Due to the ongoing refusal of the AMPTP to negotiate in good faith with the WGA or with our union brothers and sisters in SAG/AFTRA, we’ve decided to hit pause on discussing more current releases, since (in our own bizarro way) it could promote that work. Instead, we’re using this opportunity to go back in time and discuss some silly releases from the past, starting out with some films 90’s kids will remember. This week, we’re discussing 1995’s Sandra Bullock techno-thriller The Net, a movie about the horrors of the internet that seemed prescient and terrifying at the time, and now just seems kind of goofy, considering that the horrors of the internet were way different than those it imagines.

Elliott points out that, pre-Barbenheimer, two big movies had frequently been released on the same day. It’s true! You can look it up! He runs Dan and Stu through a battle of wits, exploring other mismatched matchups from cinema past.

When last we saw our book club pals, they were getting all horned up and making life changes based on 50 Shades of Grey. Now that they’re reading The Alchemist, we can only assume they’re out there exerting their control over the elements. Join us as we explore this exciting new addition to the “Jane Fonda hangs out with 3 other elderly actresses” cinematic universe!

Stuart brings back the Peach Pit, everyone’s favorite after-show about The Flop House, to quiz The Original Peaches about our opinions on fine art and answer a few questions straight from Stu’s DMs.

It’s a goddamn milestone — 400 mainline episodes over 16 years of The Flop House! (And that’s not counting all of the FH Minis, and the Movie Minutes of yore!) Thus, we took a break from our usual modus operandi of watching less-artistically-successful modern movies, and we treated ourselves with one of the classics of the bad movie canon (so much so that it’s the topic of the extremely enjoyable documentary Best Worst Movie). That’s right: we’re talking about TROLL 2, the film that has absolutely nothing to do with the original Troll other than a title and a fondness for rubber creatures!! It’s been memed! It’s been giffed! And now it’s been Flop Housed!

Dan leads Elliott and Stuart in a discussion of the non-movie things they do to stay happy and sane. (But don’t worry, film fans — there’s still plenty of movie talk scattered around. We can’t help ourselves!)

Is this the most popular, highest-grossing movie we’ve ever done? Possibly! We’re too lazy to put in the legwork to check. Why don’t YOU do it, for a school project about statistics or economics or some shit. Anyway, the point is, we used the “or CRITICAL flop” loophole (42 on Metacritc) so we could watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Don’t at us. Or do, whatever, we’re not your dad.

Executive Producer of the all-new animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (and our pal) Brendan Hay joins us, for Elliott’s canonical sexiness rankings of those compact green snacks, the grembleings.