Welcome back to the podcast where Nancy, Scott, and returning guest stars Brenda and Patrick, dig into the cultural minefield known as The Gorge, only to emerge hours later covered in emotional goo, haunted by Sigourney Weaver, and armed with a spreadsheet that may or may not be sentient.

• Patrick finally unveils his Gorge spreadsheet, a multi-tabbed descent into madness that attempts to quantify vibes, moral alignment shifts, and trauma loops. It causes Scott actual pain.
• Brenda confidently references Season Negative One, “Zone Shifts,” and “The Reboot Arc,” while everyone else just tries to remember who Timmy is.
• Nancy ties The Gorge to T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men, because apparently this episode needed more existential dread.
• Scott goes full kaiju nerd, declaring that Godzilla is the only creature who truly understands The Gorge. YouTube fan-edits are mentioned. They have changed him.
• The 2005 King Kong movie gets a standing ovation for being creepy, gooey, and emotionally scarring in all the right ways. Special shoutout to the skull-headed spider crabs.
• Nancy brings up Invasion of the Body Snatchers, somehow perfectly describing the facial scream vibe of half the finale.
• The Alien franchise takes over for a solid chunk as Sigourney Weaver, screaming queens, and acid blood are all treated as canonically related to The Gorge.
• A tangent about super soldiers leads straight into Marvel territory, Daryl Hannah in Sense8 (yes, the orgies are discussed), and Anson Mount’s entire vibe in Strange New Worlds.
• Nicole Kidman shows up via Eyes Wide Shut, and no one knows how we got there—but everyone agrees it’s relevant.
• Brenda tries to make a case for The Gorge being emotional storytelling. Scott calls it formatting trauma.
• Everyone lists shows they’re actually excited about—The Last of Us S2, Andor, Daredevil: Born Again, Alien: Earth, and more. For one brief moment, there is hope.
• The episode closes with a recap of chaos: Timmy’s status is unresolved, and everyone’s just a little bit broken by what they’ve watched.
• Other highlights include:
• Arguments about whether goo is literal or metaphorical
• Patrick referencing “4.2KM” like it’s a thing we’re all supposed to understand
• A debate on Anson Mount’s entire existence
• Springtime for Elon, the Smurfs, the Sound of Music, and at least one reference to The NeverEnding Story

In short, this episode is a broken film studies final — annotated in crayon, about grief, genre confusion, and YouTube fan edits — wrapped in a haiku, whispered by Nicole Kidman, and screamed by an alien.