The sisters are back again after a long absence to discuss a show that isn't necessarily lost to time, but they had been watching a lot of it, and it was pretty on theme for Thanksgiving if you think about it. Everyone love and fears that classic Thanksgiving tradition of unveiling what this year's special ingredient will be, then competing between your family members to see who will be crowned Iron Chef.
On this episode, the sisters take a trip back to a promo VHS they found stashed in their video cabinet. Who knows where it came from, or why. But it taught us the importance of.... brushing our teeth? Well it never really mentioned that but it was implied.
The sisters attempt to get into the holiday spirit by watching The Gift Of Winter, an animated short from 1974 starring Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner. It's okay, but the sisters agree it really should have had a much clearer how-to on effective methods for deposing tyrants.
The sisters are mixing it up yet again this week with a very special episode, an episode Abby has been training for all her life, an episode in which they discuss aspects of the 1990-2000 kid's horror show Are You Afraid Of The Dark. Settle in and feel spoooky for this, our Halloween special! RETRACTION- At one point I say there were no AYAOTD books and I was very wrong, there is a book series and I need to own all of them.
Joining the sisters this week are Carey Pietsch and Megan Brennan of The Morph Club podcast in a heartfelt discussion of the television/book series Animorphs. They are all very excited about animals and the ability to morph into them, but boy, does that not make the show much easier to watch.
This week, the sisters struggle to find anything they enjoyed about watching Mystic Knights Of Tir Na Nog, a show from 1998 which was the result of someone saying "hey wait a minute, we can make Power Rangers ourSELVES!" and made this, the Irish Power Rangers. Which sounds like it would be fun, but was not.
The sisters are finally back at it after many busy weeks, and settled down to watch the very pleasant 1981 anime, which follows a tiny bean of a unicorn named Unico as he spreads happiness to all those he meets. Perhaps he even spread happiness to the cold cynical hearts of these sisters.
On this episode, the sisters discuss Shadow Raiders, a Canadian CGI cartoon from 1998. The sisters get... way into it. They have fan theories. They have ships. They have a good time. (And before anyone sends us tweets, yes, I now know there is a single bug that lives on Antarctica)
The sisters are finally reunited after weeks apart, and discuss the 1993 Hanna Barbara animated film "Once Upon A Forest", yet another film which tells children they should feel bad about how humanity is killing the Earth and animals hate us. Which is true and they probably should feel bad.
In this episode, the sisters fawn over Mythquest, an amazing show from the year 2001 in which siblings must travel through different myths to find their father. It was an entertaining time, and hopefully this podcast will also be entertaining~
This week, the sisters believed they were going to watch a movie about a cat, but Disney duped them and they wound up watching this drama about an incompassionate veterinarian finding his faith. There was a cat in it sometimes.
It's the sisters' 20th episode, which means it's time for another fliparoo! Instead of watching a show that no one else remembers, the sisters watch a show that everyone else remembers but they never actually saw-- The Adventures of Pete&Pete, which definitely withstands the test of time. Everyone was right. It's good. Also, Maddie is feverish and dying the whole time.
In this week's The Sistertime Podcast, Abby forgot to use her good microphone for like half the episode. Also, the sisters watched a show about a lot of anthropomorphic cows living on a mesa high above the clouds, and thinking it is and always has been The Wild West. In their daily lives, they do their best to uphold the Code Of The West. The sisters find themselves at odds about whether or not it was fun and delightful, or utter tedium.
This week, the sisters got their hopes up, only to have them immediately dashed into many small pieces by the 70s spooky variety show for kids, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. It had puppets, creepy characters, and His Elegance Himself, Vincent Price... but it was best left buried in the memories of the poor children who had to watch it.
The sisters embark on a journey across the universe to the planet of New Texas, where Marshall Bravestarr defends the gentle settlers from evil supernatural space outlaws. It is not nearly as exciting as this description would make it seem. Also, there's a horrible robot horse.
It may not be Christmas anymore, but does Christmas ever really leave us? Probably. But hey, why not relive that brief moment of joy in an otherwise miserable year with the Sistertime Podcast Christmastime Special! The sisters discuss the 1986 made-for-TV "Babes In Toyland" starring Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore, one of the best Christmas specials ever made. Which is quite the feat, especially considering it is barely about Christmas. In fact it's mostly about Cincinnati.
The sisters are joined by a very special guest, their young brother Guthrie, and together they discuss the middle-of-the-road Australian program Ocean Girl. The show follows a pair of brothers as they discover a girl living on an otherwise uninhabited island, a girl who can mysteriously talk to whales and breathe underwater. It is not nearly as interesting as that premise would make it seem.
The sisters finally manage to get through the 2004 fantasy adventure show Shoebox Zoo, which follows Marney as she must find a book and return her small wooden animal friends to their human forms. Scottish and overly dramatic, it was difficult to watch, but did have its moments.
It's Halloweek! And so the sisters buckle down and watch The Last Halloween, a 1991 Hanna Barbara live action short, and The Halloween Tree, a 1993 feature length animated feature adapted from a Ray Bradbury tale. Happy Halloweeeeeeen....!
This week, Abby visits Maddie in Boston and the two record the show from the same room! See if you can even tell who is who in this very special episode. The sisters discuss the 1979 educational TV show Read All About It, which draws its viewers in with a multi-dimensional conspiracy involving a giant floating head who may also be the mayor but forces them to learn how to read along the way.
The sisters delve into the bottomless pit of the old Dark Shadows TV show, which defeats them with its unending storylines and lack of makeouts. It was much beloved by their mother and aunt, but this sister duo may not share their enthusiasm.
For the very special tenth episode, the sisters mix it up, and watch a show that everybody else liked that they had never seen. They chose Saved By The Bell, and they loathed it. The show centers around the wretched Zack Morris in his day-to-day life at a school where he is law. Everyone bows before him as he frowns upon their cowering forms.
The sisters force themselves through the short-lived 1986 cartoon Moondreamers, which follows a bunch of white babies who live in the sky and supposedly give dreams to all the children of Earth, despite the best efforts of Queen Scowlene. It is truly a terrible show, but the sisters prevailed.
This week, Maddie and Abby watch the 1947/1977 Russian animated film, The Magic Pony, and are thoroughly charmed by it. The film follows young Ivan and his magic pony as they are forced to complete increasingly difficult tasks for a foolish czar.
This week, the sisters watch a surprisingly good Canadian show from 1997, Dracula: The Series. The show follows Max and his older brother Chris as they move to Europe and, with the help of their Uncle Gustav Van Helsing, must defeat Ruthless Businessman Dracula before he takes over the world.
This week, the sisters watch Starkid, a 1997 film about a kid who finds an alien cybersuit created by a dying race and uses it to do stupid things.
On this week's episode, the sisters discuss the 1994 film Dragonworld, about a boy and his dragon. It's a classic film, by which we mean formulaic and bland. But even the most bland film can still give a wonderful jumping-off point for a discussion.
In this episode, the sisters discuss Round The Twist, an Australian children's program about a family who moves into a lighthouse, then finds themselves at the center of a series of strange phenomena.
In this, the third episode of the Sistertime Podcast, we discuss the wreck of a film that is Adventures In Dinosaur City, circa 1991. A group of... children?... is transported into their favorite show, Dinosaurs, set in a Flinstones-esque world where dinosaurs and cavepeople vie for dominance over the lava pits and barren wastelands of some indeterminate time period. Some fact clarification: turtles actually evolved around the same time as dinosaurs, rather than "long before" as I said in the po...
In the second episode of the Sistertime Podcast, Abby and Maddie discuss the 1992-94 Canadian show The Odyssey, which focuses on Jay as he falls into a coma and journeys across a post-apocalyptic dream world populated only by children. There is zero relation to Homer's Odyssey.
