Traumatized with Erin and Jason
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsTraumatized is a weekly podcast in which your hosts Erin Ridgeway and Jason Apple bravely re-watch the terrifying children’s media that frightened them as kids, and ask themselves, “what were our parents thinking?”
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Episode 15 - Howard the Duck
March 13, 2018 05:39 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBIn your opinion, how much explicit duck sexuality is appropriate in a family-friendly adventure movie? If you said zero, congrats! You were not involved in the production of this cinematic disasterpiece, Howard the Duck. If you said anything else, you either have a very specific fetish, or you’re George Lucas. Either way, you should get that looked at. Join us as we ask questions about this movie that no one really wants answered, and dig way deeper into the world of human/duck romance than ...
Episode 14 - Watership Down
March 05, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBIf only there were a film that captured all the violence, political intrigue, and horror of Game of Thrones , but made for children. Good news: there is. It’s our most-requested film, Watership Down, a timeless tale about adorable, fluffy bunny rabbits rebuilding their civilization on the rotting corpses of their enemies. It’s a blood-soaked, G-rated spectacle for the terrified child in all of us. Next week: Howard The Duck [email protected] Twitter and Instagr...
Episode 13 - MINISODE - Star Trek TNG - "The Game"
February 27, 2018 06:32 - 36 minutes - 33 MBRemember that time when we all got obsessed with Snood and almost failed out of college? This is a lot like that, but with orgasms. In this minisode, your hosts explore their strange and confusing feelings about this season five episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Game.” Next week: Watership Down [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast facebook.com/TraumatizedCast
Episode 12 - All Dogs Go To Heaven
February 19, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBMurderous revenge! Troubling racial stereotypes! Dead pets! It’s everything a children’s movie needs to leave lasting psychic damage. Join Erin and Jason as they descend into doggie hell and ask the tough questions about canine theology and the cathartic appeal of film-induced cryarrhea, as they discuss the Don Bluthiest of Don Bluth movies, All Dogs Go to Heaven. Next week: Star Trek: The Next Generation—The Game (Season 5, Episode 6) [email protected] Twitter...
Episode 11 - Legend
February 12, 2018 07:30 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBUnicorns! Tom Cruise in a minidress! Sexy Satan in LEATHER PANTS. Thank you, Ridley Scott. Thank you a million, million times for the glitter-permeated, tonally inappropriate, cuckoo-bananas fantasy extravaganza that is the 1985 cult classic Legend. Pour yourself an acorn of elf wine and join us as Erin and Jason compare and contrast the Director’s Cut and the Theatrical Cut, because if you think we don’t have both versions, you don’t know us at all. Next week: All Dogs Go To Heaven ...
Episode 10 - MINISODE - The Tale of the Midnight Madness
February 06, 2018 00:26 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBSubmitted for the approval of the Midnight Society: our very first minisode, in which Erin takes Jason on a journey into the greatest creepy tween anthology series of the ‘90s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” Short answer: yes. Especially when confronted by a Nosferatu, freed from his celluloid prison and slowly rampaging through an antique theater seeking vengeance. Huddle with us under the covers as we discuss “The Tale of the Midnight Madness.” Up next week: Legend Talk to us: ...
Episode 9 - Ferngully
January 29, 2018 15:51 - 1 hour - 63 MBThis week, Erin and Jason discuss the children’s movie that taught them about deforestation, animal testing, and Tim Curry’s villainous sex appeal. That’s right, they’re talking about the millennial “Silent Spring”, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest. Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast
Episode 8 - Masters of the Universe
January 22, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBOn our latest episode, Erin and Jason find out what happens when you make a He-Man movie that takes everything you love about He-Man, removes it, and replaces it with Courteney Cox. That’s right, it’s Masters of the Universe, the terrible, terrible film that not even the power of Greyskull can save. Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast
Episode 7 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
January 15, 2018 17:20 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBFor the first time, Jason and Erin have totally different perspectives on the same modern cinematic masterpiece/viscerally upsetting horrorshow. Join them as they unpack the toon noir that is definitely not a film for children. Ppppplease listen. Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast
Episode 6 - The Watcher in the Woods
January 08, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBIn the closest thing yet to a joint therapy session, Erin and Jason try to make sense of Disney's My First Horror Movie™ The Watcher in the Woods. Listen in as they try to wrap their broken brains around the off-the-rails madness of an apparent haunted house tale that takes a hard left turn into a different dimension populated by 8-foot-tall winged Predator wasp monsters. Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast
Episode 5 - The Black Cauldron
January 01, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBErin and Jason plunge headfirst into Disney’s beautiful, ill-fated disaster, The Black Cauldron, Join them as they discuss spooky real estate, grave-robbing, suicide, and piles and piles of corpses. (Again, this is an ANIMATED DISNEY FILM FOR CHILDREN.) Let’s gather to mourn what might have been. Up next week: The Watcher in the Woods Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast Further reading: https://www.tor.com/2015/10/08/a-demoralizing-d...
Episode 4 - Gremlins
December 25, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBOn a special festive winter holiday edition of Traumatized, Erin and Jason revisit Joe Dante’s insane Christmas horror comedy classic, Gremlins. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. Up next week: The Black Cauldron Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @traumatizedcast
Episode 3 - The Last Unicorn
December 18, 2017 18:03 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBBust out your blacklight and put on your dad’s America records, because this week, Erin and Jason are follow a dangerously stoned butterfly into the nightmare world of The Last Unicorn, where they confront anthropomorphized sex trees, alcoholic reanimated skeletons, and their own mortality. Up next week: Gremlins Further reading: https://film.avclub.com/the-last-unicorn-was-nightmare-fuel-to-a-generation-of-1798276272 Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: ...
Episode 2 - Willow
December 11, 2017 04:46 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis week, Erin and Jason dive deep into Ron Howard’s 1988 fantasy romp featuring store-brand hobbits, two-headed penis dragons, and being violently turned into a pig. Jason has a lot of thoughts about Sorsha; Erin continues her brave struggle with face blindness. Email: [email protected] Twitter + Instagram: @tramatizedcast
Episode 1.5 - Thank You!
December 08, 2017 23:53 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MBA little midweek (ok late week) housekeeping from Erin to say thanks for all the responses on our pilot and clue you in on what's coming in future episodes. First off, thank you to everybody who listened to The Secret of NIMH and gave us your thoughts and suggestions for future episodes. We love the feedback. In fact we have a special place where you can send your suggestions: [email protected]. Please do get in touch. Second, a number of people noted that they would lik...
Episode 1 - The Secret of NIMH
December 04, 2017 18:33 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBIn our pilot episode, hosts Erin Ridgeway and Jason Apple revisit the childhood nightmare fuel that is “The Secret of NIMH.” Join them as they explore comic relief crows, Don Bluth’s baffling fondness for warts and goo, and Erin’s disconcerting pants feelings for an animated rat. Links: https://www.avclub.com/the-secret-of-nimh-leaves-basically-every-kid-who-sees-1797955000 https://film.avclub.com/don-bluth-offered-a-dark-alternative-to-disney-animatio-1798271712 http://mentalfloss....