Mom reviews the BBC morning-show satire THIS TIME WITH ALAN PARTRIDGE. Mom anticipates her post-vaccination meal. Mom rejects "foam soap."

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This Time With Alan Partridge

Mom reviews the Irish sitcom DERRY GIRLS. Mom recounts the experience of getting her COVID vaccine. The saga of the “chicken farmer” sign is told.

Derry Girls

Mom reviews the British panel show TASKMASTER. Mom gets trapped by the UPS bureaucracy. Mom unleashes blueberry havoc at the grocery store.

Taskmaster

Mom reviews the kids’ cartoon OCTONAUTS. Mom gets more than she bargained for while browsing the magazine rack. Mom gets her second vaccine shot, eventually.

Octonauts

Bonney has harsh words for Comedy Central's Nathan For You, but she has kinder things to say about Mike Sacks' book of interviews with comedy writers, Poking A Dead Frog. Plus, an update on the Great Post-Office Vendetta Of 2014!

Nathan For Mom

Mom reviews the Disney animated series DUCKTALES. John asks Mom to stop sending so much dark chocolate to his wife. Mom frets over an inane POP MOM review posted to Apple Podcasts.

DuckTales

Mom reviews the Netflix short FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER’S MONSTER, FRANKENSTEIN. Mom heaps scorn on her fellow library patrons. John encourages listeners to scream out their car window.

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

Mom reviews the new NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL THEME. John and Mom explore the morality of watching pro football. The story of Mom’s friend Marguerite deepens with a new chapter. Mom asks John if he has seen her Dustbuster.

The 2019 NBC Sunday Night Football theme

Mom reviews the video game UNTITLED GOOSE GAME. To Mom’s alarm, John nominates his mother-in-law for Grandmother Of The Year. Mom explores her affinity for “chit-chat.”

Untitled Goose Game

Mom reviews the comedy special JOHN MULANEY & THE SACK LUNCH BUNCH. Mom insists that her high school yearbook title of “Class Flirt” is not “open to interpretation.” Mom examines the ontology of an airline boarding pass.

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

Mom reviews the fifth season premiere of BETTER CALL SAUL. John shares the story of his worst parenting night ever. Mom protests a TV commercial for crooked-penis medication.

Better Call Saul, season 5

Mom reviews the Netflix comedy special PETE DAVIDSON: ALIVE FROM NEW YORK. Mom offers her report from the front lines of the coronavirus fight in rural New Hampshire. Mom explains her system for choosing who to root for on JEOPARDY!.

Pete Davidson: Alive From New York

Mom determines which character from The Office she would most like to sleep with.

The Office: "Broke"

Mom snoops on the neighbors. Mom briefly reviews Disney's ZENIMATION. Entries from the "half a gross" listener contest are discussed and enjoyed by all.

Zenimation

Mom asks the local postmaster if the USPS is going out of business. John loves dogs, in principle. Mom eats Lucky Charms for the first time. The Netflix television program CHEER is reviewed.

Cheer

Mom reviews a bunch of distinctively flavored Kit Kat candy bars. Rarely heard supporting character Pop Wife appears as a guest judge. Mom inflames and soothes political tensions in her neighborhood.

Japanese Kit-Kats

Mom and John remember Charlie Siebert from the old "$100,000 Pyramid" show. Mom gets covid price-gouged on NFL-licensed fabric. Winners of the Kit Kat Flavor & Slogan Dual Innovation Contest are announced.

An old episode of The $100,000 Pyramid

Mom reviews the new season of the FX drama series FARGO. Mom recalls the time her cat got stoned. John wonders why there’s never been a “Pop Mom-In-Law” segment.

Fargo, season 4

Mom reviews the new revival of SUPERMARKET SWEEP. A rogue FedEx driver gives Mom a cardio workout she didn't ask for. The telephone rings.

Supermarket Sweep (2020)

Mom reviews the WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE revival. John works himself into a froth over Joel McHale's MILLIONAIRE appearance. Mom cancels her subscription to the local rag.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2020)

Mom and John reflect on the life of Alex Trebek. The election results ripple through Mom's corner of rural New Hampshire. An encounter with a helicopter has Mom thinking about submarines.

Remembering Alex Trebek

Mom reviews BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM. Mom explores a regret from the last hours of her own mom's life. Mom breaks down a video of a person in a rat costume dragging a pizza up some stairs.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Mom reviews the ANIMANIACS reboot. Mom bids a bittersweet farewell to the FedEx delivery guy. John wishes the listeners a happy Thanksgivening.

Animaniacs (2020)

Mom reviews HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON. Mom tests John and the listeners with a Christmas-themed quiz. Mom wonders what she should do with a can of nickels.

How To With John Wilson

Mom reviews the dating reality show 12 DATES OF CHRISTMAS. Mom is confounded by perfume commercials on television. Mom gives the local postmaster an earful, again

12 Dates of Christmas

Mom and John give each other a Christmas-themed quiz. Mom encounters the perils of modern speech-to-text technology. A bucket of tea wrappers forms the basis of a new listener contest.

2020 Christmas Special

Mom reviews the Craig Ferguson-hosted game of deception, THE HUSTLER. John explores proper protocol for helping someone find a lost item. Mom disdains televised vomit.

The Hustler

Mom reviews the televised football contest SUPER BOWL LV. Mom tries not to laugh when a guy burps at the eye doctor's office. John does his Lt. Columbo impersonation.

Super Bowl LV

Mom reviews the ABC game show THE CHASE. The elderly citizens in a doctor's waiting room raise Mom's ire. Mom wonders why Tom Selleck needs more money.

The Chase (2021)

Mom reviews the British workplace comedy STATH LETS FLATS. Mom remembers her meteorologist cousin Bob Kudzma. John doesn't see why he should photograph his roof ice.

Stath Lets Flats

I'm a TV critic. People think I'm pretty opinionated. Then they meet my mom.

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