The Flop House - FH Mini 113 - Missed That Movie! - Perfect

Episode Date: October 5, 2024

Sharlene Wellington drops by to talk to us about 1985's aerobics romance Perfect, and her new endeavor Jiggle Studio!Sharlene's Kickstarter!FlopTV episode 2 is tonight! You can pop in for individual episodes, or get a price break with a season pass — more info (including the full line-up) and tickets available here! And hey, while you’re clicking on stuff, why not subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets?!”

Hey, this is Stuart Wellington of the Flophouse Podcast. This is a Flophouse Mini. So on the off weeks when we don't release a full episode, we do a mini episode and that's what you're listening to right now. I'm Stuart Wellington, one of the hosts, and I'm joined by my other hosts, Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalin. Yo. We have an extra, cool.

Elliott's just establishing that he's the cool guy of the podcast. Yeah, that goes double for me. Double yo. Oh, wow. We got two cool guys on this podcast. Yo-yo, less cool than yo. I hate to break it to you, Dan. So we got two cool guys and one babyface. That's me, Stuart.

But we also have an extra guest, and that's not just a regular guest. We have a guest host because she's going to be doing a lot of the driving on this mini episode. Let me introduce my wife, Charlene Wellington. Hello, Charlene. Hello. Yo, yo, yo. Oh, wow. We have three cool dudes on this podcast.

Now, Charlene is here for a number of reasons, but one of the key reasons is that she is promoting a new business, a new business venture called Jiggle Studios, a new fitness studio in Park, not Park Slope, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. What an embarrassing group. It'll be Park Slope soon enough. Just let the real estate people have their way. In a few years, it'll be Park Slope, yeah.

You know, this just came to me that we did an episode before where we were opening a joke business. Yes, yes. And it sounded almost exactly the same. Oh no. So how will we let the people know this is actually not a joke? I mean maybe you shouldn't have given your real business such a silly name.

I think the level of concern you have about the confusion will let people know that it's a real business. Yeah, no, that's actually because- I think we need your level of concern, Dan, and then maybe there's a difference. Oh my God, what am I going to do? Yeah, yeah. This is going's mind, he's like, oh fuck, that guy. He is worried. Like, whoa, he's like, time to step away from Cerebro for a little bit.

It's weird. His life seems pretty good, but he can't seem to calm down. It's a cool mutant power you got there. So, and also- We'll call you low self-esteem-o. On that joke business episode, I kept insisting that it was not a joke over and over, right? Yeah, you could take your breath. It's going to be a nice fruit yourself. Yeah.

So I guess for people to know that this is not a joke, you'll have to keep talking about what a joke it is, I guess, right? Yeah, oh yeah. That's the full loop. So we'll talk more about Jiggle Studios, which I'm sure you would love to. It sounds so fake, yes. No, I mean, it's like a gym, but to me,

I'm like, oh, this sounds like a low rent. They would do movies for showtime. Jiggle Studios would do movies with Jiggle Studios. That's just Jiggle Studio. It's not a studio. Two guys have inherited their grandpa's gym, and they need to make it profitable, so they make it a new lady gym called Jiggle Studios.

Oh, man. Damn, what a thing. You just said a place. So I've chosen the wrong name. Oh god. Okay. Let's change this to critique my new business endeavor podcast. Just trying to offload some of my anxiety onto you, Shirley.

Thank you. We'll talk more in depth about Jiggle Studio and your upcoming crowdfunding campaign. Yes. But can you give a quick summary of what Jiggle Studio's all about? So Jiggle Studio is a real fitness studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Not a joke, everybody.

Next to Minis. I am renting the space next to Minis. And it is- Oh, Minis, that's that really cool bar that I've heard about. It's a very cool bar. And it's a class-based studio where we focus on movement for joy and never for weight loss. So we like to say move the body you have.

Okay, and that sounds great. So to go along with that, we are going to do a special mini episode where we normally on mini episodes, we just talk about whatever. But today we're going to do just that thing. We are going to do a special mini episode where we normally on mini episodes, we just talk about whatever. But today we're going to do just that thing. We are going to talk about whatever we're going to do an episode of. The, the, uh, the classic, I think the original mini format we are going to do a Mist That Movie. Charlene and I watched the, uh, John Travolta Jamie Lee Curtis vehicle,

Perfect, which is based on a true article in Rolling Stone magazine. Yes. There really was an article. I don't know if the article was true, but it was based on an actual article. So Charlene, and this is also fun because this is going to be Charlene's time

to get to do a summary. The thing that she would make fun of me for and she's like, you do it so like, Dan and Elliot and Stuart do such bad jobs summarizing movies. Now she has to try. I mean, I don't, I say that in my sleep, so it's not on purpose. Okay. But yeah. That's the secrets that she keeps. So you let me know when to start and then... Yeah, yeah, it's now. Now? Okay. That's the secret that she keeps. So you let me know when to start and then.

Yeah, yeah. It's now. Now? Okay. All right. So, perfect. We open to Jersey City. Jersey City, 1985, newspaper office.

Adam, played by John Travolta. Oh boy. He's an unhappy obituary writer. Cut to New York City five years later. Uh-huh. Keeping it tight, I love it. Now, yeah, Stuart, you passed along my request to keep it short today. This was the thing that happened? Oh, I thought we were still goofing! I thought that was a goof, Dan. You put it in the tablets with a little crying, laughing emoji. I just cut five years out of it. Okay, that's good.

Guys, just to pull back the curtain, in the Flophouse group chat, Dan is the emoji king. He is constantly throwing emojis. He loves them, he loves them. Elliot's dropping gifts on everything. Me, I'm a sticker boy. I use stickers, mainly pictures of myself that I've turned into stickers.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, go, go, Charlene. Okay, so New York City, now he's working for Rolling Stone magazine. We know that because there are pictures of a lot of famous celebrities. Yeah, Rolling Stone performers. They even do pictures of Mick Jagger. Yeah, they're pictures of Mick Jagger. And then his editor I guess sends him to California to cover two very important stories. So he's been in three different states already by the time of the movie. Yes. And Charlene completely, I mean she's

keeping it tight, she glossed over the fact that Carly Simon shows up and throws what looks like a glass of tomato juice that is in a coupe glass into John Travolta's face. We didn't get up to that yet, but yeah. OK. But Carly Simon was actually in it, which is really as herself. And he was like, oh, no, it's Carly Simon. And yes, you're so vain.

Yeah. That song was about him. Yeah. So, yeah. So he has to cover these two very important stories. One, they never really make it clear what it's about, but it's very important and somebody has to testify. Somebody's on trial for selling microchips to another country or something.

Something like that. It's never clear. And then the more important story are health clubs, the new singles bars. Oh, okay. And it's kind of like a take, like it meant to be like a takedown hit piece, right? Yes. Because that's his specialty.

He writes, he writes like hit pieces. That's why Carly Simon threw that tomato juice. You know, I was, I was, you know, I was young in the eighties, but I did, I did live through it and I recall back then it was sort of treated as an amazing thing that people might want to exercise. Yeah. Yeah. It was.

You have to remember that we had just been through the 70s, which was the decade of self-destruction. It was really cool to do a lot of drugs and just be filthy and sweaty all the time. And the 80s was when people were like, we got to get back into shape. Come on, America this is bonkers. It's morning, I heard. Yeah, in the 80s it's like, if you're going to do drugs, do ones that at least make you very energetic. Yeah, the 70s was all about cocaine as opposed to the 80s,

which were all about cocaine, I guess. And people were so tired that in the 90s they needed heroin to just kind of get them some sleep. And also cocaine. That means we're quailudes, man. Quailudes. Don't be naive, Dan. Come on.

I think you're correct. Yeah. Do they make quailudes out of quails? Yes. That's why they don't exist anymore. They're extinct? No, they're not extinct. They were just like when people used to smoke passenger pigeons.

That's why we don't have those anymore. Okay, so John Travolta shows up at this giant sports and racket club and I feel like gyms were way bigger in the 80s and they always had racquetball. Mm-hmm And it's called like the sports connection or something. Oh, yeah, I deleted what the name was. I think it's called sports connection. Yeah, it's something like that sport, but it's a health and racket club. Okay, so tell me about name was. I think it's called Sports Connection. Yeah, it's something like that, but it's Health and Racquet Club. Okay, so tell me about this club. What's it like? So, we got racquetball. We got a bunch of people dressed in amazing body suits and tights, headbands, leg warmers.

Guys, I know I'm a firm believer in the concept that nobody cares about your boner But like I love 80s workout I'm confused by leg warmers because that was big in the 80s You don't see them at all since the 80s and I was like, is it a problem like we're legs cold Like I feel like we're cold From the 70s that the oil crisis, there was less heat to go around. People were still dealing with that. So people's legs, because that's the lower part, hot air rises. The top half of your body is going to be warm.

Cold air settles around your tootsies. And so you need leg warmers to keep those warm. Based on the amount of sweating I do at my yoga class, a relatively low impact thing. Also my yoga class. Yeah, Charlene has begun to, now we're yoga buddies. We go to yoga together. That's true, this is another true thing and not a joke. Real quick, who farts more?

I mean, it's a whole class of people. Real quick, one more thing, this is Stuart from Rolling Stone Magazine. Just one more question, Carly Simon, how much do you fart? I'm just saying, I've never been like, oh, I want to put like a layer of wool on my legs doing this. So the 80s was all about like dance culture, right? And all of the popular movies were about dancing. And leg warmers... Flash dance. Dance flash. Flash flash.

Dance dance. Flash dance fucking rules. Like that is a movie where this like steel town has nothing else going on, but this like fucking kind of strip club that's mainly just like women dancing. Like it is packed all the time. Because they're amazing.

Yeah. I mean, how long does it take to set up that water on the top of the stage? And then she pulls it and then they have to take a break and they gotta dry the stage. And then she pulls it, and then they have to take a break and they gotta dry the stage. And there was that one time where they accidentally got buckets mixed up and they ended with a bucket from Carrie and she pulled it, she had pig's blood

all over, that's not easy to clean. And she gets magic powers, that's how Carrie got her magic powers. Yeah, yeah, the pig's blood's the telekinetic power that all pigs have. I kinda skim the book and movie. Yeah. So, yeah. So, they're wearing body suits. They're wearing the body suits with the belt that's like goes inside the body suit and comes out the other side.

We get a couple of famous faces in there too, right? We got Mary Lou Henner. We got Lorraine Newman. What? What? Hold on. Yeah. What? We're holding on. Oh, I... Can I say we got Lorraine Newman. What? What, hold on. Yeah, what, we're holding on. Oh, I just need a time to process Lorraine Newman being there, okay, I'm ready. Okay. And then we have Jamie Lee Curtis,

who is teaching the most popular aerobics class in the world. Less of a surprise that she's there, because she's one of the stars in the movie. Yes, yes. Yeah, she teaches aerobics. It's also, I think they call it slimmer size. Sure, of course. It's mostly, if the footage I've seen is any indication,

it's mostly a lot of hip thrusting. Oh my God, it is. It's all hip thrusting. I have never seen the movie perfect, but I have seen the clip of them gyrating their hips at least 20 times. It takes. It's so much worse than you think it is. And so much longer. We're not there yet, the clip of them gyrating their hips at least 20 times. It's so much worse than you think it is.

And so much longer. We're not there yet, but we could skip around. I'm not a stickler like this guy, Stickler McCoy over here. Oh, oh man. So, maybe I am. All right, let's go back. So, I take it back, I take it back. So, Jersey City, 1985. No, let's go back. So I take it back. I take it back. So Jersey City 1985

So Jamie Lee Curtis is teaching an aerobics class and this classroom is two levels of Of people taking the class. There's like, you know people upstairs downstairs. They're all anyway So he is immediately John Travolta enamored by her because she's amazing. And he wants to use her in his article. But she won't do it. Something in her past, something bad. She was hurt by an article. She doesn't want Michael Myers to find her.

She's in a living with her in a cell now. Yeah. This is pre Michael Myers now. No, I think this is gotta be after. No, this is about nine years after, right? Really? Or 79? I don't know. 76.

You're thinking of Mike Myers. He was on Saturday Night Live after this. With Lorraine Newman? So, Halloween the movie is 1978. That's Michael Myers the killer. Yeah, Mike Myers, the comedian, he won't be around for a while. You might know him as Shrek. I do know him.

Dan, can you drop your famous Shrek impression? Hey, donkey. Nailed it. Stop it, you're a fool. Stop, I'm gonna laugh too much. Now Dan, do you love to repress him? Charlene, you should probably continue before I crack it. I'm so confused. Do I make you horny? You're dropping so much harder than I thought too much. Now Dan, do you love Guru Refreshing? Charlie, you should probably continue before I crack up. I'm so confused. Do I make you horny?

You're driving so much harder than I thought it was. Okay, now Dan, do his Jewish mom Cat in the Hat that he does. Does he just do Linda Richmond for the Cat in the Hat? It's pretty much Linda Richmond, yeah. That's actually kind of, I got to watch Cat in the Hat. What an amazing piece of stunt casting would it be if the new Halloween movies he had pulled off his mask and it was Mike Myers underneath? I mean, A plus, four stars.

Yeah. All right. Are you still doing the Linda Richmond voice? Perfect. So, Adam wants Jamie Lee Curtis. I'm going to go back and forth. Joe Travolta wants Jamie Lee Curtis for his article. She can't do it.

She was once hurt by an article. Then we cut to Adam Goes to a Strip Club for, we have no idea why. It turns out it has to do with the other story. Oh, I mean, a lot of guys don't need an extra reason to do that. No, he was there to see a specific stripper. And it had to do with this other story that again, I'm not really sure. I was going to say a lot of movies from the 80s didn't need to have a reason to go to a strip club.

No. I guess this had a thinly veiled reason. Then we cut back to the gym and he's still trying to pester Jamie Lee Curtis to do the article and she goes to work in her bodysuit, which is what I noticed. She doesn't like change when she gets there. Then what else? LA weather, baby. There's something about shrimp cocktail, aerobics by Piper. You're doing a good job.

I've got good notes. No, I love it. It makes me wonder. But he asks her to go to lunch with him. And they go to lunch and she tells him her story or about how she doesn't trust reporters and this and that and then they have sex and he promises that not at lunch they go back to his hotel room and have sex and he promises he's not gonna use her in his article. It would have been unsanitary if he did it at the restaurant.

It seemed to be an ethical breach of that point since he took her home to have sex. I mean the whole I mean it's entirely no matter what the location. It's an ethical breach, right? Yeah, well, I'm just saying that if you then use her in the article, it's all the more so Oh, I see. Not if it's like in the bathroom of a bar. Yeah, that's not an ethical breach Yeah, but that's a bar breach because then they break the sink. Yeah, they break the sink every time Don't have sex on the bar sink. You gotta clean the place. Yeah, they break the sink every time. Don't have sex on the bar sink. You got to clean the place. Use the power of your own legs if you're going to have sex in the bar bathroom. But there is a perfectly good sink right there.

It would save a lot of energy. It's not, but the thing is it's not perfectly good. Yeah. It's not meant to hold that much weight. You're overestimating how well that sink is attached to the wall. Yeah, it's true. So what you're really saying is when you're having sex in a bar bathroom, take a moment, test the strength of the sink with little increments so you can make sure you're not

overloading it. Yeah, slowly, slowly stacking quarters. And tell this a critical failure, how are you going to know though? I don't understand. Well, no, you just start seeing when it starts to show you failure. Okay. It starts creaking. Well, no, you just start you start seeing that you start seeing when it starts to show you failure, you know Okay, you know just the same way they don't test the weight limit on a bridge by just Putting heavier things on the bridge until it breaks and then rebuilding it again And putting up a sign that says not this much

Charlie that when we were watching the Gilded Age you kept saying that's how they tested the structural integrity of the Brooklyn Bridge, right? I mean they put elephants on it until it collapsed That there was structural integrity was the elephants went across. Because they had a couple have sex on the bridge and people were like, oh, it's fine. And they kept adding people to the couple. Wow. Yeah, exactly. It was a throuple. All right, now I'm interested in history.

Yeah, the great bridge orgy of 1877. Dan's like, they had poly people back then? What? So, they have sex, then she convinces him to take her class. And then the class is, it's like 20 minutes, or it felt like 20 full minutes of them just thrusting and looking at each other. Eye contact and thrusting. And I will say, I'm very impressed by the fact that every time she teaches a class,

everybody knows the fucking move. She does not call out a single move. Everybody's like, and everybody's like, yeah, I guess I have committed to this hour-long hip thrusting class. But it's totally thrusting. And it just goes from Jamie Lee Curtis to John Travolta in his tiny shorts and his floppy dick and he's just like thrust. A lot of balls.

I feel like there's a lot of balls action going on. That was the 80s. People were into that in the 80s. And then at one point they get on the floor and do more hip thrusting but just from a different position. Sounds like a lot of core strength to me. Just that one part of the core. It's a total core hip thrust workout.

Yeah. Goes on and on and on. So what Charlene's trying to say is, I think this is the perfect segue, that Jiggle Studio's going to feature weekly hip thrust class. Just hip thrust class. It's just an hour of hip thrusts and eye contact.

You have to be maintaining eye contact the entire time. You must have the eye contact. That's the real work. That's the real exercise work No sunglasses indoors Dan McCoy Is this really when we're gonna take the time to talk about you Okay, I you didn't we didn't come up with a signal so alright, let me So pelvic thrust, then they go back to her house. Yeah, Charlene's notes has a lot of pictures of John Travolta hip thrust.

Those are called gifts. Yeah, they are a gift. Yeah, John Travolta's gift to the world. Yeah. They are a gift. Yeah, Dr. Volta's gift to the world, yeah. They go back to her house. I think her mother's there. She tells him the real story of how a reporter did an expose on her when she was a swimmer in high school. She was supposed to go to the Olympics.

She had an affair with her coach. And then they go skiing and then they're laying on a table outside and she's wearing a tank top and sweatpants but there's snow on the ground. Kind of getting in the weeds here. I didn't understand that part. Anyway this is the quicker version. Tell us what the weather is like in all the in all the all the stuff. I don't know where they were skiing. But people like the, you know, the refreshing sort of feel of that. Yeah, it felt like maybe Palm Springs based on where they're driving, but you know. Then they're driving back and she's telling him more of her, you know, back story. And she looks over and she realizes he's recording their conversation.

And she threw him out of the car. But like, when you start dating start dating somebody record all the conversations Receipts you can throw things back in their face Yeah, that's why I started this book So that I could have ammunition against Dan and Elliot So now she's mad at him. She's not talking to him. He goes back to his hotel room. There's a boy George Convention She's mad at him, she's not talking to him, he goes back to his hotel room. There's a Boy George convention.

That's true, that happens. So what's the perfect thing? So far I'm confused about the title. Actually, we are getting there. We're getting there, we're getting there. This movie was two hours long. So there's a Boy George convention, which means there's a lot of people dressed up

in one specific Boy George outfit. I see. Hanging around a pool, chanting boy over and over. Are there like academic papers being presented on Boy George, that kind of thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They keep saying boy a lot, and at first I'm like, are they, is this a phantasm convention?

Yeah. You play a good record, Boy George. You spun me right round. I don't think that's a... That's not for George. Karma chameleon. Yes, but it doesn't sound as much like that. You've made a real karma chameleon out of me, boy. It doesn't sound as good as this. Do you really want to hurt me, boy?

Oh, there you go. That's fair. That's fair. So, speaking of karma chameleon... Walk like an Egyptian, boy. No, that's a angles. When I was in camp, I feel like Elliot will like this. When I was in camp and we would make songs up to other pop songs, so there was a song, Kosher Chameleon that somebody made's trache when it is safe.

Oh, nice. That's great. Not only when it's safe. Really, yeah, man, we're really softballing our fucking worst-belt audience. I could have knocked the coach of Chameleon. So they're mad at each other. He's going to do the article about everybody else. He goes to a party at Mary Lou Henner's house.

She's dating a Chippendale dancer. Oh yeah, there's a long Chippendales dance scene. Yeah. Also big in the 80s. This movie's all about 80s stuff, yeah. He takes all these notes. Somebody refers to Lorraine Newman as the most used piece of equipment

in the gym. Wow. Yes. Don't treat Lorraine Newman like that. No, exactly. Not okay. And he's like, and he's talking to them and they're all speaking kind of relaxed

almost as if it's off the record. They're all getting drunk, it's a party, but he's recording this whole conversation. She's kind of, Lorraine Newman's character reveals why she likes Jim so much, yeah? Which is this whole idea of she wants, she's like, there's nothing wrong wanting to be perfect. That's why she goes to the gym,

that's why she wants to have plastic surgery, et cetera, et cetera. And this is the moral of the movie. Yes, you should do all this stuff. Yeah, yeah, okay. So, Adam has a change of heart. And this, I think, this change of heart, I think also signals a brief change in the podcast

where I will pivot to a thing called promoting flop TV. Oh. I don't know if you know about flop, yeah. Everybody else got very nervous because they're like, fuck, is this another one of Stuart's wacky episodes? No, this is a normal episode. So right now we are in the middle of Flop TV Season Two.

We did a season last year that was six months, one episode a month where we do a really fun live show. They're a little truncated, trimmed down versions of our normal live shows. But we get to watch some movies that we're very excited to do. And this time we are watching and talking about sequels. Number twos. Are they number twos or are they number ones? We'll find out. We've already done one on RoboCop 2 and it was so much fun.

It was really cool to get to do the show with you guys. And it also gives us an opportunity to throw little bits of extra bits and bobs, some pre-recorded stuff. And it's a really cool thing that we get to do. And you can watch it at home, live, or you can watch it in wherever you want to watch it, wherever you have an internet signal. You do need an internet connection, but otherwise, the world is your oyster. You know, as long as that oyster has an internet connection.

Yes, an internet connection. Watch it on the toilet. I mean, that's where I'm assuming most people watch it. So... You can watch it on a boat. You can watch it with a goat. You can watch it with a stote. You can watch it with a fox. Yeah, a stote too, you know?

Stote is kind of like aote. You can watch it with a fox. What's a stote? Stote is kind of like a fox. I will watch it. I will watch it. Sam-I-B? So you're probably like, Flop TV sounds super fun. I can't wait to watch it. What's the next one?

Well, of course we are watching Breaking 2 Electric Boogaloo. Tonight, the night that this episode is released, we'll be talking about Breaking 2 Electric Boogaloo. And I'm very excited because Charlene was a big fan of Breaking. And Breaking Away, as well as Breaking 2 Electric Boogaloo. There's going to be not as much Breaking Away content. We'll find out. And just to let you guys know, if you want to get tickets

and join in on the fun, it is go to theflophouse.simpleticks.com. You can get tickets to individual shows, or you can get a season pass. And that gives you access to not only the shows that are coming up, but also every show that we've done so far this season. It's going to be a lot of fun and I like doing it. Also, I think this is a really good time for Charlene to explain now that we've heard a little bit about

what the gyms are like in the movie Perfect. What's Jiggle Studio all about? So unlike the movie Perfect, okay, Jiggle Studio does not want you to strive to be perfect. Okay. Jiggle Studio, you can be exactly who you are. It's a place where you can take all kinds of classes. We're going to have yoga.

We're going to have burlesque. We're going to have theatrical fighting classes. One of my favorite ones is the hangover helper class. Yes, hangover helper, where it's 20 minutes of light cardio followed by 20 minutes of stretching in a dark room with low music followed by a cup of warm vegetable soup. That is for real. It's always been my dream to have a fitness studio that focuses on just moving your body and having fun as opposed to the drudgery of trying to get thinner trying to get bigger trying to

change your body and the opportunity came because I had the space next to it I have minis it's the same landlord so hopefully we'll have some cool crossover events and we're going to be doing a Kickstarter to raise money to build it I have to put in a new floor if to put in new bathrooms We're gonna have mirrors. You also need curtains to cover the mirrors curtains. Yes so there will be merch and you can follow our progress on Instagram at jiggle underscore studio BK. And hopefully the Kickstarter will be launched by the time this episode is up.

But if not, just follow us. We're on Facebook. You can follow. We'll be putting updates in the Flophouse social media. And or my personal or Stewart's personal but yeah, so so keep keep posted this is for real and Like this episode is all not like no, this is all for real Also good news guys a stowed is a type of ermine ermine. Oh, okay. So that's also late breaking news.

Okay, and ermine, I'm assuming. Is that breaking news? Yeah. I broke it here. And ermine is an animal that they used to make fur coats out of? Yeah, yeah. From the Frank Sinatra song. Yeah.

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due to how you've been practicing your crane kicks. Thanks for being our quiz time scorekeeper slash curator of data, even if you refuse to curate all of the data we clearly need. So congratulations on your PhD in, I guess, crane kicking. And that is it for the Jumbotrons. All right, so our main character, wow, our main character, Adam, has a change of heart.

Mm-hmm. And he does not write the scathing article that he took notes about. He writes some kind of not really good article, sends it in, and his editor is like, what the hell is this? This article sucks. And he has somebody in his office rewrite the article.

Using the notes. Using the notes, making it even more scathing. And they put Jamie Lee Curtis' character in it. Uh oh. Name her. Yeah, they were able to do something. They reference the former article. It's so much worse than it could ever be. And they used. It's still got his name on it. They used his former article. It's so much worse than it could ever be.

And they used his byline, which that's got to be a crime of some kind. He's already moved on. He's in Morocco. And he calls... Reporting on the exercise scene there. He calls Jamie Lee Curtis because he's like, hey article came out you're gonna see it's gonna be awesome But it's not awesome. So he flies Back to New York. Uh-huh takes a baseball bat and smashes up the Rolling Stones office. Okay, Rolling Stone office

Rolling Stones, the band. Yeah. Got confused. Yeah. Takes Keith Richard back. And they're like, well, you're smashing up our office, mate. You know? Yeah. And they're like, are we the ones that, we're rock stars. Are we the ones who smash stuff up? Get some wild horses in here to drag them away.

Yeah. It's funny that you say wild horses because we cut to Jamie Lee Curtis teaching an aerobics class to... Some horses. What is it? The William Tell Overture, right? Yeah. Yes.

Which is hilarious. More hip rusting. That one. So he smashes the office. He calls her and tells her that he didn't do it, and then she doesn't believe him, and then he has to, he subpoenaed for the other case that we don't really understand what that's about. Yeah, he didn't surrender the interview he did with this guy guy, he didn't give it to the magazine and the government

demands it. Because he kept his word. Okay, well, thank God they rested so much on the plot on this thing they didn't release. Yeah, and then they hold him in contempt and he was like, I won't give these up because I gave my word. And Jamie Lee Curtis is in the courtroom audience and sees him say that, and then I guess she realizes that he didn't write the article, and then they kiss.

Movie over. So things are finally perfect for them at the end. Perfect, everything is perfect. And that muckraking rag, Rolling Stone, known for taking down aerobics. As a thing, I guess. Aerobics and General Stanley McChrystal, the two things Rolling Stone took down. Well, should we?

Any questions? Well, I mean, what's your final judgment? We usually do final judgment. What's your final judgment on this, Charlene? So real quick, the final judgments for Miss That Movie are, wait, wait, glad we missed it, sad we missed it, or had to not miss it. We're going to go back and watch it now. But I didn't miss it.

Well, I think it's for us, I guess. It's for the others, for the others who did miss that movie. Yeah. I mean, I've always been curious about this movie. I guess I had to not miss it. Someday I'll watch Perfect, probably. I feel like I'm glad I've always been curious about this movie. I guess I'm I I had to not miss it someday I'll watch perfect probably I feel like I'm glad I missed it I feel like there's enough in it that it sounds bad But it's not your description wouldn't make me be like I gotta see this thing. Yeah sounds nuts, you know, yeah, it's

Hip thrusting scene. That's pretty What do you guys say about it you watched it is this uh, I feel like that's all you need to see is the hip thrusting scene. What do you guys say about it? You watched it. Is this... I'm glad we missed it. I'm saying I'm glad we did not watch it for the podcast for a normal episode. I don't necessarily think it would have been the most fun. Is it as good of a John Travolta movie as something like Blown Away or Look Who's Talking? Probably not. But it's somewhere in between. Blown away? You mean blow out?

Blow out, god damn it. I get confused guys, I drink too much. You're just thinking that Nicole Agert? We're the one with Tamie Lee Jones, there's two blown aways. No, I'm thinking of the Nicole Agert one, Elliot of course. Yeah, sorry, I was trying to give you some covers too.

No, it's the one with the Corys and Nicole Ager. I don't know that one. Oh, okay. You were not an 12-year-old boy at some point with Kate. I was never a 12-year-old boy. I think that movie was way too long, and the whole idea of these people that want to be perfect and that like, what's so wrong with trying to be perfect and that whole like 80s kind of,

you know, you have to look a certain way or like, you can't just... Go-go 80s. Yeah. With the go-go's. But yeah, I'm glad that we're kind of moving away from that. And do you think the movie needed the extra plot lines involving other stories and cases? Yeah, I don't think it needed that. I don't think so either.

I think the movie thought didn't know they needed it because they didn't really flesh it out. But they needed a two-hour runtime. Why? Because movie theaters want tons of people to come and sit for longer. Because they've already finished their popcorn. This is my guess, this is my guess. Saturday Night Fever, huge hit based on an article, that article it turned out was not really true, but a huge movie based on an article

about a fad that was going on, these people getting together and going to these discos. My guess, and that is a serious movie, even though people mostly remember the dancing from it. Yeah, yeah, no, it's very serious. My guess, and that is a serious movie, even though people mostly remember the dancing from it. Like it's a serious movie. It's very serious. My guess is they were like, this is John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever for the 80s.

We're going to do for the 80s what that did for the 70s. And so they tried to like Tom Wolff it and make it like this thing that is tied to all sorts of other stuff going on in the 1980s. Yeah. Yeah, except the story, there was no story there. And Saturday Night Fever had, yeah,

definitely had a story. Yeah. Characters, you know, stuff that you need for a movie. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he didn't wear a shirt when he ate his spaghetti. I mean, that's a movie. He's interested in how much, whether the shoes on display fit him. That's what you need for a movie.

Sure. Carrying paint around. Carrying paint around. Well, yeah. Well, we missed that movie. We missed that movie. Do you want to land this plane, Stuart? Yeah.

So I want to thank our producer, Alex Smith, and I would love to thank Charlene for being our guest. Do you want to give one final plug for Jiggle Studio? Jiggle Studio, support us. Okay. Nailed it. So for the Flophouse, I am Stuart Wellington. I'm Adam McCoy.

I'm Nellie Kalin. And I'm Charlene Wellington. Okay, bye! Bye! Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network. Of artist-owned shows. Supported.

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