Chris Ware and animator John Kuramoto made two cartoons for the TV version of our radio show. This is the first. 

Ira explains how to use our Shortcut app to share clips from This American Life  on social media.

When we launched Serial, we learned how many people still didn’t know how to hear a podcast. Ira asked an octogenarian friend, Mary Ahearn, to help him explain it.

An animation about “Toxie,” a toxic asset that reporters from Planet Money bought in 2010. 

This is a tribute to the song "We Can Do It" from The Producers where Nathan Lane explains his unlikely get-rich-quick scheme. Written by Robert Lopez (Book of Mormon, Frozen) to describe the financial deal in our episode "Inside Job." 

Our collaboration with The New Yorker. This was the cover of their Dec 7, 2015, issue. Everyone who got the digital version of that issue on this iPad or phone could push “play” and the cover would come to life as an animated short. 

Episode 2 in our Videos 4 U series: We helped Maggie tell her parents that she had lots of tattoos, a fact she’d hidden for years. 

Maia surprises Alex with her Videos 4 U short where she finally says, “I love you.”