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And now you know. Was that enough references? Thank you for having me on the nicest man in podcasting, the gatekeeper for and the man that shocks me every time he makes a pick from Amazon. Steven, who picked this movie, we gave him a list of all the movies that were available for listeners submit it month.
Steven said, yo, I gotta do Rumble Stiltskin. But this is how I imagine it would be if you were in person, instead of on the internet, telling him like, okay, Steven, we have three movies that you can pick from the first one is Rumble Stiltskin. And he's like, yes. Oh man, come on, it's a fairy tale.
It's a horror fairy tale. I'm never going to turn that down. All right, so before we dive into the movie, one of you picked it. So let's see who.
And we've got an email from Curtis and Curtis says, hey guys, I've been listening to all of your episodes for a few months now. I'm currently on episode 104, so I'm not sure if you still do listen or submit it request. But if you do, I'd love to hear you talk about a favorite from my childhood, Rumble Stiltskin from 1995. And then he sent us an IMDB link just in case we thought it was a different Rumble Stiltskin from 1995.
It's a great candidate for this show. And I will even offer to be on the show so we can rip it apart together. Sorry, Curtis, that's not happening. But either way, either way, I love the show and I hope you guys have a long and storied career.
Thank you, Curtis. And not thank you for this movie. Who here was the first time they've seen this movie? Oh, it was first off for me.
Yeah, definitely for me too. I missed this in the 90s. I saw this. I was gonna say I think we read to this.
We read to this and poking at Pinocchio's revenge. Yeah, words are coming in my mouth now. I want to just pull a clip of Ryan saying that I'm coming in his mouth right now. So different kind of brotherly love right there.
So I want to start before we dive into the movie with this one fact because holy shit, this movie was made on a budget of $3 million. Who wants to guess what the box office was for this movie? I'll say $150,000. Yeah, I'll go with $200,000.
Whatever its budget was, it made it back. If we're doing Price's Right Rules, then Stephen wins this one. It for on its $3 million budget, it pulled in a whopping $306,494 in its box office run. Holy shit.
I wonder if it was one of these where they just stuck it in 25 theaters and they're like, oh, didn't make its money. Whoops. Yeah, I don't know because I feel like it also is so dumb that I don't think anyone's like, yeah, I'll check out that Rumple Stiltskin. It was produced and co-written by the original creators of Scooby-Doo was another one of the facts that I found.
That is an interesting fact. Yeah, the other facts on IMDB are less interesting, such as when Rumple Stiltskin jumps through a window, it's shot in slow motion. Thanks. Thanks IMDB.
So what are the brothers from Scooby-Doo just sitting down one day and they're like, you know, let's really just go off the deep end here and write a movie about a killer fairy tale guy. I don't know. How about we do a leprechaun? It's been done.
Okay, let's go to our second favorite Rumple Stiltskin. And I love that they have a full-sized man as a short person in this and they just have him hunch over as he hobbles along. All right, so the movie starts off in like, what was it, 1500 or something like the head? The old times and Rumple Stiltskin eats somebody's eyeball, then a witch tries to stop him and he says the immortal line, you know, the one that everyone's quoting in the streets, your magic be black as pitch, which.
No, you missed the great line before that. We go, come, bring the pain, which is like, man, if I was, you know, I've been talking a lot about it these last six months or so, but if I do that, just breakdowns cover up. My favorite thing in this movie was whoever designed Rumple Stiltskin was like, you know, you remember Money Python, the Holy Grail and the guy who protected the bridge? Can we just have him look like that guy for the entire movie?
Who's a terrible actor to, by the way? And he half the time he's like, you know, a magic be black as pitch. And then another time he's just like, I don't know. Yeah.
Don't bust my unplated. I've waited too long. Yeah. There's two things that really bother me that it's a trope in so many.
I don't know why this movie brought it out of me, but there's two tropes in these type of movies that drive me crazy. One of them is like, oh, I'm stuck in 300 years from now. So half the way I speak is I don't understand what a car is. And then the other one is like, ah, fucking stuck my dick, you know.
And then the other thing is just when you have something that's so dangerous, don't hide it in a thrift store. Why does everyone hide it in a thrift store? And she's also like, that's not for you. And then she's like, oh, how much?
And she's like, well, money's money. Go ahead, buy us a Starbucks. Yeah. Stephen, do you have any buyers remorse for this being the one that you picked?
Oh, no, absolutely not. Yeah. And it's funny that you say buyers remorse because he bought it. Yeah.
No, I actually traded for this. So I had two Uncle Sams and I'm like, I contacted the guy and he's like, well, I got the screen or copy of Rumple still skin. And I'm like, I'll give you an Uncle Sam. That is so great.
That is just two people. That is two Pokemon traders trading one diglet for a Zubat card. Oh, no. But I do have to say the witch, the witch irritated me just as much.
Because I'm like, come on, lady, you just take it out of her hands. So let's so here's something that like these two notes back to back happen so close to each other that I just put a slash. I didn't even start on a new line with this note, but it's I hate to say it. But I really dig the hand for the letter M and the logo of Rumple still skin.
Followed immediately by what the fuck is this rap song? That is lovely. Early 90s. Really?
I mean, I just wrap wrap. I collect stamps. So there's a there's a line for me. And it's like, I'm fine if you've got cheesy white boy wrap and it's supposed to be cheesy white boy wrap.
And I love like tales from the hood where it's like legit gangster rap that fits the setting. But I do not like cheesy white boy wrap. Hosing is gangster rap so that we feel like we're in the city of Los Angeles, circa 1995. That is where I draw a line, sir.
Yeah, but think about all the money they saved when they just walked down to their mall and bought the CD from some guy outside. If I bucks, we were introduced to the Max Talks show, which is like basically it's 90s Howard Stern on the set of Jerry Springer is like what this is being sold as. But like it's one of the things where they linger on it so long. You're just like, well, I know that guy's going to become a character in this movie because there's no other reason.
So give us three minutes of what an asshole he is on television. I don't know if your boobs are real. Yeah, put it in my mouth. I don't know.
Her friends all into it. Her friends like, oh, he's hysterical. Yeah, he'll be sucks so much. Her friend is the worst.
Her friend is showering compliments on this baby. And even the baby's face says that he wants nothing to do with this woman. I know I just looked at her and I go, wait a minute. Is that the girl from moonlighting?
And I'm like, yeah, what a slump. I'm watching this at work. And my mom walks in the vacuum and she's like, what are you watching with the woman from moonlighting? And I'm like, I shouldn't be watching a horror movie for her movie night where my mom immediately recognizes an actor.
It's from something like that is not what our show is about. But you got to admit that sweet blossom hat that friends vest. Who she's hot. She might be one of the least attractive people that I've seen on the show recently.
Body shaming. That's what we do here. It's not body shaming at all. I'm just saying it's attractive.
I'm messing with the functionality wise. She's just got the worst personality in horror movie night. And she should be attracted to me because she's got a weird voice, but it's just like not. Although I'll say that the was her name, Shelly, Shelly, whatever the man, the mom in it is.
She's got a milk man. Yeah. Pretty track lady. Absolutely.
The show of the facts and makeup was done by Kevin Yeager, which if you look at any of the reviews, it's like one of the only things that they call out is like, well, you know, it's a piece of shape, but the makeup's not bad. And I kind of have to disagree. I will. So Robistell's gonna make up his stupidest book.
The whole character design is just very, very pedestrian, in my opinion. Like I think I've done so much more with it to make it interesting. And he's as a murderer, he's not very interesting. Like he he snaps his neck and like he bites a cop on the neck and you know, it doesn't really do a whole lot of cool shit.
But like I'll give them credit that when he's burnt and he rips the burnt skin off of his face, that was kind of. I would say the thing that he did that I liked the most was his self-decapitation. Like it makes no sense. Oh, it makes absolutely no sense.
But I was like, OK, I can see where there was some special effects budget for this. Kevin Yeager, right. I mean, he loves to put severed heads in his movies. If you just go down a line of them, what else is he got?
Phantom of the Opera. Oh, the plan pick that. That's a great one. That's probably my best pick.
But I mean, he's also done a lot of big movies, you know, like Starship Troopers. I mean, he's done. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I just pulled up his list.
His list on Wikipedia is Eon Flux, Limonnichniket's series of unfortunate events, a master of disguise. Hell yeah. Sleepy Hollow, Face off. Oh, you get you have your sleepy hollow.
Yeah, there's a lot of decapitations in this shit. Or Dello, or Dello of Blood, Hellraiser, Bloodline. Yeah, Dr. Jekyll and Mrs.
Hyde. Oh, that's a prospective future pick. I've always wanted to watch that. Children of the Corn 3, Urban Harvest.
Fuck yeah, we just talked about that. Wait, what was the name of it? Urban Harvest. I said Urban.
Yeah, I don't think you described a lawyer. I'm trying to record three, Urban Harvest. So we're still not done. Honey, I blew up the kid.
The borrower. So again, loves the capitator. Who is he is more entity, capitator than I am in my horror movies. And that is saying a lot.
Another future pick meet the Apple gates, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Nightmau, Elm Street for the Dream Master, Child's Play, Dream Warriors, Trick or Treat, Freddy's Revenge and his first movie was Friday the 13th, the final chapter. Wow, that dude has some serious credentials. Oh, man, he's a master inside of this. Inside the VHS, the screener, they even like highlight special makeup effects created by Kevin Jogger, a nightmare in Elm Street, Child's Play and Tails from the crew.
Yeah, because he did the the the Cripkeeper. Yeah. Awesome. So that's where we could have not done the decapitation and put a little bit more money on special effects.
No, what's got said is cool about him peeling off the burnt face, but wouldn't it be cooler if that was like his face? Like it went to a more deformed face for the rest of the movie. That's what I was hoping for, but it didn't. Yeah.
Dude, they only had one mass master mold that they weren't going to like, they weren't going to redo it a second mask. But the thing that they should have not smit their money on was all the goddamn explosions. They had so many explosions. But the funnier thing about all the car chases and stuff in this movie is that they, you know, they spent a lot of money on a lot of shit, right?
Like three million dollars. It's pretty, but that they use an RC car for the part where Max fuckass, whatever his name is, is using his like dune buggy. Yeah, there's legit RC car in one of the effects. But like, I also think that like this is one of those movies where like, you know that the budget was low, like three millions, a lot for any of us, but it's really not a lot for like a movie.
And you know, like the budget is low when one third of your movie just takes place on an empty abandoned road where it's just like, we can't have pedestrians. We can't have money if a passerby walks by and we have to give the money for being in the film. Like it is just an isolated road for at least a third of this movie. Like there's moments where it's like, all right, that's not bad.
Like, I think that like the statue moving and it's a clearly a puppet. It's a simple effect, but like it gets the job done of like, Oh, this thing's about to come alive. Brian, do you remember anything about this movie? Because I remembered literally one sequence.
Well, I remember it. Yeah, when the motorcycle was a motorcycle. Yeah, motorcycle. I only know that because I this is was by the curtain and to Stephen.
I was like, Oh, we're almost still skiing. I think that I should pick that and Brian and Matt were like, no, don't do that. Doing this worthwhile. And it is a rebel stills going on a motorcycle.
And I think that he might have said bike because one of them might have said bike because I just imagined him on a tricycle. And I was like, yeah, that sounds really fucking stupid. But then it's actually so much better when he's on it because he had some sort of line that he said. And it wasn't what he said, but rather the way he said it.
And he has like these motorcycle shades on and it is just. So I didn't remember the bike until it happened. The thing that I remembered was him behind the wheel of the 18 wheeler truck, like that shot of him just like the bag of bread. Yeah.
Well, so, you know, he's chasing down Shelly for the entire movie and then Shelly runs into Max and is asking Max for help. And she's giving a lot of exposition at this point, but I'm unable to hear it because Max assured is screaming the entire time. Oh, man, everything he wears that screaming shirt. And then he puts on a USA jacket just in case he forgets what country he's in.
Yeah, he's he's not allowed this clothing choice I've ever seen on a human being. It is insane, but it's also very 90s. It's very 1995 to be fair. But yeah, the go-kart, like the doom buggy stuff, like all of his movie is so pointless.
It's so worthless. But what happens that I one of the notes I wrote down that like made me audibly chuckle. There's a scene right after he kills the cop by tearing his own head off and biting the guy in the neck where Max and Shelly are arguing in his truck and she punches him. And it is the most cartoonish ADR to punch noise I've ever heard in a movie.
Like it's just like. But the thing is that this whole movie is so poorly ADR. Like every single bit of it is ADR and it's all really poorly ADR. Yeah.
Well, there's a scene at the end where the little rumble still since doing like a sorcerer's dance and everything and his mouth's not even moving. Yes. Yeah. There's a few times where he is closed mouth talking, drives me crazy.
The other thing that really bothered me more than it should have because of how ridiculous this movie is is the scene in the police station. Has anyone here shot guns before going to a gun range, anything like that? Yes, just a bit. They're very, very loud for an like we have high quality headphones and they're very, very loud.
So to shoot a gun three feet from a baby, with no ear protection, just bothered the hell out of me. That's my only name. Everyone just like. You and good night.
I just thought it was interesting how they completely changed the tone of the movie for a while inside the police station because Rubble still, it just turns into a slasher. He's like slowly getting up. He's stalking people. It's, you know, it's no longer like he's doing his little gimmicks and everything.
I was like, what? For five minutes, this just changed. And I don't like the way he articulates things either because the baby's name is John, but it doesn't sound like he's saying, I just want the baby, John. It just sounds like he sounds like Tom Green in stealing Harvard.
Like I keep getting, I got confused the whole movie because I thought he just kept calling everyone John the whole time. Like he's like, I don't want to hurt you. I just want the baby, John. No, any other.
Oh, wait, no, there is one other lingering thought that I have anyone else get your lingering thoughts prepared. I love that this movie has the audacity to try to set up a sequel. So Scott, like, what was the last thing you saw? Cause I'm still convinced that the trail, the commercial happened on two and you were like, I've seen enough and you didn't do what Brian and I did.
Well, the last thing I saw was they turned our double sales came back into the, the statue and then they throw it in a lake and then you see some little girls running with it. Something happening. Yeah, that's where I got the commercial. I came back three years later.
Yeah, son of a bitch. Dude, Tooby sucks. I'm just saying it. All you guys on our Facebook page worshiping to be because they have an extensive list of movies, but their commercials are the most obnoxious, least commercials I've ever fucking seen in a movie.
Like I've watched movies on TV. There's always fade out points where you can easily put a trailer or commercial, but they put commercials like mid sentence of fucking scenes. It's obnoxious. Yeah, it is, but at the same time I am drinking a truly and I just went to Burger King, so I feel great.
There was so many Burger King commercials. I'm like, come on, guys, can we just mix these up a little bit? Wait, don't you watch it on Tooby? You know, you got it on a VH.
Interesting thing with this screener copy. The screener copy is on extended play, which is, you know, what most companies do when they have a really long movie and they got to shove it all in one day. Well, this place who send in all these free screener copies, they put it on extended play for like, I don't know, what is this, a 90 minute movie and then some trailers beforehand. It's so bad that 30 minutes in, I go, F this, I'm going to Tooby.
I will say Tooby isn't half as bad as before Matt shoveled out the $8 a month for Hulu and I was right before I moved to Florida. We binge watched the first season of community and they had the same commercial for, I think, Target where it was just the Footloose parody, but it would play that same commercial commercial on repeat four times an episode throughout 10 episodes and it was just like, I got to push back, cash back, check out my new slacks. And that's going to my mind. Yeah, I'm glad I finally.
Was like, you know what? I can't remember what the breaking point was for me, but there was like, I think I was about to binge like a six season show on Hulu and by like the third episode with four commercial breaks. I was like, all right, how much is it for the ad for you? It's like an extra seven bucks.
Fuck it. I can't do this anymore. I need these ads out of my life. That's what Megan did.
Can you pay for Foroby or no? No, it is. I was going to watch you. Listen, if they have most of the movies we watch and I don't have to watch ads, I would pay for it.
Well, Scott, tell us what happened when you tried to download the movie for us. Oh, thank you for remembering. So I was like, oh, I don't want to watch this shit on TV if I don't have to. So I went to the R docs, you know, that's the part.
I was like, oh, yeah, I was like, here we go. I was like grabbing a couple other things that I don't even think are on TV right now that we have coming up in the next couple of months. I love how you word it. You're like, I was just grabbing a few other things.
Like you were like at the grocery store. You know, the wall I'm here, let me grab a rumble, still scared. You're not wrong. But anyway, I grab a little skin and it downloads and I'm like, all right, cool.
So I open it up to check it before I send it to Brian. This is like a week ago, five days, whatever. And it opens and you know, the old guy who plays the chieftain in willow. Yes, that's doing the voice over.
And I'm like, that doesn't seem right. This seems vaguely familiar. And I know I've never seen a double still skin before. I have seen a rebel still skin from 1985 or 86 or whatever, which is a musical.
And I had downloaded the wrong version. And so I just got through it for a little bit. I was like, yep. And it tossed it in the trash.
I would have loved the scenario where Stephen and I watched the actual horror movie and you and Brian just powered through the musical like, where's the hard? When's the heart coming into this movie? Oh, that would have been amazing. All right.
So any final thoughts on Rumple's notes yet? Oh, yeah. So why does he do what he's doing? I don't understand why he's trying to kidnap a baby the entire time.
I mean, I don't know. But what is he doing with the baby? Is he like turning his own soul and he gets to have that he gets to be alive? I don't know.
Yeah, exactly. The entire movie, I was like, wait, what? Just, huh? What?
What are we doing? I also don't understand why anyone would want to steal a baby, especially someone who's so goddamn ugly that the baby would only cry the entire time. I think that's a 90s sitcom right there. It's a little rumple says done in a baby.
Like it just starts like full house with her in like a nice convertible. That would be actually an incredible sitcom where the Prumple still can successfully steal the baby and then realizes the financial burden that it is. You guys are literally just setting up for one of our future HMM TV show episodes because that has to happen. Rumple still has got a cleaning problem.
All right. So I have two things I want to say. One of both of them are from the Max fuck ass guy. And the first time is him getting in his dune buggy, putting on these dish shades and going, Bruce Willis time.
Bruce Willis was mentioned twice in this. Yeah, it's so weird. I don't think he was like, I honestly don't think in 1995 Bruce Willis was a cultural zeitgeist, but I also don't know because I was fucking 13. So wait, so wouldn't that have been a moon lighting reference?
Where he made a star right before die heart? Well, let me use my cool word again, zeitgeist. So I would say that moon lighting is not a cultural zeitgeist in 1995 because if Bruce Willis made his star got a star in it and is now a super ultra mega star. Now, wasn't the fucking fifth element in 1997?
Let me see what was 1995 for Bruce Willis's group. So 1994, he had just done Pulp Fiction and then 95 was die heart with a vengeance and 12 monkeys. Yeah, he was like on fire. Yeah.
But then 1996, he only has two movie credits. One is Last Man Standing and the other is Beavis and Butte do America where he voiced the guy who stole their TV. That was his gap year. Then what?
When did Fifth Element come out? Ninety seven? Ninety seven. Then it was Fifth Element, Mercury Rising, Armageddon, Sixth Sense.
Yeah, but that's what I feel like, you know, I feel like he kind of took that gap year because it seemed like his star was dimming and then bam, fucking Fifth Element, bam, fucking Armageddon. Yeah, that's kind of his career though. I was gonna say his whole career as I'm looking at his film credits, like, we'll say the post. So Die Heart was his first like film post moonlighting.
So that was 88. That was like, but then it was like, look who's talking. But like in between look who's talking is two movies I've never heard of. Then it was Die Heart and look who's talking to and then bonfires of the vanities, which bombs then to get a movie that I've never heard of then Hudson Hawk that also bought.
Oh, yeah. Then another movie I've never heard of and then the last Boy Scout, which I don't think did well. It didn't. And then he decided like a cameo in the player and was in death becomes her.
But I also think that neither one of those movies did particularly well. And then he played John McLean in the National Lampoon's movie, Load It Weapon One. So being a National Lampoon's movie, Load It Weapon is not the worst one to be in by a lot of John. No, no, especially of the 90s National Lampoon's movie, you're doing okay, because you could have been in senior trip.
The only day I was only in it for like 30 seconds. It was just a tiny cameo. It was pretty funny too. I'm sure he got paid well for that.
I actually I don't think I've ever actually watched the load of weapon movies. Oh, they're actually pretty good. I will say more than one or is there just a one. I think there's just one I'm getting confused with hotshots.
But as far as I remember, I think there's only one load of weapons. Put down that smartphone and listen to me. I'm Matthew Milligan, professional musician and lifelong weird Al Phan. Each week, I'm joined by professional podcaster and close personal friends, Matt Kelly, to take a dive off the deep end into the best career of pop culture icon, beard Al Yankovic on our show, Weird Algorithm.
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All in the spirit of positivity and togetherness. Check us out at $2.08.com. All right. So let's talk some double features, guys.
Steven, you're our guest. What would be your double feature for Rumple Stilskin? Well, at first I was going to go with another Mark Jones classic, leprechaun, but I was like, that's that's simple stuff. We can't get that.
We're going to another Kevin Jager. Yager. I don't know how he says name, but he's a really good makeup guy. And I'm going to watch Bill and Ted's Moghis journey.
Yes. Yeah. Oh man, when he does the makeup for an old man, a bill or old woman, you know, his grandma and it all that freaking out so much. It's not.
So I have a question and I don't need to offend anyone. We're all just like, delusionally hopeful. Like, we know Bill and Ted is going to be horrible, right? But like, okay, because the trailer is painful and everyone's like, this is going to be awesome.
They got dead and I'm like, this looks so fucking bad. I'm like, the only thing that gives me hope with the Bill and Ted three is that it's like all the, like it's everybody from the first two movies, like, including the writers and directors, like it is the giant family reunion. So like, I'm hoping that like it's one of those rare times where the trailer actually shows all the worst parts of the movie. And then you're like, Oh, thank God.
But yeah, no, I am my expectations are painfully low. Nope. I'm going to walk right out of my living room. No matter how bad it is.
And go, that was the greatest thing I've ever seen. I'm just going to pretend like I'm one of these people that no matter what their politician does. I'm like, Nope, great. We're fixing everything.
We had this conversation off air, but even politics not aside. I have so many friends that since college dropout and my beautiful doctors, the fantasy, like Kanye West released a EP of him, like taking a dump for 30 minutes and they're just like, this guy is a god. He is. And I'm going to go with, I remember there was a very brief time where they were doing these fairy tale horror movies and I've never actually watched this movie.
But I remember it getting way better reviews than Rumpelstiltskin, which isn't hard admittedly. So I'm going to watch this with the other like horror fairy tale movie that I remember coming out around this time and it's no white tale of terror, sorry. So Gorny Weaver. What?
Yeah, I don't even know what that is. I need to add that list. It's even Bay does not know what it is. Then that is obscure.
It's fucking that's Gorny Weaver was in it. It holds a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. And that's better than the Rumpelstiltskin. So Gorny Weaver's critically acclaimed performance earned her an Emmy award nomination as well as a screen actor's nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV movie.
It also earned two Emmy nominations for Makeup and Cost Tubes. So it's a TV movie, which probably is the name of the guy. All right. So my my double feature is literally just me watching a bunch of Necro Goblicon music videos because.
Because when I look at Rumpelstiltskin, all I can see is John Goblicon. That might be my favorite double feature pick of all time. All right, Brian, what's your double feature? OK, so I'm actually going to take a break off a horror today because the only thing there's two reasons that this comes to mind.
First thing is the only thing I remember from this movie is Rumpelstiltskin on the motorcycle. The other thing is. Oh my God, I already know what you're wrong. Yeah, due to not being able to go out too much, I spend a lot of time looking at memes and this big there's a big debate in the country right now of Remy from Ratatouille versus.
They're trying to decide who could take the other and it's just you could tell it's it's the younger generation because they don't give any respect to my boy Ralph in the hit movie, Mouse on the motorcycle who literally wrote a motorcycle. So I would I would double I would double it up get two motorcycles, two movies, one night, Rumpelstiltskin, Mouse on the motorcycle, Ralph S. Mouse. God damn it.
And also it's clearly Remy. But so what have you all been watching that you want to give a hey, you should check this out. And Stephen also just on this out there, go check out Stephen's podcast, analog Jones in the temple of film. And if you want to know more about that podcast, you better head up our Patreon and check out our little interview that we're going to be doing with Stephen after the recording of this surprise, Stephen.
But you want to take a couple seconds to tell people about analog Jones temple film and then use that to lead in to your recent watched recommendation. Go for it, my friend. Oh, yeah, we started a podcast basically to defend all these VHSes that we collect. So we we put them in, we watch the we talk about the box art, the trailer, behind the scenes.
I mean, we get pretty nerdy. I mean, we'll even go as far as to talk about production studios, distributors, and all this madness and especially the promos and stuff that we find on these tapes. And, you know, we go out there, we go to these flea, well, not now, but usually we go to flea markets and find these weird ones and we we try to watch them all. And now we're we're kind of getting into franchise reviews.
So we're all over the place. But yeah, we so if you love stuff like Rumpelstiltskin here, maybe not the movie, but at least this obscurity of the 90s, then you should come over and check us out. Okay. And then what have I been watching?
I don't know a bunch of stuff that no one will know of. Look, I just put in and like ripped the have has anyone heard of this? It's a unofficial sequel to Pinocchio and it's Pinocchio and the dark source. I think it's from Canada.
I picked this up in the middle of nowhere. I never heard of it. And then like in the last week, I've seen like four different people post about it on the internet. If you go to the analog Jones YouTube page, you could find it.
You watch the entire movie. No one's taking that down. So I mean, there's stuff like that. And then I just like, I mean, I do watch a lot of these really weird Canadian animations that I find at these stores because no one wants them.
But I'm telling you, if you put them in here, nightmares, just awful animation, like the stick figure ones where the mouths don't actually match the audio. That's the stuff you're going to get. You're going to hear about on analog Jones. All right.
So on our re rental episode of tourist trap, I mentioned that I've been watching American Bandle. I've actually been watching a ton of TV shows during this whole quarantine. So there's a pretty big list, but I'm going to say the big one that I watched. And I recommend everyone check it out because it's such a quick watch.
It's only eight episodes. They're 22 minutes and you can knock it out in like three hours is Russian doll. Have any of you watched Russian doll? No.
All right. So Russian doll was produced by Amy Poehler and it's starring and written by Natasha Leon, and it's kind of Groundhog's day isk, but with way more of like a sci-fi lean to it. It's basically an Natasha Leon is at a party. She leaves the party, gets drunk, fucks a dude and gets hit by car and dies and then wakes up in the bathroom at the party and goes to the party and gets hit by car and dies.
And she realizes, because she's a former video game designer, that she may have accidentally entered herself into a video game. And the bathroom at the party is the checkpoint and she needs to figure out how to get through the situation without dying to like get out of the video game scenario. But the longer that she's in it, reality starts to fall apart and fabricate because reality keeps repeating itself so much that like people are just disappearing out of existence and no one remembers them. So it's a really weird sci-fi twist with like a race against the clock type vibe.
It has a very satisfying ending, which is nice because I watched the OA, which just got canceled before it ended and it led to a really trippy, but also unsatisfying ending because it's not the ending. But I highly, highly recommend Russian doll for just like a quick, like they, I think they're doing another season, but it definitely feels like they wrote this knowing that that wasn't a guarantee, which is always, I think the best way to write a season of TV is not being confident that you'll get to come back and do more so that there's actually some type of finality to your final episode. I'm actually going to piggyback off you and go next because I also watched a Groundhog's Day, Esquimovie, Bill Mary's Groundhog's Day. I watched, I watched Palm Springs on Hulu and it's so fucking good.
I was going to ask if it was good because I really want to, I want to watch Freshend Dolly and I want to watch Palm Springs because they both my shit, you know? Yeah, Palm Springs is really good. Even though it's not written by the guy that did, that did Hot Rod and stuff like that. It's, it's their production company and like the best way that I can describe it.
It's almost like the Lonely Island's role models. You know how role models is like definitely more mainstream, more of like a Judd up towel vibe, but it's definitely got like the state humor sprinkled throughout it randomly. That's not what this is. Like it's more of like a mainstream comedy, but it has some just ridiculous Lonely Island shit throughout it and it's really fucking well done.
It's really fucking funny. The storyline's good. I would suggest it and it's like an hour and a half. You can't fucking beat that.
And it's free if you have guys mistakes are made this week. But you're making an eye watch, Greece to. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she was like, oh, you've never seen Greece to.
And I'm like, yeah, honey, we've been together for 11 years. I've been putting it off for 11 years because she's seen it like once before. And so she's like, we finally gave something to someone who was some streaming service that we pay for already. So it's not like I was we were going out of our way, you know, to rent it on prime for money or something like that.
God damn. That shit was boring as fuck and so stupid. There are people who will ride or die that that is better than the original Greece, which is insanity to me. Yeah, I don't know.
It's going better. There's a lot of opinions that happen at once. Sarah freaking loves that movie. We've even reviewed it on it.
I mean, she knows all the songs she will start. If I brought her in here right now, she'd be like, oh, yeah, I will sing you what song you want. I mean, I want cool writer personally. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't I don't like it. So I'm with you is really bad. Like it's just not it just seems so it just seems very uninspired. It's like they're going through the motions.
It's trying to reclaim that spark that Greece had. And I'm not saying that Greece is a perfect movie or a perfect soundtrack or anything, but it's a whole lot of fun. And it only could have happened at the time that it happened. Like I think that Greece if Greece, the movie came out at the time in the 90s, when everyone was nostalgic for Greece, I don't think it would have succeeded.
Like it was very much like a 70s film looking back at the 50s. But if it was a 90s film that was looking back at the 50s, it wouldn't work. It had to have been that 20 year gap. It had to have been like those particular actors.
It had to be those songs. Like it's I think that there's. We didn't Greece to has the same fucking songwriter. But I understand.
No, no, but here's the thing. It's the same thing as you know, I mean, you as a musician should probably know this. The concept of like the sophomore slump is like you have your entire career to write your first album and you've got a few years to write your second album. So it's like, don't ask me that though, because I write constantly and you know, I mean, I had that issue because no one ever gives a shit about my music.
You know, I mean, like that's like why there's such a thing as a sophomore slump is like, yeah, he wrote the music for Greece in Greece too, but he probably took years writing the songs for Greece and perfecting them during multiple Broadway runs and like adjusting and tweaking everything. And then it's like, all right, you got two years to write a sequel. And it's like, oh, OK, I'm just going to shoot out some tunes and come over the plot line. Yeah, and it's also like way more overtly rapey than the the first movie.
I don't know. Like it just felt very and I hate it. It's basically like Rocky Horror Picture Show does Greece. It just felt very I mean, that biology or whatever song is a straight like so and in the bowling song, those two songs in particular are to me, Rocky Horror Picture Show rip off one of these.
I haven't seen it so long. I just know that it almost killed me as a child. I'd like to I'd like to reenact scenes from movies. So the only thing that really stands out is me and my sisters may be Matt.
So me and my sisters watch Greece too. And there was one scene that I was like, wow, that is awesome. So I went to John's Corner Deli and I bought a pack of candy cigarettes and I acted like the principal was coming and then I put it in the accident. That's why I was like someone pat it on the back and then I had to choke until the chalk stick that I just put in my mouth slowly.
Oh, god damn. That sounds like a 90s thing to have happened, you know, or I've been late 90s for you. Yeah, yeah. It's the worst at playing fun games.
I always will remember Julie doing for my favorite episode doing an episode on the Punky Brewster where Punky gets stuck in the refrigerator and her sharing the story of when she got stuck in the refrigerator at Best Buy because you would never play hide and sink. Dude, there is a time where you guys put me in one of the tubs that you keep closing. There's like big plastic tubs. I have her.
Yeah, the hamper. No, like that like you put winter clothes in with a look. Oh, you got good. Yeah.
And I couldn't get out. And in my mind, it keeps me up at night because it's so much more dramatic than what actually happened. Like you guys couldn't get me out. You ran upstairs.
You grabbed mom. She popped it open. But for some reason, my memory blends with the sixth sense. When he gets locked in that little cupboard and the mom opens it and he like falls out lifelessly in her arms.
Like that's what it felt like in my memory. I think one time you hit in the did you hide in the washer one time? Hit in the washer. Love hiding in tires at Kavije.
I just like hiding. And it wasn't so realistic though, like so true about you. We used to ride down the stairs in the laundry hamper. Yeah.
Oh, sleds. Like it's insane because like there is one way that we got stopped and it was by the closet door. Any real physical damage or not? Oh, yeah.
And like I think about it now and I'm like, that is so dangerous because like we literally just sat in a hamper that had no lid to it and pushed each other down a flight of stairs where like it could very easily just like topple in flip and break someone's neck. We were just like, this is fun. It's not snowing. So we'll sled indoors down the stairs while mom and dad are at work.
And Scott's been to our house. I don't know. Stephen Bay's been to my parents house, but just so all the listeners know they're not carpeted. Like these are wooden stairs down for that we would slide down.
Not that I think carpeting would help too much, but a little bit. I feel like it would have a little bit. It was at least a little bit safer when it was sleeping bags where we were like lay inside of sleeping bags and push each other down the stairs. But yeah, now we were idiots.
All right. So Rubble Steltsky in 1995. Guys, go check out analog Jones in the temple of film hosted by this week's guest. Stephen Bay, if you want to know a little bit more about Stephen Bay and the crazy ways that he operates, go to our Patreon page and check out our little like five, 10, 15 minute conversation with Stephen Bay and we'll be back next week with another one of your listeners submitted episodes.
And I don't remember which one it is, but I've never seen either of them. So I can't give you a hint even if I wanted to. Thanks. Bye.
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