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Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast

Munch My Benson, the seminal SVU podcast, is the twisted spawn of co-hosts Adam Schwitters and Josh Duggan, celebrating the splendid and often wildly inappropriate lunacy found only on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Each week The Randomizer spits out a new episode, and they dive deep into the heinous murk before rating it in terms of overall quality, guest star performances, the degree to which the episode was problematic (the more, the better), and the depth and breadth of lives ruined

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78:35

246 - He Prefers To Be Called Mr. Dozer (S1E12...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2026/02/09

This week, the randomizer gifted us with the full Season 1, Sex Crimes, experience.Were there wildly salacious, sexual details? Check. Was there an unnecessary amount of esoteric racism? Obviously. Was there a heavily featured banana in a butt? Yes there was. We also get whisked along on Adam's memory lane as he waxed poetic about his time on Brighton Beach.Music:Divorcio Suave - “Munchy Business”Thanks to our gracious Munchies on Patreon: Jeremy S, Jaclyn O, Amy Z, Diana R, Tony B, Drew D, Nicky R,

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70:16

60 - Spidey Sense, but for Sex Crimes (S21E13...

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2026/02/03

For Father’s Day, the Randomizer decided to troll dads everywhere with a tale of woe and trauma that sure makes one father look AWFUL. We watched "Redemption In Her Corner" (S21E13) this week. Don’t worry though because plenty of other people get some stink on them too because this is Law & Order: SVU, after all. As per usual, Adam and Josh go down innumerable rabbit holes—trying to figure out just what Liv’s birthday actually is, wondering what Barba was doing in Iowa investigating election

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100:06

245 - Did You Feel Like Maybe This Was Count Chocula...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2026/01/27

While the later stages of the Neal Baer Era of SVU were often punctuated by whiplash-inducing flips of the script into wild new directions, few episodes start off in as strange a place as this one. In what might just be the only time in this show's nearly 600-episode run, we dive into the world of vampirism.Yes, vampires.And don't worry, despite the sad fact that SVU apparently exists in a world where vampires don't actually exist, "P.C." keeps its flag planted in a delirious place where one Special

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72:29

29 - I Was Gonna Say the Guy's Scared Stiff (S5E8...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2026/01/20

With a melange of Ripped from the Headlines story points peppering the subject of this week’s installment, Season 5, Episode 8 “Abomination,” there is A TON for Adam and Josh to talk about, including Matthew Shepard, Lawrence v. Texas, the odious Westboro Baptist Church, the sham that is conversion therapy, and Oscar-nominated actor George Segal. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of talk about what really matters to you: hypotheses on the possibly sketchy operations of East Village gay bars, the

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91:30

Episode 244 - The Only Way He Could Get Hard Was If...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2026/01/12

This week we watched an aptly titled episode which follows a series of rape allegations against a recently retired basketball star.In addition to classic Warren Leight Era racism, this is an episode in which Olivia Benson, improbably, thinks it's cool if people are falsely accused of rape in a shameless bid to end a black man's endorsement deal. We are also treated to some terrible accent work and to newly minted Detective Carisi's delightful mustache and Staten Islander pizza choices.Music:Divorcio

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85:01

120 - A Hostage Situation, but for the Viewers...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2026/01/05

We're dropping the second Munchies' Choice episode from back in 2022. And for this one, the Munchies chose one for us to excoriate--S19E13 The Undiscovered Country, or Barba's ignominious exit.***Munchies' Choice***When we asked our listeners to select an episode for us to watch, we were asking for a choice as depraved and cruel as this, the episode that see beloved ADA Rafael Barba exit the show in ridiculous (and frankly, insulting) fashion. This episode has everything--if by 'everything' you mean

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78:32

243 - As the Ring Master, He's Basically the Dom of...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/12/30

The Randomizer (episode.lol) spat out the final episode of the disastrous Michael Chernuchin Era, which meant the Munchie Boys were force-fed the final part of some serialized content. Of course, here, this means we have long-time series regulars acting entirely uncharacteristically, including characters we'd known for 20 years. Perhaps more importantly, this episode eschews all common sense, asking society to act insanely in addition to its characters. This episode brings a season to a close that

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49:52

20 - Wherein SVU Prophesies The Future... Of Tom...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Adam and Josh rolled the dice this week, and the dice gave them "Glasgowman's Wrath" (Season 16, Episode 6), which might be the only Halloween episode in the SVU catalogue. Who or what is a Glasgowman? Why is he wrathful? Is it GGG to act out a violent tawdry rape fantasy in a public space? How does any of this pertain to legendary plane crasher Sully Sullenberger? Take a (not 500 mile) walk with us as we breakdown this particularly bizarre example of the modern police procedural.FYI: Josh was

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89:16

242 - You Think A Zoomer Is Going To Be Able To Make...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/12/15

Our first ever Season 26 episode answers a question I've never asked: what is to be done with all those VR headsets Silicon Valley tried to force on us before they forced AI on us?The answer is: so that bad dads can teach their teenaged sons about the birds and the bees by forcing them to watch brutal POV strangulation porn which in turn leads to a series of assaults on teen girls. We also meet Detective Kate Silva for the first time on MMB and wish we'd been watching the episode happening in a

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71:35

87 - You'd Think that the First Step in Friendship Is...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/12/08

Yet another Season 19 episode of SVU leaves the Munchie Boys scratching their heads wondering in just what world is this even occurring. Opening with an improbable YouTuber montage and having the case of the week closing with a full seven minutes of run time remaining to open the door for an SVU lyceum at a high school, this week’s 13 Reasons Why-inspired episode (Season 19, Episode 4 “No Good Reason”) is operating at one of the strangest frequencies we’ve encountered. This one forces Adam and Josh

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83:12

241 - Dwight Needs His Juice (S22E2 The Ballad Of...

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2025/12/02

After a supremely messed up Munchies' Choice episode last week, we settled back into the late season doldrums with an SVU that seems deadset on being racist against both Italians and West Virginians while wallowing in a domestic violence case that ends badly in a bathtub. Is it believable that the character who meets his maker would have been taking a bath? Were there more inventive or contemporary ways to take out the abuser? Probably not, but why focus on wanting this ep to make sense? Fin is also

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36:29

11 - This Might Be the Rapiest Bar in New York City...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Let's get weird with a SUPER early episode recorded before Adam and Josh had dropped an episode. Here, they wrestle with GHB, a reality in which Benson was in a sorority, the continued mistreatment of the homeless, super rapey college bars staffed by enabling deviants, exposition machine Michelle Monaghan, miscast body types for collegiate swimmers, theories of the genesis of Christopher Meloni's entrée into Wet Hot American Summer, and apocryphal baseball lore which can only mean one thing: they

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95:07

240 - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/11/17

In our first Munchies' Choice episode back from the break, we were gifted a delightful stunt-cast-isode featuring one of the true titans of stage and screen. Yes folks, this SVU features none other than the modern voice of Shaggy Rogers himself, Matthew Lillard, in a, how shall we say, difficult role for him opposite some nobody casting pulled in off the street named Carol Burnett. We also see not Judge Al Bertuccio get defenestrated into a parked car, Fin casually dropping slang from the 1930s into

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83:38

110 - It's Not A Gay Cowboy Orgy, Probably... (S11E18...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/11/10

What this delightful episode of SVU lacks in terms of coherent three-act structure or thoughtful character development is more than made up for by the absolute cavalcade of bonkers plot lines and instantly recognizable famous people. Ann-Margret justifiably won an Emmy for her turn as the perma-drunk Rita Wills. William Goddamn Atherton plays a petulant serial killer! Morgan Fairchild gets about 30 seconds of screen time! Liv and Elliot get propositioned for a threesome! There’s so much fun in this

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82:22

Interview with Neal E Fischer, author of Law & Order...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/11/06

The Munchie Boys sit down with Neal E. Fischer, the author of the brand new book Law & Order SVU: Confidential, an essential companion piece to the show you know and love. We get the straight dope on how the book came together, his process, and his mental health after watching every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit over the course of a few months. We also chat about his other creative endeavors, including his podcasts Triviality and Curated by Chance, his other books (like Being

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93:39

239 - They Stuffed a Child Actor in a Cooler (S5E5...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/11/04

In a raucous ride filled with twists and turns that only the Neal Baer years of SVU can deliver, the Unit first catches a dead baby in a bag in a gutter and ends up with two different perps going down for two very different crimes one of which is ripped from not one, but two different headlines. Featuring dives into West Nile Virus, the origins of the UK's Anatomy Act 1832, and subdermal tubes filled with other people's blood used to juke blood tests, this one has a lot going on, and that has

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92:57

94 - Do Buffalonians Dream of Erotic Meats? (S13E5...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/10/28

Sadly, this week the Season 13 writing staff unapologetically trashed the second largest city in the state that SVU calls home. We've seen this show look askance at lesser states and provinces across the continent, but the glee with which this episode implies that Buffalonians will stop at nothing to ensure that their own children grow up in unsafe homes is truly shocking. Josh and Adam, of course, talk early childhood education, examine the films of Satyajit Ray and Michael Cimino, describe

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80:39

238 - What's a Zeitgeist? (S2E4 Legacy)

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/10/20

As we are getting back into the swing of recording again, The Randomizer blessed us with a bonkers Season 2 episode of SVU which features misplaced Jets fandom, Cuban Stars baseball lore, and the Bruneian consular website. In Legacy, an extremely bad mom beats and rapes her daughter with a brush to garner sympathy points while blaming her ex-husband, who everyone initially believes did it due to racism. Watch as this mom dismantles family after family on her way to the clink. Also, enjoy how friend

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59:02

43 - Another Second Unit Photoshoot Gone Wild (S11E8...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Though "Turmoil" (S11E8) was not the best SVU in the series, this slapped together melange of homoerotic fan service, intra-Stabler household drama, impossible travel times, and substandard professional ethics does provide the Munch My Benson boys with plenty of food for thought: Did Dickie Stabler kill Bin Laden? Just how many bodies did Elliot drop this episode? And, of course, is redemption even possible in this economy?Sources:Shana Dowdeswell's sad storyMusic:Divorcio Suave - “Munchy

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89:00

237 - For Some Unknown Reason, Munch My Benson Broke...

Munch My Benson: A Law & Order: SVU Podcast ·

2025/10/06

It's been a while folks, but the Munchie Boys are officially back on the horse. No, not H. The figurative horse that having a child can buck you from. And how are Adam and Josh repaid for their long overdue return to actively podcasting about Law & Order: SVU? Well, once you move past the fact that they basically had a three-minute commercial for the podcast on primetime network television, they had to watch an episode that avid gamer Ice-T has since distanced himself from. Yes, it's time to

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