Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV

Mike and Morgan
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  • Updated Biweekly

Married couple Mike & Morgan watch failed and forgotten TV shows totally cold. No research. Just wildly uneducated predictions, rambling recaps, and finding a positive spin on even the biggest small screen flops. It's a comedy podcast about making the best of bad TV.

  1. Jun 8

    NightMan Meets Manimal: The Crossover Nobody Asked For

    Much like our podcast, Manimal returns despite nobody really asking for it! And what better place for his return than on another bad TV show! That's right, NightMan gets assistance from the only superhero willing to show up on syndicated television! Two legendary television disasters. One completely unnecessary crossover. Zero understanding of what's happening. This week, Mike and Morgan watch the infamous NightMan/Manimal crossover episode and attempt to answer the question nobody was asking: can combining two bad TV shows somehow create a good one? I mean... no. Obviously. Featuring ambiguously psychic superheroes, 90s CGI animal transformations, baffling time travel, and a very confusing use of the term Daddy.

    1h 35m

  2. Jun 1

    We're Back! (NOT A Dinosaur Story)

    After a perfectly reasonable six-year hiatus, Mike and Morgan are back! In this special mini-episode, we catch up on where we've been, look back on some of our favorite moments from Bad Reception, try to remember how podcasting works, and prepare for a triumphant return to the world of cancelled television. We also reveal the show we'll be covering next week, which somehow involves TWO of the worst shows we have ever watched existing in the same universe. Shockingly, combing them doesn't seem to solve either of their problems! Note: Though we are back, we are not Dinosaurs, nor is this a story about such.

    31 min

  3. 03/31/2020

    EP83 - Bob Patterson

    Get ready for some situations, and maybe even some comedy, as we drop the first episode in our "S(t)einfeld Stinkers" series! This time Jason Alexander goes from lovably enraged loser George Costanza to a third rate Tony Robbins named Bob Patterson. The ep we watched, "Naked Bob," deals with his serious confidence issues regarding his downtown region. That's right, there's lots of boner talk in this one! (more so even than usual!) With the biggest comedy hit of all time only a few years behind him, how did J-Xan's followup sitcom fold faster than Kramer in The Contest?? This old-school style ABC laugh-track comedy aired only 5 episodes before getting nixed. I mean, seriously, what is the deal? Cut the Shit: Morgan - Tiger King Mike - The Invisible Man / Resident Evil 2   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Seinfeld #Curse #JasonAlexander

    52 min

  4. 03/18/2020

    Small Reception - Streaming Recommendations

    Mike and Morgan each give you their top 5 shows to stream on Netflix and Hulu! It's a scary time for us all, let's try to make the best of it by staying inside and watching some good TV shows! We'll be back to bad tv next time, but some positivity felt right for this week. Stay safe Baddies!   List of shows: GLOW - Netflix Arrested Development - Netflix The Twilight Zone - Netflix/Hulu Jeopardy - Netflix/Hulu She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Netflix The X Files.- Hulu Buffy/Angel - Hulu No Reservations - Hulu You’re the Worst - Hulu 30 Rock - Hulu   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Netflix #Hulu

    1h 9m

  5. 03/03/2020

    EP82 - NightMan

    Good golly, it's our two year podiversary!! We celebrate by finally having our hilarious and talented friend, comedian/actor/podcaster Nick Aragon (F*ck This Place podcast, @instaragon) on the show!! And what a treat of a show we had for him! (shout-out to Josh Hollis of Predict-o-Cast for the recommendation!!) In a world full of shows based on popular, well-established, interesting and iconic superhero characters, one show dared to be different. One show had the balls to reach into the depths of obscurity and pull out a mediocre character that literally not one person was asking for. And only one show had the audacity to make a bafflingly inept show around that character. That's right, we watched the nearly inexplicable, gut-bustingly stupid, 1997 syndicated super-flop, NightMan!! Get ready for a super-sized episode full of Morgan's uncontrollable laughter, Mike's top-notch puns, and more Neil Breen references than you can shake a laptop at! Happy two years, baddies!  Cut the Shit: Nick - Ghost Whisperer Morgan - Rifftrax Mike - Hard Ticket to Hawaii   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #NightMan #Marvel #Superhero

    1h 41m

  6. 02/25/2020

    EP81 - Highlander: The Raven

    There can only be one... spinoff of a TV show... spun off from a movie... But that means there's definitely at least three... Right?? Truthfully we don't know anything about the Highlander series, and watching this brief side quest didn't help us out at all. I think it involves swords, kicking stuff, and maybe stealing diamonds? On the plus side, Morgan found The Raven so exciting that she literally lost consciousness during most of the show! There's no shortage of amusing anecdotes and tangents on this one as we try desperately to find anything interesting to say about a show so bland I can't even be bothered to finish writing this descrip Cut the Shit: Morgan - McMillion$ Mike - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, The Circle (Netflix)   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Highlander

    1h 2m

  7. 02/04/2020

    EP80 - Good Reception: House, M.D.

    Paging Dr. Reception! It’s the return of Good Reception! We take a look at the massive hit medical drama/mystery/comedy House (or House, M.D., it was unclear what the official title was). Will this House our new home, or will we be “bringing down the House??” We had never seen even a single episode of this seminal series starring the world’s grumpiest doctor, so we decided to check out the most acclaimed episode we could find after spending about 5 seconds on google, Season 1, Episode 21: Three Stories. Plus we share our vast Football knowledge and talk about the classic film that everyone knows, Swing Kids! It’s like prescription for laughter! Cut the Shit: Morgan - BoJack Horseman Mike - Little Women & The Films of Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Werewolf #SheWolf

    1h 11m

  8. 01/14/2020

    EP79 - She-Wolf of London: Love and Curses

    Things get hairy this week as we take a silver-handled stab at the mid-season transformation of 1990's She-Wolf of London, Love and Curses! That's right, after 14 episodes, this lady-werewolf show was moved to Los Angeles, retooled and even given a new name! ...And then was cancelled after 6 episodes. Our friend, and talented actor, Lucia Towers joins us for one of the most genuinely enjoyable shows we've watched yet! This is one werewolf (show) that doesn't bite! We were over the moon for it! A real silver lining! We were howling with laughter... okay, I'm done. Cut the Shit: Morgan - Little Weirds by Jenny Slate Mike - Cameo.com Lucia - Confronting OJ Simpson Podcast   If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com   We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary.   #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Werewolf #SheWolf

    1h 18m
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Married couple Mike & Morgan watch failed and forgotten TV shows totally cold. No research. Just wildly uneducated predictions, rambling recaps, and finding a positive spin on even the biggest small screen flops. It's a comedy podcast about making the best of bad TV.

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