Gen X, This is Why.
Gen X, This is Why is a podcast that re-examines the sometimes bizarre and often scarring media from our shared childhood. Jennie and Amye, sisters and sometimes mortal enemies, are your hosts. Our first stop is Walnut Grove as we take a fresh look at our favorite frontier family (as if we can name another), the Ingalls. There is some seriously weird sh*t in this show that answers a lot of questions...
Episodes
142 episodes
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep21 The Lost Ones Part 1
In one of the wildest episodes in a while, Michael Landon recreates the Sanderson storyline with Jason Bateman and Cassandra Cooper. The Cooper children are orphaned after witnessing a horrific wagon accident in which their parents die right in...
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Season 1
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Episode 137
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39:45
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep20 I Do, Again
I Do, Again: Seconds after Laura announces her first pregnancy and Manly falls through a roof, Caroline steals their moment by announcing she too is pregnant. Doc Baker must break the news to her that no, in fact, her life is ending, or she's i...
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Season 1
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Episode 136
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51:56
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep19 Blind Justice
In this episode, Adam takes his first case after a two week stint in law school and is pretty much humiliated- we are HERE for it. Jennie is accused of slapping someone, Mark Twain and Colonel Sanders are the same person, HIPPA Laws will ...
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Season 1
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Episode 135
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47:04
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep18 Sylvia Part 2
In the second part of the most scarring episode in Little House history, Sylvia and Albert fall in love and make plans to start a life together, against her weirdo father's wishes. We do get a hot Pa scene as he wrestles someone in the rain, an...
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50:49
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep17 Sylvia Part 1
In this very special and scarring episode, a young, unsuspecting teenager gets assaulted by a blacksmith wearing a clown mask and is shamed and blamed for the attack. Wow, even writing that out is traumatic. We discuss a lot of seri...
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Season 1
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Episode 133
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44:01
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep16 Goodbye Mrs. Wilder
Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder: Laura is DONE with her class full of ignorant kids who don't yet know what they haven't been taught. Harriet swoops in and decides these farmers' kids just need to learn art appreciation and French. The kids do everyth...
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Season 1
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Episode 132
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40:32
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep15 Make a Joyful Noise
Joe Kagan is Mother Debbie Done with plowing and heads to the exciting town of Sleepy Eye for a new life. He gets a job at Garvey's newest Amazon operation and is forced to "say hi to Mary." We meet Timmy, an angry boy who acts a lot like Littl...
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Season 1
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Episode 131
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41:41
Bonus - Blockbusters Preview: Stand by Me
Preview: Enjoy this free preview of our Patreon content. In this Blockbusters episode, we cover Stand By Me, the beloved coming-of-age story based on Stephen King’s The Body. If you want two bonus episodes a month, like this one, join us...
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Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep14 The Nephews
Manly is trolled the entire episode and we are here for it. When his older brother, Royal, decides to go on a river cruise with his wife, they need a sucker to watch their terrible, rambunctious boys. They need a sucker. Hey everyone, it's Manl...
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Season 1
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Episode 130
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45:44
Little House on the Prairie S7 EP13 Come, Let Us Reason Together
Harriet's bigotry and awfulness is dialed up to a ten when Percival's parents visit to meet their grandchild. Harriet and Benjamin clash over which religion the baby will practice. Nellie gives birth to twins: Jennifer (gag) and Benjamin.
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Season 1
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Episode 129
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39:07
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep12 Oleson Versus Oleson
A "lady speaker" comes to Walnut Grove, upsetting all of the men, especially Nels whose wife is still not falling into line. Charles, acting as the town's moral compass, does the absolute wrong thing and drives Caroline away. Willie's balls cau...
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Season 1
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Episode 128
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45:01
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep11 To See the Light Part 2
We pick up with Adam studying for the LSATs and being just a real d*ck to everyone, including Mary. When he travels to Minneapolis to take the exam, he meets an all-too-convenient rich benefactor who saves him time and time again from himself. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 127
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50:04
Time Capsule: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Jessica Chastain plays the iconic preacher's wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, in this 2021 biopic. We, like most people in the country, remembered Tammy Faye as much more complicit in her husband's crimes than she actually was, when in reality she was ...
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Season 1
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Episode 126
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1:13:20
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep10 To See the Light Part 1
Adam and Hester Sue can’t mind their own business and end up almost getting killed after they rummage through Garvey’s stuff. This accident results in Adam regaining his sight and absolutely losing his mind. He runs around a meadow in slow moti...
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Season 1
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Episode 125
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45:10
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep09 The In-Laws
Manly and Charles have a race to the bottom as they disagree on the fastest route to Sleepy Eye. Both men attempt to cheat, and we spend way too much time talking about Manly’s load. Mary finally gets invited to dinner, and Jennie got robbed. W...
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Season 1
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Episode 124
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59:07
BONUS - Amye's Interview with Filmmaker Pamela Bob
Amye sits down with Pamela Bob, writer, actor, and director of the award-winning short comedy series, Livin' on a Prairie. "We are introduced to Pamela, a woman in her late 30s, socially awkward, misunderstood and stuck in a world...
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Season 1
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Episode 124
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1:07:46
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep07 Divorce Walnut Grove Style
Manly morphs into a giant man-baby when Laura has to spend time trying to build a career. After several fights, Laura finds evidence he's cheating and goes bananas-attacking people in the street. Little Joe, I mean Charles, tries desperately to...
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Season 1
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Episode 123
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57:48
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep03 A New Beginning
Garvey and his son head to a new town to start over and try to forget that Mary killed their beloved Alice. Things take a left turn when some brokedown mall cop shows up and tries to offer some extra security. Some hooligans are terrorizing the...
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Season 1
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Episode 122
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44:49
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep02 Laura Ingalls Wilder Part 2
Laura and Manly hit a rough patch as his impulse purchase of a dirt field comes back to haunt him. Harve is an absolute monster who spends weeks telling Eliza Jane how great she is-only to marry someone else and disappear. For some reason, Mary...
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Season 1
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Episode 121
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54:55
Little House on the Prairie S7 Ep01 Laura Ingalls Wilder Part 1
Manly buys the farm. In other news, Eliza Jane is a 12-year-old forty-something whose diary rivals that of Lady Chatterly's, Laura gets a bomb teaching job that she immediately has to reject or she's not allowed to be married, and Nellie has so...
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Season 1
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Episode 120
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50:32
Little House on the Prairie S6 Ep24 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Part 2
Laura heads to Sleepy Eye to help set up the blind school and runs into public enemy #1: Manly. Manly is living there and decides to take a secret second job when he discovers Laura needs extra money to meet the rent. After Manly ends up nearly...
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Season 1
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Episode 119
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44:16
Patreon Preview: The Golden Girls S1 Ep1 The Engagement
We are so excited to be sitting down and reviewing The Golden Girls. In the pilot episode, “The Engagement,” Blanche entertains a marriage proposal that threatens to break up the girls’ living arrangement. We meet Coco, a housekeeper who is nev...
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Season 1
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Episode 118
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34:44
Little House on the Prairie S6 Ep23 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Part 1
In this rage-inducer, Almanzo decides he will ask Laura to marry him. When Pa says they must wait two years until Laura is 18, everyone turns on the beloved patriarch and suddenly no one can remember why they worshipped the ground Pa walked on ...
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Season 1
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Episode 117
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48:33
BONUS - Gen X, That Was A Thing: Milli Vanilli
1990 was a wild year for the pop group Milli Vanilli. Rob and Fab, both singers and dancers, started the year by winning the Grammy for Best New Artist for their very popular album, Girl You Know It’s True. By the end of the year, they were the...
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Season 1
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Episode 116
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1:00:46
Little House on the Prairie S6 Ep22 Sweet Sixteen
After acing an impromptu quiz on Thomas Jefferson, Laura takes a teaching job out of town and for no reason at all, Manly drives her to and from every week. During these rides, which happen over the span of four weeks, Laura’s sixteenth birthda...
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Season 1
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Episode 115
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41:35