Super Cool Party People Podcast

Our Friend's Web Series and Women Writing TV

Amanda and Stephanie — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:15:44 -0500

This week, we welcome our good friend (and my former roommate) Grace on to talk about her fabulous new web series, Little to No Experience. We also talk about women’s voices on television, the latest winner of Top Chef and our mixed feelings about this year’s Oscars ceremony.

And now some links you may be interested in:

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Awkward Black Girl

Eden Sher’s Jezebel Piece on Female Directors

Vulture’s Sitcom Smackdown

*Technical note: this was our first experience with three-way calling/recording of the show, and despite Stephanie’s brilliant audio work, there are still some volume inconsistencies. Apologies in advance!

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Music on Television and When to just Give Up on a Show

Amanda and Stephanie — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:24:00 -0500

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This week on SCPP, we welcome our very first guest, our mom, Cheryl! She joins us in talking about shows that use music awkwardly, amazingly, and/or terribly, how and why we decide to cut ties with a television show, and finally, what is making us go AHH!! and Ugghhhh…. this week, with a special focus on a pretty ridiculous article about women and fitness.

And now some links you may be interested in:

Mom Deconstructs Pop Culture (Inspired by our mother - created by Stephanie)

The Middle episode with the amazing song that inspired our first segment (PS - You should all be watching The Middle. Its one of the most underrated TV shows on right now.)

Project Runway Song Montage from the best season of reality TV possible ever

Jezebel Article about Glute Guy

This American Life Episodes you should be listening to right this second. (Part One / Part Two)

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Unresolved Sexual Tension and Feminism on TV!

Amanda and Stephanie — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:00 -0500

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It only took a month and a half, but now, here’s the 2nd episode of the Super Cool Party People Podcast!

In this episode, we discuss unresolved sexual tension on some of our favorite TV shows, including our most recent obsession, Nick and Jess on New Girl. We then move on to dissect the feminist appeal of The Mindy Project, and finally, we end with our newest segment, Ahhh!/Uggghhh with things we are loving and hating this week.

And now for some links to things we talked about on the show, in case you feel like wasting the next four hours of your life learning more about things that are interesting to us:

Recap of The Mindy Project with every possible nod to romantic comedies pointed out.

New Girl Kiss!

Jezebel Article on a super pretty, super smart girl

Japanese Boy and his adorable French Bulldog

NYTimes Article on our national myth of equal opportunity

Some general horror film theory stuff: One / Two

Rebuttals to the annoying thing (Heritage Foundation study) Steph’s FB friend posted: One / Two

Ken Levin’s blog post on The Mindy Project

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All Encompassing TV Marathons and Delightful Things in 2012

Amanda and Stephanie — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:16:00 -0500

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It’s the very first episode of the Super Cool Party People Podcast, starring me, Amanda, and my sister Stephanie, a PhD student in Media.

In this episode, we discuss our recent descent into the TV madness that is marathoning a TV show (in our case, The West Wing), things that delighted us in 2012 and the things we are looking forward to in 2013.

Some things you may want to check out from the episode:

Richard Lawson on twitter

Lindy West on Twitter (and her amazing live story)

The Monkey See Blog on NPR.org (By Linda Holmes of the Pop Culture Happy Hour)

And of course… The American Girl Music Videos (I especially recommend “1000 Miles”)

Also, in case it wasn’t clear from the episode, The West Wing is now steaming on Netflix. Your’re welcome, and I’m sorry.

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