If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing an episode of CSI: Miami co-starring The Golden Girls caught up in a drug cartel murder, have we got a show for YOU! That’s right, we’re delving into the world of ill-conceived television show crossovers. What is a TV Crossover? That’s when characters from two distinct shows wind up forcibly coexisting within a single combined storyline that ultimately diminishes anything you ever liked about either program. But be careful what you wish for, superfans. Teaming Frasier with The A-Team may sound like fun, but in practice it will make your eyes bleed. We take a look at some classic crossovers that defied both logic and viewer patience and created some of the most bizarre television we have ever experienced. Because that’s entertainment!

| 0:00 - Intros

| 5:35 - The Rain (2018)

| 8:01 - Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie (live)

| 12:38 - Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (2019)

| 19:36 - The Alarm / Gene Loves Jezebel / Modern English (live)

| 25:30 - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs And Shaw (2019)

| 30:40 - Justice League (2017) / Aquaman (2018)

| 35:06 - TV Crossovers

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - A Swingin’ Safari

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| The Rain - Opening title music

| Rob Zombie - Dragula (live)

| Rob Zombie - Get Your Boots On! That’s The End Of Rock And Roll!

| Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam

| Buchanan Brothers - Son of a Lovin’ Man

| Gene Loves Jezebel - Twenty Killer Hurts (live)

| Modern English - I Melt With You (live)

| The Alarm - The Stand (live)

| YUNGBLUD - Time In a Bottle - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Danny Elfman - The Justice League Theme - Justice League (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Clip from The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air

| Clip from The X-Files (Bad Boys Cops Theme)

| Clips from Family Guy: The Simpsons Guy

| Clip from The Simpsons: 24 minutes

| Clip from Power Rangers in Space

| Clip from Magnum P.I.

| Julie Brown - ‘Cause I’m A Blonde

| Clip from St. Elsewhere

| Clip from MTV Movie Awards with William Shatner

| Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract

The book is always better than the movie, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But some films get things mostly right and are actually watchable, regardless of whether or not you’ve read the source material. This week we discuss 3 random examples of a Good Adaptation: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. All are fine novels in their own right, and each of the films adapted from them manage to work cinematically without sacrificing what originally made the books so engaging in the first place. At the very least, the filmmakers didn’t screw anything up and they transitioned the properties well from page to screen. Which is all we really ask when we are too lazy to read the damn book, anyway.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 2:50 - Star Trek: Picard (2020)

| 4:48 - Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

| 8:05 - The End Of The Fucking World (2018)

| 10:07 - Star Trek: Discovery (SPOILERS for Season 1)

| 15:00 - Apollo 11 (2019)

| 21:29 - The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)

| 24:00 - Good Adaptations

| 26:48 - Trainspotting (1996)

| 41:00 - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

| 49:35 - Ready Player One (2018)

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Tears For Fears - Change

| Star Trek: Picard - SDCC 2019 Trailer

| Cats (2019) Official Trailer

| Top Gun: Maverick - Official Trailer (2020)

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It?

| Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack)

| Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam

| Matt Morton - Liftoff and Staging - Apollo 11 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Jazz Collective - Feeling Good

| Trailer for Three Men and a Little Lady

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

| Howard Shore & Munich Symphony - Main Title - The Silence Of The Lambs (Original Motion Picture Score)

| Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses

| Alan Silvestri - Ready Player One (End Credits) - Ready Player One (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| David Bowie - Changes

Bugsy Malone (1976) is an intensely weird movie starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. It’s a gangster epic set in the 1930s about a turf war between two rival mobsters. All the normal gangster film cliches are present, including the regular archetypes - the street tough mob boss, a sultry, world-weary femme fatale & a smooth talking con man caught in the middle. But it is cast only with children under the age of 16. And if that doesn’t spell box office bonanza, it’s also a musical - but all the songs were sung and recorded by adults. Oh, and instead of tommy guns, they shoot lethal cream pies. If that bizarrely accurate description doesn’t sell you on one of the strangest films ever created, then you ain’t seen nuthin yet.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 5:56 - Revolutions (podcast)

| 12:20 - All Hail The Silence / Men Without Hats / Howard Jones (Live)

| 22:58 - Stuber (2019)

| 30:14 - Colossal (2016)

| 33:57 - Bert Kaempfert

| 36:27 - MAD Magazine

| 40:26 - Bugsy Malone (1976)

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Paul Williams - Overture - Bugsy Malone (Original London Cast)

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| All Hail The Silence - The Alarm

| Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World (Live)

| Men Without Hats - S.O.S. (Live)

| Men Without Hats - Moonbeam (Live)

| Howard Jones - Everlasting Love (Live)

| Howard Jones - Life In One Day 2.0 (Live)

| Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well (Live)

| Joseph Trapanese - Not Ryan Gosling - Stuber (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Bear McCreary - The Colossal Finale - Colossal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Bert Kaempfert - Afrikaan Beat

| Bert Kaempfert - Sweet Caroline

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Paul Williams - Bugsy Malone

| Paul Wiliams - Fat Sam’s Grand Slam Speakeasy

| Paul Williams - You Give A Little Love

| Paul Williams - So You Wanna Be A Boxer

| Paul Williams - Down And Out

| Paul Williams - My Name Is Tallulah

| Clip from Airplane! (1980)

In 1992, Oliver Stone said, “John Ford makes Westerns. I make Vietnamers.” (No - seriously. He really said that.) And like John Ford with westerns, Oliver Stone may not have invented the genre, but he definitely dominated it with three films (or four, if you include “JFK”) about America’s first dalliance with imperial conquest and the war we couldn’t win. Join the gang this week as we explore the complicated genre of Vietnam War Movies - the good, the bad, and the jingoistic!

| 0:00 - Intros

| 3:45 - Stranger Things (Season 3)

| 10:00 - Yesterday (2019)

| 14:50 - Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1)

| 19:10 - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (book. Plokhii, 2018)

| 23:05 - Black Mirror - Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too

| 27:05 - Vietnam movies

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| The Dead Milkmen - Beach Party Vietnam

| Timbuk 3 - The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things (Theme)

| Himesh Patel - Yesterday (From The Album “One Man Only”) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Himesh Patel - Help! (Live At Pier Hotel) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack)

| Bomani “D’mite” Armah - Read A Book

| Ashley O - On a Roll (Black Mirror)

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Trailer for Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

| Trailer for Casualties Of War (1989)

| Trailer for Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)

| Trailer for The Green Berets (1968)

| Trailer for Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979)

| Clip from Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985)

| Metallica - One (official video)

| Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless

| Clip from Platoon (1986)

| Clip from Apocalypse Now (1979)

If Vince Clarke is one of the fathers of synth pop, Ron and Russel Mael are the insecure older stepbrothers of synth pop. Yes, Sparks is one of the most influential anti-pop pop bands you've never heard of. And we aim to change that pronto.

Sparks excels at songs about vanity, sexual frustration, and grooming that taught a whole generation that wished they looked a little better how to avoid being eaten by the monster of love and seek out the cool places. Tips for teens, indeed!

This podcast ain’t big enough for their entire song catalog, but dick around with the #maghuge crew for an hour and I predict you just might become a fan.

Listen to these playlists to turn yourself into a superfan!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1nbCmASOVA3VIeDvLWiJZ3?si=GAZcaoOMRBeKmx1Zpmj-lA

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/sparks-introduction/pl.u-jxaDsdqvb15

| 0:00 - Intros

| 5:48 - Xanadu (1980)

| 12:49 - Fosse / Verdon

| 19:30 - Dark Phoenix (2019)

| 25:36 - Anna (2019)

| 32:08 - Know This Band intro

| 34:30 - The Hits

| 40:25 - Evolution of the Sparks sound

| 57:04 - Deeper cuts and favorites

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Sparks - Amateur Hour

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| ELO & Olivia Newton John - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Olivia Newton John & Gene Kelly - Whenever You’re Away From Me - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Olivia Newton John & The Tubes - Dancin’ - Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Alex Lacamoire - Fosse/Verdon Theme

| Joel Grey - Willkommen - Cabaret (Original Soundtrack)

| Hans Zimmer - Gap - Dark Phoenix (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| BONES UK - Pretty Waste

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Sparks - Upstairs

| Sparks - I Predict

| Sparks - Cool Places

| Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love

| Sparks - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us

| Siouxsie & The Banshees - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us

| Sparks - Tryouts For The Human Race

| Sparks - Tips For Teens

| Sparks - Modesty Plays

| Sparks - Dick Around

| Sparks - I Wish I Looked A Little Better

| Sparks - Mustache

| Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

| Martin L. Gore - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

| Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing “My Way”

| FFS - Collaborations Don’t Work

| Sparks - Lighten Up, Morrissey

| Sparks - All You Ever Think About Is Sex

| Sparks - Talent Is An Asset

| Sparks - The Decline And Fall Of Me

| Sparks - Wonder Girl

| Sparks - Dance Godammit

| Sparks - I Wish You Were Fun

| Sparks - Nothing To Do

SPOILER ALERT!

Spider-Man is back for his second solo MCU outing - Spider-Man: Far From Home - and we’ve got a spoilerific minisode for you that is brimming with hot takes and nonsense! Endgame is over, The Blip is now part of continuity and Iron Man is gone. What is Peter Parker to do? Why, take a trip abroad and see the sights, that’s what! Yep, it’s a full on European Vacation for your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...complete with Nick Fury quips, Mysterio illusions, MJ snark and, most importantly, The Night Monkey. The Webslinger tries his best to step out from Tony Stark’s long shadow only to find out once again that with great power comes great responsibility. It’s kind of his thing.

| Clips

| Michael Giacchino - Theme (From “Spider Man”) [Original Television Series]

| Trailer for Three Men and a Little Lady

| Lunachicks - Spoilt / Joss Stone - Spoiled / Monty Python - Spam

| Michael Giacchino - Far From Home Suite Home - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

| Michael Giacchino - Night Monkey Knows How to Do It - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Michael Giacchino - And Now This... - Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Michael Giacchino - The Magical Mysterio Tour- Spider-Man: Far from Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Eminem - Venom

It’s our Dark Knight Do-Over! Way back in the early days of this podcast - before sound man extraordinaire Brian joined the team - our second show ever was about Batman. And it was, well... not great. So we decided to try and correct the sins of the past by rebooting the damn thing, just like they keep doing with the movies. Direct from our Gotham City Studios, here is yet another ill-advised, ill-informed take on The Caped Crusader! Using the various films as a springboard, we dive into the franchise that will either die a hero or live long enough to see itself become the villain. But, y’know, with the special brand of weirdness as only MagHuge can do.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 7:04 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

| 12:24 - Fosse / Verdon

| 16:48 - Cadence of Hyrule

| 20:50 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Touring)

| 33:15 - Batman (section) Begins!

| 34:50 - Worst Batman

| 46:10 - Best Batman

| 58:14 - Best Joker

| 59:57 - Best Catwoman

| 1:01:37 - Rogues Gallery

| 1:03:40 - Final thoughts

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Neal Hefti - Batman Theme

| Beastie Boys - Root Down

| ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace

| Clip from Bolt (2008)

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Burt Bacharach - The Sundance Kid

| Burt Bacharach - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

| Alex Lacamoire - Fosse/Verdon Theme

| Clip from Portlandia

| Overworld - Cadence of Hyrule Soundtrack

| Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley - Pure Imagination

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Clip from The Dark Knight (2008)

| Eminem - Venom

| Kevin Conroy does other Batman actor’s lines! (Mothership) https://youtu.be/48wGUdUOvUc

| Danny Elfman - Batman Theme

| Prince - Batdance

Of all the years in film, 1981 was one. It's our look back at a curiously influential year in cinema that rarely gets the acknowledgement we feel it deserves. Lost arks were raided, chariots were on fire, and ponds were golden. Superman kneeled before Zod while cannonballs ran. James Bond had disco music, Arthur was a bit tipsy, and Bill Murray got his stripes. Time Bandits was (and always will be) Time Bandits. And that's just in the Top Ten! 1981 was also an astonishingly good year for many of the classic genre films you know and love. But don't take our word for it until you listen to this podcast!

| 0:00 - Intros

| 08:37 - Late Night (2019)

| 13:54 - Men In Black: International (2019)

| 23:12 - Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (S05E01, 2019)

| 28:55 - Sparks - Number One In Heaven

| 35:21 - Movies of 1981

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| John Carpenter - Main Title - Escape from New York (Original Film Soundtrack)

| Scorpions - Still Loving You

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Lesley Barber - Late Night “Molly’s Theme” - Late Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Danny Elfman & Chris Bacon - Logos - Men In Black: International (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Three Men And A Little Lady Trailer (1990)

| Sparks - The Number One Song In Heaven

| Sparks - Tryouts For The Human Race

| Sparks - Dick Around

| Sparks - Eaten By The Monster Of Love

| Clip from Bolt (2008)

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| George Harrison - Dream Away

| Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only

| Bill Conti - Melina’s Revenge - For Your Eyes Only (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Vangelis - Chariots of Fire

| Clip from Stripes (1981)

| Christopher Cross - Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)

| John Williams - Main Title March (Superman The Movie)

| Mel Brooks - The Inquisition - (from History of the World, Part I)

| Joey Scarbury - Theme from “Greatest American Hero” (Believe It or Not)

Do you love Disney animation, but hate cartoons? Who doesn't? At least that's what The House the Mouse Built is betting on. In keeping with this latest spree of "Cinematic Universes," Disney is now making film versions of all their classic animations. Well, okay, they aren't out and out CALLING them that, but come on: Cinderella, Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and Dumbo have already been reshot, with more on the way. So this week we ask: If kids like cartoons, aren't they going to LOVE not-cartoons of the exact same thing? It's a grudge match between Lion King and Aladdin to figure out which one's better, which one holds up best, which one has a more sympathetic villain, which one is more woke... and which one we'll even bother to go see.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 07:25 - Chernobyl documentaries on YouTube

| 09:30 - Archer 1999

| 11:11 - Bruce Lee Biography

| 14:15 - America’s Got Talent

| 16:55 - Rifftrax Live!: Star Raiders

| 19:11 - E3 2019 (Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Marvel’s Avengers, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Superliminal)

| 26:30 - Disney Renaissance

| Clips

| Jerry Orbach & the chorus of Beauty and the Beast - Be Our Guest

| Boston - Foreplay / Long Time

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| The B-52’s - Party Out of Bounds

| Archer 1999 Intro music

| GFORCE - (From America’s Got Talent 2019)

| Star Raiders (2017) Trailer

| Final Fantasy VII Remake Trailer (E3 2019)

| Marvel’s Avengers - E3 2019 Reveal Trailer

| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Main Theme (no lyrics)

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin & Jim Cummings - Be Prepared - The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Tiffany Haddish - Not Evil - The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Clips from Aladdin (1992)

| Carmen Twillie & Lebo M - Circle of Life - The Lion King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| The Little Mermaid (1989) Trailer (VHS)

| The B-52’s - Whammy Kiss

| Samuel E. Wright - Under The Sea - The Little Mermaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Harry Connick, Jr. - The Bare Necessities

| Robin Williams - Prince Ali - Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Tony Jay - Hellfire - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| The Disney Afternoon Studio Chorus - Duck Tales Theme

The new Godzilla movie is out and we REALLY wanted to like it. This latest iteration is part of what is now being dubbed The Monsterverse - a shared cinematic universe that includes King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, Ghidorah and other kaiju who are apparently on this earth solely to destroy crowded cities. But something this time out feels… missing. Godzilla is a lean, mean, 50-story tall CGI machine, protecting the human race from a nasty giant space beast with 3 heads. So Godzilla: King of the Monsters should be a slam-dunk, right? If it ain’t broke don’t try and fix it, we say.

| 0:00 - Intros

| 6:53 - Game Of Thrones

| 15:05 - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

| 18:27 - Rocketman

| 29:00 - Good Omens (Amazon - 2019)

| 35:45 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

| Clips

| Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl

| Crawdaddy-O - Godzilla

| Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat

| Ramin Djawadi - Main Titles - Game of Thrones (Music from the HBO Series)

| Metallica - Better Than You

| Trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture)

| Taron Egerton - Rocket Man - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture)

| Taron Egerton & Jamie Bell - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture)

| Taron Egerton & Kit Connor - Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) - Rocketman (Music from the Motion Picture)

| David Arnold - Good Omens Opening Title

| Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh

| Bear McCreary - Godzilla Main Title - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

| Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla