WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.480 All right, listen up Cave's I Got your assignments riga 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.599 six four three wheeler one four eight not eight oh 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.199 four and only you. You need to join host HP 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.880 and fatherm Alone as they examine one of the greatest 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.120 sitcoms in television history, Taxi in Night Mister Walters a 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:24.760 taxi podcast BANDA zero like your boxing record. 7 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:33.600 Thank mister Walters, weird wave. 8 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.799 Him. Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, 9 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.560 where this season we're taking a look at George A. 10 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.239 Romero's nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing 11 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.200 the Midnight view with me. Are the Projection Booths, Mike White, 12 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.359 you Dirty Rats, and from the Culturecast mister Chris Statue. 13 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.799 I prefer to be referred to as my stage names 14 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:00.840 if he remo. 15 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.159 Coming right up tonight. We're looking at two episodes from 16 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.080 season one. They are The Impressionist and Life Bomb. The 17 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:12.360 Impressionist season two episode one. This originally aired on September 18 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.879 the twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five. Written by Evidently Darkseided 19 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.800 Do mainstay Haskell Barkin from a story by M Coleman Easton, 20 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.879 and this was directed by friend of Midnight viewing armand Bastriani. 21 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.560 We interviewed mister Mostriani a few weeks back. That episode 22 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.800 is available separately. I encourage you to go to check 23 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.159 it out. The man is fascinating and talented and incredibly affable. Anyway, 24 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:39.240 This one stars Chuck McCann, Bobby Ta Chico, Jack Andreazzi, 25 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.680 and Claudia Templeton as hof Gosh. This is about a 26 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.599 past his prime nightclub comic impressionist who's roped into a 27 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.840 Men in Black like scenario where he is tasked with 28 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:54.479 communicating with a captured alien by the power of mimicry. Chris, 29 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:55.759 what did you think of this one? 30 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.000 I'm surprised you didn't draw the more apt comparison to 31 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.479 was that movie Contact? 32 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:01.879 Is that a. 33 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.159 Rival the Amy Adams movie where it's like right on 34 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.319 the board and then the aliens? Is that not what 35 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.439 this is, but with a little frog alien instead. 36 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.039 I actually thought it was Close Encounters while I was 37 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:13.520 watching it. 38 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.719 I thought I was having a close encounter of the 39 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.960 bizarre kind. It's fine, It was a fine It's fine. 40 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:23.400 I mean the conceit is bizarre, to say the least. 41 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.360 It's very it's very Last. Yeah, last Starfighter e if 42 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.240 Last Starfighter is less tenuous than this, they're just like, 43 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.199 this guy does impressions, so he's the most reasonably suited 44 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.680 person to interact with an alien. I will say, because 45 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:41.800 you were unable to join us for the episode of 46 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.319 Columba that we did with Chuck McCann, at least we 47 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:48.759 get to Chuck about Chuck McCann. Finally. Yeah, so here's 48 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.919 Chuck mccannon doing, doing a little whatever. I don't know 49 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.639 what he's doing. This is This is a strange segment 50 00:03:56.680 --> 00:04:00.680 because I ultimately, what's the point? I guess I couldn't 51 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:02.879 figure out what the point was. Let me just say 52 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.919 that much and see what everyone else has to say. 53 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.280 I felt more confused watching this than I did most 54 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:10.759 Night Gallery episodes. 55 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:11.479 Wow. 56 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.680 Yeah, just that whole idea of the washed up comic 57 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:21.199 slash impressionist who gets recruited by I'm guessing the army 58 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.279 or some sort of you know, Area fifty one type guys, 59 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.279 and then yeah, come in and because you're such a 60 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:33.759 good impressionist. And is he impersonating the body movements in 61 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.360 the language at the same time or is. 62 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.240 It that's part of the language. 63 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.600 Theoretically Apparently allegedly. 64 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.000 Yeah, and he's there trying to get the formula for fusion, 65 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.839 which will change everything. Thank you, Bobby to Chico Chico. Yeah, 66 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:54.519 I this one left me very very cold. And then 67 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.199 when it ended, it just man, oh man did it end? 68 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.839 It ended? And it sure did. 69 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:06.439 Yeah, Fiffy Rimo, mister Personalities, Spiffy Rimo. It's it was. 70 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.920 His act was kind of like get listening to Dana 71 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.040 Carvey nowadays, you know, doing George Bush and stuff. In 72 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.800 that nineteen eighty he's doing Stan Laurel from nineteen forty. 73 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.279 Well, I just thinn't wondering. I'm in the club to 74 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.839 see him do Charlie Chaplin. Everybody hilarius the fuck is 75 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:24.199 finding this funny. 76 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.800 And the audience is eating it up. And that's what 77 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:27.959 I thought that this gig was. When it came to 78 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.959 the whole episode, I was like, Oh, he must be 79 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.879 in some sort of healthscape nightclub where he can do 80 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.480 or say anything and it will make the audience laugh 81 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.920 because he's not funny. I thought this was kind of 82 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.439 like one of those Twilight Zone reboots where it was like, 83 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.800 oh yeah, and then my wife cheated on me and 84 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:46.000 the whole audience. 85 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.000 Goes crazy and Thomerson, Baby. 86 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.959 I'm like waiting for that, you know. Oh and yeah 87 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.680 that was Bizarro when they were laughing like crazy. Oh, 88 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.519 the ACX just not what it is, says his agent 89 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.160 slash manager Pudgy. 90 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:01.600 At least he was named the Offendi because that was 91 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.839 the other thing that reminded me of this. It was like, oh, 92 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.279 we need another story about comedians. God no. And also, 93 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.480 on top of everything else, comedians are the least interesting 94 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.199 people according to media, because they're all just like the 95 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:18.120 most obvious stereotypes of human beings. Like he's an impressionist 96 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.920 who does the most on the nose lazy impressions known 97 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.680 to man, even at the time they would be lazy. 98 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.519 He does both laurel and hardy. 99 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.639 And announces each impression. That's the best part of the act, 100 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.920 Stan Laurel. Oh, wait what you okay? Now you stacked 101 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.959 against me there, even though it's still not going to 102 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.920 be an enjoyable impression. Hit us with Jack Benny TJ. Castronova, 103 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.639 producer on the shows. In the front row of this 104 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.600 audience during the nightclub act, he might be to blame 105 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:52.199 for nudging the audience into his oxysms of fucking hilarity. 106 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:59.040 Pudgy using a tiny pen knife to slowly, slowly, slowly 107 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.639 cut open an arm rae. It's the most horrific thing 108 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.279 we've seen. Ontel's in the dark side. A sign from 109 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:10.120 his little fucking cokenail, his little pinky cocnail. Yeah, yay sign. 110 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.399 It's nineteen eighty four, eighty five. Now, I think it 111 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.199 would take more than a hastily thrown together at National 112 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.680 security badge to let somebody put a bag over my 113 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:20.199 head and put me in the car. 114 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.800 And oh my god, and again it's Chuck McCann. Everybody, 115 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.759 our our singular soul hope in this in this world 116 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:31.399 is Chuck McCann. 117 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:34.600 Chuck McCann, I don't you know what I was not 118 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.600 on that Columbo episode. So what is your It sounds 119 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.639 like you're goofing on, mister Chuck mccannon, and I want 120 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:40.680 to know what you're actually. 121 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.959 I can Chuck McCann's hilarious. It's just don't expect me 122 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.920 to take him seriously in this episode, because our one 123 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.399 singular hope for nuclear fusion is with Chuck McCann. It's 124 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.319 in his goofy hands. 125 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:55.800 So are you saying you do not buy him as 126 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:56.680 a dramatic actor. 127 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.360 Then I don't buy him as the I just don't 128 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.279 buy the conceit of this episode. He has nothing to 129 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:03.199 do with him as an actor. I concede of this 130 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.560 episode's goofiest. Look, that is what I'm getting at. 131 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.079 Yeah, well, I like the conceit of the episode. It's 132 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:10.360 just that they put the wrong comic in here. They 133 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.759 put in this It shouldn't be a comic at all. 134 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.040 It should be some actor or something or something. It 135 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:17.560 could be some other reason that this guy's really good 136 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.600 at mimicking things, other than he's been doing impressions of 137 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.800 fucking Laurel and Hardy. 138 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.000 You know, he's the best. He's working at some shitty 139 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:29.000 ass club. Do this is the guy we want? Like 140 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:31.480 you're telling me there's not. This is who you're going 141 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:36.639 to for impersonations, like like a dialect coach on the phone. 142 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:39.120 You know. Now, early in the episode, when we get 143 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:42.159 introduced to Bobby Chico, I wrote in my notes, what's 144 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:46.240 wrong with Bobby to Chico? Look, he was the lead 145 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.600 in nineteen forty one and now he's doing bit stuff 146 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.960 on Talales from the Dark Side, Right, what's wrong with 147 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.240 that guy? Is that, you know. But here's the thing. 148 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.480 Later in the episode, I answered my own question because 149 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.440 later I wrote, Oh, Chico is a terrible actor. Now 150 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.440 I get it. He's he can't pull. He's doing this 151 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.399 whispery sort of like high school drama, kind of I'm 152 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.879 a scientist kind of a performance. I could not We're 153 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:17.360 supposed to take all so much of this, seriously, the 154 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:22.559 trash bag monster, the Chuck McCann's old routines them sort 155 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.159 of wobbling around, looking at each other and murmuring. And 156 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.600 on top of that, we got to deal with the Chico. No, 157 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.120 I reject they. 158 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:34.840 And half Gosh. Don't forget half Gud, the alien named 159 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:39.039 half Gosh. 160 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.759 And fingered with a big old butt for a head. 161 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:41.720 Hey, you know what, I actually liked the design of 162 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.440 the head of that creature. I thought that looked good. 163 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.320 I don't know, I'm just a sucker for that era. 164 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.639 You know, it was basically a mask. It wasn't a 165 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:49.759 prosthetic rinding anyway. 166 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:52.879 I like like I like the cold weather blanket that 167 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:54.799 is his outfit, you know, the thing that you're supposed 168 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.480 to keep in your car in case your car breaks 169 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.799 down in a blizzard. And you need to cover. It's 170 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.679 like one of those metallic blank It's that's you know, 171 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.120 we joked a long time ago on Cold Chat about 172 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.600 oh my god, look there's no monster. We don't get 173 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.919 to see it. It's invisible. This is why this is 174 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.919 the reason why shit's invisible in shows, because when you 175 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.240 see it, it's, oh god, it's just like a guy. 176 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.279 It's a guy in a mask. It's a guy in 177 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:19.759 a really cheap looking mask. 178 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.360 Actually a woman this time. 179 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:25.279 Yeah, and she heard all these weird body motion things. 180 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.679 I'm just like, what is It almost looks like half 181 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.960 gosh is dancing. At times, I'm like what is happening? 182 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.639 And then I'm like it was actually dancing. Then maybe 183 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.039 that would be a better form of communication. 184 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.799 You know, by the way, communicating through interpretive dance. 185 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:41.480 Yes. 186 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.600 Oh, and I have all of the information about it 187 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:46.600 right here on this compact disc. 188 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:51.720 Yeah, the CD. Everybody, it's a new technology. 189 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.000 Language and communication. I had to draw this inference from 190 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.240 this episode. But language and communication are so important to 191 00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:59.960 this creature that if you get it wrong and all, 192 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.320 it has to fucking smack you. 193 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.360 Yeah. 194 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.840 So we're very surly alien, but yeah, not not. It's 195 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.720 it's the most in between alien we've ever seen. It's 196 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.240 not et and it's not some monster trying to eat everybody, 197 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.960 but it will smack you if you get out of line. 198 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.639 Psychically smack you. It roots around in your brain for 199 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.440 a little bit. And Chuck McCann's just cold sweat. Oh god, 200 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.480 oh no. And some of this was filmed and reversed 201 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.919 to and then played forward so much. 202 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.919 Yeah, they love that here at it's the next and 203 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.320 it's always when somebody is jumping. We haven't seen reverse anything, 204 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:36.360 but somebody jumping onto something. It's really right. 205 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:39.279 Well I love that jumping a bit, jumping backwards and 206 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.279 then back again. I was like, this is just funny. 207 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.960 It's just funny to look at it. Can't take this seriously. 208 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:45.559 Oh yeah, it's okay. 209 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.799 And what's the story with the other scientists the one 210 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.440 that actually kidnaps them, because it's I'm going to bring 211 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:52.879 you over here, and then immediately be like, no, this 212 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:53.440 guy sucks. 213 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:53.840 Let's go. 214 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.399 It's wait wait, give him a shot, would you? 215 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:01.639 Yeah? The like the killer outside agent, Yeah, who's all intimidation? 216 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.240 And then yeah, why go to such length? Was he? 217 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:06.639 I guess he was expecting him to just do it overnight. 218 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.399 But it's been three weeks. 219 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.759 Three weeks with an alien, an alien only three weeks, 220 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:12.840 only three weeks. 221 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.120 They when they send him in for the first time, 222 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.039 they say, put on this headset, you'll be able to 223 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:18.759 understand him in English. And I'm like, well, if you 224 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:19.559 already have that? 225 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.320 What mimic cry Charlie Chaplin, did it? Remember Buster Keaton? 226 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.559 That's it's in the age old tradition. This is the 227 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.399 bizarre conceit. It's a bizarre conceit. It's strangers, you know. 228 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.720 They would have just strapped the thing down and started 229 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.840 they can if it can communicate in English already. They 230 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.440 would be torturing the thing, going tell us about fusion. 231 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.799 Brains, I want brains. I'm in pain. Strap it down 232 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.039 and start taking the information by force. Yeah, that's what 233 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.840 they would do. The US government wouldn't ask a comedian 234 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.120 to come help out. Just cut its fucking head off 235 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.279 and start doing all sorts of experiments on it. 236 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.200 The sounds that it made were quite off putting. 237 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:00.960 It is off putting in general. The name alone is 238 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:01.480 off put it. 239 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:07.080 Yes, off gosh, haf got like hof scotch butterscotch. 240 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.240 Missus Emmelda, Hey. 241 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.440 What Jimmy hoff Gosh. 242 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.519 By the end of this episode, it turns straight up 243 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.519 surling like he's back at the club and he now 244 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.159 realizes the meaningless and the meaningless of it all. And 245 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.919 Pudge comes in like Chuck McCann actually says, you don't 246 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.879 get it, Pudge, just don't get it. And then he goes, 247 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.080 it's so fucking surling that I was expecting somebody start 248 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.679 singing if he's a jelly good fellow. As he goes 249 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:33.519 at the door. 250 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.399 As they hold hands and walk into the spaceship together. 251 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.840 I will say in that last segment he walks out 252 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.480 that door and then ends up on location. Yeah, and suddenly, 253 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.799 no matter how shitty the rest of the episode was, 254 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:47.519 it came alive. 255 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:49.759 I mean again, when we get to see it close 256 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:52.879 above that alien again and we get to see it 257 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.960 tilt its head and attempt to emote. How do you 258 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.519 think Glenn Hetrick would feel about this makeup? That's the 259 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:03.440 question that I'm asking Would he buy it? 260 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:04.399 Open your mouth? 261 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:07.559 Okay, show me your tongue. All right, look at this 262 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.279 fucking headshat can you turn this is not original? Yeah, 263 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:11.279 let me see your profile. 264 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.000 You got you got any referal vision over here? 265 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.720 Yeah. I like the hand. My favorite detail is the hand. 266 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.720 That's just there's no nothing, It's just like a hand. 267 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.480 It's stick your fingers, all four of your fingers into 268 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.440 this one thing, and then your thumb off to the side. 269 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.080 It's just look the show. The show, for the most part, 270 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.240 has a really high production value until it doesn't. This 271 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.799 is one of those episodes where it's like, what was 272 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:36.600 this Just one of the ones that they were like, yeah, 273 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:37.639 we tried. 274 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.519 Now, you know. I spoke to Robert Draper, the DP, 275 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.000 one of the dps on Teslam Dark Side, and he 276 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.559 told me that the mandate was to do noir lighting, 277 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.799 so hard lighting or rather low lighting, which is quick 278 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.039 and that's most of the episodes of the first season 279 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.200 are definitely adhere to that. But when I spoke to 280 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.519 armand Mastriani, he said he was given no such directive, 281 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.440 so he just lit. They lit however they wanted, if 282 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.000 they could make day basically no. 283 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.279 I was gonna say, like, I would like to go 284 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.000 back and rewatch the first season to compare it to 285 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:08.200 this then, because I mean, I feel like I feel 286 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.080 like we did say it in the first season. A 287 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.519 couple times, this looks rather set bound. I don't necessarily 288 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:17.960 consider set bound to be noir lighting that over lit 289 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.080 is normally the way I look at set bound stuff. 290 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.840 You can you can noir light something and make it 291 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.639 look threadbare and just painted. You know, the lighting. The 292 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.120 lighting package itself doesn't save it. But what it does 293 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:32.600 save twice now for mister Mastriani, is he created a 294 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.799 UFO here at the end with just the lighting package, 295 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:38.879 and back in that if the shoe fits, he created 296 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.399 a circus tent basically with just just lights. I love 297 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:44.519 the guy. Those are those are a little short film 298 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:46.759 like moments that it makes me happy when we see 299 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.000 these episodes. Even if everything that came before, and I'm sorry, 300 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:55.000 mister Mostrianni, everything that came before was just suspect at best, it. 301 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.080 Feels very set bound. I mean, ultimately, like this does. 302 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.000 I mean most of the episode takes place in being 303 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.519 shot from high angles in like a square room, a 304 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.080 gray square room. 305 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.759 There's no way you could shoot those scientists breaking into 306 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.440 applause when he's made the breakthrough with the fucking hof 307 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.600 gosh in the next ro it is so melodramatic and weird. 308 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:20.639 It's just sort of representative of the episode sentiment overall. 309 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.879 This is a weird I don't understand this is the 310 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:24.519 town from the dark Side episode? 311 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.480 What is this better suited like amazing stories? 312 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.799 Yeah, there you go. 313 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.840 Directed by Steven Spielberg, even. 314 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.639 He already made this movie a few times. 315 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:34.919 Yeah, pretty much. 316 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.559 I don't know what it was about this series of episodes, 317 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:42.600 but I really noticed the film rating during these four 318 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:44.799 that we we're gonna be talking about too now and 319 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.639 two next week or next month, well whatever our schedule 320 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:50.600 is now with this, it feels like you're releasing these 321 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:52.759 every day now even though we haven't for. 322 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.159 We're going through August. 323 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.440 Oh, fantastic, fantastic. Yeah, but it just feels like I 324 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.720 was seeing a lot of dirt on the film, and 325 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.240 I'm just like, oh man, these are really rough looking 326 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:06.880 at times. 327 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.960 I was very surprised. Yeah. I wonder if then is 328 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.519 some sort of you know, this is a new season now, 329 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:16.440 so perhaps they're using new facilities. I'll find all that 330 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.680 out basically, but yes, there is a definite changed kind 331 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.839 of overall about the approach to the segments here, to 332 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.240 the episodes now, I think I think they might have 333 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.400 loosened up because the season one was a success. 334 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.480 And I think I think the most goofy thing about 335 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.359 Chuck mccannon is probably the hairdo, which I know, you know, 336 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.279 it's the eighties. He's an older man, but just always 337 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:40.759 something about the way that he wore his hair would 338 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:44.440 throw me. So I have absolutely nothing against mister McCann. 339 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.480 I like him in quite a few things. I tried 340 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.880 to interview him about Linda Lovelace for President, because he 341 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.200 plays a fairly substantial role in that, And of course 342 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.839 I love The Projectionists. Though I haven't seen it since 343 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:01.519 Naty two, so maybe I wouldn't like it as much now, 344 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.279 but I remember really enjoying it. 345 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.480 He's the best part of the episode. He's just horribly miscast. 346 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:08.519 Yeah, but I will say that when they do go 347 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.200 to that on location shot, he steps out in the 348 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.160 street and the car nearly hits him. That car nearly 349 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.400 hits him, like Chuck mccannon doing stunts for Townsend The 350 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:19.000 Dark Side here, I was. 351 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.200 Really hoping when the alien comes down and he's coming 352 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.759 off the ship all waddling along, I was really hoping 353 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:29.960 that Chuck McCann would start waddling his way towards hawf gosh, like. 354 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.759 You came back. They're gonna go away together and live 355 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:34.599 a happy life. 356 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.359 Half gosh or what if it was the opposite and 357 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:38.039 half Gosh. 358 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:39.039 Was like, what's going on? 359 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:40.400 Just comes down? 360 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:47.519 Yeah, great life, Bob. This is season two, episode two. 361 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.480 It aired originally on October the sixth, nineteen eighty five. 362 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.279 This one was written by This one was written by 363 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.680 Michael CB McDowell from his story what are the odds 364 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:59.319 that there are two writers effectively on staff at Toe 365 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:01.440 Some of the dark STI I'd named Michael McDowell. It's 366 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.559 really Will. Directed by Frank DePalma. This one stars Bill Macy, 367 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.200 who I get most people probably know him from Mad 368 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.200 Mod from the nineteen seventies. He was also in The 369 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.279 Jerk you know, Damn These Glasses, Yes, sir, I damn 370 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.400 thee and he was in My Favorite Year he shows 371 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.759 up in Colombo in the nineties. He has a special 372 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.519 place in my heart because he's one of the three 373 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.079 known celebrities that are from my hometown of Verre, Massachusetts. 374 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.960 Bill Macy is one of them. I'm always excited when 375 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.680 he shows up anywhere anyway. This also stars are Robert 376 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:35.960 Reisel and Samantha Harper. This is the story of an 377 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.240 insurance agent and a most unusual product that doesn't it 378 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.440 doesn't pay dividends after you diet. Make sure you never 379 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:44.920 do which you think of this one. 380 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.920 Mike Man, oh man, it took me so long to 381 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:53.279 figure out the bad part of this. I was just like, Okay, yeah, cool, 382 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:57.480 there's this goofy suit thing that pops out of your 383 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:02.160 back and wraps you up and keeps you safe, and okay, 384 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:05.039 I don't see any downside to this until he starts 385 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.119 having heart attacks and coming back, and I really kind 386 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.680 of wish that there have been more to that to show. 387 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:12.960 Just oh oh. 388 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:15.640 It took me almost until the very last minute of 389 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.920 this episode to be like, he's doomed to live forever. 390 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:24.000 Oh okay, this suit is going to keep him alive, 391 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:25.880 and they're going to he's going to keep having heart 392 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.319 attacks because he's a complete asshole, and then he's going 393 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.200 to be brought back to life by this guy in 394 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:35.720 the red suit and that's it. And I'm like, Okay, 395 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.119 it took us twenty nine minutes to get there. It 396 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:41.640 took a long time for me to finally get to 397 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.279 this endpoint and just say it's sorry twenty two minutes 398 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.480 and just go oh oh, okay, that was a clever idea, 399 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:49.960 very poorly executed. 400 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:54.079 What do you think, Chris, Yeah, no, I feel almost 401 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:56.119