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Midnight Pals: Revenge

Dickens: okay listen up, you grinches, i'm about to melt your icy hearts with another tale of yuletide joyDickens: it's called the mother's eyesDickens: it's about this guy who murders a guy cuz he has a weird eyePoe:Dickens: and then his guilty conscience causes him to go insanePoe:...

Midnight Pals: More Christmas

Charles Dickens: ho ho ho it's me, Mr Christmas!Dickens: time for more Christmas cheer!Poe: it's january, charlesDickens:Dickens:Dickens:Dickens: you know what your problem is, edgar?Dickens: you don't love Christmas!Poe: you're lashing out, CharlesDickens: it's true!Dickens: why...

Midnight Pals: Liberalism

JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago Poe: clive Barker: oh i'm sorry edgar Barker: am i wrong? Poe: Poe: no you're not wrongRowling: you know why the children ...

Midnight Pals: It's January

Poe: boyPoe: boy it's sure been a year, hasn't it?King: edgar, it's JanuaryPoe: it looks like the regime is letting upMary Shelley: how do you figure thatPoe: they demoted greg bovinoMary Shelley: not good enoughShelley: i want him [redacted]Shelley: and also [redacted]Shelley: [redacted...

A Special Presentation 329: The Ruben Award [1 of 2]

In theory, we were supposed to talk about the Rube Goldberg-penned 1930 film "Soup to Nuts," but we got distracted and instead went through the entire history of the Ruben Award. The important takeaway is that, for a podcast ostensibly dedicated to comic strips, we know remarkably little abo...

Midnight Pals: Sexy Santa

Dickens: you're all a bunch of humbugsDickens: none of you understand the true meaning of Christmas!Barker: what about Katherine arden?Dickens: what?Barker: her book is about the real reason for the seasonKatherine Arden: whatArden: i didn't write anything about ChristmasBarker: no but you w...

Midnight Pals: Christmas Forever

Charles Dickens: merry Christmas, everyone!King:Poe:Koontz:Barker:Lovecraft:Poe: it's January, CharlesDickens: not to me!Dickens: to me, it's always Christmas!Dickens: who's in the mood for another dickens holiday classic?Poe: it's not really the season, CharlesDickens: it's Chri...

A Special Presentation 328: Betty Boop

Betty Boop is in the public domain now! Well, sort of. The original Betty Boop, where she's a dog, is in the public domain. To commemorate this momentous day, we look at three incarnations of the Boopster: her original appearance in "Dizzy Dishes," her appearance with Little Jimmy in &#3...

Midnight Pals: Eureka

Poe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of eurekaPoe: this is going to be a little different from my usual stuffPoe: it's actually a scientific meditation on the nature of the universeBarker: is this one of those things where you have to be high to get itBar...

Midnight Pals: By Volume

[scottish castle] JK Rowling's agent: hey joanne agent: you wanted to see me? JK Rowling: yesss Rowling: i want to enquire Rowling: how are sssales of the hallmarked man? agent: agent: sales of what? Rowling: the latesst cormoron ssstrike book agent: agent: you're still writing cormoron stri...

Midnight Pals: Derelictions

Adam Nevill: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the wyrdNevill: it's actually not so much a tale now that i think about itKoontz: is it more of a story?Nevill: close, dean!Nevill: a story is another word for a taleNevill: but good tryNevill: this is what ...

A Special Presentation 327: Saturday Morning Preview Park [3 of 3]

In 1984, Weird Al Yankovic teamed up with Scooby Doo to host a special preview of all the cool upcoming cartoons that kids could see on ABC Saturday mornings that season. For a long time, it seemed like no one had taped that special and it was doomed to be forever lost media. Well, someone finally u...

Midnight Pals: Gryffindors

JK Rowling: hello childrenPoe: oh hi joannePoe: do you have something toRowling: I have sssomething to sssayPoe: is it aboutRowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryffindorsssPoe: oh!Poe: oh i was not expecting thatPoe: i thought it was gonna be aboutBarker: you thought it was gonna be ab...

Midnight Pals: Mannequins on the Move

Stephen King: guys i just came up with a great idea for a storyKing: what if you saw a bunch of mannequins driving a car?Lovecraft:Barker:Poe:Koontz: whoa!Koontz: that would be crazy!King: wouldn't it?Debbie Dadie: excuse meDadie: excuse meDadie: well actuallyDadie: i am afraid that i must point...

Midnight Pals: Lectures

[unicorn fuck club]JRR Tolkien: sorry chaps I can't speak tonightTolkien: i'm afraid i'm quite busy at my day jobTolkien: being a professor at oxfordCS Lewis: wow, a professor AND a writer? must be hardTolkien: you have no ideaTolkien: let me tell youTolkien: being a professor is no cake...

A Special Presentation 326: Saturday Morning Preview Park [2 of 3]

Midnight Pals: Another Forever War

[white house]Trump: so we're bombing venezuela nowTrump: no reason, really, just becauseTrump: we just had all these bombs lying aroundTrump: and we thoughtTrump: why notJD Vance: masterful gambit, sirLarry Niven: MR PRESIDENT, MR PRESIDENT!Niven: we heard the news and we came as fast as we coul...

Midnight Pals: Slop Machine

Damon Knight: holy machine learning process! it seems that people don't AI slop being elligible for the nebula!Knight: what to do?Knight: i'll feed the question into the bat computerErin Underwood: never fear, erin underwood is here!Erin Underwood: people don't like AI slop?Underwood: do...

Midnight Pals: SFWA Drama

Damon Knight: hello citizensKnight: it's me, damon knightKnight: science fiction writer, SFWA founder, and vigilante crime fighterBarker: yeah that scansPoe: how do you figure that, clive?Barker: i mean with a name like damon knightPoe: oh yeah that makes senseDamon Knight: i founded the SFWA fo...

A Special Presentation 325: ABC Preview Park [1 of 3]

Midnight Pals: Christmas Chimes

Charles Dickens: holy shit you guysDickens: turns out everyone really loved a Christmas carolDickens: this whole Christmas ghost story idea is a gold mine!Dickens: i'm gonna write a new ghost story for EVERY Christmas!Dickens: and each one is gonna be BIGGER than the last!Dickens: don't beli...

Midnight Pals: Spooky Christmas

Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!Dickens: you know what that means!Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, manDickens: it meansDickens: what?Dickens: no no that can't be!Charles Dickens: [throwing open window] You boy! what day is today?Victorian moppet: oy, what day is it? why, it's t...

Ugly Sweater Party: Tis The Season to Save Santa!

Mike and Ethan have got the crew together again! Rocketshark, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop are all here to save Christmas! Sometimes you just want Christmas to STAY. SAVED, you know? I feel like the maid! That's why we're getting together to watch Christmas episodes with the highly specifi...

Midnight Pals: Black Mold

[scottish castle]JK Rowling: ugh! i'm tired of all thesssse people online making fun of my black mold!Rowling: that'sss it!Rowling: today isss the day that i do sssomething about itRowling: wormtongue! i call you to me!John Boyne: yes your evilness, right away your rottenness!Rowling: ah per...

A Special Presentation 323: Jack Frost

It's the holiday season, so it's Rankin Bass time! Rankin Bass made SO MANY holiday specials that were all sort of stealth Christmas specials. They still hold up, especially Jack Frost -- which is fun and also has everyone's favorite asshole Kubla Kraus the Cossack King!

Midnight Pals: Huffing Markers

King: you know we haven't seen JK Rowling in a whileKing: is she still tweeting?Barker: ha ha ha oh steveBarker: ha ha ha ha haBarker: ha ha ha ha ha haKing: what's so funny?Barker: ha ha ha!King: c'mon i want to know the jokeKoontz: golly, what did happen to JK Rowling?Barker: well, ol ...

Midnight Pals: Orgasm Lake

Graham Joyce: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of some kind of fairy taleJoyce: it's about a girl who gets kidnapped by fairiesJoyce: and i know what you're thinkingJoyce: but my fairies are differentJoyce: this girl is kidnapped by fairies but thenJoy...

Midnight Pals: Magic Book

Matt Maxwell: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of no tomorrowsMaxwell: it takes place back in the cool dank cyberpunk noir future of 1980s Los AngelesMaxwell: where veteran punk rocker turned cool chick Macready is being coolMaxwell: when she's not hanging...

A Special Presentation 322: A Comet in Moominland

A comet is threatening Moominland in this animated adaptation of the beloved Moomin comics by Finnish cartoonist Tove Marika Jansson. Moomin and his pals go to an observatory to get some info about a comet that's going to kill them all. Meanwhile, a philosopher takes up residence in the Moomin h...

Midnight Pals: Romance

Colleen Hoover: anyway i have a fun, sassy little romance for you that i think you'll all loveHoover: it's totally normal and NOT fucked up in any wayPoe: ok this is really not assuaging meKing: let it go, edgarBarker: yeah i'm getting real excited for this oneBarker: too fucked up for t...