Episodes

According to Urban Dictionary, the irrational fear of zippers is called jumaphobia. It seems like a pretty rare phobia, but maybe after listening to this week’s episode there’ll be at least a few more cases. We promise it’s not too scary! Maybe more unnerving? Either way, it’s definitely entertaining.

What do stolen diamonds, a shady pawn shop, and a bowling pin have in common? They’re all part of the story we came up with on this week’s show. When a couple of brothers learn their grand plan has been derailed, they quickly discover a trap has been laid for them. And somehow there’s a bowling pin at center of it all.

After a false start, we manage to backtrack and find a new, much more successful story. The final outcome is a horror film about a serial killer who uses magical portals drawn on a whiteboard to attack his victims. The police are stumped by a total lack of clues, until one of the attacks goes wrong, and a trail starts to come together. It all culminates in a fast-paced chase to catch the killer before he escapes forever.

A pair of vegetarians attend a Memorial Day barbecue in their neighborhood that goes seriously awry. The couple watches as their neighbors slowly start turning into meat-loving pod people. It’s a ridiculous horror-comedy that will having you craving burgers and kombucha.

In the style of a Stephen Chow kung fu comedy, our story this week focuses on a lazy martial arts student who must avenge his master’s death. He travels to the sifu’s village in the countryside and learns that his deceased teacher actually wasn’t that good of a martial artist. Luckily, everyone else in the village is, and he eventually learns to master the form. He returns to the city to confront the leader of the gang that killed his sifu, hoping to defeat him with a garden hose.

A benevolent local witch takes a runaway teen under her wing and begins to teach her magic. Being modern times, instead of a cauldron, the teen casts her spells in an enchanted bread maker. When the witch leaves town for a couple of days, the teen and a new friend of hers accidentally curse the children of the town in a story that we promise isn’t just a rehash of Practical Magic.

Our story is set a tiny world, whose existence is protected from unknown dangers in the dark by a beam of light from a flashlight. But this world is in peril: The light beam is shrinking as the battery in the flashlight is dying, and none of them can replace it. Some citizens believe they should develop their own light source, but an authoritative religious sect has banned this research as heresy. Eventually, a splinter group decides to leave the town and venture through the darkness in search of a fabled land with more light than anyone has ever seen…

A once-popular restaurant is thrown into chaos when the staff incorrectly assumes they are being judged for a Michelin star. Things quickly go off the rails, and they have to burn down their relationships with each other in order to rebuild them and come out stronger. And all of this because of a single, stupid paper clip.

An aging child star tries to recapture his fame when props from the TV show that made him famous go up for auction. We meet a colorful cast of characters, all vying for a famous lunch box and screen time in this mockumentary-style story.