The Lone Rangers, Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi) and Pip (Adam Sandler) are trying to break into the music industry. Record exec, Jimmie Wing (Judd Nelson) isn't interested and local rock station, KPPX, won't play their demo. They do the only logical thing; arm themselves with squirt guns, take hostages (David Arquette, Reg E. Cathey, Nina Siemaszko) and take over Ian the Shark's (Joe Mantegna) show. A crowd gathers outside to party while they scramble to get the only su...
Aug 03, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast This week we get into our thoughts on Abigail, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and the latest season of Shoresy. We also get into some gossip about what happened to The Facts of Life reunion and a listener gives us the lowdown on Christian Slater. Support this podcast at patreon.com/doomgeneration Call or text 702-720-DOOM (3666) to suggest new content!
Jul 31, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're taking a wild ride this time Doomers! Our version of the Chipmunks along with the Chipettes take a bet with a ridiculously wealthy, vaguely incestuous sibling couple, Klaus & Claudia (and Sophie) as to who would win in a hot air balloon race around the world. Of course this is just a cover for smuggling millions in diamonds. Will our heroes figure out the dastardly plan before Dave makes it back from his European trip? Call Ms. Miller to sit with your kids, we're taking off on ...
Jul 27, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep 163•Transcript available on Metacast This week we say goodbye to legends, Shannen Doherty and Bob Newhart. We watched new TV shows: My Lady Jane, Dead Boy Detectives, and Scavengers Reign. We talk about the latest trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. We discuss a reboot of Melrose Place and a possible sequel to St. Elmo's Fire. All this and more, this week in DOOM! Have a suggestion for next week? Call or text us at 702-720-DOOM (3666) Support this podcast at patreon.com/doomgeneration
Jul 24, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Champion City is a bustling metropolis with it's very own patron super hero, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), who is so successful he's managed to nearly put himself out of a job. He plots to have his greatest nemesis, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) released, but doesn't count on the Villains coalescing their efforts to take over. Enter...the other guys: The Shoveler (William H. Macy), Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria). They swoop in to save the day with...
Jul 20, 2024•2 hr 46 min•Ep 162•Transcript available on Metacast We talk Furiosa, My Lady Jane, Renegade Nell, new Tears for Fears music, the new novel Haus of Furies, and more! Support this podcast at patreon.com/doomgeneration
Jul 17, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1972, 11 1/2 yr old Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is living with her widowed, mortician father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd) in the local funeral home. Between the endless parade of bodies and her only maternal figure, Gramoo (Ann Nelson) deteriorating, Vada has become a hypochondriac with weird ideas about life and death. Lucky for her, she's got loyal pal Thomas J (Macauley Caulkin) who stands by her when the other girls won't. Through her crush on teacher, Mr Bixler (Griffin Dunne), and e...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep 161•Transcript available on Metacast July 4th 1978, the Freemans (Cliff DeYoung, Veronica Cartwright) are preparing for fireworks and send oldest son, David (Joey Cramer) out to meet his little brother, Jeff (Albie Whitaker), when he goes missing. David reappears 8 years later having not aged a day since he left and at the same time a mysterious craft is located in downed power lines nearby. He doesn't quite believe until he sees "little" brother Jeff (Matt Adler), who is now older than him. Dr. Faraday (Howard Hessem...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep 160•Transcript available on Metacast It's the last day and the staff of Camp Firewood has seen their fair share of break-ups, make-ups, and hook-ups and it all comes to a head tonight at the talent show. Will Victor (Ken Marino) escape Neil (Joe Lo Truglio) and make it back in time to rail Abby (Marisa Ryan)? Will Katie (Marguerite Moreau) ditch Andy (Paul Rudd) for Coop (Michael Showalter)? Will Gene (Chris Meloni) stop picking on Gary (A.D. Miles)? Will McKinley (Michael Ian Black) get that smelly kid to shower? Will Gail (Mo...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast Long ago in Thebes, the keeper of the dead Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) decides to risk it all with the Pharaoh's main squeeze Anck Su Namun (Patricia Velasquez). They are foiled of course and Imhotep is entombed alive under the curse of the Hom-Dai never to be released. After 3,000 years Jonathan Carnahan (John Hannah) brings a mysterious key to his librarian sister Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) who finds a map to the city of Hamunaptra inside. With the reluctant help of rough and ready boots, Rick O...
Jun 22, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast They say you never know what's going on behind closed doors, Fool (Brandon Quintin Adams) and his sister Ruby (Kelly Jo Minter) have a deathly ill mother and an eviction notice to deal with complicated by a lack of funds. Ruby's boyfriend Leroy (Ving Rhames) has a plan though. He's heard of a fortune hiding inside the house of their mysterious landlords. After scoping out the house, accomplice Spenser (Jeremy Roberts) disappears, prompting Leroy and Fool to follow into the booby trap...
Jun 15, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep 157•Transcript available on Metacast When WWII threatens to shut down baseball, candy man Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall) bankrolls an all girls pro baseball league. He enlists Ira Lowenstein (David Strathairn) to run it and he sends scout, Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) around the country to sign up ball playing dollies. Sisters, Dottie and Kit (Geena Davis, Lori Petty) team up with the Rockford Peaches (Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Megan Cavanagh, Tracy Reiner, Bitty Schram, Ann Cusack, Anne Ramsey, Freddie Simpson, Renee Coleman, e...
Jun 08, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep 156•Transcript available on Metacast We gotta go back, back, back to school AGAIN! Sandy's cousin, Michael (Maxwell Caufield) has come back to Rydell High under the watchful eye of Frenchy (Didi Conn). Trying to fit in with the T Birds (Adrian Zmed, Christopher McDonald, Peter Frechette, Leif Green) he realizes he needs a motorcycle in order to be the Cool Rider that head Pink Lady, Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) needs. The rest of the Ladies (Lorna Luft, Alison Price, Maureen Teefy) question Stephanie's loyalty to the gang ...
Jun 01, 2024•2 hr 30 min•Ep 155•Transcript available on Metacast Ah young love! Very, very young love - Val (Dan Futterman) and Barbara (Calista Flockhart) want to get married but, they've got some problems (aside from their ages). Barbara's father (Gene Hackman) is Sen. Keeley, the co-founder of the Coalition for Moral Order and Val's father (Robin Williams), Armand is a gay nightclub owner. When a scandal breaks along with the nuptial news, Mrs Keeley (Diane Wiest) suggests a wedding could distract the masses. Val returns home to construct a dec...
May 25, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep 154•Transcript available on Metacast While tooting around on their yacht, the Staytons, Grant (Edward Herrmann) and Joanna (Goldie Hawn) pull into a small coastal town for repairs. After abusing local handyman, Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) and peeling out of the bay, Joanna falls off the yacht and is found with amnesia. When her own husband leaves her behind, Dean steps in to exact revenge. He does what any of us would do, takes her his hovel, convinces her she's his wife "Annie" and that she's the mother to not 3...
May 18, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast Today, Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) wakes up chronologically 16 but, as she complains to bestie Randy (Liane Curtis), still hopelessly, physically 15. At school she's hounded by horny freshman, Farmer Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) while she pines away for senior dreamboat, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) with the perfect girlfriend (Haviland Morris). At home, she has to put up with handsy, meddling grandparents who've brought along a foreign exchange student, Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanab...
May 11, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast Silent film actors, Lucky Day (Steve Martin), Ned Nederlander (Martin Short) and Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase) find themselves out on their collective asses when their studio boss, Harry Flugelman (Joe Mantegna) decides he's had it with them. Fortunately for them small town gal, Carmen (Patrice Martinez) is dumb enough to think a movie was the real deal. She sends word that her small town of Santa Poco needs them to go against the infamous El Guapo (Alfonso Arau) and his gang of banditos led b...
May 04, 2024•55 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast Poor Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) doesn't have much more than his dreams when a mysterious candy man, Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) sends five golden tickets out all over the world. The finders of these tickets win a tour of the famous factory where nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out. Augustus (Michael Bollner), Violet (Denise Nickerson), Veruca (Julie Dawn Cole) and Mike Teevee (Paris Themmen) and their parent meet up with lucky last minute winner Charlie and his dubious Grandpa Joe...
Apr 27, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast We celebrate 4/20 by honoring our forefathers, Cheech & Chong. From their humble beginnings in a Vancouver club, through most of their film catalog, to where they are now. Light up and tune in to this week's Doom Generation. Support this podcast at patreon.com/doomgeneration Leave us a message at (702) 720-DOOM
Apr 20, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast When a summer internship at the local paper goes to a guy, Terry Griffith (Joyce Hyser) thinks it's because she's a girl. With the help of best friend, Denise (Toni Hudson) and over sexed little brother, Buddy (Billy Jacoby aka Jayne) she cuts her hair, stuffs her pants, and registers at the rival school. As a boy, she's confronted with the school bully, Greg (William Zabka) and befriends quiet, soul enthusiast, Rick (Clayton Rohner) who she falls for. Unfortunately for her, Rick has...
Apr 13, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast When a wayward child (Ben Savage) tries to escape the Boy's Home, a kindly priest does his best to persuade him to stay by telling him a tale of himself as a young boy. Clifford (Martin Short), while traveling with his parents (Richard Kind, Jennifer Savidge) to a convention in Hawaii, forces an emergency landing over LA in order to visit Dinosaur World that his estranged uncle Martin (Charles Grodin) happens to have designed. Clifford lands in the middle of a crisis for Martin. His boss Ell...
Apr 06, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is living her best late 90s life in a non-descript city. She works for a hip tattoo/hair/nail salon with her best friend Donna (Nia Long) when she receives not only a rosary from her mother, but also the wounds of Christ. When the church hears of this, Cardinal Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) to investigate. Will he find a non-believer or will he find that the messaggero is indeed importante? Happy Easter! Stigmata, this week on Do...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is a typical teenager but when her parents (Mink Stole & Bud Cort) along with EVERYONE else suspect she's a lesbian, they call Ms. Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty) of True Directions. After an intervention staged by assistant Mike (Rupaul Charles), Megan is sent to conversion camp along with other kids (Melanie Lynskey, Dante Basco, Katrina Phillips, Katharine Towne, Douglas Spain, Joel Michaely, Kip Pardue) hoping to become ex-gays. Will she straighten out or will she ...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast When her marriage to Nefler the Muffler Man (Craig T. Nelson) breaks up, fabulous Beverly Hills housewife Phyllis (Shelley Long) decides to throw herself into their daughter Hannah's (Jenny Lewis) Wilderness Girls troop. Along with the rest of the girls (Heather Hopper, Kelly Martin, Emily Schulman, Aquillina Soriano, Tasha Scott, Ami Foster & Carla Gugino) they go up against the notorious Red Feathers led by head troop leader, Velda Plendor (Betty Thomas) whose life mission is to dissol...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast Four college friends graduate with high hopes, bright futures, and excitement for what the world has in store for them. As things often happen, they lose touch until Valedictorian, Cynthia (Stockard Channing) chooses to end her life, reuniting her friends Annie (Diane Keaton), Brenda (Bette Midler) and Elise (Goldie Hawn) at her funeral. While catching up the trio realizes that each of them has lost a husband to a younger gal. Aaron (gross, no) to couples therapist Dr. Rosen (Marcia Gay Harden),...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Once upon a time there were three very different girls, Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Alex (Lucy Liu), and Dylan (Drew Barrymore). They're all brilliant, beautiful and work for Charlie (John Forsythe). When Bosley (Bill Murray) gets a call to find out who kidnapped tech genius, Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), our gals launch an investigation into rival, Roger Corwin (Tim Curry), do battle with disturbingly hawt Creepy Thin Man (Crispin Glover), and kick all the athh only to find out things may not be wh...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast The newly blended Walker family is facing their share of normal issues. Steve (William Peterson) is incorporating new wife, Laura (Amy Brenneman), her young son Toby (Christopher Gray) with his teenage daughter, Nicole (Reese Witherspoon). Steve is unable to connect with his daughter in the midst of work stress, driving Nicole to rebel and spend more time with her terrible friend, Margo (Alyssa Milano) who takes her out to a warehouse club where they run into trouble. Having spotted the gals ear...
Feb 24, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast Ultimate Gen X besties, Lelaina (Winona Ryder), Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), Sammy (Steve Zahn) and the deep greasy, Troy (Ethan Hawke) are trying to make their way out here in the real world. Speaking of which, they all have been baring their lives for documentarian, Lelaina's camera that catches the eye of yuppy exec, Michael (Ben Stiller) who works for In Your Face TV. Things fall apart of course and we end up in the winter of our discontent. The Gap, psychic partners, Big Gulps, Violent Femmes...
Feb 17, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Graduating class of 89's valedictorian, Diane Court "whoa" (Ione Skye) has worked so hard on her future she hasn't had time to enjoy her present. Enter Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), emotionally mature, kickboxing military brat who decides to just call her up and ask her out. Diane wins a fellowship and is set to leave for England and Lloyd just wants to spend as much time with her as possible, but her father (John Mahoney) warns her against distraction even as his life is falling...
Feb 10, 2024•2 hr 38 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast A stranger who's never hurts nobody and only gots one eye called Popeye (Robin Williams) rows through stormy seas to a sailing village in search of an elusive father. He takes a room with the Oyl family (Roberta Maxwell, Macintyre Dixon, Donovan Scott) and attempts to befriend daughter, Olive (Shelley Duvall) who happens to be engaged to LARGE henchman, Bluto (Paul L. Smith). One night a mother leaves a baby in a basket for Popeye and everyone is happy until it becomes clear that lil Swee'pea (W...
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast 
