The Flop House Movie Minute #9 - Twin Sitters

Dan McCoy

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

[0:10] 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 Flophouse episodes,

[0:23] 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, round table,

[0:36] and say what our favorite element of Twin Sitters was.

[0:41] So I'm going to, I'll just start off.

[0:43] 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.

[0:56] She was on Heroes as Nathan Petrelli's wife.

[1:01] The love interest dated both of the Twin Sitters, the two Barbarian Brothers,

[1:08] and she seemed equally interested in both of them.

[1:11] And even at the end of the film, she was happily dating one on one night and one on the next night.

[1:17] And the Barbarian Brothers appeared to be totally cool with that.

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

[1:26] So Stuart, what's your favorite element of Twin Sitters?

Stuart Wellington

[1:30] I don't know.

[1:31] Like, it's a tough call.

[1:33] I like how the Barbarian Brothers choose non-violent ways to deal with the various terrorists they have to fight.

[1:40] The terrorists, right?

[1:41] Were they terrorists, Dan?

[1:42] I have no idea.

Dan McCoy

[1:43] I couldn't be terrorists.

[1:44] They're basically terrorists.

[1:45] Okay, cool.

Stuart Wellington

[1:46] So I also like that when confronted with the FBI, when the FBI try and stop them from leaving so that they can go on their date,

[1:55] they pull up cars, and then the FBI drives over.

[1:59] No, wait.

[2:00] The FBI drives their cars up.

[2:02] I got mixed up.

[2:03] And the Barbarian Brothers drive over and smash their cars with their giant monster truck.

[2:10] And I think that's a crime.

[2:13] I think that's a crime, right?

Elliott Kalan

[2:14] FBI agents probably could have arrested them there on the spot.

[2:17] Destruction of government property, I would assume.

Stuart Wellington

[2:20] Yeah, so that was pretty cool.

[2:22] I also just really like the outfits.

[2:24] I mean, whoever was in charge of costumes, bravo.

[2:27] Bravo.

[2:28] There's some great stuff.

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

[2:36] He's, like, the sheriff of, like, seven different counties.

[2:39] Or maybe from seven different eras.

[2:43] Like, he went back in time and defeated various different sheriffs and took their sheriff's badges or something.

[2:49] Like, he's an outlaw?

[2:51] Like a gunslinger that kills sheriffs and takes their badges?

[2:55] I don't know if you can count the number of badges he has on his badge.

[2:57] He's got a lot of them, yeah.

[2:58] He's one of them.

[3:00] Yeah, that's the thing.

[3:02] It wasn't the only crazy outfit.

[3:04] I just wanted to give you a little bit of a taste, dear viewer.

[3:07] Or, wait, listener?

[3:08] It's a listener.

[3:09] Okay.

[3:09] Elliot, go.

Elliott Kalan

[3:11] I actually was going to bring up the outfits also.

[3:13] That's how much of a strong, like, the off-the-shoulder half-sweatshirt with the pink bandana that the other brother wears.

[3:21] But the great thing about Twin Sitters is it's so rich.

[3:23] There's so much to bite into here.

[3:25] From the evil butler whose job was mainly to react to things in a I-can't-believe-it type way or have trays of dishes upended onto him.

[3:34] To the fact that the Barbarian Brothers seem to have performed most of the soundtrack themselves.

[3:40] But I think probably my favorite thing about it is the idea that identical twins are such an outlandish thing in the world of Twin Sitters that every time a pair of identical twins shows up, people are astounded into inaction.

[3:53] There's a – the big climax involves several pairs of identical twins.

[3:57] And whenever a villain sees one of the twins, then looks to the side and sees another one of the twins, there's a look at his face like, what?

[4:05] How can you be in two places at once?

[4:07] What manner of wizardry is this?

[4:09] How have you gained these powers of transportation?

[4:12] And so forth.

[4:13] But they're just twins.

[4:14] This is not medieval – this isn't the America of 1994.

[4:18] There's no chainery.

[4:19] No, there's no trickery at all.

[4:21] And you have to assume these people know that twins exist.

[4:24] They've seen Full House.

[4:25] It's on the air at the time.

[4:27] They know the Olsen twins look well enough like to play the same character.

[4:32] And yet everyone is baffled by the existence of twins.

Dan McCoy

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

[4:38] He apparently carries just trays of dishes around the mansion all the time.

[4:46] Even when his master is out, which is most of the film, he's just carrying trays of dishes around in the event that he might be surprised by something.

[4:56] So he can drop it or he can pull it back and smash it over his own face or some such.

Elliott Kalan

[5:02] Also, the number of times – any slapstick comedy, you're going to get things that would have killed someone in real life.

[5:08] But here, they were a little more extreme.

[5:10] At one point, the twins who are being sat throw a plugged-in radiator into the pool that the twins – the Barbarian Brothers are in.

[5:18] And luckily, it unplugs just at the last moment.

[5:20] But it would have killed them.

[5:21] Also, the twins refuse to eat the food that the Barbarian Brothers, who are Italian chefs, are serving.

[5:27] And this goes on for days.

[5:29] And the children show no ill effects from not eating for several days at a time when, in reality, they would probably be very sick or frail.

Stuart Wellington

[5:37] They're probably eating fruit roll-ups or some shit, dude.

[5:40] You know kids, they're eating that in, like, Go-Gurt, you know, the yogurt in a tube.

[5:44] 1994.

[5:45] Yeah.

[5:45] There was no Go-Gurt.

[5:46] Okay.

[5:47] The other thing I'd like to bring up, and it's not necessarily in relation to twin sitters, but I think it's important, is that Dan was – earlier tonight, Dan was spouting some bullshit about how in the movie, Herbie Fully Loaded,

[6:00] somebody on the internet told him that people use computers to make Lindsay Lohan's boobs smaller.

[6:06] There's literally no evidence of this while watching the movie Herbie Fully Loaded.

[6:10] So, viewers, you should watch Herbie Fully Loaded for boobs.

Dan McCoy

[6:15] Fair enough.

[6:16] Although, I think that if you're just in the market for boobs, there are probably several places where you can get a better return on your investment.

Elliott Kalan

[6:25] If you're in that specialized market which wants to see a young woman's boobs, never unclothed, and also a car that exhibits the emotions and actions of a human being,

[6:35] then Herbie Fully Loaded is the place for you.

Dan McCoy

[6:38] Fair enough.

[6:39] Well, I just want to close by saying we've watched a lot of films on the full episodes of the Flophouse that we've been disappointed in that have been neither good movies or movies that are funny as bad movies.

[6:51] But I think we can all give a rousing endorsement to Twin Sitters as an excellent example of a bad movie that brings joy and happiness to everyone in the room.

[7:02] So for this Flophouse Movie Minute, I would like to say goodnight and watch Twin Sitters.

Stuart Wellington

[7:10] And I'm Stuart, wait, I'm Stuart Wellington.

Elliott Kalan

[7:14] Are we giving our names now?

[7:16] I'm Ellie Kalen, and this summer, Twin is in.

[7:20] Twin Sitters.

The Flop House Movie Minute #9 - Twin Sitters

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