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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 523 - "That Was Then: Jaws (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 523 - "That Was Then: Jaws (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, it’s time for another nautical That Was Then. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year is none other than Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 522 - "That Was Then: Popeye (1980)"

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 522 - "That Was Then: Popeye (1980)"

Pop open a can of spinach and set sail for the far-off year of 1980, when noted auteur Robert Altman had his crew build an entire functioning town so they could shoot a Popeye movie.

A shot from Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man, of Spider-Man in a blue suit, swinging above the city holding Harry Osborn in one arm.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 521 - "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Here we go, here we go, here we go again: another Spider-Man adaptation? Don’t get your webs in a tizzy, True Believers, because this one is really worth it. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the new animated series created by Jeff Trammell.

A title page from an issue of THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE, with a house visible on a hill above lake, lights on in all of the windows. The title is written across the surface of the lake.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 520 - "FCF: The Nice House on the Lake (feat. Eric Sipple)"

It’s a reunion at the end of the world as Eric Sipple joins Paul and Arlo for the latest Four-Color Flashback. Paul has invited everyone to The Nice House on the Lake, James Tynion IV & Álvaro Martínez Bueno’s series about friends who have been sequestered from the apocalypse by their alien BFF.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 519 - "Geek Challenge: 3 Women vs. Three Amigos!"

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 519 - "Geek Challenge: 3 Women vs. Three Amigos!"

We’re seeing triple on a new Geek Challenge featuring a duet of trios: first we’ve got John Landis’ notorious flop Three Amigos from 1986, then Robert Altman’s dreamy art film 3 Women from 1977.

A shot from The Wild Robot with the main character stretching out its robot arms as a young goose watches and stretches out its own wings.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 518 - "The Wild Robot (feat. Eric Sipple)"

With How to Train Your Dragon, Chris Sanders taught us about human-dragon friendship. And now, with The Wild Robot, he shows us what happens when technology becomes stranded in the wilderness: a robot named Rozz learns to have a mother’s love for a gosling named Brightbill.

An anthropomorphic duck missing half of its skull, brain exposed. A sign with his picture on it declaring him missing is beside him on a pole.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 517 - "FCF: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Does a bear kill in the woods? That’s the question Patrick Horvath sets out to answer in his “Richard Scarry meets Dexter” opus Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, the subject of this year’s very first Four-Color Flashback.

David Lynch sitting at a desk, looking out the window with a confused or concerned look on his face.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 516 - "Freestyle: Where the Gobbledy$#@& Have We Been?! (feat. Eric Sipple)"

And we’re back. Just like that, in the blink of an eye–or, depending on your perspective, what felt like several eternities–six months have passed since the last episode of Gobbledygeek. What happened? Where were we?

A screenshot of The Incredibles, with the full family hugging, jungle trees in the background.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 515 - "That Was Then: The Incredibles (feat. Eric Sipple)"

In an age where Deadpool & Wolverine is set to smash box office records, it can be hard to remember what things were like in the first wave of superhero blockbusters. That's the scene The Incredibles burst onto in 2004.

A screenshot from the series Ren Faire. Two knights on horseback, one in the foreground and other in the distance, duel in front of a crowd seated on bleachers.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 514- "Ren Faire"

Hail and well met! This week, Paul and Arlo raise their overpriced goblets to Lance Oppenheim’s HBO docuseries Ren Faire.

A promotional image for Taylor Swift's album The Tortured Poets Department, with editorial markup complaining about the lack of an apostrophe in Poets.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 513 - "The Tortured Parents Department"

Arlo’s second daughter has arrived at a pivotal time, a time in which Paul has become consumed by Taylor Swift’s life-altering new album The Tortured Poets Department.

A white gallery wall with three pictures, each square, each totally white with black frames.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 512 - "Ancient Bodies & Modern Art"

For the first time this season, Paul and Arlo have lost the plot. That’s right, the beloved Gobbledygeek freestyle episode has returned, new and improved for 2024, including such scintillating subjects as: Back pain! Stomach bugs! Car crashes!

A screenshot from Gunga Din of three men laughing.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 511 - "That Was Then: Gunga Din (feat. Michael Holland)"

You’re a better podcaster than us, Michael Holland. That’s right, the City of Angels’ very own boy wonder is back to take Paul and Arlo to film school. The That Was Then classic gracing our screens this time is George Stevens’ 1939 adventure film Gunga Din.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 510 - "FCF: Uzumaki (feat. Eric Sipple)"

For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Gobbledygeek’s enfant terrible, Arlo Wiley, has chosen Junji Ito’s 1998-99 horror manga Uzumaki. Will Paul ever forgive him? On hand to find out is The Deli Counter of Justice co-conspirator Eric Sipple, who will be appearing on FCF episodes for infinity.

A panel from "Weavers". A man in a suit says, "You got a problem, new boy?" as tentacles stretch from his eye to strangle a screaming man.

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 509 - "Four-Color Flashback: Weavers (feat. Eric Sipple)"

For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo trap Eric Sipple in their web once more, this time to discuss Simon Spurrier & Dylan Burnett’s Lovecraftian mob story Weavers.

Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in <em>Sideways</em> (2004), directed by Alexander Payne

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 508 - "That Was Then: Sideways"

Gobbledygeek episode 508, “That Was Then: Sideways,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. As they say, don’t drink and podcast, but here Paul and Arlo are talking about 2004’s Sideways for another round of That Was Then. Alexander Payne’s

Walter Matthau in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), directed by Joseph Sargent

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 507 - "That Was Then: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"

Gobbledygeek episode 507, “That Was Then: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. We’re speeding away at breakneck speed with another installment of our That Was Then series. This time Paul and Arlo are witnesses

Nino Castelnuovo & Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), directed by Jacques Demy

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 506 - "That Was Then: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (feat. Michael Holland)"

Gobbledygeek episode 506, “That Was Then: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (feat. Michael Holland),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. For the next installment in our That Was Then series, Paul and Arlo cast their minds back to 1964–a year that predates

Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters (1984), directed by Ivan Reitman

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 505 - That Was Then: Ghostbusters

Gobbledygeek episode 505, “That Was Then: Ghostbusters,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Who ya gonna call? Gobbledygeek! For the first installment of our That Was Then series, taking a look back at movies celebrating anniversaries in 2024, Paul and Arlo take

Superman for All Seasons (1998); art by Tim Sale & Bjarne Hansen

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 504 - FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple)

Gobbledygeek episode 504, “FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Gobbledygeek season 15 premiere! Breaking from vaguely defined tradition,

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 503 - Twisted Christmas: Black Christmas vs. A Christmas Story

Gobbledygeek episode 503, “Twisted Christmas: Black Christmas vs. A Christmas Story,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. You’ll slash your eye out, Kidder! To close out our truncated season, it’s a Twisted Christmas double feature, as Paul and Arlo explore

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 502 - Blue Eye Samurai

Gobbledygeek episode 502, “Blue Eye Samurai,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. What is there for a young, mixed-race woman to do in feudal Japan? Reject all traces of her femininity, assume the masculine identity of a ronin, and seek revenge on

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 501 - Scavengers Reign

Gobbledygeek episode 501, “Scavengers Reign,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. We’re crash-landing back into regular podcasting with the Max original animated series Scavengers Reign. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the seeds of Scavengers Reign were planted in an

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 500 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (feat. Eric Sipple)

Gobbledygeek episode 500, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. 500 episodes! Can you believe it? What incredibly special way will we choose to commemorate this event??? By, well, just having a regular episode discussing Spider-Man:

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 499 - "Geek Challenge: Xanadu vs. Mulholland Drive"

Gobbledygeek episode 499, “Geek Challenge: Xanadu vs. Mulholland Drive,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. You have to believe Gobbledygeek is magic. Or at the very least, that Paul and Arlo will revel in cinematic magic on the latest Geek Challenge. Robert