It’s not MaxFunDrive without a wild kickoff spectacular! Former real-life VJ and host of MTV's Spring Break 1999, Dave Holmes, takes your favorite MaxFun hosts through some wacky ‘90s- and Spring Break-themed mini games!!

Featuring: Dave Holmes, Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya, Dimitry Pompée, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Alex Schmidt, Brenda Snell, Drea Clark, Alonso Duralde, Dan McCoy, Jordan Morris, Manolo Moreno, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper, Ella McLeod, John-Luke Roberts, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Mike Cabellon, Sierra Katow, Hal Lublin, Danielle Radford, John Moe, Christian Dueñas, Christian Duguay

We start out our special "Films Without Spider-Man" theme month (in honor of Max Fun Drive -- please consider supporting our show!) with one of the more ostentatiously-Spider-Man-free films of last year: Kraven the Hunter. C'mon, Kraven, we KNOW you guys know one another--remember that last hunt? Just swallow your pride and phone Spidey to drop by! We're cravin' it!

We're doing a ton of extra stuff for Max Fun Drive this year -- check out our event calendar!

Wikipedia page for Kraven the Hunter

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)

Stuart: The Monkey (2025)

Elliott: Mr. Vampire (1985)

We welcome one of the godfathers of bad movie culture, Harry Medved, of the seminal books "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time" and "The Golden Turkey Awards," and discuss his PBS show "Locationland" where he and comedian Dana Gould visited the filming sites for Plan 9 From Outer Space! And we also spend a little time talking to Locationland producer Harry Pallenberg about his father's work with John Boorman on Exorcist II: The Heretic (the Golden Turkeys' pick for #2 worst movie of all time) and the oft-referenced Zardoz!

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Wow! The first new Star Trek movie in eight years! What's that you say? Oh. TV movie? And it's less a "movie" and more a "we were going to develop a new series and that fell through so we made it a one-off, 90 minute thing?" Huh. Well, Star Trek: Section 31 may not be a "movie" in the same way we've used that word for most of its existence, but it was still a good excuse to hang out with our friends Adam and Ben from Max Fun's terrific Trek shows Greatest Gen and Greatest Trek, so every cosmic cloud has a silver lining, we guess.

Wikipedia page for Star Trek: Section 31

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Stu: Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

Elliott: Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

Adam: Babylon (2022)

Ben: Down With Love (2003)

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The Goofmaster returns to quiz Stuart and Elliott about some IMDb "Goofs" from 1980's movies that didn't live up to the standards of viewers with enough free time to log movie goofs on IMDb.

There’s been SO MUCH DEMAND for FlopTV that — you know what? — we’re going to leave episodes up for an extra two weeks, so that late buyers can still have the time to check out the shows (and that means one last chance to snag sometickets)! Just be sure to watch before MIDNIGHT (eastern time) on March 19! And while you’re clicking on stuff, subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!”

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A lot of stuff happened... HERE. Well. Not that much stuff, actually. Like, six couples lived here. Most of them were pretty boring. But at one point there were dinosaurs! That's pretty cool, right? Anyway, enjoy our discussion of the latest installment in Robert Zemeckis's inexplicable slide from "can do no wrong" to "can do ... wrong!"

There’s been SO MUCH DEMAND for FlopTV that — you know what? — we’re going to leave episodes up for an extra two weeks, so that late buyers can still have the time to check out the shows (and that means one last chance to snag sometickets)! Just be sure to watch before MIDNIGHT (eastern time) on March 19!

Wikipedia page for Here

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Mutant Hunt (1987), Black Tight Killers (1966)

Stu: La chimera (2023)

Elliott: Juror #2 (2024)

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 Pizza Roles is launching February 2025! Search Pizza Roles R-O-L-E-S on Kickstarter now!

Following a couple of failed "Dark Universe" attempts, Stuart leads a brainstorming session to explore how his co-hosts might revitalize the Universal Monsters.

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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a lovely, enduring children's classic (if you've never encountered it, have Steve Buscemi read it to you!) -- did Hollywood treat it with gentleness and respect, when they decided to use it as the jumping-off point for the movie "Harold and the Purple Crayon?" The answer may not surprise you!

The LIVE tapings of season 2 of FlopTV end TONIGHT with TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze! But a season pass gets out access to the full line-up thru the end of February! And hey, while you’re clicking on stuff, why not subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets?!”

Wikipedia page for Harold and the Purple Crayon

Recommended in this episode:

Dan: Brewster McCloud (1970) & Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) 

Stu: Flow (2024) 

Elliott: The Three Musketeers (1973)

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Elliott completes a loose trilogy of minisodes -- one per Peach -- all about the changing of the year. His take? What New Year's resolution would you make on behalf of various franchises?

The final episode of season 2 of FlopTV debuts in one week, but your ticket gets you access thru February! Full line-up/tickets here! And while you’re clicking on stuff, subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!”

For our first full episode recorded and released in 2025, we wanted to start things off with a bang, so we watched the sequel to a love-it-or-hate-it film, except this time around most non-John Waters/Quentin Tarantino folks seemed to just hate it. That's right, it's the further adventures of that notorious clown prince of stair dancing, the Jokester, in... Joker: Folie à Deux, the film that got the lowest Cinemascore EVER for a "superhero movie." What will WE make of it?

The two LA fire-related fundraisers Elliott mentions in the episode:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pjtc-rebuild-after-the-eaton-canyon-fire

https://www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-denison-familys-fire-loss

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Wikipedia page for Joker: Folie à Deux

Recommended in this episode:

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Babygirl (2024)

Good Morning (1959)

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