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William Taylor, aka The Narrator, returns to the show for another randomly generated episode. This time, we discuss an episode of Scooby and Scrappy Doo with an extremely sweaty title, along with numerous other topics like mountain men, National Treasure, and cheap voice acting.
Kenny and Ben are rejoined by their friend William Taylor for an explosive conversation about Best Villain 1995. Speed is the winner this year with Dennis Hopper beating out the villains from Interview With the Vampire, The Lion King, Blown Away and Disclosure. Speed is one of the most dominant nominees ever but should it really have won? The gang attempts to figure this out while also touching on the Oklahoma City Bombing, if Alan Ruck is the real villain of Speed, how much Louis de Pointe du lac sucks, Lion King spin-off series The Lion Guard, inexplicable U2 needledrops, a truly insane vision of virtual reality, and more. It’s a jam-packed episode you won’t want to miss.
Kenny and Ben are once again joined by their friend Ethan for a discussion of Best Villain 1994. Alicia Silverstone takes the crown for her debut film The Crush but is she better than the villians of The Good Son, In the Line of Fire, Demolition Man and Jurassic Park? Our intrepid trio tries to figure it out while also discussing the controversy behind the real life inspiration for The Crush, aggressively evil kids, presidential assassinations, YouTube comments, whether the T-Rex actually counts as a villain and so much more. It’s another fun episode for the Villain era so don’t miss it!
This week we are joined by our friend Kevin (@droneymitchell) to talk The X Files episode that was banned from re-airing, S04E02 “Home”! Join us as we discuss this gory episode that ping pongs between extreme violence and jokes, while exploring the receding of rural life in the 90s and today by globalization, technology and modernity.
Tune in next time when we watch S04E07 “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man” and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!
For a serialized children’s cartoon, there are very few Scooby-Doo episodes that actually have sequels, but this is one of them. Almost fifty years after Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde came out, they made a sequel on the Boomerang original show, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who. And Andy Germuga, the world’s foremost Sandy Duncan fan returned to Heavy Meddle to discuss it! Listen for nearly two hours as the boys discuss remakes and reboots, breakneck pacing, and play a make-up round of Jinkies or Stinkies. PLUS! Join us on Monday the 14th for a groupwatch of Sandy Duncan’s Million Dollar Duck and the Cat from Outer Space LIVE on Twitter Spaces.
Kenny and Ben are rejoined by their good pal Jack to discuss Best Villain 1993 and this one is packed. Single White Female won this year but is Jennifer Jason Leigh’s obsessive roommate more evil than villains from Batman Returns, Unlawful Entry, A Few Good Men, and Basic Instinct? The boys try to get to the bottom of it while also talking about alternate potential nominees for this year, the “seemingly innocent stranger invades people’s lives” subgenre of 90s thrillers, penguin funerals, Kurt Russell playing against type, code reds, a lengthy tangent that begins with talking about Sharon Stone on Netflix’s Murderville and ends with Kenny talking about where he was the night Stephen Hawking died, and more! It’s a unintentionally supersized episode and we go all out for this one.
There’s a new Batman movie coming out this weekend, but it surely will not be as exciting as when the Scooby gang helped Batman and Robin stop an old lady from counterfeiting five dollar bills. Comics expert and friend of the show Ian Kadleck returns to discuss The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, colloquially known as Scooby-Doo Meets Batman and Robin. Have the standards for Batman stories changed in the past fifty years? Why are Penguin and the Joker the henchmen in this episode? What is batmilk? Can you tell we have a lot of questions?
In this special bonus episode, we premiere a brand new game show: it’s time for BROTHER-WHO?!, the FMA trivia game to end all FMA trivia […]
Kissing is out and evil is in as Kenny and Ben start a new series dedicated to classic MTV Movie Awards category Best Villain. The Hand That Rocked the Cradle won for Rebecca De Mornay’s chilling portrayal of Mrs. Mott, but does it have a better villain than Cape Fear, Terminator 2, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, or New Jack City? Kenny and Ben will figure it out while also touching on critical wind chimes, their first repeat nominee, why Dark Fate is the 3rd-best terminator, The Crusades, out of place social commentary, and more! It’s a wicked good start to what looks to be a devilishly fun series!
We return to the humble mytharc roots to talk S04E01 “Herrenvolk” as Jeremiah Smith struggles to explain the Syndicate’s plan for colonization to a PEAK sad boy Mulder. We navigate some old staples of the mythology (Samantha and her never ending clones, smallpox vaccines) with some new elements (bees!) and discuss what we think of this new shift in the ongoing plot.
Tune in next time when we watch S04E02 “Home” and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!
