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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.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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