This week we watched the 2000 teen alien DCOM Stepsister from Planet Weird, and you know what? I've never wanted to be a bubble more than I do now. If I could leave this ol' flesh bag behind and spend the rest of my days as a ball of gas, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Just don't poke me.

Featured drink: Fragile Essence

Episode 66 - Stepsister from Planet Weird

CW: disordered eating

This week we watched the 2004 wrestling movie Going to the Mat, starring Y2K Disney icon Andrew Lawrence and featuring a pleasantly surprising appearance from Wayne Brady. We're lucky that James has a history with high school wrestling, so we get an in-depth analysis of how a fat man roll works and what really happens when you need to lose six pounds in two days.

Featured Drink: Going to the Matador

Episode 67 - Going to the Mat

Happy holidays from the DCTP <3 We watched Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!, the 2011 DCOM based on the similarly titled Disney sitcom. This was the last Christmas DCOM for us to watch, so we're obviously going to cover it but we don't have to like it.

Featured Drink: Grandpa's Mints

Episode 68 - Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!

Happy New Year! We watched Zenon: Z3, the final act of everyone's favorite space girl trilogy. They put all their budget into special effects so we could see some very cool, definitely realistic space car racing. See if you can count how many actors are still here from the first movie!(Hint: it is not many)

Featured Drink: Cosmic Blush

Episode 69 - Zenon: Z3

This week we watched Pixel Perfect, the 2004 DCOM that predicted holographic performers and the metaverse years before they became a reality. Now if someone could also make the holographic cats real, that'd be great. The movie stars "Phil of the Future" lead Raviv Ullman, thus solidifying his status as Disney's "future guy."

Featured Drink: Mind Eraser 2.0

Episode 70 - Pixel Perfect

This week we watched Princess Protection Program, the 2009 DCOM starring Disney Channel powerhouses Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato (and Cousin Greg!). The IMDb trivia section for this movie says that Demi and Selena were best friends while making this movie but "their friendship is now over." So dramatic. It does also say that Jeff Garlin is in this movie, and we're not so sure about that one.

Featured Drink: Costa Luna Piña Colada

Episode 71 - Princess Protection Program

We tried to manifest some warmer weather with this one -- is it working? We watched Rip Girls, the 2000 coming-of-age DCOM with surfing, summer crushes, inheriting your own Hawaiian plantation... y'know, normal teenager stuff. We have a lot to say about this DCOM dad, and we invited our mom's friend Betty to the studio for a few words.

Featured Drink: Hawaiian Punch Punch

Episode 72 - Rip Girls

This week we've got a DCOM that for whatever reason never made it to Disney's streaming service, so we had to watch it in 240p on some website that opens a pop-up every time you click something. We watched The Jennie Project, the 2001 film about a chimpanzee who joins a modern American family and learns to use sign language. The parents are on the brink of divorce and the son worries his dad doesn't love him anymore, but the chimp drives a car which I guess is fun.

Featured Drink: Blonde Jennie

Episode 73 - The Jennie Project

I have always said that the legend of King Arthur would be more interesting if it took place in Des Moines. This week we watched Avalon High, the 2010 DCOM based on the Meg Cabot book of the same name. It may not have many sword fights or dragons, but it does have infidelity, a guy with "That's So Raven" psychic powers, and a lot of failed attempts at American accents. Fun!

Featured Drink: Sagewater from the North

Episode 74 - Avalon High

We're mixing it up for our 75th episode extravaganza! We've watched a lot of DCOMs, and even though we haven't seen them all, we thought it would be fun to take our 16 favorite movies and pit them against each other until there's only one left: the #1 DCOM, better than all the others.  So go make your favorite Tipsy Panel cocktail and join us to find out if our #1 movie is yours too!

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Episode 75 - The DCTP Ultimate Bracket Showdown of the Stars and Beyond

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Episode 72 - Rip Girls

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