In this minisode we take on the topic of teams of specialists, like you might find in heist films.

We’ve been wanting to tackle this one for quite a while, folks, and… oof. Be careful what you wish for. Adal Rifai of the podcast “Hello From the Magic Tavern” joins us to discuss The Fanatic, the movie that asks “What if Fred Durst directed a movie starring a career-self-destructing John Travolta as a man with a developmental disability, with his trademark Limp Bizkit sensitivity?” Meanwhile, Stuart invents the newest horror movie killer, Elliott attacks Dan for his nonexistent position on backstory, and Dan misses Leggs.

In this minisode we take on the topic of jobs in movies. If you want to dictate a future minisode, tweet at us @theflophousepod.

It’s the second and final of our two contest winner-selected episodes, this one picked by Scott Yacychyn, who designed our delightful new Flop House “couch monsters” poster, which you can purchase HERE! It’s a romantic comedy called Little Italy (or as they pronounce it, li’lit’ly), set in the world’s most romantic city… Toronto! Meanwhile, Stuart gets mad at Elliott, Dan gets mad at Elliott and Stuart, and Elliott just keeps on singing a happy song.

Zar-who-what-now? We finally get around to one of our contest winner episodes, this one picked by Elizabeth Stege, who designed our delightful new Flop House Housecat t-shirt, which you can purchase HERE! It’s a Full Moon Features (awww yeah, Stu) kaiju movie with about 5 minutes of giant monster action in the whole film. But what it lacks in reason to exist, it makes up for in… charm? We guess? Meanwhile, Stuart explains the advantages to playing with dead things, Elliott explains how time zones work, and Dan introduces an exciting new wrinkle to the show.

Didja really think we’d pass up The Happytime Murders? The movie that many proclaimed the worst of 2018? Don’t be silly! We just held onto the episode in our vault of live shows until it was no longer relevant! Please enjoy this live recording from… last summer? We can’t remember. Taped at our ol’ stomping grounds, The Bell House, in fabulous and increasingly unaffordable Brooklyn, NY!

SURPRISE! It’s an off-week extra episode, just because we didn’t want to go ANY longer without discussing that purrfect mewowsical, directed by Tomcat Hooper: CATS! It’s a show so big, we couldn’t do it without the dual returns of Cats enthusiast, Jenny Jaffee, and musical theater authority, Ms. Natalie Walker who was AT THE MOTHERFUCKING CATS PREMIERE! We know that there’s usually a bunch of gibberish at this point, teasing stuff from the episode, but just dive in, folks! IT’S CATS!

We kick off the New Year (and the next 300 episodes?) by discussing a movie that no one has ANY strong feelings about — Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. One programming note: we sort of threw together this episode at the last moment because Elliott was visiting New York, so we skip the usual letters and recommendation segments. Don’t worry, though — we still manage to talk for 100 minutes. Because it’s Star Wars.