Posts tagged flops
My World of Flops Mars Needs Better Movies Case File #186 Mars Needs Moms (2011)

For Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.

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This Looks Terrible! Baywatch Nights Season One: "Pursuit"

I had so much fun writing up the second season of Baywatch Nights for The Joy of Trash that I decided I would delve into its almost as bonkers first season as well. And I had a blast! It’s like the fourth segment of the “Simpsons Spin-Off Spectacular” except that it’s real !

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The Mesmerizingly Mortifying Legacy of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’s infamous “The Wrap Party” gave the world, “That’s swell, Tom, but your brother is standing in the middle of Afghanistan!” as well as a long-running series’ worth of hilariously bad ideas laughably executed in 48 jam-packed minutes of uniquely unhinged television.

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Drug Panic at the Disco! Case File #148/My Year of Flops II #45 Avenging Disco Godfather (1979)

Rudy Ray Moore’s improbable but glorious career as a cinematic leading man came to an exquisitely, and characteristically insane end with the gloriously bonkers, PG-rated 1979 anti-PCP disco horror musical The Avenging Disco Godfather.

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