The Flop House: Movie Minute #36 - A Shameless Plug

[0:00] And now, the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[0:03] Flop House Movie Minute

[0:09] Meow, meow.

[0:14] That's not even close.

[0:15] Oh, hi, Flopper. Didn't see you there.

[0:17] We were just practicing the call of the Flophouse house cat.

[0:20] It's not going very well.

[0:22] I'm Matt Carmen, and this is Ksenia Yarosh.

[0:24] Hello.

[0:25] We're the co-editors of I Love Bad Movies,

[0:27] a bi-yearly print collection of essays and illustrations about great bad movies.

[0:30] It's called a zine, Grandpa.

[0:32] And we're here to tell you about the bad movie night

[0:34] that we're co-hosting with Dan, Stuart, and Elliot.

[0:36] We're all really excited about it.

[0:38] Well, if the Flophouse is so excited about it,

[0:40] why'd they ask us to do the movie minute?

[0:43] They're busy reenacting the slash-fiction scene you wrote about them.

[0:46] Ah.

[0:47] Thursday, June 30th, at 8 p.m.,

[0:48] we'll be screening the Flophouse classic Twin-Sitters

[0:50] about strangely-dressed bodybuilders

[0:52] who end up babysitting two rich kids

[0:54] who are also twins but not bodybuilders.

[0:56] It's complicated.

[0:58] The screening will take place at 92-I Trebeka,

[1:00] 200 Hudson Street in Manhattan,

[1:02] just below Canal Street.

[1:04] But what can people expect when they get there?

[1:06] Matt and I will kick the night off with a slideshow presentation

[1:08] on the great burly caretakers of American film.

[1:11] It will be enlightening and informative.

[1:13] But more importantly, you can arrive slightly late

[1:15] without feeling like you've missed anything.

[1:17] After that, we'll hand it over to the Flophouse guys,

[1:19] who will sit in the front row with microphones

[1:21] and do what you've always wanted to see them do,

[1:23] riff on a movie as it happens.

[1:25] Jokes, insults, lists of things that sound alike.

[1:28] It'll all be happening live.

[1:30] It'll be like everyone in the theater won the Flop

[1:32] with the Floppers contest, all at once.

[1:34] We've watched a few bad movies with these guys,

[1:36] and we can tell you, they're funnier than regular

[1:38] drunk people shouting things at the screen.

[1:40] They'd better be.

[1:41] They won that Grammy for Best Comedy Podcast.

[1:43] I'm not sure that's true.

[1:45] And you'll be able to drink during the screening.

[1:47] 92-I Trebeka serves beer and wine

[1:49] that you can bring into the theater.

[1:51] PBR is only three bucks,

[1:52] and beer that people actually drink is five to seven dollars.

[1:55] Plus, there will be two intermissions.

[1:57] One for a trivia round with us,

[1:58] where you'll be able to win copies of I Love Bad Movies,

[2:00] featuring essays from Dan, Elliot, and other film nerds.

[2:03] Then later in the evening,

[2:04] we'll have a special surprise interview.

[2:07] Trivia, prizes, running jokes, and commentary

[2:09] from the Flophouse.

[2:10] And maybe an appearance from the Flophouse house cat?

[2:13] Rawr, rawr!

[2:14] Hmm, still needs work.

[2:16] See a great bad movie, meet the Floppers,

[2:18] and fellow Flop fans, meet us.

[2:20] They don't know us.

[2:21] All for $12 at 92-I Trebeka in New York,

[2:24] Thursday, June 30th at 8 p.m.

[2:26] We'd recommend buying your tickets online.

[2:27] Follow the link on the Flophouse site.

[2:29] In case you're still on the fence,

[2:31] we'll just let the Flophouse tell you about this awesome movie.

[2:34] Here's part of a movie minute

[2:35] they did about twin sitters back in 2008.

[2:38] Rawr, rawr!

[2:40] My favorite element of Twin Sitters was that

[2:42] the love interest dated both of the twin sitters,

[2:46] the two barbarian brothers,

[2:48] and she seemed equally interested in both of them.

[2:50] And the barbarian brothers appear to be totally cool with that.

[2:54] I was excited about that romantic resolution.

[2:57] So, Stuart, what's your favorite element of Twin Sitters?

[3:00] I don't know.

[3:01] It's a tough call.

[3:02] I like how the barbarian brothers,

[3:04] when confronted with the FBI,

[3:07] when the FBI try and stop them from leaving

[3:10] so that they can go on their date,

[3:11] the barbarian brothers drive over and smash their cars

[3:15] with their giant monster truck.

[3:17] And I think that's a crime.

[3:19] Destruction of government property, I would assume.

[3:21] Yeah, so that was pretty cool.

[3:23] I also just really like the outfits.

[3:25] I mean, whoever was in charge of costumes, bravo.

[3:28] Bravo, there's some great stuff.

[3:30] Like the one costume where he wore that weird, like,

[3:33] Gestapo hat and, like, seven different police badges.

[3:37] He's, like, the sheriff of, like, seven different counties.

[3:40] Or maybe from seven different eras.

[3:43] I don't know.

[3:44] Like, he went back in time

[3:45] and defeated various different sheriffs

[3:48] and took their sheriff's badge or something.

[3:50] I don't know, like, he's an outlaw.

[3:52] L.A., go.

[3:53] I actually was going to bring up the outfits also.

[3:56] Like the off-the-shoulder half-sweatshirt

[3:59] with the pink bandana that the other brother wears.

[4:01] But the great thing about Twin Sitters is it's so rich.

[4:04] There's so much to bite into here.

[4:06] From the evil butler whose job was mainly to react to things

[4:10] in a I-can't-believe-it type way

[4:12] or have trays of dishes upended onto him

[4:15] to the fact that the barbarian brothers

[4:17] have performed most of the soundtrack themselves.

[4:20] But I think probably my favorite thing about it

[4:22] is the idea that identical twins are such an outlandish thing

[4:26] in the world of Twin Sitters

[4:27] that every time a pair of identical twins shows up,

[4:30] people are astounded into inaction.

[4:32] The big climax involves several pairs of identical twins,

[4:35] and whenever a villain sees one of the twins,

[4:38] then looks to the side and sees another one of the twins,

[4:40] there's a look on his face like,

[4:42] What? How can you be in two places at once?

[4:45] What manner of wizardry is this?

[4:47] But they're just twins,

[4:48] and you have to assume these people know that twins exist.

[4:52] They've seen Full House.

[4:53] It's on the air at the time.

[4:55] They know the Olsen twins,

[4:56] and yet everyone is baffled by the existence of twins.

[4:59] Well, to summarize,

[5:00] I just want to say one more thing about that butler.

[5:03] He apparently carries just trays of dishes

[5:07] around the mansion all the time,

[5:09] even when his master is out,

[5:11] which is most of the film.

[5:12] He's just carrying trays of dishes around

[5:14] in the event that he might be surprised by something,

[5:17] so he can drop it or he can pull it back

[5:21] and smash it over his own face.

[5:23] In any slapstick comedy,

[5:24] you're going to get things

[5:25] that would have killed someone in real life.

[5:27] But here, they were a little more extreme.

[5:29] At one point, the twins who are being sat

[5:31] throw a plugged-in radiator into the pool

[5:34] that the Barbarian Brothers are in,

[5:36] and luckily it unplugs just at the last moment,

[5:39] but it would have killed them.

[5:40] Also, the twins refuse to eat the food

[5:43] that the Barbarian Brothers,

[5:44] who are Italian chefs, are serving,

[5:46] and this goes on for days.

[5:48] And the children show no ill effects

[5:50] from not eating for several days at a time,

[5:52] when in reality, they would probably be very sick or frail.

[5:56] They're probably eating Fruit Roll-Ups or some shit, dude.

[5:58] You know kids, they're eating that and, like, Go-Gurt.

[6:01] You know, the yogurt in a tube.

[6:03] 1994. There was no Go-Gurt.

[6:05] I just want to close by saying

[6:07] we've watched a lot of films

[6:09] that we've been disappointed in

[6:10] that have been neither good movies

[6:13] or movies that are funny as bad movies,

[6:15] but I think we can all give a rousing endorsement

[6:17] to Twin Sitters as an excellent example

[6:21] of a bad movie that brings joy and happiness

[6:24] to everyone in the room.

[6:26] So, for this Flophouse Movie Minute,

[6:28] I would like to say goodnight and watch Twin Sitters.

[6:32] This summer, twin is in.

[6:35] Twin Sitters.

The Flop House: Movie Minute #36 - A Shameless Plug

Transcript

Description