Throw on your best long-sleeved shirt and dress combo and crank that Avril Lavigne, as They Called This a Movie travels all the way back to 2008 and the days of ABC Family Channel. With Dan on vacation this week, Mark and Anthony decide to take the opportunity to watch one of their favorite terrible television shows: The Secret Life of the American Teenager. 

Join us as they discuss the pilot episode and the series as a whole, as they talk about the awful main character, the show's obsession with sex, and Ernie Hudson. They also discuss the podcast's newly-launched Patreon page and discuss what the plans are for the future.

The Patreon page is now live and you can check it out at Patreon.com/TCTAMPod.

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Take a ride with us this week on a rolling desk chair that David Arquette never gets out of, as we plunder the depths of Tubi with 2099: The Soldier Protocol, an Aussie-produced snorefest not good enough for The Asylum Brand of Approval. 

Join us as we discuss where we checked out, discuss the fonts used in the credits, and recommend a better movie worthy of your time. We also finish out our March Madness tournament of movies we've covered in previous episodes. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

This week, we've decided that everyone has been too happy these days, so we're here to make everyone else miserable with the Feel-Bad TV Movie of 1996, Freshman Fall, also known as She Cried No. 

Join us as we discuss the darkest sitcom crossover ever, how relevant this movie still is, and explain one of our histories with this movie. 


Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

It's Saint Patrick's Day this week on They Called This a Movie, and unfortunately, we're all out of Warwick Davis movies. We're stuck with the WWE-produced Leprechaun: Origins, starring Hornswaggle. 

Join us as we discuss the director's contempt for the series, how much we miss Warwick Davis, and how little Hornswaggle is even in this. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Let's get ready to rumble! 

We work ourselves into a shoot this week, as we drop kayfabe to talk about former WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette in the 2000 wrestling comedy, Ready to Rumble. 

Join us as we discuss the odd casting of Oliver Platt, groan at the attempts at comedy, and remind everyone that Bill Goldberg ended the career of Bret "The Hitman" Hart. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

It's the movie that Stephen King doesn't remember making. And he might be better off for it. This week, we're watching trucks come to life to terrorize Emilio Estevez in Maximum Overdrive. 

Join us as we discuss Stephen King's addictions during the filming, how annoying Yeardley Smith is, and get lulled to sleep by the second act. 

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Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

You know what movie is awesome? Rambo III. So it would make sense that an Italian-produced ripoff would be just as awesome. You'd be wrong, and so were we, as we watched Strike Commando from Italian smut-peddler and occasional action film director, Bruno Mattei. 

Join us as we discuss the similarities between the two films, Reb Brown's charisma, and praise the final act's gratuitous use of exploding bodies. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Happy Valentine's Day! 

We continue our tradition by heading back to Forks, Washington, and check in on our favorite sparkly vampire and the sullen teenage girl that has stolen his heart. This year, we're watching The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, as is tradition on They Called This a Movie. 

Join us as we discuss too many wedding speeches, creepy werewolf imprinting, and demand justice for Jasper. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. And by that, we mean it's Gerarduary: the time of year when we come together to celebrate Gerard Butler. 

This year, we're watching Gerard Butler watch more interesting things happen from the privacy of his own space station, as we watch the 2017 disaster/government intrigue movie, Geostorm. 

Join us as we discuss poorly-hidden British accents, actors that play obvious villains, and too much lightning. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Fair is fair! 

We try and start a revolution this week, as we watch Helen Slater raise hell over $600 in The Legend of Billie Jean. 

Join us as we discuss Pat Benatar, try to figure out why Helen Slater wasn't a bigger star, and decide on an ending befitting Joan of Arc. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

This week, we hit bottom as we watch, The Amazing Bulk, arguably the worst movie we've ever covered. 

Join us as we discuss baffling green screens, unfocused "satire", and limited animation cycles. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

We kick off 2025 with a trip to the Asylum, as we watch the 2013 mockbuster, Atlantic Rim. 

Join us as we discuss one of the host's bad attitude regarding this movie, the unlikable main characters, and a sleepwalking Graham Greene. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

As we head into the final days of 2024, we look back on the year for the podcast, pick some of our favorite episodes of the year, and look forward to what we're hoping to accomplish in 2025. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

We're saying goodbye to #Netflixmas already this week, as we close out our run of holiday-themed episodes with I Believe in Santa, in which a man gaslights everyone around him into believing he's not insane. 

Join us as we discuss the fact the two leads are married in real life, the potential back-door sinister point of this movie, and discuss what we'd be willing to put up with as a single mom in her 40s. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Netflix-mas rolls along this week with some more festive chiseled abs. This time, we're watching the movie that asks the age-old question: What if Frosty the Snowman was hot? We watched Hot Frosty on this week's episode of They Called This a Movie. 

Join us as we discuss vigilant small town cops, crown Lacey Chabert the new Christmas Queen, and rail against sticking Lauren Holly behind old lady makeup. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

We're kicking off Netflix-mas this year with some abs, bad wigs, and all male revues. We start the holiday season with the Netflix original, The Merry Gentlemen. 

Join us as we discuss what you get when you combine Magic Mike and Christmas, the awkwardness of this movie being a PG movie about stripping, and question a plot point surround the age of Britt Robertson. 

Find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

Happy Thanksgiving from the guys at They Called This a Movie. This year, we are celebrating American Thanksgiving with a made-for-television movie starring Ralphie from A Christmas Story and a 260-pound chicken. It's The Hoboken Chicken Emergency for this week's special holiday episode. 

Join us as we discuss giant chicken costumes, Gabe Kaplan playing a grifter, and the forgotten idea of made-for-television holiday specials. 

Find us on Instagram and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

We head to the jungles of Brazil to find the sexiest dance known to man: the Lambada. A young Laura Harring writhes around on the dance floor in an attempt to save the rainforest in The Forbidden Dance, on this week's They Called This a Movie. 

Join us as we discuss the music, try to figure out what exactly is the Lambada, and come face-to-face with the movie's casual racism. 

Find us on Instagram and Threads @TCTAMPod and on TikTok @theycalledthisamovie.

Our theme music was written and performed by Dave Katusa. He can be found on Instagram @dkat_productions.

This week, Roy Scheider tries to stamp out corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department with the help of a militarized helicopter in the 1983 thriller, Blue Thunder. 

Join us as we discuss our expectations for the movie going in, Malcolm McDowell, and discuss what constitutes 'gratuitous'. 

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We celebrate a podcast milestone this week as we talk about our 300th movie. And we pulled out all the stops to talk about what many consider the worst movie of all-time. We finally got around to talking about the Tommy Wiseau masterpiece, The Room. 

Join us as we discuss what Lisa doesn't want to talk about, Claudette's cancer diagnosis, and the tour de force performance from Chris R. 

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