Oh No! Lit Class

Smash that emergency Shakespeare button for an appropriately semi-lucid episode on A Midsummer Night's Dream! Learn all about Shakespeare's famed comedy about horny idiots in the woods...that sat around in obscurity for like 200 years. Because Puritans. RJ makes the case against parties, Megan makes enemies of theater kids everywhere, and we discover what timeless Christmas film was inspired by this play about magical boning. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this episode, we take a look at some positively lilliputian ladies in Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel, Little Women. Learn why the Civil War is basically just the first Pokemon movie, how true Transcendentalism is hitting Ralph Waldo Emerson up for cash, and why Wrongfully Accused is an underrated classic. Megan advocates sibling murder, RJ examines the financial merits of cult life, and we all say "Awwww" a bunch. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

What's that in your candy bucket? Is it a bonus week of spooks and scares just in time for Halloween?! Join us and learn why A Rose for Emily is less about The Bachelor and more about oblivious townsfolk and tax evasion, while The October Game teaches you how to throw the perfect Halloween party. We do some voices, struggle with some songs, and invent what will surely become ON!LC's most beloved character ever. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Gird your gourds for more Halloween goodness as we begin our short story spookstravaganza! RJ discusses feminism and unfortunate interior decorating in The Yellow Wallpaper, and Megan explores the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and how being a jerk can get you ghost-murdered. Or regular murdered. It's unclear. Meanwhile, Rhode Island doubles down on racist authors and we all learn the importance of going "First!" Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year! Halloween! Obviously. In this spine-tingling episode, Megan and RJ take a trip down Queer Street to examine The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! Witness the terrors of inheritance law, Victorian moral hypocrisy, and Vague, Unspecified Crime! Learn the finer points of forcing your child to be a lighthouse engineer and how to give your nurse the worst nickname ever. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Megan and RJ take Agatha Christie's sinister choo-choo train to her classic mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express. Along for the ride is Jess, English teacher and certified Christie-head. We learn that murder is the secret to getting kids to read more, while Megan struggles to say a single character name correctly, RJ is jealous that he can't hang ten, and Jess initiates a blood feud with celebrated actor and director Kenneth Branagh. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this episode, we hold our breath to dive into the briny depths of Jules Verne’s adventure classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Learn the downsides of owning your own island, the majesty of differently-abled manatees, and Captain Nemo’s step-by-step guide on how to be the most unbelievably extra person in the entire ocean. Megan yearns for action and adventure, while RJ mostly yearns for Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s a cursed, magical painting. Join Megan and RJ as they return to the wonderful world of Oscar Wilde to appraise The Picture of Dorian Gray and learn the surprising source of inspiration for Wilde’s novel about the dangers of being eternally sexy. Meanwhile, RJ makes some startling literary connections, and Megan podcasts from the inside of a bucket. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Join Megan, RJ, and Jared as we round out our journey through the Cthulhu-verse with The Shadow over Innsmouth, a tale of cursed villages, dark secrets, and mega-horny immortal fish people. Also discussed: Why good Lovecraft movies are hard to find, the difficulties of separating a pretty thoroughly racist man from the massive impact he’s had on horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, and how he gave his cat literally the worst name ever, oh my god. Best Day’s Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/best-day (soundcloud.com/best-day) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this episode, Megan and RJ open up their feeble brain meats to the untold cosmic horrors of H. P. Lovecraft! With special guest and Old God aficionado, Jared aka Best Day, we heed the haunting, squishy Call of Cthulhu and prepare for…Unnecessarily Complicated Language! Old-Timey Racism! Guys With Three Names! And So Many Narrative Framing Devices! It’s an episode so nice it had to be spliced (into two parts). Best Day’s Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/best-day (soundcloud.com/best-day) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this free teaser of Study Breaks to come, ON!LC guest alum Monique McIntosh returns to teach Megan about a popular, unsurprisingly racist term used in classic horror fiction. We also cover zombie goats, the unfathomable terrors of both the alphabet and the ocean, and why sexual attraction to lions with ’90s boy band hair is definitely totally normal. To listen to future Study Break bonus episodes subscribe to the $3 tier on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

We’re inside, we’re outside, we’re every which way but the general direction of S.E. Hinton’s Twitter as we tackle her classic teen coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders. Which isn’t gay. At all. What would even make you think that? Experience increasingly outlandish acronyms, the importance of both greasy hair and a good cry, and deeply ironic audio problems. Don’t listen for our sake…do it for Johnny. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Get ready for THE DRAMA as Megan and RJ journey to the ghostly moors of Wuthering Heights! Learn why everyone who thinks this is a romantic love story is both Wrong and Bad, why you should avoid graveyard-adjacent drinking water, and how Gothic antihero Heathcliff and Rocky Balboa are basically the same guy. RJ continues his crusade against naming kids after yourself, Megan reveals a dark, Lifetime Movies-related secret, and we invoke Terrible and Ancient Memes. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

What could go wrong in a book about bunnies? Plenty, if that book is Watership Down, a classic children’s novel that’s been traumatizing kids for nearly 50 years. Also traumatized is Chris Osborne of Play Comics, who joins us as we follow a band of bunnies on their epic quest for survival. Meanwhile, Megan relives childhood horrors, Chris learns a language, and RJ makes enough rabbit puns to constitute a war crime. Chris’s show: http://playcomics.com (playcomics.com) Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/playcomicscast (@playcomicscast) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Oh Danny boy, the pipes are calling on this episode where we manage, despite our best efforts and potentially worst singing yet, to talk about the classic (sci-fi?) novel, Flowers for Algernon. Learn the importance of good branding, that the gross changes happening to your body are totally normal, and why being smart is a sucker’s game, with an added bonus of briefly coherent actual literary analysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In an episode that could best be described as “Steinbeck adjacent,” we engage in some heavy petting, bacon thieving, obscure reference-making, and banana-insinuating. We also learn all about Burgess Meredith, the rules of Being In Van Halen, briefly become Oh No! City Slickers, and oh, uh, talk about Of Mice and Men…kinda. But it’s okay because we got sunshine in our pockets, and that sunshine might just be cocaine. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

Get ready to #CatchTheseHands in the rye as your two favorite phonies set out to eviscerate Holden Caulfield, but mostly just feel bad for him. Learn about the distinguished fields of kosher cheese mongering and elevator pimping, go faith findin’ with JD, and listen as Megan challenges John Travolta to a fistfight and RJ commits multiple mouth crimes. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this special episode, we take you on an intoxicated tour through the life, times, and wives of Ernest Hemingway, with a brief stopover at The Old Man and the Sea. Join us at the hottest spot north of Havana for this drunkstravaganza featuring: Gay marlins, Sandra Bullock, questionable surgery practices, baseball(?), and conquering nature with your peen. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

RJ takes the wheel to teach us a thing about John Donne: Reverend, husband, and mega-horny poet. Enjoy the tonal whiplash as we rocket between poems about doing it, poems about how everyone he loved is dead, and more poems about doing it. Megan crafts some fanfiction, Financin’ with RJ branches out, and we learn that no man is an island, especially if he’s in the middle of having sex. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast

In this episode, we head to Africa, not to bless the rains but to contend with Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Megan is filled to the brim with salt while RJ tries to rack up a high score playing Devil’s Advocate. Join us as we discuss racism, imperialism, and the alleged contents of John Wayne’s colon. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass (https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClass) Get Some Merch: https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/ (https://ohnolitclass.threadless.com/) Support this podcast