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What Happending?

A podcast where Jon, Ari & Carlos watch only the pilot and series finale of TV shows.
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Now displaying: 2019
Dec 24, 2019

It’s a very special Christmas Eve season 8 finale!! In the pilot, there’s an experimental time machine. In the finale, there’s two, but they get rid of one. In the pilot there was also two. At least back then there was. 

In between, Timeline with Paul Walker, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Quantum Leap, Bill and Ted, Goran Dragic, MAYSH, and turkey curry are also discussed.

 

Dec 11, 2019

It starts with live-long-and-prosper scissoring. It ends with the murder of frisbee. In between, Indiana birds, Star Wars, One Hour Photo, The Fonz, CSI: Boulder, nightcaps, the Getty family, 107.5 The Beat, and Zibo are also discussed.

Nov 19, 2019

It starts with Californee. It ends with viddles. In between, Bev Boys, Raw Reality, Blue Bloods, The Gods Must Be Crazy, revenuers, hedge apples, Shave and a Haircut, and chimp retirement homes are also discussed.

 

Oct 29, 2019

Spookypookytoberpober continues and concludes with an American classic!

It starts with nobody there. It ends with a broken home. In between, Appalachian saws, jazz cabbage, moon mission ETAs, The Masturbating Bear, and the hoop stick game are also discussed. 

 

Oct 16, 2019

A man down and a day late! It starts with William Sadler as death. It ends with a not spoooooky cartooooooooooon.

Two and a Half Men, Bill and Ted, the shaky biker from Terminator 2, nipped out pigs, and Boo Bark are also discussed.

Oct 1, 2019

It starts with a $6 million pilot. It ends with a bang.

Giant pig dinners, Hard Rain, whacky willy, Van from Reba, Hollywood Video pickles, Sobotka in a can, and Roy Huggins are also discussed.

Sep 10, 2019

It starts with a train crash, of course. It ends with a series of trim, pomade-smothered, grey-haired white men and a smoke monster. 

In between, cayenne pepper dogs, live long and suture, ficus, the Master Hand, sleepy flute, and 12 angry cats are also discussed.

Sep 3, 2019

Our hosts are currently in an underground science laboratory developing edible versions of Gak and Floam. They expect to return, belly's stuffed, by next Tuesday with a brand new episode: The Fugitive!

 

Until then, please enjoy this classic What Happending episode, when we watched the 90-minute TV pilot movie of Baywatch, and then also Baywatch Hawaii by accident.

Aug 6, 2019

It starts with Bill Murray swearing at an electric toothbrush. It ends with soaking. In between, the fartsy turtle, Drop Zone, the Tea Party, Lethal Weapon 2, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chick-fil-A, cumberbums, and Patch Adams are also discussed.

Jul 23, 2019

It begins with soapy abs. It ends with a jackpot. In between, hoverboards, naked sand lady sculptures, the power stick, Globo Corp, hot zones, and Marty Dollar are also discussed.

Jul 9, 2019

It starts with peeping toms. It ends with a mustachioed, spaghetti-pokin’ grandma. In between, O’Connelltober, Dilbert feuds, Jack and Jill, Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine, and puppets are also discussed.

Jun 25, 2019

It starts with a big metal gin bucket boing-oing. It ends with Honeycutt almost killing himself in an insane motorcycle stunt. 

In between, Bulbasaur, sleepytime TV, modern laugh tracks, Jackie Chan’s chest rubbing, and Smocks are also discussed.

Jun 14, 2019

Whales and cowboys flood the desert. Only James Caan’s shoulders can save us.

Bart Braverman, La Center, Blue Bloods, and Fergie Begley Jr are also discussed. 

May 28, 2019

Merlin is alive and well, working as a voluptuous auto mechanic in an urban epicenter on the west coast of the United States of America. Relief is just a swallow away, just avoid the miniature pink foam. 

Houdini, Ron Tonkin, banana boards, Yokohama, Angels in the Outfield, troll carls, and Bruce Jenner are also discussed.

May 14, 2019

Special guest star Melissa provides her expertise on the trials and tribulations at the Ewing ranch, as the family attempts to save enough mud money to buy a Tudor.

Montagoos and Romulons, Lou Pinella, John Ross III, Cliff bars, Tony from Remington Steele, kissing bandits, and George Kennedy are also discussed.

 

Apr 30, 2019

Drake!

Rotary phones, Baldwin brothers, the Kesey family protesting the University of Oregon cutting their wrestling program by parking the Kesey bus outside Mac Court because Ken Kesey was a championship high school wrestler and wrestled on the Oregon team while a student, humanure, and Facerange are also discussed.

Apr 16, 2019

First Jetta, then a horse, smell something strange. Is it an evil twin?

Back biting, the Fred Meyer bear, Spree, Barbara Hershey, the Dharma Initiative, and The Big Green are also discussed.

Apr 2, 2019

Troo and her brother Kaiser Permanente must battle a team of freshly baked Dunkin’ Donuts in order to stop their father from choking them.

MapQuest, morgue door height, Marcus Smart, Teen Angel, moon boots, and Popup Jensen are also discussed.

Mar 19, 2019

Our hosts follow the lives of Canadian junior high students that aren’t Drake as they progress through some combination of 6th, 7th, 8th, and/or 9th grade.

Raw Reality’s opening acts, Jeremiah Johnson, gherkins, Tim Horton’s, fedoras, and tendies are also discussed.

Mar 5, 2019

A man with two ears and two eyes becomes paralyzed from the waist down as a result of a horrific T.J. Hooker sniper and subsequently creates a battery-powered suit that allows him to walk for 30-40 minutes, depending on how many podcasts he is downloading and how many invisible dinosaurs are chasing him.

Dark Man, Blanka, Mr. Box, Dr. John, Markieff Morris code, and Harvey’s bush are also discussed.

Feb 20, 2019

David Carradine battles grizzled old men on the Western Frontier using his Shaolin Monk skills... or sometimes just by spread-eagle leaping off things, or sometimes just by getting tied up with a rope and left near really sharp, jagged rocks. 

F. Nick Flare, Chinese Leonard Nimoy, 1870s Emergen-C, straight razor shave fighting, and Mongolian tombs are also discussed.

Feb 5, 2019

With Carlos as scrum master, the What Happending team iterates once again on the David E. Kelley project with Chicago Med – er, Saving Hope – Chicago Fire? Chicago Hope!

 Adam Arkin AKA hat wig, Peter Berg’s Shocker, fake Billy Madison’s dad, reused prop organs, and Turbo Man are also discussed.

Jan 22, 2019

It’s the all-time greatest sitcom ever developed by an ad agency! But where are all the cavewomen? And where do these prehistoric beasts get their insurance?

Gogurt, the Frisbee family, Flo, The 13th Warrior, pets in space, the TV Guide Channel, Lurtz, and Ron Popeil are also discussed.

Jan 9, 2019

Special guest star Hideo -- What Happending’s first-ever English co-star -- helps our American hosts understand the British cult classic character Alan Partridge, as well as many other things about his strange and distant homeland.

Catch phrases, Jordy shore, Cluedo, BBC, Joey Chestnut, Vin Petrol, and Peter Purvis are also discussed

Jan 2, 2019

It's one of those dark sitcoms set in LA or NYC featuring struggling thirty-somethings! And DJ Qualls!

How to do proper accents, Road Trip, extra Pat Connaughton, Richard Rucolo’s IMDB metadata, TV commercial IMDB, and cookie trees are also discussed.

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