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March 23, 2009Episode 38: Der Haifisch in Venedig
Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich, and Jordan Stokes to Overthink:
Series Finales (real and imagined)
Battlestar Galactaca. Spoiler Alert: There will be no more episodes.
The Blunders and Successes of SyFy
Allegories of the Book of Mormon
The Twilight Movie: The nuance of pornography, the subtlety of horror, the sexiness of melodrama.
Links Mentioned in the Podcast:
Sandglass: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CNSAXO?ie=UTF8&tag=overtit-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000CNSAXO
SyFy’s original Films: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sci_Fi_Pictures_original_films
Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism: http://www.millennialstar.org/2006/02/12/battlestar-galactica-and-mormonism/
Turbo Boost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arL04K3HLMw
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Episode 38: Der Haifisch in Venedig 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)]
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March 16, 2009 Episode 37: Fair and Balanced
Mark Lee hosts as he, Matt Belinkie, and Josh McNeil overthink the Watchmen movie one last time (at least on the podcast), the Jim Cramer vs. John Jon Stewart showdown, and our Google Reader habits. Plus, Lee reveals a deep, dark secret from his past for the first time. (Feel free to flame him in the comments.)
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March 09, 2009 Episode 36: Watchmen Internal Affairs
Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Peter Fenzel, Joshua McNeil, David Shechner, and (drumroll) new OTI staff writer John Perich to overthink the Watchmen movie, which several of us have seen and all of us pontificate about, with minor digressions into Leonard Cohen and (of course) The Wire.
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March 02, 2009 Episode 35: Who [Verb]s the [Verb]ers?
By popular demand, Shana Mlawski makes her Overthinking It Podcast debut in this episode. She is joined by Mark Lee, Matthew Belinkie, and Peter Fenzel who overthink the Jonas Brothers concert movie, Watchmen, and other unfilmable things.
Warning: Watchmen (graphic novel) spoilers contained. We tried our best predict how the movie would end, so it’s possible (though highly unlikely) that we managed to spoil the ending of the movie as well.
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February 24, 2009 Episode 34: NSFW
Estragon: Well, shall we talk about the Oscars®?
Vladimir: Yes, let’s talk about the Oscars®.
(They do not talk about the Oscars®.)
The Overthinkers troll Wikipedia for dirty pictures, discuss the nature of the umlaut, and eventually get around to talking about the Oscars®. Almost.
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February 16, 2009 Episode 33: Oscar Predictions Across Alternate Universes
Mark Lee hosts a panel consisting of Peter Fenzel and Jordan Stokes who, before they get to Oscar® predictions, overthink Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre Letterman interview, Monster Ballads, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and the new Friday the 13th movie.
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After the jump: The list of Oscar® pics that the panel chose during the podcast. All of the author’s predictions are of course correct for the alternate universe for which they infallibly see the future, but check back next week to see if any of these lined up with reality as we purportedly perceive it (Note: before you rip Lee’s predictions to shreds, either listen to the podcast to determine his criteria, or just look for the pattern).
Best Picture
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fenzel: Frost/Nixon
Stokes: Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
The Reader
Best Director
Lee, Fenzel, Stokes: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor
Lee: Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Fenzel: Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Stokes: * Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actress
Lee: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Stokes: Meryl Streep – Doubt
Fenzel: Kate Winslet – The Reader
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Best Supporting Actor
Lee: Josh Brolin – Milk
Fenzel Stokes: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Lee: Amy Adams – Doubt
Fenzel, Stokes: Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Original Screenplay
Fenzel: Milk
Lee: Frozen River
Stokes: WALL-E
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Best Adapted Screenplay
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fenzel: Frost/Nixon
Stokes: Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Doubt
Best Animated Feature
Lee: Bolt
Fenzel: Kung Fu Panda
Stokes: WALL-E
Best Foreign Language Film
Fenzel: Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Stokes: The Class (France)
Lee: The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Best Animated Short
Lee: La Maison En Petits Cubes
Stokes, Fenzel: Oktapodi
Lavatory – Lovestory
Presto
This Way Up
Best Art Direction
Lee: Changeling
Fenzel: Revolutionary Road
Stokes: The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess

Best Cinematography
Fenzel: Slumdog Millionaire
Lee: Changeling
Stokes: The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader
Best Costume Design
Lee: Australia
Stokes, Fenzel: The Duchess
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Best Documentary Feature
Lee, Stokes: Encounters at the End of the World
Fenzel: Man on Wire
Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
The Garden
Trouble the Water
Best Documentary Short
Lee, Fenzel: The Conscience of Nhem En
Stokes: Smile Pinki
The Final Inch
The Witness
Best Film Editing
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Stokes: The Dark Knight
Fenzel: Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Live Action Short
Lee, Stokes: Manon On the Asphalt
Fenzel: The Pig
On the Line
New Boy
Toyland
Best Makeup
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fenzel, Stokes: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Dark Knight
Best Original Score
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Fenzel: Milk
Stokes: Slumdog Millionaire
Defiance
WALL-E
Best Original Song
Lee: “Down to Earth” from WALL-E
Stokes: “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire
Fenzel: “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire
Best Sound Editing
Lee:The Dark Knight
Fenzel, Stokes: Wanted
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Best Sound Mixing
Lee: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Stokes: WALL-E
Fenzel: Wanted
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Visual Effects
Lee, Stokes, Fenzel: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Episode 33: Oscar Predictions Across Alternate Universes 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)]
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February 09, 2009 Episode 32: Music You Will Never Hear
Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Mark Lee, Peter Fenzel, and Ryan Sheely (with special guest John Levin) to overthink the moderate suck-fest that is the Grammys and our recent visit to New York Comic-Con.
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February 02, 2009 Episode 31: Superbowl Minus Football
The Overthinkers tackle everything about the superbowl except, um, football. Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee to overthink Superbowl commercials, the Bruce Springsteen halftime show, and why nobody ever made a Star Trek about a cargo ship.
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January 26, 2009 Episode 30: The New Episode 20
The Overthinkers (well, some of them) gather in New York’s East Village. Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Ryan Sheely (live), and Peter Fenzel and Dave Shechner (remotely) to Overthink listener questions, the inauguration, Barack Obama’s cult of personality, and the Oscars.
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January 19, 2009 Episode 29: A Jigga-Jigglypuff
Matthew Wrather hosts a panel with Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and David Shechner to wrap up Back To The Future week on OverthinkingIt.com with the science of time travel, suspension of disbelief, and what a Jigga-Watt is anyway.
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