Episode 16: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink Gossip Girl and Glee, focusing on what it takes to be a ruler and a rebel.
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Gossip Girl on Overthinking It
Episode 15: Santorum
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the Parent Trap episode of Glee and the Bushwick episode of Gossip Girl. Bonus incest!
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Episode 13: Non-Oriented Sexuality
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather discuss the return of Glee and the arrival of Jonathan Groff, as well as Dorota’s wedding on Gossip Girl.
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Episode 12: La Règle du Jeu
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather review the rules of the game.
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Episode 11: Cattle in the Marketplace
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the latest episode of Gossip Girl, concentrating on social capital and trustworthiness.
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Episode 10: The End of Hipstery
The TFT podcast returns with more insight into Gossip Girl. Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather comfort you with visions of a transnational elite.
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Episode 9: I Consider Concision to be One of My Principal Virtues
Is our teenagers f***ing?
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Episode 8: Glee: Implications for Behavioral Economics
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink Glee and Gossip Girl, with detours into the narratology of farce, middlebrow thinking, irrationality and behavorial economics, consequentialism, and intertextuality.
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The Musical Talmud, Think/Counter-Think Edition: “Party in the USA”
Sheely and Lee spar over the political science interpretation of “Party in the USA.”
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Episode 7: OM3
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink Gossip Girl and Glee, focusing on Jenny’s debutante ball and Dan/Olivia/Vanessa threesome.
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