Episode 367: May I Approach the Bench?
The Overthinkers tackle screen time for kids, social science and public policy, and great heel turns in literature, wrestling, and pop culture.
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Parenting on Overthinking It
Episode 364: Inside Out: I Know Now Why You Cry, And I’m Going To Do It
The Overthinkers tackle Inside Out through the lens of Robert Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion and, what else, Terminator.
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Build Your Own Child Assassin
How bad a parent can you be?
Episode 129: Patrimony of the Dude
The Overthinkers tackle (which is to say, rip on) Tron Legacy, religions, ethnic groups, genders, and Fenzel.
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Episode 102: Do you want to know how I got this moustache?
The Overthinkers tackle The A-Team.
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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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Justice is Blonde: Theories of Crime and Punishment in Gossip Girl
The philosophical bases of punishment and the relationship between the police power of the state and economic elites in Gossip Girl.
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Gossip Girl, you’ll be a Gossip Woman soon.
Wow, so, OK, my weekly post on Gossip Girl is almost a week late. Since Belinkie and I are watching tonight’s episode together, which will probably provide fodder for any number of posts (especially considering the day’s financial meltdown), I … Continued
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