Fat kids at fat camp, but their fatness isn't the joke, and that's so great! Also Stiller and Meara, and Paul Feig! Kristine and Bill visit the weird Judd Apatow Disney comedy they missed in 1995, "Heavyweights," and reminisce about a summer camp life they themselves only sort of ever had.  

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Episode 74 -- Heavyweights

Kristine and Bill talk about The Swiss Family Robinson (1960), based, as so many adventure films are, on a book written in German a century and a half earlier by a father who really liked Robinson Crusoe and had wanted to teach his four sons about ethics and nature and stuff. 

Episode 73 -- The Swiss Family Robinson

With the Ducks back in the zeitgeist thanks to "Mighty Ducks: Game Changers," Kristine and Bill watch the last, most forgettable and very definitely the worst of the Mighty Ducks trilogy, the one they couldn't just call "Mighty Ducks 3" because this was the nineties and that's not extreme enough. Joshua "Pacey" Jackson! Kenan "what up with that" Thompson! We rip off Ask Me Another with some parody songs and just canNOT believe how bad this movie's sound effects are. Come on, it'll be fun!

Episode 72 -- D3: The Mighty Ducks

Kristine and Bill watch and discuss another pre-Renaissance animated classic, and one that neither of them had seen before. We talk about the book upon which it's kind of sort of arguably based (basically, they borrowed some names and the title), Pearl Bailey and Sandy Duncan, foreign variations on what seems like a pretty simple movie title, and a proto-"OK Boomer!" or four. 

Episode 71 -- The Fox and the Hound

Animal stories don't really do it for Bill, but he picked 1991's White Fang, based pretty loosely on Jack London's novel, nonetheless. Ethan Hawke in his first starring role, London's short but incredibly wild life, the movie with two very different soundtracks that used them both, and so much more! 

Episode 70 -- White Fang

We discuss the 1956 film "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates," which is really just two episodes of the 1955 miniseries "Davy Crockett" mashed together. THRILL at the game-show-skit intro with sound effects and everything! RECOIL and then ABSOLUTELY BOOGIE DOWN with the coolest and weirdest version of The Ballad of Davy Crockett you could ever imagine! SIGH WITH RELIEF that, while the "cultural depictions" warning is well earned by this one, it's *much* less problematic than it could've been! 

Episode 69 -- Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

Time for another Fifth Monday Favorite! Bill picked the 2016 feature Moana, but it's definitely a favorite of both of ours. Come along for a deeper look at the music, the work of trying to make sure a culture you're depicting is treated the right way, the real-life thousand-year "Long Pause," and tall Conchord, shiny crab and stealth Māori Jemaine Clement! 

Episode 68 -- Moana

Kristine and Bill discuss the 1977 live-action feature "Candleshoe," starting a young and impressive Jodie Foster alongside the not-young and completely charming Helen Hayes and David Niven! Come scam some pirate treasure with us. 

Episode 67 -- Candleshoe

Hosts Kristine and Bill Parker take a weekly journey through the weirdest, least-known and, sometimes, worst movies and shows Disney+ has to offer.

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