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Curator of @Tikitrocious.bsky.social. On here & Mastodon.Social as @SurlyByDefault. https://linktr.ee/christopher.fischer [Twitter/X Locked Jan 2025] A middle-aged white guy who is casually into the fandom/gamer/myth & folklore/HeyScoops spectrum.
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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! The folklorists of Middlesbrough are killed in lore-inspired incidents. A pub yarn spinner and a radio producer must find the culprit before the “shagfoal” strikes again in Hedgewoode Studio’s 1972 “Death of the Oral Tradition.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! In 1834 at an old pilgrimage church, a secret order’s relic is stolen by cultists. They recruit a repentant resurrectionist who crisscrosses Europe to return “The Lachrymatory of the Magdalene (1984).”

<Flips Cthulhu's head, revealing unearthly colored button> <Presses-button. Bookcase slides to reveal two poles.> <Takes the Squamous Poles to the Squamous Cave>

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A werewolf and his swamp monster sidekick broadcast their pirate radio from a barge on the bayou. When his old station GM finds them, it’s not the end, it’s the kick in the pants they need in 1991’s “Radio Free Houma: Bargin’ On.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The Chinese author and the American producer now head their own studio line with spinoffs in development loosely based on the original three books. Can they lose control before they’re held to blame? “The Cursed Trilogy 3 (2014).”

Fri 2PM, the university is going bankrupt until a Classics department chair and the one Engineering professor who brings in grants concoct a scheme that’s so it crazy it just might...hasten the closure of “Northplains University (1938),” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A fully-automated cookie factory is drop-shipped to the rugged colony world. The privileged kids and the poor kids at first fight over it, then work together to feed it raw ingredients, in 2003’s “The Biscuit War.”

Thu 2PM, gangs tear apart Baton Rouge. The factions break one inviolate rule: never disturb the peace within a block of the Vodou priestesses’ boarding house. She recruits the residents to restore peace in “Don’t Wake Mama Aurélie (1971),” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! During a writer’s strike, a movie studio re-used the script to a 1938 western and filmed inside a suburban mall. Horses indoors! The actors inconsistently improvised minimum changes for the setting in 1988’s “The Black Butte Mall.”

Wed 2PM, when the National Guard depot burns down, one television pitchman with a warehouse full of the hard-to-sell realizes he has a golden opportunity. Can he market the “Multi-Purpose (1992)” before people come to their senses? Only on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A fictional eastern European country inaugurates its first a fast food franchise, and holdovers from the communist puppet regime will stop at nothing to ensure its success. A mechanic discovers the secret of “Demikát Corner (1993).”

Tue 2PM, once again, the demon known as ‘Mr. Legion’ possesses a thoroughbred with a shot at the triple crown. Now a small-time pastor with ownership stake in a contender races to identify the fiend-in-the-fillies in 1982’s “Miss Legion,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! In an era when female writers garnered little respect, Ruth poisons her husband so she can follow her dreams. The husband’s parents seek revenge in a slasher adaptation that misses the point of Fanny Fern’s 1854 “Ruth Hall (2005).”

Mon 2PM, Si-U and Connor move to America for a few years, and their feuding mothers follow them. They’ve (mostly) toned down the violence, but it’s now a competition to be their young granddaughter’s role model in 2015’s “Inlaw Supremacy,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Lady Candace is quietly supportive of husband Alistair’s gentleman thief inclinations. When a cad does her sister wrong, a fabulous ball provides the occasion for comeuppance in “Dapperly Clever After 2: Felonious Attire (1982).”

All this but less.

Look, the bag of shredded lettuce needs to be used up as quickly as possible, so it only makes sense I've made shrimp fajitas two nights in a row and will make them a third†. ___ †Option on fourth and fifth if I get more bell pepper and onion.

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! At Histrionics University, rival colleges quarrel over a remodeled academic building. As their battle passes into violence, the generous benefactor’s chthonic true purpose of “His Dark Endowment (1999)” is revealed. Prepare!

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Gentleman thief Alistair Cochburn/”the West End Sponger” proposes to winsome Lady Candace, and considers how to retire his alter-ego. Candace learns of his other career and decides they should live “Dapperly Clever After (1978).”

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! An evil Chinese agent poses as “Dr. Travis White” to undermine the fight against polio! “The Stoat” (Gerard Bailey) must secure the vaccines and stop the sabotage of medical equipment in 1955's “The Stoat Against the Iron Lungs.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Stoner Harry has $18.23 to last until Friday. It shouldn’t be this funny to see the lies, desperation, cleverness, and outright frugality he uses to get there—even if most of us have been there—yet it is, in 1997’s “Next Payday.”

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Fri 2PM, a dragon with a sense of humor decides to track down the descendants of people—friends and enemies—he’s liked in the past. What happens when he discovers “St. George’s Other Order (1976)” has been quietly helping him for years? Only on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Alejandra tires of hiding her genius intellect, causing upheaval in a family that prides itself on being the model of traditional Latino-American respectability. No one can agree on who they should be in 2004’s ”The Model Student.”

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Thu 2PM, birthmarks prove a Viscount petro-trader and a prosperous Bubba six-pack oiler related. When they meet on an ocean cruise, they must thwart an assassination and may narrowly avoid a love triangle in 1967’s “Children of Fortune,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The vicar's estate specifies reading a daily parable, each a thinly-disguised townperson's misdeeds, in the town square. A day seven murder suggests it was just getting good in Smithwick-on-Naddle's 1968 “Death of a Town Crier.”

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Wed 2PM, when an infection ravages a hospital, a Jane Doe finally awakens from her one year coma. Without admitting who she is she press-gangs the few able-bodied staff to keep things going and find the cure in 1996’s “Ward Four,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Roberta, a little person who is a rookie Federal agent, infiltrates the traveling circus suspected of fronting a robbery ring. She finds an unlikely ally in the strongman with too many secrets in 1987’s “Biggest Gang on Earth.”

Tue 2PM, her irresponsible parents return a decade later, now vampires. They say they want to make it all up to the newly engaged Sandra, but the strange world she discovers makes her suspect there’s more to it in 2004’s “Type A Bride,” on Baron Tikitrocious’ Midday Matinee.

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