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MILF Manor
Bad Pilots - February 11, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIN THEORY, watching and discussing MILF Manor is a side-splitting romp full of memes and hilarious banter. IN PRACTICE, watching and discussing MILF Manor is an awkward, borderline nauseating experience that plumbs the depths of reality television and highlights the most grotesque fascinations o...
That 90s Show
Bad Pilots - February 04, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHello Wisonsin!!! We were skeptical when Netflix announced they were bringing back (most) of the original cast from That 70s Show for That 90s Show, but it turns out it's not all bad — just don't talk about That 80s Show. Returning guest Katie Brioux joins us to discuss what works and doesn't wo...
The Top 10 Worst Shows of 2022
Bad Pilots - January 19, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back! We're also really late! Is it still kosher to release a year-end countdown in late January? Who cares, we're doing it anyway. Bad Pilots is back babyyyy!! Please enjoy this rambling discussion in which we recap our favorite TV series of 2022 before digging into Metacritic dot com's a...
How I Met Your Father
Bad Pilots - February 05, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen the 2020 Lizzie McGuire reboot at Disney+ went awry due to "creative differences", Hilary Duff took her talents to another reboot: How I Met Your Father. Special guests Will Reid and Jorge Vasconez join us to discuss the surprisingly charming (and far less problematic) spiritual successor t...
WB Superstar USA
Bad Pilots - January 29, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's American Idol from bizarro world — a singing competition show that aims to find the worst singer in America. Fittingly, our special guest is Kyle Wildfern, a musician and member of rap collective, Waycool. Together, we pick apart what is probably the most mean spirited show we've watched on...
Space Force
Bad Pilots - January 22, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsArguably the worst part about Donald Trump's presidency was when he unwittingly inspired Greg Daniels and Steve Carrell to collaborate on Space Force, a sadly unfunny stab at satirizing the newly created military branch of the same name. Special guest Alessia Musso blasts off with us as we hurtl...
End of 2021 Awful TV Extravaganza
Bad Pilots - January 04, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back! It's been another trip around the sun, which can only mean one thing: more bad TV (also an increasingly dire pandemic with no end in sight, rampant climate change mercilessly and indiscriminately laying waste to communities everywhere, and the alarmingly rapid/dumb collapse of wester...
All Spooked Out: No Spooks Left to Give
Bad Pilots - October 30, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTrick or Treat! Halloween is upon us and that means Halloweens specials. We countdown our top 5 picks for scariest moments in TV. Highlights include: kids shows that were way scarier than they had any right to be, the X-Files episode that was pulled by FOX for being too disturbing, Dan's bizarre...
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Bad Pilots - October 23, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Hilarious House of Frightenstein is a gleefully twisted kids show responsible for terrorizing generations of children and stoners alike throughout the 70s and beyond. All 100+ episodes of the horror-themed series were shot in Hamilton, Ontario, in the span of just 9 months — and it shows. Sp...
Blade
Bad Pilots - October 16, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter Wesley Snipes but before Mahershala Ali, Kirk Jones (aka Sticky Fingaz) donned the black leather trench coat to play Blade on Spike TV's uninspired small screen adaptation of the hit comic book series. Special guest and fellow Blade fan, Yusef Dualeh joins us to talk about Marvel adaptatio...
Scream
Bad Pilots - October 09, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat do you get when you take one of the most iconic slasher movie franchises of all time, strip it of personality, inject it with generic YA tropes that perpetuate rather than subvert, while also adding as many cold cut sandwiches as possible for no discernible reason? This. You get this. Horro...
Paranormal Cops
Bad Pilots - October 02, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpooOOOoooky szn is upon us! For the entire month of October, we'll be looking at spooky bad pilots, kicking things off with A&E's attempt to capitalize on the success of their flagship paranormal series, Ghost Hunters, with a similar yet far worse imitation: Paranormal Cops. Post production sup...
One Year Anniversary Livestream
Bad Pilots - September 19, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're 1 year old! To celebrate our dumb lil pandemic hobby, we decided to host a livestream. Unfortunately, we didn't factor in that most people would be busy on a Saturday night. No worries, we rambled on anyway. Tangents include: shows we want to feature on the pod, Sopranos memes, the new Mat...
Shit My Dad Says
Bad Pilots - September 04, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWilliam Shatner is 90 years old! Wild, right?? That means he was 80-ish when he made 2010's forgettable Twitter-inspired sitcom, Shit my Dad Says (or $#*! My Dad Says, since CBS is squeaky clean). Fittingly, our special guest this week is none other than Dan's father & longtime television critic...
Date my Mom
Bad Pilots - August 29, 2021 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSigmund Freud is shaking. Back in 2004, MTV created one of the most disturbing shows of all time: a reality dating series in which people go on dates with moms who are trying to set them up with their children. The rumor that this abomination is in fact scripted makes it all that much more distu...
Neo Yokio
Bad Pilots - August 14, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNeo Yokio is a Netflix anime and also quite possibly the most unlikely intersection of top-notch Hollywood talent to ever collaborate on a project. It was created Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and features the voices of Jaden Smith, Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Desus & Mero, Jason Schwartzma...
Scrubs (Bad Finales)
Bad Pilots - August 07, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBy its ninth and final season, Scrubs was basically on life support. But why? Why do sitcoms like The Office, That 70s Show, Two and a Half Men, Community, and so many others continue to run even after members of their core cast have departed for (usually) bigger and better projects? Video edito...
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
Bad Pilots - July 31, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen VH1 launched their "Celebreality" programming block in 2005, they kicked off what we here at Bad Pilots would consider to be worst era of television history — a period saturated with exploitative reality series starring D-list celebrities trading in the last of their cultural currency for a...
Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People
Bad Pilots - July 10, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis one needs no explanation. Not because it's super famous—but because the title of the show is also quite literally the premise. "Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People" is very much a product of its time (2003), a post American Idol primetime landscape in which networks were s...
Parks and Recreation
Bad Pilots - July 03, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNo show has been recommended with the caveat "but you should skip the first two seasons" more than Parks and Recreation. While we may remember it now as one of the most beloved and enduring sitcoms of the 2010s—with one of the most impressive ensemble casts ever assembled—it certainly didn't sta...
Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee
Bad Pilots - June 26, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSandra Lee is perhaps the most overlooked and utterly fascinating celebrity chef to come from the Food Network. Anthony Bourdain once called her cooking "a war crime on TV". You may also recognize her from the now infamous "2 shots of vodka" meme. Off screen, she's equally controversial. Aunty ...
Eli Stone
Bad Pilots - June 19, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEli Stone is truly the cards against humanity of TV shows. It's about a Wall Street bro who gets a brain aneurysm that causes hallucinations of singer/songwriter George Michael, who then convinces Eli to become a religious prophet and take an anti-vaxxer stance against big pharma. We had no idea...
Game of Thrones (Bad Finales)
Bad Pilots - June 12, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLike [redacted] plunging a dagger through [redacted]'s heart, the Game of Thrones finale felt like the ultimate betrayal to perhaps the most fervent television audience of all time. We are joined by news and culture writer Sharine Taylor, as we roast the GoT finale like Drogon himself. We also d...
Jersey Shore
Bad Pilots - June 05, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCABS ARE HERE!! It's time to take a trip to Seaside Heights, NJ, to revisit our favorite guidos and guidettes: the cast of Jersey Shore. Professional video editor & proud Italian, Becca LaFortune, joins us as we make sense of why the show became a global phenomenon, despite so many perceiving it...
Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous
Bad Pilots - May 29, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLong before Bo Burnham grew a quarantine beard, he had a TV show—a little known sitcom on MTV called Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous. And although it only lasted one season back in 2013, it's pretty dang funny. We're joined by Steve Cooke, writer & host of the podcast Killed to Death, to discuss. ...
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Bad Pilots - May 22, 2021 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFrom the dialogue heavy mind of Aaron Sorkin comes a peek behind the curtain of a fictional SNL-esque sketch comedy show. The main issue? It isn't funny at all. Premiering the same year as 30 Rock, Studio 60 was handily beaten by its sitcom competitor. Special guest & fellow TV nerd, Cara Pomant...
Keys to the VIP
Bad Pilots - May 15, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsKeys to the VIP is an infamously offensive Canadian hidden camera show in which cologne-soaked frat bros from the Toronto suburbs compete against each other by relentlessly hitting on unsuspecting women at bars—all while a panel of "experts" (grown-ass men wearing Tapout shirts) watch and critiq...
Emeril
Bad Pilots - May 08, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDays after the tragic events of 9/11, America was served a dish of exactly what it needed most: a network sitcom starring celebrity chef and noted spice entrepreneur, Emeril Lagasse. In our season 2 premiere, Mostafa Abd El Meguid turns up the heat and chats with us about the evolution of cookin...
Bad Pilots presents: Duet
Bad Pilots - March 26, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn a very special season one finale of Bad Pilots, Dan and Aidan each talk about three shows that mean something special to them. As usual, the conversation goes completely off the rails. Tangents include: Aidan's childhood without wifi, how getting rejected from improv troupes can change your l...
Bad Pilots presents: Duet (Season 1 Finale)
Bad Pilots - March 26, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn a very special season one finale of Bad Pilots, Dan and Aidan each talk about three shows that mean something special to them. As usual, the conversation goes completely off the rails. Tangents include: Aidan's childhood without wifi, how getting rejected from improv troupes can change your l...
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