Hugging And Learning

What are the Seaver kids up to this week? Why, a good old-fashioned 80s cocaine party! Join Chelsea, Andrew, Miles, Mike, Boner, and Michael Caine (in spirit) as we dive into what to do when you're at a party and your dad's much-younger fiancé dangles a vial of blow in your face.

Show: GROWING PAINS \\ "Thank God It's Friday," Season 2 Episode 15

Air Date: February 10, 1987

Find it: on Amazon Prime Video

Snack: Jelly Belly Holiday Favorites

Further Reading:

• From Cringeworthy to Scary: A History of Anti-Drug PSAs | Marketplace
• Just Say No | Wikipedia

Well this is a first — Chelsea and Andrew unwittingly watched two different episodes of Hannah Montana! Both of them are about Type 1 Diabetes. Join us on a sugar-fueled adventure through a world of secrets, soul patches, and Disney-Trained Child Actors (TM), where felonies are punchlines, twenty-somethings are tweens, and everyone has an extensive wig collection.

Show: HANNAH MONTANA \\ "No Sugar, Sugar," Season 2, Episode 30 (originally)

Air Date: November 2, 2008 (originally)

Find it: on Amazon Prime Video

Snack: Kinder Joy Egg

Further Reading:

• The Truth About the 'Hannah Montana' Diabetes Episode | Parade
• No Sugar, Sugar | Hannah Montana Wiki
• What "The Baby-Sitters Club" Taught Me About My Disease
• T1 International | #Insulin4All

The Brady Bunch are in the (sanitized, Euro-American) Thanksgiving spirit! Join Chelsea and Andrew as they wade through a swamp of insensitivity, problematic nomenclature, revisionist history, and groovy slang to get to the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday itself: sight gags. Ad-libbing abounds on this trip down memory lane to an older, less-inclusive time. Happy Native American Heritage Month! *facepalm*

Show: THE BRADY BUNCH \\ "The Un-Underground Movie," Season 2, Episode 04

Air Date: October 16, 1970

Find it: on Hulu or CBS All Access

Snack: 365 Organic Dark Chocolate Quinoa Bark

Further Reading:

• Mayflower History
• Samoset Biography
• Thanksgiving for Native Americans: Four Voices on a Complicated Holiday | NY Times

How scary is TOO scary for children? It's a question seemingly no one on the set of this infamous episode ever asked. Join Andrew, Chelsea, Miles, Mr. Pieces, Punky, Brandon (for your Emmy consideration) and the rest of the gang as we literally and figuratively fight our way out of a demon-haunted cave in definitely somewhere close to Chicago and not the coast of California.

Show: Punky Brewster \\ "The Perils of Punky, Parts 1&2," Season 2, Episodes 6 & 7

Air Date: October 20, 1985

Find it: on Amazon Prime Video ($1.99 for each episode)

Snacks:

• Homemade: Trader Joe's Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookie Mix
• Spooky: world's worst trick-or-treat bags (religious tract, almonds, pennies, toothbrush)
• Sweet: Oreos Mystery Flavor 2019

Further Reading:

• Inside 'The Perils of Punky,' the 'Punky Brewster' Episode That Scarred You For Life | Yahoo! Entertainment
• How Punky Brewster Traumatized a Nation
• We Tried Every Single Oreo Flavor On Shelves. Here's What Came Out On Top. | Delish.com

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Like an angst-seeking missile, Angela Chase has gone from trailing after living phantom Jordan Catalano to actual phantom Nicky Driscoll in this Halloweeniest of episodes. We promise this is not a backdoor pilot for Chelsea's spinoff MSCL podcast. Probably.

Show: MY SO-CALLED LIFE \\ "Halloween," Season 1, Episode 9

Air Date: October 27, 1994

Find it: on Amazon Prime Video ($0.99 to buy episode)

Snacks:

• Handmade: donuts from Blue Star Donuts
• Spooky: Brach's Classic Candy Corn, M&Ms White Chocolate Candy Corn, Kraft Jet-Puffed Candy Corn Mallows
• Sweet: M&Ms Creepy Cocoa Crisp

Further Reading:

• My So-Called Life: "Halloween" | The AV Club
• What I Learned From Re-Watching My-So Called Life as an Adult | The Atlantic

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Doogie Howser may be the youngest practicing surgeon in greater Los Angeles, but when the 1992 LA riots come rolling through his ER, he engages his black patients and colleagues with the moralizing and head-patting of a much older man. Will he learn to confront his white privilege in the face of a city on fire? Or just misquote MLK and call it a day? There are a lot of sides to this story, and we're gonna try to cover them ALL in one short episode (just like the writers on this sitcom did).

Show: Doogie Howser, M.D. \\ "There's a Riot Going On," Season 4, Episode 1

Air Date: Sept 23, 1992

Find it: on Hulu

Snack: Mr. Clint's Tutti Fruitti Popcorn (thanks, Levi!)

Further Reading:

• Los Angeles Riots Fast Facts | CNN
• How The L.A. Riots Got Written Into TV Plots In Fall 1992 | LAist
• Television's New Theme: L.A. Riots | LA TIMES (1992)
• MLK: A riot is the language of the unheard
• What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots
• Replaying the LA Riots | The Washington Post

Landfills are overflowing, the ice caps are melting, and the oceans are dying. What's a 90s kid to do? The bare minimum, as it turns out. Join Chelsea and Andrew as we head back to Camp Ananwanna for litter, lectures, and one truly lame Environmental Party.

Show: Salute Your Shorts \\ "ZZ Saves the Planet," Season 1, Episode 13

Air Date: July 1, 1991

Find it: some episodes on Amazon Prime Video (but not this one)

Snack: Nestle's Coffee Crisp Candy Bar

Further Reading:

• 'Salute Your Shorts' Turns 25: Where Are They Now?
• '90s kids were asked to do 'simple things' to save the Earth. Gen Z is thinking bigger.
• School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules | Greta Thunberg | TEDxStockholm

The title of this episode is a bit misleading, because Tootie actually finds FOUR BONGS over the course of 24 minutes. What is going on here? And who will take these wayward children firmly in hand? You can bet it won't be Mrs. Garrett, so come along with us and Oscar-Winner Helen Hunt to plumb the depths of Eastland School — hotbed of crime.

Show: THE FACTS OF LIFE \\ "Dope," Season 1, Episode 13

Air Date: June 11, 1980

Special Guest Star: Helen Hunt

Find it: at the Paley Center

Snack: Trader Joe's Milk Chocolate & Honey Toffee Pecans

Further Reading:

• Pot smoking may leave mark on teen brains | CNN

Welcome back for Season 3!

It's time to confront the convicted rapist elephant in the room — Bill Cosby. Can we still watch THE COSBY SHOW and feel okay with ourselves? We've been avoiding it for two seasons, but it's time to face this dracula head-on. Join Andrew, Chelsea, Miles, and Sammy Davis Jr. as we grapple with whether or not it's ever possible to separate the artist from the art, and what happens when a VSE raises more questions about illiteracy than it answers.

Show: THE COSBY SHOW \\ "No Way, Baby" Season 5, Episode 16

Air Date: February 16, 1989

Special Guest Star: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Find it: on Amazon Prime Video

Snack: Jaquet Belgian Waffle

Further Reading:

• I Re-Watched 'The Cosby Show' And It Was Brutal | HuffPost Black Voices
• How to Think About Bill Cosby and 'The Cosby Show' | The NY Times
• The National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline
• 'I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen | The Cut

Do you miss us?? Andrew, Chelsea, and Miles are here for a Season 2 recap and Q&A to tide you over until Season 3 drops! We're ranking the eps (both awesome and awful), reminiscing about the guests, and answering your listener questions. Plus, we look ahead to ponder the deepest issue of this program — how do we up our snack game for Season 3?

Snack: Vosges Peanut Butter BonBons (sent by Jeff Noble — thanks!)