Well, live, I, everyone, and welcome to the Nerdy of Mall Podcast. It's a Nerdy Podcast and it's hosted by her Northern nerds. I am one of your hosts, Sam. And I am the other hosts, Paul.
Hopefully, Mike doesn't be a dick tonight and make this sound like a demon. So fingers crossed there. I'm a demon, demon Paul. I'm a demon.
I'm a demon. We've got the most beautiful demon we've got. We could find. No longer the tallest person that's been on the Nerdy of Mall Podcast now.
No, no, no. I'm fine with that. Yeah. So how tall are you?
Adam? Just saying? 6 or 5. 6 or 5.
So it's not small. It's not that far off. So what was he saying for one? 7, 2, I think.
So what's that like? So like nine inches tall than me. That was bigger. We didn't coming up a maths, Adam.
Mate, can you give us a demonstration of what nine inches is? Just be totally. It's a big birthday to do. So be happy birthday to Bex.
Happy birthday, beautiful Bex, my favourite person in the world. Oh my god. So yes. So Sammy, it's been a while since we've only had the three people.
I have three people. It feels like something's missing. I'm technically two people, so we'll go with that. Oh, okay.
Okay. Adam, have we got today? I don't even know what that's the best part. We've got Adam that's full of gravy as we found out.
So we've got really filled up. I've had a few weeks of weekly quarter of gravy in one sitting. So there's going to be Adam bombs drawned all the time as well. I'm actually sweating.
If we could do smell-a-vision, you would say that Adam smells of gravy as well. So that's the one near North Trick Now. Now comes in smell-a-vision, smells of gravy and pasties. Oh, Christ.
It is a good start. Shall I do the disclaimer before anything else is fucking said? After watching last night's Sami Swann already. She didn't swear once, she and the whole A&Y interview.
Not once. Not once. I managed to keep the F1. And it came close.
Especially when I messed up on the one thing and- I didn't mess up. Oh, I messed up. He wasn't even in that episode. Then I'm like, Oh, he's one of my favorite characters.
He was in every single other episode, so it's fine. That's true. It's when I was listening to him back and I was like, why am I telling this man what his character is and what's supposed to like? Stop it.
Who are you? You are the ghost, what's the oracle now? So that's fine. No, absolutely.
We're on the way. You said coffee on the way. So he made me go. That is true.
That is true. And so you can get it. That part of the way with. Everything is corresponding to the importance of opinions and error opinions alone.
If you'd like to discuss anything from today's episode, please come join us on the Facebook page. I would call it. Or the comment section where we can have an open discussion. But what we want to have is anyone comment from the side of the sentence.
We can all agree to disagree and fund them. So let's keep it fun. Keep it kind and keep the toxic behavior out of Nerdism. Very well said.
And have you got a question for us because you've asked the question. You said the bitch and I'm not watching. Well, let's let's get this. I mean, it has it has been a while since I've done the cringiest thing that's ever been put under this podcast before.
Are you doing it? What are you doing? Oh my god. Oh my god.
Adam, thanks for joining in. Can I just say it? He said the cringiest thing in the podcast. Well, I bet on this podcast that's that's to be fair.
That's going to be cringier. So that's okay. I bet my scene is my scene is super deep. But I am interested to know why people have been watching this week.
Well, do you want to get you? Do you want me to get you all excited? I'm already full of gravy, mate. You can do it all because because Sammy.
Yeah, has got me addicted to something. And I am so obsessed. I am up to season four since last week. And I was good.
I would never say I would ever enjoy this, but I just I just love these people. I am up to season four of the US office. So yes, you have to feel my heart just burst there for a second. Oh my god.
I only thought you were going to watch the first episode and be like, nah, fuck this. The first season was a rough watch because I think we've had this conversation before. It is very much just like the UK one. But yeah, but soon as the form the one little thing and I'm just in love with the characters.
Chris, can you hear this? Chris has just re-solved for the office. So we are one step closer to get any US office episode now. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Chris. Oh, Paul, that just makes right. You're up to season four. So Jim's left already is come back.
And he's taken all the time. Oh, dating in secret. It's dating in secret. Okay, so this is where he's headed Meredith with the car.
Yes. And they're doing the fun run for rabies. They're just on that watch the run. Do I still have to watch it?
Oh, Dwight. Oh, Adam, Dwight is just the best. I want to start model of Michael life journey on Dwight now. I want to be so easy.
Yeah, I want to be that much of a dick to everyone. Cause I don't want to stick at the start. I want to be the Dwight level of dick to everyone. So I want to be just firing people left, right and center.
So yeah. But Dwight has such like, yeah, he's so, he's such a stickler for office life. But there's, there's something there's something underneath them. There's something so sweet.
And when he gets his concussion, you know, I'm obviously no Michael Burns his foot on the grill. Have yes. And I know this is going to sound controversial. I get bored during the Michael Scott part.
I want Michael off the screen. I want more, Dwight and more, Jim and more, and more as well. You'll not think that once you get to season seven, I promise you that. And if you can get to Scott's tot and watch the episode all the way through without turning it off, you have made it as an office fan.
Scott's tot is one of the most famous office episodes because nobody can watch it all the way through because it's that. You think Michael can do bad? You've nothing yet. There's only been one episode where I have actually had a fast forward.
Chris's papers to talk about the office. We're going to say we're getting paid now. The chopper. Wow.
Thank you, Chris. Um, there's only one episode I've had a fast forward. And it was the wedding episode. What?
This is when? Oh, it was too bad. Like the way Michael was going up. Oh no, I made this feel physically sick.
Like I was that uncomfortable. I was like, no, this is this is no. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time, Mr and Mrs. Barbens.
The priest starts carrying on with a conversation. Oh yeah. Well, wait until he gets stuck. So if you that is nothing competitive, what Scott's tot will do to you as a person.
If you can watch it all the way through, you are a true office fan. So because Chris seems to be excited, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to stop the office talk because I'm a dick. You're going to make an episode of it. Blue ball.
Yeah, Blue ball. And each week we're going to have a new segment on the show, a new segment on the podcast. So anyone who's joining us for a chat, I'm sorry, we're going to have a few minutes where we're going to no doubt to office talk. So so that's the new bit that we're going to call it.
It's only office talk with everyone else. The podcast from now on. Yes. It's taken three years.
Three years. I talked about this on one of the very first episodes. Three years. Yes.
Take that all in people. It's a good day for me and you Chris. It's a very good day. So what have you been watching Adam?
Oh, I just recently started watching the IT crowd again. Oh, brilliant. Another office of an eight. Yes.
I forgot how like Mads all of it is, especially the parts with like, um, denim. Like, denim. Are you stressed? I was having war.
I'm stressed. I'm stressed. That's a stress stress stress. Stress.
It's just, I'm like, a shit if I was on the stress machine? Egh. Egh. It's fucked?
It's fucked. I'm sorry, it's where the Guggen, the internet is. The internet. I love the episode where she goes on the date with the guy and he's like, in the, the, that's the rest of the story.
And then the, the, the aggregation, like, MOSTA she's dead. And then like, she like rings the road. We get like, why are you telling me where you're sitting? I'm like, I can't break down inside his house.
Just like buying him on his door and the pissing down room. He's like, oh, it's good. I mean, my favorite episode is the musical. Oh.
I fucking adore that episode from start to finish. But then you get, um, Renam, is it Renam? Come in, um, the great. I can't think of what I've done.
Yes, my very comment. Speak, please. I'm a bigger. To be further, anything that my fairy does is just pure.
Oh, when, when obviously, Denam's given out his speech and he's like, you can, he needs to turn this off now. So then he's like, no father, you can speak freely from my new family. And he's like, there's something wrong with the pensioner and just switch that off. I love the IT crowd.
It's something he has called me. Let's go back to quite a bit. We really do just start from the musical. I forgot.
No, but it would be fair. Like, I knew I'd watch it before and I was like, oh, I'm looking for something just like the watching and the night time I could go a bit. And I'd end up staying up for like four episodes or something. Just like, oh, it's great.
I love this. I got it. Did the Nellie on North Pools me revisit the, as well. Because that actually is the top 16 as well.
I think I might have looked at that and went like, oh, I didn't make me so conscious. Just went, I take out. It's really good. What's that?
I think that's what happened. Because it happens like when those balls came out. I know there's a controversial one today. I think it's the Simpsons versus, oh, I'm going out.
Oh, oh. The Simpsons versus Red Dwarf. But Red Dwarf is, I tried to do some unusual ones. I know tomorrow's going to be a bit disappointing, because it's going to be very one sided.
But that's a spoiler for tomorrow. No, it's not a spoiler. But yes, IT crowd is brilliant. But that just makes me think of Brassite as well though.
I can't get into a Brassite conversation. Besides, I won't be able to keep. Would you like this new drug called Cake? Cake.
Oh, Craigie. How do you remember that? I know it was called Images De La Nodiel. All Edmunds talk about Cake and he got very angry, but he found out it wasn't, it was a send up.
They did a lot of people. This was like Simon Pegg's first like, paid work with Brassite, especially the most controversial episode that it ever did. Simon Pegg's in quite a lot. I've tried to panic so many times.
They've actually tried to remove it off the view and they said it's not. It's not very PC. Well, it's a sigh. It's meant to be funny.
Yeah. People who are paid files, it's not meant to be fun. No. What do you just remind us of IT crowd?
No, the P2F5. I'm P2F5. I'm P2F5. Shall I leave somebody at the airport?
I can't do it when she hears it. No, she's like, it's not P2F5. It's... It's P2.
I've never been so happy on the beginning of a podcast like I have right now, like I don't get it wrong. I love every episode we do. But all these years, he's watching the office and he's like, I'm hoping to talk about the IT crowd. I've watched absolutely jack shit this week, so we don't have to put it with mine.
I'm literally just going between Young Sheldon and always sunny, just it's background noise at the minute. I have had her do a lot of watching and reading and other stuff, so I haven't really... We brains just not to tell you. Can we just give Sammy a little clap as well?
I know she doesn't get much appreciation, bless her. I give her a lot of shit. She has taken over Goodwill as the hardest working member of Nelly O' North. She...
Let's just give a little demonstration of what Sammy's been doing. This is... Sammy will probably say this for this, but she does a Sunday episode. She does a monsters up North episode.
She's been a huge part of the Women of Nerd Culture podcast. I know that's only once a month, but like dealing with everyone and planning, it's still a lot of work. She's guest-doring on another podcast next week. She's started up a special episode because she's very excited for House of the Dragon, so she's done...
Her and a few other nerdy members have recorded that episode as well. So, Sammy fucking works. So everyone in the fucking chat, appreciate this bitch, and give her some love. I can't give Sammy some love now.
I can not have Sammy now. Since I've come back from Paris, I've done three recordings a week. Well, see, I've done lots to do that, but I just... I've got to do that.
And that's on top of all the work and having a life and spending time with my husband and my cats. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, thanks.
I feel like I've already won. So... Well, we'll start off with the appreciation. And after last week's debacle, because last week was probably the most filthy-ridden episode that we've ever done on the Nelly O' North podcast, or if you haven't watched the Mollrats episode, fucking hell, the things we talked about, and I knew no apologies, because it was fucking hilarious.
No, no apologies whatsoever. We ain't apologize to them in the South Park episode. We ain't apologize to them for the staunty-starsh-troopers. Because that one's going to be fucking crazy.
So now we're going... We're going family-friendly. With the first of all, some film about family, some of the occasions, young love. Now, Adam, before we came online, told us about our lovely stories.
And again, not to put money's place or put it on the spot. Sorry. Tell us a little bit about this story. Your memories of this movie, take away, big fella.
Well, the main thing that I take from this movie, obviously, I used to watch it with my brand and my grandpa. And on a Sunday, it's like a Sunday movie. I don't know what I'd say again today. It gives us memories of that time when me grandpa was still alive.
I think the last time I watched it before today was probably about 12 years ago. Wow. And I was on a Sunday when I was still alive. So it just gives us happiness and sadness at the same time, understandably.
I wish I'd go back to that time. But do you not think you'd go back a little bit? I know it sounds weird, because in my head, when I watch a movie, it's not like I'm watching it now. It's like I'm watching it back then.
So it's almost like a little back to the future moment. I go on back in time and reminisce and like living in that memory again, which again, that's what movies to me is. It's about like feeling safe, feeling like a warm, whole type thing. And there's movies that you want to scare you where this one, it's like a warm embrace.
It's like an old friend that was there for you when you were a kid and made your smile and made your laugh. And it does the same for now. So I quite like that. So that's like, I say, I know Sammy's talked about like stuff, like stuff, watching with her grandparents before as well.
And that's the main reason why we do this podcast and all just to bring back those memories. So thank you. Have a good chat and like kind of remind ourselves as to, you know, I wasn't always shit. It was times when it was good and there's still times to be had that are good.
But I can totally like not with this movie, but with other ones that I've watched it, because my granddad was like the multimedia king. Like he like loved anything, like cinematic and stuff like that. Like it didn't matter what it was. So I had like such a expect because if it was down to me, you know what I'd be watching.
And he was one person who wouldn't tolerate that. Because we had to evolve and we had to look at other stuff and branch out of the stuff. I wouldn't have had Star Wars if it wasn't for that man. So I can totally understand where you're coming from.
But before we get all pretty much and into the nitty gritty, I just want to break this up with the taglines. The taglines. So raccoons, very friends or master medicines. There were bloody bastards.
Bastards. Ten top tips for family trips. Right. Ten top trips for family trips.
And this is no holiday. This is war. I'm declaring war. I've been expecting that stuff in this episode.
Out top fun for everyone. This holiday is no picnic. The wildlife is wild. But the brother-in-law is unbearable.
And the last one is a week in the woods with Roman and Chet. This is no holiday. This is war. Can I just say a little as well?
Because we were talking about before as well. When it comes to movies and actors and stuff, we haven't really talked much about the late Great John Candy. He hasn't really got much love on the Nelly O'Bald podcast, which is a bit of the shame. When you think about all the classics he's done, I think this one is kind of like a little bit of like a hidden gem as well.
Because when you ask people about John Candy movies, always go like cool runnings, planes, trains and automobiles, or even like a spit part and stuff, these ones don't really get brought up that much, which is a shame. Because I do think like the Great Outdoors or like some of Rental are some of these stronger performances as well. Because he is absolutely brilliant. I can all aspects.
You feel for him, he shows so much different range. And not just like being a comedy, you can see when he's getting angry, when he shows all the different range that John Candy could show. And all planes and trains and automobiles is like the one where you feel literally everything for the guy. That actually feeds in lovely to the one fun fact to have about this movie.
This is John Hughes. I'm going to have to pull some names up. So this is John Hughes and director Howard Dutchess, Dutchess, third film. The earlier two was pretty in pink and some kind of wonderful.
And John Hughes at the same time is doing this now. So bear in mind, John Hughes can't direct this movie because he is doing transplants and automobiles, which again has John Candy in. So John Candy is splitting between the two movies, while he's doing great outdoors, doing planes and automobiles. But there is a connection between all films, take pretty in pink out the equation.
Planes and automobiles. I think it's some kind of wonderful. Yes. Oh, she's having a baby or something like that with them Kevin Bacon and this movie.
They're all in the link with each other. All right. And in planes and automobiles, the Kevin Bacon movie is being played in the background. Right.
And the great outdoors. There is there is something there is something Kevin is a kind of big and jogging it, I think. Yes, and with the it's some kind of wonderful Steve Martin, it's not it's not it's some kind of wonderful. It's something that she's having a baby.
Steve Martin walks past him walks past him and they give each other a really funny look. Right. And then Steve Martin just disappears. Yeah, so they're kind of like they're all like interlinked with each other.
And it's it was really fascinating. I probably butchered the whole story, but the whole thing, especially the fact that you don't when it comes to John Candy and Steve Martin John Hughes, Dan Acroid, they're all part of this big huge family. The all of work together in some way and Dan Acroid. Actually, so blues brothers is also done by John Hughes.
He had something to do with it. Right. And the song that's played in the bar on great outdoors is the takeover band of the blues brothers that Dan Acroid performed with when John Belushi passed away. Right.
Right. But it's not Dan Acroid singing, because Dan Acroid would just come and perform with them when he could, but it's the band that took over the blues brothers and kind of like a tribute to John Belushi after he passed away. Well, talk about the music in this movie as well, because from the start it's got some fuckin catchy tunes. I got the papers and the trash.
Did anyone else notice that the man did not know the lyrics? No. I think you spoke the words there. Yes, she did.
You can eat like my version that I started to watch today was in Spanish. So I had to turn it off when it's not. It's vegan. But at the beginning, I've watched quite a few times and she does not know the words that's all.
No, nothing else. Something I've noticed about the music in films like this, especially of like the ladies as well. The style of music for each scene and what like it just sounds perfect for that too. Yeah.
I was thinking about the ladies movies and early 90s as well. Yeah. Like there's always some sort of like a guitar driven like bluesy rock sort of thing. Like like some sort of like rock pop sort of thing.
It's always like a macho that produces well. Yeah. It's always so good of making sure you're in the moment with the music that they chose. Now it's like I can't even see it.
Like there's one person that comes to mind when it comes to modern music or modern movies that can do that. And it was James Gunn when he did Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm not seeing two or three. I'm just like the first Guardians of the Galaxy, the movie soundtrack to that just fit perfectly for everything that was going on.
Yeah. And it got you're in the feelings of where you needed to be. But a skull can do that quite easy. But if you are doing just like soundtracks throughout, you don't get that anymore.
So I'm going to go and be a little bit of a high horse here because as we always know with the podcast. Get comfy Adam. With my with with with. Yeah, I'm never comfy.
Like Adam's a whole. Yeah. That was the message. Um, with these movies, the use things as like I said like scores and like to help with the plot and stuff like that.
It wasn't more to do with like or like what visuals or special effects they can go through. It was more telling the story or what can help with the story of like for example, some of the most hilarious bits in this movie I know we're going to talk about quite a lot is the raccoons. And every time the raccoons come on, there's a little bit of a score and it's hilarious because he here is but I don't know. And you think and I don't just share impression everyone.
Soon you hear that you get a little bit excited. What are they going to do now? The little fairy will come. Oh, they're in the seat.
I'll know. They're going to see what they did though. The little bastards. Yeah.
But maybe half an hour in it won't do anything. Well, there were like a little twats. Um, we are. Um, but like I say, what anything to do with the ids like they've done things so well, like if this movie was made now, it would be the opening would spend about 10 minutes of trying to explain the family dynamic or like how the family works.
Yeah. It doesn't. It's straight in the families in the car. You don't know what's going to be like other than like because back then the trailers were like some guy talking like this John Candy going on holiday.
Um, and I wouldn't show you the full movie. So you would see clips. So you wouldn't really know what the movie was about. So it's and it throws you straight in.
It's basically got the family to a second. So you know what they want to do a cabin and that's basically the plot where they haven't basically the whole day from hell. And if that was done now, I don't know if modern audiences or one people would be able to explain why are they going to this place? Why are they doing this?
It didn't have to be like that back in the 80s. It was just simply, let's just have fun. Let's put people in an awkward situation and kind of see what goes and what happens. And it was so relatable as well.
Cause like even in England, we can remember going on like cabin holidays or weekends away at the lake districts or go to the butlins if you had money type thing, if you were rich at your rich bastards. Um, I was getting this. I was like, I was a castle there. It was, um, um, dumb freeze and galloway for me in Scotland.
It's just the border of Scotland. You just go camping there. And this is what like back then what like a holiday was about. Like families didn't have like a lot of money.
So they went to like these resorts or these little holiday towns and like in America when we watched these films or TV shows, you kind of got jealous. Like you're saying, Oh, they're going like going on big lakes, going on boards, going fishing, going like saying bears in the woods where we'll see a thousand woods. I mean, I don't want to say a bear in the woods. Bring it back to modern times.
Um, but yeah, the I, it's an odd, everyone's cup of tea, but I absolutely love grownups. Yeah. I love that movie. So it's one of me.
It's a comfort movie. And I'm just like, I just can't be asked. I just give us something I've seen a million and one times and grownups is when I go back to constantly. And it's because of the outdoorsy campiness of it.
I'm just like, I want to go there. I want to be, I want to be, I'd spend a weekend with Sandra and do a spirit. Yeah, especially like, we are, um, like the whole movie is just so much fun and all, like, and if you look at the cast, I know we mentioned John County down our grade for an MF Benning was in that in this debut film. Was it a first one?
Right. Filler, mr. Bad, the first as well. And she was absolutely brilliant in it as well.
She looked fantastic. And especially when you've got it, like, you look at the power houses, you've got to hold yourself against Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, who is probably one of the most greatest physical comedy actors that has ever graced this world. And you have to act up against him. Like, that's, that is a feat.
And this is your first movie that is a feat in itself. Like, I love Dan Aykroyd. I think his comedy time is brilliant. Especially in terms of my feeling.
And it's so different from because, and especially for me, as a gosh, buster fan going, oh, or he does something else. He has that man has range. But you can't even Dan Aykroyd doesn't come close to the brilliance that is John Candy throughout this film. The stick scene alone.
Oh, yeah. The spiritual expressions that comes off the guy is sort is just. It makes you feel like he's actually doing that thing. It's the last bite.
Yeah. I was like, was it the wall 6? 96, wasn't it? So it was like a turn around from 69.
So they'll enjoy that. So that is that is an actual bar. There's the allowed them to film in this poor bar thought they were going to have such a gold mine because this movie was shot in there. They had all the signs that they had signed pictures of the cast and everything and a month after filming a burnt of the ground.
And they've rebuilt. Right. It's got a whole new structure. It looks nothing like the original date, but they still have all of the posters and pictures and stuff that and signs that were given to them.
So they managed to salvage some things and some things were sent to them as well. But that was sort of the expected like this huge money pit like, look, we're in a movie. We're gone. We're going.
We're gone. Do you think you could have finished it though? The world of 96? Yes.
It's like a real life. In real life, yes. Oh, me? Yeah.
Right. I think I would have done it exactly the way that he did it. He was so clever, tiny little bit. Right.
Not like not like chopping it all in. It's when he has to send the turn around and go, he's not finished yet. Let's just talk about the chef as well because the chef's on that. He's just looks absolutely disgusting.
Just got blown all around. He's not a chef. He's like a butcher type thing. Do you know what it was just me?
Maybe just the camera angle. I mean, Dan Aykroy tonight is a short fellow, is he? No. He looked about seven foot taller.
He's like Dan Aykroy, kind of like woman of third and like Ruben E's belly and it's like it's progressing very well. It's coming down very well. And he's constantly like gripped on to room. Yeah.
And he's probably, I mean, one of my favorite scenes. But he says he has to eat the fat and chrysal. I was like, oh, oh, that was so funny. That doesn't bother me.
He didn't actually say it. It was just a look at what was like. He says like, oh, but there's a lot of chrysal left in the room. Oh, no.
It's the fact that he was ready to like split the salad with his wife. And he's like, oh, yeah, I'll give it a go. But the hints throughout the film as well, like this is where Dan Aykroyd is great in this movie because the whole plot is busy. Dan Aykroyd's busy, a shitty brother-in-law.
And he's busy. He's not so small. He's not so small. He's so small.
He's so small. And he's like, that's the big twist, I think. But the little hints all the way through. It's like, oh, when he's at the bar he's like, I've got the bathroom.
You here for the tab. And then when they're going through the menu, he's like, oh, so what's this competition? He's like, oh, if someone eats that sick, the whole family eat for free. And he was like, all right.
I have to pay for a beer. I don't have to spend money. We'll put this on a drunk family's caribou. Yeah, it's like all those scenes.
It's like, when you look back now, I was like, oh, yeah, it was like all the way through. But like, very subtle. They're like, they had no money. Yeah.
It's really well done. I didn't even say that the first time I ever seen. No, no. The thing is, would you, like, grow up watching this movie?
I don't think it's, again, it's another like trade and places. There's some things in this that just wouldn't land to me. And I'm just looking at shapes, colours, and you know, the funny guys just being hit with the door. It's when you're older and you're like, you dirty bastard.
Like the physical comedy and it's like, it's just brilliant. Like I've talked about the stakes scene. The waterscaling scene is absolutely hilarious as well. Like seeing John kind of getting pulled around a lake.
It's one of the most hilarious things. How do you know how many ticks that talk? Probably just a one. It's like, if I was him, I'd be like, nope, I'm not fucking doing this again.
Let's get it right in the one. Go on. But as you mentioned, the door, when he's getting squashed by the big bear. It's the movement underneath the door.
You should have been all over the place. It's like, you ain't getting up off that door. You're just going to have to sit and take it the scene with the bat as well. I think I misinterpreted the size of the room.
It's just, I don't think I appreciate a physical comedy in its fullest until I saw Steve Martin in, um, ony murders in the building and watched this 70-odd year old man physically throwing himself around and, you know, putting himself in a position where you really didn't have to do this. And I was like, but for the comedy, it's genius. And I think that's when my appreciation for physical comedy started to then I started to look at other people and John Candy, like not even like this movie, every movie he's done, he can land physical comedy like nobody else can. Yeah.
I think what made it more impressive is the size of him. Yes. Like it was the way he did physical comedy. It was as if he was a man that was like 100 pounds like that.
Yeah. It's crazy. It's like, it's sizing. This doesn't matter.
But what matters is the art. What matters is, does the laugh land and that was always the impression I got with him? I always thought and it kind of crossed me minding into the day was how was their relationship between Candy and Acuroy going into this movie after the debacle of Ghostbusters because famously John Candy was, he removed himself for creative differences with Ivan Reitman over the direction that Lois Tully was going to go in. He wanted him to be this German with two Schnauzer dogs and be like very eccentric.
And that's not where the one to go and John and John just walked out. So I always wondered how their relationship was after all that. But if there was any friction, any free, it is not shown. Yeah.
I think when you look back, like all the history with Dan Agrode, I don't think there's ever anyone that's ever said anything negative or bad about Dan Agrode or John Candy as a pervert. But I think back in the early 90s, that kind of stuff very rarely did get out unless someone made a public, if you're like Eddie Murphy and take every day laundry anyway, anyway, you can. But with Dan Agrode, I think the best way I can describe his probably professional is, but I think he's one of those, when you speak to him or not personally, when you say interviews, I did, he comes across as a really genuine nice guy. And I don't think he would ever hold anything against like personally, like all ghostbusters, but to us, we're ghostbusters and he would have the original idea, but that original idea got taken away from so many different places and where it was going to be.
It changed exponentially. But there's a beautiful interview on YouTube with John Candy and just, I don't know what the guy, where the guy's from, but it's at his ranch, is that his home? And he's just walking around his home and he's just, and he's daughters there. And oh my God, is that man just completely ugly and love with his child?
And he comes across as such a sweetheart. I had to go and watch a bit of it just to get in, because I know John Candy, my first experience with him is Little Shop of Horrors. And then it grows from there, but I have not seen a book. I've not seen playing trains and automobiles.
This is what this is. We're going to give Samian education soon. Don't worry guys. Yeah, but this movie stands out for me because of Dan Agrode.
That's why I watched it. It's not why I stayed. And continuously keep going back and watching it. There's this one saying with Dan Agrode, even to this deer, I, like, it's just something that is so simple, but weird.
It's when he's clipping his nose hairs and I cried laughing looking at that just how not repulsive, but just busy house, Marmy, slimy, and it's quite a genuine conversation that he's having with his wife as well about how his kids don't like he finds it hard to busy, like connect with these kids or. He's in the chest kids look at them like he's Zeus. Yeah. And they look like he's like an alien type thing.
I mean, look at everyone like they're an alien. I'm not a lot of kids. Oh, my God. Ginger twins.
So they're shining had nothing on these do did they? No, no, no, no, no. There's only one. It's when the bat was at the bat or was it the bear when they're in the car down the cave.
The cave. Yeah. The cave. That's the only time I ever felt sorry for them in the rest of us.
I was like, oh, you just get nice. What's we found? We're not very child friendly people. I mean, there's only one of us in here who was a parent.
And he's kind of loves kids. Yes. Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry. We're not having a good moment here. It's fine. It's all right.
We're not going to be naive. It's all right. It won't be an atom bomb of that. So it's fine.
We have just like the physical comedy book. Talk about the mind shaft as well. Seeing the whole scene with John. Well, there's two scenes where John Candy where it literally will break you if you're watching it.
The one where he comes back from the horse run away and he's walking up the hill and he's just this sweaty mess and I've never related to John Candy so much in my life. And he's like, Oh, yeah, everyone's like, all right. We've got so much money. No, no, just that.
Just one. And he's walking like I walk on a daily basis as well. So it's always a bad time. But that well seen when the when the denogroy man's up and the probably for the first time he's likely to be, he does the father figure and rescues these kids and John Candy goes to get the rope and find a way out.
And what John Candy is here and away saves the bear. He drags the bear out of the mind. And after that, becomes one of the comedy performances of the eighties like when he's running away and he goes into the door and he's just like trying to explain to me. I was like, Oh, really happy to say he's like, And with it again, and I know we hop onto this as well using practical effects and now that we use a CGI bear because it'll be too dangerous to use, but in the eighties, they didn't give a fuck health and safety be damned as good will would say.
And on the bear breaks down the door and proceeds to use John Candy as a bouncy castle for about five minutes. And it is one of the most funniest things you will ever see. Just watching him wiggling every time that bear every time that bear jumps on him. John Candy just goes, oh my god, when Beatrice came in there she just squared up the judge.
The wall of the cats and judge us idea. She just went up trim and just kind of like, then walked away. But one scene after that always puzzles me a puzzle me as a kid and it puzzles me now. So after John Candy's being squashed by the door, the bears put off the door and the bears being all scary.
Why does John Candy stand up and put the door back up. No, I was to be fair if there's a bear stopping your house. Why the fuck would you be trying to block a bear in choices choices. Over the scene after that it needed the door back.
Set in the stages. Yes, yes. They mentioned in cool runners in the chat. Another one I've not seen.
I don't know why you shocked Adam. I thought Lee was the one who wasn't seen things. No, Chris hasn't seen Terminator. I'll turn it to what.
Yeah. So, and all my friends with these people friends is a strong word. I'm not. Yeah.
Yes. Can we talk about the kids in this film? Yes. Because the two girls were all yes they are incredibly.
That's the impression that you're going to get off them. They are fucking fantastic at Stone face. They can pull rest in bitches like no other kid I have ever seen, but the two other John Candy's kids. to get with a certain part where things come out with John Candy's ass.
Like, literally when they're having the big bust up, like the kids are sitting there and goes, why don't you have the whole family come out, yes, dad? It's the man with that. Is the man her from National Lampoons? And I completely lost the mark with that.
Those true colours, bridesmaids, and have a look. It looks so familiar. I think it's just a ladies' mum look, though, that's the thing, so it's the man in Hawker's board with us. Right.
That's it. That's it. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, but basically the player's quintessential, Eddie's mum type thing.
I'm playing with Eddie's milk there. She could have been a Beverly from what's it called? What's it called? The gold books?
Yes, that's how I know I'm thinking. She's like the man from National Lampoons. I've never seen a Christmas vacation either. What kind of films do you have seen?
Well, we've done that. I've never seen anything to go by. I haven't seen films I should have seen, but don't tell Paul, but I still haven't seen the Goony. I know this, but that's fine.