The Overthinking It Podcast
Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 914
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
Episode 855: I Like to Consider Myself a Local Man
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Matt Wrather makes a surprise stop in from parental leave to join Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee and Pete Fenzel as we discuss The Onion: its histo…
Episode 854: Venom’s Superpower Is Friendship
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After six years as the only Overthinker to appreciate these masterpieces, Pete Fenzel has finally convinced Matt Belinke to watch the Tom Ha…
Episode 853: Breath of Atomic Fresh Air
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Mark Lee, Pete Fenzel, and Matt Belinkie check in with the mother of all cinematic franchises, Godzilla. After 70 years and 38 films, how ca…
Episode 852: What Is P.T. Barnum’s Dream? It’s Just Dreams!
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Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Pete Fenzel make their vague dreams into iconic realities by overthinking The Greatest Showman. Is it a concept…
Episode 851: The Parent Trapper
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Podfather Matt Wrather is notoriously adverse to scary movies. But as he is still on paternity leave, Pete, Mark, and Matt B overthink “Trap…
Episode 850: We Don’t Respect The Munsters, and We Don’t Respect the Monkees
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Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee step slowly up to the wrought-iron knocker on the old oak door of this haunted mansion we call a p…
Episode 849: Let’s De-Wonderwall This
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Against all odds, Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee have reunited in tribute to the upcoming Oasis tour. Inspired by their once-inte…
Episode 848: She Was Always What Was Going On
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In the 21st century, Dame Maggie Smith was celebrated for her portrayals of Hogwarts’s Professor McGonagall and Downton’s Dowager Countess V…
Episode 847: If You’re Into 60 Year Old Dudes, This Show Is the Best
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The Bachelor franchise has been chugging along for more than 20 years now, in a neverending ouroboros of broken hearts and moonlit dinners s…
Episode 846: My Neighbor Kokoro
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Overthinking It has been obsessing over, and often lamenting, the Terminator franchise going all the way back to the regrettable 2009 entry,…
Episode 845: My House Is Haunted; This Is a Great Business Opportunity
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Beetlejuice is such an iconic character that it’s easy to forget how weird and confusing he is (for starters, his name is actually spelled “…
Episode 844: The Letting Go of Cool
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Once Matt Wrather heads off to parental leave, Overthinking It will be staffed entirely by parents. In the last podcast before this happens,…
Episode 843: Rip the Spike out of the Peacock
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Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather examine the Netflix series called The Decameron, which does bear some loose resemblance to …
Episode 842: General Minion Intelligence
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Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Peter Fenzel overthink those despicable Minions. Are they evil because they serve evil, or are they antibodies …
Episode 841: It Feels Like They Sent the Right Person
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee confront the demons to overthink DOOM. They discuss the risks and successes of the dawn of 3D g…
Episode 840: The Snoopification of the Olympics
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris, France. They discuss the …
Episode 839: A Star Trek Solution to a Throuples Therapy Problem
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Deadpool & Wolverine, starting with a provocative (G-rated!) question, and continuing …
Episode 838: Brat Summer’s Lease Hath All Too Short a Date
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Middle-aged podcasters Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather investigate the “Kamala is Brat” meme and discover that it is actually a …
Episode 837: The Days are Long; The Years are Short; The Decades are Meaningless
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Matt’s recent baby shower, and settle on the theme of baby stuff (or “stuffs”) as a pe…
Episode 836: Blood and Milk
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, a parodic film about the 1960s in America (and, incidental…