Prodigious Saps

CHRISTOPHER JONES is perhaps most well-know for his work on YOUNG JUSTICE, but he's also done BATMAN STRIKES!, AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES, and DOCTOR WHO, among many, many other titles. We talk about his experiences working in the comics industry, and also (of course)... SUPERMAN! We talk about the movies, the radio show, the George Reeves tv series, the animated universe, and of course Ja...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-GIoV9LNWSU First up: we touch on a few SUPERMAN-related topics and poke fun at our "It's just a movie" critics in the comments of our YouTube channel. We also wrestle with a couple of technical glitches right at the top, but it made for some funny so I left it all in. Then we move on to our reviews of THE PENGUIN and AGATHA ALL ALONG. SPOILER ALERT:...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EBP1jZH08Qg Well, here we are. The people asked for it, and today we deliver. Brendan has finally watched Superman III. But... he's not happy about it. Our opinions of the movie are fairly similar, only I am much softer on it because I saw it so many times on cable TV when I was a kid, and came to terms with its mediocrity decades ago. Brendan is sti...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TpGSm3C09i4?si=huRxnFH4zTo5sJ61 SORRY for the lateness on this getting this one out! Several clips have been culled from this episode already, but there's still plenty of fun stuff in here that y'all haven't seen yet. Several things on the agenda this time: Following up on the commotion stirred up in the comments section on a recent clip from P-Saps...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kpf3hCUpZKc Here is the second installment in our SUPERMAN rewatch series! And this one is a doozy, because we're covering two very different versions of the same movie. If you're unfamiliar with either version of SUPERMAN II, as usual we're spoiling pretty much everything, so be warned! The story of these two cuts is pretty legendary, but in a rambl...

Prodigious Saps No. 49: "Down the Love Hole" Nitpicks & praise for SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978) SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@prodigioussaps?sub_confirmation=1 JOIN: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJaU6rw754l-Z0HQ4SB3gwA/join PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps This week we have a long, critical discussion about Richard Donner's SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, a movie we both love dearl...

Prodigious Saps No. 48: "The International Fund for Interesting Directors" At long last, here is our piece on Terry Gilliam's masterpiece BRAZIL. This was well over a year in the making... not because it literally took that long to finish it, but just in that I was so hellbent on not half-assing the edit that I kept kicking it down the road. It's still not perfect, but tonight, I'm letting it go....

This one is all about the acclaimed Prime Video series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", which completed its fifth and final season last year. SPOILERS ABOUND in this episode about all five seasons of Mrs. Maisel (particularly the last one), so if you've never watched the show you may want to hit pause on this one and come back to it later. You have been warned. Why is this show P-Saps worthy? Well, no...

Prodigious Saps No. 46: "My Zing-Zang Heart" PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps PODCAST: https://prodigioussaps.fireside.fm/ We've both seen the highly anticipated DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. We will be spoiling the bejesus out of this movie today. You've been warned. BUT FIRST... we react to the big bombshell from SDCC. The bombshell that has shocked and befuddled the nerd world, raisi...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7DSH7Jc6cjs?si=lu1mP40Sa0FR6RFD You'll have to excuse our rampant enthusiasm for these SUPERMAN set photos, because there is still quite a bit to talk about. This time we geek out about the potential reveals of Krypto, Ultraman, and Supergirl, and try valiantly to piece together bits of storyline from everything we've seen unfolding on streets of Cle...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TA9jIpDek8k Last week, James Gunn's SUPERMAN began shooting on location in Superman's birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. And as many people predicted, the leaked photos are JUMPIN' and the nerddom is high. So in this episode, we excitedly discuss the absolutely thrilling photos that appeared on Twitter during the first two days of shooting. We have now a...

Here is the EXTENDED version of our nitpicky deep dive into a classic nerdy franchise (made before Hollywood really had any idea how to handle nerdy franchises), which has inspired a truly remarkable reimagining in the newer films. A shorter version focusing on the original films is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2UTXOZPjabQ Are you familiar with the original PLANET OF THE APES? The four sequels tha...

Prodigious Saps No. 42: "Where's my Spider?" (Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k9heUvea93Q ) In this episode: the phenomenal failure of MADAME WEB... will Sony ever get their shit together? ALSO: FANTASTIC FOUR casting and plot speculation Excitement for DEADPOOL 3 James Gunn's visual esthetic for SUPERMAN 00:00:00 — Preview 00:00:30 — It’s bad 00:02:30 — Madame Web in the comics 00...

An extended version of this episode is available on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps This is a very Superman-heavy episode of P-Saps... so much news has been dropping about James Gunn's upcoming SUPERMAN (previously titled SUPERMAN: LEGACY) that it's hard to keep up with, and we couldn't be more excited. Lots of other stuff to talk about as well.. SUPERGIRL casting news SUPERMAN...

Prodigious Saps No. 40: "I Want a Wookiee Pal" Star Wars Fandom: the First Generation FINALLY, as long promised, today we're joined by our friend Jerry Chrisman to talk STAR WARS... our memories of seeing it for the first time, the seismic impact it had on us and the world around us, and what it was like growing up while the Original Trilogy was unfolding. We also talk a bit about the Special Edit...

This week on P-Saps: Marvel's ECHO series and the reaffirmed Netflix Daredevil canon Elvis Presley was a cosplay nerd Fantastic Four casting ...and lots of other wacky crap. 00:00:00 — Intro 00:00:19 — Monarch: Legacy of Monsters 00:01:27 — Elvis Presley & Captain Marvel Jr. 00:03:36 — Marvel's ECHO 00:17:20 — Netflix Daredevil is officially canon 00:22:04 — 3 examples of PERFECT casting in MC...

Brendan's disappointment in Aquaman II prompts a discussion of why it's often a problem when studios wind up "bending the character around the actor". Also look back at the failed DCEU and the incoming DCU. Also: the Doctor Who Christmas Special, Slow Horses Season 3, Batman... and more! Our Patreon has an uncut version of this episode containing 20 minutes of extra material, including Netflix's "...

In this one we talk about the 60th Anniversary DOCTOR WHO specials featuring the return of David Tennant and show runner Russell T. Davies, and the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor. ALSO: SUPERMAN: LEGACY casting news, GODZILLA: MINUS ONE, AQUAMAN, and BLUE BEETLE. Available on Patreon NOW: our review of Ncuti Gatwa's first full episode as the Doctor, the Christmas special "The Church on...

As promised last week, in this episode we dig deep into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We review THE MARVELS and LOKI Season 2, and talk about the recent wild news about the upcoming Disney Plus series DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN. Also discussed: Madame Web, Spider-Man, Juggernaut, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and a few vintage selections from Chad's comic book collection. Beyond Marvel, we talk about recent...

P-Saps No. 35: ""This Little Portal to an Alternate Universe" We are both huge Beatles fans, so with the recent release of their new single "Now and Then" (advertised as "the last Beatles song"), we decided to do a whole episode about the Beatles. Among the topics discussed: what the Beatles mean to us how we first were introduced to the Beatles as kids, memories of the two of us geeking out over...

This week we weave an odd but surprisingly coherent path from Happy Days and Mork & Mindy through to Jerry Lewis, Walter Matthau, Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason... eventually winding up talking about the Marx Brothers again, because OF COURSE. The highlight of this episode, though, is Brendan's passionate solo vocal performance that followed Chad's computer suddenly shutting off (the full perfo...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eO2ufT4Vuo This week we welcome our very first guest JOHN CAMPBELL, Brendan's fellow cast member of Tesla City Stories and also a very prolific podcaster himself. Among many other shows, John does two podcasts with Brendan: the ongoing "Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters" and the patron-exclusive "Nights Talking" about the cult classic 1970s tv...

On the docket this week: Chad's rant about the remixed soundtrack of STOP MAKING SENSE (the legendary Talking Heads concert film directed by Jonathan Demme) with comparisons to the original 1984 mix and how it reminds him of George Lucas's revisions to his original Star Wars trilogy. Brendan's discovery of a deeply weird and hilarious SUPERMAN comic strip in his copy of SUPERMAN: THE SILVER AGE DA...

SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@prodigioussaps?sub_confirmation=1 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps An extended, unedited version of this episode is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prodigious-saps-87922804 In this episode: QUARK, the short-lived 1977 sci-fi comedy series starring Richard Benjamin, created by Buck Henry DARK STAR, John Carpenter's cu...

This week we celebrate the life of our recently departed hero of comedy: PAUL REUBENS (a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman), and pay our respects to and the late great ALAN ARKIN. ALSO: Marvel's Secret Invasion and the status of the MCU in general right now Superman II and "the Donner Cut" Our favorite superhero origin story movies Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UNqAA91Ui30 An extended version...