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Join Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant as they talk about cinema's greatest achievement: Disney Channel Original Movies. From X-TREME rollerblading, to Mermen, to homicidal smart homes, there's something for everyone in these brilliant, baffling films. Also, usually the mom character in the film is unable to cook, and this is considered richly comic. Hence the name.
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Zombies
Zed is nervous for his first day at high school for the usual reasons: he wants to try out for the football team, he has a crush on a cheerleader, and of course, the fact that if the electromagnetic wristband he has to constantly wear malfu
My Babysitter's a Vampire
It’s every parent’s nightmare: you leave your teenage son in charge of your eight year old daughter when you go out one night, and thanks to his negligence she witnesses someone being turned into a blood fountain. There’s only one solution:
Mr. Headmistress
Tucker, no last name given, is a con man whose schemes have got him in a lot of trouble over the years. But when he gets out of prison and realises a couple of gangsters are still after him for a $50,000 debt he owes them, he does what any
A Sound of Thunder
It is the year 2055. Time travel has been invented and of course, people are using it for the only reason anyone would want to use time travel: to go back to prehistory and shoot an allosaurus with one million lasers. That's the service off
Camp Rock 3
Camp Rock is back! And so are the Jonas Brothers! And we're pretty sure that shape we saw darting around in the rafters was Demi Lovato! It's Camp Rock 3! When Connect 3 need a new opening act for their world tour, they know exactly where t
Gepetto
Have you ever wondered what Pinocchio's dad Gepetto was getting up to during the events of Pinocchio? You haven't?! Well buckle up, because you're about to find out and it involves Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing an accent, a weirdo professor and
The Adventures of Food Boy
Is the ability to fire food out of your hands a good superpower? You're right, it's too powerful. Okay then how about if creating the food makes you physically exhausted. And if you tell anyone you can do it, the food tastes bad. And you al
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Mitchie Torres is heading back to Camp Rock for another summer of fun, music and romance with chemsex bad boy rock star Shane Grey. But oh no! It turns out that the improbably named owner of Camp Rock, Brown Cesario, has a rival in the form
Invisible Sister
Cleo has a problem. She often feels invisible because she has an awful personality and no one wants to be around her, unlike her sporty and popular sister Molly. But when, for reasons too complicated to go into here, Molly drinks a predator
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
It's the 100th episode of Mom Can't Cook! and what better way to celebrate than by ensuring we don't have to watch any more High School Musical films, because this is the last one! Senior Year at East High is rapidly drawing to a close, and
Radio Rebel
Radio. What is it? Is it some kind of podcast, maybe? Or possibly a Winamp skin? If you find out, let the producers of 2012 DCOM Radio Rebel know, because I think they'd really appreciate it. Radio Rebel tells the story of Tara, a shy teen
LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! Return to Halloweentown, 28 October @ Leicester Square Theatre
Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast returns to London's West End this Halloween for another riotous live recording! Join hosts Andy Farrant and Luke Westaway as they put Disney's deeply-cursed Halloweentown series in the ground where it belongs,
Encino Woman
Remember Encino Man? The 1992 comedy movie about a caveman who gets thawed out and must adjust to life in the 20th century? Well, our advice would be to cling to that relatively positive memory like your life depended on it, because the str
Zapped
Zoe's only just started at her new high school, but already she finds her existence beset by boys. Stinking, rude, unfocused, noisy, stinking boys. Did we mention they stink? Luckily, through a series of electrical mishaps, an app on Zoe's
Congo
Andy deploys his 2026 wildcard (which is a movie we'll recap even if it's not a kids movie, TV movie or both), to devastating effect with Congo (1995), a jaw-droppingly stupid adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel that dares to ask the que
Mail to the Chief
Like any 13-year-old, Kenny Witkowski is more interested in playing Mortal Karnage than he is with engaging in politics. But that all changes when it turns out an anonymous stranger he meets in a chatroom is none other than the President of
Lemonade Mouth
Lemonade Mouth. It sounds like a disease citric acid factory workers get that makes their lower jaw fall off, but it is in fact a band. And not just any band. The most revolutionary, visionary, exemplary band that ever rocked a high school
Toothless
Can dentists go to heaven? That's the question that only Toothless (1997) is bold enough to ask, and also bold enough to answer: No. This is what dead dentist Dr. Katherine Lewis discovers after she is hit by a car and wakes up in limbo, an
Avalon High
High school these days is tougher than ever, what with the pressures of social media, the looming spectre of AI and, of course, King Arthur's evil half-brother Mordred, who is always shoving you into lockers and putting plastic ants on your
The Cheetah Girls: One World
The Cheetah Girls are back! Well, some of them are. It's complicated. But stick with them, because this time, they're off to Bollywood! Still reeling from Galleria's departure for the dreaming spires of Cambridge, Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua n
Escape to Witch Mountain
You know you're in for a good time when a movie features a 'witch mountain', right? Well, not if you've seen 1995's Escape to Witch Mountain. Then you'll know how it's perfectly possible for a film featuring a witch mountain to also be utte
Mouse Hunt
What if Home Alone starred a mouse instead of Kevin McCallister, and what if the Wet Bandits legally owned the house he was murdering them in? These are the questions that only Mouse Hunt is brave enough to ask. When brothers Ernie and Lars
Extra Helpings Feed Drop: Eerie, Indiana S1 E1 - ForeverWare
Mom Can't Cook! returns on 19 Jan with Mouse Hunt, but until then we thought we'd treat you to a feed drop of the first episode of our brand new Eerie, Indiana recap from Extra Helpings, Mom Can't Cook's Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast. Thi
Haul Out the Holly
After this year's Halloween special on Haul Out the Halloween, we realised that we'd already ruined the year, so why not do Haul Out the Holly for our Christmas show? It's not like it could get any worse. Friends, how wrong we were. Haul Ou
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Are the Jonas Brothers real? That's the question at the centre of 2025's Disney+ original movie 'A Very Jonas Christmas Movie', which is either grimly cynical xmas fluff, or a biting comedy about siblings raised in the spotlight that lays b
Teen Beach Movie
Mack and Brady have a problem. Their endless Summer of surfing, freedom and teen romance has come to an end, and instead of dying in a category 5 Kill Storm like they wanted, they've been washed by a magic wave into Brady's favourite movie,
Buffalo Dreams
Josh Townsend is having a bad week. His parents have moved him to New Mexico for his fathers' work, his new hometown is overrun with both buffalo and bicycle knaves, and to make things worse, he has to get a job as a fence repairman so the
Haul Out the Halloween
If you were making a film and one of your characters was a petulant manbaby who was obsessed with rules, spent half of the film in a costume store pretending to be Gandalf and could only become aroused by enforcing the rules of the local ho
Girl vs. Monster
It's spooky season folks, and we're hitting the ground running with 2012's Girl vs. Monster, an ooky, spooky, rip roaring romp about a girl who fights a lot of things that you could certainly describe as monsters if you were absolutely posi
Hatching Pete
If the Disney Channel approached you and asked you to write a movie about mascots, but you didn't know anything about mascots, you would probably do one of two things: 1) Go away and learn about mascots, then write the movie. 2) Say "sorry,
