As a warning this movie is very much a product of its time, and we talk about the content in it... this means there will be some discussion of consent problems, but ultimately the movie is too weirdly good-natured to go full Revenge of the Nerds.

Somehow, both specials have the same plot: Santa injures his reindeer, and it's up to the heroes to drug them so they can get back in the air.

First, we talk about "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", which aired in syndication on weekdays. Specifically, we talk about the episode "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad", which gives the origin story for two of the show's annoying villains.

Next, we talk about "Sonic the Hedgehog", or Sonic SatAm, which aired on ABC during their Saturday morning programming block. This is the darker, more serious, more boring one. Sonic works alongside the freedom fighters of Knothole village to thwart the grim plots of Dr. Robotnik. Did we mention that it's boring?

Suffering from a lot of the problems you'd expect to find in a low budget PG-13 slasher film, Stay Alive does have some fun surprises and over the top performances. But it's a lot more fun to talk about than watch.

First, we cover the 2013 comic book adaptation of Plants vs. Zombies. It's a cute kids' comic about two plucky youngsters to team up with Crazy Dave and his mutant plants to stop the zombies from taking over Neighborville. Is it profound? Not really. But it's a great way to read some cute jokes and see charming drawings of those already charming plants.

The back half of the episode takes a surreal turn as we talk about the 1982 Pac-Man cartoon. Animated by Hanna-Barbera, this is the first cartoon based on a video game, and boy do they make some serious leaps as to what kind of world Pac-Man lives in, and what kinds of adventures he gets up to. It's a sight to behold.

First and most awfully, we bring you an episode of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon called "The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights". DK is bad at doing gifts, and one of the lizards is lonely enough to blow up the world.

Second, we look at the Super Mario World cartoon where our heroes try to civilize cave men by making them Christian in "The Night Before Cave Christmas".

Third, we go back to the Super Mario Super Show to talk about "Koopa Klaus", mostly because it was on the same YouTube video as the other Mario episode.

We hate this so much, you guys.

In this episode, we look at the very good game show and the very bland cartoon based on the hottie amazon known as Carmen Sandiego.

Resident Evil: Degeneration takes place shortly after RE4, and it has Leon and Claire teaming up to clean up another T-virus mess. Also a mess: this movie. It's confusing and boring, and we ended up wishing it was just a game instead.

It's a bit of a stretch to call this album an adaptation, but it's a memorable time capsule from the arcade boom of the early 80s. Also, we really like talking about music.

If only it was that easy. Because what we have here is a continuation of Summer Throwdown season, where our opinion is split on whether this is a good TV show, a good adaptation, or neither.

Despite its star studded cast, we found very little to love in this movie that's both a bad story and a bad adaptation. Come listen to how this fell apart, and almost took Square with it.

However, revisiting this movie directed by monsters has revealed something surprising: While it's a horrible adaptation, it's really fun to watch. The casting is ridiculous, the set and costume design is completely wrong, and it plays fast and loose with the source material in ways that make it a fascinating watch.

Of course it's brainless. The action is dumb, and the way it's choreographed and shot reeks of "The Matrix just came out". The accents are all over the place. But it's fun, breezy, and faithful to the source material in a way that has proven to be rare in the film medium. Listen in for the scoop, and maybe give this one a rental.

Alone in the Dark is about as successful as an adaptation as it is as a film... not at all. You have a main character who dresses like Edward Carnby, and some supernatural stuff happening, but that's where it stops. Instead, we dredge the Z-list to create an action movie where Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, and Tara Reid grapple to see who has the least charisma. Seriously, this thing is a master class.

The commonalities between the Maniac Mansion TV show and its source material are scant and superficial. In that way, it's a very poor adaptation. However, you can listen in to hear us praise the show's completely bizarre tone, and strange, uber-Canadian SCTV sense of humor.

We're not talking about that show.

Instead, we're talking about the soulless and bafflingly-paced miniseries that was originally released alongside Pokémon X and Y. Listen to hear us talk about how Origins jettisons the humor and character of the Pokémon universe in favor of rote representations of the rules of the game.

A good sequel has similar requirements to a good adaptation: It must honor the source material. While Advent Children takes us back to the same world as the beloved Final Fantasy VII, and shows us many of the same characters, it ignores and squanders the good things about that world, and those characters. What's left is characters who forgot their growth, fighting the same battles over and over again through incomprehensible and interminable actions sequences. It's the pits.

We really didn't intend to do another Resident Evil movie, but here we are. Take Doom, remove all of the action, and take away Hell. Add in ridiculous non-science about extra chromosomes encoding the human soul, and you have just another zombie movie with an incredibly ill-advised first-person segment.

Gary and Kole go in-depth on how Resident Evil fails as an action movie AND as a Resident Evil adaptation, hitting it hard for being an incoherent and insulting mess.