Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #16: "The Wicker Man" and Roddy McDowall

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

In this series of topic-focused mini-episodes, Gilbert and Frank share their love of unheralded films, underrated TV shows, underappreciated pop songs and (often) unknown performers, discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures.  This week: Roddy McDowall goes to high school! Jack Nicholson takes to the airwaves! And (arguably) the creepiest movie ever made! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. On Twitter at Real Gilbert, A-C-P, and on Instagram, Gilbert Podfried, P-O-D-F-R-I-E-D. You see, it's kind of a pun on the last. name and never mind this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing

colossal obsessions with my co-host Frank's Anto Padre That's me I'm glad you got the title around and you got my name right you're on a roll What do you want to talk about this week?

Got a movie in your mind? Ah yeah, this is another one We should say where we are. We're at Nutmeg Nutmeg Post with our friend Frank Verderosa. That's easy for you to say. Easy for you to say than Frank Santo Padre, apparently. Yeah. Well, do you want to go first? I'll go first. I had a weird journey in trying

to pick a movie this week because I started out picking a comedy. You know a movie called Lord Love a Duck with Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld? I said, this'll throw Gilbert. This will knock him on his ear. And I bought Lord Love a Duck for 10 bucks. And I brought it home. And I, you know, written by George Axelrod, who wrote The Seven Year Rich and How to Murder Your Wife. And I thought, this is going to be fun. And it's got a reputation as a crazy anti-establishment comedy. And, you know, it's got some things going for it, but it's also kind of a mess. Oh, oh, yes.

I remember when I came out. Harvey Corman's in it. Ruth Gordon's in it. I said, I can't resist this. And Roddy McDowell, who's like 32, playing a high school student. And Tuesday, Wells, Lushes. And I watched it and I thought, I just can't bring myself to recommend it. It's all over the place.

Now, did one of our previous guests, David Steinberg, did he fuck Tuesday Weld? That's a good question. You said he did on the previous episode. What's the connection between Tuesday Weld and David Steinberg? He said he fucked her. Okay, good. Yes. He's a very, very lucky man.

I fuck Tuesday, Tuesday, Wilge. Oh, Tuesday. Tuesday. Oh, suck my dick harder. Oh, suck my big hairy cook. Would you suck my cook Tuesday? Oh, oh, yes. Or Wednesday.

Suck it any day. Oh, so I abandoned Lord Love a Duck. And I did a complete 180. Would you? Hey, hey. Can you give me a blow job Tuesday. Why can't I give you a blow job today? I want a blow job Tuesday. Oh, hum, that's what I want to know. I can give you a blow job today. That's the man's name. That's whose name? Um, I did a 180. I just completely switched. I went away from a comedy. I can't even concentrate because I'm thinking of picturing David Steinberg mounted Tuesday. Well, and I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, opened up a book written by a friend of ours, Mike McPadden, a book called Heavy Metal Movies.

And Mike is a friend of the show. He's our archivist. He's responsible for the Gilbert Godfreyed Amazing Colossal podcast Facebook page. So say hi to Mike. Post there. And in Mike's book is a movie from the 70s called The Wicker Man. Christopher Lee. With Christopher Lee. And the British actor Edward Woodward. Oh, yes. Yes. It was best known for playing the Equalizer on American television. This is about as far away as you can get from Lord Love a Duck. Or Tuesday, well, banging David Steinberg. It's a terrifying. Again, you know, I recommend it with reservations because it's truly terrifying and creepy and disturbing. I mean, if that's your idea of entertainment. And Christopher Lee's wearing a weird wig. And sneakers.

Yes, yes. It is the weirdest, darkest movie. I had seen it before years ago, didn't really remember it. I got up at 10 o'clock to watch just. to watch this movie. I'd been up half the night and I set the alarm. I said, I got to watch the Wicker Man. It's not a movie to wake up to. It is very, very disturbing. It's about a British policeman who comes to a mysterious Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. And then strange things start to happen. He encounters strange things.

Yes, Christopher Lee, we won't tell you too much. And then they tried to remake it with Nicholas cage. Which I don't recommend. Yeah. I saw that one too. I don't recommend it. Rent or watch or find the original Netflix. The original Wicker Man from 1973. Try to ignore the very, very goofy music in the opening sequence. Britt Eklund does some wonderful nudity, which you'll appreciate. Oh, God. Now that you're on a Tuesday weld kick. It was written by Anthony Schaefer, the British mystery writer who wrote Slooth. Oh, yeah. And he wrote the screenplay for another movie I like a lot. frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock's frenzy. Again, this is one of those we don't want to give too much away because it's one of these

movies that just kind of unfolds as you go and you get deeper and deeper into it. It's not for the faint of hearts. It's not particularly gory. It's just very... It's unsettling. That's putting it mildly. You've seen it recently? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. It's very, very creepy and very unsettling. And the kind of movie that just gets under your skin and gives you nightmares. So, as I say, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the craft of it and how well it was made. It's not everybody's idea of entertainment. But Mike likes it, and I'm going to recommend it. And I also recommend Mike's book, Heavy Metal Movies, Sir.

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It's not great, but it certainly kept my, kept me interested. And it's called King of Marvin Gardens. Oh, Bob Raffles. And I remember, and this is years ago, I saw this. And I remember Nicholson plays like a radio talk guy. And the movie starts off with, I promise to tell you why I never eat fish. Fish was a stable in my family. Good for the brain, Grandpa would say.

During dinner, Grandpa would start choking on a fishbone, and me or my brother were sent to the kitchen to retrieve the heel of bread. That would stop Grandpa's joking. Once my parents went out and we were having dinner with Grandpa. The inevitable choking happened with his fishbone, and I went to the kitchen and I got a heel of bread. I handed it to my brother and my brother handed it back to me. I guess at that point we became accomplices. The next morning, my mother said, said Grandpa's gone away on a long trip.

You memorized this long passage of dialogue from the King of Marvin Gardens. Yeah, yeah. Tell us what the, is Bruce Stern in it or Bruce Stern's in? Yeah, yeah. Tell us what it's about. It's weird because Nicholson is like playing a meat character. And, you know. He didn't play milk toasts very often, yeah.

Yeah, he's like the milk toast. He wears glasses. and he's the more timid one. Bruce Stern's the nutty one, the part that Nicholson would usually play. Right. Hard to cast Bruce Stern as the same guy either. Oh, yeah.

Impossible. Right. And what's the plot? It's, well, oh, Ellen, Ellen Burst is in it too. And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, that black actor. Moses Gunn Nicholson's worked with a lot. Oh, Scatman Crothers. We love Scatman from The Shining.

Well, it's, you know, it's based on Marvin. It's based on the monopoly game. Right, right. But it's kind of like they're living in their real life that way. And Bruce Stern has a crazy plan to get rich, which of course is all totally convoluted and confused. The King of Marvin Gardens. Directed by Bob Raffles, who is one of the creators of the monkeys.

Yes. Yeah. What else can you tell us about it? Without giving away too much. Okay. When it was the last time you saw it, by the way, that you memorized all that... This was years ago. This was years ago.

You saw it once and you memorized that... Maybe two, three times, but years before. Incredible. Yeah. And somehow that stuck with me. I don't know how you do it. And what was the tagline on the poster? Oh, God, I wish I remembered that one.

Oh, fuck. Oh, we'll come back here. Scatman had an interesting career. And he worked with Nicholson at least three times. Well, he's in, is he in Cuckoo's Nest? He's in Cuckoo's Nest. He's the caretaker and the Shining. Yeah.

And King of Marvin Gardens. And King of Marvin Gardens. And the Garbage Man on Chico and the Man. Oh, my God. Yes. A shout out for Scatman. So those are the movies this week. Yes.

King of Marvin Gardens and... And... I already forgot my movie. Oh, yes. And the Wicker Man. Oh, the Wicker Man. But not the second one. Not the Nicholas Cage one.

No. Stay with the first one. And if this freaks you out and you're institutionalized, I'm not responsible. It's a terrifying film. Okay. This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. Tuesday, Weld. We'll leave you with that.

And David Steinberg, Factor. Oh, Tuesday, Tuesday, your pussy is so wet. It's with Tuesday. Oh, Tuesday, let me finger your pussy. It's a little like Paul Williams. One day will find it. The rainbow connection. Oh, suck my dick, Tuesday well.

You're a madman.