Snark Industries

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New York, 1946. Jarvis appears to be haggling with a shady dealer near a rail yard, but the real objective is a rail car smuggling Howard Stark back into the country, complete with a pool table and music. Peggy hides Howard at her women's-only hotel via a laundry dumbwaiter, only for him to charm a woman into his hiding spot before she can even reach her floor. Howard hands Peggy a camera pin to inventory the recovered tech at the SSR, and once the film is developed, past a few of Howard's personal nudes, he points her toward what he claims is the most dangerous item: the Blitzkrieg Button, which he describes as a citywide blackout machine and asks her to swap for a replica. Tipped off by Jarvis's frantic ear-tugging on the drive over, Peggy presses the button herself and finds a vial of blood inside, later confirmed to be Steve's. She confronts Howard, throws him out, and hides the vial in her wall. Meanwhile, an assassin with a physics-defying Gatling pistol guns down his own men and tries to reach Peggy, only to be killed by her acrobatic neighbor. Elsewhere, Chief Dooley flies out to interrogate a condemned Nazi colonel, trading a false cyanide pill for a story about a beast-driven massacre at Finnau. The chapter closes as a Leviathan typewriter begins typing on its own.

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A Snarklet trip to Asgard for the Mighty Thor block of The Marvel Super Heroes, three chapter titles that spell out the whole plot before it even starts and get reacted to in real time. The hosts talk through it as it plays, from a leaf-in-the-eye that dupes Heimdall, to a Thor who spins Mjolnir like a dreidel and reverses atoms with anti-magic particles.. Then, there's Loki, whose ever-shifting powers include mind control, transforms cars into melting ice cream, flying carpets, super speed, and... forever ending up wet. Once the credits roll they turn to the MCU connection and land on very little beyond familiar faces getting their first introductions, Don Blake among them. Both hosts come away laughing hard, agreeing it is not good but hilarious, a genuine window into the absurd origins of characters they have known for decades, with the still-inept villain being the one real knock against it as a story.

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Snark Industries works through the third Agent Carter chapter, with Peggy still splitting her time between SSR busy work and her off-the-books hunt for Stark's stolen tech. The full plot gets walked through, from her struggle to decode the Leviathan symbol, to Jarvis being hauled in for questioning over the license plate, to the sewer route that leads Peggy and Jarvis to the marked boat full of Stark's inventions. The heart of the breakdown is Jarvis's backstory: a forged general's signature to get his wife Anna out of Budapest, a dishonorable discharge, and Howard Stark's money smoothing it all over, a reveal both hosts single out as the best part. The rest lands more critically, with a murky interrogation scene that neither host could make sense of even after digging, a convenient trail of clues, and a filler feel that leaves them wondering next about the exact same thing they were wondering the previous time. Personal thoughts converge: real love for Jarvis and Hayley Atwell, appreciation for the fight choreography, and honest agreement that this is the weakest entry so far, disjointed and a touch lazy in its writing, but still worth the watch as part of a series they expect to enjoy as a whole.

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New York, 1946. Peggy pores over books of symbols trying to identify the mark a dying Leviathan agent left behind, all while settling into a strict women's residence where a late-night visitor and a roommate's expulsion spark a realization: no place is truly impenetrable, including Howard Stark's robbed vault. Before she can act on it, the SSR pulls Jarvis in over the license plate found in the refinery wreckage, pressing him about a dishonorable discharge until Peggy engineers his release. Freed, Jarvis joins her at the vault, where a hole in the floor sends them into the sewers. Along the way he confesses the truth behind his discharge: forging a general's signature to smuggle his wife Anna out of Budapest, saved from execution only by Howard Stark's influence. The tunnels lead to a harbor boat bearing the Leviathan symbol and loaded with Stark's missing tech. Rather than claim the find and risk being branded Stark's accomplice, Peggy has Jarvis phone in an anonymous tip. A hulking Leviathan enforcer attacks, and Peggy takes him down with a piece of Stark tech. The SSR recovers the arsenal and arrests the goon, but on the drive back, Agent Krzeminski and the prisoner are both gunned down by an assassin. The next day the office mourns, Sousa grows suspicious of the anonymous call, and Chief Dooley resolves to redouble the hunt for Howard Stark.

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A Snarklet plunge into the Hulk block of The Marvel Super Heroes, reacted to in real time and, by the hosts' own repeated verdict, the most incoherent thing they have watched on the show so far. They talk through the whole disjointed run as it plays, from a gamma bomb test where Igor pushes the button anyway, to Rick Jones somehow surviving unirradiated, to a Hulk who bunny-hops, changes pants mid-scene, and speaks in a strange drawl with none of the usual rage, to a Gorgon who launches himself by missile, flies everyone to space for no clear reason, and then blows himself up once he is cured of his grossness. Once the credits roll they turn to how it fits the larger picture and land emphatically on "it doesn't," with Jon glad there are no MCU parallels to trace at all. Both hosts agree this is the worst entry they have seen, a single issue adapted whole and every bit as scattered on screen, but they still find plenty to laugh at and close on the same advice: if you can find it, expect the worst and laugh at it.

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Snark Industries picks up the Agent Carter story right where the pilot left off, with Peggy chasing the truck of stolen explosives that slipped away in the refinery blast. The full plot gets walked through, from her double-agent maneuvering inside the SSR, to a disguise pulled from Howard Stark's wardrobe of women's outfits, to the undercover health-inspector routine that leads her to a missing milk truck and its driver in New Jersey. The threads running alongside get their due, with Angie pushing Peggy to move in, the flashbacks to her murdered roommate feeding a fear that everyone close to her gets hurt, and the Leviathan assassin Sasha working the same trail through a string of typewriter-coded murders. It all converges at Sheldon McPhee's house and ends with the truck and Sasha going into the lake in a fireball, while back at the refinery the SSR digs Jarvis's license plate out of the wreckage as their next lead. Personal thoughts land warm on both sides, with shared love for Jarvis and Hayley Atwell, agreement that the period cheese and well-worn TV tropes only add to the fun, and one lingering shared obsession: what exactly was the deal with that carrot in the interrogation scene?

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New York, 1946. In the immediate aftermath of the refinery explosion, Peggy Carter races to recover the truck of Stark's stolen singularity bombs before anyone connects the blast to her. Working both sides of her own agency, she digs through SSR intelligence for a lead, then borrows a set of disguises from Howard Stark's closet and poses as a city health inspector to trace a milk-delivery route down to a single missing truck and its driver, Sheldon McPhee. Between leads, waitress Angie tries to coax Peggy into moving in as a roommate, an offer Peggy keeps at arm's length while flashbacks to her murdered friend remind her why. In the background, the Leviathan assassin Sasha carries out his own coded hunt for the same devices, leaving bodies in his wake. Everyone arrives at McPhee's at once. Peggy subdues him, finds his truck packed with explosives, and she and Jarvis try to drive it clear as Sasha attacks and a double-crossing Leviathan operative complicates the fight. The clash ends with the truck and the assassin plunging into a lake in a massive explosion. At the ruined refinery, SSR agents sifting the debris pull a scorched bumper from the wreckage, Jarvis's license plate still attached, and a new trail opens.

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A Snarklet dive into the Iron Man block of The Marvel Super Heroes, a single cohesive story split across three chapter titles and reacted to in real time. The hosts talk through the whole thing as it plays, from a wind-tunnel heist that lets a mustachioed traitor raid the vault, to Tony suiting up out of a suitcase in his iron panties, to a car crash that Happy Hogan pulls him from, to Professor Shapanka reinventing himself as an ice villain who freezes half the city before Iron Man thaws the day with a heat ray. Once the credits roll they turn to how it lands, agreeing there is no real MCU connection beyond fun parallels: Happy saving Tony from a wreck echoing Iron Man 2, Pepper already dreaming of becoming Mrs. Stark, and a very 1960s hero whose peak technology is a two-way radio that reaches across the country. Both hosts come away delighted, marveling at how far the character has traveled since a millionaire Tony was the height of wealth, and recommending the source comics as being every bit as absurd as the animation.

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Snark Industries steps into the Agent Carter pilot, picking Peggy up after the war as the SSR keeps her boxed into secretary work despite everything she is capable of. The full plot gets walked through, from Howard Stark being branded a traitor over weapons sold to enemies of the country, to his recruitment of Peggy and the introduction of Jarvis, to the undercover hunt for Stark's stolen singularity compounds. The hosts follow the thread through the poisoned-lipstick takedown, the murder of Peggy's roommate by a silent Leviathan operative, and the warehouse standoff that ends with a bomb dropped as a threat and a van of explosives escaping into the night. A real point of discussion is the continuity clash with the earlier Agent Carter one-shot, where Peggy had already been handed co-leadership of SHIELD, and the hosts work through why a Marvel-made short and an ABC-made series would contradict each other so directly. Personal thoughts land warm on both sides, with genuine fanboying over Jarvis, high praise for Hayley Atwell in the role, and a shared acknowledgment that this is very much a pilot: heavy on setup, light on payoff, and promising enough to carry them forward.

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New York, 1946. Peggy Carter is back from the war and stuck behind a desk at the SSR, the only woman of consequence in a room full of men. When Howard Stark is publicly branded a traitor for selling dangerous weapons to enemies of the country, he tracks Peggy down, insists he was framed, and asks her to clear his name by working against her own agency. He leaves her his butler Jarvis and a warning: one of his stolen inventions is a compound capable of leveling city blocks. Peggy goes undercover to trace it, using poisoned lipstick to drop a shady dealer and recover one of the devices, then defuses it in her own bathroom while a silent intruder murders her roommate in the next room. She fights the killer and throws him from a window, only to find no body below. The trail leads Peggy and Jarvis to a warehouse stacked with the compounds, where a man bearing the same strange marking as her attacker invokes a group called Leviathan and dares her to act, knowing any move triggers a chain reaction. He drops a device that takes a full minute to arm, escaping with a van of explosives while Peggy and Jarvis barely clear the blast, setting the season's hunt in motion.

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