Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: Welcome back midnight if you wish to Father Malone's weekly
Speaker 2: round Up. I am them alone and with me as always,
Speaker 2: is a yummy girl herself, Miss Ripley. G and say
Speaker 2: hello Ripley, And We've got a very special guest sitting
Speaker 2: in with us this week here on the round Up,
Speaker 2: all the way from the Sunshine Cab Company. Mister HPHP,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well for them alone? How are you today?
Speaker 2: I'm very well listened. There was no round Up last week. Everybody,
Speaker 2: I know everyone was disappointed because I got a shit
Speaker 2: ton of mail asking if I was okay, which is
Speaker 2: actually very heartening, so thank you. Yes, I'm fine. It's
Speaker 2: just that this is a streaming and new release show
Speaker 2: that I'm just doing in tandem with the other show,
Speaker 2: which means I'm covering newer material, which means I don't
Speaker 2: necessarily have an opinion on that material before I come in.
Speaker 2: But I know that this show began with an idea
Speaker 2: toward leaning in the direction of recommending things that are
Speaker 2: good rather than beating up on things that were bad.
Speaker 2: And previous two season, the previous two episodes of The Roundup,
Speaker 2: where I covered Final Destination and Mission Impossible were both
Speaker 2: kinds of slogs for me, and I felt bad slagging
Speaker 2: them off. This past week, I went and saw the
Speaker 2: new Wes Anderson movie and I fucking hated it and
Speaker 2: h and I was just depressed all weekend long, not
Speaker 2: wanting to fucking put more negativity out there. I ended
Speaker 2: up just not putting out an episode. As soon as
Speaker 2: I decided not to, I felt great. And so anyway,
Speaker 2: that's a bad movie. It's a It's a poor man's
Speaker 2: version of the Royal ten and bombs. If that makes sense.
Speaker 2: You'll see it when you When you see the movie,
Speaker 2: you'll understand what I mean. Ultimately, that's it. But this week,
Speaker 2: holy fuck, we have a spectacular entertainment. Even if I'm
Speaker 2: making fun of it. It's so hard to describe. We're
Speaker 2: talking about the very first annual Yummy Awards on nbc HP.
Speaker 2: Where were you when the Yummy Awards first first hit
Speaker 2: the air? Did you have Yummy Awards part every year?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I had a little checklist, Who's gonna win the Yummy
Speaker 3: for the performer whose name is easiest to spell? Or
Speaker 3: the best series about a barbarian and an evil wizard,
Speaker 3: which were both actual Yummy awards that were awarded. Uh,
Speaker 3: this would have been nineteen eighty three. So this this
Speaker 3: was Wheelhouse for us father alone for Saturday morning cartoon enjoyment.
Speaker 3: So I to be honest, I don't remember for seeing this,
Speaker 3: but clearly when I when I looked this up on YouTube,
Speaker 3: the full show, there were a lot of people saying, wow,
Speaker 3: I remember this, and oh I missed it because it
Speaker 3: got preempted by this. That so this was a thing.
Speaker 3: This is a big deal. I it just passed me by.
Speaker 3: Do you have any memory of it?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I remember seeing it when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: and I remember at the time, even knowing full well
Speaker 2: what they were doing that this was not an awards show.
Speaker 2: This was a sham. Was yet another yet another attempt
Speaker 2: to introduce children to their new lineup of Saturday morning
Speaker 2: television series. They did this every year, don't you remember,
Speaker 2: Like every series, every network, every year we would have
Speaker 2: some sort of get to know your new television series special, CBS, NBC, ABC,
Speaker 2: they would all do it. And this was the kids version.
Speaker 2: Because I guess kids today can't remember. I'm sure everyone
Speaker 2: listening to this show is old enough to remember. But
Speaker 2: we used to have a block of children's programming on
Speaker 2: Saturday mornings. That was it for us other than reruns
Speaker 2: after school before regular programming took over and kids were
Speaker 2: banished to the bedroom.
Speaker 3: Sure, and there were a myriad of ways that networks
Speaker 3: would self promote their own programming and their own shows.
Speaker 3: Obviously that were one of the other big examples, which
Speaker 3: we're not going to get into too much, but things
Speaker 3: like Battle of the Network Stars, which is not a
Speaker 3: direct comparison to this sham awards show, but that would
Speaker 3: typically feature the prominent stars of the day, the Happy
Speaker 3: Days team or the Verretta team or what have you.
Speaker 3: But I don't but this particular piece of promotional material
Speaker 3: got by me.
Speaker 2: Mettal The network stars are effectively promotional tools. It's get
Speaker 2: to know your stars of your favorite shows. We've mentioned
Speaker 2: the stars, we mentioned the shows, but at least you're
Speaker 2: getting to see them play tugle war. This this is
Speaker 2: a fake awards show where every nominee is the only
Speaker 2: nominee in a category just for that show. The utter
Speaker 2: insanity of it.
Speaker 3: What's fascinating is when I so let me back up.
Speaker 3: The whole reason behind this becoming unearthed for me was
Speaker 3: that father Malone sent me as he does, as we
Speaker 3: do for each other. We'll send each other little clips,
Speaker 3: little not memes necessarily, but a funny clip from this
Speaker 3: or that show or what have you. And he sent
Speaker 3: me a clip from what I later came to know
Speaker 3: was The Yummy Awards nineteen eighty three, and I said,
Speaker 3: I have to does the full version exist because the
Speaker 3: clip you sent me with so bonkers? And sure enough
Speaker 3: it does. But what I came to learn in my
Speaker 3: research was that this show was produced and directed by
Speaker 3: a guy named Jeff Margolis, who would go on to
Speaker 3: produce and direct dozens of real awards shows and telecasts,
Speaker 3: the American Music Awards, the Oscars, the Country Music Awards,
Speaker 3: you name it. This guy was the producer director of those.
Speaker 3: So this comes with a pedigree, is my point. And
Speaker 3: it's shot like you would expect the Oscars to be shot,
Speaker 3: is it not.
Speaker 2: You can totally believe this is an awards show. As
Speaker 2: I said, I watched most of it even as a
Speaker 2: kid and thought, well, this isn't actually an awards show,
Speaker 2: and like, wait a minute, because it looks and sounds
Speaker 2: there's a red carpet sequence coming in, there's all the
Speaker 2: introductionary stuff. There's songs and dances. It's got it all.
Speaker 2: It's got an audience peopled with terribly scary children in
Speaker 2: tuxedos clapping along as if any of this makes sense.
Speaker 3: It's like a bugsy below version of the Academy Awards
Speaker 3: audience because it's kids. But they're kids in actual like
Speaker 3: formal wear, with nice dresses and tuxedos and white gloves
Speaker 3: and the whole bit. And they're just having a great
Speaker 3: old time in the audience. They're eating it up.
Speaker 2: Now. The host of our show, Star of the Day,
Speaker 2: Star of Silverspoon, Star of the champ, he'll eventually be
Speaker 2: rick here, He's Ricky. Ricky Schroeder got kind of a lisp.
Speaker 3: He does have a lisp, and I was actually struck.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that he was from New York natively.
Speaker 3: He's born in Brooklyn. I think he has such a
Speaker 3: thick New York accent that came through while he's talking.
Speaker 3: I had no idea. I thought that he that was
Speaker 3: a put on when he did NYPD Blue, But he
Speaker 3: is actually a native New Yorker. I was surprised by that.
Speaker 2: Right around this time period, I had a friend who
Speaker 2: vacationed in New York with his family and they were
Speaker 2: visiting Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Seated in the pew in front
Speaker 2: of him was Ricky Schroeder, and at one point he
Speaker 2: leaned forward and said, excuse me, are you Ricky Schroeder?
Speaker 2: And Ricky Schroeder leaned back, placed his arms behind his
Speaker 2: head in a superstar move and said, that's my name.
Speaker 2: Don't wear it out. And my friend said, I think
Speaker 2: you're a prick. Oh boy. Okay, so Ricky has given
Speaker 2: out a voice. There's not all ton to this. You know,
Speaker 2: we're going to get to each segment. Oh do we
Speaker 2: begin with a first of all? Before we go any further.
Speaker 2: As HB has mentioned, this is on YouTube. Search for
Speaker 2: NBC Saturday Morning Preview the Yummy Awards or Preview Morning
Speaker 2: Preview nineteen eighty three Yummy Awards, either one. You're looking
Speaker 2: at the forty seven forty eight minute version of the show.
Speaker 2: You are going to love it. You're going to be
Speaker 2: baffled by it. Oh my god. It just started auto
Speaker 2: playing on my end and it scared me.
Speaker 3: I will say. The version that I found on YouTube
Speaker 3: was the full forty eight minute version, but the clip itself.
Speaker 3: The video was about an hour and a half. Did
Speaker 3: you find this one? Father alone? The last half of
Speaker 3: this actually more than half, because it's like twice as
Speaker 3: long was they had kept recording. They recorded an episode
Speaker 3: of Saturday Super K. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 2: I remember that's like a like an arcade where children compete, right, No, no.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's Starcad. You're thinking of Starcad where they're
Speaker 3: playing like Dragon's Lair.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, that is what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 3: This was called Saturday Super K. This was a block
Speaker 3: of cartoons based on video game characters. So you had
Speaker 3: Cubert had his own cartoon, Kangaroo had their own cartoon.
Speaker 3: The episode on this YouTube clip, which I would encourage
Speaker 3: everybody to seek out, featured Frogger. Froger had his own cartoon, Father,
Speaker 3: Donkey Kong Pitfall, and Donkey Kong Junior.
Speaker 2: Pitfall. Yeah, okay, Pitfall makes sense. It's an adventurous sort
Speaker 2: of video game. By the way, I remember that. Remember
Speaker 2: the commercial for Pitfall with young Jack Black?
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Pitfall, Harry John by giant scorpion man eating crocodile.
Speaker 3: Did you know Allanalda was a pitch man for Atari
Speaker 3: computers back in the early eighties.
Speaker 2: I didn't, but makes sense.
Speaker 3: There's a whole slew of the commercials. You have to
Speaker 3: check him out because he's because Allanalda is naturally kind
Speaker 3: of an inquisitive. He puts on this inquisitive kind of like, oh,
Speaker 3: I know this is technology I don't know anything about.
Speaker 3: And the whole point is Tari computers are so easy
Speaker 3: to use. It's like a match made in heave, and
Speaker 3: you should check those out to Alan all the Atari computers.
Speaker 2: Al the four seasons man.
Speaker 3: Indeed, So anyway, I echo your entreaty encourage people go
Speaker 3: seek out the Yummy Awards and watch it, and then
Speaker 3: maybe check out this podcast so you'll know what we're
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: Before we do anything. We cut to our song, right,
Speaker 2: This is how our fucking show begins, This interminable fucking
Speaker 2: dirge by the bye by that dude from Fame.
Speaker 3: Crystal Hart Lee Carreri. He was from Fame and he
Speaker 3: did a movie with Tawny Katine called Crystal Heart. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that movie chusing a boy in the boy
Speaker 3: in the bubble situation where he was him Yeah, she.
Speaker 2: Was dancing seductively for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a dead ringer from MTV v J Mark Goodman,
Speaker 3: remember Mark Goodman.
Speaker 2: Mark Goodman had way more charisma.
Speaker 3: Then, but he looked just like him though.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because he's got that sort of it all.
Speaker 2: It's the perm again, my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the song he sings, I don't know that.
Speaker 3: It's like everyone's a win. And he goes through all
Speaker 3: of the cartoons. He references Thunder the Barbarian, he references
Speaker 3: Alan Alvin and the Chipmunks and you name it, like
Speaker 3: the Hulk, Spider Man. It's great. It's just great. I
Speaker 3: mean it's terrible.
Speaker 1: Everyone's when two nights will celibrate, the one that always
Speaker 1: keeping Stile and Stone a styles bed Rock, pep.
Speaker 2: Way, Miss. You won't believe what They've got a family.
Speaker 2: It's understandable. Like Lee Correr is probably not making a
Speaker 2: ton of money on Fame. They're not really focusing on
Speaker 2: his character that much.
Speaker 3: The TV show was was going and it was popular
Speaker 3: at the time, so it's not like he was.
Speaker 2: There was a touring act. He was probably touring with it, right,
Speaker 2: playing his synthesizers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know if Fame had like it was
Speaker 3: like the Ice Capades they had a touring version of Fames.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. They came out on stage and
Speaker 2: they performed all their hits, and by that I mean
Speaker 2: the hits of everybody else.
Speaker 3: Was Irene Kara involved.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just remember that that dummy character,
Speaker 2: the big nosed Italian character, you know, the one I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I'd probably do, but I can't think of it.
Speaker 2: I remember him singing little red Corvette and thinking this
Speaker 2: is so wrong.
Speaker 3: You could have to look this up. He was on
Speaker 3: the TV show or the movie or both.
Speaker 2: No, he he was strictly TV show. Lee Carreri is
Speaker 2: one of the few people from who made the transition
Speaker 2: from the movie to the TV show, meaning he was
Speaker 2: one of the more desperate.
Speaker 3: Ones looking here. Oh, Debbie Allen was in Fame. I
Speaker 3: forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, she made her bones on that TV
Speaker 2: show like she you know she she's the one counting
Speaker 2: in the the opening speech, the you gotta want it
Speaker 2: more than anything, Fame Gonna live forever.
Speaker 3: It's implied that he did some of the other music
Speaker 3: for this show is a little because there's other there's
Speaker 3: other songs that we'll get into, but but this opening
Speaker 3: number is like perfect for the ridiculousness of everything that's
Speaker 3: going on, because it's it's kind of harkens back to
Speaker 3: those old because nowadays the Oscar telecast is rather reserved.
Speaker 3: They don't take a lot of chances with you know,
Speaker 3: singing and dancing numbers.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful night for Usker User.
Speaker 3: They don't do that stuff anymore, and it's a shame.
Speaker 2: Do you listen to that Bruce Valance podcast by any chance?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know he had a podcast.
Speaker 2: He has an Oscar podcast where they pick a year
Speaker 2: and then they read the list of nominees and he
Speaker 2: gives his opinion as to why those people were nominated
Speaker 2: and who won and who should have won.
Speaker 3: It's fascinating, That's exactly the word I was going to say.
Speaker 3: That sounds fascinating because he would he was a writer
Speaker 3: in all those shows, right.
Speaker 2: For nineteen I think different shows he was a writer
Speaker 2: on it. But so you're not only getting that with
Speaker 2: like hands on he was there, but like even on
Speaker 2: shows where he was not a participant, where he can
Speaker 2: say something like the directors are the ones who nominate
Speaker 2: this guy, these guys and so clearly they were feeling
Speaker 2: this way that year, and you got to remember this
Speaker 2: was going on and this was in the air at
Speaker 2: the time, and it's like a context. Got it. Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know where we are next. Do we give
Speaker 2: an award away? Do we meet that stupid robot? What's
Speaker 2: happening here?
Speaker 3: So it's back up a little litle bit. Now. You
Speaker 3: talked about Ricky Schroeder is the host, and it has
Speaker 3: to be said he he comports himself. Well, he's probably
Speaker 3: like ten or eleven years old at the time, and
Speaker 3: he's fine. The master of ceremonies. You didn't talk about
Speaker 3: the Master of ceremonies father alone, Dwight Schultz, Mad Murdoch
Speaker 3: from these me, sir, I'm sorry, I will say before
Speaker 3: we get to his role in this. I was always
Speaker 3: very unsettled by Murdoch on the A team. I don't
Speaker 3: know how you felt about him. There was something so
Speaker 3: legitimately unhinged about his performance. I was always on edge
Speaker 3: because it was never clear like it was mental illness,
Speaker 3: and I always felt uncomfortable with him doing his thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know. There was something not right about him,
Speaker 3: not in a funny way either.
Speaker 2: Murdoch was my favorite character, and I always felt the
Speaker 2: whole thing was an act that he was fooling everybody.
Speaker 2: So I never felt that there was any sort of
Speaker 2: danger to him in that regard. I never felt like
Speaker 2: he was out of control.
Speaker 3: And I had the opposite. But what you're saying makes sense.
Speaker 3: Obviously my favorite actor, I mean, I was maybe not
Speaker 3: not very interesting in that regard. In my favorite is
Speaker 3: obviously mister T. And later I liked Hannibal because who
Speaker 3: doesn't love George Papard The guy's the man. But anyway,
Speaker 3: Dwight Schultz is the master of ceremonies. They keep referring
Speaker 3: to him as howling mad Murdoch on the A team.
Speaker 3: So he is tag teaming this whole Awards show with
Speaker 3: Ricky Schroeder. But so Lee Correria comes out, does his number. Now,
Speaker 3: the thing of it is the format of this show
Speaker 3: I was not prepared for, is what they end up doing. Essentially,
Speaker 3: whenever there's an award to be presented, they pair up
Speaker 3: an actor from a current NBC sitcom with an oldie
Speaker 3: time children's host or character from like the forties or fifties,
Speaker 3: so you will get some girl from give me a Break.
Speaker 3: And she came out with Gumby or you'll get.
Speaker 2: Like Jim Fields two d Well.
Speaker 3: She came out with the Smurfs, which is weird also,
Speaker 3: but like Tina yothers, Tinay others. They keep calling her Yoders.
Speaker 2: Which I think is the actual pronunciation. By the way,
Speaker 2: is Yoda is.
Speaker 3: The actual Okay, Tina Yolda.
Speaker 2: If she's in the room and they're saying it and
Speaker 2: she's not correcting them, then yes, that's her real name.
Speaker 3: She came out with the actual Bozo the clown, which.
Speaker 2: Was very unfunny.
Speaker 3: That well, that's the what I'm getting at here. Like
Speaker 3: they also, you see there's features for Kukla, Frian and Alie.
Speaker 3: Pinky Lee comes out, Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, the
Speaker 3: Ventriloquist Act come out. It's heartbreaking, father alone, how little
Speaker 3: response these old timers are getting from the audience they.
Speaker 2: Made the audience of toddlers in fucking formal where.
Speaker 3: It's a self fulfilling situation because these kids were not
Speaker 3: even these.
Speaker 2: Kids today, and by kids barely out of Diaper's children.
Speaker 2: The genius of.
Speaker 3: Pinky there's no way they're they're gonna know. Paul Winchell
Speaker 3: and Jerry mahoney. But it's but they just they persist
Speaker 3: in this conceit and it runs through the whole show.
Speaker 3: At one point that this is aside from these awards,
Speaker 3: these fake awards are giving out, there's a tribute to Kukla,
Speaker 3: Frinn and Alie where they come out the stage is there,
Speaker 3: the puppeteer and the they're they're all pain painfully old
Speaker 3: at this point, and it's crickets through this whole fucking thing,
Speaker 3: and eventually the whole point of it is eventually the
Speaker 3: puppeteer part of it. The guy who actually operates the
Speaker 3: puppets comes out and in his finest tuxedo and gives
Speaker 3: Fran a ki And it's supposed to be like like
Speaker 3: anyone who grew up with them, it might be kind
Speaker 3: of a nice thing. These kids didn't grow up with Kuka,
Speaker 3: Fran and Ali. They didn't grow up with Boso the clown.
Speaker 3: They have no idea what they're seeing, what the import
Speaker 3: of that is. It's so you could hear a pin
Speaker 3: drop through this whole sequence. It is so sad. I
Speaker 3: felt so bad for them. Fata alone.
Speaker 2: I will say this, At the time, we as children
Speaker 2: respected our television elders. We knew they were there, even
Speaker 2: if we had no direct contact with them. We all
Speaker 2: knew ed Sullivan. We knew Boso even if we never
Speaker 2: had any, and we had our own boso. We had
Speaker 2: a regional boso. Well I liked better than I liked
Speaker 2: our boso, better than the actual boso. Can I just
Speaker 2: say that? Is that just being me? Is that me
Speaker 2: being provincial?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about boso or WILLI whistle? Do you
Speaker 3: remember Willy whistle?
Speaker 2: I will murder WILLI whistle? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Am I talking about Bozo or Willy Whistle? That guy
Speaker 2: can drown and he can whistle for help and no
Speaker 2: one will help him.
Speaker 3: I guess we did have a boso, you know what?
Speaker 3: I I think I had heard so, mister, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think Do you remember Frank av Rusche used to do
Speaker 3: the Great Entertainment, the Tea, the movie, the late night
Speaker 3: movie show on Saturdays. He used to be a boso locally.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I think I'd heard that somewhere anyway. As a related note,
Speaker 3: anyone who grew up in bo in the Boston area
Speaker 3: in the late seventies early eighties you'll know who Frank
Speaker 3: av ruche is and you'll also maybe remember Boso the clown.
Speaker 2: At the time, there were lots of regional Bosos. Every
Speaker 2: area had them, every portion of the United States had
Speaker 2: their own Boso, but ours was the best. Here's the
Speaker 2: real Boso, and he's terrible. I hate him.
Speaker 3: He seemed rather gruff, and like I said, there was
Speaker 3: just for me, there was something personally heartbreaking about these
Speaker 3: old causers coming out and getting zero response. Logically speaking,
Speaker 3: it makes sense because these are these are like seven
Speaker 3: eight year old kids. They're not going to know who
Speaker 3: any of these entertainers are. But it was kind of
Speaker 3: a bummer the whole thing. Honestly, on a high level,
Speaker 3: this whole thing reminds, first of all, you could not
Speaker 3: produce something like this today, not in the same way
Speaker 3: at all, because there's a lack of any sort of
Speaker 3: sarcasm or satire about the whole thing. It's all it's crass, yes,
Speaker 3: but it's presented in a way that the kids will
Speaker 3: enjoy it, and there's no subterfuge for the kids anyway.
Speaker 3: But for me, for us, it's like something it's like
Speaker 3: something out of Smigel's TV Funhouse or something that do
Speaker 3: you know, who Scott Gardner is, father Malone. Have you
Speaker 3: ever heard of Scott Gardner. He's actually a very good
Speaker 3: He's a comedy writer, producer. He's written for Conan, he was.
Speaker 3: He got famous initially because he did a lot of
Speaker 3: funnier die sketches. He did the Tron Holiday Special, which
Speaker 3: is amazing. If have you ever seen it?
Speaker 2: Yes, on your recommendation. I saw it.
Speaker 3: It still makes me laugh. He did Michael McDonald's Tricking
Speaker 3: It to the Treat, which I watch every hell he.
Speaker 2: Knew we were going to get back to yacht Rock. Okay,
Speaker 2: enough of this follow.
Speaker 3: Sorry anyway, there was there was something so purely bizarre
Speaker 3: about the whole proceeding that that's that's what I'm reminded
Speaker 3: of these great comedy minds of today. But Conan, Yeah, Conan, Conan, Conan, Conan, Conan,
Speaker 3: thank you? Did I say Conan?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, Conan O'Brien. I think it's talking about it.
Speaker 3: He swings the sword. No, sorry, sorry, Conan mystica.
Speaker 2: So speaking of barbarians, can we just jump? Can we
Speaker 2: just jump to my favorite part of this? The whole
Speaker 2: reason I start I got reinvigorated here is because okay,
Speaker 2: they do two things here. They'll introduce a cartoon and
Speaker 2: then have a cartoon character animated onto the podium, and
Speaker 2: it's terrible, and it's just it's the worst like slap
Speaker 2: dash version of live action animation mixing. You can possibly
Speaker 2: imagine just the fact that there's nothing, there's no like
Speaker 2: reflection on this highly shiny surface that all of these
Speaker 2: animated characters are standing up. Anyway, never mind that, because
Speaker 2: the other thing that they do is they have costumed
Speaker 2: people come out as the characters. So you're getting like
Speaker 2: sidekick and or theme park versions of superheroes and not superheroes.
Speaker 2: Thunder the Barbarian comes out with his sidekick, Ukule of
Speaker 2: the Mock and it's a full costume. Now listen, you
Speaker 2: don't laugh at me, pal, I love Oukula the mo.
Speaker 3: Well, that was the original clip that you sent me,
Speaker 3: was the fundar in Oukla and the I don't remember
Speaker 3: who the female character is on the show, but they
Speaker 3: come out and they get the award for Best Series
Speaker 3: about a Barbarian and an evil wizard, and it's that's
Speaker 3: what prompted me to go try to find the full episode.
Speaker 3: But it's great because like you're you're kind of under
Speaker 3: selling it to me. These aren't like theme park versions
Speaker 3: of the costumes. This is like Hollywood Boulevard skivie guy
Speaker 3: who wants you to pay him twenty bucks to take
Speaker 3: a picture with them. Like the Gumby is terrible.
Speaker 2: The Gumby is really bad. And he makes an Eddie
Speaker 2: Murphy joke really weirdly.
Speaker 3: That was creepy because he comes out and I don't.
Speaker 3: I think it's that that girl I referenced from Give
Speaker 3: Me a Break. And he comes out and he says,
Speaker 3: it's almost like existential. He says, am I really here?
Speaker 3: After seeing Eddie Murphy's impression so many times, I couldn't
Speaker 3: be sure, And like you get this feeling like companies
Speaker 3: like I don't know who I am anymore. It's bizarre.
Speaker 2: Well, am, I don't bring up Pokey I clumb. He
Speaker 2: is a decent man. He deserves better than this.
Speaker 3: I just want to go home. Can I go home?
Speaker 3: It is but these costumes like Fred and Fred Flintstone
Speaker 3: and Barney Rubble come up to get an award and
Speaker 3: they do a little soft shoe routine. But even they,
Speaker 3: like Alvin and the Chipmunks, they all just have this
Speaker 3: grungy look to the to the costumes. At one point,
Speaker 3: Spider Man swings in and it's like Spider Man, but
Speaker 3: he's had a few too many Big Max. He doesn't
Speaker 3: quite fit into the costume anymore.
Speaker 2: And the mask itself is like really pinched in a
Speaker 2: weird way, so he just looks like an alien.
Speaker 3: It is like anyone who remembers the original Spider Man
Speaker 3: television show remembers, like the they didn't figure out how
Speaker 3: to do the eye islets for the mask, so they
Speaker 3: get stretched out and the islets get very narrow and
Speaker 3: it's hard to see how they could even see out
Speaker 3: of these things. That's what happens. This guy is a
Speaker 3: big guy that they squeezed into a Spider Man outfit.
Speaker 3: Everything is kind of not really that well situated on
Speaker 3: his head.
Speaker 2: But not only Spider Man, but his amazing friends show up,
Speaker 2: Firestar and Iceman. Iceman and his semi styrofoam looking it's
Speaker 2: like foam rubber.
Speaker 3: He squeezed into this costume, and uh, and I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know who anyone trying.
Speaker 2: At what point did we start trying for superhero costumes?
Speaker 2: When did this somebody say not good enough? Was it?
Speaker 3: Well? Was it?
Speaker 2: Richard Donner with that Superman costume. Was it Tim Burton
Speaker 2: with the Batman costume? I think the mock.
Speaker 3: It was just so weird because these three, these three
Speaker 3: barbarian types come out and Oukla and Thunder just stand
Speaker 3: on either side of the stage and they don't say
Speaker 3: a word.
Speaker 2: They just stare up in But I'd like to point
Speaker 2: out that Thunder of the barbarian in the TV show,
Speaker 2: in the cartoon, is this buff dude. He's like a
Speaker 2: version of ConA. This is not a buffer. They've got
Speaker 2: some like reedy looking guy in a bad blonde wig
Speaker 2: playing Thunder and he's just staring like a creeper off
Speaker 2: off on one side while the while the Sorceress character
Speaker 2: is the only one emoting. And this this Eastern Island
Speaker 2: head that is Ukula the Mock, just standing sentinel on
Speaker 2: her right. Oh my god, Kula the Mock. All right,
Speaker 2: you know what I just say, By the way, what
Speaker 2: a fucking insane idea for television show for children that
Speaker 2: a comet passes too close to the Earth, rips the
Speaker 2: Moon out of orbit, which crashes into the Earth, destroys
Speaker 2: our atmosphere, throwing us into some post apocalyptic but not
Speaker 2: nuclear post apocalyptic world where magic returns and now it's
Speaker 2: a cone in the barbarian like dystopian future. And this
Speaker 2: is our lead, Thunder, the barbarian with his ripped off
Speaker 2: lightsaber blade and his Chewbacca best friend.
Speaker 3: That was the story of Thunder, that it was this
Speaker 3: post apocalyptic situation where.
Speaker 2: The am I the only one who watched this show.
Speaker 2: That's the opening scene.
Speaker 3: I watched it, but I have no memory of it.
Speaker 3: I remember the characters. I remember Ukla and what he
Speaker 3: looked like in stuff the mock. You think was Ukla
Speaker 3: like a bear cub that was evolved in some way
Speaker 3: due to this cataclysmic event? Did he transform into the
Speaker 3: mock from some like from like an owl or something?
Speaker 2: He might have. He's got many different shades of potentiality
Speaker 2: from where he evolved. I think, I think. I think
Speaker 2: it's lou Reed.
Speaker 3: My name is mock thinks a lot.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: It looks here. Oh so it says here on the
Speaker 3: Wikipedia page that u Oukla is a member of the
Speaker 3: mock species, a leonine humanoid with fangs.
Speaker 2: And yellow eyes, which makes him a lion of some sort.
Speaker 3: Apparently there's a whole there's there's a whole rundown of
Speaker 3: mocks and then what they what they do.
Speaker 2: Mocks are also a part of the family tree to
Speaker 2: be found in The Monster Club.
Speaker 3: The Month of the Month, The Vincent Price Movie or.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, there's a family tree sequence where Dave Vincent
Speaker 2: Price is talking to John Carrodine and showing them and
Speaker 2: there's like a Shaddy and a Maddie and a mock
Speaker 2: and a shad mock.
Speaker 3: Huh no kidding, Yeah, wow, I didn't know that, So UCLA.
Speaker 2: The Mock has some historical precedent in a movie from
Speaker 2: a couple of years earlier that looks like it was
Speaker 2: made in nineteen seventy, The Monster. We're all over the
Speaker 2: place here on the round up this week, HB.
Speaker 3: We're all over the place. But this kind of begs
Speaker 3: that that kind of context shifting because there's a lot
Speaker 3: going on. There's so you have all these characters who
Speaker 3: kind of like swing in. There's a subplot where Spider
Speaker 3: Man can't get into the event for some reason, so
Speaker 3: he has to swing around and find his invitation. He
Speaker 3: finally gets in there with Fire Star and an iceman and.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the robot Foubie fob the robot from
Speaker 2: Silver Spoons, So.
Speaker 3: That was from Silver because Ricky Schroeder said something like,
Speaker 3: oh from a co star from Silver Spoons. But I
Speaker 3: don't remember seeing that fucking robot. I remember. I mean,
Speaker 3: everybody remembers the robot from Rocky four. That to me
Speaker 3: is the gold standard for eighties robot.
Speaker 2: Well that because that looked like an actual robot, like
Speaker 2: you figured that might you know, there was probably somebody
Speaker 2: operating it, but it might be real. This one, there's
Speaker 2: definitely some dickhead off on the with one of those
Speaker 2: remote control make it move forward, make it move back,
Speaker 2: and then some comedian with a microphone making jokes and
Speaker 2: cracking wise.
Speaker 3: To be honest, the robot this what was the robot
Speaker 3: called Ubi Fubi Poobi. It was scarier than any robot
Speaker 3: that I can because it's big. It has these crazy
Speaker 3: long distended arms and hands. But the disturbing part is
Speaker 3: that what passes for ahead they've put like a Groucho
Speaker 3: Marx fake nose and mustache glasses, the.
Speaker 2: Schnaz, the Minkman schnaz.
Speaker 3: To make probably you know, obviously, to soften the appearance
Speaker 3: a little bit. For me, it had the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: Of exactly the opposite. It made it a terror.
Speaker 3: It made it scary because there was just something very
Speaker 3: big and imposing about this. And it comes out and
Speaker 3: it tries to shake hands with Ricky Schroeder, but it can't.
Speaker 3: You can tell, well they don't. They can't see what's
Speaker 3: going on. So the hand goes one place and Ricky
Speaker 3: has to hit it, disturbing.
Speaker 2: It seems like it means everyone harm, and as soon
Speaker 2: as the cameras are off, that rampage is about to begin,
Speaker 2: pretty much, and.
Speaker 3: The schnaz is a thinly veiled attempt to make you
Speaker 3: think that it means you no harm. But in reality,
Speaker 3: this thing is gonna like you're dead. This is Ai
Speaker 3: gone a muck ah.
Speaker 2: This will distract him long enough for me to get
Speaker 2: my giant hands on him, and then it curtains for
Speaker 2: you kids. Yeah, keep clapping, you child in a tuxedo,
Speaker 2: you're next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's we're all over the place. But to be fair,
Speaker 3: the show is all over the place.
Speaker 2: What do you want me to take this thing straight?
Speaker 2: Come on now, all I can say is I need
Speaker 2: to see. Evidently this is one of those that's out
Speaker 2: there but never surfaces there is a Dwight Schultz SNL
Speaker 2: audition tape out there, and it is apparently renowned.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that he tried out for a SNL.
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
Speaker 2: You can you can see why now when you watch
Speaker 2: this right, he's effectively doing Robin Williams.
Speaker 3: He's very quick. I will say that, no kidding, all
Speaker 3: kidding aside, he has to come out several times to
Speaker 3: do a little bit of shtick. It always has to feel,
Speaker 3: like you said of Robin Williams, kind of riffing and
Speaker 3: doing his thing. He's very quick, he's very funny. He's
Speaker 3: probably the best, the most grounded comedic aspect of this
Speaker 3: whole enterprise. And I can only imagine what's going through
Speaker 3: his head as he's having to deal with it. By
Speaker 3: the way, something I want to ask you a mystery
Speaker 3: in my head about this whole thing. So he's there,
Speaker 3: he's all over this thing. Yet when they give mister
Speaker 3: T his award, because as they say, the Mister T
Speaker 3: cartoon debuted that very week, right, which I by the way,
Speaker 3: I love the Mister T Cartoon. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I just I watched it a lot, but I need work.
Speaker 3: Tracy Morgan did that it was I need work. So
Speaker 3: he's presented the award, but mister T is receiving his
Speaker 3: award via satellite. He's not actually there to accept the award,
Speaker 3: and we're led to believe it's because he's filming the
Speaker 3: A Team. Yet Dwight Schultz is there, He's on the
Speaker 3: same show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Dwayn Schultz was probably incarcerated at that time, Murdoch.
Speaker 2: They hadn't broken him out of the sanitarium yet in
Speaker 2: the episode, so he was able to come off to
Speaker 2: the other part of the lot, let's face it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably to film this. And you know, most likely mister
Speaker 2: T was being held captive by George Pepard, drunk and belligerent.
Speaker 3: He drank that milk with that was a that was
Speaker 3: dosed so he could fly on a plane.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: By the way, have you ever seen like interviews at
Speaker 3: like conventions that Dwight Schultz does about the time working
Speaker 3: And he is an amazing interview and he has incredible
Speaker 3: stories to tell about George Peppard in particular. I found
Speaker 3: them really engaging.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'll say, even though the reference is wildly
Speaker 2: inappropriate for six year olds in nineteen eighty three, his
Speaker 2: impression of.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's Sullivan.
Speaker 2: His Ed Sullivan impression is the best ice career heard
Speaker 2: I've ever heard. It's so nuanced.
Speaker 3: Well, it's weird because he just slips into it. He
Speaker 3: doesn't like he's in the context of what he's saying.
Speaker 3: He just kind of it's almost like there's this transformation
Speaker 3: in mid sense of what he's just describing, and he
Speaker 3: becomes Ed Sullivan all you know, while you're while right
Speaker 3: in front of your eyes. It's bizarre. It's great.
Speaker 2: HPU and I do a show over on the Patreon
Speaker 2: channel called Cable Box Theater where we look at filmed
Speaker 2: theatrical productions for early cable television in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 2: One of my favorites of that time was the production
Speaker 2: of Sherlock Holmes, where Sherlock is played by Franklin Jella
Speaker 2: and one of the cronies Dwight Schultz, playing an Englishman
Speaker 2: very very effectively in that he's Moriarty's he's Moriarty's major
Speaker 2: domo in that.
Speaker 3: Oh I got to see that who plays Watson?
Speaker 2: I frigat no one of any important, no one of
Speaker 2: import I guess I can't remember everybody. I can barely
Speaker 2: remember Dwight Schulton Franklin Jell, we've been I loved.
Speaker 3: Dwight Schultz when he was on Star Trek the Next Generation,
Speaker 3: Remember he would played the Reginald Barclay he was. To me,
Speaker 3: that was a revelation because I had only ever known
Speaker 3: him from the A teaming this crazy Howlin mad Murdoch
Speaker 3: to That's such a restrained performance that he gives in
Speaker 3: Next Generation, it's you can almost not even believe it's
Speaker 3: the same actor. He's so good.
Speaker 2: Can I also say about that character, that's a really
Speaker 2: important character in the Star Trek universe. It was the
Speaker 2: first time we really got somebody who's completely unsure of
Speaker 2: themselves in a bit of a coward in a way,
Speaker 2: and like and somebody who's not on the bridge basically,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just found it fascinating that we
Speaker 2: I know who Lieutenant Barclay is, and so to you
Speaker 2: because he was never really a major part of the show,
Speaker 2: but he's in my mind integral to that show.
Speaker 3: He is And didn't although I didn't watch the show,
Speaker 3: wasn't he also on Voyager later playing the same character.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he I believe he's Yeah, I believe
Speaker 2: he was in one of the sort of wrap up
Speaker 2: episodes at the end. I don't think he was like
Speaker 2: on the Voyager while you're out in space, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Not I mean character but obviously thought enough of him
Speaker 3: and the character to kind of bring him along, even
Speaker 3: for like a quick little cameo. I thought that was
Speaker 3: kind of a testament to how good he was in
Speaker 3: the part.
Speaker 2: Well, Barclay shows up in First Contact, right, he's he
Speaker 2: approaches what's his name? Yeah, well yeah, but he can't engage.
Speaker 2: He's just sort of like, I'm too much of a
Speaker 2: fan boy.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Wrath of Kahn is the Star Trek movie, but
Speaker 3: next to that, I have to say, like First Contact,
Speaker 3: it may be it may be tied for my favorite
Speaker 3: Star Trek movie. That movie is so good, directed by
Speaker 3: Jonathan Frakes. I love that movie.
Speaker 2: I will now watch that over Wrath of Kahn. Actually,
Speaker 2: the way that.
Speaker 3: They're able to separate them into their own little stories,
Speaker 3: but you never feel like it's overcrowded or overstuffed with story.
Speaker 2: It all.
Speaker 3: It's like a caper movie almost where they have to
Speaker 3: go back in time. Time travel figures into it, which
Speaker 3: I love. Such a good I have to watch that. Now,
Speaker 3: I have to watch that.
Speaker 2: Now. Here's the only flaw with the movie. It ends
Speaker 2: up being the Board Queen needs a boyfriend. The Board
Speaker 2: Queen does not need a fucking boyfriend. Okay, that's bullshit,
Speaker 2: but it gave us the Board Queen. That alone cements
Speaker 2: of that movie in the Star Trek Pantheon.
Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of ananda is that Alfre Woodard is
Speaker 3: in a Star Trek movie. It's something that I she
Speaker 3: always seemed like much more of, like a prestige actress.
Speaker 2: You broke your little ships. I love that fucking movie.
Speaker 2: I saw that movie half a dozen times in the theater,
Speaker 2: and then one day in front of my theater. What's
Speaker 2: his name, super Irish name, Neil McDonough, Lieutenant Hawk.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yah Hawk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lieutenant Hawk was outside my theater and I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to him, but he was there with his girlfriend,
Speaker 2: who was there at a veterinarian with an emergency with
Speaker 2: a pet, And I thought this was probably an inopportune
Speaker 2: time to tell him how much I liked him at
Speaker 2: Start Track and Ravenous.
Speaker 3: Oh he was in Ravenus too. Forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the he's the psycho soldier character in that one,
Speaker 2: and he's you know, he's he's one of the Helen Commandos,
Speaker 2: obviously he's.
Speaker 3: That's true with the mutton chops, right, and and the
Speaker 3: bowler hat and the shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I deserved his own fucking serious. The Helen
Speaker 2: Commandos deserved their own serious.
Speaker 3: They should have. I mean, they've been kind of dancing
Speaker 3: around that they were gonna do that that for a while.
Speaker 3: It's not allan commando's but they're gonna do Sergeant Rock.
Speaker 3: Remember that with Schwarzenegger and that fell through.
Speaker 2: They almost did it again with Daniel Craig like ten
Speaker 2: minutes ago.
Speaker 3: Sergeant Rock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, Sergeant Rock is on the list of DC
Speaker 2: movies right now. Huh. Anyway back to uh speaking of Marvel, Yes, speaking.
Speaker 3: Of Marvel Marvel, not Marble Marvel. Yeah, this was. I'm
Speaker 3: always charmed by anything that takes that any of this
Speaker 3: sort of Marvel promotional stuff or just culture that is
Speaker 3: from before the MCU, because it's really easy for people
Speaker 3: to forget that before Iron Man Marvel, there was nothing
Speaker 3: prestigious about a Marvel movie about Marvel. TV shows about
Speaker 3: these Marvel characters, which.
Speaker 2: Is why you have.
Speaker 3: The costume for the Hulk is a goddamn shame in this.
Speaker 3: He looks like a child's drawing of the Hulk. He's
Speaker 3: all out of proportion. He's got these big shoulders but
Speaker 3: little stubby arms, and the expression is just a mask,
Speaker 3: so it's unchanging and he kind of like hobbles around
Speaker 3: the best that he can. He probably can't see out
Speaker 3: of the costume. It's so low rent, but that's what
Speaker 3: Marvel was back then. It was not considered a big
Speaker 3: prestigious thing. Look at the Roger Korman Fantastic four. Look
Speaker 3: at the Captain America movies, which I think you've covered
Speaker 3: in the past on the Culture Cast maybe or elsewhere
Speaker 3: from alone have you?
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the nineteen ninety Captain America with Salinger,
Speaker 2: the one that was.
Speaker 3: They were going to release in the theater, not the
Speaker 3: not the TV show with like reb Brown.
Speaker 2: Was that his name?
Speaker 3: The football player? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, there were two TV movies in the seventies, and
Speaker 2: then in nineteen ninety there was a movie with Darren
Speaker 2: McGavin and the grandson of JD. Salinger.
Speaker 3: That's the one, and Ned Batty was in it too.
Speaker 2: Ned Batty and as as the Red Skull. For some reason,
Speaker 2: Red Skull is Italian in it, like he's like a
Speaker 2: Mussolini character instead of a Hitler character. Inexplicable. Oh no,
Speaker 2: it's not inexplicable. It's because they've got a tax break
Speaker 2: to shoot in the Mediterranean, so they're like, well, we'll
Speaker 2: just make a Mussolini. I said, who is that actor
Speaker 2: I wanted to pump up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, with the Father.
Speaker 2: Yes, what is his name? Scott something, Chesterton, Scott Simonson, Scott.
Speaker 3: Are you being serious?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what his name is. Scott palland
Speaker 2: Scott Pollen, who I remember, as you do in Pump
Speaker 2: Up the Volume as a Christian Slater's stent. But I
Speaker 2: also remember him in a really good segment of a
Speaker 2: horror anthology western called Grim Prairie Tales called One Bullet.
Speaker 2: That was the name of his segment. It was really good.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I.
Speaker 3: Remember that movie. I don't can't recall much about it,
Speaker 3: but yeah, pump up the Volume there is I'm looking
Speaker 3: him up here.
Speaker 2: I skipped school to go see to see Grim Prairie
Speaker 2: Tales in Boston.
Speaker 3: It played in the theater. Huh yeah, Oh, I didn't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 2: It played at the one over by bu.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I saw it do the right thing
Speaker 3: you saw.
Speaker 2: I saw that there as well. But I also saw
Speaker 2: that in Sagas.
Speaker 3: Really it played wider than that.
Speaker 2: General cinema twin in Saga Got It.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one year Bu I saw that summer, I
Speaker 3: feel like I saw a lot of Cape Fear played there,
Speaker 3: a bunch of Wow.
Speaker 2: I was already in Los Angeles with Cape Verkuma. Is
Speaker 2: that right? M I saw Cape Fair in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: He's going way back, folks, nineteen ninety one. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess getting back to my original point,
Speaker 3: it's amusing to see how it's almost quaint, how low
Speaker 3: rent and really cheesy, all this Marvel stuff was knowing
Speaker 3: that in what, yeah, wait, what.
Speaker 2: In like another twenty five or so years they would
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, yeah, but probably the next best,
Speaker 3: probably the Spider Man movies was probably the next innovation
Speaker 3: in Marvel entertainment right from that, Yeah, I mean, what
Speaker 3: was there anything else in the eighties or nineties that.
Speaker 2: Well, Howard the Dock obviously was the was the giant
Speaker 2: stepped forward for Marvel entertainment. I'm kidding. Blade is when
Speaker 2: we finally got a decent Marvel adaptation. But that doesn't act.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, it counts obviously he's a superhero, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't count in the in the realm of tights
Speaker 2: and flights.
Speaker 3: Right in my mind, it's like Spider Man was the
Speaker 3: thing that jump started it, even though it wasn't really
Speaker 3: the MCU at that point, it was still like, Wow,
Speaker 3: this is Spider Man done right with a budget, with
Speaker 3: a great story and a fantastic director. But this was
Speaker 3: very much in the infancy of that which which is
Speaker 3: fun to watch that part of it.
Speaker 2: Oh the that Hulk though, and that's like the big
Speaker 2: fucking finale, Like, let's give a thing to this Misshape.
Speaker 2: And it looked flocked to it looked uncomfortable to touch,
Speaker 2: flocked like rough to the touch. Yeah, like you know,
Speaker 2: you said flocking. They'll do on like models, you know, like,
Speaker 2: but we're putting on a putting on some grass here.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I know what you mean, like a bristol.
Speaker 2: It's a crafting kind of like technique. It's just ah,
Speaker 2: like it gives me the creeps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the big He crashes out of the
Speaker 3: back of the stage, and that's that. You're right, that's it.
Speaker 3: That the award shows over at that point.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they've given out all the awards. There
Speaker 2: were so many surprises, such a beautiful night for Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe how many people were left out of
Speaker 2: the end Memoriam. Did nobody think to mention jabber Jaw
Speaker 2: that his family would be watching?
Speaker 3: Now? I'm searching through my mind because they covered an
Speaker 3: awful lot of old timey entertainers, which they were quite
Speaker 3: old at that point. But who who would have been
Speaker 3: I don't know, Sherry Lewis and Lamb Chop.
Speaker 2: Milton Burrele and Secret Squirrel together, Yeah, because they could
Speaker 2: have presented it like I'm guessing.
Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't have been.
Speaker 2: Soupy Sales and the Transformers.
Speaker 3: No, it would have to be like somebody like who
Speaker 3: was the kid they This kid I thought was like
Speaker 3: a young Adrian's med His name was Glenn Scarpelli.
Speaker 2: Who got that kid? He was in everything in the eighties?
Speaker 3: Man, he was they kept touting, I guess. And Jillian
Speaker 3: had a new show called Jennifer Slept Here.
Speaker 2: Remember about a dead actress who appears to this kid
Speaker 2: who has moved into her house as a ghost.
Speaker 3: Was that the movie? Was that? Or was that the show?
Speaker 3: You are you being serious about that?
Speaker 2: Yes, that is the premise of that television show.
Speaker 3: Well that's the same premise of meat Balls three.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course with Angela.
Speaker 3: Of course, No, that was Sally Kellerman was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same idea though, yes, suicided actress returns as ghost
Speaker 2: to befriend child.
Speaker 3: God, you're right. He anyway. Glenn Scarpelli was also I
Speaker 3: think he started on One Day at a Time. I
Speaker 3: think that was what he was originally on.
Speaker 2: Was he the lead in that movie Playing for Keeps?
Speaker 2: Do you remember Playing for Keeps?
Speaker 3: I do remember.
Speaker 2: It was in a glut of not necessarily hip hop,
Speaker 2: but like in that flavor like Beat Street and Breaking
Speaker 2: and like that that wave of youth movies we had.
Speaker 2: Playing for Keeps.
Speaker 3: Were they like a mover, like they had a moving
Speaker 3: company and they had to.
Speaker 2: Know they had a resort house in the in the
Speaker 2: wilderness that they were going to turn into some big
Speaker 2: money making thing out there. They were going to be
Speaker 2: playing for Keeps out there.
Speaker 3: Now I can tell you. Oh no, he was one
Speaker 3: One Day at a time. He was on amazing Stories
Speaker 3: before that he was not in Playing for Keeps. But
Speaker 3: I know the I know the movie you're talking about.
Speaker 2: What episode of Amazing Stories was he on it? Oh?
Speaker 3: All right, let me see one episode.
Speaker 2: Let's why do I It's name HP.
Speaker 3: I know I'm trying to get there one if I
Speaker 3: click on Oh here it is mirror, Mirror.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the Scorsese episode.
Speaker 3: Yes, he plays somebody named Jeffrey Gelb.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey gel played by a Scarpelly. A little bit more
Speaker 2: casting of Italians in every role by Martin Scorsese. When
Speaker 2: when he has a problem if a non Italian plays
Speaker 2: an Italian role. Nevertheless, the irishman played by an Italian. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Martin.
Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't know Martin Scorsese did an Amazing Stories.
Speaker 2: It's a horror one. It's pretty good. Wow.
Speaker 3: Is Sam Waterston in this?
Speaker 2: Yes? And he's a dick.
Speaker 3: Sam Waterston's where where is he gone? Is he retired
Speaker 3: from acting?
Speaker 2: Hasn't he prosecuted enough people?
Speaker 3: He's done his service to the people of New York
Speaker 3: and he's got nothing left to prove.
Speaker 2: And remember, robots are strong. Remember that ad for robots say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was robot insurance for.
Speaker 2: Old Yes, robots, they live on old people's prescription pills
Speaker 2: and you can't stop them because robots are strong.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I think we've what do we have left to
Speaker 3: cover here?
Speaker 2: For that? That's it. I think we're done here, buddy.
Speaker 3: Oh what a trip we've had though.
Speaker 2: That's the yummy awards everyone. Thank you once again for
Speaker 2: joining us on The Father Malone's weekly round Up. I'm
Speaker 2: glad to be back. I was glad HB was how
Speaker 2: happy to I was here to join me in this episode.
Speaker 2: I guess rip, you didn't get to pick this week's really,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. HP wrote your theme song, so you
Speaker 2: know you should just be thankful HP until next time.
Speaker 2: Well you won't be back here on the round up,
Speaker 2: but until the next few sco fast, where can people
Speaker 2: find you if they're looking to hear more of your
Speaker 2: mellifluous tones.
Speaker 3: Well, well, before I say that, thank you very much
Speaker 3: for having me follom alone. I always love doing these
Speaker 3: shows with you. This one is I think a little
Speaker 3: more fun than than some of the others. It's just
Speaker 3: I don't know, just love talking. This is such a
Speaker 3: I said to you. Harry Sheer described The Day of
Speaker 3: the Clown cried the famously awful Jerry Lewis movie as
Speaker 3: a perfect object in its wrong headedness and it's in
Speaker 3: its weirdness and bizarre qualities. I really believe this is
Speaker 3: also a perfect object in a sense the Yummy Awards.
Speaker 3: So I was very happy to be able to do
Speaker 3: this with you, Father Malone. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: the opportunity. As for where you can find me, you
Speaker 3: can find me. I co host the Night Mister Walters
Speaker 3: Taxi podcast with my esteemed co host across from me,
Speaker 3: father Alone.
Speaker 2: Here that's me.
Speaker 3: I host the Noise Junkies music podcast. I also am
Speaker 3: an occasional guest on The Culture Cast with Christashu and
Speaker 3: I also have a band camp site hpmusicplace dot bandcamp
Speaker 3: dot com.
Speaker 2: As for me, you're hearing the show, join us on Friday,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get back into Well it's gonna be Tails
Speaker 2: from the Dark Side. I think that's coming Friday, Is
Speaker 2: that right? I don't know. I hope so yes, It'll
Speaker 2: be testing the dark Side this Friday for Ripley Gene
Speaker 2: for HP. I'm Father Malone. Thanks for joining us. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna leave you with a little bit from Well, what
Speaker 2: have we been listening to? What have we been talking about?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a little bit of yummy. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be so yummy.
Speaker 3: Everyone's a win. One of the great starts of Y eighteen,
Speaker 3: Howling Mad Murdock himself, mister Dwight Schelz, the NBC.
Speaker 1: ASPCA, which stands for the Academy of Super Programs that
Speaker 1: are Cartoons or Animated.
Speaker 2: He's very democratic.
Speaker 1: Everybody votes for himself, Chipman, super Chipmunk, Smirts vote for smirts,
Speaker 1: nobody votes for the bad guys, and everybody votes for
Speaker 1: mister t that's because of a chick except me. I
Speaker 1: know he's big, I know he's strong, but I can
Speaker 1: run fast for tea so long? And what is how
Speaker 1: the NBC yummies are awarded? Now that I've cleared up
Speaker 1: that mystery, I am history.
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