WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:40.759 Wait Wait, said a. 2 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.239 Welcome back to midnight Viewing, where this season we're taking 3 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.840 a look at George Ramiro's nineteen eighty series Tails from 4 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.640 the Dark Side. Sharing the midnight view with me are 5 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:13.519 the culture cast Chris Statue. 6 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.159 I'm part of the Beatles that was dumb. 7 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.120 Top of the poppermost My friend also joining us as 8 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:21.519 the projection is Mike White. 9 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.400 I'm gonna make a reference to both episodes when I say, Mary, Mary, 10 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:27.760 why you buggin'. 11 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.359 Wow ah nonother run DMC comes true? Got it? 12 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.319 Okay? God damn Now. I was trying to figure out 13 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:35.200 where the run DMC was gonna come in, and boy, 14 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:36.719 they had me going in the first half. 15 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.439 Nail Tonight. We are taking a look at the first 16 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:43.040 two episodes of season four, the final season of Tails 17 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.719 from the Dark Side. Those are Beatles and Mary Mary 18 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.439 Beatles is season four episode one. It aired originally on 19 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:54.159 September the twenty seventh, nineteen eighty seven. Written by Robert 20 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.680 Block from a short story by Robert Block and directed 21 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:01.519 by Frank de Palma, this one stars Rod McCarey, Cole Meanie, 22 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.879 and Donald mckeckney. This is about a wannabe art dealer 23 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.599 who lays hands on an ancient mummy whose treasures include many, 24 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.319 many legs, which I think of this one, Chris, I. 25 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.120 Know what I should have said at the beginning of 26 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.199 the episode. It said bugs, I hate bugs, to reference 27 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.199 one of the best times sarcophaguses and beetles have been 28 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.479 in a thing together, which is not this. It would 29 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.759 be The Mummy, which scared I think most people into 30 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.479 thinking scare of beetles eat people's brains, which I will 31 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.240 tell you anyone who's listening, if you didn't know this, 32 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.080 they don't, they don't, they don't know. 33 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:37.080 I've been terrified ever since I saw that guy we 34 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.400 were talking about running into a wall last time. 35 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:43.400 Yeah, bugs, I hate bugs. This is fine. I love 36 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.960 anything Egyptian adjacent. It's one of my like, I don't know, 37 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:48.599 it's one of those things that kind of just gets 38 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:50.719 after me again, to quote to The Mummy from nineteen 39 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.719 ninety nine, that movie has a very special place in 40 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.560 my heart. And so anything that's Egyptology or Egyptian adjacent 41 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.639 has been something that I've been interested in since I 42 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.960 was a king. So this was right up my alley. 43 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:05.479 I remember, I want to say Father Malone was there 44 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.840 not an episode of Tails from the Crypt featuring a 45 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.800 mummy which is like sacrifices. 46 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:14.080 And wasn't the one with Christian Slater. 47 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:14.120 Was it? 48 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.319 Yeah, ac no, no, no, no, that is it Tails 49 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.479 from the Dark Side. 50 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.039 Oh from the movie this their. 51 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:23.879 By Arthur Conan Doyle. 52 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.639 But there is one in Tails from the Crypt that's 53 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.280 again like about getting a woman to sat be sacrificed 54 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.199 to a mummy and all this like wacky ass shit. 55 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.960 Like I appreciate that these kinds of episodes exist in 56 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.400 these I don't think this one nails all the points 57 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.360 that I hoped it was going to nail in terms 58 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:46.960 of utilizing the Egyptian theming and the Egyptology of it all. 59 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.319 I like Rod McCrary a lot. I think he's perfectly cast, 60 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.400 and he looks suitably Andrew Ryan enough or of a 61 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.879 time and of a place to pull off that kind 62 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.560 of the mustache and the shirt and the suspenders and 63 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.719 everything that look. I think it's fun. I just I 64 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.280 wish there had been a little bit more to it, 65 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.680 But I think that's been my complile now is it 66 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.039 just feels like maybe they're expounded go further, is what 67 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.800 I would say to the writers of the shows, give 68 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:13.360 me a little bit more, just punch it up a 69 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.800 little bit. But this is a good way to start 70 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.079 the fourth season. How about you, Mike? What about you? Mike? Yep? 71 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.439 Like this better when e. G. Marshall was playing this 72 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.319 role and they're creeping up on you. That's all I 73 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.360 kept thinking of. I did think of the Mummy though, 74 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.920 as well. I liked the little twists at the end. 75 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.639 That was nice. I just felt that this went on 76 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.759 for a little too long. There wasn't enough again twists 77 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.800 to it. It just felt, Oh, there's beatles, those are 78 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.319 going to get them and just watch them get them, 79 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.199 and that's not interesting to me. So I was really 80 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:44.759 hoping for a little bit more on this. I feel 81 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.079 like I'm being very negative about this show. I do 82 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:51.800 enjoy these and most of the time. Though the last episode, 83 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.439 the last time we talked, I was having a little 84 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.199 bit of trouble with one of those. But yeah, this 85 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.079 one was decent. There's nothing for me to write home about. 86 00:04:59.279 --> 00:04:59.959 How about you father them? 87 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.959 Yeah, I thought it was okay. I thought, like you said, Chris, 88 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.759 if you put a if you slap a layer of 89 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.319 Egyptology on something, I'm automatically, the interest level just goes up, 90 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:12.800 and I'm jars and shit, I'm not gonna hate in veins. 91 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.399 I'm not gonna hate anything that ends up focusing on 92 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.480 that for twenty two They're like, that wasn't a total 93 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.079 waste of time. I saw some hieroglyphs, but that doesn't 94 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.240 make this any good. I do think it's interesting that 95 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.160 every horror author of a certain age had a mummy 96 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.639 story in them. Edgar Allan Poe had a fucking mummy story, 97 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.920 and I'm like, now we find out Robert Block had one. 98 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.319 I mentioned Arthur Conan Doyle he had one that will 99 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.600 eventually show up in another Channil from the dark Side episode. 100 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.680 And not only that, but every anthology series will We'll 101 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.000 dip their toe into the to the Mummy. I think 102 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.680 the best one overall ended up being over on Amazing Stories. 103 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.519 They had a story called Mummy Daddy, which is one 104 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.160 of the scariest and funniest fucking half hours of television 105 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.319 I've ever seen. This one doesn't compare to that. I 106 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.319 do like Rod McCarey. He's just like a human cartoon. 107 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.000 There just seems like it's a certain time and place 108 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.160 for that type of act Duran. He might have been 109 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.519 past his prime here, but that's what kind of makes 110 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.759 him interesting. Weird to see Cole Meani this early on 111 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.759 American television without a fucking Starfleet uniform. 112 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.120 I thought I recognized him, but I didn't go and 113 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.360 watch look at the credits front. Yeah, that was nice 114 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.759 to see. He fits into this world pretty well too. 115 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.759 He I know he's played han't He played like older 116 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:24.439 Irish gangster kind of roles and stuff, but like him 117 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.160 with a I don't know. I picture him with a 118 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.639 Derby hat and I'm just like, yeah, yeah, that's a 119 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:29.800 good Cole meaning. 120 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.480 I always liked him in The Commitments and The Man 121 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.240 and in The Snapper. He was in all three of 122 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.480 those movies as that dad. He was great in those. 123 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:37.920 Yeah. 124 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:39.879 Overall, this is just an okay episode. I think it's 125 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:41.279 a step up from what we were getting at the 126 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.759 end of season three. Hopefully this is just a stepping 127 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.680 stone to bigger things. I know there are a couple 128 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.000 of episodes that I really do like later, I'm not 129 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.480 that concerned. I just think I think in a case 130 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.920 like this, when you have a teleplay by Robert Block 131 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.040 from his shirt story, you don't really fuck with it. 132 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.439 No, No, I would like to say Hammad Bay like that. 133 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.160 I like that, like we have to pay lip service 134 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.040 to the og Mummy every time we do it. Yeah, 135 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.879 every time I want to mention something as well, because 136 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:12.759 this is the thing, Father Blon, you were expousing the 137 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:16.519 mummy stories in these anthologies, most of them are the 138 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.959 fucking same on top of everything else. 139 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:21.959 I've been seeing how many of them are comedies. How 140 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.879 many of them are comedy, like almost all of them, right, Yeah. 141 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.240 They're all like vaguely comedic or because again, like in 142 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.000 a lot of ways, mummies are. And this is the 143 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:32.600 thing that it's almost like that let me grab my 144 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:34.759 soapbox out that I didn't know I was gonna stand on. 145 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.600 Mummies are scary, Yes, idea of a mummy is scary, 146 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.920 like horror. The Mummy nineteen ninety nine is probably as 147 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:43.560 good of a movie as it is for me, because 148 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.079 it's still kind of a scary movie even now, like 149 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.560 he's eating their body parts like it's a jeepers, creepers thing. 150 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.279 And I think most, if not all, of the Mummy 151 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.639 media that I've seen since I've been doing this podcast, 152 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:59.720 since I've been watching Moon enjoying them most. Nothing can 153 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:02.519 live up to that nineteen ninety nine Mummy movie because 154 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.360 they actually go down some avenues that nothing else goes down, 155 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.240 and all these things just feel very there was it, 156 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.240 Like even the Mummy movie from ninety nine, does it 157 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.720 like Emo tips Forever Love kills herself and he wants 158 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.920 to bring her back to life. There's a lot of that, Like, yeah, 159 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.240 there's a forbidden love and sacrifice in what feels like 160 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.680 most of these stories. So I just I wish there 161 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.199 was more variety to the stories of the mummies that 162 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.399 we're getting on these shows. But I understand why there. 163 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.240 It's not because it seems like the easiest way to 164 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.480 go is just there's some sort of curse on the 165 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.440 corpse itself, or that the corpse can reanimate. That's it. 166 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.399 Like they don't really go further than that, And it 167 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.200 seems a little unfair because the vampires and Frankenstein's monsters 168 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.559 get all sorts of weird shit and mummies are just 169 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:44.799 given short shrift. It feels. 170 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.759 I will say that I think the best television anthology 171 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.960 series was the What was the Amazing Stories? Episode? But 172 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.519 I think teals some of dark sent actually nails the 173 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:57.080 horror Mummy when we'll I mean, we're going to review 174 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.039 the movie at the end of the season because it 175 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.120 is the next logical state with Taels the Dark Side. 176 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.879 But Lot two forty nine, that to me was an 177 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.519 actual scary Mummy. That's a fun story and it has 178 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:08.639 an awesome payoff. 179 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.399 I've never seen it, so I'm excited, Like Mummy stuff is, 180 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.519 that's definitely in my wheelhouse. That nineteen ninety nine Mummy 181 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.759 movie really hit the right note at the right time 182 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.600 for me, and I am not I don't think I've 183 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.480 ever had. There are a few highs that I've had 184 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.799 in a movie, the one like that's rewatching it last year, 185 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.000 Like it was a pretty high moment. Even the movies 186 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.120 holds up still a lot of fun. But even then, 187 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.679 like that movie's scary, but it's also funny and fun 188 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.639 Like they it's almost like when you have a Mummy 189 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:42.240 in there, it's we can't just play it straight, Like why, I. 190 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.279 Know it's supposed to be funny, but that bumper sticker 191 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.960 that says I'd much rather be watching the nineteen ninety 192 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:51.799 nine cinematic masterpiece The Mummy. That is true. There's so 193 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.000 many times where I'm watching a movie and I'm like, yeah, 194 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.279 I'd rather be watching that, and then it gets it 195 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:00.919 like that Keith shit Tom Cruise Mummy movie, Like why 196 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:05.279 are you messing with perfection? There is nothing wrong with 197 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.000 the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie is one of the highlights 198 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.000 of cinema. 199 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.399 For me, give me a fourth movie, you fucking cowards. 200 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:17.000 I know a littlebody in the cast is still around 201 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:18.120 and still looking good. 202 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:21.759 And would it be weird to recast a recast, to 203 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:26.360 have Rachel Weiss come back after they recast her as Maria? 204 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:27.240 But why not? 205 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:29.799 I don't think has that ever happened? 206 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:34.080 I believe that well, Sabata Lee van Cleve stepped away 207 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.519 from SAA and he came back a character. 208 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:40.679 Connery came back for one more after labieh. 209 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.240 Yeah, I've tried to forget that one, but that's yeah. 210 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:49.399 Sorry, it is kind of our responsibility to know, though. 211 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:51.399 Yeah, boy, it feels like it. 212 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:52.720 Uh. 213 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.960 Robert Block as a writer is a really good writer. 214 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.480 I don't feel like this is indicative of his best work. 215 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.200 Oh no, like at all. And he's a better novelist 216 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.480 than he's a short story writer, first of all, and 217 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.879 second of all, he is not a very good screenwrid 218 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.240 must be said, Sorry, Bob, anything else on this one? 219 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:12.159 All right? 220 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.360 Our next episode is Mary Mary. This is season four, 221 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:19.480 episode two, aired originally on October fourth, nineteen eighty seven, 222 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.480 Written by Julie Selbo from a story by Julie Selbo 223 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:28.440 and Katerina Vitch and Katerinavitch. Directed by Katerina Vitch, starring 224 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.120 Margaret written, Ac Weary and Fred Burstein. This is a 225 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.600 story about a woman who relates more to inanimate objects 226 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:37.759 and regular people, and then she ends up as one. 227 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.840 There I buried the lead. This is a blackout sketch. 228 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.559 What the fuck I should have you know what I 229 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:46.440 should have quoted at the beginning of this episode, blah 230 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.159 blah bah because you just said it. There you're in 231 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:54.240 a nanimate fucking obcheck, because that is how this episode ends. 232 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.600 That is what a bizarre what he's a shit. 233 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:02.799 May let me just say I I hate this writerly 234 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.759 thing where just the having a character talk to inanimate 235 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.720 objects in their house like that thing reads good on 236 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.720 the page, and then you see somebody doing it and 237 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.840 it's so fucking false. It's hard to fucking imagine. When 238 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.200 I hear people quoting lines from Batman Returns. When Michelle 239 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.320 Pfeifer comes back to her apartment and she's talking to 240 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.960 herself like that whole routine, I'm like, yeah, that's cute, 241 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.840 but it's completely fucking fake. And that's what's going on here. 242 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.519 For twenty two minutes. I wanted to pull my own 243 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:30.000 head off. 244 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.919 It's in suffered. This is a fucking insufferable episode. 245 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.840 Going from stuffed animal to stuffed animal and like, oh, well, hello, mister, 246 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:39.240 what are you doing? 247 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.600 Hey? You know, Mike White. You know something I've learned 248 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.039 about you as your friend and creative collaborator over the 249 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.360 last decade is you don't like when people pretend to 250 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.799 be movies. Yeah, you know what I don't like in 251 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.399 movies when people pretend to talk to shit that isn't 252 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:56.000 there and it serves no purpose and then the things 253 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.879 aren't even doing anything. It is a tired And it 254 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.960 works in literature because often in literature it's being used 255 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.159 to convey the unreliableness of the narrator and it's done 256 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.399 in a way where it's injected into the story in 257 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.799 a meaningful way. Here, it's just that's all it is. 258 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.679 That's literally all it is. There's nothing else for twenty 259 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.879 two minutes. To your point, Father Malone's we get it. Oh, 260 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.480 we get it. We still get it. We didn't stop 261 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.679 getting it and we're still getting it. And what's the reveal. 262 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:23.440 We still got it. I promise we get it. 263 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.120 Yeah. This whole thing of what the dating stuff that's 264 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.320 going on? Wow, that was a real throwback for me 265 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.440 to see these VHS tapes and these things. Such high 266 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.960 production value on a lot of these tapes as well, 267 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:40.759 really impressive for me. But god damn, just I don't 268 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.360 want to be on camera, so I shoot this mannequin 269 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:47.679 and then my creepy neighbor I would not be a 270 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:49.759 big fan. Oh yeah, I got your name off the 271 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.720 letterbox and stuff like maybe you meet her outside, don't 272 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.840 just randomly call this woman. But at the same time, 273 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.840 she's such a fucking psycho. It's just, yeah, what are 274 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:02.799 you doing? Oh I don't want real pets. I used 275 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:06.759 to stuff the animals. Yeah, nothing worked for me in 276 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.360 this whole thing at all. And then yeah, when the 277 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.120 it didn't help either that the little thumbnail on plex 278 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.440 I think had two mannequins, So I'm like, yeah, she's 279 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.039 going to turn into me, and then we just had 280 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:23.039 that Anecan episode like three or four episodes ago with yeah. 281 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:27.799 Oh no, oh god, another mannequin story. 282 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.600 Yes, I'm just like, what the fuck, man. 283 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.480 What is it with this show, with these anthology shows 284 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.200 and mannequin TJ Castronova. 285 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:39.279 TJ Castanova knows somebody who can make mannequins that look 286 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:44.200 like actors that so like, give me another mannequin episode. 287 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.840 As far as the video dating thing, it seems like 288 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.879 they were told that such a thing exists and then 289 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.320 just made up their own rules, because I don't think 290 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:54.919 that's the way it works. I think you make a 291 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.440 video tape or you made a videotape because they don't 292 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.240 do it anymore, and then one right, and then they 293 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:02.879 would dupe that and then send it to prospective members 294 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:04.559 that you might match. But then you would watch that 295 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.720 videotape and go, oh, okay, this one. It's like they're sending 296 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.000 personalized videotapes to each other. It's like this primitive form 297 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.360 of like direct messaging. It's so weird. 298 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.159 Hello me, I just want to tell you more about me. 299 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.480 And I'm like, what if someone throws a letter through 300 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:21.200 your window? 301 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.600 They're a fucking yeah, you're no romantic sir. 302 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.200 Oh sorry, you're right. I try not to. I try 303 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.440 not to impose my will on other people against theirs. 304 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.639 What cuckoo ass shit were they going after when they said, 305 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.080 here's what we're gonna show at the end of it, 306 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:39.960 she's just gonna be sitting there as a man to 307 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:40.679 what end? 308 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.120 If you don't engage in life, life will be taken 309 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:43.720 from you? 310 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.759 What? Yes? Okay, So now she's just like Jared Padilechia 311 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.039 and House of Wax. You're forever just in that mannequin shell. 312 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.480 I don't even what are the logistics of what we 313 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.480 see happen at the end of this episode? Does the 314 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.879 episode care? Is it just we just need to see 315 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.399 a pair of eyes moving mannequin body and we get it, 316 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:02.360 We got we got it? 317 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.240 Okay, those are the gods wish to destroy First make mannequins. 318 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.720 I mean, I mean mannequins worked well. That there's the 319 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.399 space alien that goes into people and moves around and stuff. 320 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.639 There's a great scene in a mannequin factory in that movie, 321 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.679 and it just really helps enforce this whole idea of 322 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.320 false fronts and false bodies and this kind of stuff, 323 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.679 and yes, that's great, really works with the story. I 324 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.840 think we talked during the last Mannequin episode about the 325 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.519 classic twilight zone where the one's alive at night and 326 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.559 to the mannequin during the day. There's the classic cinematic 327 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:41.200 universe of the mannequin films. This is no mannequin film. 328 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:46.159 There is no one that this is nowhere near of 329 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.240 Kim cattrall level of performance. 330 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:51.399 Where's Hollywood. He's not here. He's not going to hang 331 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.720 around with these goddamn allkins, I'll tell you that much. 332 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.639 Oh, this episode made me weird. 333 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.799 Was it GW. Bailey? Was he the villain in the 334 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.279 first this movie with fucking with James Spader? 335 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.079 Is it James Spader in that? 336 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.319 It's so god the other guy? Right, Yeah, it's the 337 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.039 other dude. It's Andrew McCarthy. 338 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:12.839 He's the lead. Andrew McCarthy is the lead. The villain 339 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:13.839 is James Spader. 340 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.559 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. 341 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.920 Yeah yeah. I thought you were asking who the lead was. 342 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.079 No, no, no, no, no, no. 343 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:21.920 Movie. 344 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.519 And g W. Bailey is like, is like number one, 345 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:30.880 He's like a security I like. 346 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:33.440 I like Maniquin. I I think I've even gone on 347 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.839 the record saying I like Mannequin when we did the 348 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:40.079 episode on it, nothing's going to stop us. Now a 349 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:40.599 good movie. 350 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:41.240 What are you gonna do? 351 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:48.720 I mean, you got kills a Manquan. Yeah, and it's 352 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:49.759 still Getty's in there. 353 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:50.960 Yeah she is. 354 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:53.799 Stop from my mom's shoot, what is wrong with us? 355 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.359 There is not enough time? There is you know at 356 00:17:57.400 --> 00:17:58.839 the problem time for everybody else. 357 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.440 I think the problem is that they keep throwing Mannequin 358 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.480 episodes at us. So if they're gonna do that, I 359 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.279 think every time we character Annequin episode from now on, 360 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.799 we should just spend that time talking about the movie. 361 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.279 Mannequin or the career of a stell Getty. 362 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:12.519 I'll go with Mannequin. 363 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.440 You don't want to talk about Golden Girls? 364 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:16.119 What do you like? 365 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.039 I was just gonna say, do you want to go Girls? 366 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:20.319 Yes? 367 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.519 Never even seen it, Never seen a single episode. 368 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:23.599 Fantastic. 369 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:26.480 All I know is that song thank You for Being? 370 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.880 Have you not seen the episode with Quentin Tarantino dancing 371 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:30.680 as an Elvis impersonator in the background. 372 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:36.960 Sure rather die that. Fiona Apple story about her being 373 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.039 in the room with Paul W. S Anderser, poul T Anderson, 374 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.680 and Quin Tarantino caused her to never do cocaine again. 375 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:44.759 That's all I think of when I think of Tarantino 376 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.880 is just him coked up, chattering in Fiona Apple's face 377 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:48.880 for like an hour or so. 378 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.759 I don't I'm imagining p. T Anderson is actually much 379 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:54.920 where oh god, probably, I mean yeah, because Tarantino is 380 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.559 probably like having fun and making jokes, and pt Anderson's 381 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:59.480 telling you how fucking serious and awesome he is. 382 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:05.920 Looked at your hands, They're like, like Kubrick film. 383 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:06.920 What the fuck? 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