As You Know

Let's remember some Z-Fighters. We honor the late Akira Toriyama as we get into his most famous creation, Dragon Ball Z. Stephen doesn't know/remember anything from watching it as a kid so this is mostly a lot of proper nouns. But you'll love it because Goku is there.

For the first time in 99 episodes, we're going to Ireland, as Stephen tries to explain and understand the success of cult favorite web-series-turned-TV-show Hardy Bucks.

Travis has selected his favorite show of the 2020s, the sadly departed comedy docuseries How To With John Wilson. Join us as we discuss sad Spring Break parties, mail thievery, and men doing various bizarre things to their genitals among many other examinations of the human condition.

We're trekking up to Canada for the recently wrapped cult favorite Letterkenny, a show that is basically a joke machine with occasional plot.

We've finally broken the seal on what Matt would call "internet videos," entering the world of streaming with Ted Lasso, the most unnecessarily discussed show of the last decade.

Do you remember when The Rock was young?

The international tour takes us to Rome for Paolo Sorrentino's bizarre HBO dual miniseries, The Young Pope and The New Pope. On the surface it's the tale of Jude Law as a sexy but conservative American pope and John Malkovich as his more liberal British successor, but in reality it's one of the strangest shows to air on American television.

It's time for Teen Nick once again as we learn about the goopiest show in the history of a network famous for covering people in slime. It's The Secret World of Alex Mack, a kids' superhero show with weirdly adult anti-corporate themes and also the first screen appearance of Jessica Alba.

Ring in the new year with the show thought to have killed feminism: Ally McBeal. You know about the hallucinated dancing baby, but what about the hallucinated fet play Clintons?

The international series takes us to France for...anime? Ian has chosen Code Lyoko, a truly baffling show from the end of our childhoods, half of which takes place in a digital world with hideous CGI animation where our large-headed heroes fight a malevolent AI. Andeveryonetalkslikethis.