Joe Pera Talks With You

Joe Pera Discusses School-Appropriate Entertainment With You

Joe Pera and you attempt to find a movie that is appropriate to show in class but also entertaining.

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Specials

Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep

Joe Pera makes an honest attempt to talk you to sleep using mild jokes and low-key stories.

Joe Pera Helps You Find The Perfect Christmas Tree

Joe Pera provides the information necessary to choose the perfect Christmas Tree for you. Species covered will include the Fraser Fir, Balsam Fir, Douglas Fir, White Spruce, Blue Spruce, Grand Fir, Noble Fir, Scotch Pine, and the Concolor Fir.

Season 3

EP 1 Joe Pera Sits With You

Joe Pera takes you to the furniture store to help his friend Gene pick out a retirement chair.

EP 2 Joe Pera Shows You How to Build a Fire

You and Joe ponder fire, creator and destroyer of civilization.

EP 3 Joe Pera Shows You His Second Fridge

Joe Pera shows you the past, present, and future of second fridges in the Midwest.

EP 4 Joe Pera Listens to Your Drunk Story

Joe Pera and you stay up late on a weeknight, listening to his girlfriend Sarah share details from Wine Night.

EP 5 Joe Pera Discusses School-Appropriate Entertainment With You

Joe Pera and you attempt to find a movie that is appropriate to show in class but also entertaining.

EP 6 Joe Pera Takes You for a Flight

If you have ever wondered what Marquette, Michigan looks like from above, strap in because Joe Pera is taking you up in the sky.

EP 7 Joe Pera Shows You How to Keep Functioning in Mid-Late Winter

Joe Pera shows you how to stay busy enough on a winter weekend that the winter won't settle inside.

EP 8 Joe Pera Talks With You About Legacy

You and Joe Pera consider legacy and loss while watching playoff football with the extended Melsky family.

EP 9 Joe Pera Builds a Chair With You

Joe Pera tries his hand at woodworking.

Season 2

EP 1 Joe Pera Talks With You About Beans

A teacher in Michigan's Upper Peninsula explores subject matters such as pancakes, blueberries, eggs, toast, sausage, bacon, English muffins, coffee, orange juice, maple syrup, waffles, cornbread, and strawberries.

EP 2 Joe Pera Takes You on a Hike

EP 3 Joe Pera Waits With You

EP 4 Joe Pera Guides You Through the Dark

EP 5 Joe Pera Takes You to the Grocery Store

Featuring a number of fruits and vegetables, Joe Pera takes you on his weekly trip to the grocery store.

EP 6 Joe Pera Goes to Dave Wojcek's Bachelor Party with You

Joe Pera and you bring a big cooler to a bachelor party in the woods.

EP 7 Joe Pera Gives You Piano Lessons

What does it take to be married for 40 years? Joe Pera helps teach his friend's wife how to play a song on the piano in time for their anniversary party.

EP 8 Joe Pera Watches Internet Videos with You

Unable to sleep, Joe Pera stays up late with you sharing some of his favorite internet videos, including 'Yoobi on Wheels'.

EP 9 Joe Pera Has a Surprise for You

Everything is better when cash is involved. Hopefully that is true when Joe Pera and you organize a surprise special event with a cash prize for friends.

EP 10 Joe Pera Helps You Write

In which Joe and you attempt to write something meaningful.

EP 11 Joe Pera Shows You How to Do Good Fashion

Where does fashion come from? Joe Pera and his friend Gene take a road trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to find out.

EP 12 Joe Pera Shows You How to Pack a Lunch

How do you pack the perfect lunch? Joe Pera attempts it with you on the last night of summer before school begins.

EP 13 Joe Pera Talks with You on the First Day of School

A return to the middle school. As summer ends, you and Joe Pera meet the new school year head on, with new pairs of sneakers and weak cups of coffee.

Season 1

EP 1 Joe Pera Shows You Iron

In which Joe Pera, a middle school choir teacher, presents to viewers the importance of Northern Michigan geology, especially iron. Also copper, azurite, tourmaline, and Lake Superior agate.

EP 2 Joe Pera Takes You to Breakfast

In which Joe Pera takes viewers for Saturday morning breakfast at his favorite family restaurant.

EP 3 Joe Pera Takes You on a Fall Drive

In which Joe Pera takes viewers along on his "Fall Loop," the drive he does every year on the Saturday following Halloween.

EP 4 Joe Pera Shows You How to Dance

In which Joe Pera attempts to show viewers how to properly dance by yourself at a co-worker's wedding.

EP 5 Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep

In which Joe Pera attempts to talk viewers back to sleep on a rainy night.

EP 6 Joe Pera Reads You The Church Announcements

In which Joe Pera reads the announcements at church (second Sunday of Advent).

EP 7 Joe Pera Lights Up the Night With You

In which Joe Pera attempts to present a spirited New Year's Eve celebration to viewers as well as his neighbor's five-year-old daughter, whom he is babysitting.

EP 8 Joe Pera Talks To You About The Rat Wars of Alberta, Canada, 1950 - Present Day

In which Joe Pera and the school's band teacher, Sarah Conner, put together a musical based on the Alberta Rat Control Program that has kept the Canadian province rat-free since 1950.

EP 9 Joe Pera Answers Your Questions About Cold Weather Sports

In which Joe Pera answers viewers' questions about cold weather sports such as ice hockey, downhill skiing, snowmobiling, and luge.

Extras

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Joe Pera On 'Dance'

Dancing is many things. Joe Pera Talks With You premieres Sunday, May 20th at Midnight and 12:15am on Adult Swim.

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