Snark Industries

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Snark Industries breaks down the fourth Agent Carter chapter, an episode juggling several arcs at once. The full plot gets run down: from Jarvis and Peggy recovering a smuggled Howard Stark from a rail car, to the women's-hotel dumbwaiter caper, to the camera-pin inventory run at the SSR, and on to the reveal that the so-called Blitzkrieg Button holds not a blackout device but a vial of Steve Rogers' blood, a lie Peggy catches thanks to Jarvis's legendary ear-tugging tell. Running alongside is Chief Dooley's trip to interrogate a condemned Nazi colonel, capped by the breath-mint gag after the cyanide-pill trade, and the Finnau massacre thread hinting at something monstrous. The hosts trace the one rich comic vein, the recurring Marvel theme of trying to recreate the super soldier serum from Steve's blood, and flag the deliberate date conundrum around Wilhelm Keitel's hanging that points to a sliding historical timescale. Personal thoughts land positive on both sides, with genuine enjoyment of the moving parts, appreciation for Peggy pressing the button on instinct, the Gatling-pistol goon and the acrobatic Red Room-coded neighbor, and shared amusement at the shutter-click camera pin as a monument to spoon-feeding the audience. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/agent-carter-s1e4-the-blitzkrieg-button Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! New York, 1946. Jarvis appears to be haggling with a shady dealer near a rail yard, but the real objective is a rail car smuggling Howard Stark back into the country, complete with a pool table and music. Peggy hides Howard at her women's-only hotel via a laundry dumbwaiter, only for him to charm a woman into his hiding spot before she can even reach her floor. Howard hands Peggy a camera pin to inventory the recovered tech at the SSR, and once the film is developed, past a few of Howard's personal nudes, he points her toward what he claims is the most dangerous item: the Blitzkrieg Button, which he describes as a citywide blackout machine and asks her to swap for a replica. Tipped off by Jarvis's frantic ear-tugging on the drive over, Peggy presses the button herself and finds a vial of blood inside, later confirmed to be Steve's. She confronts Howard, throws him out, and hides the vial in her wall. Meanwhile, an assassin with a physics-defying Gatling pistol guns down his own men and tries to reach Peggy, only to be killed by her acrobatic neighbor. Elsewhere, Chief Dooley flies out to interrogate a condemned Nazi colonel, trading a false cyanide pill for a story about a beast-driven massacre at Finnau. The chapter closes as a Leviathan typewriter begins typing on its own. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/agent-carter-s1e4-the-blitzkrieg-button Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A Snarklet trip to Asgard for the Mighty Thor block of The Marvel Super Heroes, three chapter titles that spell out the whole plot before it even starts and get reacted to in real time. The hosts talk through it as it plays, from a leaf-in-the-eye that dupes Heimdall, to a Thor who spins Mjolnir like a dreidel and reverses atoms with anti-magic particles.. Then, there's Loki, whose ever-shifting powers include mind control, transforms cars into melting ice cream, flying carpets, super speed, and... forever ending up wet. Once the credits roll they turn to the MCU connection and land on very little beyond familiar faces getting their first introductions, Don Blake among them. Both hosts come away laughing hard, agreeing it is not good but hilarious, a genuine window into the absurd origins of characters they have known for decades, with the still-inept villain being the one real knock against it as a story. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/the-marvel-super-heroes-s1e4-trapped-by-loki-the-vengeance-of-loki-the-defeat-of-loki Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Snark Industries works through the third Agent Carter chapter, with Peggy still splitting her time between SSR busy work and her off-the-books hunt for Stark's stolen tech. The full plot gets walked through, from her struggle to decode the Leviathan symbol, to Jarvis being hauled in for questioning over the license plate, to the sewer route that leads Peggy and Jarvis to the marked boat full of Stark's inventions. The heart of the breakdown is Jarvis's backstory: a forged general's signature to get his wife Anna out of Budapest, a dishonorable discharge, and Howard Stark's money smoothing it all over, a reveal both hosts single out as the best part. The rest lands more critically, with a murky interrogation scene that neither host could make sense of even after digging, a convenient trail of clues, and a filler feel that leaves them wondering next about the exact same thing they were wondering the previous time. Personal thoughts converge: real love for Jarvis and Hayley Atwell, appreciation for the fight choreography, and honest agreement that this is the weakest entry so far, disjointed and a touch lazy in its writing, but still worth the watch as part of a series they expect to enjoy as a whole. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/agent-carter-s1e3-time-and-tide Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! New York, 1946. Peggy pores over books of symbols trying to identify the mark a dying Leviathan agent left behind, all while settling into a strict women's residence where a late-night visitor and a roommate's expulsion spark a realization: no place is truly impenetrable, including Howard Stark's robbed vault. Before she can act on it, the SSR pulls Jarvis in over the license plate found in the refinery wreckage, pressing him about a dishonorable discharge until Peggy engineers his release. Freed, Jarvis joins her at the vault, where a hole in the floor sends them into the sewers. Along the way he confesses the truth behind his discharge: forging a general's signature to smuggle his wife Anna out of Budapest, saved from execution only by Howard Stark's influence. The tunnels lead to a harbor boat bearing the Leviathan symbol and loaded with Stark's missing tech. Rather than claim the find and risk being branded Stark's accomplice, Peggy has Jarvis phone in an anonymous tip. A hulking Leviathan enforcer attacks, and Peggy takes him down with a piece of Stark tech. The SSR recovers the arsenal and arrests the goon, but on the drive back, Agent Krzeminski and the prisoner are both gunned down by an assassin. The next day the office mourns, Sousa grows suspicious of the anonymous call, and Chief Dooley resolves to redouble the hunt for Howard Stark. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/agent-carter-s1e3-time-and-tide Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5