Tripp and Andrew Laino have been watching movies together since 1992, and making fun of them together since 1999, when a rainy afternoon of babysitting turned into 8 hours of cheesy science fiction and jokes. Raised on a strict diet of 80s movies, the pair have an undying love for the decade and all of the weird, wonderful cinema therein, despite barely being there for it. Every other week (since 2014) they dissect a movie and the bizarre cinema quirks of 30-odd years ago.
Episodes
Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025
4 min
It's a movie that scarred Tripp for life: Roald Dahl's The Witches!
How amazing is Anjelica Huston!? How great are these Henson effects?! Why did Roald Dahl want a bleak-ass ending?!
All this and more!
We’re going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed.
Want to hear the rest of this episode? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!
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Keywords: The Witches, Anjelica Huston, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast
Sep 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025
1hr 35 min
AoooooOOOOOooooOOOO!
Sorta-kinda starting the spooktacular early with Michael J. Fox carrying a limp movie to success: Teen Wolf! What's with the desire to do hand stuff with a wolf man? Why is this so prevalent in films? Did Gaston's death tank the economy of a poor provincial town?
All this and more!
Thank you for your support and bearing with our offseason. As we said on this episode, we’re going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month here on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed.
Want to hear the other episode this month? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!
“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Keywords: Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast
Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025
2 min
Coming in a couple of days late, it's a new-to-both-of-us pick from Patreon supporter Michele: The In-Laws!
Why on earth were there not half a dozen movies with Adam Arkin and Peter Falk, and a couple of sequels to this movie?! Truly off the charts chemistry between these two.
Thank you for your support and bearing with our offseason. As we said on this episode, we’re going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month here on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed.
Want to hear the rest of this episode? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!
“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Keywords: The In-Laws, Peter Falk, Adam Arkin, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025
1hr 51 min
Mama mia, 300 episodes! Insane to have been doing this for 11 years and 300+ episodes. Thank you all for listening!
We had to do a BIG one for this, and what better re-visit than John Hughes' coming-of-age classic? This is a movie with some *electric* performances, but oof-a-doof some rough moments.
Thank you for your support and bearing with our offseason. As we said on this episode, we’re going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th hereon the main feed.
Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!
“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Keywords: The Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald, Brat Pack, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
6 min
We're back!
Celebrating the release of the Legacyquel/Remake The Naked Gun, we're diving in with Frank Drebin's debut film.
A truly hilarious movie that is just absolutely packed to the gills with jokes! Why don't they make more comedies filled wall-to-wall and edge-to-edge with jokes?
All this and more!
Thank you for your support and bearing with our offseason. As we said on this episode, we're going to a new schedule: the 1st of the month here on Patreon for $5 and up members, and the 15th on the main feed.
Want to hear the rest of this episode? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!
“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: The Naked Gun, Frank Drebin, Leslie Nielsen, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast
Jul 21, 2025
Jul 21, 2025
1hr 13 min
We're still on our extended hiatus, but here's another great vault episode for you!
We're aiming to return in August, stay tuned!
Rounding out the 2016 Spooktacular is Chopping Mall! Why aren’t these killbots equipped with cleaning equipment? Who wants to have a sex party in a furniture store? Why are the characters SO stupid? Out-of-context quote of the episode: “Stop, drop … Continue reading →
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025
57 min
We're still on our extended hiatus, but here's another great vault episode for you!
We're aiming to return in August, stay tuned!
This week, Tripp and Andrew get back to torturing themselves with barely watchable dreck: Adam Sandler’s Going Overboard! Not to borrow from Buzzfeed, but this actually is the movie Adam Sandler doesn’t want you to see! Forget Pixels, this is … Continue reading →
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 23, 2025
1hr 2 min
Sorry folks, Hiatus is continuing for another month! Having a baby is hard, and both of us have real job issues making things more complicated. We're hoping to be back in July!
For now, another archive episode: Friday the 13th Part 4!
Out-of-context quote from this episode: “TED WHERE’S THE CORKSCREW?” FOURBRUARY 2017 continues with Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter. In this episode: Stranger Things creeps in, Crispin Glover is “dreamy”, Tripp casts Jason as Lenny in “Of Machetes … Continue reading →
Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025
1hr 18 min
Sorry folks, Hiatus is continuing for another month! Having a baby is hard, and both of us have real job issues making things more complicated. We're hoping to be back in July!
For now, another archive episode: Child's Play!
Note: Tripp is an idiot and picked the wrong microphone, so the first half of this sounds a mess! He’s super sorry – it’s fixed in the second half. We’re having another trip to “child” horror territory with Child’s Play … Continue reading →
Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025
2 min
We're on hiatus here on the main feed, but we're still keeping to our Patreon schedule for April and June!
Our next flick is Cameron Crowe's coming-of-age classic: Say Anything...
Hear us get into a legitimate fight about this movie being #problematic! (It is not. I write the copy, so I determine this - Tripp).
“NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Keywords: Hocus Pocus, Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast