How Did This Get Made? - Last Looks: Grizzly II: Revenge

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Margarat Qualley OUT and Rachel Sennott IN?? Paul covers all your Geek Sqwad takes! Plus, Jason and Paul pitch a Marlon Waynes movie during their Just Chat and we find another connection between Jaws and Grizzly II when Paul responds to all your Corrections & Omissions on last week's episode. And as always, we announce next week's movie! JASON & PAUL'S PICKS:The TripThe Long GoodbyeSneakers • L.A. listeners! Register to attend a free special HDTGM show on 10/15 at www.siriusxm.com/podcastsmonth• New live shows 11/7 in NYC & 11/8 in Philly! 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.

Qualey out, sent it in. Jason and I pitch a movie to Marlon Wains and the connection between Jaws and Grizzly 2 Revenge. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made? Last Looks! Hit the theme. If you made a call so you could chat with Paul to ask him what you really want to know, or maybe just kick back, have some fun and relax, because you want to hear an entertaining show. Sure, some things they forgot Whether you noticed or not So now it's time to set the record straight It's the mini episode

Last Looks, here we go And start, How Did This Get Made? Hello, Geek Squad, I mean G Squad. I'm Paul Shear and welcome to How Did This Get Made Last Looks, where you, the listener, get to voice Your Issues on Grizzly 2, Revenge A movie that Discord user Sean McB thinks should have had the tagline, Grizzly 2, the movie that saved Karate Kid.

Ha ha, yes, thank you, Sean McBee. You can always submit them right on the Discord. But first, let's give a shout out to Devin Helmer for that amazing theme song. Devin, you killed it. You did. I love that theme. People, you're the best. I got to say, every week, I tune in to see what we have.

I mean, I'm not tuning in. I'm broadcasting out. I look at all the things that you send in. I'm always impressed. I love the chats in the Discord. I love that you buy tickets to come see us when we're out and about. It means the world to me. And that's as sincere as I'm going to get for the rest of this episode.

Let me tell you this. We've got a big show. We're going to be talking about corrections and omissions to Grizzly 2, a movie that we barely talked about in the actual show. You got a lot of opinions about G-Squod. We'll get into that as well. Plus, Jason stops by for a little just chat where we're going to talk about Halloween movies. we're talking about this prank I played on Rob Heuble that went well

and one that I played on Jack McBereer that went less well. But anyway, hold on to your buddy, the elf animatronics. And as always, at the end of the show, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. But guess what? One little piece of bad information. I will not be sharing a deleted scene from our Grizzly 2 episode because there was no off-topic material, okay?

nothing cut from the show. That was pure Grizzly 2 info. Tips to tails. By the way, if you're part of the G-Squod, the Geek Squad, we have a Geek Squad shirt available now on our merch store. You can just go check it out.

You can get it as a sticker, which I have done, and now put on a water bottle. Yeah, I'm wearing my own merch, or I guess I'm just repping my own merch, which is okay. My son did go to school in a dark web shirt for Pajama Day. I didn't have any part in that, but I was proud. People, how did this get made, is going to be in New York and Philly on November 7th and

8th. New York is almost sold out, so we just added a brand new date. That's right. On November 6th, Dinosaur Improv is coming to Town Hall. Same location, special guests. We got the best of the best in New York. Edie Patterson, Mary Holland, Danielle Schneider, Rob Buebel, me and Jason, so much good stuff. Every show is completely different. So come see us in Boston. D.C., Philly, New York, two nights in a row, just go to hdtgm.com and check us out. Or see us here in Los Angeles. At the end of the month, we are doing some live shows at Largo, Dinosaur, and two, How Did This Get Mades, where a good friend, Nick Kroll is joining us as a very special guest.

I also want to say, keep the prayers, keep the goodwill, keep the good thoughts going for April Halley. If you want to send her any sort of just good wishes, you can do it. by snail mail at Andrew at moviebitches.x. XYZ or at Averill Halley, P-O-Box 641, Agora Hills, California, 9-1-3-7-6. People, you had thoughts, you had questions, and now I try my best to give them answers. In a little section we like to call corrections and omissions, Marty Inglacius, hit that theme. All rightions, corrections, all right, Lizard Breath, was anyone else bothered by the two. liter bottle of slice that Lord Dern had hooked to her backpack. Now, Scott did include a picture of

this. This is true. There is a two-liter bottle of slice just connected, like almost like a hook. Anyway, why wasn't it in a cooler? Warm orange soda doesn't sound refreshing after a long hike. Now, Scott wants to point out, it is not a bottle of slice. It is a bottle of Orange Crush. So Lizard Breath, you've been debunked. Everything you say now, it doesn't make a difference because you were wrong. Wrong orange soda. By the way, if there's any hot soda to have, orange would be my favorite, I think. How about you? What do you think? Come, find me online. Let's talk about it. Mick G3D writes, in the beginning stock footage, you can see a guy surfing on a moving motorcycle in one of the overhead shots. I was so confused. Whoa, hold on one second. I don't

didn't even see that. Good thing. Our eagle-eyed producer, Scott saw it, pulled a clip. I watched it. And yes, you are indeed right. There is a man doing a motorcycle stunt. He is standing on a moving motorcycle. This movie is absolutely amazing. It continues to confound me. If you've not read Brian Rafferty's article in The Ringer, you should definitely check it out. I was talking to him this week. And, you know, give him those clicks because he goes way in to the deep grizzly two lore. I don't think he gets to the bottom of the guy doing a motorcycle stunt, but man, stock footage. It happens to the best of us, the Shining and Blade Runner, right? They use the same stock footage. I forgot who did what? Sean McBee writes,

not only did we not ever see the bear actually hit the electric fence. Whoa, Sean, too many knots in that sentence, okay? But the footage of it being fried is literally cropped and saturated footage of the shark dying and jaws. to wait what again you have to be on the discord because all of this is in the discord in its beautiful glory i can see the scene from jaws two and grizzly and yeah it's the same shot whoa how did they get that footage where are they getting all this footage from i mean did they steal that just from a universal movie jaws two is still a popular you know that's like a it's a universal

special that's not like a company going bankrupt man oh man i love it pete the s man writes can talk about Bouchard saying how he and his family killed 25 bears in one day slash night. That's a massacre. First of all, are there even that many bears in one central location? And think of the travesty and all the blood that they left behind, let alone wiping out an entire species in an area. Wow. You guys did the thing that we didn't do this week, which is really talk about the movie, and I got to tell you, that did stick out to me. The next omission is actually from A.V. Club writer Will Harris. Now, he reached out to me saying that he interviewed John Reese Davies back in 2012, and he asked him about Grizzly, too. Here are a couple of quotes

from Will's interview. This is John Reese Davies talking about his character, Bouchard. I thought it was a rather good performance that I gave. I don't know why I put that accent on it, but I'm going to continue to do that. And this is John Comment. on Steve Inwood, who played Chief Park Ranger. John said, poor fellow, he was very handsome, very strong, but he had one or two problems, and I guess coming off the near superstardom of staying alive, it made him perhaps overvalue his contribution a little bit, and the whole thing was a real eye-opener. Sometimes you learn more from the films that aren't terribly successful, and in

Indeed, sometimes you learn more from the real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed. Sliders forever! I just added the sliders forever. Thank you, Will Harris. I love Will. Will is a friend of the pod. Check out his writing wherever. You like pop culture.

You like film. You like Will Harris. Dig back into his AV club. And also just see what he's up to. He's a good read. All right, let's go to the phones. Josh, what do you got? Hey, Paul.

My name is Josh. I just thought you'd like to know something interesting following Grizzly 2. Damon Carvey and David State have a podcast called Fly on the Wall, and they just had a brand new episode with Charlie Sheen in which he says that Grizzly 2 was his first acting paycheck, and he received $6,000, $2,000 a week. So he received three weeks of pay and immediately cashed the check. went into a store and bought two, in his words, fancy camping vests. One, two in different colors.

And he said it was the first time that he actually felt like a big shot. So I thought you might find that interesting for your last book's episode. I love the show. And please keep going. I listen to your podcast. and then I watch the movies, and it really keeps me going. So thank you so much. Bye.

Josh, you're the best. You're the best. I love, thank you for your message. First of all, I will admit that when it first started, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know karate kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then you pulled in this other fact, this fact that no one knew about these camping vests, these camping vests that I guess each cost $3,000. I mean, maybe like 2,800 and tax kind of put it over the edge.

Wow, blew my mind. I love that fact. I love the fact that Charlie Sheen remembers that. And I think it's like one of those things that you remember those purchases when you first get money. Like, for me, it was a fold-out couch because, I mean, I was living in a studio and I thought that was real upgrade. I guess I should have moved to a bigger apartment.

But I remember spending $1,000 on a $1,000. fold out couch. I was like, yeah, this is it. And then I also remember when I got a little bit more money that I bought another couch at Crate and Barrel, because at that point in my life, couches were the things I was spending the most money on. I was like, whoa, a thousand dollars. Like, how could I ever, I mean, rent, obviously, but wow. I love that fact, Josh, you are great. That Charlie Sheen documentary is fascinating or as fascinating as it could be when you pay for a documentary to be made about yourself. Here's what I'll say.

A lot of talk has been around the monologue that Sam Rockwell gave in White Lotus. I love Sam. Sam is the fucking best. Huge heart, great, actor, super funny guy. I thought that Charlie Sheen's monologue

about the other side of the menu hit a little harder than Sam Rockwell's monologue in White Lotus. So what I'm really asking for here is, can Sam Rockwell bring that character back to just do the monologue from Charlie Sheen's doc? I would love to see it. Thank you, Josh, for that call. Next up, Kelly, what do you got? Hey there. This is Kelly. I'm still honestly feeling a little disoriented from Grizzly, too, but I didn't want to bring up something for corrections and omissions because it didn't make this hot. And that was the wonderful Louis

Fletcher, who we all correctly identified as Nurse Ratchet, and also played the terrifying grandmother in the 1980s adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, very big for people my age, but then had a much larger role as Kai Wyn, one of the major enduring villains of Star Trek, Steve Space Nine, probably hearing from a lot of Trekkies this week. I was sorry, we didn't get to see more of her in Grizzly, too, but seeing as how she got more screen time than George Clooney, Laura Linney, and Charlie Sheen, I guess she'd do well. The crazy thing, though, is that this movie had yet another Deep Space Nine connection. One of the Poachers was actually played by Mark Alimo, who played Golducat, arguably the other major villain of Deep Space Nine, who, sorry for the 30-year-old spoiler, actually teams up with Kai Wynn for the end of the series.

So it was truly bonkers to see Louise Fletcher and Mark Alimaux in a project together, even though their characters never meet. like 10 years before they were on the same Star Trek. I really wonder if they ever talked about Grizzly 2 on the set of Deep Space 9 or if it was something they both may be buried in the past since it never came out. Anyway, thank you. I love the podcast so much. I'm hoping to see Dinosaur in D.C. Oh, and I'd really like to nominate Juliet Garnel for G-Squod.

Bye. Thank you. Kelly. Oh, my gosh. First of all, these messages are warming my heart. Kelly, I'm a nerd. I'm a Star Trek nerd. You don't got to tell me. You don't got to tell me twice.

But, you know, you probably do need to tell me twice because I didn't recognize Louise Futcher. I know that name now that I'm looking at it. I mean, Gold Ducat. 100%. Of course, I know Gold Ducat. And now you put it all together. So even me, a Deep Space Nine junk.

I love Deep Space Nine, especially the later seasons. So good. Great pull. and I'm going to guarantee 100% yes, these people talked about their experience on Grizzly 2 because it is a bond, a bond when you work with somebody on a movie or a TV show that's so fucked up,

it is forever the thing that connects you. It is, this is, I'm sure, I wish they would have hosted a podcast about it. They should have. Get them on a podcast. Let's get them doing a Grizzly 2 recap podcast. Let's make it happen. All right.

Coming up, we have a quick break and then more corrections and omissions because they're so damn good. Plus, Jason and I are going to chat about Halloween and we're going to reveal next week's movie. Stick around. Okay, welcome back. Since our last caller Kelly talked a little bit about Julia Garner being in Geek Squad.

Now, I didn't address that initially because now we're going to get into it. Okay, we're not going to talk about Grizzly 2 anymore. We are going to just respond to corrections and omissions solely related to the Geek's And Kelly, your message was awesome. It meant the world to me. But guess what? Julia Garner, not in Geek Squad. No.

No, no, no, no, no. I don't know why. It's my gut feeling that she should not be in Geeg Squad. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see what other people say. Emily from France? Hi, Paul and Jason.

This is Emily from France. and I'm calling regarding the last chat you had with Jake Johnson just to tell you that in France the G-Squad is actually a boy band when you guys had Backstreet Boys and NSYNC we had G-Squad written G-S-Q-A-D you should check it out there something thanks for all the great content I love you guys well of course emily is right i love an international call thank you emily for calling us uh and g squad does look like our geek squad i like it um so i guess essentially by laying down the law that

there is a g squad then we have to call it geek squad no more g squad it is geek squad we do not want any confusion with french boy bands okay Now, we're going to go to the Discord for a second because Bolo Nomadic writes, Nick Holt is like 15 years older than Timothy and Austin. He has been famous for like 25 years. He can't be in the Geek Squad. And Bolo Nomadic, I agree. I agree.

I don't know why. You know, maybe I had Superman on the brain. You know, we all know that, as Scott points out, that Nicholas Holt's big break was back in 2002's about a boy. He played the boy. against Hugh Grant. Great movie. I'm a big fan of that writer, Nick Hornby, who has a great substack as well.

But I agree. All right, Holt is out, Garner is out. I, Coop says, the only thing that bothers me is that so much of the Geek Squad aren't in movies together the way the brat or frat packs were. We need a modern-day breakfast club or St. Elmo's Fire.

Well, Coop, that is a fair point, and we got a call that suggests maybe there is a movie that contains most of the Geek Squad after all. Drew from Atlanta, what do you got? Hey, Paul. Wanted to call about last week's episode where you all talked about the pitch for Geek Squad. I thought a possible good template for who is in the Geek Squad is the Manson family kids from once upon a time in Hollywood. Those kids all went on to have great success and he

mentioned a lot of them during your show. There was awesome Butler, Mikey Madsen, Maya Hawks, Sidney, Marty Quality, just named a few. Or even a couple that you did dismissed like Dakota Fanning, but she doesn't need to be in there. I'm sure she would understand. Love the show and appreciate everything you do to brighten up my week every week. We'd love for you all to come out to Atlanta for a tour. I don't believe you all have ever been there before, but I would be first in line. Thanks again. And take care. Okay. Wow. Drew laying it down. Drew, we want to come to Atlanta. We've asked to come to Atlanta. I don't know why we haven't. That's not, that's odd. I ask

about it all the time. Maybe it's just about where we're going and how long we're on tour for. We will get there. Eventually we'll get there. All right, but let's get into what the main point of this is, Drew. Okay, once upon a time in Hollywood, Austin Butler, Mikey Madison, Maya Hawke, Sydney, Sweeney, Margoe, Dakota Fanning, all in that movie, right? Now, we've already talked about getting some of these people in and out of here. But this is what I'm going to say. Mikey Madison I've been on the fence I don't think that she is

worthy of Geek Squad yet Anora awesome performance once by time in Hollywood great performance but I think we need at least three or four performances to get in that squad

that's what I'm saying three or four big performances Maya Hawk I think falls in that same category all right Dakota fanning, I was on, I was there, I was there, you know, people talked me out of Dakota fanning. I thought she was a little too old. I don't know. I mean, Mikey Madison has been one

that has come up, but I, but if we're talking about the movie, then I have to put Mikey and Maya in. Again, this is not fully up to me. I have to take it to counsel. By the way, June has a lot of opinions on Geek Squad. Now, here's the question, though, is, you know, what's by time in Hollywood, the only kind of Geek Squad movie. Well, guess what? There is another. That's right. There's two.

Just like, you know, that movie, Star Wars. Let's hear from Kate from Mississippi to find out what Kate has to say. Hey, this is Kate driving to a concert in Memphis, which I'm late for, but loves every single bit of the Grizzly 2 episode. But the entire time we were talking about this. I wanted to scream, Sophie Thatcher. Sophie Thatcher's Geek Squad. We also have the other NEPO baby, along with Kwali, Quaid in there. And then what's the other guy's name?

Basically the cast of the companion, Lucas Gage, I think. But Sophie Thatcher, 100% Geek Squad. Just want to throw that out there. Thanks, y'all. Great episode. Talk about this shit all the time. Thanks, y'all. Yes, Kate, the cast of Companion are all geek squad.

Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lucas Gage, I love Jack. Let's put him in Geek Squad. Lucas Gage, interesting. Sophie Thatcher, I like this too. I like, I'm liking what we're pulling together here. Okay, we're building the Geek Squad together. We're going out of the box a little bit. All right, Kate, thank you for that message.

Everybody's message, really, this has been one of the most heartwarming. I'm so into the corrections and omissions. I'm not actually taking in all the emotional feedback I'm getting here. It is making my day. You are all the absolute best. I'm coming at you with a lot of love today, and you are coming at me with love. And that's the way it works. You get back what you give.

All right. But here we go. Kate has a hot take. Hi, Paul. A long-time listener, first-time caller. As a woman who is older than any of this geek squad, but definitely still younger than Jason, I love the last episode, and I have a few observations about people who should be in the geek squad. First, Sabrina Carpenter is definitely Geek Squad.

She was on the Disney Channel, and she did that, like, Netflix, Christmas, whatever thing. And so I think she counts. I couldn't believe it took you so long to say Paul Nescal. I was literally strolling through Central Park shouting, Paul Mescal, I'm like waving, I'm doing Zaz Hands. You can't see it. As soon as you started talking about the tiny mustaches. And also, I think Daisy Edgar Jones probably counts. And what's his face from the movie with?

Jacob Allorty who dated Sabrina Carpenter, Barry, I don't know, I can't remember. Anyway, I loved it. I think you should do more of that nonsense. It was an absolute who, and I was laughing the whole time. And so also on a maybe like a little bit more serious note, I just wanted to tell you that like last year I was struggling really bad with depression on top of my, you know, persistent ADHD. It got so bad, honestly, that I could hardly get out of it. of bed and one day I went to run an errand and I put on the little Italy episode of the show

and I ended up walking all day and listening to him a bunch of episodes and just like wandering around New York totally mindlessly and aimlessly. And so I kind of was able to get myself to do that for a full week and it was enough to like get me to take a step and go see the right kind of doctor and start to deal with whatever it was that was going on. And I really love the nonsense that you guys are doing. It brings so much joy

to my life. Keep doing it, please. That's all. And I hope you have a wonderful weekend and week. Bye. Sabrina Carpenter, I don't want to put her in Geek Squad. I don't want to put her in Geek Squad because, you know,

it just feels like it's off center. It feels like that's what we're talking about Taylor Swift, out of geek. I get it. I get why you want her in there. I don't feel like it works. Barry Keoggan feel like it works. Now am I messing up my age thing?

I might be Daisy Edgar Jones. Yeah, you could twist my arm. My castmate from Twisters, you could twist my arm to Daisy Edgar Jones. I think that she could do it. But Sabrina Carpenter, I'm drawing that line because she's a different type of entertainer. and now she comes back to acting and it's open doors open again you know if she pulls like a smashing machine uh you know kind of safty brothers team up i'm i'm gonna open up the door to geek squad to her and i got to say kate just when i and i go out there and i say oh my gosh these these messages

they've meant the world to me you come in and you up it even more i'm so happy to hear that i'm happy that you are doing great and thank you for sharing that and thank you for also sharing three solid choices. You're the best. And hopefully we'll have some good live shows coming up that will make for some good walking around New York listening in the future. But that means a lot to me, Jason, and June. But we still have business at hand, okay? Because before we wrap up the Geek Squad, I want to acknowledge that, yes, Jason Manzukas, Jake Johnson, and I, we are middle-aged men.

we aren't the best arbiters of who is geek squad. I mean, that's what people tell us, right? So to provide a more youthful perspective, here is our How Did This Get Made in turn, an official Gen Z correspondent, Quinn Jennings. Quinn, take it away. Hello, this is Quinn, the official Gen Z representative for How Did This Get Made.

I heard there were a lot of takes about the Geek Squad, and I have some opinions. I definitely think Timothy Shalame, and Jenna Ortega are in the Geek Squad, no question. I know Jeremy Allen White was kicked out at the end, but I'm going to throw him back in there because even though he's been around for a while, he is currently in conversation with these young actors. He is a Hulu show. He is a biopic. Like, he's really doing it. I'm going to boot Austin Butler, Jacob Allorty, Margaret Qualley, and Sidney Sweeney. I really don't think any of them have the edge to be in Geek Squad

between some Nepo Baby status and some denim commercials. I really don't think any of them, the four of them, have charmed me enough to be in Geek Squad. I would add Zendaya, Rachel Senate, Iowa DeBerry, Rachel Ziegler. I think Barry Keogin could be like the controversial Geek Squad member, Lucas Gage, I think, is another person that really is just everywhere and would kind of vibe with these people. And I'm going to replace Nicholas Holt with Harris Dickinson. Nicholas Holt has been around for a while. Harris Dickinson has been in movies with these people. And people get Nicholas Holt and Harris Dickinson confused anyway. So as long as you have one of them in there, doesn't really matter which one.

I'm going to say Horace Dickinson. So those have been my Geek Squad takes. Bye. Okay. Quinn's laying it down. Back in, Jeremy Allen White and Zendaya. I was always Zendaya on this. Kicking out Austin Butler.

Okay, I think we're done with him. kicking out Jacob Allorty. Interesting. Margaret Qualley, out. Sidney, out. New pitches. Rachel Senate. Ayo.

Rachel Ziegler. Barry Keogun. Lucas Gage. Nick Holt out Harris Dickinson in I got to say Quinn you are not coached you are not told to do anything but when we went to you and said you need to help us I think you laid it down in the best way possible I am happy with this with the exception of Jeremy Allen White who I do feel like it's still too old but you know what I'm not going to question you because that isn't my job I'm going to accept the youth culture has spoken listen to the microphone she has you're not calling it on some phone line got a microphone hooked up there wow wow wow so many great corrections and omissions this week but you know what instead of picking a winner i'm going to say you're all winners this week you are all winners so if you're kate if you're the other kate if you're drew if you're coop if you're bolonomatic

if you're emily if you're kelly or you're josh guess what this week you are you one, and you get this theme. Thank you. Congratulations. You are the winner. Do you win a t-shirt or a free dinner? Some movie tickets are a soundtrack CD. Nope.

Oh, you just win this stupid song from me. Thank you, Scarecrow. That was awesome. I love that. Wow, what an episode. This is a big one. All right. Now, if you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode,

hit up our Discord or leave us a message at 619, P-A-U-L-A-S-K. All right, coming up after one final break, Jason stops by for just chat, and I will announce our next movie. Welcome back. I'm sure you've noticed it every Tuesday. We re-release a classic How Did This Get Made episode back into our feed. This week, we have covered the Nick Cage Classic, The Wicker Man. Next week we'll have another horror movie matinee for you all to consume.

That's right, because we're doing it spooky this month. So keep on checking out all of our latest replays and classic episodes every Tuesday. And if you're not following us on social media, get on it because our new social media manager, Zoe, is killing it. killing it. All right. So see what she's putting up there. She did a great little bit of work for glitter last week. And that was a little matinee tease. So, Jason, you and I have a date to talk about Halloween in just a second. But before we can chat, we need Chris Finke to play us in with a killer tune. If a barrel's all corroded, it's a real rust vat.

Your fedora sitting crooked, a just hat. We fall and Jason on the mic you know it's just chat. Just chat. Jason, how are you? Oh, here we are. Here we are. In October, I didn't tell you this, but we bought a 12-foot skeleton. Oh, you didn't tell me.

I'm thrilled. You know what? And I'm glad you're telling me, to face you know because here's the thing this is june's idea uh not my yes and here's where it gets even better this is june's idea that she concocted with our two other neighbors so we've each bought 12 foot skeletons okay so do they tell a story well that's what we thought they could do but they are not as poseable as we thought so now we just have do they move at all or no move a little bit they move a little like we were trying to do see no evil speak no evil hear no evil

yeah smart we're gonna we're gonna play with it some more but we were the rigging of it yeah was a lot of hard i mean it's it's a they are 12 foot skeletons uh and they and oddly 12 foot seems small when you stand next to it like i guess you don't understand like what 12 foot like it feels bigger for you because you're seven feet tall well i mean that's always a a big problem. You know, I did this thing with Shaquille O'Neal and I stood next to him and I was like up to his armpit. It was really, I haven't felt like a child like that. That would be strange. Well, any time, I feel like our friend

Tall John. Anytime I'm around Tall John, who I think is 6'7 or 6'9 maybe, I am genuinely like, wow, this is wild. Greg Davis from Taskmaster is like in a different atmosphere. Oh, really? See, I'd never really, because he's sitting down a lot. I don't think of him as a tallman. It's wild. It's wild when you get footage of him standing and he then is standing next to someone. You're like, oh, holy cow, he is a, he's a frost giant. Well, now, so we are the 12 foot skeleton.

I will, I will keep on giving you some updates. But this is where we're at doing bits. And by the way, we had to get this thing delivered from Home Depot. It came on a truck and it was big. And did they set it up? Is it that? No. No, no.

No, it is. It is, uh, it's not, is it inflatable? No. This is like, okay, so how does it? not like top like how does it not blow over top over you are attaching it to a frame oh that is very that is a big metal frame that needs to be bolted into the ground like you are protecting there's a house down the block for me and this is where we got the idea originally was it's a lone skeleton and then someone across the street put another one and we're like oh this is

funny like we should have more skeleton representation yeah and uh but the person down the block their skeletons always falling over. And it looks like a real nightmare. That seems sad. Yeah. That seems sad. Has there ever been a movie where people's Halloween lawn decorations come to life and attack?

I mean, it feels like you just started a franchise. Right? That feels like a horror movie franchise play, which is all the 12-foot skeletons and the giant nightmare before Christmas is what's that guy's name? Oh, yeah, Jack Skellenton. Jack Skellingtons. There's a couple of big giant Jack Skellentons. in my neighborhood.

All of them, they just come to life with the souls of the damned, I'm assuming. I mean, this is a great animated film, and I think if you don't pitch this immediately, you're a fool. Should we cut this out of the episode? And should I just sell this? Honestly, you should. Oh, wait a second. Scott is showing us something that seems like this might exist.

The Curse of Bridge Hollow, it looks like a Marlon Wayne's film. It's a Netflix family-friendly horror comedy where Halloween decorations come to life. Ah, there we go. All right. Well, Marlon Wains did it. They did it. You got me, Marlon Wayans. Great work. I'm going to go watch that, though. The curse of Bridge Hollow. I mean, let's see how it is. Wait, a second. Riggle might be in this. Scott, can you continue to see if Riggles in this? Because I believe I've seen Riggle's in this. We need to get him on the podcast to talk about it. We need to get him on the podcast to talk about it. Just, no, I can't wait. Okay, now here's my pitch. Maybe that's our way in. Right. And this is having not seen the movie at all.

So maybe Riggle dies at the end of the movie. Maybe we, the sequel, that's our in is we know Riggle. The bridge, the bridge hollow universe, we build it out. We build it into a bigger. The Holoverse. Oh, man, I am excited. I'm excited about the problem. And you know, and I think, forgive me if we did talk about this on the show, but it's

worth repeating, that we pranked people last year with a tall Will Ferrell elf, tall John, Cool-Up, and myself bought these seven-foot tall, or I guess I should say, a life-size Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, animatronics, and then left them on people's doorsteps. And one was received, well. Wait, did you do it to Hubell? Yes. Hubell was received. I feel like I remember this, yeah. Hubell was great because we put it on this doorstep, and he sent us the ring footage, which is up on my Instagram page. I can repost it here on that.

How did this get made too? Where you hear him go, what the fuck? As soon as he sees the thing. How did you avoid getting caught in the ring footage? Okay, well, Jason, now you're going to get into some details. So Coolop, Tall John, and I bought LED masks that were holiday themes. we put them over so they would have like ours had images of snowmen and uh santa claus and they were playing music so and then we were wearing your faces were obscured and we were wearing hoodies

great christmas hoodies tied down tight and uh and what we did was we had uh we did some prep work and we got the buddy already we parked house away past uh huble security cameras and then lifted it ran onto his property uh put the thing down, rang the doorbell, and then got out. Oh, I see. Okay. And then we were so excited to see how it was received that we

just hung around for too long until Rob did catch us. Now, he caught you. Oh, I haven't heard this. Oh, that's great. He caught us in the, well, he caught us because he came out. He's like, hey, hey. And then and then and then we did it to Jack and we got a little bit cockier with Jack because we were like, this will be funny, but we really need to, what we didn't do with the buddy at Hubert's house. By the way, thank you

for not doing this to me. I appreciate that. A hundred percent. We understand where we're going with these things. And so we did it with Jack, and the way that we thought it would be funny was, the Huble one worked, but what if we could plug it into power? That was

the thing that we were missing from the Hubel one. So we bought a very long extension cord, like 100 foot extension cord or something big like that, and we We had it all ready. Then we ran up to Jack's house. And then we couldn't find an outlet.

And we were up in the bushes. We were in the thing. And in the middle of us doing that, I guess he was alerted by his security cameras. Oh, my God. And started texting. I mean, good that everybody's things are working. Yes. And started texting us like, what are you doing?

Oh, my God. To Tall John, because Tall John is hard. Of course. That's a giveaway. Yeah. So, and he didn't know what to make of it. But we spent, once we knew he wasn't home, then we were, like, on his lawn and we positioned lights to, like, kind of illuminate buddy and have him stand there. I think the move would be to just travel, like, bring a generator.

Just drop a generator and the buddy and walk away. You know, and I think you are right about that. And that's probably where we will go. We've been looking at Home Depot already. There's interesting Chewbaccas, like you guys wheeling a gas-powered generator under someone's front lawn. We got to do it for the elf prank. So here's the thing that was interesting. I had seen this elf, like maybe at the end of November.

And I sent it to Coolop, and I said, we should put this on someone's lawn. And she's like, Huble. And I was like, great. Great. And but it was expensive. It was like 120 bucks. And after this happened, maybe it happened before Christmas. Yeah, right before Christmas.

The prices come on dropping and dropping and dropping. So we did get this first buddy for six. And then the Jack one was way after Christmas, and we found one Home Depot, and it was very far away, like in Carson. And we had to drive there, and we got that one for $45. Okay. Oh, my God. So we are, we are collecting. It would be great.

And maybe the buddy or the, if you were to, what would be fun is if maybe with the inflatable ones, you could get an inflatable one. If you could get an inflatable one to be looking in the window of someone's second story. You know what I mean? If you could bring it up so that when they wake up on the second floor, there is just a big snowman looking in at them. Now that is, look, Jason, you may, again, you've pitched a great animated film. You've now pitched a great continuation of a prank. I'm just looking it up now. Damon Wayans Jr.

Oh, yeah, out of town. Oh, man. The Wayans is, are, have this space covered. They are the original Halloween pranksters. I will tell you one thing Not that this is Totally fine for you But the other night

My kids were like I want to watch something funny I want to watch something funny And they're like let's watch Airplane And I said Well you know what Maybe we should watch a scary movie

Because I think it's Halloween Have they seen airplane? They have a while ago But I also know how airplane works And it's the same way I feel about Naked Gun It's a little too old It's a little too old for them

In the sense of They're not getting why it's super funny they'll get the bigger jokes and sure and you know um not that i've shown them naked gun but i'm very careful and man oh man i put on that scary movie the first one i was like that one's a funny one it's so dirty we had to turn it off immediately oh whoa oh it was so like it's just a carmen alexia like literally i'm trying to remember that movie which i haven't seen probably since it came out by the way i'm not saying it wasn't funny it was very funny it just was like so grossly inappropriate I was like, oh, I almost blanched at how much it was.

But, you know, it did open up with a great joke, which is, you know, she gets the phone call from the guy in the screen mask and immediately makes a little fart. And he goes, what's that? And she's like, oh, I just farted. Classic. It's just a nice thrownaway line that is really well-down. Give me that all day, every day. You know, also at Universal Studios, Jason, they have an option this year at their horror mazes as a wet or dry.

Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, God, no. Wet or dry? What do you prefer? Like, what is the, like a rub? Like a, like a barbecue rub? You get to pick how you would like to experience your horror maze.

Oh, the idea, listen to me, the idea of being at Universal Studios for Universal Horror Nights and being wet is pure misery. Pure misery. Look, I have been there many times, and I will recommend to everybody. You have to go to this one haunted house that's out here in Calabasas. It's amazing. It's the biggest haunted house, this type and big haunted house, LA. But when I've gone to that universal one, they give you the smells of poop, which is a new invention. So you walk through like these things and you smell and poop.

And then they'll do these little things, like where it's like a guy, like, going, my baby, my baby. And then he turns the baby to you. And then the baby, like, pretends to pee on you, but it's like water. So it's, so it is like when you are getting wet, it's not just like blood. It's like, it's pee. No. And then, yeah.

So you really. And what is that? Even though that's not urine, it's just water. But if that doll water gets in my mouth or my eyes, no. I'm just like the rest of the night, I'm like, oh, great. Now I have like pink eye or great. Now I've got some other situation. It doesn't feel healthy.

It doesn't feel good. Well, that's how I feel about, what's the technology called, I'm calling it technology, called where you, in the movie theaters where it sprays you with water or rocks the seed? Oh, yeah, the 4DX. They have that, yeah, yes. Yeah, you can turn off the water effects. Oh, you can. Okay, because one time I did it, it had water on it, and I was like, never again, actually, will I ever do this?

The water effects on that are tricky because that's the way. Because you're not going to convince me that teenagers aren't pay. kissing in the water canisters. It doesn't feel to me like that water is filtered in any way. It doesn't feel like, look, there's a, I can buy that if I'm going on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios and I'm going down that waterfall, the water's being circulated. There's something going on, right?

You can't pissing all that. It's not probably the cleanest water. Sure, sure. You know, but there's something happening. I don't know what's going on in these movies. I don't know weird. I don't know. I don't know what's going on these movie theaters.

We've got to be careful. We can't just be letting random. water into our mouths and eyes. No, no. And not in a moment of shock. I mean, I don't want that. Yeah. Exactly. Not in a moment of shock. You're never more open and vulnerable to rogue water droplets. Well, this is what I was saying. When you, when you create the smell of poop and you are walking through one of these haunted houses, you are like, oh, and then you're prone to have more of your body. You are, your defenses are down. Your mouth is open. And then you get sprayed. And now it's, And now I took a big, a big goal.

That's my new show that's a riff, you know, because that's what Hot Ones is, you know. Hot Ones is like it puts you in a position where you're physically uncomfortable. And so you're more likely to say or reveal more personal things or be more, your guard is dropped. And so my version of a similar show is you just go around picking up particularly pungent shits. Oh, Jason, I'm so sorry. Heenan Ivory Wains actually has. that. No.

Yeah, yeah, that's a show on Quibi. Oh, it's on Quibi? It's a quick bite? It's a quick bite. Quibby's back?

They're bringing back Quibi for that show. It's only, it's the only streamer with one point. Do you know that Roku bought Quibi? Yes. Who owns the Quibi library. I have only just recently found this out. Yes, and you can watch all of the,

the woman with the golden arm and there's some, and they put them together. So there is a, there is a, a flow to them that I think is better. It's more cohesive than the, than the, then then

digesting them as quick bites quick bites oh actually that if we if that is a segue that I can segue into something I watched yeah sure go ahead speaking of things that were that were shown to us initially as one connected thing yeah but are actually

conceived of as smaller things which is criterion if you have the criterion app oh yeah they have all of the seasons of the trip the Oh, I love that, yeah. Cugin and Briden, Steve Coogan, Rob Bryden, Michael Winterbottom, the series that are all the, and they have the movie edits as well.

In the States, we got the movie, we got them all edited together. Oh, wait, that was a TV show? They were conceived of as each of them is a six-episode season of television. Wow. Okay. And the shows are incredibly satisfying just because they really dig in on more of the difficult. and the embarrassing fights that they're getting. It just goes deeper emotionally.

Oh, I can't wait. I just watched Criterion. Like, you know, I forget how good Criterion is. And it's often the one that I don't like just turn on. Last night I watched the, was it the Long Kiss. Good Night, the Elliot Gould. Oh, Long Goodbye. Long Goodbye.

Oh, my gosh. Incredible. I just put that on to fold some laundry. And I was like, so funny. So you and I similarly, so they have just put up all the Robert Altman moves. Yes. And I watched half of prediporte last night. Okay. And I, I've been on a... Which is one that I haven't watched in since it came out. Well, they also have like a 70s thriller thing that was like, I think that was last month, which has been like the parallax view and stuff like that. And I found my

way to that because I was watching after Robert Redford died last month. I was watching sneakers and I was like, oh, and it reminded, it's, I like that. I like that. I like that. There's a great Action Boys episode about sneakers, actually, from just a few months ago. Ooh, I've got to go listen to that. That'll be great. Action Boys have been on fire lately. Fantastic episodes. Can't recommend it up.

Didn't they do the Chuck Norse talk show? Was that just a live? There was a live thing. I love that. Their live shows, which are available to stream on their Patreon, are incredibly funny. I got to go watch that tonight. Jason, I know we have to keep this one short. So we will be back again.

We'll recommend more things and keep you up to. date on our pranks and other details like that. All right. Thank you, Jason. Now it is finally time to announce our next movie. We're going to go from Bear Stories to Jason Vorees. I said it fast, so it seemed like it rhymed. That's right. We'll be venturing back into the Friday the 13th franchise for a third time to cover

1989's Friday the 13th Part 8, Jason takes Manhattan. Here's the deal, people. Get ready for June. Jason and I to be confused about the lore of the Jason films. Sorry, but this is your fair warning to just prep for that. emotionally prep for that, for us to be confused. Anyway, IMDB breaks in the plot by saying Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan.

Oh boy, Jason takes Manhattan. More like Jason travels to Manhattan. Anyway, A Rotten Tomatoes gives this film 11%. And Richard Harrington from the Washington Post wrote, Jason has been raised once more from the bottom of the lake, probably around the same time this script was scraped from the bottom of the barrel. Yeah. Way to go. Richard Ayrton. I like that. I mean, I'm making fun of it, but I'm not really. It was a good one. Here we go, people. You want to know what Jason takes Manhattan's about? Well, get ready, because here is a trailer.

The city that has seen it all. Ain't seen nothing yet. Now, Jason's gone. Up down. There is a maniac trying to kill us. Welcome to New York. Friday the 13th, Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan, rated R. Starts Friday, July 28th, at theaters everywhere. You can stream Friday the 13th, Part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan on Paramount Plus, Pluto TV, and the AMC app, or you can rent it on Apple TV and Prime Video.

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