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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.

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

00:15:20

#039 Death Blood 4 (2019)

The Blob Show! ·

2020/10/16

Charley and Tony talk DEATH BLOOD 4: REVENGE OF THE KILLER NANO-ROBOTIC BLOOD VIRUS (d. Chris De Pretis), a proud b-movie sci-fi romp out of Pleasanton, California. It's a real sequel in a fictional franchise and-- if that wasn't confusing enough-- wait until you hear Charley grapple with multiple dimensions, the bigfoot, her love for both female characters, and plumbing infrastructure. There's a lot going on here. DEATH BLOOD 4 is available now on Amazon Prime http://amzn.to/2ZR7WtJ

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00:18:05

#038 Gorath (1962) + Thriller (1983)

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2020/10/12

A twofer! Charley and Tony hope you don't get too spooked this October despite our double-dose of scary coverage. First up, 本多猪四郎 (Ishirō Honda) threatens earth with ominous star GORATH (妖星ゴラス, Yōsei Gorasu, 1962). It's more like a blob than you'd think. Next, Charley watches MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLER (John Landis, 1983) for the first time. She's got a lot to say about this one and, despite some speculation that it was Thriller-filler to avoid bedtime, she's got some substantive arguments to make

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00:20:46

#037 Scoob! (2020)

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2020/10/08

Charley is introduced to Scooby Dooby Doo in this experimental episode featuring the consumption of a 24" sandwich fit for Shaggy Rogers. We discuss the 2020 animated film SCOOB! (d. Tony Cervone) as well as "The Haunted Candy Factory," a 1973 episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies featuring Mama Cass and the Green Globs.

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00:17:49

#036 House on Haunted Hill (1959)

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2020/10/05

Walking skeletons and possessed appliances! The Blob Show hits the ground running with spooky October screenings. Today we visit William Castle's HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and thank our Massachusetts listeners by covering a regional short, Michael Savino's ATTACK OF THE KILLER REFRIDGERATOR [sic] from 1984. We also, apparently, find out the order in which members of our family should be thrown into a vat of acid. Attack of the Killer Refrigerator | The Tingler | Vincent Price

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00:22:31

#035 The Magic Serpent (怪竜大決戦, Kairyū daikessen) (1966)

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2020/09/28

Ten seconds before starting the recording for a Scoob! episode, Charley insisted that we instead talk about our new favorite Japanese kaiju movie The Magic Serpent (d. Tetsuya Yamanouchi). It was not a wrong decision.

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00:20:25

#034 Pixar Blobs

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2020/09/22

Charley and Tony give a definitive overview of blobs in the Pixar universe. From the creepers and leapers of Monstropolis in MONSTERS, INC. (2001) to the green gelatinous cube in ONWARD (2020), and the transformation of Buzz Lightyear and Mira Nova in the 2000 episode of BUZZ LIGHTYEAR OF STAR COMMAND: "The Crawling Flesh", we think we covered them all.

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00:26:19

#033 Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ, Gake no Ue no Ponyo) (2008)

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2020/09/14

Tony and Charley discuss parents and agency in the great Hayao Miyazaki's (宮崎駿) 2008 feature, PONYO. This is Tony's favorite movie to watch with Charley and, as luck would have it, this turned out being what would be The Blob Show's "For Your Consideration" episode.

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00:19:03

#032 Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)

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2020/09/10

Charley and Tony finally pay tribute to local Arizona filmmaking with a review of MAX RELOAD AND THE NETHER BLASTERS featuring Greg Grunberg and Kevin Smith (who shot his scenes about ten days before his "widow-maker" heart attack). The film, directed by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp, drips with '80s retro-gaming nostalgia so we paired it with a Blob-Bites review of 1981's Commodore 64 release CRUSH, CRUMBLE AND CHOMP!, oxford comma be damned. Spoilers abound. For example, characters have red

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00:25:45

#031 Modern Times (1936)

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2020/09/07

Happy Labor Day! Charley and Tony celebrate the traditional end of summer with a salute to the workforce in Charlie Chaplin's MODERN TIMES. It's Charley's first Charlie and hopefully the beginning of a beautiful friendship. If you're into our niche poor sound quality, you're in for a real treat today with a guest spot from the neighbor's dog.

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00:28:00

#030 JurassEt Cetera

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2020/08/31

Charley and Tony complete the Spielberg hat-trick as we delve into LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. And then JURASSIC PARK III, JURASSIC WORLD, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM, BATTLE AT BIG ROCK, LEGO JURASSIC WORLD: THE INDOMINUS ESCAPE, LEGO JURASSIC WORLD: THE SECRET EXHIBIT, LEGO JURASSIC WORLD: LEGEND OF ISLA NUBLAR, Ocean Software's JURASSIC PARK (1993, SNES), and Universal Studios' JURASSIC PARK: THE RIDE. It's been a busy few weeks. Apologies to Colin Trevorrow for my pronunciation.

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00:23:48

#029 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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2020/08/25

Charley and Tony cover a lot of ground in this episode. So much ground you might call it extra-terrestrial. We come at you with a surprise back-to-back Spielberg episode, delve into the ASMR subgenre, and give a shout out to our Wisconsin listeners with regional highlight THE DUNDEE PROJECT, the short 2017 UFO-hunting documentary by Mark Borchardt.

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00:15:55

#028 Jurassic Park (1993)

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2020/08/17

In this over-produced episode Charley and Tony get serious with a talk about dyno-DNA: First in a blob-bites segment discussing an episode of "Godzilla: The Series" and later gabbing about one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. I didn't know Charley would then give an exhaustive walkthrough of "Super Mario Bros. 2," but the episode keeps on giving.

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00:24:00

#027 The Tingler (1959)

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2020/08/10

Remember, if you scream at just the right time, it might just save your life! Charley breaks down one of her favorite movies, William Castle's THE TINGLER starring Vincent Price. If you're thinking, "that's great, but where has all the blob content gone?" you're in luck! We also reprise (and rename) our Blob Bites segment, discussing S1:E16 of the Canadian program MONSTER WARRIORS: "Beware the Blob Thing."

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00:13:36

#026 A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) (1902)

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2020/08/04

Special guest Joey, the world's biggest fan of the moon, drops by to discuss the 1902 Georges Méliès film A TRIP TO THE MOON. Charley and Tony also discuss various remakes including Segundo de Chomón's 1908 shot-for-shot remake EXCURSION TO THE MOON and the 1996 Smashing Pumpkins video "Tonight, Tonight" directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Music featured in this episode: Amazing Plan - Distressed Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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00:17:38

#025 The Björk Show: 1993-1999

The Blob Show! ·

2020/07/30

Welcome to The Björk Show! Charley and Tony draft Björk's music videos through the '90s. We're talking Debut, Post and Homogenic with directorial influence from Michel Gondry, Stéphane Sednaoui, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Sophie Miller, Danny Cannon, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, John "John K." Kricfalusi, and Alexander McQueen. Charley doesn't have much time for small talk in this one, probably because her draft strategy is laser-focused.

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00:15:40

#024 Wizard of Oz (1925)

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2020/07/27

Charley and Tony return to Oz for the silent swashbuckling slapstick WIZARD OF OZ from 1925. Silent clown Larry Semon stars in (and writes, and produces, and directs) this auteur piece alongside Spencer Bell, Oliver Hardy, and Dorothy Dwan, and we break down the gags while getting haunted from the other side of the rainbow. Is it the ghost of Larry Semon who some suspect may have faked his own death? Will a mule kick the scarecrow over a fence into a cactus while he tries to get his lollipop back

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00:14:52

#023 Godzilla's Revenge AKA All Monsters Attack...

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2020/07/20

The first in, hopefully, an extended series of Godzilla coverage, Charley and Tony discuss all the monsters attacking in Ishirō Honda's GODZILLA'S REVENGE as well as their desire to try some sukiyaki and a strange pivot into the 2014 Adam Sandler film THE COBBLER.

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00:13:34

#022 The Thing From Another World (1951) & Sonic the...

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2020/07/16

Thank you, Montana! We don't know our devoted Montana listeners, but we've tried to honor them with an episode in which we discuss two films shot in Big Sky Country. Charley discusses The Carrot Monster's many doors in 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and we rap about a much friendlier alien in 2020's SONIC THE HEDGEHOG.

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00:18:21

#021 Talking 'Bout Superman For A While, Part 2

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2020/07/13

Charley and Tony are back together discussing the symbolism of Superman in the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios animated cartoons (1941-1943): the highs of noir/sci-fi and the lows of WWII propaganda.

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00:04:07

#020 Talking 'Bout Superman For A While, Part 1

The Blob Show! ·

2020/07/11

Charley takes the reins in this special mini-ep discussing the 1941-1943 Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios SUPERMAN animated films.

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