Grab your cereal, kids, because we’re taking a nostalgia-powered plunge into the chaotic, colorful world of Saturday morning cartoons!

In this episode, Ben, Tom, and Gregory dissect, debate, and reminisce about the shows that defined a generation—both the hits and the weird, slightly forgotten ones!

Here's what’s on the docket!

The Big Three: Doug, Recess, Pepper Ann—who really deserved the crown?

• Doug moves to Bluffington, meets Patty Mayonnaise, Skeeter, Roger, and the Dinks!
• Recess taught life lessons disguised as playground antics!
• Pepper Ann pushed the boundaries with dry humor, awkward crushes, and a memorable time capsule finale!

Character deep dives:

• Mr. Dink, Quail Man, Bebe Bluff, and Porkchop the dog!
• Pepper Ann’s tomboy sister Moose and her badass mom!
• Mark Hamill guest-starring as himself. Alex Trebek running a recurring joke!

Cartoon Network Classics:

• Dexter’s Lab
• Johnny Bravo
• Powerpuff Girls
• Cow & Chicken
• Sheep in the Big City
• Time Squad
• Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?
• I Am Weasel
• Grim & Evil
• Ed, Ed, and Eddy
• Mike, Lu, and Og
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Codename: Kids Next Door
• And more!

Neo-era gems:

• Chowder
• Flapjack
• Clone High
• Megas XLR
• Squirrel Boy!

Disney Afternoon & Beyond:

• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (with Patrick Warburton)!
• Mighty Ducks, Tarzan, Teamo Supremo, L.T. Grey, and other nostalgic hits!
• Timon & Pumbaa, Hercules, and the intricate history of Mickey Mouse Works → House of Mouse!

Space and Beyond:

• Lloyd in Space: Recess… but intergalactic!
• Galaxy High School: 80s space-school hilarity with Amy Brighttower & Doyle Cleverlobe!

Magic, live-action, and teen drama:

• Sabrina the Animated Series (Emily Hart voicing a young Sabrina)!
• Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, Braceface, and Ginger confusion galore!

Pop culture tangents:

• References to Song of the South, Lion King SNES game rage, ProZD movie recaps, and more!

From childhood memories to deep dives into character dynamics, voice actors, and network programming strategies, this episode is a loving (and occasionally hilarious) tribute to Saturday mornings of the ’90s and early ’00s!

Expect wild tangents, obscure trivia, and the occasional debate about which show was really the best!

Welcome to the Ultimate Donkey Kong Fan Cast… sorta! This week, we’ve traded barrels for backpacks and explored the magical, chaotic, totally legitimate world of Disney’s One Saturday Morning!

Join Ben, Greg, and Tom as they take you on a nostalgia-fueled ride through:

• How much stuff can an elephant crush? (Spoiler: a lot!)
• Mrs. Munger’s Class – the original animated yearbook chaos!
• Centerville – same photos, more backgrounds, catchphrases on repeat!
• Manny the Uncanny & Mr. Lighter-than-Air – live-action educational adventures!
• Tube Dwellers → Monkey Boys – slapstick in a television, literally!
• Timon & Pumbaa explain science (sort of!)
• Robin Williams as Genie teaching history – “Great minds think to themselves!”

Main shows:

• Doug
• Recess
• Pepper Ann

Saturday mornings were a five-hour workout for your eyeballs, where kids in black-and-white photos said unfunny things that were somehow hilarious!

Warning: Listening may cause sudden urges to yell “Grace!” or animate your own yearbook!

It’s the 100th episode spectacular!

Ben, Gregory, Tom, and West Coast cousin Michael gather at last — the four heads of the Penny Men Mount Rushmore — for a centennial celebration of nonsense, nostalgia, and nerdom! The guys attempt to recall anything they’ve ever said across 99 episodes, but mostly end up reading lists, assigning points that don’t matter, and starting a 100-question quiz they’ll never finish!

Topics include:

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the invention of “guy with two personalities” literature!
• Arabian Nights, murder wives, and genies!
• Outlaws of the Marsh, Chinese super-monks, and proto-anime Vegetas!
• Batman: Nightfall, Punisher crossovers, and the golden era of too-many Batmen!
• Secret Identity by Alex Segura, TMNT’s 150-issue odyssey, and literary homework piles!
• The eternal question: Is Bane Thomas Wayne’s son?

It’s chaos, it’s scholarship, it’s friendship — it’s 100 episodes of penny-sized philosophy culminating in one enormous mess of celebration!

Tag it under: #TMNT #Batman #Comics #Literature #PodcastMilestone #ThePennyMen #Episode100

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve done it 98 times—and we’re doing it one more time!

The Penny People are back in the galaxy far, far away for The Clone Wars, the animated fever dream where every Jedi gets a haircut and every clone gets feelings!

Ben, Gregory, and Tom take the long way ‘round hyperspace, stopping to ponder the big question: what is Star Wars, anyway?

Along the way, we meet:

• Compassionate clones
• Celebrity Jedi
• And the tragic tale of General Stanky—hero of the 14th Quadrant!

There’s:

• Tax disputes
• Baby Hutts
• And a crash course on the West End Games RPG!

The boys debate:

• Why Clone Wars feels like M*A*S*H*
• How Anakin got a Padawan before he got a clue
• And whether Jar Jar deserves redemption (Spoiler: he does not)!

Featuring:

• Dissertations on the politics of midi-chlorians
• Tom’s theory that clone troopers are just unionized stormtroopers
• Greg’s impression of every droid ever built
• And a surprise tangent on samurai films, AI generals, and space bureaucracy!

It’s lightsabers, philosophy, and bad impressions—your classic Penny Men mix!

This is Episode 99: The Clone Wars – The Rise of General Stanky!

The Penny Men are still trapped in Ben's apartment — or possibly Skywalker Ranch 2: Special Edition — and discover George Lucas has been hiding a Wookie jar, a Red Tails podcast, and several unproduced sequels to Strange Magic!

Meanwhile, Ben, Tom, and Gregory try to remember the entire Star Wars Expanded Universe from memory, covering:

• Cindel Tawani’s journalism career
• Luke’s secret ooze girlfriend
• And Cade Skywalker’s death stick problem!

Along the way, the boys accidentally pitch:

• A live-action Jetsons movie
• A Street Fighter reboot starring Jack Black
• And the new Penny Men format: “Draw From the Phantom Jar”!

Featuring guest appearances by George Lucas, Admiral Sushi Bar, and Yuck Yuck Binks!

The Penny Men continue their 24-hour Star Wars binge and quickly lose track of time, space, and pizza delivery etiquette!

• George Lucas lurks in the corner
• Watto and Jar Jar fight for stage time
• Somehow a Hungry Howie’s girl sneaks into The Skywalker Ranch
• Greg and Tom debate the video game canon (Knights of the Old Republic, Battlefront, Rogue Squadron)
• Ben orders a pizza mid-recording
• And everyone wrestles with the Legacy of the Force novels, Fate of the Jedi, and why every Skywalker has to lose an arm!

Along the way:

• Chuck E. Cheese rebrands itself as Pasqually’s
• Mace "I Don’t Do Windows" is born
• And Earth, Wind & Fire nearly become canon!

It’s the Star Wars Expanded Universe like you’ve never heard it before — live from the bar that never closes, with blue milk on tap and George Lucas picking toppings off your slice!

The Penny Men return from their longest break yet and find the party at The Skywalker Ranch 2 hasn’t slowed down!

Ben, Gregory, and Tom kick things off with a debate over Clueless and the great teen rom-com continuum before sliding back into their booth at the galaxy’s most chaotic cantina!

Between dodging E.T.’s stares and Alf’s interruptions, they wrestle with the big question: what’s so great about Star Wars?

This week, it’s the Legacy of the Force era:

• Jason Solo’s visions
• Ben Skywalker’s training
• Bug wars
• Political schisms
• And the shocking possibility that Mara Jade might’ve had a hand in Padmé’s fate!

Plus, appearances from George Lucas, Jar Jar's stand-up set, and a cat named KitKat who may or may not be Force-sensitive!

The Penny Men are back, this time broadcasting live from an alien dive bar where the comedy lineup is as unpredictable as the Star Wars Expanded Universe itself!

Jar Jar Binks takes the stage as “Yuck Yuck Binks” with a new set of groaners, George Lucas lurks in the corner heckling his own continuity, and Seinfeld barely makes it past the wings!

But in between spilled drinks and bad puns, the guys tackle:

• The New Jedi Order books
• The Yuuzhan Vong invasion
• Chewbacca’s moon-crash death
• Han’s midlife crisis
• Mara Jade’s poisoning
• And Jason, Jaina, and Anakin Solo being pulled in three very different directions!

It’s bird-Jedi philosophies, bio-organic war machines, Luke Skywalker fumbling through Jedi Council leadership, and the fall of Coruscant—all told with the energy of a roast battle gone off the rails!

Grab your desserts (Chew-baklava, anyone?) and settle in for the chaos!

Welcome back to The Penny Men, live (sort of) from what used to be Ben’s apartment and is now apparently an alien supper club, nightclub, and George Lucas vanity project!

There’s a line out the door, Jar Jar Binks is headlining under his new stage name Yuck Yuck Binks, and Dexter Jettster is threatening to spit in our drinks!

In between ordering orange whips and dodging chandeliers themed after Alderaan, your three hosts try their best to recap the entire Star Wars saga in chronological order!

Featuring:

• The ancient Republic and Darth Bane’s Rule of Two
• Qui-Gon Jinn sass
• Anakin’s immaculate conception conspiracy
• The Clone Wars
• Red Dwarf fan recommendations
• And every era of the galaxy far, far away!

Along the way we:

• Complain about too many Jedi surviving Order 66
• Debate who belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Star Wars
• Revive Bubsy (again)
• And discover the hidden comedy album of Jar Jar Binks!

It’s history, it’s chaos, it’s a nightclub floor show!

What’s so great about Star Wars? George might say “money,” but we’re here to figure out the rest!

It’s the Revenge of the Sith episode of The Penny Men, and somehow it’s also amateur night at the George Lucas Comedy Club!

We came here to do a clean, straightforward lightning-round recap of Episode III, but between Yakko Warner singing Gilbert & Sullivan, surprise Animaniacs geography lessons, and Jar Jar Binks insisting on his own Gungan stand-up routine, we’re barely making it through the plot!

Still, in between the bad puns and Ewok waiters pitching Dulok spinoffs, we actually do cover the big stuff:

• Anakin gets promoted to “spy on everybody” duty
• Obi-Wan gets stuck with lizard-riding and robot-coughing
• Yoda takes a detour to the Wookiee planet
• Mace Windu takes a flying lesson courtesy of Palpatine’s force lightning
• The Jedi Council is suspicious
• Padmé is worried
• And Anakin is somehow convinced that the best way to save his wife is to join the guy who looks like melted candle wax!

It’s our Revenge of the Sith breakdown as only The Penny Men could do it: part recap, part roast, part variety show hosted by George himself!

If we survive this night at the Lucas Lounge, maybe we’ll actually finish Star Wars!