Free With Ads - Harry and the Hendersons

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

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This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asked the question, why pay Disney plus 12 bucks a month for a bunch of family-friendly entertainment when you could go online for free and watch a family-friendly movie about Bigfoot that's also a screed about America's out-of-control gun culture? That's right. Even Bigfoot is woke now. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Harry the Hendersons, the classic family movie that taught a generation of kids that if you need an animal to go back home, All you have to do is yell. Go on. Get out of here. We don't want you anymore. With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak. Matt Lieb hitting us with those crypto-zoological drops.

Cut out of here. Can't you see we don't want you anymore. Leave us alone. Goodbye, my friend. God, he's so bipolar just at the end there. Goodbye, my friend. I can't believe that you use that as the sound clip. I mean, that's what everyone remembers from Harry and the Henderson, right?

Well, it's what I remember from White Fang. It's, I always call that white fanging. Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah. I haven't seen White Fang. Get out of here. I don't watch you anymore. Like, that is a thing that you see it in a lot of movies, but this one made me cry harder than White Fang.

I was like, I can't watch this. I can't. I can't watch it. At this point, when John Lithgow was saying, goodbye, my friend to a Bigfoot, he has an Oscar. He's probably an Oscar And I would say goodbye to Bigfoot He's probably an EGOT Like let's be real

This guy definitely He has a Tony He definitely has an Emmy And he's got an Oscar I mean If this dude doesn't have a Grammy He's fucking up You know

You'll figure it out But wait What did he get an Oscar for? I think it's the world According to Garp I believe I don't yeah I don't know about Garp nor the world according to him.

It's, yeah. You know what? You know what? I might have fucked up there nominated. So maybe that's the reason he had to take the Bigfoot movie. He was just waiting to see if he won. And as soon as his name wasn't announced, he was like, fuck, call my agent. I'll do whatever.

I'll do the Bigfoot one. And this is kind of like a spiritual prequel. to Predator. Sure. Because it is. Which was our last episode because the actor is in the suit who played the predator. Yeah, this is a wonderful fun fact Emily brought into the episode, which naturally led to us Googling Harry and the Henderson's and seeing if it was free.

And it was and it seemed just too perfect. I don't know if you guys have listened to the episode yet. But throughout it, every time you, um, told me, you know, what sting to play, or told me that Harry and the Hendersons was the movie you were choosing, I kept playing this thing over and over. I don't want to. So if you haven't listened to the episode yet.

Call in response. Yeah, it was my way of, you know, sticking my fingerprint on the episode that I, unfortunately wasn't able to be on, but it was a great episode. You guys, it was fantastic. Matt, do you have any thoughts on the original Predator you want to share?

I thought the predator was good movie. I was a fan of it when I saw it. And as you guys were talking about it, I was like, yeah, you guys bring up a lot of good predator points. So I would have been really useful in that episode with my insight. So I was going to mention that as I was watching this movie,

Harry and the Henderson's Free With Ads on Tooby, beneath it was the option to watch the sitcom. Oh, yeah. So this is one, you know, I think when we were kids, I don't want to. When we were kids, I had a little bit of a hard time. And I think this happened a lot of like us being unclear on what someone's deal was. For instance, Mr. T. Wrapped, but he was in G.I. Joe.

And also he wrestled and was a serial. With Harry and the Hendersons, I'm just like, I think I, until I watch the, movie had a lot of memories of the show that I thought were in the movie. I didn't know there was a show. Wait, there are 70 episodes of it. And I also, yeah, surprise, surprise, it's free with ads. I browsed just the list of episodes. I did not watch any, but the summaries are just insane 80s sitcom bullshit.

It's like Harry becomes a pro wrestler and Harry's grandpa Bigfoot moves in and they start a magazine. It's like they just had cocaine and needed to crank out episodes. It is crazy because like you watch content from the 80s and at this point I'm convinced that it was like, oh, the whole world was just coked out. Because people could just make elf and everyone would be like, okay, that's crazy. Or we just had money back then. There was just money around. And it was 70 episodes and I'm sure it was considered a failure. Like imagine a show going 70 episodes in 2026.

Yeah, Netflix could never. Yeah, it's like four times the amount that and or. God. Right. How is that fair? But we got to watch it eventually, even if you don't want to. Uh-uh. I don't want to.

I'll be using that a lot. Sorry. Well, hey, there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Harry and his Henderson's. But first, we're going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff. There it is. So the big movie news this week that I had been seen in all over the place, they are they are throwing out the fishing hook

and trying to reel in a new James Bond. So they are casting a new James Bond. There's a deadline article that says that the casting director is insisting that he must quote, ooze sex appeal. So if you ask this podcast, James Bond will either be Bruce Dern, the blob, or the kindly toy maker

from Godzilla All Monsters Attack. As long as there's ooze involved. Oh, yeah. There was a little video I wanted to play in relation to this, but I just wanted to throw it out. Do y'all care about Bond, and do you care about who Bond is? No. I don't care about Bond because I've never, I've seen a few of the Bond movies.

I don't like them. You don't like them, interesting. Yeah, they just, I find them, like, incredibly boring, and I don't really know why. The classic ones are pretty boring. The 60s ones. Even the 90s ones that everyone loved, like Golden Eye and all of the Pierce Brosnan ones. And then I remember, you know, they got, what's that guy with the pretty eyes? Daniel Craig.

And I was like, you know what? Now I'm going to enjoy it because, you know, I liked him in Munich or whatever. And I was watching it. He's great in that. And I was watching Quantum of Solis or whatever the fuck. And I was just like, I just. I can't get into it. I don't know why, but I will say I do a little bit care about who gets to play Bond.

Okay. So I even though like, you know, I don't, I won't watch it. I'm like, it kind of excites me when I find out that like, remember when Idris Elba was possibly going to be Bond? That was exciting. I was like, oh, but I don't think that had. He would have been great. Like, I don't know why they didn't just do it. I think they just don't want audiences to have so much control.

Right, exactly. They don't want to give them everything they want because they're going to say. If the internet just would have shut the fuck up, they might have just made Idriselba Bond. But yeah, because everyone was being a weird, being a weird dick about it. Exactly, exactly. Here's the question. There's a certain kind of boy that is in vogue these days, or at least was in vogue last year. I was going to ask, will Bond be a rat boy?

We have our first rat boy bond. Do we still have Rat Boy Mania as a world, I guess, because as a global, you still love rap I still love Rat Boys, but I don't know if the world has moved on from Rat Boys. Yeah, I'm just trying to think of Englishman Rat Boys. I mean, we do have. Oh, there's a few. There's a few because that movie The Challengers. Yeah, that's where the Rat Boy.

That's a couple of rap boys. Yeah, and one of them is a British Rat Boy. He, I forget his name. It's okay Josh O'Connor He's good He was in the most recent Like Knives Out movie

He played Prince Charles In The Crown He sure did Very rat boy like But he's got a little bit Of a sex appeal But he's a little bit more

Unlikely I would say Yeah The other bonds that we've had But I think that he might get it I do think it's like I don't know It would be good to have someone Who's just not another little

white boy but like yeah we'll see spice it up like do something different yeah i've a feeling that it'll be another white boy and worse it'll be another british white boy yeah i think he like i think the like family that owns bond is racist he has it is right well yes the broccoli family yes um literally their names do you say the broccoli family yeah yeah the guy's name is broccoli yeah i think that like his daughter has control over it her name is barbara And I think they have definitively said that Bond. Yeah. That Bond has to be British.

No, I know. What? Barber broccoli? It sounds like a clue character. It does. It does. Barber broccoli in the den with the pipe wrench. So they have to be English.

So I think they do have to be British. Okay. All right. Really quick. Just, just this was the best Bond related media that I saw in, in reaction to this news. Hey, George Wallace, that's basically the funniest person on earth, right? If he ever, he's, I think, in Vegas every single night. If you're ever there, go see George Wallace.

He sells burned DVDs of his stand-up in the lobby afterwards. Yeah, and it's the most, it's the most you'll fucking laugh. He's a legend. He posted this on Blue Sky. This is George Wallace's Bond audition. I'm George Wallace. I'm auditioning for the role of James Bond. Hey, dude.

dude, dude you know you being an asshole with that laser beam if you hit me with that laser beam one more time and whatnot I'm gonna put my foot up in your ass and whatnot such an idiot I'd end with such an idiot

stop hitting me with that laser beam uh and this is if you don't know who George Wallace is imagine a 70 year old man in a kangal at yes yes Yes, yes. And he's like huge, isn't he?

Is he like super tall? He's a big man. He's a big man. George Wallace, one of the funniest people ever. Not to be confused with the bad George Wallace, the one from history. Ah, yes. No, no, no. This is the stand-up committee.

I should have said that's not. You mean the racist governor George Wallace? Oh, I thought you were talking about Braveheart for a second. William Wallace. That's William Wallace. And I'm not sure if William Wallace bad. I think he good, but guy who played him bad. Played by Mel Gibson, who bad.

Who bad, yeah. Who bad? Who bad? He bad. Who bad? Who good? Who can say? Which sucks because there's so many movies that are free that he's in.

I know. Sure. I guess we'll never watch Apocalyptic. Oh. We're missing out. We want to. Kind of slaps. What we can watch is Harry and the Henderson's.

Hell yeah. So yes, as I mentioned, we watched this movie a lot as kids, but also the show was on and my memory of it is a soup. Emily, Matt, you all had seen this as kids? I talked about it the last episode how I had to be put into a car for timeout because I wouldn't stop screaming at this movie because it scared the shit out of me. I can see that.

Yeah, and I see that it was, this was produced by Amblin. It was involved, which boy, does it feel that way. Boy, I'm starting to think that Spielberg's kind of a one-note kind of guy. I'm like, I didn't really, I know he did other good things. He's like, war? children make an unlikely friend. And that's it.

And space. I mean, that's three, three notes. Three notes. It's pretty good notes. I don't know. It's, I got one note and it's sting.

That's it. Play sting, funny moment. Funny moment. That's it. Yeah. But yeah, no. It's so it scared the shit out of me as a kid. And I was like at a,

like we were at some kind of family vacation thing with other families. And I was just inconsolable. My dad put me in a car, a hot car, and just watched me calm down in this car. But I was really probably just suffocating in there. It's okay to put a kid in a hot car as long as you're watching. Well, if they're being an asshole. And if they pass out, they stop crying.

I did ask my dad about that. And he's like, I'm pretty sure I cracked the window. And I was like, all right. Yeah, you probably, yeah. Mike, he cracked the window. Yeah, probably. But, yeah, no, watching it this time, there's a few burned memories into my brain. involving a corsage that I will always remember because I did know what a fucking corsage was.

And then I wanted one so bad. So yeah, that's my experience with Harry and the Henderson's. Matt, Harry and the Henderson's? You know, I thought I saw it and then I watched it. And I don't think I saw it. It's strange, but like the movie had such like a cultural like impact that I just assumed as a kid I had seen this movie. I definitely, you know, did the like, Harry and the Henderson's Universal Studios experience thing.

They had an experience? Yes, you're right. They did. It was like you would go and it was like sort of a multi-cam soundstage type thing. And I forget what they would do. It was teaching you about Foley. And then you, like, while there was a scene with like rain and you would get to like spray a hose at a window or something. Or like shake some sheet metal to make it sound like thunder.

You guys don't understand how shitty Universal Studios used to be. No, I don't. It was the shittiest theme park ever and was kind of like part of the magic of it was like how god awful it was. It really like it was banking on you just being excited to see how movies were made. Watch clips from movies. But once you got there and saw Foley artists, you were just like, wow, this kind of sucks. though. I don't know what you. I wanted to be a foliarist after that. For me I was like this wow this really did take away the magic seeing how the sausage was made ruined it for me.

So no I had not I had not actually seen this technically my first time watching the movie. Speaking of Universal Studios real quick before you answer Jordan are you guys going to ride that fucking fast and the furious mess? Can't wait. I didn't know that they were doing it. It is the most insane roller coaster I've ever seen If you're listening to this and you haven't seen the videos of it, go watch it because ain't no way I'm getting on that thing. There's a fast and furious themed roller coaster

opening up pretty soon at Universal. It built it on a hill. It does it look structurally. If I die on it, it'll be a proud, noble death. I would love to do it. I will die with my family. That's right. Hell yeah.

Who will write the intros? Oh, that's, yeah. It's a great question. I'm not going to fucking do it. It's Jordan's Ghost. Listen, I'll just, before I get on the ride, I'll just bank 100 intros for movies I think you'll watch and then I'll pass away. And yeah.

Well, so... We'll get a lot of money from Universal. The only past the curious ride that I remember was there was a section of the tram ride, you know, of like the, it's like the Universal Studios Tour ride. You guys know what I'm talking about? where they would do like a Fast and the Furious section and in that section used to be something different.

It used to be earthquake and they would show you. Oh, I've heard of that. You would go into, you'd take a tram into basically a recreated subway station and then water. I think earthquake is still there. Oh, is that still there?

Yeah, I think what Fast and Furious replaced is that thing where it's like rotating and you think you're in some sort of avalan. That sucked. I love it. But if you do have an earthquake memory, feel free to share because that is a really fun part of the tram. It makes you seem to get an earthquake. Yeah, no.

I mean, my memory of it is, is like, man, I really, in the movies, this looks so much more exciting. That was my memory. I love Universal. Me too. It's great. Jordan, so had you seen it? Yes, we, this was a frequent, like, you know, weekend rental for the Morris's, go down to Long's drugs. Run up a movie.

Grab a pizza from Rabino's. Have the best fucking family night ever. Yeah, so we rented this a lot, but also like we watched the TV show. So yeah, I had a Harry and the Henderson soup in my head that I, you know, sifted through while watching the movie. Hell, yeah. Well, yeah, let's talk about what actually happens.

Let's do it. It starts out kind of a first-person camera view, something tramping through the woods, heavy breathing. You know it's first person because you can see. how much ammo Harry has left in his armor. Well, um, you sure this is, did you watch the right movie? Oh, I just played Halo. Sorry.

I just played Halo for five hours. Oh, excuse me. Oh, sorry. Anyway, but Harry, um, Harry, he's a watching a family. Is it the Henderson's? Yeah, you bet it is because this movie starts fucking fast. That's right. Um, it's the Henderson's.

They're on a camping trip, um, and they're, they're hunting. Dad's teaching nerdy son Ernie to hunt. Love an Ernie. Ernest. Yeah, you don't have to see a lot of child Ernie's these days. It's such a good name. Ernest is an amazing name. And after hearing it, I'd maybe think about, you know,

Ernest, scared stupid, our buddy. And I'm like, if I get a dog, its name is got to be Ernest. For sure. He'll have a little denim vest. Yeah. And he'll go, ewe. Hey, Fern. Hey, Fern.

Hey, Fern. Vern, Vern. Shut the dog up. Vern'll be the cat. Oh, that would be cute. I have a dog named Ernest and a cat named Vern. That'd be great. Love it.

So the family, they're on a camping trip. They're doing some hunting. They start the drive home. And this is where you get the credit sequence. This drive is so beautiful. There's this beautiful score behind it. You're getting all these nature shots. Fucking bury me in the opening of Harry and the Henders.

Oh, kidding. My God, what a, what a vibe. I almost just want it to be their entire drive home, them driving from, you know, wherever to Seattle, Yosemite. But they don't. We don't see the entire drive because they hit something. Ah, and you know what? It's a big foot. Yep, this movie fucking starts.

I know. I liked that. I really liked that. So they wonder, so Lithgow gets out of the car. Lithgow's the dad. He gets out of the car. and with his like gun and he sees that it's a big foot

and his instinct is to say to his family you better come take a look at this just calling his kids over to this thing that could rip off I mean anyway I think he was calling his wife but his little precocious brats just do whatever the fuck they want like the little boy Ernest is so funny

he's just such sitcom kids bad things keep happening and he thinks it's awesome every time so when a thing breaks he's like wow cool and it makes it kind of more fun to watch. Nobody's freaking out too bad when the house breaks or the car gets, you know, reamed or whatever. So there's, so they think it's dead.

Lithgow, his plan is to like take it back and become rich and famous somehow. They rick him up on a pretty ingenious little pulley system that they just threw together there where they like kind of lift him up with a tree and drag him on top of the car. but wouldn't you know it because he wakes up and kind of looks down in the windshield, Harry, he's alive. And then they stop the car and they kind of think he's dead, but he's not.

They think he's dead again. They think he's dead again. That is so funny when he wakes up on the top of the car. It's a really fun moment. Those eyes are so funny. I know. The beautiful, expressive eyes on Harry.

Wow. What a What a nonverbal performance this is And there's a couple posters for the movie Where it's just Harry's eyes staring at you Because like they knew like this guy Just just like acting the shit out of this Just with his looks and stuff

It's such I mean the character looks fucking awesome It does yeah just like the magic of practical shit It still looks cool in 2006 It looks like a big foot It looks like they got a big foot Who has beautiful soulful eyes Yeah What I love is that they killed him twice

but of course he doesn't actually die. It reminded me of, you guys know that Cullen Crawford tweet. It's like Cullen Crawford is a comedy writer. He wrote a tweet like a few years ago that says, me and my friends would have killed E.T. with hammers. I can tell you that much.

A hundred percent. It's very much like it's E.T. But they keep trying to kill it. And eventually it gets into the like schmaltzy, like, you know, family dynamic. But the movie starts out with them being pretty greedy about this dead animal or supposedly dead animal that they just marked with their car. The mom is the mom from a Christmas story.

I know. I know. It took me forever to figure it out, but she has those little mannerisms that she did in a Christmas story that were so sweet. Yeah. And she's just wonderful. They're just like everyone here is just a great 80s. comedy actor.

Yeah. And yeah, and like they're all, it's a very sitcomy movie. You can tell why they wanted to make a sitcom out of it. But yeah, and everyone is like doing that at a very high level. Yeah. And Rick Baker is who created the suit for this. And he did the like, like, werewolf makeup in Thriller. He also did like the American Werewolf in London.

And he won an Academy Award for Matt's favorite movie, how the Grinch stole Christmas. Oh, wow. That's sarcasm. He hates that movie. I didn't know he had one bad movie. But I mean, no, the costumes, I mean, you know, the makeup and costumes and that were really good. So, you know, credit, we're creditors due to that.

It's just, you know, the story kind of sucked in. But it's true. The suit is amazing. He looks so soft. Like you want to go hug him. And they keep saying he smells bad and I'm like, I don't buy it. I think he looks. I want to hug him.

Yeah, he smells like Old Spice for sure. For sure. But he, the physical... He smells like dad before he left. But yeah, the physical performance, also the body performance is so funny and clumsy. Like, props to the actor, RIP. Yeah. It's crazy how the, yeah, this Bigfoot is simultaneously, you know, adorable and very human-like.

And also the scariest thing. you've ever seen at the beginning. Like it can do both, which is really impressive. He's so huge and then his eyes are so close together. They could kiss each other. His little eyes would go like that. That's sweet. So the family, they make it home and wouldn't you know it in the middle of the night,

Harry is in their kitchen. As Emily mentioned, he's eating the daughter's birthday corsage. Emily, what about this is something that stuck out for you? I don't know. I was just like, what's a birthday corsage? I've never had one. And I was getting kind of like, well, why didn't my, and then why my parents bought me a corsage? You were covetous of the Henderson's. I know. And I was probably like four. And like, and I saw this like in somebody's house. And, but yeah, I just remember the flour, the eating the corsage thing really stuck out to me. I don't know why that's a core memory. And then he like, you know, he tries to make up for it and gives the teenage. daughter flowers at the end and as a young kid I thought that meant they were dating. Oh. And then they quickly fixed that by him like bopping her head over and she falls to the ground. As a four-year-old, you thought the teen girl was dating the Bigfoot?

Well, he brought her a bunch of flowers and he's like batting his eyelashes at her. That's what you do. That is true. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. So I wasn't sure, but now I know that's not the deal. So because dad's a hunter, they have a bunch of taxidermy in the house. So Harry sees a like deer head on the wall. This is at once really hilarious and really heartbreaking.

He's looking for the other half of the deer. And when he realizes that when he realizes that like the deer's body isn't on the other side of the wall, he gets really pissed. He kind of realizes what's going on. You know, John Lithgow has a gun. Obviously, he tries to shoot him. He can't do it because he looks in those soulful eyes. Yeah. But then he just starts hiding all the taxidermy.

They have so much of it. It's like really hilarious how much taxidermy they have and have to like shove in the closet. And so he's trying to get in while Lithgow is, you know, hiding all this taxidermy. And he's yelling at his wife, uh, stall him. And she says, how? And he says, show him the pasta maker. Yeah, that was correct. Like a really funny line.

Show him the pasta maker. There's something about. like the way that this movie portrays like sort of white suburban life in the 80s that is so funny to me like they have this big foot you know they discovered the missing link scientific breakthrough and they're just like uh we have to get it you know over in the car quick you can show it some hamburgers It'll be no, it'll love hamburgers. Every creature loves hamburger. It's just there's something about this movie is so, it's a statement on sort of the times and, you know, the excesses of culture,

but it's also just incredibly funny. Speaking of The Times or whatever, did you guys notice that their station wagon had automatic windows? Oh, I didn't. Was that literally advanced for the time? In 1987, yeah, I don't think we got a window button until like... Yeah, that's until the 90s. Like, and they had, I was like, okay, rich.

Like, and I... Well, right, they were rich. They owned Seattle's most famous gun store, I guess, where you wear a suit and tie to sell guns. It's a family business, too. Yeah, you know? Yeah, his dad, who we've seen that guy in a million things, too. M.M. at Walsh, yeah, this is a real, this movie's a real, like,

who's who? Character actor, you know, DiCaprio. pointing at the screen when a guy shows up. Yeah, yeah. Emmett Walsh, though, is 10 years older than John Lithgow and he's playing his dad. John Lithgow is one of those has always looked old guys.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, Eminet Walsh being his dad, does not track. They look like guys who were in the army together. They look like they could run for president together. Yeah.

Oh, that would be a good movie, them is dueling president. candidate? Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, they decide that they're going to, like, keep Harry because of his beautiful eyes. But wouldn't you know it, their nosy neighbor comes to, their nosy neighbor who is bringing the dog back, that they were watching the dog while they were on vacation.

And you know how she's a nosy neighbor? Because when she comes over, she says, you-hoo. Yeah. Why does no one say you-hoo anymore? It's a thing in the 80s. Neighbors who want to bring back you-hoo. I'm going to do it. Sugar and saying you-hoo to people.

You got to go down to the docks, flirt with some sailors, say you-hoo. She's amazing. That's like Laini Kazan, I guess is heard. She was in my big fat Greek wedding, which I watched recently and, oh, my God, that movie's so perfect. I think that's, we got to watch that eventually. It's in my top time. I've never seen it. Oh, it's so good.

I saw that movie three times in theaters. It's that good. Loved my big fat Greek wedding as a kid. We watched it. or whatever. The Fleming's watched it on my birthday vacation. Oh, fun.

We had to watch that. Oh, nosy neighbor. Oh, yeah. He's like completely destroyed their house. Yeah, and they have the most, so he tips over the fridge and they have the most 80s ass shit in their fridge. They got Peter Pan peanut butter,

Celeste frozen pizza, in a glass jar, and they have Hawaiian punch, a big old fucking tin can of Hawaiian punch. 80s fridge. Yeah, straight up. I want my shit in glass jars. Like, I think,

that peanut butter in a glass jar makes so much more sense than plastic yeah um okay so they've kind of like decided to keep harry uh john lithgow says we're gonna get on magazines we could go on the carson show which the two indicators of success in the 80s getting on a magazine and going on carson but uh but harry um he escapes so he uh lithgow says uh goodbye harry friend and the son's like since when does he have a name But anyway. Right now. Since right now, Harry, Harry and the Henderson's. Very cute.

Okay. So I'm going to make a little executive decision. Let me know what you guys think of this. So Harry escapes. I think this portion of the movie is pretty boring. Yes. Yeah. I think the end of this movie is fucking sterling silver.

I think the end of this movie is beautiful. Yes. The middle is very boring. I'm going to breeze through some of this. So we can really dig into the ending. Point by point. So, yeah, Lithgow, as we mentioned, he works at a gun store where they wear suits and tie. I guess I don't buy guns.

Maybe people do wear suits and ties in gun stores. I don't know. Is this how you sell a gun wearing a fucking tie? Anyway, yeah, his job is being an artist. So I think what is going on here is that he's a gun salesman, but being an artist is his hobby. It's like what he wanted to do. Okay. And his, there's like this dad's story that is just so.

useless. Into this thing where he's like, I wanted paints for my birthday and dad wouldn't get them for me. But dad's like, so Harry's like going

around the neighborhood scaring people. So there's like Bigfoot mania. Everybody's flooding into the store to buy guns. It's like, yeah, it's a pretty like,

you know, pretty toothy satire of gun culture, I think. Surprisingly in this family Bigfoot movie. Yeah. So,

you know, the dad's like, oh, you should draw a big foot to like put in the window and the dad wants it to be scared. but John Lithgow knows deep down that Harry is nice,

so he doesn't want to draw him all scary. This is another kind of beloved character actor, Don Amici, Dona Meach. He's the guy who runs the Bigfoot Museum. Oh, yeah, he's in a lot of stuff. He's another guy from that thing. Maybe my favorite performance of this dude. He's the Golden Retriever in Homer Bound.

Oh, I knew I recognized his voice. Shadow. Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful Vio performance from this guy. And so there's him. He owns the Bigfoot Museum, and there's this like French Bigfoot Hunter guy.

What did the, I don't understand what the French did to become the villains in so many kids' movies. Well, that actor is also Detective Poirot in like, in the television show. And I know this because my papa and I would watch Poirot, like every night that I'd stay over at my grandparents' house, he watched like masterpiece theater.

Yeah. Poirot. So I was like, oh my God, this is so, and he's a bad guy in this. Yeah. And he's French. I guess he's French as pro pro pro pro. But yeah, it is, it is, but I don't fully understand why the character is French. I'm trying to think, is there like a French, you know, Jane Goodall,

like an evil version of Jane Goodall that's French and wants to kill big, foot or gorillas or something. It just was very strange to have this evil French villain throughout. And I'm like, all right, fine. I'll accept it. He does have a very intense, like,

face. Like, his eyes are very intense. I guess I didn't even question the fact that he was French. I just went, okay. Yeah, sure. Why not? So, yeah, so this guy's like chasing him around for the whole movie. They have, like, a fight in the back of a garbage truck. eventually Harry

Harry comes back home and he sees the closet full of taxidermy and kind of like gives John Lithgow the stink guy and John Lithgow is like I know what we need to do

so they have a mass burial for all the taxidermy in the yard and not a great one it's like yeah some of the horns are sticking up but then but then yeah Dona Mici

Donamiche to my hood Not amici. Yeah, let's say amici. He comes to the house and brings a bunch of flowers to them. They're preparing dinner for him. It's kind of a classic 80s. Somebody's coming over for dinner thing and there's no meat. He's like, oh, are you vegetarians?

And the mom's like, the roast is resting in a shallow unmarked grave. Oh, they said that he was a vegetarian. Like Harry was a vegetarian. Yeah. He ate a goldfish. He's a pescatarian, y'all. He's a pescatarian. Yeah.

I think there's maybe no word for pescatariate at this point, but I think he eats a fish sandwich as well at some point. That's right. He eats like a filet of fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He takes out the burger patty. I love woke Harry and the Henderson's. Like I didn't realize how much it was, you know,

sort of an environmentalist movie. It makes sense. I mean, given the time, it was like a thing that you were allowed to critique about the world because it wasn't a critique of America. It was a critique of the entire world. It was like, saving the world, good, huh? We can all agree with that.

And everyone was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We also would like, no. Now it's bad to do that. Yeah, like, save the world, what are you a communist? We had like Smokey the Bear and it was like cute and cool to care about it. Captain Planet. Like it was, it was fine. It was like just fine.

It was cool even. Like now it's just people go, oh my God, shut the fuck. Like everybody's. Save the whales. We talked constantly about saving the whales. It's all we talked about for five years. Sure. But now, too woke.

Can't save the whale. Everything woke. Stop trying to save whales. Kill whales, better. Whale do show, then get killed. Yeah, kill well for fun. After do show. Make America great again.

Make whale dead now. Make whale jump. Then kill whale. Anyway. Sure love living in the now. Yeah, me too. That is just something that could be on truth social, right? Yeah.

And then with a weird AI thing of Trump shooting a whale. Yeah, we'd be like, fine. That's normal now. So Don Amici, he knows a place to take Harry where he'll be safe. And that's when the thrilling conclusion of this movie happens, which we'll talk about when we come back. Hey, we're back. It's free with ads. We're going to talk about the thrilling conclusion to Harry.

The Henderson's. Okay, so Don Amici, he's like, I know a place we can take Harry, and they just drive him up the highway, and they pull a little bit off the highway. They're the main road. They like let him out. There's a traffic line. Here's the freeway. Yeah. He's just 7-Eleven in the shot.

It's kind of like when you catch a mouse or a squirrel in a little cage, then you go, well, it's time to drive him away so he won't find his way back. to us and that's just pretty much what they did. Yeah, I'm always catching squirrels in a cage. Oh, well, that's a Fleming thing. Oh, yeah, I was going to say, maybe that's a Tennessee thing. Oh, yeah, we have, we don't work. Family reunion, you have a squirrel catching contest? Well, honestly, that does sound crazy, but we don't own gun guns.

That's not what we're about, but we do have BB guns. And so my dad will sit out there and just shoot squirrels. Oh, yeah. And, well, they eat up like all of the, we like, we like. birds and they eat all the bird seed and stuff and then they eat all of the plants so all of my dad keeps trying to grow tomatoes they just eat all of it yeah sometimes you got to shoot the pests gots to go absolutely absolutely um so yeah harry he doesn't want to go into this little tree grove near the i-95 um and that's when we get the scene get out of here can't you see

we don't watch you anymore slaps him I had to, oh my God, when he held his face. Oh, God, I couldn't do it. I held my t-shirt over my head and I was like bawling. I was in this. He's acting. He's like committed to doing this big foot scene. And the little face, the face on Harry that's so expressive and he's just so sweet.

When he slapped him, I just could. I was like, I can't watch this. I have to let go. It made me so bad. It is crazy how effective this scene is because it's so stupid to describe. I think like in in isolation as a clip, it plays kind of funny. You know, but when you actually sit and watch the whole goddamn movie and you get to this point with Harry, you are feeling like awful for him. And you're feeling awful for John Lithgow because he's like he doesn't know how to get him to leave.

So he just starts doing, you know, starts telling him, we don't want you anymore. Go back to where you came from. He starts being bigoted towards Bigfoot. Yeah. And then as he's like walking away, it's just like, I'll miss you friend. I was like, wait, why am I, I swear to God, if I start crying from this movie. I was bawling. I was bawling.

It made me so sad. I hate that. I hate in movies where they scare something off or like hurt something's feelings that they actually love. Oh, fuck. I googled another one that I remember from childhood. You remember a cheetah? No.

Cheetah. It was a Disney movie where some kids get a cheetah. And they have to do a get out of here, go on, we don't want you anymore. I love that trope. There's got to be more movies with a get out of here. We don't want you anymore for your own good. I guess Shea and Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones where he just starts, you know, calling her all sorts of names. But that comes, you know, back to bite him in the ass when she hooks up with his father.

Shish. Spoiler alert for Game of Thrones heads out there who haven't gone to season three. It's only been out for 15 years. Like, come on. So, so they, he runs off in the woods,

but the hunter, French hunter, Poirot guy is still like on their tail. I'm still in this movie. I'm still very French. I've taken a brick to smoke a cigarette and eat an entire baguette.

I have rose here on my tiny bike. I'm outside and bike That's really good I have told my mistress I will not be home Because I am hunting The Big Foot Oh wow

Anyway Ah the French Orson Wells once Champagne Oh he's celebrated for six The French It's a California campaign All right

I won't do the whole thing There is literally Nothing funnier than that except for the Colonel, the real Colonel from KFC, Colonel Sanders, trying to do radio ads. Oh, I've not heard that. There is this whole recording of him struggling to do a crispy, crunchy, like he can't figure out how to save the ad.

That's crazy. And he gets more and more frustrated and angry, and it's very funny. That's amazing. Check that out. Inspired by the same French excellence. It's fermented in the bottle and like the best shun. Oh, the chicken. My favorite part of that is when Orson, they say action, and he goes, just do anything?

All right. You've been in so many movies. He invented whole genres. Right. He's just too drunk. Just do anything? Forgot what to do. That definitely inspired the Schitts Creek thing with Catherine O'Hara for sure.

Yes, 100%. All right, Harry Henderson's Yeah, so the French guys after him The whole family puts on these like Bigfoot shoes Where did they fucking get these from? Maybe from the guy's museum Maybe he sells them

Yeah I assume They would have shown us that Because I Yeah it's really confusing You're like what are they doing But they just had them anyway Yeah

Yeah just ADR line saying Somebody saying like I'm glad we got these from your gift shop Totally Something fucking Ernie would have said But the French guy is still out after him, he catches their dog, their family dog. And he, like, throws the dog. Oh, my God.

And then Harry catches the dog. It's the most funny, like, hilarious because it's practical thing of, like, this guy throwing a fake dog and Bigfoot catching it. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. And it's a callback, too, to when he catches the dog the first time in the movie. There you go. That's a fun little callback.

Fun callback. So, you know, Harry, he's saving the family, but they kind of realize that this French guy isn't going to stop. So there's this, like, pretty intense scene where you think Lithgow's going to kill him. I thought the dog was going to die. Oh, yeah, that a bit of bummer. That would have a bummer.

Nope, dog's fine. Very cute dog, too. Great, very dog. Good dog. Still alive. Still alive. He currently runs a hot air balloon tourist company.

That's right. New Mexico takes people up in his hotter balloon. They have little brunches up there. It's fun. He's Benjamin Bow Wow. Yes, there you go. Benjamin Bone. Getting younger and younger.

He's a little puppy now. Aw. Oh, puppy. Anyway. So, like, Harry stops with Gao from killing the French guy, an unusually intense, an unusually intense ending for this kid's movie. But that's when the French guy realizes bigfoot's, they all write. And so Harry goes back off into the woods, and there's a great shot where there's all these other big foots camouflaged.

They were there the whole time. They all turn around and follow Harry. There's a baby. Another connection. This is basically the end of Predator 2. Oh, is it? Where this guy also plays the predator. There is basically the same scene but with Predators in Predator.

too. This guy can't get away from this shit. He's also, he was in the tree when Harry was in the tree with a bunch of doves on his shoulder. I was like, I was like, oh my God, Disney Princess a bunch of fucking doves. And I'm like, this is the predator up in the tree looking down at the prey and he's

just up in there doing it too. I was like, this guy's just always up in a tree. He loves to get up in a tree. He sure does. Okay. And yeah, so then, you know, that's the end. We have a very, very emotional Joe Cocker song over the credits and I think you're supposed to be seeing what I guess are supposed to be

John Lithgow's drawings but they look like the aha take on me video. Yeah. Anyway, that's what happens in Harry and the Henderson's. We're going to tell you what we thought about it, but first, oh, you know we got to do the hunk watch. It's hunk watch. Any strong opinions about the hunks? I mean, Harry and the henderson?

Harry. Harry, yeah. He's also the tallest guy. He is the tallest guy. Wonderful point, Emily, let's hear that stink. Same tallest guy from the last movie, just in a different suit. No matter what movie this guy's in, he's always the tallest guy. Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to go Lithgow on this. I think Lithgow is pretty hot. He's so good in this. He's so funny. And, you know, listen, I know, maybe we're all kind of cranky at him for being in this Harry Potter thing. He's in the Harry Potter thing? Yeah, and he's made some kind of crummy comments. But here's what I'm.

I want to believe. He just thought it was a Harry and the Henderson sequel. Oh, I like that theory. He's like, I got to be in that. And then, you know, I like that theory. And I will now set a Google block on anything that has his name in it so that I don't learn otherwise. Now, we all just think that. You just block out anything that, you know, any news story about him

so that I can forever think he thought he was in Harry and the Henderson. He's like, when's the Bigfoot going to get here? He just doesn't understand. I was about to. I think he was J.K. Rowling is J. K. S.K. Simmons, the great Character actor. He's like, I made a lot of assumptions about this project. He made pictures of Bigfoot.

There's something about him that makes me think he talks dirty really good. Lick-Hout. A hundred percent. Lithgow. You know that he does. He's a nasty freak. He's very good at it. And, yeah, and he's got like no inhibitions, but he's like he knows what to say.

You know. It's the back wall. 100% oh yeah I'd hit the back wall from the cum spraying oh god I get it I get it sure I don't like saying you just say whatever I don't like it this is about a kids movie I just

can't you're an adult can't not talk about come and tits in this podcast will we ever get a sponsor yeah someday maybe a cum sponsor oh yeah maybe one of those one of those like products that are supposed to give you huge loads yeah he's a lot of sponsors

gas station Dick pills? Yeah, gas station Diffelts. There's got to be a big foot on one of those and we can tie it. Hey, we'll do a bunch of

Bigfoot movies, we'll all take the pills. We'll see what happens. It's a fun tie-in. I kind of want to know what would happen to me. What would happen to you? Well, I would get a big clit.

Yeah, fatty clit. Oh, man, this clit doesn't fit in my pants. Yeah, I think we can agree. These are the hunks of the film. Now we have to say what we thought about it. Oh, but wait, we're going to take a break first.

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But if it weren't for that boring part, it would be like, I don't know, an eight, but I'm going with like a 6.5 on this. Very fair. Very fair. It's good. It's good. But it's not something that. I'm going to watch a lot over and over. It's not one of those movies. Right.

Yeah, I'm right there with... I'm right there with you, Emily. It's very fun. I think for me, it's like an honorable six. I think I was kind of going five until the end just got so crazy. I'm like, okay, I got to bump this up a little bit higher because the end is fun. Yeah, and I think you can like watch clips of this movie and see how cool Harry is and, you know, some of the more fun moments.

The movie does get a little bit of boring. But I do think this would be a fun, like, throwback to watch with a kid, I think. Oh, for sure. And they don't make this. kind of like live action family movie anymore really. So yeah, a fun a fun throwback if you're looking for something, you know, that's like not super annoying to watch with a kid. Matt, what do you think? I'm going to give it an eight. I really was surprised at how much I liked it, mostly because I had such, I don't know, strong memories of not being interested at all in it.

And I think it's because I thought I saw it, but I instead just saw the like, Harry and the Henderson stage experience at Universal Studios. Like, why am I, Matt, not involved? Exactly. It was just, I'm not even making thunder sounds. This sucks. But no, then I watched it.

And it starts off, you know, right away with this really stupid premise. And it doesn't look back. It doesn't hedge. It just is what it is. In the same way, Alph isn't spending all of its time, explaining itself. It's just like, not, just elf, you know? This is the

same thing. Alien, he lives with the family. He eats cats. He eats cats. What do you want? It's the same with this movie and I was just so impressed with the costume and I also thought it was sort of impressive that the movie had

any message at all. The fact that it was, you know, like sort of about, you know, the way that you know, we have we have left nature in favor of the pasta maker machine and Peter Pan, you know, peanut butter or whatever, like, you know, go back to nature kind of movie. I thought it was, I don't know, I was like, this is good.

This is a net good for society. Yeah, it's kind of like, I think some of the message was like, don't constantly think what you can get out of a friendship. Yeah, stop trying to kill animals for profit, you know. Or stop like exploiting everything. Your friends for things. Maybe this was like a very like Hollywood writer who was like, I'm tired of only being interesting to my friends if they can make money.

Right. They can make money off my corpse. I'm tired of Mike Ovitz walking all over me. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that's Harry and the Henderson's. Do a little plug in.

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