B is for Bad: A B-Movie Review Podcast
Sep 10, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
This week on **B Is for Bad**, we’re tackling **Mac and Me (1988)** — the wonderfully bizarre *E.T.*-inspired adventure where a wheelchair-using kid befriends a stranded alien while Coca-Cola…
I just want to start this out by saying the beginning of this movie is fucking insane.
Yes.
Okay, so I don't know what...
I don't know.
I had to look this up because I was very interested in where this planet was located.
You're going fully into this.
Well,
because I was like, okay, well, I see a planet with rings.
Maybe they're saying it's one of Saturn's moons.
Maybe it's Titan.
You know, there's like methanol lakes or whatever on Titan or something on Titan.
I can't remember.
Fair.
But... you see that and you're like okay and then you find out no they just made up a planet but it is a moon because it's orbiting a planet so it's a moon fair and the planet god what was the name of it so it's actually funny because the name was like a riff of mcdonald's order or something oh no i was like are you fucking serious you guys were so into mcdonald's it's a ready for it
philea fishiopia
Trust me.
But in the opening of this movie, they get vacuumed into...
A
probe
satellite? But I was so confused.
Like, do they not have any bones? Are they made of rubber? Are they made of, like, silk? How the hell did they get vacuumed in there?
Well, we will see that multiple times.
Them getting vacuumed or stretched like Mr.
I just want to start this out by saying the beginning of this movie is fucking insane.
Yes.
Okay, so I don't know what...
I don't know.
I had to look this up because I was very interested in where this planet was located.
You're going fully into this.
Well,
because I was like, okay, well, I see a planet with rings.
Maybe they're saying it's one of Saturn's moons.
Maybe it's Titan.
You know, there's like methanol lakes or whatever on Titan or something on Titan.
I can't remember.
Fair.
But... you see that and you're like okay and then you find out no they just made up a planet but it is a moon because it's orbiting a planet so it's a moon fair and the planet god what was the name of it so it's actually funny because the name was like a riff of mcdonald's order or something oh no i was like are you fucking serious you guys were so into mcdonald's it's a ready for it
philea fishiopia
Trust me.
But in the opening of this movie, they get vacuumed into...
A
probe
satellite? But I was so confused.
Like, do they not have any bones? Are they made of rubber? Are they made of, like, silk? How the hell did they get vacuumed in there?
Well, we will see that multiple times.
Them getting vacuumed or stretched like Mr.
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