It's the last week of the month of ghosts and goblins, and Kristine and Bill tackle one of the all-time favorites in the DCOM catalog--1998's Halloweentown. The wonderful Debbie Reynolds! A child star turned karate champion! A big baddie with a very, very questionable plan! The small town in Oregon that still holds a month-long festival celebrating this movie every fall! And so much more...

It's a cult favorite NOW, but Bill was one of like six people who saw Hocus Pocus in the theater back in 1993, so it qualifies. Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker overact wonderfully in this Halloween classic as three witches, out to eat the life force of an adorable young child (Thora Birch) guarded by two pretty horny teens (Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw). Come do 90s things with us!

Our month of ghosts and goblins and geese and ganders continues with 2002's Disney Channel Original Movie "The Scream Team," starring a very young Kat Dennings, Eric Idle and Kathy Najimy. It's not scary, there are very few screams and it has one of the worst theme songs you've ever heard, but we find the fun. Come along and enjoy!

In our second foray into Disney-ride-based films, it's Eddie Murphy in 2003's The Haunted Mansion, which came out just a few months after the first Pirates of the Caribbean and did...well, it also sold some tickets! We talk a bit about our brush with COVID-19 (also known as "the 'vid" and "the dash-nineteen," if you're cool), and a lot about the various Haunted Mansion attractions around the world, including one very gross, very true urban legend. 

A family movie set in the middle of the Vietnam War, about three soldiers trying to transport an elephant 300 miles across the country? What could possibly go right? 

Kristine and Bill try to talk their way through the pain of 1995's Operation Dumbo Drop, starring Ray Liotta, Danny Glover and Denis Leary. There's a cool elephant! 

In January 2015, nearly a full year before The Force Awakens, Disney and LucasFilm kicked off their marriage in a bit of a strange way, with George Lucas' pet project, the animated fairytale and rock opera Strange Magic. Kristine and Bill (and, at the start, their son Dan) talk about it, about the interminable list of songs George slammed in there, about the Uncanny Valley, and probably too much more! 

It's like a Muppets movie, if you weren't really even remotely familiar with or interested in the individual Muppets, and the singing was very bad! Kristine and Bill tackle 2002's "The Country Bears," with Haley Joel Osment, Diedrich Bader, Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley, Queen Latifah, and Elton John doing...something.  

It's Bill's first Fifth Friday Favorites episode, and he goes with maybe his FAVORITE favorite: 2011's The Muppets. All the cameos! All the Muppeteers! Bret McKenzie and the Muppety goodness of Flight of the Conchords! It's all here.

Bill and Kristine discuss Disney's 1993 adaptation of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," starring Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance and featuring just about every other actor in the world. Jason Robards! Robbie Hagrid Coltrane! Gabrielle from Xena! Dopey Anne Heche! Plus, deep dives on Wood, composer Bill Conti, Twain himself, and some of the many, many other adaptations of his greatest work. 

Kristine and Bill revisit another Disney Channel Original Movie they were too old for. It's not great, but Katey Sagal is! Also: other, better cautionary sci-fi tales, a terrible Jeff Goldblum impression, an even worse Hobbit pun, the Simpsons, and one of the worst songs you've ever heard. This one might ramble a bit! Come join us.