Episode 15: The Three Musketeers, or A Confederacy of Dumases

Fluff out your hair extensions and swash your buckles as we ride off with Disney’s 1993 schlocktacular The Three Musketeers. Which is more historically inaccurate, this movie or your average Renaissance Faire? Who buttered your biscuit more, Keifer Sutherland or Chris O’Donnell? Is the only good thing to come out of this Tim Curry’s cape twirling and another killer rock ballad by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting? And can the next remake please just star all the great Hollywood Chrises, aka The Three Chriskateers? We might get some answers if we weren’t equal parts disappointed and offended by the mediocrity of this whole production.

Episode 14: The Golden Girls, or Grumpy Old Friends of Dorothy

Put on your glamest resort wear, pull up a wicker chair and dig into this cheesecake as we travel down the road and back again with The Golden Girls. Is any gushing tribute enough to honor the incredible Betty White? Will Dayna be in charge of preserving this lore in the apocalypse? Why did the live-in gay house-boy in the pilot get written out of this show? Do sitcoms set the tone for our real-life friendships? And can you listen to this theme song without singing along? We just want you to know that your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant.

Episode 13: Scream, or There’s Always Room for Giallo

Pick up that random phone call and make sure you know your horror movie tropes as we take a stab at Wes Craven’s Scream. Why doesn’t Drew Barrymore get more credit for her late 90s cinematic acumen? Are Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard totally boning in this film, or ensnared in a dom-sub bro-down? Were high school friendships really this toxic? (Yuuuup.) Why is Liev Schreiber tossed in such a throw-away scene? And do you want us to post our awkward school photos? All we know is that the meta still holds up in this episode even if the teenage shenanigans don’t. 

Episode 12: The Chipmunk Adventure, or It’s A Shrill World Afterall

Pitch your voice up a few octaves and brace yourself for some unbelievably racist stereotypes as we race off with the bizarrely sexual children’s film The Chipmunk Adventure. Would this movie have made any more sense if we’d been able to watch it as a cohesive whole rather than through YouTube scraps? Who decided turning the Chipmunks into money laundering mules would make a good plot for a kid’s movie? Are Klaus and Claudia siblings or… something more? And, most disturbingly, why must there be so many upskirt shots of the Chipettes? Please direct all questions to our therapists because this is the episode where we tangle with how deeply this movie imprinted on some of our psyches.  

Episode 11: The Matrix, or Plato’s Tunnel of Love

Don your shiniest pleather trench coat and rimless sunglasses as we plug into the Wachowskis’ cyber-punk behemoth The Matrix. Did the inane sequels and toxic fanboy co-opting forever taint the actually enjoyable original? Why wasn’t the totally badass Carrie-Anne Moss the protagonist of this film? And was Joey Pants right to want to swallow that blue pill with a smile on his face? All we know is that we get fittingly philosophical in this episode.