Doug Loves Movies - Jonathan Mangum, Maxwell Nalevansky and Ellory Smith guest

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

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This is Doug Kind of Loves Holiday Movies, recording on Sunday afternoon, December 14th, 20, 25. Always great to hear Ricky Lindholm and Kate McCoochie singing the Christmassy version of the Doug Loves movies theme song. My guest today are a couple of returning champs and a champ in my heart. They are Jonathan Mangum, Maxwell Nelvinsky, and Ellery Smith. Hello. Happy holidays. Hello. Happy holidays. Yes, hey. Let's meet everybody individually, even though everybody did a great job, not stepping on each other just now.

And alphabetically, my first name. Hello, Hillary Smith. Hi. So excited to be back. How's the holiday season treating you? It's good. It's good. I'm gearing up to go back home and just going to power through it.

it does that so you you have you're very busy up until when you travel home and then once you're home that's when you'll dive into watching some holiday movies yes i find it's the challenge of the holidays is finding a movie everybody will enjoy a little bit well maybe you'll get some ideas from today's episode because we'll certainly discuss some holiday movies and also it's to me it's kind of bizarre how holiday movie focused people get in December, especially like the last two weeks of December, and yet there's still really only like a dozen great holiday movies. But it doesn't is enough. That's more than you can watch in those two weeks. No, that is very true. Thank you, Brainiac, for coming around doing the math.

And good luck to get today against, we have two champs visiting us in return appearances to try to hold the title of, I don't even know what the title is called. But the first of these two gentlemen is Jonathan Mangum. Hello, Jonathan. Come on down. Hey, I am coming and here. Look, now I'm down. I was mixing up game shows there. Um, so you're like, I think if you keep winning on this show, I think you'll keep coming back until you have like months off from, from, uh, let's make a deal. Yeah, we, we start back in January, uh, but yeah, I've been off for a bunch of months. The problem for me for this episode is that, you know, I won last episode of, of Doug Love's

movies, but I used up all of my Christmas bits. So I literally, there's nothing left. So I, I'm just going to. flail, man. I'm a little worried. You, like, a known improviser showed up to the last Douglas movies with actual bits?

You didn't know they were bits? Wow, now it feels terrible. You slipped them in pretty good. I've heard of having somebody slide into me my idea, but you really slipped in some bits. I slipped into your bits, man. That happens all the time. You're a real bit slipper.

and always a pleasure to have you on the show and like, you know, hopefully you'll lose soon so you won't have to worry about you want to be working off of the set of let's make a deal to be on this show. I prefer to not be paid for bits, but yeah, if that happens, it happens. All right, cool.

And also another champion who, through faults entirely of my own, uh there's been booking mishap after booking mishap uh till he's finally back because he was the winner in new york in september i believe opposite the great k mccucci and the almost as great john ham and two others yeah and emil wakim and you uh you prevailed over all of them And now you're, you're finally back, and you're on the show with a fan of your film Rats. Wow. Full circle.

Amazing how it all came together. I don't have any holiday bits, though, so this is embarrassing. That's okay. Well, let's talk more about John and Mangum. He hasn't seen rats because he's a family man. Yeah, that makes sense. And it's not a movie for children. Oh, well, it depends

It depends on the kid Yeah, it depends what kind of kid you are I like to watch it on 2B Because they, you know, throw in random commercial breaks And I feel like I need breaks Yeah, no You know, when I'm watching it You know, I feel like it's good to just kind of

Pause and reflect about what's happened What kind of ads come up? Oh, gosh You know, lots of lots of these medications a lot of you need a doctor

to get your prescription are doctors just being hounded constantly like hey I saw a commercial doctor I think that's exactly what's happening I need this thing I saw in the commercial and then the doctor's price and go yeah okay fine

you know come in pay to come in and get the prescription because the doctor won't just give it to you over the phone or whatever, right? No. I think we're discovering today that the health care system is broken. I haven't heard that one before.

No, I think it's finally come to light. What a weird place for it to happen. But, you know, hopefully this will go viral and the people will realize there's a problem. I'll start talking about it. Yeah, let's get the word out. I think it's going fine for the super rich. Yeah. No, it really is.

It's going to be super rich. You know, shout out to those people. Before we play some games today, I would like each one of you to recommend a holiday movie. We'll start with Ellery. Do you have a favorite? Have you done Douglas movies during the holiday season before? Never during the holiday season.

But I did just see a movie that I think would be a good holiday watch. And it's in theaters right now, rental family. It was beautiful. it was like heartfelt it would be a great watch with your family it's it's not um christmassy per se it's not christmassy per se but there's a lot of there's a lot of similar themes i think you could say it's about families and yeah you know life and love and loss and all that good stuff and um an imposter yes it is yeah yeah it's about uh warm-hearted duplicity yeah which is so much of the holidays yeah it really is the holidays really are at the crux of it

it is lying to your children about what's happening yeah or than when you're adult it's lying to your family yeah so that's a perfect christmas movie um Brendan Fraser plays a guy who's hired to pretend to be the father of some children for reasons we don't need to get into but uh it is it is heartwarming and uh Chris, I'll give it Christmas adjacent. Thanks. Which is, you know, I just said recommend a holiday movie and you, I think you knocked it out of the park. People will have to go to the cinemas to see it, though, I believe.

I don't think it's available anywhere yet. But the busiest day of the year for the movie theater is Christmas Day. Streaming wise, yeah. Go see your movie. There'll be a big one on Christmas Day if they're not at SpongeBob. Or Marty Supreme. Well, the kids are going to love Marty Supreme because they love the guy from Shark Tank

He is so good to Marty Supreme That Kevin O'Leary dude But I disagree with him so much politically And just I could not agree more I'm like keeping out of the movies He shouldn't be in movies But he's so good in the movie

Because he plays an asshole of course but he does a really good job like if I didn't hate him so much I would say good job what did you say Elery what was your movie rental family oh right I got to write it down right away or it's just going to be gone all right so Jonathan can you top that what's your holiday recommend I was going to recommend a film called Christmasy per se but you guys already mentioned that one So, you know, one that I forgot about until someone mentioned on the last podcast is Gremlins is a great Christmas movie.

It's completely twisted with the little monologue she tells in it. And it's Christmasy, but also spooky. Something for the kids, something for the adults. You can't go wrong with Gremlins. It is, you know, definitely a Christmas movie that has nice edges. The monologue you mentioned is, you know, know, pretty dark for such fair, you know, it feels like, you know, some innocent lives are lost and, like, there's a dog is tortured, but, but I, but I, but I, um, I, um, I really have

a hard time, like I, I just, my fond memory of it was that it was, there was an element of scariness to it, but now whenever I see it, it's, it's a bunch of puppets. It doesn't look like a Muppet, a Muppet movie. Well, they're supposed to be like, oh, we're supposed to be scared of these things, but then a lot of times they're just punching each other in the face and laughing. Like, they're like, you know what I mean? Like when they cut to the bar, like Phoebe Kates is having a hard time serving everybody. They're obviously being over-served.

But they like, they're just playing cards and throwing shit around. Like if she just left the room, they would still just, they wouldn't be like, you know what I mean? Like, I thought Reblins were supposed to specifically bring down people and, you know, try to, try to end them. But these ones that just seem like they just want to party. Yeah, I see your criticism, and I accept it. I still recommend it. You're not changing my opinion. It was supposedly a hard R, like, the first script that Christopher Columbus, of all people.

Oh, I didn't know. He directed it. Yeah, he wrote it. And that was his, like, that was his entry into, you know. know that led them doing other you know writing directing other movies um okay maxwell yeah damn i was really ready to shout out my two buddies movies before i realized it was going to be a christmas shout out so i lied to them well i don't mind a side shout out to like your buddies movies like who are your buddies and what are their movies well i wanted to

tell you about these two movies these guys are called the the piss boys in chicago they have a lot a urine in their films, but they're really good. One movie is called Positions by Brandon Daly, and it's like this guy gets addicted to crypto and quits his job, and then his whole life unravels and he's totally fucked trying to take

care of his brother with Down syndrome. That is piss factor in that one. One of the characters drinks beer for the first time or thinks he's drinking beer for the first time. I'm spoiling, but then it's actually piss. Damn. Yeah. It's a

it's a rough scene and then one of the other directors made this movie anything that moves, which is kind of this like Gialo kind of detective horny movie. It takes place in Chicago and there's a guy that pees off a roof into someone's

mouth and there for like sex like. Skilbert puts shooting stars and this guy puts piss in. I love it. Yeah, it's a coincidence. I don't know what's going on in Chicago, really. They like pee a lot there. Yeah. But it's like, you know, off the roof, it's risky in the windy city.

You don't know how many innocent bystanders are going to be affected. Is the person's mouth, like, is the person with the mouth that gets peed into on the ground? Because that's kind of a trick shot. That's a, that's good aim. Yeah, he's good. He's like this little biker guy. He's awesome. And he's like a sex worker.

He goes from place to place delivering sandwiches and different things to people, but then, like, has sex with them. And he's down at the bottom of this, like, alley. Because in Chicago, they have, like, alleys. New York, we don't have alleys. They're down in the alley, and then the guy just, that pays him, he's just peeing from, like, I don't know, four stories high. He just goes right into his mouth or it's more of a spray onto his face. That's a good question. It hits his face, and then he kind of has to adjust a little bit.

He has to laugh it up like an animal. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But then I was going to say just the classic Christmas animated short film, The Snowman, you know, that Raymond Briggs one. I love that with David Bowie, like, narrating. Beautiful. I don't have any idea what you're talking about.

The Snowman. It's like 1991 or something. Uh-huh. 90s, yeah, it was like a short film. I was nominated for, like, maybe it was one, but it's really, it was like based off this children's book

and David Bowie's narrating it and the music's amazing. And it's feature links? It's like 30 minutes long. No, it's not feature length. All right, I asked you for a movie, Maxwell. Yeah, but that's, I give you two movies and then half a Christmas movie.

Right, but two of the movies are full of piss piss material that does not appeal some people. Yeah, yeah. And then the third movie is about a character that if you piss on him, he melts, and then what do you have? The snowman. No, now I'm intrigued by the snowman.

I really am. I don't know why I haven't heard of it. Do you think if I saw it, I'd recognize the imagery from it? You'd like it. You'd recognize it, and it would be like, oh, right, memory unlocked thing. Because what happens is it's a classic frosty, the snowman?

No, it's not as cursed. It doesn't make you feel gross. Oh, okay. It's just more of like a more natural snowman. Yeah, it's more of like a watercolor snowman or something. Oh, okay. Versus like a claymation that makes you feel like hiding. I love those clamations.

It's so cursed. That's not the youth that you should get that checked out. Is the snowman yellow covered? It could be a Merry Pismus. That's all I'm saying. That's all it is. It's a Merry Christmas. Wow.

Amazing. All right. Well, everybody check out these two extremely known feature-length films and then this one mystery to me movie that I'm going to seek out. Because you don't know where to go watch it. Do you, Maxmo? YouTube, for sure.

The King. Oh, just YouTube. Just go to YouTube and type in the... snowman yeah and it'll pop up and I'll be like oh damn maybe type in the snowman why why'd I act like I didn't know what that was yeah it'll be embarrassing it's just world famous snowman thing that I don't remember for some reason um from the 90s I was super biz in the 90s you know what I mean like that's why I might have missed it um thanks for all these recommendations And we're going to find some games after this break.

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If she doesn't get it, then Jonathan gets a crack at the pipe. And then if Jonathan coughs too much, then Maxwell gets a shot, et cetera. Makes sense? Yes. Yes. All right, cool.

All right, Ellery, tell me if you can, what movie this is his tagline. from it's christmas eve in l.A. and the party actions about to explode it's christmas eve in l.A and the party action is about to explode yeah if i gave out points for repeating it back to you i'm thinking sure i got it okay you would be in the movie save the christmas attitude is it die hard it is die hard there's a lot of context in that timeline i know i really think there is too much Too much context. I was a little disappointed

in how much context there was. But let's see how Jonathan does with this next one. Okay. What you see isn't always what you get. What you see isn't always what. Is it also die hard? No.

Okay. That's not my answer. Interesting. Because movies do have multiple. That's a fun. premise for a future game that I'm going to do where I'm going to do all of the taglines from the same movie oh yeah I like that but not tell the contestants so if it's something that you can't what you see is not you get and it's Christmas it makes me think

oh you thought you were getting Santa Claus but you're not really getting Santa so I'm going to say like bad Santa I like your logic there I like hearing your work yeah out loud yeah I like being walked through it. That's what I did. And then I, the thing I love most of all is to be able to say that is incorrect. Because I want you to fail, Jonathan. I know, I know.

Now I want Maxwell to fail as well. What do you think it is? Maxwell. Yeah, I know, I know. God, it's a tough, a tough thing that I don't know the answer to. I want to say Well, maybe I'll say it to you again. You ready?

Yeah. What you see isn't always what you get. Ooh, is it romance? Maybe romance. A movie just called romance? No, Love Ashley. Oh, I see. Yes, like you think you're going to get a faithful husband

and you get one that is not faithful. Yeah. Yeah, that is a big theme in Love Ashley, but that's not the tagline for love, actually. I'm sorry. That's a Christmas movie, though, right? Ellery, yeah, they're all holiday. I like to say holiday classics,

even though Christmas is, basically. I'm going to guess the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. The Santa Claus, because you see him, but you don't get him. Maybe, or my other, well, my other guess would be Jack Frost, but I don't know if that one makes it. It's too late for other ones, but that one makes a little bit more sense. No, okay.

But they're both wrong. And the answer is Gremlins. Whoa. What? Oh, how did I not know that? That's the sneaky one, because that wasn't, that really didn't catch on is like, you know, when you think of tag lash that movie, it's about the rules

about you can't feed them after midnight. Yeah. That's the tagline. So, yeah, it's sneaky. A lot of these taglines, there's lots of them for a movie. I'm going to obviously pick one that doesn't give it away completely. Which leads us to our next one, Jonathan. Good freaking luck.

Thank you. Thank you. Because this could be a lot of movies, but it's one specific one. And the tagline is, Santa's here. Santa's here. That's fine. Exclamation point. So I ask everybody to think about what's happened so far,

diehard, gremlins, Santa's here. Can I buy a vowel? Do you do that on this show? Yes, I'll give you a vowel. Okay. There's an eye. There's an eye in it. Okay, geez, I.

Not the Santa Claus, not just Christmas movie with an eye. I'll be home for Christmas. I don't even know if that's a movie. It's a song. Is it a tagline for a song? Is it a song? That's also a movie. I'll be a Christmas.

Yeah, that's my guess, because there's an eye in it. Incorrect. Maxwell. Yeah, this is easy. The answer is it Charlie Brown Christmas. I don't know what it's with you and things that are movies, but if you ever go on Doug loves things that aren't movies, I think you're going to do great.

This is a 22-minute TV special, and also not the correct answer. Is it Santa Claus is coming to town? That is about a 44-minute animated TV special. That's like, every Christmas movie is like 30 minutes long. There's long ones. You just got to know where to look. Like, you know, it's a wonderful life. is like two and a half hours long or some shit.

But the answer to this one is, and I apologize, this was a difficult one, but Sansa's here, exclamation point, maybe I should have made it sound scarier with the exclamation point, because that's Silent Night, Deadly Night. Is that a new one? No, this is the one from like 84, but there's a new one coming out now.

Oh, they rebooted it. There's a new one that came out like today, like this weekend. Yeah. All right. We're back to Jonathan. Okay. Come on. You can do this.

I can do it. Another Christmas in the trenches. Okay. So it's probably not actual war, because that wouldn't work as a metaphor. So it's the trenches, meaning like a tough family situation. So, gosh, a Christmas with a tough, oh, man. I'm just thinking of all the Christmas movies. Could you repeat it again in a different accent?

I absolutely have the ability to do that. Good. Oh, you want me to? No, I just want to know if you could. I'm going to guess, I don't know, Edwards is her hands? I don't know. I'd say that about when I see that movie, I go, oh, another Christmas in the trenches.

Maxwell, what do you think it is? Is it another horror movie? Is that your final answer? I'm not, I was going to say, is that, I don't know, Black Christmas, Black Christmas? That's a great guess, but no. Ellery. Okay, I think that there's actually, like, a popular gif of this line. Oh.

Is it Home alone? Home alone, what? Oh, come on. That makes me think that maybe it's Home Alone, too, lost in the city. Now, if you were saying, like, the. correct words, and I would say, yes, that is the correct. Is it Homeland 2, Lost in New York? Yes. Homelow to Lost in New York. You combine it. Babe. You combined babe. Congratulations. You got there. Oh, it was bad as babe. Pig in the, pig in the city. That would have been a good Christmas movie. I mean, you should go write that on spec. I think it would sell.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Now, all right. Jonathan, you're up next. Okay. Yes. You're always ready. I'm always ready to be wrong. If it comes after that, that's the problem. There's no place like home for a holiday. There's no place like home for a holiday. Okay. Okay.

Okay. So I have no fucking idea. So it's about getting together at the home. did um did did parenthood the steve martin movie uh was that a christmas movie parenthood i don't think it was specifically i wouldn't be surprised if like the the movie takes place over a long enough period that christmas plays into it at some point right but i don't think of it as a christmas movie like that other one that he was in about that boopers yes i don't i'm just going to pick random Christmas movie. I'm going to say

elf. I don't know. I'm wrong. Next. You know, like, in this game, if you just said elf every time... He'd be right once. You'd be right, maybe eventually, but not in this case. Maxwell. Jingle all the way.

Another one that, like, you might as well just keep saying it. Until you, until you, you know, strike gold. Yeah. No, not this time. Elery?

Jingle all the way was going to be my guess. So now I don't, I'm like, do I even know another. What does that leave? Like, what's another holiday classic? I don't even know. I know all of those Christmas movies. Where there's no place like home for a holiday. There's no place like home for a holiday.

Yeah, they think they're being really clever with this A holiday. Is it like an Easter movie or some shit? Oh, that'd be fun if I thought of that kind of twist. But no, it is a Christmas movie. It's a Christmas movie. home for a holiday I'll be home for a. I try not to lie in the setup, Valerie.

Oh, the holiday classic, you're right. I could have been a loophole. Home for a holiday. I literally don't know. I don't know. It's not white Christmas, but that's the only Christmas movie

that comes to mind for me. So that's going to be my guess. You know, might as well be called that because it's National Ampoon's Christmas vacation. which is indeed very white all right Jonathan

this is it man it's now or never I can come back put a you probably it's too late for you to catch up but I still like

I still like just you know this is like the movie Rudy you know what I mean you're not going to you're not going to win the game but you know I'll be impressed by

the fact that you played it all what you guys will put me on your shoulders and carry me around uh zoom for coming on it's not how much you give it's how much you take oh is that the tagline i thought you were still going on about me being rudy um listen rudy i want you to remember these words rudy oh uh how you take so who takes the gridge takes uh how the gridge stole christmas dr suz no That's a good guess, though.

No, that was a fast, good guess. Maxie. Well, I'm not going to get it right, but I really just want to say Fat Man, that Mel Gibson movie, because it's just a hilarious title, and it's just the poster of his scary face. It's just amazing. Yeah, it's not how much you give, so much you take. Fat Man. Fat Man.

All right, Ellery. Do you know it, Ellery? You know, I don't, but let me, let me get a guess. Okay. It's not how much you give, it's how much you take. Yeah. Is it a Christmas story? No.

It's not a Christmas story. But it does have that homespun cynicism. Yeah. Well, it's funny because I thought people would be trans. and that somebody would guess because of that tagline that somebody would guess bad Santa I thought that might come to somebody's mind

because he's a Santa that like steals from people right but that is from bad Santa too oh my gosh so I couldn't even trick anybody to saying the wrong bad Santa so sorry bad Santa

I guess you're not as popular as I thought you were and congratulations Ellery you won that game you did it by the skin in my teeth it was competitive if we had needed

one more to settle a tie if anybody was tied up if anybody else got any points at all then the tie breaker was what Christmas classic has the tagline coming soon actually

Love actually Yeah Yeah It's a real obvious one Because when I got a tie to settle I make sure it gets settled But Ellery You're going to go first

In our next and most important game That we will play After these messages We'll be right back We are back And it is time to play As our last game today The Little Search Engine

That could I typed a word into the search engine on the internet movie database the I to the M to the D to the B and then I wrote down the top ten movies that have that word in the title. The three of you are going to take turns

guessing movies that you think might have landed in the top 10. You'll each get three guesses total, and then we'll add up the points when we get to the end of it. If you name something that's the number one movie, you get 10 points. If you name the number 10 movie, you get one point,

and there's all those glorious points in between. Anything after that, 11 or pass that even if it's really a movie with that word in the title no points but respect right right Doug oh

absolute 100% respect like that last game Jonathan and Maxwell you both may feel like oh man that did not go well but to me it was exceptional because when it was your turn to answer you said words

and some of them were even, like, good answers that were close. Cool, cool, man. Yeah, all right. So that's it. That's deceptional gameplay when it comes to this show. On my big 12 guests at Christmas show, I'm going to have Todd Glass on there, if you want, a master class in being likable while not knowing anything. That's how to get hired anywhere.

Okay, so do you want to know what the word is? Yep. That's going to come in handy. Oh, so Ellery is going to go first, then Maxwell, then Jonathan. Got it. Three guesses each, like I said, but you'll guess one at a time. And Ellery, there are lots of movies with the word story in the title. And it came up earlier, a Christmas story is a great example of, you know, it's probably

maybe the best known movie that's Christmas themed with the word story in the title. But do you think it made the list? Do you think it's in the top 10 today? Or do you think it could even be number one? Or do you have another moving in mind that you think, have ranked higher because that's what we're doing is movies with the word story in the title but you already know I've already spoiled that there is a movie called a Christmas story you know I'm going to guess something else I'm going to guess the never-ending story that's a

super fun thing to do and I always count on that from you The never-ending story, the never-ending story with the fun. I never really investigated the spelling and punctuation of the never-ending story. That never-ending is one word, but the E is capitalized. Yeah, I never. The whole movie sort of seems like a fever dream. I don't think too hard about it. No, I know.

I think of that movie, I just picture that dog flying around. Is it a dog? That's all I get out of it. It's not even a dog. I always thought it was like a dragon with hair. Oh, okay. The hairy dragon dog. Yeah.

But it's the number three on the list of movie's the story and the title. So that's where Ellery's got eight points right out of the gate with never-ending story. Maxwell, what's your first guest, a movie with story in the title? I was going to guess that one. but now I'll guess Toy Story You're going Toy Story

Just two words Toy and story What we will I guess I could say Toy Story 2 Or something That'll be bigger I mean There's a lot of things

You could say Maxwell I'll say Toy Story 2 I'm not here to put words In your mouth I'm just here to be clear About which words you've chosen Yeah no Toy Story 2

You're going with Toy Story 2 three two locked in lock it in seems good number 10 on the list yeah worth one point so you're on the board yeah that's the good news you're on the board but the bad news is you're barely on the board right right but let's see what let's see what jonathan's got up up his sleeve all right Can you remind me, never-ending story was what, number two or three? Never-ending story is number three. Number three. Okay.

I'm going to say West Side Story. Whoa. Just came out not too long ago. Spielberg. So you're saying 20-21 West Side Story. I'm just saying because wasn't the original also just called West Side Story. They both have the same time. unfortunately so you have to pick one oh no i have to pick one do you think 61 or 21 which one do you

think oh god higher if at all i god just so does i mdb give give credit for like classic movies that people have forgotten i'm going to guess no because the internet's horrible so i'm going to say the most recent west side story that the the 2021 well that That is a reasonable guesstimation or whatever that was. And it is the one from 2021 is number nine on the list. Okay, all right. So that's good for two points for Jonathan. And now we go back to Ellery, who's very much a commanding lead,

but it would be nice to put some more points on the board. And now I'm going to guess a Christmas story. You're just going to say a Christmas story when I threw it out there to begin with it like, hey, I thought the other story. I thought our other contestants might snap that up, but since they left it on the table, I'm going for it. So you were like a good sport. Yes, I was being a very good sport. I don't know. I'll say this other movie.

Oh, it's number three. That's great. Yeah. And then you listen to these other two people just with their crazy ass, whatever the hell it was. talking about. And I said, fuck this. I'm going for the kill. And then you come back and go, how about a Christmas story? How about 10 points? It's number one

on the list. Well, okay, now wait a minute. If this was, let's make a deal, the lawyers would be running out under the floor and ripping the microphone from your hand, Doug. Hey, listen, you left money on the table. That's not my fault.

You can say it if you want to, who knows where it is on the list. Oh, my God. Yeah. It was right for the taking. it was it was fair enough i'm surprised they're bigger than toy stories still i always think it's fun i've done over the years i've done games where i've just blatantly said what the answer is in the setup and it's uh it's just funny the combination of politeness and also just you know you you forget you like lose track of with

I'll just chatter of what the hell is even happening. But Maxwell, you're not out of this, man. It's getting the way. Still, you could get there. It would be a lot, but you could do it. Just give me that number two movie on the list, movies with the word story in the title.

I want to collect them all, so I'm just going to say Toy Story 1, Toy Story. You're just saying Toy Story. story you said it earlier and then you changed it's number two i got crossed over like you had a last minute number two which happens to a lot of people it's nothing to be ashamed of but now you're saying the original toy story yes sir where i land this is what i was talking about when i was saying you still have a chance here because it is number two on the list oh shit and you got nine more points. Well, I'm so

dumb for not doing that originally, of course. Well, you know, it worked out in the end because it was still there for you when you came back. But, yeah, you had the right idea the first time around. The OG Toy Story number two on the list.

Let's see if we get some more points for Jonathan. Okay. Some points for Jonathan's a great hallmark Christmas movie. Ooh. Huh? I miss what you said. Points for Jonathan. Okay, okay.

Here comes some points. I wish I lived in a universe where David Lynch's The Straight Story was in the top 10 movies, but that's not going to happen. So because the rules weren't explained specifically and because I'm very competitive, I will also say a Christmas story for 10 points. Wait a second. You never said you can't repeat. Did anybody say you can't repeat a movie?

I didn't hear it. I don't think I've ever had to say that rule. I thought that was obvious. You can't say an answer that's already been... Gosh. You guys. But I like your... Okay, the other story movies that I just wrote down...

I like the approach. Thank you. I wrote down the story of Buster Struggs. I really doubt that is on there. Oh, but that's, you know, pretty recent. Was it his ballad? About, yeah. Oh.

Yeah, oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm going to say Toy Story 3. Story was inferred in the ballad of the Bucs. There was an inferred story. Yeah. But I'll say Toy Story 3 because that's in there. Do you have a jacket and tie on right now?

I do, yes. And there's a bright 20K in my face. Although you don't wear a tie on the TV program. You get to go loose. Wade wears a tie. I don't wear a tie. I'm the more casual sidekick. Yeah, Wade not only wore a tie, but he'll also have like a jacket that has an extra pocket or some sort of.

Or like one time he had a jacket that was like had a belt on it. I was like this is like the episode of the office where Steve Grell actually wore a women's suit. That's an extra pocket where he keeps a tie in it just so I can't wear it. That's what he does. Number six on the list. There we go. Toy Story Part 3. There we go.

Yes. Too little too late, but I love it. I think. We'll see. We'll see how this goes. If Elery puts any more points on the board, it's over. What do you think, Hillary? What's your third and final guess?

Who kind of out of movies that have story? Story in it. So I'm going to guess something, because it's really the only other movie I can think of. But I don't think it's going to be there. But it's from, like, the 70s love story. Oh, yeah. Oh. That's a big one.

My reaction probably gives it away that it's not. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. But it's still, that's an interesting one. You know, the trouble with this game is, or the brilliance of it, depending on how you feel about it, is that, um, you know it's sort of what people are searching now you know so like if like if somebody you know that was in that movie died recently or something then that would uh you know give

it a little extra life or if it was truly like a uh a christmas story i think it's like in a snowy setting and he's a hockey player but i don't think it's uh christmassy other than that uh it was kind of but it's also because as a contestant you can only think of so many titles and So it's like... No, it's true. No, I wish more people would use the expression as a contestant. Because it's like... It's like, you know, there's a silly amount of pressure that someone's sitting idly by.

Even though you're not going to win anything today per se, you still want to win. Like you still, that's why they're playing. And then you see, you know, other people are guessing and they're taking the ones that you wrote down. You're like, fuck, I'm out of, I'm out of ideas. Yeah. No, it's fun. try to succeed at these extremely difficult arcane movie title games. So I'm sorry to say Love Story is not on the list,

but you're also still winning with 18 points. And Maxwell has 10 points, and the most you can get on this next one would be seven points. so I'm no mathematician but this is just for fun at this point do you have another one did you think of another one

yeah I was a bit yeah I was going to say Dewey Cox story but I was going to say maybe Jackie Robinson let's see Jackie Robinson story right that's the biopic Jackie Robbins I think it was called

what was his wasn't it like his number or something or like... 43, 41? Yeah, it's in the 40s, I think. I'm not a baseball guy, really, but I think it was his number and then Jackie Robs it,

but whatever it's called. It does not make the list. Did you make the list, though? No. I'm sorry to say, but... Who played him in that movie? Was that Chadwick? Chadwick Boseman, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, he's good. I thought that movie probably made a bunch of money low key but yeah that makes sense yeah absolutely yeah when you hear this list you're going to be like oh right a guy who said toy story and toy story two um johnson um that being said uh what do you think's number four let's get that number four okay uh i'm going to say west side story the old one the 1960 oh you snake in the grass

Is it? No. Why would a snake in grass know the answer to this? I'm sorry? Stupid snake in a grass. No, sorry. It did not. It's number 12 on the list.

Oh, okay. Still up to the top, though. Yeah, yeah. No, it was close, and that was, but that was smart of you to recognize that I did split it up that way. And it could have worked out in your favor. If only,

Tarantino hadn't been yapping about West Side Story the Spielberg one. Right. Just recently he was praising it as like Spielberg's best of this century. Really? Is that a broken town?

21st century. Which I don't know the numbers on I don't know which movies qualified. of his, but I feel like there has to be one that's better than, for me, better than West Side Story. I thought it was fine, but...

Yeah, I agree. I thought a lot of what was brilliant about it, was just copying the way it was shot the first time around. Yeah. Yeah, the first one's so great. I mean... Yeah, you just stole a lot of the same things, like the whole opening sequence is like just the same.

Yeah. So, it was weird. It's kind of like a cross between when Gus Van Zad did that shot-by-shot remake of Psych. Oh, yeah. It was sort of like a cross-stream, shot-by-shot remake, and then also Spielberg just going off and doing his own thing. But like the prom scene, for instance,

like the way the two of them get together is amazing in the first movie. And then the remake, it's just like the camera moves around a lot more. Yeah. Anyway. Fuck your answer. What? I thought I was getting respected. You said, fuck your answer.

Fuck that answer. Oh, my God, dude. Fuck the original. No, it's number 12 on the list. And so that means that Jonathan ends up with a respectable third place. Great, great. And Ellery, our winner, before I reveal the rest of the answers, you get to do your plugs.

What would you like to promote? I'm doing a show in Boston at City Winery Boston on the 28th of December. Come on out. That's me getting away from my family, so make it worth it. Yeah, you got to, do people need things to do during the holiday taint? And that's great. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It is.

It taint Christmas and a Taint New Year. It's just everything in between. So people need to get away. I've got a show, I'll tell everybody about in a second, a couple of shows going on during the uh this year's taint um but thank you ellery and also is there any chance you could join us tomorrow night for the hell yeah all right so you're going to be one of the 12 guests of christmas uh again something i'll speak more of in a moment but let me give you what everybody's dying to know what other movies have the word story in the title that would rank in the top

10 currently on IMDB. And so we got Toy Story 2, of course, was 10. West Side Story was number 9. Then at number 8, that nobody got, Rogue 1, a Star Wars story. Okay. Yeah. Literally never heard of it. I see what's happening.

And then number seven, Dodgeball. Really? And underdog stories. These were, like, taglines. Yeah, right. But then number six was a toy story three. And number five, this is a real butt burner. A Christmas story Christmas.

The, you know, I guess they made a year or two ago. They made a, you know, a reunion movie of the survivors of a Christmas story. Hmm. whoever they might be mostly just Ralphie I guess just the kid is an adult now who produces Vince Vaughn movies and then number four

on the list that shockingly nobody came up with because boy it's not something you think about when you think about the holidays a motion picture called marriage story oh wow Huh. Oh, yeah, that one. A lot of people get divorced around the holidays.

Stressful time. Yeah, so I guess people are just looking at movie up, like, I need something to help me get through this, and I think it's going to be Adam, what's his name, singing Sondheim? Adam, Driver. Adam Driver. I'm Driver. I'm driver. It's true. well once again congratulations at ellery for winning that game and we'll see you tomorrow night but in the meantime jonathan bangham

what would you like to promote oh if you like to make them up listen to wayne brady in my podcast called um jesus i just forgot what it's called what the hell it's totally it's made it's called what if oh way brady's what if i thought it was called what the I like what the hell. And we're doing new episodes next year, so check it out. And then also, if you are in Los Angeles in Los Angeles area and you'd like to win a trip or like to win a car, we start taping, let's make a deal in mid-January. So go to CBS.com, let's make a deal and sign up to come win yourself some shit. Oh, my God.

That would be so amazing to go on there and win some stuff. So, like, what's the deal with? How come some people look like they're in costumes that they, like, guys? like you know when they arrived like is there is their assistance or do people really have to bring their own stuff so I'd say about half the people bring their own stuff and they work really hard in their costumes and then the other half the people feel bad they don't have costumes so we go hey here's a here's a bunch of shit on over here hanging up do you we have like a turkey costume and an orange like we have a bunch of stuff they can they can go through and

pick out some shit but about half of the people actually you know work hard on their costume so yeah yeah there's amazing costumes and then there's yeah and then there's stuff where like something's just thrown together but if they have a great personality or whatever i'm sure they get picked you know just because exactly it doesn't end up being that much about the costumes it's kind of funny how it's almost downplayed a little bit like that you know it's more about the games and the improv and stuff and not about you know what people are dressed as yeah for sure for sure it's fun all right dude

Maxwell Nelvinsky what's going on man I know I keep seeing you like at film festivals with rats enjoying you know the success of that movie

yeah I mean I think the success is over for the movie but I would watch it it's over yeah it's over but yeah definitely watch it on Tooby

or Shudder, M-C, Apple, whatever. Oh, Shutter, I like that option. Because I've been watching on Tooby with the ads, like I said earlier. Oh, yeah. It would be fun to see it just straight through. Good.

Yeah, I've been working on some ads lately. That's what I've been doing for Christmas. Mountain Dew, a lot of sugar from Mountain Dew. Oh, that's their new slogan? 77 grams. Wow. Oh, shit. I was like

but worth everyone. Yeah, a lot of sugar. Eat it. I've been looking at two different types of Mountain Dew like doing graphic design for like making art for the background of this commercial. And I'm like,

I guess let's go with the Baja Blast teal here. It's the drink you can eat. Oh my God. All right. Well, But you're cooking up some other feature film possibilities? Oh, yeah.

This year there'll be something else. We're doing kind of like this biopic parody movie. But I can't say too much right now. But yeah. With our friend Carl Fry. With our friend Carl Fry. Right on, man. Hopefully you too.

Well, you know, I'm available. Yeah. And thanks for being here. Here's some Doug plugs. You can purchase the live stream of 12 guests and Christmas or come see it in person. Tonight, if you're listening to this on release day, Monday, December 15th, DynastyTyperter.com

for in-person or live stream tickets. And then I'm doing Douglas Movies in San Diego on December 27th at 420 in the afternoon at the American Comedy Company and also in the taint, my annual comedy taint show at the Irvine Improv on Monday, December 29th. For all my dates and deeds, thanks, go to Doug Lovesmovies.com. Thank you once again to Maxwell Nelvanski and Jonathan Mangum and Ellery. Smith, as always, but the world can't do that for us.

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