The Blob Show!

Charley and Tony return to count down their favorite films of 2021.  Spoilers in the remaining show-notes.

Films mentioned: Strawberry Mansion (d. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney); Psycho Goreman (d. Steven Kostanski); The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) (d. Joachim Trier); Dead Till Death (d. Will Carsola); Skater Girl (d. Manjari Makijany); Saint Maud (d. Rose Glass); Agnes (d. Rickey Reece); Muppets Haunted Mansion (d. Kirk R. Thatcher); The Beatles: Get Back (d. Peter Jackson and Michael Lindsay-Hogg); The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记) (d. MTJJ); The Power of the Dog (d. Jane Campion); Encanto (d. Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith); Can't Get You Out of My Head (d. Adam Curtis); Mixtape (d. Valerie Weiss); Memoria (d. อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, Apichatpong Weerasethakul); Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes) (d. Claude Cloutier); Spencer (d. Pablo Larraín); Petite maman (d. Céline Sciamma); Mandibles (Mandibules) (d. Quentin Dupieux); Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー) (d. 濱口 竜介, Ryusuke Hamaguchi); The Adventures of Bandit and Wild Wes (d. Travis Mills)

In which we discuss the prototypical slasher/late-Universal monster and celebrate Ricou Browning.  Please forward your well-wishes to the Gill-Man actor here:

That Jo-I-Know performs a most-spirited recitation of the 1960 Dr. Seuss classic.

In honor of our Michigan listeners, we delve further into our exhaustive coverage of Oz On Film this week exploring the two-strip Technicolor silent record of The University of Michigan League's 1936 freshman pageant OZ UNIVERSITY.  At least two pressing questions are raised: Is this Professor Wogglebug's first (only?) film appearance?  How does Dorothy's trouble with villainous anthropomorphic architecture connect to the Link's quest for the Mask of Scents?  I thought this was a pretty esoteric episode until Charley had me hold her beer.

Charley and Tony hand the reins to our new showrunner, Joey.  A companion piece to episode #092, our resident Goosebumps expert recaps the television adaptation of R.L. Stine's THE BLOB THAT ATE EVERYONE (d. Randy Bradshaw) and conducts a brief interview with Goosebumps himself.  You wouldn't understand.

Sub-amateur birders Charley and Tony discuss some recent desert spottings including the Canyon Towhee, Abert's Towhee, Gambel's Quail, Cactus Wren, and the invasive Great-tailed Grackle.

Tony tries to marshal some arrangement in this rocky episode as Charley and Joey chase the pie-in-the-sky fool's errand of synopsizing PAW Patrol: The Movie ("not the show, the movie"), though some may call their recap rubble.  Behind the scenes, Tony continues his investigation into whether "PAW" is an acronym justifying its title formatting; more to come.

Charley and Tony get literary with a bedtime review of the fifty-fifth book of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series: The Blob That Ate Everyone.  

Charley draws parallels between the Depression-era 2000 Coen Brothers screwball musical and the politics of Rafael Pérez Grovas's 1981 film SANTO AND THE BORDER OF TERROR (Santo en la frontera del terror) proving The Blob Show is always a good place to call out white supremacy.

We celebrate our new Poland listens by providing commentary over Zbigniew Rybczyński's 1975 experimental animation OH! I CAN'T STOP! (Oj! Nie mogę się zatrzymać!) and discuss whether its POV monster should be invited into the blob canon.