Boob Tube
Pop culture scientists and best friend duo Gabby and Zoe recap your favorite tv shows from yesteryear! These “scholars” will examine television from a variety of eras, distilling narrative decisions down to only their key elements. We will interrogate characters, plot lines, iconic dialogue, media stunts, and provide key cultural context for some of the most beloved shows the old boob tube has to offer.
We get real, we get nasty, and we get real nasty.
New episodes every Wednesday, not safe for work or children.
Episodes
209 episodes
Gilmore Girls: S4E21 - Last Week Fights, This Week Tights - PART 2
Tights? On. Fights? Imminent. With the exception of the 10 minute conversation at the top of the show about “cat” people and “dog” people, a few audio snafus and a perplexing about-face by Jess in the final quarter, we are all systems go on sea...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E7 - Last Week Fights, This Week Tights - PART 1
It’s the wedding-eth of the century-eth and your hosts are seated (eth) for season 4 episode 21 “Last Week Fights, This Week Tights” PART 1-eth. We’re loving Jess (???), meeting a new boy who will NOT matter, and contemplating a horse in your p...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E20 - Luke Can See Her Face - PART 2
Grab a paperback and head for the local strip club cause we’re mud wrestling our way through “Luke Can See Her Face” part deux. We are making a shocking and full throated defence of Jess plus talkin zucchini, self-help, and more. So RSVP your e...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E20 - Luke Can See Her Face - PART 1
Close your eyes and think of Miss Patty cause we’re visualizing Gilmore Girls season 4 episode 20 “Luke Can See Her Face” - FART 1! We continue to wax poetical about the gorgeous voice notes y’all have been submitting and get caught up with coi...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E16 - The Reigning Lorelai - PART 2
What's that, you say? Can't get enough of Cousin Maryland and her whacky back-from-the-dead hijinx? Why, have we got a treat for you. We're tackling the tail end of S4E16 The Reigning Lorelai - we're monologuing in a PantieLand, we're smoking c...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E16 - The Reigning Lorelai - PART 1
Pass the championship belt because we are burying a crone and christening a new matriarch in season four, episode 16 “The Reigning Lorelai” - part one! Join your humble hosts as we stop yammering for once to listen to your mellifluous voice not...
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Gilmore Girls VS Dawson's Creek: The Brain Trust Confers
Take a break from your regularly scheduled programming to compare and contrast our Boob Tube roster. Inside you there are two wolves, they are both WB shows, and we have a lot to say about all of it. Full episode and video on Patreon later this...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E14 - The Incredible Sinking Lorelais - PART 2
One little voice keeps calling me calling me in tonight's episode, season 4 episode 14, “The Incredible Sinking Lorelais” parte deux. Truth is, we love the huge boyfriend, Lane ultimately does need to go, its time to CUT! THAT! CLASS! fo...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E14 - The Incredible Sinking Lorelais - PART 1
Paging the unsinkable Molly Brown cause we’re gonna need an assist for season four, episode 14 “The Incredible Sinking Lorelais” PART ONE. Phone tag rages, money runs short, and academic woes loom in this stressful little morsel but your hosts ...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E7 - The Festival of Living Art - PART 2
Raise the curtain and salute your shorts because we are hitting performance art paydirt in season 4, episode 7 “The Festival of Living Art” PART TWO. Join us for a master class in dramaturgy, elderly drummers, and tableau vivants. <...
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Gilmore Girls: S4E7 - The Festival of Living Art - PART 1
Call us the Connecticut Arts Council cause we’re fully lezzed out for season 4, episode 7 “The Festival of Living Art” PART ONE. We’re going full Buff Otis on baby pagers, coupons, and more so strap in.
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Gilmore Girls: S4E2 - The Lorelais' First Day at Yale
Rory finally made it to the Ivy League in today's epic, season 4 episode 2, The Lorelais' First Day at Yale, and we are ready to Big League Chew THE FAT about it all. Worried we won’t be decrying the college mattress realism for the second epis...
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1:19:54
Gilmore Girls: S4E1 - Ballrooms and Biscotti
Happy New Year and Happy season 4! Your humble hosts are back in action, as well as your humble...er characters, Rory and Lorelai, fresh off the boat from their european adventures. In "Ballrooms and Biscotti", our heroines complain far less th...
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Gilmore Girls: S3E22 - Those Are Strings, Pinocchio - PART 2
If there’s anything your humbly hosties love it’s recording a whole ep tip to tail and definitely not losing half our audio and doing an emergency rerecord. And it is with that intrepid spirit that we wrap up season three and march bravely towa...
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Season 8
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Gilmore Girls: S3E22 - Those Are Strings, Pinocchio - PART 1
Get ready to reenact the NSYNC Bye Bye Bye music video cause this is season three, episode 22 “Those Are Strings, Pinocchio” PART 1. We marvel at what we’ve missed (WHY is Dean getting married??) and brace for what’s to come aka strategically d...
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Gilmore Girls: S3E17 - A Tale of Poes and Fire, part 2
Hold hands and stare into the ashes of our dreams with us in “A Tale of Poes and Fire” PART DEUX. So take to your bed like Paris in a moment of existential crisis and let us be the sock puppet theater you deserve.
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Gilmore Girls: S3E17 - A Tale of Poes and Fire, part 1
The world seems more on fire than usual so please accept our contribution: season three, episode 17 “A Tale of Poes and Fire.” Keep the home fires burning and we’ll see you in the morning <3
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Gilmore Girls: S1E13 - Dear Richard & Emily
This Halloween you might be asking yourself - whatever happened to Baby Boob Tube? Well don’t you fret because we’ve Written a Letter to Daddy with season three, episode thirteen “Dear Emily and Richard.” This episode brings us lots of answers ...
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1:25:19
BoobTube Talks Battlestar Galactica!
As Zoe wraps up her international constitutional and Gabby gets her spooky lil head on straight, we're taking a brief break from Gilmore Girls this week to talk Battlestar Galactica. We will be back next will with Lorelai and Rory, but for now,...
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Gilmore Girls: S3E11 - I Solemnly Swear - PART 2
Just a little shortie this week as we wrap up this litigious parable. Neither Lorelai nor Emily know anything about the other, still, and its season 3! When will they learn?? The deposition is in and Emily is steamed, Lorelai is going on a cute...
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Gilmore Girls: S3E11 - I Solemnly Swear - PART 1
En garde! It's season 3, episode 11, "I Solemnly Swear", and in this part 1, we're setting up backstabbing, abandoned parking garages, and a fencing lesson simply dripping with earnest lesbionic overtones. Say no more! We'll suit up an...
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Gilmore Girls: S3E9 - A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving - PART 2
We are finally finishing our turkey day leftovers with “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving” PART 2. Do we still get sidetracked by aprox one million tangents? Sure! But by god we made it through a measly half an ep with all the aplomb of ou...
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1:20:07
Gilmore Girls: S3E9 - A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving - PART 1
Your hosts are reporting live from August re the turkey time shenanigans of our Gilmore Gals in season three, episode 9 “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving.” We’ve got a LOT to say and I can’t claim we get very far into the (tofurkey) meat of thi...
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Season 8
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1:04:39
Gilmore Girls: S3E7 - They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? - PART 2
The night wears on, Tubers, and these dogs? Are barking. We’re wrapping up “They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t they?”, noting Jackson’s predisposition to hysteria and fleeing of the scene, Dave’s quick thinking seduction, and the Big Breakup we’ve all ...
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1:16:11
Gilmore Girls: S3E7 - They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? - PART 1
Gabby and Zoe reunite (briefly) with reality before diving back into the summer haze, pausing to discuss Season 3, Episode 7, They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? Lorelai and Luke set the scene of a town all abuzz with excitement about the annual d...
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