Send us a text New content? A Christmas miracle. The gang go down memory lane this time to relive Christmas in the 70s. A time when we put lead tinsel on our tree and added enough hot lights to a dead, dry trees that Prometheus himself was worried. From barfing at your elementary school Christmas program to debunking the entire Kris Kringle conspiracy, we're covering it all. Oh and Lite Brites! Keep the change you filthy animals!

Send us a text OH MY GOD! We know him. We know him. Our Christmas memories episodes come to a welcome close with the arrival every everybody's favorite holiday movie except for Christmas Vacation and a Christmas Story. We haven't done those yet so they don't count. Merry Christmas you filthy animals

Send us a text Is it or isn't it? Who cares, we say. The boys go back to 1988 to ponder when a man could be the lead in an action movie. And that man could smoke, swear, kill people, and still be the hero. This one also features one of our greatest performances ever, Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber. All other movie villains have paled in comparison since. The gang attempts to tackle the issue of this being a xmas movie or not, but their argument runs out of gas pretty quic...

Send us a text Ho ho ho grumpy nation. We start our xmas adventure with this 1983 tale of excess, betrayal, gorillas, and Jamie Lee's silk blouses. You know, standard holiday fare. WARNING: This episode is different than others.

Send us a text We're going mega-nerd this week reviewing the 1982 dark fantasy film, The Dark Crystal. So nerdy, in fact, that show co-host Mike had to recuse himself. Actually, Mike is out this week and he asked show superfan, Dr. K @pinotjones to sit in for this odd but beautiful mess of a movie. K had some big (smelly) shoes to fill, but he knocked it out of the park. #thedarkcrystal #wheresmike

Send us a text It's turkey time again, only our turkeys are the cinematic kind. We needed some time for reflection this week, so we humbly ask you to revisit this special episode where we chow down on our most reviled holiday turkeys. We only give thanks in that we don't have to watch these movies ever again. This episode originally aired a few years ago and the movies we cover in it haven't gotten any better. Now that you mention it, neither have we. Happy Thank...

Send us a text We dangerously test the patience of our audience by reviewing yet another Arnold movie. This week it's 87's The Running Man, just in time for its unasked for remake in theaters. Arnold was bigger than most movies during this time and it appears that no one ever bothered to tell him that he could actually say "no" in some instances. That said, this is a glorious, check-your-brain-at-the-door example of 1987 film standards. Amazing deaths, callous one-liners, and a ca...

Send us a text With the release of Predator: Badlands this week, the gang remembered we talked about this franchise several years ago, but that episode stood out because we first met our heroine, Alaskan warrior princess Molly! She bravely sat in for this episode and we have been awestruck ever since. The movie was terrible, but this was a special podcast episode for many reasons. Please give this another go. Features a new intro with @mollsmusings herself! #predator #...

Send us a text Our 2025 Halloween series comes to a merciful close as we cover the amazing An American Werewolf in London from 1981. Much like a unicorn, its a crazy original horror movie from a time where imagination, creativity, and talent could beat up a CGI movie any day of the week. We keep the grumpy going to the end where we name our worst horror movie of the 21st century displaying our complete lack of self-awareness.

Send us a text The only thing more scary than Halloween is a bunch of unsupervised kids in 1978, high on sugar, wreaking havoc on suburbia. This time the boys wax nostalgic on the Halloween experience in the 70s and 80s. From horrible Woolworth's boxed costumes to those miserable clods that handed out pennies instead of candy to trick or treaters, we're covering it all. If you ever filled a pillowcase full of peanut butter taffy twists and micro Snickers, this is the podcast...

Send us a text Time to kick off our season series Where Wolf? There! Wolf! with the obnoxiously entertaining Silver Bullet from 1985. A little known Stephen King movie featuring Cory Haim and Gary Busey! And as if that wasnt horrible enough for you, the boys look back at the plethora of Stephen King movie adaptations from the very best to Lawnmower Man. True horror, indeed.

Send us a text Cross over children. All are welcome. We're going back a bit to feature the first ever episode determined by a viewer's poll, the 1982 scare fest Poltergeist. Creepy clowns, little kids with horrible bangs, and a tree that eats little boys. Spielberg made ET the same time he was shooting this so we suppose there was some repressed anger issues so he took it out on this audience. Scarred. For. Life.

Send us a text Good news! Hollywood is no longer remaking our great 90s movies. They've moved on to the crappy ones. This week we break format and talk about a new soon-to-be movie and unfortunately its this one. Your hosts unleash their inner grumpy with extreme prejudice as this 2:42 minute trailer truly make them lose it. An affront to everything they hold dear with cinema. Derivative, unoriginal, cringe can be fun! Needs to be heard to be believed.

Send us a text With the pending arrival of Tron: Ares to theaters this fall, the boys decided to dust off this episode covering the original to remind you there's nothing to get excited about. The groundbreaking (for the time) special effects are a little dated, but fortunately the story and acting are so terrible you wont notice. All that said, there's an odd charm to this one that we cant scrub off. Listen in, laser-brains!

Send us a text Some say that the Grumpy Nostalgia boys have the same chemistry as Keanu and Swayze in this film. Those people are wrong. A few of you listened to this episode the first time, but not enough for our liking, so we're re-releasing this gem in hopes that its true beauty can be more appreciated. A truly great action film that ushered in a multitude of comparable movies in the 90s that made this dumb podcast possible. PS - Do you look as good 34 years later a...

Send us a text Years of listener requests will finally be honored as the boys take on the uber-80s cult classic, Better Off Dead. And they're not even charging two dollars for it. Travel back to a time where teen suicide was hilarious and film makers could be fearless and unapologetic in order to be funny. Remember funny? A personal favorite for both of your hosts, this episode was a treat to do, except for poor sap Justin who had to edit in a record amount of sound clips to the p...

Send us a text It's back to school time so the boys decide to reminisce about the good old golden rule days. School in the 70s was more of a Gulag experience rather than higher learning, but there were some good times too. Smoking teachers, bus ride hellscapes, and enough chocolate milk to strike fear into the hearts of a lactose intolerant generation to follow. A must-listen to anyone who survived this glorious era!

Send us a text Killer worms with a side of Bacon. In the 90s, this was more than enough for us. This week we're going the full six degrees of something-or-other trying to interpret this ridiculous 1990 B-movie. Kevin Bacon's hair stars as Val, the garbage man turned worm basher. Along for the ride is Fred Ward's Earl, who repeatedly ask us to pardon his French. And we do willingly. Stick around to the end when the boys talk about their favorite B-Movies. It B ter...

Send us a text Everyone loves Keanu, but none of you listened to us talk about him in this episode the first time, so we're trotting it out again. Maybe it was because we were only 10 episodes into our podcast career or, more likely, our enormous lack of talent that kept you all away. Either way; Who cares? In this glorious 90s action flick we are constantly reminded of how cool things used to be in the movie theater. Great stories, great acting, and no unnecessary CGI. Kean...

Send us a text We're going back to the stone age this week, which is appropriate in that the viewing experience feels like you're passing one. Justin and Mike give their timid responses to the Flintstones in this brutal episode that test the very boundaries of their podcasting fortitude. John Goodman and cast do their best, but a script that took 35 (!) writers 87 minutes to tell wins out in the end. Only the strong survive indeed. Thanks Darwin!