Elwood and Lackey bring you another no-singing, no-dancing TV Good Sleep Bad extravaganza! This month it’s the musical cult classic Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (it happens to be what Lackey’s girlfriend watches!) and the obscure French-Japanese animated series Ulysses 31.
It’s time for another heroic episode of TV Good Sleep Bad with Elwood and Lackey tackling two dystopian cult classics: the ’90s superhero cartoon Batman Beyond and the ’80s sci-fi adventure The Tripods!
Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er with another episode of TV Good Sleep Bad! This time around, Elwood and Lackey cover the Canadian comedy Letterkenny and another classic British safety film, The Finishing Line.
Elwood and Lackey are back with another episode of TV Good Sleep Bad, this time covering the cult animated series Invader Zim and the influential MTV sketch comedy The State. Doom d-doom doom doom!
Elwood and Lackey are back from an extended hiatus and aiming to misbehave with a new episode of TV Good Sleep Bad! This time around they’re talking about Joss Whedon’s tragically mishandled Firefly and the cult British space opera Blake’s 7.
Hello! Our names are Elwood and Lackey! What’s yours? Welcome to our special twenty-third episode and third annual Christmas special, starring us! Elwood and Lackey! And Pterri! Conky! Globey! Floory! Cool Cat, Chicky Baby, and Dirty Dog! Chairy! The flowers! The fish! Clocky! Mr. Kite! Annette! Penny! Randy! Countess! Magic Screen! Say hello to Mr. Window! The Ants! The Dinosaur Family! Billy Baloney! Mycroft the Cat! And the food in the refrigerator! Also starring Cowboy Curtis! Miss Yvonne! Ricardo! Mrs. Rene! The King of Cartoons! Reba the Mail Lady! And Jambi! And our special special guest stars! Frankie Avalon! Charo! The Del Rubio Triplets! Annette Funicello! Whoopi Goldberg! Magic Johnson! Grace Jones! k.d. lang! Little Richard! Joan Rivers! Dinah Shore! Oprah Winfrey! And Princess Zsa Zsa! And extra special guests Joel McHale! Gillian Jacobs! Danny Pudi! Yvette Nicole Brown! Alison Brie! Donald Glover! Ken Jeong! Jim Rash! John Oliver! And Chevy Chase!
Community, “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas” (season 2 episode 11, 2010): Abed believes that the world has become a stop-motion animated cartoon, and must seek out the true meaning of Christmas to return everything to normal. (Asterisk.)
Pee-wee’s Playhouse, “Christmas at Pee-wee’s Playhouse” (season 3 episode 3, 1988): Pee-wee ends up with more fruitcake than he bargained for when his friends come over for Christmas.
Next month: Danger 5 and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
On today’s episode of Sick Sad World! (Um, I mean TV Good Sleep Bad.)
Eerie, Indiana, “The ATM with the Heart of Gold” (episode 3, 1991): Simon befriends the town’s new AI-driven ATM, which dispenses money indiscriminately to help him become popular, resulting in a complete economic breakdown in Eerie.
Daria, “Anti-Social Climbers” (season 4 episode 2, 2000): Daria and Jane reluctantly participate in a camping field trip which takes a turn for the worse when they become stranded with no provisions in a blizzard.
Next month: Community and Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
It’s October again, and that means a spooky horror-themed episode of TV Good Sleep Bad, the podcast that wants to know if you took Bear-Bear! So grab your character sheet and your twenty-sided dice and prepare to do battle with…the Demogorgon! (Well, actually it’s episodes of The Outer Limits and Stranger Things.)
In this episode, we discuss:
The Outer Limits, “Under the Bed” (season 1 episode 11, 1995): A young boy disappears from his bedroom, and it’s up to a small-town cop and a child psychologist to find out what happened to him…and to prevent his little sister from sharing his fate.
Stranger Things, “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers” (season 1 episode 1, 2016): What happened to Will Byers as he rode his bike home from his friends’ house? Who is the mysterious, shaven-headed girl known only as “Eleven?” Will the douchey Steve Harrington ever get it on with Nancy Wheeler?
For the fifteenth outing of TV Good Sleep Bad Elwood and I take on two episodes of Black Mirror, the British science-fiction series that’s giving new meaning to words like “prescient.” You go to bed one night in a world that makes sense, and in the morning you wake up only to find that you actually live in the world of “The Waldo Moment.”
In this episode, we discuss:
Black Mirror series 1 episode 1, “The National Anthem” (2011): A mysterious terrorist makes a bizarre demand of Britain’s Prime Minister: fuck a pig on live television or a beloved member of the royal family dies. Starring Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, Donald Sumpter, Anna Wilson-Jones.
Black Mirror series 2 episode 2, “White Bear” (2013): A young woman wakes up in an unfamiliar house with no memories except for some fractured visions of someone who may have been her daughter. Who is she? What happened to her? And why are all these people in masks chasing her? Starring Lenora Critchlow, Michael Smiley, Tuppence Middleton.
Next month: We get in the holiday spirit with Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
From the depths, it rises…its awakening foretold by a plethora of fart jokes and clunky exposition. It’s the horrific fourteenth episode of TV Good Sleep Bad, horror-themed as is appropriate for the season!
In this episode, we discuss:
Bottom season 3 episode 2, “Terror” (1995): Richie and Eddie want to hold a Hallowe’en party and meet women to have sex with, but they have no money, so they go trick-or-treating with an electric cattle prod and attempt to sell their souls to the Devil.
Kindred: The Embraced episode 1, “The Original Saga” (1996): San Francisco police detective Frank Kohanek’s investigation of crime boss Julian Luna takes a bizarre turn when Luna’s bodyguard suffers a bizarre death at the hands of Luna’s rival Eddie Fiori. This in turn leads to a startling revelation: Luna is the leader of a secret society of vampires that also includes Fiori—and Kohanek’s girlfriend Alexandra.
Next month: Two episodes of Black Mirror: “The National Anthem” and “White Bear.”
