Dissecting The 80s

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It's Tripp's Pick for Favorites-bruary 2025: Back to the Future III!

For some reason, we did these movies 5 years apart: 2015, 2020 and now 2025! Did this instill Tripp's love of westerns? Mary Steenburgen is CRAZY horny for Doc, Michael J. Fox is channeling Clint Eastwood and we have a real lovefest for this silly three-quel!

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Looking for #291 A Nightmare Before Christmas? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Back to the Future III, Doc Brown, Michael J. Fox, Marty McFly, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

It's our mom's least favorite movie, Batman Returns!

Michelle Pfeiffer causes Andrew's awakening, Danny DeVito is a true horror, and Keaton is...barely in the movie! Hear Andrew gush and Tripp appreciate Tim Burton's second Batman flick.

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Looking for #291 A Nightmare Before Christmas? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Batman Returns, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Paul Reubens, Tim Burton, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Tim Burton's first film, Pee Wee's Big Adventure turns 40 this year, so what better way to kick off 2025?

He's a loner, Dottie, a Rebel, and he's at the heart of this delightfully absurd comedy. How old is PeeWee? Is this our most Sketch-forward movie in year?

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Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: PeeWee, Paul Reubens, Tim Burton, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We'll be back on January 20 with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure! Until then, enjoy this archive episode!

Out-of-context quote from this episode: “[Steve Guttenberg] in this movie and Ed Begley, Jr. in She-Devil are the two biggest ‘… what?’ casting decisions.” Steve Gutenberg finally makes it onto the show, Ally Sheedy has brown football helmet hair, Military … Continue reading →

It's a true Christmas classic turning 40, so we had to go visit Bedford!

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Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Gremlins, Joe Dante, Judge Reinhold, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Our long-delayed Listener Request Month finale is here: Jean-Claude Van Damme's testosterone-fueled, wrestling tinged insanity: Bloodsport!

Andrew hates a movie Tripp loved, secret salt, a very confusing tournament schedule/structure, inexplicable plot structure, is Jean-Claude AWOL?

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Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bloodsport, kumite, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Happy Thanksgiving, here's your second helping of Candy-ed Yams: Delirious!

What is Candy so into this lady? What's the best part about living in a soap opera world? Plus, we discuss all the dum things we'd do with a magic typewriter!

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Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Delirious, John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We kicked off Candy-ed Yams with a completely incomprehensible movie: Nothing But Trouble!

What are we even doing here? Why on earth would Dan Aykroyd bite off so much for his first directorial effort? Why is he wearing a dick nose and a sloppy nightmare monster?

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Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Nothing But Trouble, Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, The Substance, Dan Aykroyd, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We're wrapping up our Spooktacular with an absolute masterpiece: Alien!

Tripp urges Sigourney to abandon the cat, we gush over set design and talk about The Great Movie Ride for the 200th time.

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Want to hear the rest? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!) It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Keywords: Alien, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Xenomorph, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

This episode brings us to the end of Freddie month, with a 30th anniversary celebration of Wes Craven's New Nightmare, aka Scream Zero.

How did a movie this weird get a greenlight (that's a good thing!), B Roll of real disasters, Andrew hates Tripp's opinions on Heather Langenkamp, Freddie gets scary again! 

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Looking for #282 The Gate? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.

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Keywords: Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, Heather Langenkamp, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast