We pick up with Adam studying for the LSATs and being just a real d*ck to everyone, including Mary. When he travels to Minneapolis to take the exam, he meets an all-too-convenient rich benefactor who saves him time and time again from himself. He goes into fever mode and narrowly escapes another ice bath. Meanwhile, Mary 1.0 shows up in Walnut Grove and Nels is a garbage human. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you ge...
Apr 04, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Jessica Chastain plays the iconic preacher's wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, in this 2021 biopic. We, like most people in the country, remembered Tammy Faye as much more complicit in her husband's crimes than she actually was, when in reality she was kind of cool. We demand a network find a way to give us Tammy's Teens, Yoko Ono makes an appearance, and we rage against religion...a lot. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you ...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Adam and Hester Sue can’t mind their own business and end up almost getting killed after they rummage through Garvey’s stuff. This accident results in Adam regaining his sight and absolutely losing his mind. He runs around a meadow in slow motion, takes up croquet, and quits teaching to avoid grading a stack of papers. Mary is beside herself and reverts to Mary 2.0. Meanwhile, Jennie takes a trip to Pizza Hut and Amye rages against Florida. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a...
Mar 28, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Manly and Charles have a race to the bottom as they disagree on the fastest route to Sleepy Eye. Both men attempt to cheat, and we spend way too much time talking about Manly’s load. Mary finally gets invited to dinner, and Jennie got robbed. We also discuss Love Is Blind and Don Balluck. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month and access to our back catalog! CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP-----&g...
Mar 21, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Amye sits down with Pamela Bob, writer, actor, and director of the award-winning short comedy series, Livin' on a Prairie. "We are introduced to Pamela, a woman in her late 30s, socially awkward, misunderstood and stuck in a world that is going on without her. Her only escape to solace, safety, nurturing and love is also the same crutch that prevents her from connecting to the rest of the world: Little House on the Prairie. She is an uber fan of the un-coolest TV show of the 1970s-early 1980s, a...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Manly morphs into a giant man-baby when Laura has to spend time trying to build a career. After several fights, Laura finds evidence he's cheating and goes bananas-attacking people in the street. Little Joe, I mean Charles, tries desperately to install a window pane. We visit Amye's laundry corner, which is as exciting as it sounds, and we fondly remember the Fonz in his leather jacket water skiing with some sharks. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscrib...
Mar 14, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Garvey and his son head to a new town to start over and try to forget that Mary killed their beloved Alice. Things take a left turn when some brokedown mall cop shows up and tries to offer some extra security. Some hooligans are terrorizing the town, and everyone has gun fever. What could go wrong? Amye shows up with an index card, Jennie is flipping her pages, and we contemplate living at work. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as ...
Mar 07, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Laura and Manly hit a rough patch as his impulse purchase of a dirt field comes back to haunt him. Harve is an absolute monster who spends weeks telling Eliza Jane how great she is-only to marry someone else and disappear. For some reason, Mary and Adam’s anniversary brings the whole town together and in the grossest miscarriage of justice ever, Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder, the classic lovers, get a quickie wedding ceremony in a blind school by a broke-down preacher. Oh, and Jennie can’t ev...
Feb 28, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Manly buys the farm. In other news, Eliza Jane is a 12-year-old forty-something whose diary rivals that of Lady Chatterly's, Laura gets a bomb teaching job that she immediately has to reject or she's not allowed to be married, and Nellie has some big news! Could Axl Rose have replaced Dean Butler as Manly? Jennie comes for weathermen, and there are four things worse than sharing a room with Carrie. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a ...
Feb 21, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Laura heads to Sleepy Eye to help set up the blind school and runs into public enemy #1: Manly. Manly is living there and decides to take a secret second job when he discovers Laura needs extra money to meet the rent. After Manly ends up nearly contracting syphilis, falling down the stairs, and getting packed in ice, Laura decides to forgive him. We meet Popeye’s sidekick, Wimpy, who is cheeseburger adjacent, Michael Landon was definitely watching Moonlighting, and Jennie’s cup makes a horrific ...
Feb 14, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 119
We are so excited to be sitting down and reviewing The Golden Girls. In the pilot episode, “The Engagement,” Blanche entertains a marriage proposal that threatens to break up the girls’ living arrangement. We meet Coco, a housekeeper who is never seen again, Sophia shows up after shady Pines burns down, and we get some of the best physical comedy Bea Arthur has to give. Join us over on patreon as we cover two episodes a month of GG! Thank you for being a friend! For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-F...
Feb 10, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 118
In this rage-inducer, Almanzo decides he will ask Laura to marry him. When Pa says they must wait two years until Laura is 18, everyone turns on the beloved patriarch and suddenly no one can remember why they worshipped the ground Pa walked on for the last 16 years. Percival Dalton is hired to do a Kitchen Nightmares-type revamp of Nellie's. His big plan: make it someone else's restaurant. Jennie goes scuba diving with a whale in her living room, and Amye is in a fit of rage this entire episode....
Feb 07, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 117
1990 was a wild year for the pop group Milli Vanilli. Rob and Fab, both singers and dancers, started the year by winning the Grammy for Best New Artist for their very popular album, Girl You Know It’s True. By the end of the year, they were the laughing stock of the music world, mocked on late night TV, sued by disgruntled fans (or fan, as at least one guy from Texas was really mad), and left penniless by their label. Their lip-syncing scandal is still considered one of the most discussed musica...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 116
After acing an impromptu quiz on Thomas Jefferson, Laura takes a teaching job out of town and for no reason at all, Manly drives her to and from every week. During these rides, which happen over the span of four weeks, Laura’s sixteenth birthday approaches and Manly suddenly sees her as a woman and they fall in love. Amye creates a new ongoing series highlighting why Laura is better than Mary in all things, we meet a brokedown Rick Springfield, and we have a moment of silence in memory of Ms. Be...
Jan 31, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Nels FINALLY reaches his limit with Harriet. He decides to head out into the countryside as a traveling merchant. In nearby Tracy, he meets a young and very Irish woman named Molly who runs a boarding house and makes Nels feel 55 again. What could go wrong? Amye does some math and it’s painful, but not nearly as painful as Jennie’s index card. And we end the episode chatting about the newest season of Cobra Kai-which is amazing. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Pat...
Jan 24, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 114
No one in Walnut Grove has put together the pieces yet, so Albert’s guilt over starting the blind school fire runs amok as does he- when he decides to take advantage of a Judge’s hangover, steal classified information, and run to his birth father’s “home.” Charles grabs his dime-store Ride or Die and they spend twenty valuable minutes of this episode looking for the boy. Jennie is still in the basement with Covid and she’s researching fires and we have a real downer conversation about death. Tri...
Jan 17, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 113
It’s the first part of the blind school fire! Join us as we relive our deepest childhood trauma. Mary’s baby is out of time as he is left to his own devices when Albert and some rando light the blind school on fire. Alice is the only one who tries to save the baby, but then uses him as a battering ram and gets nowhere. Jennie and Amye armchair quarterback this fire escape plan for a good ten minutes, and we ultimately blame almost everyone involved for this disaster. Jennie gives us a Christmas ...
Jan 10, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Things get real creepy as three convicts break into the blind school and hold Mary, Laura, and the children hostage. Charles saves the day, but first he must perform surgery. Laura robs Doc Baker, Winoka Nels shows up unexpectedly, and Doc Baker is of use to NO ONE. We have a riveting conversation about baked potatoes and rolling down hills, and Amye cannot stop crying. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bo...
Jan 03, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Join us as we travel back to 1983 to the height of Cabbage Patch Kid mania, where cabbages are giving birth and bunnies are flying around like bees. We discuss eccentric Cabbage Patch Kid creator, Xavier Roberts, and his affinity for soft-sculpted dolls, while looking at the woman few knew was behind the idea: Martha Nelson Thomas. Research from this episode comes from the following online sources: https://medium.com/@mandywildman/who-invented-the-cabbage-patch-kids-cd943cef1f4 https://www.youtu...
Jan 01, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 110
Charles' "grange trip" turns into a bang trip as he and Caroline attend their class reunion in Milwaukee. Charles is clearly uncomfortable as all of his high school buddies have become rich and miserable. Amy Fisher makes a surprise appearance as she tries to lure Charles into some sexy time by a pond- as usual. Caroline is also the object of desire for some 57-year-old dude who must have graduated when he was 32. We have big news: our mother has started listening and we are f*cked. Jennie talks...
Dec 27, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 109
In this episode, we meet Bart Slater, a thirty-seven-year-old Freshman who bullies everyone in school. Albert the Fixer devises an elaborate plan to rid the school of Bart, but Carrie opens up her trash mouth and ruins everything. Ms. Beadle does not come out against the existence of werewolves, and once again, Walnut Grove is undone by the lack of solid facts and peer-reviewed evidence. Amye rails against school boards, we are introduced to Mob Justice-different than Creek Justice, and Jennie c...
Dec 20, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 108
In this look back at the Xmas of 1988, Doogie Howser recalls his quest to land a classic NES system for the holiday. He must face a schoolyard bully, his parents' resistance, and a town ban on video games to complete this caper. We reminisce about great Nintendo games including our favorite, Zelda. And in a case of life imitating art, we got sucked into a video game on Thanksgiving Day and almost forgot to make dinner. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subsc...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 107
This episode is full of surprises as Caroline's mother comes to visit...in a coffin, Charles decides to secretly send Caroline's father's manuscript to a publisher, and Mary has a two-year pregnancy. We give the "soddy" a new nickname, Jennie is getting worse at cooking, and Amye rants a lot. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month and access to our back catalog! CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP---...
Dec 13, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 106
It is Rev's turn for a breakdown this week as a charlatan arrives in Walnut Grove and starts healing people. All is fine until he kills a kid and it is up to Charles to prove the whole thing is a sham. And of course, Harriet is behind this mess. We discover where Amye's fear of everything came from, Jennie gives us some info on float therapy and Benedict Arnold-not necessarily together, and we love a good public takedown. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Su...
Dec 06, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 105
He’s back! And he’s in a real bad mood. Mr. Edwards is injured after he saves Alicia from danger. This injury converts this tough-talking mountain man into a big man baby who threatens to traumatize and destroy his entire family. Good thing sweet, intuitive Pa is on the case to fake a shooting and almost kill Edwards for real this time. Amye has a 33% failure rate in her new producer role, we play a game of “inappropriate versus appropriate,” and Jennie opens up on her complex feelings regarding...
Nov 29, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 104
In this Rev-centric episode, Rev is flattered when a woman named Anna takes an interest in his....um, sermon. The two fall in love and are about to marry until Harriet decides no one can ever be happy. Will Rev choose Anna over his congregation? Will we throw up in our mouths a little bit? We share breaking news about William Henry Harrison, argue over old wives’ tales, and Amye gets a case of the giggles. Again. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber!...
Nov 22, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 103
In this crossover episode, Amye and Lori from The Untitled GenX Podcast sit down and discuss Saved By The Bell Season 2, Episode 9: Jessie's Song. When Zack Morris decides to create his own version of a boy band using Jessie, Kelly, and Lisa, Jessie cracks under the pressure of a Geometry quiz and jeopardizes Hot Sundae's promising future. Slater is shocked to learn Jessie is popping caffeine pills, and he seems to be the only one who cares. Amye and Lori discuss their similar struggles with mat...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 102
The circus comes to town and we can’t decide who we hate more: Nels, Harriet, or the weirdo clowns running around. Nels is reunited with his *gasp* fat sister, Annabelle, and in a huge act of bravery reveals to the town they are related. Is Laura a sociopath or just a lazy seamstress? Amye channels Lester Holt in a Dateline skit that falls flat. Finally, we have a really long conversation about weight and representation in the media. Show Notes: To sign up for our Patreon feed, download the Patr...
Nov 15, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Adam is selected to win an award which leads to: Mary's glasses almost killing her, a pregnant woman in a terrible stage coach accident, Adam almost becoming paralyzed, and Charles and dollar-store Ride or Die saving the day. Albert is once again the hero as he tries to kill the Olesons with bees. Jennie puts an end to the Almonzo imitation, Amye is terrified of beehives in her walls, and we create a new verb: little housed. Show Notes: To sign up for our Patreon feed, download the Patreon app o...
Nov 08, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 100
According to Jennie, Ms. Wilder does the whole town a disservice by asking the children to do family trees as a school project. This of course gives everyone another chance to remind Albert he's an orphan. Staley Novak is back as Albert's really, really mean dad, and in the end, Albert reveals more of his genius. Jennie is sweating out the toxins and Amye was brainwashed by the 700 Club--to no one's surprise. Show Notes: To sign up for our Patreon feed, download the Patreon app or visit www.patr...
Nov 01, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 99
