PODCAST · comedy
Spoiling Ourselves
by Men of the Sea
CJ, Lia, Jack and Sam provide the most “definitive” “analysis” of “the greatest television shows” of “all time” – after watching only the first and last episodes of each series. New episodes every other Monday.
Episodes
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Baldwin Talk: 2 Alecs, 2 Stephens
Hey there - long time no see! We are cautiously dipping our toes into remote-recording waters with a quick check-in on the lives of America's first family, the Baldwins. What do we think Alec, Stephen, Billy, and Daniel Baldwin are up to right now? Does Adam Baldwin count? We'll round up some…
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Episode 98: Arrow
This week, CJ takes us on a magical journey into the Arrowverse! Just how many properties does the Arrowverse actually include? Did the show's creators intend for Oliver to have that much sexual tension with his sister? Is there anything we WOULD do for a Klondike bar? Plus, the return of Lia's...
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Episode 97: Scream Queens
We're almost there! This week, Lia takes us through Ryan Murphy's 2015 train wreck Scream Queens, a show that wasn't good enough to justify its lazy writing and blatant racism. We all have great ideas for what our serial killer costumes/personas would be, a new sorority of random tv characters…
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Episode 96: Castle
This week we watched Castle, a show full of men we've never seen before! We're talking about horny, ineffectual detectives, hordes of hot blondes showing up for book signings, and how much the first episode hates its female lead. Plus - one of the most baffling choices for a finale we've seen yet!
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Episode 95: Big Bad Beetleborgs
Three Typical Average kids inside a haunted mansion Just by a chance freed a ghost who made them Beetleborgs Beetleborgs! Big Bad Beetleborgs Big Bad Beetleborgs! Hey look now they're superheroes with all these superpowers Cool! Taken from a comic strip and now they're Beetleborgs Beetleborgs!…
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Episode 94: The OA (feat. Sam Gordon and Kaia Smith)
We're here with a new episode of Spoiling Ourselves just in time for Thanksgiving, and this week we watched the recently cancelled Netflix show The OA. This Thanksgiving, don't argue with your family about politics, argue with your family about just what the fuck this show's deal was! Sam…
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Episode 93: Quantico
This week, we watched Quantico on the recommendation of friend and listener Erik. Erik described Quantico as "the show where everyone fucks, and there's terrorists?" Our main complaint? Not ENOUGH fucking. They could've kicked it up a couple notches.
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Episode 92: Desperate Housewives (feat. Andy Lang)
What's up you catty suburban housewives!? This week we watched the drama-comedy-soap opera -genre defying tour de force that is Desperate Housewives. Andy Lang (AKA The Dog Hat Reverse Burglar) becomes an acquaintance of the show and also the Susan of our podcast (it's like being the Charlotte of...
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Episode 91: Undeclared (feat. Matt Braly and Sam Gordon)
Hey there party people! We're a couple days late and one CJ poorer, but we're two guests and one billion Periscope references richer! Join us as we discuss which candy bars have nougat in them, how woke Kevin Hart is, Martin Van Buren, where inside their body a person might transport 40 lbs of...
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Episode 90: What I Like About You
We're back (again!) and going on a sitcom kick, this time with Amanda Bynes vehicle What I Like About You. We tell you what we like about each other, we express appropriate gratitude for Amanda Bynes, and we listen to the voicemails that collected in our inbox over the summer! They were mostly…
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Episode 89: The Big Bang Theory
We're BACK, baby, and we're better than ever! We took a long summer break, we definitely told you guys about it, and we're ready to rock all over again. This week we watched The Big Bang Theory, the show where horny scientists need money! We've got pitches for the next Young Sheldon, we've got...
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Episode 88: United States of Tara
This week we watched United States of Tara! We're talking multiple personalities, lush mountaintop picnics, and giant ladybugs big enough to ride. Plus, beware SPOILERS for Avengers Endgame - not for the plot, but for how hot Brie Larson looks. She's got it!
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Episode 87: Bones
This week we're joined by Kurt Handsomehat, who happens to be wearing a green sweatshirt, to discuss Bones! It was a crime procedural on Fox....ran for 12 seasons? You've really never heard of it? Well, ok. We talk about the show's bizarre cast of serial killers, and how the show would be…
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Episode 86: The Thick of It
This week, we were dizzied and dazzled by the first and last episodes of British comedy The Thick of It. We don't know exactly what happened in these episodes, but we do know what's going on with Brexit, kind-of! We also know that: -Armando Iannucci's dialogue sounds like what Aaron Sorkin THINKS...
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Episode 85: The Americans
This week, your Spoiling Ourselves comrades watched The Americans, FX's period drama about KGB spies living undercover in 1980's Washington DC. Now I know what you're thinking. Another show where one character fucks another character to death? Surprisingly not! But there are plenty of murders,...
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Episode 84: Leverage
We’ve been off for a bit, but we’re finally back this week to talk about Leverage! Boy, do we love a good heist. (We would’ve watched Bridalplasty, had it not made Sam sick to his stomach a mere 29 seconds in. We’re thankful, and you should be too.) Who would we draft for our ultimate heist team?...
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Episode 83: Who Wants to Be a Superhero? (feat. Ben Meyerson)
This week we’re joined by friend-with-benefits of the show Ben Meyerson to watch WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO, a reality tv show hosted by STAN LEE. On this show, human contestants (with no superpowers to speak of) compete to find out who is the best superhero among them, oftentimes with no metric...
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Episode 82: Boston Legal
This week we enjoyed Boston Legal, a show that has nothing to do with Boston except for the title! Are we fans of Captain Kirk or Captain Picard? How gross are Kangaroo pouches? Which last names make the silliest law firm? Plus - Sam makes a play for Lia's title as Worst-at-Accents!
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Episode 81: House of Cards
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you didn't forget about us, or about the last episode of Spoiling Ourselves, because for the second episode in a row we're going deep on a political drama where a wife inherits the Presidency from her husband. Unfortunately, the show we're discussing this week is…
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Episode 80: Scandal
Merry Christmas Eve, Friends and Relatives! This week your favorite TV not-binge watchers watched the first and last episodes of Scandal. A lot of people got murdered by assassins, a lot of young successful women had relationships with doughy old men, and Sam reads a monologue from one of the...
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Episode 79: Alias
This week, we watched Alias! Did you know that you're qualified to be a super secret agent if you can build a small jenga tower, akin to a baby's toy? Neither did we! Did you know that Alias pivoted from spy drama to renaissance science magic? Neither did we! Do you know the secret identity of…
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Episode 78: Wilfred
With Lia off on a mission to the North Pole, Jack, Sam, and CJ sit down to talk about Wilfred, the American version of an Australian TV show about a man who hallucinates that his neighbor's dog is a man in a dog suit. Because the show stars the lithest, littlest boy in all of Hollywood (Elijah...
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Episode 77: Iron Fist
This week we watched Iron Fist (or Danny Rand and the Big Punch), the recently cancelled Marvel/Netflix joint. Iron Fist is a rare show that burned very, very faintly for almost all of its run, until it burned so bright in its last 30 seconds that it spontaneously combusted. What superheroes…
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Episode 76: Backyardigans
This week, we need you to imagine you're listening to hit podcast sensation Spoiling Ourselves, and Jack, Sam, Lia, and CJ are covering the Backyardigans, a children's television show from Nick Jr. that Lia watched as a teenager. Did you do it? Great! We forgot to hit record when we first sat…
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Episode 75: Monk
This week, the Spoiling Ourselves team investigated Monk, the USA network police procedural that ran for 8 seasons. He's a detective, but with OCD! A real Sherlock Holmes character if Sherlock Holmes had OCD. We talk about our biggest phobias and how they would help us solve crimes, CJ wins a lot...
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Episode 74: Mad Men
This week we watched Mad Men! Don't worry - we're doing this show complete justice. No math-intensive runtime games, clown burglars, or human-robot-hybrid child armies fighting for Disneyland in this episode! We're professionals. And CJ is a killer whale!
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Episode 73: Zoids: New Century
This week on Spoiling Ourselves we are very, very sorry because we watched Zoids: New Century, an anime about giant animal mechs battling each other for sport. Again, we apologize, but CJ just hasn’t seen all that much television. We talk about Japan’s fondness for nuclear weapons allegories, and...
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Episode 72: Grounded For Life
We took a month off! Did you miss us?! We're sure you did. This week, we watched Grounded For Life - a show no one has heard of except for Lia, who owns 2 seasons on DVD. Tune in for the best ways to blend in at children's beauty pageants, Santa Claus and the Flashback Boys, and the legend of the...
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Episode 71: Jean Claude Van Johnson
This week, we were devastated to learn that Jean Claude Van Johnson had been cancelled after only one season of six episodes. Having all been huge fans of the pilot when Amazon released it as part of its pilot competition, we gave the show a viking funeral Spoiling Ourselves-style. We all loved…
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Episode 70: Friends with Benefits
This week, we watched Friends with Benefits! No, not the 2011 movie Friends with Benefits. No, not No Strings Attached, the also-2011 movie with the same plot as Friends with Benefits. We're talking about the TV show that ran from August 5th to September 16th of 2011 - THAT Friends with Benefits....
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Episode 69: Masters of Sex
Well Friends and Relatives, we've finally done it. The much hyped, highly not-anticipated 69th episode of Spoiling Ourselves. We hope you're proud of us because this week we watched Masters of Sex, the Sexiest Show on Television (depending on who you ask). Sam, Jack, and Lia give CJ the sex talk,...
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Episode 68: New Girl
This week, we watched the recently-ended New Girl, a show guitar-legend PRINCE apparently loved very dearly! We're getting into the Serinda Swan-ing of Coach, creating our own versions of drinking game True American, and flashing forward to our own entwined futures (Jack's involves a harem full…
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Episode 67: Psych
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, we watched Psych! We'll cover what we would do with Sherlock Holmes-style investigatory powers (CJ would be a no-nonsense manager of half a dozen McDonalds in a fictional town in Wisconsin), detail Sam's 18 separate, secret identities, and take an almost…
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Episode 66: Weeds
On a special Holiday (you know the one...) episode of Spoiling Ourselves, your hosts decide to go camping but then remember they need to record an episode about hit Showtime program Weeds! A main character from the pilot was only ever in one other episode, which happened to be the finale, so he…
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Episode 65: Graceland
This week, your hosts are joined by mysterious stranger and Twitter celebrity Steve Dyer as they talk about Graceland, a USA Network drama about undercover federal agents all living together in a beachfront mansion in California. They go surfing exactly one time, and it takes up roughly 40% of…
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Episode 64: Revenge
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, Sam is replaced by friend of the show Ben Meyerson in a shocking twist straight out of a soap opera. A soap opera like ABC’s Revenge, perhaps?! We do our best to make sense of a TV show ostensibly based on The Count of Monte Cristo, one where Courtney Love plays…
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Episode 63: Eureka
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, we watched Eureka, a Syfy show about a secret government town full of geniuses. This episode is brought to you by time buttholes and EELS!
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Episode 62: Sailor Moon
We're late, we're sorry, but LISTEN! We watched Sailor Moon, and we're here to give you our DEFINITIVE TAKE on one of life's most haunting, unanswered questions: SUBS OR DUBS?
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Episode 61: Breakout Kings (feat. Sam Gordon)
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, we welcome Friend of the Show Kurt Handsomehat for a scintillating conversation about the incredibly formulaic television show Breakout Kings. You know that actor from Westworld who was also on House of Cards? The guy who plays Liam McPoyle on It’s Always Sunny In...
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Episode 60: Dark Angel
Would you believe that this week's epic drama, DARK ANGEL: -aired concurrently, in the SAME TIME SLOT, with last week's similarly-named show, ANGEL -was created by JAMES CAMERON, and -starred JESSICA ALBA in her breakout role as a super soldier genetically enhanced with CAT DNA?!! We can, because...
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Episode 59: Angel
This week we watched the first and last episodes of Angel, and there's only two words we need to describe our experience: "pee pee" and "demon." Angel is a Buffy the Vampire spinoff, and...you know what, it doesn't matter. Pee pee demon, guys. There's a character called the pee pee demon.
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Episode 58: Bored to Death (feat. Tyler Corey)
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, Sam is hosting an episode about HBO’s Bored to Death, with a little help from guest host Tyler Corey! In the show’s last scene the main character shares a beautiful moment with his girlfriend who is also apparently his half-sister, so you better believe we spend...
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Episode 57: Cheers
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, your four good friends the Men of the Sea watched Cheers! We're thrilled to be returning to the Frasierverse (a term CJ has legally copyrighted) to spend an inordinate amount of time discussing Fraiser Crane, everyone's favorite not-the-main-character-of-Cheers...
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Episode 56: Boy Meets World
Hey everybody! We recorded the first 20 mins of this show before realizing we forgot to press record, so we are PISSED OFF! But PISSED OFF = PASSIONATE, so this is a fun one. We watched Boy Meets World. -Did Boy Meets World predict the rise of ISIS? -Did Cory and Topanga cause 9/11 by bringing...
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Episode 55: Torchwood
It’s episode fiddy-five, baby! This week on Spoiling Ourselves: -We watched Doctor Who spinoff series Torchwood! -It would be terrible if two people were cut in half and both their bottom halves were sewn together -Pokemon - gotta scoop ‘em all up! Put ‘em in your pocket! Pokemon. -What would we…
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Episode 54: Megas XLR
We just want to take a minute to thank the FBI, DHS, and NCIS for listening to our show. This episode is definitely putting us on some sort of watch list, and we know you “have” to listen for national security purposes, but we sure do appreciate your ears anyway! So strap in for the ride! No one...
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Episode 53: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
This week, intrepid TV detectives Sam, Jack, Lia, and CJ watched CSI colon Crime Scene Investigation. We ponder what it would be like to be on both sides of the law: Jack and Sam debut their new crime fighting personas "The Squealers," while we also let everyone know what our M.O.'s would be if…
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Episode 52: Sabrina the Teenage Witch
This week on Spoiling Ourselves, Lia introduces the boys to the magic of Sabrina the Teenage Witch! We talk about what it would be like to have magic in high school, Jack and Sam are two rude interrupting boys, plus we lay down some ground rules for our second season: 1. Go fuck yourselves 2. You...
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Episode 51: Galavant
We're back, and we're kicking off season two of Spoiling Ourselves with a very special musical episode about ABC's musical TV show Galavant with guest Kurt Handsomehat! Tune in to find out which of us is the worst singer (if you think it's CJ then the answer won't surprise you). Plus, we imagine...
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Episode 50B: The Best of Spoiling Ourselves
Part II of Spoiling Ourselves 50th - Listen to our favorite moments from the past 49 episodes!
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CJ, Lia, Jack and Sam provide the most “definitive” “analysis” of “the greatest television shows” of “all time” – after watching only the first and last episodes of each series.
New episodes every other Monday.
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