Episode 92: The Land Before Time

We traveled back to our childhoods for this episode on The Land Before Time. In this episode, we share our favorite Christmas gifts, there is a lot of yawning (sorry), we call in an expert to talk about dinosaurs, and discover that there are FOURTEEN of these movies (how!?!).

Show Notes

IMDb: The Land Before Time (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
Rated: G

ASMR
chocolate oranges
Wesleigh’s work instagram / Elf on the Shelf :

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We’re wrapping up 2018 with a little extra Christmas cheer. 🤗🎄 #EvanTheElf

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Big Fun vintage toy shop
Top Golf
Park and Rec: Mary Poppins Returns, Aquaman, Bird Box, Dumplin’, The Shop Around the Corner
Not Will Arnett: Patrick Wilson
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Don Bluth

Baby dinosaurs:

Littlefoot = Longneck = Apatosaurus
Ducky = Bigmouth = Saurolophus
Spike = Spiketail = Stegosaurus
Cera = Three Horn = Triceratops
Petrie = Flyer = Pteranodon
Sharptooth = Tyrannosaurus rex

Dinosaur Comes to Town by Gene Darby
Sue the T-Rex
Luke Benward

HOW MANY TATUMS?

Wesleigh: 6 Tatums
Katie: 5 Tatums

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Star Wars

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

• The Phantom of the Opera

• Watchmen

• Homecoming

• You’ve Got Mail

• An American Tail

• All Dogs Go to Heaven

• Jurassic Park

• Dear John

Episode 88: Gnomeo & Juliet

It’s the last and final pick for Wesleigh’s birthday month! In this episode, we hear about our host’s origin story at a Halloween party, Matilda meowing into the mic and acting like Smeagol, and learn about the time when Wesleigh was a baton twirler.

Show Notes

IMDb: Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes:
Rated: G

Park and Rec: Bohemian Rhapsody, Wildlife, Life of the Party
Wesleigh as Jane Jetson at the Halloween party in 2009:

Romeo and Juliet
Snickers Elton John commercial:

Christmas Elton John commercial:

Crocodile Rock
@AmyShumer on Insta
@JameelaJamil on Twitter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter
Unqualified by Anna Farris

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Twilight

• The Jetsons

• Can You Ever Forgive Me

• Boy Erased

• The Grinch

• Ralph Breaks the Internet

• Widows

• Galaxy Quest

• The Green Hornet

• Romeo + Juliet

• Veggie Tales

• I Feel Pretty

Episode 52: An Amerian Tail

Somewhere out there you are listening to this podcast on An American Tail, and now have that adorable song stuck in your head (sorry not sorry). We ventured into our childhoods and watched the Spielberg/Bluth classic, which was much scarier than we remember. In this episode, we discuss the filmmaker's signature animation style, read some dark Pooh Bear fanfic, and hear about a formative teaching moment featuring Pokemon.

Show Notes

IMDb: An American Tail (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
Rated: G

not sponsored by Scentsy
not sponsored by Spencers
Park and Rec: A Wrinkle in Time
Tide Super Bowl ads with David Harbour (via Nerdist)
WM’s Christopher Robin tweet:

So Christopher Robin is Prof. Henry Jones...? pic.twitter.com/SB4NXMFUC2

— Wesleigh Mowry (@hellowesleigh) March 6, 2018

Noir Pooh twitter thread:

Her name was Kanga and she was trouble. She came into my office as I was about to dip into a honeypot. I liked honey the way priests love God.
"You are Pooh? The detective?" she said.
"I live under the name of Sanders. What's it to you?"
"My boy," she said. "Roo. He's missing."

— Lavie Tidhar (@lavietidhar) March 6, 2018

Matt Damon / Jimmy Kimmel feud
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Somewhere Out There:

group of cats is called a clowder
collective nouns
Art Spiegelmai’s MAUS
Troy + Abed sing Somewhere Out There:

Pokemon theme song:

Shows/Movies Mentioned

Paddington
Christopher Robin
Milk
The Princess Bride
The Big Bang Theory
Down with Love
Fievel Goes West
The Wizard of Oz
The Great Mouse Detective
The Rescuers
The Secret of NIMH
The Little Mermaid
The Land Before Time
Top Gun
Rock-a-Doodle
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Anastasia
Squiggle vision
Community

Episode 48: Babe

Continuing Oscar Loser month, we found one of the most surprising titles nominated for Best Picture: 1995's talking animal flick, Babe. A trip down memory lane reminded us that this movie is a lot better — and darker — than we ever noticed as children. In this episode, Katie shares her theory for the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward, discover that Wesleigh knows a lot about Rugrats, and have a conversation about the awfulness of school shootings and our awe of Gen Z's response.

Show Notes

IMDb: Babe (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
Rated: G

Park and Rec: PyeongChang 2018 Olympics, Black Panther
Curling
Biathlon
Columbus Curling Club
Facebook curling video:

Florida student Emma Gonzalez speech on CNN (video and transcript)
Nominated for 6 Oscars (and won 1)??
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Mark Mothersbaugh / Devo
Chuck E. Cheese is voiced by Bowling for Soup lead Jared Reddick
Carmen Sandiego

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005-2014)
• Apollo 13
• Il Postino (The Postman)
• Sense and Sensibility
• Braveheart
• Pocahontas
• Toy Story
• Water world
• LOTR
• The Matrix
• Air Bud
• Gladiator
• The Lion King
• Dexter’s Laboratory
• Rugrats
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Charlotte’s Web
• Gordy

Episode 41: Fantasia w/ Whitneigh & Dad

In a special episode for the first of the year, Wesleigh sits down with her Dad and sister, Whitneigh, on Christmas Eve to talk about Fantasia (Her father requested this title after hearing the pilot, so we're bringing him on as a guest!). In this episode you can hear us noisily stirring bourbon slush, Whitneigh shares the scariest episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, Dad posits the theory that everything from I Love Lucy to Dirty Dancing can be traced back to this movie, and Wesleigh teaches her family about Star War's blue milk. Guest-starring Whitneigh's son Marshall!

Meet our guests, Whitneigh and Dad!

Whitneigh is sister to Wesleigh and mom to Marshall, and Dad is father to both Wesleigh and Whitneigh. You can follow Whitneigh at @WhitneighS and see our posts about Dad at @SkippyDadSays

Show Notes

IMDb: Fantasia (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Rated: G

Park and Rec: Fantasia 2000

Songs/Shorts:
    
1. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
the Dracula song
sky blue pink
70s color on an overhead projector — "liquid light shows"

2. Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
frost fairies:

3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas
Based on Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling"
Faust
Yen Sid = Disney backwards
3 little pigs:

4. Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
painting of the galaxy:

Pantone Color of the Year - since 2000
cute baby triceratops:

Reptar

Intermission / Meet the Soundtrack
Blue Man Group
Blue milk in Star Wars

5. The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven

centaurs and centaurettes
Bacchus / Friar Tuck / Little Ceasers
Pegasus raise babies in a tree like a bird
Donkey unicorn??
African zebra centaurettes
Deleted scene of centaurette Sunflower
WB old cartoon disclaimer:

Br'er Rabbit and Tar Baby / Song of the South

6. Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli
Madame Upanova and her ostriches (Morning)
Hyacinth Hippo and her servants (Afternoon)

via GIPHY

Elephanchine and her bubble-blowing elephant troupe (Evening)
Ben Ali Gator and his troop of alligators (Night)

7. Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Satan looks like a giant gargoyle
chalky skeletons
transition from dark to light

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Fantasia 2000
• Moana
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
• Pinnochio
• The Reluctant Dragon
• Pete’s Dragon
• Dumbo
• Bambi
• Hercules
• Peter Pan
• Unsolved Mysteries
• MST3K
• Godzilla vs. ??
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
• Lion King
• Angels in the Outfield
• Rugrats
• Blue Harvest
• My Little Pony
• Today Show
• Carol Burnett
• I Love Lucy
• Dirty Dancing
• Sleeping Beauty
• Tangled
• The Big Bang Theory

Episode 24: The Princess Diaries

BONUS! Listen to a special playlist based on this episode on Spotify!

Viewing Party revisits the early 00s with a feel-good teen girl favorite: The Princess Diaries! In this episode Katie does a LOT of voices, we learn what it takes to turn Wesleigh British, and discuss dreamsicles, high-end Gordo, the key to perfect chocolate chip cookies, and the fact that Tim Burton never learns a lesson. Also, we introduce a new segment we name on the spot!

Show Notes

IMDb: The Princess Diaries (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes: 47%
Rated: G

Shut Up and Listen podcast by Heather Matarazzo
Not Sponsored by pillows
Weird Al - Livin' with a Hernia

Park & Recs: Insecure, The Good Place
Not Sponsored by Domino’s
The Perfect List:

• Julie Andrews
• Cate Blanchett
• Kate Winslet
• Emma Thompson
• Robin Wright

Julie Andrews on Colbert (see left)
Not Sponsored by Breathe Right Strips
Life lesson: princesses never cross their legs, they cross their ankles
Planet of the Apes podcast? - We found one! Podcast of the Apes
Weird fashion on Lizzie McGuire
*NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye

Robert Schwartzman (Michael) is Jason Schwartzman’s little brother
Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?

Jason Mraz - Waiting for My Rocket to Come
Shonda Rhimes (Screenplay for sequel)
All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

If Jason Schwartzman was playing Jared Leto in a movie it would be Robert
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
The Cutaways podcast

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Tammy and the T-Rex
• Accepted
• The Great British Bake Off
• Downtown Abbey
• iRobot
• Game of Thrones
• Tim Burton’s Batman
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Sofia the First
• My Little Pony
• A Walk to Remember
• Saved!
• Lizzie McGuire
• Legally Blonde: The Musical
• Cinderella
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Wolf of Wall Street
• Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
• The Office
• Princess Diaries 2
• Into the Woods
• Les Miserables
• Mean Girls
• Harry Potter
• Aladdin
• Across the Universe
• The Virgin Suicides
• Chasing Liberty

Episode 17: Anastasia

Join us on a journey to the past as we watch the animated film Anastasia for this week's Viewing Party! We learn that Fox princess movies are much more gruesome than Disney, dive into some theological talk about redemption, and question why Meg Ryan and John Cusack were never in a live action movie together in the 90s. We also learn the true story of the Romanovs from our first call in guest, Robb!

Meet special guest Robb!

History buff and friend of the show Robb is currently producing multiple podcasts of his own, which will be launching soon. You can follow him on Twitter at @RobbThomas and Instagram at @therealrobb.

Show Notes

IMDb: Anastasia (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Rated: G

Amanda’s Picture Show a Go Go
Episode 0: The Little Mermaid
Spelling names backwards, like Redael (leader) and Nevaeh (heaven)
Melchior Horizon (new band name??)
Enya
"People on Street!" - Under Pressure by Queen  
Why wasn’t there a movie with Meg Ryan and John Cusack in the 90s??
Honeymoon wardrobe: trousseau
Phone a Friend: Robb Thomas
Execution of the Romanov family / Nicholas II
Church where the remains of the Romanov family resides

Song about Rasputin:

Synesthesia
People Magazine’s 100 Sexiest Men - Dimitri (possibly not real??)

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Titanic
• Hamilton
• Glee
• Crazy Stupid Love
• Anastasia (broadway)
• The Great Comet (broadway)
• Cats (broadway)
• Amadeus
• Moulin Rouge
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Spring Awakening
• Mary Poppins
• Annie
• Beauty and the Beast
• Aladdin
• The Lion King
• The Wizard of Oz
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Swan Princess
• All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Oblivion
• When Harry Met Sally
• Hamilton
• Bobby’s World
• Pocahontas
• Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
• Finding Nemo
• Must Love Dogs
• You’ve Got Mail

Episode 11: Brigadoon

Pie on a windowsill, this episode is amazing! For this week's Viewing Party we decided it was time for a musical, and dug up a classic from Wesleigh's childhood, Brigadoon. This sci-fi film masquerading as a Broadway period piece inspired discussions on sensory deprivation tanks, flirt dancing, grandmas, and Doctor Who. And in our favorite bit to date, Katie learns that Wesleigh is not immune to the power of forearms.

Show Notes

IMDb: Brigadoon (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Rated: G

It’s Almost Like Being in Love
Plaid pants David Tennant in The Decoy Bride:

via GIPHY

Sassafras
Paper Towns (cartography)
Paper Towns by John Green
Prince Prance in the Plaid Print Pants:

Holding Out for a Hero
Pie cabinets
Suspension of disbelief
AFI 100 years lists (it was nominated for the top 10 in fantasy but didn't make the list...Groundhog Day did!)
The bride’s dress/groom's legwarmers:

Sensory deprivation tanks
Renaissance Theater in Mansfield, OH
Not sponsored by Gateway Film Center
Groundhog Day Movie Marathon
Brolesque (NOT twerkasaurus rex) by @_sashayed
Fools by Neil Simon
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: “The suspense is terrible, I hope it lasts”
Jasper Fforde
Shaping trees into chairs
My Favorite Murder podcast
Serial podcast
Robert Downy Jr.’s Twitter avatar:

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things..."

Movies/Shows Mentioned

• Groundhog Day
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• The Decoy Bride
• Shrek
• Footloose
• The Great Comet of 1812
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• Grease
• Doctor Who
• The Little Mermaid
• The Wizard of Oz
• Beauty and the Beast
• Braveheart
• The Hunger Games
• Sky High
• Oklahoma
• Hello, Dolly!
• Unsinkable Molly Brown
• Signing in the Rain
• State Fair
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• White Christmas
• Freakazoid
• Mean Girls
• Magic Mike XXL
• Dirty Dancing
• Step Up
• Winnie the Pooh
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory