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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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00:17:07

#079 Busby Berkeley's "If I Only Had A Brain"

The Blob Show! ·

2021/05/24

Did you know monkeys aren't the only flying anomaly in Oz? Tony and Charley discuss the troubled production behind the scenes of the 1939 MGM production (going through directors Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, Busby Berkeley, George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and King Vidor) and give commentary on the extended (and sadly cut) Busby Berkeley-choreographed "If I Only Had a Brain" in which the Scarecrow flies. Lastly, we find out who has the brain when Charley takes the Wiz Quiz.

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00:19:40

#078 Wheels on Meals (快餐車, Kuai can che) (1984) +...

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2021/05/17

Charley and Tony dive into the Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung vehicle WHEELS ON MEALS and its readymade-franchise-seeking-movie-tie-in video game KUNG-FU MASTER (SPARTAN X, d. Takashi Nishiyama).

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00:17:48

#077 Jaws (1975) + Jaws (LJN, 1987)

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2021/05/10

With summer just around the corner, it's Spielberg season again at the Blob Show. Charley and Tony talk JAWS and trauma, quickly review the blue raspberry SHARK BITE LOLLIPOP, and then embark on a tour of LJN's JAWS released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, a game loosely structured after JAWS, THE REVENGE.

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00:14:17

#076 The Bird Show: Lake Como, Fort Worth, Texas

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2021/05/03

Charley and Tony report on location at Lake Como in Fort Worth, Texas where they saw many birds uncommon to their desert home. They discuss their corresponding plates in John James Audubon's The Birds of America, which these two dudes were able to tick. They also experience a tornado warning. 159. Northern Cardinal 12. Baltimore Oriole 67. Red-winged Blackbird 236. Black-crowned Night Heron 386. Great Egret 106. Black Vulture

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00:05:37

#075 Talking 'Bout Santo For A While

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2021/04/26

Charley goes solo for analysis of SANTO IN THE VENGEANCE OF THE MUMMY (Santo en la venganza de la momia, 1971) d. René Cardona.

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00:22:05

#074 Arachnophobia (1990) + Arachnophobia (BlueSky,...

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2021/04/19

Nothing brings our family together like a creature feature. Tony and Charley discuss Frank Marshall's directorial debut ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990), a second-tier release from Amblin Entertainment in which the sum of its parts may be greater than the whole. We also play the eponymous 1991 spider shoot 'em up developed by BlueSky Software.

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00:13:30

#073 Santo vs. The Killers from Other Worlds (Santo...

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2021/04/12

Sometimes the universe just gives you the best things like Santo and the blob in the same movie with a Jesús Zarzosa spy score.

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00:13:37

#072 Beware the Blobfest! (2009)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/04/07

After some early dismissal from Charley that this short documentary was "only talking," your hosts discuss the antics of fanaticism and the fun possibility of visiting the Phoenixville Blobfest one year. And a happy birthday to The Blob Show! We recorded this episode on the one-year anniversary of our premiere. Charley immediately suggests we cancel the program and start a new podcast reviewing our favorite episodes of the first year of the Blob Show. So it gets a little meta. Thanks for

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00:20:46

#071 King Kong (1933)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/03/29

Joey joins Charley and Tony is this chaotic exploration of RKO's KING KONG (1933). We also review Rocket Fizz's King Kong Cola, speculate on the unrealized film projects of stop-motion animation pioneer Willis H. O'Brien, and debrief the intellectual property woes of director/creator Merian C. Cooper, Universal City Studios LLC, and Nintendo Co., Lt. in a long-winded segment titled King Kong Legal Corner.

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00:18:21

#070 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

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2021/03/24

The tables quickly turn on Charley's lighthearted Hyrule romp when the ReDead appear in the Nintendo 64 version of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME. Tony and Charley talk the importance of sound design in the construction of fear, different Link appearances in the Zelda canon, and the 1989 Atlus/LJN Nintendo release FRIDAY THE 13TH.

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00:18:35

#069 The Attack of the Giant Moussaka (Η επίθεση του...

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2021/03/15

An amorphous Greek casserole becomes mutated after being mistakenly struck by a UFO beam. Tony and Charley investigate the 1999 Blob parody THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT MOUSSAKA (d. Panos H. Koutras) while baking their own eggplant dish.

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00:13:41

#068 Miscellaneous Blobaphernalia

The Blob Show! ·

2021/03/11

As we approach the one-year anniversary of The Blob Show— and my phone approaches insufficient storage— I thought I'd compile an olio of segments I couldn't bear to trash. These are largely from the show's early development when Tony and Charley were trying to find their voice and Joey was, literally, trying to find her legs.

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00:24:33

#067 Secret Gardens (2020, 1949, 1993)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/03/08

Charley and Tony discuss three film adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN including those by Marc Munden (2020), Fred M. Wilcox (1949), and Agnieszka Holland (1993). And death.

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00:16:08

#066 Jabberwocky (Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného...

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2021/03/04

With the magic of editing, Tony usurps Charley's experimental maze cartography episode to discuss the dichotomy of maturity and nonsense in Jan Švankmajer's 1971 stop-motion adaptation of Lewis Carroll's JABBERWOCKY (with a little help from Ringo Starr).

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00:20:59

#065 MGM's Tom and Jerry, Part 1

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2021/03/01

Tony and Charley discuss highlights from MGM's Tom and Jerry shorts of the Fred Quimby, Hanna/Barbera era including: SPRINGTIME FOR THOMAS (1946), THE YANKEE DOODLE MOUSE (1943), MOUSE TROUBLE (1944), QUIET PLEASE! (1945), THE LITTLE ORPHAN (1949), THE TWO MOUSEKETEERS (1952), MOUSE IN MANHATTAN (1945), THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1941), THE CAT CONCERTO (1947), JOHANN MOUSE (1953), and PUSS GETS THE BOOT (1940). We tie it all together with a Blob Bites segment discussing "What About Blob?", a 2019

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00:26:23

#064 A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989)

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2021/02/22

After months of trying to figure the game out, Tony and Charley finally finish the 1989 Nintendo puzzle adventure DAVID CRANE'S A BOY AND HIS BLOB: TROUBLE ON BLOBOLONIA. This episode quickly devolves into an excuse to eat jellybeans and also has the strange coincidence of featuring an appearance by Daft Punk on the day they announced their breakup: further proof that The Blob Show will stop at nothing to drive a well-regarded property into the ground.

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00:14:25

#063 Trollhunter (Trolljegeren) (2010)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/02/15

An homage to our Norwegian listeners, Charley unearths her first found-footage movie-- André Øvredal's TROLLHUNTER (Trolljegeren)-- and grapples with the medium. We also discuss the differences between being 4 and 5 years old, whether or not one can believe Valentine's Day, and the differences and similarities of TROLLHUNTER's Norwegian trolls and FROZEN's Norwegian trolls.

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00:12:24

#062 Charley-on-Charlie: The Kid (1921)

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2021/02/06

In the latest episode of Charley-on-Charlie, we celebrate a couple of birthdays: Charley turns five (as a reminder to change the show description) and Charlie Chaplin's THE KID turns 100!

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00:23:08

#061 Mickey Mouse (2013) + Mickey Mousecapade (1987)

The Blob Show! ·

2021/02/01

Charley introduces Tony to the Paul Rudish's shorts series MICKEY MOUSE and we discuss our favorite surrealist slapstick moments from season one. We also walk through the Capcom/Hudson Soft release MICKEY MOUSECAPADE (Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no Kuni no Daibouken;ミッキーマウス不思議の国の大冒険 1987/1988) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and tease a future crossover episode discussing Floyd Gottfredson's Phantom Blot and how it morphed into the blob-related Shadow Blot in another Mickey Mouse video game, EPIC

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00:18:47

#060 The Best Films of 2020

The Blob Show! ·

2021/01/29

Charley and Tony count down their top ten films (+1) of 2020. Spoilers in the remaining show-notes. Films mentioned: Shadowed (d. Lotta Losten and David F. Sandberg), The Haunted Swordsman (d. Kevin McTurk), Death Blood 4: Revenge of the Killer Nano-Robotic Blood Virus (d. Chris DePretis), Nomadland (d. Chloé Zhao), Sonic the Hedgehog (d. Jeff Fowler), Driveways (d. Andrew Ahn), Stargirl (d. Julia Hart), The Kid Detective (d. Evan Morgan), Soul (d. Pete Docter and Kemp Powers), Possessor (d

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