Episode 31: Uncle Buck

Hide your best “unbreakable” china, and pray that your washing machine is in working order. Mommy and Daddy are out of town and the only thing they left for us to watch was John Hughes’s 1989 comedy Uncle Buck. Imagine getting up to record the podcast only to find stack of gargantuan pancakes, and our underwear freshly pressed, straight from the microwave? Who could have done this? John Candy…really? He may be a bit of a slob, and his car may be just be a death trap, and he may threaten to dismember our boyfriends with a hatchet…but he really doesn’t seem like that bad of a guardian. Will we each survive this surreal week at the Russell house, while keeping our kneecaps intact? You’ll have to tune into Nightcaps at Theater to find out. Tonight, on the Marquee: He’s Crude, He’s Crass, it’s Family…It’s Uncle Buck. Retiring to the Island Gullah-Gullah. The Uncle Bucks that Could Have Been. Welcome to the stage, Winona Wyder. Chanice or “Shadynasty?” Garbage Lunch Trades = Strange Cuts Laurie Metcalf…the Desperate Housewife from Next-door. Pancakes, “I said, what about breakfast at Uncle Buck’s?” Clown, Get back in Your Mouse and Out of the House! Remember Answering Machines and Three-way Phone Calls? (U.B. Laughs Evilly) John Candy Falls Down the Whole World Feels It. Getting Coffee with Uncle Buck. (Bites Lower Lip.) “Macaulay Culkin…type cast at age Seven.” “Hunkle Buck: Or Getting Stuck/Thunderstruck Playing Uncle Buck” Horton Hears a Hughes. “Boy, that’s for sure.” “You Waiting for Your Sex?” “What the Fuck?!? Uncle Buck?!?” Art Provided By: John Cafiero @bonehaver420 Music: “Hangover” by Dee Yan-Key