

The Flop House
MaximumFun, Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, Elliott Kalan
The Flop House is a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film, then engage in an unscripted discussion about the movie's shortcomings and occasional delights, while never being afraid of a pointless, silly digression or two hundred.
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Apr 29, 2023 • 50min
FH Mini 79 - Trailer Time in Teasertown
Stuart runs us through some of those tantalizing, teasing trailers.Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH still available!Here's a playlist of all the trailers we discuss in this episode!Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.

Apr 22, 2023 • 1h 53min
Episode #394 - Your Place or Mine, with Hallie Haglund
Yeah yeah yeah, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon, whatever, let's talk about REAL STAR POWER -- Hallie Haglund! Hallie's back! HALLIE! HALLIE! HALLIE! She joins us to discuss our second romcom in a row: Your Place or Mine, a nonsensical romp about a week-long accountancy course, and also love.TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH! The show premieres TONIGHT, April 22, and will be viewable for two weeks thereafter!Wikipedia page for Your Place or MineMovies recommended in this episode:The Movie OrgyPuss in Boots: The Last WishThe AscentAlice, Darling (Hallie has RECANTED this recommendation after seeing the full movie)Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.

Apr 15, 2023 • 50min
FH Mini 78 - Don't Mess With Taxes
Elliott guides us in a cinematic celebration of everyone's favorite holiday -- tax day!Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH now available!Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.

Apr 8, 2023 • 1h 33min
Episode #393 - Ticket to Paradise
Huh. Traditionally, one gets TWO tickets to paradise, but I guess we didn't get a plus one. You know what? Climb into our luggage, so you can join us as we discuss Ticket to Paradise, a holdover from an earlier era when we still had movie stars, and used them to paper over not having much else.Streaming TICKETS for THE FLOP HOUSE BATTLES BATTLEFIELD EARTH now available!Wikipedia page for Ticket to ParadiseMovies recommended in this episode:John Wick: Chapter 4Michael ClaytonChameleon StreetEver tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.

Apr 3, 2023 • 2min
Streaming Show Announcement - Battlefield Earth!
We interrupt our usual feed for a special announcement! For the first time EVER we're bringing one of our live stage shows worldwide, via the magic of the web. We've done special webstream events before, of course, but this will be a professionally shot and fully edited taping of our most recent in-person live show, available to watch online! Did you REALLY want to see us discuss BATTLEFIELD EARTH, one of the most notorious flops of all time, but you don't live in/couldn't make it to Brooklyn? Now you can, with all the stage presentations and performances intact! VIP online meet-and-greet packages are also available, if you wanna check in and chat with us, as well as limited edition merch, and if you watch during one of the programmed screening times, we'll all be in the chat watching along and commenting with you. (But don't worry if you can't do those specific times -- the event will stay available within the viewing window for you to watch at your leisure.)All of the details and links to purchase tickets at: https://www.flophousepodcast.com/stream

Apr 1, 2023 • 56min
FH Mini 77 - The Flop House: Movie Doctors
As a thank-you for everyone who became a new or upgrading member during Max Fun Drive 2023 or has been a sustaining member for years, we've provided some bespoke movie recommendations for some fortunate listeners who reached out in response to our call! (If we didn't get to yours this time around, fear not! We hope to do more in the future.)If you haven't become a member yet, this is an amnesty weekend! There's still time! You haven't missed it! Boy, you there, what day is it today? Today? Why it's Max Fun Day, sir! Become a member and support the podcasts you love at maximumfun.org/join!If you're in Brooklyn, see this in time, and there are still tix left, come see us at The Bell House on April 2!

Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 38min
Episode #392 - The Bubble
It's Max Fun Drive time (if you haven't already, please consider becoming a member of Maximum Fun and supporting The Flop House), and we decided to give ourselves a real challenge for this one -- we watched the Judd Apatow "hey maybe there's something funny about this pandemic" Netflix all-star "comedy" The Bubble. Did it make our heads explode with exasperated fury? Listen to find out!Wikipedia page for The BubbleMovies recommended in this episode:Psycho II (1983)Light of Day (1987)Day for Night (1973)The Heroic Trio (1993)

Mar 21, 2023 • 25min
Greatest Trek! A Crossover Mess-Around
Adam and Ben from Greatest Trek joined us recently to record some bonus content that should be available for members in the Max Fun 2023 boco feed. We had fun, so we also recorded this little hangout of us messing around. We promote the bonus ep (a discussion of Airplane II: The Sequel, a film that does not "star" William Shatner, no matter what people might have you believe), talk a little about podcasting, and encourage folks to become members of max fun, at maximumfun.org/join. Sure, it's essentially just kind of a long advertisement for Maximum Fun, but it's a funny, profane one, with a lot of fucking around. Hey, some people watch the Super Bowl for the ads!

Mar 19, 2023 • 1h 14min
FH Mini 76 - The Peach Pit, MFD Edition
Stuart takes us through another episode of "The Peach Pit," everyone's favorite after-show for The Flop House that's also just a part of the regular Flop House.Come see us at The Bell House, on April 2!Become a supporting member, at https://maximumfun.org/join/

Mar 18, 2023 • 2min
Feed Drop - New Mini Coming Tomorrow!
Just a note to let you know that, for internal reasons relating to the MFD, we're pushing the release of this one mini to late Sunday, March 19. In general the release schedule will remain the same.In the meanwhile, why not check out our newly-somewhat-busy YouTube channel?