FH mini 123 - 80s Goofs

Dan McCoy

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[0:33] Okay, now the show.

[0:39] Hey, everyone, and welcome to the Flophouse.

[0:42] I'm Dan McCoy.

[0:43] I'm Stuart Willis.

Elliott Kalan

[0:44] And I'm Elliot Kalin.

[0:46] Stuart was laughing because he's got a cat in his lap right now.

Dan McCoy

[0:49] Yeah.

[0:50] Archie, my stripy cat is very affectionate,

[0:56] particularly with Stuart, of the house guests that we get.

[0:59] And he's rubbing all over between the two of us like,

Stuart Wellington

[1:03] hey, hey, my guests are overrated.

[1:05] What about a larch?

[1:06] He's doing what is technically called putting his stink on me.

[1:09] Yeah, he's sticking us up.

Dan McCoy

[1:11] Hey, this is the Flophouse, as previously mentioned.

[1:15] I'm Elliot Kalin.

[1:18] And I'm Dan McCoy.

[1:19] But what we do on the Flophouse.

Elliott Kalan

[1:21] We did our names backwards, Memento style.

Dan McCoy

[1:24] Primarily is to watch bad movies and then talk about them.

[1:27] However, every other week, we have been doing minis where we just kind of freestyle it.

[1:33] One of us is in charge.

[1:35] And I'm in charge this week.

[1:37] And I will say that, you know, the state of the world has sort of made it hard for me to, like,

[1:43] think of new things, sort of enjoy, enjoy things, enjoy life, conceptualize, you know,

[1:51] not just be wanting to sort of lie down and not move.

[1:56] And so it's at times like—

[1:58] I know since your boy got elected, right?

Stuart Wellington

[1:59] Now that you don't have anything to work toward.

[2:01] That's not why.

Dan McCoy

[2:04] You always like to put that out in the world.

[2:08] And I don't care for it.

[2:10] So it's weeks like these that I'm like, let's fall back on an old favorite.

[2:17] Okay.

[2:17] A refillable, if you will.

[2:19] I love favorites.

[2:20] They're my favorites.

[2:21] It's time to take a trip to the land of goofs.

[2:26] Oh!

[2:27] With a goof contest.

Elliott Kalan

[2:29] I love goofs.

[2:30] Dan loves these too, yeah.

[2:32] Oh, man.

[2:33] He doesn't love a good goof.

Dan McCoy

[2:34] There's a whole troop of them.

[2:37] Now, if you'll recall from previous installments, goof-based installments,

[2:41] the IMDb pages for films have a goof section where people are able to catalog the errors,

[2:50] the snubs, the flubs that happen in the course of making film.

Elliott Kalan

[2:57] Think of them as Hollywood's community notes, and they work just as well.

Dan McCoy

[3:01] They're bloopers without the practical jokes.

[3:03] That will make sense to people who grew up at the time that I grew up, but not other people.

Elliott Kalan

[3:07] Did you ever, Dan, when you watched the bloopers and practical jokes show, were you like me where you liked the bloopers but did not care for the practical jokes?

Dan McCoy

[3:13] I was exactly like that.

[3:14] I'm like, get these practical jokes out of here.

[3:16] I just want to see bloopers.

[3:16] Not interested.

[3:17] I want to see famous people messing up.

[3:19] Can they be meaner?

[3:20] Yeah.

[3:21] But so these are community contributed, and as such, the idea of what a goof is is wide-ranging and interesting.

Elliott Kalan

[3:33] There's a lot of academic work being done on the subject, or at least there was until recently with the government cuts.

[3:38] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[3:39] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[3:39] Now, how we do that is this is a—

[3:41] Goof master in charge over here.

[3:43] This is nominally a game where I read a goof.

[3:46] I guess I'm chief.

Stuart Wellington

[3:48] What's your official goof master title in chief?

Dan McCoy

[3:51] I'm goof master general.

[3:52] Yeah.

[3:54] This is sort of a game where I will read out a goof, and it's up to you gentlemen to try and shout out what movie you think this goof is from.

[4:04] Okay.

[4:06] Like all games, it only has limited appeal as a podcast that people listen to.

[4:12] So if you want to digress and add some zazz to it, that's always—

[4:17] Taking it seriously.

[4:18] Just gameplay.

[4:19] And this one is called I Love the 80s, but I Hate Those Fucking Goofs.

Stuart Wellington

[4:25] These are 80s movies goofs.

[4:28] These are not necessarily—

[4:29] Because we're like 80s kids around here.

[4:31] We grew up with like slap bracelets and acid-washed jeans and—

[4:37] Yeah.

[4:37] I feel like most of those things are early 90s.

Elliott Kalan

[4:38] Jurassic Park and The Net and The Matrix.

[4:42] 80s stuff, you know?

[4:43] And a 14-year-old Stuart.

[4:46] Yeah.

[4:46] Nirvana.

[4:47] 80s stuff.

Dan McCoy

[4:49] So these are all 80s movies, not necessarily the top 80s.

[4:55] The 1993 Mets, you know, 80s stuff.

[4:58] Not necessarily the top of 80s cinema, but certainly iconically 80s films.

[5:03] Stranger things.

[5:05] Now, in some of these cases, I will have redacted details that maybe are too give away.

[5:14] Well, there's a few names in here that if I just used the names, you would know what it is.

[5:19] But a lot of times, I actually just keep the name because maybe you'll remember, maybe you won't.

[5:24] Who knows?

[5:25] Anyway, that's enough explanation.

[5:27] Here's your first fucking goof.

[5:30] Alex is shown using only a plastic face shield while operating an angle grinder.

[5:36] OSHA requires eye protection also, parentheses, goggles, whenever face protection is needed.

[5:42] What kind of fucking goof made this goof?

[5:46] What movie?

[5:47] Is this Flashdance?

Elliott Kalan

[5:48] I was going to guess Flashdance also.

Dan McCoy

[5:50] Yeah.

[5:50] Well, guys, I think this might be the first time a goof was successfully guessed.

Stuart Wellington

[5:56] Usually our goofs are goofed on, but this time we un-goofed the goof.

[6:01] We're going to have to get, like, a fucking matching goof tattoos now because we finally-

[6:05] Yes, we do.

[6:06] It's going to show her in Flashdance arc-welting the word goof on us, yeah.

[6:12] Yeah.

[6:13] Or her, instead of water splashing on her, it's just goof splashing on it.

[6:17] Yeah, just a whole bucket full of goofs, yeah.

Dan McCoy

[6:19] Put some fucking goggles on.

[6:20] You're going to go blind.

[6:22] Yeah, yeah.

[6:22] And then you can't Flashdance anymore.

Elliott Kalan

[6:24] You can't dance anymore, yeah.

[6:24] You can still Flashdance.

[6:26] You just can't watch other Flashdancers.

[6:28] That's true.

[6:29] I mean, you can also go blind if the Flashdance is too flashy.

[6:32] If the Flash is too bright.

[6:33] Claim you can't Flashdance.

[6:34] Don't look into the Flash when you Flashdance, you know.

Stuart Wellington

[6:36] The thing is, nothing's going to keep, I'm going to put nothing between my peepers and the Flashdance.

[6:42] Is that what the Flash is?

Elliott Kalan

[6:43] Have you guys ever been at the, yeah, yeah, the Flash, the superhero?

[6:45] Yeah, he does dances.

[6:47] That's what the Speed Force is.

[6:48] You've been to a theater and they go, please, refrain from all Flashdance photography before the show, during the show.

[6:53] Yeah, yeah.

[6:54] I have been to one of those, yeah.

[6:55] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[6:56] And I'm like, you can't stop me.

[6:57] And I take out a DVD of Flashdance and I start taking pictures of it.

Elliott Kalan

[7:02] You're like, why did I spend so much money on these tickets to Hamilton if I'm just going to sit in my seat taking pictures of a Flashdance DVD?

[7:09] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[7:11] Okay, well, here's another goof.

[7:13] A goof you might be able to divine.

[7:15] You'll see on the street in your ordinary life.

[7:17] Yeah, yeah.

[7:18] Yeah.

[7:19] Here's a goof we've all noticed.

[7:21] Daily goof.

[7:22] Give us this day our daily goofs and et cetera.

Elliott Kalan

[7:26] Yay, I will fear no goofs for they are with me.

Dan McCoy

[7:29] Here we go.

[7:29] Gary says to the perfume sales girl, one does not refer to a 23-year-old woman, meaning Lisa, as a girlfriend.

[7:40] Name redacted, was 24 at the time of filming.

[7:43] What kind of fucking goof is this?

[7:47] That the character's age was not exactly the same age as the person playing this character.

Elliott Kalan

[7:54] We all know that actors can only play the same age that they are in in real life.

[8:00] That's just a rule.

[8:01] Jason Shatham only plays like 60-year-old man.

Dan McCoy

[8:08] This actress was a full year older than the script had her.

[8:12] A perfume sales person.

[8:14] This is a pretty good goof.

[8:16] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[8:16] Does that help you decide whether it is?

[8:18] Whether it was a good goof or not a good goof?

[8:20] Yeah, it helps me decide.

Elliott Kalan

[8:21] Yeah, it does help.

[8:22] I always love Dan's anger at the erroneous goofs.

Stuart Wellington

[8:25] Okay, this would have been the 80s.

[8:28] Yes.

[8:29] You've grasped the twin pillars of the premise here.

Elliott Kalan

[8:33] If this was a killing joke song, it would be the 80s.

Stuart Wellington

[8:36] Okay.

[8:37] Yeah.

[8:39] Let's see.

[8:40] I will say this was...

[8:45] Fuck.

[8:48] I don't know.

[8:50] Pretty in Pink.

[8:51] Sure.

Dan McCoy

[8:52] Okay.

[8:52] Do you have a guess?

[8:53] I'm going to say Lover Boy.

[8:55] You know, you came sort of close with Pretty in Pink, Stuart.

[9:00] It is Weird Science.

[9:02] Weird Science is another...

Elliott Kalan

[9:04] There is a scene in a mall in Weird Science, but I did not remember a perfume sales person.

Dan McCoy

[9:09] Well, perhaps you'll do better with this...

[9:11] Let's do it.

[9:13] Unforgivable goof.

[9:14] Probably not.

[9:15] That U2 album, The Unforgivable Goof.

[9:17] Oh, man.

[9:19] Dan, Dan, my memory is...

Elliott Kalan

[9:20] I'm not going to get it.

[9:21] My memory for movies is so bad.

[9:22] Let me just tell you.

[9:23] I don't even remember what movie I just guessed in that last one.

[9:26] I don't remember what movie I said.

[9:27] So, let's go on.

[9:28] What's this goof?

Dan McCoy

[9:30] When Name Redacted grabs some rope at the cabin...

[9:34] Okay.

[9:34] He says,

[9:36] Three-quarter inch double braid.

[9:39] The rope is actually a three-strand construction.

Elliott Kalan

[9:43] These fucking goofsters.

[9:45] I hope someone got fired for that one for sure.

Dan McCoy

[9:48] I don't know what kind of rope they're dealing with.

[9:51] I'm going to guess The Great Outdoors.

[9:52] It's a three-strand.

[9:53] I'm going to guess The Great Outdoors.

[9:54] Okay.

[9:55] I'll guess, I don't know, Funny Farm.

[9:58] You know, you're in the zone in that you're going comedy.

[10:03] And this is, I think, primarily comedy, even though it has other elements to it.

[10:07] On Golden Pond?

[10:08] Would it help you to know...

[10:12] Housepun Sematary.

[10:13] Would it help you to know that the name that I redacted was actually a number?

[10:18] Short Circuit?

[10:19] Yeah, it is.

[10:20] In fact, Short Circuit.

[10:23] Ah.

Elliott Kalan

[10:24] That might be...

[10:25] It might not be a goof for the movie.

[10:26] It might be that they're showing us that Johnny Five is alive and can now make errors in identifying rope.

Dan McCoy

[10:31] I think you should put it in the incorrectly regarded as goof section.

[10:35] You're right, Dan.

Elliott Kalan

[10:35] I have the time to go into the goof section for Short Circuit and correct the goofs with my interpretation of the scene.

[10:42] What do you got going on?

[10:43] I don't understand.

[10:44] Oh, nothing.

[10:45] Oh, nothing.

Dan McCoy

[10:45] Okay, well, here's...

[10:47] I mean, this is a goof that I know at least...

[10:49] Not to provide too big of a clue.

[10:52] I think this goof is close to Stuart's heart.

[10:55] So here we go.

[10:56] At around 10 minutes, Annie tells the truck driver she will cook for 50 kids.

[11:02] But later, at around 19 minutes, tells the Jeep driver she doesn't like to call children kids.

[11:11] Fucking character inconsistency goof.

[11:16] Her preference to not condescend to children by calling them kids is thrown in the trash when she's...

[11:24] I mean, you know, earlier in the movie.

[11:27] You have to remember back that she'd said that, but...

Elliott Kalan

[11:30] You got to have a goof brain.

[11:31] You got to be looking for goofs.

[11:32] Okay.

[11:33] Goof hunter.

Dan McCoy

[11:34] Cast your mind back nine minutes.

[11:35] Remember that this does not...

[11:37] I mean, perhaps it's a different Annie.

[11:39] Maybe she's been replaced.

[11:41] Who knows?

Elliott Kalan

[11:44] And I'm guessing it's not Annie from the movie Annie?

Stuart Wellington

[11:48] No.

[11:49] Little Orphan Annie?

Dan McCoy

[11:50] Yeah.

[11:50] That's a good guess, but I would have redacted the name if it was, in fact,

[11:53] the titular Annie.

[11:54] Yes.

[11:55] Okay.

Elliott Kalan

[11:56] So, Annie, she sometimes calls kids kids.

[11:59] Sometimes doesn't want to call them kids.

Stuart Wellington

[12:01] True Beverly Hills.

[12:04] And there's a lot of kids in this scene?

Dan McCoy

[12:08] She's just saying that later she's going to cook for 50 kids,

[12:12] but then, in both cases, she's talking about absent kids that are like...

[12:16] Okay.

[12:17] So, it's not like...

[12:18] And both cases talking to people who drive things.

Elliott Kalan

[12:20] It's not the 80s movie called like 50 Kids Adventure or something like that.

Stuart Wellington

[12:24] That would be weird if Dan tricked us on this one.

Elliott Kalan

[12:29] I'm going to guess...

[12:30] You know what?

[12:30] I have no idea, so I'm just going to guess any 80s movie that comes to mind.

[12:34] Rocky IV.

Dan McCoy

[12:35] No.

[12:36] Is it Rocky IV?

[12:37] They say a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds,

[12:41] and Annie doesn't have that.

[12:42] Of lesser minds.

Elliott Kalan

[12:43] And they don't say that, Dan.

[12:44] Ralph Waldo Emerson says that.

Dan McCoy

[12:45] Okay.

[12:46] Well, other people said it afterwards.

Elliott Kalan

[12:47] Let's get a proper attribution, Daniel.

[12:49] Yes, but...

[12:51] It's been said by many people, including me.

Stuart Wellington

[12:54] I mean, Dan's right, actually.

[12:56] You'll check the tape.

[12:57] It's true.

Elliott Kalan

[12:58] Other people have said it.

[12:59] That's true.

[12:59] Not just my boy, RWE.

[13:01] Friday the 13th.

[13:02] Friday the 13th.

[13:03] You're right.

[13:05] Okay.

[13:06] The only goof in the movie, an otherwise flawless film.

[13:08] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[13:09] This is an unconscionable.

[13:10] I feel like I'm learning that I'm the real goof.

[13:15] I can't believe they did this, but here goes.

[13:19] How could they?

[13:20] How could they?

[13:21] This is my beautiful boy.

[13:23] Name Redacted says,

[13:25] I would have waited an eternity for this

[13:28] while standing over the fallen,

[13:30] Name Redacted.

[13:32] Literally waiting forever means it would never happen.

[13:35] What a fucking semantic goof.

[13:39] A temporal semantic goof being made there.

[13:42] If you waited forever, it would never happen.

Elliott Kalan

[13:44] Was it Thunderball where the villain was semantic goof?

[13:50] Well, well, well, semantic goof.

[13:52] Your plan was never going to succeed.

[13:56] This is a very 80s property.

[13:58] I think you'll find that what you mean to say is,

[13:59] my plan was unlikely to succeed.

[14:02] You can't prove a negative.

[14:03] You can't say it would never succeed.

Stuart Wellington

[14:07] So an 80s movie.

[14:08] I would have waited an eternity for this.

[14:10] Yeah, this is a very 80s.

Dan McCoy

[14:12] Masters of the Universe?

[14:14] That's a good call.

[14:16] It's very close.

[14:17] Okay.

[14:18] Stuart, can you take that double hint?

Stuart Wellington

[14:20] Yeah, I'm going to say crawl.

Dan McCoy

[14:25] Is it crawl, Dan?

[14:25] I see where you're going,

[14:27] but the closest was that it's an 80s cartoon.

[14:30] It's Transformers the movie.

[14:32] Oh.

[14:33] It's Optimus Prime is the one who's fallen.

[14:36] Yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[14:37] So the goof is not that they're living robots

[14:40] that turn into cars?

Dan McCoy

[14:41] No.

[14:42] I mean, that's a pretty egregious goof.

[14:44] I've never seen that.

[14:44] It's pretty fucked up.

[14:45] This doesn't exist in real life.

[14:47] No.

[14:48] Let's take a brief moment to, for one.

[14:52] To remember the goofs we've lost.

[14:54] Remember the goofs we've lost.

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[18:38] Now, back to the sort of game that I am making you guys do.

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Elliott Kalan

[18:47] I think, I honestly say Stuart's winning.

[18:48] Actually, Dan, can I throw a plug in to salve my wounds

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[19:24] Well, enough talk of practical jokes.

[19:26] Let's get back to the bloopers.

[19:28] The goofs, if you will.

[19:30] What a segue.

Elliott Kalan

[19:31] Dan, you're getting pretty good at this.

[19:32] It only took like a little bit less than two decades.

Dan McCoy

[19:34] Yeah.

[19:35] Well, did you see all that stumbling

[19:36] I did during the ad break?

[19:39] Well, here we go.

[19:40] Here's a goof for you, goofsters.

[19:43] Oh, boy.

Stuart Wellington

[19:44] Let me buckle my goof belt.

Dan McCoy

[19:47] Yeah.

[19:47] It's going to be a goofy ride.

[19:48] Strap on your sock garters, because I'm about to knock them off.

Stuart Wellington

[19:53] Near the end.

[19:53] Knock the garters off?

[19:55] Yeah.

[19:56] Okay.

Dan McCoy

[19:57] Near the end, when Alice is showing Tess her new office, she says,

[20:01] hit Shift-S for your schedule.

[20:03] Now, on any keyboard anywhere, Shift-S will bring up a capital S.

[20:09] So she would have to type something else for her schedule.

[20:12] It's a good point.

Stuart Wellington

[20:13] Goddamn.

[20:13] I'm going to guess it's Working Girl.

[20:15] I'm going to guess it's Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead.

[20:18] Elliot, you are on the board.

[20:20] God, finally.

[20:21] I think we both have one point now.

Dan McCoy

[20:22] Finally.

[20:23] It is Working Girl, but apparently Mike Nichols has never used a fucking computer in his life.

[20:30] I'm going to believe that at that point in Mike Nichols' life, he had not used a word processor.

[20:34] Probably he was not familiar with it.

Elliott Kalan

[20:35] I will say that's a dumb goof to worry about, but it is a pretty funny goof, because, yeah,

[20:39] they should know that.

[20:40] Shift-S does just give you a capital S, because that's also how it works on a typewriter, too.

[20:45] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[20:47] Well, coincidentally, here's another typing-related goof.

[20:50] We're in the typing section.

[20:52] I love it.

[20:53] Near the end, when Name Redacted is typing on her computer, apparently she's typing the

[20:59] longest word in the history of modern language, because her fingers never touch the space bar.

[21:05] What kind of idiots.

[21:06] Yeah, we got fucking Molly Bloom over here.

[21:10] Yeah, are we to believe this is some sort of-

Elliott Kalan

[21:12] Miss Bloom, Mrs. Bloom, I want to talk to you about this memo that you said.

[21:16] Germanic knock-down word.

[21:17] Yes, I said yes over and over again.

Dan McCoy

[21:21] Who wrote this long-ass word?

Elliott Kalan

[21:24] Dan, you make a good point.

[21:25] They could just be typing in German.

[21:26] It's true.

[21:28] Let's see.

[21:28] So, I assume it's not a German movie or a German character, or else it would be less of a goof.

[21:33] Yes.

[21:34] So, it's not the bad guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark, so it's probably not Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[21:38] There's also, I don't think, any scenes of him typing in that movie.

[21:41] No, it was-

Dan McCoy

[21:41] Yeah, yeah.

[21:42] It was certainly before, word processors.

Elliott Kalan

[21:45] Yes, I mean, they had typewriters in the 1930s.

[21:47] Not typewriters, but-

[21:48] Yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[21:49] Somebody types a really long thing.

[21:52] It's a long time.

Elliott Kalan

[21:54] On a typewriter?

Dan McCoy

[21:56] Or on a computer?

[21:58] Also-

[21:59] Typing on her computer, it says.

[22:00] Oh, okay.

[22:01] And what movie is this from?

[22:02] Oh, you almost got me.

[22:04] Almost got you.

Stuart Wellington

[22:05] You just had to say it.

[22:07] I'm going to say, let's see, typing on a computer.

Dan McCoy

[22:12] Mm-hmm.

[22:12] It's a movie that has a computer in it, so that'll-

Elliott Kalan

[22:15] Right, but from the 80s, that narrows it down.

Dan McCoy

[22:17] It kind of does, right?

[22:20] War games.

[22:20] War games never touch the space bar.

[22:22] War games look good.

Elliott Kalan

[22:22] Except, I don't think, I don't know if a woman ever touches a keyboard in war games.

[22:26] I think it's all-

Stuart Wellington

[22:27] I'm going to say real genius.

Elliott Kalan

[22:30] It is When Harry Met Sally.

Dan McCoy

[22:32] Sally is typing in the end, and apparently-

[22:35] Sally's typing.

[22:36] Does not care to break up her words.

[22:39] No.

Elliott Kalan

[22:40] She's writing the old Roman Latin style, where the words just run together.

Stuart Wellington

[22:43] Yeah, that's part of what took him so long to get together, I think.

[22:46] He couldn't read their letters.

Dan McCoy

[22:48] Just mad at the length of the words in her.

[22:52] Pardon me, I have to belch.

[22:54] One second.

[22:54] Cover me.

[22:55] Cover me, boys.

[22:57] You didn't cover me.

[22:58] You didn't cover me.

[22:59] No.

[23:00] You let me down.

[23:00] I want to hear the belch.

[23:01] Yeah, we wanted to hear it.

Elliott Kalan

[23:05] Well-

[23:05] After that buildup.

Dan McCoy

[23:08] As punishment, you get another goof.

[23:10] Here's one.

Elliott Kalan

[23:10] No!

Dan McCoy

[23:12] Both name-redacted and name-redacted have lunches that require refrigeration, sushi, and a carton

[23:21] of milk.

[23:22] Both of these are sitting in a warm library for hours, likely would make the consumers sick.

Elliott Kalan

[23:28] Oh, breakfast club.

Dan McCoy

[23:29] That's what I was going to guess, too.

[23:31] Yeah.

[23:32] Well, Stu got there first, so I'm going to give him the breakfast club.

Stuart Wellington

[23:36] Every time he says name-redacted, I think he's saying name-er, and I'm like, name-or's

[23:39] in this?

Elliott Kalan

[23:42] Have lunches that require-

[23:43] There is no way name-or would have stayed for the whole detention in the breakfast club.

[23:47] He would have said, me, I, the prince of Atlantis, enclosed due to some principles demand,

[23:54] imperious wrecks.

[23:55] And he would have just burst out through the wall.

[23:56] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[23:57] You know, they do require refrigeration.

[23:59] I don't think that necessarily leaving out a carton of milk for, like, a morning is going

[24:04] to make you sick by the end of it.

[24:07] You don't know how long it was left out for.

[24:08] I'm not the goof master for this one.

[24:10] But I thought you were the goof master general.

[24:12] I'm the goof master general.

[24:13] Oh, I see.

[24:13] But I'm not this specific.

Elliott Kalan

[24:15] You're good at delegating.

[24:16] That's the thing.

[24:17] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[24:18] Whoever, which one of my minions put this goof in there.

[24:21] Yeah, yeah.

Elliott Kalan

[24:21] They're like, the secret of management is to trust the people who are doing the work.

[24:25] So I may not always agree with them, but I have faith that they're going to do right.

[24:29] And if they don't, I course correct.

Dan McCoy

[24:30] Yeah.

[24:31] Well, they're failing the spot check.

[24:32] I'll tell you that.

[24:33] Yeah.

[24:33] That's true.

Elliott Kalan

[24:35] Here's a goof.

[24:37] The breakfast club is not an organized club.

[24:40] They receive no funding from the school for their activities.

[24:43] In fact, it's a detention.

Dan McCoy

[24:44] Here's a goof.

[24:45] Why the fuck do they call themselves the breakfast club?

[24:48] Yeah.

[24:48] Doesn't really relate to anything.

Elliott Kalan

[24:51] Arms don't work as a good ashtray.

[24:55] The movie opens with the screen smashing and cracking.

[24:58] In real life, screens do not spontaneously crash.

[25:02] All right.

[25:03] Thanks.

Dan McCoy

[25:06] Characters.

[25:07] This is a new goof, by the way.

[25:09] Oh, okay.

[25:10] Oh, this is not a breakfast club.

[25:11] Confused by me.

[25:12] Because I was ready to see breakfast club again.

[25:14] Characters use odd phrasing often.

[25:17] For example, slept walked.

[25:20] Something's funny going on.

[25:23] Have you ever dove?

[25:24] And, of course, whomever might complain.

[25:28] Teague also refers to the large amount of software in the Freelings living room,

[25:32] but almost certainly means the hardware of the video equipment.

[25:36] What kind of fucking goofsters would write this bullshit way of talking,

[25:42] this idiomatic way of talking that, you know, people do all the time with malapropisms?

[25:49] Why does this goof stand?

[25:52] What movie?

Elliott Kalan

[25:53] I'm going to say it's Sex, Lies, and Videotape by our old friend Irish Soda Bread.

[25:57] I'm going to say Poltergeist.

Dan McCoy

[26:00] Stuart, my God, you're cleaning up.

[26:01] It's fucking Poltergeist.

[26:02] He's got it.

[26:03] Poltergeist.

[26:04] Wow, man.

[26:06] Honestly, I've never, I've seen Poltergeist many times.

[26:09] I've never noticed that they talk in an odd way.

[26:12] But this goof has, I guess, changed my mind.

Elliott Kalan

[26:15] I guess you haven't watched Poltergeist enough, and neither have I.

[26:17] I didn't notice it either.

Dan McCoy

[26:18] Yeah.

[26:19] Do you know that was like, I think we talked about it.

[26:22] That was like the one thing that really scared me as a kid.

[26:25] Like the guy peeling his skin off.

[26:27] Yeah, that's a scary moment.

[26:28] I'm like, why would you do that?

[26:30] Yeah.

[26:31] It's a good question.

[26:32] Stop it.

[26:32] What's the thinking behind it?

Elliott Kalan

[26:33] You're only hurting yourself, pal.

Dan McCoy

[26:35] There's no extra skin beneath that.

Elliott Kalan

[26:37] Maybe that's what he was trying to find out.

[26:40] He's like, am I a snake?

[26:41] Let me peel my skin off and see if there's more skin.

[26:43] Let's find out.

[26:43] Am I, yeah.

[26:44] Not, I guess I'm not a snake or any sort of reptile.

Stuart Wellington

[26:47] I'm not one of the aliens from V or V, the final battle.

[26:51] No, neither.

[26:52] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[26:53] Well, let me send you out the door with one final goof.

[26:56] Okay.

[26:58] This goof, my God.

[27:00] Really building up this goof.

[27:02] Characters at an outdoor concert fan themselves, presumably to show how hot it is, even though

[27:09] there's obviously a heavy breeze that would make such activity superfluous.

[27:16] What fucking idiotic piece of Hollywood trash would make a mistake, a heat-related mistake

[27:26] like this?

Elliott Kalan

[27:27] I'm going to say, stand by me, pie-eating scene.

[27:30] I'm going to say La Bamba.

Dan McCoy

[27:33] Well, surprisingly, this goof, while seemingly a bunch of nonsense, did have a clue to the

[27:41] movie in it, in that it was heat-related, as I said.

[27:44] Heat?

[27:44] That's not an 80s movie?

[27:45] Body heat.

[27:45] Oh, body heat.

[27:46] Body heat.

Stuart Wellington

[27:47] Yeah, this was heat.

[27:49] That famous scene that takes place at a concert, when Robert De Niro and Al Pacino go to a

[27:54] concert together.

Elliott Kalan

[27:56] They go to see the spin doctors together, yeah.

[27:59] That would have been awesome.

[28:01] You know, we're kind of two princes, aren't we?

[28:03] But on opposite sides.

[28:04] It takes place in LA.

Stuart Wellington

[28:05] They should have been like a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.

Elliott Kalan

[28:10] I'm not stealing things.

[28:13] People are giving away, giving away, giving away their things.

[28:15] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Stuart Wellington

[28:17] What do we mean under the bridge?

[28:21] Go on, Dan.

Dan McCoy

[28:23] May I?

[28:27] I forgot what I was going to say.

[28:28] Well, I think we've learned a lot today.

Stuart Wellington

[28:29] It was that dead-on Al Pacino I just did.

[28:32] It really was.

[28:33] I transported you into the world of heat.

Dan McCoy

[28:37] You know, I don't know what I was going to say to wrap it up, honestly.

[28:40] Right.

[28:41] Oh, I was going to.

Elliott Kalan

[28:42] Well, there's no way to prepare something like that.

Dan McCoy

[28:43] I was going to recapitulate the score.

[28:45] That's what it was.

[28:45] I wasn't keeping careful track, but I believe.

[28:49] All tied up.

[28:50] I believe it was three to one in Stuart's favor, which makes him.

[28:53] And Stuart handily won this one.

[28:55] Ooh.

[28:55] He makes him the goof of the day.

[28:57] Goof of the day.

Elliott Kalan

[28:59] That's me.

[29:00] Ironically, by missing out on the goofs, I'm the goofus, and Stuart is the gallant for

[29:05] this one.

Stuart Wellington

[29:05] So, Dan, you're going to update the Flop House Instagram page.

[29:10] Have a certificate of my awarding.

[29:13] Getting proof of the day.

[29:15] Goof of the day.

[29:15] Yeah.

[29:16] I just feel like everyone should see my achievement.

Dan McCoy

[29:22] I just wanted this to be a lesson to, you know, all you makers out there in Hollyweirds that

[29:27] the internet is on the case.

[29:29] They're not going to let you get away with these kinds of shoddy pieces of work.

[29:34] So, make sure everything's tight or else lest you be the goof.

[29:39] But anyway.

Elliott Kalan

[29:41] Yeah.

[29:41] Goof or be goofed.

[29:42] That's the law that Dan lives by.

[29:44] Yeah.

Dan McCoy

[29:44] This has been.

Elliott Kalan

[29:46] And as the Lord has said, goof not lest ye be goofed yourself.

Dan McCoy

[29:51] Yeah.

[29:52] Blessed are the goof finders.

[29:53] We got more goof for letting you go.

[29:55] They shall find goofs.

[29:56] Yeah.

[29:58] No, this is, you know.

[30:00] And God said, let there be goofs.

[30:02] And there was.

[30:03] This has been a short and goofy Flophouse Mini.

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[30:44] When we throw dumb stuff at him, he's always like, yeah, I can take care of that.

[30:50] I can do that for you.

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[30:53] But that's it.

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[30:57] For the Flophouse, I've been Dan McCoy.

[30:59] I've been Goof of the Week.

[31:01] Score Willington.

Elliott Kalan

[31:02] And I continue to be goofing up my goof identifying.

[31:06] This is Elliot Kalin.

[31:07] I'll goof you next time, Stuart.

[31:08] I'll goof you, but good.

Stuart Wellington

[31:10] You know you goof 100% of the shots you don't take, right?

[31:14] I thought it was that you miss 100% of the shots you don't goof.

[31:17] That's why you fucked up.

Dan McCoy

[31:19] Accounts fairy.

[31:20] All right.

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FH mini 123 - 80s Goofs

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