FH Mini 6 - Missed That Movie! - Rusty: A Dog's Tale

[0:00] uh okay guys so uh thanks for joining me tonight uh tonight is the inaugural episode of a new

[0:11] flophouse thing that i am calling missed that movie that's right we are going to be talking

[0:18] about a movie that we have uh missed for whatever reason for the podcast okay uh and in this case

[0:24] i've taken it upon myself to watch that movie and i will now describe this movie uh you can ask for

[0:31] further information if it will help you make the final decision at the end of this episode where

[0:36] you have to decide either a you're glad we missed this movie b maybe we should have watched this

[0:44] movie for the podcast or c fuck that i'm gonna watch that movie tonight okay i think so so let's

[0:52] call it glad to miss that movie sad to miss that movie or had to un-miss that movie had to un-miss

[1:00] that yeah just to get a little bit of rhyming in there that's the kind of punch up i was looking

[1:04] for this premise arrives fully formed i think i am uh right out of stew's head yeah it's leaped

[1:11] from stew's head fully formed just like his cat now as uh as i was explaining before we started

[1:18] recording i'm going to start uh i'm going to start explaining this bit and if you guys interrupt me

[1:24] i'll be furious oh that's kind of not the opposite of i mean that is the opposite of what you said

[1:29] you said we can interrupt a lot but let's do first i want to first before you get into the movie i

[1:33] want to thank you for your service in watching this film uh and your off time your non-flop time

[1:38] yeah yeah i was just a civilian watching this movie guys yeah if there was a crime being

[1:44] committed i couldn't be like stop i'm an official podcaster no this is the uh this is the articles

[1:49] that say like an off-duty podcaster watched a bad movie the other day i'm like just you know

[1:56] just doing my citizen's job uh ma'am and fellows uh okay so uh the movie in question is a movie

[2:03] called rusty a dog's tale from 1998 i'm guessing we missed it because it came out in 1998 yes if

[2:11] We had been doing the podcast 21 years ago, or 22 years ago, I guess.

[2:14] Perhaps we would have.

[2:15] Now, what kind of punctuation is used in this title?

[2:18] There's only one colon, and it's at the end of Rusty, just like Rusty the dog.

[2:25] Rusty colon, a dog's colon tail.

[2:28] That's not it?

[2:29] Yeah.

[2:29] No, usually there is a colon near the tail, though.

[2:32] Now, Stu, you've already fallen into my first trap.

[2:35] I believe there's probably an apostrophe in dogs, right?

[2:39] Mm-hmm.

[2:40] And that counts as punctuation.

[2:42] It does count, yep.

[2:43] Oh, you got me.

[2:45] So, yeah, I guess kids court, away I go.

[2:47] So that's one point on the board for me.

[2:49] Ding!

[2:49] Okay.

[2:50] We'll tally those up at the end of the game.

[2:52] Still unclear about the point system, but I'll continue to play.

[2:55] Now, I actually watched this movie twice.

[2:59] The first time I watched it recently on a Twitch stream with friend of the podcast, Alex Smith,

[3:09] for his twitch show big howl and possum uh but let's just get right into this movie now normally

[3:15] you would look at a movie with just a single written imdb review that is 10 out of 10

[3:21] featured plenty of animals and family too 10 out of 10 you're like that's probably a good movie

[3:28] and yes right off the bat i'm gonna have to explain i mean that would count as 100 on rotten

[3:34] tomatoes right that's 100 that's one review for 10 out of 10 that's 100 i mean dan you're the

[3:39] expert but that's sort of fried fresh right sort of fried fresh it's sort of fried in my tomatoes

[3:46] i was thinking about fried green tomatoes yeah you took that's you took you took a

[3:51] surda pd surda mattress you fried it up and you served it fresh

[3:55] yeah seeing the apocalypse when we have to we have to fry our rat burgers on top of the burning

[4:04] sort of mattresses that we've stolen out of the husks of buildings um so i have to explain that

[4:09] uh the first thing you have to understand is that this is a talking animal movie all the animals in

[4:16] this movie have their mouths digitally manipulated or possibly they could be very talented dog actors

[4:23] okay so what's the quality of this is this like you know your high quality babe manipulations or

[4:30] Or is this a talking cat, sort of like the mouth opens and you're into a black void kind of look?

[4:35] Oh, that's a tough one.

[4:37] I would say it's probably in the middle there.

[4:39] Okay.

[4:40] Because it doesn't look like somebody just cut a triangle out of the film to simulate a mouse.

[4:46] Does it look like the animals are trying to get peanut butter off of their teeth?

[4:49] Or does it look like, are they making the shapes of syllable sounds with their mouths?

[4:54] They are shaping some syllables with their mouths.

[4:58] It depends on the animal, of course.

[5:00] uh the the raccoon it looks like his tongue's going all over the place uh it's very dirty um

[5:06] now the other thing you have to understand is that this movie has an all-star cast that's right

[5:11] hal holbrook rue mcclanahan lorraine newman charles fleischer that is roger fucking rabbit

[5:18] uh rodney dangerfield dog me roger field himself bobcat also an animal version of his name

[5:28] Stuart, hold on.

[5:30] There's already a perfectly good dog version of Rodney Dangerfield's name.

[5:34] Rover Dangerfield.

[5:35] Which was the subject of its own film.

[5:37] It's not Dogney Roger Dog?

[5:41] It's not Dogney Roger Dog?

[5:43] You think they didn't say Rover Dogney Feld because it sounded too much like Karl Lagerfeld, guys?

[5:52] My guess is that they're...

[5:53] Yeah, it's probably why.

[5:54] I assume that's probably why and they didn't want to get the wrong audience.

[5:57] I mean, the only other thing I can imagine is that Rodney Dangerfield had such a low name recognition among children already that they didn't want to make it even harder for people to understand who this is supposed to be.

[6:07] Complicate the pun.

[6:08] And at this point, you're probably like, that's all the stars this movie could possibly have.

[6:13] And you're totally wrong at this point, because Patrick Duffy's in it, Suzanne Somers, Dougie Doug.

[6:19] It's a step-by-step reunion.

[6:20] Yep.

[6:21] And they play a married couple.

[6:23] Now, granted, they are a married couple of dogs, but still.

[6:27] um and in a in a strange twist bobcat goldthwait does not play a bobcat nope he does the voice

[6:33] for jet the turtle uh and also dougie doug does dougie doug do the voice of a of a dog

[6:38] no he does turbo the turtle dougie wait who does dougie doug oh so him and bobcat are both turtles

[6:46] yeah they're a pair of turtles they're kind of like the greek chorus of the movie okay

[6:50] and and in a credited uh in a accredited performance vincent chavelli is in this

[6:57] movie as well oh uh yeah you know um okay so ghost who can move things himself

[7:01] exactly dan um so one in the same yes not not the other vincent chavelli

[7:09] you're like at this point you're like okay so the players are all assembled

[7:14] give me a setting stewart okay so this movie takes place in and around a ranch owned by the

[7:21] callahans an elderly couple of course hal holbrook and rue mcclanahan and maintained by them and

[7:26] their grandchildren a pair of orphans jory and tess in california florida arizona one of those

[7:34] things could be one of those florida ranches yeah yeah now the movie takes place over a couple of

[7:38] New York City, could be in Alaska, could be...

[7:42] I mean, based on the mountains in the background,

[7:46] it's probably not New York City.

[7:48] No, maybe Washington, D.C.

[7:49] New York does have mountains in the background.

[7:51] Example A, Rumble in the Bronx.

[7:54] Yep, you keep bringing that up.

[7:57] I don't know why I agreed to it the first time,

[8:00] and now you always have that in your back pocket.

[8:02] So the movie takes place over a couple of days.

[8:04] The movie begins on Jory's birthday.

[8:06] Yep, one of the orphans.

[8:07] Now, conflict is introduced, that's right, when Bart and Bertha...

[8:13] Our old friend conflict rears his head in this drama.

[8:16] Bart and Bertha are trying to run a scheme.

[8:20] They're related in some way to Jorian Tess.

[8:24] Now, who plays Bart and Bertha?

[8:26] That's Charles Fleischer and Lorraine Newman.

[8:29] Oh, okay, great. So they're kind of wacky.

[8:31] They are as wacky as...

[8:33] So they are played like as if the Disney Channel was trying to make a remake of the movie Blood Simple, but using the cast, crew, and production value and locations of Disney's Hey Dude television show.

[8:49] Was Hey Dude a Disney show that was on Nickelodeon?

[8:54] It was Nickelodeon.

[8:56] It all blends together now.

[8:58] Stuart, I think that goes near to the top of my list of explanations that just made me more confused.

[9:04] I mean, this is where you and I part ways, Dan, because it could not be clearer to me.

[9:10] Yeah.

[9:11] So Bart and Bertha are trying to run a scheme, you know, that's what they do, where they can find a way to adopt these two orphans because the orphans have trust funds and they're expecting some big inheritance.

[9:21] And while Boyd and Edna, that is the Callahans, they might lose their ranch if they can't make their monthly bank payment at the end of the month.

[9:31] OK, so we have a ticking clock here.

[9:32] Sure.

[9:33] The orphans are being fostered or these are their grandparents?

[9:36] It's their grandparents.

[9:38] OK.

[9:38] And they're somehow related to a Bart and Bertha.

[9:42] I think they mentioned that they're cousins at one point and then they give them $10 to leave.

[9:46] And are Bart and Bertha, are they a couple?

[9:50] are they married or they i'm assuming uh they there's a chance that they're uh they're like

[9:58] brother and sister or something there's at no point do they express any kind of romantic interest in

[10:03] each other so i don't know but then they could also have been together for a long time and after

[10:07] a while you know romantic interest can kind of like wane a little bit oh yeah those embers cool

[10:12] but it's a different instead of the heat of passion it's the warmth of affection yeah that

[10:16] like it's the warmth of like a homely hearth homely hearth rather than a raging bonfire

[10:24] yeah an unattractive hearth yeah okay as opposed to one of those those uh outside the home hearths

[10:30] that's just like tempting you you know so let's introduce ourselves to the animals now uh the

[10:37] their ranch is filled with all your typical uh farm animals you have uh our hero is rusty the

[10:43] dog he's a little beagle and he has uh he lives in the barn with his mother and father and their

[10:49] litter of puppies uh there's chickens there's these two turtles that i mentioned before there's

[10:55] a pair of ducks uh who are always fighting over who gets to sit on an egg and then your classic

[10:59] farm animal an elephant now wait hold on just a clarity for the egg thing are they fighting

[11:05] that's what you want clarity about dan is the fight that they that one of the that they want

[11:10] to sit on the egg

[11:11] or they're trying to get

[11:11] the other person

[11:12] to sit on the egg?

[11:13] They each want to sit on the egg.

[11:15] Okay.

[11:16] I think to each of them

[11:18] the egg is both a status symbol

[11:20] and it's a last final thing

[11:23] that they can grasp onto

[11:24] as some kind of connection

[11:25] to their...

[11:26] Right.

[11:26] Maybe their...

[11:27] I don't know.

[11:29] Because my...

[11:30] I mean, this says something

[11:31] about my fitness

[11:33] to be a parent of any kind,

[11:35] but I would be arguing

[11:35] to not sit on the egg.

[11:39] That would be my position.

[11:40] Like, please don't make me sit on the egg.

[11:42] There's feed and bread that I want to go eat elsewhere.

[11:46] Well, I have two possible explanations to this.

[11:50] One, this is a classic King Solomon's duck scenario in which both ducks are claiming the same egg,

[11:57] and the only way to prove who's the real parent is to threaten to cut the egg in two and scramble that yolk.

[12:03] Number two, now I don't know if there are any specifically anal erogenous zones for

[12:09] a duck, but perhaps sitting on the egg provides a certain amount of pleasurable pressure in

[12:13] areas that ducks like to have touched.

[12:15] I don't know.

[12:16] I have not experimented that much with the backsides of ducks, maybe in the future.

[12:21] Yeah.

[12:22] Stay tuned, guys.

[12:23] Now, Stuart, the part that Dan—

[12:25] I think that's covered in an article in Play Duck Magazine probably.

[12:28] Oh, yeah, yeah.

[12:29] Well, of course.

[12:30] Well, I mean, in duck worlds, it's just taken for granted that that's where you would be attracted.

[12:37] Now, if I can ask the question that I thought Dan was going to ask, why do they have an elephant on their farm?

[12:44] It's never explained, although later on, the elephant Ellie, who can talk, plays baseball with the kids.

[12:52] And who does the voice of the elephant?

[12:54] Jane Singer, who also did the voice for Coup the Pigeon.

[12:57] No kidding.

[12:59] Okay, so the only animals, once again, I mentioned the animals talk.

[13:03] All of them talk, except for...

[13:04] Okay, so Jane Singer, it appears, is mostly a voice actor, a number of different video games on her IMDb page.

[13:11] I will say, if, you know, aficionados of animal voiceover, if you were wondering whether Frank Welker is in this movie, he is in this movie as Boss Duck.

[13:23] Oh, good.

[13:24] Oh, he's the Boss Duck, okay.

[13:26] So this is a Frank Welker joint.

[13:29] Something I want to point out about Jane Singer's IMDb is that her most recent credit is from a video game call or perhaps a cartoon called Marvel Superhero Adventures Frost Fight in which she voices Mrs. Claus.

[13:43] Now, as far as I knew, Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus were not officially part of the Marvel Universe canon, but apparently they are here.

[13:49] So I guess look forward to a new Santa Claus comic from Marvel.

[13:55] Yeah, Dan, do you have any opinions on whether or not Santa Claus is part of the Marvel Universe?

[13:59] Well, I do think that, I mean, I believe that I've seen him in Marvel Comics before.

[14:04] I mean, usually, though, it's like the Rhino dressed up for a heist.

[14:10] Yeah.

[14:11] Yeah, I mean, I don't know whether these are like what-if stories or like outside of canon or whatever.

[14:20] But I'm pretty sure I've seen at least a story where some hero helps save Christmas, and that involves Santa Claus.

[14:28] Isn't it great if there was a what-if issue that was what if Santa Claus was real, and the watcher just opens it up and is like, look, everybody, sometimes I get lazy.

[14:35] Because Santa Claus, I'll just say, Santa Claus does have amazing powers.

[14:41] He can squeeze through any small opening.

[14:43] He can travel at close to light speed.

[14:45] He's like the Silver Surfer that way because he goes around the whole earth living presence in one day.

[14:49] And he's an anti-Semite, which is a powerful power.

[14:52] Now, I don't know.

[14:55] You're right, you're right.

[14:56] I don't.

[14:56] He dislikes all non-Christians.

[14:59] I shouldn't have just singled out Jewish people.

[15:00] All right.

[15:01] Now, if you were wondering, yes, this movie is absolutely brick-walled with constant singing, scat, goofy music, farts, etc.

[15:14] If you are ever bored for a moment, you will not be bored in a second later because there will be a new song or a new person talking as an animal.

[15:21] I'm just going to say with that many animals on set, I would expect a lot of scat.

[15:25] Yeah.

[15:27] Okay.

[15:27] Yeah.

[15:29] So after a perfunctory birthday party, the kids go to the fair where Bart and Bertha are dressed as clowns.

[15:40] and they attempt a minor crime of taking a wallet they just fined.

[15:45] And that crime is foiled by Rusty, and that causes mild havoc at the fair.

[15:50] And Bart and Bertha lose their job, putting them in a kind of desperate position

[15:55] where they don't have enough money to buy lunch.

[15:58] So, of course, they come up with a new scheme where they are approached by a wealthy man,

[16:03] and they decide they're going to steal some puppies to sell.

[16:06] Now, while the kids are playing baseball with the elephant,

[16:10] Bart and Bertha then sneak onto the ranch and steal the puppies in order to cut off the old people's source of income.

[16:17] Oh, no.

[16:18] Wait, guys.

[16:18] I want to issue a late correction for something I said earlier.

[16:21] I got the voice—I got Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit, mixed up with John Kassir, the voice of the Crypt Keeper.

[16:31] I think I credited him as the Crypt Keeper earlier.

[16:34] I just got them mixed up.

[16:35] Everybody, if you were writing your angry letters, find something else to write it about.

[16:41] But I've also made this mistake before.

[16:43] Organizing some like pun-based correction.

[16:45] I don't know why for some reason they're associated.

[16:48] I mean, it's similar.

[16:49] The voices are a little similar in some ways.

[16:51] And Charles Fleischer was in an episode of Tales from the Crypt and one of the movies.

[16:58] Maybe that's where the confusion comes from.

[17:01] Okay, so Stuart, long story short.

[17:05] everyone's in trouble, right?

[17:07] Yeah, so they steal these puppies.

[17:09] They, of course, take the littlest puppy

[17:11] and just leave it in the middle of a field to die.

[17:13] It's very strange.

[17:14] Rusty then goes on a quest to save his brothers and sisters.

[17:17] And along the way, he meets some new animal friends.

[17:21] He saves his little sister from an alligator.

[17:23] He has a dream journey where he remembers his life from birth

[17:26] up through the events of the movie.

[17:27] He drinks some cow's milk.

[17:29] He hitches a ride from a cool, behatted skateboarding dog named Rebel

[17:32] before eventually just going home to get reinforcements.

[17:36] Any questions up to this point?

[17:37] So, okay, I...

[17:39] No, I think that was a pretty...

[17:40] I mean, you painted a real word picture for us, yeah.

[17:42] Now, I mean, the basics of this movie

[17:44] are still confusing to me,

[17:47] mostly because a combination of constant derailing

[17:51] by both of us

[17:53] and just my general lack of comprehension of things.

[17:58] Now, Bart and Bertha, they're animals.

[17:59] No, they're human beings.

[18:02] are they they're sort of of the of the of the film i would describe them as desperate schemers

[18:11] okay and so the perhaps and perhaps desperate dreamers the major conflict is that uh the people

[18:19] who own the puppy farm are having their puppies stolen by these schemers because the schemers

[18:28] don't have money is that what's happening uh-huh yep and yeah and the old people don't have money

[18:34] either it's a because they're about to lose their their puppy farm so rusty was he was he stolen and

[18:41] he's coming back like an incredible journey no rusty is trying to rescue the puppies all on his

[18:48] own initially and then he realizes you know he's he is only as strong a single fist isn't strong

[18:54] enough but many fists raised in anger now that can do it so he gets all the animals together to

[19:00] save the puppies remind me to talk to you guys about uh the director of this movie who and i'm

[19:06] to be shuki levy or levy who is mostly a composer and composed among other things the theme songs

[19:12] for inspector gadget he-man the 90s x-men animated series lots of things and was a very very big part

[19:19] of the mighty morphin power rangers yeah because this is uh this is saban entertainment oh okay

[19:25] so he was a big saban entertainment guy yeah um so all the animals go to save the puppies now at

[19:31] this point you're probably saying there's a lot of animal action what are the humans up to and i'm

[19:34] going to tell you not much the kids are occasionally like talking about how they like why do bart and

[19:40] bertha want them to be adopted uh what's uh what it's like to be an orphan etc like why are animals

[19:47] great um so bart and bertha leave their uh their very overly decorated shack to sell one of the

[19:55] puppies uh the animals arrive and the elephant destroys their home uh bart and bertha are on

[20:01] the run from the last pup and all the animals team up using their unique talents whether it's being

[20:06] scary looking or being able to shit on a van and uh and upend it and have it drive fall down a

[20:13] an ability that any animal would have like i don't feel like that's a specialized ability to

[20:19] shit on i mean i think it's a i think it's a targeting ability okay i mean i mean stewart

[20:24] i could shit on a van if that's what you need yeah yeah i think it's time for you to put some

[20:29] money where your mouth didn't happen dan i'm gonna need pictures or video of this yeah so

[20:35] so which that's what your tiktok account is all based on right when you realize you couldn't do

[20:40] those synchronized dances, you're just taking

[20:42] shit. Yeah, but set

[20:45] to huge hit tunes.

[20:46] Yeah. Alright. No one wants

[20:49] to hear this. But Stuart, whose power

[20:51] is whose? What are the animals,

[20:52] which animals have different talents? Well, the

[20:54] elephant is... Like, what do the turtles do?

[20:56] The turtles mainly spend

[20:59] the movie trying to travel from one

[21:01] area to the next area,

[21:02] but every, like, the action

[21:04] passes them by, and then they have to turn around

[21:06] and make it, you know, slowly.

[21:08] okay what about the so what's the elephant's talent is that the shitting one well no the

[21:13] elephant destroys their home and then chases their vw bus uh or vw van uh around the raccoon

[21:22] jumps onto ratchet the raccoon jumps and scares them uh the snake whose name i forget who is

[21:28] constantly talking about wanting to bite humans it's an albino boa constrictor dude it's a

[21:32] beautiful creature and that's not even a biting snake though that's a constrictor no i mean they

[21:36] Yeah, it's not a venomous snake, but, I mean, it bites at some point.

[21:40] It has to latch on before wrapping its coils around you.

[21:43] I mean, maybe love bites, maybe, like, in the throes of passion.

[21:45] Yep.

[21:47] So, of course, at this point, the animals team up.

[21:52] They destroy the Bart and Bertha's last remaining possession, their van,

[21:57] and they save the little puppy.

[21:59] Bart and Bertha go to jail.

[22:01] The puppy gets sold.

[22:02] Everybody's happy.

[22:03] The end.

[22:04] So, guys, here's the all-important question.

[22:07] You have to decide, are you glad we missed it, sad we missed it, or what was the third one?

[22:14] Or had to un-miss it.

[22:18] Yeah, had to un-miss it.

[22:19] Had to un-miss it.

[22:20] Yeah, gotta un-miss it.

[22:21] Are you sad to miss it, glad you missed it, or gotta un-miss it?

[22:25] So, Stu, I have a question for you.

[22:27] I think that fits more into our sort of vibe as a podcast, Elliot, the lack of consistency.

[22:34] now stuart are there any sequences or scenes that really stick out to you as being particularly

[22:41] memorable because i feel like any any movie no matter how great could be described in a way

[22:46] where you don't want to see it like for instance a movie like uh what's the greatest movie you can

[22:51] think of um the abyss exactly the abyss yeah and so it's like oh they're underwater and there's

[22:57] like a big water snake and it has a face at the end of it and everyone's like oh we're underwater

[23:02] Or what's going on

[23:03] Like that doesn't make me

[23:03] Want to see the abyss

[23:04] But okay

[23:06] So you're saying

[23:07] You're giving me

[23:08] One final chance

[23:09] To kind of sell

[23:10] This movie to you

[23:11] Yeah

[23:11] Okay I'm in

[23:12] Okay let's play role play

[23:13] We're in the video store

[23:14] It's 1998

[23:15] You are working

[23:17] At the video store

[23:17] And the

[23:19] Girl of your dreams

[23:20] Because you're a teenager

[23:21] The girl of your dreams

[23:22] Is going to give you

[23:23] A big kiss

[23:23] A big smackaroonie

[23:24] On the lips

[23:24] It's 1998 right

[23:26] So that would be

[23:27] What like Kathy Ireland

[23:28] Or something

[23:29] Yeah Kathy Ireland

[23:30] Is going to give you

[23:31] a big smack-a-roonie if you

[23:33] can convince me to rent Rusty a dog's

[23:35] tail. You can't lie to me.

[23:36] You can't tell me things that are not true about it.

[23:39] Pressure's on. Star of

[23:41] Necessary Roughness might give me a

[23:43] smooch-a-roonie. So let's

[23:45] see. I mean, I don't know if I'd call it the Star of Necessary

[23:47] Roughness. Scott Bakula is more of the...

[23:49] Or Sinbad. Like, those are kind of the

[23:51] bigger marquee names of Necessary

[23:53] Roughness. I don't know.

[23:54] I mean, that football with the

[23:56] horns and the hat and the sunglasses

[23:58] is kind of the biggest star. That's not even a character in the movie.

[24:01] I mean, that's the most disappointing thing about the movie

[24:04] is that that guy never shows up, which is too bad

[24:06] because he's got star part written

[24:08] breakout character written all over him

[24:10] like him and Spuds McKenzie

[24:12] You're certainly speaking to the person

[24:14] who was the, when I was a kid

[24:16] growing up, every time I'd watch the Super Bowl

[24:18] I was most excited for the animation

[24:20] of the Bud Bowl

[24:21] You know, between that movie

[24:24] and Major League, it was real

[24:25] it was a real renaissance for sort of

[24:27] B- level

[24:28] ragtag loser sports comedy.

[24:34] I feel like Major League

[24:36] is at least one step above

[24:38] necessary for this.

[24:39] I was averaging the scores.

[24:43] I thought you were saying

[24:44] it was a golden time

[24:46] for sports ball-related mascots

[24:49] that aren't actually in the movie.

[24:50] Because Major League

[24:51] has that baseball

[24:52] with the sunglasses

[24:53] and the mohawk, right?

[24:54] Wait, he wasn't in the movie?

[24:56] Not in the movie.

[24:57] Oh, that was Charlie Sheen.

[24:58] He's sort of a Charlie Sheen avatar, that ball.

[25:01] Not the same, Dan.

[25:03] That poster promised me a talking baseball that was super cool and had a rad attitude.

[25:08] Yeah, you're hoping that when Charlie Sheen got up on the mound to pitch,

[25:12] that the ball would appear over his shoulder like his persona or his stand or something.

[25:17] Yeah, exactly.

[25:18] And it would be on his shoulder like a little helper that's like,

[25:21] yeah, throw a fastball now, Chaz.

[25:24] Or, like, why wasn't there a hockey movie where there's, like, a puck that had, like, a Hawaiian shirt and, like, a puka shell necklace?

[25:30] Why wasn't there a basketball movie?

[25:32] I mean, that's because Slapshot had already been made, right?

[25:35] Yeah, right.

[25:37] And you can't do another hockey movie.

[25:38] Mighty Ducks, D2, D3, Stuart, you're roasted.

[25:41] Or Goon or the sequel.

[25:44] Yeah, it's like, or, yeah, Slapshot 2, slapping it.

[25:48] Or what if there was one where there was, like, a golf ball with, like, bifocals and dentures?

[25:53] Or one where there's like a basketball and the basketball has like a pith helmet and also a welder's mask because it doesn't really know what its thing is yet.

[26:00] Yeah, yeah.

[26:01] No, I like it.

[26:02] It's also very hard to tell it's a basketball behind that welder's mask.

[26:05] So, okay.

[26:06] Kathy Ireland, she's like, stew.

[26:09] Yeah, I'm back in the video store.

[26:11] I want to kiss you, but I can only do it if you can convince this guy to rent Rusty a dog's tail.

[26:16] What part of the movie do you tell me about that really brings it home?

[26:20] My magnetized name tag is slightly askew.

[26:23] My family video polo just doesn't fit right.

[26:26] And my pitch is this.

[26:30] There is a scene in the movie where Bert is talking to a guy in a white suit and a white, like, Panama Jack hat.

[26:41] And the man's explaining how he would like to buy a puppy.

[26:45] And Charles Fleischer looks at him.

[26:48] Yep, Charles Fleischer, a.k.a. Bert, looks him dead in the eye and he goes, puppies, like baby dogs?

[26:55] And the man says, yes, like baby dogs.

[26:58] And at that point, that's when you know it's the right movie for you.

[27:02] Yeah.

[27:02] Oh, no.

[27:04] It's a funny joke.

[27:06] I mean, like, I don't know if that alone sells it to me.

[27:09] Here's a question.

[27:10] No, I think I'm, it's 1998, right?

[27:12] My hand is reaching towards that copy of Lawnmower Man.

[27:16] But Dan, what do you have to say?

[27:17] You're not going to be disappointed.

[27:18] My question is...

[27:21] Well, I mean, my expectations are very low.

[27:23] Yeah, yeah.

[27:23] My question is, how does the cast acquit itself?

[27:28] Because, you know, it's a galaxy of stars, as you said.

[27:30] And I say that only semi-ironically because while none of these are huge names, let's say,

[27:36] I look down the list and there's no one I am unhappy to see.

[27:41] Like, the closest it comes to that is I have no particular feelings about Patrick Duffy one way or another.

[27:47] But how does the cast acquit itself in this film?

[27:52] I mean, after you answer that, Stuart, I have a rebuttal to something that Dan just said.

[27:57] Okay.

[27:57] Is it Patrick Duffy related?

[27:59] No, it is saying that there are no big stars in the cast, a cast that includes Rue McClanahan, a golden girl.

[28:05] But, Stuart, continue.

[28:07] So I was going to say all the human actors do a very good job.

[28:12] But I would say some of the animal actors leave a little bit to be desired.

[28:17] I'm looking at you, Rusty the dog.

[28:21] However, I would take a bullet for Rebel the dog who wears a hat and rides around on a skateboard.

[28:29] Wait, who did the Rusty voice?

[28:32] Matthew Lawrence, it says.

[28:34] Matthew Lawrence, who's that?

[28:36] That is the youngest.

[28:38] Oh, he's the middle brother of Joey Lawrence.

[28:41] So Joey Lawrence is the oldest.

[28:43] Matthew Lawrence is the middle.

[28:45] Was it Mrs. Doubtfire, it looks like?

[28:48] He was on Boy Meets World, played the part of Billy in The Hot Chick.

[28:52] Was, of course, in the show Brotherly Love,

[28:55] because that was the show with all the Lawrence brothers.

[28:57] All right, all right, all right.

[28:59] So you guys have asked me a lot of questions.

[29:01] let me ask you are you glad we missed it sad we missed it or oh boy i did not miss it i'm watching

[29:09] it now you know uh i'm gonna say i i can't go so far as to say that i'm gonna go run out and watch

[29:18] rusty a dog's tail now but i will say that you had a lot more joy and verve recounting this to

[29:27] me than i feel from a lot of flop house movies that we watch so i'm gonna say that i'm i'm sorry

[29:34] i'm sad we missed it i guess that's correct we got a sad we miss it elliot i'm gonna say

[29:40] to be honest i'm glad we missed it but i because it's not like i regret not watching it and i don't

[29:49] have to watch it i'm not gonna go watch it i don't have to unmiss it i don't know you have

[29:53] you have kids and they probably like looking at animals do stuff they do like looking animals i

[29:58] mean we did recently watch babe with my two children and the younger one especially just

[30:02] liked pointing out which animals were on screen as they appeared on screen just going horse pig

[30:07] sheep horse that child would have a field day with rusty colon a dog's tail i can also get

[30:16] the same effect from just looking at a book of animal pictures with him is the thing so

[30:21] Do those pictures sing, Elliot?

[30:22] No, that's a good point.

[30:25] I think, Stuart, I think I'm so glad that you told us about this movie.

[30:30] I appreciate your watching it.

[30:31] I think I enjoyed hearing about it more than I would watching it.

[30:33] So I'm going to have to tell you, I'm sorry,

[30:36] but you will not be receiving the kiss from Kathy Ireland this time.

[30:39] Oh, no!

[30:41] Okay.

[30:43] This has been The Flophouse Presents Missed That Movie.

[30:48] I have been Stuart Wellington.

[30:50] I've been Dan McCoy.

[30:51] I'm Elliot Kaelin.

[30:53] I can't wait till the next Stuart Report.

[30:55] Dan, are you going to take on any Miss That Movie reports?

[30:59] Yeah, I would love to.

[31:00] Dan has to do the next one.

[31:00] You know what, Stuart?

[31:02] I don't know whether we're off air or still being taped or broadcast out to the world,

[31:08] but I love this new format.

[31:10] I would have so much fun doing a report for you two.

[31:15] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[31:16] That's the plan.

[31:16] That'd be great.

[31:17] Hey, Jordan, can you cut that moment of genuine joy from Dan?

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FH Mini 6 - Missed That Movie! - Rusty: A Dog's Tale

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