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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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1:54:54

232 - The Earth Day Special

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2025/02/03

Jen and Tim look back at an all-star polemic from 1990, The Earth Day Special, a plea on behalf of Mother Earth that made a powerful impression on a young Tim. Also, we better not catch you pouring any old house paint down the drain.Watch the specialat the Internet Archive (and if so inclined, maybe throw them a small donationfor collecting all that health data recently purged from US government websites).According to this recap from Living Life Fearless, soap actor and Teen Witch (1989) star Dan

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1:49:34

231 - Lycan Colony

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2025/01/20

The editing is terrible! Tim and Jen howl at the moon, which is an ovoid shape, and critique the amateurish werewolf film Lycan Colony, at least when they can make out what's onscreen. Take a drink every time Tim says the editing is terrible!Do you love podcasting? Do you love clicking on links? Well here's one that's related to both of those things! Zencastr features an incredible suite of podcasting tools your hosts can vouch for personally. Record, edit, promote, and more with Zencastr!If you've

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1:10:03

230 - The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

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2024/12/30

Jen and Tim hold Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast hostage in order to talk about a holiday musical that really wasn't: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't!For more of the Worst Possible boys, check out our collection of their guest appearanceson the show! And of course you simply must hear The Worst of All Possible Worlds for yourself over at their Patreon!If you haven't yet laid eyes upon Tim's monumental Myst Island Lego build, go see it at his websiteand marvel at it, it's

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1:10:51

229 - Christmas Evil

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2024/12/22

Tim and Jen cover an unusual holiday movie that features a man beaten down by an uncaring society enough to become a self-appointed assassin. Wait, what year is this? It's 1980 and this is Christmas Evil!There is a whole ass website about Whamageddonwith the ruleset and everything, if you'd like to play or simply to inform yourself. We won't be participating, though, because we love Wham! too much to refrain from listening to them. You could also listen to this "Last Christmas"-free megamix!Need

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1:48:46

228 - Toys

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2024/12/09

Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly!See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992:There's a curious residue of dissatisfaction after "Toys" is over. It opened so well and promised so much that we're confused: Is that all there is?Listen to

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1:18:00

227 - Sleepwalkers

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2024/11/25

Tim and Jen rope old friend Paul Jay into talking about a very stupid Stephen King shapeshifting energy vampires vs. kitties flick, Sleepwalkers.Errata: Newsies actually came out April 8th, 1992, but it's probably safe to assume that no one wanted to see it on that date, either.IGN has a very good interview with director Mick Garris,in which he talks about his work on much better horror properties like The Stand.Can't get enough of Paul? Listen to the episode where he joined us to discuss Warren

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1:30:35

226 - Tough Guys Don't Dance

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2024/11/18

Oh God! Oh man! Jen and Tim and Mets devotee David J. Roth square up with Norman Mailer's demented neo-noir, Tough Guys Don't Dance.Read David's piece on a true American original,B-movie stalwart Wings Hauser. Did you know that he was in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time? Well now you do!Collider profiledthe one and only ersatz Charles Bronson (or the most prominent and successful, we assume), Hungarian actor Robert Bronzi.Hear Wings Hauser sing the concluding track for Vice Squad, "Neon

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1:15:20

225 - Children of the Stones

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2024/10/28

Tim takes the reins to enthuse about a shockingly creepy British TV series for kids (?!), Children of the Stones.Tip us at ko-fi.com/hystpod!Watch the entirety of Children of the Stones on YouTube!Hear the Reese Shearsmith-led podcast adaptationof Children of the Stones over at the Beeb.Want more folk horror? Sample our collection of same! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:21:00

224 - Valentino

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2024/10/21

Jen welcomes Darren Herczeg to help her rhapsodize about a movie even director Ken Russell didn't like, Valentino!Tip us at ko-fi.com/hystpod!The wonderfully-named Phallic Frenzygives Russell his due as an audacious filmmaker, and describes Valentino in complimentary terms.See Nureyev fully commit to the bit by dancing "Swine Lake"on the Muppet Show in 1978.The book on Fatty Arbuckle that Jen mentioned is called Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the

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1:40:04

223 - Alien³

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2024/10/14

Jen and Tim rationalize David Fincher's unlucky first feature, Alien Cubed (aka Alien³). Turns out that Tim has A LOT to say about Alien movies!Read a 1992 interviewwith David Fincher, in which he's quite candid about "the worst thing that ever happened to me"— that is, the production of Alien³.A helpful fan wiki has provided a transcript of William Gibson's first draft screenplayfor the movie.Love Fincher? Listen to our episode on a movie that people steadfastly refuse to engage with in good faith,

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2024/10/07

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1:18:42

222 - The Rocketeer

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2024/09/30

Tim and Jen are surprisingly hard on Disney's amiable comics-based misfire, The Rocketeer!See Rondo Hatton in The Brute Man, but let the MST3k crew accompany you through this murky noir.The Cocoanut Grove fire has been widely covered in media. The Fascinating Horror channel has an excellent recounting of the disaster,in the dispassionate and non-sensationalized style of the best YouTube channels.This 1979 BBC biography of Errol Flynnoffers illuminating interviews with people who knew him, including

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221 - Teaser - Art Clokey and Gumby Dharma

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2024/09/23

Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:45

221 - Art Clokey and Gumby Dharma

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2024/09/23

Jen and Tim return to Gumbasia to discuss the legacy of a complicated man: Gumby creator Art Clokey!The documentary that sparked the discussion, Gumby Dharma, may be viewed free on YouTube via the channel for Bay Area PBS station KQED.Pay a visit to Clokey Productions to see some behind-the-scenes footage!Here's an example of that Lego wizard hatthing Tim mentioned. Clever!If you missed our episode on The Gumby Movie( aka Gumby 1), listen to it here! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on

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220 - Teaser - Streets of Fire

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2024/09/16

An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:06:18

220 - Streets of Fire

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2024/09/15

An extra-mellow and profoundly aphasic Bitter Karella steps in to help Jen explicate the other, crappier version of The Warriors: Streets of Fire!Hear the bangin' soundtrack on YouTube, which includes "Deeper and Deeper" by The Fixx (which you won't see on the Spotify version of the soundtrack even though "Deeper and Deeper" IS on there. Who knows why).Yes, there are some tidbits about Streets of Fire in this 2003 interview with the immortal Jim Steinman, but the whole thing is worth a read for the

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1:33:54

219 - Our Worst Favorites, Episodes 101-200

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2024/08/26

Having spoken about their most favorite topics from the last one hundred episodes, Tim and Jen scrape the bottom of the barrel for their worst favorites.Lexx, Witch Hunt, and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clausmay all be viewed at the Internet Archive.The game Jen mentioned is indeed Warlords and you can play it onlinewith those heart-stopping Atari graphics and everything!Curious about our worst faves from episodes 1-100? Listen here, and find our favorites from the first 100 episodes here! Have

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9:45

218 - Teaser - Our Most Favorites, Episodes 101-200

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2024/08/18

Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag! Have You Seen This? BONUS episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:03:30

218 - Our Most Favorites, Episodes 101-200

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2024/08/18

Jen and Tim reflect on the last one hundred episodes (holy crap, we made it to 200 and beyond!) and each chooses five favorites from the mixed bag!On YouTube, you can watch Penda's Fen, The Jericho Mile, and Pavel Klushantsev's delightful Planet of Storms.Tubi has the taut thriller Money Movers, as well as the unjustly overlooked Heart of Midnight and George Romero's feminist drama Season of the Witch.We also chose our mostand leastfavorites for the first one hundred episodes— take a further look

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10:07

217 - Teaser - Phase IV

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2024/08/12

Tim and Jen invite Alex Rancourt of the Saucer Cinema podcastto marvel at Saul Bass's disquieting sci-fi dreamscape, Phase IV!View the alternate endingthat should have been the theatrical ending to Phase IV on YouTube.A couple of interesting side notes about the Oscar-winning faux documentary Alex mentioned, The Hellstrom Chronicle:it was conceived and executive produced by David L. Wolper, the TV stalwart who shepherded massively successful television miniseries like Roots and The Thorn Birds, as

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