Breakfast Quest

Youtuber and video journalist Katie Quinn joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the sickly sweet, mid-2000s piece of Icelandic confection, LazyTown. On the episode we watched, a guy who looks like Jim Carrey steals a cake that looks like it was designed by Doctor Seuss, and then tries to frame a guy who looks like Icelandic gymnastics luminary Magnus Scheving as the culprit. Topics discussed within include the Burger King Kid's Club, high-maintenance relationships, and why parents just don't understand youtube. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

It's a special arithmetic-themed episode when math teacher and raconteur Sonny von Gutfeld (also Lars's wife) joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Square One Television, PBS's mid-'80s to early-'90s mathematically focused sketch comedy show. The episode that we watched featured a math mystery focused around stolen dirt. Topics discussed within include Uncle Juice, SNL title sequence interpretations, and Perfect Strangers. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Jake Flores joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Today's Special, a Canadian-produced live action show about a group of humans, half-mannequins, and puppets who work the graveyard shift at an Ontario department store. The episode we watched, "A Visit to the Opera" features a full-length opera. It was weird. Topics discussed within include MK Ultra, Hobby Lobby, and the Harry Potter Sorting Hat. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on youtube HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNE

Comedian Rachel Millman returns to Breakfast Quest to watch ALF, the late '80s live action sitcom about a resentful family who harbor a wise-cracking alien from the planet Melmac. The episode that we watched, "Consider Me Gone," is the final episode of the series, and ALF may or may not die in it. Topics discussed within include caucus drinking plans, the Blues Traveler of puppet creators, and great acting. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on iTunes, ya cheapstake! Check out the ALF title sequence HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Dave Itzkoff, culture reporter for the New York Times and author of Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies, joins Nick and Lars for another trip across the pond for one of the finest treats the British Isles has to offer, '70s sci-fi series The Tomorrow People. The episode we watched, "The Blue and Green Part 1: An Apple for the Teacher" tells the story of Stephen and John, two hunky psychics who help an impressionable young art teacher get in touch with her magical side. Topics discussed within include jaunting, smashers, and sweater vests. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched on iTunes, ya cheapstake! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Mary Houlihan and Joe Rumrill, stars of live comedy show Cartoon Monsoon, join Nick and Lars to watch the Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, a Nintendo-licensed live-action / animated thing from the mid-'80s, featuring two famous plumbers. In this episode, "Karate Koopa," Mario and Luigi find themselves in a land inhabited entirely by ninja stars and avoid being sold into slavery. Topics discussed within include New Jack Swing, moist Yoshi, and barf breaks. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Nick and Lars cap off a truly miserable TRAGE-DECEMBER with a special event: SADSTRAVANGAZA 2015! We've chosen 12 of the saddest moments across children's TV and movies, and are using a 12-sided die to choose which to watch. We roll the die, watch the thing, react, and then roll again until we just can't take it no more. Here are the clips we possibly watched in this. Play along with us! Be sad! 1) This clip from the final episode of The World of David the Gnome 2) The Giving Tree3) Charlotte’s Web - Charlotte Dies4) All Dogs Go To Heaven - Charlie leaves the little girl5) Grave of the Fireflies - saddest scene6) Sesame Street - Big Bird reacts to Mr. Hooper's death7) The Neverending Story - Artax dies8) The iron Giant - Missile Scene9) The Land Before Time - Littlefoot’s Mom Dies10) The Fox and the Hound - sad scene at the end 11) Harry and the Hendersons - Harry says goodbye12) Old Yeller - The kid shoots the dog Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer, director, and actor Marshall York returns to Bread 'N Soup quest to watch an episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood with Nick and Lars as part of our month-long indulgence in all things sad, TRAGE-DECEMBER. What is The Animals of Farthing Wood, you ask? Well, it's a British series from the early '90s about a group of wild animals who one-by-one face their tragic and gruesome ends. And it's for kids! Topics discussed within include dream stories, when murder is okay, and signing up the Illuminati. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! Check out Nick's video triptych audition for the role of young Han Solo HERE, HERE, and HERE! Watch a reel of all of the animals who die in the course of this series HERE! Keep up with Marshall's mission to record a song a day all month in January at his tumblr HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Maggie Serota, writer and managing editor of Death and Taxes, joins Nick and Lars for the second week of our month-long descent into sad children's shows, Trage-December. In this podcast, we react to "Tales of Ba Sing Se," an episode of the mid-2000s Ancient China-sploitation series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which features a sextet of pointless and confusing vignettes. People on the internet like this, apparently. Topics discussed within include unwanted twitter explanations, Chloe Sevigny's professionalism, and the true nature of sadness. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! Enjoy a video of Paul Simon and John Lennon condescending to Art Garfunkel HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Trage-December begins! Our month-long exploration of the saddest, most heart-breaking children's television kicks off when author Wayne Gladstone joins Nick and Lars for an episode of Punky Brewster, one of many '80s-era live action kids' sitcoms about a wealthy white guy who adopts an impoverish scamp from some marginalized group or another. In this episode, young Punky's dog dies and then is brought back to life through the power of children's tears. Topics discussed within include death, death, and death. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Actor and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ariel Dumas joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the '90s era crossover anime hit, Sailor Moon! The episode that we watched was a stylistic tour de force filled with ennui, tragedy, and inappropriate answering machine humor. WATCH IT. Topics discussed within include Canadian merchandise & intellectual property controversies, rock bands that play in front of projections of Koyaanisqatsi, and boombox buttons. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! Seriously. This thing is nuts. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Film producer Greg Yolen joins Nick and Lars to watch an all-time children's classic: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. We watched an episode from 1988, and you know what? We loved it. Topics discussed within include people who work at night, whether E.T. is the nighttime, and the Reagan-era yo-yo economy. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer and color commentator for Fight Spirit Wrestling J. Anthony Roman sits down with Nick and Lars to watch 1985's Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling in a special Halloween and pro-wrestling themed podcast. The episode that we watched, "Ghost Wrestlers" is about Hulk Hogan and a bunch of other mid-'80s wrestling superstars hunting for ghosts in an filthy old folks' home. It's about what you would expect. Topics discussed within include the Brad Garrett panopticon, the kayfabe Beatles, and Neo-Hartford. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE!  ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Almost two years ago, Nick and Lars sat down with Melissa Jane Osborne to record a test episode of the Breakfast Quest podcast. This week, you can listen to it! We watched Noozles, which is great! We didn't really know what we were doing, which is also great, if you're into that sort of thing. Enjoy, and we'll be back with a brand new podcast in two weeks! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Joe Klein, comedian and creator of Tough Guys, joins Nick and Lars to watch Star Wars: Droids, a mid-'80s cartoon that answers the question: "what if your least favorite Star Wars characters got involved in the most confusing stories imaginable?" On the episode we watched, C3PO and R2-D2 help a scoundrel named Mungo Baobob make out with some girl and steal some diamonds. Topics discussed within include wind-surfing, space bees, and pants crackers. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! Help Joe recover from his recent burglary HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Heidi MacDonald, creator of The Beat, editor at Publishers Weekly, and all-around comics industry expert and pundit joins Nick and Lars to watch Spider-Man. Spider-Man? Yes, but it's the version of Spider-Man from Japan that Toei made in the late '70s. "Wow, that sounds like a good show," you say. And you're right. It is a good show. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Fancy Nancy, star of Fancy Nancy's Funny Hour, and stickler about animals, joins Nick and Lars to watch the 1986 live-action tie-in program for Popples, a plush toy thing or whatever. In this episode, terrifying stuffed animals infect the minds of impressionable young children and tear a family apart. Topics discussed within include keeping secrets from adults, Shelley Duvall's inscrutable agenda, and being murdered by popples. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Musician and podcaster Fred Nicolaus joins Nick and Lars to watch Shadows, a mid-'70s live-action horror anthology series produced for the BBC. In the episode we watched, "The Other Window," a trio of English scamps look into a lens and see historically accurate, but not entirely spooky, ghosts delivering letters to each other. Topics discussed within include watches. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer and director Geordie Broadwater joins Nick and Lars to watch Animal Kwackers, a British live-action / cartoon hybrid from 1976, in which nothing happens. Listen to hear three people become gradually more desperate to find something interesting to say before spinning off on wild tangents that make basically no sense. Topics discussed within include Michael McDonald & Dave Matthews' baby, haunting silhouettes, and Jonny Jonny Jonny Jonny woops Jonny woops Jonny Jonny Jonny Jonny. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show we watched HERE! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Rachel Millman and game developer Scott Hoffer join Nick and Lars to watch an episode of the early-2000s reboot of He-Man, in which a particularly smelly bad guy makes everyone angry. Topics discussed within include leave-in conditioner, The Great Gatsby, and enthusiasm for belly buttons. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Watch the show's title sequence HERE and the episode we watched HERE!  ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!