The Blob Show!

Did you know monkeys aren't the only flying anomaly in Oz?  Tony and Charley discuss the troubled production behind the scenes of the 1939 MGM production (going through directors Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, Busby Berkeley, George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and King Vidor) and give commentary on the extended (and sadly cut) Busby Berkeley-choreographed "If I Only Had a Brain" in which the Scarecrow flies.  Lastly, we find out who has the brain when Charley takes the Wiz Quiz.

Charley and Tony dive into the Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung vehicle WHEELS ON MEALS and its readymade-franchise-seeking-movie-tie-in video game KUNG-FU MASTER (SPARTAN X, d. Takashi Nishiyama).  

With summer just around the corner, it's Spielberg season again at the Blob Show.  Charley and Tony talk JAWS and trauma, quickly review the blue raspberry SHARK BITE LOLLIPOP, and then embark on a tour of LJN's JAWS released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, a game loosely structured after JAWS, THE REVENGE.  

Charley and Tony report on location at Lake Como in Fort Worth, Texas where they saw many birds uncommon to their desert home.  They discuss their corresponding plates in John James Audubon's The Birds of America, which these two dudes were able to tick.  They also experience a tornado warning.

159. Northern Cardinal

12. Baltimore Oriole

67. Red-winged Blackbird

236. Black-crowned Night Heron

386. Great Egret

106. Black Vulture

Charley goes solo for analysis of SANTO IN THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY (Santo en la venganza de la momia, 1971) d. René Cardona.

Nothing brings our family together like a creature feature.  Tony and Charley discuss Frank Marshall's directorial debut ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990), a second-tier release from Amblin Entertainment in which the sum of its parts may be greater than the whole.  We also play the eponymous 1991 spider shoot 'em up developed by BlueSky Software.

Sometimes the universe just gives you the best things like Santo and the blob in the same movie with a Jesús Zarzosa spy score. 

After some early dismissal from Charley that this short documentary was "only talking," your hosts discuss the antics of fanaticism and the fun possibility of visiting the Phoenixville Blobfest one year.  

And a happy birthday to The Blob Show!  We recorded this episode on the one-year anniversary of our premiere.  Charley immediately suggests we cancel the program and start a new podcast reviewing our favorite episodes of the first year of the Blob Show.  So it gets a little meta.

Thanks for listening!

Joey joins Charley and Tony is this chaotic exploration of RKO's KING KONG (1933).  We also review Rocket Fizz's King Kong Cola, speculate on the unrealized film projects of stop-motion animation pioneer Willis H. O'Brien, and debrief the intellectual property woes of director/creator Merian C. Cooper, Universal City Studios LLC, and Nintendo Co., Lt. in a long-winded segment titled King Kong Legal Corner.

The tables quickly turn on Charley's lighthearted Hyrule romp when the ReDead appear in the Nintendo 64 version of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME.  Tony and Charley talk the importance of sound design in the construction of fear, different Link appearances in the Zelda canon, and the 1989 Atlus/LJN Nintendo release FRIDAY THE 13TH.