Artist and writer Aoife Dooley joins us to to talk about beloved naughties dinnertime staple, Malcolm In The Middle. We talked about our favourite episodes, similarities between Malcolm family and our families, Sarah and Aoife have a lengthy digression about where some of The Snapper was filmed. It was a good time! The show wasn’t streaming anywhere legally in Ireland when we recorded this and then a week later it became available on Disney+. Did we have something to do with that? We’ll never tell.

Aoife is @Aoife_Dooley . Her graphic novel for kids, Frankie’s World, is out today if you’re listening to this the day it comes out. If you’re listening to it on another day, it’s also out now.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Happy holidays to one and all! We had planned to do something big and special in the studio but well, y’know, so instead we gathered some of our Juvenalia family remotely to talk about our favourite Christmas music. We accidentally talked about Baby, It’s Cold Outside for far too long even though it wasn’t on any of our lists but you’ll be glad to hear that we’ve finally sorted that whole situation out.

Thanks to everybody who’s listened to us this year. It means the world to us that people make us part of their day.

Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. You can and should listen to her on The Nialler9 Podcast and My Favourite Album with Andrea Cleary.

Fearghal is @fearghc. You can and should listen to his podcast Let’s Talk About The Arts and any show or performance he’s a part of.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Fearghal Curtis

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Comedian and writer Fiona Frawley joins us to talk about the rite of passage for many Irish schoolchildren, The Nativity Play. Not Alan though, his school was run by lax Catholics who didn’t bother with nativities. We talked about the plot, the theme, the characters of the nativity but also jumped off into a wider talk about growing up in a Catholic school system in a decreasingly Catholic society. That’s right, we Juvenaliaed it.

Fiona is @FionaFrawl. She’s very funny, you should follow her.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Teenagers! We’ve all been them. And yet, they’re terrifying. And none are more terrifying than the kids from Skins. Andrea Cleary and Amelia Cullen join us to re-examine it through the lens of four people aged 14-22 when the first episode aired. You might notice that this is an extra-long episode and that’s because we had an excellent chat. Hope you enjoy it!

Andrea is @AndreaCleary__. You can hear more of her on My Favourite Album and the Nialler9 Podcast.

Amelia is @AmeliaAmyJane. Her podcast is Lately and it is v good indeed.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is @griffski. Her books are in all good bookshops.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Amelia Cullen.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Singer-songwriter Maria Kelly joins Alan and guest co-host Cassie Delaney to talk about ever slightly alternative millennial’s favourite film of 2007, Juno. We talk about the soundtrack, JK Simmons and Alison Janney, Elliot Page’s amazing performance, how to avoid becoming Mark as you get older, being obsessed with Michael Cera, Kimya Dawson, we even talk about the colour grading. Honest to blog, it’s a great film and we had a great time talking about it.

Maria is @MariaKellyMusic. Her amazing album The Sum Of The In-Between is available everywhere now.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Cassie is @CassieLorraine. You can hear her every week on The Creep Dive

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Happy Halloween! When Julie Hough was on the show for episode 135, she mentioned that it would be cool if we did a Halloween Special about Halloween Specials and she was absolutely right! So we got Julie and our most knowledgeable telly friend Jenn Gannon to come back and have a chat with us about our favourite ever Halloween Specials! We talked about Sabrina, Community, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, Freaks and Geeks, Buffy, and more. A spooktacular time was had by all.

Julie is still @julie_hawk_ on Instagram and HAVVK is @havvkmusic. Their fantastic new album Levelling is still out and is still fantastic.

Jenn is still @jennpops on Twitter. You can find her on your radio and in your publications.

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops and her many zines are at sarahmariagriff.com

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Amelia Cullen.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Artist/Producer Elaine Mai joins us on a track by track journey through an album that was huge for her as a child, ABBA Gold! There’s not much more to say than that. It’s an amazing album and we enthuse wildly about pretty much every song.

Elaine is @elainemaimusic. Her brilliant album Home is out now and you should get it.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Alan.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Stand-up comedian and writer-producer-actress multi-hyphenate Allie O’Rourke joins us to talk about a bit of pop culture that was important to her during her second puberty, The Chris Gethard Show. We talk about the show’s public access origins, Chris Gethard’s hosting style, how the show inspired Allie in all the creative stuff she makes, and about how One Man’s Trash is the single greatest episode of television of all time. It was a fun one.

Allie is @allie_orourke on Twitter. Her new thing Hysteria Comedy is launching very soon and is VERY exciting.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Amelia Cullen.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

Head of research and projects at Tall Tales and host of All Things Considered Amelia Cullen joins us to talk about the forbidden book, V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In The Attic. We talk about reading things you’re not supposed to read, try to grapple with why the book has had such a grip on generations of teenage girls, and try to figure out how we should feel about Flowers In The Attic in 2021.

Amelia is @ameliaamyjane on instagram and twitter. Her excellent podcast All Things Considered is everywhere you can hear podcasts.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Fearghal Curtis.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thank you Cassie.

HAVVK singer and bassist Julie Hough joins us to talk about the short-lived suburban-weirdness comedy Eerie, Indiana. We traced its influences and descendants, marvelled at its ability to compress huge ideas into self-contained, 22 minute, kid-friendly episodes, and generally bonded over how good this show is.

Julie is @julie_hawk_ on Instagram and HAVVK is @havvkmusic. Their fantastic new album Levelling is out Sep 17th.

Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.

We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes including our fortnightly show Started/Finished where we talk about the pop culture we started and finished in the previous two weeks. We also have some free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia

This episode was edited and produced by Fearghal Curtis and Cassie Delaney.

Juvenalia is a Tall Tales podcast. Thanks you Cassie.