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By Glitterjaw Queer Podcast CollectiveTV & Film
Gimmicks episodes
- The ABBOTT ELEMENTARY/ALWAYS SUNNY crossover
Bonus episode! On the heels of our episode on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, we're having a chat about its surprising crossover earlier this year with Abbott Elementary! We get into what made this crossover so unique and highly anticipated, how they were able to mix these wildly different characters and tones, and how Quinta Brunson and Rob McElhenney got it off the ground in the first place.
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
49 min - IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA does a noir (with Chris Osborne)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Janitor Always Mops Twice"
Don't be a goon! Chris Osborne of the Play Comics podcast joins us for this beautifully artful and smart take on film noir from the long-running raunchy comedy... which still somehow centers on "diarrhea poisoning" and includes eating cat food. We dig into the great lengths taken to authentically film this episode in black and white with striking splashes of red, along with the snappy dialogue, spot-on performances, and well-constructed mystery.
Check out Play Comics!
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Episode discussion on Reddit where director Heath Cullins gives an AMA
Reid’s Account of Her Role in Co-creating IASIP in The Observer
Interview with Megan Ganz on the Feminist Film Tumblr
Episode 582 of WTF with Marc Maron - Interview with Rob McElhenney
It’s Always Sunny Podcast - Episode 1
1 hr 31 min - THE SECRET WORLD OF ALEX MACK keeps a secret from Alex Mack (with Dr. Lara Ameen)
The Secret World of Alex Mack: "24 Hours"
In one of the coolest stories we've heard on this podcast, Dr. Lara Ameen shares her unique connection to the 90s Nickelodeon series about the girl with T-1000 powers -- from meeting and befriending the cast and creators, to helping film scenes in the series finale, to casting star Larisa Oleynik in her dissertation. Then, we talk about Alex Mack's take on a paranoia thriller, along with the show's strong queer vibes and more!
Find Lara:
Bluesky | Instagram | Twitter
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
'The Secret World Of Alex Mack' Retrospective: Larisa Oleynik And More On The Origins, Hats And A Remake
Inside Nickelodeon’s Saturday Night Gamble
Ken Lipman and Thomas Lynch interview on the Splat Podcast - (despite the start of this video being a bit goofy - this was a FANTASTIC INTERVIEW)
20 Year Cast Reunion Full Interview
3 Brothas and a Shot of Milk Podcast Interview of Darris Love - (started at 1:06:33)
1 hr 47 min - ADVENTURE TIME glitches out (with Tommy Proffitt)
Adventure Time: "A Glitch is a Glitch"
Tommy Proffitt goes into the source code of the universe with us for Cartoon Network's massively innovative and influential series -- and an unsettling 3D-animated episode from experimental filmmaker David OReilly! We explore the history of glitch art (and where the word "glitch" even comes from) and how this unique, subversive artform works -- along with how it fits into Adventure Time's legacy and the "that's so random" humor of the 2010s.
Tommy's podcasts:
Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast
Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast
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Sources:
- Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
- “Queer-Alt-Delete: Glitch Art Against the Surveillance Cis-tem”
- Coverage of Everything Video Game
- Datamoshing Interview with David OReilly
- Time Interview with Pendleton Ward
- Rolling Stone Interview with Pendleton Ward
- Fred Seibert’s Tumblr blog which has a lot of his personal history
- Podcast interview with John DiMaggio
- David OReilly talks about the development of technology and the crisis of human autonomy
- Octocat Adventure
2 hr 17 min - STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE plays baseball (with Tyler McCarty)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"
Death to the opposition! Tyler from Hate Speech Podcast and Animorphing Time joins us for this famous Star Trek episode, where the crew takes a breather from their high stakes war drama for a baseball game on the holodeck. We talk about the role this American pasttime plays in both the 24th century and television in general, this episode's origins in the 80s series Fame, Tyler's own personal baseball connection to this episode, who's the hottest starship captain, and more!
Find Tyler on Bluesky
Check out Hate Speech Podcast
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Memory Alpha
What We Left Behind documentary
MLB’s History of Baseball Around the World (a Primer)
Mendelbaum, 2005. “The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do”
“Robot Umps Are Here,” 2025 New York Times.
Nerds of Color’s Sisko Essays
1 hr 49 min - MANIAC MANSION’s first episode is a 10th anniversary clip show (with Chris Cummins)
Maniac Mansion: "The 10th Anniversary Special"
In quite possibly the only time we’ll ever cover a pilot episode on this podcast, Chris Cummins of Sci-Fi Explosion joins us for this forgotten, but subversive and smart Eugene Levy-helmed Canadian sitcom and its bizarre first episode – a fake clip show celebrating its 10th anniversary. Seriously! We talk about this show’s deep connections with Schitt’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, and the hugely influential improvisation powerhouse Second City and SCTV. Plus, a dive into this show's origins as a LucasArts video game adaptation, a brief history of The Family Channel and its religious ties, and the clip show parodies, dream sequences, anniversary special tropes, JFK assassination jokes, and meta references that this truly daring episode offers.
Watch Sci-Fi Explosion on Twitch
Follow Sci-Fi Explosion on Instagram
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
1992 Entertainment Weekly piece on “SCTV” alumni are working on the show, Benjamin Scetskey writing for Entertainment Weekly, January 1992
The Weird and Wonderful History of Maniac Mansion, Ian Howard writing for Fandom, November 2022
Exclusive Interview with Eugene Levy: Creating the Comedy for Maniac Mansion, Dan Madsen writing for Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine, August 1990. Scans from The International House of Mojo
Family Channel Strays from Religion, Embraces Clean Fun, Susan King writing for the Los Angeles Times, January 1991
The Long, Strange History of ABC Family, Jacqui Shine writing for The New Republic, October 2015
Family Channel’s Making Of Maniac Mansion Video
1 hr 52 min - SMALLVILLE has a magical Christmas death dream
Smallville: "Lexmas"
The first Christmas episode of this Superman adaptation pulls out all the holiday stops, as a dying Lex Luthor is offered a Christmas Carol/It's a Wonderful Life-infused dream of a love-filled future from the ghost of his mom...complete with the most tinsel and soft glow you've ever seen. Oh, and did we mention Santa Claus is real and young Superman talks him off a ledge? AND that this is the episode where Michael Rosenbaum's Lex goes bad for good? We dig into it all, including Derek's weirdly deep history with Smallville as a midnight cult show, what makes this comic book adaptation refreshingly different from current TV and superhero media, and more!
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Smallville: The Official Companion Season 5 by Craig Byrne
Talk Ville Podcast
2 hr 6 min - BROAD CITY posts Instagram Stories (with Hamish Steele)
Broad City: "Stories"
The great Hamish Steele returns for an episode told (almost) entirely through not-quite Instagram stories! As
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer take a 30th birthday walk along the entire length of New York City, we talk about this show's insights into social media and millennial culture, the weird political space it occupied by straddling pre- and post-Trump America, and how this gifable Tumblr darling of the late 2010s went under the radar in its final season. Plus, butt videos as legitimately good gifts, a touch of cultural appropriation, and the time Guillermo Díaz flirted with Derek.Find more from Hamish!
Other cool stuff you should check out:
Self-Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy
Hamish's upcoming comic, Go-Man, Champion of Earth
Weekend as a 28 Year Old in Chicago
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
The Hollywood Reporter1 hr 55 min - DEXTER'S LABORATORY is written by a six-year-old fan (with Tyler Lee)
Dexter's Laboratory: "Dexter and Computress Get Mandark!"
When Tyler Lee was six and a half, he and his mother recorded him narrating his own story for his favorite cartoon... and then it was animated into a famous episode! Tyler himself joins us to talk about his brush with Cartoon Network fame, and how it led to his brief stint in child acting and now a professional career as an opera singer and D&D podcaster. Plus, we dispel misinformation (he didn't die!), and dig into why only a Genndy Tartakovsky cartoon could pull this off, the iconic nature of "YOU ARE STUUUUPID", and even deleted scenes from Tyler's original recording!
Check out what Tyler is doing now as an adult:
Instagram: @tylerleetenor
The Predicting Chaos D&D Campaign: YouTube (@PredictingChaos) and Twitch (@predictingchaos)
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources: Washington Post | Brian A. Miller of Cartoon Network Studios
1 hr 25 min - MY SO-CALLED LIFE tells a ghost story (with Matt Baume)
My So-Called Life: "Halloween"
We're joined by Matt Baume (YouTuber, award-winning author, and host of Matt’s So-Cast Pod) for this seminal Gen X teen drama and the poster child of 90s cancelled-too-soon TV--and the much-maligned time it ditched the grounded realism it was so famous for in a Halloween ghost story involving time travel and dying young. We talk about the breakout performance from Claire Danes, Jared Leto jumpscares, the show's groundbreaking queerness, and more!
Find all of Matt Baume's incredible work:
YouTube | Matt’s So-Cast Pod | Hi Honey, I’m Homo!
A proud part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources: San Francisco Bay Guardian | Tampa Bay Times
1 hr 24 min
About Gimmicks
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A podcast about the high-concept, experimental, structure-breaking gimmick episodes of TV! From musicals, to noirs, to bottle episodes and more -- we look at any television episode that breaks from its own formula in some way.
Derek B. Gayle and David Arnold (and occasionally guests!) dig into a different episode of a different show across the entire TV landscape every other Monday!
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