Comedy Episodes

May 6, 2025

Midweek Mention... Happy Gilmore

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out! Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we’re dusting off the golf clubs and heading to the green for one of…

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April 24, 2025

Hot Fuzz

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we lock, stock, and double-tap our way into the gloriously over-the-top world of Hot Fuzz (2007), the second film in Edgar Wright’s beloved Cornetto Trilogy . With an out...

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March 20, 2025

Champions & The Big Bang Theory

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Jan. 15, 2025

Midweek Mention... Dirty Work

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're taking a comedic trip back to the late 90s with the film Dirty Work (1998) . Directed by Bob Saget and starring Norm Macdonald, this comedy classic has etched its mark as a c...

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Nov. 13, 2024

Midweek Mention... Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Oct. 4, 2024

We Married Margo

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April 24, 2024

Midweek Mention... The Gods Must Be Crazy

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where today we're diving into the quirky and thought-provoking world of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980) . This unique comedy film, written and directed by Jamie Uys, has captured audience...

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Jan. 19, 2024

Overboard & Horrid Henry

Ahoy there, fellow Bad Dads! Today's episode of the Bad Dads Film Review is teeing off with our top picks of golf movies, sailing into a classic comedy from the 80s, and wrapping up with a bit of mischievous fun for the kids....

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July 14, 2023

21 Jump Street & Saved by the Bell

Welcome back to another episode of Bad Dads Film Review, where your favorite film fanatic Dads unpack the best and worst of cinema and television. This week, it's all about schools! To kick things off, we're hitting the books...

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June 23, 2023

Shallow Grave

SHALLOW GRAVE (1994) starts off almost like a sitcom, with three friends trying to find an interesting housemate before it evolves into a deal with the devil type plot about paranoia and how money can ruin even the closest of...

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April 28, 2023

Another Round & Not Dexters Laboratory Because We Messed Up

It's not hyperbole to say that this week’s kid tv section and outro is the best content from Bad Dads Film Review yet, the laughs, the thrills, the spectacular revelations! And what about that phone call from Harrison Ford? I...

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Jan. 13, 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin

We'll get back on to our usual programming soon, but for this week we're taking a look at The Banshees of Inisherin. Serendipitous timing as this nabbed some big awards at the Golden Globes this week. I assure you that is a c...

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Dec. 23, 2022

Teeth & SpongeBob SquarePants

As we're all no doubt aware by now Peter has had some very real difficulty with his teeth. Two double root canal operations and a hefty bill were at the forefront of our thinking when coming up with ideas for this weeks show....

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Sept. 28, 2022

Midweek Mention... Team America: World Police

TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (2004) began life as a straight parody of Bruckheimer style action movie tropes before morphing into something more satirical after the commencement of the Iraq War, and successfully captures the sa...

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Sept. 21, 2022

Midweek Mention... The Men Who Stare At Goats

George Clooney explains how to be a Jedi to Ewan McGregor in director Grant Heslov’s debut feature, satirical war movie THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. Reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) investigates the New Earth Army, a branch of t...

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Aug. 26, 2022

Day Shift & Pingu

Dan had at least three different attempts to define a Top 5 this week proving just how desperately in need of rebooting this part of the show is, finally settling on the Top 5 Bands for us to discuss. DAY SHIFT is Netflix's l...

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July 15, 2022

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent & History of Swear Words

This week sees us celebrating the work of Oscar-winning-action-B-movie-mega-actor Nic Cage by completely avoiding talking about his films when we discuss the Top 5 Cages. Dan's lost his notes, Sidey's lost his mind and no one...

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July 6, 2022

Midweek Mention... A Cinderella Story

This week's notes were written before all the technical flummoxing that occurred, scuppering our collaboration. They are however too good to delete so please enjoy, whilst pretending there's finally someone interesting on thi...

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July 1, 2022

Logan Lucky & The Creature Cases

Just three Bad Dads this week and since that's three for the price of none, only you can judge whether that represents value for money. With all of us having equine obsessed daughters it seems suprising that it has taken us t...

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June 24, 2022

The History of Future Folk & Captain Pugwash

It's never easy writing the show notes when you weren't present for the podcast itself and consequently don't have the overall tone of the discussion to guide you. For instance, the guys talked about the Top 5 Hacking or Comp...

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June 15, 2022

Listener Suggestion...So I Married an Axe Murderer

We have been subjecting ourselves to THE PENTAVERATE for reasons it is hard to explain so when Johnny Utah responded to our call for suggestions of movies that listeners think are worth revisiting, Mike Myers 1993 follow up t...

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April 27, 2022

Midweek Mention... Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

The first thing we needed to get straight is whether it's pronounced "plaid" or "plaid" and then with that debate settled we move on to discuss the 1982 Steve Martin parody of and homage to Film Noir DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID...

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April 22, 2022

The King of Staten Island & The Loud House

As impossible as it is to imagine if all you ever do is listen to his razor sharp mental gymnastics and displays of intellectual acuity on the podcast, but Bad Dad Dan can from time to time be forgetful so it wasn't completel...

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April 15, 2022

Lars and The Real Girl & The Epic Adventures of Morph - Episode Re-Re…

The Dads are on holiday but will be back as usual from 20th April. In the meantime enjoy this special rereleased episode where we discuss LARS AND THE REAL GIRL... Original show notes below. ______________ “The lack of women ...

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