Breakfast Quest

Writer Danielle Henderson joins Nick and Lars to watch the final episode of The World of David the Gnome, a Spanish-animated adaptation of a Dutch children's book series about the adventures of a veterinarian gnome and his animal friends. In the episode we watched, all the main characters die! Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "The Mountains of Beyond," on youtube HERE!  ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Author and writer Tom O'Donnell returns to Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Ghostbusters, the mid-'80s cartoon classic featuring all your favorite characters from the movie of the same name. It's Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman, Slimer, and the rest, battling those ghoulish fiends, the "ghosts" in New York City. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Ooze, Proton Packs! The whole shebang. This show is as iconic as it gets. Just kidding - we watched that shitty knock-off show with two dumbasses and a gorilla. You were thinking of The Real Ghostbusters. That's not what we watched. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Witch's Stew," on on YouTube HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Filmmaker and comedian Amanda Justice joins Nick and Lars to watch early '90s Nickelodeon classic Clarissa Explains It All, a live-action sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart about a precocious teenage girl. The episode we watched is about Clarissa getting a crush on a weatherman and becoming obsessed with weather. Topics discussed within include Point Break, cereal influencing, and the good part of Donnie Darko. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Clarissa's Crush," on on DailyMotion HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer Maggie Serota returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold, an early '80s Japanese / French animated series about 16th century South America that was broadcast on Nickelodeon through the '80s. The episode that we watched was about a Spanish vagabond named Mendoza stealing a cannon and then getting nearly executed. Topics discussed within include Twin Peaks, sports jokes, and the trustworthiness of birds. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Esteban's Medallion," on your digital media store of choice. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writer and director Geordie Broadwater comes back to Brakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Bionic Six, a mid-'80s boys' action cartoon about a "family" of technologically enhanced superheroes. We watched the series finale, "That's All Folks," which the story of some cartoon characters falling into a dimension filled with cartoon characters and suffering from existential dread. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Writers and comedians Joe Berkowitz and Zoe Schwab join Nick and Lars to enjoy a slice of true cartoon insanity: Mister T, the early '80s animated vehicle for actor and lifestyle brand-made-flesh Mr. T. This series is about the title character driving around the United States with a bus full of gymnasts to find crime and stop it in its tracks. The episode that we watched is about a bunch of New Mexican monks who steal TV's and murder children. HOLY HELL WAS THIS SHOW INTENSE. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can find the episode we watched, "Mystery of the Forbidden Monastery" on the streaming video platform of your choice (and we highly recommend that you watch it)... ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Frontman of Golden Suits and podcaster Fred Nicolaus comes back for another go 'round in Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Pusteblume, a live action, German-language educational show from the late '70s. As a first, this is a foreign language show with no subtitles or sound-dubbing, so we basically had no idea what was happening. The episode we watched was about growing pumpkins, so take a listen if you want to hear three people not understanding how to grow pumpkins! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Patrick Monahan returns to join Nick and Lars for an episode of the action anime classic Dragon Ball Z (on the recommendation of Thomas, a listener who sent some suggestions to us in an email). If you don't know the show, it's an incredibly slow-moving and lore-rich show about dudes who fight each other by talking about fighting each other. The episode we watched is the one where series protagonist Goku gets so mad his hair changes color. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched, "Transformed at Last," on Funimation's subscription service. If you have an easier way to watch it, let us know! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian and actor (and Nick's spouse) Faryl Amadeus joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Kids Incorporated, a musically-driven live-action sitcom that originally aired on The Disney Channel from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. The episode we watched was somehow a meditation on the birth of modernity via the emergence of comedy as legitimate cinema, set during the early days of silent film. Weird. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Branson Reese joins Nick and Lars to watch an episode of Emu's Pink Windmill Show, a live-action kids' variety show starring British comedian Rod Hull and his emu puppet, Emu. It's most famous for incredible dancing from its cast of child actors, but the episode that we watched also included witches, robots, and lots of confusing British geographical names. Topics discussed include mismatched socks, environmentalism, and motorcycle tragedies. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

We will be back next week with a new episode of Breakfast Quest with a brand new guest and a brand new kids' TV show, but in the meantime, maybe you'd like to listen to this special Breakfast Bonus. This podcast is a low-key conversation between Lars and his mom, discussing Moomin, Sweden, Japan, and all the things they have in common. Something a little different. Enjoy! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Mary Houlihan returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for something... a little different. In a rare variation from the norm, the show featured on this podcast is one that your hosts have an actual connection and sentimentality toward. In this case, we watched Moomin, the 1990 anime adaptation of Tove Jansson's classic Scandinavian children's book series. The episode we watched is about the main character finding and befriending a cute little dragon and how all friendships are based on lies. Topics discussed within include wizardry, mothers, and Japan. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian and actor Connor Ratliff joins Nick and Lars for something... a little different. For the first time ever, our guest sourced the show for the podcast - in this case it was The Letter People, a mid-'70s puppet-driven educational series produced in St. Louis whose purpose is to teach children how to read. We watched two episodes - one about the letter R joining an avant garde rock band, and another about the letter R flying deep into space to rescue a captive vowel. It's a weird one. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episodes we watched HERE ("Meet Mr. R") and HERE ("Star Trip Part 1"). ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Jason Torres returns to Breakfast Quest to join Nick and Lars for an episode of Centurions, a mid-'80s cartoon with a strong toy tie-in about a trio of military dudes that blow the hell out of everything with tons of weapons and whatnot. The episode we watched is about a bunch of plants that kill all of the life on earth and a dog that learns how to love... murder. Topics discussed within include wizardly vestments, the twist in Split, and the wisdom of exploiting weakness. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Fan favorite Rachel Millman and Breakfast newcomer Nate Lamagna join Nick and Lars to enjoy an episode of the 1991 animated Macauley Culkin vehicle Wish Kid. The show stars Mr. Culkin as a boy with a magical baseball glove that grants wishes and ruins innocents lives. The episode that we watched was about baseball getting ruined by one young man's wish. Topics discussed within include Donald Trump's sex stuff, frozen dinners, and shaving points. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian and writer Halle Kiefer helps Nick and Lars kick off the new year by watching an episode the classic Nickelodeon sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television. We watched an episode from 1981 with a wide range of sketches about ripoffs and warranty fraud. Topics discussed within include wizardry, the twist in M. Night Shyamalan's Split, and Leslies. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch the episode we watched HERE. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Comedian Joe Rumrill joins Nick and Lars to watch a somewhat obscure, somewhat forgotten, mostly Canadian animated kids' special from the mid-'70s, called A Cosmic Christmas. In it, three aliens land in the frozen north and guilt trip a kid into feeling about how all the adults in town are total a-holes. Enjoy the holidays, everyone! We'll see y'all again in the new year. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch A Cosmic Christmas on youtube here. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

It's our year-end report on all things XXXXX in kids' TV and movies. This year, Nick and Lars focus on all things scary with HEXSTRAVAGANZA, our celebration / condemnation of all things scary from years past. Stuff gets serious, so please, we advise you to strap in. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! Follow along with our unrelenting clip-viewing by checking out our SCARY STUFF playlist on youtube! ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!  

Comedian Jo Firestone comes by Breakfast Studios to join Nick and Lars for the final week of NOWvember, our month-long investigation into all things CURRENT and HIP and COOL FOR THE KIDS. We watched a Disney XD cartoon called Star vs the Forces of Evil, and guess what? It was pretty good! Topics discussed include yogurt, body pockets, and being open about your insecurities. Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch "NAYSAYA," the episode we watched, on the digital media service of your choosing. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!

Jill Twiss, comedian and writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, joins Nick and Lars for week 3 of NOWvember, our month-long journey into all that is current and topical in the ceaseless world of children's television. We watched K.C. Undercover, a live-action Disney Channel sitcom starring supposed famous person Zendaya, in which typical family comedy plots are smashed together with over-the-top tactical espionage action. In the episode we watched, the main character belts a teacher in the stomach in one scene, and then makes her parents shoot each other in the next! It's weird! Send your emails to letters@breakfastquest.net! You can watch "Virtusl Insanity," the episode we watched, on the digital media service of your choosing. ...and SUBSCRIBE TO BREAKFAST QUEST ON iTUNES!