Stay Tuned (1992) & Real Men (1987)

Adam and Brian plop down on the couch and crack open a double-feature of John Ritter deep cuts, two movies that couldn’t be more different on paper yet somehow feel spiritually linked in their strange, scrappy, late-night-cable energy. First up is Stay Tuned, the warped TV-hell satire where Ritter and Pam Dawber literally battle for their souls through a gauntlet of twisted channel parodies. We dig into the film’s cartoonish visual inventiveness, its ahead-of-its-time media cynicism, and why Ritter’s everyman charm still anchors the madness.

Then we jump over to Real Men, the offbeat buddy...