Growing Up with Family Ties - Part Two
A blast from the past in which the Josh persona of the blog hypothesizes about the wayward paths Alex P Keaton and Ellen Reed wandered down, post-Family Ties.
The Successive Dysfunctional Marriages of Peter Caine
Why can’t Peter Caine catch a break? First his dad is murdered by ninja assassins, who staged his death to look like he autoerotically asphyxiated himself to death. Now he goes from humiliating marriage to humiliating marriage?
Mimi's Path to Crossroads and Back Again
Possessed gives us the both the origins and fate of Mimi from Crossroads, and it’s so much worse than you could have imagined for her.
MMB 44 Accompaniment: A Celebration of Perfection
Sure, in Episode 44: But They Are Turning a Blind Eye When Munch Is Going to Steal That Kidney and Put It In Marlee Matlin covering SVU ep Parts (S6E22) we talked about a lot of important things once parsing the insanity. Just as importantly, we also talked about the 1985 John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis aerobics drama Perfect. A drama wherein investigative journalist John Travolta is embedding to expose gyms and aerobics as the new singles bars? Sign us up.
You Belong in a Body Bag, but I’m Gonna Put You in a Cage for Life Instead
There is a reason we choose to watch Law & Order SVU. Watching "Turmoil" from the current season, I am reminded exactly why that is. This episode is a nonstop roller coaster ride of rape, murder, the internet, deception, false accusations, and army recruitment that just simply could not fit in to any other program on television.
Go Hoosiers
At the original, blog incarnation of Munch My Benson, there were a few other contributors in addition to Adam and Josh. This piece, originally posted on November 22, 2009, by Young Man Duggan, AKA friend of the pod/brother of a co-host, Drew. We covered this episode on podcast Episode 35 - 10 Hours of Bone Sessions to Get to the Bones Bone Session.
Let’s Take It from the Top
This was originally written by Josh Duggan and published at the previous incarnation of Munch My Benson back in 2009. It was covering the pilot episode, Payback, which we covered back in podcast Episode 1 - Dickwolf Being Dickwolf.
We. Are. Coming.
On Monday, May 11, the first three episodes of the irreverent SVU podcast Munch My Benson are coming to a listening device near you.
Dylan McKay: Rapist
For girls born between 1973 and 1983, Luke Perry was the bad boy teen heartthrob for a good chunk of their teens and early 20s. Brenda Walsh, the innocent Midwesterner, had to have him. Kelly Taylor, über-popular rich girl? She found him irresistible, too. Hell, he was so cool that he looked 30 years old and basically lived on his own when he was in high school.
So we take this guy who went on to be in the goddamn rodeo and had nearly every girl in America fawning over him, and then we have him rape the tomboy from Roseanne and the love interest from Happy Gilmore and Ed. You've got to cover all the bases, right?