Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt. Matt Damon. Ben Affleck. They all passed. So we got Brendan Fraser and his perfect bangs, and somehow it made $400 million.

This week Kyle and Seth bring back comedian Dustin Chaffin for a second round — and yes, they were already laughing before they hit record. The topic is The Mummy (1999), a movie that Roger Ebert himself said he couldn't defend on a single technical level and still couldn't stop enjoying. That about sums up the energy of this episode.

We get into why Brendan Fraser plays every scene — the smart ones, the scary ones, the romantic ones — with the exact same expression, what it means that 0% of this movie was filmed in Egypt, and why the cat scene breaks the whole internal logic of the film. We also cover the genuinely wild production history: Clive Barker, George Romero, and Wes Anderson were ...