Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV

About Bad Reception: Making the Best of Bad TV

Married couple Mike & Morgan watch failed and forgotten TV shows totally cold. No research. Just wildly uneducated predictions, rambling recaps, and finding a positive spin on even the biggest small screen flops. It's a comedy podcast about making the best of bad TV.

Publisher

Mike and Morgan

Category

comedy · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

2 Mar 2018

Latest episode

8 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 90 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   NightMan Meets Manimal: The Crossover Nobody Asked For

   Hosts Mike and Morgan dissect the "NightMan/Manimal" crossover, exploring if combining two bad TV shows yields a good one.

2. 

   1 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   We're Back! (NOT A Dinosaur Story)

   Hosts Mike and Morgan return after a hiatus to discuss their favorite moments and prepare for future episodes covering the worst television.

3. 

   31 Mar 2020

   EP83 - Bob Patterson

   Get ready for some situations, and maybe even some comedy, as we drop the first episode in our "S(t)einfeld Stinkers" series! This time Jason Alexander goes from lovably enraged loser George Costanza to a third rate Tony Robbins named Bob Patterson. The ep we watched, "Naked Bob," deals with his serious confidence issues regarding his downtown region. That's right, there's lots of boner talk in this one! (more so even than usual!) With the biggest comedy hit of all time only a few years behind him, how did J-Xan's followup sitcom fold faster than Kramer in The Contest?? This old-school style ABC laugh-track comedy aired only 5 episodes before getting nixed. I mean, seriously, what is the deal? Cut the Shit: Morgan - Tiger King Mike - The Invisible Man / Resident Evil 2 If you enjoy the show please help spread the word by giving us a quick review on iTunes and sharing us with friends. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @badreceptionpod. If you have a show you’d like us to watch, you can tweet at us or send an email to pod.badreception@gmail.com. For those links and more go to BadReceptionPod.com We are proud members of the PodFix network. Visit their website to find more awesome shows like ours, and follow them @PodFix on Twitter. Special Thanks to Ben Hunter for help with social media promotion. Logo designed by Sean-Matthew Leary. #PodernFamily #UnderDogPods #LegionOfIndiePods #Podbean #mbmbambinopodcasters #WLIPodpeeps #PodFix #BadTV #Seinfeld #Curse #JasonAlexander

Inside a recent episode

NightMan Meets Manimal: The Crossover Nobody Asked For

Published 8 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And you can tie all of that into what we're about to watch because Manable and Nightman are spinoffs of Mork and Mindy. Yeah. Which itself was a spinoff of Happy Days. Are you guys following it? Which itself was kind of based on American graffiti. It goes all the way to the top. So it's kind of like Star Wars is what I'm saying. That's what I think. Anyway, there's a crossover between these two shows. And I thought, wow, that's amazing. Because one, Manimal had been off the air for 16 years and also nobody liked it. So weird that they brought him back. But it is the original actor. He has a weird name like Simon McCorkendale, something like that. […]

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