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The X-Files: ‘First Person Shooter’ (with guest Marcy) – Spin-Offs Classic
Incoming X-level data burst… CIA L33T gaming confirmed… the bloodlust is unquenchable. What if you could go into your computer and when you die in your computer, you die for real? What if the X-Files, at the height of their powers, did basically a beat by beat pastiche of the Matrix almost a year after the Matrix had been out?…
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Computer Chess – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off (with actor Patrick Riester)
In a world where nerds aren’t cool…where computers play chess and their technicians debug them…can this ragtag group of superstar programmers defeat the secret Russian plot to overthrow the world while simultaneously avoid triggering the AI Singularity? Can an algorithm predict which hotel room you’ll sleep in days in the future? What happens if swingers want to fuck? Will a…
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Exit 8 – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
What happens when a door knob is in the center of the door? Is it more appropriate to abandon a baby at a fire station or in a subway locker? Can a man sometimes be large? These important questions will be answered as the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off podcast gets lost in the endlessly puzzling corridors of Exit 8, the 2025…
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Return to Silent Hill – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
Light up a blunt and spinout your Mustang because we’re going back to Silent Hill, baby. The Spin-Offs return to discuss the film Return to Silent Hill, a strange mishmash of Silent Hill concepts and original ideas from OG movie writer/director Christophe Gans. Euan is a fan of the game series and Daniel is a complete newcomer to the franchise,…
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Batman: Assault on Arkham (with guest Rose) – Spin-Offs Classic
Back when Warner Bros. used to make stuff, there was a push for cross-platform media to support the Big Things being made as a sort of event. It was standard practice for big companies to send video games out, not to die, but to thrive with an assault on every platform. Maybe you walk past the game aisle and see…
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Skibidi Toilet – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. In the great war between IP holders, the only people who are safe are those who achieve viral popularity and when it comes to blatantly grabbing assets and reworking them into a new artistic expression, none are greater than DafuqBoom, AKA Alexey Gerasimov, creator of the Skibidi Toilet series…
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The Simpsons – Marge Be Not Proud (with Guest Xzyliac – Spin-Offs Classic
Holiday season 1995 couldn’t have been hotter for fighting games with Mortal Kombat 3 being the highest selling home console game of the year in the United States (not to mention the achieving diamond status in the arcade according to the American Amusement Machine Association), which made the interest in the series a high enough profile target to be sent…
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The Candy Crush Game Show (with Guest Conrad Zimmerman) – Spin-Offs Classic
You blinked, you missed it. There was an ill-advised game show spin-off of the hit cell phone game Candy Crush that ran for the summer months of 2017 on CBS and it was quickly erased from existence. But you can still watch the show on YouTube. But why would you? Let us watch the bad game show for you and…
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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. Kept you waiting, huh? On this positively thicc episode of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off, we dissecting the cells of Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, Netflix’s new show that continues the harrowing adventures of Sam Fisher as he sneaks through clandestine shadowy organizations along with aid from the team back at the…
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Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (with Guest Laura Kate Dale) – Spin-Offs Classic
Did you know there was a Super Mario Bros. movie before the one everyone knows about? No, not that one! Yeah, this one, available as a dubiously legal fan dub with 4k upscaling! Nearly seven years before the infamous flop from the Max Headroom creators caused Nintendo to swear off film adaptations for 30 years, they graced Japanese audiences with…