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Pop Culture Role Call

Smizmar Studios

Pop Culture Role Call is a weekly podcast that reviews television and movies from different characters" perspectives. Each week our geek panel (panel of hosts) watches the same TV episode or movie each assigned their own character role. They will only watch scenes that their character is present in, leaving them with only part of the bigger picture.

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All Episodes

01:03:22

Nobel Hate Prize - Kevin Can F Himself S01E02 - New...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/02/13

Welcome to Kevin Can F*** Himself season 1 episode 2! This week, Allison puts on her favorite new hoodie and hits the town to try and gather some much needed husband murdering supplies. Meanwhile, back in the sitcom reality, Kevin has declared REVOLUTIONARY WAR on his neighbors. The slight that led to the dramatic declaration? They stole his favorite new hoodie...probably an unrelated hoodie? Thanks for listening!

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01:13:45

Yikes-a-palooza - Kevin Can F Himself S01E01 - Living...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/02/06

Why hello there and welcome to season 1 episode 1 of our new show, Kevin Can F*** Himself! While we don't know too much yet, we do know that this show is playing with the time honored format of the "sitcom". We have our zingers, our laugh tracks, and our motley crew of bumbling neighbors. But, impossibly, we also seem to slip out of that sterilized world into the messy, complicated, and exhausting reality we all know and....love? Thanks for listening!

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01:15:35

Gravity Falls Series Wrap-Up

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/01/30

Hello and welcome to the Gravity Falls wrap-up! It's been a wonderful, heartwarming romp but we eventually had to say goodbye to the Pines family. Thank you to everyone who sent in questions. We hope you join us next week with episode 1 of a brand new show!

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51:36

Mabelosa - Gravity Falls S02E21- Somewhere in the Woods

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/01/23

Hello and welcome to the Gravity Falls finale! This week, the confrontation with Bill finally comes to a head...literally speaking. Turns out, even after a fued lasting multiple decades and a potential global apocalypse, Ford and Stan can still learn a thing or two from their niblings. But, can we reconcile in time to defeat the big bad and get Mabel and Dipper home to California? Thanks for listening and and remember to send in your wrap up questions!

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01:13:02

Olympus Above! - Gravity Falls S02E20 - Take Back the...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/01/16

Hello and welcome back to the end of the world! It's season 2 episode 20 of Gravity Falls and with Mabel and Dipper back on great terms, it's time to start working on the other set of twins. Unfortunately, the Ford+Stan fued has been stewing for decades, not days. Can we all come together in the darkest hour and finally stop Bill? Thanks for listening.

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01:01:08

Sleepy Tetanus - Gravity Falls S02E19 - Escape from...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/01/09

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 19! This week, Dipper finally finds Mabel, ruling in a utopia of her own design. Candy, color, and boys as far as the eye can see! But under the sugar dusted surface of smiles and stickers there is something dark lurking just out of sight. Can the siblings rebuild their bridges before it all comes tumbling down? Thanks for listening!

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01:10:18

James Is Paywalled - Gravity Falls S02E18 -...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2025/01/02

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 18! Welp, it's finally here. Weirdmageddon is dumping all of the chaos of Bill's universe into ours and reality is start to bend and shift in some weird and horrifying ways. Can Dipper rise to the occasion and save his sister from the sinister clutches of a chaos god? Content warnings if you hate anthropomorphic teeth, bat violence, orbs, or BIG goats. Thanks for listening!

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01:31:18

Triggernometry - Gravity Falls S02E17 - Dipper and...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/12/25

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 17! It's the last episode of 2024 and I wish I could say this was one of those fun, low stakes holiday episodes that family cartoons are known for. But after Ford makes Dipper an offer that's seemingly too good to be true, Mabel comes to the stark realization that her perfect world is about to change in some dramatic and abrupt ways. Stability has been replaced with chaos and you know who thrives on chaos? Yeah...Bill is back. Thanks for

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01:23:20

So Corn Pilled - Gravity Falls S02E16 - Roadside...

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2024/12/19

Welcome to season 2 episode 15 of Gravity Falls! This week, forget saving the world from Bill, Dipper has got to meet some ladies! Perhaps slightly too many ladies?? Maybe Grunkle Stan isn't the best source of romantic advice. Also, join us this Saturday to Sunday from 9am to 9am for Extra Life! Watch us stream games for 24 hours and raise money for children's hospitals. Win-Win! https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=68935 Thanks for listening!

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01:06:54

NSA Santa Claus - Gravity Falls S02E15 - The Last...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/12/12

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 15! This week, Mabel "Pure of Heart" Pines is off on a magical unicorn quest and she couldn't be more prepared. Her whole life has been building to this moment. Time to shine! But something isn't sitting quite right with these mono-horned cryptids. Maybe being beautiful and majestic doesn't necessarily make you good and decent? Thanks for listening!

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01:14:34

Zelle Me a Dogecoin - Gravity Falls S02E14 - The...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/12/05

Hello and welcome (back?) to season 2 episode 14 of Gravity Falls! This week Stan Pines both literally and metaphorically throws his hat into the ring to be the new mayor of Gravity Falls. But is he moved by a deep sense of civic duty, or is it something more akin to spite? Who knows. But our ponderings won't really matter if the nibbling can't help polish some of the MANY rough edges on their grumpy old uncle. Thanks for listening!

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01:22:18

Hierarchy of Reason - Gravity Falls S02E13 -...

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2024/11/21

Hello adventurers and welcome to Gravity Falls campaign 2 session 13! This week, family drama takes a back seat to make room for high fantasy and some really crunchy math. OH BOY! That's right, grab a bag of salty snacks and dust off your cloaks because we are "playing" DD&MD. Thanks for listening!

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01:20:32

Top Hat Blindness - Gravity Falls S02E12 - A Tale of...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/11/14

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 12! Now that the big secret is out we can finally have that juicy flashback episode we have all been waiting for! This week, Ford and Stan take a trip down memory lane. But while the trip starts off heartwarming and full of love, the murky realities of life start to set in pretty quickly. Is it true that time heals all wounds? Thanks for listening?

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59:59

Stan Helsing - Gravity Falls S02E11 - Not What He Seems

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/11/07

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 11. The time is finally here...Stan has been working tirelessly for years to get to this exact moment. But what is it he has been working towards? He claims it has all been for the good of the family. The federal agents claim it has been a plot to destroy the world. Is he a villain or a hero? Or, perhaps, something in-between? Thanks for listening!

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01:02:19

Woodeded - Gravity Falls S02E10 - Northwest Mansion...

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2024/10/31

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 10! This week, Dipper and Mabel are invited to the luxurious and fabulous Northwest family soiree. But they are not invited because of their charm, their money, or their political influence. They are invited to help dispel a pesky lumberjack curse...the spookiest kind of curse! Thanks for listening.

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01:06:14

Stanenburg - Gravity Falls S02E09 - The Love God

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/10/24

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 9! This week, Mabel decides to take her matchmaking skills to another level. She had a magic touch before, but now she has THE magic touch, courtesy of The Love God's secret concoctions. But is mixing magic and love really a consequence free combination? Thanks for listening!

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01:06:12

MC Giant Baby - Gravity Falls S02E08 - Blendin’s Game

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/10/17

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 8! This week, Dipper and Mabel are trying their darndest to help Soos have an incredible birthday. Which he deserves. Unfortunately for them, Soos has a....complicated relationship with his birthday. But you know what he has a pretty incredible relationship with? (Other than the Pines family) LAZER TAG! Thanks for listening.

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58:20

Suspicious Edit - Gravity Falls S02E07 - Society of...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/10/10

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 7! Everyone get your chanting voices ready and steam your matching robes, this week we are meeting a secret cult! In an attempt to finally unravel the mystery of the journal's true author, Mabel and Dipper enlist the help of town eccentric Old Man McGucket. His memory might be fragmented but that might not actually be his fault....thanks for listening!

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57:40

Campfire Stories - Gravity Falls S02E06 - Little Gift...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/10/03

Welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 6! This week is the show's second take on a classic anthology episode! We have 3 unrelated spooky stories to frighten and delight all who dare enter here. Thanks for listening!

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01:15:15

Temu Soos - Gravity Falls S02E05 - Soos and the Real...

Pop Culture Role Call ·

2024/09/26

Hello and welcome to Gravity Falls season 2 episode 5! It's Soos's time to shine bright and find love in this small town. It's not going to be an easy task, but we all know he deserves it. Thankfully, we have a old friend of the podcast here to give a voice to everyone's favorite big dood. Big shout out to Nick from Alley Cat Comics! Thanks for listening.

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