You're no fun anymore

Cook up some fava beans and uncork your nicest chianti, as we find out where our early fascination with gruesome murders likely comes from, with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins (or should we say HOTkins?) in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. How much direct eye contact can an audience withstand? Did anyone else watch the TV spinoff Clarice? And why would fashion conscious Hannibal Lecter be caught dead in that frumpy linen suit and floppy hair? We might have some answers for you if we didn’t spend most of this ep talking about serial killers. 

Swap on your witchiest head and take a long swig of nightmare juice, as we re-traumatize our tender psyches with Disney’s Return to Oz. Why were the 80s so messed up? How much of this movie have we all repressed? Where can we find our own sassy talking chicken? And who doesn’t like a nice mutton sleeve? This is a fittingly haunted—at least psychologically—episode to get you in an Octobery mood.

Pour on that glitter and stuff those jodhpurs, as we fall back into the Goblin Kingdom with Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. How much of our generation had their sexual awakening watching David Bowie? Where did Jennifer Connelly so effectively learn about stranger danger? Should we let go of childish things, or just up the production value? And what the f**k is an oubliette? This is the first episode we recorded, so cut us some slack. 

Share a special brownie with your favorite 90s boyfriend Ethan Embry because it’s time for us to celebrate Rex Manning Day, aka Allan Moyle’s Empire Records. Did you know there was an alternate universe edit of this movie that actually explains everyone’s motivations? Why were the 90s so lily white? What happened to the dog from the movie poster? And can we ever look at blue cheese the same way again? In this episode, we all agree Renée Zellweger is a better friend—and actor—than Liv Tyler. 

Prepare for a heated face-off between the annoyed extroverts and the misunderstood introverts, as we tackle the rampant ennui and soulmate shenanigans of Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. How can two people be so unhappy when their lives are so cushy? Who thought making fun of Japanese accents was still ok in 2003? And where can we find a karaoke lounge perched over the city like that? In this episode, the only thing we can all agree on is that Giovanni Ribisi is an awful husband.