Episode 787: What Marks the Spot?!
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “The X-ness of X,” wondering what it means now that Twitter is called that.
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The English Fucking Language on Overthinking It
Episode 775: This is the Most Sacred Part of a Kanye West Song
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle what “cringe” means today and what is cringe.
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Episode 691: Hamilton Face with a Melville Booty
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “The Chair,” the new satirical academic dramedy starring Sandra Oh.
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Episode 688: He Has Completed the Side-Quest to Return Winifred’s Head
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the super-arty film “The Green Knight,” and its medieval source material, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
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Episode 657: How We Climbed, or Were Clumb
On the Overthinking It Podcast, the conclusion of our close reading of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb.”
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Episode 598: We Managed to Answer Three Questions
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we answer questions from listeners.
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TJ Maxx Flunks Old School
Saying things incorrectly in a way people don’t generally say them isn’t being linguistically progressive, it’s just being ignorant.
10 More Ways to Embiggen Your Simpsons Vocabulary
What? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.