🎃 Bayou Broadcast: Dale & Bettie Preview Svengoolie’s BOO-Nanza – October 2025

Filed from the velvet gloom of Dale’s bunker, where the popcorn is stale, the commentary is fresh, and the calendar is haunted. October’s here, and Svengoolie’s BOO-Nanza lineup is a séance of cinematic strangeness. Dale’s trench coat is pressed, Bettie’s parasol is cocked, and the spirits are restless.

🕯️ Meet Your Hosts

Dale T. Doll Horror’s archivist-in-residence. He’s got a trench coat full of trivia and a voice that sounds like it was pressed onto vinyl in 1947.

Pretty Bayou Bettie Southern charm incarnate. She arrives with bourbon, biscuits, and a drawl that could soothe a banshee mid-breakdown.

📺 October 4: Haunted Houses & Hollywood Madness

8:00 PM – The Ghost & Mr. Chicken 

  DALE: “Don Knotts in a haunted house? It’s like sending a chihuahua into Dracula’s castle. Trembling, twitching, and somehow triumphant.” 

BETTIE: “That man’s got nerves like wet spaghetti. I’ll be serving Chicken & Dumplings of Unease and clutching pearls every time the organ plays itself.”

10:30 PM – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 

  DALE: “Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in a decaying mansion of resentment. It’s Gothic, grotesque, and glamorously cruel.” 

BETTIE: “That’s not sibling rivalry—it’s psychological warfare in pancake makeup. I’ll be sipping a Nervous Nellie and whispering ‘Bless her heart’ every five minutes.”

🐜 October 11: Atomic Bugs & Suburban Terror

8:00 PM – Them! 

  DALE: “Giant ants born of atomic anxiety. It’s the Cold War with mandibles.” 

BETTIE: “I’ll be baking Firecracker Cornbread and keeping a shoe handy. If I hear clicking in the walls, I’m moving to the bayou.”

10:30 PM – Arachnophobia 

  DALE: “Spiders invade suburbia. It’s Charlotte’s Web rewritten by Satan.” 

BETTIE: “I’ll be serving Black Moon Pie and checking my shoes twice. That movie makes me itch in places I didn’t know I had.”

🧠 October 18: Mad Science & Mutations

8:00 PM – Young Frankenstein 

  DALE: “Mel Brooks turns the lab into a laugh riot. It’s a love letter to Universal Horror with a punchline in every lightning bolt.” 

BETTIE: “I’ll be frying up Brain Fritters and practicing my ‘Put… the candle… back!’ routine.”

10:30 PM – Return of the Fly 

  DALE: “Mutation runs in the family. It’s the sequel that says, ‘Let’s do it again, but gooier.’” 

BETTIE: “I’ll be serving Flytrap Pie and wondering why no one ever learns to stop teleporting with insects.”

🧪 October 25: Transformation & Tragedy

8:00 PM – The Fly (1958) 

  DALE: “A scientist becomes a hybrid horror. It’s tragic, poetic, and buzzing with dread.” 

BETTIE: “Honey-Glazed Wings and a side of mutation sauce. I’ll be watching with one eye closed and a net in hand.”

10:30 PM – Frankenstein (1931) 

  DALE: “Karloff’s monster is the blueprint of cinematic sorrow. It’s not just horror—it’s myth.” 

BETTIE: “I’ll be stirring Graveyard Grits and lighting a candle for misunderstood monsters everywhere.”

🕯️ Final Thoughts

DALE: “Svengoolie’s BOO-Nanza is a ritual, a rite, a reminder that horror wears many masks—some tragic, some atomic, some powdered with rouge.”

BETTIE: “And every Saturday, we’ll be here with snacks, sass, and a parasol full of commentary. Tune in, sugar. The ghosts are watching too.”