Can something bad really be good or are we just using bad to mean silly? Where does a classic like

Rocky Har a picture show fit into this scheme.

How do you know whether your appearance in a Shark NATO movie

Boats well or ill for your career?

Back in 2014, I talked with co-host Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon and our pal writer Chris

Klemic about what was then a two-part series of movies about sharks and

weather. Were we ever so young that there were only two Shark Nido movies?

We were.

And from there, we went on to talk about the idea of a thing that's so bad, it's good.

We're revisiting this discussion almost 10 years later because the question of questionable pleasures is one. visiting this

on most 10 years later because the question of questionable pleasures is one that never goes out of style.

I'm Linda Holmes and in this encore episode of NPR's pop culture happy hour from deep in the vault, We're talking about things that are so bad, they're good.

This past week brought the continuation of a major, very important cultural and artistic phenomenon,

Shark Nado.

When Stephen and I were talking about whether we were going to watch Shark Nado too. He said, I didn't see the first one.

And I said, you will probably be able to keep up with Shark Nado 2.

And she ended up being wrong. I was completely confused.

Yeah, as I said when I first reviewed the original Shark NATO, this discussion of this movie will contain

spoilers that will surprise you if you have not read the title of the movie.

So Shark Nado is about a tornado of sharks.

And Shark Nado too, because because Shark NATO 1 was so successful and successful is in

air quotes and defined largely through social media presence. Shark NATO 2 featured lots of

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