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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee
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A fictional host, for a show that never airs, playing B-movies that don't exist, on a station that's never named.

Curated by @SurlyByDefault. Also @Tikitrocious on Mastodon.Social. https://linktr.ee/christopher.fischer
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! He’s the only angry man on the jury. Why can’t the others follow the obvious case by the prosecution? Suborned bailiffs and tampered beverages might have something to do with it in 2005’s “Innocent Until Lunch.”
A room with an office conference table, reference materials, and a basic kitchenette. The title reads "Innocent Until Lunch."
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A polished, bookish lad shows up in Nebraska Charms, and the ladies go crazy for the sensitive boy. The sawmill owner has to convince his daughter that the arrival is “Not an Eligible Cowboy (1937)” (until he suddenly is).
A horse's rump in front of a train locomotive and first few cars. The title reads "Not an Eligible Cowboy."
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! When a Canadian Privy Council member is assassinated, RMCP “I” agent Neville Maine investigates a mysterious Mexican spirits mogul and his nefarious plan to invade Canada. Thrill to 1965's “the Tequila Imperative.”
Red and white image of an empty booze bottle on its size and the title "The Tequila Imperative."
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When the tequila supply is threatened by poisoning, Mexican counterintelligence sends suave agent Vincente Amador to thwart the “Multinational Organization for Overlords & Sovereign Evils.” See 1965's “Operation: M.O.O.S.E.”
Brown and white image of a moose with an eyepatch. The title reads "Operation: M.O.O.S.E."
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! 1829-1834, Charles Pawwin serves as ships doctor on a five year voyage of discovery. His observations about the family tree of life and scales of time lead him to heretical theories in Skookumtrope’s animated 1980 “HMS Beagle.”
Cartoonized image of a beagle on the deck of a wooden sailing ship on the ocean. The title reads "H.M.S. Beagle."
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Early individual recordings, radio sketches, and rare film clips from 1935-42, combined with archived and new interviews, provide a fascinating view of the comedic duo’s early careers in 1974’s “Deed & Shine: Two-Steps Forward.”
In front of a goldenrod curtain, the title "Deed & Shine: Two-Steps Forward" and a graphic of a logo of a fancy radio with D&S on it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A rupture between dimensions allows a giant phase-shifting Ibis to come through and threaten the cities of Australia. Luckily, Japan is only 6848 kilometers away. See Mizarī Studios' 2000 “Saramandāsai VS Sinewave Bin Chicken!”
Atop a rubbish tip, our favorite giant sword-tailed newt squares off against an ibis that appears to be warping reality. In the corner is the Mizari oban (crest). The text reads "Publicity photo: Saramandāsai VS Sinewave Bin Chicken! (2010) (C) 1957-2007 Mizari Studios. All Rights Reserved."
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Our time-displaced knight returns to the ‘80s to aid a senior whose grandchild skipped his hearing. It turns out the knight must teach this reincarnation of his liege to reawaken his honor and chivalry in 1989's “Flail Bondsman 2.”
Image of two crossed flails on what may be asphalt or just cheap textured vinyl. The title reads "Flail Bondsman 2."
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A boy is adopted by a physician and taught the suspect arts of medicine and sleuthing. As the only daughter’s suitors die, the two doctors solve the mystery to ensue her happiness in Smithwick-on-Naddle’s 1964 “The Four Autopsies.”
Image from the gallery of an old time instructional operating theater. The title reads "the Four Autopsies. A Smiwthwick-on-Naddle Presentation."
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Special Forces Z Unit goes missing. Their wives, sweethearts, siblings and mothers form their own unit to find them behind Japanese lines. Intercut with WW2 Australian home-front propaganda, rally to 1974's “The War Shelias.”
Image of scenes of women working the homefront in Australia in WW2 and the Australian flag superimposed on it all. The title reads "the War Shelias."
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! WW2 alpine soldiers are separated from their unit, and find a frozen Legionnaire in a cave. They must outwit Germans who believe he has mystic importance as the bodies pile in Hedgewoode’s 1968 “The Curse of the Faithful Soldier.”
Stylized image of a centurion frozen in a block of ice. The title reads "The Curse if the Faithful Soldier" and the support text reads "Another Quality Hedgewoode Studios Motion Picture."
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In this Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation, a scientist experiments on orangutans to chemically reduce violent impulses. This creates a murderous gorilla (Sal Conetta) that wreaks havoc in 1946's “Savage Science.”
Image of a primate face, half gorilla, half orangutan. The title reads "Savage Science."
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Mischievous twins induct a gorilla (Sal Conetta) into a fraternity at State University for his football acumen, but it's his talent for upright base that turns him into “Biggest Man on Campus” (1937). Go team!
From behind, the picture of a gorilla crouched in a campus quad, an academic or administrative building in the distance. The title reads "Biggest Man on Campus."
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A jaded Montreal futures trader starts a body shop that converts large vehicles into food trucks. When an investment group offers to buy him out, will he choose success or rekindled passion? It's 2008's “Diamond Plate.”
Semi-transparent image of blue diamond-plate metal sheeting superimposed over the cramped work surfaces of a food truck. The title reads "Diamond Plate."
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! From beyond the grave, the two British actress/occultists continue to control different ingenues in a war-by-proxy. An American producer attempts to capitalize on this to deadly results in 1995’s “Protegees of the Duchesses.”
An isolated image of the eyes of an alive woman and the spectral eyes of a ghost. The supporting text reads "Protégées of the Duchesses. Based on the original by Hedgewoode Studios."
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! 3rd of 3 restored “Nebula Nancy” films, the U.S.A.F. Rocket Ship 19 races to register an asteroid mine claim, while the alien industrial complex will use any means to take it. See the thrilling climax of 1954's “Orbit Claim Jumpers.”
A decidedly phallic-looking rocket ship flies towards a plant. You can see the string holding it up. The supporting text reads "the Crew of the Nebula Nancy in Orbit Claim Jumpers."
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Terminally-ill Hugh implores Rick, Dan and Sara to avoid the mistakes he and Ken made. The triangle-turned-triumvirate steer their family past a conglomerate’s construction scheme in “Honor, Verdigris, Love (2002).”
In front of green foliage, the silhouettes of three figures: two masculine and one feminine, directly facing the viewer. Their shadows, cast in green against black, are two classic gangsters firing pistols from an older movie in the series. The title in Japanses may read "Love, Honor, Verdigris," or might not as such things go. The Mizari Studios oban (crest) is in the lower-left corner.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Details from Upton Sinclair's “the Jungle” are borrowed for this polka musical about a war between two rival meat-packing barons in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Over the top? Nope, it's the historical 931's “The Kielbasa War.”
Racks of sausages hanging to cure, and the title "The Kielbasa War."
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The death of an old shopkeeper leads both crime families to search for his rumored hidden wealth. A fortunate love-triangle forms between Rick and the twins in 1998’s “Rusted Green Coffin.”
Blotched Green & Rusted coffin print, the Mizari oban (crest) and Japanese characters that presumably read "Rusted Green Coffin."
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Kidwelly spares no efforts to finally rid itself of the Banshee (Suzanne Pasteur-Mézard), and calls in exorcists, paranormal experts, a girls' choir and sexy soldiers of fortune. See the end in 1974's “The Eviction of the Banshee.”
In front of a castle, in the fog, is a For Sale sign. The text reads "Eviction of the Banshee. A Smithwich-on-Naddle film.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This week on the Midday Matinee, we show the last five “Verdigris Bullets” movies from 1997-2002. The Mizarī Studios productions continue to borrow from west and east for the popular crime melodrama. Join us!
A blotchy green background and image of a green bullet, with outlines of Japan and Luxembourg. Text includes: Luxembourgish comic creator Noah Damien Molitor, a.k.a. “NDM,” plotted his soft reboot (‘Act 2’) of his comic “Armes Verdoyantes” (English, “Verdant Guns”) in 1989 and executed the death of his protagonist Ken in 1991. The love-triangle between Kenneth Harrell (a.k.a. Kenichi or Ken Hirano), his sorta-love interest Karen (Karine) and his love interest Hugh Taggertson (a.k.a. Haru or Hugh Takeuchi) had come to its inevitable conclusion of death. Most readers concluded Karen was nothing more than a heteronormative-smokescreen obscuring the homoeroticism. Consider the context, as explained in a 1996 interview by NDM: “Back then (‘60s-’70s), I thought of bisexuality as wishy-washy—a lack of courage to come out and commit your true self. A lot of the gay and lesbian community of the time felt that ‘gayer-than-thou’ attitude. Slowly, I learned better. “Karine was an ambivalent character. Most readers realized she was there to stop close-minded authorities from censoring the book. But she also served the same narrative function within the plot: to placate Ken and Hugh’s families. But that made her a rather passive presence. “For ‘Act 2,’ I wanted to play with variations on the original years. While I built up to Ken’s death, I decided Karine’s replacement would be more dynamic to the story; I wanted her to have some agency, and just be more interesting! “The next generation of my male protagonists, as infatuated as they were with each-other, changed not just to accommodate this, but give me the right amount of plot variation. Now they were a real love triangle!” Since 1968, the Japanese imported and localized “Armes Verdoyantes/Verdant Guns” as “緑豊かな弾丸/Midori Yutakana Dangan” (Eng: ”Lush Bullets”). When translator and project coordinator Katō Miho retired in 1989, the project fell to good hands with her protegee Nishizawa Rina. NDM flew to Japan without warning once again to have a good drinking and screaming match (or “off-site working session,” as they humorously called it) with Nishizawa Rina. They called in Katō Miho for old time’s sake. While Nishizawa Rina didn’t advertise it, she herself was bisexual. The 1990 meetup gave NDM a chance to refine his ideas with his two strongest creative partners, and consider perspectives he hadn’t fully explored in the past. Mizarī Studios continued to make the film adaptations of the series, but their financial fortunes were not as bright as they once were. They rushed out the films with mostly-faithful scripts but lower production budgets. Mizarī took a chance by casting the Rick and Dan actors from the then rising boy band, NOBR Vagabonds. The chemistry they shared on screen only fueled speculation as to what their relationship was behind the scenes (but was later confirmed to be “just friends”).
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Mon 2PM, a brief gang war between the two families brings Ken’s twin children Dan and Sara into the family business too early. History repeats itself when Hugh’s nephew Rick becomes an unlikely ally in 1997’s “Verdigris Bullets Reloaded,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.
Image of a castle on a hill and bullets and a magazine. The text in Japanese probably reads "Verdigris Bullets Reloaded."
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The new police chief has the crime families of Port City laying low. As the corruption escalates, and the new police chief’s ultimate aims are revealed, Ken and Hugh revert to incivility in “Rusted! Verdigris Bullets (1994).”
Black silhouettes against white, and casting green shadows against black. The characters probably read "Rusted! Verdigris Bullets."
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A desperate man travels to New York with the torn portrait of the Banshee (Kimberly Colborne), in hopes of restoring her and falling to her song. His debutante cousin circles temptation in 1966's “the Triangle of the Banshee.”
On a dark stucco wall in a gilded frame is a torn, burned, but still recognizable portrait of an ethereally-beautiful brunette. The supporting text reads "Triangle of the Banshee: a Smithwick-on-Naddle presentation."
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Ken is forced to marry Hugh’s beloved as both sides pretend to make peace while preparing for war. Karen’s not eager to choose, or come between the two rivals, even at the very end in “Verdigris Bullets in the Chamber (1984).”
On the steps in front of a western style commercial building (bank), Japanese characters and a green bullet. The title presumably is close to "Verdigris (Evergreen) Bullets in the Chamber."
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM