Alyssa and Kayla take a break from the horrors of the real world to deliver a gentler episode of Pretty Gross. Go on a journey with us into the wonders of 1970s cuisine and Scottish folklore. Links & pics below!

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1970s CUISINE

Vice article

Reddit thread

1970s dinner party Twitter

Buzzfeed article #1

Buzzfeed article #2

Buzzfeed article #3

Bustle article

NUCKELAVEE

Wikipedia article

Article #2

Article #3

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Pic #3

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Alyssa & Kayla celebrate Halloween with a "Halloween-adjacent" Pretty Gross special! Dig into some slightly Halloween-y topics with these two - don't worry, they're gross. Links & pics below!

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HUMAN BRANDING

Human Branding Wikipedia article

Human Branding video

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KITTENS

Fleas pic #1

Fleas pic #2

Wormy poop

It's our first anniversary special!! Alyssa and Kayla celebrate a year of gross by going outside the box in this "round table of gross" episode. Links & pics below!

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Pictures:

MANGO WORMS (extreme NSFL warning)

TRYPOPHOBIA

HELMINTHOPHOBIA FAN ART

PEDIOPHOBIA

List of phobias w/ links:

1. Ablutophobia

2. Arachnophobia

3. Emetophobia

4. Trypophobia

5. Toilet Phobia

6. Chaetophobia

7. Rectophobia

8. Taphophobia

9. Helminthophobia

10. Pediophobia

Alyssa and Kayla try to outdo each other in their 26th episode by digging into the oddities of both the human body - and human behavior. Links & pics below!

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SERIOUS BUSINESS Link to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network

PROLAPSES

Goatse

Wikipedia article

Pink sock definition

HUMAN-ANIMAL BREASTFEEDING

Wikipedia article

Pug lady

Puppy breastfeeding

Goat wetnurse

Donkey wetnurses

Alyssa and Kayla get wholesome - or at least as wholesome as possible when discussing bizarre beauty practices and gentle fetishes. Links & pics below!

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SNAIL SLIME

Snail facial #1

Snail facial #2

Snail mucin 'demonstration'

Snail slime pic

Racked article

Guardian article

LOONERS

Balloon fetish article

Dave video

Balloons United

Vice article

Buzzfeed article

Alyssa and Kayla get all technical and academic in this week's research-heavy episode. We discuss some of the more fascinating - and grotesque - foibles of human desire, and gross ourselves out in the process. Links & pics below!

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HUMAN HEMATOPHAGY

Article #1

Article #2

Wikipedia #1

Wikipedia #2

TENTACLE EROTICA

Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

Evil Dead example

Standard tentacle porn

Alyssa and Kayla explore two wildly different ends of the gross spectrum, and Kayla even flips the structure a bit in this traditional episode of Pretty Gross. Links & pics below!

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CHICKEN TEDDY BEAR

Chicken Teddy Bear pic

FB Marketplace post

Chicken gimpsuit #1

Chicken gimpsuit #2

Chicken gimpsuit video

LOBOTOMY

Lobotomy wikipedia article

Lobotomy video

History of lobotomy article

Alyssa and Kayla get up on their soapbox - and their sarcophagus - in this episode with an agenda. Don't worry - we still get gross. Links & pics below!

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THE PINK TAX

Pink tax video

Pink tax wiki article

Ax the pink tax

Burger King vid

BLACK SARCOPHAGUS

Esquire article

Change.org petition

Sarcophagus pic #1

Sarcophagus pic #2

Sarcophagus pic #3

Sarcophagus pic #4

Alyssa, Kayla, and Becky finish up their round table of gross discussing internet classics. What will Kayla's 2nd topic be? What does Alyssa have in store? How the heck are they gonna rate these?? Find out here! Links & pics below. -- SUICIDE RESOURCES

Suicide hotline

Suicide Prevention Resource Center

1 MAN 1 JAR

1man1jar.org

1 man 1 jar Know Your Meme

LEMON PARTY

Urban Dictionary definition

Lemon Party Know Your Meme (includes bait & switch flyers and parodies

Lemon Party pic

Alyssa, Kayla, and a VERY special guest dig deep into the annals of internet history in their second "round table of gross" - this time, inspecting some of the classics that shaped our initial obsession with gross culture. Links & pics below! -- CAKE FARTS

Cake Farts - original video

Rachel Bloom's Cake Farts song

Know Your Meme

Wikipedia - Wet and Messy

Vice

Dan Savage

Refinery: 11 Foods You Should Add To Your Sex Life

Urban Dictionary

Psychology Today: Eproctophilia Explained

Refinery 29: 9 Surprisingly Delightful Photos Of A Sexual Fetish You Never Knew Existed

Sploshing as art

BLUE WAFFLE

Original Blue Waffle image

Blue Waffle dictionary.com definition & debunking

Blue Waffle Urban Dictionary definition