Origins of Episode Titles
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| Episode | Date | Guests | Origins of episode title |
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| Episode 1: "Oscar Madison Won't Let You Pack Your Bags" | March 8, 2011 | Julie's Parents and Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Julie and Natasha Vargas-Cooper talk about the most recent episodes of the TV show Intervention. Julie mentions that there are two new interventionist on the show this season,one of whom has a strong physical resemblance to actor Walter Matthau. She says that every episode of Intervention that he is a part of should be titled "Oscar Madison Won't Let You Pack Your Bags". |
| Episode 2: "The Taste of Christmas Morning" | March 19, 2011 | Jesse Murray, Anthony Atamanuik | Please add origin |
| Episode 3: "A Smiling Bruce Vilanch" | March 26, 2011 | Billy Eichner, Megan Amram | Billy Eichner asks Julie if she "can imagine what Donald Trump's pubic hair looks like." Julie responds by saying that it probably looks like "a smiling Bruce Vilanch." |
| Episode 4: "I Did Fiddler!" | April 1, 2011 | Ronna & Beverly, James Urbaniak | James Urbaniak tells a story about an actor who walked into the first rehearsal of a community theater production with a huge beard. When asked about the beard by the other actors, he replied by saying "I did Fiddler." |
| Episode 5: "The One With Joan Rivers" | April 7, 2011 | Joan Rivers | Please add origin |
| Episode 6: "Polar Bears on Moonbeams" | April 15, 2011 | Patton Oswalt, Holly Schlesinger | Please add origin |
| Episode 7: "The Pottery Scene From GREASE" | April 23, 2011 | Rachel Dratch and Rachel Shukert | Rachel Shukert accidentally says "The Pottery Scene from Grease instead of "The pottery Scene from Ghost". Both Julie and Rachel agree that a pottery scene in Grease would have been great. |
| Episode 8: "All The Way To Canada" | April 29, 2011 | Neko Case, Joe Mande | These are the primary lyrics to the first song that Neko Case recalls writing. |
| Episode 9: "In The Face" | May 6, 2011 | Seth Rudetsky, Baratunde Thurston | In the Julie's interview with Baratunde Thurston, they discus the killing of Osama Bin Laden (Bin Laden was shot "in the face") [1]. |
| Episode 10: "Pico Won't Know Our Baby" | May 14, 2011 | Jen Kirkman, Andrea Rosen, John Gemberling | Guest Andrea Rosen, under the influence of pregnancy hormones, lamented that a deceased pet would never meet her baby. |
| Episode 11: "Enter Dancing" | May 20, 2011 | Sally Kellerman, Paul Scheer | Julie tells Sally Kellerman that her favorite scene in Back To School is when Dr. Diane Turner (Kellerman's character in the movies) enters dancing into the party that Thornton Mellon is throwing in his dorm. |
| Episode 12: "The Young & The Messy" | May 27, 2011 | Jackée | During her interview with Julie, Jackée refers to the soap opera The Young and the Restless as "The Young and the Messy." |
| Episode 13: "The Ballad of Buddy Longo" | June 3, 2011 | Julieanne Smolinski | Buddy Longo was the name of Julieanne Smolinski's high school Criminology teacher. In order to obtain a handwriting sample from a serial killer, Longo made his students write letters to imprisoned serial killers. Julieanne wrote a letter to Richard Ramirez AKA "The Night Stalker". She received a response from Ramirez. He asked if she would include a photograph of herself in her next letter. Of course, Julieanne never responded. |
| Episode 14: "Our Congressman In His Underpants" | June 10, 2011 | Michelle Collins, Eugene Mirman | Please add origin |
| How Were Your Tonys? Special Minisode | June 13, 2011 | Scott Brown | A play on the podcast title, in which the Tonys are discussed. |
| Episode 15: "What's This? It's The Style" | June 17, 2011 | Ira Glass, Anaheed Alani | Please add origin |
| Episode 16: "So Many Ethans" | June 24, 2011 | Ana Gasteyer, Vanessa Bayer | Julie and Vanessa Bayer discus four of Vanessa's favorite movies from the 1990's (Reality Bites, Singles, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and Empire Records). Reality Bites stars Ethan Hawke and Empire Records stars Ethan Embry ("So Many Ethans"). |
| Episode 17: "Cat Bride" | July 1, 2011 | Michael Rapaport, Larry Murphy | Upon the legalization of gay marriage in the state of New York, Julie announced that she and her female cat (Smiley Muffin) were married. |
| Episode 18: "Giant Pictures of Hamburgers" | July 8, 2011 | Tom Scharpling | This title refers to Tom and Julie's scheme to paste giant pictures of hamburgers onto billboards in New Jersey that feature current governor Chris Christie's giant face. |
| Episode 19: "She's A Cold Soup" | July 15, 2011 | Rob Delaney, Michelle McNamara | Please add origin |
| Episode 20: "Bev's Bananas" | July 22, 2011 | Maria Bamford | Please add origin |
| Episode 21: "In The Business Of Lying To You" | July 29, 2011 | Dave Hill, John Ross Bowie | Please add origin |
| Episode 22: "Rave Withdrawal" | August 5, 2011 | Steve Agee, Bryan Safi | Please add origin |
| Episode 23: "America's Jelly" | August 12, 2011 | Laraine Newman, Lisa F. Jackson | Please add origin |
| Episode 24: "Half A Face" | August 19, 2011 | Paul F. Tompkins, Jamie Denbo | Please add origin |
| Episode 25: Best of HWYW Vol. 1 | August 26, 2011 | Joan Rivers, Patton Oswalt, Holly Schlesinger, Neko Case, Billy Eichner, James Urbaniak | |
| Episode 26: "Count Chocula's Other Teeth" | September 2, 2011 | Michael Musto, Jake Fogelnest | Please add origin |
| Episode 27: "Shelf Of Justice" | September 9, 2011 | David Rakoff | The "Shelf of Justice" is Nancy Grace's bosom in her outfit from Dancing with the Stars. While Nancy Grace is fueled by vengeance, her upper body may be powered by Little Debbie Zebra Cakes. |
| Episode 28: "Sherry" | September 16, 2011 | Jackie Collins, Amy Schumer | Please add origin |
| Episode 29: "This Is Lowell" | September 23, 2011 | Patton Oswalt, Daniel Kibblesmith | Please add origin |
| Episode 30: "Upstairs Coke" | September 30, 2011 | Susie Essman, Gabe Delahaye | Please add origin |
| Episode 31: "My Birds" | October 7, 2011 | Sandra Bernhard, Jeffrey Self | Please add origin |
| Episode 32: "Tiny Faces" | October 14, 2011 | Amy Poehler, Rich Fulcher | Please add origin |
| Episode 33: "Pondering Tonya" | October 21, 2011 | Martha Plimpton | Please add origin |
| Episode 34: "Satchel" | October 28, 2011 | Sarah Silverman, Mike Albo | Satchel is the birth name of Ronan Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, discussed in this week's episode. |
| Episode 35: "Full Petula" | November 4, 2011 | Mink Stole, John Mulaney | Please add origin |
| Episode 36: HWYW Live | November 10, 2011 | Fred Armisen, Billy Eichner, Paul F. Tompkins, more | |
| Episode 37: "The Juiciest Chicken You've Ever Had" | November 18, 2011 | Sonja Morgan, Richard Lawson | Please add origin |
| Episode 38: "Steampunk Goodfellas" | November 25, 2011 | Mike Daisey, Gil Ozeri | Please add origin |
| Episode 39: "Horror-curious" | December 2, 2011 | Nick Kroll, Gabe Liedman | "Horror-curious" refers to someone, like Julie, who obsessively reads or asks about what happens in scary movies but does not choose to watch them because they are too scay-aired. |
| Episode 40: "Twittertudes" | December 9, 2011 | Kristen Schaal, Ari Graynor | Please add origin |
| Episode 41: "You-know-what-icide Season" | December 16, 2011 | Ted "Teddy" Leo, Ramona Singer | A coy reference to the holidays, thought to be the time of year in which the suicide ("you-know-what-icide") rate is highest. |
| Episode 42: "Spa-cast" | December 23, 2011 | Kurt Braunohler, Cecily von Ziegesar | Please add origin |
| Episode 43: "Tommy Mottola for Nothing' | December 30, 2011 | Mike Doughty | According to Mike Doughty, Mariah Carey is a "studio rat" (meaning that while she is recording an album she basically lives out of the studio). Julie responds to this by saying "you don't fuck Tommy Mottola for nothing"(Mottola is Carey's ex-husband and the former head of Sony Music). |
| Episode 44: "Twiddling and Eight-balls" | January 6, 2012 | Rob Tannenbaum | What were Aerosmith doing before in the mid eighties before Run-D.M.C. resurrected their career? They were "twiddling" their thumbs and doing "eight-balls". |
| Episode 45: "Many Parts of a Pine Tree" | January 13, 2012 | Frank DeCaro, Kate Beaton | Please add origin |
| Episode 46: "Consequences" | January 20, 2012 | Chris Gethard, Katie Notopoulos | Please add origin |
| Episode 47: "What Someone's Mom's Idea of a Nightclub Is" | January 27, 2012 | David Cross, Eliot Glazer | Please add origin |
| Episode 48: Best of HWYW Vol. 2 | February 3, 2012 | Patton Oswalt, John Mulaney, Mike Daisey, Ted Leo | |
| Episode 49: "Me and My Stupid Bat" | February 10, 2012 | Kristen Johnston | Please add origin |
| Episode 50: "What About a Macaroni Salad?" | February 17, 2012 | Jenny Johnson, Max Silvestri | As described by guest Max Silvestri, this was a tragic question asked by Aaron Carter, a contestant on "Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cookoff." |
| Episode 51: HWYW Live | January 24, 2012 | Sandra Bernhard, Tom Scharpling, Ira Glass, Joe Mande | |
| How Were Your Oscars? Special Minisode | February 27, 2012 | Dave Itzkoff, Tom Scharpling, Gary Tha Squirrel | Please add origin |
| Episode 52: "Jolly Roger" | March 2, 2012 | Lizz Winstead, Adam Wade | Please add origin |
| Episode 53: "On Improv" | March 9, 2012 | Simon Doonan, Eric Lefcowitz | Please add origin |
| Episode 54: "The Crunch Factor" | March 16, 2012 | Rickie Lee Jones, Kambri Crews | Please add origin |
| Episode 55: "A Jaw That Could Open a Can of Tuna Fish" | March 23, 2012 | Mo Rocca, Dave Cullen | Please add origin |
| Episode 56: "Jam Ghetto" | March 30, 2012 | Sharon Needles, Whitney Jefferson | Please add origin |
| Episode 57: "Dog Valet" | April 6, 2012 | Chris Parnell, Jon Daly | Julie met the dog valet while in California. He is a dog who will take your bag, bring it inside, and put it on his bed, which is no help to anyone, but extremely charming. |
| Episode 58: "College Hounds" | April 13, 2012 | Susan Orlean, Jon Hendren | Please add origin |
| Episode 59: "The Boyfriend Experience" | April 20, 2012 | Michael K, Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham | Please add origin |
| Episode 60: "Fig Bar Bender" | April 26, 2012 | Nellie McKay, Dodai Stewart | Please add origin |
| Episode 61: "Something Something Justin Timberlake" | May 4, 2012 | David Yazbek, Damien Lemon | Please add origin |
| Episode 62: "The Front of a Crocodile" | May 11, 2012 | Will Leitch, Sara Schaefer | Please add origin |
| How Was Your Smash? Special Extrasode | May 17, 2012 | Nate Harris, Jason Grote, Rachel Shukert | Please add origin |
| Episode 63: "Help the Street Animals of Morocco" | May 18, 2012 | Curtis Gwinn, Choire Sicha | Please add origin |
| Episode 64: "Library Water" | May 25, 2012 | Patton Oswalt, Retta | Julie remarks that the water from one's childhood library water fountain is the coldest and best tasting water; this is an absolutely accurate statement. |
| Episode 65: "My Least Favorite Eagles Song" | June 1, 2012 | Eddie Pepitone, Paula Pell | Please add origin |
| Episode 66: "The Mingus Method" | June 8, 2012 | Kurt Loder, Nathan Rabin | Jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus created a toilet training program for cats. |
| How Were Your Tonys? 2012 | June 12, 2012 | Ana Gasteyer, Seth Rudetsky | Please add origin |
| Episode 67: "Space Ireland" | June 15, 2012 | Adam Pally, Eric Drysdale | Please add origin |
| Episode 68: "Crazy Person F.I.T." | June 22, 2012 | Tavi Gevinson, Jessi Klein | Please add origin |
| Episode 69: "Is This Jazz?" | June 29, 2012 | Rob Sheffield, Michael McMillian | Julie notices the jazz influence on Fiona Apple's new album (The Idler Wheel...). |
| Episode 70: "Do You Shred?" | July 6, 2012 | Carole Radziwill, Kevin Allison | Julie went to a male strip club with Katie Notopoulos and asked a guitar-playing hunk: "Do you shred?" |
| Episode 71: HWYW Live | July 13, 2012 | Martha Plimpton, Jim Gaffigan, Katie Notopoulos, Mike Daisey, VIDS | |
| Episode 72: "Side of Fries" | July 20, 2012 | Tig Notaro, Steve Kandell | Please add origin |
| Episode 73: "The Sneaker Nap" | July 27, 2012 | Bobcat Goldthwait, Simon Amstell | A term for when one puts on his or her workout clothes to exercise but instead just takes a nap while wearing sneakers. |
| Episode 74: "Most of the Nooks" | August 3, 2012 | Gabe Liedman, Alison Rich | Please add origin |
| Episode 75: "Doc Hopper Realness" | August 9, 2012 | Alex Stone | Please add origin |
| HWYW Special Minisode | August 10, 2012 | David Rakoff | |
| Episode 76: Best of HWYW Vol. 3 | August 17, 2012 | Patton Oswalt, Carole Radziwill, Eddie Pepitone, Sara Schaefer, Dave Cullen | |
| Episode 77: "The Fajitas" | August 24, 2012 | Andy Kindler, Adira Amram | Please add origin |
| Episode 78: "Girls Named Heather Fixing Their Skirts" | August 31, 2012 | Max Read, Kurt Metzger | Please add origin |
| Episode 79: "C Skeleton" | September 7, 2012 | W. Kamau Bell, Wayne White, Neil Berkeley | Please add origin |
| Episode 80: "Ubu's Owner" | September 13, 2012 | David Sirota | Please add origin |
| Episode 81: "The Best Mother on Television" | September 21, 2012 | Fran Drescher, Adrian Chen | Please add origin |
| Episode 82: "Lapland" | September 27, 2012 | Jon Ronson | Please add origin |
| Episode 83: "P is for Pizza" | October 4, 2012 | Jodi Lennon, Jessica Grose | Please add origin |
| Episode 84: "Where's Grandpa?" | October 11, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy, Frank Conniff | Please add origin |
| Episode 85: "No Breast Buds" | October 19, 2012 | Mike Birbiglia, Peaches Christ | This title refers to Julie's experience seeing the musical "Annie" surrounded by pre-pubescent girls who had "no breast buds." |
| Episode 86: "How Was Your Shriek Live" | October 25, 2012 | Kristen Johnston, Scharpling & Wurster, Gabe Liedman, Gary Tha Squirrel | Please add origin |
| Episode 87: "How Was Your Storm" | November 2, 2012 | Chris Spooner, Jack Fagan | A more poignant play on the podcast's title, the "storm" refers to Hurricane Sandy. |
| Episode 88: "Angry Horseback Riding" | November 9, 2012 | Todd Oldham, Nikki Glaser | Post-election, Julie speculates that Ann Romney is likely engaging in some angry horseback riding to cope with her husband's loss. |
| Episode 89: "Blowhole Junction" | November 15, 2012 | Tim Heidecker, Lisa Hanawalt | Please add origin |
| Episode 90: "Night Trote" | November 23, 2012 | David Rees, Laura Benanti | Julie needs a new humidifier to solve the problem of her Night Throat, or as she calls it, "Night Trote." |
| Episode 91: "Meet the Flickers" | November 30, 2012 | Siggy Flicker | Please add origin |
| Episode 92: "Banana Steaks" | December 7, 2012 | Kyle Dunnigan, Beth Hoyt | |
| Episode 93: "Skin Flesh" | December 14, 2012 | Michael Ian Black, Will Hines | Please add origin |
| Episode 94: "I'm Stayin'" | December 21, 2012 | Jackie Hoffman, Bill Persky | Please add origin |
| Episode 95: "Leon Pancetta" | December 28, 2012 | Hunter Bell | Julie astutely renames James Gandolfini's character in "Zero Dark Thirty" |
| Episode 96: "Exactly Like a Cornish Hen" | January 4, 2013 | Starlee Kine, Noah Garfinkel | Please add origin |
| Episode 97: "Glug Glug" | January 11, 2013 | Carrie Brownstein, Danielle Henderson | Please add origin |
| Episode 98: "All That Gurgling" | January 18, 2013 | Richard Kind, Issa Rae | Please add origin |
| Episode 99: "Fridge Leaners" | January 25, 2013 | Bridey Elliot, Colman Domingo | Please add origin |
| Episode 100: "One Hundred" | January 31, 2013 | Tom Scharpling, Jesse Thorn | The one hundredth episode of HWYW |
| Episode 101: "Heavy Things Onto Stages" | February 8, 2013 | David Ozanich, Michael Kupperman | Please add origin |
| Episode 102: "Men of the '90s" | February 15, 2013 | Peter Grosz, Craig Bierko | The title refers to the type of men who still find Jenny McCarthy attractive, and the target audience for her talk show. |
| Episode 103: "How Was Your Exorcist" | February 22, 2013 | Ted "Teddy" Leo, Jesse Murray | Another play on the title of the podcast, in which the mansplaining film "The Exorcist" is discussed |
| Episode 104: "Battlefield Girth" | March 1, 2013 | DC Pierson, Alex Timbers | Please add origin |
| Episode 105: "An Egg Without Salt" | March 7, 2013 | David Wain, America Ferrera | Kissing a man without a mustache is like eating an egg without salt. |
| Episode 106: "In the Presence of Poison" | March 15, 2013 | Claudia Lonow, Carol Sue Gershman | Please add origin |
| Episode 107: "Santas, Attack!" | March 22, 2013 | Chad Carter, Ted Travelstead[2] | What was said by some very scary people during SantaCon on a subway car. Can you imagine?! |
| Episode 108: "Photos of Jackets" | March 29, 2013 | Room 237 Filmmakers Rodney Ascher & Tim Kirk | Please add origin |
| Episode 109: "Canal Street" | April 5, 2013 | Marc Spitz, Nicole J. Georges | Please add origin |
| Episode 110: HWYW Live | April 12, 2013 | Chris & Bridey Elliott, Aimee Mann, Siggy Flicker, Pichet Ong, Max Silvestri, more | |
| Episode 111: "Ann-Margret's P-Belt" | April 19, 2013 | Christina Gausas, Craig Rowin | What does the key that the mayor gives Conrad Birdie unlock? |
| Episode 112: "Wesleyan as a Human Being" | April 26, 2013 | Rachel Lichtman, Jena Friedman | A description of Amanda Palmer, Kickstarter martyr. |
| Episode 113: "Pete Ubu" | May 3, 2013 | Jim Gaffigan, Ophira Eisenberg | An error when texting about the band "Pere Ubu" with Jake Fogelnest. It was accidentally corrected to "Pete Ubu." Julie reminisces about how this would be a hilarious name for a gentleman to have. |
| Episode 114: "Battling Bots" | May 10, 2013 | Jean Grae | Please add origin |
| Episode 115: "Madame, No" | May 17, 2013 | David Sedaris | Please add origin |
| Episode 116: "The Human Condition on TV" | May 24, 2013 | Emily Bazelon, Abbi Crutchfield | Please add origin |
| Episode 117: HWYW Gems 4 | May 31, 2013 | Tom Scharpling, Jon Ronson, Rachel Lichtman, Emily Heller & Lisa Hanawalt, Danielle Henderson | |
| Episode 118: "Wayne and Garth" | June 7, 2013 | Shelby Fero, Bridget Everett | Julie suggests that guest Bridget Everett may have nicknamed her breasts "Wayne and Garth" in 1992. |
| Episode 119: "Curating the Linens" | June 14, 2013 | Harris Wittels, Ben Nugent | Guest Wittels shares a story about simultaneous masturbation sessions at sleepovers during his teen years, where each participant had a sheet or blanket for privacy. Julie's favorite detail and follow-up questions largely revolve around said sheets, and "curating the linens." |
| Episode 120: "We're All Smart" | June 21, 2013 | Kat Dennings, Chiara Atik | A reference to the film "Zero Dark Thirty," this is a line spoken by Leon Panetta (Pancetta) that resonated with Julie, particularly in the wake of James Gandolfini's death two days earlier |
| Episode 121: "Silver Dollar Pancakes" | June 28, 2013 | Gillian Jacobs, Louis Virtel | Please add origin |
| Episode 122: "Rosie's Meds" | July 5, 2013 | Ted "Teddy" Leo, Andrea Arden, Marrilee Wilson | Please add origin |
| Episode 123: "The Patient Zero of Food" | July 12, 2013 | Freedy Johnston | Please add origin |
| Episode 124: "Dicks for Days" | July 19, 2013 | Brent Weinbach, Gabe Durham | Please add origin |
| Episode 125: "Shitty Shoes" | July 26, 2013 | Pichet Ong, Halle Kiefer | The sort of shoes worn while participating in Zog Sports, which Julie eviscerates in detail (see also: do I roll up the sleeves of this t-shirt? Why can't it be a flattering tank?) |
| Episode 126: "Cool Story, Dennis" | August 2, 2013 | Danny Zuker | A phrase that sums up Julie's attitude towards male baby boomers (see: Anthony Bourdain); specifically, a response to a man driving teenaged Julie home after a babysitting job, after he has mentioned that "once, he smoked pot." |
| Episode 127: "Like Fuddruckers but Expensive" | August 9, 2013 | Tami Sagher | Julie's summary of cynically contrived, "folksy" aesthetics in fashion and pop culture. |
| Episode 128: "America's Morning" | August 16, 2013 | Sklar Brothers | A reference to the Today Show, specifically to the Today Show's exuberant twitter feed, which asked for personal stories from the 2003 blackout; Julie shares her story on the podcast, but not with @todayshow. |
| Episode 129: "A Hanna-Barbera Cartoon About Carnage" | August 23, 2013 | Gaylord Fields | A description of the sounds that emitted from the room in which a vet tech repaired to biopsy Julie's confident, fractious, and beautiful cat, the late Smiley Muffin; also, Julie's prediction of what would happen if she announced to her family that she had pitched a show to Al Jazeera America. |
| Episode 130: "I'll Chew On A Dog" | August 30, 2013 | Beau Willimon | A quote from Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice." When making his fake television commercial, Beetlejuice promises the following: "I'll eat anything you want me to eat. I'll swallow anything you want me to swallow. But, come on down and I'll... chew on a dog! Arroooo!" |
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