Top Plug of the Week!

The wait is over — FlopTV is returning this September with more MONTHLY VIDEO LIVE STREAMS, and tickets are on sale now! It’s “Season Three” of the peaches hosting fun-sized, watch-from-the-comfort-of-home versions of our live shows! From 9/25 until 2/26, on the first Saturday of every month, at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific, we’ll be live with all-new bad movie fun and frolics! Connect with other listeners live in the chat, while we try desperately to stay on time and on topic!

We’re calling this season FLOPSTERPIECE THEATER, with a roster of classic bad movies, going back in time from the 2000s back to the 1950’s — one big “bad” movie from each decade per month!

Individual show tickets are $7, or a discounted $35 for the WHOLE SEASON (plus fees), which is like getting one episode for free! 

If you can’t watch live, your ticket will also grant access to an on-demand recording (link e-mailed the day after the live show), so if you want to catch up later, you can get a season pass and get access to everything you missed!  This access is exclusive to ticket holders. The shows will ALL stay available on-demand until the end of the Flop TV season (end of February 2026), so you can be sure to have the chance to join your friends in flop.

The Line-Up

Saturday, September 6 – (The 2000s) THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH - Directed by the Ron Underwood of City Slickers and Tremors, and starring Eddie Murphy, Pam Grier, Rosario Dawson, John Cleese, Randy Quaid and Joey Pants in a big sci-fi action comedy! Seems like it should have been big — and it WAS big… one of the biggest critical/commercial flops EVER, that is! (Misdirect! High five!) It made 7 million on a 100 million budget? Will we like it better than audiences?

Saturday, October 4 – (The 90’s) JACK FROST - Somehow scarier than the horror movie that shares its name! Jazzman Michael Keaton dies around Christmas and comes back as a snowman friend for his young son. Sounds awful. We can’t wait. Contains the lines "You the man!” “NO, I'm the SNOWMAN!”

Saturday, November 1 – (The 80’s) XANADU - The sort of movie that inspires the old joke “this film was directed by cocaine,” our 1980s pick actually straddles 80s and 70s vibes, but would be weird in any time, since it contains a roller-skating Greek muse, animation, Gene Kelly, and a pretty great soundtrack, courtesy of ELO and Olivia Newton John.

Saturday, December 6 – (The 70’s) ZARDOZ - We’ve talked about it a lot on the podcast (including some conversation with the son of one of the makers) but we’ve never actually devoted a full discussion to the only film where Sean Connery wears a red diaper and a giant floating rock head yells about guns and penises. (Okay, the only one that we KNOW of.)

Saturday, January 3 – (The 60’s) DOCTOR DOLITTLE - As Mark Harris’s great book Pictures at a Revolution documented, this his bloated musical (adapted from the popular kids’ series about a doctor who can “talk to the animals”) pretty much symbolized the end of the old Hollywood system, before the mavericks and film brats of the 70s revitalized the industry. Can we survive the 152 minute runtime?

Saturday, February 7 – (The 50’s) PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE - We’ve never talked about the ur-text of bad movie fandom — the one crowned by The Golden Turkey Awards as “worst ever,” and inspiring the biopic Ed Wood — because we didn’t know if we were up to the task. But we’ve been training for 18 years, and we’re ready to take on the champ!

Next on the Podcast

8/2 - Elliott had to take a rare vacation for this episode, but luckily we had the equally-wonderful Linda Holmes waiting in the wings to discuss RED ONE, for “Christmas in… August?”

8/9 - Dan ushers Stu and Elliott through a quiz and discussion related to “wrap-up raps,” aka those rap songs that played over the credits of 80s and 90s movies that basically recapped the plot.

Plugging Away

Dan was a guest on the House rewatch podcast “House of House” alongside his lovely mystery-show-crazed wife Audrey! The episode drops 8/4, and along with House itself, expect some discussion of Sherlock Holmes, Dan’s time at The Daily Show (where one of the hosts was an intern), and the rare chance to hear him and his wonderful spouse together, on tape!

Elliott’s first Harley Quinn trade paperback just released, and you can still pick up his delightful kids’ book Sadie Mouse Wrecks the House!

Stuart paints Warhammer models/chats with viewers most Fridays on his Twitch channel, and Sharlene’s gym “Jiggle Studio” is finally about to open, and is selling these sharp fundraising shirts!

You Made it to the End!

Here’s Dan, looking unwashed and like he’s about to make out with Elliott’s first collected Harley Quinn volume. Gross, Dan!