From the Couch Hole: It Seems I Don’t Get Time Out Anymore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we visited with the Midnight Club and found that suicide is painless. If it isn't, there's always ...
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From the Couch Hole: Through Early Morning Fog I See
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we discovered that not a day goes by that the two stagecoaches don't leave with the baby. ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Just Go On Thinking and Sweating
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a stalker eating street tacos. Henry Sugar told him, "Send in the clowns," and the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Don’t You Love the Farce
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a haunting in Venice and Carmella Creeper is dead again in The Void. In Flavortown, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been Out Walking
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Archer and Gator were not accused in the killing of a Chinese bookie. I ranked the best ...
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From the Couch Hole: As the Ocean Crawls Onto the Shoreline
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the enforcer Josey Wales named the best soda ever. It was in a broken dream that Python ...
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From the Couch Hole: In the Days Between the Hours
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the muskrat love between Frances and Margot got the Mayans kicking and screaming at the wedding. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Doin’ the Town and Doin’ It Right
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were all dressed for the Fall Festival in harmony with the rabbits and the frogs. There ...
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From the Couch Hole: Is This the Only Place You Thought to Go
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, what we did in the shadows was rad and included some teenage mutant ninja turtles. The Super ...
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From the Couch Hole: Too Long in the Wind, Too Long in the Rain
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we let out with a "Chim Chim Cher-ee" even when some Pudd'nheads said, "It's bad for ya." ...
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From the Couch Hole: When The’s ‘Ardly No Day Nor ‘Ardly No Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were hanging on the telephone for the Omega Man and Boba Fett. There was Juneberry, Joe ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m in the Phone Booth, It’s the One Across the Hall
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the biggest part of me was a combination of Oppenheimer and Obi-Wan and a mashup of Twinkies ...
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From the Couch Hole: Try to Stay in the Middle
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was the return of the Killer's Hook and the Pickwick Papers said, "Thank you for smoking." ...
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From the Couch Hole: There’s a New Sun Arisin’
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the heat was on Indiana Jones and we were holdin' onto yesterday. We said what we would ...
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From the Couch Hole: My Yesterdays Have All Gone By
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the last of Sheila went to Asteroid City for the Ultimate Coca-Cola on a beautiful day. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Don’t Let It Get Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the brotherhood celebrated their Independence Day with beef, brownies, and a side of soylent green. The Sandman ...
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From the Couch Hole: See the Lights Do a Long Slow Fade
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Arthur reminded us "The best that you can do is fall in love with Churro Kit Kats." ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Know It’s Crazy but It’s True
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we asked, "Do you hear the rain when you're gone?" It's a Gilded Age at the Grindhouse ...
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From the Couch Hole: And in the Day, Everything’s Complex
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the 100th episode was brought to you by Dr. Pepper Float, Cuban Sandwich, and Strawberry Lymonade. Mr. Blue ...
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From the Couch Hole: And Today Is the Day We’ve Waited For
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a sick puppy with a problem of the jugular vein. We had to go slow West ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Fell Asleep Amid the Flowers
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, in the pitch black we were slip slidin' away down the quicksilver highway with an old pro. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: The Information’s Unavailable to the Mortal Man
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was just you 'n' me once upon a time . . . in Hollywood. We caught a ...
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From the Couch Hole: Simple and Free
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a summer freeze and a fire walks with me. We went to the Kazbar and said ...
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From the Couch Hole: While Color Lights Up Your Face
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a fire witness to the inferno of the honey habanero chips. Beau is afraid that it ...
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From the Couch Hole: To Take the Blues Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, we zoomed in on blackout cake and baby bundts. We had a cam ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Chased the Day Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a beef with the worst ice cream to ever cross paths with the Couch Hole. But ...
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From the Couch Hole: Show Me Where to Look
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were down at the Mendocino County Line pushing daisies and looking for bodies, bodies, bodies. The Peeps ...
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From the Couch Hole: As the Sun Sank West
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were a good person made of stardust who traveled from the meta moon to the Garden State. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Stare into Space
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had three cheeses in our chips and fruity cereal in our ice cream. It was stormy weather ...
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From the Couch Hole: You’ve Really Made the Grade
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we mused about once upon a time in the West with roulette and a poker face. We drove ...
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From the Couch Hole: Well, My Time Went So Quickly
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went under the silver lake to investigate the Dain's Curse with cavemen. There was fast twitch and ...
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From the Couch Hole: Not Really Sure How to Feel About It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was a thematic whale of a tale about Dicky Moe, Moby Dick, Mobius, the Whale, and we ...
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From the Couch Hole: Call Me Ahab
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the was a killing and a nightmare that was meaner than evil. The strawberries and cream mixed with ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Know Your Eyes in the Morning Sun
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a red harvest in the pastures of plenty. There was a starry flare that brought a ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Slept on the Ground in the Light of the Moon
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went from Pandora to the High Plains and drifted back to the water. The yellowjackets were breaking ...
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From the Couch Hole: ‘Cause We All Have Wings
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, I thought that top guns were mad men. I went maverick over tangy Cheetos that take my breath ...
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From the Couch Hole: Watching in Slow Motion
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, during a rainy night in Georgia, we were turning red like a spicy nacho dip. Or was it ...
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From the Couch Hole: Tryin’ to Find a Warm Place to Spend the Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, further on up the road with the Swiss Miss, things on Pandora were all quiet on the Western ...
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From the Couch Hole: Where the Road Is Dark and the Seed Is Sowed
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we kicked off the third year of FTCH with some roadwork with Tar that was so easy even ...
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From the Couch Hole: Take That Look of Worry, I’m an Ordinary Man
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, way back in 2022 we left you with a cliffhanger as Valdez was coming. There was a Zapp ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2022 – Haunted by the Ghost of You
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2021, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2020 I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2022 – Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2022 – Movies Are Dreams, Doll, That You Never Forget
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...
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From the Couch Hole: In Our Hearts We’ll Understand
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on a Wednesday at four past midnight the lady is waiting. There was a son of flubber and ...
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From the Couch Hole: Sharing My Secrets and Wishing My Wishes
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we celebrated a love story, a birthday song, and a Christmas list. There were fairy tales and fable ...
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From the Couch Hole: Some Things Are Not Spoken of
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we celebrated a perfect day with brownie batter, sriracha chips, and trust. The legend of lobo and the ...
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From the Couch Hole: When It Gets Dark, We Go Home
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a fruit quake, hot honey, and a rainbow connection. We had hearts in Atlantis, banshees in ...
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From the Couch Hole: And What’s on the Other Side
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a web of fear because of mayo and chutney. There were two running men, a black ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Was Alone, I Took a Ride
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a week of love and happiness with waterworks. There was sun on the chips and nutty ...
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From the Couch Hole: The Power of Love
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we called the warlords on the black phone from the last house on the left. We had scary ...
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