Crime Cruise: Love Boat Exposed
Crime Cruise: Love Boat Exposed - the podcast that hunts down and tears apart shenanigans on the classic 1970s TV show, The Love Boat. When laws, morals, and behavior go rogue - We Are There! With a new episode each week, we're a TV review podcast that comments on, analyzes, and reviews the worst of these high-seas offenses with edgy commentary and modern-day criticism. Come aboard. We're expecting you! Join Rob Springer, Charlotte Jones, and Producer Caleb and get to know The Love Boat's all-too-cozy crew and peculiar passengers. When it comes to the wild ways of the 70s, you'll learn this is just the tip of the iceberg. Spoiler alert: pop culture and retro behaviors were an untamed beast ripe for a takedown.
Episodes
Teenage Runaway Girl?
Captain's Paternity Tested!
A study of Playboy magazine and body hair
Producer Caleb in Stranger Things inspired drag?
We celebrate one year of podcasting Love Boat Exposed!!
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Julie Newmar + Don Knotts !! The mis-match of the century!!
Now The Love Boat has had pretty much every cast member from another of our old favorite TV shows, Three's Company!
That's right, Catwoman from the original Batman TV show and Classic TV's own Barney Fife / Mr. Furley . Seduction. Impersonation. Pregnancy?
Another plot touches on The Holocaust. Heavy.
Are we ...
🛳️ New Lows are Hitting the Deck on this Episode:
🤪 The sad use of the word "Re*ard" (multiple times) to describe a young mentally handicapped boy - by his mom, Three's Company's Joyce DeWitt (!)
😞 The act of constant sexual harassment and possibly the other "R-word" - as a creep over-powers a woman for the entirety of the cruise - and her man, Three's Company&...
🚕 Pretty lady propositions shlub taxi driver & pulls him onto cruise!
🍑 Doc's bare butt stars in a sick office-bedroom adventure!!
👰♂️ Doc Marriage proposal? Lady Doc humbles Doc Briker!
🤒 Lovesick crew member redemption arc?!
Caleb's Rule? "If best friends kiss 50 times, it's not considered just best friends anymore."
— Producer Caleb<...
🎉💍 Season 3 Begins - Fall 1979 with a Big Fat Wedding in Alaska!!
🏔️ Goodbye Mexico as Love Boat heads north to North America's Final Frontier
👮 NCIS' Mark Harmon in his 20's!
🏃 Man leaves bride at alter for ex-girlfriend?
🪮 Mrs. Roper is back again as Three's Company continues to stock the cruise guest list
🐎 Doc high-horse as he disapproves o...
Season Two Double Header!! Too much packed into just one show!!
👨🎤 Sonny Bono is a Goth Death KISS Rocker
☠️ Overheard Murder Plans!
👵 Grandma gives birth in a sick Doc Experiment?!
👩🦰 Redheads femme fatales seduction!
🧏♀️ Say it isn't so: Fun with a deaf character?
😴 Goodnight Season Two ... and nearing the end of the 70s decade🪩🕺☮️
The Innocence of Gophe...
🏩 Julie sets her sites on a senior dude - we're not sure why
❤️🔥 A prepubescent boy falls in love with ... Julie. Thank you, Stubing.
⛽ Gaslighting behavior on full display
✊ Evil capitalists vs. union organizers?
👖 Stolen clothes that magically fit the thieves
🤓 and a side-dish of manipulation of slow adults
"The Portrayal of Fem...
🌶️ Papa Stiller caught with Charo in his hot little hands?! Ben Stiller's Parents are aboard! (Anna Meara and Jerry Stiller)
🕺 Multi-talented Corey Feldman makes his Love Boat Debut!
😳 Julie unknowingly trains Charo in the art of seduction!!
💔 Stolen Love? A buried story from WW2 creates tensions and mystery.
🌩️ "The Sins of Our Fathers" '... that&ap...
🔮 Appropriation and the Gypsy fortune-teller
💐 Didi Conn ("Frenchy" from Greece) visits - and Gopher practices the art of deception
🐷 The Captain is a Sexist Pig
🔍 GRANDY WATCH Begins: Gopher: Congressman and Politico?
Body Positivity: "If you guys saw me at the beach, you would all think that I was some kind of a monster. I have a umbrella. I've got a hat. I h...
This week's episode?
Wild.
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🔄EPISODE REWIND
Top-Rated Episode of Season 2
(Originally aired Nov. 30 2023)
👙A bikini-clad Barbi Benton is back, and so is Mrs. Roper! Plus, Isaac loses his mind while vacationing on his cruise ship, and Julie wants to give herself up as the ultimate sacrifice to a lonely madman...and more!
🎉 SEASON 2 BEGINS!!!
🏝️Gilligan Style!! Our crew is stranded on a deserted trop...
This Episode rocks at a fast-pace with characters and plots that include:
🗡️ An appearance by the murderous OJ Simpson?!
🦰 Hayley Mills (grown-up Pollyanna)
⛵ Yachting with scandalous P Diddy??!
👎 A boatload of stereotypes
⚾ Reggie Jackson knocks it out of the ballpark
⌛ Crispin Glover from Back to the Future time-zaps to 1979?!
Crazy Stuff. Pretty Funny, actually.
Check it ou...
- Julie and Doc Have more foreplay (!)
- Oscar Goldman from "6 Million Dollar Man" wallows in big self pity
- His wife is driven to constant tranquilizer usage
- The woman doctor-shops and overdoses on pills
- Two Girls, One Guy. This ain't pretty.
- and a heavy dollop of fat shaming by your very own captain
Enjoy this wild episode!!
Love Boat Season 2, Episode...
🍸 Captain's Alcoholism comes in handy
👨🦽 Handicapped Vietnam Vet resolution
😚 Gilligan (Gilligan's island) picks up a lady friend
💣 Julie, a homewrecker - again!
🥪 We also talk Madonna, grilled cheese, & tomato soup,
😐 #️MeToo: "I like how the captain draws a line not drinking at work, but he will have sex with women at work. He will grope women at work. He will t...
🌶️ Julie's Reunion Cruise Reveals illicit encounters and super creeps.
🪖 Love Boat goes political with a Vietnam War theme.
🐔 Vietnam War Draft Dodger on The Love Boat
😖 Assorted Scandals, Romance, and Betrayals
🛏️ Woman designated as "Man-Hop Steamroller"
🎭 Bob Denver (Gilligan) and Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironside)
Trust and Betrayal in Relationships:
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⭐ "Ted Lange, if you're listening out there, I would like to go beyond Cameo. I'd like to patch you in as a guest because we've got questions, and you're one of our favorite characters."
— Rob
🚫 Unjust Profiling: "Well, first of all, are we profiling her by saying that since she was a convict, she stole them? Is that what we're supposed to automatically assume?
— Char...
🚢😈🪄 The Love Boat sails into the Realm of Dark Magic
🦱 Welcome Back Kotter revisits the Love Boat
🐹 "The Gopher" slams down the gauntlet. The captain gets it between the eyes and Goph walks out the door
⚠️ PLUS, we expose:
🔮 Creepy magicians
💬 Speech impediments
🐇 Animal protection laws
💦 The state of Sweathogs in general
💪 Overconfident ...
Lock your cabin doors! Spouses are swapping and no one is safe!
From open marriages and love triangles to questionable moral decisions, no scandal goes unturned in this episode.
Ginger from Gilligan's Island is the Doc's Ex Ex Ex Ex Wife
Down to Clown
Gaslighting, Cheating, and Revenge on the High Seas
- Jokes about sending a glitter bomb to someone
- Commentary ...
Ventriloquists bring new forms of deviant behavior onboard when their dummies seem to get a mind of their own - and look out for when these creepy "sex dolls" are on the prowl.
Spotlight on Julie as she is actively recruited to become a wife to a feret-like man and a pack of orpans in the wilds of ALASKA of all places!
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Captain and Doc on the make, again.
Women's attraction to Doc remains inexplicable.
Using the set from Zoro's on Love Boat.
Dabney Coleman and Rue McClanahan win points for their acting
Chico and the Man connection.
"That's kids been found stealing a watch, how could he be redeemed? Love Boat, you just made a stereotype come to life in front of our eyes!"
— Rob
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