Geekually Yoked

Rachel and Leeman talk about the shows, movies, books and other things that we like to come back to over and over and over and over and over again.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled and/or Obsessed Over

Once Upon a Time, Star Trek, Babylon Five, Room 237, Arrested Development, UK Office, Scrubs, Crimson Tide, Air Force One, When Harry Met Sally, Enchanted, Stardust (movie and book), Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth lake scene), Gilmore Girls, Family Guy, Farscape, Get Smart, Batman the Animated Series, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Pratchett, Bujold, Gaiman, Tolkien, Martin, Austen (the regulars), Tom Jones (the book), Lovecraft, Jane Eyre, Dracula, Homestar Runner, Geekson, Webcomics Weekly, The Vlog Brothers, and The Bible and Liturgical Year.

Our Outro is Debs and Errol’s Let’s Vomit Exclusively

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A tight nugget of an episode in which Rachel and Leeman talk about what happens when you a drop a kid in the middle of a show or movie.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Untitled Dr. Reeves Project and its spin off, The Kesslers. The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show, Buffy, Farscape, Shoot Em Up, Pasta, Mad About You, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek,  Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, Pete and Pete, Phantom Menace, Iron Man, Goonies, Harry Potter, Bridesmaids, The IMDB Game, and Little Monsters.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “Cuz He’s a Geek Guy”:

(Apologies for our distance discrepancies which makes Leeman sound way louder than Rachel. Consider it payback for Episode 24)

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In which Rachel and Leeman talk about how and when to introduce the terrible movies of their childhood to their spawn.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Exciting New Purchases, Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Miskatonic Musings, Name of the Rose, Episode I, Look Around You, Caravan of Courage/Battle for Endor, Princess Bride, ET, Secret of NIMH, Black Cauldron, My Little Pony, The Care Bears Movies, The Witches, Willow, Up, Finding Nemo, The Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, The Terrible Works of Sid and Marty Krofft, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, An American Tail, Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Nightmare Before Christmas, Despicable Me, Hellraiser, Lovecraft Children Books, Mystery!, Bridge to Terabithia, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Mortal Instrument series, Stardust, Phineas and Ferb, How to Train Your dragon, Rise of the Guardians, Dr. Who, Murder She Wrote,  The Hobbit (Rankin and Bass), and… Honey Booboo.

Debs and Errol’s new album!

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Rachel and Leeman saw Gravity and have thoughts! So many thoughts!

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Gravity, Father Capon and pelicans

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Rachel and Leeman talk at length about Joss Whedon, his works, and the implications thereof.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Entire Whedon Canon (including Roseanne)

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Rachel and Leeman talk about the strange phenomenon of actually sitting down at a specific time to watch TV as it is actually airing and its ramifications.

Topics Discusses and/or Spoiled:

Next Generation, PERDU, Marvel Agents of SHIELD, Buffy, Angel, Tribes, Breaking Bad, Fringe, BSG, Arrested Development, Babylon 5, Justified, Hannibal, Time Trax (that was its name!), Quick Witz, Mad About You, Big Bang Theory, Andromeda, House of Cards, and Lots of Shameful 90s Television.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “BSG”

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Rachel and Leeman share germs and discuss the way women are depicted in various media. (Also Leeman still struggles to interpret the settings on the microphone)

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Miskatonic Musings, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Jodorowsky’s Dune, The Star Wars, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars, Heir to the Empire, Courtship of Princess Leiah, The Vorkosigan Saga, Miss Representation, Cleanflix, The Bechdel Test, Ironman 3, Pacific Rim, Superman, The Heat, Gilmore Girls, Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, The Smurfette Principle, Firefly, Orange is the New Black, Twilight, Hunger Games, Once Upon a Time, Xena, Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Buffy, Farscape, Veronica Mars, Game of Thrones, Lost, Gleeroes, Sherlock, House of Cards, and…. Bernie?

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “Gaming With You”

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Rachel and Leeman have the first of what promises to be many discussions on death and its role in literature and pop culture.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

Babylon 5, DS9, The World’s End, Spaced, Hannibal, Luther, Man of Steel, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Avatar, Elysium, Buffy, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Three Kings, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, The Discworld series, The Sandman series, and Never Let Me Go.

Our outro is Debs and Errol’s “AT-ATs In the Snow”

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Rachel and Leeman are struck by a whim and discuss the role of whimsy in the various books, movies, and TV shows we allow into our house. Also, we forget to check if our microphone was on so we’ve got a punk rock feel to today’s show.

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled:

90s Christian rock, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, Due South, Hercules and Xena, Farscape, Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Hannibal, Better Off Ted, Sandman, American Gods, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Next Generation, Buffy, Deep Space Nine, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Red Dwarf, Dorothy Sayers, The Magicians, The Night Circus, and the Crossover Nexus

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Rachel and Leeman discuss the role of humanity and humans in Science Fiction

Topics Discussed and/or Spoiled

Pacific Rim, Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek VI, Seventh Heaven, Vorkosigan Saga, Ender’s Game, CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy, and for some strange reason, Farscape

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