Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying items 1-10 of 68 in total of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "comedy".
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The Mummy (1999)
February 9th, 2026 | 2 hrs 19 mins
adventure, archaeology, brendan fraser, comedy, egypt, egyptology, horror, indiana jones, mummies, rachel weisz, steven sommers
He will never eat. He will never sleep. He will never stop. We unearth the unrelentingly fun 1999 iteration of "The Mummy". Whatever faults may lay in the script or its charmingly outdated CGI are sanded down like a magic Saharan whirlwind by spectacularly charming performances by future Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Jacob Price of the Pre-Order Bonus podcast joins our expedition to this franchise whose appeal is Universal.
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Groundhog Day
February 2nd, 2026 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1990s, 90s, andie macdowall, bill murray, buddhism, chris elliott, comedy, fantasy, harold ramis, punxatawney, self-improvement, time loop
Well its Groundhog Day... again... Part comedy, part horror, part romcom, part existential crisis, and part philosophical religious experience, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray deliver a monumental filmmaking achievement in the form of weatherman Phil Connors' unexplained incarceration on February 2. This inventive and influential film casts a shadow worthy of its prognosticating namesake rodent. We're joined by our friend Matt Powers to gather at Gobbler's Knob and celebrate why Groundhog Day still has us, babe. Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
December 29th, 2025 | 36 mins 30 secs
animation, boris karloff, cartoon, cartoons, christmas, chuck jones, comedy, dr. seuss, grinch, santa, santa claus, x-mas, xmas
It wouldn't be Christmas without Yuletide stealing, so we've got one more episode that's very revealing. The kids drop by the pod, to discuss who's Who, and give How The Grinch Stole Christmas a proper review.
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A Christmas Story
December 8th, 2025 | 2 hrs 15 mins
1980s, 80s, christmas, comedy, santa, santa claus, x-mas, xmas
On this episode you'll shoot your eye out as we join Ralphie, his family, and the world's sexiest lamp to revisit A Christmas Story. We drink our ovaltine with our friends from from the Media / Lit Podcast, Kris Ingersoll and Randy Allain and use our tongues for discussing a holiday classic instead of sticking them to frozen poles.
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Ernest Saves Christmas
December 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 42 mins
1980s, 80s, christmas, comedy, ernest, jim varney, santa, santa claus, x-mas, xmas
It's time to pass the torch, knowwhatImean? We're returning to the weird world of Ernest P. Worrell as Jim Varney's blue-collar rubber face works a double shift to ensure the magic of Christmas is passed to a new generation. Guest comedian Rich Baker (@richbakeractor) and filmmaker Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis, tarikrdavis.com) join us to celebrate a comedy that knows when to step on the gas and when to hit the air brakes.
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Tango & Cash
August 18th, 2025 | 2 hrs 37 mins
1980s, 80s, action, buddy cop, comedy, cop, cops, kurt russell, movies, police, stallone, sylvester stallone
Tango & Cash typifies 1980s action excess and buddy-cop odd-couple comedy as Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell play the titular loose cannons with a complete disregard for police procedure and the laws of physics. We're joined by guest podcasters Josh Covel (Still Loading) and Dan Oster (A Podcast, But Evil) to settle scores and spew one-liners.
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The Princess Bride
July 14th, 2025 | 2 hrs 21 mins
1980s, 80s, andre the giant, billy crystal, carol kane, cary elwes, chris sarandon, christopher guest, comedy, fairy tale, fantasy, fred savage, mandy patinkin, peter falk, rob reiner, robin wright, wallace shawn
You asked for something special for our 150th episode so all we can say is "as you wish." The Princess Bride is inconceivably perfect. The film has everything - fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles, and a superlative cast and script to bring it all together. Guest comedian and filmmaker Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis, tarikrdavis.com) joins us to revisit a storybook story that demands to be told over and over.
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Back to the Future
June 30th, 2025 | 2 hrs 33 mins
1950s, 1980s, 80s, christopher lloyd, comedy, delorean, huey lewis, michael j. fox, physics, robert zemeckis, sci-fi, science, science fiction, scifi, steven spielberg, time machine, time travel
What is a nostalgia podcast if not a time machine? We're firing up the flux capacitor and setting the time circuits to Back to the Future for the 40th anniversary of this seminal temporal comedy. We're joined by guest Darren Lanning (darrenlanning.com) to celebrate a film so heavy that its success was practically density.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
March 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 57 mins
absurd, absurdism, bbc, britain, britcom, british, comedy, dead parrot, england, eric idle, flying circus, geek, graham chapman, john cleese, logic, medieval, michael palin, monty python, mythology, nerd, python, religion, saturday night live, sketch, sketch comedy, skit, snl, spam, taskmaster, terry gilliam, terry jones
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as some podcasting nerds should, by quoting it to death. Guest comedians Rich Baker and Ned Record (of the Lost & Confounded podcast and www.nedrecord.com) join us to discuss the unyielding hilarity and exceptional longevity of a film that just won't take "Ni" for an answer. And there was much rejoicing!
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80s Movies - Part 2
February 17th, 2025 | 3 hrs 9 mins
1980s, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 80s, action, cinema, comedy, disney, film, films, goonies, horror, indiana jones, john hughes, little mermaid, movie, movies, princess bride, rob reiner, scifi, steven spielberg
1985 through 1989 was the best period of filmmaking, period. Each of these years produced dozens of groundbreaking, blockbusting, genre defining, and unforgettable movies, making listing our top tens nearly impossible. Our review crew of Ami Lief, Ryan Merlo, and Tania Newton join us to close out our survey course of the best, of the best, of the best.