The New Scooby Doo Movies was the place to be for 70's Hollywood stars! This week Jovial Jay and Shua celebrate this fun Scooby series and how much fun they were on Enjoy Stuff!

Hollywood guest stars galore on 1972’s The New Scooby Doo Movies! Join us as we look back on one of the most unique of the Scooby series. 

News

David Harbour will star in a movie version of the 90’s racing video game Gran Turismo

If you like Stranger Things, you can now stay in a very authentically themed room in a Graduate hotel 

Check out the new LEGO minifig-sized handheld video game from PocketStar

Why are our favorite retro cartoons responsible for the climate crisis? Listen in to find out who the morons are that are making this claim

Modern day Scooby Doo movies are coming to Netflix October 1

What we’re Enjoying

Jay lept right into the new reboot of the Quantum Leap series, with Raymond Lee as the newest leaper. The premise follows a team that has been looking for Dr. Sam Beckett somewhere in time, but for reasons we aren’t yet aware of, Lee’s character Dr. Ben Song gets trapped for the same reason as the original. There’s a lot of potential here and we can’t wait to see where it goes. Shua got a bit more medieval by jumping into Amazon Prime’s Tolkien series Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. It’s an origin story of the rings that takes place in a whole different age as the Peter Jackson movies. He is loving it! 

Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout

31 Days of Horror is coming on October 1! In the meantime, Sci-Fi Saturdays will be on a little break. But you can check out some cool new filming locations with his MCU Location Scout. There are new entries from She-Hulk and Thor: Love and Thunder.  And don’t forget his articles on MCULocationScout.com for some great, interactive maps of filming locations. 

Enjoy Cartoons!

In 1972 Hanna-Barbera debuted the second chapter of the still popular Scooby Doo series called “The New Scooby Doo Movies”. This popular series ran 24 hour-long episodes, the only Scooby Doo series to be that long. But what really made it stand out was the “real-life”-ish guest stars in each episode. These guest stars joined the Scooby gang to track down the truth of a mystery. A lot of the guests were voiced by their true life counterparts, or at least the voice actors that portrayed the animated characters on other Hanna-Barbera cartoons. 

Some of our favorite guest stars were Don Knotts, the Harlem Globetrotters, Sandy Duncan, Davy Jones, Jonathan Winters, and Batman and Robin, and Don Adams. They got the opportunity to have fun with the Scooby gang and make us wonder who was going to be on next week. 

Did you watch The New Scooby Doo Movies? Who were your favorite guests? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Enroy Ruff” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com

Sports movies help to inspire the world. But sometimes the best ones are about sports that are unconventional. This week Jovial Jay and Shua look at some of their favorite movies and how an unlikely sport inspires us to Enjoy Stuff!

Football, baseball, and basketball may be some of the most popular sports, but they certainly aren’t the only ones that we love to watch. Let’s look at some of the other sports on Enjoy Stuff! 

News

A new, super cool special edition of The Beatles Revolver will be coming in October

A new trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery trailer is released

Get ready for a new TRON video game

We cover a bunch of D23 announcements about Star Wars, Willow, Disney parks, and more!

What we’re Enjoying

Shua has been smelling things up in his house with a new candle scent. The Magic Candle Company released their latest scent called Saturday Mornings and it smells just like Fruity Pebbles with a touch of childhood. Jay has been putting most of his energy into preparing for a big move! While going through all of his great stuff, he’s also been enjoying some horror movies in preparation for… 

Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout

31 Days of Horror is coming on October 1! In the meantime, Sci-Fi Saturdays will be on a little break. But you can check out some cool new filming locations with his MCU Location Scout. There are new entries from She-Hulk and Thor: Love and Thunder.  And don’t forget his articles on MCULocationScout.com for some great, interactive maps of filming locations. 

Enjoy Movies!

Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports…Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer! Again…and again. But there are plenty of other sports to enjoy too. Each one with their own way to tell an underdog story. 

Diving, golf, bowling, skiing, dog sledding and more. This week we pull just a few movies from a nice long list of movies about unconventional sports. Listen in to see if you hear one of your favorites and let us know what we should add to the list! 

Do you get inspired by sports movies? What kind of unconventional sports do you like? First person that emails me with the subject line, “The agony of defeat” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com

Blade Runner was released 40 years ago. Over the years it has become known as an artistic, cinematic masterpiece. Join Jay and Shua as they revisit this haunting and influential film on Enjoy Stuff!

Ridley Scott’s vision for the Philip K Dick novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ was very different from the book, and Harrison Ford’s performance as Rick Deckard helped to make Blade Runner a legendary movie.  

News

Did you know there was a secret Back to the Future museum in Massachusetts?

The new Delorean Alpha 5 prototype has been revealed

Hostess has shared its upcoming fall lineup

John Williams had a surprise for an audience at a concert in the Hollywood Bowl. A new song from the new Indiana Jones movie!

What we’re Enjoying

During Better Call Saul’s final season, Jay wanted to rewatch all of Breaking Bad. It verified with him what an amazing pair of series they were. Are you a fan? Shua started a new docuseries on FX called Welcome to Wrexham. It’s about a small, failing football club in Wales that was purchased by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who want to revitalize the team and the community. A true and interesting story. 

Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout

Sci-Fi Saturdays is going on hiatus until October 1 when we’ll get our first 31 Days of Horror movie reviews. Make sure you check one out each day. Plus, you can go back and revisit some of his past Sci-Fi articles on Retrozap.com.  And don’t forget his articles on MCULocationScout.com for some great, interactive maps of filming locations. 

Enjoy Movies!

Forty years ago, Blade Runner was expected to be another breakout sci-fi movie for the super star Harrison Ford. It may not have been the immediate success they had hoped. But over time it has only grown in popularity. Ridley Scott, early in his career, adapted the novel by Philip K Dick called ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’. He changed the movie title to another title that he had purchased, called Blade Runner, which was not related in any way to the Dick story. 

The shoot was not an easy one, and sometimes tensions were high. But in the end we were given a sci-fi, noir, dystopian, cyberpunk piece of art. With themes of identity, technology, and mortality we, as an audience, are often left to interpret the stories of each of the complex characters. 

The strong use of symbolism, the unique lighting, and haunting music became a model for futuristic movies from then on. It spawned sequels and spinoffs that may or may not have captured the feel of the original. Be sure to check out Jay’s Sci-Fi Saturdays article for Blade Runner for a terrific breakdown and analysis of the whole thing. 

What do you think of Blade Runner? Would you own a replicant snake? Did you read all of these show notes? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Tears in the rain” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com

Mad Libs is a ridiculous word game that has been around for more than 60 years! By blindly picking fun, descriptive words from every part of speech, you create a story that will make you laugh out loud! Join Jovial Jay and Shua as they get goofy with words on Enjoy Stuff

Is movie hype fun? A lot of money is pumped into letting everyone know about your film. Trailers, interviews, products with movie images plastered everywhere….the machine makes sure we know about it. Is it too much or can it be an enjoyable experience?

News

The Christmas Story sequel gets a date on HBO Max

The inventor of the Trapper Keeper has died

A new Confess Fletch trailer has been released

The final Weird: The Al Yankovic Story trailer has also dropped

Are you willing to try the Oscar Mayer Cold Dog?

Kellogg’s could pay you $5,000 to have cereal for dinner

A Clue animated series is in the works!

What we’re Enjoying

Shua has been too busy to enjoy much, so he painted his classroom to enjoy that. The theme is inspired by Adventureland in the Disney Parks. What do you think? Jay watched the Jordan Peele suspense film Nope. He enjoyed it but has thoughts on where it falls on the spectrum of his other movies.  

Sci-Fi Saturdays/MCU Location Scout

Sci-Fi Saturdays is going on hiatus until October 1 when we’ll get our first 31 Days of Horror movie reviews. Make sure you check one out each day. Plus, you can go back and revisit some of his past Sci-Fi articles on Retrozap.com.  And don’t forget his articles on MCULocationScout.com for some great, interactive maps of filming locations. 

Enjoy Games!

This week we break out the classic word game Mad Libs! We set up some goofy stories by blindly preparing a variety of words from just about every part of speech. Plus, we discuss some of the history of the game, and other ways you can play. 

Do you like Mad Libs? Do you play it straight or get a little immature? Did you read all of these show notes? First person that emails me with the subject line, “I’m so adjective I verb nouns” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com