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Speaker 1: Him. Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast,
Speaker 1: where this season we're taking a look at George A.
Speaker 1: Romero's nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing
Speaker 1: the Midnight view with me. Are the Projection Booths, Mike White,
Speaker 1: you Dirty Rats, and from the Culturecast mister Chris Statue.
Speaker 2: I prefer to be referred to as my stage names
Speaker 2: if he remo.
Speaker 1: Coming right up tonight. We're looking at two episodes from
Speaker 1: season one. They are The Impressionist and Life Bomb. The
Speaker 1: Impressionist season two episode one. This originally aired on September
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five. Written by Evidently Darkseided
Speaker 1: Do mainstay Haskell Barkin from a story by M Coleman Easton,
Speaker 1: and this was directed by friend of Midnight viewing armand Bastriani.
Speaker 1: We interviewed mister Mostriani a few weeks back. That episode
Speaker 1: is available separately. I encourage you to go to check
Speaker 1: it out. The man is fascinating and talented and incredibly affable. Anyway,
Speaker 1: This one stars Chuck McCann, Bobby Ta Chico, Jack Andreazzi,
Speaker 1: and Claudia Templeton as hof Gosh. This is about a
Speaker 1: past his prime nightclub comic impressionist who's roped into a
Speaker 1: Men in Black like scenario where he is tasked with
Speaker 1: communicating with a captured alien by the power of mimicry. Chris,
Speaker 1: what did you think of this one?
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't draw the more apt comparison to
Speaker 2: was that movie Contact?
Speaker 1: Is that a.
Speaker 2: Rival the Amy Adams movie where it's like right on
Speaker 2: the board and then the aliens? Is that not what
Speaker 2: this is, but with a little frog alien instead.
Speaker 1: I actually thought it was Close Encounters while I was
Speaker 1: watching it.
Speaker 2: I thought I was having a close encounter of the
Speaker 2: bizarre kind. It's fine, It was a fine It's fine.
Speaker 2: I mean the conceit is bizarre, to say the least.
Speaker 2: It's very it's very Last. Yeah, last Starfighter e if
Speaker 2: Last Starfighter is less tenuous than this, they're just like,
Speaker 2: this guy does impressions, so he's the most reasonably suited
Speaker 2: person to interact with an alien. I will say, because
Speaker 2: you were unable to join us for the episode of
Speaker 2: Columba that we did with Chuck McCann, at least we
Speaker 2: get to Chuck about Chuck McCann. Finally. Yeah, so here's
Speaker 2: Chuck mccannon doing, doing a little whatever. I don't know
Speaker 2: what he's doing. This is This is a strange segment
Speaker 2: because I ultimately, what's the point? I guess I couldn't
Speaker 2: figure out what the point was. Let me just say
Speaker 2: that much and see what everyone else has to say.
Speaker 3: I felt more confused watching this than I did most
Speaker 3: Night Gallery episodes.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just that whole idea of the washed up comic
Speaker 3: slash impressionist who gets recruited by I'm guessing the army
Speaker 3: or some sort of you know, Area fifty one type guys,
Speaker 3: and then yeah, come in and because you're such a
Speaker 3: good impressionist. And is he impersonating the body movements in
Speaker 3: the language at the same time or is.
Speaker 1: It that's part of the language.
Speaker 2: Theoretically Apparently allegedly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's there trying to get the formula for fusion,
Speaker 3: which will change everything. Thank you, Bobby to Chico Chico. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I this one left me very very cold. And then
Speaker 3: when it ended, it just man, oh man did it end?
Speaker 2: It ended? And it sure did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fiffy Rimo, mister Personalities, Spiffy Rimo. It's it was.
Speaker 1: His act was kind of like get listening to Dana
Speaker 1: Carvey nowadays, you know, doing George Bush and stuff. In
Speaker 1: that nineteen eighty he's doing Stan Laurel from nineteen forty.
Speaker 2: Well, I just thinn't wondering. I'm in the club to
Speaker 2: see him do Charlie Chaplin. Everybody hilarius the fuck is
Speaker 2: finding this funny.
Speaker 3: And the audience is eating it up. And that's what
Speaker 3: I thought that this gig was. When it came to
Speaker 3: the whole episode, I was like, Oh, he must be
Speaker 3: in some sort of healthscape nightclub where he can do
Speaker 3: or say anything and it will make the audience laugh
Speaker 3: because he's not funny. I thought this was kind of
Speaker 3: like one of those Twilight Zone reboots where it was like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, and then my wife cheated on me and
Speaker 3: the whole audience.
Speaker 2: Goes crazy and Thomerson, Baby.
Speaker 3: I'm like waiting for that, you know. Oh and yeah
Speaker 3: that was Bizarro when they were laughing like crazy. Oh,
Speaker 3: the ACX just not what it is, says his agent
Speaker 3: slash manager Pudgy.
Speaker 2: At least he was named the Offendi because that was
Speaker 2: the other thing that reminded me of this. It was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we need another story about comedians. God no. And also,
Speaker 2: on top of everything else, comedians are the least interesting
Speaker 2: people according to media, because they're all just like the
Speaker 2: most obvious stereotypes of human beings. Like he's an impressionist
Speaker 2: who does the most on the nose lazy impressions known
Speaker 2: to man, even at the time they would be lazy.
Speaker 3: He does both laurel and hardy.
Speaker 1: And announces each impression. That's the best part of the act,
Speaker 1: Stan Laurel. Oh, wait what you okay? Now you stacked
Speaker 1: against me there, even though it's still not going to
Speaker 1: be an enjoyable impression. Hit us with Jack Benny TJ. Castronova,
Speaker 1: producer on the shows. In the front row of this
Speaker 1: audience during the nightclub act, he might be to blame
Speaker 1: for nudging the audience into his oxysms of fucking hilarity.
Speaker 1: Pudgy using a tiny pen knife to slowly, slowly, slowly
Speaker 1: cut open an arm rae. It's the most horrific thing
Speaker 1: we've seen. Ontel's in the dark side. A sign from
Speaker 1: his little fucking cokenail, his little pinky cocnail. Yeah, yay sign.
Speaker 1: It's nineteen eighty four, eighty five. Now, I think it
Speaker 1: would take more than a hastily thrown together at National
Speaker 1: security badge to let somebody put a bag over my
Speaker 1: head and put me in the car.
Speaker 2: And oh my god, and again it's Chuck McCann. Everybody,
Speaker 2: our our singular soul hope in this in this world
Speaker 2: is Chuck McCann.
Speaker 1: Chuck McCann, I don't you know what I was not
Speaker 1: on that Columbo episode. So what is your It sounds
Speaker 1: like you're goofing on, mister Chuck mccannon, and I want
Speaker 1: to know what you're actually.
Speaker 2: I can Chuck McCann's hilarious. It's just don't expect me
Speaker 2: to take him seriously in this episode, because our one
Speaker 2: singular hope for nuclear fusion is with Chuck McCann. It's
Speaker 2: in his goofy hands.
Speaker 1: So are you saying you do not buy him as
Speaker 1: a dramatic actor.
Speaker 2: Then I don't buy him as the I just don't
Speaker 2: buy the conceit of this episode. He has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with him as an actor. I concede of this
Speaker 2: episode's goofiest. Look, that is what I'm getting at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I like the conceit of the episode. It's
Speaker 1: just that they put the wrong comic in here. They
Speaker 1: put in this It shouldn't be a comic at all.
Speaker 1: It should be some actor or something or something. It
Speaker 1: could be some other reason that this guy's really good
Speaker 1: at mimicking things, other than he's been doing impressions of
Speaker 1: fucking Laurel and Hardy.
Speaker 2: You know, he's the best. He's working at some shitty
Speaker 2: ass club. Do this is the guy we want? Like
Speaker 2: you're telling me there's not. This is who you're going
Speaker 2: to for impersonations, like like a dialect coach on the phone.
Speaker 1: You know. Now, early in the episode, when we get
Speaker 1: introduced to Bobby Chico, I wrote in my notes, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with Bobby to Chico? Look, he was the lead
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty one and now he's doing bit stuff
Speaker 1: on Talales from the Dark Side, Right, what's wrong with
Speaker 1: that guy? Is that, you know. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Later in the episode, I answered my own question because
Speaker 1: later I wrote, Oh, Chico is a terrible actor. Now
Speaker 1: I get it. He's he can't pull. He's doing this
Speaker 1: whispery sort of like high school drama, kind of I'm
Speaker 1: a scientist kind of a performance. I could not We're
Speaker 1: supposed to take all so much of this, seriously, the
Speaker 1: trash bag monster, the Chuck McCann's old routines them sort
Speaker 1: of wobbling around, looking at each other and murmuring. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, we got to deal with the Chico. No,
Speaker 1: I reject they.
Speaker 2: And half Gosh. Don't forget half Gud, the alien named
Speaker 2: half Gosh.
Speaker 3: And fingered with a big old butt for a head.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, I actually liked the design of
Speaker 1: the head of that creature. I thought that looked good.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just a sucker for that era.
Speaker 1: You know, it was basically a mask. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: prosthetic rinding anyway.
Speaker 2: I like like I like the cold weather blanket that
Speaker 2: is his outfit, you know, the thing that you're supposed
Speaker 2: to keep in your car in case your car breaks
Speaker 2: down in a blizzard. And you need to cover. It's
Speaker 2: like one of those metallic blank It's that's you know,
Speaker 2: we joked a long time ago on Cold Chat about
Speaker 2: oh my god, look there's no monster. We don't get
Speaker 2: to see it. It's invisible. This is why this is
Speaker 2: the reason why shit's invisible in shows, because when you
Speaker 2: see it, it's, oh god, it's just like a guy.
Speaker 2: It's a guy in a mask. It's a guy in
Speaker 2: a really cheap looking mask.
Speaker 1: Actually a woman this time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she heard all these weird body motion things.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, what is It almost looks like half
Speaker 3: gosh is dancing. At times, I'm like what is happening?
Speaker 3: And then I'm like it was actually dancing. Then maybe
Speaker 3: that would be a better form of communication.
Speaker 2: You know, by the way, communicating through interpretive dance.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I have all of the information about it
Speaker 3: right here on this compact disc.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the CD. Everybody, it's a new technology.
Speaker 1: Language and communication. I had to draw this inference from
Speaker 1: this episode. But language and communication are so important to
Speaker 1: this creature that if you get it wrong and all,
Speaker 1: it has to fucking smack you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're very surly alien, but yeah, not not. It's
Speaker 1: it's the most in between alien we've ever seen. It's
Speaker 1: not et and it's not some monster trying to eat everybody,
Speaker 1: but it will smack you if you get out of line.
Speaker 2: Psychically smack you. It roots around in your brain for
Speaker 2: a little bit. And Chuck McCann's just cold sweat. Oh god,
Speaker 2: oh no. And some of this was filmed and reversed
Speaker 2: to and then played forward so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they love that here at it's the next and
Speaker 1: it's always when somebody is jumping. We haven't seen reverse anything,
Speaker 1: but somebody jumping onto something. It's really right.
Speaker 2: Well I love that jumping a bit, jumping backwards and
Speaker 2: then back again. I was like, this is just funny.
Speaker 2: It's just funny to look at it. Can't take this seriously.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 3: And what's the story with the other scientists the one
Speaker 3: that actually kidnaps them, because it's I'm going to bring
Speaker 3: you over here, and then immediately be like, no, this
Speaker 3: guy sucks.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: It's wait wait, give him a shot, would you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The like the killer outside agent, Yeah, who's all intimidation?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, why go to such length? Was he?
Speaker 1: I guess he was expecting him to just do it overnight.
Speaker 1: But it's been three weeks.
Speaker 2: Three weeks with an alien, an alien only three weeks,
Speaker 2: only three weeks.
Speaker 1: They when they send him in for the first time,
Speaker 1: they say, put on this headset, you'll be able to
Speaker 1: understand him in English. And I'm like, well, if you
Speaker 1: already have that?
Speaker 2: What mimic cry Charlie Chaplin, did it? Remember Buster Keaton?
Speaker 2: That's it's in the age old tradition. This is the
Speaker 2: bizarre conceit. It's a bizarre conceit. It's strangers, you know.
Speaker 1: They would have just strapped the thing down and started
Speaker 1: they can if it can communicate in English already. They
Speaker 1: would be torturing the thing, going tell us about fusion.
Speaker 2: Brains, I want brains. I'm in pain. Strap it down
Speaker 2: and start taking the information by force. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: they would do. The US government wouldn't ask a comedian
Speaker 2: to come help out. Just cut its fucking head off
Speaker 2: and start doing all sorts of experiments on it.
Speaker 1: The sounds that it made were quite off putting.
Speaker 2: It is off putting in general. The name alone is
Speaker 2: off put it.
Speaker 1: Yes, off gosh, haf got like hof scotch butterscotch.
Speaker 3: Missus Emmelda, Hey.
Speaker 2: What Jimmy hoff Gosh.
Speaker 1: By the end of this episode, it turns straight up
Speaker 1: surling like he's back at the club and he now
Speaker 1: realizes the meaningless and the meaningless of it all. And
Speaker 1: Pudge comes in like Chuck McCann actually says, you don't
Speaker 1: get it, Pudge, just don't get it. And then he goes,
Speaker 1: it's so fucking surling that I was expecting somebody start
Speaker 1: singing if he's a jelly good fellow. As he goes
Speaker 1: at the door.
Speaker 2: As they hold hands and walk into the spaceship together.
Speaker 1: I will say in that last segment he walks out
Speaker 1: that door and then ends up on location. Yeah, and suddenly,
Speaker 1: no matter how shitty the rest of the episode was,
Speaker 1: it came alive.
Speaker 2: I mean again, when we get to see it close
Speaker 2: above that alien again and we get to see it
Speaker 2: tilt its head and attempt to emote. How do you
Speaker 2: think Glenn Hetrick would feel about this makeup? That's the
Speaker 2: question that I'm asking Would he buy it?
Speaker 3: Open your mouth?
Speaker 2: Okay, show me your tongue. All right, look at this
Speaker 2: fucking headshat can you turn this is not original? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let me see your profile.
Speaker 3: You got you got any referal vision over here?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like the hand. My favorite detail is the hand.
Speaker 2: That's just there's no nothing, It's just like a hand.
Speaker 2: It's stick your fingers, all four of your fingers into
Speaker 2: this one thing, and then your thumb off to the side.
Speaker 2: It's just look the show. The show, for the most part,
Speaker 2: has a really high production value until it doesn't. This
Speaker 2: is one of those episodes where it's like, what was
Speaker 2: this Just one of the ones that they were like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we tried.
Speaker 1: Now, you know. I spoke to Robert Draper, the DP,
Speaker 1: one of the dps on Teslam Dark Side, and he
Speaker 1: told me that the mandate was to do noir lighting,
Speaker 1: so hard lighting or rather low lighting, which is quick
Speaker 1: and that's most of the episodes of the first season
Speaker 1: are definitely adhere to that. But when I spoke to
Speaker 1: armand Mastriani, he said he was given no such directive,
Speaker 1: so he just lit. They lit however they wanted, if
Speaker 1: they could make day basically no.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, I would like to go
Speaker 2: back and rewatch the first season to compare it to
Speaker 2: this then, because I mean, I feel like I feel
Speaker 2: like we did say it in the first season. A
Speaker 2: couple times, this looks rather set bound. I don't necessarily
Speaker 2: consider set bound to be noir lighting that over lit
Speaker 2: is normally the way I look at set bound stuff.
Speaker 1: You can you can noir light something and make it
Speaker 1: look threadbare and just painted. You know, the lighting. The
Speaker 1: lighting package itself doesn't save it. But what it does
Speaker 1: save twice now for mister Mastriani, is he created a
Speaker 1: UFO here at the end with just the lighting package,
Speaker 1: and back in that if the shoe fits, he created
Speaker 1: a circus tent basically with just just lights. I love
Speaker 1: the guy. Those are those are a little short film
Speaker 1: like moments that it makes me happy when we see
Speaker 1: these episodes. Even if everything that came before, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: mister Mostrianni, everything that came before was just suspect at best, it.
Speaker 2: Feels very set bound. I mean, ultimately, like this does.
Speaker 2: I mean most of the episode takes place in being
Speaker 2: shot from high angles in like a square room, a
Speaker 2: gray square room.
Speaker 1: There's no way you could shoot those scientists breaking into
Speaker 1: applause when he's made the breakthrough with the fucking hof
Speaker 1: gosh in the next ro it is so melodramatic and weird.
Speaker 1: It's just sort of representative of the episode sentiment overall.
Speaker 1: This is a weird I don't understand this is the
Speaker 1: town from the dark Side episode?
Speaker 2: What is this better suited like amazing stories?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Directed by Steven Spielberg, even.
Speaker 1: He already made this movie a few times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was about this series of episodes,
Speaker 3: but I really noticed the film rating during these four
Speaker 3: that we we're gonna be talking about too now and
Speaker 3: two next week or next month, well whatever our schedule
Speaker 3: is now with this, it feels like you're releasing these
Speaker 3: every day now even though we haven't for.
Speaker 1: We're going through August.
Speaker 3: Oh, fantastic, fantastic. Yeah, but it just feels like I
Speaker 3: was seeing a lot of dirt on the film, and
Speaker 3: I'm just like, oh man, these are really rough looking
Speaker 3: at times.
Speaker 1: I was very surprised. Yeah. I wonder if then is
Speaker 1: some sort of you know, this is a new season now,
Speaker 1: so perhaps they're using new facilities. I'll find all that
Speaker 1: out basically, but yes, there is a definite changed kind
Speaker 1: of overall about the approach to the segments here, to
Speaker 1: the episodes now, I think I think they might have
Speaker 1: loosened up because the season one was a success.
Speaker 3: And I think I think the most goofy thing about
Speaker 3: Chuck mccannon is probably the hairdo, which I know, you know,
Speaker 3: it's the eighties. He's an older man, but just always
Speaker 3: something about the way that he wore his hair would
Speaker 3: throw me. So I have absolutely nothing against mister McCann.
Speaker 3: I like him in quite a few things. I tried
Speaker 3: to interview him about Linda Lovelace for President, because he
Speaker 3: plays a fairly substantial role in that, And of course
Speaker 3: I love The Projectionists. Though I haven't seen it since
Speaker 3: Naty two, so maybe I wouldn't like it as much now,
Speaker 3: but I remember really enjoying it.
Speaker 2: He's the best part of the episode. He's just horribly miscast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I will say that when they do go
Speaker 1: to that on location shot, he steps out in the
Speaker 1: street and the car nearly hits him. That car nearly
Speaker 1: hits him, like Chuck mccannon doing stunts for Townsend The
Speaker 1: Dark Side here, I was.
Speaker 3: Really hoping when the alien comes down and he's coming
Speaker 3: off the ship all waddling along, I was really hoping
Speaker 3: that Chuck McCann would start waddling his way towards hawf gosh, like.
Speaker 2: You came back. They're gonna go away together and live
Speaker 2: a happy life.
Speaker 1: Half gosh or what if it was the opposite and
Speaker 1: half Gosh.
Speaker 2: Was like, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Just comes down?
Speaker 1: Yeah, great life, Bob. This is season two, episode two.
Speaker 1: It aired originally on October the sixth, nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: This one was written by This one was written by
Speaker 1: Michael CB McDowell from his story what are the odds
Speaker 1: that there are two writers effectively on staff at Toe
Speaker 1: Some of the dark STI I'd named Michael McDowell. It's
Speaker 1: really Will. Directed by Frank DePalma. This one stars Bill Macy,
Speaker 1: who I get most people probably know him from Mad
Speaker 1: Mod from the nineteen seventies. He was also in The
Speaker 1: Jerk you know, Damn These Glasses, Yes, sir, I damn
Speaker 1: thee and he was in My Favorite Year he shows
Speaker 1: up in Colombo in the nineties. He has a special
Speaker 1: place in my heart because he's one of the three
Speaker 1: known celebrities that are from my hometown of Verre, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Bill Macy is one of them. I'm always excited when
Speaker 1: he shows up anywhere anyway. This also stars are Robert
Speaker 1: Reisel and Samantha Harper. This is the story of an
Speaker 1: insurance agent and a most unusual product that doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't pay dividends after you diet. Make sure you never
Speaker 1: do which you think of this one.
Speaker 3: Mike Man, oh man, it took me so long to
Speaker 3: figure out the bad part of this. I was just like, Okay, yeah, cool,
Speaker 3: there's this goofy suit thing that pops out of your
Speaker 3: back and wraps you up and keeps you safe, and okay,
Speaker 3: I don't see any downside to this until he starts
Speaker 3: having heart attacks and coming back, and I really kind
Speaker 3: of wish that there have been more to that to show.
Speaker 2: Just oh oh.
Speaker 3: It took me almost until the very last minute of
Speaker 3: this episode to be like, he's doomed to live forever.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, this suit is going to keep him alive,
Speaker 3: and they're going to he's going to keep having heart
Speaker 3: attacks because he's a complete asshole, and then he's going
Speaker 3: to be brought back to life by this guy in
Speaker 3: the red suit and that's it. And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it took us twenty nine minutes to get there. It
Speaker 3: took a long time for me to finally get to
Speaker 3: this endpoint and just say it's sorry twenty two minutes
Speaker 3: and just go oh oh, okay, that was a clever idea,
Speaker 3: very poorly executed.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Chris, Yeah, no, I feel almost
Speaker 2: identical to the way that you do. I mean, I
Speaker 2: like the idea, the conceit is interesting, but.
Speaker 3: The special effects are amazing.
Speaker 2: Okay, we didn't have to know that far. No game.
Speaker 2: Now we're just being on bearing.
Speaker 1: Off that stop motion madness like the shields on the
Speaker 1: eighty nine Batmobile.
Speaker 3: The Wizard of Speed and Time is just like, what
Speaker 3: the fuck was that.
Speaker 2: There's a moment where they where the little thing is
Speaker 2: like cocooning the guy, and you can see that they
Speaker 2: didn't do a very good job of keeping the sheet
Speaker 2: on the bed in the same spot, because the sheet
Speaker 2: in the bed like moving around like crazy. I'm with
Speaker 2: you one hundred percent. I mean, I think it's an
Speaker 2: interesting idea, but it's so poorly executed. In the top
Speaker 2: of everything else, the guy who's selling the product is
Speaker 2: using the product, so what incentive does he have to
Speaker 2: sell it to this guy? There needed to be something
Speaker 2: of Once I pass it on to you, I am
Speaker 2: now forgiven of this and I no longer have to
Speaker 2: deal with it. There needed to be some aspect to this,
Speaker 2: some some sort of stakes, because there aren't. It me,
Speaker 2: this reminds me a lot of the one with James
Speaker 2: Hong that we just talked about, where it's like it's
Speaker 2: just this like busy asshole kind of getting his just desserts,
Speaker 2: I guess. But again, this is another one of these
Speaker 2: weird things where it's like the guy is just a workaholic.
Speaker 2: I don't think that makes you a bad person. It
Speaker 2: just means that you're like not prioritizing certain things. It's
Speaker 2: like in all those nineties movies where you know, okay,
Speaker 2: just for example, Jingle all the way, it's Arnot Schwarzenegger
Speaker 2: is a terrible dad in that movie because he works
Speaker 2: a lot. And it's but yet this family lives in
Speaker 2: a giant house and all this sudden it's I've never
Speaker 2: understood demonizing people for working a lot, And this is
Speaker 2: another one of these kinds of characters where it's like
Speaker 2: he works a lot, therefore he's an asshole, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess the other character in the other episode where
Speaker 2: he's like murdering people he doesn't like, makes a lot
Speaker 2: more sense to have him get this. You know, there's
Speaker 2: a fate worse than death treatment. I don't think the
Speaker 2: premise in this episode makes a lot of sense. And
Speaker 2: if you're gonna go the direction they go, the lead
Speaker 2: of the piece has to be a real piece of shit,
Speaker 2: and he's just kind of an old man's.
Speaker 3: Pretty pretty wilid piece of shit. I mean he running
Speaker 3: this mining company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he runs a mining company. There was a cave
Speaker 1: in and more than twenty people dined, and he's fucking
Speaker 1: bitching the entire time about the thirty million dollar payout
Speaker 1: that will absolve them of any future trouble with those people.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I was like, I loved this episode,
Speaker 1: and I was loving this episode, and like you said, Mike,
Speaker 1: I was going, I don't really see the outs identity
Speaker 1: of this. This is pretty good. And then I what
Speaker 1: I wrote in my notes was, oh no, the miners,
Speaker 1: Now I get it, and that he's he's worse than
Speaker 1: that other guy. That other guy was just a caricature
Speaker 1: of ups and Pratt. This is a real guy running
Speaker 1: a corporation trying to fuck everyone out of every last time.
Speaker 1: At the end of this episode is a tragedy, and
Speaker 1: I feel bad for the character. It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, as far as just desserts go,
Speaker 1: this is perfect for me. This is exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for from a Tails from the Dark Side episode.
Speaker 1: I agree, it's a little clunkily sort of constructed because
Speaker 1: they don't give us the actual here's what the twist
Speaker 1: is until like the final few moments of the episode.
Speaker 1: It would have come better earlier, but once the twist
Speaker 1: sort of popped into my head that these corporations are
Speaker 1: going to keep you enslaved forever, which I did not
Speaker 1: see the angle coming at all. That marvel. That's a
Speaker 1: marvel to me. And then what that scenario does, It
Speaker 1: makes death the only win. And that's why I love
Speaker 1: Tamson the Dark's Eye. Yeah, that's going to get him
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: disagree with you. I mean, I see where I see
Speaker 2: where you're coming from. I hmm, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: think I think in terms of what it is going for, yeah,
Speaker 2: it does pull it off, but I think, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think we are at least in agreement. It's clunky, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's not well directed. That's the problem
Speaker 1: with it, because the writing is good, all the performances
Speaker 1: are super solid. A little bit not on his wife,
Speaker 1: but even that sort of those exchanges between him and
Speaker 1: his wife because he's a cocksucker at home too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like she's not great, but that scenario. I never felt,
Speaker 1: let's get to the supernatural or anything. When I was
Speaker 1: with these characters. I was in it, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I you know, my ledge may vary, but I bought
Speaker 1: into this one mostly because Bill Macy seems like a
Speaker 1: genuine and decent human being. So when he's playing an asshole,
Speaker 1: oh my god. I haven't wanted a character to burn
Speaker 1: this hard in forever because a character hasn't been this
Speaker 1: well defined or portrayed on the show in a while.
Speaker 3: His performance is really spectacular, especially when he just goes
Speaker 3: off the deep end and starts screaming as lungs out.
Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive, and I'm just very happy every time
Speaker 3: he goes to reach for his chest, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is what you get, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: The first thing, the first note I have on this
Speaker 1: is that I loved the music, and this is a
Speaker 1: different contributor than ordinarily on the show. Ken Lobber is
Speaker 1: his name, so I looked him up and he composed
Speaker 1: the music for a sitcom from nineteen eighty called Mister
Speaker 1: and Missus is Dracula. Do you know this one, Mike, No,
Speaker 1: I can't say I've ever heard of this one. Oh, boy,
Speaker 1: Tails from the Dark Side double double Whammy, starring Dick
Speaker 1: Shawn as Dracula whoa and Paul Apprentice as Missus Dracula.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, the Dracula family moves into an apartment in
Speaker 1: the Bronx, wasn't she?
Speaker 3: Because I always get the princess the sisters right, and
Speaker 3: one of them was in Saturday the fourteenth. I mean
Speaker 3: it sounds like it's cut right out of that cloth.
Speaker 1: That is Paul Apprentice. Yes, marriage Richard Benjamin. Uh that
Speaker 1: that episode that Dracula shot Mister Missus Dracula. It's on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Everyone go watch it. It's Mister and Missus Dracula the Pilot.
Speaker 1: You're gonna You're gonna have a blast. Oh. I don't
Speaker 1: know you guys got any more in this one.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just gonna sign out and go watch Mister
Speaker 3: and Missus dragett I.
Speaker 2: Do like the Tails from the Dark Side. Does seem
Speaker 2: to be bothering itself with sticking it to corporate dickheads
Speaker 2: of the eighties, because this is what the second or
Speaker 2: third episode that we've gotten like this in the run
Speaker 2: of the show so far.
Speaker 1: And compare and contrast that to Twilight Zone eighty five,
Speaker 1: where we would be with that corporation owner trying to
Speaker 1: figure out where he went wrong and what he needs
Speaker 1: to do it fix if some magic come help me?
Speaker 2: What turn did I take that should have been left
Speaker 2: when I went right? Did I marry the wrong woman?
Speaker 2: Am I a jolly good fellow?
Speaker 1: We all come into a path in the road, the.
Speaker 2: Path less travel in the Twilight Zone? Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: But you know, though, that is the thing about this show,
Speaker 2: at least this show at the end of the episodes
Speaker 2: it is. Towilets one eighty five didn't feel as mean
Speaker 2: spirited at times as this show does. This show has
Speaker 2: a little bit of that mean spirit to it, which
Speaker 2: I appreciate. I mean now that it's kind of continuing
Speaker 2: to do it, because towards the end of the last
Speaker 2: season it started doing it a lot more, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh man, where is it going? But now
Speaker 2: it's just like it's just it's sticking to it, which
Speaker 2: is fine by me. Give these assholes what they deserve.
Speaker 1: Right, this show will kick you in the crotch if
Speaker 1: it has to about it all right, the next episode
Speaker 1: of Midnight Viewing, We're gonna be taking it. Two more
Speaker 1: episodes from season two. Those are Ring Around the Redhead
Speaker 1: and Parlor Floor Front Until next time. What are you
Speaker 1: working on? Where can people find it? Mike White?
Speaker 3: Everything that I do is I think this is going
Speaker 3: to get repetitive, But everything I do is over at
Speaker 3: weirding Way to come, including the show that I've been
Speaker 3: working on for over thirteen years, the Projection Booth, and yeah,
Speaker 3: still as fresh as ever, brushes me after a long
Speaker 3: hard day at the office in the mines. How about you, Chris?
Speaker 1: How about you Chris?
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