Exploring Fairy Tales and Thematic Archetypes

In this podventure, we discuss the episode “A Matter of Obedience,” in which Tom Riley subs in as a Sunday school teacher and regales the class with a tale from his youth to illustrate the importance of obedience. Once upon a time, young Tom and his sister Becky were given very specific instructions by their father about delivering medicine to a woman on the other side of the Gloomy Woods. But did they listen? Also, Chekhov’s pocket knife, screaming squirrels, basement stories, and... a new catchphrase?