Overthinking It Podcast

Peter Fenzel hosts with Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Josh McNeil to Overthink the new Three Musketeers movie, the new TV show Grimm, and some of the reasons why we aren’t watching Two and a Half Men.

Bonus Podcast Visual Aid: Belinkie, being a devotee of  The Three Musketeers, has assembled a chart comparing plot points across the novel and 4 different movie versions:

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Episode 174: Girlfriends are Horcruxes originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Joshua McNeil, and David Shechner to overthink listener feedback, including questions about pronunciation, mind control, Drive the comic, Terry Pratchett and what it means to overthink, the meaning of art (not actually a question, but it’s one of our continual obsessions), and Hunger Games.

Stay tuned for Mark Lee’s after hours podcast, Raw Lee.

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Episode 173: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog of The Will originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Peter Fenzel hosts with Mark Lee, Josh McNeil, and John Perich to Overthink Mark Lee’s trip to New York Comic-Con, the future of comics, and the Neal Stephenson novel Reamde.

[Note: due to a technical issue, the last ten minutes of the episode were cut off from the recording. We apologize and hope to be back next week with a full, unabridged episode.]

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Episode 172: Johnny Appleseed’s Seed-Shooting Gatling Gun originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather and Mark Lee consider the future of media, the great Netflix divorce, and the deeper meanings of movies like Barely Legal and Sorority Boys.

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Episode 171: First World Problems originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Joshua McNeil, and Timothy Swann to overthink Moneyball, statistics, useful and less useful narratives, and the crisis of masculinity in the modern world.

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Episode 170: Guy who makes the craft services who feeds Aaron Sorkin originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Peter Fenzel hosts with Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, Joshua McNeil, John Perich, David Shechner, and Matthew Wrather to overthink the third (leather) anniversary of the weekly Overthinking It Podcast and how being an overthinker has changed us all.

Also, there’s this.

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Episode 169: Zone 4 Now Boarding originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and John Perich to overthink the upcoming season of television, Drive, good actors in bad movies, and the moral laziness of Prestige Holocaust Movies.

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Episode 168: You have a choice, Ryan Gosling! originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes to overthink Star Trek.

At least, that’s what they intend at the outset. The tenth anniversary of 9/11/01 does come up, and the conversation does wander a bit. Maybe even more than usual. But they eventually get around to Star Trek. So it’s not a broken promise. Which is an improvement.

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Episode 167: Natural Brunch Talk originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Joshua McNeil, and John Perich to overthink product placements, the video-game-ization of movies, and whether Zoe Saldana could kick your ass.

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Episode 166: Buffering… Buffering… Buffering… originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Peter Fenzel hosts with Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, Josh McNeil, Jordan Stokes, and special guest Timothy Swann to overthink storms in pop culture, Lt. Dan’s CGI legs, the MTV Video Music Awards, and Colombiana. 

Plugged in this episode: Tim’s appearance on the MOMBCast, and his own upcoming podcast, Psycomedia; and Fenzel’s upcoming Back To The Future-themed Improv Comedy show, 1.21 Jigowatts.

(Note: apologies for any problems with the audio quality. Blame it on the rain, as Milli Vanilli would say.)

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Episode 165: Mandatory Post-Colonial Guilt originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]