Episode 52 - Adventures in Babysitting

This week, we're taking a ride in mom's station wagon into the lawless wilds of 1980s Chicago as we watch Adventures in Babysitting, a film in which the good judgement of a teen girl gets her charges almost gets her charges killed in a number of terrible ways. White-knuckle your way through this one with us, won't you?

Episode 51 - Beastmaster

Usually when a dude has two ferrets, it’s a dealbreaker, but not if he’s the leathery hero of The Beastmaster, a deliciously campy epic about the adventures of a simple warrior who can talk to animals. Put on your best loincloth and join us on a safari of crazy. Child sacrifice has never been this fun!

Episode 50 - Labyrinth

Let David Bowie’s skin-tight pants awaken the dance magic within you as we dive head first into the puppet bacchanal that is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. Come, lose yourself in our wonderful maze as we ruin yet another beloved childhood film for ourselves in our 50th episode.

Episode 49 - The Canterville Ghost

Don't you just hate it when you inherit an old castle and it turns out to be just slap full of ghost that only Alyssa Milano can set free from his terrible curse? Join us as we take yet another haunted house journey in the 1986 made-for-TV movie, The Canterville Ghost.

Episode 48 - High Spirits

This week, we're discussing two movies: a charming supernatural farce about an Irish lord trying to save his ancestral home from developers by faking a haunting, and a stupid ghost love quadrangle involving Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, and Liam Neeson. Unfortunately for us and everyone, these two stories have been mashed together into this unholy monstrosity, High Spirits.

Episode 47 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Before Sarah Michelle Gellar and the Scooby Gang staked their claim in our hearts (see what we did there?) there was Joss Whedon's 1.0 version. Join us as we watch Kristy Swanson and the late, great Luke Perry as they wear flannel, dust vamps, and avoid bogus corn in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Episode 46 - The Peanut Butter Solution

It takes a pretty special movie to start getting really weird after the ghosts show up in the kitchen with recipes, but this film is, if nothing else, special. Join us as we discover a cure for fear-induced childhood baldness in a film that may have been written by Mad Libs, The Peanut Butter Solution.


Episode 45 - The Electric Grandmother

Oh boy, have we unearthed a treasure for you this week. Can a robot teach a family to love again? What's up with that sarcophagus in the front yard? Why is all this stuff coming out of grandma, and is it safe to eat? We explore these questions and so many more that nobody really wants the answers to as we discuss Ray Bradbury's forgotten children's sci-fi classic, The Electric Grandmother.

Episode 44 - Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

There comes a time in every adult’s life when we must confront just how wack was the entertainment of our childhood. Sometimes that reckoning happens in a therapists’ office. Today, it’s happening on a podcast. Join as we attempt to scrute the inscrutable mysteries of Rainbow Brite.

Episode 43 - Honey I Shrunk the Kids

It’s a big, gross, dangerous world out there, which is why we’re staying inside to talk about the teeny-tiny hijinks in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Join us as we wax nostalgic about yet another charming adventure in parental neglect. This time, it’s fun-sized!

Episode 42 - The Real Ghostbusters

When there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Podcasters! Join us as we wax nostalgic about a couple of episodes of The Real Ghostbusters (TM TM TM, accept no imposters, especially gorillas.)

Episode 41 - The Witches

Somewhere in this episode, there is a conversation about The Witches, the 1990 film adaptation of the Roald Dahl book about a group of ladies in sensible shoes who just want some dang peace and quiet and maybe not so much poop stink in the air, and who are willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. Also, lots and lots of talk about mice, so good luck with this one, musophobics!

Episode 40 - E.T. LIVE at SF Sketchfest

Live from SF Sketchfest, we’re talking about E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. You know it, you’ve seen it, so kick back and relax while we tear that repressed trauma right out of your brain like a hypnotherapist specializing in recovered UFO abduction memories. Pleasant dreams!

Episode 39 - Wizards


Remember when you were 7 and your parents left you with a babysitter and whatever animated movie they picked up at Blockbuster, and that movie turned out to be a incomprehensible post-apocalyptic tale about wizards fighting Nazis, featuring a pretty surprising amount of footage from Triumph of the Will for a family film? Well, somebody does, so we're taking a long look into the dark, weird void that is Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

Episode 38 - Home Alone LIVE

It’s our very first live show, and boy is it weird. Join us as we discuss Kevin’s deep-seated trauma and possible sociopathy in a deep dive on the holiday classic, Home Alone. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. 

Episode 37 - Frosty the Snowman

In this minisode, we confront the grim reality that life is fleeting, and that one day you and everyone you love will be reduced to a puddle of liquid. Thumpity thump thump, look at Frosty go. Join us as we unpack a refrigerated boxcar full of snowman-related issues as we discuss Frosty the Snowman.


Episode 36 - The Last Starfighter

Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. Nah, just kidding. You've just been recruited to listen to this podcast as we hop in our Star Car and take a journey through space and questionable CGI to explore The Last Starfighter. 

Episode 35 - Flight of the Navigator

This week's episode is a blast from the past, which is thematically appropriate since we're discussing Flight of the Navigator, a terrifying film about confronting mortality and also Pee-wee Herman in spaceship form, which is actually less upsetting than his human form. Go figure.

Episode 34 - Poltergeist

Come into the light. There is peace in the light. There is podcast in the light. Join your ghosts on a very special Halloween journey through bad parenting, murderous clown dolls, the restless dead, and become a member of the First United Church of Tangina as we discuss the most terrifying, inexplicably PG-rated film of all time, Poltergeist.

Episode 33 - Teen Witch

Put on your magical amulet and join your hosts for another installment of our Halloween series as we plunge deep into the heart of the 1989 teen cult classic, Teen Witch. It has baffling acting choices! It has bizarre musical numbers! It's extremely magical! It's art, and we're here for it.