Dissecting The 80s

The 2023 Spooktacular has arrived! We're jumping off with the sole directorial effort of special effects King Stan Winston!

Is this a secret xenomorph? Are these kids actually bad guys? How many ciga…

Summer is winding to a close, so we're ending on one of the heavy hitters of the summer movie genre: Vacation!

Happy 40th birthday! This movie is way darker than the other vacations! Is Cousin Eddie …

Note! Visit Dissecting The 80s on YouTube for a synced version of this commentary. https://youtu.be/_RgJ3BXLW14 

Why is there SO MUCH CHARLTON HESTON! How great are the Monkees? Why aren't there more…

NOTE FOR TANGENT HATERS: Toy Talk Tangent lasts until 21:24

For this episode (and likely ONLY this episode), we're Heroes in a Half Shell!

How much turtle power is in here? How amazing are these cost…

Re-released to celebrate our TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH EPISODE! This is our poor audio quality first-ever episode!

Tripp and Andrew dissect the 80s dance-a-palooza known as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,…

To celebrate our milestone 250th episode, we went back to where it began: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Should we do 100 Military Bullets jokes? What's with Helen Hunt's Hats? Why does every 80s movie d…

Our last episode before the big #250 is a real DIFFERENT OPINIONS episode!

Hear Tripp try to convince Andrew about how truly masterful this wonderful comedy is...to no avail!

All this and more!

“New…

It's the finale of Listener Request Month from our Patreon feed! 

Steve Martin and podcast fave Rick Moranis team up for a very odd duck of a mob comedy!

All this and more!

“NewsSting, Ouroboros” K…

Indiana Junes concludes with the franchise's yuckiest sequel: Temple of Doom!

What is up with this child re-dubbing? Is Willie the worst character in cinema history? How charming is lil' Ke Huy Quan?…

It's Indiana Junes! We're celebrating Indy's swan song with Raiders of the Lost Ark, a perfect movie, according to Tripp.

How perfect is this movie? Is Indy cooler than Snake Plissken? How goofy is t…

Listener Request month comes to a close on the main feed with The Secret of My Success!

How much porno was launched with this movie? How dang charming is Michael J. Fox? What is going on with this …

Meat-BALLZ!

It's a super-sweet camp comedy with Bill Murray and a score of Canadian teens. Does this make you want to go to camp? How many of these kids were on The Littlest Hobo? What, exactly, is T…

Here's a preview of our latest Patreon episode: Andrew's TV Grab Bag Spectacular, in which we cover Barbie and the Rockers, Beetlejuice and Fraggle Rock!

“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incomp…

The first episode of 2023's Listener Request Month is the action-adventure Zemeckis classic: Romancing the Stone!

Is this our babe-iest movie ever? How great is Danny DeVito? How gorgeous are Michael…

Our longest-running special month comes to an end: Andrew Programs The Show In The Month Of April, APTSITMOA!

It’s a movie Andrew's got quite a lot of fondness for: The Witches of Eastwick! What, exa…

Our longest-running special month returns: Andrew Programs The Show In The Month Of April, APTSITMOA!

It's perhaps the best film from very acclaimed director Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands!

What, ex…

John-uary continues...in...March.

Our promised second half of John Carpenter's birthday celebration is here, with the second-tier-but-still-good Stephen King Adaptation: Christine!

What, exactly are …

Mel Brooks' History of the World Pt. 2 drops today, so we're checking in on the origins!

It's another sketch movie! Tripp learns he'd never seen this, it's good to be the king, the delights of Busby …

Favorites-bruary comes to a close with a foundational favorite: Tremors!

How great is Kevin Bacon? What happened to the blue-collar hero? Why on Earth did SyFy not make that reboot pilot?! What, exac…