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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney, Charlene Lydon and Bren Murphy, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

This week, the third season of Don Mancini’s Chucky.

A year after disappearing, the killer doll Chucky reappears in the most unexpected of places: the White House. However, Chucky is not his usual self. His hair is greying. His plastic skin is wrinkling. After four decades as an unstoppable – and unkillable – murdering maniac, Chucky faces his own mortality. Meanwhile, actress, poker champion and mass murderer Jennifer Tilly finds herself on trial for her life.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best television shows of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 12th August 2024.
• Chucky at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Michael Gingold reviews Millennium at Fangoria, September 2024.
• Jessica Brown at The BBC ponders whether cheese produces nightmares, November 2021.
• Mark Astley at Dairy Reporter ponders a report from the British Cheese Board about cheese’s capacity to produce nightmares, July 2014.
• Don Mancini talks to SyFy Wire about the decision to bring Chucky to the White House, October 2023.
• Don Mancini talks to Daily Dead about setting the third season of Chucky in the White House, April 2024.
• Theresa Vargas at The Washington Post reports on the hauntings of the White House, October 2017.
• Arthur Krock at The New York Times considers accounts of ghosts in the White House, June 1955.
• Emily St. James at Vox explores the possibility of Richard Nixon’s resignation as a branching moment in the West Wing universe, November 2020.
• Matthew Kresal at Sea Lion Press considers The West Wing as an alternate universe, October 2020.
• The Washington Post reports on the power cut to the White House, April 2015.
• Devon Sawa taks SyFy on a tour of the White House from Chucky, October 2023.
• Rob Walker at Object of the Week considers the obsession with “the Diet Coke Button”, January 2021.
• Kathryn Krawczyk at The Week considers Biden’s decision to remove “the Diet Coke button” from the Oval Office, January 2021.
• John Sqires at Bloody Disgusting reports on Chucky‘s current status in renewal limbo, July 2024.
• Ritika Singh at Coming Soon ponders whether Chucky will be renewed for a fourth season, July 2024.
• Don Mancini talks to ScreenRant about his plans for the future of the cinematic and televisual Chucky franchises, April 2024.
• Brad Miska at Bloody Disgusting reports on the decision to split the third season of Chucky, September 2023.
• Bill Blakemore at The Washington Post considers the subtext of The Shining, July 1987.
• James Grebey at SyFy contemplates the influence of The Shining on the production design of the White House in Chucky, September 2023.
• Don Mancini teases the idea of “Chucky in space” with ScreenRant, February 2024.
• Paul McDonnell and Ben Hanbury talk to IndieWire about designing the opening credits for the Chucky television show, October 2022.
• Nina Braca at Uproxx contemplates the feud between Chucky and M3GAN, April 2024.
• Don Mancini talks to Out about the feud between Chucky and M3GAN, October 2023.
• Brad and Fiona Dourif talk to Vice about their understanding of Chucky’s internal psychology, October 2017.
• Brad Dourif talks to Fangoria about retiring from acting, aside from the Chucky franchise, April 2024.
• Brad and Fiona Dourif talk to Bloody Disgusting about working together on the third season of Chucky, April 2024.
• The cast of Chucky talks to SyFy about working on set with Brad Dourif during the third season of Chucky, April 2024.
• Brad and Fiona Dourif talks to Daily Dead about working together on the third season of Chucky, May 2024.
• John Waters talks to SyFy about returning to the Child’s Play franchise, December 2023.
• The cast of Chucky talk to Collider about what it was like to work with John Waters, April 2024.
• Don Mancini talks to Variety about casting Nia Vardalos, Kenan Thompson and Sarah Sherman in the third season of Chucky, October 2023.
• Don Mancini talks to TVLine about casting Nia Vardalos in the third season of Chucky, October 2023.
• Don Mancini talks to The A.V. Club about keeping the Chucky franchise fresh and dynamic, May 2024.
• Sarah Sherman talks to The Chicago Reader about her love of gore, March 2018.
• Sarah Sherman talks to Vulture about her own particular brand of graphic horror comedy, January 2023.
• Sarah Sherman appears as Chucky on Saturday Night Live, April 2022.
• Don Mancini talks to ScreenRant about his longstanding interest in the mythology of the White House, October 2023.
• Noam Chomsky argues that every American President is a war criminal, 1990.
• Eric Lutz at Vanity Fair reports on the Trump Administration’s mishandling of the early pandemic, April 2020.
• Meridith McGraw at Politico reports on the legacy of Trump’s suggestion that injecting bleach could figth COVID, April 2021.
• Naomi Fry at The New Yorker contemplates “the piss tape”, April 2018.
• Madeleine Aggeler at The Cut considers the various rumours and speculation around “the piss tape”, April 2019.
• Jennifer Zhan at Vulture reports on the allegations against Bryan Fuller, October 2023.
• Bryan Fuller talks to Bloody Disgusting about how Hannibal derived from his fascination with straight male friendship, December 2015.
• Jim Cummings, Is Now a Good Time?, July 2024.
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