Join us on an exciting journey through the illustrious career of this comedy icon as we explore his groundbreaking roles, behind-the-scenes stories, and timeless contributions to the world of entertainment. Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) bring you a monthly look at the heyday of Chase's career from his earliest feature roles to just before he became more of a walk-on actor.
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A monthly look at the antics of the 12th Precinct and the world of Captain Barney Miller. Co-Hosted by Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast) and Mike White (The Projection Booth).
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Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) look at the short-lived show that some consider "too funny for TV", Police Squad! It's a police procedural starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin and Alan North as Cpt. Ed Hocken. We look at the evolution of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style of comedy from Airplane! to Naked Gun 33 1/3 in this special podcast series.
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Welcome to Rankin on Bass, an offhanded joke that became a short-lived podcast where we discuss the stopmotion and animated works of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Your hosts: Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast podcast, Richard Hatem of DC's Titans, and Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast. Artwork by Abbie Stabby - https://www.instagram.com/abbiestabby Music by The Great Octopus - http://thegreatoctopus.bandcamp.com
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Dreams for Sale focuses on the revival of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone in the mid-'80s. This anthology show brought together a host of diverse talent including Harlan Ellison, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, Rockne S. O'Bannon, and more. Episodes are hosted by Chris Stachiw (Kulture Shocked), Mike White (The Projection Booth), and Father Malone (Dark Destinations). Dreams for Sale theme song courtesy of Roxi Drive and Neutron Dreams - learn more at https://soundcloud.com/roxidrive and https ...
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Episode 7: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
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In this episode of The Chasing Chevy Chase podcast, we take a deep dive into National Lampoon's Vacation, the iconic 1983 road trip comedy. Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) explore Chevy Chase's performance as the well-meaning but hapless Clark Griswold, determined to take his famil…
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Episode 50: Paternity + Advancement + The Car
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We're back to Barney Miller and we're joined by our dear friend Richard Hatem to dive into the first three episodes of Season 8: Paternity, Advancement, and The Car. They're three pretty solid episodes of our favorite cop show from the '70s/'80s.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 6: Modern Problems (1981)
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You think you've got problems? Well, Chevy Chase has MODERN PROBLEMS in this 1981 film from Chevy's old friend Tom Shapiro. As air traffic controller Max Fiedler, Chevy loses his girlfriend (Patti D'Arbanville) while being berated by a self-help guru (Dabney Coleman) in a movie that can't decide if it's science fiction or spiritual horror. Join Mar…
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We've paused between Barney Miller seasons 7 and 8 to take a look at the spin-off show, Fish. Abe Vigoda is back as Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as Bernice. Also along for the ride is a cavalcade of kids (some familiar to us, and some new) and Barry Gordon doing his best at a Woody Allen impression. Chris and Mike cover the "highlights" and lowli…
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Episode 5: Dirty Work (1998)
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We're taking a little break from the chronological Chevy Chase filmography to explore a later film where he makes a memorable appearance, Bob Saget's Dirty Work (1998). The film is a Norm MacDonald vehicle wherein he and his pal (Artie Lang) open a business to pull pranks. It's a thin concept and the results are uneven at best.…
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Episode 48: The Vests + The Rainmaker + Liquidation
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We wrap up the seventh season of Barney Miller with special guest Otto Bruno (author of Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two) as we discuss the final three episodes with The Vestss, The Rainmaker, Liquidation which ends with Harris's libel lawsuit.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 4: Under the Rainbow (1981)
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Surprisingly, not the nadir of Chevy Chase's career but it might be close! Steve Rash's Under the Rainbow, a fictionalized recounting of the little people actors from The Wizard of Oz taking over a hotel across from the MGM soundstages. Against this event is story of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand's son being hunted by the son of Gavrilo Princip (Robert…
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Episode 47: The Doll + Lady and the Bomb + Riot
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The word we've used to describe Season 7 of Barney Miller is "uneven". These three episodes are great examples of that with the fairly strong episodes "The Doll" and "Lady and the Bomb" in which we get the usual strange people coming to the Old One Two (including the re-appearnce of Fish. "Riot", however, is a tin-eared "very special episode".…
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Episode 3: Seems Like Old Times (1980)
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Chevy's hot streak of 1980 continues with his second pairing with Goldie Hawn. This time she's an attorney married to Charles Grodin. Meanwhile, Chevy Chase is her estranged husband who gets set up as a bank robber. It's a complicated screwball comedy from writer Neil Simon where Chevy spends half the film hiding under beds.…
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Episode 46: Rachel + Contempt Part 1 & 2
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Rachel Miller returns! Is your pulse racing yet? Mike and Chris discuss this bizarre episode where Wojo wants to date Barney's daughter. They also dive into the two-parter "Contempt" where Barney goes to the slam due to his principles.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 2: Caddyshack (1980)
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Mark, Chris, and Mike continue their deep dive into the films of Chevy Chase with one of his biggest hits when he played golf enthusiast Ty Webb in Harold Ramis's seminal slobs vs. snobs comedy Caddyshack. A rather odd mix of talents, Chase was in danger of being eclipsed by his fellow actors, especially Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray,…
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Episode 45: The Psychic + Stormy Weather + The Librarian
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We continue to plod through the seventh season of Barney Miller with another uneven group of episodes. We meet a grammar Nazi in "The Psychic" and a real Nazi in "The Librarian". In-between we find out that Carl Levitt can speak American Sign Language in the sublime episode "Stormy Weather" where a deaf prostitute is under arrest.…
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Episode 1: Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980)
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Mark Begley (Wake Up Heavy), Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast), and Mike White (The Projection Booth) host the Chasing Chevy Chase Podcast! Join us on an exciting journey through the illustrious career of this comedy icon as we explore his groundbreaking roles, behind-the-scenes stories, and timeless contributions to the world of entertainment. On ou…
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Episode 44: Resignation + Field Associate + Movie
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Special guest Richard Hatem returns to discuss four episodes of Barney Miller! Resignation in which Deitrich tries to resign only to manage to insult all of his co-workers. Field Associate in which we learn that there's a snitch in the precinct. And the two-parter, Movie, wherein Harris becomes an auteur by creating a heady adult film.…
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Episode 43: Dorsey + Agent Orange + Call Girl
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This three episode run of Barney Miller was the beginning, middle, and end of a new Detective in the old One-Two, Det. Sgt. Eric Dorsey (Paul Lieber). Sitting at Nick's desk, Dorsey was a quasi-Dietrich in his humor but couldn't ingratiate himself with his fellow detectives. We chart the introduction and fall of this ill-concieved character as we c…
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Get ready to dive deep into the life, career, and unforgettable moments of the one and only Chevy Chase! Join us on an exciting journey through the illustrious career of this comedy icon as we explore his groundbreaking roles, behind-the-scenes stories, and timeless contributions to the world of entertainment. Each episode of the "Chasing Chevy Cha…
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Episode 42: Homicide + The Delegate
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Welcome to season seven of Barney Miller where the guys of the old 1-2 are experimenting with new haircuts and toupees as we scream our way into the 1980s. We start off with a two-parter where the precinct shifts to dealing solely with homicides before abruptly shifting back. We follow that up with a story about a delegate to the 1976 democratic co…
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Episode 41: The Inventor + The Architect + Fog
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We're wrapping up the super sixth season of Barney Miller with three episodes that discuss topics as diverse as domestic terrorism, hypnosis, and intellectual property. We even discover a window in the 12th precinct that we never knew existed.Weirding Way Media
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Farewell from Rankin on Bass
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Live from the Island of Misfit Toys we record our last episode of Rankin on Bass where Mike, Chris, and Richard recount the bizarre trip they've been on for the last three years going from animagic to animated to live action fare that ranged from the sublime to the bizarre. Thank you to everyone who took this trip with us.…
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Episode 38: Pinocchio's Christmas and The New Adventures of Pinocchio
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We conclude our discussion of Rankin & Bass works properly with a double dose of animagic for the holidays - Pinocchio's Christmas in which the little wooden boy learns the magic of the season and some of R&B's earliest work, the New Adventures of Pinocchio.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 40: Guns + Uniform Days + Dietrich's Arrest
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On this ultra-woke episode of The Life & Times of Barney Miller we discuss "Guns" wherein Wojo uses a bazooka against Barney, "Uniform Days" where Harris doesn't want to don the old blue threads, and the two-parter "Deitrich's Arrest." We're joined by renown screenwriter Richard Hatem to talk about a quartet of solid episodes from season 6.…
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Episode 36: The Stingiest Man in Town and The First Christmas
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Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White are back in Christmas-town and looking at two more holiday specials from Rankin & Bass; The Stingiest Man in Town -- a re-telling of A Christmas Carol starring the voice of Walter Matthau -- and The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow which features Angela Lansbury and a poor blind she…
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Episode 37: Santa, Baby! and The Comic Strip
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It's Santa, Baby an animated special from 2001 starring Gregory Hines as a frustrated songwriter and Patti Labelle as the patridge from the pear tree(!). We also discuss "Comic Strip" - a two hour block of cartoons featuring The Mini-Monsters, Street Frogs, Karate Kat and TigerSharks. This would be the last animated TV series produced by Rankin & B…
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Episode 39: Vanished + The Child Stealers
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Mike and Chris discuss the two-part episode "Vanished" in which Harris investigates the disappearance of several homeless men, forcing him to go undercover. In "The Child Stealers" we see the return of Marty and Mr. Driscoll while discussing parental rights for queer people.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 35: The Coneheads (1983)
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It's time to consume mass quantities of Coneheads with this 1983 pilot produced by Rankin & Bass for a Coneheads half-hour animated television show. Richard Hatem, Mike White, and Chris Stachiw discuss the strange choices made when trying to bring the Coneheads into America's living room on a weekly basis.…
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Episode 38: The DNA Story + The Dentist + People's Court
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We continue looking at the 6th Season of Barney Miller with three solid episodes wherein we hear about the state of DNA research in 1979, get a visit from an undercover detective, and reunite with a lot of familiar faces.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 34: That Girl in Wonderland (1973)
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Marlo Thomas returns as "That Girl" in a very "not cannon" episode. Here she's in a Rankin & Bass cartoon where she seems to be having delusions about being inside several familiar fairy tales.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 37: The Bird + The Desk + The Judge
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We continue our look at the solid Season 6 of Barney Miller with three episodes that include Wojo buying a parrot with a short shelf life, Don Calfa as a nearly-catatonic criminal, and the disappearance of Nick's old desk.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 47: Crazy as a Soup Sandwich / Special Service / Father & Son Game
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Crazy as a Soup Sandwich stars Tony Franciosa as a crime boss who seeks aid from the genuine underworld. Adapted by Harlan Ellison from his short story. Special Service stars David Naughton as a man who discovers that his life is the subject of a popular television show. Father & Son Game features a man seeking eternal life but must contend with th…
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Episode 33: Willie Mays and The Say Hey Kid (1972)
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One of the more rare Rankin & Bass specials we've covered, Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid was the sixth episode of the first season of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. It's a bizarre story of Willie Mays being saddled with an orphaned child and her guardian angel, KC.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 36: The Brother + The Slave + Strip Joint
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We continue our coverage of season 6 with three banger episodes which include discussion of human bondage, spontaneous combustion, and sowing wild oats.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 46: Many, Many Monkeys / Love is Blind
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Many, Many Monkeys concerns a nurse investigating an outbreak of blindness and the horrifying cause. Love is Blind is a tale of second chances when a jealous husband stops in the wrong bar to drown his sorrows.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 32: The Red Baron (1972)
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One of the episodes of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, The Red Baron (1972) is a canine interpretation of the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who, for whatever reason, was having a real resurgence in the late '60s/early '70s (lest we forget the General Mills Baron von Redberry cereal). We get off-target very easily and very quickly in this …
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Episode 35: Inquisition + The Photographer + Vacation
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We're back and kicking off Season 6 of Barney Miller with a discussion of the first three episodes: Inquisition, The Photographer, and Vacation. We've got the return of Lt. Scanlon and the re-introduction of the first gay officer working at the 12th Precinct. On this season Noam Pitlik takes the reign of all directing duties.…
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Episode 45: Cat and Mouse / Rendezvous in a Dark Place
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Cat and Mouse is a tale of a mousey spinster whose new cat might be the man of her dreams. Rendezvous in a Dark Place stars legend Janet Leigh as a death obsessed woman who finds herself face to face with Death itself.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 31: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972)
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The pilot for a proposed series called "The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye," The Emperor's New Clothes tells a version of Hans Christian Anderson's classic fable wherein a emperor gets swindled by a pair of slick scammers who appeal to his vanity, selling him a suit made of "invisible" thread. Mike, Richard, and Chris discuss this uneven fable and t…
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Episode 34: Computer Crime + Graveyard Shift + Jack Soo, a Retrospective
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Richard Hatem joins Mike and Chris to talk about the final episodes of Season 5 of Barney Miller. It was a very strong season and ends with a very poignant episode wherein the members of the "Old One Two" reminisce about Jack Soo, the actor, and Yamana, the character.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 44: The Mind of Simon Foster / The Wall
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The Mind of Simon Foster features Bruce Weitz as a man with nothing to offer the world except his memories. Luckily for him, memories are a hot commodity. The Wall is a tale of a test pilot who breaches a portal and finds himself in a utopian world. Or is it?Weirding Way Media
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Episode 30: The Saga of Smokey the Bear
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Mike, Chris, and Richard discuss both 1966's The Ballad of Smokey the Bear wherein we learn the traumatic origin story of the ursine fire-fighter as well as the 1969 cartoon series, The Smokey Bear Show, which was Saturday morning pablum for a much simpler age.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 33: The Counterfeiter + Open House + Identity
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On the latest episode of The Life & Times of Captain Barney Miller, we look at three episodes from late in the 5th season: The Counterfeiter, Open House, and Identity. These are three relatively strong episodes that really show how the show looked running on all cylinders.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 43: A Game of Pool / Room 2426
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A Game of Pool is a remake of a classic Twilight Zone by George Clayton Johnson and stars Esai Morales as a hustler whose wish to play the best opponent comes true. Room 2426 stars Dean Stockwell as a scientist who finds himself in an unusual prison that can only be escaped by a bizarre method.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 29: The Wind in the Willows
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We look at the idle rich via Kenneth Grahame's children's classic, The Wind in the WIllows and the 1987 Rankin/Bass animated adaptation. This is a proper bookend for Rankin/Bass's animated features as one of their earliest animates series, The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show also brought Grahame's characters to life (albeit in 1970). Richard Hatem…
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Episode 32: The Spy + Mojo's Girl + Middle Age
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On this episode we discuss three-four original Barney Miller episodes from the show's fifth season: The Spy, Wojo's Girl, and Voice Analyzer. Wojo's Girl was an attempt at a back-door pilot for a Wojo-centered series that never happened.Weirding Way Media
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Episode. 42: Street of Shadows / Something in the Walls
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Street of Shadows stars Charles Haid as a desperate husband and how one wrong move can turn your life upside down. Something in the Walls is a riff on The Yellow Wallpaper and concerns an asylum patient who can see movement behind the walls.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 28: The Mad Mad Mad Comedians (1970)
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Pepsico presents The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians, an animated special that played before the Academy Awards ceremony in 1970. The cast includes contemporary (Flip Wilson) and older (George Burns, Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, etc.) comedians as well as the voice talent of Paul Frees in an uneven TV event. Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and M…
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Episode 31: Toys + The Indian + Voice Analyzer
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Special guest Otto Bruno (Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol’ One-Two) join Mike and Chris to discuss three episodes from the middle of the fifth season of Barney Miller, the best season of the show so far.Weirding Way Media
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Episode 09: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
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We have finally reached the end (until the reboot comes out, at least) of our journey with Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad! with Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). And oh what a journey it has been. The boys are back in L.A. (did they ever really leave?) with mostly new jokes and a new villain, played by Fred Ward. The plot, such as it is,…
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Episode 27: The King and I (1999)
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One of the final Rankin/Bass animated features fuses the grandeur and romance of Rodgers and Hammerstein with some sub-par kiddie far including funny monkeys, elephants, and a horribly racist caricature of an Asian man voiced by Darrell Hammond. Possibly released to cash in on the Anna & The King film from the same year, The King and I suffers from…
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Episode 08: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
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We're back and so's the Police Squad gang! But now they're in Washington, D.C.? Sure! Chris, Mike, and Mark get a big ol' whiff of the smell of fear when Drebin and team must foil a plot to destroy the EPA. Priscilla Presley is back along with a host of ecological baddies including Lloyd Bochner, Tim O'Connor, Peter Mark Richman, and Robert Goulet.…
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Episode 41: The Cold Equations / Stranger in Possum Meadows
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The Cold Equations is a story of a stowaway with big aspirations who must face the hard, unyielding facts of deep space travel. Stranger in Possum Meadows tells the tale of an intergalactic collector who befriends a lonely boy.Weirding Way Media
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