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Pop Culture Failure
by popculturefailure
Jake and Sky delve into the worst tv shows and movies from our past and today so you don't have to.
Episodes
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19 Majin Buu’s Dad’s Moustasche
Here's episode 19 of Pirates of Darkwater! Right on time!
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18 ”Monkeybird” Sounds Like a Slur
Jake and Sky watched episode 18 of the Pirates of Darkwater, The Pandawa Plague. It definitely wasn't a plague, but alliteration is key. We discuss Jake's low bar on political stuff, a Power Rangers' mouth monster, the restraint on the design team for not giving the female monkeybird boobs,...
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17 The Most Dangerous Wager
Jake and Sky watched Pirates of Darkwater episode 17 Game Players of Undar! It was weird. It was almost a "most dangerous game" parody, but not. We discuss what do you call an earthquake but for the water, Amalgam Comics, American Gladiators, and we witness a pretty brutal murder...
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16 Dudes and Dagrons
Jake and Sky watch episode 16 of Pirates of Darkwater, The Dragon Master. It was nothing like Double Dragons or WMAC Masters. We discuss the pros and cons of a dragon hoodie, a terrible truth about the dagrons is revealed, and Bloth's ship might be a nature preserve?...
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15 Ghosts Off the Ghost Coast!?
Jake and Sky are at it again. We watched episode 15 "The Ghost Pirates" No prizes for guessing what secrets the episode holds. We discuss how Ioz misses doing pirate stuff, Bloth can't find the Raith for the first time in the show, Tula kills Ren, and Sky talkes about the Liver King....
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14 Vacuuming Too Deeply and Too Greedily
This week from several weeks ago, sorry I'm behind, Jake and Sky watched episode 14 of the Pirates of Darkwater, "The Dark Disciples" Sky was sick during recording, but most of the coughs were able to be edited out. Also, Content warning for gross worms getting stabbed We discuss a half fish man...
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13 The Treasures Are Dumb, Right?
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 13 of Pirates of Darkwater, "The Dark-Dweller" This episode was recorded back in December, but i'm just now getting around to editing stuff. There is a fair amount of Christmas references. We discuss dune buggies, if horizontal stalagmites/stalactites exist…
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XR Gets Gaslit *Holiday Episode*
We interrupt the normal pirate show to bring you this episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Its episode 59 "Holiday Time" You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hitRhO_eUs and you should! It's Great! We discuss how awesome the animation and cast is, we get some backstory to...
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12 Baby On Board
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 12 of Pirates of Darkwater, Little Leviathan. It was exactly as cutesy as you may expect, and also more violent than you'd anticipate. We discuss Konk's sexual predilections, the various Kool-Aid mascots, Sky makes a super specific Dinosaurs reference, and…
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11 The Bottle Episode
Jake and Sky watch episode 11 Collection of the Pirates of Darkwater. Stuff gets weird. One of the largest confirmed body counts of any show we watched happens in this episode. We discuss grade school field trips, when Sky peaked as a person, how James Cameron can eat a bowl of butts, Peter Pan/...
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10 Attack of the SWAT Cat
Jake and Sky found out that in episode 10 of Pirates of Darkwater, "King Niddler" there is a SWAT Cat dragon. This was not what we expected. We discuss birds that walk like men, how melons don't grow on trees, how the sail of the ship can just convert into a flying machine, what Jake would do if…
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09 Candy Clams Are A Thing
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 9 Panacea of the Pirates of Darkwater. We also do not know what the word panacea means. We discuss how they probably couldn't use the term "wet suck hole" on tv, there's a dune worm wandering around, we talk about Niddler being illicit with the melons a little...
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08 Return to Nets
Its the best time of the series arc, where we inevitably resort to nets. Jake and Sky Watch episode 8 of Pirates of Darkwater "Beast and the Bell" It is not related to Disney's Beauty and the Beast in any way. We discuss how truly terrible Ren is at negotiating, there's weird SCUBA bugs, tuning...
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07 Va Va Voom, and Also What the Hell?
This week Jake and Sky watched episode 7 "Drop of Darkness" of the Pirates of Darkwater. It... This episode was genuinely upsetting. We discuss store brand chemist Barbie, hot air balloons, cruse ships, getting trapped in lockets, Ghost Writer and the "Gooey Gus" story arc, and a sharp cookie...
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06 The Old Beach From That Movie
This week we watched episode 6 Andorus of The Pirates of Darkwater. The shift in tone was pretty subtle from the first five episodes as marked by Tula getting a new outfit We discuss how Tula is a witch, the biology of the Pentapus, both Stretch Armstrong and Sky Dancer toys, how Blackwater is…
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05 Blackwater Is Horny For Eatin‘ Stuff
This week Sky and Jake watch episode 5 of Pirates of Darkwater: "Victory" So much happens in this episode. We discuss the baffling non-Euclidian architecture of the Malestrom, the complex biology of the constrictus, how we're all going to be eating garlic crickets one day, and how Bloth has a…
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04 More Lizard Gun
Jake and Sky watch Episode 4 of Pirates of Darkwater, "Betrayal" We were pretty enamored with a piece of equipment that doesn't get nearly enough screen time We discuss the impossible structure of the bad guy's ship, we get into a few math fights, we discuss apples and bongs, and Sky reveals his...
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03 Doctor Pepper DDS
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 3 of The Pirates of Darkwater! The episode is entitled "Breakup" so you'd think that maybe someone will have a significant other that will be introduced. Nah. It's about slavery. Cool. Cool. Cool. A super comfortable time was had by all. We discuss how we have...
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02 Thieves In the Sponge Cave
This week in Pirates of Darkwater, Jake and Sky watch episode two "Dishonor" A lot happens and yet not much happens? We discuss how Ren just hangs his broken sword on a nail while he sleeps, Sky learns the true meaning of Cirq De Soli, Tim Curry returns to the podcast, and the main characters are...
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01 S.S. Octopod
Greetings friends! We were able to find a copy of Pirates of Darkwater and thus have embarked to recount the tale to you, the listener. We're off to a promising start with a discussion of the practicality of a boat made entirely of bones, we question the very premise of the show, Joe Camel has a...
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05 Zombies Vs Croptops
We watched the final episode of Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos. The Island of the Living Dead ...There were real zombies that were dead people. In this kid's show. We discuss the anatomical location of "mid-calf," there's a zombie village, there is a new Karate Kommando, and the episode wasn't as...
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04 Crocodiles in Space!
We watched episode 4 of Chuck Norris: Karate Komandos "Menace from Space" Was the title a misnomer? Did Florida play a large part of the episode? Did Super Ninja get bat wings? Hell yes. We discuss the amazing interim villain Croc, how fan boats are pretty neat, there are two chefs that work on...
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03 Albino Abuse
This week watch episode 3 of Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos "Terror Train" Is this a spooky episode? No. Unless you consider someone utilizing someone else's Albinism to hurt them physically spooky. We discuss the Gooosebumps book franchise, decide what constitutes a shirt, Sky very much...
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02 Sterves of Neal
This week Jake and Sky watch episode two of Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos "Target: Chuck Norris" This... so much happens in this. We discuss gas station attendants, question if Amsterdam is below sea level, Jake is a full SuperNinja "stan" and Sky invents a color....
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01 This Was Inscrutable
We were going to start Pirates of Darkwater but we couldn't find it. Instead we watched Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, Deadly Dolphin. There's only 5 of these, so it won't be that arduous. Famous last words. We discuss the awesome character of SUPER NINJA, how C.A.T. scans can read your…
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There Are Two Bears, Five Kids, And One Doctor
Hey guys! We are enjoying our Hiatus, but to break it up, we watched The New Mutants. We're pretty sure nobody but people doing podcasts have seen this movie. It is not great. We discuss the very low bar this movie clears with its casting, there is one person working a whole mental facility, and...
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26 Doing The Last Hockey
So, it ended up that we recorded this episode on the 4 year anniversary of the first upload of our podcast! Neither of us planned anything out, but its pretty neat to know. Its also the final episode of the Mighty Ducks the animated series, To Catch a Duck. It was a very bad last episode. It was...
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25 We Get Off Track A Lot
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 26 of the Mighty Ducks animated series, Duck Hard. There is an attempt to make this episode almost sort-of kinda like the movie Die Hard. It is not very successful. We discuss if Sky could punch a seagull, Jake isn't familiar with the term "non Euclidian"…
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24 Audio Fistfight
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 24 of The Mighty Ducks animated series. A whole lot happens in this one. There's monsters and such. We discuss how weird Anaheim's museums are, how Phil definitely has a gambling problem, Nosedive is able to skype different dimensions, there's a call back...
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23 Is Jungle Tar A Thing?
This week Jake and Sky Watch episode 23 of the Mighty Ducks animated series, "Most Dangerous Duck Hunt" The Dog from duck hunt does not make a cameo. We discuss the evolutionary line of ducks, the ducks have a a boat now too, we still have no knowledge about hockey, the duck on robot violence is...
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22 California Cold Snap
Greetings one and all, this week Jake and Sky watch episode 22 of the Mighty Ducks Animated series, The Iced Ducks Cometh. We have never seen or read the play, so we're pretty sure this is a 1:1 faithful retelling of the 80 year old play. We discuss spaceships made entirely of ice, how a…
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21 Only Ducks Can Find Atlantis
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 21 of the Mighty Ducks Series entitled The Final Faceoff. It really really felt like a season ending episode. It isn't, but it really felt like it. We discuss how we want them to finally #ReleaseTheViolenceCut of TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze, how Atlantis is...
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20 Space Jam But With Hockey
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 20 of the Mighty Ducks, "Mad Quacks: Beyond Hockeydome" I am once again annoyed by the show's actual title being something I would have come up with for this show. We discuss how Duke La'Orange doesn't like being checked, the ducks get duped with yet another...
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19 The Highest Casualty Count
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 19 of the Mighty Ducks series, "Bringing Down Baby" It was fine. There's a tractor beam. There's an apocalypse. We discuss how photoshoot ready the ducks are, weather or not ducks have belly buttons, if there's a direct ration between people who had Knex and...
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18 Crystal Teal Persuasion
Hey Gang, This week Jake and Sky watched episode 18 of the Mighty Ducks, Buzz Blitzman, Mighty Duck. He was not a duck, nor was he that mighty. We discuss local tv channels and beetleborgs for far too long and it mostly got cut, the ducks are mean to a child, Sky is very wrong about the cast in...
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17 Gettin' All the Goo They're Gonna Get
This week we watched episode 17 "Monster Rally" of the animated series of the Mighty Ducks. It was odd. In fact, it was much stranger than all the previous episodes of this show about alien ducks who come from a hockey centric society battling dragons who have both robotic soldiers and also…
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16 Whoops
Due to some technical difficulty, we missed last week. This week we bring you last week's episode Puck Fiction! It was a spoof of Pulp Fiction, as you may have guessed. Sky has never seen the source material and Jake has only seen it once. We discuss hollow point bullets, our dads, the five meta...
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15 You Can't Pistol Whip A Door
This week Jake and Sky were parted by a snowstorm, so they recorded separately. There were some technical issues. Jack Frost can suck a lemon. We still watched episode 15 of The Mighty Ducks "Mondo-Man" It was a pretty dense episode. We discuss duck racists, the absolute stupidity of throwing…
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14 Anus in the Front, Party in the Back
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 14 of the animate Mighty Ducks Series, "The Return of Dr. Droid" It is a very appropriately named episode. We discuss the duck's strange fashion choices, how getting bludgeoned to death with soda cans would be a pretty terrible death, goo plays a not...
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13 Hot Sauce My Feet
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 13 of Disney Plus's Disney's animated Mighty Ducks series, as presented by Disney. It's entitled "Jurassic Puck" which is damn near a clever pun. I'm just gonna let you guess what this one is about. We discuss Tanya's very legitimate fear of dinosaurs, if...
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12 No Wall Left UnKool-Aid Manned
This week Jake and Sky discuss episode 12 of the Mighty Ducks animated series "Beaks vs B.R.A.W.N." Turns out, Dragaunus has spent some time in an interdimensional prison. Also, because we didnt mention it in the episode, B.R.A.W.N. stands for Bounty Robotic Assault and Weapons Negotiator. He…
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11 Playing By Ant Man Rules
Hey everyone! We're back from our holiday week off with Episode 11 of the Mighty Ducks animated series, "Microducks" It in fact was not about a "Fantastic Voyage" style parody. We discuss Captain Planet, a new villian shows up with a boss look, we accidentally become pro-gun, we're upset by…
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10 Terminator In Reverse With Ducks
This week Jake and Sky watch the cinematic classic Beak To the Future. Except its really more like terminator. There's also some Star Wars in there. It's episode 10 of the Mighty Ducks animated series. We discuss the duck's every day clothing, how they made no effort in hiding the bad guy's...
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09 Right In The Beak
This week Jake and Sky watched episode 9 of the Mighty Ducks animated series, The human factor. We were very convinced that this episode was going to show us people versions of the ducks, and we were sorely disappointed. We discuss Wildwing taking a rivet to the face, how Brad Garrett must have...
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Chicken Is On The Menu
So the Pioneers at Lifetime teamed up with the tastemakers over at KFC to bring us Recipe for Seduction. ...Why did they do this? We... I... No one knows. But they did. https://popculturefailure.podbean.com/ [email protected] Show: @FailedPopCultur Jake: @mdwstlvaffr Sky: @sandwichsurplus
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08 Wildwing Quits
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 8 "Take me to your leader" of the Mighty Ducks animated series. It didn't make a lot of logical sense, but that's kinda our thing. We discuss how Malory seems to be genuinely dumb, Duke's sword is incredibly versatile, Sky knows a truly alarming amount of...
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07 They Took the Title I Would Have Used
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 7 of The Mighty Ducks animated series, Dungeons and Ducks. That is exactly the title I would have used for this episode. They took that from me and I am not happy about that. We discuss how Grin kinda sucks in this one, are the ducks interdimensional aliens or...
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06 The True Path of Hockey
This week Jake and Sky are joined by Tanner! We watched episode 6 of the Mighty Ducks animated series. "The Power Play" We're six episodes in and we're already reusing assets. We discuss racism a lot, how very many puns are in this episode, the finer rules of hockey, what Tanner is attracted to…
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05 Too Convoluted To Fail
This week Jake and Sky watch episode 5 of the Mighty Ducks, "Phil in the Blanks." You know how we were clambering for a Phil spotlight? Well. Here it is. It was not as Phil Heavy as you'd expect, though. We discuss the dynamics of a dagwood style sandwich, we try to figure out the taxonomy of...
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04 An Electric Gremlin Furby
This week we are joined by a returning guest! Our pal Furby sits in on the episode. And for some reason his is the clearest audio? Sky is muffled and Jake is echoey, and we don't know why. Its not unlistenable, but it is noticeable. We watch episode 4 "Zap Attack" It is odd. We discuss how there...
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Jake and Sky delve into the worst tv shows and movies from our past and today so you don't have to.
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