Doug Loves Movies - Doug Bass, Trae Crowder and Amy Miller guest

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

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LOL Comedy Club in San Antonio this Saturday, December 2nd at 420. My guests today are two old bees and a new bee. We got Doug Bass, Trey Crowder, and Amy Miller. Hello. Woo! Hi, hi, hi. Hey, guys. Hey, Scratchy. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically by first name,

which always works out great for Amy Miller. Hey, Amy. Yeah. Oh, hi, Doug and other Doug and Trey. Hello. You've spent your whole life being buried in the middle of the crowd with M last name, but that Amy

puts you right up front. It's very true. When alphabetized by first. The last time you did the show was at the Improv Lab in Hollywood. Next show there is on Tuesday, December 19th. But you did not win on that day. So people

might be saying, they'll either be saying, I love Amy, I'm glad she's back so soon, or what happened? Why is she back so soon? And I brought you back so soon because the quote unquote winner, Guy Branum, is a cheater. Right? Did you hear what happened? Lock him up. Lock him up. During Last Person Standing, we were naming Piper Laurie movies,

which is hard enough as it is. And then Guy just slipped into Shirley Knight movies, who is a similar actress. So I bought it. I didn't think anything was going on. And then he sold it really hard too. He did. Well, I think he believed it at the time.

And then he realized he was wrong. And he confessed to me via, you know, the social media. And so anyway, I wanted to have the two of you do a rematch. But that might happen some other time. But for now, you are back, because in my mind, you're, if not a winner that night, at least a tie for first. Why can't I just be the winner? I guess so, but it really changes things that he was, you know, he cheated on two rounds. It's hard to know how it would have shook out.

But you're right. You're the winner. Yeah. Fuck you, Guy Branum. Yeah. So welcome back, Amy Miller. Your dreams were your ticket out. Joining us for the first time, a recent delightful guest on Wide World of Dugs.

It's Doug Bass. Hey, Doug. Hey, Doug. How you doing? I don't like hearing my name back at me like that, but I'm doing good. It's confusing, right? Yeah. It's trippy.

Yeah. So you were on Wide World of Dougs recently. Thank you for doing that. Thanks for having me, yeah. The question I have for you today is, do you consider yourself to be good at movie trivia? I do love movies. I would say maybe I'm in the middle somewhere.

I don't think I'm an expert by all means, because I've listened to your show. You have some hard trivia questions. I know enough, but definitely we'll see. I'll just put it at that. Yeah. Well, the key word in describing my questions is, of course, trivia. It is, you know, stuff you might know or might not know.

And that's, you know, that's how it works. So I think you sound like you could do well here. So good luck to you. Thank you. Also, winning doesn't matter. And also joining us, we've got a returning favorite, Trey Crowder. How's it going, man? I'm doing good, Doug B.

Well, I was going to say Doug B, but you're both Doug B. We covered that before we turned the show on. Too many Doug Bs. Main Doug. Host Doug. I'm good. Thanks for having me. b but you're both doug b we we covered that before we turn the show anyway too many doug b's main doug host doug i'm good thanks for having me i hope that doesn't stick i don't want to be known as host doug yeah it just sounds like patient zero doug yeah exactly i've got something in me yeah i'm the host um you've won uh you've beaten the other guests on the show in the past, have you? I won. We did one at Dynasty Typewriter, and I won that one.

It was a Nicolas Cage round, and it came down to me and Steve Agee. He missed, so I won. And then I was like, okay, so I won, but can I just give my answer anyway just to really solidify it? And you were like, I guess. And then I gave a wrong answer at the end and just kind of crapped all over my own, you know, my own moment, but still counted. So, yeah. Yeah. I should have taken the win back maybe.

Yeah. But congratulations. Of course you're welcome. Anytime before we play our games today, I'd like to visit Recommendation Nation, which is, of course, where I ask everybody to recommend a movie. And it's that time of year again. So I'd like each of you to recommend a whatever it means to you because you know everybody can have a different interpretation but a quote-unquote holiday movie i say holiday mostly because i'm fighting the war

on christmas and um it's a war that's uh it's a war that's ridiculous because you know ultimately i don't think christmas is ever going to go away and i i love it but i also find people that get mad when you say happy holidays to be uh insensitive and stupid um so let's start with amy let's start with a you know there's other there's other people that don't celebrate christmas so amy what is your holiday movie recommendation? Well, it's always Shane Black season for me. So if you haven't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or the nice guys like just watch, just start there. I love like Christmas in L.A. movies, too, where it's like Christmas lights on a cactus or like that's a sad life we're living it's still sunny nothing's changed it's never christmas in either of those movies you said though is it um yeah wait isn't

it kiss kiss bang bang is a christmas movie yes i'm going with yes shane black he i mean he loves christmas he wraps christmas up into a lot of his stuff. No pun intended. Yeah, he's obsessed. Yeah. But I think that you know, and it's a great recommendation in general. The Nice Guys, I don't think I think I feel like it's summertime or something during that movie. Yeah, I think you're right.

But it's not, you don't need hey, maybe you don't celebrate Christmas. You can just watch Shane Black movies all month anyway. That's a good time. I mean, those are two great movies. You call it Black History Month. Oh, no.

Oh, no. A mutual friend, Jenny Johnson, does. She'll live tweet or live X, I guess you'd call it now. She would do that for movies, you know, based on requests from her followers. And she just she just watched Nice Guys for the first time. And it was fun reading her recap of it because she was just like delighted by every hilarious turn that occurs in that movie. It's so fun um but kiss kiss bang bang since it's christmasy we'll we'll uh since it's chris chris king bang bang we'll um we'll uh

i'll allow it i mean i'll allow whatever you want to say but uh let's go with kiss kiss bang bang for your recommendation with uh you know two great actors who really kind of hit their stride in it together, Robert Johnny Jr. and Val Kilmer. Yes. And if you're in L.A., they're showing it at the New Art. That's nice. What do you think the second feature is? I don't know.

Is it two Shane Blacks or they do another thematic thing like another Val Kilmer or something like that? I can't remember. That's okay. Google New Art Theater, Santa Monica. Doug Bass, what would you recommend for the holiday season? The holiday season Christmas movie. holiday season the holiday season christmas movie um i'm gonna say i mean i i could pick like you know the the regular ones that everyone has seen i guess all the time but um i'm gonna pick something a little out of left field maybe i'm gonna say that i'm gonna say the 2000 comedy the family man

starring nicholas cage wow that's the one where it's sort of like a christmas carol like he sees Family Man starring Nicolas Cage. Wow. That's the one where it's sort of like a Christmas carol. He sees his own life and what he's done wrong. That kind of thing. He lets Talioni get away from him in the past and then he wakes up married to her.

It's kind of like Wonderful Life meets... What could have been if he had made a different decision? Is Don Cheadle in that one? He is. He plays like... His buddy or his work pal?

Yeah, he's like the guardian angel or whatever. Oh, right, right. That's more than a work pal. What is... Do you remember what he does in the movie Oh, right, right. That's more than a work pal. Do you remember what he does in the movie for a living? Is he just a rich guy, basically? Yeah, he's super rich. He's all about work and making money. That's all he cares about.

He lives in Manhattan in a penthouse. Then he wakes up in the suburbs of New Jersey in a two-bedroom house with three kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got to adapt. He's got to adapt to it and then figure out what he missed out on if he had said yes to staying with her versus leaving to go take the job.

I know a lot of comedians this happen to. It's so hard to keep track of who Nicolas Cage is playing. Because one minute he's a family man. Then he's a weatherman. Then he's a matchstick man. Like, what is going on? Yeah, he has done a lot of men movies. Yeah, you're right.

I mean, he's done many movies to begin with. He's been in like 30 movies a year. So this was back when he was not doing as many many, but then did like every movie that came his way. Yeah, well, I mean, he still does because he is on record as saying that he, you know, is an actor for a living. And the part of the thing about having a job is you go to work every day. So he, you know, projects based on continuing to work all the time. And his new one's really good. I really enjoyed the dream scenario.

Oh yeah. It looks good. Yeah. It's really, yeah. He was also broke for a very long time. So he had to pay all those bills. Oh yeah. Well, he used to like buy castles and stuff

And you know Dinosaur bones Go out with Elvis' daughter And all sorts of stuff The rings alone That's a big investment Alright Trey We got two good ones so far

Yeah What do you say i'm i mean i'm going the complete opposite direction as doug this one i'm sure is super obvious but i just feel like i won't be true to myself as if i pick any other christmas movie because the only tradition we really had in my house growing up like except for the standard you know we had a tree we had gifts all that shit but i mean the only thing that like we did every single year growing up you know because my dad on the video store and everything and i don't even remember the first year we watched it but we watched every year and i still do national lampoon's christmas vacation which is my all-time favorite christmas movie i still think it's hilarious i can't do it right now but when it's

on i can you know pretty much quote the whole thing through it not that i would do that that'd be super annoying but uh i don't know that any character in movie history comes out of the gate slinging more heat than uh cousin eddie does in that movie when he's introduced just line after line of just fastballs man kills me every time have you seen oh sorry go ahead have you seen the like um easter egg i guess when randy quaid has a huge boner in the grocery store yes yeah because he like put a water bottle in his like polyester pants because just he thought it would be funny that apropos of nothing he's just rock hard at the grocery store like it's never mentioned i missed that i gotta re-watch that the frozen food section will do that to you

yeah he adjusted at some point and it's very funny but it's definitely subtle and why did they let him do that like he's such a lunatic yeah but probably why that's that why yeah answer your own question maybe he's such a lunatic just let him do it he's here than trying to keep him from doing it yeah he lost his mind i think didn't he oh yeah very much i've seen his trailer porn trailer porn how's that stack up to the rest of his ovois it's pretty weird man i mean he's just like fucking his lady in their trailer. And he wears some kind of mask or something? Yeah.

So he pretty much is Cousin Eddie is what we're getting at. Yeah. He really, like, yeah, he became the character. But also still, like, at least Cousin Eddie, like, you know, even on purpose, like, says something amusing every once in a while. But holy shit, he's just such a freak now. And it's so weird to go back and watch a movie like that and be like, I just always enjoyed his performance so much. And then now it's like, he's really a bummer. But I didn't know about the grocery store thing.

And you know what? I'm not going to go look for it. So that's my Christmas present to myself. You know, if I'm watching, if it comes on, which it will several times this month, if I land on it when I'm flipping around, you know, and it's that scene, I'll give a look just for verification purposes. Thank you, Dan. It is a great Christmas movie, though, yeah. Maybe you'll get a text in the middle of the night, oh my God, he is rock hard in the grocery store.

They just tore down that National Lampoon's house. Did you guys hear about that on the Warner's lot, the ranch? Oh, right. Yeah, they just went crazy tearing down everything on the ranch there's so many great movies shot on that uh little lot over the years like peewee's big adventure and uh american beauty and um oh gross point blank the uh the scene where a gas station explodes. They filmed that. Oh, yeah. There. And they really just blew up the fake gas station that they had sitting there. It's like a convenience mart, and it just blows up.

And I was working on that lot that day, so I got to watch them blow it up. It was pretty fun. That's cool. Okay. So those are all terrific recommendations any time of the year, but that's the end of that. Our games today are going to begin right after this break. We'll be right back. We're back, and I was thinking during the break about how I think the reason that he has an erection in the grocery store and

they let him get away with it in christmas vacation is national and poon had that kind of label on you know their first big hit was uh animal house and their magazine is you know pretty filthy so uh i think they were really trying to be like make dirty movies but then they made that first vacation movie and everything that's like offensive and it is inoffensive in a way that you can get away with in a pg rated movie you know like your grandma could die you can put her on the roof of the car that doesn't make it an r you know even though it's such a horrible thing to do yeah you're right you're right with that though yeah i think i think i think they all i think they all like push the envelope they once the first one made a lot of money they had to keep making them like you know pseudo family films that the whole family could watch but they still tried to

put in as much you, disgusting or dirty humor as they could get away with. So, you know, because none of those vacation movies are rated R, I don't think. The first one is. The first one's rated R. It is rated R. The first one's rated R.

Just for one scene where Christie Brinkley jumps into a pool? Well, no. Beverly D'Angelo's topless in one scene and then there's a bunch of F-bombs throughout the movie. Yeah, that's it. It's the F-bombs, I guess. The other two are PG-13.

Toplessness used to happen a lot in the 70s and 80s in movies that were rated PG. And the Vegas Vacation one is PG. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They just really flipped over because I guess families enjoyed

despite how raunchy it is, they just enjoyed the first vacation so much. I bet you when they were making Christmas Vacation they might have been thinking that it was going to be an R. That's why Dennis Quaid got away with that. Sorry for the deep dive on Dennis Quaid got away with that. Sorry for the deep dive on why Quaid got away with his sneaky boner.

Our first of two games today is called, again, apologies for my filthy mouth, it's called ABC Deez Nuts. And it's a spelling game. And by that I mean I'm going to announce a word and

we are going to take turns the three of you, starting with Amy and then going to Doug and then to Trey. You're going to each take a letter from this word and name any movie that begins with that letter but as we proceed you might notice some sort of theme emerging that might help you to match because for each letter i've written down a movie title that if you match you automatically win the whole game and don't feel bad if you don't

it's it's it's uh very difficult and random but if you figure out the theme you might be able to uh take it down and the theme i'm not gonna say the theme i'm gonna say the word the word is a new movie that's out right now in theaters from Emerald Fennell who did Promising Young Woman and this is their second feature as a writer director

and I didn't love it but speaking of Dix if you want to see Barry Keoghan's junk, then in that case, I highly recommend the movie Salt Burn. And Salt Burn, by the way, in the movie is just the name of a building of like a kind of a mansion that's called Salt Burn. So don't don't be too worried that people are gonna pour salt into a wound at any point um okay so the first letter in salt burn is s so amy gets s no idea what the theme is obviously at this point so just amy start us off with any movie that begins with the letter s

saving silverman terrific two s's so both words start with S. Excellent word. Just to be stupid, I thought it'd be funny that maybe you would say this. I went with salt. And I'll tell you right now, when we get to the B in salt burn, it's not going to be burn. I'll tell you right now, when we get to the B in salt burn, it's not going to be burn. A is the next letter.

So far, all you have to think about as a theme is salt. What do you think, Doug? American Beauty. I just said that. That's such a fun coincidence. You know what else is hilarious? The movie that I wrote down, American Pie.

Oh, man. Close. Yeah. Well, you know, us DBs, we all have a mind melt from time to time, I imagine. We're on to the letter L, Trey. I mean, I'm picking up on a food theme, but I can't pivot. I was going to say Logan Lucky.

That's a movie, Love and Lucky? Logan Lucky. Sorry, the accent. I know. That movie features my accent right yeah yeah a little bit it'd be fun to do one of these sometime where all the movies are have alliteration but uh i did not write down logan lucky did you see that movie yeah of course do you like it i did like it i had some friends who really didn't but but I'm not sure why. I thought, I mean, I thought like some of the accents, you know, I could tell they were off.

But I've loosened up on that over the years because I'm sure that like Brits, Brits watching an American fake a British accent. I'm sure it sounds terrible. It's not just ours. So I don't get as mad about it. But I thought it was pretty good. I think the Soderbergh movie. It is Soderbergh yeah channing tatum who's from alabama he sounded the best i thought daniel craig before he's yeah he is yeah daniel

craig before he started before he was professor uh detective foghorn leghorn in the knives out movies this was a precursor to that because he plays like a hillbilly in this movie and then adam driver um are the three main guys. Yeah, I think it basically led to him doing that action in that movie kind of helped him to get into the, you know, the Rian Johnson movies. All right. So I didn't write down Logan Lucky. I wrote down like water for chocolate. Amy, the next water for chocolate. Oh.

Mm-hmm. Amy, the next letter is T. I'm going to go with tangerine, Doug. Oh, man, I wish I'd have thought of that. Oh, Doug. That is perfect, and I love that movie, too. Me, too. But I wrote down another movie that I love love and it's kind of dumb because it's, you know, it's the letter T.

So movies that begin with the, you know, count. And I like this movie. I wanted to get it on here. The Peanut Butter Falcon. Has anybody seen it? No. No, I know what it is, but no. It's so good. I mean, you is, but no. It's so good.

I mean, you know, I understand anybody that's like, you know, kind of not into Shia LaBeouf movies, but I think he's great in it. It's really good. Dakota Johnson's good. Oh, so you have seen it, Amy? I saw it, yeah. Okay, good. I just needed somebody to say they saw it so it didn't sound crazy. Okay. yeah okay good i just needed somebody to say they saw it so it didn't sound crazy okay uh the next

letter is b and it goes to whose turn is it uh doug right yeah um all right i'm gonna say bananas Oh, that is another terrific, really good guess. But I went with a different B, and mine was Bean. Oh, man. Yeah, it's a food, but yeah, trick. That's a good one. Isn't the full title Bean the movie? Oh, baby. I think so. isn't the full title being the movie he's so funny so so weird okay so um he came out with some political opinion about something recently and

i saw people just shooting him down because he's being but you know that's not for him to not have an opinion yeah I know that's the other thing about those movies is like I can hardly name a movie with no diet little or no dialogue that I like I think i like when people talk um you is the next letter yeah trey yeah i literally can't even think of a food that starts with you right now i mean i've got some movies in mind but i'm really you know missing on the theme here so i'll just say uh uh underworld yeah i mean that's the underworld one two three four five like those are five of So I'll just say Underworld. Yeah. I mean, that's Underworld 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Like, those are five of the 10 movies that have the word you at the beginning.

Right. It's pretty rare. Us. Right. I thought Us. Ultraviolet. You remember that movie? Yeah.

Those are. Usual suspects. Ah, there you go. Usual suspects. Yeah. That's a good one. We just named every single one all of them um i went with a movie that i always bring up when the letter u comes up for movie titles because you know i just have always remembered it and this might feel like a bit of a cheat but uh I'll explain later. I went with a movie

starring Peter Fonda called Uly's Gold. It's a good movie. So you all know what it's about. Is it about oil? He's a beekeeper and Uly's Gold is honey.

The next letter is R. To me? Mm-hmm. Okay, Doug. You can do this. I'm going to go with Ratatouille. You did it! Yes!

Wow! Yee-hee-hee! Had to go with Ratatouille. And, of course Amy figured it out so congratulations Amy that means you get to go first in our next game and then does anybody want to guess what

I had written down for N Nacho Libre that's a terrific guess I totally could have done that Nacho Libre. That's a terrific guess. I totally could have done that. Nuts. Yes. Yes. Oh, Nuts.

Get that. Double win. Amy's just rubbing it in over here. Good thing this is over Zoom. This is not physically. All right. Congratulations, Amy. Thanks.

Did you ever see that movie, Nuts? Is Barbra Streisand in it? Yeah. Barbra Streisand's like for some reason she's on trial for being crazy or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Life of a woman.

I gotta check that one out i haven't seen that yeah it's i i haven't seen it a long time i feel like it's somewhat effective because you know any movie that has courtroom stuff you know is kind of set up to have a you know interesting i just remember i remember yeah i remember seeing that in the video store as a kid, like just the VHS poster box. And I was like, this looks either disturbing or I have no idea what this is as a child. Richard Dreyfuss is in it too, right? Yeah, yeah.

And, you know, that was like, he was kind of petering out at that point, but he was like, you know, he was one of my favorite movie stars. And, you know, he had such a good run with Jaws and Goodbye Girl and Close Encounters. And what about Bob? People always bring it up. It's my least favorite Dreyfuss and my least favorite Bill Murray.

Whoa, I didn't know you didn't like that movie. I love it. Bill Murray is a straight-up villain in that movie i love it wow it just bill murray bill murray is a is a straight-up villain in that movie like and every time richard dreyfus is upset with him he's not in the wrong and so it just bothers me and he's mad in real life too right like wasn't he just driving him crazy yeah yeah they hated each other yeah no now it's it started you know it's coming out more and more that uh richard dreyfus was not you know it was hard to get along with because they did a Broadway show based on the making of Jaws. It's just Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw sitting around waiting for the shark to work in the movie.

The play is called The Shark is Broken. It just closed on Broadway. The play is called The Shark is Broken. It just closed on Broadway. But in that show, the guy Alex Reitman plays Dreyfus. And he's, you know, it was written by Robert Shaw's son. And Robert Shaw's son plays Robert Shaw in the play. And so it's from his perspective. He just kind of wrote Richard Dreyfus is pretty annoying. And Richard Dreyfus went and annoying and richard dreyfus

went and saw the show and took pictures through the cast it was all friendly in person and then later went home and posted that he was deeply insulted by it yeah i read about that it sounds interesting now the play yeah yeah and um i was just talking to somebody else who worked with Richard Dreyfuss, and she saw the play, and she was like, oh, yeah, that guy nailed it. That's fun to have a corroboration on that. All right. So we've got one more game to play, and we all know that that game is the crucial one that decides everything.

So we'll get right to it as soon as we get back after these words. We are back, and we've got one more game to play, and the winner takes it all. It's a game that I call the little search engine that could. Nice. I typed a word into the search engine on IMDB. You know, because I am DB.

Hey, you are DB too, Doug Pass. Oh, yeah. DB squared. We be DB. Yeah. You can use saying around people I am DB over and over again until they get it with my compliments thank you I'll try that out

us DBs have to stick together that's true so in this game once I tell you the word you will take turns Amy's first and we'll flip the order around. So it goes Amy, then Trey and then Doug. And you have to guess the name of a movie that has that word in the title that you think would be, you know, the higher to the top, the better, but somewhere in the top 10 movies with that title that I entered into IMDb, that word rather, I entered that word today. And so it's the current up to date, according to the IMDb algorithm, top 10

movies with the word in it. And the higher up the list, the more points you get. So if you name the number one movie, you get 10 points, nine is worth two points, et cetera. If you can't think of one on your turn, then you'll just have to pass or just make up a title with the word in it and hope that that was actually made into a motion picture. Like I said, Amy gets to go first.

And, you know, the sun's going down early and winter is upon us. So I decided to type in the word dark, which is in a lot of titles. Amy, start us off. What movie do you think would be the number one movie with dark in the title? The Dark Knight. Number one on the list. Ten points. Congratulations, Amy. You're already off to a great

start. It's still anybody's game, though. There's still lots of points on the board. Let's go to Trey. Yeah, I mean, you know, still cheap, but I'm going to do it. The Dark Knight Rises.

You think because Dark knight is number one yeah dark knight rises automatically gets you i feel like it's got to be pretty far up in those that whole trilogy is huge right i mean it it is big yeah it is a it is a big big trilogy i just saw on uh jeopardy the other night the category was they say the name of the sequel or a sequel and you have to name the original movie and that one uh dark knight was on there and you know because i do think it's a little bit of a trick question that the first one's called batman begins right then the other you know it should be dark knight begins right then the other you know it should be dark night begins right if they're all you know if it's all about the dark night but he goes by many names um that son of a bitch is another one but uh dark knight rises there's number two on the list

yeah yes nine points for trey for that that cheesy move of going with no it's your you know it's like dollaring somebody in the bidding on right price is right you're playing smart and uh you're still gonna have to come up with some more uh titles to win amy's got 10 trey's's got 9. Doug Bass, can you think of a popular movie with the word dark? I wish there was another Dark Knight movie like

that because you guys got set up for that one. Alright, I'm going to say Zero Dark 30. A pro-war movie movie i think it was or not pro but you know what i mean it was it was a little rough it had like torture but torture's okay really yeah it was kind of like well you know if you need to resort to torture oh well yeah yeah yeah yeah and she's such a good director that i you know i i watched it and wanted to appreciate it and you know just jessica chastain is good in it and uh so i guess people are still talking about it a little bit because it made the list but it was number 10

so that's only worth one point doug damn yeah you're gonna have some work to do but i i i haven't lost faith in you okay thank you there's still a lot of points to be had but let's see if amy snaps some of those up what do you think amy what's your next guess i mean i feel like it hasn't even cracked the top 20, but I'm going to say, it's all I can think of. I'm going to say Dancer in the Dark. That's funny because

I just, for the hell of it, wrote down some of the placement of other titles that I thought might come up that didn't make the top 10. And Dancer in the Dark starring B-Arc was number 23. That's crazy. Yeah. But isn't that fun though, to be like on a, you know,

in a game show where you can say I'm wrong, but, and then, and then guess something, you know, like it's a, you know, in a game show where you can say, I'm wrong, but, and then guess something, you know, like, it's a, you know, because you knew you were wrong, but it did qualify. Because it does have, it is a dark movie with the word dark in the title. If you're looking, if anybody's looking for a movie where a blind girl is mistreated repeatedly, definitely check it out. So fun for Christmas. Yeah, I don't know why none of you didn't recommend it.

Nobody mentioned it when they had the chance. Every Christmas I watch Dates are in the Dark. What'd you go into my voice for? What was that about? Oh, I thought I was doing Doug B. I'm a big old idiot. I do this. That's my my real voice that is the standard move

impersonate an idiot everybody knows what accent to adopt or or a pilot so that's nice yeah you're a pilot though you just have to take long breaks in between sentences oh yeah you know because because you're at your you're at your seat wanting to go back to the movie and the guy's going in between everything he says oh we had a i was on a flight recently where the guy talked for five solid minutes i'm just about the pilot just clearly is lonely and needed to you know that stage time for him yeah no he really was because he was out of the cockpit standing with the thing you know that the flight attendants use and like he

really was like looking at everybody and I was like just trying not to even make eye contact with him. He was doing crowd work in the aisle. it really was it was the whole the whole thing people were filming it and posting it on insta um all right so where are you flying to oh god i don't even oh it's probably fine i'm in new york now so it's probably been flying to new york but maybe not as the pilot doing crowd work. Oh, I see. Because he knows where they're flying. He said no, that's right.

Ah, that's good. Yeah. I like the looks on people's faces when a flight attendant just is having a hectic day and says the wrong city when they say where we're going. That's right.

It's like, enjoy your flight to Las Vegas, and everyone looks at each other like we're going to poughkeepsie uh trey yeah um so these lists the imdb they're based on like current relevance like it's like a trending type thing or like how people are talking yeah it's like okay it's what people are looking up i don't know why i asked for clarification because i'm going to give the same answer either way but i'm trying to justify it by saying that they did recently reboot this as a series an old childhood favorite of mine the dark crystal was my answer oh that's a good one yeah that is a really good one and um it did very badly on this i didn't i didn't even write down the number that's crazy somewhere somewhere higher than 23 but you know it just takes one little thing for some to come back around or whatever like i know it's been a while but but when David Bowie passed,

that's so funny. I'm thinking of Labyrinth now. So not Labyrinth, but let's say when one of the Skeksis from Dark Crystal died in real life, then there was probably an uptick on IMDb. Or I guess,

yeah. Is there any human actors in the Dark Crystal crystal i don't remember no i don't think so but yeah now you know they put that connelly and in labyrinth right yeah those two movies mixed up all the time they are very similar for sure they both huge fan of both back in the day but yeah they made a dark crystal series on netflix but i don't think it really went over either i don I think they just did. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what. Was that good at all? Did anyone see that? I was super pumped about it. And I have sons that are like the right age for that, too. And they didn't really get into it. So we fell off, unfortunately.

That's a shame. What are you going to do? But what an exciting matchup we still have, Doug. Nobody else was able to put more points on the board, so you've got a real good chance here of sneaking up on these folks. All right. I'm going to say Army of Darkness. Is that allowed?

That is a great one, but you know what? I'm going gonna save you the trouble of not getting any points by um just saying that the way this shook out it's all just the word dark with no no ness or or ly or anything else you know okay all right all right like a scanner darkly isn't on the list. What about Darkman? Darkman, that's a great one. That's another one that didn't rank at all, but I think it should because it's such a classic,

and it always feels like they're on the verge of remaking that one or rebooting that one. Yeah, I could see that, yeah. But the original was a pretty fun movie. All right, I could see that, yeah. But the original was a pretty fun movie. All right, so sorry about that, Doug. But you're a terrific guest. Thank you. It's really great having you here.

Passionate. Mm-hmm. Amy? I have no idea but i'm gonna guess that in history there's a movie just called dark maybe see that's always worth taking a shot if you just said salt on that first game you would have won it immediately um but uh unfortunately i don't know if there's a movie called dark but it definitely didn't make the list another netflix show there it is oh okay yeah but you're still in the lead amy i'm still uh still got you know pretty good feeling about your uh your chances

here me too let's go back to tre, because if Trey can name any movie that's on this list of movies with Dark in the title, he will win, but he has to find one of them. I've only got two ideas. One of them was like a flop in the 90s, so I doubt it's that, but it was a cool movie, though. And then the other one is like a couple of the 90s so i doubt it's that but it was a cool movie though and then the other one is like a couple of years old and wasn't that big there's seven movies with the

word dark in it that are like being talked about right now more i have no idea i guess i'll go with the second one and i might even have the name wrong it's uh ruffalo movie dark water or dark waters one of those two right that corporate scandal movie environmental scan you guys didn't say that yeah okay yeah i mean oh i did see that yeah like you know like if you're on jeopardy you obviously wouldn't just start talking about other things about the movie as part of your answer but if you say if you but if you on that show if you go dark water i mean dark waters they will accept it they will totally accept it so that's what i'm gonna do dark waters is on the list all right nice number eight on the list. Dark Waters? I've never heard of that. Yeah, Mark, it's a movie about corporate

pollution and Mark Ruffalo getting to the bottom of it. Yeah. Pretty good thing. When he's not getting to the bottom of that, he's getting to the bottom of Anne Hathaway. Wow. I think she plays his

long-suffering wife. she's like enough about the dark waters i want to have a baby you know that kind of terrible role but you know and hathaway i've always been a fan but like you know she's just in a lot of movies that aren't really my cup of tea but um she's she's in this new one with uh thompson mckenzie called eileen and it's uh based on a book and it's coming out any day now if it's not already in limited release and uh i've been recommending that and i also recommend you don't read anything about it first because that's part of what i liked about the movie is i didn't know much about it before i saw it and it's it's got kind of a surprising uh surprising things happen um yeah so eileen is what that's called and for the record i don't

approve of movies that are just a person's first name um just feels lazy and all the other characters in the movie what are they chopped liver okay that'd be a funny title just list 20 names okay uh trey you i i think you did it there's i mean i'm sure you did it i'm sure you're the winner but let's not uh get all jubilant just yet because we might as well finish this off and let, if Doug Bass has another dark movie just to at least make this thing close. Alright, I got two in mind and I'm trying to figure out which one to pull.

I'm trying to figure out which one to pull. I'm going to say Thor The Dark World. Another excellent another good dark title and could possibly be in the top

ten because of the endless, like, I, every few days, I'll wake up and turn on Twitter, formerly known as Twitter, and turn it on. And Love and Thunder, that Thor movie,

will be trending, because the comic book nerds will not shut the fuck up about not liking Love and Thunder. And I didn't like it either. But Ragnarok was amazing. So you can't say that Taika Waititi, you know, is shitty or, you know,

just is always, I think most of his movies are good. It just, Love and Thunder just didn't work out. But people are acting like you know they're just so personally offended by it like if taika waititi gets anytime he has a new thing coming out or you know any news about him at all love and thunder starts trending again because people are so mad about that movie and it's so weird to me and dark thor the dark world to me is the worst thor movie yeah i i don't i don't

even remember it i mean i remember watching it but yeah very forgettable i thought yeah absolutely absolutely forgettable and that's why it's number 15 on the list at least it's on the list i figured i figured marvel would pull through at least be on a list of some sort. Oh, yeah. No, you really, you got the respect that you were looking for, for me and everybody, because all three of you really genuinely named movies with Dirk in the title, which, you know, some of my guests just get really stumped on this kind of thing. So I'm proud of all of you.

But now let me tell you what you missed. First of all, I'm just going to say a couple of the movies that have dark in the title that didn't even make the top 10, just to let you know, not only are there a lot of them, but also that there vampire movie, Near Dark, didn't make the top 10. The classic sci-fi, low-budget sci-fi, almost maybe kind of inspiring of George Lucas and Star Wars, is a movie called Dark Star. The aforementioned Dance in the Dark, of course. Wait Until Dark, a classic thriller, came in at number 16. The terrible adaptation of the Stephen King book, The Dark Tower, came in 13. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And then let's move up the rest of the list. 10 was Zero Darks, 39. A classic starring Bette Davis called Dark Victory from 1939 and people are still somehow looking it up on the internet Dark Waters was 8

number 7 an attempt to reboot a TV show into a movie series that just didn't pan out called Dark Shadows oh that's the one I almost had. Oh, yeah? You almost said it. That was the other one I had.

I was like, yeah, I don't know, but it's kind of cult-y. Yeah, well, you would have lost either way, but, you know. Thank you, thank you, yes. You would have had a respectable eight instead of the one that you're left with. Here's where this game gets a little tricky. I play it as honestly as I can, so I don't want to remove movies that are very likely to have never been heard by any of my guests. very likely to have never been heard by, by any of my guests,

you know, especially if I haven't heard of them, then I figure they must be pretty like direct to streaming or something. Cause from 2023 starring Casey likes is a movie called dark harvest. Yeah. And so people are looking that up cause it's just, you know, it's from 2023 just you know it just showed up this year so people are looking that up and that's also true of a bella thorne film that came in fifth called rumble through the dark which like you know

if you're gonna have a rumble you might as well go through. I think people are just lazy also. It's like, this movie was made in the last two years. Okay, we'll watch that instead of a 20-year-old dark movie, like Dark Man or whatever. And there could be some Bella Thorne completists out there that'll just watch anything she does. Right. Number four, one of you, I think Trey maybe said something

about a movie being kind of a culty thing that flopped. And so number four definitely qualifies for that because it's a movie called Dark City. That was it. That was the one I didn't. I went with Dark Waters instead of that. So it worked out either way. But yeah, Dark City. I always dug that movie.

Yeah, people really liked it. Roger Ebert raved about it. I just could never get into it. It was directed by Alex Proyas. He had done The Crow, which I very much like, even though it did kill a man.

But that's the movie that Brandon Lee died from a bullet that was not fired by Alec Baldwin. What's that? Didn't they reboot that recently? Oh, maybe. Yeah. It does seem rebootable.

The original is from 1998. And then we've got number three recent entry in the superhero films called Dark Phoenix. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, exactly. That's how everybody feels that movie. They're just like, yeah. That's right. So congratulations once again to Trey Crowder for winning today. Good job, dude. That means you get to promote

yourself first. What would you like to plug? You just go to TreyCrowder.com T-R-A-E Crowder.com for my tour dates. If I'm coming near you, come and see me and also follow me on the socials at T-R-A-E Crowder. Take your pick. That'll do it.

Well, we will see you back as soon as we can uh arrange it yeah thank you so much can't wait thanks man amy miller what do you want to promote i am going to be in a few places colorado springs seattle dc fort collins colorado if you want to come to both Colorado things. It's amymillercomedy.com. And then just follow me on Instagram at amymillercomedy because it's the only thing that matters in this business anymore.

Yeah, just definitely a good time to build those Instagram followers. Please. When Elon Musk is sitting around going, it's the advertisers that are ruining Twitter by leaving it. It's the craziest thing, how much money that guy's lost on that whole thing.

Doug Bass, did you have a good time in your first appearance? I had an absolute blast. Thank you for having me. I learned a lot. I learned a lot today about some of these dark movies. Rewatch. I have a whole new list I have to watch.

Nice. I certainly have you back sometime in the future, especially if you have a particular date or thing you're trying to promote, but what would you like to plug now? People can check out my podcast I'm a Basshole. particular date or thing you're trying to promote, but what would you like to plug now? Yeah, for sure.

People could check out my podcast. I'm a bass hole. And we're also going to be at the Hollywood improv on December 17th. Tickets are on sale and they can follow me at Doug bass hole on Instagram. And it's okay for me to reveal who one of the, the, you know, guest judges is going to be. Yes of the guest judges is going to be?

Yes, yes. It is going to be the other Doug, Doug Benson right here. He's going to be a celebrity judge on the Bass Hole Show where we judge comedians' asshole stories. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm excited about it, and I will see you there. As far as my plugs go, I've got Douglas movies tapings coming up this Saturday at San Antonio, LOL comedy at four 20 at the improv lab, the aforementioned improv lab in West Hollywood on December 21st,

Sacramento punchline in the afternoon of December 30th is a fun thing to do, New Year's Eve weekend. And then I hate having to promote that I'm doing a show on January 6th, but it is what it is. You've done a lot of events on that date, haven't you, Doug? Yeah. So I just have to account for my whereabouts on that date. So come see me in Orlando, Florida at the Orlando Improv doing Doug Loves Movies January 6th at 420. For all of my dates and deets, go to DougLovesMovies.com.

And I usually use a – I have a book that lists just last lines from movies and it's alphabetized. So I could just look up in this book and find last lines because I end every episode with the last line from a movie. But I bring the book with me on the road. Didn't plan ahead. So I don't have a movie line to close out with tonight do any of you have a favorite last line from a motion picture

sure yeah Doug's got one alright ready roads where we're going we don't need roads yeah I've definitely done that one before i mean i've been doing this for a while so yeah there's a lot of repeats but that is a good one that's my

favorite movie i wonder if there's a you know the broadway show is going on now of uh i saw i saw it i saw it i saw it wow did you it? You know, I liked the visuals. I felt like I needed to see it because it is my favorite movie. It's good. I mean, the original songs are kind of forgettable, I'll say. But the visuals on stage and how they do the time travel and stuff is really something to see. That was pretty well done and pretty cool. So, you know

if you like the movie i'd check it out if you're in new york you know yeah it just almost feels like they should have you know kind of done like with shark is broken and maybe just made it a play and like with some music like they could still have marty play you know chuck berry tunes and pretend that that white boy created them but um and then of course people love the huey lewis and the new songs in that movie but i you know i don't know they're just they haven't really stuck with me so are those are those songs in the broadway show too yeah yeah all the all the songs in like the movie are are in this in the show and then they you know yeah original music that you're just like all right and and the story is a little

different too there's like stuff that they just probably couldn't do on stage that they just you know made up for the broadway show so it's it's a little different than the movie but it's enjoyable you know i mean it's the closest thing to a reboot or sequel we're going to get to that movie so without destroying the original trilogy yeah yeah so that So that would be really wild if they just kept pressing it and did musicals of part two and part three. I'd like to see a Wild West musical. All right. So, yeah, so I did the right thing.

I feel like it's the sort of show where it's going to tour and stuff and just be a thing for a while. So I didn't feel any, you know, any pressure to go see it right away. But that's what we'll use as the last line. Thanks again to Doug Bass, Amy Miller and Trey Crowder. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Doug. Appreciate it.

Nice chatting with you guys. As always, Rhodes, where we're going, we don't need Rhodes.