Best Seat on the Couch

Mar 17 2025 184 ep. 64 mins 3
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A podcast where 4 close friends discuss their favorite animated movies and TV shows together. Come for the intelligent discourse, stay for the lighthearted humor, and follow for the hottest takes.

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181 | Attack on Titan (Season 3)

Mar 17 2025 99 mins  
Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan has, through the previous two seasons, provided broadly more questions than answers. But fear not, dear listeners! If you've stuck with us thus far, then you'll be proud to hear that Season 3 is the undeniably euphoric catharsis the gang has been waiting for. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together! Flashbacks galore! A return to Sh

180 | Justice League Unlimited

Mar 03 2025 61 mins  
Iris takes a page out of Alex's playbook and proves that sequel episodes here on the Couch aren't just reserved for award-winning animes: following our previous episode on 2001's Justice League, today the gang presents to you 2004's Justice League Unlimited, the eighth and final series of the DC Animated Universe and cherished childhood Saturday morning cartoon for

179 | Xiaolin Showdown

Feb 24 2025 62 mins  
After almost 3 years, special guest Andrew returns to bring his keen insight and top-class banter to the Couch as we collectively discuss a childhood darling, Xiaolin Showdown. Some parts of this show have aged...poorly...(guys, Omi is such a racist caricature) but it brings a Teen Titan-esque unity of classical Saturday morning American cartoons with anime styling and mythos with

178 | Secret Level

Feb 17 2025 74 mins  
It's anthology szn again! Today the gang discusses Tim Miller's Secret Level, with 15 animated short stories from video games ranging from Armored Core to Warhammer, to complement our extensive history with video games of yesterday and today. While some of these "levels" feel more like glorified trailers than actual worthwhile media, we come away with the impressi

177 | The Good Dinosaur

Jan 27 2025 56 mins  
You ever hear of this movie? Pixar's anticipated follow-up to Inside Out? Their first EVER box office failure? Marcus certainly hadn't. We all generally agree that Pixar's standard of quality for their movies prevents them from being truly hot garbage—which is a good thing, mind you—but The Good Dinosaur lacks a fair bit of expected Pixar magic, and ends up being fa

176 | Attack on Titan (Season 2)

Jan 20 2025 86 mins  
The gang returns for Season 2 of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan, and boy has it gotten spicier! Alex recounts that this season was released 4 years after Season 1's final release and only has 12 episodes, so hype might have died down a bit for Alex and countless other fans eagerly looking forward to the answers to S1's many questions—but that doesn't mean S2 did

175 | ONE PIECE (Part 5)

Jan 13 2025 100 mins  
It's a certified Best Seat Tradition now to have Alex's group of straw hat buddies join him over the holidays to talk about Eiichiro Oda's legendary anime series ONE PIECE, at 1123 episodes released at the time of recording with still more content on the way. We've got Katy, Lony, Owen, and newcomer Ayana joining Alex today, and even though the series is on a minor hiatus mid-Egghe

174 | Justice League

Jan 06 2025 65 mins  
Long before the Avengers released in theaters and Zack Snyder produced something several notches lower than absolute cinema (twice!), the DC-flavored Earth's mightiest heroes made their animated debut in Bruce Timm's Justice League, allowing kids across the world to learn about Superman and Batman's friends like Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter! And als

173 | 9

Dec 23 2024 54 mins  
A film that released on 09/09/2009 with an absolutely kick-ass trailer and tantalizing action sequences checked all of the boxes for the gang's tweenage selves, but 15 years later our discussion unearths a movie that's honestly just barely okay. We on the Couch take it upon ourselves to literally re-write Shane Acker's passion project/short film and expertly fix the film's confusin

172 | Arcane (Season 2)

Dec 09 2024 102 mins  
In a first EVER on the Couch, the gang is together! in person! in the same room! coming together literally minutes after watching the finale! of Arcane's second and final season! This season is awesome, and while we don't have the benefit of extra time before recording to let the season marinate in our minds, we can still make valuable commentary while riding the high of a phenomen