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This week we’re reviewing Buddy (2026). We dissect its collision of ’90s children’s television and graphic horror, explore Buddy’s need for love as a form of control, and praise Keegan-Michael Key’s emotional range. This episode contains spoilers, beginning at 25:33.

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⁠Buddy (2026)

Main Episode

⁠Casper Kelly dives into the darkness of kids’ television with ‘Buddy’

⁠The Black List Interview: Casper Kelly on BUDDY

⁠Child’s Play (2019)

⁠The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

⁠The Wizard of Oz (1939)

B-side

⁠Barney & Friends

⁠Teletubbies

⁠Blue’s Clues

⁠Pee-wee’s Playhouse

⁠Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

⁠Sesame Street

⁠Gullah Gullah Island

⁠The Puzzle Place

⁠Dora the Explorer

⁠Zoboomafoo

⁠The Big Comfy Couch

⁠Bear in the Big Blue House

⁠The Wiggles

⁠Thomas & Friends

⁠Care Bears

⁠ALF

⁠Clifford the Big Red Dog

⁠If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

⁠Peter Rabbit

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