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Year of the Weasel Episode 8.5: Totally Pauly Halloweaaaa-sel Spooktaaaa-cular
Awoooooo! Happy Halloween, buuuu-ddies! We took a slightly longer break than anticipated, but we’re just squeaking this one minisode into the month of October to talk about some of our favorite seasonal episodes of Totally Pauly.
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Year of the Weasel Episode 7.5: Weasel-Pilled
It’s been almost eight months since we started on this bogus journey, and we might be slowly losing it, but at least we’re taking some of you down with us! In this extra-minisode, we share some stories about the friends online and IRL who we’ve started to slowly Weasel-pill.
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Year of the Weasel Episode 6: A Goofy Movie (1995) and An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
If you couldn’t already tell we’d passed the glory days of Pauly Shore’s career, well, here’s your wakeup call: Not one, but two glorified cameos in movie tie-ins to a cartoon, one of them direct to video.
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Year of the Weasel Episode 5.5: Video Weaz
In a complete stroke of serendipity while editing our last episode, Zach discovered that Pauly appeared in an In the Army Now-branded music video for “World of Swirl” by none other than ZZ Top. So, we figured it’s as good a time as any to dedicate a minisode to the Weasel’s most memorable music video…
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Year of the Weasel Episode 4: Son in Law (1993)
Our year-long deep dive into the filmography of Pauly Shore continues with 1993’s Son in Law: a heartwarming culture clash romantic comedy about how you shouldn’t call members of the white rural working class inbreeders, even after they roofie you and leave you in a compromising position to destroy your sham engagement. Whoops, spoilers!
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Year of the Weasel Episode 3.5: Encino Man Ephemera
Can you believe it’s been two full months and we still haven’t dropped the biweekly schedule? Looks like it’s high time to rest on our laurels for a bit. In this “mini”-episode (that is basically the exact same length as a regular episode), we answer listener correspondence, make some corrections, read some relevant passages of…
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Year of the Weasel Episode 2: Peak Weasel
When we last left our hero, it was 1989 and the world was teetering on the brink of full-blown Weaselmania; now, we’re picking up for a deep dive into the peak of Pauly Shore’s pre-movie fame, including his MTV show Totally (Different) Pauly, his two (!) imperial-era standup comedy albums, and his 1992 victory-lap HBO…
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Jheri Curl June: Blood Orange’s “You’re Not Good Enough”
Dev Hynes, also known as Blood Orange, built a career off of this very sound, which is clearly rooted in the synthesized heartbreak of ’80s R&B, but with modern pop sensibilities.
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Jheri Curl June: Evan Rogers’ “Don’t Jump to Conclusions”
If we’ve learned anything from our writeup on L.A. Reid back in 2016, it’s that if there is a successful songwriter and producer from the last 30 or so years, they probably had a Jheri Curl album of their own in the mid-’80s.