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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) - "He bit me with his butt!"
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The winning G-rated film from our Spin-the-Wheel event was 1993's American adventure comedy film, "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey". All of us were convinced there was no way this movie could hold up to our nostalgia. Let's find out...
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Directed by Duwayne Dunham, a remake of 1963's The Incredible Journey, based on 1961's children's book by Sheila Burnford. Starring Michael J. Fox, Don Ameche, a reluctant Sally Field, and I'd be remiss if I didn't also call out the legendary Burt the Bear.
With an undisclosed budget, it made $57 mil in the box office. Currently a 6.9 on IMDb.
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Directed by Duwayne Dunham, a remake of 1963's The Incredible Journey, based on 1961's children's book by Sheila Burnford. Starring Michael J. Fox, Don Ameche, a reluctant Sally Field, and I'd be remiss if I didn't also call out the legendary Burt the Bear.
With an undisclosed budget, it made $57 mil in the box office. Currently a 6.9 on IMDb.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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This episode of On Second Watch is coming to you completely dynamic ad-free, thanks to our friends at Hydronic Hydration. You can learn more about them in our show notes or check out our little snippet about them after our plot summary Mad Libs. But before we get into that episode, I want to invite you to become one of the OSW crew. Now on Ko-fi at ko-fi.com slash movie, you can join the OSW crew for only $1 a month and then you get behind the scenes access to everything that we got going on.
00:00:29
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learn about the episodes that are coming up, participate in Plot Summary Mad Libs, or even participate in our now every episode trivia games. And if you beat everybody on our team on trivia, you get to choose a category for our next Spin the Wheel event. Now that's pretty cool. So if you don't mind checking it out, we'd really appreciate it. And we look forward to talking to you.
Podcast Overview
00:00:49
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And now your feature presentation.
00:01:07
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In the world of big budget blockbusters, travel back in time to explore the epic and not so epic movies of yesteryear. This is On Second Watch, a movie nostalgia podcast.
00:01:29
Speaker
Welcome to On Second Watch, where we first review a film based only on our nostalgia and then rewatch the film and see if it's better or worse than we remember. To make things more entertaining, we play plot summary Mad Libs, which is exactly how it sounds. We take the plot of the film and my co-host provide replacement words and we create a new plot that is equal parts, incredibly hilarious and incredibly inappropriate. Yes, always inappropriate.
00:01:55
Speaker
And we've also just introduced trivia with our last review, and we'll try that again and see if we can have a little less technical difficulties than
Meet the Hosts
00:02:02
Speaker
last time. So my name is Tim, the guy you talked to on social media and facilitator and cat herder. And we also have Chris. How you doing, Chris? I'm doing good. How about you? Fantastic, sweet. Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. All right, and Dana. Hi, how's it going?
00:02:24
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Awesome, you know that. How does she know? It's like you guys are married or something. It's almost like we're across the house from each other. Yeah, it's like once completely separate rooms. Oh, wait, you are? Yeah. I like the doll house, by the way. That's pretty. You like my doll house? I do. It's the perfect aesthetic. Sweet. Okay. Moving on, not across the house, but across the country. How are you doing, Carrie? I am doing fantastic. Awesome. And the other side of the country, we got Nikki.
00:02:53
Speaker
Hey-oh. And literally the one and only spaz. Stroke it slowly. You know what? I told you I was not going to serenade you with that song. But I did the serenading. Don't serenade yourself. Not in public. There's some stroking. It's going to happen. This is a G-rated movie. You're talking to spaz. I mean. I know.
Discussing 'Homeward Bound'
00:03:22
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So today, we are here to take a look at 1993's American adventure comedy film, Homeward Bound, colon, The Incredible Journey. And this is directed by Dwayne Dunham and a remake of 1963's The Incredible Journey. It's based on a 1961 children book by Sheila Burnford, starring the one and only Michael J. Fox.
00:03:44
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Don Amici and the reluctant Sally Field. And I say that because she hated doing this role at first. I don't know if maybe she came around to it, but she was very angry. She didn't play a cat. She was very upset. She, uh, her career went to her playing a cat, but I'd be remiss if I didn't also call out the legendary Bert the bear. Yes, you can't be able to appearance. What a fantastic appearance it was. I was like scrolling through the credit list and I was like, Oh, Bert the bear and Rattler as chance. That's right.
00:04:15
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famous. With an undisclosed budget, this made 57 million in the box office and it currently sits at a 6.9 on IMDB, which is... I had to go back and check because every time I looked it was either 6.9 or 7, so it's on the cusp. Last I looked, 6.9.
'Homeward Bound' Trivia Challenge
00:04:30
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And this was an interesting one. So we did this movie because the category that Chris chose was G-rated films. And surprisingly, none of us picked anything that was truly outrageous.
00:04:43
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for a G film, it was all pretty tame. You could say it was a pretty G-rated selection. Well played, Portray. I'm here all night. Well played. We have dad puns on this, and he's not even a dad. No, but I'm geriatric enough to be one. You are 80, so. I am. I do love my oatmeal and Golden Girls. Anyway, so we're going to jump straight into the quiz before we give anything away from this film. So I hope you guys are ready.
00:05:11
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And you paid attention to how I framed the questions last time because I didn't do it this time. So each question, I changed it to we have 12 seconds to answer each question because I know you also have to. I'm going to use that. Yes, you know. Why would you arbitrarily extend it? Carrie takes the full time.
00:05:35
Speaker
I read all the options and evaluate the best answer. Don't like you. Did you not recall going to school with her? It'd be like we'd all be done with homework and she'd be on like problem one. I'd be on like problem 71 because I'd sign up for additional homework. You're like, I'm learning. And I'm just like, oh, for the love of God. Yeah. And we'd all just make fun of you until it was time for me to copy. I can only daydream for so long.
00:05:59
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I upped it to 12 because there was a couple points where someone didn't get their question or answer submitted in time. And also you also have to hit the submit button after you answer the question. And that just takes extra time. So like 12 seconds sounds good. All right. Okay. Everybody ready? You got your phones? Yes. All right. Here we go with question one. Homeward bound. The incredible journey is a remake. True or false?
00:06:29
Speaker
Who got it right, guys?
00:06:31
Speaker
If I didn't get ready, I'm upset because I picked it. I think it's covered. Yeah, no, he just said it. And I would never guess. So thanks for saying that in the intro. Did anyone else know it was a remake? Yes, I know the original. Thank you. And I read the two most clueless on movies before I click this button to see the time splits. Did you really take all 10 seconds to answer this question, Carrie?
00:07:00
Speaker
No, I did not. She took five. As soon as it popped up, I answered basically. Dana took nine. She was debating. She said, oh no. I was sitting there and I'm like, well, shit, I don't know. You're like, just set it five minutes ago. Exactly.
00:07:17
Speaker
I feel this rounding is skewing our speed trials. I totally took a second to hit send, so that's why I didn't get five. So after question one, everybody got it right. Nikki's in the lead with five seconds. Nikki's in the lead with a five coming up with Kerry with five and then me with five. There's probably some rounding here, but we'll see how this goes. Question number two.
00:07:42
Speaker
The film is based on a true story. True or false? Oh my gosh. Everybody answered. Ooh, split. The correct answer is true. What? Come on. The animals made it through the country. Okay. Based on a true story. That's good, but. I thought it was based on a children's novel. It's funny because I was thinking like this. Chris, thank you. It was based on a book.
00:08:11
Speaker
Which is apparently the true choice. Well, she took the book and based it off of her three animals, so I guess that would be the true story. I mean, that's incredible. I cannot believe that happened. I didn't think that I'd be further than that. This would never be able to happen. I just read the recap in IMDB saying it was based on a children's book. I didn't go any further than that. I don't know how true of a story it is.
00:08:38
Speaker
This really didn't happen. Cats and dogs exist, therefore it's based on real events. There you go. Mass hysteria. All right. Question three. Oh, I guess I should say who's in the lead. So Carrie and Dana are in first and second, respectively, followed by Nikki, Chris, and Dickhead Spaz. Yeah, that's right. Carrie's not fucking around today, man. She's answering quickly. She still took nine seconds.
00:09:07
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No, that's total. That's total. We also have nine seconds. I did. I also got it wrong, therefore I don't count anymore. Well, let's see, these questions get a little bit more complicated as we go. Well overhosed. So question number three, in which year was this film released? 1990, 91, 93, or 95? Gosh, this is so tough. I hate you Tim, but I think I got it right. I'm going to just start.
00:09:34
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researching the movie before these. There you go. Everybody said 93. Everybody is right. I just said the answer. You're a liar. This proves that we don't listen to you. That's fine. No, we we all got it right, though. Yeah, but I knew that was 93. All right. So Carrie and Dana still first and second. Chris, Nikki and the kid number five. Oh,
00:10:00
Speaker
And I'm only calling you dickhead because that's what you called yourself. I want to switch it to a different one, but I forgot. I wasn't already still a dickhead. Yeah. That's right. Question. Question for which city did the family relocate to temporarily? We got San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Anaheim, San Diego, right? Okay. You don't know. Y'all said San Francisco. Y'all are right.
00:10:30
Speaker
And nothing changed according to the leaderboard, except for Chris and Nikki swapped with 17 seconds a piece. But you got it. You got to knock this quick answer your stuff. I'd like to point out. Yeah. Thank you. I have the least total time so far. So stop your sass, stop the sass. Yeah. That's going to stop me. So right now, Carrie and Dana both are four for four. Everyone else is three for four. So it's still anybody's game with four questions remaining. Number five, what was the name of the girl?
00:11:01
Speaker
They protected in the woods got Abigail Molly joy or Annie Everyone said Molly you guys Almost messed that one up everybody got it right standing stay the same
00:11:24
Speaker
I cannot believe this is based on a true story. I'm so bitter about that. Well, maybe we'll have to do some research. I'll probably go research it later and find out how loosely it's based on. It's very, it's very loosely. It's not. It's very. The dog and the cat got lost in the woods. It was actually a small little park. I don't even think they got lost in the woods. I really don't think it's anything like that, to be honest with you. Well, here we go. I start doing something like this and you guys start throwing a well over under. That's not technically a. Yeah.
00:11:53
Speaker
stand by my argument from whatever it was ever once ago. I don't know what we argued by standby. It was a it was a big debate and I don't know what it was. You gotta stand by your beliefs man. Was it Batman and Robin? No no no it was Matrix. It's like a year and a half ago. Creamy. Yeah and it was.
00:12:16
Speaker
All righty, getting down to the wire with three questions remaining. I lost six of the main actors, which have won an Academy Award, if any, in their lifetime. This could be right. Zero, one, two or three that apply. Oh, no. Oh, no. I didn't read that. Same here. Oh, I hope it's.
00:12:39
Speaker
Come on, be right. Is it more than one? It is more than one. It is more than one. Sally Field done to me too. Oh no! I chose Sally Field and Michael J. Fox. Dang it. Michael J. Fox didn't win. He won Emmys and shit like that. Well, whatever, Dan. Got it. I'm losing, okay? Ah, Carrie, you suck balls. Darn it. I read the question, Dan. So did I, Carrie, and I got it right.
00:13:10
Speaker
I'm so proud of you. Maybe I guess I should give you a warning beforehand that there could be more than one.
00:13:15
Speaker
You know, it was written. I mean, yeah, everyone's trying to speed
Plot Summary Mad Libs
00:13:19
Speaker
it, you know, so it was there, you know, it was there, but it wasn't very dark. So it was not very easy to see. So just saying, OK, fair, but whatever. I'm sorry. Well, we'll figure this out. So Carrie's in the lead still with six for six. She's like, yeah, let's just end it. Carrie got it. Let's let's let's do that curse right now. She has not missed a question since we started this game. You guys are the worst.
00:13:41
Speaker
I can't do that. I'm going to get in my own head. It's going to be bad. With two questions remaining, still a chance for anybody. You can take I mean, you can take your time now, Kerry. It's possible. It's true. No need to be fast. Maybe. Question seven. How many animals are voiced by a human? Three, four or five or more. This question sucks. Yes, it does.
00:14:13
Speaker
You a sneaky son of a bitch. It's five because of the the veterinarian. I was thinking that. Like there hadn't been a bunch of dogs talking, right? Because they were cat calling sassy. Yes. Oh, that's right. There were at least three dogs in the pound that were
00:14:33
Speaker
Well, you can tell where I stop paying attention. What? You stop. What? How the idea falling. So Kerry is still seven for seven, followed by spaz, who's the only person has a chance to knock a carry out if she gets this next question wrong. You get my name right, son. Oh, no. And Dickhead gets it right. They had a boy. Kerry, I don't even care if I even get close. Just don't let him win. You can't put this pressure on me. This is terrifying now. He'll win the tiebreaker on time.
00:15:03
Speaker
Oh, God. Here we go. Question eight. I don't even remember what the question is, so we'll find out. Oh, boy. Question eight. How many animals were injured during production? Zero? No. One to three, four to six, or seven plus? I hope I'm wrong. I have no idea. This isn't Milo. This isn't Milo and Otis. No, it's not. Well, 60% of you said zero.
00:15:26
Speaker
And that is correct. I thought so. They were very diligent. At the end of the movie, no animals were making it. Oh, it did? Yeah. Yeah. And if you read about like the amount that they went to to make sure the animals were happy, like it's really interesting. A lot of the stuff, how they cut and edited it. They actually gave weren't even in it like half the time together with the other animals.
00:15:50
Speaker
Oh, that and they also talk about that. They also. Oh, yeah, I guess we will that this is the time and place to do that yet. Oh, you beat spaz. That's all I give a shit about. Fair enough. Fair enough. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. You win again. So the category choice is yours. Well, it depends on if you're going to want it after we talk about sport movies. I gave you my backup option. I'm sticking to it. It's going to be great.
00:16:17
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Oh, boy. You're all going to love that one. Yeah. So for those that don't know, the way we do this is when we do trivia, the winner gets the choice of choosing the category for the next Spin the Wheel event.
00:16:30
Speaker
So Carrie wins twice in a row, so she's chomping at the bit to make things a little nuts. For clarity too, she can't pick sport movies again, right? No, God, no, I wouldn't do that. That ruins the integrity of this show. Absolutely not. Thank God. But there's so many good ones, you're totally good. Yeah, yeah. Nicki, start. I have like five. I know. I have like 20. Yeah. I went through a list of sport movies for non-sports people.
00:16:59
Speaker
Oh my God. I hate you so much. I hate you so much for that. Oh God. I have a few just in case someone picks mine. I can just say this is that I'm going to probably cause the most controversy. We are going to have some conversations. We'll see. We'll see. Alrighty.
00:17:22
Speaker
So with that wrapped up, why don't we just jump straight into Mad Libs so I can get that out of the way? Oh my gosh. And Mad Libs, I forgot. Get it out of the way. This is the best part of the podcast. This is going to be the longest episode ever. It's going to be the most crass one. Please. But it has to be in a way that it's not intentional. Right. Yeah. Don't just like phone it in. Don't throw out like boner jams. Yeah. No more boner jams. No more wiener spas. Penis doesn't count. You can't use it. Want a bet?
00:17:50
Speaker
You want to say hot dog? Go for it. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to spice it up a little bit. All right. Penis is so blase. Penis is a fun word to say. Great. Say it off the mic. Penis. Don't let me forget, guys, but when I do these mad libs, I create some little thing where it automatically populates all the words.
00:18:12
Speaker
Just to test it out. And, um, so I threw a bunch of my random generated words in here and it generated a sentence that I have to read you guys later. I saved it because it just was so, it's just so wrong because I'm already laughing. You guys know it's good. Yeah. So I, I just saved it just for you guys. So don't let me forget to tell you what it was. Okay.
00:18:35
Speaker
All right, and to figure out who's who in this pleasant, not pleasant, Mad Libs, I'm going to say a series of six different words and we need to figure out which one of us hosts match the word the best. Oh boy. So first I'll tell you the six words. I have impatient, I have wayfinder, hunter, defender, hangry, and protector.
00:19:00
Speaker
So let's start off with the easy one. Who's, who's the hangry one? Chris. Chris. I mean, you're not, you're not wrong, but he's always hungry. He's always angry. Which is easy. Prefer impatient when you get hangry. Like that's, I mean, we could have used both options. You can blend like five of those words into it when I get hungry. Yeah.
00:19:26
Speaker
That's very true. All right. So how about, um, how about impatient? Let's go with that one. Me. Dana. Dana. Yep. Fuck you Dana. Let's see. Okay. Spaz. We got, um, wayfinder hunter defender protector. Which one would be spaz? I'd give him defender. Yeah.
00:19:53
Speaker
Sure. He might not do a good job, but he'll make it the attempt. He'll try. Are you fucking kidding me right now? He's loyal. I'm so loyal. Yes. I would kick some fucking ass for any one of you guys. You would make an attempt and that's what I appreciate about you. There would be no attempt. There would be some ass whoopage. I can't believe it. And I emphasized the whoopage.
00:20:17
Speaker
I think he just made up a new word. I would fucking kill him. Just let him have it. Yeah. All right. Let's see for the rest of us. So you've got wayfinder, hunter, and protector. I can just go and say I'm not a wayfinder. I am the worst at directions. You're the hunter. I'm the wayfinder.
00:20:41
Speaker
Dana, or Nikki, in this case, you're definitely the hunter, and then Tim, you are the protector, then. See, I was flipping the YouTube. I had Kerry as the wayfinder, and Tim as the protector. That's what I said.
00:20:53
Speaker
That's what she said. Way to go, Chris. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Tim as the wayfinder, Carrie as the protector. She's our way. Yeah. Let's see. Should I flip these or not? Which one's going to be the most inconvenient for Carrie? Oh, God. That's cheating. Oh, yes. Just screw Carrie. You need to give her the voice box. It's not cheating. It's just answering with decisiveness. Yeah. Carrie, I'll keep you as the wayfinder.
00:21:23
Speaker
Oh, see now I feel like you're doing that while smiling and you got to show it. Okay. Do you want me to switch it? Cause I will. No, no, I know. This is one of those things where it's like, Oh no. And the game theory tells me I should ask you to switch it, but I'm not going to choose your poison. Oh God. Alrighty. Let's start. Um, let's start with the verbs this time. I need a whole whopping seven of them. Seven verbs.
00:21:51
Speaker
Sniff. Prance. Shake. All right. Sledder. Three more. Tumble. Bounce. Where's Dana? I'm sorry, I had to leave for a second. Does frolic work? Yes. Or frolicing, whatever you want. All right, that'll do it for verbs. Let's jump to nouns. How many? Seven of them. Jesus, Tim. I got to make it filthy.
00:22:17
Speaker
Why do you want so many words? Just kidding. There's literally like nothing written. We're just going to work hard. Look around your room, find something in. I know. Yeah. Box. There it is. Not again. I saw the box on my basement. Therefore the box. My drone. Mouse. Mound. I looked over and saw a giant baby Yoda. So maybe I should.
00:22:45
Speaker
So, so doll. So it doesn't have to be specific. No, I would call it the child or the child. You know what? I'm going to leave it as baby Yoda because I think the context. How about dog poop down? Wow. I'm just going to I'll stick with poop. I make it even more just accurate. You know, like excrement. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. There you go. Fine. Excrement it is. All right. Now the fun one. Ten adjectives. Putrid fluffy.
00:23:16
Speaker
Comical. Sneaky. Gelatinous. Enthusiastic. Hell yeah. Cocky. You just want to say cocky. Yes, I did. Massive. Throw that in there. The way you said it, all I could think of was like, when you're cleaning, cock. I thought he said cocky. I wasn't going to argue that that's not a, but whatever, yeah. Yeah. One more. Sticky.
00:23:45
Speaker
Oh, got it. He's got like a list, like in his notebook of like disgusting adjectives. And then he just refers to them when time comes. Now for the random ones, I need three different types of family pet and it doesn't have to be dog or cat. It could be anything that you would typically find as a family pet. Gerbil. A rat.
00:24:16
Speaker
Oh gosh. I had her. Hey, first off, they're great pets. I had a pet rat and they were, she was fantastic. Yeah. They're smart. Super smart. Yeah. She was like my favorite pet. Unfortunately, they have very, very short lives. Yes, they do. Two to three years. Yep. Yep. Same as a hamster. Yep. Which makes sense. I don't know. It's a tail. I just. That's cool, man. That was awesome. We don't talk about Bruno. Oh my gosh.
00:24:48
Speaker
All right, on the same topic, I need three different types of wild animal that you would see in the wilderness. Porky pie. I know it was in their fucking queue. I was going to say cougar, but then I realized that was in the movie, but I meant it the other way. But I see him at the bar. Yeah. How about a deer? You saw that in the movie, too. Well, it wasn't. Fucker.
00:25:15
Speaker
Not really. I don't remember it in the movie. How about a mongoose? Wow. That actually works. Use the travel. I was trying to go with animals that were like like an eater, a moose. Yeah. You know, it's funny, Nicki, when I was doing my random word assessment for this, I chose my goose, too. So there we go. Crocodile Dundee Dundee. Free mind, Stan. Yes.
00:25:45
Speaker
All right. Speaking of spaz. No, no. Well, this next question is perfect for that comment. Uh, I need something spaz would do with no shame.
00:25:57
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What we talked about before this episode, but we can't say that on the air. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Cut it out. What? That's not going to work? No. You don't know. Come on, guys. This is easy. Something else in public. Farting in public and blaming it on somebody else. No, I don't blame it on nobody else. I take that shit because it's mine. Baz would own it. He would fart in public and then smile and wave. I do that.
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I want people to know. Because he has no shame. He will decorate the middle of a mall with a smile on his face.
00:26:36
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Okay, I've been witness to this. It's terrible. Life is fun. If you need to pick something for shame, we can either talk about him, you know, blasting the middle of the mall with his ass or him about to drop trowel in the middle of my front lawn. Your call. There's no time for shame, guys. There's no time for shame when Spaz is going to soil himself, apparently, one way or the other. Or anything, man.
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You just gotta, it's fun to make an ass out of yourself. It really is. You know, it's not fun seeing your ass. Nah, dude. Come on, man. You love seeing my flat ass. It's a beautiful slate. It is a beautiful fucking slate. I don't need this vision in my head, nor should our listeners have to think about that. Oh, you know what? You're welcome, fellow listeners. Enjoy the view of a flat ass. Apparently, it's just your family.
00:27:27
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Yeah, apparently. Unfortunately, they have seen it plenty of times. I hope his family's listening. I was like, Jesus, Jesus. And then they're like, yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah. All right. So next, uh, it's Carrie's turn. Something Carrie would be found eating while incredibly drunk.
00:27:52
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Oh God, I mean, she made a mess. I'd be a car. Or was that how that's me? Well, it was kind of both, but mostly me, mostly me. And who doesn't eat Taco Bell when they're drunk? I mean, it really is. Well, there's really always a good time to Taco Bell. Yeah.
00:28:12
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Taco Bell's just delicious. I won't lie. Taco Bell's amazing while you're drinking, but those 20 piece nug combo kicks are not half shabby either. You gotta get the dankest of nugs, dude. The dankest. The Rochester dank. The dank.
00:28:26
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So in college, I always used to want it after it was already closed. And once, I guess, I didn't believe Tim, my Tim, not this Tim, that it was closed. And so the next thing, like you knew, I was calling information on the phone.
00:28:44
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I took an Uber through the drive-thru for Taco Bell when ridiculously drunk in college. If they had Ubers at Michigan Tech, I would have done that. I walked through one. I got yelled at.
00:29:02
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Yeah, I'm sure you did. Sir, you have to be in a car. Fuck you. I'm giving my Taco Bell bitch. It's invisible. Give me my food. Yeah. Invisible. I just want my Taco Bell. I need a WWE wrestling move. Suplex. Suplex. Yeah, for sure. Stone Cold Stunner. Oh, also a good one. The Diamond Cutter.
00:29:28
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All right. And ACME weapon. Wiley coyote would buy anvil done. Yeah. Sledgehammer. Pretty good. I was like a dynamite. Dynamite was Atlanta too. Yeah. Okay. And finally, everybody's favorite. I need a body part. Didn't we use that last time? No, we sternum. And now it's septum or not. Ooh.
00:29:58
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I like it. Let's do deviated septum. It's just so awkwardly specific. I like it. I am going to try to read this. Oh God. Godspeed. Oh boy. Oh yes. All right. Sorry, Dana.
00:30:26
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Yeah, Dana's got it good. Dana is a putrid box snake. Yeah, and it starts off really well. The Adventures of the Moist Princess and Box Snake. Yes. Yes. This is a team here. Five, six. What the box said of that.
00:30:54
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Dina is a putrid box snake who is free-spirited and farting while smiling and waving all over the house. It's just a funny sentence to say here. Carrie is a fluffy mug gerbil.
00:31:22
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A fluffy mug gerbil who is both wise and comical in all the right ways. Damn right. That's pretty good. Get back in your mug. There's also Nikki, a bristly drone rat. Of course I get the rat. Someone cut my tail for me. Who is a pampered princess and will only sniff Taco Bell?
00:31:53
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through a series of unfortunate events the pets are left alone while the family relocates forcing them to prance on a dangerous but incredible journey along the way they face several challenges first they encounter spaz a sneaky mouse fox
00:32:15
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What is a mouse fox? A tiny fox. What a little sneaky. Yeah, I'm thinking it's like a fox in front of a mouse, like sneaking through like the overgrowth. That's what I do. What does the fox say? Who wants to shake them for touching his mounds? Yes. I bet he does. That unfortunately, Nikki performs a suplex off a waterfall.
00:32:49
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And is slithered by a gelatinous old man Those landed in that order that combo Oh God
00:33:05
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disturbing. Jesus Christ. Dana and Carrie encounter Chris, a hungry, sticky baby Yoda deer. That sounds horrifying. Who wants to tumble them both?
00:33:22
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Oh, God. Oh, Chris. What? Chris, watch yourself, buddy. That's illegal in like 30 states, man. It's a tumbling contest down the hill, Dan, you pervert. Not my head. Only to be tricked and smashed in the head with an anvil. That sounds about right. Dang. Oh, boy. Finally, they encountered Tim, the cocky excrement mongoose. Yes. Dina.
00:33:49
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Dana is a little too interested in bouncing Tim, resulting in Tim frolicking Dana right in the septum.
00:34:06
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There it is. Wow. There it is. That's how it got deviated. And for our listeners, that's how babies are made. In our world it is. Excuse me, I'm over here tumbling. Will these three massive house pets make it back to their enthusiastic family? Well, it's a G-rated Disney movie, so what do you think? The end.
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00:34:34
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I mean, one's a gerbil that lives in a mug, and the other one's a drone rat. I'm fluffy. I'm fluffy. Terry, you would need the full volume of your hair as a gerbil to be that fluffy. Oh, yeah. Fluffy. I mean, yeah, that makes sense. Never mind. Oh. The Adventures of the Fluffy Mug Gerbil, the Bursley Drone Wrap, and the Putrid Box Snake.
00:34:59
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Quite the trio. Many adventures of the Moist princess and fascinating. It's the women of this podcast. Cue the theme music. Listen, listen. The women of this podcast went on an incredible journey, okay? Got flitted by that gelatinous old man. I hope no one paid. Oh, they paid all right. Yes, they did.
00:35:28
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You tried to tumble us, Chris. You backed off. It was a tumbling contest on a hill! Just like a wheel of cheese. Tumbling down a hill. It's better than what Tim did to Dana and her septum. Yeah. What was it, a love punch or something? What was it? What? What is happening? I don't know. Something about frolicking on a septum.
00:35:55
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Yeah, Dana was, uh, too interested in bouncing me. And then, uh, I froliced Dana in the septum. So G rated guys. All right. So before we jump into our rewatch scores and discussion about this film, I have several comments made by our friends. You're supposed to tell everybody your sentence. Oh, thank you for reminding me because I was just about to forget.
00:36:19
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So like I said, I randomly just threw words in here to make sure everything worked. And the sentence I came up with, Tim is a floppy taco turtle who is both wise and creamy in all the right ways. Oh, God. You know what? I wasn't going to have nightmares tonight. And now I am. Now you are. Ew.
00:36:41
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What is that? Creepy, creamy wise turtle? What? Wise and creamy. Mm-hmm. Floppy taco turtle. So if anybody wants a copy of this Mad Libs, you can head over to our Ko-fi page eventually, and it will be out there so you can make your own and scare your children. You could also just open up a dictionary and do copious amounts of drugs, either or. Do what you want. Mm-hmm. You get the same result. No judgment. No slight judgment.
00:37:10
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00:38:52
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So here are the things people had to say about this film, and I'll rapid fire them. So first we got the Tattoo Squid podcast. He says, I can't watch it or I'll start crying, seriously. Shoot the Flick said, we did a whole review on it, but it is a cute children's movie. Movies that Maher said, amazing. We got Dustin that reads and watches, says very fond memories, bittersweet, but good. Then a dog's purpose came out and made this look like a cakewalk.
00:39:18
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And we got the Talking Smack stands with Ukraine, said, cats rule, dogs drool. Professor J says, before the time of CGI, this was one of the coolest movies a kid could watch. It still holds up as a great story of friendship. Not before coffee says, I remember seeing both virgins in the cinema, both virgins. Just the 1960s version? I was wondering, maybe Homer Brown 2? Oh, I guess it could be, yeah. That's what I was thinking, because that came out three years later. Yeah, right.
00:39:48
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Well, not sure why, but my child brain, they felt sort of like a documentary. Well, it was narrated by chance, so that still checks out. Defining Disney podcast said tears, tears everywhere.
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and rule me that true crime podcast said one of my childhood favorites pure gold don't watch sober said I remember watching it a lot as a kid and loving it but was sad too afraid to watch it now though just don't think it would hold up and I don't want to take those memories well that's what we're here for yep that's what we do we ruin your dreams thanks for listening ship it studio says the feels hit every time shell rolls up over that hill
00:40:31
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Oh, hell yeah. And it goes down in the PM says, love this movie. And I cried every time. It's Birdzilla. I think Michael J. Fox did such a great job. I forgot about the Birdzilla scene. Of all the scenes I remembered, I forgot about that. That was incredible. Two more. I have Anonymous said, it's a moving story that provides or proves love is unstoppable and pets are truly family.
00:40:58
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And the last one, I want to know what asshole put this one in here. It was a very incredible journey. There's always one, Tim. He's always one. And we appreciate it. I feel like I want to put 20 bucks down that it was my brother, but it sounds like something he would say. That's definitely something he would say.
00:41:21
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That's everything that
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00:41:22
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people had to share. So thank you all for sharing your thoughts on this film. I like to hear everybody's commentary around it, especially those afraid to taint their memories. Because like we said, that's what we're here for. And we'll talk about this movie next. Let's go around the room and feel free to share your thoughts and then your rewatch rating, if you will, and we'll get this calculated. So
00:41:44
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Going back, Dana, you picked this movie. Do you want to kick us off today? I'm still going to be non-committal, so you can go with somebody else first. I'm going to just skip me, come back. Fine. Chris, you came in at a six because you didn't remember this movie at all.
00:42:03
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Right. So rewatching it, did you recall a bunch? So I remembered a little bit. Like I said, I always remember the part about Chance getting slapped by the porcupine and Sally getting flung off the waterfall. Other scenes like that. A little bit more came back to me as I watched it, but not a ton. I want to say, for me, it was easily, I think, 20 years ago since I last watched it. So it was kind of like, yeah, familiar, but not. Yeah. Just in general, for me,
00:42:33
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I feel like 90s family movies just hit different. Um, could be the nostalgia. I don't know. I grew up in the nineties, but they, they just, they feel a little, I don't know, more wholesome. I think it was kind of a nice reprieve for me to watch like a nice wholesome, you know, take a breather from all the action, the horror movies, you know, the shit on the news and just sit down and watch something nice.
00:42:58
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For me, I won't lie, I had a hard time watching the scenes with shadow. So my parents have two pups and the oldest one, her name's Hannah and she's getting to be about 12. She kind of resembles that, like that grizzled gray face of shadow. The familiarity was, was enough where I was like, yep, I expected a couple of chuckles and stuff. I didn't come here to feel.
00:43:22
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And I don't like feelings. I'd rather just bottle them up and shove them deep down inside. So, I don't know. Like, I think a lot of the people that said on Twitter, a little bittersweet, a little sad. And that's kind of how it was, but it was also a very wholesome, nice movie. It was nice to kind of shut myself away from all of that and just spend an hour and a half watching a nice, happy, G-rated movie.
00:43:41
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So is your score going up from a six or, uh, yeah, I'm going to put it at a seven and a 7.5. I really liked reading about the amount of effort they went to to make sure the animals were safe. All the different nuanced ways they spliced the editing together. And like I said, it made me feel, I don't know how I feel about that, but it did. Um, so therefore that counts for something, um, for sure. And like I said, I enjoyed it. And if I ever had like nieces or nephews or something of that nature, this would be a movie I would show them.
00:44:11
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Yeah. You were mentioning about, you know, reading about how they filmed it. I, I read the same thing because I was curious because you hear all these movies from the nineties where there's just terrible treatment of animals. Right. Especially we were talking about, um, Milo notice. Yeah. And how,
00:44:24
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bad that resulted but I was I was blown away by all the things that they did to ensure like the scenes where you make it look like they're chasing each other they're really not they're just edited you know together and it was uh they did a good job yeah you think about that it was 1993 not to say that they couldn't obviously Jurassic Park came around right around that sign but you didn't expect it for something like a movie like this like even the scene with the trains there was no moving trains while those animals around the set they spliced all that in afterwards
00:44:52
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I also thought it was really interesting reading about the different cats that played Sassy during the scene where she fell into the water and how they had a mechanical cat, a completely fake cat. And they actually used real cats, but they obviously didn't film them. They had a heated pool. They had four people underneath in the water.
00:45:12
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And then two trainers on each side. And what did it say? They used four or five different cats that love the water. They were trained for the water. And they were only in the water for eight to 10 seconds each. Super interesting stuff. I don't know. I mean, like you said, it's pretty crazy all the splicing and the different scenes and everything they did. When I was putting together our spin the wheel episode, we were talking about our nostalgia for this. And I even said, I'm curious how they filmed this because I thought there was no way in hell
00:45:41
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They could get these dogs and these cats to do all these these tricks and these things. And it's like, well, they did. It was it was very planned. They're very well trained. And pretty much everything was on purpose except for the tripping in the hole and hitting that tree. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Tree. That was anything involving the bulldog. Yes. And it's like watching that dog. It's like, yeah, that makes sense. Look at him like when he was trying to chances me.
00:46:10
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But him slapping the tree was hilarious and then hitting the hole. Go for the hole. Yeah. And then they just, they, they ab, they ab-lived all of that from my understanding. Yeah, they did. Yeah. Michael J. Fox and Sally Field, that's basically a lot of what they did was ab-lib and improvised parts, a whole bunch of their parts and scenes. So yeah, they did a great job. Wait, what was the second one other than the tree?
00:46:33
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Go for whole when he's running and you want middle of the field like he trips. Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Yeah Yeah, he hit like a little like dip it or whatever. Yeah, go for a hole I thought the tree part was fake. I was like, oh my god. No, no typical Bulldog like slams into it
00:46:58
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awesome so cool seven point five spaz how about you christ took a lot of points that i was gonna mention and about like they had four different dogs and ten different cats the amount of work that the trainers had to go through just to get these animals to do what they did was
00:47:16
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amazing. The splicing of scenes together. I mean, this movie, it had to be a pain in ass to make, obviously, when you're working with animals, it's never easy. But then they had to take horses and mules out to the middle of a forest just to get a bunch of these scenes for like three days.
00:47:34
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It was amazing what they did for this movie. And I don't even think it took them that long to make either. They doubled up. That's why like you're saying so that you had the close-up scenes with the animals. They were filmed that. And then they had obviously body doubles for the animals and they were doing like all the wood scenes. And they were doing them at the same time. Yeah, it was just it's crazy what they did with this movie. And
00:48:00
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It's been a while since I've seen this movie, and as soon as it started up, it just brought me back to when I was like 12, 13. I was like, holy crap. For me, it still holds up, and I love this movie. And the same three or four scenes got me all teary-eyed again. I held back, though.
00:48:21
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I pushed those feelings down. Let it be known, Spaz did not display any emotion. I showed a lot of laughter because I forgot about that whole scene in the vet shop where Sassy was just messing around and fucking around with that fat guy.
00:48:42
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out in the woods when he was looking for her. Oh God, that shit was funny. But I still love this movie. It just brought back good memories for me. You gave it an 8.5 with your nostalgia. I'll bump it up to a nine. Oh, wow. Man. I love this movie, man. Plus, I'm an animal lover, so that kind of helps it. Yeah. Totally checks out.
00:49:11
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Nikki, you gave it a seven. I did. Did you watch it with your kids? I did, yes. I watched it with my kids. I was really pumped about that. Awesome. I gave it a seven because, I mean, I loved the movie growing up, watched it so many times, countless times, but I was convinced it was going to be destroyed by rewatching it.
00:49:32
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And I was pleasantly surprised. I mean this movie Was so much better than I even remembered I mean a lot of this dan and chris has already covered but um I'm like dan. I cannot I don't know how to not cry if I need to cry so I spent most of the movie bawling my eyes out and actually the part where um, they find molly
00:49:56
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So my kids couldn't, like they were, you know, resting, you know, against the couch and whatever. And my daughter just happened to look up and see my face when they found Molly and I was like, just, you know, sobbing. What's wrong, Mommy? Why are you sad? She's five. And I was like, I'm not sad. I'm happy. She's like, happy? I'm like, yes. Anyway.
00:50:25
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Yeah, no, I I really enjoyed the movie. I thought I mean it was funny it all the feels as you know has already been shared I had no idea about how they filmed it and everything, but I was wondering I'm like gosh This is incredible. This was in the 90s
00:50:40
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So yeah, I come back with an eight. I think it's a solid eight. And the only reason I wouldn't go higher is just because I was so frustrated with those animals that they kept like missing, you know, like, why are you running away? Even though you know, it has to happen. It's a part of the movie, obviously. But yeah, it was a great movie. And I mean, I could watch it again and still enjoy it like in the next week. I mean, I really liked it. Yeah. And my kids, my kids all gave it a thumbs up too.
00:51:09
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So awesome. All right. Uh, then I'll go to carry next. You gave it an eight as your nostalgia. What did it hold up for you? It did hold up for me. And I guess I should preface this with, I know you guys know this, but for those listening recently lost a 15 year old dog thought I was going to be sobbing the whole movie. Like legitimately thought I was going to be sobbing the whole movie. Uh,
00:51:33
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I kept it together, kept it together. And then that fricking shadow scene, man, where he's like, I'm too old. He doesn't climb out. And I was just like, oh, like ugly crier in the middle of my living room, which was so embarrassing. Yeah, that got me. That got me. Yeah. Got me. So yeah, real Peter Jerker. You know, going back and watching this, I'm convinced that this movie is why I have a complex about leaving my dog when I went on vacation.
00:52:02
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And you guys know this, when I was living in Massachusetts, any time I wanted to come see my family, I drove back and forth between Massachusetts and Michigan, so I never left my dog behind. And I'm convinced now as an adult, I'm like, oh my God, it's because of Homeward Bound, isn't it? Like straight up, I was afraid my dog was going to run away or something, like probably. Yeah, you just don't want to make it. You don't want them to know that you're leaving them or whatever. That dog was pampered. She was so pampered. That's an understatement, Carrie. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely an understatement.
00:52:31
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Yeah, all the feels, I will say, you know, I it was funny, the second this movie came on, I like remembered every line by heart, which is almost disturbing to you. Like before they said it, I like knew the line, you know what I'm saying? Like, but when it came up, so I watched this movie a lot as a child. But I didn't, I will admit, I did not laugh nearly as much as I did as a child, of course. But you know what part got me?
00:52:56
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And it's not a funny scene at all, but for some odd reason, it made me laugh really loud, was the scene after they're all reunited and Sassy catches all the fish for them. And they're all just laying there. And there's like an enormous pile of dead fish. It's so big. It's just like, oh my God, that cat is a murderer. So much fish. So much fish. But it's enjoyable. It held up. Yep, still an emotional roller coaster.
00:53:26
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Um, so yeah, I'm going to give it, I'm going to stay at an eight. I think that the nostalgia here was, was pure. And I'm happily surprised that it did hold up. Awesome. That's always the fear with childhood favorites. Yeah. Unlike Daniel's favorite. Yeah. Look at that. You batteries not included.
00:53:48
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I actually I told Tim recently that I will never suggest a movie that I liked at one point in time because of this I was so looking forward to that movie and I just did hurt
00:54:05
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I just expected some like light hearted like kids film. And I was just after it was done, I was just like, what did I want? I need to get my two hours back, please. And that's how I feel now. That's why I'm like, I don't want to suggest movies anymore. Yeah, that's a dangerous game. We play with Homer bound then. Yeah, but you suggested Homer bound and it was great. Yeah, that was a good choice. Yeah, it very much held up even though it's yeah, you know, twenty twenty nine years ago now. Yeah, geez.
00:54:34
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You know, you can't tell. I mean, the quality is decent. Obviously they use landline phones, but protect wise that the printer, the printer, I remember, I remember those kinds of printers and him, him yelling, calling it a Jurassic piece of junk. I'm thinking, dude, it belongs in your museum. Now it is on top of that. Can I just ask a question? Like we weren't really using email much. That's what I'm thinking myself. Okay. So they're in San Francisco and fish and wildlife in the Sierra Nevada, more than a hundred miles away.
00:55:03
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How's this poster hanging up? I'm like, did they snail mail it? Like how did this poster get there? Yeah. Just, oh my God. But I can't imagine a field station really having like a high-res enough fax machine to be able to translate that photo picking holes in this. I do too. I do too, of course. But yeah, it just kind of made me chuckle.
00:55:27
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Yeah, as far as quality, it's not that awkward. Oh God, it's 30, 40 years old. It's like one of those, like I said, very much like one of those films where it's 30 years old almost, but you can't tell.
00:55:36
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So I also loved how the animals could understand each other, but they couldn't understand humans, which sometimes, sometimes what bothered me. No, but that's how animals are like home. They would know what that was. Yeah, they would know some words. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Because it's like, I can't understand them. And then it's like, well, you should say home. And I'm like, wait a second. Wait a second. Do they understand or do you not understand them? But Nikki makes a good point. They understand some words.
00:56:07
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Like I'm looking at my dog right now. I'm sure if I said the H-U-N-G-R-Y word, she'd just, what, what, what? Yeah, we, my parents and we abbreviate, you can't say tree. You could be calling TRTs.
00:56:21
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You say treat or you say dinner and it's all, they will sit by the kitchen going, yeah, looking at you like, you said it dumbass. Yeah. Funny enough, the one pup, she crosses her, she'll sit down and lay down. She crosses her paws while she waits, kind of like.
00:56:37
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She's a princess. She's like, this is taking far too long. Move your eyes. And then she's like eats like five bites and like watches the other one eat to make sure it's not poisoned as we call it. She sits there and waits. And then she eats. That is funny though. Belle is a weird pup. She's awesome. That dog's awesome, dude. How dare you. Yeah.
00:56:57
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She sounds smart to me. No, no, no, no. Hannah is Hannah super smart. Belle is lovable. Let's put it that way. Belle is me a little on a slow side. Belle is a great pup, but she's not the brightest crayon in the box. But she's still great nonetheless. So Dana, do you want to go next or you want me to?
00:57:20
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No, I'll go. All right. First off, thank you guys for not ruining this one. Because I honestly had a pit in my stomach, even suggesting it, let alone anything else. And then when it got picked, I'm like, no, I'm like, I'm screwed. I'm going to ruin another movie. But okay. I'm, where, where was I a six?
00:57:46
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You gave it a seven because you just had no clue. A seven. All right. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to leave it exactly there. It was still a very enjoyable film. Um, I appreciated a lot about it and there's not really a lot that I can add either way. I did not realize all that went into filming though. I knew obviously with animals, there's obviously got to be a lot. Um, but I don't know if I was Luna, I'd give it a 10 out of 10.
00:58:15
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But just because, I mean, seriously, our dog got more enjoyment out of it than we did, I think. Cause like, she's like watching it and she never cares about the TV. So for me, that was, that was it. So that was funny. She was sitting at our feet, just like staring at the screen. Every time shadows on, just like, what's going on? What's happening?
00:58:32
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Yeah. And it's, I don't know. I mean, I, I still enjoyed the movie. It, um, it's definitely not something that I could watch with my kids, which is weird, but, um, my kids are way too sensitive and they would be crying the entire time. So I wish that I, I could share that with them right now, but definitely not it. Um, and then them crying would also make me cry. Yeah, maybe in a few years, but right now, no, that'd be too much. But like, uh,
00:59:03
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I don't really have a lot to add. And I'm being very noncommittal again, but we'll just leave it at seven. And it was good and I'm glad we got to watch it again. And Dana, you made me take notes about the outfits. Oh my God, the outfits were terrible. That was my first comment about the movie. They didn't look like 90s outfits. They looked like 1970s outfits. The one outfit the mom's wearing at the end. I was, I even, I was like, this is not Little House on the Prairie.
00:59:31
Speaker
Are you wearing? Well, it did make me chuckle. I was going to make a comment. I'm glad you brought it up because I wasn't going to say anything. But at the end, yeah, the mother's outfit. But the boys are both wearing like dockers and khakis. It's 1993. This is strange. Everybody, all little guys, like boys were wearing jeans. I was wearing jeans that, you know, come on. Like, but he's like, they're like in khakis, like everyday wears like khakis. It's Thanksgiving, though. Like they're dressed up for family coming over.
00:59:57
Speaker
I didn't see any other family coming to their beautiful home in the mountains of Oregon. The grandma was there and stuff. She sucked anyway. She was a little snotty in the beginning. I didn't appreciate her friend. All right. Let the dog eat cake. Come on.
01:00:19
Speaker
Oh, in the beginning or they're talking, he's just sitting there and the one's trying to shoo him away and she's like, I don't know what they're going to do with those animals. I was like, they should be taking them, but we won't even go there, Grandma. I didn't get why they didn't just bring the cat at least. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it also looked like that place was big enough for an old dog. Well, not for chance. Chance is crazy.
01:00:42
Speaker
I mean, I know they needed it for the movie. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I can't bring the cat even like like this whole movie revolves around the fact that like the lady that's watching bounces and leaves a note, but like leaves the animals outside doesn't put them in the house at all before the other neighbor shows up. And then they're just like.
01:01:02
Speaker
Yeah, bye. Yeah, that made no sense to me. Yeah, that was my that was like I was like, you know what? It's a Disney movie. I'm taking a giant stretch in possibilities. But I was like, really, if I was the responsible for my friends, animals and I had to leave for whatever reason, don't you think I'd make sure the animals were safely inside with food and water or whatever until the other guy showed up and had eyes on them?
01:01:31
Speaker
I wouldn't leave them outside. Even though I had a fence, I would be like, yeah, we'll just put the animals in my backyard and hope Bob shows up in a couple hours. Like it's farm life's different. I guess so. I guess when you have a multimillion dollar farm in the Hills of Oregon, God, all those properties were beautiful. All I want to do is buy a house in the mountains.
01:01:52
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't mind going to Oregon after watching that movie. Or however it's pronounced. I know I'm pronouncing it wrong according to character. Oregon. No, I can't. That's all I could think of. I'm like, is it Oregon or Oregon? Well, I'm just going to split the difference and call it origin.
01:02:10
Speaker
I came in with a eight of my nostalgia and I thought for sure it was going down. But like you guys, I was pleasantly surprised. And Spaz, you were saying as soon as you started watching this, like everything started coming back to you. For me, it was as soon as I heard that theme music that I forgot was part of this film. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Like a wave. I'm like, yes. Oh my God. This music. Yes. So yes. Agree. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah.
01:02:35
Speaker
So I said I this I had no idea this was part of Homer bound and it's like oh my god I remember all this and all the little things and my memory of the script was just very disjointed so I knew I knew all the lines but not when they were said and the interactions between sassy and chance were great just like brothers and sisters just kind of going at it and Just it was just a great
01:02:57
Speaker
Wholesome film with yeah, there was definitely some sad moments very stressful. It's a very stressful movie Just all the stuff they have to deal with. Yes, but they it's just it's just a good calm movie There's to me. There's no reason this film should be rated G. It should be rated at least PG
01:03:15
Speaker
I feel like there's a lot of tense moments. Like, oh my god, a cat's gonna drown or fall off a waterfall. But it's like, oh, that's fine. It's G, everybody. I thought this movie should be PG, but I digress. My five-year-old was totally fine with it. I don't know. But I just think a G like... Nothing bad happens kind of thing. Well, there's still bad stuff happens in like these Pixar movies that are rated G, but it's animated. This is like real world animals and stuff like that. That's fair, like it's too real.
01:03:41
Speaker
I mean and also I think obviously the ratings have shifted in the past 30 years. I mean shit Yeah, you know look at Jaws. We can go down about the rating system there, right? You know that was I just thought for 93. Yeah. Well, you know once again though hocus-pocus You know that was you know a lot of parents up in arms, especially the extremely conservative ones and religious ones You know it was rated PG. Oh it was oh
01:04:05
Speaker
Yeah. And they were, they were pissed because it showed, you know, the Sanderson sisters getting hung, you know, zombies cutting his mouth open, losing his head. Sexual innuendos. Yeah. You know.
01:04:18
Speaker
But I'm like, part of me is like, I don't know. We could talk all day about that. Kids today are soft, I guess. We were hard. I wasn't going to say it, but no. No, I kid. I just think the ratings, they've become a little bit, it swung just a little bit more where like Tim was saying like this, he thinks it would be PG. I think if this movie was made nowadays, it would be PG. I think in 93, I think it's G. I mean, always focus PG. That might even border a PG-13 rating nowadays if it was made.
01:04:47
Speaker
I think that's one of those because even though obviously the people who filmed this movie never put the animals in any harm, to me a lot of that is really scary things towards animals though. I could see why now it would definitely be rated a lot higher.
01:05:06
Speaker
We're on the same time. That one does not hold up, by the way. I'm pretty sure that's not Renegy. Yeah, that's too bad. That movie and what is it like? Yeah, that is PG because I looked at PG. I want to say I looked that one up. But whatever that movie is with like John Ritter and the little redhead, I hate both those movies a lot.
01:05:27
Speaker
Oh, Prom Child? Prom Child. Prom Child. Prom Child and something with Beethoven. Beethoven wasn't in the movie. I dislike both those movies immensely. I don't know why, but I do. You didn't like Beethoven growing up? I don't know if I saw him too many times. I don't know if I just like Charles and Grodin was so good being the asshole that it just pissed me off.
01:05:47
Speaker
I don't know. Also, they made like 9,000 different Beethoven movies. Yeah, they did. They did overdo it. Yeah. But I don't know. Maybe when I was little and I saw how mean Charles Grodin was, and maybe it just like pissed me off. I hated that babysitter. I don't recall much, but I just remember him being so mean to Beethoven. I was like, ah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then he like pretends that he bit him or whatever. Yeah. I don't know. And then like Proud and Child, it was like right around the same time. And like for whatever reason, fuck that movie. I just can't stand that movie.
01:06:16
Speaker
Yeah. Anyways, it's not related at all to this film. Well, there's two things I need to know about this film that I'll never know. For one, you got the old guy that rescued Sassy, you know, nursed her back to life and all, and just all of a sudden when she hears Chance and Shadow barking and she runs off into the woods, he's, he died not knowing if she ever made it.
01:06:41
Speaker
This cat just ran off. He's just gonna assume she didn't get mauled by a mountain lion. I don't know. Thanks for that Tim. I feel like the perspective on that guy was like he found her in the wild somehow whatever did what he could. She jumped and ran away and it was kind of like well
01:07:01
Speaker
That's it. That's life. He said he told her to watch out and stay away from the walk stream. So back to bird watching. Yeah. The last thing I got to know is what happened to their dad.
01:07:19
Speaker
Oh, I thought that too. The job thinking. No, no, no, no. No, they're actual. They're all their actual dad. OK. Because, you know, I don't know how long between the wedding and them getting reunited is, but, you know, they they call him dad and everyone's kind of like, oh, I call him dad. And they're like, yeah, what's up, dad? So and then so they kind of embraced that him being their father very quickly. And then shadow kept talking about having to protect Peter. I have to I have to protect him like.
01:07:48
Speaker
Was their dad like an abusive psychopath or something? What happened? What dad? I just thought he passed away. Yeah, I figured he died. Yeah, the way
Emotional Dynamics in Films
01:07:57
Speaker
everyone... But if he just died, would they embrace this new guy as their dad? Well, think about it. Well, think about it. Let's say the mom has been dating him trepidatiously for the past two, three years. So for three years,
01:08:11
Speaker
She dates them for the first two. They don't really know him, you know, and then for the first year, the last year, they, she introduces them, they get to know him and stuff. They call him, what's his name? Bob, Bob or Ray or whatever. Bob. You know, so for the last year, they'd been calling him Bob and he's cool with that. And then they realized, look at all the effort he went to.
01:08:29
Speaker
to try to find these animals and stuff, he really cares. And that was an accidental sneakage dad in there too. Yeah, it started off as like daddy and it was like, oh shit. And then he's like, and then Peter's like, no, yeah, dad, you went above and beyond to try to save our animals, you know? Yeah. And I think he like quit his job or lost his job or whatever, because they were like, oh, there's so much happier being back in the house.
01:08:50
Speaker
Who is a professor that was probably on sabbatical? I strongly doubt he lost his job. I see. I thought he moved. They were trying to move to San Francisco for work. And now he was only going to be there for a short time. Yeah, they did say it was temporary, which is interesting. But like why? Like if there's temporary, like how long is temporary? They had an apartment and they were unboxing, perhaps a semester because it's sabbatical.
01:09:12
Speaker
You know what? Just because you teach. Boom, Chris, you just got taught. Schooled. Yeah, schooled. I just got taught-a-did. Lawyered. Except with school stuff. If all they did was like a word. I'm sticking in my head cannon that he was an abusive guy and they
01:09:33
Speaker
Jesus, Tim! But then I feel like, I mean, maybe, but like, in my head, a kid's not gonna embrace the new guy as dad if other dad is still alive. Yeah, right? Yeah. If he's like an abusive asshole, yeah, I don't know. And I figured that's like, Shadow sees himself as like a father figure for Peter, I guess.
01:09:52
Speaker
I can see it. He's an older dog. I just feel like, I felt like Shadow had like the old school dog methanol, you know, um, mindset of, you know, having to be the protector. You always have to protect them. You know, that's where it was just coming from. I, I did not spin it as crazy psychotic abuse.
01:10:11
Speaker
And well, we know where Tim's mind goes. I'm just watching Disney movies. What are we going to have to go back to what I said earlier about how I took a break from all my action and horror dark shit, Tim, to watch the family movie and God damn it, we're going to keep it that way. Tim already took it away. There's got to be a there's got to be a terrible parent in there somewhere.
01:10:32
Speaker
I want that. I'll go watch. There was a terrible, there was a terrible parent. He made them give up their animals. Terrible parent. So did the mom. Terrible parent. Parents.
01:10:45
Speaker
So anyway, my score
CGI vs. Practical Effects in Film
01:10:46
Speaker
after rewatching it is an 8.5. I think it's up there. It's a great, especially with, as an animal film, I'm glad they didn't try to do like a CGI make their mouth move thing. Just let them just speak and look at each other. And that's, you can just see enough from their emotions. And that was, I thought that was fine. You mean like, like the new movie with Harrison Ford, whatever that is, with the dog. Did they do that? Or whatever. Is it Paul? No. Isn't that movie with Kevin Bacon as the voice?
01:11:18
Speaker
Yeah, the Harrison Ford came out like two years ago or something Yeah, and the dog they the facial expressions are all CG. Yeah, well the dog or the whole dog is I know yeah Anyways, oh gosh, so killing me because I saw that recently with the one No, it's not white. It's not white thing. Oh, there wasn't all the wild Yeah, I knew it was like back in the 90s too, I think Yeah
01:11:45
Speaker
wasn't great. Anyway, so I give it an 8.5. So that brings our average up to an eight even, which is a 0.58 higher than our nostalgia, which I did not see coming off from a mile away. Is that our biggest jump?
01:12:02
Speaker
Uh, no, we've had a huge jump, um,
Nostalgia vs. Cinematic Quality
01:12:04
Speaker
in other cases too. They made it for like the fog. Absolutely. Yeah. Anything. Carry. Let's say it's the one year anniversary, super Mario brothers, basically. So it wasn't that I can tell you. Hell no. That one went down. Fuck that movie.
01:12:23
Speaker
Uh, big jumps we've had, um, big jump on the wedding singer. I think that was one we thought was going to go down. So, okay. That was a smaller group though. Yeah, that was, yeah. Me and you weren't part of that, Chris. Um, taken actually went up almost the whole point. Girl interrupted, went up, but I don't think half the team saw it. So good. That was a good movie. Yeah, it was, it's a, it's a pretty significant jump for a movie. I was convinced was going to go down.
01:12:48
Speaker
Now I was a little like interested to see, cause like I said, I don't remember much. Obviously I just know it was an older film. You know, I personally, you know, everyone knows that I love Hocus Pocus, especially for that nostalgic, very 90 centric vibe. So I was curious to see how this would play out. And like, oddly enough, like you guys said, like it's kind of hard not to, because it's very, it was very minimum influence of the nineties. Like, cause the most of it's in the woods in a rural house. It looks, it could be like that nowadays.
01:13:15
Speaker
Exactly. And I think this is our one of our largest discrepancies against IMDB, too. Like some of our scores are way below what IMDB says, aka like Mario or Batman and Robin or something like that. This is probably one of the few that's above what IMDB says and probably quite a lot, too. It's a whole one point one above IMDB. So yeah.
01:13:36
Speaker
for the right age. I just need to do a better job of rating their shit. Well, no, I'll be honest. Like, I mean, if you boil it down, though, if people are trying to do it from a purely.
01:13:48
Speaker
cinematic experience, like the movie is pretty middle of the road, if you will, I dare you watch your tongue, you know, but like, as far as for I say, the majority of the people here, I think nostalgia is playing a very, very, very heavy factor, which is what you should, you know, like Carrie said, we're the right demographic, we saw it as kids, some of us remember it, some of us don't, but even those that don't, like, there's still pieces that we can pick up and like latch on to for that nostalgia, you know,
01:14:17
Speaker
And we all love animals. Yep. Yes. We all got a saucepan for animals because we're not heartless. Well, well, Chris, there's something there. Chris, you have no heart. It's OK. I
Closing and Next Episode Teaser
01:14:31
Speaker
felt sound watching this a movie. All right. So that concludes Homer Bound. I'm pleasantly surprised by that one. Thank you, Dana. Thank you guys for not ruining it.
01:14:45
Speaker
We will try not to. I don't think it was possible for me. All right. Well, thank you, everybody, for checking out this episode of On Second Watch. You can follow us at OSWPodcast.com or hit us up on Twitter at OSWPodcast1. You'll find us. Make sure to follow us there. And no wonder they only have five people listening to us. Just whatever. Movies.
01:15:14
Speaker
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01:15:33
Speaker
You could have picked a musical about sports if you really wanted to. No, I was told... Oh, no, never mind. Not doing it. Well, thanks for checking it out, guys, and we'll see you next review. Dickhead out.