#mom can't cook

[artemispanthar]

I got some stickers for my laptop!

#artie thoughts #artie's personal life stuff #artie takes a photo #mom can't cook #green day #okay maybe not technically green day #but I got that sticker because it was one Billie Joe's guitar so it kind of counts #I want to get a couple more #and a few for my laptop table too #just gotta find some good ones

[myopinionisimportant]

Tired: Figuring out which of the Fears is linked to the latest Magnus Protocol episode

Wired: Doing the same thing for Mom Can't Cook

#tmagp #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #mom can't cook #this post inspired by the fact that I can't decide whether The Jennie Project is more Web or more Spiral #the whole thing where basically everyone hates the chimp but nobody can act against it

[the-last-teabender]

#mom can't cook #can of worms #skeleton roundabout #girls will see this and be like hell yeah

[adolinsart]

one of the best things about mom can't cook is the returning lore of mickey mouse and friends + michael eisner being a highly criminal gang, and that DCOM's being so neglected and rushed is because eisner was always too busy with whatever murder the group just committed

#mom can't cook #mcc #luke westaway #andy farrant #outside xbox #disney dcoms

[slyandthefamilybook]

I need "I think the CIA is up to something..." on a shirt

#atlas entry #mom can't cook #mom can't cook podcast #luke westaway #andy farrant #so weird #dcom

[tabbyclaw]

The Insert Coin Clothing ad that started with Andy smashing all of Luke's bones in wrestling practice wanted to be a ZocDoc ad in the same way that Going to the Mat wanted to be a movie about jazz.

#mom can't cook #some of my posts are just for me

[stickthisbig]

They talked about my thing??? on the show????

I sent in a copy of Rad to the Max like three episodes ago and just never heard back, so imagine my shock and delight when they talked about it this time! Luke complimented the mechanics on instagram! I'm just so pleased.

I ended up making this guy for distribution on instagram, so if it's easier, have after it; if not, here's the PDF.

#mom can't cook #ttrpg

[pinkcowqueen]

On a binge of all of Extra Helpings, and can finally confirm

If loving you is Brink, I don't want to be Bronk

#mom can't cook

[randomthunk]

Saw this post, realized it had major Mom Can't Cook energy, and then proceeded to draw Luke and Andy talking about a feature in the next iPhone update.

#mom can't cook #mcc #outside xbox #outside xtra #how the hell do I tag this #anyway #that Abraham Lincoln teeth sculpture was the challenge of my post art school life #I don't know what I'm doing with my art life but I still go HAM on it #kat arts #fanart #TRY TO SAY I'M LYING ABOUT THE IPHONE UPDATE THING YOU KNOW THEY'LL DO IT

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

if loving you is Brink, i don't wanna be Bronk

#mom can't cook #extra helpings #andy farrant #luke westaway

[lediz-watches]

Mom Can't Cook: A DCOM Podcast

It's a podcast. You don't 'watch' a podcast. I appreciate that. I'm still going to rant about it because I just finished another listen-through and, much like the hosts themselves, simply must talk about how I have spent many hours of my life recently.

So if you have never heard of Mom Can't Cook, the short version is two grown-ass men watching and recapping Disney Channel Original Movies from the late 90s-mid 00s.

But what it really is, is this:

Friends, there will be a time in your life as a consumer of media in which you start consuming a media that you KNOW is going to be bad. Maybe you loved it when you were younger, maybe you couldn't be bothered reaching for the remote, maybe you're just that bored, maybe a friend or a family member or a child you're babysitting is making you sit through it, but the point is, you consume the media. And it's as bad as you thought it would be. It annoys you. You hate it. You want to throw things at it. But you keep sitting through it. You can't stop. You must continue to consume it until there is nothing more to consume. You are, you realise with dawning horror, a little bit in love with this thing. You have spent hundreds of hours and possibly actual money on a thing that you knew, objectively and academically, was absolutely terrible. And yet. And yet.

You enjoyed yourself.

And you must confess your sins.

That's what this podcast is about.

It's actually Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant, two British internet personalities ostensibly employed in games journalism, recapping Disney Channel Original Movies from the late 90s-mid-00s. During lockdown, they spent Friday nights watching these movies together (I suspect in lieu of going to the pub), and now they simply have to talk about them because DCOMs are the kind of insane fever dream you simply must talk about and they are slaves to the grind internet personalities who try to make content out of everything.

I love it for a number of reasons:

Luke and Andy are very fun to listen to in general. They are very good at playing off each other, building on each other's ideas, getting increasingly ridiculous and yet somehow never managing to reach the heights of a Disney Channel Original Movie from the late 90s-mid 00s. At least, they haven't yet (Ninji from Oxtra Mario Golf came close, but that was technically Mike's fault). I think they consider it a challenge.

Andy in particular has these beautiful turns of phrase that perfectly encapsulate the feeling of an adult watching the kind of insanity that seems perfectly reasonable to a kid watching a kids' movie but, twenty years later and as the wrong audience, can only be described as mildly traumatising.

Luke is wonderful at just... embodying the part of you that gets swept up in the madness, knows you're getting swept up in the madness, tries desperately to hold on to sanity, and then can only take solace in the fact that maybe it won't be so bad to go insane because hey, it's kind of fun here...

By the time the Disney Channel reached my country, I was too old (/too young) to be watching most of it, so while I may have seen ads for them, I never saw these movies. And now, I'm too infected with Cultural Studies to get through them without dissecting their context and what they're saying and why and ugh... Listening to the recaps allow me to experience them without actually having to watch them.

Regardless of how they actually feel about it, Mom Can't Cook always feels to me like a bit of a love letter to a guilty pleasure. The DCOMs are bad, and Luke and Andy will go into detail about how bad they are, but it had this thread of affection to it that I adore. Maybe it was lockdown, maybe it was just time spent with friends, who knows, but they got something very important out of these terrible movies, and they're passing that on to their listeners (Honestly we should be compensated for this trauma). But jokes aside, this podcast is actually representative of why I love fandom, and being online, despite what a terrible place I find it most of the time. It's representative of why I occasionally post to this blog. I love talking about the things I consume. Whether they're good or bad, they speak to something in me, and I want to talk back! So it's... indulgent and wonderful, and I love it. And I love this podcast for speaking to that part of me.

I intended to write short reviews on spotify, but I listen on my laptop and spotify doesn't have that functionality on PC for some reason. And by the time I was confident enough to rant like this I couldn't remember individual episodes well enough to go back and do it on my phone. So it will be a next-time thing.

But in the meantime, I must share the lines that now live rent-free in my head:

"With the unearned confidence of a Marnie". I desperately need this down the leg of some workout leggings, and yet for some reason it isn't even Tshirt merch. No one will understand why, but I need it on workout gear specifically.

"But why did they give up their hands?" I bought this shirt, and I'm going to buy it again because I bought two sizes too big for reasons that I swear made sense at the time. It makes me grin every time I look at it.

"But there was simply no time/budget." I think this is more about Luke's delivery whenever he says it, but I love it. As a person who works in projects and actually does need to live with the consequences of terrible compromises fairly often, it also speaks to my soul.

"And I hate him." Again, it's in the delivery. Mom's got a date with a vampire remains one of my favourite episodes at least partly because of this one (two? Three? I don't remember how often it got said) line.

"Because [insert noun here] is good, actually." Whether sarcastic or not. It's just a turn of phrase that now exists in my head.

I just... I don't know what the hosts intended, but what I hear is the incredible affection for this waste of their Friday nights. For stupid, terrible, insane entertainment that we watch and consume and struggle to comprehend and yet which entertains us. And I love that so much.

Because entertainment is so important, and so wonderful, even when it's objectively terrible or just plain nonsensical, because it - ack. I'm just getting way too philosophical about what entertainment is and how we respond to it, so I'm just gonna leave this one here.

Mom Can't Cook is a good podcast. I'm so happy it exists.

#Mom can't cook #andy farrant #luke westaway #podcasts #entertainment is good actually #celebrating guilty pleasures #The rants I could go on about some of my truly terrible entertainment choices #This is probably why I world build in fandom #But the point is #sometimes you just need to enjoy what you enjoy

[i-have-made-a-flat-thing]

Andy Farrant, everybody

#This episode is absolutely batshit #Mom Can't Cook #Mom Can't Cook Podcast #Andy Farrant #Luke Westaway

[myopinionisimportant]

I love listening to Mom Can't Cook, because some weeks it's "I legitimately love this badly-made movie," and some weeks it's "this was torture, I don't know why we keep doing this," and I've never seen the movie so I never know which it's going to be!

#mom can't cook

[the-last-teabender]

Nutcracker memes for MCC teens

#mom can't cook #a very nutty christmas #nutcrackers #ugh actually they're starting to bother me too

[adolinsart]

what you missed this week if you're not on the MCC patreon is

- andy being abducted by aliens during the entire episode

- luke suggesting andy undresses so that cops finally pay attention to him and may help, since public nudity is a crime but being abducted isn't

- andy then telling the cops he wants to be abducted actually

- probably the worst representation of the internet so far. 11/10

- hardcore historical pedestrialization being very important in this supernatural tv show

- michael eisner crushing a tinkerbell in his fist wearing the mickey mouse fantasia hat and referring to mickey as "The Mouse".

#mcc #mom can't cook #oxbox #luke westaway #andy farrant #mcc patreon #mom can't cook patreon

[slyandthefamilybook]

Yeah, hi I'm Luke Westaway the other host

*music stops*

We're fucked, Andy

#atlas entry #Luke always knows how to kill me with a sentence #mom can't cook #mom can't cook podcast #andy farrant #luke westaway