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This Podcast is a Bad Idea
by Murph&Froo
Hosts Murph and Froo look back over decades of pop culture oddities of all kinds, honing in on a niche topic to dissect each episode.
Episodes
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Episode 26: Epic: The Musical
600 men embarked on a voyage, and only 1 came home. Froo and Murph channel their theater kid energy into Epic: The Musical a pop-opera retelling of The Odyssey that got really, really, really big...on TikTok. They go saga by saga so Murph can to flex his classics knowledge while Froo shakes their...
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Minisode 1: Peanuts Smiler
In our first proper Minisode of Season 2 Murph elaborates on his journeys south, which invariably leads to a discussion about failed Peanuts characters. For Show & Tell Froo will bring the smiles and Murph shares his favorite Reddit post of 2025.
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Episode 25: What Did Murph Miss?
The Podcast that refuses to die is back with a new format. In Season 2 we're skipping right to the main topic (or in this cause topics). Murph was away at the South Pole looking for Santa and needs to be caught up on the culture of the internet going in to 2026. It's up to Froo to bring our lad…
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Episode 24: PersonalHedgehog Seeks Truth/Kindness on r/LVSS
Blood the trade, dear listeners! In this episode Murph leads Froo down a tuna-scented rabbit hole of internet madness. This five year tale spreads from the Mommy Blogs of Get Off My Internets, the Blog Wars of Serge and Monica, Cambridge huckster Caroline Calloway, and even some famous pies from...
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Episode 23: Ranking the American Girl Dolls
We're gonna level with you listener: The Main Topic for this episode is a 2 hour breakdown of each historical American Girl doll. There is no spin or twist. Froo and Murph read the wiki entry for all 23 American Girl dolls and give them a letter grade. Interesting questions will be asked, such as...
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Episode 22: G4 Presents E3 2006 (W/Brogan Chattin!)
Gel your hair and crank that Nelly Fertado, cause Froo and Murph are taking the wayback machine to nearly two decades prior to talk about E3 2006 as presented by G4 TV (as presented by Mountain Dew and Scion). Back when Olivia Munn was just the winner of a reality show, when the price of the PS3...
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Episode 21: When Toons Grow Up
Whoa, where does the time go? Murph and Froo come back from hiatus to talk about the vague and nebulous topic of "Art depicting childhood characters as adults." What if Max Goof grew up to be a lumbersexual? What then? Have you even considered that he might? Also on the docket of ideas is Murph's...
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Minisode: 2024 Uncut
Would you believe Episode 20 was originally much squirrellier? 2024 was just too jam packed with mess for us to contain to a clean runtime, so cuts had to be made for the sake of appearing mostly professional and respectful of our listeners' time. For those that want to hear all the half-and-half...
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Episode 20: The Best and Worst of 2024
Before the horrors of 2025 take total precedent, Murph and Froo want to confront the horrors (and small joys) of 2024. Murph breaks down his favorite memes and posts of the year, while Froo elaborates on the various "messes" that fueled the discourse slop pile. In the Decompress we have an update...
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Episode 19: The Elf on the Shelf
You better watch out, You better watch out! For this Bad Idea, Froo and Murph stare directly at the Lumistella Star and it's corporate spawn, The Elf on the Shelf. Began in 2005 as one family sharing their holiday tradition of Santa's government-issued snitches, Elfing has seen a boom in the…
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Episode 18: BookTok
Froo and Murph celebrate their 2 year podiversary by taking a look into the books of Booktok. Ostensibly, Booktok is just a tag on TikTok for talking about literature, but has increasingly grown associated with a particular genre of books and book discourse. Froo does her level best to de-mystify...
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Episode 17. The Once-ler, And All That Entails
As clinically as it can be put: In 2012 there was an intense fandom surrounding The Once-ler from the animated Lorax movie from Illumination Entertainment. The Once-ler was played by Andy from The Office. Froo and Murph try to make heads and tails of this bizzarre fandom that went as quickly as…
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Episode 16: 17776 Or: What Football Will Look Like In The Future
What if you could live forever? What if you were in the vast emptiness of space with only two other people to talk to? What if football, but with tornados? Froo and Murph examine such questions through 17776 a work of high-concept sci-fi multimedia fiction published innocuously to a totally…
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Episode 15: The Rise & Fall of Roosterteeth
In this Bad Idea we're gonna take you to the past to talk about The Sims 2 machinima's that were sub-quality. Now that Roosterteeth has officially shut the doors (and their content is made increasingly scarce by Warner Bros.) we decided this was the ideal time for Froo to wax nostalgic about one…
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Episode 14: Willy's Chocolate Experience
Froo and Murph float down the chocolate river to Glasgow, Scottland to unpack the generated Willy Wonka pop-up event allegedly* written wholly by AI by a grifter to extract the glaswegian people of their hard earned pounds. Come for the full reading of the script, stay for the trial of Jojo Siwa....
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Episode 13: Mr. Boop
Froo and Murph take the Wayback Machine to a time that was four years ago, but feels like six months ago, to talk about the 2020 underground webcomic Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins. What began as a daily comic with one joke slowly turned into a statement on sexuality, copyright law, and how Amazon...
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Minisode: Etsy Uncut
The Etsy episode was already long, but would you believe it was even longer? Froo and Murph just couldn't resist looking at each sellers' store page and riffing on additional products (as well as a dip into the Elf on a Shelf official website). This minisode is just the Main Topic section of the...
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Episode 12: Etsy The Price is Right
Froo and Murph put on their appraising caps to dive into the internet's foremost crafts market known as Etsy. It's a battle of wits as they play a game of The Price is Right and see who is too thrifty, and who is wise to the ways of the internet grift. Play along at home with the TPIABI: Etsy…
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Minisode: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
With supreme lateness, Froo and Murph join together to talk about the 2023 animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It's been a long time coming to finally get a faithful adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic. ...That's what this is...right? Episode contains spoilers for the entire show.
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Episode 11: YouTube Cartoon Pilots
Froo and Murph do a review of six prominent cartoon pilots that premiered directly to YouTube including Bee & Puppycat, Long Gone Gulch, The Amazing Digital Circus, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, and Lackadaisy.
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Episode 10: The Backrooms
In this, our Bad Idea podiversary, Froo and Murph decide to do a redux of their first episode by looking at what's new in internet horror. For this they have to learn how to noclip and acquire a taste for almond water as they delve into the turbulent fandom of The Backrooms. What began as just a...
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Episode 9: Video Game High School
Do you wanna hear about how the real world's the place for me? In this episode Froo and Murph warp back to the first-half of the 2010s to experience Video Game High School, the first full series from Rocket Jump and Guitar Hero Savant Freddy Wong. It's a jumping point for discussing the rise of…
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Episode 8: The 47 Rules of the Internet
Believe it or not, there was a time when folks thought we had this whole Internet thing figured out and they wrote down a meme-filled creed to commemorate that fact. Little besides a rule about porn remains.
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Episode 7: Blonde Women, Wonderbread, and Deforestation
Murph and Froo put their heads together to unpack the enigma of "The Wonderbread Guy," a strange soul known for his prolific and highly specific fetish art commissions.
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Episode 6: Disney's Canon Illuminati
KUNGALOOSH Dear Listener, In this episode Murph and Froo don their booney hats to travel the breadth of Disney Parks to piece together the network of easter eggs and breadcrumbs that make up the S.E.A, the Society of Explorer's and Adventurers. This secret club hides in plain site of most Disney...
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Episode 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Bad Faith Readings
Not so long ago, in the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada, Bryan Lee O'Malley got inspired by a Plumtree song... In this episode Froo and Murph espouse nostalgia and introspection as they look back at the mid-2000s comic series Scott Pilgrim to see if it still holds up to their rose-dyed…
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Ep. 4.7: Murph Explains Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
This is the uncut version of the Kingdom Hearts episode that contains additional inquiries from Froo and what Murph dubs the "Conspiracy Section" regarding the build up to Kingdom Hearts IV. The additional content begins after the synopsis of Dark Road, right at the 1:33:44 mark.
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Ep. 4 Murph (Begrudgingly) Explains the Plot of Kingdom Hearts
The Bad Idea this week is surmounting the allegedly impossible task of synopsizing all thirteen entries in the Kingdom Hearts series of games. From the PS2 original Kingdom Hearts to the recently concluded Dark Road, our franchise expert Murph teaches us all about keyblades, X-Blades, and dudes...
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Ep. 3 Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons
The season's upon us, and Froo and Murph are gathering by the fire to tell ghost stories of fandoms of long long ago. The issue is that this fandom ain't dead. In fact, Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons has seemingly outlived most of the movies that it draws it's material from. Is there a secret…
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Ep. 2 The Cultural Impact of James Cameron's Avatar
Thanksgiving is imminent. In this episode: astonishingly thorough parade wikis, epic video essays, Tony Hawk, 9/11, and James Cameron's eternal passion project, Avatar.
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Ep. 1 The Old Guard of Creepypasta
It's Mischief Night and our hosts are up to no good. Murph's been watching the WWE of monster hunting shows. Froo has been brushing up on dark internet rituals. Our main topic tonight is the old guard of Creepypasta. Where are these killer, slender, and hyper-realistic legends now?
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