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Charley and Tony dissect the 1990 sequel to A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia after Uncle Marky leant us a Super Game Boy.  ASMR fans rejoice; the jellybeans are back.

Charley doesn't let Tony get much of a word in edgewise in her breakdown of Tommy Lee Wallace's miniseries STEPHEN KING'S IT (1990).  We also detour into such light subjects as original sin.  

Welcome to PoochiTubi in which Charley navigates dog-themed family films available on the Tubi streaming service.  In today's episode we cover UGLY BENNY (2014), WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS (1974), THE DOG WHO SAVED HALLOWEEN (2011), and LITTLE HEROES (aka PAWS TO THE RESCUE) (1999).  

Charley and Tony return to count down their favorite films of 2021.  Spoilers in the remaining show-notes. Films mentioned: Strawberry Mansion (d. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney); Psycho Goreman (d. Steven Kostanski); The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) (d. Joachim Trier); Dead Till Death (d. Will Carsola); Skater Girl (d. Manjari Makijany); Saint Maud (d. Rose Glass); Agnes (d. Rickey Reece); Muppets Haunted Mansion (d. Kirk R. Thatcher); The Beatles: Get Back (d. Peter Jackson and Michael Lindsay-Hogg); The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记) (d. MTJJ); The Power of the Dog (d. Jane Campion); Encanto (d. Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith); Can't Get You Out of My Head (d. Adam Curtis); Mixtape (d. Valerie Weiss); Memoria (d. อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, Apichatpong Weerasethakul); Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes) (d. Claude Cloutier); Spencer (d. Pablo Larraín); Petite maman (d. Céline Sciamma); Mandibles (Mandibules) (d. Quentin Dupieux); Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー) (d. 濱口 竜介, Ryusuke Hamaguchi); The Adventures of Bandit and Wild Wes (d. Travis Mills)

In which we discuss the prototypical slasher/late-Universal monster and celebrate Ricou Browning.  Please forward your well-wishes to the Gill-Man actor here: Ricou Browning 5221 SW 196 Lane Southwest Ranches, FL 33332

That Jo-I-Know performs a most-spirited recitation of the 1960 Dr. Seuss classic.

In honor of our Michigan listeners, we delve further into our exhaustive coverage of Oz On Film this week exploring the two-strip Technicolor silent record of The University of Michigan League's 1936 freshman pageant OZ UNIVERSITY.  At least two pressing questions are raised: Is this Professor Wogglebug's first (only?) film appearance?  How does Dorothy's trouble with villainous anthropomorphic architecture connect to the Link's quest for the Mask of Scents?  I thought this was a pretty esoteric episode until Charley had me hold her beer.

Charley and Tony hand the reins to our new showrunner, Joey.  A companion piece to episode #092, our resident Goosebumps expert recaps the television adaptation of R.L. Stine's THE BLOB THAT ATE EVERYONE (d. Randy Bradshaw) and conducts a brief interview with Goosebumps himself.  You wouldn't understand.

Sub-amateur birders Charley and Tony discuss some recent desert spottings including the Canyon Towhee, Abert's Towhee, Gambel's Quail, Cactus Wren, and the invasive Great-tailed Grackle.

Tony tries to marshal some arrangement in this rocky episode as Charley and Joey chase the pie-in-the-sky fool's errand of synopsizing PAW Patrol: The Movie ("not the show, the movie"), though some may call their recap rubble.  Behind the scenes, Tony continues his investigation into whether "PAW" is an acronym justifying its title formatting; more to come.

Charley and Tony get literary with a bedtime review of the fifty-fifth book of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series: The Blob That Ate Everyone.  

Charley draws parallels between the Depression-era 2000 Coen Brothers screwball musical and the politics of Rafael Pérez Grovas's 1981 film SANTO AND THE BORDER OF TERROR (Santo en la frontera del terror) proving The Blob Show is always a good place to call out white supremacy.

We celebrate our new Poland listens by providing commentary over Zbigniew Rybczyński's 1975 experimental animation OH! I CAN'T STOP! (Oj! Nie mogę się zatrzymać!) and discuss whether its POV monster should be invited into the blob canon.  

Charley struggles to bridle her enthusiasm though we are only seven episodes into John R. Dilworth's COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG.  

Charley bookends her THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK coverage drawing parallels to Wang Chu-Chin's 1988 Taiwanese action-fantasy THREE-HEAD MONSTER aka GINSENG KING.  We surprisingly cover a lot of serious topics (genocide, omniscience) and big feelings in an episode about zombies and giants, but maybe that's to be expected from a purported NEVERENDING STORY knockoff.  

HEY! HO! BLOB SHOW!  Here is an episode where we talk about death, punk, and fascism.  We also draft Ramones and speculate as to whether Japas, the bass player for THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK house band The Indigo-Go's, is modeled after Johnny Ramone.  

The gripping conclusion to Charley's THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK walkthrough in which she defeats the titular villain's various incarnations and reminisces on the Skull Kid's redemption.  

Charley muses on the emotional weight of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK's most protracted side-quest: Link runs around for three days playing matchmaker for two star-crossed lovers only to reunite them in time for the apocalypse.  She has been replaying this side-quest all week and was also tickled to see the end of Sakon's narrative arc.

It wouldn't be The Legend of Zelda if it didn't get a little spooky.  In part four of our MAJORA'S MASK miniseries (The Blob Show's own sidequest), Charley explores the Ikana Graveyard, Canyon, and Castle while encountering lots of zombies, mummies, ghosts and skeletons.  

Episode 3 of our THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK miniseries.  Charley talks swimming with the Zora, sneaking around the pirate fortress at Great Bay Coast, and the different bosses of the Great Bay Temple including an encounter with fiendish blob Mad Jelly (that's Schizo-Schleim for our German listeners).