This week, Todd and Joe talk about “Blink,” the gateway episode for many Doctor Who fans. What makes Sally Sparrow such a great character, and what makes the Weeping Angels such great villains?

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If you’re a fan of detective stories or crime procedurals, you’ll want to hear Joe and Todd discuss C. Auguste Dupin from “Murders in the Rue Morgue.” This short story written in 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe is considered the first detective story ever published, and we discuss its indelible mark on popular culture.

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Todd and Joe bring on special guest Joseph Hegstrom Pratt to talk about Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Pixar’s Toy Story (1995). It’s hard to believe it’s already been 20 years since we were introduced to those two characters who give us plenty to discuss this week.

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This week, Joe and Todd discuss Phil Sheldon from the comic book series Marvels by Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek. Join us as we talk about issues of modernity, celebrity culture, and our sense of wonder with the miracles in our world.

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Todd and Joe, with some helpful expertise from producer Andrew, talk about Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender (not the blue alien movie by James Cameron nor the Shyamalan film, they’re talking about the cartoon series on Nickelodeon). Listen to a podcast with almost as many tangents and non-sequiturs as an episode of the series they’re talking about.

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In preparation for the glorious football season that is soon upon us, Joe and Todd discuss the classic underdog story, Rudy. What parts in the film are true, what parts are inspirational, and what parts make the guys tear up?

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Along with special guest Kjerste Christensen, Todd and Joe discuss Thursday Next, the protagonist of the novel The Eyre Affair. Alternative history, science fiction, mystery, postmodernism, and general absurdity are all topics for discussion.

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This week, Todd and Joe talk about a modern classic, the graphic novel Asterios Polyp. The complex narrative ended up giving them more to think about than they realized when the conversation started.

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Joe and Todd discuss the protagonist of a long-running television series, Temperance “Bones” Brennan. They also touch on her partner, Seeley Booth, and the interns who help to solve crimes in the tv series Bones.

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This week, Todd and Joe tackle a classic of Gothic Romantic literature as they discuss Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Todd gives perhaps the greatest recap in our podcast’s history, and Joe has a special bonus treat for the listeners at the end of the episode.

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There were three cat catchers in the city of Angria. Their names were Billy, Jay, and Phil. They were called out to gather a herd of cats from a shed in an empty field.

When they got there, cats were spread as far as the eye could see.

Billy said, “Sure are a lot (Charlotte) of them.”

Jay asked “Do you think we can catch them all?

Phil answered confidently, “You bet. I’m a lean (Emily) cat catcher today.”

“But what if they hide?” asked Jay.

Billy smirked, “Whether the thing hides (Wuthering Heights) or not won’t make any difference. Let’s tag ‘em and take them in.”

They began grabbing cats and putting them into the large cage in the back of their truck. Billy had one that was flailing its paws around, and Phil warned him, “Don’t let it scratch like that, it’ll have a raw chest of hair.” (Rochester)

“That’s good advice,” Billy agreed.

Jay came up and said, “Please tag this gray cat (Agnes Gray), and the one with the black body and brown tail (Anne Bronte).”

“Surely (Shirley) you can do that yourself,” Billy said and then walked away.

But while trying to put a tag on the gray cat, Jay fell into the cage of angry cats in the back of the truck.

Phil and Billy came back to the truck with a cat apiece and heard a voice from under the fur in the cage. “Hey, is Jay in there?” (Jane Eyre) Phil asked.

Phil tried to say, “He slipped into the cats therein,” but his cat allergies were acting up and with a suddenly stuffy voice it came out He thiff in Catherine (Heathcliff and Catherine).

“Will it hurt him?” (Villete) Billy asked?

“Nah,” Phil said and he reached in and pulled Jay out by the scruff of his neck.

Jay looked startled and said “I must profess my disliked for this job.”

Phil said, “I don’t care if you profess or yell or cry (Professor), we got to finish.”

Billy took pity on Jay and said, “Look, there are only ten cats left. Let’s get the ten and while Phil hauls (The Tenant of Wildfell Halls) them away, we can rest easy.

And that’s what happened, and with the job well done, they relaxed with a nice, cold drink of ice water.

The End

*Charlotte

The Professor

*Jane Eyre

*Shirley

*Villete

*Rochester

*Anne

*Agnes Gray

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

*Emily

*Wuthering Heights

*Bronte

Currer Bell

Ellis Bell

Acton Bell