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Both before and LONG after Harry Shearer portrayed Principal Peskin on Dawson’s Creek, he was a versatile voice actor in The Simpsons. For the spooky season, we’re talking about a “Treehouse Of Terror” that gave him a LOT to do. EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-hear-harry-shearer-in-the-simpsons/

Angela thinks her biggest problem is a zit on her chin. Trying to hide it with her hair, or her hand, or gobs of concealer is taking up a lot of her time and mental energy at what turns out to be the worst possible time: at school, an anonymous ranking of the hottest sophomore girls — and, in most cases, just the sophomore girls’ hottest PARTS — has just landed; and at home, Patty wants Angela to join her in a mother-daughter fashion show. Between Angela’s mixed feelings about not being ranked in any category and her unambiguous insecurity over the shadow her former teen queen mother casts, she’s having a terrible week. However, we hope YOUR week is improved by the arrival of our episode on “The Zit”! EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/my-so-called-life/s01e05-the-zit/

Noel is organizing a floor party, and Felicity’s expectations for her first college party are stratospheric: she can’t wait to invite Ben, and for him to come that night, and see her, and like the way she looks, and for HER to like the way HE looks, and for them to dance all night and then go back to her room to…talk. Although, as she tells Sally, she has dared to imagine what it might be like to do more than that with “a man” for the first time — something she is so mortified to put on tape that she orders Sally to erase it immediately! Outside of Felicity’s imagination, things are not going so great. The Inorganic Chemistry prof she’s idolized since she used his textbooks in high school is disgusted that she hasn’t been able to find the text for this class. Whenever Felicity mentions Ben to Julie, Felicity can see Julie tense up, despite Julie’s repeated insistence that she and Ben are JUST FRIENDS. Hangs are happening that Felicity isn’t being invited to. Nothing a trip to Bloomingdale’s for a new party dress won’t fix! Probably! Ben is having his own scholastic issues, getting shunted into a drama class where he’s being asked to be vulnerable. It would be very cool if you listened to our episode on “Hot Objects”!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🖼️ View this episode's 38 Visual Aids📜 Read this episode's transcript🪾 The Simpsons S05.E05: “Treehouse Of Horror IV” on Disney Plus🔤 “Fantasmas - The Letter Q” on YouTube🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

We're kicking off the Halloween season here at AWAWT with the premiere episode of Eastwick, the THIRD TV iteration of the 1987 movie and probably the most successful. But is it per se successful? We talk about adaptations not suited for network primetime, pop culture's vain attempts to make hot actresses believably sexless, and why you'd cast the flavo(u)rless Canadian version of a villain when you're not shooting in Canada. No need to wish on an ancient coin, just hit play! EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-watch-lindsay-price-in-eastwick/

When Pacey picks up a Sure Thing at a networking banquet for which he’s enlisted Joey to be his fake date, he has to stop on the way back to her dorm to get, what else, condoms. Their refusal to respect Kmart’s practices to keep customers from entering in the moments before the store closes leads to their getting locked inside. Since their predicament is a very low priority for the police, Joey and Pacey end up bickering about their relationship history before he calls a truce so that their night doesn’t get even worse. Big box store high jinks ensue: nacho cheese! A wall of TVs! A Gillette Mach 3 threatening Pacey’s precious goatee! And more! Put on some flannel PJs (whether you pay for them is none of our business) and listen to our episode on “Castaways”!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🖼️ View this episode's 29 Visual Aids📜 Read this episode's transcript🍒 Eastwick S01.E01: “Pilot” on The Internet Archive🔥 The Extra Hot Great Club🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Here’s a surprise: we…missed Amy! In September, Jennie Garth “and friends” means Jennie and Michael Trucco (yes, the one whose last episode of the show was discussed several months ago); Jennie and Carol Potter (who apparently waited weeks to clear her throat so that she could do it on mic 600 times); and Jennie and…Brandi Andres? A Steve love interest who had her series wrap in the Season 8 finale, yet is being made to come back to discuss the Season 9 premiere, including Sophie who, according to Brandi, is the bad girl Brandi’s own character was maybe possibly going to be after she ditched Steve? 9021OMG is less itself than it has ever been before, but that’s all the more reason for you to let US listen for you, and NOT to attempt it yourselves. EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/them/september-2026-digest/

Felicity is just trying to figure out the new normal now that Ben knows why Felicity’s there, Felicity knows Ben never had a brother who died, and Julie knows Felicity isn’t totally over Ben. When she hears that a young man has called the admissions office trying to get a copy of her application essay, she assumes it was Ben trying to get them back on equal footing, and mails him a copy. Then she bounces into a meeting with Pappaleno only to see both her parents already there, and things rapidly go downhill. While Noel is not busy trying to convince Felicity that when he said he had feelings for her he didn’t REALLY mean it, he’s navigating a roommate conflict between Larry (John Cho), who wishes Lewis wouldn’t keep talking in his sleep about buying knives to kill Larry with; and Lewis, who…seems pretty shifty, actually. The FIRST thing you should do now is listen to our episode on “The Last Stand”!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🖼️ View this episode's 44 Visual Aids📜 Read this episode's transcript🍒 Eastwick S01.E01 at The Internet Archive🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

A major motion picture about an animal control officer is being shot in Seattle, and the star wants to shadow a real officer for authenticity. Because Bradley “The Defuser” Boyd is played by Oliver Hudson, we must turn our own eagle eyes to his performance! EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-watch-oliver-hudson-in-animal-control/

The writers’ ambivalent (if not outright confused) views about excessive drinking are inflicted on us once again as Pacey throws himself a belated housewarming party to celebrate a Best Buy shopping spree. At least one of your co-hosts is disgusted by the portrayal of female characters uniformly disdaining the new giant TV; all the dudes are firmly in favor, including Gus, Emma’s fiancé? Yep, turns out she needs an American husband, and fast, because her visa is no longer valid for reasons we should have figured out back when she was hanging around the aquarium every day. Joey is determined to drink away her heartache over Eddie’s departure; Jen is ready to be sober out of respect for CJ, so she’s horrified when she hears that Pacey offered him a drink and he took it. At the other end of the sobriety spectrum, Audrey’s still in rehab in L.A. Dawson comes to visit, not only cloddishly arriving without so much as an Us Weekly but then forgetting whom he’s there for as soon as she spots one of her fellow patients: a producer named Toni Stark. Dawson would have to be made of iron (man) not to parlay this chance sighting into a networking opportunity, right??? Join us as we get down and dirty about “Clean And Sober”!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🖼️ View this episode's 41 Visual Aids🐕 Animal Control S04.E11: “Coyotes And Eagles” on Hulu🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Angela’s in the middle of icing out Graham over her suspicions about his fidelity when another crisis strikes the household: the printing business Patty has taken over from HER father, Chuck (Paul Dooley!) is getting audited by the IRS. Though Graham could not be more ready to put all the blame on Chuck, Patty is stressed that the year in question is when the management passed from Chuck to her, and running decisions past him when he has no such concern for her. Speaking of the print business: a client thanks Graham for a rush job with a couple of tickets to the Grateful Dead. Seeing a chance to win over Angela, Graham offers them to her and Rayanne, only to find out after the fact that Patty doesn’t want Angela to go at all, never mind on a school night. While Graham's putting off breaking the news to Angela, she stumbles into a new reason to talk to Jordan: seeing if he knows anyone who might want buy the tickets from her. If you listen to our episode on “Father Figures,” we will be the ones to love you ’til the end of time! EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/my-so-called-life/s01e04-father-figures/

Felicity Porter (Keri Russell) is at her commencement, realizing she’s not as happy about the life her parents have mapped out for her: doing all her schooling at Stanford to become a doctor, exactly like her dad. So when she bravely asks her crush, Ben (Scott Speedman) to become the second person to sign her senior yearbook and finds out he’s going to “New York” for college, she finds her acceptance letter to the same school and decides to enroll there too. When she runs into him again on campus in the fall, his reaction is her first sign that her impulsive decision isn’t going to pan out exactly the way she might have hoped when she made it. We’re telling you all about everyone she meets — and how she frames it to her audio cassette tape pen pal Sally — in our episode on the Felicity pilot!JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🖼️ View this episode's 49 Visual Aids📜 Read this episode's transcript📺 “When Aaron Spelling Ruled Television: An Oral History of Entertainment’s Prolific, Populist Producer,” by David A. Keeps of The Hollywood Reporter🏫 “49-51 Fifth Avenue [aka the real Kelvin Hall]: Trailblazing History Behind A Genteel Facade” at Village Preservation Blog🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Eleven years ago, The Hollywood Reporter pulled together an oral history of Aaron Spelling's rise, reign, and return to relevance -- and we learned a lot, about Spelling's childhood, office decor, alcohol tolerance, and more. We're also discussing George Hamilton's memoir, pricey onscreen shoes, and how THR bills interviewees, so grab a spot on a 23-foot-couch and join us! EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-read-when-aaron-spelling-ruled-television/

Margot (Michelle Williams) might have never given a second thought to Daniel (Luke Kirby) after randomly flirting with him on a plane. She might have forgotten him even after flirting through a shared cab ride back into the city. Unfortunately for her, Daniel lives right across the street from her. It’s also unfortunate for her sweet chicken chef husband Lou (Seth Rogen). We’re discussing the palpable mugginess, Toronto playing itself, and of course the YEARNING in our latest episode. EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-watch-michelle-williams-and-seth-rogen-in-take-this-waltz/

We’re off this week but we bring you three Again With Again With This episodes from the club vault. AWAWT 253: Let’s Watch Joshua Jackson In Cruel Intentions! How to reinvent Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the late 20th century Youthquake moment? Set it among Upper East Side high school brats, and throw in a couple of stars from The WB! AWAWT 254: Let’s Watch Robin Dunne In Cruel Intentions 2! A TV iteration of Cruel Intentions, Manchester Prep, was planned for FOX’s 1999-2000 primetime schedule…until Rupert Murdoch (allegedly) had the project sacked for being too crass (!), at which time it was reworked as a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and everything about it is…number two: the casting, the timeline, the geography, the wardrobe, and Robin “AJ” Dunne as Valmont makes Ryan Phillippe look like Jon Hamm. This is possibly the crappiest show-verse property we’ve ever contemplated, and we’re talking about that, plus early TWoP days, Some Kind Of Wonderful, and “frisky twins” (ew). Listen now! AWAWT 255: Let’s Watch Kerr Smith In Cruel Intentions 3! So it’s come to this: a Cruel Intentions sequel with none of the original talent attached. (Not even poor old Pierre Choderlos de Laclos gets a credit!) After Kathryn has ruined the family with her antics in New York, her cousin Cassidy is forced to lie low at a college in Santa Barbara, where she and her frenemy and sparring partner Jason (Kerr Smith!) simply can’t stop betting on sex. How does this entry slyly cross over with both American Psycho and Sex & The City? We’ll tell you everything important! …Which admittedly isn’t much.JOIN THE AWT CLUB🌴 Access to 'Again With Again With This' bonus episodes👯‍♀️ Access to 'Again With Them,' our monthly digest of Tori and Jennie's 9021OMG podcast💬 Access to the AWT Discord (Patreon only)🚫 Ad free episodesEPISODE NOTES🗒 Visit this episode's page on our site🎬 Cruel Intentions (1999) on Prime Video🎞️ "Cruel Intentions Final Scene (90s Legendary Scene" on YouTube🎞️ Cruel Intentions 2 on Dailymotion (don't do it, friends)🏫 Entertainment Weekly assumed it was on the fall sked as late as September '99🙅‍♂️ Variety with the Variety-argot-iest write-up of the cancellation🤔 Cruel Intentions 3 on The Roku Channel🎧 Looking to get older episodes on your app? Subscribe to our legacy show feeds.👕 Shop the Again With This store at Through Methods📚 Buy our book, A Very Special 90210 Book☎️ Thoughts or questions? Call our hotline at 210.767.2237

Back in 2017, Viceland's TV network (ikr?) made its first foray into the scripted space with What Would Diplo Do?, a mockumentary-ish comedy featuring James Van Der Beek's writing of and performance as DJ Diplo. Did he (and/or Hal Ozsan's executive production?) win us over with a committed portrayal of a successful hipster dumb-dumb, or is it a record-scratch? EPISODE NOTES https://againwiththispodcast.com/awawt/lets-watch-james-van-der-beek-in-what-would-diplo-do/