Read it and Weep

Everything about this shouldn’t work. If you described it to me I’d say it’s terrible. But then, basically everything about it works. It’s so fun!

Happy #TheRocktober, everybody!

Does it hold up? Yes. Yes it does.

To close out #Sponstember, we dove into the 80s cult classic of high adventure, true love, and giant rats. It was completely delightful. All we ask is maybe cut back on quoting it.

We dipped into another classic series from our youths. You know, the one where you skip to page 49 and find out you died but then you go right back to page 12 because you secretly held the break with your finger and now you’re ready to try to other option.

To find out if they hold up, we read two books: The Magic of the Unicorn and Prisoner of the Ant People. You can probably tell from the titles which one we really liked and which one we hated.

After 9 years, we’ve finally broken down and allowed a sponsorship of a video game. And it’s a real interesting one. Dream Daddy is in the genre of dating sims, but it’s also a very sweet story about raising children, all around an LGBTQ-friendly and pun-heaving packaging. It’s fascinating. But your biggest question is probably “What do our dads look like?” Thank you for asking!

Anthony’s daddy: Peter Parker

Amanda’s daddy: Readin Weep

Ezra’s daddy: Chucky Grumple

Alex’s daddy: Ezra Fox

Okay, hear me out. Laser, frequent guest and all around radical human, really likes ASMR videos. And they wanted us to watch a bunch so we could share in the joy (?) and weirdness. And since it’s Sponstober, we agreed to let them take over choice of the show. But it got weird. Real weird. And tingly.

For those of you who don’t hang out on the weird parts of YouTube, ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, and describes the feeling some people get when they hear certain sounds like whispers and scratches.

Wow. Who’d have thought that an episode about a house that eats unmarried women would turn out to be such a train wreck? We put in a B- effort for this B movie, and never before have I been so worried that somebody would actually want a refund that I of course wouldn’t give.

Still, just because one guest didn’t show up and nobody watched the movie, that doesn’t make this sponsorship from one Meat Buddy to another isn’t a fun episode. Because it is. It’s just that we were as bonkers as this movie.

Recorded live at Helium Comedy Club in Portland, OR.

Well, everything wet must eventually dry out, so it’s with a heavy heart that we put a soggy bow on Wet Month once again. We got wet. We stayed wet. We did it.

Just like our journey, Ariel goes from being wet all the time to being dry, so what a perfect way to close out the month with Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Does it hold up? Is it feminist? Is Curtis too hung over to discuss these finer points? FIND OUT!

Recorded live at Helium Comedy Club in Portland, OR.

Look, I know the idea of making a movie based on a board game seems like a bad idea, but what if it was actually a bad idea? It’s a bad idea.

One of the wettest professions of all time is piracy, so the Meat Buddies voted for the 1991 Spielberg film Hook. Does it hold up? Does it still bangarang?

Wet month continues with this absolutely bonkers Disney Channel original movie in which a girl and a bubble try to break up a marriage. Thanks Sean and Patty for sponsoring. Get wet, stay wet everybody!

Caitlin wrote on the new show Misfits and Monsters airing on TruTV!