The Pirates of Dark Water is a 1990 cartoon Elizabeth has no direct memory of watching. What she does remember vividly, though, is playing make-believe around the idea of “The Pirates of Dark Water” in elementary school. After the rewatch, Elizabeth delights in recounting the first five episodes of The Pirates of Dark Water in…

Katherine From Sweden returns to revisit a childhood favorite, Harriet the Spy. The book is about an 11-year-old girl, the titular Harriet, who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan circa 1964. Harriet wants to know everything there is to know about anything, and obsessively writes down the things she observes in a series…

Babyface Conor chooses to revisit The Adventures of Pete and Pete, a live-action Nickelodeon Show about the surreal suburban adventures of two brothers, both named Pete. The show aired in the early 1990’s before Conor was born, so we start by discussing how one can be nostalgic about something they didn’t live through. We then…

Noah and Elizabeth head on down to South Park and revisit its very first season from 1997. South Park has been continuously produced to the present day by its original creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The 23rd Season premieres this Wednesday. The show’s legacy is. . .complicated. Trey Parker and Matt Stone made (and…

Everyone loves Star Trek: The Next Generation. But with over a hundred episodes spanning 7 seasons, there’s just too much to choose from. So for this discussion, Noah and Elizabeth each picked an episode they remembered vividly from their childhoods. We shortly discover that the two chosen episodes, “Masks” and “Genesis”, are two of the…

Katherine From Sweden revisits The Dark is Rising, a 1973 children’s fantasy classic by Susan Cooper. The book combines beautiful prose, English folklore, dull fetchquest plotting, and an overpowering sense of fatalism. The unique result of this is not quite like anything else in children’s literature. Our discussion touches on not only Katherine’s experience reading…

Near-Doctor Brigit walks us through her childhood favorite, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Easily the most divisive film of the series, Brigit walks us through its pile of contradictions and what it meant to her as a child. At once it is: *A live-action cartoon *A fantasy metaphor for relationships with abusive parents…

Near-Doctor Brigit walks us through her childhood favorite, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Easily the most divisive Indiana Jones movie, Brigit walks us through its pile of contradictions and what it meant to her as a child. At once it is: *A deeply problematic white savior narrative overflowing with ethnic stereotypes*“A primer on…

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...