There have been a lot of animals in movies, but which are the BEST animals? Stuart Wellington leads a highly-scientific investigation.

Hallie joins the Flop House gang once more, to discuss random topics selected by YOU, the listeners!

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!).

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!

Elliott puts on his greasy overalls to look under the filmic hood, as we figure out what makes a good “robot movie,” ask why Heartbeeps was a bad one, and see if we can pull out the robot defibrillator to restore its cinematic heartbeep.

We welcome one of the godfathers of bad movie culture, Harry Medved, of the seminal books “The Fifty Worst Films of All Time” and “The Golden Turkey Awards,” and discuss his PBS show “Locationland” where he and comedian Dana Gould visited the filming sites for Plan 9 From Outer Space! And we also spend a little time talking to Locationland producer Harry Pallenberg about his father’s work with John Boorman on Exorcist II: The Heretic (the Golden Turkeys’ pick for #2 worst movie of all time) and the oft-referenced Zardoz!

The Goofmaster returns to quiz Stuart and Elliott about some IMDb “Goofs” from 1980’s movies that didn’t live up to the standards of viewers with enough free time to log movie goofs on IMDb.

Following a couple of failed “Dark Universe” attempts, Elliott leads a brainstorming session to explore how his co-hosts might revitalize the Universal Monsters.