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125 - Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
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"I told you, Tucker. I'm a zero with the ladies... they hate my face!"
The Spooky-Thon redux is now in full force and this week we're discussing a horror-comedy favorite of ours! We discuss our love of Alan Tudyk, the potential Cabin in the Woods parallels/comparisons, and how much Brett really does look like Tyler Labine!
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Transcript
Chaos on Tucker and Dale's Property
00:00:01
Speaker
Oh, howdy ho, officer. We've had a doozy of a day. There we were, minding our own business. Just doing some chores around the house when kids started killing themselves all over my property.
Introduction to 'Disenfranchised' Podcast
00:00:33
Speaker
Oh, uh, howdy ho there, listener. You have reached the disenfranchised podcast. We're that podcast all about those franchises of one, those films that fancy themselves full fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film. I am your host, Steven Foxworthy, and joining me as always a man, a good looking man, more or less, but with a good heart is my co-host Brett Wright. Brett. Hello, Steven. How we doing tonight, Brett?
00:01:02
Speaker
I've been better. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you're at least excited to talk about this movie we're talking about. I am. Yes. Well, that's good. And also joining us is our it's our very own Tucker man who may or may not be high on prescription medication at this very moment. It is actually Tucker. Hey, Tucker. Hello, Steven. I actually don't have a prescription, unfortunately. Oh,
00:01:32
Speaker
So these are all recreational. Always recreational. Right on. All right. I think that's about it for the accent tonight. I did kind of want to see how I keep that up, but I got bored with it myself.
00:01:48
Speaker
Hey, it's it's we're back disenfranchised.
Spooky Fun Theme Month
00:01:50
Speaker
Hey, everybody. And we are continuing our second theme month of 2023. Don't worry, they're not all going to be theme months, but, you know, the first couple are. And we're doing spooky fun again. October was a weird month for disenfranchised for a lot of reasons. And so we decided we'd call a mulligan and do spooky fun all over again. And so this week, Brett, what are we talking about?
Exploring 'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil'
00:02:13
Speaker
We're talking about Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. 2010's Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, directed by Eli Craig and starring Tyler Labeen, Alan Tudyk, the great Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Phillip Granger, Brandon J. McLaren, Kristi Lang, Chelan Simmons, excuse me, Travis Nelson, Alex Arsenault, and Adam Beauchesne. What a cast. Gentlemen, what a picture.
00:02:44
Speaker
It's me and Dale versus evil. Right. No, that's why I said we have our very own Tucker. Holler at your boy. I mean, and Brett's kind of got a Tyler Levine thing going on, which I guess makes me evil. So. All right. Tucker and Brett versus evil or Steven. I love you, too. Oh.
00:03:11
Speaker
So yes, we are here to talk about a movie that I think all of us really enjoy, honestly. And a movie they've been pretty much teasing us with a sequel to for the better part of the last, what, 11, 12 years, something like that? Since it came out, yeah. Pretty much.
00:03:29
Speaker
um this one started on the festival circuit in the late 2010s and then finally got the limited theatrical release in uh about the summer i think of 2011 um but a
00:03:43
Speaker
one of my favorite deconstructions of horror, honestly. It's this, Shaun of the Dead's another good one, Cabin in the Woods. Like there are some really solid deconstructions of the genre, but I think this is one that I particularly enjoy. When did we all kind of first come into contact with this one? Tucker, you probably saw this one in theaters, am I right? I did not. I had a very limited theoretical run and I was not aware of it.
00:04:12
Speaker
until after that, I actually was interested in it when I heard about it because, well, I mean, obviously Alan Tuchik is really rad, but also I was a big fan of Tyler Levine because he was in the show I watched called Reaper Reaper, which was real, real good. I don't know if you guys have seen it. I think I caught the pilot. It's got the great Ray Wise from Twin Peaks in it, which is Ray Wise is the devil.
00:04:40
Speaker
So this kid's parents sell his soul to the devil before he's born. So I don't remember why. And so what the devil wants him to do is collect all the souls that have escaped from hell. So it's kind of a monster of the week sort of thing. And Tyler Levine plays a character in that show called Sock. As one does.
00:05:05
Speaker
like that character, like that show, like Tyler Levine. So I watched Tucker and Dale versus Evil as soon as as soon as I was aware of it. Brett, what about you? What was your first exposure to Tucker and Dale versus Evil? I don't remember when I found it. And I think it was like. Is fairly recently, maybe like past six, seven years, maybe less.
00:05:36
Speaker
Um, but I was just, you know, strolling around looking for a movie to watch. And I saw what looked like a horror movie without a tiddick in it. And I was like, I have to watch this. Right. Um, and as it turns out, that was a very good call. Uh, yeah, absolutely. This is one I think I watched shortly after I started getting into the horror genre as a whole. Um, I think the ex and I were kind of flipping through some streaming services and we found this one and.
00:06:04
Speaker
I was just kind of like, I don't know, this looks kind of funny. What do you think? And she was like, yeah. So we watched it and we both were kind of like, that was really fun. We really liked that.
00:06:13
Speaker
Revisited it a couple times since then actually funny story the the podcast I did prior to this one the rule of thirds podcast with Among others friend of the show same of the mass and our mutual friend Caleb Dunkerson we actually talked about Tucker and Dale versus evil on a episode where we talked about films that defy genre convention and we covered that alongside Harold and Maude and Your name the Japanese anime your name
00:06:43
Speaker
Well, I like Harold and Ma, that's a good movie. Yeah, that's a fucking great movie. But your name, also good. Your name, also a fucking great movie. Like that was like maybe one of my favorite lineups. Just as long as you don't call me by your name, I think we're OK. So, yeah, that's great. Love that. And I know I know Tucker's going to keep that long, awkward pause in there, too, especially now that I called it out.
00:07:12
Speaker
I cut out everything that's over two seconds. So if it's over two seconds, we'll see. Guess what happens. I guess we will. Dear listener, count out two seconds. Well, I guess you'd have to rewind. Never mind. Scratch that anyway. And if it was over two seconds, you probably edited it out. So there you go. Yeah, I realized that that's why I kind of. Yeah, backpedaled a bit. Tucker cut all this out. I shan't.
00:07:46
Speaker
Damn you, sir. Thank you. So that is our our experiences with Tucker and Dale versus Evil. Impressions, what? Obviously, this is a movie we all like.
00:08:08
Speaker
I'm so I just complete my mind went completely blank. What the fuck do we even do on this podcast? She lost the plot for a minute. Do I need to take over? All right, guys. Goodbye. Goodbye. Good night, everybody. Our host is malfunctioned. I told you immensely I was not in a great place today. Steven's face just reads Error 404. Oh, God. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, we all like this movie, man.
00:08:39
Speaker
That's what you're saying. We all like it. Fuck me. I don't know, man. And we were going to talk about it. I guess we are.
00:08:47
Speaker
What do we even fucking do on this podcast? All right. I mean, I got it. What is life even about? This is like I'm a co-host for a reason. All right. You got the spread. I believe in you. Help me. Okay. Cabin in the Woods subverts the horror tropes in its specific way and more of like a slasher style, but like general horror. This seems to focus specifically on the hillbilly genre and like the Texas Chainsaws and whatnot.
00:09:14
Speaker
Your Texas chain saws your... Hills have eyes. Hills have eyes, right. I was literally trying to think of Hills have eyes. Thank you. Yes. That's why I took over. So, like, what do you think maybe this does better than Cabin in the Woods or vice versa?
Deconstructing Horror Tropes
00:09:33
Speaker
Are they or are they on the same level in terms of subversion of the horror genre?
00:09:40
Speaker
Well, I think for me, they're not really... I don't consider them to be too similar. I get that they're doing the same thing. And they're both comics. Yeah, but I would argue that Tucker and Dale is a comedy first, and Cabin in the Woods is a horror first. I...
00:10:05
Speaker
I think I get where you're coming from. I think Cabin in the Woods is a movie that manages to be very funny and legitimately scary. This movie doesn't pack a lot of scares. There are maybe a handful of jump scares in this one, but it's not really heavy on that. Whereas Cabin in the Woods is legitimately has legitimately has some scary moments in it.
00:10:27
Speaker
But I think that what they're doing, they're doing in two very different ways. Like this feels like having the woods feels like a peak behind the curtain in a lot of ways. Whereas literally and figuratively. Exactly.
00:10:41
Speaker
And you still have the regular degular horror movie running up top, but then there's this whole literal sub-level to the movie where you've got these kind of people flipping switches and going through the machinations of what's happening behind the scenes and literally orchestrating a horror movie. In effect, it's a movie about making movies in a really weird kind of way. Whereas Tucker and Dale versus Evil,
00:11:08
Speaker
flips the entire script is what if there are these teenagers who think they're in a horror movie and as far as they're concerned are in a horror movie but really they're just in a buddy comedy where everything is going horribly awry. So one person's buddy comedy is another person's horror movie. So I see where they're attacking this in two completely different ways but I like the way that they subvert the expectations because you see a movie like Tucker and Dale versus Evil
00:11:36
Speaker
And I think I'm going to and particularly given the cover where you've got Tyler Labine on the cover with the the chainsaw up above his head, I'm thinking I'm getting ready to watch an Evil Dead pastiche, something more akin to Shaun of the Dead. And that's not what this movie is, like based on the title, based on the cover, like the poster art, I'm expecting Evil Dead something. That's not what this movie is at all. And honestly, I kind of like it better.
00:12:04
Speaker
because it's not an Evil Dead kind of a pastiche, it's doing something completely different. And I don't know, I feel like Tucker and Dale versus Evil is a bit of a misnomer of a name, but it's the funny kind of a name where you're like, I'd watch that. Like it's the kind of name where you're like, I don't know, I'd see a movie with that title, it's a good title. I think that's more to reference the end of the movie.
00:12:29
Speaker
It fits when you talk in the AKA the beginning of the movie or the beginning. Yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah. I mean, and look, hey, I feel like there's a lot of references to horror movies in here and the cabin in the woods is definitely an evil dead reference. Oh, yeah. Evil dead. I mean, more or less invented the cabin in the woods genre, like sub genre of horror.
00:12:55
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't think any horror movie has done it as well as the Evil Dead films have, which is why I'm kind of excited for Evil Dead Rise later this year so that we can get, you know, some some deadites in a high rise, kind of change, change the change the model a little bit, do something a little different. Get out of the cabin, man. Exactly. Why is it why is it always going to be a cabin? Let's let's take a little vacay. Yeah, let's let's use some imagination here, people.
00:13:23
Speaker
I mean, they were in the past in the third one, you know, that was kind of a bigger area. But there was, he did hang out in that windmill place. So that's kind of a cabin in the woods, more of a cabin in a field. Six of one, that's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Close enough. And look, if the Evil Dead comics have taught us anything, which I'm not sure you're familiar with,
00:13:49
Speaker
is that the cabin is kind of a constant in every universe. There's always an ash, there's always a cabin. There's constants and variables, but those are the two mainstays. The only familiarity I have with the Evil Dead comics is the one where Ash crosses over with the Marvel zombies. That's the one that I've read. Because that's the only one that's worth a damn.
00:14:15
Speaker
Honestly, that whole run for dynamite, I just was completely unimpressed with. I think the artwork was consistently conflicted with the tone. And I thought the writing was poor, but I don't have any strong opinions about that. Are you talking about Marvel zombies? Which one are you referring to? I was talking about the army of darkness comics. I thought those were real, real bad, though I did also enjoy the Freddy versus Jason versus Ash.
00:14:45
Speaker
I guess that counts as an army of darkness. We will talk about that more when we cover Freddy versus Jason on this podcast one day, which is totally going to happen. There were two of those and they were both really good. I used to have the trades, but, you know, the lost at some point. But you guys, if you haven't read those.
00:15:04
Speaker
I need to. No, they're really good. I have read them. I have not. I need to. Well, I'd say they're really good for a comic. I'm glad that the script was turned into a comic as opposed to a film because I think it would have been a less than impressive film, but as a comic, it works really, really well, I think. Yeah, I would agree. That makes sense.
00:15:29
Speaker
Yeah, that's what Tucker nailed. I don't know. He's just trying to tie together, trying to make the canon of Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th work. It barely worked for Freddy vs. Jason, and then you have to add another franchise into it. Well, you also have to remember that the Friday the 13th franchise is technically canon in the Evil Dead universe, because you know Jason is a deadite. He's straight up a deadite.
00:15:59
Speaker
Yes, technically. Yeah. According to what is probably the worst, I think it's the worst film in the franchise outside of the beginning, the first like 10 minutes where they're at the cabin and they trap him and they blow him up. Oh, yeah. That's wonderful. That's great. After that, just garbage, just straight garbage. But that movie tells us that he's a dead eye. Like the director actually was able to get the book and the dagger from Sam Raimi. He was like, yo, let me borrow that. And Sam was like, OK.
00:16:30
Speaker
in that very Sam Raimi way that he does. Oh, okay, that sounds great. But it's not set on screen, right? It's just backgrounds. It's sad dressing. It's never said in a movie. No, they use the dagger. They use the dagger to kill Jason and they use the Necronomicon is a big part of it too. Watch Jason X again, man. It's real bad, but it's real fun.
00:16:51
Speaker
See, I did not have fun with Jason X.
Plot Summary and Key Elements
00:16:54
Speaker
I think might be my least favorite of the franchise. Oh, yeah, it's the worst. By far, by far the worst. There are people. There are people who defend Jason X and. Oh, no. Are we talking about Jason X now? No, Jason. You said Jason. We're talking about Jason. You did say Jason X. Jason. I mean, Jason goes to hell. Look, there is there is one reason I will stand for Jason goes to hell and one reason only. It's the first 10 minutes are rad.
00:17:20
Speaker
No, it's because they introduce, actually two. One, Leslie Jordan is in that movie, and like, RIP to a short king. We understand Leslie. But also, secondly, that is the movie that introduces us to the Jason Berger.
00:17:35
Speaker
Um, and I will yeah with the little doot doot and the whoop. Yep. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. But that's did I if I said Jason X originally, I apologize the second time you said okay. I've been talking about Jason goes to hell this entire time. Jason X is a freaking masterpiece and probably one of the best in the series.
00:17:53
Speaker
No, I've always said that if Jason X had a bigger budget, like a like a legit actual budget, that movie would have been fucking incredible. No, no, I think I think it's budget helps it because it's it's kind of campy like they roll with the camp and the low budget really kind of makes that shine. Can I can I tell you my hire? They try to maybe make it a little more serious and it wouldn't work as well. Go ahead, Stephen. Can I tell you my favorite part? My favorite thing about Jason X, which again, I do think is the nadir of the franchise. I don't like it.
00:18:24
Speaker
I know. Again, I know there are people who stand for it and apparently you're one of them. We all know your Friday the 13th opinions are not actually really well received. I'm not a fan of that franchise. I like seven, though. We agree on seven. Seven is the way I like. We all agree on seven. Seven is the shit.
00:18:40
Speaker
Seven is my favorite one. I think seven is great. But no, that movie features a brief performance, a too brief performance, if you ask me. Is it your boy David Cronenberg? The great David Cronenberg, who I discussed.
00:18:56
Speaker
who I discussed at length on our Nightbreed episode, which the further I get away from the Nightbreed episode, I think the Nightbreed episode might be one of my favorite episodes of this podcast. That episode fucking rips. If you've not listened to the Nightbreed episode, go listen to the Nightbreed episode. If you haven't listened to it in a while, please do. Go listen to it again. It's great. Yeah, give it a second listening. It's worth it. It holds up. And we might do some talking about David Cronenberg later this year. Who knows? Who knows? Stranger things have happened.
00:19:26
Speaker
So yeah, Jason X is the shit Tucker and Dale Tucker and Dale versus evil. Yeah, man, let's let's do let's do the plot. Let's run through the plot on this one. So this is a segment of the show that we call the plot in 60 seconds. This is where at the behest of what we are now.
00:19:48
Speaker
calling the D6 of justice, is that what we're doing? So are the die of justice. Die of justice? Who cares? Brett is gonna cast the die of justice to indicate which of us will be recounting the plot of Tucker and Dale versus evil in 60 seconds or less. Brett, what sides are you assigning us this week? I don't know, we're all pretty on the same playing field here.
00:20:13
Speaker
So I don't know. Steven, you're one and two. Tucker, you're three and four. I'm five and six. What sounds good? Let's fucking go. It is a one. Damn you. That is a one. That is a one. I'll show it to the camera. You know, the the coin favors you, Steven, but the die does not look. What can I say?
00:20:37
Speaker
Look, the coin only favors me when Brett calls tails. And also because I strongly believe that like that coin is maybe not weighted the best because it definitely favors tails. It's tails, isn't it? I think it is. I'm bad at flipping. Also, let's let's make that clear.
00:20:56
Speaker
There's also that, but I don't bring that up anymore. It makes Steven mad. It's true. I offered to give you the coin and you were like, no, I don't want it. And I was like, no, take the coin. You're like, no, I don't want it. So, yeah, we had it. That was that was a fight once. That was the thing we fought about one time. I gave him shit about flipping it one too many times. And he I mean, in fairness, you were doing it like every week for a while. I mean, I was because you were bad at it, but I was losing every single week.
00:21:22
Speaker
Well, then you switched it up at this at the season break and you started winning all the fucking time. Yeah, I was pretty happy about it. Right. So go ahead and put 60 seconds on the clock and I will do my best to recount the plot of this movie. Do you need that long?
00:21:39
Speaker
60 seconds or less. I don't know, man. I'm going to try to use the time. I feel like you're going to have to pad it out because I don't know, man. You know, you know how we tend to get lost in the woods. It's fine. Yeah, it's cool. All right. Your time starts now.
00:21:53
Speaker
So this movie begins with the post credit sequence for some reason, where a cameraman and news reporter lady get attacked by a guy with a burned up face who we find out later is the actual villain of this movie, but we'll find that later. Two friends and a group of college kids are all going out for a camping trip in the woods. Tucker and Dale, two hillbillies are going to fix up their vacation home slash cabin, where a bunch of people were apparently murdered 20 years ago.
00:22:17
Speaker
but they don't know that. And then a group of teenagers are going camping, not far off. And then when they encounter each other, it starts off like a horror movie and kind of proceeds like one for the teenagers. But for Tucker and Dale, it's just a wacky comedy of errors. Eventually, the leader of the college kids turns out to be the son of a psychopathic hillbilly killer because his mother was raped by one.
00:22:42
Speaker
Trigger warning, sexual assault, I guess. I'm sorry. And Tucker and Dale managed to survive somehow. And Dale falls in love with the pretty college girl and the end. And that's time. Also, they make another joke out of sexual assault at the end of the movie, too, which is really fucking uncomfortable. And they found his fingers, but one of them, I think, is a lady finger and not a cookie.
00:23:14
Speaker
Yes, his his ring finger is definitely a lady finger. I don't know that one. That one doesn't look right. Is that one that looks strange to you? No, at least he got his bowling fingers back. Right. They cut off his bowling fingers. I mean, he could have switched to left handed, I'm sure, but yeah, that always works well. But yeah, man, Tucker and Dale versus evil. This I don't know what this is. It's kind of one of those conundrums where like, what do you say about a movie that's just like fun and we all like?
00:23:45
Speaker
I mean, we can talk about the actors. There's some good actors in this flim. Brett's like, we could do the podcast. I don't know what we usually do. Do I got to take over hosting again? I think I look, I think you might have to. My my mental state is not great tonight. I apologize, Brett. If you want to if you want to take over hosting duties, I can.
00:24:04
Speaker
I can pick up and resume for some of it, but I don't know why. I'm just not able to do this job tonight. I'm sorry. It's cool, man. Look, let me first talk about Brandon J. McLaren, because that man was on Power Rangers SPD. As was the wife of this film's director who plays the well, not SPD, she was on Lightspeed. But the news reporter in the opening scene was the Yellow Ranger. And she is the wife of this film's director. So a couple of Power Rangers in this movie.
00:24:34
Speaker
Yeah, and this film's characters. And this film's director is the son of Sally Field. Nepo, baby. Don't know if you guys knew that or not. I mean, I knew that only because you mentioned it yesterday when we were originally going to record this episode. He is the youngest child that she had during her second marriage.
00:25:02
Speaker
Yeah, I think his brother is also maybe an actor. His brother definitely does a writer. He's a novelist. Yeah, Peter Craig. Yeah. But yeah, there you go. Good old Sally Field. Second side with Steve Craig. That's the one I refuse to budge on is I may be over 40, but I know that it's Sally Field. You refuse to put the S on the end of fields. I will not. I will say Wakanda's forever and I will go to Kroger's.
00:25:33
Speaker
And Barnes and Nobles. But I got I got to draw a line somewhere, you guys. That's all that life. This is the hell you're dying on. Sally Field. I feel the field. She's in so many really good movies, man. She's straight up Steel Magnolias. I mean, you guys know that I was a secret Steel Magnolias fan. I mean, why does that not surprise me even a little bit to learn this? Does anything surprise you anymore, Steven? With you? No, not really. Yeah.
00:26:03
Speaker
I mean, it pretty much the most outlandish thing you could tell me. I'll probably go, yeah, that tracks. That sounds like something Tucker would have done. I want to make sure everybody's expectations are that I'm going to subvert expectations. Yeah, you see a picture of Tucker and an astronaut in an astronaut gear and you're like, you've been to outer space and Tucker's like, what, you've never been? Yeah, of course I have. Who hasn't? Come on.
00:26:30
Speaker
Yeah, Tucker is just like the Homer Simpson of real life, really, just kind of- I've lived a life. He has indeed. I've been to lots of places, I've done lots of stuff. You have. You really, really have, including some things we said before we started recording that I will not repeat on air. Speaking of things that I've done in places that have gone and people that I've met, I met Tyler Labine at a horror convention, one of the last ones I went to.
00:27:01
Speaker
And he personally guaranteed me that this film would have a sequel. He did, huh? That lion son of a bitch. When was this? A regular listener to the podcast. Right. Friend of the show, Tyler. Yeah, Tyler, come on the podcast. Yeah.
00:27:20
Speaker
What's going on, man? Because last I heard like, actually, I don't want to jump the gun because we talk about this usually towards the end. But while we're on the subject, the last we've heard about the sequel is that they hired somebody to write it and they wrote it and it sucked. I believe it.
00:27:42
Speaker
And so now they're kind of hinting at that it's going to continue not in film form. Um, but they haven't really said what that might be. People are saying maybe a TV show. I'd watch that. I mean, I'd love a TV show. That'd be great. I mean, Alan Tudjic and Tyler LeBean are both predominantly television actors. So it makes sense.
00:28:07
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it look I this movie is really fun. Honestly, I mean, we may as well talk about the sequel now since we're on the subject. I had a really fun idea for what I think a good sequel to this movie could have been, which is you use it as kind of a way to parody like the the college based. Slasher movies like House on Sorority Row or the most recent Black Christmas.
00:28:35
Speaker
But the original Black Christmas, for that matter, and you kind of use it as as a way to kind of parody some of those Tucker and Dale, maybe go to Visit Alley on campus. And there's there's maybe and maybe it's maybe it's Jason from this or Chad. Sorry, Chad. What I call I think is real. The actor's real name is Jason Chad from this movie is is, you know, out of escapes from prison is Jesse. Where the fuck did I get Jason? I don't know. It's not like we spent a good chunk of this podcast talking about the Friday the 13th franchise.
00:29:05
Speaker
Chad escapes from prison and like starts killing people on campus. And so it's up for up to Tucker and Dale to stop him. I don't know. I think that sounds like a really fun idea for a sequel. And again, it's kind of a way to take on another sub genre of of horror within the world that we've kind of established and created here. I don't know. I think that could be fun.
Sequel Brainstorming
00:29:26
Speaker
Tucker and Dale to the dooziest of days. I mean, that's a great title. Thank you.
00:29:34
Speaker
Although I don't know, not that I want them to do the exact same movie, but at the same time, like how is it going to be another comedy of errors? I would hope so. Well, then how does that work? Like it starts to become a little untenable, like all these weird.
00:29:54
Speaker
Like these all these coincidences just keep happening to them. I mean, look, Brett, what you've just described is how is is the suspension of disbelief required for literally any like TV show or movie? Like there has to be some reason. Specifically shit has to keep happening to these people, right? And one of my favorite horror franchises. I don't know if either of you watched the show that they did on MTV.
00:30:18
Speaker
I watched the first two seasons. I started the third season and it was just too different. I couldn't I couldn't get into season same disease. And I dug the first two seasons like they weren't great, but like I liked the characters. I thought the actors were good. Yeah, they were OK. It was fun. I had a good time. Like there was never a time where I was like, oh, there's a new episode of Scream tonight. I'll get to it. I'd usually be like, oh, scream. Let's let's watch that. That was one I binged on on Netflix when it came on Netflix right away. Yeah.
00:30:47
Speaker
And those first two seasons and then the like the Christmas special, whatever, where they're on an island and it follows them there. Right. Yeah. It just starts to get to where you're like, they have to like with the fucking Scooby Doo gang. Right. Like every every literally every place they go, there's a mystery and it's always some fucking dude in a fucking mask.
00:31:08
Speaker
Well, that's the same with, I don't know if you guys have been watching Poker Face, but that's very similar to- I haven't yet. It's on my list. I've got it queued up on Pico. It's so good. I might watch an episode after we're done recording tonight, depending on what time we finish. It's so good. I mean, Ryan Johnson and Natasha Lyonne, how is that bad? It's wonderful. It certainly has a format that it sticks to as well that I think that both of you guys would probably dig. So you guys should check it out.
00:31:32
Speaker
Again, I am, I'm a big fan of just the idea of a Ryan Johnson mystery series. Um, like the, the, the Benoit Blanc films are some of my favorite original Hollywood properties in the last like five years. I love it. It's great. It's kind of like murder. She wrote meets Colombo meets the structure of supernatural. Okay.
00:31:56
Speaker
Right on. Yeah, I'm totally down for that. Yeah. That sounds delightful. But again, I mean, to your point, Brett, I think that's kind of the nature of franchises in a lot of ways. And a lot of franchises comment on it. And I think in a comedy franchise, that can work particularly... Again, we're doing... And I think to call back to a movie that we talked about relatively recently, Forrest Gump does that.
00:32:20
Speaker
like I went to the White House again and made the president of the United States again. Like it's just like, yes, he even he understands how ridiculous it is that he is this formative to American history. Like even he knows that this is absurd. And, you know, you get at least one of those.
Cosplay and Conventions
00:32:41
Speaker
You can have at least one of those in a comedy franchise and not overdo it. I think you start toying with that too much in your
00:32:48
Speaker
You start to lose like that. The suspension of disbelief becomes a little too much, but yeah, I, you know, but again, you, that's why you bring in Chad because Chad now has a vendetta against these two hillbillies and against Ali who rejected him for the hillbillies. So you've got kind of this, like, it makes sense that he would come back and start killing people on campus, making his way to them. Okay. I'd be into that. Yeah.
00:33:14
Speaker
I think that that trope kind of moves beyond horror or even comedy as well, because even like you get to die hard, too. And John McClain makes the comment the same same thing happened to the same guy twice. And it's of course, he's just saying it to himself. But like he's like, I also I also realize this is ridiculous. Yes. Yes. Yes. I do. I'm watching the same movie that you are and do in fact find it ridiculous as well. Yes.
00:33:43
Speaker
But again, I don't think that is, and yet again, all of this is just dependent on the viewer's ability to suspend their disbelief. And that's really what all fiction kind of comes down to. All fiction is inherently ridiculous on one level or another. We kind of have to allow ourselves some measure of suspension of disbelief in order to be able to watch it, in order to be able to engage with it.
00:34:12
Speaker
That's a fair point. I think my I think is a cool idea for a sequel or franchise in general is you lean into the versus evil aspect of it and you just do like hack slash with Tucker and Dale they just they they hunt down slashers as they pop up they just lean into it because you know Tucker's got to save up for his next vacation home and
00:34:41
Speaker
Right, because, you know, the last one burned to the ground. It got exploded. So, yeah, I mean, yeah. And I think I think that's fun. I think maybe after we dispatch Chad in the sequel, then we we start, you know, working our way to other slashers as they may arise. But I like that idea as a continuing premise for the ongoing franchise, for sure. Yeah, especially if you want to turn it into a TV series.
00:35:05
Speaker
And a solid way to continue it as a TV series. Exactly. And that gives you kind of the ability to rely on the monster of the week premise, which again is has worked really well for so many horror series over the years already. I don't know, Tucker, you got a pitch for for a Tucker and Dale versus evil sequel. I want a television series just called Tucker and Dale.
00:35:26
Speaker
There's no evil like no college kids killing themselves like they're not college kids just started killing themselves all over our property. It's just Tucker and Dale fixing up the vacation home, doing some fishing, drinking some PBRs. But Dale doesn't really like fishing. Yeah, but they're going to do it anyway. I can see Dale being like, all right. You know, I would love to see you guys cosplay as Tucker and Dale. I think that would be
00:35:57
Speaker
Because Tucker, you've got kind of an Alan Tudyk thing going and Brett, you definitely have got you have got the Tyler LeBean thing happening. Like I can absolutely see it and I kind of want to see it now. Well, we just need to get you a giver hat. Brett is really what we need. Let's let's say we do that. We shoot for Halloween on that one. All right. Yeah. Right on. As am I.
00:36:22
Speaker
All right. All right. All right. That's off season two. I could potentially potentially potentially indie for that. Yeah. I don't know what we do, but it'd be fun. We're around in September. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Well, season's still going on in September. I wouldn't be able to come to India or something like that way. Also, I swore off cons a while ago.
00:36:49
Speaker
Oh, why is that? Well, it's just another part of my life where Tyler LeBean lied to his face. Like we were talking before the podcast, you know, some things I just I do it for a while and then I'm done with it. Contrary to the belief of some friends of the podcast, sometimes it's OK to let something die. Something can just die. Like you don't have to do it your whole life.
00:37:19
Speaker
That show doesn't have to go on for 20 fucking years. Okay? Whatever could you be referring to? It's okay. It's straight up okay for that to happen.
00:37:30
Speaker
And that's me with cons. Like I had fun with it and I just don't see myself ever going back to work. I've never been happier to not know what you're talking about. First of all, on behalf of said friend of the show, damn you, sir. I feel I feel in a unique position to to defend this particular individual. And you better. You better. I'd be mad if you didn't. Oh, I'm fucking stepping up. So I'm about to catch these hands. No. Oh, no.
00:37:58
Speaker
Um, if you recall the last time we were all in person, Brett, you might recall what he's talking about. Oh, yes. Okay. Now I remember. Yeah. Now I would, it's important note that I am still a fan of conventions and other things and no one could tell me anything different. However, you might be a convention bitch. Maybe.
00:38:35
Speaker
No, I really I really do like conventions. No, I don't
00:38:40
Speaker
I have only been to a handful of conventions myself. Now that I am not far from the great city of Chicago, I might find myself attending C2E2 when that comes to town, because I've been told that's a really fun con. And friend of the show, Phil Smith, attends that regularly. So I might catch up with him there at some point. But yeah. Speaking of friends of the show, the first convention that I ever went to was Horror Hound in 2000
00:39:10
Speaker
Seven with one JP lek. Hey, we know that guy. I have photos of him with the babysitter twins from the grindhouse movie and with PJ souls and I believe Tom Savini. Hell yeah. So yeah, you'd get we need to get those pictures on the gram. There was nobody there.
00:39:35
Speaker
Like you could walk and like you could probably do a dance and like spin around and like you wouldn't hit anybody. Was this like one of the first horror hound conventions or? Yeah. And then by the time I stopped going, which would probably be like 2013.
00:39:53
Speaker
You couldn't move in those things. That's why like I was so glad like we started going to it as a band and we started making friends with some of the celebrities and they would invite us as their guests so that we could like sit behind their booth and we wouldn't have to like be like shoulder to shoulder with everybody. The last con I went to is 2019, the the indie comic con. And I sat behind, again, front of the podcast JPLX endless elsewhere booth pretty much all day.
00:40:20
Speaker
And whenever someone would buy a comic book that I happen to be, and he's like, Hey, this guy's in that comic book. You want him to sign it too? And he'd be like, yeah. And I'm like, I'm signing autographs. What, what even is this? I just lied. Uh, last con I went to was I believe a days of the dead in 2015 because I was there with JP like for endless else worlds. And I got to do this really cool thing where I wore the big red hooded cloak and I had the.
00:40:46
Speaker
the metal gloves were they called? Yeah. And I stood really still and nobody everybody thought I was like a mannequin or something. And I would just like ever so slightly move my fingers so that the metal would clink a bit and like people would look over and then they'd look back and be like clinkly and like scare children and stuff. That's good. It was good times. They'd go to take a picture with you and then right as the picture was taken, you'd like. They get a picture of them freaking out. Yeah, that's good stuff.
00:41:17
Speaker
A fun story. We might be interested to know. It's like a horror and a sense move to the actual convention center. So it's much. I'm glad it's not a mariotic space. Yeah. 21st and Shadeland anymore. I've not been to horror hound, but I did meet up with you after horror hound one year and we went to Kuma's and because they had a special Friday, the 30 or no. Nightmare on Elm Street themed burger that you got. Yes.
00:41:44
Speaker
And I got the goat snake, which was fucking delicious. How very disappointing that was. Yeah. Well, it's Kuma's like, they're not, they're not trying to make it so that it actually fits in your mouth and you're going to have a good time. Like, no, they're, they are, um, what many would refer to as stunt food. Um, it's not really, it's for pictures and for show, it's not really for taste or proper composition. Right. Now I will say the goat snake burger is a really well crafted burger, but I think that's probably one of the few.
00:42:15
Speaker
I'm sure there's some bangers in there. I mean, broken clock and all that. Right. Yeah. But their monthly burger. No, that's never going to be good. Yeah. The mainstays are where you want to stick for sure. And not even those most of the time. But, you know, let's hear it over there. We don't need to slander Kuma's all day because I could. But I won't. And honestly, what is up with their reliance on the pretzel bun? There are other types of buns, Kuma. Right. They just.
00:42:44
Speaker
I remember you being a big staunch defender of the pretzel button at one point in your life. It sounds like you've kind of moved away from that. I'm struggling to think of an example right now. There's plenty of when you start out in something.
00:43:01
Speaker
And you think these things are great. And then you try better. Coffee is a good example. You start out drinking Folgers. And then you're like, man, this Starbucks is pretty good. Starbucks is my favorite. And then you have actual artisan coffee paid in a French press or a pour over. You're like, wait a minute, Starbucks is garbage. What have I been doing with my life? Right. This sort of knowledge changes your opinion of things. And then the next thing you know, you're only drinking Copilouac.
Food Preferences and Film Rankings
00:43:31
Speaker
I haven't gone that far. So yeah, I have I have a definite stopping point before I reach pretentious. That's that civic coffee. That's like, like, is that the cat poop coffee? Yeah, that's the cat poop coffee. Yeah. Yeah. I usually have a hard stop before I roll over into pretentious Tyler from the menu like territory. Got the menu. What a great fucking movie. No spoilers. I still haven't watched it. Dude, I'm gonna it's on my list.
00:43:56
Speaker
Fix your heart or die, dude, like how about you watch some watch some brick or shut the fuck up because I'll get to it or get to it. I gave you physical media. You did. I have it on my. It's on my DVD shelf. That trumps everything streaming. It's also on your voodoo, though. So that's all physical. It is. God damn. I didn't even I forgot it was out there. I wouldn't even have brought it. I'd still have it here with me right now. I know. I feel I feel bad that I have it now.
00:44:25
Speaker
No, it's not your fault. I'm the idiot that forgot. We've gone real off the rails, gentlemen. Hold on. We do tangents on this podcast. Well, I have to get us back on track usually. But I think I think tonight is the best night for tangents, because not only do we not have a lot to say about Tucker and Dale because it's just a great movie and we all love it. Like, so what? Big whoop. But some catharsis, you guys, we're getting some stuff out, you know, but this is this is the healer. We're healing together as men.
00:44:57
Speaker
No big whoop. So what do we think of the of the villain reveal of the movie? I think that that character is my least favorite character in the whole movie, and I think it has a lot to do with the performance from the actor. Hmm. I think that he he believes that what his performance is good. I do not share that belief.
00:45:25
Speaker
Um, I mean, he's he is in Final Destination three, which is. So it's another gal. She is the gal with the freckly neck. She's one of the tanning bed. Yes, that's right. Yes, yes, yes. Um, is I think I think I rated that one dead last in my ranking of the Final Final Destination films.
00:45:48
Speaker
Three are you talking about? He's the best. No, five is the best. It's got Mary Elizabeth Winston. No, you know what? The worst. I think the final destination is the one I thought was the worst. Yeah, that one sucks. Yeah, that one. That one sucks out loud, which is real hard to make a bad final destination movie like you. I mean, that's one of those to where like you kind of just stick to the formula. Give us more like crazy Rube Goldberg deaths. Like I don't give a fuck what's going on with the story, but the final destination proved that wrong.
00:46:17
Speaker
Does that really suck? Friend of the show and frequent February guest, Mike Snunian. Hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. He will he will tell you that there is no such thing as a bad Final Destination. Well, it shouldn't be possible. I agree with that.
00:46:32
Speaker
I mean, you have to really fuck it up to make it bad. And I think the Final Destination did that for me and many others. Okay, so three I put right in the middle. Three is right in the middle for me. It goes five, one, three, two, four for me. It's probably three, two, one, five, four for me. Oh, see, I love five. The twist at the end of five is maybe my favorite twist in that entire franchise. It's fine. I did not like it.
00:47:03
Speaker
Like I said, the Final Destination is the only bad movie in that franchise. Like, they're all really great. It's not real good. But yeah, I think that's the only other thing that he that this particular actor has done that's of much note. He's done a lot of television. He did a couple of episodes of the Supergirl TV show. Like, like he's he's done he's done some stuff, but, you know, it's not he's he's you know, he's a working actor. Yeah.
00:47:31
Speaker
And you know. He's a bit player, yeah. I think he does a lot of TV because he's a Canadian actor and look, they film a lot of TV in Canada. Vancouver, man. Yeah. Straight up. Live in Vancouver if you want to do movie stuff. Absolutely. And he does and he does. So, I mean, yeah, there it is. Like he's. He does a lot of it, so. Yeah, he's he's he's in Ginger Snaps.
00:47:56
Speaker
Dude how can we cover those movies cuz all three of them are so good There's a little show that we have behind the paywall called onion franchise where we could cover the last of the ginger snaps films Well since the third one is a remake of the first one set in a different time period we could technically cover both of those What about the second one?
00:48:19
Speaker
band meeting immediately after this recording. Anyway, Katrina Bowden, I first saw her in 30 Rock. I don't know if you guys remember her. Oh, she is the she's the the yes, the the other girl in the office.
00:48:33
Speaker
Yes, the the the young skinny gal in the office and her name is Suri. That's right. That's right. And she is she is very fucking funny in that movie. She's also in apparently Piranha three double D, which I did not know until just this moment. I have only ever seen two Piranha films, and those are the original two were directed by Joe Dante and James Cameron, respectively.
00:49:00
Speaker
I had to remake was OK. It was it was a fun time. But the sequel, I mean, it's not overtly bad. It's just kind of. I mean, it has Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rames and David Hasselhoff in it. So I'm saying it's not bad. It's just Dave Koechner is in there, too, for some reason. Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer, Gary Busey. Really? Clue Gallagher. That's Glue Gooliger. Sure. That guy, too.
00:49:30
Speaker
Also from a night round on the street part two and feast Actually, he his son is the writer and director of feast No wonder he was in it. Can we do an unenfranchised? Oh, no, we should do a main feed episode about feast because the sequels don't exist to me That's that's not how this that's not how any of this works We're gonna face the subject of one season of project greenlight. Yeah the first season. Yeah
00:49:58
Speaker
But John Gooliger, who is the writer and director, is the son of Clue Gooliger. Are you guys not familiar with Clue Gooliger? No. Have you never been put on Clue Gooliger alert during a film from the mid 70s? No. And I look, the 70s are my favorite favorite decade of film. But B movies, B movies. Oh, OK. Never mind. Yeah. Well, you haven't lived until you've been put on Clue Gooliger alert. Oh, boy. You've got a you've got a Google alert on your phone every time Clue Gooliger shows up in a
00:50:28
Speaker
No, when you watch the movie, you got to look for it. Oh, because they'll probably show up. They'll probably show up. So like one person is put on the duty to look out for and be like, yo, there is. I spy with my little eye. Clue Goolinger. Yeah, man. There he be. That's. Oh, anyway, Clue Goolinger, a beast and 30 Rock and Katrina Bowden.
00:50:51
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say this all stemmed from us recognizing Katrina Bowden, who is really fun in this movie, honestly. Yeah, the two things that I've seen her in, which are this and 30 Rock, I've really enjoyed her in a lot of the other stuff on her resume just doesn't seem like it's really up my alley, like the horror films other than this that she's done. They just seem like too bad to be good to me. So I haven't really checked them out.
00:51:18
Speaker
All right, fair enough. So you're not a big piranha three double D fan. I I just got done telling you that it is painfully mediocre, that it's not bad, but it is painfully mediocre. She's in American reunion. Movie 43. I don't care about that. I don't care about any of that stuff. The movie Sex Drive. I don't care about that either.
00:51:42
Speaker
About, it's a sex comedy about kids who drive to have sex, I assume. I don't know. What if there was a sex drive? What if there was a sex drive? It's kind of like a blood drive, but a sex drive. What if we went on a sex drive? I don't know. The story of a man on SSR Rise. What if there was a sex drive?
Alan Tudyk's Versatile Career
00:52:04
Speaker
Uh, but I think really the, the place where we've all been kind of building up to Alan Tudyk in this movie, just what, first of all, Alan Tudyk, what a treasure that man. National treasure.
00:52:16
Speaker
International treasure, continental treasure. Yeah, the man universal treasure. Yes, there it is. Fucking galaxian treasure, bitch. What's next? He is playing an alien. That's the most recent project. Eternal treasure. You guys resident alien is so good. There's there's a lot of fluff in the second season, but it's worth getting through. Actually, this third season has less episodes, which I'm happy about.
00:52:46
Speaker
because I feel like they have to pad it, they try to pad it out to like 16 episodes. It's a 10 episode season kind of show. And this next season is gonna be 10 episodes. I'm really excited, but you guys should check it out because it's really good and it's really good and you guys would like it and it's really good. And it's a sci-fi show, so don't expect it to last much longer.
00:53:05
Speaker
it's a sci-fi show so about every five or ten years they make something worth watching and this is that for this five or ten years and i'm surprised it's lasted for this long this is the battle star galactica of this generation yes it's the eureka of its time or the warehouse 13 if you're nasty indeed i think those kind of went they crossed over a lot so they they did yeah
00:53:27
Speaker
like Fargo was in warehouse 13, like three or four times, I think. Yeah. And what's her face was in warehouse 13 or wearing Eureka a few times. Mm hmm. Watch those shows, Steven. I know Allison's Gagliotti's in one of them, and I think she's she's great. So that is the actress I was just talking about. Her character shows up in Eureka. And Max Headroom is in Eureka. Matt Frouher. Yeah, dude. The great Matt Frouher. I do. I do loves me some Matt Frouher. Your boy. And he plays an Australian dude.
00:53:56
Speaker
Right on, right on. That's great. Lock that for you. You placed one, mate. Right? Yeah. That was my Australian accent. I have cousins that are Australian. I legitimately do. I do. My uncle's a Baptist missionary in Australia.
00:54:13
Speaker
That's that tracks. Yeah. Yeah. That's not not a thing that should surprise you. I know he's not listening, but hi, Uncle Roger. He would not. I'm a writer. I love Alan Todjic.
00:54:28
Speaker
I was going to say I was getting us back on track. That's all I was going to say. I love the fact that he has a similar career trajectory to Mark Hamill and that he starts in kind of a space opera or I guess Mark Hamill's was a space opera. His was a space western and eventually parlays that into a voice acting career that eventually ends with him in both a Star Wars movie and playing the Joker like
00:54:58
Speaker
Because Alan Tudyk is the Joker on the Harley Quinn series on HBO Max. That is true. And I think that he's just good at everything. So they just put him in everything. Like he's the voice of Dangerboat on the tick. The new updated version of the tick on Amazon Prime, and he's fucking incredible. I was so good. You guys, I'm so mad they canceled that same. He's he's a gay robot boat like.
00:55:23
Speaker
I think you can't go wrong with Alan Tudjic, that's why he's literally in everything. Like you expect to see him or hear him in something, but even when you expect it, you're like, holy crap, again?
00:55:34
Speaker
Like you're into it. Like I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Every Disney animated film since record. Oh, they've got him on lock now. Like he's kind of their auxiliary guy now. And he literally do or the Star Wars stuff, even with movies like Moana and Encanto, where like the entire cast is for Moana is is Pacific Island or Encanto when the entire cast is Latin X. He is he plays birds.
00:56:03
Speaker
He's the voice of the idiot rooster. And in fact, Jewel State from from Firefly saw Moana and he was like, did you like it? And she's like, yeah, we loved it. It was great. He's like, what did you think of me? And she goes, you were in that. She goes, wait, were you the fucking you were the fucking rooster? It's like, of course you were the fucking rooster, you asshole. And then he's the toucan and in Kanto like he just.
00:56:29
Speaker
Even when he doesn't have like an actual character to play, they still find something for him to do because he's like like John Ratzenberger was to the early Pixar films. Alan Tudyk is to the the current Disney animation slate.
00:56:44
Speaker
I think he's one of the rare performers that is equally as adept at voice acting and like film acting. And, you know, he's in a lot of video games, too. I think he was in Halo 3. And I think that's why the Mark Hamill parallel is so apt. Like they have very similar career trajectories, like they start on screen and eventually
00:57:10
Speaker
almost exclusively end up doing voice acting. And it's kind of fucking incredible. Well, I think and I think that's what's great about Alan Tundjic is it's kind of it's kind of 50 50. Mm hmm. Like if you see his name on something and you go into it blind, you're like, is OK, is he going to be in it or is he voicing something? Like, I would never put my money on either because it's like it's a it's a coin flip. You never know.
00:57:37
Speaker
And, you know, speaking of jokes is probably too soon to tell. Does anyone know how the Reavers clean their spears? How's that? They run them through the wash. Oh, no. And they'll always be too soon for that joke. Never, never not too soon for that joke. Oh, no. Joss Wade may be a very, very bad man, but we do still have a firefly on the show.
00:58:08
Speaker
Anyway, it's a little tainted, but yeah, it is. I mean, it's all kind of tainted now, but that hurt me inside a little bit when you spoke about wash like that. I'm sorry. That's just way too soon. He's a leaf on the wind, man.
00:58:22
Speaker
Way way way too soon. I think he he Alan Tudyk and Matt Damon also have cameos in Deadpool 2, I believe. Yes, they do. Playing sodas. Yeah, the guys on the truck, the rednecks. Yeah. Alan Tudyk playing a very similar character to the one he plays here. If only they could have gotten Tyler LeBean. I'm sure they they called him and he was busy. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure that Matt Damon was the second choice there.
00:58:49
Speaker
because then we could have had Tucker and Dale versus, you know, Deadpool. Yeah, I would have watched that. Hell yeah. I mean, I'm kind of sick of Ryan Reynolds at this point, but, you know, you know, I hate that I am, but I also am, too, because I've always been a big champion of his since I saw him in Van Wilder.
00:59:10
Speaker
That was long. That was like 90s. So like, but after a while, it just gets old, man. And he's everywhere. Wasn't you tougher than I was talking about like roles that kind of ruin actors? Was it you I was talking to about that the other day?
00:59:23
Speaker
I don't think so, but I can pretty much figure the conversation by just those words that you gave me. Yeah. There's like certain actors that just like can't, I think it was because we were talking about heat and how Al Pacino kind of got ruined by Scent of a Woman. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I said- Well, there's some actors that can pull themselves out of it. People like Vince Vaughn. Right. Vince Vaughn plays himself in every movie for 15 years. And then he comes out with a True Detective season two.
00:59:49
Speaker
or which I stand for. I actually like true detective. You're all me, too. I like it. It's not. So you're the other one. OK. No, it's not better than the first season, but I like it better. Like, I'll watch that one. I don't even know if I like it better. I just I like it. Whereas most people hated it out of hand. I did not. It was great. I had fun with it. Really, really good. And also freaky. I was just saying freaky. Yes. Freaky is fucking great. And he's he's really good and freaky.
01:00:18
Speaker
I was going to say, if anyone on this podcast has seen Freaky, Brett's seen Freaky. I love both of his films, the Freaky and Happy Death Day. Yes. Which, again, they've teased a Happy Death Day Freaky crossover. That's what they have to do for a third Happy Death Day. Just do it.
01:00:42
Speaker
Otherwise, so help me. We're going to cover Freaky on this podcast one day, because I think that movie is really, really good. I had a lot of fun with Freaky, honestly. Again, another kind of deconstruction of a particular genre of two genres, because it's a deconstruction of the slasher genre and the body swap comedy. And I think it does both really, really well.
01:01:01
Speaker
Which is what I love about that guy's films because that's what he does like the genre mashups Yeah, genre mashups and I want to see what he does next I haven't heard and I've heard about the crossover but like I also want to see him do another just You know standalone mashup of it
01:01:17
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah. And I mean, it's usually horror and some other kind of obscure genre, like the body swap comedy or the time loop movie. But he he managed. And I my problem with Happy Death Day, too, is it's not horror enough. It's more sci fi and time loop movie than it is in time. I don't think it has to be. I mean, it's the natural progression of the story. There are plenty of franchises that will change even trilogies that will change genre.
01:01:48
Speaker
between films. I was gonna say the Evil Dead trilogy is there that there are no consistent genres across that entire franchise. Speaking of actors that have given really great genre performances that you don't expect to be in a genre film. Have you guys seen Becky?
01:02:12
Speaker
I'm Kevin James. That's the one with Kevin James. I've not seen it, but I know I know about it. Wow. That movie is so good. He's so scary in that. And like I I don't sweat Kevin James. I don't tell. He's probably got political opinions that are pretty scary. I don't I don't care, man. I don't. He's so scary in this movie, dude. Watch Becky. Also, that gal that's in it, that young gal that's the star of the movie. She's real good. She's she's got a future man. Watch out for that gal.
01:02:42
Speaker
But yeah, all that to say is I think Deadpool taking the role of Deadpool kind of ruined Ryan Reynolds. Like, whereas now he thinks everything has to be Deadpool, like every role he plays is just Deadpool. Well, because he is Deadpool.
01:02:55
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Like and he even, I don't even know if that's the role that ruined him. I just don't think that we had a consistent amount of him before now. Like Van Wilder is deadpool. Fucking- But I think in the past he was trying to do different things. Like Green Lantern is not deadpool. Hannibal King is deadpool and Blade Trinity. I'm just saying that's always been there. It's always been evident. And I think now he's just in everything.
01:03:21
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whereas before he used salt and pepper him in. What was that movie where he was Jeff Daniels' like imaginary friend or whatever? That was a real good movie. Did you see that? What was that called? I thought you were talking about Jeff Bridges and I was about to say R.I.P.D. but now I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, you know what? That movie sucks, but I liked it. And I heard that if I thought that it sucked and I liked it, I would enjoy the sequel even though it sucks. So I might check that out.
01:03:47
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You should. I feel like that seems like something you would really like. I don't know why. I get a sense you would really like the sequel to R.I.P.D. Well, I like what's his name? Jeff Donovan? Is that the main actor guy? The guy that was in Burn Notice and Blair Witch 2. Is that his name? I have got to see. Jeffrey Donovan, yes.
01:04:17
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Burn Notice, also starring Bruce Campbell, BT Dubs. I don't know if you're a fan of that show, but also pretty good. Sort of a remnant of old-timey TV, but still really good. I was going to mention, since we were sort of talking about Firefly and whatnot, Castle was a very good show. If you're really jonesing for Firefly cast reunion stuff,
01:04:44
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Uh, pretty much every Firefly actor shows up on an episode of castle at one point and inside jokes are thrown at least twice. I remember there was an episode, like the Halloween episode of castle where he dresses up as a space cowboy and he's literally just wearing his Malcolm Reynolds costume. Yeah. And his daughter in the show gives him shit about like, didn't you wear that like five years ago? Right. He's like, yeah, but I still like it. That's a show that I would watch if I did not know that my parents enjoyed it.
01:05:13
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Apparently, it's a bummer. It's a fun show, dude. It is. Well, no, actually, I have I have been wanting to watch. I just haven't gotten to it. Resident Alien also has Nathan Fillion in a a supporting role. I won't give away what it is, but it's not maybe not something that you would expect.
01:05:35
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Nice, Rebecca. Right on. Like, look, I look Firefly. Great show. I think another show that Alan Tudyk is really good on not to keep invoking, you know, the very bad person, but Dollhouse. He's really good on Dollhouse, which is kind of like just a catch all of Joss Whedon regular players. But yeah.
01:05:55
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Yeah, I mean, and you know, I didn't have a desire to watch Dollhouse when it came out. And then I sort of like, I've heard it's good actually, maybe I should watch it.
01:06:06
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And then I've gone back and forth because then it was like, well, it didn't get a proper ending. I don't want to watch it. And then Joss Whedon's a piece of shit. And I was going to say, honestly, I think of all the shows that Joss Whedon has show run, that's the one that I think suffers the most after learning what kind of a person he is, is Dollhouse, because that one, I think that given the premise of what that show is, it gets real, real cringe.
01:06:31
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But it does have my boy Harry Lennox in it and I I do loves me some Harry Lennox I Own it Yeah, I actually I actually got to play both Benedict and dogberry in a in a production of
01:06:53
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It was called No Rehearsal Shakespeare. And they literally, you don't rehearse it. They give you just your lines on a scroll, and you literally read your lines off of the scroll. You don't rehearse. You just kind of show up and read your lines. And you don't know what other actors are going to say what, when. You kind of have the lead in of your line. And that's it. That's all you have.
01:07:17
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And it was terrifying. It was really fun. I got to play both Benedict and Dogberry. I want it. I went I went out for Dogberry and they're like, you're really good. You want to play Benedict, too? I'm like, as long as I get to play Dogberry and they're like, deal. So, yeah, I got to play both because Benedict and Dogberry don't share any scenes together. So that was really that was really fun. Straight up living your best life there, Steven. I tried. I did my best.
01:07:41
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But yeah, Nathan Fillion plays dogberry in that production of in that film version of Much Ado Did you like his performances dogberry? I did Did you because I actually I came across a tiktok the other day comparing that one with other ones The Michael Keaton one from the Kenneth Branagh
01:08:05
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Like all of them, like all the major ones that have been filmed, like all the stage productions. And Nathan Filions is kind of the worst. The thing I like about Nathan Filions is that he is the only one taking himself seriously. And I think that's really funny.
01:08:26
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See, I don't I think it works out of the other ones. I think it works within the context of the movie. I think it works really well. But I think if you put that performance in any other production of much ado, it probably wouldn't work. Maybe that's what it is. Not well versed enough on Shakespeare. But yeah, I mean, there is that a perfect movie? No. Are there some issues that I have with it? Absolutely. But, you know, I think the leads are really winning.
01:08:56
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And, you know, it's it's kind of a fun, you know, if you're if you're a fan of the Whedon verse, it's a good, you know, it's a good Leo. Every every moment is a Leo DiCaprio pointing at the screen moment. That's true. Yeah, that's true. So, yeah. Anyway, back on track, Tucker and Dale versus evil. Tucker and Dale, they're they're fighting evil. OK, let's let's talk about it. The fact that this movie begins with the post credit scene.
01:09:27
Speaker
What the actual fuck? Well, it's it's the it's the extreme version of starting in the middle and leading up to it. It's the the final evolution. That's the final form of that trope.
Creative Film Techniques
01:09:41
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But I feel like by the time you get to the end of the movie, you don't remember how it started. And it's only on rewatch that that really gives you kind of any kind of punch. At least that's kind of how I've engaged with it.
01:09:57
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I think it's harmless. I don't think it necessarily adds anything to the film, but I don't think it takes away from it either. And it's so short that I can't get mad at it. It's like 30 seconds, if that. I mean, yeah, it's real, real short. But yeah, I don't know, man, I just, again, I think it would pack more punch as either a mid or post credit sequence.
01:10:24
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Yeah, I agree with you there. Probably an editing issue or maybe it was in the screenplay to be done that way. Unfortunately, I've never owned Tucker and Dale on physical media. So I don't know if the Blu-ray or DVD or whatever has any kind of featurettes or commentaries or anything.
01:10:47
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Apparently, according to IMDb, so, you know, take this with as much salt as you need to choke it down, there is a feature on the Blu-ray that actually tells this movie from the perspective of the college kids. Oh, yes, I did hear about that. And kind of like plays it as a straight slasher or hillbilly slasher movie. It's kind of like on the cabin fever DVD. There's a G rated cut of the movie.
01:11:16
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And it's just the opening shot and then the credits. Nice. Nice. It's that DVD is amazing. No matter how you feel about that movie, just buy that DVD because there's so much fun. There's like three commentaries. There's one where what's his nuts from Boy Meets World? What's his name? Right. A strong. Yes. He dies in literally the first moments of the second movie and is still still manages to get like top billing. He does get top billing.
01:11:44
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But in the first one, he talked so much during the commentary with the rest of the cast that they just gave him his own commentary. They made him leave like halfway through and just gave him his own commentary with Eli Roth. That's funny.
01:12:07
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And also you get, this is not an ad for the Cabin Fever DVD that's been on a print for probably 10 years, but you also get the Rotten Fruit shorts, which is what Eli Roth cut his teeth on in Hollywood with these little stop motion animation shorts about this band. It's kind of Spinal Tap style, but with anthropomorphic fruit.
01:12:34
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Yes, they're the rotten fruit, they're British as well. So in terms of your never having owned Tucker and Dale versus evil on physical media, the limited edition Steelbook Blu-ray is available on Amazon for $25. Do they have one with the same special features that's not Steelbook that's like $10 cheaper?
01:12:59
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Um, because I don't it gaff what it looks like, man. I just want the featurettes. Yeah, there's a book. I'm going to go buy that right now. I was going to say that that's a collector in you, Brett. Check, check the link in the check the link in the in the chat there, Brett. I don't have that gene. Honestly, I'm very tempted to buy it right now as well. Do it. The cover art looks fucking incredible, too. It's some comic book art as well.
01:13:25
Speaker
They do actually have the the the Blu-ray on Amazon for $17. Just the regular. Is there 4K? No, there's not. I actually was looking for the 4K because I'm me. But no, there is no 4K available yet.
Streaming and Cult Status
01:13:40
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Well, if you ever want to watch it in the 4Ks, the version on Voodoo that I have is UHD. Nice. Yeah, man. I do. I look, I do love I do love watching
01:13:55
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Do you live watching the four K's on my four K UHD television is is good, good, good stuff. You need at least four K's. I mean, look, I can't go back to life before four K's. Are you guys? There's a double feature DVD. I don't know what the country of origin is. It does look like it might possibly be Canadian, but there should still be region one. It's French. So that's region two, actually.
01:14:25
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It is a double DVD that features both Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale versus Evil. I mean, both movies that we've talked about on this episode. Well, you can. Brett started the podcast by comparing them. He did. So I think that means we need to end the podcast now. Let's do it. Come full circle. I mean, it's about time to wind up. Yeah. I mean, look, this is this and this is kind of one of those like, what do you say about this movie? Like, this is a great movie. We love it.
01:14:52
Speaker
If you haven't seen it, just immediately stop this podcast. First of all, why have you listened to this far into this episode? I think it's on Prime. I'm pretty sure it's streaming on Prime right now. I think it's on Prime. It's on Peacock. It's on 2B. It's on Freebie. You can get it free. Go on 2B TV.
01:15:12
Speaker
If you don't have to be, first of all, if you don't have to be, what are you doing with your lives, kids? It's it's absolutely free. You get you have to watch some ads, but you can just the depth of what's available there. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. If you don't have to be pull your head out of your ass, please. OK, do us all a favor. We're all embarrassed for you if you don't have to be very much. I'm going to be physically ill. Let's change the subject.
01:15:37
Speaker
But yeah, so Tucker and Dale versus evil. So the release schedule on this one is interesting. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2010 and then played the festival circuit for a good long while. South by Southwest, Dallas International, Seattle International.
01:15:58
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a couple, one in the Czech Republic, Canada, the Traverse City Film Festival, the Berlin Fantasy Festival in Germany, the Slash Film Festival in Austria.
01:16:11
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just runs the festival circuit for a good long while, does not actually, it gets released on video on demand in August of 2011, and then does not get a theatrical release until September, late September 2011. September 30th, 2011 is when we finally get a theatrical release for Tucker and Dale versus evil in the United States. It opens at number
01:16:38
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46 that week, it opens to $52,800 in its opening weekend. It was very limited. Does it say on your page there how many theaters it was at, Steven? Let me... 31 opening, 44 max across almost five weeks. Yeah.
01:17:00
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It only earns two, two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars domestic, another five point three million in the international box office. So the worldwide box office gross on this is like a five point five million worldwide.
01:17:20
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Again, not really a great multiplier, probably one of the lower box offices we've seen, but also this has kind of cemented itself as a cult classic to kind of flip the other side of that. They've they've made their money back streaming and home media. I mean, that's the only reason that they even.
01:17:41
Speaker
considered it have been working on a sequel for so long, it's because they know how much that they're literally going to print money when they make a sequel to this. Right. Yeah, it'll it'll it'll make it up. But again, I don't think we're going to see that sequel. I would love to be wrong. And look.
01:17:57
Speaker
Me too, but I agree with you. I don't think it's going to happen. This is our social contract with the audience. And so far, knockwood, we have yet to make good on it. But if one of these days is going to it's bound to happen sooner or later. But if every sequel gets released to any movie that we've covered on this podcast up at this point, and this is our one hundred and twenty fifth episode and it's not happened yet, knockwood, we will cover it on the main theme. Well, I'll gladly cover it. Look, I dare them. I dare them to make a sequel.
01:18:25
Speaker
And some of those, I think, will be a joy for some of us. Some of those will be a slog for some of us. This one, I think, would be a joy for all of us, at least the prospect of it would be a joy. Well, I mean, if they have the good sense to turn down shitty scripts, then I trust them. I trust them.
01:18:41
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So this opens, like I said, limited domestic release, limited theatrical release, September 30th, 2011. In number one, that week is a little movie called Dolphin Tale, up from third place in its second week. Is that that one where Morgan Freeman made a tale for a dolphin? Yes, yes, I think it is. That movie was the number one movie in America at one point. What the hell are we doing, America?
01:19:09
Speaker
Um, in second place, one of my favorite movies of 2011, a little movie called Moneyball. Um, Moneyball. Yeah. That's pretty good. Moneyball fucking rips, dude. I don't like sports movies. Moneyball might be my favorite sports movie. I love Moneyball. Moneyball. It's real well made and like Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill just fucking murder it. And also also America's favorite, America's favorite actor, Chris Pratt is in that movie as well.
01:19:39
Speaker
He has his moments. America loves him and the Internet is totally chill about him. And apparently he's never done anything wrong ever in third place. The re I kid. The third place is a rerelease of The Lion King, the original film, The Lion King. It earned 10 million dollars this week. And it's been in it's been out for nine hundred and three weeks.
01:20:07
Speaker
In fourth place, a movie called Courageous. What if some people were courageous? I don't know. What if Courage existed? What if Courageousness? I don't know. The summary for
Pandemic Films and Personal Preferences
01:20:19
Speaker
this one, as law enforcement officers, the main characters are confident and focused. They willingly stand up. The worst the streets have to offer.
01:20:31
Speaker
something something. Oh, my God, I don't care. Oh, you know what? This is one of those fucking faithful films. Oh, I hate it already. Oh, it's a Jesus movie. It's a Jesus movie. And in fifth place, a movie I saw in theaters 50 50. What if Joseph Gordon Levitt has cancer? And what if his good friend is Seth and Seth Rogan's? You're almost there. You're almost I'm close. Yeah. What if you really liked iced tea and lemonade drink?
01:20:57
Speaker
That's true. Sometimes you want an honor. Palmer are an old polymer. RnP, RnP. Rounding at the top 10, you've got Dreamhouse in sixth place. Ab abduction. The the last John Singleton movie abduction in seventh place. What's your number in eighth place? Killer Elite in ninth place and in 10th place. The movie that did a lot of business in 2010 contagion. Oh, is that the one with Chris Pine?
01:21:25
Speaker
Uh, contagion carriers. I'm thinking carriers. Yeah. Contagion is a Soderbergh movie, like with Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, I don't care about that. But hey, have you guys seen carriers though? No, of course I haven't. It's so when the pandemic first dropped, Yavi, like early March, 2020, we're all just living our lives that all of a sudden is pandemic. And then all of a sudden we weren't anymore. Right. Me and Jimmy were like, this is going to last a couple of months. We should watch pandemic movies.
01:21:54
Speaker
And we started with Carriers because it's a fine fucking film. You you and everybody else, like Contagion, as I recall, was on Netflix and it was like one of the most watched movies that month on Netflix. Watch Carriers, you guys. It's on my it's on my voodoo in the good. It's on the good list. Go to the good list and look for carriers and watch it because it's good as hell. What's that gallon? It's Chris Pine and that one gal I like a lot. What's her name? Something or other. Yeah, that's the one. Oh, Pepper Parabo. Yeah.
01:22:24
Speaker
Daddy, the movie is real, real good. Yeah, she's in Looper. Brian Johnson's Looper. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know who else is in that movie? My least favorite actor from from the Evil Dead remake, Lou Taylor Pucci. Yeah, you hate that guy.
01:22:42
Speaker
Fuck that guy. It's his hair. I don't think you don't. Honestly, every time I see a movie where there's that like character type like I watched X again over the weekend with my girlfriend who'd never seen it. And there's the cinematographer has got like the long hair and the glasses. And I'm like, fuck you, Lou Taylor Pucci. And I'm like, oh, no, he's he's not Lou Taylor Pucci. Sorry. Because like good on good on Gino Ortega for like, you know, doing what she wants, but also like. I mean,
01:23:10
Speaker
I don't know. I feel very complicated about it. That's why I like that movie, because it makes me feel things. X is good. I liked Pearl too, but I think I liked X more. I liked the fact that X was a movie about porno movies, and I didn't think that...
01:23:25
Speaker
the sex or nudity was excessive because I'm a big prude when it comes to movies. Not because like I'm a prude, an actual prude, but because I'm just like, can we get can we get on to the stuff that's like about the movie? But it's people putting their wieners and stuff and smooching. So what you're telling me is you're the world's biggest Caligula fan.
01:23:46
Speaker
I don't know what that means, but whatever. The movie Caligula with Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. Did you say Benignula? Caligula. Children's book about a rabbit. Benignula. I'm talking. I'm talking Caligula. The movie about the Roman emperor, which was written by Gore Vidal and financed by the president of Penthouse magazine. Man, I don't know anything about that.
01:24:07
Speaker
Yeah. For the best. Probably. Yeah. Is pretty fucked. And yeah, you given what you just told us, you probably wouldn't like it. But no, X, great movie. Watch it. Watch X if you haven't seen it.
Reviews and Ratings
01:24:18
Speaker
It's on Hulu right now, I think. And even if you're a cinematic prude of sorts, it's real, real good. The movie, the nudity is not gratuitous, the violence kind of, but the nudity, not so much.
01:24:31
Speaker
I mean, it is a horror film, Steven. Somewhat of a slasher, you might say. Which are known for being excessively gory when the MPAA allows it.
01:24:41
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The Tomatometer score on Tucker and Dale versus Evil is an 85%. One of the rare instances where the Tomatometer score and the audience score are the exact same as of this recording. Nice. The critic's consensus, like the best horror comedies, Tucker and Dale versus Evil, minds its central crazy joke for some incredible scares, laughs, and believe it or not, heart.
01:25:04
Speaker
I think we can all agree with that. It's gets a sixty five on Metacritic. Generally favorable reviews based on twenty three critics. And the letterbox score is a three point six. Brett, out of five stars, how do you rate Tucker and Dale versus evil? The fuck is wrong with these people? Three point six is way too fucking low. I give it four and a half. Yeah. Tucker, what about you?
01:25:30
Speaker
Four and a half, man. It's damn near perfect. And I gave it a four. This movie fucking rips. It's great. Yeah, dude. Respect. Yeah, this movie is fucking fun. And how dare you think otherwise, quite frankly? No, it's good. It's real, real good.
01:25:48
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, we, we, we like it. So, uh, look, if you haven't seen Tucker and Dale versus evil and you've made it this far, get your head out of your ass and go watch it. It's literally on like half the streaming services that exist. So check it out. Just watch it. Yeah.
01:26:05
Speaker
And if you don't call me personally and I'll sign you into my Voodoo account and you can watch it on my Voodoo account. There you go. Like we announced on our on our Patreon that we had kind of had to we had to call an audible last minute. And a friend of the podcast, the frozen cusser and patron basically told that he said, thank you for giving me an excuse to rewatch that movie. Good old Tudyk. Yeah, it's great. Is a good movie.
01:26:31
Speaker
So good. Yeah. And consistently and reliably good. Mm hmm. It's one of those that you can just throw it. You can go 10 years without watching it or you can go an hour without watching it. And it's just consistently great. And if you've seen it before, it's a really good background movie. It's just a movie to kind of have on while you're like doing stuff. And occasionally you look up at the screen and you're like, oh, fuck, I love this scene. Like it's.
01:26:53
Speaker
It's again, like in the in the comedy is great. Like just every time Alan Tudyk says, hey, college kids, I just kind of fucking lose it because it's so great. Like every time he pours beer onto a wound is everything. Yeah, for everything. Which was apparently his idea. Like his idea was
Product Placement Insights
01:27:12
Speaker
I want to use beer to fix like when he got the bee stings, like I'm just going to pour my beer on it. And they're like, that's perfect. Do that all the time.
01:27:19
Speaker
Speaking of beer, something I wanted to point out, I don't know if this isn't any of the trivia or anything. The fact that you're drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon, which is the exact same beer that Tyler drinks in the movie. That I learned from an inside source years ago that I cannot reveal, is that they got the product placement deal with PBR.
01:27:37
Speaker
But they were only allowed to show a certain amount of PBR cans and they were not allowed to show PBR in any scene where someone is drinking and doing something irresponsible. Which is why when they're driving and drinking beers, those aren't PBR cans. Right. They are not when they're fishing and drinking beers.
01:27:59
Speaker
Those are not PBR cans. Any other time where they're just having a good time, when they're pouring it on his bee stinks? Yes, PBR. At the end when he gives him his beer with his favorite sip and utensil. And literally calls it out as a PBR. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But wasn't it the most prominent, the one most prominent feature I remember is in the fishing boat when he opened, there's the last one in there and it's a PBR. It's right there. Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. Because I mean, I was going to say, what's irresponsible about fishing?
01:28:27
Speaker
Well, I can bear in fishing go hand in hand. Exactly. Like they were made for each other. I feel like it depends on the kind of boat you're using. I mean, this is not a glass bottom boat, so there's that. No, I mean, if you're if you're driving something. Then you probably shouldn't be drinking, but they weren't driving. They were just sitting out on the water. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's why you're right. And I'm wrong. And I misremembered. So let's move on, boys.
01:28:53
Speaker
No, I think we need to drive this point home for another 10 minutes. Well, let's go. Go ahead. Go ahead. I could probably pee a couple times. You just got to do what I do, drop the correction, feel good about yourself, and then move on. I'm out. Acknowledge the fact that you're better than them, and then move on.
01:29:09
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People be making mistakes and shit. Just just take solace in that smug sense of superiority that you see exactly as good as everybody else. That's how I see it. That's why you're the best of us, Tucker. Hey, man, or the worst of us depends because, you know, there's some pretty bad people out there. That's the that's the second best compliment I've gotten this week. You know what the first one was? What's that?
01:29:38
Speaker
I was at a meeting with the people that interact with my daughter at her school, and they said that I write very pleasant emails. Hmm. Like they made all of them made a point to agree and be like, yeah, that's the email guy. Like this guy writes an email. He's serious about it. Like I thought you were going to say so proud in my life that you're going to write a fucking email, you guys.
01:30:03
Speaker
I thought you were going to say your kid gave you a mug that said world's okayest dad. And you were like, Oh, I have that mug already. I've had that for years. Actually, I've been okay. It's for a long time, gentlemen. Nothing wrong with being just as good as everybody else.
01:30:21
Speaker
Oh, I love it. Look, speaking of being as OK is just as good as everybody else. Hey, look, we're
Listener Engagement and Conclusion
01:30:27
Speaker
this is the disenfranchised podcast people. And look, we're we're some friends who who love talking to each other about movies and boys. Hopefully you like listening to us. If you do.
01:30:38
Speaker
If you really would be so kind swing on over to apple podcast spotify wherever you get your podcast leave us a nice five star Rating and review if you would please and thank you particularly if you're leaving it on apple podcast We could use all the help we can get there help that agar help twist that algorithm to get us all the
01:30:55
Speaker
All the downloads that people crave in this business, are we the biggest podcast? No. Are we the flashiest? No. Are we the best? Probably not. Yes. But you know what? We're my favorite podcast. So there's that. That's not even true. But look, we're the only podcast that I'm on consistently, and that's saying something. That is something, I guess. Your own podcast isn't even your favorite. What the fuck? Not even your favorite.
01:31:23
Speaker
I remember. Never mind. I'll fire Steven again, but it's not better than us fired again. Get the fuck out of time this week, Steven. I heard I'm the host now fired.
01:31:40
Speaker
Um, fuck, we're having a great time. I love you guys. Um, best of times. You can also shoot us an email. This in French pod at gmail.com. Let us know how we're doing. Let us know what you think. Who knows? We may even read what you have to write here on the podcast itself. So if you ever wanted to hear my voice read your words, there is no better time. We love reading fan mail. And you know what we love even more than that outside of cash donations of over a million dollars is fan art.
01:32:09
Speaker
Right. Like we did, we did get a little bit of fan art. We did get some fan art from friend of the show, Garak, not Jay Hardy from the casual podcast. If I throw a cast out there and mention the fan art again, maybe, maybe we'll get some more.
01:32:23
Speaker
Yeah, we'd love to get some more fan art. We actually and if you want to see Garrix fan art, it's on our Instagram page. In fact, we're on all the social medias, Instagram, Facebook, letterboxed at Disinfranch Pod. You can find us at all of those locations. You can also head over to our Patreon, patreon.com slash Disinfranch Pod this month to coincide with our Spooky Thon Redux, Spooky Thon Part D.
01:32:49
Speaker
Uh, we're doing, uh, in on also in honor of last week's main feed episode on resident evil. Uh, welcome to raccoon city. We're doing all resident evil behind the paywall. Um, as of the time of this recording, we should very soon have an episode of oops, all video game corner, uh, getting released hopefully within the next week.
01:33:10
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I'm going to have it done before the 15th. I haven't got a chance to look at it because it's big and scary. It's the snakes in the pet shop and Pee Wee's Big Adventures to me right now because it's like it's fragmented. It's over three hours long. It's it's a long one. It's a. It's going to take a lot of time if you want to. If you want to hear me fall asleep in real time, not because the episode's boring, but just because I was up really late the night before and that episode went really long. It actually it's good. It's good. It's a good episode like Brett.
01:33:40
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brings his a game to that and it's it's a fucking slapper of an episode that is that is at the five dollar level and at the three dollar level we're going to be talking about Resident Evil colon the final chapter. The last movie and the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil franchise. I called the Resident Evil directed by at least it's not Uwe Bowl. I mean, yes.
01:34:06
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Yeah, look, we could probably have a whole of a bold month on this. Please. Can we do it after the Larry Cohen month, though? Because I'm really looking forward to the Larry Cohen. Oh, no, it all spoilers. Yeah. Spoilers for a thing we we've talked about in the text thread. We have no idea what it's going to happen. No, it happened.
01:34:22
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I have a video, but I hear it with the rest of the group first. So with the boys, with the boys. But yeah, that's the thing that we're wanting to do. But yeah, look, we've got we've got some fun stuff planned and we've got some great stuff behind the paywall. Patreon dot com slash just in French Pod. There are two levels you can join at the three or the five dollar level. Both gives you access to hours of content behind the paywall.
01:34:44
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So definitely check that out. I'm your host, Stephen Fox, for that you can find me on social media at Chewie Walrus on Twitter, Instagram and Letterboxed. Brett, where can we find you on social media these days? You can find me on Instagram and Letterboxed. It's us, underscore warlock. Tucker, what about yourself?
01:35:01
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You can find me on YouTube at youtube.com slash ice 909. That's I C E N I N E the number zero and the number nine. And that is all we wrote for our Tucker and Dale versus evil episode of the disenfranchised podcast. I am your host, Steven Foxworthy for my co-host Brett Wright and Tucker. Until next time. I.
01:35:30
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I think we have to hide all the sharp objects, guys. It's been doozy of a day. It's been a doozy of a day. College kids just killing themselves on our property. Hey, college kids. We got your friend. We got your friend.