Episode 117: Bedazzleds

Dan and Keith dive into some theoretically romantic Faustian bargains with two takes on Bedazzled! Back in the 1960s, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore riffed some bits on a man meeting the Devil until they spun it into Bedazzled, in which a quiet cook named Stanley is offered a deal by Lucifer, aka George Spiggott, and given seven wishes, seven chances to find a way to win the heart of his crush, Margaret. But George has his own agenda and finds seven ways to mess with Stanley, weird, devil's bargains are usually so uncomplicated. Three decades and change later, Hollywood tried to replace the desert-dry with a more broad style, casting Peak Era Brendan Fraser as lovelorn Elliot as Elizabeth Hurley as the scheming devil making a monkey's paw out of his attempts to forge love from rewriting his crush's very identity. Two perfect movies to watch immediately after Obsession. But which did it better? Which comedy landed better or aged worse? Find out!