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The Blob Show!

Hey Blobheads! Charley and Tony discuss all things Blob in THE BLOB SHOW! Charley is an 8-year-old punching above her weight in discussion on classic monsters, regional horror, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, retro Nintendo systems, genre fare, and the long arc of how The Blob has infiltrated popular culture. Tony-- her dad-- curates the programming, holds an MAS in Film Studies and is a firm believer that movies play an important part in our cumulative cultural development as a species.

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#099 The Best Films of 2021

The Blob Show! ·

2022/02/21

Charley and Tony return to count down their favorite films of 2021. Spoilers in the remaining show-notes.Films mentioned: Strawberry Mansion (d. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney); Psycho Goreman (d. Steven Kostanski); The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) (d. Joachim Trier); Dead Till Death (d. Will Carsola); Skater Girl (d. Manjari Makijany); Saint Maud (d. Rose Glass); Agnes (d. Rickey Reece); Muppets Haunted Mansion (d. Kirk R. Thatcher); The Beatles: Get Back (d. Peter

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00:12:53

#098 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/10/04

In which we discuss the prototypical slasher/late-Universal monster and celebrate Ricou Browning. Please forward your well-wishes to the Gill-Man actor here: Ricou Browning 5221 SW 196 Lane Southwest Ranches, FL 33332

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00:05:23

#097 Jo Reads Green Eggs and Ham

The Blob Show! ·

2021/09/21

That Jo-I-Know performs a most-spirited recitation of the 1960 Dr. Seuss classic.

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00:12:53

#096 Oz University (1936)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/09/13

In honor of our Michigan listeners, we delve further into our exhaustive coverage of Oz On Film this week exploring the two-strip Technicolor silent record of The University of Michigan League's 1936 freshman pageant OZ UNIVERSITY. At least two pressing questions are raised: Is this Professor Wogglebug's first (only?) film appearance? How does Dorothy's trouble with villainous anthropomorphic architecture connect to the Link's quest for the Mask of Scents? I thought this was a pretty esoteric

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00:13:01

#095 Goosebumps S2E23: "The Blob That Ate Everyone"...

The Blob Show! ·

2021/09/07

Charley and Tony hand the reins to our new showrunner, Joey. A companion piece to episode #092, our resident Goosebumps expert recaps the television adaptation of R.L. Stine's THE BLOB THAT ATE EVERYONE (d. Randy Bradshaw) and conducts a brief interview with Goosebumps himself. You wouldn't understand.

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00:11:53

#094 The Bird Show: Sonoran Desert Towhees

The Blob Show! ·

2021/08/27

Sub-amateur birders Charley and Tony discuss some recent desert spottings including the Canyon Towhee, Abert's Towhee, Gambel's Quail, Cactus Wren, and the invasive Great-tailed Grackle.

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00:12:13

#093 PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/08/23

Tony tries to marshal some arrangement in this rocky episode as Charley and Joey chase the pie-in-the-sky fool's errand of synopsizing PAW Patrol: The Movie ("not the show, the movie"), though some may call their recap rubble. Behind the scenes, Tony continues his investigation into whether "PAW" is an acronym justifying its title formatting; more to come.

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00:12:03

#092 Goosebumps: The Blob That Ate Everyone (1997)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/08/11

Charley and Tony get literary with a bedtime review of the fifty-fifth book of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series: The Blob That Ate Everyone.

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00:18:00

#091 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/08/06

Charley draws parallels between the Depression-era 2000 Coen Brothers screwball musical and the politics of Rafael Pérez Grovas's 1981 film SANTO AND THE BORDER OF TERROR (Santo en la frontera del terror) proving The Blob Show is always a good place to call out white supremacy.

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00:13:47

#090 Oh! I Can't Stop! (Oj! Nie mogę się zatrzymać!)...

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/30

We celebrate our new Poland listens by providing commentary over Zbigniew Rybczyński's 1975 experimental animation OH! I CAN'T STOP! (Oj! Nie mogę się zatrzymać!) and discuss whether its POV monster should be invited into the blob canon.

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00:15:45

#089 Courage the Cowardly Dog (Season 1A)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/22

Charley struggles to bridle her enthusiasm though we are only seven episodes into John R. Dilworth's COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG.

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00:22:31

#088 Three-Head Monster AKA Ginseng King (1988)...

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/19

Charley bookends her THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK coverage drawing parallels to Wang Chu-Chin's 1988 Taiwanese action-fantasy THREE-HEAD MONSTER aka GINSENG KING. We surprisingly cover a lot of serious topics (genocide, omniscience) and big feelings in an episode about zombies and giants, but maybe that's to be expected from a purported NEVERENDING STORY knockoff.

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00:17:34

#087 Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/12

HEY! HO! BLOB SHOW! Here is an episode where we talk about death, punk, and fascism. We also draft Ramones and speculate as to whether Japas, the bass player for THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK house band The Indigo-Go's, is modeled after Johnny Ramone.

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00:07:14

#086 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 6: Stone...

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/08

The gripping conclusion to Charley's THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK walkthrough in which she defeats the titular villain's various incarnations and reminisces on the Skull Kid's redemption.

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00:04:12

#085 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 5: Anju &...

The Blob Show! ·

2021/07/02

Charley muses on the emotional weight of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK's most protracted side-quest: Link runs around for three days playing matchmaker for two star-crossed lovers only to reunite them in time for the apocalypse. She has been replaying this side-quest all week and was also tickled to see the end of Sakon's narrative arc.

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00:06:28

#084 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 4: Ikana

The Blob Show! ·

2021/06/29

It wouldn't be The Legend of Zelda if it didn't get a little spooky. In part four of our MAJORA'S MASK miniseries (The Blob Show's own sidequest), Charley explores the Ikana Graveyard, Canyon, and Castle while encountering lots of zombies, mummies, ghosts and skeletons.

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00:05:37

#083 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 3: Great Bay

The Blob Show! ·

2021/06/21

Episode 3 of our THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK miniseries. Charley talks swimming with the Zora, sneaking around the pirate fortress at Great Bay Coast, and the different bosses of the Great Bay Temple including an encounter with fiendish blob Mad Jelly (that's Schizo-Schleim for our German listeners).

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00:06:44

#082 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 2: Snowhead

The Blob Show! ·

2021/06/15

Episode 2 of our THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK miniseries. Charley talks about Goron life, Snowhead Temple, and the wonders of Romani Ranch.

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00:07:35

#081 Talking 'Bout Majora For A While, Part 1: Woodfall

The Blob Show! ·

2021/06/07

The first part of the miniseries in which Charley excitedly talks about the 2000 Nintendo 64 release THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK. This episode roughly charts the introduction of basic gameplay as well as a walkthrough of the Southern Swamp, Deku Kingdom, and Woodfall Temple.

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00:22:06

#080 Psycho Goreman (2021)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/05/31

Blazing a distinctly narrow trail in the genre of family-friendly splatter, Steven Kostanski delivers a fully-populated monsterverse in PSYCHO GOREMAN: a practical-effects-driven '80s pastiche which reads as insouciant STRANGER THINGS. Charley and Tony discuss how it subverts the tropes of suburban fear and breakdown of nuclear family in... scratch that... they narrate a funny toilet scene, diss STAR WARS, and complete an exhaustive PG monster draft.

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