Cool Kids Club

In this episode we're heading back to 1993 and the World's Largest Toga Party. It's the infamous WrestleMania IX - featuring Bret Hart, Yokozuna, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, a giant naked monster man, and Hulk Hogan ruining my night!

Let's go, gumshoes! Join us as we hop around the globe tracking criminals and learning geography through computer games, game shows, and cartoons: it's CARMEN SANDIEGO!!

Our very special guest April returns to the show for an adventure under the sea - it's Movie Club: The Little Mermaid! And before you ask, yes: there is singing.

Come along with us to visit our old friends Beezus & Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Ralph S. Mouse - it's the wonderful world of Beverly Cleary!

Our special guest Eddie returns to the show to help us relive the glorious four months in 2001 when Attitude Era WWF met subpar football - THIS IS THE XFL!!!

In this episode we head waaaay back to the early days of Nickelodeon's preschool block Nick Jr. - featuring David the Gnome, The Elephant Show, Fred Penner's Place, Noozles, and Eureeka's Castle!

It's the Year in Cool and we're talking everything 1995: Batman Forever, Coolio, moving from our childhood home, TLC's "Waterfalls," OJ Simpson, being abandoned by a bus driver at a gas station, Michael Jordan, and much more!

In this year's installment of The Christmas Tape we watched (for the first time) the Christmas counterpart to one of our favorite Halloween specials: the Tom and Jerry Christmas Special, specifically the December 21, 1989 airing with the original commercials! The host segments and commercials can be watched on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/_KHvnVmpoCE?si=mWb2tg9zbCQ9YPN4

In the spirit of everyone sharing their Spotify Wrapped, we decided to do the same except with a year that was actually cool. In this Extra Cool, we each count down our top five albums and songs from the year 1997!

Get ready for leg lamps, decoder rings, and Red Ryder BB Guns - the Yule Kids Movie Club returns to revisit one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made, 1983's A Christmas Story!

Join us as we ring in the holiday season with The Joker, ALF, Garfield, Marvel Superheroes, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Barbie, New Kids on the Block, and MUCH more - it's the 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! You can watch the full parade here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh9l-c4Kh_4

Once again, in the time-honored tradition of Stick Stickly, we are opening up the mailbag and answering YOUR questions!

In this year's Halloween special, we discuss our mutual love of horror movies: what and who influenced us, the pivotal movies that made big impacts, and our favorite memories of being scared by celluloid!

We're dusting the cobwebs off the VCR and firing up another edition of our series dedicated to small-screen spookiness - it's The Halloween Tape Volume 5! This year we are discussing two cable TV horror primers, AMC's Monster Mania and Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, plus we each count down our own personal top five scariest movie moments!

In our first-ever Ghoul Kids Movie Club, our special (and spooooooooky) guest April joins us to discuss 1995's CASPER, a movie filled with heart, hijinks, and pre-teen hormones.

Fire up the family computer and join us as we reminisce about the PC games we loved, from Chip's Challenge and Pipe Dream to The Sims and Oregon Trail!

Come with us to a time before YouTube and TikTok, when we would gather around the TV on Sunday nights to watch Bob Saget narrate our weekly dose of slips, pranks, funny kids, and crazy pets. It's America's Funniest Home Videos!

In this episode we have to re-do school two weeks per grade in order to gain control of our family's hotel business. Just kidding - it's Movie Club and we're talking about the 90s cult classic Billy Madison!

Join us as we revisit Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and the other iconic educational kids shows brought to us by PBS Kids and Viewers Like You!

Snack Attack is back! Grab an Orange Julius, a slice of Sbarros, or a big soft pretzel and join us for a trip back to the ultimate childhood and teen social hub - and all the glorious food you could get there - the mall food court!

It's the episode that's so hot it's scary! Join us as we revisit WWF SummerSlam 94, headlined by Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart in a steel cage and TWOOOOOOO Undertakers?!?!

In this episode we beat the heat remembering the toys that defined our summers, from Slip 'n Slides and Super Soakers to Power Wheels, yard games, and everything in between!

It's the episode 65 million years in the making - join us as we revisit one of the greatest action-adventure movies of all time, Jurassic Park!

Our good friend Casey the Strongest Podcast Guest in the World joins us to revisit the surreal, hilarious, and heartfelt world of of Wellsville, USA. It's the seminal 90s Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete!

In our newest School Daze! episode, travel with us back to a time when lunch meant square pizza, juice boxes, Dunkaroos, and cartons (or bags) of milk. Plus it happened at 10:00 in the morning. It's Lunch Lady Land!

Our special guest April returns to the show to talk TRL, plus we each present our individual Top 10 TRL music video countdowns!

Movie Club is back with a double dose of everyone's favorite loveable curmudgeons! Join America's Favorite Putzes as we revisit Grumpy Old Men AND Grumpier Old Men! Twoooooooo movies?!?!

We're going wild in the aisles as we revisit the big energy and colorful sweaters of the classic game show Supermarket Sweep!

Our very special guest Leilani returns to the show to talk about the middle school adventures, iconic fashion, and insane hair styles of Lizzie McGuire!

The audio-only version of our newest video bonus episode! Aimee and Justin show off their toy show hauls and eat Dunkin jelly beans.

A witch who turns kids into apples. A kid who is just a dead rat in a raincoat. A nineteenth floor that doesn't exist. All in a typical day for the wacky inhabitants of Wayside School!

Our friend and resident Bat-expert Eddie joins us once again to revisit Tim Burton's scary, sexy, and ridiculous sequel Batman Returns!

Muscles! Mayhem! Hairspray! Giant Q-Tips! Join us as we dive into the weird, wild world of American Gladiators!

It's our 100th episode, and our very first video episode! We are joined by our friends April, Eddie, Leilani, Casey, Stefani, and Brian for a very special session of everyone's favorite classroom activity: show and tell! Check out the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/913uAXzAvBs

It's our season five premiere! In this episode our good buddy Ben joins us for a conversation about the quintessential after-school programming block, The Disney Afternoon - DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale, Tailspin, Darkwing Duck, and more!

As we move into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at the year that was - no, not 2024; a year that was actually cool! In this newest edition of our series The Year In Cool, we explore the movies, music, television, and news stories that made up 1994!

Grab some eggnog and fire up the VCR, The Christmas Tape is back for a fourth installment! This year we are visiting two of the wildest and most underappreciated Christmas specials of all time: The Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special and A Muppet Family Christmas.

It's the Yule Kids Club! Your favorite filthy animals are back to talk about the most iconic Christmas movie of the 90s: Home Alone!

Join us as we once again crack open the Stick Stickly Memorial Listener Mailbag and answer YOUR burning questions!

Join us as we explore the wonderful, wacky world of Bugs, Daffy, Taz, Tweety, and all the other memorable characters of Looney Tunes!

Aimee and Justin chat about their favorites memories of haunted houses, haunted nursing homes, corn mazes, and murder forests in THE GHOUL KIDS CLUB HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS!!

Fire up the VCR and join us for the fourth installment of our series The Halloween Tape! This year we are highlighting the spookiest episodes from two of the greatest 90s sitcoms: Roseanne and Home Improvement!

The Ghoul Kids Club returns!! In our first spooky episode of the season we revisit the spine-chilling world of R.L. Stine's iconic teen horror series Fear Street!

In this episode, we take a dive into the world of American Girl - the dolls, books, and accessories that shaped a generation's understanding of history and culture!

Yesterday's history. Tomorrow's the future. Tonight's the party! Movie Club is back and we are revisiting one of the defining movies of our junior high and high school years, 1998's Can't Hardly Wait! And make sure you listen all the way til the end for a very special musical treat from our good buddy Brian!

Join us as we revisit the midwest brothers that had an absolute stranglehold on teen and pre-teen girls everywhere in the late 90s with their catchy jams and girl hair: Hanson!

Our special guest April returns to the podcast for a discussion about the show that gave us all nightmares about ghosts, UFOs, murders, and all kinds of other creepy stuff - Unsolved Mysteries!!

It's the dog days of summer, so cool off with our most bubbly and refreshing episode ever!! In this ediion of Snack Attack! we revisit four sodas that quenched our thirst in the 80s, 90s, and 00s: New Coke, Crystal Pepsi, Surge, and Pepsi Blue!