Doug Loves Movies - Nick Kocher, Doug Mellard and Johnny Pemberton guest

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

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Hey, hey, hey, everybody. My name is Doug and I love movies. This is Doug Loves Movies recording on Wednesday, April 1st, 2023. Ha, ha, ha. He's for fools. 20, 26. And my guest today are Nick Coacher, Doug Mellard and Johnny Pemberton. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hello. The three stooges of movie trivia are here today. But let's meet them individually and alphabetically by first name. He is the co-host with me of the Wide World of Doug's podcast. It's Doug Mellard. Hey, Doug. Hey, long time, no talk.

Yeah. Well, we've been doing Wide World of Doug's as a monthly series as of late. And so, yeah, we don't talk as often as we had been. But the last time you were on this show, you won. And so now you're back as a returning champion. Not just one. I dominated. Well, whatever happened there, I'm just reminding everybody that, you know, as case they think this is an April Fool's joke, you are in fact a real champion. Yeah. But we will see how you do today.

Probably not great. He is the star. He's the star of the new movie Mermaid in Select Theater's on April 8th. It's Johnny Pemberton. Hey, Johnny. Hey, it's me, Johnny Pemberton. Welcome back. Thank you for having me back.

I've been waiting so long to come back. I'm so excited to be back. Did we, the last time you were on, was it around the time Mermaid played at South by Southwest a year ago? I don't even remember, actually. I really don't know. I feel like we've talked about the movie on this podcast before, or we talked about it when you were on Wide World of Doug.

Yes, that. It was that. Yeah, it was back then. Because you came to me, you saw the movie at South By, doing the same here, I believe. Yeah, we both did. Me and Doug both saw that. That's right, yeah.

He's dug up. And the character's name is Doug. Yeah, and it's crazy that, you know, you have this movie at South by Southwest, and then, you know, I don't know if people know this, but sometimes it takes that long. It's an absolute complete year later

when it's being released. Sometimes it takes longer. Yeah. Sometimes it never happens. Sometimes never, yeah. but let's not, you know, curse any of us with that kind of talk. Yeah. Now, like I said, we've talked about Mermaid before, but, you know, just to recap for anybody, you know, just joining that conversation, it's comedy.

What would you say? Comedy, horror. I would say it's a dark comedy thriller with horror elements. I mean, it's like to call it a horror movie is not fair because people who are such horror fans. You know, they get prickly about what isn't it in horror. Right. So I don't like to say that because I don't want to disappoint anymore, but it's definitely, it's definitely, you know, in the horror subgenre, I would say.

It's in the area. It's in the area because it's gross and disturbing at times. Mm-hmm. You know, so that's horror. That's horrific, but it's not, it is weird that the horror seems to be defined by if it's always trying to make you jump. Yeah, they're definitely. like a thing with BOR movies. You know, it's like the old thing from Scream, right? What are the

rules? Yeah. And we don't have those rules in Mermaids. So it's not a horror movie by that metric. Well, Mermaids don't live by our rules. That's for damn sure. The one thing I wanted to highlight, because we got lots of stuff to do today, but the one thing I wanted to highlight about Mermaid is that one of your co-stars is Kevin Neeland. And he is so good in that movie. He's outstanding. He just really, like, makes, he just makes everything so much better because he's so grounded and real in the movie that really,

yeah, he's just outstanding. I love him so much. Yeah, and he's, and it's great because he's like, you know, his character is the one that kind of looks at you with, you know, he still thinks you're weird, but he's got more of a sympathetic guy than anybody else in the film. He really does, ironically enough. He's the nicest one in the whole movie.

Yeah. They got a snarky stand-up comic to be the sweetest character. But, you know, congratulations on the release. And, well, that sounds like you just had a sexual account. Yeah, I just had a huge release. Thank you for helping with that release. It was very pleasurable. I love to give a hand whenever somebody needs a release.

It's a job, but it's hard work if you can get it, you know, whatever they say it. Our third guest today to change the subject has two very different films. Now, this is an absolute opposite story from Johnny. He had two movies premiere at South by Southwest this year that are also coming out this month. And they are a pizza movie and over your dead body. It's Nick Coacher. Hey, Nick. Hello, it's me.

Thank you, yes. Are I pronouncing your last name right? I think you did it correctly. Did you say coacher? Yes. Yeah, then you did it correctly. Okay, good. You were doing something else when I said you're doing?

Look, I really only tune back in at the end of the R sound in my last name. So I never know. I never know what people are saying. Now, you and your writing slash directing partner, now let's see if I can say his name, right? Oh, good luck. McAuleney? Not even close. McHillaney.

Oh, Macal. I love that. Yeah. I love it because it's just M.C.E. So Macal is wild. It's wild to get Macle out of that. Yeah, there's a bunch of McElhenneys, McElhanes that all came over. One of them did the Tabasco sauce. The map right.

The other one did always sunny in Philadelphia. and then there's Brian the least successful of the of the McElhanies in the U.S. currently. But yeah, but that's a, doesn't, yeah, because the guy from Always Sunny, he spells it differently. Yes, he spells it differently and the Tabasco guy spells it differently. I think it's because at Ellis Island they just, you know, it was just one guy or a couple guys and each guy spelled it. differently. So like I think they all came over with the same last name and then based on whatever clerk was checking them into America, they got their last name spelling changed. Well, I love this because he's going to be on this show next week and

now I'll, you know, we don't even have to have the conversation with him about. Yeah, yeah, you'll be very well informed. Crazy pronunciation. But then that brings me to like a lot of partners in show business that people have given the two of you or you gave it to yourself like where did the name as a writing directing duo you're called Britannic

Britannic yeah it was it was definitely something we gave to ourselves that would be a real wild move for that to have been imposed on us we we came up with the name You know, we got our start doing YouTube sketch comedy, and we came up with the name we were 19 years old. We didn't know we would still be professionally tied to it. Otherwise, we would have thought it out more.

It was just basically like, in 10 minutes, we were like, what should the name of our sketch group be? It's like, well, your name's Brian. My name's Nick. What if we combine those two names with the word Titanic for no reason at all? We're not boat related. We're not British related. And then for some reason, we, for some reason, we, just liked that and then nobody knew how to pronounce it and uh and yeah but we've we've stuck with

that uh now 20 years after the fact well you know uh you've got uh you know these two movies coming out and um it's you know it's fun to have uh something that even though i said it wrong It's fun that you have a name for your, for your duo. And, you know, it sort of includes your names, which is also nice. You know, some of these other people forget to put their names in these things. It's fun. It feels silly to be 40 years old and have like a silly little name like Britanic that we go by. I go by Scorpion typically.

Okay, well, there you go. That's good. Yeah, I know how you feel. Yeah, yeah. Well, look, you got to come up. We're like Prince. We're, you know, I assume that was not his given name. It's his real name.

His real name is Prince Prince. Oh. Yeah, I think it is his given name, though. I think his name is Prince Rogers Nelson. Oh, my gosh. Well, I can see why he lost the Rogers Nelson. Well, I know. That just ended up sounding like a law for him when he said a whole name.

All right. So we don't have a ton of time. But very quickly, tell us about pizza movie's going to be on Hulu and Disney Plus Friday. Yes, April 3rd. So whenever you're listening to it, maybe it's out. Go watch that on Hulu. It's about some college kids who are high on a fictional drug, and they've ordered a pizza. And to get the pizza, they have to go down to their dorm lobby, which is down two flights of stairs.

And because they're on this insane fictional drug, that journey down two flights of stairs is a feature film. And it's very bonkers and very silly. And then the other movie, Over Your Dead Body, is about a husband and wife who have both planned to kill each other on the same day and then hijinks ensue. And it's fairly different,

but also a pretty crazy movie, but tonally different. Yeah. I mean, one's more of a straight-up comedy than the other. I haven't seen pizza movie yet. I'm looking forward to seeing it on Friday. And then over your dead body will be in theaters on April 24th. April 24th, yes.

And I got to see that. We were talking about this before the show that we got invited to a fancy premiere and at Vidyates in L.A. and not only did I enjoy the movie very much, but someone who's there who saw it both at South Bay and here in L.A. said that the response was great in both places, but that it got a bigger response,

like more laughs and cheers in L.A. Vidians is such a great spot. Yeah, it's... It must be the Vidians. It must be the Vidiotes is what did it, because, you know, I've been to lots of premieres in L.A. LA and you know sometimes you're like do

everyone here even know this is a comedy you know like yeah you know LA crowds especially at a premiere it could be oh yeah when it's like a lot of industry people in the crowd it can be really rough but yeah they was it was great the other night of idiots it was very fun and it's a great movie to see in theaters like it's very yes a screaming crowd around you I think it only enhances

over your dead body well I'm just gonna tell you now Nick that one of the other guests on the show today, Doug, he saw, he's already been raving about the movie because he lives in Austin and he saw it at South by Southwest. I did not book the two of you together to make this happen. But then when I told him just now before the show that you were the one of the other guests, he said, you know, that he was going to in the part where I ask each of you to recommend a movie, he was going to recommend over your dead body. Oh, amazing. Yeah, that's great. I actually caught it twice at South By. That's so much. Oh, my gosh.

Wow. Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It was great, and it's, uh, I knew my wife was going to like it, and she was out of town for the first screening. So I was like, well, I'll definitely see that again. And on top of that, like, to your point. Are you playing on killing your wife, Doug?

Yeah. The second time I saw, I was talking up this woman next to me, uh, you know, we're just shooting the shit, Southby buddies, temporarily. in the seats there and she was like wait this movie's about killing your wife right and I was like okay this is awkward now but uh yeah like to your point though it is like much very much like go see in the theater because people were laughing over parts where I definitely caught things the second time and like it's so outrageous and dark and crazy that it's yeah you definitely want to experience that like all the the highs and uh you know the

the gasps and the laughs together in a theater. It's so great. Yeah, really enjoyed it. Great work. Thank you so much. So the Britannic team wrote, co-wrote over your dead body, but you wrote and directed pizza movie.

Yeah, so Yorma Tocone directed over your dead body, which was a dream come true. We've been heavily influenced by Yorma and the Lonely Island in our sketch comedy stuff. So it was so fun to work with him. We had like such a shared language. And it's also like when you write something that somebody else is going to direct,

you never know if they're going to like how good they're going to be with it. And Yorma was great. And we were just like, it was like such a thrill that like, oh, we know he's going to hit all of these comedy beats exactly right. And yeah, love working with him. And then Pizza Movie, we directed ourselves,

which is a much more strong. stressful job than just writing, I have found. Did you, were you, for over your dead body, were you on the set much? Yeah, we were there not much because we were actually prepping pizza movie during that time, but we were out there for a week. We, we, both Brian and I have like a small little cameo in the movie. And yeah, they filmed it in Finland and we were, we were out there for, I think, a week. But then they're like, let's get the writers.

let's go ahead and put them back in the states and we can go about our business yeah yeah then we can go back changing all the things we want to change they didn't change much though right no not not really at all i think there's like some tiny things like obviously some stuff got cut for time but uh pretty much it's it's what we turned in well thank you so much for being here with us today to play some silly games, hashtag. But first, I'd like to visit Recommendation Station. That's where each of you recommend one movie. Doug, are you still, is that still your choice?

Yeah, it's awkward. You didn't change your mind? And also, you were, I did not see Mermaid, by the way. What the fuck? I wasn't there for Sapphire last year. I couldn't do it. Oh, you know what? what, that's so funny.

It was, who was there? I think it was Dustin. Oh, maybe. Yeah. But I've been looking forward to that. We're friends. We're friends, aren't we?

We were friends. I know. I definitely mentioned a person many times. I've done favors for you and stuff. I will also plug Mermaid. No, that's okay. I don't worry. I'm sure busy.

Got like all kinds of stuff going on. My voice isn't that deep, so it's not as impactful. I get it It's fine I've got like other stuff going on We have to start shooting season three Of fallout soon

So it's a speed bump I'm sorry guys I've been waiting a year to get I can't wait for it It's no big deal It isn't just like a labor of love You know it's an indie film It's always this video picture

That has all this backing It's an independent film That we shot during the strike Because we're an independent film That got a waiver last minute And we had like You know so many production problems hurricanes, all that stuff, you know, but it's not a big deal.

It's just kind of like this stupid little silly movie that really doesn't have like a home yet. So why would you want to support that as a friend? Of course I would support. I would want to support such a fantastical, genre-defying film with all these great performances. I'll send you a screener link. Yes. I want to go pay money. I want to go see it.

It does. It did. It's so funny you say that about the videos, though, because we, screened and video it's about maybe two or three weeks ago and man it was like it played so well there's something about that theater i think that's got some magics in it yeah i think it attracts people who you know love movies and love being loud in movies i i saw r r r r there like a couple oh my god that movie's forever ago and it's i came out and wanted to lift a car above my head i was so pumped up man that movie is fucking wild yeah did you lift the car i tried i could

I couldn't even, I couldn't even budget. I loved watching over your dead body at Vidid so much I went outside after and got to dim sum off of a truck. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people did that. Yeah. But they didn't know. Like that was the fun thing is that people, we, my girlfriend and I got right out to the truck

and got, you know, got some plates or whatever. And then when we came back inside of them, everyone was like, where'd you get that? Where'd you get that? You had to go, oh, there's a truck outside. Yeah. All right, Johnny. Johnny, enough food truck talk. What would you like to recommend?

I'm going to recommend an old movie. A thousand clowns. Oh. Jason Robards. Yeah. That's like 70s. 65. Whoa.

Yeah. And what is it you like so much about? that movie. It's just like such a sweet movie. It feels like, I mean, it's, it's hard to talk about a movie without something super pretentious, but it's just like it's got like a really modern feel for such an old movie. It feels like one of those French New Wave movies, you know, where it's kind of meandering and it's just about a relationship. There's not like a whole lot going on. to me it's almost like a more relaxing version of Rushmore. Oh, okay.

You know, I already think Rushmore's pretty relaxing because of all that British, great British tunes throughout the whole thing. What's the clown count in the end, though? It's not really a thousand clowns in it. Surely there can't be a thousand of them. It's like Minnesota where there's more than a thousand clowns. They just like that number so much. Oh, okay.

they round it off. Yeah. It's an easy amount of clouds. All right, Nick. What would you like to recommend? I'm going to recommend something, I think, in a similar vein, but not quite as voluminous. I'm going to recommend hundreds of beavers. I don't know if I would be surprised if this hasn't been recommended before.

So if it has, I could pick a different one. No, it's fine. We all don't mind repeats because it really, it hammers home. Some people take a few different times hearing about it. to just finally be like, all right, I got to see this thing. And it has come up a few times before. Yeah, it was, I love, hundreds of beavers is kind of like a Looney Tunes cartoon made with no money live action. It's about a trapper, a fur trapper who's got to kill hundreds of beavers.

And the beavers are played by a guy in like a beaver mascot costume. and the gags, there are hundreds of beavers, thousands of gags. It's constant gags. I love the movie so much. It was written and directed by Mike Cheslick. I also highly recommend if you can see it. They do like midnight screenings of it in theaters, which I would recommend going to a theater to see it.

And I would also, if you can go to one when Mike is introducing it, it is well worth your time because he goes nuts. he kind like when I saw it he was he did like an intro and then a Q&A and he had gotten like blackout drunk before the Q&A and it was incredible this is this is crazy we've got a hundreds of beavers thousands of clouds wow that's a cool body I love these recommendations I needed a number I guess I'll change it to 12 monkeys There's an implied number of one dead body. Ends up being the numbers. You never know what's going to happen in that movie, though. It's really super fun.

I recommend both Mermaid and over your dead body. And like I said, I haven't seen pizza movie yet, but I will. Well, don't recommend it without. Don't vouch for it. Okay. Yeah. It looks fun as hell. Thank you.

Thanks, Johnny. Yeah, it's very, very, It's very fast-paced and it's 90 minutes. So like you're, I would say it's worth your time because it's not asking that much of you. And it's very, very silly. It stars Gate and Matarazzo and he's freaking excellent. And the whole cast is great. Yeah.

So, you know, hour 30 is my favorite running time. And, but I must say that an hour 45 over your dead body is like, nearly perfect lengths. I went into it a little like, oh, here's another one that's going to be 15 minutes too long, but I yelled at myself

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for Mermaid gosh I think it's changed but I think now it's called I think it's just welcome to Florida yeah which is you know that's a fun tagline because it just says right away oh something fucked up's going to happen and probably water based

okay and then Nick over your dead body has, I think an excellent tagline, because I usually think taglines are bad. Do you know it? I actually don't. What, what is it? I can probably guess. Wait, is it like marriage is hard or something?

Marriage, some pun about death there. Marriage is hard would be the worst ever. Is it the drift of the magi? No, it's breakups. They're all in the execution. Oh, yeah. Great. A pun.

Pretty clever. Well done, marketing department. Yeah. And how do you think? Because that's another thing people don't get is that filmmakers are rarely involved in these things. But what about pizza movie? Do you know the one for that? I do know it.

It also was come up by the marketing department. And I bet you could guess. I, could we try guessing, Johnny? I know what we're looking at it. It's a movie about kids who are high on a crazy fictional drug and they're in college. Man, I just, I'm really bad with this type of stuff. I always want to say something that doesn't make any sense at all. Like no anchovies, bitch.

I would love that so much if that was our tagline. That would be a good one. Our tagline is a very, you know, class. classic. It's college is a trip. I would much prefer no anchovies, bitch. Yeah. That would be perfect for

that would grab my attention more. I'd be like what do this movie just shout at me? Yeah, but college as a trip is like a nice succinct like you get that it's wink wink it's a drug thing. Yeah. And then and then

Doug Mellard had a movie. Is he in a movie? and it's called The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood. And do you remember the tagline for that? No idea. It isn't much of the tagline is it's just words, extra words

written on the poster because it's written like it's written like it's supposed to be your handwriting and it's have you seen me and then in parentheses last seen Area 51. Yeah. Great poster. Yeah, it is a good poster.

All right, so that's what taglines are. That's the game we're going to play. Doug gets the first one. I'll read it to him. If he misses it, then Johnny gets a shot at it. If he misses, Nick gets to guess. And whenever somebody gets one right, the next person in line gets to go. And a theme will potentially emerge with all these answers to kind of guide you a little more to making slightly more educated guesses.

You ready, Doug? Yeah. All right. What movie had the tagline, cross the line one more time? Cross the line? One more time. This fucking game. It could be anything, right?

Well, it'd have to be something where the line is being crossed again. I think I know what this is. Oh, good Lord. Cross the line. One more time. I got nothing. I'll say time cop. That's just a great generic answer.

John, you figured it out? Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the 1998 Milo Schormann movie Line Crossers. The sequel to Line Crosser. Exactly. As soon as you said the date, I was like, well, this answer's wrong, but he's so confident. Nick, do you have an idea what this is? I mean, it feels like it's a sequel, right? Like one more time.

Crossing the line. Like, I don't, I'm going to go. I don't know. Cool runnings, too. Did they make a second cool running? I don't think they did. Well, they do cross the line in it, I'm pretty sure. Sure.

But I don't know if they, you know, return to the Olympics with the same kind of success, the Jamaican bobsled team. Yeah. The training facilities have always been not great. You were right about the sequel part, and by crossing the line, they're talking about racing. That was the tagline for Too Fast, Too Furious. Oh, that's wild. Which is always funny to me, when the tagline acts like, we're only going to do one more of these.

Right. Like, no, come on. It's going to go on forever. I think there's 12 of them now, maybe 11. Okay. if you count Hobbs and Shaw Doug, you're up first.

Nobody has a point yet. This one narrows it down effectively to 23 movies. The tagline is James Bond is out on his own and out for revenge. Wouldn't that also be any one

of the James Bond? He generally is out on his own. I don't think he's that vengeful generally, so I think that's a little bit of a clue, but I don't want to say too much. I'll say license to kill. See, you say that like,

ha ha, ha, this is a stupid guess. That is the correct answer. Yeah. That's correct. Man. Is that Timothy Dalton? Yeah. It felt like in the title he does, that does seem vengeful.

Right. And he's like, that was the second one that was based on books not written by the original guy Ian Fleming. So it was like there was, Living Daylights was the first Dalton. And then this one was the second.

I guess something happened in Living Daylights. It was like, I gotta get that guy. And that's why he's out for revenge. But you know, even what a Blowfield is in the, you know, he's the villain in like four different James Bond movies.

And James Bond is never like, oh, I got to get that guy. He's just like, in those movies that Blowfield. is in. Oh, Blofeld. Yeah, exactly. It's a real eye-rolling situation.

That was oddly the first one that popped in my head. I have no idea why. So there we go. Yeah. No, that's how you win. You don't, you're not aware of how it's done. Well, done. It's just some sort of magic.

Well done, Mr. Meadow. Well done. But funny sidebar, they, I was looking at IMDB, the page for license to kill. and somebody in the part where people could ask questions and get answers to trivia stuff, somebody said, who's the lady dancing in the opening? Because the James Bond movies always have a shadowy lady figure that's usually naked dancing around.

And somebody wrote that, and then you have to click on it to see the answer. And I clicked on it, and somebody managed to get in there that the dancer in the opening of License to Kill is someone named Dancy McGee. Dancy McGee But that could be true though Right

It could be nominative determinism That a lady named Dancy Became a dancer But anything McGee Always makes me laugh But also somebody had to like Hack IMDB and whatever Just to say that

Or they have to be a member or something Do you just say nominative determinism? Yeah I've never heard that before my life But I think I know what it'd mean Yeah No, that's the thing about that expression is you have an idea what it means, but like nobody ever uses it. That is cool, man.

But it's like Wetzel, you know, like he was nominated of determinism that he'd be making pretzel. Yeah, exactly. What about Annie, though? She could, she could have gone into any industry. Yeah, she could have gone to. I bet she's an ex of Wetzel. Yeah. I bet you she got half the Wetzel business and slapped her name on it and then tried to drive him out.

Because you know what they say, revenge, oh, that wasn't it. Execution. No. All right. Johnny, you're up first on this one. Okay, I'm ready. Also, just to remind everybody, so far we have too fast, too furious advice is to kill. If you see a theme coming up with those.

But the third one is, you've got to go low to get high. Ooh, I feel like I know what this is. That could have been pizza movies. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, I think that probably was discussed. I mean... When we go low, we go high.

You got to get low to get high. It's not like... It's got to be a stoner movie. But maybe it's an airplane movie. Boy, they do love to use the word high in a wacky way in every stoner movie tagline. Yeah. Gosh, I really don't know. I mean, there's a movie called Get Low. That's not, this can't be that. I'm just going to guess, I'm just going to guess, I'm just going to guess, I'm just going to guess airplane too.

I love it. That's a great guess. Nick? I don't think this is it, but I'm going to go with Curasawa's high and low. All right, Doug, pull out that magical guess in a million of years and whip up an answer. License to kill two. No, I'll go. I'll just speak up in smoke because I don't know. I don't know. Okay.

It's worth a shot. They can maybe apply there. This is the Matthew McConaughey class of the Beach Bomb. Ah. Harmony Co-Rine directed Beachbum. All right. We're back to Johnny again. Got it.

This is the last one. This is your last chance to get on the board. Yes. What movie has the tagline, work sucks? Office space. That is correct. It is. Yes.

I could see the DVD cover in my mind. Yeah. And it's just so, you know, you feel like maybe the creator of Office Space, you know, had some say in that one because it's just so succinct and really sets you up for the movie you're about to see. Because also, office space,

you know, what if, I don't want to see a movie where people enjoy working in an office. So like, it's good thing. It says it sucks right there in the poster. Great job, Johnny. You're forced to tie. Thank you. And so

Nick, we'll have you back in the next game, but for now sit this one out. Well, it's been a pleasure, gentlemen. Stay right there. You don't have to go anywhere. I'm leaving forever. But Doug is going to get the first crack at this. In fact, Nick, you're still in this because if Doug doesn't get it and Johnny doesn't give it,

then I will give it to you if you can name it. It's thrilling to be back. I missed our time away. I'm so, I'm activated. All right, so if Doug gets this, he wins, he misses it, then Johnny gets a chance, and Johnny misses it, it gets a chance. And we don't even have to have a winner in this game, but I like it because the winner goes first in the next game. Here it is, Doug, a storm of, oh, let me tell you the other ones, the other titles first.

Two Fastly Furious, Licest Skill, Beach, Bum, and Office Space. Believe it or not, those all have a very specific thing. in common. And then here's the next one. A storm of fear and fury in the Sizzling Florida Keys. What? Oh, man.

That's the log line? That's a long log line. Is there a log line for the logline? Tagline. That's how they used to write them back in the day. A storm of fear and fury in the sizzling Florida key. Oh, man.

it's not it but I'm just going to guess the perfect storm that is not it Johnny do you have an idea what it is I think I do but I don't know the title of this movie I think it's the movie that was what's her name's first movie and she's like under 18

and I think it's yeah it's that movie I can't think of the name of it God it is I want to say it's Melanie Griffith's first movie Oh. God. I don't know the name of this movie.

But also, I'm totally wrong. She started acting pretty young, but I don't know exactly what her first movie was, but I do know that it's not this movie. Okay. Then that case, I think this movie is probably, I don't know,

Hemingway bites the dust. Oh, my God. I love the Hemingway. At least you pulled that much out of, out of it. But Nick, do you think you know what this is? Can I hear the tagline one more time? A Storm of Fear and Fury in the Sizzling Florida Keys. My guess of the theme of all of these movies is they maybe take place in Florida.

I haven't seen License to Kill. It's an odd place to put James Bond, Florida, but maybe he's there. I feel like Too Fastly Furious certainly could be taking place in Florida. The Beach Bum, certainly. And then in the tagline it says Florida. So that doesn't really help me figure this out at all. A storm of fury in the Florida Keys. I don't even think this movie takes place in Florida, but maybe, I don't know, Cape Fear.

Yeah, Cape Fear is like in the North Carolina, Northeast. Oh, yeah. I think it's in two different places. Johnny got in my head with, by thinking it's that I was like, oh, it's Juliette Lewis's first movie or something like that. And then that's stuck in my craw. Well, you have Juliet Lewis on the brain because she's in over your body. Yes. Just wanted to sneak in an extra little plug there if I could.

Yeah. That's a cl-over-your-dead body, this is a, you know, it's a very small criticism on my part. But it's, you know, for the, for the movie literate, it's always, like, people that are actually reading the opening titles, I wish that that movie didn't have to name all the other people. that were in it. Yeah. You know, because that's already a spoiler. I don't like opening titles at all. We didn't do them in pizza movie because I didn't,

I don't want, I don't like it like at a premiere when people clap for each name. Oh my God, it's the worst. It's terrible. It's often stepping on dialogue and then also like certain, I mean like at over your dead body, this happened where it's like people applaud for the first few and then they're like, oh, do we have to? We're doing this for every single one. We're doing it for the line producer and, you know.

Yeah. It steps over dialogue sometimes. Yeah, totally. So we didn't do that for pizza movie, a movie that is only on streaming. But I think that aside from the clapping thing, it's just also like, I just think that people, people come late to the movies all the time. People need to settle in. So if you're going to have an opening title sequence, make it interesting, but not. Yeah.

Don't start the story there. Like, the story shouldn't start until after directed by whoever. Yeah. You know, then the story details can come. Before that, like, there's been lots of creative ones over the years. And so I always appreciate that. I mean, I love that back in the day when a lot of opening title secrets were like, were a cartoon for some reason.

Like, that was, you know, the Pink Panther movie is really sad that off. So, like, that was always fun when they did that. Yeah, it's like a man in a suit and he's chasing him. monkey or something like that. It's like my babysitter the monkey. That's what that movie is. So believe it or not, too fast, too furious,

Lices to Kill, the Beachbum and Office Space and finally the movie that none of you that last one none of you got. That one was the Humphrey Bogart classic Key Largo. Wow. And all

five of those movies have scenes that take place in Key West, Florida. Key West, specifically Key West. Specifically, that's where he goes at the end of office space to be like, you know, not in Austin anymore. And license to kill has, you know, he's globetrotting like most James Bond's, but he ends up in Key West

and he actually goes to the Hemingway House and they actually showed the last time I was in Key West, I went and visited the Hemingway House and they show in License to Kill the freaking cats with the extra... Polydactor. Yeah. There's cats like that all over that house that just chill there.

And they show that in Vices to Kill of all movies. Wow. Look at these weird cats. I remember a similar scene in the perfect storm with Wahlberg, though. So, I don't know. That movie had all the scenes. All right, we're going to call that first game a draw, and when we come back, we're going to really, we're going to settle this thing where the game or someone has to win. We'll do that right after these messages.

We're back at Dinosaur's Story. So nobody won the last game. So to go first on this next game, we'll just, you know, flip the order around. So we'll go, we'll go Nick, then Johnny, then Doug. and this game is called The Little Search Engine That Could. I wrote down a word in the search engine

in, I wrote it in pen and the search engine on IMDB and wrote down the top 10 movies according to IMDB's algorithm this very day that have that word in the title. The three of you will take turns guessing movies with that word in the title, the higher up on the list the title is the more points you get

if you get the number one movie it's worth 10 points number 10 movies worth one everything after that's not worth anything you'll get three guesses total and we'll take turns we'll stop with nick then johnny then dug and whoever has the most points after three rounds is our winner

now what's today's word well in honor of the united states having a new moon mission going on because they're trying to beat china back to the moon. The word today is Artemis.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That's the name of the ship. No. That's like, okay. Oh, no. I can think of one, I think. I just want to soften the blow

because it's still kind of a tough one, but there's lots of movies with the word moon in the title. So Nick, we'll start with you. What's the first movie you can think of that people know of that has moon in the title. And let me just say this before we get started on this one.

None of these, Moon isn't like part of the title. So like Moonstruck wouldn't be in here. Oh, okay. What is it? Moon Rakers not in here. These are all words where moon is its own separate word in the title. Okay.

I'm going to go with. Don't do an example, Johnny. Okay, right. Okay. I'm going to go with Blue Moon. Blue Moon just nominated for Oscars for Ethan Hawkins for screenplay. Number nine, I mean, excuse me, number two on the list, and that is worth nine points for Nick.

Very strong start for Nick. But now, Johnny, what did you want to say? What's your guess? I want to say Paper Moon. Paper Moon is a fantastic guest, fantastic movie, and it somehow is number 11. Wow. the list.

Oh, fuck. So tough break there, Johnny. You're still in this. Doug, what's your first guess? Oh, I'm fluctuating between two. I'll go with Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, it's a good one, but it hasn't,

I don't feel like that movie's like had that thing, you know, of like where people are still discovering it and talking about it. And, like, I felt like it, for lack of a better expression, never really took off. you know with people in general i mean maybe just because also andy coughman had already been gone for so long at that point anyway well milosh forman was working on that uh crossing the lines film and he had to jump off of that oh to do

yeah to do uh yeah to do crossing to be driven crazy by jim carrie because like like milosh foreman but did not didn't have any patience for jim staying in character all the time It's what I heard. Man on the Moon is number 10 on the list. So that's worth one point. You're on the board, Doug. That's, you know.

Oh, it was on there? Oh, I thought it wasn't. No, it's number 10. No, I was just saying because I knew you'd be surprised that number 10 seems like it should be higher. But I was trying to explain why I think it's. But, you know, I'm sure it's 10 because of, you know, Jim Carrey lately, everybody's been being weird about like thinking that he's like changed faces or something like he's in face off too what's your second guess nick uh i'm gonna just go with the moon oh who's gonna do that

that was all i had oh no oh no johnny because uh moon is number one on the list because it is number one on the list because it is just moon. It's right there. So that's like, that's a crazy one. Look, sometimes you got to get low to get high. You know what I'm saying? Yep. And you are out on your own and out for revenge.

Yeah. Sometimes when you wink, it stinks. Yeah. Johnny, do you have another guest besides Moon? Gosh, I mean, I think at this point I could just, I could make something up and it probably is a movie. I just. Maybe.

What about night moves? Without the word moon in it at all? Yeah, moves and moon are so close sounding. You're counting on a grammata, a spelling error in the IMDB system. What are the things have happened? IMD is not above it. Like sometimes they really will just list some random, like, movie that's about the moon or something. But there's no...

What if I just thought that was this name of the song this whole time? Working on a night moon. Yeah, it's a night moon. Why would you be moving in the night? You can't see. It's a moon. Yeah, you need the night moon to be working. I'm going to say, I don't, actually, I don't know.

I don't have one, honestly. I already marked you down first. Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. You're welcome. I had moon, which is gone now.

Yeah. Everybody's shooting the moon. I know. Yeah, moon's truck's not a thing. Fuck. I know there's a Transformers movie with Moon in it, but I don't know. I'm just going to transformers,

the dark side of the moon? That's my best guess. I know there's, damn it. I got an idea. You know I love an exact answer, so I'll give you a second. What's that?

I'm giving you time to, is that your final? Yeah, I mean, I don't watch the Transformers movies. just know that's the title or that moon's in it. Transformers Moon Man. No. Transformers Dark moon.

How come you're getting let? You were so close on the first one. Now you're getting less close. Dark side of the... That's not it? No. Yet. This is the nature of man. I mean, it really should be, but it's not. This will be funny if you can't

come up with it and then that's Nick's final guesses he steals it from you. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I just know it exists. All right, time's up. Nick? Uh, I don't think, to the moon and back.

Is that a movie? Do you know a Transformers person? Is it? No, I don't know. What other moon title do you have? You don't have to steal his. You can come up with your own. Oh, God.

It's weird how hard to say. And it can't be like moonrise kingdom. No. Because that's moonrise. Yeah. Can't be moon raker? That fuck. Not moonlight.

Moon man. Moon, moon. Moons. Moons. Moons. Is that a movie? That's your guest, Moons. Yeah, I don't know.

No moves. Okay. Did you think of another one, Johnny? Yeah, I got one. Apollo 13. I swear IMDP would do that, but they did not do that in this instance. Oh, shit. I thought they would do that.

Yeah. Doug? I'll just name another Van Dam movie. We'll go with Cyborg. Okay. So that was a, you know, that game was exciting at the beginning. and then, you know, Nick ran away with it. So congratulations, Nick.

You are our winner today. Thank you. And that means you get to do a couple of things. First of all, when somebody wins, they get to pick who I call a shithead at the end of the show. So is there anybody in particular you'd like me to call a shithead? Oh, it's like somebody on the show or just in life? No, you don't have to do that to Doug or to... No, I mean, like, you know, obviously like political figures come up a lot, but, you know, anybody you have beef with, it could be, it doesn't even have to be a name necessarily. It could be my neighbor.

The devil. Oh, that's a bit of a little. I feel like he's had it coming for a long time. Absolutely. It's about time that somebody called him a shithead. And then let's go through the dates again. Pizza movie is out this Friday at Hulu and Disney Plus. That's correct. April 3rd. And then over your dead body comes out in theaters, April 24th.

Yeah, go see it in the theater, everybody. Support theater. Absolutely. We'll do the other fellas plugs after, I tell you, all of the moons that you missed. Yes. Yes. So like I said, number 10 was man on the moon. Number nine, the Twilight Saga, New Moon.

Okay. Yeah. I don't know about that. Number eight, Rebel Moon Part 1, a Child of Fire. Zach Snyder, I think it was a two-parter. The second part didn't crack the top 10, but it has Moon in the title, too. Number seven, some Hugh Grant movie called Bitter Moon. What's that?

I never heard of my life. That's my favorite movie. I bet. I bet Hugh Grant has barely heard of it. Number six, Doug, you were so close. Transformers, colon, dark of the moon. Oh, come on. Yeah.

You put the side in there, and they just didn't go that far with it. They were like, this is already too chunky for most marquees. Number five was the not very well. well received a dromedy romance movie Fly Me to the Moon. Oh, yes. Starring Scarjo and Shantay. And see, those are fun names to squeeze together. They're not Britannic.

Yeah. You know, no one's done what we've done, and I think for good reason. Because it's also, it feels like it's a portmanteau, but then it isn't that either, really. No, no, it was ill-advised, and we were 19. I can't stress enough. We were 19 and didn't know we'd be still saying it when we're 40. Yeah, yeah. Number four is a movie that came out 2019.

I thought it was all right. It's kind of effective called In the Shadow of the Moon. And that started, I think the guy who plays Dexter was in it. And then number three, I'm not surprised. no one thought of this because it somehow somehow became a very forgettable it was one of those movies that had like 10 Oscar nominations and then went home with zero Oscars.

Killers of the Flower Moons. Yeah, that's a good one. Of course. Yeah. A big movie, though. Big movie. Yeah, it was huge. Wow. Nobody thought of it, though.

So, Johnny Pemberton. Yes. What's the date that we're looking? We're looking at. We're looking at sneak previews. Sneak previews in select cities at Alamo Draft House, April 8th. And we're going to be opening a bunch more theaters throughout the rest of April. We're doing a Florida tour, a roadshow, if you will, April 17th through the 21st, and a bunch of cool cities in Florida. And then it's out on VOD, April, I'm sorry, May 26th. All right. Lots of chances to see it. Yeah, see it on the big screen. We always say that, but, you know, at least it'll be on VOD very soon. And thank you for joining us, Johnny.

Wonderful to think about Moon so much. Doug Ballard, what do you want to plug? Go watch these guys' movies and also watch Bitter Moon starring Hugh Grant. And find me on social at Doug Mellard and come see me to be funny somewhere. Nice. Douglas movie is going to be part of the Q West Comedy Escape. It's a comedy festival curated by Q from Impractical Jokers. And I think it's already sold out.

But that's in Key West, Florida on April 11th. So at least something for listeners to look forward to a live episode from Key West. And then I will be back doing stand-up at the Key West Comedy Club, like three weeks after that on May 1st and 2nd and all of my dates for my upcoming Doug Loves Movies tapings and stand-up shows are at Doug lovesmovies.com. Thank you once again to my guest, Doug Mellard, Johnny Pemberton, and Nick Coacher, and as always, the devil is the shithead. Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie. Eyes of Gold is viewing prowess makes him. Cocky there's no room in his heart for you because the love