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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 168 | Squid Game: "Bread and Lottery"

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2025/08/21

Way back on episodes 47 and 48 of the BTB Podcast the fellas took a trip "across the pond" as they say to jolly old South Korea as they covered the explosive Netflix hit Squid Game. Well it's been a hot minute and after the release of the second season (and apparenlty the third) Spencer decided now was the time to revisit hte old pals!Last we saw, our plucky hero Gi-Hun had died his hair a nice shade of bright pink and was preparing to make his way to America. After all he had a whole bunch of squid

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167 | Airwolf: "Tracks"

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2025/07/30

It's a Boob Tube Boys episode something like 6 months in the making as the guys finally return to finish off the 80s supershow that is Airwolf! Van tells Brian and Spencer all about this Airwolf episode where our heroes hike up a rugged mountain with several of their wheelchair bound friends when a mysterious and dirty mountain hobo named "The Cat Man" appears and does exactly what you would think: he murders everyoneWhat's that? Why yes this show is about a multi-billion dollar helicopter

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Ep 166 | Airwolf: "Airwolf II"

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2025/03/13

Things that are cool as hell: Ernest Borgnine crankin' it, Wings Hauser doing a big, fat, Texan accent, Roy Starkey (the Chamber of Commerce's Man of the Year, 1985), The Admiral, and of course an attack helicopter with all sort of buttons that say things like "sidewinder" and "chaff"Well guess what folks? This podcast episode features all of those things and all at once! That's because the BTBs are FINALLY covering the 80s espionage show Airwolf! But while all those things are cool in and of

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The BTBs Write Creepy Pastas: 2025 Part 2

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2025/02/14

The BTBs wrap up their 2024 (but in 2025) Creepy Pasta adventure with three more stories written by the fellas themselves. There's no prompt this week so who knows what these stories could be about?!First Spencer takes a crack at Brian's mystery thriller Saddled with Suspicion, which features not only the debut of a beloved fake gumshoe from a recently covered Boob Tube Boys episod,e but also the return of one of the show's greatest villains (Kevin Sorbo). Will they solve the theft of Big Moses the

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The BTBs Write Creepy Pastas: 2025 Part 1

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2025/01/31

Sure Halloween has come and gone but that doesn't mean January isn't also a frightening time of year! So in honor of the terror of a brand new year the BTBs have once again written their own Creepy Pasta stories and will be reading them to one another. And on this episode there's a writing prompt so all three stories share a theme! That theme? DoppelgängersFirst up, Van reads A Familiar Face, which was written by Brian and features the boys themselves trying to solve the myster of just why Van keeps

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Ep 165 | Baywatch: "Bash at the Beach"

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2025/01/24

The gentlemen of the Bootu Inc. establishment would like to cordially invite you to their summer home for a candid viewing of the 1996 ocean rescue-themed television programme Baywatch. Wine and hors d'Oeuvres shall be served alongside a complimentary platter of the finest cheeses known to the regionDelight as you witness this beach-themed take on the classic tale of good versus evil. Thrill as one muscle bound champion from the farthest reaches of the WCW pantheon duels against his eccentric

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Ep 164 | Columbo: "Murder by the Book"

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2025/01/17

The Boob Tube Boys already covered Columbo over 160 episodes ago... BUT THERE'S JUST ONE MORE THING! (Ooh that's the thing Columbo says!!!)That one thing is that the BTBs want to cover Columbo again. That's all. So they doIn this one our heroic detective has to figure out how a short, horny little man with a silver tongue killed his writing partner. The duo of course are the creators of the hit series of mystery novels featuring Mrs. Melville, and clearly there is strife between them. You can bet

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Ep 163 | Bones: "The Man in the Fallout Shelter"

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2024/12/28

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! May everyone be devoid of osteoarthritis!The BTBs have a bit of an abbreviated holiday schedule this year but they knew if there's one thing all BTB-heads out there needed, it's more David Boreanaz and more Bones. So Van takes the helm and leads everyone through the bone-dust infected halls of the Jeffersonian institute once againThis time around most of the cast is trapped in quarantine thanks to an eggnog related incident. This causes Booth to miss Christmas with his

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Ep 162 | California Dreams: "Fallen Idol"

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2024/12/20

Bright lights, big stars, and big dreams all lie ahead dear listeners, and all because Brian, Van, and Spencer are taking a trip back to the very beginning of Boob Tube Boys history and discussing another episode of California Dreams!This time around the band recieves a bunch of fortune cookies from Sam's Uncle Tse-Tse, and for a few of them it doesn't turn out well. I mean it's nothing horrible, like no one dies in this episode or has an abortion or anything, but it's pretty uncomfortable for Tony,

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Ep 161 | Renegade: "Stalker's Moon"

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2024/12/06

Think of the tallest person you know. No, no. Taller than that. OK are you thinking of Emmy Award wiining actor and activist James Cromwell? You know, the farmer from Babe (and presumably Babe: Pig in the City)? No it's someone else you say? Well then perhaps I could interest you in this extremely bizarre episode of the bounty hunter show Renegade?!You see Cromwell decided that he was no longer content to be known as the star of Babe, he also wanted to stretch his acting legs and take on other, more

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Ep 160 | Father Knows Best: "Kathy Makes Magic"

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2024/11/27

The Boob Tube Boys' favorite little bulldozer (and Hall of Famer!) Kathy Anderson is back and on the feed for the FOURTH time as the fellas once again head back to a time of wealth, prosperity, and peak American life (provided you fit into the very small niche of white people that the country was built for). It truly is a wonderful place to be!This time around Kathy has acquired a magic set including a cool hat, magic wand, and "magic dust" among other questionable objects which she uses to wreak

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Ep 159 | Knight Rider: "Trust Doesn't Rust"

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2024/11/22

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity" - Albert Einstein It's time for the Boob Tube Boys to talk about another Knight Rider episode where two cars fight each other. It's the same cars as the last time: one of them's a boring dork, the other one whoops ass

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Ep 158 | SeaQuest DSV: "Hide and Seek"

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2024/11/15

Last week when we first checked out SeaQuest DSV we learned about a man named The Regulator who had an ape friend named Verne (whom The Regulator tried to surgically install gills onto) and sold parts on the ocean’s black market. He tried to steal a dolphin so that the mammal could solve the theory of spherical evolution for himNow if you just read that you probably figured there was no way this show could get weirder. Well it turns out you're wrong. DEAD WRONG. And that's because of today's episode

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Ep 157 | SeaQuest DSV: "The Regulator"

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2024/09/05

It's the faraway year of 2018 and man has colonized every place on Earth... except for the sea! This means the BTBs head into the damp, deep, fish home that is the Ocean where they encounter the crew of the legendary Deep Sea Vehicle the Seaquest. But as Captian Nathan Bridger discovers not all is well on the massive submarine as everyone's old enemy bureaucracy has raised its ugly head causing a backlog on a very important control chipThe crew turns to less savory ways of procuring the piece and

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Ep 156 | Silicon Valley: "Two Days of the Condor"

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2024/08/30

With a return to the rich and powerful west where tech reigns supreme the Boob Tube Boys flash forward one year from last week’s episode to check in with the guys at Pied Piper and it’s going fine, right? Wrong. It turns out the nefarious Gavin Belson, billionaire owner of Hooli and Zuckerberg/Musk stand-in has decided despite having an inferior product to our heroes he's going to destroy them with his infinite resources and wealth. Pied Piper's only hope lies with Lloyd Braun from Seinfeld, and the

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Ep 155 | Silicon Valley: "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency"

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2024/08/23

Computers! Typing! The World Wide Web! Pork Futures!The Boob Tube Boys are dialing it up to 11 as they down some Red Bulls and take some poppers all to make it big in the shark infested waters that is the tech industry. Err, well... the guys are doing the thing that'll get them as close to Big Tech as they'll ever get as they cover Silicon Valley! Numbers and data!The fellas watch the season 1 finale of the hit Mike Judge show and react to probably the most famous moment the program provided to the

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Ep 154 | Taxi: "The Great Race"

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2024/07/26

The Tubers hop back into Taxi once more to round out their coverage of one of network TV's saddest and dirtiest sitcoms. This week, Alex and Louie engage in a cab battle for the ages, one that threatens to shred the fabric of life itself (for Elaine, at least)Brian quizzes Spencer and Van about their knowledge of taxi-based entertainments in between bouts of admiring Danny DeVito. Van provides some less-than-thrilling examples of comedian Jan Murray's work. Spencer brings the BTBs much closer to the

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Ep 153 | Taxi: "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey"

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2024/07/19

With the Motion Picture Men safely locked away in their gross movie cellar for another year, the Boob Tube Boys return to talk about the classic '70s sitcom Taxi, a show stuffed with comedy legends playing lovable losersWhile Taxi was a staple of Brian's childhood viewing diet, Spencer and Van were unfamiliar until this very week. The trio talk about the show's historic fingerprint, the allure of grimy old New York, and the episode that cemented Christopher Lloyd as a cast member. Hail a cab and

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Ep 152 | Fateful Findings: Part 2

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2024/07/12

The Motion Picture Men return for the final half of Neil Breen's masterpiece hit Fateful Findings, and one might say it's fate that you're here listening right now...At the end of Part 1 we found out that Dylan, the magical grandma-man played by Breen, is not at all writing his second hit novel and is instead working on stealing secret government and corporate secrets. Unfortunatly for him it seems like everyone in his life is currently having personal problems. There's Amy and Jim, his best friends

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Ep 151 | Fateful Findings: Part 1

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2024/07/05

The Motion Picture Men wrap up their 2024 with a look at Neil Breen's Fateful Findings, the movie that boldly takes a stand against secret government and corporate secretsVan's choice for MPM film is one of the darlings of the "so bad it's good" B-movie industry and it starts off with a literal bang as Dylan (played by Breen himself) is mowed down by a Rolls Royce in the middle of a crosswalk. But mystical powers that aren't ever actually explained allow Dylan to heal almost immediately and he winds

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