Center of Weirdness

Belvedere Boyz Ep. 1 - Stranger in the Night / Pilot

This week marks a bold new direction for the show as we rebrand as the Belvedere Boyz and promise to cover all 117 episodes of 1980s sitcom Mr. Belvedere every week for the next two years. This is TOTALLY REAL and NOT A JOKE.  In this inaugural episode, we cover the pilot and discuss the titular butler's supernatural ways. We also talk about a particularly pivotal moment in the Mr. Belvedere mythos.  We hope you'll enjoy this new direction we're taking the show and will join us for the r...

Cathy's Valentine

What's that? A new episode of the podcast? We've been away for a while and we discuss why before getting into the surprisingly sweet TV special Cathy's Valentine (trust us, we were surprised we liked it too).  If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. And follow us on Instagram and Threads at @weirdnesspodcast (where you can suggest TV shows we should cover on the podcast)!  

ALF - Turkey in the Straw: Part 1 & 2

Things get dark this week as we discuss a very special ALF Thanksgiving two-parter. Along the way, we rail against midwesterners for not liking veggie meatballs, we discuss a very Brooklyn boy living in Southern California, and we recite a special Thanksgiving hymn (that definitely everyone knows!).  If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. And follow us on Instagram and Threads at @weirdnesspodcast (where you can suggest TV shows we should cover on the podcast)!  

Center of Spookiness: Walker, Texas Ranger - The Children of Halloween (w/ Megan Sunday)

Happy Halloween! This week, we welcome Megan Sunday to the podcast to discuss martial arts and devil worship while covering the extra spooky, extra satany Walker, Texas Ranger episode "The Children of Halloween." Exactly how many children does cult leader Lucifer need to sacrifice on Halloween night? How did he know how to build a sophisticated bomb? Why are there two Kate McKinnon characters in this episode? All that, plus Skinner's obsession with Tony Danza finally pays off (sort of).  I...

Center of Spookiness: Silk Stalkings - It's the Great Pumpkin, Harry

This week on the show, we finally get around to covering the super sexy/supremely silly Silk Stalkings. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Harry" is a baffling Halloween episode that barely matters because it's all a dream, but gets even dumber with the more you think about it. Why exactly is this boss dreaming about his employees having sex with strangers? Why do the characters seem to have some understanding that they're in a dream? And what exactly was that movie he was watching? It's a ridiculous ...

Center of Spookiness: Family Matters - Stevil & Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone

For our first pocast of October and the 13th episode of the season, we're covering TWO episodes of Family Matters, both featuring Steve Urkel's evil dummy doppelganger Stevil! Neither episode is GOOD but there are a few fun moments, as well as a few bizarre choices by the creative team, including extended dummy dance numbers and standup sets.  If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. And follow us on X (formerly Twitter) at @weirdcenter (for now) or Instagram/Threads at @w...

Center of Spookiness: Nightmare Cafe - The Heart of the Mystery

This week on the show we're following Robert Englad from one nightmare to another as we cover Nightmare Cafe, an extremely short-lived series about a mysterious diner and some ghosts who are forced to work there. In this episode, the ghosts have to help a detective solve a murder that occurred either last year or 30 years ago. We also get some creepy sibling affection, some exaggerated drunk acting by one of the hardest working men in showbiz, and the most insane looking CG transformation ev...

Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares - Do Dreams Bleed?

Spooky Season has begun! To get things started right, we're back in Springwood to talk about Freddy's Nightmares. In "Do Dreams Bleed?" we meet a new killer called The Chopper, who, as his name suggests, likes to chop up folks with an ax. It's probably either the troubled football star or the weirdo coach, but the episode doesn't seem to care and neither should we. Along the way, we see a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse kitchen, a basement freezer capable of holding three dead musicians, and a c...

Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath Returns (pt 2)

It's with a heavy heart that we we end our Summer Knights series with this episode and bid a fond farewell to Garthe and Goliath. Unfortunately, it's in a rather boring episode. But thankfully there's some good stuff sprinkled throughout, like Dr. Adrienne wanting to test out Garthe and Michael's Knight Sticks to see who she likes better, Kitt doctoring audio clips like a political operative, and a drowning truck screaming like a dinosaur. We'll miss you, Garthe. We'll miss you, Goliath.  ...

Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath Returns (pt 1)

After last episode's patriotic diversion with Greatest American Hero, we're back with our Summer Knights series to begin our final battle against Garthe and Goliath. Somehow, Goliath has returned and so has Garthe, sporting a great big bushy beard. This episode has more excitement and energy than both of our previous Knight Rider episodes combined, and Hasselhoff seems to be giving it his all playing Garthe this time around. And there's a bizarre plot involving blood transfusions that also t...

The Greatest American Hero - Just Another Three-Ring Circus

Since it's American Independence Day, we wanted to take a break from our Summer Knights series to honor a real American Hero, perhaps the GREATEST American Hero. That's right, we're talking all about The Greatest American Hero, a goofy show that's actually a lot better and more fun than we were expecting. In this episode, we kick things off with some ninjas attacking a Polish clown and only get wackier from there. Along the way, we wonder how old the high school kids are in Ralph's class, qu...

Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath (pt 2)

Our Summer Knights series continues this week, as we check in with Michael and Kitt to see if they can stop Michael’s evil doppelgänger Garthe and the “banana-headed bovine” known as Goliath. We discuss further missed story opportunities, bad AI-written scripts, and how everything you want from an “evil twin” episode happens off-screen.  If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. And follow us on Twitter at @weirdcenter or Instagram at @weirdnesspodcast (where you can sugge...

Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath (pt 1)

The temperature is heating up outside so we're taking a drive with Michael Knight and his robot car Kitt in our Summer Knights series. All summer long, we'll be discussing Knight Rider, specifically the episodes featuring Michael's pseudo half brother Garthe Knight (also played by David Hasselhoff wearing a mustache and tiny soul patch). In out discussion of part 1 of "Goliath," we discuss the Hoff's dual acting role, his coworker Devon's absolute ineptitude in the face of danger, and what e...

Super Mario World: The Wheel Thing / Captain N: Pursuit of the Magic Hoop

To tie into the recent Super Mario movie release, we decided to cover the early 90s Super Mario World cartoon. The Mario segment is a little boring, even though we have some fun discussing the the weird diversions the creators decided to take from the standard games. The real gem here, though, is the Captain N: The Game Master segment that comes in the second half of the episode. It's a wild 11 minutes, with a surprising guest star, an evil robot AND an evil clock, an Urkel ripoff, and a pri...

Sheena - Divas of the Jungle

This week on the show, we're back with another early 2000s action show with a woman protgonist: Sheena, starring three-named actors Gena Lee Nolin and John Allen Nelson. This episode, titled "Divas of the Jungle," features a whole list of things that make you go "Ehhhhhhh," including a character who spouts every homophobic snipe the writers could think of and the most sideboob ever seen in a basic cable TV show. Plus: QUICKSAND!  If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. An...

Relic Hunter - The Book of Love

We're kicking off a month of discussing early 2000s syndicated action shows featuring women protagonists with Relic Hunter, an incredibly dumb (but fun!) show starring Tia Carrere. The episode in question, "The Book of Love," features an extremely popular Italian soccer star looking for Casanova's famous sex diary for reasons that aren't incredibly clear. Along the way, we get flailing food fights, statue seduction, irritating innuendos, and the longest opening credits in television history....

NightMan - Bad to the Bone

We're still hanging out with NightMan in Bay City for the return of walking Christian Slater clone Space Face in episode Bad to the Bone. This is a bad episode of a bad television show which completely undercuts any sense of dramatic tension by dumping a 3 minute "previously on" segment at the beginning. Shapeshifting villain Space Face wants to frame Johnny Domino for murder but it's unclear why, since the last time he was around he wanted to kill Johnny's dad and Lt. Dann and doesn't seem ...

Nightman - Face to Face

It's our first episode of 2023 and we're heading to Bay City for the entire month to finally discuss the long-forgotten syndicated comic book show Nightman. This episode has all the terrible hallmarks you'd hope for from a late 90s cheaply-made superhero TV show: bad greenscreening, an overacting villain, a nonsensical revenge plot, and an absolutely insane cameo (seriously, do not look it up if you don't already know - we'll tell you all about it). Nightman is an absolutely stupid show and ...

The Santa Clauses - Chapter One: Good to Ho

Christmas is just around the corner so we're heading to the North Pole to discuss the frequently-canceled Tim Allen's return as the big red menance: The Santa Clauses. Lots of terrible stuff in this one, from the CGI to the Santa makeup to the ED jokes but there are a couple funny lines (and that's about it). Merry Christmas! 

The Wish That Changed Christmas

It's the holiday season so it's time for terrible Christmas TV! This week, we're checking out The Wish That Changed Crhsitmas, another special from Romeo Muller, the creator behind the absolutely insane Noel: The Happy Christmas (which we covered last Christmas). This time around, we're faced with an orphan without a solid grasp on what it means to be a grandma, the breathiest talking doll ever, and an overly-animated owl toy that might just be an actual living owl. So crawl onto a pile of d...

WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkeys Away

We're gearing up for Thanksgiving by discussing one of the most well-known and well-regarded Thanksgiving-themed television episodes ever: WKRP in Cincinnati's "Turkeys Away." We break down the infamous episode and explore what still works after 40 years (chief among them is Richard Sanders's performance as Les Nessman). We also discover an intriguing necktie variation that was apparently invented by a ghost. Happy Thanksgiving! 

Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares - Memory Overload

Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookiest day of the year, we returned to Springwood once more to journey into Freddy's Nightmares. And because it's Halloween, we picked an episode... that has nothing to do with Halloween and barely features the titular Freddy. What it does feature, though, is an alcoholic professor, a trip inside a computer, and an early Kyle Chandler performance. Also, is Freddy a patriot? 

Center of Spookiness: Boy Meets World (w/ Christy Admiraal)

On this very special episode, we're joined by friend Christy Admiraal to discuss her favorite episode of her favorite television show: Boy Meets World's slasher movie homage And Then There Was Shawn. We talk scary janitors (who might actually be ghosts), our history with school detention, and celebrity heights.  Listen to Christy on Pizza Toast!  If you like the show, rate and review us wherever you listen, but especially on Apple Podcasts! 

Center of Spookiness: Home Improvement

Last time we discussed nightmare man Freddy Krueger, and this week we're turning our attention to another nightmare man: Tim Allen. Today on the podcast we're discussing one of the many Home Improvement Halloween episodes: "A Night to Dismember." Youngest son Dark Mark and his goth friend Ronnie just wants to make a horror movie but Jill is worried he actually wants to kill his family, because she's an idiot. After watching this episode, we're pretty sure Mark only wanted to make this movie ...

Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares

Things are getting scary... and sexy! This week, we're discussing Freddy's Nightmares, specifically the season 1 finale "Safe Sex," an epsiode that doesn't really talk about safe sex at all. But it does have two nerds obsessed with a goth chick (who in turn is obsessed with a certain burned maniac). This show is a wild ride, full of bad puns, weird insults (spud boy?), and a woman getting turned into a smoke cloud and inhaled. 

Center of Spookiness: Salute Your Shorts

Today is Labor Day, which means summer is (un)officially over and the Spooky Season has begun! To bridge the gap between heat and treats, we're getting scared at summer camp with the notorious "Zeke The Plumber" episode of Salute Your Shorts! If you want to know what's inside our heads, you don't need a plunger of terror, you just need to listen to this episode! 

Tropical Heat (a.k.a., Sweating Bullets)

Things are still hot, so this week we're heading down to Key Maria and meeting up with some really sexy private detectives in Tropical Heat. There's a lot to unpack here, including how quickly a band was pulled together, what bartenders will put up with, and how this show radicalized an entire country (we'll explain). 

California Dreams

We're still enjoying the sunshine in our unofficial Summer Series by discussing the first episode (maybe?) of 90s teen show California Dreams! There's lots of bad music, terrible characters, and a couple pretty racist things - and this is the pilot! No wonder they retooled this show every single season.  If you enjoy the podcast, give us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen! 

Pacific Blue

This week things get hot as we head to the beach and check out the bicycle cops of Pacific Blue! The episode in question, "The Pheonix," has everything we could've wanted: a ghost with a flamethrower, a Hannibal Lecter-wannabe, a meth-addled rat, a rollerblading snake handler, AND a wet T-shirt contest. Seriously, this show has it all and then some.  If you like the show, rate and review us wherever you listen! 

Small Wonder

Burritos are ready! This week on the show, it's time to check in with another secret robot: Small Wonder! This episode is all about making burritos and starting a small burrito business despite being a terrible burrito businessman. Also, why is this show aimed at kids so damn sexual? Plus: we spend a good 10 minutes or so discussing other episodes of this show that are shocking/we will probably cover at some point.     

Evil (with guest Beau North!)

CW: The episode we discuss does deal briefly with the topic of teen suicide This week, we're joined by our first ever guest on Center of Weirdness: author and podcaster extraordinaire Beau North! And she's brought with her a show with extremely bad SEO. It's Evil, and on this episode there's a sinister song that will get stuck in your head forever and then will make you stab yourself in the ear. Beau walks us through the show and fills in some of the backstory. We also discuss our own pers...

The Pentaverate

This week on the show we're uncovering the secrets of The Pentaverate, the newest comedy creation from master of disguise Mike Myers. Well, we only watched episode 4 so there might be some secrets we missed. Honestly we only wanted to know why Shrek showed up so we just watched that episode. But there's so much more to it than that, including comedy legend Jennifer Saunders slumming it and some jokes that would've been dated back in the 90s. But maybe we're too dumb to get it. Or too woke. O...

Classic Concentration

Freaky Links

This week things are getting freaky as we discuss early 2000s Blair Witch-meets-X-Files series Freaky Links! Hey, did you know the Cretaceous period was a long, long, LONG time before the Civil War? Why is that important? Oh, you'll see. 

Holmes & Yoyo

This week on the show we're heading back to the heyday of 70s TV comedy to discuss Holmes & Yoyo, a tremendously bizarre cop show about a bumbling detective and his occasionally malfunctioning robot partner. In the half-hour pilot, we get chest calculators, pratfalls that probably actually hurt, and gags that go on way too long. Oh, and Jay Leno is here. 

The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin

This week on the show we're heading to the far-off land of Grundo to discuss the surprisingly deep cartoon The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. We're specifically talking about the penultimate episode, where a secondary villain gets married and a bunch of other stuff happens that we can't understand. We really have no idea what's going on but we do know this: Teddy Ruxpin might be the most serialized cartoon of all time. Enjoy! 

18 Wheels of Justice

This week, we're hitting the open road with 18 Wheels of Justice, a show that has the courage to cast actual piece of human garbage G. Gordon Liddy as a bad guy! We also get a Peyton Manning clone as a crooked cop, a chili negotiation, and some gold up in them thar hills. Not enough actual truck driving though. 

Bump In The Night

On this week's episode, we're talking about claymation interstitials-turned-series Bump In The Night, easily one of the most frenetic shows we've ever seen! We also try to figure out exactly what Bumpy and Squishington are, discover what fast food outlet offered Bumpy toys, and cringe hard talking about these musical numbers. 

Timecop: The Series

This week we're talking about action movie-turned-dull TV series Timecop! We barely get acquainted with the future -- the year 2007 to be exact -- before traveling into the past to fight Jack The Ripper. Well, not the actual Jack The Ripper, but a time traveling misogynist incel with a lightning knife who has killed him and taken his place. Plus, riddles and tabloids and H.G. Wells. 

Bonus Ep: Picking a Weird URL

Have you wondered how we picked our website URL (centerofweird.com) but were too afraid to ask? Lucky for you, the mics were hot when we talked through our options and we're releasing this short bonus episode while you wait for Episode 2. 

Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension

In this inaugural episode of our new mainline show, we return to our roots to see what's happening in Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension! We find it hard to believe no one in 1998 Eerie had ever heard of satellite dishes before. We're also curious what was on that Jell-O channel. Plus Bigfoot and Elvis, two things we've come to expect from our trips to Eerie. 

Center of Weirdness: Episode 0

In this brief intro episode, we lay out what to expect on this new direction for the show and tease what's to come.  Our first full episode drops Monday, February 7th. See you then. 

Mini Episode 96 - See ya!

On the last day of 2021, it's the last mini episode of the year -- and forever! That's right: we're changing the show next year and if you want to know how WEIRD things are going to get, you'll have to listen to this episode! Happy New Year!  We'll see you in 2022.  Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Check out our entire back catalogue at predict...

Bonus: Christmas Ornaments Spectacular

On this special bonus episode, we're talking all about the weirdest and wildest Christmas ornaments we can find. We tries to figure out who would want these things, and along the way, we discover Santa's other various jobs, stumble upon inappropriate Etsy pages, and memorialize the year that was. There's also a video version of this on our YouTube page! Check it out at the link: https://youtu.be/bMHXevMxktY Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Tw...

178. Borrowed Hearts (1997) (w/ Megan Sunday!)

For this Christmas week episode, we're joined by our Pin Pal Megan Sunday to discuss 1997's Borrowed Hearts, a movie that just loves committing HR violations. Along the way we talk about Angel Long Cons, whether little girls care how their parents met, and the potentially kinky sex games between Roma Downey and Eric McCormack. It's a heartwarming tale for the whole family. Listen to more of Megan on the Let's Get Weirding podcast at letsgetweirding.libsyn.com or wherever you get podcasts. ...

Center of Weirdness - Noel (1992)

On this special holiday bonus episode of Center of Weirdness, we talk about the 1992 TV Christmas special thing Noel, the most depressing 23 animated minutes you're likely to find. We're talking death, secret Jesus, and asshole ornaments. We certainly don't have a happiness after this one. Thanks to John McCoy of Sophomore Lit for sharing his memories on Noel and how he's basically responsible for this whole thing still living on. Check out his podcast at theincomparable.com/sophomorelit/ ...

Mini Episode 95

We're gearing up for another TV movie holiday classic (?) by talking about angels, Eric McCormack's luscious locks, and forgotten cop show Hat Squad!  Our episode on 1997's Borrowed Hearts drops next Monday!  Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Check out our entire back catalogue at predictocast.com Drop us a line at predictocast (at) gmail (dot...

177. Babes in Toyland (1986) (w/ Laura Fortier!)

This week on the show we're joined by writer/amateur aerialist Laura Fortier to discuss a movie from her childhood an a perfect way to start the holiday season: 1986's TV movie version of Babes in Toyland starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. Along the way, we talk Cincinnati songs, old theme parks, and how Toyland is basically M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Sing along with us now: P-R-E-D-I-C-T-O-C-A-S-T! You can find out more about Laura at her website laurafortier.com/ and see he...

Mini Episode 94

On this week's mini episode, we're gearing up for the Christmas season by looking through Drew Barrymore's filmography, wondering how popular Keanu Reeves was in Germany in the 1980s, and trying to figure out what a slimehouse is. Our episode on 1986's Babes in Toyland drops next Monday! Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follow us on social media:  Twitter: @predictocast Instagram: @predictocast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predictocast Check out our entire bac...

176. A Family Thanksgiving (2010) (w/ Beau North & Jody Skinner!)

This Thanksgiving week, we're joined by good friends Beau North and Jody Skinner to talk all about A Family Thanksgiving! We talk about the gender-swapped Family Man plot, but get distracted,  discussing the director's other credits, urinal flies, and Faye Dunaway's hat. Happy Thanksgiving!   Hear more of Beau North:  Excessively Diverted! (with friend of the show Sammi C) Let's Get Weirding (with friend of the show Megan Sunday) Rate and review us wherever you find the show!  Follo...