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Felicity: Optimist vs. Cynic

themelissafish

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 91

Join two friends who used to watch Felicity in college as we rediscover Felicity as adults! Melissa - your favorite optimist - makes you smile. Fish - your resident cynic, tells it like it is.

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Bonus Episode - Interview with Mandy Foreman part 2

Season 4 · Episode 91

Thursday, December 21, 2023 • Duration 57:06

For this very special bonus podcast, we welcome Mandy Foreman back to the conversation! That’s right, THE Meghan Rotundi joined Melissa (Fish was unfortunately under the weather) to talk all about those last five episodes as well as questions from throughout the series. You definitely don’t want to miss this fun discussion with Mandy to close out our podcast!

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S4 Season Recap

Season 4 · Episode 90

Thursday, December 7, 2023 • Duration 01:56:15

We did it again! Season 4 is coming to a close. All that's left is our recap podcast...and then one more surprise from us!

Melissa and Fish tackle the following questions at the end of a full season 4 of Felicity:

Ben vs. Noel?
Felicity’s greatest achievement?
Felicity's biggest fail?
Most shocking moment or reveal?
Funniest thing that happened?
Favorite minor character?

Don't miss our superlatives - the “5” Best and "5" Worst of the season. Plus, Fish, as our official fashion correspondent, gives her quick takes on fashion for the season.

Then, find our average ratings for the season across all episodes – and compared to the first three seasons – AND listen to some of the amazing audience feedback we got along the way!

And don't miss our recommendations for the next shows we hope you'll enjoy...if you don't do another rewatch of Felicity, of course.

Plus...it's not over quite yet. Stay tuned for one more episode of our podcast that we are working on!

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S4 E14 - Raising in Arizona

Season 4 · Episode 81

Thursday, October 5, 2023 • Duration 02:07:11

Ben decides to participate in his child's life, but a new wrinkle is added when Lauren informs him she is moving to Arizona. Ben pushes back to no avail. Stressed, Ben self-sabotages in his relationship with Felicity and becomes angry over Felicity's continued connection to Noel. Adam and Felicity's model wins the architecture contest, and Adam offers her a job in NY after she graduates to keep working on the project. Zoe becomes hesitant at the idea of announcing the relationship with Noel to anyone in the office and would rather call it off. When she reveals the nature of her reservations - for three years she loved someone who loved someone else, and she was hospitalized with depression as a result - Noel and Zoe become closer than ever. Meghan and Javier's friendship becomes threatened - and then becomes strengthened - by competition over a commercial audition.

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S4 E13 - Kiss and Tell

Season 4 · Episode 80

Thursday, September 28, 2023 • Duration 02:48:03

Ben's dad heard about Lauren's pregnancy and judges the unknown father for deciding not to be in the child's life. When Ben admits he is the father, Ben's dad urges him to reconsider. Felicity continues to feel the overwhelm and tension around Ben's denial of Lauren being pregnant. Noel gets Felicity an opportunity to work on an architecture project to explore a possible career path. She assists a grad student named Adam Davis who is heartbroken and obsessed over his ex. Noel and Zoe continue to try to navigate their personal relationship in a professional office setting. Meghan and Sean revive their core fight: She wants to go out at night sometimes and he wants her to support his inventions (his latest one being shoe covers). Each finds a stranger who seems to support them more in their interests - but, in the end, they realize they are happy together. Trevor and Ben volunteer for Big Brother to improve their med school applications. And all of the characters united at a big party at the ladies' apartment.

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S4 E12 - Future Shock

Season 4 · Episode 79

Thursday, September 21, 2023 • Duration 02:41:16

Lauren breaks some big news to Ben. She's pregnant. It's his. She's keeping the baby. Ben reels and, by the end of the episode, shares the news with Felicity. Owen and Felicity are going to galleries trying to sell their work, and they are getting rejected at every turn. Felicity, worried about her future, meets with her mom and ends up arguing over whether she should take a safer opportunity in real estate or go for her passion. She decides to stay the course. Hodges asks Trevor and Ben to be his research assistants on a publication for study. Ben - totally overwhelmed by the situation with Lauren - makes a mistake on the lab and almost gets kicked off the project. But Bill Hodges is forgiving in the end. Noel and Sean pitch a large account with CGG Corp, in competition for the account with Webb Group Graphics. Noel decides to go on a date with Zoe now that he has his own business. When Noel and Sean get the CGG Corp account AND get a great offer to be acquired by Webb Group Graphics, his new relationship becomes more complicated. Meghan and Javier are in an acting class together and have to do a scene from All About Eve. Javier's assertion that Meghan is just like Margo Channing offends Meghan, but their fight leads to a great performance.

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S4 E11 - A Perfect Match

Episode 78

Thursday, September 14, 2023 • Duration 02:32:03

As the semester comes to a close, Ben is initiating more contact with Felicity, and she lets him know that she wants to get back together. Ben's dad gives him a pep talk about relationships, and Ben runs to catch Felicity at the airport before she flies back to Palo Alto for winter break. They get back together! A donor liver is identified for Ben's dad, but it is delayed due to a snowstorm, so he is back in dire straits. Despite his dad's misgivings, Ben authorizes his mom to donate part of her liver. His mom's condition becomes critical post-surgery, but she pulls through, and the prognosis for both of his parents is good. Sean gets Noel a pitch for a website build with sports equipment company, and their business partnership is born! Javier and Rita help each other with video dating. Their dates are not a good match for them, but their own friendship strengthens. The whole group attends the Snow Ball!

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S4 E10 - Fire

Season 4 · Episode 77

Thursday, September 7, 2023 • Duration 02:49:16

Ben and Felicity are seeing less and less of each other, but that doesn't mean they're not on each other's minds. Noel is taking his meds and getting his life back on track. He's even starting his own graphic design business! With his therapist, he comes to the conclusion that he needs to start spending less time with Felicity. Unfortunately, he is having a very hard time setting limits with Felicity every time he sees her. Meghan's high school-age sister, Lila, comes for a visit - except, SURPRISE!, she's pregnant. Meghan calls in her mom for reinforcement. Ben has studied his heart out for his O Chem final, and he gets a 95 - much to the pride of both himself and Professor Hodges. An electrical fire starts in the administration building. Noel saves Felicity but holds to his boundaries not to hang out with her socially - and he even lets Ben know that Felicity is okay. Ben realizes that he could have lost Felicity and gives her an awkward call where much is left unsaid. Felicity gets advice from Cavallo that - if she wants to reapply for the honors thesis program - she needs a cohesive theme in her art. She decides on the theme of piñatas and starts painting up a storm. When her work burns in the fire, Cavallo takes pity on Felicity and lets her into the honors art program.

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S4 E9 - Moving On / Lonelyhearts

Season 4 · Episode 76

Thursday, August 31, 2023 • Duration 02:43:57

~This is a spoiler heavy podcast for the next three episodes of Felicity and for A Streetcar Named Desire.~ Felicity is still hopeful to get back together with Ben, but Ben wants to move on. Javier is going to try to put them back together with an elaborate scheme to get them to see a showing of A Streetcar Named Desire together. Unfortunately, Ben brings Lauren - who is staying in NY indefinitely - as his date. Noel assures Sean and Meghan that he is going to move out soon to cut the tension in the loft. Noel starts going to a therapist, who recommends that Noel take medication for depression. Javier makes a new friend from acting class, a lonely widow named Rita. Elena tries to fix Felicity up with Felicity's new studio-mate, a grad student named Owen who TAs the class before hers. Felicity and Owen do go on a date (which includes an awkward greeting at the door by Owen and Ben simultaneously), which piques Ben's interest a little (enough for him to leave a conflicted voicemail for her), but Felicity realizes she isn't ready to date anyone new. Lauren's ex starts calling her again, and calls Ben in a moment of vulnerability. Commence regrettable one night stand!

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S4 E8 - The Last Thanksgiving

Season 4 · Episode 75

Thursday, August 24, 2023 • Duration 02:42:23

It's time for the last Thanksgiving of college! Felicity continues sad/angry painting. Meghan does a spell to get Felicity and Ben back together, and then endeavors to make the conditions right for the reunion - she arranges for Felicity to host Thanksgiving and invites Ben. Unfortunately, Ben is feeling angry about Felicity cheating on him, and he brings Lauren to Thanksgiving dinner to get back at her. For a moment, it looks like Ben and Felicity might reconcile, but in the end he decides he can't forgive her. Noel's brother Ryan comes for a visit and asks Noel some hard questions about his life. Noel avoids the situation by picking up a random woman in a bar and getting robbed. Ryan mentions that there is a history of depression among the men in their family and encourages Noel to get help. Noel calls Pavone to get a referral. Elena doubts whether Trevor is smart enough for her to date. Meghan encourages her to give Trevor a test of his intelligence - which he fails. Although Trevor is insulted by the test, he forgives her in the end.

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S4 E7 - The Storm

Season 4 · Episode 74

Thursday, August 17, 2023 • Duration 02:47:37

Felicity tries to talk to Ben about her affair with Noel, but Ben wants to call it quits. Noel, with the help of Richard's nudging, comes clean to Sean and Meghan about the affair with Felicity and offers to move out. Sean and Trevor rally around Ben. Meghan, Elena, and Javier rally around Felicity. Noel stands on an island alone. Noel starts his new job at Webb Group Graphics and meets Zoe! They hook up at work and get caught by her dad, the boss. Noel gets fired! He goes back to the purgatory of his guidance counselor job. Ben's mom is in town, looking forward to his dad getting well enough so she can bring him home and get back together with him. Ben's nervous about this development, and his internal conflict over whether or not his parents' relationship is good for them bleeds into his evaluation of his own relationship with Felicity. Meghan convinces Ben to meet with Felicity. After she fails her attempt to talk to him and get him back, Ben walks away, still feeling conflicted. Elena and Trevor argue over whether men are more genetically wired to cheat than women, which turns out to be foreplay for their first kiss.

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