The Flop House Movie Minute #9 - Twin Sitters

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

[0:07] Hello, we're doing the most fly-by-night version of the Flophouse Movie Minute.

[0:15] We just watched Twin Sitters, the film that we have mentioned in passing on a number of

[0:21] Flophouse episodes, and Stuart was kind enough to buy for me as a birthday gift.

[0:28] Well, it's fair to say that it did not disappoint, so I just want to quickly go around, around Robin,

[0:34] around table, and say what our favorite element of Twin Sitters was. So I'm gonna, I'll just start

[0:43] off, my favorite element of Twin Sitters was that the love interest played by Rena Sofer,

[0:48] who you may know as, she was on the last season of 24, she was on Heroes as Nathan Petrelli's wife.

[1:01] The love interest dated both of the Twin Sitters, the two barbarian brothers, and she seemed equally

[1:09] interested in both of them, and even at the end of the film, she was happily dating one on one

[1:16] night and one on the next night, and the barbarian brothers appear to be totally cool with that, and I

[1:21] think that's a pretty awesome, I was excited about that romantic resolution. So Stuart, what's your

[1:28] favorite element of Twin Sitters? I don't know, like it's a tough call. I like how the barbarian

[1:34] brothers choose nonviolent ways to deal with the various terrorists they have to fight. They're

[1:40] terrorists, right? Were they terrorists, Dan? I have no idea. They're basically terrorists.

[1:45] Okay, cool. So I also like that when confronted with the FBI, when the FBI try and stop them

[1:53] from leaving so that they can go on their date, they pull up cars and then the FBI drives over,

[1:59] no wait, the FBI drive their cars up, I got mixed up, and the barbarian brothers drive over and

[2:06] smash their cars with their giant monster truck, and I think that's a crime.

[2:13] I think that's a crime, right? The FBI agents probably could have arrested them there on the spot.

[2:17] Destruction of government property, I would assume. Yeah, so that was pretty cool. I also just really

[2:23] like the outfits. I mean, whoever was in charge of costumes, bravo, bravo. There's some great

[2:29] stuff, like the one costume where he wore that weird like Gestapo hat and like seven different

[2:34] police badges. He's like the sheriff of like seven different counties, or maybe from seven

[2:41] different eras, I don't know. Like he went back in time and defeated various different sheriffs

[2:46] and took their sheriff's badges or something. I don't know, like he's an outlaw? Like a gunslinger

[2:53] that kills sheriffs and takes their badges? That was the number of badges he has. He's got a lot

[2:58] of them. That's the thing. It wasn't the only crazy outfit. I just wanted to give you a little

[3:05] bit of a taste, dear viewer, or wait, listener. It's a listener. Okay, Elliot, go. I actually was

[3:12] going to bring up the outfits also. That's how much of a strong, like the off-the-shoulder

[3:17] half-sweatshirt with the pink bandana that the other brother wears, but there's the great thing

[3:22] about Twin Sitters is it's so rich. There's so much to bite into here, from the evil butler whose

[3:27] job was mainly to react to things in a I-can't-believe-it type way or have trays of dishes

[3:33] upended onto him, to the fact that the Barbarian Brothers seem to have performed most of the

[3:37] soundtrack themselves. But I think probably my favorite thing about it is the idea that

[3:43] identical twins are such an outlandish thing in the world of Twin Sitters that every time a pair

[3:48] of identical twins shows up, people are astounded into inaction. The big climax involves several

[3:56] pairs of identical twins, and whenever a villain sees one of the twins, then looks to the side and

[4:01] sees another one of the twins, there's a look on his face like, what? How can you be in two places

[4:06] at once? What manner of wizardry is this? How have you gained these powers of transportation, you

[4:12] know, and so forth? But they're just twins. This is not medieval. This isn't the America of 1994,

[4:18] which, no, there's no trickery at all, and you have to assume these people know that twins exist.

[4:24] They've seen Full House. It's on the air at the time. They know the Olsen twins look well

[4:29] enough like to play the same character, and yet everyone is baffled by the existence of twins.

[4:35] Well, to summarize, I just want to say one more thing about that butler.

[4:40] He apparently carries just trays of dishes around the mansion all the time, even when his master is

[4:48] out, which is most of the film. He's just carrying trays of dishes around in the event that he might

[4:54] be surprised by something, so he can drop it or he can pull it back and smash it over his own face

[5:01] or some such. Also, the number of times, in any slapstick comedy, you're going to get things that

[5:06] would have killed someone in real life, but here they were a little more extreme. At one point,

[5:10] the twins who are being sat throw a plugged-in radiator into the pool that the twins, the

[5:16] Vibrarian brothers, are in, and luckily it unplugs just at the last moment, but it would have killed

[5:20] them. Also, the twins refuse to eat the food that the Vibrarian brothers, who are Italian chefs,

[5:26] are serving, and this goes on for days, and the children show no ill effects from not eating for

[5:32] several days at a time, when in reality they would probably be very sick or frail.

[5:37] They're probably eating Fruit Roll-Ups or some shit, dude. You know kids, they're eating that

[5:41] like yogurt, you know, the yogurt in a tube. 1994. There was no go-gurt.

[5:47] The other thing I'd like to bring up, and it's not necessarily in relation to twin-sitters,

[5:51] but I think it's important, is that earlier tonight, Dan was spouting some bullshit about

[5:57] how in the movie Herbie Fully Loaded, somebody on the internet told him that people use computers to

[6:04] make Lindsay Lohan's boobs smaller. There's literally no evidence of this while watching

[6:08] the movie Herbie Fully Loaded, so viewers, you should watch Herbie Fully Loaded for boobs.

[6:15] Fair enough. Although I think that if you're just in the market for boobs,

[6:19] there are probably several places where you can get a better return on your investment.

[6:26] If you're in that specialized market, which wants to see a young woman's boobs never unclothed,

[6:32] and also a car that exhibits the emotions and actions of a human being,

[6:36] then Herbie Fully Loaded is the place for you.

[6:38] Fair enough. Well, I just want to close by saying we've watched a lot of films on the

[6:43] full episodes of The Flophouse that we've been disappointed in, that have been neither good

[6:49] movies or movies that are funny as bad movies, but I think we can all give a rousing endorsement

[6:54] to Twin Sitters as an excellent example of a bad movie that brings joy and happiness

[7:00] to everyone in the room. So for this Flophouse Movie Minute, I would like to say

[7:07] goodnight and watch Twin Sitters. And I'm Stuart, wait, I'm Stuart Wellington.

[7:15] Are we giving our names now? I'm Ellie Kaelin and this summer, twin is in. Twin Sitters.

The Flop House Movie Minute #9 - Twin Sitters

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