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By Glitterjaw Queer Podcast CollectiveTV & Film
Gimmicks episodes
- BREAKING BAD is obsessed with one fly (with Daniel Roemer)
Breaking Bad: "Fly"
It's a tentpole of the golden age of television, so we had to get to Vince Gilligan's crime thriller eventually...and that meant doing its most divisive episode, a Rian Johnson-directed low-budget chamber piece all about catching a fly! We dig into Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul's performances, the inventive camerawork, an even lower-budget Spanish remake, and why this episode is not at all filler. Plus, we have an interview with Daniel Roemer, creator of the Amazon Prime TV series Chaser, about creating high concept television like this!
Find more from Daniel Roemer:
Linktree | Instagram: @dfroemer
Check out Chaser on Amazon Prime!
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Vulture retrospective | Pardon My Take podcast | AV Club’s “Best Show, Worst Episode” roundtable from 20112 hr 2 min - SEINFELD goes backwards
Seinfeld: "The Betrayal"
In one of the most famous sitcom episodes of all time, Seinfeld tells the story of a wedding in India, spraypainted Timberlands, peach schnapps, an evil birthday wish, and of course, many many betrayals... all in reverse order! We talk about this episode's roots in Harold Pinter's play of the same name, along with the complexity--and money--only a popular show in its final season could pull off. Plus, we dig into the bad (the unsurprisingly rough humor around India) and the good (Julia Louis-Dreyfus's drunk acting, Jason Alexander in a t-shirt on a cold set, etc.)
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Cracked's Oral History on "The Betrayal"David Lynch Cigarette Commercial
Harold Pinter and Charlie Rose Interview
1 hr 40 min - TRU CALLING flips the hero and villain
Tru Calling: "The Last Good Day"
Few people remember Eliza Dushku's first post-Buffy series about a time-travelling morgue employee co-starring Zach Galifianakis, but it's one of the most interesting shows of the era -- both for its bizarre behind-the-scenes story, and for its philosophical, cosmic, and stellar second season that barely anyone saw. We talk about this masterful perspective flip that puts the "villain" Jack (90210's Jason Priestley) in hero Tru's shoes, questioning the show's entire premise and the ambiguity of the order vs. chaos concept, while still elegantly telling a story about suicide, terminal illness, and assisted dying.
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf
SFX Magazine interview with Eliza Dushku
GQ Interview with Zach Galifianakis
Doris Egan's Livejournal (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
All the great special features on the Tru Calling DVDs
2 hr 7 min - STARGATE SG-1 gets stuck in a time loop (with Zack Morrison)
Stargate SG-1: "Window of Opportunity"
TV writer and director Zack Morrison, creator of the award-winning comedy pilot Canusa Street, joins us for a beloved and hilarious episode of one TV's tentpole sci-fi shows! Zack talks about his experience in creating a TV pilot and how the Stargate series influenced his work. Plus, we dig into this show's connections to the real-life Air Force and the Military-Entertainment Complex, the history of time loop stories, and how this episode finds profound character depth even while remaining funny and lighthearted.
Find more from Zack:
Website | Twitter: @ZackMorrison18 | Instagram: @zackmorrison18
Learn more about Canusa Street!
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
End Song: "Stargate" by HurricaneTurtle
Sources:
Explorer Unit Newsletter | Gateworld.net
1 hr 39 min - THE OUTER LIMITS invents the first bottle episode
The Outer Limits: "Controlled Experiment"
There is nothing wrong with your podcast app. We are controlling transmission. It's another Gimmicks historical deep dive as we explore TV's very first bottle episode--a term coined by Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens! We dig into what "bottle episode" actually means and how this installment of the sci-fi anthology series used cleverness and camera tricks to produce a quick and cheap but still compelling and funny episode about Martians (The Fugitive's Barry Morse and Archie Bunker himself, Carroll O'Connor) who try to scientifically determine why humans commit murder.
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Vulture's article on bottle episodes (which is NOT by the same author as that awful Lost article)
The Outer Limits: The Official Companion
Wonderful Cinema's article on chamber pieces
1 hr 32 min - RUGRATS have a surreal fantasy about adulthood (with Danielle Weisberg)
Rugrats: "What the Big People Do"
TV writer Danielle Weisberg (The Simpsons, Krapopolis) joins us for one of the tentpole 90s Nicktoons from animation behemoth Klasky-Csupo, and its strange and scary imaginary tale about an adulthood with baby heads on adult bodies. We talk about Danielle's trajectory from being a Batman stand-in on Conan to writing award-nominated animated sitcom episodes, along with the artistry of Rugrats, Nickelodeon's grunge and edge, how this episode reflects real-life infantilization in the workplace, and more!
Find more from Danielle:
Website | Twitter: @danielleweisber | Instagram: @danielleweisberg
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Saberspark's “What Ruined Klasky Csupo” video | 1998 New Yorker article | Patricia Marx Story Corp episode
1 hr 43 min - THE O.C. has a holiday coma dream (with Louie Rendon)
The O.C.: “The Chrismukk-Huh?”
It's Chrismukkah in July! Louie Rendon of The Mixed Reviews (who's appropriately recording from his beach vacation) heads to sunny California for this teen drama's It's a Wonderful Life homage, featuring an alt-world coma dream during the holidays where Ryan (Ben McKenzie) never came to Newport Beach! We talk about the legacy of this hugely popular but weirdly forgotten series, along with the difference between Mischa Barton and Rachel Bilson, the Chris Pratt jump scare, the "just a little nap" approach to a coma, and why Autumn Reeser's Taylor is a queer icon.
Find more from Louie:
The Mixed Reviews: linktr.ee/TheMixedReviews
Twitter: @TheMixedReviews | Instagram: @the_mixed_reviews
Louie on Twitter: @louiegrendon
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Sources:
Vulture
1 hr 40 min - Reairing: STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS traps bounty hunters in a box (with Distant Echoes)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "The Box"
We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David talks about his own thoughts on the movie Cube and his experiences with Star Wars and The Clone Wars.
Then, we present the original episode with fellow Glitterjaw friends Cass and Tommy of Distant Echoes to talk about this unexpected horror homage, where an undercover Obi-Wan and a ragtag group of bounty hunters try to survive and escape the deadly traps of a giant space box.
Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast: glitterjaw.com/distant-echoes
Twitter: @DistantEchoesSW | Instagram: @distantechoessw | TikTok: @distantechoespod
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Season 1 Theme song: "Swift Electric" by Cyberbear | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Episode Sources:
The Distant Echoes episode on "The Box" | Wookieepedia1 hr 46 min - Reairing: LOST kills Nikki and Paulo (with Animorphing Time)
Lost: "Exposé"
We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David provides his hot takes on Nikki & Paulo, Shannon, and falling in love with Sayid, while Derek gives updates about Lost and Damon Lindelof in 2024.Then, we present the original episode where Tyler and Nate (Animorphing Time, The Bruce Campbell Podcast, Hate Speech) bring the razzle dazzle to this Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead-style story, which revisits Lost's history through the eyes of its infamously hated diamond-loving duo and celebrates classic schlocky TV.
Find Tyler & Nate's Podcasts:
Animorphing Time Podcast | Twitter: @animorphingtime
The Bruce Campbell Podcast | Twitter: @BruceCpod
Hate Speech | Twitter: @h8speechpod----
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Season 1 Theme song: "Swift Electric" by Cyberbear | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Episode Sources:
The Storm Podcast | Lostpedia | The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall | TV Guide | Entertainment Weekly | AV Club
2 hr 12 min - Reairing: BATMAN does a Rashomon-style cop drama (with Gavin Mevius)
Batman: The Animated Series: "P.O.V."
We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David provides his thoughts on Batman and its amazing intro, while Derek talks about his recent experience watching the show with food poisoning.
Then, we present the original episode with Gavin Mevius of The Mixed Reviews to talk about this episode with very little Batman, told from the perspectives of secondary cop characters Renee Montoya, Harvey Bullock, and a rookie voiced by Disney's Beast, along with a barrage of censorship troubles.
Find more from Gavin:
The Mixed Reviews: linktr.ee/TheMixedReviews
Twitter: @TheMixedReviews | Instagram: @the_mixed_reviews
A proud part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective
Tip us on Ko-Fi | Gimmicks Website
Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @gimmickspod | Instagram: @gimmickspod
Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Season 1 Theme song: "Swift Electric" by Cyberbear | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Episode Sources: Batman Animated Wiki | AV Club | The Matt Signal
1 hr 33 min
About Gimmicks
From the publisher's feed
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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