Episodes

Welcome to 1991! Our first episode rockets into your podcast app of choice as Cliff Secord finds a mysterious jetpack and is soon catapulted into a conflict between the feds, the mob, and the Nazis... oh my! Billy Campbell, Timothy Dalton, Jennifer Conne...

There are two questions you always say "yes" to: When someone asks if you're a god, or if the hosts of the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast call you up and ask you to join them for a discussion of the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. If you're strong e...

Ever wanted to see Leonard, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael beat the crap out of a bunch of evil ninjas? Well, until I can fully finance that Kung-Fu Renaissance screenplay I've been working on, you'll have to settle for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Mark Hunter moved away from everything he knew into a dysfunctional high school in the middle of nowhere. What else is a kid to do but start a pirate radio station and rile up the other teenagers? Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis star in Pump Up The ...

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark... but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can't quite put their finger on what it is.  Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, and Richard Dreyfuss star in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Edward is an unfinished boy left to fend for himself when his "father" died. When the outside world finds him and makes him their Avon spokesmodel, he has to learn what it means to be a real boy, just without the pesky donkey ears and whales.  Johnny Dep...

In the fall of 1990, Ninja Turtle mania was at a fever pitch. The cartoon and merchandising had exploded. The movie was a success. What else is there left to do but to create a musical concert experience for the throngs of children who were demanding to ...

Carl and James are two garbage men pining for a life of surf and sun, but when they discover a dead body on their route, it drags them into a corporate cover-up, a little Weekend-At-Bernie's action, and some good-natured pranking that escalate from explo...

Check out a preview of our Patreon exclusive episode on the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. It was a three and a half hour marathon show, so this is just a taste to try to entice you. We would be honored if you would join us at patreon.com/3...

In the late 80s, Disney was reeling from a lackluster box office. It wasn't until 1989 and The Little Mermaid that they started to regain their footing. One film, released in that buffer zone between the gloom of the 80s and the boom of the 90s was Rescu...

Matthew Quigley answered a wanted ad to take a job in Australia that needed a sharpshooter. Unfortunately, he finds out too late that his targets would be native aborigines. His new employer, the ruthless Elliot Marston, tries to kill Quigley and Crazy C...

Paul has just finished his latest novel but ends up in a car accident that leaves him incapacitated and bedridden. His "rescuer" Annie also happens to be a huge fan of his book series. Unfortunately, this fan doesn't agree with the fate of her favorite c...

Valentine and Earl are looking to get out of Perfection as fast as they can. They probably should have left one day earlier, though, when giant underground eel creatures start killing residents. With a little ingenuity and some residual boulders, they mi...

For our second "Patreon Listener's Choice" episode, our newest Co-Executive Producer (the title bestowed upon our Patreon supporters) Jason Colvin chose Internal Affairs. Richard Gere plays Dennis Peck, a smooth but sociopathic dirty cop to Andy Garcia's...

Jacob Singer was intensely affected by his time in Vietnam, but until he begins to have vivid hallucinations he doesn't realize just how much. Is he on an extended drug trip or halfway between heaven and hell? Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiell...

Larry feels like there could have been more to his life than just building model cars in an unfinished house in the suburbs. His job is fine, but not great. The boss's wife seems more appealing than his own. Then one night, after getting fired from his j...

It's the classic tale of boy meets girl, girl has abusive father, boy has weight issues, other boy has mommy issues, other boy stutters and has dead brother issues... and so on. Then there's a killer shapeshifting alien clown. You know... the usual. Harr...

When Luke's parents die in an accident, he travels with an elderly mentor and is pursued by an evil black-clad villain with a penchant for cutting off appendages. I just realized this movie is a copy of Star Wars! Not really... but it is the film adapta...

Ben Healy is a nice guy. It's hard to imagine how he ended up that way with the father who raised him or why he ever married Flo... basically everyone else around him are horrible people. When Ben and Flo adopt Junior, they think a gap has been filled in...

Scrooge McDuck has searched for the treasure of Collie Baba for years and it's finally within his grasp. A dusty old lamp is in with the treasure and Scrooge doesn't see much value in it, so he gives it to Webby to keep. Along with Huey, Dewey, and Loui...

Kevin just had one of the worst nights of his life as his entire family — and I mean ENTIRE family — ganged up on him and blamed him for pretty much everything. His worst night turns into a kid's dream and a parent's worst nightmare as his family leaves ...

Undercover cop John Kimble is used to dealing with the dregs of the criminal underworld. They steal, they're obsessed with death, and he's always striving to keep them under control. Now he's dealing with the same issues... from a group of five year olds...

It's Bleek's band and he won't have it any other way. Shadow's not putting up with that anymore, though and makes it pretty clear he's angling for everything Bleek has: the band, the girl... Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee star in Mo' Bet...

When a bunch of inept Martians mistakenly think they've missed the invasion of Earth, they arrive on Halloween night just in time for Big Bean, Illinois's rebroadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. Chaos ensues thanks to the lack of intelligent lif...