Mitch meets a manic-pixie dream girl and jostles between intrigued and irritated. Brody attempts to buy a new motorcycle. Summer is lovesick, and then gets bonked on the head. Mitch celebrates a birthday. Join Zach, Charlie and special guest Ruha Taslimi as we talk CJ's blown out hair, some bad transfer moments, and Matt Brody's "surprise for Summer" that is supposed to show that he's actually a good boyfriend? Hobie's on the phone from Catalina, so grab a slice of lifeguard stand birthday cake ...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min
A kid almost drowns, and Mitch blames himself. That's basically it! May Darmon returns for this episode that is light on dialogue and heavy on action/long drawn-out sequences that fill time. One highlight: this episode introduces "Dark Mitch", a black speedo-clad brooding version of Mitch that is just BEGGING for a spinoff. Baywatch didn't know what it had!
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Baywatch gets real lazy with the two-part format by combining two almost entirely-disconnected episodes into one. Part 1: Jimmy Slade and Matt Brody continue to fight over Summer's heart, which accelerates her eating disorder. Mitch gets kidnapped by convicts. Part 2: Stephanie's sister comes to town with her new beau, who is immediately targeted with an assassination attempt. Hobie wins A&W cream soda. Join Zach, Charlie and returning guest Ivan Ngo as we talk Kelly Slater's Baywatch exit, ...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Jimmy Slade returns to find himself single. Garner pioneers a mounted patrol. CJ fends off the advances of a hot air balloons-man. Summer's romantic pickle spirals out of control, then quickly back under control. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guests Allyson Phillips and Ryan Coil (co-hosts of the new podcast Stone Cold Paradise) for a wild episode that includes trap door coolers, horse poop, and an eating disorder that comes truly out of nowhere, then is quickly dropped and forgotten in favor ...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 26 min
John D. Cort returns, but something's off. Hobie befriends a giant with a penchant for pelicans. Mitch checks for permits. CJ may have found love. Summer, Matt, Garner, Stephanie, and Jimmy Slade are nowhere to be found. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Winston Carter for the first episode in a while where, when Hobie's B-plot is revealed, all of us had the same, separate reaction: "That can't be what this is". Things are getting loopy on this week's episode of Baywatch Watch!...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Hobie's in love. Mitch is in love. Jackie is in love. Matt is in love. Summer is in love. Stephanie is in...England?! Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Liz Reichelt for an episode that shows why it's so dang hard for lifeguards to fall in love...people keep drowning! Also poor, sweet Jimmy Slade finds himself on the outside of a relationship looking in, and he's not even there to see it. Another entry, submitted for your approval, in the long saga that is Baywatch Watch!...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 15 min
New Season, New Episode! After last week's exhausting viewing of the 2017 Baywatch movie, we're so thankful to be back in the 90s with the crew we know and love. Gayle's getting married, and she wants to take Hobie back to Ohio. Matt's parents are moving to France, and he has to make a choice. Summer's mom takes on a new business endeavor. A kid fakes his own death. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Matt Manser as we dive into this two-parter that features Michelle Williams, the voice of Cas...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 32 min
A little something different this week! Returning guest Alex Franklin joins us to talk the 2017 Baywatch movie. We compare it to the show, talk about how it handles the characters we've come to know and love, and whether or not the essence of Baywatch survives the transition from drama to comedy. We didn't love it! As a reminder, we'll be taking the next week off, then returning the following week to launch into Season 4, so enjoy this slight diversion into the extended Bay-verse and we'll see y...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Season 3 is in the bag! A mysterious "bloke" from Mitch's past is out for revenge. Mitch tries to rekindle romance with failed journalist Kay Morgan. Summer has about 8 seconds of screen time. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Alan Santiago as we discuss the long con at play here, a truly spectacular exploding car, and Hobie's desire to call Kay Morgan mom, all on this week's episode of Baywatch! Note: Next week we'll be covering the 2017 Baywatch film, then we'll take a one week break befor...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Is there anything Mitch can't do? Hot off his miracle recovery from paralysis, Mitch coaches Matt Brody in a kickboxing tournament, and finds himself menaced by the ghost of Navy Seals past. CJ starts a romance with the creepiest French photographer who's ever lived and contemplates leaving Baywatch forever. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Scott Thiede as we award the first triple-6'er of Season 3! It's got kickboxing, it's got a French guy, and it has a late episode kitchen brawl that's w...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Mitch suffers a life-changing injury that almost certainly will never be mentioned again. An assassin hunts a child. Stephanie does chores. Hobie uses Pepsi as a motivational tool. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Jessica Svendsgaard for yet another two parter that plays fast and loose with episode structure. We'll talk the mini clip show, the lack of security at the rehab facility, and Mitch's seemingly years-long recovery from temporary paralysis all on this week's episode of Baywatch Wat...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Mitch falls in love, again. Criminals return to the scene of the crime multiple times. Hobie's hidden talent. Guido's Mama comes to town. Summer and CJ endanger a child. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Andrew Young (check out Zach and Andrew's new podcast, "Stone Cold Paradise", out soon!) as they dive into an episode that shows us Mitch's idealized family fantasy, what Hobie's been up to at school, and makes us (apparently, if Wikipedia is to be believed) say goodbye to Guido, all on this...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 16 min
A killer "who makes Hannibal Lecter look like Little Bo Peep" takes Stephanie and Summer hostage in a lifeguard tower. Mitch uses Hobie's science project to make a subterranean rescue. Jimmy Slade botches the job and gets shot in the process. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest (and ardent Baywatch defender) Will Hines as we break down this wild episode and Will schools the boys on perfect television on this week's episode of Baywatch Watch!
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min
The crew performs a group rescue, and is rewarded with a cruise. A drug kingpin wears prosthetics. CJ bets it all, wins, loses, then wins it all back, that classic story. Summer's romance is cut. Stephanie reflects on one specific memory. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Taylor Cox (writer for "Miracle Workers", co-host of the "Hills I Die On" podcast) as we discuss maybe the best two-parter to date in Baywatch history? It's got magically cured gambling addictions, a very schedule-dependent...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 36 min
Mitch has to go to San Diego again. A group watches for aliens on the beach. Jimmy Slade finds himself an unwitting diamond mule. Summer and Jimmy's romance blooms. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Franky Guttman (check out This is Dark Matters on Twitch!) as we talk the blissful purity of Kelly Slater's performance, try to figure out why the diamond smuggling operation didn't go a million different other ways, and discuss the wonder that is Summer's fantasy montage, all on this week's Bayw...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Mitch hires a housekeeper. CJ and Stephanie go to Catalina and encounter an exploding boat and a jewel thief. We have serious concerns about CJ's ability to regulate her own oxygen intake. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Karen Baughn (watch "American Christmas" on Showtime!) as we talk Mitch and Hobie's culinary appetites, postulate how the jewel heist worked, and Charlie learns that Holland is not in Scandinavia, all on this week's episode of Baywatch Watch!...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Summer deals with glowstick-induced panic attacks while Mitch decides whether or not to become an architect to carry on his father's legacy in an episode that deals with some pretty heavy subjects (with all the grace and nuance we've come to expect from Baywatch). Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Joe Uhlarik (Emphatic Pictures) as we talk the introduction (and exit) of Mitch's parents, the mid-Season 3 drop that Mitch went to architecture school, and everyone's excitement at Mitch's design ...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 33 min
CJ's nightmares come true when an assassination attempt on the Governor's life during a KISS FM sponsored Surfrider Foundation concert finds her unconscious and headed full speed towards the pier on a remote control boat packed with explosives. Worse yet, it's a 100 degree day and riptides are causing everyone to simultaneously start drowning! It's less exciting than it sounds, but at least you get to see a full performance from the fictional band Tag! Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Andy ...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Shukri R. Abdi (@shukrisayshi on the socials) returns for a weird episode that sees Garner and Mitch going "undercover" (with no secret identities) in a two on two basketball tournament to solve a murder. Dennis and Arlene (two people we've never met before) are on their honeymoon, but Dennis has eyes for CJ. Join Zach, Charlie, and Shukri as we discuss an episode that loosely references "White Men Can't Jump", full on copies "The Heartbreak Kid", and sets the stage for the Southern California-f...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Mitch and Stephanie go undercover to catch J Peterman, a criminally-underused Danny Trejo, and some other goons in a yacht-robbing heist operation and lose themselves in the process. Garner gets seasick. CJ wants to go fast...sometimes. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Heather Woodward (co-creator of the improvised web series "Murder Story") as we talk Stephanie's diving, the identification of a dead body on sight as being the wife of one of your college professors, and the baffling jazz cl...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 59 min
We did it. We found the saddest scene in Baywatch history. Mitch falls for royalty, and he's the only one who doesn't know it. Ben hitches everything on a boat race. Hobie plays Mitch's wingman again, and then he fights Godzilla. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Ivan Ngo as we talk the David Lynch connections, the logistics of anchoring a boat off shore and never leaving it, and we get an update on Twin Geek (we didn't ask for an update, but weren't given much of a choice) on this week's ep...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 41 min
Matt Brody gets involved with a mysterious woman who loves racing motorcycles. Stephanie plays a confusing episode long prank on Mitch. CJ helps Guido out of a jam. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Conner McCabe (host of the "Call Me By Your Game" podcast) as we talk our disappointment that the motorcycle race plotline peters out about halfway through the episode, the show's continued under-utilization of Pamela Anderson (who yet again is relegated to a throwaway C-plot), and David Hasselho...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 4 min
An episode with a whopping SEVEN plots: 1) Malibu Beach High plans to sell off sacred Chumash land 2) Mitch and Garner are in pursuit of two illegal dune buggy drivers (Brody and Slade), 3) Garner doesn't want to work the beach anymore, 4) Summer can't figure out what Jimmy Slade's deal is, 5) Courtney Bremmer (Elizabeth Berkley) promises Slade surfing sponsorships, 6) Slade's dad threatens to break him in half, and 7) Chandler brings drugs to Brody's beach rager. Join Zach, Charlie, and special...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 35 min
Hobie wants to impress a girl and ends up in the middle of a street rivalry that puts West Side Story to shame. Summer thinks she's going on a date with Jimmy Slade and ends up in the crosshairs of the mean girls of Malibu High. Mitch desperately tries to parent. Garner desperately tries to police. Tensions run high. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Annabel Seymour as we talk Mitch's good parenting, the Summer/Summer's mom height differential, and yet again try to make sense of Kelly Slater...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Baywatch is back with another Rookie School episode! Mitch rescues a bag. CJ and Stephanie accidentally live together. Matt needs to prove something to his dad. Summer needs to prove something to himself. CJ listens to a book on tape. Guido returns. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Daryl Johnson (@theREELdarylj) for an episode filled with high jumps, triple lindy dives, and one that finally answers the question: what IS Baywatch?
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Season 3 trucks along with an episode that introduces two new main characters and brings back one to whom we thought we'd said goodbye. Mitch is wounded (metaphorically). Jimmy faces surf punks. Summer learns to surf. Stephanie tries to make amends. Ben returns. Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest actress, improviser, and social media influencer Simone Michelle Mariposa (@simonemariposa, simonemariposa.com) as we talk Kelly Slater's acting, Stephanie's big secret, and learn to sympathize with ...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Season 3 has arrived! New cast members arrive, old cast members depart, and Baywatch enters its most famous era - the Pamela Anderson years. Mitch's uncle dies, so the crew goes white water rafting in search of lost gold. Eddie's leaving for Australia for a year, and Shauni's got feelings about it, and perhaps a surprise? New cast members Brody and Summer prepare for lifeguard tryouts, while Summer's mom's past follows them cross country. Join Zach, Charlie, and our two special guests Ann Maddox...
Feb 24, 2021•2 hr 36 min
We did it! Season 2 is in the books, and what a weird episode to go out on. No Mitch, only one montage - what the heck? Eddie journeys down memory lane and helps solve a murder in the process. Harvey meets with misfortune due to a very unlucky number. Garner is uninvested in police work. Join Zach, Charlie, and return guest Cory Willis (@burncoryburn on socials, illuminatiimprov.com) as we learn the connections between this and a Golden Globe, Academy Award, and BAFTA Award winning film with a v...
Feb 17, 2021•2 hr 3 min
Harvey plays poker. Mitch loses a watch. A car is a boat! Eddie and Shauni want to move in together, but Shauni's dad, and the devilish Brown Goodman stand in the way. A pool filter goes rogue! Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Madison Lanesey as we talk horse acrobatics, engagement pool parties, urban legends, and more on this week's episode of Baywatch Watch!
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Transicon hatches a plan. Brenda faceplants. Hobie gets sick! A priest assassins. Shauni switchboards. Ben loans waverunners. Mitch investigates Transicon. TRANSICON!!! Join Zach, Charlie, and Aaron "El Hefe" Abeyta (actor, comedian, musician) as we talk misplaced nostalgia for the "days when you didn't have to worry about the environment", the amazing priest assassin scene that felt like it was straight out of a "Naked Gun" movie, and the weird infantilization of Hobie, all on this week's episo...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min
