Monkey Off My Backlog

By Tessa Swehla and Sam Morris

Every week, Tessa and Sam exorcise their personal pop culture demons by going through their media to-do lists one item at a time. Each week involves a discussion about the media they listened, watched... more

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How many episodes does Monkey Off My Backlog have?

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Monkey Off My Backlog episodes:

April 21, 2022 Sam Watches Star Trek - Episode 14
This week, Sam samples the 4k remaster of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and watches the 2013 film Star Trek: Into Darkness.
46.0 - brief discussion of the 4k remaster of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
6:43 - Star Trek: Into Darkness
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53min
April 18, 2022 Ep. 96 - Free Guy, The Flight Attendant, Blasphemous
5:00 - Tessa watches the great Taika Waititi play against handsome everyman Ryan Reynolds
45:00 - Sam watches The Flight Attendant
1:05:15 - Andy plays Blasphemous
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1h 17min
April 15, 2022 Sam Watches Star Trek - Episode 13
This week, Sam watches the 2009 film reboot Star Trek.
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58min
April 11, 2022 Alfred Hitchcock
Tessa and Sam are joined this week by Matt to discuss films from three different eras of the Master of Suspense: Sabotage (1936), Rear Window, and Family Plot.
4:49 - Sabotage (1936)
16:16 - interruption of discussion of Sabotage to discuss of Hitchcock's film-making aesthetic and problematic history
23:35 - discussion of Sabotage resumes
26:58 - Matt's prior experience with Hitchcock's body of work and a discussion of Hitchcock as a auteur and auteur theory
34:03 - Alma Reville and her contribution to Hitchcock's work
38:34 - Rear Window
55:16 - Matt's approach to list-making
1:03:33 - Family Plot
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1h 23min
April 08, 2022 Sam Watches Star Trek - Episode 12
This week, Sam watches the final film with the entire TOS crew (excluding Majel Barrett), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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55min
April 04, 2022 Ep. 94 - X-men (the animated series), Platinum End, Coming to America
This week, Sam goes back for more X-men by watching the 1992 animated series, Andy watches the "banime" Platinum End, and Tessa finally watches the Eddie Murphy classic Coming to America. Plus, pop culture coming out in 2022 that we are looking forward to putting on our lists.
1:17 X-men, the 1992 animated series
20:23 - The gang discusses what pop culture they are looking forward to
34:38 - Platinum End
51:16 - Coming to America
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1h 11min
March 31, 2022 Sam Watches Star Trek - Episode 11
This week, Sam watches the film that almost killed the franchise: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
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47min
March 28, 2022 Video Games
This week
1:00 - Andy talks Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima (and it's many problems)
16:50 - What are Tessa and Sam looking to play on their Nintendo Switch
30:00 - Sam goes to HADES in Hades!
42:15 - Tessa plays Don't Starve!
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1h 2min
March 24, 2022 Sam Watches Star Trek - Episode 10
This week, Sam watches "the one with the whales in it": Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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46min
March 23, 2022 Oscar! Part 4 (Everything Else)
In the final part of our Academy Award discussion, Sam, Tessa, Megan, and Jack take you through all of the remaining awards.
00:43 - International Feature Film
3:33 - Documentary Feature
5:56 - Original and Adapted Screenplay
13:56 - Animated Feature
19:52 - Original Song and Score
28:02 - Cinematography
31:29 - Editing and Visual Effects
37:37 - Production Design and Sound
42:14 - Costume Design and Hair/Makeup
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51min

FAQs about Monkey Off My Backlog:

How many episodes does Monkey Off My Backlog have?

The podcast currently has 250 episodes available.