Breakfast Quest
A podcast about strange, lost, and forgotten kids' TV.
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The World of David the Gnome with Danielle Henderson - Breakfast Quest 100
08/12/2017
The World of David the Gnome with Danielle Henderson - Breakfast Quest 100
Writer Danielle Henderson joins Nick and Lars to watch the final episode of The World of David the Gnome, a Spanish-animated adaptation of a Dutch children's book series about the adventures of a veterinarian gnome and his animal friends. In the episode we watched, all the main characters die! Enjoy! Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched, "The Mountains of Beyond," on youtube !
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Ghostbusters with Tom O'Donnell - Breakfast Quest 99
07/22/2017
Ghostbusters with Tom O'Donnell - Breakfast Quest 99
Author and writer Tom O'Donnell returns to Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Ghostbusters, the mid-'80s cartoon classic featuring all your favorite characters from the movie of the same name. It's Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Slimer, and the rest, battling those ghoulish fiends, the "ghosts" in New York City. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Ooze, Proton Packs! The whole shebang. This show is as iconic as it gets. Just kidding - we watched that shitty knock-off show with two dumbasses and a gorilla. You were thinking of The Real Ghostbusters. That's not what we watched. Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched, "Witch's Stew," on on YouTube .
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Clarissa Explains It All with Amanda Justice - Breakfast Quest 98
06/24/2017
Clarissa Explains It All with Amanda Justice - Breakfast Quest 98
Filmmaker and comedian Amanda Justice joins Nick and Lars to watch early '90s Nickelodeon classic Clarissa Explains It All, a live-action sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart about a precocious teenage girl. The episode we watched is about Clarissa getting a crush on a weatherman and becoming obsessed with weather. Topics discussed within include Point Break, cereal influencing, and the good part of Donnie Darko. Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched, "Clarissa's Crush," on on DailyMotion .
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold with Maggie Serota - Breakfast Quest 97
06/10/2017
The Mysterious Cities of Gold with Maggie Serota - Breakfast Quest 97
Writer Maggie Serota returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold, an early '80s Japanese / French animated series about 16th century South America that was broadcast on Nickelodeon through the '80s. The episode that we watched was about a Spanish vagabond named Mendoza stealing a cannon and then getting nearly executed. Topics discussed within include Twin Peaks, sports jokes, and the trustworthiness of birds. Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched, "Esteban's Medallion," on your digital media store of choice.
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Bionic Six with Geordie Broadwater - Breakfast Quest 96
05/27/2017
Bionic Six with Geordie Broadwater - Breakfast Quest 96
Writer and director Geordie Broadwater comes back to Brakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Bionic Six, a mid-'80s boys' action cartoon about a "family" of technologically enhanced superheroes. We watched the series finale, "That's All Folks," which the story of some cartoon characters falling into a dimension filled with cartoon characters and suffering from existential dread. Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched .
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Mister T with Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab - Breakfast Quest 95
05/13/2017
Mister T with Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab - Breakfast Quest 95
Writers and comedians Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab join Nick and Lars to enjoy a slice of true cartoon insanity: Mister T, the early '80s animated vehicle for actor and lifestyle brand-made-flesh Mr. T. This series is about the title character driving around the United States with a bus full of gymnasts to find crime and stop it in its tracks. The episode that we watched is about a bunch of New Mexican monks who steal TV's and murder children. HOLY HELL WAS THIS SHOW INTENSE. Send your emails to ! You can find the episode we watched, "Mystery of the Forbidden Monastery" on the streaming video platform of your choice (and we highly recommend that you watch it)...
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Pusteblume with Fred Nicolaus - Breakfast Quest 94
04/29/2017
Pusteblume with Fred Nicolaus - Breakfast Quest 94
Frontman of Golden Suits and podcaster Fred Nicolaus comes back for another go 'round in Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Pusteblume, a live action, German-language educational show from the late '70s. As a first, this is a foreign language show with no subtitles or sound-dubbing, so we basically had no idea what was happening. The episode we watched was about growing pumpkins, so take a listen if you want to hear three people not understanding how to grow pumpkins! Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Dragon Ball Z with Patrick Monahan - Breakfast Quest 93
04/15/2017
Dragon Ball Z with Patrick Monahan - Breakfast Quest 93
Patrick Monahan returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of the action anime classic Dragon Ball Z (on the recommendation of Thomas, a listener who sent some suggestions to us in an email). If you don't know the show, it's an incredibly slow-moving and lore-rich show about dudes who fight each other by talking about fighting each other. The episode we watched is the one where series protagonist Goku gets so mad his hair changes color. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched, "Transformed at Last," on Funimation's subscription service. If you have an easier way to watch it, let us know!
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Kids Incorporated with Faryl Amadeus - Breakfast Quest 92
04/01/2017
Kids Incorporated with Faryl Amadeus - Breakfast Quest 92
Comedian and actor (and Nick's spouse) Faryl Amadeus joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Kids Incorporated, a musically-driven live-action sitcom that originally aired on The Disney Channel from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. The episode we watched was somehow a meditation on the birth of modernity via the emergence of comedy as legitimate cinema, set during the early days of silent film. Weird. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Emu's Pink Windmill Show with Branson Reese - Breakfast Quest 91
03/18/2017
Emu's Pink Windmill Show with Branson Reese - Breakfast Quest 91
Comedian Branson Reese joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Emu's Pink Windmill Show, a live-action kids' variety show starring British comedian Rod Hull and his emu puppet, Emu. It's most famous for incredible dancing from its cast of child actors, but the episode that we watched also included witches, robots, and lots of confusing British geographical names. Topics discussed include mismatched socks, environmentalism, and motorcycle tragedies. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Breakfast Bonus! - More Moomin with Lars and His Mom
03/11/2017
Breakfast Bonus! - More Moomin with Lars and His Mom
We will be back next week with a new episode of Breakfast Quest with a brand new guest and a brand new kids' TV show, but in the meantime, maybe you'd like to listen to this special Breakfast Bonus. This podcast is a low-key conversation between Lars and his mom, discussing Moomin, Sweden, Japan, and all the things they have in common. Something a little different. Enjoy! Send your emails to !
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Moomin (1990) with Mary Houlihan - Breakfast Quest 90
03/04/2017
Moomin (1990) with Mary Houlihan - Breakfast Quest 90
Comedian Mary Houlihan returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for something... a little different. In a rare variation from the norm, the show featured on this podcast is one that your hosts have an actual connection and sentimentality toward. In this case, we watched Moomin, the 1990 anime adaptation of Tove Jansson's classic Scandinavian children's book series. The episode we watched is about the main character finding and befriending a cute little dragon and how all friendships are based on lies. Topics discussed within include wizardry, mothers, and Japan. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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The Letter People with Connor Ratliff - Breakfast Quest 89
02/18/2017
The Letter People with Connor Ratliff - Breakfast Quest 89
Comedian and actor Connor Ratliff joins Nick and Lars for something... a little different. For the first time ever, our guest sourced the show for the podcast - in this case it was The Letter People, a mid-'70s puppet-driven educational series produced in St. Louis whose purpose is to teach children how to read. We watched two episodes - one about the letter R joining an avant garde rock band, and another about the letter R flying deep into space to rescue a captive vowel. It's a weird one. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episodes we watched and ).
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Centurions with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 88
02/04/2017
Centurions with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 88
Comedian Jason Torres returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Centurions, a mid-'80s cartoon with a strong toy tie-in about a trio of military dudes that blow the hell out of everything with tons of weapons and whatnot. The episode we watched is about a bunch of plants that kill all of the life on earth and a dog that learns how to love... murder. Topics discussed within include wizardly vestments, the twist in Split, and the wisdom of exploiting weakness. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Wish Kid with Rachel Millman and Nate Lamagna - Breakfast Quest 87
01/21/2017
Wish Kid with Rachel Millman and Nate Lamagna - Breakfast Quest 87
Fan favorite Rachel Millman and Breakfast newcomer Nate Lamagna join Nick and Lars to enjoy an episode of the 1991 animated Macauley Culkin vehicle Wish Kid. The show stars Mr. Culkin as a boy with a magical baseball glove that grants wishes and ruins innocents lives. The episode that we watched was about baseball getting ruined by one young man's wish. Topics discussed within include Donald Trump's sex stuff, frozen dinners, and shaving points. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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You Can't Do That on Television with Halle Kiefer - Breakfast Quest 86
01/07/2017
You Can't Do That on Television with Halle Kiefer - Breakfast Quest 86
Comedian and writer Halle Kiefer helps Nick and Lars kick off the new year by watching an episode the classic Nickelodeon sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television. We watched an episode from 1981 with a wide range of sketches about ripoffs and warranty fraud. Topics discussed within include wizardry, the twist in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, and Leslies. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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A Cosmic Christmas with Joe Rumrill - Breakfast Quest 85
12/24/2016
A Cosmic Christmas with Joe Rumrill - Breakfast Quest 85
Comedian Joe Rumrill joins Nick and Lars to watch a somewhat obscure, somewhat forgotten, mostly Canadian animated kids' special from the mid-'70s, called A Cosmic Christmas. In it, three aliens land in the frozen north and guilt trip a kid into feeling about how all the adults in town are total a-holes. Enjoy the holidays, everyone! We'll see y'all again in the new year. Send your emails to ! You can watch A Cosmic Christmas on youtube .
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HEXSTRAVAGANZA 2016 - Breakfast Quest 84
12/10/2016
HEXSTRAVAGANZA 2016 - Breakfast Quest 84
It's our year-end report on all things XXXXX in kids' TV and movies. This year, Nick and Lars focus on all things scary with HEXSTRAVAGANZA, our celebration / condemnation of all things scary from years past. Stuff gets serious, so please, we advise you to strap in. Send your emails to ! Follow along with our unrelenting clip-viewing by checking out our
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Star vs the Forces of Evil with Jo Firestone - Breakfast Quest 83
11/26/2016
Star vs the Forces of Evil with Jo Firestone - Breakfast Quest 83
Comedian Jo Firestone comes by Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for the final week of NOWvember, our month-long investigation into all things CURRENT and HIP and COOL FOR THE KIDS. We watched a Disney XD cartoon called Star vs the Forces of Evil, and guess what? It was pretty good! Topics discussed include yogurt, body pockets, and being open about your insecurities. Send your emails to ! You can watch "NAYSAYA," the episode we watched, on the digital media service of your choosing.
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K.C. Undercover with Jill Twiss - Breakfast Quest 82
11/19/2016
K.C. Undercover with Jill Twiss - Breakfast Quest 82
Jill Twiss, comedian and writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, joins Nick and Lars for week 3 of NOWvember, our month-long journey into all that is current and topical in the ceaseless world of children's television. We watched K.C. Undercover, a live-action Disney Channel sitcom starring supposed famous person Zendaya, in which typical family comedy plots are smashed together with over-the-top tactical espionage action. In the episode we watched, the main character belts a teacher in the stomach in one scene, and then makes her parents shoot each other in the next! It's weird! Send your emails to ! You can watch "Virtusl Insanity," the episode we watched, on the digital media service of your choosing.
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Kuu Kuu Harajuku with Rebecca Schiffman - Breakfast Quest 81
11/12/2016
Kuu Kuu Harajuku with Rebecca Schiffman - Breakfast Quest 81
NOWvember, our month-long celebration of all things current and relevant and exciting continues with musician Rebecca Schiffman joining Nick and Lars for an episode of Kuu Kuu Harajuku. What's Kuu Kuu Harajuku, you ask? Well, it's Gwen Stefani's vanity cartoon about shallow assholes being shallow assholes to each other. Enjoy! Send your emails to ! We watched the first episode, "Totally Teen Genie." You can find it and more about this show at Nickelodeon's official page... !
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Teen Titans Go with Pat Baer - Breakfast Quest 80
11/05/2016
Teen Titans Go with Pat Baer - Breakfast Quest 80
Comedian Pat Baer joins Nick and Lars for the first week of NOWvember, our month-long delve into only the freshest and most current children's television. We kick things off with a look at Teen Titans Go, a comedy cartoon with a bunch of DC Comics characters being very fast at each other. The episode we watched is about pro wrestling and is the most densely packed thing we have ever seen in our entire lives. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched, "Oh Yeah," by either buying it on your digital media platform of choice, or searching for "Teen Titans Go Oh Yeah" on youtube and watching some bootleg-ass terrible looking looking video of it.
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Breakfast Rest 2 - NOWvember THAT'S What I Call Kids' TV
10/29/2016
Breakfast Rest 2 - NOWvember THAT'S What I Call Kids' TV
BONUS EPISODE! With NOWvember (our special theme month featuring episodes covering only CURRENT and NEW kids' shows) right around the corner, join Nick and Lars as they figure out what the hell is happening with current children's entertainment and lock in the episodes for the coming month. It's a fly-on-the-wall look at the most rigorous process in all of podcasting. Send your emails to !
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The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody witih Scott Hoffer - Breakfast Quest 79
10/15/2016
The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody witih Scott Hoffer - Breakfast Quest 79
Video games producer Scott Hoffer stops by to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody, a 1980s live-action educational series that teaches children about the power of their bodies. And also the power of song and dance. Don't do anything with your endocrine system before you listen to this episode! Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Zoobilee Zoo with Alan Wilkis - Breakfast Quest 78
10/01/2016
Zoobilee Zoo with Alan Wilkis - Breakfast Quest 78
Alan Wilkis, frontman for , joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Zoobilee Zoo, a mid-'80s live action show for VERY young children and starring Broadway luminary Ben Vereen about a bunch of animals who live together and sing and dance and stuff. In this episode, Bill Der Beaver invents a glue, and then all these stupid animals glue themselves to each other and sing about it. It's better than it sounds! Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Ghost Writer with Eve Peyser - Breakfast Quest 77
09/17/2016
Ghost Writer with Eve Peyser - Breakfast Quest 77
Writer and comedian Eve Peyser joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Ghost Writer, a mid-'90s PBS show starring a team of New York schoolchildren who learn about reading and all sorts of other things from a crime-fighting word ghost. In the episode that we watched, Julia Stiles plays a l33t hax0r0rererer who totally pwns ur a55. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched .
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons with Tommy Heleringer - Breakfast Quest 76
09/03/2016
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons with Tommy Heleringer - Breakfast Quest 76
Actor Tommy Heleringer joins Nick and Lars to watch something a little different! It's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a late-'60s spy / action drama featuring uncanny marionettes as a team of super-secret agents fighting a secret war against a race of Martian shape-shifters. Yep! On this episode, the Martians infiltrate the fashion industry, and our heroes have to dress incredibly well to stop them. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched . On the podcast, we talk about how this show is on Hulu, but it seems like it has since been dropped, so the above link leads to the episode on DailyMotion, so um, watch your back.
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ReBoot with Will McCutcheon - Breakfast Quest 75
08/20/2016
ReBoot with Will McCutcheon - Breakfast Quest 75
Friend of the show and co-host of the Record Company podcast, Will McCutcheon, drops by to enjoy the cutting edge of 1991's technology with ReBoot, a computer-animated show about how many people can fit inside of a computer. This episode is about dungeons and dragons - you know, nerd stuff. ReBoot seems to be a much beloved show. Not by us, though! Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing or by going .
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Gilligan's Planet with Lizzie Redner - Breakfast Quest 74
08/06/2016
Gilligan's Planet with Lizzie Redner - Breakfast Quest 74
Comedian, writer, and actor Lizzie Redner joins Nick and Lars to watch Gilligan's Planet, an ill-conceived early-'80s sci-fi cartoon spin-off of an ill-conceived mid-'60s sitcom. On the episode we watched, "I Dream of Genie," Gilligan and the other castaways enslave a race of omnipotent robots. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing.
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Pokémon with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 73
07/23/2016
Pokémon with Jason Torres - Breakfast Quest 73
Comedian Jason Torres joins Nick and Lars for an uncharacteristically topical choice of shows - an episode of the cartoon based on the resurgent animal-trapping video game series, Pokémon. We watched episode 3, "Ash Catches a Pokémon." In it, Ash, the show's main character, catches a Pokémon. One wonders what happens in other episodes. Send your emails to ! You can watch the episode we watched Or purchase it on the digital media service of your choice!
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