Mini #106
Birthday Twins
Dan briefly confuses everybody with talk about Garfield, before steering the boys into a discussion of their birthday twins, and related films. (Just listen. It’ll make sense. Eventually.)
Episodes
Episode #427
Disclosure, with Meredith Scardino
We were super-excited to welcome Meredith Scardino, the brilliant writer of a billion comedy things, but most recently the creator and showrunner of the hilarious Girls5Eva. If you haven’t watched, please ask yourself what you’ve been doing with your life, then run over to Netflix to correct your error. We’ll wait. Once you’re done, you’ll be all the MORE excited to hear her discuss 1994’s Disclosure, a film that (in the words of Dan’s Letterboxd) “Begins as a dumb and offensive sexual harassment thriller, then wisely pivots into an offensively dumb techno-thriller.” But what do the other Peaches think? Listen and find out!
Mini #105
The Flop House Bar & Grill
Stuart brings a surprise guest, and a surprising new business venture for the Flop House.
Episode #426
Boat Trip, with Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde, of our sister Max Fun podcast Maximum Film and many other projects joins us to discuss something that is, technically, a film, and not a pile of feces. But it’s a tough call! In honor of Pride Month and also Alonso’s new book Hollywood Pride, our guest pitched us some bad LGBTQ+ themed movies, and (in lieu of trashing some failed films with their hearts in the right place) we decided to critique one of the most retrograde comedies of the 2000s: motherfucking Boat Trip. Did we regret this decision? Ask us when we’re done crying and trying to wash off the stink.
Mini #104
Computer Games
Elliott quizzes the other Flop House boyz ™ about movies featuring modern society’s biggest achievement and greatest bane — computers!
The Flop House on The Novelizers
Dan and Elliott jack into the Matrix to hijack someone else’s podcast! The Novelizers takes a beloved film, gives each scene to a TV comedy writer to novelize, and then gives those scenes to a comedian or actor to narrate. Plus interviews with the people who (may or may not have) made the original film. This episode has a chapter WRITTEN BY DAN MCCOY and READ BY JOHN HODGMAN! It also features an improvised interview with some people who “worked on the Matrix” (actually ELLIOTT KALAN and DAN MCCOY PLAYING SILLY CHARACTERS!)
Episode #425
The Matrix: Revolutions
We’re going into the matrix this week, in honor of Dan and Elliott’s contributions to an upcoming episode of the very funny The Novelizers podcast, where comedy writers “novelize” part of a blockbuster movie from the past — Dan wrote a “chapter” of the original The Matrix (read by our friend John Hodgman!), and he and Elliott appear on the episode playing characters who worked behind the scenes on the movie. Look for that soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this flashback discussion of The Matrix: Revolutions, our fourth-favorite Matrix movie.
Mini #103
Siskel & Ebert, with Matt Singer
We finally got our pal Matt Singer, author of the wonderful book Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, on the show to talk about the team who defined movie criticism for a generation. Also Dan leads a silly Siskel & Ebert related half-game.
Episode #424
Baby Geniuses, with Linda Holmes
We were so happy when we learned that Linda Holmes was a fan of the show, and even HAPPIER to get her on an episode! Were we equally happy to watch Baby Geniuses? Well… you know… You can’t always be happy all the time. Once you learn that, then YOU will be the true baby genius.
Mini #102
The Films of Larry Cohen
Inspired by his recent trip with Dan to catch The Ambulance at a local rep screening (part of the Ridiculous/Sublime series programmed by our old friend Cristina) Stuart runs through a brief installment of Missed That Movie ™ before leading a discussion on the works of low-middle-budget maestro Larry Cohen, he of the grabby premise and wild performances. There’s much discussion of trailers to Cohen’s films, so if you wanna watch, check the show notes below!
Episode #423
Argylle
What is the secret to Argylle?!? Is the CAT the spy? Did Taylor Swift write it?!? Is it the obvious twist that Dan guessed after a moment of thought having only seen the trailer?!? Is it that it doesn’t work at all as a movie, but at least it’s not as relentlessly boring as a lot of Flop House topics?!? It’s definitely at least two of those things!
Mini #101
The Razzies Are Always Wrong
In honor of Elliott’s long-lost blog critiquing the Oscars, and in honor of the Criterion Channel’s recent “Razzie” collection, and in dishonor of the Razzies themselves, Dan guides the intrepid flop team through past winners of America’s foremost bad movie awards, and why they’re always wrong wrong wrong.
Episode #422
Road House (2024)
FINALLY after suffering through all of those bad movies, we get a treat! Patrick Swayze’s Ro… what? What’s that we’re hearing? It’s the remake? Goddamn it. Well maybe Road House 2024 will have some charms of its own. I guess y’all will need to listen to find out.
Mini #100
Elliott Looks Back
Elliott takes a look back at 100 Flop House minis, and that is absolutely the only thing that happens, and no special guest arrives with any particular fixation on sandworm-related science fiction.
Episode #421
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Jamelle Bouie
Yet again, we steal a few hours Jamelle could be using to write something smart for The New York Times, to discuss his REAL passion: movies about hedgehogs. Yes, Sonic 2 was a big hit with mixed reviews, but how good is it really? The answer may not surprise you!
Episode #420
Madame Web, with Zhubin Parang
We welcome our old friend Zhubin Parang back to the main feed after years of only joining us for our FlopTales RPG series (available as bonus content for Max Fun members: join here!) — and for such an auspicious return we had to pick an extra-special movie: Madame Web, which some have hailed as the “Cats” of superhero movies. Does it reach those heights? Who knows. But it’s surely the most enjoyably-silly of Sony’s Spider-Man without Spider-Man universe. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks to all who support us by becoming a member of Maximum Fun during this Max Fun Drive.
Mini #99
The Peach Pit Welcomes Hallie!
Stuart returns from Australia to spring everyone’s favorite podcast about the podcast The Flop House on an unsuspecting Hallie– and also, somehow, muscle himself into an episode in the past?
Episode #419
Cat Person, with Hallie Haglund
Stuart was antipodes-bound, for his Australian rambles, when we taped this one, but fear not! In his absence we recruited Hallie Haglund, noted STAR OF THE SHOW to discuss Cat Person with us, and thank god we did, because left to our own devices, we doubt that two dudes would be quite as effective at exploring the dissection of gender w/r/t hetero dating relationships that Cat Person brings to the table (straight from the hit New Yorker short story of the same name). Did we do it justice? Only one way to find out!
Episode #418
Cool as Ice, LIVE
We’re gearing up for Max Fun Drive pretty soon (3/18-29), so as a reminder of why you love us so SO much, instead of a regularly-scheduled mini we’re dropping ANOTHER full live episode from our recent west coast tour! This one was taped at the Aladdin in Portland, in front of one of the hottest crowds we’ve ever been blessed with, discussing one of the silliest movies we’ve ever discussed — the Vanilla Ice starrer Cool As Ice!
Episode #417
Exorcist: Believer
It takes a brave creative team to give Exorcist II: The Heretic a run for its money as worst “Exorcist” film, but at least part two was lovably batshit and a work of care and pearsonal vision, even if that vision was really weird. Exorcist: Believer on the other hand? Oof. You’ll have to listen to find out.
Mini #98
In the Public Domain
Elliott uses the occasion of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain to explore other free IP we could mine for dollars.
Episode #416
Cobra, LIVE
We’re giving you one more live show from our recent west coast tour, before returning to regular “in studio” episodes next week. Please enjoy our discussion of perhaps Sylvester Stallone’s grimiest, most 80’s action movie, Cobra, recorded live at the Rio Theater in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Episode #415
Gigli, LIVE from SF Sketchfest!
In case you hadn’t heard through one of our many annoying-but-necessary-to-our-livelihood plugs, The Flop House has been on tour! That’s why, instead of getting a normal Flop House mini, on this mini-saturday, you’re getting this slightly-shorter FULL EPISODE! Recorded live at Cobb’s Comedy Club (who were so nice to us) as part of San Francisco Sketchfest, here’s our discussion of legendary 2003 megabomb, Gigli!
Episode #414
Kangaroo Jack
We’re currently on the road as part of our “Errors Tour,” so we don’t have many show notes other than to say for this episode we flashed back to legendary bad movie Kangaroo Jack, and it’s a hot one!