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.
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.
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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.
We’ve talked about the Sony corner of Marvel more than once, but the relative high quality of MCU movies has saved them from our scrutiny… until now! What did we make of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a film whose very title is a pain in the ass to type out for these show notes? Listen to find out!
