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to Midnight Viewing the Night Gallery Podcast. I'm Father Malone and with me here
in the gallery our Bollywood Cinema Club's Chris Dashu. When I was cutting my
birthday cake when I was four years old, I cut my finger. Mom
and the life and Times of Captain Barney Miller's mister Mike White. I'm going
to go to another planet where there are people just oh man, all right,
more beautiful depending on who you are. It's all in the I of
the Beholder. We are discussing Season two, episode fourteen. This aired on
December the twenty ninth, nineteen seventy one. Happy New Year, everybody.
This one is broken into three segments. Those are the Different Ones. Tell
David Dot dot dot and Lagoda's heads item number one over there. It could
be a gentleman sitting in an electric chair, but it isn't what it depicts.
Isn't a sense a method of execution that we humans reserve for other humans
who happened to be dissimilar to us. You're about to look under that hood
and meet firsthand one of the Different Ones. Tonight's first excursion into the realm
of the unusual. The Different Ones was written by Rod Serling and directed by
John Meredith Lucas. It stars Dana Andrews, who, from what I hear
said, Prunes gave him the ruins. Also stars God Damn Muses, Monica
Lewis, and John Corcus. This is the tale of a father's decision on
whether or not to shoot his deformed son into space. What do you think,
Mike, I was waiting when you said his decision to shoot his deformed
son in Uh. Did I see the twist coming a mile away? Yeah?
Was it satisfying though? Yeah? It still was were the make of
effects? Okay? Yeah? I mean that kid looked horrific. I don't
know what was going on with him. He looked like bat Boy or right
on, Yeah, good call bat Boy, Joe. I don't know if
you guys know, but according to Weekly World News, bat Boy has joined
up. So oh, okay, join yeah, army, Hey, you
gotta put those wings to good you somehow did bat Boy have wings? Had?
Can you imagine the damage? I assumed he had small wings on his
back? Fair enough? Oh okay? Uh? Yeah. I enjoyed this
one. I thought it moved along pretty quickly. It didn't keep us waiting
around for a while. I did like the how this was in the future.
I think I saw someplace that this was turn of the century, but
then I didn't realize which century. So I was kind of happy with all
the teles screens and all these modern gadgets that they have I like that.
Like, I don't know about you guys, but I don't use the phone,
and this is the only time that actually communicate with people where I actually
see their faces. It's pretty rare. So it's not the everyday thing that
they predicted and possibly promised that we would have in the year two thousand.
What about you, Chris. It's a blackout sketch that's ten minutes long.
I mean, isn't it two minutes long? Oh? Sorry, sorry I
was I was off by half. Yeah, I mean it's a blackout sketch.
It's I of the Beholder. It's fine. I think it's fine.
Dana Andrews plays a bad father. I don't know how else to put it,
but like, well, my son is ugly, I must send him
to the moon, like all right, better than sure, Like I guess
so, I guess so I thought they were I thought they were going to
keep that hood on a lot longer, a lot longer, right, I
don't. Oh my god, the makeup effects are just grotesque, grotesquely you
know what he looks like? What were those things the underwater things that were
like the flintstones, and they were like the underwater jetsins you know I'm talking
about. He looks like one of those I know you're talking they're the weird
thing on top of their head. He has this, Yeah, he looks
like he is a He has like weird like protrusions that come out of the
top of his head. It's gross, it's weird. Don't be mean to
someone who looks different. Come on, like what bubble guppies? Okay,
okay, it's fine. What did you think father Loane? I was wondering
why, as malformed as he is, he chose to war the bestag over
his head while at home. That was an interesting move, right. Also,
he's so malformed, he's just too malformed to live on his own.
What's funny is the decision for Dana Andrews to finally seek help comes because of
taunting children outside chanting nan yak, you're ugly, and he gives this speech
about how I chase them away, but they come back, and I worry.
I worry about what happens when I'm not. How about you soundproof the
fucking house or not. You don't even need to to expend any money here.
Go talk to those children's parents and say your children are monsters, and
then that might go away. The makeup send my child to the Moon is
the appropriate response to my child being bullied is to send them far away where
they've never been. I heard that's the best. The best thing you can
do as a parent is shun your child. This reminds me of that film
Trick or Tree, where a group of parents decide that they're no longer going
to deal with their handicapped children, so they put him in a bus and
have it driven off of a cliff. It's kind of the same thing here.
The makeup. I like the makeup. I think it's really this is
nineteen seventy one on a television show that we know. We know the budgets,
we know their schedules, so I thought the makeup is actually pretty effective.
And they they recreated the makeup of a lot at the end with the
different characters, which I thought was really effective. However, at the same
time, it campt reminding me of Lee Bowery. Young Fellows remember Lee Bowery.
It's boy George's mentors and used to do this makeup. Lee Bowery was
bald and would do a black splotch on the top of his head and then
the different like pools of black going down his face. That was his makeup
thing, and that's all. I think. They turned it into a play
a few years ago called Taboo by a few I mean like a decade or
two year ago. Anyway, I agree with you, Mike. I thought
the production design on this one was pretty great because we're in the future.
But they're just slight variations, Like he has the televisual you know, communication
devices chair that seems very lived in, and there's a screen and a little
it all seemed very ergonomic and I like that a lot. Also, apparently
you can just call the government and talk about the you call the deformed Children's
branch. It's urban the urban issues that have urban problems. Chevy Chase has
urban problems. It's like his deformed son. I don't I guess, yeah,
only people in the cities have. But here's the question that I have
his kids not deformed? No, he's a mutant, right, yeah,
this is no, but but no, no, but but no, no,
that's still not the case. Because a planet of these people exist where
they all look like that. We don't know that. This is a reason.
Did he just happen? Yeah? Did he just happen? To come
out looking exactly like an alien. Just was Dan Andrews' wife getting bonked by
Ete? That's the question that that's a good point because there a human coming
back. Was this some sort of exchange program we were unaware of? Right,
they impregnated one of ours and we impregnated one of theirs, Like that's
could have been. But they don't really give us time to breathe on it.
They make us seem like it's you know, like I of the Beholder,
you know, And honestly, what the makeup reminds me of? I
kept thinking and thinking, so I had to pull it up and see proto
Odo from Star Trek Deep Space nine. I mean, like, if you
have the thing that's on top of his head actually just cover his face and
that like weird scar tissue, then it would look like Odo because they do
the thing with his nose where they kind of smooth the nose into the face.
So oh, I think I'm the makeup's good. The makeup is not
my issue with this. It's just like, are you thinking anyone's going to
be surprised by the twist? That's my question. It's just a weird story
to tell. If you're not going to just remake eye of the beholder.
It's a weird story to tell in that it isn't just this, it's the
story of this father and son and they don't understand why this kid is such
a weird And then we find out there are aliens involved. There's this government
bureaucracy part of it, and this moral decision of this father. Well,
I guess I'll have to kill him. Oh wait, there's a chance they
can shoot him into space. Well let's do that instead, because my initial
decision was your decision, government, but to end his life, and end
his life for what reason? By the way, he seemed like an asshole,
the kid. It seemed like a whining prick, and I did not
like him. They could have spent some of these twenty two minutes, by
the way, twenty two minutes, yes, but it's patted out with nine
minutes of footage from NASA and silent thank you and Fahrenheit four fifty one.
One. Thank you so much money for that stuff. The NASA footage is
interminable, it's beautiful. I loved watching it. Not going to complain ultimately,
but you know that for no good reason there show that that prides itself
on having little segments that can just fill in gaps. They've padded this out
with stock footage. It was very unusual. They paid a lot for it.
I guarantee you that. I mean, it's like they showed all of
it, like all they paid for They showed all of it. There's so
much of it, Like you don't need to establish eight times over what's going
on. We get it. We get it. I mean, I'm with
you. It looks really nice, which I appreciate. But to what end
is always my question? Well, they're trying to set mood. No,
yeah, patting it. They are setting mood remarkably the music and the visuals
kind of hold up. But at the same time, we know what you're
doing. Don't do that now, gentlemen. Right, all they had to
do was just play the sound of the engines whirring and deem Andrews looking up
and that was beautiful. Right. It honestly stands out more because they show
the footage and you know, it's just stock footage, like even in seventy
one. It's not like someone's like, oh, that's they filmed that.
It's like that's NASA, Like, yeah, they didn't do anything to disguise
it. There was no like cross cutting or like dissolving or whatever. It's
like, here's one whole scene that we got from NASA. Here's another whole
scene we got from that. Now, gentlemen, All this season, I've
been trying to highlight some of the Night Gallery family in front of and behind
the scenes. In this case, it's in front of or auditory anyway.
This is a sound when when our lead character finally returns to his homeworld that
he didn't realize it was his homeworld to begin with. We hear this.
It's a synthesizer sweep plugged into a guitar amp with heavy tremolo, not vibrato.
That's a rookie mistake. This one was created by Oliver Nelson, who
did a lot of the music on Night Gallery, and this is just some
of the stock sound effects he made. It would eventually be picked up and
children of the seventies will recognize it instantly as the sound of Steve Austin's Bionic
Eye. This got recycled into The six Million Dollar Man. They eventually had
their own sound designer who did a bunch of effects on his own. The
end of the sound of the jumping evidently is a metal ruler on the side
of a table found that out anyway, I don't know the name of this
sound effect particularly, but we know Oliver Nelson created it and it's it's lovely
and I just wanted to give it it's do you should give it a name?
It's bionic I at this point, which is kind of sad because it
was created for a horror television series, so we should call it like a
radar. I'm going to call it the different One. How about that?
It reminds me of like a radar painting, you know what I mean?
Like yeah, Like it's like a yeah, it's a great one. Yeah,
I could see aquamand summoning. You could probably stick it into any genre
and really get away with it. But you know, it was nice to
hear here. Jealousy is what we normally pay grade, and jealousy provides the
springboard of this particular painting. It offers up the bottom line of what can
happen to human beings when trust is wiped out by suspicion. At this point,
it ceases to be just a kind of titillating tale of human comedy.
It becomes what it is a horror story. Our painting is called Tell David.
All right. Our next segment is called Tell David. This was written
by Generald Sandford, based on a short story by Penelope Wallace, and directed
by vip Here at the Night Gallery mister Jeff Corey. This one stars Sandra
d Jenny Sullivan, Jan Shatan, and Castle Thunder makes an appearance in here
speaking of sound. This one is the story of a jealousy prone wife and
the young couple she accidentally encounters, a couple whose husband looks suspiciously like her
own husband, only with a mustache. Chris, what do you think of
this one? Father Malone? I want you to keep in touch because we'll
think of something. Well, that's what this reminded me of. This reminded
me of that episode ten, segment two of the second season of this show,
the Alex Cord episode segment it. I get the story that they're telling,
but they tell you what they're going to do. By the end of
it, all I could think was, what's what am I supposed to gain
from this as an audience member? Because the story plays out the way you
said it would and it's not I it's not particularly entertaining. The acting's fine,
it's fine. It's not like that Alex cord One in quality wise,
it's much better than that. But yeah, yeah, great, Yeah.
The thing about the thing of characters not recognizing someone else even though it's the
actor playing the same like a different person, but it's the same actor.
You have to explain that otherwise the audience is going to ask whether or not
all the characters in the scene are fucking crazy because he looks like her husband
hard stop period, because it's the same actor, he has facial hair,
and yet they're just whatever. Oh, I guess it's for the audience's benefit.
I don't know. It's a poor choice that gets in the way of
ah otherwise mediocre segment. I liked this. I liked the idea of it.
I like that she takes a wrong turn and suddenly ends up in what
was it the distant year of nineteen eighty nine? I think it was,
and there's only one brand of cigarettes. Oh boy. I will admit that
I didn't actually realize it was the same actor playing both roles at first,
so she came on me, Sandra D I think this might be the first
time I've actually seen sander Die. I mostly know her from the song from
Greece, so that was kind of nice to see why they would sing about
her because she's very pretty. Her jealousy comes very sudden and it's very strong.
And then I kept waiting and please remind me if this happens or not.
I kept thinking that when she finds her husband with right, I thought
for sure. I thought for sure the nanny thank you. I thought for
sure it'd be like we were just rehearsing a scene from a plate or something
like that, some sort of like explanation like the ironic turn, you know,
is what I was really hoping for. But didn't get it though.
And if anything, Yeah, if anything, I'd be jealous of that aunt
because she was really smoking hot. Yeah. I also like how the aunt
has the most distinct last name and she's like some something Blessington. It's like,
why are you questioning this? When she tells her husband, he's like,
I don't believe any of this. Is like okay, fine, Well
what's funny is she makes no effort to change the future here, right,
She just she gets that gun immediately. She's like, she doesn't miss it,
so she keeps getting confirmations of the fact that she has interacted with her
son. But yeah, as I said, does nothing at all to act
on that at all. And this one confounded me, honestly, because I
wasn't joying it until she gets home and we see the husband. And then
if this is the sun, the sun has a picture of the mother,
then he would recognize her and she her first words out of her mouth should
have been, oh, my god, you look exactly like my husband.
That's my point that houses knowing how well one another look like anything else.
I'm startled if I meet another human being who resembles one of my partners in
any way, you know what I mean. So to have someone who is
so obviously him is absurd. I liked his GPS machine. Hey, look
at that for Precians. That was kind of cool. That was awesome.
I mean, that's kind of what they looked like when they first started.
I like her aversion to the music. I liked her aversion to the music.
What is this? What is this wrecket? What is this? It's
called electronic music. I wanted to say, effects your kids will get it.
Your kids will get it. All of David's equipment, by the way,
looked as impressive and just as scientifically sound as anything found on Ghost Adventures.
Oh hey, in fact, now I take it back. This stuff
actually looks good. Double. I gotta cut on my hand. Yeah,
you mentioned it at the top, Chris. Oh, look, the kid
cut his hand. She's not even like doing that. She knows. He
mentions that he's cut his hand, and now she's witnessing it happen, and
doesn't bother to intervene when his son cut cuts himself. No, I just
don't know what the story. I know what the story they're telling is.
I just don't understand the motives behind any of it. Is this a character
piece? I guess the moral is don't let jealousy overcome you, because it
can drive you to murder. But the jealousy that the Sun is describing to
her is an unfounded jealousy. The jealousy she encounters is real, Like,
it isn't even a moment, There's no moment where the character thinks to herself
like, well, I can change that, Like I can get over the
jealousy thing because I know it's not real. Now oh it is real,
and now I have to kill that. There's no even considerations it drives me
crazy. Sandra D. By the way, again, I'm with you.
Mike had never seen her actually on screen, only to her from that goddamn
song. She's really beautiful. In the first note I wrote was Wow,
Sandra D's great, Like, she's really solid in this even though she's given
crazy directions that she doesn't recognize the sun that you know anyway. For me,
the one of the biggest bizarre decisions that the episode makes is they have
her go back. Normally in these kinds of stories, like they go once
and it's like, oh, I was walking in the rain and then I
came upon this house and it's like, yep, and that's exactly what happens
here. But then it's like, come on back for another hangout, and
she does, which means she can just go visit him. I guess whenever
she wanted too, So like it makes no sense why she does what she
does knowing that she can just go and visit him too at any point,
Like it's it. I mentioned that Alex Cord episode not because of the similar
tone but also the similar waste of time because I don't I didn't understand there
what they were going for, and I don't understand here what they're going for,
because yeah, is it is this woman overcome by jealousy? Sure,
but man, honestly, how have we not mentioned the weirdest scene in this
entire segment when she comes home from her son's place and the husband is screaming
at her in an old lady mask. How has no one mentioned this yet?
It's like it's upsetting and bizarre. And I guess he's making fun of
her, is what we're led to believe, but it's like it's so bizarre
just initially, and then I mean, I think all the way through its
was are but what the fuck? Yeah? They because they hadn't established that
she was a jealous shrew and it, Yeah, I don't buy it because
it comes out of nowhere. And that scene was so upsetting that I didn't
even really make the connection that, you know, I like, I realized,
oh, he's supposed to be being her, but that I was like,
this doesn't make any sense because she hasn't exhibited any of this behavior.
And then when the jealousy comes up later on, it's too far removed from
it. There's not enough closeness there to be like, oh, okay,
yeah, she is really jealous, like there should have been something there,
because I mean, I've got friends that have or had jealous spouses and they
were freaking nuts and it wasn't just nuts like at one time there would be
nuts all the time, but Sanderde seems like a very normal, well adjusted
person. And then at the end, after she ends up killing him,
I'm like, Okay, well, now do the next logical thing, which
is I'm going to escape into the future so they can't prosecute me for my
crime. But no, she just why didn't she do that? It would
have been too interesting, would have made too much sense. Absolutely, I
don't know, like narratively would have jelled right, and it narratively would have
jelled in a way that this just ends up feeling like it's just spinning its
wheels. It's treading water, Like I don't get what the point is.
Ultimately, Look, this is because she just does exactly what they say that
they're going to do, Like, what's the point. The story's point of
view is that this has faded and it's going to happen, and it's a
quirk that she happened to be allowed to have an interaction with her future son
and see that he's going to be okay, by the way, So she
does go back that second time, and before that when she's there the first
time, and she's noticing all this bizarre future equipment, and they give her
the cigarettes which on it on the front, by the way, say no
tar, no nothing. In fact, this is good for you, and
this is weird, and then turns it over. She turns it over and
the date is right there. It says nineteen eighty nine. It's and it's
not. She didn't have to like look at the tiny letter. It's pretty
bold. When she goes back the second time, Okay, we get that
she's not gonna make the connection that this is her son yet, but wouldn't
you be like, can you show me that machine again? How does that
work? That's so weird? Can I see those cigarettes again? Hey?
Look at that thing? What does this do? Why does why is there
a screen on your phone? Like just a human being would have these questions
also in the future. Apparently free love is the thing. Did seem that
I get? Right? Yeah, that's definitely some polyamory going on. And
again it's like it's used in this weird spot where it's like, well,
you don't get upset when you're when your husband kisses another woman. And she's
like, yeah, no, one gives a fuck, And it's like,
what the fuck does that have to do with anything? Like I get what
you're driving app but like, okay, Rod Serling, I guess that was
his envisionment of the future is just sex and GPS machines, raw and cigarettes
that don't give you a chance. He was, really, that's the one
thing I could see him. Yeah, it's the Pacific cigarettes. Ride is
really excited about. We've gotten all the other gadgets, but still none of
that. I guess, you know, so we switched a bathing. I
suppose also there are not Yeah, there's no free love people talk about him,
or at least there are not enough revolver drawers and desks these days.
Seems to be that there used to be every desk had a revolver in a
drawer. Very convenient. Here they could have by the way, they could
have frontloaded. And when she tries to use the phone in the first scene,
she's all, I just want to call and let my husband know where
I am. That was the perfect time to say, I'm going to call
my house because my husband better be there because he's I'm you know, like
put in the jealousy right from the get go, Like were they worried that
we were going to like her as a character, Like, it's so much
better that she kills him and then kills herself in prison after she knows you
can happen. Does nothing to change that fact anyway. There was a nice
focus dissolve into a solarization here, Jeff Corey threw. And there are a
couple of nice little camera tricks that I really appreciated here. Jeff Cory is
getting more and more confident as a filmmaker here on that guy. It's nice
to see the progressional. They just need to give him a better script to
direct, right. This is a double it's a two for this episode,
gentleman, because this next episode also features a particular sound effect. This one
here it is it's the next one takes place in a jungle, so naturally
you're gonna hear oh, and it's featured quite a bit in that that's a
Kuka Bara. The track is just called Kuka Barra that first made its debut
in nineteen thirty eight in a Tarzan cereal and then was immediately followed with Appearances
and Wizard of Oz and literally everything since then taking place in a jungle.
Interesting fact, of course, is that a kuka bara is a native to
Australia. Where does it sit, Father Malone? It sits in the old
gum tree, Mary, Mary, King of the bushes. See everybody laugh,
kukabara laugh, coucabara gay, his life must be anyway. I don't
understand why the kukerber shows up everywhere but Australia. The noise is so distinctive.
I guess it's because it sounds like a monkey, right. It sounds
enough like a foreign animal. Is it a monkey? Is it a bird?
I don't know. It sounds like it's laughing at us. It's a
great it's a great jungle sound. That's the best superhero that hasn't Is it
a monkey? Is it a bird? It's monkey bird man. That's the
thing. Like, I guarantee you play that for ten people and half of
the people might think it's a monkey. Oh yeah, right, I think
I did for many years, honestly. Yeah. But hey, we're in
the jungle. I number three in the night Gallery. You'll probably recognize this
quaint figurine the dead eyes and the son lips, a kind of thing that
usually in fast nightmares, and what happens to be precisely what it is,
a nightmare of the first order. It's titled Lagoda's Heads. Indeed we are
in this segment called Lagoda's Heads. Written by Robert Block, author of Psycho
Robert Block, from a short story by August Derlat directed by my favorite Jena
Zuark. All three of them should have known better. This one stars Patrick
McNee, Brock Peters, Denise Nicholas, and Tim Matheson and a terrible mustache.
It's the tale of an explorer who escorts an American in search of his
brother in the darkest jungles of Africa. I was really worried at the outset
on this one, guys, but I think this was a respectful presentation as
respectful a presentation as possible while still requiring Starfleet Admiral Cartwright to speak in Pigeon
English while wearing a dashiki, which I think of this one, Mike,
Yeah, anything that has brock Peters in it, I'm pretty happy with.
But mostly just when he's on screen. Denise Nicholas, she looked so familiar,
And then I went back and I looked at her filmography and yeah,
I've seen a bunch of stuff that she was in. I want to say
she was in Uptown Saturday night, I'm pretty sure. Or yeah, let's
do it again, one of those of the Cosby Potier films. But yeah
again, did I see the twist coming? Yeah? Yeah, I sure
did. Did I want to see more of those heads? And did I
want to see them talk and do other kind of cool things? I sure
did it. That didn't really get to see that one, but at least
I got to see a very young Roger E. Moseley with kind of a
bad accent come in and tell them that that Lakota or Lagoda has died.
So it was kind of neat. And then yeah, Tim Matheson and that
ridiculous mustache. I didn't even recognize him at first until I heard his voice.
But yeah, it was okay again. And I feel like this one
went on for a little too long. How long was this one? Was
this another twenty? Yeah? This one was right. This has been an
episode of with mediocrity. It's fine, I mean yeah, like Mike said,
the twist can be seen from orbit for fuck's sake, Like I for
let me put this way. For an episode segment called Lagoda's Heads, there
is not enough head here, enough of the heads doing stuff. The heads
of Lagoda's heads are not present enough to call it Lagoda's Heads. And the
question then becomes, how did the heads kill him? Uh? They summoned
forces or they chewed him up themselves. I don't know. Maybe they came
off the mob the second The second answer came off the log exactly the Tim
burtonization of them. Yeah, what about you, father? What do you
think? I think having a shrunken head nook is important when you're buying a
new home. Does it come with or without the stick? Is the stick
concluded? I would assume so, otherwise it's just a nut. I like
that they go, they arrived. It's always great to see Patrick McNee,
by the way, you know John Steed. But they go into the hut
to talk to a Lagoda, and Lagoda clearly speaks English. But for some
reason, Tim Mathison keeps talking to Patrick McNee as if he's a translator.
Ask him about my brother, like I think he heard you just then he'll
probably answer you if he so chooses. Also late in the episode, Tim
Mathison exclaims at one point, and most people would have said, my god,
he says, mother of Satan. It was I had to relind you
it'd be a good by the way, it's dumb bala, just the word.
I kept waiting for Chunky to come running out because they had dumb bala
while they were, you know, talking to the heads. I don't know,
not enough. There weren't enough of the heads. I was intrigued by
the heads. I was hoping one of the heads would come to life,
just one of them, at least one. Why it's called it's called lagatas
fucking head show. The thing to go to his head's wind machine is what
we get. Just like they all just sort of vibrate a little and hears
some sounds and somebody's just shaking it off screen, just oh, they're moving.
The actor you mentioned Mike earlier, who comes in to tell them that
Legot is dad, and you're saying, he's doing a really weird accent.
Like all I could think was like you could just see him bristling against this
bullshit native dialogue that they all three of our sort of principal leads have been
saddled with just rankling at it, like, can I just speak in a
full sentence like, yeah, by the way, what year was this?
Was? This supposed to be the two is a century because it could have
been really any time. It might have been nineteen seventy one for all we
knew. Yeah, I wanted to say round this time, Rogerie mostly was
doing the mac where he was a African nationalist, so much different character and
something. I think, Yeah, he just seemed like uninterested and you just
wanted I'm saying the words. Here are the words, right, this is
what you wanted? And good for him? Yeah, that where's my check?
I hope everyone got paid? Because you know, you're right, Chris,
this is It's not terrible, it's just there. This entire episode was
just kind of there, which I suppose is better than a bad episode.
But still, this is an episode that began with the boy who predicted her
earthquakes, and we need to be shooting higher folks. It's not enough.
It's not enough that Sandra d is gonna die after killing her. It's just
not She's gonna kill herself. Don't forget she's straight up. They go,
oh, you're gonna kill yourself, By the way, like great, just
first like sort of time travel plump. I've ever seen, honestly where the
characters are uninterested at all in changing their face. I know, the future,
who fucking they see and everything's just like, well that's weird, Like
it doesn't affect her. You know. He gives the message, but the
message had already been given, that was faded as well. It's like this
segment is so good. We're talking about the other segment while talking about this
one sent nothing Burger like August Derleth's stories are varied Father Malone, you know
that because I know you've looked into his I mean it's varied stuff, right
like, but it's a lot of horror or horror adjacent. Whatever this is
is not that well. It's supposed to be a supernatural tale, but we
don't see anything happen at all. We don't even get to see all we
know Denise Nicholas just killed him, like and just put his head there anyway.
He's like, who knows, Oh, yeah, the head's killed him
or I just did it? And who gives a ship Like it would have
been good had she said, well, no, it was me, I
killed your brother. There's nothing you can do about it because I got these
heads now, baby, that would have been great. Yeah. Instead it
was like, oh, I know he killed by did he killer? We
don't get any of that information to get those headstocking. Come on, they
got mouths unstitched. Man, It's fine. This episode is better than some
of them this season, which is not saying much, but it's saying more
than you would think it's saying enough. Yeah, I agree it is.
You use the word nothing burger. I don't tend to use that too often,
but I would say this is all that and no bag of chips.
Well, we're going to play a preview of the next episode and when we
right back to wrap things up for the what a culturist amongst you, Here's
a dandy, a lady who plants things and then steps back and watches them
grow roses, rhoda, dundron, tulips, and things never before to be
fun coming out of the ground. Just put in the subject of this painting
has green fingers. Funeral hallmark, you might call it. Example. This
item here the somber silence of shrouds, the gray, unhappy light of a
sunless dawn, and the horse drawn casket. Very much in keeping with the
motif of this place the title of the painting Funeral. We don't ask you
to believe this particular painting death's head hovering over juke box, but it does
point up the all inclusive quality of the occult. Dando Inspectors can be found
not only in holden houses, but in places you'd least expect to find them,
places like this. Our painting is called the Tune in Dan's Cafe.
That's right on the next midnight viewing, we'll be taking a look at season
two, episode fifteen that's broken into three segments, Green Fingers, the Funeral,
the Tune in Dan's Cafe. Till then, where can people find you?
Chris Stash you weirdingweightmedia dot com is where you can find all the things
that I work on, which are varied in their variety. How about you,
Mike. In the immortal words of Patrick Swayzy, Ditto, I third
that all right now, as ladies and gentlemen, Until then, we'll see
in the next episode. Thank you all for joining us here at midnight viewing.
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