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 straight-to-TV sequel Encino Woman (1996) is quite possibly the worst film we've ever seen.

When unsuccessful ad executive David Hosenfelt is attacked in his home by a roaming cavewoman, he finds his luck turns as 'Lucy' becomes the face of a lucrative fashion campaign for a fragrance called Primal. Sounds like a reasonable premise for a movie, right? Listener, you are unfortunately mistaken. Grit your teeth as we recap a movie that was, remarkably, never re-broadcast or released on any home media. Although that fact gets less remarkable the longer you watch.

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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 phone becomes boy-mind-control software, and soon Zoe has turned every boy in school into an unwilling puppet, and she begins to reshape the world according to her own girlish whims.

If you think that sounds like a troubling premise for a movie, good instincts! Luke and Andy grapple with the ramifications of Zoe (played by a young Zendaya) gleefully shattering the minds of every boy in town, and suffer their own psychological damage at the hands of Jackson, Zapped's romantic interest whose favourite novel?... well, let's just say it might surprise you.

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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 question: What if you had to go into the jungle to find special diamonds for the boss of a telecoms giant, but the whole region was guarded by a pack of genetically-altered super apes that happen to look like men trampolining around in unconvincing suits. Also: You have brought along a gorilla that can speak thanks to the magic of technology, but it mostly wants to get high. Also: Tim Curry is here, playing the worst-named character in all of time.

We could go on about Congo and its variously unhinged scenes, moments, accents, but we already have! In this episode of Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast! So hit play and strap in, frankly.

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