Movie Fighters

Matt and Marlene are trying the newest Cheez-Its on this episode, and they're pairing it with the recommended white wine! Fancy!

We watched the much more recent, animated Super Mario Bros. Movie to compare it against the one from 1993. This one clearly hews much closer to the look and feel of the video games -- but is that a good thing?

It's the NEW Snack Situation! Matt is now joined by his life partner, Marlene, and they're bringing some other changes with them, which you'll hear about in the episode! To kick off this new era, M&M are trying nine different flavors of M&M's, and then ranking them! (NOTE: There's more background noise here than we would have wanted, thanks to a new mic setup we were doing for the first time. We'll have less bag rustling in the future!)

Mario Madness begins as we take on the live-action 1993 movie starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. Is it as bad as people have been saying it is for 30 years?

Duncan Hines has released a line of Dolly Parton-branded baked goods mixes, and we tried the brownies in an effort to see if Dolly's influence has made box brownies transcend their typical taste.

We're off strike, and it's Christmas! So we're watching the 2022 movie where David Harbour plays a Santa who punches people, and see if it lives up to the promise of "Die Hard" with Santa.

Halloween is almost here, and we're eating the food most traditionally associated with it: cereal! It's cereal, right?

The hot sauce is actually from New Zealand, FYI. Friend of the show Lucas Brown sent us another box of snacks from down under, and we're very pleased to try them!

We're taking on this 2021 Paramount+/WWE Studios animated monster wrestling movie this month, and there's a lot to like! But also, the wrestling is kind of all wrong.

The snack podcast the MAN doesn't want you to hear! Yes, Chris and Matt are trying some alcoholic tea from their favorite fast-food chicken place on this month's show.

With the recent release of a new, good Dungeons and Dragons movie, we decided to go back to this first try, which doesn't seem to include much that can actually be called D&D at all. But Jeremy Irons does want their blood to rain down from the sky.

Chris and Matt have never tried a Shamrock Shake before, because they aren't mint guys. So how does this St. Paddy's classic measure up considering these predispositions?

Did the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe really change? Can a man really love himself as much as DTRJ seems to? What is the worst needledrop? We probe all these questions and more.

We can't get away from the advertising for these, so we figured, why fight it? We tried 'em. But the big question we can't get away from is, how could these possibly improve on regular pizza?

In lieu of a Christmas feature this year, we took on a couple of Disney+ holiday specials! Let's find out whether they scratch that holiday itch.

"But Matt and Chris," you're saying. "Why are you trying snacks from a country that doesn't even celebrate Thanksgiving during Thanksgiving month?" Well, we have a good reason, of course. Listen to find out what it is.

Does this horror comedy that pits a totally silent Nicolas Cage against a coterie of animatronic characters from a children's party destination end up being as fun as it seems? We investigate. Go to manscaped.com and use the offer code RINGTHEBELL to get 20% off and free shipping!

We're trying a drink that is shockingly not a Sandman TV series tie-in and some ice cream that definitely is a Netflix promotion, but also is confusingly marketed, on this month's episode! Go to manscaped.com and use the offer code RINGTHEBELL to get 20% off and free shipping on your order!

It's a celebration of regained senses and a birthday on this episode, so we're trying some very thick cookies this time around. How do the offerings from Crumbl Cookies stack up?

We finally watched this Indian historical, musical action epic after everyone told us it ruled. Guess what? It ruled.