A Match Made In Space

MMIS FANS: YOUR LONG WAIT IS OVER! Was it worth it? Probably not. Ali and Jon get lost in SpaceCamp (1986) this week. Jon hates Jinx. Ali hates Jon. Both forget to mention John Williams apparently did the music in this movie. He probably should have done a better job. SpaceCamp was directed by some guy named Harry Winer, and "stars" Indiana Jones' most irritating girlfriend, Marty McFly's Mom, Joh...

Time for MMIS to go back to both the "Fourth Movie Of a Franchise" and the "Young Jon Realizes a Movie Can Be Terrible" wells for 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, which officially stomped the life out of the once mighty Christopher Reeve Superman series. Jon is considering taking a speeding bullet. Ali is thinking of leaping in front of a locomotive. Have both of them discovered their resp...

Get on the Turnpike Towards The Area Of Increased Hazards, as Ali shows Jon 1986's best Navy recruitment video Top Gun. Ali is nauseated by the lack of sexual chemistry between our leads. Jon is just glad to be hanging with the boys. Both are sad to learn that the pattern is full. Top Gun was directed by Tony Scott and stars Maverick, Goose, Iceman, Slider, Jester, Gooch, Pottymouth, Pancakes, Zip...

Hey, MMIS fans, welcome to a special preview episode of A Hard Grey's Night, the Internet's Most Reluctant Grey's Anatomy Podcast, where 50% of our hosts would rather be anywhere else! In this episode, Ali forces Jon to watch the pilot, "A Hard Day's Night," for the SECOND time, and then forces him to talk about it as politely as he can. If you haven't seen the entire series, there will be spoiler...

Ali and Jon both go back over the rainbow for 1985's traumatizing Return To Oz, a not-really-a-sequel-to-the-movie that proves Disney has always been in the business of scarring children for life. But is this movie as disturbing as Jon and Ali remember? (SPOILER: Yes.) Once again, one of Ali's childhood favorites stars a preternatural brunette girl, while Jon wonders what sort of blind, idiot god...

Okay, nerds: MMIS is meeting you halfway as Jon shows Ali 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Ali can't stand all this nerd talk, but manages to maintain etiquette. Jon uses this as a platform to speak for an extended time about Edge of Etiquette. Both seem to trip over themselves to claim they're not really Star Trek fans, honest. One of them makes a convincing case... Star Trek IV was directed...

This would be an all time classic episode, if we hadn't effed up the recording about 16 minutes in! Still, marvel at the amazing chemistry between Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in 1987's Overboard being mirrored by Ali Goodman and Jon Wolter. Be awed as Ali forgets to set up the microphone properly. Be completely unsurprised that Jon forgets to tell the trivia that this movie was turned into a 2006...

Hoooo-Boy. This one is a shambles.

It's a Forgotten Franchise Friday (assuming you choose to listen to this on a Friday) this episode, as Ali shows Jon the second installment in the once-quite-popular Oh, God! series. Ali gets serious for a moment. Jon does impromptu exegesis of George Burns' parable of the Kitten and the Lion and/or Tiger. Do both find religion? Isn't a movie released in 1980 essentially just a 70s movie? Also, Al...

Hey, did you know this episode is dropping on our one year anniversary? Neither did Ali nor Jon! That's why they don't talk about that in this episode featuring so many other amazing milestones: 1985's The Black Cauldron is their first animated movie, the first movie neither of them had seen before, and the first time they couldn't even come up with a damn hour's worth of discussion, even includin...

A thrilling Adventure in Podcasting today, as Jon and Ali hit this episode with all the trivia bombs a cursory scan of Wikipedia can provide. Ali can't leave the podcast without singing the blues. Jon is a dead ringer for this month's centerfold. The whole thing takes longer to record than Berlin Alexanderplatz, but is only maybe half as funny. Adventures In Babysitting was released in 1987, and d...

No, you're not imagining this. The Bickersons aren't divorced! They're back from their lengthiest hiatus yet with one of the greatest action movies of all time, Die Hard 1: Hardly Ever Died Before! Ali is trying to fit in at her new job at Nakatomi. Jon is regretting wearing his Hypercolor wifebeater to the staff party. This Match Made In Space Reboot also includes A Special Guest Appearance from...

Two podcasters enter; one episode leaves. In the closest thing to timely this podcast is likely to get, Jon and Ali try to cash in on Fury Road mania with a throwback to a simpler, more 80s apocalyptic nightmare world with 1985's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Jon doesn't need another hero. Ali runs Bartertown. The entire episode is a shambles, with all the exciting Bickersons banter being heightene...

Can you believe Jon never saw 1984's Sixteen Candles? Can you believe he has no nostalgia for it? Can you believe a man can fly? Can you believe Ali's never seen Superman IV: The Quest For Peace? Can you believe Jon forgot to talk about the vast disparity in quality of the music in this movie? Can you believe how much casual racism, sexism, and homophobia is in this coming of age tale? Sixteen Can...

After a disastrous botched recording yesterday, MMIS is back with The Journey of Natty Gann, a surprisingly violent Disney live action romp that is not about an intrepid girl reporter! Ali turns in an admirable performance, given that she was furious to have to do this twice. Jon refuses to sing Spider-Wolf again. The Journey of Natty Gann was directed by Jeremy Kagan, and stars Meredith Salenger,...

Ali and Jon are back after a seemingly endless hiatus with the legendarily goofy Gymnastics/Martial Arts Mash-Em-Up, Gymkata! Jon has the skill of gymnastics. Ali has the kill of Karate. They both have a timeshare in the Village Of the Crazies. Gymkata "stars" Kurt Thomas and several other people you've never heard of. It was directed by Robert Clouse, and written by Charles Robert Carner, based o...

The Bickersons are back and ready for heartwarming family fun when Ali shows Jon 1982's Savannah Smiles, a look at the lighter side of kidnapping. Jon attempts to describe the Golden Girls' house. Ali attempts to describe a redneck soap opera. Both attempt to destroy their dog. Oh, and Jon does two new impressions that are even worse than any he's done before. Savannah Smiles was directed by Pierr...

This week Jon shows Ali the morally reprehensible 1986 Stallone ode to unchecked police brutality, Cobra. Jon is the disease. Ali is the cure. Bad impressions abound, and the couple go as far off the rails as they have ever been. Cobra was "directed" by George P. Cosmatos, with a "screenplay" by Sly himself, based on the "novel" Fair Game by Paula Gosling. It stars Stallone, his girlfriend, Poppy...

Despite spending most of 1997-2005 (and beyond) drenched in pomade, Jon had never seen this seminal teen proto-bratpack movie. Basically, this episode eschews our usual format because neither of us took very good notes. Jon (Greaser) gets mad about Gone With the Wind. Ali (Soc) gets beyond mad and basically invents a new rage-based emotion about Catcher In the Rye. Jon is also ready to rumble. The...

Jon and Ali show EACH OTHER the incredibly weird prequel to Clone High, 1983's Anna To the Infinite Power. Jon remembers a fight scene one way. Ali remembers it another. They both harbor resentment for most of the movie, in this, the most tense episode of The Bickersons Podcast yet. But it all ends up okay in the end.

This week, Jon is back in charge of programming, and the Goodman-Wolter household is slam-dancing in a parking lot, metaphorically speaking, to 1984's punk-rock-sci-fi-social-satire-comedy-thriller Repo Man. Jon makes an attempt to go off on tangents delving into the career of Zander Schloss. Ali valiantly resists Jon's attempts to go off on tangents delving into the career of Zander Schloss. Repo...

Oh do they? This week, Ali shows Jon a little slice of her childhood with 1985's Girls Just Want To Have Fun, a look at the sordid underbelly of Chicagoland dance competitions. Jon is baffled by the lack of Chicago accents and the sub-Blues Brothers level of Chicago geographical continuity. Ali struggles to get a word in edgewise. Girls Just Want To Have Fun was directed by Alan Metter and written...

Dismayed by the lack of action in last week's movie, Jon decides to show Ali the ur-Schwartzenegger action fest, Commando. Ali attempts to take a body count. Jon attempts to not do an Arnold impression. Guess which one was successful?* Commando also stars Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, David Patrick Kelly, Vernon Wells, and the great, unpronounceable Dan Hedaya. It was directed by Mark L. Lester,...

In this episode, Ali shows Jon the single greatest movie Stallone ever made about semi-professional arm wrestling. Jon is baffled about whether this movie is an action movie or a Lifetime movie. Ali knows a lot more of the soundtrack than Jon is comfortable with. Over the Top stars Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, and David Mendenhall; directed by Menahem Golem.