Final Episode: This Show is Awkward Moves to Monthly Spooky

This is the final episode of This Show is Awkward, but it is not the end of Michelle and Henrique Couto podcasting together. After nearly three years and more than one hundred conversations, they explain why the weekly show is closing and look back at the odd little community that gathered around it during quarantine. The original 2022 announcement introduces Monthly Spooky as their next shared format on Weekly Spooky.Before the farewell gets too dignified, real life barges in. Michelle describes the slow process of seeking a Philadelphia home-inspection license, while Henrique shares an update as he waits for Chicano’s veterinary surgery. They talk about exhaustion, work and the practical value of changing a demanding weekly routine into a planned monthly conversation. It is candid without pretending that either host has suddenly become organized.Then the finale takes the only sensible route: an extended detour through shark movies. Henrique tries to convince Michelle to watch Jaws, celebrates the glorious problems of Jaws: The Revenge and sorts out a listener’s confusion between The Last Shark and Burt Reynolds’ Sharky’s Machine. The live chat expands the debate to Sharknado, Alligator and Piranha II: The Spawning, along with a James Cameron and Roger Corman tangent. Swimming pools, freshwater fears, sewers and increasingly questionable survival plans all join the conversation.The ending returns to what matters. Henrique thanks Michelle for sitting down with him more than one hundred times, and both hosts thank the listeners who wrote, chatted and made the show part of their lives. This archived finale preserves a warm goodbye to one title and the beginning of Monthly Spooky—not a breakup, just Michelle and Henrique finding a roomier crypt for the same friendship.LinksWeekly Spooky Email the hosts: [email protected]