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Starship Podcast Warlock
by Drew Simchik & Jeff Lampert
Two Americans watch and comment on every episode of classic 80s British comedy shows, so far including The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Absolutely Fabulous. Every episode starts with us discussing a related topic and/or our relationship to the series and to the time period in which it was made, followed by real-time commentary on the episode itself, and finally our reactions to what we've just seen. Sync up your DVD and watch along with us! New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
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4.19. Bonus Episode: Spice World!
Having discovered that Jeff has never seen Spice World (directed by Bob Spiers, who also directed the first 3 series of AbFab), Drew inflicts it on him (and you, dear listener), aided and abetted by special guest star Marina. We discuss how we first heard about this pop quintet, how many times…
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4.18. AbFab, "The End": But The Moment Has Been Prepared For
Patsy's in New York, Eddie's in a hippie commune finding herself, Saffy's emptying university pubs, and Gran is addicted to home shopping. Can this really be the end? It's certainly the end of series 3, so Drew and Jeff rank the episodes and talk about why series 3 is so consistently great even…
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4.17. AbFab, "Fear": Don't Count On It, Babe
Mortality looms as Patsy and Edina face endings and force new beginnings. Meanwhile, Drew reveals five things he gleaned from minutes and minutes of research on Wikipedia about AbFab characters, including the solution to the Serge/Saffy primacy problem, which was on the internet the whole time!
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4.16. AbFab, "Jealous": Bubble and Squeak
Edina (with Patsy in tow) attends an awards show for PR, woos Naomi Campbell, and gives another barnstorming speech, while Bubble meets her male counterpart. At home, Saffy attempts to seduce one of her teachers using an assortment of teas. Drew and Jeff review the career of Bob Spiers, who...
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4.15. AbFab, "Sex": Always More of a Mover
Wake up! Time for "Sex"! Eddie's going through a bit of a "celibate" period, so she and Pats decide to purchase the services of a pair of naughty gentlemen of the night, one of whom is played by none other than Idris Elba in one of his earliest TV roles. We review "Hilt's" career to "find out"…
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4.14. AbFab, "Happy New Year": You Have a SISTER!
Patsy's sister comes to visit, and she looks just like a certain renegade Time Lord. Edina is jealous, Patsy is dazzled, Justin and Oliver are fascinated, illusions are shattered, and many stray cats and dogs are almost given homes. Meanwhile we discuss the timeline of a hypothetical AbFab…
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4.13. AbFab, "Doorhandle": A Christmas Story
Edina and Patsy take one brave step toward restoring the scorched and blasted kitchen by finding that one small piece that everything follows on from. Meanwhile we talk about the nontraditional Christmas movie Drew loves (NO, it's not Die Hard), the classic Christmas movie Jeff loves, Drew's…
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4.12. AbFab, "Birth": What a Cute Baby!
It's the special Edward Albee episode of AbFab as Patsy, Edina, and Saffy get stuck in a room together, "stop being polite, and start getting real." We also hear about how Jeff's dad wasted his money on natural childbirth classes; a story explaining why Jeff knows what baby food tastes like, and...
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4.11. AbFab, "Poor": Uncut, Uncensored, Unedifying
In which Jeff fumbles a joke and makes it funnier, Drew fails to dignify a plea for audience interaction, and Eddie loses (at least some portion of) her money. Also we cast off the mask of faceless, impersonal objectivity this podcast is well known for in order to just basically shoot the shit...
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4.10. AbFab, "New Best Friend": Mr. Dictionary Has Deserted Us Again
Another old friend comes to visit, and even before she arrives, she drives a wedge between Edina and Patsy! Drastic measures are needed to remove her. Meanwhile we review the career of multitalented Jane "Bubble" Horrocks.
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4.9. AbFab, "Morocco": A Taste of Honey
In which Bubble tries to identify office equipment, Edina and Patsy travel to yet another country they are completely unequipped to exist in, and poor Saffy narrowly escapes one outrageously awful fate after another, though she does finally find someone to eat yogurt with. Meanwhile Jeff and Drew...
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4.8. AbFab, "Death": Edina, Pats, Desert Planet
While a death in the family causes Saffy to get upset and her mom and gran to buy art and do magazine quizzes, we discuss the closest existing cinematic equivalent to Absolutely Fabulous, which of course is the Villeneuve Dune.
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4.7. AbFab, "Hospital": The Happiest Place on Earth?
As Saffy contemplates moving out of her mother's house and into the dorms for some low-alcohol-cider-fuelled decadence, Edina and Patsy take a recreational (?!) trip to the hospital for operations on the toe and the face, respectively. Meanwhile we discuss our history with and predilections for...
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4.6. AbFab, "Birthday": High High High
Edina struggles to accept two massive crises in one day: first, both of her husbands are in her house with their new partners, and second, she's turning 40. Meanwhile we review the career of Julia Sawalha and attempt to rank the episodes of an incredibly strong debut season.
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4.5. AbFab, "Magazine": Lords of Acid in Heaven
Patsy does the unthinkable and goes into -- this is hard to say -- the office. I KNOW! She also strikes a bargain with Saffy aided by a sad story of her upbringing/upbraiding by Eleanor Bron...but is the story a lie, and the bargain unkept? We also meet a food critic who looks a lot like Vyvyan...
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4.4 AbFab, "Iso Tank": We Have the Facts, Unless We Don't
Edina spends just a minute in the iso-tank and suddenly Bubble is competent, Saffy has a cute friend, and Patsy is shagging the school headmaster. Meanwhile, we review the career of Joanna Lumley: Bond girl, Avenger, medieval queen, world traveller, philanthropist, and of course otherworldly…
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4.3. AbFab, "France": Where the Bloody Hell Have We Been?
Patsy and Edina go to France, or possibly a location standing in for France, we didn't check. If you want solid facts, you're listening to the wrong podcast! But if you want to hear all of our (mainly Jeff's) travel stories, you're listening to the right podcast. We start with our humble…
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4.2. AbFab, "Fat": And Gorgeous
As Edina Monsoon frets about her really quite pleasant weight and turns into a Spitting Image puppet, we review the career of her real-life counterpart Jennifer Saunders. We also discuss one of Robin Williams's surprise improv set drop-ins, the appeal of Laura Branigan, and the housemate who…
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4.1. AbFab, "Fashion": The Monsoon Begins
We had so much fun recording Sex (the Absolutely Fabulous episode) that we abandoned our original plan for Season 4 and opted to do the first three seasons of AbFab instead! So we jumped back to the beginning, "Fashion," in which Edina chants, drinks, doesn't drink, channels a color, throws a...
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3.7. Hitchhiker's Guide The Movie: How to Survive Watching It
Special bonus episode, with special guest Marina! We watch the Hitchhiker's movie after all, thinking it couldn't be as bad as we remembered it. Indeed we do have different reactions to different parts of it this time, but you'll have to listen in order to find out which of us liked it, which of…
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3.6. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 6: How to Cut Out the Middlemen
Ford and Arthur teleport onto an ark in space (not that one) filled with the people who've led every office meeting that made you want to gnaw your own leg off, not to escape, just to distract yourself with the pain. Meanwhile we look back at this all-too-brief TV series, rank the episodes for…
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3.5. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 5: How to Convince Someone You Want to Be Eaten
Peter Davison makes a guest appearance as the Doctor -- no, hang on. David Dixon is the Doctor (essentially), while Peter Davison is...well, if you don't know, watch the episode with us and see if you spot him. It's the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the last meal you'll ever have,...
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3.4. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 4: How to Recognize a Zaphod
The glorious, obnoxious, devil-may-care, outrageous, heedless hedonist we know as Zaphod Beeblebrox lends his name to an archetype Drew sees in a bunch of different TV characters. Find out what Eric Cartman, Al Bundy, Patsy Stone, Edina Monsoon, and Bender from Futurama all have in common and…
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3.3. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 3: How To Use Your Degree in Astrophysics
It's no easy feat to get the audience to care about the messy destruction of a whale that was a deadly missile mere seconds ago, but that's why Douglas Adams was a genius and we aren't a genius. We are TWO geniuses, and we use our genius skimming Wikipedia about the cast of the show so you don't...
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3.2. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 2: How to Get Rescued By Your Two-Headed Semicousin
Ford and Arthur are shoved out of an airlock to certain death by asphyxiation, with their only hope of rescue being the staggeringly improbable event that a spaceship, crewed by their semicousin and the "one who got away," respectively, would suddenly materialize around them in the middle of deep...
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3.1. Hitchhiker's Guide Ep 1: How to Get a Drink Out of a Vogon
We begin our epic 6-part saga into the Galaxy about which a Guide has been published for Hitchhikers. As the Earth is destroyed, some blue food is consumed, and a poetry reading looms, Jeff and Drew discuss our early impressions of the books and the radio series, compare them to some other...
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2.27. "Blackadder: Back and Forth"
It's the end...and the moment has been prepared for: the carefully ranked list of Blackadder episodes we've been keeping this whole season long is ready to be revealed, and of course second-guessed as we go, because look, it's just a great show, okay? Also we answer some "would you rather"...
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2.26. Blackadder Goes Forth, "Goodbyeee"
The very last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, in which Capt. Blackadder and friends make one last-ditch effort to avoid "going over the top," and their cunning plan finally works, they escape the trenches, and live happily ever after. Baldrick becomes a shoeshine boy in postwar London…
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2.25. Blackadder Goes Forth, "General Hospital"
Inspired by the military setting of Goes Forth, we discuss our time in two paramilitary organizations, namely Cub Scouts and Boys' State, and how they exposed us to culinary and cultural exploration, as well as the fine arts of getting out of stupid activities and publishing surreptitiously...
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2.24. Blackadder Goes Forth, "Private Plane"
It's the return of Lord Flashheart, Rik Mayall's exuberant and randy Lothario from Blackadder 2, as well as another familiar face in the guise of his nemesis. Blackadder and Baldrick land in jail yet again, and to help them while away the time, we cover a topic also associated with earlier...
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2.23. Blackadder Goes Forth, "Major Star"
It's our most embarrassing podcast yet! Jeff and Drew, groping desperately for a topic to waste your time with before we dive into this rather terrific episode, find out that not only do we know very little about silent film but we also are very bad at vocal impressions under pressure. Apart from...
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2.22. Blackadder Goes Forth, "Corporal Punishment"
We tackle the topic of fourth seasons: good, bad, ugly? and talk about where Blackadder Goes Forth might fall along that spectrum. Meanwhile Blackadder ends up in another prison, and yet somehow it's still funny! This episode of the podcast also contains a very brief sneeze-and-you'll-miss-it...
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2.21. Blackadder Goes Forth, "Captain Cook"
We kick off the fourth and final series of Blackadder, and talk about how the show takes a bit of a turn into "dramedy" territory. We discuss some other shows that fall into that category, comedies with serious and/or moving moments or themes. And then of course we watch "Captain Cook." Warning:...
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2.20. Blackadder Special, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol"
With our special guest Jeremy, we tackle the problem of evil...in video games, RPGs, onstage, and other fictional scenarios. In games, making the evil choice or playing the evil character is harmless to the real world, but can we bring ourselves to do it for "fun," and under what circumstances?...
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2.19. Blackadder Special, "The Cavalier Years"
The first of three Blackadder specials we'll be watching, and because "The Cavalier Years" is short and brutal, we're making it a double feature with another Rowan Atkinson one-off: Doctor Who parody "The Curse of Fatal Death," written by a guy named Steven Moffat who would go on to use all the...
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2.18. Blackadder 3, "Duel & Duality"
Are we really wrapping up series 3 of Blackadder? How time flies! Mr. B finally tells his boss exactly where to stick it, only to find himself stepping into his boss's shoes! Can Blackadder's Scottish doppelganger Macadder save him from an untimely death? Or does it even matter since he died at…
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2.17. Blackadder 3, "Amy and Amiability"
If you love reminiscing about video games from 1987, is this the episode for you! We continue last week's nostalgia-fest from the year Blackadder 3 was born, focusing this time on a form of entertainment that was just starting to become interesting. Some things also happen on the show: the Prince...
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2.16. Blackadder 3, "Sense and Senility"
Edmund and two pretentious capital-A Actors match wits in a battle of...well, wit. Meanwhile Jeff and Drew cast our capital-A Aging minds back to 1987, when so much film, TV, and music that we like was released that we spend entirely too long reminiscing about it. Jeff discovers a surprising…
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2.15. Blackadder 3, "Nob and Nobility"
Edmund and Baldrick try to find a way to look heroic by smuggling nobles out of Revolutionary France without actually going to France, while we stretch the laws of time and space by recording parts 2 and 3 of this episode before part 1. This is so we can talk about the guest stars without Drew...
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2.14. Blackadder 3, "Ink and Incapability"
It's a rousing history lesson as Drew recounts the 12 Things He Learned About Prince Regent George IV From Wikipedia! No, really, there was some pretty interesting stuff, which will make you see Hugh Laurie's character in a whole new light. Meanwhile Edmund's literary hopes are dashed when his...
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2.13. Blackadder 3, "Dish and Dishonesty"
Onward we march through history to the Regency, at which time Blackadder is a butler, his boss is a bozo, and Baldrick is still a bum. Besides that, we discuss a few non-Blackadder diversions including a certain classic French/Czech animated film (perhaps the only classic French/Czech animated...
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2.12. Blackadder 2, "Chains"
Blackadder 2 ends with a moo, an episode full of tortured nobles and even more tortured accents, plus one very spectacular cow costume. Jeff and I discuss whether we loved these last six episodes or just REALLY loved them, and attempt to rank them with limited success. We also discuss Jeff's…
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2.11. Blackadder 2, "Beer"
As Edmund desperately juggles one party for Puritans and another for inebriates, we discuss the career of one Stephen Fry, who as Lord Melchett in this episode is sporting a glorious pair of golden...er, earmuffs. Earmuff...sounds a bit rude, doesn't it? Anyway: thrill to my futile attempts to...
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2.10. Blackadder 2, "Money"
It's a classic rags-to-brief-riches-followed-by-more-rags story for Edmund as he attempts to avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of bankruptcy and a red hot poker. For us, it's a story about our various experiences with the Immortal Bard...well, with his plays, anyway. We talk about the Shakespeare...
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2.09. Blackadder 2, "Potato"
While Edmund prepares to beat Sir Walter Bloody Raleigh at his own game by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope, we toast Tom Baker, my uncontroversial favorite Doctor Who. We detour into a discussion of whether being a Doctor Who fan before one is cast as Doctor Who gets in the way of playing…
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2.08. Blackadder 2, "Head"
While Edmund gets a job as Royal Executioner and impersonates a widow's husband, we review the work of Miranda "Queenie" Richardson, but don't worry, we don't spoil The Crying Game even though it's nearly 30 years old. This leads us to a lengthy (but ultimately worthwhile) digression about Tim...
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2.07. Blackadder 2, "Bells"
Ann joins us once again as we enjoy Blackadder 2's fast-forward to the Elizabethan Era, featuring a handsomer, suaver, and (Ann's probably right) creepier Blackadder, now a courtier to the Queen. Straight off the bat, this new Edmund falls in love...with his manservant, while Baldrick dons a…
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2.06. The Black Adder, "The Black Seal"
It's curtains for someone in the royal family as Edmund launches his cunningest plan yet to seize the throne. We rank the 6 episodes of this series, review it as a whole, and get ready to time-travel to the Elizabethan era!
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2.05. The Black Adder, "The Witchsmeller Pursuivant"
Edmund is accused of witchcraft, and is cross-examined by Frank Finlay in a fright wig and betrayed by his horse before being burned at the stake! (Spoiler: he survives.) Meanwhile we survey the career of one Brian Blessed, bellower extraordinaire, mountain climber, and emergency obstetrician....
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2.04. The Black Adder, "The Queen of Spain's Beard"
While Edmund copes with the dizzy whirlwind of arranged political marriages that is the lot of a prince, Jeff and Drew cope with the dizzy whirlwind of dressing up in tights for Medieval Days, Renaissance Faires, and the Society of Creative Anachronism. Fun fact: I was today years old minus about…
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Two Americans watch and comment on every episode of classic 80s British comedy shows, so far including The Young Ones, Blackadder, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Absolutely Fabulous. Every episode starts with us discussing a related topic and/or our relationship to the series and to the time period in which it was made, followed by real-time commentary on the episode itself, and finally our reactions to what we've just seen. Sync up your DVD and watch along with us! New episodes every Wednesday.
HOSTED BY
Drew Simchik & Jeff Lampert
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