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**Have You Seen This?**

The world’s only podcast about bizarre, overlooked, and misbegotten media. Support the show on Patreon! patreon.com/haveyouseenthis

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237 - Shanghai Surprise Mar 10, 2025

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Jen and Tim suffer through an ill-starred attempt at an international caper, Shanghai Surprise!

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Life With My Sister Madonna is a delightfully juicy read penned by her late brother, Christopher Ciccone. (And of course she's hairy, she's Italian!)

Madonna has denied that Sean Penn physically abused her during their relationship, but rumors still abound regarding an alleged domestic abuse incident in December 1988. The LA Sheriffs have since purged the report from their records, unfortunately.

Listen to George Harrison's excellent solo album Cloud Nine, which contains some reworked material from the Shanghai Surprise soundtrack.

For more of us roasting Madonna's atrocious acting, check out our episode on Body of Evidence!

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236 - FM Mar 03, 2025

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Tim and Jen welcome living legend Hollywood Steve Huey to discuss a Quaalude overdose of a film, FM from 1978!

The core creators of Yacht Rock (both series and genre classification) host the delightful Yacht or Nyacht podcast, in which they rate the yachtiness of user-submitted songs. Highly recommended!

See Bob Odenkirk narrate the story of Disco Demolition Night on Drunk History.

The venerable British news magazine show World in Action took a look at American radio all the way back in 1971, and even included an interview with celebrated chronicler of the working class Studs Turkel! The theme song to this show goes hard as FUCK, incidentally.

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235 - Wild Wild West Feb 24, 2025

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Jen and Tim wicky-wicky-watch a mostly loathed tentpole film from 1999, The Giant Mechanical Spider Invasion, aka Jon Peters' Wild Wild West (come on, it might as well have his name right above the title).

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Mel Magazine has a retrospective article on the production of the film (good luck trying to read that link on mobile, though).

We didn't get around to the original Jim West, Robert Conrad's reaction to the film— he wasn't wholly negative but he wasn't exactly thrilled, either. Also, he dares you to knock this battery off his shoulder.

For more on Barbra's ex, the Hollywood Reporter interviewed Jon Peters in 2024. Of course he's a Trump guy.

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234 - Black Rain Feb 17, 2025

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Tim and Jen spend a LOT of time picking over a mid-tier Ridley Scott-directed actioner: Black Rain from 1989!

Errata: Jen says "Tanpei Monogatori" when she meant "Tantei Monogatari," the detective TV show starring Black Rain's antagonist, Yūsuku Matsuda. All those wasted years as a weeb and she still can't pronounce Japanese words properly. Sad!

For a much clunkier (read: Cannon Films) take on East-meets-West culture clash, listen to our episode on Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects.

The historical swordsman neither of your hosts could think of the name of is, of course, Miyamoto Musashi. The Historian's Hut has a nice compact rundown on his astonishing life.

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233 - A Cure For Wellness Feb 10, 2025

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Jen welcomes show regular Bitter Karella and wild card Moodyferret to evangelize a Gore Verbinski flop that didn't deserve the massive shrug it got from the public: the 2016 psychological thriller A Cure For Wellness.

Errata: we all say in the episode that this movie came out in 2016, but it actually arrived in theaters on February 17, 2017 before almost immediately disappearing. Oops! That said, the movie was originally slated for an October 2016 release, which seems to indicate that 20th Century Fox lost their nerve and dumped the film in Fuck-You February.

Fox made a last-ditch effort to hype the film with this Super Bowl teaser, mimicking a pharma company ad. This is the one that Jen vaguely described in the episode.

Every previous Bitter Karella appearance on the show may be found in our collection!

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232 - The Earth Day Special Feb 03, 2025

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Jen and Tim look back at an all-star polemic from 1990, The Earth Day Special, a plea on behalf of Mother Earth that made a powerful impression on a young Tim. Also, we better not catch you pouring any old house paint down the drain.

Watch the special at the Internet Archive (and if so inclined, maybe throw them a small donation for collecting all that health data recently purged from US government websites).

According to this recap from Living Life Fearless, soap actor and Teen Witch (1989) star Dan Gauthier played Bachelor #2 in the Dating Game segment. He is apparently uncredited in the special.

Anarchist publication The Fifth Estate provides a leftist perspective on The Earth Day Special in a contemporaneous review, and they ain't wrong:

But the same powers of manipulation continue to function: the chemical manufacturers will plant some trees, and even the “forest products” magnates will, as they generally do, plant some trees. George Bush has called for the planting of a billion trees—but none of the rulers or their allies mention the possibility of refraining from cutting a billion trees (in particular, say the last few remnants of old growth forests, but also anywhere where woods are coming under the developers’ blades). These forces, these institutions are concealing their grisly daily business with a multimedia extravaganza, a spectacle that converts a natural love of what is alive into a pointless civic ritual.

Market Realist has an easily digestible rundown on who actually founded Tesla and who merely came on board shortly afterward to leech off other people's work and push the founders out of the nest like a shitty South African cuckoo.

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231 - Lycan Colony Jan 20, 2025

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The editing is terrible! Tim and Jen howl at the moon, which is an ovoid shape, and critique the amateurish werewolf film Lycan Colony, at least when they can make out what's onscreen. Take a drink every time Tim says the editing is terrible!

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If you've had all your shots and have as much schlock-induced brain damage as Jen, you can see the movie for yourself on Tubi. Tim would surely recommend that you purchase Rifftrax's extremely funny commentary on Lycan Colony at their website instead.

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230 - The Christmas That Almost Wasn't Dec 30, 2024

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Jen and Tim hold Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast hostage in order to talk about a holiday musical that really wasn't: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't!

For more of the Worst Possible boys, check out our collection of their guest appearances on the show! And of course you simply must hear The Worst of All Possible Worlds for yourself over at their Patreon!

If you haven't yet laid eyes upon Tim's monumental Myst Island Lego build, go see it at his website and marvel at it, it's really something.

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229 - Christmas Evil Dec 22, 2024

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Tim and Jen cover an unusual holiday movie that features a man beaten down by an uncaring society enough to become a self-appointed assassin. Wait, what year is this? It's 1980 and this is Christmas Evil!

There is a whole ass website about Whamageddon with the ruleset and everything, if you'd like to play or simply to inform yourself. We won't be participating, though, because we love Wham! too much to refrain from listening to them. You could also listen to this "Last Christmas"-free megamix!

Need more gimmicky costumed killers? Listen to our episode on the Terrifier movies, but be warned: we don't care for that clown at all.

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228 - Toys Dec 09, 2024

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Jen and Tim grit their teeth through Barry Levinson's oppressively whimsical passion project that literally no one liked, Toys. Also, take a drink every time we use a variant of the word "whimsy," but please drink responsibly!

See the (in)famous Toys teaser trailer on YouTube.

Roger Ebert penned a more measured analysis of the film back in 1992:

There's a curious residue of dissatisfaction after "Toys" is over. It opened so well and promised so much that we're confused: Is that all there is?

Listen to Tim's favorite song from the movie, "Happy Workers" sung by Tori Amos.

Does it tickle you when Tim gets a real wild hair about a movie? Check out our collection of episodes with the succinct title Tim Hated It!

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