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In which Jay would absolutely fight Christmas; we welcome guest X-Perts Christina Strain and Chip Zdarsky; a gift arrives; we consider the relationship of Generation X to Generation X; it is really not okay to leave your discarded skins lying around; D.O.A. is inordinately delightful; Chamber is the punk Shadow; Gateway goes to school; the Generation X TV movie is very, very bad; telepathy is free; the grown-ups are all right; home sucks; freedom rocks; Mondo deserves better; Matt Frewer did most things first; Kevin McNulty has appeared in literally everything; and you remain our favorites, ever.

X-PLAINED:

• Mutation, for some value of the term
• Holidays and the observation thereof
• December 9
• Jay’s ideal Christmas
• How Chris Bachalo’s name is pronounced (more) (again) (sorry)
• Several promotions
• Generation X
• Generation X #1-4
• Generation X
• Husk (Paige Guthrie)
• M (Monet St. Croix)
• Skin (Angelo Espinosa)
• Synch (Everett Thomas)
• Chamber (Jonothon Starsmore)
• The New Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters
• Counting Genises
• The housekeeping implications of body horror
• The M retcon
• Continuity in costume design
• The Danger Grotto
• Emplate (somewhat)
• D.O.A.
• Penance (not that one)
• Scrabble burns
• An alternate take on power duplication
• Mondo ()
• The return of Nanny and the Orphanmaker
• Eliot ()
• A tentative friendship
• How the Age of Apocalypse comes to Generation X
• A movie that never fails to disappoint
• The vagaries of adaptation
• The best on-screen Emma Frost
• Gang emails of the 1990s
• Refrax
• Buff
• William Castle
• The comedic genealogy of Max Headroom
• Hatley Castle
• The 2019 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

NEXT WEEK: Jay & Miles go on vacation!