Piloting Error

We are finally back, with a huge episode big enough even for our small audience! They are COPS! small ones! There are some cool miniature shots, and some 1980s MTV and and.... Ok.... Microcops... really sucked. It was just awful and stupid and annoying! We forced Rob Schulte (https://www.patreon.com/VanderpumpRobs) to watch it with us even though he was very vocal about wanting to watch and talk a...

No expense was spared for this podcast episode. Sets, costumes, puppets, miniatures, matte paintings, explosions, this one has it all... unfortunately it's an audio medium... but we do tell you about it! In fact your intrepid hosts head back several million years to a time when dinosaurs and humans lived side by side in a poorly articulated parody of a 1930s gangster movie, ride bone trains, and h...

Just in time for Halloween, it's a rerun! Yep, this one is from 2022, but just like the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, it has risen from the pumpkin patch and walked it's undead ass back into your podcast feed! Judging by our listener counts, you've probably never heard it and if you have it's been a few years... We were so happy to have Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional joining us, one of ou...

Clerks. is one of if not the most iconic and influential movie of all time, and a natural fit for a sitcom. However, it simply doesn't hit the same when you exclude all the gen xers and hire boomers to write and direct instead. We end up with a product that's about as edgy as a beach ball. Well, at least WE found a gen xer to watch it with US, Mike Sacks! https://www.mikesacks.com/ Oh, but then we...

Is it possible to make Always Sunny in Philadelphia funnier? What if it took place in space? Would anybody watch it? Would anybody care? The answer is no. Except maybe multiple failed TV Pilot podcasts, and we happen to be one of the ones that liked it! YES! This is a rare good one for us, full of talented people, and funny gags! Oh my god someone took that robot's penis! Joining us this time for...

We recently re-listened to the Acting Sheriff episode and remembered how much we wanted to see the movie within a pilot: Scuba Sleuth. Since that's never going to happen, we did the next best thing. We created our own version and rather than waste time with a plot, we skipped right to the climactic ending. So please, sit back and enjoy Robert Goulet, as Brent McCord, as SCUBA SLEUTH!

It's our 30th episode, and the errors and omissions were piling up, so once again we are looking back at old episodes and talking about things we missed, and mistakes we so confidently spewed. We also take a look into the future, and episodes we want to do in our 4th season, assuming we manage to continue making a podcast. Lastly we spin the Wheel of Pilots (https://wheelofnames.com/nyz-avm) a...

We could have watched a probably cooler show about teeny tiny police officers, but instead we watched a dumb sitcom about what women think and feel. Of coarse, no one bothered to consult any women about what they think and feel, and it's pretty obvious. Plus all the hot bidet takes you can stand! Joining us is author of multiple books including the new EXCRMNTMNTN, Andrew Hilbert (https://perp...

Sometimes when we are reviewing pilots we stumble on fake pilots. Things that are listed as pilots on the internet and then they turn out to be Cinemax Comedy Experiments. What do you do? Do you stay true to to the format that you've chosen, no of coarse who the hell cares! Especially when we are talking about Chris Elliot, and the thing is absolutely the most incredible inventive hilarious ov...

It's not your imagination, this is a rerun, but judging by the listener count you've probably never heard it before! We are traveling back to 2021 to travel back to 1991 and revisit this terrible idea for TV show where a stupid idiot with a great singing voice becomes a sheriff. This is an early episode so no game, no characters, hell we barely have a format and its only gotten worse since...

Have you ever seen the movie Heat? Did you know that it was once a failed TV Pilot. Well, not Heat but a show called LA Crimewave... or is it Made in LA... or just Crimewave?... I don't know... We watched something called LA Takedown from 1988 that seems eerily like Heat, but with a TV Budget, and more late 80s tropes than you can shove into a freshly laundered tan suit. Joining us on this poo...

Have you ever said to yourself, "There is too much violence and fantasy in this super hero show. I want to see them just be old, and sit around, and wallow in failure." Good news is, Unbeleiveables is for you! Bad news is, there is only one episode, it's 23 minutes long, and there is next to no information about it anywhere. Don't worry! Triple Dipper Jason(https://www.instagram....

In our second outing into gene Roddenberry failed tv projects we journey to 2133 to stroll around the futuristic community colleges of  Tuscon Arizona, watch people fight over a human popsicle in the horniest ways possible, and then they wave around bejeweled sex toys in a futile attempt to enslave Ted Cassidy and his wig wearing friends. Joining us to admire these breath taking matte paintings, f...

You know Blazing Saddles, that really funny movie that uses a quintessentially American genre, the Western, to point out the dark hypocrisies of America itself? Well, we watched the 1972 pilot spin off Black Bart where they ignored all of that and just focused on normalizing racist humor. That doesn't mean we aren't going to laugh at stupid drunken confederates... Joining us is noted Dukes...

We could have watched a show about teeny tiny police officers, but being dumb men trapped in a hell of our own design, we watched a 1986 show about how women think and feel. Of coarse, no one bothered to consult any women about what they think and feel, and it's pretty obvious. Joining us is author of multiple books including the new EXCRMNTMNTN, Andrew Hilbert (https://perpetualpublishing.com...

Part imaginary, part hallucination all... quixotic? No, but he is confusing. It's Creating Rem Lezar a Pilot (in our loose definition anyway) about a super hero with no clear powers who convinces children to build him by invading their minds. Rem then forces the children to draw infinity symbols and yell at adults. Oh and they sing, a lot, like the whole time. It's insanity on whole new le...

In this episode we experiment with puppet therapy to unlock hidden memories of mouth men and the secrets they keep. It's July 3, 1987 and the CBS Summer Playhouse is confusing children about a show that will never exist. Jim Henson and Fred Newman team up to teach us about no fault divorce with a strange pilot involving a man torn between his love for dragon puppets and force feeding his son chees...

This is a cross posted episode with our friends Bill and Robs: An Excellent Adventure podcast! Follow MacKenzie Support Bill and Robs podcast here Bill and Robs Merch!  Find more Bridge Burner Collective podcasts  🐦 Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/billandrobs  🤳 Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/billandrobs A rare mutation  has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper....

In a world so edgey every other shot is a dutch angle, a group of handsome well dressed youths will some how have to overcome the cramped quarters of a palatial mansion and defeat Matt Frewer, an evil marketeer intent on stealing their brains so he can rule the dream dimension. Joining us via collect call are Bill and Robs from Bill and Robs An Excellent Adventure https://anchor.fm/billandrobs and...

Oh BOY! Exactly what you wanted for Christmas, a rerun of your new favorite episode of your least favorite podcast! Cool! We are heading back to Tattertown, an extremely confusing animated story about a tyrannical little girl who wants to force religion on literal trash, and that's not even the weirdest part. It's the very first Nicktoon and created by Ralph Bakshi, the father of modern cartooning...

This month we offer up a classic favorite episode, the Quixotic adventures of actor turned annoyance to police work, Lookwell, written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and starring the one and only Adam West! This is one we bring up quite a bit as an example of a failed TV Pilot that is actually worth watching. We will be back soon with new episodes, but for now enjoy this old one. (Chances are,...

Things are getting super spooky but also super horny on the podcast this episode, as we watch a 1993 pilot starring national treasure, Elvira. Unfortunately it doesn't live up to her movie, but we were dying laughing anyway. We also welcome horror and Elvira expert Miguel Myers from My Horror Confessional ( https://allmylinks.com/myhorrorconfessional ) and we all three learn the true manifestation...

So it's come this, a Piloting Error clip show? No, not quite, but close. We talk out of asses so much we actually have to dedicate entire episodes to correcting ourselves. We also find time to host an award show complete with slapping, and Native American protestors. Two years, and 20 episodes later, we have yet to put a dent in abandoned TV pilots that were uploaded to the internet. 

Oh boy! What a sopping wet pilot this is. We spend way too much time with three sisters/mermaids as they avenge the death of their father, at the hands of a bizarre fisherman who uses explosives to fish in this 2003 annoyance. Who would have thought there were so many mer-rules?! And we break all of them, except the one about nipples on television. You can't even do that in Australia.   ...

In our hoboiest episode yet, your humble podcast hosts of meager means set out on a journey across the US by riding the rails to visit Big city ROB (robkschulte.com) in California and learn of his big city podcast ways. Then on to Bel Air where news has it Hobos have inherited the entire wealth and estate of a possibly confused but definitely deceased multi-millionaire. The neighborhood, or at lea...