Totes Faves

This one is a little cerebral, but then again, so is ACTING. In honor of the upcoming Academy Awards, we nominate not our fave actors, but our fave characters in film, from busy bees to rolling with the homies.

It's the most wonderful time of the year - for another dip into the Sears Holiday Wishbook. This time we take a peek at the Ghost of Christmas Past of 1987, and in Canada no less. The enigma of the Pantspress, the excitement of the Bop Bag, and wait, there's more...literally more...in the form of little Christmas Surprises! Listen now.

The leaves are turning, and we're missing our backpacks, so we thought it would the perfect time to head back to school. Find out who got expelled and who is saved by the bell by listening now!

There's a nip in the air and Brandon can't stop hording pumpkin beers, which can only mean...time for a Monster Mash! Find out which creature will be a graveyard smash or which must quietly return to the Black Lagoon, on a new episode of Totes Faves.

We battle out our favorite sidekicks, from BFF's to animal accomplices to, well, Earth's natural satellite. With special guest, Lauren Mandel.

Battling out our favorite fads from childhood - find out which will soon be worth millions on eBay and which will get banned after some kid gets gored by a slap bracelet. Batteries not included. With special guest, Cory Cavin.

We battle out the cornerstone of American entertainment - Game Shows! Come on down, and find out who is the weakest link and who will take the physical challenge by listening now. With special guest, Devin Delliquanti.

Pup Quiz! What's your favorite flavor of Labrador - Black, Yellow or Chocolate? Jump on the back of a Great Pyrenees and find out now on Totes Faves, with special guest Scott Duda.

Mikey likes it! Or does he? Found out what is grrrrr-eat, and what is simply, "for breakfast." A new episode of Totes Faves - part of a balanced breakfast.

Time to hop to it and list our Totes Faves Bunnies. From Easter cluckers to space-time suckers, see who wins the Cadbury auditions and who gets thrown into the Briar Patch.

Journey to the not-to-distant past as we dissect our Totes Faves from the Year 1984. Turns out, not a Big Brother-controlled dystopia after all. Well, unless you lived in Northern India in the 1940s and had your Sankara stones stolen....

We found time out from screaming into the ravine of our present Hellscape to really thinking about the future, our Totes Faves Future. Flying cars, high-waisted pants and lesbian robot maids - it really is a great, big beautiful tomorrow!

Just in time for your last minute holiday shopping, we decide our favorite gifts from a 1991 Sears catalog we randomly found online.

We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our fictional Presidents! (Please note: This podcast was recorded on Election Day Eve, as you may detect from the trembling hope in our voices.)

It's getting a little spooky in the Fave-o-Tron as we sit down to list our favorite friendly ghosts. Will anything ever be as hot as Peak Alec Baldwin? Would YOU be pissed if someone wrote a character inspired by you, and it turned out to be a fat ghost? All this and more - Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

We're joined by Totes Fave sibling and superfan, Aarthi, to discuss our favorite chain restaurants. How much is too much sodium? What makes a pizza from California? Will we ever get our baby back baby back baby back ribs? All this and more, listen now!

What better time to talk reboots than on a rebooted podcast? We took the summer off to streamline our format and purify the mighty rivers of the things we love into their essential FAVE-ness. Enough aquatic metaphors – OK one more – let’s open the floodgates and get started. It’s the REBOOT to ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen, Mama rolling that body, got every man in here wishing...

With the success of Disney's "The Jungle Book" revival fresh in our brains, we decided it was high time to throw our favorite jungle animals into the Battledome. Join us to find out who is the King of the Swingers, the jungle VIP!

As we safely bid goodbye to another Academy Awards Season, we found ourselves pondering the movie performances throughout history that really deserved some Oscar love.

Time Out! As the 90's reboot machine reaches its saturation point, we decided it was high time to throw our favorite characters into the Totes Favs Battledome to see who would come out victorious. (with: Hal Coopersmith, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty, Brandon Werner)

The truth is right here. Join us as we battle to compile the ultimate list of favorite things about "The X-Files." Characters, plot-lines, murderous conjoined twins - they're all here. Deepu still has never seen an episode of the show but Moujan's knowledge more than makes up for that. With Moujan Zolfaghari, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty and Brandon Werner.

Join us as we battle to compile the ultimate list of Christmas Specials and find out how long we can debate over The Muppets VS N’Sync. TV really is the reason for the season. With: Jason Flowers, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty, Brandon Werner

Join us as we battle to compile the ultimate holiday gift guide from the ultimate in mile-high shopping, discovering the true creator behind the magic, Design Toscano. With: Josh Lay, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty, Brandon Werner

Take a bite of the poison apple and join us as we dissect Disney Villains. With these poor unfortunate souls: Brian Faas, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepy Murty, Brandon Werner

Listen now, because something in your very house could kill you. Continuing our Halloween series, we battle it out over our favorite modern myths aka, Urban Legends. With: Eric Cunningham, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty, Brandon Werner

As we fully enter the Halloween season, it's time to delve into what scares us the most. Can our very fears be our favorites? Its only our second episode and we already sort of break the concept of the show. With: Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty, Brandon Werner

We tempt fate with our first episode and decide the ultimate list of one-hit-wonders, those magical flashes in the pan of stardom where a band hits the Top-40 and then disappears from the face of the earth, never to be heard from again. With: Brandon Werner, Zara Findlay-Shirras, Deepu Murty