Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider what Gossip Girl is “about” (as well as the metaphor of aboutness itself) with reference, of course, to The Wire. Also: Are these teenagers really f***ing? (This is a long episode, so strap in.)

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References

• The Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Prince, Machiavelli
• Writing and Difference, Derrida [Erratum: The essay "Strucutre, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" is actually collected here, not in Speech and Phenomena. The podcasters sincerely regret the error. —Ed.]
• Nausea, Sartre
• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Bloom

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather finally realize a long-held dream when they train their overthinking on Gossip Girl, Glee, and other shows about the sex lives of teenagers in this pilot episode of what may turn out to be a new podcast.

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At first blush, the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” may be one of the most inane song ever written (Cracked.com certainly thinks so). The lyrics basically consist of a series of non sequitur party-related cliches. (Then again, I suppose that description could apply to most pop songs. But I digress.)

In other words, it’s the perfect candidate for Overthinking It’s “Musical Talmud” treatment, in which we subject the lyrics of pop songs to a level of scrutiny they really, really, don’t deserve.

The party starts after the jump…