Retro Tune In: Recent Episodes
Scott Brown
A podcast where three friends revisit shows and movies from their past and decide if they’re cringey or bingey.
This week's "From Dunst til Don" entry takes us to the late '70s and the iconic American sitcom "Three's Company." Don Knotts was in this, not Kirsten Dunst.
"From Dunst Til Don" month carries on with the 1967 Knotts' vehicle, "The Reluctant Astronaut."
Welcome to "From Dunst Til Don", our tribute to two of the biggest pillars of the acting profession, Kirsten Dunst and Don Knotts. We start things off with a "Dunst" classic, 2002's "Spider-Man."
For this "Julyinn'!?" entry, we got to the 1996 Richard Gere, Edward Norton gem "Primal Fear."
This week's "Julyin'!" entry comes in the form of the 1986 Walt Disney classic "The Great Mouse Detective."
Welcome to "Julyin!" Our send up of whodunnits and mysteries begins with the 1985's "Clue".
We wrap up "Junebugs" with the 1996 animated Disney classic "James and the Giant Peach."
Welcome to "Junebugs" where it's all bug movies, all the time! We start things off with the 1997 classic "Starship Troopers."
If it's May, well then brother, it means it's "WrestleMAYnia" around these parts. Our tribute to wrestlers that transitioned onto the silver screen starts with the 1993 Hulk Hogan-starring "Mr. Nanny."
This week in our "Ink and Pape-ril" celebration, we talk the 2006 Richard Linklater drug trip "A Scanner Darkly."
This week of "Ink and Pape-ril" goes hard and heavy...metal that is. We chat about the 1981 cult classic "Heavy Metal."
This week's "Ink and Pape-ril" entry is the 1996 Mike Judge epic "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America."
Welcome to April, or as we call it around the Retro Tune In offices, "Ink and PApril". We're talking adult animated features this month and starting things off with the 1992 Ralph Bakshi cult classic "Cool World."
We wrap up our "March to the Beat of Your Own Drum" month with Don Bluth's 1986 classic "An American Tail."
"March to the Beat of Your Own Drum" month continues with the Don Bluth 1988 dinosaur classic "The Land Before Time."
"March to the Beat of Your Own Drum" month continues with the Don Bluth rock and roll classic "Rock-A-Doodle."
Welcome to Season 6! We start things off with a month of Don Bluth movies. It's "March to the Beat of your own drum" month! Michelle kicks things off with the 1989 classic "All Dogs Go to Heaven."
We start a new year with a bang around here, and a little rat-a-tat-tat cuz it's "Jamuary" and we're talking about the 2014 jazzy drama Whiplash.
In the thick of "Doll-cember and we're going across the pond to talk about the 2016 horror film "The Boy."
Welcome to Doll-cember, where we talk movies about dolls coming to life to kill or even love. We start things off with 1987's "Mannequin."
This week of "Oh November" takes us back to 1963 with the completely stacked to the rafters with comedic talent "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."
This week starts "Oh- November!" where we task our fellow co-hosts with movies that just might make them say "OH NO!" We start things off with 1991's Danny Glover and Martin Short buddy flick "Pure Luck."
We wrap up OcTubi with the 1986 Emilio Estevez-starring, Stephen King writing and directing "Maximum Overdrive."
This week in our OcTubi tribute, we're talking about a Tubi Original called "Titanic 666", the third installment of the Titanic movie franchise. You read that right!
For this week's OcTubi installment, we're revisiting the 2001 scare-a-thon "Elvira's Haunted Hills."
Happy October, or as we say around the Retro Tune In offices – OcTubi. We're celebrating the streaming platform Tubi all month long. We're starting things off with the 2012 body horror film "Antiviral."
We wrap up our monthlong sitcom celebration (otherwise known as Sitcomber) with the 2001-2010 NBC/ABC hospital dramedy "Scrubs."
Sitcomber continues with a trip down "very special episode lane" with the 1985 sitcom juggernaut, Growing Pains.
"Sitcomber" rolls right along with a hearty discussion on the 1991 NBC sitcom "Blossom."
Episodes watched:
S01 E08 "The Geek"
S04 E25 "Seven Deadly Sins"
S05 E01 and E02 "A New Life"
Welcome to Sitcomber! We'll be celebrating the art of the sitcom all month and we start things off the with legendary, massive, 1972's MAS*H.
We end "A-Gust" with a natural disaster of a different feather.. maybe too many feathers now that we think about it – the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic "The Birds."
This week's "A-Gust" movie is the 2000 George Clooney/Mark Wahlberg disaster movie "The Perfect Storm."
Welcome to "A Gust!" our celebration of mother nature fighting back. We're starting with the 1996 natural disaster thriller "Twister." Also, it's our 100th episode! Thanks for listening and if this is your first time, we got 99 other episodes you might like!
We are wrapping things up in our "Born in the Month of July" series with the Daniel Radcliffe (born July 23, 1989) starring film "Swiss Army Man."
This week, we're continuing our BORN IN THE MONTH OF JULY celebration with the Corey Feldman (born July 16, 1971) starring vampire summer romp classic "The Lost Boys."
This week, we chat about the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan classic "Joe Versus the Volcano" as part of our "Born in the Month of July" series.
Welcome to BORN IN THE MONTH OF JULY. Each week, we take an actor who was born in that week and cover one of their movies. We're starting things off with Tom Cruise (born July 3, 1962) and his 1985 fantasy film "Legend."
This week, we wrap up JUNE-sack with the Cusack superfecta of John, Joan, Ann, and Bill.. GROSSE POINTE BLANK. Get into it, Sackheads!
This week, we continue our JUNEsack Cusack celebration with another John joint, 1997's "Anastasia."
This week, we start our monthlong observance of all things Cusack with... JUNEsack. Which Cusack sibling is going to pop up? We start things off with the 1985 surreal teen comedy "Better Off Dead..."
We wrap up Muppet Mayhem with the Tim Curry-helmed (see what we did there?) "Muppet Treasure Island."
IT'S MUPPET MAYHEM.. YAYYYYY!!! Our monthlong celebration of Muppets in film starts off with the OG classic, 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
All good monkey-themed months on podcasts have to end sometimes, and we're ending Damn Dirty Ape-ril with the 2001 Brendan Fraser flick "Monkeybone."
Welcome to Damn Dirty April, our celebration of monkey movies! We start things off with the best dang monkey of them all, 1933's King Kong!
This week, we finish up our March of the Sequins month with the Dolly Parton 1980 classic "9 to 5."
This week, we continue March of the Sequins with the Cher-starring "The Witches of Eastwick."
This week, March of the Sequins continues with our look at the 1997 Jennifer Lopez-starring biopic "Selena." We also talk embarrassing pizza stories. Get into it!
Welcome to March of the Sequins, where we celebrate movies starring the divas of music! We start things off with the 1984 Dolly Parton country classic "Rhinestone."
This week, Flopuary rages on with the 1995 Elizabeth Berkley cult classic, "Showgirls."
Welcome to Flopuary!! We're celebrating movies that were catastrophic flops at the box office. We start things off with the 1987 trading card-based film "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie."
This week we wrap up our New Year's Resolution month with the 1976 Sylvester Stallone classic "Rocky."
This week we continue our New Year's Resolution month with 1986's Jim Henson-directed, David Bowie-starring "Labyrinth."
Our New Year's Resolution month continues with a revisit of the original slasher classic, "Friday the 13th."
Welcome to the new year! This month, we're doing "New Year's Resolution Movies." Movies we've never seen but always wanted to. We start things off with the 1971 George Lucas flick "THX 1138."
This week, we wrap up the year with the 2006 Samuel L. Jackson film "Snakes on a Plane."
WARNING: We discuss the existence of Santa in this episode.
This week, we're talking the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas classic "Jingle All the Way."
This week, we kick off the Christmas season with the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck romantic comedy "Christmas in Connecticut."
This week, we wrap up our ThanksCandy celebration with the 1993 John Candy vehicle "Cool Runnings."
This week, we talk about Thanksgiving traditions, Chuck E. Cheese, and our monthlong John Candy celebration continues with the 1987 John Hughes classic "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." Happy ThanksCandy!!
This week, the ThanksCandy celebration goes off the beaten path and winds up in front of some unsavory folks in the 1991 Dan Aykroyd-directed "Nothing But Trouble."
This week we're talking the 1987 Mel Brooks sci-fi spoof "Spaceballs" as we continue ThanksCandy, our monthlong tribute to John Candy.
This week, we start our John Candy tribute month "ThanksCandy" with one of the best, 1989's "Uncle Buck."
This week, we start our John Candy tribute month "ThanksCandy" with one of the best, 1989's "Uncle Buck."
This week, we wrap up Retro Spooky Season by revisiting our best Halloween costumes and talking the Simpsons' first Halloween special, The Treehouse Of Horror.
This week, we wrap up Retro Spooky Season by revisiting our best Halloween costumes and talking the Simpsons' first Halloween special, The Treehouse Of Horror.
Spooky season rolls on with our chat about Peter Jackson's 1992 cult classic "Dead Alive."
This week, we continue spooky season with the 1994 Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise vampire romp "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles."
Welcome to Retro Tune In Season 3! We're starting spooky season off right with 1967's Mad Monster Party?
This week we talk about french fry mishaps and the 1990 John Ritter family comedy "Problem Child."
This week we talk about french fry mishaps and the 1990 John Ritter family comedy "Problem Child."
This week, we talk dubbing illegal tapes in the 90s (again) and the 1991 Steven Spielberg fantasy classic "Hook."
This week, we talk about bootlegging movies in the 90s and also the 1990 dark fantasy classic "The Witches."
This week, we talk about what we did during the pandemic and also the 1988 horror classic "Child's Play."
This week, we talk about the 1987 animated cult classic The Brave Little Toaster and also which cast from a Macauley Culkin movie we'd like to see in a fight.
This week we talk frog journalism and the 1973 Debbie Reynolds animated classic "Charlotte's Web."
This week we talk about music we're done with and can't live without and also the 1985 Michael J. Fox classic "Teen Wolf."
This week we talk about As Seen On TV magical products and the 1989 Tim Burton/Michael Keaton bat-tacular "Batman."
This week, we talk about coming off of anti-depressants, what our toys do when we're not in the room, and the landmark 1994 Jim Carey film "The Mask."
This week, we talk about weird improv games and the 1991 Disney adventure movie "The Rocketeer"!
This week we talk about lighting in movies and the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
This week we talk about weird things that happened while being scouts and also the 1990 Warren Beatty film "Dick Tracy."
This week, we discuss sleep paralysis and the 1999 Robin Williams robot movie, "Bicentennial Man."
This week, we chat about the 1986 Steve Guttenberg classic Short Circuit and we also discuss the greatest invention known to man.. the Clapper!
This week, the gang talks about the 1994 family comedy "Monkey Trouble" and the different times we've been burned. Literally burned.
This week, we talk about the 2002 Robin Williams thriller One Hour Photo and also, who would represent the USA in the American Gladiators of actors? What?
This week, we talk about the 1986 Walt Disney sci-fi thrill ride Flight of the Navigator and also ask the question, "when do we need to worry about spoilers?
This week, we talk about the Macauley Culkin classic literary adventure 1994 film "The Pagemaster" and also teacher meltdowns.
This week, the gang discusses the 2003 Daft Punk adult animated musical science fiction film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem and the difficult life of a pirate.
This week, we're all about the once-in-a-lifetime Disney movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Does it still hold up, or do we give it "the dip?"
This week, we revisit the 1996 Tim Burton sci-fi spectacle Mars Attacks! and ponder whether or not we could live in a van.
Welcome to season two of Retro Tune-In! We kick things off with a chat about the 1985 fantasy film, Return to Oz.
This week we hit up O-Town and talk about "Rocko's Modern Life." We also marvel at how awesome the B-52s are and how important nipples are to comedy.
This week we talk about Kids WB staple Freakazoid!, TSA faux pas, and what we did without the internet.
This week we talk about cult kid show favorite, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Does it hold up? What was in that magic dust? What's with all the old creepy guys? We answer all!
This week, we finish up our convo about Ren & Stimpy. Where does it stand in the pantheon of cartoon reverence? Would we watch it again if we weren't doing a podcast about it? Find out!
This week, we finally tackle the last of the three original Nicktoons (the others being Rugrats and Doug).. Ren & Stimpy. Do these episodes hold up? Is it right to separate the creator's misconduct allegations from the art? Does the show even need the creator to be good? We do our best to tackle the subject head on.
This week we talk about the first iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. We're going back all the way to 1987. Cowabunga, indeed!
This week, we talk about the 90s classic cartoon "Dexter's Laboratory" and what our personal hells would be.
This week, we continue our discussion of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. What are these episodes about? Do they really help in the ending of pollution or merely raise vague awareness of an issue?
This week, we talk about 90s enviro-friendly cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In this episode, we talk about the show's origin, our initial feelings, and what would happen if only three of the kids tried to conjure up our green-haired hero.
This week, we check out some classic Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes, chat about french fry etiquette, and discuss how to make cartoon food a reality.
This week we talk about the French animated series Code Lyoko and find out what this Matrix-y, Power Ranger-y, cartoon is all about.
This week, we do a deep dive into the Disney Afternoon cartoon "Gargoyles" and try to untangle all the lore involved. Believe us when we tell you...it's lore-ific!
This week we go over the history of the Disney Afternoon block of shows' first iteration – DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers, and Talespin.
This week we talk about Rugrats, who's the "Angelica" in your family, and what is the most American sandwich?
This week we discuss the late 90s-early 00s cartoon The Powerpuff Girls. Is it still as good as we remember? Did it deserve a reboot? How is that reboot? How are you? All questions will be answered.
This week we talk about Batman: The Animated Series, what makes a good Batman, and the importance of keeping your nipples from chafing while wearing a batsuit.
This week, special guest host Michelle Jeantete chats with us about the 90s classic sitcom Roseanne!
This week we chat about Animaniacs, having the hots for teacher, and what exactly are the Warner Brothers anyway?
This week, we chat about Tiny Toon Adventures (and a lot about Animaniacs). Do the exploits of Babs and Buster Bunny (no relation) at Acme Looniversity hold up? I dunno, maybe.
What up all you football heads?? This week we hang out with Arnold, Gerald, and Helga (and oh, even Stoop Kid) and we see if this show holds up!
This week, Sam takes us to Stormalong Harbor and we talk some Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Set course to Candied Island, gang!
This week we talk about the 1986 sitcom ALF, its cultural impact, and how rough it is to be on a sitcom with a puppet that gets all of the best lines.
In our inaugural episode, the gang watches some Muppet Babies episodes and asks the question "So do the Muppets just live there with Nanny?"