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Tru Calling: "The Last Good Day"Few people remember Eliza Dushku's first post-Buffy series about a time-travelling morgue employee co-starring Zach Galifianakis, but it's one of the most interesting shows of the era -- both for its bizarre beh
Stargate SG-1: "Window of Opportunity"TV writer and director Zack Morrison, creator of the award-winning comedy pilot Canusa Street, joins us for a beloved and hilarious episode of one TV's tentpole sci-fi shows! Zack talks about his experienc
The Outer Limits: "Controlled Experiment"There is nothing wrong with your podcast app. We are controlling transmission. It's another Gimmicks historical deep dive as we explore TV's very first bottle episode--a term coined by Outer Limits crea
Rugrats: "What the Big People Do"TV writer Danielle Weisberg (The Simpsons, Krapopolis) joins us for one of the tentpole 90s Nicktoons from animation behemoth Klasky-Csupo, and its strange and scary imaginary tale about an adulthood with baby
The O.C.: “The Chrismukk-Huh?” It's Chrismukkah in July! Louie Rendon of The Mixed Reviews (who's appropriately recording from his beach vacation) heads to sunny California for this teen drama's It's a Wonderful Life homage, featuring an alt-w
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "The Box"We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David talks about his own thoughts on the movie Cube and his experiences with Star Wars and The Clone Wars.Then, we pres
Lost: "Exposé"We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David provides his hot takes on Nikki & Paulo, Shannon, and falling in love with Sayid, while Derek gives updates about Lost and Damon Lindelo
Batman: The Animated Series: "P.O.V."We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David provides his thoughts on Batman and its amazing intro, while Derek talks about his recent experience watching the
Sliders: "As Time Goes By" We're revisiting this early episode of Gimmicks from 2022 with new commentary! First, David provides his thoughts on Sliders and Jerry O'Connell (famously NOT our favorite Slider), while Derek is still in awe that no
Bob's Burgers: "Radio No You Didn't"Milioti May concludes as Bob's Burgers does a paranoia thriller period piece! Cristin Milioti is unrecognizable as Bob Belcher's grandmother, the protagonist of a tense Hitchcock-style story in the 1940s tha
How I Met Your Mother: "How Your Mother Met Me"As one of the seminal sitcoms of the 2000s, CBS's HIMYM eventually had to do the impossible: introduce the titular mother that had been teased for nine years and somehow get us all to like her. Th
The West Wing: "17 People"In what's widely regarded as one of TV's all-time best bottle episodes, the staff of The White House stays late for two reasons: a tense confrontation in the Oval Office about the President's health, and a writers' ro
Dragon Ball Z: "Goku's Ordeal" (aka "License Mastery? Goku's Newest Trial")Author and Podcaster Stik Braxton returns for Akira Toriyama's hugely influential anime and one of the most famous filler episodes of all time -- the one where Goku and
Sabrina the Teenage Witch: "Pancake Madness"The answer to the riddle is cakes on the griddle! In this parody of Very Special Episodes and Reefer Madness, Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) gets hooked on pancakes... and we're pretty sure it got this
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Ember Island Players" Storyboard artist Spencer Johnson (Star Trek: Lower Decks, Scavenger's Reign) joins us for Nickelodeon's anime-inspired action series, and its famous recap episode where our heroes watch a
Newsradio: "Sinking Ship" What do you do when you're a surrealist sitcom that's been treated badly by NBC and pretty sure you're about to be cancelled? Blow all the network's budget on an effects-heavy period piece! In what was famously Phil H
Alias: "Phase One" Just in time for the Big Game, we're covering when the classic J.J. Abrams spy thriller Alias scored the treasured Super Bowl lead out slot... and aired its wildest episode that not only demolishes its original premise and r
30 Rock: "Queen of Jordan" HAM! Nick Coffman from Hard Drive and Smashing Game Time joins us for an iconic episode from the Tina Fey comedy that spotlights Angie Jordan (Sherri Shepard) and her Real Housewives-esque in-universe show, which inc
Superman: The Animated Series: "The Late Mr. Kent" The Big Blue Boy Scout finds himself tangled in a noir-style murder mystery when his alter-ego of Clark Kent appears to be killed! With private eye-style flashback narration, a grounded crime
Fringe: "Brown Betty" Merrilee O'Neil joins us for one of the strangest genre mash-ups of all time from this cult sci-fi show, where a grief-stricken mad scientist tells a fairy tale about glass hearts, singing corpses, and quantum laser knive
Doctor Who: "Midnight" Hamish Steele (creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park and DeadEndia) joins us for one of Doctor Who's best and scariest episodes, which uses knocking, repetition, and a tourist bus to expose the darkness of humanity. On th
Angel: "Birthday" It's an ode to Cordelia Chase in this It's a Wonderful Life homage, where Queen C faces certain death, is guided by an affable demon to reflect on her life choices, and finally lives the alternate life she always dreamed of a
Futurama: "The Sting" Every TV viewer knows that even if the main character dies, things have to get back to normal somehow, right? This surreal, emotionally-charged episode explores every possibility of that premise, from dreams and hallucina
The Donna Reed Show: "Have Fun" We're venturing back to the late 1950s for a piece of television history you may not have known about -- the first ever Rashomon-style episode! Though Donna Reed became known as the ur-example of a typical sitco
The Haunting of Hill House: "Two Storms" Nadia from Inside All Day Podcast joins us for this equal parts scary and sad episode of the acclaimed Netflix adaptation of Shirley Jackson's famous novel, where horror mastermind Mike Flanagan uses am
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