Let me ask you this: did The Godfather have a cat from outer space in it? Did Lawrence of Arabia have a cat from outer space in it? Did Citizen Kane have a cat from outer space in it? No, no and no, they did not. But you'd better believe the 1978 Disney classic The Cat from Outer Space has a cat from outer space in it, and this week we're bypassing the randomizer for our first-ever Guest's Choice episode, in which our good friend Morgan Funder makes us watch that majestic cinematic epic of the "extraterrestrial feline" subgenre. Join Tony Goldmark, Alessandra Dreyer, Morgan Funder and David Ganssle as they make first contact with THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE! Check out my guests' stuff! ALESSANDRA DREYER Twitter: https://twitter.com/badfolklorist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badfolklorist MORGAN FUNDER Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheWire2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnIdiotsLantern DAVID GANSSLE Twitter: https://twitter.com/doggans YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/doggans And check out this show on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/efvdpodcast Host's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/972385353152531 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tonygoldmark Hear new episodes a day early by supporting this show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tonygoldmark

The next full episode won't be ready until next week, but in the meantime, here's a BONUS MINISODE devoted entirely to my semiregular "State of the Parks" theme park news/editorial segment. It's been a while since I've actually had time to do such a segment for the show proper, so here's a rundown of theme park news stories I missed over the past few months, namely: - Disneyland canceling the annual pass system - Disneyland's Toy Story parking lot becoming a vaccination super-site - Snow White's Scary Adventures being refurbished into Snow White's Enchanted Wish - Walt Disney World shutting down Mickey's Magical Express - Taika Waititi directing film segments for "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind" - Imagineers Joe Rohde and Kevin Rafferty retiring

Happy New Year everybody! For Escape From Vault Disney's first episode of 2021, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1993 to pick Disney's live-action adaptation of Mark Twain's immortal 1884 literary classic, a film that dares to posit that the REAL victims of slavery were the white people who felt really bad about it sometimes. Ah, the 90s. Join Tony Goldmark, Morgan Funder, Madeline Maye and Chris Nebergall as they impatiently skim through THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN! Check out my guests' stuff! MORGAN FUNDER Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheWire2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnIdiotsLantern MADELINE MAYE Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/landbeforetimeland Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/inkblot-band Twitter: https://twitter.com/LBTLPodcast CHRIS NEBERGALL Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisNebergall YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9hpBl49TYkjc_lzqStkCA And check out this show on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/efvdpodcast Host's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/972385353152531 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tonygoldmark Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tonygoldmark

Merry belated Christmas everyone! For our third and final Christmas episode of the year, the randomizer goes back to 1998 to pick a Saban-produced direct-to-video sequel that answers the supremely important question, "What would it look like if It's A Wonderful Life had a dinosaur museum heist, a grunge band dressed as a hair metal band, a flying child dictator AND a fire-breathing robot maid?" Join Tony Goldmark, David Ganssle, Randee Martin and the ever-mysterious Carl Featherbottom as they grant RICHIE RICH'S CHRISTMAS WISH!

For our second Christmas episode of 2020, the randomizer picked a 1999 direct-to-video compilation animated feature in which everyone's favorite classic Disney characters starred in holiday stories about everything Christmas is all about: time loops, atheism and the horrors of late-stage capitalism! Join Tony Goldmark, Sydney Agnew and "How Did This Not Get Made" hosts Daniel Kawka and David Spencer as we watch MICKEY'S ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS!

Happy Holidays, everyone! This week, for this podcast's first Christmas episode of 2020, the randomizer picks a 2011 Disney Channel original movie, based on a Disney Channel sitcom, featuring everything Christmas is all about: hitchhiking, angry gamers, confusing business names, crappy old cars, UFO conspiracy theorists, luggage theft, kidnapping LARPers and paintball! Join Tony Goldmark, Emily Clark, Kyle Kallgren and Variety's Deputy Awards and Features Editor Jenelle Riley (!!!) as they wish everyone GOOD LUCK CHARLIE, IT'S CHRISTMAS!

This week Tony joins the hosts of this weekend's "Thanks For The Magic" charity livestream as the randomizer, in its infinite wisdom, forces them to watch a 2011 NatGeo documentary special that for some weird reason saw fit to ask the bold question, "What if the water had no water in it?" Join Tony Goldmark, Kevin Anderson, Charlie Callahan and Haley Baker Callahan as they inexplicably DRAIN THE GREAT LAKES! In the time since we recorded and released this podcast, Drain the Great Lakes has been removed from Disney+, but you can still watch it HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdejfV_kYY8 

DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded and released prior to the arrest of one of its guests, Kyle Carrozza. We at Escape From Vault Disney strongly condemn Mr. Carrozza's actions and offer our deepest sympathies to his victims, and we will not be inviting him on this podcast again in the future. That said, rather than attempt to rewrite history, we have decided to leave this episode online and intact as a time capsule of when it was made. This week the randomizer flies our magic bed all the way back to 1971, when Disney made a spiritual successor to Mary Poppins in which Jessica Fletcher and Mr. Banks encounter talking cartoon animals AND literal Nazis in the same movie, and somehow the Nazis are more polite. Join Tony Goldmark, Kyle A. Carrozza, Luke Ski and Lindsay Smith as they stock up on BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS!

After taking a couple weeks off, Escape From Vault Disney returns to join forces with the Channel KRT podcast, and the randomizer mercifully picks one of the funniest and best movies on Disney+, the feature directorial debut of acclaimed Oscar-nominated auteur Jim Henson, the eternal classic film that gifted the cinema landscape with those immortal words to live by, "That's a frog. Bears wear hats." Join Tony Goldmark, Tyler Green, Randee Martin and Kitty Quinn as they solve THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER!

Just in the nick of time for Halloween, the randomizer picks another Halloween title, this one a well-remembered Disney Channel Original Movie from 1998! You've heard of Halloween the holiday, Halloween the movie and Halloween the Horror Nights, but did you know Halloweentown can be a TOWN? And hey, Kalabar (or possibly Calabar) is actually IN this one! Join Tony Goldmark, Charlie Callahan, Haley Baker Callahan and Gaby Tyrrell as they hitchhike all the way to HALLOWEENTOWN!