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. 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:33.320 Record, Thank mister Walters. Weird Weave. 8 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.040 Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where 9 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.400 this season we're taking a look at George Romero's nineteen 10 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.159 eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the Midnight 11 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.000 view with me are the Culture Cast Christachue. 12 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.159 I don't know how to tell you guys this, but 13 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.640 I practice a lot of voodoo in my spare time. 14 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.680 Well that's perfect. Also joining us is the Projection Booths 15 00:01:58.680 --> 00:01:59.200 Mike White. 16 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.079 Oh this is far above the cost of rubies. 17 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:05.200 Okay, And tonight we are taking a look at two 18 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.240 episodes from season two. Those are Ring Around the Redhead 19 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.719 and Parlor Floor Front. Ring Around the Redhead is season 20 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:15.680 two episode three. This originally aired on October thirteenth, nineteen 21 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.159 eighty five. Written by Ted Gershoony from a story by 22 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.840 John D. McDonald, Yes that John D. McDonald. Directed by 23 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:26.599 Ted Gershoony and starring John Hurd and Penelope Ann Miller. 24 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.199 This is the story of inventor who finds a earth 25 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.199 after an earthquake. A hole opens up in his house 26 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.599 that's a portal to another dimension, and he takes a 27 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:39.280 girl out of it and spends the time teaching her English, 28 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.240 and then I don't know, other things happen too. There's 29 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.520 a lot going on in this episode. I don't oh who, 30 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.240 I'm going to throw it on over to you, Mike. 31 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:48.879 Thank god it was Mike and not me. 32 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.000 We never knew that john Ny MacDonald wrote sci fi, 33 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.639 and this story kind of makes me doubt that he 34 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.120 did write sci fi. The whole thing of how our 35 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.919 main character is an inventor, but then he doesn't invent 36 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.879 anything during the whole episode. Instead, a volcano opens in 37 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.039 his floor, and there is this ring that I thought 38 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.719 was part of the volcano. But then at one part 39 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.039 Jimbo pulls out the ring. I'm like, oh, I thought 40 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.800 that was part and parcel of this whole volcano thing. 41 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:22.759 Because they keep twisting it around and it's opening other dimensions. 42 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.240 I was getting a little quantumnia feel from this this movie. 43 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.840 This episode had everything going for it. Peneloty, Anne Miller, 44 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.520 John Hurd, I love John Hurd doing a great job, 45 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.000 and here Johnny McDonald, which I was like, oh, great, 46 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.120 big shot in the arm. Yeah, what a mess this 47 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.560 one was. And then to kind of turn it into 48 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.960 this hole, I'm going to take this girl from this 49 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:52.599 other dimension and have to teach her all of our stuff. 50 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.240 But then she's actually way smarter than I am anyway, 51 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:58.479 So yeah, it just she was a little manic pixie 52 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.000 dream girl for me, and the that he has to 53 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.560 save her and all this and oh yeah, we just 54 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.240 played with these rubies all over the place and I 55 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.719 didn't even realize that was the same dimension, but because 56 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:11.639 I guess there's all kinds of dimensions he can do, 57 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:13.960 and it's just the one really that we interact with. 58 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.479 And I thought for sure that we were going to 59 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.839 get all kinds of adventures him going into the portal 60 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.040 maybe or pulling other things out. But two things, rubies 61 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.879 and her and then you got some busted up thermometers. Chris, 62 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:29.240 what did you think of this one? 63 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.000 I'm glad you had to answer first. Boy. 64 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.600 Oh, and it's all a death be a death row 65 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.959 death row right, a death row confession. Yeah, I forgot 66 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:40.720 about the framing story. Sorry about that. 67 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.279 Oh yeah, you forgot about the best part. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. 68 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.000 It's like beyond unintelligible. For the most part, I don't 69 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.480 understand what the point of this episode story is. It's 70 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.680 one of those things where I'm sitting here thinking to myself, 71 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.800 you know, John D. MacDonald can write, but to your 72 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.160 apropos point, Mike didn't fuck and would have convinced me 73 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.120 otherwise with this horseshit like, it's really bad, and it's 74 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.920 bad in a way that I think it makes me 75 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.040 appreciate that that episode it maybe it was Twilight Zone 76 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.519 or Night Gallery, the Joe Penny episode where he's like 77 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.800 in prison and he goes back in time by playing 78 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:16.879 the oh with the piano. 79 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.079 Yeah, that was actually pretty good compared to this, especially. 80 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.560 Speaking of soprano people from The Sopranos being in anthology shows. 81 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.040 Joe Penny in this episode, John Hurd in this in 82 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.800 that episode, and John Heard in this episode. I I 83 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.399 wanted to like this, but I don't understand what the 84 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.399 point is, and the fact that it's Dave's ex earthquake 85 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.000 is just fucking bizarre. There was an earthquake and then 86 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.240 there was a volcano in my basement. Okay, okay. That's 87 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:49.720 all I could say was Okay, it's bizarre. It's strange. 88 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.160 They make some choices. I don't think the choices work 89 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:56.600 very well. And I mean Penelope and Miller is cute, 90 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.439 but I mean her doing a Land of the Lost 91 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.959 character thing is o en Sino woman. I guess it's 92 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.800 just kind of I don't know. I'm surprised they spent 93 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.279 twenty two minutes doing this episode, that's for sure. 94 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.879 A death sentence in anthology television always seems to be 95 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.720 three days after the crime, as opposed to several years 96 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.040 of decades of trials by then. I think he might 97 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.680 have told this story a few times. And I bet 98 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.160 those Rubies would have been raising some other eyebrows too 99 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.839 about what was actually going on in that house. He 100 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.680 was convicted so quickly without actually telling a story. It's 101 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.360 that's a bit unusual. The entire episode, the pacing of 102 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.079 it felt as if we were watching a previously on 103 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.360 Tales from the Dark Side. That it felt like a 104 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:44.439 summation of a larger, longer episode and or movie. Why 105 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.759 did we have a wrap around segment at all? What 106 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.480 are we wasting our time with this exposition? And that 107 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.839 ultimately is the problem with the episode. This is a 108 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:57.839 fucking radio play. They jogg us through like huge plot points. Well, 109 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.759 then a cloud came out and attacked him. Really that 110 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.160 sounds exciting. I wonder if they could show that on 111 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.040 a device that I can watch in my home. 112 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.040 I liked this episode more when it was jin No 113 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:15.519 Chasers moments ago. Yeah, and it has that same framing 114 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.319 device too, a character talking directly to the camera essential so. 115 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.639 And you know what you're right? Mike liked, why is 116 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:25.199 there even a volcano? If the ring is if you 117 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.800 can remove it, I too thought, oh, this is part 118 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.240 of that thing. It's like a break or something. They 119 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.000 just take it out, go put it in your closet. 120 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:33.959 How about here's that ring. 121 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.519 That he's doing death experiments, that's his whole thing is 122 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:40.560 Oh yeah, then I'm like lowering this anchor in. Okay, 123 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.920 it must go pretty deep. Do you ever touch ground? 124 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:43.639 Like what's going on? 125 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:43.800 You know? 126 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.839 And then he says he committed he did one hundred 127 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:52.360 and seventy probes, And I'm like, in how long this morning? 128 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.199 What are you doing with this? 129 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.199 There's very little logical sense being being put on display here. 130 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:00.920 I did like that, as I did not like to 131 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:03.839 wrap around kind of death row bit. I did like 132 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.000 how stormy they made the noir jail. Like a certain 133 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:08.839 point they got like a lightning storm going on, which 134 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.160 always looks bad usually, but I thought looked great here. 135 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.720 So there are aspects of this that I liked a lot, 136 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.879 including all of the performances, like how you could how 137 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.639 could you not? Penelope Anne Miller? Is that her name's 138 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.319 I've run super hot and cold on her. In the 139 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:25.879 right role, she's charming as fun, but and then she's 140 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.519 in Carlito's Way and you're like, what is she doing here? 141 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.600 Oh? Yeah, she's perfect in the gun and Betty Loo's handbag, 142 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.519 but something like this, I'm like, this works. But yeah, 143 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.480 when you put her in a meaty role like Carlito's Way, 144 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.320 you're like, oh, like, she's no Michelle Pfeiffer. 145 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:41.080 Or the Relic. 146 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.440 Oh god, the Relic. I mean, I can't get past 147 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:47.799 Tom Sizemore. He's the star of the show for me 148 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:48.519 in that one. Well. 149 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.840 I have so many feelings about that film that have 150 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:52.960 more to do with the books than anything else. But 151 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.320 Penelope An Miller's fine here. Comparative I think. 152 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.080 Oh, yeah, who was Lincoln? 153 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.440 Rhymes those oh uh Lincoln, Uh, Preston and child there 154 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:03.720 you go. 155 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.960 Yeah, if you like them, you're not gonna like that. 156 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.519 No, And Penelope Ann Miller is actually like the least 157 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:11.480 offensive part of that movie. She's fine here. You said, 158 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:13.960 manic Pixie dream girl. It's very much that, like a 159 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.759 specific kind of fish out of water character. It's reminded. 160 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.480 It reminded me of a ton of characters we've seen 161 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.919 a million other times before. And again like the weird 162 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.919 moment where she can stop time and intercede and stop 163 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:33.159 him from being executed, Like what fuck? What the holy 164 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.480 fuck is going on here? So he is on death 165 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.679 row because Jimbo disappeared. 166 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.720 Yeah, the antagonist of the piece who's been who came 167 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.240 and stole the ring and took the rubies and took 168 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:49.000 that ring? He took he took I live. He gets 169 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.720 two scenes basically in a row taking this ring, I'm back, 170 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:52.759 take this ring away from me. 171 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.159 And again, like we all know, in the reality of 172 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.639 a real world, if they don't find the body, they're 173 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:02.399 not going to there's jail. Some John hurd is, there's 174 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.519 a quick turn around here. Apparently that this guy is 175 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.799 just being executed. What you were tried convicted? Another executing 176 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:10.759 you a week later? Whoa what world? 177 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:11.000 Are we? 178 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:12.440 The perfect prison system? 179 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.159 Apparently it's called habeas corpus for a reason. 180 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.399 I guess so, Mike, like you said, he's an inventor, 181 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.480 but we never seen him inventing anything. We don't see 182 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.039 him testing anything at all. What we do get is 183 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:30.519 suddenly he's teaching her planets and English and penmanship. He's singing. 184 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.440 He's sending here to sleep, which was not at all uncomfortable. 185 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.919 He invented a bucket on a rope that he could 186 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.000 lower into a hole in the ground. He invented that. 187 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:40.000 He's an inventor. 188 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.799 You ever see that short film with the Australian with 189 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:44.960 the hole in the ground and the guy he's lowering 190 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.639 a bucket into it, and they keep sending He keeps 191 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.919 getting jewels sent back up to him for things that 192 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.799 he's sending down. And at a certain point he gets 193 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.679 in the thing and goes down and they send up 194 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:00.360 like all the jewels. This was delicious send Mare wouldn't 195 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.200 see that one really good and reminded me too much 196 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.559 of this, And unfortunately I like that one better because 197 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.240 I was just thinking, once he starts teaching her, I'm like, 198 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.200 is this where we're going? Is this sort of going 199 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.000 to be like some sort of Frankenstein thing? And like 200 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.960 once her learning accelerated and she was out pacing him 201 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.600 and reading all of his science books, I'm like, Oh, 202 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.919 is this gonna be some like doomsday thing? We're gonna 203 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:21.799 give us something to give us a bit of a 204 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.240 bite at the end here, but no, they give us. 205 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.200 And there's nothing wrong with a romantic ending if you 206 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.919 earned that, But this thing is so scattershot and weird. 207 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.559 It's twenty different genres like slapping up against each other 208 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.799 for no good reason, and trying to cram it all 209 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.159 into twenty two minutes. Like I mean, look, I admire 210 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.720 the attempt a for effort, but this one's a mess. 211 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.320 Well, and not only is it a mess, it's like 212 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:51.759 it's an incomprehensible mess. I don't understand why this story 213 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.799 took twenty two minutes to tell. It's not a blackout sketch, 214 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.120 because we've leveled that against the show, me specifically, plenty 215 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:02.200 of times. This is just one of the more just 216 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:06.080 like water treading, wheel spinning episodes of this show I've 217 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.200 ever seen. I don't understand the point of this episode. 218 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.279 This episode is like a guy was Scott Wilson went 219 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.120 to a nuclear world or something. You remember that Scott 220 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.159 Wilson looked through the portal into the nuclear world and 221 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.159 you remember do you remember that from Night Gallery? Was 222 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.840 that a Night Gallery episode? This is the closest thing 223 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:24.679 to that. You remember what I'm talking about where it's 224 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:27.559 a world We're a world of peace now and it's 225 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.519 all fish out of water story. It's like, why are 226 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.399 we telling these stories? Who is this? Four? 227 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:33.639 Yeah, if it was Scott Wilson would have had to 228 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.399 have been Twilight Zone rather than rather than I mean 229 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:41.639 he's old or was old, but not that old more. 230 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:43.600 Oh yeah, I got something more to say about this 231 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.000 because here's the thing, like with all those sort of 232 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.639 with all the time spent on all of these different avenues, 233 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.360 when they could have just been telling us one story 234 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.960 the whole time. Uh, at the end, we have time 235 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.320 to like slow walk through the fucking prison, slow walk 236 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:01.279 to the chair, and then lovingly like close ups of 237 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.159 him being strapped in and the diodes being placed, and 238 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.519 I'm like, we got time for this too. I don't know, 239 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.159 it's not like the end of an after school special too. 240 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:14.320 Well, at the end he's saved because he's worth saving apparently, 241 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.879 good god man. Yeah, it's just sure, Okay, I just 242 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.960 I sometimes I failed to see what they were getting at. 243 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.200 What's the point of the story here. Is there a 244 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.639 something be some sort of metaphor you're getting at, or 245 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:28.919 some sort of homily you're trying to get across. Nope, 246 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.799 it's just stupid. It's just it just wastes its time 247 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.600 and our time. And John Hurd, unfortunately, that's the biggest 248 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.399 shame here. This is the only time John heard his 249 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.519 entails from the dark Side. Oops. 250 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.639 Okay, halfway through that when that guy takes the ring, 251 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.600 when he brings it back, he starts babbling like this 252 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.480 love crafty entail that like it's a portal to this 253 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.879 whole other horrible place and there are things out there, 254 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.120 and where's that while they. 255 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:57.440 Imply it with the frayed wire, that's like something fray 256 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.320 to this cored and it's we're never gonna see it 257 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.879 because has no budget. There's there's not a But there's 258 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.159 a reason we didn't see what's in the portal because 259 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.240 the budgetary restrictions may apply. 260 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.679 Well, i'll tell you where the budget comes in. It's 261 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.960 that lavish last supper that it gets on death Row 262 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:18.279 with two bananas and an apple and maybe some green 263 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.200 beans on there. I mean, that looked like it must 264 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.159 have cost a lot. And that's how I want to 265 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.120 go out. Two bananas and an apple. 266 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:24.519 Please. 267 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.960 Well he requested it, you know that's how it goes. 268 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:28.919 Yeah, yeah, I can't blame. 269 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.840 And that order slash lawyer whoever, who just gives him 270 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.120 the stink face like ninety percent of the time she's 271 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:36.679 on screen. 272 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.840 What a useless character, what a whole useless like waste 273 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.240 of expositional time. Strove me crazy. If this were not 274 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:48.039 based on a previously written short story, I would assume 275 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.480 that this was an episode hobbled together of everyone's unfilmable 276 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:55.039 idea for the season, all the. 277 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:57.960 Tropes rolled into one. Yeah, that's a. 278 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.240 Good idea, but you don't want to do a whole 279 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.480 episode about that. Put it in the ring around the 280 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:02.360 right eyed episode. 281 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:04.320 This is like the what is it called when you 282 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.399 go to the gas station and get all the sodas 283 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.360 together like suicide. It's like that, it's all the things 284 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.240 mixed together, and boy, it doesn't taste good at all. 285 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.639 I am curious to read the original short story just 286 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.559 to see what that was like, because I do like 287 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.440 John D. MacDonald so much. But I'm not Russian. I'm 288 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.919 not rushing out to get that get it. 289 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:27.519 No, but his lawyers certainly looked Russian, all right. Next up, 290 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:31.399 we're talking about parlor floor front. Parlor is spelled with 291 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:35.080 the British you, so it makes it look like parlur 292 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:36.919 in my mind. So every time I look at it, 293 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.360 I got parlor floor front. Makes it very hard to 294 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.600 say anyway, Season two, episode four. This originally aired on 295 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:46.679 October the twentieth, nineteen eighty five. Written by Carol Lucia 296 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:51.240 Satrina and directed by Richard Friedman, this one stars Adolf Caesar, 297 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.039 Rosetta Lenoir, and Donna Bullock, which is kind of a 298 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.320 let down to say after the previous two names. This 299 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.440 is a story about two horrible, fucking, yumpy pieces of 300 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:05.399 shit trying to oust a lifelong tenant of their newly 301 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.639 purchased home. Oh and voodoo, would you think of this one? 302 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:09.600 Chris Boy. 303 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.799 We've found it the episode with the most indefensible fucking 304 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:16.919 characters known to man. They're here, folks, What in God's 305 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.080 name is going on with this show? I mean, I 306 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:23.120 talk about painting with the broadest of broad brushes, my 307 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.600 Lord Donna Bullock, and see here's the name you should 308 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:28.440 have said, Father Malone. You want to keep those names up, 309 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:32.399 John Colonious, which is sounds straight out of Roman Empire 310 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:37.039 Central casting. Such a strange episode. The two main characters 311 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:43.039 are fucking assholes of the highest order. They're clearly I mean, 312 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.440 they're clearly trafficking in what was going on in the 313 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.480 eighties in New York City with rent control and all 314 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.039 of that, and I mean pretty apropos to be going 315 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.840 towards real world events. I'm not sure they had a 316 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:57.919 single fucking thing to say about them, but hey, they're 317 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.159 trafficking in real world things that are happening. This was 318 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.240 pretty well suited to be the secondary episode that we're 319 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.599 talking about on this episode of this show, given what 320 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.640 we just talked about. I find this to be again, 321 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.000 what was the point of this story. We've seen this 322 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.559 a bunch of other times, a bunch of different other ways. 323 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.000 And this is not the best way it's been done. 324 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.920 This is just another time, is what this feels like? 325 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:20.759 What about you, Mike? 326 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:25.559 Yeah, I mean this episode keeps trying to pull the 327 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.960 rug out from under you. Where Yeah, these are horrible, horrible. 328 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:32.319 The wife is worse than the man, but the man 329 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.119 is pretty bad as well. This whole thing of how 330 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.119 she sets up Adolph Caesar to what does it make 331 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.000 her fall? And then she lies that she was carrying 332 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:47.160 a baby and I'm just like what, oh gosh, that's horrible. Yeah, 333 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.240 and she killed a cat in order to prove out 334 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.000 that he caused a curse us and I'm like, what, 335 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:58.960 oh man? It is rough. And I love Adolph Caesar. 336 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.039 I don't know if you guys a soldier story. He's 337 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.920 fucking fantastic in that movie. That's one of those performances 338 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.759 between him and who is it Howard d Rollins that's 339 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:14.039 in there, or Henry d Rollins Henry Harold Henry Rollins 340 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.160 the punk rock singer Black Flags own Henry Rollins, where 341 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.640 he's portraying this black soldier who's coming in. It's really 342 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.880 weird the way that he does it all in blackface 343 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:25.359 the entire time and with. 344 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.759 That act to be another dude. 345 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.160 Yeah, but a Dolph Caesar in that movie and Rollins 346 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:34.440 are just freaking amazing. And it was one of those 347 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.400 where I was like, Oh, I want to see more 348 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.359 of this guy. And then when this episode comes up, 349 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:39.960 I'm like, oh, I didn't know he did the Tales 350 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:41.839 from the Dark Side. Oh, this is great. And then 351 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.519 when he starts speaking with that Jamaican accent, it's okay, 352 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.440 I'm gonna let this pass, all right, okay, And yeah, 353 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.240 then it becomes a zombie story at the end, and 354 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.559 I was like, all right, it's still not as scary 355 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.799 as not seeing the zombie in the first episode of 356 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:03.079 Night Gallery with Roddy McDill losing his absolute mind. I 357 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.039 was kind of hoping that she would lose her mind 358 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.440 in this one and that we would maybe see the 359 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.799 results of her with her, maybe your whole fingers pulled 360 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:13.839 off or something. But I wanted to see her get 361 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.359 her come up on more than what we got. 362 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.240 She took the ring off of her finger gingerly apparently 363 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.119 in letter v oh thank you here you go? I 364 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:25.519 ads like, why did you what was the reason you've died? 365 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.759 Because it seems like the ring was taken very quickly 366 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:28.839 and easily. 367 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.680 And why did she feel that she had to take 368 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.559 the ring? Never mind? Sorry, I'm asking for logic in 369 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:34.200 this episode. 370 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.920 Yeah, this episode is dangerously close to it Tails from 371 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.680 the Crypt segment from the film Poetics with Peter where 372 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:44.799 people on a block are trying to oust the old 373 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.160 man because billth the old man, and they do all 374 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:50.000 these dirty tricks to get him out of there, and 375 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:53.880 then he finally hangs himself. He's so ostracized and cut 376 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:56.880 off from life from these assholes. That is one of 377 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.920 my favorite segments of any filmed entertainment and anthology series 378 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:02.039 is that the. 379 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.599 One where they end up being in the dark and 380 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:08.240 there's like razor blades on the wall and the rest. 381 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.720 That is tails. That's the same movie Tails from the Crypt, 382 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.160 the Amicus production. But that's a further segment. 383 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.319 Oh okay, Okay, that's really the only that. Isn't there 384 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:19.480 a monkeys Paul in that one? 385 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.400 I think those are the other one that's Bulk of Horror. 386 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:24.440 Okay is it Baltimore? No, it might be Test Crypt, 387 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.519 but yeah, yeah, the Poetic Justice segment with Peter Cushing, 388 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.200 that's the one. If if there's ever, an image shown 389 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:32.680 from that movie, it's him rising from the grave the 390 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:36.920 Grimsdyke zombie and that's the payoff there that sort of 391 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.440 inspired Father's Day and in Creep Show that one, like 392 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.960 those two are of a piece and not necessarily of 393 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.799 equal measure, because Peter Cushing is heartbreaking in that thing. 394 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.759 What both of those things are though, are really good 395 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.200 and this thing is really not. I did not see 396 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.319 the twist that it was the wife doing this to ADOLFH. Caesar. 397 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.319 I thought it was strictly voodoo occurring. So I was 398 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.039 happily price to them, completely pissed because it should have 399 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.640 been a fucking voodoo fantasia in this episode. They should 400 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:07.400 have they could have really gone for it made something 401 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.119