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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! After a group of ordinary masked wrestlers disappears during a night of celebration, they turn to the best of them to locate the missing in 1966's “the Copper Helmsman and the Devil's Barkeep (Capitán Bueno y la Ratón Cabeza).”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! An eleventh hour medical breakthrough gives a man a healthy life. Having already cleared off his bucket list, he’s left in limbo until his favorite nurse offers a new path helping others in 2009’s “Chasing Life.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! As her journal starts recording other people's days and innermost thoughts, a sardonic teenager must examine her own assumed sense of superiority to her high school peers. Read along with 2005's “Sigh, Penelope, Sigh.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Derek has adjusted to vampirism with his love for all time Theodora, overcoming their thousand years and three foot height difference. The next challenge is a world tour visiting her progeny in 1991's “Bite Sighs & Ready to Travel.”

…Not even the Muppets could save this game. (…Though there’s a movie premise to think about. THE MUPPETS TAKE THE WORLD CUP…) 😀

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Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! 'til death do us part? Flapper ghost Phebe and her living beau Devin are ready to marry, if they can untangle a curse, book a church, defeat a dead god, and save a down payment in 2010's “Triskaideka Phebe: Holy Ghost Matrimony.”.

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Opposing snipers in a war zone find out about one another, and decide to pass targeting information to each other to weed out the jerks on both sides of the war. When the generals catch on, they ask “Who Sniped My Sniper? (1972).”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! For Phebe's first date in eighty years, Devin takes them to Milwaukee for a show. The theater has ghosts, and something that scares even them, until our flapper steps in to sort out 2010's “Triskaideka Phebe: Screaming Room Only.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A traveling salesman leaves his estranged daughter his pet gibbon Mackie and his client list. Lois hates sales, but takes a chance on hapless Wallace and the three go on a new-beginnings road-trip in 1982’s “Gibbon Take.”

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Undocumented, seldom corporeal, Phebe Triska can't fight City Hall. What's a ghost girl gotta do to get some cooperation out of a tall, dark, han... obstinate bureaucrat Devin!? in 2009's “Triskaideka Phebe: Spirits Permitting.”

It occurred to me, half-asleep, that while the Joker has a certain archetypal narrative power, he's static. His changes aren't developmental. The Joker tells you about Batman. Harley Quinn is more interesting because as a character she can grow. Harley Quinn tells you about herself.

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! She’s a computer programmer, he’s an international artsy fabric sculptor, and when they meet cute and fall in love everyone knows they’re wrong for each other—except their exes! Meddlers are to blame in 2007’s “Thread and Line.”

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Phebe Triska 'lives' a normal life, until her landlord finds something on the shores of Lake Michigan. For a ghost woman trying to avoid the supernatural, she sure has a way with weirds in 2009's “Triskaideka Phebe: Lakeside Boo.”

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What's the food that "happens to you"? For me, it's pizza or bagels. When working in an office, bagels just happened. In some house configurations, it was pizza. Other people would ask for it or bring it so often I never actually wanted for it, never said for myself "I should get it."

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A writer dissatisfied with the movies built on her novels and the star under a decade contract agree to make their public personas toxic enough to kill the franchise. They find love in the ruins of “Sequels and Suffering (2014).”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Freed from New York hotel room (12b), the ghost of a flapper travels to Wisconsin to revisit her roots. Sheboygan is a little less sleepy and a whole lot more haunted than she remembers in 2008's “Triskaideka Phebe: Hometown Ghost.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Fred Bristol planned to send his kids to summer camp and his wife to mother’s for eight weeks, but when it’s all canceled, he snaps, moves into the shed, and communicates by tin-can telephone in 1957’s “Mr. Bristol’s Summer Palace.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A timid cartographer is mistaken for a explorer and fêted at the Des Moines Explorers Society. The president's daughter has him sussed out, but he rises to the occasion for smaller heroisms in “the Map is Not the Territory (1933).”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The radio show “the Stoat” was adapted for the Saturday serials with Gerard Bailey as the eponymous, fedora'd force for justice. Fun, but it drips jingoism even by 1936 standards. Watch “The Stoat vs. the Meditation Society.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! After a cultist botches a dark ritual, his hand bursts, letting his possessed finger loose to wreak havoc across the streets of Edinburgh. Follow the priest and the fireman's battle against “the Stygian Digit (1975).”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The civil war is over, the territory due to be a state, so the young ladies of the Nebraska Charms School for Delicate Orphans hatch a scheme to bring culture and romance to their frontier town. See 1949's “the Telegraph Brides.”

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! In 1934, seven candidates must pass through the rigorous selection and training process to become the first upper-atmosphere dirigible stewardesses. Swoon to the thrills and lack of oxygen in 1954's “Clouds at my Stilettos.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A Vancouver priest is transferred to Louisville. His parishioners are plagued by juvenile delinquency, so he reaches out to the teens and channels their aggression into a passion for ice hockey. 1952's “Teenagers on Thin Ice.”

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A sewage truck driver wins the lottery, but his ex-boyfriend 'borrows' the winning ticket in an over-complicated scheme to win him back. It's ruthless affection and middle-American intrigue in 2002's “Smellin' of Roses.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Will Deed is now a stuntman, but when Marty Shine and love-interest Grace Notes come to fetch him home, will he abandon success? Timmy the Ox plays a baby elephant in 1940's “Two-step to Tinseltown.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A scientist searches the hills near Nebraska Charms for 'magnetic black quartz.' The local gunsmith accidentally gets it into his loading supplies, leading to an era of hilarious peace in 1950's “Mister Blanque's Thirty-Eights.”

The stars align! The omens speak in hushed whispers to those cunning enough to hear!

For some reason I woke up with the phrase "Biblically-Accurate Chiropractor" stuck in my head.

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A triple-threat moose struggles in 1890s vaudeville until he teams up with a caribou male-impersonating juggler. Their stage partnership is strained by their off-stage romantic partners in Skookumtrope's 1976 “Song and Dance Moose.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Morose Vic’s lifelong friend Kimaya wont give up matchmaking her friend to happiness. The latest disastrous attempt provokes a rift that make them both realize the recurring flaw in her plans in 2004’s “Implacable Friend.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! This surreal travelogue features homeless man Glenn as he gives the seedy, comical tour of Newark, New Jersey from 9 PM to 6 AM, aspiring to leave it all behind for the exciting New York indigent life, in 1996’s “Little Box Blues.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Produced by a fundamentalist church, this film shows three teens descent into moral turpitude because they discover fidget spinners. Poorly written, acted, directed, and shoddily produced, experience “the Devil's Wheel (2018).”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Will Deed & Marty Shine’s cruise ship breaks down in the port of Île du St. Germaine. Timmy the Ox joins forces with the dark avenger to stop a cruel plot and steal a stolen sapphire in 1947’s “Two-Step to Grotesque Justice.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Produced by a fundamentalist church, this film shows three teens descent into moral turpitude because they discover hula hoops. Earnest, bad, and taking full use of the local parks department, experience “the Devil's Wheel (1959).”