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Episode 539- Dawn of the Dead (1978)

November 3, 2025·1 hr 16 min·10 clips

Katie starts by fighting off a Pavlovian White Lion chorus that gets triggered by the word "wait." Alan and Katie turn that into a riff about how their brains work in the middle of a horror recap. The episode quickly pulls in Allegheny County, local accents, and the kind of affection that makes the movie feel close to home. Monroeville Mall comes up as a real memory anchor instead of just a setting. They talk about how the mall looks exactly like they remember it. That recognition becomes part of the joke. The hosts then move back into the movie and start tracking Roger and Peter as they go check out the supplies. The idea of surviving on found goods gets the right mix of admiration and disbelief. They linger on the absurdity of the food stash, including the survival logic of canned goods. A can opener becomes its own tiny plot problem. Spam gets a moment too, along with the possibility of vegan spam, which they assume is probably not good. The shopping sequence gives them room to enjoy the movie's deadpan consumerism. They joke that the characters are basically going shopping. The phrase "hit and run" turns into a dirty little joke about a one-night stand. That bit keeps the energy loose while still staying attached to the scene. They also work in a high school football schedule tangent that sounds like something they cannot help noticing. The Gateway schedule and the old North Catholic and Central Catholic references become part of the local texture. The episode keeps returning to the recurring zombie faces that feel weirdly familiar to them. The escalator zombie and the nurse zombie get treated like old convention regulars. They joke about them showing up again and again as if they were the kind of people who get signatures at conventions. That leads into a bit about how strange it is to sign something and be asked to perform fame on command. The closer circles back to the show's easy, profane rapport and the way the hosts can make even a Halloween-season signoff sound like a private joke. The result is less a formal review than a shaggy, affectionate argument with a horror movie that they clearly know very well.

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A zombie-movie recap that keeps circling Pittsburgh details, mall memories, and running jokes without ever losing the film completely.

The episode plays like a loose recap that keeps circling Pittsburgh details: White Lion, Allegheny County, Arco Pitcairn, Monroeville Mall, Ross Park, and Gateway all come up again and again.

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Press play for mall zombies, Pittsburgh memory detours, and a very rude amount of laughing.

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