Mom and Pop Culture

Home Alone

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0600

Latchkey kids Nate and Amanda are here to discuss absentee parenting in one of the all-time great Christmas movies. Home Alone was written by John Hughes, Directed By Chris Columbus, released in 1990 and stars Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O'hara, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.

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Tommy Boy

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600

Holy schnikes! Nate and Amanda are back chatting about the parenting and family dynamics in the 1995 buddy comedy TOMMY BOY, starring Saturday Night Live alums Chris Farley and David Spade, as well as Brian Dennehy, Bo Derek and Rob Lowe. The movie was written by Bonnie and Terry Turner and Directed by Peter Segal.

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Roseanne - Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Fri, 07 May 2021 09:00:00 -0600

In an emotionally loaded conversation, Nate and Amanda discuss death, patriarchy, trauma and racism in a Roseanne episode written by Amy Sherman-Palladino that is among the best TV episodes of the 1990s. Roseanne Barr and Laurie Metclalf won Emmy Awards for their performances in this episode, which is available on Amazon.

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Dad Stop Embarassing Me! - #BlackPeopleDontGoToTherapy

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda discuss fatherhood in the 2021 Netflix embarrassment Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! The series stars Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx, Yale School of Drama MFA David Alan Grier and is Directed by 5 time NAACP Image Award winner Ken Whittingham.

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Lady Bird

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda head to Sacramento circa 2002 to examine parenting in Greta Gerwig's 2017 coming-of-age masterpiece Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein, Timothee Chalamet and Lucas Hedges. This episode is hella tight.

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Mrs. Doubtfire

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda discuss a narcissist handling divorce poorly in the 1993 box office smash MRS. DOUBTFIRE, starring Robin Williams, Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan, Directed by Chris Columbus.

Correction: Chris Columbus did not direct Christmas Vacation. (he did Home Alone)

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - The Baby Comes Out

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda head to Bel-Air for a belated Banks family birth and chat about Uncle Phillip and OG Aunt Viv as parents. Contains spoilers for PARASITE (2019). The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air stars Will Smith, James Avery, Janet Hubert, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana M. Ali, Joseph Marcell and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

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The Cosby Show - I'm `In' With the `In' Crowd

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

On a very special episode, Nate and Amanda see how the Huxtables handled teen drinking then try to reconcile the paradox between America's Favorite Dad Cliff Huxtable and monstrous sexual predator Bill Cosby. The Cosby Show stars Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Keshia Knight, Tempestt Bledsoe and Raven Symone.

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Disney's The Little Mermaid

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda babble about bubbles as they head under the sea to explore the parenting in the 1989 animated Disney musical THE LITTLE MERMAID.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda discuss the risks of raising genius children in Wes Anderson's timeless THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, starring Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray and Danny Glover.

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Arrested Development - Pier Pressure

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda head down to the Big Yellow Joint to score dope for their uncle, learn life lessons from a one-armed man and chat about the Bluths as parents in the Arrested Development episode "Pier Pressure," starring Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, David Cross, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat and Ron Howard, Directed by The Russo Brothers.

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Seinfeld - The Strike

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:00:00 -0600

Nate and Amanda celebrate a Festivus for the rest of us and talk about the good, bad and ugly parenting in the iconic SEINFELD episode "The Strike."

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The Simpsons - Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0600

In the first of many discussions about parenting on THE SIMPSONS, Nate and Amanda discuss half-assed over and under-parenting in the Season Six classic "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Nate and Amanda DeWitt — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0600

Our very first episode! Partners and parents Nate and Amanda DeWitt discuss the parents, literal and figurative, in the 1989 classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis and Randy Quaid, written by John Huges.

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