Trash & Treasures

One expert in Lex Luthor, one comic book reader, and one casual who watched the Donner movies one time: together they embark on a quest to sit through the WB's ten-season smash hit--the show without which we wouldn't have Supernatural OR Man of Steel. Buckle up, and if you're ever in doubt, just remember that Lex is always wrong. Literally always.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of homophobia, brainwashing and hate crimes

1:00 Casting Gags and Other Influences

5:00 "No Flights, No Tights"

8:00 The Major Players

14:00 Baby Lex's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

23:30 Clark, Large Meat Man (and Asshole)

29:00 Monsters of the Week

33:00 Wow, This is Gay

37:30 Man of Steel Takes Furious Notes

41:00 Hate Crimes 2: The Jockening

50:00 Let's Predict the Future

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We promised, and we finally delivered: we read the Robot Dildo Arms book, aka a landmark work of queer science fiction aka some fuckery that epitomizes the "fuck you, got mine" of a certain subset of white gay men.

Join us as a goofy, harmless fantasy about boning handsome hard-bodied aliens takes a sharp left turn into eugenics and Why Feminism Is Bad. It is. A trip.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, misogyny, animal death, racism, and eugenics

00:30 Author History

7:00 Sexy Desert Masseuse

11:00 Roving Gangs of Teenage Girls

17:00 Young King Jerk-Off

24:00 The Evil Hospital of Evil Women

28:00 AND NOW, EUGENICS

37:30 Knock-off Nurse Ratched

44:00 RIP Twists That Could've Been

47:30 The Great Jizz Heist

53:00 Did We Mention the Cult

58:00 Rover: Cuddly Asexual Robot Bodyguard

64:00 We Had a Climax but We Left it Offscreen

70:00 Final Thoughts

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Didn't we say we were going to be talking about the Japanese remake of Ghost this week?

Uh, yeah. About that....

Change of plans aside, today's movie has some interesting ideas in its back pocket about neglect, skin-crawlingly upsetting sets, and some very confused themes about motherhood and mental illness.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of mental illness, suicide, child abuse, sexual assault, neglect, and gaslighting

0:30 The Ghost Hunt

5:30 Bursting the J-Horror Remake Bubble

8:30 Content Notes

10:30 Casting Choices

14:00 The Premise

18:00 The Grimiest Sets and Worst Occupants

26:00 Slow Decay

30:00 The Mental Illness Boogeyman

32:00 A Shitty Lawyer Appears

37:00 The Tragedy of Neglect

42:00 What Makes a "Good" Mother

46:00 The Child Actor Problem

48:00 Should You Watch This

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Happy belated Valentine's Day! As is our tradition, we've spent the occasion watching another trashy romance anime. This year it was the grandaddy of incest, the forebearer that....still looks goo compared to OreImo, to be honest, the series that led to many many exhausting online arguments where people equated queerness with incest and thought they were being helpful: Angel Sanctuary.

What happens when you take away the gorgeous art that the manga coasted on and cram more than half a dozen volumes into less than 90 minutes? One of the worst trainwrecks of the era, that's what. And we're old, we'd know.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, incest, transphobia, homophobia, and suicide

1:00 Background

5:00 The Incest Knock-On Effect

8:00 Nostalgia Factor

10:00 The Premise

13:30 Lost in Animation

16:00 Helpful Pining Queers

18:30 Pre-OreImo

22:00 Bad Gender Takes

27:00 Roziel and Alexiel

33:00 The Incest Road Trip

37:00 Child Logic

42:30 Manpain Apocalypse

45:00 Sequel Hook

50:00 Should You Watch This

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Our very first guest brought only the best -- one of the most adorable gay romcoms on offer by seriously underappreciated filmmaker Angela Robinson. It's cheesy, it's heartwarming, and it's got a very special place in Dorothy's memories.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of homophobia and racism

Visit Alexis on Twitter @TransComics or on Patreon https://t.co/ouY7tEaDNj

1:00 Deja Vu

4:00 History and Availability

9:30 The Premise

12:30 Quality Cheese Aesthetic

16:00 Poor Max

19:30 Ugh. Janet.

21:00 Million Dollar Idea

24:00 This Is Just High School

28:00 The Best Joke

31:00 Solid Budgeting

37:00 That Social Commentary

41:00 TV Gal Pals

48:00 Fancy Homophobia

52:30 Should You Watch This

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This movie sprang fully formed from nowhere, and we're here to tell you: you should definitely watch it while you still know as little as possible. The experience is magical.

But if you're not inclined, you can listen to us try to explain this utterly bizarre attempt to wed Herbert West to the more eldritch parts of the mythos, with artsy aspirations and the budget of half a ham sandwich. We're still not sure we understand it. Also there's canonically a trans Herbert now. Sure he's an eldritch nightmare creature, but we'll take what we can get.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of child death, body horror, Lovecraft fuckery

The Younger and Sexier Reboot: http://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/145480723938/do-you-think-hugh-dancy-should-play-as-herbert

2:00 The Origins of Herbert

7:00 Black and White Means It's Profound

10:00 Dadbert

16:00 The First Successful Reanimation

19:30 Meanwhile, in Corpse Land

21:00 Herbert Jr

28:00 Step Three: Profit

31:00 The Lovecraft Problem (The Other One)

35:00 Welcome to Hellgatory

43:00 What Even Was This

47:30 Should You Watch This

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We rang in the new year with the latest...well, it's not really the Vampire Chronicles anymore, at least not in a way we can recognize it. The third book in the Prince Lestat series.

Join us for an odd book that's barely long enough to be considered a novel, where all the antagonists are wrapped up by the 3/4 mark, and where the plot runs on granting wishes in the most monkey's paw-like style.

It....it's bad, y'all. We say that a lot, but like this one is REAL bad. You can actually chart our souls leaving our bodies.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of extreme violence, misogyny, transphobia, racism, slavery, grooming and sexual assault

Vrai's Livetweet: https://twitter.com/WriterVrai/status/1047992768323149824

Dorothy's Deadblog: http://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/179268536738/blood-communion-deadblog-pt-2

Virtue Coding: http://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/171102462308/thanks-so-much-for-your-analysis-what-gets-me-is

Special thanks to the Duke University Choir (Dies Irae): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/03-dies-irae-mozart-requiem/id420553430?i=1000091320205&mt=2

And to the Birmingham University Choir (O Fortuna):https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1-o-fortuna-1/id393917370?i=1000087582810&mt=2

1:00 the ARC Saga

3:00 Mixology

5:00 ICYMI, A Recap

18:30 Our Story Begins. By Offing an Established Character Offscreen

23:00 Iron Does What Now

28:00 This Dude has One Trick

33:00 Goodbye, Most Interesting New Character

40:00 The OTP

48:00 It's Armand O'Clock

51:00 80 Pages and No Antagonist

57:00 Did the Bad Guy Lie About Getting Rid of His Secret Torture Chamber?

62:00 Sequel Hook

68:00 Hysterical Ladies and Predators

73:00 Prose and Continuity Corner

78:00 Unacknowledged Horror

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Happy Holidays, listeners! 2018 has been a real butt of a year, but we're still alive and glad to have you with us. This year's double feature includes a charming Christmas movie that's mostly for kids with one or two exceptions, and one starring Robin Williams.

Seriously, though, Toys might be the most thematically mismatched film we've seen in a while: war is bad, y'all. Except apparently when it makes you a Manlier Adult.

As a heads up, we had a mic die part way through recording and some other shenanigans, so sorry about any audio issues. Stay safe, and let's get through the next year together.

Content Warning for brief discussion of sexual harassment and racism

1:00 Full Moon: Purveyors of Scary Small Shit

7:30 15 Years Later

10:00 The Other Toys

14:00 Halloween III but Christmas

30:00 FOR KIDS

32:00 WHHHHHHHIMSY

40:00 The Most Pre-9/11

48:00 War is Bad (but Also Makes You Manly)

55:00 This Was Not the Metaphor You Intended

60:00 Should You Watch This

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People who expected Bruce Willis to do more Die Hard back in the 90s resented the hell out of this bizarro live-action cartoon heist movie, but is it actually that bad?

Well, it doesn't help that it was made after Roger Rabbit, but this is probably the closest to a decent live-action Lupin III that we'll ever get.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault and animal death

Swinging on a Star Heist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KvM3vZo0w

1:30 Man, People Hate This Movie

5:00 Extremely Italian Actor Bruce Willis

11:00 ONE LAST JOB

15:00 Dan Brown Better Be Writing a Check

21:00 Our Adorable Cartoon Villains

30:00 Vacation Filming in Italy

35:00 WHERE DID THE MONEY GO

37:30 Of Course the Vatican

44:00 The Master Plan

55:00 Should You Watch This

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This week we looked back not so much at a forgotten classic as a contained moment in pop culture that everyone is at least a little bit embarrassed about. Because apparently it was time to break Vrai's narly 20-year streak of "zero Austin Powers movies watched."

We dug in to this cold, cold corpse to find out if any of the jokes are still funny, or if this is yet one more thing 90s kids will have trouble explaining to the next generation.

Austin Powers 4:

http://www.maximumfun.org/my-brother-my-brother-and-me/mbmbam-347-donut-miss-this-episode

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism and sexism

1:45 90s Meme Phenomenon

5:00 How Did This Happen

9:00 A Primer

13:30 No Mentioning AIDS

15:00 Dr Evil is Still Funny (Except...)

21:00 Elizabeth Hurley: Oops All Scab

30:00 Thanks Carrie Fisher

32:00 Cut Content

34:00 The Fish is Out of Water

37:00 Seth Green

43:00 Evil Sidekicks

46:00 When Do You Let a Joke Die (Not Yet)

48:30 Should You Watch This

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