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Flopcast 639 Go Gos Vacation

Flopcast 639: Cruel Summer Songs of the 80s

Flopcast episode 639! As the Hit Parade podcast recently taught us, each year Billboard declares an official “Song of the Summer” based on chart performance. We’re taking a more subjective approach, and choosing which songs we most associate with each summer of the 1980s. Of course you’ll find some Go-Go’s

Flopcast 638 Weird Barbie

Flopcast 638: Safe Travels, You Weirdo

Flopcast episode 638! For the first time in four years, Kevin and Kornflake are together at Chickentown Studios! (Kevin brought the coffee, and Kornflake brought the doughnuts, so come on, it’s a party.) Kornflake is passing through Chickentown on her summer vacation, so we have a quick vacation road trip

Godzilla 1984 | Episode 422

Jim talks about a game-changing Japanese film that helped restart the Godzilla franchise, “Godzilla 1984,” aka “The Return Of Godzilla,” starring Ken Tanaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Shin Takuma, Ken Satsuma and directed by Koji Hashimoto. 30 Years after Godzilla attacked Tokyo and was apparently destroyed, the giant

Flopcast 637 Thompson Twins

Flopcast 637: Drummers With Hats

Flopcast episode 637! Our five-part New Wave Game was just preparation for this week. Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown have a full report on the latest (and longest) retro 80s new wave concert to come to town. The eight (EIGHT!) acts were: The Plimsouls, Tommy Tutone, Bow Wow Wow,

Night Gallery | Episode 421

Jim remembers his first viewing of the 1969 TV Movie, “Night Gallery,” which served as the pilot for the series and starred Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, George Macready, Barry Atwater, Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan, Tom Bosley, Byron Morrow, Richard Kiley, Sam Jaffe, George Murdock and featured directors, Boris Sagal, Steven

Flopcast 636 Dion

Flopcast 636: Talk to the Juice Box

Flopcast episode 636! Based on the advice of our lawyers, your Flopcast hosts rarely meet up in person these days. But it did just happen, because we both showed up at an odd little event called the Hops and Humorous Arts (or HAHA) Festival. This was an evening of short

Flopcast 635 Til Tuesday

Flopcast 635: The New Wave Game Part 5 – Hush, Hush

Flopcast episode 635! Time to wrap up our New Wave Game and see if anyone survives! We’re down to the final three volumes of the CD series Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80s, and either Kevin or Kornflake could still win. (But come on, our money

Flopcast 634 Brenda and Rhoda

Flopcast 634: That’s My 1974 Now!

Flopcast episode 634! We start with a quick report from a local nerd convention, where Kevin met up with some heroes of 1970s kids TV: Our old friends Wesley Eure and Kathy Coleman from Land of the Lost, our new friends Doug and Emmy Jo from The New Zoo Revue… and the

Flopcast 633 April Ludgate

Flopcast 633: The Angry Gobble

Flopcast episode 633! On the longest day of the year, we made the shortest show of the year. Including: Kornflake likes when Aubrey Plaza is weird, Kevin apologizes to a turkey, a rooster named Earl works at an auto shop, and we launch our new Flopcast “Too Many Comics” bonus

Flopcast 632 Nena

Flopcast 632: The New Wave Game Part 4 – Where Fashion Sits

Flopcast episode 632! The struggle continues, as we’re still trying to guess each other’s favorite songs from the Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80s CD series. By 1983, the radio was bursting with new wave weirdos who never would have dented the Top 40 in the

Flopcast 631 Casper demon kid

Flopcast 631: Your Floss Is Possessed

Flopcast episode 630! Another quick fill-in show? You bet! We’re flipping through three old comic books that the Mayor of Chickentown actually owned as a little kid, decades before her rise to poultry-themed political bigwig. Up first is The Wizard of Oz, a giant-sized movie adaptation that was actually the first

Flopcast 630 Record City

Flopcast 630: Something Especially Idiotic

Flopcast episode 630! Kevin just watched a horrible movie and can’t wait to tell the Mayor all about it! So kids, welcome to 1978’s Record City. It’s purportedly a comedy, but yikes, not a single joke lands. But at least the setting is fun, since the whole thing takes place at

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