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Reality Gays with Mattie and Poodle

Introducing The Big Flop

Reality Gays with Mattie and Poodle

Matt Marr

After Shows, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be an even bigger failure?


Each week on Wondery’s new podcast The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians to chronicle some of the biggest failures and blunders in pop culture history. Each episode will have you thinking to yourself, why in the world did this get made?!


This is just a preview of The Big Flop. You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at http://wondery.fm/bigflop_realitygays



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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Maddie, and Poodle from Reality Gaze. We want to share a new podcast that we

0:05.8

think you'll really love called The Big Flop. Now, I want you to picture Steve Jobs tinkering

0:12.3

with a computer in his garage, Beyonce practicing dance moves in her childhood bedroom.

0:17.5

Every big moment starts with a big dream, but what happens when that big dream turns out to be an

0:23.2

even bigger failure? Each week on The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians

0:29.6

to Chronicle, some of the biggest failures and blunders in pop culture history.

0:34.1

Each episode will have you thinking to yourself, why in the world did this get made?

0:38.0

From box office flops like Cats, The Movie, to Action Park, New Jersey's infamous theme park

0:43.3

that was the backdrop to countless injuries, mini lawsuits and rides so wild that became known as

0:48.6

Class Action Park, or Quibi, that short form video platform with an even shorter lifespan.

0:55.3

It was a recipe for disaster from the start, and its creator, Jeffrey Katzenberg,

1:00.3

even got the idea from The Da Vinci Code. It's a story of spectacular failure with lots of

1:06.4

surprises along the way. We're about to play a clip from The Big Flop. Enjoy the Big Flop on

1:11.4

The Wondry app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and add

1:16.7

free on Wondry Plus. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts today.

1:30.1

It's October 2020, an actor Thomas Lennon is sitting but naked on a bucket. He's filming a scene

1:38.0

for his new movie Reno911. It's a wonderful heist. Here's Lennon on AV Club. I had my pants

1:44.8

completely down and I was pretending to poop in a bucket. Do you remember Reno911? It was that

1:50.5

instant classic when it premiered on Comedy Central in 2003. And now, 17 years later,

1:56.4

they're shooting the revival for a brand's new streaming platform called Quibi. Quibi claims

2:02.4

it's a brand new way to watch TV and movies, Hollywood quality content in 10 minutes or less,

2:08.8

only available on your phone. The idea came from some of the biggest names in Hollywood and

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