Let's Watch That Instead

Just in time for Eastern Orthodox Halloween! It's a spookarific episode of Let's Watch That Instead. Staring: Dracula as Himself, and Emo Phillips as Dr. Ghost Fever. This year for Halloween Let's Watch That Instead went dressed as a Podcast about John Carpenter's The Thing. The Pitches This WeekThe Velvet Vampire/The Standing Rock Horror Musical Extravaganza: "Vampires are covered in the prenup." Patrick/Walk-About On The Dark Side: "It's the all-singing, all dancing, all comatose spectacular about Great Britain's national disgrace." The New York Ripper/Duck Dynasty: "If he looks like a Donald Duck and talks like a Donald Duck then he is a Donald Duck." Nina Forever/Ghost Fever: "He's constantly trying to assemble a trombone and failing to."

After the laser focus of last episode, we get just a tad lost in the weeds. First our age content disclaimer just sort of rambles on regarding family law, and the fate of unloved children. Then we have several false starts as Ed refuses to let a weird idea about Guy Fieri turning into a car die with dignity. Things pick up from there though. The Pitches This WeekCooked/Food Wars - "The All You Can Eat Shrimp Buffet of your nightmares." Most Likely To Die/The Death of Nostalgia - "Only by following the prophetic choreography of 'The Time Warp' will you survive the gauntlet of blades." The Fall/Christian Mingle 2: Buckets of Gore - "She has to find this Lizardman before he kills again." The Invitation/Ringu the Dinner Bell - "'I have several thoughts all at once,' Ed Golden - 2016."

Don't you ever look at something and wonder to yourself: "I wonder what happened just before all this stuff I just saw?" Of course you do! That's why God invented prequels, and why we at Let's Watch That Instead are here to pitch them to you. Also we talk about Brazil a lot because it was the Rio Olympics when we recorded this thing, but mostly it's about prequels, and Jeopardy, and living train-wrecks in the literal senses of those words. The Pitches This WeekSynchronicity / 12 Monkeys Minus 1: Double Monkey Jeopardy! - "Alex Trebek is kind of an asshole." Marcella / Collateral Damage 2: Horse Fight - "You know who else is back? Jean Claude Van Damme!" Crossing Point / Wet Hot American Summer 3: The Day Before the First Day of Camp - "Oh, it has nothing to do with... it's just for his own nose party." Continuum / Buddy and the Suit - "What I want to hone in on is that this suit just will not help him learn to drive a car."

Howdy folks, I know you're all used to us goofing around on this here podcast, but this week we're laser focused on getting you some serious content. This week we offer multiple choice blurb readings, mystery blurbs and we actually remember to make a content disclaimer this week. Also we tackle real life issues important to you, like: What if Bob Marley had been in Scrooged? Or great grilled cheeses in cinematic history and how that relates to fire-bee murder. Yeah, just the serious stuff. The Pitches This Week My All-American/Brain-Dead Jocks - "Unless we're going to bring John Hughes back as a zombie I don't think this'll work." The Confirmation/Swipe Right For Daddy - "Just hearing about that makes me want a grilled cheese sandwich." Dutch/Jerry Blows Up The School - "No, I like demons." Mystery Blurb/The FBI: Black Files and Black Dresses - "Only J. Hooves can have this magic weed."

Hey folks, this week we're here to bring you all the information you need to know. You guys needed to know about really obscure Spider-Man characters and every film Michael Keaton's ever been in right? This episode we continue our series of films with misleading trailers, get our hands on some hot Marvel property, and  secure the rights to a character who has been in the public domain for about a hundred years. The Pitches This WeekDreamcatcher/Foam - "That's a really silly note to be in someone's pocket." How To Be A Gentleman/Spoilers of War - "He's reaping the incredible financial windfall of Veteran's Benefits." Nightcrawler/You're Acting Pretty Whack Spider-Man - "There's a whole world of Goblin's." iZombie/Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Delicious Brains - "He's eating their tasty, tasty cocaine brains."

Hey everybody, getting back into the swing of things with a lean and mean half-hour episode, with some of the best post-ending bloopers we've had yet! In this episode we learn that Joe is fine for once, and I keep switching from stereo right to stereo left because I finally get to live out my lifelong dream of watching a movie on a plane. The Pitches This Week: Kurou-Mukurou /A Boy and His Sword - "The military goes next door to the writers room, which has a water cooler and they're all microwaving burritos." Stranger Things / Mother Danube - "Yeah, landlocked Eastern European pirates." Lethal Weapon 3 / Masked Cops Part 2: Portlandia's Revenge - "It's difficult to peddle a unicycle uphill in the famously hilly Portland." Creep / "Ride" Along - "I support anything that will make mainstream society uncomfortable." Good Morning * Call / My Hot Roommate - "We've really lost the art form of the short film."

Wow we're back! Sorry for the wait, but boy is it worth it. We start this evening by jawing on about the streaming platform Crackle for awhile, which seems to make Joe physically angry at some point. Then we pitch the weirdest damn anthology series ever and end it all by talking up a pair of classy British comedies set in Ireland. It's good to be doing this again. The Pitches This Week:Men At Work/Wholesome Family Comedy - "I'm trying to find a laugh track loud enough to drown out the horror." Heathers/Make My Corpse Super Glossy - "Confirmed Disney Channel Original." Steam Boy/Metal Ballz - "Without metal balls we'd be nowhere in life." Old Boy/Mid-Life Crisis Begins at Conception - "He feels for the Lindbergh Baby because he can empathize with that kind of pain."

Our long legal woes are now behind us! We technically review and compare the three major streaming services on the market today and thus gain a whole litany of legal protections from Fair Use. Do we totally forget to actually cast our judgments on the different services? Of course we do! Also less importantly, Let's Watch That Instead has its first Guest Star in Ethan White. Yes the man behind the trombone music is here to pitch you on an awesome sounding Aus-ploitation movie about Mole-Men running a start-up company. Meanwhile me and Joe continue our run down of cool drugs by talking about mescaline, and a can of Surge prompts a story about the time I almost wrecked Ethan's car. The gang also discusses possibly the greatest painting ever committed to canvas, which you can check out here. The Films This WeekBig Stone Gap/Arch-Ways: "I don't think stone is the best material for fixing a roller coaster." The Shrine/The Un-American Passtime: "Who does care about baseball?" StartUp/The Great Down-Under: "So they'

Hey Everybody. We've had a lot of fun these past few weeks, but please nobody actually threaten former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger or deal Quaaludes, m'kay? With that out of the way, this week, I'm feeling pretty positive and want to bring some positivity to my movie pitches. Joe on the other hand has decided he's pretty happy with the bleak, desolate existence he's got going right now and stays the course. Meanwhile the ghost of Nancy Reagan haunts our recording session, reminding you all that there's a reason why we're called dopes.  The Pitches This Week:The Host/Frakenstein on Duty - "Take that Mr. Positive" The Stranger/Get In The Blackbird Cake Boss - "It's an extremely tragic pie to the face gag." North and South/Kanye "South" West Presents: Crumpetsburg - "They're a classic high functioning couple." One and Two/Divorce Pacific Northwest Style - "So it's a Sucker Punch Sasquatch." The Master/Mountain Cat Tranquilizers - "If you or someone you know has Quaaludes, sell them to someone who want

We're back folks! With our most legally contentious episode yet! This week we try and give streaming services the benefit of the doubt, and see if we can guess relatively well known movies and shows from just their blurbs. To be fair we are able to guess a few, but in the end we get more wrong than right. For the benefit of those playing along at home we withhold the original titles of the shows and movies we use for the pitches, but we'll bring them up in the podcast. The Zanies / The Zanies: The Voices in the Head - "This is the one where it's going to get canceled for sure!" Ward of the State - "Matilda was pretty dark, huh?" The Punchies - "I may be an old man, but I know a thing or two about The Old Man and the Sea." Fortunately Pain Does Hurt - "I suppose if you're a bouncer, you are a warrior." The Truck Stops Here - "Google #SmashMouthEatTheEggs."

Oh happy day! We've got two episodes this week as a celebration of the launch of Let's Watch That Instead. Episode 2 brings in a bit more structure to the podcast, we're really running in high gear now. Episode 2 is jammed with content, twice as long as the first episode we're introducing new gimmicks like coming up with new names for our pitched show, introducing mystery blurbs, and showing those clowns how you actually convince somebody to watch a show they're unfamiliar with. Also we were playing around with audio quality, things are a bit clicky this week, but we've got a handle on it for our next episode. Just bear with us folks. Also we've got new ways for you to bother us through the internet! You can e-mail us at letswatchthatinstead@gmail.com and tweet at us at @Lets_Watch_That . Hit us up and be involved. In This Show: Last/Last Fist Standing: "So what you're saying is that this is a fight based economy?" Bare/Hey Check Out That Naked Lady: "Yeah... thanks Canada." Easy Living/Easy Livin': "I'm sens

Hey everybody! Welcome to Let's Watch That Instead! A comedy podcast about pitching new TV shows. Have you ever been looking for something to watch on a streaming service, come across a show you didn't know, and tried reading the blurb to figure out if you would like it? That probably didn't help much because those little streaming blurbs could be about pretty much anything. At least that''s how me (Ed Golden) and my co-host Joe Pierce feel. To prove our point, every week we're going to pitch brand new TV shows and movies based on streaming blurbs for shows we've never seen before, and trust us, they're a whole lot more original than what those blurbs are describing. Content Warning: There's going to be explicit language and adult content, so we don't recommend this show to kids. The shows this week: Dawn Patrol: "How about we just call him a gender fluid officiant?" The Booze Traveler: "He's going to bring John Belushi back to life and cast down the usurper Jim Belushi." Still: "Is the soul of his son hangin