Episodes & Rankings
Below is a list of The Franchise episodes 21 - 40 and star ratings.
Each franchise is rated between 1 and 5 stars - hover over the star to see Daniel & Henry's rating!
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Special thanks to @SpaceCadetJuan for providing all the ratings!
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Also, bonus episodes aren't real episodes and don't deserve their own number. If you want to know the real episode The Franchise is covering, look at the description box.
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EPISODE 21: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD AND FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN
Directors: John Carl Buechler; Rob Hedden
Screenwriter: Manuel Fidello, Daryl Haney; Rob Hedden
Year: 1988; 1989
E: 20
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JASON VS. CARRIE! Um, I mean Tina. JASON FIGHTS A BOAT! CRACK! HEROIN! And the beginning of the "Kane Hodder era" if that means anything to anybody.
daniel: 2; 3
henry: 1; 3
EPISODE 22: JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY AND JASON X
Directors: Adam Marcus; Jim Isaac
Screenwriter: Jay Huguely, Dean Lorey; Todd Farmer
Year: 1993, 2002
E: 21
Jason turns out to be a little wormy thing. Then he goes to space. Oh, New Line Cinema. What hath thee wrought?
daniel: 1; 2
henry: 1; 2
EPISODE 23: FRIDAY THE 13TH REMAKE
Directors: Marcus Nispel
Screenwriter: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Year: 2009
E: 22
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Micheal Bay invades Crystal Lake. PLUS: We rank all 11 (12?) Friday the 13th movies.
daniel: 3
henry: 4
EPISODE 24: CHINATOWN AND THE TWO JAKES
Directors: Roman Polanski; Jack Nicholson
Screenwriter: Robert Towne
Year: 1974; 1990
E: 23
We cover one of the best movies of all time! Then we cover its Jack Nicholson-helmed sequel, which is not one of the best movies of all time. Really not. Like, way not.
daniel: 5; 2
henry: 5; 4
EPISODE 25: AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
Directors: Jay Roach
Screenwriter: Mike Myers
Year: 1997
E: 24
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It's our most shagdelic episode yet! With all that that entails. Yeah, baby. Yeah.
daniel: 3
henry: 3
GUEST: 3
EPISODE 26: AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME AND AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER
Directors: Jay Roach
Screenwriter: Michael McCullers, Mike Myers
Year: 1999; 2002
E: 25
We slog through the drudgery that is the Austin Powers franchise, a half-assed sprawl of sex and poop jokes. "Get in my belly," it says, and we try our hardest not to be swallowed up.
daniel: 2; 1
henry: 2; 1
EPISODE 27: PREDATOR
Directors: John McTiernan
Screenwriter: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Year: 1987
E: 26
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Get in the chopper. It's testosterone in overdrive this week.
daniel: 4
henry: 5
GUEST: 5
EPISODE 28: PREDATOR 2 AND AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
Directors: Stephen Hopkins; Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenwriter: Jim Thomas, John Thomas; Paul W.S. Anderson
Year: 1990; 2004
E: 27
Danny Glover is an action star and the hellish LA street of 1997. And then your boy and mine, Paul W.S. Anderson, turns the lights out for a brawl to end them all. At least until the sequel. Whoever wins, we lose.
daniel: 2; 1
henry: 3; 2
EPISODE 29: ALEIN VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM AND PREDATORS
Directors: The Brothers Strause; Nimrod Antal
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno; Alex Litvak, Michael Finch
Year: 2007; 2010
E: 28
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Aaron Farinelli is back to talk mandibles with us this week. First, those pesky xenomorphs are back and this time there's teen drama! Then, Adrian Brody growls his way through Nimrod's jungle.
daniel: 3; 3
henry: 1; 4
GUEST: 2; 4
EPISODE 30: WESTWORLD AND FUTUREWORLD
Directors: Michael Crichton
Screenwriter: Michael Crichton
Year: 1973
E: 29
Straight from the loony bin, we're back! And we're talking all things Westworld, Michael Crichton, Peter Fonda being terrible, Yul Brynner's odd sashay with Blythe Danner and especially Spa World. Oh yes. Spa World. Plus, we talk a little TV. Wiki-wild. Wiki-Wild-Wild-West.
daniel: 4; 2
henry: 4; 1
EPISODE 31: HOME ALONE AND HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK
Directors: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: John Hughes
Year: 1990; 1992
E: 30
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!! Macauley Culkin run around a whole lot! Plus, we debate the merits of the first one and totally agree that the second one is a mess. BUZZ, YOUR GIRLFRIEND! WOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF!
daniel: 4; 1
henry: 2; 1
EPISODE 32: HOME ALONE 3, HOME ALONE 4 AND HOME ALONE: THE HOLIDAY HEIST
Directors: Raja Gosnell; Rod Daniel; Peter Hewitt
Screenwriter: John Hughes; Debra Frank, Steve L. Hayes; Aaron Ginsburg, Wade McIntyre
Year: 1997; 2002; 2012
E: 31
Raja Gosnell edits his way to the driver's seat and is most definitely NOT Indian. Then we turn on the boob tube for Kevin Returns and a sweet little ghost story with Malcolm McDowell.
daniel: 1; 1; 1
henry: 1; 1; ?
EPISODE 33: DIRTY HARRY
Directors: Don Siegel
Screenwriter: Harry Julien Fink, R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, John Milius, Terrence Malik
Year: 1971
E: 32
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Clint Eastwood finally hits our shores. With a chair. And a pretty sweet handgun. Do you feel lucky?
daniel: 4
henry: 5
EPISODE 34: MAGNUM FORCE AND THE ENFORCER
EPISODE 34: MEGNUM FORCE AND THE ENFORCER
Directors: Ted Post; James Fargo
Screenwriter: John Milius, Michael Cimino; Sterling Silliphant, Dean Riesner
Year: 1973; 1976
E: 33
FORCE!!! First, Clint Eastwood participates in Battle of the Network Stars and then he checks out Tyne Daly's ass. Somehow, it's all very racist and occasionally boring.
daniel: 3; 2
henry: 3; 2
EPISODE 35: SUDDEN IMPACT AND THE DEAD POOL
Directors: Clint Eastwood; Buddy Van Horn
Screenwriter: Joseph Stinson; Steve Sharon
Year: 1983; 1988
E: 34
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Clint takes the director's chair and decides the best thing to do would be filming a gang rape. So there's that. But then Jim Carrey, Liam Neeson and Patricia Clarkson come along to liven things up a bit. The Young Pope. Sundays and Mondays at 9 on HBO.
daniel: 2; 3
henry: 3; 4
EPISODE 36: LEGALLY BLONDE, LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED WHITE & BLONDE AND LEGALLY BLONDES
Directors: Robert Luketic; Charles Herman-Wurmfeld; Savage Steve Holland
Screenwriter: Karen McCulluh Lutz, Kirsten Smith; Kate Kondell; Chad Gomez Creasy, Dara Resnik Creasy
Year: 2001; 2003; 2009
E: 35
We mansplain the Legally Blonde franchise to you!
daniel: 3; 1; 1
henry: 3; 2; ?
EPISODE 37: LETHAL WEAPON AND LETHAL WEAPON 2
Directors: Richard Donner
Screenwriter: Shane Black; Jeffrey Boam
Year: 1987; 1989
E: 36
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We're revisiting some old friends on Joel Silver's sticky, disgusting casting couch. Murtaugh and Riggs! A family man and a suicidal Nazi with a barely hidden Australian accent. Okay, okay, okay.
daniel: 4; 4
henry: 5; 4
EPISODE 38: LETHAL WEAPON 3, LETHAL WEAPON 4 AND THE LETHAL WEAPON TV SHOW
Directors: Richard Donner
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Boam, Robert Mack Kamen; Channing Gibson
Year: 1992; 1998; 2016
E: 37
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Rene Russo. Chris Rock. Jet Li. Joe Pesci with bleach-blonde hair. And then a demotion to network television. Lethal Weapon slides downhill.
daniel: 1; 2
henry: 1; 2
EPISODE 39: THE HUNGER GAMES AND THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
Directors: Gary Ross; Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Suzanne Collins, Gary Ross, Billy Ray; Simon Beaufoy, Michael deBruyn
Year: 2012; 2013
E: 38
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We dig into our first YA adaptation, Lion's Gate savior The Hunger Games. It's all here. The highs (Jennifer Lawrence, PSH), the lows (Lenny Kravitz?, the lesser Hemsworth) and everything in between (Rue). Let the games begin.
daniel: 4; 5
henry: 3; 4
EPISODE 40: THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PARTS 1 AND 2
Directors: Francis Lawrence
Screenwriter: Danny Strong, Peter Craig
Year: 2014
E: 39
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The least epic book of all time gets the treatment it doesn't deserve. Blade 2 Zombies! Crazy Cat Ladies! And Dark Peeta! PLUS, we make our 2017 Oscar predictions.
daniel: 2; 2
henry: 4; 2
