Silly naming convention is back for our longest episode to date. Sarah and MJ are joined by The Nicest Man in Podcasting, Harley Mumford to talk about Jordan Peele's masterwork, NOPE. The conversation goes all sorts of places from reckoning with the legacy of your chosen art form to the dangers of being arrogant around nature, and wraps up with some talk about Hollywood budgeting that leaves Harley a shell of his former self.

This week, Sarah and MJ are joined by Rob Wallis to discuss Tremors and nothing else out of the ordinary. Just a couple of pals getting together to talk about the excellent Fred Ward/Kevin Bacon vehicle Tremors. They talk about the efficient storytelling and sense of place, and not Mr. Blobby ever.

This week, Sarah and MJ head to Maine to discuss the giant crocodile film Lake Placid. They talk about what makes a good creature feature, why Lake Placid falls flat despite having most of the ingredients of a good creature feature, and Oliver Platt's raw magnetism, as well as Ebert's review and some of the most memorable lines they've seen in this season!

This week, Sarah and MJ tackle a film that takes broad and abstract inspiration from Jaws: Basic Instinct. They wax poetic about erotic thrillers, Jerry Goldsmith, and their favorite topic, replacing one of the lead actors with Roy Scheider.

What would a season all about the films that were inspired by Jaws be without at least one shark movie? And what would an episode about a terrible shark movie be without our resident shark boi, Dr. Jack Cooper. Dr. Jack Cooper joins us to talk about The Last Shark, a 1981 Italian film that bears so many similarities to Jaws it was successfully barred from release in the United States by Universal. The movie's bad, but the goofs and gags are good!

The Jaws inspired films season makes a stop in St. Louis? Chicago? to spend time with Alligator. Sarah and MJ had a B L A S T with this movie and talk about what makes it so great, who one of the antagonists may have inspired, and crack the Bong Joon-Ho code to see Alligator's influence on many of his films.

"Inspired by" season continues with a stop on the Nostromo! Sarah and MJ are joined by their illustrious graphic designer, Alex Jenkins to talk about all things Xenomorph. They discuss the biomechanics of the alien, the lengths directors will go to get a reaction out of their casts, and improve the chestburster scene with their own sound effects.

Jaws-piration season rolls on as we catch up with 1978's Piranha, directed by Joe Dante and produced by the legendary Roger Corman. Sarah and MJ discuss lil guys, weird British ladies, why Dick Miller is always a good casting choice, and collecting physical media.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd we're back! This episode kicks off 2025 and a brand new season chock full of movies that were inspired by Jaws. We begin things with the very sane and normal film, Orca: The Killer Whale starring Richard Harris as a man who enters into a rivalry with an orca and the orca reacts in a very normal way.

Scheider season comes to a not so thrilling conclusion as Sarah and MJ reluctantly talk about a 90's Scheider film that features one of the worst scripts they have seen on the show as well as some truly terrible performances, but their loss is your gain listening to them cope each other through this mess of a film!