One of the Museum’s greatest achievements! For several NTSC decades, our favorite silly TV comedies made the occasional awkward one-off turn into melodrama. These episode-length PSAs aspired to Emmy gold with delectably over-lit depictions of drugs, violence, death, abandonment, sex work, cults, UFOs, and spirit demons. Let’s revel in the most heart-stopping examples of a "very special episode" visibly in over its head: psychedelic dream states, death rattles, abrupt stretches played straight for minutes, emotional outbursts, and more!

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A project years in the making, “We’re Going to Disneyland” is a feature-length distillation of 30 years of sitcom households packing their bags and hitting the road to a Disney theme park for family fun, fireworks, and fulfilling contractual corporate obligations. Hosted by JDobbs

ABOUT THE SHOW: No need to adjust your antenna, set the VCR, or even pay the cable bill—just let Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs beam all the television he’s been collecting into your home, sorted through his own bizarre filing system of story clichés, recurring jokes, TV history, and anything else that finds purchase in a mind permanently altered by sitting too close to the screen.

ABOUT THE HOST: Jordan Dobbs Rosa is a permanently Californian film school cliche who does a little bit of everything, watches too much TV, and is known on your screens as Your Old Drinkin’ Buddy JDobbs. He previously was the host of The Midnight Now, is still the Museum’s Senior Sports Correspondent, and if you see a JDobbsRosa on any social media platform there’s a very good chance you’ve found him.

Another fastest-paced-Museum-session-ever with two all-new hours of our signature Garbage Plate™ mixes. More than lemonade out of lemons, this is caviar out of compost. It’s like channel-changing on a cable system with a gazillion stations.

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It’s about time we properly celebrated two of the American counterculture’s greatest heroes; here we return to the well of fun John Waters interview clips. For this sequel, we’ll also focus on Waters’ beloved Edith Massey (“The Egg Lady” from PINK FLAMINGOS). These two are forever helixed in film history; they were witty, creative, shocking, and assured in equal measure. “Every word I ever utter shall be considered a royal proclamation!”

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FRIDAY NIGHT! Sweet friend DJ HOSEH made a GIGANTIC PILE of very FUN videos and also very HORNY videos just for YOU! Excited that he’s co-hosting this episode & boy will it be silly! Will it be a DOUBLE HORNY BLOCK episode? There’s just too many butts!

We have over 50 years of combined radio experience between us and it’ll be very funny when that doesn’t translate to live tv!

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Simply put, Reelblack is one of YouTube’s finest archives of rare footage, and one of YouTube’s longest-running channels ever! Michael Dennis has been saving impeccably cool nuggets of African-American life on film and video for 20 years.  We honor Mike with a megamix of our favorite Reelblack moments. Behind-the-scenes with The Roots and The Neptunes, TV commercials that will blow your mind, Richard Pryor crooning (which will also blow your mind), historic dance parties, DMX on a rollercoaster, and the hair show to end all hair shows! We’ll also hear the scoop on Reelblack’s first Blu-ray release: RIVERBEND, the previously-lost ‘80s action epic starring the late Steve James (AMERICAN NINJA and many other Cannon Films).

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One of the Museum’s greatest loves is unseen footage of 1980s Los Angeles. We recently stumbled across a whole few episodes of the short-lived “Laugh Trax”: a Xerox of a competitor to “Fridays” (itself a janky clone of SNL). This show was filmed on location across the whole of LA. Cameos by Fred Willard and Leslie Nielsen, and a musical shots by General Public. SNL ’80 alumnus Gail Matthius (from the infamous “worst season ever”) acquits herself just fine here as a main cast member. And you’ll get to see the inside of some neon-soaked nightclubs

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Are you ready for the wildest game show we’ve ever aired? WOW, this is one hell of a tape. Nearly unedited by us, we present the infamous 1994 episode of the short-lived British phenom “Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush”…the one with a finale akin to Oprah’s “You get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car...”. “Toothbrush” is an unholy manic hybrid of variety show (Barry White guests for a few songs AND is an erstwhile contestant), sketch comedy (the red-headed host just won’t stop riffing), “Let’s Make A Deal” (audience encouraged to bring enormous papier-mâché toothbrushes), “Numberwang” (the fictitious surrealistic UK game show), and shock reality programme (see: finale). You won’t regret this.

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The look…that piercing look! Sandra’s rocked this world with fifty years of being WHO SHE IS. Starting her career as a manicurist to the stars, Sandra brings that intimacy, cattiness and filthiness that only a salon-ster can really bring. Tonight we bring well over 60 minutes of incredible talk show appearances and enthralling chutzpah.

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A supersonic blast of superlative, demented high-energy TV commercials from the UK.  You’ll hear jingles you’ll never be able to unhear! You’ll see foods that probably shouldn’t exist! Get down with elfish mascots, obscure condiments, baffling animations, naughty chocolates, wildlife chugging P.G. Tips, a few Python cameos, absolutely haunting PSAs and other delights.

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FRIDAY NIGHT! Your loins’ll be a-burnin’ like her voice is urgently yearnin’! She’s the brand ambassador for BIG HAIR and a lobbyist for SULTRY FLOWING FABRIC! It’s a SPOTLITE on the late great BONNIE TYLER! LATER IN THE EPISODE — A People’s Guide to Fisting Safety!

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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An unusual slice of warm ’n fuzzy watching from the Hall of Forgotten Sitcoms. After his iconic ten-year stretch between “Soap” and its hugely successful spinoff “Benson”, Robert Guillaume was looking for his next big move. Tonight we’ll watch a full episode of Guillaume’s short-lived titular sitcom from ’89, the unusual vibe of which is very cozy, low-stakes and more like an indie arthouse film.

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A babyfaced Bruce Campbell at age 24 (!), captured in a great late-nite moment in time. Finding this recording was the first we’d heard of “PBS Late Night”: a long-running public television competitor to Carson and Letterman, broadcast live from Detroit, MI. Here, affable host Dennis Wholey interviews Bruce at length on the May 6th, 1983 edition about THE EVIL DEAD. And they take live calls from around the States like it’s Larry King’s show!

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What a discovery! Before the iconic ‘90s indie that showcased the skill and style of Kid ’N Play, young filmmaker Reginald Hudlin shot an early version of HOUSE PARTY in ’83 for his undergrad degree at Harvard! Many of the scenes would later end up in the feature film verbatim, and this charming short did end up on PBS’s “Image Union” back in the ‘80s.

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MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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The multiverse has never been filled with this much madness. Easily one of the most unhinged and surreal martial arts spectacles to ever escape from Hong Kong, 1978’s THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN finds the departed spirit of Bruce Lee battling through the Underworld against Dracula, James Bond, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Emmanuelle, and even some mummies. But he's not alone! Along the way, Bruce befriends the One-Armed Swordsman, Caine from the TV show “Kung Fu,” and last but not least, Popeye the Sailor Man. Tonight we’ll watch this whole damned thing, unedited!

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Lab coats, libidos, and piles of cocaine! Not one, but two hospital comedies from 1982, chopped up in the finest line of anti-comedy crank for you to snort and then feel weird about the drip afterwards. First is Garry Marshall’s yuk-laden YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE, giving the AIRPLANE!-stye treatment to the operating room with Michael McKean and Sean Young in tow. Then it’s the zoinked JEYKLL & HYDE: TOGETHER AGAIN, an early HBO staple and one very uncool movie starring Mark Blankfield (from the era-defining unfunny sketch show “Fridays”.)

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Stevie…Lindsey…Mick…Christine…and that other guy! It’s a full hour of fantastic live performances, iconic (and sometimes iconically strange) music vids, and a bit of interview fluff from not only the Fleetwood Mac canon but also Stevie and Lindsey solo stuff. This is the smoothest.

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It all fits into a neat 30-minute package! Here’s every frame of Liza Minelli’s arc as Lucille Austero on this iconic Aughties sitcom. This is also a great tribute to Tony Hale, who most often played opposite Liza as the wormy Buster Bluth.

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FRIDAY NIGHT! GRACE JONES! GINGER ROOT vs. McCARTNEY! KISS vs. EARTH, WIND & FIRE! SPOTLITE on CHICKS ON SPEED!

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR:IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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Attention, plate collectors! Time for a muckracking exposé into some classic 20th-century consumer fraud: the offerings of the Franklin Mint. Imagine the SNL ‘84 “Nathan Thurm” sketch with Martin Short, but in real life! This downright hilarious vintage “60 Minutes” segment finds Morley Safer easily shattering every retail myth about the worthless trinkets and chintzy collectibles from this bastion of American culture.

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We welcome back Graham and John Paul from the Major Label Debut podcast!  With their previous appearance (Ep. #260), we bonded over a Fasterpiece Theater treatment of Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS: one of the ultimate filmic Boomer totems. Now we’ve locked and loaded three different cutdowns of Eighties Boomer excess: the mid-career missteps of Paul Simon’s ONE TRICK PONY, Macca’s GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET and Bob Dylan’s HEARTS OF FIRE. Dylan’s haggard “Skeksis-in-drag” look is especially troubling!

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Created by Bret for AGFA (American Genre Film Archive), this frantic ode to culture jammers like Negativland and Bruce Conner takes 30+ hours of 20th-century health-and-safety “scare films” and mixes them into 60 minutes of mirthful musical terror. Here we take the jittery “word salad” edit aesthetic to new heights; it’s one of the most out-there pieces we’ve ever cut. The raw material for this mix is courtesy of Something Weird Video: the legacy home video label from Seattle that specializes in mid-century exploitation films and other detritus. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

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One of the most fascinating chapters of the OG L.A. punk era, captured in a superlative recent PBS documentary crammed with tasty footage and photos. A stone’s throw from each other in the same Chinatown plaza, Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Cafe were the joint epicenter of total awesomeness. The intense rivalry between these two clubs in ‘79-‘81 is the stuff of legend. ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

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There is no purer catnip than behind-the-scenes footage of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, and the rest of the Muppetmakers doing their jaw-dropping best. We give you two contemporaneous pieces to their height of fame with the OG “Muppet Show”: a “60 Minutes” profile from ‘79 and a syndicated special from ‘81 (shot by future cinematography star Roger Deakins). ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

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