While testing the sound for episode 21, Erika, Sarah, and Tom geeked out over the excellent animated series Steven Universe. Was their conversation worth releasing? Who knows! But it's three minutes long, so what's the harm?

The inimitable Alisa Rosenthal introduces Tom and Joe Anderson to the generation-spanning rotoscoped animated journey into the weird, lumpy heart of American music that is Ralph Bakshi's American Pop. Alisa grew up with this strange and unique piece of animation, but will Tom and Joe find it as compelling in the harsh light of the year 2016? Listen as Tom finally uncovers the problem with Nazis, Joe has a Rob Thomas-themed brush with brain damage, and Alisa makes You Don't Understand eligible for the vaunted "history podcast" label for the first time ever. Check it out, my buds!

Guest Sarah Magnuson unleashes The Lonely Island's opus Hot Rod upon Tom and returning guest host Chris Rife! Sarah has a deep, personal connection to this mid-2000s Andy Samberg-led comedy, but will Tom and Chris find it as special? Listen as Sarah recounts how Hot Rod facilitated her phoenix-like rise into comedy connoisseurdom at a crucial life juncture, Chris defines the movie's connection to a bag of candy fused into one mass in a hot car, and Tom achieves some primo annoying-white-boy goals. Check it!

It's Streisand time, friends. This week, the hilarious Ilana Gordon introduces Tom and guest host Erika Price to Barbra Streisand's award-winning film debut Funny Girl. Straight up, Barbra is a treasure in this movie. I don't care if it's tipping my hand to include our opinions of the movie in the description. Come on! She's fantastic! Lights up the dang screen! Listen as Ilana shares her very own custom Funny Girl fan edit, Tom wonders how he has never heard of this movie before, and Erika marvels at Barbra's physics-defying coiffure. Listen, y'all!

The inimitable and hilarious Cody Melcher introduces his all-time favorite drama, the 1993 western Tombstone, to Tom and guest-host Joe Anderson. Cody loves Tombstone like a child and knows a truly staggering amount of facts about it! Will Tom and Joe love it as much as he does? Listen as Cody extols the virtue of the badass bard, Tom mourns the bowling pin epidemic of old Tulsa, and Joe marvels at the phrase "smoke wagon." They say podcasts shouldn't be over an hour long, but we don't care about their "rules"! Check it out!

Joe Anderson introduces Tom and guest number two Kevin Johnson to one of the most lavishly illustrated and punishingly difficult titans of the arcade world, Metal Slug 3. This is a game of crabs, aliens, Nazis, Saddam Hussein, yetis, ostriches with machine guns, and many, many player deaths. Joe loves Metal Slug 3 as one of the best examples of his beloved arcade genre. Will Tom and Kevin see it the same way after playing for the first time? Come listen as Tom rightfully takes druids down a peg. Kevin finally understands that life as a whole revolves around Saddam. And Joe sits self-satisfied as he watches us bumble through his favorite game with truly remarkable ineptitude. LISTEN, MAH BUDS! It's fun!

Tom unleashes the horrendous Catwoman on guest Collin Bullock, a comedian and podcaster of true excellence, and guest-host Chris Rife filling in for Eric. Catwoman is notoriously terrible, but somehow it engrosses Tom and entertains him like few other films can. Will Collin and Chris see it the same way? Listen in awe as Tom ponders the limits of cat-based power, as Collin clarifies what can and cannot be called a man sandwich, and Chris wonders why Catwoman is basically a werewolf.

Guest Erika Price inflicts an ACTUAL HORROR MOVIE onto Tom and Eric, a duo of sensitive boys who don't like getting spooked. Will this indie horror film find a way to work past their aversion to horror or will they not understand Erika's love for it? Listen as Erika explains why this is a cut above most horror, as Tom gets TOO SPOOKED, and as Eric ponders the wisdom of hardware store acid-selling policies.

Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. That's right, we watched David Lynch's mad hallucinatory brain-spasm Dune. Tom loves this movie as an unmatched pageant of truly bonkers imagery, but will guests Gwynn Fulcher and Joe Anderson understand? Thrill as Tom describes a glistening set of lips repeating "the tooth" in an extreme close-up! Gasp at Gwynn's hunt for the universe's hardiest space pugs! Be amazed at Joe's description of the antagonist's weeping sores! This movie is a goddamn insane asylum. It's Dune, everybody. What more needs to be said?

Eric takes Tom and guest Julie Chereson into a pressure cooker of Cold War dread with Fail Safe. This movie is tense as hell, with all manner of sweaty white men trying to undo the world's inevitable destruction! Eric discovers how much Matthau one soul can take. Tom can't shake the ghost of Dr. Strangelove. Julie spontaneously feels the urge to do the dishes. WILL THEY UNDERSTAND FAIL SAFE?