Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Featuring Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims!

In which Rachel and Chris X-plain three cartoons and track a disagreement to its source; Gambit is definitely the worst person you know; Broadcasting Standards and Practices is tired of your death ceremonies; Storm doesn't have an inside voice; and we finally get around to mentioning that one dude with the claws.

X-Plained:

Weaponized creepiness
The evolution (and Evolution) of X-Toons
Why you hate Cyclops (and Rachel doesn't)
Adaptation overload
Broadcast standards, practices, and laser rifles
How to order pizza like a weather goddess
A paramilitary after-school club
G-Rated Wolverine
Comics based on cartoons based on comics
Morph
The Batman Standard
The Wolverine and the X-Men trifecta of perfection
Why the Mojoverse works better on TV
Dazzler's secret second job
Basic jacketry

CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel mentions that Morph's first comics appearance is in Exiles. It's not: he's in Age of Apocalypse. Mea culpa.



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