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247 - Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
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“Can I get you anything else? Grappa? Wine? Cappuccino? Tickets to a Lakers game? …cheesecake? Double-A batteries? Land in Montana?”
Sketch-tember continues as we discuss this disappointing cinematic effort from the famed Canadian sketch comedy troupe! Along the way, we discuss our histories with “The Kids in the Hall,” the reason behind this film’s signature lack of Dave Foley, which Kid in the Hall makes the best lady, and extended riffs on this release week’s box office offerings!
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Transcript
Introduction and Banter
00:00:22
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the disenfranchised podcast where that podcast all about those franchises of one the films that fancy themselves full-fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film.
00:00:34
Speaker
geez I'm your host. No, please, Tucker, as you were. my sorry well
00:00:42
Speaker
i didn't think i was going to cough so much. Do you want to restart it or should we just go with it? No, we're in it now. well I'm not going to repeat all that. That's fucking fool's errand. um But no, go feel free. Reach out in front of you there. take a Grab a handful of stummies if you want.
00:00:57
Speaker
I'm your host, Stephen Foxworthy. Joining me as always, the man for whom the handcuffs really were his idea. It's Tucker. Hey, Tucker. Hello, Steven.
00:01:11
Speaker
How are you doing tonight, buddy? What do you think? Is that better than the the cable guy adjacent that I normally try? This was an Animaniacs. Hello, nurse. I sort do appreciate the Animaniacs. Always, always and forever.
00:01:24
Speaker
I think I might just switch it up all the time. I never did the lisp on the cable guy one anyway. That's true. Because that would just feel a little... You stupid son of a bitch.
00:01:40
Speaker
Silence of the Lambs.
Sketch Timber: From SCTV to Kids in the Hall
00:01:43
Speaker
um Dr. Sweer. Tucker, we are right smack dab in the middle of Sketch Timber, a month dedicated to movies based on some of our favorite sketch shows. And this week...
00:01:57
Speaker
We have moved from the United States back to Canada ah from SCTV to the Dana Carvey show. And now on to kids in the hall. We're talking about 1996 bringing candy.
00:02:10
Speaker
but bringing handy directed by Kelly Macon, ah written by Norm Hisick, Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, and starring all those guys but Norm and Dave Foley, produced Who really didn't want to be there. No, he didn't, and it kind of shows. Kind of shows.
00:02:32
Speaker
Produced by, let me just check my notes here, Lorne Michaels? Hey, I would like to go ahead and retract a statement I made two weeks ago. Lorne Michaels didn't have anything to do with the production or development of SCTV, but he was just very close with all of those guys.
00:02:50
Speaker
I was mistaken. No, he is he is the he's the producer of Kids in the Hall. He always has been. Right. This much is true.
00:03:03
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So my bad. He kind of dabbled in a lot of stuff during that like small vacation that he took from SNL. Yep. There in the 80s, and Kids in the Hall was just one of those things that he dabbled in.
00:03:19
Speaker
Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed, he did. SCTV, not so much. Well, he he fucked with those guys for sure. Oh, sure. I mean, he wasn't technically part of that show. Sure.
00:03:32
Speaker
So many of the early s sc ah Second City crew was a part of the original cast of SNL, or so many of the original cast of SNL was pulled out of Second City. So those guys all kind of knew each other.
00:03:46
Speaker
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray... All those guys. ah I wanted to say John Candy, but he wasn't a cast member. was in SNL. Martin Short is the guy is the guy that went from SCTV to Saturday Night Live, just like Mark McKinney is the guy who went from yeah Kids in the Hall to Saturday Night Live.
00:04:06
Speaker
Wasn't there another? Kevin MacDonald was on the writing staff, but he was not a cast member. I'm thinking Michael Palin when he was on there for a minute.
00:04:17
Speaker
Oh, that's yeah, he he guest hosted a lot, but I don't think he was ever actually a cast member. Yeah, he was kind of he was kind of the Steve Martin or John Goodman of his day there for a while.
00:04:28
Speaker
Yeah. Or the Alec Baldwin, as it were. Yes. Like just one of those guys who hosted a lot. And also just showed up all the time, too, because they were just always there for funsies. Correct. Yeah, just always hanging out and going to the – I mean, those after parties were legend, wait for it, dairy.
00:04:44
Speaker
So, you know, those people would just come to hang out just to be in the after parties.
00:04:51
Speaker
Dude, yeah. Yeah.
Kids in the Hall: Unique Comedy Approach
00:04:52
Speaker
yeah um I will say of the sketch shows that we are covering this month, Kids in the Hall is probably the one I'm the least familiar with.
00:05:03
Speaker
um I don't think I've ever watched a full episode of Kids in the Hall. Well, Steven, I've got ah good news for you. um There is a channel on Pluto TV called ah Sketchy AF.
00:05:17
Speaker
Nice. That plays a lot of sketch shows. They play everything. They play Monty Python. They play Why Does Kids You Know? They play Kids in the Hall. They play Key and Peele.
00:05:28
Speaker
Basically all the good stuff. Okay. They play some Chappelle show on there sometimes. yeah Chappelle shows, you know, my feelings about Dave Chappelle aside is occasionally pretty funny. fantastic show all of the time. I do frequently quote the line, fuck your couch on a fairly regular basis because our cat loves to like just scratch the hell out of our couch.
00:05:51
Speaker
So when I'm doing his internal monologue while he's doing that, it sounds a lot like Dave Chappelle is Rick James yelling, fuck your couch. My minor, deeper cuts, I usually take a lot from the the ah the documentary news magazine segment on the the gang the gang's fighting with Mos Def, where he's like, hey dog, hey, you stepped on my sneakers.
00:06:14
Speaker
And he's like, we got your leader! And they're posing him because he's dead. like yes ah ah Yes, but Sketchy AF, they play Kids in the Hall, and that's Kids in the Hall.
00:06:28
Speaker
That show was perfect. ah You've seen this movie. ah Once you've seen some old Kids in the Hall, Stephen, you should check out the revival that was on Prime a couple years ago. heard that was pretty Because it's really, really good, and one of the first things they do is address this film.
00:06:47
Speaker
That's what I've heard. Because much like myself, they didn't like this movie very much. Right. Spoilers. Oh, there you go. Okay.
00:07:00
Speaker
But look, we're going to get into So what is your history then with kids in the hall, Tucker? Like how long ah you you said the show is perfect. Like let's get into your, because again, sketch timber, kind of your idea.
00:07:12
Speaker
And it's also, it's I'm a big fan of sketch comedy. i always have been. And that kind of, that started a little bit with SNL in the 90s. I didn't watch it a lot in the 90s, but when I caught it, I really enjoyed it.
00:07:23
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And then ah when I discovered Monty Python and started buying all of the tapes of Flying Circus, right around the time that I started getting into Monty Python, Rhino Video put out both, or all four series on VHS, and I had them.
00:07:40
Speaker
All of them. huge box set? Yes, I had all of them. Look at you and Well, I worked very close to a Sam Goody. I don't know what to tell you. um Touche.
00:07:52
Speaker
But then in the ninety s ah Comedy Central, along with showing... um Basically, they were my education on old SNL.
00:08:04
Speaker
Comedy Central was because in the 90s and early 2000s, they pretty much between every other show they played Saturday Night Live on Comedy Central. Correct. But they were also playing Kids in the Hall on Comedy Central. If you stayed up late in night late enough
Kids in the Hall Movie Critique
00:08:18
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or got up early enough.
00:08:19
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And that's that's where I found Kids in the Hall. And I kind of fell in love with them because like Monty Python, they played most of the women characters.
00:08:30
Speaker
And I really like it when an all male sketch comedy troupe plays their female characters. Why does kids, you know, did it too? That's why like that's my trifecta is Monty Python kids in the hall and why does kids because they play their own ladies. And I applaud all of them because they're all fantastic, which leads to a question that I will ask later. so I'm going to give you time to think about it.
00:08:53
Speaker
Okay. Who makes the best lady of the kids in the hall guys? already have my answer. I actually have an answer immediately. Is it Bruce McCullough? Because it's Bruce McCullough. It's 100% Bruce McCullough. No, it couldn't be. Oh, man. Literally could not be anyone else. He's so cute as a girl.
00:09:11
Speaker
So cute. Alice is a snack, I will say. He's a fucking cutie for sure. For sure. i mean, and part of it is is just like he's so kind of like small and petite himself. Yeah.
00:09:25
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it Yeah, no, he works very, very well as ah as a woman, and I will say. and um So, yeah, i i watched a lot of Kids in the Hall ah in the late 90s on Comedy Central, and I really dug it.
00:09:38
Speaker
And I knew this movie existed, but I was never interested in it because I saw the trailer and I was like, um, no... I like Kids in the Hall, but not even the trailer makes me excited for this. I just did not.
00:09:54
Speaker
I'd never seen the movie until last night. I was big of a fan of Kids in the Hall as I am. I have always avoided it. So I'm kind of glad that we put it on this month's theme because now I have finally confirmed what I've always known that it sucks.
00:10:13
Speaker
See, I think I liked it more than my partner who was watching it alongside me and called it, quote, the second worst movie she's ever seen. and Ironically, the worst movie she's ever seen was not Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise. What was it? what what it ah It's a movie. I'm not going blow up her spot on this episode. don't know.
00:10:33
Speaker
I might tell you afterwards, but I also kind of don't want to give you any information. People know who is. It doesn't matter. If they don't have her identity, then how are they going to connect to her? I've tangentially referenced her many times on this podcast. I bleeped her name out.
00:10:47
Speaker
Right. But, you know, there were the times when I've talked about other things. i will I will think about telling you after the record. I want to know so bad because I know my reaction is going to be like, well, then she needs to watch more movies.
00:11:01
Speaker
That's going to be my reaction. I'll tell you what. If you bleep it out, I will tell you. ah Okay. The movie? The movie. The title of the film. All right, get films ready. Let's go.
00:11:12
Speaker
it is It is a film widely regarded as a cinematic classic by many. Fire up your a**. Let's go with the bleeper. It is a movie in the Criterion Collection.
00:11:24
Speaker
Oh, speaking of Pee Wee coming to Criterion Collection this December 4K. What? I mean, I know you're waiting on a a** to enter the Criterion Collection, but it's not going happen.
00:11:35
Speaker
Shh. I'm listening to Reason.
00:11:39
Speaker
ah No, her her the the worst movie of all time, according to my partner, is...
00:11:46
Speaker
I don't even really like... that much but that's just objectively false I keep trying to tell her but I mean it's not it's not i I'm the only reason I don't like it is because I'm sick of it it's a brilliant film like I and I think that's kind of love words just funny sick of it that's I think that's where she could because it was one of those for for me this was Monty Python and the Holy Grail and despite the fact that I could do this I still enjoyed that movie but it's a movie that she had heard every quote from before she ever saw the thing oh god that's awful
00:12:17
Speaker
So like by the time she saw it, she was like, I hate this. I would suggest if we were having a discussion right now, I would suggest that she rephrase that to her least favorite movie as opposed to the worst movie she's ever seen.
00:12:30
Speaker
I mean, I feel like that would be more accurate. But I think for her, that it kind of runs in the same – it's all part of the same thing. Go get her. Go get her right now. Come on. no Come on. no Let's talk about it.
00:12:42
Speaker
That's not going to happen. Sorry. Oh, man. um Our debates are always so spirited. Yeah, that's part of the problem. Oh, man.
00:12:54
Speaker
Is that why we don't have those anymore? was wondering what was going on with that. but why While we're in bleeping mode, I do just want to mention very quickly. If you could.
00:13:05
Speaker
That's very fair. Yes. and In 2025. in in Specifically 2025 presidential inauguration. Because I don't know if you've noticed this, Stephen, but I don't bleep out 2025. Everything else gets bleeped out, but 2025 stays in.
00:13:19
Speaker
I don't know why. i just decided that. I'm the master of my own destiny. I was going to say, this is a decision that you've made for yourself,
Comedy Shows and Anecdotes
00:13:28
Speaker
and I appreciate that you've made it.
00:13:29
Speaker
A couple other people I want to shout out in this cast. um You do get a ah a really fun cameo from Brendan Fraser in this movie. Brendan Fraser! He just loves them. That's why he's there, because he just fucking loves them so much. clear Indianapolis, Indiana native Brendan Fraser, I should mention. Yeah, dude.
00:13:48
Speaker
Just like us. Shout out hometown boy. And also. um And James Pauly. And Doug Jones. And Sashira Zameda. And Mike Epps. What's up?
00:13:59
Speaker
And Michael Jackson. Except he's Gary. Yeah. that's that's's The state. Not the city. I'm talking city specific. I'll tell you that story. Ryan Murphy. Okay. Also, I spent literally half the movie wondering where I had seen her before until I finally just bit the bullet and looked her up. Nicole DeBoer is one of the groupies in this movie, who I, of course, know as a huge Star Trek nerd as Esri Dax from Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
00:14:26
Speaker
With the purple. She's the purple. Yeah, she's the purple and gray. Yeah. Burn the cigarette on her. Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. That's her. You got it.
00:14:37
Speaker
ah yeah But yeah, i spent I spent like half this movie going, fuck, where do I know her from? Where do I know her from? Turns out it's Star Trek. You could have asked me. You could have texted me. I would have been like, Stephen, it's DS9. i I needed to get there on my own, but thank you.
00:14:51
Speaker
Okay. Just know I'm there if you need me. And I appreciate that. And I appreciate that. So so um let's let's start with the Dave Foley of it all. Because Dave Foley really, really, he at this point, he's officially quit the group.
00:15:08
Speaker
He's on news radio. And he is deep in news radio. He has taken on, he is the lead of news radio, which is a very deeply underrated show.
00:15:18
Speaker
Oh, not the time it wasn't. I would say it's more forgotten than underrated. Fair. Because we everybody dug it at the time. We were all in. That was a water cooler show for a while. That was such a that news radio fucking. And what a fucking cast on it, too.
00:15:32
Speaker
I don't know. the the The two bad things I can say about it is, I mean, it gave us it it it popularized Andy Dick and Joe Rogan. But other than that, that show fucking rips and is unimpeachable.
00:15:45
Speaker
I, you know, I think that. Andy Dick is a very unique character um because he when you see him in something, he's funny because, you know, he's a piece of shit in real life.
00:16:02
Speaker
That's what makes him funny in things that you see him in. as like um i mean I don't I wouldn't watch anything where he's an actual member of the cast, but I love his cameos and everything that he cameos in.
00:16:13
Speaker
Because you know he's such a dick in real life and you're like, wow, this fucking asshole. Look at this chud. But I mean, the rest of the cast, you got Dave Foley, you got Steven Root, Maura Tierney, the amazing Vicky Lewis. God love her. Yes.
00:16:30
Speaker
You get Candy Alexander, again, fucking amazing. And then, you know, the late, great Phil Hartman. And in that last those last season that last season or two, you get John Lovitz in there as well, coming in to bat for his buddy after he passed. like John Lovitz!
00:16:46
Speaker
John Lovitz! Dear John, before I knew you, I was nothing, nobody. He was at the 50th, he was across the street. ah the little place. Yeah.
00:16:57
Speaker
Oh, I love how much they fuck with him in that show. Everybody. and Every time. Yeah. The the whole – I saw him – I forget whose Comedy Central roast it was, but he was on one of the Comedy Central roasts.
00:17:10
Speaker
Maybe – I think it was Bob Saget. And everyone just just makes fun of him for being – it was. For just being a closeted homosexual. Like that that literally was every joke in at his expense in that in that show.
00:17:24
Speaker
my God. ah Also in next week's film. So we'll talk about that then. Foley. Oh, lovely. Yeah. and we ah Again, that was a that was a film I'm sure he was much more excited to be a part of.
00:17:36
Speaker
But yeah, no, he he only shows up here because he is contractual. He's under contractual obligation. He has to. And let's let's be clear, it's not like they had a falling out or that he was mad at them or anything. Like, they're still bros.
00:17:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's just he was busy and did not want to be there because he had other commitments, but he had to be there. So it was a real pain in the ass for him to even show up. Significantly less of this movie than anyone else. Yeah, he only plays four characters. Like, that's right that's real low for a kids in the hall outing. And one of them is only in one scene.
00:18:12
Speaker
um At least one of them is only in one. My favorite is just some guy. That's my favorite of the characters he plays. And that's a that's a two scene character. yeah He's got two lines across those two scenes.
00:18:23
Speaker
And he basically just shows up. And I was expecting a third one to pay it off. But that third one never comes. Wait a minute. shows up Just some guy.
00:18:35
Speaker
It's ah unbelievable. Unbelievable. But no, and i love I love Dave Foley. Like Dave Foley is kind of one of those guys. Again, I know him mostly from news radio yeah and then saw him again in A Bug's Life. But he's kind of one of those guys who just has like – who who kind of got around there in the nineties and was kind of shows up a lot, even now, like since then he shows up in a lot of shit. You just be, he's like the, the carry Elways of comedians. Really? He just kind of every while, you're like, Oh shit.
00:19:07
Speaker
Didn't expect to see him here, but there he is. There he is that that's that is. That is Dave Foley just showing up. And of course, because his name alphabetically is first among all the kids in the hall, he is first billed in this movie, which I also find very funny.
00:19:23
Speaker
Yep. But yeah, I mean, he just he just shows up and shit. i And I love him for that. He's in future episode of this podcast, Postal. um Because that was based on a
00:19:37
Speaker
video game so we're gonna cover that should we doing are we yeah it's it's we're gonna have to at some point should we do it in uve bowl theme month my problem with doing an uve bowl theme month is whenever you say his name on the internet he appears so i almost kind of want you to bleep out the times when i mentioned his name damn it steven Um, I don't want to do, I don't want to do a theme month of him. My vote is no. And not only no, but fuck no. I just, look, you make me watch a lot of shit, Steven, and I'm just going to put my foot down on that.
00:20:12
Speaker
You think going to stop making you watch shit? It's going to happen, Tucker. I understand that, but I know... All of his stuff is shit. um Now, I would be willing to do one of his films every once in a while, but please don't please don't make me do a whole month.
00:20:29
Speaker
Please. i'll like i'll go you'll They'll put me in the loony bin, Steven. you want me to be committed? Again? ah
00:20:39
Speaker
I'm not going back, man. I'm not going back. They don't let me have smoke breaks, but every like six hours, and that sucks. So funny story. When I was – I will say this individual whose name I will not mention again to make you not have to beep it.
00:20:55
Speaker
ah knows of Knows of me tangentially simply because at one point I tweeted when I was trying to watch all of David k Cronenberg's movies. um I tried to play it on Amazon and instead of the David k Cronenberg movie, it played one of his And so I tweeted, i really wanted to watch David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, but instead I watched this director's this movie.
00:21:21
Speaker
And apparently his podcast host thought that was funny and retweeted it. And so the director himself saw that and liked that retweet. So um he has read words that I have written.
00:21:34
Speaker
He probably thought that was a compliment. his His perception of reality seems to be a little skewed based on and your film output. Tenuous at best, yes. Who keeps telling this man yes?
00:21:47
Speaker
Who are you? Come out of the shadows. And what is your purpose? Why?
The Controversial Cancer Boy Character
00:21:52
Speaker
Why? why Be more constructive with your feedback, please. Why?
00:21:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's um it's ridiculous. um But yeah, Kisnes in the Hall. um I love all these actors individually. I've seen them all in various things. I think Bruce McCullough, probably the one I've seen the least.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, well. I mean, McKinney, I know from his work on Saturday Night Live. I know him from and Superstore. Superstore, yes. ah Kevin McDonald, I mostly know from as Pastor Dave from that 70s show.
00:22:25
Speaker
Yes. And I think he is hilarious. Scott Thompson is another one of those guys that just kind of shows up and shit. Also in next week's film. Oh, okay. There you go. he is the He is the linchpin of one of my favorite jokes in the film. So we'll we'll get to that.
00:22:42
Speaker
Right on. I'm very excited for next week. so He also directed the Vin Diesel film The Pacifier. It is worth noting. Word. Word. ah Scott Thompson did. So, I mean, yeah. Like, I love all of these guys individually. And so I was excited. And again, I've...
00:22:58
Speaker
The one kids in the hall sketch I know very well, and this is very on brand for me. You could probably guess it if you thought about it for more than 10 seconds. Just tell me.
00:23:11
Speaker
ah The Citizen Kane sketch. Oh. It's ah day fo Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald in a restaurant. I just saw this great movie. it's ah It's, oh, it was so good. It was about, and Foley's trying to remember the name, and he keeps describing the plot of Citizen Kane. It's like it's Citizen Kane.
00:23:28
Speaker
You're thinking of Citizen Kane. No, no, that wasn't it. No, was C something. C started with a C. Citizen. Yes, it's Citizen Kane. That's what it is And then eventually stabs him in the hand and then pulls the knife out. He's like, oh, I need one of those. um Oh, what he it's one of those vehicles that takes you to the hospital.
00:23:45
Speaker
An ambulance. No, no, that's not it. and it yeah it just That's the kids in the hall sketch that I know. That's the one. But yeah, so I was actually excited to see this because I was excited to get some experience with kids in the hall.
Kids in the Hall vs Other Sketch Shows
00:23:58
Speaker
I think that you would like the series, Stephen. What makes it stand out from other shows like it throughout the decades is that it is dark and cynical in a way.
00:24:12
Speaker
I mean, there are like Monty Python's dark and cynical. You know, Key and Peele can be dark and cynical. SNL can be all these sketch shows can be dark and cynical, but yeah. the the way they approached that sort of material is different in a way that i can't really describe you kind of have to experience it it's a little darker there are a lot of moments in kids in the hall in the series proper where you're like should i should i laugh at that but then you're like yeah fair yeah i should yeah yeah fair very fair
00:24:48
Speaker
um But yeah, no. so So of all the shows that i've that we're covering this month, this is the one I have the least amount of experience with. Just by virtue of the fact that I haven't really engaged with the kids in the hall. that much I would say for its time, it's very progressive, too, as you may have noticed in this film.
00:25:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah. they They talk about things that people were not talking about in the late 80s or late 90s. And if they were, they were just being shitheads about it. And in the show and in this film, a lot of that stuff is just normal.
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah. Like the the the lab person that Scott Thompson plays is obviously normal. A trans person of some kind. Right. But it's never addressed because who fucking cares?
00:25:30
Speaker
Right. At least non-binary. But yeah, they just refer to them as Baxter. Yeah. Like there's no first name, like a very kind of andra like just and relatively androgynous for the ninety s kind Yeah.
00:25:42
Speaker
um figure there's the another scott thompson character the the wally character is a man whose entire arc is basically coming out of the closet which he eventually does in a very monty python-esque song and dance number that i really appreciated i gotta say that that was hilarious to me oh yes that always whenever the first time i saw a great day by lonely island I had to imagine that they they had seen that and wanted to get a little bit of that visual style in that. Yeah.
00:26:17
Speaker
Because it's very it's very visually similar a lot of ways. It reminded a lot of Every Sperm is Sacred from The Meaning of Life. A lot, just the the whole dancing in the street and kind of everyone just kind of coming out of the woodwork to like surround this man as he's singing about his newfound sexuality. Or I guess not newfound, but like newly out sexuality.
00:26:40
Speaker
he has finally accepted it. the The fact that everybody else doesn't care. They all know and they don't give a fuck. He's the only one that has a problem with it and won't accept it. Yeah. They're like, we wish you would just like be gay. Oh, he's upstairs looking like i love having they do explain I love him trying to explain to the neighborhood like why he he was at the restrooms in the park, which that was the thing at the time. that i mean Someone, a younger person might not really understand that.
00:27:08
Speaker
Joke, but like ah homosexuals, even in the 80s and 90s, were so persecuted that they kind of had to do what they could when they could where they could.
00:27:19
Speaker
Right. And it wasn't always the greatest place for that. And it was always kind of in in like the in secret and seclusion in and and again, like places like rest areas that were. And I mean, you see that done to like less great effect in a movie like Dumb and Dumber. um Yeah.
00:27:39
Speaker
But like this is just – again, the joke is that he's he's walking in. Someone just going in to take a piss. Like a cop is going in to just take a piss. And then the next thing you know, like there's just a swarm of people storming out of the restroom. Like a bunch of men in various states of undress just kind of running out.
00:27:56
Speaker
And then finally you get Scott Thompson completely bare ass naked like just covering his – watching that's it like it's such a great button on what he's just he's trying to he's trying to tell everyone what happened and nobody is having it like his family everyone knows the door the neighborhood is there and like they all just walk away one by one like yeah okay
Movie Subplots Analysis: Focus on Wally
00:28:18
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keep telling yourself that buddy were the handcuffs really necessary officer actually ma'am they were your husband's idea And when Mark McKinney calls her, like, I don't know why he'd be out there when he's got ah such a fine piece of ass at home. And she's like, um, yeah thank you.
00:28:36
Speaker
Those are the, um. Which is, again, such a perfect response to that. And something you wouldn't, it like, you any other group in the 90s would have done, she would have been flattered by being called a piece of ass. But the fact that she's just like, um, thanks? Like, I know you're trying to compliment me, but fuck you. But what a weird time to do that. Like,
00:28:55
Speaker
Right, exactly. Like when I'm bringing in your husband for, you know, being arrested for having homosexual relations and arrest stop, like, yeah which at various points in history have been arrestable offenses.
00:29:10
Speaker
Yes, indeed. Well, I would argue that whether the sex is homosexual or not, having sex and arrest stop is probably against the law because you're in public. Probably.
00:29:21
Speaker
Think of the children. Oh, God, won't someone think of the children, etc. Well, I mean, come on now. It's one thing to see naked bodies, but you don't want to be walking around and just be like, oh, damn, there's somebody fucking over there. That's all right.
00:29:38
Speaker
Spoken like someone who's never been to a concert, but okay. I've been to concerts. I've been places. I've seen things. God, Steven, I've seen things. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
00:29:54
Speaker
I've seen shit that would turn your hair white.
00:30:00
Speaker
Thank you, Ernie Hudson. Thank you. Thank you. love Ernie Hudson. what ah What a guy. Not in this movie, tragically. No, unfortunately. I don't know what he would do in this movie, but gosh, he would a great addition.
00:30:12
Speaker
I mean, i just I just want him to show up in everything, quite frankly. That man is like sure in his 70s and just looks better than he's ever looked in his life. My God, that man ages like a fine wine.
00:30:24
Speaker
Well, Stephen, you know what they say. No, what do they say, Tucker? I'm asking you. I'm asking if you know what they say because I don't. I have no idea what they say. I was hoping you would tell me. just thought that you would know.
00:30:35
Speaker
I thought that you would know what they say because you usually are, you know, really up to date on that kind of shit. First of all, how dare you? I thought there was a saying, but I don't know. see i i thought I wouldn't be able to tell you. No, no, I'm not as worldly as you are, Tucker. If if either of us is going to know the saying, it's going to be you. Let's be honest.
00:30:55
Speaker
ah you know ah you know, Stephen, the black of the berry, the sweeter the juice is a saying. Is that what it is? No.
00:31:06
Speaker
i don't know why I thought of that. That's weird. I don't know why you thought of that either. this weird
00:31:16
Speaker
all right. So let's let's get into a Tucker. Why do you hate this movie? Um, I, you know, it just, it's not that it's bad. It's fine.
00:31:29
Speaker
It's fine. Let me tell you, I think the, it's sometimes it's funny. It should be funny consistently, but it's not. And that's very disappointing for someone who expects a lot out of this group of people when they get together and do things. Um,
00:31:48
Speaker
yeah Um, just the fact that, I mean, usually in kids in the hall sketch, I would say 85 to 90% of the jokes land. Like you would not fucking believe in this movie, maybe 10% of them for me.
00:32:04
Speaker
i mean, the ones that do really fucking do like, there are some, there are some knee slappers in this movie for laughing quite a bit throughout this film, honestly. And I, I feel like I may like this film a little better than you do. Honestly, honestly,
00:32:18
Speaker
But I think what's disappointing is that it wasn't the comedy and it wasn't the kids in the hall of it all that kept me entertained in this movie.
00:32:29
Speaker
It was the script. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. I was really engaged with the story once... it all came together because the first act, they just they're just kind of showing you, hey, these people are doing this thing and these people are doing this thing and these people over here are doing this thing and this unrelated thing is happening over here.
00:32:49
Speaker
It's not until the second act where you realize how all of those things kind of connect. It takes a while for everything to converge. I agree. The first act is the most dis disappointing part of this movie because it's not funny and you're like, what the fuck is going on? Is this...
00:33:04
Speaker
You're like, I first I was like, is this like ah and now for something completely different or the meaning of life, you know, where it's just a sketch movie? Because I'd watch that. and i would prefer that to what we got here. But after the first act was over, I was just really engaged with the story more than I was interested in the comedy because it's not really that funny most of the time.
00:33:27
Speaker
unfortunately and surprisingly, but I, like I said, always kind of knew that because I watched the trailer and you know, they always put the best things in the trailer and none of the shit the trailer made me laugh. And I was like, Oh no, fuck. No, I don't, I don't want, I don't want this to tarnish
Box Office Results: Kids in the Hall Movie
00:33:41
Speaker
the image. I don't want them to go out like this.
00:33:43
Speaker
I'd rather remember them the way they were, you know, right. They've since come back. So I don't have, i have no reservations for watching the film. I'm glad I watched it just to kind of confirm. It played out exactly as I thought it would.
00:33:58
Speaker
Never been more right in my life. Right. Whereas i I don't think I had any preconceived expectations going in. So i just kind of allowed myself to have. And is this movie a great movie? No, no, it's not a great. I would not call this.
00:34:12
Speaker
like And that's exactly where I put it. It's fine. ah Like I would put this second in in our month so far right ahead of Master of Disguise and right behind Strange Brew. Like I'm i'm putting this kind of squirrely in the middle of those two. Like it's it's fine.
00:34:27
Speaker
It's not – it's nothing I'm going to write home about, but – i If someone wanted to watch it again, I'd watch it again. And I'd probably have a good time. I'd probably laugh. I'd find myself and enjoying it.
00:34:40
Speaker
I think I would like it better on a second watch just because like that first act wouldn't be so confusing and frustrating. Right. and but think I'd be able to appreciate it more.
00:34:52
Speaker
There are things I really enjoyed about that first act, but it is very piecemeal because you don't know where it's going. Like you start off with um what I have read is a recurring character from the show, the taxi cab driver. And then you go into this concert. He's a lot more lewd in the show.
00:35:12
Speaker
He's a lot more lewd. I imagine so. yeah um given Given what I've read, that makes a lot of sense. um And then you go to the concert. And my favorite moment from that first act is the scene where you see like Bruce McCullough and mike Mark McKinney as like a couple fighting in the street.
00:35:29
Speaker
And then like Mark McKinney just kind of runs off and then you pan up to a window in which Mark McKinney is sitting there talking. like in German.
00:35:40
Speaker
And it's, it's such like, obviously like there's a cut in there somewhere, but it's, it's done like it's continual shot. And so you're panning away from Mark McKinney to Mark McKinney.
00:35:51
Speaker
And like, I think you see Dave Foley, like as an old man, like flexing in a mirror or something. And then you pan over and it's Mark McKinney in a chair talking to Dave Foley as a different character. yes And it's, it's just really, really well done. Like it's, it's so there's incredible. I had such a good time with that.
00:36:09
Speaker
there That happens more in the film, too. That happens quite a bit more. does, yeah. in the in the lab. Whenever you see anybody that's involved in the lab scenes, even when they're not in the lab, it's always them, and then they're also playing two or three other characters that are in the scene as well. Yes.
00:36:26
Speaker
Like you get um Scott Thompson. The party scene. Like they all play like three or four characters. he Right. Also another cameo, but she's barely in the actual final film. Janine Garofalo is apparently one of the people in the party scene. Like blinking and missing her in that scene.
00:36:40
Speaker
But yeah, she's there. Janine Garofalo, who is in Mystery Men, who is playing. Well, no, fuck it. This will air after it plays. Never mind. They're playing it at the Strand tomorrow in Shelbyville. Oh, that's cool. Are you going to go, Sam?
00:36:53
Speaker
No, I've got shit to do. No? Okay. yeah You and your shit being done, man. i got more shit to do than I would like to have to do. And I'm hoping to alleviate that problem soon. And I think that I can. So I'm hopeful for the future. Right on.
00:37:09
Speaker
I hope that for you. Girl, me too. Girl, same. um But yeah, like – yeah, but there's so often in the film like you – there's like shot, reverse shot of characters talking to themselves. and it's Yeah.
00:37:23
Speaker
Like Bruce McCullough I feel like is playing half the half the characters in this film like all by himself. I think he does play the most. Excuse me. Yeah. Out of everyone, yeah. And I think my favorite of those is probably Sisko.
00:37:37
Speaker
The marketing The thing about Bruce McCullough is he has his body type, his face can be molded into anything.
00:37:52
Speaker
Right. Like we said before, he makes a very attractive woman. He does. But he is also very intimidating as the Danzig-like metal singer. Right.
00:38:03
Speaker
And everything in between. He's fucking cancer boy. Bruce McCullough, I love everybody in Kids in the Hall. But I think for my money, Bruce McCullough is the he's the one he's he's got the most range. He could play any of the characters that the other actors play, except maybe some Scott Thompson play characters.
00:38:23
Speaker
hit right He could do him just as well, if not better. He's he's the star of that show for me. I love everybody else. But I think he's yeah.
00:38:34
Speaker
He's fantastic. Really love that guy. I think he's really phenomenal in the in the show. um He was touring recently. Also a writer on Saturday Night Live from the season. Yes, he yes he was Okay, there you go.
00:38:49
Speaker
A lot of crossover.
Lorne Michaels' Influence on Comedy
00:38:51
Speaker
There is. which I mean, Lorne knew these guys like he worked with them. And I mean, he was he he produces this movie and is the basis of. And he's in it. they Mark McKinney CEO character.
00:39:03
Speaker
i will say that that is the longest screen time that a Lorne Michaels impression gets in any form of media. It is the longest consistent Lorne Michaels impression in anything that has ever been made, I will say.
00:39:17
Speaker
So why don't you count Dr. Evil? Because Dr. Evil is based on partly on Lauren's voice and mannerisms, but not as a character.
00:39:30
Speaker
Whereas this, this is, this is just Lauren. If he were a big pharma exec, it's just Lauren. Yeah. Everything that he does is it's Lauren. It's like, it got the laugh, but did it get the right laugh?
00:39:48
Speaker
You know, it's... Marcy and were out at the... we're're We're up in the Hamptons with ah Paul and and John and Alec and...
00:40:03
Speaker
Yes. every I think Mark McKinney's probably the best at it, too, because it's so... I think everybody else's impression is a little bit exaggerated. Yeah.
00:40:13
Speaker
But Mark McKinney's is true to Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. will I will. I'll say what I, what I said in the text thread last night, when I first started watching this movie and everyone started referring to him as Don before we, before the pan up was done, I thought we were going to get a very different caricature of a kind of a nineties mogul.
00:40:36
Speaker
Um, uh, one that's a little more, uh, sadly culturally relevant in this moment. um I hate that guy. um But then and girl, he fucking sucks.
00:40:48
Speaker
um But then when we, we see the pan up and I'm like, well, that's not what I was expecting. And then he started talking. i'm like, Oh fuck, is this Lauren? And I texted the group that I'm like, it just me or is this character just Lauren Michaels? And you were like, girl, yes. And I was like, okay, then okay. I'm glad to know that I am not off base. Cause I was expecting Trump and I got Lauren instead. And I'm, I got to say, in today's political climate, that is a welcome, welcome thing to get.
00:41:17
Speaker
Lorne, better than Trump. I will say that. For all Lorne's foibles and faults, better than Trump. I mean, he's old. He's not a bad guy, but he's old school. That's what I'll say. There you go.
00:41:29
Speaker
That's fair enough. I haven't read his autobiography, so I don't know the depths of his terribleness yet. No, he's not bad. He's not bad. He's not bad. We all make questionable decisions.
00:41:39
Speaker
yeah This is is is fair. um and know what yeah I I know you have to. Hey, hey what do you heard what do you know about me, Steven? Who told you this? Well, let's just say I know people who know people and those people are you.
00:41:57
Speaker
Oh, I do be blabbing. I only overshare with friends, though. Like, you know what I hate is when people I don't know just be oversharing. hu Like, I'm sitting next to somebody the DMV and they're telling me, like, you I just got off a crack and, like, I'm going to get my baby back soon. and I'm like, bitch, I don't fucking care.
00:42:15
Speaker
Can we talk about the weather? Like if we got, don't bring me down, dude. Like you got your shit. I'm happy for you, but fuck. I am. Don't saddle me with that shit. At times I am prone to oversharing. So if I ever. Fuck that. That's a big problem these days. You can overshare with me, Steven, because we friends. I don't give a fuck.
00:42:34
Speaker
The thing with strangers is it's the whole, when am I ever going to see this person again thing? Like that there's, there's certain, some people think there is, and I understand it. I'm just saying, I don't go for it, but I understand it.
00:42:47
Speaker
yeah There is a ah certain safety in strangers because this person doesn't know me. They don't know my life. Like yeah okay if they're judging, fuck them, but I'm never going to see this person again. So I can really, if I need to, if I need free therapy, a stranger in line at the supermarket is as safe a bed as any.
00:43:06
Speaker
I don't know. And again, I'm not saying I do that, but. For me, then you run the risk of getting really bad and advice that's convincing. And I'd rather get that from my friends anyway.
00:43:18
Speaker
I know where they live. That's fair. So. That's fair. Yeah. And I mean, your friends have a vested interest in your well-being as well. Exactly. So there's somebody, some stranger could just want to fuck with you because they think that's funny.
00:43:30
Speaker
Cause people think lies are funny. Like I've never understood that the people who, who will be like, oh I just got off the phone with the doctor. Your mom's dead. And like, go with it for a few minutes and then be like, Oh fuck. I was just kidding. I never understood.
00:43:45
Speaker
Never got it. Doesn't make sense to me. b Lies aren't funny. I don't think I'm inclined to agree. i'm inclined to agree
00:43:54
Speaker
Anyway, you know what is funny? Straight up kids in the hall. Kids in the hall. And again, there's so many moments in this movie that I found really – I will say I think the Wally subplot, like the the closeted gay guy subplot probably worked the best for me, which I'm surprised about in retrospect honestly.
00:44:17
Speaker
But yeah, as weird as that is to say, that dad that subplot probably is the one that worked the best in this entire film for me. It is. It's pretty good.
00:44:29
Speaker
It's pretty, pretty good. Like I was saying before, I really, um in ah in a kind of disappointing way, i I preferred the beats of the script to the actual comedy. um But that was kind of the one bit that every...
00:44:45
Speaker
Every joke hit on that. That whole thing. you could That could have just been a sketch. Right. And honestly, a lot of this feels like these were kind of sketch ideas that got kind of abandoned and repurposed in a lot of ways.
00:44:59
Speaker
Some of them are very slight and feel like they were kind of sketch ideas that never really... Like never they couldn't flush out to a full script. And so they kind of just kept them as like these tiny moments.
00:45:12
Speaker
And then some of them felt like, you know, sketch ideas that were maybe a little too big for a for a sketch. And so they tried to fluff them out a little more. And and so for that reason, I think some of them feel a little slight.
00:45:24
Speaker
Which is kind of the way you should do it. And I think that they... That's something they learned from Life of Brian and Holy Grail. I just don't think that they executed it very well in this.
00:45:38
Speaker
I will say, I enjoyed both Holy Grail and Life of Brian. Those are probably the two best Python movies, honestly. Life of Brian is the best Python movie. I floated the idea of covering that as an Upsile Christianity Corner because it would tie in really well with this month.
00:45:53
Speaker
Can we all have time to do that at some point? then Now, can we have time? i don't know. Because i'm I'm starting tech week next weekend. No, or next week. So my my availability is about to shrink for the next couple weeks.
00:46:07
Speaker
I'm just waiting for the time where we all have just a little bit of time to do some Patreon stuff. Yeah. yeah It's been a long time. I'm going to have to release that. I've got like 70 movies to to cover for like what we watching? I'm so excited to talk about every single one too and every single one that's on my list too. I don't know how we're going to do that, but we're going to catch up on that at some point.
00:46:29
Speaker
Keep adding to your list. like I know it looks like it's getting overwhelming, but we'll figure it out. And that's not including novels that I've started and finished, comic series that I've started and finished in that time, television shows that I've started and finished in that time. Steven B. Consuming media, dude.
00:46:47
Speaker
It's what I do. I get up to shenanigans all the time. That's the thing. That's what makes what What Am I Watching so good because the three of us, we each kind of have a different kind of shenanigan we get up to with our media consumption.
00:47:01
Speaker
Like, for example... I watched Short Circuit 2 three times in a 48-hour period like this week. Why you would do that to yourself, I have no idea. Because it's one of the best films ever made? i don't know. Oh, fuck. hu Unenfranchised? Let's do it. What?
00:47:19
Speaker
which I recently found out he actually was. I always denied that because Fisher Steven does have, has naturally kind of olive skin. right But I did, my sister did show me a thing the other day.
00:47:31
Speaker
yeah That ah proved that he, that there was makeup involved in that. Yeah. It just doesn't look like it because like I say, he has kind of olive complexion anyway. And he has like the, the, his hair and his beard are so dark.
00:47:44
Speaker
I just kind of figured that that like, it was a natural thing. Either way, it's wrong, but it's still great. Academy Award winner, Fisher Stevens, I think.
00:47:55
Speaker
Michael McKeon doesn't get enough credit for that movie either, because it's not the kind of role that he generally plays. And he is fan fantastic. I love to hate him and then love him in that movie.
00:48:07
Speaker
one of There is no better character journey. Well, there are maybe some better, but it's one of the better character journeys of all cinema. Michael McKee. what up short circuit One of my favorite jokes in the first season of the Aziz Ansari show, Master of None.
00:48:23
Speaker
is the fact that all the Indian characters in that show apparently thought Fisher Stevens was actually Indian. Like the the running joke of, wait, he's not Indian?
00:48:34
Speaker
Wait, are you sure? Like everyone's like, but he has to be. Fun fact, I didn't have a lot of interactions with actual Indian people when I was a child.
00:48:45
Speaker
So this movie was like really, that was the first time I had heard like an Indian accent, really. ah lot For a lot of people. And so but as I got older and i interacted with different people and I kind of, I went further in the world and, you know, became more cultured.
00:49:02
Speaker
I was like, man, like, Based on Short Circuit 2, I didn't realize how like dark-skinned most Indian people are. Because Fisher Stevens, even though they're putting him in makeup, he's just barely, barely brown.
00:49:17
Speaker
Barely. So barely. like He's got to be mixed, right? He's got to be mixed. And yet... There's an Indian gentleman in the He's Jewish boy from Brooklyn. He's a white boy.
00:49:28
Speaker
Fisher Stevens is a straight-up white boy. He is. It's that whole, like, you're Jewish, you can play ethnically ambiguous thing that Hollywood did far longer than it should have. Oh, yeah. Totoro, dude. Totoro and Al Pacino. Totoro, 100%. Yes. Because they both, just like Fisher Stevens, even though they're white boys, they kind of have darker olive complexions. So they can do Mexican. They can do... And it's that also like Jewish-Italian swap thing that a friend of the podcast, Lindsay Travis, has mentioned. Like there's a longstanding history of Italians playing Jews and Jews playing Italians. And Pacino's Italian. And Italians playing Native Americans as well.
00:50:09
Speaker
Right. But like you get like Pacino playing like fucking Cuban merchant of Venom. He's Cuban in Scarface. Like, come on, Al Pacino. You're totally Italian. What is that? Oh, my God. Yeah. A fantastic accent. That's what it is from a fantastic actor.
00:50:27
Speaker
It's it's something thing. I am not I've seen Scarface all of one time and I wasn't that big a fan of it. Look, it's it's a good movie, but it's one of those movies to where the fan base has ruined it.
00:50:39
Speaker
Just like American History X, just like fucking Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's a fantastic movie, but the fan bat fan base has fucking ruined it. True Romance is another one.
00:50:50
Speaker
Fan base killed that for me. That's much a bunch of sadistic fucks. They like take joy in that film. And I'm like, no, that's how do that all you don't know. know A lot of that early Tarantino shit kind of has that sort of like.
00:51:03
Speaker
Except for Jackie Brown. And I will know I think Jackie Brown is his turning point. as a filmmaker. Like it's where the nasty shit- Because you're talking true romance reservoir dogs and Pulp Fiction. True romance, reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Natural Born Killers.
00:51:19
Speaker
I consider that the early Tarantino oeuvre. And it's all fucking nasty shit. There's a lot of nasty shit. I think Jackie Brown is his turning point as a filmmaker where he's like, I don't need to rely on this shit. I can just tell a good story.
00:51:34
Speaker
like i could take Like I can take a cinematically from those exploitation films, but maybe tackle something a little more mature and responsible. Exactly. Which I feel like he, and again, to varying degrees, because it's still Tarantino.
00:51:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, to varying degrees. But I feel like those four films are his nastiest output for sure. Yeah. Like for sure, for sure. Agreed.
00:51:58
Speaker
but Well, you could argue ah Django, but then like you can't argue Django because like the motives behind all the nasty nastiness in that movie.
00:52:10
Speaker
Django's a tough one. I have a tough time reckoning with Django. rough. It's rough. I really do have a tough time reckoning with Django. I would like to go to the timeline where Will Smith is Django, though.
00:52:20
Speaker
I don't want to go to the timeline where he's got his way. and got the script changed. I want to go to the timeline where he did the movie as written.
00:52:31
Speaker
Because Will Smith had a lot out of changes he wanted to bring to that. I do not want to visit the timeline where Will Smith is Neo. That's one I want to. want just out of curiosity, because he'd be surprising you, dude. Will Smith's whole career is him surprising you.
00:52:47
Speaker
i agree, but also I don't think he's right for that. Like, I get why they wanted him for it, but I don't think he's right for it. I'm just saying like, it's hard for me to see anyone but Keanu as Neo though.
00:53:00
Speaker
That's, that's why i am such a fan. i have always been since the Fresh Prince, since rock the fucking house. I'm not even talking about Fresh Prince Bel-Air. Like I'm talking about Fresh Prince as just a rapper since then. I'm always a fan of him because he's always, he blows your mind.
00:53:17
Speaker
And then he's like, Oh wait, but did you know I could also fucking do this really well? Check this out. Almost like every five years, he's like, oh, didn't know I could do this, did you?
00:53:31
Speaker
And that's why I like him. and that And I feel like that culminated... I feel like that culminated in him bitch-slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. Hey!
00:53:41
Speaker
Because we didn't know he could do that. honest Let's be honest. We didn't know he could do that. I felt bad for both of them in that situation. But that's a really long, complicated conversation that I just don't think really has any reason to be spoken during the Kids in the Hall Brain Candy episode. we kind of wandered far afield, didn't we? Let's um go let's do a Wild Wild West Revisited episode and we'll talk about that.
00:54:06
Speaker
No, thank you. well You don't want to watch it again? Come on, man such fun movie. Fuck you. Get out of here, Steven. ah okay Bye, everybody. I love Stay. love you. Stay.
00:54:23
Speaker
Apparently the um recurring characters from the show, ah the quote unquote white trash couple, Nina Bedford. Also your police friends.
00:54:35
Speaker
I'm getting there. um Raj and Lacey, apparently. Melanie Bellini. Yes. The bigoted cab driver. yeah but The cops. And the the most controversial character in the film, apparently – and Cancer boy, dude.
00:54:54
Speaker
Yes. Both in the series and in this film used to great effect. ah But so apparently there is, i believe, a ah executive at Paramount who had a family member at the time who was suffering from cancer and found the the character in very poor taste.
00:55:16
Speaker
And um basically said, take the character out of the film or like we don't market this shit. And they stood their ground and really kind of dug in.
00:55:28
Speaker
um And as a result, like the film got a very limited theatrical release and barely any advertising attached to it. Yeah. um After the fact, Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald kind of relented, said, you know what? We probably should have like backed off on that. No, fuck that. The other three, Thompson, McCullough, McKinney, were all like, you know what?
00:55:49
Speaker
No regrets. Yeah. We're okay. I'm in the latter camp. I really am because it... yeah Like, I hate to sound cliche, but, you know, Kids in the Hall is a show that, you know, sometimes it makes you think.
00:56:08
Speaker
You know I mean? Sometimes you gotta use your old noodle to to deconstruct that satire, dude. And if you deconstruct that character in both instances of it,
00:56:21
Speaker
It's not about the cancer, man. Right. It's not about the cancer. I mean, I do understand kind of where everyone's coming from there. i guess, but come on Come on. Having having had people that I'm very close to who have dealt with cancer.
00:56:40
Speaker
Samesies right now, actually. i Right. So, I mean, I understand it. I get it. But by the same token, like, I also understand kind of what they're going for there as well.
00:56:52
Speaker
And so there it's it is there's a very... I can see both sides of the argument. um It's a satire about exploitation and it's the boy with cancer that's being exploited.
00:57:06
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That's, that's the thing. Like they're saying, Hey, no, this is bad. Like, come on. Grow a fucking clue. Like if you're watching this movie and you don't get that, like, come on. But I don't know that that's really, i don't know that that's made explicit within the context of the film.
00:57:23
Speaker
Is not? Within character scene. I don't know that it is. oh Did you hear the song? Come on. He sings the song. Come on, man. It's right there. It's right fucking there. They're like, come on. Don't. Nope.
00:57:35
Speaker
You can't get mad. Look, we're just showing it to It's right. front It's not even subtle anymore. Here it is. Bam. Bam. Come on, man. But yeah so honestly, i think when as as we kind of pivot away from the movie itself into like the box office things, the reason this film did not perform to the extent that it probably could or should have is has a lot to do with Cancer Boy. Honestly, because of Paramount's refusal to promote the film as a result.
00:58:03
Speaker
Yeah, but I don't think it would have done well anyway. this This is, and probably had the budget. I don't know what the budget is. We'll go over that later. but We will. It probably had the budget of like maybe a direct-to-video or a TV movie. This would have been a fantastic TV movie. This was never going to do business at the box office.
00:58:20
Speaker
It was never going to do fine It's like Mystery Science Theater 3000, the movie. That motherfucker was never going to do box office. it was poor the this puns It was for the fans, and the fans didn't even know about it.
00:58:32
Speaker
and evenve But if they had, still wouldn't made any money. Same with this movie. The whole thing with the fandom of Mystery Science Theater is the fact that the whole promotion of that show was keep circulating the tapes. it Literally, that was a show that subsisted on piracy.
00:58:51
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, and in those days, ah for a show like that, that's... how you would make money though. You keep circulating the tapes.
00:59:03
Speaker
Like for, for example, when I discovered it, I taped it off TV and I passed that tape around. I showed it to people and you know what? You circulated the tapes. Those people, those people the next week were watching it on Comedy Central at 10 o'clock at night.
00:59:17
Speaker
Right. So they they were seeing the ads. Like it was, it was piracy that led to legitimate, like proper legal viewing. Right.
00:59:27
Speaker
And I can get behind, That, for sure. Because like back in the day, it wasn't like the internet. like Nobody knew this or that. You couldn't just watch anything whenever. You had to be up at like midnight and just happen to turn it on Comedy Central.
00:59:43
Speaker
And you're like, why the fuck are there silhouettes of people at the bottom of this movie? And why the fuck are they talking And I'll be honest, before I knew what Mystery Science Theater 3000 was, that was, and again, we'll get to this whenever we do cover MST3K the movie on this podcast, which it is a future episode and we will get to it.
00:59:59
Speaker
Now, since if it's, I guess for the title of that episode, it would have to be episode whatever, Mystery Science Theater 3000 the movie slash this island earth.
01:00:12
Speaker
Because we're really, it's two films. Yeah. But it's it's one film. Because this Island Earth, we're not covering this Island Earth. That, to the best of my knowledge, was not intended to have a sequel.
01:00:25
Speaker
But it's there. It's part of the film. That film is... Anyway. um kids We can talk about... and This is an off-the-air conversation. This is a group chat conversation. Yes, I'm realizing that. 100%. As we move on. I'm really interested to know what the budget of this movie was, Stephen. could If you have anything else to say, sure now will be the time. Because I think it's close to being time for the number. No, I think i think we're i think it's coming time to land the plane.
01:00:50
Speaker
So according to Wikipedia, the budget of this film was $8 million, dollars which again is not huge. Direct-to-video, TV movie, do it. Comedy Central, put it on Comedy Central, then throw it on DVD. Fuck, it would have sold just as many copies. There you go. um This film is released in theaters on April the 1996. Oh.
01:01:10
Speaker
nineteen hundred and ninety six um It opens at, let me scroll down, number 15. I going to say you got to scroll for that one, Steven.
01:01:21
Speaker
I sure did. it is the third highest grossing film, highest grossing new release that week. Oh, okay.
01:01:33
Speaker
It must have been a big week then, or a big year, I guess. A lot of stuff carrying over. we'll We'll talk about what's what's on the on the box office, but um I will say this movie earns in its opening weekend
Richard Gere's Film Career
01:01:49
Speaker
$770,000 in its opening weekend, so not the kind of big bust they're hoping for. That exceeded my expectations, actually.
01:02:00
Speaker
It goes on to make $2.6 million dollars domestic and nothing internationally. Fair. ah Perhaps even in Canada. one But Canada is international.
01:02:14
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I don't know if we're counting the Canadian box office here or not. WTF, eh? A, indeed. At number one this weekend, in its second weekend, ah the movie for which Edward Norton was nominated for his first Oscar, a little film called Drogel's Fear. You fuck.
01:02:33
Speaker
I was going to guess it, and i was that was why I was going to guess. We just passed up an opportunity for me to look smart, Stephen. Damn it. Yo, it's so good, though. have you seen Primal Fear? Richard Gere, dude?
01:02:44
Speaker
I used to own Primal Fear, yeah. Yo, Richard Gere, though. He's good. Richard Gere doesn't, like, he's not a dude that's in Pops Up and Everything. Like, Homeboy only, like, pops up out of the bushes every couple years.
01:02:58
Speaker
When's the last that kills him and then goes back into the bushes? It started with Officer and a Gentleman. That's when he started popping out of the bushes and be like, hey, you guys need me to, like, kill this real quick?
01:03:10
Speaker
You know, he got an Oscar for that film. He did. And then proceeded to just do B movies for the rest of his career. And I don't understand it. I don't either. Richard Gere, the last thing he did was 10 episodes of a show called the Agency Central Intelligence.
01:03:28
Speaker
You know why that didn't succeed, Stephen? Because unlike an officer and gentleman, it did not have Joe Cocker singing the main theme.
01:03:39
Speaker
What you do with a thing? No, that's the one to you, Steven. That's the one to you, Steven. I think what you're thinking of... You fucking piece of shit. What you're thinking of is... is um
01:03:54
Speaker
Lovely, there's a way we belong. Where the eagles fly. And the mountains fly.
01:04:06
Speaker
Oh, hi man, that's one of the best ballads of all time. fucking love Joe Cocker. What a what an artist, man. Oh, man. What a fucking artist. If I ever got married again, i would walk down the aisle to that song.
01:04:19
Speaker
I think we both know that's probably never going happen. Look, I've had a wife. I've had a husband. Neither of them worked out. I think I'm good. ah you did you Did you mark a divorce recently? or We're working on it.
01:04:31
Speaker
Okay. All right. I'm sorry to hear that, man. Mutually. but no no, it's all. It's no, it's a, it's the thing that we're like, we thought we wanted to do this thing, but then it turns out some other things happened and that's not going to work out. And that's cool.
01:04:47
Speaker
Okay. But again, BFF. I'm here if you want still about um yeah no for you, man. I got nothing. There's no emotional product of this. Steven.
01:04:57
Speaker
Wait, we It's all business. And number two, new this week, a little movie called James and the Giant Peach. So it's not just James. There's giant peach in there too. The Henry Selick film.
01:05:11
Speaker
h Director of Nightmare Before Christmas. Correct. Tim Burton gets all the credit. He just came up with the idea. Henry Selick put that shit on film.
01:05:21
Speaker
I think that's why Jack and the Giant Peach was such an important film. James. I'm thinking Jack Skellington. um I think it was such an important film for him because like it carried over
Henry Selick's Cinematic Contributions
01:05:35
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style in a way that was more unique.
01:05:41
Speaker
And it showed like, hey, I can do something that good, but I don't have to put Tim Burton's name on it. I always liked James and Giant Peach. And I think now that Nightmare Before Christmas is so like oversaturated and I kind of hate it even though it's a lovely, beautiful film.
01:05:59
Speaker
um I think James and the Giant Peach is just as good and it's not beaten into the ground. So go see James and Giant Peach if you haven't seen it. Also, we have he directed future episode of this podcast, Monkey Bone.
01:06:13
Speaker
Oh, yes. That's not a good movie, but I love it for what it wants to be and tries to be. Tries so hard to be. and it gets so close. It's not good, but it is fascinating. That movie is so fascinating.
01:06:27
Speaker
And they just get right. They're so close. They're right there. na and that's what makes it so frustrating. But I do love that movie. It's bad, but i love it. feel like that cool world and Hoopramed Roger Rabbit would make an amazing triple feature.
01:06:42
Speaker
I also kind of... I don't mind Cool World. I'll say I don't mind it. Another future episode of this podcast, Cool World. We're going to get there. I've never unpacked that with anyone, so that's exciting.
01:06:54
Speaker
I'm looking forward to it. Because I'm on Cool World and they're like, what? we'll We'll schedule Cool World and Monkey Bone right next to each other, so we'll get a chance to really dig into those two. Please do. Monkey Bone is on my voodoo as well, so don't worry about having to rent that. Oh, hell yeah.
01:07:09
Speaker
In its sixth week at number three, one of my favorite movies of 1996, Mike The Birdcage. Oh, I do love that movie. That movie is so fucking It's such an easy watch. Such an easy You can just throw that motherfucker on any time.
01:07:29
Speaker
and just walk you're paying your taxes won't there it is in the background yeah like you want to give a full attention and also great actors yeah four or five great actors just at the top of their game like oh you put it on on a sunday and clean your kitchen while it's playing whatever whatever it's a fantastic anytime movie like you can't think of what you want to watch you want either watch the birdcage or to wong fu Here's the, thing and I haven't seen two Wong food to Wong food is on my list. I need to get future episode of this podcast. Please soon.
01:08:01
Speaker
Is it don't make me waste a straight up on it. It wouldn't be a waste. It would be an honor actually. Um, but here's the thing about the birdcage. I, the funniest, my favorite scene in that movie. And I think the funniest scene in that movie, a movie with both Nathan Lane and Robin Williams, again, at the top of their game, hamming it up. But the thing about that movie is they ham it up, but it's also completely fucking grounded. Like it's yeah an astounding piece of entertainment. Like there's no other film that treads that balance so well of being so completely insane, but also completely grounded at the same time.
01:08:37
Speaker
The funniest scene in that movie for me is the scene where Gene Hackman is just rambling on about... america and like the foliage in Vermont and the fucking like Purple Mountains majesty.
01:08:54
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I lose it every damn time. It is. And and Dion Wiest is just sitting next to him just nodding like very earnestly, like in that. And here's the thing.
01:09:05
Speaker
My high school history teacher was a politician's wife. So I know a hundred percent that character. And she is amazing. 100% that character. It is so fucking funny.
01:09:20
Speaker
That scene cracks. I lose it every damn time. it it i'm I'm like fighting back tears and really trying hard not to just guffaw into the microphone right now. I love it so much.
01:09:32
Speaker
I am also thinking about it and ah wiping moisture away from my eyes. Talk about Purple Mountain's majesty. And the the the best part about that, Steven, the best part about that scene is I always forget.
01:09:48
Speaker
Like when I start watching that movie, I don't expect it ever. I always forget it's there and it's the best because it's like, you out of your world oh, fuck. Here we go. yeah i forgot this was coming, but here we are and I'm so here for it.
01:10:03
Speaker
Oh my God. Yeah. it Oh God. it I love it so much. I fucking love that movie. The Birdcage legitimately, and and I don't mind telling you this or anybody this for that matter, that is the movie that I watched when Robin Williams passed away. Like when I wanted to remember Robin Williams at his best, I put on the Birdcage. Like that's the one that I watched.
01:10:26
Speaker
yeah And it is a movie I own on digital video
Affection for 'The Birdcage'
01:10:29
Speaker
disc. I have not upgraded yet. I also have the DVD. I fucking love that DVD. It makes me so happy.
01:10:37
Speaker
I might go watch the Birdcage after this episode. i don't I can't wait until you do. I wish that you fucking would, actually. I love that movie. I love it so much. It is so
Introduction to 'Fear' Movie
01:10:46
Speaker
good. um At number four, a movie I cannot say is very good because I have never seen it. Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, a little movie called Fear opening this week.
01:10:55
Speaker
Holy fuck, Steven. Holy fuck, Fear. Son of a bitch. I haven't seen it.
Impact of Mark Wahlberg's Role in 'Fear'
01:11:00
Speaker
I don't know it. Steven? yeah Can I tell you about this real quick? Because we seem to be talking really long about all of these movies, but for good reason.
01:11:07
Speaker
Fear, Steven. Fear? Fear is not it's not necessarily a good movie. Okay. But it's one of probably top ten scariest movies I've ever seen. Because Mark Wahlberg...
01:11:26
Speaker
is so terrifying in this film. And now that I've like, I saw this when I was younger and I was scared of it, but as I've gone through life, I've had stalkers and abusive people in my life and, and stuff.
01:11:41
Speaker
And so that just intensifies that shit. Mark Wahlberg is the most convincing psychopath the world. I have probably ever seen.
01:11:55
Speaker
i can't imagine why he would be so good at playing. He's so scary. Like, I'm afraid of Mark Wahlberg. I think if if I saw Mark Wahlberg in public, I'm sure he's a friendly enough guy, even though he seems like kind of an asshole. He's probably a friendly enough guy, like in general. I mean, let us not forget he beat the shit out of a Vietnamese man.
01:12:17
Speaker
i would walk the other way. Because he is terrifying in fear.
Reminiscing about 90s Movies
01:12:27
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hu
01:12:29
Speaker
Fuck. Like he makes you like you watch fear. And like I said, it's not a good movie. It's it's barely a decent movie. It's barely fine. But. He makes you feel unsafe in your home.
01:12:44
Speaker
Like just watching that movie.
01:12:49
Speaker
I gotta go to my happy place. Fuck. I hear it. Watch fear, Steven. Holy fuck. You're really not. Everybody watch fear. They don't want to do that. No, okay I need you all to join me
01:13:03
Speaker
this. Like, I don't know, like anxiety spasm of just thinking about this movie. I need you all to join me in that. You need to feel that it's part of living a full and complete life.
01:13:15
Speaker
Okay. is um Feeling that emotion that you feel when you watch Fear. At number five, the Martin Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield, Regina King film, ah The Thin Line, or A Thin Line, rather, Between Love and Hate.
01:13:32
Speaker
In its second weekend, bar down from number two, with Martin Lawrence. Yeah, okay. Thin Line Between Love and Hate's on cable, yeah. Love and There you go. at And then rounding out the top 10, we've got Sergeant Bilko at number six, a Foxworthy family video rental favorite.
01:13:50
Speaker
Oh, Steven, do we both love this movie? It's a future episode of this podcast. We're going to cover Sergeant Bilko one point. Did we both watch this like a hundred times within three years of its release, Steven?
01:14:02
Speaker
i think we may have. I think we may have done. Look, we have that episode. That's like the Step Brothers episode. Like we just became best friends in that episode. We're going to find so much room for activities in that episode. Because Steven, like you and I are the only two people who give even slightly a fuck about Steve Martin and I don know i have to wonder how well that movie holds up. I really do.
01:14:29
Speaker
ah That's why fast track that, Steven. Okay. As fast as you can track it. I'll figure it out. Because now I'm intrigued. I thought I was the only one who watched that about 30 times in a matter of two or three That was a Foxworthy that was a foxworthy rental statement. We never owned it, but we rented it a lot. Now I'm even more interested to meet your parents, Steven.
01:14:53
Speaker
and Well, if you're able to come to the show. We'll talk Bilko. You know, we'll talk Steve Martin, Phil Hartman. You know, my mom will have regular Bilko shit. oh And number seven. But it was so long ago. The Steven Seagal, Kurt Russell, Holly Berry classic. Oh, who cares?
01:15:14
Speaker
Executive decision. Who gives a fuck? In eighth place, up from 10 the week before, a little movie called Flirting with Disaster.
01:15:25
Speaker
ah but i'm sure it's great. leone yes Josh Brolin, ah Patricia Arquette, Twin Peaks is David Patrick Kelly, George Segal, Alan Alden, Lily Tomlin, Richard Jenkins. Great cast.
01:15:37
Speaker
I'm sure it's great. ah In ninth place, Disney's movie of the year, Oliver and Company. In this economy, Oliver and Company. My second fully animated, my second favorite fully animated Disney film.
01:15:51
Speaker
Billy Joel is in the cast, Stephen. The rhythm of the city. But once you get it down, ah you can own this town. Stephen, why should I worry? I wonder. Why should I care, Tucker?
01:16:05
Speaker
Keith David in that movie. Nope. Stop. Keith David in that movie. I'm sorry. i know I said I needed to get out of here. tucker But Keith, David and Oliver and company delivers one of the best line readings ever when he says, get out of my way to Soto.
01:16:25
Speaker
Damn, I felt that. I still feel that. I'm like, I will get out of your way, Keith, David. I am so sorry if I was ever in your way. And at number 10.
01:16:36
Speaker
A little movie, and I don't know if you've ever heard of this.
Brief Praise for 'Fargo'
01:16:39
Speaker
It's a small film. It didn't really do a lot of business. A little movie called Fargo. Yeah, I like that movie.
01:16:48
Speaker
It's a good movie. Yeah, I really like It's pretty good. Classic. I love that like the best and most respected film of all those films were just like, yeah, it's good. yeah Like everything else we had long diatribes about. like yeah well i mean What's there to fucking say about Fargo? It's a fucking great movie. um ah The only thing I can say about it is, nope, I think I'm going to barf.
01:17:17
Speaker
I'm not sure 100% agree with your police work there, Lou. The tree said stamp.
01:17:24
Speaker
All for a little bit of money. ah The tomatometer score for
Critiques of 'Brain Candy'
01:17:28
Speaker
kids in the hall. Beautiful
01:17:31
Speaker
The Tone Metometer score for Kids in the Hall Brain Candy is a 44%.
01:17:36
Speaker
Critics consensus, despite its vibrant visual style and scattered moments of signature Kids in the Hall absurdity, Brain Candy labors to find laughs amidst its uneven and overextended story.
01:17:48
Speaker
That's true. completely agree with that, actually. The Metascore is a 55 based on mixture average reviews from 23 critics. And as we move into Letterboxd, Tucker, would you care to guess the Letterboxd score for 1996's Kids in the Hall, colon, Brain Candy?
'Brain Candy' Ratings and Opinions
01:18:11
Speaker
Of course, and I'm going to shoot from the hip on this one. And this is between a fact...
01:18:18
Speaker
and three point two it is in fact A 3.5. five Fuck a duck. Are you kidding me? I am not even beginning to kid you. Wow. But you know what? i Even though I don't agree with that, I appreciate that.
01:18:36
Speaker
Hey, the kids love it. Yeah. Because the letterbox is for the children. You know, it's for the children. like Like millennials, we we dip a bit, but like it's really it's for the meme culture. It's for the children.
01:18:50
Speaker
Like Wu-Tang, letterboxes for the children. Yeah. no ah Like Wu-Tang and Gamera, letterboxes for the children.
01:19:01
Speaker
Friend to children, yes.
01:19:05
Speaker
I did that just for that reaction. and Tucker, ah out of five stars, how do how many are you giving to Kids in the Hall colon Brain Candy? This is a generous 2.5 because, ah like I said, I really do like the story and I like the twists and turns that it takes.
01:19:26
Speaker
um that's really what keeps me watching this film but when I watched it that's what kept me from wanting to turn it off because as I said before though there are some really just brilliant and classic comedic moments in this film for a kids in the hall project it's a little embarrassing how few and far between the laughs are so this is a two but like respect but also could have been a lot fucking better 2.5 yeah um I'm falling 2.5 on this one as well. like i There's a part of me that kind of wants to bump it up to three, but I don't know that I can in good conscience. like i I feel very confident in my 2.5 here, and i I'm kind of intrigued to revisit, or to visit, because I haven't no visited the first time, to visit some of the kids in the hall sketches.
01:20:18
Speaker
Please do, Stephen, because i think I think I really think you're going to like all of it. I hope so. And i like I say, for my sake, no, I think um I really think the the new season that was on Prime a couple of years ago was kind of the perfect cherry on top of the cake, kind of the perfect ending to it, even though they still do.
01:20:43
Speaker
They tore together and separately. Oh, you can still like you can still see kids in the hall do live shows and you can see them all individually. and some of them you can see on television and in films as well.
01:20:58
Speaker
They're still around. They're still a bus man.
01:21:02
Speaker
Love that for them. Yeah.
01:21:06
Speaker
Yeah, dude. And that there is our episode on Kids in the Hall, colon Brain Candy from 1996.
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01:21:15
Speaker
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01:21:25
Speaker
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01:21:42
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Host's Personal Endeavors
01:22:28
Speaker
I'm your host, Stephen Fox, where you can find me on Letterboxd Blue Sky at Chewy Walrus. I will also mention that I am in a play in the Chicagoland area. So if you are in the area on the last weekend of September, first weekend of October,
01:22:45
Speaker
ah Inherit the wind at the curtain call theater in Mokina, Illinois. um Tickets are on sale at CCC theater. That's theater with an R E.com.
01:22:56
Speaker
ah The September 26th, 28th and October 5th performances are completely sold out. ah But the other three performances still have tickets available. And when you call in to reserve your tickets, let them know that Steven sent you.
01:23:12
Speaker
And I may even show up. Like, I might be there. You may see me there. That's true. You might see a Tucker. And I could possibly get your autograph. That's all I want.
01:23:23
Speaker
he He could get yours, and you potentially could even get his. If you could bring an eight by ten and a Sharpie, that would make me very happy. He would love to get your autograph and frame it on his wall. People would be like, who's that? I'm like, I don't fucking know. It's some dude I saw at a plate.
01:23:41
Speaker
Some dude I saw in the audience had a play. Some guy. Some guy that I guess listens to the podcast. i don't know. Do I even even have a podcast? Maybe. that a fever dream?
01:23:53
Speaker
ah But yeah, definitely purchase your tickets. um They are on sale now. And it's one of my favorite shows, Inherit the Wind. It's a play that I absolutely love. It's the second time I've done it. um One of these days, I hope to be one of the leads. But until then, I'm happy to play the show.
01:24:09
Speaker
Southern Baptist pastor in a small town in in the South, which is a fantastic role for you, Steven. It is. And in so many ways, um I absolutely fucking love it. And honestly, inherit the wind, ah the 1960s version, a future, a future Oops, I'll Christianity corner. I'm sure I'm watch that movie tomorrow.
01:24:31
Speaker
Bet, Stephen. Bet. um Bet. Fucking bet. um But yeah, check that out. um Don't follow Brett on social media. He
Social Media and Personal Interests
01:24:42
Speaker
doesn't want you to. he has We forgot to mention he's in a ah kind of a euphoric state as of right now, reliving his his happiest memory over and over and over again. It's watching Ghostbusters for the first time, i think. That's it.
01:24:54
Speaker
I'm pretty sure that's it. That or Halloween. Hey, that's what I heard.
01:25:02
Speaker
Tucker, where can we find you on social media these days? What's your play called, Stephen? Inherit the Wind? Inherit the Wind. It's about the Scopes Monkey Trial. Oh, and check out Walls University as well. with that my We both got clowns in that circus, don't we, Stephen? That's true. that ah my The Orson Walls podcast that Tucker...
01:25:21
Speaker
ah produces and edits and i host along with friend of the show Hope Stow it's a great fucking show we have so much fun ah friend of the show Samuel Dumas on our last episode on the Orson Welles film Hearts of Age we love him check that we really do and he'll he'll be back on this podcast one of these days um I promise yeah Tucker where can we find you on the socials these days I'm still on YouTube and Instagram at I-C-E-N-I-N-E, the number zero and the number nine.
01:25:55
Speaker
um Also, I'm active on Tuck Mugs, Tuck underscore bugs. I try to do something every couple weeks. There may be a time when I update every couple days or every week, but that time is not now. And I'm doing as much as I can.
01:26:12
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i want to get shit out there and I'm doing my best. So if you want to. Hang out in the calm little center of the Internet. Tuck underscore mugs on Instagram.
01:26:26
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You might even here's the thing. You might even create just a specific Instagram account just to follow Tuck Mugs, because honestly, anything else on Instagram could potentially turn to toxic toxic.
01:26:40
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But Tuck Mugs is a safe space for everybody. I don't care who you are what your political beliefs are, your religious beliefs, anything. Let's just hang out and like talk about some mugs and coffee and liquor and beers and all kinds of beverages that you can put in containers that hold liquid.
01:27:03
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And really, what could you ask It's such just such a basic thing. How could you bring any sort of like offensive viewpoint into that? You can't.
01:27:15
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No. You could try, but I'll just delete that comment. It's true. Or Instagram will block entirely. It's safe space, but it is censored.
01:27:26
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Which is is important to point out, frankly. It truly is.
01:27:33
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But I'm, i'm ah yeah, I'm very open-minded about that kind of stuff. So, indeed come hang out at TuckMugs. Tuck underscore mugs on Instagram. There it is.
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01:27:43
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And that's friends and family is our episode on the 1996 film brain candy from the kids in the hall. Sketch temper concludes next weekend. And then we launch right from there, launch right into spooky thon.
01:28:02
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yeah Boy, howdy, do we have a good spooky thon in we've planned for you. We're very excited about the upcoming Spooky-thon for sure. ah but we're gonna But first, we have to bring Sketch Timber to a close, um which we plan to do next week with a movie that Tucker has been stumping for.
01:28:20
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Hardcore for a while. One of my favorite comedies of all time. And we do have a guest lined up. but do have a guest lined up for that episode as well. on it What are you fucking kidding me?
01:28:35
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I would never kid you because you thought it was recordingdding this weekend. It's my, it's my guest. Like, Oh yeah. du Your guest. you You're the one that scheduled this son. i bad but brain fart.
01:28:47
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we do have a guest for that episode. So it's going to be a good one. A returning guest, a guest that we always have a good time with. So it's going to be a great time. ah Make sure you're here to see it until then.
01:28:58
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I'm your host, Stephen Fox really. This is the disenfranchised podcast. And until next time.
01:29:07
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Steven, could could I can i have a room for a moment, please? ah Yeah, sure. Everybody yeah out outside.
01:29:21
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Thank you.