Strange Bedfellows

A '90s Show Pilot: "Hackers"

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone! Tanner's back, and he brought a friend! This is a pilot for a new podcast we're working on about the '90s (for you young people, that wa...

Why THEY Don't Want Us to Record the 'Hackers' Episode

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're taking a break for the Holidays! At least, that's what THEY want you to think. But never fear — there's going to be plenty of sweet, sweet co...

Mean Emma

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emma's in her Mean Era, and we're halfway through the ONLY way to enjoy what film critics are calling the "scintillating" "Emma Squadrilogy." That's r...

Stench & Stinkability

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this "scentillating" adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Marianne and Elinor "Smellinor" Dashwood have invented a magical lotion that cures ...

Woofanger Waggy

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dive into the Boneiverse with us as we explore the deep, mind-expanding lore and vast secrets contained in the lost "Wishbone 'Northanger Abbey,'" aka...

Clueless (finally!)

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the boys are joined by '90s Tanner and Jack Shepherd Ska Explainer to try and figure out which of the characters from "Clueless" are actual...

Actual Pride and Prejudice (feat. Vanessa Zoltan)

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The boys are joined by the great Vanessa Zoltan to discuss one of the most important Pride and Prejudice adaptations, "Actual Pride and Prejudice" by ...

The Sir James Martin Fancast

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Sir James Martin Fancast, where we're sharing our favorite James Jams from "Love & Friendship," the 2016 adaptation of Jane Austen's ep...

Showerbath-ton

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wouldn't you know it –"Sanditon" episodes 3 and 4 are even hotter and hornier than the first two episodes?! Maybe it's because Jane's been drinking ...

Handie-ton

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

That's right, it's the very hot and very horny first two episodes of "Sanditon," by Andrew Davies (the Jane Austen of our time) and Jane Austen (the J...

Minesfield Park

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Billie Piper is a more or less silent Fanny Price in the 2007 Mansfield Park created by Britain's Interesting Television, but is it better than the co...

Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Darcy's a congressman, Lizzie's trying to save the town square, and this whole thing is making us just a little bit horse crazy. This week, it's Pride...

Bride and Breadjudice

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have these boys met a real live Mr. Darcy, in the flesh, without realizing it? Will the Seal of Danzalthar stay closed long enough for the Bakshi girl...

Keira Knightley and the Siostry Bennet

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mrs. Bennet was right. There, we said it. Anyway, we watched the 2005 Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice this week and some of us have to grudgingly ...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're finally getting around to tackling Jane's only nonfiction novel, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," which covers the zombie apocalypse of 1813, ...

Persuasion (fish edition)

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's our wettest episode yet, with Anne Elliot from the Fishman movie making a big splash in Bath, while Captain Benwick stands on a big scary wall to...

Austenland

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Take a trip with us into the crazy Westworld-style "Kissing Brothel" known as "Austenland," where there's no robots but there's plenty of kissing, a v...

The "Clueless" of "Sense and Sensibility"

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just as the predator claimed King Willie's skull as a trophy in 1990's Predator 2, so Willoughby (aka Rodrigo Fuentes) mercilessly crushes the hopes o...

Jane Austen Book Club

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It looks like we're all in one big Jane Austen Book Club together now, which means that we're going to have to start carrying around all our Jane Aust...

North-ANGER Abbey

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Don't blink, because it's the 2007 Andrew Davies adaptation of Northanger Abbey, and Jyn Erso is about to make her biggest mistake since she tried to ...

Deadpool Fanny Price

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Crash Override and Deadpool Fanny Price go head to head in a white-knuckle thrill ride that one out of two hosts of this podcast has described as "an ...

Willoughby's Sexy Horse

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The scintillating ALL-AUSTEN content block comes screeching into Andrew Davies' 2008 "Sense and Sensibility" like a bat out of hell. This week, we've ...

Goop's "Emma"

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

That's right, folks — it's time to strap in, rev up your engines, and get ready for a raw, rugged, 100% premium grade "ALL AUSTEN" content block, st...

Death March Through Middlemarch - Leg Five: The March Home

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Death March is over, but we still have to do our Plot Line Power Rankings, play a bracing game of Ned, Kitty, El, and slide, gracefully, into Dodo...

We're Moving to Tuesdays!

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a very short announcement to say that we are moving our release date to Tuesdays. I'm realizing this announcement is timed with April Fools Da...

Death March Through Middlemarch - Leg Four

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our brutal march comes to an end in the forsaken lands where George's murderous schemes make targets of us all. But before we few survivors can rest o...

Death March Through Middlemarch - Leg Three

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And now we march through the most dangerous territory yet: The fevered swamps where Emo Will Ladislaw lurks and the weary survivors must play "Fred, M...

Death March Through Middlemarch - Leg Two

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The grueling death march through Middlemarch continues at a breakneck pace, and even King George himself has racked up a body count. Music credits: ...

Death March Through Middlemarch - Leg One

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dodo Brooke just rizzed up Casaubon, and that's only the first book. The blistering death march through Middlemarch begins in earnest. Music credits:...

Death March Through Middlemarch

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It begins. Music credits: "Heroic Ancient Adventure," by R-Production "Prince of Darkness," by Allen Grey Special thanks to Baby Bee Carys for the ...

SB 110 - "Circle of Friends"

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The iconic Circle of Friends known as Tanner, Jack, and Lewis get to the bottom of some deeply concerning facts about bachelor and bachelorette partie...

SB 109 - "Palm Springs"

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Winter of our Cris(tin Milioti)-Content. This episode took almost 400 years to make. We'd like to thank Andy Samberg. And Your Mother. ...

SB 108 - "The Incredible Jessica James"

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the juiciest Chris-es this side of "Puffin Rock" AND a fellow podcaster in one movie means that the boys will have to muster the performance of...

SB 107 - "Celeste and Jesse Forever"

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week's Chris-es are Messina and (ever-so-briefly) Pine. Blink and you miss 'em, but we really do need to catch them all. We also need to check fo...

SB 106 - "The Tomorrow War"

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Remember when we did Swiftmas, and the time when Jack was at Grandma’s so we did one about Puffin Rock too? WELL F**KING FORGET ABOUT ALL OF THAT BE...

SB 105 - "Puffin Rock"

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s wishing that you thrive and find happiness in the new year. And even though we’ve all made it to 2024 together, it’s important to remembe...

SB 104 - MERRY SWIFTMAS (It's "Valentine's Day")

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Merry Swiftmas, y'all! As is traditional during Swiftmas, we will be celebrating Taylor by enjoying her hit 2010 film, "Valentine's Day." Any and all ...

SB 103 - "Ghosted"

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Now is (continues) the winter of our "Chris" content, made funner by the "Chris" from "Civil War." Y'all are going to need your "Ghosted" names for t...

SB 102 - "Snow White and The Huntsman"

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Now is the winter of our "Chris" content, made gloriously dumber by the "Chris" from Thor. That's right, folks, it's a brand new content block to warm...

SB 101 - "The Hunt for Red October"

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The October Hunt for the Hunks of the Hunt for Red October comes to a dramatic conclusion with the biggest hunk-hunting expedition ever mounted. Musi...

SB 100 - "Sleepless in Seattle"

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us for the Hanksgiving armistice, where we take a break from hunting hunks and give thanks for Hanks. And also for Meg Ryan. Then, as is H...

SB 099 - "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement"

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Hunk Hunters step back and give space to an incredible independent creator. This deep dive into the troubled nation state of Genovia, a...

SB 098 - "Event Horizon"

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A hunk-hunting operation at the edges of deep space goes terribly wrong when hunk from The Hunt for Red October Sam Neill falls in love with a spacesh...

SB 097 - “Working Girl”

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We really stepped in it this week, folks. We went into this scenario half-cocked, landed right in the soft part of a hunk nest, and the cap popped CLE...

SB 096 - "Armageddon"

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We may have lost the entire city of Paris this week, but we sure as heck found our hunk—it's Ben Affleck('s Jack Ryan) and he's busy trying to put a...

SB 095 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that a human being can speed run the  entire 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves NES game in under 30 minutes? Yeah, we thought it would ...

SB 094 - "It's Complicated"

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The October Hunt for the hunks of the film the Hunt for Red October continues this week as we go for the meatiest part of the hunk: the tender Alec Ba...

SB 093 - "Wimbledon"

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you woke up tomorrow and the 2004 film "Wimbledon," starring Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst, never existed...

SB 092 - "Love Potion No. 9"

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Like all beautiful things, the Summer of Sandra must finally die, but what a ride it's been! And what a way to send it off — with a wide-reaching an...

SB 091 - "Bird Box"

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the boys attempt to answer a particularly thorny set of questions, like, "Why didn't they call it 'Horse Box'"? And, "Why are the creatures...

SB 090 - "Demolition Man"

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emergency transmission from the near future! Please respond by Lakehousing me a letter if you get this. It's me, Lakelyn – or McKayla, depending on ...

PATREON BONUS: "Perfect Date"

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Labor Day! We'll be back next week with more Strange Bedfellows, but in the meantime, we're unlocking a Patreon episode for you to enjoy. To sup...

SB 089 - "Hope Floats"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Don't worry – the producers sat down with Tanner before the recording of this episode and had a constructive talk with him about how much people lov...

SB 088 - "Gravity"

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Hilda Doolittle” – Jack Shepherd, Strange Bedfellows The Summer of Sandra has gone extraterrestrial with 2013’s “Gravity,” or as we li...

SB 087 - "Practical Magic"

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Coven-up, team! Witches are real, and it's time for us to find our very own Amas Veritas! Just pray that your one true love is not Mark Feuerstein, be...

SB 086 - "Speed 2: Cruise Control"

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eighteenth-century British novelist Daniel Defoe stars in this scintillating sequel to the hit movie "Speed," in which they cut all the good parts out...

SB 085 - "Miss Congeniality"

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Grab a pen, a bikini, and an FBI badge, because we're all going undercover this week to catch a killer at the big beauty pageant! If we can figure out...

SB 084 - "The Net"

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Get out your modems, your IBM 701 laptop with the butterfly keyboard, and ... unfortunately, your hankies, because we're going to be doing an equal am...

SB 083 - "The Proposal"

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The epic #SummerOfSandra continues with a heartwarming, hilarious love story for the ages — starring our heroine and the Green Lantern himself — t...

SB 082 - "Speed"

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pop Quiz, Hotshots: How many buses explode in the movie "Speed," starring Sandra Bullock, Keāno, and Dennis Hopper from "Speed"? We'll do our best to...

SB 081 - "While You Were Sleeping"

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's Boyzone/Dadzone this week, and it's also the exciting premiere of a brand-new content block called Summer of Sandra! Whether you're listening for...

SB 080 - "Music and Lyrics" (feat. Jared Sosa)

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hugh Grant's Vernal Dance comes to a scintillating conclusion thanks to the incredible musical talents of guest Jared Sosa and the once-in-a-generatio...

SB 079 - "Two Weeks Notice"

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We dodged a real bullet this week (well, not Tanner—he was killed by his Looper closing the loop) when we DIDN’T watch 1995’s “Nine Months” ...

SB 078 - "Notting Hill"

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hailed as the “Superman: Dawn of Justice” of its day, our film this week was the first to unite three separate cinematic universes in one story-te...

SB 077 - "Wedding Crashers"

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s more role-playing than not this week as we discuss this classic "squeakuel" to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and try to perfect our Owen Wilson...

BEST OF: Remembering the Da Vinci Code

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're taking another week off this week, as some of us attempt to herd some cats onto an airplane, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitte...

BEST OF: A Time to Kilbourne

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sit...

SB 076 - "Four Weddings and a Funeral

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Stop all the clocks! It's time for Four Weddings and, well ... there's really no great way of saying this but ... unfortunately there is also a Funer...

BEST OF: BSCCD-ROM – The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're taking another week off this week, as some of us persist in trying to move across the country, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sit...

SB 075 - "Starman"

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, famous author Jaime Green joins to talk about her new book "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the...

SB 074 - "Three Thousand Years of Longing

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the boys summon a large and sexy genie from a lamp and try to get a smooch, just like in the movie "Three Thousand Years of Longing," from ...

BEST OF: The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Board Game (feat. Dan Shannon)

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're taking another week off this week, while some of us try to move, so please enjoy one of our very favorite Baby-Sitters Club Club episodes from t...

SB 073 - "Her"

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we made a wonderful AI girlfriend, just like in the famous movie "Her," with Joker and Susan Sarandon. She wants to take us all to a speake...

SB 072 - "Return to Me"

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Duchovny thinks his wife has a great heart — so much so that he'll follow it anywhere it goes! And this week, Art Monk and Mr. Butt have got s...

SB 071 - "Sense and Sensibility"

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we all Benjamin Button backwards through the great sweep of human achievement, from the futuristic AI-enhanced space operas that will dominate the ...

SB 070 - "Pretty Woman"

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Garry Marshall's 1990 film "Pretty Woman" is famously a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, if any of the sites I found tryin...

SB 069 - "Eyes Wide Shut"

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys watched Eyes Wide Shut and were inspired to come up with their very own Sex Cult! Don't worry, this one isn't awkward or weird at a...

Surprise! No new episode this week!

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sowwy! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-shepherd8/support Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

SB 068 - "The Bodyguard"

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please please please remember to use #BodyguardChallenge when you tweet about this scintillating episode. We can't wait to see what you come up with! ...

SB 067 - "27 Dresses"

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The boys have been collecting all their beautiful outfits from the combined 54 weddings they've attended because their own very special day is finally...

PATREON BONUS - OGIF 045: Full House, "Aftershocks"

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a holiday, so we're off this week, but we're unlocking the latest episode from the Patreon and we'll be back next week with "27 Dresses"! It's F...

SB 066 - "Singles" (feat. Matthew Perpetua)

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's something a little bit different this week, as the boys bring on music writer Matthew Perpetua to talk about the iconic soundtrack of the 1992 Ca...

SB 065 - "Bridget Jones's diary"

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Snow exposes complacently a complete ignorance," says F.R. Leavis in his 1962 lecture on C.P. Snow's "Two Cultures." "The judgement I have to come ou...

SB 064 - "About Time"

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you went back into the past before your cat was born, would you come back to an entirely different cat?! Is this movie sweet and funny and upliftin...

SB 063 - "The Holiday"

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The boys plan their dream "vacation where we meet a sexy lover" as a special treat for the holidays. Also, Jude Law is very handsome indeed. Also ... ...

SB 062 - "Sliding Doors"

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's two Gwyneths for the price of one! Follow along as the boys artfully extract nuance and subtext from this scintillating film about twin Gwyneths ...

SB 061 - "Good Luck Chuck"

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Warning: Do not cram this film into your frathole. Additionally, for your own safety, we will not be describing anything that happens in this film. Th...

SB 060 - "The Truth About Cats and Dogs"

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Would you pass the cheese test? The carnage test? The sexy-book-to-read-over-the-phone test? Learn these truths about yourselves AND the truth about c...

SB 059, "A Rogue of One's Own," by Evie Dumore (feat. Marissa Flaxbart)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re joined by Marissa Flaxbart this week and she brought a scintillating piece of literature along with her to discuss: Star Wars “Rogue One!”...

SB 058 - "Can't Hardly Wait"

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Don't waste our flavor because we're coming in hot and heavy with some sizzling hot takes about the scintillating masterpiece that paved the way for A...

SB 057 - "For Butter or Worse," by Erin La Rosa (feat. Erin La Rosa)

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone likes cooking shows but what if they were even steamier ... BECAUSE OF LOVE-MAKING?!!! It's a question we've all asked ourselves, but only on...

SB 056 - "Singin' in the Rain!"

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The era of silent podcasting is over, so you can finally hear our beautiful singing voices — and what a perfect movie to debut them with. There's no...

SB 055 - "Mamma Mia!"

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This movie has everything: Meryl, Remington Steele, Mr. Darcy, Dad from Thor, and — somewhat confusingly — a big, fat Greek wedding. But as perfec...

SB 054 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the Year of Our Lord 2002, it was decreed throughout the land that every man, woman, and child of sound health and mind should — on a day of thei...

SB 053 - "Fever Pitches"

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two films about some guys, some pitches, and a love affair with a nice lady and 11 or more sports boys who are based between 2 and 60 miles south of C...

SB 052 - "An Officer and a Gentleman," directed by Taylor Hackford

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A movie about how fabulously nice it would be if somebody came and picked you up at work. Literally. This one was sadder than we expected, but Richard...

SB 051 - "Moonstruck," directed by Norman Jewison

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's almost impossible to imagine a more perfect concept for a film than a completely feral Nicolas Cage yelling a lot and then falling in love with C...

SB 050 - "Empire Records," directed by Allan Moyle

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're here from the '90s to explain to the world why selling out is so very, very bad, why not caring about anything is the coolest way to ...

SB 049 - "Shakespeare in Love," directed by John Madden

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a movie that asks a question that's been on everybody's mind since the Elizabethan times: What if Shakespeare fell in love with Goop, from ...

SB 048 - "The Cutting Edge," directed by Paul Michael Glaser

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

He's a hockey man; she's a figure skating queen. Can they put together the greatest American figure skating pairs team in history without falling hope...