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 18: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Part 2, Laura throws her baby in a basement, ALONE, while she rescues a cat during a tornado. As predicted, she gets knocked out and the cat escapes anyway. She survives, but has become a moody baby like her husband. Manly has a death wish, but after seeing his wife pouting...
Sep 26, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 153
Please enjoy this sample of Amye's Variety Hour, a Patreon-only show featuring interviews, games, poetry, and some possible fighting with Jennie. In this sample, Amye talks all things Gen X with the multi-talented Erin Martin, co-host of Pink Shade . If you like what you hear, sign up for Patreon today for as little as 5$ a month. You will have access to our entire back catalog including Blockbusters, Love Boat, Afterschool Specials, My So-Called Life, and much more. Sign up here: https://open.a...
Sep 24, 2022•24 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 8, Episode 17: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Part 1, Almonzo is acting a fool as he’s racking up debt and running around in the rain without a coat. Not surprisingly, he falls ill and Doc allows a room full of people to be exposed to Almonzo’s highly contagious disease. When Manly morphs into a giant man baby and refu...
Sep 19, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 152
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 15: Uncle Jed, the Cooper twins are stunned when Uncle Jed returns with a buttload of cash and a fancy carriage. After endearing himself to Jason and Cassandra, he lawyers the f**k up and tries to rip these already scarred children from Charles’ strong, masculine arms. Cassandra wins a poetry contest, Caroline...
Sep 12, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 151
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 14: The Legacy, Charles has yet another mid-life crisis after his rando friend dies of a heart attack in dramatic fashion. After a partnership with local store owner, Sven, proves fruitful, Charles takes his furniture making to Minneapolis where he works himself nearly to death, only to get screwed by another ...
Sep 05, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 150
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 13: Stone Soup, Charles ropes Manly into leaving town just as he and Laura have planted an orchard leaving the mom-to-be to water trees in a drought and almost die. Willie is quite the help, leaving Amye to have a scandalous theory about their relationship-which may get her canceled. Amye’s mic sounds like she...
Aug 29, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 149
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 10: Wave of the Future, a fast-talking restaurateur cons Harriet into franchising Caroline’s already-successful restaurant. The change ends up being too much and poor Caroline and Hester Sue are the ones who suffer. Literally nothing much happens in this one, so we spend a lot of time talking about pretty much...
Aug 22, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 148
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 9: For the Love of Nancy, Elmer Miles, a sweet boy who happens to be overweight, comes to Walnut Grove where his life is made miserable. The school kids of WG cannot stop themselves from mistreating this kid. Even Albert, with his new friend, Ray Liotta, is involved in this. Nancy uses Elmer's crush on her to ...
Aug 15, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Jennie and Amye, sisters and Gen Xers, sit down and discuss the 2022 Netflix Docuseries, Trainwreck: Woodstock '99. In the summer of 1999, while Jennie and Amye were off being poor and lame, 250,000 kids attended what promoters hoped would be an historic once-in-a-generation concert: Woodstock 99. This three-part docuseries exposes poor planning, willful ignorance, and an amazing amount of hubris on the part of (mostly) two men: Michael Lang and John Scher, aka Darth Vader. This was the perfect ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 146
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 8: Chicago, Charles heads to The Windy City to console a grieving Edwards whose son, John Jr, was mowed down by a drunk horse in an alley. In the worst episode of Law & Order, we meet some stereotypical Chicago gangsters who help Edwards and Charles solve this mystery. One of our main characters dies, yet ...
Aug 08, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 145
The Legend of Black Jake 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 7: The Legend of Black Jake, two not-so-bright criminals come to town and kidnap Nels Oleson. In this retelling of an old Bonanza script, Harriet refuses to pay the ransom and half the town ends up getting kidnapped. There is a bright spot, however, when Charles beats the absolute crap...
Aug 01, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 144
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 6: The Great Gambini, an aging daredevil, Rudolpho Gambini, comes to Walnut Grove with his reluctant family to revive his career after almost dying in a dangerous coffin trick. The entire town, especially Albert, catches daredevil fever and attempts dangerous tricks themselves. Pa, Nels, Doc, and Rev do not ap...
Jul 25, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Happy Summer! It's a Patreon episode for all! In honor of summer, enjoy this episode originally recorded for Patreon in Jan 2021. Enjoy our coverage of the HBO MAX documentary Class Action Park Join us as we remember the 80’s, a time of unregulated anarchy, at least for a bunch of teenagers in New Jersey. Action Park’s lawlessness became legend, and after watching this HBO MAX documentary, it’s obvious as to why. We are stunned by Uncle Gene, a mythical figure to the employees of the park who pr...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 14 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 8, episode 5: A Wiser Heart, Eliza Jane and Laura travel to Arizona for some continuing education credits. We meet a very handsome, but slimy professor who macs on Laura and doesn’t seem to care that Eliza Jane has an awkward 8th grade crush on him. The trip turns into a nightmare for Laura as she is forced to wash dishe...
Jul 18, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 142
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 4, Doc Baker is overwhelmed with patients- both human and horse- and must hire an associate. Caleb LeDoux and his wife, Mattie, show up to relieve Doc, which should solve everything except…they’re Black. Harriet is her awful self, Nels has zero power, and Charles has to punch another townsperson out in order t...
Jul 11, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 141
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 2, The Reincarnation of Nellie Part Two, Nancy continues to terrorize the town and has her sights set on Albert’s newest crush, Jan from the Office. Jan nearly dies after Nancy locks her in the ice house, then nearly dies again as Doc Baker experiments on her. Nancy concocts a traumatic backstory to win the to...
Jul 04, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 140
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 1, Nellie and Percival peace out and move to NYC, leaving Harriet in a serious slipper-tub depression. To perk her up and solve her situational depression, Baker suggests adopting a ten year old. Harriet and Nels go kid shopping and bring home a much worse version of Nellie. Meanwhile, Mary and her new hair an...
Jun 27, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 139
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Jun 23, 2022•29 min
Join Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal foes, as they recap Little House on the Prairie S7 EP22: The Lost Ones Part 2 In the conclusion of the season seven finale, Charles belabors the point of who should adopt the Cooper kids when all along we knew the answer-cram them all into the little house while Manly and Laura spread out in their 8-bedroom victorian. Amye gets real hung up on how to slip money into a pocket, and Jennie is cranky. Per usual. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE ...
Jun 20, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 138
In one of the wildest episodes in a while, Michael Landon recreates the Sanderson storyline with Jason Bateman and Cassandra Cooper. The Cooper children are orphaned after witnessing a horrific wagon accident in which their parents die right in front of their eyes. Charles, once again straddled with orphans, must find a home for these adorable kids. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month and ac...
Jun 13, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 137
I Do, Again: Seconds after Laura announces her first pregnancy and Manly falls through a roof, Caroline steals their moment by announcing she too is pregnant. Doc Baker must break the news to her that no, in fact, her life is ending, or she's in menopause-both reactions seem similar. The episode ends in a bizarre double wedding. We recast LHOTP with Meryl Streep, we need to start pre-recording our intro, and Albert gets a new nickname: no offense. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, b...
Jun 06, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 136
In this episode, Adam takes his first case after a two week stint in law school and is pretty much humiliated- we are HERE for it. Jennie is accused of slapping someone, Mark Twain and Colonel Sanders are the same person, HIPPA Laws will never stop Doc Baker, and we get a brief history of the SEC. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium 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-----&...
May 30, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 135
In the second part of the most scarring episode in Little House history, Sylvia and Albert fall in love and make plans to start a life together, against her weirdo father's wishes. We do get a hot Pa scene as he wrestles someone in the rain, and Doc Baker once again helps no one. This one gets pretty political, so be warned. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month and access to our back catalog!...
May 23, 2022•51 min
In this very special and scarring episode, a young, unsuspecting teenager gets assaulted by a blacksmith wearing a clown mask and is shamed and blamed for the attack. Wow, even writing that out is traumatic. We discuss a lot of serious stuff here, but also have a lively conversation about Jennie's trophies. Also, Jennie threatens to destroy the Me-Me B's. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month ...
May 16, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder: Laura is DONE with her class full of ignorant kids who don't yet know what they haven't been taught. Harriet swoops in and decides these farmers' kids just need to learn art appreciation and French. The kids do everything they can to resist this change and lure Laura back with a plan to act like maniacs in bananatown. Amye gets a case of the giggles right up front, Jennie puts Carrie on the school board, and we have a rather boring conversation about The Last Kingdom. For M...
May 09, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Joe Kagan is Mother Debbie Done with plowing and heads to the exciting town of Sleepy Eye for a new life. He gets a job at Garvey's newest Amazon operation and is forced to "say hi to Mary." We meet Timmy, an angry boy who acts a lot like Little Jennie, and we have a showdown of choirs. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium 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----->> htt...
May 02, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Preview: Enjoy this free preview of our Patreon content. In this Blockbusters episode, we cover Stand By Me, the beloved coming-of-age story based on Stephen King’s The Body. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium 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----->> https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/5506301 Join our Facebook Group, The Me-Me B’s for extra content,...
May 01, 2022•19 min
Manly is trolled the entire episode and we are here for it. When his older brother, Royal, decides to go on a river cruise with his wife, they need a sucker to watch their terrible, rambunctious boys. They need a sucker. Hey everyone, it's Manly! Jennie is back from her trip, we struggle hard with geography, and Amye has to explain how an outhouse is constructed. For MORE content, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, you get TWO bonus episodes per month and access to our bac...
Apr 25, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Harriet's bigotry and awfulness is dialed up to a ten when Percival's parents visit to meet their grandchild. Harriet and Benjamin clash over which religion the baby will practice. Nellie gives birth to twins: Jennifer (gag) and Benjamin. PS-Jennie is recording from a closet in a Palm Springs hotel, and Amye is on a new, but older? MacBook, so there are a few sound hiccups. Sorry in advance! For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Subscriber! For as little as 5$ a month, ...
Apr 18, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 129
A "lady speaker" comes to Walnut Grove, upsetting all of the men, especially Nels whose wife is still not falling into line. Charles, acting as the town's moral compass, does the absolute wrong thing and drives Caroline away. Willie's balls cause a lot of problems, and Percival believes women should have rights, just not the right to eat. We discuss the Oscar's slap and wonder aloud why anyone would get married. For MORE content and COMMERCIAL-FREE episodes, become a Premium Patreon Subscriber! ...
Apr 11, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 128
