After our 100th episode, David and Derek dive into submitted questions from listeners about our favorite snacks, what weird episodes look like in the wild, and a bunch of other TV talk! Check it out at gimmickspodcast.com

We talk about how RIVERDALE honors its own bonkers legacy with a dreamlike crumbling reality, tackling everything from big deaths and weddings to recast actors fighting each other. We also explore the history of the 100th episode milestone in TV and radio! Check it out at gimmickspodcast.com

It's our 100th episode, and we're celebrating with one of TV's wildest and wackiest 100th episodes! 🥳 @scifiexplosion.bsky.social returns for a surreal, reality-bending RIVERDALE that uses an imploding parallel universe to pack in every 100th episode trope imaginable! Listen at gimmickspodcast.com

We're celebrating 100 episodes with a special Q&A episode! Ask @derekbgayle.bsky.social and @dmuma.bsky.social all your questions about TV, the podcast, and anything else you'd like to know! Reply, DM, or email gimmickspodcast@gmail.com before Sunday, 7/5.

What could make a tense hospital drama known for its realism and practical effects even more challenging to produce? Doing it all live! We're talking about the famous live episode of ER, where a documentary crew ambushes the doctors on a particularly busy night. Find the pod at gimmickspodcast.com

Apropos of nothing in particular, we've covered Doctor Who two different times on the pod if you want to look back on some old favorites! 🌌 "Midnight" with @hamishsteele.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4U8z... "Eve of the Daleks" with A.P.: open.spotify.com/episode/6udE...

We're breezy, and we're tackling the first FRIENDS bottle episode! @erinmallorylong.bsky.social joins us to talk about cost-saving measures, answering machines, Living Single, and more... and we re-explain yet again what "bottle episode" ACTUALLY means. Find the podcast at gimmickspodcast.com

Life's still unfair across two different timelines in this famous MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, a Sliding Doors-style look at the consequences of each parent taking the kids bowling. We talk about the masterful filmmaking, effects, and timing that made this all work! Find the podcast: gimmickspodcast.com

Very famous episodes of absolutely iconic network shows coming up on Gimmicks! We cover the award-winning split timeline episode of MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, the first bottle episode of FRIENDS, and the live episode of ER! Subscribe to the podcast at gimmickspodcast.com

Are you ready to learn the sacred and dark secrets of preparing a Krabby Patty?! 🍔 @kaijucomiccast.bsky.social joins us for SPONGEBOB's spot-on parody of cheesy fast food job training videos, from mythologizing franchise history to silly acronyms and music rip-offs. Find us at gimmickspodcast.com!

We complete the prophesized Weird Fox Crossover Trifecta when Mulder and Scully meet The Simpsons in "The Springfield Files"! X-Files fan @littledeadaliens.bsky.social⁠ and Simpsons fan @awkwardcomma.bsky.social join us to talk about this zany episode. Find the podcast at gimmickspodcast.com

Years before TV was forced to do Zoom episodes, Modern Family had their own take — an entire story told through a Macbook screen with Apple apps like FaceTime and iMessage! We talk 2015 references, why writer Megan Ganz is our fav, queer representation discourse, and more at gimmickspodcast.com

Here's what coming up on Gimmicks! Modern Family does a Zoom episode before there was a Zoom episode, X-Files crosses over with The Simpsons, and Spongebob does a training video! Find the podcast at gimmickspodcast.com

Happy Alien Day! We've done two episodes about TV shows that pay homage to the Alien films in surprising ways! Find em at gimmickspodcast.com

One good crossover deserves another, so as a follow-up from last week's X-FILES/COPS episode, we're joined by @awkwardcomma.bsky.social to discuss the "Springfield's Most Wanted" special that aired before the season premier of "Who Shot Mr. Burns" in 1995.

Two unexpected titans of the FOX network cross over -- one a fictional paranormal drama, the other a copaganda reality show about law enforcement. Somehow, it works! @callupthedead.bsky.social from @fearcodedpod.bsky.social joins to talk about THE X-FILES becoming COPS at gimmickspodcast.com.

April Fools' Day may have passed, but we'll always have The Drew Carey Show's annual "What's Wrong With The Episode" specials that asked audiences to spot mistakes to win thousands of dollars! Listen to our deep dive on these contests at gimmickspodcast.com

It's the first April Fools' Day episode of The Drew Carey Show, which hosted a contest asking audiences to spot over 50 intentional mistakes -- from characters in mustaches to continuity errors to bears wearing ties to kaiju Craig Ferguson! Listen to our deep dive podcast at gimmickspodcast.com

Washington, D.C. is the capital of an evil empire?! @brettwhite.bsky.social joins us for this disturbingly prescient alternate universe story that finds G.I. Joe in a world where the bad guys won, with lots to say about our current state of affairs. Find the pod at gimmickspodcast.com

We recently covered the Babylon 5 episode "And Now For a Word", which is presented as an in-universe special news report (including its own commercial break!) and is very prescient in showing major news outlets as tools for corporations and government propaganda. Listen at gimmickspodcast.com

Coming up on Gimmicks! G.I. JOE gets trapped in a parallel universe where the bad guys won, DREW CAREY has a "spot the mistakes" episode on April Fools' Day, and X-FILES crosses over with (and parodies) the reality show COPS! Find us at gimmickspodcast.com

We interrupt your scheduled programming for this special news report episode of BABYLON 5! @chrise1701.bsky.social joins us for the intergalactic news media's perspective on aliens and space politics—with prescient views on propaganda and evil corporate sponsors. Find us at gimmickspodcast.com!

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Happy 29th anniversary to Buffy the Vampire Slayer! This show is very important to our podcast -- so many of the best ever high-concept episodes of TV are just episodes of Buffy. We've covered the Buffyverse directly multiple times at gimmickspodcast.com!

Before being cast as Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie, Christopher Daniel Barnes was in a sitcom episode where he dreamed... he was in THE BRADY BUNCH!

You've likely never heard of Day by Day, a short-lived sitcom that once had Christopher Daniel Barnes cross into The Brady Bunch reality... years before he's cast as Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie! @scifiexplosion.bsky.social joins us for this postmodern Brady send-up at gimmickspodcast.com.

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As much as "The Zeppo" is a funny, satirical episode of Buffy, it also has a lot to say about expectations of masculinity and how it causes people to make bad decisions...even when they have a role model like Daddy Giles right in front of them. Listen to our full episode at gimmickspodcast.com!

When Buffy famously asked "Is this a penis metaphor?" that question actually applied to this entire episode. We get into portrayals of masculinity in our deep dive on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo"! Find it at gimmickspodcast.com