1 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to the Surely Can't Be Serious Podcast, 2 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,719 discussing and debating the iconic and the forgotten of eighties 3 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,359 and nineties pop culture with your co hosts James D. 4 00:00:26,679 --> 00:00:28,920 Graves and Jason Colbn. 5 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: Welcome back for part two of the Shirley You Can't 6 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:34,159 Be Serious Podcast. 7 00:00:34,439 --> 00:00:38,439 Speaker 3: Here's a quick recap in last week's episode, let's just. 8 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: Dive in, and so we got to jump right in. 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,240 We're going to talk about airplane. Wait, wait before we 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:49,880 get every time to d Yes, good luck all kind. 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,759 Speaker 3: They used to leave the BCR on recording overnight and 12 00:00:57,799 --> 00:01:01,240 they accidentally recorded Zero Hour and this is we could 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:02,719 really turn this into something funny. 14 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,719 Speaker 2: Some of the lines are identical, and they were fascinated 15 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,640 by this weird movie. They decided we're going to buy 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:10,239 the rights to. 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 3: The script first. 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, avoid the trouble, and it couldn't have been 19 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:21,640 that expensive. One of their first choices for Ted Striker 20 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,920 was David Letterman. They were so excited and he was like, 21 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:26,680 this is a bad idea. And then when they were down, 22 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,560 they're like, you're right, this was a bad idea. She's 23 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,760 performing that song really well, and that in combination with 24 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,799 the girl who's making the fish face because their ivs 25 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,040 come out. Is brilliant. It is the brilliance of the 26 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:44,480 comedy of his easy. Almost every line in this thing 27 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:47,959 is perfect. It's one of the most quotable movies of 28 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:48,319 all time. 29 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:50,319 Speaker 3: So don't want to help. 30 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: So can you imagine delivering to a child actor the 31 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,959 line have you ever seen a grown man naked? With 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,599 absolutely sincerity? How do you do that? You've got nineteen 33 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:08,199 eighties PG ratings which feature boobies. 34 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:10,199 Speaker 3: And man, I can tell you a story about the 35 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:11,439 movies in air. 36 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,039 Speaker 2: Those specific movies, those particular Yeah, tell me, tell me 37 00:02:16,039 --> 00:02:16,639 the movie story. 38 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:19,719 Speaker 3: Okay, So this was a movie I watched young because 39 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:22,039 my dad thought it was funny, but he was trying 40 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:26,159 to keep me from seeing. There's one scene where a 41 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,000 woman is wearing no shirt and shoe just walks directly 42 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,159 front of the camera and then walks off screen. And 43 00:02:31,199 --> 00:02:34,599 that's it, right, right, So basically you have half a 44 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:37,599 second it's just out of nowhere boobs and then they're gone, right, 45 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:41,960 And so he was trying to watch this movie with me, Yes, 46 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,000 protect me, protect my eyes from well, you've got to 47 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,439 you've got to know exactly or it's they're there and 48 00:02:50,479 --> 00:02:54,360 then gone and then it's over. Yeah, and it wasn't best. 49 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:59,080 And so that was my first on screen flash of skin. 50 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 2: Yeah really like the first time you ever saw naked 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:02,639 boobies on TV? 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,719 Speaker 3: Yeah wow yeah, yeah, nice this especially. 53 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:11,759 Speaker 2: All right, now it's time to jump into Spaceball one 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,599 and travel at ludicrous speed, so we can warp ahead 55 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:20,280 in time to nineteen eighty seven when Spaceballs was released. 56 00:03:21,719 --> 00:03:22,759 Speaker 1: Ah. 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 2: Some people call me space Alboy. 58 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, some call me the game Grip. 59 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:40,599 Speaker 4: Some people call me marrie'd be of the. 60 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: Puppy Spaceballs one of mel Brooks's wonderful parodies that he 61 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,960 has done. But first, let's talk about what was going 62 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,879 on in nineteen eighty seven. Help us remember what what 63 00:03:55,879 --> 00:03:57,439 we were doing, what we were going through back. Then 64 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:00,439 we'll do our rapid fire again sound again, Yeah, first 65 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,400 or second, I'll go first, Okay, you go first. 66 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:06,159 Speaker 3: So this is just current events from nineteen eighty seven 67 00:04:06,199 --> 00:04:08,240 to kind of give you a place in a moment 68 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,520 in time, right right, So, Ronald Reagan addresses the Iran 69 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:13,439 contra affair. 70 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 2: Yes, do you remember that? Yes? Yeah, we had the 71 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:19,800 whole Ali North thing going on. Yep, it was all 72 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,120 very bad. It looked like Reagan either had lied or 73 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:26,199 didn't know what was going on, and basically said he 74 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:28,680 didn't know what was going on, right, And people loved 75 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:31,720 him so much that it didn't matter. They forgave him right. 76 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,959 Also that year, though a little bit later on, to 77 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:39,480 kind of cement his place in history, he said to 78 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:47,519 mister Korbachev, tear down this wall. Mister Gorbachev teared down 79 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:48,399 this wall. 80 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,199 Speaker 3: Huge speech and one that sticks with us. 81 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, mister John teared down as well. Two years 82 00:04:57,639 --> 00:04:59,959 later it came down. I don't know if you know this, 83 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:02,639 but like the speech writer had, you know, had given 84 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,879 him the speech. They kind of talked about it, and 85 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:07,519 the speech writer thought, you know, that's kind of cliche 86 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,360 and corny. I'm gonna take that out and regularly at 87 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:12,720 it's like putting that back in. Yep, it was his call. 88 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 3: That's awesome. Here's one listen this one. I don't know 89 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:19,199 why this one sticks with me, but when Jim Baker 90 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,560 resigned from the pt L after admitting to an affair 91 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,000 with Jessica on Well. 92 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,519 Speaker 2: It sticks with you because she appeared in some magazines 93 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:28,439 that she probably looked. 94 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,959 Speaker 3: At and the Wild thing video with Sam Kinison. 95 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 2: Yes, and all of the other heavy metal rockers of 96 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:36,920 the time, hair band Galore and her dancing around and. 97 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 3: I thank you move that came in my mind. 98 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 2: I thought I'd say that. 99 00:05:54,199 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 3: Line she look like a church secretary to I can 100 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,399 see I was hired and never saw. 101 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,519 Speaker 2: That one anyway. Yeah, and another on the on the 102 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,759 televangelist thing. Uh, the Supreme Court case of Hustler Magazine 103 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,959 versus Jerry Faultwell happened that year, which is the large 104 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,959 part of the People Versus Very Larry Flint movie that 105 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:28,560 came out probably ten years later. Another thing that is interesting, 106 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:30,360 I certainly don't remember it happening, but it was a 107 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:36,399 shocking event was that the Pennsylvania Treasurer, Bud Dwyer, had 108 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:40,399 been like convicted of doing these crimes, and he had 109 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:42,839 proclaimed his innocence the whole time, and he called a 110 00:06:42,879 --> 00:06:49,040 press press conference and then shot himself on live television. Yeah. 111 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:53,120 So there's And then again a decade or so later, 112 00:06:53,639 --> 00:06:56,759 the song by Filter comes out, Hey man, I shot 113 00:06:57,879 --> 00:07:01,160 You probably recognize the player here he that is in reference. 114 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:02,720 A lot of people thought it was Kirk Cobain that 115 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:04,439 they were talking about. Because it was not too long 116 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,720 after Kirk Cobain's suicide. But actually he was talking about 117 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:10,240 by Dwyer and that was his Hey man, I shot 118 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,319 was what it was all about. Wow, disturbing that. 119 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 3: That's why I say, all right, how about this one? 120 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,680 This one gets me at the heart. Baby Jessica McClure 121 00:07:23,959 --> 00:07:25,040 falls down the well. 122 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:27,519 Speaker 2: I knew you would have. I knew you would have. 123 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: If you've listened to our podcast. And if we're staying 124 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,279 in order, we do. 125 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:36,079 Speaker 2: What Michael Jackson was first, right, yes, so so yes, 126 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,040 you're I remember how moved you were by the man 127 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,920 in the mirror video. Baby Jessica comes out. 128 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,319 Speaker 3: That construction worker crying when he pulls it kills me 129 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:49,120 every time, A baby Jessica, you big softeeth? 130 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 2: Okay, so uh Movie news, Platooners least Man TV News. 131 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,000 The first episode of the Simpsons appears on The Tracy 132 00:08:02,079 --> 00:08:02,639 Allman Show. 133 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,079 Speaker 1: Oh Tattering Glow is al there ow Yeah, el last 134 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:08,959 name alcoholic, honey. 135 00:08:08,759 --> 00:08:14,319 Speaker 3: Check phone cough araw alcoholic. How about the teenager who 136 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,560 landed the plane who flew it from West Germany and 137 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,240 landed it in Red Square. 138 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: I can remember that. 139 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 3: I'm embarrassed the heck out of the Russians. 140 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,959 Speaker 2: And then the Music News YouTube releases Joshua Tree, the 141 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,440 best best YouTube album and one of the best albums 142 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:33,840 in the world in history. 143 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 3: In my opinion, We'll have to get into that later. 144 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:41,000 That sounds like a good because that same year, def 145 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,519 Lebert releases Hysteria, which is my favorite album. 146 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 2: Fall Time, Well, I mean, you got to pour some 147 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:50,000 sugar on me. I guess you still remember the first, 148 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,360 my very first high school dance that I went to. 149 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,759 That was the song that like that was in the 150 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,960 whole night led up to that moment. That was the 151 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:01,840 final song and when they have played it, that place 152 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,639 went nuts. 153 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 3: Right when the game. 154 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 2: For sure. Also in Music News, the very first Rick 155 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,679 roll happens because Rick Astley releases Never Going to Give 156 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:37,039 You Up. 157 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,279 Speaker 3: Also in nineteen eighty seven, the world population reaches five billion. 158 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,960 Is Nothing rolling right past that? Spaceballs released June twenty fourth, 159 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,440 nineteen eighty seven. Okay, here are the top ten songs 160 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,279 from Casey's Top forty real quick. Okay, all right, Number 161 00:09:58,279 --> 00:10:02,480 ten Just to See Her by Smokey Robinson. Nope, nothing 162 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:08,919 for You, No Songbird by Kenny g u Maybe You 163 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,919 Keep Me Hanging On by Kim Wilde, Oh for sure. Okay, 164 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,759 how about this one? Number seven on the charts this 165 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,919 week nineteen eighty seven Wanted Dead or Alive? 166 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:30,879 Speaker 4: Almost it? 167 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 2: Oh man, the reason I started playing guitar? 168 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:36,159 Speaker 3: Really? 169 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,279 Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely? 170 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,039 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right? Number six this week in eighty 171 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,720 seven alone. 172 00:10:43,399 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 2: By Yeah I can't remember that. That was the one 173 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,120 where in the video she's she's just up and down 174 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:07,360 the stage with the guitar, and then you kind of 175 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:09,639 noticed Quidman and she's not really playing here. It's that 176 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,480 guy back in the back that's really playing the guitar. Okay, 177 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:13,360 check it out. 178 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: They blow up the piano in the video too. Number 179 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:22,000 five Diamonds by Herb Albert. Nope, Janet Jackson on vocals 180 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,399 on that one. Number four into Deep Genesis okay, okay. 181 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,840 Number three I Want to Dance with Somebody who. 182 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:37,519 Speaker 2: Loves Oh yeah, that's my kids still love that song 183 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,080 really even today. Yeah, that's a timeless one right there. 184 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 3: Okay, Always by a Lenox Star. Number two, Eh, it's 185 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:48,080 kind of a makeout song of eighty seven and number 186 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,399 one Head to Toe Lesa's a cult jam. 187 00:11:50,519 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so onto Spaceball's the mel Brooks movie of 188 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:10,120 nineteen eighty seven, the parodies the Star Wars movies. How 189 00:12:10,159 --> 00:12:12,440 about we do an oversimplified plot. 190 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:17,919 Speaker 3: Okay, super light plot overview. Here we go. So planet 191 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,039 Spaceball has run out of air right and President screwb 192 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,799 played by mel Brooks, gets Dark Helmet. Rick moranis to 193 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,279 force King Roland of Druidia, the guy from at Us, 194 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,600 enough to give him the code of this shield that 195 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:38,720 protects Druidia's air, by kidnapping his daughter, Princess Vespadephian Zuniga, 196 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,919 right on the day of her arranged wedding to Prince Vallium, 197 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,960 who she runs out on, which is hilarious, and then 198 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,159 he hires smuggler all around bad boy lone Star and 199 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:58,000 his buddy Barf to rescue her from the Spaceballs by 200 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:02,720 paying him a million base box. Lone Star, along with 201 00:13:02,759 --> 00:13:08,200 the help of Yogurt, learns to use the schwartz and 202 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,600 then he rescues Princess Vespa. They put all the air 203 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,799 back in Druidia, and he defeats Dark Helmet and President 204 00:13:14,879 --> 00:13:18,240 Screw and they get married because he, as it turns out, 205 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,279 is actually Prince were good. Hey. 206 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: Thanks, turns out so you did not mention the actor 207 00:13:23,759 --> 00:13:28,320 who played Prince Vallium. The names on these are great, 208 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,600 by the way, Prince Ballium is always tired, of course. 209 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,279 So the actor who portrayed Prince Vallium was Jim J. Bullock, 210 00:13:36,879 --> 00:13:40,720 who I remember from the Hollywood Squares, no doubt. He 211 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:45,879 was I think a lifetime member, along with John Rivers 212 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:51,039 who does the voice for the robot dot Matrix. 213 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,639 Speaker 3: Matrix Yep, Jim J. Bullock, who I remembered from Too 214 00:13:55,639 --> 00:13:58,480 Close for Comfort, Oh yeah, as well as Hollywood Squares, 215 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,120 but I mean definitely daytime television Hollywood Squares. 216 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:06,279 Speaker 2: So that's the plot of the movie. Just to touch 217 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,840 on a couple of interesting things. First, trivia question, Prince, 218 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,279 we've already talked about Prince Valium, Princess Vespa. You know 219 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:19,480 what vesta is? No, okay, So it's a motor scooter, right, 220 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:25,799 It's an Italian motor scooter. But vespa means wasp in Italian, 221 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:30,120 which I think I mean as many, yeah, as many 222 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,799 Hebrew jokes as mel Brooks puts in, and he even 223 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:34,639 said in this particular movie is like, I don't know 224 00:14:34,639 --> 00:14:36,679 that I should have put in so many Jewish jokes 225 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,639 but yes, he's the very very white girl is Princess 226 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,440 Wasp and makes sense. 227 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 3: It's funny she doesn't look jewlish. 228 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 2: And then of course lone star Hans Solo, definitely Han Solo. 229 00:14:57,799 --> 00:15:00,440 Of course you know the loan and Solo and all 230 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,159 of that. And then lastly, mel Brooks, who who directed 231 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,559 and co wrote the movie, plays a couple of characters. 232 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:13,320 One is Yogurt, yes, which is the playoff of Yoda. 233 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:14,879 And then the other one you mentioned a couple of 234 00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:18,639 times is President scrub Do you know how we got 235 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:24,639 screwb Dude, It's it's Brooks backwards. 236 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 3: Brooks s K interesting, Yeah, r ob cool. 237 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:38,159 Speaker 2: So now back to the movie. We have the director 238 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:44,320 and writer is mel Brooks, who has who did the producers, 239 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:48,240 who did Blazing Saddles, which is one of the best 240 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,360 comedies of all time. Who did Young Frankenstein's one of 241 00:15:51,399 --> 00:15:55,279 the first movies I ever remember seeing and is brilliant 242 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:57,720 from beginning to end. I even had a class where 243 00:15:57,759 --> 00:16:01,080 we looked at books made into movies and we looked 244 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,200 at the original Frankenstein versus the book, then the mel 245 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:09,559 Brooks version Young Frankenstein compared to that movie, and then 246 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,679 the one that had Robert de Niro, which was way 247 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:16,200 too long. Yeah, but anyway, it's fantastic movie. And then 248 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,799 he goes on for quite a while without much output, 249 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,559 and then boom lo and behold, nineteen eighty seven rolls 250 00:16:21,559 --> 00:16:23,559 around and we get space balls. Yep. 251 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:25,759 Speaker 3: Did you ever watch the TV show Get Smart? 252 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,279 Speaker 2: Yes? Wait, the old one, right old one. Yeah, that 253 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,240 was mell Rex. Okay, I didn't know that. So he 254 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,879 directed and wrote. The other writers were Thomas Meehan who 255 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:41,039 was also a part of the producers and he also 256 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:44,879 was involved with Hairspray and Annie. You can kind of 257 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:49,559 see a stage musical theme going on with Thomas Meehan. 258 00:16:50,039 --> 00:16:54,000 And then the third co writer is Ronnie Graham, who 259 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,200 you will recognize from the movie as the priest for 260 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,960 the wedding. Was absolutely hysterical. 261 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:00,679 Speaker 3: He kills it. 262 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:01,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, he kills it. 263 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 3: He's so okay cool. It was his name, Ronnie, Ronnie Graham, 264 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:09,640 Ronnie Graham. Every line he says is funny. Absolutely, when 265 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,799 they say they say I'm sorry, I'll be sorry, be quiet. 266 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 2: Okay, and then just a little bit of trivia. He 267 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,839 appeared in nineteen eighty in one episode as the ticket 268 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:28,720 agent of the TV series Angie, which I brought up before, 269 00:17:29,279 --> 00:17:32,359 which starred Robert Hayes from Airpe. 270 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 3: Oh that's right, we did talk about that. Yeah, that's right. 271 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so he actually was in that movie as. 272 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 3: Well, Angie not in My Wheelhouse. 273 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: No, that's okay. 274 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 3: The song Angie by the Rolling Stones in My Wheelhouse. 275 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 2: Oh sure, okay, great song, nothing to do with. 276 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,559 Speaker 3: It, all right? Cool? 277 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,759 Speaker 2: Okay actress. Okay, So we've got Bill Pullman. This was 278 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:57,599 not his first major motion picture, but it was his 279 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,759 second major motion picture. His first one was Ruthless People, 280 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:02,799 which is funny. 281 00:18:03,319 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 3: I actually haven't seen the movie Anny DeVito and Bette Midler. 282 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:06,920 That funny. 283 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,039 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm familiar with the movie, but and you 284 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:10,960 so you saw his performance in that one. 285 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, he kind of plays a moron in that. He's 286 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,079 a he's an inept kidnapper. 287 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,279 Speaker 2: It's kind of funny because he's not real. He's kind 288 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:21,680 of a goofball, you know guy in this one as well, 289 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:23,799 and then he kind of comes into his own i mean, 290 00:18:23,839 --> 00:18:26,039 independence state. He's the President of the United States, right, 291 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,480 and I think that's more fitting for him than these 292 00:18:28,559 --> 00:18:29,359 kind of goofy. 293 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 3: Roles that he was playing at first, okay, and then 294 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:38,640 we have the incomparable John Canny. I'm a mog half man, 295 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:39,240 half dog. 296 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 2: I'm my own best friend. Oh man, Uncle Buck gone 297 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,240 too soon, far too soon. Yes, nineteen ninety four. 298 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:49,519 Speaker 3: I believe died ninety four. 299 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,799 Speaker 2: This was a great shame, great shame. But John Candy, 300 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:59,079 who was in SETV, was in Stripes with Bill Murray, 301 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,200 is in The Great Outdoors with Dan Aykroyd. Just a 302 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,160 comedy I kind of the day, absolutely great. 303 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 3: He plays Tom Hanks' brother in Splash and he's kind 304 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,680 of unappreciated role. And then he's Del Griffith from playing 305 00:19:15,759 --> 00:19:16,759 Trains and Autmobiles. 306 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: I never did introduce myself Del Griffith, American like fixture 307 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 director of sales Shower Curtain Ring Division. 308 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a classic. 309 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 3: He's in Home Alone. I mean he's his fingerprints are 310 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,319 all over the Sure. 311 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,799 Speaker 2: He was in The Blues Brothers as the cop when 312 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:34,799 he gets the address to get the addressed to Rickley 313 00:19:34,839 --> 00:19:38,000 Stadium and he's laughing because he's been tricked. I love 314 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:38,640 him and everything. 315 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 3: He's the security guard at the end of the vacation Mavie. 316 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:48,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, folks, Clark's closed motion. Then we have Rick 317 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,519 moranis also of set V fame, who was in Ghostbusters 318 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:55,079 and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in My Blue Heaven. 319 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:56,680 As we mentioned earlier. 320 00:19:56,559 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: Strange Brew. 321 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you gotta love Doug mackenzie Mackenzie Brothers. And 322 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:12,079 then Daphne's Zanniga plays Princess Vespa, and I think maybe 323 00:20:12,079 --> 00:20:14,519 this is kind of her pinnacle role. She was in 324 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,480 The Sure Thing with That's a good one with John Cusack. 325 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,000 I haven't actually seen that movie if you if you've 326 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,960 seen it, and then she was on Melrose Place for 327 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:26,839 a while as well. 328 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, she was the girlfriend in The Fly too. 329 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not one that made my that's that's out 330 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:40,640 of my wheelhouse. And then just to I've already mentioned 331 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,640 Joan Rivers as the voice of Dot Matrix. And then 332 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,039 I can't I can't let it go without mentioning Michael Winslow, 333 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,319 who is the voice man in all of the Police 334 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:54,079 Academy movies which we got to hit. I mean, we 335 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,319 should just do like all of Steve Gutenberg's movies in 336 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,000 one episode, I think. But the guy who is just 337 00:21:02,079 --> 00:21:04,880 famous for his ability to do all kinds of sounds 338 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:05,160 with his. 339 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 3: Mouth, Okay, so a lot of people will get annoyed 340 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:13,960 at Michael Winslow because they're wrong. But he has a 341 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:18,000 laugh out loud moment in this movie where he's doing 342 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:24,200 the I'm with the rainar sir, Well, don't need that 343 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,519 private We're right here now. 344 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:27,759 Speaker 2: What is it? 345 00:21:29,039 --> 00:21:31,079 Speaker 1: Now? What is it? I'm having trouble with the radar, sir. 346 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,039 Speaker 3: What's wrong with it? I've lost the bleeps. I've lost 347 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:33,799 the sweeps lost. 348 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 2: That whole scene cracks me up absolutely. So there are 349 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:48,440 key actors and actresses in this movie. Okay, we wanted 350 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,079 to give a quick shout out to a couple of 351 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,079 people that we love talking to on Twitter. The first 352 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,960 one is Gidget Vaughn LaRue. She is down in Australia. Yeah, 353 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:06,160 and she has a podcast that she does with Colonel 354 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:11,400 Kickhead called The Retro Cinema. I've had the fortune to 355 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,680 listen to some of those episodes and she's got some 356 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,880 good stuff going on. So Gidget von LaRue is at 357 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,200 g I D G I T V O N L 358 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:27,279 A r U E on Twitter. Thank you very much 359 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:29,799 for all of your likes and shares and comments. 360 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 3: I love listening to her her voice, so she's got 361 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,599 such great speaking voice and that Australian accent just does 362 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:36,039 it for me. 363 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 2: Right, what about soundtrack? We got anything on soundtrack? 364 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 3: Hey, you got good enough from Van Halen? 365 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, of fifty fifty right for the diner scene. 366 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,519 Speaker 3: The diner scene, Sam Hagar on lead vocals, I'll have 367 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:56,400 the cleavage you have raised your hands by bon Jovie. 368 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,799 Oh wow, so you've got two big rock albums making 369 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:11,000 an appearance on this movie. 370 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So I'll go into the special effects real quick. 371 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:20,920 This is interesting because mel Brooks, before he made the movie, 372 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,599 he sent the script to George Lucas because you know, 373 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,440 obviously he's parodying the Star Wars, the Star Wars trilogy, 374 00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:33,599 and George Lucas was like, this is hilarious. I love it. 375 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:36,039 Let me know if you need any help. And then 376 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,359 actually Industrial Lights and Magic ended up being a major 377 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,880 finisher for the special effects in the movie. 378 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,319 Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Yeah, here's another little tidbit that you may 379 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,200 or may not know. You can see the Millennium falcon 380 00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:55,519 parked at the diner, yes, which was thrown in there 381 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,200 with George Lucas's blessing. So cool. 382 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,599 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. And then the I'll give it we'll 383 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:05,079 do a little trivia question on this one. Can you 384 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,839 tell me a modern car that has an aspect of 385 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:11,519 Spaceballs employed with it? 386 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:13,559 Speaker 3: No? 387 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 2: Okay, so Tesla the electric cars. 388 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,799 Speaker 3: Yes, are not the rock band. 389 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,319 Speaker 2: Not the rock band Tesla, which I love and played 390 00:24:21,319 --> 00:24:22,039 with Frank Cannon. 391 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 3: I know that's really cool. 392 00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, and but no Tesla the car. Yes, I guess 393 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,839 Elon Musk was a Spaceballs fan. And so whenever you 394 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,400 whenever you go into high gear and it's like you're 395 00:24:35,519 --> 00:24:38,759 you're turning on the overdrive for the car, you go 396 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:42,000 into plaid speed, and I think there may be a 397 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:43,440 ludicrous speed as well. 398 00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 3: That is That is cool? 399 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. If you search Tesla and plaid 400 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,519 speed out there, you'll see a test drive where somebody's 401 00:24:50,599 --> 00:24:52,359 doing this and it goes to the car gets up, 402 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,759 it goes fast, but then the screen they have this 403 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,160 giant led screen in the middle, it turns plaid just 404 00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:09,920 like in movie. It's fantastic, not the Ludacros speed. Okay, 405 00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:12,119 what do we know who the composer was on this one? 406 00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: Uh? 407 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,519 Speaker 2: No, okay, let's quitch get so. The composer on this 408 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:22,240 one was John Morris, who had a few other things, 409 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,519 but is mostly known for being the composer for Melbrooks movies. 410 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,599 He worked with him on the producers Springtime, for Hitler, 411 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,839 Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein. He was actually nominated for a 412 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:38,000 Grammy for his work on The Elephant Man. But the 413 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 only films of mel Brooks that John Morris wasn't on 414 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,880 were Robin Hood, Men in Tights and Dracula Dead and 415 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,079 Loving It, which brings us back to Airplane because it 416 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,279 starred mister Leslie Nielsen. There you go. 417 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,279 Speaker 3: That's right. Okay, So I would be mad at myself 418 00:25:56,319 --> 00:25:59,440 if I didn't make at least this comment on the soundtrack. Okay, 419 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,279 if you're like me, the soundtrack of Your Youth is 420 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,559 colored with Looney Tunes. Yeah, there's a scene where the 421 00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:12,079 alien pops out of the dude's chest at the diner 422 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:18,319 and then proceeds to seeing Hello, my honey. 423 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: Hello my baby, Hello my honey, Hello my rack on go. 424 00:26:24,599 --> 00:26:26,079 Speaker 4: Baby, my heart's on fire. 425 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 2: So the dude is John Hurt from the movie from 426 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,680 the movie Alien, the one who did the scene originally, 427 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,720 And I think he just thought he was supposed to 428 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:40,359 do a small cameo part and then had that big scene. 429 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,960 But that is one of my favorite scenes. It's coming 430 00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:45,160 up in a second for me. Okay, one of my 431 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,599 favorite scenes in the movie. 432 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 3: It's hilarious. It's awesome to see the alien again. Yes, 433 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:56,559 but the guy who's next to him, that's another laugh 434 00:26:56,599 --> 00:26:59,240 outloud moment for me. When he's like one guy's like, 435 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,920 get this guy some one and that guy goes water. 436 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: MI get dis massive hypto bismal. 437 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 3: Good times, Sorry, mom, I just kissed. 438 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. So the yeah, so the Looney Tunes that you're 439 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,559 referring to is the frog because in this version of 440 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:20,759 the alien popping out of his chest, which I'll go 441 00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:22,839 ahead and say, we're gonna come on, come up to 442 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,759 five best lines or scenes in just a minute. But 443 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,680 maybe my number one favorite is oh no, not again. 444 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,160 But as he bursts out of his chest, he then 445 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:35,839 puts on the straw hat and our top hat and 446 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,440 has the cane and starts singing, Hello, my baby, Hello, 447 00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:43,480 my honey, just like the frog from the Looney Tunes cartoons. 448 00:27:43,559 --> 00:27:48,039 Speaker 3: Yes, so funny. Okay, we're bouncing around a little bit, sorry, a. 449 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 2: Little bit so we but we've hit soundtrack, we've hit 450 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,160 special effects, we've segued nicely into the five best lines. 451 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,960 I've already said my number one of oh no, not again. 452 00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,640 What do you got what's your number one? 453 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 3: Okay, well I didn't really I didn't really rank them. 454 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:05,519 There's so many. But so I really like the priest 455 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:09,720 who when he's he's talking and he's like the guy 456 00:28:09,759 --> 00:28:12,240 says I'm sorry, He's like, oh be sorry, we quiet, Yes, 457 00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:13,240 we already talked about that. 458 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. So number two for me, what is the whole 459 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,119 spiel on when they're watching the VCR tape? 460 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:24,039 Speaker 3: When does this happen in the movie? 461 00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:27,559 Speaker 2: Now you're looking at now, sir, Everything that happens now 462 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,559 is happening now? 463 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 3: What happened to then? When just now? 464 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 2: Wear it now? 465 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: Now? 466 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 3: Go back to then? 467 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:34,799 Speaker 1: When now? Now? 468 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 3: No, I can't why we missed it? When just now? 469 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,559 Speaker 2: When will then be now soon? 470 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:43,759 Speaker 3: Just missed it? 471 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 2: That is one that that that my wife and I 472 00:28:47,519 --> 00:28:48,759 replay quite frequently. 473 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: That's a that's a funny one. Yeah, okay, how about 474 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,519 this one? This part cracks me up. When he says, 475 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:57,759 will you get the introduction of a dark helmet? You 476 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:02,359 hear the breathing sort of Darth Vader ish, and then 477 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,960 you can tell you, and then he throws open the mask. 478 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,480 He's like, I get breathe in this thing. 479 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,279 Speaker 2: Yes. So that's Rick moranis and part of his brilliance. 480 00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:16,160 I think he may have improvised that particular scene. But 481 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,359 one scene that I am sure he improvised is number 482 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,599 three on my list, which is the dolls scene. So 483 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,799 he's playing with the Princess doll and his own doll, 484 00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:29,480 and that scene is completely improvised. It was not scripted 485 00:29:29,599 --> 00:29:33,880 at all. And Rick Moranis is brilliant part. 486 00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 3: And that's so funny. 487 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 2: You need it on the Preacher, Sir knocked on my door. 488 00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 3: Knocked next time? Yes, sir, did you see anything? 489 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 2: No, sir, I didn't see you playing with your dolls. 490 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 3: Again, good, well, you knock next time. 491 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 2: I'm sure I didn't see you playing with your dolls. 492 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,279 Speaker 3: I've not seen you play with your dolls. Uh that 493 00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:02,079 you stole that one from me. But so again, the 494 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,519 laugh out loud moment with Michael Winslow when he's talking 495 00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:08,200 into the speaker and he starts, sorry, roll the radar 496 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:11,279 and he comes up to me and he's like, what's the problem, 497 00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:15,319 and he continues to talk without the microphonet the microphone 498 00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:17,440 down and then he puts it down. He continues to 499 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,440 talk and then he like rips the thing out of 500 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,799 the I haven't rolled the radar, sir. Yes, So that 501 00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:24,079 part cracks me up every time. 502 00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:28,519 Speaker 2: Fourth best line in the movie for me. That's the 503 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:30,319 kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage. 504 00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:35,319 Speaker 3: That's the combination of my life. That's a good one, 505 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,240 all right. How about this one when they're replaying the 506 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,240 stuff on the VCR. Yes, and it comes to the 507 00:30:42,279 --> 00:30:44,799 sudden stop, dark helmet flies through the air and smashes 508 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,720 it and he says, let's get past this part. In fact, 509 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:48,880 don't ever play this part again. 510 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,839 Speaker 2: Good stuff. And then last, I don't know that it's 511 00:30:55,839 --> 00:30:57,799 still funny to me now, but the line that I 512 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,880 remembered forever is calling the desert okay, because when they 513 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,279 were actually coming the desert, I was like, this is hilarious. 514 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,960 But I was thirteen at the time, so man, we. 515 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 3: Ain't okay for me. The number one line, though, has 516 00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:21,759 got to be I see your schwartz as as big 517 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:27,200 as mine. Yes, you know that that's the That's the 518 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,240 line from the movie, and that's the one that we 519 00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:31,799 repeated to each other all the time at school. 520 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:35,279 Speaker 2: What does that make us? Absolutely nothing. 521 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 3: I think it's funny how Rick moranis every time he's 522 00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:41,480 got his helmet up and he's like he sort of 523 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,400 talks like he's like, well, what what happened? You know, 524 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,920 he's but every time he puts his helmet down, he's 525 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,039 like room store. You know, his voice changes. 526 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 2: So there here's an interesting bit of trivia. Do you 527 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,920 remember what happens when he goes to he goes to 528 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,319 the control station and he's about to like the it's 529 00:32:00,359 --> 00:32:03,519 the destroyer or whatever that he's and they're like, no, 530 00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:04,960 that's the coffee machine. You remember that? 531 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 3: Yeah? 532 00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 2: Okay, So mel Brooks was notorious for not allowing anyone 533 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:15,400 to have coffee cups on his sets because just as 534 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,839 a month or so ago, we learned sometimes those things 535 00:32:18,839 --> 00:32:21,759 slip into scenes like they did in Game of Thrones 536 00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:26,960 one of the final episodes. And so the bit then 537 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:29,720 for this movie is Rick moranis is walking around for 538 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:32,400 a third of the movie with a styrofoam coffee cup 539 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,440 in his hand because he goes to the coffee machine first. 540 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:40,119 Speaker 3: Yes, I always have my coffee, went, Yes. 541 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 2: I always have coffee when I watch radar. 542 00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: You know that. Of course I do, sir. 543 00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. Okay, all right, so you get it, yep. 544 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,519 And we've hit our actors. So now we're on to 545 00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:55,599 six degrees of Kevin Bacon. You want to give it 546 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,079 a shot, I've already done Rick moranis you're not allowed 547 00:32:58,079 --> 00:32:58,720 to use him? 548 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 3: Okay, if I can't is Rick Marass. I'm gonna go 549 00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:04,079 the John Candy route. Okay, good, let's go John Camp. 550 00:33:04,119 --> 00:33:07,799 I'll skip stripe since I could go John Candy, Bill Murray, 551 00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:12,359 Bill Murray goes. Yeah, all right, so let's go John 552 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:20,400 Candy and Tom Hanks and splash. Okay, Tom, there, Paula 553 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,079 thirteen boom, look as you go. 554 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,119 Speaker 2: Two movies. I'm not even gonna try to compete with you. 555 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,519 Speaker 3: Yes, Oh that was so good. 556 00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:29,119 Speaker 2: I didn't even know. 557 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,559 Speaker 3: I didn't yeah me, Yeah, that was perfect. 558 00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:34,839 Speaker 2: I was over here going like, okay, how do I 559 00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:38,960 get to John lyth Gal? Yeah? Yeah, you're like Tom Hanks. 560 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,680 Dang it, you're so good. 561 00:33:41,079 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 3: Thank you. 562 00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:44,559 Speaker 2: All right, So let's talk about the movie. 563 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,799 Speaker 3: Okay, babe, God. 564 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 2: I gotta say, in a large part this movie did 565 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,079 not work up for me. I'll movie watching Okay, it's 566 00:33:56,119 --> 00:34:01,440 been twenty years probably since I've seen it, and whenever 567 00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:05,720 the especially whenever we see Bill Pullman's character for the 568 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,639 first time, the hamming is almost like bad stage acting, 569 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,079 community theater stuff, and I just I was kind of like, 570 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:14,599 let down. 571 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,119 Speaker 3: Let down he's talking about when he's like Marv. 572 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,119 Speaker 2: Right when he yeah, when they're when they're trying to 573 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:21,679 negotiate with Pizza the hut. 574 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 3: Oh Okay, Okay, So yeah, I was. 575 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 2: I was disappointed at that part. Now, the movie is 576 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,079 still great. N't get me wrong, it's a classic. It's 577 00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:35,280 it's always going to be a classic. But I was 578 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,719 surprised on the rewatching that I was like, this is 579 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,079 not this is not as good as I remember it being. 580 00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, so here's I got a couple of problems 581 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:45,559 with that. 582 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 2: Okay. 583 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 3: Bill Pullman, in my opinion, is not good looking enough 584 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,400 to pull off the hero. 585 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 2: Okay. 586 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 3: He's also I didn't buy him as the president and independency. 587 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,719 Yeah I'm not, you're not. I'm not. He's kind of 588 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,360 in between on everything. He's a little too goofy and 589 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,599 a little not funny enough. 590 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 2: Huh. 591 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 3: So I'm not a big Bill Pullman fan. I also 592 00:35:09,599 --> 00:35:15,679 thought that mel Brooks's parts in This President's Scrub, and yeah, 593 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,559 we're kind of the least funny characters in the movie. 594 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,039 I love John Candy, I love Rick moranis in. 595 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 2: This Absolutely those two guys are the movie. 596 00:35:25,599 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 3: I think. I think John Rivers is funny. I think 597 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:33,840 Daphne zu Nigga is good as the princess. Right, But 598 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,920 I if you would have said give me more barf 599 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,400 and give me more dark helmet, I'm I'm totally important. 600 00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely totally agree. There are some classic lines, and I mean, 601 00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:49,519 you can't. We're criticizing something that is iconic, so don't. Yeah, 602 00:35:49,559 --> 00:35:51,440 that's right, we still love it. Yeah I would. I 603 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,840 would watch it again with the kids. Absolutely, but it's uh, 604 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,400 it's not It's not what I remember it being. So 605 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,440 here's a trivia thing. You know, we talked about lights 606 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,679 and magic being involved with it. You remember the scene 607 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,920 when they're when they've hit the self destruct button, yes, 608 00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:10,119 and then like that's the the F bomb comes out there, 609 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,400 which is just a shocker. I watched Beetlejuice the other 610 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,239 day with the kids. It's just I was just like, 611 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,039 how did I not remember that? No kidding, So these 612 00:36:20,079 --> 00:36:23,519 are These are a couple of rare like Airplane was 613 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:27,440 the rare PG movie that had boobies. These are Those 614 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,480 two were a couple of the rare PG movies that 615 00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:34,119 had the f bomb in them. Right. But anyway, they're 616 00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:37,480 all escaping in the escape pods, right yep. So there's 617 00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,360 one scene it's really it's still like a flash, but 618 00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:44,320 you see the escape pod shooting out and you're like, wow, 619 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,719 they did a really good job with that. Well, it 620 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,079 turns out that was actually a deleted scene from one 621 00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:50,320 of the original Star Wars movies. 622 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,559 Speaker 3: Star Wars had his fingerprints on this, which was pretty cool. 623 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:56,559 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, to have the blessing of the person 624 00:36:56,679 --> 00:37:00,280 you're parodying, you can't beat that. And and like said, 625 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,280 mel Brooks is iconic and brilliant and blazing Saddles and 626 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,480 you Frankenstein are some of my favorites. Spaceballs is going 627 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:10,199 to be lower on the totem pole compared to those movies. 628 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,159 Speaker 3: I would say this is the third best mel Brooks movie. 629 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,239 Speaker 2: I haven't seen the producers, but yeah, I was not 630 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,199 a big fan of History of the World or the 631 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,039 producer or. 632 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,719 Speaker 3: Dracula didn't let me. Never even saw that one I 633 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,599 go blazing saddles Young Frankenstein Spaceballs. 634 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be on board with. Oh, but High Anxiety 635 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,960 I almost forgot, so yeah, you got to watch Anxiety. 636 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:42,039 So High Anxiety was mel Brooks's parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies, 637 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,679 and that was the one I watched over and over 638 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,440 his kid, that one solid I will it's been again 639 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,280 a couple of decades since I've seen it. I would 640 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,880 rewatch it again and said I'd have to decide between 641 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,159 it and Spaceballs. Okay, but this kind of what goes 642 00:37:56,199 --> 00:37:59,880 on with Spaceballs that I think is the key to 643 00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:03,639 the difference between Spaceballs and Airplane for my final judgment here, 644 00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:06,480 which we're moving into. Yes, is what I talked about 645 00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:10,519 before they had the guys an Airplane that were all 646 00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:16,960 serious actors delivering serious stuff even though it was hysterical. 647 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:22,280 And the conflict between this very serious delivery from these 648 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,599 very serious actors and the hysterical language and stuff going 649 00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:29,360 on in the movie was what made it so funny. 650 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,639 With Spaceballs, You've got some comedy geniuses here, but you 651 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,639 got some people that were really kind of hamming it 652 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:39,840 up a little bit, especially Yeah, Bill Wolman, is. Yeah, 653 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,800 they're playing for comedy, a lot of it. Colonel Sanders 654 00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:46,800 is a great guy. He was on Hill Street Blues. 655 00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:49,960 He was a serious actor, but you could tell he 656 00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,039 wasn't playing serious role. He was kind of hamming it up. 657 00:38:53,840 --> 00:39:00,519 Speaker 3: What's the matter, Colonel Sanders Chicken. Yeah, this movie is 658 00:39:00,559 --> 00:39:02,519 great and it's a lot of fun. And as a 659 00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:06,000 Star Wars fan, I'm a big Star Wars guy. It's 660 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,480 fun to see you know, your favorites poked fun at 661 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,639 and I love it. It's funny. There are some laugh out 662 00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:16,440 loud parts, but not like Airplane Nope, not for me. 663 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 2: No. 664 00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:20,320 Speaker 3: Rick Morans and John Candy knock it out. 665 00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:21,280 Speaker 2: Of the park though. Absolutely. 666 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:26,119 Speaker 3: Rick Moranas in particular was brilliant through this whole movie. Yes, 667 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,400 I'll tell you another scene that I like that we 668 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,440 kind of we haven't really talked about. Yeah, is when 669 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,840 they're fighting with their schwartz and they slash a TV 670 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,639 like a cameraman. Yes, and he's like, that's it breaks 671 00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:40,679 the fourth wall, and. 672 00:39:41,079 --> 00:39:43,559 Speaker 2: Well, and that's exactly the same scene you know I 673 00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:46,320 talked about earlier. They have the scene where like they're 674 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,199 jumping through the closing doors and then it turns out 675 00:39:49,199 --> 00:39:52,039 they've captured their stunt senda, which is again that kind 676 00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:55,559 of breaking of the fourth but that same scene where 677 00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:58,920 they're fighting and Lone Star goes over and does some 678 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,239 kind of acrobatic You when you watch that in high definition, Yeah, 679 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,800 that's not Bill Pullman at all. You see his face 680 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,960 and I'm like, oh, there's that stunt double again. 681 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, he does some weak stuff to transition on that. 682 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, so I think we've reached the end of 683 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:17,280 our show. 684 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 3: Final judgment, Love Spaceballs, love Airplane, Airplane. 685 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 2: More definitely Airplane is the winner on this one battle 686 00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:33,719 of parodies. Airplane wins. Condolences and respect to Spaceballs winner Airplane. Yeah. 687 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,079 So thank you guys. If you've listened all the way 688 00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:38,519 to the end of this, we appreciate you. Send us 689 00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:42,960 some stuff on Twitter. You can catch us at. 690 00:40:43,119 --> 00:40:47,079 Speaker 3: At Shirley podcast on Twitter, Yes, and at Suley podcast 691 00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:47,760 on Facebook. 692 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 2: Very good. We love to hear your comments. Have we 693 00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:54,440 completely missed it is? Spaceball is a better movie in 694 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,280 your opinion? I know a lot of people out there 695 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,159 who believe that it is. 696 00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:58,760 Speaker 3: Well, let's hear from you. 697 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, come at it. Tell us what you think. We'd 698 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,000 love to hear it. 699 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,679 Speaker 3: Give us something great, and maybe we'll mention you on 700 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:05,559 our next podcast. 701 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:06,960 Speaker 2: Jason, it's been fun again. 702 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,760 Speaker 3: Good see man, it's fun. 703 00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:17,360 Speaker 2: See it all right. All music, images, and movie clips 704 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,199 are used for the purposes of commentary and education in 705 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,159 conjunction with the fair Use Agreement under the US copyright law.