They Might Be Giants Friday Night Family Podcast

"Album art" for the podcast

Artist: They Might Be Giants
Years: 2007 - 2008

They Might Be Giants Friday Night Family Podcast was a video podcast that ran to promote They Might Be Giants' children's music efforts at the time, both Here Come The ABCs and its followup, Here Come The 123s. It was conceptualized by the band themselves, and just like the Disney albums, they had full creative control over the podcast's content.

The podcast was hosted by The Puppet Johns, who introduced—and occasionally performed—one or two songs per episode. The Johns were sometimes joined by other cast members, such as Robin Goldwasser's Deeply Felt Puppet Theater. Episodes premiered nearly every Friday for the duration of the podcast's run. The podcast went on a hiatus after "Can You Find It? (Podcast Episode)" in June 2008, which lasted over a year, except to post a music video for "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)" in July.

According to a press release for Here Comes Science, there were plans to continue the podcast for the album. However, other than "Podcast 39", which was strangely posted in the main podcast feed despite sharing the same format with this podcast, these plans never came into fruition due to the band's contract with Disney coming to an end once it was fulfilled.^[1]

Episode listing

1. "High Five!" - 3:22 - Released November 16, 2007
2. "Apartment Four" - 2:27 - Released December 17, 2007
3. "I Never Go To Work" - 3:02 - Released January 4, 2008
4. "Even Numbers" and "Letter Shapes" - 5:54 - Released January 11, 2008
5. "Nonagon" and "Rolling O" - 5:32 - Released January 18, 2008
6. "813 Mile Car Trip" and "D Is For Drums" - 5:23 - Released January 25, 2008
7. "One Dozen Monkeys" and "Flying V" - 6:04 - Released February 1, 2008
8. "Figure Eight" and "L M N O" - 6:58 - Released February 8, 2008
9. "Number Two" and "E Eats Everything" - 7:05 - Released February 15, 2008
10. "Pirate Girls Nine" and "Z Y X" - 4:33 - Released February 22, 2008
11. "The Secret Life of Six" and Puppet Johns Perform "Fibber Island" - 6:14 - Released February 29, 2008
12. "Seven" and "Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order?" - 6:01 - Released March 7, 2008
13. "I Can Add" and "Seven Days of the Week" (encore) - 5:58 - Released March 14, 2008
14. "Nine Bowls of Soup" and Puppets perform "Older" - 5:57 - Released March 21, 2008
15. "Fake-Believe" and "Fake-Believe (Type B)" - 5:53 - Released March 28, 2008
16. "Ooh La! Ooh La!" and "Pictures of Pandas Painting" - 5:46 - Released April 4, 2008
17. "Ten Mississippi" and "Alphabet Lost and Found" - 6:12 - Released April 11, 2008
18. "Triops Has Three Eyes" and "Letter, Not A Letter" - 5:19 - Released April 18, 2008
19. "C Is For Conifers" and "One Everything" - 7:11 - Released April 25, 2008
20. "Alphabet Of Nations" and "High Five!" - 6:03 - Released May 9, 2008
21. "Zeroes... and some jokes!" - 3:45 - Released May 16th, 2008
22. "E Eats Everything and Apartment 4" - 6:58 - Released May 23, 2008
23. "Even Numbers and I Am Not Your Broom" - 5:37 - Released May 30, 2008
24. "Nine Bowls Of Soup" - 5:40 - Released June 6, 2008
25. "Robots" - 5:10 - Released June 13, 2008
26. "Go For G!" (download) - 8:15 - Released June 20, 2008
27. "Can You Find It? and The Secret Life of Six" (download) - 6:49 - Released June 27, 2008
28. "Davy Crockett In Outer Space" - 2:16 - Released July 23, 2008 (this podcast was only the video, with no additional content)

External links

• Full episode archive at Internet Archive