Adam and Brian plop down on the couch and crack open a double-feature of John Ritter deep cuts, two movies that couldn’t be more different on paper yet somehow feel spiritually linked in their strange, scrappy, late-night-cable energy. First up is Stay Tuned, the warped TV-hell satire where Ritter and Pam Dawber literally battle for their souls through a gauntlet of twisted channel parodies. We dig into the film’s cartoonish visual inventiveness, its ahead-of-its-time media cynicism, and why Ritter’s everyman charm still anchors the madness.

Then we jump over to Real Men, the offbeat buddy sci-fi spy comedy that pairs Ritter with Jim Belushi for a genre-smashing adventure full of deadpan absurdity, alien negotiations, and oddly sincere self-help vibes. We explore its cult appeal, its chaotic tonal mash-ups, and how the film manages to be both incredibly 80s and completely unlike anything else from that era.

Hand over the remote, grab your chips, and get ready for a wild adventure through space, time, and television.