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The Flop House

MaximumFun, Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, Elliott Kalan

The Flop House is a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film, then engage in an unscripted discussion about the movie"s shortcomings and occasional delights, while never being afraid of a pointless, silly digression or two hundred.

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01:15:53

Ep. #453 - Love Hurts

The Flop House ·

2025/06/07

Love DOES hurt. For instance, we love and only want the best for Everything Everywhere All at Once comeback king Ke Huy Quan, but then we have to witness him struggle through a movie like Love Hurts. Fortunately he comes off all right. The movie itself? Not so much. But hey, looks like he's got Zootopia 2 and a movie from the guy who made Rare Exports coming up. Maybe those will be good!Wikipedia page for Love HurtsRecommended in this episode:Dan: Summer of 69 (2025)Stu: The Order

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00:44:40

FH Mini 129 - When Animals Compete

The Flop House ·

2025/05/31

There have been a lot of animals in movies, but which are the BEST animals? Stuart Wellington leads a highly-scientific investigation.Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!

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01:18:40

Ep.#452 - Summer Camp

The Flop House ·

2025/05/24

The Flop House is headed to Summer Camp! A few weeks of sun, swimming, hiking, crafts -- we're gonna make each other SO MANY FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS that our circulation is gonna cut off! We're gonna have so much fu-- what? It's just a movie? But... it stars Diane Keaton, Alfre Woodard, and Kathy Bates, so with those actors it's gotta be at least a little fun, righ-- it's not? Oh, poop.Wikipedia page for Summer CampRecommended in this episode:Dan: Final Destination: Bloodlines (2024)Stu: Bull Durham

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00:45:42

FH Mini 128 - Listener Roulette, with Hallie Haglund

The Flop House ·

2025/05/17

Hallie joins the Flop House gang once more, to discuss random topics selected by YOU, the listeners!Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!Go to factormeals.com/flop50off and use code flop50off to get 50% off, plus FREE shipping on your first box.

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01:50:44

Ep.#451 - Better Man, with Hallie Haglund

The Flop House ·

2025/05/10

Robbie Williams is a chimp. That's not an insult, just an accurate description of Better Man, from the director of past Flop House subject, The Greatest Showman. This one's the rare FH movie that was a critical success while being a financial flop -- will we agree with the critics? Oh, and we buried the lede: HALLIE'S BACK!Wikipedia page for Better ManRecommended in this episode:Dan: Ninja 3: The Domination (1984)Stu: Sinners (2025)Elliott: They Cloned Tyrone (2023)Hallie: Dangerous Beauty

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00:51:46

FH Mini 127 - Always Room for Giallo, with Alejandro...

The Flop House ·

2025/05/03

We're joined by longtime friend of the show (but first time on mic!) Alejandro Arbona, a 20-year veteran of comics editing and a comics writer himself, to discuss everyone's favorite extravagantly-perverse Italian thriller genre -- GIALLO. We discuss what defines a giallo and differentiates it from other sub-genres (and the slasher films it helped inspire), and then Alejandro runs us through a little giallo title quiz. It's so jam-packed with info we didn't have room for Elliott (jk, he had

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01:25:21

Ep.#450 - Unfrosted, with Alex Smith

The Flop House ·

2025/04/26

We flashback to discuss a movie that was much-requested when it was first released, but just didn't fit into our schedule -- Jerry Seinfeld's baffling paean to the Pop Tart, Unfrosted, a film that throws an astounding cavalcade of comedy talent at ideas that seem (apologies) a bit undercooked. Also, we were blessed by the rare in-studio presence of our beloved producer, Alex Smith, who hadn't actually seen the movie, which made explaining the madness of the "plot" all the more enjoyable.Wikipedia

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00:42:19

FH Mini 126 - Impressionable Peaches

The Flop House ·

2025/04/19

While we were all fortunate enough to record in-person, Stuart filled Dan and Elliott with booze and forced them to do celebrity "impressions." It's either our most fun episode or our most embarrassing! Or both!Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!”

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01:30:04

Ep.#449 - The Electric State

The Flop House ·

2025/04/12

What's the deal with Netflix's The Electric State? Well, for one thing we know that IT'S ELECTRIC... boogie woogie woogie. But also, it's a movie arguing for the primacy of real-life connection that feels utterly algorithmically designed, what with its Chris Pratts and Millies Bobby Brown and cute robot pals, and it cost... $320 million?? That can't be right. There must be a smudge on these accounting sheets. Anyway, we talk about it!Wikipedia page for The Electric StateRecommended in this

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00:58:08

FH Mini 125 - Cinematic Mechanics

The Flop House ·

2025/04/05

Elliott puts on his greasy overalls to look under the filmic hood, as we figure out what makes a good "robot movie," ask why Heartbeeps was a bad one, and see if we can pull out the robot defibrillator to restore its cinematic heartbeep.Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!”Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, go to www.squarespace.com/FLOP to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.

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01:14:56

Ep.#448 - Heartbeeps

The Flop House ·

2025/03/29

We tie a bow around Max Fun Drive 2025 and our “Movies Without Spider-Man” series with (?) Paul Schrader's (?) magnum opus, Heartbeeps. It's the classic tale of a guy robot and a girl robot in love and also there's a bad stand-up comic robot and a mean cop robot and a baby robot and Andy Kaufman does one of the world's most irritating voices and what the fuck is this thing?Wikipedia page for HeartbeepsRecommended in this episode:Dan: Black Bag (2025)Stu: Rap World (2024)Elliott: The Comic

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01:18:32

Ep.#447 - Venom: The Last Dance

The Flop House ·

2025/03/22

“Movies Without Spider-Man” Max Fun drive continues (please consider supporting our show!) with the thrilling (?) conclusion (??) of the Venom saga -- Venom: The Last Dance, the touching story of a boy and the black sentient goo he wears on his body that sometimes eats people's heads.There's one more week of Max Fun Drive — check out our event calendar!Wikipedia page for Venom: The Last DanceRecommended in this episode:Dan: Windy Day (1967)Stuart: One of Them Days (2025)Elliott: The Emperor's Naked

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00:03:07

SUPER SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT

The Flop House ·

2025/03/21

Dan reveals a WEIRD and possibly EXTREMELY COMPLEX FOR HIM TO PUT TOGETHER stretch goal for this year's Max Fun Drive!Become a supporting member of Maximum Fun and help keep our show going and independent by visiting maximumfun.org/join today!MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

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00:08:34

SlopTales Teaser!

The Flop House ·

2025/03/19

Here's a little taste of what's awaiting Max Fun members in the member bonus feed -- an all-new roleplaying adventure from gamemaster Stuart!In this edition, Dan, Elliott, and fan favorite guest Zhubin Parang play beachfront restaurant staff, on the first night of summer, trying to make it through a busy shift... but CHAOS is on the menu!If you'd like to listen to this, a whole heck of a lot of other bonus content from all the Max Fun shows, and (most importantly) support independent, artist-owned,

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01:19:17

Dan McCoy joins MFD Spring Break

The Flop House ·

2025/03/17

It’s not MaxFunDrive without a wild kickoff spectacular! Former real-life VJ and host of MTV's Spring Break 1999, Dave Holmes, takes your favorite MaxFun hosts through some wacky ‘90s- and Spring Break-themed mini games!!Featuring: Dave Holmes, Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya, Dimitry Pompée, Tom Lum, Ellen Weatherford, Alex Schmidt, Brenda Snell, Drea Clark, Alonso Duralde, Dan McCoy, Jordan Morris, Manolo Moreno, Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper, Ella McLeod, John-Luke Roberts, Justin McElroy, Clint

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01:46:54

Ep.#446 - Kraven the Hunter

The Flop House ·

2025/03/15

We start out our special "Films Without Spider-Man" theme month (in honor of Max Fun Drive -- please consider supporting our show!) with one of the more ostentatiously-Spider-Man-free films of last year: Kraven the Hunter. C'mon, Kraven, we KNOW you guys know one another--remember that last hunt? Just swallow your pride and phone Spidey to drop by! We're cravin' it!We're doing a ton of extra stuff for Max Fun Drive this year -- check out our event calendar!Wikipedia page for Kraven the

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00:52:02

FH Mini 124 - Bad Movie Godfathers, with Harry Medved...

The Flop House ·

2025/03/08

We welcome one of the godfathers of bad movie culture, Harry Medved, of the seminal books "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time" and "The Golden Turkey Awards," and discuss his PBS show "Locationland" where he and comedian Dana Gould visited the filming sites for Plan 9 From Outer Space! And we also spend a little time talking to Locationland producer Harry Pallenberg about his father's work with John Boorman on Exorcist II: The Heretic (the Golden Turkeys' pick for #2 worst movie of all time) and the

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01:43:00

Star Trek: Section 31, with Ben Harrison and Adam...

The Flop House ·

2025/03/01

Wow! The first new Star Trek movie in eight years! What's that you say? Oh. TV movie? And it's less a "movie" and more a "we were going to develop a new series and that fell through so we made it a one-off, 90 minute thing?" Huh. Well, Star Trek: Section 31 may not be a "movie" in the same way we've used that word for most of its existence, but it was still a good excuse to hang out with our friends Adam and Ben from Max Fun's terrific Trek shows Greatest Gen and Greatest Trek, so every cosmic cloud

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00:31:34

FH mini 123 - 80s Goofs

The Flop House ·

2025/02/22

The Goofmaster returns to quiz Stuart and Elliott about some IMDb "Goofs" from 1980's movies that didn't live up to the standards of viewers with enough free time to log movie goofs on IMDb.There’s been SO MUCH DEMAND for FlopTV that — you know what? — we’re going to leave episodes up for an extra two weeks, so that late buyers can still have the time to check out the shows (and that means one last chance to snag sometickets)! Just be sure to watch before MIDNIGHT (eastern time) on March 19! And

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01:21:41

Ep.#444 - Here

The Flop House ·

2025/02/15

A lot of stuff happened... HERE. Well. Not that much stuff, actually. Like, six couples lived here. Most of them were pretty boring. But at one point there were dinosaurs! That's pretty cool, right? Anyway, enjoy our discussion of the latest installment in Robert Zemeckis's inexplicable slide from "can do no wrong" to "can do ... wrong!"There’s been SO MUCH DEMAND for FlopTV that — you know what? — we’re going to leave episodes up for an extra two weeks, so that late buyers can still have the time

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