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It's time to go up on the Hudge-top with another Vanessa Hudgens Christmas spectacular! Vanessa Hudgens meets Vanessa Hudgens, chaos meets cocoa, and royal protocol gets absolutely body-checked by bakery girl energy (who is absolutely from Chicago- she has the hat to prove it!). Help us close out this year's Go Get Your Ho-Ho-Ho's with this Netflix classic.
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Laptop Charging Strategies
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It's a Christmas miracle. My computer turned off for the first time since I've had it. Well, I've only had it for like two months. Oh, okay. But like, you don't turn off your laptop, right?
00:00:14
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No. No, I let it die. When we were kids, you're like you had to shut down the computer, right? Yeah. Yeah. But now, like, I just forget.
00:00:24
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Like, because you just close it. Yeah. So I don't know. But when i tried to when I tried to get on the computer, it was like, nope. Christmas! I had to, like, press the button to reset it. And it's fine. But it was just, you know. It took a hot minute. Maybe occasionally I should turn the laptop off. It's probably good for it.
00:00:41
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I think it's good. Somebody, i think Charlie once told me that it's really good for a computer to let it naturally die. That's good for batteries in general because that's why your phone won't charge sometimes. Oh, really? You know how it says
Battery Charging Insights
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like charging on hold? Yeah. Or like we're going to time the charge to where it'll be ready because like it knows that you're going to sleep and it's like I'm going to slowly trickle charge the battery and it'll be ready at like 5 a.m. It always gives me that notification when I'm going to Yeah.
00:01:11
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That's why. yeah it's the battery. Same thing with my computer. Like my computer will have a little note like notification that pops up. It's like charging halted at 70%. It'll hold like this for you know a while before it charges more. Which is, yeah. it's like And you go and you feel like if you want to like use the, I think you can click override or something because if you're like if you're going to leave with it, you want it fully charged. but Yeah, but still.
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ah I didn't know that that was a thing on computers too, but my computer is still old. Oh, no, wait. It is a thing. Okay. JK. yes That was so fast.
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Oh, I just like clicked the
Thanksgiving Highlights
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little button. um Anyways, Katie, let's get to the um the meat and potatoes of it. ah Happy. be Oh, for God's sake. Happy hump day.
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I hope that there are some listeners who appreciate this because i don't. Uh, well, I'm sure plenty of people do. I actually spent, uh, I spent Thanksgiving and the hump day of all hump days with the originator of my college hump day parties, or at least the host of them. Um, yeah and his wonderful wife, who's also my friend and the guy who made you vote for the first time. Yeah. He made me vote for the first time. Cause he, um, scared it out of me. Mm.
00:02:35
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Thank you, Zach. Now he's a very fancy lawyer. Does he listen to the show? No, of course not. No, he doesn't. Well, how good of a friend is he really then? Exactly. Exactly. But so for Thanksgiving, we went to the Poconos with them, which is what we did last year. And it's a nice relaxing little Thanksgiving. And it's very lovely and wonderful. And we spend it with their adorable toddler, William.
Wine Deals and Thanksgiving Revelry
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But I had, so Stu Leonard's, the deranged grocery store here in Connecticut.
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the animatronics? With the animatronics. Correct. Has this one thing in their liquor store where you can, like, buy a ah little bag of six bottles of wine for $50. And... how many... Wait, what...
00:03:25
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How big bottles of wine? Like full bottles of wine. Oh, okay. Well, no, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good deal. It's a great deal. And you can like, normally they're like themed like tour of Italy, tour of France, all white, all red, stuff like that.
00:03:40
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Um, and so I told Charlie about it and I was like, yeah, why don't we just go to Stu Leonard's and get, um, cause we were in charge of pies and alcohol. Oh, at least I made ourselves in charge of pies and alcohol. Um, I told them that's what I'm bringing pies and alcohol. That's the fun thing to bring. That's the fun thing to bring. um And so I was like, well, why don't we go to Stu Leonard's? And he was like, are you sure they have that deal? And so like, I was trying to Google it and I couldn't find any evidence that they had it. And I was like, no, I know this is a thing. I've seen it. And I bought one once with my book club, with my um theater, Connecticut theater book club. And we all went in on one I remember it is a thing.
00:04:21
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And i was like, I don't know. i don't believe you. And so I was really nervous that this was going to happen. Like it was not going to be a thing. And don't you hate it when someone says, I don't think you're right. And then you're not right. Right. worst Right. It's the worst. It's the worst. And so we show up at Stu Leonard's at their liquor store and we walk in and lo and behold, they're in the center on like a little wine barrel is three, there were three left bags of the six bottles of wine. They only had tour of Italy. It was tour of Italy or bust.
00:04:57
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ah huh um Did you really shove it in his face? Did you do a dance about it? did. You got to dance. I constantly, I held on to the receipt. um I was like, yep, I won. I won. um But then had forgotten. That one gif Andre Brouwer going, vindication, vindication.
00:05:15
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um But then I had also forgotten that we had gotten two bottles of Prosecco for Thanksgiving Day mimosas. Sure, of course. um And as we're driving to the Poconos, Charlie turns to me and goes, Emma, we are bringing...
00:05:32
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eight bottles of wine ah to a Thanksgiving that is just four adults and a toddler. ah For how many days though? For two days? For three days? For 72 hours.
00:05:50
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I mean, two bottles of wine per person in three days is not that bad. It's not that bad, you would think. But I mean, I would be drunk if that were true. that There was also 12 pack of beer that Charlie picked up. Of course. And they have a toddler. And so they don't really drink that much. Right. You don't want to get like ah completely completely wasted. You've got a toddler in the house. yeah You've got a toddler in the house. If you have to take the toddler to the emergency room. Correct. So I was like, OK, guys, we can do this.
00:06:25
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Wait, you're right you didn't think, well, you know, but then we'll have a couple of bottles of wine that we can bring home afterward. You're like, no. No, we can do this. We have to create a plan where we will, someone is sober enough to take care of the child at all times, but also we can knock out these eight bottles of wine.
00:06:44
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We got this. We got this. um We did not get this. um No. there was There was a moment when Zach turned to me he goes, I'm going back to beer. And I was like, there.
00:06:56
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Yeah. Yeah. um it's a It's hard to get. I mean, it depends on the wine, too. you Yeah. like some some I mean, like is the whites went fast. The whites were easy to get through. But like the reds the reds were rough. Well, so you're a white wine girly and I'm a red wine girly.
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Oh, see, yeah. We were left with the reds. And so, like, now we're slowly getting our way through the remainder of these Thanksgiving wine bottles. But, like... yeah um Was it three and three, white and red? Yeah, it was three and three. And then I forgot, we'd also brought... Charlie had got a Coderone red, um...
00:07:35
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I can't remember why he just got it from Costco because it's a good bottle of wine. So nine bottles of wine. So nine bottles of wine. Nine bottles of wine. And we'd also brought – we'd gotten mead. wait, what were the Italian – was it like Chianti or something? Yeah, it was like Chianti's. It was like a variety of different – I don't know much about wine. it was Pinot Grigio. don't know I've ever had Chianti.
00:07:57
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Pinot. Nope. Noir. That's French. ah Yeah. It was like a bunch of Chianti's, a bunch of um like Italian wines.
00:08:09
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And they're they're pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like if you're looking for a sweet deal, we also then. Pinot Grigio is also French, right? No, that's Italian.
00:08:20
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Well, i mean, Pinot is French. is The word Pinot is French. Yeah, but Grigio is Italian. Ah, you're right. That does sound Italian. Yeah. Oh, Pinot Gris is French. Yeah. And Sauvignon Blanc is French. um yeah But um we also then went to the Stu Leonard's store and
Toddler Entertainment
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we got their adorable toddler William a stuffed toy, which is a singing milk carton.
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It is cute. A plush singing milk carton that sings a song. And ah we stupidly gave it to him the day on Thanksgiving. And he got so excited and kept going, there's a song in there. There's a song in there, which is adorable and sweet and wonderful. But I'm so sick of that Stu Leonard song.
00:09:08
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How does the song go? is it like, open my head and drink all my insides? No, no, that's horrific. Okay. No, it's, we'd like to welcome you to just to to the world's largest dairy store. Leonard's is the largest dairy store.
00:09:26
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I don't care for that. I like to i like my version better. ah Yeah, your version is what a deranged Chuck E. Cheese creator would do. Yeah. Yeah, meant something in a Freddy Fazbear milk carton. Yeah, yeah. Horrific. Open me up and drink up all my insides. Well, it's a it's a talking milk carton. That's what she said you said.
Winter Weather Musings
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um How are you doing? Oh, fine. ah um There's so much snow outside. It's real Christmassy here. Yeah, you guys got like a thousand feet of snow.
00:10:01
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That would be too many, but yeah. um We got like a good six or seven inches, I would say. That's a lot of snow. Yeah, yeah. um over Like it just kept snowing. Like it snowed on Saturday, and then it snowed on Sunday, and then it snowed on Monday. Oh, geez. And it's supposed to snow ah next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday too.
00:10:21
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Jesus. Which is crazy for Chicago. Like Chicago does not normally have this much snow in December. Mm-mm. This is January, February problem. Yeah, big time.
00:10:32
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um But, like, you know we'll probably have a white Christmas because I don't think it's going to melt. So that's nice. But I won't be here. oh I'll be in Tennessee. Yeah, all of my friends are going be out of town when I'm in Chicago.
00:10:45
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Yeah, well. Well, that's what happens when you go over the holidays. That's true. Yeah. um I just hope it doesn't snow on Christmas Eve because that's when I'll be driving 12 hours to Tennessee. so Yeah, and that's when I'm flying.
00:10:57
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Yeah, yeah. So... So we'll see. The weather service people are like, it's going to be a cold, snowy winter in Chicago. And I'm like, they don't fucking know. They don't know. They have no idea. That's astrology for nerds.
00:11:10
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It is. The National Weather Service is basically astrology for nerds. yeah That's astrology for nerds. just like how Some would argue that astrology is also astrology for nerds. They're just different kinds of nerds. these different kinds of nerds um it's There's woo-woo nerds and then there's like science nerds. and Correct, yes. and so um so What is it? ah Meteorology is astrology for science nerds and the stock market is astrology for Dudes.
00:11:41
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Assholes. Oh, okay.
00:11:47
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I saw that once on a meme and I cannot unsee it. And now I say it all the time because it's so true. Which is what? The stock market is just boy astrology. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:59
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Because it is. It's just boy astrology. it's They don't know? Yeah. You know, um astrology, completely relevant to today's film.
'The Princess Switch' Movie Review
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Uh-huh. So much astrology involved in today's film.
00:12:19
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um That's right, guys. You guessed it. This is ah Go Get Your Girl Ho Ho Ho Edition. um This is the podcast. going to call it something different every time.
00:12:29
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I love it, though. I'm just going to keep – I mean, right now I'm living in the world of freaking – Snow my goodness and tree-tastic. So, like, this is my Are those songs from the train? No, those are exclamations I exclaim.
00:12:45
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Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, i go I have to keep track of all of your tree-mendous Christmas traditions on the count of tree. a one and two and a tree.
00:12:58
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oh dear. Snow my goodness. I completely forgot. Yeah. Oh, holy night.
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That's what I used say. ah
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You sing the song, Oh, holy night? ah No, I use it as an exclamation. Like, oh, holy night. I nearly forgot. awesome Yeah, I know.
00:13:25
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Yeah. That's pretty rough, Emma. Yep. But you know what? It makes it makes children happy. And then you get paid for it. And I get paid for it. And I get paid a lot of money for it. So ah so I bring joy to children yeah all over the greater Connecticut area. Tri-state area. Tri-state area.
00:13:46
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Rich little kids. Yeah. Boy, oh boy. um Anyways...
00:13:54
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Rich little kids. Totally relevant in this film. Kind of the opposite. but No, yeah. No rich little kids in this movie. Just poor little kids. Poor little kids. A lot of poor little kids. um That's right. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie um are living their separate but fabulous lives. And um Katie decides that she's going to go to a baking competition Oh, you've cast me as the baker and yourself as the princess, I see. Uh-huh, okay.
00:14:27
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I'll try not to be offended by that. No, no, wait, hold on, let me flip-flop that, let me flip-flop that. um I'm just kidding. No, because I'm thinking of the end result, Katie.
00:14:38
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oh sure. Who is more likely to end up with the, like, ken do Oh, that's true. i That's true. yeah, And who's more likely to end up with the, like, rugged six-pack hot guy. If there's one thing that um ah listeners should know, it's how much Katie hates royalty, so. yeah Exactly. So Katie's not ending up with a prince. That's for sure. Yeah. ah Not because Katie doesn't deserve a prince. Katie deserves all the princes, but...
00:15:11
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It disagrees with the ideology of a monarchy in general. Exactly. Okay. Okay. Let me retake this. So this is the podcast where Emma and Katie are living their fabulous lives. And Emma decides that she's going to go to a baking competition in a weird little country that nobody's ever heard of that looks kind of like the k Chris Kindle market and everybody's British. Yes.
00:15:35
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Yes. And when she's there with her BFF, who is a single dad, and they just have a platonic relationship, that's great. And all that his daughter wants is a new mommy for Christmas. That's not weird. And um while she's there, she runs into ah Katie, who they look at each other and they go, no, my goodness.
00:16:04
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Your face is my face. How is this possible? Shall we parent trap? Let's parent trap. And so they do it so that Katie can be a normal, regular person for a day.
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And Emma just has to like hang out in a palace supposedly, but things go awry and they end up falling in love with people they never thought they'd fall in love with. That's right, guys. I'm Emma.
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And I'm Katie, and today we're back up on the hudgetop to talk about the 2018 Netflix movie, The Princess Switch. Yes. The movie is so good. It spawned not one, but two sequels. And hopefully four.
00:16:49
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So far. So far. I mean, those have been both of my Christmas picks have been... um ah Hallmark-esque movies that have launched sequels. That's
TV Shows and Actors Discussion
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true. Yeah. First in trilogies. This is directed by Mike Roll, ah who has who directed All Three Switches.
00:17:08
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Yes. um And a bunch of other ah Hallmark and Netflix ah Christmas movies. The number of movies that he's directed that have the word Christmas in the title is embarrassing for him, honestly.
00:17:21
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Including ah upcoming, i think it I think I saw IMDb, it drops today, My Secret Santa, the new Netflix Christmas movies that came out this year. Yeah. Ah, shit. I'm going have to watch that.
00:17:35
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um And written by Robin Bernheim, ah who's written so much like television in the 80s and 90s. She wrote for like two different Star Treks. She wrote for Remington Steele. Oh, Remington steel remember iington Steele. Steele?
00:17:52
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I mean, no, because neither of us were born, but I have seen some episodes of Remington Steel, which is pretty charming. yeah Yeah, my mom and my grandma were obsessed with Remington Steel. They had the VHSs. And so I watched a lot of Remington Steel.
00:18:07
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um For listeners who don't know, Remington Steele is about a a woman PI who is, it's of the 80s, and she's very competent, but people don't take her seriously because she's a hot lady. Yep. And so she hires an actor played by Pierce Brosnan. This is before he was James Bond. Yep. She hires super an actor to be the face of her PI organization because he looks like James Bond. Yes, exactly.
00:18:34
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And he's kind of an idiot. Yeah. And it's it's pretty fun. yeah It's really fun. It's really fun. um Sexism. ha What a bowl of laughs.
00:18:45
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Yeah, yeah. And they solve crimes and fall in love and stuff. Yeah, exactly. It's super fun. It's super dumb. um And my I just remember my mom constantly going, Pierce Brosnan, what a dreamboat.
00:18:56
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I mean, he's kind of a dreamboat. He kind of is a dreamboat. Yeah. um ah So, yes. um And Megan Metzger. Oh, and also lots and lots of Hallmark. Oh, yeah. In the past, like, 15 years, so much Hallmark.
Vanessa Hudgens' Career Overview
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And then Megan Metzger, which these are her only credits as a writer, but she was a writer's assistant on what I can only assume is an absolutely unwatchable, long-running Hallmark Channel original drama called When Calls the Heart. Oh, I've heard of that.
00:19:33
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Of course you have. looks like the most Mormon bullshit you've ever seen. um Correction, it's not Mormon. It's Canadian. Ah, okay. Well, that she was a writer's assistant on that show, and Robin Bernheim was a writer and a producer on that show, which that must be where they met. Yep. And then they wrote this ah these three movies together. These three movies are her only writing credits. So far.
00:19:58
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So far. um and then of course we have the hudge um who is expanding her media empire she with this movie so this movie was the first one yeah um night before christmas was the year after um the night before christmas i'm sorry yeah the night before christmas which and we did last two years ago two years ago yeah we didn't we didn't go up on the hudgetop last year yeah it was an oversight on our part oh man um for that For people who aren't insane like me, ah the hudge is Vanessa Hutchins.
00:20:33
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You know, from High School Musical and High high School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3 senior year.
00:20:43
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And variety of other things. And has she ever been in anything like good? Vanessa? Oh, no, wait. She was in Tick, Tick, Boom, wasn't she? She was. And she was great in Tick, Tick, Boom. She was good. I remember thinking like, she's good in this. Yeah. And she was Maureen in the film stage production of Rent that they did for, I think, Fox. Oh, the TV14 Rent Live thing they did that I didn't watch. Yeah, that then got canceled.
00:21:15
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And got canceled because um somebody broke their leg. Oh, God. do you break your leg doing rent? I don't know. It's not like people are flying around in rent.
00:21:26
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I don't know. Fell off the scaffold? That's the only set? I mean, I think so. But then they they like had to fill they had to um broadcast the dress rehearsal because they couldn't do the live stream. Yeah, because um it was a whole thing. It was drama. But um but yeah, she's been in like other things. like She sort of like leaned into her um ah musical theater-ness.
'French Girl' Movie Analysis
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Yeah.
00:21:55
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Which is like fabulous. And I want to say she's like been in other movies that are like pretty decent. um I'm not seeing any here. Spring Breakers.
00:22:06
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Oh, Spring Breakers. I never saw Spring Breakers. I've heard it's good. People like it. Yeah. um Hold on. What is this? Oh, this looks like some bullshit. oh let's let's Let's talk about this. Okay. She was in a movie last year called French Girl. Okay. Okay.
00:22:25
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um And the starring Zach Braff. Okay. Evelyn Bruchu and the Hudge. Oh, I've heard about that.
00:22:37
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sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn has beaten the odds. A French girl has fallen in love with him and he's fallen even harder back, but their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec city. To Gordon's dismay, her future boss, played by the Hudge, also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Oceanic eyes?
00:23:05
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Oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck, Gordon. The tagline on the poster says, menage a what? ah
00:23:16
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Menage a what? Oh man, that's nonsense. So I'm guessing that that is like just, just absolute trash. um um Oh, so this is so after High School Musical, she really leaned into um the nonsense, nonsensical things. And she did a lot of robot chicken voiceovers. She did a lot of acting on Drunk History. i know how much you love ah um robot chicken. I love robot chicken and I love Drunk History. Yeah.
00:23:47
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Those are two of my favorite shows.
00:23:52
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I love them so much. I'm sending you the poster of French Girl. I need you to see how much Vanessa Hudgens is styled like lesbian. i Are we sure that it's... um Is her... Oh, wow.
00:24:06
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Oh, boy. but Menage a what? Menage a what? Also, they're acting like Quebec City is so far from New York City. It's not...
00:24:17
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And also that it's France, which it's not. Again, it's not. It's Canada. The should be called Canadian Girl. Exactly it. Canadian, or French Canadian Girl. Also, Zach Braff, how old is Zach Braff? Zach Braff is straight up 50. How, yeah Vanessa, I mean, I guess Vanessa Hudgens is in her 30s. She just seems younger, maybe. But like, she's not a love and interest for him, right?
00:24:39
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Well, no, but I mean, this other woman is, she's older. Yeah. We're fine with that. We're fine with that. It's all right. They're all, it's all normal. It's all normal. We're fine with that. just assume that because Zach Graff dated, what's her name? Oh, oh, um, um, cries really intensely face. Florence Pugh. Yeah, that one.
00:24:59
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Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, so the princess witch. Uh, but yes, the princess witch. Um, uh, Is um a movie.
00:25:15
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I've. oh Oh, Sam Palladio is ah is the prince. Oh, that's a person. Or Sam Palladio. don't. I guess that's Palladio sounds good.
00:25:26
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Palladio sounds yeah sounds better. i mean, we were right about Corn Sweat. We were right about Corn Sweat. Yeah, we were hoping we were wrong as he's become, you know, super famous now, as we predicted.
00:25:38
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And then Nick Sager as Kevin. Mm-hmm. And Nick figures abs as his abs. Yeah, big time. Yeah. Yeah. So we open on ah Chicago. Which is definitely Chicago. Don't ask any questions. Stock footage of Chicago. um The whole movie was shot in Romania, as are many movies, because of lucrative tax breaks given to films that shoot in Romania and Bulgaria.
00:26:05
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Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. So yeah, there's some stock footage of Chicago and there is a, um she runs a bakery, presumably like on State Street from the look of it. Yeah, from the look of it. must be making a ton of money to pay for the rent there. Right. Right.
00:26:22
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Well, enough that an old lady just thinks that it's the best bakery in all of Chicago. The best kept secret. Oh, sorry. The best kept secret in all of Chicago. This two person bakery that has no other employees.
00:26:36
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yeah Zero other employees. Well, I don't think, like a lot of Hallmark movies, sometimes I think these movies have to be, like, written in a weekend or something. Yeah. Because they don't do any research on any of this. Nope. They don't look up anything. We'll get to some pretty egregious stuff about that later. Yeah. but So her her best friend since high school, Kevin, and his daughter are there. And he's like, hey, surprise, I signed you up for something. It starts like in two days. And we have to go international. We have to go to a different country. Also, they're paying for it all. Yay. Also, it's during the busiest time of year for a bakery when everybody wants baked goods. And it will probably be holding up the, you're putting you in ah the green for the rest of the year. ah So we should skip it this year.
00:27:25
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We're going to go to the fictional country of Belgravia, which is apparently a- It's a neighborhood- English-speaking country in somewhere in Northern Europe and not a fancy neighborhood in London, which is what Belgravia actually is. Exactly. And I think they're trying to pull the Genovia of like, this is Luxembourg, but it's not Luxembourg. Yeah. like cuter Luxembourg. Remember Luxembourg? But English, everybody speaks English ah exclusively, like among one another. um With British accents. With British accents. Yeah. um
00:28:06
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It's just that's the, it's the kind of country that only exists in romance novels and rom-coms. It's very much the Prince and Me, Can I Before Christmas situation. Oh, Well, he's explicitly English in then in the Can I Before Christmas, right?
00:28:20
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Oh, no, he's, he's, um they they actually make an effort ah because he's Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Dutch.
00:28:31
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I don't remember. there's like There's like some sort of like little accent and he's like, well, I studied in England, so. Ah, yes. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. um but But yeah, it's ah it's an English speaking, um a British speaking country that looks like. Crone. Old Crone. No, he's English.
00:28:54
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According to the Wikipedia ah synopsis, he's English. Oh, the Canite Before Christmas. I was thinking of The Prince in Me. Oh, the prince. said Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The prince and me, they they actually put some effort into it. You're right. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're doing, um yeah, I think his his mom is actually a Dutch actress or something. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. They put some ah effort into it. um in In The Night Before Christmas, it's just medieval England.
00:29:18
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Yeah. Yeah. And we don't ask questions as to how he gets from England to America and time travels. Don't ask. It's a time and space portal. mine Yeah, time and space portal. um But in this one, there's no time and space portal. There's just a real loose idea on how genetics work. Yeah.
00:29:42
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It's true. They're identical cousins, it seems. And just wait, there's a third one that shows up in the next one. And I was so disappointed when a fourth one didn't show up in the third one. Me too. They should definitely brought up a fourth one. There has to be. I just want endless stream of hudges coming out of the woodwork. Princess Switch for too many hudges. many hudges.
00:30:05
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I also really wanted that the one be called um Princess Switch Switched Again Switched Again. Instead of romancing the star, which is what the third one is called.
00:30:20
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So ridiculous. um But yeah, also you're reminded that Vanessa Hudgens is um one of her characters. Sorry. ah Her normal American character. Stacey DeNovo. Stacey DeNovo is from Chicago because she wears a Chicago baseball cap. Yeah.
00:30:39
Speaker
One of my notes is I need to get a baseball cap that just says Chicago on it like that. It's not the Cubs. It's not. It just says Chicago. Chicago. So that people. actually know i see ah I see a lot of people in Chicago that live here wear like sweatshirts and stuff that just say Chicago. Like it's not that unusual. Yeah. But that is a a little odd. Yeah. It's a little odd. And she's wearing it everywhere. She is. She's wearing it everywhere. And I listen, I love Chicago. Yeah. um Who doesn't? I, yeah, I, um I don't know if I, if I could pull off. I'm not a baseball cap girly either. Like I don't think when my hair's a little too thick.
00:31:17
Speaker
My hair's a little too thick. a bucket hat? How dare you? a cute little bucket hat. You could look like that chick from the White Lotus.
00:31:28
Speaker
Uh, Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I don't think, i don't think hats are are good on me. It's yeah got too much hair. That's okay. That's okay. It doesn't matter because you're the princess. I'm the one wearing the bucket hat.
00:31:42
Speaker
That's true. I've got the most ridiculous accent. No, that's better. It's still better than hers. Me trying to do a bad accent is better than hers. I can't replicate how terrible her accent is in this.
00:31:55
Speaker
i Again, they must have shot this over a weekend as well because they didn't they definitely didn't have any kind of dialect coach for i imagine that um Sam Palladio, who is English, may have given her some tips but off stay ah um on set or something, but my god. yeah um Really, really hard to listen to English accent from her as her other character.
00:32:24
Speaker
um Stacy D'Onofio. Rebecca? Margaret? What is her name? Margaret. Margaret. um ah Yes, I keep closing the tab on this. ah But so she is the Duchess of another place. Yep.
00:32:45
Speaker
Another fictional country. on It's like Monaco, but not Monaco. Montesquieu, Montecilo. Something like that. yeah who cares? Yeah. Manovio. And she ah has, ah she her parents are dead, ah which is convenient for this plot.
00:33:03
Speaker
And she's there to marry Prince Edward um as a you know marriage between these two tiny, insignificant European countries. But they have to deal with the trade, and they it's for it's for diplomacy. Right, right, right. They only met twice before they were engaged, and it's for diplomacy because marriage should be about bringing two nations together, not about yeah love.
00:33:31
Speaker
It's primarily – it seems to be an absolute monarchy. Yep. King and queen. There's no mention of parliament or anything. No prime minister. And they're not good king and queens, by the way. They're bad. They're So Stacey Genovio has just gotten out of a relationship. She runs into him on the street immediately and his new girlfriend. So she gets in a fit of pique, decides that she's going to go to the bakery competition after all, even though she told Kevin she wasn't going to do it. Yep.
00:34:07
Speaker
They go there with his adorable daughter. Yep. They get to stay in this amazing at like mansion house cottage thing. Yeah, like Airbnb thing. yeah Which is like all white. And definitely has real snow in the front yard. That's definitely real snow. Don't ask any questions. Listen, it lay yeah it looks better better than the snow from- Call Out the Holly. Call Out the Holly.
00:34:34
Speaker
Because it would be impossible not to. um yeahp bep Yep. Yep. There's. um So then. ah So, yeah, we know that no one has seen the the the princess before or the the Duchess before or whatever. Yeah.
00:34:51
Speaker
ah Because she's very private. And um they are there and they meet a magical man. A magical man who was in Chicago. um yeah, yeah. yeah And he i was, you know, just collecting money for a charity. was for doing the Salvation Army thing. And he makes... Don't give money to the Salvation Army, y'all.
00:35:16
Speaker
And he makes some, like, vague Christmas Jesus all-seeing God stuff. Is he Santa Claus? I like to think that he's Santa Claus. I like it when Santa Claus shows up in adult Christmas movies. I do too, but we get a Santa Claus later who's just a creepy European man. But he's dressed like Santa Claus. This guy is the real Santa Claus. That's true. It could be this like little short king ah in a British. jolly old elf.
00:35:48
Speaker
He's a jolly old elf. ah And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. Yeah. That's from the poem. um I know.
00:36:00
Speaker
i have to repeat it. i have to do it multiple times a day. The whole thing? The whole thing. Wow. It's like worked into a song. Yeah. Twas the night before Christmas. I will not do the whole 15 minute version of it. Emma, actually, I think, I think last year you did part of it on the show before. On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen, on Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen.
00:36:26
Speaker
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away all. Estre leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. Okay. They meet with an obstacle. They mount to the sky.
00:36:40
Speaker
Sorry. Happy you. Yeah, thank you so much. ah Yeah. ah So, yeah. So, he's there. And then, whoa, magically, he's in Belgravia. And Stacey... Oh, Jesus Christ.
00:36:56
Speaker
Boys! Rowdy boys. Rowdy boys. And so, Stacey D'Onofrio...
00:37:04
Speaker
Jesus Christ, are they okay? They're fine. They're just fighting. Roland probably really wants to get on the chair that Thomas is on, and Thomas doesn't want to give up his chair.
00:37:15
Speaker
oh man. so um Some rowdy boys. Yeah, some rowdy boys. um but So Stacey D'Onofrio goes up to this strange man who's selling stockings and goes,
00:37:26
Speaker
were you in Chicago yesterday? and he goes, how could I have been in Chicago yesterday and here today? and I'm like, well, she was. You could have been on a plane. yeah An airplane.
00:37:39
Speaker
Stacey D'Onofrio was. So you easily could too. Yeah. She's the wheeze. Um, ah so yes. Um, they, uh, she runs into, oh yeah, they go to the baking competition, which is one of my favorite bits of stock footage of all time.
00:38:01
Speaker
Yep. Where they cut to a photograph of what's obviously Rush Hospital. With photoshopped Wembley Studios onto the side of it.
00:38:12
Speaker
Like, this movie had nothing to do with Chicago. My guess is, my guess is, The you know post-production team, the art department or whatever, whoever got the stock footage together, saw a photograph of Rush Hospital and thought, that's an interesting looking building. Because it is. It's a weird looking building. And it's a cool looking building.
00:38:35
Speaker
It is. And thought, we should use that as an establishing shot. Yep. So it's just funny that this movie, which the first part of it is not shot in Chicago, but is set in Chicago, then uses a Chicago building.
00:38:49
Speaker
As an establishing shot for Belgravia, the not Chicago part. But that's all the way at the end, Katie. You skipped ahead. No, no, no. It's when they first go there. Oh! They first arrive. Oh, I missed that. They use it twice. Oh, okay. I was like, that's all the way at the end, Katie. No, no, no. So it's just, but it's such a you it's such a unique looking building that yeah anybody who sees it, who's been to Chicago, would be like, that's the Rush Hospital. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:39:19
Speaker
Yeah. So yeah, they go to there and they go to there. They go to the studio and they meet um evil, tall redhead chef. Yep.
00:39:29
Speaker
Cause they gotta have one. Cause we gotta have more just plots. I don't know. Here's the thing. This movie, unlike, um it's hard to stop comparing it to Hall of the Holly. This movie has conflict in it.
00:39:47
Speaker
It is conflict light, yeah but it does have a conflict. It has an evil redhead chef. Exactly. An evil redhead chef and an evil butler. He's not evil. He's comic relief. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does he get together with Donatelli in the sequel? I don't remember. I can't remember. I want to say he does, but like we'll hold on to that because we'll probably do the sequel next year.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah. So there's Frank, who is the, who's a butler in the, in the the main, in the, in the palace. Palace. Yeah. But just really like a big room. its It's essentially like I saw the outside of it and I was like, oh no, this is just a fancy house in Vancouver. Had I not known it was Romania. It's a chateau in, in, in Belgium actually is the establishing shot of that. Oh, it's all basically, they filmed this in like three rooms. Yeah.
00:40:41
Speaker
Yes, it's it looks like a hotel where it's like got the the the balcony that goes all the way around the second floor and the first floor is open. um they're Yeah, the doors... like yeah it it it It almost definitely was a hotel in Romania that they shot this in. So, yes.
00:40:57
Speaker
um ah so yes We're all over the place. That's okay. So is this movie. So basically um Vanessa Hudgens sees Vanessa Hudgens and goes, oh my God, you're me. I'm you. How is this possible? Come with me. I need some advice about my wedding cake. And other Vanessa Hudgens, Chicago Vanessa Hudgens is like, okay.
00:41:20
Speaker
Yeah. And she goes with her and they ask Donatella Versace. Yeah.
00:41:27
Speaker
it's mrs donatelli who is the um like the the the watcher governess kind of person to to margaret to her like assistant yeah montanaro is where she's from montanaro yeah yeah yeah um but then she like shows up and she goes hey donatella I'm just going to call her Donatella. Okay. ah Hey, Donatella, do you think it's possible that like, even though I know that I'm not a twin separated at birth, how would it be possible to like, do you think we're related in some way? And she's like, oh, let me think. Oh, well, yes, it is quite possible. Your great, great. So someone in your family ran away from royalty and moved to the stupid Americans. Yeah.
00:42:21
Speaker
Uh-huh, uh-huh. And hooked up with an American um divorcee, which I imagine is an alluge to um ah Wallace Simpson. Sure.
00:42:34
Speaker
And, yeah. But, like, it still doesn't explain identicalness Yeah, the they're they're identical, not even like first cousins, but like many, many cousins removed. Many, many, many cousins removed.
00:42:52
Speaker
ideally um but then it's it's the prince of the pauper basically it's like she's like i want to live a couple of days without the pressures of being the duchess of montanaro um even though nobody knows who she is and she could go in public because she does i mean i guess she's wearing the glasses and and she's wearing the chicago hat as a way to disguise herself and remind people that she's from chicago But they very specifically say that no one has seen her and the public doesn't know what she looks like. So she doesn't have to switch with her. She could just go into public yeah herself and pretend to be a normal person. Like we didn't need to have this whole pomp and circumstance. But she wouldn't have Kevin in that case. Exactly. She wouldn't have learned that she wants to marry for love and she loves Kevin. and um
00:43:39
Speaker
And Stacey wouldn't have learned that she wants a life that's not just running her dream store And instead she wants to be a wife who kind of tells her husband what to do, but not really. Yeah.
00:43:54
Speaker
So what do you think about like, how hard is it for princesses to like get laid? Do you think? Like, what do you mean get laid? Like, Oh, like, um, out and about, like not a married, married into princess. Like you're boy. Cause I feel like, I feel like princes, like, you know, like they can do whatever they want. Right. Cause they're men. Yeah.
00:44:14
Speaker
But like, The princess is such a more difficult, like like, even now, like, even in, you know, the 2020s, like, it still must be so hard to, like...
00:44:27
Speaker
just hook up with somebody without it becoming like a fucking thing, a scandal. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, absolutely. mean, it's no different than, you know, like us if you're like a Disney kid who like grew up and has like that sort of like morality. Sort of. Yeah. I'm i'm saying it's the exact same Katie. I don't know.
00:44:54
Speaker
I mean, to a certain extent, it's also like, you know, a really famous person like, you know, Natalie Portman or Anne Hathaway or someone who was famous as a child and then like grows up and like, how do you like meet somebody in college? You're super pervy and they're like banging you just to say that they did. Exactly.
00:45:14
Speaker
Or you don't get laid. Yeah. So like, I mean- Yeah. It's why i need Hallmark to make the, um, yeah, to make some like Hallmark movies. They made the Prince William one. They made the Prince Harry one. Let's, let's get into some of those like Dukes and Duchesses. I need to see, i need to see. fred I don't need to see this.
00:45:44
Speaker
Getting laid. um ah Yeah, it is an interesting prospect because there is still... like we haven We haven't gotten much better in the terms in terms of like and casual sex for famous women, I guess.
00:46:00
Speaker
Yeah. No, I don't think so. And I mean, like that's why there's Raya, but like, you know, Raya. Raya. Raya. um But like, yeah, no. I think that it's still like a weird thing because...
00:46:17
Speaker
I think that the royal family is probably still too famous for Raya. Like Raya is for like influencers. I don't think Prince Harry is too famous for Raya though. I think if he were to get divorced, he'd end up on Raya.
00:46:29
Speaker
Really? Okay. Interesting. and Interesting. I can see that happening. Do you know anybody on Raya? Have you ever seen like their, their scroll or something? Oh yeah. did A little. Yeah. Yeah. You know someone on Raya? Yeah. um And like, it's, it's nobody you've ever heard of that's so it's on there. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, again, it's mostly going to be influencers and people like you just have to apply. right yeah And somebody has to like see how like, you know, to to prove that you're you're famous enough to to get in. You know, it's it's all it's very stupid. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Very stupid. But, you know, whatever. um Anyways, that's not in this movie. They do it the old fashioned way in this movie. Right.
00:47:16
Speaker
um And so they, Stacey D'Onofrio, who famously throughout this entire movie doesn't like to make ah abrupt plans or changes to her plans or be spontaneous in any way, shape or form, agrees on the spot.
00:47:33
Speaker
Yeah, sure. Let's trade places. um Oh, no, wait, sorry. She does dangle one thing. She goes, hey, can you get my friend's kid into your little ballet school summer program? It's real expensive. We can't afford it.
00:47:45
Speaker
We never hear about it again. Never hear about it again. um and ah And the Duchess is like, yeah, totally. Why not? Okay, let's now do this 10 minute log long montage, which was faster than you agreeing to change your entire life for 72 hours of just us walking around. It's it's so dumb.
00:48:10
Speaker
It's so dumb. It's just showing her like I just, again, like, I don't know anything about royals because, again, I don't care about them. Yeah. But I just, I can't imagine that Princess Kate or whatever walks like that. No. Like, she can't. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way.
00:48:31
Speaker
I mean, have you seen the, no, you haven't seen The Crown. Of course not. haven't seen The Crown. But, like, ah Princess Mia Thermopolis walks a lot better.
00:48:42
Speaker
sure sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um... it's it's all very It's all very, very silly. um And yeah, she gives her her Chicago hat. And, you know, Margaret has an incredible American accent. You'll be surprised hear. Oh, so good.
00:48:58
Speaker
And she does a lot of finger guns. She does lot. Which, to be fair, is probably fairly accurate in terms of someone trying to do an impression of an American. Yeah. yeah She's like, super. Guns are are kind of our thing.
00:49:15
Speaker
ah Finger and otherwise. Right? If Vanessa Hudgens wanted to add some layers to this role... Honestly, she does. There is one bit where she says bean instead of Ben, like a British person doing an American accent. I was like, okay, Hudge. I'll give it to you. Okay. Okay, Hudge. Okay. She's adding some layers. She's adding some layers.
00:49:39
Speaker
Love it. Absolute bare minimum. I know. Right. Right. But hey, you know, she had her hands full. She was doing not just one, but two roles. That's true. That's true. And sometimes they forget to digitally alter the stand in. don't know if you noticed. Oh, I did notice that.
00:49:56
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Yep. Boy, oh boy. it just bare minimum across the board. Not a lot of time and care put into this movie really just cranked out as fast as possible. But you know what? That's okay. It spawned not just one, but two sequels.
00:50:11
Speaker
and And again, because it's on Netflix, we don't know how much money it made. We don't know if it was successful or not. Yeah. We know that people watch it because everyone's like, oh, Princess Witch. Yeah. um There's lots of references to Beautiful Boy by John Lennon for some reason. um ah it's It's all about her like making plans and like how plans are supposed to be bad.
00:50:34
Speaker
um And like to be more spontaneous. And of course, Margaret is more spontaneous, I suppose, which is. Which seems silly. Because, yeah, it's like it's they have ah different personalities. Yeah. Yeah. um Because they're they're barely related. Yeah. the ah The she meets the prince and he's charming because he likes the little prince. Le petit prince.
00:50:56
Speaker
yeah um ah The king and queen are um Oh, yeah, so the whole point was that Edward is supposed to be in Spain, so she wasn't supposed to interact with him, which is why she agreed to do it in the first place. ye But then he decided to stay at the last minute because... He wants to get to know his fiancée. Something's different with her. Yeah. And he's starting to actually like her. Yeah. He wants to get to know his fiancée before they bang.
00:51:21
Speaker
Yeah. um The... ah ah and And at some point in that um in that montage, Stacey teaches Margaret the um the secret handshake with the little yeah girl.
00:51:34
Speaker
Yes. Which she doesn't remember very well. Well, I mean, that's a complicated handshake to learn pretty quickly that day. Yeah. yeah So the little girl figures out that it's that it's not her. And so she's in on it with them. And she's like, I'm going to set you up with my hot dad.
00:51:51
Speaker
Exactly. Because she's like, like they go and see Santa and she straight up asks Santa. Santa goes, what do you want for Christmas? And she goes, oh, I'd like some new ballet slippers and um a new mommy.
00:52:03
Speaker
Yeah. Everyone's like, this isn't awkward at all. And then she goes, everybody, you two, dad and dad's friend come into this picture. Yeah.
00:52:15
Speaker
Yeah. Dad's friend slash boss. Um, and Margaret and Edward are having to ride a horse. Presumably she'd never ridden a horse before. I i presume that riding a horse in the snow for the first time would be difficult.
00:52:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I would also presume that. Um, but she does it as soon as she gets on that horse, she takes to it like a fish to water. Well, she does just have to do it stationary in front of a green screen. So that helps. true but um Um, but then a lot of egregious green screen use in this movie. So much green screen. Um,
00:52:46
Speaker
um But then they get to this beautiful overlook and, yeah you know, he's being, the prince is being all charming and whatnot. And um she's like, so sorry that, you know, something you did, you couldn't go do your like affairs of state and, or something like that. And he goes, oh, well, you know, i couldn't do that with you around. Something like that. I can't remember the exact words, but he was just like, I couldn't i couldn't care do like affairs of state if you were around. And she goes, well, why not? And he goes, well, because you'd be too busy planning the wedding. And she goes, because I'm a girl.
00:53:21
Speaker
Yeah. You bastard. And she rides off. She rides right into the green screen. into the green screen. Yeah.
00:53:32
Speaker
Meanwhile, Kevin is like, um well, clearly I'm in love with my best friend all of a sudden. because something is challenged Yeah, Yep, yep. Then we have yeah we have Frank, ah who's the butler, who's like suspicious and like spying on them. And like in a very like ah Tim Curry in Home Alone 2 kind of way. oh yeah. Yeah.
00:53:54
Speaker
Yeah. Just takes it upon himself to like something fishy is going on here. And Donatelli is constantly like, like just blocking him completely. She's like, Oh, here's a bunch of dishes. Like, Hey, the there's the plumbing is messed up in the toilet. Why don't you go fix the toilet? Butler. And he's like, here's, here's this basket of perfectly folded laundry. Can you take it to the laundry, please?
00:54:18
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Did you notice that those towels were all folded? Yeah. um ah And then the weird old man shows up and starts like, he just like interferes with everything. He's like, yeah he shows up to the princess and he's like, that guy's hot, right? And she's like, yeah, it's like, yeah, fuck him. Yeah. And then he shows up and ah he goes to um best friend slash what's his name? What is the best friend's name?
00:54:46
Speaker
Kevin? Kevin. Goes to Kevin he's just like, hey. You know? Hey. He's just elbowing him. Hey. Hey.
00:54:56
Speaker
Hey. You're gonna bang your your best friend for... for dozens of years uh i think you guys have a little bit more in common isn't she different now she's yeah different right has known this woman since they were in high school and can't tell that someone who met her for 10 minutes is impersonating her And she like burns everything. She like. Yeah, she suddenly can't cook. Yeah.
00:55:26
Speaker
Like. My first like instinct. has become spontaneous. Like the opposite of her personality. Did you bang your head? Are you okay? Should we go to the hospital? You have a brain tumor. where We're experiencing a phenomenon level event.
00:55:40
Speaker
we need to get you. We need to get you to a hospital. yeah and then that's how she becomes um put in a mental institution because she swears she's not Stacey. She's a duchess. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. um ah Meanwhile, Sam Palladio, who I wrote, looks like a Britishized version of Nate Corddry.
00:56:05
Speaker
Does that make sense to you? Like, Nate Corddry has a round face. Okay. And has an oval face. But if you, like, took Nate Corddry's head and, like, pulled it and made it, like, oval, he would look like this. Okay. Let me remind myself what Nate Corddry looks like.
00:56:22
Speaker
um ah He's a comedy actor. Yeah. Right? That guy. yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's in, like, a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:33
Speaker
um He apologizes for being sexist, blah, blah, blah. um She puts on this like maroon, maybe vermilion kind of number with the gloves. To go to a charity ball.
00:56:48
Speaker
Yeah, to go to a charity ball. They stand under the mistletoe. they have really cheek kiss. Yeah, she kisses him on the cheek, yes. um And there's a lot of questions about like the social work of the charities, and yeah everybody's like, oh, I don't know. We don't do anything about that. yeah We don't have any clue.
00:57:07
Speaker
Fucking royals. And you know what? It's a good thing that she asks these questions, because apparently they aren't doing enough. They're doing the bare minimum for this one charity. Is there just one charity in this country? Apparently so. And it's... ah It's the ah adorable little orphan charity. that's ah i couldn't tell if it was an orphanage or like a home for... no I guess it is an orphanage. um But like it it was like a... I thought it was a family center for a second of like andho unhoused families or underprivileged families. But you never see anyone but children. No, I believe they don't have any problems in this country except orphans. They're just yeah or orphans surplus in this place. And they're all white.
00:57:54
Speaker
They're all white little orphans. Everybody in this movie except for Kevin and his daughter are white. Yes. Well, I mean, Vanessa Hudgens is Latina, right? Yeah. But even the choir that they pass by several times that sings, I kept pointing out, I was like, oh, look, it's that all white choir going at it again.
00:58:13
Speaker
ah It's got a Scandinavian vibe. Like I know it's shot in Romania and it says it's in Europe, but it definitely, I think it's supposed to be like, like more Scandinavian just because of like the weather and like the architecture and the culture and everything. seems like that's what they're going for. have diversity in Scandinavia.
00:58:32
Speaker
um Yeah. Yeah. um But you know, less so. I mean, I've seen Eurovision. okay Fair enough. Fair enough.
00:58:44
Speaker
But like, i I just don't understand. Like they go, the whole thing is- It's the Hall, it's it what's not Hallmark, it's Netflix. So, but it's it's it's MPCA, you know? Yeah. Like there's they's still like I mean, we said almost everybody is white, but really two of the leads are not. So that's better than most Hallmark movies. All the extras are white, which is a big step up. Versus Hall Out the Holly where all the mains were white and they had one diversity higher extra. Wow.
00:59:14
Speaker
One black man in that movie. One black man. It's the one black Mormon. um Oh boy. um But yeah, so she's asking all these questions and she's like, well, why don't we go to the charity and take a look, Prince? And he's like, that sounds like a splendid idea. But first they have to play piano in front of everybody. Oh shit, yeah. Where they're like, you're quite an accomplished piano player. Why don't you play for all of us? And she's like, I'm shy. He's like, why don't you play these things?
00:59:44
Speaker
why don't you play these four notes and then we'll pretend that you're a good piano player. Yep. But then halfway through, she starts playing with both hands and you're like, but I thought she couldn't play piano. I'm confused. Who's the liar now? Yeah.
00:59:58
Speaker
um Then they have freezing gazebo time yeah with the old man again. Yep. Yep. um And then ah meanwhile, Rebecca sees Kevin with his shirt off, which is an important plot point. And she's on the phone with Stacy at the time. She goes, have you ever seen Kevin with his shirt off?
01:00:16
Speaker
yeah And she goes, absolutely not. Have you ever seen Kevin with his shirt off? I can't do it. That sounds like Queen Elizabeth. Jesus Christ.
01:00:29
Speaker
It's just the strangest sound. it doesn't even, it I guess it sort of sounds British, but it's just, it's it's so off yeah to make it sound like something completely different. Yeah. yeah Yeah. I get that.
01:00:42
Speaker
I get that. um um The kids at the orphanage have Irish accents because they're poor. Because they're poor. And they have one teeny tiny fake tree with like just one little decoration of chain. Like it's those paper chains that you make in elementary school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's ah draped half poorly across this teeny tiny fake tree. And of course, Vanessa Agents goes, well, where are all the presents? And ah the lady who is the only employee of this orphanage.
01:01:13
Speaker
also irish who's also irish goes well there's no money for that ma'am uh the the and she's like well what about all this money that we just raised for them and she's like well that goes towards like their food and clothes and housing and stuff and she's like that's ridiculous we have to get them presents get them toys.
01:01:32
Speaker
So they go to a toy store, which they still have Belgravia. A toy emporium. Yeah. um And the other print, the ah um Stacy is also there. Yes. and So they have to avoid one another. But before Stacey shows up, ah or the sorry, not Stacey, before the Duchess, as Stacey shows up, Stacey as the Duchess sees a random game of Twister in the middle of a random room in this toy emporium. And she goes, Twister, my favorite. And she forces the prince to play Twister with her. So she takes off her incredibly...
01:02:16
Speaker
sharp stiletto heels in a skirt in her mini skirt, her little Chanel suit, mini skirt, yeah um which by the way is terrible costuming because you could see through that and see the, her underwear lines in multiple shots. It was bad.
01:02:33
Speaker
um So costuming, get your shit together. ah Wow. Called out. um But like, it it's just because that's like a big fear of mine. Like if you're on camera that you can see your like VPL. Yeah. You know, you don't want that. You don't want that on camera. What does VPL stand for, Emma?
01:02:52
Speaker
i don't I don't want to say. I know. I don't want to say. Okay. It's visible underwear line. Yeah. Visible underwear line. That's definitely what VPL stands for. Yeah.
01:03:03
Speaker
Yep. Yep. I hate that word so much. I know. So uncomfortable. ah um But yeah. So like, ah so she's like, play Twister with me. ah And somehow it doesn't flash the entirety of the,
01:03:25
Speaker
Belgravia's toy store. And they get like 18,000 individual toys that are not like in packages. They're not boxes at all. It's crazy. For these. But like there's a shopping cart that they can take through. They're just throwing loose ah toy ray guns and tiaras in. It's also, like, the most, like, 1980s toys for some reason. Like, I don't know why.
01:03:56
Speaker
And she, like, gets these little, like, cheapo tiaras for the orphans because she, like, one of the masks... how are you, did you become a princess? How do I become a princess? And she like makes a little comment of like, if you love people in your heart, then you're a princess too. But really in reality, girl, what you gotta do is you gotta go. No, I'm quite poor actually. Like it's really difficult. It's really difficult.
01:04:21
Speaker
um You have to ah go to an elite school, get in with like the, you know, inner circle. Be born rich, which is the main thing. And you've already lost little Irish girl. The only way you could turn this around as if you go to America.
01:04:37
Speaker
you You get on us on a television show called Suits. Called Suits.
01:04:49
Speaker
And then that would have been so funny if she had said that. That would have do america given this movie a full star higher. If that had been a joke in this movie. Why why is that not a joke in any movie? Oh my God. That should be everyone's answer now when they ask, how do I become a princess? Well, you know, no one's ever asked me that before. it doesn't come up that often. The next time they do, i will have the answer stashed away.
01:05:18
Speaker
um We have another little bit with the tall, evil redhead chef um where someone, this this pretty dreamy reporter is interviewing. Hotest reporter. That is who I latched onto in this movie. like The guy with three lines. Three lines.
01:05:34
Speaker
And he was sexy as hell. What's that haircut that they're doing that David Cornswit has in the Superman where it's like really tight back here and then really shaggy on the front? The They call it. Yeah. No, but they call it something. I can't remember what it's called, but it's so it's so sexy. So sexy. But that's the millennial in me that's like i been raised to, that has been conditioned to see that and be like, sexy boy?
01:05:57
Speaker
Yes. ah So he wants to interview Stacey and doesn't care about tall, evil redhead chef, who's like, I won last year. And he's like, ah great, great, great. I'm not talking to you. i'm I'm talking to this lady and I'm doing a piece on her bakery in Chicago. Is your bakery in Chicago? No, it's not. goodbye.
01:06:17
Speaker
ah The broccoli cut is what I just typed sexy Gen Z boy haircut and broccoli cut is what it's called. Yeah. the Broccoli cut. Oh, but hey, you know, it's that little flipflopp a little floppy flip flop, flip flop.
01:06:32
Speaker
At least it's not like well almost shaved on the sides and in the back and then long and curly on the top. Yeah. yeah Yeah. A little flippity floppity.
01:06:42
Speaker
yeah um But yeah, so so that happens. And then then the evening, this is the final evening before they have to switch back.
01:06:53
Speaker
And both of them have a romantic moment with their boy toys. And they make out and they have kissy kissy time. Well, and Kevin and Margaret watch Rose Macava. Rose Macava.
01:07:10
Speaker
In ah The Christmas Prince. The Christmas Prince. I think i just. I didn't intend to it. But I just noticed that when I did that. That is the fourth accent I've done in this episode.
01:07:20
Speaker
Yep. This is a very accent heavy episode. I'm so sorry. um That's no K.
01:07:30
Speaker
Yeah. I really. I really want to just leave the room. Tree-rific. Okay. Okay. If it wouldn't have screwed up the the editing process, I would have just left the room on that. um ah So ah what is it? it's ah What is the name of that movie? umr says The Christmas Prince.
01:07:49
Speaker
The Christmas Prince, yes. Yeah, which we will probably do on this pod because it it is also fantastic. The two of them cry watching it. which like Nobody's ever done. Nobody's ever cried watching Prince.
01:08:01
Speaker
The Christmas Prince. mis chris The Christmas Prince. Yeah, you can say it. The Christmas. prince smith The Prince Miss Chris. Yeah. The Prince Miss Chris. Yeah.
01:08:12
Speaker
Yes. um And then what are the others doing? ah They're just talking about life and dreams and his grandma and that gets him hard. Oh, that's right. And then make out.
01:08:25
Speaker
She gives him, he gives her like the family crest. Yeah. um And then she takes it and he gets real hard and she goes, okay, time to make out. Ew. Ew.
01:08:37
Speaker
He's a prince. Well, sure. Like he probably was, but it's just it's I don't like the phrasing of that. And then he gets real hard and then they make out.
01:08:48
Speaker
Because he's thinking about family and country. Jesus, Emma. Again, he's a prince. They. ah So. um Yeah. She makes cookies. Yeah.
01:09:03
Speaker
um oh yeah the the kids also oh yeah and then there's there's mistletoe but then this time they kiss on the mouth yeah they kiss on the mouth and it's sexy as hell and uh he's like oh i got some feels for my fiance yay got one won the prince lottery And then Kevin gives her a locket with the photo of them at st with Santa. Yeah, which is the ugliest fucking locket I've ever seen in my entire life. It's real bad. It like had to be big enough to hold a photo where you could clearly see on camera four separate people.
01:09:39
Speaker
so I understand that it was a challenge for the props department, but it's the size of like a post-it note basically hanging on her neck.
01:09:50
Speaker
It's like a gold post-it note. But like, why couldn't, why did it have to be a locket? Why could it have been like something else? Couldn't they have like, you know, i don't know, problem solved and troubleshooted that issue and like given her a picture in a frame or i like something else? I don't know. um but yeah. And so then. Lockets are more, are considered like a romantic gift, even though I've never, I don't think I've ever known anybody who's worn one.
01:10:20
Speaker
Oh, I have a locket. Do you wear it? Sometimes. What's in it?
Cottagecore Reflections
01:10:26
Speaker
Picture of my parents. Oh, that's nice. So that when they die, I can um sit around and go, these are my parents.
01:10:33
Speaker
They're dead. They've died of um of of the plague. And here I The plague? Just a poor princess, just alone in the world with no one to care for me. i'm in my thirty s Charlie's also dead in this scenario.
01:10:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I guess I should replace the pictures of my parents and replace it with Charlie. Yeah, I know. Or I should just get a new locket. you can your rowdy boys in there. I can put my rowdy boys in there. i I got the locket because I live my life like a cottagecore dream in that um part of me is in a fantasy novel 1% the time. Yeah, I get that. yeah I want to feel fancy and have that sad mystical locket with my parents' photos in them.
01:11:27
Speaker
Are they old photos of your parents? Yeah. They're from the 80s. um I like took old pictures. It's when I was in high school. And I took like ah old pictures of them. And I cut them out. And their faces are like, de-speech.
01:11:42
Speaker
Yeah. Because the ma the locket isn't massive. Yeah. No. It's a normal size locket. It's a normal size. I mean, like it's pretty big. It's like a silver locket. It's like this mean, they have to be. That's the thing about lockets. Yeah. yeah um But yeah. Yeah, I've got a locket.
01:11:57
Speaker
Maybe I'll chop off some of my hair. I'll put it in it. There you go.
Movie Scene Critiques and Baking Antics
01:12:00
Speaker
Here comes my favorite part of the movie. um ah Oh, yeah, yeah. So she's say he's like, maybe we could be something more. And she's like, can we pretend this never happened? And he's like, okay. Yeah, and he's like, woof.
01:12:12
Speaker
ah Now we go, we we get another cut to Rush Hospital and they're at the baking competition. Yep. Oh no, it's the middle of the night, actually, the night before. Yeah. And tall, evil redhead chef cuts the cord on the KitchenAid. Yep.
01:12:27
Speaker
Cuts the cord on the KitchenAid. Ugh.
01:12:31
Speaker
Which is just the stupidest thing you could have possibly done. You could get a new cord. You could tell the like people that your kitchen aid is problematic. telling that the there's no production assistance on this thing that would have checked beforehand, before it started. And secondly, when they discover that the cord is snipped, they don't tell anyone and get it fixed. And like they don't just rush in another KitchenAid for them to do this with. And not to mention the fact... That they made the cake it's and the fondant.
01:13:04
Speaker
How do you make fondant without a stand mixer, y'all? Without a stand mixer. They only needed it for the berry, pureed berry filling. You would not use a stand mixer to puree berries. You'd use a blender.
01:13:16
Speaker
What are you talking about? How? How do you use a stand mixer to puree berries? What attachment are you using? Explain it to me. whisk. I don't know. whisk. And lemon juice.
01:13:30
Speaker
That's not going to do that. A whisk. Stop saying whisk. A whisk. It's going to puree them, and then you just got to sieve Put through little sieve. It would be so much easier to use a blender to puree berries. Yeah, well, they're not really thinking And so I'm guessing they made the fondant by hand then.
01:13:51
Speaker
I think that they just just assume fondant is never made by hand and it's always just there. Also, the the make the cake that they made is like five feet tall, and yeah there's no way you could make that in five hours under any circumstances. like that's That's like a two, three-day cake job. like I used to watch a lot of cake baking shows, and I'm telling you, that is not possible. I mean, with two people, you could do it.
01:14:23
Speaker
You just got to bake all the cakes, then you got to let them cool, and then you can do like your little icing, your crumb coat, and then you put the fondant on, and then you assemble. Decorating the cake would have taken more than five hours. I just don't buy I mean, the decoration isn't that good.
01:14:39
Speaker
Let's be real, Katie. Assembling the cake and baking the cake would have taken just a few hours. Okay, okay. Decorating it, maybe... Like a couple more. But like the thing is, is you got to take into context that their decorations are shit. They just have some little poinsettias on there made of fondant. And that's what they call decoration. And um that would have taken them, I don't know, an hour. There you go. about Five hours. about none it's It's always so difficult in a movie to show somebody who's very good at something because it also requires someone on set to be very good at that thing. Exactly. Exactly. And know the ins and outs of what it takes to be good.
01:15:20
Speaker
When a character is a musician and they're supposed to be like so good and then they have to play their song, like good luck to you. Not only did you have, you have to write this movie and create this whole world, but you also now have to write a song that is objectively good based in the world or that you've created. I mean, some might say it was accomplished in the masterpiece. um That is...
01:15:45
Speaker
The musical. Rent. No! It's one of the most famous examples of it not being good. One song, Glory! Well, here's the thing. One song, Glory, is a good song about him not being able to write the song. that's When finally writes the song in Act 2, the song Your Eyes, completely forgettable. I dare you to sing Your Eyes right now. Your Eyes! Yeah.
01:16:15
Speaker
And I saw Angel and she was there and girl, she looked fabulous. that's that like what That's what she says. Yeah. um ah Wow. That was, man, we're, we're having this. There's been a lot of like little bits for Chandler in the past yeah few episodes, like little musical theater things that are for one listener. Really? One listener, one song.
01:16:43
Speaker
but ah But yeah, so it's difficult because she's supposed to be a really good baker, which means they needed to hire somebody who was a really good baker and presumably not pay them very much. So, you know, the cheapest baker they could find in Romania was the person who made that cake. Who made probably all of the cakes because don't forget it's a baking competition. So they're not only there with themselves. only see two of them, though. We don't see we see evil tall redhead. tall Evil redhead chef, her sous chef, is even taller than her. He's like way taller than her, and she's quite tall. Yeah, and they're making like gold balls.
01:17:20
Speaker
Yeah, it also looks like garbage. Yeah. um Yeah. so they, oh no, they made three cakes because there's the the the third, the the second runner up too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. so meanwhile. Those are styrofoam, Katie. Oh, for sure. Yeah. They're probably all, they're probably all styrofoam. I mean, did you not see, I did not see any like cutting marks when they're judging it and they're holding the fully sliced cake slices that they have not taken a bite of, but they are making critiques on.
01:17:47
Speaker
And then we have the judge um really struggle to get her one line out. yep um She is hanging someone in casting. She is a Russian singer ok who I looked up and she basically looks like a Timu, Sydney Sweeney. yeah um But she has, she has a hard time with the line that she has, where she has to explain that the, the berries are not as the puree is not as smooth as I would have liked.
01:18:14
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe because they'd used a stand mixer and not a blender. Yeah. Well, they didn't use a stand mixer. They used their hands. Because the the cut the the scene of that of that woman, a Brianna, cutting that that cord and then looking so pleased with herself. Like, I've just solved everything.
01:18:33
Speaker
And walking away is so fucking funny. um Unintentionally, i hope she gets an Oscar for that role. i mean The 2026 Oscar goes to to Tall Evil Redhead Chef in a movie that came out eight years ago. yeah Congratulations.
01:18:55
Speaker
Yeah. um ah Anyway, meanwhile, Frank has been taking photos, ah took photos of the two of them switching back, supposedly. Because she's got to switch back for the baking competition. Yeah, switching back. Yeah, Margaret can't do the baking competition. Yeah, goes to the queen and the queen is like, you're not seeing the queen without me. um Takes the photos and then magic man shows up at the palace and Yep, because he's everywhere. Approaches the queen on his own. Yep, no security. Nothing. like
01:19:30
Speaker
And it's like, you should let your son fuck that chef. Yeah, of like, your your son's happy, isn't he? And she like she looks like royalty, obviously.
01:19:41
Speaker
Who cares if she isn't? So the queen hatches the plan to where instead of her going to give the prize at the baking competition that Margaret and Edward should go. yeah and she's like, oh, we can't do that. And they're like, yes, you're going.
01:19:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Because they've also decided they're just going to give up on love because of duty or whatever. Yeah, whatever. And Donatelli is like, what are the words of the family crest? Is duty one of them? Exactly.
01:20:09
Speaker
There's a lot about the berries and the stand mixer in my notes. Yeah. With lots of question mark, with lots of interrobangs. ah People might think that this berries and stand mixer bit is a huge plot point from the amount of notes that you took on it. However, it is very, very minimal.
01:20:29
Speaker
Katie. My happiness is note what matters. It is my duty.
01:20:38
Speaker
Is how I wrote it phonetically in my notes. that I love that. love that. And just wait until the princess switch switched again for when we get the third accent. It's true. Yeah. but She's like Eastern European, right? No, she's Cockney.
01:20:53
Speaker
Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right. It's just another form of British. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah The Duchess is like sitting on this cold bench and ah the Prince comes out and he's like, I love you. And she's like, please don't. And he goes, what's wrong with you? are you on your period or something? And she goes, no, but let me tell you the truth.
01:21:15
Speaker
That is not what he says. This is not what he says. But then she's just like, I have to tell you something and don't be mad. yeah And so she tells him, ah you we don't see it. Yeah, we don't see it. It's done off screen. And then they show up at the baking competition and the Duchess thinks she can fool everyone into not seeing that her and the winner of the baking competition have the same
Dramatic Confrontations and Endings
01:21:39
Speaker
face.
01:21:39
Speaker
They decide to do it in front of everybody, which I appreciate the flare the flair for the dramatic. I wrote, the producers of the baking competition must have been absolutely fucking creaming their jeans. Right? is Right? They're like, this is some great TV. But like, she's wearing sunglasses inside so that nobody can recognize her face. And I'm like, that just seems even more rude.
01:22:02
Speaker
It does. Yeah. So, uh, Hudge, take those off. Yeah. Um, but they do it in front of everybody. They're like, we look the same. And also we're in love with each other's boys. Yeah. Now Kevin and Margaret get some privacy in the back, but then Stacy decides to confront Edward because she's like, I can't do this. And she runs back on stage where the cameras are still rolling. Still rolling.
01:22:26
Speaker
And they decide to have this conversation in front of everybody. And then he proposes on television. On television. But like, not really proposed, but like kind of proposed. Because he's like, yeah hey, um if will you do long distance with me for a year? And if we still love each other in a year, will you marry me? Yeah. And Brianna, I want to say she just faints um in the background, but I don't think they actually went that went to that trouble of that. But that's basically what happens. Yeah, essentially. then I was like, oh, they're setting up the sequel. They're going to get married in the sequel. Because again, I've seen all three of these, but it's been years. I can't remember what happens. But no, they they cut a year in the future and go ahead and get married right now. Yep. Yep.
01:23:09
Speaker
Yep, they do. I think in the second one, it's about... can't even remember. They're switched again. They're switched again. based on the switched again yeah They're switched again. They're switched again. um but ah The orphan runs up to her and she goes, boy ah yeah You're a real princess now, aren't you?
01:23:32
Speaker
yup Yep. and um they're The wedding yeahy charms the royal wedding is in a um back Banquet Hall ah with just the orphans from the orphanage.
01:23:51
Speaker
Yep. um The people from the charity ball, Kevin and his daughter. End of list. That's right. That's it. um None of the none of the other royals from the other countries ah followed up on that invitation. Nope. And it is very teeny tiny. No officiants. Stacey DeNovo also presumably has parents. They don't mention it. They don't mention she's orphaned. Margaret doesn't have parents, but Stacey presumably does. Exactly. So where are her parents? And, like, does Kevin has parents have parents? If they've been friends for so long, wouldn't Kevin's parents want to go to Stacey's wedding? Like, ah yeah.
01:24:28
Speaker
what What the hell? What the hell? here um But yeah, they're married. They're happy. And now both princesses, ah they have switched and they're living different lives. We do a slow-mo and fade to black at the same time. Yeah, we do. And then we hear a very generic Christmas song, which is written and performed by the actor who plays the prince, just like in The Night Before Christmas. No! Yeah. Why not The Hudge?
01:25:00
Speaker
I don't know. It is, um yeah, The Hudge, who is a, you know, singer. Well-known singer. Yeah. Yeah. But no, Sam Palladio, ah that is his Christmas song that opens and closes this movie, which so funny also happens in The print in the the Night Before Christmas, which is a different actor. Yeah, and a different plot, but also Vanessa Hudgens.
01:25:25
Speaker
Right, right, right. Goodness gracious. So... Well, how about that? Anyway... So that's the princess switch. Yeah. That's the final, our final movie and go get your ho, ho, hoes. 2025. Yeah. 2025. Here we are. So, uh, Katie, what movie are we doing next
Upcoming Movie: 'Under the Tuscan Sun'
01:25:45
Speaker
week? It's the moment of truth.
01:25:47
Speaker
Next week. It is going to be January. Yeah. Um, and it's going to be cold. Yeah. And so we're going to need a little Tuscan sun. we're going into the Tuscan sun.
01:26:00
Speaker
We are going with Diane Lane under the Tuscan sun. Hell yeah. I've never seen this before. Oh, it's not really a romantic comedy, um ah but it is a fucking delight. And it's a great movie to watch in the the depths of, of January, even though we'll we'll be watching it before Christmas.
01:26:18
Speaker
Yeah. But you know, let us have this. Let us have this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um ah It's a delightful time. and love that. Amazing. Shall we outro? Let's outro. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It helps out a lot and we would really appreciate it.
01:26:39
Speaker
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01:27:00
Speaker
Asking it to love us. Good night. Good night.
01:27:25
Speaker
Christmas.