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In the past, we've covered failed pilots of TV shows. But what if the show in question  actually got picked up by the network, produced Several episodes AND was ready to broadcast...only for the plug to be pulled at the last possible second? 2002's "The Grubbs" was one of those shows, and we're going to try to figure out why the axe fell prematurely.


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In typical VHS Glow fashion, the four hosts discuss their nostalgia-relationship to The Princess Bride, including first viewing context, family & school screenings, & what their younger selves felt about the movie. 

Joe gives a queer interpretation but then veers left and talks about Chernobyl. 

Further topics include:

• GenX vs millennials
• the definition of "feel good" movies & why the Simmons family disprefers them
• Blue Velvet (1986) hermeneutics, or what's inside the lawn of S. Morgenstern's seemingly picture-perfect narrative
• the life sucks yet true love prevails narrative
• Chernobyl & 80s catastrophes
• comedy and Americanization
• Chernobyl & Cheetos (specifically, fluorescent cheese dust coating as boron & sand mixture dumped on reactor 4)
• Chernobyl & Cheez Whiz
• film culture & the desire to return to simple/idyllic narratives during (& after) times of existential crisis
• the first sensational national headline story each host remembers
• wtf is up with that grandfather/grandson dynamic?
• a discursive shift in 1990s best picture academy award winners
• & much more!

Additional Resources:

Wallace Shawn on Woody Allen

Princess Bride: Home Movie

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Our first guest, Michael Castillo, joins Desirae and Amanda as they get totally gagged with chainsaws!  They get into it on Nicolas Cage’s remarriage, the bullshit that is the term “date rape”, hidden foot fetish content, and thick loafer energy!  (note: we had some audio issues on this one particularly in the intro.  We start talking Heathers at 9:35 and the issue is mostly resolved by 11:10)

Aujourd'hui on vous parle de Terreur sur la ligne, When a stranger calls en version original, un film américain de 1979 réalisé par Fred Walton avec Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Carol Kane et Colleen Dewhurst.

On vous parle également de son remake réalisé par Simon West en 2006 avec Camilla Belle, Derek de lint, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty.