How Did This Get Made? - Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)
Episode Date: October 28, 2025Mary Holland (Ghosts, Happiest Season) joins Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1986 sci-fi horror film Chopping Mall. LIVE from Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, they talk about the slow-moving ...robots protecting the house of almonds, janitor bullies, the “furniture storgy,” and so much more. (Ep. #167 Originally Released 07/21/2017) • We're coming to Philadelphia on 11/8! Go to hdtgm.com for tix, merch, and more• Have a Last Looks correction or omission? Call 619-PAULASK to leave us a voicemail!• Submit your Last Looks theme song to us here• Join the HDTGM conversation on Discord: discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe to Enter The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & msjunediane • Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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A movie that proves the age-old adage,
don't fuck in your dad's furniture store,
or you'll be killed by robots.
We saw chopping mall, so you know what that means.
Oh, now we start here, a lot.
How did this?
Remed.
How did Swastonaga grow, baby in his belly,
rock a rindstone vest while whipping just into Kelly,
or maybe see a burlash show with hit crow,
and take a boat with speed to hitting cruise control.
J-man, Big Paul in the beautiful June
Gonna take you from the goob all the way to the room
Rained against the street fire that helped to blow off steam
Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green
Shark needle, the bird demic, how we stand a lot
They call it in the badass and he's on the line
Cranking 88 minutes because they cool as ice
Cause a bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice
Paul and June getting literal Jason is getting laid
June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid
They judge a bunch of movies while they're making the grade
Here's a real question for you.
How did this get made?
Hello, people of Earth.
And hello, people of Largo.
We are live once again at Largo, our L.A. home, and we have a great show for you tonight.
The film is Chopping Mall, and this has been on our agenda for a very long time.
Thank you, Amazon Prime for making it.
it available for all of us to see.
Let's get this show started.
Let me introduce you to Jason Manzukas.
What's up, jerks?
Welcome, Jason.
How are you, Paul?
Very good.
I told you this backstage, but so...
behind the curtain.
Yeah, a little bit.
Just a glimpse, a glimpse.
Just a glimpse behind the curtain.
I said, I got excited
genuinely in the middle of watching
this movie that I was going to be able to talk
about it with you in particular.
Was the part where you got
excited, the very
busy women's locker room
at the mall?
Because that's when I wrote,
this movie is awesome.
I think
the moment that
Switch over for me.
Like a highly functional
women's locker room at the mall.
What?
They got to get change into those
uniforms somewhere.
Oh, but listen, as long as it gives us
more boobs in this movie, I am
into it. I really was like,
why don't we do movies with more
boobs in them? Like, our
lives would be better.
It's amazing to see that
much nudity in a movie because
I feel like it's been a
That's been almost erased or it's done tastefully now.
This movie, it's just, it's gratuitous.
Yes.
It's to a point where you feel uncomfortable.
You are wrong, sir.
Let me introduce you.
Or if that's uncomfortable, then I was uncomfortable
throughout the movie.
I don't understand words.
Let me introduce my...
other co-hosts, the lovely, the talented, June, Diane Rayfiel!
June!
June, welcome, welcome.
June, another peek behind the curtain. I showed you the poster for this movie this week,
and you said, what?
I can't do this.
I will not watch this.
You were very upset by the poster of this.
Well, I don't do gore.
Yeah.
But this wasn't really gory.
This was just...
What?
It isn't, though.
There were multiple head explosions.
But they happened so quickly.
Like, I'm okay with a head explosion.
I'm not okay with the head, like, slowly dangling
and seeing insides outside.
So I was okay with that.
I was okay with it.
Well, I will say that the poster for this movie
makes it way more scary.
It's like...
What's the poster?
The poster is like a decomposing hand
holding a shopping bag
where arms and legs are coming out of it.
So it looks like, oh, it's a chopping...
Like, people are getting chopped up at the mall.
It's a store where you go to get, like, human limbs?
Like a...
Well, yeah, I mean, that's the big...
And we'll get into this after our guest comes out,
but that's the big confusion about this movie.
No, let's get into it right now.
The poster makes it seem like,
and the opening montage makes it seem like
we're going to see a lot of shoppers get killed.
Yes.
Not what happens.
No.
No. We'll talk about it.
We'll talk about what we'll get to that guest.
I thought we're going to say Nouveau Sweeney Todd.
Not the case.
Our guest tonight is somebody we've been very excited to have on the show.
She is fantastically funny.
She currently is starring on the show Shrink,
which is on CISO. You can see her in the upcoming season of Veep.
She also is one of the stars of Blunt Talk
and her show, A Wild Horses, performs here at Largo all the time.
Please welcome Mary Holland.
Let's see.
Welcome.
Mary.
Party to the max.
I wrote that down too.
Oh, no, she said it's good times to the max.
Oh, good times to the max.
I had real, like, nostalgia during this movie.
Did you ever say good times to the max?
Stuff, like, I feel like those were the kind of stuff.
Like, that was, like, the lingo when I was in, like, high school or whatever.
Is shit like that?
I have a question.
Was I supposed to have notes?
You don't have to have notes.
No, you fucking blew it.
You blew it, Mary.
I, well, like, Mary, what was your, obviously, like,
what was your interpretation of the poster or anything?
What did you know?
Like, walk us through your journey of, hey, you got to watch this movie to do the show.
Yeah.
So there I was, late last night, and I thought I should watch this
because I don't have much time left.
Yeah.
Which is a good thing.
On this earth.
The movie is 70.
seven minutes.
Doesn't even make 80,
not even close to 90.
I think it's technically a short.
I didn't know you could make a movie
that is 77 minutes.
Okay, so then I had it up
and I had the same response to the poster as well.
I was like, oh no.
Oh, I'm not going to like this.
I can't do this.
and then it really wasn't that.
Yeah, it's surprisingly not that.
The premise of this movie, just to clue you in, if you've not seen it,
it's about three malfunctioning robots that kill teenagers after a fuck sesh.
And teenagers are in quotes.
Yeah, those aren't, those are not teenagers.
Those are not teenagers.
And they specifically aren't teenagers.
They're not teenagers so that they can fuck.
so that they can be nude and fuck
they are not teenagers
One of them is a married couple.
On Amazon
on Amazon it says next to the description of the movie
eight teenagers
get caught in a shopping mall
at whatever it says about the movie.
So my question is
I know the actors aren't teens obviously
they're all 45, but
they were teenagers at one point.
Sure.
It would have made more sense
if Danny Trejo played one of the teenagers.
But what I guess on coming back to
is are these characters
teenagers? I believe, this is what I
think. I believe these
because they, two of them are married
and the others all have jobs.
Very odd. Oh, that's right. I want to get
into their business and financials
pretty soon. I think they are meant to be
post, I think they are meant to be
like college age people.
Right?
Well, I don't know, because teens are the ones that have jobs at the mall.
Not in this movie.
They are, in the beginning of the movie, they have like an all-mall meeting to introduce the robots to the mall.
There is a doctor present.
They're like, okay, doctor, fair point.
And I wrote, why is there a doctor at the mall?
But here's the thing. It's as if this mall is the most important place on Earth.
But this mall also has a store that sells dynamite.
Yep.
Okay.
There's a paint store at this mall.
And there might as well be like an office for NASA at this mall.
Like, it's, and everybody that works there appears, like the eye roll couple that we saw in the trailer, like, oh boy.
Like, the guy that during the all mall meeting says that one of the robots looks ethnic.
Oh my God.
That was wild.
I was like, what is happening?
I was like, those two people are the 1980.
version of difficult people.
I was like, that is Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner
right here, like, oh, let's get them to
cameo. One week from tonight, at closing,
the protectors will begin their patrol
of the mall.
Paul, they look like the three stooges.
Each assigned to one of the three
upper shopping levels.
I don't know, Mary, the one in the middle
has an unpleasantly ethnic quality.
Now, are there any questions?
Yes, Dr. Carrington.
So, what are your machines that do besides
kill criminals? Well, first
of all, doctor, the protectors do not kill.
I wonder if they kill cockroaches.
They could probably be programmed
too. They seem so violent.
If they're called protecters,
what do they protect?
Bloody. For starters, as seen in the film,
the protectors do their work in the mall proper,
not in the stores themselves.
Maybe we could use one at the restaurant.
Get rid of people we don't like.
I was sad that they didn't come back. I was surprised they didn't.
I did find something out interesting about them
because I was curious for why these two characters
are so snarky at the top of the movie
and getting, oddly, a lot of screen time.
Yeah, they're very featured.
Very feature to not be mentioned or referred to any, ever again.
They are two characters from a movie called Eating Raoul,
which was another Roger Corman movie about people who are cannibals.
So this is a continuation of their characters.
So this is the shared Eating Raoul universe?
Yes.
I wish I'd known we were in that.
Yeah, me too.
Eating Raoul universe?
There's some way.
There's a good one there.
Wait, oh, my issue with this movie,
just at the top level of it is this.
I mean, there's many.
But it's a problem that is not a problem
that they've created an insane solution to.
So like, they're like, so it's like.
Well, that's the thing.
At the all mall meeting, there's no, like,
has crime been up?
No one says anything about that.
The movie is basically robocop in a mall.
Well, here's what I really.
That presumes the mall needs a robocop and it does not.
Three robocops.
But this is the problem.
Those robots only come out when the stores are closed.
June, how do you feel about robots?
Don't like them.
But by the way, these robots also are fairly friendly looking and affable looking.
They don't also appear menacing.
But the mall closes at night and these crazy gates lock everyone in.
Literally like space lock.
Yes, stores.
But that's when the robots come out, which begs the question, like, why do you need robot?
Nobody's breaking in.
And it's locked you.
They can't get out.
There is no evidence given as to why this is even remotely necessary for a just regular shopping mall.
This is not like...
But I guess my point is even if the mall had a spike in crime in the last few months, this still is not the solution.
I agree.
I would argue that no mall...
is really getting broken into in the middle of the night.
It doesn't seem like the best targets.
Like, let me go into a maze of stores.
That each have their own security systems in place.
So you have to break into one security, then another.
It just seems...
I feel like that was the pitch, though.
I feel like the pitch was like Robocop.
It works, right?
They put a robot into a crime-infested city and everything goes crazy.
This is that, except the robots are tiny and cute.
And Detroit is...
a shopping mall.
I would go like this.
They'd be like, all right, we love short circuit.
Johnny Five comes alive,
but what if Johnny Five kills?
Make that movie with boobs.
Yes.
But, yeah, he doesn't fight adults, though.
So it's Red Dawn versus Tiny Robot Johnny Fives.
Yep.
Well, here's the thing.
I think as a setting the mall,
I mean, there's a lot of fun to be had.
Absolutely.
There's a lot of fun to be had in a mall movie.
We all know.
Yes.
There's different.
stores there's different lifestyle brands it's fun there was a house of almonds i don't know if you
saw that did you guys see that this but this mall was like none i've ever seen this was the one that
jumped out uh right here her scent is the name of one of the stores her scent
oh man i used to go to that part of the mall all the time just to remember
my mom.
Oh my God.
That's really touching.
Because she used to work in that section of the mall.
Oh, yeah.
By the way,
we are a mere,
what, 200 yards
away from the exteriors of this mall.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so the Beverly Center
is a mere few feet away
from here where they just
quickly show you exteriors
as if the DP was in a car
that couldn't stop
and they're like, shit, get it,
get it, get it, you got it?
They shot this on a public bus.
Yeah.
There was no way a permit was given
for whatever footage they used
to get the Beverly Center.
And it's not the Beverly Center inside.
It is the same mall
from Commando. That's the one thing
I do know. Oh, really? Yes.
It's in the Valley. Oh, and these
robots also have lasers that can
cut through debris
which is like well all right
first of all you got these doors
then you got these robots that are going to
knock people out but what kind
of debris do they like they're not
these are not army robots
like yeah what and then they also
find out later they're equipped with C4
yeah these are like
war these are like robots that you would see in
like dismantling bombs in the
hurt locker yeah you know what I mean
And it's like, oh, we need those at the mall
to protect House of Alman's.
But I also found them, like, when they were presented
and their features were shown,
they just had little plastic pincers
that didn't look sharp
and didn't even seem to do it.
Like, they would launch it on a little string,
but the string would look limp.
Also, yes, and the pace at which they moved
was comical.
Yeah.
I mean, they just sort of slowly glided.
Yeah, like I feel like they never probably move more than like eight miles an hour.
And are so loud.
Are so loud.
And then they're keeping instances where they sneak up on someone, which is frankly impossible.
Because this, it is empty, empty, devoid of sound.
And just like, and they appear to.
my favorite
fucking part of this movie
this fucking mental movie
is that the robots
are continuously looking to each other
to check in on shit that's going on
like
like bro are you getting this
bro he doesn't even know we're awake
like they keep
like they they're fucking robots
and they're having like
subtle, like, weird relationships with each other.
And the weird thing about these robots are
they only malfunction because, like, something out of Frankenstein,
lightning hits the highest point of the mall?
Yes, three times.
Three times.
Three lightning strikes in, like, 30 seconds.
And they're such terrifying lightning strikes, too.
And everyone's just walking to their cars.
Like, no one seems to react to the bolts of lightning.
And they're not attached to the thing that's getting hit.
They just, I guess, they're, that's like a...
Well, I think they made a big point of like, oh, they're online.
You know, the idea being like, whatever that was, that whatever they hit...
In the control room.
In the control room, they're always online.
The control room for the mall that looks like it belongs in, like, a nuclear facility.
Like, it's a control room from, like, the China syndrome.
The other thing about this movie
First I would say
Everybody in this movie is disgusting
Like there is something disgusting
About every person
Like the chef
Let's go person by person
Person by person
Let's pick them apart
Why are you disgusting
chef?
This is like
This is...
The smoking chef?
Well, the smoking chef.
Why isn't his pork on his shirt?
Which looked like something out of like, you can't do that on television.
Barf.
Like the, you know, I'm just gonna...
I'm gonna pull him up, but...
There's so much setup.
Yeah.
There's Barf.
Who wipes his spatula on his chest and then continues to make food.
By the way, he's at the front of the house, too.
Like, could you imagine walking into a...
I'm not back in the kitchen.
Seeing that guy?
I sadly feel like I'm Max
four years away from playing this part.
Like, I am like,
maybe four years away
from playing this part.
That's the world I'm living in, guys.
And then there's like,
and then there's like the guy
who's taking over for the security guy.
Wait, before that, before that,
there's the restaurant patron.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, well, he asks for
to eat a stick of butter?
He says, more butter.
Honestly, I felt
really disturbed by that moment.
Well, he also, they'd say, is real handsy.
The one who says,
watch out. Warns the other one,
be careful, he's real handsy.
That's fine, but what I saw...
That's fine.
No, of course it's not fine.
June likes a man who's shocked
by that reveal.
What I saw in that moment,
moment of him saying
another stick of butter or whatever
the line was. I saw
the actor
having to say a line like that
and he looked
so
devastated. I wish we could
watch it because he barely looks up
and it's not a choice
guys, it's not a choice. It's a choice. It's not. It's a choice. He's not
looking up because he's so enthralled by the meal.
No, it's not. He's like, here
I am, you know, playing this part.
I'm in a movie.
And this is what it comes to.
Even this, this piece of pizza is disgusting.
A piece of pizza falls in the floor, and it looks like it's more corn than pizza.
And they also stage this in a way such that it's only because they can bend down to pick up the debris that they can have a private conversation.
It's like they have to break stuff to be like, hey, we get out of here or what?
What? You can't just talk to each other
on the job?
The other thing, like
well then there's a security guard who comes in who's
like, sorry I'm late, it was all you can
eat downstairs and then proceeds
to pick up the guys like half
eating donuts like, well, eat this too.
My favorite of all
of these people, janitor bullies.
Oh my God.
Janitor bullies.
One janitor's like mopping up
slop. Two other janitors come
And they're like, fuck you, nerd.
Oh, look at this fucking nerd.
Mopping up, doing his job.
You fucking nerd.
It's like, they are all janitors.
What's happening right now?
What is the hierarchy of janitors?
It seems like they're making fun of him, like, that, like, he, they're all doing the same job.
He's like, you're going to be here all night cleaning up this stuff.
But it's like, yeah, like, he's got to clean up.
That's the job.
That's our job.
That's our job.
And the janitor bullies look like fucking nerds too.
Like one of them, like the mean one looks like Stephen Tobelowski.
I was really helping when the robot came around.
I was like, well, he's not going to hurt him because he works at the mall.
And that's, and he's protecting people who works at the mall.
And I thought just show him the badge.
Show him the badge.
Then he does show him the badge.
Here's the thing, though, Mary.
I think the robots have gone fucking nuts.
from those lightning bolts.
Right.
I think in any normal day.
That's not a debate.
That's not a debatable.
They did.
They, they're like,
there should be no faking.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'll tell you what else is disgusting
in this movie, the furniture store.
Oh, yeah.
Furniture, can you imagine?
Oh, no.
Can you imagine buying furniture
that people have been fucking on?
Disgusting.
I want to, I really want to talk about that sex scene.
for hours?
I was surprised
it was only 10 seconds long
and then I fell asleep.
You're the king!
You're the king!
This...
I literally felt like
I got an STD by watching this movie.
Actually, I had the thought,
a fleeting thought of like,
I've been in a position where, you know,
I've been told to just buy the model,
you know, the car and the dealership,
like just buy the thing and don't, you know.
The on display?
The on display model?
Yes, because it's always cheaper.
Very pushy.
Well, it's always cheaper to just buy whatever's on the floor.
And watching this scene, I thought,
never again will I buy any floor models of anything.
Although they did say the sheets were clean.
They put clean sheets on everything.
But by the way, these are...
But they're not going to take those sheets off, Mary.
I don't know.
They put new sheets on for themselves.
but those are the sheets that we would be
well I guess we wouldn't be buying the sheets
my point exactly
all right
we got to play the
all of it the scene yeah
we have to play
all of this scene
just so you understand what I think
just because if you're listening to us
the first image that you
think here well we can take it bit by bit
so here we go so this is the
furniture store orgy
furniture storegy
but that's not saying like
We talk about that, though.
No, when you first see this, you think this is the married couple who have gone back to their house to fuck.
That's at least what I thought.
I didn't never thought that.
Oh, I never thought that in my life.
No.
Didn't occur to me.
Oh, wow.
So you thought they were right?
Did you think they were in the house?
Yeah, I thought they were in a home.
Oh, no.
I thought they were in the furniture store.
Because I guess that's the kind of perverts, June and I are.
Because she, the wife tempts the husband by going,
I got these clean, white underwear and bra.
And he's like, finally.
Yeah.
They were my favorite couple.
It's like the ad of a Jot, like a Jain's ad.
Like that's how sexy this outfit is.
I mean, you know, all right, here we go.
This is how it goes.
Lady, you got a license for that outfit?
Well, I, no, officer.
I guess you're just going to have to take me in.
So they present themselves
Right now across the store
They are seven feet away from these people
Now I will just say before we continue the next part
Like they're role playing in a group sex
Yes
Like there's an orgy
By the way that's so vulnerable
That's what's crazy about the idea that they're not teenagers
Like, if these people are, I don't know, like 25, even in their 20s, I find this really strange.
What?
Well, why does a male-clan within six feet of each other?
I find it odd.
Why does a married couple have to go to a furniture store to fuck?
Why are they married?
Why are they married?
And if they are married, which I am, I suspect is not true.
No.
Why are they still hanging out with the furniture store crew?
And why don't they go home?
Go home.
Go to your home.
Here's the thing.
What's set up early on is that, I don't, Jenny or Jesse or someone's having a crazy party at the furniture store.
Which is like six people dancing.
So that woman, the married woman, says we have to go to support her.
Oh, okay.
Because she gets so insecure about her parties at the furniture store.
Yeah, and the turnout.
No one ever comes to them.
I'll tell you what.
I really liked Sue's in the beginning, but she really goes crazy.
also guys heads up
if your girl is still fully dressed
don't get down to your boxers
like don't you be in your boxers
while she's still fully dressed
it's just as a little eager
the camera
the camera now has panned over
just a handful of feet to couple number two
where this amazing interaction happens
I like pepperoni
Oh wait
Oh my god
You smell like pepperoni
Well
That's the way you feel
Wait a minute
What
I like
pepperoni
Oh
In that case
So many bracelets
Why do you start humming?
This is
Here's what I
Here's what I
I have a theory about this.
I have a theory the actress went up to the director
and the scene ends
as written the scene ends with
I like the smell of pepperoni
and then they're supposed to do it.
She went up to the director and she said
hey
here's the thing, I'm a singer
can we do a take
where I face out
I start humming
a like blues ballad
and
And then, but I will sing.
And then you'll have that in the movie.
And then that will make the scene that much more romantic and sexy.
You have a theory about what happened next?
He said yes.
I have a, I have a theory.
So you say that to me, I'll be the guy.
Okay.
Oh, wait, are you the director?
Yeah, I'm the director.
Okay, hi.
This is so fun.
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
You're doing great, kid.
You're doing great.
Thank you.
I don't know if you know.
I'm a singer, and I really think it would enhance the scene if I were to, I don't know, at some point
when he says I smell like pepperoni, I'm insulted, obviously.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Hey, we have to shoot 95 more pages in the next hour.
Okay, all right, all right, thanks.
And anyway, so I was thinking I would just enhance the same by like stepping out and
like sort of having like a moment of being hurt.
And then I'll just just throw.
but I'll hum a blues ballad.
You got a hum a blues ballad?
Okay, great.
As long as you pull your tits out,
you can do whatever you want, sweetie.
You got a deal, mister.
As long as you pull those B cups out,
you can do whatever the fuck you are.
This is the crazy thing about the song.
You're right.
It's like a lullaby.
It sort of reads as though she's,
the character needs to kind of get her.
herself.
Siked up?
Yeah.
Because she's like,
well, she later is proven
to be a straight up crazy person.
And then, all right,
so then the camera pans from them.
And then there.
So it goes over to a guy
going down on his girlfriend.
Well, he's trying to.
Or trying to.
Michael.
What now?
You know I don't allow that.
So you allowed it last week, didn't you?
You know I don't allow that?
that's right
just another lady out there
telling another guy how much
she hates being gone down on
I mean I have to
say she may just be uncomfortable
with it in a furniture store
which I can understand
perhaps or maybe she just keeps finding
gum in her pussy
I know he never stops chewing gum
and it's like
it's like listen
you know I love it
but I don't allow it from you
because you keep
I got toxic shock
twice last year
because there was gum in my pussy
fucking
this guy chews so much gum
it's bananas
she's like
I found a golf ball size
big league chew
again adding to my thing
that everyone is disgusting
and I think the idea is
that the script was probably
pretty bad and everyone's like
I'm going to dress up this character
I'm going to give my
everyone's like I'm going to give my character
like a link
Yeah thing like what do I got like a little tick
like a character and you think
There's a commentary
There's three commentary tracks to this movie
But I will let this one just
Wait are they from Protector 1
Protector 2 and Protector 3
It's just a lot of
Have a nice day
Have a nice day
I remember
remember when we were shooting this scene?
Have a nice day.
It was so hot on set
this day. Have a nice day.
All three of them are real estate agents now.
They're great.
All right. So this is
just great. A little insight.
You'll notice he is chewing gum
in every scene.
When he's in bed with
the very, very attractive Susie Slater, he is
chewing gum. He was chewing four or five
sticks at a time.
And it's really annoying.
And it's really funny, and that's all because of John.
He's an incredibly inventive actor.
But I agree.
I thought John was an excellent actor.
That was my opinion.
I was like, this John guy is good.
Look, he made a choice.
He's really good.
I wanted to ask you guys about this thing,
because I was confused about this.
The full-body lace leotard?
Is that, was that ever a thing?
It's actually back.
Oh, yeah.
Like a body suit?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right, then that's normal.
All right, because.
That checks out.
I never saw, look, I never saw stepping in and pulling up a lace.
Keep in mind, that scene is at the shopping mall.
The locker room at the shopping mall.
Where everybody from the mall just showers up.
and hangs out.
See, I thought that locker room was just
for the pizza place employees.
Really?
Now, that's even
crazier.
You're right.
That's, can you imagine
a pizza restaurant?
Can you imagine working a shift
at even most of a
pizzeria?
Where the front of the house looks like
what we already saw.
The guy's wiping a special on his thing
and there is a full-on spot.
level locker room
where people are just hanging out.
Oh, I would love that.
There's so much to kind of get into.
I do, like, I do, oh.
You okay?
Paul's short-circuiting.
Lasers.
Yeah, lasers.
I just tell four people in the audience.
And also, like, okay.
I loved that they, I loved that they
had the idea to sneak out through the vents.
Well, it's that, okay, it's that thing of like
it was like they wanted it to be
teenagers, but it wasn't. And
the idea that the first thing they
decided to do is we need to get some weapons.
The guys are like,
we need to get guns.
And that they go off and send the women into the heating
vents, and then they get overheated
in less than a minute.
In less than one minute,
it's as if the heating vent is
500 degrees, and they are being
cooked inside.
They could...
They said the heat was turned up.
Yeah, sure.
And look, and the heat and those two people across heating vents really get hot.
Like, I've never seen that, like, I think they didn't figure out, like, the heating
vent's not that wide to be able to be, like, two people shoulder by shoulder.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
That's like a five-foot wide heating vent.
That seems big to me, right?
Like, Bruce Wallace is in there and die hard, and I feel like that's, like, it's supposed to be small.
But this is a mall.
Yeah.
Maybe you're right.
A lot of air.
A lot of square footage, yeah.
And a lot of just, like, very
easily
accessible firearms.
They literally...
And paint stores.
They pull a gun off a discount rack.
It says 30% off and the guy
picks up a handgun.
Like, there's no case.
Like, there's no...
Like, they don't even pretend to go behind
the counter. It's like...
It's like front of store items.
Yeah. It's like where an impulse buy is.
Yeah.
It's like where they put like M&Ms and stuff
because you're like, oh, fuck it.
Except that it's like a shotgun.
A rack of shotguns.
And then, and the bullets seem close by too.
Oh, yeah.
They don't search for anything.
Like, load that shit up, right, two, three.
And how do the robots find the humans?
I don't know how they found them.
Because sometimes they shoot.
What's that?
They're patrolling each floor.
Right.
But how do they smell them or?
I think they can hear them, but not very well.
because they get into a gunfight at one point with one of them.
The other two don't show up.
Well, this is the interesting thing because, to me,
at the very end of the movie, not to jump forward,
but the woman...
Who knows, spoilies, Jim.
The woman, our final gal saves herself
just simply by hiding under a shelf.
And...
They could have done this the whole time.
They should have just all gotten under a table somewhere.
Here's the thing.
And put the roll up of the table in front of them.
And just...
They stayed there.
The robots weren't looking for them.
Right.
They kept going and finding the robots.
Because the robots are just patrolling and killing anyone on patrol.
All they needed to do is close the doors to the furniture shop.
What's that?
The robots were just doing them.
They were doing themselves as robots.
They weren't really looking to trouble.
So you're on the robot's side?
Kind of.
Yeah.
I think I am now.
Do you understand how big this is?
No, it's huge.
You are on the side of robots?
Your sworn enemies?
It did really feel, though,
that they were trying to rile the robots up.
Hey, I agree.
All they had to do was hide until morning.
That's it.
All they had to do was hide until morning.
Which they easily could have done.
But they didn't know that.
In any store under any display.
But they didn't know that
because the minute they went to go hide,
the robots kept on, like, lasering through doors.
to, like, go get them.
I would love it, too, when the robots would hide somewhere.
And then, like, when the one robot killed gum to her,
and then, like, set his body, and she came in, it was like,
oh, my God, oh, my God, you're dead.
And then the robot was like, ha-ha, I'm here.
Like, the robots had, like, real dramatic flourish to them.
The robots seemingly also opened doors,
like, their hands never seemed to open doors.
But, like, there's one door that clearly looks like it should be,
open by being pushed, but
they're just kind of, like,
I wonder if I have that clip, but they, I don't
know if there's, uh, Tom, can you wait one second?
Yeah, please. How do I know that actor?
Well, I
had the same, same...
Can somebody tell me what movie from my
childhood I know him from? I had the same thing.
He is kind of around
in like, the, I think I, and
a Jason movie, but I
found it to be more interesting about where he
is now. Where is he now?
He is, um, this gentleman.
What are we going to see?
Whoa.
By the way,
by the way, I'm on board.
He is,
he has a headshot up on his IMDB.
He's shirtless.
That is not a head shot.
He packs her out.
He's a Silver Fox.
Is that a dad bod?
No.
No, God.
No, that's not a dad bot.
No, okay.
I'm still trying to hone in
on exactly what a dad.
bodd body. That's like a
well, worked out men. He's like a, that's a hunky
bod, right? Does he have a tooth
around his neck? He is
now a talent
agent.
What if that was your agent?
Would you need a picture like that for your agent?
What if you were like, hey man,
I want you to keep ripping me,
but like you got to take those shots
down. It's like, it's super
weird.
Yeah, but I think
he's on General Hospital too.
Got it. Yeah.
He looks so familiar to me, but I think he just looks like somebody else.
Well, he looks like John Travolta a bit.
So every time you're kind of looking at him, it seems familiar.
A little bit like Jason Gedrick, Iron Eagle.
Oh, yeah.
How about that?
Whenever they do come into contact with the robots, they get into this, like, firefight with them.
And it seems like a lot of firepower being thrown at each other, and it always is missing.
And nobody...
Nobody uses it up.
Yeah, they're just openly firing at this robot.
And seemingly hitting.
And then the lasers are...
There's so many lasers that are...
Everyone's a bad shot in this movie.
Like, so many lasers not hit it.
What I can't think...
My big thing is, this movie features people constantly
just standing in the line of fire.
and not getting out of the way, really.
Well, I have a lot of issues
with the way that people react.
When one of their friends catches fire.
I had that, too.
They just like, oh, what a shame.
They look, they stare their friend down,
like, hmm.
Watch her burn.
But by the way, that's Susie, or Suez,
and you know what?
It's her fault.
They were safe in the heat ducts.
But there was a long time
where she was laying in the middle of the floor like this.
Oh, my God, yes.
She could have crawled away.
While the robot slowly lumbers towards her from behind.
I thought it was going to run her over.
To see!
Ah!
Help me!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
I thought it was going to, like, run her over.
Yes.
That's what I thought to you.
As if that was the setup,
but I'm sure the robot couldn't do that.
And so instead, it shoots a laser
at the kerosene can she's carrying
and she goes up in flames.
And she goes up in flames
and no one does a goddamn thing.
They scare her down.
Because I think what they realized
is like, this lady's bringing us down.
She's having panic attacks left and right.
Like, we're going to let her go right now.
Yes.
And we're going to honor her
from 10.
feet away and watch
her body burn out
respectfully.
Watch her burn. I think you're right.
I 100% think you're right. I would love
to just straight up re-watch this
whole movie right now.
The also, oh man,
I also like when they do kill one of the
robots, he's like, what's that?
And the guy's like, robot blood.
Oh, yeah. What? No.
It is not.
The crazy thing about this gang of friends, too, is
Whenever someone gets upset, like when the brunette woman has some sort of a moment
where she's yelling at her husband or something.
Oh, my God.
They immediately, like, immediately cover it with.
I'm so sorry.
I guess it's just the situation.
She says this, she says this exact line.
I guess I'm just not used to being chased her on the mall all night by killer robots.
I literally, I just literally just pulled that up.
It is the dumbest line.
It's unbelievable.
Because one of their friends is like, we're dead meat.
And I mean, you're freaking around.
It's like, really?
You're friends that being killed?
I just want, before you press play, these jeans are too high-wasted.
First of all, they're cackies.
These, these, oh, these.
They're cackies.
These cackies are too high-wasted.
By the way.
I know women love high-wasted pants.
It's got to stop.
Really?
This is, this is, this is.
Whoa, wait, wait, hold on, Jason.
Well, Jason.
Oh, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh, sir.
Have you ever tried to wear low rides?
I can see everything in this.
I also think she has an issue with clothing.
I think she just likes tight and high clothing
because she at one point gets injured on her arm.
Does not take off her sweater,
just wraps her sweatered arm where the injury is.
So she's put a bandage over her sweater where the wound is.
And then so it's bleeding.
through the sweater, which is then bleeding through the bandage.
That is, by the way, a surefire way to get a wound infected.
Yeah.
Well, even before this scene, as soon as they're attacked in the furniture store,
I mean, the women are all half naked.
And as soon as they're attacked and, like, run to the back room,
they all start putting on their shirts.
They've all been fucking in front of their very close friends,
half naked, and, like, then get dressed for the robots?
Yeah.
Well, their life, they got to get out of the mall.
I got to go get a step.
But I agree with June.
I agree with June the rest of the movie they should have been naked.
I agree.
I also think, like June, the movie would have been better if the women didn't wear tops at all.
What I'm saying is like ladies, get the fuck out of this mall now.
Don't bother putting a top on.
Let those things flop around.
Get out of here.
Get your priorities.
June and I are on the same page about this.
Finally, finally.
Well, let's hear the dumbest line of all time.
I guess I'm just not used to being chased around a mall
in the middle of the night by killer robots.
Good boyfriend.
My favorite part is same character, Brunette,
is at one point, has a calculator and is making calculations.
I got that too.
You have that too.
Okay, good.
I mean, you could explain it either way.
This, I could not.
I couldn't understand what this was even about.
So before this scene, when they're driving to the mall,
they're in, I think, okay, and correct me if I'm wrong,
they have started a business with their wedding money.
Correct.
Auto repair.
The two of them.
And she's great at it and he's not so great.
And I think because, I think what we're supposed to think is because they're not that
great at it that the business is not doing that well.
But they're still going to try to.
have a fun night.
Right.
I thought it was we spent all
of our money on this auto repair shop.
We can't go out and party
so let's go fucking them all.
That's what I thought I was like
we spent all our wedding money
opening this business.
Oh so you're saying they couldn't like go out to dinner?
Yeah. See I felt like they spent all their wedding
money on the business and so now
had to like fuck in front of other people
for money.
But I'm serious.
What is this?
What is she calculating?
Well, I think this is her having a mental breakdown.
But here, like, I have a theory here.
According to my calculations,
provided we survived in that, of course.
We're going to be in Hawk to this place for the next 85 years.
How many tune-ups is that?
Just a second.
She's so annoyed that he asked.
$2,900,431.
Maybe we should raise our rates.
That's the we're going to need a bigger boat of this movie.
What is she saying in the beginning of that, that she's 85 years?
What is she?
Now I think I got it.
I know, yeah.
Yeah, I think she thinks that they are going to, they are going to be financially responsible.
For the damage in the mall?
Yes.
Done to the mall by the robots that have literally murdered their friends.
They should not be small business owners.
So while hiding from the killer robots,
she is calculating their financial responsibility.
She's so convinced they're going to get fucked somehow by the system.
She's like, if we manage to survive the night against killer robots,
we're for sure going to have to pay for.
the damage to the mall.
Well, that's why I feel like...
You know, not be responsible, clearly.
She should be like, we're going to be rich.
Set for life.
But that's why I feel like she's having a clear mental break.
It's like, should we just hide here?
Well, I'll just calculate how much...
And that means that she's also calculating damage.
Like, we blow up that cigarette machine.
Flower vase.
I'm gonna...
They took all these...
They took these guns.
It doesn't even look like she's hitting a calculator either.
It looks like she's just tapping a notebook.
But, look, it's not even a long-form calculator.
So that means that she's not made a single mistake.
She's like, 200.
Like, yeah, it's a very basic calculator.
Well, look, I think that they basically were like,
hey, look, we need this scene because the movie right now
is coming at 64 minutes.
By this logic, she could just as easily be like,
oh, no, we killed that janitor.
We did this.
Like, she's taking personal.
responsibility for everything.
And I thought for sure that her mechanic skills were going to come back at some point
to help dismantle a robot.
That never happened.
Well, they don't even let the girl who's good at shooting fucking shoot a gun.
After she's shown, like, she can like sharpshoot, like, bam, it explodes.
Then the next thing that's everyone's shooting guns, she's like standing there without a gun
like cowering behind a mannequins.
Like, give her the fucking gun.
I've got another question.
When they're like, when it's her idea,
smartly, to create a diversion using the mannequins?
Why are they hidden amongst the mannequins?
If your idea is, let's put the mannequins out
so the robots shoot the mannequins.
Don't mix yourselves in.
Because the mannequins allow you to go hide.
That's the point.
You're not like, ooh, now we're camouflaged within
because they'll just shoot everything.
What are you stupid?
fucking go hide somewhere
and they're all like
you fucking assholes.
Listen, I think when you know it's a mall movie
you expect that our characters are going to be
pretending to be mannequins at some point.
I think they worked backwards for a man.
This movie needed more music.
I feel like this movie needed more like
weird 80s music.
I mean, this is like, this is a rejected John Carpenter music.
Yeah, like, butta-da-da-da-da-da-da-d-d-d-d-d-d-oh.
I do, before we go to the audience, because there's more to talk about, but I do want to talk about...
Like the opening montage?
What?
Like the opening montage?
Well, the opening montage, I want to talk about it.
Oh, yeah, that opening montage.
Well, let's talk about that thing, because I wanted to...
Can anyone describe why the dads were fighting over the video game thing?
Like, so a kid is playing a video game, a dad, or I assume a dad, knocks the kid out, then he starts playing.
Then another dad's like, get out of there, and he starts playing.
It just seemed like an odd
like commentary on like
Is that what was happening
In the video game places of our time?
Things that happened in a mall
You know?
I guess it felt like the whole opening was
Okay this is you know
Consumerism at its height
But it's also like clumsiness
At its height
Like this is the age of
You know excess
And also like we all forgot how to walk
Well especially when you see some big boobs
Like when those women and bikinis
The guy is like carrying a bunch of boxes
He's like, go, go, go, go, go, he falls.
And then he's like, he's like a dog
whose eyes pop out of his head
and, like, an old, like, Tex-A-V cartoon.
He's like, like, got to get those.
A-Huga!
I don't even understand that instinct of, like,
a guy, like, you know, walking out through,
like, hey, a-u-e-u-like.
That's not a real.
That does not have it, right?
I would love it if, like, the guy saw the women
on the escrow in just, like,
shit his pants.
It was just like,
ah, oh!
Like, that's the equivalent of what's happening.
He's just...
And who were those women, by the way?
It was like a beauty competition.
Yeah.
At the mall.
But they do do, like...
They do...
Guys, they do do, like, modeling, like, searches and stuff.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Mary?
I would buy that.
I would buy her at the mall.
That's a good segue.
How were you discovered?
Well, there I was.
At House of Almonds.
House of Almonds.
I did work at a Discovery Channel pop-up store in a mall.
And there was a locker room.
Oh, wow.
No, there wasn't.
Was there a luggage tent in the middle of the mall floor that just in case he fell from an upper story, the empty luggage?
Also had stuffed animals in the tent.
It was full of stuffed animals.
Our hero falls off into a just oddly place.
Not a luggage store, just like a luggage pop-up.
Because that's the most common thing that you would maybe have.
a mall luggage store. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, I do want to talk about, this is the thing that
blew my mind. So, whenever the robots would kill somebody, like, thank you, have a nice day,
right? They would say that. So when our lead actress kills the robot, like gets them all dead
at the end, she says, have a nice day. And to me, I'm like, wouldn't you want to subvert it?
Wouldn't you want to, like, there's nothing clever about it? I did have a nice day.
Yeah, we're like, yeah, like, have a nice life.
Like, you know, like, it's just simply like, oh, yeah, you said that.
No, I say that.
Like, like it's like.
And not even the full phrase either.
Yeah.
And also, I couldn't understand why they were programmed to say have a nice day.
If they are, they're not robot, they're not like welcome robots at the mall.
Customer service.
No.
And they're only there working at night.
They're only there at night to catch thieves.
I agree.
I did think, though, that that final line,
like, I feel like they didn't,
nobody had, like, a line, like, you bucking in a boat,
like, you know, go back, you know,
now you're on the discount rack.
Like, there's a million things you could say.
Or, like, you know, like, I always thought
you needed another coat of paint.
Like, whatever the thing was.
Paul, yeah.
How many of these did you write?
One, two.
Let me get my calculator out.
2,415.
No, but it's like that, like, it just,
is so anti-climactic and then she walks away from saying her have a nice dayline with that limp
and I really for a moment thought it was going to be like usual suspects like a Kaiser
Jose moment where that limp went away and she was like the robots were all my idea I'm a robot
and lasers come out of her eyes but yeah the ending is really uh yeah anti-climactic I mean they kill it
and then the guy that they think is dead,
it's like, nope, I was fine.
Toilet paper.
Toilet paper.
And the only people who did not have sex
survived the movie.
And that's how it should be.
The fornicators were punished.
Fine.
By the robot gods.
Well, let's go into the crowd
and let's talk to them about some stuff.
All right, here we go.
Oh my gosh.
You are, you've done this show.
You've sang our story.
song so many times. Let's see.
Sir, your name,
your title for this film,
and besides Chopping Mall, and your question.
My name's Tim. I'd go with the original title, Killbots.
Yes, the movie was called Killbots.
It was released in the theaters
and then pulled because no one wanted to see a movie called Killbots.
They released it a few months later,
as Chopping Mall was much more successful.
And the doctor that you talked about, who's at the top of the
movie, his name is Dr. Carrington, and I was wondering if it's possible that he's the father
of Michael Carrington, and this is a shared universe with Greece, too. Wow. Talk amongst
yourselves up there. I'd say maybe, but he wasn't British, and Michael is, so it just doesn't
seem likely. So, stupid question, Tim, stupid question. So, next question, let's see, next question. What's
your name, your alternate title, and your question? My name's Chris.
alternate title I think should be
laser bots
laser bots got it love it because they didn't chop
anybody you're right they did not
chop it
sometimes
throat punctured
puncture bots they
they road house that first guy
yeah there's a lot of throat
ripping and I don't understand
why they wouldn't just use lasers at all
always always laser
I guess I don't also know like what would a chop
be
Well, like a slicing them up.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I was just wondering if they had any lawsuits from all the big name advertisements
they were in the movie like GE and Coca-Cola and all those.
Yeah, nothing was covered in the movie.
Like, nothing at all was...
I think all those companies were happy to have this
as a representation of their products,
especially probably the paint company.
It's like, apparently our paint is incredibly flammable.
and so many different shades
look at all the different shades
that's not a good sign for
like something redoing their house
I mean that store blew up
it really did that was the one shot
that was yeah
and how I mean she in what
I'm gonna say one and a half minutes
emptied 70 gallons of paint
they quick cut to her being like crank
crank
she opened so much paint
um okay your name you're
alternate title and your question.
My name is Brie.
I'd go with Furniture Store, Fuck, Sesh, Interrupted.
Say it again.
Wait, what is it?
Furniture Store Fuck Sesh Interrupted.
Okay.
It's a longer title, but I like it.
I like Fuck Sesh Interrupted.
What guest appearance from another
How Did This Get Made movie All-Star
would be better to help improve the film.
Would it be Gene Simmons character and Runaway
or Hollywood Montrose from Manichin 2 on the move?
Wow, this is interesting.
So we've done a few mall-based films.
Who would we like to see?
Or mall-based and robot-based movie.
So we have Gene Simmons as the evil inventor
of the spider robot from the Tom Selleck movie.
I will say, I don't know that I would choose Hollywood,
but I would have loved it
if one of the characters in this movie
was a come-to-life mannequin in the mall.
So if they were at the furniture,
the furniture storage and were like,
and then one of the mannequins was just like,
I'm here too, let's do it.
What if when the robots were firing at the mannequins,
one came to life, like, oh, I'm going to die.
Like, here's things I want.
I don't want aliens versus predator.
I want mannequin versus robot.
Okay, MVR.
Okay, so your name, your alternate title,
your name is Roberts.
Alternate title would be chopped till you drop.
Oh, Mike. Oh, I like that one.
Good.
So there's no chopping. It's more pinching.
Yeah, okay, but I'll take it, yeah.
And my question is, would the robots, are the robots possessed?
Because, like, they're totally fucking with that guy in the beginning of the movie.
The guy, like, inside the security station.
What's going on with that?
I don't think they're possessed.
I just think they're hilarious.
That's what I meant by.
They kept, like, looking at each other, like, get a load of this.
I also, like, the guy holding up a centerfold.
and just like, oh, yeah.
Did that happen at work?
Fuck yeah.
But I think your question speaks to a larger point
and what you were saying too, Jason,
like the personality of the robots,
it's hard to pin down because they don't,
I can't mind what I want to say this,
they don't feel evil to me.
Wow.
It doesn't feel like their motivations are purely bad.
From someone who questioned the moral goodness of BB8.
I know.
You are on board for three murderous robots.
No, I think they felt...
Misunderstood, question mark?
They felt like spoiled brats.
You know, but they didn't feel...
So they were the teenagers of the movie.
Yes, they felt like teens.
Like a bunch of male, white male teen.
That's the teen fuckfest.
That's the teen fuckfest.
So they weren't invited to the fuckfest, so they went out and killed?
Interesting.
All right, we've uncovered something.
I don't know what.
Sir, your name, your alternate title, and your question.
My name is Bill. Alternate
title is Mall of Kill America.
Question is
during the scene that they had the
furniture storgy,
they...
See, a lot of good... It fucking works.
A lot of good. A lot of good.
A lot of good punning over here. I like it.
Doesn't it feel good to say? Doesn't it feel great to say?
Storgy.
The song that was playing
during that when they were dancing
was a song called Streetwalkin
followed up with the line
it's the best that I can do,
which is the theme for Roger Corman's streetwalking
movie as well.
So this is also a shared universe with streetwalking.
Wow, all right.
So we're going deep into the Roger Corma.
Everything here.
The Cormanverse.
I love that streetwalking.
You know, the one thing that I noticed in this movie, too,
it's just, again, goes to like the laziness of some moments of it,
some, all of it, is there's a piano.
announced was like, attention, there's
a lost child in the lingerie
department. And then they
go, answers to
the name, Stephen.
Answers to the name?
So that means somebody was like,
Mark, Peter,
Billy, William,
Frank,
Mitch, Glenn, Gary,
Marcus,
Ross, Ross,
Ross. Why would you ever go, like,
But even when it finally works, when you go,
whose name is stealing?
Through process of elimination, we found out.
I think I've done everything.
Stephen?
Yes.
It's Stephen.
By the way, smart kid.
Found him in the lingerie department.
It gets it.
Your name, your all title, and your question.
My name is Cecily, and I don't really have a good title,
like, easily avoidable decisions, the film.
And then I just wanted to point out that on the Wikipedia page,
there's a blurb where it says that it's one of the only films
where when they aired it on TV, they had to make it longer
by like 20 minutes.
Like they extended it to a 90-minute film.
That is amazing.
Because it couldn't make, I guess,
they probably have a two-hour slot that TV needs to fill.
So with the full credits and everything.
And commercials.
Yeah.
And opening montage.
Well, it's only 77 minutes.
So even a 90-minute movie is the normal two-hour
filler. That's crazy.
Where did they find this extra footage?
They added the scene where
the virgins are watching the old movie.
They just extended that for a really
long time.
They showed 11 minutes of that movie.
You saw the
third act of a monster movie.
Just close up on a television
in the furniture store.
Who has a good question? One last question.
Tonight, by the way, everybody asking questions
are getting some comic books
from our friends over at Coliseum of Comics
and also zines from
Daniel Joel Katz, who makes
his own zines about movies. Who has a good one?
Who feels really confident? Oh, wow, this guy feels really
confident. All right, no
animated hands.
Because you have a book. I see a book. Books always
make me feel like there is some
thought here, right? Let's see.
Oh, and a blazer. And a book and a blazer.
All right, let's see.
All right, sir, here you go. Your name, you're
We're going to Largo. I wore a blazer.
I like it. It's respectful.
And her pockets square. I want people to start dressing up as the characters from these movies when they come here.
But you didn't do that. Here you go.
Names Brian. Rambo Graham.
Okay, great.
So I want to bring up the women in the beginning with the bikinis.
They're wearing sashes. And what they said were the Park Plaza Mall, the future is now, have a ball, and take the kids.
So they were like a walking.
advertisement for the mall
that's amazing
the future is now
what if you just like
saw them wandering independently
so there's just a woman
with a sash that says take the kids
yeah they have
some creeps like
I got the go ahead
I got the go ahead that I've been looking for
I finally got a message from God
um
The kids.
This is the original poster for killbots,
just a big picture of the robot,
which they clearly then just replaced with a mall.
Obviously, we had an opinion about this film,
but there are other people out there
that had a different opinion.
It's now time for second opinions.
Here's David and Kate.
I have an opinion, but here it does not matter.
At how did this get made second opinions are much better.
Amazon has the mall, Paul,
them out with glee, second opinion bring much joy to all of you and me, Kumate.
And now here's Kate.
Hey, hey, just saw a really bad movie.
Hey, hey, it couldn't end too soon.
Hey, hey, it was a super bad movie, but I do just about anything for Jason, Paul, and June.
Now I've got an opinion and it's pretty low.
But there's just some people for whom that isn't so
This is their opinion
Their second opinion
Amazing, wow
Both winners, holy moly
That's how it's done
That is how it is done
Kate, David
Amazing
Wow, those were awesome
Holy cow, that was just great
A lot of people are going to be driving home tonight
Really angry
Like, you should have gotten up there
No, no
You said you were gonna, you should have
That's the way to come
Come with some lyrics, come with
That was awesome, very good
Great
All right, so obviously second opinions here
We're a little bit hard to be fine
Still waiting for a full band to show up someday
Does anybody have anything
And like people like saxophones
And guitars
Where can we set up?
All right, this one is from
Can we get a sound check?
This one here is from
Robin B. McGorm.
This was back in 2013.
Security robots, yes, they sound good.
Trained to kill and shoot all trespassers,
even forget to listen to all orders and commands,
sound like little terrors to me.
Well, on the first night, they do their job
at a shopping mall that has some shop assistants
staying for a bit of fun,
the fun you do when your folks aren't home
to interrupt your basic needs.
when your folks aren't home at the mall
and then
first class entertainment that will not be forgotten too soon
different and surprisingly marvelous to watch
plenty of action and suspense
that you wonder where the little horrors are
so you have to be on your toes at all times
sit and relax grab the popcorn put your feet up
and rate this an A plus grade
for an unforgettable enjoyment of a one
A wonderful show.
It's an odd...
A wonderful show.
A wonderful show.
And seems to have this idea, like, these little terrors
getting in and mixing it out.
These scamps.
This is a one...
These incorrigible killbots.
This one, like, got me a little bit,
like, I want to unpack it a little bit.
This one was just written as
one of my all-time favorite 80s horror movies.
It's been a while since I last saw this movie.
And it still gives me that.
guilty pleasure of seeing robots
kill those teenagers.
Uh-oh.
That's not a guilty pleasure.
That's a red flag, my friend.
Just like the feeling I get
when I put kittens into buckets of water,
this movie makes me feel
what other people call alive.
And then goes,
favorite scene was when the girl gets her head
blown off by the laser beam.
Dot, dot, dot, dot. Love it!
So if you...
Dot, dot, dot.
I directed this movie.
I'm a creep.
If you ever encounter Rob Robles, beware.
And then finally, this is from the Sultan of Sexy.
I believe it.
If you were in your 20s back when this came out like I was,
all you cared about was how much skin you saw
and how much gore got thrown at you.
There could have been a bit more skin.
but I guess we can't have anything, everything.
It's worth the money even if Miss Maroni kept her clothes on.
Darn it, five stars.
So there we go.
Were these all written by the director?
These oddly also are all written within the late 2000s.
This was written in 2010, that last one.
The guy who likes to see teenagers get killed.
That was in 2007.
and then the first one was in 2013.
These people were checking into this movie
a little bit later.
Well, I think we talked about
everything there is to talk about.
We really got a whole viewpoint in here.
But let's talk about what everyone's got going on.
Mary, what do you want to plug?
You can follow me on Twitter at M Holland 85
and I post about shows that I'm doing here at Largo
and at UCB and other things coming up.
You're going to be on a beat this season,
is very exciting.
Yes, on Veepe this season.
I did an episode of DriveShare.
Yes, Drashire, which is on the show that Rob and I did, Rob Pueblo and I, and that's on Go 90.
Yeah, super fun stuff.
June.
Brazen and Brady comes out March 24th.
Right.
The third season.
It'll be out by the time this is out.
Yes, that would be good.
And then Jason.
Yeah, but I got nothing.
All right.
A big thank you to Brett Morris up in the booth.
Everybody here at Largo.
Largo.
Or Largo.
Everybody here at Largo.
Flaney changed the name.
Largel.
Largel.
Averill Halley, who pulled all these amazing clips
and listened to all these commentaries.
July Diaz, Nate Kiley, Kelly Alto,
Leanna Waldron, and everybody at Earwolf,
thank you so much, and thank you for all
for coming tonight.
So great.
Thank you to David and Kate for singing the songs.
Woo!
