Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 4 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "parody".
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Young Frankenstein
October 12th, 2026 | 2 hrs 22 mins
1970s, 70s, Gene Wilder, Halloween, cloris leachman, comedy, entertainment, film, films, frankenstein, horror, madeline khan, marty feldman, mary shelley, mel brooks, movie, movies, parody, spoof, teri garr
We're puttin' on the ritz revisiting another of Mel Brooks' timeless comedies, "Young Frankenstein". This abby normal send-up of James Whale's "Frankenstein" and the Universal horror classics is a pitch-perfect masterclass, as Brooks, Gene Wilder, and the rest of the stellar cast put on a comedy clinic that, like the film's subject, achieved immortality. We're joined by comedian Tarik Davis (https://tarikdavis.com/) and film podcaster Sophia Ricciardi from Moviestruck (https://moviestruck.transistor.fm/) to celebrate Mel and Gene's giddy love letter to the black and white terror tales of the 1930s.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
March 16th, 2026 | 2 hrs 2 mins
1980s, 80s, comedy, david zucker, jerry zucker, leslie neilsen, liam neeson, o.j. simpson, oj simpson, parody, police squad, priscilla pressley, ricardo montalban, satire, spoof, weird al, weird al yankovic
You've seen the ad. You've seen the movie. Now listen to the podcast! Few films can boast the comedic batting average of Leslie Neilsen, and the Zucker/Abrams/Zucker team. With jokes flying so fast and furious you'd likely not catch them all on your fifth or sixth viewing, "The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad!" still delivers belly laughs simultaneously smart and stupid. Guest podcaster Matt Storm a.k.a. Stormageddon ("Fun" and Games, Reignite) joins us for a look back at one of the greatest spoofs ever made.
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UHF
July 1st, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
1980s, 80s, accordion, comedy, cult classic, cult classics, film, flims, fran drescher, geek, kevin mccarthy, michael richards, movie, movies, music, nerd, parodies, parody, polka, weird al yankovic
We become parodies of ourselves as Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) joins us to revisit UHF, Weird Al Yankovic's cult classic about weird people trying to run a weird tv station for a non-weird world. As a bonus treat, we've included some old audio of our interview with Weird Al himself, so you get to drink from THE FIREHOSE (of podcast content)!!!
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"Weird" Al Yankovic
November 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 9 mins
comedy, daniel radcliffe, demento, geek, music, nerd, parody, polka, rock and roll, weird, weird al yankovic, yankovic
Featuring my incredibly awkward unreleased 20-year-old interview with "Weird" Al Yankovic, on this episode the podcast truly becomes a parody of itself.