Episodes
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Podcast Update - 10/28/2024
Quick update on the podcast. We've been waylaid a bit by life and it's thrown off our recording schedule, but we hope to get a few more episodes out before the end of the year if possible. Listen to this mini episode to hear what our first episode back will be, whenever that might be. Also, GO...
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Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares - No More Mr. Nice Guy
To kickoff the 2024 Halloween season, we're heading back to Springwood, Ohio, and discovering the origins of evil with the first episode of anthology horror series Freddy's Nightmares! In this Tobe Hooper-directed installment, we get oblivious dads and really horny moms, we see inside the head of…
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Friday the 13th: The Series - Night Prey
For this very special Friday the 13th episode, we're finally covering Friday the 13th: The Series, and we're doing it in the same room! That's right, we actually recorded this in person, staring intensely into each other's eyes the entire time (and occasionally hissing at each other like the...
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The Net - Last Man Standing
On this week's episode, we're logging into 1990s cyberspace to discuss The Net, the one-season series based on the Sandra Bullock movie of the same name. This episode guest stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson which should come as no surprise when you learn it's about an underground cage fighting...
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Acapulco H.E.A.T. - Code Name: Perfect Specimen
It's still summertime and that means it's still HOT outside. So what better way to celebrate the heat than with some H.E.A.T.! On today's episode, we're discussing the mostly forgotten action-adventure series Acapulco H.E.A.T. We talk about the interesting folks in the cast, the characters'...
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Wishman
No one demanded it but we're here nonetheless to celebrate a momentous occasion: the 41st anniversary of the original broadcast date (June 23, 1983) of the absolutely bonkers failed TV pilot Wishman! When you hear the name Wishman, do you immediately think of a wish-granting genie? We did too…
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Tequila and Bonetti - Street Dogs
It's been a while but we're back (with an episode we recorded months ago)! This week, we're covering a show that's been on our list for a while: Tequila and Bonetti! What might seem like a simple gruff cop/cute dog series is actually way weirder than we expected. This includes hearing the dog's...
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Belvedere Boyz Ep. 1 - Stranger in the Night / Pilot
This week marks a bold new direction for the show as we rebrand as the Belvedere Boyz and promise to cover all 117 episodes of 1980s sitcom Mr. Belvedere every week for the next two years. This is TOTALLY REAL and NOT A JOKE. In this inaugural episode, we cover the pilot and discuss the titular...
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Cathy's Valentine
What's that? A new episode of the podcast? We've been away for a while and we discuss why before getting into the surprisingly sweet TV special Cathy's Valentine (trust us, we were surprised we liked it too). If you like the show, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. And follow us on Instagram and...
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ALF - Turkey in the Straw: Part 1 & 2
Things get dark this week as we discuss a very special ALF Thanksgiving two-parter. Along the way, we rail against midwesterners for not liking veggie meatballs, we discuss a very Brooklyn boy living in Southern California, and we recite a special Thanksgiving hymn (that definitely everyone...
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Center of Spookiness: Walker, Texas Ranger - The Children of Halloween (w/ Megan Sunday)
Happy Halloween! This week, we welcome Megan Sunday to the podcast to discuss martial arts and devil worship while covering the extra spooky, extra satany Walker, Texas Ranger episode "The Children of Halloween." Exactly how many children does cult leader Lucifer need to sacrifice on Halloween...
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Center of Spookiness: Silk Stalkings - It's the Great Pumpkin, Harry
This week on the show, we finally get around to covering the super sexy/supremely silly Silk Stalkings. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Harry" is a baffling Halloween episode that barely matters because it's all a dream, but gets even dumber with the more you think about it. Why exactly is this boss...
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Center of Spookiness: Family Matters - Stevil & Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone
For our first pocast of October and the 13th episode of the season, we're covering TWO episodes of Family Matters, both featuring Steve Urkel's evil dummy doppelganger Stevil! Neither episode is GOOD but there are a few fun moments, as well as a few bizarre choices by the creative team, including...
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Center of Spookiness: Nightmare Cafe - The Heart of the Mystery
This week on the show we're following Robert Englad from one nightmare to another as we cover Nightmare Cafe, an extremely short-lived series about a mysterious diner and some ghosts who are forced to work there. In this episode, the ghosts have to help a detective solve a murder that occurred...
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Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares - Do Dreams Bleed?
Spooky Season has begun! To get things started right, we're back in Springwood to talk about Freddy's Nightmares. In "Do Dreams Bleed?" we meet a new killer called The Chopper, who, as his name suggests, likes to chop up folks with an ax. It's probably either the troubled football star or the...
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Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath Returns (pt 2)
It's with a heavy heart that we we end our Summer Knights series with this episode and bid a fond farewell to Garthe and Goliath. Unfortunately, it's in a rather boring episode. But thankfully there's some good stuff sprinkled throughout, like Dr. Adrienne wanting to test out Garthe and Michael's...
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Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath Returns (pt 1)
After last episode's patriotic diversion with Greatest American Hero, we're back with our Summer Knights series to begin our final battle against Garthe and Goliath. Somehow, Goliath has returned and so has Garthe, sporting a great big bushy beard. This episode has more excitement and energy than...
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The Greatest American Hero - Just Another Three-Ring Circus
Since it's American Independence Day, we wanted to take a break from our Summer Knights series to honor a real American Hero, perhaps the GREATEST American Hero. That's right, we're talking all about The Greatest American Hero, a goofy show that's actually a lot better and more fun than we were...
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Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath (pt 2)
Our Summer Knights series continues this week, as we check in with Michael and Kitt to see if they can stop Michael's evil doppelgänger Garthe and the "banana-headed bovine" known as Goliath. We discuss further missed story opportunities, bad AI-written scripts, and how everything you want from…
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Summer Knights: Knight Rider - Goliath (pt 1)
The temperature is heating up outside so we're taking a drive with Michael Knight and his robot car Kitt in our Summer Knights series. All summer long, we'll be discussing Knight Rider, specifically the episodes featuring Michael's pseudo half brother Garthe Knight (also played by David…
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Super Mario World: The Wheel Thing / Captain N: Pursuit of the Magic Hoop
To tie into the recent Super Mario movie release, we decided to cover the early 90s Super Mario World cartoon. The Mario segment is a little boring, even though we have some fun discussing the the weird diversions the creators decided to take from the standard games. The real gem here, though, is...
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Sheena - Divas of the Jungle
This week on the show, we're back with another early 2000s action show with a woman protgonist: Sheena, starring three-named actors Gena Lee Nolin and John Allen Nelson. This episode, titled "Divas of the Jungle," features a whole list of things that make you go "Ehhhhhhh," including a character...
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Relic Hunter - The Book of Love
We're kicking off a month of discussing early 2000s syndicated action shows featuring women protagonists with Relic Hunter, an incredibly dumb (but fun!) show starring Tia Carrere. The episode in question, "The Book of Love," features an extremely popular Italian soccer star looking for…
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NightMan - Bad to the Bone
We're still hanging out with NightMan in Bay City for the return of walking Christian Slater clone Space Face in episode Bad to the Bone. This is a bad episode of a bad television show which completely undercuts any sense of dramatic tension by dumping a 3 minute "previously on" segment at the...
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Nightman - Face to Face
It's our first episode of 2023 and we're heading to Bay City for the entire month to finally discuss the long-forgotten syndicated comic book show Nightman. This episode has all the terrible hallmarks you'd hope for from a late 90s cheaply-made superhero TV show: bad greenscreening, an overacting...
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The Santa Clauses - Chapter One: Good to Ho
Christmas is just around the corner so we're heading to the North Pole to discuss the frequently-canceled Tim Allen's return as the big red menance: The Santa Clauses. Lots of terrible stuff in this one, from the CGI to the Santa makeup to the ED jokes but there are a couple funny lines (and…
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The Wish That Changed Christmas
It's the holiday season so it's time for terrible Christmas TV! This week, we're checking out The Wish That Changed Crhsitmas, another special from Romeo Muller, the creator behind the absolutely insane Noel: The Happy Christmas (which we covered last Christmas). This time around, we're faced…
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WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkeys Away
We're gearing up for Thanksgiving by discussing one of the most well-known and well-regarded Thanksgiving-themed television episodes ever: WKRP in Cincinnati's "Turkeys Away." We break down the infamous episode and explore what still works after 40 years (chief among them is Richard Sanders's...
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Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares - Memory Overload
Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookiest day of the year, we returned to Springwood once more to journey into Freddy's Nightmares. And because it's Halloween, we picked an episode... that has nothing to do with Halloween and barely features the titular Freddy. What it does feature, though, is…
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Center of Spookiness: Boy Meets World (w/ Christy Admiraal)
On this very special episode, we're joined by friend Christy Admiraal to discuss her favorite episode of her favorite television show: Boy Meets World's slasher movie homage And Then There Was Shawn. We talk scary janitors (who might actually be ghosts), our history with school detention, and...
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Center of Spookiness: Home Improvement
Last time we discussed nightmare man Freddy Krueger, and this week we're turning our attention to another nightmare man: Tim Allen. Today on the podcast we're discussing one of the many Home Improvement Halloween episodes: "A Night to Dismember." Youngest son Dark Mark and his goth friend Ronnie...
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Center of Spookiness: Freddy's Nightmares
Things are getting scary... and sexy! This week, we're discussing Freddy's Nightmares, specifically the season 1 finale "Safe Sex," an epsiode that doesn't really talk about safe sex at all. But it does have two nerds obsessed with a goth chick (who in turn is obsessed with a certain burned...
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Center of Spookiness: Salute Your Shorts
Today is Labor Day, which means summer is (un)officially over and the Spooky Season has begun! To bridge the gap between heat and treats, we're getting scared at summer camp with the notorious "Zeke The Plumber" episode of Salute Your Shorts! If you want to know what's inside our heads, you don't...
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Tropical Heat (a.k.a., Sweating Bullets)
Things are still hot, so this week we're heading down to Key Maria and meeting up with some really sexy private detectives in Tropical Heat. There's a lot to unpack here, including how quickly a band was pulled together, what bartenders will put up with, and how this show radicalized an entire...
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California Dreams
We're still enjoying the sunshine in our unofficial Summer Series by discussing the first episode (maybe?) of 90s teen show California Dreams! There's lots of bad music, terrible characters, and a couple pretty racist things - and this is the pilot! No wonder they retooled this show every single...
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Pacific Blue
This week things get hot as we head to the beach and check out the bicycle cops of Pacific Blue! The episode in question, "The Pheonix," has everything we could've wanted: a ghost with a flamethrower, a Hannibal Lecter-wannabe, a meth-addled rat, a rollerblading snake handler, AND a wet T-shirt...
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Small Wonder
Burritos are ready! This week on the show, it's time to check in with another secret robot: Small Wonder! This episode is all about making burritos and starting a small burrito business despite being a terrible burrito businessman. Also, why is this show aimed at kids so damn sexual? Plus: we…
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Evil (with guest Beau North!)
CW: The episode we discuss does deal briefly with the topic of teen suicide This week, we're joined by our first ever guest on Center of Weirdness: author and podcaster extraordinaire Beau North! And she's brought with her a show with extremely bad SEO. It's Evil, and on this episode there's a...
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The Pentaverate
This week on the show we're uncovering the secrets of The Pentaverate, the newest comedy creation from master of disguise Mike Myers. Well, we only watched episode 4 so there might be some secrets we missed. Honestly we only wanted to know why Shrek showed up so we just watched that episode. But...
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Freaky Links
This week things are getting freaky as we discuss early 2000s Blair Witch-meets-X-Files series Freaky Links! Hey, did you know the Cretaceous period was a long, long, LONG time before the Civil War? Why is that important? Oh, you'll see.
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Holmes & Yoyo
This week on the show we're heading back to the heyday of 70s TV comedy to discuss Holmes & Yoyo, a tremendously bizarre cop show about a bumbling detective and his occasionally malfunctioning robot partner. In the half-hour pilot, we get chest calculators, pratfalls that probably actually hurt,...
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The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
This week on the show we're heading to the far-off land of Grundo to discuss the surprisingly deep cartoon The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. We're specifically talking about the penultimate episode, where a secondary villain gets married and a bunch of other stuff happens that we can't understand.…
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18 Wheels of Justice
This week, we're hitting the open road with 18 Wheels of Justice, a show that has the courage to cast actual piece of human garbage G. Gordon Liddy as a bad guy! We also get a Peyton Manning clone as a crooked cop, a chili negotiation, and some gold up in them thar hills. Not enough actual truck...
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Bump In The Night
On this week's episode, we're talking about claymation interstitials-turned-series Bump In The Night, easily one of the most frenetic shows we've ever seen! We also try to figure out exactly what Bumpy and Squishington are, discover what fast food outlet offered Bumpy toys, and cringe hard…
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Timecop: The Series
This week we're talking about action movie-turned-dull TV series Timecop! We barely get acquainted with the future -- the year 2007 to be exact -- before traveling into the past to fight Jack The Ripper. Well, not the actual Jack The Ripper, but a time traveling misogynist incel with a lightning...
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Bonus Ep: Picking a Weird URL
Have you wondered how we picked our website URL (centerofweird.com) but were too afraid to ask? Lucky for you, the mics were hot when we talked through our options and we're releasing this short bonus episode while you wait for Episode 2.
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Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
In this inaugural episode of our new mainline show, we return to our roots to see what's happening in Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension! We find it hard to believe no one in 1998 Eerie had ever heard of satellite dishes before. We're also curious what was on that Jell-O channel. Plus Bigfoot…
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Center of Weirdness: Episode 0
In this brief intro episode, we lay out what to expect on this new direction for the show and tease what's to come. Our first full episode drops Monday, February 7th. See you then.
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Mini Episode 96 - See ya!
On the last day of 2021, it's the last mini episode of the year -- and forever! That's right: we're changing the show next year and if you want to know how WEIRD things are going to get, you'll have to listen to this episode! Happy New Year! We'll see you in 2022. Rate and review us wherever you...