You Made Me Watch

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Mike made Allyson watch 1980's Flash Gordon, starring Sam Jones, Melody Anderson and the incomparable Max von Sydow. Will she enjoy its campy glory or will these be a torture more sheer than Dale Adren's pantyhose? If you want to let us know what you thought a...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Allyson made Mike watch the 2002 Rob Schneider comedy The Hot Chick. If you want to let us know what you thought about The Hot Chick, or you have a movie you think we should watch, let us know. Join our Facebook group for more movie talk! https://www.facebook....

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week Mike makes Allyson watch the 1985 Helen Slater movie The Legend of Billie Jean. This was a movie that Mike watched so much as a teenager that he practically had it memorized. Will Allyson enjoy Christian Slater's big screen debut as much as Mike did? Will this...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week Allyson makes Mike watch Can't Hardly Wait, a movie that came out in 1998 as she was just starting high school. Mike was already eight years removed from high school by then. Will this teen comedy about a high school party resonate with Mike as well as it did w...

Every fifth episode, husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take one of your suggestions and watch a movie they have never seen before. This week, someone from the Facebook group suggested The Sentinel. We assume they meant the 1977 Michael Winner directed adaptation of a Jeffrey Konvitz novel about a woman who rents an apartment in a building that serves as the gate to hell!...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week Mike makes Allyson watch the 2010 SNL sketch turned feature film MacGruber. MacGruber was a notorious flop at the box office, suffering an almost unprecedented record breaking drop off between the first and second weeks of release. Will Allyson agree with Mike,...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, even though it's only been months since he had to bear Waterworld, Allyson makes Mike watch Kevin Costner's 1991 epic Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Will the onscreen magic of the late, great Alan Rickman be enough to make this a tolerable experience? If you w...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Mike makes Allyson watch the 1987 Mark Harmon comedy Summer School. Directed by the late, great Carl Reiner and costarring Kirstie Alley, Summer School is a comedy that Mike loved when he was in high school. Will this goofy movie about a slacker teacher and hi...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. 1941's The Maltese Falcon kicked off a film genre, the directing career of John Huston, Humphrey Bogart as an A-List star, and the film career of Sydney Greenstreet. But will a movie that's 80 years old still be enough to impress Captain Judgey-Pants Mike? If you want to...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, you make us watch Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke. This is the 1978 film debut of the hugely popular comedy duo. the Cheech and Chong movies would go on to inspire an entire genre of films. How does the original hold up? If you want to let us know what you thou...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Mike was a huge fan of the Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One. He rushed out to the theater in 2018 to see this long adapted film version, but hasn't revisited it since. Lately he's been feeling nostalgic for this story about nostalgia. Will Allyson, who's 11 years youn...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week Allyson makes Mike watch 1995's While You Were Sleeping. Is it possible for one movie to hold the infectious charm of both Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman? Can first (and only time) screenwriters Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow craft a sweet story out of a...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Guillermo del Toro made a dark Spanish fairy tale for his sixth movie. 2006's Pan's Labyrinth is set against the 1944 Spanish Maquis insurgence. A young girl forced to live with her evil stepfather war General escapes to a fantasy world. Pan's Labyrinth is whimsical, gri...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. 2013's The Frozen Ground starring Nic Cage and John Cusack is based on the true life events of serial killer Robert Hansen. Cage and Cusack play the opposite roles you'd typical expect from them. Will Mike like it as much as his spooky murder obsessed wife? If you want t...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Every fifth episode we turn to our Facebook group for a recommendation. This week we watch Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon as recommended by our friend Paul Duggan. This 2006 mockumentary deconstructs horror movies. It pretty much flew below the radar, but it...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Mike makes Allyson watch the 1994 dark Christmas tale The Ref. This Denis Leary vehicle was directed by the late Ted Demme, and also stars Judy Davis and unfortunately creepy Kevin Spacey. It was a movie that Mike loved when he was in his early 20s. Does it hold up still...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. After falling in love with Macaulay Culkin's breakout performance the year prior in Uncle Buck, John Hughes wrote a vehicle to showcase Culkin's charm. The Chris Columbus Christmas classic Home Alone went on to become one of the biggest movies of all time. It features st...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. After falling in love with the darkly complex universe of The Santa Clause, Mike needed to find out what happened next! The Santa Clause 2 came out almost a decade after the original Tim Allen masterpiece. How will the sequel hold up? If you want to let us know what you...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, Allyson maybe makes a mistake by introducing the complex and deeply terrifying Santa Clause universe to Mike. The Santa Clause came out in 1994, which was a huge year for Michigan native, Tim Allen. He had the number one television show with Home Improvement a...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week, metalhead bartender and all around teddy bear Sam Evans makes us watch a woefully underrated gem called Cook Off! Cook Off! was co-written and directed by Cathryn Michon...who it's criminal she doesn't have a much, much bigger career because this movie is abso...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Allyson has been in the You Made Me Watch doghouse for making Mike watch the God awful The Sweetest Thing. Will the 2018 movie adaptation of the Kevin Kwan book Crazy Rich Asians be enough to get her off double secret probation? Director Jon M. Chu also directed the Jem...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Allyson loves true crime. She gets a giant nerd boner for it. 1986's River's Edge is based on a true story about a high school kid who kills his girlfriend and shows her body to a dozen of her friends, most of whom are alarmingly apathetic about it. River's Edge stars Ke...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. Allyson was 20 years old in 2002 when The Sweetest Thing released and it really spoke to her. It was written by Nancy M. Pimental, hot off of South Park. It's a Cameron Diaz led flick that tries to capture the over the top wackiness of There's Something About Mary. How d...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This was a humongous miscommunication. Allyson thought Mike saw Cats in the theater and wanted to watch it again, so she's counting this as one of his podcast titles. This is the first time either of them watched the 2019 infamously maligned feline flick. I think it's fa...

Husband and wife comedians Mike Bobbitt and Allyson Bobbitt take turns making each other watch a movie the other has never seen. This week they're joined by their friend comedian/podcaster Sam Rager. As kids, Sam and Allyson were both scarred by the 1992 Tony Todd/Virginia Madsen horror thriller Candyman. Will this Clive Barker written horror classic hold up or will Mike have fodder to mock the Sa...