This week, the world's largest airline ensured that this episode could not be released on time. To all of the listeners whose Monday mornings were tragically impacted by this unfortunate event, we at Munch My Benson are truly sorry. Sadly, the

38 - That Is the Weirdest Wonk Boner I’ve Ever Heard Of (S15E8 October Surprise)

Jan 11th, 2021 1h 34m

Well, kids, we’ve got ourselves a very special Barbasode, complete with a super fun headline rip. This week’s episode of SVU? Season 15, Episode 8, “October Surprise.” The inspiration? Anthony Damn Weiner. Needless to say, there is TONS to talk

37 - Our Job Is to Sit There and Enjoy It (S3E15 Execution)

Jan 4th, 2021 54m 28s

The Munch My Benson Boys dive into yet another Season 3 ep of Law And Order: Special Victims Unit this week with "Execution" (S3E15), which forces us to confront a few disturbing questions: Can necrophilia be mundane? How did people choose a ca

36 - He Let Ed Teabag Him, Right? (S3E13 Prodigy)

Dec 28th, 2020 1h 12m

The Randomizer spat out “Prodigy” (Season 3, Episode 13), a true gem of an episode of SVU which took Adam and Josh on quite the journey. Michael Pitt playing an apparent future serial killer and doing it spectacularly? Check. Continuing dispara

35 - 10 Hours of Bone Sessions to Get to the Bones Bone Session (S3E17 Surveillance)

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 14m

Emily Deschanel stars in Season 3 Episode 17 of SVU, Surveillance, which features a web of people who are all dangerously obsessed with the titular Bones star. This leads Josh and Adam down a litany of bizarre and digressive topics including, b

34 - It Was a Beige Turtleneck, so It Really Made Him Look Like a Human Penis (S13E7 Russian Brides)

Dec 14th, 2020 1h 18m

Praise be to the SVU Gods and the Randomizer because this week's Munchstallment “Russian Brides” has it all. The seventh ep from season 13 not only thrusts a rusty Captain Cragen into undercover duty for the first time since before Cabot and Am

33 - Who's Showering at Benson's?: The Brotherhood of the Big Bald Bosses (Part 2) (S14E1 Lost Reputation and S14E2 Above Suspicion)

Dec 7th, 2020 1h 15m

In Part 2 of our deconstruction of the epic two-parter, "Lost Reputation/Above Suspicion" (S14E01), Josh and Adam get deep into the nitty gritty of the pressing questions that energize Munchheads the world over: Which French noir director had a

32 - The Brotherhood of the Big Bald Bosses (Part 1) (S14E1 Lost Reputation and S14E2 Above Suspicion)

Nov 30th, 2020 56m 10s

If you thought that Munch My Benson would approach the hour-and-a-half-long Season 14 premiere mega-sode "Lost Reputation/Above Suspicion" with a pithy plot reconstruction and a few succinct comments, you were sorely mistaken. This televised lo

31 - It’s a Bad Way to Wake Up If You’re a Recovering Alcoholic (S13E23 Rhodium Nights)

Nov 23rd, 2020 1h 26m

The cliffhanging Season 13 Finale “Rhodium Nights” is an episode that belongs in the pantheon of SVU entries, featuring what has to be the most memorable ending in the entire series. This wild ride takes us down a slew of odd paths, including d

30 - We Don't Even Care about the Teenage Orgy (S11E1 Unstable)

Nov 16th, 2020 1h 42m

Well, we went a little long discussing "Unstable" the Season 11 premiere. Strap in for a wild ride through one of the most problematic episodes of SVU that the Munchie boys have covered. There are magical autistics, jaunty pimps, the worst of a

29 - I Was Gonna Say the Guy’s Scared Stiff (S5E8 Abomination)

Nov 9th, 2020 1h 12m

With a melange of Ripped from the Headlines story points peppering the subject of this week’s installment, Season 5, Episode 8 “Abomination,” there is A TON for Adam and Josh to talk about, including Matthew Shepard, Lawrence v. Texas, the odio

28 - Winters Is Coming (S19E14 Chasing Demons)

Nov 2nd, 2020 50m 21s

For the 28th installment of Munch My Benson, the Randomizer forced Josh and Adam to watch an SVU that featured very little in the way of Law or Order but a whole lot of Mayhem. That's right folks, this episode, "Chasing Demons" (S19E14) brings

27 - If You’re Eating Cat, Don’t (or Make Sure It’s Fully Cooked) (S10E5 Retro)

Oct 26th, 2020 1h 7m

The Randomizer doled out an episode well-suited for the pandemic in which we find ourselves with this week’s installment, “Retro” (S10E5). Martin Mull guest stars as a quack doc who pied pipes his followers to their AIDS-denying deaths. Along t

26 - They Are Not Going to De-Sex Hargitay for the Sake of an Undercover Operation (S4E12 Risk)

Oct 19th, 2020 1h 22m

Contrary to Freud, sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich. The sandwich that Olivia Benson eats at the denouement of "Risk" (Season 4 Episode 12), a rollicking tale of a yuppie coke king who improbably turns to wholesale mom slaughter, however

25 - This Episode Is Putting a Big Space Between the 'E' and the 'R' in Therapist (S20E19 Dearly Beloved)

Oct 12th, 2020 50m 51s

The Randomizer thrust Shiri Appleby back into Munchstory for the second time in three months in "Dearly Beloved," Episode 19 of Season 20. If you want an SVU where the entire field of psychotherapy called into question by a perpetrator/victim c

24 - The Thin Blue Line Between Order and Suburban Police (S14E11 Beautiful Frame)

Oct 5th, 2020 1h

This week the randomizer takes Josh and Adam to episode 11 from season 14 of SVU, "Beautiful Frame," which has SVU tangle with a corrupt den of dirty law enforcement officials from Suffolk County. During the long drive out to the suburbs, we me

23 - Donnelly Is Essentially the Destroyer (S10E8 Persona)

Sep 28th, 2020 56m 8s

What happens when an accent choice derails an SVU where the initial crime is wrapped up in an open-and-shut murder at minute 19 and becomes a bizarre cold-case-cum-morality-play sans benefit of flashback? Well, the Randomizer selected “Persona”

22 - Matricide by Proxy (S5E23 Bound)

Sep 21st, 2020 54m 49s

Law and Order: SVU frequently takes the viewer to uncomfortable places, and co-hosts Josh and Adam are no strangers to the depths of the criminal imagination. Still, they were not fully prepared for this vertiginous descent into the tawdry wrin

21 - Oh, Quaaludes, Cue Adam’s Drug Dive (S18E9 Decline and Fall)

Sep 14th, 2020 45m 7s

With a ripped-from-the-headlines story owing to none other than serial dosing rapist Bill Cosby, Adam and Josh covered the disgusting territory laid out in Episode 9 from Season 18, “Decline and Fall.” If you’re wanting to hear the most repugna

20 - Wherein SVU Prophesies the Future... Of Tom Hanks's Filmography (S16E6 Glasgowman's Wrath)

Sep 7th, 2020 49m 52s

Adam and Josh rolled the dice this week, and the dice gave them "Glasgowman's Wrath" (season 16, episode 6), which might be the only Halloween episode in the SVU catalogue. Who or what is a Glasgowman? Why is he wrathful? Is it GGG to act out a

19 - Nothing Screams Cancun Spring Break Like Moose Antlers (S9E18 Trade)

Aug 31st, 2020 1h 9m

Thomas Jefferson once declared coffee “the favorite drink of the civilized world,” but the wild world of coffee trading on display in Season 9, Episode 18, “Trade” would seem to imply that it’s also the favorite drink of loaded scumbag fathers

18 - Tramp Stamp Stop and Frisk (S8E7 Underbelly)

Aug 24th, 2020 1h 15m

It is a wonder that "Underbelly" Season 8, Episode 7 passed NBC's Standards and Practices Department for any number of reasons. It sexually objectifies real-life 14-year-olds, it is extremely racist, it makes offhand references to piss play, an

17 - Fantasticaaaaaaa (S13E19 Street Revenge)

Aug 17th, 2020 1h 1m

So this week the boys at Munch My Benson found out what happens when superheroes—yes, you read that correctly—infiltrate wild world of Law & Order: SVU: utter #$%&ing insanity. Yep, we watched S13E19 “Street Revenge,” and it’s probably safe to

16 - The Birmingham Callback Is Too Mundane (S6E15 Hooked)

Aug 10th, 2020 1h 2m

Between raging infernos, rank corruption, riotous anger, and rampant stupidity, the world is a challenging place, but co-hosts Josh and Adam have "been to the mountaintop" and aren't concerned about any of that right now. Folks, we just watched

15 - Amaro’s Peculiar Sense of Smell (S13E15 Hunting Ground)

Aug 3rd, 2020 50m 12s

Scarred by a gruesome SVU case ripped from even more grisly headlines, Adam and Josh trudge through the murk of “Hunting Ground” (Season 13, Episode 15), which forces them to get familiar with the yet-to-be caught Long Island serial killer. Whi