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Child's Play (1988)
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Join Nick and Mercedes as they begin their journey through the kid-friendly world of Chucky, with 1988's Child's Play!
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Playful Banter and Podcast Launch
00:01:12
Speaker
What's up guys, we're Morbid Curiosity's bringing you another episode. I'm Nicholas Sewers, and with me is the Midwestern monster herself, the morbid mystery of mistress of mayhem.
00:01:27
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Mercedes Martinez. What do you think? I love that. That's cool. You like that? I fucked Yeah, let's keep it. The name a little bit, keep it?
00:01:38
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Yeah, keep it. Okay. i that i You know what I mean by I was like, I don't know how it's going to come out. I didn't practice this. No, that works. I like it. I like it. Okay, cool. Let's keep it. Okay, cool.
00:01:51
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and don't know if I'll do it every episode. Maybe I will. No, you don't have No, you don't have to. do Yeah, that was, that i mean, people didn't hear anything before, like that quote-unquote successful take that made it into the episode.
00:02:08
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I had a difficult time remembering the words to what I was going to say, and, like, I kind of still messed up what, ah there was, like, a tongue twister. and ah It was was rough.
00:02:19
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It's like one of those, those um i don't know what they're called, where it was, like, ah she sells seashells oh she sells seashells by the seashore yeah that that it that's what it reminded me of and I completely jacked that up trying to say that she sells she sells seashells by the seashore I think I don't know maybe that seems too easy I mean, maybe I just suck and I can't pronounce things. No. Because you said that a lot more clearer than I did. And that was on your first take too.
00:02:54
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That was, no, I messed up a couple. I had to like really like think that through as I was saying it. And I'm not really a thinker as a lot of the listeners are probably learning.
00:03:06
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um Words don't come out good. They don't form well in my head. it's just my verbal diarrhea. i think it comes out well though. Nice and easy.
00:03:18
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It's a little harder for me to you know, be witty with you, but you know, I try my best. ah we'rere We're killing it. This is our our first time recording since we since we launched the podcast.
00:03:32
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That's pretty pretty sweet. We've gotten some good feedback. You've told me about a bunch of people. I don't know if you can name them. Any but any like shouts shout-outs you want to... Let's see. ah Who can I give a little shout out to? I don't want to throw out everyone in case I do have like, um ah like I want to save certain shout outs. Like I'll give one to I'll give them like either nicknames or I'll use their last names. Let's go with Bradley. he He's been a good motivation to me and he, um,
00:04:04
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listened to it like super quick and was just like, no, you sound awesome. Like, I'm proud of you guys for like starting this. i was like, what? Really? Okay. Yeah, it's a fun endeavor. It's a really, really good time. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback.
00:04:23
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Someone in particular really enjoys it. They told me not to shout them out, so I'm not going to, but they'll know who's not being shouted out. right They'll know. you know She who shall not be named like the village. Yeah.
00:04:40
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yeah the village we are no no no those we don't speak of those we don't speak of she who we don't speak of do you like the village i love the village if you couldn't really pick up on my enthusiasm right there ah wasn't too crazy about it the first time i saw it that would be an interesting one to cover on the podcast i just like m night shamalan films most of them he's he's on the list. I'm a big Shyamalan defender. That would be cool if we did like a Shyamalan type of series.
Chucky Movie Series Excitement
00:05:12
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But... right now what we're doing you guys are probably you know it's monday morning you all opened up your podcast apps to tune in like the the new morbid curiosities drops today last week you got green room this week you see what what is this this familiar off green color that i've grown to know and love for morbid kiosk it's gone now it's yellow and who is that chucky
00:05:45
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We're doing it, guys. We we talked about it. We're going to be covering all of the Chucky movies. You know, it' oh this is where we we really we're anxious. We can't even get some like good sentences formulated right now. We are so excited to be here.
00:06:06
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Yeah, and it's like, I don't know. This has been, I think, on both of our minds for a while, starting this Chucky thing. We've been talking about it since like October or November of last year. It's been it's been brewing, and we're finally here.
00:06:25
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And we have a lot of thoughts. And real quick, too, just to timestamp us. and We're recording, I think, like two days before Valentine's Day. um So I hope you guys all had a good Valentine's Day. I don't know if we really want. I don't have anything going on. I don't know if you want to talk about your Valentine's Day plans at all or talk about how great it was.
00:06:47
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I will actually touch upon a story though um for Valentine's Day just to keep it related to the the topic at hand. So when I was back in aesthetic school, by the way, everyone, ah come follow me on Instagram, Merciless Aesthetics.
00:07:05
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um they wanted to do our instructor she wanted to do like a little valentine's day party kind of like what you had to do in ah elementary school you make you get like a shoe box design it however you want and then everyone puts like the little valentines or candies in it um but that was fun because at least like you were guaranteed to have a valentine or something but um Yeah, it's nice.
00:07:31
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Yeah. So she told us, like, make it look aesthetically pleasing. And we're like, wait, what does that mean? And she's like, it needs to be related to aesthetics.
00:07:44
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And I'm just like, how am I? going to do that because like if anyone knows me i am all things spooky I do not like all this glamorous girly shit out there so I'm like racking my brain trying to figure out how to do this so what I did was I grabbed the box and I cut out a coffin shape of it And i printed out a bunch of pictures of Chucky. And it was of how his face looks different from every single film.
00:08:20
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and I put that on each side. and then at the top, I put, ah don't play hide the soul, love the skin you're So it was funny just because seeing everyone else's like little Valentine's Day box, like They really went all out. Like they were so girly. They had like lipstick, makeup, all this like stuff on it. And I was like looking at all of them. And then you just see Chucky right there. I'm like, yeah, you know, that one's mine.
00:08:50
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So that was a good time. so cool. that's so That's such a good story, too. That's like perfect. im i'm glad ah that like lines I didn't know you were going to tell that when I brought up Valentine's Day. was like, this Valentine's Day, it's going to be a dud, me mentioning this.
00:09:05
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That's fucking so cool. ah well I loved it. That's a very convenient story, too, to have. that That's why we have the podcast, guys. We're just that interesting. Hell, yeah. Got stories for everything.
00:09:18
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um Do you still have that box?
00:09:21
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No. as As proud as I was of it, i don't have it anymore. I think like it got squished on the way bringing it back home, so i was like, damn it. That sucks. It does suck. I didn't even take like a full-on video of because I was so excited, which makes no sense. You think I would have wanted to record that and keep that as a memento, but yeah, this is my life.
00:09:44
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Speaking to your style, and I like want the listeners to, I kind of want to like call this out too. I thought it was like super cool. Mercedes took like a red rose and ah did you spray paint this like wooden, what would you call it? Can you describe
Childhood Memories and Movie Analysis
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it?
00:10:01
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Uh, it's like a wooden frame, um, thing. I, I can't even pronounce, like, say what it is. Um, it was just like a wooden frame that you could, like, put stuff on or just, I wanted to act, funny thing, I actually wanted to make, like,
00:10:19
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a mold of Chucky's hand and it's sticking out of that but I have I had no idea how to do it but I just painted it black and then um I got a rose from my little sister and i just put it on there so now it looks it looks more like me like more of a a dark cloud so to speak It looks very nice. It it reminds me of like a ah gothic like Beauty and the Beast kind of thing. It's hanging in the background of the shop now. Oh, yeah, you could see that. Yeah, it's kind of what catches my eye the entire time.
00:10:57
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like we're taught it's like I usually like pick something I lock into, and when I look at the computer screen, it's the first thing that like my eyes lock into is like that rose in the background. It's like super cool.
00:11:09
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I dig it. Nice, thank you. Normally people don't comment on that, so glad someone likes it other than me. and We should try to post a picture of it when this episode drops so that people can see.
00:11:20
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If they care to see. you know Let us know, guys. Let us know if you want to see that that project, that little that little bit I made. and think we should just drop it and make them care. Yeah, let's go with that. We tell them what to care about.
00:11:35
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Yeah, assert our dominance. And we're going to auction it off starting at $500. Let's not go that far. I really like that piece. Never mind. Well, how would you be willing to part in part with it for then?
00:11:51
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I don't know. I'm bad at bargaining. Let me think of a price and I'll get back to you. You don't have to actually think about it. watch No one would even buy it either. Tragic. ah Someone would buy Probably not for $500. Yeah, probably not. That's a lot. ah So should we get into it? Should we get into Child's Play?
00:12:14
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Hell yeah. Let's go. All right. Spoilers going forward for Child's Play, the 1988 one, not the remake. I have no idea what that is. It could be the same thing, could be different.
00:12:25
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i don't Is Mark Hamill in that one? i don't know. Who knows what's going on? we We'll get there eventually. We're covering all of these things, guys. That's like eight Chucky movies, I think.
00:12:36
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I should have done better research before speaking. um Guys, Nick has only seen the first Child's Play movie. None of the other ones. I feel like I barely like have seen this Child's Play either. um Are you cool if i kind of like say my thoughts first or did you want to go go into it first since you brought it to the table?
00:12:59
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No, let's hear what you have to say on this. I'm very i'm very interested to hearing what you thought. So I like, I must have like never fully locked into this movie. I, I have a story that I'm saving for the seed of Chucky episode. specific to seed of Chucky.
00:13:19
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Um, it's very like embarrassing, but, uh, Because of that story, I've like, I've never really liked Chucky. I've had a rough spot for Chucky.
00:13:33
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I've just growing up. I was like, he's scary. He's like gross. Get him away from me. Like every other slasher I was cool with. I was like, not Chucky.
00:13:43
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No. Um, And then I got older and i saw kind of like clips and stuff, not from really the child's play movies, but from like the later Chucky movies. And I'm like, oh, these are more like comedies, I guess. They're not really like that scary. So then I kind of had this like, fuck you, Chucky attitude. I was like, you ain't shit.
00:14:05
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You know, you wow scared me for so long as a kid. And now you ain't shit. You're you're funny. you know i don't That's all you bring.
00:14:17
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and don't like a funny slasher that much. i'm Freddy kind of works for me, doesn't fully. That'll be interesting to watch the Nightmare movies because I've only seen two of them, actually.
00:14:29
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but and and the first One is the first one. was One is New Nightmare. don't know how people feel about New Nightmare, but I fucking love New Nightmare. ah That movie's like made for me. Just a meta take on ah anything is awesome but uh back to child's play so This one, i I had watched it a couple times. I don't know if I really ever sat down and watched it in full or ever cared to like pay it the attention that it deserves.
00:15:03
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But this movie, especially seeing on the letterboxd rating, it's like a 3.2 or 3.4 or something, I think. This movie is criminally underrated.
00:15:15
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This movie... Fucking rules so hard. I like, I loved this movie. There are things that don't ah work for me that we'll get into, but for the most part, this is like almost a five out of five for me. This movie, it keeps going and it keeps getting better and better and it never really has like a low point for me.
00:15:44
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The biggest low point, i mean we'll we'll get into it, but I mean i have like fallen in love with this movie. I am afraid that they the rest might not be as good as this one, but I feel like within at least the first three movies, I'm going to be able to find some things I really love about them.
00:16:07
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Um, I, I really like to try and reclaim movies that, ah aren't the most popular to try to find like things to appreciate about them. So I don't really know the reputation these movies have. I know nothing about these Chucky movies, except for like, I think the more recent ones, like people didn't love. I'm not too sure, but, um, I've talked enough.
00:16:33
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Um, and you go Mercedes. So, um, Chucky Child's Play, very familiar with it.
00:16:43
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Chucky also terrified me as a child. Um, but honestly, everything scared me. I still get scared easily. Like people just say my name and I kind of flinch or scream and they're like, I'm the only one here, but I don't know. I'm just jumpy.
00:16:59
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But, um, Yeah, i i just remember seeing the film at a young age. Still don't remember how old I was, but um it scared me. It
Humor and Criticism in Child's Play
00:17:11
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traumatized me. um I had a few nightmares about Chucky. Even my siblings bought our mom the Chucky and Tiffany dolls for Christmas one year, and she loved them.
00:17:26
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and to my horror, she put them in the backseat of her car and she would be like, Mercedes, go warm up my car. I'm like, hi, guys. Just making sure you guys don't come alive and kill me. i was always so scared of them.
00:17:40
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um Did she do that as a bit? No, she just... To mess with you? No, she just wanted the dolls in her car and ah drive around with them. um So i was... Yeah, that was a little terrifying. um And then it was funny because when my nephews were born, got a little older, um They loved playing with those dolls. like They would watch the first movie and then i just come downstairs and I see them like pretty much like biting their heads, like eating all their hair and stuff as babies do.
00:18:14
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um But anyway, sorry for the side story. um This film, though, is amazing. Every time I watch it, it's just it never lets me down. There's like... So much suspense leading up to what's happening. Even though you know who the killer is, you're just waiting for like his big break in there. like When is he actually going to reveal who he is um like Even though I know what's going to happen with each scene, it's just like it still always gets me. It's such a great movie. and
00:18:46
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um I think out of all of them, this one will be favorite. ah this one and the second one but I want to say this one just because it's the original all-time favorite of the c Chucky franchise I mean the second one if if it's your favorite it's your favorite I mean I will go to bed Die Hard for a Vengeance um is I think a way more entertaining movie than Die Hard I love Die Hard I love Die Hard with a Vengeance more I mean the original doesn't make it the best
00:19:17
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But this original does. but Yeah. No, no. I'm i'm just saying, if on this rewatch, your heart is like, Child's Play 2 is really like calling me.
00:19:28
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Put it at number one, man. like Fucking take that swing. I think a lot of people kind of like, Well, maybe not a lot of people, but some people actually liked Child's Play 2 just because um Alex Vincent's character, he had a little more experience, so to speak. So um um they kind of liked how you know he had more things to say, i guess, which drives me crazy because he he's a cute-ass kid in this film. I love everything.
00:20:02
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Yeah, sorry guys, Andy. um I love everything he does. I love how he talks. I love like his behavior. i know you don't like him, but I love him. well Well, i have it in my notes. If you looked at the notes.
00:20:19
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No, I wanted to be surprised. If you looked at notes. So at a certain point, I put a Andy sucks. So does Andy from Toy Story. Wow, and then that's true. He does.
00:20:32
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A little later, let me count. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven lines later, i guess Andy is adorable.
00:20:42
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I guess. You're not fully convinced he is. You said, I guess. he I forgot what point I wrote that to. I guess Andy is adorable. There was just a certain point. where i What's up?
00:20:54
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It's the beginning. No, the beginning, I was like, fuck this kid. This kid sucks. Let's dive into that. Burning the toast. Taking ah too big of a scoop of butter. i mean, milk all over, cereal all over. Then you just pour sugar on this yeare girlal cereal. What other fucking horse shit does this kid get up to? you
00:21:24
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Do you remember? Is that it? Yeah, that was pretty much it. He was like spilling the orange juice. I've seen this one already. You've seen this one already?
00:21:34
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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Spilling the orange juice. Thank you, Mercedes. See? See? I rest my case. Do you know how expensive orange juice is? That is very true, but back in the day, it probably wasn't as expensive as it is now, but he was doing it out of love. He was trying to no and make a nice little breakfast for his mom, even though it should have been the other date way around. It was his birth.
00:22:01
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In the words of Dr. Grant in Jurassic Park 3, some of the worst things imaginable were done with the best intentions
00:22:12
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I love that little plug-in. And it's so true. You know, if Dr. Grant has taught us anything, it's that Andy is being a real asshole in that moment.
00:22:26
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Hold on now. He doesn't deserve to be called that. Let's chill. let's Let's pull it back a little bit, Nick. Who cleaned it up? What day of the week is this? doesn't Shouldn't he be at school?
00:22:38
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You know, it was probably the weekend or it was probably no, no, no, no. no yeah I think it was like super, super early because his mom ended up having to take him to like daycare or something.
00:22:51
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um Because that is when her friend um Maggie decided to come in and say like, hey, you know, that doll, someone's selling it outside.
00:23:02
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And ah Catherine Hicks, who plays his mom, ah Karen, goes downstairs, buys this doll for like $50. Was it $50? $50. and was it fifty yeah fifty bucks Okay, I know they were negotiating, and she was like $10.
00:23:19
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ten dollars And I was like lady, I know you're fucking a white woman, but like, chill out. You know, $10.
00:23:30
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I mean, this guy was white, On the market's like $100 or whatever. Yeah, but he's homeless. True. It's like she's just exercising her privilege.
00:23:41
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You know, this guy, he's homeless. He's trying to make ends meet here. you know True, true. You need the doll. He needs either food or drugs. like All of the above, probably.
00:23:56
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ah you know Everybody needs something, is my point. I wonder how much that doll actually was. i thought ah they said $100 or something. I could be wrong. i'm like Did I even pay attention to this thing?
00:24:10
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um I thought they said the price. I don't know. That's going to be depressing if I've watched it this many times and I never heard The Price. Yeah, we'll have to do a rewatch and record a whole other episode on The Price. Hell yeah. We'll call it The Price is Right.
00:24:27
Speaker
Sorry, guys. We let you down. All of our excitement is going to be pretty much gone if we re-record. You know, guys how about you look something up for a change? Yeah, like stop just listening to us and relying on us. listen like go do your research.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yeah, we didn't exactly announce we were a research podcast when we launched this thing. Exactly. We're giving like bad names. like We're giving inaccurate years. like yeah We're trying, though.
00:24:54
Speaker
If you're going off of our first episode, we we're barely a movie podcast. Yeah, pretty much. ready Some feedback I got was like, wow, you guys are all over the place. But I mean, that makes for good conversation, good entertainment.
00:25:09
Speaker
how about you start your own podcast? That's what I tell everybody. You start your podcast, you know? And this is our podcast, though.
00:25:20
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Shoofly. Don't bother me. how But you talk about misery for hour. You know? See how much you how long you can go. Before you sidetrack into something else.
00:25:33
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Yeah.
00:25:36
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uh that's good um so it seems like we're going in order which if we're gonna do that i do want to hop back to the beginning real quick uh the way we uh we got to all of this before andy ruined everyone's fucking day um i'll let that one slide because i did jump the gun at that no i'm i might be being a terrible person with what i'm saying i'm i'm just kidding everybody with my he's just a kid but we're missing the main character i know yeah being a douchebag um i know
00:26:15
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and I told you people are going to hate me. Um, but so the beginning, it's like the police shootout and everything with the serial
Chucky's Transformation and Impact
00:26:25
Speaker
killer. I'm like half a yada, yada. But, um, it's like, uh,
00:26:31
Speaker
What's it called? This is the part that I didn't like that much. It's just the setup for the premise. It's something that's easy to kind of look past. The whole time I was watching it, actually, I was like, how does he become Chucky?
00:26:49
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How does he get in the doll? I like could not remember. And I do love the, the title reveal over my buddy. I was like, that is such a, we are a low budget, not a part of a franchise to like title reveal. It's not like announcing itself in this grand way. I was like, I love that we're watching like a movie that wasn't intended to spawn a franchise similar to like when you're watching Halloween.
00:27:17
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um Yeah, I i was like left wondering the whole time, like yeah how does how does he get get into the doll? And then he gets shot and ah chants a thing.
00:27:34
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The infamous chant. The whole time I was like, this is the worst cop. like in the I'm like how are you like, you shot him, he's announcing, like I'm dying.
00:27:46
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I'm dying. ah I'm going to get you and Eddie, you know? And it's like, you know, just, and I'm like, what he's dying. Like, how about you like look for the guy a little bit?
00:27:59
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He was trying. He's knocking shit over, making it like super obvious. And the cops are like, whoa, huh? Whoa. where He's trying here. he's trying to make sure his estel is safe so he can get the job done.
00:28:13
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Give him break. it's It's very forgivable. um Exactly. it we Watching ah a bit of the doc of Chucky...
00:28:25
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I kind of like the original concept a little bit more where Chucky was a manifestation inside of Andy's mind. If you do that, though, I have a feeling you can't get away with a lot of what the sequels do.
00:28:38
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I talked a lot about the intro. um What are your your thoughts to all of that? I want to hear your defense for the intro, too. Yeah. Um, like I also didn't know how Chucky came to be in a doll when I was like seeing little snippets of it.
00:28:57
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Um, and then when I finally first watched it with my mom, bless her heart, let me watch any horror movie and be scared to death. Um, that's a good mom. I know. She's a best mom. um it was um She put it on and I was like, I thought we were watching Chucky. She's like, we are. And I'm looking. I'm like, well, then where is Chucky? She's like, that's him.
00:29:17
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That's not him. was promised a doll. I know. i was so confused. And then once he was actually like... screaming, I'm like, oh my God, wait, that does sound like him. I'm like, no, that can't be him.
00:29:30
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And then when he's like, actually like, oh God, I'm dying. And then he said like exactly what you said. I'm like, my God, that is him. That's his voice. Like, how is that? Like, I was young, so I can understand that. Why don't you imitate it too? I can't imitate. I already said, don't do it. I'm gonna get you. Oh, that was terrible. But it's like, I'm gonna cut that out. It was spot on. Whatever I just did there. No, it was spot on.
00:29:55
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um But yeah, like, I don't know. I kind of like, I just like the the eeriness of like them being in a toy store, like a place that you would pretty much imagine being like a fun, safe zone, like filled with all these little rugrats laughing. But you know, you got a killer in there who's bleeding out to death and then about to do some voodoo.
00:30:20
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the toy store originally a Chinese restaurant at the time of them filming on, uh, the actual corner of, uh, Wabash and Van Buren. I don't know what it is now, but yeah, it's definitely not that, but yeah, I just, I like the, like the suspense leading up to it. And then once he does the infamous chant and like, you see all the clouds like that chant, I love it. Like,
00:30:48
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Tell me why you love it. It just sounds so cool. I'm pretty sure like it's French, like um but my dumbass, like I would say it randomly to my friends in high school. I would just like go up to them, put my hand on their head, and just start like,
00:31:05
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ah de du e em bellla Just freaking them all Say the full chant now. No, it's not going to come out. Turn into a doll. Grab a doll. no my God. My dog would kill me if I turn into a doll. Like, what the hell is this? do you have to be dying as you're doing it No, because ah and let me not say this detail because then it's going to ruin another movie for you. You almost spoiled Bride of Chucky for me. I did. So let me just chill on I already know now.
00:31:33
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You didn't even need say anything. Let's just mix this episode with Bride of Chucky. yeah likes You'll tell me it's like Gina Gershon or something like that. um But yeah, even to this day, I still say that chant, probably.
00:31:48
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But I still say that chant randomly. um um um I'm weird like that. But anyway, yeah. yeah And then like you're just you cut back to the the cop who is Chris Sarandon, and he just looks.
00:32:01
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He sees Brad Dourif, who is Charles Lee Ray, who is Chucky. He sees him dead on the ground. So he's like, oh, OK, well, my job is done. um i killed that man yeah but it was like an explosion from like lightning from like the storm that he invoked um and then it just like zooms in on the doll and you hear like the creepy like sound that i can't even replicate not because i don't want to but i i don't know how to describe the sound but don't remember the sound i would try to if i remembered
00:32:35
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I kind of like the intro. I'm just going to leave it at that. If you hate it, you hate it. No, if you want to go more... You hate a lot of things in this film. I didn't hate I don't know. You're kind of hating on this film. You're hating on the intro, on Andy.
00:32:50
Speaker
I'm hating on Andy for fun. um I don't think i'm just being playful with that. The intro, it's not that I dislike it. The intro, it it's just ah It's a big buy for me, but i get over it, like, pretty quickly. um If it were shorter, too, I don't think I would... It would be asking as much from me. I feel like that scene goes on for, like, seven minutes or something like that.
00:33:13
Speaker
And I was like, they could probably get to him being Chucky a bit sooner. It... it Yeah. ah I don't know. that that I think that will be my only complaint for the rest of the episode, though.
00:33:27
Speaker
Can you tell you're mad at me if your computer froze? No, we'll see. Yeah, I was. I'm so mad at you. We'll see. um We'll see if you get mad again or like if you attack this film anymore. Let's see.
00:33:38
Speaker
Let's continue on. So do you want to move forward with the plot? Keep going? Yeah. Okay, so she lowballs at homeless dude. Yeah. And then has the doll, um goes home with... Oh, my God. He was such an asshole. Tell us what the boss does. How does he act?
00:33:57
Speaker
He's just pretty much just like, you know, there designated break times. And he's like, I had to get this thing for my kid. And he's like, you know, there there are designated times for that. And I'm watching. I'm like, he's kind of got a point.
00:34:12
Speaker
um Shut up, man. hate her, boss. I hate her. He looks like such a wiener, too. he looks you know He looks very reasonable.
00:34:23
Speaker
I'm kidding. he like would have said- looks like how he talks. He looks like he would have said, and yeah Exactly. Looks kind of like me with short hair a little bit. um Sure. Let's go with that. I don't know. don't remember what he looks like. But um I'm surprised I remembered that she had a boss. But um yeah he seems like he's not a guy that you could go to and ask.
00:34:51
Speaker
hey, can I go out and buy this doll from this homeless person? I don't think he would say yes to that. So I am kind of on her side. It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
00:35:03
Speaker
Also, he's giving her a hard time and he needs something from her. She should be like, hey, look, let the me buying the doll thing slide since I'm going to be covering for this sick lady or whoever called off.
00:35:18
Speaker
Yeah, like that really got me mad. It's like, you're just going to like bitch at her. And then you're going to say like, you have no choice. You have to stay here or come back for work or else you're going to be fired. Like that's garbage. I hate shitty managers, man. Shout out to my old manager, Bradley, who was just like bomb as hell.
00:35:37
Speaker
Like if ever I needed something, he was there. He had your back. Like, ah good man. Good man. And here's a list of all the managers Mercedes hates. Yeah. Just go down the line.
00:35:50
Speaker
on the line There was a list of them. hate everybody. If no one knows that, like you don't know me if you don't know that fact.
00:36:01
Speaker
Like I say it all the time. And that's why it's funny because I rip on women on the podcast and in general. But I also rip on guys because I hate everyone.
00:36:12
Speaker
Equal opportunity. This is actually a very spite-filled podcast. We don't like each other. no I hate him so much. like He doesn't even know.
00:36:24
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like there's some truth to that, and that hurt a little bit hearing it, actually. I know were just playing... Wait a minute. Where did the truth come from, though?
00:36:35
Speaker
But I felt truth.
00:36:38
Speaker
And I'm going to have to work through some feelings now. Yeah.
00:36:45
Speaker
Anyway. There's a selected few of people that I do not hate, and you are one of them. So feel honored, or else I wouldn't be doing this podcast with you. Speaking of friends you hate, Andy's mom must hate her friend because she's like, hey, go babysit my son. You're going to die tonight, by the way. she didn't tell her to. She volunteered to. That was such a good friend. She volunteered to her own death.
00:37:14
Speaker
Why do you got to say it like that? so Chucky, that makes me ask. He doesn't intend on hurting Andy at all. In the beginning. Why does he want the adults?
00:37:29
Speaker
He, I think, who was trying to get to? Why does he kill the babysitter? He kills her just, think. Oh, well, he is a serial killer. Sorry. okay well yeah I know. You keep cutting me off. Why do you always talk to me? I'll let you answer question. know. Jeez, you ask me something and then you won't let me answer.
00:37:45
Speaker
Rude. Maybe I do hate you. i know. I'm a lot. I know it it it it works though um no he was like trying to get out of the apartment but then like I think he just killed her um in the fucking weirdest way too because even watching it for the first time when I was little I was like it's gonna happen like she keeps hearing all these noises and then She goes into the, um, the kitchen. Sadly enough, she had like one final, um, this is Maggie, by the way. Sorry. Um, we've just been saying like she or the friend, my bad woman, woman number two.
00:38:27
Speaker
Yeah. Maggie, she, um, had one final phone call with Karen. Cause she called to just to check in and everything. Um, And she was just like, no, I'm fine. I'm just getting a little nervous being alone at night.
00:38:40
Speaker
um But then, yeah, she just sees like the flower like tipped over on the the counter. And then she's just like freaking out, hearing everything else fall.
00:38:51
Speaker
And then she turns around and you the camera just like freezes on her and she looks scared. And then you just hear a whack really loud. And then she you see like the slightest bit of impact from an object on her face.
00:39:05
Speaker
And then however much force that was was enough to jimmy her out of the damn window and yeah how strong is chucky exactly completely right does he have he used a toy hammer too we should exactly that was my next point like this small guy like however tall he is maybe like what two feet tall or whatever with a tiny plastic hammer is able to like impact this woman so hard that she falls to her death out of the window was a good death scene though I will admit that ah want to talk about the death scene real quick people are going to hate that I'm going to mention this before we talk about the death scene you mentioned Chucky's size being two feet tall at the beginning when Andy's mom gives him a present there's a big ass box and
00:39:59
Speaker
Andy opens it and it's like a pair of pants. i was like oh yeah I was like, you're a shitty mom, Andy's mom. yeah Also, that those hair Karen, that's her name, I think. um yeah ah Shout out to Mercedes for being on the fucking character names on this episode.
00:40:17
Speaker
i just I know them, except Maggie, apparently. Woman number she's dead anyway. We won't be talking about her after this scene.
00:40:27
Speaker
Very true, very true. um yeah That part actually did get me mad. This poor kid, he's like making the breakfast for his mom. He sees like the chuck e commercial well the good guy commercial, and then he sees his presents, and he's like, oh my God, that looks like the size of the good guy doll.
Chucky's Origins and Themes
00:40:45
Speaker
Maybe I got one. And then, yeah, it just opens it to find, what, one pair of pants? Like, who does that? Like, I don't even wrap gifts that horribly. And then the actual box was just a tiny, like, toolbox so box set. Like, that's so rude. So deceiving.
00:41:02
Speaker
Women, I tell you. Yeah, women. ah
00:41:08
Speaker
I'll stop there. It's ah Valentine's Day almost. Yeah, don't don't say anything else. Don't add some feel to the fire. Yeah. Painfully single.
00:41:20
Speaker
um Shut up. It hurts so much. You Chucky. My skin, it burns. Yeah. um Speaking of, so are they all named Chucky? Is the character Chucky?
00:41:35
Speaker
but ah he He's named Chucky, but they all have different names. Like I think the one on the commercial said Tommy or something. the six So the serial killer picked his own name. He was like, yeah I get to reinvent myself.
00:41:53
Speaker
This is my second life. no No one gets this. What do I want to call myself? Chucky. Chucky. Well, Chris Sarandon, his character, Mike, he does ah he's the cop in there um who, after he does some investigating on ah Charles Lee Ray, Chucky's real alias um or real name, um he does say that his nickname in life was Chucky.
00:42:22
Speaker
So, yeah, he probably took his own name. I have egg on my face now. The one time, like all of our other episodes, like I'm going into like certain details and and you're like, well, no, this is actually accurate. no this. and im my aren You make me sound like such an asshole. I don't think I say no. We're but both before eyes we're both assholes. yep I don't think i'm like and think I say no. youjo You do. You really do.
00:42:54
Speaker
It really cut deep. I cried after the episode. i don't ah Okay. Let's not dwell on the past, Nick. Let's get back to Chucky. You know, I'm sorry.
00:43:10
Speaker
But while we're on the topic of his name, Charles Lee Ray, that's such a good ass name. well That is a good, it's better than Chucky. Call yourself Ray.
00:43:21
Speaker
I mean, I guess that wouldn't be a believable kidster. What's your name? Hi, I'm Ray. And I'm your friend to the end. It doesn't ring. It doesn't like sit well with me.
00:43:32
Speaker
um Ray Sunshine. That's my name. like Think about it If you have a kid. Ray O. Sunshine. You have a kid and you name them Ray. You don't really think of a little boy being named Ray. You think of an adult being named Ray. Like Chucky.
00:43:49
Speaker
You think of the little redhead from Rugrats. And now this guy. Yeah, Ray, you hear Ray Romano. you know I can't do an impersonation of him. I wish I could. I would try it right now.
00:44:01
Speaker
I'm not even going to. you I don't have one locked and loaded ready to go. My dumbass was thinking of Raymundo from ah Rocket Power. do a Raymundo impression.
00:44:14
Speaker
No. i you I don't know how to impersonate him. No. do it he What does he do? Like, wiggity, wiggity, wiggity. Like that? no that's ah that is their little handshake thing.
00:44:26
Speaker
That's the same show, right? I'm not talking about a completely different show like In Misery where had to cut out a whole bunch of stuff so no one's going to know what I'm talking about now. Yeah. No, I'm saying that's the kid's the way of like communicating. the He never did that.
00:44:45
Speaker
see You can't impersonate Raimundo. He was just a cool dad in there. like yeah He's the dad? He's the Hawaiian dad? ah he No, that's that's what's his name? Tito. he was like the shorter Hawaiian He's the guy that looks like the singer with from Puddle of Mud.
00:45:07
Speaker
i don't know what he looks like. He's like, whoa, bro, psychedelic tubular. Yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's him. Okay, yeah, I get him. All right. Rocket pop. Didn't think we'd talk about that.
00:45:21
Speaker
i know, that was such a random thing to bring in. but it's like very like i mean kids television child's play chucky i feel like that was all around the same time for like me kind of um yeah i was watching rocket power when i was terrified of chucky yeah i was watching chucky while i was watching rugrats seeing another version of chucky Yeah, you were getting a ah little bit of Rugrats with your Chucky.
00:45:51
Speaker
you know I was watching Rugrats to get away from Chucky. I just wanted all things Chucky. um But on the on the documentary, um did they talk about like his name, Charles Leroy, and how they came up with it?
00:46:09
Speaker
No, I didn't get too far into the documentary. um Do you remember the story? Yeah, so Charles Lee Ray has a combination of names um from ah real life people. So um James Earl Grey, who shot Martin Luther King, and then Lee Harvey Oswald, who um shot JFK, and then Charles Manson.
00:46:35
Speaker
So all of that combined, you got Charles Lee Ray. All around like that same era too, right? The 60s? Mm-hmm. I think so. Yeah. Watch we're off on um on that date too.
00:46:50
Speaker
I feel like that's correct. some Sometime around... I feel like a lot of that... I could be wrong. I'm terrible at history. um Same. But i don't know. Maybe I should know the day these important people were assassinated in this horrific... I'm...
00:47:06
Speaker
Manson was in the 60s and I'm pretty sure Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in the 60s. JFK I'm not too sure about. um Just that combination though. That's so cool. And just really creepy to think about. so like It's kind upsetting. Chucky's not a bad name.
00:47:23
Speaker
Yeah. And Chucky's not a bad name. Yeah. No, I have a, you saying all that, I have a newfound appreciation for it. it Okay. I mean, i you're welcome. I liked the name in general because they're synonymous with the serial killer and Chucky from Rugrats. I don't know if that's why you brought up Rugrats actually because of Chucky.
00:47:43
Speaker
Yeah, I did. So, I mean, those are, yeah, the two things that come to mind, honestly, Chucky from Rugrats comes to mind before the serial killer Chucky when I hear it. um But, uh,
00:47:56
Speaker
What's it called? So yeah, I always thought it was creative for that reason. I'm like, they really got that name cornered. You can't really name your kid Chucky if people were actually like calling their kids Chucky's. You can't do that anymore. It's ruined.
00:48:08
Speaker
Like just pop culture has and thrown that name into the toilet like for there's real people. Yeah. There's only like one other time i can think of the name Chucky and it was from that movie Blood In Blood Out. Like, have you seen that movie?
00:48:27
Speaker
No, I haven't. Is that a horror movie? it's not a horror movie it's uh it's like a gang movie um this uh this like these two rival gangs like they um one of them like injured someone from like this other gang and when they were trying to like retaliate like the guy um i think his name was paco in there he was like going off on their leader, you know, like, everyone's, like, spitting venom at each other, and then you just hear him getting pissed off, and Paco's just like, you know ah fuck these... but I'm not gonna say all of it, because I can't... I'm very bad at, like, Spanish, and I'm very bad at Spanish slang, but he was just like, you know, get up, Chucky, get up! And then you see, like, one of his guys just comes up with, like, a fucking, like, shotgun or whatever, and they're, like, ready to, like, just...
00:49:21
Speaker
murder the shit out of each other. So, yeah. That's the only other time that I can actually think of the name Chucky or what comes to mind. um But nine times out of ten, it's Chucky from Child's Play.
00:49:34
Speaker
The reigning Chucky. feel like if...
00:49:36
Speaker
I feel like if there's a character named Chucky in anything else, the other characters have to call out, like, ha-ha, you have the name of the kid from Rugrats or the serial killer doll. I feel like it has to be called out.
00:49:50
Speaker
Otherwise, this movie takes place in an alternate reality that is not our own because... ah real somebody would mention it. It would come up. Yeah. you know And even like the going along with both the Chucky characters like from here and from Rugrats like they're both redheads and that was another thing um ah the creators were trying to like go with because they're like you know when you see a redhead you think of a person who has no soul. so like
00:50:24
Speaker
Yeah, let's make him a little redhead. like I thought that was a cool little detail they included. So they intended on that two-year-old toddler to not have a soul? Yeah, pretty much.
00:50:35
Speaker
So that first Aunt Maggie kill, the first aunt, the first kill in general, I say that like Aunt Maggie dies several times throughout the movie. She's Kenny from South Park. Chucky just keeps getting her throughout the series.
00:50:47
Speaker
Would be a cool idea. Reoccurring character, never acknowledge why she's back in each movie. Chucky gets her every time. Never now that she died. um watching it this time around um i was so tense the entire time she was in the apartment and i was thinking like i didn't really think the chucky movies would be that scary it's hard to really like i get tense more than anything i didn't think i would really like have my art my art my heart rate elevated almost every time chucky was in killer mode
00:51:20
Speaker
um um I was like super tense and like almost like on the edge of my seat really like enjoying it and The fall.
00:51:33
Speaker
Aunt Maggie's fall is so fucking cool. This movie was filmed at a $9 million dollars budget. um Smashing that car that whole fall.
00:51:47
Speaker
I can't even imagine how they would have done that in 88 years. ah but United Artists 2. I don't think they're like that big of a studio.
00:51:59
Speaker
um Yeah, that was just like incredible. I loved it. Her like spinning to land on her back I felt like was a nice touch as she's falling and then smashing into the car.
00:52:11
Speaker
It was so fucking... You feel that smash. like yeah I don't know how they captured it or what they dropped on that car, but it was really, really well done. like That is like one of the money shots. That and I assume the burning Chucky animatronic and just the animatronic in general. The animatronic is fucking and crazy.
00:52:35
Speaker
but But also before I get too far away from this kill scene, the POV Chucky 2, I know that's like lifted from Halloween and shit. It's gotta to be. But it's like... God.
00:52:46
Speaker
it I loved it. I hope this series has a lot more Chucky POV. I don't think this movie... It had a good amount. I was wondering if I could have gotten more. i was like, I'd like to see more of like this Chucky 2 before we really like hear the voice where he's like, you stupid bitch, you know The iconic line.
00:53:12
Speaker
Yeah. ah We'll get to that. We will talk about it. Patience. I love that kill, though. when it happened I watched that kill, like, three times.
00:53:23
Speaker
It's so good. um I loved it. Yeah, I yeah like the fact that they slowed down her fall, like and then after she made impact, they...
00:53:37
Speaker
they cut back to the broken window where she fell from. and The first time I watched it, I was like, well, where's Chucky at? He's the one that did it, right?
00:53:49
Speaker
There's no one there. but Maybe that weird kid who fucked up breakfast did it. Maybe that's the twist. Like, he he didn't even wake up. Like, what happened? But um just them cutting back to that, I thought that was, like beautifully shot.
00:54:04
Speaker
um I'm trying not to say the word like so much. I'm sorry if I do. I'm sorry, you guys. But um just seeing that, it just, it made it creepier. i don't know how more to explain that. She, you see her fall, and then they just cut back to that.
00:54:21
Speaker
And it's just, like, damn. It's very ominous and unsettling. And very quickly after that, I think we're cutting, like, it's very, it's jarring because quickly it's Karen getting off the bus.
00:54:37
Speaker
And um yeah, I really like that touch of how quickly we are to Karen arriving. We're not like really leaving the scene of the crime. It's just, we jump a little bit forward in time. And this is when Karen and the detective, I think, first meet, right?
00:54:53
Speaker
Yeah, she makes her way up to her apartment, which I love because no one stopped her outside. ah No one stopped her until right when she got to her apartment.
00:55:05
Speaker
That white woman privilege, man. She's walking around like she owns the place. I know, right? It's because of her peacoat that she had. yeah like mean It is her house, her apartment, her very, very nice apartment.
00:55:21
Speaker
um Right? It's so beautiful. It's like a house in an apartment. i like how like You should be thankful you have the job that is paying for this. like You should be happy you had to stay for that extra shift.
00:55:37
Speaker
Yeah, seems like you need a pricey place. and don't know. Also, i don't see a man anywhere. Let's not be rude.
00:55:48
Speaker
This man just came into her life now. She just meets him for the first time. I'm not... Mike Norris. I'm saying that by the means of just indicating there's no second income coming into that household.
00:56:02
Speaker
She's the only one bringing it in. Why are you so reckless with this job you have? Why? Because it was for her son, her cute ass kid that she just wanted to make happy. Even- can make them happy when they're homeless.
00:56:19
Speaker
But did you see, like we skipped over this part, but did you see like that really genuine grateful hug this kid gave his mom and embraced her after getting the toy of his dreams when she brought that home?
00:56:34
Speaker
Hugs don't pay bills. Yeah. They don't, but she did that yeah for the gratitude of her child, for the happiness of her child. I'm saying this as if I like kids and I want to kick half of them. so child happiness paid bills, I would have had a kid a long time ago.
00:56:52
Speaker
Okay, okay. Anyway, back to the scene where she... um I am an asshole. You are. i know. I know. But anyway, um back to where she meets ah Detective Mike Norris, Chris Sarandon's character.
00:57:08
Speaker
You know, he's explaining Maggie's death and then she finally sees, ah well no, she sees Andy first and then um he explains Maggie's death. and her that That was painful just to see her, like, look out the look at the kitchen, see the window broken, like,
00:57:26
Speaker
well I would hate to have to see you like the aftermath of that. Yeah, the little like ah footprints. um and The humorous part. Yeah, she should have been like, have you seen the movie Leprechaun?
00:57:40
Speaker
um It could have been a leprechaun. The design of those shoes, though, are insane. Yeah, they're like, we matched him up with all of Andy's shoes. Couldn't have been him.
00:57:54
Speaker
And it's like, it's such a weird setup, like flower on the counter. It's like, he had to have done it. Right. Like, he was small enough. He could have jumped on there.
00:58:06
Speaker
They just hate hate those kid that kid, too. The detective was like, we got to get this kid off the streets. He's going to ruin breakfast for a country if we do not nip this problem in the butt.
00:58:19
Speaker
You know? Moral of the story, don't fuck with Nick's breakfast. like he'll He'll want to kill you too. and don't even eat cereal. Then why are you bitching about it?
00:58:34
Speaker
It's a principle thing. i don't know. I feel that. I feel that. it's also We talked about the wasted food thing in the psycho episode, how that kind of like sticks in my craw a little bit.
00:58:49
Speaker
Yeah, true. There's something about messes, people making messes, and them like sitting there and not being cleaned up, or like property damage that doesn't sit well with me in movies. And I'm like, somebody has to account for this. This is going to cost money.
00:59:12
Speaker
Or like irreplaceable things getting destroyed like breaks my heart. I know, like, who's going to pay for this window now? Because now she's out of her babysitter. who Yeah, I think that's why, too. I think it's because we're watching movies that are, like, lot of the times written by people who, like, are wealthier and, like, have more access and, like, all this shit gets destroyed and there's, like...
00:59:38
Speaker
It's of like little to no consequence to these characters. And I'm like, this would be earth shattering if I lost like this many personal possessions. I don't have that much.
00:59:49
Speaker
Right. Exactly. You know, this is all I have. and People don't get it these days. Speaking of people neglecting to pay bills in the way that they should or being frivolous with their job.
01:00:04
Speaker
Child's play. oh ah Me rude or Karen? you're rude leave karen out of this leave her out of this i know she is she just lost yeah she just lost her best friend she's a single mom doing her best she wants to like try to sleep with um have andy like sleep in her room with her because she's oh geez obviously feeling sad thought you were gonna who's she trying to sleep with No, that's why I was trying to word it differently. No, she she's like trying to talk to Andy. He says, you know Aunt Maggie was a real bitch and got what she deserved. That's what Chucky said. That was a cutest ah line from him.
01:00:46
Speaker
Apparently, the actor, Alex Vincent, was nervous to say that line because he didn't want to ah swear.
Suspense and Key Scenes
01:00:53
Speaker
um so i think that was also cute. and but Then he grew up to just be a full-blown misogynist.
01:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much. But no, like... No, I'm kidding. He probably doesn't hate women. You can't agree with... Not like me. Stuff like that. Not like me.
01:01:12
Speaker
This episode would hardly indicate you hate women. Anytime I'm throwing jabs at these two broads, you're like fucking coming their defense. Because i love this movie so much. You can't bash this movie. not bashing the movie.
01:01:27
Speaker
bashing You're bashing the women. Yes. They're part of this movie. You cannot win with me here. Maybe I'm the real villain. Maybe I'm not an ally like I thought I was. Anyway. Yeah, you're really not. yeah You're really not.
01:01:40
Speaker
Thanks for seeing it, my boy. Anyway, no, she was... The contention.
01:01:48
Speaker
She was just asking him, like, do you want to sleep in with me tonight? um Just because, you know, shes she's all shaken up from her friend's death, and she feels... He probably feels the same way, but he's like, no, I got Chucky. And he, like, grabs the doll, he's hugging him, and it's like... What's the this poor woman Ariana Grande song?
01:02:06
Speaker
Bye, next, or okay, thank you. or maybe that's Taylor Swift. I don't listen to either of those women. Goodbye next or something. I don't know. And you're over here knocking the music that I listen to. I don't know.
01:02:20
Speaker
I didn't knock the music you listened to. When did I do that? You know. A few episodes ago. A few episodes ago. You are misremembering. Well, no, I did take a shot at All Time Low. No, I didn't say anything about All Time Low. I said nothing, actually.
01:02:35
Speaker
Where did All Time Low come at? Or All American Rejects. I don't know. One of those bands.
01:02:42
Speaker
ah You know what? We're straying from the topic and you're just getting me So am i getting you're not going to win these arguments. You're not going to win these arguments with me. No, you're not. okay But um you said you're not going to win the argument. you You said a very like mean you to a band I liked.
01:03:05
Speaker
Oh, which band was it? I don't remember. i don't know. I was felt bad for saying to begin with and didn't feel any better after the youw Dude, every almost every band I listened to in high school, people made fun of me for it like all the time. Same here. There you go, saying like again. I'm so sorry. No, I'm not. I don't know. I feel like our musical tastes like for the most part line up.
01:03:30
Speaker
We've just mentioned a lot of bands that the other isn't like too hot on since we started the podcast. mean, I'm pretty sure you like Cannibal Corpse, right?
01:03:42
Speaker
and when i mentioned I got to crowd serve to Cannibal Corpse. That was fun. Which song? I don't remember it was long ago, but I do remember um they did like a marathon pit. I love that we always bring up like moshing or whatever, but um I was there with three of my cousins and then my brother and my brother, he was like,
01:04:06
Speaker
I don't know, he was on something or whatever, but he he got all excited after we were crowd surfing and then he thought they were going to do just standard moshing, but they were going over like, all right, we're going to do the point here, point here, point here, whatever.
01:04:21
Speaker
And he's like, all right, Mercedes, let's go. I'm like, not going. And then they all take off and I'm just, okay, bye. And he had a white t-shirt on. So I'm just waiting for him to come around.
01:04:33
Speaker
And then I see all the people that he started with come around and my brother was gone. So I'm just looking. Where did he go? he died And then finally, I know.
01:04:43
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But then he came around finally and he's just saying oh my god that was so embarrassing i fell his face was so red and i could not stop laughing at him and he's i thought i was gonna get trampled but everyone actually like helped get me up and yeah i was just oh my god they actually helped me so i thought that was a good time Yeah, that's what's cool when when people help you up. um I got fucking slammed to the ground hard as shit to this band called The Red Chord.
01:05:13
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I don't know if you're familiar. They were playing in... I am not. they I don't know if you would call them hardcore. I don't really know what you would call them, but... ah and The floor was concrete.
01:05:26
Speaker
So it was hard as fuck. And no one picked me up. It was a really aggressive pit. no I think was my first mosh pit, actually.
01:05:37
Speaker
i was in eighth grade. And you fell. o Yeah, fell hard as fuck to the ground. Yeah, that shit hurt. Shit. ho um My first crowd surf was ah to Lamb of God's walk with me in hell.
01:05:51
Speaker
Ah, that's badass, man. I wish I remembered which song it was, but that's badass. I love it. It was pretty cool. I lost my phone. It fell out of my pocket. I was able to relocate it, though. um Security had it, but that was super memorable.
01:06:06
Speaker
That was a great lineup. I won't try to stay the concert for too long. it People did love it, though. People did love it. So maybe we should yeah do more of it. Yeah. we ah That was our best material. um But it was Municipal Waste, God Forbid, Children of Bodom, As I Lay Dying, you lucky and Lamb of God.
01:06:28
Speaker
That was a great lineup. I ditched school early that day. This was freshman year of high school, 2009. I ditched school early that day with my friends. We all went to Burger King.
01:06:40
Speaker
Uh, got whatever garbage there, hopped in my brother's van, went on the expressway, waited in line for hours. had to piss, walked across the street to this Mexican restaurant. They were like, you can't use our bathroom unless you buy something. So I bought Tres Leche cake. That was my first time having that cake. Fucking loved it. scarf down the whole thing went to the bathroom and had one of the best concerts of my life and then after the show the van we drove in got totaled and we spent hours in the city of Chicago um trying to get to the towing yard and calling like friends parents to pick us up and all of this it was a great time very very memorable concert
01:07:29
Speaker
Holy shit, that was like a whole event in itself. It was a full day. Outside of the concert. Yeah, seriously. but that's That's dope. But so, ah Child's Play.
01:07:41
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um Are we, let's see, do we have any more big deaths? Oh, Eddie's death. I, for some reason, I thought Eddie didn't die in this movie. And I was like kind of excited. I'm like, oh, I guess we're going to see what comes of Eddie in the other movies. And then when they kill I'm like, oh, I don't know why I thought he didn't die. um What do you think of a the Eddie death, though? And Andy annoyingly walking around yelling, Chucky.
01:08:12
Speaker
I was more so mad at the fact that this kid was able to get into like what South Chicago perfectly fine. No, that's like he's in Chicago like deeper in than we are, I would say probably right.
01:08:28
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like Like he was in the ghetto. That's where he was at. It was bad. yeah He can navigate the Chicago public transit system like fucking no other like a pro.
01:08:39
Speaker
No one fucks with him because they're scared of Chucky. and he is able to just go there, you know, perfectly fine. I'm surprised this kid wasn't scared either. Like, I don't know. But yeah, his...
01:08:55
Speaker
His voice saying Chucky was a little weird, but i don't know. Eddie's scene, Eddie's death scene, I didn't really like it. i i But at the same time, we don't know this guy's character that well. We just know he was his partner, Chucky's getaway guy, and he got away without him. um He seemed a lot younger than Charles, too.
01:09:20
Speaker
Yeah, he he definitely looked a lot younger. um Maybe it's the hair. I don't know. um But yeah, I thought it was cool that they added it to it. And the whole, you know, lineup, you see Chucky's point of view, he's running up to the the house, he's turning on the gas and everything.
01:09:40
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um he's laughing his... um iconic laugh just to kind of scare Eddie or just kind of like, you know, prepare him for what's coming.
01:09:51
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And obviously he couldn't prepare for this. He he blows up. like That was a cool death scene, but i don't know. At the same time, I don't really like it just because I don't like Eddie's character because he's a nobody. He's an average schmoke.
01:10:04
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That too. I forgot about that. For a $9 million dollars budget, they like blew up this house. That... They really got their money's worth with this movie. I'm like so impressed with what they were able to accomplish. I mean, I don't know what 9 million translates into now with inflation, but it feels very low budget.
01:10:28
Speaker
Right. Yeah. um I did kind of want to like mention something. It's not related to Eddie's death, but it's still about the movie since ah we had brought up um the Chicago transit system.
01:10:45
Speaker
I love how much of a Chicago movie this thing is. it like Hell yeah. It's one of the more Chicago movies that I've seen. like I mean, Candyman is also a very Chicago horror movie, but...
01:11:00
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Like this, I love it. Like the Dark Knight, seeing it, even though that's like presented as Gotham in the movie. I love seeing like this is Chicago. This was filmed here.
01:11:12
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And like watching Child's Play, I'm like, i it's a very good Chicago movie. It feels Chicago. They say this all the time about fucking New York movies. New York feels like a character. New York feels like a character.
01:11:25
Speaker
I'm here to say, go shove it, New York. Chicago feels like a character in this movie. Definitely does. like I'm like hyping up Chicago as if I truly love it.
01:11:37
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like i have a certain type of love for Chicago just because I could say, yeah, I was born there and if I travel somewhere, people are like, oh, you're from Chicago? yeah I guess.
01:11:49
Speaker
Okay. um But at the same time, just a bunch of shit happening with Chicago. it's like It sucks. But when everyone compares Chicago to New York and They're like, oh, yeah, I love New York or I'd want to go there and X, Y and Z. It's like, no Chicago is bad enough. I don't want to go to a worse environment. So, yeah, Chicago horror films.
01:12:10
Speaker
Let's go. Yeah, we need more Chicago horror. It. It's such a good-looking setting, and it you can recognize Chicago when you see it. At least I can. like One of the Transformers movies was fucking like filmed in Detroit or something, and at the beginning, hate Transformers movies, so listeners don't make...
01:12:31
Speaker
Don't make this... Don't let this fool you, you know, that I've seen some of these things or all of them. God. You love them. I hate them so much.
01:12:42
Speaker
You love them. hate with a passion. i like Bumblebee. um But ah and Transformers 1 was okay. Yeah. Filmed in Detroit.
01:12:54
Speaker
They say it's Chicago in the movie. It's not Chicago. Doesn't look like so not Chicago. It's crazy. But yeah, more horror films should be filmed in Chicago. i just want to advocate for that.
01:13:05
Speaker
Do you want to skip ah a little further into the movie? Essentially, Karen um ends up a telling Andy, like, you know, they're going to take you away from me. So um um unless you start telling the truth, since they're all thinking like, okay, well, and now he killed he killed Annie. Now he killed Eddie.
01:13:26
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um So, yeah, she's home. She's with the the doll. I just want to cover this scene and then we could kind of like jump to the end. wasn't saying jump to the end, but like... Oh, okay. No, no cut cover what you were going to cover. I wouldn't believe Andy either. I had that in my notes.
01:13:41
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This is an unbelievable situation happening. ah Serial killer doll. This is one of the least believable... like This isn't a diss at the movie, but...
01:13:52
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but if we're talking about like the sanity of these characters when they're like oh my god someone is in my dreams like this dead person child has come back to life to avenge his mom or whatever jason is about haven't seen him um but uh it's like that's why we have the podcast um Yeah, we'll get there. yeah Yeah.
01:14:15
Speaker
But I was thinking about it. I'm like, Killer Doll might be the one I'm not believing. in Like if someone's like coming to me with this, like when the mom later comes and is like, it's Chucky. I figured it out.
01:14:31
Speaker
I would be like, as the detective, I would be like, so this kid did do it. The mom knows the kid did it. And now she's trying to cover up for it. um
01:14:43
Speaker
I will admit it's not a believable story. i just get so mad watching movies and these characters are pleading for someone to believe them on what's happening and no one does.
01:14:56
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And that just reminds me, like, almost every movie that I watch with my husband now, I'm like, would you believe me if, like, I said this, like, case, like, oh, someone's in the house, but, like, you couldn't find anyone? And he's like, no, I would actually have to see them. Like, you get scared easily. I'm like, so you won't believe me? So you get scared easily. And it's like, oh, you get mad because you're not, you're supposed to believe me. So, like, I feel that that frustration that Andy's expressing.
01:15:24
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um but Would I believe him? I don't know. There's a ghost movie ah that came out this year called Presence. And someone drops the line just like they're arguing like about like is this entity but what's going on? Someone is just like, there is mystery in this world and just leaves it at that. And I was like, pretty convincing argument.
01:15:47
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You know, I, um much like your husband, would need to see the proof in front of me. i like, am such a skeptic. But
01:16:00
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there are so I feel like to a certain extent, you have to believe somebody or like... there there is a believability like either they are like really pleading it or something is not well with them and you have to be concerned and treat them with a level of concern.
01:16:20
Speaker
But watching smile, I was like, i could reasonably convince that people are going through a smile like situation. And it's like, you know, I'm like, you never know if someone's having a really bad time or you see something crazy in the news. I sometimes think,
01:16:37
Speaker
they could have a smile monster following them around, you know? So it's like, there's convincing that could be done with me. Fine.
01:16:50
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what But anyway. ah No, I just want someone to believe me when I try to explain something to them. And I don't think they do. I will bet you most listeners probably, like, people listening to this podcast, buying into horror, probably either believe or want to believe.
01:17:08
Speaker
That is true. Yeah. You have probably more people. I've presented my case to other people, my skepticism. It doesn't line up with most people
Beliefs and Shocking Realizations
01:17:19
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I talk to. So I don't think you're in the minority um for your belief.
01:17:25
Speaker
Okay. I mean, most people are religious. Like that is believing in like entities or spirits spirits to an extent. True. Yeah.
01:17:36
Speaker
um And then even like, well, before I get to that part. um Yeah. so they, they basically like, you know, put Andy like in this, um what, like that facility um just to try to like check on him. And Karen goes home with the Chucky doll and she's just trying to get him to talk like, okay, like if you're really behind this, try to like say something.
01:18:04
Speaker
And he just like um says one of his lines, like, like I'm Chucky or like I like to be hugged whatever he said um you know she's just laughing she's like okay whatever but then she sees like that the box had batteries included the box or um drop the batteries and she's like wait then how's this little shit talking I know I was like and Charles what the fuck are you doing man put the batteries in like I know you're killing people like you're so reckless dude for real living on the edge sheet yeah that's why you got shot and you're here now because exactly you cut corners you know you hire people like eddie you forget to put the batteries in what are you doing how are you this good of a famous serial killer you're forgetting the batteries
01:18:54
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yeah Oh my God. It's because of how he starts talking to people because she's like threatening to throw his ass in the fire and then that's when he comes out with like, you stupid bitch, you filthy slut.
01:19:04
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and That's incredible. that I wasn't going to finish the whole thing. i can't i can't fully get into character because I just won't do ah do him justice.
01:19:16
Speaker
It's I was going to try. I might try. It's it caught me so off guard. The transformation, her reaction, her face when she screams, it looks like genuine terror. Like I paused it.
01:19:30
Speaker
I kept rewinding. I buy the actress when it looks like she in her head is like. oh fuck oh fuck he was right this doll is real like the it looks like the reality of that is slamming down on her she sells it so fucking well and then chucky the animatronic the fucking face work it's ah incredible i mean i loved it so much and he's like but he's like I'll teach you to fuck with me, you stupid bitch, you filthy slut. And I was like, whoa, Chucky.
01:20:08
Speaker
Cool it, man. Language. yeah I was like, oh my god, it's so funny. Funny. So good. One of the best like ah things I've seen in such a long time ah like on a TV screen. It's delightful. I loved the Chucky reveal. It's the best part of the whole movie for me.
01:20:32
Speaker
Hell, yeah. like yeah You're just waiting for it to happen, and you just don't expect for it to happen like that. So, no, it was instantly beautifully scripted. Yeah, he was like i mean almost literally like under the fire. like or ah I don't know. They were holding the fire under him, whatever the saying is and it just he takes that shift and then he's just gone too and what i really like too is when she's on the ground he like runs at her almost to scare her and when she steps back that's when he turns around and runs off i'm like damn you're fucking dick chucky like i'm gonna give her a quick scare before i run off he's that's like vindictive
01:21:20
Speaker
It but he he gets away with it and he just does it so smoothly. i hated it seeing her like out on the street just like looking both ways and feeling defeated yeah because obviously he's gone. It's like, damn, you lost right there. Charles is a little stinker, that that Charles.
01:21:40
Speaker
yeah Charles. No, he goes by Chucky. Let's not call him Charles. I like Charles. I've settled into Charles quite nicely. Once we get into the Child's Play 3, you'll know why i don't like hearing him go by Charles. like let's Let's cover that when we get I'm excited. I might start calling him Charles even more then. I want to start calling him Charles x Xavier from the X-Men.
01:22:11
Speaker
Patrick Stewart. We talked about him last week. You guys heard it. Mercedes isn't talking. She's not satisfied with what's coming out of my mouth. I'm not. Don't talk. Don't like just call Chucky by Chucky. Leave it at that. Don't diss his name. Call back to the misery episode. I'm a full name type of person.
01:22:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that, but. I did love that animatronic Chucky. um After that, we don't have many other deaths to really talk about in
Chucky's Ruthlessness and Rules
01:22:43
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the movie. We have, ah what's that character's name?
01:22:46
Speaker
Mr. Death. That's his name. Mr. Death himself. That death was sad. That was sad, honestly. like I hated seeing that. I still don't like seeing it because it's just disturbing.
01:22:59
Speaker
I liked s seeing Charles on the kitchen counter. Something kind of nice. They were having like their little conversation. It felt like friends like reconnecting, kind of.
01:23:14
Speaker
You know? Yeah, one is all chummy like, hi. And the other terrified out of his mind seeing a doll talking to him on his kitchen counter. Why did Chucky kill him?
01:23:26
Speaker
Um... I think just to kill him. like he was He went to see him just so he could figure out like why he is getting hurt and why he was even bleeding um because um Mike Norris actually shot him when Chucky was trying to attack him in the car.
01:23:46
Speaker
um So he was confused like, oh, I thought like I couldn't die. I thought I couldn't get hurt. But um is it Mr. Death or Dr. Death? Dr. Death. Dr. Death. He um was telling him, you know, you're turning human because you're spending so much time in the body. he is a doctor.
01:24:05
Speaker
And he's telling him, you know, you just you have to transfer your soul into the first person you told your secret to. And Chucky's like, oh, damn, I'm going to be six years old.
01:24:17
Speaker
And then he pulls out his voodoo doll and then he stabs it. And the poor guy dies. I hate watching that part. it It just makes me sad. I'm not going to lie. There are times that I skip that scene. because Yeah, he murdered the shit out of him. It felt like super over the top.
01:24:32
Speaker
I mean, Chucky, honestly, all of the ways he kills people are pretty over the top. He's not like a chill dude. He's kind of... No, not at all. Chucky's kind of a lot. um Doesn't seem like a cool hang. Nope.
01:24:46
Speaker
yeah Don't fuck with the check. He also seems like he'd have a lot of opinions. um might A full-on conversation with him. yeah That might not be the best opinion in today's day and age.
01:25:00
Speaker
Seems like he's little behind on the times. Depending on... we're just You're just making me want to like jump into like Bride of Chucky now. Is Chucky racist?
01:25:12
Speaker
the fuck? He seems like he would be racist. I'm a genuine genuine question. You have more experience with him. ah is He seems like he would be racist.
01:25:25
Speaker
I'm trying to think of all the movies. and He's misogynist. I don't see him being racist. I'm just seeing him being very hateful and like very deceiving of even the people that he lets ah get close to him.
01:25:42
Speaker
I guess we'll have to see. I know. like Before I start, like, spoiling everything for you, because I'm this close to spoiling every movie. I, uh, I know. And I'm really going to, uh,
01:25:55
Speaker
really hold these movies to the rules that they've established. Chucky, he can't feel pain, they say at one point, but he's becoming capable of feeling pain.
01:26:07
Speaker
Actually, i have no idea what Chucky's anatomy or like body chemistry or anything is now. Because he's like burnt to like nothing by the end of this movie. It goes full like the Terminator meets The Shining.
01:26:25
Speaker
Yeah, little by little, he starts feeling more pain and they just start destroying him. So I have no idea how, like, what's actually gonna, like, I don't know if the rules are still um the same. Like, if Chucky still abides by the same rules where he's slowly turning um human over time. i But those are the rules I know of Chucky now, and I'm really going to hold these movies to these rules, and I have a feeling they're going to break their own rules.
01:26:56
Speaker
um Yeah, they do a little bit, at least with this film. you know When you see him becoming more human, you see his like eyes are a different color. You see his hairline is starting to recede. His skin just looks dull, and I just want to work on his skin. um it's It's the stitches on the face that um make me think like,
01:27:25
Speaker
he's not fully human by bride of chucky i don't know um i'm so that's my biggest thing is where i know it sounded like a joke when i brought it up a couple episodes ago but ah where do the stitches come from what are the what's the fucking deal with uh his you want me to tell you no don't tell me i'm gonna i'm gonna learn You're getting me all excited.
01:27:50
Speaker
yeah I know. And it's going to be anyway so long because we're going movie by movie, week by week. I know. mean If you ever have the time and want to cover two movies in a week, I'm more than down to keep banking.
01:28:05
Speaker
we We're probably going to end up doing that with this series because we're both way too excited for You just tell me when. ah well well We can talk about it off mic. Let's go. I'm ready. I'm fucking loving these. Even if ah the other movies don't quite hit the peaks that this one does, i think i this is really setting me up for an enjoyable, enjoyable um just experience. I'm fucking so ready to see where this character goes.
01:28:36
Speaker
I think you'll enjoy the second one. um The second one and the first one, as I was saying earlier, those are my two favorites out of this franchise. I'm really pushing for the third one because that cover looks insane. Just Chucky's face, just angry. like He looks like he kills Andy in that one. He looks like he's out for revenge, and I'm just like, you get that revenge, Chucky.
01:29:02
Speaker
Charles, you get um I love that you're calling him Charles for even for the third movie. um I won't say my little detail for the third movie, but i might fully abandon it. We'll have to see. We'll see what turn. mean, they're going to abandon it or go just double down and No, you're going to keep calling him Charles by that movie. You'll see why.
01:29:25
Speaker
um yeah, no, you're really going like it. I'm that annoying enough that I won't be telling you. there's a reason behind it. There's a reason behind it. So yeah, I'm just going to leave it at that before I start spoiling stuff.
01:29:42
Speaker
um Anyway, you want to talk about Chucky's like quote unquote death scene in here? Yeah, I, uh... Yeah, I... it It was just pretty exciting. i I did mean what I said with the Terminator The Shining reference. It did feel like it was pulling from those movies.
01:30:05
Speaker
And i didn't mind I... i Thought it was very well done as a ah ending horror um climax, actually. And especially now, having seen... So, going forward, minor, very minor spoilers for the movie Hard Eyes, which is...
01:30:27
Speaker
I mean, this movie is coming out weeks from now, so Hard Eyes will probably be, you know, elected president by the time you're hearing this. Everybody loves it so much. I enjoyed it, too.
01:30:38
Speaker
But um Hard Eyes... is a movie that I thought overstayed its welcome ah little bit. It has that horror climax that Child's Play has, you know?
01:30:54
Speaker
The big, like, we have to have a showdown. I didn't think Hard Eyes needed it. It felt unnecessary. It felt like it was just to get it to 90 minutes. it was It hurt the movie, kind of. It felt like it just had it tacked on.
01:31:08
Speaker
just we're gonna do this just because we need something big to end the movie. um I don't think it needed it. um That's an example of that being done poorly. I think it's done... Hard Eyes was making me think, I feel like that's done poorly a lot of the times. I think the big horror climax is ah often underwhelming and unnecessary, and it's...
01:31:37
Speaker
ah horror doesn't always need spectacle to go out on like this big bang um child's play though fucking utilizes it perfectly i just loved it it's not the the strongest action sequence in the movie but it goes out on a really good and memorable note and the final shot with Andy just looking back through the door um is like perfect movies used to end you know laughing They don't fucking end anymore.
01:32:09
Speaker
They don't. They just keep tacking on like another one and another and making more villains in there that don't make sense at all.
01:32:22
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i mean, they're still... Are they doing any more for Child's Play? I know they were doing a show and then they stopped.
TV Show Reviews and Humor
01:32:31
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and Yeah, there's like two or three seasons of a Chucky show.
01:32:34
Speaker
Yeah, and I liked the first season. I really did. I was enjoying it. It took a while to build up, but I i enjoyed it. The second season, yeah it was falling off for me, and I didn't even bother with finishing it. So I don't i don't know how that goes. I just know and that um they did stop it.
01:32:52
Speaker
um I heard good things about that and the Exorcist TV show, both of which I think were pretty short-lived. There's an Exorcist TV show? I didn't know that. Yeah.
01:33:05
Speaker
Oh, snap. yeah Maybe I do live under a rock. i got I gotta do more research. It wasn't that well known. I think it was on like sci-fi or something like that. Yeah, I was able to buy both seasons for like five bucks or something when it was on sale.
01:33:20
Speaker
um Yeah, one thing too that ah I was surprised this movie got a sequel. with ah There was no after credit scene. I don't get it. I'm like, how is there a sequel no after credit scene?
01:33:34
Speaker
i don't get it. No, it it sucks too, because every time there's a scene like that, I never know about it. i always end up leaving. And then I hear people saying like, oh, did you see like the post credit scene? I'm like, there was there was one.
01:33:49
Speaker
So then when I did start saying for them, those were the ones that I don't see or they don't include one. So get pretty mad about that. See, i ah usually always stay for the credits.
01:34:00
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A lot of the times that's where i kind of collect my thoughts for the movie. I like to take in the score, too. um Just, like, chill out for a minute before I get up and start doing stuff, especially if it's a really good movie.
01:34:14
Speaker
And so I'm there anyway, and I'm at the point where I'm getting actively mad when I see an after-credits sequence or something. Yeah. Because I'm just sitting there watching the credits.
01:34:27
Speaker
ah Usually, a lot of the times I'm writing my review right then and there. um My first initial thoughts. And then it's like, I have to look up and watch something. And most of the time it's just fucking useless nothingness.
01:34:41
Speaker
And i mean, if it gets people to stay for the credits, that's cool. I mean, i think like people should care more about the credits. Like a lot of people worked very hard on the movie we watched and it, it, it just like, I don't know, but also it just, it's a me thing. I do usually really like living with the score. Um,
01:35:05
Speaker
But that most people don't sit through the credits. I i get it. Marvel has just trained people to think that they need to sit through the credits, but they actually don't want to. Normally, the people I'm with, they're quick to leave. so everybody i go with but to leave yeah Everybody I go with who's like not as big of a moviegoer as I am, they're like, oh, you stay for the credits? That's weird.
01:35:29
Speaker
And then they stop being friends with me.
01:35:38
Speaker
yeah I'm sorry. i didn't mean to laugh at I was sent it up for a laugh at it. I paused for it and I'm glad that you filled the space and it wasn't dead air. I know. Imagine if it wasn't like, damn, that was bad joke.
01:35:53
Speaker
I tell a lot of bad jokes. Most of them are bad. So are mine. I've said some on here and you didn't even laugh. I'm sorry. i i notice that when I listen back sometimes. I'm like, oh, I missed a good joke. I should have called more attention to it.
01:36:11
Speaker
um I'm sorry. Nah, I'm just not i'm just not i don't a good joke teller. suck. Just say it. You don't suck. Just say it. You're also not a bad joke teller.
01:36:22
Speaker
also didn't know you considered yourself a joke teller. I'm really not. If I hear a funny joke and I want to tell it, I'm so bad at it because I'm laughing to get to the punchline.
01:36:38
Speaker
And I just basically ruined the whole the ruined the whole joke. And anyone who has to hear me laugh on this podcast, I'm so sorry. I have a horrible laugh. And I laugh a lot on yours.
01:36:50
Speaker
ah it's because i'm i'm so funny i'm just i know you just you said that and i was like the flip my sides or whatever the only explanation is me i know that the only thing you can be um works it just works i uh no i only said the joke teller thing because i would consider you you're a funny person you're a charismatic person i just you don't really like go around telling jokes you know you say like funny things you have funny anecdotes funny quips i don't think you've ever told me a joke i just run
01:37:31
Speaker
like No, I just rip on people. save like you I don't tell a joke. Knock-knock jokes for your real friends?
01:37:39
Speaker
I don't have knock-knock jokes. though No, honestly, though, the only... it I'm okay with that. Buy you the most basic lame joke book. Please do.
01:37:50
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No, I will admit though, the only person that I will legit tell jokes to, like full on setting up a joke, is with my dad because we send each other corny ass dad jokes all the time.
01:38:05
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so Alright guys, we're back. We're here now. Like 20 minutes from when you heard us last talk about couple seconds ago. We've had some technical difficulties, but Mercedes is gonna spin a yarn for for the third time.
01:38:27
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This will be your guys' first time hearing it though. It's like not even funny anymore. It's so fun. It's even funnier now. Not to us.
01:38:38
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It's going to play good though. I hope so. We'll see. No, i was just some saying that I'm a bad joke teller. I don't really try to tell jokes because i laugh at them a lot so I don't get to the the punchline ever.
01:38:55
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And then the only person that I do actually tell full-on jokes to is my dad because... anyone who knows my dad knows he's just he says the most random shit and he tries to say corny jokes so we just say corny dad jokes to each other um but aside from that I don't really tell jokes I just swear at people and they happen to think it's funny so I don't know I swear at you a lot what do you think It is funny. It is naturally comical when a woman swears, especially a woman who's like drastically smaller than me.
01:39:36
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I find it kind of funny. Wow. Okay. Did that bother you? I'm sorry. Is that what everyone thinks about me? Everyone who's listening who knows this, when you talk to me, are you making fun of me? Are you like literally in your head thinking, wow, this short creature is just... She's so amusing to talk to. you I don't think they think creature. don't know if that's the word they're jumping to. That's what you just jumped to. You just made this a whole ass thing. You said creature.
01:40:08
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You made this a whole ass thing about my height. So fucking rude. Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure. This is the hole you dug, Nicholas. This is on you.
01:40:21
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I'm pretty sure, maybe more so than you, when people see me, I i think they see my height first. Probably.
01:40:32
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My face is up here. you know Stop looking at all this. yeah i know I got a lot going on. yeah For the listeners, I gestured to my very long body.
01:40:46
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And I'm just short with nothing to offer here. But well profanity, apparently. When you say it like that, when you're like, I'm just short, just short, it's putting a little stink on it.
01:41:00
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That's pretty much how I describe myself to other people. Like, yeah, I'm short. And everyone always thinks I'm like under five feet. and I'm like, no, I am five zero. um but It's a confident number.
01:41:13
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you I'm pretty sure that's all I am because my mom... five and I'm staying at it. it Yeah, and that's how I say Any taller, any shorter. Nope. I like hit my tallest point in seventh grade and then one day I just came to eighth grade and everyone was taller than me. I'm like,
01:41:34
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Okay, this is my life now. And now have people like you to throw it in my face. So i thank you. i don't even remember why I brought up the hype. I am truly sorry. That's like such a rude thing to like dunk on you for. It's one low hanging It's my control too. Like what the fuck? It's so mean for no reason to. I didn't intend on it being mean, but I think it was this episode we were talking about intentions you know with Andy.
01:42:05
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you know Let's say I'm Andy in this case. And if I can come to forgive Andy for the mess he made at breakfast, can you... Come to forgive me for my comments on the height. And unlike Andy, because I'm sure there's more fuckery he's got going on in these sequels to bring her back to Child's Play.
01:42:26
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A little boy I will try not to bring your height into it that often. No, you're going to. I will. I will try. I will make a conscious effort here on this podcast. Listeners, you can hold me to it.
01:42:42
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He's not going to do it. I will. I will. Realistically, it's okay. It doesn't sting that bad. It's not like I'm going to the the lack of question my existence.
01:42:52
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you You had all this faith when I was going to the gym. It seemed like you believe believed in me that I was going to stick with it. like One of the few people I had in my life that were like rooting for me.
01:43:04
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But you don't think I can compare it to them? No, all that's gone down the fucking drain now at this point. So thank you. Thank you. if If our listeners cannot tell by the hostility in my voice, I'm trying to calm down here. You're smiling through all this.
01:43:20
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They don't need to know that. I'm very, very angry. My rosacea is triggered. You got to let me grow as a person. I'll try to grow. I'm a peacock. You got let me fly.
01:43:34
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You get one shot at it. Our next episode, Child's Play 2, you get one shot. If you make one more fuck up, that's it. I'm going solo. No, I won't because I don't know how to do the technical side.
01:43:47
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You did allude to you were moving on to bigger and better things the other day when you were like... I was i'm not. You were like, remember when Kiss opened for the Eagles?
01:43:58
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You're like the Eagles and I'm like, Kiss. No, I said Kiss and Blue Oyster You're going to be opening for me. Blue Oyster Cult, same thing. No, no, it's not. It's two different bands, but also... They probably have both been parodied by SNL.
01:44:15
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But yeah, probably. But no, the point that I was trying to make was Detroit Rock City is a good ass fucking movie. And also, um you know, we might be onto something here. We might be the band Kiss in that ah scenario, metaphor, whatever the fuck you call it.
01:44:36
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But you had to take it the wrong way. So who's Paul Stanley and who's Gene Simmons? I'm Paul Stanley. ah So I'm the fucking dickhead? God damn it. Yeah.
01:44:47
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I'm the asshole? Yeah. Pretty much. Pretty fucking much. It makes sense. The guy, whenever he opens his mouth, it's just the dumbest thing to come out. I'm that guy? Yeah. All right. yeah Fits. Let's go with it. Cool.
01:45:04
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I like it. ah I made this bed. And I... Therefore must lay in it. We're here. yeah i will try to do better going forward.
01:45:17
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No, you won't. I will. I will. Listeners, they'll know. They'll be on my side. They'll be like, Nick is changing. You know. And then it will show it will show the the other women listening.
01:45:34
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I can fix him.
01:45:38
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Okay, listeners, we'll leave that up to you. Comment on our Instagram page once we post this episode. Is he really evolving? Is Nick evolving? Is he growing as a person? Or is Mercedes right?
01:45:51
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yeah is nis fiction Is Nick fixable or is this a demolition project we're working on here?
01:45:59
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We want to hear what you guys think. Also, tell us what you think about Child's Play. It's such a good-ass fucking movie. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Go watch it before you listen to this.
01:46:11
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Hopefully you watched it before you listened to this anyways. Yeah, why are you still listening to us spoiled movies? Actually, continue listening to us spoiled movies. I'm all on board with that. It makes it funner.
01:46:22
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It makes it more fun. It does. um Do you have any final thoughts on Child's Play? um It was just... it It's just creepy. Like the other documentary, like I'll keep this short, that I was ah telling you about living with Chucky.
Franchise Opinions and Future Speculations
01:46:40
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Like they had other actors and actresses um talking about like, you know, how it made them feel. And it's like there's just something about someone like the villain, but having like funny, humorous moments and him just being ah tiny tot.
01:47:00
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and killing people. you know it's It's a good thrill to watch this movie. And then just going into the sequel, the rest of the franchise, it's a roller coaster because you see it trying to get more comedic at times and then back to the darker roots. But it's always a good time.
01:47:19
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Minus maybe one or two or three movies. like We won't get into that now. But it's a good-ass movie. It's one of my favorites. like that the number just kept climbing and then you stopped. You're like...
01:47:30
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One, two, three, who cares? That's just my opinion. ben Good or bad, it's all subjective. What is good? Webster's Dictionary actually defines... No, it's because I started like remembering, like okay, I know I don't like this one. I know I have feelings about this one. Oh, shit, I did not like this one either. I'm like, let me just stop before I ruin it for you and for our listeners. So, yeah, just, Chucky's a badass. like Short people fucking rule.
01:48:00
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I love when I can reclaim a bad movie. So just, you know, if a cult of Chucky may be my new favorite thing, who knows? I have a feeling it won't be. i have a feeling I won't like it more than Child's Play, but who knows?
01:48:16
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I say that a lot too. You said you said like a lot. There's things I've got to ditch too. Yeah, I keep saying like, and I keep saying just saying, I normally don't say that.
01:48:28
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So, I don't know. I sound I sound so fucking weird. I'm sorry, everybody. Don't listen to me. At least we're we're being honest on sand Mike. We're being lonely it like hit me in the moment. I'm like, I got to change up to.
01:48:42
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Yeah, we're we're growing listeners. you You can you can grow with us, too. You know, we become a lesson podcast, you know, and the lesson is to let yourself grow, you know.
01:48:56
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And not to be like Nick, ah throwing jabs at the little person. Oh, wow. No, why me? ah I'm the villain, right? you You really are. I'm And that's how it's always going to be. yeah No, you're not. Chucky, chucky chi chucky he he has some good one-liners, and our jokes aren't funny.
01:49:17
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ah What you actually were going to say, because I could see it on your face, you were going to say you could never be Chucky. I mean, I wasn't going to say that, but... ah Your face was saying it.
01:49:30
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The listener, they could probably feel it, too. When I said I was Chucky, you were like, no you aren't. No one can be Chucky. That's just Brad Dourif.
01:49:41
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but He's a doll, too. I mean, and don't know if they've developed the science. Maybe someone would. maybe But they'll never take the time ask if they should.
01:49:55
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I don't even know what I'm saying at this point. That is true. I stopped saying the Chucky chant like mid-chant because it's like, watch, I'm pronouncing it wrong and I'm saying some weird ass demonic incantation and then I just fuck my life over. So yeah, stay, stay away from me.
01:50:14
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Is that cultural appropriation? are you appropriating? What was it? The French? Yeah. I think that's where it's from. um i think he's speaking French. um But at the same time, like I haven't done my full on research for it. And I just pronounce things very poorly, even in English. So, yeah, don't listen to me, guys.
01:50:39
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Yeah, turn off the podcast. don't Don't ever come back. Yeah, I mean, i contribute nothing to this podcast, so we'll see how it goes going forward.
01:50:51
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I feel like I've derailed this whole thing. I had the technical issues. You didn't. I almost tanked to this whole episode. um But we came back stronger than ever. We did. Making cheap shots at me, but we've recovered and we've moved I almost want to cut that out, but people need to they need to see how I treat my coworkers.
01:51:13
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I know. They need to see the abuse I endure. Yeah, they're like, Nick is not ah good in a work environment. yeah
01:51:25
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You know, he's going to get just thrown off of his own podcast. um I did have a couple final thoughts on Child's Play. I'll just keep it pretty brief. um Chucky wasn't a fan winning me over.
01:51:41
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Andy wasn't a fan winning me over. Still hope Chucky gets him in the third one. I have a feeling Andy doesn't die, but you'd love to see it, wouldn't ya? Hell no.
01:51:55
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Wouldn't ya? Wait... oh wait we just need to hurry up and watch these next few movies. like Or you need to watch them. I already know what's going to happen, but I'm going to watch them anyway because I love re-watching movies.
01:52:08
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um And you just set me off because now I'm talking really fast and I just realized that I need you to catch up. Get on your fucking game, Nicholas.
01:52:19
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I'm only moving as fast as this podcast is. We'll talk about it off mic. you know if we If we can get more records in, I'll i'll watch these movies faster.
01:52:31
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Okay, cool. Let's go with that. But everyone, stay tuned for next week's episode of Child's Play 2. Child's Play 2.
01:52:41
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We hope you guys had a good Valentine's Day, ah good President's Day. um Any other special? I didn't i've almost completely forgot to mention this. I'm sorry.
01:52:55
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Mercedes just had a birthday, too. I want to say that on mic. Why would you do that? I have to say it
01:53:05
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Should I not? Do you want me to cut it out? I will. Should I? No, you could keep it. You already threw that. Why is everyone surprising me with my birthday? I like it was just so locked into the record. I'm sorry. i almost forgot. I mean, I said happy birthday like plenty of times on your actual birthday.
01:53:23
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but No, I appreciate that. That day is interesting. Yeah. It's just everybody go to the page, you know, or how about this?
01:53:36
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Go follow Mercedes aesthetics line.
Personal Moments and Farewell
01:53:40
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Yeah. go Plug real quick for Mercedes birthday. Go give her a follow. Yeah. Mercyless aesthetics. That is M E R C Y L E S S underscore aesthetics.
01:53:52
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And, shout out to the people. If y'all are still listening to who, you know, collaborated with my husband on my little surprise party, like that did take me off guard. I was having such a shit day. And the fact that, you know, he put that together to have you guys come to my house without me knowing and just, you know, walk in like that. That was, that was a surprise. I did not expect that, but I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. So thank you, you guys. And, you know,
01:54:27
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Thank you for making me, um you know, appreciate you. And I guess thanks, Nick, for throwing my birthday under the bus on our podcast. Sorry if I made you feel weird. um No, my rosacea is just triggered again. It's okay. so you talked That was nice hearing about your surprise party. I'm sure everybody loved hearing it. It's like, people love birthdays. that You're worth celebrating.
01:54:49
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You know, it's, you know, you're worth hosting a podcast with. Why would people not want to celebrate you? So, happy birthday, Mercedes. Yes, thank you.
01:55:00
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Thank you. Thank you. We've been Morbid Curiosities. Let's go.
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