I'd Like To Thank My Wife

...And Also That One About The Underworld Movies (No Academy Awards)

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Hit by catastrophe (E's laptop being broken), E and Tygo stalk the rooftops this month to come up with a fun replacement episode for our usual show. And let's be honest now, what is the closest we could get to the highly prestigious movies we usually cover? That's right, campy vampire movies. Welcome to our special Underworld episode.

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Still Don't Know Who Won (The 98th Academy Awards)

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT

This year's Oscars sure were another wild ride! Go on a journey with Tygo and E discovering vampires in multiple movies (or is he...?), vroom vroom sounds and multiple battles.

Movies included: Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train Dreams.

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C'mon Down to the Passion Pit (The 29th Academy Awards)

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:00:00 GMT

It's the year of the epics, baby! Strap in your seatbelts...

Movies included: Around the World in 80 Days, Friendly Persuasion, Giant, King and I, The Searchers and The Ten Commandments.

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Someone Call the Hays Code (The 28th Academy Awards)

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:00:00 GMT

In this final episode of 2025, E and Tygo find out which director got fired for punching one of his actors, have an inevitable Wicked: For Good side rant, and wise lessons for James Cameron (you're so welcome, if you're listening).

Movies included: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Marty, Mister Roberts, Oklahoma!, Picnic and The Rose Tattoo.

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The Strawberry Incident (The 27th Academy Awards)

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Another month, another year of Oscars! In this one we discover what Michael Caine was named after, and Snow White again...?

Movies included: The Caine Mutiny, The Country Girl, Johnny Guitar, On the Waterfront, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Three Coins in the Fountain.

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Nomination Revoked (The 26th Academy Awards)

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT

This year E and Tygo discover actors getting roles through maffia connections, Oscar statuettes being forgotten in the bathroom and the first Cinemascope widescreen movie!

Movies included: From Here to Eternity, Julius Caesar, The Robe, Roman Holiday, Shane and War of the Worlds.

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The Bag Pipe Garrison Won (The 25th Academy Awards)

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:00:00 GMT

This year E and Tygo talk about the "the most unamerican film" John Wayne has ever seen, the second worst movie to ever win Best Picture (?), and one of the most famous musicals ever made!

Movies included: The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man and Singin' in the Rain.

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The Annual Hamlet-Off (The 24th Academy Awards)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMT

This episode Tygo and E find out all about misidentified painters, 1950s Jared Leto and wife-avoiding tactics.

Movies included: An American in Paris, Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis and A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Your Standard Monkey Funeral Shot (The 23rd Academy Awards)

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT

And into the 1950s we go! Including the return of old stars, bets being lost and won at the same time, and Magic Mike...?

Movies included: All About Eve, Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines and Sunset Boulevard.

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A Marvelous Girl With Terrifying Personal Problems (The 22nd Academy Awards)

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:00:00 GMT

In the very last episode covering the 1940s Tygo and E encounter lost wives, actors very angry at scripts and directors starting affairs.

Movies included: All the King's Men, Battleground, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives and Twelve O'Clock High.

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The Plot is The Plot is The Plot (The 21st Academy Awards)

Sat, 31 May 2025 11:00:00 GMT

This episode E and Tygo cover stunts gone wrong, one of the best movies they've seen so far, but also a film so bad it killed its director...?

Movies included: Hamlet, Joan of Arc, Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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We Have Established That Santa Claus Is Real (The 20th Academy Awards)

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:00:00 GMT

This month Tygo and E find out whether Santa Claus is real, learn how to steal someone's wife (before, of course, thanking her) and talk about murder mysteries, both fictional and real...

Movies included: The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement, Great Expectations and Miracle on 34th Street.

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She Will Keep Writing Songs, I Fear (The 97th Academy Awards)

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:34:53 GMT

The great year of Anora, The Substance, Wicked and more! Including everything you want to know about cardinals giving tea, casting drama and... Emilia Perez, unfortunately.

Movies included: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Perez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance and Wicked.

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How Could We Have Known (The 19th Academy Awards)

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 GMT

This month Tygo and E find out whether life is wonderful, talk about stunts gone wrong and going back to the clubbb.

Movies included: The Best Years of Our Lives, Henry V, It's a Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge and The Yearling.

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That's So Much Better Than Asbestos (The 18th Academy Awards)

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:00:00 GMT

As the final day of 2024 approaches, E and Tygo discuss dream sequences, the power of Ingrid Bergman and... The Weird Al movie?

Movies included: Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce and Spellbound.

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Narrative, Narrative, Narrativism (The 17th Academy Awards)

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 GMT

Discussions about terrible wigs, drama between directors like Hitchcock himself, Ingrid Bergman's approach to screen kisses and much more!

Movies included: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Going My Way, Since You Went Away and Wilson.

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We'd Like To Thank Tom - And, Of Course, Jerry (The 16th Academy Awards)

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:00:00 GMT

This episode we finally talk about THE film noir. That and Madonna.

Movies included: Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette and Watch on the Rhine.

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Hit By Something In The Head (The 15th Academy Awards)

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT

This month, America is at war - and hoo, boy, do they like making movies about it.

Movies included: 49th Parallel, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, Mrs. Miniver, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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The Semi-True Story of the Hollywood Murder (The 14th Academy Awards)

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:00:39 GMT

This month we discover the greatest movie of all time, but also possibly one of the worst ones we have seen so far. Oh, and maybe murder.

Movies included: Blossoms in the Dust, Citizen Kane, Fantasia, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, How Green Was My Valley, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York and Suspicion.

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Direct It Yourself, You Bastard (The 13th Academy Awards)

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:00:40 GMT

This month E and Tygo talk about racy fashion at the awards, Alfred Hitchcock's first appearance and Hitler being used as a laughing stock...

Movies included: All This, and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, The Philadelphia Story and Rebecca.

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This Is Why She Gets Hit By A Car (The 12th Academy Awards)

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT

This episode Tygo and E finally cover the long-awaited Gone With The Wind, as well as many behind the scenes stories such as actors being set on fire, love affairs and rich dogs.

Movies included: Dark Victory, Gone With the Wind, Goodybe, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz and Wuthering Heights.

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The Drama! The Tea! The Gossip! (The 11th Academy Awards)

Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 GMT

This episode E and Tygo talk about the most batshit crazy behind the scene stories, including love affairs, pregnancies out of wedlock and wrong names on the famous Oscar statue - as well as the 10 nominated movies of 1939 of course!

Movies included: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot and You Can't Take It with You.

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It's A Bit Plagiarised (The 10th Academy Awards)

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:00:24 GMT

In this anniversary episode of the podcast E and Tygo talk about dogs playing hide and seek, plates being smashed and the first movie to hit a double digit amount of nominations.

Movies included: The Awful Truth, Captains Courageous, Dead End, The Good Earth, In Old Chicago, The Life of Emile Zola, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Stage Door and A Star Is Born.

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Not Everyone's Cup Of Cake (The 96th Academy Awards)

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:00:36 GMT

E and Tygo discuss the latest Oscars and all its movies! Including the most chaotic acceptance speeches, dog awards and Willem Dafoe's pranks :).

Movies included: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest.

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Oi, Budapest, Yah (The 9th Academy Awards)

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT

Tygo and E discover the first Oscars to have the Best Supporting Actor/Actress category, watch the first color movie of the podcast and talk about how a Hungarian count is truly meant to speak.

Movies included: Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, The Garden of Allah, The Great Ziegfeld, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities and Three Smart Girls.

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Twenty Pounds For Your Bestie's Life (The 8th Academy Awards)

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:00:18 GMT

This month E and Tygo saw 12 movies, all nominated for the Best Picture award of 1936! Including facts about the 1930s' best fencing actor, dead snakes and all the different types of snoring.

Movies included: Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Les Miserables, Mutiny on the Bounty, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap and Top Hat.

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I Am Terrified of Snakes (The 7th Academy Awards)

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:00:15 GMT

E and Tygo dive into the 7th Academy Awards, where they come across the first movie to have color, beef between Norma Shearer and others, and the first ever Oscar Grand Slam!

Movies included: The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, It Happened One Night, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa! and The White Parade.

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They're Shooting, But Only A Movie (The 6th Academy Awards)

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT

On this 6 month anniversary episode E and Tygo discuss 1933's Little Women, Henry VIII and the most important hog in cinematic history (go Blue Boy!).

Movies included: 42nd Street, A Farewell to Arms, Cavalcade, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, The Private Life of Henry VIII, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin' Through and State Fair.

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Jazz Up Your Lingerie (The 5th Academy Awards)

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:00:18 GMT

E and Tygo discover what the Hays Code exactly entailed, make recommendations about how to handle the plague and appreciate the being that is Anna May Wong.

Movies included: Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Five Star Final, Grand Hotel, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express and The Smiling Lieutenant.

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I Have Learned To Love Mankind (The 4th Academy Awards)

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Today, we talk about a really good movie. And two pretty solid movies. And also two movies that bring out the darkest, most awful depths of humanity's behaviour in pursuit of getting the shot. Do it for the Oscar, babey. You've been warned.

Movies included: Cimarron, East Lynne, The Front Page, Skippy and Trader Horn.

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Imagine Having Standards (The 3rd Academy Awards)

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:00:17 GMT

E and Tygo dive back into 1930... Again?! From singing dogs to awful haircuts, this is yet another year that offers a wide variety of films to discuss.

Movies included: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee and The Love Parade.

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Immorality, Criminality, and Depravity (The 2nd Academy Awards)

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:00:00 GMT

E and Tygo go back to 1930 to find out if talkies are a fad, discuss if there are lesbians, and truly come to understand the words of famed philosopher and film critic Harry Styles.

Movies included: Alibi, The Broadway Melody, The Divine Lady, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, In Old Arizona and The Patriot.

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No War, Just Bubbles (The 1st Academy Awards)

Wed, 31 May 2023 10:00:35 GMT

E and Tygo go back to 1929, encountering rushed romances, quirky quotes, and... Top Gun Maverick!?

Movies included: 7th Heaven, Chang, The Circus, The Crowd, The Jazz Singer, The Racket, Sunrise and Wings.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, suicide, and racism.

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We Will Fistfight Jamie Lee Curtis (The 95th Academy Awards)

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:00:00 GMT

E and Tygo dip their toes into the world of Best Picture nominees by starting fresh at the most recent ceremony - the 95th. From bwaa-bwaa-bwaa's to human spiders, this year's movies were... an experience.

Movies included: All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness and Women Talking.

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