Ben and Pete find themselves curiously in sync: enjoying the same moments, speaking in unison, and finding aspects of the episode wholesomely enjoyable — is this a spooky fraternal synchronicity or are they merely following Fozzie’s exhortations to find something nice in the show?

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Ben begins by saying that, as of when this episode was recorded, back in late October of 2023, that Cooper’s autobiography had not yet been published, despite an announced publication date of Fall 2023. As of March 2026, it was announced that in October 2026, a memoir — a possibly important terminological difference — would finally be published with a different title and scope. So if we ever need to re-record this episode for some reason, Ben won’t have to consult Alice Cooper: Golf Monster as his primary resource.

Details about the myth-making surrounding Alice’s name being that of a witch are covered here, and information about the Welcome To My Nightmare album is found here, (with the complete video special currently bootlegged on YouTube) including some images of the cyclops that Henson, Inc. was apparently not consulted upon.

The map of Alice Cooper’s cinematic connections, as always, is visualized using the Connect The Stars online game:

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” had been covered by Shirley Bassey for a 1978 studio album called Yesterdays, which Ben said had no listing on Wikipedia, for reasons he couldn’t fathom. It certainly remains true that Yesterdays is not a clickable link on Shirley Bassey’s Wikipedia page, the entry on her discography, or even on the disambiguation page about albums called “Yesterdays”. There are, however, plenty of recordings of her performing the song in support of her 25th anniversary tour, the album for which also came out that year. That, at least, goes some distance in helping to indicate the album isn’t some vague mass hallucination.