DeRazzled - Mommie Dearest - Your Dad WASN'T The Quintessential Flapper?

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08/02/22 • 141 min

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Jack and Joe are joined by Dr. Becca Hayes (scientist, Pittsburgh improv comedian, and Joe's partner) to talk about the wildly troubling, weirdly campy, and terrifyingly not-supposed-to-be-funny Mommie Dearest (1981), winner of the second-ever Razzie Award for Worst Picture. But we don't just tackle the film -- Jack directly compares it to the memoir it's based on to highlight the differences between these accounts of Joan Crawford's problematic parenting. We dig into the life-threateningly glaring omissions, reminisce on Cabbage Patch dolls and other childhood toys, somehow manage to reference the Simpsons and F. Scott Fitzgerald multiple times, and accidentally provide Jack with a therapy session regarding narcissism and parenting through a conversation on the Internet with ACTUAL NUANCE! Also, in a DeRazzled first, we get an alternative fix for this movie from our guest! Pour yourself a Pepsi, throw out your wire hangers, and awkwardly strap yourself into bed as you enjoy this one. CW: Discussions of sexual assault, child abuse, narcissism and cluster B disorders, misogyny People & Stuff Discussed: Christina Crawford, Garbage Pail Kids, Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, hagsploitation, horror, It, Rashomon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, The Great Santini, Austin Powers, Mike Myers, Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Mara Hobel, Frank Perry, Last Summer, Surviving Mommie Dearest Podcasts Plugged in This Episode: If You Give A Dad A Podcast (@DadPodcast11 on Twitter); The Red Dove (@dove_podcast on Twitter)

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DeRazzled 2nd Unit - The Amory Wars - Which Album Are We On?

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To kick off our brand new 2nd Unit series exploring films and properties lost in Development Hell, Joe uses the release of Coheed & Cambria's latest album as an excuse to talk about the lost film adaptation of their long-running sci-fi epic, The Amory Wars. What was supposed to be a major feature produced by Mark Wahlberg turned into a lot of nothing despite a built-in audience. We try to get a grasp on why this project didn't come to fruition by delving into the finer details of the world built by Claudio Sanchez through songs and comics. Joe builds on material from the albums and graphic novels, as well as interviews with Claudio and narrative breakdowns from the sadly-defunct Cobalt & Calcium fan community, while Jack tries his best to follow along and make Star Trek and Grant Morrison jokes to cling to his sanity. Which is impressive, considering he's a time traveler from 1967 whose only musical touchstones are apparently Led Zeppelin and Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass. Pull up your Ten Speed and man your own jackhammer as we dive head-first into the well and unknowing, and Joe chuckles to himself as Jack tries to figure out what any of that means. CW: Sexual assault, misogyny, violence toward women and children, fictional blasphemy People & Stuff Mentioned: Coheed & Cambria, Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert, Peter David, Rags Morales, Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, The Matrix, Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: III, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vaxis II: A Window of a Waking Mind, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," Donny Wahlberg, Wahlburgers, Star Trek, Dance Gavin Dance, Moby-Dick, Boom! Studios, Netflix, HBO Max, Leverage Management Check out our special playlist for this episode, "Derazzled Presents Cambriheed & The Tijuana Brass" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NFixXpFLmMpMmNp3Gr00O?si=d2a5e0dee55b42a0 Podcast plugged on this episode: Making a Martini (@MartiniMaking on Twitter)

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DeRazzled 2nd Unit - Six Million Dollar Man - Wario's Family Pasta Trough

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We continue our exploration of films stuck in Development Hell with the many attempts to adapt The Six Million Dollar Man to the silver screen. After a successful television run, 3 made-for-TV movies as recently as 1994, and influence that can be felt all throughout US pop culture, shouldn't a big screen version have worked? Join us for a tale of writer's block, unexpected contributors, executive musical chairs, a Weinstein, and another appearance in this series for Mark Wahlberg. Actually, that begs the question: what's going on with Mark Wahlberg's career? Listen with your bionic ears to get the whole story! CW: mention of Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault charges; mention of Mark Wahlberg's racist attack on an Asian man; mention of Mel Gibson's racism and antisemitism. Podcasts plugged in this episode: The Happy Hour Podcast (@HappyHourShow3 on Twitter); Talking SMAC (@TalkingSMACpod on Twitter) Be sure to check out the Happy Hour Podcast's attempt at the world record for the longest podcast record, starting at 10:00 AM on Friday 8/26/2022! We'll be appearing as guests around 7:00 PM that night and there will be appearances from TONS of other amazing indie podcasts. People & Stuff Mentioned In This Episode: The Bionic Woman, Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, The Venture Bros, Punisher, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Mallrats, Kenner, Star Wars, The Toys That Made Us, Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, Lawrence Gordon, Paul W. S. Anderson, Steven E. de Souza, Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil, K-Pax, Universal Pictures, Dimension Films, Miramax, Bob Weinstein, Mark Frost, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Smallville, Chris Rock, the Farrelly Brothers, Jim Carrey, Kick-Ass 2, Uwe Boll, BloodRayne, Warner Bros, Peter Berg, Lone Survivor, Shooter, The Departed, Scoob!, Damian Szifron, Daddy's Home, The Beaver, Martin Scorsese, Silence, Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman 1894, Space Jam 2, The Green Knight, Simu Liu, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, David Hughes, Wario, Waluigi