Episode 806: We’re All Stuck in the Storeroom Together
On the Overthinking it Podcast, we mark the passing of Norman Lear by considering episodes of “All in the Family” and “Good Times.”
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Episode 706: I Indeed Have Some Explaining To Do
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “Being the Ricardos,” starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem.
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Episode 655: At the End, There’s Going to be a Portal
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “WandaVision,” a new show streaming on Disney+ which takes the MCU into the land of classic sitcoms.
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Episode 584: The One Where They Talk about Friends by Talking about Dawson’s Creek
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the 25th anniversary of “Friends.”
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Episode 567: You’re a Nerd. This is about Things That You Like.
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle sitcoms in light of the series finale of “The Big Bang Theory.”
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Episode 469: The Various Rich Valleys
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Prestige Comedy: “GLOW,” “Master of None,” “Catastrophe”, “Kimmy Schmidt,” and other shows in the lineage of “Arrested Development.”
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Naughty Shows and Nice Shows
You’re the Worst makes us laugh by exploring how far terrible characters can push social boundaries. But it also illuminates some big ideas about comedy that stretch back to the Restoration, Chaucer, and Commedia dell’arte.
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What Ever Happened to Predictability? Nostalgia and the Full House Revival
What are we actually nostalgic for when we watch the new reboot of Full House?
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Episode 393 with Jonathan Kite: Be the Thing that You Claim to Be
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk with Jonathan Kite about the two kinds of sitcoms, why economics matters to 2 Broke Girls, about the role of the audience in live performance, and about the hardest thing about acting (balancing all the plates).
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Episode 388: It’s Just You Guys Who Think that Comedy Doesn’t Travel
The Overthinkers talk about non-American TV with Josh Thomas, creator and star of the Australian show Please Like Me.
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