So Weird Was SO GOOD!
Season 2: So Weird is a late 90s Disney Channel show that deserves to be looked back upon with love, and that's what we are going to do. Join us as we re-watch the masterpiece to give it the respect it deserves. Go watch it on Disney+ right now and make your life a thousand times better. ---------- Season 1: A podcast that looks back at Animorphs to say "I love you, but WTF?" Topics include childhood trauma, genocide, disability rights, veterans affairs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, JK Rowling slander, K. A. Applegate love, and incredibly sad birds. FULL SERIES SPOILERS IN MOST EPISODES, IF YOU AREN'T DONE READING PLEASE DON'T HURT YOURSELF.
Episodes
18 episodes
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Angel: love, trust, and protect each other. Also, fuck cancer.
Ned has one of the worst moments of his life and still manages to spend it loving the kids. Fi saunters into the underworld without a second thought. Clu milks a cow. Chelsea shares her cancer-survivor perspective on Gabe. Ha...
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Episode 7
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26:30
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Simplicity: Elon Musk, cottagecore, and Columbine, somehow?
Fi and the crew have to fix a flat tire by preventing Elon Musk from launching Starlink. Molly learns to "walk up, not out." Erik Von Detten may have invented the word "boomer." I am not exaggerating nearly as much as I should be.
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Episode 6
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24:11
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Escape: Leave the burnt-out gifted children alone, please!
Quick question: did we all have fantasies about being able to astral project when we were kids, and did those fantasies evaporate once we all got our drivers' licenses? Asking for a friend!Astral projection acts as an allegory for escap...
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Episode 5
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27:29
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Sacrifice: the "feel good episode," complete with Civil War corpses
PUPPY!!!!!!And by "puppy" we do mean "Bigfoot." Join us for the "feel good episode" in which Fi literally finds the corpse of a Civil War soldier.Themes include giving your life for someone else, self-awareness, compassion for o...
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Episode 4
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18:41
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Memory: This episode about aliens is a little TOO real.
What if you can't trust your own mind or memories? What if you don't have the resources you need to stay alive? What if you are under the control of people who are not in their right mind and they make poor decisions that put you at risk? Each ...
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Episode 3
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29:17
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Web Sight: drive safe, use anti-virus software
This week we talk about plots that got scrapped on the writing room floor (thanks to the other So Weird podcast that did ALL the research and archiving to keep this show alive during the dark years), Molly's (and Mackenzie's) triumph over addic...
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Episode 2
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25:45
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Family Reunion: ghosts (and children, and ghost children) are people too!
Let's meet the characters, gush about our bisexual neurodivergent icon Fi, responsible older brother Jack, stoner-coded comedic relief Clu, mother-of-the-year Molly. Chelsea the elementary school teacher and Hannah the former homeschooled kid a...
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Episode 1
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54:38
So Weird Was SO GOOD! Come Watch So Weird With Us... Because It's SO GOOD!
There are a thousand reasons us kids that grew up watching So Weird have never fully forgotten the show. Join us as we revisit the show and gush episode by episode about why it was SO GOOD!
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Episode 0
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18:02
Animorphuckery: And on to the next hyperfixation... introducing "So Weird Was SO GOOD!"
I'm not saying I am done talking about Animorphs, but I am saying WELCOME TO SEASON TWO OF HANNAH CAN'T SHUT UP ABOUT 90S CHILDREN'S SCI-FI!If anything else about Animorphs comes up that desperately needs to be said, I'll say it, but in...
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Episode 9
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7:48
Animorphuckery: Trauma: War is Hell. So is Childhood.
GET IN, SHORMS, TODAY WE ARE FACING OUR TRAUMA.How traumatized were each of the Animorphs before the war? How about after? What methods exist for reducing the impact of traumatic events? Why does the Animorph fandom seem to be so full o...
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Episode 8
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1:27:21
Animorphuckery: Disability Part 2/Interview With an Anifan
Travis, aka @WlkngCntradctn, has the coolest Twitter bio ever:"Bi/Pan white cis male poly kinky quadriplegic therapist published philosopher/author semi-professional origami artist and canonical Animorph."After reading that I ju...
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Episode 7
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1:12:30
Animorphuckery: Disability and Ableism in Animorphs... There's a Lot.
CW: This episode discusses the misguided belief that disabled lives are not worth living or preserving. If now is not a good time to be in that headspace, please have a wonderful day listening to something else <3Animorph topics incl...
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Episode 6
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2:24:46
Animorphuckery: Andalites as an Allegory For Imperialism
Chelsea is a schoolteacher and it shows. Hannah majored in Political Science and minored in History. We both had A LOT to say about Imperialism and Animorphs!Topics include: The Irish diaspora and Potato Famine, the Hong Kong and Panama...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:20:17
Animorphuckery: Anything Rowling Can Do Animorphs Did Better
Are you sick of Rowling's TERFy nonsense? Do you want to stop supporting Harry Potter but don't have a good replacement lined up? Have no fear, everyone; anything Harry Potter ever did right Animorphs did better. Topics include fam...
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Episode 4
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1:33:00
Animorphuckery: Memoirs of Two Isolated Blonde Nine-Year-Old Girls Who Took Rachel VERY Seriously and Then Met K. A. Applegate in Their 20s
Back in the 90s Hannah and Shannon were isolated homeschoolers who didn't have much in life, but DID have Animorphs. Being tiny little blonde girls with attitude problems the importance of Rachel cannot be overstated. Then Mama Applegate murder...
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Episode 3
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1:25:08
Animorphuckery: A Sci-Fi Nerd Reads Animorphs For The First Time: Phuckery Ensues
A 55-year old sci-fi nerd reads Animorphs for the first time. Phuckery discussed: religious trauma, censorship, addiction, The War on Drugs, cannibalism, getting eaten alive, torture, Rodney King, suicide, slavery, genocide, sex trafficking (sp...
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Episode 2
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1:18:52
Animorphuckery: The Sharing as a Cult
Real life cult recruitment tactics along with how they apply to The Sharing. Also discussed: the 2016 US election, toxic religious groups, Scientology, and sexual assault. The doxxing will begin in 5, 4, 3….Books heavily covere...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:35
Animorphuckery Pilot: What Exactly Will Animorphuckery Say About Animorphs?
Who are we? Grown-ass neurodivergent millennials who are still hung up on our elementary-school hyperfixation. Why are we here? To take children's books way too seriously, or to acknowledge how serious these children's books are, depending on y...
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Season 1
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Episode 0
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