Summer is in full swing, so let’s celebrate the July 4th holiday in the most American way we know how: blowing up the world’s most powerful shark. That’s right, we’re discussing the OG summer blockbuster, Jaws.

What do you get if you take the premise of E.T. and ruin it? Mac and Me, that’s what. Is it so bad it’s good? Is it so bad it turned the corner and became good? Is it in fact a perfect film that we’re all too simple-minded to appreciate? We explore these questions and many more in this episode, which is definitely not sponsored by McDonald’s.

This week, we're taking a ride in mom's station wagon into the lawless wilds of 1980s Chicago as we watch Adventures in Babysitting, a film in which the good judgement of a teen girl gets her charges almost gets her charges killed in a number of terrible ways. White-knuckle your way through this one with us, won't you?

Usually when a dude has two ferrets, it’s a dealbreaker, but not if he’s the leathery hero of The Beastmaster, a deliciously campy epic about the adventures of a simple warrior who can talk to animals. Put on your best loincloth and join us on a safari of crazy. Child sacrifice has never been this fun!

Let David Bowie’s skin-tight pants awaken the dance magic within you as we dive head first into the puppet bacchanal that is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. Come, lose yourself in our wonderful maze as we ruin yet another beloved childhood film for ourselves in our 50th episode.

Don't you just hate it when you inherit an old castle and it turns out to be just slap full of ghost that only Alyssa Milano can set free from his terrible curse? Join us as we take yet another haunted house journey in the 1986 made-for-TV movie, The Canterville Ghost.

This week, we're discussing two movies: a charming supernatural farce about an Irish lord trying to save his ancestral home from developers by faking a haunting, and a stupid ghost love quadrangle involving Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, and Liam Neeson. Unfortunately for us and everyone, these two stories have been mashed together into this unholy monstrosity, High Spirits.

Before Sarah Michelle Gellar and the Scooby Gang staked their claim in our hearts (see what we did there?) there was Joss Whedon's 1.0 version. Join us as we watch Kristy Swanson and the late, great Luke Perry as they wear flannel, dust vamps, and avoid bogus corn in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It takes a pretty special movie to start getting really weird after the ghosts show up in the kitchen with recipes, but this film is, if nothing else, special. Join us as we discover a cure for fear-induced childhood baldness in a film that may have been written by Mad Libs, The Peanut Butter Solution.

Oh boy, have we unearthed a treasure for you this week. Can a robot teach a family to love again? What's up with that sarcophagus in the front yard? Why is all this stuff coming out of grandma, and is it safe to eat? We explore these questions and so many more that nobody really wants the answers to as we discuss Ray Bradbury's forgotten children's sci-fi classic, The Electric Grandmother.

There comes a time in every adult’s life when we must confront just how wack was the entertainment of our childhood. Sometimes that reckoning happens in a therapists’ office. Today, it’s happening on a podcast. Join as we attempt to scrute the inscrutable mysteries of Rainbow Brite.

It’s a big, gross, dangerous world out there, which is why we’re staying inside to talk about the teeny-tiny hijinks in Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Join us as we wax nostalgic about yet another charming adventure in parental neglect. This time, it’s fun-sized!

When there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Podcasters! Join us as we wax nostalgic about a couple of episodes of The Real Ghostbusters (TM TM TM, accept no imposters, especially gorillas.)

Somewhere in this episode, there is a conversation about The Witches, the 1990 film adaptation of the Roald Dahl book about a group of ladies in sensible shoes who just want some dang peace and quiet and maybe not so much poop stink in the air, and who are willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. Also, lots and lots of talk about mice, so good luck with this one, musophobics!

Live from SF Sketchfest, we’re talking about E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. You know it, you’ve seen it, so kick back and relax while we tear that repressed trauma right out of your brain like a hypnotherapist specializing in recovered UFO abduction memories. Pleasant dreams!

Remember when you were 7 and your parents left you with a babysitter and whatever animated movie they picked up at Blockbuster, and that movie turned out to be a incomprehensible post-apocalyptic tale about wizards fighting Nazis, featuring a pretty surprising amount of footage from Triumph of the Will for a family film? Well, somebody does, so we're taking a long look into the dark, weird void that is Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

It’s our very first live show, and boy is it weird. Join us as we discuss Kevin’s deep-seated trauma and possible sociopathy in a deep dive on the holiday classic, Home Alone. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. 

In this minisode, we confront the grim reality that life is fleeting, and that one day you and everyone you love will be reduced to a puddle of liquid. Thumpity thump thump, look at Frosty go. Join us as we unpack a refrigerated boxcar full of snowman-related issues as we discuss Frosty the Snowman.

Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. Nah, just kidding. You've just been recruited to listen to this podcast as we hop in our Star Car and take a journey through space and questionable CGI to explore The Last Starfighter. 

This week's episode is a blast from the past, which is thematically appropriate since we're discussing Flight of the Navigator, a terrifying film about confronting mortality and also Pee-wee Herman in spaceship form, which is actually less upsetting than his human form. Go figure.