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George of the Jungle
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Ah-ah-ee-ee-oo-oo-oo or Aaaah-aaaaah-aah-aah!! LIStENERS WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE! This week Emma and Katie discuss the very beloved (and very fun) George of the Jungle. Tune in as they both drool over Brenden Fraiser, compare the film to it's source material and perfect their jungle call. Does the movie hold up? Listen to find out!
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Transcript
Emma's Mood and Movie Discussion
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Sorry, world. Emma's grumpy. Emma's tired and grumpy. And it's the most fun movie for Emma to be tired and grumpy about.
00:00:15
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You can talk yourself out of that, I'm sure. I'm sure I can talk myself out of it. It's just frustrating.
Book 'Mr. Magic' and Mormon Allegory
00:00:22
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Um, I read a book that I think that really like.
00:00:26
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Oh yeah. What was it? It's called Mr. Magic. Okay. Um, so it's about this woman who was on like a, like, zoom you know, did you remember the tv show zoom?
00:00:42
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Um, a yeah, it was like a, um, it was like a science show or something. It's like a children's show where like you like play games and like do stuff. It was like Zoom. She was on Zoom, like a Zoom-esque show um called Mr. Magic in the 90s.
00:00:59
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she But she doesn't remember any of it. And her ah castmates find her and bring her to a reunion. And Mr. Magic is not magical.
00:01:11
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That's a spoiler. It's an allegory for the Mormon church. Oh, is it? Yeah. Man, we just we just keep running up against the i know the Mormons over and over again. i know. And the acknowledgments, the authors like this was came out of my experience of ah yes, I was raised in the Church of Latter-day Saints. And yes, I am no longer in the Church of Latter-day Saints.
00:01:37
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And let me tell you why. Yeah, it's um
Mormon Church and Personal Stories
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it's a whole thing. Like you have to, I remember, you know, my my friend had to, um she had to formally renounce her membership in the Mormon church, like had to send them a letter, like telling them that like I'm excommunicating myself or for or whatever. because Because what they did was when they were, this was, i mean, this was a long time ago. This was like yeah college.
00:02:05
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they were When they were fighting marriage, and like gay marriage, the Mormon church would use a list of every member of the Mormon church as saying all of these people agree with with not letting gay people marry. Jesus!
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So if you were a member of any Mormon church, your name was being used to you know be like literally fight legislation on gay marriage. And she's gay, so Which would have been, you know, they would have excommunicated her for that anyway, but, you know, she had to officially resign. Yeah.
00:02:39
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Yeah. Jesus Christ. Just can't get away from them Mormons. It's, it it keeps coming up. It keeps coming up. um Well, here's the thing about Mormons. no Mormons are, you know super nice, wonderful people. And every Mormon I've ever known has been the best. Um,
00:03:01
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But the ah the church, ah much like the Catholic Church or any other church, um does a lot of terrible things. um It's just more kind of more of um it's kind of more of a singular thing than yeah you know Catholics. like Lots of people are Catholic but don't believe in all the things the Pope says.
00:03:22
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Yeah, a lot of people are Catholic, and yeah they're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. they They're old and stupid, and I'm just going to believe what want to believe. But um look at the stained glass. Yeah, yeah.
Mormons in Arts and Literature
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um And a lot of Mormons are um really um involved in the arts and and theater and ah general creative creative stuff, and especially like fantasy and science fiction for whatever reason. Oh, yeah.
00:03:50
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Um, ah like there's a lot of Mormon, like fantasy and sci-fi authors. And this is, I mean case in point, Twilight. Yeah. Brandon Sanderson, probably the most successful fantasy novelist alive currently is a, is a Mormon. um Stephen Meyer. Or Stephen Meyer. Wouldn't it be Stephanie Meyer?
00:04:10
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No, I don't think so. I mean, like, I don't know. We, I mean, now we could get into the, mean, Stephanie Meyer hasn't written anything in a decade at least. Um, Yeah, she wrote two hits and she went out. i think I think Sarah J. Moss would be up there, but I think my i my guess is Brandon Sanderson has her beat just because he releases so many books.
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Wait, is Sarah J. Moss Mormon? No, but i'm so she's one of the most successful fantasy authors in the world. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. She could be Mormon. i don't know anything about her. Yeah, that's true.
00:04:43
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We can find out real quick. She's not Mormon. like Those books are basically porn. and No, there's no way. I mean, maybe she used to be Mormon. ah No, she's not Mormon.
00:04:56
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Okay, cool. She's Jewish. Oh, well, L'chaim.
00:05:03
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Yeah. L'chaim, Sarah J. Moss. L'chaim. It is a fun... ah Oh, when's Passover, actually? Now that I think about it. Passover's coming up, all right? It's Friday. It's gotta be Friday, right? Isn't Passover the Friday before Easter? yeah Is it Or the, you know, it it starts at sundown, the Friday slash Saturday. Yeah.
00:05:24
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I guess I could also Google this. What is Passover? Because it is the time a year to watch um my two favorite religious yet not religious films. The Prince of Egypt. egypt The Prince of Egypt and Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh, I thought you were going to say the Rugrats Passover special.
00:05:42
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No, no, no, no. ah The Prince of Egypt and Jesus Christ Superstar, um which I recently purchased on DVD. ah Jesus Christ Superstar. purchased probably the most insane rendition of it um because Easter is Sunday and my cousin and her boyfriend are coming over. And I was like, well, of course I'm going to make them watch this. Yeah.
00:06:07
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Have they never seen it? we forced my cousin to watch it and we forced Ben to watch this clip this before. It's okay. The movie version of, listen, I love Jesus Christ Superstar as a show. The movie is okay.
00:06:19
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Oh, I've never actually seen the movie. I've only seen stage adaptations. I'm talking about the ah London Arena tour. Oh, not the movie on the bus. No, I'm talking about the UK arena tour starring none other than Tim Minchin with white dreadlocks as Judas and Mel C from the Spice Girls as Mary Magdalene.
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um Poor canceled Tim Minchin. I mean, he always had the white dreadlocks. I mean, he at what point he had regular hair in this. They're very prominent. Like prominent.
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Every photo I've ever seen of him, he looks like he looks like a real freak. He looks like he really likes... don't He's just got regular hair in this. Yeah. But I've definitely seen... His headshot for a while was was with the dreadlocks, I think. yeah Well, this this adaptation is not like your mom's adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar. Let me tell you...
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They make it take place during, remember um the the like ah protests against Occupy Wall Street? Oh, the Occupy?
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The Occupy Movement? Occupy Wall Street. The Occupy Movement? They said it during that. Okay. hello And like, ah like there's Jesus gets like crucified on like an electric cross.
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Like it's got a light tro on as like it. like Like a neon cross? Like a neon cross. like And there's lots of like paparazzi. Uh-huh. This sounds terrible, Emma. It sounds yeah just terrible. It's real bad. It's real bad, but it's so good.
00:08:03
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Who's Jesus? I don't know, some British guy. Sure. Not important. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. um Just the title character. yeah you know, the, um the, the live version, you know, the network TVs do the live versions of stuff every Thanksgiving, the Jesus Christ Superstar live thing was pretty good.
00:08:22
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that was It was probably my favorite live NBC that they did. But like the problem is is even Peacock doesn't have it anymore. Really? Even the best streaming service, Peacock.
00:08:35
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It doesn't have... Because every Easter we look for it to like watch, obviously, because tis the season. how else are we going to watch the story of Easter?
00:08:46
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um But through the lens of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Yeah. Yeah. and You got to add the Rugrats Passover special into your rotation, I'm telling you. I will. I think I will. I mean, to watch.
00:09:00
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Friend of the show, Nick, ah his letterboxed. um Oh, no, it's not letterboxed. His letterboxed thing is Admiral Ackbar. What is some low? He doesn't have social media. Oh, is it? I think it's his Apple Music. It's something that I see, that i that i see but I mean, I don't interact with him on Apple because mean, can't. but is is from the Rugrats Passover special. It's it's Tommy yeah you know as me Moses. yeah Yes.
00:09:28
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Oh my God. is the season. i mean, what better way than to celebrate all the spring holidays? The thing is is, as I'm getting into my old age, it's less that I'm a religious person and more like I like parties. I like a theme. Sure. I mean, here's the thing. You can have a party anytime.
00:09:45
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Yeah. anytime Yeah, I want to celebrate Passover. I want to celebrate Easter. I want to celebrate all the holidays, except for Columbus Day.
00:09:56
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Well, sure. now have you Have you ever been to a Passover Seder? I've been to one in college, and um my friend Caroline and I were being really obnoxious about it because we're annoying theater kids.
00:10:09
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And the entire time- There's a lot of theater involved. There's a lot of theater involved. It was it was a very, very... um It was someone we were in college with, um Holly. She did a... And this was in East Texas, so she was like the only Jew at this college. Sure. And um she she hosted a Seder dinner. And um the entire time we were like, ah don't be a hater, celebrate Seder. And um more wine. And also... um
00:10:40
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So this is just basically the Prince of Egypt? Yeah. Yeah. Essentially. um The entire time I was like, when we're done with all the prayers and stuff, can we just watch Prince of Egypt?
00:10:55
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ah Prince of Egypt, are pretty religious, actually. Pretty explicitly religious. Prince of Egypt. Yeah. Yeah. yeah But also. Stephen Schwartzbanger's. Yeah. Yeah. Stephen Schwartzbanger's. A great film.
00:11:07
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That. ah Yeah. Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston competing with each other. Come on. I mean, I'd call it a duet, but. Well, it's ah it's definitely a versus duet.
00:11:21
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Yeah. Anyways, Passover famously featured. In today's film. See, I knew we could talk you out of the grumps. We could. We could talk me out of the grump.
00:11:34
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Goodness. Sorry, listeners. Emma was dealing with some annoying tax stuff. Don't talk about it now. You're going to grump yourself back up. I know. I'm going to make myself grumpy enough. ah Grumpy enough, grumpy again.
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um ah That's right, guys. ah This is Go
Podcast Introduction and Premise
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Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie are conjoined twins. And we just want to go look at some cute monkeys. Almost every episode we're conjoined twins.
00:11:57
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I mean, why not? ah And we just want to go look at some cute monkeys and some gorillas in the African jungle. And um our stupid fiance surprises us.
00:12:10
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And we learn about the legend of the white ape, ah which is kind of like Bigfoot. And we go on a little...
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Safari tour and we find ourselves cornered by a lion and the white ape who happens to be a man ah saves our lives. And then he miraculously speaks English.
00:12:34
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Almost as miraculously as his gorilla has a British accent. And who also speaks English, who also speaks to English. um And we just sort of like hang out with him in his treehouse and learn his ways of being king of the jungle. And we fall in love. And then, oh, no, he gets shot by our fiance and we have to go back to San Francisco. And, you know, our parents are like, don't marry this monkey boy. And we're like, well, we love him. And yeah,
Brendan Fraser's Career and 'George of the Jungle'
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that's right, guys. I'm Emma. Yeah.
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And I'm Katie, and today we are, of course, talking about the 1997 masterpiece Disney film. George, George of the Jungle. George, George, George of the Jungle. George, George, George of the Jungle. Watch out for that tree!
00:13:21
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ah George of the Jungle, based on the 60s cartoon um by ah Jay Ward, famous ah cartoon mastermind Jay Ward, who did Rocky and Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right, Sherman and Peabody, and George of the Jungle.
00:13:40
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um All of these things were getting made into movies in the late 90s. Disney had the rights to them, and they were like, yeah, let's do it. um Did you watch like Rocky and Bullwinkle when you were a kid?
00:13:51
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I've seen episodes of it. I didn't watch it religiously. yeah um i definitely watched the um the parody of them on Animaniacs, but yeah. Oh, sure. oh Well, there was um yeah there was a parody of Sherman and Peabody in Animaniacs too, right? Wasn't there a Sherman and Peabody?
00:14:07
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A parody of everything on Animaniacs. In my mind, Animaniacs is... comedic genius and like a good source of of uh education and uh and trivia like that it's how i learned my states and capitals yeah the the country song too yeah yeah the country song i have forced my husband to watch both of those videos you know you ever want to know yeah did da da da da da that I can't do it now. Yeah, I
00:14:43
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ah united states canada mexico panama and andta peru and spain yeah yeah i knew at one point Um, yes. So they were very popular. I, am when we were kids in the, in the nineties and two thousands, Rocky and Bullwinkle was on like Nick at night, I think. And so I would watch them then. Yeah.
00:15:02
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Um, ah but Rocky and Bullwinkle, George, of the jungle, Dudley do right. They all were kind of a little postmodern, a little more sarcastic. I mean, like, I guess all cartoons are, so I mean, Bugs Bunny and is certainly sarcastic, but like they were a little bit a little bit more tongue in cheek.
00:15:19
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Yes, a little bit more fourth wall ah breaking, um which is happen which is is in this movie for sure, than like your regular cartoons. Yeah. um So this movie was directed by Sam Weissman, ah who directed d two The Mighty Ducks, a masterpiece. Yeah. try Children's Disney sports movie masterpiece.
00:15:42
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A movie called Bye Bye Love, which I remember seeing. It's about like divorced parents. And like, I don't know why my parents took me to see it when I was like. Eight years old or whatever, but they did. I remember seeing it in the theater, but i don't remember much about it.
00:15:55
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It's a Paul Reiser divorce comedy. My guess is it was rated PG and they took me just because they could. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't to prepare you for their upcoming divorce. Correct. Yes. It was preparing me for my upcoming divorce. There you go. Yeah. you will take all those lessons to heart. I hope. i actually have never seen the movie. I don't know. i haven't. I don't remember it. Yeah. Yeah, okay.
00:16:21
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and And a bunch of sitcoms in the 80s and 90s. And that's pretty much it for this guy. um ah The movie, like I said, is based on the J. Ward cartoon. And there's a man named Dana Olsen.
00:16:32
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And he wrote a script called Monkey Boy, or perhaps Jungle Boy. I don't remember. And he was shopping it around and he explicitly wasn't taking it to Disney because he knew they had the rights to George of the Jungle and he thought it was too similar.
00:16:46
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But when they found out about it, they ah were like, okay, well, we'll buy it and just turn it into George of the Jungle. And he did. and then the second screenplay revision. So it's it's Dana Olsen, The Word, and our girl, Audrey Wells. This is our third Audrey Wells movie we've watched. Arthur Wells. Under the Tuscan Sun and Truth About Cats and Dogs. She was, Truth About Cats and Dogs had just come out. So they hired her to do a second draft of the script. There were also uncredited characters.
00:17:21
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uncredited to um work on this by the guy from Mystery Science Theater 3000, who I've forgotten the name of. Oh, that makes sense. Joel somebody. I'm i'm guessing wrote Punch-Up. Shoemaker. Yeah.
00:17:33
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I don't remember. Joel Shoemaker. No, it's not Joel Shoemaker.
00:17:41
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it You would have been able to tell if Joel Shoemaker had done the edit of this. um but um And so, yes, that is the that's the the two credited writers. um And, ah yeah, it's Brendan Fraser, who had done Encino Man ah before this. And is that all? Did he do? That's all, because Stephen Sommers saw this movie, and um this is what convinced him to cast Brendan Fraser in The Mummy.
00:18:08
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That makes sense, yeah. And Blast from the Past, although we speculated it being filmed earlier, didn't come out until 99, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was Brendan Fraser also in Dudley Do-Right? Because I know that they did a live action. Yes, he's in Dudley Do-Right, which was after this.
00:18:23
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Yes. Which I've never seen, actually. oh really? i remember seeing it and being like, oh, it's not George of the Jungle, but it's still fun. Yeah, it doesn't have a great reputation. Yeah. um He, yeah, I mean, he had done it. He'd done other stuff, too. He's in school ties and stuff. But um yeah, definitely Encino Man was his big break, which is.
00:18:44
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a problematic movie. like I know that you you've never seen the Xenoman, really? and never seen the Xenoman, no. It's not a rom-com, but it does have this, like it's and it's one of these things, i don't know if we talked about this in this podcast before, but it's credited to a woman screenwriter, and my assumption is that A lot of these changes were without her permission um because there's this whole thing where Sean Astin's character in the movie literally is like this girl. I mean, i was friends with her before she got hot, so I deserve to have sex with her. He literally says that in the movie. Jesus. Jesus. And they end up together at the end of the movie, which is crazy. um because But most of them most of the movie, like he's framed as an asshole and it doesn't seem like it's going that way. And at the end of the movie, it kind of swerves to give them this happy ending. And my guess is the producers or somebody made them change the ending that she had originally written.
00:19:43
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um But again, that's just me guessing because she's a woman. Yeah. And they they hate to see a woman scored. That's true. That's true. um ah So it's so it's ah it's a wild movie, but there's there's some fun stuff in it. um it's worth It's probably worth watching.
00:19:59
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I mean, again, Brittany Fraser in a loincloth most of the movie. so hey I'll see that. um Yeah, so he we also have Leslie Mann this. Yeah, baby Leslie Mann. Leslie Mann.
00:20:15
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And ah Thomas Hayden Church from Wings. Yep. Oh, wow.
Setting and Themes of 'George of the Jungle'
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Did you watch Wings? No, I didn't watch Wings. When I was a kid, for whatever reason, like TBS or USA or one of those shows, when I would be homesick from school, I remember they showed Wings from like 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
00:20:38
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every weekday on one of those stations. And so I remember being and remember being homesick from school and watching Wings. That was what I would do when I was sick from school. Jesus. Jesus. Wings and the Price is Right. um But like Wings has got a stacked cast. I mean, at Tony Shalhoub was on Wings, too.
00:20:55
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um the um Yes, and he's 36, Thomas Hayden Church. And we've got Richard Roundtree, Shaft himself, as Kwame, the leader of the the the group, the guide group that she's on. And she is, the movie's also narrated. ah Yeah.
00:21:16
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It takes place in Burundi, um ah which is a real country, in in a place called Bukuvu, which I don't think is a real place.
00:21:29
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Gotcha. Gotcha. Um, and he is, as a, oh, we would get an animated opening. Sorry. We get an animated opening. Which explains the the plot of George the Jungle where he's a child.
00:21:42
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It shows him in a diaper, but my, I mean, he must have been at least speaking because he speaks English. I know, because how else does he speak English? Well, I guess Ape could have taught him English because Ape speaks English. That's true. But like, who taught ape English? That's hard to say. Did ape go to Harvard?
00:21:58
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No, sorry. Oxford. He's a magic gorilla. He's a Cambridge man. Don't call him an Oxford man. Oh, sorry. ok Cambridge man. um it is, uh, yes.
00:22:09
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Who is voiced by the famous Monty Python. Oh my God. What's his name? John Cleese. John Cleese. Yes. It is voiced by the famous John Cleese. who famously has great politics and don't need to investigate that at all. Totally normal guy.
00:22:28
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John Cleese. Just enjoy. Just go, go watch um Monty Python, Life of Brian. It's Easter time. Yeah. ah Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one too. um Completely unproblematic things that you can watch him in include Life of Brian, Fawlty Towers.
00:22:44
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Yep. ah Holy grail. Yeah. ah Fish Called Wanda, which may may actually be unproblematic. I remember, I don't know if there's anything terrible in Fish. You've never Oh my God, Fish Called Wanda is so funny. that Fish Called Wanda and Raising Arizona were my parents' like favorite comedies when I was a kid. And I remember them making me watch both of those movies when I was probably too young to understand it. Yeah. um Fish Called Wanda, i'm I mean, i'm Raising Arizona is obviously masterpiece, but Fish Called Wanda I'm pretty sure holds up. Yeah.
00:23:16
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Really, really funny movie. Oh, okay. I mean, I can see myself liking A Fish Called Wanda. It's very silly. Okay. Kevin Kline won an Oscar for a straight-up comic performance, which almost never happens. so I love that.
00:23:29
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I love that. um Yes. so she is an heiress, and she is a bank heiress, it seems, like her parents. I think so. bank Yeah, with the unfortunate name of Ursula. Ursula.
00:23:43
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Yes, which I'm sure is from the cartoon from the sixty s Um... and most things in this are um this is the first of emma's fun facts emma's fun facts almost every single sort of like inside joke sort of like thingy my bob that you could think of was included it from the cartoon was included in this film one the most famous being the don't interrupt the narrator bit where oh yeah the characters starts fighting with the narrator yeah um that's from the cartoon yeah that makes sense
00:24:17
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Um, ah yes. So she is like an influencer, I guess. she's I mean, she and she's having her Rum Springer. are Yeah.
00:24:28
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that what you call Rum Springer? Yeah, it is. Rum Springer, I believe. Rum Springer. up She has um like a camera, a camcorder, and she's like talking to some audience about being here in Africa. And she's looking for um some, you know, it's like a...
00:24:46
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It's like a photo safari kind of thing, you know? Yeah. She's going on a little vacation. She wanted to go see some monkeys, and she's rich as hell. And she doesn't have to really work except for daddy's approval. She does. I mean, she does have a job. She says she has to go to work, so...
00:25:00
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which is for her dad's banking. Bank. Yeah. Yeah. Um, she is there with Kwame and a group of African guides who, um, are all, you know, very, um, sarcastic. Uh, I guess is the way to describe it.
00:25:20
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Yeah. And i mean, it seems like they're having such a good time before Lyle comes and ruins it. Like, they're having such a nice time. the fucking worst. Yeah, he's the fucking worst. Because like, she does this, she's like, taking video of them. She's like, here's my tour guide. And here's all the crew. And everyone's like, hey, we're having such a good time. Pew pew.
00:25:41
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Yeah. ah Yeah. And then Lyle like, hey. Because she's a nice person and treats them like human beings. Yeah. Exactly. Unlike Lyle, who's a piece of shit. He is. Sandman himself.
00:25:53
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um Mr. Sideways. um Thomas Mayden Church ah is there. And he is just an asshole, I guess, is the. It's his whole personality. Thank you.
00:26:06
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Yeah, he, why we, I guess a little bit later we realized that she never really liked him and it was just set up from her parents because he's rich and they want her to marry him even though he's the worst person in the world.
00:26:19
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But immediately belittles everyone um is a coward and an idiot and everyone hates him immediately. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And um then she's just like, oh, but we're going to go. Cause he's like, well, we're going to leave now because ah we're, we're going to go stay at a fancy hotel. not sleeping on the ground. She's like, no, but we were going to go look at the, this beautiful waterfall and see the the apes over there. i really was looking forward to that. And like, oh fine and so then he like takes her and they leave the tour guide and they go and he's like you want you want to see apes i'll show you apes and um uh like takes her off away from the tour guide into the forest and of course you know there's a lion
00:27:06
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Strangely, because lions aren't native to jungles. Right. I also thought that was interesting. Charlie at first thought it was a tiger and he was like, well, this is wrong. um But there's another fun fact for you.
00:27:20
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um because that lion that lion has uh quite the resume resume um oh yeah you know yeah they're real animals in this movie for i mean not the gorillas but the the lions and there there's a real elephant as well yeah yeah oh yeah um which you gotta love it you got i mean hopefully they were treated well should hope that they were well i mean that's the thing yeah Yeah. Yeah. the lion's name is Joseph.
00:27:52
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That's Joseph the lion. Other notable IMDb credits include being the model for Mufasa for the Lion King. Oh, OK. As well as the direct to video sequel, the Lion King to Lion King to Simba's Pride.
00:28:08
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Sure. And the direct to video DVD mid quill, the Lion King one and a half. I mean, Lion King was also direct to DVD or VHS, I guess. Well, you know, um, uh, tie the elephant, the elephant's name is tie.
00:28:23
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Sure. And, uh, what the other IMDb credits include, um, model for the jungle book and operation Dumbo drop. Remember that? Oh yeah. Yeah. The, the Bill Murray, um, Bill Murray, Danny Glover vehicle, I believe operation. Yeah.
00:28:39
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Yeah. Um, and then, ah So the little monkey was voiced by Frank Welker. oh sure. Who's IMDb credits. The most credit prolific.
00:28:52
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Yeah. You know Frank Welker? Yeah, he's he's, I believe he's the most prolific actor in the world. um He is. Really? yeah Most famously, he's Fred from Scooby-Doo, like back in the sixty s
00:29:07
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And Scooby-Doo. He's an awful Abu. Yeah, he's everyone. he's He's in any basic, like, especially if it's like a weird animal voice. he's it's It's Frank Welker. He is the most, like, he's the most famous, most prolific voice actor in the world. Yeah, he's everybody.
00:29:26
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Oh, well, how about that? Well... well that that That's all the animals IMDB credits, but the real fun fact comes from um the fight scene that comes because George of the Jungle comes in and saves the day from this lion, saves Ursula and Lyle.
00:29:43
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um And so, except for a couple shots involving a dummy lion for special effects, Brendan Fraser actually wrestled Joseph the lion by animal trainer. Oh, dear. ah Charlie Samut being his stunt double for that theme.
00:29:56
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He did not expect how well trained the lion was and also was not prepared for how fuzzy he was when wearing only a loincloth. The lines don't tickle and his laughter are not scripted and that's his genuine reaction.
00:30:09
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Oh, that's pretty cute, actually. Isn't that so cute? That's cute. I mean, Brendan Fraser is famous for doing his own stunts and stuff and to his detriment. I mean, one of the reasons he Disappeared for a while as he fucked up his back really bad, I believe, in the second Mummy movie. um Doing like something he probably shouldn't have been doing. but you know yeah All love to Brendan Fraser. um We're happy he's back.
00:30:34
Speaker
yeah He's playing Eisenhower in some movie that comes out soon. Have you seen this? No, I haven't. It's a weird choice, but whatever, man. all right god you hey I will support anything Brendan Fraser does.
00:30:46
Speaker
We're just waiting on the Mummy 4 now. Yeah, Mummy 4! And then Monkeybone 2? Surely not. Surely not Monkeybone 2. Not Monkeybones.
00:30:59
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Monkey bones. um Yes. So um he rescues her. And then Thomas Hayden Church, who was unconscious for all of it, um pretends, like rubs himself with berries and says that ah that ah the white ape ran off with his girlfriend and he enlists the trackers track them down. and We also forgot about the poachers. So oh yeah mean when he shows up, she's like, how did you find me? yeah She doesn't want him there.
00:31:25
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And he's like, oh, I hired... but I hired these trackers to find you. And there's these two, they're poachers. um These assholes. Yeah. That he hired to track her down. And they're, they want to find this white ape because they're um poachers.
00:31:42
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And it's, um it's one recognizable character actor. um ah And one British guy who's in nothing since then, since this. His name is Abraham Ben Ruby. He's in Wrist Cutters.
00:31:56
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Hmm. And he's in Twister and he's in a bunch of other stuff. He's a very recognizable. Yeah. Wrist cutters. It brings us so many actors. Keeps coming up. Yeah. Keeps coming up.
00:32:09
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um ah So yeah. So he, he swings on vines. That's his whole thing. Like Tarzan. And he does a big yell, but then he um is clumsy and he runs into a tree. Yeah. That's the whole joke.
00:32:22
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That's the joke of George of the Jungle is that he runs into the tree. It's right there in the theme song.
Jungle Life and Romance in the Movie
00:32:28
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Yep. Watch out for that tree. And he somehow doesn't have a lasting brain damage.
00:32:34
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No, no, it's a cartoon. I mean, that's the thing. Like there's, I mean, even early on one of the the guides gets knocked off ah a bridge by um by Lyle and the narrator goes, don't worry, nobody dies in this movie. They just get really big boo-boos and then it cuts to him and he's all bandaged up.
00:32:51
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I mean, George gets shot in the head. That's true. And George survived. And they take him to San Francisco for the best medical treatment. They don't go to a hospital. They go to her apartment. He's got a little tiny band-aid.
00:33:03
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Exactly. i'm going to get you the best medical treatment possible. And that medical treatment is just America and her apartment in San Francisco. Yeah, it's fucking. It's what it is. Like, she's going to fuck his head better. Yeah.
00:33:16
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So, yeah, he takes her to the treehouse. Yeah, which is so cool. It's very cool. Like kids movies, like a tree, has like a cool tree house, like a cool house. Like, right.
00:33:31
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It's just it's it's it's what kids love. Like, it's hard to describe. They want. Yeah. um And it's why millennials are even more let down by the fact that we can't own houses because we never own our own houses.
00:33:44
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That's true. Yep. That's true. We were promised tree houses and smart homes and all those things. And we were let down. mean, we could definitely have a smart home, but, you know, smart apartment. You could rent a smart apartment. like smart house. Not like smart house.
00:34:01
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Not like smart house. Not like smart house. The DCOM smart house. The DCOM classic. Smart house. um ah Oh, where were we? Oh, yes. so Her eyebrows. We were going to talk about her eyebrows.
00:34:16
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We were going to talk about her eyebrows? Yeah, she has crazy thin eyebrows. Even though it's 1996 when they shot this. She's ahead of the time. Well, I was going to say, so when George takes her and like saves her from the lion, which was that staged? Because he ends up being friends with the lion.
00:34:35
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Um, no, I don't think so. I don't think, i don't think George set up the, no, because he didn't know she was there. like George gas lit. He orchestrated this whole thing.
00:34:46
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No, he's a good boy.
00:34:52
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George gaslit Ursula. No. but ah But so George has never seen a lady. doesn't know what a lady looks like. Weird looking fella. Yeah, weird looking fella and keeps thinking that she is a he.
00:35:08
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And until Ape is like, um which is the ape voiced by John Cleese. He wears glasses. Created by ah Jim Henson Studios, of course.
00:35:20
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Yeah, it's... There's a lot of of pretty rough-looking gorilla costumes in this. Well, it's not that they look rough. It's that they they don't look real, but they're totally serviceable. Like... Yeah.
00:35:35
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It's one of those things where it's like... They Chuck E. 's gorillas. Yeah, if you just buy into it, it's like everyone is acting like they're gorillas and that's fine. Like, it's part of... It's theater. It's the same thing. It's like... It's how I feel about all special effects. It's like, we don't have to...
00:35:49
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um We don't have to to, it doesn't have to look perfect. Like it's, yes it we can we can suspend our disbelief and believe this is a gorilla and it it'll be fine. um We saw Project Hail Mary this past weekend. Oh, I really want to see it. Is it good? It's so good. Yeah, it's really, it's really cute. um It's very cute and heartwarming, but there is a, there's a puppet in it.
00:36:12
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Yep. And it's it's not CG. it looks It looks amazing. I mean, I'm sure there's some, yeah you know, computer animation involved, but the the like the second lead of the movie is a puppet. And it's just, if you love to see it.
00:36:26
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yeah I know a lot of things about it, but. Oh, sure. So yeah, yeah. I didn't know anything about it when I saw the movie. Like it was it was all um it was all surprising to me. Yeah. yeah My mom read the book and she really loved the book. And so she talked about the book a lot over Christmas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:36:43
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yeah Um, yes. So. So we, so he's just like, well, what is this? And ape is like, well, that is a female of your species. And George, who refers to himself in the third person is like, this is lady George.
00:36:59
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Um, something along those lines. Um, cause he just doesn't know what boobs are. he doesn't understand. Um, and ape has to give him the birds and the bees talk at some point in this movie.
00:37:14
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We miss it, yeah. Because, I mean, they have a kid later, so they definitely fuck. Oh, they definitely fuck. um And Ursula keeps fainting because she wakes up and she's in a tree house, which is insane, with a monkey man and an ape that can talk. And it's so they have to pretend for a while that ape can't talk because he's like, I feel like it's just ah putting her a little over the edge um yeah because he greets her. He wakes her up with breakfast in bed.
00:37:45
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hmm. wearing an apron. where He's looking for his physician's desk reference to make sure she doesn't have dengue fever. Yes.
00:37:56
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So ridiculous. um and ah And she's just like, well, I got to get back to my fiance and or this guy that I know. Because she doesn't, mean, from the beginning, we can tell that she doesn't like him either. Like she doesn't want to to be engaged to him. It's all pressure from her parents. Yeah.
00:38:16
Speaker
Exactly. Exactly. So they go on a little journey. Yeah. they We have a little romance ah start to bloom. He teaches her how to swing. Yeah. We meet his pet elephant, Shep, which is like a dog. Yeah. Which is, there is some, I don't know if it's like straight up like 2D animation superimposed on the live action or if it is early CGI or if it's like,
00:38:44
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some kind of um other camera trickery, but it's a real elephant, but there's a lot of non, there's a lot of, you know, things that an elephant can't do where it like goes around like a dog and jumps up and down.
00:38:58
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Yeah. on that So, which, which again is probably the worst looking thing in the movie. Like, Yeah. um But other than that, like it's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's a pretty good-looking film for how old it is. Yeah, ah for sure.
00:39:15
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And for the content. um We meet Tookie Tookie Bird, which Toucan two candas so cute. i want a toucan. So cute. soki i We learn that he's a saint. um He has a crocodile tooth on a necklace and she's like, did you get that from fighting a crocodile? And he's like, I don't fight. I wouldn't fight the crocodile. He a toothache. I pulled his tooth. He gave it to me as a present.
00:39:38
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Yeah, it was his good luck charm. He was like, yeah, George's good luck charm. And she's like, oh, I've got something like that. I got this ring from a cereal box. It's my good luck charm.
00:39:50
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And he goes, oh, that's just like my tooth. And she's like, well, here, why don't you have it? It's yours now. And he's like, that's the nicest thing anyone's ever given me. Which is symbolic because she's rich as shit, but the thing that she values the most is a worthless, you know, token that she found herself that wasn't given to her by her parents. yeah Yeah.
00:40:11
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Symbolic. Yeah. um ah We see, we have this adorable, um now very relatable scene with um not Punch the Monkey, but kind of Punch the Monkey. what is punch What is Punch the Monkey? Oh, you haven't seen Punch the Monkey. Okay, so Punch the Monkey um was at the tokyo zoo um and he was that little monkey that was bullied by other monkeys and his only friend was a little stuffed animal monkey um and then he eventually the other monkeys let him into the group um but was he a kaputha like this one um i don't think so but like a similar small monkey yeah yeah yeah
00:40:53
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Punch Monkey. Oh, God. The first thing that pops up when you Google Punch Monkey. OnlyFans star White Sikin's viral Punch Monkey cosplay sparks backlash.
00:41:08
Speaker
Oh, no. I don't want to know what that is. um Here's Punch the Monkey. ah he's got a little stuffed bear. That's real cute. Yeah, he's different kind of monkey.
00:41:21
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But like, it's very much, uh, very, very much like what this, this was. And I was like, oh my God, this is Punch the Monkeys, like origin story. Yeah. It's a little monkey tells George, cause George can understand all the animals talking. Um, it tells George that he is being bullied by the other monkeys. And so George orchestrates a fight where, or a bit where the a lion comes up and this monkey, like, yells at the lion and and scares the lion off so the other monkeys will accept him. And then the lion winks at George.
00:41:54
Speaker
Yeah. Crazy. Which is why I was just like, wait, did George gaslight Ursula? Like, was this... Maybe it's one of those things where, you know, they had this fight, like, he had to wrestle the lion and now the lion respects him and now they're friends, you know? Oh, okay. Okay, that makes a little bit sense. Maybe that's what it Yeah.
00:42:11
Speaker
Of course, my brain automatically goes to something terrible. Abuse of women. Yeah, that makes sense. It's just the world we live in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, the poachers have heard about the white ape and they want to capture George. Or do they want to kill him at first, I think. Yeah, they want to kill Because for, I guess, his... They think because he's an actual, like, white gorilla. I don't know. We don't find out. Um...
00:42:38
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um And um we have a bit where Ape tries to teach George how to attract a female gorilla. And he gives him like.
00:42:51
Speaker
He goes, George, George, Ape teach George how to make Ursula George mate. um And he goes, all right, well, here's what you're going to do. You're going to puff out your cheeks. And he gives him basically gorilla mating advice, which is so funny. Throw some leaves in the air and beat your chest and jump up and down. Yeah.
00:43:10
Speaker
Yeah, ah which is because then they go to this romantic waterfall. um An expensive waterfall set, as the narrator describes it. yeah An expensive waterfall set. This was shot in Hawaii, by the way. Hawaii and San Francisco are the two shooting locations.
00:43:27
Speaker
Well, I did not know Hawaii. There you go. ah it's definitely not africa yeah no absolutely not uh and um so he does that move because they're like and underneath this waterfall in like a little cavern and it's very romantic and like you can sense the tension and it in the moment where they should kiss he instead does these monkey moves and she's confused by this yeah yeah um there is no They don't kiss in this movie at all, do they? do At the end. Maybe at the end they kiss, yeah.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah, when they get married. Oh, when they get married they kiss. You're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah. So, ah yes, Lyle is just being horrible to the the tour guides. He calls Kwame Kwame, of course. um Oh, yeah, Boombastic by Shaggy is playing underneath his gorilla display, I needed to point out. um Extremely 1997. Yeah.
00:44:26
Speaker
ah the Oh, and then there's the dancing scene where he's like, it's dancing time. and Because the gorillas are like playing the drums. Well, the gorillas magically turn into Phil Collins.
00:44:38
Speaker
They do, yes. There's a Phil Collins song attached to this movie. Yeah, something about yeah the wolf and the moon. I don't know. I don't know. Which is crazy because Phil Collins famously does the moot music for Tarzan a few years later. Yeah.
00:44:51
Speaker
So maybe this is what inspired that. Maybe, maybe. um ah And they are playing and he's like, come dance. And she's like, oh, no, I can't dance. i I'm embarrassed myself. It's like, she's just like me. um And he's like he's like, George, no, no, no. What? Yeah. Embarrassed means. There's no people here to be embarrassed in front of. Like, why would you be embarrassed? He's like, i I run into a tree a lot, but I'm not embarrassed because there's no people here to see to be embarrassed of. And she's like, that's a good point, George. And then they dance. Yeah.
00:45:21
Speaker
And then they dance and it's so sweet and it's so cute because they're just jumping around a little fire and they're having a good time. Just like Ursula, me and Taylor Swift. just Yeah. Can't dance. Um. Um.
00:45:33
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yeah yeah um
00:45:38
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Yeah. So Lyle finally shows up at the treehouse, tries to gaslight her immediately. That's his first move. He's like, you were unconscious. We were attacked by these lions. I was there too the whole time. I was fighting them. I was there She's like, no, you weren't. Yeah, fought them.
00:45:57
Speaker
You know what you're talking You hit your head. They realize that he is human, the poachers, and they're like, okay, let's kill this elephant for its ivory. I'm like, Jesus Christ.
00:46:07
Speaker
That was the first thing they go to is like, ah well, let's move on to the next endangered animal. And then they're like, oh, wait, that gorilla can talk. We should capture it and we'll we'll take it to Vegas or something.
00:46:20
Speaker
Yes! Which is an important thing to put in the back and in our back pockets. Yes, it is. um ah And then there's this whole thing where he has this gun, that this lighter that looks like a gun, but he gets confused with a real gun. And he shoots George in the head.
00:46:37
Speaker
Yep. And then they go to San Francisco. So he goes to prison with the poachers. They let the poachers out. but Yeah, the poachers get out like ASAP. He's like, we're being released. you you know you're being deported. But they're not because they're just free to go.
00:46:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's very weird. They keep Lyle. um Yeah, Lyle's in prison for shooting somebody in the head. um The poachers are free to try to capture Ape again. So they've got this whole B-plot still in Africa for the rest of the movie where they're trying to capture Ape.
00:47:08
Speaker
Yeah. um And George is in San Francisco. And in my memory, most I felt like most of the movie was him in San Francisco, but it's really only about
Cultural Dynamics in San Francisco
00:47:17
Speaker
20 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Because they go back to the jungle. Yeah.
00:47:21
Speaker
yeah yeah um and And she takes him to San Francisco. And then we get like, you know, classic fish out of water comedy. Yeah. And she's got he's got to have a little makeover. he meets her best friend who's like, hubba hubba. I mean, he shows up wet and naked. and um and her friend is like, you know, can barely control herself.
00:47:44
Speaker
I mean, as anyone would. with Yeah. With Brendan 1997 Brendan Fraser. Yeah. Crazy. Right. And we get a dick joke, which is surprising for a PG movie, but you know, it happens.
00:48:00
Speaker
What's the dick joke? She's like, I can see why he's king of the jungle. Oh, yeah. please but Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And they both look down immediately. We get the shot yeah between his legs and the two of them looking down. Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah.
00:48:16
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He puts on one of her dresses and a cardigan and they go to Neiman Marcus. The narrator's like, yo she's like, ah Ursula is a bit conservative in terms of gender roles. So she took him to Neiman Marcus.
00:48:33
Speaker
Which is a really good joke, especially in the 90s. Yeah, yeah. And buys him Armani, an Armani suit. um Yeah, he's like, George good. yeah Directly to the camera. Yeah. Right? And the whole thing, like, before this is that she has to go tell her parents that she's not marrying Lyle and she wants to be with George.
00:48:54
Speaker
Yeah, her parents are Holland Taylor and um Matthew Perry's dad. Yeah, Matthew Perry's dad. Whatever that guy's name is, I don't remember. Last name Perry. John Bennett Perry, yeah. He's in he's in stuff, yeah.
00:49:07
Speaker
yeah um And Holland Taylor is the fucking worst. ah um She's another villain in the movie. yeah And she's trying to hide it from her, but she keeps spotting them. First she sees them on the street, and then later she sees them on TV. um like just And the narrator's like, every movie needs a great coincidence, and this is ours. It's very- right It keeps lampshading everything. yeah It's so good. At one point, um because she has to go to work, and so she's like, okay, you're going to stay here in the apartment. You're not going to leave. I have to go to work.
00:49:43
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You're going to stay here. And he's like, okay. And the narrator's like, George is can can't be contained. And he goes direct to camera. No, George is going to try very hard to do what Ursula says.
00:49:55
Speaker
um And then he sees a ah ah coffee commercial where yeah he it's like every... yes it's the it's the Folgers incest uh romance commercial and he's like I gotta get me some of that he's like I gotta get some of the me some of that so he just eats coffee and then eats all what seems to be most of a can of coffee it's all jacked up right he's real jazzed uh and then he sees on the news that some that uh like wind glider or uh parasailer not yet not yet
00:50:28
Speaker
he Really? No, he plays drums at a dance class. Oh, yeah. And he just sees the Bay Bridge and he's like, that's a really cool bridge and decides to run up on top of it.
00:50:40
Speaker
It's not till he's actually on the bridge that he sees that the parasailor has gotten tangled in the Bay Bridge. Oh, yeah. He's already on the bridge. Yeah, she sees him on the news, yeah.
00:50:51
Speaker
Yeah, and the news picks it up and they're like, who is this daring daredevil who's going to save... The hottest man I've ever seen is climbing up the Bay Bridge. no um Meanwhile, the poachers capture Ape and Tukey the toucan flies from Africa to San Francisco to warn George. Record time. in yeah Record, record time.
00:51:16
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Yeah. Um, and, uh, so Leslie Mann sees him on the news and rushes to the Bay Bridge. Holland Taylor, who's getting her dog manicure also, uh, or a pedicure rather, I suppose.
00:51:27
Speaker
Yeah. Um, also, uh, sees it on the news. Um, he rescues the man from the, the bridge and, but gets caught up in his, um, parachute and, you know, flies around for a while and,
00:51:42
Speaker
Yep. Runs into a boat and is reunited with Leslie Mann. On the boat that Leslie Mann has to get on um by saying, i excuse me, sir, I have to get on this boat.
00:51:52
Speaker
They just let her. Yeah. Yeah. She's rich. That's believable. Yeah. Don't worry about it. Yeah. Yeah. And so he lands on the boat and Holland Taylor sees this boat. land is strong. her gun Yeah. He crashes into the boat.
00:52:08
Speaker
He doesn't land ever on anything yeah in this movie. He face plants into the boat. Yeah. um ah They drive down the street and he gets her to jungle call. um Yeah. To really like stress relief because she's really nervous about telling her parents.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yeah. um And they end up at her family estate home because she's going to tell It's kind engagement party. yeah Yeah, well, they're prepping for her engagement party, not some kind of engagement party, her engagement party. Well, yeah, yeah, okay.
00:52:41
Speaker
It's her engagement party for her Miles. Okay, okay, yes, you're right, it is. They have a wedding cake with a bride and groom on it, which is not usual for a wedding party, though. i mean, at an engagement party.
00:52:54
Speaker
um She tells her parents she doesn't want to marry Lyle, and Holland Taylor's like, no, what do you mean? You don't get a choice. And her dad's like, i can't make her marry him. And she's like, well, of course we can't. Right?
00:53:05
Speaker
And so they're very upset with her. and Yes. um But like, here's the thing. He's so embarrassing. Have they met Lyle? Like, no one likes Lyle. Like, he would be just as embarrassing as George, just in a different way. Because he's an idiot who constantly, you know, says stupid things. Like, that would also be embarrassing for society.
00:53:27
Speaker
Yeah, but like also you have to remember like old money. he has like a van something something last name. So he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's from like a family name of like, um you know, just money.
00:53:42
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's yeah. He's got some kind of Dutch name. um Is it Lyle Vander Lyle? Surely not. No, it's no. but Lyle Vander Hoot. Vander Groot.
00:53:53
Speaker
Vander Groot. It's something like that. Yeah. um George runs into the cake. ah He swings. What is he swinging on when he gets to their mansion exactly? Ropes.
00:54:05
Speaker
Yes. What's it attached to? Something. There were times in this movie that Charlie was like, i don't see where that vine's attached to it. He's just hanging on to a vine and the vine is physically moving like as if he's just on a helicopter. Yeah.
00:54:20
Speaker
Yep. um he But he runs into the cake, but right before he runs into the cake, the bride and groom statuette look and scream, which is like yeah just... Beautiful kid movie logic. Love to see it. yeah Just ye yeah stupid bullshit. Like, thank God. yeah And the dog runs off with the head of Lyle.
00:54:40
Speaker
Yes. a little um mouth hearing Willie Brown is there. ah The mayor of San Francisco, just like in the princess, francisco princess diaries. It was the nineties. He had to show up. He was like a benign Rudy Giuliani. Yeah, he was ah con contractually obligated. If you film him in his city, he has to make a cameo. Yeah, yeah. um ah And um then we have this very relatable scene where George is out with the horse with horses um in the the pasture and there's about 10 women standing on the fence all staring at him, which is like... Just watching him.
00:55:18
Speaker
It's a woman wrote this movie, like you understand it. Yeah. And he's just like being super gentle with the horse. And Joe's like- Well, the horse is like, you know, it doesn't have a saddle on. It doesn't- It's like yeah just out there running around and he's just walking up to it and the horse like, you know, trusts him. Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:35
Speaker
Yeah. With an unbuttoned, buttoned down shirt. Jesus Christ. Yeah. It's blowing in the wind. Yeah. It looks like a romance. The cover of a romance novel. He looks like Fabio. Yeah, he does. It's a little Fabio-like. Yeah. And there's this guy who's like, what's up with chicks and horses? Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand what's up with chicks and horses.
00:55:53
Speaker
like um ah Yeah, she says that they're acting like, they're like, well, is he like stupid? And she's like, no, no, he's not like, you know, ah like super smart, like a doctor or something, but he has a sensual intelligence. And they're like, yeah, intelligent.
00:56:09
Speaker
and um And then Holland gives him yeah the, the, you're not going to marry my daughter thing. And he, she's like, you know, you're in love with my daughter. And he's like, well, I guess I am in love with your daughter. And she's like, no, you're not You're a spot and she's a stripe and I'm going to rub you out.
00:56:28
Speaker
Like she gets real aggressive about it. And she tells him she's going to castrate him too. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. She's like, going to take away the reason for you to be king of the jungle. She's going to say you won't need a loincloth is what she says. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:56:41
Speaker
um And then, too a bit but but he ignores her um and ah goes home with um with Ursula, who who he's been living with.
00:56:52
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Yep. And Tukey comes and tells him that Ape has been captured. And so he gives her- He doesn't wake her up and tell her, which is stupid.
00:57:03
Speaker
He yeah gives her his crocodile tooth and leaves in the middle of the night. So it's, you know, with the idea is maybe some, he's maybe listening to Holland Taylor, but you know. Yeah.
00:57:14
Speaker
i'm a Yeah. ah He runs back off to Africa and gets there super fast. So fast. And he gets there by UPS. Yes, he mails himself a UPS back to Berendi. mails himself.
00:57:28
Speaker
Yeah. um And then Ursula goes to see her mom and her mom inadvertently gives her the go get your boy speed. Right? Yeah. Right? It's pretty cute. And she's like, you're right. I am in love with George.
00:57:43
Speaker
I am in love with George. She's like, no no, no, no, no. I'm not talking you into that. Right? and she's like, no, no, no, no. That's that that's what's happening. Yeah. Yeah. um And then her dad is like, go get him. ah Yeah. Go get him, honey.
00:57:59
Speaker
Thanks, Matthew to Perry's dad. Yeah. He has some Air Jordans from the UPS truck that he puts on and runs across Africa to to rescue Ape. Meanwhile, Ape has been leading the poachers in circles for presumably days.
00:58:15
Speaker
Yep. because they there is like... two signs that say like the shortcut to um what is it the ape river ah and then george's way and they have chosen the shortcut and the shortcut basically ape explains just takes them around and round in circles for six times until eventually lands back at the treehouse yeah um And so they get there and there's a big fight scene. George gets there and then Ursula gets there super fast as well. um
00:58:51
Speaker
You betcha. There's a scene where Tukey goes into Shep the elephant's nose. The monkey pulls the elephant's tail like it's a cannon and the toucan flies into Thor the poacher's butt. And I'm like, yep cinema.
00:59:09
Speaker
This is... The height of cinema. This is the movies, baby. like This is what we want to see. like There's magic in this house. like What did she say? I forgot.
00:59:23
Speaker
I can't remember. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this. yeah Heartbreak heartbreaks feels good in a place like this. We come to this place for magic. We come to this place. Yeah, we come to this place for magic. yeah To laugh.
00:59:35
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And that's what they're talking about. I want to see re-edit of that trailer with George of the Jungle. Edit in the end. Yep. yep It's He fights them for a while. um She saves him, which we love to see. yeah She swings in and saves him. A woman in charge.
00:59:55
Speaker
Yeah. ah Lyle shows up and his thing is that he's been ordained a minister and is now going to forcibly marry her is the idea. Right. Which doesn't seem like logic.
01:00:06
Speaker
No, no. um He hired a bunch of mercenaries to kidnap George. They're all German. Yeah, well, yes, yes. They named her like Hans. Yeah. Gruber.
01:00:18
Speaker
and Yeah, Hans and Gruber. And they um are quickly dispatched by the gorillas, ah beat them up and put them in a cage. And there's this like rapids chase that happens yeah with him and her. And George has a really long swing where he, of course, slams into a tree. But luckily the tree falls under the river and he's able to rescue her.
01:00:42
Speaker
It all works out. And Lyle goes off down the waterfall. Yeah, well, he goes off the waterfall, kind of, but then, like, is fine.
01:00:53
Speaker
and and Nobody dies in this movie, yeah. Nobody dies in this movie. And he goes, oh, thank God that we made it. Say, I do. I do. And he's like, great, now we're married. And then he, like, lights a lot his lighter, and it turns out Ursula has been replaced with a very horny lady monkey.
01:01:09
Speaker
Yes. a um um that's That's just kind of what happens in these movies, yeah. Yep. It's just like Gremlins 2. Yeah. yep Yep. And then they get married and then they do the mind the Lion King thing as they enter the movie, which is weird. It's so good. ah and You got to remember that it's Disney.
01:01:30
Speaker
They have a baby. She stops wearing clothes like it's, you know, I mean, I guess. We live the jungle now. I guess I would do the same, you know? Yeah. when um And then we have ah Ape in Vegas at the end singing yeah My Way. And the thing the curious thing about their Vegas show is that he's incorporated the poachers.
01:01:51
Speaker
ah The poachers are are in a tree on stage in Vegas at Ape's show, which- ye I hi it seems that it seems that Ape has taken their idea and I assume that he is the producer and is getting paid for this. But he has hired them to be part of it, which. Yeah.
01:02:12
Speaker
Leads to some interesting questions. You know, well, he couldn't get the show off the ground without his their connections, I guess. So he entered a partnership with the poachers. I mean, I'm guessing. Are they getting a cut of the profits of this Vegas show? We to interrogate this.
01:02:32
Speaker
I don't want the poachers to be getting proceeds from apes Vegas show. Maybe he just like it, like kidnapped them and is forcing them to work for no money.
01:02:43
Speaker
Okay, maybe they're tied up in there. ah Yeah. and And they're going to have to die. But nobody can die in this movie. so Yes.
Conclusion: Ape in Vegas and Jungle Family Life
01:02:52
Speaker
They're just stuck in a in a perpetual ah form of undeath in this right on the Vegas stage forever.
01:03:00
Speaker
It's like if you took the Bad Bunny Super Bowl show and you made each of those sugar cane people like a horror film, like an A24 horror film. Well, it made me think of the the scene in Nope where they're all in the monster's digestive tract. Oh, why would you think about that?
01:03:17
Speaker
i know It's the worst thing in the world. I know. It freaks me out. This is one of the first things. I don't know if we've mentioned it. I mean, I'm sure we've mentioned on the pod. One of the first things that Katie and i super, super fond, like the moment that i was like,
01:03:31
Speaker
katie katie's my person katie's my person uh was we were writing our our screenplay and we were talking about the movie nope and because i think charlie i had just seen it and katie was like yeah i i think about that scene at least once a week and it's disturbing and was like oh my god me too Yeah, it really freaked me out. Like, I would say almost no horror movies, like, genuinely, like, scare me. And that has, like, really stuck with me. That's really, really horrifying. Yeah.
01:04:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And um and now i'm thinking about it again for the first time in months, probably. So great job, Katie. You did this to yourself.
01:04:14
Speaker
Way to go, Katie. And that all came from the note, poachers in tree, question mark? so Poachers in tree? ah so the... The post-credits sequence is ape in Vegas.
01:04:27
Speaker
And so you get George and Ursula and their baby doing the Lion King thing. And then you get the first but of credits and then you get the post-credits scene. And so like Charlie during the Lion King bit, he goes, ah, you're a person.
01:04:39
Speaker
And I was like, the Lion King? That's a little weird. Okay. yeah um And he goes, no, wait. And it's credits. And I was like, okay. Because like, apparently this is the, because we've seen this movie a few times.
01:04:50
Speaker
He loves George the Jungle. Wow. i was been always funny So this is one of the rare movies that Charlie has seen before it is we watched it. He has seen this and he loves it and he was so excited when I pitched it.
01:05:01
Speaker
yeah And um he he was like, this is my favorite part. And it is the post-credits sequence of Ape singing My Way is his favorite part of the entire movie. There we go All right. Yep.
01:05:12
Speaker
Which ah also not surprising for Charles. We'll ask him my questions about the poachers then. I want to know. what yeah, yeah. We'll we'll ask him what he thinks his hypothesis is. on want to know the fee breakdown. What are the commissions and fees involved? Right? did Yeah.
01:05:30
Speaker
Right? Goodness gracious. So yeah, that's the the jungle. Are Vegas performers members of equity or is it a different union? No, it's got it's equity.
01:05:41
Speaker
Yeah. I'm pretty sure. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. don't know. What are we doing next week? Next week we are, um we are watching a mid-2000s hipster classic, Juno.
01:05:58
Speaker
Yeah. Juno. haven't seen Juno in years. Me neither. Me neither. um I hope it holds up. I remember not really liking it the first time I saw it. Oh, really? I remember liking it a lot when I saw it. um I was in high school, college, somewhere there. ever actually finished it.
01:06:15
Speaker
I think that I've watched the first two-thirds of it several times, but I've never actually finished it. It's very early 2000s hipster trash. Yeah. yeah it's Yeah. But it's fun. Yeah.
01:06:28
Speaker
Amazing. Fabulous. Well, shall we outro? Let's outro. I like how we both read the script and it's like four lines. know. Like both of us are theater kids who could have had this memorized at any time and we just don't. I have too much of my brain. No, I get it. Thank you. too I also don't have it memorized. Yeah.
01:06:47
Speaker
I don't. I just like don't have the memory capacity. I'm at capacity. I need I need an external hard brain. Yeah, me too. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It helps out a lot and we would really appreciate it.
01:07:07
Speaker
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01:07:21
Speaker
You know, we could also just pre-record this whole thing and slot it into the end of every episode. have one that pre-recorded. Yeah. Oh, really? talked about that before. Yeah. But then you miss, like, the spontaneity of moments like this where I stop doing the script and extend the episode.
01:07:42
Speaker
Until next time, we're just two girls. Standing in front of the jungle. Ooh. Asking it to love us.
01:07:55
Speaker
Oh, God.
01:08:00
Speaker
You know, I can't see you because I switch over my tab to the to the script. And I had leaned in. I know it doesn't make a difference because I'm wearing headphones, but I feel like yeah leaning into the microphone like made it worse. Makes it a little bit more. A little bit more.
01:08:15
Speaker
There we are. central npr Sensual intelligence. This is probably too good.
01:08:24
Speaker
Good night. Good night.