Mini #93
Happy Thanksgiving
Dan has assembled a cinematic feast, for Elliott and Stu to fill their plates.
Episodes
Episode #409
Mafia Mamma, with Hallie Haglund
When a film hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a-mamma. Christmas came early for Stuart this year, as we FINALLY get to discuss his new favorite movie,…
Mini #92
Auntie War
In honor of Veteran’s Day, Elliott does the obvious thing — talk about aunts in film.
Episode #408
Waterworld, with Todd Vaziri
Special effects WIZARD Todd Vaziri joins us to discuss a flop so EPIC it had multiple nicknames about how it was a flop (but still has some pretty great special effects). That’s right, we’re discussing 1995’s infamous bomb: Waterworld! And don’t worry, fans of more recent bad movie discussion — next episode we leap Back to the Present with a discussion of Mafia Mamma.
Mini #91
Best Horror Villains, Part 2
We wrap up our discussion ranking the iconic horror movie villains — and the winner may surprise you!
Episode #407
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
We’re currently on the road for our L.A. live shows, so the notes for this Shocktober week are a little abbreviated — we watched Friday the 13th, Part VIII — Jason Takes Manhattan!
Mini #91
Best Horror Villains, Part 1
Stuart leads Dan and Elliott in a discussion ranking the iconic horror movie villains — and the conversation was so fruitful, we decided to split it in two parts, with the second to come later this Shocktober!
Episode #406
Ghoulies
Well, they said they’d get us in the end, and I guess they were right! We couldn’t avoid those little beasties anymore, and decided to kick off our 80’s flashback Shocktober with the oft-mentioned, but never fully discussed tiny creature feature Ghoulies!
Mini #90
Cruising Along, with Jonathan Coulton and Paul Sabourin
We welcome singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton and Paul Sabourin of Paul and Storm to talk about cruise ship movies, in honor of their annual seagoing nerdfest, the JoCo Cruise!
Episode #405
The Legend of the Roller Blade Seven
We’re having an absolutely legendary Smalltember. First we covered The Legend of the Titanic, and now we’re looking into The Legend of the Roller Blade Seven. Apparently they’re legendary, but forgive us for being unfamiliar until now. It was made using a system RB7 star/co-writer/producer Scott Shaw dubbed “Zen Filmmaking.” According to his wiki, this is a “style of filmmaking where no screenplay and scripts are used in the creation of a movie.” We’ll see if getting zen delivers a good movie, or whether it’s better to… y’know… write things out and plan them ahead of time.
Episode #404
The Legend of the Titanic
Due to the ongoing WGA – SAG/AFTRA strikes, we’re hitting pause on current releases, and focusing on some films 90’s kids will remember. And while we doubt most Smalltember(vember?) movies are union signatories, we decided to keep the train a rollin’ anyway and make this a 90s flashback Smalltember! We kick it off with 1999’s Italian-Korean-American co-production The Legend of the Titanic — a bizarre attempt to cash in on James Cameron 1997 mega-blockbuster Titanic, in the form of an animated film featuring a similar star-crossed romance, but with a lot more talking animals.
Mini #88
Motion Picture Puzzle Palace
Stuart provides puzzling problems to perplex his perspicacious pals.
Episode #403
Wild Wild West
Due to the ongoing refusal of the AMPTP to negotiate in good faith with the WGA or with our union brothers and sisters in SAG/AFTRA, we’re hitting pause on discussing current releases, and focusing on some films 90’s kids will remember. This week, we talk Wild Wild West (the 1999 movie version of the 60’s sci-fi western TV show) a blockbuster mega-bomb that nearly ended multiple careers!
Mini #87
Jim Possible?
Dan walks Elliott and Stuart through some of the 90s output of critically-reviled actor Jim Belushi, trying to answer the question, “what would make a Jim Belushi movie appealing to you?”
Episode #402
The Net
Due to the ongoing refusal of the AMPTP to negotiate in good faith with the WGA or with our union brothers and sisters in SAG/AFTRA, we’ve decided to hit pause on discussing more current releases, since (in our own bizarro way) it could promote that work. Instead, we’re using this opportunity to go back in time and discuss some silly releases from the past, starting out with some films 90’s kids will remember. This week, we’re discussing 1995’s Sandra Bullock techno-thriller The Net, a movie about the horrors of the internet that seemed prescient and terrifying at the time, and now just seems kind of goofy, considering that the horrors of the internet were way different than those it imagines.
Mini #86
Watch Which?
Elliott points out that, pre-Barbenheimer, two big movies had frequently been released on the same day. It’s true! You can look it up! He runs Dan and Stu through a battle of wits, exploring other mismatched matchups from cinema past.
Episode #401
Book Club: The Next Chapter
When last we saw our book club pals, they were getting all horned up and making life changes based on 50 Shades of Grey. Now that they’re reading The Alchemist, we can only assume they’re out there exerting their control over the elements. Join us as we explore this exciting new addition to the “Jane Fonda hangs out with 3 other elderly actresses” cinematic universe!
Mini #85
The Peach Pit 3: Art & Coffee
Stuart brings back the Peach Pit, everyone’s favorite after-show about The Flop House, to quiz The Original Peaches about our opinions on fine art and answer a few questions straight from Stu’s DMs.
Episode #400
Troll 2
It’s a goddamn milestone — 400 mainline episodes over 16 years of The Flop House! (And that’s not counting all of the FH Minis, and the Movie Minutes of yore!) Thus, we took a break from our usual modus operandi of watching less-artistically-successful modern movies, and we treated ourselves with one of the classics of the bad movie canon (so much so that it’s the topic of the extremely enjoyable documentary Best Worst Movie). That’s right: we’re talking about TROLL 2, the film that has absolutely nothing to do with the original Troll other than a title and a fondness for rubber creatures!! It’s been memed! It’s been giffed! And now it’s been Flop Housed!
Mini #84
The Peach Boys Smile
Dan leads Elliott and Stuart in a discussion of the non-movie things they do to stay happy and sane. (But don’t worry, film fans — there’s still plenty of movie talk scattered around. We can’t help ourselves!)
Episode #399
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Is this the most popular, highest-grossing movie we’ve ever done? Possibly! We’re too lazy to put in the legwork to check. Why don’t YOU do it, for a school project about statistics or economics or some shit. Anyway, the point is, we used the “or CRITICAL flop” loophole (42 on Metacritc) so we could watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Don’t at us. Or do, whatever, we’re not your dad.
Mini #83
Top 10 Sexiest Gremlins, with Brendan Hay
Executive Producer of the all-new animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (and our pal) Brendan Hay joins us, for Elliott’s canonical sexiness rankings of those compact green snacks, the grembleings.
Episode #398
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
We’ve talked about the Sony corner of Marvel more than once, but the relative high quality of MCU movies has saved them from our scrutiny… until now! What did we make of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a film whose very title is a pain in the ass to type out for these show notes? Listen to find out!