{"id":10260,"date":"2018-11-26T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2018-11-26T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:57:15","slug":"beyond-retro-episode-61-the-toxic-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/26\/beyond-retro-episode-61-the-toxic-avenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Retro Episode 61 &#8211; The Toxic Avenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9ia0PZH7Pw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/mwkhp-a031e7?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=2&amp;btn-skin=113&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice and morality. Melvin (Mark Torgl) has a job as a custodian at a work-out club where his humiliating treatment by the musclebound reaches an ugly climax in which Melvin is forced to jump out of a window. He lands in a toxic waste truck, and by some miracle of modern pollution he is transformed into a pumped-up monster, heretofore known as the Toxic Avenger (Mitchell Cohen). 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