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Season 2014

  • S2014E01 Starscream

    • September 17, 2014
    • YouTube

    Time to talk about my transformers bae... Starscream. (I'm an adult.)

Season 2015

  • S2015E01 Hades

    • January 16, 2015
    • YouTube

    From shorthand for Satan to a wisecracking lord of the Underworld, the many iterations of the Greek god Hades are worth a-plunderin'.

  • S2015E02 The Wicked Witch of the West

    • March 16, 2015
    • YouTube

    From your earliest childhood nightmare to a tragically misunderstood intellectual, let's take a look at how the Wicked Witch of the West has changed over the years.

  • S2015E03 Captain America

    • April 11, 2015
    • YouTube

    Captain America vs. Captain America vs. Captain America

  • S2015E04 Mad Max

    • May 23, 2015
    • YouTube

    On this Mini-Canon, we take a look at a character that gets not one, but... two whole iterations in film: Max Rockatansky, a.k.a Mad Max.

  • S2015E05 Death

    • May 31, 2015
    • YouTube

    Love it, hate it, but there's no getting around it... death! Strap in as we explore the many ways the imminent and unavoidable death has been characterized throughout pop culture.

  • S2015E06 King Kong

    • July 31, 2015
    • YouTube

    It was beauty killed the beast.... or was it, really? Let's explore one of the oldest, non-book based film franchises: King Kong.

  • S2015E07 Nightcrawler

    • November 24, 2015
    • YouTube

    It's time to explore the best (THE BEST) character in the X-Men canon! Let's take a look at everyone's favorite acrobat-turned-super-hero-turned-priest-turned-super-hero... Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler! YAY!

  • S2015E08 The Jedi

    • December 19, 2015
    • YouTube

Season 2016

  • S2016E01 The Jacks of King Kong

    • January 25, 2016
    • YouTube

    Jack Driscoll: Young, handsome, annoying?... and not a gorilla. Let's explore how one of film's oldest franchises third triangle point changes over time.

  • S2016E02 "Oscar Bait": A History

    • February 26, 2016
    • YouTube

    Every year we reaffirm our vows about how much we don't care about the Oscars because the Oscars don't matter because the Oscars only care about Oscar bait - but when did Oscar bait start to become a Thing in the first place?

  • S2016E03 Phantom of the Opera (Part 1) - Before Broadway

    • March 1, 2016
    • YouTube

    Phantom of the Opera, the horror classic, based on the not-so-classic book that was okay, I guess, and then Hollywood-ified into a string of increasingly out-there adaptations, and all before the Broadway musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber changed the game, but here is a look at poor Erik before Lord Andy.

  • S2016E04 Phantom of the Opera (Part 2): After Lord Andy

    • March 7, 2016
    • YouTube

    And all of a sudden, there were half-masks everywhere. From Robert Englund to a Phantom that haunts malls, this public domain musical underwent a huge facelift after the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical. Also, Gerard Butler can't sing.

  • S2016E05 Queen Elizabeth I

    • March 16, 2016
    • YouTube

    One of European history's most famous monarchs has, throughout the ages, always begged a single question: who was she schtupping? From Doctor Who to Blackadder to the lunatic fever dreams of Roland Emmerich, we know she was doin' it with someone (or trying to).

  • S2016E06 Superhero v. Superhero: A History

    • March 22, 2016
    • YouTube

    Before Batman vs. Superman and Civil War, there was a proud history of superheroes fighting each other for mostly contrived and not very good reasons.

  • S2016E07 Aphrodite

    • May 4, 2016
    • YouTube

    The goddess Venus (née Aphrodite [née Turan {née ???}]) has been a popular subject to depict in pop culture, and her depictions have been all over the plac... probably because she has no defining personality traits.

  • S2016E08 X-men Dying (and un-dying)

    • May 27, 2016
    • YouTube

    A brief run-down of all the ways your favorite X-men who died and then had their heroic deaths retconned.

  • S2016E09 Marilyn Monroe

    • July 6, 2016
    • YouTube

    As voted by patrons on my Patreon page - the A brief discussions on the depictions of Marilyn, the symbol of (???) who has ceased to be a person.

  • S2016E10 9/11 - Part 1

    • August 5, 2016
    • YouTube

    One of the great turning points in modern history - how does pop culture depict it? Awkwardly, for the most part.

  • S2016E11 9/11 - Part 2

    • August 5, 2016
    • YouTube

    A few years out from 9/11, the jingoism started to fade, and we started to talk about our ~*~feelings~*~.

  • S2016E12 Mystique

    • September 1, 2016
    • YouTube

    She's the embodiment of evil feminine archetypes and fears about feminine sexuality (and also is my favorite X-villain so nyeh)

  • S2016E13 Hillary Clinton

    • September 25, 2016
    • YouTube

    Odds are pretty good that one person's imitation of Hillary doesn't sound much like anyone else's.

  • S2016E14 Jack the Ripper

    • November 1, 2016
    • YouTube

    Hope you like shots of feet in the dark and women being brutalized! One of the greatest serial killer unsolved mysteries (and conspiracy theories apparently?) of the modern era has been adapted many times into film and television.

  • S2016E15 Santa Claus

    • December 24, 2016
    • YouTube

    Possibly the most inevitable installment of Loose Canon ever.