Hello our beloved listener/learns-- we're back!! Today, we're soft launching our new season with a mini episode all about When in Rome's alternate ending. This was shared with us after we recorded our When in Rome episode, which is tragic because this ending changes everything. We could have talked for 5 hours about it, but we kept it under 30 minutes because we know you all have BBQ's to attend, fireworks to watch, and cute food to eat. So please enjoy this bite-size ep, complete with what we'v...
Jul 04, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 68
Happy Birthday, Mary-Kate and Ashley!! To celebrate this national holiday, we decided to do the most exciting thing we've ever done-- host a real life birthday party for Mary-Kate and Ashley ourselves! And unlike the time Becca was a child and saw the commercial for "You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's Sleepover Party" and thought she was literally invited, this time you actually are! We sent a call out on our Instagram and invited our friends from Patreon to join us virtually to celebrate,...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 67
Today we watch what (we think) has been collectively agreed upon by Mary-Kate and Ashley fans as their worst movie. The movie that for some singlehandedly ended their Mary-Kate and Ashley obsession: When in Rome . On November 26th, 2002, When in Rome was released straight to DVD and VHS and followed Charli (Mary-Kate) and Leila (Ashley) as they interned for a top fashion designer in Rome, Italy. Where they came from, how they got there, and why these two sisters share a highly competitive intern...
Apr 25, 2023•2 hr•Season 4Ep. 66
Last episode, we used the Wayback Machine to take a deep dive into marykateandashley.com . We clicked through the clickboards, sent a web-based email, and learned all about the hot new "fash" tips and best highlights for your hair (not the kind you're thinking). But after recording our episode, we realized there was one link we didn't click: the full transcript of a Q&A with Mary-Kate and Ashley themselves (?!). So today, we do a dramatic reenactment of the entire chat, with Becca playing Ma...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 65
In the late 90s, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen launched one of the most epic websites of all time: marykateandashley.com. For today's episode, because of a wonderful tool called The Wayback Machine, we were able to travel back in time to visit this website in all its glory. In typical They Thought I Was You fashion (or shall we say "fash"), we thought we could cover every iteration of this iconic website throughout the years, from its launch until it went defunct in the 00s, in just one episode. Th...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Season 4Ep. 64
DISCLAIMER: We had an audio malfunction while recording, so the quality of the audio in this episode isn't great. But the conversation is, so please bear with us! On October 27, 2000, Mary-Kate and Ashley released their first video for PlayStation, Mary-Kate and Ashley: Magical Mystery Mall . They already had some success with their Gameboy games The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley and Get a Clue , and Dance Party of the Century for PC, and this game ushered in a wave of games for more ...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 63
We have finally come down from the high of having one of the best conversations of our lives with Jane Sibbett two weeks ago, and we are back this week to talk about serious business: Mary-Kate and Ashley's enormous power in 2002. Today, we're talking about a feature " Downtown 20/20 " did on the Olsens in February 2002. This caught our attention a few weeks ago when we were researching our Young Hollywood on Late Night episode and because this interview actually reveals a lot about Mary-Kate an...
Mar 21, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Yes, you read that correctly. Today we're talking to THAT Jane. The queer icon of Friends . The terrible, fabulous villain of It Takes Two . Ms. Clarice Kensington herself, whom we absolutely adoooooore, Jane Sibbett. We were thrilled to sit down with Jane and talk about her career and positively iconic roles in projects that shaped our childhood. Jane told us about her early work on sitcoms like Herman's Head (which, according to Wikipedia , is what she's "best known for"), and how that role ev...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Two weeks ago, we talked about Mary-Kate and Ashley's appearance on Jay Leno in 2002, and we noticed a pattern. Every talk show host who ever interviewed Mary-Kate and Ashley (with the exception of Rosie O'Donnell) always did a terrible job. They always ask them if they have boyfriends, they never ask them serious questions about the projects they're working on, and the conversation is almost always painfully awkward. So we decided we needed some context, and see how late night hosts talked to o...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 4Ep. 60
We hope ya'll are ready for this one. We had the tremendous honor of speaking with the actress who played one of the most tragic characters in American cinema (or at least in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Universe). Today, we speak to Holly Towne, aka Lyndi, from Getting There . Holly Towne is actually our very first guest who was also a Mary-Kate and Ashley fan before getting cast in one of their movies (the actual dream). Holly tells us about the magical moment when she landed the role, gives us an...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 59
Happy Valentine's Day! And what better way to celebrate the day of love than with the thing we love the most-- Two of a Kind! Today, we're jumping out of our timeline to go back and review Two of a Kind, Ep 15 "No Man's Land" (aka the Valentine's Day episode). Last week, Lani corrected Becca's memory of this episode saying that Ashley's sports date was with fan favorite Pokey Valentine. However, after watching the episode, it turns out the sports boy was actually named Eric. In the spirit of for...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 58
We're continuing our journey through 2002 with a type of episode we haven't done in a while-- unpacking a Mary-Kate and Ashley interview and its implications in their larger treatment in the media! Today we're talking about Mary-Kate and Ashley's appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Getting There ... weird! In 2002, Mary-Kate and Ashley were simultaneously outsiders and leading forces in Hollywood. The way Jay Leno awkwardly asks them about school, boys, and driving is a prime...
Feb 07, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 57
We're jumping backwards in our timeline just a bit to revisit a topic that will always be on our minds: the Mary-Kate and Ashley cruises. And today, sharing her truly remarkable experience on Mary-Kate and Ashley's 2000 cruise on the Baltic Sea, we are joined by the one and only Chloe Schildhause. Chloe first shared her cruise story in 2014 in an article for Vanity Fair and has recently turned that article into an experimental short film . We were so excited to have her on the podcast to dig int...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 56
You asked, we answered. Well, some of you never asked, but others of you have insisted for months that the Mary-Kate and Ashley books are a very important part of the Mary-Kate and Ashley Universe and have been begging us to talk about them. So today, we read our first Dualstar book, Mary-Kate and Ashley Sweet 16: Getting There . After reading this book, we realize this was a very chaotic book to read first. But since we just finished reviewing Getting There (the movie) for our podcast, we wante...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 4Ep. 55
We cannot believe we kept this interview a secret for an ENTIRE month! It has been absolutely excruciating, and we are so relieved and incredibly excited to finally share our special guest this week. We had the honor of talking with everyone's favorite annoying neighbor, Mary-Kate's best unrequited love, and the sweetest pony-loving, guitar-playing, lobster costume-wearing guy, Larry Slotnick himself, Jesse Head. Jesse tells us about how he first got into acting, the magical experience of being ...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 4Ep. 54
We're BACK for Season 4 with an episode we did not plan on doing. But when one of our girls is in the news, we have no choice but to drop everything. And last week, we got some big news... Ashley Fuller Olsen got MARRIED! But of course in true Olsen fashion, details about the matrimony are not widely available. And since we respect our girls, we tried our best not to speculate, but instead talk about what we know-- her husband's name (Louis Eisner), the very limited 50 guests that attended in LA...
Jan 10, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 53
As we come to the end of the year and Season 3 of our podcast, we thought we'd do something we've never done before-- a Q&A episode with YOUR questions. We asked our listeners, Instagram followers and Patreon subscribers to send us questions about the podcast, Mary-Kate and Ashley, or us personally, and you came THROUGH. We got so many truly fantastic questions like which MKA film would we like to rewrite the most, what era would we most like to be friends with MKA in, and do we think they'r...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Today we conclude our two-part epic journey discussing Mary-Kate and Ashley's sixth direct-to-video full-length feature film, Getting There, about Mary-Kate and Ashley's misadventure getting to the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Picking up right where we left off with the gang stranded at home for a third time, in this episode we get to see them finally leave California. We discuss the absolute horror it would be to lose your sister on a Greyhound bus, our theory that their female friend...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Today we talk about the film this podcast has been waiting for. The film that divides Mary-Kate and Ashley fans around the globe. The film that made some some of us double down on our MKA obsession and some of us take a step back. Whether you loved it or hated it, chances are you never forgot it. Because it's not about the journey, it's all about GETTING THERE. On June 11th, 2002 (we finally looked up the release date), Mary-Kate and Ashley released their 6th direct-to-video feature film, Gettin...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Our green bean casserole has finally digested, and we're back talking about the world's most iconic twins. But in today's episode, we're focusing on only one twin, just like the Emmys did in twenty years ago. On May 17th, 2002, the 29th Daytime Emmy Awards Ceremony took place at Madison Square Garden, and notably only nominated Mary-Kate Olsen for So Little Time , not Ashley. This moment might have escaped us completely if Lani hadn't stumbled on a red carpet clip of Mary-Kate and Ashley giving ...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 49
Today is a very special episode. Today, we conclude our So Little Time rewatch series, and for the very first time, Becca and Lani record physically together in the same room. We take the first few minutes of this episode to appreciate how monumental this feels for us, and ponder if it's any different at all for you listeners. But then we get right back into our rewatch of everyone's favorite Fox Family sitcom that we thought we could cover in just two podcast episodes. Now, six episodes and one...
Nov 15, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 48
Our So Little Time journey continues! But this week, instead of talking about the scripted show, we're spending this whole episode talking about a part of the show that is so quintessentially Mary-Kate and Ashley-- the bloopers! The origin of the So Little Time bloopers is still a mystery (to us), but we're pretty sure they first appeared in promos for the show on Fox Family, and later in full on the show's DVDs. Not being huge participants of the Mary-Kate and Ashley DVD culture, we realized th...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 47
We thought we'd be able to finish our So Little Time series with this episode, but it turns out, we simply had too much to talk about! So today we continue our So Little Time deep dive, and we cover episodes Ep 16-20, "The Massage," "Riley’s New Guy," "The Wheelchair," "The Job," and "The Flat Tire." We spend the first portion of this episode taking a close examination of the "behind the scenes" cold opens, and why they bother Becca so much and Lani so little. Then, we dig into the storylines of...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Our So Little Time series continues with a very special guest this week. We had the honor and privilege of talking with the only person who can say he has played Mary-Kate and Ashley's dad not once, but TWICE: actor Eric Lutes ( So Little Time, Switching Goals ). We were thrilled to talk Jake Carlson himself in the middle of our So Little Time rewatch to answer some of our most burning questions. He gave us the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes, what the dynamic was like between the...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Today we jump back into 2002, and continue our rewatch of everyone's favorite Fox Family original sitcom, So Little Time . And we pick up right where we left off, on episode 15, "The New Guy." Boy oh boy, have things changed. This was So Little Time 's first episode back after a fall hiatus (and after Mary-Kate and Ashley filmed & released, Holiday in the Sun ), and the show feels completely different. Characters have been added, some have been lost, there are new sets, the cold opens are me...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 44
WE'RE BACK! We had planned to spend this entire episode talking about the photo Ashley and Mary-Kate (purposefully in that order out of respect) took for their article in M Le Magazine du Monde . But then, in an incredible twist of kismet, on the day that Becca and Lani decided to record, brand new videos of Ashley and Mary-Kate were posted from The Row's Summer 2023 Womenswear runway show in Paris. In a world where we so rarely get to see the Olsen sisters in front of the camera, this week felt...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Today, we're sharing a bonus episode we first released exclusively to our Patreon subscribers. For months, we've received DM's from followers and listeners asking us if we've watched the Mary-Kate and Ashley mini-doc, "WeTransfer Presents: The Twins,*" so we finally did. This 12-minute video by Zara Meerza about the Mary-Kate and Ashley fandom went live on the internet on June 23rd, 2022, and is a beautiful love letter to the Olsen sisters, their impact on young women, and their unique appeal as...
Aug 30, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Here it is, the moment we've all been waiting for... the holy grail of Mary-Kate and Ashley movies... today we talk about Holiday in the Sun. And we know what you're thinking-- didn't you two already talk about this movie? NO WE DIDN'T. We interviewed Ben Easter aka Jordan Landers as in Landers Hardware Store Landers, but just the two of us, Becca and Lani, have never talked about this movie in real life or on this podcast! So today, we leave no pukka shell unturned. We get into the nitty gritty...
Aug 23, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Last November, for Holiday in the Sun's 20th Anniversary, we had what can only be described as a life-changing interview with Ben Easter (aka Jordan Landers of Hardware Store Landers). Now that we've finally caught up in our timeline to the iconic Holiday in the Sun era, this week we are re-releasing our interview with Ben Easter. We are proud to say we are much better interviewers now than we were last November, so please excuse our INTENSE nerves at the beginning (but then again, what self-res...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Last week, we reread the entire premiere issue of Mary-Kate and Ashley's fashion magazine from 2001, aptly titled "mary-kateandashley magazine." We discussed that the magazine mysteriously ended abruptly after 3 issues, but we had no idea why. So this week, we consult with They Thought I Was You's resident Mary-Kate and Ashley historian, Derrick Dobson ( @derricksdollcollection ) to learn all about the rise and fall of this beloved magazine. Derrick explains to us what the online community thoug...
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 39
