All Episodes
Decoder Ring — 151 episodes
McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime, Part 2 (Encore)
How to Make Dollars Make Sense
One Year: 1995 | Hitting the Spot
Who Was Lonelygirl15?
The Johnlock Conspiracy (Encore)
Was "Eyes Wide Shut" a Warning?
A Prune by Any Other Name
Making Coal Cute Again
Is Culture Stuck?
Decoder Rings Back | Why the Mona Lisa?
A New Year’s Message from Willa
Mailbag: Yo-Yos, Sandboxes, and Encores
“Videomate: Men” (Encore)
How Protein Muscled Its Way to the Top
The Slate Culture Gift Guide
Cozy Autumn Mysteries
The Red String Board Conspiracy
What the Cuck?!
Why Do Actors Act Like They Can Sing?
Jane Fonda’s Workout, Part 2: Hanoi Jane’s VHS Revolution (Encore)
Jane Fonda’s Workout, Part 1: Jane and Leni (Encore)
How to Hunt a Mammoth, and Other Experiments in Archaeology
The Bad-Mouthing of British Teeth
Mailbag: Drug Names, Cow Abductions, and the “Ass-Intensifier”
Introducing The Sporkful | Is Your Recipe Lying To You?
The White Noise Boom
The Boston Cinematic Universe
The Laff Box (Encore)
The Glaring Problem with Headlights
Off-the-Wall Stories of Off-Label Use
How “Chicken Soup” Sold Its Soul
Spring Break Forever
How Books About Things That Changed the World… Changed the World
Truck Nutz (Encore)
Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie
The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win
Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze
I am Tupperware, I Contain Multitudes
Introducing Planet Money: Can Money Buy Happiness?
Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks
Mystery of the Mullet (Encore)
Reconsidering One of the “Worst” TV Shows of All Time
A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World
The Wrongest Bird in Movie History
Selling Out (Encore)
Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?
Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)
The Hysteria Over Mass Hysteria
Standing Up for Sitting Down
The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments
Stuffed Animals Gone Wild
Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks
Captain Planet to the Rescue
Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?
How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine
Making Real Music for a Fake Band
Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
2024 Teaser
The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other
Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs
When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place
The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance
Fall 2023 Teaser
Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
A Brief History of Making Out
What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
Summer 2023 Teaser
Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot
The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2
The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Spring 2023 Teaser
The Mailbag Episode
Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong
Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888
How Preppy Became Streetwear
The New Age Hit Machine
The Butt and the Bustle
The Truth About #TheDress
Fall 2022 Teaser
McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 2
McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 1
Slate Plus Exclusive: The Making of This Season
The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West
The First Alien Abductees
The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers
The Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall)
Summer 2022 Teaser
The Storytelling Craze
“We Got Ourselves a Convoy”
The Sideways Effect
The Madness Behind ‘The Method’
“F--k Everything, We're Doing Five Blades”
Spring 2022 Teaser
Custer's Revenge
The Fame That Got Away
Truly Tasteless Jokes
The Philosophy of Vampires
You Just Lost The Game
The Alberta Rat War
The Great Helga Hype
Selling Out
Tattoo Flash
The Tootsie Shot
Who Killed The Segway?
The Sign Painter
That Seattle Muzak Sound
The Invention of Hydration
The Soap Opera Machine
Decoder Ring Presents The Sporkful’s Mission: ImPASTAble
The Blue Steak Experiment
The Cabbage Patch Kids Riots
Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 2: Hanoi Jane's VHS Revolution
Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 1: Jane and Leni
Mystery of the Mullet
The Karen
The Metrosexual
Gotta Get Down on Friday
Unicorn Poop
Rubber Duckie
The Shop Around the Corner
Friend of Dorothy
The Stowe-Byron Controversy
Murphy's Law
Gender Reveal Party
Bart Simpson Mania
Ice Cream Truck
Pillow Talk
Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War
Videomate: Men
Truck Nutz
Baby Shark
The Grifter
Sad Jennifer Aniston
The Incunabula Papers
Hotel Art
The Paper Doll Club
The Basement Affair
Clown Panic
The Johnlock Conspiracy
The Laff Box