Kit Walker returns for this episode on Murder by Death! It was a 70s pastiche of 40s detective cliches, which means our reboot has to update the setting and the satire! Which brilliant minds are bumbling their way through a weird house (or office building?) Which weird author is using this film to get performer and dream-weaver on their wikipedia p…

In 1975, 2004, and the not too distant future of today, Rollerball is a blood sport run by corporations to distract the masses. In 1975 it was a well-made film that came in too early to do interesting things with cyberpunk and the idea of celebrity, and in 2002 it was so mindless that the director was arrested. But if we can synthesize the themes, …

We've been studying spiders in the amazon with Jake, an we decided the best way to fix Madame Web is...well, the best thing about this episode is that you haven't listened to it yet, so we won't spoil it for you. What we can say is that Jake and Tanner got Stockholmed by this movie and Lindsay was just along for the ride as they talked about old mo…

Step off Richard Rich, this is our show now. Swan Lake! A great ballet (if you're not a pleb like Tanner) with a lot of interesting backstory, and allegedly it was turned into an animated musical but that thing didn't have any of the original music so what's even the point? Lindsay's rebooting it into a new film that gives more agency to Odette and…

Cherry 2000 is the story of a man who's robot girlfriend breaks down, and only a cool action girl can help him get a new exactly the same one. Lindsay thinks this whole script was written on 80s divorced-guy brain, but Tanner thinks there's something in here about forced obsolescence. Also discussed are a vibes-based apocalypse and Korok torture ma…

Content Warning in this episode for suicide. There's been a murder! Fortunately it was in the idyllic English countryside, which means we can call on Hercule Poirot and his mustache to solve it! Lindsay's grabbing Kenneth Branagh straight from Venice and handing him her pitch for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. There's a new framing device too, which …

This episode is shorter and a little half-baked, but at least it's not deconstructed, and it's not like we added capers to a desert for no reason. Anyway, remember Fighting Foodons? Of course not, which is why we're throwing out basically everything and starting from scratch. We gotta ask questions like "What if Yu-Gi-Oh was The Menu?" "Was there a…

Oh what poddings and moddings! It's time for another rebooting and scooting as Lindsay takes The Black Cauldron to task. Specifically she's putting all the parts of the Chronicles of Prydain that Katzenberg cut back in and finessing it so that there's a cool and dangerous fantasy film for tweens to watch. That means more fights, more blood, and a s…

Well howdy wanderer, it seems you've stumbled upon a guest episode of the podcast. Theo's come round to tell us about the triumphs and failures of Fallout 3, from Moira and her wasteland survival guide to the multitude of pitfalls surrounding the game's morality system. We're gonna drop most of the plot and focus on the faction politics of this set…

The apocalypse has been cancelled, uncancelled, recancelled, but it's about time we reboot it. Pacific Rim Uprising isn't as good as the sum of its parts, but Tanner thinks with better worldbuilding they can come together into a worthy sequel. Lindsay's got ideas to beef up the themes of legacy and homages to mecha classics. Also discussed are a ki…

We might all be apples and oranges, but in the end we're all podcasts. Podcast Freshman Ris is here to reboot the My Big Fat Greek Wedding sequels, but they've got so many notes we only had time for one. They discuss the emotional ups and downs and coming from diaspora families, how the entire plot can't happen under the watchful eye of GOArch, and…

Ilya x Solo x Gabby OT3! We can all agree that's the most important part of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the only thing in our way is, you know...THAT casting situation. But once we choose a man who is tall or short as our new Russian agent we're off to the races! Lindsay threads together several major elements of the classic TV show, Tanner helps …

We're back! Again! And we're treading old water as we take another crack at Star Wars, this time looking at the Sequel Trilogy - specifically Force Awakens because it sets up some decent themes but surely we can make it not such a rehash of A New Hope, right? Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme m…

Eddie Kingston is coming for the title this week! Bryan has returned to tell Tanner and Lindsay all about wrestling again, but instead of re-writing the past he's changing the future. Eddie Kingston is pursuing the AEW title, but what will he give up to get there? On this dark path we'll encounter Cinderella Stories, the Thunderdome, and a bit of a…

You gotta fight! For your right! To Polly! And Mighty Max is here too, even though Jake's the only person who's heard of them. With Tanner and Lindsay's help he'll figure out what these pocket-sized siblings can do, the monsters they'll face, and the lessons they'll learn about each other - and also who's on the soundtrack. We also discuss Lemuria,…

Listen, ok, listen, this was originally gonna be a straight sequel to Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) but Tanner realized they really missed the mark on Cassie Cain and they kind of have to rebuild the movie from the ground up. Fortunately, they have an idea of letting the girls hit the town and hit a bunch of C…

This week Lindsay is getting right into it with an all-ladies reboot of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. She spends the first chunk of the episode explaining how she's expanding the events of the movies and several novels into full seasons with dramatic arcs, and then at the end Tanner reminds her that it needs to be funny too. Along the way they discus…

We pod for our friends this week! Garmore has arrived to give us the lowdown on Fire Emblem - specifically Awakening, which they feel is the strongest game and only needs a few key changes to make it excellent. This episode we also engage in tactical shipping, unfreeze a protagonist, and time travel with scene kids. Our friendship promo this week i…

Let's keep going with the RTS train, but we're gonna stay in-genre this time when Tanner reboots Impossible Creatures! It's a game about slamming two animals together to make something charmingly bizarre and sending it off to fight, but Tanner wants to improve on that with environmental bonuses, side missions, and a plot about aliens! As long as we…

We've crashed landed on Planet U! Fortunately we can RAID some ROCKS to get shiny green power crystals, but at what cost? Or is this all just a game to teach kids why destroying an environment in the name of colonialism is bad? The only way she and Tanner can learn is by rebooting Lego Rock Raiders! Our friendship promo this week is @ChampsMaking! …

What's the Secret of NIMH? It's that there's an element added to the movie that truly makes no sense to Tanner, it's NOT just a nit. They're gonna tell Lindsay about how they'll reinforce the themes of the story without relying on plot devices, as well as Bluth's Mormon money and why Jeremy isn't a real name. We will NOT be talking about the sequel…

I only hope this episode is as nice as Rebecca's was...wait, this episode is ABOUT Rebecca! Lindsay needs to steer this adaptation in a more sensible direction than the recent one, while still modernizing the concerning overlap regarding sapphic undertones and toxic mother figures. Along the way she'll also talk to Tanner about Jimmy Stewart, Reba …

Tanner decided to reboot A Knight's Tale but the problem is that it's almost a perfect movie. But we established over our last hiatus that the best way to improve something perfect is to stick it on stage, and fortunately this thing seems custom built to become a Jukebox musical! Lindsay and them will look at alleged 70s songs, ignore historical ac…

Too many cool middle grade fantasy series were swallowed by Pottermania, and this week is one of them: The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine. Lindsay wants to make it a heartfelt pastoral adventure where a young girl learns to believe in herself! We also yell at Disney for causing good art to happen, despite the horrors. Our friendshi…

Wise Girls is allegedly a film with a multitude of twists, but there's really just one and it's pretty mid...so Tanner's twisting it up even more! Secret murders, police corruption, a grandma with a shotgun, Italian food?! Not to mention brief appearances from Green Lantern and Marvin the Martin Manhunter (but those aren't important right now). Our…

It is NOT time for the terrible mobile game ads cinematic universe, but the Merge Mansion is such a Resident Evil puzzle catastrophe that it just makes sense for someone to build their Last Fortress underneath it. Lindsay has been inspired by Pedro Pascal joining the Merge Mansion cast to do something with it - a shady soap about a secretive neighb…

We're back and so are the X-Men! Yes we already did an X-Men episode, but this is different because this time it's a Kart racing game! Tanner and Lindsay are gonna pick characters to race, moves for them to unleash on competitors, and what kind of outfits they're gonna wear. And fortunately Tanner's only a little bit of a New Warrior's Head at the …

The 200th episode special: William Shakespeare's Jurassic Park, written by Tanner and Lindsay. CAST Dramatis Personae Narration - Ryan (@VagabondHaunted) Alan Grant - a paleontologist - Tanner (@SparkyUpstart) Ellie Sattler - a paleobotanist - Lindsay (@LindsayM476) Ian Malcolm - a chaos theorist - Lava (@LavaBees) John Hammond - a visionary - JD (…

It's finally time to close the book on Once Upon a Time. We fought Cora, we redeemed Regina, we killed Rumple, we ended and brought back magic, we found the treasures, and we unleashed an ultimate evil. Now in this final season all we gotta do is rotate our blorbos, give scritches to the first dalmation, and schwoomp some hearts in order to get eve…

*kchow* It's a lightning round! We're going through our ideas lists and just throwing out whatever we think could get a good reboot but we don't know how to do a full episode on them yet! Historical Epics! Forgotten YTV sitcoms! Weird anime satires! All this and more in today's episode! Our friendship promo this week is @WaywardOCPod! Our cover art…

This week Crest is back to tell us about Get Ed, a Disney show that only lasted one season before exploding - literally! We also discuss adding lore, clown rivals, and waitresses on jetboots. Our friendship promo this week is @ReachThePodcast! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme music is by Shawn…

Nya! It's time for feline violence this week because Panda has taken control of the show and has a list of demands for making a Warrior Cats animated series, including making the girls better and making the cats queer (good for them). While Lindsay and Tanner are trapped in here, these three will discuss poor little meow-meows, Cat Heaven and Hell,…

There's not much to reboot here because, as returning guest Rem finds out, ReVice is actually a pretty good show (even if Tanner thinks the title rider's palette sucks and Lindsay thinks the Remixes look like weird yoga poses). But that's okay, because we're shipping it off to Aotearoa to remake it for the Power Rangers fans, and as we do we'll dis…

One time Sam played Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 and the ending blew his little kid mind, and also turned him against Mario. So now he wants to make a game where Wario can get everything he deserves - his house, his vengeance, etc - but also slowly lose his mind as the game falls apart around him. Along this buggy path we also discuss completioni…

This weeks' episode contains spoilers for the Ms. Marvel tv show and a lot fo griping about how Marvel has handled both the Inhumans and the X-men. There's a simple solution: make all the Inhumans trans! Well not really, it's a metaphor. But maybe also literally. Tanner and Lindsay discuss moon throuples, Fuckhands McMike, and being a little freak?…

This week we run when the sun comes up because Theo is rebooting Metal Gear Rising ReVengeance as a...new gaming genre? If you've got a big sword and you're getting cancelled on twitter you can star in your very own ReVengeance game. Tanner and Lindsay will learn about Darth Maul lore and the twinks of Devil May Cry, and Theo will learn about TFWik…

Who was Reynolds? How did Poe die? Was there a raccoon? These questions are answered by the 2012 film The Raven, but Maq didn't like it so she's throwing it out and replacing it with a multi-author murder mystery. Along with Lindsay and Tanner she discusses literary allusion deaths, whale art, and the hollow earth. Our friendship promo this week is…

Tonight! Bryan is here to bend time and space and time to his will and give Kenny Omega the emotional wrestling arc he deserved! There are high highs and low lows, journeys to Japan to fight god and killing kayfabe for like the 17th time. Lindsay and Tanner are rapt with attention, so just jump in and listen to this infodump! Our friendship promo t…

This week Tanner is rebooting a 90s tv show they've never seen and also a 1946 film that they've never seen. But what they do know is that they can slip some gaslighting into a spooky romcom with werewolves and faeries and maybe some UFOs - those last two could be the same thing in Lindsay's opinion. We also put crab people in the Chunnel. Our frie…

LINDSAY IS GOING TO CONDENSE 50 YEARS OF ROMAN HISTORY AND WHO-KNOWS-HOW-MANY HOURS OF PODCASTING INTO A SINGLE HOUR. YOU ARE GOING TO ENJOY IT. Our friendship promo this week is DeathbyDyingPod! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme music is by Shawn Clake, who's contact info is available upon req…

Cars! They're everywhere! And even though some people will always prefer them, in general it's better to have robust public transportation. And what better way to teach the children the importance of such social systems than a stop-motion movie starring mice from a children's book? Tanner will tell Lindsay about mouse puns, mob mentality, and accen…

This Week Lindsay is rebooting Jericho, a show that tried to see what would happen to a small town if the US was suddenly splintered in the wake of an internal attack - but then it got cancelled - twice, no matter how many peanuts you sent in. She's gonna make sure that this time the people can get along, and also make it gayer (happy pride!) Our f…

This week our guest Bobby has decided that time just isn't wibbly-wobbly enough on Doctor Who, so he's venturing into an era before continuity - a time where anyone can play the doctor, anyone can play a companion, and anyone can get involved in historical alien shenanigans. We discuss accidental spying, a few mosasaurs, and dating controversy (not…

We were so excited to have Lady Emily join us this week, but we were not prepared for the exquisite Home Improvement reboot she brought to us - it came to her in a dream, y'all! And as she tells us of it we'll also discuss dad behaviour, microwave wiring, and the cover of the Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. Our friendship promo this week is @PodVs…

This week we're talking about The Skeptics - or are we? Yes. It's a comic miniseries that follows a pair of American youths faking psychic powers during the cold war - and a pair of Russians youths who aren't. Tanner wants to take the premise and expand it, letting them see the problems on both sides of the curtain and look at how it's the governme…

This week Lindsay is taking us to an alternate Victorian era where the supernatural is common place. A woman is dating a hot werewolf scotsman and a vampire is dating a man with a very silly name, and they'll all have to fight a giant robot octopus. Or maybe a mummy octopus. Also discussed are Tom Hiddleston being tall, a gondola chase, and manifes…

X is the tenth number and the coolest letter, so if Tanner is rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise we gotta start off by sending Mr. Knifey-Hands himself to space! Where does the sci-fi end and the dreams beginning? What are the dangers of cyber-weed? Is this also an accidental Event Horizon remake? All these and more will be answered th…

Have you heard of Guinevere Jones? Of course not, no one has except for Lindsay, and her interest in it led to her digging deep into the history of Guinevere and some cyclical English old gods? Anyway we're gonna work that into this middle grade show while looking at the dangers of nostalgia and living vicariously through children. Also discussed a…

Once upon a time there was a very special espionage-comedy series. Now it works for Tanner, because they're rebooting it. They're taking bits and pieces of the 2019 Charlie's Angels film and making the movie that should've been created instead, thanks to the returning 00s trio. Lindsay and them will also discuss who gets to be Jason Borne, tactical…

Uh...well, something's gone wrong and our longtime friends Cassidy and Lava from Kids and Their Dog may have ended their podcast just in time to anger some kind of podcast deity. Well, as long as they're here, we might as well figure out what they should do next? Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our the…