How Did This Get Made? - Munchies LIVE!

Episode Date: November 17, 2023

Paul, Jason, and June dive into the 1987 Gremlins knockoff, Munchies. LIVE from the Warner Theatre in D.C., the crew discuss using comedy props for sex toys, Dude's tragic story, evil Harvey Korman looking exactly like the "My Pillow" guy, and why Melvis is the MVP of the movie. Plus, the audience Q&A brings out a Space Lawyer, drunk Fry Guys, and the thought-provoking question, "Are the Munchies against Apartheid?" Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, and more!Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerCheck out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm ESTSubscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcastCheck out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

They aren't as cute as Magwai. They aren't as gross as Ghouli's. They aren't as evil as critters. But they are more perverted than them all. We saw munchies! So you know what that means. Let's get it! Drink body, hope to go all-stay Just to suck a plush to online for tippy We shot the video to the front Then we kept the stand alive They called me with a bad ass and he's on the line

Drinking eight feet in his cousin's cool with his eyes Cause a bad gym for me looking kind of night Holy shit, you're in love with all Jason who's getting laid Dole his paper shower, the monkey shots in the pain They're just a bunch of movies Why be making it great? There's a real question for the out of this kid, man. Hello, people of Earth, and hello, people of Washington, D.C.

We are live at the Warner Theater to talk about. Thank you. We are live at the Warner Theater to talk about the 1987 classic munchies. Oh munchies. Munchies, it's like Grimlin's Butchies here. Munchies are a bunch of perverted aliens. And if you've not seen the movie, let me tell you a little bit about it. An archeologist finds a strange creature in Peru and takes it home,

he dubs a creature, a munchy, but is unprepared for the ensuing chaos when the beast starts to mutate. Things get even more complicated when a con man steals the munchy. And that's what happens That's what happens in a movie that took 12 days to shoot. In a movie in which the puppets don't move their mouth. In a movie where there are more callouts to Grimlands than in the movie Grimlands. I love munchies. And I cannot wait to break it down with my two co-hosts. Please welcome to this stage Mr. Jason Manzookas. What's up, jerks?

That's right. That's right. How we doing DC? Fuck yeah! We did it! We fucking did it! Holy shit! Oh boy, we...

Oh man, I'm gonna admit, good, great, great looking crowd, great audience energy. I love every minute of it, but they seem to watch the trailer for Monchies as if they were genuinely interested in the movie, which I found chilling. They were like, it was disturbing to me. We've done six nights on the road. Six nights. And as many movies per night, yes, in six days, we've been watching these, I've at least been watching these during the day of the show.

So, it's it in the hotel. Do I drink off? No, like, what is, what do I do? But I will say every night, there has been a reaction, something. Oh, yeah. Here, it truly was a moment of like polite enjoyment. And maybe that's just good Washington, DC behavior. You've all seen some crazy shit and you've had to be like yes. And then you go home later and then you die, you unpack it there.

You in a public space. At this point, they're like we gotta chill out, we gotta be cool, we can't storm this day. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people pop for that. Big pop for J6. That's right, everyone. I will say a lot of people in this room, there's a lot of reddits that say that munchies were responsible for generations. A lot of people are saying that munchies were responsible for generations. A lot of people are saying that munchies were able to vote and they shouldn't leave.

Well, because they had one of the munchies got voter registration but then kept cutting itself in half. Suddenly, they're stacking the ballot box, these goddamn munchies. Technically in Georgia, that's still legal. They have these weird anti-munchy laws, or I guess pro-munchy laws. Anyway, we're going to get into the law. I think I'm so close to watching Munchy. I just want you to know about that. I know. Because when I was punching in, and it was like one of the first ones that came up,

and I was like, well, this has got to be it. No. And it was not. And I'm ones that came up and I was like, well, this gotta be it. No. And it was not. And I'm so glad. I'm so glad. I would have been out of my mind.

Not only is Munchy's a ripoff of Grimlands, but it also, the poster is also a ripoff of a lady in red, or woman in red, that G-wilder movie. Remember that G- Jean Wilder movie. Remember that Jean Wilder movie where a woman standing for Lady and Red? I believe so. The Munchy is taking the same position as Jean Wilder.

Wow. This movie, I could say so much about it. And you're telling me Munchy singular is not a sequel, a prequel, a spiritual sequel. No, I'm not. A, a prequel, a spiritual sequel. No, a legacy. A legacy, prequel. Munchy has its own set of sequels.

Munchies, one and done. Well, you know, because they respect the craft. They nailed it. They were like, we can't improve upon this. We're not. These got to give it their stamp of approval, but otherwise we're good. Someone did put on the discord. Are you picking munchies because of the rumored Grimmand's three,

which was supposed to take place in DC? No. No. I didn't even know there was a rumor about Grimmlin's 3 taking place in DC, but DC would be keyed into the rumor. Like as if, well, everybody must know about the Grimmlin's 3 rumor. Get it together, assholes. But there is one woman who knows a lot about a lot of things.

But I don't know how much she knows about munchies. We're about to find out. Please welcome to this age, June Diane Rapio! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Wow!

Wow! Wow! Wow! That's a weak intertor that is next level flexibility That is Thank you so much. I want to just quickly I need to discuss DC's reaction to the trailer. Yes I need to say something I need to weigh. I need my voice to be heard.

Because you all were silent. And at one point, we see where my mind went, is I was like, did they think we made this movie? Are they being polite? Are they being like, we should not laugh, because they chose it for us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. There was such a very kind reverence for us and the show. And the thing was they laughed at all the videos in the pre-show. Everything else. Everything else. Everything, like generous with laughter and applause and reaction. And then the trailer trailer you were like I got nervous to show the show is now okay every I got nervous that the audience left

Absolutely shocking or had been like put to sleep Let's talk about munchies the opening of munchies Begins with a young man named Paul who wears sneakers like mine, who is clearly in Peru, aka Calabasis, California. And he is with his dad. And this opening moment, I want to play it up top because I want to just unpack where this movie starts. Because yes, the munchies are weird, but the interpersonal relationships

between father and son in this movie across the board. This movie has more to say about fathers and sons than every Wes Anderson movie put together. Truly. Let's watch. If Wes Anderson movie put together. Truly. Let's watch, if Wes Anderson were to watch this movie, he'd never make another movie again. Let's watch the one here of Paul and his dad.

Paul, quit trying. You're not going to LA to become a comic, and that's it. Dad, come on. No, you're not Paul. First of all, you're not Paul. First of all You're not funny Second of all you don't know what LA is like. It's like New Jersey with earthquakes Come on, let's go the early bird catches the worm. Oh, it's breakfast ready doctor

We've fun so I want to translate the stone. Oh great remote that exciting Paul. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's really Great, Ramon. That exciting pull. Yeah, I'm sorry, it's really. Love it. I love that Paul is in a straight up Marty McFly. Everything in this movie is referencing a beloved movie of its literal time frame. Not even as an homage to something nostalgic from the past, but like, remember this from eight months ago?

This is to me the closest that we'll get to seeing what an AI-generated film is. It's like, big ol' I'm on board. It's like people like Rimmons, people like back to the future, we'll just mash it all up and it won't make sense, but it will have a plot kind of sort of sort of, I mean, have you guys ever seen this?

No. No, okay, mean either. Even though we've heard of this. I had because, again, the VHS box, I remember very vividly, it was very crazy for me to watch this because I am the age these kids are supposed to be. Forty. Yes. So, all of the styles, all of the references, everything in the movie is from my high school

era, including the convertible VW-rab. I love that car. The coolest cool girl car in school. It was like, oh my god. It's a sexy car. It's so, when you look at it now, if you took it out context, you'd be like, what is that ugly car? It's the hottest car in the world to me. I love that car. Well, this was made during a time where like high schoolers, all high schoolers were 37 years old.

And we're consumed with the cold war. Yes. And were consumed with the Cold War. Yes. Commies and the big one and spies. But what's so weird about this relationship is... Which I loved. I did too. And they're still together. In my mind, in my mind, long live Paul and Cindy.

Paul and Cindy, first of all, let's start with the positive. They did have a lot of chemistry on screen. They were so... They really did. They were very natural together. I love their choice not to react to anything. Me too. Nothing in my heart.

They never seem phased, but they're like, nah, absolutely nothing. And that goes for that extends to the rest of the people in the world. Nobody has a reaction to anything that's happening. That's a thing in the world. I will say another way this movie mimics my childhood is those were the only kinds of sex toys in bed

that we would have allowed also an inflatable hammer, a laser gun. Like that. No, here's my question though. Were those, were we supposed to in the world, at first of all, I didn't even know whose house it was. I thought it was Cindy's house, and then she was an older woman for about half of the movie.

So I had to do a complete reset where I was like, oh. When they said they were teenagers, I was like, I don't think so. I do not. Respectfully know. Yes. And then- We all do, with all due, I don't think so. I do not. Respectfully know. Yes. And then you do.

And then you do. With all due, I disagree. And we might look back on it and find out they were both 18. But in 1987, it just was weird. It doesn't make sense. It was a weird time where people were older. OK, so then I realized, and the reason why I thought

that it was Cindy's house, and that she was already out of high school, and that this was a crime was because It was because she's also with the police guy. Well, no because When they get back to the house, and when I guess we'll talk about the art direction and the sets for Do you think you do? Do you think we need to? What on earth do we talk about? but I but Do you think we need to? What on earth do we talk about? But the father says that he's gonna go to a hotel.

Now, so I think he's staying at a hotel and that it's Cindy's home. And I was in a different movie for very long time. But once I realized, I was like, okay, wait, no, this is Paul's house. This is his father's house and the uncle says. The father goes to a conference. We gotta just say, the father is played by Harvey Korman,

comedy legend, not getting nearly the applause he should be right now. This audience, which I believe should be full of moms and dads night out, should all be, wait, I'd like, can everybody who's here on moms and mom and dads night out stand up? Ha ha. Yes! Yes!

I love it. Yes, look at this. Mom and dads night out. Woo hoo. This is incredible. I love it. I love it. Well, Harvey Kwan in place two rolls, two brothers. I just want to go back. Oh it, I love it. Well, Harvey Cormin plays two roles, two brothers.

I just want to go back before I read it. Harvey Cormin plays two roles. And they almost never share the screen, they can. But it's like Harvey Cormin, the dad of Paul, needs to leave so that the uncle can arrive as if it's a play. The movie feels like a play. It also, that plot line, you can't tug on it too tightly because it will fall apart immediately. I don't understand the larger implications, but I want to just go back. Tug on it too tightly and it will fall apart completely. That's just he shirt.

Just like a monkey. Don't tug on their string to tightly or they will fall apart. The sun opens up the movie, pretending to be Kirk but not doing a Kirk impression from Star Trek. He's like, Star Day 2, 3, 5.4. And I'm with my dad, who's a Klingon. So when the dad says, you're not 4, and I'm with my dad, who's a cling on.

So when the dad says, you're not funny, hard to agree. At the end of the movie, at the end of the movie, when he decides to, not go to college, but pursue comedy, I was like, go to college. He is doing nothing, when you set up a main character, and the first thing another character says is you are not funny. It is hard to laugh at that character because we understand the world things.

He is not funny. The number of times I wrote, oh, Paul isn't funny in my notes because Paul is trying the whole movie to be quippy and funny and he's got comebacks clever thing and none of them work. He says one thing which I wrote down he goes, what about my sports rundown? End of scene. That's not the end of scene. Then she gives, she's giving him the rundown of battle of the network stars. Right, but I'm saying because if that's his sports, which is not funny as well,

but I'm saying that they leave that scene. He walks up the camera. What about my sports rundown? Cut to car. Cut to car as if the audience is gonna be like, yes! And it's so tough. I mean, the other thing, Paul, Paul Sheer, not Paul from the movie.

The other thing is that, so once I realized that this was his home, then I put together that those things that were in his bedroom, the sex toys, were part of his prop comedy. It's gotta be. It's gotta be. The heads of you. It's gotta be. It's gotta be. And the heads of you. It's gotta be.

Otherwise, he's too young to be having sex. Right, because he has that big hammer, and then he has. Inflatable hammer. Like Dr. Which he would have had to inflate before the sex. Imagine if you were making it out, and then I was like, hang on a second.

And he keeps the hammer, like, within arms reach. Because she is surprised by his like, want to play Doctor? Yes. Click link. Okay. But I will say, even with all of the preposterousness, the laser gun, all the stuff, they still had legitimate sexual chemistry. They did?

I was on board I thought he would attract him. I felt like a creepy munchie. I felt like a creepy munchie as well I didn't understand I feel like a creepy munchie I genuinely didn't understand parts of the sex scene though. And I didn't like that. I mean, like that feeling of not knowing. When she says, when she says, Paul, that she doesn't understand, she says, it eroded town. She said, that's not a watermelon.

What is that? I don't understand that. That's not a watermelon. Where she said it behind the watermelon or I said, what was that? I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't be Carrot Top, I don't know, but is this Carrot Top's

story? Like, biopic? Is this Carrot Top's biopic? I'm on board to say yes. I mean, they also are in a twin bed playing space invaders or... I didn't like that. You know, I don't... a marriage- That makes me- That makes me-

I feel like they were too young to be having sex. There was too many little kid toys there. And not for nothing. We haven't mentioned this. The Munchy gets in on the action. And I didn't care for that one bit. I didn't like the Munchy crawl. Then I didn't like the chewel like that.

You know what? That's too rough. I didn't like that. Listen, I didn't like the Munchy crawl, then I didn't like the Chew like that's too rough. I didn't like that. Listen, I had a realization while I was watching Munchies, which was like, there's so many movies we've watched like this. I don't know, I don't remember them. Can you name four?

No, I can't. I don't remember them because I have to remove them from my files. But I feel like the creatures in this time, late 80s, early 90s, they were always teenagers. The creatures were always like hormonal teen boys. They were never female. Like I don't remember any grappling. I think you're don't remember any Gremlin.

I think you're forgetting about the lady Gremlin. The sexy lady Gremlin in Gremlins too. Who wore lipstick? You know because she has lipstick. But you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. It's a smurfette situation. It is, and it's so interesting because they're always like

hormonal teen boys who are looking at porn and eating junk food. And you would think the gremlins would be women, because if you get them wet, they go crazy. Not to go too far down the rabbit hole of getting gremlins wet, but I will say this. I respect Grimmlin's for having three rules clearly stated at the top of the film. This movie makes no rules.

There's one which I understand which is don't cut them up, which is a dark rule. Not only are there no rules, but like Gremlins, you get rules, but the Gremlins don't talk. The mistake was the munchies are constantly learning speech and getting better at talking and in a way that nobody then is like, I come the animal we got is talking. Now speaks English. It says pyramid clearly in the opening scene I was like how come they're not being like did this fucking thing just say pyramid it says Adios immediately first of all let's go back and I want to hit that moment you talked about earlier as if it's a

Play because they walk into this cave in Peru because they walk into this cave in Peru, a bunch of peaches, and okay, the centerpiece of a small set is this giant inking god. Harvey Korman walks to the sidewalk. Oh, and then what is this as if it was like a giant set that he did not see, and then the sun says to a piece of cardboard and it's made out of gold. It's like, we all have eyes.

This is not a radio play. That is cardboard. That thing was in the center of the room that you did. You didn't just stumble into it, but they are acting multiple times as if we can't see it. And then when they find the munchy, when they find the munchy, it's in the dark, and you can't see it. For me, the first, my first, the thing that tells me very clearly this is something rare is that the munchy is wearing its own clothes.

The munchy is wearing clothes that have like a belt and like metallic pieces and once again nobody seems to think it's weird that the munchy speaks English that the munchy is wearing. Munchy, and then when the munchies split, and then split, and then split, they all wear clothes as well. They sure do. And what, give me munchy rules, please. And they come out with personalities.

When the munchy is split open, one of the munchies goes, oh, what did I drink last night? Yes, nothing. You were not alive last night. One of the munchies is French. When did we get a French munchie? Get the fuck out of America.

It's so hard, because it does seem like there seems like one of the rules is that munchies have been existing on some plane that we don't know about, and they are, I think at the sense that they had been born, but they had been resurrected. And so they have been,

they have been, or they had been, on pause on ice. They had, well, they had literally been, I think statues. Oh. I think they had been statues, then exposure to something caused them to become.

It's a foul. Hold on. Hold on, crowd, yes. It's coming. There's a man in the crowd who's coming. I love you. Guys, please don't fuck during the show. I love your enthusiasm, but I worry for the people next to you.

Is that it? OK, so now I'm not satisfied with this. That's what gets me. No, I think you're right. That's the people next to you. Is that it? Okay, so now I'm understanding this. No, I think you're right. That's what happened later is they get turned back into stuff. No, but they know what you're holding, but wait. They can get turned into stone if they get electrocuted, which is a rule that we don't learn until it actually happens. And we're not even positive that that's a rule.

It just happens. But that's true. So what Jason's saying though is that once they're electrocuted and turned into stone, the reason I'm not understanding this, the reason why he smashes them is because if he doesn't, they will come back to life. At the very end of the movie,

when he gives the stone version, the recently petrified monkey, they give it to the bearded or a museum curator. He's driving away in a pickup truck. I don't think so. Lightning hits the back of the pickup truck and the Munchy comes back to life. And you hear it goes like,

hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. See, I thought Munchy's would only come back to life, though. If they were sort of like regenerated, like a new piece of an old munchy. A new piece of an old munchy. Coming this fall on NBC. A new piece of an old munchy.

I thought that's when they came back to life. I didn't realize that lightning also brought them back. I want to be very clear. I don't think the movie is interested in interrogating the rules of munchies at all, but late in the movie, Paul does figure out that lightning or electricity petrifies the munchies. So my assumption is the same thing must have freed them. From a person maybe who really is a munchie expert. Are there any munchies. So my assumption is the same thing must have freed them. From a person maybe who really is a munchie expert.

Are there any munchies? Is there like a munchie expert in your financial? Unless you are Roger Corman, the producer or the director. Some things have done that. Something happened at the beginning of the movie that tied lightning to the munchies waking up. I believe that something is munchy Pichu is tied to the game. The man who's coming is still coming. This gentleman is wearing a munchies shirt. Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah, it's in Tim. Tim, you are dressed as the dude. Oh, yeah, oh, the dude, not the dude from Big Big Lebowski but the dude from this movie. Yes, absolutely. Okay, so Tell me what you know So when I watched the trailer there was a scene that was not in the movie where you see lightning strike the statue And that's how the first monkey comes alive. Why would they cut that? I? Guess maybe because well, no, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, you know what?

We needed directors cut of munchies. Here is my bigger issue. The father, Harvey Korman Prime, not the evil Harvey Korman. Harvey Korman, evil Harvey Korman is essentially, did anybody else feel like, Evil Harvey Cormin was Mike Lindell. Yes, the My Pillow Guy.

I could not get that out of my mind. Both in look and entire ethos. I feel like Mike Lindell has built his entire character off of Harvey Cormin's Cecil Waterman in this movie. But wait, I wanna talk about this moment here. We're talking about these munchies, they find an alien and the father comes home and says, okay, well, I have to go to a lecture, watch the munchy.

Can I back up? Yeah. Wait, why wouldn't... I mean, it seems like why would you go to a lecture? You've found an alien, wouldn't your first priority be? Like, let me get the word out, let me figure it out this. And by the way, is it an alien?

It could be a baseball glove of the mouth. I agree that nobody is really interested in the most interesting thing in the movie, The Munchies. Right? Paul and Cindy want to have sex. Harvey Corman's got to go to a thing. Cecil Waterman is only interested in his toxic waste food empire. With little Ed and Big Ed are just trying to do law enforcement, we haven't even touched

on Melvus. Give me a Melvus spin-off now. Melvus is MVP of the movie. I literally watched that and I was like, oh god, there are no roles like Melviss anymore. There aren't. There are. My favorite Melviss.

Absolutely right. You're absolutely right. When they do lights up in the elevator and Melviss and Big Ed are making out. That's part of the movie. I was like, this movie's a home run. There are so many things though that go on in this movie that we just accept. And I feel like, first of all, how does Cindy know that the munchies will enjoy

a strip tease? Like, I think for Cindy because Cindy turns it on a number of times in the movie. Right. With Little Ed, like a number of times. Absolutely. I feel like Cindy is just at a point where she's like, if I need something, I'm gonna like strip tease. Who did the test work? And the test worked.

And she's almost run away with. It was like a impersonator. And why was like, Joe Montana impersonator. She almost married or ran away with a Joe Montana impersonator. This is the thing that I love so much about the movie. There are these references to people we never see. There's a reference to Duke's girlfriend Denise and they talk about her, the two women in the beach just playing with a tire.

Yeah. And a ball, a tire and a ball. So there was a game. They were like, do you want to go play tire ball at the swimming hole? And they are, I want to say like, in 18 years old. And they're all at the golf course at the end. Every character from the many golf course.

The 36 whole mini golf course. This movie is very special. It's very, very special. Well, that scene alone, the tires scene, where they're just floating around, but have in a conversation. And they're in high school. They're in high school.

They're in high school. They are 40-year-old women. They discuss. Which is great. They discuss dudes girlfriend, and they reference her. She's a woman named Denise who runs the salad bar. She's a salad bar manager at that restaurant beef land Western beef western

West and I once she was once she was brought up. I was like when are we gonna see her? What are we gonna see her like I could not wait to meet this woman? They runs the salad bar. They also so They run the salad bar. They also so derisively describe, dude, as a burnout Santa Cruz bedhead. What a savage take down of dude. But we never meet Denise. We never go to Western B-Fland, but she's not there.

And I was just like, and that's the thing about that woman, what's her name, Melvis? Melvis. There are these characters, Melvis? Melvis. Melvis. There are these characters, some who we never even get to layer eyes upon, who are so rich. Including many of the munchies to just back at a moment to when you said, when Paul and Cindy are pinned down by the munchies outside the model home from arrested development that they appeared a living. Let's be clear. They

appear to live in the model home from arrested development. Anyway, which is trying to be bought by Harvey Korman's brother because he needs more land to hide more toxic waste. I mean, but he has like acres and acres of land under the city. Which, when you get to the final battle, seems very empty. When, yes, oh yeah. When Cindy and Paula pin down because the munchies have a shotgun and Cindy does the stripties, one the the munchies have a shotgun and Cindy does the strip tease one of the munchies says

Must be jelly because damn don't shake like that and do you remember the munchies? How to be creeps who taught the munchies how to be creeps and Can I take a class? I don't know Jason Ramon, I don't know. Do you not remember? No. This is what was said in my household. When must be jelly, because jammed don't shake like that. That was a, this is a podcast episode. Our podcast?

Yes. Yes. What episode? You guys just, what one? Talking cat. Why do you remember that? What is talking cat? You were there.

Honestly, this podcast is taking up too much space. You're all mom and dad's on a night out. Remember your children, not the episodes that we talk about stuff from our childhoods, you idiots. My stepfather had a little bit of a belly and my mom would rub his belly and go, must be jammed, because jelly don't shake like that.

And you were privy to that? Saw it happen all the time, it was. You, that you like honestly should have been removed from that house. And maybe this is word for word when I said the last time, but that is reason to call child protective services. I don't think you should have had to hear that. Know that, see that?

I jumped out of my seat because you and Jessica told me that is not a thing that people say. Well, I'm happy to be proven wrong, except I'm sad for you. This is, this victory is heartbreaking for you. But I will say, maybe you're right, people don't say it, munchies do. Munchies are from another planet.

Wait a minute. Who is your mom? I'm dating a munchie. Was it Arnold? Munchies are from another planet. Wait a minute. Who is your mom dating a munchie? Was it Arnold? They call him Arnold because of the pig from... Green acres. Oh, green acres.

Okay, you're not. But I also... The movie has no original ideas at all. I do want to talk about the lynchian vibes in this film, which is the evil brother is always on TV. Incredible commercials. I have some commercials to take a look at here. I love every one of them. Clip 3. Let's take a look at some of these commercials. You know, there must be over 60 grams of white food around the market now, but there's only one original. Seasals, all natural wine-cooled are made out of wholesome California products.

Seasals is the real thing. Home of the Valley's best steaks and crudgy stator tots, featuring the myelons 700 item salad bar. This steak is so tender, it doesn't even taste like me. I just love those tater tots. Yeah, for beef, so tender, it melts in your mouth. It's Western beef land. For convenience, valentokis.

There's nowhere to go, nothing to do. Let's go break some windows that can tune your high. I'm off with some vandalism, dude. You see, that's what happens when American youth doesn't have the proper recreational facilities. When they don't have a video arcade they can go into to develop the necessary hand-on coordination that's so vital in the computer age. When they don't have a cal snacks and for him to go into where they can get good food so they can grow up and be big and strong. And why? The little special inch of scoops oppose the solar ball for their own

selfish reasons. Okay, so stop it for a second. Here's my thought. That is my going down. The movie begins as a drive-in to sweetwater, a sweet valley, whatever the community is, is the community only, like, Ferris Wheel or amusement park things because it seems that the entire community is a mini golf course and multiple food stands. And he also controls all the televisions and has an elaborate system of listening in on all the houses. Why does he need his brother's house? He has everything.

It does not matter. And right, the listening stuff is real creep city. Here's my question. And that commercial about video games and our Cades. Are those two kids, Paul and dude, when they were younger? I don't think so. I think these are modern, contemporary. Yeah.

Okay, they sure did look like Paul and dude. I thought it was your son's cousin Sam. The movie, I will say, genuinely has a very anti-meat message. Multiple characters are vegetarian, anti-red, knee, and just need that part of it. Including like big Ed and like a lot, the movie has a real, if there's a message to the movie, it's don't eat red meat. But our main character, our Paul, is so upset that his girlfriend's gone vegetarian and then she's really explaining it to him. She's like, no, we can still go to other places and he's like, well, maybe Flee a fish.

It's like, well, actually not there because that is fried and beef fat. Which felt like, wow, what is the, why are we going down this rapid health? I felt like that was the movie telling the audience, you know? McDonald's flay-a-fish, fried in big fat, big fat. I felt like that was them trying to be like, no, red meat is bad, and here's a strange place you might not know it is. But in a movie in which we are putting up vegetarianism,

we are also brutally treating animals because the way that Mike Lindell, that fish tank is disgusting. It is green, it is so gross. And this is before any attacks. He is overfeeding those fish, he is not cleaning that tank. And he's... When you are right, though, that this movie... This movie is more interested in interrogating like the mystery of red meat than like the mystery of aliens. Or whatever they are. Or just talking animals.

And I have liked that about it. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because Michael and Del Harvey Corman is so much more upset by the death of his tropical fish than he is by his steps on dude. And by the way, he's been dude step mother because isn't it revealed that she adopted to him from a previous relationship?

Anyone knows how dude was adopted. At a level. What the circumstances were. At the age of your hand. I want to say, I could not, I remember, I'll listen to it twice. I have a theory, but I want to say this movie is the music, the look, the poppy, the colors, is fun. It's constantly telling you we're having fun, right? Dude's storyline is a tragedy.

It is. If the movie was about dude, it would be heartbreaking. He is adopted by Melvis when Melvis was with his father who I believe has perished. I don't know that that's true. I thought he was adopted when Melvis is cousin abandoned or died. Oh, that's it. Okay. So that's it.

So in heartache, I- Which actually endeared me more to Melvis because I because I don't think Melvus had a romantic relationship with dude's parents. Yes, you're right. I don't think that Melvus is really in love with anybody truly. I think she's in it for the money. Well, I have a question.

If I'm Melvus, I'm like, why didn't you cast me in this commercial? Yeah, that's all. There is a perfect part for her to eat that tighter, tighter, yeah. Maybe she had to leave early that day on the 12-day shoot. I felt so bad for, I felt so bad for dude, even though he like cuts a munchy the first munchy in half but his life he is just trying to listen to the dead he's just trying to listen to the dead but how let me ask a question how is he killed oh pa I believe he's killed when the munchies turn the volume on the stereo up so loud that he's listening to truckin' I think.

And it kills him because the jam is so powerful. All right. These munchies are super violent, yet they just raised the volume. He could at any point take off the earphones But he is killed By loud noise by volume and like like the munchies should turn it up and he'd be like all right Like he feels like to me the the bus driver from the Simpsons It feels like to me the bus driver from the Simpsons. How did this get me?

The relationship between the father or the stepfather and the son is so violent. He punches him, kicks him in the ball, slaps him in the face. He almost strangles him to death. And only because he likes the dead. He did ask for $500 for the weekend. Just for the weekend. While he hacky-sacks alone indoors. As someone who went to Middlebury in the early 90s and has extensive experience with hacky-sacking.

It is strictly outdoors. I also. And with a group. I spent a lot of time as the movie progressed wondering what happened to Dude's body. Was it, I also wondered that because I was like, when they're there and they're getting ready to, they're getting all physical, Michael and Del and Melvus,

they start to get all physical. I was like, is dude's body still right there in the chair? 100%. And is that like juicing it a little? Oh. This is an era. Like there's so many movies like this, and Paul earlier you ran them down.

Critters. Critters, jollies. Goules. Goules, alphon TV. There's so many movies that are like this that have this whole thing. Cindy, from this movie, looked it up also in Critters. Yes.

Also in Critters. By the way, Cindy was amazing. Cindy was electric. I'm not saying Cindy. Harvey the way, Cindy was amazing. Cindy was electric. Hello. Cindy. Harvey Corman, electric. I just... So good. I will just say that there's a couple things I want to talk to and I will get to the

audience, but I would be remiss if we didn't just for a moment discuss the grandma. The grandma and the car. Incredible. Before you have a grenade or did they have a grenade, the grandma... They have the shotguns still. And the grandma is fighting them as if we're in some sort of Mad Max world.

Which I would love. I would love that. Grandma's versus Monchies? Well, I had missed that it was the 4th of July. So when she started throwing fireworks at them, I was like, wow, this woman. They explode her car. And then the munchies are the munchies steel-dooded car,

which is a Gremlin? Yes. Right? It is a Gremlin, right? I believe the license plate says, oh no, Gismo. Does it really incredible? So it is. Wow. So that's incredible.

Oh, Gismo. So they steal a Gremlin. The munchies proceed to joyride in this Gremlin. For I'm going to say 50 to 60 minutes of the movie. It's just them driving. That's it. Them driving, creating havoc, and then the other 40 minutes are them just playing at a miniature golf course, not interacting with humans at all. I'll be honest,

the humans in this movie are reprehensible in every single way. I side with the munchies. I think the munchies get it. I wanna live a munchy life. I don't wanna be Paul or Cindy or Harvey Korman Prime or Michael and Del Harvey Korman or Melvus or Big Ed or Little Ed. I wanna be with the munchies cruising around, getting girls bikini tops off. Here's the thing.

At a certain point in the movie, I'm like, oh, the The humans are the munchies and what I mean by that What do you mean by hold on? What I mean by that Is that the humans have been ingesting toxic waste? Yes for I don't know decade. How many years has he been in business? Immyrian ways. Yes.

As well as asbestos. Oh my God. So I was like, oh, I think maybe where we're headed is finding out that the munchies have more humanity and have. I think they do. And we are talking about turning to aliens that they can't. We are talking about creatures.

If you're not seeing the movie, stop the podcast now and watch it. That are the equivalent of, and maybe some of you will remember this or not, but like a little thing that you would put on the tip of your pencil that just has they don't move They are munchies are on sticks their mouth doesn't move their eyes don't move They are just being like it's like this Monday here This Munchie on the on the post that you have on the on the screen behind us for those listening at home is so much more like Realized and so much more I have to say Paul. I don't think that Munchie's seen it. Is this Munchie from this movie? No, that is a...

I didn't see this Munchie. I never saw this. That is an artist's representation of a Munchie because this Munchie looks like the X-Man longshot. I could not find a high-res image of a Munchie because Munchies are not, they're not ready for prime time. The munchies look munchies are truly mostly robed.

And they are like, jawhas with the head of Gonzo's rats from the Muppet Show. Right? That's what they're like. It's like Gonzo's rats from the Muppet Show, but with Jawa Rose. And they never move. We never see them move.

No, they just move up and down. I want to say before you jump out there, I found the quote, because we were talking about dude's lineage before, and I knew I wrote it down, but I just found it. Harvey Corp, Mike Lindell Harvey Corp, and says, why'd you adopt that kid? And she says, I guess I felt sorry for him since he was so ugly and stupid.

Justice for dude! This poor kid was doomed from the start. Paul has every opportunity afforded to him and is only rewarded with childlike sex and more opportunity. Give something a dude. All right, I'm going on to the crowd to see what people have. Be careful, Paul. I will. Hi, how are you?

What's your name? Madeline. Okay, in your question. Well, head mistress, Rayfield. Yes. I would, first of all, like to know if these creatures that we see in these movies, they're horny teenagers innately or looking at a titty magazine is what makes them weaponize women's bodies. So it's such a great question because when when

we're in Peru and we're first introduced to our first munchy, I was like oh I like this guy. Arnold? Yeah like this little voice and I was like, oh, I like this guy. I like? Yeah, like this little voice, and I was very, um, endeared to him, and then, yeah, he became a man, and... He gets cut in half first, and then... Then when he gets cut in half... No, oh no. One of the first things that they do is put a pornography in front of him.

Well, they give him candy first, like ET. Right, then he throws it away and they go, oh, we got a litter bug. Oh yeah. Hilarious joke. Then they take them on a 12-hour flight back to San Francisco. I feel like when he gets cut in half and suddenly is

multiple munchies, that's when they're super creepy. Yes, but I do think that there's something set in Peru that seemed really important, but it happened super fast, where the Paul's dad talks about how quickly munchies can learn. And so I think that they are learning there. That's the reason why they speak Spanish in the beginning of the movie because of where they are. And then they are very quick learner. So I do think that one of the reasons why they become sexualized and so obsessed with boobs

is because of what's happened with that magazine. But that's not a bad thing, right? No, it's devastating, actually. Uh-oh. Devastating to me. All right, your name and your question. Hi, my name's Maya. I wanted to discuss the fact that Big Ed was at a riot

control convention and then came back with a massive gun. Is this movie A-C cab? Is that like what we're supposed to take away from it? I mean keep in mind little Ed says earlier if she wasn't so cute I'd mace her. After a routine police stop where he's like using his power to keep her under his brawl. It is very, not cool at all, little ed. It's so funny, because I didn't hear that about Big Ed, and I missed it,

and I didn't wonder why he had that riot helmet on for most of the... He was just coming, and he picked up the helmet, and I think the gun, all of it came from the convention. I think some of it, though though was because he was bald. Paul. I think that.

Interesting. Say more, Paul. Say more. I think under me. I think as a bald man, I can say that in 1987, times were in kind to the bald. And he felt like his masculinity might have been, you just felt that way. He has so much testosterone.

That's why he doesn't have hair. But yet, you're saying he doesn't have hair because he has too much testosterone. That's the truth. Look up. He's so manly as to be, is to issue the need for hair. That's the way it works. Anyway, is it? That's the way it works. Anyway, is it?

That's... I've booked. That is a scientific... Oh, God. Too much hair. So... He... He was trying to keep himself

very masculine with having that chrome dome. Because at one point when he does take it off they make fun of them. Yeah, no, this is a sad story. This movie has a lot of sad stories. This is like I said, a lynchian tale of small towns. Well keep in mind Harvey Corman Prime and Paul's home. I Well, no, maybe I'm wrong. Sorry Michael in Dell and dude and Melvus is home has like a gun rack in the living room It was a cool to rack

Other house here. He's what was in that room a pool table a Pool queue where there are. That came from stamps of some sort. Yes, from a bunch of green stamps that didn't know what that meant. Then there's also a fondue maker and a platter. Can we talk about where the munchies get into the kitchen best?

Can you put that kitchen picture up? And one of the munchies goes, ah, this is the ugliest kitchen I've ever seen. Again, I agree with the munchies. But I have to know what that munchie is. I think I'm team munchie. I've just been given a Robert Piccardo ice cream helmet right here.

I was just, I have it in my notes. I have it in my notes. Has anybody come with the ice cream cone hats? Yes. They're all great. Anybody else ice cream cone hats? Where? Stand up if you're wearing an ice cream cone hat. There's one. Oh, there. There's two. Up there. Up there. Where else? Right there. Right there. Ice cream cone hat. Ice cream cone hat.

Ice cream cone hat. I'm made of saying. Ice cream cone hat. Yeah, you did it. You did it. It's worth it. Mom and dad, night out. We made ice cream hats.

By the way, the ice cream cone family, I love them. Little buddy Holly. But I will say this, Beth, the other side here too. This movie is so janky that when they pull up to the realty sign, they clearly just tape. Oh yeah, and clinic. I loved this. I was so upset we didn't get to go into the red coat, realty, and clinic, because I wrote it in my notes thinking,

here we go. And then when they get to the clinic, the next slide, the one that you just showed, you will see they just masking taped a little cross on the door, the one that we just saw before this. I mean, that car is sexy as hell. Yes, great. It is, that car is sexy as hell. Yes, great. It is, that is the clinic. I loved that the ice cream dad kept getting mauled by munchies, and that part of his personal mythology

is that he'd previously been mauled by a bear. What a fucking hero. That's what I'm saying. This movie gives back stories and narratives to the most unsuspecting character. I left it. You could make that story of every character. The women from the lake who are cheerleaders.

Let me show you the story. The munchies get the police. Everybody made it. We didn't even talk about the smaller people who worked at the french fries. Yes Yes, I'd watch a whole movie about that of just the work conditions at burger whatever it was called What's it all one of them seem to be a child?

Be flamed Western be what? Burger land. Beef land? Western beef land. What? Burger land. It was called burger land. Oh wait a second. So burger land is not Western beef land. No. Oh, different. Western beef land is a restaurant.

Burger land is a side of the road. I mean, you are watched. Did you eat it? This is crazy. I am up here in the balcony. Wow, Paul, that was quick. Be careful, Paul. What an amazing crew.

Be careful, Paul. Amazing. The DC balcony is absolutely dangerous. All right, all right. What do we got? What do we got? All right, we got so many. I want to talk to these three guys who are dressed in the fry guy costumes

from just the four mentioned roadstie burger stand. So the three of you, four of you, okay, welcome, hi. You're adult men. Please post pictures. All right, here we go. How you doing? Great. How are you?

I'm great. Great. Oh, boy. Wasted. Oh, boy. The belt, the balcony. He's my first out here. This guy has never seen the show before.

Have you heard the show before? No. Wow. And yet he has been in the pool. And yet he is in costume. And yet he's in costume. Oh, you're in costume. This is a hero, DC. Oh, you're in costume.

Oh, you're in costume. Did you see the movie? You know. He is not in the movie. He's not in the movie. Why are you waiting in the costume? He was abducted by friends, put into a costume, brought to the show, and in the balcony of course.

And it's so confused about what's happening. Does anyone, I'm confused as well too? Great boy. Anyone have a question of these fry guys? I have one. Great. What's that smell? Dookie from, from from from holy shit.

I'm moving on to the old bar. It's Sunday night. You guys have to work and run the country tomorrow. What the fuck are you up to? Get it together. The balcony is full of monsters with 40 taped to their hands. All right, I respect your self. I am back with someone from the discord who had a...

How do you know what is discord? What is discord? I think discord is people who are at a loss with each other. Is that what it is? Well, the discord has a lot of different people, but this person that we'll be introducing has a very special greeting for Jason. Hello, fellow Nihonter.

Are you kidding? I am not. Where are you? I'm really started the tides. You fuck you. Yeah. That's all. Well done.

Oh wow, this is wild. Do I know you? You fuck you. Yeah. Well done. Oh, wow. This is wild. Do I know you? You're about 10, 15 years old. Okay, be cool. Okay, be cool, guy. 10 to 15.

Just because I'm 50 and you're in the balcony, doesn't mean you can condescend to me. You think you're fucking better than me? You think you're fucking better than me? I'll fucking kick your ass. I'll meet you at fucking Shutt Beach and I'll fucking be your ass, dude. All right, so this gentleman has not only a question brought with him an expert to help

us unpack his question. So Cecil talks about how he would have had to bribe NASA for an endorsement. Now I don't believe NASA does endorsements, but my colleague here is a space lawyer, and he can speak to that. Space lawyer! Oh, shit! Alright. Man, is that your official title space lawyer? Space law council. Holy shit! Spaceloyer? Spacelaw Council.

Holy shit! That's right! That's right! People from the hot hangout with space lawyers. Alright, so the question stands. Will NASA take bribes? Now, I'm not counseled for NASA. So I can't speak on behalf of NASA.

But as I understand, they do not do endorsements. NASA does not do endorsements. Can I ask, just out of curiosity, what is the most interesting space case you've had? I can't talk about clients. Wow. Wow. Wait, let me ask you this. Have you ever represented anyone who was attacked by a munchy space creature or not? I don't know. Has there been any munchies in court? Well, they're not alive anymore, so I can't talk about. Is there anything? Is there anything? again, cut this from the podcast, nobody's gonna talk about it.

Is there any space specific that you have knowledge of that you can share with us? Don't blow it. No. His friend, his friend has advised him no. Whoa! But now I have a friend who's better here. I'm not going to blow up a spot unless he wants me to. But we are right here.

All right. You have more? So go out on time. Now that Hanck I want to talk more? Classic, no, Hanck. All right. So my question is about the business of his bribing the USSR.

So he says, the Soviets endorsed it because I cut them in for a percentage. How is that not more expensive and more illegal than bribing NASA? Good question. I'm clear. You would need a space lawyer to answer it. Except this asshole's real tight lift. Next time, hang up with Gossipy or Space lawyer.

Yeah, he brought him up there. He gave us nothing. You know, you're going to give me a space lawyer. This guy better fucking show up with details. He better be like, I know where the eight, where the munchies are buried. All right, what do you got? Okay, so towards the end of the movie, in the factory we see a shot that it has graffiti

in the background that says, stop apartheid. Yes. Yes. I wrote this, I wrote this in my list of things. I wrote this in my list of things that were from my high school experience. Go ahead. Okay, my question is based on your assessment

of their behavior throughout the movie, are the munchies against apartheid and did they write that? Wow, now that is a question. That would be incredible. I feel like, yes, give it up for this hero. I do feel like the munchies are the only people, are the only beings in the movie that understand the truth. So yes, I believe.

I will say that. I will say that. I will say that. I will say that. More humanity than the humans in this movie. Yes, I agree. Full stop. I will also say though, the munchies do refer to Harvey Korman as a honky. That's true.

So what are this? This opens up. I don't know. I wish I knew. All right, so obviously we had opinions about this film, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions. Notty little munchies, blowing up old ladies' cars.

Running online to give this movie five stars. Don't you know how it goes when you give a munchy a porno. Whatever you do, don't go and chop a mo What are you this jostling and Owen? Just let it out with a Joni Mitchell song! Let me just tell you, Jocelyn Owen killed it. Costumes, check. Duo, check.

Hit that moment, moment, got out. Got out. And the song choice was based on Joni Mitchell home run. All right, our final one, our fry guy. He's wearing fries that say BM. Well, that's from the movie. Oh, balcony, balcony monsters. Not bowel movement.

Okay, also a tank top that says duke. That's right. From the old bar. Who's barred? And a headband, okay. Okay. Let's do this. That's how I'm keeping cool, man. And the old bar and a headband okay, okay Let's do this. It's how I'm keeping cool man

This you'll go like one of two ways and I will say this I'm excited for either outcome By the way, I'll say this I'll say this DC. Every single person has crushed. This is gonna be the icing on the cake. Get ready, my guy. Turn that microphone up so it gets together. Here we go, yeah, you push it up, yeah. Here we go, here we go. Give me a second to breathe here, hold on.

Take your time. You need to do any vocal. You ready to tell me how? All right, what? Do you want to do a theater vocal warm-up? No, no, no. A silk slip stop. It doesn't.

Go forward, man. I'm gonna show on tour. And now it's time for a second. A pause. I've got a pocket full of french fries. I've got a second opinion that's all mine. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Take it. Take it take it take me out You should walk away now I'll be honest you should walk away now you want to keep going You want to let it roll let's see what you go bye guy All right You want a gamble? You want to let it roll? Let's see what you got, bye, guys. Oh, hold on, hold on. All right, all right. Try as you might, and you're never going to screw me. Cut me in half, and now you got two mes.

Oh, oh. Oh. OK, OK. Pretty good. Keep going. Keep going. Let's see what you got. You don't have to stop between each verse to check in with us.

You can't hear me, you can't hear me. 30 minutes later. You're on a bike ride. Come on, we can hear it. Let's finish this, I'm bringing it home, all right? We're done, we're done. Some toxic waste makes cow snacks taste. Good on my plate.

Some toxic waste. Some toxic waste. Down in the case. Some toxic waste. Munchies are great. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Nave. Pretty good.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you We're still gonna get you home in time to relieve the nanny Here we go These are five people have a babysitter Incredible stuff all right here we go There are 144 reviews of munchies on Amazon 56% are FISTAR reviews. Aaron Smith, from the UK in 2019, titles his review, if you like it growing up, you'll like it.

And writes this, I watched this as a kid and it was amazing. For years, I've been trying to find it, but no luck until it was on Amazon. It's in Spanish, but you can change it to English. It was done in the 80s. So if you've never watched it growing up, you might not like it. It's the something as like Grimmlin's and Critters, but cheaper. Five stars. This one written by By Drew Campbell says this Support women directors five stars

And then I didn't see this until right now and I love it. Michael Margetis writes this. It's like a really weird play. Five stars. I agree. I agree. This as a stage production. Munchies on stage. Now, here's a couple of things that are interesting about munchies.

Budget, unknown. When you Google munchies and budget, you get advertisements for the 420 Carl's Jr. snack sack. Because it's when you have the munchies but are on a budget? I guess so. And Molly Reynolds, our super producer, Molly Reynolds writes, opening weekend, unknowable. Domestic gross, who knows. Now Jason, to answer your question,

Munchies, 1987, has no connection to Munchie 1992. Which I think we have to do. Yes. Next time we're in DC, we're doing Munchie. I'm calling it now. This guy is freaking out. Oh, it does. He says they are related.

OK, it says in this in name only SQL two munchies, a new kid in town, Gabe Dodson, can't find his place in the new environment despite having such a cool name. The kids at school bully him, and the girl he likes, and his mom is about to marry, is a scoundrel. Everything changes for gauge. When he stumbles into a munchy, a friendly, gremlin-like creature that dresses like a lounge singer, and sounds like a stand-up comedian and has magic powers.

Ooh, I wonder if it's Paul having been turned into a munchy. Have you seen it? Okay, okay. This gentleman says, in the trailer for Munchy, it said, if you like the movie Munchies, well, this seems like a good thing. What a crazy tagline. Yeah, because that really isn't related. It's just like, hey, if you like that movie, here's another movie. Yeah, with a similar title.

Oh, it's unrelated entirely, but if you like that, you might like this. Here's what I'll say. If you like. I will say this about this movie, whether or not I recommend it. I kind of do recommend it. It's insane, but I also felt like it was full of missed opportunities. I wanted more.

Are they violent? Are they mean, or do they just want to do some cosplay? Because they really feel like they're more content playing pirates on a mini golf course than killing or attacking people. Just want to have fun. At one point the munchies say something that I was like munchies, I get it. They go to the video store and they say I want to see a naked woman. And I was like, these munchies just want to hang out.

I believe munchies are just stoned people. They just wanna watch movies, eat food, mess around, joyride in a gremlin. They're just hanging out. And I will say this about the monkeys. There is something really chaste about this film. Like, it is a little perverted. They are a little weird, but there's no nudity. I was surprised the restraint is a PG movie. Oh, yeah, so this is for kids

There's almost no cursing either. No, there's very little like I'm surprised. I didn't that was not my experience watching this movie I thought for sure at one point I was like I think I'm listening and watching a munchy jerk off. I... It felt to me very perverted. Do munchies have dicks? They seem like... I know. D.C., you're not into that?

After second opinion songs, you don't want to think about munchy dicks? I think that munchies probably are into dry-humping. Munchies are into padding. I don't know. I did not like when the Munchies were at the golf course and looking at, you know, those girls, the tube girls, bend over in, you know, full-coverage briefs. One of the Munchies. Always full-coverage briefs. One of the munchies. Always full-coverage, undies in the 80s.

One of the munchies floats away on balloons. The munchies are just messing around. I mean, Paul, I would not show this movie to our children. I will say one of our children was watching over my shoulder. Who is it? One of your children or was it a monkey? And he started laughing so hard at what those munchies were getting up to. I mean, and he wasn't even listening to the sound.

He was like, we really we never find out what the munchies want. Like what is they want to live They just want to multiply and just keep I because that seems to be when they're in the tunnel at the end They seem to be purposefully getting themselves chopped in half so they can really generate so they just want to keep on trucking They all so good. Well, then me just, so good, that's true. Then let me ask one final question. No, it's the end of the tour.

We gotta do it at least an hour more. Am I right? Am I right in saying the munchies only kill one person? And that is the person who's a stoner, which would be their biggest enemy because they hate what they see because they are him. I feel like dude, I feel like dude should have been in league with the munchies. Yes. They seem to have polished.

Like it should have been dude. It's for me, it seems antithetical that dude, a stoner Santa Cruz deadhead, would shoot anything with a shotgun. Immediately, his first reaction is, must kill this violently, but people who hurt people are people who are hurt, hurt people. I don't know, there's something there. Hurt people, hurt people. H who are hurt hurt people. I don't know. There's something there

People hurt people hurt people hurt people hurt people. Melvitt I did write Melviss when they're in Michael and Del harpy Korman appears to drive an ice cream truck everywhere he goes and When he picks up Melviss she's reading a tabloid with Gremlins on the bat. She's like reading a... Oh, well, what was that? I couldn't make heads or tails out of the movie's meta moments. Well, the thing that I'm most disturbed,

I have to share with our audience, is that we were on a train from Philadelphia to DC last night. And Paul and I both had our computers open, and I knew he had started to watch the movie and I was pretending to watch the movie But I wasn't ready to and Paul passed me a few times and we got to the hotel my computer was out again and I knew he thought I was watching the movie and then this morning he said because he again he had passed by my Screen a few times and this morning he said wow because he, again, he had passed by my screen a few times. And this morning he said, wow, you were really up late finishing the movie and I was like, I didn't watch it.

And he said, no, I was what? You, I saw the movie on your computer and I said, no, that wasn't the movie. And then he said, what was it? I said, the real house was a orange county. Wait, of which, which one? Orange County. Orange County. To be fair, a lot of them look like what? Well, that's what I...

You really did catch a number of glimpses of my computer screenlines. And they were always in the water on a lake and I I was like, oh, I clearly haven't watched it. They went in a girl's trip to Montana, the season. So, I've been in a couple of munchies in a ball and a tire. I don't like it. I don't like it. I loved it.

Both of us are trying to do the same joke right now. Go ahead. I don't have it. Go for it. I mean, it's the same. And dating a munchie. I was going to do like the turn to camera. Like, I like to eat garbage out of the fridge. Doesn't make me a bad munchie. I don't like the Janice brought a munchie to this weekend. Eeh, cool out. Would you both recommend the film?

Yes. A hundred percent. Should both recommend the film? 100% Should we make the sequel? I had never heard of this movie before. I had never seen it in a VHS store. I was stunned when I was watching. I was shocked that we haven't done it before. Me too. This seems to me to be like everything I want in a movie.

There are times with this podcast where I'm like, well, surely, we'll wrap it up. You know, we'll wrap up the podcast. We've done it. It's over. It's over. We've overstate our welcome. We did it, and it was great that time.

And then I see something like this, and I'm like, wow, there's more work to do, huh? We have it Before we go we need to decide on a shirt. I mean there's been so many different things that we've said tonight That could be great for a shirt I Don't even know where to begin honestly. I feel like the dude is guys are freaking out right? They've got a good what do you got? Oh?

guys are freaking out right now. They've got a good one. What do you got? The garbage can you choose the munchies in the five-colon logo? Yeah. Oh. Oh. OK. I like this.

How about Harvey Corman holding a munchie like a mypello? And it says my munchie. Does it say my munchie? Or my munchie pillow? No, my Mungee. My Mungee. My Mungee. That's pretty good, really.

You like that? OK. Thank you so much, GC. This is a fun and last show. Our merch is out of the lobby. Thank you for coming. We will be back. And remember, don't shop a Mungee.

Go relieve the babysitter each Thank you so much to the staff of the Warner Theater our amazing tour manager Beth Thomas and Everyone in the audience who made it possible what a great show we love being out on the road DC is such a fun town. And if you want to keep the magic of munchies with you, well, you can check out the shirt that we designed live with the audience that night. It is, well, I mean, my pillow, but with Harvey Korman, I can't really describe this shirt. It's just amazing. It's my munchie, the shirt, get a sticker, laptop case, whatever you want. Just go to teapubble.com slash stores slash HDTGM. And if you're in the buying mood, make

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By the way, people, I'm going to be in a brand new holiday movie. It's called Family Switch. It's on Netflix, me, Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, so many good people check it out. I think you will like it. It's a switch movie. And it's a Christmas movie. And by the way, just a heads up, we are taking last looks off for Thanksgiving, but don't fret in its place. We will be re-releasing our favorite episode of all time. That's right. The Nick Cage John Travolta Action Classic face off. If you want to find out what our next movie is going to be after that,

make sure you tune into that face off re-release because I will announce our next movie at the top of that episode. And don't worry, we will still be covering munchies on a future supersized last looks episode. So don't forget to send us your corrections and omissions or leave us a voice mail at 619. PAUL, ASK that 619, Paul, ask, or just keep a voice mail at 619.paul.ask. That's 619, Paul, ask. Or just keep on writing your comments in our discord at discord.g. slash hdtgm. Remember, you can find us everywhere online.

If you love the show, tell your friends. It really does help. I mean, that really is the best way to promote the podcast, word of mouth. Plus, it's more fun when you can watch these movies with people, you know. And last but not least, I gotta say thank you to all the listeners who support this show every week and our entire behind the scenes team

who keep this show running. I'm talking about our producers, Scott Sonny, Molly Reynolds, Airel Halley, our engineers, Kasey Holford and Rich Garcia and our associate producer, Jessus Narros, who makes those amazing social media videos. That's all I got people. Bye for now.

I'm the sweetest. I'm the sweetest one. Here goes.