It's the holiday season folks, so this week we're cracking into a seasonal DCOM: the impossibly festive sounding The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). The movie tells the story of Allie and Sam, two teenage girls who steal Santa's weather mach

Miracle in Lane 2

Apr 15th, 2024 2h 17m

Miracle in Lane 2 tells the inspirational story of Justin Yoder, the first person with a disability to compete in the All American Soapbox Derby, and also presumably the first person to sit in a Disney screening room watching a movie about his

The Jennie Project

Mar 18th, 2024 2h 11m

Apes. What are they all about? Can we trust them? Are they going to go ballistic and destroy our houses? If only there were some way we could ask them. Well friends, there is: sign language, the communication method that can be learned by apes.

Going to the Mat

Mar 4th, 2024 2h 17m

Jace Newfield is a New Yorker through and through. He loves jazz music, playing baseball in Central Park and, of course, the great taste of an egg cream. He's also a person who is blind, although in a place like the Big Apple, he lives a normal

Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off

Feb 5th, 2024 2h 2m

Imagine, if you will, some cooking. Seems pretty normal, right? Well get this: it was done by a BOY. Sorry to shock you with such a mind shattering scenario, listeners, but you'll need to be thusly prepared for this week's episode which is abou

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior

Jan 22nd, 2024 2h 14m

Welcome back, podcast fans, to Mom Can't Cook! This week we're recapping 2006's Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, a film that attempts to be a martial arts movie, a high school drama, a wacky fish out of water comedy and a thoughtful examination of

A Very Nutty Christmas

Dec 25th, 2023 2h 33m

Happy Holidays, Mom Can't Cook listeners! We got you this episode, about a film in which Melissa Joan Hart falls in love with a sexual nutcracker. MJH plays Kate Holiday, an overworked baker who has to make 15,000 cookies for the army for some

Right on Track

1 Nov 27th, 2023 2h 6m

Continuing the grand DCOM tradition of trying to get you to care about niche sports, this week's episode is about Right on Track (2003), which takes us deep into the highly competitive world of *checks notes* junior drag racing. Here we meet Er

Don't Look Under the Bed

1 Oct 30th, 2023 1h 49m

If you didn't watch 1999's Don't Look Under the Bed when it first came out, then let us introduce you to that rarest of things: a good DCOM! If you did watch it when it first came out then you won't need reminding, as this film is absolutely te

Pixel Perfect

10 days ago 2h 26m

How many great bands have never found mainstream success because their lead singer stands there singing, instead of rolling around on the floor doing yoga and the splits and stuff? It is literally millions. That's the predicament the band The Z

The Scream Team

24 days ago 2h 9m

We're halfway to Halloween, Mom Can't Cook fans, so what better way to celebrate than with a spooky DCOM! This week it's 2002's The Scream Team, which is, confusingly, about a group of ghosts called The Soul Patrol. It's also about Ian and Clai

Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board

Apr 1st, 2024 2h 2m

The iconic good-vibes surfin', boardin' legend from Johnny Tsunami (1999) makes a glorious return to the Disney Channel in 'Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board' (2007)! Johnny returns to O‘ahu, Hawaii for his grandfather's wedding, but finds the isl

Can of Worms

Feb 19th, 2024 2h 11m

We all feel like we don't belong on this planet now and then, but very few of us choose to construct an intergalactic satellite communications dish in our backyard to beg aliens to come and pick us up, and even fewer of us have those calls answ

Tower of Terror

Nov 13th, 2023 1h 47m

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is a Disney ride in which you get in an elevator that flings you up and down for about a minute. As you can probably tell from that description, it's rich with narrative potential, which is why we have 1997's T

Zenon: The Zequel

Aug 21st, 2023 2h 16m

When we last saw Zenon Kar, star of Disney Channel Original Movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, she'd become a hero after saving her space station from a baffling plot that was something to do with insurance fraud, I think. But now Zenon is

Alley Cats Strike

Jul 24th, 2023 2h 8m

Peel your ears and get hip to this, daddy-os, Mom Can't Cook! is making the scene with a flick that is as confusingly 1950s as this sentence. That's right, it's Alley Cats Strike, a film about an unpleasant group of 1950s obsessed, bowling-lovi

Stuck in the Suburbs

Jul 10th, 2023 2h 3m

What if a huge pop star accidentally swapped phones with a teenage fan? Seems like the sort of thing his PA would fix in about 15 minutes, right? Well not in Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), because you wouldn't believe how long it takes to sort ou

Hounded

May 1st, 2023 1h 50m

What a treat we have in store this week, DCOM fans, because we're talking about Hounded, the Disney Channel Original Movie with the most violent dog attacks per minute of screen time. It's not even close. The movie tells the story of Jay Martin

You Wish!

Apr 17th, 2023 1h 43m

A magic coin that grants one wish passes into your possession. Would you wish for world peace? Life-changing wealth? How about deleting your annoying kid brother from existence? That's the questionable wish made by big bro Alex (A.J. Trauth)

A Ring of Endless Light

Apr 3rd, 2023 1h 43m

Do you like dolphins? Do you like extremely predictable romantic drama? Do you like heavy handed religious metaphors? If any of these things sound like your idea of a good time then you're either Luke Westaway, or someone else who is going to e

Quints

Mar 20th, 2023 1h 42m

Imagine being an only child when suddenly, your parents have quints, and your previously peaceful home life is shattered by five wild and wacky babies! That certainly sounds like a premise rich in comic potential, doesn't it? Well too bad, this

The Luck of the Irish

Mar 5th, 2023 1h 31m

It's not clear at which point Kyle Johnson, protagonist of The Luck of the Irish (2001), is killed and the rest of the film is just the product of his neurons firing one last time, but it must be pretty early on because this is probably the mos

Up, Up and Away

Feb 6th, 2023 1h 38m

Do you love The Incredibles and Encanto, but wish they'd been made for a budget of about $300? Weird thing to wish for, but turns out you're in luck! This week, Andy and Luke are discussing the DCOM Up, Up and Away (2000) in which young Scott M

Genius

Jan 23rd, 2023 1h 23m

Happy Monday, podcast fans! We're back and trying to answer one of the most contemplated questions of modern times: can a genius ever be cool? Charlie Boyle, the physics prodigy protagonist of 1999 DCOM Genius certainly gives it a good go, by a

Brink!

Jan 9th, 2023 1h 18m

Hey everyone, it's Brink! It's Brink week! This week we're talking about Brink! Brink is a 1998 DCOM about aggressive inline rollerblading and we love it, for more reasons than we have space to go into here, but that's what the podcast is for!