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Episode 64: Nothing But Trouble featuring Bitter Karella
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Bitter Karella, author of the new splatterpunk novel Moonflow, is in the courthouse and they’re presenting Nothing But Trouble (1991). Dan Aykroyd directs and appears in this over-the-top horror-comedy along with John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore. Aykroyd is an evil judge, Candy plays dual roles, Chase is an asshole, Moore is doing her best and there are two, big oily babies for some reason. It’s a strange one that inspires strong reactions and we’re pleading our cases. You can be in the jury box, just tune in!
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Introduction and Hosts Overview
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Bad to be bad, it's bad to be bad, and I guess it's understood that you would, if you could, and you know that you should, yes you know that you should.
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to your favorite bad movie podcast. It's the only podcast that's brave enough to ask the question, if this movie's so bad, why do you like it so much?
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We're your hosts. My name is Chris Anderson, and with me, as always, I have the bobo to my little devil, Mr. Greg Bossy.
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Greg, you're muted, I think.
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Hello, Chris. How are you, Greg? Batting a thousand, you know what i mean? I got the teeth cleaned today. Feeling good. How are you? Yeah, I'm i'm hanging in. i You know, it's been that kind of day.
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happens. But um ah you know what? I'm here and I'm excited for the show. I'm very excited because we have a very special guest with us.
Guest Introduction: Bitter Corella
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Uh, you might know them as the author split scream five.
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You might know them as the author of the upcoming book moonflow. Actually, it's probably out by now, by the time this episode has come out, I'm going to clarify all that listeners. So don't you even worry. It might not be midnight, but I hope that we can be pals, our own personal JP Valken visor. It's bitter. Corella. How are you bitter? Hi, I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on the show.
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Thank you for coming on now upfront because I want to give you your respect and you've got something that you're out here
Discussion on 'Moonflow' Novel
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promoting. Tell us about your new book, Moonflow.
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Why? Yes, I do have something promote and thank you. Uh, so yes. Um, I have a new book coming out. It's a splatterpunk horror novel called Moonflow, all about, um if you like, um
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well, it's about, what is it? Oh, geez. I guess I have to actually say what it's about. This is the first time I've actually had to clarify what the book is about. It's all right. Every other thing I've done, I've just been like, hey, there's a book coming out. You should all go buy it. Just do the book. Get the book. But I haven't actually explain the book. You haven't worked out your elevator pitch yet?
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Yeah, I literally haven't. And I was like, oh, okay. Well, I guess the the elevator pitch that I was using to promote this book when I was ah first you know shopping it around was like, hey, what if what if you could combine the vibes of Bruce LaBruce's The Misandrist with Dan Aykroyd's Nothing But Trouble?
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And that is this book. So it actually slots very nicely into our topic today. But yes, this is a splatterpunk horror book about um um going into an eldritch forest in search of a a um hallucinogenic mushroom that causes you to see the face of God and lose your mind.
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um It and also it involves ah it involves a a trans shroom dealer looking for said mushroom and confronting afoul of a cult of lesbian hippie separatists. Or hippie lesbian separatists.
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God damn it, I did it all wrong. Okay. It's alright. I am bad at promoting stuff. We get the big It sounds very interesting. It does sound really solid. And obviously the type of thing that I hope our listeners would want to check out, definitely check
Analyzing 'Nothing But Trouble'
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it out.
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And ah as you mentioned, you mentioned your film this week, Nothing But Trouble. Now, listeners, if you haven't seen Nothing But Trouble, here's just a brief summary of the film to hold in your mind.
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A quartet of New Yorkers get dragged before a small town justice of the piece for speeding, only to find out that the judge is a million years old, evil, and holding them all in a fun house filled with Rube Goldberg booby traps.
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And it's a comedy.
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I'm laughing already. Yeah, yeah. Now... Why did you choose nothing but trouble? Because you had this one right off the dome. You were not one of our hammers and horrors when I asked.
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ah So this is a movie. It is, as you might guess from the title of this podcast, it is not a good movie. It's a very bad movie. yeah um it's it's a so It's a movie, though, that every time I see it, I feel like this movie was made specifically for me and okay and me alone.
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i i would catch but growing up. I kept catching bits and pieces of it on television. very And my family lived overseas. So very often it was in German.
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Oh, whoa wow. Made it even more surreal because I had an idea what was happening. And every time I just remember kind of being mesmerized by this by by because you would see parts of it and they don't.
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If you see isolated images from this movie. you you You might be forgiven for not realizing it's all part of the same film because it is just all over the place.
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ah like It combines a lot of things I really like, kind of hillbilly horror, um kind of Kafkaesque ah nightmare scenarios. ah yeah Also a really nice kind of subtle ACAB ah theme going through the whole thing.
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Yeah, not a lot of sympathetic cops in here. Doesn't have a favorable view of the criminal justice system. I will give it that. Yeah, yeah. yeah And um it is it is also um ah thing that I love, which is horror played as comedy or comedy played as horror.
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It's got really big kind of... um oh god the the name of that show uh league of gentlemen vibes uh way before the gentleman was a thing and uh and this is the thing is like this dan akroyd basically apparently went to see hellraiser and thought it was really funny and decided i'm gonna make a horror movie because it'll be the funniest thing ever and it's it's not very funny but it is probably one of the most ah evocative and singular horror movies of the nineties.
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Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'll take that argument. I'll, I'll take that.
Behind the Scenes Challenges
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It's, it's so its own vibe. but That is true. Yeah. um I think it actually puts more, it puts more effort into atmosphere than almost any actual horror film of the era, which, which is pretty impressive.
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I would agree. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of production value up on set. There is a lot of mise-en-scene in this movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it probably helped that, like, you know, in of the era, most horror movies were made pretty cheaply. They were they were kind of like, you make them cheap, you churn them out, they they make a buck.
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And Dan Aykroyd having a major studio behind him as, you know, a big ah Hollywood star of the 80s, you see all the money up on screen. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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And um it is a trip. There is a lot to see. you you will never get bored in this movie. It is just no to the concept of spectacle. Well, Greg, had you seen this one before?
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Uh, yes. In two weird ways. The first one isn't a full way. It was like, I thought it was my dad, but when I was watching the movie, I realized I think it was my sister's boyfriend rented this when he was at our house and he was just like, you're going love this one or something. And you're like, and I was, was 10 or 11.
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i don't know if he had seen it or if he just really wanted to see it, but he put it on. And after like 15 or 20 minutes, I was just like, I don't know, man. And so like I left and then came back. It's a slow burn. Oh, it is. yeah It is. And then I came back later and saw the big, the big babies.
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And I was just like, i was just like, Oh, I don't want to have anything to do with this. ah And then in college, one of my roommates, it was before we were roommates when we were just like becoming friends, he's like, one of my favorite movies is Nothing But Trouble. We've got to watch it. I was like, oh, it's got like the big babies in it, right? He was like, yep. I was like, yeah, let's watch that.
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And I remember thinking like it was fun to watch it with him because he liked it so much. um But like I was still at the point where i just like I don't fully get the appeal.
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he like a Three Stooges fan? Is he like that kind of guy? Maybe. I think he was a Dan Aykroyd fan is what it was. Well, who is it? yeah um yeah But he's like a deep Ackroyd fan. Okay.
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He's like a Dr. Detroit Ackroyd fan? I think so, yes. Oh, wow. wow A Loose Cannons Ackroyd fan. Yeah, probably. I would assume yes. um And so, yeah, like i said, it was fun to watch with him. i didn't fully get it. So I was excited to be seeing it now, especially since I have an appreciation for bad film that I didn't at that point ah when I was in college.
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I do think this is a very, now that you mentioned this is a very sister's boyfriend kind of movie. Yeah, definitely. It's cousin coded. Yes, yes. It's like, yeah oh, your cool older cousin who like you know has ah has a stash of like Playboys and cigarettes
Personal Insights on 'Nothing But Trouble'
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shows it you. Like that kind of movie. Exactly.
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I remember seeing this one a lot on Comedy Central. They must have had it in one of their rotations for a six month stretch or something. makes sense. yeah And I'm sure when I was working at ah Kim's video, we we would toss it on and the sort of the general consensus was like,
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it's something, you know, and but you know, it was the kind of thing where I think if you're not paying attention to it, it's very easy to like, just get lost. And then you look up and you see some sort of crazy spectacle and then you don't follow what's happening and you look away.
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So only watching it at work, I think it's probably the worst way to have watched it. but So then I watch it this time and I'll confess, I didn't think it was very good.
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Yeah. Yeah. ah My opinion didn't change much in this second and a half viewing. Yeah, i was real i wanted to like it so bad. i was so ready to fall in love. There are elements of it I really like.
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It's film that, yeah, that it feels like, I don't know exactly what the the missing element is, but it feels like it could work. It feels like there's so much potential here to really make something that is ah genuinely kind of funny, but also genuinely disturbing. They they almost reach in points. And...
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um it it doesn't quite work. Part of that, I think though, or a large part of that is due to, uh, uh, one, one force. And that is Chevy chase.
00:11:13
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ah Yeah, I could see. Yeah. Well, well, I talk about Chevy chase in the context portion of our show. Are you guys ready to move on to the context portion of the show?
00:11:24
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Let's hear some context. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
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I wish had some context About the background of the film Script director actors on set What's going on on screen I wanna hear some details Gossips can do all that shit Can't imagine all that
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and So Nothing But Trouble came out February 15th, 1991, just missing Valentine's Day. What a heartbreaker. Yeah. ah Director Dan Aykroyd with the tagline, All they wanted was a little getaway.
00:12:24
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All they got was nothing but trouble. Oh, the titular line. Sure. Yeah. It helps. this This title is so generic. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:37
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Yeah, I think the working title was Vulcanvania, which is... There were actually five working titles. Oh, five. oh Wow. what what What are the other... What are they?
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ah There was also a Road to Ruin. All right. Git. G-I-T. All right. Okay. All right. Kind of like Nope or... Yeah. All right. Git.
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Yeah. Yeah. ah There's also a Trick House. Okay. All right. right yeah I mean, the house is definitely the centerpiece. Oh, yeah. Before they get to the house, they got nothing.
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yeah Right, right. ah Also, Vulcanvania, which is ah allegedly how Aykroyd still thinks of it. That was the final title while it was in production. yeah And then eventually the studio settled on nothing but trouble.
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Instantly forgettable. It's also weird, too, because the they do say the line in the movie, and I just remember thinking, like, that's where they say it? Yeah, like throwaway. Yeah, like Demi Moore says it, doesn't she? Yeah, she's saying to Chevy Chase, she's like, I shouldn't like you, but I do. You're nothing but trouble.
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And it's just like, that's the line? This is about Chevy Chase, not about the crazy man with no nose who's terrorizing people? I feel like he's more trouble, so. Yeah, definitely.
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He is nothing but trouble. That's true.
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But yeah, and it doesn't set you up at all for the movie you're going to see. but You see Demi Moore and Chevy Chase on a movie poster and it's nothing but trouble. You think it's going to be a romantic comedy where Chevy Chase is some kind of asshole.
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Yeah. Yep. Yep. Although Chevy Chase is an asshole in this one. so Oh, yeah you certainly. That yeah much is true. But yeah. He delivers on that. Now, in 1978, Dan Aykroyd was driving through upstate New York, perhaps en route between his native Ottawa and his job at Saturday Night Live.
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ah He gets pulled over for speeding, and instead of just being given a ticket, they take him before a Justice of the Peace. The Justice of the Peace fined Aykroyd $50, but then invited him for tea and kept him there for another four hours. Mm-hmm.
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In 1987, Dan along with his brother Peter, and film producer Robert K. Weiss went to see a screening of the movie Hellraiser. They were surprised to find the audience laughing, but it occurred to them that they could make horror comedy.
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They decided to use Dan's encounter with the Justice of the Peace as a jumping-off point. Peter was the one who remembered the story. That's why Peter gets a story buy credit on the movie. so The question I have real fast, I so i just got into Hellraiser recently. I don't recall it being that funny.
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i mean, it's a little funny. Is there some jokes in it? I remember a lot from it, but I've only seen it like twice at this point. And I guess the jokes haven't entered my brain, except for that last line, maybe. I'm really not sure. Like, I honestly um think Hellraiser is is a really good horror movie. So I'm not sure what this audience was that Dan Eckerd saw it with who just were not vibing with it.
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ah But it is ah certainly, i would say, ah ah grand guignol. You know, it's it's very over the top. I could see if an audience gets the giggles at some point, then that's going to spread. That's going to be how you're going to react.
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That's true. There is a lot of there's a lot of goo in it. So that yeah may have that may have prompted some ah some some chuckles, some nervous chuckles and then became a genuine laughter at some point. So, all right, I'll give Dan that.
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the the proximity between pleasure and pain you know but between fear and hilarity yeah as the Cenobites themselves inform us in the film tank that's probably Dan Aykroyd saw that and was like you know what they're right I'm gonna run with that the Cenobites watch Hellraiser and they think it's a comedy am I right oh you know in Soviet Russia Cenobites laugh at you yes yes Uh, now, Ackroyd spent the next six months working on the script, which he initially titled Git, and then it went through the additional five titles.
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Which titles do you guys think is the best out of those five? I like Volcanvania. Yeah. Um. I think it suits it the best. It does. It's the closest. I, I don't think it's a particularly good title because hear it and you're like, what is, what, what is that? Like, and I guess like Transylvania. yeah Um, but it's certainly better than,
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ah but What was the first one? Not before Git. It was ah Road to Ruin. Trick House. Trick House is too. So the thing about Vulcanvania is it does make you ask the question like what?
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But that also builds some interest. You know what I mean? True, true. And you want to go into it thinking this movie is going to be weird. yeah You know what I mean? yeah Yeah. And then that might make you like with nothing but trouble. You're like, they're on a road trip.
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But with the name Vulcanvania, you're probably like, when are they going to get to Vulcanvania? You know what I mean? Like you have some idea that it's a place maybe in your brain It's almost like Vulcanvania is a character in the movie.
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Almost. Yeah. We see very little of Vulcanvania in the movie, but you know, you want to see more actually. Yeah. It makes an impression. Yes. Now, Ackroyd, he took the bones of that story, ah him with the Justice of the Peace, and he started dialing it up to 11 by adding in booby traps, giant mutant babies, Centralia, Pennsylvania, ah just letting his imagination run wild.
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Eventually, the script wound up in front of somebody at Warner Brothers, and they liked it. ah But they are not on board entirely with Ackroyd's vision. Ackroyd had hoped to find someone else to direct.
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He had shown the script to both John Hughes and John Landis, who both turned him down. But they both said that, well, Hughes said he liked the script. Landis said he didn't get it.
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Eventually, reluctantly, Ackroyd made his first and only film as a director. He agreed that he would direct because he knew that was the only way he could get it made. That's how much he believed in nothing but trouble.
00:18:50
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Yeah. I mean, he he believed in this project. He knew it would be huge. He knew that if it could if it could be done right, it would be the comedy horror of the century. And um God bless him.
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God bless him. ah Swung for the fences. He didn't have a lack of vision. no I don't think anyone can accuse him for not having a vision. Yeah. every Every moment of this film just drips with... ah with With drip, I guess.
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Yeah. yeah Yeah. Like there's no so expense spared. Everything like the house that they're in ah is just it's like looking at a Mad Magazine comic. All the chicken fat everywhere. It's amazing. um Yes, exactly.
00:19:31
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ah Now, the reason why this was Ackroyd's only directorial effort might be because of the studio's other major stipulation for green lighting, Nothing But Trouble.
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While Aykroyd had initially planned to play both Judge Valkenheiser and the male lead, Chris Thorne, the studio chose Chevy Chase to star. Boom.
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working with Chevy chase was a notorious career killer. ah he severely damaged the careers of John Carpenter and Amy Heckerling and Jay Sandrick, Ken Shapiro, Joe camp, amongst many others, all made their final films with Chevy chase.
00:20:11
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Wow. All of this simply because he was just such a massive prick to work with. Just a huge, unpleasant asshole. Yeah. You know, it really comes through in his performance in this movie.
00:20:24
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Like, apparently this is what he's like in real life. So, like, I knew a lot of this from community in listening to the ah the commentaries on the first season. It really comes across that people don't like him.
00:20:37
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I hadn't realized he just, it's that's not a turn he made later in life. That's just how he has been. No, some people will tell you it was the painkillers that did that to him. But apparently he was always like this.
00:20:48
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interest Yeah. The thing about him is in this movie, in Nothing But Trouble, um I don't I also have to say I don't think Dan Aykroyd would be good as the male lead in this. No, because um as we established, this is a movie about ah some yuppies who get you know pulled off ah somewhere, get get arrested in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and get like harassed by a bunch of freaks.
00:21:11
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And what you need for the lead in a movie like this is someone who is aggressively normal. so that they can be you know they can really make a foil for the freaks and right yeah and dan akroyd as much as i love him you know our neurodivergent king ah he does not play normal in movies no he is always he is in fact i think one of the few comedians of that era because if you watch comedians of that era you know um like ah Bill Murray or ah ah Chevy Chase, ah most of them just play themselves in every movie.
00:21:45
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And Dan Aykroyd is one of the few who definitely disappears into characters. Something I hadn't realized, yeah. Yeah. Like if you watch like, you know, his his, you know, Ray's stance is very different from the character he plays in like Spies Like Us or Loose Cannons or, in fact, Nothing But Trouble.
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ah So he really he always plays a character who, you know, is A fish out of water or marching the beat of his own drum, who's a little weird, but yeah he has different kinds of weirdness.
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And ah the other thing that I'll mention about Chevy Chase here is he he is very normal. So he would have been a good person to play if he could actually... stay like focused and be in character instead the whole movie he's just like hey check me out i'm jammy chase i'm in a movie i refuse to take anything seriously yeah and it's like come on man you you we need to believe the stakes are real in this um And finally, oh, sorry.
00:22:41
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Oh, no, no, you you were about to finally I don't want to. fine sorry i love I love to babble. But like the one last thing I will mention about Chevy Chase in this thing is if you've read Chevy Chase's autobiography, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not actual title of it.
00:22:55
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um Yeah, he has a little bit to say about nothing but trouble. And it's basically him just slagging Dan Aykroyd and saying, like I didn't want to do this movie. It was a favor of Dan Aykroyd that that stupid idiot piece of shit made the shitty movie.
00:23:08
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And it's all his fault. yeah um And I'm paraphrasing, of course. of course like course Yeah. But it's also funny when you see Dan Aykroyd talk to this movie and Dan Aykroyd is like literally falling on a sword being like, yeah, it didn't work. It's my fault. I take the blame.
00:23:22
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It's like very different attitudes towards whose fault the failure of this film is. And I don't think it was entirely like Dan Aykroyd in reality. I think Jimmy Chas shoulders a lot of the blame. I did read that he sent letters of apology to the cast and crew after the film was a flop. What a mensch. What a mensch.
00:23:40
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I mean, how can you not root for somebody? He's the Charlie Brown of filmmaking. I have never heard anyone say a bad thing about Dan Aykroyd. I have heard a lot of people say bad things about Chevy Chase, though. So, you know. yeah Yeah. And I think one idea that you gave me bitter while you were talking was what if John Candy and Chevy Chase switched roles?
00:24:03
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Oh, I think this movie instantly becomes 30% better. Yeah. you That is interesting because John Candy is, would be perfect for the role of the elite.
00:24:19
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You'd actually root for him and be like, Oh, he's trying to woo Demi Moore. And Oh, he's a big guy. You'd, you know, you'd want to be rooting him on. So he could be a hero in this situation. John Candy is one of those actors who is so instantly likable.
00:24:33
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yeah Yeah. And it really comes across in this film where he plays, he does hat trick performance. the only sympathetic characters. Yes. Yes. Incredible. You know, in a movie that is ah that is pretty, pretty explicitly anti cop.
00:24:51
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ah He plays very sympathetic cop, which is interesting. Yeah. But I guess maybe he he gives up the cop lifestyle for this private security guard lifestyle. I guess. I don't know what. Yeah. I don't know what the movie is trying to say. i don't know that it don't know if it is Yeah, I don't think there was a lot of thought put into it, but I think from what I read, there was a lot of rewriting of the ending, which I think explains why there's like four endings. Yeah.
00:25:16
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Oh, the ending is another thing that almost works and then they botch it. Then they, well, anyway.
00:25:23
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Well, now, in addition to having one of Hollywood's most notorious assholes on the set, another hurdle Aykroyd had to overcome was that finding himself now in dual cast as Judge Valkenheiser and Bobo the Giant Man Baby, he would have to do a great deal of his time on set ah wearing extensive prosthetic makeup, ah which made it difficult to command the respect of the cast and crew and also was physically exhausting.
00:25:50
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In fact, he was briefly hospitalized during filming. Wow. Damn. that That is dedication. Yeah. Poor guy. He painted himself into a corner and he bit off more than he could chew, I think.
00:26:03
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God, especially because the, well, I assume we're going talk about these babies at some point. Oh, we'll get the babies. Oh, we'll be talking about the babies. I'm going to hold my tongue about the babies for a little while.
00:26:17
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They're almost too much to take in. They need their own episode. Now, to add insult injury, the studio cut a lot of Ackroyd's over-the-top violence that he put in the film so that it could get a PG-13 rating.
00:26:31
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Oh, that would explain some stuff. Yeah. Big boo to that. Boo. Yeah. And it turns out this gambit did not pay off. Yeah. Nothing but trouble was initially budgeted for $40 million. dollars It went $5 million dollars over budget.
00:26:47
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And then it only took in 8.5 million at the box office.
00:26:53
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Other comedies of 1991. If you wanted to head out to the theaters. You could also see don't tell mom, the babysitter's dead. Check out our previous episode about don't tell mom, the babysitter's dead.
00:27:06
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You could also see the Adams family. okay. You could see similar lines of thought between the darkness and the comedy.
00:27:17
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Yeah. Yeah. What about Bob? Great film. Oh, I think hot shots. Great film, I think. Wow. You got Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown.
00:27:30
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Oh, interesting. um I remember that being surprisingly good. I should revisit that. I don't know if I knew it existed. Speaking of ah John Candy, you got my favorite John Candy movie, Delirious. Great film. Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:27:48
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And you've got another movie that I think is a lot in common with Nothing But Trouble, Highway to Hell. Have they all seen Highway to Hell? Yeah, that rules. Yeah, really fun effects in that movie.
00:28:02
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yeah Really wild stuff. Yeah, that is that that is definitely kind of a spiritual sister, I think, to Nothing But Trouble. Yeah, for sure. Well, you guys want to talk about the plot of Nothing But Trouble?
00:28:15
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Oh, yeah. Yes. ah Well, there's a bumper. I'm sorry.
00:28:35
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Plot bumper, listen to me. I'm gonna give you the plot summary. Come on, baby. Here's the synopsis.
00:28:47
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Plot bumper, plot bumper.
00:29:01
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open on a shot of New York City. And credits that I feel like do a really bad job setting the tone for the film. Real bad. Just these sort of giant block letters. and Like, oh, Chevy Chase.
00:29:14
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Like, it seems like we're going to be doing a New York City movie. Yeah. of it Then we see Chevy Chase as Chris Thorne in full rich asshole mode roll into his apartment building.
00:29:26
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There's a party in his apartment building for the rich Manhattan types that live there. And Chris makes the acquaintance of Diane, played by ah Demi Moore, a stunning young financial lawyer with anime hair.
00:29:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's wild hair. Early 90s, baby. Yeah, when she's smoking a cigar later on with that hair, i'm like, that's that's why she was on that magazine cover doing that, I'm sure. um Through a complicated series of events, Chris agrees to drive her down to Atlantic City along with the brother-sister duo of wealthy Brazilians who invite themselves along.
00:30:05
Speaker
Their names are Fausto and Reinaldo. What did you guys think of Fausto and Reinaldo? I loved Yeah, they're great. They are so much fun. they They do nothing in this film. It's really confusing why they're even there other than to like allow to make a Dan Eckert to make the joke Brazilianaires.
00:30:24
Speaker
ah But yeah, but they are great characters. They they play it. um I think it's Taylor Negron. And who is Ronaldo? um I don't know. I remember Taylor Negron. Taylor Negron. I love it. Like he's anytime he's in something. I'm like, oh, yeah, this guy. I love this guy.
00:30:41
Speaker
Yeah. OK. And Bertila Damas as Rinalda. And they they I think they were just told, like, be as over the top Brazilian as you can. I don't. Yeah.
00:30:53
Speaker
I feel like they don't even at this being in 1991, they probably were like Brazil. what is a Brazilian act like? a Vaguely Latino, I guess they didn't know. They were just doing whatever. But it works in this film because, like everything, it's just so incredibly over the top.
00:31:09
Speaker
Yeah. and dode And they just always had really positive vibes. in Yeah. They're having a ray of sunshine. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of, they do weirdly disappear about halfway through the movie. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:24
Speaker
Unfortunately. who Yeah. So soon they're all taking a nice afternoon drive down I-95 when Fausto and Ronaldo push for taking a scenic detour for a picnic lunch.
00:31:37
Speaker
Diane punches an alternate route into Chris's proto-GPS, and soon they are rerouted through the backwoods town of Vulcanvania, Pennsylvania. I just want to take a moment here. So when they're driving to Vulcanvania, they drive by, like you see them drive past this like old abandoned mining thing.
00:31:56
Speaker
I'm pretty sure I've been in that building. I think that is a famous abandoned mine. And at that point I was like, are they in Pennsylvania? And then they got to Vulcanvania and I saw the, the, the exhaust pipes. And I was just like, Oh, so this movie is based on Centralia, I guess.
00:32:12
Speaker
And it turns out, yeah, it definitely is. Yeah, 100%. Just like Silent Hill. That's right.
00:32:20
Speaker
Now, ah the town is in bad shape. A former mining town on the brink of collapse, both economically and literally because of the coal fires burning beneath the surface of the earth.
00:32:35
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Chris rolls through a stop sign in town, possibly the only stop sign in town, And soon, Dennis, the chief constable of the village police, is on their tail.
00:32:47
Speaker
Outside of town, they try to give him the slip with Chris's top-of-the-line beamer, ah but this local cop has some tricks up his sleeve, and soon he has them cornered. ah Dennis is played by John Candy, and he very politely informs them that ah due to local legal rules, they need to go down to the courthouse to stand before Justice of the Peace. He can't just write them a ticket and send them on their way.
00:33:17
Speaker
So they drive through piles of toasters over a drawbridge past ominous looking folk art to an ominous dilapidated home slash courthouse.
00:33:30
Speaker
And Dennis leads them to the courtroom. ah The whole place is filled with bric-a-brac and hoard. Apparently a lot of this came from Agroyd's personal collection, including all the sheriff's badges that were under glass. Those were all his personal sheriff's badges that he got somehow. Yeah, that is the interesting thing about Dan Aykroyd is I believe he actually real life really likes police, like in the sense that he just not not not that he's like, you know, like, oh, back to blue.
00:33:58
Speaker
I think it's more just like he's like, oh, I would be cool to drive the car and like have the flashing lights. That seems like fun. Like that seems like the sort of guy he is. Like if you watch like Dragnet, you can really see it come through.
00:34:09
Speaker
Yeah, he's like a cop otaku. Yes, exactly. yeah That's a good way to put it. And just very quickly, I just want to say that this has taken about 20 or 25 minutes for everything you've described. Yeah, we're finally at... It's such a long... the movie gets good. It's long start.
00:34:26
Speaker
There's a lot in this movie. They could have just started with the four of them in the car. Yes. It saved us lot of time. would have been Would have been completely all right. You missed nothing.
00:34:38
Speaker
No, no. They needed to set up the relationship between Chevy Chase and Demi Moore so that you would root for them to get together. Except yeah they kind of – you don't. They really botch it. that You really don't want them to get together because – oof.
00:34:51
Speaker
Oof. And you really don't need to spend 20 minutes establishing Chevy Chase as a rich asshole. I can get that pretty quick. And I also feel like there's like, oh, why does she want to go? i don't know. He's a lawyer. but It's like, it doesn't matter. They're never going to get there.
00:35:03
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. it does i get They try to set up – she's like an environmental lawyer, I think, and she has to go to stop like a guy dumping in a lake. Something to that. I think she was financial lawyer. is she a financial lawyer? I think she's finance leaders.
00:35:15
Speaker
Yeah, I thought like it had something. OK, it's been OK. I haven't. It's been a week or two since I've seen the film. So I actually don't even. It's one of those things where like the details don't matter. They slough. right on No, no. he cares It doesn't matter.
00:35:29
Speaker
Now, Dennis flips a switch and a bunch of panels in the room spin around and an elderly justice of the peace gets rolled into the position behind the bench.
00:35:40
Speaker
Uh, he's hidden behind stacks of books, but soon he's revealed to be incredibly old and gross. Uh, he finds out that Chris is a financial advisor and calls him a banker.
00:35:52
Speaker
He hates bankers and will not be letting them off with just a fine. Instead, he pulls a lever opening a trap door that drops them into a ball pit filled with squeaky dog toys. So now that he's been revealed, what do you guys think of, ah Dan Aykroyd as JP?
00:36:09
Speaker
Interesting look. Yes. So um Dan Aykroyd clearly thought that like the that a lot was riding on this character. And I mean, he's the main villain. So so there is. Yeah, um there is. It's fascinating that he is in some ways way more sympathetic than our ostensible lead.
00:36:29
Speaker
because we have an entire backstory to this guy. He's not just some like random evil old man. He has this really tragic story about how ah his, his ancestral land got swindled out from under him while he was serving in world war one.
00:36:46
Speaker
and and because of that, like, ah you know, that's what caused the coal fires that now have ruined Vulcanvania. And that's why he needs bankers. So it's like, I'm with them.
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah. Which is like, yeah. He hates bankers. That's fair. um Plus, like, you know, they they really do make him into a very you distinct character. Very distinct, very unique.
00:37:08
Speaker
There's nothing like him in the annals of of film history, I think. and No, I have never seen another character that has a penis for a nose in about four shots of the movie.
00:37:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like, Dan, that is one of the... Okay. That is one of the... strangest details of this film. Yes. I'm not sure what they were going for, but sometimes he's got a fucked up nose. He's got like a weird nose because he's like 100 years old. He looks like a corpse.
00:37:39
Speaker
And they were like, oh, what if he has a weird... His gross nose is gross because he's old. Okay, sure, I'm on board. But in some shots... they he it's it's done to look like a penis yes not all only some shots yeah some shots yes it's never a more like a penis yes it's just very it's never remarked upon it's just something i guess it's like a little easter egg hey if you're paying attention now my his nose looks like a dick and um i i yeah it it's it's i i feel like
00:38:10
Speaker
There's this movie already has so much going for it. It's like, Dan, a you don't need to work blue. You are fine. you're You're ruining the purity of of this this ah this hackathon splatterpunk nightmare with your ah your pure isle penis joke here.
00:38:27
Speaker
i mean, maybe it would make sense in a more violent films context of like, oh, he's going over. the But it's weird that the violence is so neutered, like there's no blood in they anywhere in this movie.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's shocking to me that for all the death and violence, it's so dry. Like the whole movie is like there's no there's no rain even like there's no wetness except for the moat.
00:38:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And the thin layer of shiny sweat that covers, you know, the babies. The babies. Yes. Grease. know, we do get like some pretty violent deaths, but like they are incredibly dry, which yeah makes them ah come across much more comedic than anything else. Cartoony, even like a, like a Bugs Bunny thing where it's just like a human walks into this building and what comes out are a bunch of dry bones. it's just like, okay. Yeah.
00:39:15
Speaker
But yeah I do think that um I do think it is important to note that like there is a very distinct difference between ah the judge, Judge um ah Alvin Valkenheiser and the baby. You would think they're very similar characters. They're both like gross, weird monster people.
00:39:33
Speaker
But like one of them is like kind of sympathetic and I like seeing him on screen. And one of them is just like it is now suddenly become a chore to watch this movie. It is yeah the movie is daring me to turn it off all of a sudden.
00:39:45
Speaker
Yeah. I think there's a reason why the baby's stuck. Let's talk babies real quick. Cause we're you we talking a lot yeah the babies around the babies enough. Let's talk about the 500 pound babies in the room.
00:39:57
Speaker
ah You got, you got Bobo and little devil. They're played by Dan Aykroyd and some other guy. And they're wearing these huge baby fat suits.
00:40:09
Speaker
Then they're giant mutant adult human babies and they talk like little kids. And they're very gross. And they're the way their fat suits move, they're very mobile.
00:40:20
Speaker
Yeah. In a way that's very unpleasant, but uncanny. What's weird too is that the the the bulge of the stomach then has like ah the diaper coming off of it.
00:40:32
Speaker
And in most of the shots, like it looks like there's just like a stomach in the diaper, but sometimes they move and you can tell that there's no bottom to it because it just like caves in and collapses. And it's just like, it just looks really weird. Like they've got a hole where they're like,
00:40:48
Speaker
pelvis should be and it's just it's not it's not fun to see there's so much wrong with the babies because ah first of all yeah they're disgusting um yeah they have they they have a weird thing where it's like What are they?
00:41:05
Speaker
Because they appear to be like giant babies, but they are also kind of adult. They have like they have tattoos. You can see on their shoulder, a little heart tattoo with the arrow through it. They have the weird jerry curl hair that indicates like a Gerber's baby food picture. Yeah.
00:41:20
Speaker
And ah they mentioned like that. they They they mentioned a few things. They're not allowed to go in the house and they were in school, but they dropped out because they got too fat. So there's there's this weird, and they wanted to go to therapy, but one of them didn't want to go, which is a good little bit.
00:41:38
Speaker
That was my favorite joke of the whole. Yeah. Yeah. You two need counseling. He won't go. that That's pretty good. there There are moments of genius in this film. um The thing about the babies also, besides all that, I think, is there is kind of a cohesion to most of the villains in this film.
00:41:57
Speaker
It's like, you know, if you watch if you go see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you can kind of see how that family fits together with Leatherface and Hitchhiker and. cook and grandpa and when you watch this film i can kind of see like oh i see how the judge and dennis and miss purdue and eldonia all kind of fit together as a family these babies feel like they just wandered in from a completely different yeah movie yeah very different energy Yeah.
00:42:23
Speaker
And um also ah funny because just as Dan Aykert could not find anyone to direct this film, he could not find anyone to take the role of Bobo in Little Devil.
00:42:35
Speaker
That's weird. Yeah, I know. so eventually he was forced to do it himself. And the other guy was apparently ah one of the stagehands who was just like, yeah, fuck it, I'll do it.
00:42:47
Speaker
And that is his only film credit ever. Okay. That's why I don't recognize him. Yeah. And I mean, he he comports himself. Well, you know, you wouldn't think it, but yeah, what I find funny about that is just the fact is like, look, you're making a Hollywood film, a major Hollywood film, millions, millions of dollars.
00:43:05
Speaker
Dan Aykroyd is helming it. You've got Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy, all these big stars. And, know, you think you put out a call and some struggling actor would be like, oh, fine, I'll do it.
00:43:16
Speaker
This will be my break. This will be my big break, finally. And no one would do this. No one was willing to do it. ah Says something. It does. But Dan Aykroyd.
00:43:28
Speaker
Wood was like, no, I'm not going to cut these babies out of the film. They are the glue that holds it together. i will make this work. And he did it himself and he didn't need to. In fact, I wish he didn't.
00:43:39
Speaker
Yeah, they are. They are rough. I mean, even me, the probably the the one nothing but trouble Stan in the world. I cannot bring myself to say anything good about these babies.
00:43:51
Speaker
They they are. um This movie would would solve many of its problems simply by getting rid of the baby subplot. Yeah, absolutely. So meanwhile, back in town, Dennis pulls over a car full of drunks driven by Daniel Baldwin.
00:44:07
Speaker
Which is great. Yes. Yes. I always love to see Homicide's Daniel Baldwin. When Dennis brings them before JP, he looks at the large bag of crack they had in their car and sentences them all to summary execution via the Bone Stripper.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yes. A roller coaster that dumps its passengers into a giant meat grinder. ah This was apparently a suggestion of someone on the crew that like we should get a roller coaster here and kill them with that. And Dan Aykroyd was like, yes, find me a roller coaster.
00:44:41
Speaker
And things like that was how it ended up going over budget. Okay. Oh, but I have to say, I love Mr. Bone Stripper. This is one of my yeah favorite things in the film. um it it does It is a ah wonderful little set piece. I love that like crazy little roller coaster that has like barbed wire on the ah the coat the little car. It's got like some dummies just there. um And it really encapsulates the vibe of the entire film so perfectly because it is a it's a roller coaster and it kills you.
00:45:12
Speaker
It's yeah. You're having fun until you're dead. It's great. Yeah. yeah It's very whimsical, this movie. And yeah there's been lots of little contraptions and gadgets that I haven't mentioned.
00:45:23
Speaker
This is very much like a Pee Wee's Playhouse type of house. Yes. Conveyor belts, trap doors. Yeah. Mr. Mr. Bone Stripper also does exactly what it says on the can, because when it throws Daniel Baldwin and the other ah ah drug people into it, ah you see all these ah mashers that are going to strip your bones.
00:45:45
Speaker
And yeah then it shoots out like literally strip dry bones out of the end, ah the other side, just shooting at a big target. And, you you hear cartoony noises, bing, bing, bing, bing.
00:45:57
Speaker
So it's ah it is horrifying, but also just done in a way where it's like, oh, there's no goo. There's it's not wet. This is funny, you know. So yeah it's very abstract. Yeah. Yeah. And I ah do love just a bit where the judge says, like, I'm going to give you all your your grinders and spoons and bags and nugs just as soon as you get out the other side.
00:46:17
Speaker
I love that bit. He's just such a fun guy. He's really enjoying his job. I wish we all enjoyed our jobs as much as judge Vulcan hyzer did. That's fair. And he's always talking in this sort of like Popeye sort of throwing out a lot of under his breath gags. he's It's a very classic Dan Aykroyd verbal role. He loves to overwrite things.
00:46:40
Speaker
And he is so getting into it. He is. He is just like in his element when he is the judge. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, that's what definitely where he was having his fun. So JP invites our Manhattanites to dinner ah where they're served Hawaiian punch, ants on a log, and homemade hot dogs with condiments served on a little toy train.
00:47:03
Speaker
The toy train condiment train was also another crew member's suggestion. Dan Ocroyd is very close with his crew. Nice. Nice. um I really like this scene, actually, just because ah sorry to interrupt. It's oh no the stuff they're eating is all normal things that you eat.
00:47:21
Speaker
These are not like they're not eating like all human flesh or anything. Ants on a log or these weird kind of ah very, very floppy hot dogs. They're not like they're they're just so bizarre to have at a fancy dinner party.
00:47:35
Speaker
Yeah, it it really kind of puts you it makes you feel very off kilter. You kind of get the sense of like, OK, this is, you know, it's even kind of relatable. Like, I think maybe we've all been at that thing where you go to a friend's house and they're like they serve you something like this is my favorite dish. And it's something bizarre, like, you know, like cold spaghetti or something. And you're like, well, I can see people eating this, but I don't know why you are. um Yeah.
00:48:00
Speaker
Looks like we're having Timmy dinner tonight. Yeah.
00:48:05
Speaker
ah So the dinner continues awkwardly with JP dropping the history of the town and his family until suddenly there's an earthquake. The honeycomb of old mining tunnels beneath Vulcanvania that have been on fire for decades are shifting and collapsing.
00:48:22
Speaker
There's some sort of subterranean collapse. So Fausto and Rinalda, they escape in the confusion. Oh, and we've also, i forgot to mention, we've met John Candy as Aldina, the other character that he plays in the film, or Aldona.
00:48:38
Speaker
my Aldona. Aldona. Oh, man. Oh, I i love Aldona. Okay. Aldona, could see being very complicated. If somebody had a problem with Aldona, I would understand.
00:48:51
Speaker
yeah so Yes. Yes. So Aldona is ah the twin sister of Dennis, the cop. And she is played by John Candy in drag.
00:49:01
Speaker
um Apparently because Dan Aykroyd thought that the very idea of John Candy in drag is the funniest thing in the world. He just thought it was absolutely hysterical. and Yeah.
00:49:12
Speaker
It worked on SCTV, right? It did. And here's the thing. This was made in 1991. Different world in the year of 2025. So very different world.
00:49:23
Speaker
But I have to say, I just have to say watching this this film, first of all, John Candy, such an amazingly charismatic actor that even though Eldonia is kind of like a, you know, kind of a ah cheap gag, he really brings a certain pathos to this role.
00:49:39
Speaker
Yeah. That makes her very like very human and also more likable than our lead. Yeah, absolutely. And also John Candy is absolutely serving cunt here.
00:49:50
Speaker
ah Just absolutely. Aldona does look great. Aldona serves a lot of great looks. Oh, she is so hot. ah So hot. Like every time she's on screen, I'm like, oh, my God, that is a woman. and those ah Those wings on her eye makeup. Fantastic. Yes. Yes. She's got it tight and right.
00:50:06
Speaker
ah Gender goals. Yeah. Now, Aldana locks Chris and Diane in a guest room for safekeeping while the Brazilianaires navigate the property.
00:50:17
Speaker
They run into a moat filled with toxic sludge, only to find Constable Dennis waiting for them on the other side. They beg for his help and offer to make him very rich if they escape.
00:50:30
Speaker
Before that can be resolved, we cut to Chris and Diane, who bond over their shared precarious position and make out for a little bit before they hit the sack. Because, you know, Chevy Chase is just so irresistible.
00:50:43
Speaker
Oh, yeah. yeah Yeah. I've heard people describe Chevy Chase as handsome, and I don't know... He feels like politician handsome to me. He feels comedian handsome. i could see someone describing him as handsome.
00:50:58
Speaker
I don't know if I'm going there with them, but I'm not going to argue with them if that makes sense. um Yeah. Yeah. I think the thing he's handsome in the sense that like he has a very powerful He has a very bland face. ah in the yeah He is perfect for a leading role because his face will not offend anyone.
00:51:18
Speaker
Yes. You know, he's not like there's certain people who like, you know, are not classically handsome, but like they have a vibe like Jim Varney. People are like, that guy is incredibly hot, even though he's kind of funny looking.
00:51:29
Speaker
Whereas Chevy Chase is like, Not funny looking at all. And so I can see that people would be like, oh, yeah, I look at him and it's like I could see him in a lead role more so than like someone who has a little more character in their face, like ah Dan Aykroyd, maybe. But yeah.
00:51:44
Speaker
And, you know, and he's tall and he's thin. Yeah. People will always describe somebody that's tall and thin as handsome. Well, maybe not. Anyway. Anyway. ah So da da da da da ah they make out. Then they hit the sack.
00:52:00
Speaker
Unfortunately, someone is watching them from behind a painting that has the eye holes cut out and they flip a switch. Yeah. Love to see that gag. They flip a switch that flips the bed around, waking them up, but it also unlocks their door.
00:52:15
Speaker
They make their way through a hallway that has a bunch of fake door gags. There's a room full of bats. There's a room with a tombstone. And then there's a wall that starts moving and the hallway is shrinking. they to the last door they can and up the stairs.
00:52:29
Speaker
And this is great. This stuff is great. This is the best stuff in the movie. yeahp ye Now, ah they get trapped in the attic. with the IDs of all the people that have been killed by the Vulcan Vanian legal system, as well as some news clippings and a couple of real human skeletons.
00:52:49
Speaker
Hmm. Oh, this is a bit where, yeah, where Dan Aykroyd is like, oh, OK, remember, it's a horror movie. We need this bit where you really establish, you know, because every horror movie has this bit where the the hero suddenly realizes like, oh, yeah, this is this has been going on forever.
00:53:04
Speaker
And so this is a classic horror movie bit, which is kind of nice to see since so much of the film is really leading into the more towards the comedy. So yeah he's yeah putting in the bones to make it work as a horror film as well.
00:53:18
Speaker
yeah Are you saying that because of the human skellingtons? Oh, you're right. It works on multiple levels here, you know? It sure does. because Because I was about to say, it would be one of my favorite things I could possibly do in a movie is turn my head, and see a skellington, and then give a comedy scream. That would be so much fun. Yeah, that would be a good time.
00:53:37
Speaker
And then you jump up and do the Hanna-Berrera, like, leg thing. but but but Yeah, and the bongos play. Now... now Uh, real human skellingtons.
00:53:52
Speaker
Uh, they hang out there for a little while, smoking cigars and bonding, uh, until an escape route opens up. And it's a slide, but the slide has a Y intersection, which splits them up.
00:54:05
Speaker
Diane gets dumped outside in the scrapyard, while Chris gets dumped in a crawl space full of femurs, which seems like a weird place to have a slide let out. But maybe that that slide was more for, like, dumping bones, dumping bodies after they'd been killed in the attic. don't know.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of things that you're not really supposed to think about in this film. It just happens, you know. I think if it had been a more coherent ecosystem, the house, I think that would have made the film more compelling.
00:54:34
Speaker
Yeah. I think some more thought should have been put into the house. Um, let's see. Uh, crawl space full of femurs, uh, that peeps into JP's bedroom as he gets ready for bed by removing his wig. I'm going to say if I had a wig, i would not make it that wig.
00:54:53
Speaker
That is a terrible wig. just makes him look fucking old as shit.
00:54:59
Speaker
And he also removes the tip of his nose he law and his fake leg, which he lost at war in France. Yeah, we're seeing like he's ah that that he's the man that was used up, basically.
00:55:10
Speaker
Yes. He is on his last leg. Now, Diane, searching for a way out, instead finds a pair of simple-minded giant nude men... Mutant adult babies, Bobo and Little Devil.
00:55:24
Speaker
Oh, the large adult sons. Yes. Here come the blowjob brothers. Yeah, for real. You know, though, I will say we haven't mentioned much about Demi Moore's performance in this film because. No, she does not have a lot to do.
00:55:37
Speaker
No, does not. She is kind of wasted. um oh yeah. She it's it's unfortunate because the few times that she gets to do comedy in this film, she's pretty good. yeah yeah Like little reaction shots, like when she's, you know, has to look at the food and the the dinner sequence and even the bit when she falls off the slide and kind of gets up and adjusts her boobs before walk out like.
00:56:01
Speaker
Very little comedy bits. And it's like, OK, I understand that when they made this film, they were like, we're going to let Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd and John Candy do the comedy because they're the comedy guys.
00:56:13
Speaker
Debbie Moore is here for, you know, to be hot and they didn't give her much to do. But it's like, hey, she she's got the chops. Give her a little more because she can. She's clearly game. But yeah.
00:56:24
Speaker
but I can also understand when they're like, we should just let Demi Moore be hot because she is crazy hot in this movie. Yeah. one again yeah She's attractive. Uh, now, uh, back inside.
00:56:36
Speaker
Oh no. Hang on. Uh, she tries to run away from Bobo and little devil only to be captured by Aldona who ends up giving her to the brothers as a play thing. Problematic. Yeah. A little bit.
00:56:49
Speaker
Aldona, you're canceled. Yeah. Do better. Do better. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I shouldn't call her out. I should welcome her in. We got to we got to change this. Now, back inside the hip hop group Digital Underground has been arrested for speeding and brought in to stand trial before JP.
00:57:07
Speaker
ah Chris uses this opportunity to sneak into JP's room. But when JP doubles back to grab his pistol, they have a brief fight scene before Chris flees and is stopped by Aldona.
00:57:21
Speaker
JP explains that whatever man touches Aldona, she keeps. And so Aldona drags Chris off and JP goes to try digital underground. Oh God. Yes.
00:57:34
Speaker
Yes. This, this a scene that I think most people remember from this film, if nothing else, which is surprising. There's so much insane things in this movie. And then, and people are like, I remember digital underground was in it.
00:57:45
Speaker
Well, it also, it sticks out like a sore thumb, oddly enough. it It's very Pepsi commercial. Yeah. And it's awesome yes it's also just like, hold on, everybody. We were doing a movie, but can we stop for a moment and listen to a digital underground song?
00:58:02
Speaker
Yeah. and it's just like, this is weird. This is weird to stop this. to Like, it feels like someone's like, what this movie needs right now is some synergistic advertising.
00:58:12
Speaker
ah And also the first film appearance of Tupac Shakur. Which is crazy. Yeah. Is he the one who actually has the line, this place is fully draculated? That might have been him.
00:58:24
Speaker
I didn't catch him having any lines, but that might have been him. The thing about this that it makes it fun, though, is the judge really, you would not think that he'd be a Digital Underground fan, but it turns out he's really into it.
00:58:36
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No one can deny the Digital Underground. And then he even hops on the keyboard. i gotta tell you, his organ solo is really kick-ass. Yeah. yeah It's a great organ solo. gotta give it to him.
00:58:48
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Yeah, and they're the the all of Digital Underground is like, damn, this funky old white man's tripping. And he's like, watch me get down, home dogs.
00:59:00
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ah Again, a real indication that Dan Aykroyd's sympathies in this movie were really with the judge. He really was like, this character, he yeah wants people he's like, I want you to know that he's a cool guy, he's despite everything.
00:59:13
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He's like a Freddy, you know what I mean? He's the bad guy that you root for. Yes, yes. And I love that he just lets them go. He's like, you boys are good. Get out of here. It's just like, oh, that was nice. Yeah. just that moment ah So ah JP then offers Chris a deal, Mary Aldona, and I won't sentence you to death.
00:59:35
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Chris hesitantly agrees. ah Digital Underground plays Here Comes the Bride. And Aldona appears at the top of the stairs wearing a dress that reminded me of the dress Lucy Harkness wears in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
00:59:49
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Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Just this very dramatic white dress with like a very large headdress on it. And it's it's not even a veil. It's like a fountain of a veil. Yeah, it's got like feathers coming straight up Yeah, it's wild. It's great.
01:00:04
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She's been planning this for a long time. Yeah. JP marries them. But when Chris tries to leave with digital underground, JP freaks out.
01:00:15
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Aldona is heartbroken and JP sentences him to the bone stripper. Yes. Fortunately for Chris, unfortunately for us in the audience, the meat grinder part of the bone stripper breaks down and Chris survives.
01:00:30
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Boo. Yeah. Yeah. We could have shaved off the last 20 minutes of this movie. Yeah. I mean, you could do that anyway. You could shave off the last 10. Yeah, that's true. There's still plenty left to shave.
01:00:43
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JP takes Diane from the mutant babies and tells her to get on the PA system and lure Chris out of hiding. She tells Chris to run instead, and then Chris creates a distraction with a couple of handy nearby exploding barrels, grabs Diane, and hops on a nearby freight train out of there.
01:01:03
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And you'd think the movie was coming to its end. You would think. But first, they need to go and they explain to the authorities what they saw. And the authorities believe them. One of the authorities is Dan Aykroyd's brother, b Brian Doyle Murray.
01:01:20
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And another one is the actor that played Arlo on Justified. but He's not Dan Aykroyd's brother. He's Bill Murray's brother, right? Yes. Sorry. Bill Murray's brother. Dan Aykroyd's brother played the Irish bellhop.
01:01:33
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Okay. Okay. Oh, yeah. That's a weird character. He is a weird character. But, hey, he's getting his brother some work. Yeah. I just feel like the Irish, like an Irish ah accent is like, you know, it's one of those things that like in a, in a previous generation, like in a movie made in the 60s or 70s. Oh, that's a guaranteed laugh.
01:01:53
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In the 80s, it feels very like hack and dated. It's, it's kind of strange. It almost makes me wonder if that bellhop is like based on like a real guy that Dan Aykroyd and his brother knew or something.
01:02:04
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I'm going to say it's based on Peter Aykroyd's ability to do an Irish accent. good news from there Because it's very convincing. Now, so the authorities believe them.
01:02:17
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They raid the house only for it to be revealed that the Vulcanizers are actually friends with every law enforcement organization that has jurisdiction in the area.
01:02:28
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And I love that they all showed up for this gag. yeah They're like, oh, you want to go after the Vulcanizers? I'm going to get everybody. Get a couple of SWAT teams, get a tank or whatever. Just get everybody down there for a little larf.
01:02:44
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This is going to be great. We'll all have beers afterwards. But then another earthquake happens, and the Vulcanizer mansion falls into the earth. How convenient.
01:02:56
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Yep. And if you just ended at the train, then you would have had like your Texas Chainsaw Massacre ending. Just boom. And then it's over. It would have been great. But then we get another coda.
01:03:07
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Then we get a coda with Dennis. Dennis is in Brazil. He's now in charge of security for the Brazilian airs. And he is also Reynaldo's lover. Glad to see everything worked out for Dennis.
01:03:19
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I am too. Yep. Yep. yeah um He is, again, but the most likable character in the film. so It's true. Yeah. He is the only person that at any point says, hey, maybe we should take it easy on these people that we're killing.
01:03:32
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also So, you know, that's worth something. But then we also we get another coda where Chris is back in his apartment and he has PTSD.
01:03:43
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But he also has a relationship with Diane. So it's not all bad. ah He turns on the TV to see a news story about Vulcanvania being on fire. And then he sees the judge digging through the rubble and saying that now he's homeless and he's going to move in with his grandson-in-law.
01:04:00
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Chris then runs straight out through the wall, leaving a Looney Tunes-style silhouette hole in the wall. Roll credits the end. Somehow I missed the hole in the wall.
01:04:14
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Wow. It's doesn't make a big difference. Yep. Yeah, that it's it's very clear that they were like, OK, how do we end this movie? ah Yeah, why is then it is unfortunate because I really do feel like if they had ended it with, the you know, the reveal that, oh, the cops are all in on it, man.
01:04:32
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What is yeah what a delightfully dark satirical ending would have been. And, um, and also like, you know, and, and make it increasingly relevant to this world we live in where it's like, absolutely this is a, this is a story where like, oh yeah, your laws do not matter.
01:04:51
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You are at the whim of an elderly madman and all the cops and justices and judges and lawyers are in on it. So, you know, it's like, gee, I And it's true that Nothing But Trouble was talking about the gerontocracy long before anybody else was.
01:05:06
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That's right. We should have listened to Dan Aykroyd. yeah Absolutely. That's what I'm always saying in any context. yeah Well, final thoughts. Five star ratings. Greg, why don't you kick us off with your watchability and weirdness. Sure.
01:05:20
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ah So as weirdness goes, this is this is pretty weird, I think. I'm going to give this one a four, I think. Okay. It's, ah yeah, it's plenty weird. It's got a lot weird going on in it, ah but it's also not like too surreal. Like, it's like a grounded kind of weirdness. It's a horror weird, if that makes sense.
01:05:43
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Yeah. Yeah. And then as far as watchability goes, I struggle a little bit with this one. I think I'm going to go a two. I think it's just, I think that little boy in me who left 20 minutes in might have been onto the right thing way. Yeah.
01:06:00
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Yeah. Yeah. I landed at about a two for watchability. I thought there was lots of fun things to look at, especially once you got to the courthouse. yeah But obviously having your first 15 to 20 minutes of the movie being sort of dull as dishwater does not help.
01:06:15
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And I do have to add very quickly that the the production, like the house itself, the set is pretty incredible. Yeah. that If you're an art direction fan, this is definitely worth watching for that.
01:06:28
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But if you are a comedy fan, it is not because it is brutally unfunny. I don't think I laughed once when I was watching this. I put it at a three and a half for weirdness.
01:06:39
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I thought it was grotesque in a way that's sort of uncommon to see. But it's funny that the grotesqueness like Like it's not grotesque in the way of something like pink flamingos, which is something that is also trying to blend comedy and the grotesque.
01:06:54
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And I think does much more effectively. And I think it's because it felt more genuine. This feels like someone like rubbing a rubber spider in my face. then ah Stop doing this.
01:07:07
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ah Well, better in terms of five star ratings for watchability and weirdness. Where where do you live? Well, I would give this a four for weirdness because it is, i think, by the standards of a major Hollywood film, extremely weird. It's it's ah the the plot structure is a little odd.
01:07:28
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um Just the the sheer amount of just bizarre stuff on screen at all at any time, the digital underground appearing. It's very weird, um you know, but it's parsable. Like you watch it, you can follow it. The plot. kind of the the plot is very easy to follow the characters you can tell them apart um it's not like um you know it's not like you're watching uh the holy mountain or something where yeah yeah like i have no clue what's happening at any point um yeah it's not an experimental film it's very you know this is something that like uh you know your mom would look at it and be like i don't understand this is really weird i don't get it but like you know
01:08:04
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I watch it. I'm like, I understand everything perfectly. It's just a little odd to see. um it does kind of remind me of another film, ah which is ah and similar in a sense that is extremely strange for a major big budget studio film, ah but is also...
01:08:22
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pretty coherent and and easy to follow by the standards of you know film in general. ah That is A Cure for Wellness by Gore Prenzky. Oh, never seen it. I know it, but I've never seen it Yeah, yeah. It is similar in the sense that it is a bizarre rambling spectacle that just throws shit at the screen constantly.
01:08:40
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um it is also about a yuppie going on a harrowing descent into an underworld where laws don't matter. And at the end, he fights a monster with a fucked up nose. So there's thematic parallels. Okay.
01:08:51
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OK, but so I'd say a solid four for weirdness. It's the it's a weirdness that works for me. i find it a lot of fun. I just I just love seeing stuff. I'm never bored.
01:09:04
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um no but it's not too weird that I'm just like, OK, well, were they high when they're making this like that kind of? Yeah. Yeah. Watchability. i will give this a three.
01:09:15
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because um while i i really like it i can watch this film on loop i've seen it probably a hundred times wow that is but when i said that this film film feels like it was very specifically made for me um yeah i have to say like that that is no one else i've ever shown this film has has enjoyed it they've mostly been like i'm mad at you now for showing me this film i can understand both reactions yes I do feel like it is a film that is because it is it is a little disjointed and it's kind of weird. And so much of it is the spectacle that it's probably best enjoyed watching, you know, two minute clips uploaded to YouTube.
01:09:58
Speaker
So you don't have to sit through, you know, you don't have to sit through Chevy Chase's constant mugging. And also you can entirely just ignore the fact it's got those two giant babies, which ah really are our the only thing about this film that actually makes me hesitate to give it a three for watchability is the amount of screen time those two babies get. because Yeah.
01:10:21
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There is green time. It is like a lead balloon. The moment they show up, it's just like, all right, we're just putting the brakes on everything. Did you did you enjoy Digital Underground? Did you enjoy Mr. Bone Stripper? Well, guess what? We're not here to have a good time.
01:10:35
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So here's Bobo and Little Devil.
01:10:40
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Well, with that, let's move on to Section three of the show. Let's talk about some trends in film.
01:11:05
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Trends in film, they do happen, trends in film. Trends in film, that's the segment, trends in film.
01:11:29
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So this movie, Nothing But Trouble, was directed by Dan Aykroyd. This was the only film that Dan Aykroyd ever directed. So I made a little list of famous Hollywood actors who only directed one film.
01:11:42
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So here's what I've got. I think the most famous and perhaps best regarded ah entry into this category is going to be Charles Lawton's Night of the Hunter. Okay. Classic.
01:11:53
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Yeah. Some from Saturday Night Live alumni. you got Bill Murray's Quick Change about a bank robber that I've heard is pretty good. Yeah.
01:12:04
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I remember that one. Yeah. You got Eddie Murphy's Harlem Nights, which i heard is not that good. Interesting. And Mike Myers, he directed a documentary called Supermensch, The Legend of Shep Gordon.
01:12:19
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Interesting. sort of Hollywood mover and shaker. Interesting. That's not the movie I would have expected to be the sole Mike Myers territorial vehicle. But no, no. You'd think he would have thrown something in the mix around that love guru era. But I guess he trusted Hal Roach too much.
Unexpected Directorial Roles
01:12:36
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but So you got ah other other ones not from a Saturday Night Live. The rest of my list. We got Marlon Brando, who did the Western One-Eyed Jacks. Haven't seen it.
01:12:47
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I have not heard of that one. You got Arnold Schwarzenegger, the only movie he ever directed. Either you guys know this one? No. Any guesses? This was, of course... Oh, sorry?
01:12:59
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is it Is it Last Action Hero? no No, that's McTiernan. He directed a movie called Christmas in Connecticut. He does not act in it. but Is it... I'm sorry. Christmas in Connecticut?
01:13:11
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Yes, he did a remake of Christmas in Connecticut. Oh, what? Okay. um Yeah, that is not expected. Yeah. Yeah. Never seen it. Very curious.
01:13:22
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ah You got Joseph Gordon-Levitt directing himself in Don John, the movie where he jacks off. All right. Cool. Yeah. God bless him. You got Edward Norton in Keeping the Faith.
01:13:35
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Oh, my God. Wow. Wow. um Which I remember. I thought that was OK when I saw it. i I remember that movie. I saw it on a plane. i don't think I saw that one.
01:13:47
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It's like, what if a rabbi and a priest had a love triangle with this woman? And it's like, I remember watching it being like, but the priest can't, but the priest can't do that. And it's like, yeah, yeah. It kind of solves the problem, actually. Yeah. It makes it a lot easier for her to pick.
01:14:03
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you ah Then ah you've got Drew Barrymore directed Whippet, the roller derby movie. Okay. Wow. And my personal favorite, I think, on this list, Keanu Reeves' Man of Tai Chi.
01:14:19
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heaven ah There was the one stunt man that was in the matrix too. That was like, uh, uh, an Asian dude with a butt cut. Okay. Reasons like, I'm going to make a movie that stars you.
01:14:31
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And so he built a movie around this guy. That's just ah him in like ah martial arts tournament. Interesting. And, uh, Keanu Reeves plays the villain as well. now You watch and you're like,
01:14:45
Speaker
Hey, you really made a movie, Keanu Reeves. That's awesome. Like you walk away feeling like proud of Keanu Reeves. Okay. So strong recommend on man of Tai Chi.
01:14:57
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Well, with that, do you guys want to play a game? Yeah.
The Profit Game
01:15:00
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Yeah.
01:15:04
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It's Greg's least favorite song. Yeah.
01:15:24
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You can make a movie with a lot of wit, but it doesn't matter if it doesn't turn a profit. They want profits.
01:15:34
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A whole lot of profits.
01:15:37
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This film better turn a profit.
01:15:50
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All right, we're doing the profit game. We haven't done this one in a little while, so i'm mixed up the rules. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a title of the film and a year, a brief description of the plot,
01:16:02
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And it's budget and box office. Or no, I'm going to give you the budget, and I want you guys to guess the box office. Okay. Whoever gets closest gets the point. These are all films of Taylor Negron. Taylor Negron, of course, played Fausto in this movie. He's a classic character actor.
01:16:18
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ah Listeners are probably best or most likely we were to recognize him as the pizza delivery guy in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Hmm. ah which is not on the list, but okay.
01:16:30
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So with that, is everybody ready? It'll become very apparent as we go along. All right. Question number one, the whoopee boys, 1986, two obnoxious misfits attempt to, ah save a school for needy children by infiltrating the high society of palm beach taylor negron played whitey this had a budget of eight million dollars how much do you guys think it made at the box office when did it come out again 1986 the whoopee boys the whoopee boys i'm gonna say i'm gonna say three million
01:17:11
Speaker
Okay. ah and This is 1986. It's comedy? so nineteen eighty six it's a comedy Yes. Okay, I'm say it. took $444,746. Okay, 76 bucks. I'm glad the last two are not zeros.
01:17:21
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Yeah, apparently they kept records that accurate. Question number
01:17:29
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okay seventy six bucks you got i i'm got the last two are not zeroes yeah yeah they apparently they kept records that accurate question number two The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas who from the year 2000. The Flintstones.
01:17:48
Speaker
Yes. Wow. The good old days. The pre 9-11 world was the only time you could make the Flintstones. Oh, definitely. Everything changed that day.
01:17:59
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The Flintstones and the rubbles go on a trip to Rock Vegas, where Wilma is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller. Taylor Negron played Gazam and Gazing, whom I'm assuming were relatives of the great Gazoo.
01:18:14
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It had a budget of $83 million. dollars How much do you think Flintstones at Viva Rock Vegas made? $67 million. dollars Okay.
01:18:27
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I feel like ah this had to be a huge hit because people loved the Flintstones pre-9-11. It's true. before they everything changed yeah Before everything Before they flew those pterodactyls into the um yeah world.
01:18:42
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The world rock centers? Yes, thank you. struggling what what What sounds like rock but Meade's trade? like could like The world rock centers. rock. I'm going to say $100 million. i'm goingnna say a hundred million dollars I'm sorry, this one lost money. Greg gets a point. It took in 59,468,275. Question number three. azoo huh I think it was just sequel. You know what I mean? no It had lost its time. They didn't bring back John Goodman. they Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I forgot that. Yep.
01:19:16
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I think they also didn't bring back Rick Moranis for Barney. Oof. I think it was Stephen Baldwin. Oh, woof did they bring, but they did bring back Rosie O'Donnell though. I'm sure as Betty.
01:19:29
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I hope so. i Question number three, young doctors in love, 1982. In a zany parody of hospital soap operas, a new batch of doctors begins their internships at city hospital.
01:19:44
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Taylor Negron played Dr. Phil Burns. This had a budget of 7.5 million.
01:19:54
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8 million. Okay. I'm going to say 7 million.
01:20:01
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Boy, you guys, ah you need to bet on the house. That one made 30,688,860. Greg gets the point. Wow. Apparently big hit. I guess.
01:20:14
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It was directed by Gary Marshall, I think. Oh. Question number four, Biodome. 1996. 1996. ninety ninety six Two moronic best friends get locked inside the biodome for a year.
01:20:28
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Taylor Negron played Russell and a budget of $15 million. dollars How much do you guys think biodome made? $7 million. dollars And I've seen this one actually.
01:20:40
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um Did you like it? No. ah ah I don't, I feel like this is a movie that like, Oh God. It's, it's, This is not counting video release, though, right? We're not talking. No, this is just theatrical box off Theatrical. I'm going to say $5 million then.
01:20:59
Speaker
What did you say, Greg? seven seven yeah $7 million? $7 million, yeah. $13,427,615. Was that a Pauly Shore? That was a Pauly Shore. And that same Baldwin that was in Viva Rock Vegas. Maybe they had the same management, Negron and Baldwin.
01:21:16
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but Maybe. Maybe. Question number five. Spy Hard 1996. ninety ninety six I saw that one in theaters. Dick Steele, a.k.a. Agent WD-40, is assigned by his director to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world.
01:21:35
Speaker
Taylor Negron played painter and had a budget of $18 million. dollars um that's uh oh god that's that's what's his name isn't it leslie nielsen okay trying to ah capture the naked gun magic again yes theme song by weird al oh and how much did it cost again uh 18 million i'm gonna say uh 60 million okay i'm gonna say 32 million Greg, you've got it again. It was 26,960,191. I think that's the movie that had the one the one joke I remember in that movie was when he's trying to break into a house and he finds an extraordinarily large key and he turns it upside down, pulls out a little compartment and pulls a rock out of it and then smashes a window with it. And I love that. good
01:22:27
Speaker
That's not bad. All right. Question number six. Just four more to go. Mr. Jones, 1993. After being arrested during a manic episode, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder is treated by a psychiatrist who begins to develop romantic feelings for him.
01:22:48
Speaker
Taylor Negron plays Motorcycle Man. so I'll give you another hint. Richard Gere played Mr. Jones. They had a budget of $25 million. What year? 1993. Ooh. what year ninety ninety three Oh, um that's not the Mr. Jones film that I know of, but it is probably. I'm sure there's lots of films with that name. It's kind of generic. Jones is very common.
01:23:13
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Yeah, it's a common name. um And how much again? He said 20, 25, 25. I'm going to say 35 million. I'm going to go 65. I'm going to go 65. i'm gonna go five i'm gonna go sixty five ah Bitter gets it, but this one, it made $8,345,845.
01:23:28
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Wow. Huge flop. Yeah, it not going for huge flo yeah it would apparently was a reshut and recod a bunch of times and then just dumped into theaters at a bad time of year.
01:23:41
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Question number seven, Chairman of the Board. This got a theatrical release. This is another Pauly Shore joint, isn't it? No, Carrot Top. Oh, okay, well. Although it's an understandable mistake.
01:23:52
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ah Yeah. Yeah. Somehow, the only one that could be worse is in 1997. A surfer becomes the head of a major company. That's crazy. Taylor Negron plays Mr. Withermeyer.
01:24:05
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It had a budget of $7 million. dollars How much do you think this took in at the little box office? $500,000. Oh, man. Okay.
01:24:18
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I have to... I'm going... Oh, gosh. I'm trying to remember. Would people... Want to see Carrot Top or not? I'm going to guess not. I feel like i feel like people never wanted to see Carrot Top. so i think that's true.
01:24:32
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I'm going to say 200,000. All right. ah You've got it, Bitter. It was 181,233. I really didn't think anyone could undercut me at 500,000, but here we are.
01:24:46
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I always do remember where Carrot Top, ah back at the time, ah this was 1993, 92, I think? Oh, he was on ah some talk show, late night talk show with, I don't know, whoever was a talk show host at that time.
01:25:04
Speaker
Letterman or or Conan or something. And I believe he was on ah right after Norm MacDonald. and And apparently like ah the host is like, so you've got a new movie coming out, Carrot Top.
01:25:16
Speaker
And Norm MacDonald's like, I know the name of this. Box Office Poison. i don't think carrot top appreciated him kind of being an asshole i guess but it is very funny uh to me yeah oh yeah i mean he's got his ass he was certainly correct yeah question number eight vamps 2012 twenty twelve Blood-sucking party girls find their destinies at stake when one falls for the son of a vampire hunter and the other encounters a lover from her past.
01:25:49
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Taylor Negron reprises his role as pizza guy. This had a budget of $16 million. It was 2012? 2012, directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone and Kristen Ritter.
01:26:04
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And it was $16 million, you said? $16 million. 35. 35 million. I'm going to say,
01:26:17
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ah I've heard of this movie, so I feel like I should go higher. going to say 50. Greg, you would have been better off saying $35. It made $92,748. What? Greg, you get the point. That was less flo there was less than chairman of the board.
01:26:38
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Made less than chairman of the board. well Ouch.
01:26:43
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Well, if you think that one, oh well. yeah Question number nine. going to tell you guys, guess low. Okay. Okay. That'll become very apparent. Super Capers, The Origins of Ed and the Missing Bullion, 2008.
01:26:59
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two thousand and eight A good guy with no powers joins a superhero team with no clue to stop a bad guy with no shame. Taylor Negron plays the chauffeur and had a budget of $2 million. Sorry,
01:27:17
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sorry Super Capers, The Secret of the Missing Bullion? The Origins of ed and the Missing Bullion. I feel like maybe I missed a word there. that that If you guys want to talk it out, I'm going to double get checked. There's a lot happening in that title. Yeah. yeah That's never a good sign. And it's $2 million, and we know to bet low.
01:27:37
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and like I want to go like $7, but that feels like cheating. I was wrong. I had the entire title. ha Wow. Okay. Boy. I thought for sure I had dropped a word somewhere.
01:27:50
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I am going to go with $75,000.
01:27:54
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OK. All right. I'm going to go with, ah you know what? I'm going to say zero.
01:28:06
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I'm just going to say zero. I like it. I like it. I'm glad somebody was going the Price is Right strategy. Yeah, I wanted that to happen. It paid off ah because that movie made $30,955. A very close game, but Greg still gets the W. Well, congratulations.
01:28:27
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Yeah, that was a good that was a good game that was a good good game. Good
The Batty Awards
01:28:30
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game. you. thank you Well, it's time for the Batty Awards.
01:28:41
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Now you're messing with me. Now you're messing with the Batty Awards. Now you're messing with the Batty Awards.
01:28:52
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Now you're messing with the Batty Awards.
01:28:58
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Congratulations to all the nominees.
01:29:07
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That's right. Congratulations to all our nominees. It's time for the Batty Awards. The only Batty Awards that are Batty Awards. right Greg, do you have a Batty Award?
01:29:18
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I sure do. i would like to give my Batty Award to the thing that we see the most of in this movie, the prop that we see the most often, and that is bones. i have literally i have literally never seen more bones in a movie than this movie. It's it just it's weird where they show up.
01:29:36
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Like it just feels like characters are sometimes just put their hands down and it's on a giant pile of bones. It's, it's, it's, it's sort of, it's weird when you start. No, it's like there bones everywhere in this movie.
01:29:50
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They're everywhere. That reminds me of an art teacher that I had in college, like a life drawing teacher. Okay. She's like, well, part of is that you need to, if you're going to draw the human form, you need to draw the skeleton.
01:30:01
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And then she brought in just a Ziploc bag filled with human sternums. Oh. Wow. Which, first of all, to get your hands on like six or seven sternums is, I'm sure, quite a task.
01:30:15
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And second of all, what am I going to learn from drawing a sternum? That's the one part of the body that you just don't draw. There's just nothing there. You leave that part blank. It was very weird. Yeah, that's very strange.
01:30:27
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that is That is unique. That is unique. um Yeah. Yeah. I've got a baddie ward. My baddie ward is going to Deborah Naddleman.
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Naddleman. I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing your name wrong, Deborah Naddleman, but you're the costume designer and also the wife of John Landis, small world out there in Holly weird.
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ah But she designed Demi Moore's halter top romper, which was a fantastic look, first of all. Yes. This this sort of like bone white romper.
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and But it also it had the added advantage of because it was a romper instead of a skirt. She could do all this sort of climbing around and crawling and falling down things without offering up a bunch of buffalo shots for everybody.
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Gaving Demi Moore her poor last bit of dignity that she can hold on to in this movie. So kudos to you, Debra Nadwoman. Bitter, do you have a Batty
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Award?
01:31:25
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I do. I'm going to give my Batty Award to the one joke in this film that actually made me laugh and makes me laugh every time I watch this movie. And it's not even it's not even a joke.
01:31:39
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ah But there's a bit where Dan Aykroyd as a the judge and Chevy Chase are kind of scuffling and Chevy Chase grabs a taxidermy skunk and throws it at the judge. And the judge responds, my skunk!
01:31:55
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As if this is like his emotional support taxidermy or something. He's very yeah he's very upset about the that this random skunk gets thrown. and And yeah it makes me laugh every time. So Batty Ward to taxidermy skunk.
01:32:08
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Yeah, his delivery of My Skunk, was that's the Dan Aykroyd that you're hoping to see for the rest of the movie. Yeah. but Bitter, thank you so much for joining us this week. Thank you for such a fun discussion of such a movie that neither of us particularly enjoyed. Yeah, the conversation was great. I always like, when when it's like this, it's fantastic. It's great. Yeah.
01:32:30
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Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me. I always love inflicting this film on people, so i no regrets. No regrets. Well, if you ever have anything else in your back pocket you want to talk about, please reach out.
01:32:43
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please And in the meantime, do you have stuff you want to plug any place people should find you to hit us up with all that stuff? Yes. In fact, I do. So you can find me on the internet. I'm bitter. Corella on everywhere that you can find people mostly blue sky or you can just go to my website www.bittercorella.com or you can check out uh i am still i'm mostly known right now if i'm known at all for doing the uh blue sky micro comedy count midnight pals which you can find at midnight pals on blue sky or www.midnightpals.com where you can actually listen to our uh hilarious a scripted audio dramatic comedy podcast about midnight pals
01:33:21
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And while we're at it, the other thing that i hopefully will like ah I hopefully will be known for eventually is my new book, which I mentioned earlier in the podcast. I'm going to mention it again. It's Moonflow.
01:33:32
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Buy it wherever books are sold and read it with someone you love. it is ah ah spiritual successor to nothing but trouble. So if you've enjoyed this conversation, Hey, you might like this awful novel about like a lesbian ah hippie cult um eating mushrooms ah and all day and having insane ah psychedelic trips.
01:33:53
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Sounds great. Yeah, sounds right up my alley.
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01:33:57
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Listeners, you know what I'm going to do right now. I'm going to hit you up with, ah first of all, the notice of what we're doing next week. Next week, we're talking about Moonwalker with Josh Borman. Very excited for that one.
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If you're listening on desktop, I don't know. i don't know who does that. People do it, I guess. And hey, Give us five stars bitter. When you listen to the episode later, don't forget to give us five stars while you're there.
01:34:36
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Absolutely. Yes. We got one, Greg. We're going to do another fight. That's coming. And ah yeah, you can also, you can find us on blue sky. You can find us on Instagram. You can find us on ah YouTube where we've got ah videos, little video trailers that I make for all the episodes.
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And you can also join us on our discord.com. where every month we're watching a different bad movie every week we're watching a TV show right now. We're going through the oval depending on the recent allegations. Tyler Perry is facing. We might stop watching the oval.
01:35:09
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Oh, wow. So, uh, but maybe not. We'll see. Uh, and, uh, yeah, keep an eye out for that. And until next week, listeners, uh, be good and goodbye.
01:35:21
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Goodbye. Bye.