dadfeelings: Recent Episodes
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It's been a long road, and we've all learned a lot about dads—fictional and otherwise. merritt wraps things up for the second anniversary and the last episode of dadfeelings.
merritt just doesn't watch a lot of prestige TV, so this week we brought in expert Eric Thurm to cover a history of dark television fathers all the way from The Sopranos to Breaking Bad.
We're going under the sea this week to look at Albert Brooks' depiction of the heroic dad Marlin in 2003's Finding Nemo.
Yes, we did Batman way back, but since then a film has come along that perfectly encapsulates Batman's whole deal as a man and a dad—and who would have guessed that it'd be a Lego movie?
He's part wolf, part mech, part rabbit, part fox, part sunglasses, part dragon, part dad, all dad, all knives, and he died for our sins.
Guest lb teufel joins us to discuss Wolverine's fatherly turn in 2017's Logan, this week on dadfeelings.
This week we're reminiscing on the classic 90s sitcom Tim Taylor's Time to Improve Your Home and delve into Tim's desperate struggle with masculine norms.
In a show all about monsters, the scariest thing of all is stepdads. This week on dadfeelings, we look back at the second season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Ted."
We wade into the contentious familial history of Donkey Kong to decide once and for all whether Cranky Kong is a dad or a grandfather.
merritt explores the depths of dadfeelings in this week's episode on Steve Zissou from Wes Anderson's 2004 film The Life Aquatic.
Podcast host extraordinaire and voice of Mr. Peanut Butter Paul F. Tompkins is our guest this week as we discuss Luke Skywalker's fatherly turn in The Last Jedi.
The wonderful David Murray of SEIBEI and Telegraph Art & Comics is our guest this week, with a special cameo by baby Ben Murray.
Horror aficionado Imogen Binnie drops in this week to discuss the vampire dad antagonist (dadtagonist?) of 1987's The Lost Boys.
Certified podcast dad Travis McElroy guests to chat about the joys and frustrations of parenthood.
Riverdale's jam-packed with so many dads we needed two guests to cover them all! Friends of the network Brittany Spanos and Morgan M Page join the program to dig into all of the Hot Archie Show's dad dirt.
Chow down on a Gouda dadfeelings Burger as Comedian and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver writer Josh Gondelman guests to chat about Bob Belcher.
Daniel Kibblesmith, author of Santa's Husband, joins merritt to discuss his new book and the fatherly figure of Santa for this special holiday episode.
Rerun: Come on in and pull yourself up a chair, it's dadfeelings! Guest Justin McElroy and merritt discuss Pee-wee Herman as dad/child hybrid figure. Just where does he go when he leaves the playhouse, anyway?
What we give says a lot about what we think of the recipient. In this special episode, merritt explores holiday gift-giving guides for dads, decides they're terrible, then creates her own.
This week merritt takes a deep dive into a confounding 90s board game about letting sleeping dads lie.
Dads: there's a whole mess of songs about 'em. This week, merritt explores the themes of five of those songs.
It's a very scary bonus episode of dadfeelings as Harmony guests to talk the Ancient Magus's Bride.
Second grade teacher, game designer, and dad Kyle Reimergartin guests to talk about anti-hierarchical parenting and Sailor Moon.
Loving father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus. This week merritt explores the world of Octodad, a slapstick videogame about faking it (fatherhood) until you make it.
Here it is, kiddos: the archetypal sitcom father himself, Homer Simpson. Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert of the Talking Simpsons podcast lend their expertise to this extra-long episode dedicated to discussing our Springfield dadfeelings.
We're back in the Real Dad Zone with Chris Furniss this week, discussing parental competition and reliving childhoods.
merritt leaves the city life behind to start a new home in Stardew Valley, where the air is crisp, the water is clear, and the dads are plentiful.
This week, merritt weighs the evidence on Samus Aran to celebrate the release of Metroid: Samus Returns.
merritt reads Rat Bohemia, a novel about familial homophobia and yearning for the love of fathers.
What do you do if you grow apart from your dad? If you're Inaba Akio, you set up an elaborate scheme to play a videogame online with him while concealing your identity.
This week, Jeff Curran guests to talk St. Roy himself: Roy Underhill, host of long-running PBS series The Woodwright's Shop.
Sisko was just the beginning—this week we're diving into the full complex range of dads on display in Deep Space 9, with guest Sophie Bee.
There are too many Star Trek dads to fit into one month, so special guest Eliza Gauger is back for a wide-ranging bonus episode packed with all the Trek dad content you can handle.
We're kicking off a month of Trek Dads with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, featuring special guest Anthony Oliveira.
Co-creators and writers Vernon Shaw and Leighton Gray guest to discuss their game Dream Daddy, the dad dating sim sensation that's sweeping the nation.
It's fine now. Why? Because Crunchyroll's Victoria Holden is here to talk about My Hero Academia's All Might!
Gregory Erskine guests to discuss the unnamed father from Calvin & Hobbes, the master of character building and good-enough explanations.
He's half truck, half robot, all dad. j.n. wiedle's here to chat about the many incarnations of the iconic Transformers character Optimus Prime.
S. Bear Bergman has a lot of dadfeelings! He joins us this week to talk children's books, trusting kids, and parenting queerly.
If every podcast were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs! Steven Universe expert Eric Thurm guests to talk the Tom Scharpling-voiced Greg Universe.
dadfeelings is one year old today, and merritt is playing wall-to-wall classic hits, rating every dad we've ever covered on the show.
Trin Garritano guests to talk about the radical acceptance, pacifism, and progressive politics of Fred Rogers.
This week on dadfeelings we're talking the mythological roots of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 and learning that sometimes, the real dads were the friends you made along the way.
It's our second excursion to the world of professional wrestling as Bloody Honey guests to chat about the absolutely terrible Vince McMahon.
merritt goes solo (sorry, I'm trying to delete it) to cover Han Solo, Bail Organa, Uncle Owen, and the role of fatherhood in the Star Wars universe.
Writer, editor, and Actual Dad Philip Kollar guests to talk raising a kid in a screen-filled world.
With the upsetting news of a ReBoot remake on the way, what better time to take a look back at our favorite Guardian, Bob?
eva problems guests to talk Dracula and a whole host of other supernatural dads from the Castlevania series.
Nick Robinson guests to consider Reggie Fils-Aimé's fictionalized persona as Nintendo's resident dad-in-chief.
Comedian, author, and Real-Life Dad Charlie Demers guests to talk about his dad feelings, and his new book co-written with George Bowering, The Dad Dialogues.
Hook is our favorite movie about an aging drag queen putting on one last show to regain her former glory, and Daniel Shannon is here to talk Dustin Hoffman's queerly paternal turn as the Captain himself.
Madeleine Drake guests to talk Malcolm in the Middle's fearful, incompetent, reckless father.
merritt dumps the dad baggage of a whole mess of beloved characters all over the floor of the SSV Normandy and just rummages around in it like a weird space raccoon.
Guest John Leavitt drops by to talk about the man himself, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Rupert Giles.
Have you seen a little girl? Jae Bearhat guests to talk about Harry Mason and the rich parental themes of the Silent Hill series.
This week, merritt's talking about Hilary Mantel's depiction of Thomas Cromwell, architect of the English Reformation and—in Mantel's universe—a caring and devoted tragic father.
It's one doctor after another this week on dadfeelings as Terence Wiggins guests to talk Mega Man's human father, Thomas Light.
The Great Clement guests to talk Sonic's narcissistic nemesis and the closest thing the Sonic mythos has to a dad.
This week merritt takes a look at real-life TV dad Bob Ross and his encouraging approach to creativity and accomplishment.
Charlotte Shane joins merritt to gush about the one truly supportive father figure on Arrested Development.
Brittany Jane and merritt blast off at the speed of light to discuss Pokémon's Giovanni, absent fathers, and the ongoing mystery of Ash's dad.
Chelsea G. Summers and merritt talk Angel as literal, figurative, and supernatural father.
Mallory Ortberg guests to discuss the 2014 film Dracula Untold's dadly depiction of this classic horror figure.
It's better down where it's wetter—unless you have a terrible dad like King Triton from The Little Mermaid.
merritt gets to grips with George Christopher, the demented god dadfriend of Jonathan Ames' TV series Bored to Death.
Simone de Rochefort joins merritt for a tasting menu of the finest dads modern videogames can provide.
It's time to talk Very Good Dads as Red Durkin guests to cover the patriarch of Parks & Rec, Ron Swanson.
This week we're exploring the intergenerational dad epic of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with a focus on Joseph Joestar.
Suffer with us through REPO! The Genetic Opera, a film in which Anthony Stewart Head plays a scary murder dad named Nathan Wallace
Guest Alex Roberts joins merritt to consider the very good dad Jake the Dog alongside the myriad bad dads of Adventure Time.
A discussion of King of the Hill's titular character Hank leads guest Colin Spacetwinks and merritt into a consideration of structure versus agency, intergenerational trauma, and stoic masculinity.
Whitney Reynolds guests to chat about Frasier Crane, the 8-ball with a Harvard degree and a genuine Bad Dad.
merritt and guest Eve Peyser conduct a comparative dadnalysis of 30 Rock's Jack Donaghy and his contemporaries.
This week we’re digging deep and dodging dinos to talk about Alan Grant, reluctant father figure of Jurassic Park.
Crunchyroll’s Victoria Holden and merritt return to Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball series to get to grips with the Prince of All Saiyans, Vegeta.
It’s dad versus dad this week on dadfeelings, as expert hunkologist Lilzy Trashheap joins merritt to talk X-Men’s Master of Dadnetism, Magneto.
It’s definitely another episode of this podcast as merritt goes solo to discuss Overwatch’s resident dad, Soldier 76.
Guest Dave Shumka and merritt discuss Frank Costanza as avatar of outlandish dadliness.