So Weird Was SO GOOD‪!‬ Hannah Werme, Chelsea Gabzdyl, and Friends

Let's meet the characters, gush about our bisexual neurodivergent icon Fi, responsible older brother Jack, stoner-coded comedic relief Clu, mother-of-the-year Molly. Chelsea the elementary school teacher and Hannah the former homeschooled kid agree; Ned is teacher of the year. This episode begins with images of corpses being pulled out of a shipwreck, builds up to parents watching their child fall to their death, and ends with absolutely iconic 90s fashion. Along the way we compare it to...

This week we talk about plots that got scrapped on the writing room floor (thanks to the other So Weird podcast that did ALL the research and archiving to keep this show alive during the dark years), Molly's (and Mackenzie's) triumph over addiction, the season 3 that could have been, the pure brilliance of the theme song, Henry Winkler's contributions to Millennial culture, and that's all before we even start talking about the episode at hand.In this episode: phenomenal rapport between the ch...

What if you can't trust your own mind or memories? What if you don't have the resources you need to stay alive? What if you are under the control of people who are not in their right mind and they make poor decisions that put you at risk? Each of the characters respond to this situation wildly differently, and deciding who is right and who is wrong is not straightforward. Drugs? Mental illness? Alzheimer's? Caregiver neglect? Lack of resources? Somehow this episode about aliens is releva...

PUPPY!!!!!!And by "puppy" we do mean "Bigfoot." Join us for the "feel good episode" in which Fi literally finds the corpse of a Civil War soldier.Themes include giving your life for someone else, self-awareness, compassion for outgroups, communication, Colonialism, ecological preservation, intent versus impact, respecting autonomy, and bringing families together.Tangents include Desperate Housewives, Tarzan, and gawking at how incredible the creators of this show were (as always).

Quick question: did we all have fantasies about being able to astral project when we were kids, and did those fantasies evaporate once we all got our drivers' licenses? Asking for a friend!Astral projection acts as an allegory for escapism from the stresses of life in this episode. Capitalism sucks, the 90's treatment of "gifted children" was highly misguided, and it turns out humans need enough free time to experience boredom in order to live up to their full potential. Sometimes that full p...

Fi and the crew have to fix a flat tire by preventing Elon Musk from launching Starlink. Molly learns to "walk up, not out." Erik Von Detten may have invented the word "boomer." I am not exaggerating nearly as much as I should be.