"Gross… but I love it!" A 30th anniversary special just in time for spooky season, we dive into our first entry from the Ernest franchise led by the late Jim Varney and featuring mild thrills and a snot-dripping troll named Trantor. Stay spooky, and stay stupid!
"It's showtime!" Kicking off another month of Spooky Slimehouse with an all-time classic that might be less slimey than it seems.
"Would you like to buy a monkey?" Max's birthday is given the swashbuckling treatment as the boys, with special guest Dorothy, dive into the 1994 slime-adjacent Chris Elliott curio Cabin Boy . We discuss the film's uniquely kitschy aesthetic, Max's David Letterman fandom, and the film's possible influence on SpongeBob Squarepants - stopping along the way, of course, to marvel in awe at a Twin Peaks -era Russ Tamblyn as a sharkboy named Chocki. Join us as, we podcast and stink - mostly the latter...
"They don't teach you that in school… it's something you have to experience" A big happy birthday to Dorothy is celebrated in Burton-esque fashion with the proto-slime directorial debut starring Pee Wee Herman. We talk about the original breakfast machine, the joy of magic and joke gags, and the ever-present motif of the road movie, and determine this movie's role in the Slimehouse genre timeline. Enjoy!
"I'm a Dude, He's a Dude, She's a Dude, We're All Dudes!" The Summer of Slime wraps up for a to-go order with the 1997 classic Good Burger. Directed by Eddie Murphy collaborator and the recently appointed CEO of Paramount Pictures himself, Brian Robbins, Good Burger was perhaps an inevitable episode for the podcast. We discuss the legacy of this property and Keenan and Kel's unique place in the Hall of Slime. Stay until the end to hear an announcement on the next Slime Birthday pick!
For the latest Slime Shuffle, the goopy gods selected Firehouse Dog , a late-Slime dramedy that is equal parts dog farts, and good heart. Joined by Myke Thompson of the Black Man in the Right World podcast, the team dives into the nitty gritty of pop-punk music cues, elementary cafeteria menus and ugly mutts.
"Shut up!" Joined by Princess Diaries superfan and frequent guest Dorothy Page, the boys discuss a rare G-rated feature for the pod, along with its unusual sequel.
"My idea of a perfect school is one in which there are no children... at all!" In 1996 Danny DeVito, Roald Dahl, and Mara Wilson all coalesced into one of the most acclaimed and visionary 90s kids movies, MATILDA. With special guest Ryley Schlachter joining us, we discuss the merits of the movie from the Slimehouse perspective, including themes and topics like anti-authoritarianism, feminist messaging, empowerment from within, and the visual aesthetics that would leave a major influence on the g...
"Who am I? Ah, Bad Booty-shaking Pickanosis, yeah! That's who I am!" On the 20th anniversary of the release of Osmosis Jones in theaters, the Slimehouse gang convened to discuss this wild ride of a live action/2D animation hybrid vehicle. In this episode, we debate over the Farrelly Brothers' influence on the Slimehouse genre and how this movie cleverly merged their Gross Out comedy style with the Slime ethos. An overlooked box office bomb upon release, Osmosis Jones is reclaimed as an exception...
"I think, when you go to the movies, you should learn somethin'." Fresh off their Space Jam doubleheader, the gang discusses the Looney Tunes second foray into the cinematic sphere, Joe Dante's 2003 flop Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Though it may lack the box office success and millennial cult classic status of its predecessor, could it actually be Bugs and company's best turn on the big screen?
The Slimehouse Crew returns to the Space Jam for A New Legacy... of IP. We discuss the new sequel to Space Jam, its development hell backstories in the 25 years it took to finally make the movie, and most importantly: whether the film carries on the grand Slime tradition of its predecessor.
A slam dunk of an episode with special guest Sam Schlenker as the Slime team looks at a millennial cult classic.
"Cookies are for closers!" Covering both a brand new release and its infamous predecessor, the enigma that is The Boss Baby, Alec Baldwin's meme-worthy role that became a surprise hit and a sleeper Oscar nominee in 2017. The series is back for more with "Family Business" now in theaters and streaming on Peacock Premium (who we'd welcome as a sponsor). Joined by Peewee Hermeneutics, we get into the slime merits of these neo-slime pictures, one of the most iconic moments in the entire Slimehouse g...
"Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone!" The Slimehouse gang kicks off the Summer of Slime with a Season 3 premiere discussion of Disney's Recess: School's Out. Along the way, we touch on Summer's role as the ultimate Slimehouse playground, the potential limitations of animation in Slime aesthetics, badass senior citizens, and the film's surprisingly moving depiction of adulthood.
The Slimehouse crew looks back on the first two seasons of Slimehouse to reflect on the evolution of this series, as well as offer some revisions to Slime Scores and shout out listeners around the globe.
For this month's Slime Shuffle, the boys have landed on 1987's Three O'Clock High. The dark teen comedy is often forgotten, but influential on the peak Slimehouse narrative framework and visual perspective, despite its more mature voice and thrilling tone.
"Surf Wyoming!" Celebrating Nelson's birthday with a blast from the past so diculous it's re- diculous! Meet the Deedles is a Disney produced diamond in the rough featuring a young Paul Walker and Steve Van Worm er as The Deedles, a boneheaded surfing duo who find themselves landlocked in Yellowstone National Park, and after a mistaken identity, find themselves put in charge of stopping the local prairie dog infestation. This movie is truly something else, and has been largely forgotten by time,...
On this day in 2001, Shrek was released in theaters nationwide and movies would never be the same. To celebrate, we've chosen Shrek to be our first episode dedicated to an animated feature film... much like how it was the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature! Special guest Myke Thompson returns to the podcast to discuss this green giant watershed moment, its ripple effect on pop culture, and how it standardized the humor and attitude of Slimehouse.
"It's not a tumor!" The boys are joined by Schwrarzenegger aficionado Cole Sadler (AKA Peewee Hermeneutics) to tackle Ivan Reitman's action comedy classic Kindergarten Cop . In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the birth of the "Big Guy, Little Problems" subgenre of Slime, the decline of movie action involving children, and this film's crucial place in Arnold's development as a movie star.
"I'm going to Disneyland!" Slime Shuffle strikes again! This time, the random selection landed us on 2007's Balls of Fury, a late August release that was panned by the few people who bothered to see it. Since it was a new discovery for each of us, we get into how it does (or doesn't) resemble slimehouse, and the contingency of "Frat Pack" and Tenacious D inspired comedies of the late 2000s that were once ubiquitous and now harder to find. Enjoy!
"A world without string is chaos" Jasper queues up a personal favorite in 1997's MouseHunt for his birthday pick, and invites sister Hanna Bernbaum on the show to chat about slapstick romp that may lean closer to classic silent and screwball comedies than the typical Slimehouse movie.
"I've got some R rated language for you, but I'm going to keep it PG!" Slimehouse returns to the early 2000's for another Slimehouse gem in Shawn Levy's Big Fat Liar. We touch on drum and bass music, fish eye lenses, and Paul Giamatti's early career to ultimately discuss how the unlikely hybrid between kids movie and Robert Altman-esque showbiz satire might actually make for one of the most compelling if not essential entries into the genre yet. Stay to the end to hear host Jasper Bernbaum's bir...
"Now that's a cool cat." Everybody's favorite cat-and-mouse duo enter the 21st century, but do they make a home in Slimehouse?
"Let me tell you what stylin' is. The perfect session: A-Frame wave, ground swell, spittin' out salt water in your face, doing a little lip action move, a 360 without a bounce. I call it a Liquid Drano. Wannabe Bullwinkle. I tell you no lie, my friends. It's a consciousness raiser." On the first installment of the randomized Slime Shuffle series, Slimehouse examines 1993's Airborne, a totally rad x-treme sports extravaganza that screams 90s in all the best ways. Join the boys as they discuss the...
"That will be 64 meat lovers pizzas and 32 caesar salads. Can we interest you in our new fudge roll?" Kevin James and Happy Madison make their way into the slimehouse world with the PG-rated, neo-slime Zookeeper , a "favorite" of host Jared Anderson and his roommates. Zookeeper is a perfect example of Neo-slime with a clear throwback to 90s family comedies centered around zoos, animals, and animal-like humans. Shout-out to the most blatant corporate sponsorship ever captured on celluloid depicte...
"So you talk and you poop candy, can you do it in someone else's life?" An Easter special! We decide to go down the Illumination Rabbit Hole and talk about neo-Slime holiday favorite Hop, starring Russell Brand and James Marsden. Joining us is special guest Jenna Anderson, sister of Jared Anderson, whose claim to fame is an internship at Illumination Ent. during the release of this movie in Spring of 2011. She provides some unique insight to the minion mayhem of the famous studio. We talk music,...
His World. His Rules. An episode you all knew was coming. The Slimehouse crew take on the 2001 Disney deep cut Max Keeble's Big Move , and discuss the film's legacy as a work of prime slime art, director Tim Hill's auteur status, and the surprising relevance of this movie in the contemporary rap world.
"Go have no fun somewhere else!" The boys, alongside special guest and Cat superfan Dorothy Page, tackle a true Slimehouse behemoth. In discussing this "Mother of all messes," they explore this movie's role in the decline of the Prime Slime era, "The Shrek Effect" of pop culture references in Slimehouse, and how this reviled film might actually be an example of a self-aware form of Postmodern Slime.
For the first official episode-length Slime Study we’ve chosen a pair of animal movies to compare and contrast what makes one a Slimehouse movie and the other of more pure, dramatic spirit.
"What are you boys planning to do with those pies?" For our first ever Birthday Pick episode (with more to come in the Spring), Slimehouse takes a left turn into the Funhouse with the 1988 cult classic Killer Klowns From Outer Space. In this circus of an episode, we discuss the Slime credentials of the Chiodo Brothers behind the film, and the potential link between midnight movies and Slimehouse.
