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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where
Speaker 3: this season we're taking a look at George A. Ramero's
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the
Speaker 3: Midnight View with me? Are the projection booths? Mike White?
Speaker 5: Is that a comment? My glass is dirty?
Speaker 3: It is a comet and your glasses are dirty? And
Speaker 3: the culture cast Chris Statue, You.
Speaker 2: Know I heard that Baltimore is a wonderful town if
Speaker 2: you know someone to show you around.
Speaker 3: Okay, Tonight, we are taking a look at two episodes
Speaker 3: from season two. They are Comet Watch and Dream Girl.
Speaker 3: Comet Watch is season two episode thirteen. It originally aired
Speaker 3: on January twelfth, nineteen eighty six, Happy New Year, Everybody,
Speaker 3: written by Harvey Jacobs, who wrote it All comes Out
Speaker 3: in the Wash, or at least the story for it,
Speaker 3: and Julie Selbo, who wrote the False Prophet based on
Speaker 3: a story by Harvey Jacobs. This one was directed by
Speaker 3: Warner Shuck who directed Grandma's Last Wish, and stars Fritz
Speaker 3: Weaver Inside the Closet, Anthony Held and Kate McGregor Stewart,
Speaker 3: who is the censor in Scrooged. I can see a
Speaker 3: nipples that same lady that was his wife in this
Speaker 3: one anyway. This one is about an astronomer obsessed with
Speaker 3: Halley's comments return who manages to draw down a fellow
Speaker 3: stargazer who witnessed the comet in nineteen ten and has
Speaker 3: been traveling with it ever Sids. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: to you, Mike first, because you were around in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty six and can remember the quiet mania for Halle's
Speaker 3: comment that was going on. I certainly remember a spade
Speaker 3: of movies like Night of the Comet, Remember The Adventures
Speaker 3: of Mark Twain that was all about Halle's comment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, hell, I was around in nineteen ten when
Speaker 5: it first came out.
Speaker 2: So out the tomb situation here exactly.
Speaker 5: Yes, I come out of my cave every fifteen years,
Speaker 5: my cave which I make out of newspapers and spit.
Speaker 3: God, I had forgotten all about that, Thank you.
Speaker 5: No problem. And then I eat the Petory Gland. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 5: I'm getting my col chek mixed up with my X files?
Speaker 2: When do you marry the fifteen year old?
Speaker 1: And all this?
Speaker 2: Oh shit, really forgot him already done?
Speaker 5: No, no, I scandal noted. Yeah, I had him on
Speaker 5: the show, and I was really debating. I was like,
Speaker 5: do I have a canceled person on the show? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll do that. Great to see Anthony Heald, especially not
Speaker 5: playing a shithead. But he plays a shithead like nobody's business.
Speaker 5: Though I guess maybe he is a little bit of
Speaker 5: a shitthead. He's just so obsessed with the stars and everything.
Speaker 5: And I can understand the commentary that only comes around
Speaker 5: like once in your lifetime, unless you're Mark Twain or
Speaker 5: live to be seventy seven. I guess it is, but
Speaker 5: you really only really remember it the one time, I guess.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I was a little wary of the science
Speaker 5: of this one with people coming through the telescope. I
Speaker 5: wasn't exactly sure how this is supposed to go, and
Speaker 5: it's how many times have we seen the shrewish wife
Speaker 5: and we have the guy who needs the better girlfriend?
Speaker 5: And this is basically so many Stephen King short stories
Speaker 5: and so many stories that we've seen on here. It
Speaker 5: is word processor of the gods. But rather than deleting
Speaker 5: his wife and Isaac Newton or sorry Edmund Holly, rather
Speaker 5: than deleting them, he just they eventually get taken care
Speaker 5: of on their own. What'd you think about this one, Chris?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, when didn't we wander into? Is what
Speaker 2: it felt like like? It was such an I had
Speaker 2: to remind myself what show we were watching with this episode,
Speaker 2: because it was shockingly, shockingly tonally not what this show
Speaker 2: has been at all up until this point. And this
Speaker 2: segment really felt like something from Twilight Zone eighty five,
Speaker 2: almost a blackout sketch. I know I repeat myself a
Speaker 2: lot sometimes, but I wouldn't say it's a blackout sketch.
Speaker 2: But the idea is it's like a three or four
Speaker 2: panel sketch from like a mad magazine. Oh you got
Speaker 2: trapped on Hailbop and whatever. This isn't Hailbob. Wait, this
Speaker 2: isn't Hailbop, right, hail BOP's another one? Is this another one? Okay?
Speaker 2: So Hailbop is the one where Marshall Applewhite took a ride. Right,
Speaker 2: that's Hailbop. That Hailbop. That's the one that I remember
Speaker 2: is Hailbop.
Speaker 5: Allie's comment is the one that they named after Ace
Speaker 5: Freely from.
Speaker 2: Kiss Okay, gotcha. I'm glad Father Father Malone bopped for Hailbop.
Speaker 4: Oh God, I'm imagining this episode, which is effectively a
Speaker 4: real mantic episode where their characters are coming down on
Speaker 4: the Hilbob comic, but we're next door. Are these Nike
Speaker 4: wearing freaks around cutting off their genitals and killings.
Speaker 2: That might have been better than what we got. This
Speaker 2: is a strange segment because for me, it just doesn't
Speaker 2: feel tonally like the show we've been watching up until
Speaker 2: this point, a show where children are being murdered and
Speaker 2: adults are being murdered by monsters and teddy bears, and
Speaker 2: I would say cell phones, landlines. So it's just a
Speaker 2: little weird. It's not what I was expecting, and it
Speaker 2: feels a little quaint even for this show. Anthony healed though,
Speaker 2: he's great, but when is he not? That's shocking. Anthony
Speaker 2: heel's great? Who would have funk it? Father Malone? Let
Speaker 2: us know, what did you think?
Speaker 3: I thought it was a novel take on time travel
Speaker 3: in that the character is effectively in stasis, but they're not.
Speaker 3: It isn't like she went into hyper sleep. She's just
Speaker 3: traveling with the comet and not aging because she's traveling
Speaker 3: faster than the speed of light I supposed, But no,
Speaker 3: that does make any sense because none of the science
Speaker 3: here makes sense. As you said, Mike, it's the opposite
Speaker 3: of a normal tails from the Dark Sign episode. This
Speaker 3: isn't technophobia. This is technophilia. It's the magical device that
Speaker 3: allows us to or it's the It's not the magical device,
Speaker 3: it's the device that allows us to tap into magic.
Speaker 3: Here basically where Edmund Halley we find out has been
Speaker 3: trapped on the comet for seventy five years, and then
Speaker 3: the previous occupant of the house who built the telescope itself.
Speaker 3: So is she magic? Maybe just the telescope came together
Speaker 3: in the right configuration. It allows you to see a
Speaker 3: window in time. Who cares? None of that matters. This
Speaker 3: was indeed word processor of the Gods. Yeah, I agree, Mike.
Speaker 3: The lead character is a bit of a dick in
Speaker 3: how obsessive he is at the beginning where his wife,
Speaker 3: who is a shrew certainly and he shouldn't be with her.
Speaker 3: She's in curlers and wearing in eating bond bonds literally
Speaker 3: for fucking on one sequence here and this is one
Speaker 3: of those he works for her father's situations. But really
Speaker 3: she wants him to just go to a dinner party,
Speaker 3: and he doesn't want to go to the dinner party
Speaker 3: because he's gotta look at comed again. The commed will
Speaker 3: be there tomorrow night. Man, Just go to the fucking
Speaker 3: dinner party, be there for three hours, and then come
Speaker 3: back and then spend the rest of the night with
Speaker 3: the comic. It just seemed, I don't know, it seemed
Speaker 3: very silly. Why would this woman want to return to
Speaker 3: this material worlds, this comic ghost. I guess she's stuck
Speaker 3: up there with Fritz Weaver. Speaking of Fritz Weaver, Now
Speaker 3: I had never seen this episode before, Guys, somehow this
Speaker 3: is the Tales from the Dark side that will.
Speaker 2: Lose WHOA, Yeah, that's fucking blore. Yeah, so particularly an
Speaker 2: episode to miss. Really, yeah, you really missed a real
Speaker 2: winner of an episode.
Speaker 3: I feel really completest.
Speaker 2: Do you feel robbed? Do you feel robbed that your
Speaker 2: enjoyment of the show was lacking because you didn't get
Speaker 2: to see this episode originally?
Speaker 3: What's worse is it starts and the first shown is
Speaker 3: a close up of the portrait of Edmund Halley, who
Speaker 3: is played by Fritz Weaver. So it's Fritz Weaver in
Speaker 3: a big old French wig. And for some reason, my
Speaker 3: mind went to the Marquis de Sade and I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be good, and then it turned into
Speaker 3: word processor of the Gods, and so that was wildly disappointing.
Speaker 3: But little things like I don't know Harvey Jacobs wrote this.
Speaker 3: I noticed he's got his name on about eight episodes
Speaker 3: of Towns from the Dark Side's, but he shares credit
Speaker 3: on each of them, which means he's turned in his
Speaker 3: idea or something and then had to be rewritten. But
Speaker 3: none of them turn out good. Because this is a
Speaker 3: bad Twilight Zone episode. This isn't, like you said, Chris,
Speaker 3: this isn't. It's not just a Twilight Zone eighty five episode.
Speaker 3: It's a poor Twilight Zone eighty five.
Speaker 2: So yeah, even two or three oh three, this is
Speaker 2: made in Canada. This is a Canadian episode. I can't
Speaker 2: even This reminds me that George went episode of Twilight
Speaker 2: Zone eighty five where he's like in his basement and
Speaker 2: there was like the other version of himself through the wall.
Speaker 2: It reminded me of that nan I remember thinking then, man,
Speaker 2: this is fun, and here it's I mean, look, Haley's
Speaker 2: comment or Halle's comment was clearly a thing everybody was
Speaker 2: thinking about. This is a thing that was on everybody's mind.
Speaker 2: But to what end? They don't do anything interesting with it.
Speaker 2: And it's a love story, but this show doesn't do
Speaker 2: love stories. This is such a weird story to adapt
Speaker 2: for this show. It just doesn't work. And it's not
Speaker 2: even mean spirited. The hero of the piece gets what
Speaker 2: he wants in the end, not what he deserves.
Speaker 5: He reminds me too of Bring Around the Redhead with
Speaker 5: just like, oh, I'm going to open up this portal
Speaker 5: to another world and this girl's going to pop out right,
Speaker 5: There's going to be danger and it's weird that the
Speaker 5: danger is his wife and Edmund Halley himself, and there's
Speaker 5: it feels like there should be more coming out of
Speaker 5: that telescope. And that's what I was thinking at first.
Speaker 5: When she's like, oh, no, you know the telescope is
Speaker 5: still open because that's the portal and now boom, it's
Speaker 5: Edmund Halley, I was like, Oh, I was expecting like
Speaker 5: monsters or some weird creatures that lived on the commet
Speaker 5: with her, but no. Yeah, so we're thinking Father Malone.
Speaker 5: When you're explaining this, it's because it's going near light
Speaker 5: speed and that's why it's they're not aging. This is
Speaker 5: this the whole Einsteinian physics thing.
Speaker 3: I think that's what they're implying.
Speaker 5: Okay, so they're on an observed point and yeah.
Speaker 3: Here's what I would have liked to have happened to
Speaker 3: the episode. This is very simple. They could have even
Speaker 3: done this with dialogue, which is they mentioned that they
Speaker 3: this window in time opens up and then the telescope
Speaker 3: becomes this conduit through this window in time and puts
Speaker 3: you on the comet and it's a it's an episode
Speaker 3: on a clock because they need to get back on
Speaker 3: the comet. Now, what if they both got sucked into
Speaker 3: the telescope, which they close, and then they look through
Speaker 3: the telescope and then we just see their bodies floating
Speaker 3: in space because they missed the time window.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that would actually have a point. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: just there would have been there would have been a
Speaker 2: point to there would have been some payoff there, and
Speaker 2: that's not something the episode interested in doing. Is giving
Speaker 2: us a payoff at all? Apparently for anything.
Speaker 3: No, it's it isn't. This isn't. It doesn't even have
Speaker 3: the teeth of word processor of the gods because he
Speaker 3: deletes that woman from existence.
Speaker 2: And this is just oops, she fell into the telescope
Speaker 2: like he didn't even do anything. He didn't even do anything. No,
Speaker 2: he had to do nothing. She fucking she fucked off
Speaker 2: on her own by anestative.
Speaker 3: They made it her fault because she lunges at the
Speaker 3: nineteen ten girl.
Speaker 2: A shrew, I say, a shrew of a woman like
Speaker 2: you said, my, how many shrewish women do we need?
Speaker 2: This show doesn't do that. This is a Twilight Zone
Speaker 2: eighty five episode masquerading his Tales from the Dark Side.
Speaker 2: And I remember now why that show was such a
Speaker 2: fucking slug because these episodes are not good. This is
Speaker 2: an episode of Tails from the Dark Side. I would
Speaker 2: say you lucked out by not having seen Father Belade
Speaker 2: straight up.
Speaker 5: It really reminds me of a bad one act, especially
Speaker 5: that they're I don't think they ever leave the room, right,
Speaker 5: it's just.
Speaker 2: Not the house anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just really feels like we put this on
Speaker 5: for our high school play. We had a whole night
Speaker 5: of one acts, so we decided that we would do
Speaker 5: this particular episode of Fales from the dark Side. And yeah,
Speaker 5: it was a rousing success because we were all seventeen
Speaker 5: years old and we had the best time dressing up
Speaker 5: an old timey clothes.
Speaker 2: I had a wig on, yes.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Remember how funny Fritz looked when he was
Speaker 5: wearing that crazy get up. Yeah. Yeah, it just it's
Speaker 5: so amateurish.
Speaker 3: Speaking of amateurish, yeah, it's kind of going to be
Speaker 3: our transition here. Our next episode is dream Girl. This
Speaker 3: is season two, episode fourteen. It aired originally on January
Speaker 3: the nineteenth, nineteen eighty six. This is written by Tim
Speaker 3: Duranan from a story by Barbara Paul and directed by
Speaker 3: Tim Duranan, starring Carolyn Seymour voice of Aisha Kendisha.
Speaker 2: Also voice of one of the main characters in Gears
Speaker 2: of War, which I recognized her voice immeditly.
Speaker 3: She is a massive voice actor. If you played any
Speaker 3: Star Wars games, you've heard her voice. She was in
Speaker 3: Twilight Zone eighty five in the Ye Gods episode. She
Speaker 3: was Maghera in that episode. Okay, she was Ziita in
Speaker 3: Stepto and Son.
Speaker 5: I mostly know her from Mister Mom.
Speaker 3: I think that's right. Yeah, that's the other big eighties thing.
Speaker 3: And then not long after she started doing voice work,
Speaker 3: actually not before that, nineteen eighty three. I think it
Speaker 3: is her first voice credit in the film Barefoot Jen.
Speaker 3: Remember that animated film.
Speaker 5: No, I can't say, Oh it's this.
Speaker 3: It's this horrifying Japanese film about the horrors of nuclear war.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, yes, Barefoot Jen. Yeah, she's Jen in
Speaker 3: that in the English dub of that film from eighty three.
Speaker 3: But she has sincere.
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you could tell me the number of credits
Speaker 3: she has, but it's vast anyway.
Speaker 2: Just the voice acting alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also starring John Cedar and Lou Kattel. And this
Speaker 3: is a story of a stage hand who manages to
Speaker 3: try actors in his dream where they're forced into a
Speaker 3: game of some sort Chris you go. I have zero
Speaker 3: notes on this one. This one was ohow well Zorro
Speaker 3: the Gay Blades own Carolyn Seymour.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing she was in speaking of George Hamilton,
Speaker 2: and we just talked about recently, Mike and I did
Speaker 2: on our Columbo show. I man, this is an episode
Speaker 2: where they just throw you into the deep end, like
Speaker 2: minute one, right, and they're just like, you don't have
Speaker 2: any idea what's going on here? And neither do the characters. Yep,
Speaker 2: that's true the case. It's confusing and bizarre, and then
Speaker 2: the payoff at the end is Wow, they really thought
Speaker 2: they were clever. Huh what a Can I just say
Speaker 2: that this might be the first time in the history
Speaker 2: of midnight viewing where I say, this is a shame
Speaker 2: that it's that this show has gotten this bad out
Speaker 2: of nowhere, because these two episodes together pretty bad, but
Speaker 2: on their own they're equally quite terrible. And this segment
Speaker 2: or this episode, I get what they were going for.
Speaker 2: I understand the idea that they're needling at here, but
Speaker 2: it's done quite poorly. It's not very compelling. Looks like
Speaker 2: it was filmed speaking of filmed in a high school
Speaker 2: fucking theater. Good lord, this looked like it was filmed
Speaker 2: down at the local LA high school, fucking ten minutes
Speaker 2: from I don't know CBS's backlock. I have no idea.
Speaker 2: This episode looks cheap, it feels cheap, and ultimately goes nowhere,
Speaker 2: and it wastes I think everybody's time, not at least
Speaker 2: mine and yours and Mike's, but definitely the people who
Speaker 2: worked on this episode, because this is just a strange
Speaker 2: episode to say the leak REDI, Mike, do.
Speaker 5: You have something to add? Amazing Larry, That's all I
Speaker 5: could think of every time it was on screen, and
Speaker 5: just that amazing like head turn with those little like
Speaker 5: knots that he's got on his head, you know, the
Speaker 5: little U top notz. Yeah, this really reminds me of
Speaker 5: four characters or characters in search of an author, where
Speaker 5: we're just like trapped in this imaginary world. And I
Speaker 5: guess the fakiness is supposed to be part of the
Speaker 5: charm because it's all to do with the theater and
Speaker 5: that it's the stage hand that is controlling everything while
Speaker 5: the director is doing his bidding.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I could not care less with this one. Everybody's wearing
Speaker 5: bad wigs, we've got bad backdrops, we've got really flat lighting.
Speaker 5: Feels very hazy through so much of this. I guess
Speaker 5: there's just a ton of smoke on the set. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I didn't even like the look of this episode. I
Speaker 5: just really it's a mystery for them, but it's not
Speaker 5: a mystery for me as the viewer. I'm just like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: I can pretty much tell what's going on right away,
Speaker 5: and it takes them twenty minutes to figure that the
Speaker 5: rest of that out, So it's pretty frustrating.
Speaker 2: Lewis Kutel that worked for sixty years in the industry
Speaker 2: and passed away in twenty twenty one, which is fucking insane.
Speaker 2: He looks old here. He looks old here in eighty six.
Speaker 5: If he wasn't on Marty Miller, that's a real big
Speaker 5: miss because he's got the perfect face for me.
Speaker 2: He is on Barney Miller. He's been on two episodes
Speaker 2: of Barney Miller.
Speaker 5: Good Yes, how about you, father Malone? What'd you think?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: What did I think? I? I and the last episode,
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, you both mentioned it now about how
Speaker 3: kind of felt high schooly. Yeah, this one in particular,
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a hallucinatory dream episode, but everything
Speaker 3: looks like the real world, with just something slightly out
Speaker 3: of skew in the in the background. A lot of
Speaker 3: conversations are taking place in front of a cyclorama of
Speaker 3: a mountain or something. And as you said, like the
Speaker 3: characters are dressed different, and she has a wig on,
Speaker 3: she has very short hair, and now they've got her
Speaker 3: dressed up in a week. And so for all the
Speaker 3: episode manages to do is keep a level of confusion
Speaker 3: going Where is that the same actress? Is that a
Speaker 3: different is this someone new? Is it like that? Kind
Speaker 3: of that's least off on it, right, because if you
Speaker 3: start asking any other questions, you'll realize there's nothing at
Speaker 3: all going on here. They think the conceit of somebody
Speaker 3: dreaming you into their dream is enough to carry over
Speaker 3: having no plot or story, and it's and you do
Speaker 3: need one, as it turns out, because you're right, it
Speaker 3: is a bit of the four characters in search of
Speaker 3: an exit or the what was the Twilight Zone equivalent
Speaker 3: of that? Or was that the twilight.
Speaker 5: Zone that goes all the way back to like Italian drama. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it's characters in search of an author is Tirandello?
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, exactly like model things. Just oh, and
Speaker 3: we don't know any of these people, We don't what's
Speaker 3: so funny?
Speaker 2: And it treats it like we do and it's so bizarre.
Speaker 5: There should have been a ten minute prologue and get
Speaker 5: into the dream sequence.
Speaker 3: We go right into it. We get we have possibly
Speaker 3: thirty seconds of real world at the beginning, during which
Speaker 3: we're being clumsily given the information that people have been
Speaker 3: disappearing lately, and then we're so confused for the next
Speaker 3: twenty minutes that we don't realize that the rest of
Speaker 3: the people in the dream are also the disappeared that
Speaker 3: they were mentioning so fucking briefly before all the confusion began.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'd like to point out Carolyn Seymour is sexy
Speaker 2: without having a sexier up in a bullshit outfit by
Speaker 2: the way, episode.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know exactly. I thought they were doing the opposite,
Speaker 3: Like when she's in her short hair and just dressed
Speaker 3: as she was, it's like super fun. And then they
Speaker 3: tart her up like some fucking lame show girl, and
Speaker 3: it was like.
Speaker 2: Yesh, and he goes, oh, I didn't notice you had
Speaker 2: such good legs, like ick, give me that ick please,
Speaker 2: you've given it to me outright, you weirdos's And as
Speaker 2: a weird sexual it's like a weird sexual Sadism to
Speaker 2: the episode is what it feels like, because the auto
Speaker 2: Strog characters getting off on being this misogynist to everybody too.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't Again, I'm not saying it
Speaker 2: doesn't work. It's just he never gets his in the end,
Speaker 2: So what's the point. The people that get theirs are
Speaker 2: the people that that don't deserve it. And it's again,
Speaker 2: I understand we complained about the show being mean sometimes,
Speaker 2: but in this regard, in this episode, it's not even
Speaker 2: that the show's being mean. It's that the show doesn't
Speaker 2: have any idea what the fuck it's doing. Brak Plea,
Speaker 2: and so it's just high on the end is she's
Speaker 2: back in a dream. I guess maybe.
Speaker 3: We don't know who these people are. Nope, we don't
Speaker 3: know who the stage hand is, what his relationship is
Speaker 3: to them. We're given ten like in that thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: She basically get to work kind of a thing. So
Speaker 3: we get he's brow beaten by them, and so in
Speaker 3: some way this is revenge where he's the master and
Speaker 3: they're all his puppets. But who is this man?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 3: And why is it a theater and it's a theater.
Speaker 3: Why aren't the these dreams spectacular looking? They're just drab
Speaker 3: versions of the fucking real world.
Speaker 2: There's a sign that says German words on it, father Malone,
Speaker 2: what are.
Speaker 5: You talking about our high production?
Speaker 1: High?
Speaker 2: Oh they're high, all right, somebody was fucking high.
Speaker 5: We even stop somewhere in the middle and suddenly they're
Speaker 5: normal again, and yeah, back to it again.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, that must be when he's not in
Speaker 2: control of his dreams, and so we can be coherent,
Speaker 2: insane and self aware in his dreams. We get he's
Speaker 2: not aware, he's not controlling the dreams, Like what fucking
Speaker 2: explain yourself? Like, because I'm not sure what's going on here,
Speaker 2: and you're not sure what's going on here? Clearly now
Speaker 2: what this episode is.
Speaker 3: No one knows what's going on here. And then what
Speaker 3: a novel climax. We need to wake him up to
Speaker 3: release us from the dream and then we immediately need
Speaker 3: to start dreaming ourselves to trap him. Hey, I've got
Speaker 3: another version. How about we get him to wake up
Speaker 3: and then we'll be free, and then I beat him
Speaker 3: within an inch of his life so he never dreams again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a little ice pick right there in the
Speaker 5: corner of your eye.
Speaker 2: There you go, I'm gonna go take some sleeping pills instead.
Speaker 2: Seems like a bad idea that I like it. I
Speaker 2: liked it, but like it made no fucking sense. It was.
Speaker 5: That was so.
Speaker 3: Weird at that point where she's like keeping my sleeping pills.
Speaker 3: Come on, and she's like swallowing, come on, do your stuff.
Speaker 3: Sleeping pills. That's the big chase scene in this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and as someone who's just been taking sleeping
Speaker 2: pills last month, that's how they work. You just take
Speaker 2: them and you fall asleep immediately, right, just as what.
Speaker 5: One year after Nightmare and elm Street. I mean it, really,
Speaker 5: I was feeling vibes when it's like we have to
Speaker 5: get to sleep rather than we have to stay awake
Speaker 5: because there's a man that controls our dreams or we
Speaker 5: live in his dream.
Speaker 2: And everybody knows that. It was either Robert England or
Speaker 2: Lou Coutel to play Freddy Krueger, I'm your boyfriend now, Okay.
Speaker 3: There was a bit of dreaming here as well. That
Speaker 3: was also photo right. Oh yeah, we're dealing with episodes
Speaker 3: with the zeitgeist. I guess with Halley's comment and dreams,
Speaker 3: everyone was suddenly obsessed with dreaming.
Speaker 2: All those Vietnamese boys are to dying in dreams.
Speaker 5: I talk with these boys, where are we going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's that was what inspired that's the yeah
Speaker 2: night Elmsree was inspired by a bunch of like Vietnamese
Speaker 2: or Lawaitian like teenagers dropping dead in the middle of
Speaker 2: the night. Like it was like a thing that was
Speaker 2: happening in the eighties for a while. And Wes Craven read.
Speaker 3: Read an article and the article had said that one
Speaker 3: of the kids said that I can't go to sleep,
Speaker 3: He's going to get me something like that, and wow,
Speaker 3: then ended up dead. But they was not an isolated case.
Speaker 2: And then there was the other part of the story
Speaker 2: that the parents of one of the kids found a
Speaker 2: coffee machine in his closet with an extension chord plugged
Speaker 2: in because he was just staying up all night so yeah,
Speaker 2: they were scared of luc tlatel was in their dreams.
Speaker 2: This terrible mustache in wigs. Which version of Lucatel? The
Speaker 2: Italian one, the German one.
Speaker 5: The one sweeping the floor?
Speaker 3: Oh, the one beat into a bloody pulp by a minute.
Speaker 2: Mike like Mike likes a working man, exactly the sort
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