Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV

Get ready for some situations, and maybe even some comedy, as we drop the first episode in our "S(t)einfeld Stinkers" series! This time Jason Alexander goes from lovably enraged loser George Costanza to a third rate Tony Robbins named Bob Patterson. The ep we watched, "Naked Bob," deals with his serious confidence issues regarding his downtown region. That's right, there's lots of boner talk in this one! (more so even than usual!) With the biggest comedy hit of all time only a few years behind him, how did J-Xan's followup sitcom fold faster than Kramer in The Contest?? This old-school style ABC laugh-track comedy aired only 5 episodes before getting nixed. I mean, seriously, what is the deal? Cut the Shit: Morgan - Tiger King Mike - The Invisible Man / Resident Evil 2   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Seinfeld #Curse #JasonAlexander

Mike and Morgan each give you their top 5 shows to stream on Netflix and Hulu! It's a scary time for us all, let's try to make the best of it by staying inside and watching some good TV shows! We'll be back to bad tv next time, but some positivity felt right for this week. Stay safe Baddies!   List of shows: GLOW - NetflixArrested Development - NetflixThe Twilight Zone - Netflix/HuluJeopardy - Netflix/HuluShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power - NetflixThe X Files.- HuluBuffy/Angel - HuluNo Reservations - HuluYou’re the Worst - Hulu30 Rock - Hulu   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Netflix #Hulu

Good golly, it's our two year podiversary!! We celebrate by finally having our hilarious and talented friend, comedian/actor/podcaster Nick Aragon (F*ck This Place podcast, @instaragon) on the show!! And what a treat of a show we had for him! (shout-out to Josh Hollis of Predict-o-Cast for the recommendation!!) In a world full of shows based on popular, well-established, interesting and iconic superhero characters, one show dared to be different. One show had the balls to reach into the depths of obscurity and pull out a mediocre character that literally not one person was asking for. And only one show had the audacity to make a bafflingly inept show around that character. That's right, we watched the nearly inexplicable, gut-bustingly stupid, 1997 syndicated super-flop, NightMan!! Get ready for a super-sized episode full of Morgan's uncontrollable laughter, Mike's top-notch puns, and more Neil Breen references than you can shake a laptop at! Happy two years, baddies!  Cut the Shit: Nick - Ghost Whisperer Morgan - Rifftrax Mike - Hard Ticket to Hawaii   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #NightMan #Marvel #Superhero

There can only be one... spinoff of a TV show... spun off from a movie... But that means there's definitely at least three... Right?? Truthfully we don't know anything about the Highlander series, and watching this brief side quest didn't help us out at all. I think it involves swords, kicking stuff, and maybe stealing diamonds? On the plus side, Morgan found The Raven so exciting that she literally lost consciousness during most of the show! There's no shortage of amusing anecdotes and tangents on this one as we try desperately to find anything interesting to say about a show so bland I can't even be bothered to finish writing this descrip Cut the Shit: Morgan - McMillion$ Mike - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, The Circle (Netflix)   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Highlander

Paging Dr. Reception! It’s the return of Good Reception! We take a look at the massive hit medical drama/mystery/comedy House (or House, M.D., it was unclear what the official title was). Will this House our new home, or will we be “bringing down the House??” We had never seen even a single episode of this seminal series starring the world’s grumpiest doctor, so we decided to check out the most acclaimed episode we could find after spending about 5 seconds on google, Season 1, Episode 21: Three Stories. Plus we share our vast Football knowledge and talk about the classic film that everyone knows, Swing Kids! It’s like prescription for laughter! Cut the Shit: Morgan - BoJack Horseman Mike - Little Women & The Films of Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Werewolf #SheWolf

Things get hairy this week as we take a silver-handled stab at the mid-season transformation of 1990's She-Wolf of London, Love and Curses! That's right, after 14 episodes, this lady-werewolf show was moved to Los Angeles, retooled and even given a new name! ...And then was cancelled after 6 episodes. Our friend, and talented actor, Lucia Towers joins us for one of the most genuinely enjoyable shows we've watched yet! This is one werewolf (show) that doesn't bite! We were over the moon for it! A real silver lining! We were howling with laughter... okay, I'm done. Cut the Shit: Morgan - Little Weirds by Jenny Slate Mike - Cameo.com Lucia - Confronting OJ Simpson Podcast   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Werewolf #SheWolf

If there's one thing that kids love, it's serious, high-concept science fiction, right?! Well somebody must have thought so, because the 1994 semi-hit film, turned beloved series, Stargate, got the animated treatment in 2002! But make sure your kids are all caught up with the SG universe because this baby ain't gonna hold your hand with exposition. And character back stories? Who needs em! It's got bureaucracy. It's got villains without motives. It's got people with blue hair and face tattoos! What I'm saying is, this is not a good show for children... or anyone else. Stargate: Infinity? More like Stargate: Canceled. Cut the Shit: Morgan - JoJo Rabbit Mike - Stardew Valley (Also, Parasite and the Nintendo Switch)   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Stargate

Merry KITTsmas everyone!! This holiday season we watched the somewhat Christmas-y episode "Silent Knght" of the 1982 classic Knight Rider! Everyone is here: Raw Hoff, Mr. Feeny, problematic terminology, Santa with a machine gun, bank robbing clowns, jumping cars, killer corn tractors, and, who could forget, the Worst Uncle Ever! It's our first time behind the wheel of the Knight Industries Two Thousand (which is apparently what KITT stands for??), did it get our engines revving our drive us off the road? You can find out really easily by just listening to this episode! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Forky from Toy Story 4 Mike - Young Enough by Charly Bliss, and Initiation: Silent Night Deadly Night 4   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Hasselhoff #KITT #Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry we’re late! Josh makes his return to the podcast to watch another one of the Worst Shows of 2019!! This time it’s the unhelpfully titled CW series, Pandora! Critics and audiences have made their opinions known, Pandora stinks! (Despite this it has been inexplicably renewed for a second season!?) Anyway it’s 3:00am on Thanksgiving morning so I’m not going to worry too much about this description since I’m pretty sure no one even reads them anyway. It’s a dumb Star Trek knock-off, and it sucks, big time. Plus we talk about The Vampire Diaries, Gilmore Girls, and Single Parents. Pretty much anything to avoid talking about this awful, awful show. Cut the Shit: Josh - Emergence Mike - Killing Eve If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com  We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.  #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #TheCW #WorstOf2019

You're stranded on a desert island and all you can bring is this Netflix original series... I bet you still couldn't finish all seven episodes! We watched the critical bashing post The I-Land beginning our coverage of the worst TV of 2019! Seriously, this one nearly broke Morgan. I wasn't sure she would make it through the whole thing. If not for the competence of the adorable (and chin en-dimpled) Kate Bosworth, this might have been literally unwatchable. Plus we go corporate talking about our love of Succession, Morgan can't stop talking about Tybee Island and her favorite show, Lost, and Mike just wants someone to get a limb cut off! More like Gouge-My-Eyes-Out-Land! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Succession Mike - Halt and Catch Fire and Terminator: Dark Fate   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Netflix #WorstOf2019

Did you know that “P.I.” stands for Paranormal Investigator? Well, that’s because it doesn’t, but ghosts are abound (or are they??) in this episode of the seminal 80s classic, Magnum P.I.!! We were both shamefully unfamiliar with the mega-hit show and thought it would be fun to close out the Halloween season with a spooky episode of a cheesy 80s staple. Did it scare us down to our skeleton bones, or bury us with boredom? One thing is for sure, we talk a lot about how attractive Tom Selleck is!! Happy Halloween everyone! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as well as #AllTheHorror to catch all 31 of the scareifying episodes this month!!  If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com  We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.  #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Halloween #AllTheHorror

It's that time of year again! We're back with a new episode for the purveyors of the best Halloween Horror content on the internet, #AllTheHorror!! This year we're counting down our top ten segments from The Simpson's yearly horror anthology episodes, Treehouse of Horror! We cover all the murder and mayhem. Every laugh, gasp, and splat of this classic TV tradition thats been running for 30 years! Plus we hear from Jason and Trish of Invasion of the Remake and author Antoinette Fox on some of their favorites as well!  Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as well as #AllTheHorror to catch all 31 of the scareifying episodes this month!! The All the Horror theme is by Sean @WDIMPodcast. Special thanks to Gravity Beard, Home Video Hustle, Josh Barbee, I Like to Like Things, I Used to Watch This, Unaired, and Josh Hollis for twitter contributions!   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Halloween #TheSimpsons #AllTheHorror

Kick or Treat, baddies!! The Halloween season is upon us again, and you know what that means! A whole month of Horror shows and Halloween specials! We start with a very spooky episode of Walker, Texas Ranger called "The Children of Halloween!" That's right, Chuck Norris straight up karate chops evil between the butt-cheeks! Plus there's plenty of references to Lethal Weapon 4 and we find out that Downtown Julie Brown knows Lucifer! Happy Halloween!!!!!! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as well as #AllTheHorror to catch all 31 of the scareifying episodes this month!!  Cut the Shit: Morgan - Live Theater Mike - Lake Nowhere   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Halloween #AllTheHorror

We're back!! And so is Jenna Elfman! That's right, it's an all new Elfman on the Shelf! This time she's taking her lovable quirks all the way to White House in the politically inept 2012 NBC comedy, 1600 Penn! Now the Elfster is playing second fiddle to America's favorite singing snowman, Josh Gad! The votes are in, and viewers elected... to change the channel. Plus we ruminate on what Jenna Elfman's porn name might be, Morgan ponders whether or not she can retroactively give birth to Josh Gad, and Mike records the next big auto-tune hit! More like FAIL to the Chief! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Veep Mike - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #JennaElfman #JoshGad

Don't call it a rerun! We celebrate 10,000 downloads with a special edition re-release of one of our favorite early episodes! Already heard it? Well, there's some all new content bookending it! We'll be back next week with a new episode but hopefully this flashback will tide you over until then.  This week we watch the bay... and the skies!! It's the Baywatch spinoff turned X-Files knockoff, Baywatch Nights! And that means anything goes. Or does it? We're still not sure. Jason Diego Mederos (of Hi Eduardo and Oh Shit! That's Scary) joins us to to bare witness to one of the craziest shows we've ever had the pleasure to be forced to watch! It's episode 219 "The Eighth Seal" and things are gonna saucy all over your nugs... Also, we were all drinking. Cut The Shit: Morgan - Ghost Watch  Jason - The Riches Mike - MTV's Scream: The Series If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #Baywatch

  We Have The Power!!! The power to watch really bad 90s cartoon reboots that is! It's everyone's favorite muscle bound sword-swinger, He-Man! But not quite like you remember him. That's right, just a few years after Masters of the Universe, in 1990, He-Man was rebooted, lamer, and tamer than ever! Remember Skeletor, the awesome, ripped skeleton-man menace? He's here too! Except, now he sucks! What a great idea!! Just take everything that was cool about the original and make it terrible! Can you sense the sarcasm!?!!? Plus, Morgan reveals her true robotronic roots, Mike fails to accurately remember almost anything about the original show, and we spend more time talking about 90s board games, Academy Award Winner Eric Roberts, and letting artificial intelligence complete our show for us, than the actual episode! Listen now, or we'll give you a bowl mullet! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Mindhunter S2 Mike - Talk to Transformer   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #MastersoftheUniverse #HeMan #Mattel

The world has been clamoring for another Small Reception, and you know that we never disappoint! ...Okay, so nobody actually asked for it, but we didn't have time to do full episode this week, and it's better than nothing right?? We talk about Mike's two true loves: Carly Rae Jepsen and WWE wrestling, Morgan's many new soda-based jobs, our favorite TGIF shows, magic powers, visits to TV sets, and some stories about funny kids. Mostly we just shoot the shucks and read random questions from the internet. Is that anything? I really don't know. Hope you enjoy it!! If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com  We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

We dish out the hot goss on the sexiest episode of Bad Reception yet! That's right it's episode 69 and you know what that means: obligatory innuendos and plenty of us saying, "nice." Get ready for a buttload of gasps, slaps, and stabs in the back, it's the 2009 reboot of Melrose Place.We're joined by our good friend, and fan of the show, Tara!! Morgan shows up a little late, but I promise she's on the episode! Whether or not she watched the show... well, that's a whole other story! Haha.  Plus, Mike fanboys over Ashlee Simpson, Tara gets excited for her alma mater, Morgan tries to figure out exactly who Brooke Burke is, and we all reveal how little we know about art! More like Smellrose Place. Cut the Shit: Morgan - Derry Girls S2, The Cola Wars Tara - Brooklyn 99, One Day at a Time, BIFL Mike - Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV

We're getting too old for this dogsh*t! This week we're joined by our pal Ben Hunter to watch one of the most notoriously bad TV shows of all time, the gritty crime drama turned goofy fantasy sitcom, Poochinski! Nothing can prepare you for this unbelievably silly premise that concerns grumpy cop Peter Boyle, a lovable bulldog, brutal murder and... magic?? It only took a single episode for the network to realize this was one bone that was better off buried!  Plus, we spend an absurd amount of time discussing our new (possibly grittier) While You Were Sleeping TV spinoff, Ben tries to remember anything that Peter Gallagher is in, Mike recaps the entire plot of the 1992 film Cool World, and Morgan repulses herself describing syrupy dog urine! When you're here... you're Poochinski!  Cut the Shit: Morgan - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Ben - Big Mouth Mike - Crawl   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV

In a change of pace, this week we took listener questions from Twitter and answered them live on the air! Why? Because we were three days late and didn't have enough time to do a real episode?? NO! And frankly that kind of attitude is not welcome in the Bad Reception Recording Bungalow™️. It's because we love our fans and want to know what you want us to talk about. Including why Ross from Friends sucks, what TV shows we would make if we had the chance, what shows have been banned from the podcast, details of Mike's movie obsession, criteria for double long pilots, our favorite cancelled Matthew Perry joint, and movies that would make better TV shows. Plus Morgan digs deep into our relationship with the television and Mike learns how to use the pitch modulator. It's the feel-good hit of the summer, and you're not gonna want to miss this one... Or just come back next week when we watch more bad TV. Thanks to everyone who participated: Tiff @SpontaniousRAWR, Brent @HVHPodcast, Dan @netflixnswill, Ben @benjaminhunter, Movies After Work @MoviesWork, and @FlicksXRayed. If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com  We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

It's the return of The Cox! We're back with another installment of "Friends Before Friends" and it turns out that way before she was Monica Gellar, Courtney Cox was getting her telekinesis on in the super 80s (and surprisingly meta) action comedy, Misfits of Science!! This show is absolutely chock full of cheesy jokes, awesome tunez, stunnin' shades, lasers, mini-cassette tapes, Ferraris, big hair, and white high top sneakers!! Oh and it's seriously got one of the best theme songs ever! Why was this cancelled after 16 episodes?? It's totally bitchin'! Also, Morgan's back! Mike's tired! At some point we accidentally say "Courtney Clocks" and it made me laugh! I don't feel like writing this dumb description any more. Nobody even reads these and I spend so much time on them! Buttcrack. See, I know nobody even read that. I could just write buttcrack over and over and it wouldn't even matter. I'm not going to, because I'm a professional. But I could...  Cut the Shit: Morgan - Derry Girls Mike - Midsommar and Stranger Things S3   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #FriendsBeforeFriends

Do you love political minutia and hate entertainment? Do you like Veep but wish it was devoid of humor? Have you always thought 24 should "just drop the whole action thing already!?" Oh boy, do we have a show for you! In a desperate attempt to find anything relevant to currently popular TV show, Stranger Things, we watched the 2014 David Harbour star vehicle (just kidding he's only a supporting character) State of Affairs! Can you believe a Katherine Heigl project was a huge failure? No way! But at least it's got President Alfre Woodard! Josh fills in for Morgan while she's "across the pond," and we struggle to make our brains absorb this exceptionally banal show. We also try our best to talk about anything but State of Affairs, including reading the titles of books from the bookshelf, recounting direct to video National Lampoon movies, painstakingly recapping 90s Mentos commercials beat by beat, creating the hit new slang term "meeting chats," and devising the best way to trick someone into thinking you're a gem expert. As Josh always says... C.I.A.-YA LATER! Cut the Shit: Josh - Designated Survivor Mike - Dan and Kody Podcast   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #HeiglFiles

Happy Independence... Week!? We celebrate America by taking a look at what it does best: taking something from dumb old England and making it way better!! ::guitar solo:: In 1992 NBC took a crack at remaking the cult BBC sci-fi comedy hit Red Dwarf, hoping to find the next big American sitcom. Even though it never aired, and never even got a second episode, it's pretty obvious which one is better. I say that as someone who has never seen the British version, but blindly assume it is true.  Morgan's back (although she's currently in the UK, so you know where her allegiance lie...) and talking Cheese puns, big American dongs, and all of the Charles Bronsons. Plus Mike tries to remember who Craig Bierko is, pitches "Buddy Space Cops," and spills coffee all over the computer with horrifying results (thoughts and prayers). Also it's the first and last time we do Tim Allen corner. Come on you cool space babes, it's time to blast off!! Cut the Shit: Morgan - The Twilight Zone S1 E25 "People Are Alike All Over" Mike - Galaxy Quest   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #RedDwarf

Hey all your Bad Reception superfans, this one's for you!! We were late this week and instead of just another boring old episode, we thought we'd give you about 40 minutes of us just bullshitting and trying to come up with random questions about the shows we've watched so far. It's totally not a filler episode. And I'm sure new listeners will get a kick out of hearing us recount vague details from shows we watched in the past! It's a win win! But seriously this one was just for fun because we wanted to make sure we got something out this week, even if it was 5 days late. If you enjoy it, let us know, maybe we'll do some more of these conversational eps. If not... it's just one episode, give us a break! If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #Aquaman #DCU #TheCW #Smallville #Comics

Something’s fishy this week as we watch the 2006 pilot for what would have been The CW’s Aquaman! That’s right, everyone’s favorite superhero punchline, the whale whisperer himself, Aquaman, was star of his very own TV show… For one episode anyway. Also this show has A LOT to do with the Bermuda triangle. Not really sure what that's all about. Josh subs in for Morgan this week to help find out if this floundering failure belongs on the bottom of the sea. We also discuss Beach Boys geography, octopus drummers, and James Wan's obsession with spinoffs, and then slam the show Frontiers for absolutely no reason. Also, Josh reveals some shocking news about Captain America, and can’t stop talking about the 1998 film, The Big Hit. Meanwhile, Mike unleashes his amazing Ving Rhames impression, and raves about the totally relevant GameCube hit, Eternal Darkness. Cut the Shit: Josh - Derek Mears Mike - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #Aquaman #DCU #TheCW #Smallville #Comics

We celebrate the return of Morgan(!) with a brand new show whose single episode cancellation has the internet buzzing and fans rioting, it’s the DC Universe original series, Swamp Thing! This is the first time we’ve done a show that’s still currently airing, but with all the controversy surrounding it’s ludicrously quick termination, we had to find out what all the hubbub was about! Was this tale of the classic horror hero pruned too early, or was it bogged down with a muddy production? Morgan’s back and hitting the sauce, so you know it's gonna be a good one! We talk about our experience with Harry Potter and the Infinite Queue, how much we love good horror FX, and listen to our cat destroy the kitchen. Plus Morgan reveals her beef with Teen Wolf and her fear of being yelled at by GLaDOS, while Mike preposes the perfect exterminator con and defends his amazing Alligator doctor joke! #ShowMeYourSwampThang Cut the Shit: Morgan - Overcooked (aka BurgerBoss ((but not really))) Mike - Next of Kin (1982)   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #SwampThing #DCUniverse

I've heard of daddy issues, but this is ridiculous! This week we watched as the lady anti-Christ turned against her old man (aka, Satan!), in 2005's super soapy, Good vs Evil drama, Point Pleasant! It may have only lasted 8 episodes but Mike is still pining over the loss of this obscure Fox failure, co-created by former Buffy showrunner Marti Noxon. Speaking of Buffy, Chevy returns to fill in for Morgan, and The Slayer is definitely on her brain, but don't worry she still discusses Point Pleasant (and Point Break?), even if she'd rather be talking about Xander and Willow (which she also does).  We also recap Twilight: Breaking Dawn for no particular reason, discuss the advantages of taking medicine with alcohol, and remind ourselves that people can be different ages than us. Plus Chevy (rightfully) points out that Mike is a 16 year old girl, criticizes his movie library organization, and brags about hugging Nicholas Brendan. Mike meanwhile disses Supernatural, talks about less famous siblings of Hollywood actors, and brags about winning a meaningless award one million years ago!! Cut the Shit: Chevy - Deadwood Mike - Carly Rae Jepson: Dedicated   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Hold on to your joysticks (and internal organs!), this week we watched the television adaptation of the most notorious video game of the 90s, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm! Brent from Home Video Hustle is back to fill in for Morgan, and he brings his ridiculously detailed knowledge of all things Kombat! No character is too obscure, no back story too insignificant, Brent knows these violent ninjas, robots, demons, and more, better than most people know their loved ones! But how can a kids Saturday morning cartoon capture the graphically gratuitous nature of this fatality-filled fighting favorite? Mike and Brent discuss all their favorite (and least favorite) Kombat Karacters, the Star War prequels, and how Highlander II is superior to the first. Plus Brent gets down into some really deep cut MK games, defends the inexcusably awful movie sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and breaks down all the things the TV show got wrong! It's a spine-ripping, face-melting, heart-crushing good time!! Was Defenders of the Realm a flawless victory, or were we screaming to “Finish It!?” Listen now to find out! Cut the Shit: Brent - Mortal Kombat 11 Mike - Highlander II: The Quickening   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Holy Cats! What do you get when you mix feline cyborgs, ancient Japanese warriors, and the most delicious food on the planet?? The 1990 animated import, Samurai Pizza Cats! It’s a veritable fancy feast of puns, guns, parody, and hilarity, and almost certainly the only show to feature robot cats being launched out of a gun-shaped pizzeria! Morgan is absent again, but we’ve got a More Gooder substitute, “Crushin’ It” Chris Braaten! Plus an all new robotronic Morgan replacement, Cy-Morg! Mike (aka "Pizza Mike") makes some shocking accusations about the notable lack of a certain titular cheese pie in the show, and recounts stories about video stores and VCRs that reveal that he’s an old white-bearded man. Plus Chris questions the logic of the Power Rangers fighting strategy, and declares pistachio ice cream to be the best flavor(?!) Cut the Shit: Chris - The Butcher Mike - Legal Eagle   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Crime is a computer virus… She’s the cure! We watched the absolutely ridiculous, ultra-90s cyber-police procedural, Mann & Machine! From the creator of Law and Order comes the classic story of a grumpy butthole police detective who hates robots but is forced to team up with a beautiful and acrobatic android who has a pre-school education and a love of chocolate donuts! What a mismatched pair! Zany robo-antics most definitely ensue. This week Mike is joined by guest host Tiffany since Morgan is on the other side of the country (but don’t worry, she still makes an appearance). That means you’re in for plenty of talk about sexy robot lawyers, the consistency of android skin, and the dangers of secondhand smoke on robots. Plus Tiff gives a detailed history of The Fast and the Furious, Mike wonders why no one can close a car door, and we cross our fingers that Dick Wolf finally steps in front of the camera and shows the world his acting abilities! Go-go-gadget podcast! Cut the Shit: Tiffany - The Orville Mike - Firefly   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix  

Put your hockey masks on and get your chainsaws revved up, things are gonna get slasher-y this week!! We watched the 2009 single-season murder mystery, Harper’s Island! Who wouldn’t want to set their wedding in the isolated location where a violent serial killer had chopped up their friends and family only a few short years prior?! It’s show that tests the limit of how many characters can be crammed into a single plot! It’s a horror show that takes music cues right out of teen dramas. It’s a show that… we actually liked?? Dun dun dunnnnn!! We also debate whether Robin Hood is a serial killer, flex our boat term knowledge, discuss the fabulous career of director Jon Turtletaub and sing the classic tune “Let’s All Get a Boat.” Plus Morgan declares her desire to “rebirth” John Mulaney, her imprinted memories of The Man in the Iron Mask, and naming her favorite monkey movies. Meanwhile Mike explains why Dawson’s Creek is awesome, remembers an old Carl's Jr commercial in disturbing detail, and admits he has no idea how much diamonds cost! A that and so much… gore! (It's not actually gory, but you get the idea) Cut the Shit: Morgan - Scream Mike - House on Sorority Row   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Everyone (except Morgan) is crazy for the MCU! And with Avengers: Endgame coming out this week the hype has never been more substantial! So we figured the time was right to take a look at the one thing nobody likes from Marvel’s cinematic universe, the 2017 super-flop, Inhumans! It’s that one with the giant CGI bulldog and a lady with magic hair. Remember? Fanboys be warned, we don’t actually know a whole lot about the MCU (and NOTHING about the Inhumans comics) and we spend a lot of time in this episode getting pretty much everything wrong! But it’s all in good fun!! (except Morgan, she’s out for blood) Also, Morgan reveals the 3(!) Marvel movies she’s seen, rants about Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland being under construction, and cannot stop talking about Magneto! Mike gets psyched for the imaginary John Wick Animated series, mourns Jason Momoa’s beard, and scoff’s at the idea of watching Inhuman’s in an IMAX theater. Plus talk about Harry Potter lingo, gas station movie knock-offs, and obscure Home Alone references. Oh, and lots of us complaining about this dumb, dumb show! Inhumans? More like Inhumane! Right?! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Comfort movies (i.e. The Princess Bride) Mike - A Scanner Darkly   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   The short clip of the metal cover of "Bad Moon Rising" is by Leatherwolf.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

We can’t monkey unsee this monkey doo doo! This week Morgan forced Mike to watch an absurdly dumb show with an entirely chimpanzee cast! Apparently the bizarro 1970 spy comedy, “Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp” was actually a real thing that existed and was on TV, and it is every bit as strange as it sounds. From Breakfast Spaghetti, to pretending to know about British TV shows, to "Stunt Munks" and Pizza flavored Mad Libs, this episode is more fun than a double barrel of monkeys straight to the funny bone! You could say this show was a real banana in our tailpipes! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Build-Your-Own Mike - Monkey Shines   Shoutouts: @PredictOCast @MGnPpodcast @LaunchingTPilot @WDIMPodcast @HVHPodcast @InvasionRemake @MMandOscar @TheMovieChaser   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with promotion.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

From out of this world and onto our television, we get invaded by 1982’s alien superhero drama with an identity crisis, The Powers of Matthew Star!! Or is it David Star? This is definitely the first show we’ve watched that can’t even get it’s main character’s name right. Louis Gossett Jr. shows up (with hair!) as does everyone’s favorite Friday the 13th Part II star, Amy Steel. Sparks fly, busses crash, and projectors burst into flame as we watch another pick from TV Guide’s 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time, so you know we’ve got a real winner on our hands... Also, we debut two new segments, dive into some fascinating trivia about the show and discuss the science behind mega-pooping! Plus, Morgan lays down some Grease trivia (including what song is about a penis!), gets excited by the notion of an adults only round of Double Dare, and is very curious about where Rick Flair got his “Nature Boy” nickname. Meanwhile, Mike rants about Final Girls and the rules of slasher movies, lays out the WWE policy on swearing, and proposes an alternate plot about a “Magic Wizard” that plays video games. "Gotta gotch’ ‘em!!" Cut the Shit: Morgan - The Case Against Adnan Syed Mike - Pet Sematary Two   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with promotion.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Code Lavender! Get us 100cc’s of soapy medical drama stat!! We’re back with another episode of Good Reception, but this time neither of us has ever seen the show. Somehow we’ve missed the biggest TV phenomenon of the past decade and a half, the much beloved, and oft referenced Grey’s Anatomy. We jump into the middle of season two with the show’s most ever watched episode, “It’s the End of the World.” Will we become the newest Anatom-aniacs (I think I just made that up?) or will it die on the operating table? Either way it’s a prescription for laughter! (sorry, these medical puns are DOA). Also, we talk about the questionable nature of a certain “90s boning song,” debate who’s the best Billy Crudip, and try to decide if Ellen Pompeo is always crying. Plus Morgan coins her new catchphrase “I would like to uhh… touch that” and Mike pitches his new ABC drama, Don’t-ers. It’s gonna be… explosive! (Dun dun dunnnn!) [That makes more sense if you’ve seen the episode] Cut the Shit: Morgan - Disneyland Mike - Defunctland   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

We're back with another episode of the ever-popular "Elfman on the Shelf!" This time J-Elf finds herself in a more traditional sitcom, about an unconventional relationship! Sound familiar?? It's Knocked Up meets Dharma & Greg... meets an awful moldy old garbage biscuit covered in sewage juice! Josh and Tiffany join us for one of the most painful viewing experiences in the history of the show! Along the way Tiff confuses Jenna Elfman, Jen Kirkman, James Dean, John Wayne, Kate Moss, Kate Upton, 30 Rock and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Josh helps solve a juicy Hollywood murder mystery, Mike demands an apology from the show, and Morgan reveals her extensive knowledge of Jason Segal nudity. Plus discussions of canned laughter, Beefaroni, GTA strategies, hoo-haws, Tiff's future self sabatage, and a brand new spinoff: Vagina Talk! Did we hate this show? Abso-maybe! Cut the Shit: Morgan - Playing House Tiff - Maggie Rogers: Heard It in a Past Life Josh - Best Friends Forever Mike - Jenny Lewis: On the Line     If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix  

We’ve got our sights set and hot pants on for on the campy 1998 Pamela Anderson action comedy V.I.P!! Prepare yourself for explosions, inappropriate hot dog stands, Breaking Bad stars, pixie cuts, erotic daydreams, hidden arsenals, movie stars, tax evasion, and more silicone than any dress can contain!! Hollywood Power Couple Josh and Tiff join us as we argue over celebrity sex tapes, basketball terminology, hot dog toppings, and the relevance of Bee Movie’s on-set experts. Plus sexy Brawny stories, pondering where the stars of Lizzie McGuire are today, and a brand new catchphrase for Tiff! Ten out of ten, would boob. Cut the Shit: Morgan - Going Outside Tiff - Ologies with Alie Ward Josh - What's With These Homies Talkin' About Weezer Mike - Overlord   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

We’ve got the need for speed, and only the furry blue spiked one can get the job done! It’s our first video game adaptation and we went for the weirdest, goofiest, most gosh dark rock-n-roll-est show we could get our hands on, 1999’s Sonic Underground! Hope you’re ready for sick guitar riffs, laser blasting drum beats and, of course, fog spewing organ solos…(?) because this ain’t your daddy’s Sonic! Morgan is somehow even sicker this week, hacking her lungs out (apologies misophoniacs!), but she’s a flippin' pro and showed up for the recording anyhow. This blazing fast episode also features talk of our new Gin Blossoms podcast spinoff, a retrospective of 90s kids television commercials, and there’s some bashing of the good name of Stephen Urkel. Plus Morgan tests her knowledge of Mortal Kombat (and video games in general), while Mike recalls his days deep in the punk rock scene. Quick! Give this episode a SPIN! Cut the Shit: Morgan - American Gods Mike - Sonic the Hedgehog 2   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Happy Podiversary!! That’s right we’re celebrating one year of putting ourselves through awful TV shows for your entertainment! We also brought back our original guest host, Josh, and are revisiting one of the very first series we covered, Ghost Whisperer!! The fans just can’t get enough of JLH’s spooky spirit sleuthing. We chose to watch the season four episode “Stage Fright” (or as we prefer to call it “The Soap Opera is Coming to Town) for some very good, super mature reasons. As a bonus Morgan is super sick (and feeling “plunky”) so get ready for sniffles, coughs, and the delusional rants of a woman mixing cold medicine and cheap wine! In addition to the discussing everyones favorite cleavage-bearing ghoul wrangler, we ponder the world’s fascination with prison breaking, and bring up Hey Dude yet again. Meanwhile, Morgan drops the name of her new James Bond film, Josh proposes the new erotic sub-genre: Ghost Cucking, and Mike can’t stop talking about GoBots!! Now it’s time to go to the obstetrician and grab a quick BLT! Happy Birthday to Us!!!   Cut the Shit: Morgan - Russian Doll Josh - Luke Perry things, The Prodigy Mike - The Practice   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

  It's spooky satanic shenanigans meets high-priced Manhattan real estate, in the first show ever made for horror geeks and architecture nerds! If you're looking for thrills, chills and soul damning deals, tell the cabbie to take you to 666 Park Avenue! After concluding that the show is neither Lucifer nor Ugly Betty (but not ruling out that it may secretly be Castle Rock Season 2) Mike and Morgan dig into this slick horror drama that was sent to an early grave. Plus Morgan cries, cries, cries while calling Ms. Britney a "B," recounts the traumatizing time she watched Legion at the gym, and gives some "Revelation Exclamations." Meanwhile Mike discusses the etiquette of a Whoop-Dee-Doo, explains how zombies work, and declares secret doors to be the "coolest thing ever." And don't forget the butchering of Rocky Horror classics and an exciting round of New York City mayor trivia! If you lived here, you'd be cancelled by now!    Cut the Shit: Morgan - Gary Clark Jr "This Land" Mike - Parkitect    If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

From the depths of television obscurity, we unearth the 2003 Syfy TV spinoff of the immensely entertaining Tremors film franchise! Is this "underground" series worthy of the good Graboid™️ name, or should we have left it buried? Lot’s of talk about Wild Things and “Kevin Bacon’s Front Jimmy” in this one, and we seem to be on constant lookout for a connection between Graboids and hemorrhoids that never really comes to fruition. Meanwhile Morgan has some tingly feelings for Michael Gross and can’t stand people who pronounce Nevada “NeVAHda,” and Mike reveals his frosted tip past and insists that everyone knows and loves the 1993 film Heart and Souls. This one is gonna make the earth move, because sometimes you just want giant worms!   Cut the Shit: Tremors (1990) Morgan - Sorry to Bother You Mike - Def by Temptation   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

It's the animated prequel to the original live-action adaptation of the classic comic series that is a spinoff of a larger universe!! Before she was a teenage witch, beloved character Sabrina was a tween-age spell-caster-in-training. And also a cartoon! Will Morgan's nostalgia for TGIF color her judgement of this single season cartoon curiosity? Will Mike be charmed by a bastardized version of a character he knows pretty much nothing about? Jason Diego Mederos (Things I Hate) returns to help us bring back classic 90s slam "You Got Moded!" as well as tell the story of his very special family Groundhog Day tradition. Meanwhile, Morgan throws shade at Melissa Joan Hart and brags about her fried-pan-cheese, while Mike recalls his time directing She's All That and absolutely nails a Jon Lovitz impression. Listen as we conjure up some laughter, and bewitch your funny bone!  Cut the Shit: Jason - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Morgan - Doug Mike - The Critic   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

We kick off our new series, Elfman on the Shelf (aka Bottom Shelfman, aka The Dharma Initiative) with the 2017 Jenna Elfman sitcom bomb, Imaginary Mary! In a career chock full of duds, could this ABC family dramedy with an adorably annoying CG co-star be a diamond in the rough? …I can only imagine! Meanwhile Morgan is full of serenades this episode including her funky parody of “Angel of the Morning,” plus she throws shade at mini-golf, Jenna Elfman’s charisma, and Scientology! Mike gets really deep into some beard banter, teases some Full House fan theories, and overshares his fear of children! We also find time to praise the TV series Alice, and declare our love for Rachel Dratch! Listen up and [Insert a John Lennon Imagine joke here]! Cut the Shit: Morgan - The Abstract Concept of Appreciating and Sharing the Things You Love Mike - Vacationland by John Hodgman   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix    

Holy generic superheroes! It's not a bird. It's not a plane (although it certainly is PLAIN). No it's NBC's laughably lame, costumed, crime-fighting crusader, The Cape! We finally take on the most popular genre in the world, by watching a series that almost no one even remembers! However, the real hero is Keith David, because he's always awesome. Also, Morgan educates everyone on Walrus reproductive anatomy, Mike tries to figure out what the hell a Milkshake Cake is, and everyone is calling everyone a mofo. So, here we come to save the day, mutha f****s!    Cut the Shit: Morgan - Logan Mike - The Flash   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

  Lucy's definitely got some s'plaining to do! After three smash hit television series, the comedic legend sadly ended her illustrious career with this universally panned 80s sitcom, Life with Lucy. It's the classic story of a widow, her son-in-law's father, a hardware store, pineapple boxes, Jenny Lewis, and a bunch of bland randos living in a house! Also it may or may not feature a cameo by Desi Arnez, Jr. and Automan (spoiler: it doesn't). There's also some tips about farm living, Morgan gives some very NSFW nicknames to Huey Dewey and Louie, and Mike pitches a the hip-hop supergroup Jazzy Jeff and The Funky Bunch! Listen up, and have a... Ball!    Cut the Shit: Morgan: The Wizard Mike: Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

  Oh Baby! Mike and Morgan are crying for their mommies after watching this dirty diaper of a show! It's the sitcom everyone in 2002 was clamoring for, based on a dumb Quiznos commercial, and starring a freaking talking baby: Baby Bob. They also rattle on about Baby Bob Balaban, speculate that the Chicago Fire franchise is just an elaborate ruse, and briefly remember that Tila Tequila was a thing! Strap into your booster seats kids, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.   Cut the Shit: Mike: The Twilight Zone Morgan: The Favourite   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Happy New Year! We start 2019 off on a positive note with our long awaited return to Good Reception! Mike makes Morgan watch one of his favorite short-lived series, the terrific time-looper, Tru Calling! With the likes of Eliza Dushku and Zach Galifianakis, a killer premise, and epically 2003 soundtrack, how did this high-concept thriller not last? And more importantly will Morgan agree that it’s a winner, or will she stab Mike through the heart like some kind of evil vampire slayer?   This episode also features plenty of musical numbers, countless interruptions, a discussion of 2003 hunks, an attempt to name any young person, and the coining several phrases, including “Riding the Unicorn to the Powder Waterfall,” “I got the Bad News Browns” and “Gleaming the Pube!”   Cut the Shit: Mike: iZombie Morgan: Buffy the Vampire Slayer   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

So much action filled!! Bad Reception All-Stars Josh and Tiffany return, just in time for some mighty morphin’ ...alien fighting? We watched the 1994 Power Ranger’s knock-off (and lengthily titled) Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills! You’re in store for lots of singing, uncontrollable giggling, sexual innuendo, dirty words, vowel confusion and porn stores galore! Plus Josh unravels a conspiracy, Tiff nearly goes into labor, Mike invites Gillian Jacobs to be on the show and Morgan has a hard time remembering what clouds are. And don't forget kids, ITS POWER IS FINITE!! Cut the Shit: Morgan: Home Alone Josh: Don’t Stop or We’ll Die: Dazzle Me Tiff: Sasha Sloan: Sad Girl Mike: The Bernie Mac Show: S1E7 “A Christmas Story” If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.comWe are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Oopsie-doodle, everyone on Earth is dead and all you got was this stupid 90s sitcom! Josh Hollis (of the fantastic Predict-O-Cast) joins us to talk about Woops!, a high-concept FOX sitcom that deals with some VERY heavy themes with the with all the delicacy of an atomic blast. TV Guide named it one of the 50 worst TV shows ever made, but is there anything to like about this ratings bomb? Join us for discussions on the durability of Volvos, Santa Claus cameos, and lacking laugh tracks. Plus we join a biker gang! ...JUST KIDDING!!!   Cut the Shit: Morgan: Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas Josh: The Favourite, The Christmas Chronicles Mike: Christmas Music & A Very Kasey Christmas   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.  #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

School's in session this episode, as we visit everyone's favorite institute of higher learning, Bayside High! Unfortunately Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski are nowhere to be found, instead we get Weasel, Tommy D., and a whole slew of third-rate knock-offs (AKA "The New Class"). In other news, we're super excited to announce that we are now part of the fantastic PodFix Network!! But are we worthy of joining this elite group? If our knowledge of the original Saved by the Bell is any measure, then it's a resounding NO. However, I think we more than make up for it in Wu-Tang lyrics, 90s computer hacking skills, and being on the edge of hipster fashion! Plus Morgan declaires her unbridled lust for Mr. Belding, and Mike rambles about the history of slasher films. This Ep is a total babe! Cut the Shit: Morgan: Meet Me in St. Louis Mike: Black Christmas (1974)  If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter.  #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix

Howdy Pardners! We took a trip to the Lone Star state to visit everyone’s favorite bearded butt-kicker, Chuck Norris! Did you know that Walker, Texas Ranger had a very short-lived spinoff, inexplicably titled Sons of Thunder? Apparently neither did anyone else! This gritty, murder-filled, Southern-fried, karate/detective noir has something for everyone. Especially if you’re looking for ridiculous music cues! Plus, Morgan can’t contain her potty mouth, Mike explains the super real details of what a Texas Ranger is, and we out Chuck Norris as a robot! It’s a roundhouse kick to your funny bone! Cut the Shit:  Morgan: The Haunting of Hill House Mike: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com  #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps