Clifford

Episode 174: Clifford (1994)

Theme: Wives Choice Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis descend into the unhinged, bug-eyed, chaos-gremlin energy of Clifford — a movie that feels like National Lampoon’s Vacation meets Jurassic Park meets Problem Child, all shoved inside the Field Museum’s Mold-A-Rama machine and squeezed into the shape of a 40-year-old Martin Short pretending to be a 10-year-old boy. It’s a cult oddity, a studio orphan, and the cinematic equivalent of giving Stefan the Brontosaurus a Red Bull.

Join your two favorite “why is his face TWISTED like that?” podcasters as they dig into:

• Martin Short’s deranged commitment to playing a child who absolutely should be studied by NASA psychologists.

• Charles Grodin melting down with such precision you’d think he rehearsed his tantrums in a sensory deprivation tank.

• Mary Steenburgen’s impossible job of choosing between two men and one demon child.

• The Larry the Scary Rex ride — equal parts theme-park magic and OSHA violation.

• The cult-film charm of a movie nobody asked for, everybody forgot, and yet somehow still lives rent-free in certain childhood brains.

From Tabasco Bloody Marys to exploding transit models to a Dino World fever dream finale, Oz and Curtis explore a film that proves some bits are too weird… and somehow still too wonderful… to die.

Final Verdict

Oz — 40 Shenanigans
Curtis — 287 Letters of Apology
Both — Still wondering if America just wasn’t ready for Clifford… or if we were all too ready.