This week, the randomizer chooses a the first episode of a Disney+ original documentary miniseries from last year in which Disney sent a camera crew to New York's prestigious School of American Ballet, and they just kinda pointed their cameras at stuff for a while and then edited it together until it technically counted as television. Riveting. Join Tony Goldmark, Kevin Anderson, Nicholas Bogroff Ganssle and Michael Hunter as they get on their tippy-toes and go ON POINTE, episode one, "Gettin...
2021-05-26 01:54:22 +0000 UTC
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This week the randomizer chooses a Disney Channel Original Movie from 2005, that magical year when Disney saw fit to release not one but TWO different movies about teenage figure skaters, and apparently we got the one that wasn't good enough for theaters. Join Tony Goldmark, Sydney Agnew, Madeline Maye and Chris Nebergall as they shrug and say GO FIGURE!
NOTE: As I mention at the beginning of this episode, I'm putting the show on a one-month hiatus JUST for the month of June, to give m...
2021-05-18 21:50:03 +0000 UTC
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This week, the randomizer takes us all the way back to that magical year of 1979. The 70s were wrapping up, and what did Disney have to show for their first thoroughly Waltless decade? A dwindling animation department; a lot of ground lost to Spielberg, Lucas, Henson and Donner in the "family movie" market; an executive boardroom STILL asking "What would Walt have done?"; and a WHOLE lot of very dumb slapstick comedy sequels starring Don Knotts and/or Tim Conway, or in the case of this week's...
2021-05-11 23:35:48 +0000 UTC
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This week, the randomizer picks a series of movie tie-in shorts produced in the 2010s and beyond by that once-unstoppable, still-occasionally-adequate pride of Emeryville, the bittersweet digital whimsy factory known to mere mortals as PIXAR! Join Tony Goldmark, Charlie Callahan, Haley Baker Callahan and Defunctland's Kevin Perjurer as they microwave some PIXAR POPCORN AND OTHER SHORTS!
Shorts covered in this episode:
- The Legend of Mor'du (2012)
- Party Central (2014)
- Rile...
2021-05-04 19:19:12 +0000 UTC
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This week, the randomizer picks a not-terribly-good Saturday morning cartoon from 1981 in which your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man joins forces with the Star-Spangled Man with a plan, and in a stunning oversight, not once does the latter sit on a backwards chair and lecture the former for getting detention. Join Tony Goldmark, Tim Crist, David Ganssle and Garret...
2021-04-28 06:29:21 +0000 UTC
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"Uh-oh." "Don't tell me. We're bypassing the randomizer this week so Luke Ski can do his Guest's Choice episode on a beloved Disney animation cult classic from the year 2000." "Yup." "Second-longest episode ever?" "Most likely." (Dramatic pause) "Bring it on." Join Tony Goldmark, Kyle A. Carrozza, Luke Ski and Lindsay Smith as they throw off THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE!
2021-04-18 10:39:38 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: I added a State Of The Parks segment on the details announced today of Disneyland and DCA's reopenings.
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In this extra-long bonus minisode, I present a segment cut from last week's episode in which Luke Ski, Ryan Hipp, our Surprise Special Guest and I list some of our favorite Muppet specials and series which could and should be available on Disney+, but for some reason aren't!
2021-04-06 11:34:41 +0000 UTC
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It's the fifth and final week of MUPPET MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And to wrap the month up, the randomizer chooses another episode of the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational iconic televised classic itself, complete with a very special guest indeed - the only cinematic Superman to ever play the Man of Steel in a GOOD movie! (And also still a couple bad ones.) Join Tony Goldmark, Ryan Hipp, Luke Ski and a Surprise Special Guest as they once again meet the Mup...
2021-03-30 20:44:04 +0000 UTC
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It's the fourth and penultimate week of MUPPET MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And this week, as I'm joined by the hosts of the Channel KRT podcast, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2014 to pick the second-best Muppet sequel in which the Muppets travel to Europe and end up thwarting a jewel heist. It's weird that the Muppets have two of those, isn't it. Join Tony Goldmark, Tyler Green, Randee Martin and Kit Quinn as they turn in the MUPPETS MOST WANTED!
2021-03-23 19:43:07 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: I've added a last-minute State of the Parks segment to this episode on Disneyland's announced April 30 reopening!
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It's week three of MUPPET MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And this week, the randomizer chooses an episode of the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational iconic televised classic itself, complete with a multi-talented very special guest who could dance ballet, sing Billy Joel songs, hit on a...
2021-03-16 23:16:07 +0000 UTC
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It's week two of MUPPET MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And this week, the randomizer continues to stubbornly refuse to cover an actual movie or TV show with "Muppet" in the title, instead choosing an episode of the Muppet-adjacent early-90s ABC satirical primetime sitcom from Jim Henson Productions about a prehistoric family of creepy lizard-people. Join Tony Goldmark, Emily Clark, Morgan Funder and Gerald of Stealing Focus as they dig up some DINOSAURS, season one, episode eight, "I Neve...
2021-03-09 22:36:10 +0000 UTC
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It's MUPPET MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And for our very first week of Muppet Month, the randomizer formally apologizes for making us watch a cancer movie last week by allowing us to do something we've never done before on this show - interview someone who ACTUALLY WORKED ON THE THING WE'RE COVERING! Namely, one of this show's many very talented puppeteers, Grant Baciocco! Join Tony Goldmark, Grant Baciocco, David Ganssle and Luke Ski as they send a transmission from EARTH TO NED, epis...
2021-03-02 21:53:05 +0000 UTC
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Y'know, doing this podcast can be somewhat precarious. Some weeks, we're laughing our asses off at The Cat from Outer Space or Richie Rich's Christmas Wish...and then there's weeks like this one, when the almighty randomizer sees fit to say "Hey look, a Disney+ original movie from last year about a real-life teenager who died of cancer! Make some jokes about it, pathetic humans!" And we are forced to obey. Join Tony Goldmark, Kyle A. Carrozza...
2021-02-23 21:20:27 +0000 UTC
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In this bonus minisode, I announce that MUPPET MONTH won the recent Twitter poll, and explain what does and doesn't count as "Muppet content" for the purposes of it. Plus there's an outtake from the Country Bears episode!
2021-02-17 08:40:13 +0000 UTC
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Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a nature documentary looked and felt more like SportsCenter or election night coverage? No, of course you haven't, that's a ridiculous thing to wonder. Nevertheless, this week the randomizer, in its infinite wisdom, goes all the way back to 2017 to select an experimental National Geographic special that decided to be that very abomination for reasons unknown. Join Tony Goldmark, Zach Hurst, Cassie Shima and Luke Ski as they get tickets to see ...
2021-02-14 12:53:06 +0000 UTC
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First of all, I'm very glad you all enjoyed the 10th anniversary episode. It's now available on my YouTube channel too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fz-vC3P9DY
Second, I'm sure most of you already know this from the episode or the @efvdpodcast Twitter feed, but I haven't made an official Patreon post about it - March will be a THEME MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney, and you can vote on Twitter on w...
2021-02-04 22:24:31 +0000 UTC
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Exactly ten years ago today, on February 3rd, 2011, I released the very first episode of my web series Some Jerk With A Camera, a review of the 2002 Disney classic The Country Bears filmed on location at Disneyland. And now, to celebrate a whole damn decade of me doing this dumb crap, my cohorts and I are setting the randomizer aside for this week so we can revisit and reevaluate what many have called the Citizen Kane of movies about ursine musicians. Join Tony Goldmark, Charlie Callahan, Mor...
2021-02-03 06:06:41 +0000 UTC
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As many of you know, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of my web series Some Jerk With A Camera on February 3rd, next week's episode will be a special "Some Jerk 10th Anniversary Spectacular" episode where we revisit of the topic of my first-ever Some Jerk episode, 2002's The Country Bears. The finished episode won't be ready til next week, but in the meantime please enjoy this 28-minute advance sneak preview of part of an extra-long "preconceptions" segment, in which we dive into the his...
2021-01-29 18:42:10 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE! I have added a State of the Parks segment to this episode on the new Jungle Cruise announcements.
Available TWO DAYS EARLY (one day with a State of the Parks segment) to Patreon patrons! (to make up for my "Richie Rich's Christmas Wish" episode being late - I'll eventually make up for every late episode, I promise!)
Let me ask you this: did The Godfather have a cat from outer space in it? Did Lawrence of Arabia have a cat from outer space in it? Did Citizen Kane have a c...
2021-01-25 19:54:23 +0000 UTC
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The full "Cat From Outer Space" podcast won't be released publicly until next Wednesday the 27th (hopefully a LOT earlier than that for you beloved patrons) so in the meantime I'm satiating my audience with a BONUS MINISODE, available to my beloved patrons a day and a half early, devoted entirely to an extended "State of the Parks" segment in which I cover a whole bunch of theme park news stories I missed over the past few months. Namely:
- Disneyland canceling the annual pass system
2021-01-19 04:12:33 +0000 UTC
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The full episode won't be finished until a week from today (hopefully sooner) but as a Patreon-exclusive sneak preview, please enjoy the opening "preconceptions" segment of Escape From Vault Disney's first-ever GUEST'S CHOICE episode, covering the 1978 Disney classic THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE!
2021-01-12 21:33:35 +0000 UTC
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Hey, at least it's still technically Tuesday in (checks map of time zones) Baker Island!
So the good news is, this finished episode WILL go up publicly on time, this afternoon. The bad news is, due to this episode's crushing length, compounded with my own stupid perfectionism, a few last-minute computer issues and of course the space-time continuum's continued stubborn and selfish refusal to reshape itself to suit my convenience, I can only release this one to you TWELVE hours early in...
2021-01-06 11:13:42 +0000 UTC
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Merry belated Christmas everyone! For our third and final Christmas episode of the year, the randomizer goes back to 1998 to pick a Saban-produced direct-to-video sequel that answers the supremely important question, "What would it look like if It's A Wonderful Life had a dinosaur museum heist, a grunge band dressed as a hair metal band, a flying child dictator AND a fire-breathing robot maid?" Join Tony Goldmark, David Ganssle, Randee Martin and the ever-mysterious Carl Featherbottom as they...
2020-12-23 01:13:59 +0000 UTC
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For our second Christmas episode of 2020, the randomizer picked a 1999 direct-to-video compilation animated feature in which everyone's favorite classic Disney characters starred in holiday stories about everything Christmas is all about: time loops, atheism and the horrors of late-stage capitalism! Join Tony Goldmark, Sydney Agnew and "How Did This Not Get Made" hosts Daniel Kawka and David Spencer as we watch MICKEY'S ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS!
2020-12-16 02:30:36 +0000 UTC
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Happy Holidays, everyone! This week, for this podcast's first Christmas episode of 2020, the randomizer picks a 2011 Disney Channel original movie based on a Disney Channel sitcom featuring everything Christmas is all about: hitchhiking, angry gamers, confusing business names, crappy old cars, UFO conspiracy theorists, luggage theft, kidnapping LARPers and paintball! Join Tony Goldmark, Emily Clark, Kyle Kallgren and Variety's Deputy Awards and Features Editor Jenelle Riley (!!!) as they wish...
2020-12-08 22:26:30 +0000 UTC
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This week Tony joins the hosts of this weekend's "Thanks For The Magic" charity livestream as the randomizer, in its infinite wisdom, forces them to watch a 2011 NatGeo documentary special that for some weird reason saw fit to ask the bold question, "What if the water had no water in it?" Join Tony Goldmark, Kevin Anderson, Charlie Callahan and Haley Baker Callahan as they inexplicably DRAIN THE GREAT LAKES!
2020-12-01 07:13:41 +0000 UTC
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This week the randomizer flies our magic bed all the way back to 1971, when Disney made a spiritual successor to Mary Poppins in which Jessica Fletcher and Mr. Banks encounter talking cartoon animals AND literal Nazis in the same movie, and somehow the Nazis are more polite. Join Tony Goldmark, Kyle A. Carrozza, Luke Ski and Lindsay Smith as they stock up on BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS!2020-11-24 18:05:12 +0000 UTC
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After taking a couple weeks off, Escape From Vault Disney returns to join forces with the Channel KRT podcast, and the randomizer mercifully picks one of the funniest and best movies on Disney+, the feature directorial debut of acclaimed Oscar-nominated auteur Jim Henson, the eternal classic film that gifted the cinema landscape with those immortal words to live by, "That's a frog. Bears wear hats." Join Tony Goldmark, Tyler Green, Randee Martin and Kitty Quinn as they solve THE GREAT MUPPET ...
2020-11-11 00:03:54 +0000 UTC
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Just in the nick of time for Halloween, the randomizer picks another Halloween title, this one a well-remembered Disney Channel Original Movie from 1998! You've heard of Halloween the holiday, Halloween the movie and Halloween the Horror Nights, but did you know Halloweentown can be a TOWN? And hey, Kalabar (or possibly Calabar) is actually IN this one! Neat! Join Tony Goldmark, Charlie Callahan, Haley Baker Callahan and Gaby Tyrrell as they hitchhike all the way to HALLOWEENTOWN!
2020-10-30 19:23:41 +0000 UTC
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For our first-ever seasonally-appropriate Halloween episode, the randomizer has chosen an episode of a Disney Channel sitcom about a sketch show wherein the sketch-show-within-a-sitcom rebelled and took over its host program, and gave us the once-in-a-lifetime pairing of unquestionably the two greatest musical geniuses of our time, Demi Lovato and Shaquille O'Neal. Join Tony Goldmark, Kevin Anderson, Ryan Hipp and Randee Martin as they foreca...
2020-10-27 18:16:57 +0000 UTC
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