Join sisters and Gen Xers, Jennie and Amye, as they recap Little House on the Prairie S1:EP11 The Raccoon. After Mary makes a mess of things and destroys Laura's beloved doll, she grabs a rabid raccoon and gifts him to Laura as an apology gift. Pa immediately knows this is a horrible idea, but no one listens to him and people almost die. Follow and subscribe to Gen X, This is Why wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on IG @genxthisiswhy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Aug 21, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Join Amye and Jennie as they discuss the 2023 Netflix documentary Wham! This doc was light-hearted and fun and just what we needed. It’s a straightforward story of George and Andrew and how they took Wham! Across the globe with almost no drama. Follow us! Facebook: facebook.com/genxthisiswhy/ Instagram at: @genxthisiswhy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 17, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 3
**This is a sample of Amye's new podcast, Little Miss Recap , where she and a variety of co-hosts discuss some of the best streaming shows out there! Subscribe and listen today! She’s baaaaaack! Amye is joined by her older sister, Jennie, to talk about The Bear: Season 2 Everything you need to know about season 2 before watching season 3! We loved this series and season 2 was far and away some of the best writing on TV. From Richie’s redemption arc, to the exploration of childhood trauma, to the...
Jul 05, 2023•44 min
After-School Special: What Are Friends For? (1980) This episode is from our Patreon archives and originally aired in February of 2021 and remains one of our favorites of all time! Twelve-year-old Amy Warner is the new kid on the block after she and her freshly-divorced mother move to California. All is fine until Amy meets Michelle Mudd, a tween who loves dogs, rainbows, shoplifting, and blood sacrifices. Amy grows concerned when Michelle attempts to cast a spell on her father’s new girlfriend a...
May 04, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Trigger warnings for this episode include: child pornography, rape, sexual assault We are joined by Tess and Brooke from Psych Legal Pop Podcast to discuss Hulu’s Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields. If you’re a Gen Xer, you might feel like you grew up with Brooke Shields, and in many ways you did. She was the quintessential 80’s icon complete with her bushy eyebrows and tight-fitted Calvin Kleins. But few knew what was happening behind the scenes as her mother’s drinking became out of control and a gro...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Trigger warnings for this episode include: suicide ideation, murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, and rape. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare, the image of your child’s face helplessly peering out the rear window of a stranger's car as it drives away from you and slips into the unknown. For Kay and Dilbert Stayner, this nightmare became a reality when their seven-year-old son, Steven, was kidnapped on his way home from school in Merced, CA, in 1972. For seven long years, Steven’s family searche...
Apr 03, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Ma and Pa leave town for a bang trip and leave the children in Edward’s care. What could go wrong? Edwards almost shoots the girls, never changes his clothes, shoots a snake and makes the girls eat it, and nails Carrie to the roof. Meanwhile on the bang trip, Pa is really frustrated as Caroline’s mind is on Walnut Grove and not much else. Bottom line: this is a wasted chance for hotel sex. Thank you to Pamela Bob, writer, creator, and star of Livin’ on a Prairie , a brilliant series of shorts ab...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Well, here we are. It’s the end of our run. In this final TV movie, a big, bad band of capitalists reveal they actually own the town of Walnut Grove because of some questionable “laws.” Laura goes berserk and smashes up her house, Hey Everybody disarms himself before a big fight, Faux Pa and Sarah leave town unaware they almost lost everything, and Jason's Junior isn’t here for Jeb’s big brother energy. Join our Facebook group, The Me-Me B’s. Follow us on Facebook for announcements and other fun...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 175
You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S3:EP19 The Music Box. Nellie starts a club for the sole purpose of making fun of Anna, a kind, quiet girl with a stutter. Fueled by her hatred of Nellie, Laura turns to a life of crime. Mary is useless as usual and does nothing but pile on as Laura tries to juggle being blackmailed and her guilt over abandoning Anna. Want ad-free episodes PLUS 2 bonus episodes a month? Become a Premium Subscriber! Click here to join today...
Mar 06, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 174
You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S2:EP17 Troublemaker This one had it all! After Miss Beadle refuses to beat the crap out of the 40-year-old kids in her class, they bring in a stern d**kbag who is more than happy to exercise corporal punishment on no other than sweet little Laura. Pa gets wind of this and goes to bananatown, all while Nellie pulls the strings. Want ad-free episodes PLUS 2 bonus episodes a month? Become a Premium Subscriber! Click here to ...
Feb 27, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 173
You spoke, we listened. Join us as we revisit Little House on the Prairie S1:EP2 Country Girls Well it’s so lovely to be back in season one where Pa was stunning and we could hate on Mary with ease. This is the episode that establishes all of the “beefs,” Laura and Nellie, Harriet and Caroline, and Pa versus anyone in WG who looks at Caroline sideways. Laura and Mary struggle to fit into their new school where Nellie calls them country girls, even though every single kid in the school is a count...
Feb 20, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 172
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 21, Hello and Goodbye, a very annoying writer, Mr. Montique, arrives in town to…oh wait, we have no idea why. After shunning Harriet, he moves into the Wilder boarding house where Manly is running around destroying precious antiques. Matthew’s dad returns to town to yank him away from Mr. Edwards because he ca...
Feb 13, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 20, May I Have This Dance? Willie is finally graduating! Just in time to get his AARP card and sign up for the Senior discount at his local grocery store. Just as he’s settling into retirement, we meet Rachel Brown, a rando who he’s already in love with and ready to marry. Harriet disapproves, of course. Amye ...
Feb 06, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 19, For the Love of Blanche, Michael Landon gets his final revenge on Victor French when he gives him the stupidest storyline ever. Blanche is an orangutan. That’s the joke. Amye is so mad she’s channeling Kody Brown, Jennie is again raving over Baby Rose’s performance, and we remind everyone that our grandmot...
Jan 30, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 169
In season 9, episode 17, A Child with No Name, Victor French makes his directorial debut! Laura and Manly face a devastating loss and finally realize Doc Baker’s ocular pat downs haven’t been working. After Laura slanders Doc, he mopes around Low-Energy Jennie style. We work to decipher some of Edward’s expressions, Jennie tells us about some wild cathedral she visited, and once again Baby Rose steals the show AND gets packed in ice!!! Want ad-free episodes PLUS 2 bonus episodes a month? Become ...
Jan 23, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 168
In season 9, episode 16, Home Again Part 2, Doc finally figures out someone is stealing his morphine and they quickly figure out it’s Albert after he acts erratic for a week and then punches Etta Plumb. Charles takes him out to Edwards’ shack to dry out. Doc rubs his gums with morphine, Laura offers to help and quickly rescinds when Albert starts puking up milk, and Albert and Charles go for a midnight run through the woods set to circus music. We do a Gram vocab quiz, and end with a Macbeth fig...
Jan 16, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 167
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 16: Home Again Part 1, We get a glimpse of Charles working his retail job. Nothing seems to be going well for them in the city, as Albert is thieving and getting arrested and Caroline is nowhere to be found. After Albert is caught stealing again, he and Charles head back to Walnut Grove where Charles’ plan to ...
Jan 09, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 166
Amye's sick and under Doc Baker's care, so we don't know what's going to happen to her. We will not be releasing a new episode over the holidays, so please enjoy S1:EP15: Xmas on Plum Creek, which we originally covered on Patreon in 2020. Our episode starts with Jennie throwing a fit about Bunny, so enjoy that. It’s Christmas time and the Ingalls steal our family tradition of “cheapest Christmas ever.” At Oleson’s Black Friday sale, Caroline falls in love with a stove, and everyone buys some yar...
Dec 25, 2022•49 min
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 11: Alden’s Dilemma, a HOT new preacher shows up and causes a stir amongst the women of Walnut Grove. Manly and Faux Pa (John Carter) head into the bowels of humanity, a real hell on earth: San Francisco. Mr. Edwards is made a fool when he assumes the new preacher is hooking up with Laura and Sarah Carter. We ...
Dec 19, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 165
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 10, Love, Jane-a blind school student and Laura’s old childhood pal we’ve never heard of- comes back to town. She and Mr. Edwards strike up a friendship and after an afternoon date to Sleepy Eye seem to fall in love. Everything is fine until Jane finds out she is a candidate for eye surgery which restores her ...
Dec 12, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 9, Empire Builders, the evil overlord of the railroad enlists Manly and Edwards to help dupe the town. Turns out, Walnut Grove is the perfect site for a new rail station, but they will need to take the Carter and the Wilder farms. When the families try to resist, the railroad pulls out their eminent domain car...
Dec 05, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 163
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 8, The Return of Nellie, Nancy has a meltdown when Nellie returns to town. Nellie returns with a new Whoville hairdo and some fancy pictures of her twins. Everyone in town acts like they haven’t seen her in ten years. Nancy, jealous of the attention Nellie is getting, pulls a classic and runs away. We see a ne...
Nov 28, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 4, Rage, after Robert Loggia’s gambling debts come home to roost, he shoots his wife and daughter. Once this crime is discovered, Loggia goes on the run and terrorizes the town until he lands at the Wilders where he thinks Laura and Jenny are his wife and daughter. Edwards tries to gather a posse, but is weigh...
Nov 21, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 161
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 3, Welcome to Olsenville, Harriet comes across some bearer bonds while cleaning Lars Hanson’s house- I guess we are ignoring the fact that this was the blind school and it had completely burned to the ground. The bonds put the people of Walnut Grove in her debt, and Harriet uses this to her advantage. When she...
Nov 14, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 160
**WARNING: This episode contains discussion around suicide.** Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 2: Times are Changing Part 2, Royal dies while trying to escape a rain storm, leaving his daughter Jenny orphaned and devastated. Jenny seeks Rev’s advice, but he ends up driving her to a horrific decision. Jeb Carter terrorizes the town with a stup...
Nov 07, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In season 9, episode 1: Times are Changing, everything is gone to sh*t. Charles is gone, Ma is nowhere to be found, there are randos making out in the little house, a wanna be Carl’s JR has slipped past us, Laura is giving up her job, it’s a different show everyone! In this season opener, Charles has returned to town to gather the...
Oct 31, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In Season 8, Episode 22, He was Only 12 Part 2, Charles loses his d*mn mind. Pa refuses to accept James’ open-eyed coma and decides to drag him ala Bran Stark to the mountain where he builds an altar and morphs into James Brolin. An old man, who is clearly God, shows up and in a flash of blue light, heals James. No, you’re not hal...
Oct 24, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 157
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In Season 8, Episode 21, He was Only 12 Part One, James receives some cold, hard cash from Uncle Jed. Upon Charles' insistence, he tags along to Sleepy Eye where he can earn half an interest point more at the bank. Things take a turn, however, and poor little Jason Bateman gets Little Housed when he is shot during a bank robbery i...
Oct 17, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In Season 8, Episode 20, Caroline and Doc head to a prospector’s camp riddled with disease. Doc must work to heal an annoying kid with an accordion in addition to two pregnant women and a “rev” with a gun. Caroline proves helpful when she delivers a baby and orchestrates a swap- making another family happy while sticking it to a d...
Oct 10, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they dissect one of the most impactful shows from our shared, Gen X childhood: Little House on the Prairie. In Season 8, Episode 19: A Promise to Keep, Edwards returns to Walnut Grove after discovering he’s been in The Truman Show with a fake family for years. Seriously though, who is this John Jr wannabe they are trying to pass off as Carls Jr? After getting hammered in Sleepy Eye, Edwards endangers Albert’s life by driving some horses...
Oct 03, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 154
