A ballet dancer and a tap dancer walk into a Siberian bar! Two bumbling morons get laid and exploited by the military industrial complex! Special guest Jessica Makinson (actor, director, improviser, multiple voices on South Park) joins Eric and Scott for a double feature episode steeped in Cold War intrigue and plenty of questionable male behavior. Both films premiered in theaters on December 6th, 1985.

A Spielberg produced Sherlock Holmes prequel! Two convicts F around on a runaway train and find out! Special guest and solitary member of the PM85 Three Timers Club Patrick Gorman joins Eric and Scott for a surprisingly satisfying double feature about Egyptian death cults and a woeful lack of runaway train contingency plans. The Holmes film debuted on December 4th while the train flick went wide December 6th, 1985.

Ivan Drago! A robot maid! A full blown James Brown song and dance number! Plus RIP Apollo Creed! Special guest Paul Vaillancourt (improv guru/teacher, multi-hyphenate entertainment industry jack of all trades, YouTube Creator Coach) joins Eric and Scott for a solo episode all about how Rocky Balboa singlehandedly thawed the Cold War using nothing but the power of montage. Stallone’s epic sequel hit theaters on November 27th, 1985.

Scott and special contributors Matt Taylor and Garry Crystal briefly address a trio of films from November ‘85 that didn’t make it to the main pod. Attention to detail … we haz it.

A young Willem Dafoe prints money and wreaks havoc in the City of Angels! The Dow Chemical Company turns frozen Yugoslavian funds into a slap dash monster movie spoof starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr! Special guest Jonathan Howard (writer/performer, The Varnell Hill Show, The Goldbergs, Schooled) joins Eric and Scott for a tender look back at the stylish crime drama and a deliberate look away at the other one. To Live and Die in LA released back on November 1st, while Transylvania 6-5000 went wide on November 8th, 1985.

Freddy's back but not Wes Craven! Charles Bronson ran out of immediate family members so now he's avenging an old war buddy! Special guest and longtime pal Michael Preonas (fellow movie hound, proprietor of Columbine Valley Liquors in Littleton, Colorado) joins Eric and Scott for a nightmarish journey through the underbelly of middling Hollywood sequels. Both films released back on December 6th, 1985.

Scott prepares a short lecture on the rise of VCR technology. After that, your trusty cohosts hand things off to a fresh new crew of special contributors in order to briefly address a few films that didn’t make the October cut. Attention to detail … we haz it.

An absurd comedy about teen suicide and downhill skiing! A surreal dark comedy SoHo survival film from some dude named Martin Scorsese! Special guest Owen Hammer (playwright, comic book writer, cryptic film whisperer at his Hammered Out channel on Youtube) gets weird with Eric and Scott for this look back at this pair of oddball 80s comedies. Both films went wide in theaters on October 11th, 1985.