The Movies That Made Me

Writer/director Casper Kelly unpacks his favorite movies about television with host Josh Olson. Casper's new movie Buddy opens August 28th!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Buddy (2026)

Mandy (2018)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1983)

UHF (1989)

The Ring (2002)

Ringu (1998)

Death to Smoochy (2002)

Stay Tuned (1992)

Switching Channels (1988)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Network (1976)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Room 237 (2012)

Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (2015)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Soylent Green (1973)

Falling Down (1994)

Raising Cain (1992)

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Good Night and Good Luck (2005)

The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

The King of Comedy (1982)

Nightcrawler (2014)

Sound of Metal (2019)

My Favorite Year (1982)

Ten From Your Show of Shows (1973)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Irreversible (2002)

Memento (2000)

Enter the Void (2009)

Drive (2011)

Videodrome (1983)

Poltergeist (1982)

Scanners (1981)

The Brood (1979)

Being There (1979)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon!

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell TV series (2013-19)

Too Many Cooks TV special (2014)

Adult Swim Yule Log TV special (2022)

Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out TV special (2024)

Our first podcast episode with Casper

Weird Al Yankovic

Barry Levinson

John Ritter

Reacher TV series (2022- )

Jane Schoenbrun

Justice Smith

Martin Scorsese

Steven Soderbergh

The Airport film franchise

Rodney Ascher

William Holden

Paddy Chayefsky

Faye Dunaway

Peter Finch

GG Allin

Sterling Hayden

Beatrice Straight

Ned Beatty

Robert Duvall

Brian De Palma

Arrow Video

Batman TV series (1966-68)

Andy Griffith

Walter Matthau

Elia Kazan

Jimmy Kimmel

Clifford Odets

Robert De Niro

Shelley Hack

Paul Schrader

Dan Gilroy

Jake Gyllenhaal

Riz Ahmed

The Sid Caesar Show TV show (1963-64)

The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show (1961-65)

Mel Brooks

Errol Flynn

Selma Diamond

Night Court TV series (1984-92)

Peter O'Toole

Mark Linn-Baker

Your Show of Shows TV series (1950-54)

Mr. Show with Bob and David TV series (1995-98)

The Ben Stiller Show TV series (1990, 1992-95)

Ellen Burstyn

Gaspar Noé

Nicolas Winding Refn

Grand Theft Auto video game series

David Cronenberg

Jack Warden

Melvyn Douglas

Twin Peaks: The Return TV series (2017)

David Lynch

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Boorman and the Devil director David Kittredge walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the movies he loves that a lot of other people think are terrible!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Boorman and the Devil (2026)

The Exorcist (1973)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

The Exorcist III (1990)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Blow-Up (1966)

Rocky (1976)

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Excalibur (1981)

Grease (1978)

Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)

The Apple (1980)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

The Odyssey (2026)

Barbie (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

The Thing (1982)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Sorcerer (1977)

The Wages of Fear (1964)

Cruising (1980)

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Dangerous Men (2005)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

The Black Hole (1979)

Star Wars (1977)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Condorman (1981)

The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Can’t Stop the Music (1980)

The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)

Xanadu (1980)

Hudson Hawk (1991)

A History of Violence (2005)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Batman Returns (1992)

Batman Forever (1995)

Looker (1981)

The Stepford Wives (1976)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Animal House (1978)

Midnight Madness (1980)

Meatballs (1979)

1941 (1979)

Jaws (1975)

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Dumbo (1941)

Scavenger Hunt (1979)

The Love Guru (2008)

Southland Tales (2007)

Room 237 (2012)

Ghost Boy (TBD)

Spice World (1998)

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Black Narcissus (1947)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon!

The Hollywood Food Coalition

The Aero Theatre in Hollywood

Mark Kermode

John Boorman

Martin Scorsese

Michael Schultz

The A-Team TV series (1983-87)

Victor Hsu

Aerosmith

Earth Wind and Fire

Steve Martin

Carol Channing

The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles

Richard Kelly

Robert Evans

IMAX

TCL Chinese Theatre

Christopher Nolan

John Carpenter

William Friedkin

Menahem Golan

Rolf de Heer

Nicholas Hope

Cinefile Video

The Cannon Group

Joss Ackland

Walt Disney Pictures

Roddy Macdowall

Slim Pickens

Anthony Perkins

Michael Eisner

Jeffrey Katzenberg

ILM

TFH Guru Edgar Wright

The Venice Film Festival

Caitlyn Jenner

Allan Carr

Valerie Perinne

Steve Guttenberg

The Village People

Tammy Grimes

Paul Sand

Bill Butler

Nancy Walker

Disco

Jeffrey Schwartz

The cursed 1989 Rob Lowe Oscars

Michael Beck

Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles

Bruce Willis

Danny Aiello

Andie MacDowell

James Coburn

David Caruso

Sandra Bernhard

Richard E. Grant

Steven de Souza

Daniel Waters

TFH Guru Michael Lehmann

The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes (2026)

David Hughes’ Rogue Commentary podcast

Tim Burton

Batman

Val Kilmer

Nicole Kidman

Michael Crichton

Albert Finney

Susan Dey

Leigh Taylor-Young

HBO

Rick Rossovich

Tim Rossovich

CinemaScope

Barry De Vorzon

Michael J. Fox

David Naughton

Stephen Furst

Andy Tennant

CalTech

Eddie Deezen

The Exorcist TV series (2016-17)

Steven Spielberg

The Zoot Suit Riots

William Fraker

Treat Williams

Ned Beatty

Dan Aykroyd

John Belushi

Joe Flaherty

Christopher Lee

Toshiro Mifune

Warren OatesRobert Stack

Mickey Rourke

Wendie Jo Sperber

Nancy Allen

Murray Hamilton

Lorraine Gary

Tim Matheson

Columbia Pictures

Universal Pictures

Samuel Fuller

John Williams

The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles

Dick Miller

Vincent Price

Richard Benjamin

James Coco

Scatman Crothers

Ruth Gordon

Cloris Leachman

Cleavon Little

Roddy McDowall

Robert Morley

Richard Mulligan

Tony Randall

Dirk Benedict

Willie Aames

Stephanie Faracy

Richard Masur

Meat Loaf

Avery Schreiber

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mike Meyers

Cannes Film Festival

Rodney Ascher

Steven Poster

Moby

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Sean William Scott

Saturday Night Live TV series (1975- )

Cheri Oteri

John Lovitz

Nora Dunn

John Larroquette

Miranda Richardson

Justin Timberlake

Kevin Smith

Janeane Garofalo

Wallace Shawn

Zelda Rubinstein

The Spice Girls

Richard O’Brien

Michael Powell

Emeric Pressburger

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Give It Up writer/star Gareth Reynolds breaks down some of the movies about comedians that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Give it Up (2026)

The Aristocats (1970)

The Aristocrats (2005)

Funny People (2009)

This is 40 (2012)

Man on the Moon (1999)

Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

I’m From Hollywood (1989)

Comedian (2002)

American Movie (1999)

Joan Rivers: Piece of Work (2010)

A History of Violence (2005)

Rabbit Test (1978)

George Carlin: Jammin’ in New York (1990)

George Carlin’s American Dream (2022)

George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya (2008)

Punchline (1988)

The Omen (1976)

Bill Hicks: Relentless (1992)

American Splendor (2003)

American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)

Blue Collar (1978)

The King of Comedy (1982)

Meet the Parents (2000)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Pee-wee as Himself (2025)

Innerspace (1987)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon!

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Air New Zealand

The Dollop Podcast

Peter Jackson

Weta Workshop

The Lord of the Rings film franchise

Dave Anthony

Our first podcast with The Dollop

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Our Glenn Howerton podcast episode

Harlan Ellison

New York Friars Club in New York

The Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles

Judd Apatow

Adam Sandler

Scott Alexander

TFH Guru Larry Karaszewski

Andy Kaufman

Jim Carrey

Comedy Central

ABC’s Wide World of Comedy TV series (1973-76)

Elvis Presley

Bob Zmuda

Fridays TV series (1980-82)

Mark Blankfield

Lawrence Welk

The Pretenders

Late Night with David Letterman TV series (1982-93)

Kyle Anderson

Jerry Seinfeld

Gary Shandling

Orny Adams

Dane Cook

Joan Rivers

Don Rickles

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV series (1962-92)

The Dewey Decimal System

Dick Clark

Russell Crowe

Edgar Allan Poe

Billy Crystal

Gareth and Dave’s Past Times Podcast

George Carlin

Johnny Carson

Tom Hanks

Sally Field

John Goodman

David Seltzer

Bill Hicks

Paul Giamatti

HBO

MC Hammer

Vanilla Ice

Rush Limbaugh

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV series (1992-2014)

David Letterman

David Cronenberg

Denis Leary

Richard Pryor

Paul Schrader

Yaphet Kotto

Harvey Keitel

Robert De Niro

Jerry Lewis

Sandra Bernhardt

Just a Shot Away: Martin Scorsese’s Life in Film book by Mark Binelli (2026)

Paul Reubens

Thomas Jane

Our Martin Short podcast episode

Gareth and Jake Johnson’s podcast We’re Here To Help

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Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante chop it up with writer/director Mary Harron, the maestro behind the immortal American Psycho, about the movies that made her as a kid!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Avengers: Doomsday (2026)

American Psycho (2000)

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

The Anna Nicole Story (2013)

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Fear and Desire (1952)

8 ½ (1963)

The Magician a.k.a. The Face (1958)

Oliver! (1968)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Them! (1954)

Dead of Night (1945)

M (1931)

M (1951)

The Black Vampire (1953)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Repulsion (1965)

Knife in the Water (1962)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Virgin Spring (1960)

The Last House on the Left (1973)

Ms. 45 (1981)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Fail-Safe (1964)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

The World of Apu (1959)

Red River (1948)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Big Sleep (1944)

His Girl Friday (1940)

All About Eve (1950)

Switching Channels (1988)

Deliverance (1972)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Naked and the Dead (1958)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)

The Navy vs. The Night Monsters (1966)

Wake in Fright (1971)

First Blood (1982)

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

The Young and the Damned (1950)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Tristana (1970)

Belle de Jour (1967)

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Exterminating Angel (1962)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon!

The Hollywood Food Coalition

The MCU

The Late Show TV series (1989-95)

BBC

Homicide: Life on the Street TV series (1993-99)

Oz TV series (1997-2003)

Six Feet Under TV series (2001-05)

The L Word TV series (2004-09)

Big Love TV series (2006-13)

Alias Grace miniseries (2017)

Netflix

Alias Grace novel by Margaret Atwood (1996)

Sarah Polley

Arrested Development TV series (2003-06, 2013-19)

Missing Movies

Final Draft

The Rising album by Bruce Springsteen (2002)

David Lynch

David Cronenberg

Hee-Haw TV series (1969-92)

Don Harron

Virginia Leith

Stanley Kubrick

Mark Lester

Ingmar Bergman

Michael Redgrave

The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-64)

Kris Millsap

Buck Owens

Roy Clark

Tammy Wynette

Johnny Cash

Fritz Lang

Peter Lorre

Joseph Losey

David Wayne

The Bradbury Building in Los Angeles

Alfred Hitchcock

Strangers on a Train novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950)

Robert Walker

Roman Polanski

Mia Farrow

Charles Grodin

John Cassavettes

Ruth Gordon

Hermione Gingold

Sidney Blackmer

Carole Lombard

William Powell

Gregory La Cava

Walter Houston

George C. Scott

Sterling Hayden

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Peter Sellers

Slim Pickens

Alec Guinness

Satyajit Ray

Howard Hawks

Montgomery Clift

John Wayne

Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall

The Big Sleep novel by Raymond Chandler (1939)

Rosalind Russell

Cary Grant

Bette Davis

Robert Altman

Burt Reynolds

Kathleen Turner

Christopher Reeve

Ted Kotcheff

Charles Laughton

Stanley Cortez

German expressionist cinema

Lillian Gish

Robert Mitchum

Shelley Long

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn novel by Mark Twain (1885)

The Night of the Hunter novel by Davis Grubb (1953)

Luis Bunuel

Salvador Dali

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Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Menu (2022)

Bugonia (2025)

Heathers (1988)

Song of the South (1946)

Jezebel (1938)

The Little Foxes (1941)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Treasure Island (1950)

The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Casablanca (1942)

Clownhouse (1989)

Powder (1995)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Boys Town (1938)

Stand by Me (1985)

Lord of the Flies (1960)

Bound (1996)

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Match Point (2005)

Manhattan (1979)

The Two Jakes (1990)

Chinatown (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

Knife in the Water (1962)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Repulsion (1965)

Predator (1987)

Die Hard (1988)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Rollerball (1975)

Rollerball (2002)

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

The 13th Warrior (1999)

I Love You, Daddy (2017)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Crash (2005)

Green Book (2018)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Other Notable Items

Our revamped Patreon!

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Succession TV series (2018-23)

The Onion

The Academy Awards

Stavros Halkias

Wikipedia

Daniel Waters

William Hurt

Our Thomas Jane podcast episode

Disney

Dalton S. Reymond

Maurice Rapf

Morton Grant

The Hays Code

Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA

James Baskett

M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83)

Br'er Rabbit

Elliott Gould

Bill Cosby

“The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936)

Kevin Spacey

Bryan Singer

Russell Brand

Diddy

Jonah Hill

Christopher McQuarrie

Humphrey Bogart

Richard Wagner

Woody Allen

Roman Polanski

Victor Salva

Francis Ford Coppola

American Zoetrope

The Wachowski sisters

Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003)

Johnny Cash

Donald Pleasence

Ruth Gordon

The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)

Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13)

Robert Towne

Jack Nicholson

The Dreyfus affair

Sofia Coppola

Winona Ryder

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020)

Peter Bogdanovich

Polly Platt

Andrew Hickey’s The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast

“Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967)

Ray Davies

The Beatles

John Lennon

Yoko Ono

“I’m Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977)

John McTiernan

Anthony Pellicano

Chris Klein

LL Cool J

Sean Connery

Sam Neill

Stellan Skarsgard

Alec Baldwin

Antonio Banderas

Louis C.K.

Louie TV series (2010-15)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV series (2014-26)

John Malkovich

Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020)

Dane Cook

Roberto Benigni

Steven Spielberg

Jerry Lewis

Nick Vallelonga

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