Treehouse of Horrdork

Literary classic films + Muppets = podcast! Join Lexi & Ben as they get super dorky pitching literary classics as Muppet movies. We also talk parenting, internet clothes, and the Teen Choice Awards. 

Check out our brand new website: https://www.dorkmatterspodcast.com/

Further Dorkscussion:

• The Secret Garden
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Master & Commander: Far Side of the World
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Not quite Muppets 20,000 Leagues

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

To: Our Beautiful Listeners: Be ours and feel the heat as Lexi & Ben play eff, marry, kill with a random list of popular sport, food, and corporate mascots. We also talk about Paw Patrol. It gets weird. Love: Dork Matters.

Further Dorkscussion:

• Chester the Cheetah
• Spot
• Fido Dido
• Tony the Tiger
• Snap, Crackle, Pop
• Gritty
• Harvey
• Michelin Man
• Mickey Mouse
• Jolly Green Giant
• Mister Clean
• Pillsbury Doughboy
• Rich Uncle Pennybags
• Koolaid Man
• Cornelius Rooster
• Pringles Man
• Quickie
• Captain Morgan
• M&Ms
• Colonel Sanders
• Geico Gecko

Bonus Content:

• Eff, Marry, Kill
• Mac Tonight
• A Goofy Movie is Black
• Hawkins Cheezies

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

We dork out about the world's deadliest animal, our fave modern children's book illustrators, and the strange phenomenon that makes people need to poop when they visit a bookstore. 

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Mosquitos: Deadliest Animal
• Modern Fave Illustrators
  • Shaun Tan - Lost & Found, Eric
  • Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are, The Way Back Home
  • Dave Mckean - Mirrormask, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
  • Julie McLaughlin - Pride Puppy
  • Joy Ang -Kobe Eats Pizza
  • Pawel Gierlinski - Oh Golly, Miss Trolly
  • Chris Haughton - Shh! We Have a Plan,  Oh, No, George
  • Renata Lewska - The Loud Book, The Quiet Book
  • Kim Smith - Boxitects, Baker Makers
  • Sandra Boynton - The Going to Bed Book, Snuggle Puppy
  • Jon Klassen - I want My Hat Back, The Skull
  • Byron Eggenschweiler - The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt, The Strangest Thing in the Sea
  • Axel Scheffler - Julia Donaldson collaborator, The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom
  • Barbara Reid - Sing a Song of Mother Goose, Read Me a Book
  • Michael Martchenko - All the best Robert Munsch books, The Paper Bag Princess, Mortimer, Murmel, Murmel, Murmel
  • Matthew Forsythe - Pokko and the Drum, Mina
  • Elise Gravel - The Mushroom Fan Club, The Bug Club
  • Phoebe Wahl - Little Witch Hazel, Sonya’s Chickens
  • Anita Jeram - Guess How Much I Love You, Kids Goodnight, Sam

BONUS CONTENT:

• The Mariko Aoki phenomenon

"GIVE ME THAT SKULL." -Jon Klassen, The Skull

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a new Dork Matters ep with Ben and Lexi. We're dorking out about the best, most amazing, legendary children's book illustrator-authors! With a bit of conspiracy theorizing about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident. Grab a blanky, get comfy, and let us tell you a story.

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Sankebetsu brown bear incident
• Legendary illustrators
  • Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are, Chicken Soup with Rice
  • Dr Seuss (Theodore Geisel), The Grinch, Green Eggs & Ham
  • Eric Carle - Brown Bear, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Richard Scarry - Best Ever/Busytown
  • Beatrix potter - Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jeremy Fisher
  • Clement Hurd - Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
  • EH Shepard - The Wind in the Willows, Winni-the-Pooh
  • Ul de Rico - THE RAINBOW GOBLINS!
  • Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day, Peter’s Chair

BONUS CONTENT:

• Ul de Rico concept art for The Neverending Story (1984)
• Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen: Unusual History of Censorship by Laura Cattrysse
• Beatrix Potter - The Dead Authors
• Prodorkcer Jess Schmidt's picks:
  • say what you will about Roald Dahl, but Quentin Blake is an iconic illustrator in my mind
  • Ludwig Bemelmans of the Madeline books was another fave of my childhood
  • Shel Silverstein was my first introduction to poetry and again just iconic
  • The Velveteen Rabbit was a book that I asked for all the time, illustrated by William Nicholson

"I remember that as a child, when I felt overwhelmed, my mother would reassure me by saying, ‘One piece at a time.’ That’s good advice for many things in life." -Eric Carle

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Happy New Year? Happy Doctor Who? No, Happy Dorkter Who Year! Get in the tardis! Lexi & Ben dork about about the 60th Anniversary Doctor Who specials, our fave NuWho Doctors, Ncuti Gatwa's arrival, and a brave new universe of bi-generation?! We also take a twenty minute divergence to debate celebrating the death of political/social figures who have done monstrous harm. FUN! It's bigger on the inside.

If you enjoy dorking out with us, consider supporting the show and becoming an official dork! patreon.com/dorkmatters

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Queen Elizabeth II sucked

BONUS CONTENT:

• Picasso sucked

"I had a subconscious infracutaneous retrofold memory loop, making me act as soft as you and give away £166 million!" -Donna Noble, Doctor Who

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Space: the final frontier. Deanna Troi's virgin birth. Jimmy Stewart and Jean-Luc Picard. Neelix researching Janeway's ancestor. Lexi, Ben and guest host, Stephanie Gerk, boldly go where no Trek has gone before: Christmas

If you enjoy dorking out with us, consider supporting the show and becoming an official dork! patreon.com/dorkmatters

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

On the twelfth day of Trekmas, a real dork sent to me 

• Twelve ensigns red-shirting 
• Eleven Picards face-palming 
• Tendi Boimler Mariner Rutherford 
• Nine Trills a-Daxing 
• Eight maids a-milking 
• Seven Rikers manoeuvring
• Six Kirks a-laying
• Five gold-pressed latinum
• Four birds of prey
• Three Romulans
• Two cats named Spot
• And a crystalline entity!

BONUS CONTENT:

• Does Christmas Exist In Star Trek?
• Stephanie Gerk
• The Debrief Weekly Report
• Help us support Stephanie Gerk’s PTSD treatment

"I'll tell you the truth, Harry. All I had to do was keep my mouth shut and I was home free. But I couldn't. The ghosts of those three dead officers came to me in the middle of the night and taught me the true meaning of Christmas." -Tom Paris, Star Trek Voyager

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Wherever you find Muppets, it feels like Christmas! Jim Henson's pals help us celebrate the holidays as Lexi & Ben dork out about (nearly) every festive special you can shake a Kermit at. It's all the ways that we watch Muppets, that feel like Christmas!

If you enjoy dorking out with us, consider supporting the show and becoming an official dork! patreon.com/dorkmatters

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
• A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• A Muppet Family Christmas
• John Denver & The Muppets: Christmas Together
• Lady Gaga and The Muppets Holiday Spectacular
• The Muppets: Single All the Way (Christmas Episode)
• Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
• The Christmas Toy
•  Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas

BONUS CONTENT:

• It Feels Like Crhistmas, lyrics
• Meeces

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

"Even weirdos are cute when they're babies." - Doc (from Fraggle Rock), A Muppet Family Christmas 

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Where we lead, you will follow! We're dorking out about the Gilmore Girls with guest host, Jess Schmidt, our very own wonderful editor and producer. We discuss the good, bad and downright awful happenings in Stars Hollow. And Kirk. Everyone loves Kirk. Coffee, please, and a shot of cynicism!

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Check out Jess Schmidt on Rooked Podcast
• We've started a Patreon! If you enjoy dorking out with us, consider supporting the show! patreon.com/dorkmatters

BONUS CONTENT:

• Here Comes the Sun

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

"I made a list of enemies, which I've narrowed down from 26 to 5." - Paris Geller, Gilmore Girls 

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

Put on the kettle and wrap yourself in your favourite throw: we're dorking out about cozy games. What is a cozy game? Did covid hasten the cozy craze? Are cozy games even REAL games? How many times can you say 'cozy' before it loses all meaning as a word? Are cozy games just a millennial sedative used in a desperate attempt reduce the existential sting of a world gone mad? Cuddle up, steep that tea, pop in your ear buds and lets get cozy! 

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Wytchwood
• Little Witch in the Woods
• Stardew Valley
• Bear & Breakfast
• Harvest Moon
• Unpacking
• Animal Crossing
• Untitled Goose Game
• Donut County
• Katamari Damacy
• Florence
• Costume Quest
• Stacking
• Broken Age
• Cult of the Lamb
• Lego Games
• Mineko's Night Market
• Super Mario RPG
• Night in the Woods
• Haunted Chocolatier
• Witchbrook

BONUS CONTENT:

• We're proud to be nominated for the Canadian Podcast Awards in the Outstanding Leisure Series!
• Wildly proud of producer/editor Jess Schmidt for her two additonal Canadian Podcast Awards nominations for Your Complex Brain

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Mae, Night in the Woods

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

You know, Halloween is a very strange holiday. Personally, we don’t understand it. Kids worshipping ghosts, pretending to be devils. Podcasts that are completely inappropriate for some listeners. Things like the following episode with guest Laura O'Conner dorking out with us about The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episodes. So if you're sensitive, maybe you should tuck yourself in early tonight instead of writing us angry emails tomorrow. Thanks for your attention.

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• The Shinning
• Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores
• Bad Dream House
• Hungry are the Damned
• The Raven
• Simpsons World
• The Pookadook
• Death Tome
• Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace
• Homer3
• Clown Without Pity
• Terror at 5+1⁄2
• It's a Grand Pumpkin, Millhouse
• Citizen Kang
• Send in the Clones
• The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms
• The Island of Dr. Hibbert

BONUS CONTENT:

• Laura O'Conner
• Laura's Instagram

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

"Every Moment I Live Is Agony." - Frog Man - Treehouse Of Horror XII (2001)

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!