Episode 31 - The Quinoa and Tofu Diet
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Dave recaps “No Princess Left Behind,” an action-packed jail-breaking adventure in which the newly-recruited Princesses of the Rebellion (plus Sea Hawk) come to the aid of the Best Friend Squad and duke it out with the dark denizens of the Fright Zone. So much happens! Fights! Escapes! Plans gone awry! Big surprises! Laser stuff! And just when we almost forgot him: KYLE.
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Episode 30 - A Picture Perfect Prom?
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Hi. This is Sarah speaking. I’m not going to try to be funny about this description because DEAR LORD is this episode brilliant and intense, and HOLY MOLY does Dave do a superb job recapping it. Again, this is Sarah, not Dave. He’s not tooting his own horn. Anyway, you’d think a princess prom-themed animated show wouldn’t dare entwine teenage longing with nation building, comedy with terror, or societal collapse with party etiquette ... or, hell, maybe you would. You seem pretty smart about story elements. But join us for dark surprises: here we are at the Kingdom of Snows.
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Episode 29 - Mother May I Sleep With ... Anything or Anyone, Really
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Sarah recaps the psychological minefield of “In the Shadows of Mysticor,” wherein the BFS is tested on a magician spa island ruled by Glimmer’s powerful but passive-aggressive aunt. Adora struggles with PTSD-related sleep deprivation psychosis! Or, wait, dammit, is somebody gaslighting her!? Bonus: cute swimsuits!
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Episode 28 - Pro-Beau, No?
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It’s a robot battle nightmare in a hacker-maker wonderland, where the obsessive genius Princess Entrapta, she of the prehensile ponytails, has harnessed some dark old-timey coding to dicey effect! Dave talks us through the rapid-fire thriller System Failure, in which Beau gets the thankless task of risk management, then rises to glory in rebellion badassery with his squad of regular-folk kitchen staff. Also, bonus troll.
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Episode 27 - Go Fish!
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Welcome to the Sea Gate! Sought by the Best Friend Squad! Ruled by a bitter teen! Assailed by the Horde! Plus: Bow’s boy crush on the very hot & ridiculous Captain Sea Hawk is adorableness for the ages. Plus plus: It’s GLIMMER, dammit! Sarah recaps.
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Episode 26 - Space Polynesian Flower Children
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New year, new ep of BTPOG! Dave recaps Flowers for She-Ra, wherein the Best Friend Squad come to the aid of Plumeria, a tree-hugging queendom of dirty hippies who nevertheless turn out to be metal AF. Will Adora fulfill their Waste Land prophecies? Will Plumeria join the Alliance? Come with us to the land of weaponized flowers and find out.
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Episode 25 - We Should Go In The Back Way
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RAZZ HANDS She’s silly, she’s wise, she’s got kickass reading glasses, she’s into berry-picking, she’s circled by moths, she’ll hit your enemies with a broom and she’ll remind you just who the fuck it is you are. Gen X slides into Etheria as Dave recaps Razz, episode 3 in the Netflix/Dreamworks original series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
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Episode 24 - Princesses are Vicious Instigators
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AAAHHHH! It’s the beginning of a special BTPOG podcast-within-a-podcast mini-series about the new Netflix “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”! In this extra-length holiday season episode, Sarah fangirls out while recapping the first two eps, and cannot shut up. Noelle Stevenson (showrunner, of Nimona fame), lead us forward! P.S.: Bow, you are too a princess. SPOILER ALERT: Sarah and Dave recommend watching the first two She-Ra eps on Netflix before listening. Squad Goals, Y’all
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Episode 23 - We Are Just Not That Into You
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It’s Orko’s birthday, and he can cry if he wants to. Meanwhile, Castle Grayskull gets zapped into another dimension, which is trippy as hell. Dave leads you through a strange and sometimes dumb journey. PS don’t eat too much. What does that have to do with anything? Unclear.
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Episode 22 - Very Evil People Holding Hands
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Join Sarah as she recaps The Cosmic Comet, in which a very silly vaudeville sorcerer gets his mojo back by reuniting a same-sex couple of heavenly bodies. SWOON. She’s here for all of it. PS Dave’s Ed Wynn impression is UNCANNY.
info_outlineDave takes a deep dive into a jam-packed MOTU episode, featuring climate change, political propaganda, biological warfare, and the most inefficient use of volcano resources ever. The 80s were a dark time, friends. So it’s a good thing Dave does upwards of 20 celebrity impressions. Can you spot them all?