Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast

Cleo has a problem. She often feels invisible because she has an awful personality and no one wants to be around her, unlike her sporty and popular sister Molly. But when, for reasons too complicated to go into here, Molly drinks a predator camouflage moth that makes her turn literally invisible, Cleo spends some time in her sister's shoes and realises that maybe being nice to other people isn't t...

It's the 100th episode of Mom Can't Cook! and what better way to celebrate than by ensuring we don't have to watch any more High School Musical films, because this is the last one! Senior Year at East High is rapidly drawing to a close, and our Wildcats are thinking about what happens next. Will Gabriella go to Stanford three weeks early for no reason? Will Sharpay acquire an inexplicable British...

Radio. What is it? Is it some kind of podcast, maybe? Or possibly a Winamp skin? If you find out, let the producers of 2012 DCOM Radio Rebel know, because I think they'd really appreciate it. Radio Rebel tells the story of Tara, a shy teen with a secret double life as Radio Rebel, an inexplicably popular Seattle-wide radio host whose entire shtick appears to be telling people to be their real selv...

Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast returns to London's West End this Halloween for another riotous live recording! Join hosts Andy Farrant and Luke Westaway as they put Disney's deeply-cursed Halloweentown series in the ground where it belongs, with a recap of the fourth - and final - and worst - film: Return to Halloweentown (2006). GET YOUR TICKETS at tinyurl.com/ReturntoHTown PRESALE BEGINS 5th Jun...

Remember Encino Man? The 1992 comedy movie about a caveman who gets thawed out and must adjust to life in the 20th century? Well, our advice would be to cling to that relatively positive memory like your life depended on it, because the straight-to-TV sequel Encino Woman (1996) is quite possibly the worst film we've ever seen. When unsuccessful ad executive David Hosenfelt is attacked in his home...

Zoe's only just started at her new high school, but already she finds her existence beset by boys. Stinking, rude, unfocused, noisy, stinking boys. Did we mention they stink? Luckily, through a series of electrical mishaps, an app on Zoe's phone becomes boy-mind-control software, and soon Zoe has turned every boy in school into an unwilling puppet, and she begins to reshape the world according to...

Andy deploys his 2026 wildcard (which is a movie we'll recap even if it's not a kids movie, TV movie or both), to devastating effect with Congo (1995), a jaw-droppingly stupid adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel that dares to ask the question: What if you had to go into the jungle to find special diamonds for the boss of a telecoms giant, but the whole region was guarded by a pack of geneticall...

Like any 13-year-old, Kenny Witkowski is more interested in playing Mortal Karnage than he is with engaging in politics. But that all changes when it turns out an anonymous stranger he meets in a chatroom is none other than the President of the United States! If you think that sounds like a vaguely unsavoury premise for a film, well, good instincts. Buckle up for Mail to the Chief (2000), starring...

Lemonade Mouth. It sounds like a disease citric acid factory workers get that makes their lower jaw fall off, but it is in fact a band. And not just any band. The most revolutionary, visionary, exemplary band that ever rocked a high school halloween bash and are possibly hallucinating the entire thing due to tainted lemonade from the 1950s. When five misfit teens are thrown together in detention t...

Can dentists go to heaven? That's the question that only Toothless (1997) is bold enough to ask, and also bold enough to answer: No. This is what dead dentist Dr. Katherine Lewis discovers after she is hit by a car and wakes up in limbo, and discovers that, as punishment for her life of fixing people's mouths, she is sentenced to be the tooth fairy, visiting children's homes unseen to collect thei...

High school these days is tougher than ever, what with the pressures of social media, the looming spectre of AI and, of course, King Arthur's evil half-brother Mordred, who is always shoving you into lockers and putting plastic ants on your hot dogs. Or at least he is if you attend Avalon High, a typical American high school that may also be the setting for the resurrection of King Arthur himself,...

The Cheetah Girls are back! Well, some of them are. It's complicated. But stick with them, because this time, they're off to Bollywood! Still reeling from Galleria's departure for the dreaming spires of Cambridge, Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua need a win to turn their fortunes around. Great news, then, that all three of them are cast in a huge musical shooting in Mumbai, India! Bad news, however, that...

You know you're in for a good time when a movie features a 'witch mountain', right? Well, not if you've seen 1995's Escape to Witch Mountain. Then you'll know how it's perfectly possible for a film featuring a witch mountain to also be utterly incomprehensible and intensely dull! Never mind, at least this baffling remake of the 1975 family film - which tells the story of psychic alien twins reunit...

What if Home Alone starred a mouse instead of Kevin McCallister, and what if the Wet Bandits legally owned the house he was murdering them in? These are the questions that only Mouse Hunt is brave enough to ask. When brothers Ernie and Lars Smuntz inherit a dilapidated old mansion from their father, their disappointment turns to excitement when they realise that it is a lost architectural masterpi...

Mom Can't Cook! returns on 19 Jan with Mouse Hunt, but until then we thought we'd treat you to a feed drop of the first episode of our brand new Eerie, Indiana recap from  Extra Helpings , Mom Can't Cook's Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast. This episode originally aired on 29 December 2025, and covers the first episode of 1991 paranormal kids TV show Eerie, indiana 'Foreverware'. Get access to...

After this year's Halloween special on Haul Out the Halloween, we realised that we'd already ruined the year, so why not do Haul Out the Holly for our Christmas show? It's not like it could get any worse. Friends, how wrong we were. Haul Out the Holly is the first of three Haul Out movies, and this one shows us how Emily Melrose (Lacey Chabert) came to Evergreen Lane in the first place. How did sh...

Are the Jonas Brothers real? That's the question at the centre of 2025's Disney+ original movie 'A Very Jonas Christmas Movie', which is either grimly cynical xmas fluff, or a biting comedy about siblings raised in the spotlight that lays bare the personal and professional failings of each Jonas Brother. It's very hard to tell. That said, we're trying our best to pin down this quantum-state Christ...

Mack and Brady have a problem. Their endless Summer of surfing, freedom and teen romance has come to an end, and instead of dying in a category 5 Kill Storm like they wanted, they've been washed by a magic wave into Brady's favourite movie, 1960s beach musical Wet Side Story. Now trapped in a living hell of dancing, songs and teen romance, Mack and Brady must figure out how to get back to the real...

Josh Townsend is having a bad week. His parents have moved him to New Mexico for his fathers' work, his new hometown is overrun with both buffalo and bicycle knaves, and to make things worse, he has to get a job as a fence repairman so the buffalo don't escape and murder one specific woman. But before long, Josh's initially fraught relationship with the local Navajo people and Buffalo steward John...

If you were making a film and one of your characters was a petulant manbaby who was obsessed with rules, spent half of the film in a costume store pretending to be Gandalf and could only become aroused by enforcing the rules of the local homeowners' association, you'd imagine that character would be the villain, right? Well, welcome to the Hallmark Channel's Haul Out the Halloween, where not only...

It's spooky season folks, and we're hitting the ground running with 2012's Girl vs. Monster, an ooky, spooky, rip roaring romp about a girl who fights a lot of things that you could certainly describe as monsters if you were absolutely positive there would be no follow up questions. The girl in question is Skylar, a regular teen with a medical lack of fear who in a fit of pique one Halloween decid...

If the Disney Channel approached you and asked you to write a movie about mascots, but you didn't know anything about mascots, you would probably do one of two things:  1) Go away and learn about mascots, then write the movie. 2) Say "sorry, I don't know anything about mascots, I cannot write this movie".  However, there is a secret third option, and that is to write the movie anywa...

John Scaduto has a problem. If he can get through the school term without getting in trouble, he stands to get a $10,000 check from his grandma. Unfortunately, he has already set into motion an epic prank that will maim his headmaster and earn him up to one demerit on his permanent record. But when his headmaster is incapacitated by a second, unrelated Scaduto attack, John realises that the answer...

Ice hockey skills. An unbearable personality. Alex Pearson has it all. But when he's suspended for his hockey team for accepting a sponsorship from a local flower shop, he must find new ways to occupy his time, such as becoming the new Den Mother of his sister's troop of girl scout-adjacent Bumblebees, even though... wait, am I reading this right? He's a BOY?! Cue plenty of Mrs Doubtfire-esque she...

If you've ever wondered what the Lawrence brothers, stars of such DCOMs as Horse Sense, Jumping Ship and The Other Me were up to in 2020, the answer is making Money Plane, a heist movie about a high stakes casino in the sky where you can bet on a man having relations with an alligator. Look, it was a bad year for everyone, alright? The film follows Jack Reese (Edge), a retired Special Heisting Guy...