Crossover Appeal
62 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCrossover Appeal is a bi-weekly podcast about media, fandom, and who you’d ship. Hosts Annie Cardi & Walt McGough take two popular pieces of culture, analyze their thematic relationships, and then figure out how to mash 'em up together.
Basically, it's like tumblr for your ears.
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Episodes
Ep12 - Hamilton + Hamlet
January 11, 2017 12:54 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB#YayHamlet! We're celebrating the palindromic birthday of A. Ham with a crossover inspired by the most positive "shouting from a car" incident in modern history. Join us as we experiment with new synopsis techniques, lament over insufficiently nuanced bustle discourse, and get to the bottom of the nefarious Banana Train. Theme Song: "Password" by Go Gadget
Ep11 - Arrested Development + Lost
December 28, 2016 13:25 - 56 minutes - 26.2 MBAnnie and Walt recover from the holidays with their first-ever listener suggested crossover! We mash up two beloved mid 2000s TV shows with surprising political trajectories, admit to the limits of our French knowledge, and create a hot new a capella band that'll be tearing up the charts. Don't make a huge mistake: join us! Theme Music: "Password" by Go Gadget
Ep10 - It's a Wonderful Life + A Christmas Carol
December 14, 2016 11:41 - 53 minutes - 25.2 MBIt's a Holiday Secular Christmas Spooktacular! Annie and Walt take a look at the two stories that have more or less defined American Christmas, and have a harder time finding places where they DON'T cross over with one another. Spooky ghost voices are employed, reverse ghostly-guidance is examined, and the most regrettably irresistible Battledome fight yet is surrendered to. Happy Holidays!
Ep9 - How to Train Your Dragon + Snowpiercer
November 30, 2016 11:43 - 51 minutes - 24.1 MBWe're coming at you from Walt's old bedroom in Pittsburgh, PA, complete with a spooky origin story. To stave off maid-ghosts, we mash up an uplifting animated tale of Viking Goodness with a Korean fever-dream of axe-fight meanness. Bewilderbeast taxonomy is debated, Walt goes questing for the perfect pun, and a call to action is issued for all you designers out there.
Ep8 - Jane the Virgin + Jurassic Park
November 16, 2016 11:34 - 53 minutes - 25.2 MBPaging Doctor Dinosaur! After a week like this last one, Walt and Annie are ready for any excuse to escape into a fantasy world, even if said world involves occasionally getting conned by three raptors in a trench coat. While they're there, they'll break down TV's greatest grandmas, and introduce Annie's personal JP theme song. Theme Song: "Password" by Go Gadget
Ep7 - Spirited Away + Doctor Who 9
November 02, 2016 11:02 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MBWalt and Annie get over a sick day and some residual Halloween spookiness, with the help of Yubaba's Spirit Bathhouse, our inaugural ride in the TARDIS, and a deep consideration of whether those three bouncing heads will ever find love.
Ep6 - Harry Potter + HP Lovecraft
October 19, 2016 10:38 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBIt's HP meets HP on a spooktacular first Halloween edition of Crossover Appeal! Walt and Annie discuss why Halloween episodes are the best episodes, play some seasonally-appropriate crossover games, and determine that Luna Lovegood holds the true key to the Lovecraft mythos. Plus: a Hermione-related misstep leads to the creation of a beloved new character.
Ep5 - Persuasion + Star Wars IV-VI
October 05, 2016 12:05 - 49 minutes - 23.2 MBThese ARE the crossovers you're looking for: Annie and Walt bring their first novel into close proximity with a galaxy far, far away, with the first of (probably) many Star Wars installments. Bad father figures abound, as do baronets, Hutt intrigue, and Wookies on the streets of Bath. Insert pun on the word "persuasion" here! Theme Music: "Password" by Go Gadget
Ep4 - Friday Night Lights + Pacific Rim
September 21, 2016 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22.6 MBClear eyes. Full hearts. STACKER PENTECOST. It's the battle of the testosterone toastmasters, as Walt and Annie cross over small-town Texas life with big-time kaiju battling. Eventually, a debate arises over just how much we'd be willing to do if Coach told us to.
Ep3 - Miss Fisher + Orphan Black
September 07, 2016 10:44 - 48 minutes - 22.8 MBIt's Maslanys and Babadooks all the way down, as Walt and Annie imagine a time-hopping and conspiracy-riddled universe of non-practicing circus folk and librarian doctors. Plus: an ice-cream truck story with a shocking twist!
Ep2 - Downton Abbey + Lord of the Rings
August 24, 2016 00:00 - 40 minutes - 19.2 MBAnnie and Walt go full Anglophile, with a trip across the pond (and the Ocean Belegaer), for a bit of pastoral rhapsody. Upstairs-downstairs drama meets Middle-Earth mayhem, with hobbits and dowager countesses aplenty. It's One Crossover to rule them all, unless it gets accused of murder in a needlessly prolonged subplot. Theme Music: "Password" by Go Gadget
Ep1 - Gilmore Girls + Battlestar Galactica
August 09, 2016 00:00 - 45 minutes - 21.2 MBWelcome to Crossover Appeal: a new podcast where we take two pieces of pop culture and mash 'em up together! Walt & Annie decide to start things off easy, by combining two shows that pretty much everyone agrees are identical: Gilmore Girls and Battlestar Galactica. www.crossoverappealpodcast.tumblr.com Theme Music: "Password" by Go Gadget