MaximumFun, Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, Elliott Kalan
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Three Maximum Fun hosts riff unscripted on the worst movies ever made.
The Flop House is a comedy film podcast built around bad, questionable movies. Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalin bounce from plot recap to production logic to runaway bits, with Mini episodes branching into brackets, awards, stand-up movies, and mental-health-day looseness.
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The Flop House is a three-host panel show built around Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliott Kalan, who each watch an assigned bad or strange movie and reconvene to talk through it unscripted. Main episodes run roughly 80-90 minutes and center on a single film, covering plot absurdities, casting choices, and tonal missteps, as in discussions of the BDSM-resort comedy Exit to Eden, the AI-courtroom thriller Mercy, and the animated Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie. Shorter 'FH Mini' episodes, around 55-60 minutes, set aside single-film review in favor of broader comedy and film topics, such as stand-up comedians who transitioned into film acting or the conventions of Hallmark Christmas romances, and periodically bring in outside guests like comedian Matt Koff or actress/improviser Amber Nash. The hosts regularly digress from the film at hand into running bits, tangents, and callbacks. Recurring analytical framing includes distinctions like 'star acting' versus 'actor acting' and observations about recognizable actors giving committed performances in disposable studio productions. References to the show's parent network, Maximum Fun, and other network shows appear in passing. Subject matter spans decades and genres, from 1990s studio comedies to current theatrical and streaming releases, including animated children's films and holiday movies. The tone throughout is comedic and conversational rather than a traditional critical review. Listeners drawn to bad-movie commentary podcasts or the broader Maximum Fun comedy roster are the most likely audience. Episodes read as loosely structured recorded conversations that prioritize spontaneous riffing over tight scripting or editing.
Made for: Comedy podcast listeners who enjoy irreverent, tangent-filled riffing on bad movies, from campy erotic thrillers to disposable kids' films.
What sets it apart: Combines a long-running three-host unscripted movie-riffing format with a distinct 'FH Mini' strand that swaps single-film reviews for broader comedy and film topic discussions with guests.
The Flop House is a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Your hosts (Elliott Kalan, Dan McCoy, and Stuart Wellington) watch a questionable film, then engage in an unscripted discussion about the movie's shortcomings and occasional delights, while never being afraid of a pointless, silly digression or two hundred.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp observations and unruly comic chemistry turn dubious movies, performance choices, and screen-culture side roads into unusually attentive conversation.
The Flop House turns questionable movies into lively group criticism, with Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalin moving between plot, performance choices, visual details, and increasingly elaborate jokes. Their comic chemistry does not replace the film discussion.
Like movie night with three funny friends, only you can outsource watching the questionable part.
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A loose, donation-drive episode finds Exit to Eden funniest when its kink looks more like vacation chores.
The Flop House uses Exit to Eden as a soft target, with Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalin picking at the gap between the movie's supposed erotic danger and what they actually describe: a BDSM resort gentle enough to take your parents to.
A loose, funny Mercy episode where thin movie talk keeps mutating into sharper host-driven tangents.
The Flop House takes on Mercy as Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalin frame it right away as a movie with the energy of a Zoom call.
A loose fantasy-land bracket gives The Flop House room for movie-adjacent comfort, wordplay, and easy host banter.
Fantasy Land March Madness finds The Flop House Mini using bracket season as a loose excuse for movie-adjacent fantasy chatter. Elliot Kalin sets up the bit with Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington, but the draw is not tournament rigor so much as the familiar push and pull of the…
A loose, funny Gabby's Dollhouse recap built around rescue-quest oddities, cat puns, and easy host chemistry.
The Flop House takes on Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie as a rescue-quest run through bright kids-film logic and increasingly odd detours. Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalin move from Gabby and Pandy finding Mercat in an aquarium to a bubble escape, a garden landing,…
A breezy mini about why some stand-ups become movie stars, while others remain unmistakably themselves.
This Flop House mini trades the usual bad-movie autopsy for a looser riff on stand-up and the movies, with Stuart Wellington hosting Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan, and guest Matt Koff.
A funny public-domain riff that turns Betty Boop and Barbie casting talk into loose screen-culture comedy.
IP Freely 2026 finds The Flop House crew using public domain season as an excuse for a loose writers' room riff on old cultural properties and what anyone should do with them once they are up for grabs.
A loose, funny Hallmark riff session where Amber Nash helps turn Christmas movie logic into cozy seasonal nonsense.
The Flop House turns a holiday mini into a Hallmark premise game, with Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, Elliot Kalin, and guest Amber Nash tossing around Christmas movie logic until the fake plots sound just plausible enough to pass.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Peter Sagal leads NPR's live news quiz, pairing celebrity guests with listener call-in games.
The Flophouse covers Exit to Eden, the 1994 Gary Marshall film adapted from Anne Rice’s novel under the name Anne Rampling, and keeps returning to how strange it is that a BDSM resort movie also adds diamond smuggling and undercover cops.
Mercy gets treated like Zoom-call cinema.
Brackets, somehow, have brackets.
The Flop House hosts Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalan review Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, a 2025 Netflix film based on the children's animated series, in which a teenage girl named Gabby uses magic cat ears to shrink into a dollhouse filled with living cat characters.
The Flop House hosts Stuart Wellington, Dan McCoy, and Elliot Kalan are joined by stand-up comedian Matt Koff to discuss movies about stand-up comedy and stand-up comedians who have become movie stars.
The hosts of the Flophouse podcast discuss Ella McKay, promote a new comic book called Barbarian Behind Bars, and engage in humorous banter about comic shops and manga.
This Flophouse Mini episode features the hosts introducing their podcast format, discussing their alternate universe concept called Glophouse, and promoting audience support during the MaxFunDrive.
This episode is a comedic awards show celebrating the best movies according to Academy Awards voters, hosted by Elliot Kaelin with co-hosts Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and then begin a humorous discussion about the future and movies, with silly digressions.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce their discussion of the film 'In the Lost Lands' in a comedic, unscripted style.
The hosts engage in comedic banter about bad movies, with a fundraising pitch and bird-themed jokes.
The Flophouse podcast hosts discuss the movie Bride Hard, which inspired Bruce Willis' Die Hard, focusing on whether it was a critical or commercial flop.
Public domain chaos slips the leash.
The hosts of the Flophouse podcast discuss and review the movie Jurassic World: Rebirth, focusing on its flaws and comedic aspects.
The hosts of the Flophouse podcast promote the MaxFunDrive fundraiser and engage in humorous banter about their show format and personal quirks.
The hosts of the Flophouse podcast introduce their live show from Chicago, discuss canine topics, and promote audience support during the MaxFunDrive.
Flop TV gets a plug, then the room goes sideways.
The hosts discuss the bad holiday movie 'The Christmas Martian' with guest Alonso Duralde.
The hosts discuss a bad movie (The Crow) with comedic banter and a fundraising pitch for their audience-supported show.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce a Halloween-themed mini-episode with a special guest.
The hosts discuss a bad movie with comedic commentary and tangents.
A comedy podcast where hosts humorously discuss and critique a bad movie, with this episode being a mini-episode recorded during a pledge drive.
The hosts discuss a terrible movie called 'Imaginary' with comedic commentary and tangents.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce a mini-episode with guest Sean Malin, discussing his book about influential podcasts.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and then begin a humorous, digressive discussion about a movie involving an Easter bunny puppy.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce a special guest before discussing the bad movie Lumina.
The hosts discuss the movie Snow White with comedic commentary and announce a fundraising drive.
The hosts discuss the movie Red One with comedic commentary and promote the MaxFunDrive.
The hosts discuss a bad movie called Pool Man with guest Josh Gondelman, mixing jokes and digressions.
The hosts discuss Hostess fruit pie ads from 70s/80s Marvel comics as a comedic off-week episode.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce a freestyle mini-episode of their bad movie comedy podcast.
The hosts promote the MaxFunDrive and introduce a discussion of the bad movie Better Man.
In this mini episode, the hosts and a guest engage in comedic banter about bad movies and promote the MaxFunDrive.
The hosts discuss the bad movie Unfrosted while promoting their listener support drive.
The hosts humorously promote the MaxFunDrive while setting up their show's premise of discussing bad movies.