Get ready for some situations, and maybe even some comedy, as we drop the first episode in our "S(t)einfeld Stinkers" series! This time Jason Alexander goes from lovably enraged loser George Costanza to a third rate Tony Robbins named Bob Patte

Small Reception - Streaming Recommendations

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 8m

Mike and Morgan each give you their top 5 shows to stream on Netflix and Hulu! It's a scary time for us all, let's try to make the best of it by staying inside and watching some good TV shows! We'll be back to bad tv next time, but some positiv

EP82 - NightMan

Mar 3rd, 2020 1h 40m

Good golly, it's our two year podiversary!! We celebrate by finally having our hilarious and talented friend, comedian/actor/podcaster Nick Aragon (F*ck This Place podcast, @instaragon) on the show!! And what a treat of a show we had for him! (

EP81 - Highlander: The Raven

Feb 25th, 2020 1h 1m

There can only be one... spinoff of a TV show... spun off from a movie... But that means there's definitely at least three... Right?? Truthfully we don't know anything about the Highlander series, and watching this brief side quest didn't help

EP80 - Good Reception: House, M.D.

Feb 4th, 2020 1h 10m

Paging Dr. Reception! It’s the return of Good Reception! We take a look at the massive hit medical drama/mystery/comedy House (or House, M.D., it was unclear what the official title was). Will this House our new home, or will we be “bringing do

EP79 - She-Wolf of London: Love and Curses

Jan 14th, 2020 1h 17m

Things get hairy this week as we take a silver-handled stab at the mid-season transformation of 1990's She-Wolf of London, Love and Curses! That's right, after 14 episodes, this lady-werewolf show was moved to Los Angeles, retooled and even giv

EP78 - Stargate: Infinity

Dec 31st, 2019 1h

If there's one thing that kids love, it's serious, high-concept science fiction, right?! Well somebody must have thought so, because the 1994 semi-hit film, turned beloved series, Stargate, got the animated treatment in 2002! But make sure your

EP77 - Knight Rider "Silent Knight"

Dec 17th, 2019 57m 50s

Merry KITTsmas everyone!! This holiday season we watched the somewhat Christmas-y episode "Silent Knght" of the 1982 classic Knight Rider! Everyone is here: Raw Hoff, Mr. Feeny, problematic terminology, Santa with a machine gun, bank robbing cl

EP76 - Pandora

Nov 28th, 2019 1h 2m

Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry we’re late! Josh makes his return to the podcast to watch another one of the Worst Shows of 2019!! This time it’s the unhelpfully titled CW series, Pandora! Critics and audiences have made their opinions known, Pandora

EP75 - The I-Land

Nov 13th, 2019 57m 17s

You're stranded on a desert island and all you can bring is this Netflix original series... I bet you still couldn't finish all seven episodes! We watched the critical bashing post The I-Land beginning our coverage of the worst TV of 2019! Seri

EP74 - Magnum P.I. "The Woman on the Beach"

Oct 30th, 2019 1h

Did you know that “P.I.” stands for Paranormal Investigator? Well, that’s because it doesn’t, but ghosts are abound (or are they??) in this episode of the seminal 80s classic, Magnum P.I.!! We were both shamefully unfamiliar with the mega-hit s

EP73 - Top 10 Treehouse of Horror Segments #AllTheHorror

Oct 15th, 2019 1h 14m

It's that time of year again! We're back with a new episode for the purveyors of the best Halloween Horror content on the internet, #AllTheHorror!! This year we're counting down our top ten segments from The Simpson's yearly horror anthology ep

EP72 - Walker, Texas Ranger "The Children of Halloween"

Oct 2nd, 2019 1h 5m

Kick or Treat, baddies!! The Halloween season is upon us again, and you know what that means! A whole month of Horror shows and Halloween specials! We start with a very spooky episode of Walker, Texas Ranger called "The Children of Halloween!"

EP71 - 1600 Penn

Sep 17th, 2019 50m 33s

We're back!! And so is Jenna Elfman! That's right, it's an all new Elfman on the Shelf! This time she's taking her lovable quirks all the way to White House in the politically inept 2012 NBC comedy, 1600 Penn! Now the Elfster is playing second

Back Reception: EP7 - Baywatch Nights

Sep 3rd, 2019 1h 25m

Don't call it a rerun! We celebrate 10,000 downloads with a special edition re-release of one of our favorite early episodes! Already heard it? Well, there's some all new content bookending it! We'll be back next week with a new episode but hop

EP70 - The New Adventures of He-Man

Aug 27th, 2019 53m 33s

We Have The Power!!! The power to watch really bad 90s cartoon reboots that is! It's everyone's favorite muscle bound sword-swinger, He-Man! But not quite like you remember him. That's right, just a few years after Masters of the Universe, i

Small Reception - "If an Urkel Falls in the Woods"

Aug 14th, 2019 29m 11s

The world has been clamoring for another Small Reception, and you know that we never disappoint! ...Okay, so nobody actually asked for it, but we didn't have time to do full episode this week, and it's better than nothing right?? We talk about

EP69 - Melrose Place (2009)

Aug 7th, 2019 1h 7m

We dish out the hot goss on the sexiest episode of Bad Reception yet! That's right it's episode 69 and you know what that means: obligatory innuendos and plenty of us saying, "nice." Get ready for a buttload of gasps, slaps, and stabs in the ba

EP68 - Poochinski

Jul 30th, 2019 1h 9m

We're getting too old for this dogsh*t! This week we're joined by our pal Ben Hunter to watch one of the most notoriously bad TV shows of all time, the gritty crime drama turned goofy fantasy sitcom, Poochinski! Nothing can prepare you for this

Small Reception - "At the Mercy of the TV Gods"

Jul 26th, 2019 49m 49s

In a change of pace, this week we took listener questions from Twitter and answered them live on the air! Why? Because we were three days late and didn't have enough time to do a real episode?? NO! And frankly that kind of attitude is not welco

EP67 - Misfits of Science

Jul 16th, 2019 57m 1s

It's the return of The Cox! We're back with another installment of "Friends Before Friends" and it turns out that way before she was Monica Gellar, Courtney Cox was getting her telekinesis on in the super 80s (and surprisingly meta) action come

EP66 - State of Affairs

Jul 9th, 2019 55m 9s

Do you love political minutia and hate entertainment? Do you like Veep but wish it was devoid of humor? Have you always thought 24 should "just drop the whole action thing already!?" Oh boy, do we have a show for you! In a desperate attempt to

EP65 - Red Dwarf USA

Jul 2nd, 2019 48m 47s

Happy Independence... Week!? We celebrate America by taking a look at what it does best: taking something from dumb old England and making it way better!! ::guitar solo:: In 1992 NBC took a crack at remaking the cult BBC sci-fi comedy hit Red D

Small Reception - "Totally Not Filler"

Jun 30th, 2019 43m 11s

Hey all your Bad Reception superfans, this one's for you!! We were late this week and instead of just another boring old episode, we thought we'd give you about 40 minutes of us just bullshitting and trying to come up with random questions abou

EP64 - Aquaman

Jun 18th, 2019 1h 9m

Something’s fishy this week as we watch the 2006 pilot for what would have been The CW’s Aquaman! That’s right, everyone’s favorite superhero punchline, the whale whisperer himself, Aquaman, was star of his very own TV show… For one episode any