So I Married an Axe Murderer

Episode 226: So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

Theme: Wives Choice Month

Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis celebrate Valentine's Day by diving into Melissa L’s (Curtis's wife) pick: the 1993 Mike Myers romantic comedy So I Married an Axe Murderer. It’s a film that features beat poetry, large-headed children, a cameo-filled cast including Phil Hartman as an Alcatraz tour guide named Vicky, and a version of San Francisco where butchers can afford massive apartments. Join the hosts as they discuss unsanitary meat handling, the questionable romantic potential of a haggis order, and why you should never trust a weekly tabloid—unless you're dating someone named Mrs. X.

The hosts break down:

• Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers): A commitment-phobic beat poet who fears marriage almost as much as he fears working, and whose primary coping mechanism is reciting slam poetry about his own paranoia.

• Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis): A butcher with a suspicious past, a sister who lurks in the shadows, and a habit of muttering names of deceased husbands in her sleep.

• Stuart Mackenzie (Mike Myers): Charlie’s Scottish father who believes Colonel Sanders is part of a global conspiracy and possesses a child with a head like an orange on a toothpick.

• Tony Giardino (Anthony LaPaglia): A police officer who wants his captain to be a hard-boiled cliche but instead gets Alan Arkin offering him a hug.

• The Cameo Parade: A film so stuffed with blink-and-you-miss-it appearances (Phil Hartman, Charles Grodin, Steven Wright, Michael Richards) that it feels less like a movie and more like a 90s SNL reunion.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 8 Vickys

Curtis — 77 Brenda Frickers groping Anthony LaPaglia