So Weird Was SO GOOD! Simplicity: Elon Musk, cottagecore, and Columbine, somehow?

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12/10/22 • 24 min

Fi and the crew have to fix a flat tire by preventing Elon Musk from launching Starlink. Molly learns to "walk up, not out." Erik Von Detten may have invented the word "boomer." I am not exaggerating nearly as much as I should be.

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So Weird Was SO GOOD! Escape: Leave the burnt-out gifted children alone, please!

Quick question: did we all have fantasies about being able to astral project when we were kids, and did those fantasies evaporate once we all got our drivers' licenses? Asking for a friend!
Astral projection acts as an allegory for escapism from the stresses of life in this episode. Capitalism sucks, the 90's treatment of "gifted children" was highly misguided, and it turns out humans need enough free time to experience boredom in order to live up to their full potential. Sometimes that full potential is creating podcasts about 90s children's sci-fi, and THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

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So Weird Was SO GOOD! Angel: love, trust, and protect each other. Also, fuck cancer.

Ned has one of the worst moments of his life and still manages to spend it loving the kids. Fi saunters into the underworld without a second thought. Clu milks a cow.
Chelsea shares her cancer-survivor perspective on Gabe. Hannah desperately hopes Patrick Levis didn't experience too much Satanic Panic backlash for his involvement in this show.
This entire episode is full of people loving and protecting each other, and it gives us warm fuzzies.