Episode 13: Would You Watch This? - Father's Day Edition

It's a Very Special Episode in honor of Father's Day! In our first edition of Would You Watch This?, Katie and Wesleigh watch trailers for movies about dads and discuss if they'd watch them. Tune in to hear all about after school specials, Katie's famous fourth cousin, which of these dads are most like our own awesome fathers, and the the most popular father/daughter wedding dance song of the 90s. BONUS: Your hosts have their first on-air fight — over America's Dad, Tom Hanks.

Show Notes

IMDb: Father of the Bride (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Rated: Not Rated

IMDb: The Godfather (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes: 99%
Rated: R

IMDb: Raising Arizona (1987)
Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Rated: PG-13

IMDb: Dad (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
Rated: PG

IMDb: Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
Rated: PG-13

IMDb: Junior (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 34%
Rated: PG-13

IMDb: Daddy Day Care (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes: 27%
Rated: PG

IMDb: Finding Nemo (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes: 99%
Rated: G

Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
Dude Looks Like a Lady by Aerosmith
Frisch’s Big Boy
Passion of the Christ
Plumbing the Death Star: Which Disney princess would make the best stepdad?
TayTay is back on spotify!
Crawdads
COSI
Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle
The Christmas Shoes by Newsong

Follow our dads!
Katie's dad: @CoachellaBob
Wesleigh's Dad: @SkippyDaySays
Wesleigh's book about her dad: Everything Tastes Better with Peanut Butter

Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • 21 Jump Street (TV show)
  • Bonanza
  • Passion of the Christ
  • Hidalgo
  • LOTR: Two Towers
  • The Family Stone
  • Love Actually
  • Troy and Abed in the Morning (Community)
  • Father of the Bride (1991)
  • Arrested Development
  • You’ve Got Mail
  • Logan Lucky
  • Logan
  • The Judge
  • Full House
  • Mr. Wrong
  • What Women Want
  • Chicken Run
  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting
  • The Back-Up Plan
  • Baby Mama
  • Twins
  • The Goldbergs
  • Toy Story 3
  • Wall-E
  • Three’s Company
  • Master of None
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guardians of the Galaxy 2
  • Groundhog Day
  • Finding Dory
  • Splash (remake w/ Channing)
  • Taken

 

Episode 12: Demolition Man w/ Jeff & Ethan

This week on Viewing Party, Jeff and Ethan from the Sucks to Suck podcast join us to watch the 90s sci-fi action flick Demolition Man! The conversation ranges from Occam’s Razor to Brave New World to toilet humor, and that’s just the beginning. In this episode Ethan recasts the movie for its inevitable remake, Wesleigh shares how a plot point changed the course of logo history, Jeff Secrets in the wrong direction and we learn about Katie’s Netflix cameo.

Meet this week's guests, Jeff and Ethan!

You can hear the boys from the Sucks to Suck podcast on Soundcloud and follow their show on Twitter at @SucksCast. You can also follow Jeff at @jkterrezas and Ethan at @EthanShivener!

Show Notes

IMDb: Demolition Man (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
Rated: R

Cryogenic freezing
Soylent foods
Not sponsored by Soylent Green
Cryogenic therapy
“this is the future the liberals want” meme
Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
Jack Black’s cameo:


Taco Bell logo story
Not Sponsored by Fox in the Snow Cafe
Not Sponsored by Taco Bell

Teeny Little Super Guy
Not Sponsored by Amy’s Donuts
Hobbit restaurant in Maryland
Not Sponsored by Oldsmobile
Tongue Twister: “Rob Schneider sells sea shells by the San Angeles sea shore while Sly Stallone sleeps soundly by Sandy B in Speed 3”
Jeffrey Dahmer
Inkmaster: Live Mas Mentality
Taco Bell Cantinas
Clippy + Siri = SAPD computer system
Sex scene (BONUS: sleeveless kimono!)
Jeff's favorite YouTube clip
Katie's favorite YouTube clip
Sting original song:

Homestar Runner
XKCD YouTube joke
Jim Gaffigan
The Secret
Childish Gambino
Babes to Know podcast

Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • Parks and Recreations
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Judge Dredd
  • Back to the Future
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Soylent Green
  • Rambo
  • Lethal Weapon 3
  • Mad Max
  • Batman (1989)
  • San Andreas
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • LOTR
  • The Simpsons
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Aloha
  • Star Wars
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Ghostbusters
  • Heathers
  • Coneheads
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Hard Day’s Night
  • Mary Poppins
  • The Big Short
  • Fight Club
  • Total Recall (new)
  • Robocop (new)
  • Running Man (new)
  • Black Mirror
  • Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
  • The Babadook
  • Blade
  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
  • Blade: Trinity
  • The Mask
  • Liar, Liar
  • Miss Congeniality
  • Girls
  • Despicable Me
  • Captain America
  • Pee Wee’s Playhouse
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Office Space
  • Hateful Eight
  • The Big Lebowski

 

Episode 11: Brigadoon


Pie on a windowsill, this episode is amazing! For this week's Viewing Party we decided it was time for a musical, and dug up a classic from Wesleigh's childhood, Brigadoon. This sci-fi film masquerading as a Broadway period piece inspired discussions on sensory deprivation tanks, flirt dancing, grandmas, and Doctor Who. And in our favorite bit to date, Katie learns that Wesleigh is not immune to the power of forearms.

Show Notes

IMDb: Brigadoon (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Rated: G

It’s Almost Like Being in Love
Plaid pants David Tennant in The Decoy Bride:

Sassafras
Paper Towns (cartography)
Paper Towns by John Green
Prince Prance in the Plaid Print Pants:

Holding Out for a Hero
Pie cabinets
Suspension of disbelief
AFI 100 years lists (it was nominated for the top 10 in fantasy but didn't make the list...Groundhog Day did!)
The bride’s dress/groom's legwarmers:

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things..."

"The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things..."

 

Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • Groundhog Day
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • The Decoy Bride
  • Shrek
  • Footloose
  • The Great Comet of 1812
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Grease
  • Doctor Who
  • The Little Mermaid
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Braveheart
  • The Hunger Games
  • Sky High
  • Oklahoma
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Unsinkable Molly Brown
  • Signing in the Rain
  • State Fair
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • White Christmas
  • Freakazoid
  • Mean Girls
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Step Up
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Episode 10: Step Up

It's that time of the month — time for another Channing Tatum movie! Join us on a Journey Through Giggles as we watch Step Up, a pretty forgettable film we somehow were able to talk about for a whole hour. In this episode we discuss convenient character deaths, teen dance movies of the 2000s (why were there so many??), Wesleigh attempts to make a telegraph joke, and Katie describes that time she invented the sport of Chili Luge.

Show Notes

IMDb: Step Up (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes: 19%
Rated: PG-13

The Tatumverse(TM)
Stephen Hawking / One Direction
Switchfoot in A Walk to Remember
Knock Off Zac Efron
Chili Lugeing
Mario
Jonas Brothers
Baby Tatum
Alyson Stoner
Lip Sync Battle - Jenna v Channing
Soul Nova Fever
Dance movies in the 2000s
Dance sequence in Hail, Caesar!

Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • 21/22 Jump Street
  • Supergirl
  • The Mindy Project
  • American Horror Story
  • The Grudge 2
  • Joey
  • The Young and the Restless
  • The Hot Chick
  • Mean Girls
  • A Walk to Remember
  • Romeo & Juliet (1968)
  • Romeo + Juliet (1996)
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Titanic
  • LOTR
  • Disney Cheerleader Zombie Movie
  • Step Up 2
  • Step Up 3D
  • Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Drake and Josh
  • That’s So Raven
  • Lilo and Stitch (cartoon)
  • Suite Life of Zack an Cody
  • Selling Isabelle
  • Camp Rock
  • Parks and Rec
  • Lady and the Tramp
  • Flashdance
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • Glee
  • So You Think You Can Dance
  • Honey
  • Save the Last Dance
  • Love and Basketball
  • High School Musical
  • Mask of Zorro
  • Take the Lead
  • Kingsman
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  • Battle in Seattle
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Watchmen

 

Episode 9: Sky High

For our last superhero film of Marathon May, we take things in a whole different direction and watch Sky High, a teen film that feels like a Disney Channel Original Movie but was actually released in theaters with moderate success. Katie and Wesleigh describe their dream super powers and then discuss pressures put on high schoolers, how much this parallels Harry Potter, orphanages for baby villains, and why Katie still thinks Kurt Russell is in Dirty Dancing.

Show Notes

IMDb: Sky High (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
Rated: PG

Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
“Jim” the camera
Snoopy’s brother in the desert
Choose Your Own Adventure
Not Sponsored by OPI nail polish
Knock-off Taylor Lautner (Steven Strait)
Ramona Flowers and the MPDG / Eternal Sunshine episode
Plumbing the Death Star podcast
Sky High soundtrack
Send us pictures of your babies!

Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • That’s So Raven
  • The Office
  • Early Edition
  • Friday Night Lights (TV show)
  • Twilight
  • Harry Potter
  • Mean Girls
  • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Wonder Woman (TV show)
  • Community
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • How to be Single
  • Whisky Tango Foxtrot
  • Poltergeist
  • The Watch
  • The Crown
  • Spider-Man
  • Arrested Development
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Overboard
  • Splash
  • Hateful Eight
  • Fate of the Furious
  • Death proof
  • Vanilla Sky
  • Forrest Gump
  • Backdraft
  • Family Vacation movies
  • Watchmen
  • Glee

 

Episode 8: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Turn on your Walkmans, our episode on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is here! (We're assuming you've transferred this podcast to cassette.) Katie and Wesleigh braved the theater opening weekend to bring you our commentary on the newest movie in the Marvel franchise. We'll discuss how this film rounds out all of its characters and touches on some heavy subjects, why boogers are greater than or equal to family, Space Kirk (not from the Enterprise, the other one), and learn that Wesleigh *might* be related to the twins from Sister, Sister.

 

IMDb: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
Rated: PG-13

Show Notes

Not Sponsored by the Gateway / Baby Groot Beer Floats
Patrick Wilson / Kurt Russel / Patrick Swayze
Wesleigh calls dibs on the band name Butterscotch Petticoats
Who is the Sovereign’s new Adam??
Deus ex machina
Life of Pi
Not Sponsored by Thug Notes
Most Dangerous Game
Webby Awards
Guardians and trafficking
Space Moses (see Superman episode)
Sean Gunn
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 soundtrack
Not Sponsored by Blubrry
Not Sponsored by Dairy Queen or Doritos

Movies / Shows Mentioned

  • The Last Jedi
  • Golden Girls
  • Firefly
  • Narnia
  • Doctor Strange
  • Arrested Development
  • Hamilton
  • Star Trek
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
  • Inside Out
  • Life of Pi
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • North by Northwest
  • Sister, Sister
  • Fate of the Furious
  • The Breakfast Club
  • The Grinch
  • Shrek
  • The Avengers
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Expendables
  • Overboard
  • Gilmore Girls
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Silly Songs with Larry (VeggieTales)
  • Tangled
  • High School Musical
  • Mary Poppins
  • Knight Rider

Episode 7: Watchmen w/ Luke

Who watches the watchmen? Wesleigh and our guest do — Katie merely survives the experience. For this week’s Marathon May superhero film, we tackle the incredibly long adaptation of Alan Moore’s renown comic Watchmen by Legendary Director Zack Snyder. Along with Luke, comic creator and connoisseur, we discuss why different genres of comics are important, how this movie is similar to P.S. I Love You, why you should read the book instead, and introduce Katie to Howard the Duck.

Meet this week's guest, Luke! (and Tallulah)
You can follow him on Twitter at @koltreg and check out his podcasts, MultiversalQ and Exiled.

 

Show Notes

IMDb: Watchmen (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
Rated: R

Zack Snyder
Saturday Morning Watchmen
Alan Moore, wizard
Neil Gaiman
Sandman
Animal Man
Miracle Man
Suicide Squad / Banana Splits
Terry Gilliam
The Killing Joke
Kingdom Come
V for Vendetta
Tom Strong
Tomorrow Stories
Top 10 / Smax
The Hobbit graphic novel
The Far Side
Calvin and Hobbes
Garfield
Dilbert
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies graphic novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Zits
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Miracle Monday - May 15
Grant Morrison, Alan Moore’s enemy
Tales of the Black Freighter
Drunk History
Alien comic adaptation
Howard the Duck comic / movie
Honk! musical
The Eternals by Jack Kirby
Stellar themed snacks, as provided by Luke:

  • Doctor Manhattan (Manhattan w/ blue curacao)
  • design your own Rorschach cookies
  • Night Owl (coconut rum and root beer)

The Math of You podcast w/ Lucas

Movies / Shows Mentioned:

  • Superman
  • Batman v Superman
  • 300
  • Sucker punch
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Dawn of the Dead (remake)
  • Dawn of the Dead (original)
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
  • Harry Potter
  • Princess Bride
  • League of Extraordinary Gentleman
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  • Psycho
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Leap Year
  • Downton Abbey
  • P.S. I Love You
  • The Possession
  • The Walking Dead
  • 50 Shades of Gray
  • Frozen
  • Star Trek
  • The Incredibles
  • Sin City
  • The Dark Night
  • My Little Pony

Episode 6: Superman

Superman

We’ve declared May to be Marathon Month, where all the movies we watch will be on the same theme! Because we’re stoked for #GotGVol2 opening we’re watching superhero movies of all kinds. Kicking it off is the father of the modern superhero movie franchise, Superman starring Christopher Reeve. In this episode we’ll discuss how frustrating it is that science makes no sense in this movie universe, why Lois Lane is better than we remembered, and that time Katie and Wesleigh went to the Potato Salad Festival.

Show Notes

IMDb: Superman (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Rated: PG

Columbus Podcast Festival
McElroy podcast royalty (The Charlie and Daddy Show)
Potato Salad Festival
It’s Gonna Be May
Science of Superman
Superman/Moses analogy
Baby Superman actor
Elf / Buddy walking past the narwhal
Frankenstein’s monster walking through the frozen mountains
S symbol on Superman (why did Jor-El have a giant S family crest?)
Metropolis / NYC / Gotham
Not sponsored by Belgian waffles
List of American Superhero Films
Jesus’ missing years
Lex Luthor on Smallville
Why do so many bad guys have cool libraries?
What’s the Deal with Kryptonite? (please tell us!)
Changes clothes like a Sim
Supermans: Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill, Channing Tatum


Movies/Shows Mentioned

  • Space Jam
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Prince of Egypt
  • The Jerk
  • Elf
  • Frozen
  • The Lion King
  • Smallville
  • Aladdin
  • Mask of Zorro
  • Dr. Strange (70s TV movie)
  • Batman (1966)
  • Arrow
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • 50 Shades of Gray
  • Superman Returns
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • 13 Reasons Why
  • The Lego Movie / Lego Batman
  • 21 / 22 Jump Street
  • Spider-man