The Flop House - FH Mini 6 - Missed That Movie! - Rusty: A Dog's Tale

Episode Date: May 2, 2020

Stuart tries for extra credit (no one tell him that Flop House extra credit isn't a thing), by checking out the puppy-kidnapping family comedy Rusty: A Dog's Tale and reporting back to the guys.

Okay guys so thanks for joining me tonight tonight is the inaugural episode of a new floppas thing that I am calling missed that movie that's right we are going to be talking about a movie that we have missed for whatever reason for the podcast. Okay. And in this case, I've taken out a palm myself to watch that movie, and I will now describe this movie. You can ask for further information if it will help you make the final decision at the end of this episode where you have to decide either A, your glad we missed this movie. B, maybe we should have watched this movie for the podcast or C. Fuck that.

I'm going to watch that movie two night. Wow. Okay. So let's call it glad to miss that movie, sad to miss that movie or had to un-miss that movie. Had to un-miss that. Yeah. Just to get a little bit of rhyming in there.

Yeah. That's the kind of punch up I was looking for. This premise arrives fully formed, I think. I am very excited. Yeah, right at a stew's head. It's leaped from stew's head fully formed, just like his cat. Now, as I was explaining before we start recording, I'm going to start explaining this bit. And if you guys interrupt me, I'll be furious. That's kind of not the opposite of,

I mean, that is the opposite of what you said. You said we can interrupt a lot, but, first, I want to, first before he ends the movie, I want to thank you for your service in watching this film in your off time, your non-flop time. Yeah, yeah, I was just a civilian watching this movie guys. If there's a crime being committed, I couldn't be like, stop. I'm an official podcaster.

No, this is the articles that say like an off-duty podcaster watched a bad movie the other day. Mm-hmm. I'm like, just, you know, just doing my citizens job, ma'am and fellows. Okay, so the movie in question is a movie called Rusty a Dog's tail from 1998 I'm guessing we missed it because it came out in 1998

Yes, if we had been doing the podcast 21 years ago or 22 years ago, I guess perhaps we would have now What kind of punctuation is used in this title? There's only one colon and it's at the end of Rusty just like Rusty the dog. Rusty Colin, a dog's Colin tail. Now usually there is a colon near the tail though. Now Stu you've already fallen into my first crap. I've read there's probably an apostrophe in dogs right? And that counts as punctuation. It does count. Yep. Oh, you got me. So, yeah, I guess kids are at a way. So that's one point on the board for me. Ding! Okay.

We'll tell you those up at the end of the game. Still unclear about the point system, but I'll continue to play. Now, I actually watched his movie twice. The first time I watched recently, God damn it. The first time I watched it recently on a Twitch stream with my with friend of a podcast Alex Smith for his Twitch show Big Howl and Possum. But let's just get right into this movie. Now normally you would look at a movie with just a single written IMDB review that is 10 out of 10 featured plenty of animals and family too.

10 out of 10, you're like, that's probably a good movie. And yes, right off the bat, I'm gonna have to explain. I mean, that would count as 100% of rotten tomatoes, right? That's 100%. That's one review for 10 out of 10, that's 100%. I mean, Dan, you're the expert, but that's sort of fried fresh, right? Sort of fried fresh.

It's sort of fried green tomatoes right? Sort of fried fresh. It's sort of fried green tomatoes. I was thinking about fried green tomatoes. Yeah, you took a, you took a, you took a, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you explain that the first thing you have to understand is that this is a talking animal movie. All the animals in this movie have their mouths digitally manipulated or possibly they could be very talented dog actors. Okay, so what's the quality of this? Is this like, you know, your high quality babe manipulation? So is this a talking cat sort of like the mouth opens and you're

into a black void kind of look? Oh, that's a tough one. I would say it's probably in the middle. Because it doesn't look like somebody just like cut a triangle out of the film. Yeah, it looks like the animals are trying like cut a triangle out of the film. Yeah, it is. It's a similar amount. Does it look like the animals are trying to get peanut butter off of their teeth, or does it look like they are they making the shapes of syllable sounds with their mouth? They they are shaping some syllables with their mouth. It depends on the animal, of course, like the raccoon it looks like his tongue is going

all over the place. It's very dirty. Now the other thing you have to understand is that this movie has an all-star cast. That's right. How Holbrook, Rue McClanahan, Lorraine Newman, Charles Fleischer. That is Roger Fuckin-Rabbit. Rodney Dangerfield, Dogney Rogerfield himself. Bob Cadillac, also an animal. That's not even a dog version of his name. So hold on, there's already a perfectly good dog version of Rodney Dangerfield's name.

What is it called? It's not. It's not a dogney Rogerdog. It's not Rodney Rogerdog. It's not Rodney Rogerdog. You think they didn't say Rover dogney fell because it sounded too much like Karl Lager fell guys. I think that's why.

Yeah. Yeah, it's probably why I assume that's probably why and they didn't want to get the wrong audience. I mean, the only other thing I can imagine is that Rodney Dangerfield had such a low name recognition among children already that they didn't want me to even harder for people to understand who this is supposed to be. Coppallique the pun. And at this point, you're probably like, that's all the stars as movie could possibly have.

And you're totally wrong at this point because Patrick Duffy's in it. So what's the summer's? Duggy Duggy. It's a step by step reunion. Yeah. And they play a married couple. Now granted, they are a married couple of dogs, but still. And in a strange twist, Bobcat Goldthwaite does not play a Bobcat.

Nope, he does the voice for a jet the turtle. And also, You mentioned Dougie Doug. Does Dougie Doug do the voice of a dog? Nope, he does turbo the turtle. Wait, who does? Dougie Doug. Oh, so human bobcat are both turtles. Yeah, they're a pair of turtles.

They're kind of like the Greek chorus of the movie. And and in a credited performance, Vincent Chavelli is in this movie as well. Yeah, you know, okay, so to get moved things himself. Okay, so to get move things himself Exactly, Dan So Not your other Vincent Chavelli This point you're like, okay, so the players are all assembled Give me a settings to Okay, so this movie takes place in and around a ranch owned by the Calla hands and elderly couple

Of course, how old Rick and Ruma Kleinhan and maintained by them and their grandchildren a pair of orphans jory and test in california florida arizona one of those things could be one of those florida ranches yet yeah now the movie takes place over a couple of your city could be a last uh... i mean i mean based on based on uh... based on the mountains in the background, it's probably not New York City. No, I'm going to be wanting to see. New York does have mountains in the background.

Example A, rumbling the Bronx. Yep, you have to keep bringing that up. I don't know why I agreed to it. Agreed to it the first time. And now you always have that in your back pocket. So the movie takes place over a couple of days. The movie begins on Joris birthday, yep, one of the orphans.

Now, conflict is introduced, that's right, when Bart and Bertha, a old friend conflict, it rears his head in the straw. Bart and Bertha are trying to run a scheme, they're related in some way to Jorian tests, where they, now who plays Bart and Bertha? That's Charles Fleischer and Lorraine Newman. Oh, okay, great.

So they're kind of wacky. They are as wacky as so they are played like as if the Disney channel was trying to make a remake of the movie Blood Simple but using the cast crew and production value and locations of Disney's Haydude television show. It was Haydude, a Disney show that was on Nickelodeon. It was Nickelodeon, it all blends together now. Stewart, I think that goes near to the top of my list of explanations that just made me more confused. I mean, this is where you and I part ways Dan, because it could not be clear.

It's okay. Yeah. So Barton Berther trying to run a scheme, you know, that's what they do, where they can find a way to adopt these two orphans because the orphans have trust funds, and they're expecting some big inheritance. And while Boyd and Edna, that is the canola hands, and they're expecting some big inheritance. And while boy and Edna, that is the canola hands, they might lose their ranch if they can't make their monthly bank payment at the end of the month. Okay, so we have a ticking clock here. Mm-hmm, sure.

The orphans are being fostered, or these are their grandparents? It's their grandparents. Okay. And they're somehow related to a Barton birth. I think they mentioned that they're cousins at one point, and then they give them $10 to leave. And are Barton birth a, are they a couple?

Are they married or they? I'm assuming there's a chance that they're like brother and sister or something. There's at no point do they express any kind of romantic interest to each other, so I don't know. But they could also have been together for a long time and after a while you know romantic interest can kind of like wane a little bit. Oh yeah those embers cool but it's a different instead of the heat of passion it's the warmth of affection. Yeah that like it's the warmth of like a homely hearth.

A homely hearth? Red of it? Like an amazing bond part? Yeah an unattractive heart. Yeah. As opposed to one of those outside the home hearths that's just like, tempting you, you know. So let's introduce ourselves to the animals now. The, their ranch is filled with all your typical farm animals.

You have, our hero is Rusty the Dog. He's a little beagle and he has, he lives in the barn with his mother and father and their litter of puppies. There's chickens, there's these two turtles that I mentioned before, there's a pair of ducks who are always fighting over who gets to sit on an egg, and then your classic farm animal and elephant. Now, hold on. Just a clarity for the egg thing. Are they fighting? That's what you want clarity about, Dan? Is it a fight that they want to sit on the egg or they're trying to get the other person to sit on the egg? They each want to sit on the egg.

It's, I think to each of them, the egg is both a status symbol and it's a last final thing that they can grasp onto is some kind of connection to their, maybe they're, because I don't know. Because this says something about my fitness to be a parent of any kind, but I would be our teacher to not sit on the egg. That would be my position. Please don't make me sit on the egg. There's feed and bread that I want to go eat elsewhere.

Well, I have two, I have two possible explanations to this one. This is a classic King Solomon's duck scenario in which both ducks are claiming the same egg and the only way to prove who's the real parent is to threaten to cut the egg in two and scramble that yolk. Number two, now I don't know if there are any specifically anal orogenous zones for a duck, but perhaps sitting on the egg provides a sort of pleasurable pressure in areas that ducks like to have touched. I don't know, I have not experimented that much

with the back sides of ducks, maybe in the future. Yeah, that's The part that Dan... I think that's covered in an article in Play Duck magazine probably. Yeah, yeah, well of course. Well, I mean, in Duck World, it's just taken for granted that that's where you would be attracted. Yeah. Now, if I can ask the question that I thought Dan was going to ask, why do they have an elephant

on their farm? Okay. It's never explained, although later on the elephant Ellie, who can talk, plays baseball with the kids. And who does the voice of the elephant? Jane Singer, who also did the voice for Koo The Pigeon? No kidding. Okay, so the only animals, once again I mentioned

the animals talk all of them talk. Okay, so Jane or appears to say mostly a voice actor a number of different video games yeah on her iDb i will say if if you know a fish and others of animal voice over if you are wondering whether frank welker is in this movie he is in this movie as boss oh he's the boss duck. Oh good.

Oh, he's the boss duck. Okay. So this is a Frank Walker joint. Something I want to point out about Jane Singer's IMDB is that her most recent credit is from a video game call or perhaps a cartoon, a cartoon called Marvel superhero adventures Frost Fight in which she voices Mrs. Clause. Now as far as I knew Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus were not officially part of the Marvel Universe canon, but apparently they are here. So I guess look forward to a new Santa Claus comic from Marvel.

Uh, yeah, Dan, do you have any opinions on the whether or not Santa Claus is part of the Marvel Universe? Well, I do think that, I mean, I believe that I've seen him in Marvel comics before. It's, I mean, not that, I mean, usually though, it's like the Rhino dressed up for a heist. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what it is. It's mastermind. What if stories or like outside of canon or whatever, but I'm pretty sure I've seen at least

a story where some hero helps save Christmas and then Well, is he great if there's a what if issue that was what if Santa Claus was real and the watcher just opens up and it's like look everybody Sometimes I get lazy Because because Santa Claus I'll just say Santa Claus does have amazing powers. He can squeeze through any small opening He can travel at close to light speed He's like the silver surfer that way because he goes around the whole earth living presence on one day and He's an anti-Semite which is a powerful Right, right. He did he dislikes all he does likes all non-Christians

Now if you're wondering yes this movie is absolutely brick walled with constant singing scat goofy music farts etcetera uh... if you are ever bored for a moment you will not be bored in a second later because there will be a new song or a new person talking is an animal uh... i'm just gonna say with that many animals on set, I would expect a lot of scat.

Yeah, okay. Yeah. So. So after a perfunctory birthday party, we, the kids go to the fair where Bart and birth are dressed as clowns and they attempt a minor crime of taking a wallet they just find. And that crime is foiled by Rusty and that causes mild havoc at the fair and Barton Bertha lose their job. Putting them in a kind of deathspir position where they don't have enough money to buy

lunch. So of course they come up with a new scheme where they are approached by a wealthy man and they decide they're going to steal some puppies to sell. Now while the kids are playing baseball with the elephant, Barton Bertha then sneak onto the ranch and steal the puppies in order to cut off the old people's source of ink. Oh no, wait guys, if I want to issue a late correction for something I said earlier, I got the voice, I got Charles

Fleischer, the voice Roger Rabbit mixed up with John Casseer, the voice of the cryptkeeper. I think I, I think I credit him as the cryptkeeper earlier that I just got them mixed up. Yeah. Everybody, if you, if you were writing your angry letters, find something else to write it about. But I've also made this. Organizing some pun-based correction. I don't know why for some reason they're associated. I mean, the voices are a little similar in some ways.

Charles Fischer was in an episode of Tales from the Crypt and one of the movies. Maybe that's where the confusion comes from. Okay, so Stuart, long story short, they're, everyone's in trouble, right? Yeah, so they steal these puppies, they of course take the littlest puppy and just leave it in the middle of a field to die.

It's very strange. Rusty then goes on a quest to save his brothers and sisters, and along the way he meets some new animal friends, he saves his little sister from an alligator, he has a dream journey where he remembers his life from birth up through the events of the movie. He drinks some cow's milk. He hitches a ride from a cool beheaded skateboarding dog named Rebel before eventually just going home to get reinforcements. Any questions up to this point? So, okay. I think that was a pretty, I mean, you painted a real word for us. Yeah. Now, I mean, the basics of this movie are still confusing to me,

mostly because a combination of constant derailing by both of us and just my general lack of comprehension of things. Now, Bart and Bertha, they're animals. No, they're human beings. Dance, dance, dance. Is that it? There's sort of a truel of the film. There's two. Dan, Dan, Dan. Is that it? They're sort of the cruelest.

They're the two schemers of the film. I would describe them as desperate schemers. Okay. And so the major. They're perhaps and perhaps desperate dreamers. The major conflict is that the people who own the puppy farm are having their puppies stolen by these schemers? Yup, the schemers don't have money.

Is that what's happening? Uh huh, yep. And the old people don't have money either. It's a drug. Because they're about to lose their puppy farm. So Rusty, was he stolen and he's coming back like an incredible journey? No, Rusty is trying to rescue the puppies all on his own initially and then he realizes, you know

He's he is only a strong a single fist isn't strong enough, but many fists raise an anchor now that can do it So it's only animals together to save the puppies Remind me to talk to you guys about the director of this movie who are named to be Shuki Levy or Levy who is mostly a composer and composed among other things the theme songs for Inspector Gadget, He-Man, the 90s X-Man animated series, lots of things, and was a very, very big part of the Mighty More Empower Rangers. Yeah, because this is this is Saban Entertainment. Oh, okay, so he was a bigphan Power Rangers. Yeah, because this is Subon entertainment.

Oh, okay, so he was a big Subon entertainment guy. Yeah, so all the animals go to say the puppies. Now at this point, you're probably saying there's a lot of animal action. What are the humans up to? And I'm gonna tell you, not much. The kids are occasionally like talking about how they, like why do Bart and Bertha want them to be adopted?

What it's like to be an orphan, etc. like wire animals great. So Barton Bertha leave their very overly decorated shack to sell one of the puppies. The animals arrive and the elephant destroys their home. Barton Bertha are on the run from the last pup and all the animals team up using their unique talents whether it's being scary looking or being able to shit on a fan and and up and it and have it try to find out a clean list of the ability that any animal would have like I don't feel like that's a targeting building. Okay, I mean, Stuart, I could shit on a van if that's what you do. Yeah? Yeah, I think it's time for you to put some money where you're about to go in.

I'm not sure it didn't happen, Dan. I'm gonna need pictures or video of this. Yeah. So which? That's what your TikTok account is all based on, right? When you realize you can do those synchronized dances, you're just taking shit. But set to huge hit tunes.

Yeah. All right. No one wants to hear that. But who's, who's powers, who's, which, what are the animals, which animals have different talents? Well, the, the, the, like what are the turtles do?

The turtles mainly spend the movie trying to travel from one area to the next area, but every, like the action passes them by and then they have to turn around and make it slow. Yeah. Okay. So what's the elephant's talent? Is that the shitting one?

Well, no, the elephant destroys their home and then chases their VW bus or VW van around the raccoon jumps on to ratchet the raccoon jumps and scares them Uh, the snake whose name I forget who was constantly talking about wanting to bite humans It's an albino boa constrictor, dude. It's a beautiful creature and that's not even a biting snake though Yeah, no, I mean they bite. Yeah, it's not a venomous snake, but I mean it bites at some point It has a latch on before wrapping its coils around you. I mean, maybe love bites, maybe like in the throws of passion. Yep. So, of course, at this point, the animals team up, they destroy the Barton

Bertha's last remaining possession, their fan, and they save the little puppy Barton Bertha, go to jail, the puppy gets sold, everybody's happy, the end. So guys, here's the all important question. You have to decide, are you glad we missed it? Sad we missed it. Or what was the third one? Or had to un-miss it. Yeah, had to un-miss it.

Yeah, got to un-miss it. Are you sad to miss it? Glad you missed it or got to un-miss it. So do I have a it? Glad you missed it or gotta un-miss it. So, I have a question for you. I think I have more into our sort of vibe as a podcast, at least lack of consistency. No, Stuart, are there any sequences or scenes

that really stick out to you as being particularly memorable? Because I feel like any movie, no matter how great, could be described in a way where you don't wanna see it. Like for instance, a movie like, what's the greatest movie you can think of? The Abyss. Exactly. The Abyss.

Yeah, the Abyss, yeah. And so it's like, oh, they're underwater and there's like a big water snake and it has a face at the end of it and everyone's like, oh, we're underwater, what's going on? Like that doesn't make me wanna see the Abyss. But okay oh, we're underwater, what's going on? Like, that doesn't make me want to see the abyss. But, okay, so you're saying, you're giving me one final chance

to kind of sell this movie to you. Yeah, okay, I'm in the, okay, let's play Roll Play. We're in the video store. It's 1998. You are working at the video store and the girl of your dreams, because you're a teenager. The girl of your dreams is going to give you a big kiss, a big smacker, and you're on the lips. It's 1998, right? So that would be like Kathy Ireland or something?

Yeah, Kathy Ireland is going to give you a big smacker on if you can convince me to rent rusty a dog's tail. You can't lie to me. You can't tell me there's not true about it. Yeah, so what's your star of necessary roughness might give me a smoocheroony. Let's just on star of necessary roughness might give me a smoochiroonie. So let's see if I call it a star. I just got back. It was more of a horse in bad like those are kind of the bigger marquee names. I don't necessarily. Roughness.

I don't know. I mean that went football with the football with the horns and the hat and the sunglasses. It's not even a character in the movie. I mean, that's the most disappointing thing about the movie is that that guy never shows up, which is too bad because he's got star part written off breakout character written all over him. Like him and Spud's Mackenzie. That was the... You're certainly speaking to the person who was the...

When he would... When I was a kid growing up every time I'd watched the Super Bowl, I was most excited for the animation of the buddha bowl. But you know, between that movie and major league, it was a real renaissance for sort of B minus level. Bragg tag, Bragg tag, loser sports comedy. I feel like major league is at least one step above. No, I know, I was just happy.

I was averaging the scores out. I thought you were saying it was a golden time for sports ball-related mascots that aren't actually in the movie Cuz major league has that baseball at the sunglasses in the mohawk, right? Wait, he wasn't in the movie No, I mean he's sort of a Charlie sheen avatar that ball, but now I'm not the same damn that poster promised me a talking baseball that was super cool And had read attitude. Yeah, you're hoping that when he was when Charlie she got up on the mound of pitch that like the ball would appear Over his shoulder like his persona or his stand Yeah, exactly and it would like you would be on his shoulder like a like a little helper that's like yeah Throw a fastball now chast but uh or like a why wasn't there a hockey movie where there's like a puck that had like a little helper that's like, yeah, throw a fastball now, chas. But, or like a, why wasn't there a hockey movie

where there's like a puck that had like a Hawaiian shirt and like a pukachel necklace? Why wasn't there a basketball movie? I mean, that's because, slapchat had already been made, right? Yeah, right. And you can't do another hockey movie, Mighty Ducks D2, D3 Stewart, you're roasted.

So, what about one more time? Or the sequel? Yeah, it's like, or, yeah to slap in it or what if it there was one where there was like a golf ball with like bifocals and dentures or one where there's like a basketball and the basketball has like a pith helmet and also a welder's mask because it doesn't really know what it's thing is yet yeah yeah no I like. It's also very hard to tell to basketball behind that welder's mask. So, okay, Kathy Ireland, she's like, she's like, yeah, back in the video store, okay. I want to kiss you, but I can only do it if you can convince this guy to torment Rusty, a dog's damn what part of the movie do you talk about that really like brings it home?

My magnetized name tag is slightly a skew. My family video polo just doesn't fit right. And my pitch is this. There is a scene in the movie where Bert is talking to a guy in a white suit and a white like Panama Jack hat. And the man's explaining how he would like to buy a puppy and Charles Tristan looks at him. Charles Fleischer, aka Bert, looks him dead and the ony goes puppies like baby dogs and the man says yes like baby dogs. That's and that at that point that's when you know it's the right movie for you. Oh no.

It's a funny joke. I don't know if that alone sells it to me. No, I think I'm, it's 1998, right? My hand is reaching towards that copy of Lawnmower, man. But Dan, what are you doing with me? My expectations are very low. My question is, how does the cast equit itself because you know it's a galaxy of stars as you said and I say that only semi-ironically because the while none of these are huge names let's say I look down the list and there's no one I am unhappy to see like the closest it comes to that is I have no particular feelings about Patrick Duffy one way or another

But how does the cast acquitted self in this film? I mean I want to and after you answer that Stuart I have a reput I've a rebuttal to something that Dan just said Okay, is a Patrick Duffy related? No, it is it's saying that there are no big stars in the cast. A cast that includes Ruma clan of hand, a golden girl, but Stuart continue. So I was going to say all the human actors do a very good job, but I would say some of the animal actors leave a little bit to be desired.

I'm looking at you, Rusty the dog. Yeah. However, I would take a bullet for rebel the dog who wears a hat and rides around an escape order Wait, who did the rusty voice Is it just a dog? Lawrence who's that? I don't know He is the youngest. Oh, he's the middle brother of Joey Lawrence. So Joey Lawrence is the oldest

of uh... joe lorrence so joe lorances the oh maculans is the middle missus doubt fire looks like he was on boy meets world play the part of billy in the hot chick was of course in the show brotherly love because that was the show with all the lorans brothers

yeah right alright so you guys have asked me a lot of questions let me ask you are you glad we missed it? Sad we missed it? Or had to not miss it, I'm watching it now. You know, I'm gonna say, I can't go so far as to say that I'm gonna go run out and watch Rusty Adog's tail now. But I will say that you had a lot more joy and

verb recounting this to me than I feel from a lot of flopp house movies that we watch. So I'm going to say that I'm sorry, I'm sad we missed it. I guess. Goal correct. We got to sad we miss it. Elliot. I'm going to say to be honest, a glad we missed it. But I Because it's not like I regret not watching it, and I don't have to watch it. I'm not gonna go watch it. I don't have to un-miss it.

I don't know, you have kids, and they probably like looking at animals do stuff. They do like Lee and Amos. I mean, we did recently watch Babe with my two children, and the younger one, especially just liked pointing out which animals were on screen as they appeared on screen. Just going, whoops. Pig, sheep, horse.

That child would have a field day with Rusty Colin, a dog's tail. I can also get the same effect from just looking at a book of animal fixtures with him is the thing. So do the fixtures sing, Elliot? No, it's a good point. I think Stuart, I think I'm so glad that you told us about this movie. I appreciate you're watching it. I think I enjoyed hearing about it more than watching it. So I'm gonna have to tell you, I'm sorry, but you will not be receiving the

kiss from Kathy Ireland this time. Okay. This has been the floppest Presents, missed that movie. I have been Stuart Wellington. Oh, okay. This has been the flop as presents missed that movie. I have been Stewart Wellington. I've been Dan McCoy. I'm Elliot Kaelin. I can't wait till the next Stewart report. Dan, are you going to take on any missed that movie report?

It's a great deal. Dan has to do the next one. I, you know what, Stewart, you know, I don't know whether we're off air or still being taped or broadcast out to the world, but I love this new format. I would have so much fun doing a report for you too. Yeah, yeah, that's the plan. That'd be great. Hey Jordan, can you cut that moment

of genuine joy from Dan? Ha ha ha. from Dan. Video games. Video games. You like them? Maybe you wish you had more time for them? Maybe you want to know the best ones to play? Maybe you want to know what happens to Mario when he dies? In that case, you should check out TripleClick.

It's a brand new podcast about video games. A podcast about video games, but I don't have time for that. Sure you do. Once a week, kick back as three video game experts give you everything from critical takes on the hottest new releases. To scoops, interviews, and explanations about how video games work. To fascinating and sometimes weird stories about the games we love. TripleClick is hosted by me, Kirk Hamilton, me Jason Shire, and me, Maddie Myers.

You can find Triple Click wherever you get your podcasts and listen at MaximumFun.org. Bye! Max Fun is running a survey to help figure out what advertisers might be a good fit for the show's audiences. We are still primarily audience supported, which will always be the case, but advertising is a helpful source of income to both our podcasts and the network as a whole, especially now in a more uncertain time. The results of the survey will help us talk to new advertisers, convince them, hey, maybe

you want to put your ads on Max Fun shows. It's a short survey. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes, and you will get a discount at the Max Fun store if you fill it out in addition to our gratitude. So you can go to maximumfund.org slash add survey, all one word, add survey to fill that out. fun.org slash add survey, all one word add survey to fill that out.