FH Mini 152 - Birthday Movies

[0:00] Hey everyone, and welcome to the Flop House. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. And

[0:11] I'm Elliot Kalin. We all did it. We all said our names funny. Hey, this is a Flop House

[0:18] mini. Elliot sang bass. Dan sang tenor. Tenor, I don't remember. Well, Jewish people don't

[0:26] know that song. Anyway, moving on. Not anyone knows that song anymore, although it's referenced

[0:33] on this show frequently, for some reason. Lost the time. This is the Flop House podcast,

[0:41] a podcast that is often about bad movies. We watch them, then we talk about them. But

[0:47] every other week, we do these minis where it's kind of more freeform, and I'm in charge

[0:52] this time. Me, Dan McCoy. Danny's in the driver's seat. Driver Danny. Comes with all

[1:00] you see here. Yep. We are entering the month of June, and I know my co-hosts love it when

[1:09] I bring it up. My birthday is in June. That's my birth month. I've referred to this before

[1:14] on the show. You're a Gemini, right? Gemini, that's right. Gemini on the holograms. Makes

[1:19] sense. How so, Stuart? You're the astrologist here. You were born in June, right? Yeah.

[1:30] You know, there's kind of two sides to Dan. There's the outgoing side and the side that

[1:37] just wants to cuddle up and stay inside. Yeah. Yeah. That is also called being a human being.

[1:43] Uh-huh. No, no. It's only people who were born in June. I mean, we all wear masks. Some are

[1:47] laces. Some are leather. Sounds like real fire sign energy, Elliot. What's your sign?

[1:51] Sagittarius. Is that a fire sign? Oh! Oh! Yes, it is. Oh. Oh, wow. Well, I guess that proves it

[1:58] anyway. Yep. It's real, folks. Okay, boys, round them up. So back to the... What, the planets?

[2:07] Oh, we got what we need, boys. Swarm, swarm, and all the planets get rounded up and thrown in jail.

[2:12] Back to the conceit of this mini, though. I've referenced this before on the show that, um...

[2:16] That's your birthday coming up. Yes, yeah.

[2:18] When I was growing up, my parents rarely took us out to the movies.

[2:22] Uh, too expensive. Uh, at a certain point, though, all I wanted...

[2:27] Unlike nowadays. Yeah, now they're just giving movies away for free.

[2:30] Well, I mean, my parents did sort of claw their way up from lower middle class to upper middle

[2:35] class over the years. I saw it in the foods that I was fed when I was young versus how we

[2:41] are now. But, um, anyway. When they started serving you beef instead of whole-grain blorp?

[2:49] Government blorp. Um, this... Point is...

[2:53] I don't know why my tax dollars are going to buying government blorp for some poor people.

[2:59] Point is... It should be going for bombing poor people in other countries.

[3:03] At a certain point, all I wanted to do for my birthday was to go see a movie. And sometimes

[3:08] this was, uh, the party that I had. You know, like, my parents would take me and a few friends

[3:15] to a movie. I think a couple times it was just me. Um, but, uh, I am going to quiz you on some

[3:21] of these movies that I recall being my birthday movies. Wow.

[3:27] Because you would think a birthday movie would be like a big release.

[3:30] Oh, we're going to take Dan to see a big, great movie.

[3:32] Out of Africa.

[3:34] Yeah.

[3:35] Well, I, you know, I chose, I chose what movie we were going to see. I was like,

[3:39] this is the one that I want to see. And, uh, my memory is, my memory is not the most reliable,

[3:45] but to the best of my knowledge, these are all movies that I saw in the theater

[3:51] because it was my birthday pick.

[3:53] And nobody look them up and find out that two came out in the same year. Don't Columbo Dan on this.

[3:59] Yeah. Uh, and, uh, so this is structured somewhat like a game. Um, I'm going to, uh,

[4:07] see if you guys can guess the movie from information I give you, uh, about each of these,

[4:13] uh, pictures.

[4:15] And then, nope, none of them were out of, I still haven't seen out of Africa.

[4:19] We someday we will have to have, none of us have seen it. Right. And I refuse to believe it exists.

[4:24] There's no way it's a real movie.

[4:25] One big hit. Yeah. I feel like we, aren't we going to do like best picture winners

[4:30] that we've never seen? Oh yeah. Maybe that'll be our flop TV. We got a lot of good ideas for

[4:34] flop TV at fruits ones. Uh, we should start talking about that. We actually, if we're

[4:40] going to do it, we got to schedule it. Yeah. Um, uh, listeners write in and tell us instead of me

[4:46] get into our Google calendar and put it on.

[4:50] We don't want to use AI. So we need you as our agents that do these things for us. Yeah.

[4:54] Um, yeah, I'm going to see whether you can guess the movie, but then I'm gonna,

[4:59] uh, I want you guys to discuss whether these movies were birthday worthy. If you only got to

[5:04] see a couple of movies a year, would these be films worth spending your birthday shit on?

[5:10] So, uh, so you're like Charlie from Charlie and the chocolate factory. You get one piece

[5:14] of chocolate a year on your birthday, but it's a movie. Yeah. Although the gold makes the movie

[5:19] taste bad. I got to admit, I got to admit, this is how I remember growing up being,

[5:24] but then I was like looking at movies that were released in the same zone. And I'm like,

[5:28] oh, but I also saw that one. I'm pretty sure in the theater. So, uh, occasionally like there,

[5:36] there were actually, maybe I didn't grow up in a house underneath the Coney Island

[5:41] maybe. Um, okay. So here's the first picture is from, uh, 1988. And the first bit of information

[5:48] I'll give you is the actor who plays the title character of this, uh, 1988 film gets third

[5:55] bill billed. He's uncle Buck. That would be wild. There's no way John Candy's getting third billing

[6:03] and uncle Buck who else is in the movie kids. Yeah. McCauley Culkin, which Culkin is in that.

[6:10] Yeah. It's the Culkin. Uh, maybe, maybe when they're born, they go, it's a Culkin.

[6:15] Maybe this IMDB goof will help narrow things. The adventures of Ford Fairlane. No, that was late.

[6:20] Right. Uh, this goof points out that unless genetics work in a special way for the title

[6:27] character species, uh, he and his mate, both blue eyed could not give birth to brown eyed children.

[6:34] So that's a, that's a big genetics goof that this picture made. So we know someone is of a

[6:40] different, of a spade. Oh, is it Howard the duck? Uh, I don't believe that Howard the duck had a

[6:47] child in the film in my, in my unofficial sequel, Howard do now the act that would lead to children.

[6:55] That's true. Yeah. Um, let's say, uh, no, I, I, I'm going to need more dog movie. Here's a,

[7:03] is a Beethoven, a dog. It's not a dog picture. Um, this, this one might give it away. Young Dan

[7:13] was interested in this movie because he saw a making of that highlighted it's new for the time

[7:19] and groundbreaking morphing special effects. There's a big morphing scene at the end of this

[7:25] movie. Um, if you don't get it from this, the last one's a gimme. Okay. Well, wait,

[7:32] give us a moment. Give us a moment. I remember when morphine was, everybody's morphine these

[7:35] days. Everyone's morphing these days. That's a video that I didn't even see.

[7:39] I know it as a reference that you make to a video that they used to watch at the daily show. There

[7:44] was a, there was a, I forget what Santa comic it was, but he'd do impressions of, of presidents

[7:48] and he decided to morph together all these different presidents. And he would just start,

[7:52] and we just, well, we, the reason we watch is because his intro was so forced. He goes,

[7:56] everybody's morphine these days. So I thought, what if we could, what if we, what if I morph

[8:01] the president together? So we would just say, we just walk around saying everybody's morphing

[8:03] these days. Um, and then when Morbius came out, we were like, everybody's morbid these days.

[8:08] Everybody's morbid these days. Uh, everybody's Norbit these days. Um, so especially Murphy.

[8:16] Oh, for sure. If so, it's something where someone, something morphs or someone morphs,

[8:20] there's another year, 1988, 1988. Uh, and I know when you say it, I'll be like, Oh, right. Um,

[8:29] the title character is third, the third build actor. So there are bigger names in it than the

[8:34] title character. Not that this will, uh, help you, but this is the one that I'm, uh, more doubtful

[8:41] about. Like, was, was this my birthday movie I saw, but I did see in the theater. So, um,

[8:48] let me, uh, let me just move on to the last one. It's not Teen Wolf 2. The last one's going to

[8:54] give it to you. I believe young Dan had a big crush on the female lead in this movie.

[9:01] That does not Joanne Whaley. Oh, Joanne Whaley. I don't think it's as big a gimme as you think

[9:07] it is, Dan. She used to be known as Joanne Whaley Kilmer. Someone who might also have been in this

[9:15] picture. Oh, new morphing effects. Yeah. The saint. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, uh,

[9:25] how about this? George Lucas produced it. How are the duck? No, it's real genius.

[9:31] This picture is Willow Willow. Oh, there is Warwick Davis. That's right. Willow. Yeah. I

[9:41] think there were other gimme clues you could have given us that would have made it a little

[9:45] easier for the female lead. What? He married Saoirse. Yeah. Uh, Willow. Okay. Before we

[9:55] decide whether this movie was birthday worthy, I did look up, uh, what other films.

[10:00] Uh, we're in release the time we have, uh, red heat, big, the great outdoors, crocodile

[10:09] Dundee to big business, bull Durham, funny farm, Rambo three, and the Presidio, the Presidio

[10:20] instead.

[10:21] Well, that last one, I think you made up, but all the others, wow.

[10:26] Yeah.

[10:27] Yeah.

[10:28] Send them off.

[10:29] I was surprised I didn't go see Big.

[10:30] I was surprised I didn't go see Big.

[10:31] The Presidio.

[10:32] Big was such a huge movie.

[10:33] Yeah.

[10:34] Big.

[10:35] I know.

[10:36] I saw Big in the theaters and I think I was seven years old or six years old.

[10:37] I didn't see it until BHS.

[10:38] And I think I was interested in Willow because I didn't, you know, I had not, I had not yet

[10:44] learned that George Lucas producing something was a bad sign rather than a good sign.

[10:49] I was like, Star Wars, George Lucas, I want to see Willow.

[10:52] And Raiders of the Lost Ark he produced.

[10:54] Yeah.

[10:55] Yeah.

[10:56] So my uncle took me to that.

[10:57] And I guess what?

[10:58] Loved it.

[10:59] But you didn't want to go see The Great Outdoors to see the, the, the onscreen debut of Annette

[11:05] Bening.

[11:06] Really?

[11:07] Yeah.

[11:08] That's her first movie.

[11:09] Did she play the bear?

[11:10] Yes.

[11:11] She's that big steak.

[11:12] Okay.

[11:13] She was in the makeup chair for 40 hours.

[11:16] Yeah.

[11:17] Which was the one where the guys eat testicles, is that Funny Farm or Great Outdoors?

[11:22] That's Funny Farm.

[11:23] Yeah.

[11:24] Where he keeps eating them and then they're, and then he's going to break the record.

[11:26] He's breaking the record.

[11:27] And then he turns out their, their sheep balls or something like that.

[11:29] Four stars from Roger Ebert, Funny Farm.

[11:31] He loved Funny Farm.

[11:33] Loved it.

[11:34] There's some funny stuff in Funny Farm.

[11:35] Yeah.

[11:36] It's on the title.

[11:37] It's right there.

[11:38] It's not called Serious Farm.

[11:39] Yeah.

[11:40] It's not Cold Comfort Farm.

[11:41] I mean, knowing what I know now.

[11:42] Which is also a funny movie.

[11:43] But.

[11:44] Knowing what I know now, I guess I would have chosen Big out of these pictures.

[11:48] I, Willow.

[11:49] I mean, as a kid, a thousand percent, I would have picked Willow.

[11:53] You were also like a year or two older than me.

[11:56] So you were, you should have been past Willow.

[12:00] Our mutual friend, John Holt, when he worked in a video store, they had the Willow test,

[12:09] which was if people were asking whether a movie was good or not, they compared it to

[12:15] Willow.

[12:16] They're like, oh, that's better.

[12:17] That's a little bit better than Willow.

[12:19] That's worse than Willow.

[12:20] It was sort of like on the idea that Willow was like the lowest movie that you could plausibly

[12:26] recommend.

[12:27] Yeah.

[12:28] Yeah.

[12:29] It's like funny.

[12:30] Willow is one of those movies.

[12:31] Val Kilmer's performance in that movie is like kind of incredible.

[12:35] That he is like.

[12:36] He's great.

[12:37] Such.

[12:38] He's so good.

[12:39] I have.

[12:40] I have to admit, I saw Willow as a kid.

[12:41] I really don't remember it very well.

[12:42] And I maybe should rewatch it again sometime.

[12:45] But I don't know.

[12:46] It's a.

[12:47] So I can't.

[12:48] I can't accurately judge it.

[12:49] You know, let's move on.

[12:50] I hope you don't get too scared by all that morphing tech.

[12:53] I know the morphing will really throw me off.

[12:55] Yeah.

[12:56] Well, it's like I just I just showed my younger son Labyrinth.

[12:59] He had never seen it before.

[13:00] Oh, sick.

[13:01] And I remember as a kid seeing that thing, that CGI owl in the opening credits looked

[13:04] amazing and watching it.

[13:05] Now I'm like, this is the worst thing in the other than some of the songs.

[13:09] This is the worst thing in the movie.

[13:10] Is this.

[13:11] What?

[13:12] Let's move on to the next movie.

[13:15] There's this.

[13:16] You know, this is this is like a seven year span.

[13:18] So there's not too many of these.

[13:20] Yeah, this next movie.

[13:22] The first thing I'll say about it is Willow.

[13:26] The German dub of this 1989 film changes the name of the baby from Oscar to Donald.

[13:32] Oh, this is three minute.

[13:33] No, no.

[13:34] This is Ghostbusters two.

[13:35] This is Ghostbusters two.

[13:36] Yeah.

[13:37] Yeah.

[13:38] Ellie got it right away.

[13:39] I was going to like just just so we have more content.

[13:42] I'll say that the other clues were going to be it contains cameos from Cheech Marin and

[13:47] Ben Stein, Chloe Webb and Bobby Brown.

[13:50] There's a goof listed here.

[13:54] The camera Vigo is the camera that not from Carpathia, actually, but from Bohemia.

[14:00] The camera that Vinkman obviously I would have said name redacted, but the camera that

[14:05] Vinkman uses to take pictures of the painting, a Brooks very wide would not be appropriate

[14:10] for this kind of photo shoot, even though the description of the camera says when used

[14:15] properly.

[14:16] It's great.

[14:17] It's very sharp at every aperture.

[14:19] There are no distortion and there are no ghosts.

[14:22] Oh, and of course, that Elliot's boss is in this movie in a small part.

[14:26] Yes.

[14:27] Yeah, that's true.

[14:28] But yeah, that's as soon as you said that is eighty nine babies named Oscar.

[14:32] Yeah.

[14:33] Ghostbusters two.

[14:34] Yeah.

[14:35] Yeah.

[14:36] No.

[14:37] A classic.

[14:38] The Scolari brothers.

[14:39] Yeah.

[14:40] I gave him a chair.

[14:41] Yeah.

[14:42] Oh, the movie.

[14:43] They introduced me to the actor Harris.

[14:44] Oh, I love that part.

[14:45] Yeah.

[14:46] A movie that even as I mean, like I'm part of this movie, like there's good stuff in

[14:50] it.

[14:51] But even as a kid watching it for the first time, the only thing I remember really making

[14:56] you laugh in it is when the guy says like, oh, well, it's like it's my favorite show

[15:02] that Bassmasters.

[15:03] Bassmasters is a fishing show.

[15:04] Yes, I know.

[15:05] I know.

[15:06] That's what I mean.

[15:07] I saw that I was the right age to see that in the theaters and love it.

[15:11] I love it.

[15:12] Yeah.

[15:13] And then the adults were like, it's not that good.

[15:14] And I was like, shut your mouth.

[15:15] And now when I watch it, I'm like, yeah, it's not as good as the first Ghostbusters, but

[15:19] you know, I still enjoy it.

[15:22] And here's here's where I get a little confused about my own memories, because I the other

[15:30] movies at the time, the first one listed that this was second in the box office and it had

[15:36] been out for 30, I don't know, 30 days or 30 weeks.

[15:42] But 30 weeks seems too much to be 30 days.

[15:46] The second place is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which I also saw in the theater.

[15:50] So but we also have Dead Poets Society, Star Trek Five, The Final Frontier, See No Evil,

[15:58] Hear No Evil, Field of Dreams, No Holds Barred and Roadhouse.

[16:03] Oh, we used to have it so good, guys.

[16:05] We did.

[16:06] We did.

[16:07] I mean, I think Roadhouse in theaters.

[16:08] Well, I don't know.

[16:09] Again, I don't think it's probably not weeks, but back then, but back then movies were like

[16:15] you could say like, oh, Indiana Jones was and was also in theaters at the same time.

[16:18] Movies were just in theaters longer back then.

[16:20] Yeah.

[16:21] The runs were longer.

[16:22] You could have movies would close in one theater and open another theater sometimes still like

[16:25] it was.

[16:27] It's conceivable that those movies, you would have seen them both in theaters, maybe even

[16:30] a month or two apart, you know, for, you know, it must have been.

[16:33] There's no way we would have gone out and seen them like back to back.

[16:36] But I would say Ghostbusters 2 is eminently birthdayable.

[16:39] When you get.

[16:40] Yeah.

[16:41] Do you didn't you don't really weigh in on Willow.

[16:42] I don't think whether you officially thought that was a.

[16:46] You want my official.

[16:47] Yeah, sure.

[16:48] Why not?

[16:49] Yeah.

[16:50] I don't remember the movie, but I think a big fantasy film that I think it totally.

[16:54] Yeah.

[16:55] Let's go see that for your birthday.

[16:56] Of course.

[16:57] Yeah.

[16:58] Yeah.

[16:59] Yeah.

[17:00] Certainly if I hadn't seen Indiana Jones, I would pick that one.

[17:02] But Ghostbusters 2, I remember having a good time, even though I was like, there's a

[17:06] mild disappointment to me as a big Ghostbusters.

[17:08] It's just first Ghostbusters is a is a miracle that first Ghostbusters is so magical.

[17:12] Yeah.

[17:13] The also part of the birthdayable means that you are also getting your parents to go see

[17:19] a thing they might normally not.

[17:21] Yeah.

[17:22] Yeah.

[17:23] So Willow fits that bill perfectly to me and Ghostbusters 2 to some extent as well.

[17:26] Yeah.

[17:27] Although my dad was a was a Bill Murray fan.

[17:30] So I think he probably was like, yeah, mostly because the razor's edge stuff like that.

[17:35] Yeah.

[17:36] Yeah.

[17:37] Yeah.

[17:38] Yes.

[17:39] Here's one that I think Elliot's going to get immediately.

[17:42] But I started out with a with an absurd clue because of the perverse part of me, even if

[17:51] I know it now wants to say that I don't know it, but I may not know it at all.

[17:55] And this 1990 movie, one goof tells us that the stockings of the lead actress keep changing

[18:02] color.

[18:03] So that's just in case you noticed it, a movie that, again, I thought Elliot would

[18:11] be so intimately familiar with that I'd start off on hard mode.

[18:15] Nineteen ninety movie.

[18:17] Yeah.

[18:18] The stockings of the lead actress keep changing color.

[18:20] Mm hmm.

[18:21] I mean, I know.

[18:22] I don't know it intimately enough, I guess.

[18:25] Here's one.

[18:26] Here's something that'll they'll heat things up.

[18:28] It really makes me look better after I knew a movie just from the name of the baby that

[18:32] was in it.

[18:33] But when the redacted store pots and pans of steel in the microwave, they turn it on

[18:39] and it explodes.

[18:40] There may be sparks.

[18:41] It's both.

[18:42] Yeah.

[18:43] Let's do the new batch.

[18:44] Yeah, of course.

[18:45] Yeah.

[18:46] When when when the good the goofy one, I forgot his name was going, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[18:49] And so, you know, this is that.

[18:53] Is that Lenny?

[18:54] Lenny?

[18:55] Yeah, that's Lenny.

[18:56] Georgian Lenny.

[18:57] George is the other one.

[18:58] Yeah.

[18:59] I threw this in just as an extra because I knew you would get it by this point.

[19:02] This is a little trivia.

[19:04] The only adults the gremlins don't attack are Grandpa Fred and Mr. Katsuji.

[19:11] And Grandpa Fred doesn't seem scared of the gremlins.

[19:13] This would have been an interview is one of them live on television.

[19:16] Yeah.

[19:17] This would have been partially explained.

[19:18] It had a deleted scene been kept.

[19:20] And this scene, Grandpa Fred initially thinks that the gremlins are some puppets introduced

[19:23] by his studio and carries on presenting.

[19:26] He improvises and presents his show as Grandpa Fred and his friends, which the gremlins like

[19:31] and turn to face the camera alongside him.

[19:34] Oh, I mean, I it's too bad they didn't keep that in, because otherwise I always wondered

[19:38] that because gremlins, too, is such a such a such a tight puzzle box, all the logic track

[19:44] is such a logically rational when I was watching the movie, I was like, this one thing doesn't

[19:49] make sense.

[19:50] Now, I know this gremlin in this movie, Leonard Moulton reviews the first movie and then the

[19:56] gremlins kill him for doing it.

[19:58] I buy that.

[20:00] I love that movie so much.

[20:02] Hulk Hogan stops the gremlins.

[20:05] Now when I saw it, Hulk Hogan was not in the theater with me, and yet the gremlins continued

[20:09] to play the movie anyway.

[20:11] Yeah.

[20:14] The theater usher is clearly independent filmmaker Paul Bartel, and yet, you know.

[20:19] Clearly, clearly this movie was birthday worthy, but let's, just for fun, I'll tell you what

[20:24] else was in the theater around this time.

[20:26] We had Dick Tracy, RoboCop 2, Total Recall, Another 48 Hours, The Forgotten Picture of

[20:35] Betsy's Wedding, Back to the Future Part 3, Pretty Woman, Bird on a Wire, and The Adventures

[20:41] of Milo and Otis.

[20:43] Oh, oof, that's a rough one.

[20:45] You should have taken your ass to Milo and Otis.

[20:47] Yeah, because you like to see pets killed right off camera.

[20:50] What are those adventures?

[20:52] What are they?

[20:53] Have you never seen The Adventures of Milo and Otis?

[20:55] No, I never saw it.

[20:57] I was not a fan of the genre of like, real animals are on an adventure.

[21:04] That was sort of...

[21:05] You're like, homeward bound?

[21:06] Go wherever you want.

[21:07] I don't care.

[21:08] There are some good movies in there.

[21:09] You got some Total Recall.

[21:11] Yeah.

[21:12] Etc.

[21:13] Etc.

[21:14] Et al.

[21:15] No, I mean, like, there are.

[21:17] The other ones are less appropriate to my age at the time.

[21:22] Yeah.

[21:23] But of course, yeah, I think we can all use Gremlins 2 as a movie that should be watched

[21:25] by everyone on every birthday.

[21:26] Yeah.

[21:27] Yeah.

[21:28] That's a birthday movie.

[21:29] It should be this year.

[21:30] Yeah.

[21:31] Yeah.

[21:32] And national.

[21:33] There should be a national holiday where we all just watch Gremlins 2.

[21:34] I would love it.

[21:35] Yeah.

[21:36] Okay.

[21:37] Well, here's people who don't like Gremlins 2, but I don't want to know those people.

[21:41] I do not want to know those people.

[21:43] Yeah.

[21:44] I'm just sad for them, honestly.

[21:45] Yeah.

[21:46] They're missing out.

[21:47] Like, what do you enjoy from?

[21:48] Yeah.

[21:49] Okay.

[21:50] Birthday movies.

[21:51] Well, is this batch not new enough for you?

[21:54] Is that your problem?

[21:55] Yeah.

[21:56] Yeah.

[21:57] So, birthday movies.

[21:58] So, this is 1991.

[21:59] Oh, I just like it when a new Skyrise that's high tech doesn't have problems with it.

[22:03] Yes, Elliot, you have caught on to the pattern.

[22:06] I am going chronologically.

[22:07] Okay.

[22:08] Did I say Skyrise?

[22:09] The Shadow.

[22:10] Okay.

[22:11] Yeah.

[22:12] This 1991 picture.

[22:13] So, not The Shadow.

[22:14] All right.

[22:15] The woman playing the mother is only 10 years older than the actress playing her daughter.

[22:19] Again, starting off on hard mode.

[22:22] Yeah.

[22:23] Not necessarily because you'll know it, but because there was a lack of material for this

[22:27] one.

[22:28] There's a woman and her daughter.

[22:29] Okay.

[22:30] Mm-hmm.

[22:31] So, yeah.

[22:32] Just keep that in your back pocket.

[22:35] Mommy Dearest.

[22:36] Yeah.

[22:37] I went to see a rep screening of Mommy Dearest on my birthday because I was a young John

[22:43] Waters.

[22:44] Oh, you wish.

[22:45] So, okay.

[22:46] Here's a goof.

[22:47] Here's a goof about this movie.

[22:50] Yeah.

[22:51] Let's hear it.

[22:52] You know, air cannot be sound when choking because the foreign body, in this case, the

[22:55] piece of meat, is stuck in the trachea, which is the air pipe.

[22:59] So, air cannot go out.

[23:01] Hence, choking to death is silent.

[23:04] So, that's a real big goof.

[23:06] So, someone chokes on some meat.

[23:07] But they're making sounds.

[23:08] Chokes on some meat.

[23:09] I mean, it's true.

[23:10] If you think someone's choking, if you ask them, are you choking?

[23:13] And they can say yes.

[23:14] They're not technically choking, right?

[23:15] Like, they shouldn't, if they can't answer, then they are choking.

[23:18] Yeah.

[23:19] So, that's a little helpful hint from Surgeon General, Flophouse Surgeon General Ellie Kaelin.

[23:22] PSA.

[23:23] Yeah.

[23:24] Dan is the Flophouse Postmaster General.

[23:26] And Stuart is the Flophouse Party General.

[23:28] Oh.

[23:29] Yeah.

[23:30] Yeah.

[23:31] If you have any guests.

[23:32] I think you're going to have to go on to the next one.

[23:34] Stuart, do you have any ideas?

[23:35] These are tough.

[23:36] Yeah, these are tough.

[23:37] This is a tougher one.

[23:38] It's almost like he's making it difficult for us.

[23:40] The actor who played the title character gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly.

[23:45] Uncle Buck.

[23:46] Where?

[23:47] Out of Africa?

[23:49] It's not Uncle Buck.

[23:50] Where he stated that he and his co-lead, quote, didn't get along in the movie particularly,

[23:55] but it worked for the movie.

[23:56] I mean, I drove him nuts and he encouraged me to drive him nuts.

[24:01] What about Bob?

[24:02] What about Bob?

[24:03] It's what about Bob?

[24:04] Ah, okay.

[24:05] Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.

[24:06] I was going to say Dutch.

[24:07] I'm just going to, I'm going to give you this last goof because I find it funny.

[24:12] Yeah.

[24:14] The title question is never answered.

[24:19] When Richard Dreyfuss' character breaks into the store to get a weapon to kill Bob, he

[24:23] rejects a gun as, quote, too messy.

[24:26] However, the explosives he picks likely would have been just as messy if not more.

[24:30] Got him.

[24:31] Good goof.

[24:32] Solid goof.

[24:33] Solid goof.

[24:34] Yeah.

[24:35] Where were the screenwriters on that one?

[24:38] Yeah.

[24:39] I got to fact check that.

[24:41] The other movies in release, and again.

[24:44] What about Bob is another one I remember very little about, even though it was one we watched

[24:48] multiple times when I was a kid.

[24:50] So the other movies in release, and I might, I might have even gotten this one wrong because

[24:53] I like, I saw, I also saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves in the theater.

[24:58] That's a birthday movie.

[24:59] Yeah, for sure.

[25:00] I, it may have been my birthday movie.

[25:02] I don't know.

[25:04] City Slickers, Dying Young, The Rocketeer, Backdraft, Jungle Fever.

[25:09] Tell mom the baby city's dead.

[25:11] Baby sitter's dead.

[25:12] Baby city.

[25:13] Baby city is dead.

[25:14] Tell mom baby city has been destroyed.

[25:17] It's been wiped out.

[25:18] No one has stepped on the baby city.

[25:19] Oh no.

[25:20] It had so many years left as a city.

[25:25] What's that?

[25:26] What's a town but a baby city, guys?

[25:27] Yeah, that's true.

[25:28] Yeah.

[25:29] Yeah.

[25:30] Soap Dish, Thelma and Louise.

[25:31] I just remember.

[25:32] Wow.

[25:33] Talk about two movies that are, would be an interesting double feature.

[25:36] This little kid wasn't watching Thelma and Louise.

[25:40] It may have been.

[25:41] But then like, but like Soap Dish I saw in the theaters when I was, this is in 91.

[25:44] I must have been nine or 10 years old.

[25:46] Why did I see this?

[25:47] I definitely saw.

[25:48] What did you make of that movie?

[25:49] I did not understand it at all.

[25:50] Pretty much, yeah.

[25:51] I could, I could be wrong, but I very much feel like I saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

[25:54] either at my birthday or someone else's birthday.

[25:57] Probably.

[25:58] I definitely saw it at someone else's birthday.

[25:59] That is a birthday movie.

[26:01] It's a quintessential birthday movie.

[26:02] That is like, not to be like women or people of all genders can enjoy Robin Hood, Prince

[26:10] of Thieves.

[26:11] But that is a very like young boy birthday movie pick.

[26:15] I.

[26:16] It's got laughs.

[26:18] It's got action.

[26:19] Now, I will say, I keep saying, oh, I saw this thing in the theater.

[26:21] I should mention, I should point out not to not to lord my economic stability over Dan's

[26:27] as a kid.

[26:28] But my family was the exact opposite where we went to see everything like we were constantly

[26:32] going to the movies as a family.

[26:33] So I saw so much stuff where I'm like, why did I go see that in the theaters?

[26:36] My family just was going to the movies.

[26:38] And so so that's why I saw Soap Dish in the theater, having no interest in it, not understanding

[26:42] it, not liking it.

[26:43] You know, what would you say?

[26:45] What about Bob is birthday worthy?

[26:46] Because I remember this.

[26:47] This one sticks in my head because as a child, at least, I was very disappointed in What

[26:53] About Bob?

[26:54] Because it was not the Bill Murray character that I liked.

[26:58] It's a different kind of Bill Murray, cool, above it, Bill Murray, who is like quipping

[27:03] on the side.

[27:04] I didn't like this guy who's being an irritant and ruining a man's life.

[27:10] I found that very stressful.

[27:14] But I can see you being like, oh, I want to see the new Bill Murray movie for my birthday.

[27:17] Like that makes perfect sense.

[27:18] Yeah.

[27:19] Yeah.

[27:20] And you're like, my dad likes Bill Murray.

[27:21] So I want to take him to this.

[27:22] Yeah.

[27:23] I want to do something nice.

[27:24] That was the reason we watched this for most of my mind as a child.

[27:27] This was the period.

[27:28] I mean, that's very sweet.

[27:29] This was the period when my dad looked the most like Richard Dreyfuss in his life.

[27:33] There was a period where the family joke was, oh, Richard Dreyfuss is actually my dad, like

[27:37] under an assumed name because they looked so similar at the time.

[27:40] And this was the What About Bob is the peak of if you want to know what my dad looked

[27:43] like in 1991.

[27:44] Watch What About Bob and look at Richard Dreyfuss.

[27:47] So did you enjoy seeing your dad driven mad?

[27:50] Who wouldn't?

[27:51] I feel like you're the again, you're the opposite.

[27:54] You wanted to make your dad happy.

[27:55] And I was like, how do I drive him to the brink of madness?

[28:00] Can I play with madness in regards to my dad?

[28:04] Yeah.

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[33:18] 1992. Out of the four films featuring this continuity of this character, the 92 installment

[33:27] is the only one with credits without the character's logo. So there you go. A little

[33:33] bit of boring trivia for you. Four installments with this character? Mm-hmm. Well, this sort of

[33:39] like general continuity of the character. James Bond? Is that James Bond movie? Here's one you'll

[33:46] enjoy because it's the rare incorrectly regarded as goof. Okay. IMDb's best category. Incorrectly

[33:55] regarded as goof. People bending backwards to justify various things. When Redacted plays the

[34:02] CD, just for fun, he scratches it back and forth like a record a few times. It sounds like record

[34:08] scratches. Although the technology to do so in real life was not invented until much later. Redacted

[34:14] showed having several pieces of advanced technology that were impossible for the time. So that was

[34:21] not really a goof. Guys, you just had advanced technology that can scratch CDs. Advanced technology.

[34:27] For some reason, he thought it might be useful to do that. All right. Scratching CDs. Now I think it's not

[34:36] James Bond because I don't see James Bond scratching a CD like a record for a goof. That would have been pretty cool.

[34:41] Four movies in this version of the continuity of this character. Yeah. Is this like Batman Returns?

[34:54] It is Batman Returns. Okay. Because technically those first four movies are all supposedly in

[35:00] the same continuity even though they're wildly different. They're incredibly different. You have

[35:03] different actors playing Batman at different points. I mean, they're all now in the DC

[35:09] continuity, right? As of the Flash movie. Oh, right, right. Yeah. So what other clues did you have for

[35:15] Batman Returns? Well, I did have one more that I just thought was fun. Danny DeVito plays the penguin

[35:24] in this movie. It is penguin related. Paul Reubens playing the penguin's dad? No, no. I mean, well,

[35:33] he did, but that's not the. The production wanted to use king penguins, but the only tame ones in

[35:39] captivity were at a bird sanctuary and the Cotswolds deep in the English countryside.

[35:46] So the birds were flown to the States in the refrigerated hold of a plane. They were given

[35:49] their own refrigerated trailer and swimming pool with half a ton of fresh ice every day and had

[35:55] fresh fish delivered daily straight from the docks. Even though the temperature outside frequently

[36:00] topped 100 degrees, the whole set was refrigerated down to 35 degrees. The birds also had an around

[36:06] the clock bodyguard. The birds clearly enjoyed the experience as, following their stint in Hollywood,

[36:12] most of them had mated and produced eggs, the sign of a contented penguin. Oh, so that was a penguin

[36:18] vacation for these penguins. That sounds great. I mean, if anything, that movie is worth it so that those

[36:22] penguins had a cool vacation, pun intended. Also, the fact that it has probably two of the best

[36:28] supervillain performances of all time. In Christopher Walken as Maxtrax and that one guy who plays his son.

[36:35] Dad, save yourself. I think that trivia fact was written with a hint of like,

[36:44] can you believe they did all this for penguins? That's the least of what they should have done.

[36:47] I'm glad they took care of those penguins. That was very sweet. They should treat the penguin actors well.

[36:52] Treat the penguins as living things, yeah, that have specific needs. So Dan, what did you think

[36:56] about Batman Returns when you saw it in the theaters? I loved Batman Returns. I mean, I did.

[37:02] I do think that at the time, I was a bit confused at it compared to the first Batman, which is like

[37:11] still Tim Burton-y, but a much more straightforward take on Batman. This one is much more,

[37:17] it stops being a Batman movie for big chunks of the movie. Yeah, I was a little more

[37:23] mixed as a kid, but like Gremlins 2, where as a kid, I was a little more mixed.

[37:28] I thought this was kind of like a funny horror movie, not like a cartoon come to life.

[37:34] I've only come to love it more and more over the years as I've grown used to what it is.

[37:39] So when I first saw Batman Returns, I was like, I think it is birthdayable for sure.

[37:43] Batman was a huge movie. You're going to see the sequel. Batman Returns, I remember seeing it and

[37:47] being like, it made me really uncomfortable. It was like, this is darker and weirder

[37:52] than I expected, but I have come to like it more and more as time goes on. I still don't like that

[37:57] Batman just is shooting people in the beginning of the movie. But as opposed to Gremlins 2,

[38:03] which I loved from the moment it started. And you like it when Gremlins shoot people

[38:08] in Gremlins 2. I mean, the thing is, Gremlins are villains. So yes, I do like it when they

[38:12] shoot people, but Batman is a hero, so we should not shoot people. Especially when his whole thing

[38:16] in the comics, or one of his whole things is, I don't kill, I don't use guns. At this point,

[38:21] that had been established for, I think, 30 years at least, you know. So, I think I'm wrong about that.

[38:26] Maybe I'm wrong about that, but that's okay. I can be wrong about things. I'm not perfect.

[38:29] Just for context, because I think it's kind of fun, the other movies that were big at the time.

[38:35] What else could you have seen? Yeah. We had also in the top 10, Sister Act, Patriot Games, House Sitter,

[38:43] Lethal Weapon 3, Far and Away, Encino Man, Alien 3, Class Act, and Basic Instinct.

[38:52] Now a lot, most of those I did not see in the theaters, yet somehow Far and Away I saw in the

[38:56] theaters. My dad wanted to see it so badly. Really? Because he wanted to see a historical

[38:59] drama. He was like, a drama about the land rush? Yes, I want to see this. And we went to go see it.

[39:05] Ron Howard? Please. Yeah, I feel like, I don't think I saw very many of those in the theater.

[39:13] I definitely saw Sister Act in the theater also. I weirdly saw Alien 3 in the theater, even though

[39:21] seems like I still would have been kind of young for it, but I did. I was obsessed with Alien 3.

[39:27] I didn't get to see it in the theater, but my parents saw it. And they were like, okay,

[39:32] you can rent it when it comes out. So I was like counting down the fucking days.

[39:36] I had like the Alien 3 trading cards. I was like super into it. Yeah. That was a little

[39:42] disappointed when I saw it eventually. Yeah, I still liked it, but was a little disappointed.

[39:48] It was one of those like, I like Alien and Aliens so much, like I have to like Alien 3.

[39:55] Yeah, but that's hard because it's, I mean, Alien 3, it has its ups and downs, but like to be coming

[40:00] alien and aliens like yeah you follow that up yes that's almost impossible um okay this is one that

[40:06] i think you're gonna get almost immediately uh what year is it 1993 jurassic park yep

[40:14] come on man what else are you gonna see for your birthday in 1993 dude come on

[40:18] yeah that summer movie in 1993 are you crazy mostly the biggest movie in the world you're

[40:24] finally gonna get to see realistic dinosaurs on screen it's your birthday you're a young man

[40:28] yes of course this is what you're seeing uh i'm just gonna give the the you know these these were

[40:34] like no i went to see rising sun for my birthday that year like what are you doing dan these were

[40:38] kind of boring ones because i knew that you would immediately get it so i'm just gonna give you that

[40:43] little extra newman gets spit in the face we got a goof here um dinosaurs are not actually alive

[40:52] anymore hammond has a pronounced scottish accent at the start of the film which deteriorates

[40:57] markedly in just a couple of scenes by the end of the film he has an upper class english accent

[41:02] this is something that i have never noticed in jurassic park is this true elliott i to be honest

[41:08] i will have to pay closer attention i think i i just i'm so keyed in for dinosaurs i'm not really

[41:12] paying that close enough attention to richard attenborough's performance you know i think it

[41:17] you know what but i bet it's i bet it's by the end i think his accent has become more like elegant

[41:23] more yeah so i think that might be true that might be true yeah uh this is a movie like i

[41:28] know that you adore it like as a kid like i had just read the book and i loved loved

[41:38] steven spielberg movies i loved jaws a lot and i i was a little disappointed by jurassic park

[41:46] because i didn't feel like it had like the elegance of like i think that's true a little

[41:51] bit i think jurassic park if it wasn't for the effects would not stand as high in steven

[41:56] spielberg's you know filmography but like i think you just can't you cannot overestimate

[42:02] the power of a movie showing you something you cannot see in any other way yeah that the only

[42:06] way you can ever see this is through a movie and to see it in a movie and feel like i'm seeing it

[42:10] like it looks so real and then we watch yeah it's one that my kids like the first time yes for the

[42:16] first time like for the first time not just in movies for the first time in human history you

[42:21] are seeing what it would look like if dinosaurs were living now you just can't it's something like

[42:25] i can't overestimate how how amazing that is even though the movie itself yeah it's not like there

[42:30] are sequences that are fantastic in it but it's not it's not et you know it's not raiders you

[42:34] know but it's still but i i mean i saw that movie i saw a sneak preview of it the night before it

[42:39] came out so i saw i saw it it was an 11 45 screening the night before it came out then

[42:44] after school the next day i went to see it again and then i think i saw it i don't know how many

[42:48] more times in the theaters like i just couldn't get enough of it mr and mrs caylan your uh your

[42:53] son hasn't been in school all year well that was that was like me i remember going on a birthday

[42:59] party to see a like a morning screening of last the mohicans and then i went again later that

[43:05] night because i was like this movie fucking rocks um huh i mean like i i a lot of people love last

[43:16] mohicans i saw that as an adult and i was like almost immediately bored but yeah i mean i was a

[43:22] kid looking for battles and i got they served them up the the uh i mean last time he games i think as

[43:27] a as a kid i found it very boring but as a grown-up i think it's really good but uh the uh but yeah i

[43:32] just i i can but i totally get dan you seeing it you don't have the same connection to dinosaurs

[43:37] necessarily yeah i think that was a big part that this was like there was one as i've said this many

[43:42] times to my family there's one thing i hope i live to see and that is real proof of extraterrestrial

[43:48] life somewhere in the universe like i don't think i will live to see that but i it's something i

[43:53] want more than anything else and like next to that would be to see a dinosaur like i know i'm never

[43:58] going to be able to do that and so this is the closest i'm going to come so so you're uh so you're

[44:02] hyped for disclosure day i'd imagine i've been again that's not i've seen movies with aliens

[44:07] in them like to see a movie about aliens is not as exciting because i've seen that before you know

[44:11] um but have you seen a movie about disclosing that aliens exist there's so many billboards

[44:18] about that in la and i keep and the font looks just enough like the font in the disclosure poster

[44:23] that i'm like is this about aliens sexually harassing michael douglas like what's going on

[44:27] you know early uh early reviews have been very positive uh but and i believe it because it's

[44:33] spielberg but like man those trailers do nothing for me uh they're like one shot of the car

[44:39] bursting through a house i'm like okay yeah um for some reason there's like as as we got closer

[44:48] to the present day records got spottier on the two websites i was checking i only have the top

[44:55] five for this but of course jurassic park topped the weekend and then we've got oh it did last

[45:02] really the highest grossing movie of all time up to that point

[45:06] that's an underrated movie that's a fun cliffhanger unforgiving that's an underrated

[45:10] movie that's a fun movie yeah wait did you say unforgiven unforgiven and sent of a woman

[45:15] sent a moment i don't like that much but the rest of those are really good

[45:18] yeah it's a fun week i don't like i don't like sent to the woman sent a woman's record message

[45:22] which is never rat i'm like well this is i mean i'm like what the fuck are you talking about

[45:29] the fundamental flaw with that movie is that chris o'donnell's character and philip seymour

[45:34] hoffman should have been swapped yes they should have been swapped yeah yeah okay we've reached uh

[45:40] we've reached the end this is the last movie also al pacino plays it a little subtle

[45:45] this is the last movie but uh i appreciate you going on this journey with me it's like you

[45:51] it's like even though i didn't know you as a child you've uh joined me on these

[45:56] birthdays i wish i wish we could have yeah um but as adults it'd be weird yeah that'd be weird

[46:01] uh yeah in this 1994 film the female leads the female leads gracelessness in the film

[46:10] stems from the first scene she shot when she waited for the title character to help her down

[46:16] instead he took her parasol and walked away she tried to get down alone and flopped to the ground

[46:21] the director liked it so much that he kept it in the film and staged more scenes of her stumbling

[46:25] being dumped through windows etc so we got a parasol in there with a mummy

[46:36] parasol by the way is a perfect birthday gift no it's a yeah it's a perfect birthday movie

[46:46] someone's got a birthday give him a mom just give him a mom it's already wrapped up it is wrapped

[46:51] yep don't unwrap it though you won't wrap it no no it's a gift box

[46:58] um here's something that might help you out i'm gonna need one more yeah anachronism okay the

[47:03] playing cards used at the tournament have rounded corners as modern maverick do yep yeah oh yeah

[47:09] maverick i like that one there you go yeah um and this this little extra bit of uh but they're

[47:15] saying those those playing cards are too modern they wouldn't have had rounded corners no they

[47:18] would have straight corners uh this last bit of goofery i i liked and it's actually it makes a

[47:23] good point in the final hand sometimes goofs are right dan dan hate he gets mad at goofs when

[47:29] they're wrong but he'll give them credit when they're right you know it's true this one

[47:32] makes a good point in the last hand the dealer who was in on it with angel swaps out the shuffled

[47:38] deck with a stacked one to give angel a small straight flush however that would work only if

[47:44] the other two players had really strong hands but not as strong as angels commodore had four of a

[47:49] kind which fits but stacking the deck in such a way that maverick gets a royal flush in the same

[47:54] hand makes no sense and that that is true that uh so uh the ghosts of william goldman please come

[48:04] and answer for your crimes i mean of which dreamcatcher would be the main one right yeah

[48:09] yeah this is a this is a distant second uh very distant okay so what what were some of the other

[48:16] movies against maverick this was one i did not see in the theater i saw it on uh video and i

[48:21] remember i think watching it twice i really enjoyed it i really enjoyed the theater i saw

[48:26] in the theater also and i really liked it when i saw and i remember this was one of those movies

[48:29] where it was not a big hit it was like it would did well it was a hit but it was but i remember

[48:34] people being like and that wasn't so good and i was like really i really liked it a lot it's just

[48:38] like a farm like light comedy you know like obviously mel gibson is is hard to to watch

[48:44] these days but you know that's gonna be a tough one for me to revisit without yeah but james

[48:48] goes down easy james garner is so charming jodie foster gets to do comedy which he rarely gets to

[48:53] do and she's funny which is too bad because jodie foster is so funny jodie foster can be a very

[48:58] funny performer i wish she got to do comedy more often yeah um but yeah for some reason

[49:03] and i looked on various sites but the for this date my sources only gave me as other movies

[49:09] the flintstones and schindler's list so the real gamut there again both movies i also saw in

[49:15] theaters but uh yeah it's i think schindler's list is not really a birthday really a birthday

[49:20] movie no i don't think so i think that's i feel like going to see that on your birthday is a bit

[49:25] of a shonda right uh i mean the opposite of a shonda it's a mitzvah you know you're remembering

[49:30] those who have we've lost on your birthday but it's not a fun thing to do you know you know

[49:35] uh but at the end and the flintstones is yeah that's that's i've never seen the flintstones

[49:41] movie is it is it something i should watch i haven't i've not seen it since i saw it in the

[49:46] theater as a kid corporate entry yeah it's another it's like here's a movie about cavemen

[49:52] the and they live alongside dinosaurs but most of the movie is about who's going to get control of

[49:57] the corporation and it's like who cares there's so many of them

[50:00] Who's the evil guy, Rob Lowe or some shit?

[50:03] It's Kyle MacLachlan.

[50:05] Kyle MacLachlan? Okay.

[50:07] Does he do anything that's, like, psychosexual?

[50:11] Not in The Flintstones.

[50:13] I mean, he does have, like, a secretary that he's having a sexy relationship with.

[50:17] Yeah, the Halle Berry character.

[50:19] She's playing Sharon Stone.

[50:21] Like, I think that's the name that they gave her.

[50:24] That's the joke.

[50:25] That makes sense. Yeah.

[50:28] I mean, it's a movie that, like, has amazing production design.

[50:31] But it just, like, fails at understanding what anyone might want to see in a Flintstones movie.

[50:37] It is not a very funny movie.

[50:41] I mean, the one joke that I remember from it is there are all these kids playing at a playground.

[50:46] And then a pteranodon, you see its shadow swoop by overhead and everybody runs away.

[50:51] And then just a huge, enormous amount of bird shit falls on the playground.

[50:55] Like, that's the joke.

[50:56] That's it.

[50:57] That's the level of the movie.

[50:58] And that's the one joke in the movie that was funny enough that I remember it.

[51:02] Yeah.

[51:03] Well, thank you for going on this birthday odyssey with me, this remembrance of things past.

[51:11] This has been the Flophouse Podcast, a podcast about movies, usually bad ones.

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[51:32] You'll enjoy that as well.

[51:34] But for this Flophouse Mini, I've been Dan McCoy.

[51:37] I'm Stuart Wellington.

[51:40] And I'm Elliot Kalin, wishing Dan a happy birthday in the future and a happy many birthdays of the past.

[51:48] Oh, thanks.

[51:49] Oh, that's pretty sweet.

[51:50] And many birthdays in the future, too.

[51:52] I was saying that should be his last one.

[51:53] God willing.

[51:54] Don't cut that out, but let me say this even better.

[51:58] I'm Elliot Kalin, wishing Dan McCoy many happy birthdays for those we've missed and those yet to come that we will celebrate with him.

[52:06] Oh, an excellent toast.

[52:07] Thank you.

[52:08] Yeah.

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