Free With Ads - Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

'Tis the season to be creepy crawly (or something), the silly/spooky season we lovingly call Hallow-peen! And we couldn't think of a more perfect way to kick off the season than to watch one of the silliest and spookiest movies from our childhoods, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It's about... well it's all right there in the title.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Longlegs.-----Watch Emily, Matt, and Jordan on Good Mythical Weekend! On Oct 22 you can get a copy of Jordan Morris's comic book Predator: Black White and Blood #4! Jordan will be signing the book Sat Oct 25th from 4-6pm at Things From Another World at Universal Citywalk.

This is free with ads. This is free with ads. the podcast that asked the question, why pay HBO max 10 bucks a month to watch an It prequel series when you could go online for free and watch a scary clown movie that's not actually that scary, but it does contain a scene where someone gets hit with pies until they turn into a skeleton. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. It's the first week of Halapine, baby, our month-long celebration of scary movies where we'll also probably make jokes about dongs. But I also do fingering stories. But what are

are dongs, but the fingers of the crotch? Yes. So true. That is true. So true. Perfect sense. Thank you. Or dongs are the, wait, I'll figure it out later.

No, you had it. What are fingers, but the dongs of the, no, I got it. The fingers of the hand? Yes, the dongs of the hand. Okay, we got there. Our first movie is killer clowns from outer space. The 80s cult classic about space clowns. with giant heads that look like they're made entirely out of testicle skin.

With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak. Matt Leap hitting us with those creepy, cookie drops. Well, I'll be greased and fried. My favorite guy. Is that the old man? That's the old man. Old man. Who has a dog named poo.

Pooh bear. Pooh bear, the dog. Only southern person in the whole movie. I don't think this movie is in the South. I don't know what he was doing there. You know, Matt, they filmed some of this movie in Santa Cruz. Look at that. That makes sense.

So this is like a Monterey Bay movie. Oh, yeah, this is like big little lives. That old man has a classic cannery row accent. Yeah. Oh, you know me, just surfing on my surfboard. Yeah, I'm going to head up to San Jose for some of that classic Vietnamese cuisine. Oh, I'm going to go ten toes down in Bolognes and get pitted. So pitted.

So pitted. Hey, before we talk more about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to read an email from a listener in a segment we call We Got Mail. You've Got Mail. This message is from Dylan. They write, as big fans of horror, which horror villain slash monster do you guys think you have the best chance of surviving against and how would you plan on escaping slash defeating them which do you think you'd die to the quickest chucky chucky's the easiest one to kill oh okay what's your what's your

chucky murder strategy drop kick drop kick sure yeah just drop kick that fucker into the ocean yeah field goal kick yeah keep him away with a broom yeah or i just not a lot of reach on chucky yeah or throw into uh flaming trash can you know yeah Trash can full of fire Throw him in I know that there's like a spirit Involve doesn't he like possess different It's like somebody's spirit in the doll

So he'd hop somewhere else But in terms of the doll itself Yeah I can take that doll out So yeah I guess right Chuckie could counter by throwing himself In something more effective But I guess which it's yeah Have we seen this? I don't know

I've only seen the first one I saw the first one when I was very young And it scared the crap out of me And the older I got the more I was like I'm bigger than Chuckie now Yeah I can kill you Kill Chuckie. I get to kill Chuckie.

Or anything that size. Yeah. What about y'all? So I think my, when I first read this question, I'm like, well, I would die to all of them easily. I do not suspect I would survive that long in any kind of horror scenario. So yeah, but some, you know, just some stuff I was mulling over. Okay, my first thought, creature from the Black Lagoon, obviously, I'm a strong swimmer. I've talked about it on the show.

True. But you know what you do against the creature from the Black Lagoon? You don't try and swim away from me. Fuck it. Well, yeah. Well, it's the shape of water. You fuck it. But you don't swim away from the thing.

You get on land. Have you seen that thing on land? It's like, ugh. It looks hungover. Yeah. It cannot jog. So I think with creatures in the Black Lagoon, I don't think my swimming does anything.

I think you just get on land. You're 100% right. That's why anytime someone does, eyes in that. I'm like, well, what were you doing near a black lagoon? Shouldn't it? Just get away from the lagoon. Get away from that one lagoon. Go to other lagoon. Yeah. Monsoon lagoon.

Raging waters in Santimas. Wild Rivers, where was Monsoon Lagoon? It was, you know what? It was a childhood destination. I don't actually know where it was. It was back before I had a map in my head. At a water park. Sure. Yeah. You could also give a little

visit to Swamp Thing. Yeah. I'm sure that he needs. needs visitors. Swamp Thing was nice though, right? He was like a friend. I don't know. Is it that the TV show Swamp Thing? And wasn't it kind of horny?

I'm sure it was a pretty horny property. The comics that Swamp Thing are from are very horny. It is, uh, yeah, he's got kind of a hot girlfriend in there. And they, and they do it pretty regularly, at least in the 80s Swamp Thing comics. If Swamp Thing is free with ads, that is a boco. That is a boco. That is a boco right there. You're about to say if Swamp Thing is single.

Give me a call. Call me. I don't even care if he's not married, then he's not spoken for. Bridget Bardot, the female lead of the Swamp Thing movie. I can already call the Hunk Watch. Oh, yeah.

Oh, damn. What's one do you think I'd die from? Which one? What about you, Matt? What's one that you could kill? Which one would I beat? I feel like I could beat Freddy. Freddy Cougar.

Are you kidding? How about your Freddy's strategy? You don't sleep? Meth, yeah. Oh, just go on meth I feel like meth would pretty much do it I mean, you know, the thing is Get out there to MacArthur Park

Yeah, very easy to get Just right outside the studio Sure Just go down there and tell one of the people in the park I have a Freddie problem I have a Freddie issue Can I stay up for a month And they'll give you the medicine

They will help you out That's amazing I think when I was watching It follows I'm just like just get on a plane Just get on a plane, right? How's the It Follows going to... But then you live in paranoia.

I don't think the It follows can get on a plane, though. I don't think it can cross an ocean. Yeah, how far does it follow, you know? Because it just seems like it's just a town. And it's like, oh, no, I've got to go to another house. And it's like, guys, it follows. And the It follows is scary, but the It follows is slow. Very slow.

It's saunters. I don't think it could get across an ocean. You have to move internationally, which is inconvenient. But what if it turns into like a... chucky thing where it goes into a killer whale or something like that. If someone fucks a killer whale. You have to fuck something. I forget the exact

it follows rules. That's how you get it to follow you but the actual entity will show up in people that you know sometimes or like in the like they'll be it'll look like your dad or it'll be invisible. But it is like

sexually transmitted right? Like it is yes. Yeah. It's sexually transmitted. But yeah they're going to do i think either a prequel or a sequel or something i think they're in the middle of making it um what about a quiet place i think i could win that oh i'd be fucked i'd be so fucked yeah you would be dead immediately a uphill battle i hate silence i hate i will just say anything i will say anything in the world i die because you can't handle silences i love that i can't handle awkward pauses like if it if they came upon us when we were in the

middle of an awkward conversation, I'd be like, we can't just let this. We can't just let this linger. I'm going to list my favorite cakes. Everyone be quiet. Everyone be quiet. Oh, I can't. I had to play the oldest team. I thought it was fun.

It was fun. And I think that's good. And I think, I think, I think the predator pretty easy to beat. I've been spending a lot of time with that. The predator. Here's the thing what you do. he has honor so if you if you just act as pathetic as possible first i don't think the predator kills you if you don't have a weapon right so so everybody just throw down the fucking weapon yeah

but even if even if he still pursues you you just you cry you suck your thumb you call him you call him daddy call him poppy you tell him that you peeped your pants that guy's not gonna he's like that's not a like there's not a honorable kill and yeah yeah yeah yeah No, you're right. I never considered the fact that he has honor and therefore you can manipulate him. Right, exactly. Wow.

That's good. You don't have a code. I've always said that. Don't have a code. Well, yes, thank you to Dylan for that wonderful question. Great question. We'd love to field more questions. Free with ads at maximum fun.org.

That's our email. Send us some fun questions, some would you rather? I would love to chat about him on the air. No movie suggestions, please. We are saving that for a later time. And yes, we will at some point watch Repo the Genetic Opera. Okay. Eventually.

Eventually. So, Killer Clowns from Outer Space. I had never seen this movie. Me neither. Anybody else? I had seen some of it when I was way too young to see it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I do think this, this is a movie you can put a certain age of kids. in front of, but I bet there's a cutoff, right? There's definitely a cut off, and I was pre-cut off, so it is You were circumcised? Yes, I was full circumcised.

Yeah, the rabbi was watching this on a TV while he was circumcised. The Moyle was watching it, going, wow, look, they're wrapping them in cotton candy. What kind of clowns is this? These clowns are very funny. I'm sorry I did the voice. I probably shouldn't have.

No, it's okay. You're loud. We're doing Zoidberg. It's fine. Okay. Okay. And so for me, having only seen this in fits and starts, I just remember it being like truly scary. And seeing it as an adult, I have a different take. Yeah, I think this was like, I was preparing myself for something like brutal with a lot of like, oh, we wouldn't do that anymore. more stuff in it. Because, like, oh, it's a killer clown movie from the 80s. And, like, killer clown movies have gotten so fucked up, right? Yeah.

Like, I don't know if you've seen a terrifier movie. My fucking God, when I watch those, I'm like, I think, am I a conservative now? Like, I'm, these are, this is, children should not have access to the terrifier. Yeah, ban this. I love horror movies, and I can't do those terrifier movies. I tried to do the first one, and it fucked me up so bad. I was like, mm-mm. And everyone's saying that they get better and better,

like the second and the third one are even better. I don't. Well, what is better? What does that mean? My Jordan Jesse Go co-host, Jesse Thorne, has a kid who's obsessed with horror movies. And Jesse wouldn't take her to see this movie. And he's like, Jordan likes these. So I took Jesse's kid to see Terrifier 3.

You took a kid to see Terrifier? Yeah. She's a teenager. But yeah, I mean. Yeah. But also, I was like, Maybe I shouldn't have done this. Well, how scary was it?

It's a Christmas movie. Oh, that's nice. It has so much fucked up stuff in it. It has a chainsaw up the butt. It has like kids getting killed in front of their parents, which is like emotional, like, terror that I have a hard time with. But it does have a Christmas song in it. It has an original Christmas song. I love that.

So anyway. Well, shit. Maybe we should watch that one. Yeah, yeah. Christmas, she's a coming up. Oh, yeah. Comment on Reddit if you want us to do a terrifier movie if it's free, because I'll only do it if it's for the show. Wait, how did his child like the movie? Loved it.

Loved it. I loved it. And did not seem bothered by it at all. Oh, I wish I had that. I was like shaking, driving her home and like, are you okay? Do you need a cold compress? It's fine. My God.

Just talking about her favorite alien movie on the way home. So, yeah. So I was, I was sitting down to this thinking like, oh, this is going to be very fucked up. But it's like, it's like funny and silly. And like, I think you could put a 10 or 12 year old in front of this and they would be okay. Anyway. There was some creepy stuff in here, though. Yeah, it's creepy and the clowns are very creepy.

They look cool. They look like, I mean, they look like testicles, as we mentioned in the opening. Yeah. There's one cute one. There's one little cutie. But they're all, they're all scary. and I feel like this was a, it must have been like a movie that Violent Jay from The Insane Clown Posse saw as a kid and said, I want to do this, but also rap.

This is now my whole thing. Yeah, this is going to be my thing. It's the movie that started a movement. Yeah, I wonder how the juggalo's feel about this movie. They must love it. It feels like their entire soul, like it was made for them. Well, also the theme song slaps. Oh, it's really good.

Hard. The song is great. I was thinking about this. Like, I missed the days where the theme song to a movie had the name of the movie in it. Because there was like Ghostbusters, we had that. And then you have this like, Adam's family. I wish there were more like, you know, watch out who's eating Gilbert, grape. She's tar, lady, she's tar.

You can't cancel tar. Yeah Anyway, so yeah Let's start there Because as Emily mentioned The fucking theme song kicks off the movie This is done by the Dickies

LA punk legends the dickies I've seen these 10 times They play this every time They are probably playing In Ventura tomorrow for five bucks They fucking rule They're still out there They're old as shit and they still rock

Do they have a song On the Repo Man soundtrack? They don't Which is very It's a little bit weird because they are just so from that era. Those are so their bros. One of the like premier L.A. type band.

It was like them and X. You could see like everywhere. Yeah. But yeah, still still going. They're still great. Yeah. They have like a Taylor's version of this song that they re-recorded

so they could like get all the Spotify plays. Oh, nice. Because yeah, like they have a lot of like bangers, obviously. But this is like far in a way what they're like best known for. Oh, very cool. Yeah, love this song. I did notice that the song mentions genocide.

I'm like, this is maybe too heavy. Maybe we don't. Maybe we don't. It's a really dark movie. We'd walk that back. Yeah, that's a different, like, movie song. Yeah. That's great, though.

Save that for, watch out. It's Schindler's list. He's got a list and he's checking it twice. It's like a Christmas Yeah, I love it guys I love it And I like all my example fake rift songs Are all like show tunes

Like Carol Channing's singing is all But I mean Is that I can't remember what the song sounds like From this movie I need to hear it It kind of sounds like that It's the thing about the lead singer of the Dickies Is that his voice is kind of Ethel Mermony It is a little bit

Yeah He had that like first wave pun voice like Jellupiafra or Fred Schneider where they all just kind of talk like this we're gonna sing like this yeah look out the clowns are committing a genocide these clowns are they're gonna make you die everybody's running when the circus comes into the towns

hell yes I mean it's so good I mean, dude. And then the, like, circus guitar solo. So cool. So cool. They got to do it for every fucking movie. Yeah.

Long legs. Go see the long legs movie. Smurfs too. It's long legs. Remember the first one. How about another one? This will shut your kids up for 90 minutes. Babba duke

Babba duke Babba duke Very good Anyway This is fun So This movie starts Where many horror movies do

At a kind of makeout point You got a bunch of Teams question mark In cars No No these are people that have homes to fuck in Yeah I know

So these teens are making out We have our two Our two main characters Debbie and Mike Tobacco Cool names That guy's name They thought of them hard Now I again

How old are these people supposed to be I don't know Let's go ahead and call Mike the oldest teen Yes Oldest teen He looks like a guy who Elaine dates For one episode on Seinfeld Yes

A dork in a sweater A mini putty I mean I don't I don't, like, the actor is giving it everything he's got. I think this character was supposed to be this dwee be, like, I don't know, musical theater guy. I don't know what the fuck he was. I don't know what this personality was.

I have no idea what human he's fashioned after. Like, I don't. Yeah, what is, what is Mike Tobacco's deal supposed to be? I don't know. Hard to say. He's friends with the two 50-year-old dudes driving around an ice cream truck. Those are also supposed to be teens I think yes those are supposed to be his peers

His school peers His high school friends So while the kids are making out They are interrupted by this crazy Ice Cream truck Driven by the Terenzi brothers Who are like horny 80s guys We love it we love a horny 80s guy

Oh are they in other things together Oh no I think they're just kind of an archetype A kind of like pussy chasing You know 80s guy They're, you know, so they also, Mike and Debbie are making out on an inflatable raft that's in the back of their car. Yeah, I wouldn't, like, what is that anyway? I guess, God, have you guys ever done it in the car? Yeah.

It's tough. Yeah, sure. I did, you know, I did my, like, you know, first, like, senior year of high school making out in a car. I don't think we, you know, ever. No, no, I've never, I've never penetrated in a car. I've done everything in a car. I've done a lot. I got choked out in my mom's minivan.

Wow. As part of a sexual experience? Well, I thought it was going to be, but she just wanted to try it. Okay. So she just tried choking you? She just wanted to feel what it would be like. Well, what do you, how to how to go? I hated it.

Not your thing. Yeah, I was like, oh, ow. Yeah, it's very hard. But yeah, I've done other stuff too. Is she in jail? Like, what is going? Oh, what's going on with her? She's probably fine.

But, yeah, I know, you know, we've all done stuff in a car, and it looks better in theory, like in your mind and in movies, then it's like the same thing with like, oh, hot tub sex. Like that sounds like a good idea. Oh, gross. Never sounded like a good idea. I thought it was, well, as someone who doesn't know, you know, even where the vagina is, I was like, of course, it's good. Yeah, that sounds great. Water's slippery and, you know, we all learn the hard way that it's not, right?

It's the wrong kind of slippery. That's right. Is this our most educational episode ever? Absolutely. It just might be. So the teens are making out. There's a light in the sky. Debbie and Mike Tobacco decides to go chase it.

Yeah, it starts out a lot like the blob, a lot of like the blob, a lot of like the same beats are happening as happening in the blob. As Matt played for us at top, an old man with a dog named Pooh Bear, go to see what it is. And wouldn't you believe it, it's, it's a, it's a something, a meteor, I mean, it's the spaceship crashes. It's the, spoiler alert, it's the clowns. Yeah, it's a killer clowns from outer space. There's a song about them. So it forms like a circus tent, like a big top.

and the old man and the dogs are looking around and they get grabbed by a clown who zaps them with a ray we don't know what happened now but we will later later Mike and Debbie they're looking for the

they're looking for what happened they're looking for the crash Mike does kind of a racist Native American impression oh that's what that was yeah I think that's what that was I will say I was impressed by the way he was

able to jump on top of the car with one squat and jump. Yeah, Mike is, Mike is lied. He's fit. He's a limber racist. He's a limber race. Yes. I mean, you hate to see a racist cramp up, right? Yes, you do.

You really do. You know, a racist can't skip leg day. Yes. They got a run. They got a march. Yeah. So they find, yeah, right. That's, yeah, sure, the Nazi walk.

It's a nightmare on the quads. Nightmare on the quads. So this, so they're kind of looking around the, the circus spaceship. Mike has the dreadful line. Looks like it was decorated by clowns R Us. Yeah. Remember in the 80s where we just said like everything R Us? Yeah, R Us was how you did the joke.

Not like today when we make everything an oops all berries joke. Oh, yeah. I guess this was the 80s, oops all berries. Yeah, exactly. Something are us. Our memes are better in the future. We certainly won't look back on this and be embarrassed about anything we repeatedly did over and over again. Telling my daughter when she's 16, oops, like from oops all berries.

Well, it was a cereal. And it's like me, my dad, when he quotes Men in Black at me. If your daughter ever listens to this podcast, I will die. I would love for her to hear about the time I got choked out in a van. Oh, God. So they're looking around the spaceship And they find all of these cotton candy cocoons Debbie

Debbie says the first thing in this movie That really made me laugh hard She's like nobody stores cotton candy like this I love how she has an opinion about cotton candy storage How do you know Debbie? He even he said This must be where they hang the cotton candy out to dry Before they package it

Right And I was like to dry It is dry What do you mean? I don't know. When is it wet? They don't boil it, Mike. How do you think this stuff is prepared?

I don't exactly know what goes into it. Mike's an idiot. He only knows about tobacco manufacturing. Right. Yes. He's dad, John tobacco, and the cigarette. Yeah. God.

Anyway, so, you know, they find the clowns find them. They start chasing them. One of the clowns makes a little balloon dog that they use. as a like a police dog that chases people what do you call that like a hunting dog

a little balloon dog acts like a hunting dog I fucking lose it I'm like I guess I love this movie yeah like that was the moment where I'm like all right okay I think I'm like

I think I'm super on board for this you got me killer clowns I mean they killed a dog and then created a dog and then they created it so there you go it's a one to one a dog for a dog Yeah. Credit work credit is due to this movie, it really works with all of the, you know, different facets of what, you know, clowns do and turns them all into weapons of death, which is like really creative. Even like popcorn becomes an enemy in this. Yes. Or there's like the little cute, there's like a little baby clown. That is my favorite. He's still ruthless. He'll still kill you. But after he kills you, he'll put a giant chair.

on top of it. Yeah, yeah. No, maybe I missed that. Maybe I miss the chair. Oh, my God, it's so cute. We'll talk about it when we get the... Yeah, definitely the, like, stuff in this movie that's, like, the most fun is the, like, right,

it's like what Matt said. It's like, finding a thing about a clown and, like, how would that kill someone? Right. Nothing the humans does in this is interesting, but, like, every clown kill is, like, really cool and funny. And the way that you kill these clowns is really funny.

Oh, yes. It sure is. It's remarkably easy. Maybe we should have mentioned the killer clowns in the top discussion of what could we easily get away from

Oh yeah Spoiler of the nose is the weak spot I guess you have to know that Once you know that the nose Once you know that it's the nose A little bit on the nose If you ask me

Okay Matt shut the fuck up Oh cool I'm sorry Matt I'm jealous because the joke was so great I'm still lashed out I'm sorry I was just jealous So, you know, so Debbie and Mike, they go to like the cops.

The cops just aggressively don't believe them. The cops do not believe them no matter what, no matter how many clowns attack them. The cops will never believe it. Debbie used to date one of the cops. This goes nowhere. It's just this thing that they mentioned that doesn't pay off. But meanwhile, while they're like arguing with these cops, the clowns are going around doing clown stuff. They attack some bikers.

There's some graffiti on the wall when they're, fighting the bikers it says no butt no put grass or ass what does that mean no but no put no coconut maybe i'm familiar with the bumper sticker ask gas or grass nobody rides for free it seems like this is this is a version of that no but no put grass or ass anyway no cut grass or yeah it seems like it's i don't get it a mash up oh wait maybe butt is sick A cigarette butt. Could be. What's cut?

Cut's not in there, Matt. Oh. No butt? No butt. It's put. Put. And then grass is gongia, maybe. Could be.

Gonga. How the fuck old am I? Gondja. I don't get it. Thanks, Uncle Emily. Mary Jane. Could be a jazz cigarette. Wacky tobacco.

Hot. Anyway, perhaps. I'm spending too much time thinking about what graffiti in the background of killer clowns from outer space means. You know, we could probably ask our friend that I met who was the graffiti artist for Alligator 2. Oh, I bet they would know.

I wonder, I'm going to reach out. Reach out. Reach out. Yes, you know a famous movie graffiti artist. I know. We can find answers to this. Yeah. This is the first time. So we've been seeing the clowns

like zap people and turning them into cotton candy. This is the first time we see a clown kill someone he punches one of the bikers heads off it's like it's the baby oh yeah it is that he has a little bike and the biker smashes his little he smashes his bike and then the little baby clown gets sad he like he looks down at it and kind of weeps and then i was like fuck him up baby clown get him like he puts on boxing gloves and and punches his head clean off punches the head off. No blood, none.

Just like a nice, meaty neck. Yeah, just a clean, just a clean snapped neck. Yeah. There's a clown, sorry, there's a biker in the back. Did you guys notice the biker who looked a lot like James Hetfield of Metallica? I did not. No. And I even Googled it.

And no, it's not James Hetfield. But they look like them. This one may be tracked Northern California in the 80s. 100%. In fact, I'm still not fully convinced it wasn't. wasn't him. Wow. Yeah.

So if you're James Hetfield and you listen to this podcast. Admit you were in the clown movie. Admit you were an extra and killer clowns. We would think you were cool if you were. Yeah, it would be cool. Yeah, it would be sick. Yeah, it might make up for that whole Napster connipion. Yeah.

Which they were. They were completely. They were right, though. Lars was right. Listen, not cool to say it, but he was. Yeah. But it would make up for. St. Anger.

Yeah. You think so? The U-2 of metal. Yeah, just not a really good. Metallica is a great band. It was a terrible one. I'm sorry, let's move. We got to talk about killer clowns.

Should I, should I shit talk radio head again? Will that make everyone feel better? That will not make me feel better. Let's all go around the horde and say a generally liked band that we can't stand. Anyway So, you know, it's pretty sketchy from here on now Not that not sketchy and that it seems criminal But it's like it's kind of a sketch comedy movie in a way

Like these little sketches So Debbie has this like As we mentioned, they shoot popcorn out of a popcorn gun Some of it gets on Debbie Debbie takes the The most nudityless shower And it's ever been in a horror movie It's so it's kind of infuriating because it's like if for this movie I know you're like it's the just it's the clown movie it's the 80s why aren't you it doesn't have to be the lead I understand if the lead doesn't work of course it's in the conjure whatever but one titty somewhere would have been very much appreciated well there were some inflatable clown titties at one point in there what that is coming up and that kind of did something for me.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Listen, the clowns can have the tits can have little red noses on them. Okay, that's where we'll. And they can honk in the middle. They can honk like little corns. Corns. Horns.

Got it, got it. Corns, you know. Stop honking my corns. Like the band corn. Yeah. You squeeze the horn and goes, bum, bap, boom. Well, we got to talk about

this this the cops we gotta talk about the cops though yes so they so one of them is a guy debby used to date and one of them is a who she should still be dating let's be honest she's he's way better than mike it kind of ends without saying like oh the cop date the cop that's how bad mike is yeah it is weird because we are of course you know officially an acab podcast but this like mike all clowns are bastards by the yeah yeah by the way but in this one it's a The clowns are Kardashians. Yeah, yeah, sure. But like, so there's that cop, but there's also another cop who's an older cop who doesn't believe, he really doesn't believe anything.

He sure doesn't, yeah. He is absolutely my favorite character in this movie because he's the biggest asshole in the world. The biggest asshole in the world and the actor who's playing him is crushing it. To me, I'm like, I love a guy who's like, a job is a job, and I'm an actor, and I'm going to give it my all. He truly, I could watch a whole movie that's just him hanging up on people calling about crimes. But it was also perfect for this movie. He knew what movie he was in. Like, we talk about that.

It was like, it was a great performance, but it made perfect sense within the world of this movie. Yeah, because who's going to believe, you know, a bunch of people called. saying, clowns are killing me with popcorn. Like, you're not going to believe that. Yeah. It's so funny how many calls he gets. And he just hangs. He doesn't even think about looking into it once.

Including from other cops are calling him. Yes. And he never occurs to him to look into this. He literally says they're all in on it. Yeah. He thinks it's a giant prank, which is very the 80s. It sure is. Yes.

But he's also kind of an asshole. Oh, yeah. He is a piece of shit. Yeah, he's definitely, like, thinks he's above the law kind of, like, doesn't. He does police brutality in his very first scene in this movie. He is not a good guy, but he's a great character. Great character, but yeah, he's, I wish that he had gotten out there and gotten some action a little bit. Yeah.

Slid over the hood of some cars. But he did, I think that everything he did was good. If he was on camera, you're going to have a great time. Yeah, he gets, so one of the clowns kills him with, like, one of those party blowers. That was amazing. And it turns him into a ventriloquist dummy. The creepiest part of this movie was that moment.

And the like slow, like takes his hand out from his back and it's all like bloody. That was really creepy. Yeah. That to me was the closest the movie got to being scary. Yeah. Because that is a very creepy scene and like very creepily shot. Yeah. The directors of this movie, it's three brothers, I believe.

their biggest credit other than this is they animated the large marge scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. So they created the scariest two seconds of film ever to our generation. Yes. Truly terrifying. Yeah.

Wow. Wow. Because like it totally comes through too because it's like it's the I remember watching it feeling like it was a very similar style to like both peewee and to like early tim Burton too yeah so yeah that is that's awesome it also gave like you know earnest scared stupid vibes like a little bit

which I heard that the earnest scared stupid which god damn one of my most favorite Halloween movies Eartha Kit is in it Earth the Kit is so good in it yeah that movie slaps I think it's either like troll those movie like troll Or whatever, they borrowed some of the trolls from that to go use into Ernest Scared Stupid. Oh, interesting.

Okay. So there's like some, like, recycled trolls or upcycled. Upsyched. There you go. Lovingly, lovingly reused. I guess the clowns in this movie were supposed to be stop motion at one point, and then it got too expensive. So they gave people these testicle masks.

I think they're great. Yeah, they did a great job. So, yeah, people are getting killed. Mike tries to get the horny ice cream guys to, like, drive him to find Debbie. And they, they, he knows how to get them to do something. He knows that their main thing is that they're horny. So he's like, yeah, Debbie's got two beautiful roommates with big boobs. It's going to pay off.

But I love these guys just like want to see women with big boobs, so they'll just do anything. God, we need those men around, you know. Yes, heroes. Heroic ice cream. cream men. I'm right here. I'm right here, fellas. The hero we need.

Yeah. So, yeah, I forget who does this for the first time, but someone shoots the clown in the nose and kills it. It was a job. It's okay. There you go. That's because like the scary part of using his boss is a ventriloquist or whatever, that old grumpy cop.

And then he gets up and he's really tall. Like as he slowly rises, you're like, oh, fuck, this is kind of a super tall. like clown and then he takes those metal huge desks that are heavy and just like shoves them to the side and starts charging it Dave and I'm like oh fuck I'm a little scared yeah and then Dave is shooting him everywhere else but right he's shooting him in the chest a bunch and nothing's happening I'm like learn your lesson go for the head every time some different parts yeah I mean and as soon as he shoots him in the nose he immediately blows up into confetti And I was like, okay, now is where you get on your cop radio and you like, aim for the nose. It's easy. It's so easy. We're all going to be fine. Yeah, exactly.

Instead, he gets on the phone. He's like, we need you to send people down here and do what? Do what, Dave? Do what? Hang out and talk. Yeah. Process. They've been traumatized.

Oh, I want to double back to what I think is the funniest gag in this movie. one of the clowns is doing shadow puppets for people waiting at all. Oh, and I like this little detail that before the clowns kill anyone, people love them. Everyone's laughing and clapping no matter what the clouds do.

That is the weirdest thing about it because the masks are legitimately scary. Not scary in the way. They don't look anything like people. Right. And you know, like people say, oh, I'm scared of clowns and they'll show a picture of just a clown, you know, a Ronald McDonald be like, oh, but it's scary if you think

about it as this guy. No, these are like evil clown masks and everyone's treating them like their happy clown masks. They look like melted candles like with like masks on. And everyone just loves that these clowns are out at midnight doing bits for random

people. No one thinks it's weird until they die. Yeah. Yeah. But Akonda's doing shadow puppets for these people waiting for a bus and he the shadow puppets all turn into something funny. He does Washington crossing the Delaware. That was great. And then he turns his hands into a dinosaur Shadow, which eats everybody.

Fucking great joke. Anyway, so Mike's in the ice cream truck. The clowns put Debbie in this balloon and like tie her to the car and that's how they kidnap her. And then we just see the balloon without anything in it, but you're like, oh, I guess Debbie's in there.

But it's like flopping all around. So, yeah, oh, they go to hide out. The clowns all go to hide out in this like old abandoned amusement park. That's where the final showdown and we'll take place, and we'll talk about it right after this. We're back. We're back. It's free with ads. We're talking about it. We're talking about killer clowns from Outer. space

so the clowns have all gone to hide in this amusement park there's a security guard waiting for them they throw an insane amount of pies at him first of all they do the gag where a bunch of them get out of a little car we love that yep they throw pies at him until

all of his skin melts off and he's just a skeleton he's a skeleton with a bunch of whipped cream on top and then the baby the baby clown puts a giant fake cherry on the top really cute yeah yeah very adorable very like Again, where this movie succeeds is making mundane clown shit into murder weapons.

It's very funny. Yeah. The horny ice cream guys, they crash into this ball pit, and then they look up and they see two clown babes with slowly inflating boobs. Yep. These are Chekhov's boobs. You mention boobs in the act one. You see a clown with huge pits. Screenwriting 101, people, killer clots from outer space, a perfect movie, a perfect movie.

Head of Gobblers. Thank you, thank you, yes. Is that Chekhov? Head of Gabler? No, that's not, is it? Uh, you know, it might be. No, I think it's a different thing. Cherry Orchards.

This whole time I thought Chekhov was just a guy who had a gun in a movie. No, no, he's a playwright. Well, that makes way more sense now, Emily, now that I understand. Head a gobbler, Ibson. It was Ipsen the whole time. I think cherry orchard is check out there. I think you might be right, too. I think you might be right, too.

So the titty orchard. That's good. There we go. What are cherries, but but titties of the tree. Yes, mm, yes. Not balls. No, no. Not clearly balls.

They're tits, okay? All right there. Whatever. Just put them in my. Help me out. Just put them in my mouth. I don't care what you call them. Put him in my mouth.

I'll spin out the pits. What's going on? Anyway. So the kind of like final showdown is starting the clowns we find out are using. They're drinking people out of the cocoons. They're in the light cotton candy cocoons and they stick in a straw and they just like slurp you out of it. That's pretty cool. I kind of thought that's how the clowns like got born

Like they were coming They would put you in normal And you would come out a clown But no they just like drink your guts from it It just is also too or something They make more clowns the old fashioned way There you go By fucking other clowns

By bump and ugly I mean have you seen the jugs on some of these things How could you know? I bet the dicks are crazy If they inflate too The dicks The dicks are like those dicks are like those flowers that shoot out Seltzer. Oh, yeah.

You go in to smell the dick and it sprays you in the face. What a lovely dick. It's like when the Joker shoots a gun instead of bang, it says come. Yeah. I think that's it. Let's go with that one.

That is so funny. That's the next t-shirt. Come a dick with a flag that says come. Yes. It's great. That is a great t-shirt. What can you legally put on a t-shirt? People will love wearing that in public.

It's from a podcast. Jinks. You owe me a cum. A flag that says come. A flag, yes. I actually got to be a cum. I sold that. This flag means come.

This list, yes, exactly. Our flag means come. Canceled too soon. Cancelled too soon. My favorite canceled HBO show. We can make a dick gun. and then, like, have that be it. Sure.

Yeah. I'm going to draw it up tonight. Thank you. Emily, draw it up. I will. Thank you. So they're kind of like fighting the clowns. The ice cream truck guys didn't die in the ball pit, but they come back.

I love how Gartuni this is. Their clothes are ripped and they have kisses all over them. But they like kid idea of what sex is maybe. Like, oh, they rip your clothes and they kiss you all over your face. Yeah. So it's very cute. Then there's a fucking big boss clown. There's just a big bowser ass, giant cloud.

It looks so cool. Yeah. It kind of looked like the new, like, Pennywise design from the more recent, like, It movies. Yeah. And I, again, like, part of me is like this, I feel like this movie, bad and, you know, low budget as it may be, I think it influenced a lot of other skimps. very clown shit. I mean, obviously, it was first, but, you know, the new... I gotta also say that the set design in this movie is pretty cool. It's pretty great. It's fantastic.

The spaceship look cool, the inside of the spaceship, and then this whole theme park set stuff. It was very cool looking. I was very impressed. And it's all really like, it's all the cool version of homemade looking. It does just look like some guys got together and like whipped all the stuff. up in their garage and it looks really neat. I wish these guys made more things. I bet that they would have made some cool stuff. They have made other movies.

I don't know if anything has had the staying power of killer clowns. And they're always talking about rebooting it. They'll like go to a fucking horror con in Des Moines and say like, we're rebooting it. And then the movie will just never come out. I mean, I would love it. I would love it. We'll be in it. We'll be the clowns.

Absolutely. I'll be one inflatable titty. The last little blurb, I read on this is like two months ago it got optioned again from I think MGM with producer are you ready for this

Ryan Gosling Oh wow Wouldn't this be fucking great if this was Ryan Gosling's passion project What a cool ass thing to use your fucking celebrity like Star Wars cred on Oh cool yeah Anyways I hope it happens

I hope it happens for Ryan We're putting it out there into the universe Yes, we believe in you, Ryan. We believe you can reboot killer clowns from outer space. Yeah. Anyway, so the cop kills the big boss clown, shoots them in the nose. That's how you kill them all. Like, just works.

Not a way, this was a problem. And the ice cream guys, their truck crashes, but they're fine. They just come out. They don't really explain it. And then it's like raining confetti on them. And Debbie's like, is it over? And then Mike says, yeah, sure. And then they get hit with pies

And that's the end of the movie Yeah sure He sounds bored He sounds like he's just done being in the movie That's a great ending line though Yeah sure I love it That is a line that says like

You know I don't know guys What more could we possibly give you That we haven't already given It's about 85 minutes That's the shortest a movie can be Yeah legally the shortest the movie could be And then the credits roll and you spend the whole time going, who made this?

But then the credits roll, you get to hear that sweet song again. Yeah, you do get to listen to the song. I was hoping for a post-credit sequence, but nothing to do. I wonder what was the first post-credits, like, sequence ever? That's a great question. It feels like a Marvel thing, but I feel like it had to have been happening before that. I don't know. Yeah, that's a great question.

And it's like we could Google it, but I'd rather guess. Let's guess. Force gun. Yeah. No, I'm trying to think of the first time I ever saw post-credit sequence, and I think it was just a fucking Marvel slop. So I guess like Ferris Bueller, there's that thing where if you wait, he looks at the camera and goes like, it's over.

It's over. Get out of here. Yes. Maybe that's the first one? I think, well, now I got to Google it. Now I got to know. Let's do this. Hey, Grock.

Help us, Grock. He's just going to say something racist And then Ferris Bueller Exactly Hey, we're going to talk about What we thought of killer clowns But first, Emily's got to Google Post-credit sequence

And we're going to do the hunk watch It's hunk watch Hunk time Hunk time Okay, some hunks in this movie I'm going to want to give a special shout out to a fast food employee Who takes out the trash once

Very handsome Yeah, he was handsome The trash who's just like this tall kind of handsome guy. I wonder if he auditioned for one of the other parts, but I went to Mike Tobacco instead. Yeah. I'm sure that's the actor's name too.

Anyway, so yeah, I think it was a fast food employee taking out the trash with no lines. Anybody else got a hunk they want to mention? It's Dave. It's like Dave the cop with a beautiful blonde hair. Dave. Dave. He's so cute.

Maybe it's just also him up next to tobacco boy over there. It's just, but I also kind of wanted Mike and Dave to kiss. Oh, yeah, sure. I think they made sense. Maybe in the reboot. They can do it now. We're a more accepting world. The movie kind of ends without you finding out who she's going to choose.

She's picking her regular boyfriend. She's already said, Dave, I'm not your girlfriend anymore. I know, but he's at the end, at the end when he comes out and, you know, he's alive. She's hugging on him. Listen, just because you save someone's life does not mean you get a blowy. Not everybody gets. Well, yeah, but at the very least you get one more date. Yeah, one more date.

My hunk for this movie is the character Bob McCreed. He is at the very beginning of the movie. He is the blonde guy with glasses. He's cute. And I choose him because he is comedian Christopher Titus. Oh, okay. That's funny? I didn't know that.

Oh, I've been to his house. You've been to Titus's house? I went to a Christmas party at his house one time. Very nice. Oh, I love Christopher Titus. I've never been to his house, but I've always, for, you know, since I was a kid, I was a huge fan of his comedy. I even watched his short-lived sitcom.

Yeah. He was, like, one of the, like, first comedy sets I, like, ever seen. And so I just, he's one of those guys whose careers I just, like, followed. I was like, what else? was he in and he was in killer clowns from outer space. Yeah he was nice. I was friends with a comic who like was invited and he invited me to be the plus one

to the party. What I like about Christopher Titus is not only is he funny but also in all the years that I've been doing comedy and in the comedy scene I have never heard a single bad thing spoken about him. So I think he might actually be a nice successful

person. He was very nice. House was really cool and it was just a bunch of random people and it was a nice little party. But yeah, no, he seems really great. I didn't know that he was in this. I was like, he's really cute. Didn't, I would not have recognized him. Have you heard it? Matt, do you know, have you ever heard him talk about being in this movie? No, never once heard him talk about it. Just, uh, I think I like, uh, I, I yahooed it as a kid. I was like, what movies was he in? And I was a killer cons from out of space. Oh, I wonder who he was in that. And then I rewatched it just now as an adult. And I was like, you know what?

I bet we could get him on this show. Thanks, Yahoo. Oh, that would be so sick. I'm going to make it a mission to try it. I doubt he remembers me because it was years ago. I've been to your house. Come on my podcast. I know what your house looks like from the inside.

I know where you live. Do you want to do a podcast? We're going to ask you about the clown movie. Okay. Okay. Emily, do you have any information on what the first post credit? Did you Yahoo it? Um, I didn't. I googled it.

Um, but so it's, it says that it's, uh, it says that it's, uh, James Bond spoof, the silencers. Okay. Hmm. Um, it showed Dean Martin with a scantily clad woman after the credits to a joke about the typical James Bond will return text card. I don't know what any of that means. Um, I don't watch James Bond movies. I'm busy fucking, you know. Hell yeah. I'm kidding. I'm busy watching this shit. I'm busy fucking to free movies. And watching clown movies. I can't watch James Bond movies because I'm fucking and watching clown movies.

Between those two things, I can't find any time. Once it become free with ads on Zumo Plus, then yes, I'll do it. But yeah, it wasn't. The trend didn't really take on again until like the Muppet movie had one and then Beres Spieler's Day Off. Okay. There we go. That's a fun.

see see look at that uh yeah information thanks grok fucking thing thank you rock and stop calling me that that is a totally other yeah rock's not a fan of your other podcast yeah stop calling me that grok and thank you for your service that's a whole other podcast is just post credit scenes yeah and just talk to grok talk to grok talk to grok oh no we're not doing it i'm not i refuse He cannot turn that into a phone. You cannot talk to groan. It's going to go real bad, real fast.

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I'm going to give this a 7.5. I had a great time watching it. Don't, not stoked to watch it again. I was just pleasantly surprised by how fun it was. And great to have on the background of a party. Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Yeah, I'll go around there too. I'm going to say it's a Halloween 7. I think watching this in June would be psychotic. I agree. yeah it's really it's really fun it kind of does all the things you want kind of a good bad movie to do and yeah as we mentioned just a just a practical ass delight to look at so the costumes and sets all a ton of fun and yeah lots of lots of actual laughs in this thing um matt okay uh i think oh before you start i do want to know what what in this movie traumatized you the most was there like a scene or something that it is the the ones that really stick out were um the cotton candy uh people wrapped up in cotton candy and the arm coming down freaked me out as

a kid and pies turning you into a skeleton those pretty scary yeah as a kid I was pretty scary I think it was just there was something just so disturbing about the clown makeup or I mean you know their masks but like just everything

about it I was like wait this is actually kind of scary and the silliness mixed with the seriousness of death as a child, fucked with me. Like, I didn't find it like, oh, that's a funny way of doing it.

I was like, that's evil. I thought I was watching something evil as a kid. Yeah, that is twisted. As an adult, I thought it was hilarious and fantastic. I would give it an eight. I mean, this is a Halloween eight. To be very clear, this is a movie that I would never watch again unless it was at a party.

And that party would have to be on Halloween. That's it. It is not like a good movie. But for Halloween, it's an age. Yeah, it has a use case. We love a useful movie. All right. That was Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

Anybody got anything to plug? Emily got anything coming up? I guess not. Well, okay. That's a great way of doing it. There was a little Jiminy Glick, too. Well, I have a few things to plug. What are you?

I suppose I don't. I could plug something, I suppose. Does it sound like Jiminy Glick? I don't really have nothing to plug today. Nothing to plug, but I would like to plug something. But I don't think I will. I could plug. There's someone listening.

It's the funniest voice. It's the greatest voice. and there's multiple people out listening going, you guys are all doing it bad. We know. We know. So are you. Yeah.

Stop. Yeah. You're doing it now trying to prove to yourself you're good at it. You're not. You're not. You're bad like us. Matt, you got anything? Yes.

If you are in New York City, specifically Brooklyn, which I believe is not New York City, is that part of New York City? I don't know. How does New York City? I don't care. I'm going to be in Brooklyn at the Bell.

House, October 13th, see myself and my wife and a bunch of other great comics at the Bell House, October 13th tickets in the description. Get your ass to that show. I will remind folks that on October 22nd, you can pick up Predator Black, White, and Blood Number 4. Hell yeah. A Predator Comics Anthology with a story by me and artist Raphael Linko. And if you're in the L.A. area, you can get a signed copy of that book from me, October 25th. 4 to 6 p.m. at Things from Another World in beautiful Burbank at the Majestic City Walk Entertainment District. So come on out. I'll be there with Cody Ziegler, another one of the writers on this thing.

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