The Dogg Zzone by 1900HOTDOG - Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 81, Flash Gordon With Lydia Bugg
Episode Date: July 6, 2022Seanbaby and Brockway found out Lydia Bugg had never seen Flash Gordon so they dropped literally everything else in their lives and ran to their microphones to record this podcast about somebody exper...iencing Flash Gordon for the first time. You're welcome.
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But here's a Brockway fact
Much like Flash Gordon
I too have attacked a false Asian
Using birds
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We're joined by our favorite guest
Writer for the trailer park boys comic
And her own website
Hot dog sweetheart Lydia Bug
Thank you for having me
Hot dog sweetheart is my new favorite title
I worked really hard on it
It sounds weirdly dirty too
It sounds like
I don't think so
Like it means something you don't like
You took it in a spirit it wasn't intended
It was the wholesome version of hot dog sweetheart
Yes
In the 1940s when someone was a
America sweetheart
That's how I meant it
Even though most of the articles you write for the site
Are very horny
Yes but if you said that in an alley way
You would know what you meant
Hey hot dog sweetheart
Just open fire
You can't hurt me I'm the hot dog sweetheart
What have you been working on these days Lydia?
I wrote an article for the website
About Love in the Jungle
That made me not realize I had COVID
For a really long time
Because I thought I just felt bad
From watching that show
Do you normally feel like you have COVID
From watching bad television?
Sometimes
Are you like allergic to bad television?
Because if so I'm so sorry we gave you this job
I did have a little black fluid fall out of my ears
While I was editing that article
So I think it is that show
That show does something
Yeah it's just a really bad one
I haven't seen anything about it
Was it streaming on Discovery Plus you said?
Yes Discovery Plus
Which I got free for a week
So I didn't have to buy Discovery Plus
Thank God
I think you could watch
I think that's in some package
With Mountain Monsters
So that's the company
That that show is keeping
So maybe the best channel
Maybe the official hot dog channel
Yeah let's start watching it more often
Because I do watch garbage television on TLC
Which used to be the learning channel
And now it's just like this grotesquery
Where they just follow terrible people around
And watch them slowly die
So it feels like Love in the Jungle
Would be perfect for that channel
Yeah TLC and Discovery Plus
Are the two most cursed channels out there
I think
Maybe Lifetime
I feel like Lifetime has a lot to answer for
But Love in the Jungle
Was really fascinating to me
Because I loved the premise
It felt like really 90s
Where they just throw people in the jungle
And you're like okay
You have to pretend you're an animal
Like on the honor system I guess
Like I feel like
What an easy system again
You're like okay you're a turtle
And I'm like okay I'm a turtle
And then as soon as the camera's off
Or just looking the other way
I'm like okay lady
We gotta go in the bushes and fuck quick
While I'm using my human words
This is what I'm trying to get at
With all that turtle shit
Let's make this happen
Trying to organize a revolt
You have to be a smart person
Like they pick people they know
Are not smart enough to figure that out though
Like they don't know when the cameras are gone
They just say like guys
There's cameras everywhere
Like don't check but they're there
And they just believe it
I also feel like they wouldn't kick you off the show
For like just a few minor violations
Like if you just like
Oh yeah
Just walk into the jungle
You're banished
You just have to find your way out of the jungle
Now I have a question
Did they prepare it all
If they were supposed to communicate
And behave as these animals
Did they like study up intensely
On their habits
Oh no, no it wasn't like
I am shocked
They were just like
You can't talk because animals can't talk
Which isn't true
Like animals communicate in their own way
We just can't understand them
But they're like
Nope can't talk
Animals don't talk
Okay
I feel like
I have enough sign language
That I could bone a hawker on the jungle
Like you know what I mean
I feel like just anyone who
Just learned the alphabet in third grade
I think they can make it work on that show
Yeah and like if people did
I think get a leg up
Because of their personality
Even though they couldn't talk
Like there was one girl
The first episode
That no one was super interested in
And then they had a party
Where they showed her like
Torquing and doing the splits on the ground
And the next day everybody was like
Oh I'm really interested in her
He has demonstrated a personality
That is how it works in the animal kingdom
Whichever chip does the backflip
They get all the fellas
Yeah
Whichever ostrich torques the best
I could vouch for that
I was just at the zoo
And this ostrich was twerking
I jumped to the fence
One of the things that makes our job fun
Is sharing something with people
They've never seen before
Usually it's horrible
Like clown sex manual
Or a bowling hypnosis book
But sometimes it's nice
Like when we made Lydia watch Conan
Or less nice
Like when she made us watch Xanadu
But today it's a nice one
And Lydia for the first time
Just watched my all time favorite movie
In her perfect film, 1980s
Flash Gordon
I loved it so much
I would watch it for the shoulder pads alone
For like the costumes alone
It's amazing
I was ready to fight about it
You thought somebody might not like Flash Gordon
Yeah I was ready
I'm always ready
I mean I do have one small tweak to the plot
That I think would make the movie
Make more sense
And would make it a better movie
Do you want to mention it now
Through the plot
And then you'll spring in
No I want to mention it up top
Because I think it's relevant the whole time
Replace Flash Gordon with a golden retriever
Oh yeah that's a very good point
Let me run through the entire plot in my head
You're 100% right
Not only does it work
It makes more sense
It's better
Because he's a gentle dopey man
That wants to love
He has a lot of parts
He kind of approaches the sex parts
With a golden retriever attitude
Yeah a lot of trust
A lot of kindness
A lot of naivete
Like it could be sex
Or if she threw a ball
He'd be just as happy
Yeah
But yes
I do want to talk about Sam Jones
I think he was the perfect Flash Gordon
Because Flash Gordon is a football player
Completely unprepared to a fight of war in space
And Sam Jones seems like a guy
Completely unprepared to act
Like he looks like Flash Gordon
He's kind of hunky
I feel like he'd be perfect
For like a photo shoot of Flash Gordon
And then here he is
Oh you have to act in this movie
And he's like
I have no fucking idea what that means
But somehow it's absolutely perfect
Yeah
Because he just seems super dumb
Like I felt like if he didn't have his name
On his t-shirt
Like I felt like they put that there
Because he kept forgetting his name
So when they said like
Oh what's your name
He kept looking down like Flash
It's Flash
I'm Sam
No
Your character's name
Okay
Golden Retriever
There's no way he read the entire script
Like he showed up for shooting that day
And they gave him his scene
And that's how he understood the movie
It was just one out of order piece at a time
I really think that's how it was written
Like a lot of the lore behind this movie
Is chaos
Because it was made by so many people
Speaking so many different languages
With so many different takes on
What the tone should be
And I don't think the script was ready
Until long after they started shooting
So you're probably right about that
Okay
He definitely gives me that vibe of like
Okay where am I today?
I'm in the jungle
Wait no still in space?
Oh space jungle
Okay
And I'm Flash Gordon
I think he got a little typecast
Because he didn't get another movie for five years
When he starred in a Vietnam movie called Jungle Heat
And he played a guy named Gordon
All very close
So close
And then two years later he played another adventure
In a movie called Jane in the Lost City
He's not called Gordon that one
He's called Jungle Jack Book
His other movies include
Driving Force
One Man Force
Maximum Force
And White Force
So that's his come here
I don't like that at all
Yikes
I think he went on to have like a security company
I didn't do a ton of research on him
But I think he got out of acting
And became like a Hollywood security specialist
I did went to see him at Comic Con
Several years ago
And he was explaining to a fan that he wouldn't sign his DVD
Because Lenit would go up in value
And he explained this three times
Like you remember we had that really stupid president
And he would be like
Yeah we have COVID
That COVID numbers are going up
Because the testing is going up?
No let me explain it again
Because you guys aren't getting it
Like he was explaining it to him like that
Like no see I signed this
And then
God you're just never going to get this
But anyway I looked on eBay
Found an autographed DVD for $16
Which means he was a dick to this guy
Just to keep someone who loved him
From having about seven theoretical dollars
So good job
Good job Sam
This will go up $8
I can't do that to you
Money corrupts you don't understand
Not to mention at Comic Con
I feel like we all understand the
Exchange rates
And like if a celebrity is like
Yes you can take a picture with me
It will be $10
Like that's the one place where that's totally appropriate
Yeah that's what they're there for right?
I'll sign this but give me $10
And then we've traded $10
You hate me a little bit more
You have a keepsake that now is more of an ugly memory
Than a treasured memory and fuck you
I'm fleshboard
So George Lucas was originally
Trying to make this movie
And so he went to
I think King is the name of the
Production company that owns Flash Gordon
And he was like I want to make your Flash Gordon picture
And they're like who the fuck are you
And he went on to make some other movie
The people
Then went
With a different direction
Several different ways
Like they got a new director
I think three different times before they finally landed
On the director
Oh and by the way
Flash Gordon was
Only created because
Some guys couldn't get the rights to John Carter of Mars
So he was just like oh we don't have John Carter
Let's just fucking make a John Carter
That made so much sense
Can I just say I spent the whole movie
Like 13 minutes in my husband paused this
And said like what is this movie by the way
And I was like I think it's like a superhero
Origin story
And I'm like waiting for him to get his powers
Like eventually he's going to get super powers
And he's like okay
This is the way in the movie
And I kept saying like stuff's happening
Like okay this must be how he gets his powers
And then nothing that he doesn't
And then the last third I just kept going
He's just a guy
He's just a regular guy
Oh foolish Lydia
Did you not realize that the true power all along
Was being white and present
Yeah like that's all he done
And I kind of made me understand like angry white men
Like this is what they think life should be like
Is like yeah I just show up
And then I win
Is that not at least before 1960
That was what life was like
Yeah and you know what
I would be pissed off if someone took that from me honestly
So I get it
You get you understand race
Yeah I understand
Understand that
And all record is saying
You understand white power
Oh no
I'm sorry white force
Yeah we're watching that next week white force
But yeah Flash Gordon was around since the 30's
Like it was a comic book
And a movie serial
And so George Lucas
They turned him down and he went on to make Star Wars
Which I think technically makes
Star Wars
Flash Gordon knockoff
Which makes Flash Gordon and John Carter knockoff
So that makes Buck Rogers
The Czar of Tarzan
Of Conan I'm not sure I don't know how all the math works
But
I love this movie because everyone's having
There are more layers
Yeah there has to be
And speaking of John Carter of Mars
I don't know if you're familiar with this IP
But it is
Maximum horny
And they really incorporated that into Flash Gordon I think
Because
All the ladies on Mars were like
A pasties with chains
Linking them together
Just the bare minimum to cover up
The nipples and genitals
That's how you dress on Mars
Yeah
But I will say I did like the one
Female character that was kind of a person
In this. I liked Dale
I loved that her name was Dale but she seemed
She was really the only capable one
Of the three of them
That does anything intelligent
Yeah
That's fair. I think that's fair
I think it was at least she was
Watching the scenario and being like
Okay somebody has to reason this through
I don't know if like her plans came off
As intelligent or if she saved anything
With her intelligence but she was
The only one that paused for even a moment
When like
Space main came out
And she was like okay this is weird though
Right? And nobody else
Flash was just like uh huh
Uh huh
Let's play football
Yes
She dealt better than that
I guess I have some more background
On the film before we talk about it itself
Dino De Laurentiis is the producer
He was like he made like 500 movies
He was this Italian super producer
He fired the first director after a year
Of pre-production because uh he wasn't
Making it close enough to the movie serials
That he loved when he was a kid
So then he hired a guy named Mike Hodges
Whose big movie at that point was Get Carter
Which uh it was a Michael K movie
Where he fucked and punched his way to the center
Of a murder mystery. It's pretty great. They remade it
Years later. Um anyway
Mike saw this script or what
State it was in and he's like no one's ever
Gonna fucking make this. Sure whatever. So he signed on
To this thing. He had no idea what Flash Gordon was
And through
Either laziness or inspiration he
Made a point of using the original comic book
As storyboards. So
Um he made this decision
Like while on the plane to the set
Uh learning who Flash Gordon was
And I would say it wasn't until
Like Sin City or Watchmen until
Someone else tried this uh same obvious idea
And it probably wasn't until Thor Ragnarok until
Someone had actual fun doing it
So the idea of just taking comic books
And saying let's fucking make this into a movie
Was really
Novel and not it didn't
Happen again for like 35 years. So way ahead
Of its time they just went for it
With no insecurities which I respect
Which is how I describe most
Superhero movies pre-2010
It's just really insecure. I don't know if you remember
The original X-Men but that but they would
Like dress them up like bikers and they
They were like there was always like an excuse
Of like why we're we're still cool
Even though this is about comic books
Right. We're still cool kids
Look at the skateboard. Wolverine's gonna
Skateboard now
Yeah
So the director was like
I'm gonna make it exactly like this comic book
The producer was like I'm gonna make it exactly like these
Movie serials and then the writer
Was named Lorenzo Semple Jr. who was
Basically the guy behind the Adam West Batman
Show from the 60s. So that's an insane choice
Oh that makes so much sense
That makes so much sense
So it's a guy who can't take this shit
Seriously kind of trying
But also not
And none of nobody knows
The producer definitely didn't know because
He didn't speak English very good
He wanted it to be dead serious. The director knew
Better because the script was ludicrous
And the Batman guy
Had no fucking idea like what he wanted
That to be but he knew it was stupid
During the making of the film people were constantly
Laughing and the producer never knew why
There's this awesome interview I found where
The director's like making an
Do an impression of him and he's like
Micah, why are they laughing? I'll flash a
Gordon he'll say it with the world
He couldn't figure out why everyone's
Laughing at the costumes and shit
So it should be disaster but it's just
This beautiful perfect thing
Maximum horny as I mentioned
I think the music
It's obviously
Beyond perfect. The Queen soundtrack is
Amazing.
Super literal sometimes
Super crazy and psychedelic other times
It was almost going to be Pink Floyd but when I say almost
I think the director like meant to call him
That never did. He was just like man wouldn't it be cool
If we had Pink Floyd and that sort of turned into a Hollywood legend
Anyway
People have turned on Ming
I think we should mention that that
He was sort of this Asian stereotype
And they had Max Von Sydow play him
Not in like a super Asiany way I guess
But still like
We did not have access
To easy Asians
Before like 1975
It was so difficult to find one
You've got to understand
And the fact that the people were called the
Mongo people also not great
Like none of it
In the like credits I saw Ming the
Merciless and Elastabe that was not at all Asian
And I was like oh no
I'm not inspired by confidence in this
Luckily he just played him as Max Von
I'll say I know
He's like obviously
A Hollywood legend
Brian Blessed who plays Voltan
Is like another like Shakespearean guy
Timothy Dalton
Oh my god Timothy Dalton I love Timothy Dalton
He's in Doom Patrol now
I love how he has the reputation of being
Like a Shakespearean actor but he will do
Absolute crap all the time
I feel like most Shakespearean actors will
Yeah
Yeah
Then of course there's Topol who plays
Zarkov who is the main
Guy in Fiddler on the Roof
Anyway so like all these guys are huge
Actors in different directions
So it's almost like
They put together the perfect cast
For like a stage show of Flash
Gordon but it's of course a film
So all of this
Works together to just make it
I just crazy in
So many different and unpredictable directions
And I love that
I also like really respected actors
Cause I think any of those guys I've mentioned would like
Headline any Shakespearean production
Anywhere and never want to be happy
To have them and here they are
In just the dumbest fucking thing
Well and then next to
The guy that plays Flash Gordon who has no clue
Where he is or what's going on or what his name is
With all these great actors
That makes it even worse that you're like
I'm so glad Flash Gordon only has like
Ten lines in this movie like
That was a mercy that they did
I would argue he nailed every single one of them
Oh yeah every time he was like
Whoa this is crazy
I believe he thought that
Yeah his only stage direction
Was look really lost right here
And they hired the perfect guy for that
I could do no Keanu
That's actually exactly how I feel
Is this method acting?
Yeah he is accidentally method
So I do want to talk about the intro
In detail because
It happens so quickly and efficiently
It is two seconds in
And the earth is already being torn apart by
Earthquakes and hot hail
Hot hail that was the only weird one
All the other ones were normal but then it was
Hot hail
It's all to a queen song so good
I do also love that it's not like
Scorch medias or shrieking death
Or something it's just like hot hail
And so Flash Gordon oh go ahead
I was just gonna say I love the queen
Song too it was super confusing to me
Cause I was like it sounds like so generic
I'm like what are his they should be saying
What his super powers are like that's
Usually what a superhero theme song does
Spider-Man, Spider-Man does whatever a spider can
So the Flash Gordon is just like
Flash and I'm like okay
More information please and it's like
Ohhhh
But what's he do and it's like
Flash that's it
That's all it's got for you flash
You have to admit that was perfectly accurate
Yes it was
And you know
And then he shows up and his shirt says flash
I'm like they really want you to know this guy's name
He goes up to Dale and he says
My name's Flash
And she's like I know
Like he's
We're back in the New York Jets
And his shirt says flash
And he is
Fucking so sexually aggressive
But like a fourth grader
Like he doesn't quite know that he's sexually aggressive
He's just like I think you're pretty
Like I want to smell your hair
You're like just
Just like looming over her
Yeah
But I do get the idea that
I get the idea that they
Would be fucking if the sky didn't turn to blood
Like I get
I feel like he was getting somewhere
I love how
The pilots just let him come into the cockpit
And just fuck around
He's like hey how's it going up here guys
Yeah it's alright but they're like shooting up
And down in the sky like 300 feet off the earth
And just a maniac
Like suicide dive climb
Dive climb and they're like yeah don't even worry
About it buddy but it's nothing you'd want to toss
A third down pass through either
Want to autograph this for my kid
They're just steam rolling through this script
Like a Bob Hope monologue
And then he's like what's his name
Buzz done perfect
Exchange
Then Ming shoots out of the sky
And kills the pilots
You see him
They show him fly out of the sky as like a ghost
And so it's almost
Sorcery
I don't quite understand
It's awesome never addressed why he did that
Yes
He's barely aware of earth
He certainly isn't aware the pilots are trying to
Crash flash his plane
He's just like doing
Buzzes
Flipping around in the stratosphere
And shooting dudes
That's how this movie opens
And then they crash land the plane
Because flash doesn't know how to fly
He knows how to crash
Good
If he has a superpower
That's what it is he can crash a plane
And not die
I liked the comic
Timing of flash here and also sort of
The demonstration of how
No one involved in this knows how to make comedy
Because she goes tell me
Your flying lessons have gotten as far as landing
And he goes I was afraid you'd ask
That
No
Like
Of course
Of course you stop after I was afraid you'd ask that
But now he's like I should probably explain the joke
To the audience and the woman
She's not gonna get it
I love it so much
We really need to up the stakes of the
Of the plane crash that's currently happening
So he
Crashes into the
Mad Scientist's lab
And Zarkov
Crashes into the perfect scientist that is actually addressing
The only person on the planet that knows what this is
That's a fair point
However
There is one inconsistency in that he's like
I've predicted this but
The spaceship just showed up on a whim
And started it was run by a madman
Who just starts hitting buttons on a whim
Like I don't feel like there's any sort of
Algorithm that would have predicted this
So
It's just a happy coincidence that he happens to be right
He said he predicted
A threat would come from space
Which is like what crazy people say all the time
So I don't know if he's actually supposed
I don't think he's good at his job
A few hundred thousand people were right
A few maniacs
On the street corners are like
I told you guys I'm actually the
Smart one
Yeah
Alex Jones would be like I told you the whole time
I was right the whole time I said there would be a globalist
Conspiracy that brings the space hot hail
There is a lot
Of scary stuff in space
It's good logic
Yeah
Something eventually bad will come from space
Oh okay that's like a fortune teller
Being like oh I think you have a relative with the name
It starts with L
Then he did have a rocket
And like a
A beam that
Wanted to destroy the moon
I'm not sure what the moon beam was
He didn't have a beam I thought he was just going
To space with a gun and he was like
I'm gonna find what's up there and I'm gonna shoot it
I'm gonna fucking shoot it
My dad's old cap gun
So he has an assistant
Who just completely bails on the whole thing
He's like oh I'm not going
To space with you to fight space aliens
I'm out of here and he pulls a gun on him
He's like get your toothbrush and whatever
And the guy's like no I'm fucking leaving
He's like what did he think
They were gonna do with the rocket they were
Building
He's one of my favorite characters
Cause while he's
Fling a gun when he doesn't shoot him
It was a bluff and he says
Haven't you any spirit at all
And his assistant goes
No
It's like a stubborn camp bully
I love months
That's it that's Anne from months
And so he decides
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as captives
To help him fly the rocket
Because someone has to hold down one of the pedals
Somebody has to put their feet on something
What a poorly made spaceship
That you have like a button you have to hold down
The whole time you're going to space
And again I would like to say
A dog could perform that role very well
A dog could have pushed the button
If he had a chimpanzee or a golden retriever
That's true
This also demonstrates something that
I think is important is that Flash Gordon
Can't fight for shit
Like he's at gunpoint and he's like
I got this and he kind of gently shoves him by the wrist
And has no follow up
Okay that should take care of him
He pointed the gun at me again
Shit
So that's how Flash Gordon fights
And yet he's like 20 minutes away from
Overthrowing Space Hitler
Yeah
His power is definitely not fighting
Or talking or being smart
Or being fast
Or being in a position
Yeah
He's got a little bit of earth luck I guess
But again
He's very handsome, he is a handsome man
Good job
He's white and present
Yes
Terrific job
He looks great in star panties
So
Flash has no survival instincts
They end up getting in the rocket and
Helping him
Space, sure
Space is really sleepy, I don't tell you that
They don't tell you that
They don't tell you that
I bet Zarkov
Should have known
If Zarkov was a real scientist he would have known
He would have been like everyone get ready
We're going to take a very pleasant nap
Get in your jammies
Space requires jammies
They put in like a lava lamp
And
The Queen Song plays
The Imperial Vortex
Which is a fucking awesome name
And I can't believe the same people who wrote that
Wrote Hot Hail
And now we see like the outer space
Scenes and it's just breath taking
Like no effort
Was made into making them look cool
They just tried to make it look like the comic book
It's like they gave Sid and Marty Croft
80 million dollars, it's just fucking
Amazing
Flash meets some star samurai men
And they shoot him with hand rays
And one that shoots hands
Oh wait can I say
I love here the doctor goes
They're highly advanced I think we can negotiate
With them and I was like yeah
They look like they're really
Negotiate with the bull
They're like big shoulder pads
And they're solid gold masks
These are men that want to negotiate
And now if you pay attention
One of these soldiers
Has the exact helmet
From Conan and
The little skull set
In a helmet, yeah
They spray painted it gold of course
But yeah you can see a lot of the props
Used from the other movies
Just like they love that helmet
But it's also the most recognizable
Helmet ever made
With this skull set in that's wearing its own little helmet
I see that every single time
Oh I love those, yeah
I forgot that that was in Conan
But it looked great with Flash Gordon
The gold really made it pop
I didn't even notice
Color it gold I'm like that's a new hat
So they bring
The earthlings into the horny cosplay chamber
Everyone looks awesome
She's gold plated plastic and capes everywhere
They really let
Like the drama linger
Like in a modern movie there'd be camera cuts
And close ups and this is just like this
Wide shot of like 40-ish people
Standing in just something that looks completely
Ridiculous and they just let you
Stare at it it's so funny
And stupid and I love it
Well everybody looked great
Except for Lizard Man
Lizard Man because you know what
I don't want more work put into Lizard Man
Because I love him so much but it's just like
A man in dino pajamas
With his face painted red and I think
You're not supposed to notice
You're supposed to think his face is a mouth
Yeah that's a good point
I was like what's with the species
Whose face is in their mouth
I didn't think that that was not part of it
I think you weren't supposed to look
That closely
The one chink in the space armor of Flash Gordon
I do love them
They look like Sid and Marty Croft got eight dollars
To make those
They're very sleazy
Yeah disproportionate to everything else
That looks so good and then there's these guys
They're like what you would expect
The Halloween costume of Flash Gordon
To look like
The Halloween store for a couple of dollars
And they're like oh man
This is a disappointment
Like an 80s Halloween costume where you have
Flash Gordon's face on the shirt
On a plastic bag
Yeah a plastic beard
So Ming comes out
And Ming is glorious
Variation identifying
Which again I didn't quite realize until I was an adult
That oh yeah this guy in the comic
Was like a yellow peril
Chinese guy
And here he is
I just thought Max on Sido had Flash
He's just got a lot of style
So he kills the king and the space Africans
And then his daughter is lurking
Around hot as shit
Just space bikini all sparkling
And she's
Super into Flash Gordon
And I guess why wouldn't she be
That makes sense
And Dale is now already insecure
Maybe they fucked already on the plane
But as far as I know they've never even
Kissed
They don't know each other's last names or hobbies
He just knows she's a real estate agent
And she knows he is Flash
And she's like hey remember me
Like she's jealous already
And again who wouldn't be
Princess Aura is
It's also because Flash drops her instantly
Like as soon as he sees her he's like oh
Okay I could fuck an alien
He does walk past
This whole harem of space bikini ladies
Who are just writhing for him
Like it's a gauntlet of horniness
Like Dale is
In like a smart white
Business suit
Like she was just about to show a three bedroom
To a nice couple
So I'm not joking that really is
Her job in this she's a
I thought she was a travel agent because he says
What travel agent is afraid of flying
And I was like that is weird
Travel agent
Thank you
She's had like eight different jobs in the canon
She's usually a scientist
But here they travel agents
It's fine
That's like one joke
That's hilarious
Yeah
So they throw
I'm skipping ahead in my notes
So Ming really likes Dale
And he has a horny ring
And he just sort of makes her glow
And paw like an invisible walrus
I never understood this as a kid
I don't understand it now
Like the evil Doctor Doom assistant
She even rivals your daughter
Meaning like this is something to do
Is hit ladies with horny rays in front of everybody
In the royal chambers
And watch how they behave including his daughter
Yes
And she has like a there's like a
Rating system like dude when your daughter is on the horny
Rate it is 10 out of 10
But wait what's this earth lady is really getting it
So she goes what happened to me
And flash Gordon says
I don't know but it was pretty sensational
She's just
Again I don't believe
He was provided a script that said that
I think he's just reacting
I like the way he potted that weird
Invisible walrus
He tells to
He tells the court to prepare her for
Our pleasure and
A football game breaks out
I guess there's no other way to put it
Flash Gordon just starts
And like did you mention that I love before that
When the princess says to her dad like
I don't even know how she says it
But she's like I want to have sex with flash Gordon
And he's like oh my god
Like the way he responds to her
He goes your appetites
I swear
He's like girl you're going to get us in trouble
Yes
I knew you'd want to fuck him
That's so you
Yeah like he responded so
Cute to it and then he gets so mad later
When she actually tries to that I thought that was a really funny
Contrast
I thought we were riffing
Were we not riffing
But during the football game
Flash Gordon is like
Throwing space eggs at people
Like footballs and they have no way to deal with it
They don't know what earth football
But Clydes is like a star genius
He's doing like a game
You gotta match him so he figures out football
Just from like this mess around
And they start
Doing it
Dale's cheerleading it rules
Man he footballs those mother fuckers
Right into the grave
Just footballs some sons of bitches apart
They're like the only way to fight football
Is with football you fools
The movie would have ended there
If Zarkov wasn't there because he's such a nerd
That when he tries to throw football a flash
He hits him in the face and knocks him out
It's probably Flash's fault we're not catching it
But I think you have to blame Zarkov
That's probably why he became a mad scientist
Because he's such a fucking nerd
There's no way he can throw a spiral
Yes
That was not on the curriculum
At mad science school
Flash gets thrown in prison
And uh
Executed and we are now what
37 minutes into the movie
And the main heroes died
They've had a football game
I do appreciate they gave him
Those little hot pants for his execution
That's the execution uniform
His hot pants
Yeah they took away his pants
And his shirt that said flash on it
Which made me really sad
I don't know what happened to that
Prepare him for execution
So you mean the shiny sex pants?
Of course I mean the shiny sex pants
He looked like the guy for Rocky Horror
That they make in that
I wondered if this was the inspiration for that
That's funny you mentioned that because did you notice
Riff Raffer's in this?
No!
Oh okay
That's hilarious I had no idea
Wasn't Rocky Horror
70's like late 70's
So it would have been before
Yeah it would have been before I suppose
Yeah I thought so
Maybe that inspired
Hey put Flash Gordon in the little underwears
Big wooden dipshits
We're just really having a moment in time
So Flash is dead
In his sexy panties
And Aura brings him back to life with a magic kiss
That's in the script
And then she
Watched him change the other shiny panties
I love that
Flash clearly fucks
But he also seems really out of his element
With this woman like being sexually aggressive
Like he's just like what is happening
What are you doing to my
What's this in my pants
Sometimes
If like your dog is begging for an entire burger
And then you just hold down
The entire burger for them
They're like oh shit this is a trap
What do I do about this
That's what's happening there
Somebody offered Flash the entire burger
It's the truck they never expected to catch
Zarkov is now being reprogrammed
They're like hey we'll take this earth scientist
And reprogram his brain
And so they go through his memories
A lot of screaming cats in Nazi's
In this guy's brain
Most of his memories are screaming cats
With a little bit of Nazi's
But like I want to say 80% of his life
Was just screaming cats
Yeah we'd have to go through
Frame by frame to be sure
But I think you're right
I think you're exactly right
I think they just wanted to show Hitler so that Ming could go
Yes he had it right
In case you didn't get the merciless
Was a bad guy
Yeah they did a little
A little Hitler joke there
This Hitler guy seems pretty cool
He shows promise I think was the exact line
So then Flash is
Escaping with Aura in a rocket ship
And
She is just rubbing all over him
And Flash keeps stopping
The foreplay to ask about like shapes in the sky
He's like hey what's that over there
I love it, I love it so much
Also the planets here are like
They're toys floating in rainbow soup
Like it doesn't make any sense
By the physics as we know
It's wonderful
It looks great, love it
I like that she teaches
Like the only way to fly their space jet
Is like fingering a woman
Like that whole scene where he gives them how to fly
Is like very clearly
So you can only fly this ship
If you know how to finger bang really good
And he does
Like me
Also it's like finger in a butt
Okay Aura
I got it
Just play that next time
So
Let's see, Dale is
Back at Ming's sex harem
And it's just
Very horny
All these women
So I guess they're like
Is this where they give her the drink
I think I'm seeing Space Roofie
Space Roofies herself
Right, which I think is
She shows a lot of agency to like
She's kind of trying to kick ass
In this helpless situation
I guess I should just get fucked up then
I felt like it was a really
Interesting solution
For a movie
It's what I would do
Yeah, I think she lost all hope
So for a minute there she was like
I guess I just give up until she heard from Flash again
And then she decides to fight back
Right, and I love that
Flash calls her on the mind phone
While Aura is just
Going for it
And he mentions this on the mind phone
Like every part of him is in her mouth
Anyway
He can't help but think
Man, this girl is really turning me on
She's like, what?
He's like, nothing
I wasn't talking about you
She's like, okay
It's perfect because he's the kind of man
That thinks the things that happen to him
Like that's his internal monologue
Is things currently happening to him
Outside, it is warm
Very notably not thinking about his next move
Like we can see inside his brain and it is
He's six seconds behind us
At all times
So Dale escapes all by herself
She is just
All of a sudden a fucking kung fu warrior
She does a one-headed cartwheel laser blast
To take out a guy
She's the only one that fights at all
Still has to be half roofied
Through this
Right, she's completely hammered
She's drunk and she remembers to pick up her shoes
After she kills three men
To bring them with her in case she needs them later
That's how badass Dale is
That's advanced womaning right there
I wouldn't have remembered to bring the shoes
She stealth eliminates two guards
While she's in the bikini gown
With beads
There's beads dangling off of her
And she's still stealth killing dudes
Amazing
So
I guess we're now on Arboria because
Aura takes Flash there
And I guess
Drop him off, like the plot is happening so quickly
It's hard to understand everyone's motivations
They're doing a lot of weird tree stuff
They have a thing on Arboria where
A test of manhood is just you stick your hand in a tree
And hope that the balloon scorpion inside doesn't kill you
Well after you've had sex
There was that, I couldn't believe this was PG
And there was this whole scene
Where they're initiating a boy into manhood
And they're all listening to him have sex
And like thumping the ground
In line with the rhythm
Of them having sex
It's a very horny movie
PG
Get your fuck on
That's how I lost my virginity
Yeah, like with the whole room full of people
Listening and then you do the scorpion thing
Yeah, drumline
You don't have a death stump, like we're from
Pacific Northwest so maybe
Like it looks a lot like Arboria
It just might be where they pulled that custom
From, you might not have that in the middle
You probably have like some kind of a tractor
We do the first part
But we don't do the death scorpion
We cut that out years ago, that's too barbaric for us
But you reach into like a tractor engine
I'm sure
Yeah, and there's a kitten
And it's just nice, you just find the kitten and you're like, yay
Well same thing, that's how you win
So Timothy Dalton is very jealous of Flash
And when he sees him he makes
I think three corpse jokes in 10 seconds
He's like, oh I didn't know you liked necrophilia aura
Cause again Flash Gordon and I
We died in this movie
And he's like, well hang in with the rest of the hanging meat
Like he just keeps going on and on about, hey you're dead
You're a dead body, fuck you
And
Now we cut back to
Dale who's been rescued by Zarkov
Cause they said, hey this Dale lady
Is just kung fuing the fuck out of our army
Send the new mind slave to get her
And he's like, I'm actually not a mind slave
Because
You can't stop the human spirit
And
So I armored my mind with
Beetle songs
Yeah, he says he thought about the beetles
I armored my mind using the beetle songs
So that they could not penetrate
I got to erase beetles
They erased all the cats in Nazi stuff
So he's probably just like in a much better mood
He's the same dude, he just doesn't remember the holocaust
I enjoy my life having never been attacked
By cats
They dump Flash in a swamp
And aura is now
At a table getting whipped
And a couple shackles are little robot hands
I don't think this is a torture room
I think this was a fuck room, they're like dude
All the torture rooms are full, we got a torture here
In the fuck room
It's her favorite room
And then they bring out the boar worms
And she's like, oh no, not the boar worms
Which I think
Is there a more phallic option in this movie
Than to have something called a boar worm
That is like the ultimate torture
No, I don't know what they're doing
Yeah, everything they could make horny
So
Now
Dalen Zarcoff are dragged to the Hawkman Palace
I'm kind of going at the same pace of the movie too
Like this is all just happening
Yeah, it's just think, think, think, think, think
Like there's no character development
No breathing room
It's just like, what's the coolest thing that can happen
What would look really cool
Oh, stick him in a big cage and then stick that cage in the swamp
Yes, doing it next
I love the lack of transitions
No movie lacks transitions
Like Flash Gordon
You're just like in the next cool set piece
And if you wonder how that happened
Fuck you
Yeah, the movie treats you like you're an idiot
If you don't understand why we're in the Hawk Kingdom now
Yo
Well, I do think every set is so distinct
That they don't even need like exterior shots
To say like here we are now
I wasn't clear, they were completely right to do that
To just be like
Put them in the next awesome thing
And everybody will love it
So now
At the Hawkman Palace, Timothy Dalton shows up
And
Brian Blessed is like
Gordon's alive
And he is
But he gets betrayed by Riff Raff
And then they make him do the
Trees Dump Russian Roulette
And Timothy Dalton's like
No, we're gonna play this until you touch the scorpion and die
And Flash realizes this
Again, in a weird, a weirdly
Canny moment
Oh, I'm gonna trick somebody
I'm gonna pretend to do one thing
And then do a different thing
He's like, he's learning
And then he immediately yells trick ya
He's so proud
It's the only time
He's ever done it
They were afraid the audience would know
That he had tricked him, so he had to yell it
Yeah, they're like, this doesn't seem very flash Gordon to
Deceive someone
And cleverness
And forethought
So
In the two hours they've been captives
He and Dale are now better fighters
Than this entire elite
Star soldier army
Now he falls into the quicksand
Then he crawls out of the quicksand
Into a fucking bog spider
Has to get saved
By Hawkman lasers, it's just one thing after another
But nothing can kill Flash Gordon
Again, he's skipping nothing
And that's
It took about as long in the movie
Just from the quicksand
Two buttcrab, two lasers
There's Hawkman, it's just
I forgot about the bog spider
And like, that's a big
Set piece, a big goopy set piece
That I totally didn't remember until you said it
It takes like five seconds
And it deflates when he kills it
And just, it's perfect
Don't question it, says the movie
So we don't
It rises with like a burp
And it has these spider claws
That constantly stab him
It's a giant working model
So then they cut to 400
Mongo miles to the west where they're waking up
To say like, hey dude, look at all this stuff
That's happening and they have cameras everywhere
So they can just show it
Everybody in the movie knows exactly what's going on
Everywhere
Timothy Dalton demands a trial by combat
Against Flash Gordon
And so
I love this scene because then Dale shows up
And she's like, yay Flash Gordon
Oh my god, I thought you were dead
And I'm so happy to see you like Brian Blessed
Is behind them just chewing the scenery so hard
You can't look at anything but him
He's just like, I'm back here with Hawkwings
And no pants
I love it
I have no idea what they say to this day
There's a line where Dale
Dale says like, do you remember me to him
And he just goes, indeed I do
What the fuck was that line delivering
And she looked shocked by it like she'd stick
To step back like, okay
What the fuck's happening
She knows she's getting out active
She's like, cut I didn't know it was like this
Can I try again
No, you cannot
I don't even think of the English
I don't even think of the English for this
I need more diaphragm movement than I have
So
They have a fight to the death
On a giant tilting disc
With whips
With spikes
Over space
This is a real set they built
With presumably real spikes, they seem real
Even if they're made out of rubber
Like Sam Jones and Timothy Dalton should be dead
They're doing their own fucking fight
On top of this really shaky
Manufactured set
Yeah, I have to say
That fight, that was the female gaze
Like it was very hot
Just Timothy Dalton
Super hot model guy whipping each other
With these big whips, I was like
Did they realize
What they're doing in this scene
All off balance with spikes around
They know
They know what women do
Women love disarmed men
On shaky ground
I know this
But yes, very horny movie
Even during a fight to the death
Dale goes flash I love you
But we only have 14 hours to save the earth
Fantastic
It is unprompted, it is crazy of her to do it
But it does help remind us
Of the stakes in this
Bullwhip fighting
Spike platform a million miles into space
You're like, oh there are stakes
The highest stakes thing
Anybody's ever put to fill
Yeah, he's about to die
And she's like, hey, hurry up
There's also a ticking clock
Oh, right
And then in addition to that
I think there's an exchange of lines here
That perfectly describes
Like everyone's take on the movie
And like encapsulates the entire movie
Where Voltaire goes
What is this?
And Sarkov goes humanity
And he goes madness
And then Dale goes flash
And I'm just, it's perfect
It's perfect
Cletus shows up and says
Agent Sarkov
You will be liquidated for treachery
And they fucking kill him
With something he never expected
Shove
So they just fucking shove him onto the spikes
His eyeballs and tongue melts out of his Dr. Doom helmet
Like he dies
So hard, so easily
So
And god, I don't even know what the fuck's going on
It wasn't, to be fair, it was Flash's specialty
It's Tackle
It's like the one thing he can do
And they set him up for a Tackle
Oh, okay
That's super effective
Something, again, a dog could do very well
Just shove that guy
Yeah, just run up and like
No jumps, no jumps
There's a bad guy standing over the spikes
Bingo, the dog would have jumped on him
Or airbud, that's how he would kill the bank robber or something
Yeah
So
Dale get abandoned by the hawk people
Because Ming is on his way, they're like, okay, we're fucking out of here
They're like, can you give us a ride?
Can you carry us? And he's like, fuck you
Flash has an idea
This is a genius idea, the kind of
Really smart golden retriever
He starts pulling down the curtains
To make a parachute
To jump into bottomless forever space
There's nothing, it's never been made more clear
That there is nothing beneath them
So even if it works, it's the worst idea
But also like
Nobody entertains for a second
That this could have worked
Yeah, Dale's like
That place you're trying to
He's like, we'll just parachute to Arboria
She's like, that's 50 miles away
That's made out of fucking swamps
And bog spiders
And it's not downward flash
Right
It's in a direction we can't point
I don't even know
How many mongo miles 50 miles is
So it could
I don't understand at all the point of reference
But now Ming shows up
And he offers flash a mongo kingdom
And flash is like, fuck you, no way
And
I love that he doesn't offer a kingdom for any reason
Except for because flash is
Fucking crazy and Ming thinks it's
Hilarious
That's not me putting anything on the movie
He's just in a paraphrasing
But he shows up and he's like
You're fucking hilarious, do you want a kingdom?
Yeah
I would have too
Ming stands
At the edge of the nothingness
And
Flash Gordon is two feet from
He could have tried the tackle again
I thought it was weird he didn't
But that's how Ming rolls
He's just like, yeah, no, I feel like
What dad tackled me and he was right
He just has this aura that you're like
It won't work, whatever
This tackle won't work on this guy
So let's see
Flash
They blow up the whole place
He's like, okay fine, die here Flash Gordon
The Hawk Palace model which is just
Amazing like this model must
Have taken months to build and then they just
Exploded with like what looks like
20 pounds of fireworks like
It's incredible, perfect
And they leave him alone in there
They're like, well, we'll leave you alone
For a while and then we'll start shooting it
So he has plenty of time to like
Think up his next plan for escape
Which is
Oh sorry, go ahead
No, I was just gonna leave it which is
I mean, it's none if you remember correctly
I don't remember
It's flying
He just kind of runs around
He runs around looking at stuff and is just like
Ah, ah
And then he falls down a tube
Where there happens to be
A space jet ski and he's like
Oh man, that was a free one
But they take Baron and
Dale and Sarkov with them
And for some reason just leave Flash behind
Why would they not just
Gonna use him as fuck sleigh
Flash has to be like an example
Although he would make such a good fuck sleigh
I didn't understand why they were like
Everybody else is gonna cut
Well, like it just seems to me like he's just
Mr. Beaning his way through space
Like he's just
They're like, I'm gonna try and kill Flash Gordon
But you know, not very hard
I'm gonna try and kill his friends much harder
But Flash Gordon, who is a continual problem
I'm just gonna kind of leave him behind
Well, I think Ming wanted him to be a maximum problem
He's like, you're kind of fun, but if you had a kingdom
You would be a fucking pain in my ass
And he's like, I don't want a kingdom
He's like, okay, I'll just blow you up then
Would stick with this medium level of trouble
You'll probably get out of there in a rocket cycle
I don't know
I sure hope you don't fall down that tube
Do you understand the tube?
Okay, Flash, you have to say yes
Because I don't think you understand the tube
I know what a tube is, Ming
And I'm not getting in it
Till you give me back Dale
So, speaking of Dale, she's now in Princess Aura's
Like, she's having a pillow fight with Princess Aura
Well, like all the other concubines are giggling
Very horny
I think the restraint these filmmakers had
And not having this scene end in sex
Is remarkable
Because that seems like
Where it's obviously leading
Yeah, it's like a very flirty fight scene
Where they're like, aha, you hit me
Look at you, oh no
Oh, my panties fell off
That was enough back in 1980
That was enough to finish
Before the internet
Yeah, I think you're right
I think a lot of people like this
Was their sexual awakening seeing this movie
Probably
Having this fight on a giant silk bed
With these two women
I was four, so it was a little bit
Before my libido's time
But it still had an impression
So Aura has a plan to poison Ming
And she knows this will work
Because she says, my father always drinks
His power potion before he makes love
Hell yeah, Ming
Hell yeah, you do
My father always fucks like a jackhammer
It's amazing
And again, a testament to the perfect filmmaking
She's like, oh, this is a stupid plan
Nothing can save me now
Cut to Flash Gordon in space
The Queen Song screaming flash
Flash Jones
Face Jetski
Or he says he's
He gets on his fucking walkie-talkie
And tells the Hawkman that he's
Flying blind on a rocket cycle
Which is the best thing to do
Flying blind on a rocket cycle
As some of us know more than others
Yeah, that was the name of my call of it
That website Cratch.com
I just got the reference
What were you saying, Lenny?
Oh, just while that Flash can breathe in space
I guess that is a superpower
Because he doesn't have a space suit
Or a helmet or anything and he's just flying around out there
Yeah, they don't care at all
About anything
I don't think they understood
Which is crazy since we had been there
But I don't think they understood or cared to understand space
Like, they told you that right up front
With that whole space makes you sleepy
We'll just rock it up there
This is like 1950s
Space is like when you drop motor oil in a mud puddle
That, in all directions
So
They now have a space war
Which is
Far outside the abilities of their special effects
So it only makes it more awesome
Because they're like lowering these Hawk guys
On to what looks like a riverboat casino party
While like fireworks are going off
It's so awesome
If you watch any one single Hawkman
During that scene
Like if you pick out one to watch
It's fucking hilarious
Like if none of them know how to do this at all
It looks like they're trying to parallel park wings
Like they're just
Back in a turn
Every one of them just eats shit
Yeah, they're getting wrecked
Just fucking picked out of the sky
No chance of survival
The greatest music in the galaxy plays
It's the fucking best
They're having such a good time
Every single one of them
Both hand is just laughing and like
Dive
He finally lands and he's just
Laughing and bonking guys
And like fucking around
Shoving them off after like kind of spooking them a little
I love it
Then they cut to aura
Helping Baron and Zarkov escape
And I have a clip
Because I think this really
It's one of these perfect exchanges
That you can get in this film
So I'll play this
I know what's gonna be
I haven't changed
It's
It's amazing
Oops, it's playing again
I think every single line of that
Is crazy and barely linked
To the one before it
It seems like the kind of scene where Timothy
Dalton should be like, I don't want to act against
This beautiful idiot who barely speaks my language
But he is kind of getting
He's getting outperformed
And then Topol is just like
Okay, you guys do your thing
I will talk about the Zenith sequence
It's just, I love it
It's so fucking weird
Well, and just like them having to remind everyone
That their characters have grown
Because it didn't really happen
So they just have to say, I've changed
I have grown
I feel like I'm at the end of an arc right now
I'm standing at the end of a large arc
I will now return
To where I was at the beginning of this movie
Having changed
So, now Flash Gordon
Is in a Kamikaze
Rocket ship, he's going to just fly straight
Into the wedding, he knows there's a wedding
Happening, because he turns on
Like the broadcast frequency
And he can hear like an electric guitar version
Of Here Comes the Bride, which they have in space
I'm fine with that, yes
I love that electric guitar version
I wish I'd walked down the aisle to that shit
His entire wedding is incredible
With the armored dwarves and the beautiful
Trans models dressed like feathered chess pieces
Well, fucking
Electric guitars just roar
It's so hot
This is how Eddie Van Halen got married
Yes, the plane has
The little banner that says
Everyone will be Mary or else
I have that in my notes, it says
All creatures will make Mary
And then the next banner says
Under Pain of Death
And I love that, his daughter is there
Chained to her like little person slave
And she's in a silver pasties gown
Like being dragged around by her neck
At the wedding, it's so much
And everyone's having such a good time
Like, not just the actors
But like, you can tell whoever made this
Scene is just this fucking rules
Every bit of this rules
Flash decides to stay on the ship
Because he thinks it needs a pilot
He's like, Voltaan, it's never gonna
Hit the right spot unless someone's piloting
He's like, Flash Gordon, you don't even know
How this fucking ship works, just come with me
I'll carry you, he's like, no dude
I'm gonna die here, and he screams
That must be one hell of a planet
Your men come from
Do you remember what he says, Liddy?
No, I don't
He goes, not too bad
Anyway
I like that this is the second
The second time they've allowed
Flash to plan something
And those plans have been gather a bunch of curtains
And jump off into death like a loony tune
Or
Drive the ship into the force field and die
A second plane crash
Because he's so good at plane crashes
Yeah, this is true, that's a character arc
He learned how to crash a plane earlier
And now it's paying off
There's more close-ups of hot guys just getting
Annihilated by space lasers
So
Baron and Zarkov are in the palace
They've broken in, they're trying to
Shut down the force field so Flash Gordon
Actually
Explodes against the wedding rather than
Explodes meaninglessly against the force field
Zarkov's like
Let's grab the goggles off this guy's head
There's a whole bunch of guys at like a board table
A board room meeting
He pulls off the goggles like, hey, we'll use this
To fucking look around
And the dude explodes
And then every single other guy is on a circuit
So they start exploding, he just fucking kills
A whole meeting room
Well, and they look at the camera
And their eyes are just full of wires
And I was like, I love that this was like
Never explained, never foreshadowed
Makes no sense at all, it's just like
Would this look so cool if this happened
Yes, okay, it's in the movie
He genuinely means no harm
He just pulls the goggles like, I'm just going to take this guy's gun
Oh my god, I killed 12 people
Well, fuck them
So the doors are
They're Star Wars, so if you shoot them, they open
So they have a bit of that where
They're blown open the doors
There's a great gunfight where
I think it was Zarkov, or maybe it was Timothy Dalton
Who shoots one of the guards
And he let out like this crazy curl monster
Scream where he's like, wow
And so, he's there with his buddy
And he dies, and his buddy looks down
He's like, oh my god, did something happen to this guy?
He's like screaming and dying
And while he's ducks down checking on his friend
They shoot at him again and miss
And hit the wall behind him, and he gets up and he checks that
He's like, what the fuck was, did he hit just the wall behind me?
So I thought like that's the
You didn't have to make that funny, but they did
So
I just, I love it
The wedding vows, we kept
Back to the wedding, they're pretty grim vows
He's like, Ming
Do you promise to mangle her and smash her?
Maybe not
So blast her into space, and Ming's like
Did you just say not blast her into space?
And the priest is like, oh, and I'll until you grow weary
Of her, of course, great Ming, please kill her
Which is like, what's the point of a wedding?
Why is he doing this?
Like, she was his concubine before
And he was fine with having sex with her when she was just a concubine
But now he's like, I'm going to marry her
Did he just want to have a party?
I think it's because she's the most trouble out of all his concubines
He's like, I love this girl, she keeps escaping and killing guards
He enjoys the chaos
At this point, I would like to raise that
They can see the flash Gordon ship
In the background of the wedding
Like coming straight at them on fire
Clearly about to explode
Nobody knows that that's not just like another awesome
Part of this fucking kick-ass party
So I can forgive them not minding it
But let's take a moment and appreciate that
Flash's plan
Is to crash the ship into the wedding
And kill everybody
To rescue Dale
Who is certainly going to be exploded
Along with everybody else
She is literally touching his primary target
Yes
Directly the closest person
To the explosion of the ship
Flash tries
Flash
In classic horny flash Gordon
It's just a series of penetrations
He's like penetrating the laser field
To penetrate the force field
To penetrate Ming
And he does, he hits Ming directly in the center
Of his chest
With the pointy part of the rocket ship
The very phallic rocket ship
It's just fucking perfect
I love that he flew like 800 miles
Through space
Like a thrown dart to just hit Ming
Just
This rocket had a destiny
And it's to wind up inside your heart mother fucker
And so he just pulls himself
Off the pointy part of the rocket
And he's like my life is not
For some earthling to give up
Or take and you're like oh shit
He's still got more fight in him but no
No he just blinks out of existence
He's dead
He rainbowed himself
Did he try to use the horny gring on flash
To make flash horny
Oh my god that's a really interesting take on it
I think that's exactly what happened
It sort of made him stunned
He's like I'll hit you with a sword
He's like horny ring flash
He's like what is this feeling
What is this feeling I'm feeling
But he's just too much of a nerd
I'm always horny
So Ming finally vanishes
And then here comes the little like
Fascination bot that has like a disintegration ray
Fucking nark bot
Yes and then
I think it was either Daenerys Archive has the idea to not move
Like Jurassic Park 1 rules
Like okay I think if we don't move it won't do anything
The robot waits
He goes
Long live flash
You've saved earth
Have a nice day
And the flash goes yeah jumps in the air
They do this great fisheye like
Haas of him jumping in the air
Like pumping his fist
Like at the end of a summer camp movie
Like he's dunking on the robot
Like yeah in your face
Robot and then they freeze frame
And it's just it's wonderful
It's not the end of the movie
Kind of should have been the end of the movie
But then they thought of a better ending
And they were correct
It feels like they were on page 119
Of the screenplay
And Dino De Laurentiis came in and says
Oh no the screenplay has to be
It just has to be 120 pages
You finish it up an hour
And they're like we only have room for one line
Okay you saved me you have to have a nice day
We could cut all these accents out
So flash says yeah
And then they have a big party
With the hawk people there
And they write
Thanks flash
With their bodies in the air
A lot of sky writing for a space
Fairing people
Now that they made such a point of it
Like this is going to be
Summons everybody over
It's like my people have prepared something for you
And they all gaze out of this portal
At this lush landscape
And then like eight hawkmen spell out
Thanks
And then with great difficulty
And 15 seconds later they rearrange to flash
Behold
From the spectacle
The pomp we have prepared for you
The color guard is the only part of the army
The middle hawkmen just died doing that
Luckily
Our color guard survived
They were in the back all of our infantry men
And riflemen they're dead
But anyway
The ming's horny ring is still on the ground
And then a gloved hand grabs it
And an evil laugh
From a familiar voice happens
And the words say the end
But then
Question mark
My favorite ending
My favorite way to end a movie is the end
Question mark
Little wink
But it was they never made a sequel
Because no one liked this movie when it came out
It's like that headline rule
It's like that headline rule
If there's a question mark at the end of it
The answer is yes
But like even if Ming weren't still alive
Prince Baron announced
That he was going to like take over
Ming's job
So I don't think Flash actually did anything
Except install a new dictator
We don't know if Prince Baron is actually nicer
Than Ming the merciless
Like if they come back in two years
It's probably going to be like Baron the beater
Or something
Are you forgetting the part where he says I've changed too?
I am yes
Really honestly makes it the perfect metaphor for America
It's exactly how we would handle it
And have handled it
Oh god Flash Gordon is a metaphor
It's a perfect movie
Now it's not a metaphor
I don't disagree
Flash
Oh
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