Episode #461
An Easter Bunny Puppy
From the (?)genius(?) that brought us the legendary A Talking Cat!?! comes another tale of a talking animal and the humans who live with him in a California porn-shoot-mansion, doing…
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Mini #137
Stuster’s Millions
Dan challenges Stuart and Elliott to lose as much money as they can by turning hit movies into bombs.
Episode #460
Lumina, with Ashlie Atkinson
It’s Smalltember (Elliott pops into frame to say “Smallvember!”) — that special time of year when we allow ourselves to stray from big Hollywood movies to examine some tinier, more idiosyncratic pictures. And boy howdy is Lumina idiosyncratic! So we welcomed actor Ashlie Atkinson (The Gilded Age, The Lost Bus, Mr. Robot and much more) to help decipher the madness!
Mini #136
Doctors of Filmdom
Elliott provides a survey of cinema’s eponymous doctors, and asks us whether we’d trust them with our medical care.
Episode #459
War of the Worlds (2025)
It’s rare that a movie gets embraced as a new classic in badness as quickly as Amazon’s War of the Worlds, but hey — they’re known for their fast delivery. Maybe they’re just the future of bad movies, “disrupting” the bad movie space with their boldly incompetent visions! We discuss the (overwhelmingly listener-requested) new WotW!
Mini #135
The Movieboys of Summer
Stuart takes us on a tour of the biggest summer releases of the past couple of decades.
Episode #458
Snow White, with Rebecca Alter
Hi ho? More like HO HUM! Got ’em! Oooh Disney’s gonna be smarting from that sick burn so hard they’ve GOTTA stop making these lackluster remakes, right? Anyway, on this episode we welcome the great Rebecca Alter of Vulture.com to discuss the most already-forgotten of Disney’s IP-recycling death march, Snow White!
Mini #134
Wrap-Up Raps
Back in the 80s and 90s, movies LOVED to end with a rap song that went over the plot to the movie you just saw. On this mini, Dan quizzes Stu and Elliott about some examples of wrap-up raps, followed by discussion questions to really dig into this particular cinematic-musical form.
Episode #457
Red One, with Linda Holmes
Elliott had to dip out for an episode, so… how do you replace a troublemaking little scamp? How about: with the comforting, easy presence of Linda Holmes? We deserve a vacation too, y’know? And in this episode, we make good on a promise from Linda’s last appearance — to have her back to discuss that hearty slice of Christmas “content,” Red One. Back then, Linda sounded surprisingly fond of it. Is she still? Will the two extant Peaches agree?
Mini #133
Cinematic Cities
We all know movies where “it’s like the city is another character,” and we understand what that means when a location has a big personality like New York, Tokyo, or…
Episode #456
Captain America: Brave New World
It’s a testament to how generally good (or at least passable) the MCU films have been, that there have been 36 of them released, but this is only the second…
Mini #132
Stu Brings Down the Hammer
On this mini Stuart tricked us into watching some kind of Warhammer 4k bullshit and made us talk about it.
Episode #455
Poolman, with Josh Gondelman
No, it’s not a biopic about Jim Poolman, former insurance commissioner of North Dakota. It’s a comic sunshine noir about an actual pool-maintaining Poolman, played (and written/directed) by fave Chris…
Mini #131
Hostesses with the Mostesses
Dan confuses Elliott by combining his beloved comic books with his hated fruit pies, in a discussion of Hostess’s superhero-based comics ads. Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets! Download the minisode…
Episode #454
The Garfield Movie
Ah, here he comes, that son of a gun, that cat, that Garfield, that gigantic thing — except… There’s something different about him. It’s weird. He just doesn’t seem very… Garfield-y? Anyway, in honor of the birthday of one of our great Americans, Garfield the cat, and also maybe one other guy, we take on 2024’s The Garfield Movie.
Mini #130
A Galactus-Sized Explainer
With The Fantastic Four: First Steps coming to theaters soon, listener Andrew asked the question “Galactus and The Silver Surfer — what’s their deal, man?” and Elliott gladly stepped up to answer.
Episode #453
Love Hurts
Love DOES hurt. For instance, we love and only want the best for Everything Everywhere All at Once comeback king Ke Huy Quan, but then we have to witness him struggle through a movie like Love Hurts. Fortunately he comes off all right. The movie itself? Not so much. But hey, looks like he’s got Zootopia 2 and a movie from the guy who made Rare Exports coming up. Maybe those will be good!
Mini #129
When Animals Compete
There have been a lot of animals in movies, but which are the BEST animals? Stuart Wellington leads a highly-scientific investigation.
Episode #452
Summer Camp
The Flop House is headed to Summer Camp! A few weeks of sun, swimming, hiking, crafts — we’re gonna make each other SO MANY FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS that our circulation is gonna cut off! We’re gonna have so much fu– what? It’s just a movie? But… it stars Diane Keaton, Alfre Woodard, and Kathy Bates, so with those actors it’s gotta be at least a little fun, righ– it’s not? Oh, poop.
Mini #128
Listener Roulette, with Hallie Haglund
Hallie joins the Flop House gang once more, to discuss random topics selected by YOU, the listeners!
Episode #451
Better Man, with Hallie Haglund
Robbie Williams is a chimp. That’s not an insult, just an accurate description of Better Man, from the director of past Flop House subject, The Greatest Showman. This one’s the rare FH movie that was a critical success while being a financial flop — will we agree with the critics? Oh, and we buried the lede: HALLIE’S BACK!
Mini #127
Always Room for Giallo, with Alejandro Arbona
We’re joined by longtime friend of the show (but first time on mic!) Alejandro Arbona, a 20-year veteran of comics editing and a comics writer himself, to discuss everyone’s favorite extravagantly-perverse Italian thriller genre — GIALLO. We discuss what defines a giallo and differentiates it from other sub-genres (and the slasher films it helped inspire), and then Alejandro runs us through a little giallo title quiz. It’s so jam-packed with info we didn’t have room for Elliott (jk, he had scheduling issues, that li’l scamp will be back next time!).
Episode #450
Unfrosted, with Alex Smith
We flashback to discuss a movie that was much-requested when it was first released, but just didn’t fit into our schedule — Jerry Seinfeld’s baffling paean to the Pop Tart, Unfrosted, a film that throws an astounding cavalcade of comedy talent at ideas that seem (apologies) a bit undercooked. Also, we were blessed by the rare in-studio presence of our beloved producer, Alex Smith, who hadn’t actually seen the movie, which made explaining the madness of the “plot” all the more enjoyable.
Mini #126
Impressionable Peaches
While we were all fortunate enough to record in-person, Stuart filled Dan and Elliott with booze and forced them to do celebrity “impressions.” It’s either our most fun episode or our most embarrassing! Or both!