Sunday, December 1, 2024

Flopcast 656: The Gorilla Abides

It's the holiday season, which means it's the holiday movie season, which means it's time for us to get to work. Because if you tune your TV to the Hallmark channel (or Lifetime, or Netflix, or anywhere else), you'll be assaulted by dozens of ridiculous new romantic holiday movies. A parade of big city girls will be returning to their quaint home towns to save their families' struggling mistletoe factories, and perhaps fall in love with some flannel-shirted dudes along the way. (And somehow, almost every movie stars Lacey Chabert.) So here on the Flopcast, we try to fix these movies by adding some weird random element. Can Christmas be saved by, for example, a gorilla suit? We sure think so.

Show Notes

Kevin inexplicably failed to mention Jeff Bridges' most important film role. He played Big Z, the penguin version of The Dude, in Surf's Up (the movie that also gave us Jon Heder's most important character, Chicken Joe).

Here's the list of holiday TV movies we fixed. You're welcome.

Let's face it, the only one we need to see photos from is The Merry Gentlemen!