You may know John Waters as the goofy, pencil-moustached TV personality, or from his mainstream successes like Hairspray or Cry-Baby. But his unlikely career started with some of the most transgressive and outright repulsive cult films of the 1970s, including one of the most Unwatchable© films we’ve yet tackled. Waters superfan Robin Guiler joins us for an appropriately rowdy episode about the first and last films in the director’s “Trash Trilogy”: 1972’s truly disgusting midnight movie Pink Flamingos and 1977’s filthy Wizard of Oz riff Desperate Living. We discuss Waters’ button-pushing influences, if there’s any real craft behind his seeming ineptitude, and frankly, a lot of things we don’t even want to put in this episode description.

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