This week, Tessa reads Brian K. Vaughan's series Paper Girls.

Andy watches BoJack Horseman.

Sam revisits The Matrix _Trilogy--and, bonus, _The Animatrix!

Sam discusses his rewatch of some Grey's Anatomy. (Spoilers from the first five seasons!)

Andy talks about the greatest film ever made: CItizen Kane.

Tessa discusses forcing herself to watch the 2017 Ghost in the Shell live-action adaptation.

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This week, Sam talks about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the highs and lows of living in West Covina.

Tessa discusses Steven Universe--and the Crystal Gems.

Andy gets into how much he loves Avatar: The Last Airbender and how much he hates the M. Night Shyamalan adaptation.

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This week, Andy shares his reactions to the first season of Happy Endings.

Tessa talks time travel with the film Primer.

Sam discusses the Canadian feel-good show Kim's Convenience.

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This week Tessa, Sam, and Andy talk about the role that upcoming adaptations play in list management.

Sam reads The Eye of the World, the first novel in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

Andy watches the film adaptation of Artemis Fowl.

Tessa plays BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic.

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This week, we are joined by our very first guest, Steve Guntli of the Ultra 64 podcast

Steve talks about his long-forgotten monkey, Sucker Punch's Playstation 3 classic Infamous.

Tessa talks about experiencing Beyonce's Lemonade (The Visual Album).

Sam watches Ava DuVernay's 2016 documentary 13th.

Andy reads a little of Jonathan Hickman's East of West.

Steve Guntli can be found on twitter @ultra64podcast.

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This week the crew talks about the phenomena known as "Netflix Cheating" because we all do it.

Andy discusses reading Frank Herbert's Dune.

Tessa watches SyFy's The Expanse (Season 1).

Sam plays Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake.

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This week, Andy plays Ocelot Society's HAL 3000 simulation Event [0].

Sam listens to the remastered version of Smashing Pumpkin's 1991 hit album Gish.

Tessa finally watches the original blockbuster: Steven Spielberg's 1975 Jaws.

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The Primer. The prologue to this podcast. We'll be introducing ourselves and talking about the rules of this podcast, why we are doing it and why you should listen. 

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In the first real episode of Monkey Off My Backlog:

Tessa reads Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief.

Sam discusses the British miniseries A Very English Scandal.

Andy watches his first Akira Kurosawa film, High and Low.

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