A Podcast About Bad Movies
Shocktober threatens to break the bounds of the fall, with this unexpected incursion into August. This aggression will not stand! Watch yourself, Shocktober! Anyway, on this episode we discuss The Mummy. The one with Brendan Fraser? No. The one with Tom Cruise? No. The one with Boris Karloff? No, silly, LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY. He wrote his name on it with Sharpie before putting it in the fridge!
Elliott guides us through an overview of movies with “summer” in the title, and asks us to evaluate them based on our own summertime experiences.
Way back in the winter we stopped by SF Sketchfest to discuss the film that gave us the mental image of Dana Carvey in a turtle suit, solemnly remembering the victims of 9/11 — THE MASTER OF DISGUISE. Join us as we discuss the astounding/sometimes racist adventures of Pistachio Disguisey! And thank you to the wonderful folks at Cobb’s Comedy Club for hosting us yet again!
Proving that Stuart’s not the only one who can do a lore deep dive, Dan takes us on a tour of one of his more oddball obsessions, the 1985 cartoon series Jem, and it’s one of our longest minis ever. Truly, truly, truly outrageous!
Oftentimes on The Flop House we wind up watching Hollywood movies that are just kind of dull or mediocre or unimaginative. The Bride!… is not one of those. For all its flaws, it’s at least a bona fide personal vision that also happens to be a fiasco. And you know what? That’s kind of heartwarming. We’re joined by Kenice Mobley to dissect (ha) the many parts that make up The Bride!
Stuart takes us on a tour of several significant movie directors, asking Dan and Elliott to guess which of their works are top rated on IMDb and which ones take the bottom slot, and discussing whether the rankings are justified.
Emerald Fennell took one of the classic works of literature most beloved by horny youth and said, “But what if I took out the subtlety?” It actually made quite a lot of money at the box office, but did it work for the Flop House? Guess you’ll have to listen to find out. (See, Emerald? That’s how you TEASE.)
Our old friend Alonso Duralde, who literally wrote the book on LGBTQ+ representation in the movies, stops by to the Flop House to ask three cis hetero guys, “Hey, what was the first queer representation YOU remember seeing on film?”
It’s a rare “Flop House in the Aisles,” as we took to the theater to see the tepidly-received (though still wildly successful) latest Star Wars thing, THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU. It’s got a li’l green guy in it! How bad could it be? And for a very special episode, we needed a special guest — the talented actor and improvisor Will Hines, returning to the show after a seventeen year absence! See you in another 17 Will! (JK, why would we do that?)
It’s established lore that, growing up, Dan mostly got to see movies in the theater on his birthday, as a special treat. But what were those movies? And if you had limited birthday bucks (TM) to spend, were those movies BIRTHDAY-WORTHY?
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