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Breaking Mayberry
by Breaking Mayberry
Breaking Mayberry is a classic TV podcast without the nostalgia-bait. Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig take a hard look at the history of television, breaking down vintage favorites and cultural oddities from the 1950s to the early 00’s. We’re finding all the hidden ways TV impacted America’s psyche - and making fun of them. Watch us break Mayberry before it breaks us.
Episodes
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TGIFailure #4: More Testosterone with Jerry Van Dyke
We're meeting back up with our friend Teen Angel but things are looking a little different now, muich more manly, much more rugged, much more designed to appeal to a young male audience. And you know who young boys love more than anything? That's right, big JVD to the rescue again.
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GOON ROYALE EPISODE 4: Home Alone Homicide
We're covering Dredd, Big Trouble in Little China, The Raid, and Violent Night. Episode contains spoilers. LAST TIME ON GOON ROYALE: Fifth Element took the Bad Boys down, much to Marty's relief. Con Air was completely obliterated, much to Marty's chagrin. What other emotions can we make Marty…
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TGIFailure 3: Marty Saves the Moon
Continuing our journey into TGIF's most cursed attempts at success, we move on to 1997's Teen Angel. Teen Angel is a bizarre oddity from a pair of Simpsons writers about a dead teenager who comes back to help his best friend through high school, which apparently means teaching him to date. Plus,...
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TGIFailure 2: The Man Who Smells Like Soup The Most
What do you do when your TV show isn't connecting reaching the youth? You gotta bring out the BIG GUNS, the one man who gets it, the coolest guy on the planet, every kid's favorite... Jerrrrrryyyy Vaaaannnn Dyyykkkeee We're chugging along on the TGIFailure train with another dash of genie work,...
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TGIFailure #1: A Very Scarf-Heavy Point in Time
We're starting a new mini-series! TGIFailure explores the terrible shows that ABC tried to make into hits throughout the 80s and 90s by shoving them into their mildly successful TGIF block! First up, You Wish - an incredibly annoying attempt to ape that Sabrina-the-Teenage-Witch magic, but with a...
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Mad About Mad About You 7: There's Always a Burkis
We close out our Mad About Mad About You miniseries with a look at the four- (four!) episodes that make up Mad about You's first series finale - until NBC changed their mind and brought it back with a baby. Continuing its streak of not caring about tv "rules", Mad About You brings everything to a...
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GOON ROYALE EPISODE 3: Put the Bunny in the Basket (w/ Charlie Nash)
Today we're covering Hard Boiled, Con Air, Bad Boys 2, and The Fifth Element. Episode contains spoilers.We're joined by our dear friend Charlie Nash (Almost Major Podcast) to enjoy this assortment of psychos and dirtbags. In the land of badasses and bad cops, who makes better target practice? Oh...
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GOON ROYALE EPISODE 2: He's Just A Little Guy! (w/ Jeff Stormer)
It's another episode of our action movie tournament GOON ROYALE. The great Jeff Stormer (Party of One) joins us to cover Robocop, You're Next, Sinners, and Road House. Can the scrappy You're Next upset the juggernaut Boddicker Gang? Will the haunting vampires of Sinners overcome the lumpy…
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MAMAY 6: My Personal Friend, Richard Kind (w/ Mackenna Goodrich)
Mackenna Goodrich from the podcast Informed Attraction comes by to talk about Richard Kind, Star Wars porn parodies, and the only sitcom brave enough to ask "what if a Republican married a slightly different Republican?" We're talking about Mad About You Season 4, Episode 17, "The Glue People"…
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Mad About Mad About You 5: Baseball Diamond Horseshoe Theory
We're back! With some more Mad About You! In Season 2, Episode 20 "The Last Scampi", Paul and Jamie's families feud over mid-tier Italian. In our studio we debate proper baseball sportsmanship, define phone etiquette, and make Marty realize he's made a huge mistake with his sister's wedding! Like...
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UNLOCKED BONUS: Everybody hates Dracula!
What if the biggest problem with Dracula wasn't the whole sucking-blood thing, but really just that he's kind of a dick? That's the question we explore in this unlocked former-Patreon exclusive. Marty and Dan redisocer the lost anime Dracula:Soverign of the Damned - a technically-Marvel movie…
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GOON ROYALE Episode 1: Marty Gets Killed by a Baby (w/ Adam Teterus)
New Mini-Series Alert! Welcome to Goon Royale, a tournament where we'll answer the incredibly dumb question: which movie has the best goon deaths? For the full bracket and list of films, click here. Our first matchups are: Kill Bill Vol 1 vs. Shogun Assassin Tombstone vs. 13 Assassins SPOILER...
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 4: Remembering Stuff on Long Island
On "Mad About You", Jamie strips at a job interview and Paul still manages to be the reason the job is endangered. On our show, Marty saw a play and now it's everyone else's problem. Mad About You Season 4, Episode 9 "I Don't See It" Like this? Join our Patreon, reach us on Bluesky, or send us an...
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 3: Mr. Rogers' Waluigi (w/ Dr. Timaree)
Sex educator, friend of the show, and woman of many talents Dr. Timaree Schmit stops by the show to talk about Paul and Jamie's bedroom trouble, and how it becomes everyone else's problem. We talk up Dr. Ruth and Marty has to do a little therapy of his own. It's Mad About You, Season 3, Episode 9...
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 2: My Husband, the Lawnmower Man (w/ Dr. Nerdlove)
Show friend Harris "Dr. Nerdlove" O'Malley is back to talk about THE FUTURE of 1994. In this episode of Mad About You, Paul has a steamy virtual reality encounter with a computer-generated Christie Brinkley and that's somehow the second thing Jamie is mad about. Dan, Marty, and Harris dissect…
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU #1: A Will They, Won't They, But They Already Have
It's a brand new mini-series! We're taking it to the 90s with the bickering banter of Mad About You! In this series, we break down the relationship of TV yuppies Paul and Jamie Buchman, two crazy kids in love trying to make it despite being completely unable to ever stop fighting, like ever. This...
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EXTENDED PATREON PREVIEW: Goon Royale
Introducing our new Patreon Series, Goon Royale. Over the course of 31 head-to-head matchups, we'll be determining once and for all which movie has the best goon deaths. That's henchmen, hired thugs, and devoted followers and the various ways they get blasted, stabbed, exploded, whatever. It's…
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184: God is a 17-Year-Old Reese Witherspoon (Season Finale)
It's our Seson Finale, and we're talking about 1998's Pleasantville, a movie where a black-and-white sitcom turns color and everyone gets really mad about it! Sound familiar? We talk about all that P-Ville has going on, which is a lot - and everything it does really well, which is most of it, and...
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183: Pika Petey and the Magic Dementia
In this episode we take on the worst Twilight Zone episode, featuring TV's most irritating man. Also Marty read a book and now everyone has to hear about it.
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UNLOCKED BONUS: Walker? I Hardly Know Her!
Note: Chuck Norris has died. In "tribute", enjoy this 2019 bonus episode we recorded about a particularly terrible episode of Walker Texas Ranger. For more bonus episodes, subscribe to our Patreon! Original description: It's a special bonus episode are Marty and Dan meet another CBS lawman, Texas...
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182: Help Me, Mumford and Step-Sons!
This episode gets weird as we talk about Ringo Starr's hypothetical podcast, decide another thing is a CIA psyop, and debate philosophically about threesomes. We relate to teens with the most relatable teen show in the country, a show loved by teens in a way we definitely understand. There's…
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181: Manufactured Spokesman Fandom
In this episode we get into the TRUTH and ask HARD QUESTIONS. What really happened at the Battle of Mayberry? Who's horny for commercial pitchmen? How far will Dan go to avoid talking about an episode he hated? It's Season 6, Episode 27 "The Foster Lady" and Episode 29 "The Battle of Mayberry"!...
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180: Like Hooters, But A Gas Station
In this episode, Marty has some questions about a potato chip brand and Andy Griffith tells us all why it's bad for women to have jobs. It's Andy Griffith Season 6, Episode 28 "Goober's Replacement"
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179: Aggro! at the Post Office
Marty and Dan return with good vibes for the new year and a new sidekick for Andy. Opie almost kills a baby and Marty has a scuffle in a government office. Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 24 and 25 "A Baby in the House" and "The County Clerk."
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178: We Don't Need to Create New Slurs
Honestly somehow our most Catholic episode, in spite of the slurs not because of them. We deal with some gross episodes from Season 6, including one we can't write the title of without using a slur, so have fun with that!
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177: We All Have Our Own Dennis Hoppers to Bear
POP QUIZ HOTSHOT! There's an episode of Andy Griffith that's actually good and Dan doesn't want to talk about it, but if you don't do a schtick the podcast will explode. What do you do? What do you do? Well in our case you vamp and try to figure out the exact amount of lung damage needed to do a...
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176: Wyatt Earp, Safe Sex Advocate
No longer in GLEE-land, the boys can't help but talk about Tombstone and funerals. A wild west show moves into town and Aunt Bee commits insurance fraud in Andy Griffith Season 6, Episodes 19 and 20 "Lost and Found" and "Wyatt Earp Rides Again".
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The Final Gleekend: Ryan Murphy's Three Body Problem
As we cover our final Glee episode, Season 6's "Child Star", we break down our final therapy feelings about the New Directions, what happens when nostalgia comes for us, and the rich history of tentacle porn.
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The Glee-kend Six: Inaccurate Twerking Instruction
We spend a lot of this episode talking about Lea Michele's insane broadway career because it's the least upsetting part of what we're going to discuss. This is the Season 5 Glee episode "The End of Twerk" (or something like that, I'm not looking it up) and there is... SO MUCH here. None of it…
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Gleekend 5: Singing "More Than Words" to a Racist Cat
NOTICE: This is the Glee school shooting episode. We talk about the school shooting parts from about 40:00 to 51:30. Okay look there's really nothing funny here but Glee's gonna try to find something they can use! Ryan Murphy's never met a tragedy he couldn't exploit. Also, there's some stuff in...
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TTRPG-TV: I Have No Mouth and I Must Sheldon
Host, gamer, and mighty little man Jeff Stormer from the Party of One Podcast comes by to talk about some TV with RPG elements - namely 00's Disney Channel hit Lizzie Mcguire and the hottest TV show we almost did a podcast about - Young Sheldon! We talk about Lizzie's fashion and their weird…
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The Gleekend 4: Smoke A Whole Pack of Asking Boys Out
The Glee Club is back in session and the boy's recording studio - like the Glee club's practice room on GLEE - is in a state of flux.There are crushes that make no sense, songs that shouldn't be good, and a joke that didn't not-age-well because it was already gross as hell to begin with. If you...
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The Gleekend 3: Some Bomer That I Used To Know
Okay, so the Glee-kend continues and we were pretty drunk at this point, I don't know what to tell you. Angry showers and Duran Duran montages happen in this one. Also, texting and driving is bad, kids. It's Season 3, Episode 3, "Big Brother" Special thanks to Kae Lani Palmisano for helping us...
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BEWITCHING MAYBERRY: Chimp In a Hat (w/ 80s TV Ladies)
Marty and Dan meet the Susan and Sharon, the 80s TV Ladies for a two-parter dedicated to the magical '60s sitcom Bewitched. We learn the barbaric nature of early pregnancy tests, talk about the "secret sexy magic lady" subgenre, and mostly have fun with a chimp wearing little people clothes!…
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The Gleekend 2: (Someone Else's) Papa Can You Hear Me?
Hey pal, are you going through a tough time? Trouble at home? Parents not doing well? Well, how do you think that makes ME feel, huh?! I gotta like, live while you're over there being sad? Have you ever thought about how your being sad affects me, the star of Glee and also reality? (These people...
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The Gleekend 1: The Groban Drones Are Coming
Marty and Dan leave the '60s for the bizarre 2010s. We meet the Glee Club, the weirdest, meanest, most annoying group of people ever to make your grandparents uncomfortable. It's all pop tunes and Obama-era optimism here in the Gleekend, and it makes us sick! It's Glee Season 1, Episode 3...
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157: The Last Literate Man in Mayberry
Ol Barn's back in town, bay-bee and he is as infuriating as ever! We finally get #justiceforthelmalou and the Manhunt franchise ends with an inevitable wet thud. At least Warren's almost gone, though. Season 6, episodes 17 and 18 "The Return of Barney Fife" and "The Legend of Barney Fife"
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156: Art Project Trolly Problem
Okay so you know how just like... the general concept of "art" is mostly considered good, like a good thing that most people enjoy. Well, that's wrong, and Andy Griffith is gonna tell you why. It's Season 6. Episode 14 "Otis the Artist" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on...
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155: Opie the Loan Shark
Content Note: This episode discusses media's portrayal of sexual assault for laughs Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like these. We start with an episode that is absolutely nothing, and then move to a deeply upsetting one, one of the weirdest and grossest things…
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154: Garf-sterday
In an episode that's dedicated to talking dogs, we focus on a famous talking cat. It's AG Season 6, Episode 12 "Man's Best Friend" and Episode 13 "Aunt Bee Takes the Job" If you like this, leave a rating and review, follow us on Bluesky, visit our Patreon or email us at [email protected].
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153: Mayberry's Designated Survivor
Okay a lot of weird stuff happened to Marty before and during this episode and we're going to talk about it a lot. But you'll be thanking us because it's a lot better than talking about Andy Griffith Show season 6 episodes 10 and 11, "Aunt Bee on TV" and "The Cannon." If you like this, leave a...
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152: Frankie Muniz, Political Consultant (w/ David Dylan Thomas, Kae Lani Palmisano, and Harris O'Malley)
It's an extra-long BREAKING MAYBERRY ALL-STARS featuring three of our favorite returning guests to talk about the three-no-wait-four-part Andy Griffith Epic - "The Hollywood Arc". Yes, for the first (only?) time in the show's run, the Taylors are leaving North Carolina, and this causes everyone…
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151: Talkin TimeCop
Dan and Marty take a little break from the doldrums of Mayberry with the classic(?) action movie TimeCop, starring our favorite cokehead gymnast Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dan remembers a repressed shame, we talk JCVDs terrible acting, and we fantasize about using time travel very irresponsibly.
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150: B-Plot K-Hole (w/ Max Ludwig)
We go back to the 80s-restaurant-of-debatable-quality of "It's A Living" with Max Ludwig. This time around we explore a few episodes with Andy Griffith ties, including one where a group of grown adult women dress as children's fairy-tale characters in a way that's not at all creepy! Also Marty...
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149: Phoebe Bridgers and the Gay Parachutes (w/ David Dylan Thomas)
Filmmaker and author David Dylan Thomas stops by the Mayberry studios to talk about 2024's I Saw The TV Glow, a movie that's about the horrors and freedoms of nostalgia but also about trans/queer stuff and also maybe about a short-lived McDonald's Ad Campaign. Support Dave's Kickstarter for…
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148: Jokerize Me, Daddy
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone... Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that not even the Andy Griffith Show can tolerate it for very long. Warren Ferguson has arrived, despair all ye mortals. It's Andy Griffith Show...
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147: Bullock, Is That Man Dead?
Like Billy Pilgrim, Dan has become unstuck in time. That's why he keeps saying how tired he is after mentioning perfectly normal amounts of time to be awake. We say good-bye to the weirdest recurring characters, right as we were starting to like them. We also say "hello" to Aunt Bea's new...
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146: Is Goober My Best Friend?
We're back in Mayberry for season 6 and the vibes are OFF for reals. Everyone's really tense and awkward and somehow Goober is the highlight. It's a really low point friends. But on the other hand, Marty gets to use a joke he's been holding onto for a while. It's Season 6, Episode 1 "Opie's Job"...
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Parental Control: Escape From Olive Garden (w/ Kurt Schiller)
Blood Knife Editor and co-host of Podside Picnic, Kurt Schiller drops by to talk about all things mystery with a pair of Poirots! We discuss the ins and outs of a great detective fiction, including bumbling cops and pedantic wealthy people. Plus, what if Jigsaw ran a casual chain restaurant? It's...
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Side of M*A*S*H: A New Thanksgiving Tradition
The boys start a new tradition, watching the Thanksgiving episodes of the beloved war dramedy MASH... what's that you say? There aren't any Thanksgiving episodes of MASH? ... The boys start a new tradition, painfully burrowing their way through a Thanksgiving episode of the much-hated and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Breaking Mayberry is a classic TV podcast without the nostalgia-bait. Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig take a hard look at the history of television, breaking down vintage favorites and cultural oddities from the 1950s to the early 00’s. We’re finding all the hidden ways TV impacted America’s psyche - and making fun of them.
Watch us break Mayberry before it breaks us.
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