Dan McCoy

New York

Creator, Co-Host and Producer at The Flop House

Creator @theflophousepod, a show about bad movies. Former (10+ years) writer at The Daily Show. Art on IG at danmccoydraws. Find me https://t.co/IMFq7Ja8tW

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452: Summer Camp

2 weeks ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes The Flop House is headed to Summer Camp! A few weeks of sun, swimming, hiking, crafts — we’re gonna make each other SO MANY FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS that our circulation is gonna cut off! We’re gonna have so much fu– what? It’s just a movie? But… it stars Diane Keaton, Alfre Woodard, and Kathy Bates, so with those actors it’s gotta be at least a little fun, righ– it’s not? Oh, poop.
FH Mini 128 - Listener Roulette, with Hallie Haglund

3 weeks ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes Hallie joins the Flop House gang once more, to discuss random topics selected by YOU, the listeners!Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!Go to factormeals.com/flop50off and use code flop50off to get 50% off, plus FREE shipping on your first box. In this episode...
451: Better Man, with Hallie Haglund

4 weeks ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes Robbie Williams is a chimp. That’s not an insult, just an accurate description of Better Man, from the director of past Flop House subject, The Greatest Showman. This one’s the rare FH movie that was a critical success while being a financial flop — will we agree with the critics?
FH Mini 127 - Always Room for Giallo, with Alejandro Arbona

1 month ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes We’re joined by longtime friend of the show (but first time on mic!) Alejandro Arbona, a 20-year veteran of comics editing and a comics writer himself, to discuss everyone’s favorite extravagantly-perverse Italian thriller genre — GIALLO. We discuss what defines a giallo and differentiates it from other sub-genres (and the slasher films it helped inspire), and then Alejandro runs us through a little giallo title quiz.
450: Unfrosted, with Alex Smith

1 month ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes We flashback to discuss a movie that was much-requested when it was first released, but just didn’t fit into our schedule — Jerry Seinfeld’s baffling paean to the Pop Tart, Unfrosted, a film that throws an astounding cavalcade of comedy talent at ideas that seem (apologies) a bit undercooked.
FH Mini 126 - Impressionable Peaches

1 month ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes While we were all fortunate enough to record in-person, Stuart filled Dan and Elliott with booze and forced them to do celebrity “impressions.” It’s either our most fun episode or our most embarrassing! Or both!Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!” In this episode...
449: The Electric State

1 month ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes What’s the deal with Netflix’s The Electric State? Well, for one thing we know that IT’S ELECTRIC… boogie woogie woogie. But also, it’s a movie arguing for the primacy of real-life connection that feels utterly algorithmically designed, what with its Chris Pratts and Millies Bobby Brown and cute robot pals, and it cost… $320 million?? That can’t be right. There must be a smudge on these accounting sheets.
FH Mini 125 - Cinematic Mechanics

2 months ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes Elliott puts on his greasy overalls to look under the filmic hood, as we figure out what makes a good “robot movie,” ask why Heartbeeps was a bad one, and see if we can pull out the robot defibrillator to restore its cinematic heartbeep.
448: Heartbeeps | Maximum Fun

2 months ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes We tie a bow around Max Fun Drive 2025 and our “Movies Without Spider-Man” series with (?) Paul Schrader’s (?) magnum opus, Heartbeeps. It’s the classic tale of a guy robot and a girl robot in love and also there’s a bad stand-up comic robot and a mean cop robot and a baby robot and Andy Kaufman does one of the world’s most irritating voices and what the fuck is this thing?
447: Venom: The Last Dance

2 months ago | maximumfun.org | Dan McCoy

Episode notes “Movies Without Spider-Man” Max Fun drive continues (please consider supporting our show!) with the thrilling (?) conclusion (??) of the Venom saga — Venom: The Last Dance, the touching story of a boy and the black sentient goo he wears on his body that sometimes eats people’s heads.