Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhether the critics hated it, audiences ignored it, or the network pulled the plug, hosts Mike and Morgan are there to make the best of bad TV. New episodes every Tuesday.
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EP38 - Sons of Thunder
November 27, 2018 15:25 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBHowdy Pardners! We took a trip to the Lone Star state to visit everyone’s favorite bearded butt-kicker, Chuck Norris! Did you know that Walker, Texas Ranger had a very short-lived spinoff, inexplicably titled Sons of Thunder? Apparently neither did anyone else! This gritty, murder-filled, Southern-fried, karate/detective noir has something for everyone. Especially if you’re looking for ridiculous music cues! Plus, Morgan can’t contain her potty mouth, Mike explains the super real details of ...
EP37 - Bosom Buddies - Hanksgiving Special
November 21, 2018 04:12 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBHappy Hanksgiving!! We celebrate the thankful season with America’s most beloved actor, and patron saint of yell-talk comedy, Tom Hanks! We watched the 80s sitcom Bosom Buddies co-starring Peter Scolari, and other familiar faces we couldn’t place, but are pretty sure we know from other stuff. Morgan apparently had no idea what the show was about, so lets hope it’s not too much of a drag for her! We spend a lot of time talking about other shows (Spaced, The Greatest Event in Television Histor...
EP36 - Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
November 13, 2018 17:01 - 1 hour - 85 MBCowabunga, dudes! Get ready for one shell of an episode! We’re joined by Chris of the More Gooder Than podcast along with his hilarious and charming wife, Alyse! From Saban (the guys that brought you Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers), it’s the low budget, live-action TMNT show that absolutely no one was asking for! Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. There’s plenty to talk about including Mike’s creepy nickname for Morgan, Chris and Alyse being tormented by a phantom tapper at their house, and Mo...
EP35 - Adventures in Babysitting
November 06, 2018 16:19 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBYou got those babysitting blues? Well I hope our delirious laughter and fart jokes will cheer you up because this small screen spinoff never got off the ground. However, thanks to the magic of YouTube we were able to watch the "unaired pilot" for Adventures in Babysitting (it obviously was aired, just never picked up to series). We also talk about our favorite celebrity couple, Blenifer, set up the immensely important trash compactor poll, spend way too long talking about Boz Scaggs (an arti...
EP34 - Freddy's Nightmares "Freddy's Tricks and Treats"
October 30, 2018 17:56 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBAre you ready for Freddy?? That’s right, unlike Friday the 13th, Freddy actually shows up for his TV show! There’s plenty of striped sweaters, terrible puns and razor gloves in Freddy’s Nightmares! And just in time for the holiday, it’s a Halloween episode featuring Mariska Margitay! Fellow Elm Street fan, Brent from Home Video Hustle, joins us to talk about Kruger’s small screen slashings! It’s the last episode of the Halloween season and we wanted to go out with a scream!!! Plus Morgan get...
EP33 - Friday the 13th: The Series "Hellowe'en"
October 23, 2018 15:01 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIt's a Halloween episode of a Friday the 13th TV show!! Obviously it's gonna be Jason vs. Michael right?!?!? Not exactly... I mean, not at all, even a little bit. But it IS going to have a crystal ball, a ghost uncle, and an old man wearing a Merlin costume! And that's just as good! Right? Along the way we debate the definition of "co-ed," and whether or not the series invented Halloween, but we can all agree that Steve Zahn makes everything better. Also Mike teaches everyone the fascinating...
EP32 - Top 20 Tales from the Crypt - #AllTheHorror
October 17, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBHello, Boils and Goyles (like Gargoyles, get it?)!! It’s our second episode of #AllTheHorror and we are joined by Rob from Movie Geek and Proud and Trish from Invasion of the Remake to talk about one of our favorite shows, Tales from the Crypt!! We do a joint countdown of our Chop 20 episodes! Plus Morgan reveals her celebrity crush, Mike does a spot on Crypt Keeper impression and so much more!! Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as well as #AllTheHorror to catch all 31 of the scareifying e...
EP31 - Square Pegs "Halloween XII"
October 09, 2018 14:35 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBThe Halloween season continues as we watch the ghost of 80s teen comedy, Square Pegs! It's a special halloween episode of a show we've never seen and know almost nothing about! Sarah Jessica Parker (queen of the three-namers) and the lovely Jaimie Gertz (why don't you just marry her, Mike!?) star in this short lived, but fondly remembered show. Morgan sets the tone with a reading of one of her favorite poems, and drops some mad knowledge about screen legend Alan Ruck. Mike counts films in t...
EP30 - Top 10 Halloween Episodes - #AllTheHorror
October 03, 2018 07:47 - 1 hour - 77 MBHappy October!! We begin our favorite time of year with a super Halloween extravaganza! We’re doing a joint list of our Top 10 favorite Halloween TV episodes, and you’re not going to believe what takes the first spot! (Seriously, we couldn’t believe it either) What gets loved, and what gets snubbed? Find out! Also, we have spooky editions of Morgan’s John Q’s, a short recap of our visit to Halloween Horror Nights, we read out some Halloween faves from Twitter, plus lots of Buffy love!! It’s...
EP29 - Automan
September 25, 2018 15:18 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBHoly synth, it’s Automan! Or is it Ottoman? We have no idea what we’re in for but we’re pretty sure it has something to do with cars… or furniture… possibly both (actually it’s neither). Tiffany and Josh return to podcast and eat pizza… and we’re all out of pizza (but some does get delivered to us while recording!) Join as we talk about our new mascot Bob Ross: Mob Boss, we neglect to describe the main character for half the episode, we ponder the origins of Automan (Autobaby?), Tiff tells u...
EP28 - The Munsters Today
September 20, 2018 14:12 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBForget everything you know about those lame old Munsters of yesteryear, because these are the muthatruckin’ Munsters TODAY! Mike and Morgan woke up early just to get you this episode (two days late)! Join as they experiment with changing the format of the show to an NPR-style mellow conversational, Cuppa Joe. Morgan tries her hand at ASMR and sings us a very special version of “My Favorite Things” (I don’t think Julie Andrews says t***ies in her version). Mike hires a new band leader named D...
EP27 - Street Sharks
September 11, 2018 14:05 - 1 hour - 67 MBGet some real shark up in this S@*#!! That’s the tagline for this Jawesome 90s cartoon! Not really, but wouldn’t that be so KOOL!? Jason (Things I Hate) and Carli (Oh Shit That’s Scary) return to the podcast to talk about the nearly inexplicable Street Sharks! We also get into some of our favorite 90s garbage like Gushers, Crossfire and Squeezits! Mike confirms the validity of the science behind the show. Jason speculates that the show is a thinly veiled allegory for gang warfare, and possibl...
EP26 - Miracles
September 04, 2018 13:20 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBMike and Morgan find a higher a power... and it's Skeet Ulrich! Just kidding, they just watched a weird religious based supernatural mystery thriller TV show from 2003 called Miracles, featuring Skeet playing a hoax hunting priest. Was it one of the titular miracles that it lasted 7 episodes? Was it an act of God it was taken off the air? Or maybe Satan is to blame for it's unfortunate demise? One thing's for sure, Skeet can seduce the hell out of a blind lady! It's raining blood, Hallelujah...
EP25 - Aliens in the Family
August 28, 2018 14:43 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBMorgan has returned! It's our 25th Epiversary, and it's the worst show we've watched yet! The Henson company brings us Aliens in the Family, a muppet/human sitcom abomination starring some of weirdest characters doing insufferably mundane things! We also spend time referencing Hey Dude!, speculate alien sex noises, argue over the color of Hayden Panettiere's hair and Kristanna Loken's relevancy, Men in Black, Alf, types of pudding, and plenty of weiner talk! It's not just garbage, it's space...
EP24 - Rambo: The Force of Freedom
August 21, 2018 15:12 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBHey Kids! It's John Rambo, and he's gonna give you a war [cartoon] you won't believe! That's right, the very first R-Rated film to be turned into an animated children's show was the ultra-violent bullet frenzy that is the First Blood series. Why not? That seems perfectly appropriate for children!(?) Morgan is living it up in the Big Apple this week, so Josh returns as substitute co-host. We talk about the potential for a kid-centric Rambo cartoon set in the suburbs, Josh spreads roumors about...
EP23 - Swans Crossing
August 14, 2018 14:58 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBOh my SMG!! Before slaying vampires, Sarah Michelle Gellar was breaking hearts and stabbing backs in this 1992 teen soap, Swans Crossing! Mike is joined by guest co-host Josh for the second installment of “Buffy Buddies,” as Morgan continues her sabbatical (j/k she’s super busy with real work). In addition to spending over a half hour on the intricate plot of an 18 minute teenage soap opera pilot, they find time to compare the show to California Dreams, marvel over the fact that the main dud...
EP22 - Mission: Impossible '88
July 31, 2018 13:20 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBThat's right, we're discussing what the internet is buzzing about, Mission: Impossible!! We'll probably have a lot of fallout over this one, but it's actually not the new movie we're talking about. It's not the old TV show either. It's the NEW old TV show: the quasi reboot of Mission: Impossible from 1988! Did you even know this existed? We sure didn't! Josh and Tiff are filling in for Morgan this week, and things get real silly, real quick. But all you Morg-heads out there are in for a spec...
EP21 - The Mist
July 24, 2018 09:02 - 1 hour - 87 MBWe are joined by TJ and Serenity of the hilarious Movies with the Mrs. podcast to talk about the quickly nixed 2017 TV series adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist! In preparation for Hulu’s Castle Rock series we thought we’d check out one of the prolific writer’s least loved television conversions. Is there enough material to make an entire series? Will we get to the mist in the first episode? Is it actually fog? Does anyone watch SpikeTV? We also talk about our favorite King miniseries, ou...
EP20 - Good Reception: The Nanny
July 19, 2018 15:33 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBFor our 20th episode we return to Good Reception(?), and this time it's Morgan's turn to make Mike watch something! Kind of. Actually Morgan has no idea what she's watching, but it's one of her childhood favorites that Mike has never seen! The Fran Drescher starring 90s sitcom classic The Nanny! A critical success and audience favorite, how has he never seen it?? Will Mike be turned into an instant Nanny fan, or will the nasally New Yorkah drive him nuts? Will it hold up to Morgan's nostalgi...
EP19 - Street Hawk
July 10, 2018 04:17 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBAlright all you cycle-heads. Motor maniacs. Two-wheeled rocket racers. This one’s for you! What do you get when you combine a motorcycle, lasers, machine-guns, Tangerine Dream synth, Frank from Murphy Brown and sack of potatoes dressed like a man? You guessed it, it’s Street Hawk! Everyone’s favorite crime fighting super-vehicle series that doesn’t star David Hasselhoff! Chevy joins us again to spill the beans about this top secret government mission. Listen to us struggle to explain the imp...
EP18 - Ferris Bueller
July 03, 2018 09:01 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBIt’s yet another installment of “Friends before Friends!” This week we unearth the TV spinoff “Ferris Bueller," starring a pre-Rachel Jennifer Aniston. It's kind of like if everything you love about Ferris Bueller's Day Off got flushed down a toilet, lit on fire, and smashed into pieces! It's that good! We spend an absurd amount of time avoiding talking about this one, with topics ranging from Mike's infatuation with there being a Jumaji TV show, to audience thoughts on Jennifer Aniston vs ...
EP17 - Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
June 26, 2018 08:02 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBIt's Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!! This week we finally cover the topic everyone has been clamoring for: forgotten, short-lived, 90s cartoons inspired by the boom of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!! It's like Star Wars but with bunnies, cats, toads, and baboons! Plus robots, dimensional travel, and busty animated kitties! Plus Josh joins us to educate Morgan on the NES classic Battletoads (although it remains unclear exactly what that game was about), we get into some deep fan theories on why ...
EP16 - Free Spirit
June 19, 2018 09:10 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBQuit Your Witchin'!! This week we're cast under the spell of the 80s family sitcom Free Spirit! It's the second most famous all-ages witch comedy to air on TGIF. Folks, we were tired, and we were drinking, and recorded it merely hours before it needed to be uploaded. It may be incoherent, and we may be insufferable, but one thing is for sure: it meets the minimum requirements to be considered a podcast. It may not be pretty, but we did it get it posted under the wire. We also find time to d...
EP15 - Thunder in Paradise
June 12, 2018 05:50 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBWelcome to paradise, BROTHER! Eden and Carli of the “Oh Shit That’s Scary” podcast join us to talk about the over-the-top, beyond-the-mat, no-holds-barred aquatic action series, Thunder in Paradise! Starring wrestling mega-star, the Suburban Commando himself, (and notably shitty person) Terry “The Hulkster” Hogan. Thanks to the Launching the Pilot podcast for this enjoyably absurd recommend! In addition to Hulk’s nips and singing voice, we find time to discuss sick fan-boat donuts, funeral r...
EP14 - Invasion
June 05, 2018 08:07 - 58 minutes - 54 MBAfter last weeks epic wrestling episode, we decided to keep things small for this ep (plus it was stupid hot and we were a little exhausted so please excuse our relatively mellow demeanor) as we slow things down a bit with a cerebral sci-fi thriller that had fans crying out for more. It's ABC's Invasion from 2005! It's often cited as a cancelled-too-soon classic, but will it invade our hearts or get under our skin? Plus we talk about the lengend of duendes, Mike sneakily watching two seasons...
EP13 - WWE Wrestling
May 29, 2018 19:57 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBMike and Morgan are WWE virgins! Not to worry, wrestling fanatics Tiffany and Josh are here to show them the error of their ways. It's a super-sized episode that has been dubbed the Wrestlemania of Podcasting! (by us, anyway) We watch a tag team match, four wrestler entrances, a classic slam battle, and close the night with the headlining showdown between Sasha Banks and Charlotte Flair. Can Tiff's unbridled enthusiasm and Josh's lifelong devotion make WWE-ners out of your hosts?? Is Wrestli...
EP12 - Eerie, Indiana
May 22, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBThis week we watched the cult classic, kid-friendly creeper, Eerie, Indiana. Both of us remember liking it when we were young... but not much else. Does it cast us under it's nostalgic spell or is it all hocus pocus? We also talk about our favorite episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and discuss how awesome the Goosebumps covers were. From mad scientists, to mummies, to mild-mannered madwomen, this episode has it all! Plus we give out shout out to one of our favorite podcasts, I Never Sa...
EP11 - Top of the Heap
May 15, 2018 16:49 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBWe’re back with the third installment of “Friends Before Friends.” This time we watched Matt LeBlanc’s short-lived Married… with Children spinoff, Top of the Heap. LeBlanc plays a young, handsome, dimwitted Italian-American man named Joey… er… I mean “Vinnie.” Basically it’s the same low-brow shenanigans as MWC but with more dancing! Is it a heap of smelly garbage, or cream of the crap? Josh makes his triumphant return to the show and we talk celebrity encounters, the sexual politics of Peg ...
EP10 - Good Reception: Lost
May 08, 2018 15:22 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBWe flip the script this week and cover a critically raved and monster hit TV show with our first installment of "Good Reception?" That's right, Mike is forcing Morgan to watch the show she's been too cool for for over 14 years, but today there's nowhere to run! It's like she's stranded on a tropical island with only one show to watch, and it's 2004's Lost! Mike gushes about his love for the show and Morgan gives her reservations and predictions. We omit the recap this time and just chat abou...
EP9 - Cop Rock
May 01, 2018 15:21 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBYou have the right to remain... musical! This week we watch the fascinating failure Cop Rock, in our most requested episode yet! Our good friend and musical enthusiast Chevy joins for a lively discussion of a show that is both dated and surprisingly timely. Prepare yourself for singing, dancing, cuffs, guns, sex, violence, cops, and of course, rocks. Please subscribe and review on iTunes. Like us on Facebook. Let us know if there's a show you'd like us to review at [email protected]...
EP8 - Perversions of Science
April 24, 2018 15:16 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBThis week we have two words for you: SEX. ROBOTS. Actor extraordinaire Galen Howard joins us to consume a double helping of Perversions of Science, HBO’s steamy sci-fi spinoff of Tales from the Crypt. This one’s got mature content y’all, so put the kids to bed, light some candles, and prepare yourself for slapstick canoodling, bodily explosions, robo-nips, space STDs, and sex robots, sex robots, SEX ROBOTS! Plus, sexiest man in the ‘verse Kevin Pollak, baby-faced bey Wil Wheaton, and two Sha...
EP7 - Baywatch Nights
April 17, 2018 14:06 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis week we watch the bay... and the skies!! It's the Baywatch spinoff turned X-Files knockoff, Baywatch Nights! And that means anything goes. Or does it? We're still not sure. Jason Diego Mederos (of Hi Eduardo and Oh Shit! That's Scary) joins us to to bare witness to one of the craziest shows we've ever had the pleasure to be forced to watch! It's episode 219 "The Eighth Seal" and things are gonna saucy all over your nugs... Also, we were all drinking. Please subscribe and review on iTun...
EP6 - Manimal
April 10, 2018 07:39 - 1 hour - 115 MBMan-oh-Manimal! Guest host Tiff joins Mike and Morgan this week to talk about the legendary Bad TV classic, Manimal (Ep. 104 "Female of the Species")! This show's got it all: practical FX, people jumping through windows, a wolf-person, a bird-person, an underwater shark fight, full frontal nudity, Frankenstein's monster, a car chase, a boat chase, an indoor Zoo (inside a dude's HOUSE!), a chillingly dark means of execution, and the greatest cameo in television history (I won't spoil it here)...
EP5 - Second Chance
April 03, 2018 07:53 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBThis episode Mike and Morgan have a song in their hearts, and they just can't stop singing. Seriously, they CAN NOT stop. Somebody stop them! They resurrect the long forgotten sitcom "Second Chance" starring a teenaged Matthew Perry. No, it's not about a teen scientist named Chance cloning himself (although that would be awesome), but it does involve heaven, time travel, and, of course, saving the family home from bank foreclosure (seriously, this is the only plot anyone could think of in th...
EP4 - Garbage Pail Kids / Inhumanoids
March 28, 2018 03:26 - 1 hour - 108 MBSave the childhood trauma for your mama! This week we subjected ourselves to some Saturday morning nightmare fuel in the form of two 80s cash grab cartoon catastrophes! First up is the non-stop action of Inhumanoids, apparently based on a weird toy line from Hasbro, that has mech-suited macho men fighting terrifying Monster Gods from the Earth's core. Second, we have an animated variety show featuring everyone's favorite repulsive rugrats, The Garbage Pail Kids. Both shows were pulled due to...
EP3 - Moonlight
March 21, 2018 06:53 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBMike and Morgan take a bite out of the short-lived 2007 CBS vampire detective show that is definitely not Angel, and also definitely not a Best Picture Oscar winner, Moonlight. Is it the lost classic that its cult following insists, or a steaming garbage pile as the critics suggested. One thing's for sure, if you're interested in a show about a vampire detective in Los Angeles that helps innocents to ease the guilt he feels from his murderous nature, that has a thing for blond girls too youn...
EP2 - Ghost Whisperer
March 12, 2018 04:51 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBShhh... things get a little spooky (and hushed) as we take on the critically hated, but audience beloved, Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. We cover it all: ghost crimes, ghost dogs, ghost dads, ghost grammar, and try to figure out why everyone is whispering! Also we drop some Charmed Season 3 spoilers, discuss inter-corporeal relationships, and guest star Josh (Box Office Records / @JershBlergee) teaches us a lesson in the manners of talking while taking out the trash.
EP1 - The Trouble With Larry
March 02, 2018 11:59 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBWe kick off our own Pilot with a doozy of a snoozer, the 1993 Bronson Pinchot vehicle "The Trouble With Larry." Just what kind of trouble has ol' Balki got himself into? Join us as we attempt to figure it out. The results are sure to be... troubling? With guest host Josh (Box Office Records podcast)!