Depot Devoid: A Movie Podcast for Dead People

Matt Fagan does a dramatic reading of his children's poem, Up A Hippopotamus' Bottom.

We are no strangers to the works of Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment, so when MANDROID pulled into the Depot Devoid, we thought we knew what was coming. But Mandroid was more than just underdeveloped or inept, with actors who can't deliver, all of which would be fully expected. No, Mandroid was different, because it also had a script that nobody involved in its production seemed to care about, even though it was obviously trying to be the first entry in a franchise. But Mandroid is so thin on story that it found time to act as a backdoor pilot, for a second franchise about an invisible man! A curious combination of craven and dull, Mandroid plopped onto video store shelves in 1993 with a big stanky thud, and there it sat. Until now.

Once upon a time, we watched the movie 'Ravenous', a 1999 cannibal superhero comedy (?) set in 1847. Then we recorded this episode, without watching it again. The result was... funnier than it was accurate.For extra fun, check out the full video episode on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!

It's destruction and disorder in the Depot when the boys face their biggest challenge yet: Godzilla himself! Preschool-aged Ted watched Godzilla 1985 every week for a year, but will middle-aged Ted be able to make it through even once? It's a sequel to Godzilla that ignores about fourteen movies in between, and brings back Raymond Burr to reprise his role from the bowdlerized American version of the film. Yes, having now defeated Hamilton Burger almost 270 times, Perry Mason now sets his sights on taking down the King of the Monsters. We wanted to like this movie, and it wasn't easy.Find the full video episode on the Depot Devoid Youtube Channel!

Note: some parts of this episode make more sense if you watch the full video version (available on the Depot Devoid YouTube channel), but those parts are mostly dog-related and not strictly relevant to the movie.THE COMPLEAT AL brought the music videos of "Weird Al" Yankovic into our homes back in 1985, but was also a significant and often-overlooked entry in the nascent mockumentary genre. For the terrible gentlemen of the Depot Devoid, and their dead brother Ian, THE COMPLEAT AL was a formative childhood experience, one that ultimately paved the way for the much-better-known WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY.Spend one more minute in the Depot with us, grab yourself a kiwi, and get ready for some nostalgic talk about a beloved cultural icon. Plus a lot of stuff about our dogs.

Ted was excited because he'd never even heard of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Matt had uncertain memories of a single viewing 17 years ago. Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a lively discussion about this musical - and other musicals! Is it true that the dystopian world of 2056 that we see in Repo! is actually the same world from The Apple, after all the good people got raptured in 1998? Will Ted learn horrifying truths about Sweeney Todd? Will Matt say some things about Stephen Sondheim that he can't take back?The answers to these questions and more, should you choose to accept them, can be found right here in DEPOT! THE GENETIC OPERA.

Recorded three years ago, and only now dragged screaming from the vault, the meandering Fagan brothers are here to discuss THEY LIVE! John Carpenter's unabashedly anti-Reagan science fiction picture is, sadly, even more relevant now. Laugh to keep from crying as we revisit one of our favorite flicks from the eighties.

Matt wanted to reassess this movie he watched thirty years ago, and decided to inflict it on Ted along the way. The debut film from Jennifer Lynch, BOXING HELENA is plagued with problems. Uneven pacing. An indecisive relationship with reality. Julian Sands' haircut. But beneath all of that is a fascinating idea that could have worked, and it's an idea worth talking about.

Who better to discuss GHOST WORLD - a movie about teenage girls navigating life after high school - than two middle aged men? Matt has loved it for over 20 years, but Ted requires some convincing.

Desperate to find a terrible introduction to the themes and stories of H.P. Lovecraft? Look no further than BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM - a lushly animated, lazily written pastiche of Lovecraftian themes, splattered across the Batman mythos without inspiration or reason. Guest voice Jeffrey Combs (an actor whose association with Lovecraft adaptations goes back to Re-Animator in the mid-1980s) is pretty much the only reason to be here, but here we are! The terrible men of the Depot Devoid have sat through THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM so you won't have to.

1979's "LOVE AT FIRST BITE" proved to be so aggressively forgettable that we completely forgot recording this episode a year and a half ago! But it's a perfect complement to our recent offerings, which featured Saturday the 14th and Pandemonium. Like those films, Love at First Bite seems to be something like a horror comedy, but never truly fulfills either mandate. An absurd Dracula in the form of George Hamilton, and a bumbling Van Helsing provided by Richard Benjamin, prove to be capable foils for the normal person (Susan St. James, as a human woman). It's a love triangle but who cares? Who was this movie for? The jokes are hackneyed, the performances baffling, and the box office success a stain on our collective human experience.

In 1982, PANDEMONIUM tried to be a horror comedy, and couldn't. Put into production as THURSDAY THE 12th, but then beaten to the gag by Roger Corman's SATURDAY THE 14th, this misbegotten movie lost its way and never quite figured out what to be. In spite of a dozen familiar faces (Tommy Smothers, Carol Kane, Paul Reubens, Eileen Brennan, Eve Arden, Judge Reinhold, Phil Hartman, John Paragon, it just goes on!) most of the comedy falls pretty flat. But every once in a while, PANDEMONIUM serves up something truly strange and interesting, making you wonder what this movie might have been, in an alternate universe where SATURDAY THE 14th never happened.

Saturday the 14th was the very first horror comedy movie Matt ever watched, way back in the early eighties. Maybe not the most sophisticated film, but strangely influential to an impressionable youngster with a love of monsters! Matt drags this 1981 Roger Corman production into the Depot Devoid this week, and makes his little brother Ted watch it - something he hasn't done for about thirty years. It's a movie PACKED with jokes, and we appreciate it differently now than we did as children, but for all its many (many!) flaws, Saturday the 14th is still a pretty good time. Bonus: woke political discussion, because that's who we are, and this is our show!

"So that was a Hellraiser?"Matt has been reading and watching the Hellraiser franchise for nearly forty years, but his brother Ted was an innocent. For this week's experiment, Ted had to start with the 2022 reboot starring Jamie Clayton as the hell priest. With nothing to compare it to, would Ted like the new Pinhead? Would he think the Cenobites were cool? Would he even know what the (ahem) Hell was going on?Join us in the Depot for Ted's first look at Hellraiser. As for Matt? He didn't open the box. But what was it last time? Didn't know what the box was? And yet we do seem to keep finding each other, don't we.

It's rare enough that the Depot brings us a movie neither of the brothers has ever seen, but a genuine 1980s slasher movie? Unprecedented! Famously written as a parody of the slasher genre by Rita Mae Brown, but then rewritten and directed by Amy Jones as a mostly straight slasher, The Slumber Party Massacre is a curiously uneven Dead Teenager movie. Ted is not convinced that the murderer made the best choice of weapon, even though it was metaphorically necessary. Matt, being immune to the power of breasts, is able to assess the film with a clear head and a cold heart. But will that be enough to help them survive the Massacre?

A man murders his wife, is recruited as a spy, and enters a drug-fueled world of literature, homosexuality, and deeply erogenous typewriters! NAKED LUNCH attempted, in 1991, to adapt the wild nonlinear narrative of William S Burroughs' novel into a surprisingly coherent film. Ted's audio is weird for the first two minutes, but after that, the Fagan brothers are able to make complete and utter sense of every single thing that happens in the movie. Especially the typewriter sex robots.

Happy Anniversary! In this 40th episode, the Depot Devoid Podcast looks back on our first year of publication. We're a movie podcast, but the Depot Devoid has always actually been about the death of our brother Ian. It's a show about nostalgia and grief, and the ways we find to heal. While barely discussing Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, we talk about the lives that are changing around us, and how something as simple as recording this podcast can keep us sane in an insane world. Ted has a lot to say about his recent dealings with the Social Security Administration, Matt goes into a bit of detail about his upcoming gallery show, and both brothers share a little too much about scary dental visits. But perhaps the weirdest highlight of the episode is Matt's dramatic reading of his new children's poem, “Up a Hippopotamus' Bottom.”

Audiences think of Ghostbusters as one of the classic comedy films of the 1980s, but you know what they forget? Ghosts are people who used to be alive, so Ghostbusters is all about death! Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan started the Depot Devoid Podcast after they lost their brother Ian. And they recorded this episode just three weeks after Matt lost his dog to bone cancer. Not for the first time, the brothers find themselves revisiting a pivotal comedy from their youth with fresh eyes, and raw hearts. Sometimes, the Depot Devoid is all fun and games – but sometimes it's grief counseling. And sometimes it's a bit of both. This episode was a strange emotional space for us. We are looking back at a movie we love – one of those movies that shaped us – and seeing it for what it really is. We are adults stepping outside of our own childhoods, and we are haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical. Sound fun? Join us for a unique conversation that is as much about Ghostbusters as it is about processing the death of a loved one who passes right in front of you. A conversation about nostalgia, and how comedy is not evergreen, and how we all grew up in an actual haunted house. And Ted uses “Pet Sematary” as a verb.

We've got a whole Depot full of Pride this week! And you can watch the full video version of this episode on YouTube. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the queer redemption story we all need right now: messy, cruel, and challenging, but also transformative, inspiring, and filled with love. Bursting at the seams with amazing music, performed by a truly complicated leading lady, Hedwig gets under your skin in the best possible way.Host Matt Fagan is an unabashed fan, and is clearly excited to share this movie with his little brother, co-host Ted Fagan, for the very first time! During Pride 2025, when the general vibe in America is not exactly upbeat, it's nice to just have a really good time watching a movie like Hedwig. It left us feeling better than when we started. Maybe you should watch it too.

The Goonies is turning forty years old, and our brother Ian should have turned 45 this week. Growing up on the Oregon coast in the 1980s, The Goonies was an indelible part of our childhoods! Puzzles, treasure, friends with bicycles and dangerous ideas: The Goonies was everything a kid could want. For us - Matt Fagan, Ian Fagan, and Ted Fagan - it gave shape to fantasies we played out every day.Today we are, for better or worse, adults, and we are looking back at The Goonies as grown men who have lost the brother in between them. This episode is part nostalgia and part eulogy; we laugh a lot, but we shed a lot of fucking tears for Ian too. We are not the same people that we were in 1985, and we are not the same people that we were when there were three of us. We watched The Goonies for the first time since Ian's death, and then we recorded this episode on what would have been his 45th birthday. Of all the childhood favorites Ted and I have revisited on Depot Devoid, this was definitely the most emotionally challenging. There will be a lot of new podcast episodes about The Goonies this week, but I bet ours is the only one with an actual eulogy in it, and probably the most crying too. That's the Depot Devoid difference!Full video for this episode is on our YouTube channel.

Full video episode available on our Youtube channel! Matt Fagan introduces his brother, Ted Fagan, to a magical film that answers the question: what if your dreams came true and everybody else in the world disappeared? Thanks for Nothing, Canada!Canadian superstar David Hewlett wishes the whole world away - even the smell of rotting beef carcasses! - in this intimate, experimental fantasy from 2003. Written by, directed by, and starring the folks who brought us Cube in 1997, Nothing defies easy categorization.David Hewlett and Andrew Miller play childhood best friends whose relationship experiences a series of rapid and dramatic upsets. When their well-trod dynamic is tested, each of these men is forced to admit that they may not be who they thought they were. Maybe nothing is what they thought it was. But there were definitely too many fuckers before.

Full video episode available on our YouTube channel! We love you, Canada, but "Space Vegetarians Conquer the World!" is not your best work. This convoluted mess of a sci-fi thriller fell into the Depot Devoid almost by mistake. In fact, it accidentally became the first episode of the "O Canada" run that we recorded, but wound up as chapter four because it came out the same year as CUBE. Some of the worst movies are the most fun to talk about, and in a time where a lot of stuff in America isn't very fun, the Fagan brothers had a really good time talking about Laserhawk. It's sloppy, weird, and has a secret hard-core vegetarian agenda that was sadly dropped partway through the flick. It's not as Canadian as some of the other movies on this list, but Laserhawk is a welcome addition to the collection. We didn't invite you, but we're glad you came.

Full video available on our YouTube channel! A low-budget sci-fi thriller... or an ingenious, claustrophobic meeting of the philosophy club? Matt's favorite Canadian (David Hewlett) stars in the 1997 indy film Cube, which combines apocalyptic nihilism with insightful social analysis and delivers something wholly unique. Ted Fagan and brother Matt Fagan are on a roll with another unforgettable movie from Canada, the maple-drenched home of some of the best science fiction to ever hit the American market.

Continuing our celebration of Canadian film excellence, Matt Fagan introduces little brother Ted to one of the strangest (and most Canadian) movies he's ever seen! This 1988 psychodrama from Sandor Stern has fascinated Matt since high school; will Ted ever be the same once the episode is over? Will he see Pin's spooky face every time he closes his eyes? Terry O'Quinn, David Hewlett, and Cynthia Preston star in a uniquely creepy, moderately suspenseful motion picture that you won't soon forget.Also check out the full video on the Depot Devoid channel on YouTube!

Beginning a multi-episode tribute to our Northern superiors, Matt introduces his brother Ted to the 1987 thriller THE STEPFATHER, starring Terry O'Quinn. Canada has been producing some of the best science fiction and horror series on American television since the 1980s, and also some of Matt's video-rental favorites! This one made a big impression on his teenage mind, forever cementing his loyalty to Canada and distrust of stepfathers, in perpetuity throughout the universe.In the full video version of this episode, you can fully appreciate Matt's fetching homemade vest, which he made for a super special occasion: along with his partner Bill and their dog Gus, they helped win a fifty thousand dollar grant for the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter in Pendleton, Oregon, from the Petco Love Foundation.Our Petco Love Story:https://youtu.be/WElX1D-6PSU?si=8A612zfKIrP5imUT

Pitching a tent down by the creek at the back of the Depot Devoid this week, it's MULTIPLE MANIACS! Longtime John Waters fan Matt Fagan drags his brother Ted all the way back to 1970 for this cheap, nasty, black-and-white feature that carefully walks the line between arthouse and outhouse. Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Mary Vivian Pearce, Multiple Maniacs was Waters' first "talkie," and he still had a lot to learn. But so much of what would eventually define a John Waters movie is already on display here: the criminal outsider heroes, the glamourless ridicule of human sexuality, and Divine's drag persona becoming a literal monster, are all powerful indications of what was yet to come.

What are Jersey girls made of? In this 1990 comedy, she's made of 8 prostitutes from New York, but love finds a way.Matt Fagan gets his brother Ted to watch Frankenhooker for the first time since he was nine years old (which is too young to see Frankenhooker but just the right age to appreciate the humor.) Join the brothers in the Depot Devoid for a movie with lots of heart, and several other spare parts.Highly recommended: the full video version on YouTube https://youtu.be/F9lWo04tfBI has some secret delights.

The Old Testament disco musical you never realized you needed, The Apple pulls into the Depot Devoid this week... just in time for the rapture! Join the meandering Fagan brothers for a discussion of the deep religious themes, finely crafted musical compositions, and a message that will endure for the ages.Just kidding. It's delirious garbage, and the songs are ass. But The Apple is the best kind of belly-flop: a film wholly committed to a greater vision that we cannot possibly understand.

From deep in the vaults, the second recording we ever made was this conversation about Heathers, the ultimate high school movie. We were still figuring out our equipment (the first episode we recorded didn't work at all!) and only the audio is usable, but Heathers is one of our favorite movies. And maybe one of yours! We had a good talk, and I think it was worth preserving.

Recorded during some Halloween past, but inexplicably released around Valentine's day, this episode is all about The Babadook! Two adult brothers who started a podcast after their brother died, talking about a movie where the monster is a living incarnation of grief and loss? That's an obvious recipe for upbeat entertainment! But that isn't all. We're also here to dish about Halloween plans, amazing costumes, and the innate joylessness of those who don't participate! And for an episode with meaningful themes about the cost of unprocessed emotional trauma, we spend a surprising amount of time talking about the movie "Edward Penishands." And about Predator, singing with the voice of John Denver.

Maybe the world didn't want THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME in 1988, but man, the world sure needed it. And still does. Your hosts, the meandering Fagan brothers, traditionally take a more cynical view of movies, but one might accurately describe this one as "magical" or "a feel-good movie" and guess what? We fucking love it. The story of a talented but unsuccessful special-effects filmmaker attempting to navigate the bureaucracy and ineptitude of Hollywood, THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME is a piece of celluloid origami that is about the making of itself. And yet, that's not what it's about at all.THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME celebrates the persistence of inspiration in unpleasant circumstances. It celebrates joy and sincerity and magic, in a way that works because the artist himself believes in them. Writer/director/star/actual wizard Mike Jittlov creates good old-fashioned movie magic, and in doing so, he shows all of us in the audience that we can be wizards too. THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME resonates with artists of all types, reminds us of the joy of creation, and allows us to imagine a better (and more magical) world. And Matt really needed to watch it, because holy fuck, a better and more magical world would really hit the spot about now.

The "Special Edition" is the exact same episode as the regular version, except for an added droning radiator sound permeating the entire runtime. Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie.Ted had never seen Eraserhead at all, so this was a pretty fun experience for both of us! Join us in the bleakest Philadelphia, a grimy, colorless wasteland that is all the more perfect now - as a symbol for a world without David Lynch.

Depot Devoid recorded this episode nearly a year ago, but this week we lost legendary filmmaker David Lynch so we finally decided to do something about it. Here is the first episode we ever made about a David Lynch movie.Ted had never seen Eraserhead at all, so this was a pretty fun experience for both of us! Join us in the bleakest Philadelphia, a grimy, colorless wasteland that is all the more perfect now - as a symbol for a world without David Lynch.

In this first episode of 2025, the sparkling romantic comedy FRESH pulls into the Depot Devoid. Matt and Ted enjoyed this cheeky critique of modern dating, and now they're hungry for justice! Matt gets carried away, Ted tries to insert a disclaimer, but nobody is safe from their woke nonsense. Gnash into the new year and start FRESH with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan!Full video of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube

The 1989 Puppet Master, unwittingly the first entry in an infinite series, is messy and stupid and frequently incompetent. And one of our favorite movies! Matt loves any horror movie with a killer who only stands knee-high, and Ted has a secret fetish for anyone who can barf up leeches, but we would probably love Puppet Master even if it weren't obviously tailored to those interests.

Matt and Ted have a great time talking about the first two episodes of the Doom Patrol television series! If you haven't seen it, take our advice: watch the motherfucking Doom Patrol.This episode was plagued by technical difficulties (recording over Wi-Fi in the mountains can be an adventure), but I've done what I could to save the file. Unfortunately, the video component was too corrupted to use at all. Most of the audio is broadly acceptable, but I did have to ADR a couple of spots. I promise you'll know which ones!

The Fagan brothers don't have loads of love for the 1996 super hero fantasy The Phantom, yet Matt finds himself surprisingly charmed by a character that just doesn't have a place in the contemporary storytelling landscape. But they made The Phantom anyway! The result is a movie that seems uncertain of its own intentions, and never really delivers on any of the things it's trying to be.

Matt and Ted have a free-wheeling discussion about Hudson Hawk, a Fagan family favorite! We recorded this episode on January 1, 2024 and we're releasing it at the end of November; will our various predictions come true? This is the movie that began our obsessions with Sandra Bernhard, and Richard E Grant, and led us to such films as How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Hudson Hawk was a famous flop, and it is not without its cringey moments, but it's fucking funny!

Full video available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube! Comedy and tragedy intertwine this week when Matt and Ted discuss SPACEBALLS! On the one hand, it's a hilarious spoof that both of the Fagan brothers remember with exuberant fondness. On the other hand, the episode was recorded a while ago, on the same day that Matt got some really bad news about his dog. Revisit one of the best comedies of the 1980s, but do it with deflection, distraction, and tears. This is the Depot Devoid Podcast, and laughing in the face of grief is kind of our thing!

Matt and Ted Fagan catch up to the Scream franchise in what is still, at the time of this writing, the last entry in the series. But probably not for long. This episode was recorded well over a year before publication, and the future of Scream 7 has changed considerably!What hasn't changed is Scream 6. which is like a teenager in a slasher movie: horny and uncertain. But we still love our friends from Woodsboro, even when they do us a little dirty.

Scream 5 (the five is silent) corrects many of the mistakes of Scream 4, makes a few all-new mistakes, and generally entertains the heck out of us! Matt Fagan describes his perfect theatrical experience with the 2022 Scream, and even his less-forgiving brother Ted winds up having a good time. Until we have our dream sequel where all the dead Ghostfaces battle Pinhead in Hell, at least there's Scream 5!

Full video of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!Scream 4 is a blast of fresh air, blowing out the stank of Courteney Cox's Dark Palace, and filling the Depot Devoid with the delicious smell of Deputy Judy's lemon squares. The Fagan brothers also discuss dreams they've had that were inspired by slasher movies, and learn the true meaning of Scream!

Full video for this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!Scream 3 might roll around at the bottom of the inverted bell curve that represents the arc of the franchise, but the Depot Devoid Podcast can't just skip over it. Our dear chums Gail and Dewey are, as always, a joyous company to keep, but for a movie from a genre master (in a franchise that acknowledges the mechanics of good horror storytelling) it falls short of expectations.Matt Fagan loves the Scream franchise, even though sometimes it tries pretty hard to push him away. Ted Fagan is begrudgingly willing to continue the journey. Nobody is getting out of Courteney Cox's Dark Palace unharmed.

Full video for this episode is available on the Depot Devoid Podcast channel on YouTube!Happy Halloween, friends, and we hope you packed your bags because... Woodsboro Goes To College! And Depot Devoid Podcast tags along for the ride. This rushed production is so full of holes, it's a wonder the actors didn't all fall out, yet for some reason it remains a delight to watch. Dewey limps. Gail streaks. Randy is full of more holes than the plot itself! Come on out to our party, and don't forget: harmonica style is okay!

Kicking off the Halloween season, those meandering Fagans take their first slasher movie into the Depot Devoid! They're starting with Scream One, famously regarded as the best of the prequels to Scream 3, and one of Matt's favorite Courteney Cox vehicles. Does anybody have anything new to say about Scream? Probably not! But Woodsboro is a kickass place to hang out in. If you're not getting stabbed.Also available as a full video on the Depot Devoid YouTube Channel.

A full video version of this episode is available on the Depot Devoid YouTube channel!Our TRANSFORMERS saga comes to a close with part 4, in which Matt and Ted reveal their terrible, terrible ideas for a new Transformers movie adaptation. It has been a difficult journey, mostly because we had to watch the 2007 Transformers movie to get here, but we started this quest with two living Fagan brothers and we finished with the same number. At the Depot Devoid Podcast, we consider that a victory.

The destruction continues in part 3! How can you make a worse Transformers movie than Michael Bay, if you don't watch the Transformers movie by Michael Bay? I promise you, if we could have found a way, we would have. Instead, stupid nerd loser brothers Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan endure the most epically punishing six or seven hours ever committed to screen: the running time of the 2007 live-action 'movie' Transformers.Our goal, this whole time, has been to study the Transformers franchise and, armed with that wisdom, pitch to each other our own worst-possible-versions of a Transformers film adaptation. Our intention is to concoct a scenario that is WORSE than the 2007 Michael Bay movie. But have we set for ourselves an impossible task? When I asked my Magic Eight-Ball, it replied, "Before time began, there was The Cube."We're so fucked.

Our quest: to make a worse Transformers movie than Michael Bay! The great labor continues in Part II, where we examine the 1986 animated film TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE, which we know is a beloved childhood classic. But is it a good Transformers movie?Are you sure?Fun, sorrow, nostalgia, disappointment, butt-rock, and anger will all be on the table, in this smorgasbord of giant robots and galactic conflict. We have questions. And terrible ideas. Join Ted Fagan and Matt Fagan in the second part of an epic four-episode journey to destroy their own youth. Let's ruin Transformers!

People have a lot to say about what Michael Bay could have done better. But what's lost in that discussion is a far more interesting question: how could Michael Bay have made the Transformers movie WORSE?Matt Fagan and Ted Fagan embark on an epic journey to understand the Essential Truth of the Transformers, with the ultimate goal of creating the worst, least satisfying Transformers movie possible! In part one, the brothers examine their origins in the three-episode premiere of the Transformers G1 cartoon from 1984. It all starts here. Let's ruin Transformers!