Dissecting The 80s
Tripp and Andrew Laino have been watching movies together since 1992, and making fun of them together since 1999, when a rainy afternoon of babysitting turned into 8 straight hours of cheesy science fiction, popcorn and jokes. Raised on a strict diet of 80s adventure, action, comedy and drama, the pair have an undying love for the 1980s and all of the weird, wonderful cinema therein. Since 2014, they’ve hosted this podcast - every other week they dissect a movie (or sometimes a TV show), finding plot holes, bad lighting and acting choices and the bizarre cinema quirks of 30-odd years ago (Smoking in hospitals! Rubber suits without neck hinges! Corey Feldman!).
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
#236 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Crack your whips, grab your hats and buckle up for adventure: it's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!
Tripp gushes about Spielberg, does a mediocre Sean Connery, and can't stop talking about one of …
#235 My Neighbor Totoro
It's Favorites-bruary, and we're starting with an Andrew pick - our first animated film! - My Neighbor Totoro.
Talking points: Supreme dad energy, hangout movies, vibe movies, dust times, Miyazaki fo…
#65 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Hey y'all, we had some unforeseen circumstances and had to punt on our episode on Christine, so here's the closest thing to a Carpenter film from the archives!
The end of Fourbruary is sadly here: Ha…
#234 The Fog
It's our newest fake holiday celebrating a celebrity birthday: John-uary! John Carpenter's turning 75 and he rules and we're doing two movies of his, starting with THE FOG!
Jamie Lee Curtis swoons ov…
#233 Lethal Weapon (Clip)
Well...this didn't go as expected!
Tripp vaguely remembered liking this movie, so we made a huge mistake and did an episode on a movie we...really hated! Happy Holidays, we guess? (It still came out …
#232 Throw Momma From The Train
Danny DeVito's back, baby!
Our favorite short king directed this bizarre little comedy featuring the great Ann Ramsey, Billy Crystal having a slow meltdown and a lot of weird little touches. (For tho…
#231 Terminator
He'll be back - Jim Cameron, that is, with Avatar 2: The Way of Water, so we're celebrating with his first mega blockbuster; The Terminator!
How good is Arnold's performance as a merciless killing ma…
#230 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Happy Thanksgiving!
We're ending the first-ever Candy-ed Yams with perhaps the only Thanksgiving movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles! How great is Candy at driving you crazy? How good is Steve Mart…
#229 The Great Outdoors
We're kicking off Candy-ed Yams month with one of our #FamilyFaves: The Great Outdoors!
Why are we spending so much time on this teenage boys week-long fling?! Could you eat the ol' 96er? How great i…
#228 Halloween 3
Must be the season of the wiiiiiitch!
NOTE: Tripp was correct about Mountain Time (though he stands behind Andrew's Coors Light point) and the St.Patrick thing is a myth!
What is Tom Atkins doing le…
#227 Alone in the Dark
The Spooktacular continues with the old-guy feature Alone in the Dark!
How high is Donald Pleasance in this movie? What's the ethical situation of offering Book It style personal pan pizzas at a ment…
#226 Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
THE SPOOKTACULAR BEGINS!
We revisit an odd-duck slasher sequel involving a wild hobby horse, reincarnations, costume closets, trunks, really bad 50s clothes, and giant, open punch bowls!
All this and…
#225 Spaceballs
If you're livin' in a bubble and you haven't got a care/ Well, you're gonna be in trouble 'cause we're gonna steal your air/ 'Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds/ We're th…
#224 Night Shift
#223 American Anthem (Preview)
#222 Death Becomes Her
#221 Robocop
We're back!
Join us for the 35th anniversary of Paul Verhoeven's stone-cold classic: RoboCop!
Is this the most realistic dystopian future? How goopy are the proceedings? Can you recognize someone by …
Summer Rewind: #37 Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes
Tripp got married! Time ran away from us - we will be back in two weeks with a new episode on Robocop. For now? Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes! One of our favorites only available as part of the Patr…
Summer Rewind: #37 Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes
Tripp got married! Time ran away from us - we will be back in two weeks with a new episode on Robocop. For now? Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes! One of our favorites only available as part of the Patr…
#220 Poltergeist
Oooh child, you're on the other side!
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year is the fun horror classic: Poltergeist! How hunky is Craig T. Nelson here? Jo Beth Williams kicks all sorts of ass, an…