really slowly) and discovers a changed world but shockingly similar television broadcast technology. There's also Barry making a friend, gaining a mentor, Biff Manard singing, but mostly there's just Jason Bernard getting a great guest star role. Even with the interesting hair choi...

Emily and Andrew get to weigh in on the concept of the "showcase episode," in which a cast member gets to flex their acting chops in the spotlight. Unfortunately for THE FLASH and actor Mike Genovese, it turns out it's awkward when said actor doesn't have those chops. Our intrepid hosts also get to discuss how white Christian nationalists used to be the bad guys on CBS, how copag...

In an episode-long challenge to our intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew devout professionalism, this episode of THE FLASH requires the hosts not just to navigate cloying kids, but one of them a child actor with a tragic end, and talking about how 1960s references used to be a media standard... and how obnoxious they could get. Our hosts, of course, expertly traverse these precarious topics. Tune in!

It's a humdinger of an episode as our intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew are lucky enough to get to discuss hicksploitation (hix?) in general, but far more specifically the copaganda plot for Barry and his dad (returning guest star M. Emmet Walsh). Is the moral of the story going to be "it's better to beat statements out of witnesses than to ask questions"? Or will it be something w...

This week in sunny Central City, our hosts Emily and Andrew join in the city's annual Day of the Dead celebration, which provides so much conversation fodder since it's barely in the episode. Instead, they get to talk about cyberpunk supervillains, age appropriate love interests, the best possible mugging for the camera, and much more!

Emily and Andrew tag along when an Ocean's 11-esque crew hits Central City to relieve the museum of its latest exquisite exhibition. Little do these thieves know the Flash has taken an interest (Emily and Andrew, of course, know because they're watching the show). Tune in to hear our intrepid hosts discuss the continued "complementary" sexism, the shocking lack of inappropriate u...

Episode guest stars Dick Miller and Helen Martin make their ONESIES first apperances, and our intrepid hosts, Emily and Andrew, find out they each have been making the exact same assumptions about the opposite guest stars. Very confusing. Our hosts also get to discuss women supporting each other (or not) tropes, special effects, acting choices (or the lack thereof), and much more!

Intrepid hosts Emily and Andrew head back to late 20th century mainstream (as presented on primetime television) social mores regarding unhoused people and discover... things haven't gotten much better. They also get to discuss (single) women as men's property, practical special effects, power sets, and much more!

Emily and Andrew head off to Central City to catch up with THE FLASH, with Emily not realizing how long a 94 minute pilot movie with a bunch of superpowered fisticuffs in the third act goes on. And on. And on. Listen as our hosts discuss... aged (or not aged) actors, inappropriately aged girlfriends, the post-9PM broadcast "intimacy" scenes, special effects, and much more! Much of the di...

Emily and Andrew reach the end of MAXIMUM BOB, which goes back to the pilot continuity where Beau Bridges is a sexual predator. After a whole season trying to get away from it. Presumably the shows creatives wanted to make sure our intrepid hosts wouldn't be getting out of the series without some additional chatter. Tune in and hear what's coming up next season on ONESIES, too! NOT ABC THI...

With one episode of MAXIMUM BOB to go, Andrew accuses Emily of only selecting the show because she--like all the female characters on the show this episode attest--think it's hot when gross men wax on about taking away their rights. Sadly, Emily doesn't take the accusation seriously (and Andrew forgets to compare those characterizations to the film of Early 1940s Germany, which also had th...

Another week, another episode where Emily and Andrew determine this MAXIMUM BOB is technically the best one of the series. Even as character relationships change to fit the situation and there's a lot of "yikes," they don't hurt the dog and there's at least some positive character development for the guest stars. Join our intrepid hosts for their continued unenthuastic but te...

As they pass the halfway point in MAXIMUM BOB, one might think our intrepid hosts, Emily and Andrew, would be prepared for this episode. Certainly there can only be so far BOB can take it, only so many barrel bottoms for it to scrap. However, this episode (of BOB) may technically be the best yet! Tune in and hear why!

Thanks to some creative changes, Emily and Andrew get to enjoy a "better" episode of MAXIMUM BOB, with guest stars (on BOB not ONESIES) Miguel Sandoval and Lee Garlington bringing some much needed better acting to the program. But there's still lots to talk about as the show tries to retcon out the grossier elements from... two episodes (and one episode) ago. Join our intrepid hosts...

Emily and Andrew head back to Deep Water, Florida (along with some Miami interlude) for episode 2 of MAXIMUM BOB, which does indeed involve a (living) white woman trying to force a dead Black girl's ghost into her body so that actual child can lose her virginity to a gentleman of the living white woman's choosing. They don't actually have the scenes talking about it because the girl&#3...