Ben Mandelker
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Ben Mandelker is a Los Angeles-based writer and podcaster known for co-hosting Watch What Crappens, a comedy podcast focused on Bravo and reality television. He also created and edited the pop-culture website bsideblog.com and writes about food.
Works by Ben Mandelker
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11 episodes featuring Ben Mandelker
Watch What Crappens
Next Gen NYC reunion turns loyalty into a branding battle
The recap examines how accountability, identity, family money, and reality-TV self-presentation collide among the young cast.
Sep 24, 2026 · 58 min
Watch What Crappens
RHONY’s Passover dinner turns a feud into performance art
The recap shows how a cast gathering meant to resolve conflict instead amplifies RHONY’s central tensions over image, wealth, and boredom.
Sep 23, 2026 · 1h 2m
Watch What Crappens
RHOSLC opens with grief before returning to Housewives chaos
The premiere’s unusually mournful story tests how reality television handles real loss while keeping its familiar social machinery in motion.
Sep 17, 2026 · 1h 24m
Watch What Crappens
A supportive toast detonates RHONY’s brunch
The recap tracks how jokes, old grievances, and a conversation about Carolyn Bessette turn a divorce brunch into a cascading social rupture.
Sep 16, 2026 · 50 min
Watch What Crappens
Lisa Barlow turns a girls’ trip into a loyalty test
The recap tracks how Lisa’s refusal to apologize transforms a messy group vacation into a widening conflict over accountability and belonging.
Sep 8, 2026 · 45 min
Watch What Crappens
Max’s rescue plan deepens Below Deck Med’s crew crisis
Max’s implausible family rescue mission exposes the yacht’s fragile staffing, leadership, and loyalty problems just as difficult guests arrive.
Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 4m
Watch What Crappens
Heather’s control turns Orange County recap into a class war
The hosts argue that a weak season is manufacturing conflict around Heather’s authority, Emily’s resistance, and a cast struggling to sustain storylines.
Aug 28, 2026 · 1h 1m
Watch What Crappens
RHOC’s low-stakes party exposes high-stakes resentment
The recap shows how cheating allegations, financial strain, and old grievances keep the cast’s supposedly casual gathering tense.
Aug 28, 2026 · 1h 13m
Watch What Crappens
Joe seizes control as a chaotic charter tests the yacht crew
The charter exposes how quickly crew politics, an injury, secret romances, and contradictory guest demands can destabilize life aboard Captain Sandy’s yacht.
Aug 18, 2026 · 53 min
Watch What Crappens
Anchor scares and dinner demands push yacht crew toward collapse
The recap tracks how operational failures, impossible guest requests, and a calculated deckhand power play compound across one charter.
Aug 18, 2026 · 55 min
Watch What Crappens
Orange County friendships buckle before the Vegas trip
The recap tracks how money, loyalty, health anxieties, and old betrayals turn a planned getaway into a test of trust.
Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 3m