The Flop House - FH Mini 34 - Missed That Movie: Invitation to Hell

Episode Date: July 24, 2021

While we're sad to say goodbye to beloved Producer Jordan, we're happy to welcome Producer Alex, as he drops by to tell us about a forgotten TV movie from horror icon Wes Craven, Invitation to Hell!

Hey, welcome to a flop. I'm beauty. Beauty of that was just told us right before we started recording. Oh, yeah. Oh, good. That was going to be perfect. One day, well, I didn't that so they call me, hey, I'm Stuart Relington, one of the hit podcasts, the flop, I was podcast.

You're listening to one of our many episodes. Now, normally, when we record, we've just recently watched a bad movie, and the show is us reviewing it, plus other stuff. Tonight, we're not doing that at all. We're doing other stuff. It's a mini, it's other stuff. If this is your first episode, probably slam on the brakes, hit reverse,

pick a different episode. I mean, come back to this one when you have a little bit of affection for us, and you like our brand of shambles. And you're like, oh yeah, I'm willing to just sort of sit here while they dick around for a while. I'll put up with these guys. Now the thing is you're not just putting up with these guys. These guys being me, Stuart Wellington and my two co-hosts, Dan, that's right, Dirty Dan McCoy and Elliot over there the main man Elliot Kaylen. Where is that like catchphrase? We're joined by a special guest this time not only is this this gentleman the editor of our show

and producer I guess editor producer. He has been a long time figure on the show. He helped write the song of the summer. He's the house cat. He edits and adds sound effects and does all kinds of great stuff to our Flop Tales bonus content, which you can access by becoming a Max Fun supporter. That's right. We are joined by musician, comedian, best man at my wedding, Alex Smith. How are you doing, Alex? What's up, guys? It's nice to see Dirty Dan and Elliott over there, Kaelin. I believe he was also called the main man.

I have a... That's Elliott over there, Kaelin's main bit is that he's never quite where he's supposed to be. He's always slightly further away than you think he's gonna be. Yeah, yeah. I love it. Yeah, and Alan Moore would write the shit out of that character. slightly further away than you think he's gonna be yeah i love it and i would like to write the shit out of that car

oh but he'd be i'd be doing all sorts of disgusting things and then you know and it would turn into a lot of it would turn essential it would be and it would turn into sometimes and then it would turn into a lot of in jokes about british cartoon characters from the nineteen forties and fifties right be like i i guess i understand this now.

Well, wasn't this supposed to be about the great characters of literature fighting crime or something? I'm not giving you any excited, Ale. I guess you're a snake goddess now too. Okay, whatever. That's right. I haven't read any, I haven't read any Alan Moore, but I did see a,

get the fuck out of here. I saw a panel just this last week or something. I'm probably jacking off a big frog. Now, that was all I've seen. Reminiscent of Alan Moore's figures. There's a, oh boy. That's a point of action. When you went to the barber to get your beard trimmed up

did you select the wizard picture on the wall? Yeah, I sat down in the chair. I scrolled through different mirrors like I was in red dead. And I picked the and I picked the Alan Moore. You said, give me the give me the Dumbledore. The Jared Harris, not the Michael Gambon. Oh, sorry. I mean, Richard Harris.

I'm sorry, Richard Harris, not his son, Jared. It's Richard Harris. That's a thing. And that's a point of contention because he, a Jared Harris lobbied pretty hard to get the role of Young Dumbledore in the Fandest Yumbledore. Young Dumbledore, a Yumbledore. He was so calm. It's a Dumbledore that fucks.

I think we clearly established that. Yeah. Young Dumbledore is full of Cumbledore. Is that Jared Harris? He wears that shirt to fucking spring break all the time. Like, and then he bumps into his students' families who were also on vacation, it's very awkward. But the real awkward thing was that Jared Harris

actually lobbied hard to get Old Dumbledore the role. So it was him against his father for the role of Old Dumbledore or Old Dumbledore as he's also called. Yeah. Old Dumbledore will stain. So old, old cold and full of molded old doors. That is not as popular of a t-shirt.

Still sells, still sells just out of the same. The other t-shirt is such a hot seller and this one is still, it's a solid mid-list seller. Yeah, I mean, that's more of a joke gift that people wear initially ironically, and then you're like, no, I kind of, it's comfortable. Where is it in the mind like that, Bob? Well, you see a lot of pictures

of elderly people wearing it over the shirt they were already wearing while blowing out candles on a cake. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna say it's a, it's a really popular one to bring home to an uncle is what it sounds like.

Yeah. You'll like this. Yeah, that's what it says like. You don't like this. Yeah, that's what it says in the catalog. There's just a starburst and inside it says bring it home to your uncle. Why does your uncle know what he likes? You don't know what he likes is your uncle. How often do you see him? Maybe he wants a shirt that says old, cold and full of mold.

Great. He's your dad's brother. What are you supposed to do with that? You don't know. Yeah, you don't know. You don't know him at all. He's got a fake smile on every time you've seen him in your life Tell me about it. There's it. Well, there's the thing is that he's smiling, but his eyes those eyes are smiling There's sadness. Well those eyes have seen a lot of love, but they'll never seen other like yours So that's really why he's not smiling. Yeah

Alex, thanks so much for joining us. Of course. What a pleasure. So Stu, is there any thread running through this episode other than Alex being with us, which is enough? The Phantom Thread. So that's something. Or a Phantom Menace. What if the Phantom Thread was a sequel to the Phantom Menace?

I think it would go a little bit slow. Like this. Yeah. We explain a lot. Jar Jar keeps feeding Anakin Mushroom. Me so want to control you. Our relationship work on that level. Yeah.

Right to self there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, guys, am I the only one who's favorite seen in fan the thread was when he was ordering breakfast? Oh, yeah. Oh, and she's like, you're a great boy. I was in such a spence because I was

like, how is he going to eat all that? But you never actually see him eating it. Yeah. It was like a groundhog day breakfast that he was ordering. Yeah, it's the kind of breakfast that, uh, like a character in a movie sits down to and then is like, Oh, I got a run and you're like, what? There's like a full breakfast scene.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it pulls me out of every movie I've ever seen when somebody steps up from a full plate of food. Yeah. You might as well. You're Irishman. Why aren't you sitting down to eat all that food?

Irishman. Daniel Deiloess might as well have said, give me the Peewee's big adventure. And they just put down a whole table of breakfast that he would take one bite of in walk away. Yes, he's ordering from, he's like, please, Vicki creeps, bring me the Mr. T cereal. So I can pour it all over my scones. So today we're doing something,

something that we've done in the past. One of the first minis that we recorded was a thing called Miss That Movie. It's become a classic flopp house mini, people love it, I still get emails every day about Rusty the Dog, what Rusty a Dog's Tale. I don't even remember the name of the movie. That's how exciting I am every time I get one

of those emails. I don't even read it. So what happens, I actually originally watched that movie with my buddy, Alex. Yeah, we watched it together. So Alex, you're the inspiration for a missed that movie. And you can't and we're talking I'm like, I got to get Alex on. He always watches movies that we missed. And so today we finally realized that fantasy. Yeah, I'm very excited to be on here. And I said a text to Stuart about this movie. I'm hoping that got relayed to you guys and that you haven't seen this movie.

Well, what happened? Also, warning guys, I was- The text was not relayed. I was, I've been micro-dosing THC gummies today, so I'm gonna- Let's just say I'm in a micro place. Wow. How many of those?

How many of those? How many of those THC gummies could dance on the head of a pin? I don't know. I mean, that's the thing. They're micro dosing. So, I like to take a handful. It's fine, right? Remember when when when when we were kids, everything was so much looser and they had those

and they had those ads for micro dose machines with the guy talking real fast. Do you know even how, how great it would be to just take tiny doses of drugs? Yeah. Uh-huh, and it feels like he's just talking forever. Well, yeah, because you're a microdose. Because tiny doses. So your, your experience of time is totally out of whack. So you think he's talking really fast for some taking him a long time? Very soon.

And the whole time I'm like, is the food he's eating extra clean because his mustache brushes off all the dust. Let's wait. I literally have never thought of that, but I love it. Is that, yeah, is that a secret power of moustaches? It's something. But I haven't been thinking about this. If you ever look really close to someone who's eating,

you can notice their moustaches swishing back and forth like in a car wash, just not in all the dust off their food. Yeah, yeah. I got to stop trimming my moustache. In the whole time, I'm like, I wish I had a efficacy. The whole time, I wish I was inside that food. No.

No. Watch it. Watch it and the thing brush me clean. Yeah, your advice earlier, that you should build up some affection for us before listening to this episode has never been true. Yeah. So Alex, what's this movie that you texted us sort of

about and he didn't tell us? It's called Invitational to Hell. Oh, I've never seen it. I have not, but I guess it got lost in the mail. Yeah, is it in the criteria in collection? Or what check new wave director made this one? Because I may not have been exposed to it otherwise. Was it Jan Nehmick?

Well, it's funny. You should ask who it's directed by, because it's made for TV movie, which you might think is directed by somebody you've never heard of. But this one was directed by Wes Craven. This is a, Wes Craven directed.

Let's see, I gotta pull the out of this. Is that like early in his career, late in his career? It's from 1984. So right in the middle of his career. So right, so yeah. That was his life, yeah, that was his like off year. That was he directed under his his under his suit. Like East Craven.

Almsight come out on an 84 like that. It sounds like that. It sounds like that's around the time, right? But wait, no, it's is Elm Street like 80? I'm spacing on whether it was earlier than 84. Not only one way to find out came out in 84 I oh, I'd for yeah, okay, but he had already made like the house the house at the end of the street or whatever It's called last house on the last house on the end of the street last house on the left Yeah, we all agree it's a house You know and it's the last house. There's no other houses best fairy about where the house was But oh yeah, I need made the hills have eyes Well, this is a bomb thing And it's the last house. There's no other house as best as Ellen. Or Spherry about where the house was, but.

Oh, yeah, and he made the hills have eyes. Well, this is what he's not saying. I'm gonna say, he's not slummin' it in this. Like, this is not, like, he want, this one, a prime time Emmy for art direction. Whoa. It's written by what the guy who wrote, like, Universal Soldier, so maybe that's not a great example.

Somebody who has some big ideas. Yeah, Johnny. Yeah. Look at this. Robert, Eurick, Susan Lucci, Kevin McCarthy. Yeah. It's got, and it's got the guy from Murphy Brown, who plays what Frank, it's a.

So Leil Moon Fry's in it. What's his name, Regal, Regal Bootto? I'm gonna probably do. Regal Bootto. I'm gonna probably do. I'm gonna probably do. I love, I love me some IMDB. Yeah. Oh, it's a, I mean, brutal, regal-beautiful, regal-beautiful. I'm a completely sandbag situation over here. I love me some IMDB. Yeah. Oh, it's a, I mean, you'll find a ton of great stuff

in the IMDB. This was, so. Yeah, we learned a lot recently about the Gunning Betty Luzan bag. That was, Daniel. Yeah, if at any point my description of this movie gets super boring,

feel free to jump back into the universe of Betty Luzan. I just, I may have to correct you on something Alex. Do you see it? One art direction in the Emmys. Equal nine debuts. Oh, nominated. Oh, nominated.

Sorry. Oh, I'm gonna have to look up the lost. Stolen valor. Okay. Now, see, I think it's a prize just to be nominated personally. It lost to a production of a street car name desire. I'm sorry. I mean, that seems like a lazy choice

from the television academy. It does seem like a very lazy choice. Yeah. But Ann Margaret is blanched to watch three Williams, a Stanley Kowalski Beverly Danilo and Stella Randy Quaid as Mitch. You know what, guys? We should be talking about this one.

Okay. Bill Erwin. Open on New York. Bill Erwin. Oh, a different Bill Erwin. Bill Erwin. Bill Erwin, not with an eye, but with an e. The guy who's in plain streams and automobiles and home alone.

Now he's a contortionist, right? He's the old guy in the airport in both of the, in every John, he's the repair. In case you're wondering, this is outstanding our direction for limited series or a special a scenario direction for series went to the duck factory the early Jim Carrey vehicle oh I don't I don't know anything about that we're struck down all right well never mind forget it I'll continue so invitation to hell yeah invitation to hell is a here's thing so here's how I found this movie is, is through the pandemic, one of the things that I did to keep myself entertained

and to try to like do entertaining stuff, not being able to do shows and regular, just my regular stuff that I do, both on stage and online. We started watching movies on Twitch on my stream, the Big Hal and Possum stream, in my other moniker that is Big Hal. Okay, nice plug. I like it. There we go. Big Hal and Possum stream. So we started watching movies on that. That's when Stuart came on and watched Rusty with us.

Didn't we also watch that Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers? How are they special? We watched a Christmas special with Kenny and Dolly. It was taped off a New Zealand TV, so all the ads were for like summertime shit. Yeah, the movie was pretty, the movie was pretty weak, but the ads were all for like sunscreen on Australian beaches. So there was like a nice little treat every 10 minutes or whatever. But so one of the things that we started doing on Twitch

was just watching a movie. A lot of times, just something on YouTube. And a lot of times, we would pick made for TV stuff because we wouldn't have to freak out and worry about the terms of service if something naked happened on it. If we picked a made for TV movie. And this, which we watched with my friend Mandy,

who's a great comedian here in Louisville, Kentucky, where I live, this one turned out to be like a real treat from the pandemic for me, where it was very memorable. And I was like, I definitely wanna go back and watch that again. And I definitely want to tell other people that they should go check it out because it is great.

It's very of its time, but it's got a lot of great art direction like the, as the Emmy- Emmy nominated, not quite as good as Streetcar name desire, but up there. Which feature, there was a different treat. Street Williams. It's got, I would argue it's got great, it's got great pacing, it's got great performances,

and the value, like the value of it, maybe not the, it's not like, it's clearly not a big Hollywood movie, but the overall value of it is better than what you expect from a made for TV film, in my opinion. It's really good. Now, just to remind listeners at home,

miss that movie, what happens is, Alex is gonna walk us through the movie a little bit Yeah, and then we have to determine if we are sad we missed it all right Glad we missed it or had to not miss it and we go and watch I'm not sure about the tents of that last one. We were like, we're getting excited. I'm pretty sure it's going to happen. Let me check my rhyming dictionary. It checks out.

Okay, well, ask me the answer, I guess. I think you guys are going to rate this as sad you missed it. Once you hear the first 20 seconds of this movie, what happened in the first 20 seconds? So what happens is we are in somewhere in California, we find out it's basically Silicon Valley. And there is a limo driver driving a limo into a... Makes sense, so far it checks out, okay?

Yeah, just limo driver. Just driving an alligator would be ridiculous. So driving a limo makes more sense. Driving a limo onto the parking lot of a country club that is called the steaming spring's country club. Out steps, out steps, Susan Lucci in an outfit that looks like she's about to board the moon raker. She's wearing like a red like jump suit or, you know,

like onesie like jump suit or you know like one Z-type long suit. And metal real quick real quick Dan you probably already picked out an outfit that you would wear if you were going to board the moon raker. Well Dan was Dan was sitting. Is it your housing t-shirt? I know for days Dan was sitting at home expecting Jeff Bezos' car to come get him to go on the spaceship and I know it was a big disappointment for you Dan when you found out the launch had happened and they had not sent a car to pick up So what outfit did you pick for his face? It's kind of I mean it's like I basically stapled two really big potato chip bags

Together over myself like one on top of me one below me. Oh, so not like a sandwich for like a like a diaper like a one Z. We in In We call that an Utsido. Yeah, I'm just you know, I'm afraid of the like you know like space rays different kinds of You figure what's more protected than potato chips. I better use the space age technology that keeps them pure Keeps them crunchy will keep me Now what about. Now what about your, now this covered your arms and legs too, or I'm imagining like a onesie with your arms and legs sticking

out of it. I'm in sort of a pod at that point. So these are very big potato chip backs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like human sized potato chip backs. Yeah, Sam's cool. Yeah, now I would go Costco for these. Okay. Human size potato chip bags, like bags that hold human size potato chips. Yeah, it holds seven human size potato chips. When they're that big, you don't need that many. I'm just crack off a piece and have it. It's true.

USDA recommends one fourth of a potato chip. I don't know if the USDA recommends any potato chips, really, it's part of your daily diet. They'll allow it, but I don't think- I'm not even listening to you. We've done there for food groups potato chips, ice cream, Cheetos, and spicy Cheetos. Yeah, I'm sorry to report that it stands for US dumbass. Oh shit. Oh!

Oh shit. So Susan L. Oh! Oh, shit. So Susan Lucci was in a limousine going to space. No, OK, so the two women in bikinis step out into the parking lot, and they distract the limo driver. He's like, he's sort of gawking at them. And he almost runs over Susan Lucci. But she drops to the ground

very quickly, like just sort of, as if she's like spring loaded, right? She just sort of drops back to the ground. The limo drives over her and then he freaks out because he knows he almost, she's the director of the country club and he must have killed her. And he slams on the brakes, turns around, she pops up behind the car, does a finger gun at him

with two fingers, I believe, and the rear wind shield of the limo shatters and he belts in his seat. And then she comes around and laughs at his like charred, burned up corpse in the infrancita of the car. So she does not undersell this, Alex. Yeah. How? I think you're going to find that out.

Dan, I think I'm going to tell you what I tell you. What I tell my son, Sammy, all the time, which is if the movie doesn't want you to know something yet, they won't tell you. And they'll tell you when they want you to know it. He's big on the like, who's that? What's that? What's that going on? Where's that?

We're slowly in pieces watching episode two Attack of the Clones, which is the worst Star Wars movie probably to watch slowly in pieces because it feels like it'll never end. And he's comes like, what's that character? What's that? You'll find out. It's supposed to be a mystery.

It's a mystery, yeah, that's what I was saying. Who's Cifo DS? Like, don't worry, it'll be a call to be exciting. Well, it's hard to actually tell the Star Wars, yeah, that's what I was saying. Who's Cifo DS? I don't worry, it'll call the accident. Well, it's hard to actually tell the stories movie because it's either you'll find out, just hold on, or you'll never see that character again. It doesn't matter, just buy the toy. Like they never, they'll get no more screen time.

Mm-hmm. Now Stuart, you said I didn't undersell the movie. So let me ask, should I have said, no, the first two, 20 seconds or whatever is boring, or what should I have said no, the first two, two, 20 seconds or whatever is boring, or what should I have said instead to prepare you all for Susan Lucci finger-gunning a guy to death? No, what I was saying is that you didn't undersell, that means you sold it, right?

You sold it accurately. Is that what it means? Yeah, that's what I mean. Okay, wait, I think I heard that wrong. So, yeah, okay, I didn't undersell it. I did it to sell it. I did a double negative. Now, Alex, I think I heard that wrong. So, yeah, okay. I didn't understand it. I did it in a double negative. Now, Alex, what is it in your makeup that makes you see compliments as a tax?

This is the thing I think we need to get into. Well, I just always feel like I could strive to do better, Elliot. Honestly, I just really always feel like I could, like I could be working harder. That actually sounds pretty good in a producer, guys. See, I think you should keep going. All right.

So, and I don't know, I could literally describe every scene of this movie now. I've now watched it three times, and I could tell you just Well, this is a lot of house mini, which means you only have an hour and a half to tell people things. We only have the rest of time. We only have three to four times as much as an average episode of 99% invisible

with one 100th the information. So after that happens, the limo driver melts and Susan Lucey comes over and laughs at him. And then we cut to a family driving across the country. And this is Robert Eurick, what's your name? Joanne Cassidy. TV Spencer, you could hire him if you like, Robert Eurick, what's your name? Joanne Cassidy from... TV Spencer. You could hire him if you like.

Robert Eurick. And also to his laser. Oh, he's a laser. Yeah. I think so. I think so. Was he in ice pirates? Only one way to find out.

Serial. Was Robert Eurick in ice pirates? I'll look into that. Pull up Betty lose handbag and find out if he was in the... Let's find out. Let's open up Betty lose handbag. Yes, he played the role of Jason. Thank you, Siri. Yeah. So, and then it's Robert Eurick plays Matt Winslow.

His wife is Pat Winslow, played by Joanne Cassidy from... She's Dolores in Hoof Roger Rabbit and she's in she's a blade runner and they're and they're superhero son bat Winslow Yeah Super criminals are superstitious cowardly lot. I should become a bat Winslow all addresses a Winslow the family from family matters Well a different family called Winslow will become a bat wins world. All addresses are wins low. The family from family matters? What different family called wins low? There's a older boy, maybe eight or nine, and then there's a younger girl, maybe five or six,

something like that. You meet this family, you find out they're nice. You find out they're nice people, and you find out that he's some kind of genius who's being brought to work on a top secret tech operation for some company. You find out that sorry I just spilled tea on my keyboard so it's distracting me right now. I know it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. It's funny. I spilled it on a spot where I had already spilled tea before and I haven't had those keys for like a couple months.

Oh boy. So, plus side of a producer is that they care about the work they do. Drawback is that he doesn't have keys that work on his people. That's the trade-off. That's the trade-off. When you look for a great producer,

you say, do his keys work? They do. Then I'm not interested. Yeah. You know, like, do you say, do his keys work? They do, then I'm not interested. Yeah. You know, like, do you have, how was your tab? Do you have a good... That's what they say in producer schools, they say put on all your keys and then take one key off. Ha ha ha.

Well, the thing I've been telling my Twitch chat is that I will replace the keyboard when I have a third key go out. And I think we might have done it here tonight. Oh, wow. It's a three strikes rule with the keyboard for me. We get to their house in the neighborhood that they're going to be living in, which is apparently a pretty tight, knit, but wealthy, affluent neighborhood in Silicon Valley, where everybody works on computers and stuff.

And they are sitting down for their first night together. Oh, we find out that the kid, the boy, we find out that he's very smart and into computers because while the movers are moving all their stuff into the house, he's sitting at a computer and one of the movers is like, what are you playing a game? And he goes, no, I'm checking the inventory. And the guy goes, what? Why are you checking?

Because apparently this kid has an inventory of everything that was in the house. And the guy sort of makes fun of him. And then he says, well, I know that a candy bar is already missing and the mover goes, oh, and then he like sneaks a candy bar out of his pocket and puts it like up on the kid's bed. Like the kid caught him and he says something

about kids these days or something, but you learn that the kid is very good at computers and brilliant. And extremely, extremely anal. If he is down to his candy bar. Yeah, I'm like, my ship to this candy bar. I'm not really sure how this machine, this program works.

Sir, sir, this piggy bank had 97 pennies in it and now shakes it. It sounds like it only has 96. Here you go. Takes a penny out of this pocket. This, this is a blog bag. It had 14 camel cash camel bucks in it. Now there's only 13. He's, the kid is also a heavy smoker. He smokes camel wides. It was 1984 it was a different time. Save it up. Yeah. So, so then the family is sort of gathered around the fire and I think they're like singing a song or they're doing something very wholesome and very quaint. And everyone's having a great time and then you we get the first jump scare of the movie.

And it's because there's some rustling outside and then some people wearing masks like suddenly pop up in like a sliding glass door and you go, ah, you freak out and it turns out it's one of Matt Winslow's old Frat Buddies and his family. Frat Buddies. Already higher ups at the company. This is the guy from Murphy Brown, the guy who plays Frank Fontaine on Murphy Brown. Joe Regalbatou, I think his name. And uh, uh, uh, regal buto, which is Latin for for royal butane lighter regal buto.

I thought it was beautiful ass. I mean, I'm speaking Latin. So it's possible. Yeah. So the kids run off and play together. We find out that the other kids are a little creepy. They're a little weird. We don't know why. We find out that there's a country club in town that has a Halloween party coming up that everyone loves, that's everyone's favorite thing. It's a Halloween party,

which is weird for a country club, I think, but it makes sense for the scary movie, for it to be a Halloween party. I mean, good to see you. You can't celebrate Halloween. I guess so. I mean, good. You love good celebrate. I guess a lot of time at country clubs. I have to do a Halloween parties. Ever been to a country cup.

Love my life. I don't want this. Getting out there in the world. Well, Dan, what about you? I remember used to be like, uh, this daily show job is really getting me down. I got it this week. I'm heading to Marlago and I'm not coming back till the day before we return. I don't.

Yeah. You come back and you'd be like, yeah me and Don were talking. He's got some good ideas. And I'd be like, what Don do you mean? Donald Trump or Donald Trump Jr. Do you'd say both? I just call them both Don. They both got great ideas.

I'm like, I don't know Dan. And he go, yeah, you'll understand someday or maybe you won't peasant. And then he would laugh and laugh and get his limo. Yeah, I'd cackle and I drive off and my jet powered Ferrari. You'd say just had, oh, I just had a great mask free week down at Mar-a-Lago.

Yeah, and at the time it meant nothing. But now it's obvious, you know. At that point it was because he had previously told us that everyone wore masks for the Halloween. I would laugh a lot. You'll get it someday. And then you'll say, then you'd say, Fidelio, and you'd walk away. All right.

So it's Halloween in the country club. Yeah, there's a Halloween party coming up at the steaming spring's country club that everyone in the neighborhood belongs to and that Tom, the friend of the friend of the friend. So steaming springs is the name of the club or the town. I forgot. Steaming springs is the name of the country club. Okay, because it sounds like a country club from a like a Santa Max software movie

where everyone's like, yeah. They're like, it's time for our story night at steaming springs. Tell us a tale, you know. Well, they were trying to come up with something's hot sounding. I'll just say a little clue there. It has to be hot sounding. Say that steaming springs is the only way to straighten them. Springs are notoriously curled.

Dan, you don't want to straighten them. No, then you just get a rod. That's all that you've been riding. Pretty worthless, pretty worthless worthless I gotta say uh... night they'd been getting a new mattress opening it up and being like these springs they're so i've been once again i have to correct the factory's mistake and that you call Stanley steamer and say the steamers like it's a living i

guess i'll do it okay so there's a mo there's a moment at the end of the night, that night. I will say the exposition in this movie is done really great. Everything sort of doled out really quickly and really good really well. We get to know where everybody is in really efficient ways. And at the end of the night, those there's a great love scene

between a great love scene, now I sound like a pervert. But they're saying. No, you, it's not like a pervert, but they're saying- No, you meant in terms of like Romeo and Juliet, like the great love stories in the history. No, well on the skinometer. I think it's for now, skinometer. Skinometer. There's a five star buck naked fuck fest.

No. No. Set to peaches. Fuck the pain away. No, I believe there probably is a movie called uh... uh... uh... i've i've believed there probably is a movie called five star but and those

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See that is the last day in that often. The positive opinion. But you know what it works. You know, a bust mayor on sex screen by sex craving. They're really not thinking, these parody, so the parody content is really an imaginative sex Craven is a great Green for okay I guess so so I just mean it's a

You have to change the name of shocker What I just I meant to get West Craven's pull under the hairs So I just, I meant to get West Craven's new nightmare and accidentally got sex Craven's nude nightmare and you know I watched anyway it's not a scary but you know. Still scary. Still a little scary. It's a good premise. It's hard to do that premise wrong. I think it's actually called nude, quite bear.

You would quite, at that point, it's very hard to tell what it's a parody of anymore. It's very, very, very, very, very dunder. It's not even a, it's not even a porno. It's just the same movie with everyone naked throughout the whole thing. Now, and it would probably just be the Hills have boobs, I'm guess, or the Hills are boobs would be. Fies, I feel like around the eyes.

I think there's, well anyway, that's. It does, but. Move on, let's, we can do the tape bullets, right? When we bring these, when we bring these presentation pitches to the estate of West Craven, I think we can be grand. West Craven's I think we can be great. We have some interest from the reality kings. So we're interested in all of your work. We'll get to a music of the heart porn parody eventually.

We'll do a vampire in Butland. We'll get there. But it's not an A really. It's not what you're known for. Mr. Ghost of West Craven. It's John Carpenter's Ghost of West Craven. That's the movie. Ghost of Breast Craven.

It's John, now there's a pun on the name of the director of the guy. It's, it's long Carp hers, ghost of sex graven. Wow. It's really conceptual now, but sure, I guess. Yeah, but John Carpenter's like, whatever man, I'll allow it, can I do the score? Sure, yeah, we would love that. That's my name now, probably.

So yeah, so it's just a nice little candlelit. That's my name now, probably. So yeah, so there's just a nice little candlelit love making scene where afterwards she essentially says, I'm so excited, I'm no longer going to be poor and struggling and my husband's gonna be working hard and we're not gonna be getting the thing. She says that she's excited to be part of a higher society or whatever that, you know. So next day, is his first day driving to work

or riding to work. He rides with Tom, his friend that we met earlier. Okay, check, so. And Tom has a guy in the back seat who is shadowing him and bossing him around and being kind of shitty to him who is apparently the representative from the steaming spring's country club that is deciding whether or not Tom gets to join.

So you know that this is like a tough thing to be able to join this country club, right? And then we get to the company that he's now working for, which is called Micro Digitech. We get to the company that he's now working for, which is called Micro Digitech. And what he's developing. That's right up there with the fake technology company from Shattered Glass, which I think is called juke-micronics,

or something like that, with it like, come on. How did you not know this guy was making stuff up? So Micro Digitech is making a suit because as Tom says at some point, the government wants to put someone on Venus in like three years, which seems a little ambitious in 1984, I gotta say. It was morning in America.

We were ready to do big things and communism was on the decline. Venus was what everyone was talking about. Yup, yup. So we needed a suit that you would be, not only, so here's the goals of this suit that are laid out as we sort of find out, as we see the scenes of them developing this suit. Already it is highly heat resistant because it's hot on Venus apparently. Very much so.

You want to have a suit that can withstand hundreds and thousands of degrees, right? It also has a laser beam that pops out of the wrist like what's it like a taxi driver. Oh, that little spring loaded laser that comes out of the wrist. Man, imagine if he had access to a low laser gun, that would be crazy. You would have just heard that guy's full of hands, not just shot off the fingers. That guy's a boy. That's where we got to tell. Well, it's a, I'm just gonna say,

that's necessary though in case you do need to save a prostitute, Jody Foster, from Harvey Gaitel on Venus. Let's say you get to Venus, you really make a connection with this young lady and you gotta save her from the people who are exploiting her, you need that laser. So really make a connection with this young lady and you gotta say from the people who are exploiting her, you need that laser.

So I get it, I understand. The manor for Mars, Jody Foster is from Venus, I know. Yeah, that's where it goes. Exactly. Now, it also has a flame thrower. Need it, you need an Venus because it's not hot enough there. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, that doesn't seem super hot. Tell you what you need on Venus. You need a water thrower Like yeah, so some sort of ice propulsion thing like sub zero has or something. Yeah, yeah, exactly Or do you need a spare somewhere? Yeah magic ice. Yeah, I mean well, here's the thing the thing that the thing that this guy has been brought on to Because he's they're want to make the suit absolutely, they wanna make it the space suit of the future. And one of the things that he discusses putting in it right away,

and this is our lead guy Robert Eurick discusses, he's going to make it so that when you put this suit on and you look at something, you can see whether it is human or not and whether it is benign or not. So like, we don't tell you if you're looking. Sure. Yeah. There's a moment where he's talking about, and he says it's mostly reading auras at this point. And it's amazing. I think that's like an early level cleric spell. Yeah. Yeah. so it's a magic suit that's heat resistant

might come in handy later on in this movie. And it can see whether someone is human or not, and whether they're evil or not. We meet the guy's secretary who tries to give him a binder with some secret information or something. She soon gets fired and disappears because she tries to do that. There's a bunch of stuff about the family getting pressured. Oh, we meet the boss of the company,

which is Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy? Yeah, yeah. I'm a part of the foundation of the body snatchers. Yeah, and it's a good life segment of triad zone. Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Andhuh and UHF right he's the guy in UHF. That's weird out. Got it in one, Ali. Yeah, you're thinking about a normal out just you know, dial up the weird by at least 50%. Well, that's the way I remember what that when weird owl was not famous yet

They'd have to introduce them at shows and they'd go let us prepare you for what you're about to see We've all known owls, but what if they were a little weird Get ready now that you're prepared and you understand the premise of his bit for weird Ow and they didn't always call me weird owl yank of a cut of time and you understand the premise of his bit for weird. Ow. And they didn't always call him weird, I'll yank a bit of the time, but weird. Normal owls are always singing the top hits of the day, but what if those owls who sang top hits were weird?

The hits would be weird too. Here they are. A normal instrument for an owl to play would be like a guitar or a trumpet. But this owl's a little weird and he plays in a accordion. Okay, let that rest in your mind a moment. So who used to it? Yeah, you've ordered beat it,

but what if it was slightly different and we took a letter away? Yeah. Yeah. He's always misunderstanding what songs are about. That's what's weird about it. Yeah. I would love it if it turned out weird

now was not writing those songs, but he thought he was doing accurate covers. And which weird about him is his hearing is such that he thinks those are the lyrics of the songs. Yes. At least like, I don't get it. People put me in the humor section. Each of these covers is respect,

with respect, and almost totally identical to the original song, including the lyrics. I'm also one of the few successful cover musicians in history, and I don't know why that is. Don't know why, Hannah, multi decade career, just covering the top hits of the day, but hey, man, they broke, don't fix it. I guess it's because I stay current.

Yeah, he moves with the times, and you love that. You love to see that. I don't sing my ballona anymore, not a parody song, but my understanding of the actual song that they sang. Yeah. Amish Paradise is a real reach. I said, why is Gullio singing about the Amish? I don't know, but I love it anyway, and I want to show my love of it by just being distributed to him a totally notep for note word for word cover. It's not different from the original in any way.

Anyway, music video that just depicts the things that already occurred in his lyrics. So I called up Kulio, sorry. No, I don't even know how I called Weird Al.. Sorry. I don't know. I'm called weird out I should be called accurate out, but you were saying so he called up coolio He called up he called up coolio and he said hey, can I do this and coolio famously said yes over the phone Weird Al's friends finally prevailing him to get hearing aids and he's listening to his back. How long is going oh god? Oh god no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no know what else he wanted to achieve. You're like Alexander Crying, because there's no more kingdom stuff to conquer.

Yeah. My dearest Kulio, I must take weird pen and weird hand to write you this apology. Dear Kulio, the front is terrible. Some say. The Germans have pushed us back. Some day these terrible song wars will be over. So at some point in all of this,

we meet one of the shittier neighborhood kids, comes over. And that's when we start to get an impression that something is really wrong here, you know, because one of the kids comes over and it's not Tom's kids. It's a different kid and he's very like mean and he's very like aggressive and he loses playing one of the son's like computer games and he throws the little computer console thing on the ground, it stomps on it because he loses. And that's when we get the impression

that there's like some pod people thing going on. I mean, that's just thing kids do though, right? Is they get mad and they break stuff. Yeah. Yeah, sure, okay. Maybe it's, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe everything's gonna be fine. I'm not faulting you, I'm faulting the film

at not understanding that kids break stuff all the time. Sure. I'm saying invitation to hell, you're burnt. Anyway, continue Alex. Yeah, so then there's a near accident between the whole family and Susan Lucci in her limousine. Did she get a new driver? Is she driving herself?

Yeah. She has a new driver. She also has like, there's some cops that come out and immediately defend her and like hustle, mad away when he tries to get her insurance information and stuff. There's a whole weird. It was the same driver and he's still all melted, but information and stuff. There's a whole weird. It was the same driver and he's still all melted but he's like,

it's a great job, the benefits are really good. I can't leave it. You know, you got to allow for mistakes from the boss every now and then. He's just tugging on little strings with his few muscles that he has left. I mean, I'm wondering if that's a happier ending than like just shots of him and his apartment having lost his job and being all-mouthing and like not being able to make ends meet. Well, but then he's like, oh, maybe it's time to rethink my career. I wasn't enjoying being a driver anyway.

I always wanted to be a teacher. Maybe it's time to get my degree. Yeah. No, you're right. That's better for him. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That's better for him, I think. Yeah, I think so. Then they just roll them into a high school classroom and an aquarium at some point and he teaches. Yep, a back to tank. A beautiful story. It's called Dangerous Meltz.

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she knows all of the Winslow family by name. And she knows a lot about them. And she starts to plant the seed that she wants them to join steaming springs, country clums. The next thing that I think we see is Tom and his family, the only other like normal people that we know in this town, they are standing there in steaming springs doing the ritual to join the country club, which is they're standing in front of a big huge steaming door that has rock walls on either side of it, like it's a cave. And there's a ritual where Susan Luchi makes them say things like,

they have to say something like, I first say, oh, do you first say all for the club? And they go, yes, we first say all for the club. They essentially sell their souls to the devil, to join this country club. And then they step into the doors and all this steam is pouring out and it's clearly very hot in there. And that's what the steaming spring is.

It's apparently hell, right? The titular invitation to hell. Sounds cool to me. Yeah, and then so Susan Lutche comes to the, comes to microdigitech. She wants to talk to Matt again and she wants to see the top secret suit that he's making, and the boss makes him do it.

So he takes her in there, and there's a moment where we see from the point of view of the helmet. He's just got the helmet sitting on the table there. And we see the helmet see her, and the helmet says, non-human malignant. Oh no! Amazing, right? So Matt comes back to work the next day.

He's got a new secretary. A secretary has been disposed of. And Tom has been promoted. So Tom is now at a higher up the company. We meet him again. He seems like weird and often grumpy for just a second. is now at a higher up the company. We meet him again. He seems like weird and off and grumpy for just a second, but then pretty quickly, he turns back into his cool self

and he tries to convince Matt to join the country club. So it's like kind of unclear, they don't become like soulless husks. There's clearly like some, there's still themselves to some degree, even though they've been taken over by this, whatever this thing is, right? There's even force.

Even though they've been forced. They've forsaken all, there's still like a little bit left. Now, we find out Tom's wife has a new car, which seems like kind of unnecessary, but it does, it matters at a certain point later in the film, because this is a very smart film, again. Um, these, Tom's kids come over for a slumber party, we find out that they're shitty now.

They're like the other shitty kid. Apparently it's worse than kids with what happens to them. Yeah. And this is revealed in a very funny scene, great scene where Robert Eurick hears the TV on in the middle of the night during this slumber party and he comes down the stairs and he sees that someone is watching the kind of footage that you see in like, you know, I can fifth element

when they're showing her all the tragedies of the past or whatever, it's basically just like on the street wartime footage. Something really traumatized. We're put together a montage of like the greatest hits of like, lousy things happening. Yeah, well, I don't even know that it's a montage. It's more just like, riot footage. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Or something like that. I don't know how much it is a montage, but it goes on for a while. And he comes down and he sees just one kid, it's very creepy, shot well. It's great, it's, you know, Wes Craven. And he's, and this kid is, you see the kid backlit in this chair, just staring at the TV.

It's one of Tom's kids. And he comes down and he says, you shouldn't be Robert Eurick comes down. He says, you shouldn't be watching this. He turns it off and he turns and the kid has like a big smile on his face. Like he's watching a war and he's enjoying it or whatever, right? And he just goes,

you shouldn't have done that. So Matt is freaked out about the club. He doesn't really like the idea of the country club, but his wife really wants to join. The kids really want to join. And we, at some point we go to the country club and we see it. There's a lot of beautiful people there in bikinis and otherwise. There's like parkers. Yeah, they're wearing like if you opened a book of different outfits, they're wearing like every available outfit. There's two people in a horse costume. Got it. Okay. Yeah. That one point you unlocked all the cosmetic upgrades for the game. Yeah. And you just want to use them on whatever you want. Sure. Yeah, totally.

So the boss at one point says the great line, um, or, uh, or no, uh, uh, Robert Eurick goes to his boss to complain about the fact that his secretary has been fired. And there's a really, another really great, I only bring the scene up because there's two really great lines and it one is that, uh goes she just wasn't company timber and and Robert Eurick does the dramatic thing where he stands up from his chair and turns around you know and he goes timber. We're talking about people are tree. And then at the end of that scene, that's a genuine, genuine line. Really, really good. Really good.

So, and then at the end of that scene, the boss says, at the end of that scene, Bruce brings Gene, Bob says he goes, oh, whoo! Oh, We can't afford that all you Sorry, I mean I'll change a little bit of the answer. It's more affordable At the end of Everybody's got invitation to hell Everybody wants invitation to hell. Everybody wants an invitation to hell.

Oh my God. Oh my God, this could be really good. That could be really good. We should do that and tag it on the end of this episode. Yeah, sure, sure. So the boss, meaning Kevin McCarthy. Sure. He says the line.

Who says the line? Yes. He says the line. We just want, as Robert Eurick's walking out, he says the line. We just want as Robert Eurick's walking out. He says the line. We just want you to be one of us. Just one of us. You will go. Right.

But he's making a Ramones reference. Not a freak's reference. Not a freak's reference. That's the thing. Now, he only does know the original version of it. That's the scary part that our culture, He doesn't know the original version of it. That's the scary part that our film culture is disappearing so rapidly.

So the one thing I forgot to mention, at the country club, when they go to the country club, Robert Eurick while he's on the tour, he hears a woman screaming in what he thinks is pain or for help and he sees the door that Tom and his family walk through early. And there's all this like steam billowing out from under the door.

It's steamy valley. And he puts his hand on the door and he goes, ah, like freaks out because it's hot, right? Two, three, four. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Like freaks out because it's hot right out Two, three, four Dan, an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an an The thing I neglected to mention is that much like Jonathan Richmond and there's something about Mary Bruce Springsteen just pops up regularly with a guitar. I mean, not that he's not that he's fallen. I mean, he's the man who brought back Broadway, but this was really at one of this high peaks.

Yeah. Yeah. Inverted to hell, I was inverted to hell. That one took, the melody on that one took me a second. Yeah, yeah, it's hard. I mean, I'm gonna blame Bruce Springsteen for that, because it's a catchy song, but it's not a natural song.

And I can't think of too many other Bruce Springsteen for that because it is not it's a catchy song But it's not a it's not a natural song and that's I can't think of too many other Bruce Springsteen songs so We're done now. Yeah, okay, so the so when he touches my door didn't find a two-hell Now we're going down and go to hell All right anyway, sorry go on Fifth seven channels invitation to hell. Feef the Seven Channels invitation to hell. I thought of another one. Yeah.

So the, uh, Susan Lucci catches him trying to open the hot door, aside from obviously the invitation. Come on up invitation. Come on up down to hell Okay, sorry And into hell we were invited To hell we were invited. Oh yeah, right. Yeah, right. To hell we were invite. Yeah.

So this door to hell, ripped up like a douche. Or these doubles and invited to hell, invited into hell. I've been trying to figure out how to invite Rosalita to hell for like two, three minutes. I'll leave it, invite you to hell. Something like that, yeah.

So the, so this door, these double doors to hell. The double doors to hell. They're very hot. Have a little. A little door to hell. Yeah. Have a little like, like, you know, one of those like, they have a keypad.

This gun's a hot. It just sticks up out of the bed. He's been invited down to hell. Do do do do do do. It's the one. Can't go the hell without an invite. And Robert Eurick tries to open the doors to hell by punching the keypad that's there

on its own little sort of podium that sticks up. That's what you would do. And yeah, get more of the keys. Hopefully more of the keys work than Alex's keyboard. Oh wow. Oh wow. That's right. It's the Flapphouse roast of Alex's keyboard with your most master general, Stewart Wellington.

Stewart. I've heard of off-key but off-board? I wouldn't press command function with be Arthur's keyboard. So Susan Lucci catches him trying to open this door. He's trying to save a woman that he thinks is probably in like a fire or something. Yeah. And he says, oh, I thought I, she said you must be lost. And he says, well, I thought I heard a woman cry out needing help. And she, and Susan Lynch, he gets super horned up real fast and says, you know, people can cry out for other things as well for pleasure. And, and by the way, this, a country club can be a place of great pleasure. And if you join, I can make this a great pleasurable experience for you. Clearly meaning, you know, doors open. Yeah.

I'm limited buffal. So I've been to a country club before. I know what she's getting at. Yeah. I get it. I get it. I scream on your birthday. I understand.

Midnight. Midnight buffal. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Sure. A free hour at the driving range. I understand. I understand. Midnight buffet. Yeah, I get it. Sure, sure. A free hour at the driving range, I understand. I understand, water slides, yeah. I got you. 100%.

So he's really freaked out by the idea of an all you can eat buffet and free hour of golf. He's like, he runs out. He's like, what they don't tell you is you got to reserve the course like three weeks ahead of time. You can't just stop by and claim your free hour of golf. Sure, the driving range is open, but it's not the same. So he runs out balls on the roof of my house.

I need to pay a membership fee for that. Give me the course, give me the links. Yeah, he runs out and his wife shows up and says that he needs to come back because Jessica's invited them all to lunch. And he says, I don't wanna do this, I don't wanna join this place, I don't wanna be here. And he leaves and she freaks out and is mad at him.

And then it cuts to them that the whole family at home except for him, worried that he's not even going to come home, which seems so they didn't even get lunch. So they didn't even get lunch? I guess they didn't go to lunch. I mean, I guess the whole family except him went to lunch. And they got him some and they put it in like a plastic container.

But it's just they forgot to put it in the fridge. So it's just been a like cold-slaw sandwich just sitting out all day. He's not going to eat that. That's all. All-slaw salad sandwich. It's the specialty at the country club, Dan. It was invented by one of the members. All-slaw salad sandwich.

All-slaw salad. What was you as we take? We take a, we take a, uh, pastrami sandwich. Go on. We remove the strommi. Keep talking. We triple the coleslaw. Uh huh. The strommi goes in the garbage. We add an extra slab of coleslaw. And then what we do is we drizzle it with coleslaw and we put on a coleslaw a-o-le, which just means more coleslaw. The thing is you hear coleslaw salad sandwich. You obviously think the coleslaw is in the middlely, which just means more Coleslaw. The thing is, you hear Coleslaw salad sandwich,

you obviously think the Coleslaw is in the middle. No, no, no, my friend. I prefer the no. The Coleslaw is the bread. Yeah, it's like the double-down with Coleslaw. Yeah, between two compressed slabs of Coleslaw. Yeah, it's like what makes it a salad, rather than just a sandwich.

Yeah, you gotta eat it fast. You go through a lot of dry ice to freeze the Coleslaw into bricks. But it's worth it. I was thinking they'd be fried into like a lot kids or something. No, there's a lot of kids around here. So the country club doesn't admit those kinds of people. We prefer to freeze our coleslaw into slabs. Thank you.

So the, uh, so he, but he comes, so they're all sitting around the table bummed out because daddy ran away. Oh, but belly's full of Coleslaw. They, they don't, that's not, that's not like you don't regret. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're all, they're all obviously working their way through a, through coming down from their Coleslaw hide. Yeah, yeah. Oh man. And then, and then Robert Eurick returns with roses and a bottle of wine, I believe, and says, I'm so sorry, and apologizes to the wife.

And there, and they have another nice night together, and you get to really, you know, feel the love in this family once more, before what happens almost immediately after that, and you get to really feel the love in this family once more. Before what happens almost immediately after that, which is after talking to Susan Lutche one more time, the mother and the two kids decide they're gonna join the club anyway.

Without Robert Eurek. Makes sense. Yeah. So there's a scene where they're gonna say, are they allowed to do that? Well, it's funny you should ask that question because Susan Lucci says, I know there's a rule against people joining the club without their whole families.

But we're going to make an exception for you because Susan Lucci is smart. She's figured out this is the only way she's going to get Robert Eureka more. I see. Is if she gets the kids and the mom already in the... They pull that shit at the Park Slope food, go out all the time.

Yeah. Spencer for hire, Spencer not required. That's so, wow. Well, did she say that Alex? Did she say that? Did she say that? Did she say that? That's not a line to the slide.

It's in the slide. Better be. You better see that glint in her eyes. That means she's thinking that. It's an off-screen ad lib that they added in post so then Everything goes everything goes crazy at that point, right? Yes exactly like that basically from that point on just imagine the end of society

But for but for TV so it's you know, it's elbows and stuff, not asses. Yeah. Interesting. So, yeah, that's why there's like you pitching your G rated pornography. Yeah, imagine, it's just, it's elbows, not an asses. You think it's something, but it's elbows, so it's okay. It's all just elbows. Yeah, it's all just elbows

Yeah, that's why the Charmin Bears are always talking about Evan fucking toilet paper stuck to their elbows I don't know breast graven seems like it's not the best it doesn't seem like it's the best use of your talents No, this is where it's all going. This is where the more alcohol angels 47 So from this point on, everything that happens is pretty clearly a result of the fact that his family is now in hell and they've been replaced with some kind of pod people because the wife is suddenly like,

I don't know, a horneer, like meat more mean spirited. The dog, they have a dog named Albert. The dog, he comes home after the family has joined the country club and gone through the door. Oh, by the way, when they joined the country club, the little daughter, the youngest one, freaks out at the last minute and decides she doesn't want to. But Susan Lucci grabs her and forces her to go through the door.

Oh. Very sad. Now, the, oh, and every time a family goes through the doors, the door's closed, and then there's a security guard that walks up and like stands with us back to the door while it's happening. So, here I get the yard to hell. Yeah, it's like a balancer.

The minimum wage guy they got. Yeah, hell has a balancer, apparently. People are just dying to get in except they're not Nobody wants to go there usually right? He's wearing a Wilson's leather jacket That should be a Bruce Springsteen song hell has a bouncer yeah, but In LA there's a bouncer at the door way to hell Better hope your name is on his clipboard or else he's scorted out by the mountain hell oh no but that would be better than going to hell so I guess you don't want to be on the list

to hell he realizes midway through the chorus he always does the friend of the song. Oh, wait. Hold on. You actually don't want to be on the belt to the hell's list. So the... So here's the solo look. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do I guess Have I ever heard of the string song possibly not

Baby we're the bouncers to hell And not we stand by doors of five I think we have got to say like six Bruce Springsteen so it's twice now Rosalita bounce or two We got it in yeah, there we go. It worked. All right, so be bodies So as you can probably imagine As you could probably imagine at this, the wife is now wearing darker clothes. They were in the middle of remodeling the home to make it more, to update it, make it more modern.

Suddenly, she's decided on much moody or colors for the walls. It's like a dark blue. There's very jagged modern furniture. She kind of beatle juices the house. Yeah, it's like, now it's scary and modern instead of being homey. There's very jagged modern furniture. She kind of beatle juices the house. Yeah. Now it's scary and modern instead of being homey. She gets rid of the old upright piano.

She used to play sweet songs on. And now there's a black grand piano that she's playing, I don't know, like list or something on it. You know, it's really like- She's just playing the keyboard part from that Lincoln Park song. Yeah. She's in there just tearing up some fiery list.

And the guy comes in, the dad comes in and he sees his wife again. He starts to suspect something is wrong. I don't think he, I don't think there's too much weird that happens with the kids at this point. Mostly he's just worried about the wife because what she does is she banishes the dog to outside and won't let the dog come in because the dog is barking at them because they're all demon people or whatever.

And then when he goes to work, she takes the dog to the only vet in town who is apparently not a vet, like he's apparently not in the community that he's not the vet that belongs to the country club because he's a normal guy. And he's not a monster. He's not a monster. She that, he's not the vet that belongs to the country club because he's a normal guy. And he's not a monster. He's not a monster.

She asks him to just kill the dog. And she says, I would like to be there for it. And he says, I lied to her, I told her, I don't do that. Which seems really weird as a vet that you wouldn't give the person the option to be there when you put down the dog. I would do anything with dogs, but I won't do that. I'm not going to stretch stretching out into the others.

No. Singers, I don't know about this. I mean, with Meatloaf, the invitation to hell. I mean, it's right there. Right there, right there. Not an invitation to hell. Yeah. Yeah.

That really, that would be a great Meatloaf album name. Yeah. An invitation to hell. Can I sleep on it? And maybe go to hell in the morning. It's another meatloaf album name. Invitational. Can I sleep on it? And maybe go to hell in the morning. It's another meatloaf song. Invitational to help like part two. Yeah. RSVP.

So the, oh, did I ever tell you guys that Charlene went and saw the bad out of hell musical? No. Oh wow. She went with a friend. Well, she said it was simultaneously the best and worst musical she's ever seen. She'll be mad at me for telling this story out there because she'd probably want to tell

it, but she did say that before the end of the before the intermission, like half the audience had already left. Oh, that's sad to hear. But it was still super fun. That's I went to one of those Zappa plays Zappa concerts and I went with my family and my family decided to leave after about four songs and I think the audience was pretty much leaving throughout the whole thing. It was like, it was very deep, it was very deep Zappa, nothing against that, but it was like, it was not a general admission

crowd. I wasn't playing the hits. The hits of the Apple. Yeah. There are some, I mean, there's some stuff that would keep a crowd. I think... Yakuosh Shmeranov was trying out a Broadway show. I don't think he'd even made it, but he had a couple of,

and I got some sort of, you know, I got free tickets to the preview or whatever. What? And I had a good time. Like, you know, I went, you know, I went, really? Ironically, I would say, I don't wanna like, you know, like paint myself as too much of a church.

What is the first time here you've been seeing like, you were younger man, you were younger man. I was a younger man. I went, yeah, I was a, a caloman. I enjoyed the first act of it just fine. I'm like, okay, that's enough, Yak, I was a, a Kalaman, I enjoyed the first act of it, just fine. I'm like, okay, that's enough, Yakovshmur enough for me. Thank you very much. I left it in her image.

Oh, damn. Yeah. I don't know, you know, he'd been trying out in Branson for a while. Didn't quite make it to the Great White Way, but, you know, Yak know jackoff you did great first keep swinging for the fences but that's a dance as not a great enough first act that you were like i want to stay for the second act no i had other things to do that

another man may not have come to any of the act i guess i think most men did not come to billions of them didn't go to either of the act yeah uh... he can't swing a dead cat in this one this world that's I mean, most men did not come to billions of them, didn't go to either of the acts, yeah. Yeah. You can't swing a dead cat in this world, but that's hitting someone who's never seen Yuck Up, Samirnaugh live. Why are you doing that?

The cat likes it. Well, what? You was an echo man, sir? Yeah. It was the cat's last wishes. Listen to me swung around. To be used as a unit of measurement, I get it. The cat said, when I die, swing me around like one of your French girls. And I said, okay, that's what you want.

A lot of ghosts in this episode. Yeah. Okay, I should mention the bet that the aforementioned bet is Bill Irwin, the guy from all of the best. The old man Bill Irwin, ERWIN, not Bill Irwin of full moon and things like that. Yeah, that famous clown. Not FX's legions Bill Irwin. Not the guy I saw at the Irish Repertory Center talking about waiting for good to.

Yeah, I wanted to see that show when it came to LA and I missed it. It was fun. It was fun. I've seen him perform with David Shiner a couple times. waiting for good. Yeah, I wanted to see that show when it came to LA and I missed it. It was fun. It was fun. I've seen him perform with David Shiner a couple times. Great shows. And enough name dropping back to the show.

So, I should mention as a bit of, I think, very good and efficient storytelling, the vet guy's wife is his former secretary who disappeared. So, while he's dealing with the vet guy's wife is his former secretary who disappeared. So while he's dealing with the vet guy and talking about his dog, he's also finding out that one that she got fired, two that she was like snooping around to try to find out about her nephew or something who had disappeared, and three that she died in a car accident and the car burnt up, and there's no evidence of what happened to her.

All right, so the dog is out of the picture for the family, but safe at this vet who's in on its house somewhere, right? Okay, so there's another sex scene between Matt and Pat Winslow, and she this time scratches his back up because again, she's she's a devil person now and And there's a great scene where he looks in the mirror and he's like what's going on? And he he looks he looks at the scratches on his back and he's like this has never happened before

The way you said it made it sound like he liked it though. Yeah. What is going on? What is going on? Yeah, like this. I think it's a little too much for him. I think it's clearly a little too much for him. He gets a little too much for me.

He just says it like that. Yeah. He's like complaining about it to his therapist later on and he's still sounds turned on. He just can't help it. So the I need your help to process this. Yeah. Well, when you say it makes it sound like you actually enjoyed it. No. The opposite of Dave Foley's sarcastic guy character on kids in the hall. So he sits down on the bed and as soon as they're done,

she passes out and she sleeps hard, which is really weird, because you don't normally think like a damned person is like the sleep of the damned I guess. Oh, she's just like Dana from Ghostbusters. Yeah, yeah, okay, it could be something like that. So he turns to a huge portrait of her that he has on his bedside table

that looks like it was taken the same day. And he goes, he says, did you join the club? And it shows her face and her eyes spring open and she's been fouled out. She joined the club. All right, so I'll get, I'll just sort of, this is sorry, gone very long. So I'll get through the end of basically what happens is,

he gets found out to be very skeptical. He's snooping around at the country club. He fights the guard, the bouncer to hell. He fights that guy, kills him. What? Electrocute him. So not a very good bouncer. Not a good bouncer at all.

Or is it like the Santa Claus where they're like, now you're the bouncer to hell. Mm-hmm. That would be great. That would be great if that's how the movie ended as he's now the back. He slowly just becomes like a little bit bigger. And like,

I'm a U.S. now the Bouncy to Hell. So now he runs back- So now he runs back to the house. So now he runs back to the house. And this is like, this is kind of funny at this point. How many times he's gone from club to house to club to house. But he runs back to his house. There's a very sort of funny scene where he has to fight his whole face The classic dad has to fight his whole family. They're all possessed. Yeah, it's cold. Bedtime. He throws his

America's newest dad humorist the top daddy's the top daddy's most LAK. Have you ever noticed how there are funny things about being a dad that really only dads want to hear about? Let me tell you about them. Yeah, and it's like, what's up with this hop on pop bullshit? I'm going to flip this script on you. It's time for pop on hop. Wait, wait.

This time, pop pops doing the hoppin'. That's just, that's just when you've, when you've had a nice IPA, is your pop on hop at that point, yeah. I feel like that's Dr. Seuss with the publisher when they're trying to create a like DSCU, a Dr. Seuss cinematic inverse, and a like hop on pop too.

We reverse it, now pops doing the hopping. Cat in the hat, what if the hat was inside the cat? Wait, I don't know. This isn't, we gotta find new, we gotta find new angles on these little characters. Fox, what if the socks filled out inside the fox? What? I don't even know what, no, since it's didn't even make sense. It doesn't make sense.

Sam I am's got Amnesia. Now the other guy's got to teach him at a like green eggs in a ham. You're just taking the original ones and reversing them slightly This time the book battles the butter These these studio guys don't know what the fuck they're talking about. They don't know which order words are supposed to think that Movery Street saw it on me The zoo I ran if I

Okay, now you're just you're just taking the literally just the words and shuffling them a little bit So he throws it from the ublex point of view So he throws his son and his daughter in a closet his wife comes at him with like a golf club or something and he knocks her down And she just passes out immediately. Again, the sleep of the damned. Uh, he goes to the, uh, he goes to micro-digit tech, he gets his space suit. Smart, right? Uh, he gets his space suit. Well, he did say in a holiday and express last night. Yeah, yeah.

Tom comes in with a gun and says, you're, we've figured out that you're not one of us. You're a loser. And I'm gonna shoot you in the head. We put the context clues together when you beat up your possessed family and killed our bastard. You're a creep. It's like every episode of Undercover Balls. And then, and so by this time Matt Winslow has the suit on

and he uses the laser gun to shoot Tom. Blast him out of the room. And then he puts the helmet on, he gets Tom's car. Remember we found out Tom had a new car. So we know this is his car. Yeah. He gets in Tom's car. He drives to the country club.

Now he gets to say that he's Tom in as Halloween costume, which is the space suit. Whoa. And he goes into the Halloween party where all the, where all the higher ups, everybody who's everybody in this, in Silicon Valley. And they're all lined up for one laser blast. The guy doing it in the back. It's a conga line.

So he just shoots straight through. Yeah. So easy. The guy who is, the guy who was in the backseat of Tom's car earlier in the film is dressed, his Halloween costume is a Nazi Halloween costume. On the nose, a bit on the nose. Yeah, a little on the nose. He has long conversation with him about why he's wearing the space suit.

And then he looks around the room and there's no humans to be found. You see through his helmet, you see it's all non-humans. And are they evil or not evil? Evil. They're all evil. No. Are they con evil or not con evil? Good question. It does not say how many of them are con evil. They don't have that technology. That's where Mark II of the suit. So then he runs down the stairs to go to the door to hell. And he's trying to open his first guess at the code for the doors of hell. What do you think it was? 666.

Exactly right. He matches 666 with his big astronaut hand first thing. Luckily, they still have the extra large buttons. Yeah, yeah. So then he's like, he's still doing that. And Susan Lutche comes down and she's wearing like, I don't know, she's wearing like some kind of crazy witches outfit that's bright red. She looks at the center. Yeah, it's the keypad that Tom Excel sells to old people for their doors to help.

It just said, there's just three, six buttons. Yes, a no and operator operator, and that's yeah. It's the cricket wireless, no, not cricket. What's the jitterbug? Jitterbug, jitterbug, yeah. So Susan Lutchi comes down, she's coming through the door to attack him, and he uses the only time the flame thrower, I believe, is used is right now.

And all it is is to create a great entrance for Susan Luchi, because he just sets fire to the hallway and she just walks through it easily. It's awesome. Where is it? Where is it? He gets the door open, he runs through. She confronts him in, he walks into hell, it's very clear, it's like far side hell right away.

It's all stalagged tights and like caverns and flames and stuff and like people going Oh in the distance and stuff like that, but then they're going up close. I mean that's not fun And you know far side hell is filled with cows so many cows standing up cows those nerdy kids Yeah, yeah That people they get the crew cut like with a striped shirt. Yeah, yeah Yeah, that people, that people with the crew cut like with a striped shirt and glasses. Far side hell is so unfair because it's just anybody who screwed up

in the most absurd way just goes to hell. But a lot of people are there, they're like, I don't understand the torture. Like I don't explain the torture to me because I'm not getting it here in first sight. Yeah, they're like, oh, if we explain the torture, we would ruin the torture. Explain what's tormenting about this.

I can't, yeah, if I explain it, it's not gonna be good. It's gonna be good. All their clothes are kinda fucked up. It's like, that's not that big a deal, man. Like sometimes really nice clothes can be a hell of a two, you know, Dan? Yeah, yeah. Like having a wear a suit every day to work.

Yeah? My favorite part side, my favorite part side cartoon is a hell one and it's the one where it's two guys sitting on a bench in hell and the one leans over to the other guy and he goes, I hate this place. It's just such a great single panel, really, really good. Okay, so he's standing on a cliff stage in hell and It's season-lead-you-come- No, rest in peace, see Los Angeles area restaurant, Cliff's stage, which I was a big fan of, which closed last year. Yeah. I'm sorry.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I hate a good restaurant going under. So he looks down and he sees like- We'll just thanks for bringing it up. Just thanks for reminding me, you know. Yeah. Sorry. I appreciate it.

He sees a portal in my fire, Dalyan. No, I mean, not fire. You could fire me at this point. We are firing you, but only because you handed that binder or tried to hand that binder to Robert Eurek, which was not one of our people, you know. Yes, yes, okay. So he looks down and he sees like some kind of portal

or porthole famously on this show. That's a deep cut. That's a zap on, zap a level cut. I did my research for this job, guys. So he looks down, he sees that he could go into the neighborhood if he jumps down this cliff, but it's very far. And Susan Lutche tells him he's going to die if he tries to do it. He doesn't believe her.

He starts, at this point, it's a bunch of people to take around. I get it. He realizes everything she says is a lie. So he jumps. There's a great, and this is clearly done. The other Susan Lucey says is true, but he doesn't know which is which. Right. So there's a great, this is obviously just for a commercial break

because he jumps and he goes, ah, and then it fades to black. You're saying in a regular movie, they wouldn't really fade out of a client I can see. They would paste're saying in a regular movie they wouldn't really fade out of a flight I'd seen. They would face that differently in a regular movie, but it's very clearly like three years later. Yeah. So then he comes to at the bottom of the cliff in a negative, like the negative, you know,

every, the film is negative, negative photo negative version of his neighborhood He runs into his house. He has a a bunch of exchanges with Susan Lutche where she sort of talks to him about how he He decides to take his helmet off. She tells him not to he does it anyway He takes his gloves off. He takes the suit off so that he can embrace his his wife who is sitting at the piano and she's unable to get Outside of this like blue haze or whatever he He runs over to her, he gives her a hug, he takes all these leaps of faith and then eventually the whole family is brought together. Susan Lucci freaks out when they all figure out

that she has no power over them, kind of an elaborate sense and she gets sucked back through this like big black hole thing and then they wake up all of a sudden, now they're in their regular house. It's been redecorated back to the way it was before. Uh-huh. So he's like, this is my beautiful house. This is my beautiful life.

I know how I got here. Yeah. For a slice of it. And then he steps outside and there's a pretty obviously juxtaposed like special effect of smoke rising from the Country Club over the hill from their front yard. And that's the end of the movie.

Is that the last one? Country club burns down. Well, he really scoured the shire on this one. Okay, sure. Where's Sharkey and Worm? And I don't know, they don't, the thing that they don't tell you that bothers me later, finding this out later, is so many things are back to normal at the end but you don't find out is is Tom still in hell is he on the floor dead at micro digitech what what happened to the other consequences of this is grace the

secretary is she back to life yeah the demo driver there's all kinds of good question there's a little driver to do ever get his teaching degree I mean all they had to do was wish to be back together as a family and they're back to normal. So I would hope that everybody else is back to normal as well, but the movie doesn't seem to want to tell you now. So that is the movie, what do you guys think?

Are you sad you missed it? Are you glad you missed it? Or had to not miss it. If we have to not miss it and we want to watch it, how does one watch this movie, Alex? It's on YouTube. It's on YouTube, whole thing, okay. Dan, you go first.

I will say that I literally sort of two thirds of the way through this went on in my letter box and added invitation to have it through my watch list. Cool. So that's a had to not miss it. It both sounds really funny, and it sounds like it might have that quality that like a dumb horror thing sometimes has where the ineptness of the plotting kind of makes it

creepier, like it evokes like a dream you might have where it doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense, but it's all the more disquieting because of kind of the nonsense of it all. So I'm sort of curious to see it. I think that's true. I think it's very much a product of its time and it's satisfying to me in that way.

It feels like all the conventions of the day is what they're trying to hit those boxes they're trying to check and I like all of those boxes mostly. Yeah, I feel like this is definitely either it's either a sad we miss it or a had to not miss it. So maybe I'm gonna head over to YouTube and look up Bruce Springs. What's the name of the new day?

I'm getting a little bit of help. I'm getting a little bit of help. I think I will, I'm sad I missed it. I don't know if I'm gonna had to not miss it necessarily. If only because I have limited time in my day but if the and you don't mess up the YouTube algorithm in your home. Yeah, I have a YouTube algorithm. I don't want the YouTube algorithm to continue to just feed me unboxing videos

and QAnon anti-vaccination videos. That's really what I'm on right now. Yeah. But it sounds like a blast. Thank you Alex so much for telling us about it. I feel like I'm on right now. But it sounds like a blast. Thank you, Alex so much for telling us about it. I feel like I lived it through you. And someday maybe I'll, maybe someday I'll accept that invitation to hail.

So I did end up telling you guys literally everything. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I've left very little to the, to the imagination. So. So in addition to being a producer for our show, yeah, is there anything you would like to plug, Alex? Oh, of course. I have a weekly radio show that you can check out

called Big Howl in Possum. Again, as my other moniker, Big Howl or Howl Daudi, I do a lot of music and comedy under the name of Howl Daudi. You can follow my Twitter account, which is at Howell Daudi, HOWEWLDY. I'm realizing right now that I forgot to say when my radio show is.

It's 10 p.m. Eastern time on 91.9 WFPK, Louisville, Kentucky, which you can listen to anywhere in the world at WFPK.org. There's back episodes of it on mixcloud.com as well. Big Howlin' Possum Radio Hour. I have a Twitch stream called Big Howlin' Possum and then I have a weekly podcast with Patreon bonus episodes that is called Howl Dotties Fast Track where me and a guest write a brand new song in one half of one hour.

Wow, it's a lot of fun. It's been going for a little while. We did a sad country song about going to the movies, right? Stuart was on it quite a few weeks ago, and then I just recorded an episode with Charlene, a story of lovely wife, that will be out next week. This week's show is with Brian Quinby of Street Fight Radio. And let's see, the... Anyway, there's just basically, I have guests on mostly comedians and podcasters, sometimes musicians,

and we talk through writing a song and then the song is at the end of the episode. So that's called Howdy's Fast Track. Look for that anywhere you get your podcast. I'm on Instagram as Howdy. Facebook is Howdy. So just look for in my comedy as an entertainer, I am known as Hal Daudi as a podcast producer. I am known as Alex Smith, my real name. The fact that there's no difference between those two personalities is, I'll just say it's not my problem.

And I also produce Charlene's podcast. I know the owner, which you should check out, it also has a theme song written by me. And then, uh, uh, oh, I think I think that's it. I think that that's, I guess, plenty, but yeah. We're, uh, we're on the maximum fun podcast network. There's plenty of other great shows on there. Please check it out. If you like, if you like this show and you want to listen to more of it for some reason, reason, you can always support us over at maximumfun.org slash join.

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And thank you listeners for putting up with our nonsense. I've been Stewart Wellington. I've been Tam McCoy. I've been Elliott impeccable Bruce Springsteen impression, Kaelin. And I am Alex Howell, Dottie Smith. Bye. you