The Flop House - FH Mini 134 - Wrap-Up Raps

Episode Date: August 9, 2025

Back in the 80s and 90s, movies LOVED to end with a rap song that went over the plot to the movie you just saw. On this mini, Dan quizzes Stu and Elliott about some examples of wrap-up raps, followed by discussion questions to really dig into this particular cinematic-musical form.See The Flop House LIVE IN CHICAGO this November!And, if you prefer to watch us from the comfort of your own home: Tickets for Flop TV Season 3 are ON SALE!Subscribe to our NEWSLETTER, “Flop Secrets!

Hey, it's Dan. These pre-rolls can get boring quickly, so I'll be fast. Flop TV is back this September, 2025 through February, 26, with all new streaming live shows that you can also see video on demand if you can't make it live. Individual tickets and season passes are available at theflophouse.com. That's ticks spelled tix, as well as all the info that is too much to say here. Now, the show. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another Flop House mini. As you know, the Flop House is mostly devoted to watching bad movies and talking about them. But every other week, we also do these minis, which are more just whatever we want to do. I'm in charge this week. This is me, Dan McCoy. Others, introduce yourself now. This is me, Stuart Wellington. This is me, Elliot Kalin. Very articulate. Uh, so, uh, this many, well, let me, uh, set it up thusly. There's a music genre, starting to turn it to Jay Leno for a moment.

You're like, oh, well, let me get out. Yeah, well, Doritos. Muscle cars. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a genre of music that I think is near and dear to our hearts. I'm talking about. Zytoe. Talking about end credit rap songs that either partially or, you know, exhaustively summarize the plot of the movie

we just saw usually found in movies of the late 80s and 90s and in doing the research for this I learned that this genre actually has a name it's called a wrap-up wrap oh that's a great name for it and that leads us to my many wrap up wrap wrap wrap up

sponsored by bubble wrap once you pop you can't stop that's true because there's a curse on the bubble wrap and a demon will drag you to hell if you don't pop them all yeah That was the third of the Greek guys being punished in Hades or whatever, right? The others are snapping crackling.

Anyway, this mini is partly a game and partly just an excuse to talk about a few of these songs. I've collected a few choice examples, and I'm going to read a selection of the lyrics. When I'm done and say go, wait for go, I want you guys to buzz in by saying your name, and you will get one point if you can name the movie the wrap-up rap is from and one point if you can name the title of the song and then for each of these I also have a follow-up discussion question

essay portion yeah one disclaimer I would like to acknowledge that a white middle-aged man reading a rap reading rap lyrics can inadvertently sound like he's making fun of rap just by virtue of how awkward it sounds while I am hooking fun at the specific genre, which is silly,

no other negativity is meant. I just will sound like that. I'll sound cringy because that is what happens. But remember, buzz in with your names, but only after I say go so we can hear a good chunk of these lyrics. Okay. So this is number one.

You're not going to do this in like a weird accent. I'm not. Okay. Yeah, it's not Dracula reading raps. If anything, I will try to make. make it non-rhythmic. Yeah, as flat and Midwestern as possible. Here we go.

Rough neck, so go check the law and abide. Watch your step or flex and get a hole in your side. Swallow your pride. Don't let your lip react. You don't want to see my hand where my hip be at. Go. Wait, do we... You buzz in with your name.

Buzz, Stuart. Okay. This has got to be the king of this, Jean. This is Will Smith, and this is what, Wild Wild West? That's correct. And the title of the song is? Oh, damn it. Yeah, I don't remember.

Buzz in, Elliot. Yeah, Elliot. Is it called Wild Wild West? It is. That's one point for each of you. And many of these, yes, the title of the song is at least slightly different, but in this case, it's the same. Because the chorus is Wild Wild West.

It's a galilee. How's the West? How's the West? It's very wild wild. How many wilds there's two wilds there? What kind of buffalo wings do we like? Wild Wild Wild wings. Hey, I got a follow-up question for this one.

Yeah, why not? Wild West was directed by Barry Sondfeld coming off the Adams family movies, Get Shorty and Men in Black, and it starred Will Smith, Kevin Klein, Salma Hayek, and Kenneth Brana. So why is the best thing about it this song? It's a good question.

Do you want a joke answer or a serious answer? Whatever you got. This is a podcast. We just got a fill-time. I think this is one of those movies that has a big hole in its center. And the hole in its center is that the story is not interesting and the characters are not interesting. And it's based on a TV show that I think not, I think there are a lot of, I guess a lot of people of like our parents generation remembered it. But certainly when it came out, I did not know.

was based on a show until afterwards. It was really, I've never seen an episode of it. Oh, like the fall guy for me. Yes, exactly. Although that was like barely based on the show. No, but I think it's the idea of having name recognition and then trying to play off of that when the name recognition is not there, but also. Should have been based on Briscoe County Jr.

Yeah, sure. But I think also the idea that like they thought, oh, it's kind of a Western comedy action thing. We don't need any more than that. But there's just not a lot going on in it, you know? So you have all these talented people working on it. They put a lot of effort into it, but there's nothing to hold it all together. as opposed to Man in Black where that's a really well-done movie.

The Adams Family movies are, of course, great, you know, and Get Shorty is great. I think Westerns are kind of hard to do unless you really understand what makes a Western work, and then once you start tinkering with it too much, it can lose its center. Yeah, I think also it would have been helped

probably to have a producer who could oversee and pull these things together as opposed to John Peters, the actual producer, who was just wanting so hard to make a movie with a giant mechanical spider in it. And I think that's what he was mainly focused on, you know. Yeah, he's got a real mechanical spider kink, the guy.

You get it? I love Runaway. Okay. When we did Wild Wild West on the show, I would have loved it if it turned out to be like a super fun movie that just got unfairly maligned. But watching it, you're like, oh, this is not, it just doesn't work. The funny stuff is not funny and the characters are annoying. The exciting stuff's not very exciting. I do like a giant spider thing, but, yeah.

Okay, well, let's move on to the second song. And you hear the lyrics. I remember the day I needed to borrow a little of pepper for my chicken. The next thing you know coming at me was a hand with fingers high stepping. Now I tried to play it along, you know, and act like I was having a ball. Wait, you got to wait for go. Oh, sorry. But what do I see a perm with feet standing about three feet tall?

Go. Elliot, Adam's family. Yes. And what is the name of the song? Oh, is it Adam's family rap? No, Stuart, can you steal this one? I don't, like, it's, yeah, I don't remember. It's close, but the song is titled Adams Groove.

Adams Groove, oh, that's what it is. Now, I have the follow-up. That is, of course, the one where they kick and they either stop a friend or slap a friend. Yeah, I hear you know. Yeah, yeah, not really a thing I associate with the Adela. family, to be frank. Maybe it's playing off of the thing being a hand. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't see them using violent things, like they use swords or cannons or stuff, not so much kicking and slapping, yeah. It's more of the three stooges. I got a follow-up question for this. So this is an example of a wrap-up wrap that addresses the characters in the movie, but otherwise takes artistic license and doesn't stick strictly to the film's plot. My question is... They thought he was fester, but he was really chester, but it turns out at the end,

he was fester. I don't know. Because that's the plot of the movie, right? Wonderful, wrap. Yeah, you're right. Great stuff. My question is, would 1991s the Adams family

have been improved by including a scene where MC Hammer dropped by to borrow some pepper for his chicken? 100% I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right.

Yeah. Some shenanigans would happen. Maybe there was an earlier draft of the script that they were working off. Like, somehow, like when they did used to do movie novelizations, they would be based on early drafts of the script. so that the book would be ready in time with the movie

and there'd be scenes in there that didn't make it into the movie. Maybe there was a scene originally in the movie where a guy stops by to get pepper for a chicken and gets slapped. It was more about seasoning food. I think isn't there like a party scene? Maybe he could have shown up during then looking to borrow some pepper and he'd have been like, what?

And then he could do a song like Digital Underground when they stopped by and nothing but trouble. I don't remember. Maybe I have to watch that movie again. probably probably you should just keep that on loop okay well that's uh and it's a good thing that he they didn't do a rap for adam's family values because that would just be all about uh debby who's the best character

yeah i mean i don't see what's wrong with a rap about debby yeah i yeah yeah i wouldn't i would write i would pen thousands of odes to how sexy debby is dan if you don't if you're not if you're not into debby then i don't know what's going on with you yeah yeah i i understand I just, you know, for once in my life, I'm less vocal with my horniness. Okay, so this is number three. Had them throwing a party for a bunch of children while all the while the slime was under the building.

So they packed up their group, got a grip, came equipped, grabbed their proton packs out the back, and they split, found out about Vigo, the master of evil, trying to battle my boys. That's not legal. Go.

Elliot. Yes. Okay, so that's Ghostbusters 2. Uh-huh. And the name of the song is? Take Control. Is that it? Or no, is that different song?

No, Stuart. You got it? I thought it was Take Control. I mean, they do say the words, take control on it, but it's not the name of the song. What is it? It's another lyric. It is on our own. On our own.

That makes a lot more sense. It's Bobby Brown. Because the big thing about that movie is how the Ghostbusters are on their own. Yeah. I guess, unlike before, the full force of the government. The federal government and the military, I guess. But Bobby Brown is in the movie, right? He plays like a doorman.

Yeah. But he doesn't perform in it, yeah. This was before he killed Whitney Houston, right? Oh, God. I do have a follow-up question. How much are we going to be? How liable are we for that comment that Stewart just said? I mean, he introduced her to crack, guys.

Okay. We can litigate it off there. Follow-up question. as someone who has sung this song at karaoke I can attest to the fact that the two rap breaks in the song are just the same rap break repeated. If Bobby Brown had written different lyrics for the second rap break

what plot elements would you have like to see him cover? Statue liberty. Yeah, for sure. Shooting goo guns all over the Statue of Liberty. Yeah. More focus on. Well, get inside this lady. Shoot our goo all up inside her.

That's what you'd be about. Baby walking on the edge of a building. Stroller on the loose. Cars almost hit it. Yeah. Come on, Vigo. Why can't you just quit it?

I love and hate when Elliot rapped equally. Then at the end, the painting turns good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Wait, does the painting... Oh, because...

Because it turns into a happy painting of all of them. Of all of them. Of all of them. Of, like, Sigourney Weaver and Baby Oscar and the Ghostbusters around. but it's like, you know, a renaissance style, you know. Yeah. We should get that for the studio. If we could find it, I would love to buy that.

If that props still exists, I would love to own it. Like, somebody make that. Somebody make that. I'm sure you get, yeah, a printer. A print or something. Or somebody make that with our heads instead of the Ghostbusters on. Yes. Better yet. Yeah, do that. Okay.

This is number four. After this, we're going to take a little break. This one is a bit harder, so I'm going to read more lyrics in this one. So, I'll buckle up. Once upon a time, he was a super cop, but the bad guy framed him to make him stop. They put him in prison where they tried to kill him, but he broke out. Now he's the villain. Bullets don't hurt him.

I know it should like jive, but we're not sure if he's dead or alive. Set him on fire. Shoot him with an oozy. But he'll show up in your jacuzzi. You can run him over. You can feed him poison. Push him out a window and it only annoys him. You better believe me if you think I'm lying.

When he shows up, people start dying. He's out for vengeance and he can't be stopped. That's why they call him the go. Elliot. Yes, Elliot. Maniac cop? That is almost correct. I didn't remember there being a rap for a maniac cop.

Yes, Stuart, you're the advantage. You get the advantage of the, the trick question. Oh, you're right. You're right. I was like, I didn't remember there being a rap in a maniac, but me a cop. I'll give you, I'll give you the chance to answer, if you know the title of this. I think I think it's got, I think maniac parentheses, a cop. Stuart, do you want to get?

I was just going to say in modern America, maniac cops are regular cops. This is titled Unimaginably titled Maniac Cop Rap I should have guessed that I should guess that yeah Hey when you got gold Don't mess with it

Yeah so Yeah that's from Maniac Cop 2 Which leads into my follow-up question Back in the habit Yeah Maniac Cop 2 seems like an odd movie To have a wrap-up wrap What film that doesn't end with one

Would you want to have its own wrap-up wrap? There's so many There's so many. Wait, no. Manchester by the sea. Oh, God. Yeah, I think all of Kenneth Lonergan's movie should end with wrap-up wraps. Oh, Margaret.

You can count on me. All of them, yeah. Sounds good. Even his plays, when one of his, when lobby heroes perform, just have a wrap-up rap at the end? Or the curtain call. Just, uh, as people are taking their bows. Yeah.

Okay. I was going to say, on a, on a, on a, uh, On a sincere note, I think that hackers should have a wrap-up wrap at the end. Oh, that would actually, that would suit it very well. Yeah. Especially with all those hacker names, those would go in a wrap a real nice. Acid burn or whatever they're called, you know. Yeah.

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Okay. Yeah. Here we go. This song goes as follows. In a hundred years in the darkest night, the forces of evil come out to fight. The amulet they must destroy. or spend forever in the darkest void.

Who can stop their deadly might? Or who will stand up for the right? From the mouths of babes comes dynamite. Go. Oh, wow, I'm surprised. Okay. I don't know this is right, but double dragon. No.

Stewart, Teenage Mutual Ninja Turtles 3. Oh, my God. I can't believe it, guys. This is, of course, from the movie, The Monster Squad. Oh. Oh, right. Monster Squad rap. Oh, okay.

I forgot there was an amulet in Monster Squad. No, how could you forget that? It's almost a character in it itself. It's almost as important as the Wolfman's Nards. Well, it's funny that you say that, Stuart, because my follow-up question is this. Does the Wolfman have Nards? This song, the song fails to address the issue of whether or not Wolfman has Nards.

What rap couplet would you add to the song to correct this issue? Oh, wow. We got rapsterpiece theater from over in L.A. Katelyn's zone. What are you going to do? I say, hit Wolfman in the Nards. It's not too hard. Okay. But, I mean, he does have Nards.

He's a man who gets turned into a wolfman. Why would he not have testicles? I mean, he morphs, dude. Like, maybe... But wolves have testicles, too. It's not like he's... I mean, I could see him losing the ability to speak because a wolf's throat is not designed for that. Look, it's a kid who says this.

We're not here to litigate whether it's a good question or not. So is a kid who's writing this rap, Dan? No, of course that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're saying that it's implied that the author of the rap is a grown-up and is familiar with the anatomy of a wolfman. Of a human man and a wolf-man, yeah. Okay.

Sure, you don't want to take a crack at the... I guess it's in the cards. Wolfman has nards. Yeah, there you go. Kick him in the crotch. There is into notch. But there is a notch. Okay.

Wait, I'm still going. You know, they call... Shakespeare the Bard in Wait. I love that you set it up with that. Irrelevant fact, without having a follow-up rhyme. Well, and also, but you know what, you know what it rhymes with.

You know what Bard rhymes with. Yeah. If it didn't rhyme with Nard, why even bother? Lastly, Stuart's dead. Oh, I did it. Lastly, I'll submit. This is why we are not freestyle rappers. Where's my, what, Pulitzer?

What do you get for rapping guys? Yeah, Rep, Pulitzer. I mean, Kendrick Lamar got a Pulitzer, right? So that's for rap now. I would also submit, Don't Step to His Funk, Kick Wolfman and the Junk. You could do that, too. There you go.

We got there. It took us well. The eight months, the best, though. Okay. All right. Here's number six, and a little disclaimer here. In general, I've been trying to avoid lyrics that are total giveaways, but this song...

I mean, one of them mentioned. proton packs, I think. I know, but I don't... But it didn't say Ghostbusters in it. Yeah. This song kind of makes it impossible. So in this case, I have replaced a couple of words with just Blank. Okay.

It was just prime time. I know you'll never forget what he did to the girl with a TV set. Oh, yeah, yeah. But you can't stop Blank, because he's cool as ice. Come right back at you to slash and slice. Like a jitsu blade or a blender, he'll blitz you, blank,

is putting on the Ritz. Go. Elliot. I'm sorry, is this Nightmare and Elm Street, three? Oh, Stuart, can you steal? I got the number wrong. Got the number wrong. Four? Yes, so this is four.

Which one was three? Dreammaster. I thought, oh, you know what? I got it missed up. I thought it was Dream Warriors. Oh, okay. The theme song for four, is the Dockin one, right? Elliot, you busted first though, so. Maybe they did both. Maybe they did both. Elliot is the first to buzz in.

Can you rescue it with the name of the song? I'm going to call it. Freddie rap. No. Stewart, do you have it? Nightmare on my street. Of course. Guys, this is the fat boys. Are you ready for Freddy?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. You know what? I forgot that that song existed. But the minute you mentioned fat boys, I'm like, oh, I remember the song now. Yeah. And that's right. Three was docking, four was fat boys, and five was Steven Sondheim did the song at the end.

It was filled with internal rhymes. He did the book, but the actual performance was come up with a joke. Sondheim would have done the music and maybe like James Leighton would have done the book. Lepine, whatever he pronounced his name. So, yeah, the song was Are You Ready for Freddy? David Latham, who did Stray Bullets? Jesus Christ. Yeah, no, no, Jonathan Latham, author of Mutheless Brooklyn, among other books, yeah.

The song was, Are You Ready for Freddy? I have a follow-up question. Yeah, shoot. Are you ready for Freddy? You know what? I think I kind of am. Like, he showed up in my dreams and be like, calm down, dog. Let's just hang out.

Let's talk. I have a lot of bad dreams about work. So it would be a real refreshing thing to have a bad dream about Freddie. Because it'd be like, oh, this is new. He would be your boss in the dream. Oh, no, he would be. That's true. He'd be like, papers on my desk, bitch.

Yeah. But then I call human resources on him and get him fired. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but like, yeah, the intercom doesn't work. I don't remember why I had to Oh so this is why I sent you guys this picture I was up visiting my wife's parents

in a Sonoma California and the local newspaper there was a letter from a Fred Kruger about something and I sent to you guys and I was saying to my kids oh I guess Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare Nell Street movies

he retired and he moved up here to Northern California and then my younger one I made that mistake because my younger was like so what's his deal Freddy Krueger and I'm like oh well

he kills teenagers in their dreams and he's got like a sweater and a hat and a glove with blades and he goes, why does he kill teenagers in his dream? like, oh, he's mad at their parents. And he goes, well, why doesn't he kill the parents in their dreams? I'm like, it's a good, I didn't want to talk about him being a child molester.

So I'm like, let's not worry about it. Yeah. It's a power thing. Yeah. Well, I'm sure everyone's very curious about the game element of this. So I want to give them a quick update that Elliot and Stewart currently tied at three each. So it's anyone's game.

So let's go into song 7, the penultimate song. That means the last one. No, I'm just kidding. It doesn't. It's the second to last one. Looking for human flesh to rip my teeth through. Other fish in the sea, but barracuda ain't equal. To a half human predator created by a needle, jet black eyes, baby.

They stare while you sleep. When your Titanic sinks, I'm the one you're going to meet. hearing terrified screams they surround my team all you see is trails of blood even God won't intervene go Stuart deep Lucy baby damn it and do you know what the song's titles

Deepest bluest Yes it is correct Deepest bluest parenthesis My head is sharks fan I wish I had laughed at the line about Even God won't intervene It's so bleak there It does

So intense It was this whole game I've been waiting for Deep Blue Sea to come up because I knew it was going to happen. And I missed it. I lost my moment. Well, maybe you can get some, no, no actual points, but some, you know, like a good feeling points by answering the follow-up question, which is,

in what ways is LL Cool J's hat like a shark spin? And be specific. Well, it's on the top of his head. And a shark spin is, I guess it's on their back. It's more on the back, right? Yeah. Is it like, is his hat, like, is he, like, going through a crowd and, like, his hat is sticking up? Yeah, maybe.

It's a pretty, like, it's like a skull cap kind of hat. It doesn't, it doesn't peak that much, right? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he has a poor perception of what his hat looks like. Yeah. I mean, I'm hearing a lot of reasons why the hat is not like a shark's fan. I feel like we're not answering the question properly.

Maybe he uses it sort of like, you know, as a stabilizer. I mean, maybe he, maybe he, Maybe he thinks he looks like a dolphin. Where's a similar hat? The sharks and dolphins have similar fins. It's not like a shark's fin though. It's like a dolphin's fin. But their fins are very similar.

They're both dorsal fins. It's convergent evolution. They're made general body shape. I think it's based on color and maybe texture, but I would have to see the hat in person. I think the hat is black. I mean, I guess some sharks are pretty dark. Does the hat replace its teeth whenever it loses them?

Dan, he asked you a question about the hat. Yeah. I don't think a shark's fin replaces the teeth, though. Like, a shirt replaces his teeth. I'm just trying to expand. People make soup out of L.L. Cool J's hat? That must be it. That's what is.

Is they catch L.O. Cool J., they remove the hat, throw the rest of him back in the ocean to bleed to death. And then they make soup out of the hat, yeah, at weddings, yeah. Before we get to eight, I want to apologize to Stewart. Psycho Goreman, of course, has a rap like this. I was fucking waiting for this shit. At the end of the, I was going to put it in at the end as a bonus. But, uh, no.

one on the internet has seen fit to transcribe those lyrics and I was too lazy to do it. So someone get on that. I'm going to say that is a laziness issue because you could have done that. Yeah. Yeah. So his name is PG or something like that. P.G. Woodhouse. Yeah. P.G. What? Yeah. Psycho Gorman. No, I'm saying

the name of the song. So look it up. It's a funny video. But that is what it stood for, right? Psycho Gorman Woodhouse. Yes. Yeah. So Wodehouse? I'm saying Wodehouse this no time. No, no, it's roadhouse, but it's...

PG Roadhouse. Be nice, that's what he always said. The thing is Roadhouse is not ready to PG. I'm thinking of like a version of this where Dalton has a gentleman's gentleman who actually solves the problem of Ben Gazzara for him. Bertie Wooster is the bouncer, but Jeeves is the one who's always doing the actual fighting, yeah.

So that's a little, that's a hint. Okay. The last one is not Psycho Gorman. Okay, good. So I don't spend the whole time. I'm trying to recognize. But is it the rap that's at the end of Jeeves and Worcester? Yeah.

Can you believe this guy named Jeeves solves all the problems for his man like these? Okay, well, here we go. Last song, it goes like this. Well, excuse me, Copper, Mr. Crime Stopper,

what is wrong with what we're doing? We just like to dance in our goat skin pants around this ancient ruin. Now it's not so, funny that it costs big money if you ever have to hire a lawyer it's my duty to inform you and my pleasure to warn you

we'll provide one for you go big goat skin pants hint in there mm-hmm oh man excuse me copper Mr. Crime Stopper

I mean all I'm thinking of is is uh is uh is um what's it is a the wicker man but there's There's no rhyme at the end of the Wicker Man, right? It's just like the Dragnet movie or something.

You know what? I'll say it, Elliot, the Wicker Man remake. No, it's not that. Stuart, do you want to buzz in? I don't think I'm anywhere close. He'll buzz in. Was this? Oh, man.

No, I know this one. Terms of Endearment. Guys, you should have gone with your gut there, Stuart. It's Dragnet. Oh, okay. Can I buzz in, Elliot, for the title? Yes. City of Crime.

It is City of Crime. from Dragnet. My follow-up question... I didn't remember the goat-skinned pants, but it's been a long time since I saw Drag-Net, yeah. If you recall, Dabney Coleman, the pornographer, runs a cult of some kind?

Right. Or he's associated with it. I don't know whether he actually runs it or, like, he gets kidnapped as part of it. I don't know. I think it's actually maybe the moral majority people who are behind it. I don't know.

They wear goats-skinned pants. That's all I remember. It looks like we all have to watch Dragnet again. No. Yeah. Here about the adventures of Pepp's Treeback. Sergeant Joe Friday. Follow up question.

Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd's dancing in the City of Crime video was choreographed by Paula Abdul. On a scale of zero to ten MC Skat-Kats, how well do you think they did? Are we handicapping them at all? Because they don't have the natural skills of Paula Duel. They are. They are performers, you know, and... So they should have to use their body, yeah. Danced a little in blues brothers.

And he danced a little bit in nothing but trouble when he was sitting in that chair, dancing along the ghostbuster's music video, they're kind of like, you know, strutting down the street. I would say... And in the opening credits of the real Ghostbusters animated show, they're dancing down the street before slimer slimes the ground underneath them.

It definitely applies to the real-life Dan Eckwood's dancing ability. So I would say I'm going to give him a 10 out of 10. Okay. I was going to give them an 8, which was solid but limited, but 10? Okay, great. Yeah, let's go with that.

Interesting. I can't believe I guessed Dragnet and then doubted myself because I've never seen the movie. You've never seen it? No. Dan, don't act like, don't act like it's crazy.

He's never seen Dragnet. I mean, it's kind of crazy just because of like our age. Like, that movie was on TV a lot. That's true. Yeah, I was like reading books and stuff. Are you reading books about Dragnet? Yeah.

It was often played on a WPIX, New York's movie station. You know what I'll say about that movie? Go on. It's fine. Oh, wow. You'll get a little bit of enjoyment of Dragnet. Dan Aykroyd does a funny Joe Friday best talking guy. Yeah.

Tom Hanks is Tom Hanks. He's lovable. I mean, it plays into their strength. It's silly. I think they made the right choice by doing a comedy of it and not doing a straightforward gritty dragnet.

Although they did do a gritty dragnet show years later with Ed O'Neill, right? I don't know. But I will say this. Stuart, even though you've beaten yourself up for your cultural oversight. Yeah. You still have five points to Elliot's four points

making you the wrap-up rap champion for 2025. Elliot, can you give me a little a little wrap-up wrap for my victory in this game. Oh, please. Don't. Let's see.

Stu is the winner. My name is Stu and I'm here to say I win these games every day. Stu is the winner. Elliot's good of Dronosaurus in a chicken dinner. Yeah, I'll give you a stew with it. So your name is Stu and you're here to say you won the game in a major way.

Yep. And then Elliot stinks every way. There's a long kazoo break. Then Dan has his spoken word part. You know, baby. You know, Stuart's the winner. Elliot didn't get as many points.

That's the way it goes sometimes. But forget both of them. Come here with me. Wow. A heel turn from my hype man over here. I'm just, you know, playing into the sensual sounds here. I love it. Anyway, well, thank you for.

taking part in that nonsense and thank you the listener for taking part in that nonsense by listening to it. And if you want to listen to more nonsense, go over to maximum fun.org, listen to some of the other nonsense shows on our nonsense network. You're going to put all those wraps on a special Spotify playlist that's available. You should. Maybe we'll see if I remember or have. Put the link in the show notes. who was too lazy to transcribe the ref. Although I did spend, you know, multiple hours writing these things.

So for the, anyway, I don't need to justify myself to you guys. No, you work real hard. Do we pay you on an hourly basis? Like, what's going on? Establishing your time card here? I just, you know, have a lot of internalized shame. Okay, thank you to Alex Smith, our producer. He goes by the name Howell Dottie all over the internet.

You can find him on Twitch. You can find his music, various places. Check him out. But thank you for being here for this episode of the Flop House. I've been Dan McCoy. These have been my co-hosts, Stuart Wellington, and Elliot Kalen. Yep. Until next time.

The Epp twins, we call them. Until next time, see you later. Mm-hmm. Do, do, do, do, to do. Maximum Fun A worker-owned network Of artists' owned shows Supported directly by you