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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where
Speaker 4: this season we're taking a look at George A. Romero's
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty series Tales from the Dark Side. Daring the
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Speaker 7: Mike White looks like I'm the meanest man on the block.
Speaker 4: Also joining us, of course, the culture cast Chris Statue.
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Speaker 4: Tonight we're taking a look at two episodes from season one.
Speaker 4: Those are Halloween Candy and The Satanic Piano. Halloween Candy
Speaker 4: is season two episode number five. It originally aired on
Speaker 4: October the twenty seventh, nineteen eighty five. Written by Michael McDowell,
Speaker 4: directed by Tom Savigni, starring Roy Poole and Tim Choked.
Speaker 4: This is a tale of elder abuse at the hands
Speaker 4: of a neglectful son. No, this is the tale of
Speaker 4: a bitter old man who's refusal to participate in trick
Speaker 4: or treating cost him dearly. What did you think of
Speaker 4: this one, Chris?
Speaker 1: Kind of the Lowers?
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, did we see this already? It's
Speaker 6: point that, yeah, Trick or Treat. The literal first episode
Speaker 6: of this show that we talked about was this episode.
Speaker 6: In a lot of ways, literally the.
Speaker 1: Same thing I did.
Speaker 6: George Romero forget that he wrote that and then wrote this,
Speaker 6: and Ken, I don't understand. I don't know if it's
Speaker 6: any better. I don't know if it's any worse. It's
Speaker 6: still only twenty minutes and that's good.
Speaker 4: But no, Michael mcdonaland Tom Savigni didn't watch the first
Speaker 4: season or all?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Okay?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Right? Sorry, they were too busy doing other things.
Speaker 6: They were like, have you guys done like a Halloween
Speaker 6: episode with the guy like a mean guy who gives
Speaker 6: up who.
Speaker 5: Doesn't want to give out candy.
Speaker 6: If he done that yet, wouldn't have been the first
Speaker 6: episode or anything. So it's that is strange. Outside of that,
Speaker 6: I think it's perfectly fine. I don't understand the punishment
Speaker 6: at the end seems.
Speaker 1: A little bit much. It's a lot.
Speaker 6: I mean, he dies and then he sees himself at
Speaker 6: one point. He sees the hallucination of himself dead at
Speaker 6: one point too, which is odd. It's an odd episode,
Speaker 6: and it's a bottle episode. It must have been the
Speaker 6: cheapest goddamn episode of the show that they shot.
Speaker 4: No, because as they put it all into that goblin boy.
Speaker 1: Didn't they?
Speaker 3: How about you?
Speaker 1: About you, Mike, I'm.
Speaker 7: So glad that you said that the main character in
Speaker 7: this is ry Poole, because I thought for sure it
Speaker 7: was Robert's Blossom. I was like, oh, boy, this is
Speaker 7: the youngest I've ever seen Roberts blossom look. And then
Speaker 7: also I was thinking, oh, he's kind of doing his
Speaker 7: role from Home Alone a little bit early, but you know,
Speaker 7: in Home Aloney ends up being a nice guy. In
Speaker 7: this he's just a bastard, and this mister Killop is
Speaker 7: a complete bastard.
Speaker 3: Through and through.
Speaker 7: I really enjoyed this one. I had a great time
Speaker 7: with this episode and just the way that it builds,
Speaker 7: And yeah, it was very similar to that first episode.
Speaker 7: But at the same time, I don't know, I'm trying
Speaker 7: to remember who was our main person in that first one.
Speaker 7: It was somebody good, Barn Hughes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: Oh that's right, mister Merlin himself. And this one, I
Speaker 7: was really glad to see where Poole just get tormented
Speaker 7: the whole way through because he's such a jerk. Reminds
Speaker 7: me my stepdad and his brother. They would give away
Speaker 7: ice cream for Halloween, and like the kids would come
Speaker 7: up and they'd say, oh, you want some ice cream?
Speaker 1: They'd be like, my dad would.
Speaker 7: Take a scoop and just put it right in there.
Speaker 7: So it's right up there with that Goblin candy fu.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is a real thing that was going on.
Speaker 7: That's a real thing.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean I'm more disturbed by that than
Speaker 6: I am anything I watched in this entire episode.
Speaker 5: What in God's name was going on in Detroit Machine.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know. Well, it was the
Speaker 7: same brother that that pied my dad in the face,
Speaker 7: not realizing that when they do that in movies that
Speaker 7: they don't have the metal tin. Basically broke my dad's
Speaker 7: nose in that. But yeah, good times, good family, A rambunch.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well it was like a bunch of Catholics.
Speaker 7: What was it, four four girls, three boys, all born
Speaker 7: within like a ten year period.
Speaker 3: There were something to recipe for disaster?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, kind of give it out candy on Halloween.
Speaker 7: I think they recycled a lot of these costumes. I
Speaker 7: love that the one kid's just carrying around spray paint
Speaker 7: and I'm thinking, that's a little person in that costume.
Speaker 7: I was in almost every single one of these costumes.
Speaker 4: That bunny Rabbit in particular was a bit ewokie. And yeah,
Speaker 4: boy wasn't killed. But when he pulled that canna that
Speaker 4: was like the size of his own arm. I was like,
Speaker 4: this is a good episode, man, but that.
Speaker 5: Don't you spray paint my door either, Get that paint
Speaker 5: away from me.
Speaker 6: Here like, what the fuck is going There's some really
Speaker 6: malicious kids who just, you know, just give them the
Speaker 6: goddamn candy. I don't under I don't understand this. This
Speaker 6: is not rocket science. This is like five dollars of
Speaker 6: candy and your sanity will be restored.
Speaker 5: What are the steaks here? Why are these the steaks?
Speaker 1: Is all I'm asking.
Speaker 6: I love that it's a Halloween story, and I do
Speaker 6: like the steaks because they make sense in terms of
Speaker 6: it being a Halloween story, But like, really, this is
Speaker 6: this guy dies because he doesn't give up Tandy.
Speaker 5: I mean, fucking that's metal as fuck show. Sure, why not?
Speaker 7: Well? And that they managed to stop time and that
Speaker 7: midnight is now forever for this piece of shit. It's like, dude,
Speaker 7: that his son is going to go to jail at
Speaker 7: the end of this episode.
Speaker 3: One thousand percent is that?
Speaker 4: Like they cut away at the end, they cut to
Speaker 4: that corpse, and I thought, oh, they should have overlaid
Speaker 4: the police officers saying so, so we'd like to talk
Speaker 4: to you about your father, would you China's Downtown.
Speaker 6: Have that mannikin or that maquette that these at the end?
Speaker 6: Is is pretty ghoulish on top of everything else. It's
Speaker 6: really it's an unpleasant It's an unpleasant thing to have
Speaker 6: to freeze frame on for a while.
Speaker 1: It's pretty convincing.
Speaker 6: I like, I'm with y'all. I liked this episode. I
Speaker 6: just the steaks are bizarre, and you have the old
Speaker 6: man just getting it and then the sun getting it.
Speaker 6: Is the sun getting it is way worse because that's
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess he's a dick. I don't know,
Speaker 6: they're both dicks. I don't understand. Like everybody in this
Speaker 6: episode is an asshole. That's kind of especially that goblin
Speaker 6: with the glowing eyes that jumps up and down on
Speaker 6: the swing over and over again.
Speaker 7: I mean, father alone, tell me as far as where
Speaker 7: does this fit in terms of creep Show, because the
Speaker 7: goblin reminded me a lot of the creature that lives
Speaker 7: in the box under the stairs, and then the whole
Speaker 7: thing with the bugs. I was reminded of the last
Speaker 7: chapter with E. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now that's interesting because Tom Savini very famously did not
Speaker 4: want to do anything with their creeping up on You
Speaker 4: segment of Creep Show. He built all those pieces, but
Speaker 4: really didn't want to be involved with the roases at all.
Speaker 4: He hates them, particularly, so when they showed up in
Speaker 4: this I was really surprised that he. I mean, he
Speaker 4: could have done anything he wanted with as far as
Speaker 4: Creepy Crawley's you know, like maggots or whatever, but went
Speaker 4: ahead with the roaches.
Speaker 3: This is what this is three years after Creep Show.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I was hearing some echoes pretty loudly.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: You know what, not only you weren't just hearing echoes,
Speaker 4: you were seeing echoes because every time they cut to
Speaker 4: an exterior, they keep showing the porch on his house,
Speaker 4: and then they'll cut to the moon, which is a
Speaker 4: beautiful shot of the moon. There are two separate shunts
Speaker 4: because they're both from Creep Show. They're both mathening Creep
Speaker 4: Show makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I like this whole thing too, of how the creature
Speaker 7: kind of is getting into his head and they keep
Speaker 7: doing those flash cuts of the creature and I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: that's really creepy and effective.
Speaker 4: That was probably my favorite part of the episode, where yeah,
Speaker 4: they cut to these flashes of what basically looks like
Speaker 4: an icy version of the Goblin with white eyes and
Speaker 4: white skin, like super close up almost you know, subliminal,
Speaker 4: and I thought that was really artful. Also, when the
Speaker 4: old man finally hits the ground, like the he kind
Speaker 4: of floats to the ground, and you know, for pretty
Speaker 4: ambitious for a twenty two minute episode of this series
Speaker 4: in which that creature was also built by Savini specifically
Speaker 4: for the episode. You know, if you go on IMDb,
Speaker 4: it says that this is the cre fature from Creep Show.
Speaker 4: It is clearly not Fluffy. I don't know how anyone
Speaker 4: could make that fucking mistake. There's so wildly different in appearance. Oh, gentlemen,
Speaker 4: we should rejoice. This episode of Tails from the Dark
Speaker 4: Side makes an official trope for Tails from the dark
Speaker 4: Side now, and that is people jumping backwards right onto something,
Speaker 4: people jumping in reverse up onto something. This is the
Speaker 4: third time, now, right, third time?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you're right. When I saw that, I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: didn't we just see that alien do that? And that
Speaker 7: incredible Chuck mcka episode, and before that, Carol Kane did
Speaker 7: it to bud Court.
Speaker 3: So third times the arm.
Speaker 1: Like the term amazing being used here.
Speaker 7: Well, let's say incredible because I still can't quite believe.
Speaker 4: Fair now the episode that this echoes the Trick or
Speaker 4: Treat the first episode of George Ramira that is way
Speaker 4: more easy comics in totally and it's like this horrible
Speaker 4: old mind torturing the townsfolk and then the spirits of
Speaker 4: Halloween coming to Dola justice on him. I'm not so
Speaker 4: sure that this man deserves what he gets here. No,
Speaker 4: he's just a bitter old man who doesn't want to
Speaker 4: participate in Halloween and his son forces him to participate.
Speaker 4: And by the way, the sons listen, you have to
Speaker 4: give out candy or they're gonna you know, they're gonna
Speaker 4: trick the house. You know, are they're gonna eg you
Speaker 4: or who cares? Who cares if they did?
Speaker 7: And I am tired of getting up on that ladder
Speaker 7: and crawling into that tree and taking that toilet paper out.
Speaker 6: Ultimately, this child kills his father because he forces him
Speaker 6: to give out candy.
Speaker 4: Ultimately, No, I honestly think that I wasn't joking when
Speaker 4: I said this is a tale of elder neglect.
Speaker 3: That it is. That's really really it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, even to the point what we're saying,
Speaker 4: he pushes the dad to give out the candy, and
Speaker 4: not only that, and this is the I don't think
Speaker 4: this is intended, but it ties in the candy he
Speaker 4: puts in that bowl. It's like it's all Hershey Kisses
Speaker 4: and a few Tootsi rolls, the tiny Tootsi rolls, and
Speaker 4: then a couple of full sized Snickers. So it's don't
Speaker 4: not give out candy because they'll egg the house or
Speaker 4: they'll throw a toilet paper, but we will cause a
Speaker 4: riot in the disparity of choice when you're handing it
Speaker 4: out to the kids. You know these kids are gonna
Speaker 4: go crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that is so not enough Halloween kid. I
Speaker 7: don't know about you guys, but for me, it's one
Speaker 7: bag for the kids, one bag for me, so it's.
Speaker 1: Got to be a lot more.
Speaker 6: I don't have any kids come to my door sapefully,
Speaker 6: well not thankfully. I would give them candy if they did,
Speaker 6: but my neighborhood is not great for it. But I
Speaker 6: don't think that a goblin would come and kill me
Speaker 6: if I didn't give out candy. Must not be an
Speaker 6: elderly man.
Speaker 4: I believe that that goblin did come, though, and it
Speaker 4: actually got into your house and then it like swatted
Speaker 4: your watch off and broke it and then the left.
Speaker 4: I don't think you would shrug, well, that's over, and
Speaker 4: then just go about your evening. I'm sitting down to
Speaker 4: watch TV now, yeah, I can give you a little
Speaker 4: more shake of exactly. That guy's just so nonchalant about it.
Speaker 4: Oh goblin. What's funny is when it comes back is
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a cop?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, what was it? Dead giveaway? What was the
Speaker 5: dead giveaway?
Speaker 1: Here? It's glowing fucking eyes.
Speaker 6: I would too bad he didn't have a scene where
Speaker 6: he tried to grab the mask off and I was like,
Speaker 6: this is not a mask.
Speaker 1: Where was that scene?
Speaker 3: I would have enjoyed that.
Speaker 4: Actually, Nick Dwell managed to weave in another Tails from
Speaker 4: the Dark Side, not a trope necessarily, but a theme
Speaker 4: the technophobia where he knows he's trapped in a loop
Speaker 4: because he tries to call out to his son and
Speaker 4: gets the time on his road phone and it's just
Speaker 4: the same time over and over. And also, I guess
Speaker 4: this is a sign that it's nineteen eighty five that
Speaker 4: you can get on your rotary phone still and call
Speaker 4: to find out the time.
Speaker 3: Remember doing that, Mike Chris, do you.
Speaker 4: Have any knowledge of ever doing that in your life
Speaker 4: calling the time on your phone now, But.
Speaker 6: I used my phone to call the movies to get
Speaker 6: the movie times, so you know, not far off. I
Speaker 6: was asking for a different kind of time, a more
Speaker 6: specific time.
Speaker 1: One might say, who, welcome to movie phone.
Speaker 5: You have selected Lelo and Stitch rated pg.
Speaker 1: Thirteen.
Speaker 4: Every every time the power would go off in your
Speaker 4: house and be like, fuck, you have to call the
Speaker 4: number and find out it's time.
Speaker 3: It's five twelve. No, wait, five point thirteen. Now that's
Speaker 3: fucking wild.
Speaker 5: Yet No, I didn't have to do that, sor sorry
Speaker 5: guys and weather too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I find out what is gonna be like tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Jeez, Louise.
Speaker 7: The phone book was a treasure trove of all of
Speaker 7: these things where you're like, really, that's a service that
Speaker 7: I can call.
Speaker 4: But yeah, they might be giants. The dial along which
Speaker 4: is still going on, still going but it's only on
Speaker 4: the internet now, I think. But it's it's still a
Speaker 4: phone number, but it's an internet number. But you can
Speaker 4: hear much more of the song because they don't have
Speaker 4: the it's not the length of the tape anymore.
Speaker 7: What did they say, Gloria, there must be giants? What
Speaker 7: that's that's the song I miscellaneous tea I skip every
Speaker 7: time as the actual recording of the people who were
Speaker 7: on dial a song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're there for the songs.
Speaker 1: Come on man.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also another thing I noticed the sun in addition to
Speaker 4: his men crimes against his dad, could you replace his
Speaker 4: doorbell please? It sounds like the emergency broadcast system. Every
Speaker 4: time it went off. It was really startling. No wonder
Speaker 4: he doesn't want trick or treaters. The son should just
Speaker 4: put up a sign that says knock, and things might
Speaker 4: co love more smoothly.
Speaker 1: Did this guy.
Speaker 7: Already got the sign that says no trespassers? Religious fanatics?
Speaker 7: I can't remember all the things.
Speaker 1: For service workers or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, religious fanatics alone, she'd tell us who this guy
Speaker 4: is and why is the sun trying to make him anything?
Speaker 3: But maybe the son should just sit there. They know
Speaker 3: they may have some bullshit thing for him that he
Speaker 3: had to go.
Speaker 6: But you know, all of a sudden, Harry Chapins, Cats
Speaker 6: and the Cradle plays in the background, and I just
Speaker 6: don't have time for you anymore.
Speaker 1: Dad. She the first four cords bell.
Speaker 6: If that's all you have to hear, it's a it's
Speaker 6: fucked up because Yeah, ultimately, the way to save the
Speaker 6: father and the story is for the son to just
Speaker 6: stick around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I guess that's the ultimate meaning of it.
Speaker 4: Like the sun as he's leaving is your refrigerator has
Speaker 4: no food.
Speaker 3: It's who's fucking fun? All this is that you're great.
Speaker 6: You're leaving him like this too, dude, No, he just
Speaker 6: dropped off some candy.
Speaker 4: And the father says at one point, like all I
Speaker 4: do is eat. I have nothing else. Get your father
Speaker 4: either into a home or get him into a group
Speaker 4: of something, like, get him a hobby. What is happening here?
Speaker 4: This episode is actually really horrific.
Speaker 1: This episode is deeply upseting.
Speaker 3: God bless Michael mcdelsy when he's really good. He's really good.
Speaker 4: This is it's so subtly under there because this just
Speaker 4: feels like another silly ah And now the Halloween people
Speaker 4: are coming to give teach this old man a lesson
Speaker 4: for not doing the trick or treat thing. No, really,
Speaker 4: it's about this old man who starved to death because
Speaker 4: his son.
Speaker 5: So God on a very special episode on Tales from
Speaker 5: the Dark cent I.
Speaker 7: Got I like there, it's that whole cosmic fate thing,
Speaker 7: you know, just like punishing this guy punishing it. I mean,
Speaker 7: really they do punish the father as well, since he
Speaker 7: is going to go to jail. But I like that. It's, oh,
Speaker 7: you aren't obeying the rules of Halloween, so that the
Speaker 7: cosmos is going to bit you and just set the
Speaker 7: whole record straight, murder you and through your son.
Speaker 4: And if this person has relatives, I think they're having
Speaker 4: a bad night too, Mike.
Speaker 3: I think far reaching the dark side is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: This is no.
Speaker 5: This is a good episode of the show, for sure.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: All right, let's move on to that next episode, which
Speaker 4: is The Satanic Piano. This is season two, episode number six.
Speaker 4: It aired originally on November third, nineteen eighty five. This
Speaker 4: was written by John Harrison from a story by Carl Jacoby,
Speaker 4: directed by John Harrison and starring Michael Warren, Lisa Bonett,
Speaker 4: and Falise or Landy. This is the tale of a
Speaker 4: songwriter struggling with writer's block who's given another worldly instrument
Speaker 4: that can turn his thoughts into music.
Speaker 3: What do you think about this one, Mike?
Speaker 7: He again, pardon me, really enjoyed this one as well.
Speaker 7: I don't know what's going on this week. But I
Speaker 7: just really found this one to be compelling. I like
Speaker 7: the creepy record producer and they find that he's got
Speaker 7: the past and he's been trying all this time to
Speaker 7: basically make a pack with Satan and open up the
Speaker 7: gates to Hell or whatever is in order to do
Speaker 7: his thing, and that I think it would have been
Speaker 7: great if they had a little bit more budget for
Speaker 7: the actual special effects in here, especially when it comes
Speaker 7: to the piano, the satanic piano of the title. But yeah,
Speaker 7: that it was, and it was odd seeing Lisa Bonet
Speaker 7: in this young role. Of course, I'm more familiar with
Speaker 7: her from The Cosby Show. But then also, you know,
Speaker 7: even why am I banking.
Speaker 5: On high fidelity?
Speaker 1: No God, no?
Speaker 3: Angel Angel Heart?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I hate high fidelity.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm with you, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 7: Guy Angel Heart. Yes, very reminded me of Angel Heart.
Speaker 7: And yeah, she just looks kind of trashy in this,
Speaker 7: but yeah, I thought she she was.
Speaker 1: She does.
Speaker 7: She looks a little trashy to me, That's all.
Speaker 1: What that was.
Speaker 5: And where did that come from?
Speaker 3: I disagree with that sentiment, all right.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I enjoyed how this one goes. Then it
Speaker 7: fills up the twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3: Pretty darn well, there's a lot going on in this episode. Absolutely, yeah, Chris,
Speaker 3: what'd you think?
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 6: I mean, again, this is kind of part and parcel
Speaker 6: for some of the things we've had before, where it's
Speaker 6: the magic and mystery of technology paired with the mystical
Speaker 6: and the magical, and I think it was an interesting idea.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 6: I don't think Michael Warren's given enough to do. I mean,
Speaker 6: Lisa Bone is in this, and like you mentioned, Mike,
Speaker 6: I mean she's very young, and she's also not given.
Speaker 1: Much to do.
Speaker 6: But I think the idea is interesting that there's this
Speaker 6: guy who sells her an instrument and then he kidnaps
Speaker 6: or he sells her father an instrument, and that he
Speaker 6: kidnaps her because she's the one who can be his
Speaker 6: angel of music. I guess to use a phantom of
Speaker 6: an opera parlance, so I think it's I think it's fine.
Speaker 6: I guess for me, it wasn't personally that compelling compared
Speaker 6: to the last episode, because again, I mean, fausty and
Speaker 6: bargains are a time a dozen. Father Malone lifts up
Speaker 6: his swan tattoo in the frame. I mean, that's what
Speaker 6: I thought of when I thought of this episode was
Speaker 6: Phantom of the Paradise, which is a much better story
Speaker 6: and much more interesting story. And that's kind of what
Speaker 6: this made me feel like. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed it for what it was, but definitely some of.
Speaker 1: The performances left me wanting more, as it.
Speaker 4: Was the first thing I wrote in my notes was
Speaker 4: that I keep saying this because it's true. Deals with
Speaker 4: the Devil episodes never get old, never they have the
Speaker 4: least variety in plot, but they can always be made
Speaker 4: to be the most interesting. And I found that to
Speaker 4: be this one as well. I loved the continuation of
Speaker 4: the technophobia going on through the series here, but made
Speaker 4: through music. And I love the design of that fucking piano.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: They've taken the flat part of the piano, the harp
Speaker 4: shaped part of the piano. They've stood it upright and
Speaker 4: turned it into a circuit board, and a circuit board
Speaker 4: with a little window basically into another dimension I guess,
Speaker 4: like some sort of swirling vortex.
Speaker 3: I loved that. I don't know, I love the design.
Speaker 4: It doesn't hurt that John Harrison is himself a composer
Speaker 4: and composed the music in here. Have you heard anything
Speaker 4: I've said, Chris, there's a whole lot of Day of
Speaker 4: the Dead influence here. The score for You the Dead,
Speaker 4: like so much of it. And there are two separate
Speaker 4: scores going on here because they're dealing with the father
Speaker 4: who's trying to write his and then the daughter writing hers.
Speaker 4: But they both sound like they came from They the Dead,
Speaker 4: like straight out of Day of the Dead.
Speaker 7: Well, I liked this song. His song could feels so
Speaker 7: cheese and just that like real synth, and I'm like,
Speaker 7: oh man, this feels so out of step with the time.
Speaker 1: Her song is very beautiful.
Speaker 7: But then I kept thinking, what if they're two songs
Speaker 7: matched up? Like I kept thinking, what if the two
Speaker 7: songs get played at the same time, and that's going
Speaker 7: to be like the solution, like both of us together,
Speaker 7: we make the music together, my lovely daughter. But unfortunately
Speaker 7: that wasn't the case.
Speaker 4: You know, it would have been good if that was
Speaker 4: the revelation. But then the further revelation is that sound
Speaker 4: open some portal to a horrible dimension.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It kind of had to upbeat of an ending that
Speaker 6: was kind of I don't know, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: the show was very nice, and the show hasn't been
Speaker 6: nice for a while. I mean, Parlor Floor Front was
Speaker 6: pretty mean. I mean Halloween Candy was extremely mean, and
Speaker 6: this episode one third of the way gets there. I mean,
Speaker 6: the dad's hand is burned and at the end he goes,
Speaker 6: you're my music now and I care only about you.
Speaker 1: Okay, he learned his lesson. We get it fine. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 6: I was a little disappointed that to your point, Father Malone,
Speaker 6: that there wasn't some like at the end in the
Speaker 6: day New Maw there was like and they did it
Speaker 6: and made it worse and the villain, you know, achieved
Speaker 6: his goal.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: This is a short form anthology show.
Speaker 6: I honestly prefer the bad guys to get a get
Speaker 6: one over on the heroes from time to time, and
Speaker 6: this show does do that. So it was a little
Speaker 6: surprising to give this episode a happy ending as well
Speaker 6: as it were.
Speaker 4: Do you know what this felt like to me? Bill
Speaker 4: and Ted Face? The music clearly.
Speaker 5: Interesting, okay, sure.
Speaker 4: Where this guy's greatest creative contribution is his daughter, who's
Speaker 4: actually got the touch. She's actually got the talent to
Speaker 4: make music sort of effortlessly. Everything he's struggling to do
Speaker 4: she can do perfectly. But she wouldn't be around without him.
Speaker 4: So that's, you know, because that's the lesson learned at
Speaker 4: the end of this right with his by the way,
Speaker 4: saw this when it aired and hit the state of
Speaker 4: his hand after punching into another. It's really horrific. It's
Speaker 4: gooey and burned and you can see the bones through it.
Speaker 4: It's and on top of which this guy is a
Speaker 4: piano man first and foremost, so you know that part
Speaker 4: of his life is over never mind.
Speaker 3: Yesh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a good effect.
Speaker 6: Anytime anyone sticks their hand into something gloppy and gloopy
Speaker 6: and then pulls it out and it's just destroyed, it's
Speaker 6: oh yeah. And then again the instrument of it all. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I guess it is like Bill Ye, I've almost forgot
Speaker 6: that movie existed. Frankly, It's one of those movies that
Speaker 6: just kind of came out and I forgot it existed.
Speaker 6: But it does have that kind of that I guess
Speaker 6: the framing device to it of my rateus achievement.
Speaker 1: Is my child.
Speaker 4: The other film it reminds me of was Rock and Rule,
Speaker 4: because in that the villain is looking for the perfect
Speaker 4: voice to open up a portal to some other you know,
Speaker 4: cut through like dimensions. So well, this obviously the contemporary
Speaker 4: of that movie and predates The Villain Dead. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: Debbie Harry and the Debbie Harry one. What was I
Speaker 4: gonna say?
Speaker 7: I was saying that it reminds me of The Devil
Speaker 7: and Daniel Mouse. I don't know if you remember that
Speaker 7: nel the animation one, Yeah, I do, which was used
Speaker 7: wonderfully by Bauhaus in one of their songs. It's just
Speaker 7: they're so, you know, dark and brooding and stuff, and
Speaker 7: then they go ahead and you lose almost the entire
Speaker 7: animation inside of one of their songs.
Speaker 4: You mentioned the music for the Dad being really cheesy,
Speaker 4: that's because that's it's a synth version of a marimba
Speaker 4: sort of doing a kind of a Caribbean beat there.
Speaker 4: Harrison did most of his work on a Prophet five synthesizer.
Speaker 4: He did the entirety of the Creep Show score on
Speaker 4: the on on the Prophet five. And if anyone knows,
Speaker 4: and I'm and I'm if I'm speaking incorrectly, I'm almost
Speaker 4: positive the same is true with this score and the
Speaker 4: Day of the Dead score. So so that's one of
Speaker 4: the settings on here. Like I said, like you hear
Speaker 4: that exactly those sort of same Cynthia Marimbas. You hear
Speaker 4: all through Day of the Day anytime something happy is
Speaker 4: going on, which isn't frequently in day, but you hear
Speaker 4: it there that one.
Speaker 1: Zombies they're happy, they're walking.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, he does quote thek in Day of
Speaker 4: the Day at one point. Yeah, but with yeah, it's
Speaker 4: that No, I love that part. The idea, by the way,
Speaker 4: that just there's so much going on. This episode is
Speaker 4: really packed because just the concept of somebody trying to
Speaker 4: put the soul of a pure musician into this satanic
Speaker 4: instrument as a weapon of power or something like that.
Speaker 4: That's pretty heavy stuff like that, Not to mention the
Speaker 4: dynamic between the father and the daughter here and like that.
Speaker 4: You know, this guy's getting over the fact that he's
Speaker 4: sort of washed up, but you know he has to
Speaker 4: sort of solace himself with it with his daughter's talent
Speaker 4: and what she's up to a meant to achieve. But
Speaker 4: really this episode is a parable about having the right
Speaker 4: representation as an artist because this isn't some guy, Jesus sincerely,
Speaker 4: this isn't some guy who is like struggling. He in
Speaker 4: his own words, says, I sold a million units last year.
Speaker 3: He says, true, right, that's true. That's sure in a
Speaker 3: nice apartment. He's doing well.
Speaker 4: Right, So, for all intents and purposes, this is a
Speaker 4: story about him and having a bit of like writer's block,
Speaker 4: like where the record company doesn't like the latest tracks
Speaker 4: he's given them.
Speaker 3: But you know what, he sold a million units last year.
Speaker 3: Fuck those guys.
Speaker 4: This member's only jacket buttoned down guy when jeans in
Speaker 4: a fucking pinky ring comes in. This is his representation.
Speaker 4: He's like, well, we're just gonna take whatever they can
Speaker 4: give us. Now, can I have a sandwich? I'm like,
Speaker 4: fire this man immediately, let me represent you like this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's life lessons being learned on these episod so
Speaker 6: details from the dark side. Don't abuse your parents, and
Speaker 6: make sure if you're being represented there they have your
Speaker 6: best interest in mind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's the kind of agent that would have been
Speaker 7: funneling all this money into another account and be like,
Speaker 7: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 5: He seemed like, oh no, we're just tied up for
Speaker 5: funds right now, we just don't want to.
Speaker 4: Do yeah, exactly. I don't know that. I did not
Speaker 4: understand that part of it. If he had been like
Speaker 4: a struggling guy, then it would make a little bit
Speaker 4: more sense.
Speaker 6: But you know, the little offendi action probably would have
Speaker 6: worked a little better here. That Wasn't he like a
Speaker 6: struggling comedian. Isn't that the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But no, I don't think he needed that.
Speaker 4: I think that the sort of washed up guy is fine,
Speaker 4: but that unfortunately they set up their own timeline to
Speaker 4: be like you said, I sold a million units last year,
Speaker 4: if he had sold a million units ten years ago, right,
Speaker 4: if this was a little closer to like what we
Speaker 4: get in Tails from the Dark Side, the movie that
Speaker 4: James remar Lever's vow story where he's like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: he was a big splash, I don't know how many
Speaker 4: years ago, but he ain't been paying the bills with
Speaker 4: his arre lately then something. But overall loved it. This
Speaker 4: is a double header of fucking greatness here on Tails
Speaker 4: from the Dark Side.
Speaker 7: I mean, knock me over with a feather. When I
Speaker 7: watch these I was.
Speaker 5: Like, what wait, No, this This is really good.
Speaker 7: This is why I signed up for the show. This
Speaker 7: is finally happening.
Speaker 6: Felix Tails from the Dark Side has been good for
Speaker 6: the most part, though, right I.
Speaker 7: Would say that their batting average definitely seems to be
Speaker 7: higher than what we've talked about.
Speaker 3: In the past.
Speaker 7: I mean seventy Yeah, no offense, mister Serling, but yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm finding mister Romero handles this a little bit better.
Speaker 3: I agreed.
Speaker 4: The bad Ones have not felt offensive. I haven't been
Speaker 4: mad at any episode. I've just been like, Eh, that
Speaker 4: was okay. They could have done something better there, whereas
Speaker 4: frequently with Night Callery I was like, fuck you what,
Speaker 4: why did you just waste my time with that?
Speaker 7: I keep thinking of those people up in the tree
Speaker 7: and who was it, David Karenine or whoever that.
Speaker 4: Was that was groovy with jar that one put them
Speaker 4: up in the trees and these pads, it'd be groovy.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, there's the villain in this episode. He has
Speaker 4: a line inspiration is such a fickle vamp. I've never
Speaker 4: heard a character want to say bitch more on syndicated
Speaker 4: television ever.
Speaker 3: Vamp. They're just like, oh, can we put in here?
Speaker 3: Ample do I guess.
Speaker 1: Damp that's a good word.
Speaker 3: Anything else about this one?
Speaker 1: Jen?
Speaker 4: Oh, I do have one more thing. I love a
Speaker 4: musical lock, but it's probably not a good idea to
Speaker 4: put the notes on the fucking lock, letting everyone know
Speaker 4: that it's your musical lock.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I did like how our main character had him
Speaker 7: memorized after just singing it once and it's like, oh,
Speaker 7: Lisa Bonet, it's this all right?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: I have a Lisa Bonet story in nineteen ninety two
Speaker 4: when I was a projectionist in Santa Monica. It was
Speaker 4: early we had a matinee of something and I had
Speaker 4: come downstairs and a girl came out and asked I
Speaker 4: would help her find her glasses, and did not recognize
Speaker 4: it as Lisa Bonnet. All I saw was who is
Speaker 4: this fucking gorgeous human being? And then went in with
Speaker 4: her and looked look. Then I found her glass and
Speaker 4: like amateur, and we went back into the lobby, went
Speaker 4: into the sort of full daylight.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, it's Lisa Bonet. She
Speaker 3: was luminous.
Speaker 4: I mean you see it on the TV or in
Speaker 4: movies and stuff like that, but it's one of those
Speaker 4: people who they've got the that in factor. They just
Speaker 4: fucking light up the room. The other person I met
Speaker 4: who had that was Rose McGowan at the same thing,
Speaker 4: or met her one day. It was just like Jesus Christ,
Speaker 4: like what that like gods walk amongst us? So anyway,
Speaker 4: Lisa Bone big fan.
Speaker 1: I don't like her with short hair.
Speaker 6: I don't think hers like a young child with short
Speaker 6: hair is just kind of doesn't look like Lisa Bone.
Speaker 1: But I like her a lot.
Speaker 6: And apparently the movie that I'm the only one out
Speaker 6: of the three of us who likes, and you guys
Speaker 6: had a physical reaction to but both of you filmically vomited,
Speaker 6: just upsetiphidelity rat.
Speaker 1: You guys like John Cusack, What the fuck?
Speaker 7: I love John Cusack. I do not like people that
Speaker 7: make lists.
Speaker 1: That's fair. But you're gonna say you like sell instead.
Speaker 4: I'd rather watch the movie Torque again for Lisa Bone
Speaker 4: than watch Hypeidella Day.
Speaker 3: That's fair, all right.
Speaker 4: On the next episode of Midnight Viewing, we'll be taking
Speaker 4: a look at two new episodes from season two. Those
Speaker 4: are The Devil's Advocate and Distance Signals. Midnight Viewing the
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Speaker 4: That should actually be out when this is coming out.
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