Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast
Join Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant as they talk about cinema's greatest achievement: Disney Channel Original Movies. From X-TREME rollerblading, to Mermen, to homicidal smart homes, there's something for everyone in these brilliant, baffling films. Also, usually the mom character in the film is unable to cook, and this is considered richly comic. Hence the name.
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The Scream Team
04/29/2024
The Scream Team
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 Claire, two kids whose grandfather passes away, but unfortunately gets his soul crushed in the fist of an evil dead inventor called Zachariah Kull. And also about an insulting Halloween festival that Zachariah Kull is annoyed about? But also mostly about natural gas! And the Soul Patrol are there, occasionally! Good times. Can't wait two weeks for another episode of Mom Can't Cook? You don't have to! Get weekly bonus episodes of the show, by signing up for our Patreon at . If you've watched The Scream Team and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by NordVPN! Visit and use code MOMCANTCOOK to protect your internet connection and privacy online. This episode is also sponsored by Insert Coin Clothing! Visit and use code ATIMETOKULL for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2024. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Miracle in Lane 2
04/15/2024
Miracle in Lane 2
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 life that inexplicably features loads of scenes of his parents going to town on each other. Frankie Muniz plays Justin, a plucky kid searching for a sport in which he can compete at the same level as his athletic brother Seth (So Weird's Patrick Levis). When he discovers soap box derby racing, it seems like Justin has found his calling, but will the set in their ways derby association allow him to compete with his modified car? Will crusty local misanthrope Old Man Vic share his wealth of soapbox knowledge with this wannabe racer? Is the driver essentially ballast? Listen and find out! if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Miracle in Lane 2 and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by We Fix Space Junk, the award winning comedy fiction podcast about debt, space repairs and friendship. You can anywhere you get your podcasts! This episode is also sponsored by NordVPN. Visit and use code MOMCANTCOOK to protect your internet connection and privacy online. This episode is additionally supported by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE, then find a top rated doctor today. This episode is also brought to you by Factor, whose delicious, ready-to-eat meals make eating better every day easy. If you're in the US, go to and use code momcantcook50 to get 50% off. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board
04/01/2024
Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board
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 island paradise under the cruel yoke of a gang of mountainboarding teens! Can Johnny save his increasingly large family from the poisonous influence of these bad dudes and their strikingly terrible extreme sport? Why won't his tiny uncle stop slipping through the fabric of reality? And is Johnny Tsunami a business genius, or is he just really high? As with all DCOMs, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board poses more questions than it offers answers. if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. Visit and use code MOMCANTCOOK to protect your internet connection and privacy online. This episode is also sponsored by Insert Coin Clothing! Visit and use code TEENAGEDIRTBOARD for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2024. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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The Jennie Project
03/18/2024
The Jennie Project
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. Unfortunately the ape in this movie, Jennie, isn't really interested in learning sign language, and is more interested in ape carnage and killing the mailman. Will Jennie be able to adjust to living with a human family? How quickly is she going to destroy all of their relationships? And can an ape go to prison? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched The Jennie Project and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Factor, whose delicious, ready-to-eat meals make eating better every day easy. If you're in the US, go to and use code momcantcook50 to get 50% off. This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE, then find a top rated doctor today. This episode is also sponsored by Solver, the notepad calculator app for Mac & iPad that gives instant answers to calculations in your text. Go to and use code mccpodcast for 20% off when you go to buy the software so they know you came from us! This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Going to the Mat
03/04/2024
Going to the Mat
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 life with his friends. But when his family uproots and moves Jace to Utah, he finds himself struggling with his new surroundings. The school won't get a beeping backboard to allow him to play basketball, his music teacher hates him, and his classmates don't seem to appreciate him walking around loudly talking about how great New York is, and how everyone in Utah is a toothless hillbilly who wouldn't know culture if it spit in their egg cream. Can joining the wrestling team give Jace a new sense of purpose and belonging? Why is this movie about wrestling and not jazz music? What the hell is an egg cream? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Going to the Mat and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Insert Coin Clothing! Visit and use code BRUNKBACKBRINK for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2024. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Can of Worms
02/19/2024
Can of Worms
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 answered by a talking dog with a necklace made of lips. Not so Mike Pillsbury, an awkward computer genius who decides to depart planet Earth when some bullies set fire to his skeleton roundabout (it's a long story). Mike soon gets more than he bargained for however, when the worst scum of the universe make a beeline for his front door, looking to exploit the hitherto undiscovered human race. Will Mike make good on his promise to leave Earth? And why do all these aliens all have human teeth? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Can of Worms and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. Visit and use code MOMCANTCOOK to protect your internet connection and privacy online. This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off
02/05/2024
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off
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 about Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off, a movie in which baseball-loving teen Eddie Ogden discovers a passion for the culinary arts that is as charming as it is devastating to his personal and academic life. Will Eddie be able to overcome the violent ridicule of his peers to pursue his love of cooking? How will he balance his love of baseball and baking, two apparently mutually exclusive things? Does he have what it takes to impress Iron Chef Bobby Flay who is here for some reason at the grand Million Dollar Cook-Off of the title? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Factor, whose delicious, ready-to-eat meals make eating better every day easy. If you're in the US, go to and use code momcantcook50 to get 50% off. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
01/22/2024
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
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 the pressures affecting first and second generation immigrants. Does it succeed? Kind of! DCOM royalty Brenda Song plays Wendy Wu, a feisty teen whose only goal in life is to be crowned homecoming queen at the prom, a plan that is thrown into jeopardy when a Shaolin monk turns up to inform her that she is the reincarnation of a legendary warrior who must defeat an ancient evil named Yan Lo. Will Wendy embrace her culture and history to defeat Yan Lo? Can she balance her homecoming campaign with her kung fu training? And why are everyone's clothes so dusty? Listen to find out, and if you want bonus episodes of the show, remember to check out our Patreon at . If you've watched Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Many thanks to this week's other sponsor, HelloFresh. Visit and use code momcantcookfree for FREE breakfast for life! One breakfast item per box while subscription is active. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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A Very Nutty Christmas
12/25/2023
A Very Nutty Christmas
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 reason. But when she receives a magic nutcracker that turns into a man for some reason, it rekindles her love for Christmas for some reason. Enjoy, and we'll see you again on January the 22nd, or earlier if you head to our Patreon at . If you've watched A Very Nutty Christmas and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Many thanks to this week's other sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code CLARISSASUSTAINSUSALL for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of June 2024. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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The Ultimate Christmas Present
12/11/2023
The Ultimate Christmas Present
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 machine, which you'll notice, isn't a thing Santa is known for having. If he were known for having a weather machine, said machine probably wouldn't have an earthquake button either, but while we're here imagining things, we may as imagine a better movie. If you've watched The Ultimate Christmas Present and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by CreArt by Ravensburger, the ultimate painting-by-number experience. Easily explore Ravensburger’s wide selection of enchanting designs on Amazon, ranging from majestic landscapes to adorable animals and everything in between. Let your imagination run wild and embrace the joy of painting with CreArt by Ravensburger. Shop CreArt on Amazon today! This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Right on Track
11/27/2023
Right on Track
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 Erica Enders and her sister Courtney, junior dragster prodigies who struggle to be taken seriously because of a) the sexist attitudes of those in charge of this male dominated sport, and b) the fact that the sport itself is driving really fast in a straight line for eight seconds. Will they be able to overcome these obstacles and win the big race? Listen and find out! If you've watched Right on Track and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles! Regardless of your preferences or skill level, you'll find a jigsaw puzzle that suits you perfectly, thanks to the wide range of imagery, themes, and piece counts available. Start small and work your way up to over 40,000 pieces. Are you up for the challenge? Shop Ravensburger on Amazon today! This episode is also sponsored by Insert Coin Clothing! Visit and use code DEBRIEONTHETRACK for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Tower of Terror
11/13/2023
Tower of Terror
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 Tower of Terror movie starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst, the movie we're talking about today. Guttenberg plays the improbably named Buzzy Crocker, a fraudulent journalist who is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: head to the derelict Hollywood Tower Hotel to solve the mysterious disappearance of five people from the elevator on Halloween night, 1939. Will Buzzy be able to get to the bottom of what happened? Is the hotel haunted? And will his sister finally relent and let him take photos of his niece in an abandoned building? Listen and find out! This episode was recorded live at the Prince Charles Cinema, London on October 29th, 2023. If you've watched Tower of Terror and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by CreArt by Ravensburger, the ultimate painting-by-number experience. Easily explore Ravensburger’s wide selection of enchanting designs on Amazon, ranging from majestic landscapes to adorable animals and everything in between. Let your imagination run wild and embrace the joy of painting with CreArt by Ravensburger. Shop CreArt on Amazon today! This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Don't Look Under the Bed
10/30/2023
Don't Look Under the Bed
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 terrifying and you've doubtless seen it every time you close your eyes for the last 24 years. The film tells the story of Frances Bacon McCausland, a gifted teen who starts to be blamed for mysterious, mischievous happenings all over town. At first she suspects the improbably named Larry Houdini, a strange boy that only she can see, but it soon becomes clear that darker, more Boogeyman-related forces are at work, and Frances must team up with Larry to save her brother, and the town itself. Also, did I mention it's terrifying? Because it is. If you've watched Don't Look Under the Bed and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles! Regardless of your preferences or skill level, you'll find a jigsaw puzzle that suits you perfectly, thanks to the wide range of imagery, themes, and piece counts available. Start small and work your way up to over 40,000 pieces. Are you up for the challenge? Shop Ravensburger on Amazon today! Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
10/16/2023
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
Ah, October. Jack-o'-lanterns on every stoop, crisp leaves upon the ground, and a new Halloweentown movie to stare at in baffled wonder as Marnie condescends to every single person she meets and then goes time travelling. Yes friends, it's time for Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001), a sequel which picks up where the first movie left off, but introduces a new threat to peace in both the creature and the human realms: some guy in a turtleneck. Will Marnie and her grandmother be able to stop this interloper's insidious plot? Why won't they let Marnie's sister Sophie do anything despite her immense magical power? What's so scary about jugglers anyway? The answers to your questions lie within! If you've watched Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Phantom of the Megaplex
10/02/2023
Phantom of the Megaplex
17 year old Pete Riley thinks he has it pretty tough. He's the assistant manager of a huge cinema, there's a big Hollywood premiere happening tonight, and he's friends with like, 37 named characters that this film expects us to keep track of. An impossible task for a movie audience, let alone one stressed boy. But buckle up folks, because Pete's evening is about to get a whole lot weirder as a mysterious phantom starts stalking his megaplex, messing with the screenings, terrorising the customers and threatening to ruin the premiere. Will Pete be able to unmask the phantom and save the show? How is the phantom doing any of this? Why is Mickey Rooney in this film? The answers to these questions and more, await! If you've watched Phantom of the Megaplex and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles! Regardless of your preferences or skill level, you'll find a jigsaw puzzle that suits you perfectly, thanks to the wide range of imagery, themes, and piece counts available. Start small and work your way up to over 40,000 pieces. Are you up for the challenge? Shop Ravensburger on Amazon today! This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Many thanks to this week's other sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code STRIFEOFRILEY for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Ready to Run
09/18/2023
Ready to Run
<p>Do you ever wish horses could speak to you? Perhaps in the voice of outrageous funnyman Sinbad? Then what you need, friend, is la confianza de caballos, otherwise known as the confidence of horses.</p> <p>When 14 year old wannabe jockey Corrie gains this incredible gift, as well as her own racehorse, the self-doubting stallion Thunderjam, her whole world is turned upside down. But will Corrie and Thunderjam be able to weather the storms of a disapproving mother, an evil rival horse owner, and a literal clown to win the big race? Yes, obviously, this is a Disney movie.</p> <p>If you've watched Ready to Run and have your own thoughts, email them to us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> for a chance to have them read out on the show.</p> <p>With thanks to this week's other sponsor, Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles! Regardless of your preferences or skill level, you'll find a jigsaw puzzle that suits you perfectly, thanks to the wide range of imagery, themes, and piece counts available. Start small and work your way up to over 40,000 pieces. Are you up for the challenge? Shop Ravensburger on Amazon today!</p> <p>This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to <a href="https://zocdoc.com/mcc">Zocdoc.com/mcc</a> and download the Zocdoc app for FREE.</p> <p>Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: <a href="http://multitude.productions/ads">multitude.productions/ads</a></p> <p>Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: <a href="https://momcantcookstore.com">momcantcookstore.com</a> and check out <a href="https://patreon.com/extrahelpings">Mom Can't Cook! Extra Helpings</a> for bonus episodes!</p>
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Get a Clue
09/04/2023
Get a Clue
This week on Mom Can't Cook, Luke and Andy delve into a most perplexing mystery: just what the hell is going on in the 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie Get a Clue. The film stars Lindsay Lohan as Lexy Gold, an aspiring journalist whose scoop on a secret relationship between her teachers kicks off a twisty, intriguing mystery that lasts a good 45 minutes before it completely falls apart into Scooby Doo-style farce. Which honestly, is pretty good going! You'll get it next time, Disney Channel. If you've watched Get a Clue and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. Great news, spooky season fans, we're doing a Halloween live show at the Prince Charles Cinema in London on the 29th of October, where we'll be recapping 1997's Tower of Terror movie, starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst! Visit for tickets! This episode is sponsored by CreArt by Ravensburger, the ultimate painting-by-number experience. Easily explore Ravensburger’s wide selection of enchanting designs on Amazon, ranging from majestic landscapes to adorable animals and everything in between. Let your imagination run wild and embrace the joy of painting with CreArt by Ravensburger. Shop CreArt on Amazon today! With thanks to this week's other sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code YOUDONTMESSWITHTHELOHAN for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Zenon: The Zequel
08/21/2023
Zenon: The Zequel
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 back for Zenon: The Zequel (2001), and facing a new threat to her home, as well as the possibility of alien life who are really into rockstar Proto Zoa. Will Zenon save her home, again? What do the aliens want with the lead singer of Microbe? And why do they keep saying "blow an O-ring", even though we all know what it means now? Join Andy and Luke to find out! If you've watched Zenon: The Zequel and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. With thanks to this week's other sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code ZAVEWITHDIZCOUNT for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Cadet Kelly
08/07/2023
Cadet Kelly
Ten hut, maggots, this week Mom Can't Cook! is off to military academy, with all the discipline, uniformity and wild, flamboyant gun twirling that that entails. That's because we're talking about Cadet Kelly (2002), a film in which feisty, artistic teen Kelly Collins (Hillary Duff) is forced to attend military school after her new stepdad is made Commandant. Along the way she'll face tough commanding officers, struggle to maintain her individuality, and for some reason, become extremely good at gun dancing, which is apparently a highly prized skill in the US military. Who knew? If you've watched Cadet Kelly and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Ravensburger’s premium quality jigsaw puzzles. Share the joy of puzzling with family and friends, knowing that your cherished puzzles will stand the test of time. Shop Ravensburger on Amazon today! This episode is also sponsored by Birddogs! Go to to check out their fabulous and improbably named shorts, and get a free Yeti style tumbler with your order. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Alley Cats Strike
07/24/2023
Alley Cats Strike
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-loving outcasts who are suddenly thrust into the limelight when they find themselves as the town's last hope to win a prestigious, apple-themed sporting tournament. Can they act non 1950s long enough to carry the town to glory? Will a normal person be able to join their ranks and not lose his temper and punch all of them? How many failed apple harvests will it take for this town to go full Wicker Man? The answers to these questions and more, await! If you've watched Alley Cats Strike and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code TALKTURKEY for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. This episode is also sponsored by Birddogs! Go to to check out their fabulous and improbably named shorts, and get a free Yeti style tumbler with your order. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Stuck in the Suburbs
07/10/2023
Stuck in the Suburbs
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 out or how many low speed bicycle chases are involved. The phone in question belongs to pop sensation Jordan Cahill, and ends up in the possession of Brittany Aarons, a Jordan superfan and aspiring musician who is thrilled to have a connection to her favourite singer. But after her and her friend Natasha invade his privacy, blackmail him, and extort him in a legally actionable way, they start to realise that Jordan may have a deeper side that his record company is keeping under wraps. If you've watched Stuck in the Suburbs and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Birddogs. Visit to check out their cool shorts and for a free Yeti style tumbler with your order! This episode is also sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Jumping Ship
06/26/2023
Jumping Ship
Buckle up, DCOM fans, because this week we present a crossover event easily as momentous as Avengers Endgame: all three Lawrence brothers in a single movie! That movie is Jumping Ship, a canonical sequel to Horse Sense, which you'll remember was a story about a spoiled rich kid learning about honest down home folks who keep it real by owning horses and operating enormous ranches. What might surprise you is that this film contains almost no horses, and is instead a story about ancient temples and bloodthirsty pirates in Australia. Why? Your guess is as good as ours! If you've watched Jumping Ship and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code SHIPHAPPENS for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch: and check out for bonus episodes!
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Introducing Mom Can't Cook! Extra Helpings
06/19/2023
Introducing Mom Can't Cook! Extra Helpings
Introducing Mom Can't Cook! Extra Helpings, a fortnightly series of bonus episodes of Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast, exclusively for members. Go to Patreon.com/extrahelpings to sign up! Luke and Andy are here to tell you all about it, and play you the first 10 minutes of the debut Extra Helpings episode. When you join you'll get access to the Extra Helpings podcast feed in your app of choice, and be swept away on an audio tide of hilarity, as Andy and Luke recap episodes of 'So Weird', the X-Files-For-Kids-And-Also-Brink-Is-There Disney Channel TV show that aired for three seasons from 1999, and packs enough of that special DCOM energy to power the Eastern seaboard. Plots include emails from the future, memory-wiping aliens and a time-travelling soda machine. We can't wait for you to join us on this bizarre journey. Head to Patreon.com/extrahelpings to sign up now, get the entire first episode immediately, and vote on whether porridge is a soup, which it isn't.
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Stepsister From Planet Weird
06/12/2023
Stepsister From Planet Weird
It can be challenging when parents decide to remarry, and if your Dad is a sentient bubble of pink gas in political exile (?!) from the planet Zircalon, well it probably doesn't help matters. Welcome to Stepsister From Planet Weird (2000), in which Andy and Luke find themselves at the base of podcasting Everest -- tasked with recapping what is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most bizarre DCOM they've faced to date. Expect unhinged aliens, extreme sports and a narrative structure that would make Kurosawa's head spin. If you've watched Stepsister From Planet Weird and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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First Kid
05/28/2023
First Kid
Guarding the life of the US President's son might not sound like a premise rife with comic potential, but the makers of First Kid (1996) didn't let that hold them back. In this Walt Disney Pictures movie that is DCOM-adjacent, Agent Sam Simms (played by comedian Sinbad) is tasked with protecting rebellious teen and heir to the Presidential throne Luke Davenport (Brock Pierce). If Simms can keep him off the Snake Internet, that is. Listen now for Andy and Luke's recap of First Kid, plus 90s VR, clip art and much more. If you've watched First Kid and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Volante Design! Head to volantedesign.us and use code 'momcantcook' for 10% off your entire order. This episode is also sponsored by Shaker & Spoon. Get $20 off your first box at shakerandspoon.com/momcantcook Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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Cow Belles
05/15/2023
Cow Belles
Did you ever watch the Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie reality show The Simple Life? The makers of this week's DCOM Cow Belles certainly did! The movie tells the story of Taylor and Courtney Callum, two spoiled, rich sisters whose thoughtless attitudes and profligate spending earn them a punishment shift working in their father's inexplicably lucrative dairy. But when embezzlement leaves the business in dire financial straits, and with their father in Ecuador for some reason, can the Callum girls step up, take responsibility and get the audience to care about the financial aspects of yoghurt production? If you've watched Cow Belles and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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Hounded
05/01/2023
Hounded
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, a bright student who is trying to win a scholarship to a prestigious school. However, through a series of wacky mishaps, Jay accidentally ends up kidnapping his principal's tiny, violent, bloodthirsty dog instead, and now you can forget about all that prestigious school plot because the rest of the film is just him being repeatedly owned by this horrible hound in a series of scenes that are as inventive in their action cinematography as they are genuinely harrowing to watch. If you've watched Hounded and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code POMIN60SECONDS for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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You Wish!
04/17/2023
You Wish!
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) in this episode's DCOM, You Wish! (2003) But don't worry, his wish doesn't erase kid brother Stevie (Spencer Breslin) entirely, it just turns Stevie into a TV megastar, for some reason. Listen to Luke and Andy try and grapple with this most bizarre of DCOMs, that also features an establishment called Larry's Rockin' Coin World, a huge amount of downtown Auckland and a surprising amount of Vanessa Carlton. If you've watched You Wish! and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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A Ring of Endless Light
04/03/2023
A Ring of Endless Light
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 enjoy the film we're talking about this week, A Ring of Endless Light. The movie tells the story of Vicky Austin, an aspiring poet who spends the summer on Seven Bay Island, an island on the Atlantic coast of the US that is just lousy with dolphins, evil fishermen, and hot boys to become entangled in love triangles with. Will Vicky be able to choose between earnest but kind dolphin researcher Adam Eddington and torrid bad boy Zachary Gray? Can she truly communicate with dolphins telepathically? And just why did dolphins make the conscious decision to give up their hands? The answers to some of these questions await! If you've watched A Ring of Endless Light and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. With thanks to this week's sponsor, Insert Coin Clothing. Visit and use code CETACEANNEEDED for 10% off online orders. Codes are not applicable on charity items, bundles, gift cards, postage and some products at launch. Codes cannot be combined with other deals or promotions and are valid until the end of 2023. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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Quints
03/20/2023
Quints
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 is a DCOM, so instead we get Quints (2000), a movie that barely features the quints of the title, but instead focuses on their older sister Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown), who is neither wacky, nor a baby. How will Jamie cope with no longer being the centre of her parents' world? Is getting into George Washington Science Magnet School truly where her heart lies? Can we actually see the quints, though, please? The answers to these questions, and more, await! If you've watched Quints and have your own thoughts, email them to us at for a chance to have them read out on the show. This episode is sponsored by Zocdoc. If you're in the US, go to and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Thanks also to sponsor Volante design. Go to and use code momcantcook for 10% off your entire order. Contact Multitude for Advertising Inquiries: Check out the official Mom Can't Cook! store for sweet merch:
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