Tearjerkers

A mostly comedic podcast where we rate movies on a scale of how hard they make us cry!

Nanette

In our first season finale we discuss Hannah Gadsby’s comedy special Nanette and do a wrap up on our first 20 episodes!  Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!

04-23
54:48

Whale Rider

Special guest host Caitlin Reed joins Maybelle to discuss Whale Rider, covering everything from bartending for Jesus, loving a great underdog story, and being a Saturday-school drop out.  Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes: This week's guest Caitlin Reed can be found at caitlinreed.com and on twitter @caitreed427

04-16
59:21

Anastasia

This week, Maybelle is joined by special guest host Corina! In their conversation covering Anastasia, they discuss long lost family, glowing reliquaries and heroines who are finally allowed to kill their own villains Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Make sure to subscribe or favorite!

04-09
55:47

Secondhand Lions

This week, Keemia and Maybelle talk about boots to die in, swordfighting with a plunger, and vicious but loveable used lions in their conversation about 2003's Secondhand Lions Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes:  Buzzfeed article about sleepwalking woman’s tiktok  

04-02
39:36

Wall-E

Who doesn’t love holding hands? Who wouldn’t love a roomba proposal? Keemia and Maybelle discuss all that and more this week in a discussion about Pixar’s Wall-E. Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes:  The Moth episodes: A Feline Roamer: Jaed Coffin and Who Can You Trust by Mary-Claire King  

03-26
44:21

Love Story

In this week’s discussion about 1970 movie Love Story, Keemia and Maybelle talk about negging, hating your dad, and being curséd sadgirls. Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes:  Maybelle’s What Made You Cry this Week: Your Korean Dad tiktok account

03-19
48:03

Pixar's UP

Between talking about emotional valves and heartrending music, Maybelle and Keemia discuss Pixar’s UP. Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite! 

03-12
53:45

Les Miserables

In a conversation about anti-Cosette propaganda, the unifying factors in Helena Bonham Carter's roles, and doing closeups in a sewer, hosts Maybelle and Keemia discuss the 2012 film adaptation of Les Miserables. Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!    Notes:  Video essay about autotune and movie musicals

03-05
56:18

Monsters, Inc.

This week, we're discussing worldbuilding, crying blocks, and making voice recordings of toddlers in Monsters, Inc.  Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes:  Baby dressed as Boo

02-26
40:50

Ms. Purple

This week, we're sitting down with special guest Katie Reed to discuss emotional witchcraft, brain slimes, and obscure indie films like Ms. Purple.  Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!  Notes: This week's guest Katie Reed can be found at caitlinreed.com and @caitreed427 Topography of Tears 

02-19
59:06

Lilo and Stitch

This week we’re discussing how one precocious little girl obsessed with Elvis and her destructive space alien pet create their own family in Lilo and Stitch, and we’ll close with a bit of Happy Place- which includes making a ton of rice krispie treats, yum!    Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Don't forget to subscribe or favorite!    Notes:  Original version of the flight sequence: Deleted scene: 

02-12
36:46

Irreplaceable You

Maybelle and Keemia discuss funny nurses, highly specific Netflix categories, and distractingly bad prop choices in the movie Irreplaceable You.   Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here   Notes:  Keemia's What Made You Cry This Week: Youtube video of Oreo Commercial and the Autostraddle article about it 

02-05
39:12

The Fox and the Hound

Keemia and Maybelle delve into 80's cartoon classic The Fox and the Hound in this episode while discussing a range of themes including attachments to pets, widowhood, and creating better stakes through character death.    Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here   Notes:  Maybelle's What Made You Cry This Week: cat being brushed by a wet toothbrush Buzzfeed's compilation of similar videos: here  

01-29
48:37

About Time

Keemia and Maybelle sit down to discuss the DILF potential of Bill Nighy, the lonely woman at the center of every male-lead rom com, and Rachel McAdams never getting to time travel in this episode on About Time, and then close with Take Me to Your Happy Place.   Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here  

01-22
46:03

Inside Out

This week Maybelle and Keemia sit down to discuss mixed emotions, imaginary constructs, and the development of gender in the 2015 film Inside Out! Our sponsor: click here for picture and here for video    Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here

01-15
43:28

Lars and the Real Girl

This week we're talking about Lars and the Real Girl, with special guest, Corina! We'll be discussing delusions, representative play therapy, and sexy doctors named Dagmar.    Tweet at us about how everything happens so much at: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here Notes: Maybelle's What Made You Cry this Week: available here Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review~

01-08
51:24

Pixar's Coco

This week we're discussing beloved 2017 movie, Coco! We're covering grandmas, ancestor worship, and marigold symbolism, as well as dopey animal companions and using tears as facial toner.    Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here

01-01
35:44

HoliGay Special: Happiest Season

A Bonus Episode?? Already?? YOU BET!  We're covering the new Holigay romance movie; Happiest Season! Hosts Maybelle and Keemia will discuss the absurdity of Kristen Stewart passing for straight, our favorite coming out story, and how characters must have flaws in order for stories to happen.   Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here

12-25
52:46

I, Tonya

This week Maybelle and Keemia discuss the 2017 film I, Tonya and the film's depictions of cycles of abuse, as well as the high emotional stakes created by investing all of your personal worth into being a phenomenal athlete.   Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here  

12-25
29:12

The Iron Giant

Maybelle and Keemia discuss 90's-kids favorite The Iron Giant and how it impacted them growing up vs now as adults, then wrap up with some What Made You Cry This Week.   Tweet at us: @tearjerkers_pod Email us your tearjerker recommendations: tearjerkers.podcast@gmail.com Join our facebook community here  

12-18
30:36

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