Breakfast Quest

NOWvember, our month-long celebration of all things current and relevant and exciting continues with musician Rebecca Schiffman joining Nick and Lars for an episode of Kuu Kuu Harajuku. What's Kuu Kuu Harajuku, you ask? Well, it's Gwen Stefani's vanity cartoon about shallow assholes being shallow assholes to each other. Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! We watched the first episode, "Totally Teen Genie." You can find it and more about this show at Nickelodeon's official page... HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Pat Baer joins Nick and Lars for the first week of NOWvember, our month-long delve into only the freshest and most current children's television. We kick things off with a look at Teen Titans Go, a comedy cartoon with a bunch of DC Comics characters being very fast at each other. The episode we watched is about pro wrestling and is the most densely packed thing we have ever seen in our entire lives. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched, "Oh Yeah," by either buying it on your digital media platform of choice, or searching for "Teen Titans Go Oh Yeah" on youtube and watching some bootleg-ass terrible looking looking video of it. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

BONUS EPISODE! With NOWvember (our special theme month featuring episodes covering only CURRENT and NEW kids' shows) right around the corner, join Nick and Lars as they figure out what the hell is happening with current children's entertainment and lock in the episodes for the coming month. It's a fly-on-the-wall look at the most rigorous process in all of podcasting. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Video games producer Scott Hoffer stops by to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody, a 1980s live-action educational series that teaches children about the power of their bodies. And also the power of song and dance. Don't do anything with your endocrine system before you listen to this episode! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Alan Wilkis, frontman for Big Data, joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Zoobilee Zoo, a mid-'80s live action show for VERY young children and starring Broadway luminary Ben Vereen about a bunch of animals who live together and sing and dance and stuff. In this episode, Bill Der Beaver invents a glue, and then all these stupid animals glue themselves to each other and sing about it. It's better than it sounds! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer and comedian Eve Peyser joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Ghost Writer, a mid-'90s PBS show starring a team of New York schoolchildren who learn about reading and all sorts of other things from a crime-fighting word ghost. In the episode that we watched, Julia Stiles plays a l33t hax0r0rererer who totally pwns ur a55. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Actor Tommy Heleringer joins Nick and Lars to watch something a little different! It's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a late-'60s spy / action drama featuring uncanny marionettes as a team of super-secret agents fighting a secret war against a race of Martian shape-shifters. Yep! On this episode, the Martians infiltrate the fashion industry, and our heroes have to dress incredibly well to stop them.  Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. On the podcast, we talk about how this show is on Hulu, but it seems like it has since been dropped, so the above link leads to the episode on DailyMotion, so um, watch your back. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Friend of the show and co-host of the Record Company podcast, Will McCutcheon, drops by to enjoy the cutting edge of 1991's technology with ReBoot, a computer-animated show about how many people can fit inside of a computer. This episode is about dungeons and dragons - you know, nerd stuff. ReBoot seems to be a much beloved show. Not by us, though! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing or by going HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian, writer, and actor Lizzie Redner joins Nick and Lars to watch Gilligan's Planet, an ill-conceived early-'80s sci-fi cartoon spin-off of an ill-conceived mid-'60s sitcom. On the episode we watched, "I Dream of Genie," Gilligan and the other castaways enslave a race of omnipotent robots. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on the digital media service of your choosing. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Jason Torres joins Nick and Lars for an uncharacteristically topical choice of shows - an episode of the cartoon based on the resurgent animal-trapping video game series, Pokémon. We watched episode 3, "Ash Catches a Pokémon." In it, Ash, the show's main character, catches a Pokémon. One wonders what happens in other episodes. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! Or purchase it on the digital media service of your choice! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Joe Berkowitz, co-author of You Blew It: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life, joins Nick and Lars to watch Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, an anti-drug cartoon special from 1990. In the cartoon, a kid does drugs when George C. Scott tells him to and then gets eaten by all of his favorite fictional characters. Topics discussed within include drugs, just saying no, and drugs. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Tim Duffy returns to Breakfast Quest to enjoy an episode of perhaps the most recent show we have ever watched. It's Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaire's Club, a quasi-educational, quasi-entertaining show about a humble billionaire who somehow convinced some craven branding experts to make a cartoon starring him. The episode we watched is about four kids who sell popsicles and get to meet Jay-Z and skateboard around the Statue of Liberty. It's a little weird. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Designer and podcast producer Kate Neely joins Nick and Lars to watch Inspector Gadget, the iconic early '80s French-Canadian-Japanese-American co-production about how the stupidest, most irritating man was transformed into a robotic police officer and programmed to irritate his niece. In the episode that we watched, "Race to the Finish," Inspector Gadget gets totally drunk and drives a race car. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! The episode we watched is available legally for purchase on the digital video platform of your choice, or you can find it on youtube.  ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

BatMayn comes to a nice ending when Nick and Lars sit down with Faryl Amadeus, actor and creator of Fancy Nancy's funny hour (who is also married to Nick), to watch an episode of 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, a cartoon about a man who dresses like a bat to fight crime in a fictionalized version of New York City. We reach many bat-themed conclusions. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! The episode we watched, "The Joker's Favor," is available for purchase on digital media platforms like iTunes and is also available to stream for free on Amazon to Prime members. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

BATMAYN RETURNS. And so does Tom O'Donnell. Tom, a writer known for such things as Space Rocks!, Comedy Central's TripTank, and the forthcoming Jeff and Some Aliens, comes back to Breakfast Studios to partake in the third week of our month-long celebration / study of all things involving that irascible crusader with his famous cape, Batman. This time, we watched the 1977 Batman cartoon starring Adam West and Burt Ward, and holy shit is it bad. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched by buying it on the digital media store of your choice. It's episode 13, "Birds of a Feather Fool Around Together"! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer, stand-up, and adult performer Sovereign Syre joins Nick and Lars to talk about a man. A BAT man. This time, the Bat Man was appearing in a campy, live-action show from the '60s and was played by Adam West. The episode that we watched is called "The Joker is Wild," and it's about the Joker! And how wild he is! (spoiler alert: dude is wild) It's the second week of our month-long journey into the dark heart of Gotham City, BATMAYN! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched by buying it on the digital media store of your choice! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian and writer Daniel Kibblesmith joins Nick and Lars to discuss his new comic book, The Doorman, his experience writing for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and Batman. That's right, it's the first week of our month-long caped crusader-themed event, BatMayn. We watched one of the episodes of the 1943 Batman theatrical serial, and boy was it racist. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Nick and Lars discuss and come up with a gameplan for our month-long Batman-themed adventure, BatMayn. We've got four new podcasts coming out during May, so get the news here! Send your batman stories to letters@breakfastquest.net!  AND SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer, humorist, and co-host of the Styks and Stones podcast, Maura Quint, joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the mid-'80s Californiasploitation cartoon Beverly Hills Teens. The episode that we watched is about a group of four horny teenagers who publicly compete for the affections of a maybe-robot babe and it ends with a nine-year-old winning, thanks to the help of a one-man-band-bot built in the name of Albert Einstein. Yeah, it's weird. Topics discussed within include Haim Saban's charisma game, talking fireworks, ethics in Beverly Hills journalism. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Patrick Monahan returns to watch an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Nick and Lars. In case you're unfamiliar, MMPR is a mid-'90s and onwards Japanese/American co-production and a group of teenagers locked in a Forever War with a witch who lives in a dumpster on the moon. The episode that we watched is all about the hard political struggles of Californian high schoolers. Topics discussed within include zoetropes, Tom DeLonge, and not having a body. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched by buying it, you cheapskate. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!