In psychoanalysis, it's called "transference" -- the unconscious redirection of feelings from one subject to another. Such a phenomenon has gripped The Spoon in spades this week, as the Honey Badger meme awakens Thom's mammalian loyalties, Chris gets some extra venom out of his system with a scathing, Deustch-y SAL, and Robbie takes out his general frustrations with the world and its gas prices on all manner of pop culture targets, including special guest Quinton Flynn -- who, while admittedly arriving in a tardy fashion, manages to win an extra 5 minutes of showtime for the entire crew by showing up at all. Other topics include: panicky prison populace privatization, ambitiously amorous anime adventures, ham-handed humorous horseplay, and frenzied frightening fan-fiction. Also, math jokes. Music by the aforementioned Mr Flynn, as well as Slow Motorcade.

It may be true that "nothing lasts, nothing is complete, and nothing is perfect," but after six weeks apart, the dramaturgical triad of Rob, Chris, and Thom are back in the same room together and all seems right with the world again... at least for the next 50 minutes or so. In addition to an extended meditation on the existential empowerment of everyone's favorite 1920's cartoon sailor, our fair trio slash and burn through such topics as: grammatical faux pas in rock lyrics, the (literally) unbelievable story of Sambo's Restaurant, extinct fast food joints and their oversized mascots, the final wishes of Gigi Allen, the evolution of the alternative-sexuality lexicon, the unlikely new career of Bryan Adams, the abandonment of art, and the virtue of sucking. Also, Rob and Chris ridicule Thom constantly and mercilessly over the debut of The Geek Agenda, but only because he really, really deserves it. Music by The Goldbergs, Dingo Fish, and Bowling For Soup.

The world is off-kilter. You can feel it in the air, and hear it on The Spoon. Robbie returns to find that comic fodder is in shorter supply than when he left, which leads into some serious discussion on earthquake preparedness, led by special guest #1 Jenni Rosen. Thom's head is more jello-encased than usual as he juggles his regular duties in addition to laying out a manifesto for The Geek Agenda, the new show that he is preparing to host with special guest #2, R Andru. Chris is absent in the flesh, but makes a vocal appearance via Skype and provides the show a much-needed injection of the spicy semi-sequiturs at which he so excels. Can this ongoing series of alternate configurations be broken? Will our fair trio ever be fully reunited again? Perhaps in the future, but for now... courage. Other topics include: Jedi kittens, fantasy acceptance speeches, relationship vaguery, grammatical nerdery, surprisingly versatile applications of The Human Centipede, and the unbridled awesomeosity of this week's featured GSYNH artists, The Piper Downs. Plus, how many words can you think of that rhyme with Funt? Additional music by The Mockers.

The Sheening of America continues unabated! Chris and Thom are reduced to helpless, hypnotized, somewhat snarky bystanders as Charlie's awesomeosity continues to roll out over the land like a big rolling thing, and not even the ebullient presence of special guest Dave Shalansky can stop the coming Winpocalypse! Other topics (yes, there are a few) include the sad, Bixby-esque retirement of Phil Collins, the time-traveling goofiness of David Lee Roth, the parsing of copyright law as it relates to words vs phrases, belated kudos heaped upon The Karate Kid remake, and a hearty round of subtitle-font snobbery. Plus...McDavid's? Music by Harvey Danger and FADE.

Chris takes over hosting duties while Robbie is overseas, Thom returns from his Deseret sojourn, and friend of the show Dave Shalansky arrives to inject his keen insight and conversational rocket sauce to a post-mortem of Oscar night, what might end up as a pre-post-mortem of Charlie Sheen, and an attempt at putting all of the show's communications-related ducks in a row (which plays out a little more like a herding of cats.) Also, this week's Sodomizing A Legacy is an mighty epic of vocal contortion, featuring a quote of an impression, wrapped in a caricature of mimicry. WINNING!!! Music by the The Goldbergs, The Wonderstrucks, and Glen Burtnik.