This Podcast is a Bad Idea

Froo and Murph celebrate their 2 year podiversary by taking a look into the books of Booktok. Ostensibly, Booktok is just a tag on TikTok for talking about literature, but has increasingly grown associated with a particular genre of books and book discourse. Froo does her level best to de-mystify the tag, talk about some of the heavy-hitters, and opens the discussion to why we can't seem to let women have their kinks.

Also in the episode we discuss horror icons (for better or worse) Junji Ito and Russ McKamey alongside a brief snippet of Froo and Murph playing Five Nights at Freddy's.

As clinically as it can be put: In 2012 there was an intense fandom surrounding The Once-ler from the animated Lorax movie from Illumination Entertainment. The Once-ler was played by Andy from The Office.

Froo and Murph try to make heads and tails of this bizzarre fandom that went as quickly as it came, a perfect storm of Tumblr Sexyman, Hotboy Villain, and...and...self-shipping? If you didn't know before, the details contained within may prove shocking.

And if none of that isn't your cup of tea this episode will also contain impressions of the D23 announcements (RIP Muppet Theater), attempts to explain Baki The Grapper, and Vtubing Kpop Boyz.

What if you could live forever? What if you were in the vast emptiness of space with only two other people to talk to? What if football, but with tornados?

Froo and Murph examine such questions through 17776 a work of high-concept sci-fi multimedia fiction published innocuously to a totally normal sports blogging website in the year 2017. It's a comedy, it's an existential horror, it's a refutation of Protestant work-ethic.

Hut hut hike listeners, this one goes places.

In this Bad Idea we're gonna take you to the past to talk about The Sims 2 machinima's that were sub-quality. Now that Roosterteeth has officially shut the doors (and their content is made increasingly scarce by Warner Bros.) we decided this was the ideal time for Froo to wax nostalgic about one of the first media conglomerates born of the internet. Murph doesn't wax nostalgic at all, he only watched Red vs Blue.

Froo and Murph float down the chocolate river to Glasgow, Scottland to unpack the generated Willy Wonka pop-up event allegedly* written wholly by AI by a grifter to extract the glaswegian people of their hard earned pounds.

Come for the full reading of the script, stay for the trial of Jojo Siwa.

*It was, absolutely, without question.

Froo and Murph take the Wayback Machine to a time that was four years ago, but feels like six months ago, to talk about the 2020 underground webcomic Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins.

What began as a daily comic with one joke slowly turned into a statement on sexuality, copyright law, and how Amazon workers deserve bathroom breaks. There's also some slow-burn psychological horror, because COVID lockdown did strange things to all of us.

It's an episode you'll have to tell the fellas at work about.

The Etsy episode was already long, but would you believe it was even longer?

Froo and Murph just couldn't resist looking at each sellers' store page and riffing on additional products (as well as a dip into the Elf on a Shelf official website).

This minisode is just the Main Topic section of the Etsy: The Price is Right, but leaving in those tangents, equating up to an additional 90 minutes of goofs and content.

Froo and Murph put on their appraising caps to dive into the internet's foremost crafts market known as Etsy. It's a battle of wits as they play a game of The Price is Right and see who is too thrifty, and who is wise to the ways of the internet grift.

Play along at home with the TPIABI: Etsy: The Price is Right: The Home Game!

With supreme lateness, Froo and Murph join together to talk about the 2023 animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It's been a long time coming to finally get a faithful adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic.

...That's what this is...right?

Episode contains spoilers for the entire show.

Froo and Murph do a review of six prominent cartoon pilots that premiered directly to YouTube including Bee & Puppycat, Long Gone Gulch, The Amazing Digital Circus, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, and Lackadaisy.