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The Flop House
The Flop House is a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film, then engage in an unscripted discussion about the movie's shortcomings and occasional delights, while never being afraid of a pointless, sil...
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Ep.#462 - Imaginary
Boo! Hahahha, gotcha! It's SHOCKTOBER, when all the ghouls and ghosties and ghremlins and ghrim reapers come out to scare us! And at The Flop House it...
FH Mini 138 - In the Pantheon
We've made it no secret that we at The Flop House are proud to have been included in the newly-published, The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Chan...
Ep.#461 - An Easter Bunny Puppy
From the (?)genius(?) that brought us the legendary A Talking Cat!?! comes another tale of a talking animal and the humans who live with him in a Cali...
FH Mini 137 - Stuster's Millions
Dan challenges Stuart and Elliott to lose as much money as they can by turning hit movies into bombs.
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Ep.#460 - Lumina, with Ashlie Atkinson
It's Smalltember (Elliott pops into frame to say "Smallvember!") -- that special time of year when we allow ourselves to stray from big Hollywood movi...
FH Mini 136 - Doctors of Filmdom
Elliott provides a survey of cinema's eponymous doctors, and asks us whether we'd trust them with our medical care.
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Ep.#459 - War of the Worlds (2025)
It's rare that a movie gets embraced as a new classic in badness as quickly as Amazon's War of the Worlds, but hey -- they're known for their fast del...
FH Mini 135 - The Movieboys of Summer
Stuart takes us on a tour of the biggest summer releases of the past couple of decades.
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Ep.#458 - Snow White, with Rebecca Alter
Hi ho? More like HO HUM! Got 'em. Oooh Disney's gonna be smarting from that sick burn so hard they've GOTTA stop making these lackluster remakes, righ...
FH Mini 134 - Wrap-Up Raps
Back in the 80s and 90s, movies LOVED to end with a rap song that went over the plot to the movie you just saw. On this mini, Dan quizzes Stu and Elli...
Ep.#457 – Red One, with Linda Holmes
Elliott had to dip out for an episode, so... how do you replace a troublemaking little scamp? How about: with the comforting, easy presence of Linda H...
FH Mini 133 - Cinematic Cities
We all know movies where "it's like the city is another character," and we understand what that means when a location has a big personality like New Y...
Ep.#456 - Captain America: Brave New World
It's a testament to how generally good (or at least passable) the MCU films have been, that there have been 36 of them released, but this is only the...
FH Mini 132 - Stu Brings Down the Hammer
On this mini Stuart tricked us into watching some kind of Warhammer 40k bullshit and made us talk about it.
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Ep.#455 - Poolman, with Josh Gondelman
No, it's not a biopic about Jim Poolman, former insurance commissioner of North Dakota. It's a comic sunshine noir about an actual pool-maintaining Po...
FH Mini 131 - Hostesses with the Mostesses
Dan confuses Elliott by combining his beloved comic books with his hated fruit pies, in a discussion of Hostess's superhero-based comics ads.
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Ep.#454 - The Garfield Movie
Ah, here he comes, that son of a gun, that cat, that Garfield, that gigantic thing -- except... There's something different about him. It's weird. He...
FH Mini 130 - A Galactus-Sized Explainer
With The Fantastic Four: First Steps coming to theaters soon, listener Andrew asked the question "Galactus and The Silver Surfer -- what's their deal,...
Ep. #453 - Love Hurts
Love DOES hurt. For instance, we love and only want the best for Everything Everywhere All at Once comeback king Ke Huy Quan, but then we have to witn...
FH Mini 129 - When Animals Compete
There have been a lot of animals in movies, but which are the BEST animals? Stuart Wellington leads a highly-scientific investigation.
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Ep.#452 - Summer Camp
The Flop House is headed to Summer Camp! A few weeks of sun, swimming, hiking, crafts -- we're gonna make each other SO MANY FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS that...
FH Mini 128 - Listener Roulette, with Hallie Haglund
Hallie joins the Flop House gang once more, to discuss random topics selected by YOU, the listeners!
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Ep.#451 - Better Man, with Hallie Haglund
Robbie Williams is a chimp. That's not an insult, just an accurate description of Better Man, from the director of past Flop House subject, The Greate...
FH Mini 127 - Always Room for Giallo, with Alejandro Arbona
We're joined by longtime friend of the show (but first time on mic!) Alejandro Arbona, a 20-year veteran of comics editing and a comics writer himself...
Ep.#450 - Unfrosted, with Alex Smith
We flashback to discuss a movie that was much-requested when it was first released, but just didn't fit into our schedule -- Jerry Seinfeld's baffling...
FH Mini 126 - Impressionable Peaches
While we were all fortunate enough to record in-person, Stuart filled Dan and Elliott with booze and forced them to do celebrity "impressions." It's e...
Ep.#449 - The Electric State
What's the deal with Netflix's The Electric State? Well, for one thing we know that IT'S ELECTRIC... boogie woogie woogie. But also, it's a movie argu...
FH Mini 125 - Cinematic Mechanics
Elliott puts on his greasy overalls to look under the filmic hood, as we figure out what makes a good "robot movie," ask why Heartbeeps was a bad one,...
Ep.#448 - Heartbeeps
We tie a bow around Max Fun Drive 2025 and our “Movies Without Spider-Man” series with (?) Paul Schrader's (?) magnum opus, Heartbeeps. It's the class...
Ep.#447 - Venom: The Last Dance
“Movies Without Spider-Man” Max Fun drive continues (please consider supporting our show!) with the thrilling (?) conclusion (??) of the Venom saga --...
SUPER SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT
Dan reveals a WEIRD and possibly EXTREMELY COMPLEX FOR HIM TO PUT TOGETHER stretch goal for this year's Max Fun Drive!
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SlopTales Teaser!
Here's a little taste of what's awaiting Max Fun members in the member bonus feed -- an all-new roleplaying adventure from gamemaster Stuart!
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Dan McCoy joins MFD Spring Break
It’s not MaxFunDrive without a wild kickoff spectacular! Former real-life VJ and host of MTV's Spring Break 1999, Dave Holmes, takes your favorite Max...
Ep.#446 - Kraven the Hunter
We start out our special "Films Without Spider-Man" theme month (in honor of Max Fun Drive -- please consider supporting our show!) with one of the mo...
FH Mini 124 - Bad Movie Godfathers, with Harry Medved and Harry Pallenberg
We welcome one of the godfathers of bad movie culture, Harry Medved, of the seminal books "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time" and "The Golden Turkey A...
Star Trek: Section 31, with Ben Harrison and Adam Pranica
Wow! The first new Star Trek movie in eight years! What's that you say? Oh. TV movie? And it's less a "movie" and more a "we were going to develop a n...
FH mini 123 - 80s Goofs
The Goofmaster returns to quiz Stuart and Elliott about some IMDb "Goofs" from 1980's movies that didn't live up to the standards of viewers with enou...
Ep.#444 - Here
A lot of stuff happened... HERE. Well. Not that much stuff, actually. Like, six couples lived here. Most of them were pretty boring. But at one point...
FH Mini 122 - Monster Mashers
Following a couple of failed "Dark Universe" attempts, Stuart leads a brainstorming session to explore how his co-hosts might revitalize the Universal...
Ep.#443 - Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harold and the Purple Crayon is a lovely, enduring children's classic (if you've never encountered it, have Steve Buscemi read it to you!) -- did Holl...