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Podcast Gold with Sonny & LarsThe Podcast Gold Holiday Special - "Christmas on the Computer"In this holiday special extravaganza, the gas line has been shut off, there's no Christmas tree, and Lars is alone on his computer. Will anyone be able to cheer him up? Featuring Lotta Lofgren, Rachel Wasser, Will McCutcheon, Ritch Duncan, and Nick Amadeus. SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST GOLD Patreon - https://patreon.com/PodcastDotGold?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-gold-with-lars-casteen/id1497952837 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OhKwr2Yp1mEoJdqNhDyti Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast...2020-12-251h 13Podcast Gold with Sonny & LarsPlatinum Clip: Point Break Commentary with Nick AmadeusThis is a clip from the latest “Platinum” episode of Podcast Gold. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the patreon at http://podcast.gold. *** On this new premium series, Lars sits down with a friend to watch one of their favorite movies. This commentary track features screenwriter Nick Amadeus sharing one of his favorites: the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow-directed cop / surfing / skydiving film Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, and Lori Petty.2020-09-0200 minPodcast Gold with Sonny & LarsNick Amadeus - "Screenwriting the News"Writer Nick Amadeus stops by to help Lars see if crafting a screenplay based on today's headlines will help make sense of our era's most baffling stories. SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST GOLD Patreon - https://patreon.com/PodcastDotGold?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-gold-with-lars-casteen/id1497952837 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OhKwr2Yp1mEoJdqNhDyti Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcast-gold-with-lars-casteen2020-06-2000 min
Breakfast QuestThe World of David the Gnome with Danielle Henderson - Breakfast Quest 100Writer Danielle Henderson joins Nick and Lars to watch the final episode of The World of David the Gnome, a Spanish-animated adaptation of a Dutch children's book series about the adventures of a veterinarian gnome and his animal friends. In the episode we watched, all the main characters die! Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "The Mountains of Beyond," on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-08-121h 28
Breakfast QuestGhostbusters with Tom O'Donnell - Breakfast Quest 99Author and writer Tom O'Donnell returns to Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Ghostbusters, the mid-'80s cartoon classic featuring all your favorite characters from the movie of the same name. It's Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Slimer, and the rest, battling those ghoulish fiends, the "ghosts" in New York City. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Ooze, Proton Packs! The whole shebang. This show is as iconic as it gets. Just kidding - we watched that shitty knock-off show with two dumbasses and a gorilla. You were thinking of The Real Ghostbusters. That's not wh...2017-07-221h 23
Breakfast QuestClarissa Explains It All with Amanda Justice - Breakfast Quest 98Filmmaker and comedian Amanda Justice joins Nick and Lars to watch early '90s Nickelodeon classic Clarissa Explains It All, a live-action sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart about a precocious teenage girl. The episode we watched is about Clarissa getting a crush on a weatherman and becoming obsessed with weather. Topics discussed within include Point Break, cereal influencing, and the good part of Donnie Darko. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Clarissa's Crush," on on DailyMotion HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-06-241h 42
Breakfast QuestThe Mysterious Cities of Gold with Maggie Serota - Breakfast Quest 97Writer Maggie Serota returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold, an early '80s Japanese / French animated series about 16th century South America that was broadcast on Nickelodeon through the '80s. The episode that we watched was about a Spanish vagabond named Mendoza stealing a cannon and then getting nearly executed. Topics discussed within include Twin Peaks, sports jokes, and the trustworthiness of birds. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Esteban's Medallion," on your digital media store of cho...2017-06-101h 21
Breakfast QuestBionic Six with Geordie Broadwater - Breakfast Quest 96Writer and director Geordie Broadwater comes back to Brakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Bionic Six, a mid-'80s boys' action cartoon about a "family" of technologically enhanced superheroes. We watched the series finale, "That's All Folks," which the story of some cartoon characters falling into a dimension filled with cartoon characters and suffering from existential dread. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-05-271h 37
Breakfast QuestMister T with Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab - Breakfast Quest 95Writers and comedians Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab join Nick and Lars to enjoy a slice of true cartoon insanity: Mister T, the early '80s animated vehicle for actor and lifestyle brand-made-flesh Mr. T. This series is about the title character driving around the United States with a bus full of gymnasts to find crime and stop it in its tracks. The episode that we watched is about a bunch of New Mexican monks who steal TV's and murder children. HOLY HELL WAS THIS SHOW INTENSE. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You ca...2017-05-131h 36
Breakfast QuestPusteblume with Fred Nicolaus - Breakfast Quest 94Frontman of Golden Suits and podcaster Fred Nicolaus comes back for another go 'round in Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Pusteblume, a live action, German-language educational show from the late '70s. As a first, this is a foreign language show with no subtitles or sound-dubbing, so we basically had no idea what was happening. The episode we watched was about growing pumpkins, so take a listen if you want to hear three people not understanding how to grow pumpkins! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can w...2017-04-291h 37
Breakfast QuestDragon Ball Z with Patrick Monahan - Breakfast Quest 93Patrick Monahan returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of the action anime classic Dragon Ball Z (on the recommendation of Thomas, a listener who sent some suggestions to us in an email). If you don't know the show, it's an incredibly slow-moving and lore-rich show about dudes who fight each other by talking about fighting each other. The episode we watched is the one where series protagonist Goku gets so mad his hair changes color. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched, "Transformed at Last," o...2017-04-151h 25
Breakfast QuestKids Incorporated with Faryl Amadeus - Breakfast Quest 92Comedian and actor (and Nick's spouse) Faryl Amadeus joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Kids Incorporated, a musically-driven live-action sitcom that originally aired on The Disney Channel from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. The episode we watched was somehow a meditation on the birth of modernity via the emergence of comedy as legitimate cinema, set during the early days of silent film. Weird. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-04-011h 34
Breakfast QuestEmu's Pink Windmill Show with Branson Reese - Breakfast Quest 91Comedian Branson Reese joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Emu's Pink Windmill Show, a live-action kids' variety show starring British comedian Rod Hull and his emu puppet, Emu. It's most famous for incredible dancing from its cast of child actors, but the episode that we watched also included witches, robots, and lots of confusing British geographical names. Topics discussed include mismatched socks, environmentalism, and motorcycle tragedies. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-03-181h 28Breakfast QuestBreakfast Bonus! - More Moomin with Lars and His MomWe will be back next week with a new episode of Breakfast Quest with a brand new guest and a brand new kids' TV show, but in the meantime, maybe you'd like to listen to this special Breakfast Bonus. This podcast is a low-key conversation between Lars and his mom, discussing Moomin, Sweden, Japan, and all the things they have in common. Something a little different. Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-03-1157 min
Breakfast QuestMoomin (1990) with Mary Houlihan - Breakfast Quest 90Comedian Mary Houlihan returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for something... a little different. In a rare variation from the norm, the show featured on this podcast is one that your hosts have an actual connection and sentimentality toward. In this case, we watched Moomin, the 1990 anime adaptation of Tove Jansson's classic Scandinavian children's book series. The episode we watched is about the main character finding and befriending a cute little dragon and how all friendships are based on lies. Topics discussed within include wizardry, mothers, and Japan. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net...2017-03-041h 19
Breakfast QuestThe Letter People with Connor Ratliff - Breakfast Quest 89Comedian and actor Connor Ratliff joins Nick and Lars for something... a little different. For the first time ever, our guest sourced the show for the podcast - in this case it was The Letter People, a mid-'70s puppet-driven educational series produced in St. Louis whose purpose is to teach children how to read. We watched two episodes - one about the letter R joining an avant garde rock band, and another about the letter R flying deep into space to rescue a captive vowel. It's a weird one. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net!2017-02-181h 27
Breakfast QuestCenturions with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 88Comedian Jason Torres returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Centurions, a mid-'80s cartoon with a strong toy tie-in about a trio of military dudes that blow the hell out of everything with tons of weapons and whatnot. The episode we watched is about a bunch of plants that kill all of the life on earth and a dog that learns how to love... murder. Topics discussed within include wizardly vestments, the twist in Split, and the wisdom of exploiting weakness. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You...2017-02-041h 26
Breakfast QuestWish Kid with Rachel Millman and Nate Lamagna - Breakfast Quest 87Fan favorite Rachel Millman and Breakfast newcomer Nate Lamagna join Nick and Lars to enjoy an episode of the 1991 animated Macauley Culkin vehicle Wish Kid. The show stars Mr. Culkin as a boy with a magical baseball glove that grants wishes and ruins innocents lives. The episode that we watched was about baseball getting ruined by one young man's wish. Topics discussed within include Donald Trump's sex stuff, frozen dinners, and shaving points. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST...2017-01-211h 34
Breakfast QuestYou Can't Do That on Television with Halle Kiefer - Breakfast Quest 86Comedian and writer Halle Kiefer helps Nick and Lars kick off the new year by watching an episode the classic Nickelodeon sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television. We watched an episode from 1981 with a wide range of sketches about ripoffs and warranty fraud. Topics discussed within include wizardry, the twist in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, and Leslies. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2017-01-071h 21
Breakfast QuestA Cosmic Christmas with Joe Rumrill - Breakfast Quest 85Comedian Joe Rumrill joins Nick and Lars to watch a somewhat obscure, somewhat forgotten, mostly Canadian animated kids' special from the mid-'70s, called A Cosmic Christmas. In it, three aliens land in the frozen north and guilt trip a kid into feeling about how all the adults in town are total a-holes. Enjoy the holidays, everyone! We'll see y'all again in the new year. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch A Cosmic Christmas on youtube here. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-12-241h 24Breakfast QuestHEXSTRAVAGANZA 2016 - Breakfast Quest 84It's our year-end report on all things XXXXX in kids' TV and movies. This year, Nick and Lars focus on all things scary with HEXSTRAVAGANZA, our celebration / condemnation of all things scary from years past. Stuff gets serious, so please, we advise you to strap in. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Follow along with our unrelenting clip-viewing by checking out our SCARY STUFF playlist on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES! 2016-12-101h 38
Breakfast QuestStar vs the Forces of Evil with Jo Firestone - Breakfast Quest 83Comedian Jo Firestone comes by Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for the final week of NOWvember, our month-long investigation into all things CURRENT and HIP and COOL FOR THE KIDS. We watched a Disney XD cartoon called Star vs the Forces of Evil, and guess what? It was pretty good! Topics discussed include yogurt, body pockets, and being open about your insecurities. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch "NAYSAYA," the episode we watched, on the digital media service of your choosing. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON i...2016-11-261h 07Breakfast QuestK.C. Undercover with Jill Twiss - Breakfast Quest 82Jill Twiss, comedian and writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, joins Nick and Lars for week 3 of NOWvember, our month-long journey into all that is current and topical in the ceaseless world of children's television. We watched K.C. Undercover, a live-action Disney Channel sitcom starring supposed famous person Zendaya, in which typical family comedy plots are smashed together with over-the-top tactical espionage action. In the episode we watched, the main character belts a teacher in the stomach in one scene, and then makes her parents shoot each other in the next! It's weird! Send you...2016-11-191h 25
Breakfast QuestKuu Kuu Harajuku with Rebecca Schiffman - Breakfast Quest 81NOWvember, our month-long celebration of all things current and relevant and exciting continues with musician Rebecca Schiffman joining Nick and Lars for an episode of Kuu Kuu Harajuku. What's Kuu Kuu Harajuku, you ask? Well, it's Gwen Stefani's vanity cartoon about shallow assholes being shallow assholes to each other. Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! We watched the first episode, "Totally Teen Genie." You can find it and more about this show at Nickelodeon's official page... HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-11-121h 32
Breakfast QuestTeen Titans Go with Pat Baer - Breakfast Quest 80Comedian Pat Baer joins Nick and Lars for the first week of NOWvember, our month-long delve into only the freshest and most current children's television. We kick things off with a look at Teen Titans Go, a comedy cartoon with a bunch of DC Comics characters being very fast at each other. The episode we watched is about pro wrestling and is the most densely packed thing we have ever seen in our entire lives. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched, "Oh Yeah," by either buying it on y...2016-11-051h 13Breakfast QuestBreakfast Rest 2 - NOWvember THAT'S What I Call Kids' TVBONUS EPISODE! With NOWvember (our special theme month featuring episodes covering only CURRENT and NEW kids' shows) right around the corner, join Nick and Lars as they figure out what the hell is happening with current children's entertainment and lock in the episodes for the coming month. It's a fly-on-the-wall look at the most rigorous process in all of podcasting. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-10-291h 32
Breakfast QuestThe Inside Story with Slim Goodbody witih Scott Hoffer - Breakfast Quest 79Video games producer Scott Hoffer stops by to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody, a 1980s live-action educational series that teaches children about the power of their bodies. And also the power of song and dance. Don't do anything with your endocrine system before you listen to this episode! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-10-151h 17
Breakfast QuestZoobilee Zoo with Alan Wilkis - Breakfast Quest 78Alan Wilkis, frontman for Big Data, joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Zoobilee Zoo, a mid-'80s live action show for VERY young children and starring Broadway luminary Ben Vereen about a bunch of animals who live together and sing and dance and stuff. In this episode, Bill Der Beaver invents a glue, and then all these stupid animals glue themselves to each other and sing about it. It's better than it sounds! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE...2016-10-011h 32
Breakfast QuestGhost Writer with Eve Peyser - Breakfast Quest 77Writer and comedian Eve Peyser joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Ghost Writer, a mid-'90s PBS show starring a team of New York schoolchildren who learn about reading and all sorts of other things from a crime-fighting word ghost. In the episode that we watched, Julia Stiles plays a l33t hax0r0rererer who totally pwns ur a55. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-09-171h 27
Breakfast QuestCaptain Scarlet and the Mysterons with Tommy Heleringer - Breakfast Quest 76Actor Tommy Heleringer joins Nick and Lars to watch something a little different! It's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a late-'60s spy / action drama featuring uncanny marionettes as a team of super-secret agents fighting a secret war against a race of Martian shape-shifters. Yep! On this episode, the Martians infiltrate the fashion industry, and our heroes have to dress incredibly well to stop them. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. On the podcast, we talk about how this show is on Hulu, but it seems l...2016-09-031h 22
Breakfast QuestReBoot with Will McCutcheon - Breakfast Quest 75Friend of the show and co-host of the Record Company podcast, Will McCutcheon, drops by to enjoy the cutting edge of 1991's technology with ReBoot, a computer-animated show about how many people can fit inside of a computer. This episode is about dungeons and dragons - you know, nerd stuff. ReBoot seems to be a much beloved show. Not by us, though! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing or by going HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iT...2016-08-201h 22
Breakfast QuestGilligan's Planet with Lizzie Redner - Breakfast Quest 74Comedian, writer, and actor Lizzie Redner joins Nick and Lars to watch Gilligan's Planet, an ill-conceived early-'80s sci-fi cartoon spin-off of an ill-conceived mid-'60s sitcom. On the episode we watched, "I Dream of Genie," Gilligan and the other castaways enslave a race of omnipotent robots. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-08-061h 21
Breakfast QuestPokémon with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 73Comedian Jason Torres joins Nick and Lars for an uncharacteristically topical choice of shows - an episode of the cartoon based on the resurgent animal-trapping video game series, Pokémon. We watched episode 3, "Ash Catches a Pokémon." In it, Ash, the show's main character, catches a Pokémon. One wonders what happens in other episodes. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! Or purchase it on the digital media service of your choice! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-07-231h 29
Breakfast QuestCartoon All-Stars to the Rescue with Joe Berkowitz - Breakfast Quest 72Joe Berkowitz, co-author of You Blew It: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life, joins Nick and Lars to watch Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, an anti-drug cartoon special from 1990. In the cartoon, a kid does drugs when George C. Scott tells him to and then gets eaten by all of his favorite fictional characters. Topics discussed within include drugs, just saying no, and drugs. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON...2016-07-091h 18
Breakfast QuestWarren Buffett's Secret Millionaire's Club with Tim Duffy - Breakfast Quest 71Comedian Tim Duffy returns to Breakfast Quest to enjoy an episode of perhaps the most recent show we have ever watched. It's Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaire's Club, a quasi-educational, quasi-entertaining show about a humble billionaire who somehow convinced some craven branding experts to make a cartoon starring him. The episode we watched is about four kids who sell popsicles and get to meet Jay-Z and skateboard around the Statue of Liberty. It's a little weird. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO...2016-06-251h 37
Breakfast QuestInspector Gadget with Kate Neely - Breakfast Quest 70Designer and podcast producer Kate Neely joins Nick and Lars to watch Inspector Gadget, the iconic early '80s French-Canadian-Japanese-American co-production about how the stupidest, most irritating man was transformed into a robotic police officer and programmed to irritate his niece. In the episode that we watched, "Race to the Finish," Inspector Gadget gets totally drunk and drives a race car. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! The episode we watched is available legally for purchase on the digital video platform of your choice, or you can find it on youtube. ...and SU...2016-06-111h 31
Breakfast QuestBatman: The Animated Series (1992) with Faryl Amadeus - Breakfast Quest 69BatMayn comes to a nice ending when Nick and Lars sit down with Faryl Amadeus, actor and creator of Fancy Nancy's funny hour (who is also married to Nick), to watch an episode of 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, a cartoon about a man who dresses like a bat to fight crime in a fictionalized version of New York City. We reach many bat-themed conclusions. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! The episode we watched, "The Joker's Favor," is available for purchase on digital media platforms like iTunes and is also available to stream fo...2016-05-281h 33
Breakfast QuestThe New Adventures of Batman (1977) with Tom O'Donnell - Breakfast Quest 68BATMAYN RETURNS. And so does Tom O'Donnell. Tom, a writer known for such things as Space Rocks!, Comedy Central's TripTank, and the forthcoming Jeff and Some Aliens, comes back to Breakfast Studios to partake in the third week of our month-long celebration / study of all things involving that irascible crusader with his famous cape, Batman. This time, we watched the 1977 Batman cartoon starring Adam West and Burt Ward, and holy shit is it bad. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched by buying it on the digital media store of your...2016-05-211h 34
Breakfast QuestBatman (1966) with Sovereign Syre - Breakfast Quest 67Writer, stand-up, and adult performer Sovereign Syre joins Nick and Lars to talk about a man. A BAT man. This time, the Bat Man was appearing in a campy, live-action show from the '60s and was played by Adam West. The episode that we watched is called "The Joker is Wild," and it's about the Joker! And how wild he is! (spoiler alert: dude is wild) It's the second week of our month-long journey into the dark heart of Gotham City, BATMAYN! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched by...2016-05-141h 06Breakfast QuestBatman (1943) with Daniel Kibblesmith - Breakfast Quest 66Comedian and writer Daniel Kibblesmith joins Nick and Lars to discuss his new comic book, The Doorman, his experience writing for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and Batman. That's right, it's the first week of our month-long caped crusader-themed event, BatMayn. We watched one of the episodes of the 1943 Batman theatrical serial, and boy was it racist. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!2016-05-071h 34Breakfast QuestBreakfast Rest - BatMayn BeginsNick and Lars discuss and come up with a gameplan for our
month-long Batman-themed adventure, BatMayn. We've got four new
podcasts coming out during May, so get the news here!
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Breakfast QuestBeverly Hills Teens with Maura Quint - Breakfast Quest 65Writer, humorist, and co-host of the Styks and Stones podcast, Maura Quint, joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the mid-'80s Californiasploitation cartoon Beverly Hills Teens. The episode that we watched is about a group of four horny teenagers who publicly compete for the affections of a maybe-robot babe and it ends with a nine-year-old winning, thanks to the help of a one-man-band-bot built in the name of Albert Einstein. Yeah, it's weird. Topics discussed within include Haim Saban's charisma game, talking fireworks, ethics in Beverly Hills journalism.
Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.ne...2016-04-161h 31
Breakfast QuestMighty Morphin Power Rangers with Patrick Monahan - Breakfast Quest 64Comedian Patrick Monahan returns to watch an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Nick and Lars. In case you're unfamiliar, MMPR is a mid-'90s and onwards Japanese/American co-production and a group of teenagers locked in a Forever War with a witch who lives in a dumpster on the moon. The episode that we watched is all about the hard political struggles of Californian high schoolers. Topics discussed within include zoetropes, Tom DeLonge, and not having a body.
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Watch the show we watched by buying it, y...2016-04-021h 28
Breakfast QuestLazyTown with Katie Quinn - Breakfast Quest 63Youtuber and video journalist Katie Quinn joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the sickly sweet, mid-2000s piece of Icelandic confection, LazyTown. On the episode we watched, a guy who looks like Jim Carrey steals a cake that looks like it was designed by Doctor Seuss, and then tries to frame a guy who looks like Icelandic gymnastics luminary Magnus Scheving as the culprit. Topics discussed within include the Burger King Kid's Club, high-maintenance relationships, and why parents just don't understand youtube.
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Watch the show w...2016-03-191h 20
Breakfast QuestSquare One Television with Sonny von Gutfeld - Breakfast Quest 62It's a special arithmetic-themed episode when math teacher and raconteur Sonny von Gutfeld (also Lars's wife) joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Square One Television, PBS's mid-'80s to early-'90s mathematically focused sketch comedy show. The episode that we watched featured a math mystery focused around stolen dirt. Topics discussed within include Uncle Juice, SNL title sequence interpretations, and Perfect Strangers.
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Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE!
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Breakfast QuestToday's Special with Jake Flores - Breakfast Quest 61Comedian Jake Flores joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Today's Special, a Canadian-produced live action show about a group of humans, half-mannequins, and puppets who work the graveyard shift at an Ontario department store. The episode we watched, "A Visit to the Opera" features a full-length opera. It was weird. Topics discussed within include MK Ultra, Hobby Lobby, and the Harry Potter Sorting Hat.
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Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE!
...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNE2016-02-201h 31
Breakfast QuestALF with Rachel Millman - Breakfast Quest 60Comedian Rachel Millman returns to Breakfast Quest to watch ALF, the late '80s live action sitcom about a resentful family who harbor a wise-cracking alien from the planet Melmac. The episode that we watched, "Consider Me Gone," is the final episode of the series, and ALF may or may not die in it. Topics discussed within include caucus drinking plans, the Blues Traveler of puppet creators, and great acting.
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Watch the show we watched on iTunes, ya cheapstake!
Check out the ALF title sequence HERE!2016-02-061h 25
Breakfast QuestThe Tomorrow People with Dave Itzkoff - Breakfast Quest 59Dave Itzkoff, culture reporter for the New York Times and author of Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies, joins Nick and Lars for another trip across the pond for one of the finest treats the British Isles has to offer, '70s sci-fi series The Tomorrow People. The episode we watched, "The Blue and Green Part 1: An Apple for the Teacher" tells the story of Stephen and John, two hunky psychics who help an impressionable young art teacher get in touch with her magical side. Topics discussed within inc...2016-01-231h 18
Breakfast QuestSuper Mario Bros. Super Show! with Mary Houlihan and Joe Rumrill - Breakfast Quest 58Mary Houlihan and Joe Rumrill, stars of live comedy show Cartoon Monsoon, join Nick and Lars to watch the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, a Nintendo-licensed live-action / animated thing from the mid-'80s, featuring two famous plumbers. In this episode, "Karate Koopa," Mario and Luigi find themselves in a land inhabited entirely by ninja stars and avoid being sold into slavery. Topics discussed within include New Jack Swing, moist Yoshi, and barf breaks.
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Watch the show we watched HERE!
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Breakfast QuestSADSTRAVAGANZA 2015 - Bread 'n Soup Quest 57Nick and Lars cap off a truly miserable TRAGE-DECEMBER with a special event: SADSTRAVANGAZA 2015! We've chosen 12 of the saddest moments across children's TV and movies, and are using a 12-sided die to choose which to watch. We roll the die, watch the thing, react, and then roll again until we just can't take it no more. Here are the clips we possibly watched in this. Play along with us! Be sad!
1) This clip from the final episode of The World of David the Gnome 2) The Giving Tree3) Charlotte’s Web - Charlotte Dies4) All Dogs...2015-12-261h 23
Breakfast QuestThe Animals of Farthing Wood with Marshall York - Bread 'N Soup Quest 56Writer, director, and actor Marshall York returns to Bread 'N Soup quest to watch an episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood with Nick and Lars as part of our month-long indulgence in all things sad, TRAGE-DECEMBER. What is The Animals of Farthing Wood, you ask? Well, it's a British series from the early '90s about a group of wild animals who one-by-one face their tragic and gruesome ends. And it's for kids! Topics discussed within include dream stories, when murder is okay, and signing up the Illuminati.
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Breakfast QuestAvatar: The Last Airbender with Maggie Serota - Bread 'n Soup Quest 55Maggie Serota, writer and managing editor of Death and Taxes, joins Nick and Lars for the second week of our month-long descent into sad children's shows, Trage-December. In this podcast, we react to "Tales of Ba Sing Se," an episode of the mid-2000s Ancient China-sploitation series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which features a sextet of pointless and confusing vignettes. People on the internet like this, apparently. Topics discussed within include unwanted twitter explanations, Chloe Sevigny's professionalism, and the true nature of sadness.
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Breakfast QuestPunky Brewster with Wayne Gladstone - Bread 'n Soup Quest 54Trage-December begins! Our month-long exploration of the saddest, most heart-breaking children's television kicks off when author Wayne Gladstone joins Nick and Lars for an episode of Punky Brewster, one of many '80s-era live action kids' sitcoms about a wealthy white guy who adopts an impoverish scamp from some marginalized group or another. In this episode, young Punky's dog dies and then is brought back to life through the power of children's tears. Topics discussed within include death, death, and death.
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Breakfast QuestSailor Moon with Ariel Dumas - Breakfast Quest 53Actor and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ariel Dumas joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the '90s era crossover anime hit, Sailor Moon! The episode that we watched was a stylistic tour de force filled with ennui, tragedy, and inappropriate answering machine humor. WATCH IT. Topics discussed within include Canadian merchandise & intellectual property controversies, rock bands that play in front of projections of Koyaanisqatsi, and boombox buttons.
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Watch the show we watched HERE! Seriously. This thing is nuts.
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Breakfast QuestMister Rogers' Neighborhood with Greg Yolen - Breakfast Quest 52Film producer Greg Yolen joins Nick and Lars to watch an all-time children's classic: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. We watched an episode from 1988, and you know what? We loved it. Topics discussed within include people who work at night, whether E.T. is the nighttime, and the Reagan-era yo-yo economy.
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Breakfast QuestHulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling with J. Anthony Roman - Breakfast Quest 51Writer and color commentator for Fight Spirit Wrestling J. Anthony Roman sits down with Nick and Lars to watch 1985's Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling in a special Halloween and pro-wrestling themed podcast. The episode that we watched, "Ghost Wrestlers" is about Hulk Hogan and a bunch of other mid-'80s wrestling superstars hunting for ghosts in an filthy old folks' home. It's about what you would expect. Topics discussed within include the Brad Garrett panopticon, the kayfabe Beatles, and Neo-Hartford.
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...2015-10-241h 19Breakfast QuestBonus Episode! Breakfast Test - Noozles with Melissa Jane OsborneAlmost two years ago, Nick and Lars sat down with Melissa Jane Osborne to record a test episode of the Breakfast Quest podcast. This week, you can listen to it! We watched Noozles, which is great! We didn't really know what we were doing, which is also great, if you're into that sort of thing. Enjoy, and we'll be back with a brand new podcast in two weeks!
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Breakfast QuestStar Wars: Droids with Joe Klein - Breakfast Quest 50Joe Klein, comedian and creator of Tough Guys, joins Nick and Lars to watch Star Wars: Droids, a mid-'80s cartoon that answers the question: "what if your least favorite Star Wars characters got involved in the most confusing stories imaginable?" On the episode we watched, C3PO and R2-D2 help a scoundrel named Mungo Baobob make out with some girl and steal some diamonds. Topics discussed within include wind-surfing, space bees, and pants crackers.
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Breakfast QuestSpider-Man (Japan, 1978) with Heidi MacDonald - Breakfast Quest 49Heidi MacDonald, creator of The Beat, editor at Publishers Weekly, and all-around comics industry expert and pundit joins Nick and Lars to watch Spider-Man. Spider-Man? Yes, but it's the version of Spider-Man from Japan that Toei made in the late '70s. "Wow, that sounds like a good show," you say. And you're right. It is a good show.
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Breakfast QuestPopples (Live Action) with Fancy Nancy - Breakfast Quest 48Fancy Nancy, star of Fancy Nancy's Funny Hour, and stickler about animals, joins Nick and Lars to watch the 1986 live-action tie-in program for Popples, a plush toy thing or whatever. In this episode, terrifying stuffed animals infect the minds of impressionable young children and tear a family apart. Topics discussed within include keeping secrets from adults, Shelley Duvall's inscrutable agenda, and being murdered by popples.
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Breakfast QuestShadows with Fred Nicolaus - Breakfast Quest 47Musician and podcaster Fred Nicolaus joins Nick and Lars to watch Shadows, a mid-'70s live-action horror anthology series produced for the BBC. In the episode we watched, "The Other Window," a trio of English scamps look into a lens and see historically accurate, but not entirely spooky, ghosts delivering letters to each other. Topics discussed within include watches.
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Breakfast QuestAnimal Kwackers with Geordie Broadwater - Breakfast Quest 46Writer and director Geordie Broadwater joins Nick and Lars to watch Animal Kwackers, a British live-action / cartoon hybrid from 1976, in which nothing happens. Listen to hear three people become gradually more desperate to find something interesting to say before spinning off on wild tangents that make basically no sense. Topics discussed within include Michael McDonald & Dave Matthews' baby, haunting silhouettes, and Jonny Jonny Jonny Jonny woops Jonny woops Jonny Jonny Jonny Jonny.
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Breakfast QuestHe-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) with Rachel Millman and Scott Hoffer - Breakfast Quest 45Comedian Rachel Millman and game developer Scott Hoffer join Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the early-2000s reboot of He-Man, in which a particularly smelly bad guy makes everyone angry. Topics discussed within include leave-in conditioner, The Great Gatsby, and enthusiasm for belly buttons.
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Breakfast QuestGalaxy Highschool with Tim Duffy - Breakfast Quest 44Comedian Tim Duffy comes back to Breakfast Quest mountain to take in an episode of mid-80's comedy cartoon Galaxy Highschool (or is it Galaxy High?) with Nick and Lars. The show's about teenagers who go to space and learn about getting bullied by enormous chickens. Topics discussed within include the Eagles, murders on the set of the show Coach, and why jokes are bad.
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Breakfast QuestNew Zoo Revue with Christine Walters - Breakfast Quest 43Actor and comedian Christine Walters joins Nick and Lars to watch New Zoo Revue, an early '70s live action kids' show featuring people in costumes and a sensbility that is insulting to everybody. Topics discussed within include historical waffles, misogynist animals, and margarine commercials.
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Breakfast QuestX-Men: Pryde of the X-men with Patrick Reed - Breakfast Quest 42Patrick Reed, DJ and editor-in-chief of Depth of Field Magazine, joins Nick and Lars for a screening of the ill-fated X-Men pilot from 1988. This one goes deep, folks. Topics discussed within include Paul McCartney, scam artist, the X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, and X-Men.
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See Nick in the background of an airplane-bound instagram video from some pop singer lady just before she watches a TED Talk about the Dalai Lama, as discussed in this episode's post-roll, HERE!
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Breakfast QuestThe Flying House with Justin Tyler - Breakfast Quest 41Justin Tyler, co-host of the Comic Book Club podcast and star of Unique New York on IFC.com, joins Nick and Lars for an episode of The Flying House, a Christian anime series in which a group of children travel through time to gawk at the stories of the bible with their surly robot. Topics discussed within include Stan Lee's craven tendencies, horse-stabbing, and Quantum Leap.
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Breakfast QuestRobocop: The Animated Series with Pat Monahan - Breakfast Quest 40Pat Monahan, standup comic and required twitter reading, joins Nick and Lars for an episode of Robocop: The Animated Series, a late-80's adaptation of the gore-heavy, social commentary-laden, dystopia of the hit rated-hard-R film by the same name, but for kids. In the episode we watched, a sentient trash monster attacks New Detroit, and Robocop gets a cold. Topics discussed within include extortion-seeking bombs, tall tales of dinosaur-themed erotica, and Kids.
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Breakfast QuestUltraman with Emily Carmichael and her date, Barry - Breakfast Quest 39It's Breakfast Quest After Dark, when a late night recording session brings Nick, Lars, filmmaker Emily Carmichael, and her date, Barry, face-to-face with an episode of the 1966 live-action Japanese monster-battling series, Ultraman. In this episode, a gangster steals a wish-granting stone from a team of scientists, and uses it to wish a poorly designed vomit monster into existence so it can terrorize a photographer and a trio of bathing beauties. This is a weird podcast, guys!
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Breakfast QuestSpartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea with Mike Drucker - Breakfast Quest 38Mike Drucker, comedian and writer for the Tonight Show, joins Nick and Lars to be pummeled by the merciless confusion of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, a mid-'80s French cartoon that is quite a strange thing indeed. In the episode we watched, the crew of a snail-looking spaceship piloted by a mouth harp-playing shaman passes through a jungle of living crystal deep under the earth's crust to confront the Spanish Inquisition and their inflexible policy of projector-based pessimism enforcement. Somehow, both Nick and Lars watched this show as kids. Topics discussed within include awkward pauses, Space Gho...2015-04-111h 16
Breakfast QuestVoyage of the Mimi with Jess Dweck - Breakfast Quest 37Jess Dweck, writer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, joins Nick and Lars to sail the high seas with an episode of Voyage of the Mimi, an educational, live-action PBS show about a sailboat full of incredibly competent people who know a lot about science. The episode that we watched is about an old man who is cured of hypothermia by rubbing his weird, old body on a bunch of naked people. Topics discussed within include finding ones way in the world, Quantum Leap, and Quantum Leap.
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Breakfast QuestTurbo Teen with Pete Schultz - Breakfast Quest 36Pete Schultz, head writer on SNL's Weekend Update, joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Turbo Teen, a mid-80's cartoon about a young boy who gets struck by lightning and discovers that he is now half-automobile. This episode is about how a guy in mask finds a gas that can transform dogs into wolves, and then uses the titular Turbo Teen's newly-wolfed dog to eat all of Southern California's porterhouse steaks. Topics discussed within include the world's responsibility to terrify children, Kevin Spacey's dramatic range, and Quantum Leap.
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Breakfast QuestBoy Meets World with Pilot Viruet - Breadstick Quest 35Pilot Viruet, Flavorwire TV editor and coverer of television all over the internet, joins Nick and Lars to watch the seminal(?), much-loved(?), late-period T.G.I.F. series Boy Meets World. We hated it. This episode is about some boy that meets a world. What a way to close off our month-long extravaganza, T.G.I.February! Topics discussed within include non-rhyming incantations, tips on summoning the dark lord, Satan, and Rider Strong's incredible hair.
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Watch "The Witches of Pennbrook," the episode we watched, by buying it on your...2015-02-281h 31
Breakfast QuestHi Honey, I'm Home! with Fancy Nancy - Breadstick Quest 34Fancy Nancy, star of Fancy Nancy's Funny Hour, joins Nick and Lars to watch 1991's Hi Honey, I'm Home!, a live-action sitcom about a family of fictional characters from the past who move next door to a typical '90's dysfunctional family. This episode is about how some people respond to the stress of a home invasion by buying a billion guns, and some respond by mastering the art of judo in one 30-minutes class at the local rec center. It's week three of the special month-long event, T.G.I.February! Topics discussed within include quote whores, NKOTB's potty...2015-02-211h 31
Breakfast QuestOn Our Own with Kyle Supley - Breadstick Quest 33Actor, comedian, and kitsch historian Kyle Supley returns to join Nick and Lars for week two of the month-long extravaganza T.G.I.February and the mostly forgotten T.G.I.F. gem On Our Own. This show was about a group of 9 orphans who, after their parents' death, run a scam on child protective services by having their eldest brother dress in drag to seduce the horndog caseworker put in charge of their care and safety. This show was crazy. Topics discussed within include breadstick rage, the later works of the actor who played Hank on Twin Peaks, and...2015-02-141h 37
Breakfast QuestDinosaurs with Brodrick Jones - Breadstick Quest 32Puppeteer Brodrick Jones joins Nick and Lars for the first episode of special month-long event, T.G.I.February, to luxuriate in some breadsticks and watch an episode of Dinosaurs, the T.G.I.F. mainstay featuring dinosaur puppets whose lives may not be so different for your own, if your life involves being beaten by your infant child and dying in the ice age. Topics discussed include how the baby boomers ruined everything for everyone, Randy Quaid's unorthodox approach to puppetry, and Interstellar.
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Breakfast QuestRocko's Modern Life with Aparna Nancherla - Breakfast Quest 31Comedian Aparna Nancherla joins Nick and Lars for an episode of supposed mid-90's Nicktoon classic Rocko's Modern Life. Take a listen to hear three upbeat people with everything to look forward to in their lives descend into an oppressive melancholy! Topics discussed within include being eaten by ones own family, latent misogyny, and Lost.
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Breakfast QuestKing Arthur and the Knights of Justice with Pat Monahan - Breakfast Quest 30Comedian Pat Monahan (@pattymo on twitter) joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, a 100% historically accurate retelling of how King Arthur and the knights of his Round Table were actually deceased NFL players sent back through time and given robotic supercars to fight the forces of a cybernetic snake man. Topics discussed within include our favorite SNL sketches, Taylor Negron, and Lost.
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Breakfast QuestCaptain Power with Anya Meksin - Breakfast Quest 29Filmmaker Anya Meksin vaults forward into an apocalyptic future to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, a late-'80s live-action TV series about a robo-man who fights bad robo-men with a TWIST: if you buy the toy gun they want you to buy, you can shoot your TV with it to make the bad men go away! Topics discussed within include perfectionism, The Room, and Quantum Leap.
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Breakfast QuestHe-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special with Marshall York - Breakfast Quest 28Actor, musician, and improvisor Marshall York gathers 'round the fireplace to enjoy an enduring Holiday classic with Nick and Lars. It's He-Man & Shera: A Christmas Special, a mid-80's cartoon about a skeleton-man learning how to give himself entirely over to the spirit of Christmas and puppies. Topics discussed within include brother-sister sexual tension, arrogant merchandising, and Lost.
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Breakfast QuestArk II with Tom Scharpling - Breakfast Quest 27Tom Scharpling, host of THE BEST SHOW joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Ark II, a mid-'70s live-action sci fi adventure show about a group of children and a monkey driving around a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a tricked-out van. On this episode, the crew builds a robot and then kills it repeatedly. Topics discussed within include the inspiring story of stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham, fish stew, and Lost.
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Breakfast QuestThe Wind in the Willows with Katrina Whalen - Breakfast Quest 26Filmmaker and animator Katrina Whalen joins Nick and Lars on a journey to a pastoral English countryside filled with immortal rodents by watching an episode of the 1984 series, The Wind in the Willows. Topics discussed within include the films of Czech director Jan Svankmajer, the impracticality of sardine sandwiches, and Lost.
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Breakfast QuestLand of the Lost with Julian Graham - Breakfast Quest 25It's all dinosaurs, sleestaks, and abusive fathers in this special NOT-OCT-TROPE-PURR ANYMORE podcast. Nick and Lars sit down with their friend Julian Graham to discuss an episode of the '70s-era live-action kids show Land of the Lost. Within, Julian contemplates the Lovecraftian horror of insectoid lizard cults, Lars explores the connections between Star Wars and Sex and the City, and Nick picks up on some serious sister-brother ST.
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Breakfast QuestJosie and the Pussycats with Tim Duffy - Breakfast Quest 22OCT-TROPE-PURR's second assault lands with a thud when Midevenings With Jay Miller's Tim Duffy joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode Josie and the Pussycats. We delver deeper into CATS, deeper intro TROPES, and deeper into OCTOBER. It's our most depressing and paranoid podcast yet!
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...and be sure to subscribe to Breakfast Quest on iTunes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2014-10-111h 23Breakfast QuestThundercats with Maggie Serota - Breakfast Quest 21OCT-TROPE-PURR BEGINS! Please enjoy the first week of our month-long celebration of all things cat-related and trope-related. Nick and Lars start things off with a bang when writer Maggie Serota stops buy to watch one of the worst episodes of one of the '80s' best cartoons: Thundercats. On this episode, Wilykat (boo) gets hypnotized by the ringleading bounty hunter Captain Bragg (also boo) and has to wait for Lion-O (yay?) to rescue him. Cheetara is nowhere to be seen (boo upon boos).
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Breakfast QuestThe Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin with Rachel Millman - Breakfast Quest 20It's the episode that broke Breakfast Quest! Comedian Rachel Millman joins Nick and Lars to watch our single most confusing and upsetting cartoon yet, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. Topics discussed include: crystal stethoscopes, the 7 crystals, zoo tours, repressed memories, the burning passion of fatherhood, the entrenched racism of older generations, cities carved from clay, El Topo for kids, and overzealous Guitar Center employees.
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Breakfast QuestSmall Wonder with Kyle Supley - Breakfast Quest 19Actor, comedian, and super-attractive kitsch historian Kyle Supley joins Nick and Lars to get in touch with his mechanical side for an episode of the 80's live action sitcom Small Wonder. It's a show about a doofus with the perfect daughter, except she's a robot. But that's not even the point. The real issue at hand is that in this episode, they fly in an airplane that gets hijacked. Also, Emily Schulman plays the iconic neighbor Harriet, and we really want her as a guest on this podcast.
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Breakfast QuestCamp Candy with Robbie Sublett - Breakfast Quest 18Actor and writer Robbie Sublett joins Nick and Lars to relive some summertime memories in the form of an episode of Camp Candy, a late-80's/early-90's comedy cartoon about a dysfunctional camp run by John Candy. If you're into physical comedy and stories about the death of innocence, PLEASE ENJOY THIS EPISODE.
Check out "May The Best Parent Win," the episode we watched, here!
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Breakfast QuestLifestories: Families in Crisis with Joe Klein - Breakfast Quest 16Stand-up comic Joe Klein joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of HBO's series of highbrow afterschool specials, Lifestories - Families in Crisis. This particular episode is called "A Body To Die For: The Aaron Henry Story," and it stars an adolescent Ben Affleck as a teenager who very enthusiastically takes a lot of steroids. WILL HE HAVE AN EMBARRASSING RAGE-OUT MOMENT? (yes, he does).
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Breakfast QuestOut of Control with Elizabeth Blue - Breakfast Quest 15Performer and writer Elizabeth Blue joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the somewhat-forgotten early Nickelodeon kids' sketch comedy show, Out of Control, hosted by children's TV luminary Dave Coulier. Here's a drinking game for this podcast: every time you hear the word "Letterman," have a drink!
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Breakfast QuestMy Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with Brennan Lee Mulligan - Breakfast Quest 14It's the game-changing conclusion of "My Little Juney," our four-part miniseries about all things horse-, pony-, unicorn-, centaur-, hippogryph-, pegasus-, and kelpie-related, in which Strong Female Protagonist writer and regular Upright Citizens Brigade improviser Brennan Lee Mulligan sits down with Nick and Lars to tolerate an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! It's the show that has seemingly arbitrarily launched the brony fandom, and it's also a tone-deaf exploitation of the genocide of Native Americans!
This podcast is a weird one!
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Breakfast QuestBraveStarr with Emily Carmichael - Breakfast Quest 13Filmmaker and purveyor of kidcandrive.com, Emily Carmichael, becomes our first return guest when she sits down with Nick and Lars to enjoy a rollickin' episode of BraveStarr, a cartoon that features a space sheriff fighting a space tank shaped like a space horse. It's part three of MY LITTLE JUNEY, our special four-part series in which we exclusively watch horse-themed shows during the month of June.
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Breakfast QuestThe Adventures of the Black Stallion with Kobi Libii - Breakfast Quest 12Alpha House's Kobi Libii joins Nick and Lars to discuss the classic(?) Family Channel program The Adventures of the Black Stallion for PART TWO of "My Little Juney," our special 4-part series on horses, ponies, and other equestrian-adjacent animals (and the ladies and gentlemen who ride them). The show we're watching this week is a live-action show for boring children about Mickey Rooney and a horse. WHO WILL WIN THE BATTLE FOR ULTIMATE DOMINATION?
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE 1980 WILLIAM FRIEDKIN PSYCHOSEXUAL THRILLER CRUISING.
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Breakfast QuestMy Little Pony (generation 1) with Alex Navarro - Breakfast Quest 11Giant Bomb's Alex Navarro joins Nick and Lars for part one of MY LITTLE JUNEY, a special four-part miniseries throughout the month of June, in which we're watching and discussing horse- and pony-themed shows EXCLUSIVELY, culminating in an episode in which we discuss the current phenomenon known as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. We kicked things off with the very first incarnation of My Little Pony, an episode called "Rescue at Midnight Castle." In this episode, some ponies get kidnapped by a guy named Terak who has a special nightmare-filled sack. Come for the free-wheeling conversation about horses, stay...2014-06-071h 26Breakfast QuestProStars with Emma Span - Breakfast Quest 10Nick and Lars hit the gym and get in shape with their guest, Sports Illustrated Senior Editor and author of the book 90% of the Game Is Half Mental, Emma Span, to watch an episode of ProStars, a cartoon from the 90's featuring Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretsky, and Bo Jackson as kid-helping superheroes. In This episode, the titular ProStars go to the sports museum and get attacked by a bear and a shark in the natural history wing.
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...and send us emails about YOUR favorite kids' shows to letters@breakfastquest.net2014-05-101h 36Breakfast QuestJem and the Holograms with Maggie Serota - Breakfast Quest 8Nick and Lars get in touch with their inner pop star with the help of writer and co-host of the Low Times podcast, Maggie Serota, to watch an episode of the classic 80's cartoon Jem and the Holograms. It's a stylish look at the glamorous life of orphanage manager / international pop sensation Jerica/Jem and her efforts to stay on top of the music world while fending off the evil machinations of a rival band, The Misfits. In this episode, an imposter Jem acts like a real jerk in an effort to assassinate Jem's image. WILL JEM SURVIVE? The answe...2014-04-261h 26
Breakfast QuestJayce and the Wheeled Warriors with David Chernicoff - Breakfast Quest 7Nick and Lars plop, fetus-like, out of an embryonic robo-gourd with David Chernicoff. Together, they will grow armor plating, sprout a vegetable gun-dinosaur arm, and battle head-to-head with an episode of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, an 80’s action cartoon about incredible space cars and their awe-inspiring fights. In this episode, Jayce and the rest of the Lightning League go to the moon to oversee a ceremony in which all of the wizards of the universe obliterate a second moon in order to spread the power of goodness throughout the galaxies - but not if Saw Boss and his duo...2014-04-121h 48
Breakfast QuestAdventures of the Little Koala with Melissa Jane Osborne - Breakfast Quest 6Nick and Lars slow down for a moment with writer and actor Melissa Jane Osborne to bask in Adventures of the Little Koala, a laid back mid-80's cartoon from Japan about a family of pampered marsupials. In these episodes, Roo Bear (the koala) wants to sell some oranges, and Kiwi (the kiwi) wants to take a photograph. You'll pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge.2014-03-291h 35
Breakfast QuestThe Littlest Hobo with Griffin Newman - Breakfast Quest 5Nick and Lars hit the road in search of adventure with actor and comedian Griffin Newman to watch an episode of The Littlest Hobo, a Canadian kids' show about a dog who roams the countryside, helping normal people with their relatable, everyday problems. In this episode, the littlest hobo helps a group of young live-action roleplayers not get repeatedly attacked by exotic reptiles.2014-03-151h 24