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FH Mini 134 - Wrap-Up Raps
Transcript
Dan McCoy
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Hey, it's Dan. These pre-rolls can get boring quickly, so I'll be fast.
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As well as all the info that is too much to say here.
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Now, the show.
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Hey, everyone. Welcome to another Flophouse Mini.
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As you know, the Flophouse is mostly devoted to watching bad movies and then talking about them.
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But every other week, we also do these minis, which are more just whatever we want to do.
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I'm in charge this week. This is me, Dan McCoy.
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Others, introduce yourself now.
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This is me, Stuart Wellington.
Elliott Kalan
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This is me, Elliot Kalin.
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Very articulate.
Dan McCoy
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So, this mini.
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Well, let me set it up thusly.
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There's a music genre.
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I started turning into Jay Leno for a moment.
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You're like, oh, well, well, let me go.
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Yeah, we're going to Doritos.
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Muscle cars.
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There's a genre of music that I think is near and dear to our hearts.
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I'm talking about...
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I'm talking about...
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Zydeco.
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I'm talking about end credit rap songs that either partially or exhaustively summarize the plot of the movie we just saw.
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Usually found in movies of the late 80s and 90s.
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And in doing the research for this, I learned that this genre actually has a name.
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It's called a wrap-up rap.
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Oh, that's a great name for it.
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Oh, man.
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And that leads us to my mini, Wrap-up, wrap, wrap-up.
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Sponsored by Bubble Wrap.
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Once you pop, you can't stop.
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That's true.
Elliott Kalan
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Because there's a curse on the bubble wrap and a demon will drag you to hell if you don't pop them all.
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Mm-hmm.
Stuart Wellington
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This mini...
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That was the third of the Greek guys being punished in Hades or whatever, right?
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The others are snap and crackle.
Dan McCoy
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Anyway, this mini is partly a game and partly just an excuse to talk about a few of these songs.
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Cool.
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I've collected a few choice examples, and I'm going to read a selection of the lyrics.
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When I'm done and say go, wait for go, I want you guys to buzz in by saying your name,
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and you will get one point if you can name the movie the wrap-up rap is from,
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and one point if you can name the title of the song.
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Oof.
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Can't do that.
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And then for each of these, I also have a follow-up discussion question.
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Oh, okay.
Stuart Wellington
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Essay portion, yeah.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah.
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One disclaimer, I would like to acknowledge that a white middle-aged man reading rap lyrics
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can inadvertently sound like he's making fun of rap just by virtue of how awkward it sounds.
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While I am poking fun at the specific genre, which is silly, no other negativity is meant.
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I just will sound like that.
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I'll sound cringy because that is what happens.
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But remember, buzz in with your names, but only after I say go so we can hear a good chunk of these lyrics.
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Okay.
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So this is number one.
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You're not going to do this in like a weird accent or anything, right?
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I'm not.
Dan McCoy
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's not Dracula reading raps.
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If anything, I will try to make it non-rhythmic.
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Yeah.
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As flat and Midwestern as possible.
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Here we go.
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Rough neck, so go check the law and abide.
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Watch your step or flex and get a hole in your side.
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Swallow your pride.
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Don't let your lip react.
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You don't want to see my hand where my hip be at.
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Go.
Stuart Wellington
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Wait, do we...
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You're buzzing with your name.
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Buzz, Stuart.
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Okay.
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This has got to be the king of this genre.
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This is Will Smith and this is what, Wild Wild West?
Dan McCoy
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That is correct.
Stuart Wellington
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And the title of the song is?
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Oh, damn it.
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Yeah, I don't remember.
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Buzz in, Elliot.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah, Elliot.
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Is it called Wild Wild West?
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It is.
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That's one point for each of you.
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In many of these, yes, the title of the song is at least slightly different, but in this case, it's the same.
Elliott Kalan
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Because the chorus is Wild Wild West.
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It's a kind of movie.
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The wild wild west.
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Indeed.
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How's that west?
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It's very wild wild.
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How many wilds?
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There's two wilds there.
Dan McCoy
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What kind of buffalo wings do we like?
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Wild Wild Wings.
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Hey, I got a follow-up question for this one.
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Yeah, why not?
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All Wild West was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, coming off the Addams Family movies, Get Shorty and Men in Black.
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And it starred Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, and Kenneth Branagh.
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So, why is the best thing about this song?
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It's a good question.
Elliott Kalan
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Do you want a joke answer or a serious answer?
Dan McCoy
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Whatever you got.
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This is a podcast.
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We just got to fill time.
Elliott Kalan
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I think this is one of those movies that has a big hole in its center.
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And the hole in its center is that the story is not interesting and the characters are not interesting.
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And it's based on a TV show that I think – I guess a lot of people of our parents' generation remembered it.
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But certainly when it came out, I did not know it was based on a show until afterwards.
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I've never seen an episode of it.
Dan McCoy
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Oh, like the Fall Guy for me.
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Yes, exactly.
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Although that was like barely based on the show.
Elliott Kalan
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No, but I think it's the idea of having name recognition and then trying to play off of that when the name recognition is not there.
Stuart Wellington
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But also –
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Should have been based on Briscoe County Jr.
Elliott Kalan
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Yeah, sure.
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But I think also the idea that like they thought, oh, it's kind of a Western comedy action thing.
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We don't need any more than that.
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But there's just not a lot going on in it, you know?
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So, you have all these talented people working on it.
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They put a lot of effort into it, but there's nothing to hold it all together.
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As opposed to Men in Black where that's a really well done movie.
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The Addams Family movies are, of course, great, you know?
Stuart Wellington
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And Get Shorty is great.
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I think Westerns are kind of hard to do unless you are – you really understand what makes a Western work.
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And then once you start tinkering with it too much, it can lose its center.
Elliott Kalan
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Yeah, I think also it would have been helped probably to have a producer who could oversee and pull these things together as opposed to John Peters, the actual producer, who was just wanting so hard to make a movie with a giant mechanical spider in it.
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And I think that's what he was mainly focused on, you know?
Dan McCoy
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Yeah, he's got a real mechanical spider kink, that guy.
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Get it?
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I love Runaway.
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Okay, well –
Elliott Kalan
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When we did Wild Wild West on the show, I would have loved it if it turned out to be like a super fun movie that just got unfairly maligned.
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But watching it, you're like, oh, this is not – it just doesn't work.
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The funny stuff is not funny and the characters are annoying.
Stuart Wellington
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The exciting stuff is not very exciting.
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I do like a giant spider thing, but yeah.
Dan McCoy
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Okay, well, let's move on to the second song.
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Here are the lyrics.
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I remember the day I needed to borrow a little of pepper for my chicken.
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The next thing you know, coming at me was a hand with fingers high-stepping.
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Now, I tried to play it along, you know.
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Elliot.
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And act like I was having a ball.
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Wait, you got to wait for go.
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Oh, sorry.
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But what do I see?
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A perm with feet standing about three feet tall.
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Go.
Elliott Kalan
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Elliot.
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Adam's Family.
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Yes.
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And what is the name of the song?
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Oh, is it Adam's Family Rap?
Stuart Wellington
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No.
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Stuart, can you steal this one?
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I don't – like, it's – yeah, I don't remember.
Dan McCoy
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It's close, but the song is titled Adam's Groove.
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Adam's Groove.
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Oh, damn it.
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Oh, that's what it is.
Elliott Kalan
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Now, I have the follow-up.
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That is, of course, the one where they kick and they either stop a friend or slap a friend,
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depending on how you –
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Yeah, they slap a friend.
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Yeah.
Dan McCoy
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Not really a thing I associate with the Adam's Family, to be frank.
Elliott Kalan
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Maybe it's playing off of the thing being a hand.
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I don't know.
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Yeah.
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I don't see the – I see them using violent things, like they use swords or cannons or stuff.
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Not so much kicking and slapping.
Dan McCoy
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Yeah.
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It's one of the three stages.
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Bizarro's, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I got a follow-up question for this.
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So, this is an example of a wrap-up rap that addresses the characters of the movie,
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but otherwise takes artistic license and doesn't stick strictly to the film's plot.
Elliott Kalan
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My question is –
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They thought he was Fester, but he was really Chester, but it turns out at the end he was Fester.
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I don't know.
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Okay.
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Because that's the plot of the movie, right?
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Wonderful, wonderful rap.
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Yeah, you're right.
Dan McCoy
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Great stuff.
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My question is, would 1991's The Addams Family have been improved by including a scene where MC Hammer dropped by to borrow some pepper for his chicken?
Elliott Kalan
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100 percent, I think.
Stuart Wellington
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think you're right.
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Yeah.
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Some shenanigans would happen, probably.
Elliott Kalan
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Maybe there was an earlier draft of the script that they were working on.
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Like somehow – like when they used to do movie novelizations, they would be based on early drafts of the script so that the book would be ready in time with the movie,
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and there would be scenes in there that didn't make it into the movie.
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Maybe there was a scene originally in the movie where a guy stops by to get pepper for a chicken and gets slapped.
Dan McCoy
[9:03]
It was more about seasoning food.
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I think –
Stuart Wellington
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Isn't there like a party scene?
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Maybe he could have shown up during then looking to borrow some pepper.
Dan McCoy
[9:12]
Yeah.
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And he'd have been like, what?
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And then he could do a song like Digital Underground when they stopped by and nothing but trouble.
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Nothing but trouble, yeah.
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I don't remember.
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Maybe I have to watch that movie again.
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Probably.
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Probably you should just keep that on loop.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
Stuart Wellington
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Well, that's –
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And it's a good thing that they didn't do a rap for Adam's Family Values because that would just be all about Debbie, who's the best character.
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Yeah.
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How sexy Debbie is.
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I don't see what would be wrong with a rap about Debbie.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I would pen thousands of odes to how sexy Debbie is.
Elliott Kalan
[9:47]
Dan, if you're not into Debbie, then I don't know what's going on with you.
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Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[9:50]
Yeah, no, no, I understand.
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I just, you know.
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For once in my life, I'm less vocal with my horniness.
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Okay, so this is number three.
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Uh-huh.
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Had them throwing a party for a bunch of children while all the while the slime was under the building.
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So they packed up their group, got a grip, came equipped, grabbed their proton packs out the back.
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That's a tell.
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And they split.
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Found out about Vigo, the master of evil.
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That's really –
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Trying to battle my boys.
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That's not legal.
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Go.
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Elliot.
Elliott Kalan
[10:25]
Yes.
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Okay, so that's Ghostbusters 2.
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Uh-huh.
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And the name of the song is?
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Take Control.
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Is that it?
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Or no, is that a different song?
Dan McCoy
[10:34]
No, Stuart.
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You got it?
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I thought it was Take Control.
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I mean, they do say the words Take Control, but it's not the name of the song.
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What is it?
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It's another lyric.
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It is On Our Own.
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On Our Own.
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That makes a lot more sense.
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Bobby Brown, right?
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It's Bobby Brown.
Elliott Kalan
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Because the big thing about that movie is how the Ghostbusters are on their own.
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Mm-hmm.
[10:51]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
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I guess, unlike before, when we had the back.
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Unlike the first movie when –
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The full force of the government behind it.
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The federal government and the military, I guess.
Stuart Wellington
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But Bobby Brown is in the movie, right?
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Yes, he is.
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He plays like a doorman.
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Yeah.
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But he doesn't perform in it.
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Yeah.
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This was before he killed Whitney Houston, right?
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Oh, God.
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I do have a follow-up question.
Elliott Kalan
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How liable are we for that comment that Stuart just said?
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I mean, he introduced her to crack, guys.
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Okay.
Dan McCoy
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We can litigate it off air.
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Okay.
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Follow-up question.
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As someone who has sung this song at karaoke, I can attest to the fact that the two rap breaks in the song are just the same rap break repeated.
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If Bobby Brown had written different lyrics for the second rap break, what plot elements would you have liked to see him cover?
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Statue of Liberty.
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Yeah.
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Shooting goo guns all over the Statue of Liberty.
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Yeah.
[11:43]
Yeah.
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More focus on –
Elliott Kalan
[11:44]
Well, get inside this lady.
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Shoot our goo all up inside her.
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Oh, God, no.
[11:48]
Oh, God, no.
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Right?
Stuart Wellington
[11:49]
Baby walking on the edge of a building.
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Yeah.
Elliott Kalan
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Stroller on the loose.
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Cars almost hit it.
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Yeah.
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Come on, Viggo.
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Why can't you just quit it?
Dan McCoy
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I love and hate when Elliot raps equally.
Stuart Wellington
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Then at the end, the painting turns good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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Wait, does the painting – oh, because –
Dan McCoy
[12:13]
Because it turns into a painting of –
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It turns into a happy painting of all of them.
Elliott Kalan
[12:17]
Of all of them.
[12:17]
Of like Sigourney Weaver and Baby Oscar and the Ghostbusters around.
[12:21]
But it's like, you know, a Renaissance style, you know.
Stuart Wellington
[12:25]
Yeah.
[12:26]
We should get that for the studio.
[12:29]
Just buy that painting.
[12:29]
If we could find it, I would love to buy that.
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If that prop still exists, I would love to own it.
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That would be crazy if that isn't available.
[12:34]
Like, somebody make that.
[12:35]
Somebody make that.
[12:37]
I'm sure –
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Yeah.
[12:37]
Yeah.
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A print.
[12:38]
A print or something.
Elliott Kalan
[12:39]
A fancy print.
[12:40]
Or somebody make that with our heads instead of the Ghostbusters on it.
Dan McCoy
[12:43]
Yes.
[12:44]
Better yet.
[12:45]
Yeah.
[12:45]
Do that.
[12:46]
Okay.
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This is number four.
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After this, we're going to take a little break.
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This one is a bit harder.
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So I'm going to read more lyrics on this one.
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So buckle up.
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Once upon a time, he was a super cop.
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But the bad guy framed him to make him stop.
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They put him in prison where they tried to kill him.
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But he broke out.
[13:10]
Now he's the villain.
[13:12]
Bullets don't hurt him.
[13:13]
I know it should, like, jive.
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But we're not sure if he's dead or alive.
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Set him on fire.
[13:20]
Shoot him with an Uzi.
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But he'll show up in your jacuzzi.
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You can run him over.
[13:25]
You can feed him poison.
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Push him out a window.
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And it only annoys him.
[13:30]
You better believe me if you think I'm lying.
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When he shows up, people start dying.
[13:36]
He's out for vengeance.
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And he can't be stopped.
[13:39]
That's why they call him the go.
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Elliot.
[13:44]
Yes, Elliot.
[13:45]
Maniac Cop?
[13:46]
That is almost correct.
[13:49]
Oh, I didn't remember there being a rap for Maniac Cop.
[13:51]
Maniac Cop 2?
[13:51]
Yes.
[13:52]
Oh, it's Maniac Cop 2.
[13:53]
You're the advantage.
[13:54]
You get the advantage of the trick question.
Elliott Kalan
[13:57]
Oh, you're right.
[13:58]
You're right.
[13:58]
Maniac Cop 2.
[13:59]
I was like, I didn't remember there being a rap in the Maniac Cop.
[14:02]
Yeah, Maniac Cop 2.
Dan McCoy
[14:03]
Elliot, I'll give you the chance to answer if you know the title of this.
Elliott Kalan
[14:10]
I think Maniac, parentheses, cop.
Stuart Wellington
[14:14]
Stuart, do you want to hear?
[14:15]
I was just going to say, in modern America, Maniac Cop's a regular cop.
[14:21]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[14:22]
This is unimaginably titled Maniac Cop Rap.
[14:28]
Oh, cool.
[14:28]
I should have guessed that.
[14:29]
I should have guessed that, yeah.
[14:31]
Hey, when you got gold, don't mess with it.
[14:33]
Yeah, so that's from Maniac Cop 2, which leads into my follow-up question.
[14:38]
Back in the habit, yeah.
[14:40]
Maniac Cop 2 seems like an odd movie to have a wrap-up rap.
[14:44]
What film that doesn't end with one would you want to have its own wrap-up rap?
Stuart Wellington
[14:50]
There's so many.
[14:51]
There's so many.
[14:53]
Wait, no.
[14:55]
Manchester by the Sea.
[14:56]
Oh, God.
Elliott Kalan
[15:00]
Yeah, I think all of Kenneth Lonergan's movies should end with wrap-up raps.
[15:03]
Margaret.
[15:04]
Margaret, you can count on me.
[15:06]
All of them, yeah.
Dan McCoy
[15:07]
Sounds good.
Elliott Kalan
[15:07]
Even his plays.
[15:08]
When Lobby Heroes perform, does he just have a wrap-up rap at the end?
Dan McCoy
[15:12]
Or the curtain call.
[15:15]
People are taking their bows.
Elliott Kalan
[15:18]
Okay.
[15:18]
I was going to say, on a sincere note, I think that hackers should have a wrap-up rap at the end.
Dan McCoy
[15:26]
Oh, that would actually suit it very well.
[15:29]
Yeah.
[15:30]
Especially with all those hacker names.
[15:32]
Those would go in a wrap real nice.
Elliott Kalan
[15:34]
Acid burn or whatever they're called, you know?
[15:35]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[15:37]
Okay.
[15:37]
Well, I just want to take a moment to say a few words on behalf of our sponsors.
[15:43]
The Flophouse, of course, is sponsored largely by the listeners of Maximum Fun, who have chosen to support us through membership.
[15:53]
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[15:58]
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[16:01]
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Elliott Kalan
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Because we always pay for I'm blue when I sing it, yeah.
Dan McCoy
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We're going to do significant flops.
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You can watch the earlier episodes, and you can watch them.
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[18:49]
But if you want to be there live and be in the chat, chatting with other viewers, you can do that on those first Saturdays.
[18:59]
But let's get back to the game, kind of, I guess, is what it is.
[19:07]
Yeah, yeah, you've been keeping score, right?
[19:08]
Yeah, I have actually been keeping score, even though it is all meaningless.
[19:13]
Uh, everything's moving on the stand.
Stuart Wellington
[19:15]
That's true, everything.
[19:16]
We're all going to be worm food.
S5
[19:22]
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Elliott Kalan
[19:33]
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[19:38]
So check us out.
S5
[19:39]
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S4
[19:45]
Hello, Internet.
[19:46]
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S5
[19:48]
And I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.
S4
[19:50]
And this is a promo for Schmanners.
S5
[19:52]
It's extraordinary etiquette.
S4
[19:54]
For ordinary occasions.
[19:55]
Every week, we're going to tell you about a bit of culture, a bit of history, how etiquette still applies in the modern day, all that stuff.
S5
[20:03]
We also love to do biographies and histories of and, you know, general procedurals, how to do etiquette in today's society.
S4
[20:12]
So come check it out every Friday on MaximumFun.org or wherever you find your podcasts.
S5
[20:18]
Manners schmanners.
[20:19]
Get it?
Dan McCoy
[20:21]
Let's get back to the wrap-up mini.
[20:25]
And I'm just going past the lyrics that I've already done to get back to, all right, number five.
[20:31]
Yeah.
[20:32]
Here we go.
[20:34]
This song goes as follows.
[20:38]
In a hundred years, in the darkest night, the forces of evil come out to fight.
[20:44]
The amulet they must destroy or spend forever in the darkest void.
[20:49]
Who can stop their deadly might?
[20:52]
Or who will stand up for the right?
[20:54]
From the mouths of babes comes dynamite.
[20:58]
Go.
[21:01]
Elliot.
[21:01]
Oh, wow.
[21:01]
I'm surprised.
[21:02]
Okay.
[21:03]
I don't think this is right, but Double Dragon.
[21:05]
No.
[21:07]
Stewart.
[21:07]
Yeah.
[21:07]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3.
[21:09]
Oh, my God.
[21:10]
I can't believe it, guys.
[21:12]
This is, of course, from the movie The Monster Squad.
[21:14]
Oh.
[21:15]
Oh, my God.
[21:15]
It was so nice.
[21:16]
Monster Squad.
[21:17]
Monster Squad rap.
Elliott Kalan
[21:18]
Oh, okay.
[21:19]
I forgot there was an amulet in Monster Squad.
[21:21]
Oh, yeah.
[21:21]
Oh, yeah.
[21:21]
Oh, yeah.
Stuart Wellington
[21:21]
No.
[21:22]
How could you forget that?
[21:23]
It's almost a character in and of itself.
[21:25]
Yeah.
[21:25]
It's almost as important as the Wolfman's nards.
[21:28]
Uh-huh.
Dan McCoy
[21:28]
Well, it's funny that you say that, Stuart, because my follow-up question is this.
[21:32]
Does the Wolfman have nards?
[21:34]
This song fails to address the issue of whether or not Wolfman has nards.
[21:40]
What rap couplet would you add to the song to correct this issue?
Stuart Wellington
[21:44]
Oh, wow.
[21:45]
We got rapster piece theater from over in L.A.
[21:47]
Caitlin's zone.
[21:48]
What are you going to do?
Elliott Kalan
[21:49]
I say hit Wolfman in the nards.
[21:50]
It's not too hard.
[21:52]
Okay.
[21:53]
But, I mean, he does have nards.
[21:53]
He's a man who gets turned into a wolfman.
[21:55]
Why would he not have testicles?
[21:57]
Kids don't know.
[21:58]
I mean, he morphs, dude.
[21:59]
Yeah.
[21:59]
But wolves have testicles, too.
[22:01]
It's not like he's, I mean, I could see him losing the ability to do.
[22:04]
to speak because a wolf's throat is not designed for that.
[22:06]
Look, it's a kid who says this.
Dan McCoy
[22:07]
We're not here to litigate whether it's a good question or not.
Stuart Wellington
[22:09]
So, is the kid who's writing this rap, Dan?
[22:11]
No, of course not.
[22:12]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[22:13]
Yeah, you're saying that it's implied that the author of the rap is a grown-up
[22:18]
and is familiar with the anatomy of a wolfman.
Elliott Kalan
[22:20]
Of a human man and a wolfman, yeah.
[22:23]
Okay.
Dan McCoy
[22:24]
Sure, you don't want to take a crack at the...
[22:26]
I guess it's in the cards.
Stuart Wellington
[22:27]
Wolfman has nards.
[22:28]
Yeah, there you go.
[22:29]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[22:31]
Kick him in the crotch.
[22:32]
There isn't a notch.
[22:35]
But there is a notch.
[22:36]
Wait.
[22:38]
Wait, I'm still going.
[22:42]
You know, they call Shakespeare the bard in...
[22:45]
Wait.
Dan McCoy
[22:47]
I love that you set it up with that irrelevant fact without having a follow-up rhyme.
[22:55]
Well, and also, but you know what it rhymes with.
Elliott Kalan
[22:58]
You know what bard rhymes with.
[22:59]
Nard.
[22:59]
Yeah, if it didn't rhyme with nard, why even bother?
Dan McCoy
[23:04]
Stuart's dead.
[23:05]
I do it.
[23:06]
Lastly, I'll submit.
[23:06]
This is why we are not freestyle rappers.
Stuart Wellington
[23:10]
Where's my, what, Pulitzer?
[23:12]
What do you get for rapping?
[23:13]
Yeah, rap Pulitzer.
Elliott Kalan
[23:14]
I mean, Kendrick Lamar got a Pulitzer, right?
[23:16]
So that's for rap now.
[23:18]
I would also submit, don't step to his funk, kick Wolfman in the junk.
[23:24]
You could do that too.
[23:24]
Yeah.
[23:24]
Oh, man.
Dan McCoy
[23:26]
We got there.
[23:27]
Took us a while.
[23:28]
That made it happen.
[23:28]
The best though.
[23:30]
Okay.
[23:33]
All right.
[23:35]
Here's number six and a little disclaimer here.
[23:37]
In general, I've been trying to avoid lyrics that are total giveaways, but this song.
Elliott Kalan
[23:42]
I mean, one of them mentioned proton packs, I think.
Dan McCoy
[23:45]
I know.
[23:46]
But I don't.
[23:47]
But it didn't say Ghostbusters in it.
[23:49]
Yeah.
[23:49]
This song kind of makes it impossible.
[23:52]
So in this case, I have replaced a couple of words with just blank.
[23:56]
Okay.
[23:57]
It was just prime time.
[24:00]
I know you'll never forget what he did to the girl with the TV set.
[24:04]
Oh, yeah, yeah.
[24:05]
But you can't stop blank because he's cool as ice.
[24:08]
Come right back at you to slash and slice.
[24:11]
Like a jitsu blade or a blender, he'll blitz you.
[24:14]
Blank, blank is putting on the Ritz.
[24:17]
Go.
[24:18]
Elliot.
[24:19]
Yeah.
[24:20]
Sorry.
[24:20]
Is this Nightmare on Elm Street 3?
[24:22]
Oh, Stuart, can you steal?
Elliott Kalan
[24:24]
Oh, I got the number wrong.
[24:25]
Got the number wrong.
[24:26]
Four?
[24:26]
Yes.
[24:27]
This is four.
[24:28]
Which one was three?
[24:29]
Dream Master.
[24:30]
I thought.
[24:30]
Dream Warriors is three.
[24:32]
Dream Master is four.
[24:32]
You know what?
[24:32]
I got it mixed up.
[24:33]
I thought it was Dream Warriors.
[24:34]
Oh, okay.
[24:34]
But it's Dream Master.
Stuart Wellington
[24:35]
The theme song for three is Dokken, dude.
Dan McCoy
[24:39]
Elliot, you buzzed in first, though.
Stuart Wellington
[24:40]
Maybe they did both.
[24:41]
Maybe they did both.
Dan McCoy
[24:43]
Elliot, it's the first to buzz in.
[24:45]
Can you rescue it with the name of the song?
[24:47]
I'm going to call it Freddy Rap.
[24:49]
No.
[24:49]
Stuart, do you have it?
[24:51]
Nightmare on My Street.
[24:52]
Of course.
[24:53]
Of course.
[24:53]
Guys, this is the Fat Boys.
[24:55]
Are you ready for Freddy?
[24:57]
Oh, yeah.
[24:58]
That makes sense.
Elliott Kalan
[24:58]
You know what?
[24:59]
I forgot that that song existed.
[25:01]
But the minute you mentioned Fat Boys, I'm like, oh, I remember the song now.
[25:04]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[25:04]
And that's right.
Elliott Kalan
[25:06]
Three was Dokken, four was Fat Boys, and five was Stephen Sondheim, did the song at the end.
[25:10]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[25:11]
It was filled with internal rhymes.
[25:13]
Yeah.
Stuart Wellington
[25:13]
He did the book, but the actual performance was, come up with a joke.
Elliott Kalan
[25:20]
Sondheim would have done the music, and maybe like James Latham would have done the book.
[25:23]
Yeah, there you go.
[25:23]
Or Lapine, whatever his, however you pronounce his name.
Dan McCoy
[25:26]
So, yeah.
[25:27]
That's the song was Are You Ready for Freddy?
[25:28]
David Latham, who did Spare Bullets?
[25:30]
Jesus Christ.
[25:31]
Yeah, yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[25:31]
No, no.
[25:32]
Jonathan Latham, author of Motherless Brooklyn, among other books.
[25:34]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[25:36]
The song was Are You Ready for Freddy?
[25:38]
I have a follow-up question.
[25:40]
Yeah.
[25:40]
Shoot.
[25:41]
Are you ready for Freddy?
Stuart Wellington
[25:43]
You know what?
[25:44]
I think I kind of am.
[25:47]
Like, he showed up in my dreams and be like, calm down, dog.
[25:50]
Let's just hang out.
Elliott Kalan
[25:52]
Let's talk.
[25:52]
I have a lot of bad dreams about work, so it would be a real refreshing thing to have a bad dream about Freddy.
[25:59]
Because it would be like, oh, this is new.
Stuart Wellington
[26:01]
He'd be your boss in the dream.
[26:02]
Oh, no, he would be.
[26:03]
That's true.
[26:03]
He'd be like, here's some more stuff.
Elliott Kalan
[26:07]
But then I call human resources on him and get him fired.
[26:09]
Yeah, exactly.
Stuart Wellington
[26:10]
Yeah, but like, yeah, the intercom doesn't work, so you know, that's horrible.
Elliott Kalan
[26:13]
I don't remember why.
[26:14]
I had to.
[26:14]
Oh, so this is why.
[26:15]
Oh, so I sent you guys this picture.
[26:17]
I was visiting my wife's parents in Sonoma, California.
[26:20]
In the local newspaper, there was a letter from a Fred Kruger about something.
[26:25]
And I sent it to you guys.
[26:26]
And I was saying to my kids, oh, I guess Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
[26:30]
He retired and he moved up here to Northern California.
[26:32]
And then my younger one, I made that mistake because my younger one was like, so what's
[26:36]
his deal, Freddy Kruger?
[26:37]
And I'm like, oh, well, he kills teenagers in their dreams.
[26:41]
And he's got like a sweater and a hat and a glove with blades.
[26:44]
And he goes, why does he kill teenagers in his dream?
[26:46]
And they're like, oh, he's mad at their parents.
[26:48]
And he goes, well, why doesn't he kill the parents in their dreams?
[26:49]
I'm like, oh, it's good.
[26:51]
I didn't want to talk about him being a child blaster.
[26:52]
So I'm like, let's not worry about it.
Dan McCoy
[26:55]
Yeah.
[26:55]
It's a power thing.
[26:57]
Yeah.
[26:58]
Well, I'm sure everyone's very curious about the game element of this.
[27:03]
Yeah.
[27:03]
So I want to give them a quick update that Elliot and Stuart are currently tied at three
[27:08]
each.
[27:08]
So it's anyone's game.
[27:12]
So let's go into song seven, the penultimate song.
[27:17]
That means the last one.
[27:19]
No, I'm just kidding.
[27:20]
Doesn't mean it's the second to last one.
[27:22]
Looking for human flesh to rip my teeth through.
[27:26]
Other fish in the sea, but barracudas ain't equal.
[27:30]
To a half human predator created by a needle.
[27:33]
Jet black eyes, baby.
[27:35]
They stare while you sleep.
[27:37]
When your Titanic sinks, I'm the one you're going to meet.
[27:40]
Hearing terrified screams, they surround my team.
[27:45]
All you see is trails of blood.
[27:47]
Even God won't intervene.
[27:50]
Go.
[27:50]
Stuart.
[27:51]
Oh, man.
[27:52]
Deep Lucy, baby.
[27:53]
Damn it.
[27:53]
Yeah.
[27:54]
And do you know what the song's title is?
[27:55]
Deepest Bluest?
[27:57]
Yes, it is correct.
[27:58]
Deepest Bluest.
[27:59]
Parentheses.
[27:59]
My head is.
[28:00]
Shark's fan.
[28:00]
Shark's fan, yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[28:01]
I wish I had laughed at the line about even God won't intervene.
Stuart Wellington
[28:05]
It's so bleak there.
[28:07]
It does.
Elliott Kalan
[28:08]
So intense.
[28:09]
It was this whole game I've been waiting for Deep Blue Sea to come up because I knew it was going to happen.
[28:14]
And I missed it.
[28:15]
I lost my moment.
Dan McCoy
[28:16]
Well, maybe you can get some, no actual points, but some, you know, like good feeling points by answering the follow-up question, which is,
[28:26]
in what ways is LL Cool J's hat like a shark's fan?
[28:30]
And be specific.
Elliott Kalan
[28:34]
Well, it's on the top of his head.
[28:36]
Uh-huh.
[28:36]
And the shark's fan is, I guess it's on their back.
Stuart Wellington
[28:38]
It's more on the back, right?
[28:39]
Yeah.
[28:39]
Is it like, is his hat like, is he like going through a crowd and like his hat is sticking up?
[28:45]
His hat's the only thing that's visible?
[28:47]
Yeah.
[28:47]
Maybe.
[28:48]
It's a pretty like, it's like a skullcap kind of hat.
Elliott Kalan
[28:51]
It doesn't, it doesn't peak that much, right?
Stuart Wellington
[28:53]
Yeah.
[28:53]
Yeah.
[28:55]
Maybe he has a poor perception of what his hat looks like.
Elliott Kalan
[28:59]
Yeah.
[29:00]
I mean, I'm hearing a lot of reasons why the hat is not like a shark's fan.
[29:03]
I feel like we're not answering the question properly.
Dan McCoy
[29:05]
He uses it sort of like, you know, as a stabilizer.
[29:08]
It's a similar color.
Elliott Kalan
[29:09]
I mean, maybe he, maybe he tried, he thinks he looks like a dolphin when he wears a similar hat.
[29:13]
The sharks and dolphins have similar fins, you know?
Stuart Wellington
[29:15]
It's not like a shark's fan though.
[29:16]
It's like a dolphin's fin.
Elliott Kalan
[29:17]
But their fins are very similar.
[29:18]
They're both dorsal fins.
[29:19]
It's convergent evolution.
[29:20]
They're made, they're general body shape.
Stuart Wellington
[29:22]
I think it's based on color and maybe texture.
[29:25]
But I would have to see the hat in person.
[29:27]
I think the hat is black.
Dan McCoy
[29:28]
I mean, I guess some sharks are pretty dark.
[29:31]
But most of them are in the gray.
Elliott Kalan
[29:32]
Does the hat replace its teeth whenever it loses them?
Stuart Wellington
[29:36]
Dan, he asked you a question about the hat.
[29:38]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[29:39]
I don't think a shark's fin replaces the teeth though.
[29:43]
Like a shark replaces his teeth.
[29:44]
I'm just trying to expand.
Stuart Wellington
[29:45]
Sometimes people make soup out of LL Cool J's hat.
[29:48]
That must be it.
[29:48]
That's what it is.
Elliott Kalan
[29:49]
Is they catch LL Cool J, they remove the hat, throw the rest of him back in the ocean to bleed to death.
[29:54]
And then they make soup out of the hat.
[29:56]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[29:57]
At weddings.
[29:57]
Yeah.
[29:58]
Before we get to eight, I want to apologize to Stuart.
[30:01]
Psycho Gore Man, of course, has a rap like this.
[30:04]
I was fucking waiting for this shit.
[30:05]
At the end of the, I was going to put it in at the end as a bonus.
[30:08]
But no one on the internet has seen fit to transcribe those lyrics.
[30:12]
And I was too lazy to do it.
[30:14]
So someone get on that.
Elliott Kalan
[30:15]
I was going to say, that is a laziness issue.
[30:16]
Because you could have done that.
Dan McCoy
[30:17]
Yeah.
[30:17]
Yeah.
[30:18]
So his name is PG or something like that.
[30:21]
PG Woodhouse.
[30:22]
Yeah.
[30:22]
Yeah.
[30:22]
PG what?
[30:23]
Yeah.
[30:23]
Psycho Gore Man, PG.
[30:25]
No, I'm saying the name of the song.
[30:26]
So look it up.
[30:28]
It's a funny video.
Elliott Kalan
[30:29]
But that is what it stood for, right?
[30:31]
Psycho Gore Man, Woodhouse.
Dan McCoy
[30:32]
Yes.
[30:33]
Yeah.
[30:33]
Yeah.
[30:35]
So.
[30:35]
Wodehouse.
Stuart Wellington
[30:37]
I'm saying Wodehouse this whole time.
[30:38]
No, no.
[30:39]
It's Roadhouse.
Dan McCoy
[30:40]
PG Roadhouse.
[30:43]
Be nice.
[30:44]
That's what he always said.
[30:45]
The thing is, Roadhouse is not rated PG.
[30:47]
I'm thinking of like a version of this where Dalton has a gentleman's gentleman who actually
[30:53]
solves the problem of Ben Gazzara for him.
Elliott Kalan
[30:56]
Birdie Wooster is the bouncer, but Jeeves is the one who's always doing the actual fighting.
[31:00]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[31:01]
So that's a little, that's a hint.
[31:04]
Okay.
[31:05]
The last one is not Psycho Gore Man.
Stuart Wellington
[31:06]
Okay.
[31:06]
Good.
[31:07]
So I don't spend the whole time trying to recognize.
Elliott Kalan
[31:10]
But is it the rap that's at the end of Jeeves and Wooster?
[31:12]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[31:14]
His name is Jeeves.
Elliott Kalan
[31:15]
Can you believe this guy named Jeeves solves all the problems for his man like these?
[31:20]
Mm-hmm.
Dan McCoy
[31:21]
Okay.
[31:22]
Well, here we go.
[31:24]
Last, last song.
[31:25]
It goes like this.
[31:27]
Well, excuse me, Copper, Mr. Crime Stopper.
[31:30]
What is wrong with what we're doing?
[31:32]
We just like to dance in our goatskin pants around this ancient ruin.
[31:38]
Now it's not so funny that it costs big money.
[31:40]
If you ever have to hire a lawyer, it's my duty to inform you and my pleasure to warn you.
[31:46]
We'll provide one for you.
[31:48]
Go.
[31:51]
Big goatskin pants hint in there.
[31:54]
Mm-hmm.
[31:55]
Mm-hmm.
[31:56]
Oh, man.
[31:57]
Excuse me, Copper, Mr. Crime Stopper.
Elliott Kalan
[32:01]
I mean, all I'm thinking of is, what's it?
[32:07]
Is the Wicker Man.
[32:08]
But there's no rhyme at the end of the Wicker Man, right?
Stuart Wellington
[32:11]
This is like the Dragnet movie or something.
Elliott Kalan
[32:13]
You know what?
[32:13]
I'll say it.
[32:14]
Elliot, the Wicker Man remake.
Stuart Wellington
[32:16]
No, it's not that.
[32:18]
Stuart, do you want to buzz in?
[32:19]
I don't think I'm anywhere close.
[32:21]
Yeah, I'll buzz in.
[32:22]
Was this?
[32:24]
Oh, man.
[32:25]
No, I know this one.
[32:27]
Terms of Endearment.
[32:30]
Guys, you should have gone with your gut there, Stuart.
Dan McCoy
[32:32]
It's Dragnet.
[32:33]
It's Dragnet.
[32:33]
Oh, okay.
[32:34]
Can I buzz in?
Elliott Kalan
[32:35]
Elliot, for the title.
[32:36]
Yes.
Dan McCoy
[32:36]
City of Crime.
[32:37]
It is City of Crime from Dragnet.
[32:42]
My follow-up question.
Elliott Kalan
[32:43]
I didn't remember the goatskin pants, but it's been a long time since I saw Dragnet.
Dan McCoy
[32:47]
Yeah.
[32:47]
If you'll recall, Dabney Coleman, the pornographer, runs a cult of some kind.
[32:55]
Right.
[32:56]
Or he's associated with it.
[32:57]
I don't know whether he actually runs it or he gets kidnapped as part of it.
[33:01]
I don't know.
[33:02]
I think it's actually maybe the moral majority of people who are behind it.
[33:05]
Uh-huh.
[33:05]
I don't know.
[33:06]
They wear goatskin pants.
[33:07]
That's all I remember.
Elliott Kalan
[33:07]
Sounds like we all have to watch Dragnet again.
[33:09]
No.
[33:10]
Yeah.
Dan McCoy
[33:11]
Hear about the adventures of Pep's tree back.
[33:15]
Sergeant Joe Friday.
[33:16]
Follow-up question.
[33:18]
Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd's Dancing in the City of Crime video was choreographed by Paula
[33:23]
Abdul.
[33:25]
On a scale of zero to ten MC Scat Cats, how well do you think they did?
Elliott Kalan
[33:31]
Are we handicapping them at all?
Dan McCoy
[33:33]
Because they don't have the natural skills of Paula Abdul.
[33:36]
They are performers.
[33:38]
You know?
Stuart Wellington
[33:39]
Dan Aykroyd at least danced a little in the Blues Brothers.
[33:45]
Tom Hanks and he danced a little bit in Nothing But Trouble when he was sitting in that chair
[33:50]
dancing along the Ghostbusters.
Elliott Kalan
[33:51]
And in the Ghostbusters music video, they're kind of like strutting down the street.
Stuart Wellington
[33:57]
I would say in the opening credits of the real Ghostbusters animated show, they're dancing
[34:03]
down the street before Slimer slimes the ground underneath them in the ball.
[34:07]
That's what yeah.
[34:08]
It definitely applies to the real life Dan Aykroyd's dancing ability.
[34:10]
So I would say I'm going to give him a ten out of ten.
Elliott Kalan
[34:13]
Okay.
[34:14]
Okay.
[34:14]
Wow.
[34:14]
I was going to give them an eight, which was solid, but limited, but ten.
[34:18]
Okay, great.
[34:19]
Yeah.
[34:19]
Let's go with that.
Stuart Wellington
[34:19]
Interesting.
[34:20]
I can't believe I guessed Dragnet and then doubted myself because I've never seen the movie.
[34:28]
You've never seen it?
[34:29]
No.
Elliott Kalan
[34:30]
Dan, don't act like it's crazy that he's never seen Dragnet.
Dan McCoy
[34:33]
I mean, it's kind of crazy just because of like our age.
[34:36]
Like that movie was on TV a lot.
[34:37]
It was on TV all the time.
[34:38]
That's true.
Stuart Wellington
[34:40]
Yeah, I was like reading books and stuff.
[34:43]
Were you reading books about Dragnet?
[34:45]
Yeah.
Elliott Kalan
[34:46]
It was often played on a WPIX New York's movie station.
[34:51]
You know what I'll say about that movie?
[34:52]
Go on.
[34:53]
It's fine.
[34:54]
Oh, wow.
Dan McCoy
[34:55]
You'll get a little bit of enjoyment out of Dragnet.
[34:58]
Dan Aykroyd does a funny Joe Friday fast talking guy.
[35:02]
Yeah.
[35:03]
Tom Hanks is Tom Hanks.
[35:04]
He's lovable.
Elliott Kalan
[35:05]
I mean, it plays into their strengths.
[35:06]
It's silly.
[35:08]
Yeah.
[35:08]
I think they made the right choice by doing a comedy of it
[35:11]
and not doing a straightforward gritty Dragnet.
[35:15]
Although they did do a gritty Dragnet show years later
[35:17]
with Ed O'Neill, right?
Dan McCoy
[35:19]
I don't know.
[35:20]
But I will say this.
[35:22]
Stuart, even though you've beaten yourself up
[35:24]
for your cultural oversight.
[35:26]
Yeah.
[35:26]
You still have five points to Elliot's.
[35:29]
Four points.
[35:30]
Making you the wrap-up wrap champion for 2025.
Stuart Wellington
[35:34]
Elliot, can you give me a little wrap-up wrap
[35:36]
for my victory in this game?
[35:39]
Oh, please don't.
[35:40]
Let's see.
[35:42]
Stu is the winner.
[35:44]
Elliot's the winner.
[35:44]
My name is Stu, and I'm here to say,
[35:45]
I win these games every day.
[35:48]
Okay.
[35:48]
Stu is the winner.
[35:50]
Elliot's the winner.
Elliott Kalan
[35:51]
Elliot's the winner.
[35:51]
Elliot's the winner.
[35:52]
I'm going to try to start with a chicken dinner.
[35:54]
Yeah.
[35:54]
I'll give you a Stu with it.
[35:55]
So your name is Stu,
[35:56]
and you're here to say,
[35:58]
you won the game in a major way.
[35:59]
Yeah.
[35:59]
Yep.
Stuart Wellington
[36:01]
And then Elliot stinks every way.
[36:06]
There's a long kazoo break.
Elliott Kalan
[36:11]
Okay.
Dan McCoy
[36:11]
Good job.
Elliott Kalan
[36:12]
And Dan has his spoken word part.
[36:13]
You know, baby.
[36:14]
You know Stuart's the winner.
[36:16]
Elliot didn't get as many points.
[36:17]
That's the way it goes sometimes.
[36:19]
But forget both of them.
Stuart Wellington
[36:20]
Come here with me.
[36:23]
Wow.
[36:23]
A heel turn for my hype man over here.
Dan McCoy
[36:27]
I'm just, you know,
[36:28]
playing into the sensual sounds here.
[36:31]
I love it.
[36:33]
Anyway.
[36:34]
Well, thank you for taking part in that nonsense.
[36:38]
And thank you, the listener,
[36:39]
for taking part in that nonsense by listening to it.
[36:43]
And if you want to listen to more nonsense,
[36:45]
go over to MaximumFun.org.
[36:47]
Listen to some of the other nonsense shows.
[36:49]
And you're going to put all those raps
[36:51]
on a special Spotify playlist.
[36:53]
That's right.
[36:53]
That's available.
[36:54]
You should.
[36:54]
You should.
[36:55]
Yeah.
[36:55]
Maybe we'll see if I remember or have.
[36:58]
Put the link in the show notes.
[36:59]
I know this is the guy who was too lazy
[37:01]
to transcribe the rap.
[37:03]
Although I did spend, you know,
[37:05]
multiple hours writing these things.
[37:08]
So for the, anyway.
[37:11]
I don't need to justify myself to you guys.
[37:13]
No, you work real hard.
Elliott Kalan
[37:15]
Do we pay you on an hourly basis?
[37:16]
Like what's going on?
[37:17]
You're establishing your time card here?
Dan McCoy
[37:20]
I just, you know,
[37:21]
I have a lot of internalized shame.
[37:22]
Okay.
[37:23]
Thank you to Alex Smith, our producer.
[37:25]
He goes by the name Howell Dottie,
[37:27]
all over the internet.
[37:28]
You can find him on Twitch.
[37:29]
You can find his music,
[37:31]
various places.
[37:33]
Check him out.
[37:34]
Yep.
[37:35]
But thank you for being here
[37:37]
for this episode of The Flophouse.
[37:39]
I've been Dan McCoy.
[37:41]
These have been my co-hosts,
[37:42]
Stuart Wellington.
[37:43]
Yep.
[37:44]
And Elliot Kalin.
[37:45]
Yep.
[37:46]
Till next time.
[37:48]
The Up Twins, we call them.
[37:49]
Till next time.
[37:51]
See you later.
[37:52]
Mm-hmm.
[37:54]
Do-do-do-do-do-do.
[38:01]
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[38:01]
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Dan McCoy
[38:03]
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[38:05]
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[38:06]
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[38:07]
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Description
Back in the 80s and 90s, movies LOVED to end with a rap song that went over the plot to the movie you just saw. On this mini, Dan quizzes Stu and Elliott about some examples of wrap-up raps, followed by discussion questions to really dig into this particular cinematic-musical form.
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