Episodes
TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KISS Get ready to lose your head over an escalator! Alan Galinsky joins us for a movie that can’t decide if it’s about voodoo, parasites, or vaguely European lesbian incest. Come for the rubber cat puppet and stay for the most shocking “Recycling” segment we’ve ever had. We watched 1988’s… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Kiss
Published 10/25/24
Published 10/25/24
TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR This week on Trash on the Tube, Master of Horror Wes Craven brings his most terrifying monster to the small screen – Jeffrey Jones! That’s right, noted character actor and pedophile stars as a cartoonist and “family man” whose imagination comes to life in this oddball sitcom… Read More »Trash on the Tube: The People Next Door
Published 09/30/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: STEEL & LACE This week, guest Tessa Morrison returns for revenge served with a side of robotic boobs. Toxic bro culture gets what’s coming to it when the robot recreation of a sexual assault victim picks of her assailants one by one. It’s like Inspector Gadget, but with more penis mutilation!… Read More »Trash in the Can: Steel & Lace
Published 09/06/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: TOXIC OBSESSION This week we go down under for another exercise in clueless ego. And no, we don’t mean the podcast! A tech industry wizard with the charisma of lawn clippings inexplicably finds himself in the middle of a fatal attraction scenario that leads him to almost raise his eyebrows. Join… Read More »Trash in the Can: Toxic Obsession
Published 07/30/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: THE SEDUCTION OF DR. FUGAZZI This week we dive into the work of an amateur auteur in the tradition of Tommy Wiseau, Deuandra T. Brown, and the Former United States Secretary of the Treasury’s wife. Frank Calvillo returns strictly to discuss Faye Dunaway dressed as Annie Hall, but sticks around for… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Seduction of Dr. Fugazzi
Published 07/11/24
TRASH ON THE TUBE: TEQUILA AND BONETTI Is the only thing keeping you from watching Law and Order: SVU the lack of Mariska Hargitay interacting with a talking dog at a grisly crime scene? You’re in luck! This week, join us for a take on Turner and Hooch that adds a dash of racial stereotypes… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Tequila and Bonetti
Published 06/27/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: MOSQUITO We kickoff the summer with camping, barbecues, and giant mutant mosquitoes! A cluess biologist, Leatherface, and Iggy Pop’s bassist team up for a rubber monster roulette. Chris Cox returns to Trash in the Can with 1994’s Mosquito!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews,… Read More »Trash in the Can: Mosquito
Published 06/07/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KILLER EYE It’s hard to describe this week’s movie, but it’s similar to the Tommy Bahama shirt Wright was wearing as we recorded. Painful to look at, confusing, and surprisingly sexual. Jarred Schiff joins us for a movie he brought with him, so don’t blame us. We watched the tentacle… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Killer Eye
Published 05/17/24
TRASH ON THE TUBE: COP ROCK This week, we watch a show that takes the gravity of Hill Street Blues and combines it with the pizazz of Glee. Does it work? Absolutely not! Is it a fun watch? Debatable! Join us for Steven Bochco’s musical misfire Cop Rock!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Cop Rock
Published 05/02/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: RAISING HEROES A bear and a twink face off against the mob! Do we have your attention? Good because this movie couldn’t keep ours. Baylor Johnson returns for a deeply 90s indie flick that echoes early Tarantino, but with a Kevin Smith physique. We watched 1996’s Raising Heroes!   YOUR HOSTS… Read More »Trash in the Can: Raising Heroes
Published 04/16/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: ACTION USA This week’s movie is basically Lethal Weapon with a quarter of the budget and 100% more actual risk of death to the cast and crew. Austin Presley joins the boys to marvel at the always bloodshot eyes of our male lead, constantly hard nipples of our female lead, and… Read More »Trash in the Can: Action USA
Published 03/28/24
TRASH ON THE TUBE: DADDY DEAREST This week, we continue our losing streak of watching shows too good for our show. The late Richard Lewis stars as the son of the very late Don Rickles in this dysfunctional family sitcom that works best when Rickles deviates from the script to say things we absolutely cannot… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Daddy Dearest
Published 03/20/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: ROBOT NINJA It’s Oscar season, so of course we celebrate the only way we know how – by watching a lost VHS “super” hero movie starring an incel comic book writer turned wimpy vigilante. Filmmaker Travis Patten returns to discuss how badly Boy Wonder Burt Ward must have needed the money.… Read More »Trash in the Can: Robot Ninja
Published 03/08/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: DEATH RIDER IN THE HOUSE OF VAMPIRES Rocker Glenn Danzig returns to the director’s chair and brings us a vampire bordello movie so slow it can only be described as From Dusk Till Yawn. Guest Rhett O’Hara joins the boys for the world’s most boring shootout, roving accents, and not nearly… Read More »Trash in the Can: Death Rider in the House of Vampires
Published 02/22/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: LAS VEGAS BLOODBATH Are you ready for goblin king sex, makeshift abortions, and a movie coming to a complete stop so the characters can watch oil wrestling on TV? You better be because these are about the only things that happen in this boring VHS atrocity. Anna Marie McBrayer aka horror… Read More »Trash in the Can: Las Vegas Bloodbath
Published 02/01/24
TRASH ON THE TUBE: 704 HAUSER This week we look back on a footnote in the illustrious career of Norman Lear that’s still way too good for our show. Delight in the fully rounded characters, the sharp writing, and despair that The Big Bang Theory got 46 times more episodes. We watched 1994’s 704 Hauser!… Read More »Trash on the Tube: 704 Hauser
Published 01/17/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: ASSASSIN 33 A.D. Let’s pour one more out for Jesus the birthday boy as we ring in another year of trash! Samia Abu-Shawish joins the boys for middle eastern characters played exclusively by Mexican actors, a covert bible app commercial, and time traveling assassins looking to bust a cap in Jesus… Read More »Trash in the Can: Assassin 33 A.D.
Published 01/03/24
TRASH IN THE CAN: FIGHT OF FURY What would a Bruce Lee movie be like with woodenly spoken Hallmark card dialogue and fight scenes choreographed by Estelle Getty? Co-host of the Double Toasted podcast, Martin Thomas, joins us for a lively discussion on public bathroom dubbing, UFC lookalikes, and the taste of breast milk. We… Read More »Trash in the Can: Fight of Fury
Published 12/15/23
TRASH IN THE CAN: TWO OF A KIND This week, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunite for a romantic comedy with no romance or comedy. Gene Hackman as God, wisely going uncredited, gives four angels a week to prove humanity’s worth and prove Welcome to Mooseport wasn’t his worst movie. Frank Calvillo returns for edible… Read More »Trash in the Can: Two of a Kind
Published 11/30/23
TRASH IN THE CAN: BILLY OWENS AND THE SECRET OF THE RUNES This week, we complete a magical journey that began all the way back on episode 88. Baylor Johnson returns for the (mercifully) final chapter of the Billy Owens saga. Marvel as Billy stoically mumbles confusing dialogue, thrill at the other kids doing the… Read More »Trash in the Can: Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes
Published 11/14/23
TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE MARTIN SHORT SHOW This week, we check out a TV series featuring Martin Short and Steve Martin decades before Hulu made you pay extra for no commercials. All-star comedy legends, SCTV alums behind the scenes, and Elizabeth Taylor’s dog come together for a show you’ve never heard of – The… Read More »Trash on the Tube: The Martin Short Show
Published 11/07/23
TRASH IN THE CAN: FRIGHTMARE This week is the story of the death of an old queen and we don’t mean Elizabeth. Comedian Brendan K. O’Grady returns to once again to suffer through a movie he somehow hates less than Knives Out. Discount Vincent Price returns from the grave for revenge, Irish wake dancing, and… Read More »Trash in the Can: Frightmare
Published 10/11/23
TRASH ON THE TUBE: ON OUR OWN Did you like Mrs. Doubtfire but felt it needed 100% more parent death? Then join us for this drag-centric 90’s ABC sitcom whose premise was abandoned faster than its orphan stars. This week on Trash on the Tube, we watched On Our Own! YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek… Read More »Trash On The Tube: On Our Own
Published 09/06/23
TRASH IN THE CAN: CADE: THE TORTURED CROSSING Romantic! Suspenseful! Competent! None of these words could describe this week’s feature. Auteur and robot Neil Breen returns with another confusing, stock footage filled, visual dry-heave. Filmmaker Christian Remde joins the boys for an episode that is somehow longer than the movie and just as baffling. Let’s… Read More »Trash in the Can: Cade: The Tortured Crossing
Published 08/15/23