How Did This Get Made? - Matinee Monday: Look Who's Talking Too LIVE!

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

It's John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and a bunch of telepathic babies! LIVE from Denver, Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 1990 romantic comedy Look Who's Talking Too. They discuss the apartment's production design, the babies finding a crack pipe, the product placement of babies watching real commercials, and more. (Originally Released 09/27/2018) HDTGM is coming to NYC on Nov 15th! Go to hdtgm.com to buy tix, merch, and for more on bad movies.Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of TraumaFor extra content on Matinee Monday movies, visit Paul's YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheerTalk bad movies on the HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerFollow Paul’s movie recs on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/Check out new HDTGM movie merch over at teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmPaul and Rob Huebel stream live on Twitch every Thursday 8-10pm EST: www.twitch.tv/friendzoneLike good movies too? Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comWhere to find Paul, June, & Jason:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on social media

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We saw Look Who's Talking 2. So you know what that means how did Schwarzenegger grow a baby in his belly like a ron stone vest while ripping Justin to Kelly or maybe see a burlesque show with Nick 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 Rander games and Street Fighter help to blow off steam Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green Sharknado to Birdemic, how we stayin' alive

They call it in the badass and he's on the line Cranking 88 minutes cause they cool as ice Cause the bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice Paul and June getting literal, Jason is getting laid June is making sure all the monkey shots 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? We are live at the Paramount Theater in Denver, Colorado at the High Plains Comedy Festival. And hopefully we will have enough oxygen to do this show. This is much higher than we're used to.

We passed out walking up the stairs to get onto stage. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we're here to talk about an important movie. A movie that changed culture. A movie that really showed us what babies thought. And it's disturbing. Tonight we are talking about the sequel, not even the first one, the sequel. They had so much they had to put it in a second packet and it was worth it every step of the way. Look who's talking to and to join me tonight to talk about this movie is my co-host Jason Manzoukas! What's up Jerks? What's up Denver? How we doing?

Alright, what's going on balcony? Balcony's already on fire these guys are ready to rock Paul I was just told backstage that The Alamo draft house did a double feature of both of these movies tonight. Yes. Who saw that show? Yeah. Alamo Draft House really helped us out. We appreciate them and we are sorry. We're sorry for that double feature. We have to. We have to watch them. You don't. Jason, I have not revisited this movie in a long time. I remember as a kid. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So you've seen this before? Oh, yeah, this is like- This is my inaugural watching of any of these movies. What? I have questions.

Okay, well, I will quickly say that if you are unfamiliar with Look Who's Talking, the first one, if you are unfamiliar with Look Who's Talking, the first one, um, Christie Alley is a pregnant woman who gets in the back of a cab driven by John Travolta. She is giving birth and then they're inexplicably linked. That is not his son? No. Wow! That is wild! That is wild! Oh my god! This is, this adds a whole new element to the movie that I just watched. But what's great about it is you don't need that backstory. You can just jump right in and it feels great because you know what he loves him as much as his own son. I almost hesitate to talk more about this before introducing my other co-host who's gonna have a lot to say

tonight. Please welcome June Diane Raphael welcome June hi Paul how are you good are you having a nice time in Denver? Yes. Excellent. June, are you familiar with the Look Who's Talking series? I thought I was. I was also, I'm shocked by this piece of information this yeah, okay, so breaking news, right? That's you that is huge and honestly the entire movie guys. Okay. I hate to do this to you June go ahead There's a motherfucking baby right there What there's a tiny baby right there The baby is can you hold up the baby please? Can you hold up the baby? The baby is wearing headphones.

Yes. I'm not gonna lie, I've been asking a long time. At some point I'm gonna want to hold that baby on stage. I... I've said it before before give us your babies. I Believe what that baby is probably thinking right now is bunch of douchebags I think the baby's probably thinking I'm listening to WTF So I've been away okay, so heading into this movie

We have a lot to unpack, obviously. But heading into this movie, I was concerned because I've been away from my own children for about a week. I've been traveling. So I was scared that this movie would trigger something in me. I love babies. I love children so much. And after watching... And I was worried to watch this by myself in a hotel room after this movie I thought I could I thought I was going to get my heart strength I do not want any more children I don't want my own children I don't think I like children can I ask you a. Can I ask you a question? Can I ask you a question?

From now on when you are home with your children just in the home both of you Will you be wondering what they're thinking and imagining it in the voices of Bruce Willis and Roseanne Barr? Well, here's the okay, so you bring up a good point The most troubling thing about this movie is that Mikey can speak. Yes. Yes. Mikey is on the verge of potty training, which if you go, I guess the middle ground would be about two years old is about a potty training age.

I want to talk about the rules of this movie a lot. Who can hear who? Who is talking and who is thinking? Who is answering? Are people, are these babies telepathic? Because at times it appears they are. I believe they are telepathic to each other. The first movie I think was a lot more like the inner thoughts of a baby. And this one they were like, let's blow it out. So much so that this opening, I mean look, the opening scene. Jim and I watched this together and I could only say, oh boy. When the opening scene was this the

tri-star picture logo the horse running to do a catapult and this is what you hear Oh, I can tweet until I'm flying over... Flystar pictures, where anything can happen. So also the horse can talk. Well, that's Mr. Ed. That's Mr. Ed, isn't it? No, that's just them going like... and here's another thing that talks. Oh, I wrote... Here's my problem.

But here's the thing, Mikey can talk. Yes. Right. And Mikey's mouth moves yeah all the time all the time right and you know he would be saying things like no or mine or whatever but instead you're hearing him say wildly cogent thoughts in the voice of Bruce Willis but then also be like what's a toilet but I guess but to your point though but to your point what are people hearing Mikey's yes well cuz my

money is talking like if you look at Mikey it's like a foreign film his lips are moving yes but no sound is coming out so here's here's here's where it really here's where I freaked out. When Mikey and the character that Damon Wayans voices are talking, right? All of their, because if it's like, okay I'm hearing the inner thoughts of this child, okay cool, maybe I get that. This is a scene where they're having an active conversation the way adults would about putting your peepee in the toilet and how the toilet eats your peepee in your Poopoo and your ba ba ba ba ba, okay, but it's all thought

It's all in the internal voices, but they are answering each other back and forth and I was like what the fuck is going on right well I also had an issue with that scene too, because this is a baby that, in the scene before, was learning the difference between penis and vagina, and then goes, hey look, you can see up that girl's skirt. Yes! Yeah.

It's a big learning curve, that baby. The Damon Wayans character is like, yeah, me and her play doctor. I was like, what the f- Gilbert Godry, get control of this Jimberee! I didn't like that at all. I mean, there's a more disturbing element of that right in the beginning, when you're watching the sperm race past the diaphragm. Can I ask a question? What is this movie rated?

X. It's rated no thanks for me. This movie is as if... PG-13. PG-13. It is as if... It is as if... Two reels came in to an editor and he was like, oh, I'm cutting two movies

right now. One of them is this wacky movie where you hear the internal thoughts of kids. And one of them is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Keir Steele and John Travolta. It is a harrowing tale of a marriage that is not working These people hate each other they swear at each other constantly and then it cuts to like and then the toilet eats your peepee And you're poo poo and I'm like what the fuck is going on right here. I Mean do they hate each other though? Like I couldn't even I couldn't even We were about 40 minutes in where I said Paul I don't see a plot from I can't what would

you yeah what I see an assortment of scenes strung together but what would you say the plot is because I said well I think the plot is using the toilet that like like the baby this is a movie about potty training. Wait, what? Because that had the strongest outline. A movie about potty training. A feature film about potty training. The B story is about the disintegration of the American marriage.

Okay, I need to talk about this movie because this the first movie comes out look who's talking Which that baby saw in the theater? And it's a huge hit so much so that this movie is in Production not like Greenlit in production nine months later like oh nine months But they literally Slam this next one into production and I think that's why the movie feels so weird because all of a sudden the first movie John Travolta is a cab driver. She's an accountant reading her accountant magazines, but

Which is like a specific from the worst improv scene much accountant talk. No. It's not like... Honestly, there was so much that at one point I was like, you should be looking into Scientology and them claiming themselves as a church and writing... It was...

Writing stuff off. They... The scene where she, her friend, and her brother, I could talk about the brother character conservatively like honestly Cancel the second show I will just talk about the brother character and the music in this movie Oh, okay But the scene where they are sitting around on a Saturday night just talking accounting They all three are doing three different tax returns

And by the way, the brother shows no sign of being a traditional accountant at all talking accounting? They all three are doing three different tax returns and by the way the brother shows no sign of being a traditional accountant at all. He looks like a guy who is like maybe got out of the psych ward. Yes, oh no when John Travolta says it's like he's like Travis Bickle in one of the conservatively two million pop culture references inexplicable to this movie, you are like, yes, he is like Travis Bickle. It's as if you took Robert De Niro out of Taxi Driver and put him into this movie. The fact that he pulls a gun six times in the movie, and then it's like necessary at the end for him to pull a gun.

But I was like, what like what pulling the gun is The meat cute of that character with his love interest like how did you meet? Oh, we pulled the gun on me Now I'm like is he the father of Mikey No, we do know he's father. We do know the father. Are you suggesting that Mike is the product of incest? All I know is she is very father of my brother. Are you suggesting that Mikey is the product of incest? All I know is she is very forgiving of that brother. She is in love with her brother. In love with him, that's what I'm saying.

Who is Mikey's dad? Well, Mikey's dad is in the first movie, she catches him cheating on her, and then they get back together, and then she catches him cheating on her again. He's like, you know, just like some blando white dude that they you know that's what happens in the first movie. I would love a sequel that focuses on him because what you're saying is that this whole movie exists with an absentee father. I'm shocked. Oh yeah. There's a guy in New York City who has a son who's two years old who's learning to be to use the toilet and this guy is like

zero involvement Look because what it explains now is John Travolta's resentment toward kirstie. All right yes, and his wanting a lot more credit that I Think he did not deserve But now I'm like, okay, he did step up on some level did not deserve. But now I'm like, okay, he did step up on some level. Again, I haven't seen the first movie. But he... Oh. There was a lot of resentment and a lot of anger toward her.

I will say that... For just stating the facts, which is you don't make money. You know, I've just plainly spoken, you don't make money. That's okay, but you just don't. I just want to clarify one thing, just so you guys can have it in your mind the father of Of Mikey the legitimate father is George Siegel George Siegel. Yes From who's afraid of Virginia? Who's afraid of Virginia wolf? Kaboom give Give me that baby.

Um, I, uh, to this end, the point I was trying to make earlier was, this movie is rushed into production and I feel like they just let everyone go and do whatever they want because in the first movie Travolta is a cab driver, in the second one he flies planes? For fun? That's what I was going to ask. And that's what John Travolta does, so much so that the plane in the movie is John Travolta's plane. Like that he's just like, yeah, I'll just use my own plane. But it's like the story that they're telling of a cab driver and an accountant ceases to be based in reality

when he's like, oh yeah, and he also has this jet. He also has his own jet private lessons when he's like oh yeah and he also has this jet like he also has his own jet private lessons that he's doing so he's no longer a cab driver he is he is a cab driver because in this one yeah cuz Paul Schaefer is in his cab remember from David Letterman. He starts off as a cab driver. Oh did I miss that? He starts off as a cab driver she gets him a job as a private pilot. Yeah, but I could, I, that's, I was- Which is basically a cab driver for planes. Yeah, a cab driver for the sky.

She's like, you're so good. And is that how it works? If you can drive one of these, you can drive one of those. He, he says at one point when talking about the job, which seemingly is paying a lot more than a cab driver, like he's like, you can't even, I'm on call all the time, you can't even take vacations. I'm like, someone needs to explain to him how vacations work.

Like you could just say, I'm on vacation this week, you're not just on call. Like, it's not like he was like living a life of being like some sort of like airplane slave. Like you know, it's like, you know, you've given your life to the Lear company. I think the way his job worked or my assumption was that he was flying a private jet for like one you know fat cat in New York City and so he was on call for this person whenever. And he was flying but also pouring them coffee because... Yes! So okay so I think my knowledge of private jets okay okay but I do think there are some private jets where there's no there are no flight attendants so the pilots do come out and take care of the got it okay

okay passengers all right I have a I have a have a couple of quick questions. Go ahead. One, when they buy the kid the toilet and are explaining to him that it's for poop and pee, it's as if they've never talked about poop or pee ever. He's like, when you got to take a piss and she's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And he's like, have they never had a conversation with a two-year-old about, like, stuff? Like, and how it comes out? Here's what, well, yeah, that whole sequence and what they do with that potty was so disturbing. And never is used again. No.

It's not a training potty at all. It's almost like they did everything with that object, but show him what to actually do with it. Yeah. They wore it as a hat. They, like, used it as, like, a hula hoop. Like, the kid is confused. I'll be honest. I'll be honest. That's how a fetish is created. That's how a fetish is created, where you're like,

wait, what are you into? I'm into you putting a toilet seat on my head and you taking a real deuce on me because Because that's what my mommy and daddy told me this is like and we gotta sing songs while we do it and Jason I know you're not a parent but use the appropriate word dump as John Travolta uses to his to your you know, when you gotta take a dump or a piss, you know, get your dick to be full of that liquid. You know, kid?

You know what it is? What it is is they're talking to Mikey as if he's a kid that doesn't understand words still. I understand maybe they would say that in the first movie when it's truly a, like I'm assuming a newborn baby, but at this point, he can understand a lot of what they're saying. We're parents and he can speak. Yes but we don't we don't ever hear him speak right? No. Oh no we do we do we do popcorn. And he says penis. And he says penis and no penis. And that a problematic way to describe women. Penis, no penis. But by the way, this

movie also had an odd fascination with taking shots at Dan Quayle. Like in the IRS office, she has a large framed picture of Dan Quayle behind her. Now I understand that if you were the president, you would have a picture in a federal office, but not the vice president doesn't get a picture. And then Dan Quayle's in the magazine, he's like penis or vagina, and he's like, I don't know. And they're like, nailed it. Like, I guess, I mean, like, Dan Quayle was dumb.

I don't think it was ever a question of like, I don't know, it seemed like Quayle was dumb. I don't think it was ever a question of, like, I don't know. It seemed like the wrong shot to take. I like that they also take, like, just shots at Sylvester Stallone, at Schwarzenegger. They just are, like, the pop culture references are constant and weird. Like, and the songs. Like, did the Beastie Boys license a song for this movie? How did they use John Lennon and George Harrison? What's going on? I don't know. I would like to spend some time talking about the production design of that

apartment. Yes! No, you mean the six million dollars spent on neon and baby doll heads? Baby... I just want to say one thing and then I want to get to the apartment. Just to give you an idea. The reason why they got the rights to all these songs is the first movie, it cost seven million dollars to make the first movie. It made two hundred and ninety-seven million dollars in 1989.

This movie is the biggest thing ever It made three hundred million dollars in 1989 that's a movie the first one that's why they're getting like the Beastie Boys and George Harrison because it's like This is a cultural phenomenon like this movie like movie tickets were $5 and it made $300 million. Just like, anyway, apartment. But why not put some of that money into the design of that apartment? The apartment is bright pink with accents of orange there at one point I saw a blue basket hanging on

against the wall okay against the door Jason from the outside I've got what is that basket is it to cover a people I thought it was a place where you get your laundry Like you're oh, we're gonna go out and get the laundry in the hallway and I'll use it. It's not it's not hung up as a basket. It's hung up. It's upturned and I'm gonna be honest. You cannot place anything in it. That basket was decorative That basket that was a non-functioning basket. It wasn't, that's not its resting place when it's not being used. That's where it lives. Okay, well then, because all of, because here's the thing, June, what you have to understand is that there are no room for

baskets in the apartment because they have to make room for doll heads. Not dolls, but doll heads. Everywhere you go, doll heads looking at you. This was chilling. And what's odd about the apartment and the doll heads and the neon and everything that is faux creative is she is a wonk, like an accountant wonk that seemingly has no creative instincts,

and he's a taxi driver. So who's decorating? Like if it was the friend, I'd buy her maybe to come in and do it. But there's nothing about either of their personalities. She's an accountant too. The kooky friend is an accountant too. And I was gonna say maybe it's the brother,

but he's an accountant too. I meanooky friend is an accountant too. I was going to say maybe it's the brother but he's an accountant too. I mean like what is this? What New York is this? Everybody's an accountant except for John Travolta who's a taxi cab driver slash pilot. What? And we also and I have to say this too because as we're talking about the apartment I have structural problems with the apartment, not just the decorations. We've all lived in New York City. Jason, June, have you ever lived in an apartment where one door is here and then two feet over is another door, both leading to the same exact hallway?

Oh yeah. There's a small... So there's one door from the outside hallway of the apartment building that leads into the kitchen. There's another doorway just less than a foot away that leads into the living room hallway. There's no reason for two doors that close. Yeah. I gotta go back to the basket for one more second. So you're saying... Yeah.

That that basket is up there as a design choice? As an accent piece. For the door. Oh my god. I can see no other function for it. Oh my god. That has really taken my breath away. Yeah. No, there is like every time we would get shots of the apartment like luxurious shot there. There it is. Right back there. I think it's

see it's the same as the plate, right? It's the same as the plate to the left. That's it's all it by the way. What are those two doors? I know. Plates are known as like you can put a plate up as an accent. I agree, I agree. I think this movie posits a world in which you can also put baskets up in the same way you put plates up. If you told me that the set designer of Pee-wee's Playhouse lived in this apartment, I would say makes perfect sense.

Also, a very strange place to put the spice rack Right as you open the door inconvenient for where you put a spice rock rack near where you're cooking. I think What are you what are that? What's going on back there? Is there a shot of the lamp? The like crazy lizard lamp? Describe it. I couldn't quite see but it looked like a creature.

Do you remember where the lizard lamp is? It's in her bedroom. The scenes inside her womb are the stuff of nightmares. The scene where I was like, am I watching a baby die as part of this movie? No offense baby, give me that baby. Am I watching currently the death of an infant as a plot point of a movie about kids? This is crazy. I mean the baby in the womb is...

Is dis... I mean is the most dis... The puppet. Yeah, the puppet. It is like something out of like... It looks like Watto from Total Recall. Which was a character that lived in someone's belly. It was like... It really is an upsetting thing. Which was a character that lived in someone's belly. It was like, bleh, bleh.

It really is an upsetting thing. I'm trying to get a good still of the lizard lamp. It's a little hard. There's so much in this movie. I'm not lying, there is so much in this movie. Here's the lizard lamp, I think. I'm trying to get to it. Like, I want to know... It's on her side of the bed. Is that the lizard lamp? I think. I'm trying to get to it. Like, I wanna know, here's the thing. It's on her side of the bed.

I wanna know. Is that the lizard lamp? We'll find out later. We'll find out later. The sex scene is... Ah, I love the vocal reaction from the audience. It was like, ugh. The sex scene at the beginning is so gross. And then it's like, is the kid listening?

Do you wanna get a little insight on why they have such good sex scenes and good chemistry? This is taken from Good Morning America where they are kind of- Can you- hang on, before you push play, I want to say something right now. You're telling me the walls of this apartment are white? Wait a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop the clock.

Wait, hold on. This is from the first movie. Oh. So between the first and second movie, they painted that apartment pink and orange? But they kept that painting of a crane. Yes. But they threw away the painting of the woman,

which I actually genuinely like. They literally- Is the basket up? They couldn't find- You can't tell. I don't know, we don't have that much- Oh, show us the basket.? You can't tell. They couldn't find... I don't know, we don't have that much... Oh, show us the basket. This is not the first movie. This is just a clip from Good Morning America where they played this clip.

So it's not going to give you the basket, I'm sorry. But this will give you an insight on their chemistry. Take a listen. When you went to kiss me the first time time I turned into Barbra Streisand I know, he wouldn't stay serious You know when you do a kissing scene, it's hard enough And he would start being, why don't you say, Papa can you Papa can you hear me

Bad! And I go, John I have to kiss you And he goes, and it would be serious and he'd look at me, so handsome And you'd come in for the kiss. And then, Papa, can you hear me? Papa, can you hear me? OK, that would be distracting to romantic scenes. That scene took two days to shoot. There are cameras.

So that's just, ooh, ooh, look, basket. It's a round basket. There's a round basket on the door. They upgraded baskets in between movie one and movie two. Wait, this is movie one you're saying, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's wild. So do you think they were like, oh, we have to paint the nursery pink, let's just do the whole apartment? I don't know. The apartment, I also didn't understand there was a neon sign that said like loves. Bras? Louvée? It's like got an accent a goo on it though, which I guess would make it Louvée bras, give me that baby. But what I keep wondering is there was so much

neon. Well, I guess it was was I don't know this is well It's kind of the 80s when like people would be like well I guess half of my apartment is gonna have like a neon clock and a neon this so what was so weird about the apartment It's like yes, there's that neon thing over the fireplace, but then there's also like wicker chairs You know there and obviously baskets on there's so much or wearing Oh so much or wearing So much swearing in this movie and at each other You know fuck you fuck you, and I'm like what what is going on I won't argue that there's two things that I found confusing one

There's long periods of time where the babies are just not in it like you're like I haven't seen a baby scene in a long time I'm just seeing like casual conversation. And then I also feel like they... I don't know what my second point was. Well, I will... Okay, so I was waiting for a long time for another baby to appear. Oh.

Because... What do you mean? I thought on the poster there were two babies. Are there not two babies on the poster this time? Yeah, one is Mikey, one is the other one. Mikey is the other baby. No, no, no. But in the poster there were two babies. Are there not two babies on the poster this time? Yeah, one is Mikey, one is the other one. No, no, no, but in the poster there were babies. And one's Damon Wayne. So here you go.

Oh. So go on to, no, no, no, there's another version of this poster, go on to Amazon. Can I ask you a question? Will you keep that up for one second? See, those two babies oh yeah I was waiting for and I've seen that poster before I was waiting for another baby to arrive for most of the movie maybe you is that the place that the

baby was the poster can you open up look who's talking one I wonder if that left-hand image was the picture from look who's talking one no the first one it's a bald baby. Got it. Very similar to like those commercials. Okay, so can we go, sorry, if we go back to the other, the, yeah, now. There's different babies, by the way.

If you're looking at- This is a very important, for me, this was a real question mark, which was, and I don't have kids, and you guys do. Is the baby pictured- Oh, shit, we gotta do, is the baby pictured there, is the baby pictured there, is the baby pictured over there, the Roseanne Barr baby, a newborn? A newborn? No. That's a baby. How much time passes in this movie?

A year, because the baby is walking by the end. The baby is walking, but do they break up for a year? I mean he's gone for a long, he's gone for... He's missed arguably like one of the most important developmental times of this baby's life. I also just want to, just to put one more drop on this poster discussion, I think the issue that's confusing, June, is that in the poster that we're looking at with the two baby heads, he has black hair, and one he has blonde hair, and in real life he's got- He looks like he has frosted tips in the left there. Yeah. So I think it's just they wanted the symmetry of two dark-haired babies.

I see. I just, he's, again, he's not a baby, he's talking in full sentences. But Roseanne Bars is not a baby, I mean that, that's, yeah, she's not a baby. I just he's again. He's not a baby. He's talking in full sentences But Roseanne bars is not a baby mean that that's the edge. He's not a mickey's back and should He what it says mickey's back and about to face his greatest challenge dot dot dot his new baby sister Just one of the taglines of that movie This movie I wowie. I still have a million notes. How about when the babies find a crack pipe? Love it. And then you think that that's gonna lead to a different conversation,

but it's just like, no, we just have to to stop playing outside we need to go to like a gym and one of their biggest fights is about the gym yeah and John Travolta doesn't want them to go to a play gym well I think the fight you're referencing is when Kierstie Alley tries to turn the TV off because she wants Mikey to go to bed. Right. And because he's got gym class in the morning. Oh, okay, got it. So she wants him to get a good night's sleep before gym class in the morning.

In that scene, you're telling me in this movie, they have access to all of this great music. John Lennon, George Harrison, the Beat Team, all of this Elvis, expensive music. They're watching a cartoon that is, I'm gonna say from the teens. Oh, and it is like, it is about, it might be a racist cartoon too, it's like, it's about, it's about people who've been electrocuted in the electric chair and they're ghosts.

Right? That's what it is, right? And I was like, this kid shouldn't be watching this anyway. Right? That's what it is, right? And I was like, this kid shouldn't be watching this anyway. Why didn't you buy a better cartoon with some of your John Lennon money? Well, I... Yeah, it's like bedtime or not bedtime. He should not be. We should turn this off. Yes. Well, I'm more disturbed by the section in the movie where the babies just watch real commercials.

Yes. And then we're watching real commercials. There's no take on a commercial. It's like, here are three commercials of the time. Yes. Enjoy them. They are, like, it's a G.I. Joe commercial. A wrestling, like, slammer.

And I was like, this is, how is this, this is wild product placement in a way that is shameless and bizarre. They're just airing three commercials. I mean, that's it. It's not even just product placement. It's just like, here are the commercials in the middle of the movie. The kids dislike it and then they go, they want to get... Uh-oh. But yeah, no, yeah. This is the...

I need a Cobra hammerhead! Hey, I want a Cobra camera head. It's for boys. Geez. Hey Priscilla. Hi. What? They love Elvis. But yeah, so...

I mean... Oh, I believe, I'm not positive, that John Travolta in this movie sings an Elvis song in part of the soundtrack. Am I right on that? Yeah. Now listen, I loved watching him dance through the kids' gym. I loved it. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved watching him dance. I didn't know why he was doing it. It was baffling. I don't know what compelled him to start dancing, why at this point in his journey of not seeing his kids and not having... It wasn't even shared custody. He seemed to see them every once in a while, why he would be dancing through the kids gym.

He's, he has a breakdown when he's sitting on the park bench. His kids are disgustingly dirty. He's not used to wet wipe on either one of them. And if you were to see this man. I liked in that scene and maybe I just missed it, but I liked that they had obviously eaten chocolate ice cream and it was all over them, but neither of them had ice cream.

Right. So it had happened Enough in the past that the the cones and the so forth had been discarded, but he didn't clean them up at all I have questions about the child gym sure yeah Right so the child gym you can go in many different directions here The Child Jim. Sure. Yeah. Right, so The Child Jim, you can go in many different directions here. It's a comedy movie. Like, what are you gonna do? All right, well put Gilbert Godfrey in it.

Interesting choice. No one, I think, gave Gilbert Godfrey a script. Oh no. They're like, let him go. It will be funny. And I like Gilbert Godfrey. No offense to Gilbert Godfrey, but it makes the movie

Insane insane. It takes a movie that's already insane and goes guess what the world we're living in is fucking Nuts. Yeah This that scene I'm like maybe this takes place in an alternate universe in which this is allowed Where he is literally thing about it too is that the parents are all standing just by the wall watching yeah just witnessing this well he's just maybe barking at them like like freestyle Gilbert Godfrey lines here's a little bit stupid I think I'm gonna have a heart attack or something. It's very, you see, I can say, I have a tendency to have a heart attack, you see, you can do that, you just go up and down, but eventually you have a heart attack.

Now here's what- Okay. He keeps on telling them to breathe because a lot of people die in here from heart attacks. So, here's the thing. It's a child's gym. Here's the thing. If you're a parent, against the wall, and you hear the guy say, a lot of people die in here, guess what? Place isn't going to be around much longer. But what's so crazy about it is this behavior and him running around showing kids how to use the tunnels or whatever would make sense if the kids were not playing

just fine on their own. All of these kids are doing great. Having a great time. They are doing what they should be doing in this space. Yes, looking up girls skirts. I mean they're- He's behaving like, I guess my question is, what does he want from them?

Like in his- Yeah. What is his idea? When he goes home, I would have loved, more than anything, if we had followed his character home. What, and his wife is like, how was work today? And he's like, I don't wanna talk about it. To me, I feel like he also is a Travis Bickle character

who goes home and is sitting there, because you hear him also have like these things like Jews and Italians Dancing circles like oh hey, man. Let's not bring that into the Jim berea like Jews and Italians We're just saying that to children. This movie is basically about adorable little kids and Adults who shouldn't be allowed near kids at all. Like there are legitimately four characters in this movie who shouldn't be allowed near any of these children. Yeah, well that's why the end shot of I guess the story is Mikey comes to terms with his little sister

and like it finishes his grieving process of being an only child but the last shot was wow you I'm saying you give them this movie so a lot more credit than it deserves I know but the last shot of the two of them walking away together hand in hand like into a cornfield well everyone else is eating yeah nobody notices them I was like go keep on going get out of here keep on walking here's okay I will tell you as a parent we can probably answer you never No. Keep on going. Get out of here. Just keep on walking. Here's, okay. You're better off out there. I will tell you, as a parent, we can probably ask these people, you never take your eyes

off your children for that long. They're like corn. They're eating like barbecue like. And that's the second time. Mikey almost gets away with his sister in the crack pipe scene. Their house is on fire, guys. Whoa. That was nuts.

When Stewart, by the way, successfully gets the burglar out of the apartment, he should be like, great, I did it. I got the guy out of here and he didn't take anything. Nope, got to chase this guy down. What did he want to do with him? He's left two children in the apartment alone. Then a fire starts, this whole sequence, and then at the end he's a hero? The friend, not Annie Popps, is like, isn't he terrific? Stuart, we should get married. You should go to jail.

I also think that people who make. You should go to jail. I also think that people who make this movie should go to jail as they put little babies in the middle of a fire. Like they are in the middle. I mean, I know it was probably safe, but still, there's a lot of fire in that apartment. My favorite part of this movie,

and for those of you listening to the podcast, you don't know, we played the trailer for the ladybugs twin Peaks ladybugs adaptation There was another one of those for me in this movie Paul Will you scroll forward just a little bit I think oh I might be wrong maybe it's backwards. It's backwards. I think it's when Mikey has a fantasy sequence about what would happen in a world where they go to FAO Schwartz And if he had to be in charge of his sister okay does everybody know I really want to find it because I have real questions no it's yes I'm gonna find it yeah so so in this sequence you know they're like that's gonna be your little

sister okay so can you back up even just oh yes okay that's fine yeah I think we're good okay Okay, so can you back up even just oh, oh, yes. Okay. That's fine. Yeah, I think we're good. Okay Okay, that's just pretty good. So now we go in the mode nothing. I know he's now the dad Okay. Now here we go. Get ready to pause Paul. Get ready. No, no, keep going Justin ready. Hold on. Hold on That's it. I just give it a second. Just give it a second. Okay pause Who's the girl I? June who is the girl in a scene is he married in the fantasy? He is married. I've been married to a little girl. What's going on?

What is this? Okay? I want someone to cut a trailer for this movie a movie in which two babies raise a baby Honestly, I'm not kidding. Give me your baby and Following in his father's footsteps a baby that's not his yes Yes, that is that is the legacy of this family. I want to see is a wild shot I want to see the movie though not about this I want to see the movie about baby thug which is a baby in a bowl we could just play this whole thing and this is just great hey oh hey punk get your own toys all right that's it rip your lungs out.

Give it to me. What are you smiling at? I guess you never messed with anybody's big brother before, huh? Give me it. Oh, there you go, take that. Here you go, baby. Yeah, you can put it back in your mouth.

Mm, I love you. This is a world in which these two babies exist in the adult world alone. And adults are walking by the streets of New York like totally cool, totally cool, totally cool with that two year old with a newborn. So I'm gonna just let it happen. And this baby punk is causing trouble. What is this?

Can I also posit the thing that I find the most disturbing about this? In his fantasy sequence, he doesn't have the power of speech. Yes. He to be telepathic yes so that's odd to me like why not in this fantasy you can be like hey also also where's his wife where's his wife in this scene what happened to Mikey's wife she's only in the FAO short scene but I don't even understand what this sequence, like, why does his mind go there? Because she says you're gonna be her big brother to something like,

you're gonna have to like step up and help take care of her. And he's like, I think I can do that. But that's not his sister. That baby is a different baby. Yes. That's not the Roseanne Barr baby. Oh, no, yes, that's his fantasy of who the... Because the sister's still in the womb, right? No, the sister's out. No, the sister's out. Because he was just testing the milk, right? Now I'm like, is the sister his wife in this fantasy? Wait, will you go back? I think maybe, I don't,

I think maybe the baby's not out yet. Oh, you're right, the baby's not out yet. The baby's not out yet. She hasn't been born yet. I think Kierstia Li has said, you know, when your sister comes, you're going to have to be a big brother you're gonna have to blah blah blah and then he has this fantasy sequence where he is a single father at who's at two raising a newborn in the fucking hard streets of New York City they're in fucking Times Square there's a baby warrior there who the fuck by the way put Put some bottles on that kids fingers Come on. You're blowing it movie baby. Why yes come out and play It is that sequence as well the other thing that occurs to me that I don't know if you guys thought about is how hard

Must it have been to shoot these scenes with these kids these kids are so young and would be impossible to get to do stuff they can't even get the babies not to move their mouth they're talking more than mr. Ed look that's why I think there were a lot of scenes honestly that were written just based on what they happen yes do agree like when he says here what are you smiling at it's because they There's a lot of scenes, honestly, that were written just based on what they happened to do in the scenes. Yes, agree! Like when he says, here, what are you smiling at? It's because they couldn't get that kid to not smile. Right. Can I talk about my other favorite baby? It's in this scene where they run up against Stoner's surfer baby. So, here we go.

Get over on your side. Oh. What are you afraid you're gonna get recognized? So, here we go. just poke you in the eye. Worse, they suck. Hey man, try and stay with me, all right, when I'm talking to you. Ah. What I'm saying. Is that baby, what's wrong with that baby? Dude, that baby. Because the baby's inner monologue is, ah. Dude, that baby's smoking that weed from Denver, baby.

That baby's like, mile high, bro, brr, brr, brr. That baby's like, mile high bro, brr brr brr. I mean that means that the inner monologue baby is high. Yes. Super big. Yes, but you're right, that's a good, that was a perfect illustration of Mikey clearly talking but not matching what Bruce Willis is saying in any way. Well, you know... Oh, sorry. I have a couple of random thoughts.

I'm gonna come out to the audience in a second. Oh yeah, it's... I just wanna say, you know what they say, it's better to be up in the air when it's pouring than down on the ground. What? Who says that? I don't think that that's true.

I'd like to hear the attribution for that quote. I'd like to point you to many people who've died in a plane accident, in small planes, who tell you, it's not great to fly when it's bad weather up there. That was said so matter of factly, that it didn't seem like if it was sarcastic, it didn't seem like it was trying to be sarcastic. And I also have one other small thought, which was when they are in that round robin of accounting, one of the things that they say is, he's a teacher and he has a six-bedroom apartment. I don't think that's happening. How?

Yeah. No, I think he's trying to say the teacher's trying to claim his desk and his chair as rooms. Oh, I thought he was saying... No, he was saying he was trying to claim the square footage of his desk and chair as a business expense. This is part of the movie. This is a lot to do with the movie. Here we go. After we've already delved deep into the failed restaurant called Eat Me Raw. And shame on them for not getting...

She goes, it's quesadic. It's not. It's fucking pornographic. And he was like, I don't know what it is, but I don't do it. Wait, now I'm wondering, areirstie alleys parents also account. Yes Yes That's why that's what I mean by saying I think this might be an alternate universe Where everyone in New York City is an accountant or a cab driver slash private pilot or a single father baby. Why don't they ever encourage John Travolta to become an accountant? I think they think, I genuinely think they,

they seem to think John Travolta is a straight up moron. They are actively encouraging her to leave him. But seriously, if his brother, if their brother could go through, what do you have to get, a CPA or what is it called, to become an accountant, John Travolta can't? Nope. No, I agree. I guess not. It's pretty bizarre.

I mean... Okay, here's my other last question about the family accounting why did they go to her parents to do their yearly income tax break? Oh I know the answer to this because her parents are so anal they're like when you do your taxes we got to double check them because John Travolta says and your parents always have to check our taxes like because I feel like they're afraid that she's gonna make a mistake. Wow. And I would argue one small difference she does work for the IRS so I don't think that she's like a CPA. Yes. The building that she's in that that corporation is the IRS. Right but I don't think she's still an accountant. She doesn't work there does she? She does work

there. Oh, she does. So that couple who has Eat Me Raw, what are they coming to her to discuss? Who's the guy? They're deductibles. Deductibles is Eat Me Raw. So, but had they already filed their... Yes, I think they may have cheated on their taxes.

Are they being audited? Yes. I don't know. I shouldn't need to know this stuff. These are questions that this movie shouldn't force me to ask. It's so confusing because the scene opens with a crazy overhead shot of a non-busy office and then cuts to a close-up of a man staring into a water cooler going, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

What's the story? Like, wait, what is going on? Like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Get to work. And then there is a shot for shot matching sexy scene where Keirstie Alley gets all sexed up, but then the baby does too? I didn't like that. I had real problems with that. Also, give me that baby. Hey, where did the baby go? Fuck, that baby left?

Was it something I said? Did the baby, was the baby not into the. Oh, no, the baby has left the building Fuck that baby That's the puffy shirt here we go, okay, this is a wild scene Get it Am I losing it? Still got it baby. Oh man, Julie. If we're going to get your daddy back, we're going to have to do some serious packaging.

Are you with me kid? Yeah, let's dress up for daddy. When I have a brand new wife. Sexy. The first thing that she puts on is A giant like antler ear bow now which makes you go did the child pick that out or is that her first? Go-to to being sexy. What do you also June? May I ask? What is that? When I saw this I was like, what is that?

Listen, there are a lot of headband scarf pieces in this movie that I really love. Yeah, but what is that one? I couldn't begin to describe it. It does look as if it's meant to be antlers. Yeah. Okay, here we go. What? She sprays her chest with perfume.

She sprays her boobs with perfume. Now, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I float as a cloud. What?

Okay, now. She sprays her chest with perfume. She sprays her boobs with perfume. Now this next shot, that's... Oh! That, that is chilling. This right here is illegal. For us to be looking at this, we should all be arrested.

For us to be looking at this, we should all be arrested. The baby also sprays her chest with perfume. That should, this shot should be, like the director and DP should be put on a watch list. Yes. Like honestly, we need to get this off your computer, Paul. I Drew all the dresses made of links Who's talking to on the phone by the way just again to show you like how this movie misses the mark. This is the easiest sequence to do in a movie It's like it's the dress That's the the the montage of getting dressed and it's weirdly paced and the jokes don't really hit It's like it's as if someone decided they'd make it a montage after as if it was a longer scene

That's why that's why they're like well. We've got a picture of her with a phone put it in who cares We just go into all the stockings? ["The Stars and the Stars"] With a pound and a half of cream upon my face. So, she puts on stockings. Iconic stockings. A woman's leg pulling up one of her stockings. Okay, go ahead. Only a female, female,

and my future I hope will be In the home of the brave and free What? What? That was a baby with a garter belt! That baby had a baby garter belt on Someone in wardrobe had to make that baby garter belt They had a breakdown of all the stuff they needed and they were like It says in the script the baby's wearing a garter belt. Is that real or was that a joke? No, no, that's real. I want you to make a baby garter belt.

And then they go, the movie made $300 million. We know what the fuck we're talking about. And it's for what? It's for a sexy montage. That the baby is in oh yeah all right let me let me go out to the crowd here I want to see what you guys have to say about look who's talking and you know obviously is a sequel the kids talk in this one the next one the animals talk when you tell me your name I want you to tell me the next object or thing that could talk in a potential sequel so you come here anything that could talk here we go your name and the thing that could talk in your question my name is Betsy I'm trying to think of another inanimate object that could talk because the toilet already talks but

that's good all toilets talking that's a good because that's a hallucinate that's good, all toilets talking. That's a good, because that's a hallucination. That's a hallucination. That's not real. So toilets we'll take. Okay, yeah, so I'm going to go with the toilet. Great. Great. So I just want to talk about the daydream that Kristie Ali has when she sees him in the convertible. Her 1930s fantasy of his life yeah and then also

like they end that part with let's go eat some pork great question well remember in the 80s you used to use pork for fucking you'd be like did you guys pork sir your name your inanimate object your question my name is Austin I would say inanimate object would be any neon sign being able to talk right and apparently when a woman is pregnant and or going into labor, she has the forces, the mutant forces of Storm and also the voice of Zul. If we noticed whenever she's talking to her boss and also the other woman across the desk is like, she's in labor? She's fine. Let's keep on working on Eat Me Raw. Yeah. Yeah, she does have a demon voice in that scene. I will say that made me laugh. Let me go back here.

All right, here you go. Your name, your inanimate object, and your question. I'm Kristen, and I think microphones by themselves, so you couldn't tell if it was you or the microphone. Oh, interesting, okay, great. And then I just have a question about the egg and sperm at the beginning. Like, is that every egg and sperm, every sperm rapes an egg?

Is that their view of human sexuality? Or, or sorry, part two. Or is it just this egg and sperm and that's how you make Roseanne Barr? Nailed it. Nailed it. I also didn't know to that person's point, I didn't know that that was a diaphragm for a long time that all the sperm were hitting. Also I didn't like that John Travolta was the voice of all the sperm also I thought it was weird that every once in a while you would hear Travolta's internal monologue like you would hear his thoughts that was also

strange well the diaphragm also had Kirstie Ali's voice yes yes well I think that was the egg oh and yeah I guess they were I don't know the diaphragm was like you can't get in here yeah I mean what is the success rate of diaphragms yeah yeah I'd love stats on that I'd love I am love diaphragm stats I am up in the balcony right now balcony right now. Be careful, Paul. Be careful, Paul. Seriously. With a very well behaved group of balcony monsters. I'm trying to catch my breath from those flights of stairs. And sir, your name, if you have an inanimate object, great. And your question question my name is Matt I guess my inanimate object would be their cars great great I was just wondering if anybody noticed that Julie's first steps were the soundtrack was the

tri-star pictures yes so weird it was like but I was like, are they promoting the studio within like, like subtle studio marketing? Because they were like, well, we did that talking bit over the front card. So we got to make I think they ran out of money. They're like, we spent all that money on the Beastie Boys and George Harrison. We got to reuse stuff. Okay, your name, your inanimate object, your question. Okay, my name is Faith. I think the inanimate object would be the basket so we can figure out what it's for.

And so when Kirstie Alley has the baby, John Travolta passes out, right? And you see like a split second of it and he's not bleeding or anything. But then the immediate next scene, he walks in with the older baby and he has a single layer of gauze wrapped around his head, which he's not bleeding, so I don't think he would need it.

And if he had a concussion, that's not how you treat a concussion. So what the fuck was up with that? In this version of New York, the hospitals don't know what they're doing either because it's all accountants. Everybody in there is an accountant. I have to say, Denver has the best questions. This has been a real tricky time or on the road You guys are hitting it out of the park read Wow Paul

Hi, Paul. I'm not gonna lie. You're gonna have some real problems when you go to the balconies in Chicago in New York next time They're great. I'm just saying found for pound, the questions here are great. Here we go. Your name, your object, your question. My name is Chelsea, and I want the Freddy Krueger red thing that comes out of the cuckoo clock. Yeah. And then I have to continue with her point.

The whole C-section scene, no general anesthesia, Kersi Alley is awake, the husband's in the room, the blood rag gets thrown on the floor. It was the late 80s. It was the late 80s where every room in a hospital had a blood rag on the floor. I mean, most women are still awake for c-sections. I was not given the option to go away.

I would have taken it. Did you keep any of your blood rags? Oh yeah. We have a baby book that's just filled with blood rags. Just like, just like squish, squish, squish. And this, oh this is so cute. Remember this is when you were born, this was the blood rag. Oh I'm so embarrassed, my mom keeps showing my girlfriend my old blood rags. Ma'am your name, your question. I'm Brittany. I think people in paintings would talk in the next one.

My question is about, at the end of the movie, in the fire, there's this beautiful script on a cardboard box that says, newspapers for recycling. So I'm just curious, do they have a cardboard box beautifully scripted for every item that needs to be recycled? At that point in time, I think only newspapers are being recycled. And also, Olympia Dukakis later is wearing a t-shirt that says, recycle on it.

So like, there's a real message hidden in this movie. It's like, that's when like the 80s had like, like celebrities got really involved and stuff. Paul, Paul, would you do me a favor and just make sure and ask the dad of the baby when he's raising his hand for a question. I just want to make sure he gets it. All right, I will get it. And then I have a question for him. All right. Sir, your name, your question, I will say this. I normally pick people. You stood up, you approached.

That's normally a sign it's gonna go badly. But, Denver, you've been running it pretty good so far. So here you go, the pressure's on. Your name, your object, your question. Go. My name is Nick. The object would be the airplane. Like, see, Triple took a fallen relationship with his airplane. We've already discussed how low-rank Christopher Maloney was waving a gun around every time he could. But the guy who broke in the apartment apartment was breaking like Muppets take Manhattan style with like cutting the window and getting in Did they have the Hope diamond in that apartment?

But by the way, first of all, I like that your your reference for a high stakes heist is Muppets take Manhattan For two reasons number one the more appropriate one would be the Great Muppet Caper, but number two, like there's a million other ones that show high stake eyes. I take Ocean's 8. Any of the Pink Panther movies? But that is a good question. You earned your stripes, okay. Yes, that was an odd choice that he had like a cutter, like a circular cutter. I mean, what were they, yeah, what were they after?

The doll's heads? Door baskets? I'm here with the dad, the dad of the baby. Thank you for coming and bringing your baby. I think that, you know, as a parent you guys got out of the house. I think that's a great thing. Your name, your anabinology, and your question. My name is Josh.

I think maybe the sequel would be John Travolta becomes a conductor and then his talking train is Thomas the Trainor. Amazing. Right up my alley. I know exactly where you're at. Okay, go ahead. So I think y'all were hitting on it with the The fetish and the potty scene and I was just wondering if wardrobe was in on it because okay

So he's showing me a picture of Mikey in a shirt that says scat Really? Yes Yeah, everyone in the balcony you guys see that Mikey's polo shirt says scat? SKAT oh SKAT but still that would I would almost be like did Germans make this movie? No be like Scat shirts. They're the shit. Yeah Not bad just quick question, where'd your baby go? Yeah. She went to sleep? Boo!

Maybe it's time for Dad to switch out with Mom back there. She's been gone for a while. And the Dad is switching out. Good dad. He stayed. He got his question. Bring that mama back in here. Wait, and bring the baby back.

And also give it to me. All right. Hi. How are you? Hi. I'm Elizabeth. And in the beginning of the movie, John Travolta was trying to have sex with Keir Steally. And she says, you won't be having any fun if I'm sleeping.

And he says, that's never stopped us before. And then they both laugh. Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. Which then brings us to his sperm coming in hot to that egg. Case in point. There we go. Wow. I wanted to bring up this point in the movie when the best friend comes in and she goes, Oh, can I stay here tonight? Anyway, my apartment was robbed. I was like, wait, you are leading with the wrong thing.

Like, wouldn't you be like, oh my god, my apartment was robbed. Can I stay here? Like, do you think it was the same burglar? Yes. Definitely was, Jason. That just occurred to me that this is like, that guy is like knocking off apartments. And honestly, I think that guy, whoever that was, was just after her.

Like, what are the chances that she would go after the front? Oh, so you're saying that he's he's not interested in robbing Kirsten and John's he's there because he's stalking not any possible. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Um, I like that. I Don't I mean, I don't like it. But as a theory it tracks So that movie would be a harrowing tale for her. Because at the end she gets married to Stuart who is basically a murderer.

He's basically like an insane accountant. But you know what? Love is blind. Now it's time for second opinions. Hey, hey, I watch a movie today. blind. Now it's time for second opinions. Hey, hey, I watch a movie today. Some think it's awful, other think it's great. Well if you hate it, I have news for you. Amazon will give you a second review for this movie. Look who's talking to. Second opinion.

Give it up for Jay. There were so many great second opinions. Woo! Give it up for Jay! You can go right down there. There were so many great second opinions. If you want to hear more, just stay tuned after the show. But we only had to pick one. Alright, here they are. These are five star reviews. Cold from Amazon.

And you will be surprised at what they say. This is written by Dr. Bob and he writes, simply, I use this movie for my intro to human development class. Five stars. Wow, I wonder in what capacity? I think the beginning? And then we followed it up with Nana Bo. Nana Bo writes this, my son's health teacher wanted to use the beginning of this for her reproductive health discussion. How fun! I'm sure the class will pay attention She asked for a parent to donate or loan the movie for this purpose, but I bought her the set just for fun

Creative teachers need to be rewarded five stars And what she's talking about is this is reviews from a three movie set. You can get one DVD with all three films. This movie has so much inappropriate content for kids. Yeah. That that teacher should be fired. Oh, 100%. This one is written by Yippie Hippie, and it goes, I guess I was about five when this movie came out.

I loved it then, and I still love it now. Actually I like it more now because now I understand the jokes. For example I didn't get the whole sperm egg thing when I was little. I thought they were just tadpoles. I like this one more than the first one and the third one's lame. The only reason this movie seems to be getting bad reviews is because those people reviewing it don't like Gilbert Godfrey. If you don't like the actors in the movie, then yeah, it's gonna annoy ya. Five stars.

And then finally, from Linda Corp, she writes this this the good old days when movies were good five stars All right, so I have some interesting facts we talked about the first movie making $300 million anyone want to guess what this movie made Three point you don't have to guess we'll guess up here at the microphone. I don't know, 40 million dollars? I know, I know. 47 million dollars, took a nice hit from the 300 million. What was the budget?

Still made a lot of money. 47, yeah, it's pretty good I guess guess we don't know what the budget was though The entire movie takes place in that horrible apartment Well possibly a bit they pull you 30 million dollars on baskets baby heads and neon It did come out in 1990 came in 24th out of all the movies that year the top three movies in 1990 were Home Alone Ghost Dances with Wolves The movie was beaten by nothing that we've done on the show that year. The top three movies in 1990 were Home Alone, Ghost, Dances with Wolves. The movie was beaten by nothing that we've done on the show, but it beat Ernest Goes to Jail

and Jacob's Ladder. Wow. This movie made more money than Jacob's Ladder. That's wild. That's a real scenario there. And this is what I want to kind of show you. Do you guys think that this movie is believable, like realistic? Alright, the audience says no. Here's John Travolta talking about his connection to this film. I can remember my mom's girlfriend saying, I see you, oh I see you. And I was thinking,

she is so dumb. Why is she talking to me like a baby? So John Travolta is hypothesizing that he was Mikey and then he continues right here. Toilet training, I remember really well. Okay, that was an upset. Suddenly there was a huge He continues right here. Okay, wait a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We should have started with this and have just talked about this clip for the entire podcast. There's no way he remembers potty training. He remembers his mother's friend making goo goo gaga faces at him and him going, she's an idiot.

Yeah. And then he remembers toilet training and being afraid of the big toilet. It's a sign. Oh, fuck ontology. Is that part of Scientology? Remember toilet training? Oh wow. Got it. Got it. Oof, my goof. That's like, that's some wild stuff right there. Like if you're the person on the other side of that interview, are you like, whoa, whoa, what? Are you sure you wanna say that?

By the way, shame on every journalist in Hollywood for not asking these fucking Scientologists some more questions. Couple of follow ups on what the fuck is going on. June, do you want to ask your question that you've been asking online? Where someone is? Where is Shelley Miscavige? Where is she?

Where is she? Do you think she's wherever Sbles is and and Rivka I Have another person that can join Shelley Rivka and scribbles. This is a person who? Well, I'll show you the half of the first trailer. This is the first trailer of look who's talking to okay. Take a look Oh, no, could you expect Tinker? And his life will never be the same. Boy, I gotta think about getting my own place. John Travolta. Don't hit girls even if they're asking for it.

What do you say about pushing them? Kirstie Alley. Mikey, no, no, don't do that. What'd I do? And the voices of Bruce Willis. Yeah, right back at you, babe. Roseanne Barr. What a slime bar.

Hey! And Richard Pryor as Mikey's best friend. Oh I heard that song before pal. What a crack up. Look who's... So Richard... I've got a lot of questions after that. Where's Mikey? What is that? Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor I guess recorded a lot of voices and then stopped. They said he got sick, but I also believe that it was maybe a day of recording. I could see Richard Pryor going, no, I'm out. No, thank you.

Also, that's a different baby. That's not Mikey. Yeah, this is a trailer before they were even in production. Or I guess they were just starting production. Are those clips from the first movie of Mikey? I guess. This is the first Look Who's Talking To trailer with Richard Pryor in it, and he was in the movie.

So Mikey from the first movie is not Mikey from the second movie? Correct. Wow. And then Mikey from the third movie goes back to looking like Mikey from the first movie. Richard Pryor's dialogue for this movie could not have, it could not have taken more than an hour. That kid has four lines.

If they got that, the session was over. We got it. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So Richard Pryor in Look Who's Talking 2, also another notable person who did not return the end teaser trailer, I guess at the end of Look Who's Talking 1 was a new baby comes out and it was Joan Rivers and she was like I have scheduling conflicts again two hours all she needed to do is find herself in a recording studio for two hours like no check please Wow I would like just I would honestly read like a 700 page oral history of these movies.

I would like these people to have to answer for the crimes that they've committed. But can we agree that Bruce Willis does a great job as Mikey? I don't know. If I'm being honest, I don't know if I mean honest. I don't know if we can agree Jason would recommend this movie boy, uh, I Mean maybe yeah. Yeah kind of really if you're gonna listen to this episode It's only 81 minutes. It's not even a full hour and a half. I would say you should like Fast-forward throughout. There's a lot of montages that are weird I mean obviously no, I would say don't watch this movie. It is for me a horror movie

But I mean in the context of what we're doing here, which is I don't even know what you're doing here Losing our minds for the last seven years like yeah, why not watch it? I mean you're this is what you're up to You're listening to the podcast watch the movie. I mean this is your fucking life dumb dumb June what do you feel I guess in that context, yeah, sure, watch it. I agree. I think this is one of those movies that is bizarre and weird. It's not like on the level of being like so bad it's good, but it's so bizarre that it's interesting. And at 81 minutes, it's one of those movies that I look at and go, thank you. Thank you, movie gods, for not pushing this out for two hours.

But yeah, I enjoyed it. Anybody want to plug anything? Anyone want to plug anything? We can plug just for Life Now and then worry about the podcast later. I'd like to plug Leah Remini's show Scientology the Aftermath. It's wonderful. It's wonderful. And they're all complicit. So just do it without what you will. Even Olympia Dukakis. Is she a Scientologist? No, but she's complicit because she didn't ask questions.

No, I mean at this point I don't think anyone knew anything, but now they all know what's going on. Jason? They all know what's going on. Guys, watch it. Just watch it. You thought you knew about Scientology, it's much worse. Jason? I want to plug the new Deaf Heaven record, which is fantastic, and I also would like to give a shout out to a great graphic novel called The Case of the Miss the missing men which everybody should pick up That's it interesting. I will point people in the direction of this movie slice that I am in that is coming out

Question mark soon. I say it not because it's not coming out But the way it might come out might surprise you. So be on the lookout for Slice. It's under your chair right now! But it has... This guy just looked. The guy in the front row was like... It's Chancellor Rapper and Zazie Beatz and Chris Parnell and Joe Keery from Stranger Things and me and it's weird and it's fun and check it out.

And also if you're not listening to Unspooleded the podcast that I do we're talking about good movies thank you guys for listening it's great we have great guests great guests on the show what are you great guests in the show are you still booking guests it's um you know what I think we are booked up for a bit are you still you're still doing that podcast yeah we have a hundred movies it's a mini series but I don't think we're maybe fit you in on this round. But the, it's cool. So, June, you have not been on Unscored. I haven't been asked.

Huh. Interesting. You know, look, and I'm sure like you guys, look, you guys would be great guests. I just don't want to, you know, it's just sort of like we've already booked it. So wait, what do you, what's the setup of the show? What do you do? Oh, so we watch movies and we talk about them. Oh.

Oh, but they're good. Oh, wait a minute. So, but June and I, we've had experience doing that. Some would say I feel like it's kind of like the expected choice. So, but just so I'm crystal clear, when you watch those movies, you're enjoying them, because those are like some of the classics. Having the best time. Never saw Taxi Driver until just the other night. Loved it.

Are you able to? I have a follow-up question. Are you mad at us that you won't let us watch good movies? Oh, you know what? No, I don't even want to. It's funny even saying mad at you guys, because I was talking about the relationship that I'm having with this host, Amy Nicholson.

We have such a great time. Wow. Get it. Fun. Really casual. Really laid back. Wow. June? Wow. June? Wow. I am here for you. Listen, thank you Jason. I guess did you ever consider us as guests? Because I know you're booked for the rest of this season. I'm sorry, we're out of time. That was a great show. Um, really fantastic show.

Um, I want to say, I want to say thank you Paramount Theatre. Thank you High Plains Comedy Festival. And right now, if you are hearing our voices, a big thank you to Mike Henderson, who is recording this, who gave up his date night tonight to be here to make sure that you're hearing it. Mike, in the booth, thank you Mike. Thank you staff. I do wanna say, Mike, I just got a text from your partner.

It just says, you dumped. And thank you to everybody here in Denver for coming out. We can't thank you enough. You guys listening to the show, traveling to be here means so much to us. And now it's time for second opinions. Jason and June and Paul, they all have thoughts about movies,

but some folks on the internet say they feel differently I would never say virtuosity is no good man what gives I don't agree with you I love Thailand or two gooby rule sky captain lives these are second opinions posted up on Amazon all they wanted is to rate these films five star second opinions give it up for Seth there you go right there and now it's time for second opinions. Well I just finished hearing Jason Paul and Jude's review of the film Look Who's Talking To.

I disagreed with them so I think that I'll go on Amazon and write a second opinion. Opinion. Oh Whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah second opinion And now it's time for second opinions. When one star reviews are not enough to satisfy, we go on Amazon to see who gives it five. We call them second opinions, reviews that are really whack. You say you love this movie and give praise that you can't take back. Amazing Harry Potter song. Well done. Give it up for Eve and Chelsea. There you guys go. Eve and Chelsea.

Well done. Well done. Yes, well done. What houses are you guys in? Well they were so many. Ravenclaw. Both? Hufflepuff, get outta here!