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Boob Tube Boys

Boob Tube Boys is a comedy podcast where three friends talk about TV shows from days past. Each week, Van Lee, Spencer Hendricks, and Brian Vaughan tackle a different episode of an old show, offering insight and inanity along the way. If you"re into abject silliness, television tropes, and joking around with your friends, you"ve come to the right place!

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Ep 150 | Miami Connection: Part 2

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/06/28

Raise your hand if you're a tough guy. Ok... good, good. Now everyone who didn't raise thier hand, please leave the podcast (we're kidding, please don't ever leave us) because today we're wrapping up coverage of the delicious wad of 1980s cheese that is Miami Connection!When we last left off there was a vague conflict between band and group of ninjas (you know, that old chestnut), and today there's going to be even more vague conflict between band and ninjas. Things come to a head when Jeff, the

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Bonus: Real or Fake Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/06/23

Oops!Van lost a hard drive and many hours worth of work this week so Miami Connection: Part 2 is not ready for release! But to make up for it, we're putting our Patreon bonus video involving the TMNTs up for free on our regular channel!In this episode Van quizzes Brian and Spencer on various villains from throughout the nearly 40 year run of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, asking them if the villain presented is a real TMNT character or something Van made up. You can even play along! For example,

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Ep 149 | Miami Connection: Part 1

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/06/14

Ninjas! Bikers! Orphans! Hit songs!Most movies give you only one, two, or possibly three of the above, but only one film created in human history has the chutzpah to cram all FOUR of them in plus a lot of other meaningless stuff. That film is the subject of today's Motion Picture Men episode, the hit 1980s action flick Miami ConnectionIn part 1 of 2 the former BTBs go through the cast of this film, none of which have ever worked in Hollywood before or since its release. They also talk the cult hit's

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Ep 148 | Online (2013): Part 2

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/06/07

This week, the Motion Picture Men bring you the breathtaking conclusion of Online (2013), a film that boasts an empty kitchen island as one of its main set pieces. Will John's deceitful ways come back to haunt him, or will he right the ship in time to rescue the marriage he doesn't care about? Brian, Van, and Spencer talk about the movie's wild misunderstanding of human life, the world's weirdest business meeting, and a private investigator who should have been the main character. Later, Spencer

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Ep 147 | Online (2013): Part 1

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/05/31

The Boob Tube Boys have again stumbled into a magical abandoned movie theater and emerged as the Motion Picture Men! Van, Brian, and Spencer often watch films of questionable quality together; why not join them? Up first is Online (2013), an evangelical tale of temptation, technology, and fake accentsJohn's ex-girlfriend Adrianna is back in town, and when she messages him on something called socialfriendpages.com, he immediately struggles to remain faithful in his marriage. Will John honor his

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Ep 146 | TMNT: "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X"...

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/05/24

The BTBs make a return trip to the world of their childhood as they cover two more episodes of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. They'll encounter several notable characters along the way including the return of Leatherhead, the wisecracking, cajun stereotype of an alligator. But there's more than that as we also find hockey mask wearing vigilante Casey Jones (who just likes to break things) and the mysterious (and filthy) Rat King!So put on your colorful bandana, whip out your various

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Ep 145 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "Leatherhead:...

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/05/10

It's a monumental moment in the history of the Boob Tube Boys as the one and only Leatherhead, the gator who knows a good jambalya when he sees it, makes an actual appearance on the show the boys are covering. That's right it's not just Van or Brian bringing him up for no reason, he's actually here!That's all because Van has selected the animated 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, one of the few shows that captivated all three tubers as children. These are the pizza slingin', sass having,

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Ep 144 | Happy Days: "My Favorite Orkin"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/05/03

Robin Williams may have been a talented performer with a long career full of highlights, but this Happy Days episode (which was one his first Hollywood appearances) leaves a bit to be desiredApparently Ritchie is convinced he saw a flying saucer but no one will believe him! The good news is he was ultimately right, and the pilot of that saucer just so happens to be looking for him. Of course the pilot is revealed to be Mork from Ork (of Mork and Mindy fame), who is an alien with a weird sense of

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Ep 143 | Happy Days: "A Date with Fonzie"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/04/25

It’s time to put on your coolest leather jacket and join the Boob Tube Boys in the swingin’ 1970s! Err… the 50s rather… whatever, it’s a show about Happy DaysThat’s right, Happy Days. Not Sad Days, not Favorable Days, not Jocular Days, and certainly not Infuriated Days, it’s Happy Days! That’s show where Henry Winkler plays a young cool guy who says cool things and hangs out in a public bathroom a bunch. Of course it’s not just that, there’s also Ron Howard, a different red-headed guy with a big

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Ep 142 | Family Matters: "Walk on the Wild Side" and...

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/04/18

The BTBs finish talking about Family Matters with an episode chock full of hunks, low-stakes deception, and wholesome parenting. That's not all, though, because it's time for the second annual Boob Tube Boys Hall of Fame Ceremony! Laura is tired of her friends sassing her for following the rules, so she decides to join the cheerleading team at Club Buff, a male strip club that turns out to be a frequent stop for Mother Winslow. Steve tries to warn Laura she might get caught, while Carl remains

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Ep 141 | Family Matters: "Born to be Mild"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/04/11

It's finally time for the Boob Tube Boys to cover the only sitcom that once had all of America asking, "did I do that?!" Family Matters coverage begins with a bang, as Steve Urkel infiltrates a local gang with a surprisingly talented artist in its midstBrian, Spencer, and Van discuss their childhood hours spent with Family Matters, how Urkel's antics hijacked a show that was supposed to be centered around Reginald Vel Johnson, and what sorts of magazines Mother Winslow was reading in 1991. It's a

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Ep 140 | Quantum Leap: "The Wrong Stuff"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/04/04

Quantum Leap leaps right back into your ears as the BTBs take one more trip into the past alongside hologram man Al and handsome Frankenstein man Sam. This time around Sam finds himself stuck not in the body of a glam rocker, nor in the body of one of those women, nor in the fleshy meat tomb of a gangster or something. No this time around he's in the body of one of man's closest relatives... a chimpanzee!Sam's mission is to save the chimp he's inside of (eww that sounded gross) by making the chimp

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Ep 139 | Quantum Leap: "Glitter Rock"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/03/22

The story of Quantum Leap is simple, well no it isn't but let's say it is. Sam (Scott Dracula) goes back in time and inhabits the bodies of random people while his friend Al (Dean Stockwell) helps him out using a computer that's real good at probabilities. This time around Sam finds himself inside the body of a guy called Tonic, a 'glitter rocker' in the vein of KISS who is due to be stabbed in a few days if Sam and Al can't figure out who the stabber isThe episode includes a whole bunch of awesome

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Ep 138 | Batman Beyond: "Eyewitness"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/03/14

Batman Begins is on the docket once more as Spencer guides Van and Brian through the mean streets of Gotham City. This time around there's a mad bomber who is way cooler than Batman, but problems arise when instead of just stopping the villain Batman bludgeons him to death with a nuclear bombThe guys talk their new love Mad Stan and Brian quizzes the other two about other Batman villains!

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Ep 137 | Batman Beyond: "Meltdown"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/03/08

It's a cold day in Gotham as the Boob Tube Boys arrive just in time to see a sexy sultry voiced doctor show up and do some quasi-necromancy to give noted Batman villain Mr. Freeze a new lease on life!The BTBs show up to watch a show that all three thought was beneath them when it came out in the late 90s. Also there's mention of a Batman villain called Dr. Phosphorus? It turns out he was actually the inspiration for this show's big bad- Blight. A glowy skeleton man whose name is far less interesting

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Ep 136 | True Detective: "Night Country: Part 2"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/03/01

The BTBs are back to talk more about True Detective: Night Country, a show about Jodie Foster yelling at her loved ones, Kali Reis whooping ass, and John Hawkes having a cool faceThe fellas last left their Alaskan character friends at the outset of a grotesque crime scene, but things are about to get even creepier. Brian, Spencer, and Van talk about fun character interactions, the intermingling of ambitious storylines, and hanging out with ghosts. Spencer steers the podcast in a very different

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Ep 135 | True Detective: "Night Country: Part 1"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/02/23

The frozen expanse of the podcasting universe holds many secrets, but don't worry, the Boob Tube Boys are here to guide you across the icy ground. It's time to talk True Detective: Night Country, the latest installment in HBO's long-running anthology series! Jodie Foster and Kali Reis are detectives tasked with solving an impossible and terrifying mystery in Alaska's dark season, and they might even be up against forces bigger than they imagine. Brian picked this one due to his fondness for True

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Ep 134 | Beef: "The Rapture of Being Alive"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/02/09

Where's the Beef? Right here you dumb old lady!That's right the Boob Tube Boys have returned to the spiteful world of Netflix' Beef where Steven Yeun as Danny pees all over the place and Ali Wong as Amy plots her revenge. We're picking back up right where we left off last week and despite being given the opportunity to take the high road Amy has chosen instead... for vengeanceThe tubers marvel at some of the background jokes in the show as well as all of the actor's performances. They take a moment

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Ep 133 | Beef: "The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in...

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/02/02

It has been a hot minute since the Boob Tube Boys watched a show that wasn't hot garbage, so no matter what the critically acclaimed 2023 first season of Netflix' Beef should be a change of pace for the fellasThe show isn't about choice cuts and it's not about a family who own and operate a small town meat packing plant but the son doesn't want to follow in the father's footsteps and take over the plant, instead choosing a career in optometry while the matriarch of the family opines for better times

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Ep 132 | Touched by an Angel: "Pandora's Box"

Boob Tube Boys ·

2024/01/26

This is going to be a good one, folks. And it doesn’t even have a magician!You see this time in the cinematic universe of Touched by an Angel your everyday Y2K family seems to be all smiles and love, but deep inside something sinister is brewing. One night, daughter Evan Rachel Wood decides to climb on her state-of-the-art computing device and do some research about Hawaii so that she could finish her school report. But unfortunately for the Radcliffe family she’s not shown the sandy beaches and

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