Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating this week, and please accept our sincerest apologies for taking the opportunity to discuss an Adam Sandler movie. Music expert Libby Cudmore joins us this week to discuss Sandler's first—and so far only—foray into animated holiday musicals: Eight Crazy Nights ! Join us as break the film down song by song, as well as reminisce about seeing and actually enjoying this awful film back in the day. Believe us, it has not aged well... ALSO: If you enjoyed this epi...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Season 4Ep. 92
Happy Thanksgiving, friends! As we gather round the table and give thanks today, we have a special treat for you. Our other robot pal, PAUL, decided to give us a break and bring together the various hosts of Christmas Podcast Network shows to discuss holiday music. It's a huge topic, and this sampler goes in several unique directions. So sit back, enjoy that second helping of leftovers, and let our fellow podcasters entertain you with stories of the many traditions and avenues surrounding Christ...
Nov 22, 2018•26 min•Season 4Ep. 91
It's Thanksgiving week here in the US, and you know what that means: We're celebrating Shane Black Friday! On this episode, Breaking Mayberry host Martin R. Schneider joins us to discuss Shane Black's Iron Man 3 , the only movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that even exists in the ballpark of holiday cinema. Stay tuned for a special second episode this Thursday! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com !...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 90
Home For The Horrordays continues this week, as Karyn-5 returns to discuss one of the most notoriously terrible slasher films ever made: Silent Night Deadly Night 2 ! While the original is a fairly straightforward little slasher film, the sequel cranks things to 11 with a half hour of needless flashbacks and one of the most baffling lead performances ever committed to film. But as we discover, that's exactly what makes the film so damn entertaining! Also on this episode: We discover a universe i...
Oct 30, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 89
It’s October, everybody! Grab your pumpkin spiced beverages and your candy corn flavored whatnots, because it’s time to go Home For the HorrorDays! This week, we’re discussing the indie/Aussie holiday horror film Better Watch Out . This film features a couple twists and turns that get us very riled up, so we encourage you to hunt down a copy to watch before diving in to join us. Then again, if holiday slashers aren’t really your thing, we do pretty much spoil the whole movie and then some. So we...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 88
On this week's Stocking Stuffer, Joe & Bradford travel to the Land of Ooo and discuss "Holly Jolly Secrets", from the third season of Adventure Time . Finn and Jake discover the Ice King's secret box of videotapes, and a Christmas tradition is accidentally born. Also in this episode, we talk about having fun in the era of camcorders, the paradigm shift between 1990s cartoons and 2010s cartoons, and more! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us ...
Sep 25, 2018•35 min•Season 4Ep. 87
Hurricane Florence scuttled our regular recording plans, but never fear! Stocking Stuffers are here! On this episode, Joe & Bradford discuss "Doug's Secret Christmas", the only episode of Disney's Doug to air in prime time! The guys are forced to look on as Doug has The Talk with his dad, discover how Doug is somehow more progressive than Ed, Edd & Eddy , and Joe comes to the realization that he's been celebrating Christmas of 2015 for the past four years. Stuff gets real in this episode...
Sep 18, 2018•28 min•Season 4Ep. 86
Happy September, gang! Labor Day has come and gone, summer is unofficially over, and we're beginning the long, slow wind-up to the holiday season! This week on the show, the guys tackle the 1999 drug-fueled teen crime comedy GO . We got a creepy techno robot Santa, we got beater cars decked out in Christmas lights, and we got Joe being wrong about absolutely everything. Join us as we sample some of the latest holiday candies, discuss the separation between rave culture and anime culture, and sor...
Sep 04, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 85
We're wrapping up Travel Month this week with a cross-country road trip to California! Film critic Alonso Duralde joins us to discuss the 1985 teen sex comedy The Sure Thing, starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga! Duralde is the author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas , a compendium of holiday cinema goodness, so we trust him when he says Rob Reiner's sophomore feature is definitely a Christmas movie. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit ...
Aug 21, 2018•51 min•Season 4Ep. 84
Welcome to part one of a new investigative series we're calling Finding Creepy Santa. Libby Cudmore swears there is a deleted scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas which has been lost to the sands of time. It first appeared on the film's original DVD release and has since apparently been left out of all subsequent editions. Libby has turned to us to help her unearth this lost piece of holiday cinema history. In this episode, Libby and Joe discuss the scene, and it's last known w...
Aug 13, 2018•15 min•Season 4Ep. 83
August is Travel Month here on Christmas Creeps, and this month we've got two travel-themed episodes lined up just for you! This week, we're jetting off to Europe to discuss Martin McDonagh's 2008 murder comedy In Bruges . Join us as we follow hitmen Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson on a trip to a sleepy little town in Belgium, where we discuss the works of Hieronymus Bosch, consider Post-Tarantino crime films, and read negative Yelp reviews of Belgian bowling alleys! CONTENT WARNING: Lots of t...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 82
On this week's Stocking Stuffer, Joe & Bradford giggle like idiots as they discuss "A Very Sunny Christmas", from season 6 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia . We got your Radio Shack robots, claymation raisins, and more depraved insanity than you can shake a stick at! It's terrible and gross, but kind of lovely all the same. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com ! Intro: "Temptation Sensation (Haute Coutur...
Jul 31, 2018•41 min•Season 4Ep. 81
Happy July, gang! The only thing that can save us from the oppressive summer heat is that frosty air way up in the jet stream. But as we all know, penguins can’t fly, and neither can your favorite holiday podcasters. This week Joe and Bradford tackle the 1991 Opus & Bill Christmas special A Wish For Wings That Work . And to help us discuss this holiday oddity, we’ve enlisted comic strip connoisseur and host of the Andy Griffith Show podcast Breaking Mayberry , Martin Schneider! Questions/Com...
Jul 17, 2018•58 min•Season 4Ep. 80
We’re halfway to Christmas, folks, and this week we’re pulling out one of the big guns. It’s Jingle All The Way ! Arnold Schwarzenegger chases Sinbad around Minneapolis for the last Turbo Man toy in the city. Meanwhile, the gang reminisce about some of the hottest must-have toys of yesteryear, as well as how this movie is ground zero for our modern consumerist hellscape! NB: Movie chat begins at 23:05. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us on the...
Jun 26, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 79
It's an episode 65 million years in the making, and believe it or not, we have a perfectly valid reason for discussing this movie that has nothing to do with the sequel coming out this summer! Also in this week's episode, Joe ponders the fate of one Mr. James Buffett, Johnny-5 subjects himself to the poprocks and coke challenge, and Karyn and Bradford try their hardest to keep it together. This is a very silly episode. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreep...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 78
Remember how we said all Stocking Stuffers from now on would be Somewhat Safe For Work? Weellllllll, about that... Look, we recorded this episode two days before LAST Christmas and none of us were in our right minds. That's why we started talking about "The Santa Experience", from the second season of Rugrats , and wound up talking entirely too much about Disney's revival of Doug and whether or not it featured an episode about Sex Ed. HEY! We've put a couple of our older episodes on YouTube! Che...
May 22, 2018•35 min•Season 4Ep. 77
You lovely listeners voted to make us watch some obscure garbage this week, so we do exactly that with the 1972 bargain basement kiddie flick Santa & The Ice Cream Bunny ! Will Santa escape the blistering Florida sun? What exactly is the point of Jack & The Beanstalk? As Joe describes it, if The Ring were a Christmas film, this is what you'd find on the cursed videotape. Enjoy, you maniacs! (Also, mild spoiler alert for Westworld if that's important.) Questions/Comments? Email us at Xmas...
May 08, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 76
This week, the gang picks apart Christmas Inheritance , a Netflix original film trying to horn in on Hallmark's holiday action. Along the way, we also land on the fallacy of the Manic Pixie Dream Town, and figure out how to turn Westworld into a romantic comedy. Anything to keep from having to discuss this movie, really. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us on the web at ChristmasCreeps.com ! Intro/ Outro: Happy Christmas, You Guys! ( Simon Panr...
Apr 17, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 75
Submitted for your approval the following Stocking Stuffer: This week, Joe & Bradford discuss "Night of the Meek", the Christmas episode from season two of The Twilight Zone ! When a drunk department store Santa finds St. Nick's bag of goodies on Christmas Eve, he makes it his mission to spread holiday cheer to the less fortunate. But Christmas cheer comes at a price... Also in this episode, we declare that from here on, all Stocking Stuffer episodes will be somewhat safe for work. SSFW! Que...
Apr 03, 2018•30 min•Season 4Ep. 74
On this episode, Joe & Johnny-5 tackle The Year Without A Santa Claus , a live-action, made-for-TV remake of the Rankin/Bass animated special, which has absolutely no reason to exist other than to fill a timeslot and to give our boys hell. It's got John Goodman as Santa, Michael McKean and Harvey Fierstein as the Miser Brothers... And... And... Listen, guys, this one is truly painful. Please, join us in our misery! There's still time to vote for us in Yes! Weekly's poll on the best local pod...
Mar 27, 2018•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 73
In honor of the Oscars, this week the gang dives into the class warfare and holiday stylings of 1983's Trading Places , the Academy Award-nominated comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy! In this episode, we cover class warfare, Dan Aykroyd cramming a whole salmon in his shirt, and the 80s' fascination with blackface, great apes and Jim Belushi. Also, we're up for an award! Vote for us today in YES! Weekly's Triad's Best Awards. We're in the running for Best Local Podcast and it would mean...
Mar 06, 2018•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 72
On this edition of Stocking Stuffers, Joe & Bradford are joined by Johnny-5 and longtime listener Booker to discuss "Arnold's Christmas", the holiday episode from the first season of Hey Arnold! Arnold's quest to reunite a neighbor with his daughter for the holidays finds Arnold running all over town searching for a pair of snow boots, which in turn leads to wacky hijinks that suspiciously resemble the film Jingle All the Way . Also in this episode, the Creeps discuss their own hot gift item...
Feb 20, 2018•34 min•Season 4Ep. 71
This week, the gang skips out on the Puppy Bowl so that we could bring you this podcast all about 2010's The Search for Santa Paws . It's a wholly unnecessary sequel to Santa Buddies , which features more ethnically insensitive dog stereotypes, more kids with Sad Movie Kid Syndrome, and more JO crystals than you can shake a stick at. Also, we somehow fall ass backwards into discussing the economy of holiday charity drives, and Jonathan-5 comes up with the greatest Air Bud sequel they'll never, e...
Feb 06, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 70
Happy 2018 everyone! Join us this week as we ring in the new year with Pottersville , a movie so baffling and star-studded that we honestly have no idea what to do with it. It's got Bigfoot! It's got furries! It's got a bunch of hamfisted references to It's A Wonderful Life ! It's one of the more inexplicably weird movies we've ever covered on the podcast, and it is also 100% real. Go check Netflix if you don't believe us. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasC...
Jan 23, 2018•59 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Happy Boxing Day, gang! This week we're pulling triple duty by celebrating Christmas, Boxing Day AND July At Christmas all in one episode! It's 1985's Rocky IV , in which the Italian Stallion goes up against the Soviet punching machine Ivan Drago. It's a jingoistic farce that drenches itself in Cold War hysteria, and it also happens to take place at Christmas, so guess what? We say it counts. Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet us @ChristmasCreeps Visit us on the web at Ch...
Dec 26, 2017•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 68
On this edition of Stocking Stuffers, Joe & Bradford soldier onward through the Christmas episodes of King of the Hill with season 4's "Hillennium". When Hank gets spooked by the prospect of the Y2K bug, he panics by buying his family Y2K-compliant gifts like toilet paper and a grandfather clock. Sure, this is more of a New Year's episode, but it features Christmas prominently and also gives us an excuse to discuss the Y2K phenomenon, as well as New Year's in general. Questions/Comments? Ema...
Dec 19, 2017•36 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Greetings, holiday shoppers! We have a special treat for you this week. We've teamed up with six other holiday podcasts to bring you this seven-part Christmas tale entitled "The House of the Seven Santas", by John Kendrick Bangs. We here at Christmas Creeps bring you part four of this holiday tale. To hear the story from the beginning, please visit the Christmas Past Podcast . To hear the part five, visit Weird Christmas . And a special thanks to all other podcasts participating in this event: C...
Dec 01, 2017•5 min•Season 3Ep. 66
This year we're kicking off the holidays with a new annual tradition: It's Shane Black Friday ! Director Shane Black cannot resist the urge to set all of his movies around the holidays, like this week's film, the 2005 detective farce Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ! Can Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer solve a Hollywood murder without killing each other first? How well has this film aged since its Bush-era heydey? The answer to these questions and more on this week's episode! Questions/Comments? Email us a...
Nov 24, 2017•55 min•Season 3Ep. 65
Happy November, gang! The holiday season is upon is and we are super busy right now. We prepared for this by recording a couple of Stocking Stuffers for your holiday pleasure while we're off taking care of business. On this episode, Joe and Bradford take a stroll down Memory Lane by revisiting a childhood favorite: “O Christmas Pete”, the one and only Christmas episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete ! How long can Little Pete extend the holiday season before the dastardly Garbage Man trash...
Nov 14, 2017•24 min•Season 3Ep. 64
Happy Halloween, everybody! Since today is the spookiest day of the year, no Christmas movie will do! On this double-wide episode, we tackle two Halloween staples: First up, the Creeps dig into It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and whether or not it's actually terrifying. Then, we talk out the weirdly sexual undertones of Disney's 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus . We'll return to your regularly scheduled Christmas Creepin' next time! Questions/Comments? Email us at XmasCreeps@gmail.com Tweet u...
Oct 31, 2017•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 62
