It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Fantastic Four: First Steps With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Johnny Storm fundamentally misunderstanding just about every Beach Boys lyric in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re taking a look at The Fantastic Four: First Steps from 2025, and joining Tim for a chat about Johnny Storm fundamentally misunderstanding just about every Beach Boys lyric is writer Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about the logistics of giving birth in zero gravity, The Finchy Pink Panther and why anyone would complain that Silver Boobs are ‘woke’, and what does any of this have to do with the Multiversal Mr. Troop from Trumpton? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Gabby on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about X-Men: X2 here, Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here, Loki here and here and Deadpool And Wolverine here.

There’s another look at The Fantastic Four: First Steps with Garreth Hirons here. You can also find Garry Abbott on Fantastic Four here and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer here and Mic Wright on Fant4stic here, while Elly-Mae Gadsby took a look at a fleeting appearance by an alternate Reed Richards in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness here. You can also find Al Kennedy on the Silver Surfer cartoon here and David Smith on Thunderbolts* here.

Gabby has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about Parallel 9, The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Discworld Noir, Feed The Tree by Belly and Craic here, Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons, TimeSplitters 2, They Might Be Giants’ Friday Night Family Podcast and Hard Candy Nail Polish here and Cricklewood by The Goodies, Harry Hill’s Fruit Fancies, The American Adventure, L.A. Noire, Wella Shaders And Toners and her School Ghost ‘Catherine’ here. You can also find Gabby on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Press Gang here.