Doug Loves Movies - Weird Al Yankovic, Jen Kirkman and Frank Conniff guest

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

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Doug hates candy wrappers, squeaky 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 movies. Hey, hey, hey everybody. My name is Doug. I love movies probably more than ever. And this is Doug Loves Movies coming to you once again from just a few more weeks. And we can go back to normal with another Homes Alone edition. It's Sunday, March 7th, 2021. And while some people were be wearing avides, I booked three terrific guests.

Jen Kirkman, Weird Al Yankovic, and returning champ, Frank Conniff. Hey, everybody. Hey, Doug. Hi. Hi, Doug. Hi. Let's say hello to everybody individually, starting with Jen Kirkman is here.

Hey, hey. And I still haven't watched that movie you recommended on this very show. Oh, 12th Man. Again, if you're not a war movie guy, it's not for you, but it's more of a solo survival in the woods movie. I kind of, you know, anyway. Yeah, well, that's the funny thing about it is that, like, you know, you're kind of touching on simultaneously two genres

that aren't necessarily, I'm not necessarily that into war and one guy trying to do, you know, trying to get out of a situation, you know, once I saw Robert Redford trying to fix a, you know, the boat he was in for two hours, I was like, I'm out on these. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, because of your resistance to it the way I am with certain genres as well, that you may end up loving it, but I, I, I have no stake in it. I don't care either way.

No, I know. I just, I think it's, it's fun. It's fun that you recommended like what I, you know, arguably like a guy movie. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to watch it. But I, you know, I still probably will someday because i it is supposed to be very good i just wish does he have like a wilson because like that saved cast oh yeah he's not alone volleyball to talk to you yeah no he's not alone like that he has people that that are hiding him so he's never alone on screen more than three to five minutes

but it's he's the only one running everyone else is innocent or you know what i mean he's he's never alone on screen more than three to five minutes, but he's the only one running. Everyone else is innocent or you know what I mean? He's he's being hunted by Hitler, but no one else is. Well, here's another one that's pure torture. There's a movie called I think it's called The Hunted with Willem Dafoe. And he plays a hunter who sets extremely intricate little traps for different kinds of animals. And God bless him for learning how to make these traps. But you watch Willem Dafoe make these traps in real time.

It is one of the most boring things ever. Oh, I could just watch a YouTube video if I want that kind of boredom. I could just watch some ASMR stuff if I want to mess with a movie that kind of has a story. Thank you for coming back, Jen. It's great to have you. And whatever you recommend today, I promise I might watch it. Well, this now, this is more. You don't have to do it right now.

I'm just saying. Oh, later. Okay. Yeah. Very soon in the show We're just going to meet everybody first Meet and greet To Weird Al Yankovic everybody

Doug! How are you man? Dude Have you Kept track I was talking to you before the show And you said that you heard us Playing the oh yeah sunshine game right and uh i have a question that's uh similar for you about how your music has been

used in films do you know how many movies and tv shows you have songs in according to uh imdb i not off the top of my head but i'm hoping that you'll tell me right now no i was hoping you knew um it's uh 85 what yeah that doesn't seem possible that's pretty good 85 movies or tv shows what i don't and tv so i don't know you know like wow well i'm impressed what's your favorite use of one of your songs in you know in a movie that you had nothing to do with creatively oh off the top you know uh it's not not a movie but they they used um another one rides the bus in the season opener of one of the seasons of The Walking Dead, which and it made absolutely no sense. And I loved it because it was just so random and completely stupid.

Were they in a bus? No, he was. I don't you know, I can't tell you really what the context was. I can't tell you really what the context was, but one of the protagonists in the show was in bed, and he hears another one ride the bus from another room. It was just, and I don't really understand why. I get it. I remember now.

Do you? It was a fantasy sequence where he was imagining life with this woman if the zombie thing was over. So like in a perfect world, all you really hear is Weird Al music. Is that the basic gist of it? Basically, it is that if, you know, once everything's perfect, that's how you're going to start your day. That's the only option. Weird Al 24-7. That's the only option. Weird Al 24-7. I mean, no offense, but I hope it's at least the whole catalog. I don't want to hear that one. I don't want that to be the only one.

We'll have to wait and see what Utopia is really like. Because that's what I like about a lot of your parodies is you have fun with songs that I, you know, did not like to begin with. And then somehow, you know, it turns you around on both your version and theirs. So suddenly you like it all. I've heard that a lot about like, like, like the, the, the blurred lines parody that I did. People kind of like hearing a version that's not quite so rapey. 97% less. Also joining us today, the winner from last week's intense competition,

because one of his own cohorts was on the program as well, it's TV's Frank, Frank Conniff. Hey, Doug. Thanks for having me back. I'm honored that you had me ask you to come back. Well, what has this week been like for you? Like, I know what it used to be like when I'd win on that midnight and I'd be like champion of the Internet for like 24 hours. It was just incredible.

Like, how much did you ever walk anywhere on your own or were you lifted and carried everywhere you needed to go? No, any exhilaration I felt from winning on your show was overcome by the resentment I still have that I was never on at midnight. Yeah, I can hear that. There's so many. I have a list of shows I've never been on,

a list of resentment shows. But here you are. Yeah. Great to be here. Two time guests, possibly a winner today. And this, here's a weird question. This is kind of like from my other show, Wide World at Doug's where we discuss people's names and would love to have, you know, all of you over on that show.

But has anyone ever slipped and called you frank conniff junior uh no one has even though i am a junior but my dad i am a namesake of my dad so then it wouldn't be a slip it would be accurate it would be accurate it would be absolutely accurate to uh call me that but uh i um i didn't uh i don't use it in my name. So it's it's it doesn't come up often. But I tried if I were you for like, you know, if you ever make a reservation ever again. Well, as I've as I've said before on social media, my dad is the cool Frank Conniff. My dad, it was a journalist. My dad is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

And he was pretty awesome. So if you want to get a cool Frank Conniff, I'm not the one. He's the one. He would get booked on at midnight. Oh, totally. And he was actually on a lot of shows. He was on Meet the Press a lot in the 50s and on and on quiz shows too so yeah he would he would he would crush that shit if he were around right now well that's probably what you know is that uh explain you know because you have you're very um you know adept at a political satire and you've been pretty clear about your political positions, but it's usually in a very, very humorous way. Yeah, well, I try to be, I mean, I don't, I don't consider myself any kind of

expert on anything, but when I do have opinions and when I express them, I think the only way for me to do it is to express it humorously. That justifies it. Because like I said, I'm not a policy expert or anything. I just have opinions on things. Yeah. I mean, some things seem pretty simple. And then when people don't understand, then when you have people disagree with you, you know, a joke is a good way to, you know. Yeah. So that's how I try to try to express it. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, you try to write a joke just comes out, on Twitter, like the, the Senator Sinema who voted against the relief package.

And she just did a tweet about let's support our frontline COVID workers. And I just wrote, fuck you. And that kind of gigantic, whenever I do those kind of, I can write the best joke ever and they don't get as many likes and retweets as when I just write that. Yeah, it's cathartic. Like people might see it.

You know, politicians that are, you know, ruining everybody's lives, like to sit around and talk about decorum and, you know, swear. And it's just like, come on. It's more serious than that. It's not about Dr. Seuss right now. No.

Jen, now is the time for you to recommend. Oh. A motion picture. All right. That I might watch. Well, the irony is last time, as you say, I kind of recommended a guy movie with this movie I'm recommending. Now, again, I don't think it, the irony is last time, as you say, I kind of recommended a guy movie. With this movie, I'm recommending,

now again, I don't think it's the world's best movie, but I'll tell you, I'll explain why I got a kick out of it, called I Am Woman. Have you heard of it? Heard of it? I watched it like, you know, opening day, practically. Oh, really? Did you like it? No.

Yeah, it's not great, but for the listener now, this is what's interesting is, is I've always known of the song. I am woman by Helen Reddy. And I had a preconceived notion about it, that it was not authentic or organic that some music industry executives said, Hey, that women's crap is real popular here or honey and wrote a song. And she sang it. I had no idea how authentic it was that she wrote it. It really did sort of go hand in hand with the beginning of the women's movement, blah, blah. So that was interesting. And I, but what was funny is it's on Netflix and it doesn't say the Helen Reddy story. It just says a single mom gets a record contract. And I was like, you know, I need something

mindless to watch. I'll throw this on. And so I just thought it was weird. It wasn't billed that way. But what I liked about the movies, I really like, of course, I don't know anyone's name, but the guy in it who played her husband, he's also on that show pose and he plays like a straight business guy who has sex with the trans prostitutes secretly at night. And he's just a good actor anyway. So he's in the movie and he plays her husband who's a record executive and he's got a drug actor anyway so he's in the movie and he plays her

husband um who's a record executive and he's got a drug problem so it's just like fun and i love 70s period pieces but what was interesting about it what i wish they would make a movie about is her this woman helen reddy in real life her best friend was a woman named lillian roxen who was the first not female rock critic the first rock critic and rock critic, the first rock critic. And she is like the reason that bands like the New York Dolls and to some extent Bowie were taken seriously because she would go hang out at Max's Kansas City in New York and write about bands. And she just kind of made up that job.

And she wrote the first rock encyclopedia. No one had ever done that. But she died really young of asthma in 1973. So that industry became really male dominated. I think had she lived longer and younger women could have mentored under her, it would have been a totally different world. But as it stood, she was the first and only.

She was forgotten, then men took it over and then it was hard for women to break in. So I was really intrigued by her character and I'd love to see, um, maybe a documentary on her, but, um, but it was a fun watch because, you know, I, I'll watch anything with that has a lot of seventies furniture. Well, now, now I'm confused because when you first brought it up, I thought you were talking about that recent movie called I'm your woman. Oh, that one. I saw that one. I did see. Yeah. I don't know what that is. I was saying I didn't like, and I didn't.

Oh, well, I'll let me speak up for that. Cause I like that. I like that one. I didn't hate it, Frank. I just thought that, um, it just, the trailer made it look like it was going to be like stylish and exciting. And instead it was just sort of, it's a slow, it's a slow burn, but, but I thought it was very good. It's a very slow burn. And I I'm on record as saying, I'm not really a slow burn guy, but.

Oh, I didn't see that. It's so good. Like, have you ever seen blue ruin? No, I haven't. It's very slow burn,. Like, have you ever seen Blue Ruin? No, I haven't. It's very slow burn, but the payoff is so good that you're like, oh, I'm glad I hung out through the burn. But so, Jen, the movie, the Helen Reddy movie. Yes. You were talking about is called I Am Woman.

I Am Woman. It's on Netflix. And honestly, if you like a biopic, I think you'll love it. And the woman who plays her is real, real cute and sings really well. You know, when you have these biopics and the actor ends up singing people's songs, I'm always like, it's not as good. I thought she was just as good. Maybe because I'm not a huge Helen Reddy fan.

It didn't bother me, you know. Um, but I just thought, you know, any kind of biopic where I learned something, it can't be that bad. You know, it's like a fun little made for TV movie. I probably wouldn't go see it in the theater, but I'm just a little worried that I've already learned everything that I would learn if I watched it just from what you just told us. Probably. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll put this right after that war movie on my list. All right, Frank, do you have something hot and fresh to recommend? I do have something fresh because it's a very current movie and it, I just happened to see it like two nights ago and it's a film some people might know about because it won a Golden Globe Award, which is a meaningless award, but still it won. But I thought it was great. It was Nomadland with Francis McNorman.

But in a way, it's kind of passive aggressive for me to recommend it on this show, having just talking about you not liking slow burns. Yeah. Because it's a very, it doesn't even describe it to call it a slow burn, because it's almost a plotless movie sort of, I mean, there's a plot, but it's really very character driven and, uh, very much about the atmosphere of it, of, of about a woman who's whose entire town. And it's a true story.

Her entire town is closed down because the factory was closed down and she just lives out of her van traveling around the country and there's a lot of non-actors in it who are all really good and um i was just very taken with it and i thought it was really really good i do want to watch it but that it's one that's like when there's a fun movie or that movie that I choose. Well, I think if there'd been a fun movie, I would have, I would have picked that, but it was, I had to wait, uh, like WandaVision wasn't on for another night. So, so I had to watch it, but, um, it, it was, uh, um, uh, it's something I would recommend, um, uh, very, uh, poetic, um, lyrical, um, uh, movie,

which that might not be a big recommendation to some people, but, um, uh, it's just visually and emotionally very powerful. And, um, I'm, I'm giving it my, uh, despite the fact that it won a Golden Globe Award, see it anyway. Yeah, yeah. Can we even call this show Doug Loves Movies when he's just in the first 10 minutes named three entire genres? Oh yeah.

I don't like slow burn. I don't like war. I don't like one man by himself. I'm scared that you're saying that slow burn and a guy alone are genres. I know. I heard myself say it, and I said, Jen, you will not get away with that. But the war movie one is a genre, and I do have to say that it's lower on my list.

But, you know, the great war movie, you know, a great movie is a great movie. You know, I just have to be coerced into seeing it. I've seen lots of great war movies. I just have to be coerced into seeing it. I've seen lots of great war movies. I just, it's not a genre I seek out, especially in my current emotional state, which is, you know, shared by all of us.

You know, I want to see things that are fun, you know, but I do get in the dirt sometimes with some dramas and really cry it out. And I feel like that's another thing about Nomadland is I do think it would be an emotional experience. It is, but in a way there's, cause I totally get what you're saying about wanting to see fun movies. And I've been so, um, um, grateful, uh, especially during the pandemic,

I've been so grateful to escapist entertainment. I've been so grateful to movies that just take me out of myself and, and, and where I can just have fun and just enjoy myself. But I think there's, for me, at least there's also, um, uh, a case of where you, where you're going through something, um, uh, that's emotional. And then you see a movie that's emotional and, and it kind of reflects where you are and, and that can be a catharsis as well. It's not an escape. It's kind of,

you're kind of a filmmaker is, is using her artistry to, to have you look at kind of, um, a somber situation and a very melancholy situation and dealing with issues of aging and isolation and stuff like that. And if it reflects on you, that can also be something that's very valuable, I i think at least for me yeah it sounds like uh yeah that's a thing i love about movies is the yeah so personal to everybody

and uh but yet you know some movies strike a chord with all of us but all of us have you know we all have our movies that i love to get into that on this show a little bit it's like you know what's the movie that you love that the world doesn't, you know, because everybody's got examples of that. Most of them are because they were, you know, nine the first time they saw it. Right, right. You know, impressionable seems to be a big, a big factor. I want to recommend just because he's sitting right here. I, uh, you know, because I knew you were going to be on Al,

I decided to watch, uh, UHF. Oh no. Dude, it is. I just, it, it, you know, really made me happy. I really enjoyed it. And the thing I wanted to ask you about it specifically is especially at the end of the movie was Kevin McCarthy. Is that his name? Uh, that's the movie. Yes. Yes. Is he, I just want, you know, there's so many McCarthy's and they're all terrible. I want it. Um, but this particular McCarthy's a great actor and, uh, you know, like original body snatchers, I think. Right. Right. Yeah. And, uh, you know, like original body snatchers, I think.

Right. Right. Yeah. And, uh, so, but he's, you get him to give such an over the top, you know, villain silly performance and he falls apart at the end as they often do. Uh, was he having fun? He was having the best time. I, I, I, I wish we could have had some of these takes, uh, and the deleted scenes, but every time you do like some really angry, over the top, blustery line reading and the director would say cut and he would just start laughing. He was having the best time. He enjoyed just playing it like so much larger than life.

Yeah, he really throws himself into it. And also in in his defeat like the sobbing at the end is pretty amazing yeah it's not a subtle movie so he was he was fine playing extremely broad yeah but you get he's like sobbing and you get to like casually walk by like what's his problem um so do you have something to uh recommend for? Oh, you know, ironically, even though I haven't left the house in a year, I haven't watched a whole lot of movies. But one recently, you must have seen this because literally every single person on my Twitter feed was raving about this, which meant I had to watch it in and of itself. Have you seen that?

Yeah. So that I'm sad to say that i have not seen uh the movie version of it yet uh oh you saw the original uh production i saw the show uh i like to say three and a half times wow because in the show that at one point he asked for an audience volunteer and that person gets kicked out and they have to come back the next day. And so the first time I saw it, I only saw the first half and then left because I was the volunteer. And I came back, saw the whole thing the next night. And then I saw it two more times after that. And I still don't know how he does any of the tricks. I still find the monologue itself to be mesmerizing. And, uh, you know, it's, it's poetry

and magic and, and it really stays with you. I'm so jealous. So you got to be Mr. Tomorrow for one performance. Yes. And this is, this is scary. They they he filmed that particular show i guess he probably filmed all of his shows uh but he uh told me that i could watch you know that he would show me the footage of me on stage with him and i have i haven't taken him up on it because i i have such great memories of it i think if i watched it it, I would, you know, judge. You know, I'd just rather remember it the way I remember it. Right, right. Ed Lon and Jason Alexander both happened to be in the audience that night.

And they both were, especially Pamela, was so nice to me afterwards. Like, it's strange how the laughs I got during my segment with him, because it's not a funny show really. Right. But the audience was, they enjoyed my time on stage and so did I. So I don't, I don't want to see it. I don't think. Really. Okay. I mean, it's, it's really, uh, Frank Oz, uh, directed, uh, the, uh, the film version. And I thought he, I didn't see the original production in New York,

but I have to assume that he really captured as well as he could the experience. I mean, you know, for doing a film version of a one-person, you know, play, you wouldn't think it would be that compelling, but it definitely was. And I can't even imagine what it must have been like to actually be in the audience. It's incredible. And like I said, you the audience it's incredible and like i said you could see it multiple times there's like there's a thing that happens at the end that you can stare at that thing you know waiting for it to happen and still can't figure out how it's happening

so so did were you were you like a different uh person or uh each time like i am yeah i'd pick a different thing off the wall, just depending, depending on what you were. I think I got comedian once and then, you know, I got into some weirder, I think I picked host one time. Well, you know, it's just, there's so many to choose from and you feel really weird, like trying to stand there and read every single one of them, you know,

Was that like a parasite host kind of thing or how you know like uh you know host of a podcast oh oh i get it okay right yeah yeah um i i i think i picked one that said i'm a specimen yeah but so to be clear for anybody who hasn't seen it he everybody in the audience picks a thing off the wall it says i'm a something or other and And then, uh, when they hand it in and somehow through the, you know, through the magic trick, uh, cause I don't think it's a memorization trick personally, but however they do it. Yeah. I kind of don't want to know, but it's just, it's pretty mind blowing.

Yeah. He tells everybody in the audience, which one they picked, you know, and when I, when you see it, I don't know what happens in the movie version but when you're there in person they he says if you don't feel like participating just stay seated and so he doesn't call out the people that stay seated because some people i guess get cold feet like they pick something that's kind of right i want the whole room to depict i'm a stripper or whatever yeah we oh yeah in the movie version he uh tells the people that that picked like some kind of right i want the whole room to depict i'm a stripper or whatever yeah yeah in the movie version he uh tells the people that that picked like some kind of joke thing like i'm a ninja or whatever like if you don't really believe in you know what you picked don't stand up so

that's that's we did it for the yeah that's what happens is a lot of people stay seated but i think i the you know i think i stood up uh every time just because I, you know, it's just fun to, you know, because he's going around the room when he gets to you. And in my case, you know, he made a little joke each time, you know, because he knew me. That was the other thing is when I got to be Mr. Tomorrow, I was really surprised because, you know, he and I had already like corresponded and stuff. And I felt like it was going to be something where he just wanted somebody that he didn't you know that was a stranger but then you know if you've seen the show you get that well sure i could be mr tomorrow it doesn't really matter uh you know so you had to like write it like write a couple pages on that book was that part of the homework assignment oh yeah no i like took the book home and it's thick and full of all sorts of, did you read it? Did you read the whole thing? Yeah.

I read as much of it as I could in 24 hours. And, uh, you know, cause then you have to go back the next night. This all sounds so crazy if you haven't seen this thing, but you have to go back the next night with the book after writing your stuff in it. And then the two of you, you know, uh, Derek and the subject, Mr. Tomorrow or Mrs. Tomorrow or Ms. Tomorrow, would they sit there and kind of go through the highlights of it? Because I wrote way more than he like went through and told me,

now read us this part. And he told me which parts to read. I mean, it was a crazy experience. And, you know, and he doesn't even do a trick on that person, really. Like there was nothing for me to get blown away by because somebody else in the audience just gets this heart. I mean, it's just, I cry every single time that he gives somebody in the audience,

like a letter from somebody. Yeah. How does, how, how does he do that? It's so crazy. It's like such an amazing, he's got such great tricks, but then it's also a really good play. All right. We've spent way too much time on this, but I should even get him to be a guest on the show. Cause he's, he's great. And in and of itself is available to stream in a place that everybody's saying we should be boycotting right now. So work that out. Thanks for your recommendations i'm definitely going to maybe check them out and we're going to take a very quick break we'll be right back no flipping we're back

it's time to play some games are you up for playing some games yeah all right um this first game we're going to play today is a game we play on the show a lot. Jen might've played it before. It's called whose tagline is it anyway? Taglines for movies. Do you know what the tagline was for UHF? By any chance? Like on the poster, like the one sheet. Yeah. I think it was television the way it was meant to be seen in a movie theater.

That's great. I like that. You know, a lot of times they're not that good. And, you know, sometimes they have multiple ones because there'll be multiple posters or they'll use them at the ends of advertisements. And so these are ones that I pulled from IMDb. I'll go to the three of you one at a time. We'll start with Frank. I'll say the first letter of the movie.

That's the answer, just as a little extra clue, because these can be pretty difficult. And then I'll tell frank the the tagline and then if frank misses it it goes to jen jen misses it goes to al and uh if you all miss it we just move on to the next one great okay this one begins with the letter t Frank. What movie had the tagline? We all know one. We all know one. Um, we all know one. Um,

T uh, and keep in mind they haven't made care in the movie yet um and when you say tea with that is that possibly the or if there's a it's not I would be more upfront about

it because that's a lot of titles yeah um so um we all know one um uh uh terms of endearment that's my bad guess yes it's, but not the right answer. Let's go on. When I started doing this first letter thing, it does prompt people to just go ahead and take a stab of a movie that begins with that letter. Jen, do you have a guess?

So it begins with the letter T, is that what it is? Yeah. I have a guess, but it doesn't begin with T and it's like so strong in my head that like i can't get it on my head um you can tell us what the guess is well no because then it will count as my guess won't it no this is like pre-guess it was like stepbrothers jumped into my head because i'm picturing a poster i'm picturing like two at like an asshole, like everyone knows an asshole, you know? I see what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. Or dumber and dumber, something like that. But I, okay. Let me just think.

I think it's going to be. Oh, I'm going to take a crazy guess and say Ted, that movie with the teddy bear and Mark Wahlberg. We all know a talking teddy bear. We all know a talking bear. No, that's not it. Do you think you know what it is, Al?

I wanted to say Terminator because we all know a Terminator. Was it Trainwreck? That is correct. Oh, wow. Great answer. Great. Yeah. Wow. That is correct. Trainwreck? That is correct. Wow. What? Oh, wow. Great answer. Great. Yeah. Wow.

That is correct. Trainwreck. We all know one. Maybe I didn't get that right because I am the trainwreck in my life. That's why I don't know one. Hashtag LOL comedy. Yeah. I mean, I thought that was, that's an all right tagline and a terrific movie.

I really enjoyed that movie. Yeah. It's weird they didn't say like, you can't look away or something. Cause that's usually what we say about. Oh, right. Yeah. But I'm sure they knew what they were doing. It seemed to have done quite well.

I don't know, Jen. They could have made a lot more money. They got to get you involved in these things. I don't know, Jen. They could have made a lot more money with you, I bet. They got to get you involved in these things. We're back to Frank with a new catchphrase tagline. And it begins with the letter S. And the tagline is, watch what you eat. Watch what you eat. Watch what you eat.

Watch what you eat. Sausage party? That is correct. Wow. What? Wow. It's just a wild guess. Very good. Thank you.

I've never even heard of that movie. It's the animated movie made by Seth Rogen and the gang that... Based on a true story. Based on true foods. It's a talking food movie, but it's dirty and there's sex stuff in there. I think it's a fun movie. I don't know. I've never seen it.

Well, you should. You probably are watching what you eat then. Since my heart surgery, yes. No sausages for you. That's right. Or parties probably either, right? No. Well, I didn't go to any parties beforehand

anyway, so. You can celebrate right now because you're on the board. You've got one point. Let's get Jen in the game. This one begins with B, Jen. Okay. All you need is one killer track.

Okay, so it's about a hit song. Is the word killer a clue that it's like a horror movie? B, B, B, B, B. Oh, shit. I don't have a clue, but let me just pick anything that begins with a B. Shit. I don't have a clue, but let me just be.

Just pick anything as big as a B. Beyonce. That's not a movie. Oh, I don't know. I'm stumped. That's it. That's all right. You don't have to guess.

No, Beyonce is my guess. Oh, okay. Write it down. That's incorrect. Okay. What't have to guess. No, Beyonce is my guess. Oh, okay. Write it down. That's incorrect. Okay. What do you think it is, Al? Well, this is almost not fair because I'm a huge Edgar Wright fan. It's Baby Driver.

It is Baby Driver. Oh, wow. Baby Driver. And I love that movie. Baby Driver with Jen. Yeah, that one I did see. That's so funny. But they're, you know, they're tricky, you know, like.

Oh, that's right. We were both at that thing. Yeah, we went to the screening of it in New York. I got to see that one in a couple different settings before it opened. It was so much fun. It's such a great movie. Yeah, it is really great it's just amazing the way that he basically uh uh cuts the movie to the uh the soundtrack

you know yeah video yeah it's not uh he's not showing up on the set in the morning going which way are we gonna shoot what are we gonna do already planned out because he's already got the rights to the songs right right it's already all timed out to the music it's so good i wish he'd just make a straight up musical but i his next movie is a horror movie and i will take it yeah he just did that uh sparks documentary that's true so that's that's how he's getting into musicals is with uh with a documentary about a great band. You've seen that already, haven't you, Al? I have.

I'm in it. What's it called? The Sparks Brothers. Oh, it's just named after them. Okay. No extra words, no like colon, the brothers. no extra words, no like colon the brother The Sparks Brothers colon the movie about Sparks

who happen to be brothers I've known about Sparks for forever because I was obsessed with the movie Rollercoaster and they are the band that performs a big opening of the rollercoaster at the end of the movie.

I know who they are because I'm a... You would hire to play in a Magic Mountain or whatever. Morrissey loves, always championed them and talked about them. And so I was a big Morrissey fan. And so then I knew of them. So I always think it's cool when you find out about kind of obscure things from, you know, a big icon that talks them up. Sparks is murder.

That's a deep cut joke. I don't think it has a release date yet though. No, they just, I think they just sold it to a focus. So they're saying it comes out later this year, but it premiered on at Sundance last month and I guess South by Southwest pretty soon. And then the, the wide release, hopefully later this year. Oh, I'll watch it at South by Southwest. That's awesome. Yes. It's a, it's a featured, I forget what they call it. It's like one of their featured releases at south

southwest yeah i love it that's awesome there's so many great movies have premiered there um okay so let's go to uh so al just picked up another point so frank you get this one first uh this begins with f and i'm going to give you two of this movie's several taglines. Okay. Vengeance Hits Home and One Last Ride. Wow. Wow. F. um oh

begins with an f yes um yes yes it does um uh frankenhooker i i don't know good guess terrific f frank just we're just sitting there thinking what what because of frank uh yeah i don't know you know it's in a weird way and i know this is irrational the the initial makes it harder in a way yes i was just thinking that yeah because you it

kind of if you hear vengeance like then you think of a bunch of revenge movies but then if it's narrowed down to just an f you know it it makes it uh it makes it uh hard in some ways what if yeah that's a good point it's just you know, it's such a tough game. You guys are doing great today, but it has been such a tough game sometimes that I just feel like that little extra nudge might have helped. But you're right that it does. It plays a little bit of a mind game. What do you think this one is, Jen?

Well, is it a Fast and the Furious movie? Do I need to know the number if indeed it is? Well, yeah, that is an interesting point because I think most, a lot of them begin with F. And so I think that is what's going to hurt you here is not, I mean, if this is a Fast and Furious movie then you'll have to know like the number. Okay.

Well I'm going to say the last one which I know doesn't mean anything so I will say five. Fast and Furious five is my guess. That one was just called Fast Five. And that's not the correct answer okay okay let's see what al thinks i disagree but all right okay i'm gonna sign on with fast and furious i as well have no idea what number uh i i have no idea how

many they made i'm gonna say fast and furious 14 fff i love that you have no idea how many they made. I'm going to say fast and furious 14 FFF. I love that. You have no idea how many they've made. That is a special kind of, uh, you know, um, like a bubble that you're in, uh, cause they're up to, uh, eight, nine is the one that's been, uh, kind of kicked down the road and nobody knows when it's going to come out uh but this particular one is uh everybody guessed right this particular one is furious seven oh wow okay seven yeah hey i'm just proud that it was like technically the right movie franchise. That was really impressive. And I have one last

one where I think the first knowing the first initial will actually be helpful, but maybe I'm wrong. And it starts with Frank. Are you ready, Frank? Yep. The tagline was for this movie that begins with the letter I,

a new film by Wes Anderson. Oh, well, that's the way. What is. Yeah, exactly. Oh, oh, the. Oh, um, oh, the, oh, fuck. I, um,

oh, it's, oh, now I'm like, um, I'm blanking on all of his film titles now. Um, um, um, now. The Istanbul Express to the Narrajean. I wish I could say yes to that. I guess it doesn't help when you make up your own titles, but.

Yeah. So that is a fun way to play. I wish, I wish there was more of that on Jeopardy. I guess it doesn't help when you make up your own titles, but yeah. So that is a fun way to play. I wish, I wish there was more of that on Jeopardy. So what do you think it is, Jen? You know, the Wes Anderson catalog well enough to. I do. I mean, I've seen a lot of them. I'm trying to think if there's more than one that begins with I, and I don't think there is. I've got that hotel one on the brain, too,

and I can't think of the name of it, but I don't think it's that. It's not Moonrise Kingdom. Oh, it's the grand budapest hotel right and it's not darjeeling express but law life aquatic or altanum i'd be like going through my head um rushmore bottle rocket so those are the only ones i've seen so i have no clue i'll just make up a name the sunrise the island of dr zhivago oh you're cute and now i finally figured it out yeah you helped frank to figure it out i did yeah did you help al did you did that help you i i already knew it as one of my daughter's favorite movies isle of dogs isle of dogs is correct oh my god al weird al yankov, you've run away with this game. Wait, it's called I Love Dogs?

Isle of Dogs. Or I Love Dogs. Isle of Dogs. Isle of Lucy. Oh my God. That is your next venture. Is not a song parody, but a TV show parody where it's, I love Lucy meets cast away and it's I love Lucy and she's I'll get right on that. Yeah. Please get right on it.

I love Don. I've never heard of it. It was, um, It was good. I have, I've actually seen that one and it is good, but I completely blank heard of it. It was good. I've actually seen that one, and it is good, but I completely blanked on it. It's stop-motion animated. Yeah. Yeah, I try to say that it's not fantastic, Mr. Fox, to remind everybody that he did animated movies.

But, yeah, it's an interesting movie. And along with every other movie we just played, all those movies premiered at South by Southwest. And I was in the audience at all of those. Wow. Amongst many others, because I've been going to South by Southwest for years now. And was, of course, I went last last year and then they canceled the whole thing and uh so this year they're doing it virtually and we did a doug loves movies

for south by southwest as part of the south by southwest comedy and uh all of that's going to be announced uh i think the comedy announcement is on March 6th. And I'll just say, because you're already listening to Doug Loves Movies, you might want to go check it out, that Doug Loves Movies is going to kick off South by Southwest comedy on March 16th at I think six o'clock central time. I think that's a Tuesday. I got to take another quick break

and we'll be right back to figure out how this show is gonna end we're back and we're what do you think we should do al won that game last game congratulations al thank you um should we you know try to play this other game quickly or should we just call al the champion well I think I know how Frank and Jen would feel about that. So if everybody's all right with it, let's

maybe go a few minutes over. Sure. If need be. This game and there's another reason to play this game is because Al is here. And I don't know if you've heard this, but I've been playing a game on this show that's named after you,

and it's called Weird Algorithm. And it's about the strange algorithm that is IMDB, strange algorithm that is IMDB, the internet movie database, because any movie, I think Jen's played this before, any movie, if you look at the cast list at IMDB, you can click on a thing that says refine and change the order of all the people to their order of popularity at that moment, according to IMDb. So what I do is I take a movie that has big stars in it that might not be as popular as some other people are right

now. And I take advantage of this algorithm because it's pretty tricky to figure out. So I will name a movie and then each one of you gets to guess which actor or actress from that movie you think would be the most popular right now. And you get points based on if you get somebody that's the most popular, the second most popular or the third most popular. Okay. Everybody will get a chance to go first, but Al gets the first one because he just won that last game and wow this is just uh i was gonna say you know what a coincidence but i'm i knew i wrote this down in both places since we were already talking about baby driver let's do baby driver who in the cast of baby driver do you think is number one right now

well i mean kevin spacey is so popular right now, but... You can't find him. You can't see his annual video that he makes. Yeah, I'm going to go with Jon Hamm. You want some ham? I want some ham. All right. What do you think, Frank?

And we'll lock all your answers in a second, because sometimes people say things that make people change their mind. Plus, you can share an answer, but you also want to be strategic about this and try to get more points. Oh, yeah, because I would have said what Al said. You can just piggyback on it and get the same points he gets. Jen could squeak in there and beat both of you. Um, uh, I'm going to, uh, I'm going to say Paul Williams.

Ah, nice. Nice. Because he's my favorite. I love him. He's so, he's so great in general. And then, uh, that scene is his dialogue is so weird. And like how lovingly he discusses all these horrible weapons. Yeah. It's good stuff. I, I, that worked out pretty great. Um, always love that guy. I love him in the, uh, beginning scene and end scene of smoking the bandit movies yeah he was uh terrifically hilarious and a great a great songwriter and that documentary about him yeah that was great i saw that too what's it called i'm alive yeah i think so yeah i'm alive i. And yeah, it's really a good documentary. You know,

because he was like, I'm watching, you know, a buzzer on Pluto TV shows old match game. And when he's on there, I'm just like, he is so effed up right now. Yeah. Okay. What do you think Jen? I'm winning this so hard it's not even funny Okay It's Jamie Foxx Oh man

You're so right He's got a lot going on right now He's got a new whiskey, he's on the sitcom Everything He was in a Pixar movie Right, yep Okay so final answers Everybody everything. He was in a Pixar movie. Come on. Right. Yep. Okay. So final answers,

everybody. I'm, I'm tempted to change, but I got to go with my, my first gut. So I, I locked in. I got to go ham.

Still skin of serving ham. What about you, Frank? Yeah, I'm sticking with Paul Williams. I think he's still really popular, despite the Bugsy Malone-Scott Baio connection. Okay, this is such a sad reveal. Normally, I hope it would be funny, but everybody that you chose is less popular than Kevin Spacey.

Whoa! What? Now? Right now? Right today, yeah. Everybody that you chose is less popular than Kevin Spacey. Whoa. What? Now? Right now? Right today, yeah. And you were joking about it even. I mean, he's a national joke. Is he popular because he's a national joke? He's still not worth the points.

I think he's just popular because whether people are looking up for good reasons or bad reasons, that's the algorithm is what people are typing into imdb so it could be infamous it's not necessarily like like popular popular exactly i feel like even when we you know search his name for bad reasons he hasn't had a thing lately you know um so i'm just shocked he's just been laying low except for his annual video is that character that he's not playing anymore right wow i was so confident now i'm not well check this out so john ham came in at number six jamie foxx is number five i don't know where paul williams is on the list he didn't finish high enough for me to write it down um kevin spacey's number four

so that leaves three people from that movie that today imdb says are the most popular and they are in the third spot john burnthal and the second spot is um lily james and number one is isa gonzalez who co-stars with rosamund pike right now in i care a lot ah i almost said that i hope i said her name right i've always looked at it and gone well how do you say that how do you say it i don't say I was like, I know there's like a hot woman in it, and I bet, like I didn't even know she was in it. I care a lot. Like I didn't know anything. I just was like, I bet that hot woman like got really big, and it's her.

Yeah. It just goes to show you how crazy it is that, you know, and great. Those two women are getting a lot of attention. Lily James is in. What's she in now? She's in something that just came out, I think. Oh, she's in that movie, The Dig. That's also on Netflix.

Okay, let's go to round two. See if we can get some points on the board. Walk out of here with a winner. Or, you know, stay where we all are. With a winner. Who gets to, stay where we all are. Who gets to go first this time? Frank, the film. And sometimes I'll even say some of the actors that are in a movie just, you know, just to jumpstart it. And so everybody knows what we're talking about.

So this movie is called Heartbreakers. I think I know I'm aware of that movie. It stars Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Ray Liotta amongst others. What do you think about that one, Frank? Who do you think would be the most popular from that movie? Oh, um, oh, uh, Oh, um, uh, who, who is the, um,

I'm blanking on the name of the guy who's like kind of Jennifer love you. It's love interest in it. Jason Lee, Jason Lee. Yeah. Is that who that is? Yeah. Jason Lee's in it and his two friends are Sarah Silverman and Zach Alphanakis. Oh, right. Right. But they have small parts.

They don't get to do much. Yeah. Well, I'm just, I'm almost, because after that last round, it's like the wild, wild West, anything goes. So I'm going to say Jennifer Love Hewitt. Yeah. Go nuts, man. What do you think,

Jen? Well, part of me wants to really go nuts and say Zack, but I'm going to guess Ray Leona because, I don't know, it's like people talk about his Chantix commercials. That guy, man, his first few movies, Something Wild and Goodfellas.

Goodfellas. He really, early on, really did that evil laugh. He has that way of baring his teeth and laughing. And then he did that same laugh as Sewellis Joe in that sad baseball movie, Feel the Dreams. And I was like, oh, he's still doing the creepy laugh. I guess that's just him. Totally. Beautiful eyes.

Beautiful eyes. Gorgeous. Al? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole Kevin Spacey thing. So it's hard for me to, you know, I'm going to say, I'm thinking it's either going to be uh zach or gene hack you know i'm gonna i'm gonna go with a hack man let's go can't go wrong with gene hackman okay so al's got hack man uh who's whose final film

as it turns out because he seems like he's not going to make anymore is uh welcome to moose port that's his legacy that's the mic drop yeah hey don't say that um ray romano though since that movie has become one of the best actors. He's terrific. He's really good in, in, in the Irishman. And he was very good in that, that vinyl TV series. Best thing in it. The only reason to watch it. Probably.

He was, he was, he's, he's a good actor. Yeah. And he's, and he's okay with having a messed up haircuts or wigs. Okay.

So good news, everybody. Some points are going to be made this round. Unfortunately, though, Ray Liotta did not make it into the top three. He came in at number six. Number five was Jason Lee. Four, Carrie Fisher is in that film. Apparently. I have no memory of her in that movie.

Me neither. Three is Gene Hackman. So that's worth one point for Al said Gene Hackman. Uh-huh. And then Sigourney Weaver is number two. And number one, most popular right now,

it's a head scratcher, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Wow. Really? Wow. I almost said her because she does a lot of those, like, Hallmark movies, Christmas movies, but it's past Christmas. Yeah. I don't know.

She must have some reason to be on everybody's radar. All right. So that means Frank has three points and Al has one and we've got one more round starting with jen the motion picture kick ass which starred amongst others nicholas cage erin taylor johnson and chloe grace moretz i've never heard of it you don't know kick ass no it's so weird certain things just neverass? No, it's so weird. Certain things just never came across my radar. It's very violent if you can get past that.

I cannot. It's quite good. But, okay, you mentioned names in it. I'm going to use a Nicolas Cage, right? Nicolas Cage is in it, yeah. names in it. I'm going to use a Nicolas Cage, right? Nicolas Cage is in it, yeah. I mean,

I know I'm losing, so I might as well just lose all the way. Go for it. Would you pick? I'm going to pick Nicolas Cage. Even though I know I'm wrong. I know I'm wrong. Okay. I mean, I like it. Go down in a blaze if you have

to oh yeah kamikaze yeah i know who it is i know who it is never mind really no i don't know his name oh go ahead i i want to i want to say nicholas cage i mean he would be like for me the logical choice but i i think i live in a topsy-turvy world and um i'm i'm gonna say uh chloe grace moretz okay frank what do you think um would you happen to know who what's the name of the actor who played like the the bad guy the the young kid, who's a bad guy. Christopher Menz-Plas. Yeah. I'm going to say him. Okay. He didn't make the cut.

Okay. Cause I just happened to see him in another movie the other night. So. Oh, right. You watched, um, you watched promising young woman. Oh, I did watch promising young woman, but, but the one i just watched was pitch perfect that he's in oh okay well he's in both of them yeah yeah um nick cage came in number four wow congratulations jen you got no points at all this whole game he's number one in Wicker Man, though. And number three is Aaron Taylor Johnson. Terrific actor.

Number two, Chloe Grace Moretz. That's worth two more points for Al. And then number one, because he's Pietro in WandaVision, Evan Peters. Oh my God, and that's the guy that plays the husband in I Am Woman that is one of my favorite actors who's also in Pose. I love him. That's who you were trying to tell us about

earlier. I was trying to tell you about him earlier. I know that doesn't win me this. That works out great, though. I don't like to leave those things hanging. I'm glad we... Fun synergy. Now again, I'm back to wanting to watch that movie

because he is good. Yeah, he's good. But we've got to settle this with a tiebreaker, Jen, between TV Sprint and Weird Al. Do I have to leave? You'd be in such a position.

So you don't have to mute your mic, but I'm going to say one more movie. And each of you, Al and Frank, guess one guess as quickly as you can. Cause if you say it second, it's the same person. So you'll have to pick something, something else. It's like sudden death on a family feud. So I'm going to say the movie and you tell me who you think is going to be up

in that top three, but hopefully the top one. Okay. Star Wars. the first one um um uh what's his name harrison ford it's it's an obscure name it took me a minute but harrison ford and mark hamill are both in the top three number three is james earl jones with the coming to america bump America bump. And, oh my God, they have him say they have a network where Eddie Murphy lives, and it's ZNN. As long as J. Joe Jones

was there, they had him say the... Oh, that's funny. Yeah, it was a good gag. It's some fun stuff for that movie. It's not perfect, but... Number two is Mark Hamill, and number one is good old Harry Ford. That means that Frank Conniff, you've done it again.

Woo! Wow. You've won yet again, and you can come back again next week if you choose to. I'd be delighted. Thank you. And you get to plug your stuff first.

What would you like to plug? This Tuesday, just two days from now. Well, I don't know when this airs, but Oh, okay. So March 9th, 8 PM traceable. You and I are doing our next live streaming mystery science theater style movie riffing show. We're riffing the movie phantom from space from 1953 and our special q a guest will be bill corbett so go to eventbrite.com

tickets are only ten dollars and you can pick them up there beautiful and we'll see you back here or you know where you are we'll do this the same way again all right next week jen kirkman part of the um misfit toys network of podcasts including this show uh your show is called no fun fun it's called no fun the jen kirkman podcast people want to check it out it's a solo podcast where i just talk about what's going on in my life in my head in the world that week it's called no fun the jen kirkman podcast people want to check it out it's a solo podcast where i just talk about what's going on in my life in my head in the world that week it's funny but it's honest it's all the things uh people know podcasts are so yeah check it out thank you for being here and weird al yankovic i've got absolutely nothing to plug. So everybody has to think happy, positive thoughts.

What sort of nice guy you are. You've got to plug Isle of Lucy. Isle of Lucy. Isle of Lucy is a blockbuster. Can't wait for that. I think we all need Isle of Lucy. But there is, what do you think about that uh who's making the uh sorkin is making a lucy desi movie yeah with uh nicole kidman right all right right as as lucy

and i believe bar down as i read some of the sides for it because my friend was auditioning and I was helping them and it's good. Good sides. Good sides. Like the scene, I was like, I have a friend who who's very obsessed with Nicole Kidman and he was like, don't, don't forget Jen. She's not playing. I love Lucy, Lucy. She's playing Lucille Ball, who is very dark, dramatic person. I was like, Oh, that's a good point.

So I, when I read the script or parts of the script, I read like eight pages, but I was like, oh, I see this. I think it's going to be good. Yeah. I mean, I don't think – I think Aaron Sorkin is a little too smart to, you know, make something that's – you know, everyone's going to – people are going to look silly, but, you know, off the top of my head, it is hard to imagine.

Yeah, I kind of, um, was a little taken aback when I heard about it, but, but I think Jen, I think Jen makes a good point that she's, she's playing the real person Lucille ball, not necessarily, um, the, uh, She's going to have to smoke a lot of cigarettes. Brekkie. I have a question for Al before we wrap this up.

Yes. I got a letter from Lucille Ball. You're right. You what? She, she sent me a letter when I did my, my Ricky song in 1983. She actually sent me a letter, signed it. I've got it framed somewhere. That's so awesome. I remember that song wow did she and uh she just flat out loved it did she say anything uh do you remember any of the words she used not not exactly but she she was very fond of it uh and uh uh yeah she she liked it a lot i think uh i think uh

desi arnaz liked it as as well although i didn't get a letter from him well that is awesome um what i was going to ask you about is if you remember the last i say i close every episode now with a line the last line from a movie. And, you know, a lot of movie last lines aren't, you know, they're not tomorrow will be another day or whatever, but you parody that in your ending. But do you know the ending line of UHF? Yes, I do. Should I say it? Yes. It's I knew she was going to say that. Wow, you even did the accent. Should I say it? Yes. It's I knew she was going to say that. Wow.

You even did the accent. So that's what I'm going to use for today's show. But I, you know, I wasn't sure if you'd know that or not, you know, how, so you think with that movie, it'd be hard to stump you with trivia questions about it. Well, you could try, but I've seen that movie more than any other person in the world, probably. So I'm pretty familiar with it. Yeah.

And like I said, it's still hilarious. And it's really, it's really a funny, fun movie. Yeah. And whatever anybody thinks about anybody that was involved with it and, you know,

things that have happened since, just don't worry about that. Have a nice time. Half of the cast of that movie are either dead or legally crazy i mean that's a whole other i we could go on about that for a while but i mean that's part of the fun too is to sit there and go oh yeah she's uh's gone around the bend. That's awesome. All right. Thank you to Weird Al Yankovic and Frank Conniff and Jen Kirkman. And as always, I knew she was going to say

that. 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, cause Doug loves movies!