Episodes
Hop in your spaceship, we’re going experiment hunting! This week, Candace, Bri and Arezou are talking Stitch, the 2003 backdoor pilot to Lilo and Stitch: The Series. Together, they agree that Nani is a queen, speculate at the progressiveness of Pleakely’s crossdressing and compare the series to Pokemon (gotta catch em all!) Also, Arezou scares Candace and Bri when she fixates on one alien in particular. Check out our website here: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter:...
Published 02/14/22
In this very special episode, we're crossing over with our new show What The Hair and talking about Tangled Before Ever After, the 2017 direct-to-video animated film that acted as the pilot to the Tangled series. What the Hair hosts Candace and Krista are joined by Tangled fans Arezou and Maggie to talk why they all love the movie so much. Waffle...
Published 01/31/22
Who's ready to watch Tarzan learn the same lesson over and over? This week, Candace, Bri and Arezou talk about this Disney midquel, and things get just a little inappropriate. They dissect gorilla family dynamics and debate whether or not this film includes an enemies to lovers storyline.
Published 01/17/22
An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel The Three Musketeers…starring Micky, Donald and Goofy? This week, Candace and Vanessa discuss this 2004 full-length feature film, and marvel at the quality of the movie compared to some of the others covered on Straight Out Of Home Video. Check out our website here: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Geeky_Waffle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeekywaffle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeekywaffle/ YouTube:...
Published 01/03/22
Candace and Arezou are joined by Enby Adams to talk about Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street, four episodes of the One Saturday Morning cartoon stuck together. They share fond memories of growing up with Recess, wonder if it holds up, and discuss the central thesis of the show:  don’t grow up too fast.
Published 12/20/21
Let's ring in the new year with nostalgia. In this home video we visit the 100 Acre Woods. Candace is joined by fellow Waffle Mack for this holiday Winnie the Pooh movie. They discuss the best and most disturbing moments throughout the film. Eeyore smiling is going to be haunting Candace's dreams for days to come. Where to follow Mack: https://twitter.com/mackveltman https://mackthemuser.com/ Waffle...
Published 12/06/21
Candace and Arezou review Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse. It’s a cheerful holiday special with one moment between Belle and the Beast that they found very WEIRD. Check out our website here: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Geeky_Waffle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeekywaffle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeekywaffle/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thegeekywaffle TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegeekywaffle
Published 11/22/21
In a first for Straight Out Of Home Video - they are revisiting one of the movies! This week, Candace and Arezou gush about Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, and how they feel it's stood the test of time. From being the only sequel represented in the parks, to how much it meant to them as kids and as adults, to the romance tropes shown in the movie (and Arezou's liberal use of a certain term), they were only too happy to revisit one of the earliest Disney sequels.
Published 11/08/21
Pooh and the gang are back in this 2005 Halloween Movie the last movie to be produced by DisneyToon Studios. Join Candace and Bri as they laugh their way into this spookable movie. From a bizarre lament from Piglet, to a movie that is mainly about a story within a story, to the cute nostalgia of the iconic characters plus a new Heffalump character, neither of which Candace or Bri where aware about.
Published 10/25/21
Candace and Bri are joined by Those Happy Places’ Alice to talk about two of their favorite things: muppets and haunted mansion. They talk about all the cameos, all the references, songs, the jokes, and jump scares!? They also can’t help but compare this to the 2003 Haunted Mansion.
Published 10/11/21
It's a special Space Waffles/Straight Out Of Home Video crossover! This week, Arezou, Candace, Bri and special guest Noor-Hal take a look at the newest holiday special featuring Star Wars Lego. Come for their favourite moments, stay for Ben Solo conspiracies, the best horror movie homages, and some (not so) surprising thoughts about Darth Maul Check out our website here: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Geeky_Waffle Facebook:...
Published 10/04/21
What's more romantic at your first wedding anniversary than remembering a bunch of stories of you being attacked and kidnapped in the jungle during the first year of your marriage? This week, Candace, Bri, and Arezou discuss this stitched tv show turned direct to DVD movie Tarzan and Jane. Follow along for a barrel of laughs as we discuss if learning English or animal languages would be easier, that volcanos do exist in Africa, and much, much more. Check out our website here:...
Published 09/27/21
In Summer 2021, Disney released Monsters at Work, a sequel (or midquel, depending on how you look at it) to Monsters Inc. This week, Candace, Arezou, and Waffle writer Hope discuss their favourite parts of the show and why they think it works so well. They also talk about why they relate to it so much, as adults who came of age during a major recession and cultural shift. Check out our website here: http://thegeekywaffle.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Geeky_Waffle Facebook:...
Published 09/13/21
Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast? More like Fawn and the Legend of the Neverbeast. This week, Candace, Bri, and Vanessa dive into the 6th and last movie in the Tinkerbell franchise, discussing key elements of the plot, characters that got left behind, and taking a Buzzfeed community quiz to help determine which pixie hollow fairy we are. Come find out our final result of the Tinkerbell films and stay to be confused over Fairy lifelines, we may never get an answer.
Published 08/30/21
Tom Hiddleston? Christina Hendricks? Costumes by Christian Siriano? Are we sure this is a Tinker Bell movie? This week, Candace, Bri, Vanessa and Arezou dive into not just the all-star components of Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy, but analyze the nitty-gritty of Pixie Dust alchemy, question Pixie Hollow society, and browse eBay for Pirate Fairy dolls. Come to find out where this falls on their ranking of the movies so far, stay to hear a bunch of parent reviews that completely missed the...
Published 08/16/21
This week, Candace and Arezou subject themselves to the...experience that is Belle’s Magical World, a three part “movie” that was clearly meant to be a series and stitched together with no through line. They analyze how the petty conflicts cheapen the original story and dive in to the terrifying implications of sentient characters that appear here, but are nowhere to be seen in the rest of Beauty and the Beast Is it better or worse than Atlantis II? Only time (and listening to this episode)...
Published 08/02/21
What happens when you hit your fourth Tinker Bell movie and are just overwhelmed by the whole experience? You forget to even mention the name when talking about it. This week, Candace, Bri and Vanessa dive into Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings. The movie features new cast members Timothy Dalton, Lucy Hale, Debby Ryan and Matt Lanter, who plays a fairy named Sled that Bri is totally crushing on. Come for that, stay for Vanessa going off the deep end with fairy biology and a very heated...
Published 07/19/21
What's the sitch? A lot of yelling and feelings, for one. This week, Candace and Arezou are joined by their friends Tori and Catrina to discuss "Kim Possible: So the Drama", the not-quite series finale for everyone's favourite teenage spy. Together, they talk about the series as a whole and what it meant (or didn't) to them growing up, and Candace valiantly tries to defend Kim/Ron while the rest vocally oppose it - especially Arezou, who felt "bamboozled" by the friends-to-lovers plot...
Published 07/05/21
The Great Fairy Adventure continues with this latest installment, as Candace, Bri and Vanessa struggle to find the words to express how this movie made them feel. Is it anti-science? Did Disney actually believe this had Oscar potential? Is the superior fairy ship Tink/Terrance or Tink/Vidia? All this and more this week on Straight Out of Home Video
Published 06/21/21
What do you get when you take the Little Mermaid 2, add a dash of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and make them all dogs? Why, you get Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure of course! This week, Candace, Bri and Arezou are joined by their friend Nicole to ask themselves the really important questions about this strange entry into Disney canon. Questions like: Why is this a musical? Why is there a love story? And why, oh why, are people SO passionate about it in their online...
Published 06/08/21
A surprising and unexpected sequel to one of Disney's earliest movies? That's Bambi II in a nutshell. This week, Candace and Arezou are joined by Waffle writer Jennifer to talk about whether the movie is a cautionary tale on toxic masculinity, discuss the inner lives of deer, and get weirdly flustered over Patrick Stewart playing Bambi's absentee father.
Published 05/24/21
A lot of movies from the mid-90’s didn’t age well. But only a few can elicit this many “yikes” in under 90 minutes. This week, Candace, and Arezou are joined by their friend Swara to pick apart this very loose adaptation of Pocahontas’ real-life trip to England. Together they muse on how Pocahontas got “fair-and-lovely’d” and how the Johns Smith and Rolfe had more chemistry with each other than either did with the heroine.
Published 05/10/21
Candace and Vanessa are on an adventure to get through all the Tinker Bell movies, and this particular entry in the canon was a stressful one. At least for Vanessa. Pour yourself some celebratory chamomile tea, and brace yourself for Tinkerbell’s anger issues.
Published 04/26/21
Winnie the Pooh holds a special place in many of our hearts. That warmth and comfort and nostalgia for childhood all wrapped up in a chubby, little cubby, all stuffed with fluff package This week, in a mini-episode, Candace and Vanessa take a look at one of Pooh’s more adventurous outings - an adventure to rescue Christoper Robin - which turns the characterizations up to eleven and includes some truly strange war propaganda.
Published 04/12/21
Not all Disney Sequels are created equal. Take Kronk’s New Groove, which finally puts a spotlight on everyone’s favorite spinach-puff-making himbo henchman. This week, Candace and Bri are joined by Robert from Crooked Table to take a look at this sequel which they believe is better than most and gets an unfair beating from Rotten Tomatoes critics. After all, when you give the legendary Eartha Kitt a song of her very own, how could you fail?
Published 03/29/21