Thanksgiving & Thanks

Here's one final farewell episode! This was originally recorded back in the summer of 2023 and it just got lost in the shuffle of edits and different miniseries we were doing, but it's such a fun episode that we wanted to put it out and it's one of our favorite movies of all time!Luke Nielsen returns to the show to discuss Army of Darkness, the third film in the Evil Dead franchise that pivots the genre from hard horror to fantasy/action/comedy and fully develops Ash into the delightfully smug blowhard he has been ever since. We spend a lot of this episode wondering how Bruce Campbell never became an A-list star and we psychoanalyze Sam Raimi as a filmmaker. But like the film itself, this episode is delightfully disjointed and full of fun side quests!Hail to the king, baby! Long live QHE!

We're continuing our celebration of the holiday season with the 2005 comedy Just Friends, a movie about the dreaded "Friend Zone" and how women just aren't allowed to have male best friends and go about their business...also it takes place during Christmas. Also also, it is our last episode. Weird one to go out on but this movie's come up a few times throughout the show and it's interesting to track Ryan Reynolds' career. We also read about a movie called Spring Break Lawyer because the early 2000s were a special time. If you've listened to any of this silly show, we appreciate you more than you know. Thanks for hanging with us as we talked about sharks, tried to make sense of bad movies, and drank way too much beer. We'll see you down the line! -Logan Nielsen & Dustin Pixley

You know Frosty the Snowman? What if he had abs? That's it. That's the whole pitch for the new Netflix original movie, Hot Frosty, the latest in Netflix's "what if we did Hallmark movies but made them a look a little less cheap" series of films. We're splitting a Shiner Home For the Holiday variety pack and breaking down this holiday romance film about an anthropomorphic snow hunk that takes place in a town that's definitely cursed.

It's a feast of Thanksgiving-themed media as we watch Eli Roth's 2023 slasher, Thanksgiving, and then follow it up with Thanks, a 1999 CBS sitcom about Puritan Pilgrims living in 17th-century America. A most logical double-feature. We dive into how Thanksgiving pays homage to the history of slasher movies, how sitcoms changed going into the 2000s, and we talk about what makes a great movie to watch on a plane. Happy Holidays from your silly boys at QHE!

HBO's Max's DC's The Penguin: A The Batman Story just wrapped up its first season and, boy howdy, was it some bonafide QHE! We sample some of Schell's Peanut Butter Chocolate Porter and talk about why the Penguin cuts through the fog of big-budget, shared-universe, comic book television series. Don't worry, we sound the Gremlins alarm before we reveal any spoilers. And Logan does some voices.

A Halloween episode released two weeks after Halloween? Yeah, that sounds like us. We watched, 'Salem's Lot, the newest Stephen King adaptation that was unceremoniously released on Max after sitting on the shelf for two years! We dig into King's take on vampires and what successful King adaptations have in common. We also dig into producer James Wan's filmography, sample Leinenkugel's Northwoods Amber, and ask, "what if Jaws was a Hallmark movie?"

To bring the holiday of Sharktoberfest to a close, Dustin and Logan are taking it upon themselves to rank every shark movie they have watched for this podcast. It's a tall order, especially since they both have bad memories and seem to be bad at counting. But they do it, gosh darn it! Join them for one final dip into shark infested waters to determine what are the quintessential films of Sharktoberfest!

We're wrapping up Sharktoberfest with the appropriately titled, the Last Shark. And it's an interesting experience because we've basically already seen it, since Cruel Jaws repurposes a lot of Last Shark's plot and actual footage! It's one of the more fascinating case studies we've covered in shark cinema. We also sample the Oktoberfest from Limestone Brewers and dip into a perennial favorite brew!

Finally a film that answers the question, "what if the Hallmark Channel made a shark movie?" We watched Shark Warning!, an oddly serious Asylum production that has shark revenge, an evil mayor, AND an exclamation point in the title. We also re-envision the movie with our dream cast of actors that we believe the Asylum could get and sample the Oktoberfest from Lakefront Brewery.

Got a little bit of everything going on in this installment of Sharktoberfest. Dustin and Logan are reaching back into the digital video days of early aughts with the indie hit, Open Water, a film that is more mumblecore than survival thriller. They also sample (and spill) the Oktoberfest from Sixpoint Brewery while Dustin tries his best to conjure up some fest facts. Then, they finish out the show with an extended chat about some of the other things they're been watching to get into the Halloween spirit!