Season 2

It’s the Season 2 premiere of The Mary Jo Pehl Show! This month, Mary Jo and Chris offer their expert advice towards a treasure trove of questions sent in by viewers! Some hilarious, some heartwarming, some just downright weird. Plus: unboxing videos, polls, and more!

Halloween is just around the corner and Mary Jo and Chris celebrate by watching a reel of bizarre Halloween-themed ads compiled by Associate Producer Matt Reiser! Also, spooky things keep happening during the broadcast, plus, unboxing videos, Linda’s new email address, giveaways, polls, and more!

The Mary Jo Pehl Show presents its third game show night, and this time Chris hosts a few rounds of PASSWORD with Mary Jo, Alonso Duralde, Tom Winner, and Jackey Neyman Jones competing against each other to win cash prizes worth up to HUNDREDS of cents! Plus, giveaways, viewer polls, unboxing videos, and more!

The Mary Jo Pehl Show presents its first holiday special, as Mary Jo Pehl and her producer Chris Gersbeck watch an unseen reel of disturbing holiday-themed vintage ads compiled by Associate Producer Matt Reiser, then present unboxing videos, polls, giveaways and more! Recorded live December 27, 2022.

Mary Jo & Chris received a bunch of viewer mail over the past few months, so the duo read and respond to letters, cards, gifts, postcards, newsletters and more, plus they follow up with viewers who asked for advice a few episodes back. Also, startling discoveries are made about Chris’s lapse in pop culture knowledge and more of Linda’s emails are revealed! Recorded live January 24, 2023.

Every cult needs a cult robe, and during this very special episode of The Mary Jo Pehl Show, Mary Jo & Chris narrow down dozens of cult robe designs submitted by viewers for the very first Cult Robe Contest! Also, the Laundry Evangelist Patric Richardson stops by to discuss what makes a good cult robe and provides tips on how to best wash them, and then more unboxing videos, polls, and giveaways! Recorded live February 28, 2023.

Mary Jo & Chris decide to reveal to each other what they consider to be relaxing entertainment—Chris enjoys reading Yelp reviews and Mary Jo enjoys watching pimple popping videos (or “PPV’s” as MJ refers to them as)—in what turns out to be the most controversial episode of The Mary Jo Pehl Show yet! Plus, more unboxing videos, polls, and giveaways! Recorded live March 28, 2023.

Mary Jo & Chris play a couple rounds of “Pictionary” (Jackbox’s Drawful 2") with everyone in The Mary Jo Pehl Show Clubhouse for yet another exciting episode of The Mary Jo Pehl Show! Plus, Movie Jo Night polls, show idea polls, giveaways, and more! Recorded live April 25, 2023.

Mary Jo & Chris, both disciples of the cult of Trader Joe’s, decide to broaden their taste horizons by selecting weird new products from Trader Joe’s for each other, and then try them live on the show! Plus: new unboxing videos, polls, and more! Recorded live May 23, 2023.

Mary Jo & Chris finally learn how to play Dungeons & Dragons, with the help of professional Dungeon Master Antonio Curtis from Tower Games in Minneapolis! Plus: viewer polls, giveaways and Chris recalls a recent embarrassing incident at Trader Joe’s. Recorded live June 27, 2023.

Mary Jo Pell, CEO of The Mary Jo Pehl Show, and Chris Griesberk, Producer of The Mary Jo Pehl Show, host The Mary Jo Pehl Show 2023 Shareholders Meeting to take a look back at the past fiscal year of the program, featuring reports and presentations from shareholders around the world.

In January 2023, on a day not unlike any other, assistant high school drama coach and Mary Jo Pehl Show superfan Joe Lawler was the victim of phone theft. The events that transpired that day have since become legendary. This month, The Mary Jo Pehl Show Presents: Phone Trouble: A Play In One Act, featuring a dramatic reading of the incident as written & directed by Joe Lawler himself, featuring special guests and more!

In keeping with The Mary Jo Pehl Show’s tradition of being sickeningly wholesome, Former Circle Pines Mayor Jerry Pehl took a trip to his local Menards in Fridley, MN and Mary Jo filmed his entire adventure. Plus, Mary Jo & Chris ponder a name change, reflect on Bad Ronald and choose the next Movie Jo Night, and decide what to do for October’s episode!