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Breaking Mayberry
Breaking Mayberry is a classic TV podcast without the nostalgia-bait. Marty Schneider and Dan Ludwig take a hard look at the history of television, breaking down vintage favorites and cultural oddities from the 1950s to the early 00’s. We’re finding all the hidden ways TV impacted America’s psyche - and making fun of them.
Watch us break Mayberry before it breaks us.
Episodes
- Breaking Mayberry
TGIFailure #5: Talkin' Talking Babies (w/ Mandy Kaplan)
Voice actor and Make Me a Nerd host Mandy Kaplan joins the studio to talk about Baby Talk, an ill-fated attempt to translate the success of 1989's Look Who's…
Breaking MayberryGOON ROYALE 5: Bonk, Then Lasagna (w/ Adam Teterus)
The Goon Royale carnage continues with John Wick 3, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Sisu, and Django Unchained. This episode has everything! Attack dogs, porno, horse…
Breaking MayberryUnlocked Bonus: My Mother the Car Talk
In this unlocked bonus episode, Marty and Dan cover one of the worst shows of all time. My Mother the Car is a bizarre TV Relic that should have stayed buried…
Breaking MayberryTGIFailure #4: More Testosterone with Jerry Van Dyke
We're meeting back up with our friend Teen Angel but things are looking a little different now, muich more manly, much more rugged, much more designed to…
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GOON ROYALE EPISODE 4: Home Alone Homicide
We're covering Dredd, Big Trouble in Little China, The Raid, and Violent Night. Episode contains spoilers. LAST TIME ON GOON ROYALE: Fifth Element took the Bad…
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TGIFailure 3: Marty Saves the Moon
Continuing our journey into TGIF's most cursed attempts at success, we move on to 1997's Teen Angel. Teen Angel is a bizarre oddity from a pair of Simpsons…
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TGIFailure 2: The Man Who Smells Like Soup The Most
What do you do when your TV show isn't connecting reaching the youth? You gotta bring out the BIG GUNS, the one man who gets it, the coolest guy on the planet…
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TGIFailure #1: A Very Scarf-Heavy Point in Time
We're starting a new mini-series! TGIFailure explores the terrible shows that ABC tried to make into hits throughout the 80s and 90s by shoving them into their…
Breaking MayberryMad About Mad About You 7: There's Always a Burkis
We close out our Mad About Mad About You miniseries with a look at the four- (four!) episodes that make up Mad about You's first series finale - until NBC…
Breaking MayberryGOON ROYALE EPISODE 3: Put the Bunny in the Basket (w/ Charlie Nash)
Today we're covering Hard Boiled, Con Air, Bad Boys 2, and The Fifth Element. Episode contains spoilers.We're joined by our dear friend Charlie Nash (Almost…
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GOON ROYALE EPISODE 2: He's Just A Little Guy! (w/ Jeff Stormer)
It's another episode of our action movie tournament GOON ROYALE. The great Jeff Stormer (Party of One) joins us to cover Robocop, You're Next, Sinners, and…
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MAMAY 6: My Personal Friend, Richard Kind (w/ Mackenna Goodrich)
Mackenna Goodrich from the podcast Informed Attraction comes by to talk about Richard Kind, Star Wars porn parodies, and the only sitcom brave enough to ask…
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Mad About Mad About You 5: Baseball Diamond Horseshoe Theory
We're back! With some more Mad About You! In Season 2, Episode 20 "The Last Scampi", Paul and Jamie's families feud over mid-tier Italian. In our studio we…
Breaking MayberryUNLOCKED BONUS: Everybody hates Dracula!
What if the biggest problem with Dracula wasn't the whole sucking-blood thing, but really just that he's kind of a dick? That's the question we explore in this…
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GOON ROYALE Episode 1: Marty Gets Killed by a Baby (w/ Adam Teterus)
New Mini-Series Alert! Welcome to Goon Royale, a tournament where we'll answer the incredibly dumb question: which movie has the best goon deaths? For the full…
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 4: Remembering Stuff on Long Island
On "Mad About You", Jamie strips at a job interview and Paul still manages to be the reason the job is endangered. On our show, Marty saw a play and now it's…
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 3: Mr. Rogers' Waluigi (w/ Dr. Timaree)
Sex educator, friend of the show, and woman of many talents Dr. Timaree Schmit stops by the show to talk about Paul and Jamie's bedroom trouble, and how it…
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU 2: My Husband, the Lawnmower Man (w/ Dr. Nerdlove)
Show friend Harris "Dr. Nerdlove" O'Malley is back to talk about THE FUTURE of 1994. In this episode of Mad About You, Paul has a steamy virtual reality…
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MAD ABOUT MAD ABOUT YOU #1: A Will They, Won't They, But They Already Have
It's a brand new mini-series! We're taking it to the 90s with the bickering banter of Mad About You! In this series, we break down the relationship of TV…
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EXTENDED PATREON PREVIEW: Goon Royale
Introducing our new Patreon Series, Goon Royale. Over the course of 31 head-to-head matchups, we'll be determining once and for all which movie has the best…
Breaking Mayberry184: God is a 17-Year-Old Reese Witherspoon (Season Finale)
It's our Seson Finale, and we're talking about 1998's Pleasantville, a movie where a black-and-white sitcom turns color and everyone gets really mad about it!…
Breaking Mayberry183: Pika Petey and the Magic Dementia
In this episode we take on the worst Twilight Zone episode, featuring TV's most irritating man. Also Marty read a book and now everyone has to hear about it.
Breaking MayberryUNLOCKED BONUS: Walker? I Hardly Know Her!
Note: Chuck Norris has died. In "tribute", enjoy this 2019 bonus episode we recorded about a particularly terrible episode of Walker Texas Ranger. For more…
Breaking Mayberry182: Help Me, Mumford and Step-Sons!
This episode gets weird as we talk about Ringo Starr's hypothetical podcast, decide another thing is a CIA psyop, and debate philosophically about threesomes…
Breaking Mayberry181: Manufactured Spokesman Fandom
In this episode we get into the TRUTH and ask HARD QUESTIONS. What really happened at the Battle of Mayberry? Who's horny for commercial pitchmen? How far will…
Breaking Mayberry180: Like Hooters, But A Gas Station
In this episode, Marty has some questions about a potato chip brand and Andy Griffith tells us all why it's bad for women to have jobs. It's Andy Griffith…
Breaking Mayberry179: Aggro! at the Post Office
Marty and Dan return with good vibes for the new year and a new sidekick for Andy. Opie almost kills a baby and Marty has a scuffle in a government office…
Breaking Mayberry178: We Don't Need to Create New Slurs
Honestly somehow our most Catholic episode, in spite of the slurs not because of them. We deal with some gross episodes from Season 6, including one we can't…
Breaking Mayberry177: We All Have Our Own Dennis Hoppers to Bear
POP QUIZ HOTSHOT! There's an episode of Andy Griffith that's actually good and Dan doesn't want to talk about it, but if you don't do a schtick the podcast…
Breaking Mayberry176: Wyatt Earp, Safe Sex Advocate
No longer in GLEE-land, the boys can't help but talk about Tombstone and funerals. A wild west show moves into town and Aunt Bee commits insurance fraud in…
Breaking MayberryThe Final Gleekend: Ryan Murphy's Three Body Problem
As we cover our final Glee episode, Season 6's "Child Star", we break down our final therapy feelings about the New Directions, what happens when nostalgia…
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The Glee-kend Six: Inaccurate Twerking Instruction
We spend a lot of this episode talking about Lea Michele's insane broadway career because it's the least upsetting part of what we're going to discuss. This is…
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Gleekend 5: Singing "More Than Words" to a Racist Cat
NOTICE: This is the Glee school shooting episode. We talk about the school shooting parts from about 40:00 to 51:30. Okay look there's really nothing funny…
Breaking MayberryTTRPG-TV: I Have No Mouth and I Must Sheldon
Host, gamer, and mighty little man Jeff Stormer from the Party of One Podcast comes by to talk about some TV with RPG elements - namely 00's Disney Channel hit…
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The Gleekend 4: Smoke A Whole Pack of Asking Boys Out
The Glee Club is back in session and the boy's recording studio - like the Glee club's practice room on GLEE - is in a state of flux.There are crushes that…
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The Gleekend 3: Some Bomer That I Used To Know
Okay, so the Glee-kend continues and we were pretty drunk at this point, I don't know what to tell you. Angry showers and Duran Duran montages happen in this…
Breaking MayberryBEWITCHING MAYBERRY: Chimp In a Hat (w/ 80s TV Ladies)
Marty and Dan meet the Susan and Sharon, the 80s TV Ladies for a two-parter dedicated to the magical '60s sitcom Bewitched. We learn the barbaric nature of…
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The Gleekend 2: (Someone Else's) Papa Can You Hear Me?
Hey pal, are you going through a tough time? Trouble at home? Parents not doing well? Well, how do you think that makes ME feel, huh?! I gotta like, live while…
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The Gleekend 1: The Groban Drones Are Coming
Marty and Dan leave the '60s for the bizarre 2010s. We meet the Glee Club, the weirdest, meanest, most annoying group of people ever to make your grandparents…
Breaking Mayberry157: The Last Literate Man in Mayberry
Ol Barn's back in town, bay-bee and he is as infuriating as ever! We finally get #justiceforthelmalou and the Manhunt franchise ends with an inevitable wet…
Breaking Mayberry156: Art Project Trolly Problem
Okay so you know how just like... the general concept of "art" is mostly considered good, like a good thing that most people enjoy. Well, that's wrong, and…
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155: Opie the Loan Shark
Content Note: This episode discusses media's portrayal of sexual assault for laughs Well, when you do enough AG double-headers, there's gonna be ones like…
Breaking Mayberry154: Garf-sterday
In an episode that's dedicated to talking dogs, we focus on a famous talking cat. It's AG Season 6, Episode 12 "Man's Best Friend" and Episode 13 "Aunt Bee…
Breaking Mayberry153: Mayberry's Designated Survivor
Okay a lot of weird stuff happened to Marty before and during this episode and we're going to talk about it a lot. But you'll be thanking us because it's a lot…
Breaking Mayberry152: Frankie Muniz, Political Consultant (w/ David Dylan Thomas, Kae Lani Palmisano, and Harris O'Malley)
It's an extra-long BREAKING MAYBERRY ALL-STARS featuring three of our favorite returning guests to talk about the three-no-wait-four-part Andy Griffith Epic -…
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151: Talkin TimeCop
Dan and Marty take a little break from the doldrums of Mayberry with the classic(?) action movie TimeCop, starring our favorite cokehead gymnast Jean-Claude…
Breaking Mayberry150: B-Plot K-Hole (w/ Max Ludwig)
We go back to the 80s-restaurant-of-debatable-quality of "It's A Living" with Max Ludwig. This time around we explore a few episodes with Andy Griffith ties…
Breaking Mayberry149: Phoebe Bridgers and the Gay Parachutes (w/ David Dylan Thomas)
Filmmaker and author David Dylan Thomas stops by the Mayberry studios to talk about 2024's I Saw The TV Glow, a movie that's about the horrors and freedoms of…
Breaking Mayberry148: Jokerize Me, Daddy
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone... Barney Fife is gone and in his place arises a great evil, so terrible that…
Breaking Mayberry147: Bullock, Is That Man Dead?
Like Billy Pilgrim, Dan has become unstuck in time. That's why he keeps saying how tired he is after mentioning perfectly normal amounts of time to be awake…
Breaking Mayberry146: Is Goober My Best Friend?
We're back in Mayberry for season 6 and the vibes are OFF for reals. Everyone's really tense and awkward and somehow Goober is the highlight. It's a really low…
Breaking MayberryParental Control: Escape From Olive Garden (w/ Kurt Schiller)
Blood Knife Editor and co-host of Podside Picnic, Kurt Schiller drops by to talk about all things mystery with a pair of Poirots! We discuss the ins and outs…
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Side of M*A*S*H: A New Thanksgiving Tradition
The boys start a new tradition, watching the Thanksgiving episodes of the beloved war dramedy MASH... what's that you say? There aren't any Thanksgiving…
Breaking MayberryBACKDOOR LOVERS: Lee Majors, Come Again
The failed Backdoor Pilot from the Six Million Dollar Man asks, what if there was like, a computer in your brain, man? The answer is, it would suck! But also…
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ELECTION SPECIAL: Welcome Home, Congratulations on Dying!
Look we didn't want to do this one but circumstances forced our hand. We're talking about the Ron Howard-directed Hillbilly Elegy, a movie that Ron Howard is…
Breaking MayberryBACKDOOR LOVERS: No Self-Care Until You Kill A Man
Marty and Dan go back to Hazard County to revisit the Duke boys and their new, laid-back friend, Jude Emery. We get a narrator of our very own, name as many…
Breaking MayberryDoc McGee is Chip Magoo: A Scooby-Doo Podcast (Unlocked Patreon Episode)
The day has finally come - we're talkin' Doo. We discuss the weird place of Scooby Doo in popular culture, horniness, 80's rock band dynamics, horniness again…
Breaking MayberryPARENTAL CONTROL: Gimme da Big Cabbie! (w/ Grant)
We've got Grant from Chip & Ironicus, Six Feats Under, and WSKRS, here to tell us about a show his father loves but can't remember the name of. We're covering…
Breaking MayberryBACKDOOR LOVERS: Why Not Just Call It "Ninja Cops!"
BACKDOOR LOVERS is back with another failed spinoff pilot! This time it's FORCE SEVEN, a tale of ninjas, Teamsters, and racist puppets that spins off of…
Breaking MayberryPARENTAL CONTROL: Mike Wallace or Everyone Dies! (w/ Max Ludwig)
Parental Control is back with a new season of mom-and-dad shows. Dan's brother Max stops by to discuss a sitcom that only Mom Ludwig remembers, with a theme…