Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV

Mike and Morgan

Whether the critics hated it, audiences ignored it, or the network pulled the plug, hosts Mike and Morgan are there to make the best of bad TV. New episodes every Tuesday.

  • 52 minutes 1 second
    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 [email protected]. 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
    31 March 2020, 10:59 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    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 [email protected]. 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
    18 March 2020, 2:00 am
  • 1 hour 40 minutes
    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 [email protected]. 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
    3 March 2020, 12:38 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    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 [email protected]. 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
    25 February 2020, 12:21 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    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 [email protected]. 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
    4 February 2020, 2:12 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    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 [email protected]. 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
    14 January 2020, 1:18 pm
  • 1 hour 41 seconds
    EP78 - Stargate: Infinity

    If there's one thing that kids love, it's serious, high-concept science fiction, right?! Well somebody must have thought so, because the 1994 semi-hit film, turned beloved series, Stargate, got the animated treatment in 2002! But make sure your kids are all caught up with the SG universe because this baby ain't gonna hold your hand with exposition. And character back stories? Who needs em! It's got bureaucracy. It's got villains without motives. It's got people with blue hair and face tattoos! What I'm saying is, this is not a good show for children... or anyone else. Stargate: Infinity? More like Stargate: Canceled.

    Cut the Shit: Morgan - JoJo Rabbit Mike - Stardew Valley (Also, Parasite and the Nintendo Switch)   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 [email protected]. 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 #Stargate
    31 December 2019, 9:31 am
  • 57 minutes 50 seconds
    EP77 - Knight Rider "Silent Knight"

    Merry KITTsmas everyone!! This holiday season we watched the somewhat Christmas-y episode "Silent Knght" of the 1982 classic Knight Rider! Everyone is here: Raw Hoff, Mr. Feeny, problematic terminology, Santa with a machine gun, bank robbing clowns, jumping cars, killer corn tractors, and, who could forget, the Worst Uncle Ever! It's our first time behind the wheel of the Knight Industries Two Thousand (which is apparently what KITT stands for??), did it get our engines revving our drive us off the road? You can find out really easily by just listening to this episode!

    Cut the Shit: Morgan - Forky from Toy Story 4 Mike - Young Enough by Charly Bliss, and Initiation: Silent Night Deadly Night 4   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 [email protected]. 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 #Hasselhoff #KITT #Christmas
    17 December 2019, 10:32 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    EP76 - Pandora

    Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry we’re late! Josh makes his return to the podcast to watch another one of the Worst Shows of 2019!! This time it’s the unhelpfully titled CW series, Pandora! Critics and audiences have made their opinions known, Pandora stinks! (Despite this it has been inexplicably renewed for a second season!?) Anyway it’s 3:00am on Thanksgiving morning so I’m not going to worry too much about this description since I’m pretty sure no one even reads them anyway. It’s a dumb Star Trek knock-off, and it sucks, big time.

    Plus we talk about The Vampire Diaries, Gilmore Girls, and Single Parents. Pretty much anything to avoid talking about this awful, awful show.

    Cut the Shit:

    Josh - Emergence

    Mike - Killing Eve

    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 [email protected]. 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 #TheCW #WorstOf2019

    28 November 2019, 12:03 pm
  • 57 minutes 17 seconds
    EP75 - The I-Land

    You're stranded on a desert island and all you can bring is this Netflix original series... I bet you still couldn't finish all seven episodes! We watched the critical bashing post The I-Land beginning our coverage of the worst TV of 2019! Seriously, this one nearly broke Morgan. I wasn't sure she would make it through the whole thing. If not for the competence of the adorable (and chin en-dimpled) Kate Bosworth, this might have been literally unwatchable.

    Plus we go corporate talking about our love of Succession, Morgan can't stop talking about Tybee Island and her favorite show, Lost, and Mike just wants someone to get a limb cut off! More like Gouge-My-Eyes-Out-Land!

    Cut the Shit: Morgan - Succession Mike - Halt and Catch Fire and Terminator: Dark Fate   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 [email protected]. 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 #WorstOf2019
    13 November 2019, 2:15 am
  • 1 hour 30 seconds
    EP74 - Magnum P.I. "The Woman on the Beach"

    Did you know that “P.I.” stands for Paranormal Investigator? Well, that’s because it doesn’t, but ghosts are abound (or are they??) in this episode of the seminal 80s classic, Magnum P.I.!! We were both shamefully unfamiliar with the mega-hit show and thought it would be fun to close out the Halloween season with a spooky episode of a cheesy 80s staple. Did it scare us down to our skeleton bones, or bury us with boredom? One thing is for sure, we talk a lot about how attractive Tom Selleck is!! Happy Halloween everyone!

    Follow @AllTheHorror18 on Twitter, as well as #AllTheHorror to catch all 31 of the scareifying episodes this month!!

     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 [email protected]. 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 #Halloween #AllTheHorror

    30 October 2019, 11:32 pm
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