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S3E11 - A Muppet Christmas Carol

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:06:41 -0000

Have YOU ever been visited by ghosts telling you that you're going to hell and how you must change your ways? Jacqueline, Paddington, and Audrey find a merry conclusion to the year of Once Missed Wonders musicals in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), having different opinions about which ghosts are great and which are unsettling, but a strongly shared opinion about how Scrooge is Getting Worse. Also, Jacqueline has a great time grappling with the importance of names and their references and meanings!

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S3E10 - Singin' In The Rain

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:06:41 -0000

Amy, Juliet, Audrey, and Paddington stay up all night to talk about the classic Gene Kelly jukebox musical, Singin' in the Rain! Which songs were too long? Which romances were virtuosic, and which troubling without the lens of nostalgia? Did you know that this was a jukebox musical?

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IF YOU WEREN'T A SQUARE

S3E9 - Little Shop of Horrors

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:06:41 -0000

In the debut of a slightly new format for Once-Missed Wonders, Marn, Andrew, and Susan Alexandrite head to Skid Row to talk about 1986 horror-comedy musical Little Shop of Horrors!

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S3E8 - Xanadu

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Mk, Wheels and Jay get into the Xana-dos and Xana-dont's of Xanadu, a 1970s fever dream musical where love rocks, Gene Kelly beams, everyone is on roller skates, and nobody ever acknowledges it.

You'll Xana-regret that you xana-missed this on moonshotpods.com/xanadu

S3E7 - Cinderella

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:06:41 -0000

What makes Cinderella such an iconic story across thousands of years? What makes a princess from humble beginnings true? On this episode of Once Missed Wonders, we tackle Disney's animated musical Cinderella (1950) to celebrate the Moonshot Network's Princess Week!

Cinderella. Walkin down the street. Cinderella. A pod you could have meet -en last year. on the patreon, o hyes its trueeeee. moonshotpods.com/patreon

S3E6 - Spice World

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Jay, Emma, Clowne, Marn and Riley fucked off together into the woods of West Virginia to get blitzed and talk about Spice World.

Allegedly.

Can you guess which Spice is who?

This train wreck was available to patreons LAST YEAR! That could have been you at moonshotpods.com/patreon!

S3E5 - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Jacqueline and Juliet return for an unusual DUNE JUNE, talking about the Australian desert drag road comedy movie that shot Hugo Weaving into stardom. Gender and Australia both prove weird enough that it's easy to forget the appearance of an alien exactly sixty minutes into the film! We embark, as Jacqueline says, in "imagining the tuber, dug".

Wow- that podcast sure was fun huh? It came out a year ago on the Moonshot Patreon feed, and we could have been listening to it then! Wow!

S3E4 - CATS (1998)

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Are you blind when you're born? Can you see in the dark?

This is not the one were Dame Judi Dench talks her shit.

S3E3 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Marn, Susan, Juliet, and Riley watch the devilishly funny musical biopic satire, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). Record a little podcast every day til you die — it's a beautiful ride!

Did you know that you could have listened to this episode in March of 2025 if you had given to moonshotpods.com/patreon?

S3E2 - Mamma Mia!

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:06:41 -0000

Marn, Juliet, and MK frolic in the bucolic sights and sounds of 1960's coastal France, covering the frothy, fun, and French musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Murder, missed connections, beautiful choreography and even more beautiful costuming complement Gene Kelly and a stageplay-like production in this influential musical comedy film.

This episode was a patreon exclusive for the first year at moonshotpods.com/patreon

S3E1 - The Young Girls of Rochefort

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:06:41 -0000

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S2E13 - Dune: Part Two feat. Juliet and Jacqueline

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:10:33 -0000

DUNE JUNE returns to Once Missed Wonders, as Jacqueline and Juliet get "spice"-y, tackling the highs and lows of Denis Villeneuve's choices in making Dune: Part Two (2024).

S2E12 - Fateful Findings feat. PB, Roma, Jacqueline, and Victoria

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:09:49 -0000

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide.

PB, Roma, Jacqueline, and Victoria have entered the Breeniverse. Such sights they have seen, such mysteries they have faced. Can they explain anything at all about Neil Breen's Fateful Findings? No. But they are here to try.

S2E11 - Network feat. Jay, Emma, Andrew, and Jacqueline

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:09:03 -0000

Jay, Andrew, Emma and Jacqueline get reasonably upset, and lack the wherewithal to abide by it any further. The gang watches 1976's NETWORK, ponders the shifting devil mask of the media landscape, and screw around with the primal forces of nature. Faye Dunaway. Wow, women.

S2E10 - The Shape of Water

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:08:23 -0000

Wheels, Jeff, MK, Juliet, and Ryan have a great time covering The Shape of Water (2017). The gang go fish on Boardwalk Empire, secret US military labs, water damage, plagiarism scandals, fish and/or amphibian -fucking, the absence or presence of caption and translation, Michael Stuhlbarg, the physics of oxygen, Amélie, Mac Tonight, Samson and Delilah, Superman, Little Women (2019), the Big Bang Theory, Fiasco, and more!

S2E9 - Moonstruck feat. Nicole, Jay, and Riley

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:07:30 -0000

Nicole (3 Little Words, We See Saw) and Jay (Additional Postage Required, Riley Hopkins and their Amazing Friends) bring a whole new meaning to MOONSTRUCK by watching it on the moon itself! Thematically resonant chicken parm, existentialism over turning 30, and Italian stat multipliers abound. Also, Cher and Nicholas Cage are both so hot??

S2E8 - Jaws feat. PB and Susan

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:06:54 -0000

PB Ga'Hooligan and Susan Alexandrite are here to talk about Bruce (the shark from Jaws) and the movie he stars in (Jaws.) We've got an iconic soundtrack, we've got a troubled production, and most importantly we've got Guys Being Dudes on a boat!

S2E7 - Love Actually

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:05:16 -0000

Grab a warm beverage and settle down by the fire - it's time for December's Once-Missed Wonders! In a very special double-length episode, twelve Moonshot hosts get into the holiday spirit by splitting into pairs and discussing the various plotlines of Love Actually.

S2E6 - Rocky feat. Camilla, MK, and Wheels

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:04:41 -0000

Camilla, MK, and Wheels go toe to toe with the movie that launched Sylvester Stallone's career: Rocky.

S2E5 - The Ring feat. Marn, Jory, and Wheels

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:04:08 -0000

In this belated OMW Halloween special, Marn, Jory, and Wheels crawl out of an ancient CRT to bring you their thoughts on J-Horror classic The Ring (1998)!

Jory's OMW Letterboxd List: https://letterboxd.com/noimjory/list/once-missed-wonders-moonshot-podcast-network/

S2E4 - The Magnificent Seven

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:03:24 -0000

Lucky number 7 again, this time in the Wild West! Join Jay, Wheels, MK, PB, and Claudia as they discuss the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven. Is it as good as Seven Samurai? What IMDB trivia will we learn this time? Tune in to find out.

S2E3 - Seven Samurai

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:02:47 -0000

Seven of Moonshot's finest hosts set out to watch and discuss Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai...and some of them may not return from the journey.

S2E2 - Independence Day feat. Andrew and Chris

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:01:46 -0000

Chris and Andrew actually watched a movie thematically appropriate for the month? Whaaaat? Listen on to hear what they thought of 1996 classic(?) alien invasion movie Independence Day!

S2E1 - The Godfather II feat. Chris, Jay, and Wheels

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:59:39 -0000

Chris, Jay, and Wheels are on an ill-advised quest for revenge.

CW for discussions of: Domestic abuse, gun violence/murder, suicide

S1E13 - Dune (2021) feat Juliet and Jacqueline

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:06:13 -0000

Episode Notes

This month on Once-Missed Wonders, we begin DUNE JUNE! Juliet and Jacqueline have sat down to watch Dune (2021), and now have stood up and walked into the podcasting deserts to dive deep on mind-numbing mind killers, scenes that would be better if Jason Momoa was in them, and a brave little boy with a big heart named Timmy Dune.

S1E12 - The Prince of Egypt feat. Jay and Claudia

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:04:40 -0000

Episode Notes

This month on Once-Missed Wonders, Jay (Additional Postage Required) and Claudia (Three Little Words) are playing with the big boys now. The podcasters have watched THE PRINCE OF EGYPT just in time for Passover and have ever-so-much to say about how generational expectation shapes ruler figures, the mastery of a good montage, and Dreamworks' long-forgotten religious/historical fiction era.

S1E11 - Birdemic: Shock and Terror feat. Marn, Chris, and Audrey

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:02:39 -0000

Episode Notes

In the first of TWO April Once-Missed Wonders episodes, Marn, Chris, and Audrey are hangin' out with the family and having themselves a party. That's right - grab your RC cars, your clothes hangers, and your pixelated eagle gifs, we're talking about everyone's favorite(?) bird apocalypse movie.

S1E10 - An American in Paris feat. Jay, Jake, and Sasha

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:01:21 -0000

Episode Notes

Jay (Additional Postage Required), Jake (The Hyperfixation) and Sasha (Argent coming soon to a network near you) celebrate Oscars season by watching 1952 Best Picture winner AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. What does a "Dudes Rock" moment look like in the 1950s? Was casual sex invented yet? How does Gene Kelly straddle the line between utterly charming, and guy who should have a "do not serve" poster hung on the wall of every establishment he enters? Find out, in a star-studded ONCE-MISSED WONDERS!

S1E9 - But I'm A Cheerleader feat. Vida, Jane, and Emma

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:59:57 -0000

Episode Notes

Vida, Jane, and Emma are all bisexual and here at Moonshot Camp they're ready to convert you into a fan of the 1999 dark romcom But I'm a Cheerleader. These three got together for a special Valentine's Day OMW to witness how the heterosexuals are not okay, what RuPaul looks like out of drag, and how everything gets gayer on Natasha Lyonne's journey to realize she can be a lesbian AND a cheerleader.

S1E8 - Pacific Rim feat. Jay and Emma

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:58:32 -0000

Episode Notes

Jay and Emma get drift compatible in the cockpit of the Lunar Boomer (17 confirmed kaiju kills) to talk about PACIFIC RIM! How did they build those cockpits? How is Raleigh and Mako's relationship so straight, and yet so blazingly queer? Was the designer of the kaiju friends with the designer of the Cloverfield monster? We find that last one out on-air! Join us at the rift for ONCE-MISSED WONDERS.

S1E7 - Die Hard feat Vida, Susan, Rufus, and Marn

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:56:51 -0000

Episode Notes

This month, Vida, Susan, Rufus, and Marn came together to finally settle the age-old question that many have asked over the years: who is the hottest man in Die Hard? Also on the discussion table: ineffective heist plans, cops vs the FBI in film, how our impression of terrorism has changed since the 80s, and is anyone in Hans Gruber's crew actually speaking German?

S1E6 - Legally Blonde feat. Jay and Wheels

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:55:40 -0000

Episode Notes

Jay and Wheels take on LEGALLY BLONDE, the winner of Moonshot's recent listener poll round. It's got bastard boyfriends! A better era of computers! A little dog in various outfits that we frankly don't talk about enough! Not to mention, the most 2001 intro ever made in 2001.

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of an in-movie depiction of sexual harassment.

S1E5 - Saw feat. Jay and Rufus

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:53:22 -0000

Episode Notes

Who has seen Saw? At Moonshot, Jay and Rufus had not seen Saw. Now they have seen Saw. Saw they did see! Find out what they thought about the pinnacle of mid-2000s Dirt Punk Horror, the issues of financial classism in horror, and whether Susan Sontag would have Lost Her Dang Mind Over This Shit (she would!)

S1E4 - Ghost feat. Jay, Claudia, Nicole, and Emma

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:51:40 -0000

Episode Notes

In this month's steamy and spectral episode, Jay comes in fresh off a six-hour road trip to find the studio haunted by a trio of podcasters! Claudia, Nicole (3LW) and Emma (Dead Teen House Party) join to talk about Ghost (1990), a romantic thriller worth more than just its intensely suggestive pottery scene (although we do in fact start off with the intensely suggestive pottery scene).

S1E3 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind feat. Andrew, Audrey, and Jory

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:49:11 -0000

Episode Notes

Once-Missed Wonders is a monthly, Patreon exclusive show where some of your favorite Moonshot Hosts will get together and watch a Classic Film that they've somehow avoided all their lives to figure out if it stands up to the hype. This month, Andrew (ARGonauts, The Podcast Mines), Audrey (Behind the Scenes and the Noisespace Network), and Jory (Jory) get together to sculpt mountains, get sunburns, and figure out what exactly each Kind of Encounter you can have are.

S1E2 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan feat. Chris and Claudia

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:47:03 -0000

Episode Notes

Once-Missed Wonders is a monthly, Patreon exclusive show where some of your favorite Moonshot Hosts will get together and watch a Classic Film that they've somehow avoided all their lives to figure out if it stands up to the hype. This month, Chris (NERVous Wrecks, various appearances) and Claudia (Three Little Words) get together to talk about what's going on with Khan! It's the STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN episode!

S1E1 - The Godfather feat. Jay, Vida, Wheels, and Marn

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:42:39 -0000

Episode Notes

We're excited to introduce our newest Patrons-only show: Once-Missed Wonders! Every month, some of your favorite Moonshot Hosts will get together and watch a Classic Film that they've somehow avoided all their lives to figure out if it stands up to the hype! This month, Jay (Marmoset Chronicles), Vida (Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends) Wheels (Total Depravity), and Marn (ARGonauts, Dead Letter Society), sat down to a big bowl o' Spaghetti and checked out Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972)! Come listen in as we get caught up on our old-school crime classics.