The Mandcave with Mandy Kaplan & Mandy Fabian

The Mandy’s aren’t joined by Matthew Perry to discuss his memoir, but they do talk about him a bunch, making this the Friend they have officially talked about the most.  The book is Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir and you’ll have to listen in to see where they start to fight over it. They also talk about Mandy’s unironic love of earworms, and Mandy’s journey not too far throu...

The Mandys have done some reading and watching again this week, and as they wrap up season three, they imagine an alternate history in which they are members of a Hollywood sex cult as they review The Vow on HBOMax . Mandy knows how to read and shows it off by recommending The Hormone Secret. While all that smarty stuff was happening, Mandy watched Weird: The Al Jankovich Story on Roku ... so appa...

The Mandys watch Somebody Somewhere on HBO and revel in the small town de-pantsed charm of it all.  Do the Mandys agree ? Hard to say. I, your faithful show notes editor, have now listened to the show and I find they agree in different directions. Which you may think equates to disagreement. On that point, we agree in different directions.  (00:00) - Welcome to The Mandcave! (01:15) - Mandy watche...

The Mandys join Olivia Wilde in a journey through her own weird "Stepford" with Don't Worry Darling. Along the way... and we can't stress this enough... SO MUCH DRAMA. Unfortunately, it’s less about the drama on screen and more about the drama behind the scenes. This is sadly one of those movies that is getting lost in the wake of its own cast shenanigans. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. But i...

First things first: Mandy hasn’t let go of the Peterson thing from last week. We put a chapter stop there so you can skip it, but who are we kidding? You’re all murder-hooligans so let’s just call it what it is: You’re going to listen to this over, and over, and over again.  Bonus: The Mandys are going to watch this murder documentary about the whole thing for Fandys so if you’re not one yet, head...

Mandy is ordained ... LOCK UP YOUR WEDDINGS. The Mandys take on Bros and after that other thing they watched, it's a welcome reprieve. Seriously, this Billy Eichner joint levels up the rom com and together with Luke Macfarlane, the cast demonstrates on-screen chemistry we’ve needed in theaters for a long time —eye-opening, kick-down-the-door chemistry — and we’re here for it.  (00:00) - Welcome to...

The Mandys celebrate a BIG WEEK™. Why? Well, that’s because Mandy celebrated the completion of her new film, Jess Plus None by actually allowing Mandy to see it. On the big screen, even! But they’re not here to talk about that, yet.  Today, they dig into a film that dedicates itself to taking down performative activism. It’s “NOT OKAY,” which is decidedly not a documentary about the Mandcave, we p...

Something a bit different this week as the Mandys follow Patton Oswalt from his film, I Love My Dad , to his stand-up: We All Scream . It’s Oswalt’s return to living tour after the pandemic so the Mandy’s do their own retrospective on what was lost and what was gained through lockdown.  There’s a game in here in which Mandy attempts to fill in the punchlines to famous dad jokes. Y’all, it’s not pr...

The Mandys explore an alternate future in the sexcapades of Emma Thompson with "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande." Along the way, Mandy saw a sportsball game and enjoyed the experience. Mandy brings follow-up on the much anticipated personality test results from last week, Mandy brings the show’s first “Potty-Time Movie Review” segment, and in the game, we introduce you to the erotic adventures of Dai...

Mandy brings The Patient from FX on Hulu in a glorious 180-degree pivot from the plan for this week, plus a game of Jungian proportions. (00:00) - Welcome to the Mandcave! (00:29) - Dimandtia (04:07) - Mandy went to a music festival while dropping the Emmys every other sentence (09:15) - The Patient (31:45) - The Game! (39:58) - Coming Attractions: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande ... or something els...

The Mandys are road tripping with the boys in "I Love My Mand." Along the way, an important Bachelorette update you know you’ve been waiting for. Plus, football stuff is coming! Mandy watched Sprung and had a good time. But the most important thing is that Patton Oswalt is crushing it with all the cringey stuff in this movie. (00:00) - Welcome to the Mandcave! (00:31) - Urgent Bachelorette Update...

Have you been looking for that sweaty, aggressive kind of classic Mandcave disagreement? You’ve come to the right week. Mandy decided to bring The Bachelorettes , that’s right, the one with two , women whose only difference is their height. Mandy doesn’t care for it. In fact, you might say this episode starts the clock ticking on a white hot vengeance pick sometime down the road, building to a pop...

The Mandys head out for dinner and a movie! That’s right, it’s date night with cauliflower and constipation. Our dynamic duo rehashes The Bear , which is apparently a cooking show, The Most Hated Man on the Internet , which is decidedly not a cooking show, and the comic stylings of Jessie Klein, whom we all know from NPR. Because we are consumers of NPR. Our feature presentation is a discussion on...

The Mandys take on the baseball classic, "A League of Their Own", recently released on Amazon Prime. How does the reboot hold up? Would Mandy rather read her new favorite book, How to Kill Your Family ? Or maybe spend more time with Hacks and Bear ? (00:00) - Welcome to the Mandcave (00:28) - Mandy's Book Corner: How to Kill Your Family (02:44) - TV Time with Mandy: Hacks & Bear (06:16) - A Le...

If you can believe it, Mandy had never seen “Postcards from the Edge”. How is that possible, you ask? Knowing Mandy as well as we all do by now? There is, sadly, no answer. Blessedly, Mandy is here to help Mandy right this wrong. Along the way, we are surprised Myrna listens to this show, we discuss some break culture, Freestyle Love Supreme, and enjoy a game of recasting the movie to bring it up...

The Mandys head to Fire Island on a journey of exploration to find out who is the more gay man. (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (00:51) - My Brand is Rejection and Fuckin' it Up. (02:05) - Summer Camp Blues (04:05) - We don't talk about children and other social troubles (08:16) - The contacts story, and Mandy's troublesome "sexual" history (12:54) - Fire Island (32:55) - Support the Show: Become a...

The Mandys dig into the latest memoir of one of their favorite comics to find out if the stories behind the sketches land like the Superstar who originated them, Molly Shannon. (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (06:24) - Hello Molly (27:41) - Become a Fandy! Mandcave.com/members (29:20) - Games! (36:14) - Coming Attractions: Fire Island

Mandy thinks Top Gun: Maverick is terrible. Mandy disagrees and writes some Tom Cruise fan fiction in response. OK, so what it’s a remake of the first one? Mandy has read AIRPLANE MANUALS, y’all. This movie is ripe with conflict and sweat in this movie that is all about fighting and flying and the Naval aviators that are on our lists. (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (01:02) - Casey's Exclusive Solo...

The Mandys reveal some shocking opinions on fifth grade anxiety, 80s Aussie prog rock, birthdays, and the Netflix YA romcom, ‘Heartstopper’. (00:00) - Mom's First Text (00:58) - Welcome to the Mandcave (01:24) - Mandy's Mom, From the Other Side (03:11) - Fifth Grade Anxiety (04:48) - A Shocking Opinion on Tears for Fears (06:25) - The Birthday Party (07:46) - Heartstopper (31:19) - Become a Fandy!...

Being a celebrity mom is trying, but it’s certainly made better when your kids are just so damned hairy... wait, that’s talented. That's why it's time to settle in and watch a whole lot of charismatic action heroism and timey-wimey hand-waving in the Ryan Reynolds scifi flick, The Adam Project . (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (01:00) - The Trials of Being Celebrity Moms (05:44) - An Airing of Griev...

Let’s get this out of the way: Waiting for Guffman is not a risky pick for Mandy. It’s a classic in the Christopher Guest-and-crew improvisational film oeuvre. The only contentious part of the show? When should Mandy sing? (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (00:58) - Follow-up (02:38) - MISCAST! (03:53) - The Dirty-Dirty C (06:36) - Mandy knows how to read. This week: The Maid (08:20) - Waiting for Guf...

Mandy brings the adaptation of one of the duo's past book club books this week, the Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones Hulu-drop, Under the Banner of Heaven . By all rights, it has everything they should love: Crime, cults and murder. Does it hold up? (00:10) - Welcome to Mandemic (02:37) - Paul McBlah Blah Blah Mandy's SO Fabulous (06:44) - Move over, Jer... It's time for something Mulanier (08:0...

Mandy and her offspring see the touring show of Tootsie and they change all the things. It doesn't work maybe as well as they think it does. But who cares about all that crap. We're here to talk about Nick Cage playing Nick Cage in a movie about a guy who loves Nick Cage a lot . It's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent day in the Mandcave and despite the fact that this movie wasn't made for Ma...

If you're listening to this show, you're probably a human that would get some enjoyment out of Colin Jost's book, A Very Punchable Face . But if you're a fan of his punchable face on Saturday Night Live, you should make sure you get the audiobook version so you can hear him read it. Then your hands are free to punch images of him as you listen. It's a real multimedia experience. So, cat's out of t...

The Mandys are as split as the emotional haunting that comes from the vast sucking blackness of grief over HBOMax adaptation of The Girl Before . It’s based on the 2016 book of the same name by J.P. Delaney . But don’t worry, you don’t have to have read it to get it. (00:00) - Welcome to Mandemic (04:26) - False Segue (04:41) - The Lost City (06:43) - The Girl Before (28:59) - Become a Fandy! (31:...