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Piloting Error

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Come with us as we crash full force into abandoned media, so strange and bizarre, seen by millions and forgotten like some terrible fever dream fit during a childhood ailment. Not dead, but still alive though emaciated by the ravages of time and tape decay, in the purgatory of internet video sharing sites. We don't just review, we take you through every confounding moment to try and piece together the mysteries that are failed television pilots. Email us! pilotingerror@gmail.com
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Episodes

Episode 34 - Microcops

We are finally back, with a huge episode big enough even for our small audience! They are COPS! small ones! There are some cool miniature shots, and some 1980s MTV and and.... Ok.... Microcops... really sucked. It was just awful and stupid and annoying! We forced Rob Schulte (https://www.patreon.com/VanderpumpRobs) to watch it with us even though he was very vocal about wanting to watch and talk about anything else. What were we thinking!?What were they thinking!? What are you thinking!? Is if p...

Feb 27, 20251 hr 6 minSeason 4Ep. 34

Episode 33 - Adventures in Dinosaur City

No expense was spared for this podcast episode. Sets, costumes, puppets, miniatures, matte paintings, explosions, this one has it all... unfortunately it's an audio medium... but we do tell you about it! In fact your intrepid hosts head back several million years to a time when dinosaurs and humans lived side by side in a poorly articulated parody of a 1930s gangster movie, ride bone trains, and have permanent erections. Did I mention this is a kids movie that used to play nonstop on the Disney ...

Nov 01, 20241 hr 35 minSeason 4Ep. 32

Episode 21 - The Elvira Show

Just in time for Halloween, it's a rerun! Yep, this one is from 2022, but just like the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, it has risen from the pumpkin patch and walked it's undead ass back into your podcast feed! Judging by our listener counts, you've probably never heard it and if you have it's been a few years... We were so happy to have Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional joining us, one of our favorite guest whom we keep wanting to have back, and hopefully one day will. We will have a brand...

Oct 15, 20241 hr 48 minSeason 3Ep. 21

Episode 32 - Clerks.

Clerks. is one of if not the most iconic and influential movie of all time, and a natural fit for a sitcom. However, it simply doesn't hit the same when you exclude all the gen xers and hire boomers to write and direct instead. We end up with a product that's about as edgy as a beach ball. Well, at least WE found a gen xer to watch it with US, Mike Sacks! https://www.mikesacks.com/ Oh, but then we shelved the podcast and waited a year and a half to release it and cut Mike out of 1/4 of it. Are w...

Sep 17, 20241 hr 19 minSeason 4Ep. 32

Episode 31 - Boldly Going Nowhere

Is it possible to make Always Sunny in Philadelphia funnier? What if it took place in space? Would anybody watch it? Would anybody care? The answer is no. Except maybe multiple failed TV Pilot podcasts, and we happen to be one of the ones that liked it! YES! This is a rare good one for us, full of talented people, and funny gags! Oh my god someone took that robot's penis! Joining us this time for our journey into outer space is Emily Rose from Who the F*ck Knows? With Emily Rose!( Linktr.ee/Emil...

Jul 21, 20241 hr 15 minSeason 4Ep. 31

BONUS Piloting Error Theater Presents - Scuba Sleuth

We recently re-listened to the Acting Sheriff episode and remembered how much we wanted to see the movie within a pilot: Scuba Sleuth. Since that's never going to happen, we did the next best thing. We created our own version and rather than waste time with a plot, we skipped right to the climactic ending. So please, sit back and enjoy Robert Goulet, as Brent McCord, as SCUBA SLEUTH!

Jun 06, 20248 min

Episode 30 - Loose Ends #3

It's our 30th episode, and the errors and omissions were piling up, so once again we are looking back at old episodes and talking about things we missed, and mistakes we so confidently spewed. We also take a look into the future, and episodes we want to do in our 4th season, assuming we manage to continue making a podcast. Lastly we spin the Wheel of Pilots (https://wheelofnames.com/nyz-avm) and you can too! If we make 30 more podcasts, then this is the middle episode!

Jun 03, 20241 hr 4 minSeason 3Ep. 30

Episode 26 - She's With Me (Rerun!)

We could have watched a probably cooler show about teeny tiny police officers, but instead we watched a dumb sitcom about what women think and feel. Of coarse, no one bothered to consult any women about what they think and feel, and it's pretty obvious. Plus all the hot bidet takes you can stand! Joining us is author of multiple books including the new EXCRMNTMNTN, Andrew Hilbert (https://perpetualpublishing.com/2023/03/07/xcrmntmntn-a-body-horror-novella-about-art-and-poop-is-out-now-through-gh...

Mar 25, 20241 hr 22 minSeason 3Ep. 26

Episode 13 - Action Family (Rerun!)

Sometimes when we are reviewing pilots we stumble on fake pilots. Things that are listed as pilots on the internet and then they turn out to be Cinemax Comedy Experiments. What do you do? Do you stay true to to the format that you've chosen, no of coarse who the hell cares! Especially when we are talking about Chris Elliot, and the thing is absolutely the most incredible inventive hilarious over the top masterpiece ever made! Sometimes he's a hard-boiled detective, and sometimes he's a wacky sit...

Mar 19, 20241 hr 42 minSeason 2Ep. 12

Episode 5 - Acting Sheriff (Rerun!)

It's not your imagination, this is a rerun, but judging by the listener count you've probably never heard it before! We are traveling back to 2021 to travel back to 1991 and revisit this terrible idea for TV show where a stupid idiot with a great singing voice becomes a sheriff. This is an early episode so no game, no characters, hell we barely have a format and its only gotten worse since! Joining us was our good friend Chris Carera! Can you believe we made him watch this and he still comes on ...

Mar 12, 202455 minSeason 1Ep. 5

Episode 29 - LA Takedown

Have you ever seen the movie Heat? Did you know that it was once a failed TV Pilot. Well, not Heat but a show called LA Crimewave... or is it Made in LA... or just Crimewave?... I don't know... We watched something called LA Takedown from 1988 that seems eerily like Heat, but with a TV Budget, and more late 80s tropes than you can shove into a freshly laundered tan suit. Joining us on this poorly executed heist, from the Pumpkin Spice Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZAQrXbbyTyzMUgrh2PRfx...

Jan 30, 20241 hr 24 minSeason 3Ep. 29

Episode 28 - Unbeleivables

Have you ever said to yourself, "There is too much violence and fantasy in this super hero show. I want to see them just be old, and sit around, and wallow in failure." Good news is, Unbeleiveables is for you! Bad news is, there is only one episode, it's 23 minutes long, and there is next to no information about it anywhere. Don't worry! Triple Dipper Jason(https://www.instagram.com/jason_chapman_b/) is here again to help us figure out how they could possibly screw up a pairing like Steve Carell...

Dec 28, 20231 hr 40 minSeason 2Ep. 28

Episode 27 - Genesis II

In our second outing into gene Roddenberry failed tv projects we journey to 2133 to stroll around the futuristic community colleges of Tuscon Arizona, watch people fight over a human popsicle in the horniest ways possible, and then they wave around bejeweled sex toys in a futile attempt to enslave Ted Cassidy and his wig wearing friends. Joining us to admire these breath taking matte paintings, from the improv duo Kenny/Roger ( https://linktr.ee/kennyrogersimprov ) it’s Kenny Madison( https://ww...

Nov 08, 20231 hr 39 minSeason 3Ep. 27

Episode 26 - Black Bart

You know Blazing Saddles, that really funny movie that uses a quintessentially American genre, the Western, to point out the dark hypocrisies of America itself? Well, we watched the 1972 pilot spin off Black Bart where they ignored all of that and just focused on normalizing racist humor. That doesn't mean we aren't going to laugh at stupid drunken confederates... Joining us is noted Dukes of Hazzard expert, and co-host of the Bill and Robs an Excellent Adventure Podcast, Bill Tilly! It's a fun ...

Sep 14, 20231 hr 25 minSeason 2Ep. 26

Episode 25 - She's With Me

We could have watched a show about teeny tiny police officers, but being dumb men trapped in a hell of our own design, we watched a 1986 show about how women think and feel. Of coarse, no one bothered to consult any women about what they think and feel, and it's pretty obvious. Joining us is author of multiple books including the new EXCRMNTMNTN, Andrew Hilbert (https://perpetualpublishing.com/2023/03/07/xcrmntmntn-a-body-horror-novella-about-art-and-poop-is-out-now-through-ghoulish-books/) and ...

Jul 16, 20231 hr 18 minSeason 2Ep. 25

Episode 24 - Creating Rem Lezar

Part imaginary, part hallucination all... quixotic? No, but he is confusing. It's Creating Rem Lezar a Pilot (in our loose definition anyway) about a super hero with no clear powers who convinces children to build him by invading their minds. Rem then forces the children to draw infinity symbols and yell at adults. Oh and they sing, a lot, like the whole time. It's insanity on whole new level for us, and the only people we could force to watch it with us is our wives, Cheryl and Breyanne. Will o...

May 31, 20231 hr 17 minSeason 2Ep. 25

Episode 23 - Puppetman

In this episode we experiment with puppet therapy to unlock hidden memories of mouth men and the secrets they keep. It's July 3, 1987 and the CBS Summer Playhouse is confusing children about a show that will never exist. Jim Henson and Fred Newman team up to teach us about no fault divorce with a strange pilot involving a man torn between his love for dragon puppets and force feeding his son cheese. Joining us are Cathy and Brian from the Reality Issues podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod...

Mar 13, 20231 hr 42 minSeason 2Ep. 23

Bill and Robs: An Excellent Adventure - Blade II (2002) with Mackenzie Green

This is a cross posted episode with our friends Bill and Robs: An Excellent Adventure podcast! Follow MacKenzie Support Bill and Robs podcast here Bill and Robs Merch! Find more Bridge Burner Collective podcasts 🐦 Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/billandrobs 🤳 Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/billandrobs A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transfo...

Feb 15, 20231 hr 19 min

Episode 22 - Generation X

In a world so edgey every other shot is a dutch angle, a group of handsome well dressed youths will some how have to overcome the cramped quarters of a palatial mansion and defeat Matt Frewer, an evil marketeer intent on stealing their brains so he can rule the dream dimension. Joining us via collect call are Bill and Robs from Bill and Robs An Excellent Adventure https://anchor.fm/billandrobs and together we attempt to unravel the mysteries of this 1996 mid week programming filler.

Feb 04, 20232 hr 14 minSeason 2Ep. 22

Episode 14 - Christmas in Tattertown

Oh BOY! Exactly what you wanted for Christmas, a rerun of your new favorite episode of your least favorite podcast! Cool! We are heading back to Tattertown, an extremely confusing animated story about a tyrannical little girl who wants to force religion on literal trash, and that's not even the weirdest part. It's the very first Nicktoon and created by Ralph Bakshi, the father of modern cartooning. We will be back in January with all new episodes!

Dec 19, 20221 hr 38 minSeason 2Ep. 14

Episode 8 - Lookwell

This month we offer up a classic favorite episode, the Quixotic adventures of actor turned annoyance to police work, Lookwell, written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and starring the one and only Adam West! This is one we bring up quite a bit as an example of a failed TV Pilot that is actually worth watching. We will be back soon with new episodes, but for now enjoy this old one. (Chances are, judging by our downloads, you've never listened to it anyway!)

Nov 28, 20221 hr 18 minSeason 1Ep. 8

Episode 21 - The Elvira Show

Things are getting super spooky but also super horny on the podcast this episode, as we watch a 1993 pilot starring national treasure, Elvira. Unfortunately it doesn't live up to her movie, but we were dying laughing anyway. We also welcome horror and Elvira expert Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional ( https://allmylinks.com/myhorrorconfessional ) and we all three learn the true manifestation of evil: sassy talking animals.

Oct 30, 20221 hr 46 minSeason 3Ep. 21

Episode 20 - Loose Ends #2

So it's come this, a Piloting Error clip show? No, not quite, but close. We talk out of asses so much we actually have to dedicate entire episodes to correcting ourselves. We also find time to host an award show complete with slapping, and Native American protestors. Two years, and 20 episodes later, we have yet to put a dent in abandoned TV pilots that were uploaded to the internet.

Oct 07, 20221 hr 10 minSeason 2Ep. 20

Episode 19 - Mermaids

Oh boy! What a sopping wet pilot this is. We spend way too much time with three sisters/mermaids as they avenge the death of their father, at the hands of a bizarre fisherman who uses explosives to fish in this 2003 annoyance. Who would have thought there were so many mer-rules?! And we break all of them, except the one about nipples on television. You can't even do that in Australia.

Aug 24, 20221 hr 43 minSeason 2Ep. 19

Episode 18 - There Goes The Neighborhood

In our hoboiest episode yet, your humble podcast hosts of meager means set out on a journey across the US by riding the rails to visit Big city ROB (robkschulte.com) in California and learn of his big city podcast ways. Then on to Bel Air where news has it Hobos have inherited the entire wealth and estate of a possibly confused but definitely deceased multi-millionaire. The neighborhood, or at least one annoying person who basically lives on the same property, are upset about where this is all g...

Jul 04, 20221 hr 51 minSeason 2Ep. 18

Episode 17 - The Questor Tapes

You know what, fuck it! Let's just talk about Star Trek for two hours. Why else would we drudge up this Gene Roddenberry 1974 slog of a pilot about an android searching for his creator? Every single interesting idea has been extracted and put to better use some where else. Yet we go boldly where many have gone before! Also we welcome special guest ED from the Bro Trek Podcast! https://anchor.fm/bro-trek

May 20, 20221 hr 46 minSeason 2Ep. 17

Episode 16 - Higher Ground

Strange things are done in the midnight sun, but this isn't one of them, in fact it couldn't get more boiler plate and bland than John Denver flying his plane in fake Alaska. And yet, some how, we got lost in his little Dutch Boy turned Golden Retriever charm, as we roamed through the spruce stands, and dined on Oranges, moose burgers, and lamb stew, while he lulls us into submission with songs about nature and stuff. It's 1988, he's flying planes, performing search and rescue operations, and he...

Apr 09, 20221 hr 10 minSeason 2Ep. 16

Episode 15 - Cows

In our first international episode, we visit 1997 BBC Four to admire the commercials of Great Britain, while occasionally also talking about an Eddie Izzard penned atrocity that asks the moosical question: "What if some uppity cows started asserting basic human rights?" Fear not, the natural social Darwinian order will eventually put them back in their place. It's a terrible lesson in British politics, and one we learned the hard way, by watching one of the worst pieces of garbage any of us has ...

Mar 07, 20221 hr 27 minSeason 2Ep. 15

Episode 14 - Christmas in Tattertown

It's a good old fashion Piloting Error Christmas when we watch the very first Nicktoon, and struggle to make sense of a collage of ideas that could only have come from the father of modern animation himself Ralph Bakshi, in this 1988 manic mess. Join us as we learn the true meaning of Christmas: appealing to the vanity of elderly Jewish shop keepers, so they will wear wreaths on their faces.

Dec 30, 20211 hr 37 minSeason 2Ep. 14

Episode 13 - Action Family

Chris Elliot bends genres with will power alone, in this absurd comedy experiment that isn't even a real TV Pilot. Luckily, we make the rules, and this is funny. Pure comedic genius is on full display in a whacked out schizophrenic intentional wreck from 1986, which may be the singular most perfect 28 minutes ever committed to celluloid.

Dec 02, 20211 hr 39 min
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