WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:06.879 Dark Destinations may be end times Night's creature. 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.919 Why would a few more casually struggle. 3 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:10.919 Me because of their blood? 4 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:12.519 Will join yours a. 5 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:14.320 Radio drama anthology. 6 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.800 You are wrong how you figure Every mark on Mongo 7 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:18.399 is hunting you. 8 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.320 Down, not you, your partner, he said, I didn't have 9 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:21.960 a ray gun. 10 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:27.039 Full cast performances set in the haunted corners of the globe. 11 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:31.960 Darkness is coming for you. That's the fear that taunts me. 12 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.359 Dark Destinations by fatherm Alone at Weirdingwaymedia dot. 13 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:49.840 Com weird Way. 14 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.959 Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where 15 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.239 this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's 16 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.680 nineteen eighty series Tales from the Dark Side. Daring the 17 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.840 Midnight view with me are the projection boost. 18 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.640 Mike White looks like I'm the meanest man on the block. 19 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.159 Also joining us, of course, the culture cast Chris Statue. 20 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.359 Ad Kamara got some good for you. Come on. 21 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.240 This is Michael McDowell right saying the same thing. This beetlejuice. 22 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.520 No okay, A couple weeks early, Sorry, Michael d who 23 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.000 then he wrote the thing we're about the Oh okay, Michael. 24 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:22.639 McDonald okay, sorry, hold never mind. 25 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.280 Tonight we're taking a look at two episodes from season one. 26 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.879 Those are Halloween Candy and The Satanic Piano. Halloween Candy 27 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.080 is season two episode number five. It originally aired on 28 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.800 October the twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. Written by Michael McDowell, 29 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:42.319 directed by Tom Savigni, starring Roy Poole and Tim Choked. 30 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.639 This is a tale of elder abuse at the hands 31 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.400 of a neglectful son. No, this is the tale of 32 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.400 a bitter old man who's refusal to participate in trick 33 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.159 or treating cost him dearly. What did you think of 34 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:53.960 this one, Chris? 35 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:54.960 Kind of the Lowers? 36 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.840 I mean, I mean, did we see this already? It's 37 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:04.080 point that, yeah, Trick or Treat. The literal first episode 38 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.080 of this show that we talked about was this episode. 39 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.039 In a lot of ways, literally the. 40 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:10.400 Same thing I did. 41 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.039 George Romero forget that he wrote that and then wrote this, 42 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.599 and Ken, I don't understand. I don't know if it's 43 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:18.280 any better. I don't know if it's any worse. It's 44 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.919 still only twenty minutes and that's good. 45 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:25.560 But no, Michael mcdonaland Tom Savigni didn't watch the first 46 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:26.319 season or all? 47 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:27.639 Is that what it is? Okay? 48 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:27.919 Right? 49 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.479 Right? Sorry, they were too busy doing other things. 50 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.159 They were like, have you guys done like a Halloween 51 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.439 episode with the guy like a mean guy who gives 52 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:34.840 up who. 53 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:35.639 Doesn't want to give out candy. 54 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:37.240 If he done that yet, wouldn't have been the first 55 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.520 episode or anything. So it's that is strange. Outside of that, 56 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.439 I think it's perfectly fine. I don't understand the punishment 57 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:45.400 at the end seems. 58 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.280 A little bit much. It's a lot. 59 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.840 I mean, he dies and then he sees himself at 60 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.719 one point. He sees the hallucination of himself dead at 61 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.400 one point too, which is odd. It's an odd episode, 62 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:57.159 and it's a bottle episode. It must have been the 63 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.240 cheapest goddamn episode of the show that they shot. 64 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:04.039 No, because as they put it all into that goblin boy. 65 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:04.560 Didn't they? 66 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:05.159 How about you? 67 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.800 About you, Mike, I'm. 68 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.039 So glad that you said that the main character in 69 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.039 this is ry Poole, because I thought for sure it 70 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.439 was Robert's Blossom. I was like, oh, boy, this is 71 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.600 the youngest I've ever seen Roberts blossom look. And then 72 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.079 also I was thinking, oh, he's kind of doing his 73 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:24.759 role from Home Alone a little bit early, but you know, 74 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.800 in Home Aloney ends up being a nice guy. In 75 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.879 this he's just a bastard, and this mister Killop is 76 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:31.360 a complete bastard. 77 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:31.600 Through and through. 78 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:35.279 I really enjoyed this one. I had a great time 79 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.720 with this episode and just the way that it builds, 80 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.639 And yeah, it was very similar to that first episode. 81 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.639 But at the same time, I don't know, I'm trying 82 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.240 to remember who was our main person in that first one. 83 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.759 It was somebody good, Barn Hughes, thank you, thank you. 84 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.079 Oh that's right, mister Merlin himself. And this one, I 85 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.519 was really glad to see where Poole just get tormented 86 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.600 the whole way through because he's such a jerk. Reminds 87 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.360 me my stepdad and his brother. They would give away 88 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.560 ice cream for Halloween, and like the kids would come 89 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.319 up and they'd say, oh, you want some ice cream? 90 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.680 They'd be like, my dad would. 91 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.160 Take a scoop and just put it right in there. 92 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.879 So it's right up there with that Goblin candy fu. 93 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.360 Yeah, this is a real thing that was going on. 94 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:20.600 That's a real thing. 95 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:29.160 So yeah, I mean I'm more disturbed by that than 96 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:31.199 I am anything I watched in this entire episode. 97 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.680 What in God's name was going on in Detroit Machine. 98 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:35.720 I don't know, I don't know. Well, it was the 99 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.720 same brother that that pied my dad in the face, 100 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.279 not realizing that when they do that in movies that 101 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.480 they don't have the metal tin. Basically broke my dad's 102 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.120 nose in that. But yeah, good times, good family, A rambunch. 103 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.040 Oh yeah, well it was like a bunch of Catholics. 104 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:57.759 What was it, four four girls, three boys, all born 105 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:59.399 within like a ten year period. 106 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.360 There were something to recipe for disaster? 107 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.600 Oh yeah, kind of give it out candy on Halloween. 108 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.560 I think they recycled a lot of these costumes. I 109 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.639 love that the one kid's just carrying around spray paint 110 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:15.279 and I'm thinking, that's a little person in that costume. 111 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.040 I was in almost every single one of these costumes. 112 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:23.480 That bunny Rabbit in particular was a bit ewokie. And yeah, 113 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.720 boy wasn't killed. But when he pulled that canna that 114 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:28.800 was like the size of his own arm. I was like, 115 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.000 this is a good episode, man, but that. 116 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.000 Don't you spray paint my door either, Get that paint 117 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:35.519 away from me. 118 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:37.600 Here like, what the fuck is going There's some really 119 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.959 malicious kids who just, you know, just give them the 120 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.639 goddamn candy. I don't under I don't understand this. This 121 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.199 is not rocket science. This is like five dollars of 122 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.560 candy and your sanity will be restored. 123 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.040 What are the steaks here? Why are these the steaks? 124 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:51.839 Is all I'm asking. 125 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.399 I love that it's a Halloween story, and I do 126 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.600 like the steaks because they make sense in terms of 127 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.480 it being a Halloween story, But like, really, this is 128 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.360 this guy dies because he doesn't give up Tandy. 129 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.680 I mean, fucking that's metal as fuck show. Sure, why not? 130 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.759 Well? And that they managed to stop time and that 131 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:14.480 midnight is now forever for this piece of shit. It's like, dude, 132 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.040 that his son is going to go to jail at 133 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.079 the end of this episode. 134 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.160 One thousand percent is that? 135 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:22.800 Like they cut away at the end, they cut to 136 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.279 that corpse, and I thought, oh, they should have overlaid 137 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.720 the police officers saying so, so we'd like to talk 138 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.959 to you about your father, would you China's Downtown. 139 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.399 Have that mannikin or that maquette that these at the end? 140 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.040 Is is pretty ghoulish on top of everything else. It's 141 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.759 really it's an unpleasant It's an unpleasant thing to have 142 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:40.639 to freeze frame on for a while. 143 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:41.639 It's pretty convincing. 144 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.000 I like, I'm with y'all. I liked this episode. I 145 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.360 just the steaks are bizarre, and you have the old 146 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.040 man just getting it and then the sun getting it. 147 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.040 Is the sun getting it is way worse because that's 148 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.480 I mean, I guess he's a dick. I don't know, 149 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.560 they're both dicks. I don't understand. Like everybody in this 150 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.600 episode is an asshole. That's kind of especially that goblin 151 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.879 with the glowing eyes that jumps up and down on 152 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.279 the swing over and over again. 153 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.519 I mean, father alone, tell me as far as where 154 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.920 does this fit in terms of creep Show, because the 155 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.639 goblin reminded me a lot of the creature that lives 156 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.360 in the box under the stairs, and then the whole 157 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.240 thing with the bugs. I was reminded of the last 158 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:18.519 chapter with E. G. Marshall. 159 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:19.079 Yeah. 160 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:23.639 Now that's interesting because Tom Savini very famously did not 161 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:27.120 want to do anything with their creeping up on You 162 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:31.199 segment of Creep Show. He built all those pieces, but 163 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.000 really didn't want to be involved with the roases at all. 164 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.840 He hates them, particularly, so when they showed up in 165 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.840 this I was really surprised that he. I mean, he 166 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.879 could have done anything he wanted with as far as 167 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.799 Creepy Crawley's you know, like maggots or whatever, but went 168 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:47.759 ahead with the roaches. 169 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.639 This is what this is three years after Creep Show. 170 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.360 Okay, yeah, I was hearing some echoes pretty loudly. 171 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:54.759 Oh yeah, definitely. 172 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.480 You know what, not only you weren't just hearing echoes, 173 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.279 you were seeing echoes because every time they cut to 174 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.080 an exterior, they keep showing the porch on his house, 175 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.440 and then they'll cut to the moon, which is a 176 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.440 beautiful shot of the moon. There are two separate shunts 177 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.039 because they're both from Creep Show. They're both mathening Creep 178 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.919 Show makes sense. 179 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:13.679 Yeah. 180 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.240 I like this whole thing too, of how the creature 181 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.120 kind of is getting into his head and they keep 182 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.879 doing those flash cuts of the creature and I was like, oh, 183 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:23.480 that's really creepy and effective. 184 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.600 That was probably my favorite part of the episode, where yeah, 185 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.879 they cut to these flashes of what basically looks like 186 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.080 an icy version of the Goblin with white eyes and 187 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.440 white skin, like super close up almost you know, subliminal, 188 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.559 and I thought that was really artful. Also, when the 189 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:44.240 old man finally hits the ground, like the he kind 190 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.720 of floats to the ground, and you know, for pretty 191 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.519 ambitious for a twenty two minute episode of this series 192 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.639 in which that creature was also built by Savini specifically 193 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.360 for the episode. You know, if you go on IMDb, 194 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.440 it says that this is the cre fature from Creep Show. 195 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.440 It is clearly not Fluffy. I don't know how anyone 196 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:09.440 could make that fucking mistake. There's so wildly different in appearance. Oh, gentlemen, 197 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.720 we should rejoice. This episode of Tails from the Dark 198 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.600 Side makes an official trope for Tails from the dark 199 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:21.679 Side now, and that is people jumping backwards right onto something, 200 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:25.559 people jumping in reverse up onto something. This is the 201 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.240 third time, now, right, third time? 202 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.000 Yeah, no, you're right. When I saw that, I was like, oh, 203 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.600 didn't we just see that alien do that? And that 204 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:38.159 incredible Chuck mcka episode, and before that, Carol Kane did 205 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:39.039 it to bud Court. 206 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.279 So third times the arm. 207 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.080 Like the term amazing being used here. 208 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.320 Well, let's say incredible because I still can't quite believe. 209 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.919 Fair now the episode that this echoes the Trick or 210 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.639 Treat the first episode of George Ramira that is way 211 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.559 more easy comics in totally and it's like this horrible 212 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:03.159 old mind torturing the townsfolk and then the spirits of 213 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.120 Halloween coming to Dola justice on him. I'm not so 214 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.720 sure that this man deserves what he gets here. No, 215 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.159 he's just a bitter old man who doesn't want to 216 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.480 participate in Halloween and his son forces him to participate. 217 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.799 And by the way, the sons listen, you have to 218 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.120 give out candy or they're gonna you know, they're gonna 219 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.200 trick the house. You know, are they're gonna eg you 220 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.279 or who cares? Who cares if they did? 221 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.440 And I am tired of getting up on that ladder 222 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.799 and crawling into that tree and taking that toilet paper out. 223 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.240 Ultimately, this child kills his father because he forces him 224 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.159 to give out candy. 225 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.879 Ultimately, No, I honestly think that I wasn't joking when 226 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.919 I said this is a tale of elder neglect. 227 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.360 That it is. That's really really it is. 228 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.039 Yeah, I mean, even to the point what we're saying, 229 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.559 he pushes the dad to give out the candy, and 230 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:50.120 not only that, and this is the I don't think 231 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.639 this is intended, but it ties in the candy he 232 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.279 puts in that bowl. It's like it's all Hershey Kisses 233 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.720 and a few Tootsi rolls, the tiny Tootsi rolls, and 234 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.399 then a couple of full sized Snickers. So it's don't 235 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:04.480 not give out candy because they'll egg the house or 236 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:06.960 they'll throw a toilet paper, but we will cause a 237 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.480 riot in the disparity of choice when you're handing it 238 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:12.720 out to the kids. You know these kids are gonna 239 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:13.440 go crazy. 240 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.360 Yeah, yeah, that is so not enough Halloween kid. I 241 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.080 don't know about you guys, but for me, it's one 242 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.000 bag for the kids, one bag for me, so it's. 243 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:22.679 Got to be a lot more. 244 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.960 I don't have any kids come to my door sapefully, 245 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.600 well not thankfully. I would give them candy if they did, 246 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.320 but my neighborhood is not great for it. But I 247 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.360 don't think that a goblin would come and kill me 248 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.399 if I didn't give out candy. Must not be an 249 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:36.120 elderly man. 250 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.159 I believe that that goblin did come, though, and it 251 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.480 actually got into your house and then it like swatted 252 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.559 your watch off and broke it and then the left. 253 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.200 I don't think you would shrug, well, that's over, and 254 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.919 then just go about your evening. I'm sitting down to 255 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.080 watch TV now, yeah, I can give you a little 256 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.960 more shake of exactly. That guy's just so nonchalant about it. 257 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:59.039 Oh goblin. What's funny is when it comes back is 258 00:12:59.080 --> 00:12:59.960 I don't think that's a cop? 259 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.679 Oh yes, what was it? Dead giveaway? What was the 260 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:04.360 dead giveaway? 261 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.200 Here? It's glowing fucking eyes. 262 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:08.360 I would too bad he didn't have a scene where 263 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:09.759 he tried to grab the mask off and I was like, 264 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:11.039 this is not a mask. 265 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:12.519 Where was that scene? 266 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:13.440 I would have enjoyed that. 267 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.039 Actually, Nick Dwell managed to weave in another Tails from 268 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.279 the Dark Side, not a trope necessarily, but a theme 269 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.440 the technophobia where he knows he's trapped in a loop 270 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.120 because he tries to call out to his son and 271 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.799 gets the time on his road phone and it's just 272 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.120 the same time over and over. And also, I guess 273 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:34.879 this is a sign that it's nineteen eighty five that 274 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.639 you can get on your rotary phone still and call 275 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:38.679 to find out the time. 276 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.639 Remember doing that, Mike Chris, do you. 277 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:42.480 Have any knowledge of ever doing that in your life 278 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.080 calling the time on your phone now, But. 279 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.519 I used my phone to call the movies to get 280 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.360 the movie times, so you know, not far off. I 281 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.159 was asking for a different kind of time, a more 282 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:53.039 specific time. 283 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.960 One might say, who, welcome to movie phone. 284 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.639 You have selected Lelo and Stitch rated pg. 285 00:13:58.879 --> 00:13:59.360 Thirteen. 286 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:03.480 Every every time the power would go off in your 287 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.080 house and be like, fuck, you have to call the 288 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.159 number and find out it's time. 289 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:10.519 It's five twelve. No, wait, five point thirteen. Now that's 290 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:11.200 fucking wild. 291 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.440 Yet No, I didn't have to do that, sor sorry 292 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:14.799 guys and weather too. 293 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.799 Yeah, exactly, I find out what is gonna be like tomorrow. 294 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:18.639 Jeez, Louise. 295 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.759 The phone book was a treasure trove of all of 296 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:24.519 these things where you're like, really, that's a service that 297 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:25.200 I can call. 298 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.679 But yeah, they might be giants. The dial along which 299 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.039 is still going on, still going but it's only on 300 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.759 the internet now, I think. But it's it's still a 301 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.919 phone number, but it's an internet number. But you can 302 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:37.919 hear much more of the song because they don't have 303 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.399 the it's not the length of the tape anymore. 304 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.360 What did they say, Gloria, there must be giants? What 305 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.120 that's that's the song I miscellaneous tea I skip every 306 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.840 time as the actual recording of the people who were 307 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:53.879 on dial a song. 308 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.480 Yeah, and we're there for the songs. 309 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:55.919 Come on man. 310 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:56.600 Yeah. 311 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.600 Also another thing I noticed the sun in addition to 312 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.440 his men crimes against his dad, could you replace his 313 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:06.519 doorbell please? It sounds like the emergency broadcast system. Every 314 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.519 time it went off. It was really startling. No wonder 315 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.559 he doesn't want trick or treaters. The son should just 316 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.159 put up a sign that says knock, and things might 317 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:16.360 co love more smoothly. 318 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:17.399 Did this guy. 319 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:21.720 Already got the sign that says no trespassers? Religious fanatics? 320 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:23.240 I can't remember all the things. 321 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.600 For service workers or something. 322 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.879 Yeah, religious fanatics alone, she'd tell us who this guy 323 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.039 is and why is the sun trying to make him anything? 324 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.480 But maybe the son should just sit there. They know 325 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.320 they may have some bullshit thing for him that he 326 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:35.840 had to go. 327 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.799 But you know, all of a sudden, Harry Chapins, Cats 328 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:40.240 and the Cradle plays in the background, and I just 329 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:41.440 don't have time for you anymore. 330 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.679 Dad. She the first four cords bell. 331 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.279 If that's all you have to hear, it's a it's 332 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.399 fucked up because Yeah, ultimately, the way to save the 333 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.159 father and the story is for the son to just 334 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:51.919 stick around. 335 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.639 Yeah, Like, I guess that's the ultimate meaning of it. 336 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.559 Like the sun as he's leaving is your refrigerator has 337 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.080 no food. 338 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:01.639 It's who's fucking fun? All this is that you're great. 339 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:04.240 You're leaving him like this too, dude, No, he just 340 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.000 dropped off some candy. 341 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.000 And the father says at one point, like all I 342 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.399 do is eat. I have nothing else. Get your father 343 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:16.519 either into a home or get him into a group 344 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.440 of something, like, get him a hobby. What is happening here? 345 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.480 This episode is actually really horrific. 346 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.960 This episode is deeply upseting. 347 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:27.480 God bless Michael mcdelsy when he's really good. He's really good. 348 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.039 This is it's so subtly under there because this just 349 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.080 feels like another silly ah And now the Halloween people 350 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.360 are coming to give teach this old man a lesson 351 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:37.960 for not doing the trick or treat thing. No, really, 352 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.200 it's about this old man who starved to death because 353 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:40.559 his son. 354 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:46.360 So God on a very special episode on Tales from 355 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:48.000 the Dark cent I. 356 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.639 Got I like there, it's that whole cosmic fate thing, 357 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.840 you know, just like punishing this guy punishing it. I mean, 358 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:57.559 really they do punish the father as well, since he 359 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.279 is going to go to jail. But I like that. It's, oh, 360 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:03.720 you aren't obeying the rules of Halloween, so that the 361 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:06.319 cosmos is going to bit you and just set the 362 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.440 whole record straight, murder you and through your son. 363 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.279 And if this person has relatives, I think they're having 364 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:13.599 a bad night too, Mike. 365 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:17.480 I think far reaching the dark side is yeah, yeah. 366 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:17.599 This is no. 367 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.559 This is a good episode of the show, for sure. 368 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:20.160 I agree. 369 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:23.359 All right, let's move on to that next episode, which 370 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.839 is The Satanic Piano. This is season two, episode number six. 371 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.759 It aired originally on November third, nineteen eighty five. This 372 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:34.240 was written by John Harrison from a story by Carl Jacoby, 373 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.039 directed by John Harrison and starring Michael Warren, Lisa Bonett, 374 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.240 and Falise or Landy. This is the tale of a 375 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.119 songwriter struggling with writer's block who's given another worldly instrument 376 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:47.599 that can turn his thoughts into music. 377 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.079 What do you think about this one, Mike? 378 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.119 He again, pardon me, really enjoyed this one as well. 379 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.119 I don't know what's going on this week. But I 380 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.480 just really found this one to be compelling. I like 381 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.839 the creepy record producer and they find that he's got 382 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.680 the past and he's been trying all this time to 383 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.839 basically make a pack with Satan and open up the 384 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.839 gates to Hell or whatever is in order to do 385 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:14.000 his thing, and that I think it would have been 386 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.599 great if they had a little bit more budget for 387 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.039 the actual special effects in here, especially when it comes 388 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:23.359 to the piano, the satanic piano of the title. But yeah, 389 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.680 that it was, and it was odd seeing Lisa Bonet 390 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.599 in this young role. Of course, I'm more familiar with 391 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.880 her from The Cosby Show. But then also, you know, 392 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.440 even why am I banking. 393 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:37.480 On high fidelity? 394 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:39.079 No God, no? 395 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:42.799 Angel Angel Heart? 396 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:44.680 Yeah, I hate high fidelity. 397 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.799 Sorry, I'm with you, whatever, whatever. 398 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.359 Guy Angel Heart. Yes, very reminded me of Angel Heart. 399 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.200 And yeah, she just looks kind of trashy in this, 400 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:55.880 but yeah, I thought she she was. 401 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:56.799