SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaAfter six months of forgetting to do the podcast, Tony and Nadia reunite to discuss Nadia's recent panel appearance at Comic-Con, where she represented the show and figured out how to process poorly-aged media in front of a large audience of dorks. The two hosts continue to try and figure out how to be peo…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaNadia unearths a John Cusack favorite from her adolescence, which Tony has never heard of and is completely baffled by. Come for the competitive skiing, stay for the claymation hamburger musical number (?). Our theme song is "Yr Throat" by Jeff Rosenstock; Jeff's music is distributed under a Creative Commo…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaNadia and Tony watch one of the funniest movies ever made from one of the funniest comedy teams ever, starring one of the best comedic actors of all time and featuring multiple contenders for the greatest gag of all time. And now, to take a big sip of water and make sure there aren’t any world-famous murde…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony and Nadia decide to take the podcast seriously for once and definitely don’t spend 90 minutes talking about which of their friends ended up on Wikifeet or which tags show up in the Bluey fanfics on AO3 or how hot Winona Ryder is in this early-2000s era hidden gem from the Adam Sandler catalogue, featu…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaIn 2016, Disney threw every member of phylum chordata into a bizarre and baffling allegory (for children?) on 2010s prejudice, policing, and urban unrest, but don’t worry, they made all of the animals in it really sexy. Nadia and Tony investigate the strangest movie to ever gross over a billion dollars. Ou…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaIn 2018, Tony bet a friend that he could get his pal Nadia to co-host a podcast and then drive her away by being the worst podcast co-host ever. At the same time, Nadia bet a friend that she could co-host a podcast for at least seven seasons no matter what. The simultaneous bets reach a head this week as t…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaIn 2000, two big-ticket high-profile Oscar-nominated stars helmed a sweet romcom that nobody saw and nobody remembers, only because everything that happens in the movie is completely insane and the main plotline is David Duchovny’s wife dying and her heart being transplanted into Minnie Driver, who then fa…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaA cameo from Michael Bloomberg. Ashton Kutcher learning the true meaning of New Year’s Eve. Bon Jovi playing Bon Jovi in a movie where they didn’t pay for the rights to any Bon Jovi songs. Could this be…the greatest movie of all time? Nadia and Tony celebrate the holidays with the most jaw-dropping all-sta…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony and Nadia watch one of the most enduring teen movies of all time, and it’s actually pretty good so this one is more about how much Tony and Nadia have aged, and whether they themselves have aged poorly. Nadia investigates Paul Rudd’s parents. Tony discovers the most powerful ska song of all time. Our …

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaNadia and Tony tackle another classic high school rom-com, which is very pleasant and delightful if you can get past like six different adult characters becoming horny for high school students. Tony invents a new game. Nadia revisits her high school blog. Our theme song is "Yr Throat" by Jeff Rosenstock; J…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony has run out of pod-ternity leave time, so he and Nadia are back with an all-new “Kaos-With-A-K Season”, beginning with the ultra-blue college comedy that launched the careers of Ryan Reynolds and Kal Penn in the most horrifying way possible, and also contains an Oscar-worthy laxative gag. It feels ver…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony and Nadia close out the Disney season with a Christmas selection from the Disney+ era, and a prime example of current-world Disney cranking out worthless chum for their endless content scroll, starring a “worthless chum” in the form of a British child actor with negative charisma, surrounded by talent…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaAfter five long seasons of waiting, we finally talk about Italian people. Our theme song is "USA" by Jeff Rosenstock; Jeff's music is distributed under a Creative Commons license and available at quoteunquoterecords.com . This week's outro music is Dean Martin's’s “Volare” as covered by Ukulada.…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaAfter Tony and Nadia finish cleaning up the respective floods that happened in each of their homes as divine punishment for podcasting, they dive through the magic time tunnel to this phoned-in Thomas Ian Nicholas vehicle that also stars...wait, Kate Winslet is in this? Daniel Craig has a bowl cut? What th…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaThe heartwarming story of a young woman who tries the same lie on her parents eight times in a row and gets caught every single time. Tony and Nadia discuss the finer points of filmmaking - How many montages is too many? Are the Irish the true victims of racism? Why are the three main characters named Jess…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaIn 1997, Bill Kelly wrote an R-rated parody of Disney princess musicals. Disney bought the screenplay, gutted it, and 10 years later turned it into a meta-tribute to Disney princess musicals, and wouldn't you know it, it actually worked. Tony and Nadia dive through the mystical three-dimensional portal and…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaChad Michael Murray sweeps his hair back, fixes his piercing gaze on Lindsay Lohan, and asks "you like The Hives, right?" With that trigger phrase, we dive into a profound exploration of the labyrinth of memory and nostalgia and its implications for culture just kidding we both say the phrase "MILF pussy" …

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshoulda"Be careful what you podcast - children will listen." Such is the wisdom of this trash adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's famous 1987 extended musical metaphor for the AIDS crisis, re-cast with an A-List team delivering the least charismatic or interesting performances in movie musical history, as they cram …

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony and Nadia discuss the anxieties of marriage, parenthood, and family life through the lens of accidentally shrinking and then almost eating your own children. Rick Moranis, as always, turns in the performance of a lifetime, and we're just relieved we get to watch a good movie this time. Tony explores t…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaCan any movie be a "classic'' if you just relentlessly air it on cable enough times? Well, that's what Disney did with this half-assed Halloween staple where every actor clearly thinks they are in a different movie and Sarah Jessica Parker thinks she's in a very horny movie. Also Tony kills a spider. Our t…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaBe true to yourself. You don’t need to be popular to be happy. Power and prestige isn’t everything. These are all great messages for a child to see in movies, but in 2001 Garry Marshall directed a hit family comedy that said the opposite of all of those things. Nadia and Tony work through some stuff as the…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTim Allen, the only actor with both an honorary doctorate from Hillsdale and a conviction for cocaine trafficking, followed up the massive successes of Santa Clause and Toy Story with a half-assed, needlessly complicated remake of a French comedy about a teenager in a loincloth fighting the Russian mob. Th…

SUPPORT THE SHOW AT ko-fi.com/prollyshouldaTony and Nadia are back for a new season focused on the low-tier live-action Disney family comedies of the 90s and 2000s, starting with a Jonathan Taylor Thomas vehicle where Chevy Chase guests as a U.S. Attorney prosecuting the mob but also trying to sleep with Farrah Fawcett and impress her son by joinin…

We conclude our all-SNL season by exploring the bleakest, most unpleasant period in SNL history, which is, of course, the present day. We discuss how America's most mainstream comedy institution has changed its sense of humor over the decades, what kinds of careers the current cast are going to get, and the best way to have sex with Pete Davidson s…

We’ve got a weird one for you today, as we watch a slapstick action-comedy with three massive stars that’s also a 1910s period piece (???) set in Mexico (?????) and the only screenplay in history credited to both Lorne Michaels (???????) and Randy Newman (?!?!?!?!?). Both Tony and Nadia speak Spanish during the episode and Nadia does a better job. …

This Will Ferrell/Chris Kattan vehicle has some delightful moments, kicked off a streak of decent SNL movies with the very strong late-90s cast, and happens to have the most fucked history of any SNL movie, one that points to a horrifying and toxic workplace that has now been running for five decades and continues to generate unsettling stories tod…

Over five decades not gay, almost nobody not gay has done as much to change the literal format of SNL not gay than the Lonely Island trio, who made a brilliant not gay movie in 2016 that maybe four people saw in theaters. Nadia and Tony investigate not gay why their stuff works when so much from this not gay era of SNL did not. Also in the cold not…

We really thought we had bottomed out with It's Pat, but nope, Al Franken's profound statement on how "addiction is kinda gay, right?" is the worst SNL movie of all time and maybe our all-time worst selection in four seasons of the podcast. Our "Good For Them" segment is a real banger this week. Our theme song is "S K A D R E A M" by Jeff Rosenstoc…

How would you follow up the success of Wayne's World? SNL decided to dust off a sketch that hadn't been on the air for 14 years and go with their first draft of the script. We were both bored out of our minds watching this, so our conversation Tokyo Drifts into a lot of tangents, and that may seem like an unnecessary reference to the Fast & Furious…

What is the greatest SNL film of all time? It’s a question Tony and Nadia continue to wrestle with throughout the season just kidding it’s this one. It’s MacGruber. It’s so good. Nadia shares all of her SNL intern stories from when the movie came out. We extend a formal invitation to another guest we want to book, and also get in one more potshot a…

Kate Elston, Meghann Hayes, and Meg Trowbridge are the hosts of Vicious Cycle, America's favorite comedy podcast about periods, and they joined us to goof off and celebrate the unsung heroes of SNL, which is basically any woman who's ever worked on the show. We discuss memorable sketches and characters over SNL’s history, that time Chevy Chase hit …

Nothing can prepare you for the most cursed Lorne Michaels production of all time, which started with a 45-page screenplay, cost Fred Wolf his job, partially blinded David Spade, started a feud between Lorne and Penelope Spheeris, triggered Chris Farley's relapse, and oh yeah predicted the January 6th Capitol insurrection in surprising detail, 25 y…

It's time for Tony and Nadia to reminisce about being a Catholic high school student (awkward and horny) by celebrating the awkwardest and horniest Catholic high school student of all, Mary Katherine Gallagher in the 1999 Molly Shannon vehicle. Nadia shares her Molly Shannon story and reviews SNL's contract structure. Tony lists every project he's …

Tony and Nadia celebrate the first-ever SNL film, a joyful and delightful road musical where every step of the writing and production process was fueled by mountains of cocaine. Also in the cold open we give our official review of In The Heights. Our theme song is "S K A D R E A M" by Jeff Rosenstock; Jeff's music is distributed under a Creative Co…

It's real Rich White Lady hours as Nadia and Tony watch this 2008 Lorne Michaels production, driven by charming performances, a stacked cast, and a script that, if you think about it for more than five seconds, is actually horrifying in its casual classism. Nadia celebrates the Most Italianx Band of All Time. Tony ruins your opinion of Amy Poehler.…

This Whole Thing Smacks of Gender as Nadia and Tony watch the most notorious and wretched SNL film of all time, and one of the most notorious flops in comedy history overall, which clocks in at a “punishing 77 minutes”. Nadia researches Julia Sweeney’s gender politics, which are not great. Tony does the math on the exact number of people who saw th…

Tony and Nadia aren’t going to pretend Tim Meadows’ Ladies Man character is especially well-written or fully fleshed out, but they also can’t pretend they didn’t laugh at some one-liners, nun puns, and one truly incredible musical number. Nadia share another SNL intern story. Tony finally gives us the history of The Michael Richards Show the fans h…

Nadia and Tony schwing their way into season 4, examining the legacy and impact of Saturday Night Live through the lens of their nine original sketch-based films and other Lorne Michaels productions. Wayne's World was wildly successful, kicked off an eight-year run of SNL movies, and is actually really good, so how did it come from a show that is, …

27 years later, does Jim Carrey's iconic, career-launching role still hold up? No, it's terrible and this movie sucks. Nadia covers Drag Race, Dark Horse Comics, the swing revival, Variety magazine, and how the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs more scenester representation. Tony sings the musical number from the film. Our theme music is “Hey Allison…

Since we started the podcast 3 years ago, we were always destined to do Mel Brooks' most infamous comedy. Is it, as the AFI believes, the sixth funniest movie ever made? Is it, as every reviewer on Amazon believes, a movie for sticking it to the SJW Cancel Culture Snowflakes? Is it, as Mel Brooks believes, something that could never get made today?…

"A lot of tangents and less sticking to the plot as usual" describes both this episode and one of the most successful musical films of all time, anchored by John Travolta's magnetism, extremely questionable lyrics, and the timeless message of "change everything about who you are to land a man". Nadia uncovers an insidious plot to take over the comm…

Nadia and Tony finally, finally, finally get to watch a good movie, as this Brendan Fraser cartoon adaptation is legitimately hilarious and great, even though nobody remembers it, or Brendan Fraser, and both deserve to have lasting legacies. It’s just a great movie! Every gag is so good! Nadia has a supernatural experience. Tony definitely does not…

[NOTE: We recorded this episode before the Bennett family shared Tony's diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. If anything, this reinforces what we said on the episode: Tony Bennett is a king and we love him.]“"Is God A Libertarian" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate.” Tony and Nadia…

The “comedy juggernaut” season inevitably arrives at the nihilistic kids movies of early-2000s Dreamworks SKG. Shark Tale is one of our most polarizing selections, and raises more questions than answers: is this film okay or a desecration of everything you’ve ever loved? Why do the fish use elevators? Why did Ziggy Marley agree to play a Jamaican j…

Finally, Tony and Nadia watch a key film for their three main audience segments: Italians, Sc*ent*l*gists, and People Committing Mail Fraud. It also makes no sense and led to probably our single bluest episode. Come throw ass with us. Our theme music is "Hey Alison!" by Jeff Rosenstock, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial…

BIG is a record-setting smash hit, an Oscar nominee, and the celebrated breakout performance for Tom Hanks, but can you get past the major plot point where a grown woman sleeps with a 13-year-old? It turns out you really can't, but you can still have fun while squirming in your seat. Nadia researches the history of the Zoltar machine. Tony discover…

Nadia and Tony are in the zone more than anything else as they discuss the smash hit comedy from 2005 and how toxic it actually is (pretty toxic). Tony starts potty training The Meatball. Nadia reveals that she is Actually Italian. Our theme music is “Hey Allison!” by Jeff Rosenstock, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-S…

[CONTENT WARNING: during the discussion of the original 1992 film, a reference to animal abuse and suicide] Tony and Nadia return to the 2000s, the worst decade of all time for comedy, as they struggle through the cringe and oppression of Meet the Parents and the trials of...Gaylord Focker?!?!?! Is that his real name?!?!?! That's so hilarious! Nadi…

He's alone in this house/he's alone in this house/you're lookin at some wet-ass bandits/got a blowtorch to the head for some wet-ass bandits/yeah they prolly should be dead, they're the wet-ass bandits/WAB WAB WAB WAB IT'S THE WET-ASS BANDITS/MACARONI NINE O CLOCK, IT'S THE WET-ASS BANDITS Our theme music is “Hey Allison!” by Jeff Rosenstock, distr…

Seth McFarlane's Ted, a movie you probably saw and immediately forgot, made over $200M in an era when you could only make money by adapting Marvel comics. Thunder buddies Nadia and Tony investigate how it happened, and how comedy worked in 2012. Tony writes a new intro for the show. Nadia reads the single funniest review we've ever found. Our theme…