Episode 26: Zen Master Tai Chi Roadhousey-Fu

In this week’s episode, special guest Kelvin Hatle, comedian and erudite thought-leader, returns to the Pleasure Dome to profess his love of so-bad-it’s-good filmmaking. Did Vikings wear bath mats? Does furniture crave fried chicken? Where can you find Patrick Swayze doing a sexy belt dance on roller skates? Find out in this episode! If you would …

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In this week’s episode, special guest Kelvin Hatle, comedian and erudite thought-leader, returns to the Pleasure Dome to profess his love of so-bad-it’s-good filmmaking. Did Vikings wear bath mats? Does furniture crave fried chicken? Where can you find Patrick Swayze doing a sexy belt dance on roller skates? Find out in this episode!

If you would like to drink along with us, we highly recommend The Gaucho Club’s Oak Cask Malbec. It sustained us in our times of laughter and tears.

Show notes, photos, and oh-so-many links behind the cut!

Here’s what Melissa and Kelvin looked like during this episode…

…and here’s what Windy looked like.

Movies mentioned:

Dungeons and Dragons

The Apple

Xanadu

Can’t Stop the Music

Skatetown U.S.A.

Roller Boogie

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

KISS Meets Phantom of the Park

Fateful Findings

Double Down

Birdemic: Shock and Terror

Skidoo

Death Bed: The Bed that Eats

Plan 9 from Outer Space

The Beastmaster

Hudson Hawk

Zardoz

Step Up (and sequels)

Beast of Yucca Flats

Megaforce

Roadhouse

Tarkan vs. the Vikings

Nothing but Trouble

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

People mentioned:

Jeremy Irons

The Village People

Steve Guttenberg

Bruce Jenner

Linda Blair

Patrick Swayze

Valerie Walker

Pia Zadora

Jermaine Jackson

Ruth Gordon

Michael Berryman

Neil Breen

Otto Preminger

Jackie Gleason

Carol Channing

Mickey Rooney

Groucho Marx

John Law

Marc Singer

Rip Torn

Tanya Roberts

John Amos

Bruce Willis

Sandra Bernhard

Richard E. Grant

Andie MacDowell

John Boorman

Sean Connery

Tor Johnson

Barry Bostwick

Persis Khambatta

Michael Beck

Sam Elliott

Other things mentioned:

B-Fest

B-Movie Message Board

With Nails, by Richard E. Grant

Links to stuff:

Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora signing “When the Rain Begins to Fall”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4BgDL5bek

The “Hanging Out with My Family” scene (with sound not synched) from Birdemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvM3ymUKrn8

The entire film of Skidoo (and if you want to see Jackie Gleason on an acid trip, skip to 51:40):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1l3FlkcNzU

Jima on Flickr might actually be responsible for the paper plates mentioned in this episode. Here’s his photo set from B-Fest 2012, which features examples of the plates:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jima/sets/72157628987958969/

Here’s every face punch from Roadhouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGrB3Za4_o

And, finally, Michael Kingsley’s link about the Ghastly Love of Johnny X:

http://minicon.livejournal.com/70981.html

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