With, you guessed it, a new legacy sequel right around the corner (starring the distressingly similarly named Liam Neeson), Kevin and Chris look back at this Leslie Nielsen spoof n' goof classic. Of course, as with all straight fastball comedies of yore, the question looms large: is it really as funny as you remembered? Is anything? Check out this full video episode on YouTube , and if you're curious for episodes on more contemporary stuff (including, soon to come, the new Naked Gun), support th...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 8Ep. 190
Cheers everyone! With Kevin on assignment (he's joined the Black Parade), we're unlocking this popular and dizzying episode from the Patreon feed for this week: the Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle, the utterly wild, once entirely lost children's film staring some humans, many swampies, Mr. Quack Quack, and those selfsame Rare Blue Apes. If you enjoy this off-the-wall content and want to support the show, head over to our Patreon for more: Patreon.com/nowweknow ! Also, check out the video version...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 40 min
It's that time again! Don't touch that dial and try and find a channel that isn't on commercial -- they're all commercials! Kevin brought Chris a slew of oldies (not all goldies) such as ads for ancient electronics with features we'd still kill for today and who can forget that loveable children's classic: The Bud Bowl, where beer bottles play football for some reason? You know, for kids! Call the number on your screen and order now!
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 189
Winter and spring have given way to summer, and where better to head than the south of France for a romantic interlude, no? This week, Chris and Kevin crack into French Kiss, the 1995 romantic comedy starring Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan against the backdrop of Paris and the southern vineyards. Is this a downturn in Meg's romcom trajectory? Or is it, secretly, one of her best?
Jun 17, 2025•2 hr 13 min•Season 8Ep. 188
In anticipation of the new... I want to say... sixth? not counting TV! installment of the Karate Kid franchise, Kevin brings Chris the third part of the, uh, trilogy. There's a new villain in town and he makes John Kreese look like a reasonable San Fernando Valley karate school teacher/business owner. But will Daniel-san be able to beat his equivalently nuttier student in a karate tournament THIS time?? And assuming you guess that, how does it hold up after all these years? Listen and see!...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Season 8Ep. 187
Kevin and Chris are joined by DT (@dtfrombtown on Twitch) for a long look back at a movie that clearly made a *big* impact on him: Police Academy 4. Part of the long-running, critically reviled, financially dominant (more than a billion in pure profit across seven films!) comedy series, the foruth iteration finds the gang welcoming some newcomers to the ranks - it's Citizens on Patrol! Be sure to check out and subscribe to Now We Know on Youtube , where every one of these audio episodes in your ...
May 19, 2025•2 hr 7 min•Season 8Ep. 186
Hey, everyone! For more bonus content like this, and two full bonus episodes per month, check out Now We Know on Patreon ! Also, every audio episode here in your feed is now featured on Youtube with full video! Subscribe to the Now We Know Youtube channel here ! Follow DT: Twitch: @dtfrombtown Youtube: dtfrombtown Follow Chris: Twitch: @christogpher Youtube: @christogpher...
May 19, 2025•49 min
You've heard us talk about The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (if you're a member of the patreon), you've heard us talk about Rabbit Rampage for the Super Nintendo, but that's NOT all, folks! Here at last is our definitive review of the definitive Looney Tunes (or Merrie Melodies for the old heads). Is it any good? Well yes obviously. But is it REALLY good? Listen and see!
May 05, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Season 8Ep. 185
Kevin and Chris dive headlong into 1995's smash family hit Casper, which the latter enjoyed reasonably well, and the former seemed ready to claw out his eyes... or those of everyone around him. (Check out the video episode at @nowweknowpod on Youtube for even more fun (we're in the sight gag business now!)
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 8Ep. 184
In today's first in-person video episode NWK's own Punchinello, Natasha Vinik, brings us her favorite childhood "movie": Grandpa's Magical Toys (from the Wee Sing video collection). The plot and budget are pretty bare-bones but does it hold up for Wee Natasha? And what of Kevin and Chris?
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 183
(PROGRAMMING NOTE: This episode, as will be true of future episodes, is now optimized with full video! You'll still get your audio-only podcasts as usual, but for the full experience, visit Now We Know on YouTube !) With a new live-action remake hitting theaters (stop us if you've heard that one before), we dive into the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Also, much as Snow White was a seismic shift in the history of the animation medium, so too is this episode for Now We Know: it's o...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Season 8Ep. 182
In honor of the recently, shockingly departed Michelle Trachtenberg, returning guest Jessica brings the film adaptation of Harriet the Spy, a childhood obsession which led to her own illegal, unethical actions. Was it because of a lack of clear message that there was anything wrong with them as long as you don't get caught? Peep at Kevin & Chris from behind your own underpowered opera glasses as we unearth the clues!
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Season 8Ep. 181
Bring out your dead! African or European? Elderberries! A shrubbery!? All this and more can be yours as Chris and Kevin dive headlong into one of the most tragically run-into-the-ground comedies of all time: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which turns 50 this year. We are the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoo-boing!
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 8Ep. 180
SnOOooOOooOOpy / SnOOooOOooOOpy / come home Snoopy come home (come home come home)... Ring any bells? This time Kevin has brought Chris an all-time sad kids' movie to be reassessed. Not as well-known as the holiday fare and no Vince Guaraldi songs but this Peanuts movie has some toe-tapping, melancholy-inducing tunes of its own. Sometimes kids, adults, and even Snoopy himself can need a good cry!
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 8Ep. 179
Imagine this: you buy a house, and it's a ridiculous steal, at just $200k for like a 15-bedroom mansion! The catch: it's really run down, and you'll have to tap your monied friends and professional contacts for loans to fix it up. And so you do, and you hire some contractors who get it all ship-shape, and now you have a million-dollar home. Sounds like a living nightmare, right? So, we are apparently meant to believe, is the case for Tom Hanks and Shelley Long in The Money Pit, foolishly brought...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 8Ep. 178
Finally, they're doing the real one! Kevin and Chris are joined yet again by their pal Miranda, who was once a Titanic-obsessed tween, and in this case the wreckage didn't sink far from the iceberg. Chris considers it the Greatest American Romance, will you too fall in love?
Jan 13, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Season 8Ep. 177
With a new "photo-realistic" prequel to its 2019 "photo-realistic" remake in theaters at time of recording, Kevin and Chris round out the year with The Lion King, the 1994 Disney animated hit starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, and many more. Happy New Year everyone! (Also, if you'd like to hear our thoughts on that aforementioned prequel, Mufasa: The Lion King, subscribe at Patreon.com/nowweknow — episode drops 1/1/25!)
Dec 30, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 176
Hi-ho hi-ho (gremlin voice) it's off we go to Kingston Falls, where the titular gremlins can be found. Kevin has seen this one plenty but for Chris it's brand new! Will he find the little fellas adorable or does he agree with Stripe "Gizmo caca"? Listen and see!
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Season 7Ep. 175
Ho, ha, ho! To kick off the holiday season, we look back at a pair of those inimitable Rankin/Bass Christmas specials, rendered in beautiful stop-motion "animagic!" The specials in question: The Year Without a Santa Claus (of Heat Miser and Snow Miser fame), and The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus, frequently mentioned on these airwaves as "the weirdly pagan one," but maybe even weirder still.
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Season 7Ep. 174
Kevin and Chris are joined by Joe Wolohan (Kevin's cousin, for the unitiated) for a dive—a submerging, if you into—into The Hunt For Red October, the "thinking man's thriller" that bravely answers the question: who has more screen presence? Alec Baldwin or Sean Connery?
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 7Ep. 173
With the haunted confines of October in the rear view mirror, but the warm, glowing dinners of Thanksgiving still weeks away, we decided to split the difference with a children's animated classic that's equal parts warm and bleak, jokey and disconcerting—All Dogs Go To Heaven, the 1989 Don Bluth feature starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, and Judith Barsi (rest in peace, gone too soon).
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 7Ep. 172
Roger roger it's Trollfighter 1 knowwhatImeanvern*??? *Vern does not appear in this film
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 171
This time, Chris offers up a twofer of animated Halloween specials, the latter a towering classic of the genre, the former an oft-forgotten footnote to its Christmas counterpart: Halloween is Grinch Night, and It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Suffice to say the broad approach to the Halloween cartoon doesn't get much further apart than these two, but who cares when the weather's so cozy*? *It's actually miserably hot at Now We Know studios at time of recording, so we will enjoy our hot spi...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Season 7Ep. 170
It's Beetlejuice cartoon time, 'know what I mean babe? Huh huh huh I'm the ghost with the most [repeat sequence until funny]
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 7Ep. 169
This time Chris takes the wheel for Commercials of the 80's and 90's Lucky Number Volume 7! Dive in with us as we sift through wine ads that stigmatize male pattern baldness, pre-internet "party lines," and the cosmic horror of the Wendy's buffet bar.
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 7Ep. 168
With a legacy sequel on streaming now, Kevin and Chris look back at the 1980's comedy/action classic—emphasis on the comedy and de-emphasis on the action—Beverly Hills Cop. Starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, and the pitching coach from Little Big League, among others. Join us for a deep dive into all the pranks, tricks, endless Axel F needle drops, and the effortless charisma of young Eddie.
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 167
Kevin and Chris are joined by first-time guest (and alleged former caller to the Now We Know hotline) Andrea Bloom, here to dish on all things Captain Planet. Join the Planeteers in their pitched battle for the survival of earth against Hoggish Greedly, Verminous Skumm, the sultry Dr. Blight, and more!
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 7Ep. 166
Kevin and Chris are joined by friend of the show Rachel Fisher (Hollywood Crime Scene) to revisit, in honor of the passing of the late, great Shelley Duvall, her classic 80's children's passion project: Faerie Tale Theatre. Specifically, the merry trio look back at Hansel and Gretel, starring Paul Dooley, Joan Collins, and young Ricky Schroder and Bridgette Andersen as the titular children.
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 165
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Want to choose what we cover for our next Patreon episode? Check out our listener poll on Twitter or Instagram , @nowweknowpod. Although Chris is technically the host of this episode, both he and Kevin are about as diehard fans of this flick as one can be — it's Disney's Robin Hood, released in 1973 to muted/mostly negative reaction, now an oft-cited source of sexual awakening for fans of roguelike foxes. With excellent voice acting, charming set pieces, fantastic tunes, and ye...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 7Ep. 164
From the annals of long-forgotten animation, Kevin presents, for your consideration: Bionic Six, a 1987 cartoon starring a family of cyborg heros taking on the nefarious Dr. Scarab. Directed by Osaka Dezaki—the man behind such animes as Space Adventure Cobra, Takarajima (Treasure Island), and the Golgo 13 movies—this show looms large in Kevin's memories, despite being largely forgotten.
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 163
