Doug Loves Movies - John Erler, Mary Santora and Chris Tellez guest

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

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Good morning, Leonard! Doug hates candy wrappers, greenie babies, sticky seeds With 50 acid pop or kernels in his teeth There's still not one that he won't see Cause Doug loves cookies! Dropping posters everywhere. Posters, a bunch of posters that are all different shapes and sizes are hard things to transport and give away.

And yet, we're going to go ahead and do that today. Hey, hey, hey, everybody. My name is Doug, and I love movies. This is Doug Love Movies. That's perfect. And we're coming to you once again from Creek in the Cave in Austin, Texas. We are doing it. It is, what's the date?

We're at South by Southwest, the last day of South by Southwest. It's Saturday afternoon, March 18th, 2023. And we might as well get to everybody's favorite part of the show. It's time for Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Doug Plugs! Wow, you're so into it. Doug Loves Movies returns to Dynasty Typewriter in L on Sunday April 16th at 4.20 and I'll be doing stand up in Providence, Rhode Island

at the Comedy Connection for all of 4.20 that's April 20th for the non-weed heads weekend consult the internet for more info I brought a prize bag which may not be a prize to a lot of you because you're

attending South by Southwest and everybody gets these bags. But they had two different ones. They had one that said Showtime, the other one said HBO Max, and you probably got one or the other. So maybe if you win today, you'll get the bag you didn't get. It's like people like to collect sets of things. It's something really to brag about. I got both South by Southwest bags.

Yes, both streamers, HBO Max and Showtime. Even though it's merging to Paramount, we don't know what's going to happen to it. Here's what's in this stupid bag. See, I bring some stuff. It's just for fun, to have a prize, something to play for. So I'm very excited to give away all these posters

because every year for south by southwest comedy charlie sotelo is in charge of making a very artistic and creative poster and they're all nicely rolled up so it's hard to uh for me to show them and talk to you at the same time as i had one of those headset thingies so uh we'll show them to you as the show progresses but they're beautiful posters somebody's gonna win all of those and then also this shirt that was given to me by the gentleman who runs the mac and cheese festival in Portland Oregon and I love this shirt it's really high quality he might even be in the audience today but

it's one size too small for me to wear publicly also backstage you got kind bars so I got one of them for the prize bag and some Sour Patch Kids yes be careful though my one of my guests tried to eat a handful of them at once and started choking. Maybe we'll hear more about that later. Maybe I shouldn't have said. There's a bunch of Google eyes in here like from everything everywhere all at once. Yeah, they were giving them out at the, I got to go to the premiere party and they were giving those out and so i have them like yeah last year so i've got and it's like it's kind of like glitter you know i've got google eyes just fall out of my shit everywhere so i'm trying to get rid of all of them uh and

then a couple of pins from rockin pins that doug Doug Benzapin and Douglas Movies Pin. But, you know, don't focus on this crap. I mean, just think, at least he'll have less stuff to fly home with. And then think also, though, these posters are amazing, and it's very exciting. Plus, also, there's a poster

for a motion picture in here. Let's see if I can whip that one out. Nope. But this is one of the comedy pictures. Can you see it's like, is that right? Like that? Yeah. Good old SXSM, what a fun festival. But yeah, that's why I was flipping it up both ways, because it's like, well, hey, which way is up? What the fuck is going on with this horse? But yeah, anyway, these are some beautiful posters, and then a poster for a movie. Maybe I'll dig it out while my guests are coming out on stage.

Are you ready to meet the guests today, everybody? These are three very funny, very nice people who are all in Austin, Texas, as we speak. And they're backstage, ready to come up here. Please welcome John Erler, Mary Santora, and Chris Tellez. Hello. Santora and Chris Tellez. Hello! See here's the movie one. The movie poster is for Big Daddy. So anybody wants Adam Sandler and a urinating child who grew up, he grew up in the biz, right? He's still a thing. The Sprouse boy.

Right? Isn't that him? Yep. Thanks, audience. Thanks, audience confirmation. Yeah, he's a real, like, he's like a real heartthrob young actor these days. And speaking of which,

let's get to my guests. Let's meet them individually and alphabetically by first name. What? Yep, this is the I'm the M. Night Shyamalan of podcasters, and this show is full of twists

that don't amount to anything. His album Some Dumb Guy Stuff, is out now. It's Chris Tellez, everybody! What's up, y'all? Buy my album! What have you been getting into, Chris, at South by Southwest? Oh, you know, I

live in Austin, so I've mostly just been staying home and getting fucking high. But thanks for having me on here. So I got an Uber here. I've been hanging out with my dog. Oh, I saw a couple bands recently at Hotel Vegas. So that's been a lot of fun. You saw a band called Hotel

Vegas or at Hotel Vegas? The or at Hotel Vegas? The venues, Hotel Vegas. I saw the OCs, and they were great. Oh, okay. Yeah, they've been tearing it up. So for venues and bands, you really like things that are named after cities or towns? Yes.

That's important to you. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

All right. But when you do traipse into the South by Southwest activities, you do have a good time. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't have a badge and shit, so I just go whatever I'm able to slip into. But once I'm into it, I'm having a good time. Right. But that's the thing about South by is there's a lot of decent slip-ins. Yeah, you just walk around. You just walk around, and some people just come out of a building

and just grab you and they bring you into it. That's South by. Me and my friend Jack were hanging out there at night. And some guy, we were eating hot dogs, and some guy came up and said, you guys want to see Anderson Pack? I don't even know who the fuck that is, but we went to go see him.

He's amazing. Yeah, he was great. I took a picture, put it on Instagram, and I left. I was tired. But people think I was there. He knows what Anderson Pack... It sounded great while you were there

though, right? Yeah. You kind of thought about staying, but you were too tired. I looked around and I realized I was the oldest person there, so I left. Well, now you can't go anywhere then. I know. You're not going to get younger. You're not going to turn this around.

Doug, I was just getting a hot dog, dude. That's what South by does. I know. I love that detail of the story. So me and my friends were eating some hot dogs. Yeah. I was like, okay, I don't care what you're eating. Could have been a slice, whatever.

I did. Real quick, I'll tell you, that hot dog guy got into like a 25-minute fight with somebody. And then the guy that was waiting on his dog that was furious, and I was next in line with my guy Jack, he's the guy that's like, shit, you guys want to go see Anderson Pack? I was like, holy shit, I'm glad you got into that fight. Really? Yeah. Yeah, dude.

That's how South by goes, man. You just, the party finds you. Yeah, dude. That's how South by goes, man. The party finds you. Yeah, yeah. Snoop Dogg was at my place last night playing Call of Duty. Oh, shoot. I went to see Tenacious D one time here and I got to the guy at the front of the door.

I didn't have anything. I wasn't on any list or anything. I was just hoping because some people here recognize me. The guy at the door was like, oh man, some guy showed up earlier saying that

you had left your AirPods here and he was coming to get them for you. So dude used my name and then I lost something in there to get into the club. And we both just had a nice laugh about it and shrugged him.

That's what it reminded me of. It's just like, South by. Hell yeah. It's a genius. It's a pretty smart thing to do. Unless you get caught. If somebody calls about it, it's like, where does L do. Unless you get caught. If somebody calls them on it, it's like the weirdest lie to get caught in. I hope you just see that guy walking by and just hear someone else go, hey, there's Doug Benson.

Yeah, or just all it takes is one person going, Doug Benson never wears earbuds. I've never seen it. It's never happened. You know who else doesn't wear earbuds? Our next guest today, alphabetically by first name

it's John Erler everybody thank you thank you great episode of Doug Plugs this time right everybody really got into it it's amazing yeah I wish I had been out here to scream for Doug Plugs

it's a fun segment that people look forward to. I'll do some at the end too. I'll do some more plugs. I can't wait. I'll get to scream. I brought something for the prize bag. Is that okay? What? You did? I didn't know. I tell my guests not to anymore because I want the prize bag

to be as worthless as possible to take the pressure off of my guests because everybody gets too much pressure if the prizes are valuable. I couldn't remember if you were making us bring stuff so I erred on the safe side. Yeah, I like that expression, making us bring.

I was such a taskmaster because you should see some of the crap people would bring. It was bottom of the barrel stuff. What do you have? I went through my old t-shirt bin and I thought this would be a fun thing to give people would bring. Like, they really, it was bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. Well, wait till you see what I've got. What do you have? Well, I was, I went through my old T-shirt bin

and I thought, this would be a fun thing to give away, a South By shirt from 2004. Right, but you're wearing it right now. But as you can see,

I am wearing it, so that means I'm not giving it away. Yeah. Oh, you're not? Because that would be fun if it was a giveaway and a strip tease.

Well, maybe. Third layer. If it comes to that, I might do that. If I'm definitely needing a big boost at the end, I might do that. But I thought, no, I can't give this away. There's too many memories. So I dug a little further. I dug a little further in my t-shirt collection.

Nice. And I found a movie-related t-shirt that is very in demand. Who's that? Ralphie? That's Ralphie. That's Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Yeah. Can you read the bottom?

Can you read the bottom of the t-shirt? Uh-uh. It's a lot of words. Chris, what does it say at the bottom? Oh, just one word. Ralphie. Rapel? It's Ralphie.

It says Ralphie. It's a pretty old shirt. It says Ralphie. It's a pretty old shirt. It says Repel. Never seen the movie. I thought it was like an inside joke on the film. That kid's repelling. The letters are jumbled up, to be fair. If you're just looking at it the first time,

you might not know it says Ralphie. I just saw three very smart contestants the other night on Jeopardy not know that his name is Peter Billingsley. Yeah, it was rough. Shit. I don't like it when none of them know the answer. No.

It makes me lose faith in the system. That's awkward. A deaf should have known that was Ralphie. Y'all did say that. It's pretty close. The fact that you thought Ralphie was Rapel makes me think that you didn't see Anderson.Paak. Yeah. No.

I was pretending to enjoy. He walked into a bar and a jukebox was playing and he's like, oh yeah. That's South by. I thought it said scalpel. Right? I'm not here for an eye test for fuck's sake.

For those who can't see it, the top says you'll shoot your eye out and then there's a picture of Ralphie from A Christmas Story with broken glasses and then the bottom word is very controversial, but I think it's supposed to say Ralphie, but other people have seen Repel. Thank you for bringing the

bag over. So that's in the mix. Doug plugs! I was going to get something, but then I found out we didn't have presents, but just to let you know, I was going to get something, but then I found out we didn't have presents. But just so you know, I was going to get an action figure set that it was Ninja Turtle Raphael

versus the older guy from Cobra Kai. You guys could have had that. It's pronounced rappel. Okay. Hey, and let's introduce her, why don't we? It's Mary Santora, everybody! Yay! We last, I think you've been on the show

like in one of those Panda Zoom versions and then also in D.C. that one time. We just did stand-up in D.C. In person. Oh, we did stand-up in D.C. In person. Oh, we did stand-up. That's right. But you have been on the show

once before then, right? Yeah. No. Not this show. This is your first time on Doug Loves Movies. This is my first time on Doug Loves Movies.

At South by Southwest. Killing it. Oh, my goodness. We did a Zoom Wide World of Dubs. Okay, well that's, see, here's just a lesson to everybody. If you have too many podcasts, they're like children.

They're hard to keep track of. So don't do it. Settle down, Nick Cannons of the podcasting world. Enough with the babies. But Mary, you're over at the Cap City Comedy Club this weekend.

Yeah. And how's that been going for you? How do you like performing in Austin? It's great. I mean, that area is super weird. The domain.

I don't know if you guys have been there. Some weird fucking sim town. I don't know what that is. Dude, everyone's like, keep Austin weird. Austin's so cultural. And I'm like, there's a Lululemon right here.

I mean, that is weird considering how it's mostly been local stuff only. So now Lululemon is weird. It's a way tomon is weird. Yeah, okay, maybe. It's a way to keep it weird. That's the weirdest part of it. I guess.

You guys put it way north of the city. I just keep confusing it with Coco Lemon or Coco Melon. Whatever that kid's thing is on Netflix that I don't watch because it's for children. It's Coco Melon. When I hear Coco Lululemon, I can't get it. Anyway's Coco Lulululu. Anyway, fuck that company. Yeah. With their fancy stretchy pants and gym bags.

That's all it is, really nice gym bags. It's super expensive workout clothes. You're just going to get sweaty in it. You pay $110 for ass sweat. I don't understand that. Is that why it's expensive though? Because it's like, you know, maybe you don't sweat in it because it's such amazing fabric.

Maybe it breathes. I have no idea. I've had these jeans for like 11 years. I don't buy stuff like that. That's fair, Mary. Before we play our games today, because we play some games, and we give away all this stuff to somebody who goes,

how am I going to get all this home? Yeah, people who come in from out of town. Anyway, before we do that, I like to get, I always ask my guests to recommend a movie just to get some uh you know maybe movies people haven't heard of or haven't thought of in a while or something or something brand new but just you know something that you would recommend but i throw a category out there yeah we'll start with you, John. And please recommend a, I saw last night,

a motion picture called Joyride over at the Paramount. Was that the most goddamn fun you've had in a movie theater? Probably since the last time you saw a comedy at South by Southwest, because the crowds are into it. You know, like, they really get into it and it was super fun though. So it got me thinking. Joyride's coming out in like June, I think.

So in the interim, John, please recommend a laugh out loud, like a fun comedy motion picture. Shit, I don fun comedy motion picture. Shit, I don't watch comedies. Right, because as a professional interrupter of movies,

comedies are death. Because the movie is either going to get its own laughs or it's not. But it's just stepping on each other the whole time. Unless it's a really bad comedy that ends up being fun because of how bad it is. We do Choose Your Own Pancake, where the audience brings a movie, and then we have to do it no matter what. And we can't veto it once it's been suggested. And the movie that won was a movie called Vibes.

Have people seen? Oh, with Jeff Goldblum and Cindy Lauper? That? DAVID ROBERTSON, JR.: That's right. JEFF GOLDBLUME, JR.: Where they're constantly telling her she's ugly through the whole movie. Like, welcome to the movie, Cyndi Lauper. We're going to just call you ugly the whole time. You're going to play the homely girl in your first starring role.

DAVID ROBERTSON, JR.: Yeah, and she's great in it. JEFF GOLDBLUME, JR.: She's good, yeah. DAVID ROBERTSON, JR.: She elevates it. It's not a great movie, there are funny funny parts to it but so it's from the guys who did splash right is it i think so on howard babaloo babaloo and gans yeah it's babaloo mandel yeah uh and peter falk is in it and he's great colombo doesn't go wrong thank you one clap for colombo yeah and it was goldblum when he was in Kind of a Weird. He wasn't finding his exact groove yet, but he's always entertaining.

Yeah, but Vibes, I've watched it. I wouldn't recommend it to everybody, but if you're seeking something weird out... What you're doing right now is recommending a movie, and I would like it to be to everybody, because we're trying to be inclusive, because we're... Alright,

I can't do that, then. But like I said, I don't watch comedies. I watched Fletch. I watched the recent Jon Hamm Fletch. The Jon Hamm Fletch is terrific. It's okay. I can't recommend it. It's terrifically okay.

I can't recommend it. I'm just such an original Fletch purist. Oh, you just love Chevy Chase so much. No, don't make me say that. Don't paint me in that corner. You're just such a hill you want to die on. I'm not going to die on personally defending Chevy Chase. But in that movie, they captured lightning in a bottle and one of my all-time favorites.

Confess Fletch has its moments. It's okay. That's my problem with Caddyshack is how perfect he is in that movie. He's in it the perfect amount of time. And those other three dudes are all super hilarious, too. It was a weird story. They're all different styles of comedy. Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight and Bill

Murray. That's true. And the four of them barely have scenes together. They're always off just doing their own rant somewhere and bugging the young caddies. But that movie is just so goddamn funny. Are they going to try to remake it? If I were recommending a comedy, that's what I would do,

John, is I would think of one that's really funny and then recommend it. He did name two movies he didn't really like. He's bringing up movies that he's really iffy on. In the recommend a movie segment. I don't watch comedies. Can I recommend a movie

that's very funny and audience tested funny that we've shown clips of in front of an audience several times that has killed every time, but it's not a comedy. Oh, and that is deep water by Ben Affleck. Like what do you think people enjoy watching that? We, we did a worst of 2022 collection of clips and that was number one, hands down the best clip that we showed from deep water where he chases a guy who's driving a Subaru, who has just witnessed him drown somebody in some very shallow water for some reason.

It's not deep at all. Sounds hilarious. And that's part of the fun, I guess. But he's just killed somebody in some shallow water, and Ben Affleck has to get on a mountain bike to chase this guy in a Subaru. And he catches up to him for some reason. And I don't want to give too much away, but the guy who's played by Tracy Letts, I think,

drives off the edge of a cliff and dies in some very shallow water, which doesn't make any sense. That's all that's in the movie is shallow water. But I think it's on Hulu, so if people want to watch something super funny, just fast forward to the Subaru chase with the mountain bike. But there isn't somebody shaking their head looking at that final crash going, that's twice somebody should have went with deep water.

I don't want to keep going on this movie, but there's also scenes cut into the Subaru chase where a little girl pushes a suitcase into a shallow swimming pool. So there's three different shallow water bodies in the span of five minutes, and it doesn't make any sense. The suitcase drops or floats? It floats.

Why? Shallow water. I don't know. I mean, you know, Lady Gaga was warning us about the shallow water years ago. That's true. Yeah. Oh, I'm on the deep end. Also, Caddyshack is really funny.

I recommend it. You want that to be yours instead of deep water? Can I recommend deep water even though it's not a tech? You can. I don't mind, you know. Deep water. An unusual. Deep water.

Deep water. Yeah, it's your funeral. What? There's consequences to this? You might die. Oh, no. Shit. Yeah.

People throw around it's your funeral a little too, it's rather grandiose expression. That's true. It might not work out for you is a better way to say it. That's even more threatening. Is it? Oh, right, yeah. Because something might really happen.

Right, because you're hinting, okay, I get it. So just be quiet, don't say anything. Okay. All right. That's definitely the best of the three. Chris Tellez, what do you got for a comedy movie? Keep in mind, we're looking for one that everyone would enjoy. I got it.

Both you and the people you recommend it to. Yeah, this is an older movie I grew up with, but I was hanging out with some friends. This is perfect. It was like two weeks ago, and it was like four of them had never seen this movie and i recommended it we had the time of our life it still holds up major pain i actually kind of forgot about it a little but when i was younger and that came out dude that was like on heavy rotation at my house for years i forgot about it

and i watched it with like you know it's fun to watch with like people who haven't seen it before and we were dying, dude. They were like, they could, it's like, I couldn't believe how funny that movie was. It's good and it gets you still you know, every time I watch it, I get choked up at the end. Yes. Fucking Damon Wayans, like that

character is such a caricature, but he's so real. Dude. And so somehow so believable it's wild scene is wild like yeah and just also the the lines he crosses are crazy you know not until years later when jk simmons threw a symbol at student uh miles teller in uh whiplash has there been you know more of stepping over the line between authority

and student yeah that's what my friends were watching they were like man I don't know if this would hold up today it kind of does though because you watch it

going holy shit it's so ridiculous they used to do stuff like this oh man dude in motion pictures give people ideas that scene where

he's in the cafeteria and it's just like the small things in that movie like it's just silence because they're going to switch out his cupcake with the laxative cupcake. And before he even gets there, he just like gets his like apple juice. And the way he opens is very intimidating. He's like, dude, what the fuck?

He's just like drinking it all chill. I was like, oh, this movie rules. Yeah. Major pain, everybody. Who here hasn't seen Major Pain yet? Applaud if you've never seen Major Pain. Applaud for the podcast. Applaud for how much you hate Major Pain.

You guys go see Major Pain and think. Don't want to see it. No, definitely check it out. And I think you can watch it with family, right? Oh, yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Okay. I think so.

I don't know. I don't really have kids or anything, but yeah. He's got four adult male friends. My boys loved it. Yeah, but you know what I mean. Military shit's weird to show to kids because you don't want to get them too excited about the military. It's not Full Metal Jacket, but it's pretty close.

I don't think that movie gets people excited about the military. That's why I never joined that movie. Oh, Full Metal Jacket made me want to sign up because I wanted to be called fat a lot and then kill myself in the latrine. Alright, so many spoilers today everybody. If you haven't seen

movies in the 70s or 80s, they're gonna get ruined today. Okay, so Major Payne and Mary Santoro, what do you think? Okay, do we want a more mainstream comedy or do we want a deep cut? Well, look at what we have here. We have Deep Waters, which despite the title, is a deep cut. And then we got, I'd say say very mainstream Major Payne. Well Major Payne

made me think of another like military style comedy that I forgot about. Sergeant Bilko. I don't know if you guys have seen that. Steve Martin, Sergeant Bilko. Yes. Where he's like running a gambling ring out of the automotive department of the army.

Mary, nobody is excited about this movie nobody is perked up like they did for major pain well that's why i was like do we want a deep cut because i think this went straight to dvd i don't know if this ever was in motion picture theaters yeah but it was uh you didn't like it i didn't i didn you know, I guess it was okay. I think, I always feel like Steve Martin's at his best playing smart characters, so that should have been a home run, but I feel like it just wasn't, the whole thing was kind of, because it was based on a sitcom, and they didn't really elevate it.

You might have seen it at the right time in your life. I was like nine. Yeah, that's the time when you really, you know, fall in love with something that when you check it out as an adult, you might be like, okay, I was nine. I would like to say I have not seen that movie in probably 20 years. Might not hold up.

My dad was a gambling addict, so that probably helped too. Oh yeah, because when you see your life up there on the screen, you can't help but laugh. Right. When you're like're like oh shit i could be in the military and i could just run a gambling ring and i'll totally get the girl at the end like this will be all right fine dumb and dumber then i was gonna say you should say dumb and dumber that movie's great dumb and dumber's my favorite comedy of all time but i feel like everybody's seen dumb and dumber like that one is across the board

everybody likes it. So I was like, let me go deep cut, military style, and he's like, fucking bad choice, babe. Applaud if you haven't seen Dumb and Dumber. See, two people, everybody knows them. No, this is great. This is a great way to kick them out before they cause trouble.

We can just get rid of them right now, because what kind of cretins or cretins? That's pretty of cretins that's pretty dumb yeah that's the dumb that's the dumb right there they should add another ampersand and you onto the title dumb and dumber and you too

let's just go to each of you one at a time why no I'm kidding let's really grill them about it why were you so busy for dumb and dumber and then I don't even want to know if you saw any of the sequels or prequels or bullshit I didn't because that stuff forget about it I did not none of it hold none of its as good as the rich but thank you for those

recommendations everybody did a great job and yeah and we're here to play some games. We're gonna do that right after this first commercial break. We'll be right back. We're back. Having so much fun. We selected some fun name tags from the audience. Mary is playing for a dude with the biggest name tag,

and we're calling him the talent because his name tag didn't make any sense to anybody. I'm playing for that guy. Oh, Chris is playing for that guy. You're going to all have to remember who you're playing for, because I wrote it all down wrong. And Mary's playing for Kevin alone, because like all of us in comedy these days,

we like to locate and keep our eyes on the loners in the crowd. So that's Kevin over there. Did you come with somebody kevin your girlfriend's coming she's having trouble getting a flight from canada yeah she's looking for her passport all right she doesn't have her papers but when she's 18 things are gonna happen Then it's all gonna come together for Kevin alone. She got here, she just got here! Oh!

She is real! Hey! We put together this intervention because we don't think you should go out with Kevin. We think, we gave him a sign that we want him to wear that says he's better off alone. Did I say everybody? Oh, and John's playing for Cody Lon instead of Babylon.

It's Cody Lon. Which I don't know. That probably wouldn't have been as good a title as Babylon. That guy Cody Lon tagged me in a tweet earlier, and he didn't even follow me. What? What's up with that? What's going on there, Cody Lon? Blasphemy.

Is that true? I thought he was going to follow me right now, but he's not. Can I switch? Apply the pressure. I'm going with Kevin. You can't. You can't. Two people playing for Kevin. Sorry.

I forgot. Patch Adams. I'm going with Patch Adams. You can't. Two people playing for Kevin. Sorry, I forgot. Patch Adams. I'm going with Patch Adams. You're stuck with Cody. Black Patch Adams. I'm going with them. You're stuck with white Cody lawn. And good luck to everybody.

Oh, well. All right. Whenever I visit Austin, I like to play this first game because it was born and created here in Austin with some of my radio friends. And the name of the game is a bit of a shout-out to them because it's called Alex's, Jason, and Deb's IMDb Game! applause and Deb's IMDb game!

Alright, so if you look up an actor on IMDb and by actor I mean actor or actress, when you look them up on there, there'll be a thing right there that says best known for and it'll name four movies or TV shows and it's usually it feels like

a lot of times it's the publicist or the actor actress themselves gets in there on IMDB Pro and picks their top four but sometimes it's just the top four based on some weird IMDB popularity algorithm so you don't know which way it's going to go but i start naming somebody's top four when you think you know who the person is you buzz in with your own name and i'll call on you and then you guess and if you get it wrong it's one point. So you don't want to jump in too early. And I'll list all four. If you get in and get it right before I've said all four, each additional one is worth a bonus point to that person.

You get that many more guesses as to what might be in the top four. Any questions? Why do people laugh when somebody said negative points? Because, you know, we're trying to push positivity in the world right now, and through this festival, and so negative points really is, it's really going against what we're trying to do here. But also, two of you today do have to lose.

You know, that's all I'm saying. Are you trying to say it's my funeral? It's your funeral. If you lose today. The repercussions in this town, more so than any other, in Austin, the message gets out to the world, actually via this podcast, because you can listen to it almost anywhere. I feel like there's more pressure on you than anyone else on the stage.

Don't say that. Because you have like a whole movie. You do Master Pancake. You watch movies. We only watch terrible movies. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. He keeps really putting up a good case for how bad he's going to be today.

Dude, I'm going to be so bad. Because he only enjoys garbage. And I don't write a lot of trivia questions about garbage he held up that Christmas story shirt I'm from Cleveland Ohio and I was like I don't know that guy's name that's our biggest claim to fame and I was like yeah Ralphie no idea who the actor is we'll see who's the worst well as we move through this game also there's a theme underlying theme

that you might recognize that might help you to guess better. And don't forget, everybody in the audience, don't guess out loud, but guess in your head as much as you want,

as always. Ready, panel? I'm nervous. No. It is kind of, it's exciting. Okay. My heart rate's 119, 131. Oh, it's on your watch. Oh my God. That's not a great idea to be checking that. Well, my heart started cardiac arrest just cause you're looking at it. Okay, all right. You want to match the number on your watch. Here we go, okay.

What if it's malfunctioning? The first film that is in this person's best known for is, appropriately enough because it just happened, The Ides of March. I don't know the theme yet, so it's a little early to jump in. Might not even know what that movie is. So I'll give you the second one. That's a movie called Michael Clayton.

Some people in the audience, we got a hmm? Usually a sign that person knows it or thinks they might know it, but they're pretty confident. The third title, Up in the Air. Okay, I got it. John? You have to say your name. You have to say John?

John. Chris. Yeah, that's how you buzz in with your own name. You barely beat Chris. Chris almost got in there while I was explaining how to do it. Alright, John. Your excitement level is, you gotta dial it back.

You're gonna have the same problem Mary's having if you keep being so psyched. Who do you think it is, sir? George Clooney. That is the correct answer. God damn it. It got so quiet in here during this,

I was like, man, this is anybody that's tired of all the South by noise to just come sit in here when everybody's thinking about what the answer might be. So you get one more shot here, John, to get one more bonus point. If you can name the fourth

movie out of all of George Clooney's movies and TV programs. I'm torn. Yeah, it could be Roseanne could be in there. Facts of Life. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Yeah. But what do you think is number four

and is best known for? Part of me wants to say Batman and Robin, but I'm going to go with Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Not a bad selection. A couple people clapping for it. But no, that's not the one. Do we get points if we guess it? No.

Oh. You can for fun if you want, if you have an idea. I didn't know any of those movies. There's so many Cloonies. I wouldn't, I would not have guessed the one that it is because it's Good Night and Good Luck. Oh. Yeah. He directed that one.

It's in black and white. It was nominated for Best Picture and stuff. Um, but yeah, exactly. All right, so George Clooney's the first answer, so we'll see if you see what's going on with some sort of theme when we start this next one.

The first motion picture is a film called Up in the Air. I've not seen this. Okay. Okay. Smart. Hold back a little bit. The second one is The Departed. Chris.

The Departed. Chris is jumping in. What do you think it is, Chris? It's Leonardo DiCaprio? No, that is incorrect. Minus one. There was an audience member that agreed with you, though. Who's the person who hasn't seen Dumb or Dumber? Somebody in the air but here's the third title for John and Mary to battle it out. Orphan. Motion picture with just one word in the title and that word is orphan.

Dude, I've never seen any of these movies. I've never even heard of them. Right? I could have strung them all together in one title. You would just think, I don't know what that is. And this last one's not going to help anybody. The boy in the Striped Pajamas. That's a Holocaust movie. It sure is. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Yeah.

That's the four movies. Again, I don't know what more to do for you other than just write this one off and move on to the next one. I don't know it. to do for you other than just write this one off and move on to the next one. I don't know it. The correct answer is Vera Farmiga. Right? She was George Clooney's love interest in Up in the Air.

Vera Farmiga. And Leonardo DiCaprio's love interest in The Departed. Sounds like a type of oat milk, doesn't it? Who, Vera Farmiga? Yeah. My refrigerator, if it doesn't have Vera Farmiga in it, I'm like, I'm not having breakfast.

She was the orphan in Orphan and she was the striped pajamas in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. That lady is versatile. She is not fucking around. Her daughter, Taisa Farmiga, is a good actress.

Aren't they sisters? Oh, really? I don't know. In that case, I'm not interested. No, I don't know. All right. So who knew the answer? Who knew Vera Farmiga?

Why are you quizzing the audience? Sorry. That's not what we're going to do. I'm not that sorry. Who knew? Who knew? Somebody knew. Somebody must have known.

Are you kidding me? There's some people here they didn't know that why are you out there with a big dumb name tag and he up here with big dumb answers Chucky towels come on everything's big and dumb in Texas

alright alright we're doing good on time here we go All right, we're doing good on time. Here we go. The first movie is called Up in the Air. Oh, God. The second film is Pitch Perfect. I'm going to say John. John.

Who do you think it is, John? Anna Kendrick. Anna Kendrick is correct, Rick. Oh, no Rick that is true John is running away with this thing how many other movies with Anna Kendrick do you think you can name?

we just need two Pitch Perfect 2 oh interesting you're lucky it's just called that. It doesn't have a wacky, you know, subtitle. Pitch Perfect 2, still pitching. Too pitch, too perfect. Yeah.

Perfect pitch 2, pitch what? What's happening? Oh, you need to name one more. I just won the game. You need to win. Yay, John. I just won the game you need to win yay job you were about to declare me the winner you need to name one more you need to name one more

from Anna Kendrick that isn't up in the air Pitch Perfect or Pitch Perfect 2 Pitch Perfect 3 okay you're really having fun with that I'm going with what I know in

yeah it's Pitch Perfect 3 was, was, took a turn. It got really dramatic. It's called Pitch Perfect 3, The Girl in the Striped Pajamas.

No. Okay. So yeah Wrong and wrong She was in She played the The lead girl troll I knew it

In the motion picture trolls Princess Poppy And she was What's her name In Into the Woods Cinderella In the musical movie Into the Woods

Can we get like some 2000s romcom or let me look ahead nope but John's only got two points and we've got one more round of this game left so it's still anybody's ballgame you might jump in on this one quicker this one the first title is a television program that this person was on and that program is arrested development so so far we got Clooney for in the audience third title Zootopia Oh Mary Mary Mary Jason Bateman Jason Bateman is correct. Oh, that was exciting. And now, if you...

Where are you at? You better? It's reading it. Go ahead. Okay. Tell us when you have a number. I will. Tell us when it's official. 158. No. You've got to calm down. I swear to God. Okay. What's supposed to be normal? Like, resting

is like 70. Oh, no. Well, my normal? Like, resting is like 70. Oh, no. Well, my resting is 73. Oh, my God. You doubled it. All right. Now, wait. You get to name one more, and if you get this right, you're going to tie it up with John,

and you'll have to do a tiebreaker to determine who wins this game. So, it'll be a movie or a TV show that he's most known for. That they're claiming is in his four most known for. So far we got Arrested Development, Bad Words, which he directed, and starred in. I'm between two. And then that other one. All right, I'm going to go Ozark. Yeah, see that's what a lot of people would do In that situation Zootopia is the one I forgot to mention

And Game Night was the one you forgot to say Game Night Is the correct answer yeah Game Night I was between Ozark was a great guess And Horrible Bosses that was the other one I was gonna say Game Night He's got credits that's for sure

But yeah Game Night You don't like Game Night? Game Night's fun. Never saw it. Oh. There's a theme here with me, too. Do you like cute dogs covered in paint? Okay.

That's the movie for you. All right, so, oh, no tiebreaker. John, you won. Congratulations. You done did it. But Mary gave you a run for your money, and Chris, it's always great to see you. Sorry, dude. It's always great to have you here.

And better luck in the next game. Because all John won was the opportunity to go first in that next game. Yeah, it's not the greatest, you know, it might be an advantage, it might not. We will find out very soon the game is called it was a very good month what are you what are you applauding you that we've never even played this game before how do you even know to be so excited is it because you just know I come up with amazing games? Check this out.

Check this out, y'all. I figured out that every month on our calendar, January through December, every one of them has been featured, has been a word in the title of some motion pictures. In fact, there's none that haven't been in part of the title in, all of them have been in at least three movies, but then the numbers range wildly.

And you think about all the months, well what months would be in the most movie titles? And that's the premise of this game. There's going to be three rounds. We'll start with John, go to Chris, and then to Mary. You'll each have three guesses. So we'll cover nine out of the 12 months. We each get three attempts at naming the month that's number one, the most movie titles, according to IMDB, feature-length films from any country. Oh, boy. So if it was the word in another language, I probably didn't count it. But if it was like Diciembre, I was like, I'm pretty sure that's December.

I know that one. I know that one, yeah. That kind of thing. Can I ask a question? Uh-huh. Does it have to be... No. Okay.

The word doesn't have to be the month because there's words like May, which as you can already imagine, that could work in a title or a sentence without being a reference to the actual month of May. April would have been an even better example. All right, I've said too much, but all three contestants heard it. So John, if you can pull the number one you get 12 points, but if you pull number 12, you get one point, and then everything in between.

If you don't, there's three that aren't going to be worth... Well, anyway. Okay. You got so sad for a second. This is a really serious game, because I already know I'm never going to play it again. One time only. It doesn't make any sense. You can't play it again. We're going to play it again. One time only. It doesn't make any sense.

You can't play it again. We're going to blow it all out right now. Yeah. Let's blow it. I have to do a variation on it somehow. Days of the week. Oh, look out, everybody. Yes.

There's going to be a days of the week game coming. Yeah. And I'm going to do it on a Sunday, bloody Sunday. Oh, God. Or any given Sunday. That's all I got. Nice. All right, John.

What month do you think gets the most mentions, gets the most shout-outs in titles of motion pictures? I have two guesses, and I'm going to go with... Save one of them for the next round. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go with March Save one of them for the next round. Yeah, I'm going to go with March. You're going to say March, because again, it's another word that...

There's March of the Penguins. March of the Penguins 2, still marching. That's right. March of the Penguins 3, time marches on. Don't get me started about... Yeah, March of the Penguins 4. Here we come, May. What? Did I give one away?

All right. So March, interestingly enough, I counted up, is in 33 movie titles. And that makes it number four on the list of months. And, of course, we already mentioned the Ides of March earlier in this show. So you get nine points for that, John. That's a solid start, nine points. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Yeah. But now we go to Chris. Wait, why does Chris get to go next? Because he's sitting in between you and John. You didn't get any points last time. You know, that is a good point, that you should be rewarded. between you and John. We didn't get any points last round. That is a good point.

You should be rewarded. You should be rewarded for doing well in the last round. I feel like we already had a set way. I feel like I'm getting fucked right now. Everybody likes a comeback story. Let's go. That's a terrific correction to how I was doing it that I'll start in the next episode. Chris.

Oh, no! What were you going to say? I'm not telling. No, Mary, I understand which side the crowd landed on that. I just like to have a little joke. You're up next. Oh, okay. Sorry, Chris.

Also, it's just hilarious. Mary's probably much better at these games than Chris anyway, so it's really funny. It's going to make it more sweeter when I win. It's really funny to see her angle to, I hope I can beat this guy now. Yeah. All right, I'm going to go with May.

What? May. What about it? That's my guess. What? No, that's okay. I just thought I was going to ask the question again but that's

I have to just check myself and make sure I know what game we're playing and of course we're all pretty sure that it's on there and it is

it is on there and are you holding the paper upside down again no it is worth two points because it came in at number ten what with 11 yeah 11 What? That's what you skipped me for? I did skip you for that, yeah. With 11, yeah, 11 Mays. I deserve that. In movies. Mayhem, maybe, May, yeah, they all got in there. But the month itself, people don't really care about it.

They don't care about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's crazy. All right. Now watch this asshole get number one. Well, that's what I'm saying. I feel good about it. That's what I'm saying.

It's all kind of arbitrary anyway. Chris, what do you think? Just because I can only think of one, I'm like, that's probably it. I'm going to go with July. You like July, huh? Nobody supports me on that shit?

Where are all the July heads at? Come on! Come on! There's Born on the 4th of July and there's a movie That's the only one I was thinking of. There's a movie I like a lot called Cold in July. But anyway, there's 25 movies

with July in the title. Brings it to number 6 and that's worth 7 points for Chris Tellez! I'm back! Going West really hurt him. He's feeling the pain. All right, John, now you get another cracky TOA, East of Java attempt to name a month.

That is way up there. I don't know. They're all fucking terrible after March and May. Right. Those are the two that have synonyms and stuff. July. July doesn't really have any, but you did good on July. 22 points?

Yeah, it's good. I don't know. January? Somebody out there likes it. With 16 movies, number nine, and it's worth four points. Okay. Yeah. All right.

I'll take it. Hey, points is better than not points. I'll tell you that right now. Math isn't my thing, but points is way better than not getting points. Okay, Mary, would you like to go second again? I would like to go second again. Okay, Mary, would you like to go second again? I would like to go second again. Based on the Hallmark Channel alone, I'm going to

go December. Whoa! There's got to be Love in December, December, Bakery Air or something. There are 31, because, you know, those movies are called television movies,

and they don't count as feature films. But you still get, it's still a popular thing to make movies with December in the title, and there's 31 of them by my count. So that's number five on the chart, and that's worth eight points for Mary. Chris? Eight points for Mary. All right. Chris. I got to go October. Yes, you do.

Pretty good about horror movies. Come on. The Hunt for Red. October. Yeah. It's the only one I know. Yeah. October Sky.

A lot of people have fond memories of that one. Jake Gyllenhaal making rockets in the backyard. Oh, yeah. I remember that. And that's not a sexual expression. 41 October movies. Number two. 11 points.

Wow. Chris Rockets into the lead. Oh, don't you come back now. Coincidentally. Wow. Look at him go the lead. Oh, don't you come back now. Coincidentally. Wow. Look at him go up into that October sky. Thought you left talent. Stick around, we might.

All right, John, what have we got left here you think that's worth half a damn? That's a great question. I'm going to go with, I'm going to say April. Oh. It's like, there's like April Fools and April Showers. April Fools Day, Pieces of April. Pieces of.

Yeah. It's with nine movie titles. It's number 12 and that was worth one point i mean you're the april fool oh he got you got him that's my third choice that wasn't my first choice First choice. Oh, man. All right. Back to you, Mary. Let's go with... I don't know, dude. None of them are good. No helping. No helping.

This guy's voting for September over there. Do you remember the 23rd night of September? Do you remember? I will go with September. Am I allowed to do that? You're going to do it just because that guy yelled it out? Doug, there's not a lot of reason here. Okay, fine.

I'll go with... March. We already did March. We already did March. We already did March. Do it again. She doesn't know all the months. It's bad enough that you're yelling out, but to be unhelpful at the same time. God damn it.

Tuesday. Try May again. I will do Diarrhea. Die hard. I'll do February. Now you're sure you want to switch it to February because I told you

to not do September? No. Because I tried to scheme and be conniving and it worked against me. Okay, so what's it going to be, February or September? Oh, my God. Pick one. February. Okay. Number seven.

Yeah. 23, February. Six points. Better than me? Six points. Better than me. Six points, yeah. I'll take it. There was a tie at number seven, so there's another number seven out there, I think.

All right, so now, let's really juice up the drama here. Mary has 16. John, thanks for coming. And Chris has 16. John, thanks for coming. Chris has 18. So I really did a bad job of whipping up the drama because he's already won. I won? Congratulations, Chris.

You don't even have to guess. Good job. You did it. Can I tell you what my next one was going to be? Yes, for fun. Let's go ahead and get more points on the board for you. I feel like since November, right? You like November?

Yeah. Number three with 36 movie titles. It was September 1st. Those were 10 points. Yeah, September's number one. Oh, no. You're the worst. You're the worst.

I would have won. I couldn't make it like it was his, like it was because of him. I wanted to make sure that you had made a clear decision on your own and didn't just follow the guy yelling out in the audience. But yeah, 42 movies in September in the

title. Good job, though. According to my terrible skills at adding things up. February was the other number, seven with 23. What was last? June? What? August? June was 10th.

We already did last. Last was April. Oh, yeah. June was 10th. And, yeah. That only leaves, yeah. June was 10th. And, yeah. That only leaves, yeah. July. Yeah.

We did them all, right? August. August is, that's the one that, that's at number seven with 23. July at 25, so it's at number six. All right. Fascinating indeed. That's the only time that game's ever going to be played.

We did it! You guys got that limited edition. But look forward to the next edition of this game where instead it's body parts in movie titles. Which body part is in the most movie titles? I'm going to guess right now

Eyes. I'm going to say Eyes. Eyes is a good one. But you never know. Could be a bunch of different things. Anyway, congratulations to whoever won that nail-biter. It must have been... It was Chris Tellis by a landslide. So many points, Chris.

28 points. Why did I doubt you earlier? I don't know what's wrong with me. So let's go ahead and we'll be right back with our final game today, right after these messages. We'll be right back. And we're back! Okay, so to determine our winner today,

we're going to play a quick and exciting game that I call Super Last Person Standing. Oh, yeah. This is where I'm going to name more than one actor and actress or actors or actresses. I won't tell you what the combo is quite yet. I'll explain the rest of the game.

I'm going to name some people and then the four of us, I play along as a spoiler to make it more difficult for everybody and it'll also probably make it quicker today. I spent so much time yapping today. We're running short on time, but we can do this. So we start with Chris because he won the last game and then we go to Mary because she loves to go second. My favorite.

Then we'll go to John, because he doesn't care. And the person he's playing for is probably very excited about his lack of interest in winning. It's Cody Lon. Sorry, Cody Lon. But so each, you know, day movies that person was in, if you can't think of one, you're out. But one time you can go to your lifeline, Cody Lawn or Talent or... Kevin.

Kevin is no longer alone. Did they leave? I hope they're here. That'd be awesome if his girlfriend showed up and went, nope, let's get out of here. I don't care if you're in the running for a bunch of posters. You won't even put our wedding pictures on the wall.

He said girlfriend, so I don't even know why. Very Austin. I thought they should be married in my version, in my alternate universe. Alternate universes are so exciting now you can make anything happen in anything and just go oh it's an alternate universe it's a great way to explain

nonsense am I mad at it? No okay I keep babbling because we're in a hurry so that's why I can't I can't fucking get it together because we're in a hurry. So that's why I can't. I can't fucking get it together. We're in a hurry, so I'm just wasting time. Because we're in such a hurry.

All right. So today it's going to be the films of Michael B. Jordan and Michael Jordan. So it's the films. No, separate. They've never been in anything together. Okay. It was close, but no, they've never been anything together so you have to name a Michael B Jordan movie or a Michael Jordan movie which that part of

it will go away pretty quickly probably but you never know strategy wise what somebody's gonna gonna want to do and oh and I'm gonna to go too so it's going to be Chris Mary Doug John okay alright so Chris start us off yeah what do you got any of them yeah any Michael

B. Jordan movie or Michael Jordan movies space jam Michael Jordan movies? Michael regular Jordan. Space Jam, Michael Jordan. Yes. Get that going fast. You did it. Mary. Black Panther. Black Panther, of course, is Michael B. Jordan. Here's one

I'll take off the Michael B. Jordan table. He's in a movie called A Journal for Jordan. Was that about Michael Jordan? No one knows if that's real. I don't know which Jordan, if it's about himself or he just happened to get cast in a movie about a Jordan, or maybe he didn't even write the journal.

Maybe he's another character named William. Okay. Who's up? John. Creed. Creed. Very good. Chris. Creed, very good. Chris.

Creed 3. Yes, very good, very. Creed 2. Yes, very good. How do you guys get so good at this? This is a real impressive run you've got going here. Here's something that I would like right now is Just Mercy Just Mercy

is a Michael B. Jordan movie. John? Black Panther 2 Wakanda Forever? Yes! Full title I love it they're a pro Chris? Just Mercy 2.

Still Mercy-ing. Go to your lifeline. Go to your lifeline. He's got one for you. What do you got? What do you got, talent? Fruitvale Station. Fruitvale Station.

Yes. You should have nailed it. Very good. Very good. All right. No, no signaling. No sign language. Mary. I don't know if this counts. The last dance? Does that count? No, it doesn't. No, no signaling. No sign language. Mary.

I don't know if this counts. The last dance, does that count? No, it doesn't. Okay, Lifeline. Lifeline, what do you got? Oh, that's all you got? You already said that. That's all he's got.

Sorry, Mary Santora. Nice try. Yeah, the only other Michael Jordan movie is he's in He Got Game. Yeah, probably as himself. All right, John. I'm going to go to my lifeline. My big man, Cody Lyne. Cody Lyne.

Save the day. What do you got? He's got nothing. All right. Then I'm going to say the gray man. He's in gray. No, he's not in gray. He's in gray, man.

Chris. Okay. So I'm just taking. Just do it. Entourage the movie. Why? Why would you do this to me? I'm assuming Michael Jordan might have made a cameo.

I haven't seen it. Have you used your lifeline yet? Have not seen it. Have you used your lifeline yet? Huh? Have you used your lifeline yet? Have not seen it. Have you used your lifeline yet? Huh? Have you used your lifeline yet? Yeah, he used the last one. Yeah, yeah, he used the last one.

All right, well, you still managed to last longest somehow. Wait, I got one. Oh, you do? A real one? Yes. Give me a real answer. You don't have to fuck around. I just remembered it.

Okay. I don't know if it counts, but I'm going to. We'll try it. Michael Jordan's Playground. What's that? It's a documentary. I just said he's only in two movies. Yeah, Last Dance didn't count.

Yeah. But anyway, you win anyway. Congratulations to Chris. Hey! All right! He was in movies called Hardball, Blackout, Pastor Brown, Chronicle, Red Tails, Hotel Noir, That Awkward Moment Fantastic Four

and all the other ones that Michael Jordan was in all these or Michael Michael B. Jordan oh okay yeah

it makes way more sense all of those films great job so congratulations Chris you won today you get to do your plugs first fast plugs

alright guys basically I just had an album come out. You can get it anywhere. You can even stream it on Spotify. What's it called?

It's called Some Dumb Guy Stuff. Chris, tell us, everybody. There you go. Yeah. Mary Santora, what do you got to plug? Great job.

I also had an album called Nothing Matters and you can follow me on social media at Mary Santora Comedy. Yay. John Erler. No albums. But if you're in Austin

for the next two weekends, we're doing Point Break. We're riffing the movie Point Break. Talent's gonna be there. And then the week after that, we're doing, oh, in honor of Dungeons & Dragons coming out, we're doing The Sword and the Sorcerer and Ator the Fighting Eagle.

And if you're not in town, we're on Twitch four days a week, so follow us at MasterPancake on Twitch. MasterPancake on Twitch. Doug Loves Movies returns to Zany's in Rosemont, Illinois. O'Hare adjacent on May 6th at 420. All my dates and deets

are at the DougLovesMovies.com place. And one more time for all my guests, John Erler, champion, Chris Tellis, the great Barry Santora. Thank you, Creek in the Cave and South by Southwest, and Charlie Sotelo. As always, for the first time, Alia felt the strength of her own spirit.