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Episode #404 September 9, 2023

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 September 2, 2023

Motion Picture Puzzle Palace

Stuart provides puzzling problems to perplex his perspicacious pals.

Episode #403 August 26, 2023

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 August 19, 2023

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 August 12, 2023

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 August 5, 2023

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.

Mini #85 July 22, 2023

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 July 15, 2023

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!