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Episode Epiphanies
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Natasha only watches cartoons. Jessica only watches live-action dramas. In this podcast, they each try to make the other have an epiphany about a show they wouldn't normally watch... and just maybe become a life-long fan of the other's genre of choice.New episodes on the 14th (and sometimes the 28th) of every month!Follow Natasha at twitter.com/natashadamoursFollow Jessica at twitter.com/jessicairoweEmail us at [email protected], tweet at us @epiphaniespod, and follow us on Insta @epiphaniespodIntro and outro music is Feelin Good by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Episodes
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73. Watching Ruby Gloom for the Merch Line
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch Ruby Gloom, a Canadian cartoon about a group of young monsters living in a haunted house. We discuss why Ruby doesn't have a nose, Natasha's fanfiction, our two-headed monster boy, and much, much more. Our Canadian kick has nearly lasted the whole…
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72. Watching Schitt's Creek for the Small Town Tensions
This episode, Jessica has Natasha watch Schitt's Creek, yet another Canadian classic. Step into this sitcom which broke out of Canadian media to become quite popular. We talk about David & Patrick (our fave tumblr gays), Alexis' journey, Johnny's humour in this show, Centaurworld and Hot Frosty....
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71. Watching Stoked for Hot Surfer Lesbians
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch Stoked, a Canadian cartoon set in a surf hotel on the West Coast. We discuss hot surfer lesbians (as a concept, there are none in this show), surf slang (which we know nothing about), and the kickass shark hotel (it is wrong to hate the shark hotel....
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70. Watching Saving Hope for the Medical Malpractice
In this episode, Jessica makes Natasha watch Saving Hope, a Canadian medical drama where all the doctors are very bad at their jobs. We discuss Maggie's terrible bedside manner, Joel's insane surgery decision, and how we would never, ever, in a million years want to be doctors. Join us for yet...
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69. Watching 6Teen and Reliving our Canadian Childhoods
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch 6Teen, a Canadian cartoon about six teenagers who work at the mall. Jessica watched this show as a kid, so take a trip with us back to late-2000s nostalgia, a time when recording TV was not an option, we watched every episode out of...
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68. Watching The Other Two for J Biebs Nostalgia
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Jessica makes Natasha watch The Other Two, an offbeat sitcom about two older siblings whose younger brother becomes wildly famous overnight. We talk satire, the dark underbelly of the music industry, and what it means to be "straight" to the people in this show.…
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67. Watching Wind Breaker for Post-Rapture Content
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch the anime Wind Breaker which is about the very real sport of street fighting. (They have street fighting in the Olympics, right?) Listen to us discuss this sports anime that is, arguably, not about a sport, their surprisingly wholesome...
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66. Watching Sherlock Because Everyone Ships Johnlock
This episode, Jessica makes Natasha watch the one, the only, BBC's Sherlock. We talk about SuperWhoLock (of course), the video editing of this show, and the things about this show that are pulled from the original novels. But mostly we focus on this show's absolutely insane commitment to making...
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65. Watching Voltron and Definitely Not Pissing Off the Fandom
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch Voltron, a Netflix cartoon that is no longer on Netflix. We spend a lot of time talking about the ephemeral nature of electronic media, the shipping wars in this fandom, and Pidge being non-binary. We changed our show format in the hopes of creating...
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BONUS: All the Review Promises at Once
In this very special bonus episode, we read out all of the review promises that were written out for Lenni. So if you're Lenni, this one's for you. Email us at [email protected], tweet at us @epiphaniespod, and follow us on Insta @epiphaniespod Intro and outro music is Feelin Good by...
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BONUS: Reviewing Daybreak As You Do
In this episode, we review all of Daybreak as Natasha watched this whole show! If you're keeping score... I am not, so please tell me who is winning. We discuss Turbo & Wesley (a very real ship), Eli (a very real character in this show that exists), and just generally being a cannibal as an…
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64. Watching Daybreak for Ferris Bueller, John Green & the Weeaboos
In this episode, Jessica makes Natasha watch Daybreak, a Netflix apocalypse show that is scary-similar to The Last Kids on Earth. (We're talking the same zombie-survival town map, the same gathering our friends vibe, and the same monsters and zombies in one apocalypse theme.) Listen as we discuss...
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63. Watching The Last Kids on Earth for the Joint Zombie-Monster Apocalypse
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch The Last Kids on Earth, a Netflix cartoon about... well, the last kids on Earth. We discuss the peculiarities of this apocalypse -- like why are there both monsters AND zombies running around -- and the manic pixie dream girl apocalypse trope that has...
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62. Watching OITNB for the Lesbians
(Have we used this title before? It feels like we've used this title before. It's a good title. We watch a lot of things for the lesbians.) In this episode, Jessica makes Natasha watch the iconic Netflix drama Orange is the New Black. We discuss the legacy of this show, how it was presented when…
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61. Watching Danny Phantom for our Trans Headcanon
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch Danny Phantom, a cartoon about a boy who is a ghost superhero because obviously that is what you do when you become a ghost. Listen to us talk about the brilliant way this show does exposition, our little jock boy who is also a teacher's pet, and the...
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60. Watching Gossip Girl for Drug Guy's Threesome
On this episode of Episode Epiphanies, Jessica makes Natasha watch HBO's Gossip Girl. We discuss how this show connects with the original, the debate around the immediate reveal of Gossip Girl, and the way that all the characters just kind of suck. But they suck in the way teenagers suck, you…
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59. Watching Dungeon Meshi to Kinkshame Laios
Subtitle: Don't worry, he deserves it. This week, Natasha makes Jessica watch Dungeon Meshi, an anime that is half Dungeons & Dragons and half cooking show. Join us as we discuss what a weird little freak Laios is, all the monsters they are going to eat (...out?), and the many moral quandaries of...
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58. Watching 3rd Rock From the Sun for the Satirical Undertones
This month, Jessica makes Natasha watch 3rd Rock From the Sun, a questionable sitcom about aliens coming to Earth to fuck humans. Now, was that the actual premise of the show going in? Unknown. But it certainly is what the show is about. Listen to us debate whether or not this show knows it could...
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57. Watching Gangsta to Solve the Soup Mystery
In this episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch the pilot of Gangsta, an anime that is less about gangs than its title would suggest. We discuss the weird way this show represents women, the difference between the sub and the dub, and how Worick & Nicolas come off in the pilot versus how their...
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56. Watching Ginny & Georgia in Support of Black Widows Everywhere
This week, Jessica makes Natasha watch Ginny & Georgia, a teen drama that is also... a crime show? We discuss this show's fantastic use of flashbacks, the way Georgia and Ginny parallel each other, and the use of passion vs. power. Will Natasha exercise their power to say no to this show? Or will...
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55. Watching Scott Pilgrim Takes Off to Date the Evil Exes
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, a Scott Pilgrim cartoon about... Scott Pilgrim. (We do spoil the plot of this show in a pretty big way, so warnings all around.) We discuss Ramona's reputation as a manic pixie dream girl, Scott's questionably...
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54. Watching Wings and Missing the References
This week, Jessica makes Natasha watch Wings, a super nostalgic sitcom from the 90s and a Cheers spinoff! We discuss how the jokes in this show are dated but not so much that we wouldn't still hear them today, how darling little sitcoms like this are just here for the vibes, and the many, many...
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53. Watching Fionna and Cake Because It’s a Mood
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch Fionna and Cake, an Adventure Time spin-off that is somehow not a nightmare realm. Listen to us chat about the extremely accurate depiction of Millennial/Gen Z work life, casual gossip about your office coworkers, how to teach a horse…
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52. Watching One Tree Hill for the Insane Marriage Plot
This week, Jessica makes Natasha watch One Tree Hill, a show that is ostensibly a Shakespeare soap opera about basketball. (How I wish that was a joke.) Join us as we discuss the epic highs and lows of high school basketball (yes, I know this is the wrong show), how much we hate Dan Scott (the...
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BONUS: Rambling Off-Topic for the Bit
In this very special bonus episode, you get to hear a bunch of bullshit that we cut from previous episodes. Like our opinions on how on topic we normally are. Our love of the shark cannibal. Durpleton the giraffe who I personally created in my nightmares. The amount of time we spend talking about...
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51. Watching Steven Universe for the Lesbian Fusions
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch Steven Universe, a cute little cartoon about magic gemstones who commit genocide. Journey with us as we discuss Rose Quartz's character arc, disagree over the moral of the first episode and ultimately land on an on-topic sign-off.…
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BONUS: Reviewing Pretty Smart & Planning Season 2
We're back with another review for you because Natasha watched all of Pretty Smart! If you're keeping score... good for you, because I'm not and that is conceivably the whole point of this show. Dive in with us as we "spoil" this show (there's not much to spoil, it is just a sitcom in the best of...
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50. Watching Pretty Smart Because We Need a Himbo Repairman
Hi there. This is Natasha. Jessica usually writes these descriptions, so I don't really know what I'm doing. Um... in this very special 50th episode, we watched Netflix's Pretty Smart, which is basically just what would happen if a Disney Channel original show was allowed to make dick jokes. It's...
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49. Watching Centaurworld to Meet Our Sleep Paralysis Demons
In this episode, Natasha forces Jessica to face her very worst fear by making her watch Centaurworld, a dystopian horror show hellbent on wreaking havoc on the mental health of all individuals who see it. I would like to start a formal petition to remove it from Netflix so that Durpleton the...
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48. Watching The Ultimatum: Queer Love for the Butch Girls
This week, we dive deep into the world of reality TV with The Ultimatum: Queer Love. We discuss the concept of this reality show, how very fun it is to be on reality TV discussing your partner's flaws, and a myriad of other dating shows that these people could be on. Because this is Queer...
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BONUS: Reviewing Dororo Because Spines are Important!
On our very spooky Halloween episode, Natasha & Jessica go through all of Dororo after Jessica watched the WHOLE SHOW. Who could have possibly known that would happen after how our last episode ended? What a plot twist. Dive deep with us as we immediately spoil the ending of the show, discuss how...
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47. Watching Dororo for Our Sweet Skeleton Son
This week, Natasha makes Jessica watch Dororo, an anime about demons who eat body parts in exchange for the safety of the land. We discuss animation style, the pop music that was chosen for the title sequence, Dororo being a little bit annoying, and Jessica's confusion around the end of the...
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46. Watching Teen Wolf & Bullshitting its Lore as We Go
Subtitle: ie. how every single Teen Wolf episode was written As we return from hiatus with our longest episode yet, Jessica makes Natasha watch Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf, simply put, is a teen drama that happens to have some werewolves in it. And also lacrosse. Like a lot of lacrosse. We discuss the...
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45. Watching Extreme Ghostbusters & Wondering if Spengler was Murdered
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch Extreme Ghostbusters, possibly our most 90s cartoon yet. They discuss the diversity of this cast, our favourite no-homo-but-definitely-homo couple, and create some new crackships along the way. Listen to Jessica become incredibly…
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44. Watching Boy Meets World for the Life Lessons
In this episode, Jessica makes Natasha watch Boy Meets World and they dive into the world of cheesy after-school specials. We discuss the nostalgia factor, how many vests they wear, and how dark this show gets. (I didn't even mention the alcoholism, the little kid Eric has to abandon, Shawn's…
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43. Watching Kipo & the Age of Wonderbeasts to Find Mutant Animal Friends
This week, Natasha has Jessica watch Kipo & the Age of Wonderbeasts, a post-apocalyptic cartoon about a girl who gets stuck on the surface after living her whole life underground. We discuss all the fun animals in this show, what exactly this thing called a "school" might be, and the wild places...
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42. Watching Bridgerton in Spite of Anthony
This week Jessica has Natasha watch Bridgerton, an 1800s enemies-to-lovers fake dating show. We discuss the bonkers relationship this show has with queer representation, the obvious nature of the plot, and the identity of Lady Whistledown. And while all of that does happen, we really spend the…
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41. Watching Cowboy Bebop for the Symbolic Weight of Cigarettes
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch Cowboy Bebop, a noir-style anime that... well, it's a noir. That's it. That's the show. That's this episode. It's a noir. We discuss how much Jessica dislikes noirs, how they are definitely not cowboys, and then we probably spend way…
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40. Watching Reboot for Gay Gordon
This week, Jessica makes Natasha watch Reboot, a Hulu show about rebooting an old sitcom. We discuss the cast of characters, the confusing concept of their fake show, the high drama of this show's "dark secret", and all the people who are (and who we wish were) queer. If this show miraculously…
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39. Watching She-Ra and Crushing on Bow
This week, Natasha makes Jessica watch the two-part pilot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a reboot of the 80s cartoon She-Ra which itself is a spin-off of He-Man. Listen as we make just the stupidest possible joke about the She-Ra and He-Man names, absolutely gush with affection over our...
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38. Watching Ally McBeal to Discover the Origins of the Dancing Baby Meme
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Jessica makes Natasha watch Ally McBeal, a law show that is largely just about one failed childhood romance. We discuss how obsessed Ally is with Billy even though he's just a guy, the good and bad ways that the pilot episode deals with sexual harassment, and just...
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37. Watching One Piece to Become the King of the Pirates
In this week's episode, Natasha makes Jessica watch One Piece, an anime about pirates and rubber people. We discuss the very, very long history of this show (it aired in the 90s and it is still on), all the different powers that a devil fruit can give you (including some we just made up…
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36. SPECIAL: Watching Black Sails with Lenni, Our Honourary Pirate Captain
This week on Episode Epiphanies, we do a very special guest episode with Natasha's roommate Lenni! Lenni makes us both watch Black Sails, a pirate drama about a lot of pirates who do pirate things and also fall in the water. Natasha summarizes the first half and Jessica summarizes the end…
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35.5 Watching Mo Dao Zu Shi for Just... Absolute Filth. (PART TWO)
This week, we're back with even more Mo Dao Zu Shi and we are discussing... well... mostly Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji banging. I'm sure we must have talked about something else. Like. There just had to be something else happening in the extra 35 minutes that is this part two, right? For example,...
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35. Watching Mo Dao Zu Shi Because Wei Wuxian Can Get It (PART ONE)
This week, Natasha forces Jessica to watch Mo Dao Zu Shi, a Chinese show about two gay crime detectives who chase ghosts (that sounds right, that's probably right). We discuss just how dang fast you need to be able to read to keep up with the subtitles on this show, how absolutely gorgeous the...
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34. Watching You. Yes, You. You, Specifically.
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Jessica forces Natasha to watch the iconic Netflix stalker-drama, You. (Aka the hardest show in all of existence to tell someone you are watching.) This leads to many fruitful discussions such as how Natasha hates every single character in this show and how the…
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33. Watching The Dragon Prince & Lusting After Evil Mirrors
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha makes Jessica watch The Dragon Prince, a Netflix cartoon about... well. A dragon who is a prince. We discuss the intricacies of being the step-prince, how sword dude whose name I still do not know after editing this episode (certainly Natasha will put his...
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32. Watching Friends Because Joey is Hot??
This week, Jessica made Natasha watch the most iconic sitcom of all time, Friends! (Or, if you want to be a real stickler, F.R.I.E.N.D.S.) This episode is full of shocking revelations such as learning that this show is not about Adults Being Adults but about young adults screwing up a lot and...
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31. Watching My Hero Academia for That Homoerotic Tension
This week on Episode Epiphanies, Natasha forces Jessica to watch My Hero Academia, an anime about superheroes. We discuss the problematic way women are portrayed in both anime and superhero comics, and how superhero stories are forced to struggle with the morality of having superheroes enforcing...
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30. Watching Dash & Lily… If We Dare
This week on Episode Epiphanies, we're kicking off the holiday season by watching Dash & Lily (not Lily & Dash, a kids' cartoon we made up on the spot). Jessica leads Natasha into the wonderous world of TV shows that are just kind of Christmas romcoms broken up into multiple episodes for some...
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Natasha only watches cartoons. Jessica only watches live-action dramas. In this podcast, they each try to make the other have an epiphany about a show they wouldn't normally watch... and just maybe become a life-long fan of the other's genre of choice.New episodes on the 14th (and sometimes the 28th) of every month!Follow Natasha at twitter.com/natashadamoursFollow Jessica at twitter.com/jessicairoweEmail us at [email protected], tweet at us @epiphaniespod, and follow us on Insta @epiphaniespodIntro and outro music is Feelin Good by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Natasha only watches cartoons. Jessica only watches live-action dramas. In this podcast, they each try to make the other have an epiphany about a show they wouldn't normally watch... and just maybe become a life-long fan of the other's genre of choice.New episodes on the 14th (and sometimes the...
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