The slime boys celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Kid, a true Slimehouse diamond in the rough and 90s time capsule that combines sci-fi action, zany slapstick, and a healthy dose of cyberpunk goop.
Jasper, Jared, and Max arrive just in time for the 2022 holiday season to cover the forgotten 1998 Disney comedy and the podcast's first first Jonathan Taylor Thomas (JTT) vehicle.
Ryan Rojas of Cinemacy returns to the podcast for the long-awaited double header of early 2000s joy
In honor of Max's birthday and him getting one step closer to "old dog" status, the boys, along with perennial guest Dorothy Page, tackle the notorious, perhaps even cursed, 2009 family flop Old Dogs, famously edited down from a an R to a PG following its disastrous test screenings.
The Slimehouse crew takes on their first Jackie Chan vehicle - the long forgotten 2004 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel.
Stay until the end of the episode to hear Max's birthday pick for this our next episode!
Are you turtley enough for the turtle club?
The guys finally chat about the highly-requested The Master of Disguise, the 2002 Dana Carvey comedy that is very bright, very bizarre and very obsessed with big butts. Listen in for a robust discussion with spaghetti, slapping and Terry Suave.
Slimehouse breaks new ground with the first episode on a 2022 release, and first Pixar film to boot! We discuss how Turning Red's setting in the year 2002 gives it a distinct quality relative to other Slimehouse films discussed on the show, as a movie that somewhat reflects on coming of age in the Prime Slime era with tons of attitude to boot.
"Yeah, now basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court"
Slimehouse hits a slam dunk with Like Mike, the 2002 Lil' Bow Wow-starring sports fantasy full of junk food comas, scooter chases, basketball geometry lessons, and at its core, a genuinely effective underdog narrative.
"You… smacked my winkie"
Throwing order into chaos, by Nelson's birthday declaration we are skipping Home Alone 2 and going right into the all-timer, Home Alone 3. Featuring Alex D. Linz of Max Keeble fame, a young ScarJo, and some of the deadliest spies in the world, the stakes have never been higher and the slime has never been oozier. Special Guest: William Neal, editor and filmmaker extraordinaire, and die-hard fan of HA3.
For Jasper's birthday special this year, he's selected a movie near and dear to his car-obsessed childhood, The Love Bug (1968) and the Slimehouse reboot he never saw, Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005).
Join the party as the Slime boys chat about cars, urinating oil and Van Halen for a double feature that's got spunk in the trunk!
While the tagline may promise a PG, June's Slime Shuffle hands the Slimehouse crew a rare G-rated film with Disney's 1975 family western The Apple Dumpling Gang, a Proto-Slimer in the truest sense, as well as their very first R-rating, Richard Pryor's cul-de-sac comedy Moving.
Slimehouse returns with a very special double feature looking at the first two Beethoven films, a influential and doggone wild pair of movies that shaped the canon of the 90s. Joined by Beethoven superfan Chad Rabago.
"That's a perfectly good trash can. Don't be throwing students at it."
Slimehouse winds the clock back 20 years to this Nickelodeon theatrical release, which combines science fiction pedigree, paintball, and a peak early aughts soundtrack to boot.
We've dug deep into the Slimehouse vault and found 2 random movies to cover from the late 1980s and early 1990s: The Willies, starring Sean Astin, and Who's Harry Crumb, starring John Candy. Mayhem ensues!
"P-A-R-T-why? Because I gotta!"
In this smokin' new episode, the Slime boys dive deep into one of Jim Carrey's breakout films that truly took the idea of a "live-action cartoon" to the next level, as well as it's notorious sequel that can only be described as the Slimehouse answer to Eraserhead.
Can a robots quest of love and meaning be Slimehouse? The boys celebrate Valentine's Day by looking at Heartbeeps, the understated 1981 sci-fi comedy flop starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters 💕
"Maybe if you showed Dr. Zaius the proper respect, Dr. Zaius would stop showing you the poo!"
The fate of Slime Shuffle landed us on Josie and the Pussycats and we brought aboard superfan and expert Hilary Jane Smith to discuss the merits of the movie both as a Slimehouse picture and also as a time capsule of the music video, AOL fueled, pop star mania of 2001.
Read Hilary's article about Josie here: https://merrygoroundmagazine.com/josie-and-the-pussycats-tried-warning-us/
"Was that a ninja? More like a non-ja - terrible what passes for a ninja these days!"
A movie that sped right past movie theaters upon release but has gained a following upon its second lap, The Wachowski's Speed Racer is a visual fever dream that fits into the cartoon-come-to-life aesthetics of our genre. It's got a lot in common with the Star Wars prequels and the Robert Rodriguez movies visually, but a humor and style of its own. Oh, and a monkey named Chim-Chim. Enjoy the discussion!
"... Bonehead!"
Season 4 begins with an examination of the 1998 Eddie Murphy box office phenomenon and reimagining of the notorious 1967 flop. We discuss how the Betty Thomas film ushered in the commercial peak of Slimehouse, alongside a discussion of its 2001 sequel.
