Festive Flops

Merry Christmas dear listeners! Anthony and Jillian wish you the merriest and brightest of holidays as they gift you a retelling of the mack daddy of all bad holiday romcoms, 2007's festive flop, "Holiday in Handcuffs." One of the greatest works of classic film, ABC Family's masterpiece, starring Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez, is nothing short of a farcical, homophobic romp that will make you...

Merry Christmas Eve 2024! You know you want to spend it with Anthony and Jillian as they tear apart beloved holiday ensemble favorite, 2003's festive not-so-much-of-a-flop, "Love Actually." While, yes, it's a product of its time, our hosts can't help but roast the transphobic, fatphobic, and sexist "festering turd" of a script produced by people who should have known better in 2003. Music: Christm...

It's almost Christmas 2024, so join Anthony and Jillian as they embark on one woman's inter-dimensional journey to get rich and abandon the husband she hates in 2007's festive flop, "Holiday Switch." Listen in as our hosts get bored with excessive time-killing montages and speculate on the secret sci-fi aspects of this film's all-powerful yellow ornament and clothes dryer. Music: Christmas love ch...

This week, Anthony and Jillian tackle David Lipper's author self-insert festive flop in 2021's "A Christmas Letter." Full of runaway orphans, ADT product placement, and romantic chemistry scores in the negatives, will writer/actor David Lipper score the hot female lead he wrote for himself to woo?? Oh, and this one stars Colin Mochrie as Santa Clause! Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by...

This week, Anthony and Jillian jump back in time to retell and review a Christmas gone-wrong in 2004's festive flop, "Eve's Christmas." In this tale of reused sets, last minute wedding planning, and Zac Efron look-alikes, join our hosts for a magical recounting of this poorly edited, mid-00s time travel romp. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Chr...

This week, Anthony and Jillian tackle the revenge scheming of three scorned women to recount and review 2016's festive flop, "Girlfriends of Christmas Past." Full of closeted lesbians, attempts at slapstick comedy, and omniscient exes, join our hosts for this laughably poor attempt at the "band of unlikely exes get revenge" trope. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicAr...

In this week's episode, Anthony and Jillian venture to the South Boston Mall to recount and review 2011's festive flop, "Desperately Seeking Santa." Stuffed with boy band choreography, fatphobia, and shirtless Santas, join our hosts for a classic "workaholic woman falls for hometown hero" romp. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Christmas Celebrat...

This week, Anthony and Jillian venture into the world of a shock jock vs. a Frasier rip-off in 2014's festive flop "Naughty and Nice." Can they stomach a runtime of 88 minutes packed with an office filled with Styrofoam peanuts, "homemade" Christmas cookies, and Marcia Brady? Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Christmas Celebration by TimTaj FreeM...

In this week's episode, Jillian and Anthony review the mishaps of mannequins come-to-life and whiny photography simps in 2011's festive flop, "Holly's Holiday." Can they survive the onslaught of misogyny, obvious foreshadowing, and sloppy workplace romances? Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Christmas Celebration by TimTaj FreeMusicArchive, CC BY...

This week, Anthony and Jillian salute hometown heroes, Dance Moms, and shirtless toy store owners as they recount 2016's festive flop, "A Firehouse Christmas." Bad green-screens, buckets of ADR, and absentee dad subplots, oh my! Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Christmas Celebration by TimTaj FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND

Join Anthony and Jillian as they get caught in a time loop of bad acting, bad singing, and the low-budget production value of 2014's festive flop, "Back to Christmas." Listen in as they explore "gorilla grams," hometown hotties, and how you can date someone for five years without ever discussing wanting children. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND...

Anthony and Jillian are back to tackle the magic of "Christmas wishes," which supposedly everyone knows about in the 2019 festive flop, "Christmas Crush." Follow along as they discuss the best ways to drive off a stalker, the Donner Party (the good one), and the most generic Christmas song ever written. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Synthet, FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND Christmas...

In the inaugural episode of Festive Flops, married couple Jillian and Anthony take a look at the 2013 Christmas rom-com and ultimate festive flop, "My Santa." They discuss the protagonist's frustration with the commercialization of Christmas, the curious "magical powers" of Santa's son, and aggressively bad child acting. Music: Christmas love challenge 110 bpm.mp3 by Sy...