Your Favorite Monsters podcast: Recent Episodes
Betsy Jorgensen
Your Favorite Monsters is a podcast about Scooby Doo, Mystery Inc. as watched by two friends: Betsy has never watched it before, and Blake has seen all of them. But they do have one thing in common!
They are both major nerds when it comes to facts about monsters, movies, comics, legends, and all sorta of other things weird and spooky. And this incarnation of Scooby Doo has plenty of references to all sorts of media and mythology.
So pull up your favorite listening device, and be sure to check in your closets and under your beds, because here come Blake and Betsy: Your Favorite Monsters.
Updates Bi-weekly!
Another show comes to a close, the way all good shows do: freezing in a meat locker. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they conga their way out of the freezer and into history as they end out Clone High with: Changes: The Big Prom: The Sex Romp: The Season Finale!
It's almost Prom Night, and Abe better have his prom-posal down pat, because Cleo is Cleo-frigging-patrea and she needs the best ask ever! Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they watch the kids of Clone High subject themselves to Makeovers, calling out dictionaries, and more makeovers in: Makeover Makeover Makeover: The Makeover Episode!
It's a delightful Snowflake Day in Exclamation USA, and the Clones are happy to celebrate! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they hold on to their holiday spirit with their spicy teeth and toenails, and enjoy a lamb taco as we enjoy Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode!
In this very special episode, Betsy and Blake, your Favorite Monsters, get their poking sticks and their satchels and get ready to pick up litter like squares because the kids at Clone High think garbage is cool. Will they learn their lesson before someone dies? No! Find out who in Litter Kills: Literally!
Singing! Dancing! Costume changes! Diegetic music! This can only mean one thing...a Musical Episode! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they follow the tune in this episode of Clone High - Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts!
It's a tale as old as time, two sides, both alike in dignity, in fair Exclamation, where he set our scene. Join Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, where they see clone against clone fight it out in this episode that ends in a pie fight: A Room of One's Clone: The Pie of the Storm
One hit wonders are a thing even in the crazy world of Clone High! Join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as they don't look directly at the joke that this show only lasted one season, and they talk WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT ANIME in this episode of Clone High: Plane Crazy - Gate Expectations!
While there's no rule that says a giraffe can't play football, there is a rule that girls can't play basketball! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they rue gender existentialism as a mysterious student joins the Clone High students to help them play the big game, in Homecoming: A Shot in the D'Arc!
PSJX time! Join Your Favorite Monsters as they get study up for some standardized tests! The Clones are doing their best at doing the worst to their sleep times, and have adventures in truckin'. Butlertron faces an old foe in the battle-bot arena, and we see Joan's biggest mistake in: Sleep of Faith: La Rue D'Awakening!
A petal falls. A light breaks through a window pane. A pair of monsters picking grains of film out of a silly place called Clone High. Like describing the smell of perfume through a visual medium, the highschoolers of Clone High will tell their feelings via the contrived medium of indie film. Grab your popcorn, and join Betsy and Blake for: Film Fest: Tears of a Clone!
On this very special episode of Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake are- oh man, do you see that dog! It's got a hankerchief on! - oh sorry, they are back at Clone High as Gabe and Gandi - wow, i never noticed that the window opened like this, wait I gotta go poke that - oh, Gabe and Gandi do some stuff, and Joan is hearing voices - say, that's a weird phrase "hearing voices" how else are you supposed to perceive them? "seeing voices?". "tasting voices?" Man, I wonder what voices would taste like?
... I did it again, didn't I. Well, join us for tonight's episode- A.D.D.: The Last "D" Is for Disorder!
On this very special episode of Clone High, the clones have gotten corporate money mixed up in their school election! Wow, that doesn't sound like anything Your Favorite Monsters have lived with or anything...sob sob... so let's slam some XTREME Blue!, show off our abs, and get ready for political attack abs in Election Blu-Galoo!
Hey everyone! I bet you thought this podcast was over! Just like you thought Clone High was over! But guess what? It's 2020, time doesn't have meaning anymore, and we're back, baby! So let's go back to the early 2000's, get ready to look at some wacky hijinks, be confused we switched to talking about a different cartoon, and join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they start another season of podcasting with Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand!
It's the end of everything, an elder god has been summoned, and yet this is still somehow Scooby Doo? Deep under Crystal Cover the gang of Scooby Doo Mysery Incorporated are up against an entity of concentrated evil, and only they can stop it! Join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as they try not to get eaten as they watch the metaplot, the town, and the fabric of reality Come Undone!
Things are getting serious now, fam. Doors are opening. The Scooby Gang is leveling up in being hard core. Someone straight up gets shot. Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they sit in dawning horror at how totally bleak this show has gotten as the whole show goes Through the Curtain.
We're in the final run now! Under the streets of Crystal Cove, the Scooby Gang is fighting for the lives of the town against Professor Pericles and his German Death Robots! Join Betsy and Blake, your Favorite Monsters, as they hide in the rubble, and find the best vantage point on the opening of the Gates of Gloom!
Hey guys, no episode this week. Betsy had surgery, and she wasn't up to record in between our last episode and now. So we'll be back next week!
Penultimate is a funny word. It sounds like some sort of beyond ultimate, but in fact, it means something just in front of the end, right before everything is over. Do we think the Mystery gang of Crystal Cove knows this distinction? Well, they seems to have some strange idea about what hearts, plants, and mysteries are, so probably not! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, as they buckle in for the penultimate episode in the deepest jungle and go searching for...The Heart of Darkness!
Dreamscapes and terrors are no place to lose your way, but that is just what has happened to the Gang of Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated. Haunted by the larger than life, and more monstrous than ever Freak of Crystal Cove, they enlist the help of another misanthrope in their quest. But will it be too late? Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they talk their backwards talk, and dance the backwards walk into a Nightmare in Red!
Have you every looked into the mirror just to see if your reflection was going to move? Just me? Well, it might have helped the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated as they investigate a haunted(?) house. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they check their backs against the Man in the Mirror!
We've got a mystery ramping up, a parrot breathing down everyone's neck, and a planet potentially about to murder an entire town. So why not...investigate a highway man? Who is kidnapping women? From super sexist dudes who just want their dinner made? Join the Gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated as they waste their precious little time with stupidity as Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake drink heavily in the background, as the Dandy Highwayman demands they all Stand and Deliver!
Sometimes a feast can leave you full, but in tonight's episode, you are just going to be left wanting. The Scooby Doo gang are on the hunt for a...SIGH...gluten demon...so Crystal Cove is now under watch of the worst person you know. So grab some advil, and hold back the tension headaches with Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as we all endure The Devouring!
The Scooby Gang was sleuthing in the cove late one night, when they came across a mysteeeeerious sight. A voodoo band was playing great, even if their lyrics only rhymed with with mate!
It was a mash!
Your Favorite Monster mash!
A spooky mash!
It was a podcast smash!
It was a mash!
A Monster mash!
Everybody did the mash!.....
In fact....they can never stop...the Dance of the Undead!
Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep those mysteries rolling! The Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. Gang is rolling through the farms of Crystal Cove, investigating the wake of utter destruction of....something? What are these terrible cows-bee-skull monstrosities, and what are they doing? Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they saddle up and with The Horrible Herd!
The truth is out there...in Crystal Cove! The gang of Scooby Doo, Mystery Inc are deep in investigating the Planispheric Disks, when they are waylaid by classic grey aliens, harassing the town. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monster as they watch the skies for The Aliens Amoung Us!
You've heard of the Scottish Play, now get ready for the Crystal Cove Drama! But much like any other cursed performance, there's danger around every corner! But if the Scooby Gang doesn't watch out, they'll join whatever is haunting the stage in warning people about Nibiru. Join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as they put on their back-stage blacks, turn on the blue lights, and get ready for opening night in The Theatre of Doom!
If there is one thing Scooby Doo has taught us, there is nothing like the bond between a man and his dog. When the Man in question is a hard-boiled Batman-esque superhero, and the dog is a cross between Inspector Gadget and a doberman, then we've already got a wacky story on our hands. What's one Mecha-Dragon between friends to make this a rip-roaring good time? Join your favorite Monsters as they are the night in this episode: Heart of Evil!
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Its the time where all the good little boys and girls are hiding under their over-stuffed comforters because the dark shadow to St. Nicolas is stalking through the night, finding wickedness. What is the Mystery Gang supposed to do with that? Pull up a bucket of popcorn and put on your Krampus Sweater, and join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, and we shamelessly root for the bad guys in - The Wrath of the Krampus!
How many bears could a Scarebear scare if a Scarebear could scare bears? Probably more than the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated could rustle up on short notice, that's for sure! But it's all fun and games until a mutant avocado eats a kitten, then it's a tragedy. Some come on out in the woods tonight with Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, for our own version of the teddy bear's picnic with: Scarebear!
Hello Everyone!
Betsy Here. Sorry for the short notice, but I just started a new job, and am out of the country on a work trip on short notice. I was hoping to get the episode up before I left, but things didn't work out, so we are taking a one episode break.
See you in 2 weeks!
B & B (music factory)
Angel Dynamite. Amazing DJ. Snazzy Dresser. Marked...for murder? The gang of Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated is teaming up again with their old mentor, but the WWII era robot assassins that are stalking them can only come from one place: the sea! Come going Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they spray on their shark repellent, strap on some fins, and dive into: The Midnight Zone!
When you live at a beach, where do you go on vacation? The mountains, apparently! But nothing for Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated is that easy, so why wouldn't there be a haunted library, a literal crazy train, and a dearly departed Orangutan in the mix? Crack open a tome with Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, as they sit by the roaring fire and watch out for Night Terrors!
The Teens in Crystal Cove are trembling in their proverbial boots as an old-timey Puritan is meting out some harsh judgment on their teenage trysts. Can the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated find out who's behind this dark specter, or will they too be judged and found lacking? Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they keep their faces stoic for this Grim Justice!
While not seen as a traditional mountain climbing crew, the gang at Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated have heard of of sinister flying Lilith raining pain and mystery on Crystal Cove. Join Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake as they get on their rappelling gear, tie up their sleeping bags, and get ready for a Night on Haunted Mountain!
A stench is gathering at the edge of Crystal Cove, and it may be this episode. Blake and Betsy bravely hold their noises as they wade through what is just a stinker of a case for the Scooby Gang. Come and join Your Favorite Monsters as they keep their eyes from rolling straight out of their heads as they wave away the fog of The Gathering Gloom!
Scooby Doo is entertainment, but is it art? This is absolutely not a question that will be addressed by the gang of Mystery Incorporated as they are called in to solve a mystery of Art attacks Man in Crystal Cove. Join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as they put on their scarves, get ready to eat some hors d'oeuvres, and are prepared to have some pretentious opinions about The Art of Darkness!
Hold your Jackalopes tight and toss some fresh tuna to Nessie, because the gang from Crystal Cove is hunting for Cryptids. This week, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is baffled by a regional menace with a taste for the preserved dairy known...as cheese. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they exit the darkness of the woods of Wisconsin and face the Hodag of Horror!
A dream is a wish your heart makes, and if the Scooby Gang in Crystal Cove is to be believed, the way to your heart is through your stomach. So when people are being stalked through their dreams, they know it's more than just indigestion. Join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as the games becomes clear and the untangle the Web of the Dreamweaver!
Why don't we just leave them stranded, alone in Crystal Cove? The Scooby Gang is separated. Your Favorite Monsters are watching, so bold. Maybe this mystery is lingering, sequel unsatisfied (so unsatisfied.) Guess we guess have to watch it. This is what is sounds like, When the Clown Cried! (part 2!)
What has two legs, a roof, hundreds of bones that aren't its own, and is currently haunting Crystal Cove and the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated? Come join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they lean into some Slavic roots and revel in the spooky domicile of The House of the Nightmare Witch!
The gang is back in the Crystal Cove we've grown familiar with, and they're worse than they've ever been, now down one member! A giant baby terror clown is crying his way from main street to dead end drive and Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, are trying to dodge tantrums and catching the references in The Night the Clown Cried...Part 1!
The Scooby Gang are up against their biggest rivals in mystery solvers yet:...wait. Am I reading this right? This is ridiculous. This says "the band KISS." Like, from the 70s. That's right? And they are magical girls? From an alien planet? But like, serious?
...huh.
Well, join your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, as they don't stop anyone now to try to make sense of this crazy train and get on the highway to hell in Scooby Doo and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery!
Holy Interlude Monsters! The Scooby Gang has left Crystal Cove to go to Gotham City to meet the world's greatest detective: Batman! But there is another mystery going on, a whole bunch of DC detectives are on the case! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, as they get their Bat-blankets, and their Bat-mugs, and watch with their Bat-binoculars as the case unfolds in: Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold!
Just a reminder that we will be back in September 24th with Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold!
Here it is, everyone! All our answers are going to have questions! All our mysteries will be revealed! Everything in Crystal Cove has become very dangerous, because the gang of Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated have really stuck their noses in something clearly different, and some freakish jester is making the past (and some terrifying villainous birds) come home to roost. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as they finish off season one In Fear of the Freak!
Shadowy hands are moving behind the scenes, and drawing the first season of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated to a close. But to get through this penultimate episode, Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake have to travel through the most terrible crawling madness, the most horrible haunting terror, the most awful screaming horror that has been put into words: society's opinion of teenage girl's literature. So declare your Team, cheer on your District, and watch the gang be moved in the Pawn of Shadows!
There's only room in this town for one dog...and one hippy...and one trap expert...and one hacker...and one Daphne...
That's actually a lot of room, if you think about it.
So, there's only room in One Crystal Cove for 1 Mystery Incorporated, so it's trouble when a certain undead lawman is trying to shake up the status quo. Join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters, as solve the mystery behind Dead Justice!
Things are heating up in the Jones House, as the spirits of the restless dead cry out for things in days gone past. Will their cries go unanswered, or will the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated figure out who (or what?!) is stalking through the halls of Crystal Cove before everything goes up in smoke? Betsy and Blake, your Favorite Monsters, have buckets and fire blankets at the ready in case they aren't successful against the Haunting in Crystal Cove!
We're not going to sugar coat this one: Crystal Cove has come down with some problematic tropes. Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated get tangled up with a set of terrible people who play out some pulpy adventure bull-hockey. So sit back as Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake, start frothing at the mouth and call for murder during the Attack of the Headless Horror!
Amusement parks. In most towns, they serve up overpriced food and rides of questionable safey, but in Crystal Cove, they are serving up cursed temples with a side order of of mysterious death! The gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is on the case with the full blessing(!) of the mayor to try and discover who or what was brought back with a cursed temple. Get ready to feel mildly miffed with Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters, as they monitor the Menace of the Manticore!
Don't go into the water! There's something fishy in the waters outside Crystal Cover, and the gang at Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated are on the case. Well...at least Velma is. Along with a certain someone from the depths of the scariest place there is...THE INTERNET. So grab a beach towel, and settle in with Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, and don't get too enraptured, or you'll fall victim to The Siren's Song!
Star of stage, screen, nightmare and spell-scape Vincent Van-Ghoul graces Crystal Cove and the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated this week, and Your Favorite Monsters, Betsy and Blake reminisce about his far FAR cooler namesake. Join in as they gaze over the this shadow of a former titan in Night Fright.
If there is one thing to take away from this episode, listeners, it's this: Always double down on Ghost Wizards. The Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated gang is on the run with their new exchange student friend, but is she really who she seems? And what about that tourist advisor from the sister city, voiced by the delightful George Takei? Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, we dive into this and into why swordfish continues to be an awful password on The Dragon's Secret!
Oh no, listeners; there's a pile of leaves spread over a strangely lumpy bit of carpet, a translucent tripwire across the door, and one very different colored suit of armor in the background, tilted oddly against a shadowy corner. That can only mean one thing: Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is at it again, but this time the traps aren't on thier side, and are set to 11. So plug in, and join Your Favorite Monsters Blake and Betsy as we descend into the past in Escape from Mystery Manor!
Love is in the air, and Your Favorite Monsters are holding their noses. Betsy and Blake watch in dawning horror as the Scooby Doo Mystery Inc gang fall back under the spell of twitterpation, and they seriously root for the return of a tiny, evil, brilliant feathered fiend. Who's going to make it out of Crystal Cove with their sanity intact in "Where Walks Aphrodite?"
Feel the wind in your hair as Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, take you for a ride down the forgotten highways of Crystal Cove as they watch the gang of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated try to wrestle with the great muscle and greater intellect of the erudite motorcycle orcs in The Wild Brood!
Teams? Ready. Mysteries? Ready. Scooby? Sick as a dog! Join Your Favorite Monsters as they watch in horror as Mystery Incorporated is sucked into some strange alternate Hannah Barbara dimension where women and cars are friends, dogs and sharks solve mysteries, and Betsy and Blake are going to take first place in the Mystery Solvers Club State Finals!
Don't you ever wish you could sleep for 17 years, then just get out of bed and scream? Well, that apparently sounds like a god plan for someone in Crystal Cove, so join Your Favorite Monsters Betsy and Blake as they fasten up their mosquito nets and lather on some bug spray as they watch Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated and try to listen for When the Cicada Calls!
There's a creeping madness in the air, one that Your Favorite Monster know all too well. On the docket tonight, everyone's problematic fav, HP Lovecraft paints the walls of Crystal Cove with his particular brand of splendiferous charnel, and really just stinking up the joint.
As promised, here is listed timestamps for the discussion. Check out the tumblr if they aren't coming through in the feed! (42:00 will skip to the end)
6:20 - HP Hatecraft IS Jeffery Combs 9:30 - other adaptations that aren't super on the radar 11:15 - the Lovecraft discourse...BEGINS 11:40 - the highly inaccurate, pithy, and brief history of pulp (in which betsy talks broadly about a lot of significant and insignificant dates in the same breath) 18:40 - why exactly it's so rough to talk about Lovecraft - one beginners guide 21:00 - in which betsy and blake are embarrassed in how stupid they were (are)(lets be real) 27:05 - side story (not Lovecraft related! a breather!) 30:30 -Lovecraft influences / the mythos (including a good riff on Stephen king) 34:00 - Betsy gets fiesty on creativity 35:50 - there's the rub - the real issue with Lovecraft in the modern day 42:00 - HERE! Here is where you start if you want to skip the Lovecraft Discourse!
Feeling a little...long in the tooth? Are your bones...aching for some tincture? Are y'all old vampires that are looking for some tonics? Then join Blake and Betsy, Your Favorite Monsters as they check out Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated and catch some blood sucking f(r)iends in The Secret Serum!
What's that frightful sound? The howl of a hound, living up to its name, or Betsy and Blake, crowing over the Mystery Incorporated gang finally dealing with some of their relationship drama. Come find out as Your Favorite Monsters meet Betsy's new animal BFF in The Howl of the Fright Hound!
Bursting into the new year, join Betsy and Blake as they are absolutely not attempting to enter the drift with the monsters of the week, no matter what the large robots outside the recording studio might have made it seem. Welcome to a New Year of old monsters in Scooby Doo Mystery Inc, as Your Favorite Monsters face off against the Battle of the Humungonauts!
Hello Dear listeners.
Sorry for the radio silence this week. Time has gotten away from Betsy this week, and between car trouble, lack of access to a reliable internet, and seriously an entire server going down, Your Favorite Monsters will resume in the new year with Battle of the Humungonauts!
Isn't it a gnice day? Wouldn't it just be gnifty to gnibble on some gnoms with a gneighbor? If that sounds good, you might very well be in the Grasp of the Gnome, and Blake and Betsy are here to help you snap out of it! So pull up some totally normal headphones and enjoy listening to the adventures of Scooby Doo Mystery Inc with your Favorite Monsters!
Hold your cauldrons, and khol those eyes, because everyone's favorite Eco-Goth Rockers from the bad side of the Grimoire are here, the He Girls! Join Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy as they squee with glee and discuss their favorite throw back to Glam Goth magic in this week's Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, In Fear of the Phantom!
Have you heard all the stories about Alice? Some say she's a ghost, here to haunt a date on prom night. Some say she's just looking for a family she lost years ago. Still others say she's a super hero's date, out for vengeance, looking for a green goblin to settle a score. But if you want the real story, come and listen to Your Favorite Monsters, Blake and Betsy, as they talk about Sccoby Doo, Mystery Incorporated's "Legend of Alice May" and uncover all the angles!
Who hasn't wanted to be taken up in the rhythm of the night, gorging themselves on candy and chaos, running through the streets, gaining myth and legends in your wake. No? Just us? No matter. Come join Betsy and Blake, Your Favorite Monsters as they listen to Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated's "The Song of Mystery" and judge the fun for yourself!
After a brief miss-spin in the dunes, Blake and Betsy dodge the wrath of some cranky crustaceans to get a front row seat to watch the fallout of the Revenge of the Man Crab! Pull up a beach chair and Get ready for another episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated with Your Favorite Monsters, now updating Bi-Weekly!
Have you ever felt like reality was not quite solid around you? Well, it was probably Blake and Betsy trying to send their own personal driver from liminal space to come pick you up for a hang-sesh. Next time, catch a ride on the Ghost Rig, and watch an episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated with Your Favorite Monsters.
Blake and Betsy have wandered into Gatorsburg and find themselves right at home in the swamps. Come on by and strike these rich veins of gator with Your Favorite Monsters as they watch Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated Episode 2 - The Creeping Creatures!
Blake and Betsy are Your Favorite Monsters, listening to Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated, talking about the shows themes, mythology, and most important, the monsters! This first episodes is laying the ground work in more ways than seven, as they get introductions out of the way and jump right in!