{"podcast":{"title":"Messed Up Movies","slug":"messed-up-movies-543962","podcast_index_feed_id":543962,"rss_url":"https://filmalchemy.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.misfitparade.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/8/8/5/a885eaacdcf562d816c3140a3186d450/Messed_Up_Pod_STICKER.png","author":"Misfit Parade","episode_count":873,"summary":"A podcast celebrating movies and filmmakers that embrace the unhinged, the insane, the outrageous, the off-kilter and all around kind of MESSED UP fun that you can't take your eyes off of.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T20:20:42.542033+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messed-up-movies-543962"},"episode":{"title":"Buddy","slug":"buddy","published_at":"2026-09-01T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messed-up-movies-543962/buddy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messed-up-movies-543962","url":"https://misfitparade.com","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/filmalchemy/Buddy_Spotify.mp3?dest-id=734312","summary":"What if Barney was actually a child-eating demon? This week on the Messed Up Movies Podcast , we're diving headfirst into BUDDY , Casper Kelly's completely deranged horror-comedy about a magical children's-show unicorn whose wholesome world of songs, friendship and life lessons rapidly descends into murder, mutilation and absolute chaos. And we are VERY divided on this one. For Griffey, BUDDY is the most fun he's had in a theater all year and his favorite movie of 2026. For Heath and Sam? A hilarious idea stretched into a gimmicky feature that never quite finds the characters, stakes or story to hold the insanity together. We're talking murderous children's television, Nightmare Buddy, dead kids, demonic unicorn mythology, Clint Howard getting extremely inappropriate with a puppet, surprisingly nasty scares, the bizarre final act and whether this thing is actually a brilliant piece of horror satire or just one enormous fucked-up joke. FULL SPOILERS AHEAD. Subscribe to Misfit Parade for more Messed Up Movies, new releases, horror, cult movies and everything insane, outrageous, unhinged and off-kilter. Support the show, join our community and help select movies for future episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/messedupmoviespod Follow Misfit Parade: https://www.misfitparade.com/","meta_description":"What if Barney was actually a child-eating demon? This week on the Messed Up Movies Podcast , we're diving headfirst into BUDDY , Casper Kelly's completel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3404,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/messed-up-movies-543962/episodes/buddy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messed-up-movies-543962/buddy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}