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A Good-Bad Wiki about a Good Podcast about Bad Movies[]

­[O]ur references to past episodes and our in-jokes have become so thick now that at times I'm sure it's impossible to comprehend for new listeners.
       —Elliott[1]
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Elliott
Anne Hathaway
Words That Sound...
Popeyes Fried Chicken

Dan
Dan's Knee
Pervazoid #1
Watched on a Plane

Stuart
Castle Freak
Head of the Family
The Invisible Maniac

The Flop House (est. 2007) is a fortnightly[2] audio podcast about movie flops[3], despite officially being about what people think about Topeka[4]. On the appointed day,[5] the trio musters at the Flop House Studios,[6] watches a movie, and then records an episode—the most recent of which is Episode 424: Baby Geniuses.
This acclaimed podcast is hosted by professional comedy writers Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalan (each of whom work worked at The Daily Show) along with "equally funny"[7] barkeep Stuart Wellington. Collectively, they are known to mankind as The Original Peaches.
The trio usually confine themselves to major-studio films advertised and released within the past year or so, which tends to keep things current.[8] Check out the movie titles in the episode list.
Because the guys are close friends and their corpus spans an entire decade, their podcast is rife with inside jokes and callbacks—hence the challenge facing new listeners yearning to catch up.
To that end, this Wiki presently contains 1,029 articles. (Although, to be fair, this impressive-sounding figure does include 256 stubs.)

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Footnotes[]

  1. Colin Griffith "Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, and Stuart Wellington discuss their three favorite episodes of The Flop House" The A.V. Club, 8 August 2013. http://www.avclub.com/article/dan-mccoy-elliott-kalan-and-stuart-wellington-disc-101333 (accessed 8 November 2015)
  2. Or weekly, if you count Minis.
  3. Defined as failures of the financial and/or artistic variety.
  4. As decided by a two-one super-majority vote.
  5. Wednesdays, usually. Episodes are released on Saturdays.
  6. Dan's apartment, except for when Elliott is on the wrong side of the country (which is most of the time since Episode 256: Power Rangers).
  7. Erik Adams, D.X. Ferris, Marcus Gilmer, Steve Heisler, Steven Hyden, Genevieve Koski, Steve Moore, Steven Moore, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Kyle Ryan, Dan Telfer, Scott Tobias, Christian Williams, Emily Withrow, and Claire Zulkey "Podmass" The A.V. Club, 10 June 2011. http://www.avclub.com/article/week-of-june-2-8-57384 (accessed 3 November 2015)
  8. Besides, how many takedowns of Sharknado or Birdemic does humanity need?
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