Inside The Idiot Box

Inside the Idiot Box arch nemesis, Glen Larson, is at it again! He’s taken a lame concept and managed to make it worse simply by putting it on TV. This week the boys watched Manimal, the story of a man that can shapeshift into animals, travel through time, is constantly being stabbed, and has a “will they/won’t they” relationship with his own daughter.

This week the Idiot Box Legion of Doom emerges from the podcast swamp in their Darth Vader Funko Pop-shaped headquarters to battle a superhero syndication oddity from 1997, NightMan. Johnny Domino is a San Francisco jazz musician by night, and a San Francisco jazz superhero by…night? No wonder he’s always tired. 

This week Dennis, Jeff and Josh try to find the yellow pages listing for “emergency podcast repair” as Scot forces the gang to watch a bogus Bill and Ted misadventure NOT starring Keanu Reeves or Alex Winter.

In this two part episode, the Four Boresome delve deep into eighties television infamy – The cave episode of Punky Brewster. Can Punky and her friends survive a nightmarish descent through a Sid and Marty Croft acid-trip? Is there anything in that bag for Vincent Schiavelli? Will Scot ever sleep again after being traumatized by rubber Allen face? Will the Dumont from Tron references ever stop? Tune in to find out!

This episode of eighties television takes a swerve in the wrong direction (and a jump over a ravine of logic) when a busload of Russian gymnasts tumbles into Hazzard County. Only the Duke boys Bo and Luke can get to the bottom of a cold war conspiracy in their own backyard…haha just kidding, this is a Coy and Vance episode.

This week the Quadragenarian Squadron squeezes into their spandex flight suits, and fires up their Quadfighters, as they discuss a 1978 vision of the 25th century featuring disco, platform shoes and TV superstars Ray Walston and Gary Coleman.

Have you ever asked yourself: “I wonder what Merlin the magician would be doing for a living if he were alive today?” The correct answer of course is ‘residency at the Excalibur in Vegas’, but in this episode we revisit a magical eighties show that made audiences disappear, about a modern day Merlin dealing with the HR issues and supply chain headaches of a local business owner. ITIB drinking game: take a shot every time Dumont from Tron is referenced!

The Generation-X Men discuss an episode of the forgotten eighties sci-fi show, and the first entry in NBC’s Talking Dolphinverse, Misfits of Science. Can a young Courtney Cox and her Super Friends find a sunken treasure with the help of a talking Dolphin? Tuna in and find out!

This week we take you Inside the Idiot Box to discuss a very special episode of the bizarre eighties syndication relic, Small Wonder. It’s a show about a wisecracking robot child with a sophisticated computer for a brain, and hydraulic lifts for arms, used mainly for performing menial house chores like dusting and vacuuming under furniture. This is exactly how we get judgment days.

Inside the Idiot Box Episodes One, Two, and Three are coming soon!