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Have You Seen This?

Have You Seen This?

The world"s only podcast about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media. Support the show on Patreon!patreon.com/haveyouseenthis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:18:32

170 - Cats on Park Avenue

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2023/05/15

Tim and Jen scratch their heads over a Japanese musical that’s positively infested with cats, Cats on Park Avenue. It has nothing to do with New York or the musical Cats.Complex has the story on how Disney literally killed five golden retriever puppies while making Snow Buddies, a direct-to-video follow-up to Air Bud.Marty Stouffer became popular with his Wild America series on PBS. A few of his ex-employees alleged that he staged many scenes in the show, which he denied.You can watch the scene from

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1:28:40

169 - Dick Tracy

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2023/04/30

Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty’s greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it’s Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog.View one of Beatty’s rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he’s interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective.We’ve talked about Warren a couple of times before on the show— once with beloved recurring guest Sean Morris for Bulworth, and once to inagurate the whole dang podcast with our Ishtar

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1:51:24

168 - Body Slam

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2023/04/24

With Tim AWOL (Absent With Overabundant Lego), Jen invites wrestling expert Darren Herczeg to discuss a half-assed wrestling comedy, Body Slam!You can read Dirk Benedict’s idiotic whining about the female Starbuck over at the Internet Archive.For a peek into the primordial soup of reactionary mass media, read this piece about Wally George and his UHF televison show, Hot Seat. More proof that the worst place God created is not the Nefud desert, but Orange County, California.Speaking of shock TV,

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1:28:11

167 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

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2023/04/10

Jen and Tim talk about a truly weird musical fantasia from the mind of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss— The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.So much of this episode wouldn’t exist without the superlative work of Seuss biographer Brian Jay Jones. His book Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisl and the Making of an American Imagination highlights Geisl's creativity and enduring legacy in popular literature. Jones talked in depth about the life of Dr. Seuss on the Our American Stories podcast (listen to our show

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1:49:40

166 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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2023/04/02

Tim and Jen discuss a beloved epic whose time has come, the Peter Weir masterpiece Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World!The GQ article mentioned appears to be yet more proof of the widespread affection for this film. The doctor who pioneered sanitary practices in medicine was Ignatz Semmelweiss, although these ideas didn’t take hold until the time of Joseph Lister. Additionally, other medical men (like Oliver Wendell Holmes, for one) arrived at similar notions independent of Semmelweiss

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1:35:48

165 - I Know Who Killed Me

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2023/03/27

Jen is defeated by the ostensible low point of Lindsay Lohan’s onscreen career, I Know Who Killed Me, while Tim cuts right through the Gordian knot that is the movie’s storyline. Also Jen vents her disappointment over a director she actually likes(?), sorta.Someone actually tracked down the screenwriter, Jeff Hammond, and got him to open up a little about the production:I avoided reading most of the reviews; however, it was impossible not to be aware of the negative consensus. I forced myself to

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1:37:33

164 - The Night Stalker

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2023/03/13

Tim and Jen host steadfast friend of the show mugrimm to talk about a pervasively influential TV movie that spawned the cult series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Also, in this episode you can learn more about Pervy the Clown…if you dare.If you love Kolchak’s sad little hat, you can get one!The Slate article quibbling about Fletch (the 1985 film starring Chevy Chase) may be read here, if you enjoy the Slate brand of whiny crap.For mugrimm's previous appearance on the show, check out our episode on the

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1:33:34

163 - Freejack

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2023/03/02

Jen and Tim jack freely over a rote 1992 sci-fi action thriller, Freejack, starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Your hosts kind of forget to talk about Jagger, but Tim does reminisce fondly about Four Loko.Jen says “Psycho Ninja” when she was actually thinking ofPsycho Kickboxer.The latter film is absolutely delightful, by the way.If you’re curious about the gory details of Denise Richards’ divorce from Charlie Sheen,you can read them here, directly from the court document. Have You Seen This

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1:30:02

162 - Body of Evidence

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2023/02/16

Tim and Jen remain in the 90s for a look at a dire courtroom drama leavened with gauzy sex scenes, the 1992 Madonna vehicle Body of Evidence.There are no page numbers in Madonna’s book Sex, but it doesn’t take long to flip through on the Internet Archive if you want to see her eating pizza in the nude!The Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers beat Jen to it with a panoply of fake erotic thriller names during the credits for Outlaw [of Gor], episode 519. A personal favorite: “Murder Most Moist.”The

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1:32:30

161 - Virtuosity

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2023/02/06

Jen and Tim nineties nineties nineties nineties Denzel Washington nineties nineties virtual reality, nineties Russell Crowe nineties, nineties nineties nineties Virtuosity nineties!Read the AV Club interview with Kelly Lynch where she describes Denzel’s motive for doctoring the script for Virtuosity, as mentioned in the episode.Per Tim’s recommendation, you could do a search on the World Wide Web, or you can check out an article about Kai’s Power Tools if you’d like to see some screenshots of that

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1:31:19

160 - The Ghost and the Darkness

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2023/01/29

Tim and Jen enlist animal expert Emma Bowers (Hyenas and Gin on YouTube) to explain why the fascinating story of two man-eating lions resulted in a boring movie called The Ghost and the Darkness.Watch a 1996 documentary about the man-eaters of Tsavo, which includes brief interviews with stars Kilmer and Douglas and director Stephen Hopkins. One interviewee theorizes that the local lions’ taste for human flesh stems from generations of slave traders who left injured or dying captives to their fate in

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158 - Gymkata - Teaser

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2023/01/10

Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month!Tim and Jen try and fail to recall the name of Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps as they discuss Olympian gymnast Kurt Thomas’s sole feature film, Gymkata. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:46:44

159- Blonde

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2023/01/08

Jen and Tim welcome returning guest Darren Herczeg to go to bat for an almost universally loathed Netflix feature, Blonde. Naturally, the trio revel in the film’s grotesque and overt misogyny while twirling their mustaches.Jessica Kiang’s review of Blonde over at Film Comment sums up the critical reaction well:Dominik’s film is a technical marvel, but it’s cold and not a little sinister. It’s also an utterly heartless hoodwink.There’s no word on whether or not the French documentary that revealed

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1:13:58

158 - Gymkata

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2022/12/18

Tim and Jen try and fail to recall the name of Olympian swimmer Michael Phelps as they discuss Olympian gymnast Kurt Thomas’s sole feature film, Gymkata.Jen’s half-assed inaccurate anecdote about Phelps being considered to play Tarzan is actually true, albeit not the way she told it. Producer Jerry Weintraub (no relation to Gymkata producer Fred Weintraub) believed that he’d found the new Johnny Weissmuller in Phelps. However, the swimmer’s appearance on SNL in 2008 immediately disabused him of that

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1:48:10

157 - Speed Racer

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2022/12/11

Jen and Tim welcome Speed Racer evangelist Paul Jay to talk about, uh, the 2008 flop Speed Racer.Over at culture blog The Sundae,Dean Buckley makes a case against Speed Racer as “art film”and for the Wachowskis as purveryors of schlock (in a positive way). Agree or disagree, it’s a thoughtful piece.The Daily Beast hasdetails of Emile Hirsch’s attackon a Paramount executive at a Sundance party, although the headline’s assertion that he “starred” in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a slight

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9:10

152 - Spaced Invaders - TEASER

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2022/11/29

Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! patreon.com/haveyouseenthisJen and Tim enjoy a silly 1990 comedy with startlingly good practical effects, Spaced Invaders! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:26:42

156 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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2022/11/20

They just can't stop witchin'! Tim and Jen continue the unending spooky season with a franchise entry that pleased no one, Halloween III: Season of the Witch!Chris Evangelista defended the movie over at SlashFilm, as part of that site's The Unpopular Opinion series.Let’s all thank Sean for his partial preservation of hotep public access show Spearman’s Addiction.Watch Barbariana on Youtube! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:41:03

155 - Season of the Witch

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2022/11/13

Jen and Tim attempt to purge the lingering memory of a certain occult-y art film with a viewing of an early George Romero work, Season of the Witch.In case you had no idea what he was getting at, Tim’s latest thing is calling Chantal Akerman’s feminist classic Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles “the Jean Teasdale movie.”Marxist art critic John Berger’s analysis of western media, Ways of Seeing, is available on YouTube. He casts a critical eye on the depiction of the female nude in

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4:01

150 - Head - TEASER

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2022/11/12

Subscribe at the $5 tier on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month!For their one hundred and fiftieth episode (!), Jen and Tim welcome animation expert Jerry Beck to talk about the worst cartoons ever made and the Monkees’ super freak out, Head!Visit Jerry’s website for all the animation news and discussion you can eat. Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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147 - R.O.T.O.R. - TEASER

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2022/11/04

Subscribe to HYST on Patreon to hear the full episode and get two bonus episodes every month! Jen and Tim finally tackle one of their shared albatrosses— the Robocop before Robocop, R.O.T.O.R.! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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