As An Adult

Happy 50th episode! We're celebrating by leaving the summer of 2020 and traveling back to the groovy summer of 1970. Midnight cemetery meetings, seances, having "the talk," banana seats on your bicycle, a first kiss, skinny dipping, a murder mystery, Brendan Fraser...there's something for everyone! 

This week, we get little! Honey, I Shrunk the Kids taught a generation of us to be terrified of their own backyards. And also their dad's shrinking machine in the attic. 

Unicorn obsession didn't start for 90's kids with My Little Pony. Don't get it twisted. The OG Unicorn story for Old Millennials involves a Red Bull, a stoned butterfly and a peg-leg pirate kitty. Sound unnecessary and scattered and scary? Of course it does. 

Demonstrations, diagrams, experiments, danger, rock bands, volcanoes...relax everyone, it's SCIENCE. Join us for an EXPLOSIVE conversation with special guest, Louis Steinberg about America's beloved Science Teacher, Bill Nye.

If you think that this movie was terrifying when you saw it in 1999 and it *might* be just as scary now, you are...correct. Also, it is ABSURD that Haley Joel Osment didn't get an Oscar for this role. 

If a giant (and we're talkin GIANT) robot fell from the sky...wouldn't YOU want it to be your best friend? Yep. We do too. This week we travel to Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine for an adventure with Hogarth and his new alien machine pal. 

There might be a spoon. It's 2020. We don't know anymore. 

Have you ever wondered how a Jack Russell Terrier would fare in an old-timey sword fight? Well, look no further than PBS's 90's hit, Wishbone! Combining his love of classic literature and modern day #KidProbz, our four-legged friend gave us the English lessons (and trivia fodder) we didn't know we needed. 

Finally, As An Adult gets to Leo, in his breakout role.  See what I did there? Ok, fine, yes this was after Romeo and Juliet, and YES this was after TITANIC of all things but I think we can all admit that Leo's turn as France's King Louis XIV rocking just an unabashed American accent while prancing around Versailles should have won this man an Oscar. The Academy should be ASHAMED of itself. 

This week we dip back into TGIF with Boy Meets World. It turns out that although everything old is new again, we are NOT here for that dumb "curtain" haircut. 90's, you can KEEP IT.