FH Mini 83 - Top 10 Sexiest Gremlins, with Brendan Hay

[0:00] Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Flophouse mini edition, that is.

Elliott Kalan

[0:08] Instead of a regular, full-length talking about a movie episode of the Flophouse,

[0:12] this is our mini episode of the Flophouse.

[0:14] We do it on alternate weeks, and we just kind of do whatever we want.

[0:17] We've got an exciting special guest today.

[0:19] We're going to talk about some real dumb stuff.

[0:21] But first, I want to talk to my co-hosts.

[0:24] Guys, introduce yourselves, co-hosts.

Dan McCoy

[0:26] Oh, Dan McCoy.

Elliott Kalan

[0:29] Stuart Wellington?

[0:30] I love Stu. You really gave Dan the business.

[0:33] Speaking of business, Dan, I believe we have some exciting Flophouse-related business

[0:36] to announce at the top of this mini.

Dan McCoy

[0:39] Yeah, we're doing a slate of streaming shows.

[0:42] We're handling this a little differently.

[0:44] So we're going to do six shows.

[0:47] What?

[0:48] In total, one a month for six successive months.

[0:52] And they're all going to be on the first Saturday of the month,

[0:55] except for in September, where we moved to the second Saturday for Labor Day.

[0:58] And to make it confusing for people.

[1:01] Mm-hmm.

[1:02] And it's going to be a slate full of Flophouse faves,

[1:06] movies that are often referenced on the Flophouse,

[1:09] or, you know, people have requested them.

[1:12] But not movies we've ever covered.

Elliott Kalan

[1:14] We've never done them before.

[1:15] These are unexplored stars in the bad movie firmament for us.

Dan McCoy

[1:19] Yes.

[1:20] And the thing that's a little new about it is they're going to be a little shorter.

[1:26] They're not going to be like full live shows.

[1:27] We're doing this under the sort of slogan of Flop TV,

[1:32] a once-a-month, one-hour version of a Flophouse show.

[1:38] Mm-hmm.

[1:39] And you can see any individual show.

[1:42] You can get tickets for $7.

[1:45] And if you want to see the whole season,

[1:47] you can get a season pass for $35,

[1:49] which is a discount on buying them all individually.

[1:52] That's like getting one show for free.

[1:55] Exactly.

[1:56] Exactly.

Stuart Wellington

[1:57] And if that's going to be a Flophouse hour,

[1:59] that's like a normal hour and a half for a regular person, right?

Dan McCoy

[2:02] I mean, it'd probably be an hour and a half for us ultimately too.

[2:06] We're going to try our best.

[2:07] We're going to try our best.

Elliott Kalan

[2:08] But it won't be the three.

Stuart Wellington

[2:09] That would make it two and a half hours for a normal person.

Elliott Kalan

[2:11] Yeah, it won't be one of the three-hour slobber knockers

[2:13] that we're used to doing for our live streaming shows.

[2:16] I'm excited about it.

[2:17] Six live streaming shows.

[2:19] Dan, what are the movies that we're going to be covering?

Dan McCoy

[2:22] Well, I got the list right here.

[2:24] The first one on August 5th is Beastmaster 2.

[2:31] Through the portal of time?

[2:32] Through the portal of time.

[2:33] Not the porthole of time, as some may have claimed,

[2:36] but the portal of time on September 9th.

[2:39] Cool world.

[2:40] Have you ever wished this world would be cooler?

[2:43] Yes.

[2:44] Every day.

[2:45] Well, Holly would if she could.

Elliott Kalan

[2:47] What would Holly if she could?

[2:49] We'll find out.

[2:50] We don't know.

[2:50] I've never understood it.

[2:51] Hopefully murder me.

Dan McCoy

[2:52] October 7th.

[2:53] October 7th, we're doing a double feature of meat, fast food, titled movies.

[3:00] We've got Hot Dog the Movie and Hamburger the Motion Picture.

Stuart Wellington

[3:04] Mmm.

[3:06] Yummy.

Dan McCoy

[3:07] Yummy.

[3:08] November 4th, we'll do Over the Top, the sliced Sloan arm wrestling picture.

Elliott Kalan

[3:13] Maybe the greatest sports movie ever made?

[3:15] Or is it terrible?

[3:16] We'll find out.

Dan McCoy

[3:17] December 2nd, Ballistic, X vs. Sever.

[3:20] One of the most confusingly named movies.

[3:22] Never seen it.

[3:23] I've never seen it either.

[3:24] I don't know what, I mean, apparently X is vs. Sever in it.

[3:28] That's all I know.

[3:29] And it's ballistic, guys.

[3:30] It's ballistic as hell.

[3:32] And on January 6th, Nuki, the movie that Elliot has warned people not to see.

[3:39] We're going to watch it.

Elliott Kalan

[3:40] The second worst movie I've ever seen.

Dan McCoy

[3:42] We will be watching it and talking about it.

Elliott Kalan

[3:44] So I'm excited, guys.

[3:46] Flop TV, it's like a TV show version of the Flophouse.

[3:50] One Saturday a month for six months.

[3:52] I think it's going to be super fun.

[3:53] What do you guys think?

Dan McCoy

[3:53] Do you guys think it's going to be good or terrible?

[3:55] I hope it's going to be good, guys.

[3:57] I need to win.

[3:58] But you can dip in and out.

[3:59] You can buy a season pass.

[4:03] Yeah.

[4:04] And it's an experiment we're doing.

[4:06] Like if this goes well, maybe we'll do another season.

[4:09] If it doesn't, maybe it'll go down the memory hole.

[4:11] Never to get spoken of again.

[4:12] When it definitely goes well.

[4:14] Yeah.

[4:14] When it definitely goes well, it'll be part of Flop Nation going forward.

[4:20] Anyway, so that was our big announcement.

[4:23] But wait, Dan.

Elliott Kalan

[4:23] But Dan.

[4:24] Oh, who?

[4:24] Where can our audience find the tickets and other information?

Dan McCoy

[4:28] Yes, that's a good point.

[4:30] There is a website that will give you better information than I just gave you.

[4:35] You can read it at your leisure.

[4:37] You can buy tickets.

[4:37] It is theflophouse.simpletix.com.

[4:42] Or if you find this easier to remember, tinyurl.com slash flophouse live.

[4:50] So go to either theflophouse.simpletix.com or tinyurl.com slash flophouse live.

[4:57] I'll put a link in the show notes, of course.

[5:00] You'll be able to find it at the website.

[5:02] So, you know, don't stress if you didn't get those.

[5:05] But Elliot, back to what we're doing today.

[5:08] Our today's business.

Elliott Kalan

[5:10] Speaking of business.

[5:10] We've dealt with new business.

[5:12] Business that's so new it hasn't even happened yet.

[5:14] I'm excited about those shows.

[5:15] I can't wait to see them and do them.

[5:17] But today we're doing another exciting show.

[5:19] It's our mini.

[5:20] And today we're doing a special mini about our favorite miniature monsters.

[5:25] That's right.

[5:25] The gremlings.

[5:27] And today we have a very special guest with us.

[5:30] Executive producer of the current television series, Gremlins, Secrets of the Mogwai.

[5:35] Brendan Hay is here to join us to talk about gremlins.

[5:39] Brendan, thanks so much for joining us.

[5:41] Tell us, when did you first get involved with gremlins?

[5:45] What's your earliest memory of gremlins?

[5:47] Talk to us about gremlins.

S4

[5:49] I'll tell you all about gremlins.

[5:50] Thank you guys for having me.

[5:51] Gremlins have been in my life almost as long as I can remember since my older cousins took me to see the movie when I was like six in the theater.

[5:59] And it scarred me in a wonderful way.

[6:01] Kind of just infected me with a love for horror comedy that has never been fully satiated.

[6:07] I just keep going for it every time.

[6:09] Yeah.

[6:10] I love gremlins and luckily got the chance to work on the show and been doing it since 2019.

[6:16] And now people finally get to see it, which is really fun and joy.

[6:19] And it's been nice that people are digging it.

Dan McCoy

[6:21] And where can this show be seen?

S4

[6:24] It can be seen on everyone's kind of most friendly named streaming service of Max.

[6:30] Oh.

[6:31] Max.

[6:31] Is that associated with HBO in some way?

[6:34] You know what?

[6:35] It's like it knows HBO.

[6:37] I don't think it's like –

[6:38] Okay.

S4

[6:38] They're friends.

[6:39] Yeah.

[6:39] It's kind of a Clark Kent Superman relationship I think with HBO.

[6:42] Oh.

[6:43] HBO is when Max wears glasses.

[6:44] I see.

[6:45] Yeah.

[6:45] Exactly.

[6:46] Exactly.

Elliott Kalan

[6:46] Yeah.

[6:47] I'm saying boo to only the corporate parent of that streaming service and not at all to the show.

[6:53] As a Writers Guild member who's on strike, Max is my enemy and especially the head of the company is my enemy.

[7:00] But I'm excited about the show.

[7:02] Don't get Brendan in trouble.

S4

[7:04] Well, if it helps at all, here's the nice thing.

[7:07] Gremlins is a member of IATSE.

[7:10] It's an animation guild show.

[7:12] So we are covered by entirely other unions.

[7:14] And, of course, we stand in solidarity with our WGA brothers and sisters.

[7:19] Thank you.

[7:20] But it is also governed under – we'll be going on strike basically next year when our contract is up.

Elliott Kalan

[7:24] That sounds great.

[7:25] And I will say last year at San Diego Comic-Con, my son and I saw the first episode of Gremlins, Secrets of the Mogwai, when you had – Brendan was on a panel there.

[7:34] And it was really fun.

[7:36] And I'm looking forward to sharing the whole series with him.

[7:39] My son has never seen the movies.

[7:40] Too scary.

[7:41] But I think he's going to like it.

[7:42] What about that Santa monologue?

[7:45] The what?

Stuart Wellington

[7:45] What about the Santa monologue from Phoebe Cates?

[7:48] No, he's in that part.

[7:49] I shared that with my children.

[7:51] Yeah, of course.

[7:52] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[7:53] The most disturbing part.

[7:55] Yeah.

[7:55] No, I watched the first couple episodes.

[7:58] And we both enjoyed it very much.

[8:01] But Audrey was like, this is going to scare children.

[8:03] I'm like, yes, that's the beauty of Gremlins.

[8:05] That's the point.

[8:05] Exactly.

[8:06] It should be every kid's gateway.

S4

[8:08] We actually got this weekend a letter passed on to us that was written by a 10-year-old that had his parents pass it on via social media.

[8:17] About how we're too scary and we should think of smaller children and babies that could be watching.

[8:23] Babies?

[8:24] That's what we – our thing was that.

[8:26] Consider the babies.

[8:26] Clearly, we are not thinking of the babies.

Stuart Wellington

[8:28] Go watch the Super Mario Brothers movie.

[8:31] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[8:32] The ironic thing is – so Gremlins, for anyone who's not familiar with it, Gremlins is a movie from 1984 that's amazing.

[8:40] And it's about little green monsters that attack people and kill them and also get killed in horrible ways.

[8:46] And when I was a kid, I loved it.

[8:49] And then it was like I turned – I think I must have been five or six when I first saw it.

[8:53] And then when I turned around eight, it became scary to me.

[8:55] Like I suddenly realized what was going on in the movie.

[8:58] And then it took me a couple years before I could watch it again.

[9:00] And it was like –

[9:00] Yeah, you understood the stakes at that point.

[9:02] Like, oh, when the mean old lady flies out of her house and lands face down in the snow and never gets up again, that she's dead now.

[9:10] Yeah.

[9:10] Ellie was scared.

Dan McCoy

[9:11] He's like, no, Billy's going to lose his job at the bank.

[9:14] Yeah.

[9:15] That is what scared me.

[9:16] Yeah, yeah.

[9:16] He's not even pursuing his artistic dreams full time.

Elliott Kalan

[9:20] Oh, no.

[9:21] And like Gremlins 2 came out.

[9:22] I'm like, oh, thank goodness.

[9:23] At least now we'll see Billy as a working artist.

[9:25] And I'm like, well, he is, but he's doing kind of – he's not doing the kind of work he really cares about.

[9:29] He's not speaking with a soul.

Stuart Wellington

[9:30] He took the safe route.

[9:31] Yeah, and Dan was upset that, like, the Gremlins are destroying a beautiful corporate building.

[9:36] It's a shining – that this Trump surrogate is having his building destroyed.

Elliott Kalan

[9:41] He goes, the Gremlins are attacking a corporation?

[9:44] Why, that's a person.

[9:45] How dare they?

Dan McCoy

[9:46] I mean, the only bad thing I can say about Gremlins 2 is that it makes its Trump surrogate so lovable.

[9:54] Yes.

[9:55] Daniel Glover.

[9:55] That's true.

[9:56] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[9:57] So the –

[9:59] Is it?

[10:00] What's his name?

[10:00] John Glover, right?

[10:01] John Glover.

[10:02] Daniel Glover.

[10:03] Daniel Glover or Danny Glover is a different actor, yeah.

Dan McCoy

[10:07] But they both had relatives who made gloves.

Elliott Kalan

[10:10] Yeah, they both descended from the makers of gloves, just like William Shakespeare, the son of a glove maker.

[10:15] So Gremlins, it's a movie that I think means a lot to all of us.

[10:18] Gremlins 2 was a massively important movie to me growing up also.

[10:21] And that's why with Brendan here with us today, I wanted to talk Gremlins with you guys, but also we're grownups now.

[10:27] And if I've learned anything from the current media ecosystem, it's that when I grow up, the things that I loved as a kid, I don't have to let go of them.

[10:35] I can drag them into adulthood with me and make them more mature and more grownup and adult.

[10:42] So today, we're going to be taking Gremlins and we're going to be adulting it up because that's right, guys.

[10:46] It's time for me to lay on you the top 10 sexiest Gremlins.

[10:50] It's the countdown you've been waiting for.

[10:52] We're going to go all the way from 10 down to number one, which of the individual Gremlins from the movie Gremlins, no human characters allowed, is objectively the sexiest.

[11:03] Guys, tell me your thoughts.

[11:04] Are you ready for this?

[11:05] Are you ready to – I should have put a parental advisory on this one.

[11:08] We are going to be talking about sexy Gremlins and kids might not be ready for that because that's the other letter you got, Brendan, right?

[11:13] You got a letter from a kid saying this show is too sexy.

[11:16] Way too sexy.

S4

[11:17] No, that letter was from a baby who said actually it could be a little sexier.

Elliott Kalan

[11:22] Oh, I see.

[11:23] Okay.

[11:23] Yeah, that makes sense.

[11:25] Babies love sex.

[11:26] It's how they get made.

[11:27] Yeah, if anybody knows it.

[11:29] Guys, what are your feelings about what we're going to talk about today?

[11:34] Confused.

[11:34] I'm like a nervous anticipation just like when performing the act of sex.

Stuart Wellington

[11:39] Yeah, a little excited.

Elliott Kalan

[11:41] And a little afraid, right?

[11:42] Yeah, of course.

[11:43] Yeah, constantly.

[11:44] Yeah, yeah.

[11:45] So let's – why don't we just start if you guys are ready?

[11:47] Let's start with number 10 on the sexiest Gremlins countdown.

[11:50] Okay.

[11:51] Bottom of the barrel.

[11:53] Well, I mean there are –

[11:54] Least fuckable Gremlins.

[11:55] I mean there are many.

[11:56] Again, there are hundreds of Gremlins.

[11:57] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[11:57] To make it on the list is a big achievement.

[11:59] There's a lot of Gremlins that did not make it onto this list.

[12:02] Let's just say Phantom of the Opera face Gremlin from Gremlins 2 didn't make it onto the list.

[12:07] Wow.

[12:07] That's crazy because he's a dark bad boy.

[12:11] He's romantic.

[12:12] The leader of the bad guy Gremlins in Gremlins 2 also didn't make it onto the list.

[12:16] Wow.

S4

[12:17] Even when he's a spider?

[12:18] He could hug you multiple times with all those legs.

Elliott Kalan

[12:22] I should give a caveat.

[12:23] It's pre-Spider Spike is not on this list.

[12:26] You'll see as I get through it.

[12:27] Okay.

[12:27] He becomes a different person as far as I'm concerned or a different Gremlin.

[12:30] Well, let's just start with it.

[12:31] Okay, number 10.

[12:33] So this is not bottom of the barrel.

[12:34] This is the least among –

[12:36] Worst of the best.

[12:36] I get it.

[12:37] Worst of the best.

[12:37] Exactly.

[12:38] Number 10, you know it's Daffy Gremlin.

[12:40] The Gremlin from Gremlins 2 is kind of a maniac.

[12:42] He's silly.

[12:43] He's got a great sense of humor.

[12:44] But he's also a dentist as we see in one scene.

[12:46] And that's a stable job which makes him a good provider.

[12:49] So Daffy Gremlin, what do you think about him?

Dan McCoy

[12:53] Yeah, I mean I guess a sense of humor is important to a lot of people and a mate.

[12:59] I don't know if it's sexy per se.

[13:03] He's got those googly eyes.

Elliott Kalan

[13:04] You never know where he's looking.

[13:05] And there's something kind of intriguing about that.

Dan McCoy

[13:07] Yeah.

[13:07] I mean I do like – I assume that there are people out there with dentistry fantasies.

[13:14] So we got that going for you.

[13:15] Yes.

[13:15] What do you say, Stu?

Stuart Wellington

[13:17] Yeah, I mean he wears a mask in his dentist thing.

[13:20] He – yeah, I mean he's got those beautiful eyes that like – you never know if he's looking into your eyes or just looking into space.

[13:29] Or both.

[13:30] He's got a little bit of hair.

[13:30] You could stare into those eyes forever.

[13:32] Or like whatever that is.

[13:32] If they're pointed at you.

[13:33] Like a crust.

S4

[13:35] Yeah.

[13:36] It's some of the best hair of the gremlins because let's face it, most of them have none.

[13:40] Yes.

[13:40] So he's definitely like top tier on that.

Elliott Kalan

[13:42] As reptiles, most of them don't have hair.

[13:44] But he does.

[13:45] And yeah, it's fabulous.

[13:46] He takes care of that.

[13:47] And he calls attention to himself.

[13:48] He's got confidence.

[13:50] He's constantly peacocking.

[13:52] Yeah.

[13:53] So that's number 10, Daffy Gremlin.

[13:55] I think you all agree, number 10.

[13:56] Number 9, ooh, it's going to make this one – it makes some people mad that he's so low on the list.

[14:01] It might be even a little shocking.

[14:03] It's electric gremlin.

[14:04] The gremlin from Gremlins 2 who through the power of chemistry has somehow turned into a bioelectric form that can go into a phone and be trapped in a voicemail system.

[14:13] Makes perfect sense to me.

[14:14] Only to be called up later.

[14:16] Look, he's glamorous.

[14:17] He doesn't obey the laws of physics.

[14:19] And that is pretty erotic.

[14:21] But he's just going to hurt you in the end.

[14:23] And that's why he's down at number 9.

[14:24] You know, he's good for a one-night stand maybe if you don't get burned.

Stuart Wellington

[14:28] And potentially survives the decimation of the gremlins at the end of the second movie.

[14:33] Yes, that's true.

S4

[14:34] That's what I was going to say.

[14:35] That was my, like, lunch table discussion in fifth – or actually, sorry, summer discussion in fifth grade that has still never been resolved.

[14:40] What are your thoughts?

[14:41] Does he survive the end of Gremlins 2?

Elliott Kalan

[14:43] I feel like he does.

[14:45] Hmm.

[14:46] Because we don't see him after he zaps all the other gremlins, right?

Dan McCoy

[14:49] Yeah.

[14:50] That's true.

[14:51] But, yeah, I guess you're right.

Stuart Wellington

[14:54] Do you think by spreading out that much maybe he has a larger experience pool and he becomes like a Dr. Manhattan type figure?

Elliott Kalan

[15:02] Yeah, yeah.

[15:02] He's now running loose through time.

S4

[15:05] Oh.

[15:05] That's where there's that meme of him on the moon.

Dan McCoy

[15:07] Yeah, I just sort of assumed that being, you know, split everywhere at once kind of dispersed whatever, you know, biomagic was keeping him together.

[15:17] That's true, yeah.

[15:19] It's all science.

Elliott Kalan

[15:20] He's injected with a chemical that makes him electric.

[15:23] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[15:23] This is the Splice of Life genetics lab, which is in this giant mall slash office building slash television studio.

[15:31] And he –

Stuart Wellington

[15:32] If it wasn't for government restrictions, any of us could go to our local grocery store and get a thing of that and inject ourselves and become living electric people.

[15:41] Oh, man.

[15:42] What a better world that would be.

[15:43] No, but Fauci doesn't want us to be electric people.

[15:45] Basically for a bio shock.

[15:47] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[15:49] So that's number nine.

[15:51] Super sexy.

[15:52] But you know what?

[15:53] Safety first.

[15:53] That's what I say.

[15:54] Safety first.

[15:55] Sure, yeah.

[15:56] Number eight.

[15:56] This gremlin's got a lot of mystery behind him.

[15:59] That's because we never see him on screen.

[16:02] He's the shadow puppet gremlin in Gremlins 2 who wrecks the film and then does – it's the third shadow puppet gremlin, the one who does Abraham Lincoln shadow with his hands.

[16:11] Not just because I'm an Abraham Lincoln fan, but if he can do that with his hands, what else is he able to do with his hands?

Stuart Wellington

[16:16] Like a very Zolman King type gremlin.

Elliott Kalan

[16:20] Exactly.

[16:21] Yeah.

[16:21] A lot of fluttering sheer curtains and things like that.

[16:26] Soft lighting.

[16:27] Here's the thing, though.

[16:27] You don't actually see his face, so you don't know how attractive he is.

[16:31] And call me shallow, but looks madder to me when it comes to gremlins.

[16:35] Yeah, that's fair.

[16:36] How do you guys feel about it?

[16:37] Can you overlook that because you know that shadow puppet gremlin is able to do amazing things with those claws of his?

S4

[16:44] I think he's a good one-night stand gremlin because I think it's going to be – this is a nice novelty.

[16:48] Oh, you're really into like not touching.

[16:51] You want to just give me a mind orgasm with your imagery and stuff like that.

[16:55] Sure, yeah.

[16:56] Second or third time, though, no.

[16:58] It's not going to cut it.

Dan McCoy

[16:59] You can only be edged so much.

[17:00] That makes sense by a gremlin.

[17:02] You're presuming that on this date with said gremlin, he would – or she would – I mean, I guess there's only the one female gremlin.

[17:09] I mean, it's so hard to say.

[17:12] Like, are all gremlins sexless until that – well, we'll get there.

[17:18] I think so because they –

[17:19] We actually cover that in our show.

[17:20] Don't be so sure.

[17:21] Yes, be sure.

[17:21] Not a joke.

Elliott Kalan

[17:21] They reproduce through budding, through moisture-induced budding.

[17:25] So, yeah, they are – they don't – they reproduce through sexuality.

[17:28] They have no genitalia as far as we know.

[17:30] And they're naked.

[17:31] So, yes, they have no genitalia.

[17:32] But on the other hand, they flash Phoebe Cates, I think, multiple times.

[17:36] Right.

[17:37] So, what are they showing?

[17:38] It's hard to know.

[17:39] Well, I just wanted to add.

Dan McCoy

[17:40] I mean, you presume that on this date, this gremlin is going to stay behind a scrim the entire time.

Stuart Wellington

[17:49] An Angus scrim, yeah.

[17:51] Yeah, like a mixologist in a Salt Lake City bar before they changed the law.

[17:58] Because back in the day, if you wanted to get a cocktail because of Mormon laws, you had to like – they had to like mix your drink or pour your drink behind a screen.

[18:06] And then they'd serve it to you.

[18:08] Wow.

[18:08] That gremlin would be great at that.

Elliott Kalan

[18:09] He would be.

[18:10] He would be.

[18:10] That's great.

[18:11] Now, here's the thing.

[18:12] The Shadow Puff Gremlin, I like to imagine that he looks like the 3D glasses movie gremlin from the first movie because that gremlin is a snack.

[18:20] Let me just tell you.

[18:21] Now, that's a good one.

[18:22] Yeah.

[18:23] And speaking of snacks, what a great segue.

[18:25] Let's go to number seven, Vegetable Gremlin.

[18:27] Oh, yeah.

[18:27] Number seven sexiest gremlin.

[18:29] He's a salad.

[18:31] Obvious reasons.

[18:32] Healthy and organic.

[18:33] Also a literal snack.

[18:34] You can't go wrong with Vegetable Gremlin.

[18:37] Guys, give me your thoughts on VeggieGrem.

Stuart Wellington

[18:39] So, is the premise when you inject yourself with that serum, vegetables grow out of your body.

[18:45] It doesn't necessarily turn you into one big vegetable.

Elliott Kalan

[18:49] No, I think it turns you into a cornucopia of vegetables.

[18:51] His ears become lettuce leaves, right?

S4

[18:54] Oh, yeah.

[18:55] Yeah.

[18:55] And I think he keeps reproducing.

[18:57] If he does get harvested, it seems that he keeps growing more.

[19:00] Yeah.

[19:01] When, like, that bartender gremlin picks off his head.

[19:04] He's both a grower and a shower.

Elliott Kalan

[19:06] He shows off his vegetables and he grows more.

[19:08] Yeah.

[19:09] Yeah.

[19:09] Very rare.

Dan McCoy

[19:10] I mean, I don't want to get too much into the mechanics of this, but, yeah.

[19:14] I mean, he is growing a number of sort of phallic objects on his face.

[19:21] The carrots and whatnot.

[19:22] Why would that be?

[19:23] Oh.

[19:24] I'm just saying they could be put to use.

[19:27] And I'll just leave it there.

[19:29] He's more practical.

Elliott Kalan

[19:30] Okay, Dan.

[19:30] Let's not get our minds out of the gutter for a moment.

[19:33] Leave it there.

Elliott Kalan

[19:33] I'll leave it there.

[19:33] Let's not be too vulgar.

[19:35] We are talking about the top ten sexiest gremlins, but still.

[19:37] Yeah.

[19:38] But you totally could use one of those things.

[19:39] I'm sorry.

S4

[19:39] I thought this was an After Dark program.

[19:42] It's not the top ten gremlins who fuck.

[19:44] It's the top ten sexiest.

[19:45] It's more about the tease.

[19:46] Yeah.

[19:47] Yeah.

[19:47] Exactly.

Elliott Kalan

[19:48] It shows you what a big impression Gremlins 2 made on me.

[19:51] That the vegetable gremlin is so clear in my mind.

[19:53] There's a YouTube video with all the vegetable gremlin scenes and it's less than a minute

[19:56] and a half long.

Stuart Wellington

[19:58] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[19:59] Is it like a fan cam?

Elliott Kalan

[20:02] Yeah.

[20:03] Something like that.

[20:04] And this one, this description says,

[20:06] all the scenes with the vegetable gremlin in the movie Gremlins 2,

[20:08] including deleted scenes.

[20:09] And it's less than a minute and a half long.

[20:11] So a real Boba Fett of the movie.

[20:13] Not a lot of screen time, but a big presence.

[20:16] Number six, we're going to go to a break pretty soon,

[20:18] but number six coming up is the next one before that break.

[20:23] Come on, guys.

[20:24] You know what number six has to be.

[20:25] Can you guess it?

[20:26] Can you guess what number six is going to be?

[20:27] The sixth sexiest gremlin?

Stuart Wellington

[20:29] Is it Lenny?

[20:33] No.

Elliott Kalan

[20:35] Stripe?

[20:36] Here's a hint.

[20:37] Stripe?

[20:38] Here's a hint.

[20:39] It's a gremlin you can have sex with in daylight.

[20:42] Oh.

[20:43] Well, there's only one gremlin?

S4

[20:45] Obviously.

Elliott Kalan

[20:46] Yep.

[20:47] It's the bat gremlin.

[20:49] The bat gremlin.

[20:50] He can go out during the day.

[20:51] Can't underestimate that.

[20:52] This is finally a gremlin you can take to Sunday brunch with your gal pals.

[20:56] And you're giggling the whole time because they don't know that you just had sex right before the brunch.

[20:59] Uh-huh.

[21:00] Yep.

[21:00] Now, yes, it may be a little bit difficult that he is now a giant concrete-covered gargoyle on St. Patrick's Cathedral thanks to the work of one Murray Futterman, the enemy of all gremlins.

[21:11] But it's, you know what?

[21:12] Just chipping him out of there and, you know, go wild.

[21:15] He's the bat gremlin.

[21:16] Yeah, do you think he's still okay inside that shell?

[21:20] I have to assume so.

[21:21] I have to assume he's doing fine since gremlins, they seem to like to eat but I don't think they need to eat.

[21:26] I don't know if they need air.

[21:28] And I think here's my fantasy about him is he just takes those wings and just wraps them around me and nobody can see what's going on.

[21:34] Just like Rodan's memorial statue to Balzac, which has that cape just covering it all up.

[21:41] So, bat gremlin.

[21:42] Bat gremlin, guys.

[21:42] Do you have any other thoughts about that?

S4

[21:46] Dan and Balzac.

[21:47] I love it.

[21:48] Yeah, no, I mean once you got to Rodan, you covered it all.

[21:51] Do you want to throw out, by the way, both do gremlins need to eat or stuff like that covered in the series?

[21:57] Also, do gremlins gender themselves covered in the series?

[22:00] These are actual questions people have.

Elliott Kalan

[22:04] You are really revealing all the secrets of the Mogwai and their associated gremlin colleagues.

[22:09] That's amazing.

[22:10] I want to make it clear when I said Rodan.

[22:12] Counterparts.

[22:13] Yeah, they're coworkers.

[22:14] When I said Rodan, I meant the sculptor and not the giant monster who does have wings just like bat gremlin and is also super sexy.

Stuart Wellington

[22:23] Did the monster have a memorial or a tribute to Balzac?

Elliott Kalan

[22:28] I don't know that the monster was able to carve that bronze memorial to Balzac as Auguste Rodan did.

[22:35] So, guys, that's the top five sexiest gremlins.

[22:40] Again, reminding you before we go to the break, number 10, Daffy Gremlin.

[22:43] Number 9, Electric Gremlin.

[22:45] Number 8, Shadow Puppet Gremlin.

[22:46] Number 7, Vegetable Gremlin.

[22:48] Number 6, Bat Gremlin.

[22:49] Before we go to the break, guys, any surprises?

[22:52] Any things that you didn't expect to see on the list of top 10 sexiest gremlins?

Stuart Wellington

[22:56] I mean, Shadow Puppet Gremlin was a surprise, but not an unwelcome one.

S4

[23:00] Okay.

[23:01] And, Brendan, what about you?

[23:02] I did not see Shadow Gremlin coming at all.

[23:04] That was a huge surprise.

[23:06] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[23:06] Although, they have a talent, which is attractive.

Dan McCoy

[23:11] Oh, yeah.

[23:11] Very much so.

[23:12] That makes sense.

[23:12] Yeah.

[23:13] Yeah, yeah.

[23:13] They can perform.

Elliott Kalan

[23:14] And he was a dark horse candidate, but again, it is dark.

[23:17] Where he is, it's just a shadow, you know?

[23:18] It's true.

S4

[23:19] And gremlins like the dark.

[23:21] Yeah.

[23:21] Now, here's the thing.

Stuart Wellington

[23:23] And he also got the attention of one Hulk Hogan, and, you know, that's not nothing.

S4

[23:28] Yeah.

[23:29] If you can pitch woo at both Paul Bartell and Hulk Hogan at once, you're fine.

Elliott Kalan

[23:34] What a threesome.

[23:35] Paul Bartell, Hulk Hogan, the Shadow Gremlin.

[23:38] Because Hulk literally starts ripping his clothes off as soon as he sees the Shadow Gremlin.

[23:42] He just can't control himself.

[23:45] A man known for being able to control.

[23:48] Yeah, a man known for self-control.

[23:52] Otherwise, not a man who gets in trouble nearly constantly for his actions.

[23:57] Although, now, mentioning Paul Bartell, I'm imagining eating Raoul, but it's all gremlins

[24:01] that they're seducing and killing and eating.

[24:04] Anyway, guys, let's take a break.

[24:07] We'll get back to our top five sexiest gremlins after this.

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S5

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[29:03] Okay, guys.

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[29:05] Now it's back to top 10 sexiest gremlins brought to you by the Flophouse with special guest, Brendan Hay.

[29:12] We actually, there's a bit of a controversy over on the Flop Gremlin chatter.

[29:17] The judges are actually readjusting some of the rankings.

[29:21] Vegetable Gremlin in a shocking turn of events has fallen below Shadow Puppet Gremlin because one of the judges realized that picking the food off him is a little bit like eating sushi off a naked person, which is weird and gross.

[29:34] And it just seems like it's going to make your sushi warm, and it's going to make your naked person sticky.

[29:40] So that made Vegetable Gremlin drop down a little bit.

[29:43] Features, not bugs, but continue.

[29:45] I was going to say, I don't want to kink shame there, but all right.

[29:48] Now in the movie, I never saw the movie Hero Dreams of Sushi.

[29:50] Was he dreaming, was it a sex dream where he was dreaming about eating sushi off a naked person?

Stuart Wellington

[29:54] Uh-huh, yeah.

[29:55] He was dreaming the time he watched Rising Sun while his parents were asleep in the other room.

Elliott Kalan

[30:00] And he said, someday I'm going to get into that world.

[30:04] Someday I'll be involved with sushi too.

[30:07] Okay, guys, we're back to the top five.

[30:10] This is the five sexiest gremlins, or these are the five sexiest gremlins.

[30:14] Number five, this is going to be a controversial one.

[30:17] This is going to be a big debate.

[30:19] Buckle up, everybody, because I think there's going to be a little bit of argument here.

[30:22] Number five, Greta, the lady gremlin.

[30:25] Number five.

[30:26] Number five, fifth sexiest gremlin.

[30:29] Dan, I can see the anger in your eyes.

[30:31] Bring it to me.

[30:31] Tell me why I'm wrong.

[30:32] I'm not.

[30:33] I'm not.

Elliott Kalan

[30:33] I'm wrong.

[30:34] Hold on.

[30:35] Share your logic.

Dan McCoy

[30:36] Share your work.

[30:37] Audrey got me for my birthday.

[30:40] I want to bring it over here.

[30:42] Oh, wow.

Elliott Kalan

[30:43] As a visual aid.

[30:44] It's for the audience at home.

[30:46] It's an action figure of Greta.

[30:48] Greta.

[30:49] Greta.

[30:49] I thought you were going to tell me that she dressed up as Greta for your birthday.

[30:52] I was going to say, I don't want to know that.

[30:54] How can you argue with this?

[30:55] I kind of want to know about this.

[30:58] Here's the thing.

[30:59] Dan, yes, she's beautiful.

[31:00] Yes, she's beautiful.

[31:01] She's gorgeous.

[31:02] She's got glamour, style.

[31:04] She wears a lot of makeup.

[31:06] And she knows that.

[31:06] Oh, there she is.

[31:07] And she knows that.

[31:08] Brendan has this red also.

[31:09] She knows what she wants.

Stuart Wellington

[31:10] And she goes to get it.

Elliott Kalan

[31:12] She does.

[31:12] That's the thing.

[31:13] She's a little self-involved.

[31:15] And she's a little pushy.

[31:16] Wow.

[31:17] She really goes after Robert Picardo hard.

[31:20] And at first.

[31:21] Understand.

[31:23] Because Robert Picardo, yes, also a snack.

[31:28] I'm going to put her at five because she is just.

[31:30] She only wants what she wants.

[31:31] She's not interested in what you want.

[31:33] She's all about taking and not about giving.

[31:35] So that's why she's at number five.

[31:37] Unless.

[31:38] Unless.

[31:38] Yes, Brendan, what were you going to say?

S4

[31:40] I mean, she's giving to Robert Picardo.

Elliott Kalan

[31:43] But that's, she's giving in a way that, well, I guess you're right about that.

[31:48] If you're Robert Picardo, Greta goes to number one.

[31:51] Or if you are Robert Picardo's son.

[31:53] In which case, Greta goes from lady gremlin to stepmom gremlin.

[31:56] Instantly rockets to number one sexiest gremlin.

[31:59] So that's the case.

[32:00] If you are Robert Picardo's son, Greta is your number one sexiest gremlin.

[32:04] Absolutely.

[32:04] Yeah, very taboo.

[32:06] Even more taboo than having sex with a miniature reptile.

[32:11] That has been the result of a chemical experiment gone right.

Stuart Wellington

[32:15] You know there's like a limited edition Greta gremlin fleshlight out there, right?

Elliott Kalan

[32:21] I mean, it's just a regular fleshlight, but it's green.

Dan McCoy

[32:24] I don't want to think about it too much.

Elliott Kalan

[32:26] Now, Dan, you had a lot of questions about gremlin genitalia earlier in the show.

[32:29] And now when we're getting into the nitty gritty of it, suddenly you don't want to hear about it.

Dan McCoy

[32:33] The nitty gritty of it.

[32:35] There's a difference between the level of interest I have for comedy and then having like sort of visions, you know, appear in my brain of something that may exist out in the world.

Stuart Wellington

[32:45] Yeah, something that definitely exists out in the world.

[32:47] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[32:49] All right.

[32:49] Now that's – so that's number five on my book is Greta.

[32:53] But again, your results may vary.

[32:55] She's a very popular gremlin.

[32:56] But I think it's going to – it's hard to argue with number four.

[32:59] Number four, sexiest gremlin.

[33:01] We got to go back to the original Gremlins movie, the unnamed gremlin at the bar who is dressed like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance and is dancing their heart out to the song Mega Madness or Mutant Madness, whatever the song is.

[33:15] A song that is apparently written by the same person who wrote the song Maniac from Flashdance.

[33:19] And so there's a lot going on there.

[33:22] Guys, this gremlin, maybe it's just the way that it's shot, super Flashdance video style, but this gremlin is super sexy.

[33:28] What do you think?

Stuart Wellington

[33:28] I only saw Flashdance like kind of recently, and I love the idea of this like blue-collar steel town that can support like multiple dancing lady establishments.

Dan McCoy

[33:40] Especially one that appears to mostly have like sort of avant-garde dance where no one takes their clothes off.

[33:46] Yeah, that's the highbrow one, and then there's the lowbrow one across the street.

Elliott Kalan

[33:49] Yeah, it's about human expression.

[33:50] Now, I want to say, again, this is Flashdance and not Splashdance, the 1983 Disney novelty album where the Disney characters sang 1980s-themed songs.

Stuart Wellington

[34:01] Oh, that makes sense.

[34:02] And that's great for kids because they're familiar with Flashdance.

[34:06] Yes, exactly.

[34:07] A movie that doesn't really have like any like conflict.

[34:11] She's just like, I want to dance.

[34:13] And she starts dating a guy, and he's like, I want you to dance.

[34:16] And she's like, okay, I'll dance.

[34:17] And that's it.

Elliott Kalan

[34:18] Stuart, you of all people should know the conflict is capitalism.

[34:21] That's the conflict in the movie.

[34:23] Yeah, you're right.

[34:23] You're right.

[34:24] It's a person versus world movie.

[34:26] That world is capitalism.

[34:27] Brendan, what's your take on that?

S4

[34:28] I was just going to say it's also the 1980s Jerry Bruckheimer conflict of all films of the lead character of I'm awesome halfway through.

[34:35] Am I awesome?

[34:36] Ending.

[34:36] I'm awesome.

[34:37] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[34:37] Yeah.

[34:38] That's called the hero, the awesome hero's journey.

Dan McCoy

[34:40] Or also the conflict of the recent Maverick, Top Gun Maverick.

[34:45] Yeah.

[34:46] A movie that just confirms the awesomeness of Maverick.

Elliott Kalan

[34:51] Doesn't get many.

[34:52] Yes.

Stuart Wellington

[34:52] It's like, wow, that's a cool name.

[34:54] Does he deserve it?

[34:55] Yes, he does.

Elliott Kalan

[34:57] Has Maverick slowed down a little bit and lost his zazz?

[35:00] No, still got it.

[35:01] If anything, too much.

[35:02] Still more.

[35:03] Now that he's not being held back by Goose.

[35:06] The world needs more.

[35:07] So, I said it.

S4

[35:09] I think you're right.

[35:10] I think it's also, you know what's attractive about her?

[35:12] She has a dream.

[35:13] Yes.

[35:14] To be in the passion.

Elliott Kalan

[35:14] Yes.

[35:15] This is a gremlin with ambitions, a gremlin with passion, like you're saying, a gremlin who wants more than just to be another gremlin working in a steel town on a Saturday night.

[35:23] Yes.

[35:24] Yeah.

[35:25] And so, that's number four, unnamed gremlin dressed like Flashdance at the bar.

[35:30] That bar scene, even as a kid, I got to say, this is just, if you want to go straight to my heart from childhood to now,

[35:37] show me a scene where monsters or aliens are hanging out at a bar or restaurant.

[35:40] I love it.

[35:41] Yep.

[35:41] Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, Gremlins, I can watch that forever.

[35:45] It's all I want to see.

Stuart Wellington

[35:46] And we recently talked about how there's a bar scene in the most recent Ant-Man movie and how we're like, no, this should be fun.

[35:55] Yes.

[35:55] Like, I love this shit and this is not what I love.

Elliott Kalan

[35:59] Ironically, that bar scene does not clear the bar of science fiction bar scenes.

[36:04] Thank you.

[36:04] I'm getting applause visually from Stuart and Brendan.

[36:06] Dan, not approving.

[36:07] They can hear it.

[36:10] Don't edit that out, Alex.

[36:12] Don't.

[36:12] Keep it in.

[36:13] Keep it in.

[36:13] Keep all my mistakes in.

[36:15] Throw in some audience clapping.

[36:17] But it has to show, in movies, there's a high standard set for creatures hanging out at bars.

[36:23] Next movie that does it, you're going to have to work really hard.

[36:27] Speaking of working hard, here's number three, the number three sexiest gremlin.

[36:31] And he didn't get there just by his looks, although he's got them.

[36:34] He didn't get there just by charisma, though he's got it.

[36:36] He got there by outworking every other damn gremlin and mogwai there is except for two.

[36:42] It's number three.

[36:43] Stripe, the main bad guy from the original Gremlins.

[36:46] He's got that white mohawk.

[36:48] He's got some snow on the roof, but that doesn't mean there isn't a party downstairs.

[36:53] Guys, what do you feel about Stripe, the ultimate bad boy?

[36:56] He even carries a gun, a little miniature gun made for a gremlin.

[36:59] Where did he get that thing?

[37:00] I don't know.

Dan McCoy

[37:01] Ironically, mohawk, the guy in the next movie, he doesn't have a mohawk.

[37:07] He has spikes, right?

[37:09] Correct.

[37:09] Yes.

[37:10] Yes.

Elliott Kalan

[37:12] He does when he's a mogwai.

[37:13] When he's a mogwai, he has a mohawk.

[37:15] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[37:16] I don't know what point I'm making with that.

[37:17] I just find it interesting.

Elliott Kalan

[37:18] No, you're just kind of, why is it we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway and yet

[37:23] mohawk has spikes, but Stripe has a mohawk.

[37:26] This is part of my grandma's themed stand-up.

Dan McCoy

[37:30] Wait, did Elliot just make that up, the parkway thing?

Elliott Kalan

[37:33] Yeah, it just came to me.

[37:34] It just came to you right off the dome.

[37:35] Yeah.

[37:35] Just like Stripe's mohawk stripe right off the dome.

[37:38] Now, Stripe, even when I was a kid, I wasn't attracted to him necessarily because I wasn't

[37:42] sexually aware yet.

Stuart Wellington

[37:43] Because we don't drive on a driveway.

Elliott Kalan

[37:46] No, we should, right?

[37:47] But I knew there was something special about him.

[37:49] That's what it's called.

[37:50] I had a bendy toy of Stripe.

[37:52] It was great.

[37:53] I believe I mentioned it in our mini about movie-related action figures.

Stuart Wellington

[37:57] And you're not allowed to park on a parkway.

[37:59] You have to keep going.

[38:00] There's no parking on it.

[38:03] That's crazy.

[38:09] And you just came up with it.

Elliott Kalan

[38:13] I'm just in the zone.

[38:14] In the zone.

[38:15] So guys, your feelings about Stripe, I know Stuart is kind of dealing with something right

[38:18] now.

[38:19] He's still in a trance, in a daze.

Dan McCoy

[38:22] That's an existential crisis.

[38:26] How do we fix this?

Elliott Kalan

[38:29] Now, a lot of people think that Stripe's name is Spike.

[38:34] It is not.

[38:35] It is Stripe.

S4

[38:37] Stripe, yeah.

[38:38] Classic 80s hair also.

[38:39] I feel like he also touched on the nostalgia that we all have for that era.

[38:43] Absolutely adorable.

[38:44] Also, look, not every gremlin looks good when melted.

[38:48] Stripe, still pretty badass when melted.

Elliott Kalan

[38:51] When it's just a skeleton with the skin dripping off and he's hanging on that fountain, he looks

[38:56] great.

[38:56] He looks really great.

Dan McCoy

[38:58] Well, also, if you're attracted to power, Stripe's your one.

S4

[39:02] It's true.

[39:02] And punk rock.

[39:03] That's why Stripe has that quote about the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Elliott Kalan

[39:06] He has all the things that would have made him a sex symbol in ancient Rome.

[39:09] Power, a noble death, and punk rock.

[39:12] Everything that they loved.

Stuart Wellington

[39:13] And like a bootstrapper mentality.

[39:15] He came from nothing.

Elliott Kalan

[39:17] And now he's here.

[39:18] He was like, once I was just a ball of fur flying off a mogwai's back.

[39:22] And now look at me.

[39:23] King of the Grims.

[39:24] I got my own little gun.

[39:26] You defeat everybody in a movie theater explosion.

[39:29] I'll just start over again.

[39:30] I've been at the bottom so many times.

[39:32] I don't even know what the top is.

[39:33] And yet, I'm going there.

[39:35] I may be lying on my back, but I'm looking at the stars.

[39:37] That's me.

[39:38] Stripe.

Stuart Wellington

[39:40] Stripe fell into a slogan factory.

[39:40] That's his like, fuck boy island intro.

Elliott Kalan

[39:44] Am I imagining Stripe with a headset mic and he's walking around a stage and he's like,

[39:48] I used to be like you.

[39:50] I used to be like you.

[39:51] Just a ball of fur.

[39:52] And then I was in like a gross, snot, booger looking chrysalis.

[39:55] But when I came out, you know what I was?

[39:57] Self-actualized.

[39:59] My name is Stripe.

[40:00] Do you have a name?

[40:01] No, because you're just some gremlin.

[40:02] Give yourself one.

[40:03] Right now.

[40:04] What's your name?

[40:04] And he goes down to the audience with a handheld mic.

[40:06] He goes, you, what's your name?

[40:07] And the gremlin's like, uh, uh, you're uh, uh.

[40:12] That's your name.

[40:12] You got it.

[40:13] You got a name now.

[40:14] Not an insult.

[40:15] That's your name.

[40:16] First choice.

[40:17] Runs to another gremlin.

[40:17] What's your name?

[40:18] And that gremlin goes, Darren.

[40:20] And Spike goes, Stripe goes, great, great.

[40:22] Darren, Darren, wonderful.

[40:23] And another gremlin goes, I'll be Stripe too.

[40:25] And Stripe just shoots him in the head.

[40:27] No, can't do that.

[40:28] Only one stripe.

Stuart Wellington

[40:29] And he already paid for the seminar and he got his money.

Elliott Kalan

[40:34] He said, there's no refunds.

[40:35] That's why you have to sign the waiver when you go in and you hand your,

[40:37] cell phone to Stripe's, uh, hench, hench gremlins.

[40:40] They put it in a little bag.

[40:41] Oh, wow.

[40:41] Because Stripe doesn't want to get canceled.

[40:43] Yeah, exactly.

[40:45] Oh.

Dan McCoy

[40:46] I thought it was because once he shoots everyone, he's got like a resale business.

[40:50] Oh, yeah.

[40:50] That makes sense.

[40:51] That's a good scam.

Elliott Kalan

[40:52] Yeah, it is a great scam.

[40:54] Okay.

[40:54] Number two.

[40:55] We kind of mentioned him earlier.

[40:57] Oh, man.

Stuart Wellington

[40:57] I just got an idea for a globular scam.

[40:59] Okay, wait.

[41:00] No, tell us.

[41:00] Tell us what it is.

[41:01] Tell us what it is.

[41:02] No, I mean, it involves, uh, running seminars and stealing phones.

Elliott Kalan

[41:06] Okay, well, that's, that's pretty much it.

[41:08] All right.

[41:09] So, you know, the seminar.

[41:10] Oh, I'll put a little bit of English on it.

[41:12] It's fine.

[41:12] They go, the seminar will begin in 10 minutes and then you're just hurriedly running out

[41:16] of the back of the building with a sack full of cell phones.

[41:18] So, number two, this is the, yeah, Dan, do you have something to say?

Dan McCoy

[41:26] I'm just imagining him running out with the phone.

[41:29] It's like, call an Uber, call an Uber.

[41:30] It's like, why didn't you have a getaway car already?

[41:34] Shut up.

[41:34] I figured I'd have all these phones.

[41:36] One of them would have Uber on it.

Stuart Wellington

[41:37] One of them was like, okay, look through, see if any of them have Uber loaded on them.

[41:40] Yeah.

[41:41] Got to unlock one of them.

Elliott Kalan

[41:42] Yeah.

[41:42] Oh, I should have gotten their codes first.

[41:45] Or their fingerprints.

[41:46] Go back in, cut off everybody's fingers.

[41:47] We'll match them up with the right phones.

[41:49] We'll be able to get one that has Uber on it.

[41:52] So I can make a clean escape.

[41:54] This plan, this plan, I'm out, boss.

[41:56] This plan, it seemed okay to me when it was just you running away with a bag of phones,

[41:59] but I didn't know you were going to be cutting people's fingers off.

[42:02] I owe you.

[42:04] I paid your way through veterinary school.

[42:06] You're right, boss.

[42:07] Okay.

[42:07] I'll get those fingers.

[42:10] So, number two, this is the runner up.

[42:13] Not the sexiest scrambling, but.

[42:14] Yep.

[42:15] Pretty damn close.

[42:16] This is, yeah, this isn't shameful.

[42:18] No, no.

[42:19] We hinted at them earlier.

[42:20] This is the gremlin that some people may know them as mohawk, but that's not what I find

[42:24] them the sexiest.

[42:25] I find the sexiest when they fully turn into spider gremlin.

[42:28] Legs, legs, legs.

[42:30] Yep.

[42:30] Wrap me up in your web anytime.

[42:32] I look at Marla getting caught in that web and I'm like, lucky girl.

[42:35] Ooh, spider gremlin's coming around.

[42:38] How do you guys feel about it?

[42:39] Or do you prefer?

Stuart Wellington

[42:39] No, no lie.

[42:40] That is a hot scene.

Dan McCoy

[42:41] Yeah, I mean, like, the problem with this is now you've brought up Marla, the genuine

[42:46] sex appeal.

Stuart Wellington

[42:47] That's a hot scene.

[42:49] And then when Gizmo shows up with his little Rambo outfit on, like, the theater goes insane.

[42:55] Yeah, they love it.

[42:56] Like, people go crazy.

[42:57] Yeah.

[42:57] They don't know what to do.

[42:58] They rip up the seats.

Elliott Kalan

[42:59] Yeah, and then the scene gets literally hot because spider gremlin is lit on fire by

[43:04] a flaming whiteout arrow fired by Rambo Gizmo.

[43:08] What do you guys think?

[43:09] And should we take a moment to talk about Marla?

[43:11] I don't want to.

[43:11] I don't want to talk about sexy humans in this.

[43:13] We're talking about gremlins.

S4

[43:14] She's great, too.

[43:15] No, just gremlins.

[43:16] I was going to say, though, for Mohawk, also there was spider gremlin, he filled an entire

[43:19] floor with silk.

[43:20] Yes.

[43:21] That means he can go.

[43:23] Stamina.

[43:23] That's true, yeah.

[43:24] Stamina.

[43:24] He can go hours.

[43:25] He's been eating his pineapple.

[43:26] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[43:27] He's got the stick-to-it-ness he'll put the work in, just like Shadow Puppet Gremlin,

[43:33] but he's got the looks.

[43:34] That's the thing.

[43:34] He's got the looks.

[43:35] Now, Brendan, I believe, didn't you know someone once who bought the original spider gremlin

[43:40] puppet?

S4

[43:41] I do.

[43:42] It is, oh, Michael Carbonaro, as in of the Carbonaro Effect magician.

[43:49] So he actually owns the original spider gremlin puppet used in Gremlins 2.

[43:54] Oh, lucky.

[43:55] It was, I believe, somewhat of an impulse purchase.

[44:00] He saw it for a huge gremlin fan, like not on that side.

[44:04] I hope so.

Elliott Kalan

[44:05] He's not just a huge fan of spider-based puppets.

S4

[44:09] Yeah.

[44:09] Just always cruising the auctions.

[44:11] But no, it was impulse in the sense of he saw it up for auctions, saw it at a price point

[44:15] that was possible.

[44:16] So he's like, oh my God, yes, I will do this.

[44:18] Just go.

[44:20] He didn't check the size or convert it because it was a UK auction.

[44:24] So he's here in Burbank.

[44:27] He didn't check the size of it.

[44:29] So when he got like, okay, that was not that bad a cost.

[44:32] Then he got like a humongous bill for shipping.

[44:34] And it was the thing of like, wait, why does it cost so much?

[44:37] And it turns out this was the puppet that was like the actual correct scale for the rest

[44:42] of the scene.

[44:43] So it took up basically, it's like the size of a small car for his garage.

[44:46] Oh, yeah.

[44:48] So yeah, it now lives in a museum in Vegas because it was way too large for his home.

[44:53] And he had to then find somebody who would accept it and provide shelter to this amazing

Stuart Wellington

[44:58] It's really cool to call Planet Hollywood a museum in Vegas.

Dan McCoy

[45:02] It's a museum where you can enjoy a delicious meal.

[45:05] Yeah, it's one of those food museums.

Elliott Kalan

[45:06] Someone said, wait a minute, what if the snack bar was the museum?

[45:10] Yeah.

[45:11] I wish I could have something like that.

[45:13] It'd be so amazing.

[45:14] And keep, again, minds out of the gutter.

[45:17] It's not so I can sneak into the garage at night and have my way with the spider gremlin.

[45:20] Because again, he's the dom in this scenario.

[45:23] Yeah, you're right.

[45:24] Yeah.

[45:25] No, without a doubt.

[45:27] Otherwise, I'm like Bell Lugosi and Ed Wood just trying to wrap myself with octopus tanicles.

Stuart Wellington

[45:31] Yeah, and we all know Elliot has serious brat energy.

Elliott Kalan

[45:38] Okay, guys.

[45:39] Are you ready for the number one sexiest gremlin?

[45:42] Should I go down?

[45:44] I'm going to go down our list.

[45:45] And then I want you guys to take a guess on who you think it is.

[45:48] And forget that I may have texted you earlier who I would have chosen as it.

[45:52] Okay, okay.

[45:53] Number 10.

[45:54] Number 10 again, Daffy Gremlin.

[45:56] Number nine, Electric Gremlin.

[45:58] Number 10, Daffy Gremlin.

[45:59] Sense of humor.

[46:00] Has a steady job.

[46:01] Number nine, Electric Gremlin.

[46:03] Glamorous, but a little bit dangerous.

[46:06] Number eight, Vegetable Gremlin.

[46:09] Because warm vegetables is – there's no way his body is keeping them cool.

[46:13] They're not crispy.

[46:13] They're mushy.

[46:15] Now, although they're fresh, it doesn't get any fresher than straight off the gremlin.

[46:18] So who knows?

[46:19] Number seven now, Shadow Puppet Gremlin.

[46:21] They're locally sourced.

[46:22] Yeah.

[46:23] It's like gremlin to table.

[46:24] It's a face to table, these vegetables.

[46:26] Yeah.

[46:27] Number seven, Vegetable Gremlin.

[46:29] No, number seven is now Shadow Puppet Gremlin.

[46:31] Good with his hands, but we don't know how he looks.

[46:33] Maybe he looks like the 3D glasses movie theater gremlin, in which case, hubba hubba.

[46:37] Number six, Bat Gremlin.

[46:38] Wrap Me Up.

[46:39] Number five, Greta Gremlin, unless you are Robert Picardo's son.

[46:43] Four, Unnamed Flashdance Gremlin.

[46:46] She's got a dream.

[46:47] She's going for it.

[46:48] Numbers, make me a part of that dream.

[46:50] Number three, Stripe, Ultimate Bad Boy.

[46:52] Number two, Spider Gremlin.

[46:54] Wrap Me Up, too.

[46:55] But in this case, instead of wings, it's web and legs.

[46:58] Yeah.

[46:59] So number one, who's your guess?

[47:00] Who's going to be the number one sexiest gremlin?

Stuart Wellington

[47:03] Entirely on Elliot's personality and his background, I 100% think you're going to pick the George

[47:09] gremlin because he is a lot like John Taffer from Bar Rescue, who has that New Jersey mafioso

[47:17] vibe that I know Elliot resonates with.

Elliott Kalan

[47:19] That's a good guess.

[47:20] It is what feels like home to me.

[47:22] Yep.

[47:23] Dan, do you have a guess?

Dan McCoy

[47:25] I would say I'm...

[47:27] It might be a little...

Elliott Kalan

[47:28] Actually, it looks like Brendan's got his guess.

[47:30] Dan, you find it a little bit hard to think because you have these sexy gremlins floating

[47:34] in your head.

[47:34] Yeah, yeah.

[47:34] You can't even choose one?

Dan McCoy

[47:35] I think there may be a little narcissism in this pick.

[47:39] I think that Elliot would like to believe that the sexiest part of anyone is the brain.

Elliott Kalan

[47:49] So Brendan, who do you think it is?

[47:50] I see you're holding up your figurine of it.

S4

[47:52] Yeah, I'm holding him for a reason and I only wish I could do a better Tony Randall impression.

[47:56] It's the brain gremlin.

Stuart Wellington

[47:58] Number one...

[47:58] I love how he's got his little jacket over his shoulder.

[48:01] That's great.

Elliott Kalan

[48:02] Sexiest gremlin, the brain gremlin, because you know what?

[48:06] Nerdy is the new sexy.

[48:07] What's the biggest erogenous zone?

[48:09] The brain.

[48:10] That's what brain gremlins got.

[48:11] He opens his mouth and what do you hear?

[48:13] Fucking Tony Randall.

[48:15] Tony Randall.

[48:15] And he can sing.

[48:17] He's got it all.

[48:18] He's got it all.

[48:19] Yeah.

[48:19] And you know what?

[48:20] He takes those glasses off.

[48:21] He's a knockout.

[48:22] He puts the glasses on.

[48:24] Still sexy.

[48:25] Brain gremlin.

[48:26] Yeah.

[48:26] Sexiest gremlin there is.

[48:28] You know why?

[48:29] Because he's got brains.

[48:31] Prove me wrong.

[48:31] And he's cultured.

[48:32] He's sophisticated.

[48:33] He is very suave.

[48:34] He knows who Susan Sontag is.

[48:35] Yeah.

[48:35] He's very suave.

[48:37] But he's not afraid to shoot another gremlin in the face when he's being annoying.

[48:39] When that other gremlin's just bothering the shit out of him, he does something.

[48:43] He'd be great on a date.

[48:43] He'll take care of you.

[48:44] Yeah.

[48:45] Exactly.

[48:45] So he's not like when he's-

[48:46] Just shooting.

[48:48] Everyone interrupting the date.

[48:50] Here's the situation.

[48:51] You're sitting with him.

[48:52] He can talk about cultured, sophisticated things.

[48:54] Uh-oh.

[48:55] Some guys stop bothering you in the pizza place that he took you to because he's humble.

[48:58] It's a good pizza place.

[48:59] He went to that place that's the best pizza in the world.

[49:01] That's in Phoenix, Arizona.

[49:02] There's an outpost in LA now.

[49:03] It's really good.

[49:03] I went to it.

[49:04] Anyway.

[49:04] So he's taking you there.

[49:06] You're really enjoying it.

[49:07] And some guys-

[49:08] Phoenix, Arizona?

[49:09] Yes.

[49:10] Some guys start to hassle you.

[49:11] You know what he does?

[49:12] He doesn't go, uh, uh, yeah, well, maybe I will go to a different

[49:14] table.

[49:15] No.

[49:16] Just pulls a stripe.

[49:17] He learns his lesson from stripe.

[49:19] Shoots him in the face.

[49:20] And now, right back to the date.

[49:22] I assume the owner of the restaurant comes over.

[49:23] I'm so sorry, Brain Gremlin, that your dinner got interrupted.

[49:27] I would have taken care of it.

[49:28] No, it's fine.

[49:29] Fine, my good man.

[49:30] Fine.

[49:30] Not a problem at all.

[49:31] Just, uh, if you could remove the leftovers, if you will.

[49:34] I don't- I won't be needing a doggy bag for that.

[49:37] And he goes, oh, you're so- you're so funny, Brain Gremlin.

[49:39] You're so funny.

[49:40] And he turns to you.

[49:41] And he says, you gotta nail this one down.

[49:43] This is a catch.

[49:44] He a catch.

[49:44] It's a Brain Gremlin.

[49:45] And Brain Gremlin's like, Giuseppe, thank you, thank you.

[49:47] I believe I can handle my own seduction.

[49:50] And everyone is laughing.

[49:51] How did Giuseppe end up in Arizona?

[49:53] Very cultural-like.

[49:55] There are Italian people in Arizona.

[50:00] Why?

[50:03] Arizona.

[50:04] So, Dan, you thought maybe this is me.

[50:06] Maybe it's a little bit of a fantasy since I am- if I'm any gremlin, I'm either-

[50:12] If you're any gremlin, you're the brain.

[50:13] I'm probably daffy at this point, to be honest.

[50:14] But I could be the brain gremlin.

[50:15] So, Dan, who would it be?

[50:17] Who's your number one?

Dan McCoy

[50:18] Oh, boy.

[50:21] I said that insult, but you may be right.

[50:23] You may be right.

[50:24] You know?

[50:25] Because the brain gremlin is the only one I feel like you could take home to mom.

Elliott Kalan

[50:30] Exactly.

[50:30] And then some- and that's- you know what's sexy?

[50:33] Stability.

[50:34] Communication.

[50:36] Longevity.

[50:36] Yeah.

[50:36] These other gremlins, they're good for one night.

[50:39] Maybe a little more.

[50:39] Brain gremlin, he's going to be with you for the rest of your life.

[50:42] You know what, Dan?

[50:42] You may be right.

[50:43] I may be crazy.

[50:44] But it just may be a brain gremlin you're looking for.

[50:48] That, of course, from Brainy Joel.

[50:50] The brain version of Billy Joel.

[50:53] Oh.

Dan McCoy

[50:54] Brain gremlin has a Billy Joel cover.

[50:56] I give that-

[50:57] Yeah.

[50:57] I give that name a-

[50:59] Huh.

Elliott Kalan

[51:00] That's okay.

[51:01] Well, when I do top 10 sexiest Billy Joel parody characters, I'll remember your feeling about Brainy Joel.

[51:07] Yeah.

[51:08] Are there any gremlins that I left off the list that you feel have been overlooked and need to be talked about for their sexiness?

[51:14] And remember, we're only judging them on sexiness, not scariness, although scariness can sometimes be sexy, and not other things, too.

[51:20] Just how it- what erotic gremlins have I left off the list as we talk about Brendan's children's animated show, Gremlins Seasons of the Bogway?

S4

[51:28] I don't know if we're going to call him sexy, but I am surprised Flasher came nowhere near this.

[51:34] Yeah.

[51:35] If we were recording this 30 years ago, would we have included Flasher?

[51:39] But now, in modern times, it just feels inappropriate.

Elliott Kalan

[51:42] It's possible.

[51:43] It's very possible that when the original Gremlins came out in 1984, or when the second Gremlins came out, what was that, 1989?

[51:49] 1990.

[51:49] 1990?

[51:50] 1990.

[51:51] That Flasher Gremlin may have been on the list because, you know what, there's something exciting about it.

[51:56] There's something daring about it.

[51:57] And obviously, he's getting his kink, but the sexiest thing is consent.

[52:01] And Flasher Gremlin, he's not doing that.

[52:04] He's the most villainous of the Gremlins.

Dan McCoy

[52:06] What about that beatnik Gremlin from the first movie?

[52:10] Okay, sure.

[52:11] Tell me more.

[52:12] Power choice.

[52:12] Paint more of a-

[52:12] He probably has a heroin problem.

[52:15] You know.

[52:15] Yeah.

[52:16] Yeah.

[52:16] He's hung out in some French cafes.

[52:19] Well, the problem is he's going to make you listen to his poetry, which I don't know.

[52:22] I don't know if that's so great.

[52:23] That may be disqualifying.

Elliott Kalan

[52:25] There are some Gremlins.

[52:26] We don't know whether Microwave Gremlin would have become a sexy Gremlin or not since he didn't have much of a chance.

[52:32] He was exploded in a microwave.

[52:34] There's the Christmas caroling Gremlins.

[52:36] There's something kind of sexy about how they're putting kind of like a naughty twist on a nice thing.

[52:41] You know, they're a kind of Christmas-

[52:42] The same way that often bikini babes on posters in dorm rooms will be wearing Santa hats for some reason

[52:47] because it makes them sexier, I guess, that they're embodying a childhood mythic figure.

Stuart Wellington

[52:52] So they didn't have to do their hair for the photo shoot.

Elliott Kalan

[52:54] Oh, you know what?

[52:56] You'd put it behind the curtain.

[52:58] That's why it is.

[52:59] That's also why there's so many sexy babes on dorm room posters wearing hard hats and those big Russian fur hats and then just full gorilla masks.

S4

[53:07] The extra hour of sleep they got is so sexy.

[53:11] Makes sense to me.

Elliott Kalan

[53:12] They're saving up their energy for the sex, you know?

[53:15] They're not just staying up at night doing logic puzzles.

[53:17] They're saving it up, you know, because they can't sleep.

[53:21] What other gremlins do you just want to highlight as gremlins that are favorites of yours, sexy or not?

Stuart Wellington

[53:25] I mean, I like big, dumb, strong, Lenny gremlin.

[53:28] Uh-huh.

Elliott Kalan

[53:29] The one who I always-

[53:30] So the one who looks kind of like Goofy.

[53:33] Yeah.

[53:34] Yeah.

[53:34] And not the one-

[53:34] What's the-

[53:35] Is it George the one who looks kind of like Tally Sabalas?

[53:37] Yeah.

[53:37] Okay.

[53:37] Yes.

[53:38] Yeah.

[53:39] George and Lenny.

[53:40] Never cared for George.

[53:42] And-

[53:43] Oh, I said-

[53:44] Because of John Steinbeck's famous novel, Of Mice and Gremlins.

[53:47] Yeah.

[53:47] Actually.

[53:48] That's the one where Lenny keeps-

[53:51] He's petting the gremlin and he accidentally breaks its neck.

[53:53] Yeah, right?

[53:53] It would be a mogwai.

[53:55] Yeah.

[53:55] It would be a mogwai.

[53:57] Unfortunately.

[53:57] You don't pet a gremlin.

[53:58] And honorable mention, at number 11, Christopher Lee, not a gremlin.

[54:03] Yeah.

[54:03] But he's up there.

S4

[54:05] But he's a gremlin at heart.

[54:06] He's true.

[54:08] I still love him offering diseases as a prize to them all.

[54:12] That just shows he's got a gremlin.

Elliott Kalan

[54:13] To win them over?

[54:14] Yeah.

[54:14] We have diseases.

[54:17] There's-

[54:18] The more I think about the gremlins movies, they're kind of weird movies now that I think

[54:21] about it.

Dan McCoy

[54:22] Brendan, you know, as I said, I've only watched the first couple episodes.

[54:27] Is another of the secrets of the mogwai you reveal why, you know, Gizmo is like a nice

[54:35] mogwai, but the moment anyone spawns off of him-

[54:40] Yeah, they're all villains.

[54:41] Even pre-Gremlin, they're bad.

S4

[54:43] We do, actually.

[54:45] Episode-

[54:45] Now that it is out there, I won't say it on here, but episode six reveals most of the

[54:49] things that we talked about.

Dan McCoy

[54:51] Hmm.

[54:52] Interesting.

[54:53] Yeah.

S4

[54:53] Okay.

[54:54] Yeah.

[54:54] Solid reasons behind it all.

[54:56] Very exciting.

[54:58] Finally.

Dan McCoy

[54:59] Mogwai's greatest sequence revealed.

[55:00] Answers revealed, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[55:02] I'm going to add a-

[55:03] I'm glad that it's finally revealed.

[55:05] And speaking of bad mogwais, I'm going to-

[55:08] I'm going to add a mogwai to this list.

[55:10] Sorry, guys.

[55:10] This is at number 12.

[55:11] I already said Christopher Lee is number 11 as the non-Gremlin runner-up.

[55:15] Number 12, that mogwai that's just chowing down on fried chicken in the first movie,

[55:20] at midnight, because there's nothing sexier than fried chicken.

[55:23] I know I was talking about-

[55:24] Yeah.

[55:24] I know I was saying that I don't want to eat sushi off of a naked body, but fried chicken?

[55:29] Hold on.

[55:29] Maybe.

[55:29] Let's talk about it.

[55:30] Fried chicken off a naked gremlin.

[55:32] Well, it's the greatest of all erotic dreams.

[55:34] Yeah.

[55:35] And so, with that vision dancing-

[55:38] No fan art, please.

[55:39] With that vision dancing in our heads, I think it's time to say thank you to our guest, Brendan

[55:44] Hay, for joining us on this episode of what hopefully won't get him fired, the Flophouse

[55:48] Mini Top 10 Sexiest Gremlin Special.

[55:51] I want to thank my co-hosts, Dan and Stu, for willing to go a certain distance with me on

[55:55] this one and then refusing to go any further.

[55:58] I want to thank our producer, Alex Smith.

[56:00] You can find him online as Howell Doughty.

[56:03] And I want to thank our network, Maximum Fun.

[56:05] We are a Maximum Fun show.

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[56:18] Why not?

[56:19] Go ahead and do it.

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[56:20] This is life.

[56:21] Just support the things you like.

[56:23] Anyway, for the Flophouse and for the idea of sexual gremlins, I've been Elliot Kalin,

[56:29] joined by-

Stuart Wellington

[56:30] Dan McCoy.

[56:31] Stuart Wellington.

[56:32] Brendan Hay.

Elliott Kalan

[56:33] Saying, go out and have champagne wishes and sexy gremlin dreams.

[56:39] Good night, everybody.

[56:40] Good night.

[56:41] Bye.

[56:42] Thank you for that.

FH Mini 83 - Top 10 Sexiest Gremlins, with Brendan Hay

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