Contextual Deviants

Deja vu? Weird, because this is DEFINITELY a brand-new episode of Contextual Deviants. Specifically, it's our second spooky Halloween episode, this time looking at 2017's time loop horror comedy Happy Death Day! Highlights include: Complaint edging, Denzel Car-Washington, archetypes, whispering eyes, Time Prison, Lake Ron Hubbardcraft, Farmer Maggot's crop, The Incel Prayer, and much more! Deja vu? Weird.

This is one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet. We did an episode on 2007's Academy Award-nominated teen pregnancy comedy Juno! So shake your hamburger phones if you're getting bad reception, because you won't want to miss this one. Highlights Include: I, Liberty Bell, a doctor from 1800s, crumpled up Jiffy Lube reveals, 2no, Big Fingernails, homeskillet, and much more! Quick shout out to our listeners in South America: We want to hear from you! What led you to our humble show? Let us know at contextualdeviants@gmail.com

We know. We're sorry. Highlights Include: David's sick hops, diametrically opposed tones, the evolution of serialized film sequels, Dying Next To Friends On Rooftops, a lightning round, and much more! Again, we're so sorry. We promise the episode is better than the movie it's about.

Rise above your station and race some ducks with your distant cousins from Contextual Deviants! This episode, we dive deep into 2018's Academy Award Nominated royal dark comedy The Favourite. Who will be betrayed? Who will fall ill with gout? Will the mud baths get on the microphones? Find out now!   Highlights include: The Harry Potter Celebrity Name Game, My Fair Davey, Heir Bun, a word for giving yourself an HJ, hacking your way into the underground lobster racing league, Everybody MUST Love Raymond, and much more!

We're talking to YOU this week on Contextual Deviants as we take on 1976's Taxi Driver! Join us on a journey through psychological horror, political strife, and Peter Boyle as Wizard. It's one of the most discussed movies in the history of film, and yet we can GUARANTEE that there is at least one context in this episode that literally no one else has ever discussed before! Highlights include: Do Woke Daddy, a nihilistic butt, flipping brothers, a bumbling shooting spree, Simpsons Hit n Run: The Debate, an idea for a thing we're making for real please don't steal it, Bane Miyazaki, Sweeney Bickle, and much much more! 

40 episodes down, 40 more to go! Until we hit 80...which is not actually significant, it's just how math works. But to celebrate our 40th episode, we'd like to take a look back at some of the funniest, weirdest, dumbest, smartest, and most grin-widening moments from episodes 21 through 30! Thank you all so much for listening, it really means the world to us to have such great support. We'll be back in a couple weeks with some brand-new action for your ears! And hey! If you get a chance, leave us a review on your podcast app of choice or over on WhatPods. It would really help us out!

Trip a little light fantastic with Contextual Deviants' first musical episode! (Well, the movie's a musical. We don't sing.) 2018's charming magical romp Mary Poppins Returns takes center stage this week for your listening pleasure.   Highlights include: The Resident The Giver The Film The Thief His Wife Her Lover Soldier Spy, a lot of hate directed at Tom Hooper, Christian's favorite Richard Kind fact, the worst and best project for fans of our show, your mother's walk, the thot that counts, and much more!

Rev up your engines, deviants, it's time for another romp around the Context track! Our hosts take on 2017's Southern-fried heist comedy Logan Lucky, starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Katie Holmes, and America's Stepdad, Roy from The Office. Highlights include: The Stealth Pledge, hierarchies, David loves crime, tantric writing, the return of The Beat Box, this movie was written by a phantom, Wacky Races, and much more!

This movie deserves a better class of podcast...end of thought. BUT, in lieu of that, Contextual Deviants, along with very special guest Stuart Wiberg, present a fresh take on 2008's blockbuster The Dark Knight, exploring questions about one of the most popular films of all time that we're pretty sure no one has asked before! Highlights Include: Ranking Colins, a lot of hate directed at Eric Roberts, a problematic spoon, Blue sequels, Animal Levine, sectarian violence, dummy thicc cringey cronch, and much more!

Apologies for the interruption, but Contextual Deviants is just calling to let you know that this week we’re covering 2018’s subversive surrealist comedy Sorry To Bother You. Hosts Christian Hagen, David Gutsche, and Matthew Bahn explore the myriad oddities of this very strange but highly affecting debut film. Highlights Include: Sound effects, something funny about The Jungle Book, failed lessons in anatomy, the surprising legacy of this film, Cross-Stitch rhymes for bathroom door behavior, Christian’s Caribou nightmare, and much more!

STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND SEE THIS MOVIE!!! For the first time, Contextual Deviants is covering a movie that's STILL IN THEATERS! Why? Because we all saw it and it's a masterpiece. For real, you have to see it, and this weekend might be your last chance! SPOILERS WITHIN! Highlights include: SERIOUSLY SEE THIS MOVIE IMMEDIATELY!, anti-dedications, David's the bird now, foibles, parties as rings, representation, parties as ghosts, The One Ling, a Jared in the streets and a Gigi in the sheets, and much more!

It's time to do the Hustle with Contextual Deviants! Hosts Christian Hagen, Matt Bahn, and David Gutsche take a look back at 2004's slapstick martial arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle and have maybe the goofiest series of conversations we've ever had on this show. Highlights include: Condescending wedding vows, the Anti-Brady Bunch, the best thing David has ever said, rappity-rap-rap, Steaks and Love, we learn something about each other, The Three Masters, #RIPYTMND, Tinder for Ghosts, and more! "A useful baby is just an adult in disguise" - Abraham Lincoln

WAKANDA FOREVER! To celebrate Marvel's record-breaking, franchise-culminating Avengers: Endgame, we take a deep dive into the first superhero movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture: Black Panther. Highlights include: Snoipes: Change My Diaper, David Boring-Anus, a meme for all time, Squishy Quiver, Young Bilbo and Young Sheldon Go To White Castle, Martin Fumblin, Black Stanther, the Marvel second viewing rule, BIP, and MUCH more!

Hey guys, it's me, Contextual Deviants! Today, I wanna talk about the 2018 Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade. Hosts Christian Hagen, Matthew Bahn, and David Gutsche have a lot of anxiety about it, but also somehow manage to have a lot of fun talking about it? IDK.   Highlights Include: Three awkward dudes, Watch A Cat with Cat Stevens, Jeb Bush's favorite STD, Marks all the way down, David's criteria for a chauffeur, Christian reveals his process for his favorite impression, good opposites, A BRAND NEW CONTEXT, and much more!   GUCCI!

SWEET PODCAST BAY-BEEEES!!! Hosts Christian Hagen, David Gutsche, and Matthew Bahn are taking on a different kind of feature today: A miniseries! Specifically, the Netflix Original miniseries Russian Doll. Highlights Include: David is still really great at improv, Sonic the Hedgehog canon, a phantasmagoria of funerals, a brand new context(!), our favorite impression is back, racial representation, female representation, drug representation, bad dad playlists, and much more! UPDATE: There was an error when this episode went up initially where only a clip from the show was uploaded instead of the full episode. If you're seeing this update, it should be working now.

They're dates. YOU EAT EM! Hosts Christian Hagen, David Gutsche, and Matthew Bahn whip their way through the classic 1981 adventure blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones faces his toughest challenges yet, and by challenges, we mean his movie is analyzed through a series of randomly selected critical contexts. Highlights include: Snake Amiibo zodiac, hot tub Cheez-Its, screamin' skeletons, DON'T PEEK, people for whom David has very little respect, confrontation camps, Indy's College Daze, and much more!

Happy 30th episode, Deviants! To celebrate, we've compiled another assortment of our favorite moments from episodes 11-20. Enjoy a surprising number of Gandalf and Galadriel impressions, the first appearance of our dear Matt Bahn, some classic outtakes, a few neat contexts, and generally a lot of goofing around. Thanks for listening to the show so far! We're excited to keep bringing you that hot and fresh good contextual content. If you've got recommendations for movies or contexts we should tackle, tweet us @Texteviants!

Hold on to your cats! Christian Hagen, David Gutsche, and Matthew Bahn take a tumble through the sad-funny world of 60s folk music, Oscar Isaac, and abortion on this week's Contextual Deviants. Highlights include: Useless babies, John Goodman is the best at being the worst, bummers at the start but bangers at the end, existential dread, The Most Wrong We've Ever Been About Any Context, fist-bumping abortion, Two Truths and a Sublime, The Old Cheesecake and Spaghetti Coat Factory, and much more!

The much buzzed-about 2018 Netflix romcom To All the Boys I've Loved Before gets examined in the way everyone has been clamoring for: By three straight white cis adult men. Trust us, though, we say things about this movie that no one has ever said before. For real.   Highlights include: To Prank A Predator, definitely don't just explain anything, New Game Minus, a vulnerable friend activity, The Suite Life of Dead and Josh, tight subs, To All The Boys I've Loved Before: Die Die Die, and much more!

Everybody hop aboard the Shimmer Train for a trip to Annihilation Station! Hosts Christian Hagen, David Gutsche, and Matthew Bahn analyze the disturbing and surreal sci-fi thriller Annihilation through a series of randomly-generated critical contexts.   Highlights Include: Branchlers, AvP (whoever wins, we lose), humans are squishy, #NotAllAliens, SvSTU, don't f**k that bear, George Clooney is Oscar Isaac, road trip breaking points, good representation, and much more!