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Franken-perlatives!

It's graduation season, fiends! And you know what that means: It's time for Frankencast High to throw a little popularity contest so all your favorite mad scientists can try to get voted Most Likel...

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The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Hey fiends! This week's episode is a wild, free-wheeling exploration of the entire Murderbot book series. Join Mad Scientist Anthony, Med School Girlfriend Hallie, and Murderbot Superfan Zaz as we ...

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Creature Commandos episode 7

Here we are, fiends. The grand finale of James Gunn's Creature Commandos. And you know James Gunn isn't going to let us go without one last incredibly painful tug at our heartstrings. But, in typic...

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Creature Commandos episodes 5 & 6

This week, we're nearing the end of the Creature Commandos and James Gunn is continuing to pull at our heartstrings, in "The Iron Pot" and "Priyatel Skelet". With these two episodes, we get Eric Fr...

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Mighty Mighty Monsters - Pranks For the Memories

Happy April, fiends. We're back with the final installment of the Mighty Mighty Monsters series. We've had fun getting to know Frankie, Vlad, and Gunner, and we still have no idea the origins of th...

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Creature Commandos episodes 3 & 4

Those Creature Commandos are back! And this time, they're here to make you cry! Join us for "Cheers For the Tin Man" and "Chasing Squirrels", episodes that focus on GI Robot and Weasel, and give us...

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Creature Commandos episodes 1 & 2

We're finally getting to it, fiends! This is the new animated series kicking off James Gunn's new era as puppet master of the DC comics extended cinematic universe. And what an auspicious start! Th...

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VIDEOBOOK: Frankenstein Jr. and the Menace of the Heartless Monster

This week's bonus audiobook was just full of too many incredible Hanna-Barbera drawings to just give you fiends the audio by itself. So, here are all of pictures in the book, synced up to the audio...

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Frankenstein Jr. Slideshow: Coming Soon!

FYI, the Frankenstein Jr. book I read for this week's episode is FULL of hundreds of fantastic Hanna-Barbera drawings. I have scanned every one and I'm planning to make a video version of the audio...

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Frankenstein, Jr. and The Menace of the Heartless Monster - Carl Fallberg

It's story time again, fiends! And we're checking back in with our old animated pal from the world of Hanna-Barbera, Frankenstein, Jr., the proto-Iron Giant with a never-ending collection of extrem...

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Frankencast Q&A with a medical student

Hey fiends! As promised, here is a very special questions and answers chat between your friendly neighborhood mad scientist, and my girlfriend Hallie, a decidedly less mad scientist, and current me...

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Fuckenstein (2012) dir. Joanna Angel

Happy Valentine's Day, fiends! Well, we're here again at the X-rated parody well, and this time around we have an especially fun discussion about a well-done parody co-starring an unfortunately pre...

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Upcoming Q&A - Make your voice heard!

Hey fiends, we have plans in the near future to do a Q&A with a medical student. She's dissected a human in a cadaver lab, she's studied death and disease, she's been through roughly the same a...

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The Munsters Today season 2 episodes 5 & 6

Sigh. We were doing so well, fiends. The Munsters Today had really impressed us as it developed over season one and we were even more excited by the first few episodes of this season. But, boy, di...

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Legendary Presents Mary Shelley's Frankenstein featuring Boris Karloff

This week, we have a fun curiosity to discuss. Legendary Pictures' comic book wing recently released a pair of graphic novels, pitched as faithful adaptations of the novels Frankenstein and Dracula...

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The Munsters season 2 episodes 5 & 6

Hey fiends! We're back to business as usual, and that means some classic middle of the road episodes of Munsters Classic. This week, Herman tries to train Eddie to become a track star in "Herman Mu...

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Franken-Story Time!: "Frankenstein" by Ludworst Bemonster

Happy New Year, fiends! We took last week off for the holiday, and then this week we got hit with a giant blizzard that has prevented us from getting together to record. So, instead, I thought I wo...

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Mighty Mighty Monsters: New Fears Eve

The Mighty Mighty Monsters are back! And this time, we're learning about appreciating our friends, fart physics, and the cynical strategies behind lowest-common-denominator network TV ratings. Join...

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"Monster's Holiday" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett/Lon Chaney Jr./Buck Owens

Happy Holidays, fiends! This week we're talking about the sequel to the "Monster Mash", a holiday-themed song about monsters robbing Santa Claus. Originally recorded by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, a lat...

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Conan O'Brien - And They Call Me Mad?

This week, we're talking about a modern day old-style novelty record. (Modern day, in that this record came out like 15 years ago, rather than the 1950s) Join us as we discuss Conan O'Brien's mad s...

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Drunk History - Are You Afraid of the Drunk?

This week, we are getting SO wasted... Actually, we're letting the Drunk History team get drunk, so we don't have to. Join us as Derek Waters and Kirby Howell-Baptiste sit around the Nickelodeon Ar...

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The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (aka The Night Dracula Saved The World)

Since it's a few days after Halloween, we know that it all went off without a hitch. But have you ever wondered what would happen if Halloween got canceled? Well, apparently the world would end? id...

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Ongoing Series Announcement

Hey Fiends!

We've had a great time over the last couple months taking a break from the Munsters and spending time in Turkey with the Creature mini-series. But now that we've completed that se...

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Mighty Mighty Monsters in Halloween Havoc

After watching Frankenstein Ruins Halloween over on the main feed, we almost skipped this other CGI animated children's Halloween special. But we're glad we gave it a chance! This is much better. W...

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Scared Shrekless: The Bride of Gingy (and more)

It's Halloween time, and there's nothing better on a chill October evening than sitting down with a cozy little Halloween special from a beloved media property. This week, we're talking about 2010'...

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Frankensteined Amityville Frankenstein

We recently did an episode discussing the disastrous Amityville Frankenstein. Eric tried his hand at tightening it up into a much more manageable film. It's certainly shorter. We'll let you all be ...

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Frankenstein Moved In On The Fourth Floor - Elizabeth Levy

Hey fiends! It's story time once again! Sit back and relax as the Mad Scientist reads you the entirety of this children's story about some nosy kids in an apartment building and their rude and myst...

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Frankenstein & Warhammer 40K

This week, Eric surprised Anthony with so much Warhammer lore to celebrate the new game release! Join us as we discuss this nearly 40 year-old tabletop miniature war game, complete with the dozens ...

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Universal Studios Presents: Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue

It's SHOWTIME!

We know the Beetlejuice sequel just hit theatres and we coincidentally just learned of the existence of a silly rock-n-roll revue show the Universal Studios theme parks used to...

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The Punisher: Franken-Castle pt. 3

Okay, it's the end of Franken-Castle. And boy, it sure would have been nice if it had ended a little bit sooner. Steel yourself for toxic masculinity, homoerotic homophobia, and just so much tediou...

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