Tapeworm: A Movie Podcast - I Should Not Have Watched This Weird Movie As A Child! | Monkeybone (2001) Movie Review.

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

This week, we dive headfirst into the bizarre, twisted world of Monkeybone — the cult 2001 dark comedy starring Brendan Fraser.We’ll explore the movie’s unique mix of stop-motion animation and live action, the unforgettable character designs. Whether you love Monkeybone or have no idea what fever dream you just watched.

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Balm, like healing and care. The balm box, because cancer patients don't need bouquets and brownies. They need balm. This week, we watched the cinematic equivalent of mixing Red Bull with cough syrup. That's right, we watched 2001's Monkey Bone, starring Brendan Fraser and Whoopi Goldberg. I'm DJ. And I'm Raz. Welcome to the tapeworm.

podcast. Why is every movie that we watch horny? I don't know. Maybe it's saying something about us. Probably. You know what? What'll even, what'll say even more about us is this was actually one of my childhood movies. Really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah, this is one of that I absolutely loved watching. My parents hated it, but I fucking, I love this movie. I don't know if they hated it because it's a bad movie, which it is, or if it's because I should not have been watching it at the age that I was watching it at. What do we say? It came out in 2001?

I believe so, yeah. What I was watching it when I was six years old? Well, not necessarily. You could have been a little older, but definitely weren't much older. Honestly, I feel like I was watching it in the 90s, so it must have been, you know, straight on 2001. Yeah, not to show too much of my hand here, but I fucking love this movie. This movie's great.

Hey, that's fine. No one's perfect. I... Fair. I mean, it may have destroyed Brendan Fraser's career, but I'm happy we got it. I'm not gonna lie. Well, after you said that, I'm not. Fair, fair. So, did you know that this was actually based off of a book, or I'm sorry, a graphic novel? I did not know. So it's based off of a graphic novel called Darktown. I'm not sure how to pronounce this name. I believe it's Kaja Blackley, was the author.

Apparently, I have not read. the graphic novel. I'm interested in it now. But apparently the movie goes wildly off book. As Hollywood does. Yeah, yeah. This movie was directed by Henry Selleck. He's the stop-motion mastermind behind Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, which explains why, you know, the movie, the movie does look really good. The stop motion is really fun. The animation, like, Monkey Bone, you can tell he's an early thousands of... animation, but I think I like that style of animation, especially when it's live action mixed with some sort of animation.

I do really like that. So Monkey Bone is completely stop motion. I thought he was partially computer animated as well. Yeah, I was trying to look at that too, but I was like, no, I'm pretty sure he stopped. Yeah, he was completely, yeah. Yeah, so the movie actually uses a mix of live action, stop motion, and prosthetic makeup. Um, and some of these practical effects, like, when you go into the Dreamland or Comaville, I forget what exactly it's called. Some of the characters in that area looks so fucking good.

And it's all like, it's all practical effects. For the most part, there are some animated, like Monkeybone is stop motion. But the one that comes to mind, I think he was the giant Cyclops man with the tiny body. Do you remember him? Not offhand. No. Dude, he looks so good. I can't remember if he was a live action or stop motion now,

but he looks so fucking good. Oh, okay. No, I'm looking at the scene right now. And yeah, he looks stop motion at me. Stop motion on that one? Oh, let me bring it up. It's been a few days since I watched it. There's so many characters in that Dreamland sequence that I actually forget how many people are there.

That might be prosthetic actually, now that I'm looking at it more. Yeah. Yeah. There's also like an elephant man that looks really good. I'll tell you what, though. The catwoman waitress, do you remember her? No, that I do not know. No?

Look her up because, God damn it, she could get it right now. I'll tell you what. I feel like this movie is what defined my sexuality as a child. Okay, that's an interesting take, but sure. See, mine came from blood. Like, what was it? Skidwee do in the... Oh, I can't.

The three... The three witches? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The like Gothic rock girl band. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah. There were some other instances, too, but... Yeah. You take that. Mix it with the Catwoman here. And add in Marilyn Manson. And you got mine.

Hot tank. You should probably take Marilyn Manson out of that. Why? You know, all the love to him. I don't think he's objectively attractive. Oh, okay. I thought you were going to say because he's a terrible fucking person. No, maybe I should know more about him.

I really don't. I've heard some things that he might be a terrible person. But I don't think it's necessarily him. I think it was the makeup, the idea of that heavy makeup style that kind of defined what I was attractive to. At that time, it has very much changed at this point. Like, I was probably, like, what I was attracted to in my teenage years. That's fair.

I mean, hey, things change. Yeah. What doesn't change, though, is my confusion over this movie. What are you confused about? It makes perfect sense. Sure, if your everyday life and wet dreams are nightmare fuel. I mean, literally, that is part of the movie. I mean, it does appear to be the main point in the movie.

I'm trying to think of what the shit. What is the... There's this whole side plot in this movie that is just about nightmares. Is that when he's on the operating table? Kind of, yeah, the drawing that he did. So the girlfriend works in this like dream study group thing, and they basically created a serum to cause nightmares. Okay.

So that's like a whole side plot that... We'll get into that in a minute. But real quick, I want to talk to you about the budget. So this movie was a box office. box off his bomb. Um, you want to take a guess on the budget? So it'll be an unfair guess because I did actually look this up. You see it?

Yeah. Did you see what it made? Yes. Okay. Okay. So the budget was 75 million. It made less than 8 million. Yeah.

Now that 75 is not taking into account any marketing that they did. That's fair. Yes. And I don't know how heavily this movie was marketed, but I don't really remember seeing too much about it. To be fair, it wasn't early days. Yeah. Now, one thing that I, I would, while we were watching it, there was somebody in here that

I was like, holy shit. You know, there was a, you know, there's a famous person here. No, it definitely had some interesting, you know, casting. There was some, some faces I did not expect. Yeah. So I was watching it and I was like, holy shit, Stephen King's in this movie. I don't remember seeing Stephen King in this movie. Do you remember seeing him?

It's a very short cameo. No, no. Okay. So I dead ass thought that it was Stephen King. As it turns out, it was not Stephen King. So this movie came out in 2001. Safe to say, it was probably shot in like 2000. In 1999, Stephen King was hit by a car while walking, doing his daily walk.

He was, you know, getting healthier. He was trying to quit. drinking, smoking, everything, and the cocaine. So he started doing daily walks. And a man was driving. He said that he, one of his dogs got out of the backseat and was trying to get into the cooler. So he wasn't looking at the road for that. And he ended up hitting Stephen King. He broke his hip, shattered his leg, and collapsed the lung. But he survived. But after that, Stephen King kind of took more, he was kind of more serious about the roles that he would take. I've actually heard two thoughts on this. The actual, like, what they came out and said was there was a scheduling error, but from people closer to Stephen King, he was like, he started taking more closer looks at the cameos that he was giving, and he decided Monkey Bone was not something that he wanted to do.

But, yeah, so that was not actually Stephen King in the movie. I definitely thought it was. They ended up finding a, look alike at the last moment, and I think he did a fucking great job. He actually has one of my favorite lines in this movie, and that's, shit, I'm trying to think of what it was now. He says something along the lines of, does anybody have a nightlight? I'm scared of the dark, which is just fucking hilarious for Stephen King to say. But yeah, do you have anything else that you want to throw in the beginning here? No.

All right, can you read IMDB's little plot dump for this movie? Sure. So, in a coma, cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkey Bone. Okay. I feel like that is the first third of the movie. Like, it goes much crazier at that point, but we'll get into that in a second. I want to talk about this opening real quick, because it opens up with, well, first it opens up with him drawing a, a, a, a, a, a, a purpose. proposal to his girlfriend. That's the opening credits and stuff. I don't really need that. But right after that, it opens up with a

monkey bone cartoon. And this is fucking crazy. So it's basically like him as a kid talking or it's him as adult talking to a therapist. And it gets back to him as a kid in his like, I don't remember, was it third grade or some shit? And he's talking about this teacher that he had. And she like takes off a shawl and she has like, The underarm, like, she used to be a heavy person now she has, like, I don't know what they're actually called. The flabby arms, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm going to call him Batwings. Okay. You know, that type of deal.

And as a kid, he makes, like, this dick joke where you see, like, his pants start jumping up, and all the kids start laughing at him, and he gets super fucking horny. Like, once again, I don't understand why these movies we watch are horny. Also, why is this kid in third grade so fucking horny for these arm flaps? But I'll tell you what, those arm flaps could get it right now. Yeah, turn me on this whole time. No, I'm fucking with you. I don't know, DJ. We might have to do some serious self-revaluation.

Better help. If you want to sponsor. So, yeah, you see his, like, pants start rising and shit. And Monkeybone just bursts out of his fucking pants. And Monkeybone just starts being a fucking terror. And then that episode fucking ends. And it's a test screening for this new Monkey Bone TV show or whatever. And everybody's all happy and excited.

And I'm thinking if that was a short that, if that was a cartoon short that I was watching, I would never watch that again. You know what I mean? Like, it was the most boring cartoon that I've ever fucking seen in my life. How is that going to continue? They said that they signed on for like 12 episodes or something. So is it just him always going to be getting horny and having fucking monkey bone jumping out of his pants?

I guess so. I mean, Hollywood's not exactly known for his best decisions all the time. That's true. They did sign off on this movie. So what ends up happening, he ends up convincing his girlfriend

to leave this party for them signing off on everything. And they're loading, he drives, it was it a Volkswagen Beetle that he drove? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that's what it was too. So they load this fucking car up

with a bunch of Monkey Bone merch, and that's the movie. main reason why I can't tell what it is. There's too much shit everywhere. And he's trying to like push the stuff down behind him and accidentally inflates a giant inflatable monkey bone, which ends up hitting the gas while he's in reverse and slams them into, I think, like a building across the street. Yeah.

And him and his fiance or girlfriend are in the car. He gets put into a coma. She has like one little scratch on her cheek. So I don't fucking. and know what the whole thing is. Like, how safe are those damn Volkswagen? Apparently not very much.

At least not according to this movie. I mean, I think the passenger side is fucking great, but the driver will always die. I don't understand. So you see Brendan Fraser, his name's Stu Miley, in the movie, which I don't, they never play into the joke,

but it would be S. Miley, smiley. But I don't think they ever play into that at all. I can't remember one. Yeah. It's like perfectly, perfectly set up, but it just isn't, it's never there. But yeah, he ends up getting terrorized by his creations, or mostly just monkey bone down there. But yeah, you end up meeting death,

and seeing death be played by Whoopi Goldberg was just fucking amazing to me. I love Whoopi Goldberg, even though she plays, like, she has some really shitty roles sometimes, but I do love her. Yeah, there's not many films I'm particularly fond of with Whoopie, but this is one of them that I thought she did a good job in. There are some movies that she did that are just fucking shit that are great. Like, just because she's in it. Like she is giving, even when she doesn't give it her all, there's something about her that just makes the movies feel more fun when she comes in.

It might just be like how her personality is. It's kind of like when you see Wanda Sykes come into a movie. Do you know, do you know Wanda Sykes? Okay. You'll probably know her voice, but she's another hilarious person, and I think it's just

the way that their voices carry that just I don't know, it completely changes the whole performance for me. But she plays death. They end up finding out that like there's these exit passes and it lets you

go back to Earth, like get out of the coma. Because there's other people in this coma land. who are in comas and they get out. Somehow, like, the one person that gets out is, like, this 95-year-old man that looks like he's about ready to die, and he's, like, dancing over to the exit to get back out.

And then there's, like, this young-ass dude that just dies. Like, why did he get to go out? But, like, we... What? So they get this... Sorry, go ahead. No, I was saying it's a good, um... Good metaphor. Is not the right word?

for life in general. Yeah, that's true, yeah. Yeah, with only the good die young, that kind of shit. Pretty much. Yeah. But yeah, so they end up deciding that they're going to go steal an exit pass from death. And what ends up happening is monkey bone steals the exit pass from Brendan Fraser. And he goes back and monkey bones now in Brendan Fraser's body back on Earth, which you find out later,

all part of their plan. Like all of the people in Coma land have come together and made this, came up with this plan. But that leads to one of my favorite parts of this fucking movie. And basically, Brendan Fraser goes back to Whoopi Goldberg and he's like, listen, I need to go back. Monkeybone's got my body right now. He's causing some shit. I want to go back to, you know, Earth. And she's like, well, because he doesn't have, or because he has your body, you don't have a body to go. go into. So we'll have to find you a different body. So they send him into, yeah, so he comes into Chris Catan's body, which he is a gymnast who recently snapped his neck and died. And this leads to one of my favorite gags in the fucking movie. He is in the operating table, or not operating table, but he's in the morgue. And he's an organ donor. So they are actively collecting his organs. And he comes right back, like he comes back to life and says about, and nobody's shocked that he's come back

to life, like all the doctors, they all just start chasing after him, like, wait, we're not done harvesting your organs. Your organs belong to us. So, the entire... When someone you love is facing cancer, you want to do more than send a card or flowers that will wilt in a week. You want to actually help. That's where the bomb box comes in. Our care packages are built from research with over 500 cancer patients and caregivers, packed with items people actually use during treatment. Think soothing, practical, thank goodness I have this kind of relief. For you, it's not just a gift. It's a way to show up in a moment where words fall short. For them, it's comfort, calm, and a reminder they're not alone. From chemo-friendly boxes to mastectomy

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Balm, like healing and care. The balm box, because cancer patients don't need bouquets and brownies. They need balm After time that he's running around Because he's trying to find His girlfriend Julie Who is with Monkeybone

In Brendan Fraser's body So he's running all over the place Trying to find this And these fucking doctors Are like following behind him Like don't Don't hurt the organs That's all we care about

But it's just It's just really good Physical Comedy from Chris Catan Because like his neck's broken And so he's holding his head up by his hair. Like, I've never seen somebody move like that, I guess. And it just made me laugh so fucking hard. That's one of my favorite things in this movie.

Did you even see that part? I didn't, yeah. Okay. I know you were saying that you were kind of in and out of this movie. Yeah, for some reason, I just couldn't, it couldn't hold my attention. Yeah, that's fair. It definitely wasn't for everyone. No, but I do know the scene you're talking about, and it is quite funny.

Yeah. It is very Yeah, the scene It makes up and his arms in it, yeah Yeah, oh yeah, because He wakes up and The like doctors in his stomach Pulling out organs

So he like jumps up And he goes and grabs What is it like a roll of duct tape And he duct tapes his fucking stomach back together And he's just running around with duct tape on his stomach And then He know he gets uh he goes back to brenan fraser's house and he grabs a spoon like a wooden spoon

puts it on his head and then tapes it around his head so that way it holds his fucking head up instead of keep falling over like it was it's just it's so fucking funny so yeah so he ends up catching up um he dog so yeah so during all of this you find out that monkey bone teamed up with the people from the coma land to create more nightmares or something. Basically, he goes to the real world. Brendan Fraser's girlfriend, Julie, works at this like sleep research place, and they make this, like, I don't know, nightmare juice where if you take too much of it, or like, if you're introduced to this juice, you end up having nightmares. So he ends up stealing a bunch of it, and he's putting it in monkey bone

like dolls where these dolls they have a finger like a thumb in their ass and the whole joke is you pull the thumb out of the ass and like a fart cloud comes out because fart jokes are the jokes that we're making in this fucking movie. So he ends up filling

the nightmare juice into the fart cloud juice and his plan is to get everybody to have a bunch of these dolls and just start creating more nightmares to send to the coma land. So Chris Katan, as Brendan Fraser, ends up chasing after, comes up, and the fucking cops come after him, the doctors come after him, they're all fucking yelling and

shit, and... No, the entire chase from when he wakes up to throughout the rest of the movie pretty much, where they're chasing him, it is quite funny. It is very funny. Sorry, I'm trying to figure out, because it kind of wraps up really fucking quick, doesn't it? From that point, kind of, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's about two-thirds in the movie. Well, I specifically remember, like, them getting the exit pass and pausing the movie and being, like, it's only 30 minutes in. So, I remember there being a whole lot more to this movie.

And when I paused it, there was still, like, 40 minutes left. So I'm like, yeah, some shit's going to happen here. But, I don't know, it felt so quick after, after Chris Kemp. Catan comes in. It just, like, it feels like the movie just wraps the fuck up and bounces out. No, it definitely does. And it's just before the halfway point where Monkey Bone enters Stu's body, Prater's body.

Yeah. And then, yeah, it's like the final third where he wakes up in Katan's body. You know what? I feel like, I feel like a big thing is, uh, it's another issue that we had with, what's it called? What was the last movie? We just, Georgia the Jungle, where there's so much physical comedy that, it just feels like it goes super fast at that point.

You know what I mean? Yeah, no, that's a fair, fair comment. Okay, good, because I just want to make sure that I didn't, I wasn't the only one that felt that way. Just, yeah, because as soon as Chris Katan comes in, it's like the highlight of the movie. It becomes super funny. Anyway, so he ends up convincing Julie that he's, he's really Brendan Fraser. He gives the ring.

She says yes. Something happens. I don't remember what happens exactly. Both Monkeybone and. And, well, Chris Catan as Brendan Fraser and Brendan Fraser as Monkeybone get attached to, like, a helium balloon, and they're flying around. Yeah. And somebody shoots the helium balloon, right? I think a cop is like, don't worry, I can get him down, and he shoots it, and they end up falling to their death, I guess.

But no, they go right back into Koma Land. And Wolfie Goldberg's death was basically, like, I like you guys, so I'm sending you back, but they she what, sends them both together? Yeah, she, she puts monkey bone back in his, like, head. Yeah.

Because I think she says, you're kind of boring without him. Yeah. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. He ends up coming back to life, or back out of the coma, and fucking immediately just proposes to Julie, and they're magically back and, like, everything's fixed, and

everything's fine. And I feel like Raz just wasted an hour and a half and I had the best fucking time of month. That sums it up pretty well. I just want to say two things too. One, that soul patch that Monkeybone did to his face. Oh, yeah. Detestable. Okay.

He did, like, when Monkey Bone takes over Brendan Fraser's body, he just does this whole, it's a soul patch. Does he have a little bit of a goatee too? I don't remember the goatee. I remember sideburns. Yes, sideburns and a, sole hatchet least. Gaudy, like orange-ish suit.

Yeah. Which I mean, I'm, I'm all, oh my God, I just realized the gaudy suit is because he's orange. Like monkey bone himself. Yeah. That makes sense. Jesus. I didn't even realize that till now. But yeah, he, he changes up the whole style and, God, he's, does he throw like an earring in

there too? I think so. I think he doesn't, like one single earring. And it's just like, I, calm down, buddy. It's like, it's like he fell into a hot top. or something. Yeah. There's like a big chain around his neck. Yeah. Sideburns, goate. I don't see an airing, no.

No? No, goatee. Excuse me. Like a sole patch, but yeah. What was your second point? The ending. Like the final scene. It's not even seen. It's just the final like five seconds of the movie. I don't get. Did I miss something completely? I can't remember it for some reason.

The guy like coming out of the fountain with a blue face and being like, everybody, take off your clothes. Yes, I guess you did miss it because he gets shot in the face with the nightmare fuel. So the purple is just because like the purple staining is the nightmare fuel, nightmare juice, whatever. The juice is purple. I got you. So he ends up getting shot with it and he's staring at the mirror in the bathroom and the clothing that he's wearing is like trying to eat him. So he got hit with such a large dose that he's.

is having like, like awake nightmares. It's like a bad acid trip for him. So he thinks that his clothing is trying to eat him. So he starts ripping off his clothing. And he starts running around naked throughout the party. And that's one of the big reasons why there's enough of a distraction to allow Julie to entertain Chris Catan as being Brendan Fraser. So he kind of like fucks off for a little bit. And you kind of forget about him. And that's why he pops up at the end. Like every, everyone take off your clothes, they're evil. That makes more sense. Yeah.

Out of context, it was just once. Yeah. I mean, out of context, it does kind of fit the, kind of the direction of this movie, though, too. Yeah, no, fair point. We did miss a whole, like, so when he's in the coma, he, uh, or his sister immediately

comes and he's like, she's like, how long, like, give me, give me a time frame, because. Yeah, like, what a bitch. Yeah, like, I think in my notes, I literally wrote, the sister's a cunt. Yeah. Like, because, like, he's not even, he's not even in the hospital for like 24 hours.

And she's like, oh, you finally saw her? Yeah, I get it. I get it. You get it? Yeah. See? No. Hold on a second.

I'm the one with the V-Tuber model. Mm-hmm. And yet you're the one I'm thinking it's a furry? Yeah, okay. Yeah. See, I'm not a furry. I don't like the big suits and everything. But maybe like a little tail and some cat ears.

Hey, listen, we don't kink shame here. Yeah, no, no, no shame. Yeah, if you like feet, go away. Yeah, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like feet at all. To the point where like, I don't want to see your feet in sandals. I don't want, I don't want to see open-toed shoes. I don't like going to the beach. Like, put some fucking socks on.

DJ for president, uh, 2028. Yeah. First executive order. No open-toe shoes. No open-toed shoes. ever. No crox either. Just to fucking... Now, there is a campaign... Uh...

What's the word I'm looking for? Campaign promise I can get behind. Yeah. Open toe shoes? No, banning them. That's what I meant. Sorry, crocs, my man. Crocs. Just full-on, no crocs? Totally waste of money. I don't care how comfy they are. They are pointless as shoes. You're better off just wearing a good pair of socks.

Fair, fair. Or just go all the way and just go sandals. No, fuck sandals. Ban sandals. Ban sandals. Yeah, fuck it. Honestly, like, I have a pair of slippers that I like more than crocs. They have a nice hard soul.

Hey, that's fair. I get it. Slippers are comfy. Sorry, your V-2 model is kind of tripping out. My apologies. I was looking down. Okay. It didn't know what the fuck to do.

I'm having a little too much fun with this. Not fair. But yeah, so the doctor was like, we'll give him 30 days. After 30 days, there's brain damage. So on day 30 is when she's like, let's pull the plug, hurry up. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. She's dead ass. It's just like, they're kind of talking, kind of understand it.

Like, you know, let's do this respectfully, everything. Not like giving the last rights or anything like that. But she just kind of like tugs on the doctor like, hurry up, let's pull the fucking plug. Like, she's the one paying for him to be in the hospital or some shit. But yeah. Yeah, that was pretty much. That was Monkey Bone. I mean, there's not too much to talk about this one.

It definitely has some moments where it lulls a little bit, but I personally, I had a fun time just sitting and watching. I started taking notes and halfway through, I was just like, no, I just want to watch it. No, that's fair. It definitely has some interesting points. I just don't think this kind of movie quite appeals to me. Like, how would you describe this? Like some kind of like psycho-comedy.

Like genre-wise? Yeah, pretty much. Or some genre. Probably more specifically. How would I describe it? Maybe like a dark psychological comedy. That's getting very specific, but... No, I think it's apt.

I like my psycho-comity better. Yeah. I think you gotta have something a little messed up to enjoy this. Fair. Or watch it when you're six years old and never stop watching it. I mean, that's a fair point, too. I mean, so I think a big part of it, at least for me, is, yes, I watched it when I was like six years old. And to see, watching, like, live action mixed with animation as a kid is, was always just amazing to me.

I absolutely loved who framed Roger Rabbit for that reason. But yeah, I feel like this movie at least did that very well, the combination of the animation and the live action. It definitely kept my interest. Even now, like watching it this week, I had a great fucking time with it. No, that's fair. I don't have any complaints with the art directing, the style, the stop motion animation. I think it was all done well. It's, I don't know if it's the story, pacing, or if the humor just didn't really hit with me.

That's fair. I can understand that. I will say everyone else that I showed this movie to was like that movie. movie sucked. So, I don't know if it's just me, but it very well might be nostalgia. And there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone has their guilty flicks. Yeah. And I mean, like, as long as it's nothing weird, it's fine. Like, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's not like it was Jeffrey Jones or something. Yeah. You don't know who Jeffrey Jones is, do you? Yeah. You know him. I know you know him. The actor? Yeah. Yeah. What's wrong with him? Uh, he's a pedophile.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. A lot of things wrong. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, absolutely loved him. Like convicted? Yes. I believe 2001 is when he got good. He only got five years probation for soliciting child pornography. Mm-hmm. I mean, I wouldn't need the context. There's things that are worse, but not much.

Yeah, yeah. So he's a shitty person. Like one step farther is, God, what's his name? Um, the guy that would show up with their doorstep. Chris Hansen. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's like the one step farther. like, yeah. Yeah.

At least he wasn't that. I was like, where are you going with this showing up on the doorstep? Like, who showed up on your doorstep as a child? But that makes more sense. Which I'm waiting for it. Oh, shit. I'm waiting for it to get revealed that Chris Hanson like did some of shit to. Oh, that would be like the biggest plot twist.

Oh, yeah, dude. I wouldn't know what to believe anymore. Like. And I'm sorry, but Chris Hansen. I fucking love watching Chris Hansen. Anyway, on a scale, one to five stars. What are you thinking? Well, I definitely can't give it a four, because it just doesn't deserve that, in my opinion.

I didn't fall asleep. So I don't think it deserves a one. And it had some good part, good parts. So I'd say it too. Yeah, fair, fair. Nah, this shit's like a 10 star for me. Like, if I can find a special edition Blu-ray or something. Really?

Really? Yeah. I, this will go right up there on a shelf, man. If I could get a poster, I'll throw a poster up on my wall. Well, you know what? If you ever meet Brandon Frazier, that's what you got to have him sign. 100%. I will, if I meet Brendan Fraser, I will make a fucking sock monkey and have him sign that shit. Like, or have him sign my body and just go and get a tattooed. Wow. So, just going off Amazon. I thought you were going to say you have some sort of problem with that. I'm like, you wouldn't get a famous person to sign and tattoo you? No, probably not.

No? No, the multi-format Blu-ray off of Amazon for Monkeybone. You need to take out, like, a small loan for it. It's like $360. Now, supposedly, you can get the Blu-ray, I guess, just by itself, for like 18. Okay. So I wonder what the multi-format is. I assume it's like...

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