Everyone knows The Nutcracker is the reason for the season, so this week, Matt & Holly welcome ⁠Kristin Slaysman⁠ (HBO's I Love LA, The Threesome) to talk holiday parenting and all things Nutcracker. And we don't stop at The Nutcracker. We also delve into the Disney's re-imagined version: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Is The Nutcracker bigger than Jesus? Find out on this week's Screentimers!

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Matt & Holly Meet The Beat Bugs with best-selling author, Kate Spencer (In a New York Minute, All's Fair in Love and Pickleball). This week, it's Beat Bug Mania as we review Beat Bugs - a group of bugs who have adventures while singing Beatles songs. Get ready for The British Bug Invasion.

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This week, Matt & Holly open up the Screentimers' Vault (well, technically a locksmith opened it because they lost the keys), and review Disney's The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginnings. This direct-to-video prequel has it all: an underwater speakeasy, a jail break, and Ariel's mother's rather gruesome death.

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🎙️ Episode Description — Matt & Holly Watch Kid Stuff | The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginnings

This week, Matt and Holly take a deep dive into Disney’s final direct-to-video release, The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginnings—a movie so obscure that even their guest list hung up the moment they heard the title. (To be fair, Matt and Holly only asked people with landlines. Bold strategy.)

In this laugh-filled episode, your favorite comedy-parenting duo breaks down the plot, the chaos, and the questionable creative choices in this forgotten Disney prequel. From unexpected “landmine” moments to mermaid lore that raises more questions than answers, Matt and Holly bring their signature combo of sarcasm, nostalgia, and “why are we watching this?” energy to every minute of the review.

Expect hilarious tangents, brutally honest kid-content critiques, and the kind of punchy married-couple banter that makes the journey way more fun than the movie itself.

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Parents trapped watching endless kids’ movies, Disney fans, 2000s animation nostalgists, and anyone who loves a smart, funny breakdown of truly baffling children’s content.

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TUESDAY! TUESDAY! TUESDAY! Blaze and the Monster Machines with David Neher (AP BIO, Community) and Marisa Pinson (On Brand with Jon & Marisa). So "Let's blaze" and grab a showtime sweetie for this week's episode!

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Comedians Dave Neher (New Girl, Modern Family) and Marisa Pinson (On Brand with Jon and Marisa) join hosts Matt Kowalick and Holly Prazoff on Screentimers to talk about Blaze and the Monster Machines — the loud, educational fever dream your kid won’t stop watching.

If you love comedy podcasts, parenting humor, really good parenting hacks and tips about meal time and bath time, and adults losing it over Nickelodeon shows, this one’s your pit stop.

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🎙️ Topics: Blaze and the Monster Machines, kids’ TV, marriage, screen time, parenting chaos, comedy

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This week, Jean Villepique (A.P. Bio, Second City Chicago) takes Matt & Holly under the sea to eat ramen with those half Mermaid half Unicorn freaks of nature nobody loves, Mermicornos. That's right, this week we review HBO MAX'S Mermicorno: Starfall.

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Comedian Jean Villepique (AP Bio, Second City) joins Matt Kowalick and Holly Prazoff on Screen Timers to dive deep into the glittery chaos of Mermicornos: Starfall — HBO’s wild half-mermaid, half-unicorn kids’ show that makes zero sense.Expect rants about underwater ramen, cuckoo clocks, screen time guilt, and why kids’ TV sounds like a sugar rush in Dolby surround.Also on this episode, Jean blows our minds with new ways to rate shows and homemade toy ideas (no, she's not Amish). We also learn that Matt is very passionate about the ocean for all its many splendors and creatures (except Mermicornos).

If you love comedy podcasts, parenting fails, and grown-ups losing their minds over kids’ shows, you’ll love this episode.

🎙️ Featuring: Jean Villepique (AP Bio), Matt Kowalick & Holly Prazoff🎧

Topics: Mermicornos, screen time, Minecraft, parenting humor, absurd cartoons, HBO Max kids’ content

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Happy Halloween! This week, Joe Wengert (Kevin, Big Mouth) returns to go trick or treating with Matt & Holly. And by trick or treating, we mean talk about the notoriously scary 1985 classic cartoon tv special, Garfield's Halloween Adventure. It's no Heathcliff's Halloween Disaster, but it's a close 2nd!

This week we learn which unconventionally handsome people Joe and Matt look like, how this Garfield special scarred Matt for life, and why Holly fails to enjoy Garfield.

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This week, Carla Gallo⁠⁠ (Platonic, ⁠⁠Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo⁠⁠) joins Matt & Holly to warn us about the most popular YouTube kid influencer, Like Nastya⁠. Plus, Holly tells us about her appearance on a very special episode of Mtv's Yo Momma Canada edition. We also talk about Nasty's momma, who is now trying to make herself famous, too. The Children's Content Cold War is being fought online, and if Like Nastya is any indication, Russia is winning.

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