The Flopcast

Inspired by a recent viewing of Saturday Night Fever, Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown flip through some comic books from the late 70s, when DC and Marvel tried to cash in on the disco craze. W...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-624-spider-man-night-fever

Kornflake is back, just in time for a new game! A new WAVE game, specifically! Thirty years ago, Rhino Records released a fifteen volume series of CDs called Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-623-the-new-wave-game-part-1-we-cant-rewind

Let's wrap up our review of The Krofft Supershow, a super-silly Saturday morning TV show from mad geniuses Sid and Marty Krofft. The second season brought us two weird new segments: Magic Mongo (...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-622-superchick-deep-dive-part-2-we-like-to-be-around

With Kornflake away on special assignment, Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are free to obsess over The Krofft Supershow, a wild 1970s Saturday morning TV anthology series from Sid and Marty Kr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-621-superchick-deep-dive-part-1-we-like-to-be-downtown

We're diving back into the pages of Dynamite magazine, so we can pretend it's still 1979. (Give it a try. Set the mood with a Gloria Gaynor record.) This randomly selected issue has Erik Estrada ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-620-cool-it-ponch

Short show this week! We're sleepy. But during a quick visit to Northeast Comic Con, we find old friends, fancy nerd dice, and members of The Go-Go's, The Cars, and the cast of Growing Pains. We ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-619-babble-like-an-idiot

It's the second half of our look at every television series that debuted in the year 1999. And once again, we remember just a few of them, and only saw a couple. (Kornflake was a fan of Judging A...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-618-1999-tv-part-2-lobster-justice

We're diving into television of the year 1999... which is quite recent by Flopcast standards, but yikes, it was a quarter century ago. We have a giant list of every TV show that debuted that year...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-617-1999-tv-part-1-so-weird

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are celebrating the career of comic book artist Ramona Fradon, who died this week at the age of 97. Ramona was one of the only women drawing comics way back in ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-616-ramona-and-topo

It's time for our annual review of the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame... which means we could start screaming "What about the Monkees?!" at any time. But there are some worthy and lo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-615-the-flying-cow-hall-of-fame

After a three year break, we're getting back to The Backs of Life! (As requested by absolutely no one! You're welcome!) Back in 2021, we started reviewing all the "backdoor pilot" episodes of cla...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-614-the-backs-of-life-7-big-apple-blues

It's another goofy random little show this week, including: Kornflake finds an Oompa Loompa at the Chocolate Expo; Kevin finds a rock star at the disco; the secret language of chickens is reveale...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-613-buh-dup-doh-doh-doh

It's a surprisingly disco-themed episode, because Kevin, Kornflake, the Mayor of Chickentown, and Ed from Sponge Awareness Foundation all met in the middle of New Hampshire for a spectacular ABBA...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-612-dancing-queens-disco-mummies

Ready for more vocabulary lessons with the Justice League of America? We're diving back into The Super Dictionary, a 1978 book that attempted to mix learning with superheroes, and succeeded in be...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-611-the-super-dictionary-be-a-duck

National Whatever Day involves dancing like a cuckoo; our 2024 health and fitness plan is mostly lo mein-based; the Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday morning shows of the 1970s are now streaming (gre...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-610-superchick-rabbithole

Kornflake returns to join Kevin and The Mayor of Chickentown as we finish our look back at those we lost in 2023. Our coverage of the second half of the year includes: sitcom favorites (Chrissy f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-609-memorial-show-part-2-paulie-had-a-robot

Time to look back on those we lost (from pop culture and beyond) in 2023. This week we're covering the first half of the year, and our list includes people from movies (Raquel Welch, Treat Willia...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-608-memorial-show-part-1-barnes-shirley

It's a typical holiday episode, in that we're discussing Julia Child, Pop Rocks, and Newsies. But there are some vaguely holiday-themed subjects too, including Kornflake's newfound candy cane add...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-607-this-peppermint-hangover

Special guest Blasted Bill joins us for a Very Flopcast Christmas! And we're putting Bill to work on an extra festive Top 4 1/2 List of... Santas! Bill and Kornflake share their favorite Santas f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-606-get-in-line-to-milk-santa

Every year dozens of ridiculous identical made-for-TV holiday movies are forced upon the people. And every year we try to fix these movies by making them weirder. We've selected a few of this yea...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-605-drunken-kilt-wearing-christmas-capybaras

Break time is over, and the FlopFight resumes! Ed (from the Sponge Awareness Foundation) is back to help us wrap up our tournament of game show hosts (and associated game show weirdos). The playe...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-604-game-show-flopfight-part-2-meat-displays

Our game show-themed FlopFight concludes next week, but first, let's take a quick intermission! Go hit the lobby and grab some unreasonably priced Junior Mints! And for your entertainment while w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-603-alone-with-my-trap-tree-thoughts

Kornflake is back! And Ed, the other half of the Sponge Awareness Foundation, is back too! Because Ed thought we should have a game show-themed FlopFight, and it's not like we had anything better...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-602-game-show-flopfight-part-1-naked-wheel-of-fortune

It's the quick fill-in episode to end all quick fill-in episodes! With Kornflake still unavailable (busy at a lobster-and-British-comedy convention, we assume), there's nobody left in the studio ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-601-all-alone-all-alone-all-alone

For our big milestone 600th episode, we're doing... well, not much of anything. It's just Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown goofing around while we await the triumphant return of Kornflake. Topi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-600-this-will-be-lame

Let's go to the mall! But one specific mall that isn't there anymore! (Well, it's sort of still there, but not really.) We're joined by Gleaming the Tube's Kevin Cafferty to look back on the Linc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-599-i-cant-mall-here-anymore

It's Halloween season, so we have another terrifying Flopcast for you, starting with some follow-up from last week's Monster Cereals Taste Test. We received a LOT of feedback (from BOTH of our li...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-598-all-the-vermonsters

Longtime listeners may vaguely recall our legendary Monster Cereals Taste Test, which happened ten years ago this month! And now it's time to do it again, because there's a new monster cereal in ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-597-bizarre-secret-cereal-cult

Hang onto your milk money, because we're celebrating National School Lunch Week with a Kornflake Cafeteria Quiz. (Would she eat a Tater Tot? We're still not sure...) Then it's time to dive into a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-596-smash-the-chicken-patriarchy

With our Dragon Con coverage finally out of the way (more or less), it's time to focus on what really matters: National Microwave Oven Day. Get ready to party, kids. We also have concert reviews ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-595-what-were-those-yetis-up-to

Okay, let's wrap up our coverage of Dragon Con 2023! (Because come on, if this recap goes on much longer, we'll have to include Dragon Con 2024...) Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown (reporting f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-594-dragon-con-review-part-3-gorilla-noises

Our Dragon Con recap continues, and this time we're just covering Saturday. While everyone else in Atlanta was out on the street for the big Dragon Con parade, Kevin was hiding in the American Sc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-593-dragon-con-review-part-2-stay-away-from-aquaman

We have apparently survived Dragon Con 2023, and it's gonna take THREE episodes to review everything that happened at our favorite annual gathering of 70,000 nerds and/or geeks. This week we're j...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-592-dragon-con-review-part-1-the-duck-is-fine

It's Dragon Con week! Alas, Kornflake cannot join us at Dragon Con, but let's just pretend that she can! Kevin has prepared a hypothetical weekend of silly events for Kornflake, based on the actu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-591-were-at-dragon-con-good-job-everybody

It's time for Dragon Con, so round up all your local weirdos and stick them on a bus to Atlanta! Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown will be there, and we're sharing our whole schedule with you. C...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-590-everybodys-on-strike-our-dragon-con-preview

As we frantically prepare for Dragon Con 2023, we're wrapping up our 10-episode look back at the 1980s with a visit to Dragon Con 1989! We weren't actually there (probably too busy watching Batma...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-589-nightmare-on-1989-street

The vacationing Kornflake is flopped on a hammock somewhere, but the Mayor of Chickentown is here to celebrate the year 1988. After a quick look at some of the year's least popular movies (Kevin ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-588-1988-could-never-tear-us-apart

Go away, soft weak humans! It's time for our annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List! And it's also time for our 1987-themed show! So once again we've turned to our pal Chris from Sci-Fi Explosion, be...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-587-the-sad-robot-french-fries-of-1987

Welcome back to 1986! (We need you for Hands Across America. Please go stand in the middle of Iowa for nine hours.) Kornflake has a goofy 1986 commercial in which the voice of God screams at you ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-586-pour-yourself-an-icy-glass-of-1986

As we cross the halfway point in our ten-part exploration of the 1980s, we're randomly recasting the movies of 1985, and hopefully making them weirder. We might extract Chevy Chase from Fletch, f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-585-1985-theres-a-new-goonie-in-town

Our ten-episode trip through the 1980s continues, and we're looking at some very short-lived sitcoms from 1984. Including: The Duck Factory (starring Jim Carrey and Dippy Duck), Dreams (with John...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-584-1984-no-others-just-yothers

This week we're back in 1983! Kornflake shares a goofy 1983 commercial for Dial soap, while Kevin takes an absurdly quick look at the pop music of 1983. It was the year new wave conquered the Top...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-583-never-tell-an-angel-that-its-1983

It's 1982 (in our hearts, at least), so we're looking at the Mad magazines of 1982. (Historians agree that for a truly accurate account of the past, you should just read Mad. Plus you get to do t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-582-a-big-disgusting-smooch-for-1982

Continuing our ten week celebration of the 1980s, we have some silly artifacts to examine from 1981. First Kornflake brings us a couple of Dr Pepper commercials featuring David Naughton (from "Ma...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-581-compliments-of-radio-shack-its-1981

Episode 580 means we're kicking off another ten weeks of episodes dedicated to each year of the 1980s. (So yes, everybody will be forced to Wang Chung this summer.) We're starting with 1980, and ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-580-its-1980-get-happy

We start with a little follow-up from our recent Maids v. Butlers FlopFight. It's the "honorable mention" list of maids and butlers we couldn't fit in the tournament, including characters from Th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-579-as-weird-as-you

Let's wrap up the weird tournament we started last week: Our latest FlopFight, featuring maids and butlers from sitcoms, cartoons, and beyond. We have TV characters from the 60s like Lurch (The A...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-578-maids-and-butlers-flopfight-part-2-the-sassiest-squirrel

We grew up in a world where seemingly every sitcom included a maid or a butler. Even middle class TV households somehow afforded live-in servants. And this week all those maids and butlers shall ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-577-maids-and-butlers-flopfight-part-1-nonstop-sass-attack

Another quick and silly Flopcast, including: Way too much Scotch tape trivia from Kornflake; this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (and how they ranked in the 80s); Dolly Parton's new ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-576-tape-your-melons

It's a quick Sunday brunch edition of The Flopcast! Except we forgot to have brunch! Anyway, Kevin has tales from the cold and rainy Margarita Half Marathon (with margaritas and shiny blankets), ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-575-sponges-and-shiny-blankets-everywhere

For just the second time in three horrifying years, Kevin and Kornflake are together in the same place for the Flopcast! And that place is... a hotel room in New Hampshire! (This is Kornflake's h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-574-soggy-tacos

It's another concert report, as we leave the house and creep down to Rhode Island to see Flopcast favorite Joan Osborne! And since Joan's big hit album (and that song - you know the one) came out...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-573-you-had-an-enya-record

We're just sipping Green Day coffee and yipping through a few miscellaneous subjects. Including: A reunion of Slipnutz (one of the greatest bands ever to specialize in slipping on nuts); Disney a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-572-hey-hey

1978's The Super Dictionary attempted to teach kids vocabulary using DC Comics superheroes. We don't know if it succeeded as a learning tool, but it sure succeeded in being super weird. (If you'v...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-571-the-super-dictionary-from-a-to-chicken

We haven't reviewed a weird school book club magazine from the 80s since... oh wait, it was three weeks ago. Thanks for your patience. This time we're looking at a 1984 issue of Maniac, a short-l...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-570-have-some-back-hair-crunch-some-birds

A quick springtime mixed bag of weirdness: April has arrived, and Kornflake is celebrating with a sugary holiday of her own making, Maple Fools Day. Speaking of sugar, National Whatever Day finds...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-569-maple-fools

As suggested/threatened last week, we're doing a Top 4 1/2 List of 1980s dogs. (Kornflake is obsessed with dogs, Kevin is obsessed with the 80s... this had to happen.) Including: Several cartoon ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-568-ive-been-a-dirty-dog

It's about time for another Dynamite magazine review, but to mix things up, we're looking at a different (but eerily similar) magazine called Winner. A single issue of Winner was sold through sch...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-567-i-know-where-you-stuff-things

It's another Flopcast tribute to V66, Boston's music video TV channel of the mid-80s! (We do this every one hundred episodes. It's all we have.) This time we thought we'd look at Billboard's Top ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-566-you-know-i-love-falco

The Flopcast Book Club is finally back in session, and we're discussing Bill Mumy's new memoir Danger, Will Robinson: The Full Mumy. Best known for Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone, Bill was o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-565-books-in-space

It's a rather random 1980s-themed show, as a coin toss leads to our celebrating the birthday of 80s one hit (or maybe two hit) wonder Eddy Grant. Then we flip to a random page in our Ranking the ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-564-rock-down-to-yogurt-avenue

After a quick break for a couple of less weird episodes, it's time to wrap up The Weird Al Game, in which Kevin and Kornflake try to guess each other's favorite "Weird Al" Yankovic songs. (Hey, w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-563-the-weird-al-game-part-2-lobby-waffle-king

Kornflake has the week off, but we have a special guest in Chickentown to fill in: It's our big podcasting bossman, ESO Network Director Mike Faber! And we're talking music again. Mike has been t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-562-the-scarves-hide-the-years

We're taking a break from our Weird Al game, because it's time to review this year's list of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kate Bush is back on the list, perhaps due to her Strange...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-561-did-somebody-say-xenon

We've had "Weird Al" Yankovic on our minds lately, probably because Kevin just participated in an American Sci-Fi Classics panel all about Al. (Check it out! We have a YouTube link just for you.)...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-560-the-weird-al-game-part-1-no-mercy

We are back from Arisia, Boston's annual convention of science fiction, fantasy, and general geekery. So here's our full report, including Kevin's comic book panels (on comic book memoirs and the...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-559-arisia-2023-let-them-eat-ants

This weekend we are at Arisia, one of our favorite local fantasy and science fiction conventions. If you drop everything and run screaming towards Boston RIGHT NOW, you may be able to catch Kevin...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-558-stay-put-mr-chicken-man

Let's wrap up our annual two-part memorial show, because we just can't take it anymore. This week's list includes: a couple of animation legends (Jules Bass and Paul Coker Jr.), a couple more 80s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-557-memorial-show-part-2-remember-my-name

Our annual two-part memorial show begins here, as we recall the pop culture legends we lost in the first half of 2022. Including: actors (Sidney Poitier, Sally Kellerman, William Hurt, Ray Liotta...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-556-memorial-show-part-1-no-time-traveling-dead-people

Last show of the year! So it's a quick one, as we look back on another goofy year of Flopcasting, including our 2022 Flopcast guests (all four of them), our strict cupcake and lobster roll diet p...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-555-cheers-and-chickens

Lots of weird holiday mirth and/or merriment this week! First we celebrate National Hard Candy Day with a True Tale of Ribbon Candy. Then Kornflake's annual pilgrimage to the Trap Tree yields sta...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-554-santa-is-a-jerk-our-holiday-crossover-spectacular

It's no secret that we're obsessed with holiday cartoons, and this week we're diving into Frosty the Snowman and its sequels. Everyone knows the 1969 Rankin/Bass original, in which Frosty and Kar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-553-alive-as-we-could-be

For our holiday shopping, we're traveling back to 1981 and looking through an advertisement flyer from Child World, a toy store chain that just happened to have a Woonsocket, Rhode Island locatio...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-552-you-bring-the-sasquatch

As is tradition around here, we're taking a bunch of those Hallmark-style made-for-TV holiday movies, and we're fixing them. Over 150 goofy new holiday movies are debuting this year, and they're ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-551-trouble-at-the-lumberjack-factory

We're creeping into the holiday season with a concert report, because Boston rock heroes Letters to Cleo are back for their annual homecoming shows. This year they brought along super-cool Brookl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-550-hes-a-giant-vegetable

Inspired by our recent discussion of synthpop band A-ha and their massive hit "Take On Me," we're making a list of other 1980s songs with iconic keyboard parts. Plenty more synthy new wave acts a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-549-keep-the-misery-rolling

Join us as we flip through another old issue of your favorite magazine from the school book club, Dynamite! This one is from way back in 1976, and the cover just might feature an arm wrestling co...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-548-a-terrific-bionic-mummy-lookalike-horse

It's a good old fashioned Flopcast Top 4 1/2 List, and the subject is bears. We have bears from TV (remember Grizzly Adams and his pal Ben?), cartoons (you know the Care Bears, but what about the...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-547-a-bear-themed-existential-crisis

More goofy Halloween fun this week, as we flip through the book An Old School Halloween and learn about the costumes of Ben Cooper Inc. This was the company that sold those quick simple Halloween...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-546-trick-or-ghosts-from-outer-space

Our pal Blasted Bill returns to the Flopcast for some Halloween talk! Bill shares his memories of Halloweens past as well as the 8,000 Halloween events he has planned for this year. (That certain...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-545-happy-hagfishoween

Welcome to a very special Flopcast, because for the first time in almost three years, Kevin and Kornflake are together in person! We're not on Zoom! It's a weird outdoor recording session on a ch...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-544-thoroughly-researched-house-of-lobster

It's a weird mix of topics for this quick little show, including: Kornflake mini-golfing in a hockey uniform; fun with standing desks (we've cleared the studio of silly old-fashioned chairs); Int...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-543-alive-and-chicken

Let's wrap up our review of our long wacky weekend in Atlanta for DragonCon! Including: More Sci-Fi Explosion (with Fonzie, Spider-Woman, and maybe even Robolar from Mars); more Flash Gordon pane...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-542-dragoncon-2022-part-2-clown-training

We survived DragonCon 2022, more or less, so it's time to review the first half of that wacky weekend! Including: Kevin's Flash Gordon panel with Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson; Kevin's other p...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-541-dragoncon-2022-part-1-a-whale-shark-of-a-time

We're back from DragonCon, but not quite ready for our DragonCon review show. (Hey, we were surrounded by Yip-Yips for several days. Readjusting to reality is a process.) Meanwhile, we have this ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-540-flash-gordon-flashback

It's DragonCon weekend! So while we're flopping around our favorite convention, please enjoy the return of Movies With the Mayor! This time Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are watching and dis...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-539-movies-with-the-mayor-the-spirit

With DragonCon just days away, here is your guide to finding Team Flopcast at the convention! Kevin will be absurdly busy as usual (that's how we like it), appearing on panels and presentations a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-538-dragoncon-preview-part-2-hold-me-closer-tiny-podcaster

Laverne & Shirley actress Cindy Williams turns 75 this week, which inspired Kornflake to surprise Kevin with a Laverne & Shirley pop quiz! (This is why the kids love The Flopcast.) Can Kevin iden...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-537-kornflake-and-the-squigtones

We're getting ready for DragonCon, the biggest craziest nerdfest of the year! It's so big that it's divided into dozens of separate programming tracks, and we're going through the whole track lis...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-536-dragoncon-preview-part-1-ring-bears-and-chicken-girls

It's a super-short super-silly summer show! Kevin is exhausted and weirdly terrified of movie trailers; Kornflake is baking and flopping on a hammock; it's Book Lovers Day, and our friends are wr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-535-giant-zombie-wrestler-yacht-rock

Over the years, there have been more comic book series based on TV shows than you'd think. Back in the 60s, if your newsstand was sold out of Batman comics, you could still read My Favorite Marti...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-534-the-stupid-tv-comic-book-game-kornflake-vs-coin

Taylor Dayne is still telling it to our hearts; Maya Rudolph is a Rental; West Virginia is overrun by surfing chickens; and thanks to the DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track, Mork and Mindy ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-533-just-like-chicken-joe

It's the middle of stupid summer, so here in Chickentown, it's time for more hot robot talk. But we've turned our annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List over to a special guest: it's Chris, creator o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-532-sci-fi-robot-explosion

We're talking about the goofy MTV game show Remote Control, because recently we got to play it! Not the MTV version, but the (also goofy) home game version! We played Remote Control live online w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-531-kornflake-wasnt-like-the-other-kids

One more concert report, this time on a fine evening of synthpop and rock from Freezepop, Carissa Johnson, The Daylilies, and Telelectrix! (We were lurking in the corner, hiding behind a Sleestak...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-530-that-is-a-meatball

It's another concert report, because legendary Australian band Midnight Oil came to Boston. Find out if their beds are still burning, if frontman Peter Garrett is still very tall and very bald, a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-529-how-can-we-flop-when-our-earth-is-turning

We have a special concert report this week, because the pioneering German electropop band Kraftwerk came to Boston! Kevin was there, wearing official Kraftwerk 3-D glasses, because this was not a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-528-regret-every-minute

We just noticed that 1997 was a quarter century ago, so we thought we'd celebrate with a FlopFight tournament of 1997 pop songs. (It's not quite an official FlopFight; we've relaxed the rules a b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-527-flopthumping

Inspired by our friend Jon Sloan's comic book series Jim & Celeste, we have a Top 4 1/2 List of movies to watch while stranded on an island. The catch is that the movies must be from 1975-1985. W...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-526-desert-island-dumb

While Kevin relaxes in the background making sarcastic comments, Kornflake presents a Top 4 1/2 List of weird superheroes! Including: a rejected Legionnaire (even goofier than Chlorophyll Kid), a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-525-one-giant-skeleton

Kevin and Kornflake have concert reports from two different "Weird Al" Yankovic concerts! (That's right, we actually left the house. Still a rare event these days...) This is Weird Al's Ridiculou...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-524-weirder-and-weirder

It's our big silly tenth anniversary show! Yes, we have released a Flopcast episode every week for TEN YEARS. (Also, yes, we're sleepy, and yes, we're completely out of ideas. But here we are.) A...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-523-the-world-forgot-to-stop-us

After a too-long break from the show, the Mayor of Chickentown is back as our special guest co-host! (It's more court-ordered community service, we assume.) We start with a look at the recently-a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-522-you-sleepy-podcaster

Kevin is being watched by enemy birds; Green Day coffee is on the way; Hit Parade celebrates five years of podcasting (with a quote from the Mayor of Chickentown!); The Flopcast celebrates ten ye...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-521-everything-went-wrong-sir

One again we've let the Chickentown Studios Supercomputer randomly determine our discussion topics, which means we're talking about "Talking Out of Turn" (an obscure 1980s single from a classic r...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-520-a-not-so-hot-gabfest

It's a Chickens in the News follow-up report! We're revisiting the rogue hen that tried to break into the Pentagon a few weeks back, but now we have the official incident report to examine. (Has ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-519-chicken-is-in-custody

Special guest Blasted Bill is still here, and our favorite vehicles from 1980s pop culture are still doing battle in our latest FlopFight tournament. Some major players were knocked out last week...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-518-80s-vehicle-flopfight-part-2-light-up-the-letters

Our old pal Blasted Bill returns, and Bill is here for a FlopFight! The subject is 1980s vehicles, so your favorite cars, trucks, vans, and bikes from 80s movies and TV shall do battle. (Mr. T ha...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-517-80s-vehicle-flopfight-part-1-bike-on-bike-action

It's just more random silliness, just for you. We imagine a world in which Kornflake is in control (it'll be all Howard Jones concerts, all the time), and Kevin recalls racing a turkey through th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-516-carrie-is-a-problem

Another quick random show, including: Happy Birthday to Matthew Broderick (star of Ladyhawke) and Elton John (star of the "Nikita" music video); Kevin has a pile of 80s movie promo buttons ("Free...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-515-dedication-to-pie

Time for a hugely important correction: Last week we got a couple of obscure Julian Lennon videos mixed up. (The "we" means Kevin. Kornflake was innocent this time...) But it's an excuse to revis...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-514-say-were-wrong

This week we let the Chickentown Studios supercomputer randomly determine our discussion topics. (Does this mean we're completely out of ideas? Oh, that happened six or seven years ago...) The re...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-513-take-the-chickens-bowling

It's a Tuesday spectacular! This episode was recorded on Tuesday, 2/22/22, so we're looking at the 2nd, 22nd, 222nd, and 2222nd biggest 1980s pop songs, according to the amazing book Ranking the ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-512-ive-had-the-tuesday-of-my-life

Another weird mix of stuff from our latest Saturday morning recording session (for which we keep forgetting the Cocoa Puffs): For National Whatever Day we're celebrating a forgotten 1920s silent ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-511-made-with-earth-fruit

Just a weird mix of stuff this time: Kornflake learns that a former New England Patriots quarterback (no, not that one) is now in the wine business, and takes appropriate action; a giant Asian se...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-510-bird-first

It's a quick but fun show this week, as we review this year's nominees for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now if it were up to us, the list would include The Monkees, Weird Al, Men ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-509-duran-duran-duran

We love Canada, and we love goofy public service announcements, so Kornflake has rounded up a bunch of Canadian PSAs to watch and discuss. And while nothing can replace Schoolhouse Rock and Robol...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-508-canadian-psas-which-are-good-which-are-bad

Our first Top 4 1/2 List of the year was perhaps inspired by how crazy cold it's been here in Chickentown. The topic is... ice. We have some ice-themed 80s music (remember Australian band Icehous...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-507-evil-ice-boats

Way too cold to leave the house, so today we're just flipping through another old issue of Dynamite, that classic magazine for kids of the 70s and 80s. (You could get Dynamite through the school ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-506-dynamite-in-denim

Let's wrap up our annual two-part memorial show by getting through a long list of everyone we lost in the second half of 2021. From television, we have stars from The Andy Griffith Show, Night Co...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-505-memorial-show-part-2-zephyr-winds-and-golden-girls

As usual we're kicking off the new year by looking back on everyone we lost in the old year. This week's show covers the first half of 2021, with many of our favorites from the world of pop cultu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-504-memorial-show-part-1-long-live-jambi

It's our final show of 2021! So we're just relaxing and looking back on another ridiculous year of Flopcasting. (Yikes, we spent a lot of time obsessing over The Facts of Life. And we're not quit...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-503-we-are-the-woo-girls-our-holiday-crossover-spectacular

Every year we're bombarded with dozens more ridiculous (and nearly identical) Christmas movies from Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, etc. It's a never-ending parade of big city ladies back in their q...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-502-have-yourself-a-merry-little-chicken

Let's wrap up our look at the Saturday morning TV landscape of 1971! ABC's lineup was probably the strongest of the three networks, but it's still quite weird. There were classics like Road Runne...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-501-abc-saturday-morning-1971-funky-phantoms-secret-chimps

To celebrate (just barely) our 500th episode, we decided to shove every single Flopcast segment into one extra-goofy show! Including: Chickens in the News (with more giant chicken topiary drama),...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-500-what-are-we-still-doing-here

Our examination of Saturday morning TV from fifty years ago continues with the NBC schedule, and it's one of the weirdest lineups we've found so far. Among familiar old favorites like Woody Woodp...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-499-nbc-saturday-morning-1971-problematic-pirates

We started our ridiculous Brat Pack tournament last week, and now it's time to settle things once and for all, like Swayze in Road House. A couple more Breakfast Club members enter the competitio...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-498-brat-pack-flopfight-part-2-st-elmos-hand-turkeys

Back in the 80s, whether you were hanging around St. Elmo's Bar or stuck in Saturday detention with the Breakfast Club, you could not avoid the Brat Pack. Those crazy kids were running wild in Ho...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-497-brat-pack-flopfight-part-1-bright-lights-naked-klingons

We're way overdue for another look at an old Saturday morning TV schedule, so let's see what the kids watched on CBS half a century ago while chomping on their Count Chocula. The CBS 1971 Saturda...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-496-cbs-saturday-morning-1971-other-cave-teens

It's one of our dumbest ideas ever: This is episode 495, so we're discussing Interstate 495, the Massachusetts highway we've spent our whole lives driving up and down like idiots. 495 starts near...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-495-life-is-an-auxiliary-route

It's Halloween, but why not ignore the creepy neighbor kids and just enjoy our silly little show? (That sack of Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins you've been eyeballing all week? ALL YOURS.) Includi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-494-all-my-hens-are-fed

We just can't stop reviewing "backdoor pilot" episodes of The Facts of Life, so here we go again. This time Blair and Jo are graduating from Eastland, and perhaps this could have led to a spinoff...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-493-the-backs-of-life-6-graduation

Just a silly mix of subjects this week, including: The new Monster Mash cereal (we might not eat it, but we still love it), Kornflake's concert report on Lindsey Stirling (she plays the violin wh...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-492-angry-frankenberry-fan-mail

Our friend Kevin Cafferty is back for a Top 4 1/2 List dedicated to our favorite weird city: Woonsocket, Rhode Island! Both Kevin and Kevin (lot of Kevins on the show this week) spent way too muc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-491-my-home-is-not-in-woonsocket

The subject of today's Top 4 1/2 List is, uh, whistling. We're still not sure why. But it's a fun list, including a classic TV theme song, a Bangles song, a bizarre Boston clown, a Muppet, a Guar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-490-whistle-while-you-flop

Our ten-part celebration of the 80s concludes, just as the 80s did, with 1989. Top 40 radio was ruled by Milli Vanilli, the New Kids, and hair metal. It was a problem. But at least we had telepat...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-489-i-want-my-dolphin-tv

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are back from Atlanta with a full report on DragonCon, where they joined all the masked and vaccinated nerds for a long silly Labor Day weekend. They had a busy...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-488-dragoncon-2021-beware-of-sleestak

Our ten-part celebration of the 80s brings us back to 1987 this week. For most of us, 1987 means Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise... and that's all. But the year had even more to offer,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-487-21-flop-street

DragonCon, our very favorite annual gathering of the geeks, was a virtual-only event last year. But this year we're creeping back down to Atlanta and doing it for real! It'll be (mostly) business...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-486-dragoncon-preview-youre-weird-and-we-missed-you

Our ten-episode salute to the 80s creeps along with a quick look at the pop chart from this week in 1985! Dire Straits were computer-animated movers, Phil Collins was an Ocasek-style housefly, Wh...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-485-spladunking-in-1985

Welcome to our TENTH annual summer robot Top 4 1/2 List! (It's an odd tradition, but it's all we have.) This year's theme is... 80s robots. Of course, lots of notable 80s robots have appeared on ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-484-robots-in-leg-warmers

We're celebrating 1983, which the history books already call "the year of Mr. Roboto, and not much else." But we did notice that a bunch of actors who played comic book characters (Spider-Man, Th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-483-1983-oh-yeah

We're up to 1982 in our series of 80s-themed episodes, and it's time to review another Facts of Life backdoor pilot! This one looks eerily similar to a previous backdoor pilot, as the boys of Sto...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-482-the-backs-of-life-5-the-big-fight

Our ten-part series about the 1980s continues with a look at all the TV shows that debuted in 1981! Prime time soaps were on the rise (Dynasty, Falcon Crest), the Six Million Dollar Man became th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-481-look-at-whats-happened-to-1981

We're kicking off ten weeks of 80s-themed shows... because when do we ever get to talk about the 80s around here? And this week we're looking at the year 1980. It was the year that brought us Fla...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-480-yacht-rock-and-yoda

With the long-delayed release of Black Widow this week, many humans finally returned to actual movie theaters, where the $14 boxes of Raisinets had been waiting patiently since last year. Meanwhi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-479-movies-of-1986-my-eyeball-tutor

Just some miscellaneous silly talk this week, including: Kickball with Kornflake; cursing your enemies with R2D2 ceramics; TV talk (we recommend Girls5eva, Rutherford Falls, We Are Lady Parts, an...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-478-we-are-boomer

Kevin and Kornflake are enjoying the new comic book-based Netflix show Sweet Tooth (we like hybrids), and we have an entire "sweet"-themed Top 4 1/2 List just for you. Our list includes cheap Hal...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-477-gruff-you-up

For the first time in a billion years, we have actual live human guests at Chickentown Studios! (Remember talking to people not on Zoom? Yeah, it's weird.) Brittany and Martha are here, from our ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-476-yoink

Yes, we're still examining every "backdoor pilot" episode of The Facts of Life, and we've arrived at "Jo's Cousin," which features, you know, Jo's cousin. She's 14-year-old aspiring mechanic Terr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-475-the-backs-of-life-4-jos-cousin

We'd been meaning to do a roller-skating-themed show for years, and it's finally here, in convenient Top 4 1/2 List format! We're listing our favorite roller-skating scenes and characters from mo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-474-the-two-words-are-naked-skating

As a follow-up to our recent look at the Boston music scene of the 80s, let's move on to the 90s! And let's also move slightly south, to Rhode Island! (State motto: We're tiny, but we're also qui...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-473-muffins-for-heatmiser

If you were a 70s/80s kid who wanted to know what was really going on, you ordered Dynamite magazine through your school book club. Today we're flipping through the December 1979 issue of Dynamit...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-472-not-fit-for-human-listening

Happy Anniversary to us! (If you can hear Barney Rubble singing, our work is done.) We've been Flopcasting for nine long silly years, and we're celebrating with a special guest: Earth Station One...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-471-the-flop-of-boston

Our ongoing analysis of every "backdoor pilot" episode of The Facts of Life continues, and we're creeping back to March 1982. "Pac-Man Fever" was on the radio, Porky's ruled the box office, and o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-470-the-backs-of-life-3-the-academy

Time for some bike talk, because spring is here, and we've taken to the mean streets of Chickentown on our shiny new bikes, like Kevin Bacon in Quicksilver and Nicole Kidman in BMX Bandits. We're...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-469-brannock-or-panic

Time to wrap up our latest exciting and stupid FlopFight tournament! Only one member of the Love Boat cast shall survive! Your classic Love Boat crew is here, of course, including Isaac the barte...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-468-love-boat-flopfight-part-2-bunny-boats

Come aboard, we're expecting you for a Love Boat edition of our ridiculous tournament, the FlopFight! And we're joined by a special guest who knows a thing or two about ridiculous tournaments: Dr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-467-love-boat-flopfight-part-1-mermaid-mummies

It's another "66" episode, which always reminds us of V66, Boston's late great 1980s music video channel. (You've all seen the documentary Life on the V, right? RIGHT?) This time we decided to pa...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-466-still-preoccupied-with-1985

For no good reason, the name "Johnny" is the subject of our latest Top 4 1/2 List. (Has it been a slow week around here? What do you think?) We have characters named Johnny from movies, TV, songs...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-465-heres-johnny-and-johnny-and-johnny

Our examination of every "backdoor pilot" episode of The Facts of Life continues... because we know what the people want. "Brian and Sylvia" was an odd 1981 attempt at a Facts of Life spinoff ser...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-464-the-backs-of-life-2-brian-and-sylvia

Quick show this week (because we're exhausted), including: Kornflake at virtual MarsCon; Kornflake and Kevin in a silly new music video (from Power Salad and the great Luke Ski); baseball, blues,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-463-turkeyvision

For more than 80 years, DC Comics has brought us legends like Wonder Woman and Batman... as well as sillier characters like Kite Man and Bat Mite. There's a long rich history of goofy characters ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-462-hey-kids-goofy-comics

Twenty years ago, Kevin and Kornflake first visited the great state of Michigan for the comedy music convention Dementia 2001! (Kevin's band The Sponge Awareness Foundation performed, then quickl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-461-michigan-j-frog-is-most-displeased

"The Backs of Life" is our stupid new project for the stupid new year! The plan is to examine each "backdoor pilot" episode of The Facts of Life in excruciating detail. (You know backdoor pilots....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-460-the-backs-of-life-1-the-girls-school

Inspired by the discovery of some ancient Sponge Awareness Foundation music, we're flashing back to the very early 90s - specifically, this week in February 1990. Top 40 radio was dominated by po...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-459-this-week-in-1990-the-fake-marcia-era

Longtime Flopcast listeners (those poor souls) know that every year we examine the new list of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, even though it's stupid. But this year's list is surpri...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-458-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-still-no-bananarama

Let's wrap up our Facts of Life FlopFight, the tournament that somehow captures all the excitement of a girls' school and/or a gourmet food shop. Our combatants include the classic four Facts of ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-457-facts-of-life-flopfight-part-2-be-the-bear

Our latest FlopFight brings us to Peekskill, New York, home of (in '80s sitcom land, at least) Eastland School for Girls, Langley College, Edna's Edibles, and Over Our Heads. Yes, this is a Facts...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-456-facts-of-life-flopfight-part-1-garretts-of-the-galaxy

Let's flip through another old issue of Dynamite, the magazine all the cool kids of the 70s and 80s faithfully ordered through the school book club. (Ah, the book club... the reason your teacher ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-455-young-weird-goofballs

Okay, let's wrap up our 2020 memorial list, with everyone we lost in the second half of the longest year in history. (As with last week's show, strong beverages are strongly recommended.) Includi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-454-memorial-show-part-2-and-the-rest

Have a strong beverage standing by, because it's that time again. The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake as we recall everyone we lost in 2020, from the world of pop culture and beyon...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-453-memorial-show-part-1-bad-year-for-bilbos

Just in time for Cobra Kai season 3, Kevin and Kornflake take a quick spoiler-free look at seasons 1 and 2! Of course we're longtime Karate Kid fans, so we're waxing on and off about Billy Zabka ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-452-flop-first-flop-hard-no-mercy

It's our final show of 2020, so let's look back at the BEST YEAR EVER. Okay, maybe it wasn't... but we still managed to keep our goofy show flopping along by Zoom every week. (Of course we miss h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-451-lick-more-people

Like an unwanted box of ribbon candy from your great-aunt, here's an assortment of holiday (and non-holiday) weirdness, just for you. Flopcast superfan Arturo has another amazing "What's in the B...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-450-cat-man-for-christmas

Break out the nog and join us for an epic podcast crossover event! Brittany and Martha (of But First, Let's Talk Nerdy) are here for the holidays, with a Flopcast Top 4 1/2 List of Christmas cart...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-449-but-first-lets-talk-christmas

As our holiday festivities continue, we're scrolling through a list of Hallmark Christmas movies... and fixing them. Is there any way to redeem these crazy generic holiday romantic comedies, all ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-448-a-giant-christmas-gizzard

It's been a few months since we played that horrifying game we invented for 2020, Trapped in the House. But as we creep into the holiday season, it's time for a few rounds of Trapped in the House...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-447-peace-on-earth-good-will-to-zombies

It's our Thanksgiving spectacular! But not really! We're just looking up weird facts about the stuff served at Charlie Brown's infamous backyard Thanksgiving dinner. (Remember, Thanksgiving step ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-446-here-comes-jellybean-joe

Let's wrap up our review of 1990 Saturday morning TV with a look at the bizarre lineup on NBC. We had a couple of cartoonified SCTV stars taking care of weird kids (John Candy in Camp Candy and R...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-445-nbc-saturday-morning-1990-everybodys-miserable

We're so amused by all those fours in this week's episode number that we turned it into a Top 4 1/2 List. So the subject is... four! Our favorite fours. (Yeah, we know. We're out of ideas.) Some ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-444-four-four-four

Just a random heap of goofy topics this week, so let's go. We have zombie coffee vs. robot coffee, Amazing Randi follow-up, freaky Halloween costumes, the Aquabats, the Creature from the Black La...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-443-kooky-spooks

We lost a hero this week, so this show is our memorial tribute to James Randi. As a magician, The Amazing Randi performed around the world, toured with Alice Cooper, and taught Fonzie an escape t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-442-amazing

It's another cartoon-themed episode, as we continue our look at the Saturday morning TV landscape of 1990. This time we've tuned into CBS and found some long-running favorites (Muppet Babies, Gar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-441-cbs-saturday-morning-1990-dink

It's about time for a vaguely Halloween-themed show... so this week we're just talking about Frankenstein. Mary Shelley's novel introduced our favorite monster to the world way back in 1818 (whic...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-440-frankenflop

A few months back, we examined the Saturday morning cartoon schedules of each major TV network from the year 1980. Now we're jumping ahead by a decade for three more cartoon-themed episodes, star...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-439-abc-saturday-morning-1990-jordan-sponge

Inspired by the DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track's "Hostess Fruit Pie Theater" (don't ask), we're looking at those bizarre Hostess comic book ads of the 70s and 80s. It was a time when ev...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-438-crisis-on-earth-hostess

Just a quick simple show this week, as we recombobulate post-DragonCon. (Yeah, we're even sleepier than usual.) Including: Online movie riffing with The Mads, remembering Tower Records, Fake Jan,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-437-all-we-can-do-is-flop

We seem to have survived the first (and yikes, hopefully the last) online "virtual" version of DragonCon! This year, instead of descending upon downtown Atlanta, we all stayed home, got on the st...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-436-dragoncon-2020-very-pro-cupcake

It's DragonCon weekend, and while the convention is virtual this year, we're not gonna miss hanging out with Martha and Brittany from the podcast But First, Let's Talk Nerdy! And the Mayor of Chi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-435-but-first-lets-talk-dragoncon

We're just a few days away from DragonCon! Normally we'd be flying to Atlanta right about now, with our Sleestak costumes carefully stuffed in our carry-on bags. But DragonCon is happening online...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-434-the-road-to-dragoncon-3-brian-blesseds-beard

As virtual DragonCon approaches, we're virtually catching up with some of our favorite DragonCon people. And our guest this week is another old friend, coming to you all the way from Tennessee: S...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-433-the-road-to-dragoncon-2-the-good-word-about-ice-worms

In a normal year, right now we'd be preparing to go to Atlanta for DragonCon, our favorite annual gathering of the geeks. But, as you may have noticed, this is not a normal year. We're still goin...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-432-the-road-to-dragoncon-1-part-time-rock-star

Never mind the humans, it's time for our ninth (!) annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List. And because this is not a normal summer, we're combining the robot list with our new quarantine era segment,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-431-hot-robot-talk-in-the-summer

It's our Billy Joel episode! Which we've been meaning to do for years! (Sorry about the delay. We've been really busy and/or sleepy.) We start by celebrating the 40th (!) anniversary of the Glass...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-430-we-didnt-start-the-flopcast

Because we're idiots, last summer we forced ourselves to watch all the Meatballs sequels. (There were three, which felt like three hundred.) So this week, continuing the theme of disappointing f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-429-caddyshack-ii-a-turkeytar-of-a-sequel

A mysterious package arrived at the studio, and now we're the proud (?) owners of a Teen Beat 1981 Calendar magazine. You can read it like a magazine (and learn all about Gary Coleman) or hang it...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-428-like-lyft-but-for-chickens

It's the conclusion of our latest silly tournament, as we randomly draw more Lilith Fair performers to compete in more stupid events. (For example, would Sheryl Crow or Jewel be a better Lyft dri...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-427-lilith-fair-flopfight-part-2-pitfalls-cages-and-bees

The 2020s have been, uh, less than delightful so far. So let's go back to the 1990s, and back to the Lilith Fair, for another ridiculous FlopFight tournament! We're randomly drawing the names of ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-426-lilith-fair-flopfight-part-1-coffee-manicure

Longtime friends of the Flopcast Brittany and Martha are back this week, as we officially announce that their podcast But First, Let's Talk Nerdy is now part of the ESO Network! We catch up on li...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-425-how-to-be-a-better-nerd

Last week Kevin listed his ten favorite albums from the 1980s, year by ridiculous year. So this week it's Kornflake's turn, with an album list from the 1990s! (You may not remember the 90s very w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-424-kornflake-loves-the-90s

By request, Kevin lists a favorite album for each year of the 1980s, and Kornflake provides expert (?) commentary along the way. (Several Australian acts made the list. Not just Air Supply.) Also...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-423-lobster-avalanche

This is a short one, kids, because this seemed like a week for the Flopcast to mostly shut up. The plan is to get back to our usual silliness next time. Meanwhile, pay attention. Be careful. Get ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-422-what-do-we-do

It's our third and final show covering Saturday morning TV from four decades ago, and we've arrived at NBC. The network offered an odd cartoon lineup in 1980, consisting almost entirely of reruns...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-421-nbc-saturday-morning-1980-we-got-godzooky

Chickentown is still locked down, for the safety of humans and poultry alike. But as we learn in this week's Chickens in the News segment, citizens of Louisiana are dealing with a crazed non-soci...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-420-crank-up-the-weirdness

We're continuing our look at the Saturday morning cartoon landscape forty years ago, but we're changing the channel to see what was happening on CBS. (Sorry, no remote control, kids. Gotta get of...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-419-cbs-saturday-morning-1980-a-duck-with-fangs

It's the Flopcast 8th Anniversary Spectacular! (And yes, we're lying about the "spectacular" part.) Including: Some fascinating Flopcast stats (now we're lying about the "fascinating" part), a ba...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-418-bedazzled-glittery-psychedelic-problematic-stormtroopettes

Grab a bowl of Cookie Crisp; you're gonna need it. The plan is to discuss every Saturday morning cartoon from way back in 1980, even if it takes three episodes (one for each network). We're start...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-417-abc-saturday-morning-1980-ooklas-the-best

It's another week in Chickentown Lockdown... so Kevin and Kornflake are playing weird secret online games with their weird secret online friends, Niki Luparelli is entertaining the world from her...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-416-speaking-of-boobs

We're back for another round of the dumb game we invented last week, Trapped in the House. (This is the most timely we've ever been on the Flopcast... by about thirty years.) Kornflake is in char...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-415-trapped-in-the-house-round-2-any-annie

This week we're starting with even more TV talk, as Kornflake is reunited with her long lost Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Meanwhile Kevin recounts what is probably, hopefully, the most bizarre episod...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-414-ready-to-be-wink

In these weird scary times, we're keeping the Flopcast short, simple, and (hopefully) silly, as we review our latest trapped-in-the-house activities. Kornflake has been checking out music from Va...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-413-dark-and-brooding-like-kornflake

We're still in social distancing mode here in Chickentown, of course, as we cross one cancelled event after another off the stupid calendar. (Specifically, Pee Wee Herman and Diane Birch are keep...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-412-the-hot-macrame-talk

Remember what the world was like two weeks ago? Yeah, things have changed. But that's when Kevin took a quick trip to Las Vegas to visit our dear friends Brittany and Martha of Good Enough Cospla...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-411-hold-the-iguana

Kornflake has returned from Minnesota with a full report on MarsCon, home of our beloved Dementia Track of comedy music performances! And this was the busiest MarsCon ever for Kornflake! In addit...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-410-marscon-2020-wow

Kevin and the Mayor conclude their look back at the TV shows that debuted in 1980! It was the year of Tom Selleck in Hawaii and Tom Hanks in drag. Deputy Enos left Hazzard County for Los Angeles....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-409-1980-tv-part-2-cosmos-and-enos

While Kornflake is off entertaining the nerds of Minnesota at MarsCon, Kevin and the Mayor discuss obscure TV shows from forty years ago. (We're quite timely around here.) Specifically we're look...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-408-1980-tv-part-1-sparky-and-corky

Time to finish what we started (and instantly regretted) last week: A ridiculous Flopcast tournament of 1980s pop stars, as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of USA for Africa and "We Are the Wor...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-407-flopfight-part-2-im-your-private-dentist

Remember when we made all the Rankin/Bass holiday cartoon characters compete in a bizarre tournament of our own design? Wasn't that fun? And stupid? Well, grab a beverage and place your bets, bec...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-406-flopfight-part-1-there-comes-a-hippo

A couple of important and/or ridiculous updates in this quick little show... starting with a MarsCon update from Kornflake! (Get ready, geeks of Minnesota. In less than a month, Kornflake is brin...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-405-what-about-the-gizzard

It's Oscar season, and we don't care about the Oscars, but it's an excuse for the Mayor of Chickentown to drop by and talk about the movies. However, we're not really looking at the movies themse...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-404-movies-with-the-mayor

Live from the horrifyingly cold mid-January Boston waterfront, it's our annual report on our favorite local science fiction/fantasy convention, Arisia! Kevin was locked in for all four days of Ar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-403-arisia-2020-space-trains-and-beaks

Okay, let's wrap up our tribute to the pop culture legends we lost in 2019. (We've been drinking so many shots in their memory that we're almost out of coffee. And that frightens us.) Part 2 incl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-402-memorial-show-part-2-squirrels-in-space

You know we do this every year... yes, it's the first of our two-part look back at all the pop culture legends we lost in 2019. And yeah, a couple of our favorite Peters (Tork and Mayhew) are on ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-401-memorial-show-part-1-monkee-wookiee-and-muskrat-love

Yes yes yes, it's our 400th episode! To celebrate, we're drinking lots of black coffee. (Hey, it worked for the first 399 shows.) We're also reviewing how we spent the stupid holidays, including ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-400-its-2020-krazbit

As we creep up on the end of 2019, Kevin and Kornflake relax and look back on the whole stupid year. We review our Flopcast segments (Capes or Apes!) and guests (Train Talk with Ed!), as well as ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-399-the-year-in-flopping

Last week was Part 1 of our bizarre Rankin/Bass tournament, in which characters like Rudolph, Snow Miser, and Burgermeister Meisterburger competed in events like breakdancing and air hockey. The ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-398-rankinbass-christmas-tournament-part-2-big-clumsy-snow-hands

Kevin and Kornflake are taking their obsession with classic Rankin/Bass Christmas cartoons to a ridiculous new level, tournament-style. We're randomly fishing names of Rankin Bass characters out ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-397-rankinbass-christmas-tournament-part-1-breakdancing-bumble

Kevin and Kornflake review their Thanksgiving weekends, which involved multiple dinners (Hobbit-style!), a movie trivia game (where the answer is always Footloose), a Sharpie car, concerts from G...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-396-turkeyed-out

It's a special show to ring in the goofy holidays, featuring our interview with official Rankin/Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt! You know Rankin/Bass. It's the legendary animation studio that pro...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-395-snowmen-and-snow-misers-talking-rankinbass-with-rick-goldschmidt

It's a surprise Flopcast recording live from the middle of Super Megafest! (Kornflake wasn't even supposed to be there, so we were all just shocked and delighted.) We discuss our whole silly day ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-394-super-megafest-2019-my-tony-danza-moment

We're a few weeks late, thanks to all those weird train-themed shows, but it's finally time for our annual review of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees! The short version: We're happy to see...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-393-notorious-martika

Okay, let's take a break from all that controversial train talk! It's finally time to catch up on some non-train stuff, including: Kornflake's Halloween (featuring a Yip-Yip costume, a giant boot...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-392-topiary-joe

This week we're joined again by Ed, longtime friend of The Flopcast, Sponge Awareness Foundation keyboardist, and train expert from the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum! So yea...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-391-train-talk-with-ed-part-2-trainsplaining

This week Kevin and Kornflake are joined by special guest Ed, from The Sponge Awareness Foundation! But Ed is not just the other half of Kevin's old comedy band. Ed is also a train expert, and to...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-390-train-talk-with-ed-part-1-all-aboard-all-alone

It's another Flopcast Halloween show, and we're counting down our favorite ghosts in a terrifying Top 4 1/2 List! We have ghosts from cartoons (where Shaggy screamed "ghost" with like eleven syll...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-389-space-ghost-ghost-to-ghost

It's sort of a Halloween-themed show, but not really! Including: A concert report on super-cool garage pop band Bleached! (Their album Don't You Think You've Had Enough? might be our favorite rec...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-388-he-reminds-me-of-frankenstein

It's time to flip through another issue of the magazine we all bought through our school book club long ago, Dynamite! And this 1981 issue is an amazing one, because the cover features a hero of ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-387-hogwash

With our DragonCon coverage out of the way (finally!), it's time to catch up on every other silly thing we've done lately. Kornflake reports on Napkin Poetry with Jim's Big Ego, gum jingles with ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-386-wham-tangent

From the American Sci-Fi Classics Track at DragonCon 2019 (just a few weeks ago - we're still sleepy), here's a fun panel called "Cousin Oliver Was Framed: Classic Sci-Fi Sidekicks"! Joining Kevi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-385-live-from-dragoncon-cousin-oliver-was-framed

This week we cover the second half of our favorite and most exhausting event of the year, DragonCon! (If you noticed a shortage of geeks in your area over Labor Day weekend... they were all in At...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-384-dragoncon-2019-part-2-you-get-a-spatula

It was five weird days with 85,000 weird humans... we have so much to cover from DragonCon that we're splitting it into two episodes! This week's review includes: The DragonCon Newbie Walking Tou...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-383-dragoncon-2019-part-1-hulk-salad

Our ten-part 80s celebration continues with a quick look at the Top Ten songs this week in 1982! It's an odd list, with a couple of veteran 60s acts (Paul McCartney and Crosby, Stills, and Nash),...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-382-court-ordered-piracy

We're taking a break from our frantic DragonCon preparations to look at the Top Ten songs this week in 1981! The Pointer Sisters wanted a slow hand, the Greatest American Hero was walking on air,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-381-prisoners-of-pop

We're just days away from that massive annual gathering of the geeks, DragonCon! Why not spend Labor Day weekend in Atlanta with 80,000 of your closest and weirdest friends? In this, our DragonCo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-380-dragoncon-preview-be-my-megaphone

All dumb things must come to an end, and you don't get much dumber than watching all the sequels to the summer camp comedy classic, Meatballs! But our goofy summer project ends now, as we chomp o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-379-meatballs-4-jet-ski-chicken

For no good reason, every summer we present a Top 4 1/2 List of robots! So it's time for our eighth annual robot list, and the theme this year is... tiny robots. We have tiny robots from movies, ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-378-here-come-the-robots

It's summer concert report time, because our white and nerdy hero "Weird Al" Yankovic just came through New England with his "Strings Attached" tour, featuring an entire symphony orchestra! Kornf...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-377-weird-al-live-pie-history

The longest summer in history continues, thanks to our ill-conceived project of watching all the horrifying sequels to that classic summer camp comedy, Meatballs. Tonight we're suffering through ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-376-meatballs-iii-creep-resort

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown have just returned from CONvergence, a wonderful science fiction/fantasy convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So we're reviewing our whole crazy Fourth of July...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-375-convergence-2019-theres-always-a-jughead

We're still recovering from last week's movie night (Summer camp aliens! Run for your lives!), so it's a simple show this week, catching up on our recent silly activities. Including: Kornflake on...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-374-your-soul-bores-me

Last summer, we devoted a Flopcast episode to Meatballs, the Bill Murray summer camp classic. This summer, we're going to suffer through the horrifying Meatballs sequels. (It's a court-ordered pu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-373-meatballs-part-ii-beware-camp-sasquatch

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are preparing for a silly, geeky Fourth of July weekend at CONvergence! It's one of our favorite conventions, it's in Minneapolis, and there is a giant blue chi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-372-convergence-preview-not-a-jinx

Here at last is our God's Comics concert review! Every ten years, Kevin gets together with friends Sean and Adam to form God's Comics, a cover band that only plays Elvis Costello, Men at Work, an...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-371-gods-comics-2019-earth-fruit-session

It's no secret that Kevin and Kornflake are longtime fans of Brooklyn's ambassadors of love, They Might Be Giants. (Their matching Doctor Worm tattoos sort of gave it away.) And since John Linnel...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-370-they-might-be-exaggerated-characters

Here's an extra-special, extra-weird show we've been meaning to unleash for a few weeks. It's the adventures of Kornflake and Doornail at MarsCon 2019! Yeah, we already discussed MarsCon (the Min...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-369-more-from-marscon-you-ran-away-and-bellydanced

It's an extra-goofy show, because we're recording from separate remote locations, AND our recording equipment keeps malfunctioning! But we're here anyway, just for you. And this random catch-up s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-368-being-a-walking-sponge

We're just days away from the third ever performance of Kevin's weird cover band, God's Comics! So this week we have a special interview with our God's Comics co-conspirator, Sean Fullerton! Kevi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-367-drink-like-a-skink

It's our goofy anniversary show, as Kevin and Kornflake celebrate seven years of The Flopcast! Yes, we've released a Flopcast every single week since May 2012, because clearly there is something ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-366-are-cows-listening

Kevin and the Mayor road trip down to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for an evening of science and silliness with George Hrab and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. (We assumed Nestor the Long-Eared C...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-365-filling-out-forms-standing-in-line

Time for another Top 4 1/2 List, and the subject this week is... wonder. (Why yes, we are out of ideas, how could you tell?) Our list of favorite wonder stuff includes some obvious picks like Won...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-364-its-bread

After slacking off through the miserable winter, we attempt to catch up with TWO Kornflake on the Road segments. First Kornflake visits a beachside coffee shop and returns with a bag of mysteriou...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-363-bring-us-the-goose-girl

While Kornflake's away, Kevin and the Mayor discuss a recent stand-up comedy show from Saturday Night Live veterans Jon Lovitz (Tonto!), Tim Meadows (The Ladies Man!), and Chris Kattan (Mango!). ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-362-are-you-an-exceptional-gal

Two more concert reports this week: First 80s pop star Taylor Dayne came to town, and we told it to her heart, proved our love, and didn't rush her. We also read her new autobiography, so we're b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-361-hey-mike

Here's our big silly report from Northeast Comic Con in exotic Boxborough, Massachusetts! Featuring: Rubber Chicken Comics, Lost in Space's Mark Goddard, weird comedy from Mark Gallagher, kaiju r...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-360-vaguely-amusing

Just a couple of quick items this week: A Monkees concert report and a Captain Marvel movie report. Reaching our beloved Monkees (Mike and Micky) involved a long perilous ferry ride to Long Islan...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-359-split

Kornflake braved the subzero temperatures of winter in Minnesota, and now she's back with her annual report from MarsCon! It's the science fiction convention that also has a whole track of comedy...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-358-marscon-2019-rock-out-with-doornail

Here we go, kids! Time to flip though another goofy old issue of Dynamite magazine! (It's a Flopcast tradition, especially when we have to wait until next week for Kornflake's MarsCon report.) Th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-357-secret-of-the-sleeping-sharks

We've been threatening to do a whole show about creepy songs for quite a while... and here we are. The history of pop music is just lousy with inappropriate songs, and this week we're counting do...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-356-all-creeped-out

In our first official installment of Kornflake On the Road, Kornflake checks out Chris's Comics in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and we recall the first comic book shops we ever visited. (We recommend...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-355-crush-on-you

It's a short show, because Kornflake called in sick, and the rest of us should have. But Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are still here, all miserable and confused, for a quick goofy conversat...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-354-sicksplosion

It's miserably cold here in Chickentown, and we just can't take it anymore, but we still managed to prepare a goofy little show for you. Including: Kevin reviews The Van, a dreadful 1977 movie wi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-353-vansploitation

Once again we braved the horrifying winter weather to cover Arisia, Boston's long-running (30 years!) science fiction and fantasy convention. We were there for you. (We were also there because we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-352-arisia-2019-all-your-theremin-needs

Just a big weird mix of stuff this week, including: Patton Oswalt's birthday, the Big Chicken in Atlanta, storytelling at The Moth, the 100th anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood (as obse...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-351-one-glittery-ape

This week we wrap up our tribute to all the pop culture stars we lost in 2018. (And just in time, since our 2019 list is already growing...) From the music world, we say goodbye to a Cranberry, a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-350-memorial-show-part-2-crackers-and-cranberries

As we start a weird new year, it's time to look back at all the pop culture legends we lost in 2018. Now last year's memorial show turned into our longest episode ever; we were so dizzy and confu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-349-memorial-show-part-1-thats-my-lois

A goofy new year means goofy New Year's Resolutions for your Flopcast hosts! Kornflake intends to hit the road and explore strange new places, possibly in a talking dune buggy. Meanwhile Kevin's ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-348-how-you-terrify-somebody

For our final show of 2018, we're just relaxing in the studio, enjoying our crazy black coffee, and looking back at a long strange year of Flopcasting. This year we covered a bunch of conventions...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-347-the-whole-stupid-year

It's a quick holiday music-themed show to get you through Christmas week, featuring a Top 4 1/2 List of Kornflake's favorite Christmas cover songs! (Kevin didn't bother making a list, but he did ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-346-rogue-holiday-lobsters

The Mayor of Chickentown joins us for one of our favorite subjects/obsessions: animated holiday specials. Seriously, we spend a stupid amount of time thinking about them all year. So this week we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-345-men-from-mars-a-weird-holiday-cartoon-celebration

It's our final Flopcast movie night of the year, and Kornflake is finally suffering through the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special! (Kevin has seen it already, of course, but is doomed to repeat ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-344-wookiees-in-snuggies-the-star-wars-holiday-special

Gather around the Flopcast lobster trap tree, kids, because it's time for another Top 4 1/2 List! (Sorry that we've been neglecting this beloved segment since our summer robot list...) And the su...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-343-emphasizing-our-cluelessness

Kevin and Kornflake ring in the holidays with our favorite 90s Boston band, Letters to Cleo! (You may recall their hit song "Here and Now," or their appearances in 10 Things I Hate About You and ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-342-peace-to-none-good-will-to-nobody

It's movie night in Chickentown once again, because Kornflake waited a quarter of a century to see one of Kevin's all-time favorites, 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas. So while chomping on s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-341-whats-this

It's mid-November, but we're still discussing our Halloween activities. (The Flopcast is as timely as ever.) Including: Halloween parties, a Halloween concert, a Halloween wedding, underwater pum...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-340-the-lowly-milk-dud

Grumpy old music fans, rejoice! It's time for our annual review of the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! This is a fun list, including one of Kevin's all-time favorites (Devo, at last)...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-339-science-turkey

Kevin reports from one of our favorite local geek conventions (now back in its beloved original location), Super Megafest! Including: The stars of Lost in Space and Leave it to Beaver, 80s movie ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-338-super-megafest-2018-voltron-britney-spears

It's National TV Talk Show Host Day, which makes us realize we don't really watch TV talk shows anymore. Let's move on. Next we have a long-delayed edition of Chickens in the News, in which an Au...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-337-stopped-and-flopped

This week we conclude our look back at last month's concert by After These Messages, a weird new band (Kevin is the lead singer, sort of) that only plays TV theme songs, and may never play again....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-336-after-these-messages-part-2-knock-on-our-door

That show we'd been plugging for months finally happened, and the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts will never be the same. Kevin (your Flopcast co-host) was joined by Ed (his tricky partner from ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-335-after-these-messages-part-1-take-a-nothing-day

This week we celebrate Elisabeth Shue's birthday, and consider dressing up like a shower to take her to a Halloween dance; Kornflake reports on her August movie (we're a little late), When Harry ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-334-baby-fish-mouth

It's Flopcast movie night! All year long, Kornflake has been catching up on movies she should have seen long ago. So this week we watch and discuss one of Kevin's favorite movies from back in 199...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-333-irish-voles

It's our end-of-summer spectacular! (Disclaimer: May not actually be spectacular, but it's all we have...) Kornflake visits a zoo and amusement park, spends quality time with capybaras (they're g...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-332-delicious-manipulation

Kevin spent a long crazy Labor Day weekend in Atlanta for DragonCon, and shares a full report on our favorite convention with Kornflake and the Mayor of Chickentown! Highlights include: A Sesame ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-331-dragoncon-2018-all-the-sponge-money

We're busy at DragonCon this week, but the podcast must go on! So we prepared this silly little show in advance, just for you. And what could be sillier than flipping through another old issue of...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-330-star-wars-and-shaun

As usual, Kevin will be in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend for DragonCon, surrounded by 80,000 other very weird humans. This giant convention has an amazing guest list again this year, including c...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-329-cummerbund-emergency-our-dragoncon-preview

We have yet another retro concert report, as Kevin and the Mayor enjoyed an evening of Chicago-style (and Karate Kid-style) soft rock with Peter Cetera. (We did it all for the glory of being stuc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-328-speedy-delivery

Our summer retro concert reviews continue as Dennis DeYoung (the voice of Styx) visits historic Lexington, Massachusetts to rock our faces and our Mr. Roboto Kilroy masks. Meanwhile, Kornflake ca...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-327-twirly-girl

You know what summer means here in Chickentown. Yes, it's time for our seventh (!) annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List. And this year's subject is... GIANT ROBOTS. We have giant robots from 1960s ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-326-take-the-robots-bowling

Not sure if this has ever come up on the show before, but we're sort of obsessed with 1980s music. (Please don't tell anybody.) So your Flopcast hosts just had to check out the Retro Futura conce...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-325-lacking-limahl

Okay, here at last is our full report from CONvergence! (It's a science fiction convention that's so festive, we creep all the way to Minnesota to be there every year.) Featuring: Star Trek's Mar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-324-convergence-2018-invade-my-brain

Kornflake reports on FlopFest, her annual summer celebration featuring hammocks, sunburns, cover bands on trucks, and not enough vodka. She also reviews Solo: A Star Wars Story (quick version: no...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-323-down-at-fry-gull-rock

Kevin is far from Chickentown this week, hiding in Minnesota with all the cool kids at CONvergence. So we have something special instead of our regular Flopcast programming. We're flashing back t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-322-classic-sci-fi-court-if-the-duck-bill-fits

It's a bizarre mix of silly items this week... First we celebrate Kevin Bacon's birthday with a round or two of the Kevin Bacon game. (This game would be much easier if Kevin and Mr. T would fina...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-321-six-degrees-of-estelle-getty

Watch out, fair citizens of the Upper Midwest! Kevin is creeping back to Bloomington, Minnesota for CONvergence, an amazing science fiction convention happening July 5th-8th! This year's guests i...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-320-convergence-preview-were-parched

Are you ready for the summer? Not us... we are not exactly "outdoorsy" around here. But we do know how to hide inside with iced coffee, pizza pie, and a classic summer movie. So this week we're w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-319-non-gong-business

Not much happening here in Chickentown, and it's been a few weeks, so once again we're turning to our big crazy stack of Dynamite magazines. This time we're looking at a 1982 issue of Dynamite wi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-318-futuristic-space-doogie

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are back from a weird little trip to Ohio! (It's the Buckeye State, you know, named after Popeye's mortal enemy, Buckeye.) They visited the Rock and Roll Hall o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-317-aquaman-based-economy

It's a quick but action-packed show this week. First, National Whatever Day somehow involves singing telegrams, kites, and a dentist. Then in Chickens in the News, Payo the Rooster terrorizes a M...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-316-somebody-has-my-bras

After a long cruel winter here in Chickentown, we finally celebrate the return of our beloved iced coffee, with our beloved coffee cubes. (This is what Kornflake waits for all year.) And while we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-315-in-the-shadow-of-the-tall-girl

This week we have three concert reports from three different states: First we creep up to Portland, Maine in search of lobsters and They Might Be Giants. Then we find two of our favorite beverage...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-314-straw-hat-scandal

This is what happens when Kornflake chooses the subject for our Top 4 1/2 List: In honor of Cinco de Mayo (or our superior version, Cinco de Pie-o), the subject is... five. Yes, we're counting do...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-313-five-for-flopping

Grab a bowl of Frankenberry, because we're flashing back to Arisia (our favorite local science fiction convention), where Kevin moderated a panel called "Cereal and Cartoons: Saturday Mornings Re...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-312-cooler-than-a-sleestak

It's a quick show this week, but we still knock out three classic Flopcast segments for you, right before our big nap. In Chickens in the News, a rubber chicken museum is coming to Seattle (compl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-311-squiggy-theories

The stupid snow is melting, and we're starting to leave the house again, so we have a trio of concert reports for you this week. First, just ahead of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, B...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-310-bedazzle-vacuum

Join us as we flop back 42 years and flip through a 1976 issue of Dynamite! This classic magazine for kids was a staple of school book clubs from the mid-70s through the early 90s, and we recentl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-309-you-are-a-seventies-kid

It's the long-awaited return of a classic Flopcast segment, the Top 4 1/2 List! And it's an extra-stupid one, because the subject is simply... Peter. Yeah, we're listing our favorite Peters from ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-308-pure-peter-list

While Kornflake was away at MarsCon, Kevin was busy with silly things too. One of our comedy music heroes, "Weird Al" Yankovic, brought his "Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour" ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-307-weird-weird-weird

Despite a delightful series of weather-related delays and flight cancellations, Kornflake has returned from Minnesota with a full report on MarsCon! It's one of our very favorite conventions, tha...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-306-marscon-2018-everyone-will-boil

It's another movie-themed show, because Kornflake finally saw the latest Star Wars movie, just in time for actor John Boyega's birthday. (You know John. He plays Finn, the Stormtrooper with a hea...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-305-mollys-labyrinth

The Mayor of Chickentown returns with a full report from the big Los Angeles Doctor Who convention, Gallifrey One! Featuring: Doctor Who actors, writers, producers, podcasters, and puppeteers! Al...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-304-gallifrey-one-2018-cant-stop-tootie

This week we open our long-neglected Flopcast Mailbag and find a Top 4 1/2 List of video games featuring chickens! It's a nice bizarre list, and the games are mostly new to us (since we stopped p...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-303-the-ding-of-victory

Join us as Kornflake prepares for MarsCon (March 2-4 in Bloomington, Minnesota)! Many friends of the Flopcast from the comedy music scene will be there too! The MarsCon Dementia Track will featur...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-302-like-a-pangolin-our-marscon-preview

It's World Hippo Day, and we're always up for a high-stakes round of Hungry Hungry Hippos... but we're still terrified by Henrietta from the New Zoo Revue. Meanwhile in this week's Chickens in th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-301-hiding-from-the-hippos

Join us as we celebrate 300 episodes of The Flopcast! Yes, it's been 300 long weeks of giggling about stupid things for your amusement. (And yes, this has all been part of our court-ordered commu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-300-fake-fake-jan

Once again, it's time for our annual memorial show, so we're looking back on everyone we lost in 2017, from the world of pop culture and beyond. (And once again, it's our longest Flopcast ever! W...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-299-the-monty-hall-problem

Kevin, Kornflake, and the Mayor of Chickentown have a full report on our weekend at "New England's largest and most diverse science fiction and fantasy convention," Arisia! Including: Kevin's pan...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-298-arisia-2018-science-nap

We're creeping around a convention in Boston right now (find us at Arisia!), but we saved something special for this week's show, from a whole different convention! It's a panel from the American...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-297-live-from-dragoncon-sci-fi-tv-1977

We're in the middle of our 1990s-themed shows, so it's finally time to play the 90s Movie Game! (You may recall that we invented this goofy game last year. Check out Flopcast episodes 258 and 261...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-296-the-90s-movie-game-still-crazy-people

Why, it's New Year's Eve, so Kevin and Kornflake grab some coffee (that most festive of beverages) and look back at 2017. 'Twas a horrifying year overall (did you notice?), but we got through it ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-295-our-stupid-year-in-review

It's a quick show this holiday week, so you'll have plenty of time to dedicate to avoiding your family. But in the spirit of the season, we play a round of Figgy Pudding Pages, and discuss if kid...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-294-extra-nog

Our goofy holiday festivities continue with a special visit from the Mayor of Chickentown! And the Mayor is here to present a Top 4 1/2 List of Mayors! Specifically, all those wacky mayors from o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-293-a-very-mayor-christmas-0

This week we take a quick look back at some favorite cartoons, and one very memorable sax solo, from 1992. Also: Kevin returns to Oberon for a Nightmare Before Christmas concert and burlesque sho...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-292-turkey-holiday-special

It's a holiday spectacular, sort of, but not really! First, Kornflake's 1991 edition of National Whatever Day celebrates the debut of Ren and Stimpy, a show considered quite outrageous in its tim...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-291-that-snowman-wasnt-wearing-very-much

Our 1980s-themed shows have ended (but for how long?), and yikes, here come the 1990s. We'll get through this ten-episode descent into madness together, starting this week with a look at the year...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-290-washing-down-the-hammer-pants

In the final installment of our latest ten-part look at the 1980s, we recall the debut of the Energizer Bunny, and review how frightening Top 40 radio had become by 1989. (We'd rather listen to t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-289-jacko-and-the-bunny

Kornflake is off this week (or is she???), but the Mayor of Chickentown is here to discuss the movies and music of 1988. (At the movies, it was a big year for Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder, and Denni...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-288-the-ape-is-half-full

Our ridiculous ten-episode trip through the 80s continues with a quick look at 1987! For astronomy fans, a supernova was visible in the sky; meanwhile back on Earth, we were dancing to Pet Shop B...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-287-angry-goat

It's our goofy Halloween show, but we're also celebrating the year 1986! Oprah Winfrey's talk show debuted (but who cares), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first class (which totally ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-286-problematic-candy-nun

This week we're celebrating 1985 by looking at the top ten songs from 32 years ago (including Tears For Fears, A-ha, and most importantly, "Oh Sheila" by Ready for the World) as well as a book th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-285-go-swifty-go

Stay angry, Monkees fans! It's time for our annual review of the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! And despite a complete lack of Air Supply, it's not a bad list this year. Find out wh...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-284-cover-me-in-chickens

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate 1983 with a fast car (maybe even faster than KITT) and the top ten songs from 34 years ago this week. (It's a weird mix of new wave, country, rockabilly, hat-free me...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-283-just-because

It's a post-DragonCon catch-up show, with concert reports on the Bacon Brothers (we now have zero degrees of separation from the star of Footloose), They Might Be Giants (we celebrated with a who...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-282-bring-home-the-bacon-brothers

Here we go, kids: The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake to review our long weird weekend in Atlanta for DragonCon! Featuring: Panels on Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Westworld, Legion, R...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-281-dragoncon-2017-get-the-duck

We're still in DragonCon recovery mode around here, but this week we have something special from DragonCon to share with you! "Wonder Woman, at Last!" was Kevin's first panel of the weekend, for ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-280-wonder-woman-at-last

Kornflake is looking forward to Locate An Old Friend Day; Kevin is not. But we certainly agree on the awesomeness of the concert we attended recently, at which Kornflake was touched (literally) b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-279-like-a-turkey

It's a little later than usual (sorry, we've been very busy with very stupid things), but here is our sixth annual Flopcast Summer Robot Top 4 1/2 List! Hey, summertime is robot time around here....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-278-wonderful-weirdos-and-robots

It's that time again! Time to panic! Join us as we frantically prepare for the craziest convention on the geek calendar... DragonCon. It promises to be another long, weird, wonderful Labor Day we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-277-dragoncon-preview-always-bring-yoda

While preparing for this week's solar eclipse (with special glasses and coffee milk), Kevin and Kornflake catch up on their latest goofy summer activities, including: The Aquabats and CJ Ramone t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-276-earth-fruit-follies

As we creep ever closer to DragonCon, we're celebrating National Badge Ribbon Day. (And yes, we'll have our ridiculous Flopcast badge ribbons at DragonCon, available for the very reasonable price...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-275-pudding-crimes

Another goofy little summer show this week: We're celebrating Duran Duran Appreciation Day (despite being kicked out of the Union of the Snake years ago); Kornflake recommends My So Called Podcas...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-274-morris-the-lettuce

It's a summertime catch up episode, before we completely shift into frantic get-ready-for-DragonCon mode! Discussed this week: Spider-Man Homecoming (they made another Kornflake-friendly superher...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-273-philadelphia-or-lederhosen

We're gonna need a bigger podcast, because we're celebrating Shark Week with a ridiculous shark-themed Top 4 1/2 List! We have shark cartoons, shark TV shows, shark songs, shark candy, and perhap...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-272-happy-shark-week-sally

We're back from Minnesota with a full report on CONvergence, an annual gathering of awesome crazy people who are really into convention badge ribbons. (We may have given out more Flopcast ribbons...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-271-convergence-2017-smuckering-the-bed

Our excruciating all-summer-long review of High Feather continues! In High Feather episode 4, the kids publish the camp newspaper (using incredible technology like mimeograph machines and typewr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-270-battle-of-the-network-skinks

Kornflake tells us about Boom Box Parade Day (probably the biggest American holiday celebrated on July 4th), so stock up on D batteries and take to the streets. Meanwhile, Kevin and Kornflake's r...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-269-wheres-tito

Meteor Day is this week, and it's a painful reminder that we can never remember which ones are meteors, which are meteorites, and which are meteoroids. (There must be a better way. Let's just cal...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-268-space-grime

Flopcast listeners follow up on last week's turtle list with some favorite turtles of their own (yikes, we missed some good ones); Kornflake attends a Jim's Big Ego house concert along with her c...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-267-delicious-and-miserable

It's mostly turtle talk this week, kids -- join us for a Top 4 1/2 List of our favorite turtles! The list includes a ninja turtle or two, of course, as well as some slightly lesser known turtles ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-266-turtle-power-all-the-way-down

It's a mostly music-themed little show this week, with quick concert reports on Ben Folds (with the Boston Pops), Petty Morals, Go Betty Go, and The Dollyrots. We also recommend the new album fro...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-265-chickens-of-the-galaxy

We have an unusual show this week, and needless to say, it involves Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Years ago, we rescued a weird old book from a Woonsocket library book sale. It's called "My Private L...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-264-joyces-hermits

Kornflake celebrates National Title Track Day with another goofy Flopcast game, in which we must identify album title tracks. (It would have been so much easier if we only used Air Supply songs.)...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-263-the-flopcast

Yes, our goofy little podcast is five years old this week, so we're celebrating, as expected, with coffee and more coffee. But we're also looking back at all our amazing guests (yikes, for a sho...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-262-five-years-of-flopping

Kornflake is out sick this week, so the Mayor of Chickentown is filling in as special guest host. And with nothing better to do, we decided to play another stupid game. Yes, this is the 1970s ver...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-261-the-70s-movie-game-bad-news-birds

You asked for more Flopcast Top 4 1/2 Lists, and as long as you don't mind the topics getting stupider, we shall deliver. This week, for example, we're counting down our favorite Eds and/or Eddie...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-260-eddie-eddie-and-eddie

We're sleepy and confused as usual, but we're back with a quick silly report from Super Megafest! It's one of our favorite local conventions, and we ran into many of our favorite local nerds. We ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-259-spring-super-megafest-2017-brady-glow

Ready for a stupid game? Kevin and Kornflake have each compiled a list of their favorite movies for each year of the 1980s (which, according to scientists, is the only decade that really matters)...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-258-the-80s-movie-game-little-flop-of-horrors

This week the Mayor of Chickentown joins Kornflake for a Top 4 1/2 List of pop culture catchphrases! (Kevin could not be bothered to prepare a list. Hey, someone has to sip coffee and make sarcas...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-257-catchphrase-if-you-can

Thanks to an annoying springtime snowstorm, Kornflake cannot get to Chickentown Studios! So we're on Skype for this week's show... which means Kevin gets all the coffee. But we do have a couple o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-256-rats

Here in miserable freezing Massachusetts, a knitting club is making tiny sweaters for chickens. (Yes, this is our kind of news item.) But this week we're also celebrating funny women (for She's F...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-255-skink-sweaters-and-vole-vests

Kornflake is back from Minnesota with a full report on MarsCon, which featured performances by: Carrie Dahlby, the great Luke Ski, Mikey Mason, Devo Spice, Marc with a C, Power Salad, Insane Ian,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-254-marscon-2017-lobster-transformer

Although they're not Air Supply, we're still excited about the upcoming reunion tour by another great Australian band, Midnight Oil. (Hey, Air Supply and Midnight Oil should tour together! And Me...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-253-ticket-to-flop

The Mayor of Chickentown returns with a report from the Los Angeles Doctor Who convention known as Gallifrey One, where she found the original K9 robot dog (and yeah, some robot mummies), but did...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-252-robot-mummies

We know you've all been wondering what we would do for our big milestone episode 251 celebration... and the answer is... not much! But this is still a fun little show with several classic Flopcas...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-251-that-magic-number

Kevin returns to his old stomping grounds of Woonsocket, Rhode Island for a frighteningly close encounter with 1980s pop icon (and our personal hair hero) Richard Marx. (Yes, he was right there w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-250-raiders-of-the-lost-marx

In honor of Champion Crab Races Day, we recall weird pet hermit crabs, weird comic book ads for Crazy Crabs, and weird late night calls for crab rangoon. And to keep a weird animal theme running ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-249-the-kookaburra-chronicles

It's time to review our long crazy day at the Boston Women's March! (The ride into the city was crazy enough; all 175,000 marchers squished into the same subway car, or so it seemed...) Lots more...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-248-be-princess-leia

After a brief but vital discussion about hula dancing in the winter (we highly recommend a weather-resistant adhesive for your coconut bikini), Kevin and Kornflake present a Top 4 1/2 List of our...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-247-doctor-doctor

Kevin is back from Arisia (Boston's big science fiction convention, held in the middle of winter, to eliminate the weak), with a full report including cosplayers, birdwatchers, bad science, a par...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-246-turn-on-your-flop-light

It's time for our annual memorial show, as we look back on those we lost in 2016, and knock back shots of coffee and/or water (you know, the hard stuff) in their honor. We remember the big ones, ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-245-farewell-schneider

Just in time to be too late for the holidays, we open the Flopcast mailbag for a "What's in the Bag?" segment, and find a couple of mysterious envelopes mailed with Rankin Bass Rudolph stamps! Th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-244-one-turxt-at-a-time

It's our first show of 2017, so once again it's time to reveal our New Year's Resolutions. (Kornflake's will interest you podcast fans, while Kevin's is just stupid. Some things never change.) An...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-243-drunk-guys-in-santa-suits

If you want to spend the holidays hiding from your family and listening to goofy podcasts, we have you covered (for 23 minutes, at least). First we celebrate No Interruption Day, and you can too,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-242-mutual-of-chickentowns-wild-kingdom

Your Flopcast hosts have not been spotted together at many conventions in 2016, but it happened at Northeast Comic Con! (Just barely -- Kornflake was feeling under the weather, but still managed ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-241-coffee-coffins-and-unicorn-sheep

Just in time for the stupid holidays, it's the long-awaited (by two or three people, maybe) return of the Flopcast Top 4 1/2 List! And in a desperate attempt to be festive, we're counting down ou...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-240-christmas-crustaceans

A trio of festive concert reports this week: Kornflake journeyed to a casino in the middle of Rhode Island and finally saw The Monkees (parking was tricky, but the view of Peter Tork was outstand...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-239-thank-you-ninjas

Great Hera, it's another 75th anniversary show, and this is a big one: we're celebrating Wonder Woman. We'll look back at Princess Diana's curious 1941 comic book roots, her bizarre 1960s TV pilo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-238-in-your-satin-tights-fighting-for-your-rights

It's Thanksgiving week, and we're celebrating with cranberries, espresso, and Robbie Rist (you know, just like the Pilgrims). We also catch up on silly events of the last few weeks, including a w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-237-rock-bottom-hornsby

Okay, it's been a tough week, and we're even more frightened and confused than usual. But we have pizza (watch out for those creepy anchovies), we have root beer (and its tricky pal, Moxie), and ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-236-pie-time

Cover yourselves -- it's time for our annual whining and complaining about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! However, this year we're thrilled to announce that the nominees are The Monkees, The Go-...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-235-nun-money

Since two geeky conventions happened the same weekend, we divided and conquered. Kornflake wandered up to New Hampshire for Granite Game Summit, where she enjoyed a new game called Junk Art (but ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-234-leapin-lizards

This week we're rolling (Del Amitri-style) back twenty years to recall the music of 1996. (You can blame Dar Williams; we just saw her in concert celebrating the 20th anniversary of her classic M...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-233-1996-in-music-primitive-radio-ga-ga

If you're a fan of Wonder Woman and/or potatoes, we have more podcast recommendations; rapper Eminem has a birthday this week (can you guess which one of us is a fan?); in the long-awaited return...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-232-the-kilted-chicken

This week we rediscover Big John Little John (a lost classic of 1970s Saturday morning TV, starring Robbie Rist!); during weird trips to the dentist, Kevin gets a flu shot and Kornflake gets a fl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-231-chickenpuff-girls

It's election season (had you noticed?), and the Mayor of Chickentown buys our votes with magical coffee-themed gifts; in case you're somehow not sick of our voices yet, we list our recent guest ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-230-kornflake-cant-kale

It's our annual DragonCon review show, in which Kornflake patiently tolerates Kevin's endless yammering about our very favorite gathering of nerds and/or geeks in hot and sticky downtown Atlanta,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-229-dragoncon-2016-do-you-want-a-banana

Kornflake is back from Chicago, where she was surrounded by some of our favorite silly people at FumpFest, a whole crazy convention of comedy music! Her adventures included Dementia Water Aerobic...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-228-fumpfest-2016-my-stomach-and-face-hurt-from-laughing

It's our convention recovery show! (Because we knew that after FumpFest and DragonCon, we'd need an extra week readjusting to reality...) So this week we're celebrating Scooby Doo (and his tricky...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-227-a-turkey-named-scooby-doo

Lords of light! Just in time for DragonCon 2016, we're flashing back to DragonCon 2015 for a panel about Thundarr the Barbarian! Yes, Kevin and a bunch more sleep-deprived maniacs from the Americ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-226-thundarr-the-barbarian-feels-awesome

We're just days away from DragonCon, which means nerds and geeks from around the world shall soon descend upon hot and sticky Atlanta, Georgia. (Annoying reminder #1: Despite what everyone is say...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-225-dragoncon-preview-dont-cosplay-as-plankton

Breaking news: The Olympic golf course has been overrun by capybaras (our favorite giant rodents), and it's pretty much the greatest thing in sports history. Meanwhile, Kornflake and Doornail cel...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-224-rick-springfield-petting-zoo

Time to get back in the pool, kids -- Kornflake is bringing her Dementia Water Aerobics class to FumpFest 2016! It's a whole weekend of comedy music, featuring a bunch of our favorite silly human...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-223-vegemite-cupcake

It's become a beloved summer tradition here in Chickentown... yes, it's our fifth annual robot list. No special theme this time -- we're just listing whatever robots happen to be on our inferior ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-222-guess-what-i-am-a-robot

We're back from a long day of 1980s-style silliness in the middle of Kornflake's home state of New Hampshire. Our first stop was Funspot, a giant amazing arcade packed with dozens of classic vide...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-221-do-the-crazy-kong

This week we've secretly replaced our regular coffee with Hi-C Ecto Cooler, because it's time to check out the new Ghostbusters movie! Kevin recalls his favorite cover version of the Ghostbusters...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-220-the-rabid-weasels-go-ghostbustin

Kornflake reports on the second annual FlopFest celebration, which mostly involves flopping in a hammock in the middle of New Hampshire. This year's FlopFest also featured tall monsters, small ma...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-219-flopfest-2016-multiple-gilligans

We're back from a long weekend of science and silliness at CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota! Our convention report includes: A meteorite from Mars (Robolar would be so proud), special guest...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-218-convergence-2016-mobile-toast-and-contraband-coffee

It's miserably hot here in Chickentown, and local scientists (who are totally not just rubber chickens in lab coats) say that summer is to blame. They're probably right; we can't blame EVERYTHING...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-217-summer-flopping-had-me-a-blast

Kevin and Kornflake are back from Northeast Comic Con, where they found Muppet choirs, Rubber Chicken Comics, the Lost in Space chariot, and some of our favorite costumers (including Cosplay Dad,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-216-northeast-comic-con-hey-micky

Kevin and Kornflake want you to celebrate National Selfie Day, especially if you're a macaque; we creep down to the rock clubs of Providence, Rhode Island in search of Mongoose Molly; we have a n...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-215-a-new-fun-beverage

Kevin and Kornflake are talking music again this week, following a concert by 80s legends Cyndi Lauper and Boy George. It's been over thirty years since Cyndi conquered the world of pop music, wi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-214-dont-dream-theyre-sober

The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake for a very special Flopcast celebrating fifty years of The Monkees! We discuss our earliest memories of the TV show (from reruns on a Boston UHF...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-213-monkee-monkee-monkee-monkee

Kids, this week we're talking about snakes. (Blame our tricky pal Matt, who suggested another weird Top 4 1/2 List...) Whether you're totally creeped out by snakes (a touch of ophidiophobia, perh...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-212-snakes-on-a-podcast

As summertime approaches here in Chickentown, Kevin and Kornflake are back on the iced coffee, featuring our beloved coffee cubes! (Coffee cubes are like Time for Timer's "Sunshine on a Stick," b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-211-tickled-skink

Another superhero anniversary is upon us, as Green Arrow turns 75 this year! So we're looking back at the long crazy history of our favorite comic book archer (sorry, Hawkeye). We recall how Gree...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-210-were-you-dating-the-green-arrow

In honor of National Night Shift Workers Day, we're completely exhausted! But we still manage to creep up to Lowell to see Gunpowder Gelatine and Aerochix (covering the music of Queen and Aerosmi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-209-flamingo-detector

Last week Harvard University was invaded by Stormtroopers (and at least one Wookiee), possibly because Carrie Fisher was there receiving the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Hum...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-208-stupid-can-be-fun

Can Kornflake see all the costumes, collectibles, and celebrity guests at Super Megafest in just ninety minutes, and not be late for karaoke? Let's find out. We did indeed find plenty of crazy ch...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-207-spring-super-megafest-2016-magnum-and-the-bandit

We received a long list of suggestions for this week's Top 4 1/2 List... and we picked the very dumbest one. So please enjoy our list of guys named Bill. (Yes, despite "Bill" being such an exoti...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-206-bill-collectors

Kornflake's 2016 convention tour continues, and this week she shares her adventures at Anime Boston! Getting there was an adventure in itself, but eventually she found a subway mermaid to lead th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-205-anime-boston-2016-most-of-the-moon

While every other podcast is busy reviewing Batman v Superman, we know what the people really want. They want Kornflake's brutally honest review of the new Full House sequel series, Fuller House....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-204-i-think-theres-a-vole-now

A sleepy Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake for a round of "What's in the Bag?" featuring Batman and lobsters (our two favorite things); in perhaps our all-time stupidest National Wha...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-203-some-melons

Get ready to party, kids -- it's National Button Week. (Which one of your Flopcast co-hosts had New Kids on the Block buttons, and which had Men at Work and Air Supply buttons? The world may neve...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-202-darth-arthur

Thanks to the highly lucrative world of podcasting, Kevin and Kornflake are pretty much their own bosses these days. But before they got filthy rich giggling about chickens every week, they too h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-201-awkward-bosses

Oops! Kevin, Kornflake, and the Mayor of Chickentown are trapped in a walk-in freezer! (Kornflake didn't know the door locked automatically!) But while waiting to be rescued by a wacky neighbor, ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-200-celebrate-being-a-cereal

This week we're talking with novelist (The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs), storyteller (The Moth), and podcaster (Boy vs. Girl) Matthew Dicks! Matthew and Kevin grew up in the same tiny tow...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-199-disorderly-turkey-conduct

Because we tend to get everything wrong, we have some corrections from a previous Flopcast, mostly involving astronauts and Monkees; a recent benefit show by Dar Williams and Catie Curtis turned ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-198-stu-stu-studio

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate 75 years of the King of Atlantis, the guy in the scaly orange shirt (perhaps not the fanciest of superhero costumes), Aquaman! Yes, Aquaman has been talking to the f...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-197-aquaman-is-wild-wet-and-wacky

Kevin and Kornflake check out the new MarsCon Dementia Track fundraiser album, and you should too. (Warning: Contains goofy songs by The Sponge Awareness Foundation, and lobster songs by Kornflak...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-196-we-want-a-space-flute

Kevin and Kornflake are full of excuses this week, because somebody decided "excuses" should be the subject of this week's Top 4 1/2 List. (We won't name any names, except for the name "Kornflake...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-195-signed-epsteins-mother

After a three year absence, Kevin and Kornflake went creeping back to Arisia! (A science fiction convention on the Boston waterfront in mid-January... this is how we eliminate the weaker nerds fr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-194-arisia-2016-gazoo-with-a-kazoo

We have a quick show for you this week, because we're sleepy, and Kornflake keeps spilling the coffee. In our "Chickens in the News" segment: It has been suggested that in order to sustain the h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-193-you-could-be-a-fembot

It's time for a Flopcast-style look back at those we lost in 2015. The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake as we recall some of our favorite recently-departed actors, musicians, writer...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-192-not-a-good-year-for-joe-rockhead

We're kicking off the new year with one more convention report from the old year! Northeast Comic Con featured the stars of A Christmas Story; a round of Press Your Luck (No Whammies!) with Big B...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-191-northeast-comic-con-danger-judy-robinson

It's our final Flopcast of 2015! Almost time to flop over and relax! We celebrate with the return of Kornflake's regular National Whatever Day segment, in which we learn why paper snowflakes can ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-190-dip-them-in-milk

Happy Holidays from The Flopcast, where we hide our toys inside rubber chickens, so the Burgermeister won't find them. This week Ed joins us again, to talk about yet another pre-Sponge Awareness ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-189-our-super-soaking-wet-paint-holiday-spectacular

This week we're joined by a special surprise guest (it was certainly a surprise to Kornflake): Ed, of The Sponge Awareness Foundation! (That's Kevin's old comedy band, which you probably knew alr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-188-caught-in-a-vortex

Kevin and Kornflake's ill-conceived trip back through the 80s brings us to 1987! It was the year Debbie Gibson taught us to shake our love -- a practice which is illegal in most states these days...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-187-hiding-out-in-chickentown

This week our excruciating ten-part look at the 80s brings us to 1986! 'Twas the year we danced on the ceiling, had fun tonight, and were rocked by Amadeus (which explains the headache we've had ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-186-hey-hey-were-the-howler-monkeys

We're halfway through our court-ordered ten-episode celebration of the 80s, which means it's time to talk about 1985. Kornflake has a song by Passion Pit (not from 1985, but still thematically ap...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-185-the-legend-of-turkey-stark

For our 1984-themed episode, Kevin and Kornflake each have a weird TV memory to share. Kornflake recalls DTV, which was Disney Channel's take on MTV-style music videos. (But where was Billy Ocean...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-184-chicken-master

This week we're creeping back to 1983, the year Top 40 radio was totally conquered by goofy new wave. We were blinded with science, rocked down to Electric Avenue, safety danced if we wanted to, ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-183-of-nena-and-nuggets

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate the year 1982 by discussing a couple of lost Saturday morning cartoons ("Meatballs and Spaghetti" and "Pandamonium") and an early computer virus ("Elk Cloner"). Scie...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-182-chaka-khanflake

With our neighboring red planet in the news lately (we can't wait to try that delicious new Martian water), Kevin and Kornflake are counting down their Top 4 1/2 favorite Martians (and miscellane...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-181-our-favorite-martians

This week our usual National Whatever Day segment is replaced by a weird tribute to 1980! (Next week we'll tackle 1981. And because we're so obsessed with the 80s, we'll keep this going for ten w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-180-pink-lady-post-its-and-pugs

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https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-179-tsacpolf

It's a quick show this week, but we still manage to cover all the pressing issues of the day, including bumblebee costumes (Kornflake wants hers back), World Octopus Day (Doctor Octopus is celebr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-178-bereft-of-frankenberry

As summer turns to fall, Kornflake bids a fond farewell to iced coffee, and we consider packing up and moving the whole show to Turkeytown. Also: We recommend several podcasts recorded during (or...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-177-chickens-in-charge

Last week Kevin wouldn't shut up about DragonCon, so this week we're catching up with Kornflake! As usual she has been busy with silly adventures of her own, including an impromptu trip to Chicag...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-176-bellydancing-groots

We're safely back in Chickentown after a crazy weekend in Atlanta (with 70,000 of our favorite geeks) for DragonCon! Our convention report includes: the stars of Arrow, Flash, Kids in the Hall, a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-175-dragoncon-2015-mummies-and-pie

Kevin has abandoned Chickentown to join the crazy people at DragonCon! Assuming he isn't captured by Sleestaks, we'll have a full report in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, here's a special panel we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-174-saturday-morning-cartoon-fever

This week we're celebrating 75 years of the fastest man alive, The Flash! In the comic books, Flash was a founding member of the Justice League and the Justice Society, as well as a pivotal figur...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-173-would-the-flash-lie-to-you

We're less than two weeks from our favorite geek event of the whole stupid year: DragonCon. So before we begin the long, treacherous journey from Chickentown to Atlanta (we got a great deal on a ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-172-dragoncon-preview-your-ring-and-your-ding

Summertime is robot time (as all good citizens know here in Chickentown), and so it's time for our fourth annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List! This year, in a desperate attempt to keep things inte...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-171-robot-a-go-go

It's another Flopcast convention report, this time from Boston Comic Con! (Official convention motto: "Let's see how many Harley Quinns we can squish into one building!" It sounds better in the o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-170-boston-comic-con-2015-i-was-juggled

We have an extra-short, extra-goofy show this week, because Kool and the Gang were right: it's TOO HOT. (Of course, Kool and the Gang were always right. So bring your good times and your laughter...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-169-bird-church

Kevin and Kornflake are back in Chickentown after a goofy road trip to Vermont, where they found bugs, mud, and other constant reminders that they should never leave the house. But hey, in additi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-168-seven-gin-and-tonics-to-the-stage

Kevin, Kornflake, and The Mayor have abandoned Chickentown to record this week's show from a secret undisclosed location! But we'll be back in our regular studio next week (the chickens are getti...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-167-convergence-vs-flopfest

It's been 100 weeks since Flopcast episode 66, which was dedicated to V66 (Boston's own UHF music video channel back in the mid-80s). So for episode 166, we're doing it again, just in time to cel...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-166-v66-the-beat-of-chickentown

Kornflake dreams of a Flopcast road trip to Wayne, Nebraska... possibly because they have a GIANT ANNUAL CHICKEN FESTIVAL!!! Meanwhile Kevin has been creeping around the rock clubs of Boston agai...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-165-flop-goes-the-world

Kevin and Kornflake have one more item of business to discuss from FuMPFeST, as Kevin reveals that in the middle of this funny music convention, he sneaked off to a whole other convention! This w...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-164-sexy-as-a-disco-mummy

Kevin and Kornflake are back in Chickentown, but can't stop screaming about FuMPFeST! This week we review our whole crazy weekend at this funny music convention in Wheeling, Illinois (a town Korn...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-163-fumpfest-2015-part-2-my-sweater-smells-like-ian

Kevin and Kornflake are back in Wheeling, Illinois for the second annual FuMPFeST comedy music convention! And we're joined by our regular giggling, coffee-spilling correspondent, Doornail! Also ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-162-fumpfest-2015-part-1-speaking-of-nakedness

Kevin and Kornflake discuss a new documentary featuring Big Bird, a new Kickstarter campaign for The Perhapanauts (get a voicemail message from a chupacabra!), new music from Dar Williams and Ana...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-161-lower-your-goonie-standards

Most scientists agree that Kevin is tragically obsessed with the classic 1984 movie Footloose. Kornflake, however, had never actually seen it! Thus our mission was clear -- we had to watch Footlo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-160-floploose

We have quite a mixed bag (but not a "What's in the Bag?") of silly topics this week. You'll learn why Kornflake is totally obsessed with Highlander, how to look insane when you see the new Aveng...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-159-diners-steampunks-and-swords

It's the end of an era in late night TV, as David Letterman wraps up 33 years of stupid pets and guys under the seats. So this week, we're looking back on how we discovered Dave in the 80s, how h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-158-brush-with-dave

Kevin and Kornflake are frightened and confused by creepy leprechauns; The Sponge Awareness Foundation is crushed by falling drunk people at a They Might Be Giants concert; Jay Leno is mesmerize...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-157-shark-jumping-marshmallows

Another convention report, from the new spring edition of Super Megafest! Featuring pirates, Ghostbusters, Bigfoot hunters, Mr. T, Wicked Geeky costumers, a Niki Luparelli concert, a CHiPs reunio...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-156-super-megafest-between-a-rock-and-a-ponch-place

It's been too long since we presented a good old fashioned ridiculous Flopcast Top 4 1/2 List... and so this week, we bring you a Betty list. (Hey, we take that "ridiculous" part pretty seriously...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-155-betty-please

Our report from the South Coast Toy and Comic Show includes: silly cat comics; a very tempting Monster Squad board game; the stars of Buck Rogers, Clerks, and The Last Dragon; and our dream of un...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-154-heap-watch

According to the Elders, it's time to celebrate 75 years of Captain Marvel! Yes, young Billy Batson has been screaming "Shazam!" and fighting crime (and Superman's lawyers) as Captain Marvel sinc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-153-blah-blah-blah-shazam

Kevin and Kornflake are finally back in Chickentown, just in time for Jackie Chan Day. (We're celebrating by doing our own stunt work throughout the entire podcast.) This week: An 80s-themed conc...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-152-working-with-strippers

Still live from Minnesota, it's the shocking conclusion of our MarsCon coverage! We thought we'd end the convention by stuffing a bunch of crazy people into a hotel room. We did it for science. J...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-151-marscon-2015-part-3-nun-cookies

Live from Minnesota, our MarsCon coverage continues! First Kevin and Kornflake are joined by Ed, the other half of The Sponge Awareness Foundation! (We get Ed's first impressions of the insanity ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-150-marscon-2015-part-2-enjoy-your-inflatable-instrument

Kevin and Kornflake have always secretly dreamed of being Match Game host Gene Rayburn. (Don't pretend you haven't too, you weirdo.) And so for our live version of The Flopcast at MarsCon last we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-149-live-at-marscon-2015-the-flop-game

Kevin and Kornflake are far from Chickentown Studios this week, because it's time for MarsCon! So instead of a regular show, here's something special we've been saving for you. A few months back,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-148-kevin-and-luke-dont-talk-about-toons

The Mayor of Chickentown reports on the Gallifrey One convention (where she met a Doctor Who-themed Muppet) and Rebecca Watson's Quiz-o-Tron (where Mike Phirman had to count his chickens); during...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-147-flying-monkeys-run-in-the-family

Next week, assuming we're not grounded by a horrifying blizzard (place your bets now), Kevin and Kornflake shall return to Bloomington, Minnesota for MarsCon! In addition to seeing some of our fa...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-146-like-phoebe-cates-our-marscon-preview

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate National Drink Wine Day by popping open a bottle of Rex Goliath Pinot Noir... and the Mayor of Chickentown crashes into the studio like Kool-Aid Man to join us. A co...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-145-feeling-a-little-swoosie

There comes a time for Kevin and Kornflake to devote the whole stupid show to the 30th anniversary of "We Are the World" by USA for Africa! We're shameless 80s geeks, our Lionel Richie mugs are l...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-144-usa-for-chickentown

Chickentown is completely buried in snow, but Kevin and Kornflake tunneled and/or tauntauned their way into the studio, just for you. This week Kevin reports on a Niki Luparelli show (Niki can si...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-143-its-hip-to-jump-on-squares

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate Puzzle Day by dressing like the Riddler (or not); a recent production of the Mayor's favorite musical features hula hoops, chicken people, and the sister of the guy ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-142-merrily-we-flop-along

In a "very special episode" (as they say in annoying network promos), Kevin, Kornflake, and the Mayor look back on those we lost in 2014 (including folks from movies, TV, radio, and comics -- our...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-141-come-bounce-with-me

This week, in a very special post-holiday Flopcast: We celebrate Appreciate a Dragon Day (and have a correction about the Tic Tac Dough dragon); Kornflake and Doornail's Christmas trip to Florida...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-140-chocolate-and-booze

The rumors are true! The government is secretly controlled by zombie chickens from space! Also, the Flopcast is now part of the Earth Station One Network! That's right, we've completely sold out!...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-139-wait-whats-going-on

It's our final Flopcast of 2014, so we're extra goofy and exhausted! This week: National Buffet Day reminds us of yet another creepy tale of Woonsocket; Gunpowder Gelatine has Queen cover songs (...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-138-wink-martindale-on-a-trampoline

Our goofy holiday celebrations continue here in Chickentown! (We already have plenty of grievances; now we just need a Festivus pole.) Kornflake is celebrating with Legos and a giant tree-shaped ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-137-the-figgy-pudding-pages

We're celebrating the holidays in Chickentown by drinking coffee and making podcasts! (It's pretty festive around here all year, actually.) Kevin reports on recent shows by Garfunkel and Oates (b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-136-walk-like-a-christmas-chicken

Kornflake's renovation plans involve an Atari 2600 and a hammock; it's National "Blossom" Day, but we're more interested in "My Two Dads" and "Gimme a Break"; we compare weddings and science fict...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-135-in-living-lobster-color

Kornflake makes her triumphant return to Chickentown, just in time to teach us about unfrozen cavemen! (Was our favorite Facts of Life girl Mindy Cohn ever frozen in ice? Perhaps not, but it's a ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-134-super-megafest-2014-cant-beat-a-space-monkey

We kick off the holidays with an extra-weird show, because Kornflake was too busy to join us in the studio! But worry not -- the Mayor of Chickentown stepped in as emergency guest co-host, and we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-133-flopsgiving-turkeys

Kornflake attends yet another Lindsay and TV's Kyle wedding (those crazy kids just can't stop getting married) and gets stuck on a lobster sign (of course); Kevin reports on shows by comedian Jim...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-132-hillbilly-burrito

Rhode Island Comic Con was a huge crazy fun event once again... as long as you could get inside, and stay inside. (Alas, there were some major crowd control "hiccups"...) Kevin somehow managed to...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-131-rhode-island-comic-con-2014-we-have-cookies

Kornflake is running from the law as her ribbon-twirling habit spirals out of control; we're paranoid and suspicious about National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day (it's run by a big easte...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-130-psychedelic-levitating-tapeworm

Break out your lousy miniature Almond Joy bars -- it's Halloween in Chickentown again! But this year, instead of discussing more traditional Halloween monsters (like Count Chocula), we're talking...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-129-bigfoot-needs-pants

A totally exhausted Kornflake is back from California, where she attended the wedding of our awesome friends, TV's Kyle and Lindsay! It was pretty much a typical wedding... except for a parade of...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-128-all-the-nuts

Kevin and Kornflake talk about "Kyle and Luke Talk About Toons," as well as the end of Saturday morning cartoons on network TV (but to us, of course, they'll never really go away -- and that's on...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-127-caribbean-chicken-queen

This week, in an effort to make the Top 4 1/2 List even stupider, we're listing our favorite mouths. So yes, get ready for a parade of mouth-themed cartoon characters, superheroes, wrestlers, com...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-126-youre-the-beaker

In honor of Name Your Car Day, Kornflake reveals her car's name, which was totally inspired by Kenny Rogers; everyone freaks out over the recent Facts of Life cast reunion and upcoming DVD set (E...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-125-tootie-we-still-love-you

As we enter the fall, Kevin asks Kornflake about her various silly late summer activities. This was probably a huge mistake. The discussion includes: VHS tapes of punctuation-based humor, good bo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-124-three-jobs-a-dog-and-a-hula-hoop

Kevin and the Mayor are back in Chickentown with a full report on the craziest convention of the year: DragonCon! Featuring: Land of the Lost's Will, Holly, Chaka, and a Sleestak; Nestor the Long...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-123-dragoncon-2014-disco-hobbits-in-the-habitrails

We're still in DragonCon recovery mode this week, so instead of a "normal" show, here's something special we've been saving for you. Last summer at CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota, Kevin wa...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-122-shirt-tales

Here's a weird little show we prepared for you just before Kevin ran screaming from Chickentown for DragonCon. This week: Kornflake lives every day like it's Be Late For Something Day; a trip int...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-121-we-had-a-dream-we-had-an-awesome-dream

Once again it's time to wander down to Atlanta for the greatest and geekiest gathering of the year: DragonCon. In this preview episode, we discuss our favorite upcoming DragonCon events (don't mi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-120-dragoncon-preview-were-looking-for-yip-yips

If Kevin and Kornflake sound exhausted, you can blame Boston Comic Con, which was huge and crazy and perhaps a bit overcrowded and WOULD ALL YOU MANIACS JUST GET OUT OF OUR WAY?!? Thank you. Wand...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-119-boston-comic-con-2014-no-whammies-no-whammies

Kevin and Kornflake are completely unprepared for Presidential Joke Day; Kornflake's annual report from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival includes potato songs, mystery hammocks, bacon grenades, and...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-118-bacon-grenade

As requested by absolutely no one, it's time for our third annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List! This year the subject is robot songs -- songs about robots, and yes, songs BY robots. (Since robots ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-117-taco-is-not-a-robot

Kevin and Kornflake take a break from their seemingly nonstop convention and concert schedule, and enjoy a miserably hot summer day in Chickentown, where the iced coffee is their only friend. Thi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-116-flopnado

This week we're joined by the Mayor of Chickentown to discuss our weekend at CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota! A few thousand of our fellow geeks (including our friends from Skepchick and Ma...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-115-convergence-2014-the-floor-is-lava

Kevin and Kornflake are finally back in Chickentown, gulping down iced coffee and looking back at last month's awesome funny music convention, FumpFest. Topics include: Kevin's weird pre-FumpFest...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-114-fumpfest-2014-boob-tree-with-vodka

Kornflake has a touch of FumpFest con crud, and Kevin is leaving for yet another convention (that'd be CONvergence in Minnesota)... which means you're not getting a regular Flopcast this week. Bu...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-113-the-dragoncon-super-vehicle-showdown-monkey-in-the-trunk

Despite the pleas of terrified citizens everywhere, it finally happened: The Flopcast LIVE! June 22, in Wheeling, Illinois, Kevin and Kornflake were onstage at FumpFest, a convention dedicated to...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-112-live-at-fumpfest-2014-we-broke-doornail

By the time you're reading this, Kevin and Kornflake will be in Chicago for FumpFest! But here's the last show we recorded before surrendering the studio to a big angry yak, so it could do its ow...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-111-yay-dead-things

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate National Splurge Day by arming dogs and chickens with credit cards and setting them loose in the mall; the Kids in the Hall are back, and they're still crushing your...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-110-chicken-lady-on-our-list

Kevin and Kornflake prepare to run screaming out of Chickentown, because it's almost time for FumpFest! This is a comedy music convention, so we'll be hanging out with all our demented friends (s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-109-fumpfest-preview-attack-of-the-kornflakified-zombies

Kevin has a startling Sleestak correction; Kornflake has a startling book about lobsters; we report on concerts featuring The Monkees, Freezepop, and The Somerville Ukulele Club; our tales of get...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-108-exploding-vice-principal-day

Here's an odd little show for you -- Kornflake suggested a Top 4 1/2 List of hairdos! Of course this means a trip back to the 70s and 80s (not exactly unfamiliar territory for The Flopcast), when...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-107-you-cant-braid-a-sleestak

It's a music-themed episode this week, as Kevin and Kornflake discuss recent shows by Jim's Big Ego (featuring an onstage appearance by Kornflake), The Aquabats (featuring a member of The Cars, a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-106-we-love-keytar-bear

Happy 75th Birthday to Batman! This week Kevin and Kornflake look back at the Caped Crusader's first 75 years, including: Bat-Mite (Batman's Great Gazoo-style imp), Batwoman (who fought crime usi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-105-bed-bath-and-batman-beyond

Kornflake learns that she has some National Whatever Day competition; we review the final nominees for this year's Logan Awards for Excellence in Comedy Music (to be presented at FumpFest!); we m...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-104-all-my-lobster-stalkers

In this week's Flopcast (it's a short show, because we're sleepy): National Whatever Day has us celebrating lumpy things; a new Pudding Pages book leads to a discussion of perhaps the most horrif...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-103-all-hail-the-hoop-chicken

Kevin has some very important Facts of Life and Robbie Rist updates; Kornflake goes kayaking and meets a scary angry goose; for National Whatever Day, we're looking for weird science fiction stor...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-102-captain-caveman-was-a-furry-little-freak

This week's National Whatever Day reminds Kevin of yet another story from junior high school (and this might be the dumbest one yet); Kornflake makes a startling discovery about the Facts of Life...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-101-the-demon-birds-of-north-dakota

Kevin and Kornflake can't quite figure out how to celebrate the 100th episode of The Flopcast! (Yeah, perhaps we could have worked on this in advance... but those Super Friends DVDs weren't going...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-100-triple-digit-flopping

Here comes one final ridiculous MarsCon episode! In two ridiculous parts! First it's Sunday morning, the last day of MarsCon, as Kevin, Kornflake, and Doornail have breakfast with special guest C...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-099-marscon-2014-part-3-power-breakfast

We're still at MarsCon, and we're still teaming up with other silly podcasts! This week it's time to "Flop About Toons," as Kevin and Kornflake are joined by TV's Kyle and the great Luke Ski, hos...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-098-marscon-2014-part-2-flop-about-toons

The Pod of Destiny's Blasted Bill joins Kevin and Kornflake for another "Flop of Destiny" recording session, live from MarsCon in Bloomington, Minnesota! And we're joined by a crazy lineup of com...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-097-marscon-2014-part-1-let-the-kornflake-win

Kevin and Kornflake are far from Chickentown this weekend, because it's finally time for MarsCon! But worry not; right before we ran screaming from the studio, we recorded this special episode......

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-096-rowdy-roddy-poultry

Kevin and Kornflake are just days away from flying to balmy tropical Minnesota for the silliest weekend of the year at MarsCon! But first this week: Wilson Phillips wants you to be happy; Kornfla...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-095-full-of-lobstery-things

It's been several months since we picked a really stupid, random topic for a Top 4 1/2 List. So we're making it up to you this week with perhaps our stupidest list ever: Top 4 1/2 Boxes. That's r...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/-flopcast-094-open-your-blizzard-box

As Saturday Night Live's Stefon might say, this podcast has everything: Hula hoops, handcuffs, Harvey the Wonder Pony, your Flopcast hosts in a hot tub time machine, and yes, dino-chickens. Also:...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-093-walk-the-dino-chicken

Kevin and Kornflake's first convention appearance of 2014 is just a month away -- yes, we're going back to MarsCon! (Could there be a better time of year to visit Minnesota? Wait, don't answer th...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-092-flopidermy-our-mars-con-preview

A special morning edition of the Flopcast! (It's so early that we can't even figure out how coffee works.) This week: Kevin and Kornflake ignore Groundhog Day and instead discuss their favorite h...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-091-always-room-for-coffee-jello

Kevin and Kornflake have escaped the 80s, for the second time! So now it's back to Flopcast business as usual, assuming "business as usual" means talking about corn chips and Xena Warrior Princes...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-090-full-chicken-jacket

At last we've arrived at the end of our ten-part look back at the most awesome decade ever! Now admittedly, 1989 was not our favorite part of the 80s... but come on, it had its moments. Top 40 ra...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-089-we-didn-t-start-1989

Almost done, kids! The penultimate chapter in our ongoing 80s coverage brings us to 1988 (which most scientists agree was the peak year for Jon Lovitz's Michael Dukakis impression). At the movies...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-088-johnny-hates-1988

Kevin and Kornflake wrap up the holidays with a New Year's resolution update, a visit with TV's Kyle, one more trip to see the lobster trap tree, and one more holiday gift. (Yes, it's a Lionel Ri...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-087-notorious-1987

This week we're looking at 1986 -- a year that was so bright, we had to wear shades. (At least that's what Timbuk 3 told us, and we've learned to trust their judgment.) 'Twas the year Crocodile D...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-086-hands-across-1986

You know how this works: It's episode 85, so Kevin and Kornflake have set Doc Brown's DeLorean for 1985! It was the year of USA For Africa and Live Aid... and more importantly, Mr. T at Wrestlema...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-085-there-comes-a-time-and-it-s-1985

Yes, we're in the middle of the holidays, but more importantly, we're in the middle of the 1980s. This week our ongoing 80s coverage brings us to 1984 -- the year of Footloose, The Karate Kid, Gh...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-084-do-they-know-it-s-1984

We're up to 1983 in our ten-part look back at the 1980s, and we have something special for you crazy kids. Back at DragonCon, Kevin participated in a panel called "1983 Geek-a-Mania in TV and Mov...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-083-1983-geek-a-mania

This week we're looking back at 1982! Time Magazine said the "Man of the Year" was a computer -- and it was, thanks to Tron. 1982 was also the year we learned about Stupid Pet Tricks, vegemite sa...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-082-super-mega-1982

Kevin and Kornflake look back on 1981, the year that brought us MTV, Indiana Jones, and a seemingly endless supply of goofy soft rock. Our Top 4 1/2 List of songs from 1981 is indeed dominated by...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-081-1981-that-you-love

Hang on, kids -- starting this week, we're taking a TEN-episode trip back to the 80s! (Yeah, it's a radical departure from our usual topics...) Up first, of course, is 1980 -- the year that kicke...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-080-1980-will-save-every-one-of-us

The Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake to discuss the upcoming holiday movie season -- we're looking for anything with hobbits, thunder gods, or time-traveling turkeys. (But mostly ti...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-079-chickosaurus-rex

Kevin and Kornflake get ready for Marooned Without a Compass Day (we'll need a volleyball, a hidden immunity idol, and Mary Ann); Kornflake gets silly on The Pod of Destiny, stares at the clouds ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-078-french-hunk

It's Halloween in Chickentown once again, and we're celebrating with a "monster cereals" taste test! That's right, we're sampling Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, as well as (availabl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-077-halloween-2013-back-to-the-brute

Kevin and Kornflake wrap up their School House Rock 40th anniversary celebration with some help from you, the Flopcast listeners! Our Top 4 1/2 List of America Rock cartoons is based on YOUR vote...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-076-school-house-rock-part-4-don-t-forget-my-mashed-potatoes

Kevin and Kornflake are in Manchester, New Hampshire for the Granite State Comicon! Come along as we encounter Perhapanauts artist Craig Rousseau, Tiny Titans artist Art Baltazar, the Boston Ninj...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-075-granite-state-comicon-2013-tooth-justice-and-peace

More School House Rock 40th anniversary fun this week, as Kevin knocks out a Top 4 1/2 List of Science Rock cartoons! (Get ready for a shock, but we're huge fans of Interplanet Janet around here....

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-074-school-house-rock-part-3-she-s-a-galaxy-girl

Kornflake learns that no revenge is sweeter than a birthday cake in the face; Vodka Day is this week, which means we'd better keep an eye on our friend Vodka (we, uh, know a girl named Vodka); Ge...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-073-floptoberfest

Our celebration of the 40th anniversary of School House Rock continues, as the Mayor of Chickentown presents a Top 4 1/2 List of Multiplication Rock! Featuring weird zoo animals, twelve-toed alie...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-072-school-house-rock-part-2-if-you-skate-you-would-be-great

Kevin is back from Atlanta with a full report on DragonCon, featuring 50,000 nerds and/or geeks, the Bionic Man and Woman, High Feather cosplayers, booze-serving robots, Canadian teen pop star Ro...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-071-dragon-con-2013-sleestak-spit-take

Kevin and Kornflake kick off the fall season by returning not to school, but to School House Rock! We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of these classic cartoons, starting with a Top 4 1/2 List...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-070-school-house-rock-part-1-dirty-but-happy

Worry not, true believers -- before Kevin sneaked off to DragonCon, we recorded this quick little episode of miscellaneous silliness, just for you. This week: Shocking the world, Kevin returns to...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-069-mystical-chickens

It's our second annual DragonCon preview show, as we prepare for the upcoming mega-gathering of the geeks in downtown Atlanta. Enjoy some hints and tips about how to survive the craziest four day...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-068-dragon-con-preview-fun-and-trail-mix

Kornflake reports on this year's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, a weekend of music, mud, Moxy Fruvous, and tie-dyed unmentionables. Meanwhile Kevin attends Boston Comic Con, serves as a lifeline in ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-067-boston-comic-con-2013-i-ll-beat-you-with-my-fins

Episode 66 means we're talking about V66, Boston's own MTV-style music video channel back in the mid-80s. (V66 wasn't around for long, but some of us never got over it.) Also: Kornflake joins the...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-066-rockin-the-snuggie

Because we're just so dangerously obsessed with the 1980s, this week's Top 4 1/2 List features cover versions of 80s songs! (Needless to say, Cyndi Lauper is well represented.) Also: Gummy lobste...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-065-why-don-t-we-flop-away

Pathetically, Kevin and Kornflake enter a state of panic when a power outage leaves Chickentown Studios in total darkness, right in the middle of the show! No lights, no air conditioning (we were...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-064-chickens-in-the-dark

In the summertime, when the weather is high, we've got robots, we've got robots on our minds. Yes, it's our second annual robot-themed Top 4 1/2 List! This time we're counting down our favorite l...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-063-robots-vs-vodka

We're back with a full report from CONvergence, the Bloomington, Minnesota convention that's even crazier than MarsCon! Pour youself a Buzzed Aldrin (the signature drink of the Skepchick party ro...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-062-co-nvergence-2013-steampunk-zombie-bay-city-rollers

We've said this before, but yikes, this is a bizarre episode, even by Flopcast standards. Let's see... in this week's Pudding Pages segment, Kevin and Kornflake learn all about weird 1970s lipsti...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-061-shut-up-ian

Kornflake returns from Chicago with a full report on LukeSkiCon, which featured comedy music performances, a field trip to the Galloping Ghost Arcade, a Top 4 1/2 List recorded especially for The...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-060-luke-ski-con-2013-the-internet-can-hear-my-belly

Time to sneak snacks into the cinema, as the Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake to discuss the new geek-friendly summer movies. (Star Trek! Iron Man! And for no good reason, Back to S...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-059-we-need-pudding-godzilla

Kevin and Kornflake attend a Jim's Big Ego concert (which magically turns into a Chickens in the News singalong); our "What's in the Bag?" segment is once again very, very lobster-themed; this we...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-058-i-do-look-like-a-lobster

Happy 75th Birthday to Superman! Kevin and Kornflake celebrate with a Flopcast-style tribute to the Man of Steel, focusing on important stuff like goofy Super Friends cartoons, 1970s Mego dolls (...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-057-fortress-of-flopitude

Kevin and Kornflake attempt to celebrate National Running Day without actually moving; at the Southcoast Toy and Comic Show, we find the Karate Kid-themed puzzle book of our dreams; we highly rec...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-056-take-me-down-to-video-city

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate Sunscreen Day with our usual advice to slather on plenty of the stuff, or better yet, don't leave the house at all; Kornflake's recent illness just gave her more tim...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-055-down-with-the-frickens

Kevin and Kornflake recount their long perilous road trip to the Speak Up storytelling event in Hartford; along the way, they visit a couple of shops celebrating Free Comic Book Day, discover a p...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-054-on-the-road-again-again

Kevin and Kornflake are joined by the Mayor of Chickentown as we look back on a whole silly year of Flopcasting! (If only this were a 1980s sitcom-style flashback clip show...) For our anniversar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-053-happy-flopiversary

Kornflake looks forward to No Sock Day, despite the dire implications for puppets everywhere; there is indeed bacon at the library (apparently the books are not enough of a draw anymore); our Chi...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-052-library-bacon-overdone-and-overdue

Everyone keeps telling Kornflake she is getting older, but we don't believe it; Kevin reports on concerts by symphonic metal band Anaria and former Monkee Mike Nesmith (hey, they should tour toge...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-051-mighty-morphin-panda-rangers

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate Tell a Story Day, while acknowledging that their own stories tend to be quite lame; our latest Chickens in the News segment is immediately followed by our first (and...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-050-that-awkward-sax-talk

Kornflake's "What's in the Bag?" segment delays our coffee consumption by almost a minute, which is a big problem; we're frightened by National Cheese Ball Day; we celebrate the career of comic b...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-049-journey-to-the-flopagos-islands

Welcome to springtime in Chickentown, true believers! Kornflake is doing some spring cleaning; Kevin is not. Meanwhile, for this week's National Whatever Day, our plans to "walk on the wild side"...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-048-lying-through-our-tall-teeth

This week Kevin and Kornflake tackle the tough questions. Is Level 42 better than Black 47? (No, they both rule.) Was Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings just a ripoff of Harold and the Purple Cr...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-047-no-pants-for-kool-aid-man

Having survived their bizarre trip to Minnesota for MarsCon, Kevin and Kornflake are safely back in Chickentown. (And thanks to their shiny new court-ordered ankle monitors, they'll never leave a...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-046-three-angry-turkeys

We're still in Minnesota for the silliest science fiction convention of all (thanks to the Dementia track of comedy music), MarsCon! Late Sunday night, as things are winding down, a Dementia supe...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-045-mars-con-2013-part-2-bad-flopport

A show this weird could only happen at MarsCon, the Minnesota science fiction convention where all our crazy friends from the comedy music scene gather each year. On Day 1, Kevin and Kornflake ar...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-044-mars-con-2013-part-1-the-flop-of-destiny

Here's a goofy little episode we recorded just before leaving for MarsCon! Kornflake rides a bus and turns into a cartoon fish; for National Whatever Day, we're being nasty and we're panicking; t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-043-doctor-what-and-doctor-when

After taking care of a little business here in Chickentown (like celebrating Public Sleeping Day and discussing weird perfume from the 70s), Kevin and Kornflake are, yes, packing for MarsCon, a s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-042-packing-for-mars-con

Kornflake has two different National Whatever Days for us this week -- and Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day is the less ridiculous one; Kevin introduces a very exciting new segment called "The Puddin...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-041-my-fair-grady

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate Darwin Day with a piping hot bowl of Primordial Soup; as MarsCon preparations continue, we learn why you don't want to sit next to Kornflake on a plane; and because ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-040-pound-on-my-darbuka

Kornflake presents a ridiculous new segment called National Whatever Day; we confirm that there WILL be Water Aerobics in the Martian Gravity Pit at MarsCon this year; Kevin stays out way too lat...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-039-we-need-to-complain-more

Kevin and Kornflake report live from Arisia, a big crazy science fiction convention held in Boston each January. Some highlights: Kevin interviews comedy/nerdcore artist Devo Spice (mostly about ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-038-arisia-2013-death-drinks-iced-coffee

For episode 37, we just had to talk about Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and all the movies of Kevin Smith. Come on, you know why. Also: Kevin cannot escape from Jennifer Grey's dog, Kornflake is...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-037-in-a-row

Kornflake is named as a juror in this year's Logan Awards for excellence in comedy music (so if the big winner is a kazoo-playing lobster, you know what happened); Kevin recommends a Queen cover ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-036-growling-dalek

Kevin and Kornflake have been issued a bizarre challenge by the Pod of Destiny, and without giving it nearly enough thought, we accept. Also: We vow to keep the “o” in “Amoeba”; our lates...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-035-challenge-accepted

Armed with their new Christmas gifts (a Big Bang Theory shirt and an inflatable beard of bees), Kevin and Kornflake are ready to make bold fashion statements in the new year. Also discussed: Arch...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-034-that-beard-of-bees-of-yours

A couple of weeks back, the Mayor of Chickentown joined Kevin and Kornflake to count down the Top 4 1/2 Christmas specials produced by Rankin/Bass. This week the Mayor returns, and we're counting...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-033-a-very-yip-yip-christmas

Kornflake keeps getting touched by strangers, only some of whom look exactly like Dave Grohl; our holiday party stories involve giving bad directions to our dates and lying to magicians; Kevin re...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-032-murray-christmas

As you may suspect, we're dangerously obsessed with the classic animated holiday specials produced by Rankin/Bass. Starting with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964, Rankin/Bass cranked out on...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-031-the-island-of-misfit-cartoons

Our Chickentown studio halls have been decked, and there is now a festive Flying Spaghetti Monster creepily staring down from the top of our tree; Kornflake rescues a dog named after one of the k...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-030-have-a-holly-jolly-chicken

Kornflake attends a Wazzumhog party (not sure of the spelling on that - and AutoCorrect did NOT help); Kevin and a bunch of other comic book geeks invade the Norman Rockwell Museum for an Alex Ro...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-029-jolly-green-unmentionables

The Mayor of Chickentown presides over another electrifying round of "What's in the Bag?"; Kevin reports from the Rhode Island Comic Con, where he meets costumed characters, horror hosts, giant s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-028-bad-spam-juggler

It's episode 27, and that means Kevin and Kornflake are talking about "Weird Al" Yankovic! (If you're a Weird Al fan, you know why.) We discuss Al's songs, videos, and concerts, as well as his mo...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-027-weird-weird

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate six months of Flopcasting by wandering from one silly topic to the next... but they keep coming back to Kenny Rogers. Also: Kornflake wins a contest at the Red Arrow...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-026-get-your-beards-ready

Yes, it's Halloween in Chickentown! (But stay away, stupid trick-or-treaters! More Lemonheads for us.) Kevin tells the story of the bizarre Halloween when he carved pumpkins and juggled Spam on T...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-025-halloween-in-chickentown

Kevin and Kornflake have slightly different opinions of "Gangnam Style" (you're shocked, aren't you?); Kevin recommends the novel "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend" by his old neighbor, Matthew Dic...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-024-imaginary-birds

Fueled by Ninja Coffee, Kevin and Kornflake discuss their recent trips to Maine (where Kornflake's dog was not impressed by the foliage) and Vermont (where Kevin still can't find any lake monster...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-023-hither-and-yon-mostly-yon

Kevin and Kornflake ponder the comedic value of lobsters (sure, they might be funny, but not on the level of, say, chickens); we look back at 1980s cable TV, which mostly involved watching Toto's...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-022-messing-with-your-knobs

Kornflake is back from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed party, where she ate weird pizza, played weird card games, and climbed on weird people; Kevin is back from Jury Duty, where, it turns o...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-021-what-would-you-do-with-an-army-of-lukes

Our DragonCon coverage concludes (finally!) on a high note: an exclusive Flopcast interview with the Amazing One himself, James Randi! This leads to Kevin and Kornflake discussing Randi's career ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-020-spork-bending-with-the-amazing-randi

Kevin braves the mean streets of Connecticut to see a George Hrab show and a million Pez dispensers; our DragonCon recap continues with an interview with mentalist Mark Edward, author of Psychic ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-019-snuggle-the-zorb

Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown are back from Atlanta, with a full DragonCon report to share with Kornflake and with you! This extra-long episode (sorry) starts with some nice calm day-by-day ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-018-dragon-con-2012-glowing-with-geeky-goodness

Warning! This is NOT your typical Flopcast episode! It's a lot shorter, and (they said it couldn't be done) a lot stupider. We're actually taking a little break this Labor Day weekend. We're sl...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-017-the-flopathon

Pack up your finest Spock ears and beam yourself to Atlanta -- it's our DragonCon preview episode! Kevin and Kornflake get ready for our favorite annual gathering of geeks -- featuring costumers,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-016-where-did-all-the-nerds-go

Kornflake goes to a wild keg party hosted by a one month old baby; Kevin is obsessed with Fame reruns and character actor Dick Miller; the Mayor of Chickentown joins us for a very scientific root...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-015-irene-cara-could-do-no-wrong

Kevin takes a highway to the danger zone (assuming your definition of "danger zone" is a Kenny Loggins concert), Kornflake visits the crazy dancing non-showering people at the Falcon Ridge Folk F...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-014-an-army-of-cardboard-hasselhoffs

A super-short episode, because we're sleepy! This week: Thanks to her trusty expired sunblock, Kornflake is now a healthy Kool-Aid Man shade of red; Kevin's trip to North Carolina and Kornflake's...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-013-that-s-what-creepy-strangers-are-for

Kevin and Kornflake exchange weird summer job stories -- Kornflake worked at a mysterious warehouse which may or may not have contained little suits for turkeys, while Kevin drew edible Legos on ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-012-mustaches-and-blowfish-just-don-t-mix

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate Independence Day by avoiding fireworks and people (especially people); the San Diego Comic-Con is discussed (but not in detail, since we didn't go -- remember, we're...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-011-the-burn-of-my-brain

Kevin and Kornflake celebrate the Flopcast's 10th episode, and (perhaps wrongly) assume this is now the longest-running podcast ever; Kornflake's vacation plans keep getting weirder; despite bein...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-010-does-frogger-look-like-a-frog

For reasons we do not completely understand, Kornflake is wearing a roll of caution tape; we discuss angry crane operators and Muppet Theory; and the Mayor of Chickentown joins us to talk about s...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-009-watch-it-jive-turkeys

We're back in the basement, still hiding from the crazy heat wave. This week Kevin can't remember all the Ramones drummers; Kornflake has one more Rock and Roll Hall of Fame suggestion; a 'Chicke...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-008-an-underground-railroad-of-chickens

Desperate to escape the miserable heat, Kevin & Kornflake record the Flopcast from a secret subterranean bunker! Kornflake's commute involves sprinklers and weird abandoned phone booths; we offer...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-007-faster-than-my-mullet

Connecticut is a hotbed of chicken-themed crime, cucumber lemonade is a bad idea, Kevin and Kornflake declare war on Venus, our new Flopcast business cards create the illusion of professionalism,...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-006-screw-jupiter

The Flopcast welcomes its first special guest, as the Mayor of Chickentown joins Kevin and Kornflake for a round of "What's in the Bag?" We also compare goofy prom stories, and debate whether dog...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-005-surrounded-by-robots-and-awesomeness

Kornflake's dog joins meetup.com, Kevin is frightened by "Laughter Yoga," Bonnie Tyler leads the Bully Parade, karaoke is usually a big mistake, and we present a Top 4 1/2 List that's way stupide...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-004-too-bad-and-too-plaid

Mr. Bubble meets Mr. Mister, we acknowledge past mistakes, Kornflake has a Prank War update, Kevin infiltrates the Nerdist podcast, skunks love Kenny Loggins, we love Weird Al... and the episode ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-003-a-flock-of-kenny-loggins

Kornflake's ridiculous new super-hero identity is revealed, Kevin visits the Boston Comic Con (featuring Mad Magazine artists, and Boston's own version of Mr. T), we sing the praises of a couple ...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/-flopcast-002-x-ray-frosting-girl-to-the-rescue

It's our first official episode! Kevin and Kornflake are strangely fascinated by their coffee mugs, Kornflake attends an Australia-themed wedding (but not really), the Prank Wars begin, Kevin goe...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-001-water-aerobics-in-the-martian-gravity-pit

It's the Flopcast secret sneak preview episode! Don't tell anyone! Kevin & Kornflake ramble for a few minutes about novelty license plates from Honey Combs cereal boxes, the cultural phenomenon t...

https://flopcast.libsyn.com/flopcast-000-hate-socking-the-six-million-dollar-man