The Flop House

The Flop House

The Flop House is a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film, then engage in an unscripted discussion about the movie's shortcomings and occasional delights, while never being afraid of a pointless, silly digression or two hundred.

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January 10, 2026 44 mins

Elliott takes his co-hosts on a tour of properties entering the public domain this year, and leads a brainstorming session about how we might revamp or reboot them, now that we don't have to pay anyone for the privilege.

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Seventh time's the charm right? We discuss the commercial hit, but critical punching bag Jurassic World: Rebirth, the movie that presents a society that's bored of dinosaurs, and then makes a pretty good argument in favor of that boredom.

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December 27, 2025 63 mins

In this mini, Stuart attempts to explain the lore of Elden Ring to Dan and Elliott, despite the staunch resistance of his co-hosts.

Tickets for Flop TV Season 3 are ON SALE! Also, we’ll be back at San Francisco Sketchfest on January 25! Get tickets now! We’ll be discussing legendary flop THE MASTER OF DISGUISE!

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December 20, 2025 59 mins

We're taking a short holiday break, but that doesn't mean YOU have to survive without a new episode! It means that we're giving you this live show, recorded at the lovely Sleeping Village in Chicago, IL, where we discuss the Jim Belushi-and-a-dog cop comedy(?) K-9! Everyone wins!

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We welcome Amber "Voice of Pam on Archer" Nash to the show for a little quiz about this year's slate of Hallmark holiday films, and what we think their plots might be. Check out Amber's podcast, RePhrasing: An Archer Rewatch Podcast, right on our own network, Maximum Fun!

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December 6, 2025 83 mins

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Some might go so far as to call it the hap-happiest season of all. Why? Because we're rejoined by Alonso Duralde, one of the warmest most delightful film critics and podcasters in the world, for our annual bad holiday movie! That said, goddamn you Alonso for suggesting we watch The Christmas Martian. This... this... thing... oof. Just listen to the show.

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November 29, 2025 141 mins

Our friend Chris Weitz knocked politely and requested to be allowed into the lion's den, becoming the first director to come on a full episode to discuss his OWN work. That's right, on this Flop House we discuss AfrAId, a movie written and directed by (checks notes) Chris Weitz. And surprisingly (?) it's one of our most joyful episodes. God bless you, brave sir.

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November 22, 2025 120 mins

"The One with Michael Shanks?" What is this, a FRIENDS episode?!? (Thank you, producer Alex, for that joke.) No -- in this episode we welcome writer/director/FX artist/actor/man with impeccable taste in podcasts, Michael Shanks, all the way from his home in Australia, to discuss his nostalgia pick, 2001's The One, starring Jet Li!

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November 15, 2025 124 mins

We welcome the man who brought us to the Maximum Fun network, Mr. Jesse Thorn, to the show this week. And how did we repay him? We made him watch Smurfs. We never said life is fair. Anyway, of all the Smurfs movies in the world, this will definitely go down as "the one with Rihanna and James Corden."

Come see us live in Chicago, THIS SUNDAY, 11/16, discussing K-9! OR, if you prefer to watch us from the comfort of your own home: Flop...

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Writer, producer, and podcaster Scott Weinberg kicks off the FOUR FULL EPISODES OF "MOVEMBER," with a discussion of 2024's remake, The Crow. The original Crow was a defining movie for legions of goths and black-trenchcoated teens. This one... has a lot of people thirsting after Bill Skarsgård's abs? And not much else?

Come see us live in Chicago, on 11/16, discussing the Jim Belushi-and-a-dog buddy comedy K-9! OR, if you prefer to w...

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Hallie stuck around to help ease your Hallie-ween hangover, as Elliott guides the peaches through a survey of Halloween costumes in cinema. Who wore it best, and whose costumes were just lame? We put on our cattiest Mr. Blackwell costumes and decide! And remember -- MOVEMBER starts next week. Other than this brief Shocktober close-up mini, all four of November's remaining shows will be FULL EPISODES!

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October 25, 2025 89 mins

We wrap Shocktober 2025 up with a discussion of the extremely-loosely-based-on-the-videogame meta-slasher UNTIL DAWN. But that's enough about the movie! We're burying the lede! Hallie Haglund returns to join us in our filmic antics. Has she seen a ghost yet?

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Stuart's popular "let's discuss TV instead" mini format Tuboy Talkin' Tube to Two Dudes, Tonight All Right returns with a little serious first amendment talk up front and then a lot of goofy Emmy talk.

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October 11, 2025 91 mins

Boo! Hahahha, gotcha! It's SHOCKTOBER, when all the ghouls and ghosties and ghremlins and ghrim reapers come out to scare us! And at The Flop House it's our traditional all-horror month! We kick off with 2024's IMAGINARY, about the scariest thing in the world -- an imaginary friend! And if you don't believe us, watch that awful John Krasinski imaginary friend movie. We're shivering just thinking about it!

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October 4, 2025 56 mins

We've made it no secret that we at The Flop House are proud to have been included in the newly-published, The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen. On this episode we welcome the author of that book, Sean Malin, to the show, to help us discuss the MOVIE pantheon, and which canonical films we could all live without.

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September 27, 2025 83 mins

From the (?)genius(?) that brought us the legendary A Talking Cat!?! comes another tale of a talking animal and the humans who live with him in a California porn-shoot-mansion, doing mundane things in scenes that take way too long, in-between luxurious establishing shots and footage of people driving. It's the absolutely bonkos Smallvember new classic, An Easter Bunny Puppy.

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September 20, 2025 52 mins

Dan challenges Stuart and Elliott to lose as much money as they can by turning hit movies into bombs.

See The Flop House LIVE IN CHICAGO this November!

And, if you prefer to watch us from the comfort of your own home: Tickets for Flop TV Season 3 are ON SALE!

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September 13, 2025 114 mins

It's Smalltember (Elliott pops into frame to say "Smallvember!") -- that special time of year when we allow ourselves to stray from big Hollywood movies to examine some tinier, more idiosyncratic pictures. And boy howdy is Lumina idiosyncratic! So we welcomed actor Ashlie Atkinson (The Gilded Age, The Lost Bus, Mr. Robot and much more) to help decipher the madness!

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September 6, 2025 39 mins

Elliott provides a survey of cinema's eponymous doctors, and asks us whether we'd trust them with our medical care.

See The Flop House LIVE IN CHICAGO this November!

And, if you prefer to watch us from the comfort of your own home: Tickets for Flop TV Season 3 are ON SALE!

Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!

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August 30, 2025 94 mins

It's rare that a movie gets embraced as a new classic in badness as quickly as Amazon's War of the Worlds, but hey -- they're known for their fast delivery. Maybe they're just the future of bad movies, "disrupting" the bad movie space with their boldly incompetent visions! We discuss the (overwhelmingly listener-requested) new WotW!

Our first Chicago show sold out, so we ADDED A LATE SHOW! Come see us live!

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