A fun and freewheeling look at the many events big and small, famed and forgotten from a single calendar year
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
It's time once again for It Happened One Year to swerve into Broadway Corner, and this time they turn up a big fat hairball! That's right, Sarah & Joe are tackling Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which wrapped up its original, record-breaking New York run on September 10th, 2000, after 7,485 performances! Listen as the hosts share their fondest memories of the show (which is largely limited to the ubiquitous television commercial of their childhoods) to their darkest recollections (which is the 2019 movie adaptation). Along the way they chat about Broadway and West End records, previous predictions and speculations made on this show, other 2000 stage offerings, landmark flops, and more!
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
It's that time again, folks! No, not just Thanksgiving - it's It Happened One Year's annual trip to the Love Corner, and romance abounds! Highlighted by the dazzling union of gorgeous Hollywood types Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, the year 2000 was no slouch in the famous marriages department. Listen as Sarah & Joe breakdown the various millennial weddings, dig into the forgotten pairings of celebs throughout recent history, discuss the longest (and shortest) marriages, take a brief sojourn through a tawdry Eskimo Brother tree, and ultimately examine way more of Gary Oldman's love life than anyone could've anticipated!
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
"This is not Mission: Difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's Mission: Impossible." Tom Cruise returned as super spy Ethan Hunt in the top worldwide grossing film of 2000, and Sarah & Joe are taking it to task! Listen as they breakdown the stark differences between the first two films in the long running series, the carousel of directors that were employed under the M:I banner, how the Lord of the Rings and X-Men franchises were affected by this movie's extensive reshoots and Eyes Wide Shut's epic shooting schedule, and dig deep into the person most victimized by M:I 2 - Dougray Scott.
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Friday Oct 10, 2025
"I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines." By way of the 25th/26th seasons, Sarah & Joe go into all things Saturday Night Live, NBC's variety show staple of the last half century! They discuss the pivotal transition the show went through during 2000, as what you'd recognize as modern SNL was truly formed from the remnants of the last '90s season. Then the wide ranging breakdown gets into everything from personal favorite sketches, forgotten featured players, the Rotten Tomatoes survey of best moments, least favorite performers and characters, awards, ratings, controversies, and more!
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
What better way to cover the grand game of the gridiron in the year 2000 than with guest host and longtime friend of the show/excellent Babe Ruth impersonator - David Munchak! Sarah & Joe chop up the amazing run of the Tennessee Titans in the playoffs of January 2000 with man-on-the-scene Munchak, and go on to cover the calendar year in full - from the draft to the fall season to the show's standard, ominous predictions for the football in the current year! Get over to DraftKings and place your bets!
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
We're doing it again! The fourth season of It Happened One Year kicks off the only way a season about the year 2000 could - a little Y2K madness! Listen as Sarah & Joe get deep into the panic and the preparation behind the computer bug that nearly tore the world apart, with all the media hysteria that led up to that fateful New Year's Eve, all the millennium celebrations, all the marketing tie-ins, and the various tidbits connected to the biggest year end party any of us will ever know!
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
We took a break, stretched our legs, and now it's time to do it again! The famed and forgotten await their turns on the big show! Starting later this month!
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
After twenty months, It Happened One Year is finally ringing down the curtain on 1984! Sarah & Joe are revisiting their season one roots by wrapping up the year with a rousing trivia contest, this time backed by the board game of 1984 product - Jeopardy! Listen as the hosts hack their way through decades-old questions and recount memories of this lengthy podcast season.
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
It's that time again, folks - It Happened One Year has (nearly) reached the end of another season, and so it's time to again honor those lost in the subject year. Listen as Sarah & Joe discuss a wide range of celebrities who said goodbye some forty-one years ago now, including Richard Burton, Peter Lawford, Ethel Merman, Indira Gandhi, Truman Capote, Francois Truffaut, Jackie Wilson, Count Basie, James Mason, and many more!
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
And now, the conclusion! The police are after the culprits, the press has caught the oddball details, and the conflict is coming to a head!
Written & Directed by Joe Cetta
Cast
Michelle Auffrey/additional - Sarah Rusakiiwicz
Freddie Auffrey - Dane Bower
Karl Daigle - Brent Hutchins
Karen Daigle - Lana Cooper
Patrolman Anne Dandy - Kristin Mann
Sgt. Furrier - Bear Savo
Judge Membrino/additional - Joe Cetta
Vito Vitale/Bailiff/Jack/additional - David Munchak
Rocky Cannavino - Bill Randall
Radio Margaret - Jo-Elle Munchak
Officer Rodriguez - Krispy
Attorney Henshaw - Matthew Hinton
Michelle P. - Jennifer Nack
Michelle R./Atomic Scientists/additional - Angie Buonincontro
Courtroom Assistant Marsha - Dina Udomsak
Stenographer Alice - Shannon Hosey
Reporter Hildy - Matt Moran
Reporter Gail - Graceann Dorse
Reporter Howard/additional - The Batman
David Wittman/additional - Adam Carpenter
Irving R. Levine/additional - Dave Gardon
Additional voices - Danielle Harris, Michael Buonincontro, Jerron
Dead Milkmen - Bill Honchell
Dead Kennedys - Kate Langan
Heaven 17 - Reid Mosley