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WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!!!

Spoilers for:

Avatar Book 2 Episode 4: The Swamp

Avatar Book 2 Episode 5: Avatar Day

Korra Book 2 Episode 9: The Guide

Korra Book 2 Episode 10: A New Spiritual Age

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A little late, let's talk about Endgame! When will the Game End? Why does the End have so much Game? Who is the Game Ender? Where are the Games: on the front or rear End? What Game are you playing with my rear End? Find out on Talking Tropes: ENDGAME!

We get a blast from the past this week, as both Avatar and Korra explore what the avatar state truly is and where bending comes from, in somehow entirely contradictory ways. This episode is JAM PACKED with content 'cause we've got even more Aladdin parallels, singing hippies in a "cave of wonders", neutral jing, shipping, and more!

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Thanks to our editor Logan Mcbride! You can find him around the internet @LoganMcHollow.

We're back with special guest, brother, and cousin Matt Frank to discuss formulaic writing in Sketch Comedy. Today, we're focusing on sketches that take place during Game Shows. These are some of the funniest and most bizarre sketches you'll ever see, but is the cliché losing its laughability? Let's find out on WHEEL OF TROOOPES!

As we delve further into Korra we finally get to talk about everyone's favorite topic: War Profiteering and Propaganda! Meanwhile, Avatar manages to wrap up all of it's plot lines for Book 1: Water in a climactic battle for the soul of the North Pole.

Avatar Book 1 Episode 19: The Siege of the North, Part 1

Avatar Book 1 Episode 20: The Siege of the North, Part 2

Korra Book 2 Episode 5: Peacekepers

Korra Book 2 Episode 6: The Sting

The Gaang gets WOKE, tackling cultural appropriation, colonization, and the most overtly feminist episode so far! Meanwhile, Korra starts to build a confused Iraq war allegory while highlighting everything we hate about these characters in Captain Korra: Civil War.

Book 1 Ep 17: The Northern Air Temple

Book 1 Ep 18: The Waterbending Master

Korra Book 2 Episode 3: Civil Wars Part 1

Korra Book 2 Episode 4: Civil Wars Part 2

What if porn...is bad? What if texting and driving...is bad? What if celebrity holograms...are bad? Check out our deconstruction of the tropes of the latest season of Black Mirror.

Spoilers for Black Mirror Season 5 and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Special thanks to our editor, Logan

MAZEL TOV! Sokka, today you are a man. Also, Jeong Jeong

makes his first appearance.

On the Korra side of things, we're finally starting BOOK 2: Spirits, so you know it's groan central. Eska the abusive princess, Varrick the original anime Howard Hughes, Unalaq the totally not evil uncle, and a whole slew of new plot points and retcons are coming. Let's get spiritual!

Book 1 Ep 15: Bato of the Water Tribe

Book 1 Ep 16: The Deserter

Korra Book 2 Episode 1: Rebel Spirit

Korra Book 2 Episode 2: The Southern Lights

To round out our ultimate ranking of Spider-Man films from earlier this year, we did the heard work and went to see Spider-Man: Far From Home and... well... I mean did you see those end credit scenes tho?!?!!

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It's inevitable! Korra Endgame is this years biggest blockbuster. Does Amon's motivation finally make sense? Meanwhile, the Blue Spirit is one of Zuko's most famous episodes, but does anyone remember that the plot centers around frozen frogs?

Book 1 Ep 13: The Blue Spirit

Book 1 Ep 14: The Fortuneteller

Korra Book 1 Episode 11: Skeletons in the Closet

Korra Book 1 Episode 12: Endgame