Bob’s Burgers and the Meaning of Life

Loosen your belts and kill the turkey, because today marks the official unofficial start of the Christmas season! That’s right, it’s Thanksgiving Day, and what better way to celebrate than with America’s most wholesome animated family, The Belchers? On this episode of A Podcast For Christmas, we yak about TV’s Bob’s Burgers and their canonical Thanksgiving episode, “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal,” and is it possible that we stumble onto the meaning of life along the way? We’re having mashed potatoes with a side of absinthe, so unglue yourself from that toilet seat and let’s gobble!

A ‘Candy Coated’ Comeback Episode!

Aaaaaaaand we’re back! And not a moment too soon! Your gracious hosts have taken a break from podcasting this season, but we couldn’t ignore Food Network & Discovery Plus’s ‘Candy Coated Christmas,’ starring (kind of) everyone’s favorite home cook, the Pioneer Woman herself, Ree Drummond! Fans of the show will know why we could not pass up this cavity-inducing gem, and fans of food media will be delighted to find that this episode is about 90% blathering about YouTube cooking shows. There’s something for everyone in this seasonal one-off, so plop down with some figgy-ass pudding and get into it!

‘She Wrote’ is Both Too Much and Too Little

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** Do you yearn for the days when print media was king, when intrepid newspaper editors-in-chiefs traversed the lower forty-eight just to win back estranged Dear Abbies? If so, you might just be the writer of Christmas She Wrote, in which New York therapist-turned-advice-columnist Kayleigh (Danica McKellar) is unceremoniously fired by Tripp (Dylan Neal), the handsome herald of the paper’s new draconian regime. And where do wounded Manhattanites run when their high-powered carpets are yanked out from under them? Back home, of course—in this case, to the snowy hamlet of Pineberry, California. And when the new publishers catch hell from Kayleigh’s devoted readership, what’s a handsome herald to do but fly across the country to win her back? Does he fall under the sugary spell of small town America? Find out on another rip-roaring hour of A Podcast For Christmas!

A ‘Timeless’ Tale of Fridge Logic

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** Nothing says Christmas quite like … time travel? In our latest yuletide adventure, we dive headfirst into quantum plot mechanics with A Timeless Christmas, in which a wealthy turn-of-the-century something-or-other (Ryan Paevey) stumbles a hundred-ish years into future and winds up in a very 2019 idea of what 2020 would have been like. Luckily, he’s still in his own home, which is now a museum kept up by the efforts of a newly-single historian (Erin Cahill). Will true love carry them through the awkwardness of navigating a 102-year age difference? Find out on another mindbending episode of A Podcast For Christmas!

This ‘Christmas Sweater’ Does Not Spark Joy

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** There’s an old saying: “Never kiss a man in a Christmas sweater.” Okay, maybe it’s not an old saying, or a saying at all, but Maggie (Ashley Williams) sure seems to think it is! She’s a schoolteacher on a snowy military base who “accidentally” beats a Christmas-sweater-wearing architect named Lucas (Niall Matter) nearly to death with the business end of a Douglas fir. Now Lucas is out of commission and Maggie is feeling guilty. Luckily, there’s only one way to rebalance the universe when you’ve broken a stranger’s ankle: Lock him up in your guest hose and force-feed him gingerbread Frank Lloyd Wrights until he falls in love with you! What could go Frank Lloyd Wrong? Find out on another death-defying hour of A Podcast For Christmas!

’12th Date’ Rolls Up a Buche de Noel Full of Charm

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** Next up in our yuletide safari through the jungle of jingle is On the 12th Date of Christmas, in which Iowa native Jennifer (Mallory Jansen) tries to make a name for herself as a game creator in cutthroat Chicago while butting heads with Aidan (Tyler Hynes), her reluctant and standoffish collaborator. As part of a Christmas-themed scavenger hunt game, they are all but forced to spend a romantic week together, even as they vie for the same promotion. Do sparks begin to fly? Is there baking involved? Are mulled spices on the menu? Find out on another thrilling hour of A Podcast For Christmas!