Episode 76: Would You Watch This? - SyFy Edition

It’s time for the newest installment of Would You Watch This? — the SyFy edition! This week Wesleigh created a playlist of some of the most…interesting movies to have shown on the SyFy Channel. In this episode, we discover an amazing casting choice and text a former guest about it, Katie has a lot of issues with a classic story, and, surprisingly, we get into some real talk about women’s entertainment and guilty pleasures.

Show Notes

Shoutout to podcast Superiority Complex for our theme this month!
Wikipedia of SyFy original movies

1. Beauty and the Beast

Let's Stop Telling Our Girls that Beauty can Redeem the Beast

2. Gen Y Cops / Metal Mayhem

3. Lavalantula

4. Sharktapus vs. Pteracuda

5. Age of Dragons

6. Dune

QUESTION: Girls tend to read books that were important to the men in their lives, do men do the same thing?
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

7. Children of Dune

SpongeBob Dune joke:

8. Dead 7

Spaghetti Westerns

Park and Rec: Stay Here

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Would You Watch This? - Father’s Day
• Would You Watch This? - Hallmark Holiday Originals
• Sharknado
• Chupacabra vs. The Alamo
• Demolition Man
• Police Academy
• Sandlot
• Sharktapus vs. Whalewolf
• The Pagemaster
• Sleepless in Seattle
• The Godfather
• The Vow
• Mean Girls
• The Notebook
• The Eagle
• Rick and Morty
• Fight Club

Episode 75: The Eagle

We travel back in time to 120 AD to visit Roman Soldier Channing in the next Tatumverse film, The Eagle, which is…not great. We talk a lot about Katie’s tip to see Hamilton instead. In this episode, we hear all about Katie’s birthday shenanigans, Wesleigh recounts the similarities between The Shape of Water and Paddington, and we have a surprise special guest. #MagicMikeByChristmas

Show Notes

IMDb: The Eagle (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes: 39%
Rated: PG-13

Marcella’s
The Palace Theater in Columbus, Ohio
Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio
Burr: Nick Walker
Park and Rec: Paddington and Paddington 2, Bachelor in Paradise, Insatiable

Shape of Water vs. Paddington:

• creature brought to civilized world

• Sally Hawkins rescues it

• villains

• flooding of the bathroom

• cleaning ladies pushing a cart

Insatiable “Miss Magic Jesus Pageant” musical number:

Sea of Sound podcast by Matthew Wechel
Donald Sutherland
Jamie Bell
Based on the book The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Hamilcast

How many tatums?

Wesleigh: 1 Tatums
Katie: 0.5 Tatums

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Hamilton

• Mulan

• Son of No One

• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

• The Revenant

• The Vow

• 21 Jump Street

• Jupiter Ascending

• Magic Mike: The Musical

Episode 74: Tangled

It's the last week of Katie's birthday month, and we're wrapping up with the last T movie, Tangled! In this episode, Katie gives her intense birthday week itinerary, we spend a lot of time talking about the Enneagram, and point out a lot of plot holes (but forgive them). #MagicMikebyChristmas

Show Notes

IMDb: Tangled (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Rated: PG

Katie is a Leo / 7 / ENFP
Wesleigh is a Scorpio / 9 / INFP
Cosmopolitan horoscope
yourtango.com horoscope
AstroPoets on Twitter
Peanut butter cookie recipe
Enneagram Institute
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
Sign up for EnneaThought
No Chill Enneagram / Mr. Rogers episode
Mohican tree houses
Flynn Rider: “kid tested, mother approved”
Zachery Levi

How Many Tatums?

W: 9 Tatums
K: 8 Tatums

 

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
• Mean Girls
• The Good Place
• Bachelor in Paradise
• Hamilton
• Treehouse Masters
• Frozen
• Raising Arizona
• LOTR: The Two Towers
• The Eagle
• Dear Evan Hansen

Episode 73: LOTR: The Two Towers

We’re continuing Katie’s birthday with this year’s LOTR installation! Her cousin Kate joins us again to fangirl over franchise details and ideas for recasting. In this episode, Katie gives us our final Bachelorette update, Wesleigh realizes Wales is probably nothing like she imagines, and there is a special appearance by noisy cat Matilda.

Show Notes

IMDb: LOTR: The Two Towers (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Rated: PG-13

Meet our guest, Kate!

Kate is Katie's cousin and longtime fellow fangirl of Lord of the Rings. You can follow her on Instagram at @katiemadesthings and on Twitter at @CosmetologyKate

Park and Rec: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Good Place
The Good Place Podcast
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
Eric Carle
Karl Urban, the guy in every franchise
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Bachelor: Middle Earth
Overdue
Billy Boyd’s band, Beecake

How Many Tatums?

Wesleigh: 4 Tatums
Katie: 9 Tatums
Kate: 9 Tatums (1 for each fellowship member)

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Hamilton
• Mean Girls
• Mean Girls: The Musical
• Inception
• Jurassic Park
• The Fast and the Furious
• The Revenant
• Star Trek
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Judge Dredd
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Wild Things with Dominic Monahan
• Stranger Things
• The Goonies
• Rudy
• 24
• 50 First Dates

Episode 72: The Truman Show

It's Katie's Birthday Month! *throws confetti* We're watching her favorites all through August, starting with The Truman Show, or peak Jim Carrey crush for Katie. In this episode, we reminisce about Mario Kart 64, talk a lot about cats, discover Wesleigh's new favorite YouTube video, and reignite the age-old pineapple on pizza debate.

Show Notes

IMDb: The Truman Show (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
Rated: PG

Pineapple on pizza #propineapple #proNOpineapple
not sponsored by Skyline Chili
Tallulah and her cone of shame:

Fuller House / Kimmy’s pizza sweater:

not sponsored by The Book Loft

The Book Loft is now hiring for 2 bookseller positions.

Must love:

books
carrying books
spaghetti probably
fencing as a sport
being on time
jock jams

Must hate:

crocs
puns
aggressively carrying tiki torches
air supply
calling pants "slacks"
garrett from the bachelorette

— The Book Loft (@TheBookLoft1) July 26, 2018

Cat tongue for people
Dog in a cone as a martini:

Wesleigh's new fav YouTube video:

HOW MANY TATUMS?

Wesleigh: 12 Tatums
Katie: 30 Tatums + 10/10 Jim Carreys

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Bachelor in Paradise
• Fuller House
• Jessica Jones
• Tangled
• Dumb & Dumber
• Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
• Stepford Wives
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• A Cinderella Story
• Penelope

Episode 71: Can't Hardly Wait

We're watching a high school movie with a million 90s actor cameos for this week's Viewing Party pick, Can't Hardly Wait! In this episode, we give an obligatory Lin Manuel update, Wesleigh is weirded out about breakup scrapbooks, we’re concerned about how much silly string is at a high school party, and Katie eats freeze pops.

Show Notes

IMDb: Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes: 40%
Rated: PG-13

Zipzicle freeze pop bags
Ethan Embry follows Wesleigh on Twitter
Paul Rudd in Wanderlust scene:

Comedy Bang Bang podcast
Can’t Hardly Wait by The Replacements:

Loveburger t-shirts
Not Your Mom’s Romance Book Club

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Blindspotting
• His Dark Materials
• Mary Poppins
• Wicked
• Book of Mormon
• Twilight
• Six Feet Under
• Where the Wild Things Are
• X-Files
• Wanderlust
• Hook
• Mean Girls
• American Pie
• The Mentalist
• The Mist
• Hidalgo
• Dharma & Greg
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Crown
• Darkest Hour
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• The Notebook
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Blockers

Episode 70: Son of No One

Live from the Tatumverse, it’s Viewing Party! This week we watch Son of No One, a movie where Channing plays a cop with a mustache and that has the most spot-on customer reviews since The Fast and the Furious. In this episode we learn that Katie busted a cap (in her knee), Wesleigh gives this movie a more apropos tagline, and we’re super excited to get to #MagicMikeByChristmas

Show Notes

IMDb: The Son of No One (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes: 16%
Rated: R

Parks and Rec: Pushing Daisies, Nanette, The Bachelorette
The Projects
Harvey Milk
new Drake album
The Yellow Wallpaper
She’s the Man Channing flip phone gif:

via GIPHY

SNL skit:

Amanda’s Picture Show A Go Go
Large Marge Sent Us
The Thirst

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• The Fast and the Furious
• The English Patient
• Dan in Real Life
• Sleepless in Seattle
• She’s the Man
• The Eagle
• The Vow
• 21 Jump Street
• Magic Mike
• The Hateful Eight
• Hamilton

Episode 69: Easy A

For this week’s Viewing Party, we go back to high school with the movie that got Pocket Full of Sunshine stuck in your head, Easy A! In this episode, Katie sings an educational song to disprove conspiracy theories, Wesleigh confesses to owning a questionable album by a Disney Channel star, and we rave about the best parents in any teen movie ever.

Show Notes

IMDb: Easy A (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Rated: PG-13

Song from Even Stevens:

Park and Rec: The Handmaid’s Tale, Jurassic Park, Rebecca (1940), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Hold That Ghost
Daphne du Maurier
Elevator scene in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken:

Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedinfield:

Aly & AJ
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
not sponsored by Red Lobster

Shows/Movies Mentioned

• Even Stevens
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• American Pie
• Mean Girls
• Superbad
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
• Phil of the Future
• The Green Mile
• House of Cards
• Broad City
• Annie
• The Maze Runners
• Parks and Rec
• Friends with Benefits
• SNL
• Shutter Island
• Lars and the Real Girl
• No Reservations
• All the King’s Men
• Good Night and Good Luck
• Carrie
• Gossip Girl
• Can’t Buy Me Love
• Portlandia
• Blockers
• Matilda