Mark and Devin examine their evolving relationship with the social media platform Twitter and offer some recommendations for using it in personally fulfilling ways.

Devin and Mark, along with horror correspondent Kevin Werner, debate and discuss Us, Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out.

Listen to Sean Fennessey's interview with Peele. Read Reggie Ugwu's profile of Lupita Nyong'o. Ponder Jordan Crucchiola's interpetation of the ending.

Subscribe to Devin and Kevin's politics podcast Friendly Fire.

Mark and Devin briefly discuss Bo Burnham's film Eighth Grade. Then Mark gets an alternate perspective on the movie from a recent graduate of eighth grade.

For the sixth year in a row, Devin and Mark react to the Oscars telecast minutes after it ends.

Devin and Mark discuss some of the major storylines surrounding the upcoming 91st Academy Awards on February 24 and explore why they are so invested in the annual ceremony. In between, they fight about Vice, one of the films that received the most Oscar nominations.

Mark and Devin wrap up 2018 with reviews of some of their favo(u)rite movies of this year: Roma (0:00 - 13:20), Widows (13:20 - 23:20), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (23:20 - 29:00) and The Favourite (29:00 - 37:30). Plus: brief mentions of one movie that Devin saw but Mark didn't (The Front Runner, ) and one movie that Mark watched but Devin didn't (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs).

Devin walks Mark through a therapy session as they unpack the current state of Saturday Night Live.

Topics:

• Political satire (0:00 - 19:30)
• Alec Baldwin (19:30 - 27:00)
• Weekend Update (27:00 - 38:00)
• Pete Davidson (38:00 - 46:00)
• Mark's theory on hosts (46:00 - 50:00)
• Why we keep watching (50:00 - End)

Some sketches we discussed:

• Robert Mueller/"The Bachelorette"
• #resistance bros at the bar
• Watching the presidential election returns
• Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer
• Adam Driver as a despicable oil baron
• "The Sink"
• "Wells For Boys"
• "Black Jeopardy" with Tom Hanks
• Killer ceiling fan
• Adam Driver monologue
• Cast jealousy over Pete Davidson's new stardom
• Pete Davidson talking Ariana on Weekend Update
• Pete Davidson proposing to Maggie Rogers
• Pete Davidson's Dan Crenshaw joke

Other stuff:

• Taran Killam, ousted cast member, discusses the show's relationship with Trump
• Alec Baldwin's "retirement from public life"
• Mark's Vox list of non-political "SNL" sketches
• The M&M Report on Don't Think Twice
• Ariana Grande, "Pete"
• Dan Crenshaw in the Washington Post

Devin and Mark swap takes on shows they've been watching recently.

The Good Place: 0:00 - 3:00

BoJack Horseman: 3:00 - 8:30

Insecure: 8:30 - 13:30

Forever: 13:30 - 19:45

Succession: 19:45 - 28:15

American Vandal: 28:15 - 33:10

Big Brother: 33-10 - End

Devin and Mark go off the deep end. Watch as they dive in.

Mark and Devin celebrate the five-year anniversary of their podcast (!) by exploring their pop culture origin stories and uncovering a few embarrassing secrets along the way.

The soundtrack for this episode is Katy Perry's "Roar," which was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the day Mark and Devin released the first episode of The M&M Report.