TV Good Sleep Bad

Elwood and Lackey check out the quirky comedy / musical series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend a Netflix exclusive but how does a show with such a rabid fanbase actually compare to thier other original shows?

Plus how did anime secretly sneak into our childhood viewing? We look at one of the prime examples as greek mythology gets a sci-fi reworking in the french / japanese co-production Ulysses 31

Elwood and Lackey return with another cult TV double as on this episode they check out Batman Beyond set in a future were Bruce has retired from being a costume vigilante and a new Batman has taken up the mantle of the bat.   

We also take a look at the british sci-fi series The Tripods which suprising has nothing to do with The War Of The Worlds, but instead introduces a world at peace while under the rule of alien overlords in thier monsterous tripods.   

All this plus what we've been watching, baywatching and a healthy dose of comic book geekery.

Time for another jaunt into the darker recesses of cult TV as Elwood and Lackey check out the cult canadian comedy "Letterkenny" while learning all about railway safety through the most twisted sports day ever in "The Finishing Line.

Time to sing the doom song as we look at the pilot episode of "Invader Zim" while things take a turn for the surreal as we look at MTV's "The State"

It's time to be bad guys as your Cult TV loving outlaws Elwood and Lackey return with a double bill of space outlaws as they check out the classic BBC series Blake's 7 aswell as looking at the now legendry mishandling of Joss Wheldon's "Firefly"

Returning for another weighty double feature of cult TV goodness this time Elwood and Lackey look at the show which inspired "Lost" as a group of students find themselves stranded on a former nuclear test site and are forced to form a new society.

We also look at cult British comedy "The League of Gentleman" as the the residents of the Royston Vasey deal with the arrival of a rather unique carnival but who is weirder them or the residents?

Like a forgotten present under the tree we present this belated slice of holiday viewing as we go right back to the start with the first Simpsons Christmas special and the looking at the legacy of the show it spawned. We also check out another cult Brit comedy with the mockumentary "Operation Good Guys" were a holiday special quickly gets out of hand. 

We also look back at our favourite shows of 2019, wrap up our Watchmen coverage and much more!!

On this episode we check out the Sammo Hung TV series "Martial Law" as the Hong Kong Legend brings his brand of rough justice to the streets of San Francisco. We also look at "Millennium" from X Files creator Chris Carter and starring Lance Hendrickson as the profiler with the ability to inhabit the minds of the killers he's tracking. 

We also look at why Watchmen might just be the show of the year!!

Elwood and Lackey celebrate Halloween by looking at a pair of shows spun off popular horror franchises, but how true are they to the rest of the franchise?

Plus the most shocking Tree House of Horror stories revealed, El Camino and much more!!

Elwood and Lackey look back at the origins of the "Naked Gun" trilogy with "Police Squad" as David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker bring thier trademark style of comedy to the small screen while introducing the world to Leslie Nielsen's iconic detective Frank Drebin.

We also look at Margaret Cho's short lived sitcom "All American Girl" while we find out how many Tarantino refrences can be worked into a single episode while we get to enjoy the acting talents of Cho's then boyfriend.....Quentin Tarantino!!

Elwood and Lackey are back for another season of Cult TV goodness kicking things off with "Gravity Falls" a recent Disney show which picked up were "Eerrie Indianna" left off as Dipper and Mabel join thier Grunkle Stan in search of the many mysterys the town hides beneath it's quaint surface.

We also look at Liquid Television a series which not only championed independent animation but also gave the world thier first glimpses of Beavis and Butthead and Aeon Flux.

Plus the round up of the top shows of 2019 so far, Game of Thrones revisited and much more!!

It’s time for another episode of TV Good Sleep Bad,  the cult-TV podcast that is not born into this world fumbling for  meaning! It was created to serve a singular purpose which it will go to  any lengths to fulfill!

(Well, not any lengths, not really. I don’t think we would have shot someone for the opportunity to watch Sapphire and Steel.)

In this episode, we discuss:

Rick and Morty 1.05, “Meeseeks and Destroy” (2014): Morty  convinces Rick to let him lead their latest adventure, one that  ultimately results in him being trapped in a restroom with a lecherous  jellybean. Meanwhile, Rick gives the other Smiths a little something to  get them off his back: magical creatures who exist only to help them  improve their lives. But things take a dark turn when they can’t help  Jerry take two strokes off his golf game.

The Outer Limits 1.15, “The New Breed” (1995): A  terminal cancer patient injects himself with his future  brother-in-law’s body-repairing nanites, but things go disastrously  wrong. Starring Richard Thomas (The Waltons, It, The Americans) and Peter Outerbridge (ReGenesis).

Here it comes, here comes TV Good Sleep Bad! It’s a demon on wheels!

In this episode, we discuss:

Jess Archer vs. the Ex (2011) and Jess Archer Versus. 1.01-1.04 (2016): Sardonic  high school Jess Archer may fantasize about kicking zombie ass, but her  real life features adventure aplenty as she investigates a stolen comic  book and a football team frame-up, all the while trying to convince her  BFF Chase that it’s a bad idea for him to just come storming into the  ladies’ room whenever he feels like it.

Speed Racer 1.01 & 1.02, “The Great Plan (parts 1 & 2)”: Speed  enters his first real race, hoping to win the money Pops needs to  upgrade the Mach 5 into the most advanced racing car yet. But who has  hired the dastardly Ace Deucey to steal the secret plans for the new  Mach 5…?

In this episode, we discuss:

Sapphire and Steel 2.07-2.10, “Assignment IV” aka “The Man Without a Face” (1981): Joanna  Lumley and David McCallum are troubleshooters from beyond time who find  themselves pulled into strange occurrences at an abandoned junk shop,  including a mysterious man with no face, the sudden appearance of  Victorian-era children, and a young woman who spends three straight  episodes “getting ready for work.”

Dark Season (1991): A trio of precocious  students face off against the villainous Mr. Eldritch, a man with a  number of sinister technological toys and a deep, abiding loathing of  human life. Best known for launching the careers of Russell T. Davies  (creator of Queer as Folk and inaugural showrunner of the Doctor Who revival) and Kate Winslet (expect you’ve heard of her).

Sorry this episode is much, much later than it ought to have been,  but mad scientists kidnapped Elwood, Lackey, and special guest Brian  “The Last Angry Geek” Heinz, shot them into space, marooned them on an  orbital satellite, and forced them to watch cheesy cult science-fiction  television shows. (They needn’t have bothered; we watch this kind of  thing by choice.)

In this episode, we discuss:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 4.04, “Teenagers from Outer Space” (1992): This  week’s experiment: a 1959 Warner Bros. cheapie about aliens who plot to  turn Earth into a breeding ground for giant lobsters.

Ultraman 1.10, “The Mysterious Dinosaur Base” (1966): Ultraman takes on a mad scientist who has been breeding a massive dinosaur beneath the waves of Lake Kitayama.

Elwood and Lackey are back to take on two slices of late-night television goodness, in the form of Tom Baker-era Doctor Who and Japan’s tokusatsu take on Spider-Man. Yowza!

In this episode, we discuss:

Doctor Who 17.05-17.08, “City of Death” (1979): The  Doctor and Romana arrive in contemporary Paris and stumble across a  tentacle-faced alien, dangerous time-travel experiments, and a plot to  steal the Mona Lisa.

Supaidāman, episode zero (1978?): Takuya  Yamashiro, a motocross racer with superpowers granted by alien  technology, joins forced with Interpol’s Secret Intelligence Division to  take on Professor Monster and his evil Iron Cross Army.

Howdy ho! It’s time for the fifth episode of TV Good Sleep Bad! Gee, it sure does smell all nice and flowery!

In this episode, we discuss:

South Park 1.09, “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo” (1997): The  residents of South Park struggle to stage a Christmas play that won’t  offend anyone, while Kyle starts talking to a piece of holiday-themed  fecal matter.

South Park 8.14, “A Woodland Critter Christmas” (2004): A group of woodland critters entreat Stan to help them save their Christmas, with disastrous consequences.

In this episode, we discuss:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.08, “I Robot…You Jane” (1997): A  demon uploads itself onto the internet and immediately starts macking  on Willow. I bet he still lives in his parents’ cellar, downloading  pictures of…

The Booth at the End season one (2010): John Connor’s foster father in Terminator 2 sits in a diner and makes Faustian bargains with people. You read that right–we covered an entire season, but keep in mind that’s only five 20-minute episodes

 Elwood (From The Depths of DVD Hell) and Lackey (Lackey on Film) kick off thier journey into the depths of Cult TV

In the first episode, we discuss:

Ultra Q 1.01, “Defeat Gomess!” (1966): Two prehistoric monsters duke it out in the debut episode of this Japanese kaiju series.

The Outer Limits 2.01, “Soldier” (1964): A soldier from Earth’s far future finds himself inexplicably transported to mid-’60s America in this Harlan Ellison tale.