The Flop House Episode Seventy-Nine is ONLINE

With special guest Wyatt Cenac. Check it out HERE.

The Flop House Episode Seventy-Eight is ONLINE

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What The Chipmunks Hath Wrought

A River Runs Through it 2: The Creekquel
No Country for Old Men 2: The Bleakquel
Peeping Tom 2: The Peekquel
Shopgirl 2: The Boutiquel
Last Year at Marienbad 2: The Obliquel
Dracula 2: The Widow's Peakquel
Eyes Wide Shut 2: The Asscheekquel
Catch a Fire 2: The Mozambiquel

"Captains in Space" Lost Secret: REVEALED

I was going through old documents and found this first draft of what was to be a script for my friend Fed's webseries Captains in Space back in 2008.* It ties up the one cliffhanger mystery we ever had in the show, so it would've been nice if we'd produced it, but by that time we were all sort of getting tired of the F/X heavy productions, and the way the green-screen seemed to sap performance energy.

No one probably cares about it but me, but if you ever wondered why Captain Adam disappeared and Captain Matt replaced him (other than Adam moving to San Francisco in real life) then HAVE AT IT.**

**Lots of the Captains in Space folk have gone on to better things. "Captain Matt"/ Matt Koff is currently writing for The Newlywed Game. "Spacewoman Schaefer"/ Sara Schaefer from episode 8 is a 2-time Emmy-winner for Jimmy Fallon's website. The cosmonauts / Brock Mahan and Elliott Kalan from episode 6 have written for TruTV and The Daily Show respectively. "Future Adam"/ Andrea Rosen is in every commercial ever made and can be seen in movies like The Baxter and The Ten, and--perhaps most exciting--"Frankie the shipboard computer"/ Vedette Lim is set to be a major character on the upcoming season of Tru Blood.

What have I been up to? You know... stuff.

*This is a first draft so it's WAAAAY too long and full of exposition. Trust that it would've gotten better, and that my writing has improved since then.

The Flop House Episode Seventy-Seven is ONLINE

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The Return of Gchat Theater: Part II, The Chatening

me: knock knock

Matt: who is there

me: Alpaca

Matt: alpaca who

me: I'LL PACK-A YOUR BAGS FOR YOU, BECAUSE THE BANK IS FORCLOSING ON YOUR HOME DUE TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS.

This is a joke I just made up.

Please pay me $13 for it.

Matt: you know where that joke doesn't work?

in print.

in an IM window.

so

the way i see it

you owe ME $13

me: I'd argue that it doesn't work outside of print or an IM window, either.

Episode #76 - Third Annual Awards Floptacular

We've broken our curse, with our first Academy Awards-in-review show that doesn't have terrible audio problems, although it has our usual staying-on-topic problems. Meanwhile Stuart reveals looking-glass Hitler's nefarious plot, Elliott talks about previous winners of the Twix-sponsored Twixie Awards, and Dan unravels a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in Inspector Gadget.

0:00 - 0:53 - Red carpet introduction
0:54 - 35:51 - In contrast to EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET and our usual tendency to hate on things, we actually didn't mind the Oscars.
35:52 - 45:25 - Flop House Movie Mailbag
45:26 - 48:20- A brief pledge drive
48:21 - 55:56 - Dan tells the greatest story in American letters. Suck it, Twain and Hemmingway.
55:57 - 59:47 - Plugs, goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.



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Hey Nerds

Please follow me on Twitter @dankmccoy.

love,

Dan

P.S. - Sorry for calling you nerds

Dan Did a Podcast Guest Spot

Listen to him discuss the truly terrible young adult book City of Bones as part of the Read it and Weep podcast. Also, it's a two-parter, so he'll be back next week, even grumpier from having to deal with a few hundred more pages of dreck.

Whim Quarterly Issue Four (and a half) is AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

It's been a while since there's been an issue of Whim Quarterly, the humor magazine printed on actual, flammable, paper. Why? BECAUSE THE LATEST ISSUE IS AN INCREDIBLE DOUBLE ISSUE OMGROFLFUCKUBYOB!

Buy an issue HERE. They're sure to sell like hotcakes would in an alternate universe where hotcakes are very popular.

My Second and Third Blogs for The Writer's Guild East

Can be found HERE and HERE.

Dan Blogs for the Writer's Guild

So, the Writer's Guild apparently forgot that its membership includes thousands of TV and film writers--many of them Emmy and Oscar winners--because they asked me to do a few blog posts for their site. Possibly because I work for free. Here's the first one.

The Flop House Episode Seventy-Four is ONLINE

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The Flop House Episode Seventy-Three is ONLINE

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The Flop House Episode Seventy-Two is ONLINE.

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The Flop House Episode Seventy-One is ONLINE

We discuss The Last Airbender. Check it out HERE.

The Flop House Episode Seventy is ONLINE

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The Flop House Episode Sixty-Nine is ONLINE!

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Slate Piece #3

With my third humor piece for Slate, can I start referring to myself as a "regular contributor?" While I ponder that, why don't you enjoy my trip down zombie memory lane: "The Corpse Stays in the Picture."

The Flop House Episode Sixty-Eight is ONLINE!

At long last, all three of our intrepid co-hosts have returned, which can only mean one thing -- finally we get to do the CONTEST-WINNER-SELECTED MOVIE! And what movie has he selected? The wish-fulfillment-for-tween-girls-of-the-late-80's spectacular Teen Witch. Meanwhile Elliott explains the new Subway Teenwich, Dan objects to Gawker's misuse of the English language, and Stuart reveals his new erection-based rating system.

0:00 - 0:35 - Introduction and SHOCKTOBER theme.
0:36 - 6:17 - Your regular co-hosts waste six minutes talking about how nice it is to all be in the same room again.
6:18 - 32:15 - We are all giddy, GIDDY, to be watching Teen Witch -- a classic bad movie -- rather than the usual modern, sub-mediocre Hollywood crap.
32:16- 37:15- Final judgments
37:16 - 49:44 Flop House Mailbag
49:45 - 54:39- The sad bastards recommend.*
54:40 - 56:09 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

*A correction -- Dan says that the director of The Invisible Maniac also did The Hazing. He was thinking of Rolfe Kanefsky who helmed the similarly "using supernatural powers to see naked ladies"-themed movie Pretty Cool. The Invisible Maniac was by Adam Rifkin who went on to Hollywood projects like Detroit Rock City.



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Wikipedia synopsis of Teen Witch

PLUGS CORNER

Elliott is hosting another Closely Watched Films screening, this one of the great 1936 drama "Dodsworth", the somehow uplifting story of the dissolution of a marriage.

Wednesday, Nov. 3rd, 7:30pm
@ 92YTribeca
200 Hudson St.
New York

Check out Dan's Halloween article over at Whim Quarterly.

And, for the few in America that haven't had the pleasure...