Hello and welcome to Retrospection, podcast where we take an old movie or TV show and decide whether to dress it up, give it a quick smooch or simply remove its chip and scrap it. My name's Paul and try not to mess up my hair. That'd be very difficult. It's possible.
It can be done. I'm a thriller pad. What if the wind blows wrong? It does move.
Okay, my name's Colin and so your robot is gunpow. Why don't you try some real women? I'm not touching that one. Nice to have you back by the way.
Thank you, nice to be back. Good, good, good. Did you miss your gunpow accomplished? Absolutely.
Good, well say no more. No, I have to kill you. Absolutely. What?
So listen, if you're taking a look at Cherry 2000 from 1987, your choice I believe. Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that. Stand by it.
You'll stand by it. Well, don't give away too soon. You already did. I didn't say anything.
People can infer from what you said. Oh, no. I'm very mowed. Very mowed.
Both? Alright, a bit purple baby. Yeah, I'm not touching that one. So the plot is in 2017 a successful businessman travels to the ends of the Earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose.
So he hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife. Sexy? I don't really get the opportunity to be sexy in the film, does she? No.
No. Okay. So the film stars David Andrews as Sam Treadwell. What else is he going to end?
He looked for me to make. Glasgow. Oh, yes it is. The show was BBC show.
Wow. I was racking my brain trying to remember where I'd seen this guy before. I wish I did look it up. No, obviously that was too tricky.
Oh, really? Well, that's key. Well, there might be one other person out there that knows what I'm talking about. That's true.
You. That's it. We're done. Yep.
We're okay. Melanie Griffith as E Johnson. Lawrence or Larry Fishburn as Blinke and you'll miss him. Glue Glue.
Oh, that's the name they gave him in the credits? Glue Glue. That's the name of the club that he's in. Alright.
Michael C. Gwyn as Slim Lawyer. Brian James, the great Brian James, as Stacy's doing an accent in this as well, isn't it? Yeah, terrific.
Not as good as his Tango and Cash accent. No, it's not. Tim Thomason, the great Tim Thomason's Lester. That was not surprising.
I saw that he was in it actually. Good. It was something. And Pamela Giddley as Cherry 2000.
And my favourite credit was Jennifer Bal Gobbin as Glory Holclurk. It used to be a nickname at school. Don't give away all my secrets on it. So, yeah.
You missed out Harry Carrey Jr. And Ben Johnson, both two stalwarts of the Western scene. Yeah, they're quite old in this, aren't they? Yes.
It was kind of nice to see them. Yeah, Ben Johnson, I didn't even reckon ones. That's acting for you. The film was directed by Steve Jarrett, Jarnet.
Yeah, go with that. Go with that. What else did he do? He did a bunch of TV.
But he was also a producer on The Kindred, which is a really good vampire TV series. Don't roll your eyes at me. American Gothic. But he's probably best known for me as the writer of that magnificent epic future sports star in Dean Kane.
Ah, back when you were a big fan of Dean Kane. I'm still a big fan of Dean Kane. Oh. Yeah.
Bring him back as Superman, as well as that. I mean, granted he might not fit too well into that. Who does these days, eh? That's right.
So, the film was budgeted at $10 million and made around $14,000 on a very, very limited theatrical release. In fact, there were only a few cinemas in Europe, I believe. I think $14,000 is probably a record for us, isn't it? I think so.
Yeah. But it's mostly a straight to video, I feel like. Yeah, problems with the marketing, didn't it? It led it to be released almost direct to video, did you say?
Yeah, because they didn't really know what to push it. I was in a western, is it science fiction, is it comedy? Is it none? None of those?
None. We'll solve it by the end of the podcast. OK. The Melanie Griffith says that this is a least favorite film.
My God, she's made some crap, so this is really bad. I mean, this is really bad. I don't know, I read there was problems with her and Andrews. What a surprise.
Yeah. I was sorry that Kevin Cotton was set to star in this, but he dropped out to do Silverado instead. Probably gonna move. Yeah.
Any other facts or shall we just listen to the trailer? Oh, no, let's go for the trailer. Alright, play it. In the future, the world has survived.
Romance has not. Alright, so we'll say a dinner, complete sexual encounter, optional episode in the morning, right? I gotta run this case my own lawyer. Pleasure is strictly business, but it will be possible to have the perfect mate, a cherry 2000.
Looks great. Fuffling. Disirable. She'll never run out on him.
Just, short out. Sorry kid, total internal meltdown. Hey, you got her basic memory right here. Local patterns.
Verbal, whatever. Basic voice. Don't look so glum, your chassis's out for the counter, right? You got the chippy, when you pick yourself out of a new model, you slide in the slot, and you got yourself your girl bag in a brand new frame.
Give me a call if you're from the cherry. Cherry 2000. It's not my friend. You're gonna be a very old man, round in the middle of the bone drive before you find one of those at least parts.
That's a chance I'll just have to take. Then, the adventure begins. There's a higher tracker to his own self. We got him.
Policy has been strappers in these parts. It goes into zone seven. The guy on the original warehouse is down there. Girls stacked in the shells like pies.
I'm looking for someone to go into zone seven. I need Johnson. You're not gonna find anybody better than me, mister. I'm not a machine.
Do you know where they keep these babies? We call it the graveyard. It's the worst place in its own. Maybe I can get in there and find this thing, but I need somebody to run in shock and make it happen one piece.
Oh, so chase those birds till they drop. If you think it's tough to meet the right people now. Where do you go looking for a cherry 2000? That tells you everything you need to know.
Shall we crack on? Go for it. We begin with what looks to meet like a very shoestring style Bond opening credit. Oh, I said that.
It's like soft palm meat to Maurice Binder. That pretty much is Maurice Binder though, isn't it? Yeah, pretty much. It is just a Bond opening.
It is. We see a man driving into a woman touching herself. Fondling a stomach at one point. Yeah, I'm probably hungry.
Is that what you do? I have a fond of my belly with my sandwich. Oh, that's just disgusting. That's gloss on that one then.
Okay, so then the woman's getting dressed and the man gets home and he's Sam and he gives the woman a bunch of cheap petrol station flowers, doesn't he? Oh, you know that the cheap petrol station flowers are just experience talking. Bit of both. Bit of both.
Okay. We would have all been there, haven't we? Nope. All right.
So I was already thinking something was off here as she's actually pleased to see him and she asked him about his dirty. I mean, that doesn't happen. Usually does it? I refuse to get involved in your matrimonial problems.
Oh, thanks. I had a problem. It's all good. He does it that he's late because of work, something about a hotshot tracker and spark plugs.
Yeah, but did you notice that the use of color in this scene? Cool. Like everything addresses red. Ellipsek is bright red.
The red candlesticks and flowers are red too. And the significance is? Color of passion and violence and danger. Really?
You think that's what they were going for? Yep. Probably production is probably going for I would think. But also you noticed the way that she gets rid of the flowers?
No, what did she do? She just, she just, there's no like thought behind it whatsoever. She just takes him out and throws him to one side. So it's like there's no feeling for her for those flowers or the act of him giving them to her.
Also, there's flowers already in there. So he must be something he does every day. All right, because he's playing a role for himself, isn't he? Yeah, kind of.
Yeah. Oh, no, I didn't know if you sent me that. Watch these films occasionally. I did watch you three weeks ago, Karl.
That's true. That's true. That's true. This is what you're here for anyway.
You do the thinking. Okay, you do the dancing. I'm doing trouble. You've never seen me dancing, not really, really dancing.
So I do remember thinking that was a small table. That was just me for two, I suppose. Still small. You never lived in a New York apartment, Paul.
No, I haven't. That's a table. Huge. You've got a lot of food on it though, I mean.
Oh, that's what you were thinking. Yeah, yeah. She doesn't even let him finish his dinner anyway. She doesn't.
He doesn't press her a lot with his knowledge of rust, though, doesn't he? It always works. What best lines is it? Yeah, yeah.
Always bring out the old rust topic. I hope that's not a euphemism for something. No, it's not. It's a general.
All right. Okay. So she tells him that Vaseline was invented by an American. And then gets a bit confused.
Yeah. See, I personally think that she's already starting to malfunction at this point. But that's not quite right. She doesn't know if she's dinner.
And he looks at it as if to say what's going on kind of thing. So I think she's already having problems here. Yeah, I would say that. I don't know how we have this weird sequence where they have this really over the top snogging session, that name.
She's in a marigold. And the sinks overflowing and they're rolling around in all the studs. Yeah. I think that's done on purpose because it's like a fantasy.
Exactly what it is. I would think so. That's what I got from it though. It's like it's this perfect fantasy of this just way over the top and unreal.
So he set this up to do this then, you think? No, I think the film is like showing the fantasy. Oh, so it's not really happening? Yeah, it's really happening.
But the film's exaggerating it to get across the idea that it's his fantasy. I do remember thinking that's going to need a serious mop in that that floor. Well, it's you. Always clean.
I do like to get down and dirty and clean things up. Yeah. Treat some clean. That was your motto.
Yeah, that was my motto. Yes. But then not anymore. No, no, it's all dirty now.
But then textbook mistake. All the water causes it to blow a circuit. She's a robot. Yeah, she's a robot.
Who saw that coming? That me? This is a step up from my toilet robot, though, isn't it? Yeah, it's a bit of my realistic.
Does my things. It doesn't work. She can get down right around that U-ben, can't she? Actually, no, I would think the only thing it doesn't do is the one thing you'd want it to do, which is the toilet part.
I would refuse to do that. That would be typical of me. The one thing I wanted to do is it doesn't do it. Right, yeah.
So he's upset that she's broken. But I mean, she's just a glorified, beloved daughter, isn't she? Yeah, but he's got issues. He's got connection and emotional issues to him.
You find out why later. Yes, you do. He's poured all his emotion into this robot. You see that you can kind of buy these kind of things as well.
I mean, obviously, they're not as realistic as this, but... I know, right. Very forward thinking this film. Who knew?
It's only, but it's only set in the fair future of 2017. And here we are now. In 2018? I know.
So we can't, we kind of have them. Yeah, so there you go. I mean, I'm not saying Christmas present, but, you know. Okay.
Glad you know. All right. So Sam takes her to be repaired. Her insight into a mix of organic and technological components, don't they?
Yeah, it's like when you see a data taken apart in TNG, you think, yeah, that's not going to work. It's just a lot of lights. It is. It's a lot of Christmas lights.
Yeah. This has got like wet bits inside of it, hasn't it? Yeah, so not realistic. Organic fluid.
Nice. Few carrots. Few carrots? Yeah, carrots and...
Oh, maybe she eats real food, so... Oh, yeah. It's got to go somewhere. Yeah.
And it's got to come out. Somewhere. That's why she needs to learn to clean those sides. No.
Okay, but clean the odour. I'll clean those up as well. All right, a lot too much information, but come on. Okay, very angry about this robot.
Yeah. So the tech guy says that she can't be fixed. She's too advanced, but she's also thinking of the past. So does that mean that because she was too advanced, they kind of scaled them back a little bit?
Yeah, that sounds right to me. Mm-hmm. Too expensive to make. Yeah.
So they remove her chip, which has her personality in it. A rare thing, he says. Yeah, because they don't do personalities. You know, there's all the robots in this film are female.
Oh, yeah, there's not a single male robot, is there? No. What terribly sexist attitude? Well, that's the world that they live in.
No, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. We find out what they're like. What's the gag?
I was getting ready to do a bit. No, good. We're all relieved. The tech guy's a bit creepy as well, isn't he?
Well, he does surround himself by female robotic Americans. Why would that make a difference? Well, it's just like that's all he sees is these shell-like women that have no personalities or feelings. So that would, you know, shape him.
It's like you in a beer shop. Every beer I've ever tasted has got personality. Even the bad ones. Sometimes they've got too much personality.
Really? Oh, yeah. They find me. Oh, OK.
That came out wrong. The beer. I'm talking about beer. Yes.
All the troubles. So the tech guy, Slim, takes Sam to a storeroom. We seem to have the robots from Forbidden Planet and they're stood still. You've got one, right?
So, well done. One of them is Robbie the robot. Yeah, Robbie the robot is this one's the one from Lost in Space, which is not the same one as Forbidden Planet. They're kind of the same one, don't they?
They're similar. They're very similar. Yeah. No.
Get your facts right. So, a new world order in this podcast. Oh, it's facts. I'll take you better find yourself a new co-host then.
You're going to be out of luck there. So, they're moving on chairs that seem to be fixed to a platform. It should be easy just to walk. I mean, they're not going that fast.
This is the future. We don't have to walk anymore. Right, OK. I mean, you've got to an airport and they've got those moving platforms down the middle.
You can just walk, but now. I'd stand on the moving platforms and walk on them at the same time. Put the wrong direction. You can make you feel like a superpower.
Oh, does that? Yeah, you feel like the flash because you're walking at normal speed, but you're moving incredibly fast. So, no, you feel like the flash. It's close.
It's close. Give you that. Again, don't give away all my secrets. OK.
So, Slim shows Sam a few new models and one that doesn't have anything downstairs at all. But she can do your taxes like a wizard, apparently. Yeah, Jimmy Coward needs that. There's a few people that would need that.
Just making money disappear. Oh. He's not going to be our friend, is he? Anymore?
Because he's beating on her door. Oh, I hope not. That's one of his gags, I think. I think so.
But Slim thinks that Sam wants something, was a little more spunk. It's funny really because it loves the spunk. Yeah, don't even bother. Don't even bother, Bob.
Just stop right there. I could skip to the next line. I could see all your facey doing that. I knew you were going to do that when I saw the scene, along when you started this line.
All right, moving on then. But Sam's not interested in any of this. He wants his cherry back. Once you've lost your cherry.
You can never get it back. We get a news report talking about how society shouldn't be throwing stuff away anymore. Yeah, because they're recycling mad. Everything's recycled.
That's right. We get a bit in a moment where we're going to be able to do that. We get a bit in a moment where I was kind of confused where we were for a second, but I'm not explaining what we get there. So Sam is in what looks like an 80s version of a futuristic shopping mall.
But he's actually a recycling centre. Yeah, and there's a little tiny thing like the red zone is far back and easier only. Yeah, it's something like an airplane gag, didn't it? Yeah, I mean, I guess it's playing on that kind of thing.
Because it's on that ground scale. Yeah, people seem to be pushing around random curts of stuff. Drunk. Drunk.
And he bumps into two men that know him, one wearing a kind of 50 suit. And they tend that they're going to the glue goo club. But Sam's not interested. They wanted to stop brooding and try some real women.
So he reluctantly agrees to go with them. The performances in this film range from completely over the top to massively underplaying everything, don't they? Well, Andrew is subdued throughout most of the film, but I think that's gone on purpose. You know, because he doesn't interact with real people.
So I think that's generally it. Some of the other performances wave around a bit. They do. And we'll talk to Melanie Griffiths later when she gets into it.
Yes, yes. I don't think it's all her fault personally, but. I bet it would be interesting to know why you think that. So we go to the glue glue club, which is neon 80s lights.
Yes. Looks like something from Miami Vites, isn't it? Kind of, yeah. And it's like if the stairwells cantina only like people with big hair and face paint inside, isn't it?
It is, yeah, because that's what I've got. It's a great line where someone says, if you stick your tongue in my client's mouth, I'm going to sue your ass off. Yeah, because basically everyone brings the lawyer with them to the stating club. And you can only date someone once you've gone through the lawyer and negotiated the deal for the night.
This is a really interesting part of the story in this. I wish that they'd have gone into this a little bit more. It's a commoditization of sex basically, and love and relationships. You know, everyone does a lawyer and you can only date someone.
People bring demo tapes of their performance that you're supposed to look at. Yes, because at one point I'm pretty sure they're watching pornhub at the bottom, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, and it's a demo tape so you can watch their performance and maybe you want to be with them. I mean, it's a very interesting idea and you can kind of see that this is where people might end up going at some point.
Yeah, I mean there's some nice world building in this first part of the film. There is. There is. It's just a shame that they don't keep it up.
Like, a gag? No, but you can take it as well. It's pretty good really. It wasn't an after-cuff file.
No. So, there's a woman who shows him her homemade porn. And she wants to see his, but he says that his card has expired. And he's got nothing to show her in return.
That's right. And she treats him like he's some kind of freak. Yeah. There is a way around it.
What's that? You just flop it out, don't you? You think that would work? Well, he's never worked for me yet, but...
All right, keep trying. It would be a very young, skinny Larry Fishburn. Larry. Yeah, that's right.
That's how he's quoted. And he seems to be broken in a sexy between one of Sam's friends and a woman. Right. Sam just seems to be bored by all this and he goes home, doesn't he?
Yeah, because he's an old-fashioned kind of guy. It's what I mean, he doesn't go anywhere. No. He's a really interesting...
Oh, well, I think it's trying to point out that he's not just some kind of weirdo. It's the society around him that's driven him to do this. Yeah, but there's a whole other movie here, isn't there? Yeah, well, I didn't pay him a $2.99 of blasters to watch that one.
Oh, $2.99. We expanded you, eh? Rich boy. Body when he came out.
Wow, all right. Didn't wait for when he dropped a $1.50 then. Oh, no. Against that new release wall.
Okay. That's right. That's what it was in 1987. Mm.
Ah, bla blasters, you missin'? That, yeah. Nope. You used to work for them, didn't you?
Let's move on. Okay. So Sam goes home and he puts Cheri's chip into a tape recorder thing. Yeah, but it's like a little lipads that we have now.
Very similar, yeah. Yeah. And he lays next to a lifeless body. And he remembers everything that we've just seen happen in the last 10 minutes.
Yeah, but then there's a scene where the, I don't know what your car in the robot, repurma, I know whatever it is, tells him about a track who can help him go get a cherry from the zone seven, but we never actually saw that. That's a thing. It just cuts from him laying on the bed. Straight to him having this conversation with this slim character.
Yeah, because I'm watching it. I'm thinking, wait, did I step out for it to make a cup of tea during that scene? Because I don't remember that. Do you know what I thought exactly the same thing?
I rewound it just to see what I had missed a bit. It's not, right? It's just a straight cut. Yeah, it's a weird idea.
I wonder whether there was originally something in the middle in between those scenes. Maybe. Yeah. So as we say, we get this weird cut to slim, tell him Sam that he knows of a tracker.
You can go into zone seven and find an exact duplicate of his cherry model. And the tracker's name is E Johnson. Yeah. Don't want to mess with Johnson, do you?
No, you don't. No. So Sam loads up a gun and he drives out into the desert. Sorry, it's interesting that he has a gun.
You know, he's just a businessman. So I guess everyone has guns. Do you really want me to go there? No.
I think so. So he passes a sign that reads, Glory Hole 10, Rule of Law 15, worst rules result ever, I think, isn't it? Oh, very good. Yeah.
You like that one? Yeah. Yeah. So I saw a review of this and they were complaining that one of the most unbelievable things in the film was that there's a town called Glory Hole in it.
I googled it. Apparently there's three of them in America. That does not surprise me. So not as unbelievable as that person would think.
Is that next on your vacation list, are they? Yeah, I wouldn't mind it's in a Glory Hole or two. Well, you've got three to choose from. Right.
You want to make sure you pick the right one. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. All right.
Although, as well as you don't know, he's on the end of it. No. Very strange. So he comes to the Glory Hole hotel.
And it points out that this is now like a Western looking town. Oh, it's completely changed. Yeah. Everything's run down and looking all kind of frontiers, though, isn't it?
Yeah. So outside of the city, everything's kind of very rural and fine compared. Mm-hmm. As I actually wrote in my notes, it's kind of a weird futuristic Western vibe going on now.
Yeah. Because there's a cat in a water jog. Yeah. I'll tell you the whole thing reminded me a little bit of Firefly.
Oh, I see. But that mixture of Western steampunk and, yeah, I can see that, yeah. But the cat in a jar is very strange. Yeah.
And the hotel is just strange. Yeah, she's very large. Yeah. That's all very weird thing.
Mm-hmm. The one behind the counter is dressed in a weird hat veil thing. Right. It's got a bit of a cut-cross blade right to it, isn't it, as well?
The costume, I mean. Yeah. See what you mean? Yeah.
So she tells him no robots alone in the hotel after hours, and they have a good selection of their own in the hotel anyway. Mm-hmm. Any cherries, Sam asks. Which corner is a weird looking man in a hat to glance over?
This guy's the guy that's like Maniac Cobb. Ah, did you also know that he reappears later in the film? He does. He's one of the...
Yeah. Yeah. He's very strange looking, isn't he? He's got a big head.
Yeah, he is strange. He's like plastic. Plastic man, yeah. So the hotel lady gets all surety with him.
No, it's just he gets a phrase that only means something in the UK. Well, how would you describe it, surety? For our American listeners then? Umm...
Umm... Yeah, let's go with uppity. Uppity. So she gets all uppity with him.
Hahaha. Speak of your laugh now. Yeah. She gets all uppity with him.
And a man with a parasol takes Sam to his room, and while another man dumps his broken sex doll out into the hallway. Yeah. I love all this like weirdness that they put into this film. Yeah, I don't have a problem with all this stuff.
So Sam goes to see E Johnson, um, at Tracker's place, and it's kind of a hobble filled with old junk. Yeah. So E Johnson jumps in, and it's mainly Griffith, and when he sees it's a woman he goes to leave, but she lassoes him to a cheer, telling him that she grew up in the zone and that she knows it like the back of her hand. Right.
And this is where I made no God, Melanie Griffith is awful in this. Umm... Hi, sorry. It's like she's...
She... It's like she doesn't quite know how to say the line, so she's just saying them as plainly and as empty as possible. Maybe she should know about. Well, I'll get to that later.
Right, umm, my problem is I think it's just not very well written because the other person is well written because they try to make the tough person, the aggressive and capable, but yeah, because it's the wrong answer. She needs to have the man as well. Yeah. And of course it's written in 1987, so you have that issue as well.
You know, it's got that 80s idea of what a tough woman is supposed to be like. So the dialogue keeps switching between her being independent and then you're in the after it. Still leaning on the man to help her. And it's kind of...
it's just a bit skits of, really. But does that really excuse the performance, then? I don't really have that much of a problem with the performance. That's what you do, yeah?
I mean, I'm not going to give her an award. Right, you know. I don't know. I mean, I really thought that she was probably going to turn out to be a robot.
I thought that's what she was going for. Okay. Maybe that's how she's playing it. Well, it doesn't do that.
So Sam tells Johnson that he wants her to go into zone 7 and find him a cherry. And she says that they need to go together because she needs someone to ride shotgun. But he's reluctant and he goes to a dive bar instead to find someone else. Wait, because she mentioned six finger Jake.
Six finger Jake. Yeah, so he thinks, oh, I'll go get him. He sounds a bit better. He sounds like a tough guy, doesn't he?
Yeah. Are you cleaning that up if he's only got six fingers? Depends. It could be all in one hand.
He's just got one big hand. One big hand. Six fingers. And a stump, the other.
That would be a scary guy. Yeah, that would be right. So, don't judge. Especially if you bit the fingers off himself on the other hand.
Yeah, and spat him at the person who was threatening him. That would be scary. Yeah, I wouldn't mess him in then. No, you're right.
So this bar is one of those western bars where the music stops when you enter. Yeah, we're really pushing the western motif. Yeah, again, I've got a problem with any of this. He says that he's looking for a tracker named Six finger Jake, as we say, and apparently, less the kill Jake a while ago.
Yeah, he's dead. Also, do you notice that he orders a rum and a crawler, which is a type of doughnut. Right, I know what a crawler is. Right, so everybody in this bar, if you notice, they're eating doughnuts.
I didn't notice everyone else was eating doughnuts, I had to say. Even the guy, he meets in a bit, offers him a beer and a doughnut. And the guy next to him is eating a doughnut. It's my kind of place.
Yeah, no, beer and doughnuts. It sounds pretty good. It does sound excellent, actually. What do you think they're going for?
They're just quirkiness. Oh, yeah, I think so. Yeah, everything's very superficial and so the doughnut is kind of like a fast food and it's easy to eat. I guess so.
I'm bad for you. I'm bad for you. So we should say that they mention Lester. Lester's going to turn out to be a bad guy.
Yeah. If there is such thing as a bad guy in this movie, he's the bad guy. It's just a lot of misunderstood people. Keep telling yourself that, come.
So the bad time there seems to be wearing a rain-mack and a school cat. Yeah. Okay. All right.
Do you think it seemed to be too bad when you used to wear that? I never wore a school cat. Oh, yeah, my wife. I've had the odd maca too, you know.
Oh, yeah, big mac. Big mac. I've had a few of those, yeah. So Sam meets Stacy, played by Brian James, the great Brian James, and his friend Earl.
Yeah. And they're Desperados. They have, very Desperado. They are.
And Earl, apparently, he's deaf, apparently. Who's deaf? If you start doing a deaf joke, I'm going to beat you all day. No, no, seriously.
He says, because Sam doesn't want to talk in front of Earl, but Stacy says, don't worry about him, he's deaf. Oh, right. He's deaf. You'll have to tell the joke when we get to it then.
All right. Because clearly he went over my head. He fell on deaf ears. Yep.
Oh, my. Oh, I'm switched on tonight. Come on. Where's the off button?
Oh, they switched off. Long time ago. Okay. So Sam tells him that he needs someone to go into zone seven to find a cherry.