WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:05.639 Weird wad. 2 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.439 Welcome back midnight viewers to Father Malone's weekly round up. 3 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.159 I am Father Malone and joining me beside me to 4 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.000 guide me the little lady who sat through Wes Craven's 5 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.240 Swamp Thing yesterday. I'm so fucking proud of you, just 6 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.120 glued to the screen and no freakouts, Miss Ripley. 7 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:06.480 Jean. 8 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.640 Yeah, I doubt you'll respond the same to that short 9 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.920 lived television series. It is very scary, but we are 10 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:18.040 not talking Alec Holland or Anton Arcane or Abigail Arcane. 11 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.319 There's a romance for you swamp Thing and Abby Arcane. 12 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.840 I know, I know, I just said we're not talking 13 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.280 swamp thing. Actually, later today I am talking swampting. As 14 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.280 a guest over on a year in Horror podcast. Always 15 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.760 a delight getting to drop in over there in chat 16 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.079 with the show's illustrious and hilarious host, mister Paul Waller. 17 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.280 He's at Waller, not Weller. On Instagram and other socials. 18 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.959 Probably I'm at Fan Malone on Insta and Blue Sky 19 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.079 and threads. As in my patients with social media is 20 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:51.000 hanging by a few of those threads. Yellowjackets Update, I'm 21 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.640 actively angry at the show now boneheaded shit. Just to 22 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.799 keep things moving at this point, that's where they're dumping 23 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.000 us out at the end of the season. The finale 24 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.719 is this Friday, Xbox Action. I'm back on Alien Isolation. 25 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.319 I know I'm very predictable and boring, but there is 26 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:11.240 an innovation now too. Actually, number one, I bought an 27 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.639 awesome NASA jacket, and if I wear it while I'm 28 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.319 playing it, it makes me feel like I'm in the game 29 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.439 method gaming, y'all. And number two, I bought my first 30 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.960 ever expansion pack for the game Soul Survivor. So now 31 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.560 I'm running around on the actual Nostromo and it is 32 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:29.719 a fucking trip. And and I'm the actual Ripley. No, 33 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.879 I'm Ripley, You're a Ripley. It's really just Alien Isolation 34 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.199 in Survivor mode with some new skins on some things. 35 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.599 But fuck, it is a trip to come around a 36 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.719 corner and run into yaff at Coto as Parker or 37 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:46.280 you know, Lambert standing behind a glass divider giving you attitude. Also, 38 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.879 I saw the Monkey that's Osgood Perkins new film based 39 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.240 on the short story by Stephen King. You remember the 40 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.960 main image off of the Skeleton Crew book The Little 41 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.199 wind Up Monkey with the Cymbals. Well here it's a 42 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.759 wind up Monkey with a drum. Because that famous novelty 43 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.680 Wine Monkey with Symbols is actually copywritten. They've turned that 44 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.000 short story basically into Final Destination. If you want a 45 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.280 longer review of it, hit me up at Father Malone 46 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.240 seventy one at gmail dot com, or at the aforementioned 47 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.039 social spots. I didn't have a huge problem with the film. 48 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:17.080 It's just that I'm trying to recommend things on this 49 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.280 show as much as possible, rather than just have a 50 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.520 laugh pointing out how hard it is to combine humor 51 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.840 and horror like in the Monkey. Okay, I'll stop. If 52 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:26.680 you do write in you may end up on a 53 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.680 segment here, what segment? 54 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:29.680 What segment? 55 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.400 The segment with the power the power of voodoo? 56 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.639 All right, that's enough. Pal from a role. 57 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.719 Alex Bledsoe he's the author of the Eddie Lacrosse series. 58 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.919 He wrote in about the crossover episode we did with 59 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.199 Noise Junkies host HP about Walter Hill's film Crossroads. He 60 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.280 saw it at a sneak preview ahead of Wildcats. Remember 61 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.199 when studios would do that? Remember when there were studios 62 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.479 about a week before the film's premiere. They would have 63 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.759 a word of mouth screening paired with whatever else was 64 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:04.680 their big release. At the moment. These days, the closest 65 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:07.039 you're going to get is a Thursday night soft opening. 66 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.039 I went to a lot of these special screenings, pre 67 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.639 social media, pre overexposure. There were times when folks had 68 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.919 no idea a movie was coming out up until the 69 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.199 week of, and there you'd be, having already seen it 70 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:23.120 and just bursting about it. Alex's screening was Crossroads and 71 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.560 then Wildcats. I'd say, I wish I'd seen them in 72 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.639 the theater, but I did. 73 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:27.519 I know. 74 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.360 I think I'm bragging, when really all I'm saying is 75 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.240 I'm really fucking old. Those screenings were great, though, because 76 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.800 they afforded the opportunity to feel like a mogul. Shall 77 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:36.199 we stay for the feature? 78 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:36.800 No? 79 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.959 Anyone can see that Alex chose to dip out on Wildcats, 80 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.759 feeling that any other entertainment was going to be lesser. 81 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.120 I think in that case you would have been fine. 82 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.399 I like Wildcats. It was great seeing Goldiehan being funny 83 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.000 and baass and not just in DITZI. She is clearly 84 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.560 a fucking powerhouse, but funny thing HP and I attended 85 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.600 a few of those back in the day. We actually 86 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.279 went to the Beetlejuice sneak preview together. 87 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.160 Michael Keathon mare is a ghost called Beetlejuice and the 88 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.800 ghostly and most name twitted Beiji the Speak previews Saturday, 89 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:09.680 March twenty sixth. 90 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.279 That was paired with the delightful Police Academy five assignment 91 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.079 to Miami Beach. I think we left during the credits 92 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.959 of Police Academy following that exact same instinct. We were 93 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.399 right also in the penn Pal Mailbanks section, just a 94 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.680 continued conversation with our man in Scotland Ian what's up, 95 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.839 mister Banks. That's like Mary Poppins or that movie with 96 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.000 Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Colin Farrell was mister Banks, 97 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:36.319 that's neither here nor there, other than I'm here and 98 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.480 I'd like to be there in Scotland or Wales. I 99 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.959 want to spend a month of Sundays in Wales. I 100 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.439 think that's an Irish expression. But whatever Welsh people contact 101 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.079 me tell me where to go. That's cool. I mean, 102 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.879 obviously I'm going to make a pilgrimage to the statue 103 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:54.319 of Yanto Jones. He is a global hero, not just 104 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:56.959 a Welsh local hero, and we all owe him a debt. 105 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:59.680 You know what, anyone in the UK hit me up 106 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.759 if you been to Blackpool. I am not low key obsessed. 107 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.399 I'm fully on fucking obsessed, and I want to know 108 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.600 if you've been, what's it like? Have you been in 109 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.000 the off season? Where I grew up, there's a little 110 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:13.959 boardwalk called the Willows in Salem, Massachusetts. During the summer, 111 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.879 it is very heaven ski ball and arcade games and 112 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.199 miniature rides to the kids and the best sloppiest fucking 113 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.319 Chinese American place that makes this fucking sandwich will quote 114 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:27.360 a generous slice of American cheese, and it's all great. 115 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:33.240 But in the winter, oh man, so desolate. The food 116 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.959 places are still open, and sometimes an arcade will still 117 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.879 be open, but there are no tourists. There are barely 118 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.240 any locals, just you and the guy who makes the 119 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.439 popcorn bars and the saltwater taffy. Am I feeling nostalgic 120 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:45.879 for home? 121 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:46.360 No? 122 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.879 I want to go to Blackpool, motherfuckers. If I've learned 123 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.240 anything in this life, it's this the cool people are 124 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.160 always going to leave us, and the bankrupt, boring worst 125 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.680 of us will be left behind. That was the case 126 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.800 this week when we lost a fucking giant. I oh boy, 127 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.920 I had no idea how hard his death would hit me. 128 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.199 But the world got a little less interesting with the 129 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.680 passing of mister Val Kilmer. I'm gonna do my damness 130 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:16.560 not to lose my shit during the next twenty or 131 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.600 six minutes. Pretty sure we all loved him. Obviously, he 132 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.160 put his stamp on Doctor John Holiday. That will be 133 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.680 nigh impossible to top that portrayal. How could anyone be 134 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:29.079 Doc Holliday? After Kilmer's antique drawl whispers in your ear, 135 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.920 how much better it is? Here's my favorite line, By 136 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:32.319 the way. 137 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:36.680 It's very cosmopouloism. Sheriff may I present a pair of 138 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.240 fellows sophisticates in Turkey Creek, Jack Johnson, Texas Jack of 139 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.959 a Million. Watch you here, Creek. 140 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.240 There are way too many roles in way too many 141 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.360 triumphs to get into any kind of full on retrospective here. 142 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:51.399 So let me say, if you haven't seen the documentary, vow, 143 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.600 what the fuck are you waiting for? Do you need 144 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.319 another demonstration of how fleeting everything can be. I realized 145 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:00.199 the irony of telling you to live life with us 146 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.920 by watching a documentary about an actor, is to which 147 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.600 I say, shut the fuck up, Go watch the documentary. 148 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.600 The motherfucker always had a video camera. You can see 149 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.759 every portion of his life. It's incredible, including when he 150 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.800 was a kid doing this wicked quint from Jaws impression 151 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.279 with actual funny punchlines. Or maybe it was the performance. 152 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.360 Now it's streaming for free. It's going to break your heart. 153 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.199 But now is an excellent time for that. There are 154 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:29.519 really so many goddamn good performances. There are entire raps 155 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:31.120 of films that can be said to have only one 156 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.720 good thing in them going into that's Val Kilmer. But 157 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.120 you can discover those on your own. And naturally he 158 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.360 is inextricably linked with Jim Morrison and The Doors. I 159 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.399 think mister Kilmer's version of five to one is superior 160 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.679 to the original. Is that sacrilege or sacrilicious? That movie 161 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.039 is always worth a rewatch. And here's the thing about 162 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:52.159 Val Kilmer's and Batman. When you cast that part, you're 163 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.720 really casting Bruce Wayne because the bat is pretty interchangeable 164 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.120 unless you're gonna do something nuts like try to growl 165 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:00.759 like a demon with limited vocal range. That might set 166 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.679 you apart. But I will say that Val Kilmer as 167 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:08.519 Batman is really the only good performance of that character. 168 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.799 It isn't camp or kitsch like George Clooney or Adam West. 169 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:15.360 It's not overly serious like Christian Bale or Robert Pattinson. 170 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.519 And he can move his neck unlike Michael Keaton. And 171 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.080 since I'm dropping in Val Kilmer vocals in this episode, 172 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.519 here is my favorite delivery of a line in any 173 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.759 Batman film. Matman has just busted his way inside the 174 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.519 helicopter that two Face has been using to menace Gotham. 175 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:33.519 It's the quickest, most informal line that Beliza relationship and 176 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.159 complicated history that we can only dream of. 177 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.440 You need hell harm him, give it up. 178 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:41.600 And we're not even close to running out of iconic 179 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.399 roles in films like Heat. You were there for the 180 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.879 New York stage actors getting together for the first time. 181 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.200 I was there for Mad Martigan with a machine gun. 182 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.120 Speaking of Mad Martigan, I know they did that spinoff 183 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.399 series recently, but who cares too little too late? We 184 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:59.879 deserved a Mad Martigan standalone flick or a franchise further advent. 185 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:05.279 Absolutely the Mad Martikan chronicles Chiching. I mean, I haven't 186 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.600 even mentioned Iceman and Top Gun. It's pretty fucking iconic. 187 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.759 Not that we're covering that gang. I mean, you're probably 188 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.480 read the title, so it's not like a huge surprise 189 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.840 or anything. I don't know what your Val Kilmer origin 190 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.600 tale might be for me. I first saw his For me, 191 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.480 I saw his first film in the theater. I'd say 192 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:24.480 up until Kiss, Kiss, Bang Bang, I saw everything of 193 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.559 Val Kilmer's in the theater. I don't think I was 194 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.480 even conscious of doing it. Some performers are just like that. 195 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.879 If you were to ask me my favorite musicians, I 196 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:33.759 don't know how early on the list, I'd say Linda 197 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.279 Ronstadt ranks, but I look at my record collection and 198 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.120 I own every fucking album she put out. Either I'm 199 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:42.519 mk ultra condition to buy every Linda Ronstadt record, or 200 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:44.840 I'm a big fucking fan of that lady. And the 201 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:46.919 movie that really did it for me with Val Kilmer 202 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.080 was his second feature, though really his first, honest to god, 203 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.759 actual narrative feature film, get Ready for the Tanning Invitational 204 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:57.200 Get Down, into those steam tunnels and into Laslow's pajamas. 205 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.720 Put on your yellow mock turtlenecks. It's ill genius. 206 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.279 I don't want to hear about any problems done, just 207 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:06.799 as long as we have a working weapon by the 208 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:10.080 end of June. I haven't had a working weapon since Korea. 209 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.559 When the military runs short on brains, they go hunting 210 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:21.639 at Pacific Tech, an exclusive institution for outstanding intellects, where 211 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.080 the superstar of smarts is Chris Knight. 212 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:25.799 You have a jacuzzi. 213 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:30.840 Absolutely, His hobbies violate the laws of gravity. What are 214 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:36.279 you doing out there floating, sir? His homework could win 215 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.480 a Nobel prize. 216 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.240 He's one of the ten finest minds in the country. 217 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.120 And his IQ is higher than most people can count. 218 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:47.480 I can't stand it. 219 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:49.320 Have you ever seen a body like this before in 220 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:53.159 your life? She happens to be my daughter, Then I 221 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:53.720 guess you had. 222 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.279 But when Chris makes the scientific discovery of the century, 223 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.840 you did it. His classmates want the credit. 224 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.639 You're not number one around here anymore. 225 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:12.039 His professor wants the publicity I and the military wants 226 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.480 to use his discovery as the ultimate weapon. 227 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:16.080 This is not good. 228 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.120 So Chris is about to turn getting even into a 229 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:28.039 science start and show them Roger open bombay doors. They 230 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:33.159 should never try to outsmart a real genius. 231 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.440 It's no longer laying efficially. 232 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:41.440 It's not shutting down. 233 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:47.840 Shut it down, real genius. 234 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:49.679 Number. 235 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.200 When Animal House was released in seventy eight, it marked 236 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:59.600 a significant change in the landscape of collegiate comedy, as 237 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:02.720 well as making life hell for cafeteria janitorial staff four 238 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.720 years to come. But in addition to inspiring what must 239 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.559 have been terrible copycat behavior on campuses nationwide, it also 240 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.960 cracked open takes of irreverence and prankery that had been 241 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.600 occurring at schools since time immemorial. And while tales of 242 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.480 partying and terrible behavior seemed to dominate those narratives, occasionally 243 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.279 you'd hear of schemes and pranks that were actually just 244 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.919 fun or inventive. Madison, Wisconsin's official bird is the plastic 245 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.919 pink Flamingo, thanks to a University of Wisconsin prank in 246 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.440 nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen eighty two, Mit, which has 247 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.759 no sports team, buried a weather balloon on the field 248 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.440 of an upcoming Yale and Harvard game. It inflated explosively 249 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.799 mid play. We all won that game. The granddaddy of 250 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.559 weirdo pranks and eccentricity has always been cal Tech, California 251 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.559 Technical Institute. They've been at it since the fucking twenties. 252 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.759 Let me tell you a recent one. Because most of 253 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.879 the classic pranks you already know, they were folded into 254 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.279 the screenplay for Real Genius. But in two thousand and five, 255 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.519 Caltech students traveled to MIT for their freshman orientation weekend. 256 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.840 They inflated a cal Tech blimp inside the dome. They 257 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.320 gave out hundreds of T shirts that read MIT on 258 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.279 the front and on the back because not everyone can 259 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.320 get into cal Tech, and they changed the campus signed 260 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:21.000 to read the other Institute of Technology. It was stories 261 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:22.960 like that that cut a script together from Pat Proft 262 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.919 and Neil Israel. Those were frequent collaborators of the Kentucky 263 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.000 Fry Theater. That script was eventually refined uncredited by Loel 264 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.799 Gans and Babbelo Mandel before ending up with director Martha Coolidge. 265 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.399 She added a whole lot of smart and dispensed with 266 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.120 the typical sex comedy script was riddled with. Interestingly, the 267 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:44.080 villain was originally named doctor Atherton that changed to Hathaway 268 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.559 when professional eighties asshole William Atherton was cast in that role. 269 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:49.919 So now, in the wake of Animal House and the 270 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.320 Rise of Snobs versus Slob's humor, Real Genius gives us 271 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.440 something entirely new. Smart people, they're still having sex, but 272 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:00.399 it isn't the focus of the goddamn film. You've got 273 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.320 a fuddy duddy old dean at your university. He acts 274 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:05.360 like a real dick when you guys party so hard 275 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:08.320 you destroy an entire city block. Well, how about an 276 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.480 administration complicit with the black op section of the defense 277 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.960 industry using your inventions for political assassination. Now that's something 278 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:17.720 to rally behind with a little more meat on the 279 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:21.159 bone than who can chug the most beer. Real Genius 280 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.440 follows Mitch Taylor in the original script, Mitch Simon, a 281 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.480 fifteen year old savant who's accepted midterm to the fictional 282 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.759 Pacific Tech, where he's partnered with a famed student genius 283 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.279 named Chris Knight originally Chris Kinsley. I don't know why 284 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.679 these minor changes from script to screen tickle me so much, 285 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.360 but they really do. Chris is kind of the platonic 286 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.519 ideal of the eighties wise ass hero. He's actually that 287 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.039 smart and he's actually that fun. Ryan Reynolds has based 288 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.200 his entire goddamn career on emulating this character. No, not 289 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.039 the character, this performance. It'd be easy to turn Chris 290 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.919 Knight into an insufferable person, but they lucked out here 291 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.519 with the second screen performance of Val Kilmer Olmers. Chris 292 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.840 Knight is my absolute fucking hero, top to bottom. He 293 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:08.840 is an aspirational icon, incredible sense of style, incredible good looks, 294 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:11.960 incredible sense of irreverence, and he's the smartest guy in 295 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.679 the fucking room. I possess none of those qualities, but man, 296 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.120 I did and still do aspire to bet Chris Knight. 297 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:20.960 On a side note, at age thirteen, I went to 298 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.399 the mall to one of those T shirt places, you remember, 299 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.960 those T shirt places, like the iron On places, and 300 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.159 I had them make me a replica of the Monkey's 301 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.600 T shirt Chris Knight wears in this film. They had 302 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:32.840 to dig the design out of the back, but I 303 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.559 wore that goddamn shirt proudly knowing that Chris Knight agreed 304 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.720 that the monkeys were cool. Speaking of which, two of 305 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.159 the Monkey's guest stars show up as professors here, Monty 306 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:46.000 landis as the dismissive prick when we first meet Chris Knight, 307 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:51.080 and then the amazing, the incredible, the legendary Severn Darden 308 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:55.159 as the befuddled professor Meredith. If you don't know Severn Darden, 309 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:58.000 look him up. He is a major force in the 310 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.679 early improv scene and a really interesting human being. Some 311 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.480 of those pranks and scenarios that occurred in real life 312 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:09.000 At Caltech In nineteen forty a car was disassembled and 313 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.839 then reassembled inside a dorm room. It was a model 314 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.279 t Ford and it was idling when they discovered it. 315 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.240 How about the McDonald's contest in nineteen seventy five, where 316 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.880 you could enter as many times as you liked. Students 317 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.480 did They won twenty percent of the prizes, including a 318 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.720 new station wagon. They wants froze a stairwell and used 319 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:28.960 it for sledding. As it melted, it became a whitewater 320 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.759 rafting spot. There is a legendary student who cracked and 321 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.039 retreated into the steam tunnels, where he spent three semesters. 322 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.599 One of the inspirations for the film that wasn't previous prank, 323 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.480 but a student. The producers and director encountered Phyllis Rostchis 324 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.559 nickname Trigger became the basis for hyperkinetic student Jordan played 325 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:51.440 by Michelle Myrin. That character would have then inspire gadget 326 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.680 Hack Wrench on Chippendale Rescue Rangers. Jordan eventually falls for 327 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.279 Mitch in the film's Only Real stab At Romance. A 328 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.200 word about Mitch, played by Gabe jam Mister Jarrett is 329 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.960 very young in the film and has very soft features, 330 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.559 so much so that when my late wife Jessica was 331 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.200 watching the film for the first time, she was convinced 332 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.240 they were going to reveal halfway through that Mitch was 333 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.079 actually a girl. I hadn't thought of it when I 334 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.200 saw the film, but now I can't not think of 335 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.440 it when I rewatch it. Oh and speaking of weird 336 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:24.680 inside jokes, the initials INDI appear throughout the film Darlington 337 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:29.119 Electronics Incorporated. Later there's a van with Drain Experts Incorporated. 338 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.440 It stands for it Dabney Eats It, which is not 339 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:35.759 a reference to Dabney Coleman's failed network show, but actually 340 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:37.720 one of the houses on the campus of cal Tech, 341 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.880 Dabney House, where during the fifties, a dish of noodles 342 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.480 was so unpalatable that it inspired the phrase They were 343 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.200 a conservative bastion until the sixties, when the entire house 344 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.799 became radicalized. Since then, they've put those initials everywhere they 345 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:54.519 can scrawl it. Innumerable satellites are orbiting above your head 346 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:58.559 right now, festooned with DEI. Those letters are at the 347 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:02.160 top of everest has it, They're on the moon. Let's 348 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.079 talk in music. There are eighty soundtracks you can point 349 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:08.400 to as cultural touchstones of time and place. Fast times 350 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:12.119 at Ridgemont High Valley Girl, where usually a soundtrack supervisor 351 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.559 or consultant cherry picks a few dozen tracks from the 352 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:17.559 most popular or guaranteed up and comers to present to 353 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.920 the filmmaker. That's how you end up with what could 354 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:25.160 pass for a greatest hit of That's that's how you 355 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.119 end up with what could pass for a greatest hits 356 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:31.119 of new wave samplers. The other more prevalent eighties soundtrack 357 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.279 can be exemplified by real genius. There are a couple 358 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:37.920 of tracks from then proven winners Don Henley Tears for Fears, 359 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.079 and then a whole bunch of songs that sounded good 360 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.119 at the time and go ahead, just put them on there. 361 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.279 Such situations can be awful, better off dead, y'all. I've 362 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.880 been arrested by you take me you, Oh my God. 363 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.400 Or it could be something like number one by Chaz Jankle. 364 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:54.960 Number one is. 365 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:58.160 A hot time, I'm making. 366 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:06.519 Shock? What else? 367 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:17.920 Not great? 368 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:18.599 Not bad? 369 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.799 Does the job? Or I'm falling by the comsat Angels. 370 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.720 To be fair, if you named your band after Cutting 371 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:26.640 Age Tech, you were probably gonna end up on the 372 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:56.079 Real Genius soundtrack. No better than all Those, though, is 373 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.680 a Brian Adams song One Night Love Affair. This is 374 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.039 my favorite song from that Canadian and describes my favorite 375 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:05.640 kind of romance, not a one night stand, although the 376 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:08.640 name implies that I'm talking about that brief coming together, 377 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.240 not physically at all, just a complete surrender to a 378 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:13.920 time and a place and a person without any regard 379 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.680 to past or future, the audio equivalent of lost in translation, 380 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:19.759 I suppose I'm gonna put that song at the end 381 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.480 of this episode. They've threatened to remake A Real Genius 382 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:24.359 a whole bunch of times over the years. I think 383 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:26.279 they may have gotten close just about a decade ago. 384 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.039 Don't do it, or at least please do it very 385 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.440 very well. I mean a show about smart kids inspiring 386 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:36.599 other actual smart kids to make our lives better while 387 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.799 constantly fucking shit up. Couldn't hurt these days. Okay, Jesus, 388 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:41.880 I can tell you're excited. 389 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:50.240 Hit it HP. But we have here a list of 390 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:55.400 these things. If we're good, we're gonna try it. In 391 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:56.039 sixty minutes. 392 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:57.519 We're gonna try and get you to say it ain't 393 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:00.920 over tell us over and say is it true or 394 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:01.279 not true? 395 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:02.759 When I when I'd brush on some of these, No, 396 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:03.359 that's not true. 397 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.119 Okay. You wanted the director of that movie Island of Doctor. 398 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:07.759 Morot to be fired. 399 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:11.880 No, no, not true, shruved the Batman director. No, no, 400 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.519 didn't do that. Not true. On the set of. 401 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:17.960