Was This Always Weird

It's every kid's dream! Being left Home Alone so you can murder society's less desirable members without fear of mommy interrupting or telling you to stop. We're talking Chris Columbus' 1990 Christmas masterpiece, Home Alone. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O'hara, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Jon Heard, friggin John Candy and more! (what, you don't think there's more? Umm...Big Pete is in this movie. C'mon.)

Macaulay Culkin just can't stop murdering people in this delightful coming of age comedy. Co-starring Elijah Wood. We're talking the Good Son in this episode, the drama between the movie and Home Alone 2, & much more. Much much more...it's like an hour and nine minutes worth of more. Ok, byyeeeee.

What's that? You say you'd like to watch a teen horror comedy that references a bunch of more interesting stories? Well partner, have I got the movie for you... In this episode we talk about 1998's cookie cutter horror flick, Urban Legends. 

We take a closer look at the first Power Rangers movie from 1995. The movie based on a show based on a show. You won't want to miss a single fart sound or pile of purple goo as we talk Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. 

North delivers the message other movies were afraid to say, your parents are perfect and no one else is better than them.  Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julie Louis-Dreyfus and just about everyone else in Hollywood star in Rob Reiner's, North (1994).

Kevin Bacon and friends try to stop murderous underground worms, but never really stop to ask, "why?". In this episode we're talking about the cult monster movie classic, Tremors. 

After defeating Shredder and the evil foot clan, the ninja turtles did what any mutant teenagers would have done in 1990, started a band and went on tour.  Between the first and second ninja turtles movies kids all across America had the chance to be dissapointed by the ninja turtles live in person at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour. 

The one handed bowling man lies to the amish man and there's also a lady. We watched the 1996 film starring Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray and Randy Quaid Kingpin, and take time out of our busy quarantine to discuss it's finer points. 

This modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet adds a lot more than a + to the title.  We took a long hard look at Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, and not to bury the lead or anything but Paul Rudd is in this movie.

Big whiny baby whines a lot, changes nothing.  We watched Kevin Smith's first feature length film, Clerks. The 1994 movie that serves up a piping hot slice of convenience store clerk Dante Hicks' sad sad life. 

The bad guy of this movie is also the good guy of this movie. It was a post American Pie world, and all they had to do was sprinkle a little Tom Green onto a crunchy base of college dudes taking a road trip...but they gave us so much more than that. They gave us DJ Qualls. For that we will forever be in their debt. We're talking Road Trip, the movie that took us boldly into the year 2000.

Was this 2001 film written, directed by, and starring Tom Green a flop, misunderstood genius, or maybe a lil' of both? We drop into the rad half-pipe that is Freddy Got Fingered to discuss the gnar. 

If you thought one love story was good, wait until you get a load of a shitload of love stories all at once. Our gift to ourselves this year was to talk about Love Actually (2003) for our final episode of 2019. One love to you and yours.

A serial killer gets turned into a murderous snowman, and Shannon Elizabeth gets caught in the path.  1997's Jack Frost is a comedy disguised as a horror movie, set during Christmas, and again it has Shannon Elizabeth 2 years before American Pie. 

Earth's most beautiful man, Bruce Campbell, tries to survive a night in a spooky cabin guarded by that silly ol' evil dead. Grab as soupy spoopy beverage and relax by the fire as we dig into the 1981 horror classic, The Evil Dead.

3 filmmakers take to the woods to make a terrible documentary about a witch, but wind up making a documentary about their own deaths (by witch). OR IS THAT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? In this episode we talk about Blair Witch (1999) the film that spawned the found film genre if you just straight up ignore Cannibal Holocaust. 

I mean...if you kidnap Arnold's daughter, you know he gone kill you.  In this episode we take a closer look at the 1985 action movie with cheese to spare, Commando, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

A bunch of unknown actors test their might. fight. test their might....test their might, MORTAL KOMBAT! In this episode we plop in our quarters and deliver FLAWLESS retrospective commentary on 1995's, Mortal Kombat. 

A movie that raises tough questions about whether or not destiny is pre-determind, and then queefs out on a "maybe it's both" answer.  Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump, in Forrest Gump, a movie about Forrest Gump (1994).

That's the thing about them high school movies, man. You keep getting older, they stay the same age.  In this episode we break out our secret stash of hot takes on the Richard Linklater's stoner cult classic coming of age teen movie, Dazed and Confused. 

Johnny Depp does drugs! Yay! We bought the ticket and took the ride on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), the Terry Gilliam movie based on the the writing of Hunter S. Thompson. 

In 1984 a film finally came along that had the stones to put the study of a violent martial art back where it belongs...in the hands of kids. In this episode we're talking the original Karate Kid, and loving it for the good and bad of who it is. Starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, and Elisabeth Shue. 

It's every teen movie. We are every teen movie. Teen movie am one. In this episode we explore Not Another Teen Movie's shelf-life and asses the positives and negatives of its level of self-awareness.

Mike Judge is a poet with an eye for the beauty of modern American ignorance.  In this episode on Idiocracy (2006) we are joined by Lance Gilstrap who was lucky enough to be an extra in this film. We talk about what Judge got wrong, right, and generally feel sad while we laugh at the sad state of existence. 

The lone rangers rob their way into the rock n' roll hall of legends.  We ain't fartin on no snare drums in this week's episode about  Airheads, the 1994 film starring Brendan Frasier, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Judd Nelson and even Joe Mantegna.

Harmony Korine forces us to watch his nightmares so that we can all be sad boys. In this episode we talk about Gummo, the 1997 movie about the destroyed lives of people in the midwest. 

Princess Jasmine has 3 days to find love before her father's nonsense law probably ends her life. But the songs were great! We dig into the 1992 Disney animated classic, Aladdin, before the remake corrupts our memories.

In the late 90's Adam Sandler had a string of successes, and then in the year 2000 abruptly flopped out Little Nicky. A film set in hell that makes the audience feel like they are also in hell...the hell of this film. This episode is dedicated to the film that disappointed Sandler fans everywhere, Little Nicky.

A cautionary tale to children everywhere. We watched The Little Rascals from 1994 and then spent this episode trying to talk ourselves back into the 21st century. 

Sibling Rivalry! Football! U.S.A.! Fuck Us! Ed O'Neill and Rick Moranis wrap up a bunch of children in their petty childhood issues in 1994's Little Giants.

The story of 4 women who became the best of friends in the summer of 1970, and then rode that wave for 25 years to fill the sadness shaped holes in their lives.  We watched 1995's coming of age classic, Now and Then, starring Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch, Demi Moore, and Rita Wilson. 

Two brothers (maybe?) that are plumbers (definitely) save a princess (not the one you're thinking of) from the evil King Koopa (who you know as Bowser). The fuck, Nintendo? We talked about the 1993 adaptation of the beloved Super Mario Brothers video game, Super Mario Bros..

You can take the cop out of New York, but you can't take the yippe ki yay out of the mother fucker.  We watched Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman wage the classic battle of street smarts vs book smarm in Die Hard (1988).

Adam Sandler is Billy Madison...a man child who uses his wealth to relive his glory days. We talked about a movie that's full of plot holes, but still made us laugh when the funny man yelled made up words, Billy Madison (1995).

Juno gets preggers, homeskillet.  We talked about 2007's Juno, starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, the newspaper guy from Spider-man and the counselor from 10 Things I Hate About You.

Fast car go fast! We're talking late 70's movie that's set-in the 50's, Grease (1978). Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, and a car fast enough to make someone forget about an attempted assault.

Despite death's best attempts to warn him, Devon Sawa tries to die. Oh come, don't act like you care about Devon Sawa all of a sudden. You've barely thought about him in years.  We discuss the first film in the franchise that launched dozens of overly-elaborate deaths, Final Destination (2000).

Chris Hardwick, Rainn Wilson, and their two barely characterized are held hostage and tortured in Rob Zombie's directorial debut. We talked about 2003's gift to all of us, House of 1000 Corpses.

Mom and dad get sucked into the TV, and it cures their marriage problems.  Matt's friend Lee Howson joins us to discuss Stay Tuned starring John Ritter, Pam Dawber, and Jeffrey P Jones. 

A scared boy learns to be brave with the help of books...psh, yeah fuggin' right... Ricky Ramirez (Flawed Podcast) joins us to discuss the not quite Disney, partially animated film from 1994, The Pagemaster. Starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, and the voices of Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Stewart.

Sad white man go boom. We talk about Michael Douglas' long white tirade, 1993's Falling Down.

A rich teenage psychopath betrays the goodwill of the entire city of Chicago.  We get back to our John Hughes roots in this episode about Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

These 1950's teens aren't just horny, they're also racist!  Two years before he gave us A Christmas Story, Bob Clark directed 1981's Porky's. It's the timeless story of a selfish teenagers, abusive parents, and decorative female characters. 

A record store faces closing because THE MAN must ruin all that is good in this world. We try to keep it together as we talk Empire Records (1995) starring Liv Tyler, Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, Robin Tunney and Renée Zellweger. 

A man shrinks his kids and the neighbor's kids thus proving he's the exact loser his wife thinks he is. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids is classic Disney, classic Moranis, and classic kid fantasy (giant oatmeal cream pie,). 

A crazy version of the future where the police are robots who shoot first and ask questions later. We watched RoboCop (1987), and talked about director Paul Veerhoven's admission that he intended for RoboCop to be an "American Jesus with a gun."

Peter Pan's gots kids? We set a course for Hook (1991) starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. Join us as we set sail on a nostalgic voyage to plunder the depths of a fan theory about the original 1911 story "Peter and Wendy" in which Pan may have been murdering lost boys.

A bug eyed man with a vague job is tasked with coaching his boss' daughter's soccer team, and he handles it like anyone would...he dresses up his fiancee's son in drag and has him join the team.  We talked 1992's Ladybugs, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Jonathan Brandis and Jackée Harry.

A buddy cop movie, but the cops are cowboys. We watched 1994's The Cowboy Way, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Woody Harrelson, and the on screen assault of Luis Guzmán.

Michael Jackson, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Anjelica Huston, and the Disney company take a collective shit in this enormous waste of resources. In this episode we discuss Captain EO, the 18 minute 4-D film created to play in amusement parks...and one that has the distinction of being the most expensive (per minute) film ever made. 

Barf! Bella's in love with a vampire and a werewolf and herself and no one.  We talked Twilight (2008) the first film in the teen vampire saga.