The Rewatchables - ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

There's going to be sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, chips, dips, chains, whips … your basic Rewatchables episode. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt revisit John Hughes’s 1985 hit ‘Weird Science,’ starring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the Personal Price Plan®. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there®. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You can find him on ESPN platforms popping up from time to time. I saw him on SportsCenter a few weeks ago doing his, it's like you're doing bits. You did this for Van Pelt. You did this Aaron Rogers as a mid-40s guy, how you kind of appreciate as a fellow mid-40s guy, like to watch him just get exasperated by people. I really enjoyed that.

Dude, Rogers has completely stopped. caring. He's always been mad at his teammates. Now he just screams at him on the field. It doesn't even matter. He's like, what the hell? I've always been this way. Now I'm just going to be me, buddy. You just see him walking down in the driveway, getting his mail in the Tony Soprano bathroom, just yelling at, yelling at the leaf blower guy next door. Anyway, we are going to do a movie that Kyle Brand has been suggesting ever since he started popping on the rewatchables, which I think was about five years ago. It's weird science. This movie is bonkers, and it's next. This episode is presented by PayPal.

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See PayPal.com slash promo terms. Subject to approval. Learn more at PayPal.com. slash paying for PayPal Inc. NMLS 910-457. All right, Kyle Brandt. Sheila Benson, reviewing this for the Los Angeles Times, who in the same review described Kelly LaBrocka as triumphant, which I'd like to agree with. And the film's greatest asset, I would also agree with that.

She thought the film's appeal was limited to audiences of 15-year-old boys and, quote, maybe the 16-year-olds if they aren't yet too fussy. And I mentioned this because I was 15 years old when I saw this movie in the theater. I was the target audience. And I loved it. And I've seen it many times since. And I appreciate that they made it. It's also insane in 2025 to watch this.

And yet, is this a movie that makes more sense in 1985 or 2025 to you? You're stewed, but what? I think it made perfect sense for me in 85. Bill, I think I saw it when I was maybe eight. And I was like, holy shit, this is awesome. The computers and the girl and the cars and high school. I can't wait to get to high school. I think in 85 it was like, okay, this is probably John Hughes' least serious movie.

Probably his least respected 80s movie. But in 85, it fit right in because the stuff I already said. Beautiful woman, horny dudes, cool, fast car. So many bullies, just bullies on bullies. And now as we watch it, it's like, I know we're going to get to all this. All time, all time Bill Paxton, really fun young Downey to look back at and showing up like in weird places. And I still think it's a fun watch, but it's a really weird one now. I would go more toward super fun watch with some weird elements that I just think you have to factor in with the 80s.

But I had this list of semi-deranged 1985 teen movies. Oh, come on. For some reason, it's specific for 1985. Because I think we'd had some teen movies for a couple years. And then people were like, what if we just start getting a little weird? Let's push it. Yeah. So weird science made by John Hughes, who we're going to talk about, who had made 16 candles.

He made Breakfast Club. He's made a million things. But this is probably the weirdest of all the 80s movies he's made. So there's that one. There's Better Off Dead. made by Savage Steve Holland, which is almost like parodying the teen movie

as they're making a teen movie. There's Teen Wolf, which we've already done in the rewatch. My first rewatchable. There's just one of the guys, which we haven't done yet, but it's on the list. There's legend of Billy Jean,

which we just did. There's Secret Admira, which is a combination teen movie, but it's also like the Ice Storm. It's like multiple couples having, like, marital issues, and it just doesn't know what's happening. Vision Quest.

about the horny wrestler who has the hot 22-year-old move in. And then mischief, which goes back to the 50s, but is basically the same premise of kid trying to get laid. Kelly Preston's there. There's some James Dean type guy. So I just listed eight movies where they were like, let's get weird. There are probably more than that.

And then after that, we start moving into some different era. We start getting into Lucas. and, you know, I don't know, it just shifts after this year. Does that make sense? It does make sense. And I think there's a cross-section that I have. I have my own list that really in the diagram with yours is perfect for weird science. Like, you mentioned the Linda Fiorentino character at Vision Quest, right?

So in the 80s, right now at this point, there is a run on mystical, almost magical, beautiful women showing up in movies. and women were getting glamorized so differently then because of MTV and all of the media right now. But just think about this. So before Weird Science, we have Splash where there's this beautiful mermaid that comes out of the water and loves Tom Hanks. All right? You have vacation where like the dorky dads driving cross country and oh my God, in a red Ferrari, there's the hottest woman of all time just keeps appearing magically next to me.

A couple of years after this, Bill, if you want to talk about how weird it gets, then we're going to mannequin. where now we're like, Andrew McCarthy's fall in love with a mannequin in an apartment store, like these magical women who are almost science fiction, but are so beautiful, come and find the dorky guy. And weird science was right in the middle of that. It's probably the most well-known one in that regard. And you left out Camp Imi Love,

which is another version of this where the guys like, what if I used all my lawnmower money for a couple years and bought a fake girlfriend for a couple months? But the premise over and over again in the 80s, was just guys trying to get laid. And there's all these different eras for it that are trapped from like 80 to 83, 82 to 85.

A big part of this was the high school kids trying to get laid. And it's interesting watching this movie now and seeing all the stuff that spilled into movies from the 2000s. I feel like I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad. But I think you could make a case

that's weird science. Agreed. Yeah. And it's the big, big party scene. Jonah Hill's character is very similar to the Anthony Michael Hall character. I actually feel like it's almost like it's his son. Bill, you're 100% spot on. And I also thought the same thing.

This movie ends almost the same way Superbad ends with the two guys separately going with these girls that they like. And then reconvening at the end and it being more about their relationship as much as it is their relationship with the girls. You have a crazy party in Superbad. you have an important mall scene in Superbad you have these guys just completely fucking it up with girls they like it's like the two and two there's an immediate match

you know what the match is and so I never really and I've seen this weird sign so many times but I hadn't seen it probably in like five six years and that super bad thing jumped out to me and you have in Superbad like really funny side characters like Rogan and Hader who are showing up and just like killing scenes

and that's Paxton here that's Downey, that's everybody, that's John Capolos in one scene, like just people showing up. It's also, dude, like also a Super Bad. I haven't watched this in a while, but I've watched it a hundred times. This movie is super quotable.

It was one of those things that I say so many of these things that these characters say. Like, to this day, if my friend hands me a beer, I'll be like, do you spit in this? You know, like just all the dumb Chet lines. I say all that shit, just like in Super Bad.

Yeah, we had, this is a big quote movie for me and my high school friends. Definitely. And then two of them went on to go to Colgate. So I've been in the fantasy football league with all these guys since 1990. And I told them we were doing this. And it just immediately like quotes started flying around. The one that for some reason we did the most, my buddy Jim Grady.

What is it? It's Gary's dad when it was the who's Gary? Who's this Gary character you keep talking? We did that for 12 years. Anytime one of our friends started dating a girl. and like kind of disappeared for a couple weeks. We'd be like, who's, who's camp? Who's this camp character you keep talking about?

I don't know why, but Gary's dad was like the legacy of this movie for us. We fucking loved him. My friends and I quote Gary's dad too, but we quote whenever we're going to a party, we call it a sui and we go, swar what, what? I constantly, to this day, I'll say swar what. The guy was amazing. All right, I have some questions before we get to John Hughes. Sure.

Do you normally have put these improbly to answerable questions, but I think we have to get into this now because the premise of this movie is these guys create their dream girl from a computer. Sure. Feeding magazine pictures into it and there's some Frankenstein elements. Yeah. There's some lightning and some things that just made more sense in the 80s than they do now. Were these the first two hackers? Or would you say in a movie or would you go back to war games? Do you count Matthew Broderick's character in war games as a hacker?

or would you say these two are the real hackers? And did we have a hacker before this? I was thinking about this. I couldn't really come up with one. It's in the details. Like, Wyatt and Gary full up set out to hack. Like, they're going on the computer to hack, and they're trying to hack into some sort of military thing

that I don't understand. I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games. But they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile. Like, that's just how it, because everything came up nukes in the 80s. It just did. All roads led to nukes in 80s movies. You had to. There was this stretch from, I would say, 80 to 87 in movies where I would have believed anything

that involved the computer because they didn't understand it. Right. So it's like, could Matthew Browder play chess with the computer? Sure. I don't. I mean, we had a, I had like one of the earliest apples that I really only used to play for video games. Yeah.

Like we had it. is somebody got it for, I don't even think it was for me. I think my stepdad just got one. We had it and I would just go and play like four or five different games, including Dr. J versus Larry Bird. So when I would see a movie like this, I was like, could I do stuff like this on my computer? But I don't even, we didn't even have like an internet.

Like I don't even know how they were able to go from that computer into anything. I don't either. And we, isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do. That was years later, and we still didn't know what they were capable of. But I think, like,

I think when Wyatt and Gary start hacking in the computer and it gets super cheesy and everything, I bet in the theater in 1985, people were fucking screaming. Like, oh, my God, they're in a tunnel. And it says access denied, and then Wyatt makes it go away, and it makes a bowling ball sound. Holy shit.

That was, like, the beach scene in Private Ryan. They could not fucking blow it. leave what they were watching. I think it was crazy. Well, that's why I asked you before about 85 versus 25. 85. Because now you could make a version of weird science about AI, which none of us understand

either. And I feel like I would believe that too. It's like these guys created a girlfriend at AI. It's like, sure. It sounds like something they have an AI family. Yeah. It's going to be weird intelligence and Gary and Wyatt and Wyatt make a hot woman out of AI.

That's coming. It's here. Yeah. All right, so that was my first question. The next one is, and we've talked about this in the past, like pump up the volume, clearly created podcasts. There's been a few of these. Did this movie create Alexa AI and ChatGBT, BT? Because initially they wanted, they're feeding computer. They're trying to just get answers,

which I'd never really seen a computer do before. But when you think about it, they're basically creating Amazon, Alexa coming to life that could also have sex with them was the goal. But that's Amazon Alexa. No, I think that White and Gary are trying to give Siri huge cans. That's the idea. Another one.

Yeah. Siri with big cans. Yes. I think they're ahead of it. I think they're way ahead of it. And also, by the way, listen, they make her unbelievably intelligent, all knowing Albert Einstein's brains, David Lee Roth's flamboyance, all of that stuff. So I do think that like Amazon and Alexa and Siri stand on the shoulders of Lisa.

I do. Well, I wonder whoever created Siri was if they were inspired by weird science. Like, Wyatt and Gary were on something. People just want answers. It's that. And then it's also like, I think we've talked about it. Like the movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix is an all-time. All fucking timer.

He has sex with the beach because he thinks it's Scarlett Johansson. Like that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing. There's always been like, I want to make a fake hot woman because I can't meet a real one. And they don't want to talk to me. And it's like, that was even into the 90s. That, you know, that song Creep by Radiohead. That's just about like a guy who like the hot girls won't talk to him and he's miserable. That's really, they was in the 80s.

It's timeless. No one will talk to me. So I should make someone and then they'll talk to me. Yeah, but this makes more sense. I mean, Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness and, you know, people who just, just easier not to even have relationships with anybody and just do everything through the computer, basically. And that's kind of how you interact, which is what made it.

That's why I asked before about 85 versus 25, like, these kids, ultimately, they're doing this because they can't meet anybody. And when we made these movies in the 80s, it was like, oh, but they will because, you know, this is, it'll all work out for them. I know. But now these kids probably don't leave the house. No, they don't. And I think when Gary's like, Wyatt, let's make a woman on your computer. Wyatt would be like, let's just go to Pornhub. They'll take two seconds.

We can see anything we want. And they just click on that. It's done. They would just watch porn now. See, John Hughes saw it all coming. Damn right. John Hughes, we always do this. I have to just give his 83 to 90 run really quickly.

Mr. Mom wrote it. Vacation wrote it. 16 candles breakfast club. European vacation wrote that. Weird science, pretty and pink. Ferris Buehers, some kind of wonderful planes, trains and automobiles.

She's having a baby, the great outdoors, Uncle Buck, and then wrote Christmas vacation and wrote Home Alone. And it was in eight years. And it's, I wrote that on my note, it's here. Hughes and Taylor Sheridan are the two greatest creative forces we've ever had. They're the two people that you could be like, is the limitless drug real?

Yes. Did these guys take the limitless drug? Did they find it? Did somebody give it to them? Because there's no other explanation. Also, the weird science to me feels heat checky for Hughes, too. Like he has already done pretty impank. He has already done Breakfast Club.

He does this movie right after Breakfast Club. they came out the same year about eight months apart. And the story goes that he's like on set in the Breakfast Club. And he loves Anthony Michael Hall. He wants to make every movie with him. And he's like, I got our next movie. We're going to make a woman and you're going to be in it. And Anthony Michael is like, sure, let's go for it.

And he makes the heat check. That's the thing. Like this movie's still being talked about 40 years later. And it's all so cool because you would get this especially if you were in high school. Like it's the Hughesverse. It's all in the same town. And if people seem kind of related, and if you're a huge Hugheshead like me,

when you watch Weird Science, there's even parts of dialogue, like, Wyatt or Gary talks about his girlfriend in Canada. Like, that's a thing directly from Breakfast Club. Right. He makes a joke about Lisa could have fun in an insurance seminar. Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and planes trains and automobiles.

Like, there's a lot of crossover, and if you're a nerd for it, you just immediately perk up. Yeah, she's in the Niagara Falls area. You wouldn't know her. You wouldn't know. I met her in Canada. Same thing in this movie.

Same joke. Another joke that's gone on for 40 years. I didn't always forget that Hughes really saw Anthony Michael Hollis's proxy. He's always playing Hughes in every film. And Hughes obviously had a lot of pent-up stuff when he was in high school, which Roger Ebert in his review, which I'll give you the stars later. But he wrote that Hall was the geek in 16 Candles and the Intellectual and Breakfast Club. and I like John Hughes's definition of a geek.

So he quotes John Hughes. I couldn't find this. Ebert was the only one that said John Hughes said this. A geek is the guy, a geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. By contrast, a nerd will be a nerd all of his life.

Yes. I thought that was such a great way to put it. That's poetic. Geeks, geeks can break out of it. Nerds can't. Yeah. But I don't feel like we use the word geek as much anymore.

We just use nerds. dorks. So maybe is dork now geek? I don't know. I remember it was very in vogue when it was the geek squad would like come to your house and set up your Wi-Fi or whatever. They branded that a little bit. But I always feel like it's at least now like nerds are really proud of being a nerds. I've called myself a nerd twice in this podcast. Like you're a nerd for Lord of the Rings. You're a nerd for Star Wars. It's actually really cool. But in the 80s, I'm not sure that it was. Yeah, we call it nerd culture at the ringer. So nerd became and geeks kind of bounced out. But, you know,

the Anthony Michael Hall character in this movie is a good example, right? He's, he clearly doesn't know how to make the meal yet. Yeah. But he has the tools and you know it's going to have, you know he's going to go to

college and he's going to blossom and it's all sitting there inside him. I'm not sure about, uh, I'm not sure about Wyatt. Why, yeah, that's tough. Yeah, I'm not sure what happens with Wyatt down the road. Well, my, one of my problems with the movie, as an adult now just watching it. I'm like,

Gary's really cool. What's going on here? Gary is charismatic, funny, confident. He's got the cool 80s haircut. Like, I know that he's the nerd and breakfast club and stuff

and pretty in pink, but like you tell me, Gary, Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me. Like, he's just like the guy that everyone would want to be around and he's kind of playing the nerd. It's a little bit of a tough sell

because he's just so charismatic. Well, it's funny because, so he does, Anthony McHawald does vacation, 16 candles, weird science and breakfast club all in a row. and basically in that order, except that they filmed weird science

and breakfast club next to each other. But he comes out of those four, and then they want him to be in pretty and pink, and they wanted him to be in Ferris Buehler. Because Hughes was just like, you're my guy. This is like, I'm Scorsese and you're De Niro, basically. And he turned down both roles. Now, I understand why he turned down Pretty and Pink,

because that was basically Hughes karaoke in a lot of ways. And this is Ducky. This is the John Pryor role. Right. But Ferris, I think, would have been a really good Anthony Michael Hall kind of move for him to kind of move away from the dork side, tap into the weird science, like, oh, you're secretly cool, but then actually really be the cool guy. And I think he should have done it. I think it's a big miss for him. He ended up going on S&L and he.

Or does he play Cameron? No, he would have been Ferris. Well, Ferris would kill then. Yeah, I mean, that's an all-time rule. But you know what? He's like, he does that thing you're saying where he's like, I've played the nerds so many times.

I got to start being cool. I got to do this. I got to be the jock. And then as you know, where this leads is, he becomes the jock in Johnny Be Good back with Downey. And like, dude,

I don't like that movie at all. I think it's boring and bad and I'm just not into it. Even though it's Young Uma Thurman. Yeah. She's just coming out of nowhere. And everybody's like, all right,

at least young Uma Thurman's in this and then everything that happened with her. There's another Anthony Michael Hall thing too. And I'm just going to give him an award early here. The Sasha Jenkins Award is a word for actor. I can't believe it didn't become a bigger star. So Stanley Kubrick for some reason loved John Hughes movies and loved Hall and Hughes in that connection and decided he wanted Anthony Michael Hall in full metal jacket and wanted him to be Joker. And they negotiated it.

I'm not kidding because I checked this out multiple different ways. They negotiated for over half a year. And then he ended up not doing it. And he went to Modeon. Now, on top of this, Anthony McHall joined the cast of S&L for season 11 with Downey. He had a drinking problem. Like, I think he basically became sober by the time he was 18. So he probably had some issues.

But, man, even if he just comes out of these four movies and does Ferris and then full metal jacket, is this like one of the biggest stars of the 80s? Yes. I think with his talent and that role in that director, I think he gets an Academy Award nomination for Full Metal Jacket, especially as Joker. I mean, that's a heavy,

heavy part. And then, dude, like his SNL thing is so strange and so intense. Like, first of all, youngest cast member ever, 17 years old they get cast than NSNL. 85 is known as like the weird season where...

Yeah. They just did a documentary about it, about how weird it was. Yeah. He went away, came back, and then he's like, I'm going to hire Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Downey Jr. Damon Wayans is showing up.

And then a year later, it's like they were all just gone. It's really, really a strangest season in this history. Craig, will you come into the Zoom for a second? Yo. As somebody who really grew up in the super bad Jonah Hill, that whole universe. What was the difference between Anthony Michael Hall and the mid-80s

and Jonah Hill in the late 2000s, that you could see? I think Jonah Hill had an anger to him. Anthony Michael Hall was sweet. And I think a lot of the guys who wanted to get laid in the later movies were angry. Jonah Hill was a yeller. You know, like that was what he was best at.

It was just cussing people out. Anthony Michael Hall, I think, had a sweetness to him that Jonah Hill didn't need. So who was his 2000s doppelganger? Is it more like in the Jason Siegel realm? Or it's Michael Sarah. Oh. He probably plays Michael Sarah in Superbad.

So he shows up in Running Man, I could never be and Johnny be good. Like, he doesn't have that edge to him. I think that the Jason Segal is interesting too. Like that's, it's maybe more like that. Yeah, Siegel's a good one too. Seagull's very nice. Like he's like one.

One of the things about the 80s is because we had less stuff going on, you really could get typecast in like a crazy way, right? So he's in these four Hughes movies. And at some point you're just like, oh, you're the dork. And that's what leads to the Johnny Be Good move where he's like, no, not only am I not a dork. I was on SNL. and now I'm playing a quarterback in a high school recruiting movie, which is terrible.

Well, and you see it a lot. I mean, a lot of these guys try to bust out of that typecast. Jonah Hill tried to do it himself where he was like, I'm going drama. I'm going to change the way I look. Like, he completely pivoted. So it happens. Yeah, he didn't want any part of that. And ironically, he did a couple really good things.

Like, one of my son's favorite movies is mid-90s. He loves that movie. And I think that's a really beloved movie that Jonah directed him wrote. Yeah, Moneyball, Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah. It worked out for him. But my point is, I think it should have worked out for Anthony Michael Hall. Yeah.

You got to get in that Kubrick movie, dude. You got to get in it. At that point, like, you can't be money, anything. Get in the movie. Take up any part in that movie. And you're set. Well, it seems like he had some hands-on child actor parents. Yeah, I bet.

That were like, he can't do Ferris. He can't do another Hughes movie. It's like, no, he should do Ferris. That movie's going to be a monster. I think it's an interesting choice for him after 16 Candles and Weird Science and Breakfast, club, all of those came out before he was on S&L, I believe, which started in the fall of 85.

Yeah. Don't you think that's kind of an odd move for somebody who's essentially like the rising movie star in Hollywood and he decides to go on Saturday Night Live? Yeah. Well, I think he was having issues as part of the problem. So, you know, who knows? And you take a job where you have to work on Saturday nights? I don't know.

And I don't think it worked out great for him or Doughty. Yeah. He's an interesting career choice. Honestly, if you, like, you know, one of the strangest thing? 85 this season, the opening sketch of the entire. season is Lauren Michaels giving the cast a drug test, like a wink, wink, wink, like we've had some problems and it was really frowned upon. And it's like erased from the internet. Now you can't find it anymore. Oh, really? Yes. Wow. Yeah, it's a tough. That whole, that whole season,

dude, they had simple minds play the first episode. They didn't play. Don't you forget about me. What are we doing here? That's the reason you're here. That's the hit song. Everything was kind of off. It's awful. It seemed like the show is going to get canceled after that season. All right, thanks, Craig. We're bringing you back for a flex. Kelly LeBron. her first three movies ever. This is her IMDB. Woman in Red with Gene Wilder, weird science and hard to kill,

which we've already done in the rewatchables. Married to our beloved Stephen Seagall, who's kind of our spirit animal, Kyle and I. She was married to Stephen Segal? Yeah. Kelly, come on, Craig. I don't think I knew that.

Buckle up, buddy. This changes everything. Buckle up, Craig. All right. So Bill, should we talk about it? Yeah, let's do it. it. Okay. So she does this movie. Takes a long break, Kelly LeBrock. Like, she doesn't do another movie for five years and it's, it's hard to kill. She meets Steven Seagall around 87 when he's

going from like stunt trainer right above. Earlier, 86. 86. All right. So he's going to do above the law. He's not a movie star yet. She meets them. They fall in love. Craig, they got kids together. They were married for over a decade. This was a bona fide, like, Hollywood power couple for over a decade. And she's like, I don't know, he was mystical and all-knowing and kind and I was just in a vulnerable place. And that's love. She's like, I saw him run and I knew once I saw I'm jogging. I heard he shit his pants on set. I have a theory actually that I'm trying to think about how did this movie doing weird science lead to her Mary and Steven Seagal? And my theory is that she has to play like a perfect person. And like that's, that's tough to get over.

So she's like, I think in my dating life, I'm going to meet someone who actually thinks they are a perfect person. And maybe they can identify with me. And then you met Steven. She's like, you're the guy I'm looking for. And that's how it worked. It's a great theory. I think there's a counter theory that she might have just had terrible taste in bed. Ah, that's strong.

That's strong. Clearly. She's like, she's talking to our friends. They're like, so who, who have you been hanging out with the last couple weeks? And she goes, well, there's this guy who teaches martial arts. for a couple CA agents that they're trying to turn into a movie star. He's got a ponytail. He's mystical.

And he's just an enormous asshole and I can't get enough of him. Well, don't go on a date with him to Runyon Canyon because he'll probably jog and then you'll throw up and leave. Don't do that. Don't watch him run. If you listen to this guy talk for 15 minutes, you'll hit your head against the wall. I can't get enough. So the two lost actresses of the 80s for falling in love were her and Phoebe Cates. Oh, yeah.

Because Phoebe Cates was on a run, met Kevin Klein, and was just like, hey, cool, I love Kevin Klein. I'm going to do a family. That's the happy version of this. This is the more depressing version where she ends up trying to raise a family of Seagal, only makes the one movie come back for Hard to Kill, which we've already done, which is one of the funniest action movies ever. And I don't know.

And there's a John Hughes documentary where she said in Weird Science, she plays Mary Poppins with breasts, which I thought was a good way to describe the character. It's she's the best part of the movie. It's actually a really cool character, and it's not what you think the character is going to be. She's created not to have sex with these dudes, but to actually make them better people.

And they kind of are better people by the end of this movie. Like, mission accomplished, I guess. I got some thoughts on that later. But she, Kelly LeBrock is good in this movie, up and including the final scene where she's full on tearing up and crying as she says goodbye to the boys.

It's her second movie ever. She's very, very talented. And I have to say, any interview I've ever seen with her, she seems like a really cool lady. Charismatic and witty. She bust balls. I like her. Yeah, like 10 years later, 11 years later,

she's probably the Elizabeth Hurley part in Austin Powers. Mm-hmm. And probably has this whole late 90s run. But anyway, this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein. you probably don't have that one. I do not. $7.5 million budget.

It made $38.9 million. Let's go. Partly because everybody who's in high school went to it, including me. Roger Ebert, three stars. Fuck yeah. Coming off a really tough Raj last week. Oh, for snake eyes? Yeah, they gave it the one star for snake guys.

It's tough. That's a spite reading. We worked it out with Rosh. He said, weird science combines two great traditions. in popular entertainment, inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster. Then it crosses them with a new myth,

that of the teenage computer geniuses who locked themselves in their bedrooms, hunch of their computer keyboards, and write programs that can change the universe. Raj. Yeah. I never met Roger Ebert, but I ventured to guess

there's a point of his life you wish she could have made a woman, and I get it, you know. I think you might have wanted that. No question. And he said Kelly Lubbock is wonderful as the fantasy woman. The film was fun.

or a little deeper than the predictable story, it might have been. So there you go. Okay. It's time to get into our favorite segment, the most rewatchable scene, which today is brought to you by PayPal. From now through December 8th,

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I love being in the gym. I love the geekdom. You know, the pants pull is coming. We get the proper. A lot of horniness and gyms in the 80s. I don't know if that's carried over. Now it's like a place you get a staff infection. Yeah.

Also, like that gym thing brings back gym uniforms where in the middle of your school day, we would just all go and change out of our clothes together. And then the girls would do it. And then sometimes you'd have to shower together. It's a really, really strange thing to look back on that I had not thought about in a long time, just straight up stripping.

down after fourth period in the middle of school every day. Then stripping back up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that goes, we get the cheer. I mean, we go right into the theme song. I know. Let's go.

I have multiple categories, talk about the theme song later. I know you do. All right. So that's one. Second one, they create the girl on the computer. Anything bigger than a handful. I thought just great job, guys. I wanted to live.

You wanted to breathe. You wanted to aerobicize. There's a couple of nice touches in here that are very mid-80s. There's a trunk with a lock that has a bunch of playboys and pet houses in it. Oh, yeah. Just let me tell you something. I had a few friends. I was not one of those friends, but I had a few friends with the trunk.

They weigh bras in their heads. And then in a really good special effects scene, they create Kelly LeBrock, which I'm going to have to give the OK motherfucker award for the exact moment when this movie goes up a notch. It's fucking crazy. Like really good special effects. How were we able to do this in 1985? Fantastic.

And so many things that we, this movie moves so fucking fast. Yeah. They are already creating Lisa at the eight minute mark of the movie. And I'll have you know as I watched it as a lot, watched this movie in a lot of sleepovers, maybe fifth grade, sixth grade.

We would rewind the part on the computer where the boobs get really big. Not even a human being. Just a computer rendition. And I think it's important that we've revisited this top. a few times over the years. I can't explain to young people right now. If you were a young person in the 80s, how difficult it was to get even a basic image of a naked woman.

It was so hard. This is the scrambled porn apex mountain. You couldn't do it unless your friend's dad had a playboy. You could not get it no matter what. And so it was so crazy that those things were on the computer like that. It blew us away. You're scouring closets looking for any cassette or anything. Anything.

Anything. In guest bedroom that maybe your uncle left, but you just didn't know. The liner notes of appetite for destruction have like an illustration of a kind of naked woman. It's really gross and weird. But I would look at it, be like, that's something. I'm the guy who would go to the magazine store and be like, can I get a playboy? It's for my dad. It's just nuts.

I just wanted to see it and you couldn't. The candy bar scene. Yeah. How about that? Which might pop up in a couple other categories. Really? I don't know. The 80s were just different.

I like how fucking weird it is. Our guy, Carl, the janitor from breakfast clubs in it. Capolos. Playing Dino. She likes the Malaccas, Dino. Hall is just going for it. He's basically doing a Richard Pryor impersonation,

which they said in the research that Hughes and Anthony McHaw just both love Richard Pryor. And they wanted a scene where it's basically like, let's just do Richard Pryor for four minutes. It's bonkers. I don't know. I still enjoy watching it. They soft tested the Richard prior to because in the breakfast club, when the kids all get high,

all of a sudden Brian starts doing like, chicks can't hold their smoke. That's what it is. And like Judd Nelson's laughing at him. So someone, probably in many people, including like studio execs, were like, yes, yes. Anthony Michael Hall doing that voice and getting high and drunk, put more of that in the next movie. It's awesome. Whereas now they'd be like, nah, no, no, no, no, no. We got to cut that.

It's unbelievable. One of the things I like about the scenes, though, is how much the actors seem to be enjoying it or sitting around the table. They're actually getting a genuine kick out of how fucking crazy he is. Yeah, it's... The candy bar with an eye. Candy with an eye.

Sure. It's the name of the bar. Chet tries to make Gary throw up. drunk Gary. How about greasy, pork, like all the stuff. This was like classic Big Brother shit. Yeah.

This is, this is. is an unbelievable great Bill Paxton. And I also think that Anthony Michael Hall is hilarious in this scene. If you don't like him at the club, whatever, it's not aged well, just playing a drunk guy when he's like, no shit, no shit shit is fucking perfect. And it's arguably my favorite scene in the movie on the top of the stairs. Chet, uh, maybe five years later, he applies for real world, real world New York, I think, but doesn't make it past the, maybe the second cut.

But they are thinking like, oh, this could be our instigator, house member. We get this guy, Chet from Illinois. He sent us this crazy tape. He claims that his little brother created a girl on the internet. Should we bring him in for an interview? I think they're thinking about it, at least. What an all-time pull. Chet would be a real-world cast member.

And I, like, absolutely problematic. He's basically a puck, right? He's puck in real world San Francisco. Yeah, he's like redneck puck with a shotgun. He has all, he's like sexually charged. He's a bully. He'd be great in the confessionals. He's also like sneaky horny.

Believe me, I say this as a guy who did it. Like they, that's all the things they're looking for. That's perfect. Spill drink at the mall, Downey and his villain friend spilling the red, what was that drink? Red icy. Yeah, with the polar bear.

On those guys right into Lisa fucking with the villains. I just, listen, if we're in an 80s mall, I'm there and I'm ready for whatever. is going to happen. Like, oh, it's so clean. And the stores just look, though, so inviting. And there was always just people happily walking around with food. It really was great.

It's so great. And yet, I'm just going to be honest with you, dude. Now I'm just thinking of Chet being on the challenge. Like, would he be on Team Real World? Yeah, I ruined you now. And when he backpacked Johnny Bananas, would he have fought CT eventually? Like, we are full, he's going to hook up with Anisa and Tanya in the hot tub on the dark room cam.

Holy shit. Chet feuded with Theo Vaughn, but now they've made up and he's on his podcast because he just got out of drug rehab again. To him and Mark Long now, they kind of just run the industry and they're looked at as the godfathers

of the post real worlders and you see him around and they're good dudes and Chad. And Chet has long hair now. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. You know, I guess we've never talked about this. The fork of the road of your career

where you decided to go into sports media, but you really could have done the challenge for like 20 years. I got asked many, many, many times. You played football in college. Like, you would have been one of the guys. There would have been specific things that would have been amazing for you.

I always said no. And then every once in a while when I would get a little itch, like, you know, maybe like I'm 28 now. I'm like, what the hell am I doing? I'll go on down to Mexico and try to win a wave runner or a Saturn. Every time I'd get the itch,

I would see one of the promos for like this season on the challenge. And holy shit, it's like guys in bandanas punching each other and like triple kisses in the in the night vision. I'm like, I think I'm past that in my life, man. I think I'm out and I would just pass. I think it was a great move.

Thank you. Next, we watchable scene, Lisa meets Gary's parents. There's so many great parts of this scene. I like what she explains what's in the party. Do I look like I have in high school? There's going to be sex drugs, rock and roll, chip steps, chains whips. She outs him outts Gary for jerking off in the bath. Gary, you told me, we're combing your hair.

And then Gary's dad just basically having his memory erased. It's just a tour de force. One of the, the strangest thing is that I never have before or heard referred to it as tossing off. Is that a British term because she's English? Is that something people say? Yeah, it's a tossing off. I'm glad we're talking this, though, because we've talked about weird signs briefly

in a couple of previous pods. When I said Daniel Rudy Rudiger has masturbated more than any character in movie history ever, we started putting a crew together. and we got Joel Goodson. You immediately are like, oh, don't forget about Wyatt and Gary. They're definitely first ballot. They're in for sure.

Vision Quest is in for sure. And we're taking all, oh, I put Carl, River Phoenix from sneakers. He's in the Hall of Fame as well, the Horning Hall of Fame. First ballot. Now, you say, now you've thrown me off.

Now I got to think of my people. I feel like one of the guys in the Lost Boys. Oh, yeah. Those two twins. The two Corries. Yeah. Just thinking about the sax guy. Yes, for sure.

And I'm talking, this is non-incarcerated version. So, like, multiple migs doesn't count. Andy Dufrain and the whole doesn't count. You can't be incarcerated being the hall. That's like using PEDs. But the Hall of Fame is named after Miggs. I mean, I think that's only fair. The Multiple Migs Hall of Fame.

The Multiple Migs Hall Famed. That's what they call them multiple. Yeah. Second creation attempt at the party. It's like, come on, guys. These 80s ones, these 80s teen movies, He's always had to have the moment where popularity made our leads lose their minds. Yes.

And it's like, Downing his buddy is, oh, we can be friends. And they just kind of lose it. And all of a sudden, they're trying to create a second killer of the Brock. And they fuck it up. Chet confronts everyone in the blue kitchen when he comes back. The grandparents in the closet are, it's still funny. 40 years later, there's a lot of good stuff in this. And then the ending where they say goodbye to the girls, general public's tenderness,

in. Yep. And Chet turns into a toad. Really satisfying ending than just completely ripped off by Superbad. Superbad heavily inspired by it. We keep mentioning, see, notice how when you're doing the most watchable scenes, most of them involve Chet. Chet is in this movie for like three scenes. He takes an hour away from the movie right in the middle of it and it's not even a very long movie, but I think the best weird science is when he's on screen. And I love LeBrock in this and I love Anthony Michael Hall. This, to me, every time Chet's on, I'm not turning away.

What do you have for most rewatchable? Chet on the stairs trying to make drunk Gary throw up? I mean, the height of the party when everything's going wrong and the magic is taking over is really fun because the soundtrack's going. But I think, like, you're absolutely right, shit. You're absolutely right. It's just when he, the booze hounds return. It's every line is quotable. And that's my favorite part, top of the stairs.

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And there are a million choices. I'll let you go first. I have like six. You know, I just, I'll go with the headliner. We already talked about it. The computer hacking sequence when they're navigating through this labyrinth of electronic stuff and like E equals MC squared is floating around

and there's atoms. And then we immediately go to Dave TV from Dave. David Lee Roth. Like, that is everything that was going on then. I don't know how to beat it. Yeah, I would add tweak to that everything you said, plus believing you could create a hot girl out of your computer in 1985. Yeah.

It's the most 1985 thing about this movie. A couple other ones. The title song being written and performed by Oingo Boingo. That literally had to happen in 1985. From my heart and from my hand. Why don't people understand? I have to tell you, too, about that song. So Elfman, like, not a lot of it.

a fan. He's kind of disabout it, which is really annoying. He's this prolific screen, I score writer for movies for years and years, but like, he will give interviews where he's like, yeah, that video was ridiculous. And the best thing that happened to that song with Elfman was that it landed on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. And

Butthead's like, why didn't they let this guy back in Duran Duran and Beavis goes, because he sucks. And it's so awesome. Because I like that song. I remember that. I like it too. Wyatt's posters. you get a couple looks at them.

There's some Depeche mode. There's aha. There's Human League. It's just like we're right into the vortex of alternative music in the 84. I don't know why the Smiths weren't on there. I guess maybe he wasn't a Smith guy. Maybe Morrissey wasn't resonating. Trunkful of Playboys, we mentioned.

David Lee Roth, you mentioned. This is like there's an 18 month window where it made sense to have David Lee Roth in your movie. And then by 86, it's over. It would be like, well, I see you in this, but in 85, midsense. And then the movie closes with general public tenderness, which, you know, by 85, that was probably the last year you could have done that. But it's really nice. Okay, we rarely get to hand out this award, and especially with you here. What do you got?

The Steven Segal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot. So I just got this right from the internet. What do you got? In an interview with Howard Stern, Robert. Downey Jr. cleared up the rumors that he defecated in Kelly LeBrock's trailer. This is perfect. It's right on the nose. That's what we've ever had. He said that him and his villain buddy, who was played by Robert Russell, they would joke about defecating in people's trailers throughout the shoot.

He admitted they eventually did it in one female cast member's trailer, but it was not Kelly LeBrock. John Hughes questioned everyone in the cast who did it. And when he got to Downey, he replied, quote, no, but I sure wish it was me who did it, but he admitted he did it, but they didn't say who the cast member was. This is an actual story that's on the internet. Not like ding-dong-ditching. The best cigar we've handed out. That's by far.

I mean, if Downey's not careful, it would be a Robert Downey shit and Kelly LeBrox trainer award for a most unbelievable. That's nuts. So he's like, oh yeah, we definitely took a dump in someone's trailer. It just wasn't Lisa's. What? Shit, man. Yeah, it was one of the other female cast members.

But he had the, just over and over here, he was just like, yeah, I was pretty fucked up back then. He's doing a lot of bad things. Imagine that cast member getting back to a trailer after a hard day's shooting. It's tough fun. It didn't specify. Was it in the toilet? Was it on the floor?

Like, what was it? I would think you do it on the floor. What's the point if you're trying to prank him? You just do it on the floor. You shit on my trailer, man. You shit on my trailer. What's age the best? You mentioned this movie was filming.

filmed at the same high school as the breakfast club and was actually called Shermer High School. Yeah. Which goes back to your John Hughes universe. What else do you have for what's age the best? I mean, just Downey in general. Like, if you're an Iron Man guy, you got to watch this movie. It's so surreal to see him. He's so young.

He did this. At the time, it's like, it's so interesting. At the time, he's dating Sarah Jessica Parker, who had just done footloose and who's doing girls just want to have fun. Then he did SNL. He's doing back to school. And like five years later, he's getting an Oscar nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin, this dickhead in this movie. And LeBrock has said, like, she's like, I got asked all the time.

Like, what was it like having Robert Downey Jr. on set? She's like, whatever. He was just some guy. I didn't even think about him at all. But it's so fun to watch him in this. I had that in what stage is the best, too. Just like this specific mid-80s, Robert Downey, because the back to school and this character are very similar. Yeah.

Right. Even like from a hairstyle standpoint. S&L, he kind of had the same vibe. And it was like, what is this guy? What's going on here? Do you think he pops in this movie? Do you watch this and like, ooh, that guy's got something? I'm not sure.

It's hard to watch it neutrally. I don't think so. Back to school, I think's probably a little bit better. I don't think he really popped until less than zero. You can tell in certain flashes, like when they do the IC and their girlfriends break up with him and the girlfriends are talking in the background, he's going like, he's like dancing like that. And then he goes right back to, and like, you can tell he's got talent and timing. but this is just, he's just a dickhead in an 80s high school movie.

There's nothing to see from it. I thought the special effects age pretty well for a 1985 standpoint. Yeah. Like the stuff going up, the chimney and the party scene, the living room, the stuff moving around, it's like pretty good. It's like poltergeist. Yes. My parents are away for the week as a 1980s teen movie trope has aged the best.

I got this. It's so fun. The parents are coming home. Holy shit, I'm going to get in trouble. We've got to clean up and we got to get all the stuff. It's like adventures and babysitting, risky business. The whole movie is about that. And this movie, when they're magically cleaning up everything, and the parents walk in at the last second,

that little end table is just sliding into place. It has you on the edge of your seat. It's always good. My parents are going to find out we had a party, and I got to clean up. I love it. Well, what's funny is this also goes on what's age the worst, because now you would have ring cameras and security stuff.

And if I went away with my wife for a couple days, I would just be constantly looking at outdoor, making sure nobody's coming in and texting my son and checking him out on Life 360. Like, you're not throwing a party at my house and I'm not here. Good, you're all over it. We just had Halloween. We had five or six kids who I know ding-dong ditch us.

I'd see him a few days later. I'd be like, hey, Devin, look at you. I got you on my camera, little shit. Look at you. And he'd be like, oh, no. We just busted them all. You can't do it. of it.

Sorry, Mr. Brand. What's age the best? Why it's grandparents just being frozen in the closet? It's so fucking funny. I don't know who thought

of that, but congratulations to that person. Do you think they're having a good time now? Catatonic in a closet. Every time I laugh. A couple more. They made a TV series in the mid-90s with Vanessa Angel

as Lisa during her Apex Mountain when she was in Dumb and Dumber and then the weird science TV show. I never watched it. I don't know if you were focused on. Not only did I never see an episode. I don't know anyone who's ever seen an episode. But Bill, apparently it was a very successful show.

It went on for years. 88 episodes. I couldn't tell you what channel it was on. It was on USA, I think. But I'm not totally sure because I never watched it. LeBrock's speech, I guess Lisa's speech at the end, when she's mad, they try to create a second woman. And she's like, you had to be big shots, didn't you?

You had to show off. When are you going to learn that people like you for who you are, not for what you can give them. Pretty good life lesson. Don't be a big shot. Be who you are. I think at that point, Gary and Wyatt are like, all right, enough of this fucking shit.

Right. I love me, get her out of here. Yeah. Two more. The piano lady was played by Kim Malin, Kim with a Y. Talk about it. May 1982, Playboy Playmate.

Her three best IMD, B credits. Weird science, girl playing piano. Great. Die hard hostage. Roadhouse, party girl. Unbelievable.

And die hard hostage. It's a borderline new, it's a borderline new category that Kim Malin, your best three IMDB category, just with no context. I want you. Weird science, die hard roadhouse. Like, wow.

I want you to reference it in future pod, be like the classic Kim Malin run of the 80s. Let's talk about the run. Triple crowd. She does, this is like Hank's in the 90s. It's a triple crown. And by the way, she's not only the hostage in Diehard, she's the hostage that Hans Gruber's goon find having sex back in the office.

And she is topless and diehard. She is in the rewind the scene, Hall of Fame. You're like, oh, my God, Diehard has boobs. Let me rewind it again. That's her. And she filed that up with Roadhouse. Can you, I mean, Jesus, can you imagine? Because when you're, like, in a young actor in Hollywood, like,

it's just a series of calls home to your parents, hopefully. And like, how's it going? How's it going? And she's like, yeah, I got a role in this John Hughes movie. Yeah. Oh, like Molly Ringwald? Kind of. I play piano and then the wind blows my clothes off.

Great, honey. Great job. So John Cazale is the best five movie IMDB run. What's that? Godfather, Godfather, too. Dog day afternoon. The conversation. Deer Hunter.

There's only five IMDB credits. So that's the Cazale is the five. maybe Kim Malins. Just a random three, your triple crown for your three random. I think it also has to be where none of your characters can have a name. Girl playing piano, hostage, and party girl. There's no like her name was Donna. No, they can't even call her Sue.

And everyone always would be like, wow, in 94 Jim Carrey did Dumb and Dumber, The Mask and Ace Ventura. Yeah, well, have you seen Kim Malins run when she played hostage piano girl and bar actor? Yeah, Jim Carrey disqualified. His characters had names. Get him out. And then the last one I have for you is the Anthony Michael Hall stunned double take. I just want to commemorate as a wood stage the best.

Nobody else is done at the... He's good at that. And he really, he sells it and he holds it for like three, four, five seconds. He'll just make a run on it. Okay. Big Cooner Burger were best use of food and drink. It's probably the icy, right? Definitely the icy.

And I like that after he pours it on him, he drops the cup on his ass, too. Yeah. The cup is just... Yeah, that's this touchdown spike. Great shot, Gorder Award for most cinematic shot. Would you go with the shower combo when they're talking about the girls are getting ready and they, and Hughes does the close-ups of the two of them back and forth? I like how he does that.

He's showing off there, but to my, to the life of me, I can't understand how they got Kim Malin to launch out of the chimney and come all the way down into the pond that she lands in or something. And then she's sideways while her clothes are being blown off. That was like some tenant shit. I don't know what they were doing. It's really... Christopher Nolan. Yeah.

Was that like 14-year-old Chris Nolan shooting that? I don't know what I was watching. That's that for me. Kid Cuddy Pursuit a Happiness where best needle drop. Tenderness. General Public.

The first few beats of it are great. It's a perfect movie song. You're going to go with that over the Oingo Boingo. Well, I have another category for Oingo Bongo. Yeah. Chess Rockwell, Brock Leander's

were a best character named Chet. It has to be Chet. Just a big brother named Chet, who's a fucking, asshole. There's not a lot of Chets. There's a Chet Hank's. There's Chet Holmgren brought it back. Chet Holmgren.

But is there like a nice conscientious, down-to-earth character ever named Chet? Like, you know what you're getting with the Chet. It's perfect. I got to be honest, the Chad, Chet, Chaz universe is pretty grim. I think

Cousin Trent wants in on that too. If it's a Chad, Chas, Chad, Chaz, and Chet, I'm just going to probably assume I'm not going to like you. You almost have to prove to me that I'm going to like you. Yeah. And listen, if you got words about this, Chet Reddit, Chetit, you can come and tell us whatever

you want, Chetit. Like when Chet Hanks, Chet was having all his issues. It was perfect. Like, of course, his name's Chet. But Chet Holmgren brought it back. So now Chet are kind of the, maybe the sexiest they've been in a while from like an okay standpoint. father's name's Tom. He's like America's dad.

Brother's name's Colin. He seems like a normal guy. Chet, a little different. Craig, can you come in the Zoom for a second? Chet Horlebeck? Chet. Chet Chas, Chad. What are your immediate reactions? The worst guy in the frat. Yeah, yeah. It's brutal. I don't know how you power rate them.

If you had to name your child one of those three, which one would you pick? Yeah, like Craig might have kids soon. And like, those three names are off the table, I'm guessing. Yeah, I think so. I think you can get away with Chad the best. Chet and Chaz are really hard. Even Chad Powers, they named them Chad powers, partly because it's a douche. It's a duchy name.

Yeah. Yeah, those three are all really tough. Just go with Charlie. Chuck maybe even works a little better, although Chuck's kind of like, you know, you're one relative or you're not sure if he's going to come to Thanksgiving or not because he's had some issues. there's a there's a really old

Andy Samberg stand up bit where if you go to the country of Chad it's just like a white asshole sitting there being like what's up man you want a snapple I'm gonna put the PlayStation going named Chad Isn't there a whole Pete Davidson thing as well

isn't his character named Chad? I don't know that whole bit with Pete Davidson Oh on SNL yeah yeah He's like that brain dead guy I think his name's also Chad. Chad is tough I feel bad for the good Chad's out there

I'm sure there exists Chad Johnson Ochosenko there's plenty Yeah, Chad Johnson works. I guess maybe it works if you're like a receiver or safety. You can maybe get away with it. Chad. Well, the Butch's girlfriend award for Weeklink of the film.

This could go a lot of ways. What do you have? Yes, we're going to get real. This is going to be the here we go, motherfucker port of the podcast. I just got to shoot straight here. All right. So you got these super horny kids. And they make a super hot woman.

and there's no fucking action here. What are we doing? We made a hot big sister. Gary would have been all over that in 30 seconds. Instead, it's like some sort of like Obi-1 Kenobi-adjacent sex robot who's going to teach me to be a better person and believe in myself. That's a wonderful message, but wildly unrealistic for a 15-year-old boy in 1985. I know that there's higher things at calling here, but Jesus Christ, what are we doing? They don't get anything from Lisa.

That's the whole reason they built her. Meanwhile, she's kissing on Wyatt, and she's shopping for sexy underpants to turn them on. So what is she exactly? It pisses me off. I had the exact same week link. Get into it. These kids weren't nearly horny enough.

What are they doing? I just think the real life version of this movie, they create this person. And then it's just like, okay, are we going to switch? She's here to have sex with us. I've never had sex before. Like, let's...

Rock paper, scissors, who's first? Let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's like, you... All right, you get a half hour, I get a half hour. Like, you're not leaving the house. Parents aren't coming home. It's, you have this, like, basically sex robot you've created.

You're going to have sex with the robot. Yes. You're not going to be like, yeah, let's go out and get some dinner. If you've been to friendlies, they have fribbles. Patty melts are really good there. Let's watch a movie for a while first. No, no, no, they're leaving the house. They're not leaving the room.

And I rest. that Lisa is an enlightened, intelligent character. That's why this is a movie. Of course. You can't have a movie where they just do that. But at the same time, hold on. While we're giving Lisa so much credit for being so enlightened, what is she doing just making out with Wyatt out on his patio?

Like, Wyatt's head would be exploding if that's happening. Like, that's, I don't understand what her dynamic is with these boys. She's trying really hard to turn them on with, like, underwear and stuff and being in the shower. But she's like, I'm more like an older sister to teach them to believe in themselves. Bullshit, which is it? I don't think John Hughes was thinking about a lot of this stuff in 1985. No.

He was just like sex robot. It's very strange. Well, that leads us to what's age the worst? LeBrock and Elon Mitchell Smith making out in that scene you mentioned. Yeah. He was 15 and a half. Okay. Go on.

15 and a half. It was kind of shocking when it happened. Yeah. Because it was right, you know, those standards were obviously different back then, but, but wow. I looked it up, I was like, oh, is this kid like 20? It was like, no, he was born in 1969. That's something interesting.

They're like making out. They're making out for a prolonged time. And the dynamic that if you watch, if you really want to look for it now, is like, he's very uncomfortable and like he doesn't know what to do. And maybe part of him wants to stop. But one of the fun things about this movie, just aside, this is not fun. But what's fun is like, they don't have 25-year-olds playing high school kids. These are real.

high school age kids. Like they went authentic, which is cool. But it's very strange there. It's, I don't know. Also strange, Wyatt wearing her underwear

for multiple minutes. It's just like, what? If I didn't say somebody in the set, stop that, there's some gay slurs in this movie we have to mention that there's some, sure.

We mentioned the Richard Pryor homage scene, which I don't think, I don't think they would run that one back. Is my guess? But in the 80s, whatever. I also had naming your dream girl, Lisa. So I think people are doing that now.

I think it's a better name. Yeah, it's like, I don't know. That was my flex, Bill, damn it. Oh, shit. I told you to give me a heads up. No, I had a lot of them. Instead of best character name, I had worse character name. And it's just naming your dream girl Lisa with just no thought.

All right. Well, stay on for what stage is the worst? and then we can do your flex so we don't step on it. What else do you have, Kyle? All right, well, I had more to say on the kiss. You know what I was thinking of? I mean, I was going to do an Apex Mountain for uncomfortable kisses. It's not quite De Niro and Juliette Lewis and Cape Fear, which I feel like a crime

is being committed as I'm watching it. It's so horrible. And Marty's just seen him like, yeah, let's go. Yeah, suck her fingers. There's an infamous one in a movie called Blank Check where Duff, the VJ from MTV, like is kissing this little boy passionately that's fucked up. I guess what can we say?

I guess it was looked at differently because a lot of people saw this and said it was fine back then but now we're like, this is weird. Well, 15 year old Bill was like this is the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

And Bill paid. Maybe this will happen to me. Yeah, I know. All right, Craig, what do you have for your flex? Let's just get it over with. Yeah, well, outside of naming your dream girl, Lisa. What would you have named your dream girl,

by the way? What would it be? I don't know. I mean, I guess it was Lisa a cool name in 1985? Definitely. Because there's no, Craig, you should have said Liz. I'd left that, I gave that. Oh, shit.

It was like a fucking alley-up next to the rim for you. Jesus Christ. But I see her as something more than just some robot. How dare you? Yeah, good audible. Yeah, I don't know. It's like, who's naming their daughter, Lisa in 2020? Is it like Hazel or something?

The Simpsons. The Simpsons ruin Lisa. Like, that's it. Lisa Simpson, you're not naming your dream girl Lisa after Lisa Simpson. just think that's it's out. I feel a little bit bad now, now that you said he's 15 and a half, but I'm going to give the,

I've only used this category once and I gave it to Ethan Embry, but it's the Matt Flynn $26 million contract award for the actor. I can't believe we thought was a lead. And that's Elyn Mitchell Smith, who I think drags this movie down. And if you could just like put Robert Downey Jr.

Just as him, the whole movie is so much better. He's tough in this movie. Am I wrong? I mean, I like this movie, and we'll get into it at the end. But every time he has to deliver a lot, it's kind of rough, right?

You know what it's very similar to is the Wiley Wiggins' dazed and confused performance as Mitch Kramer? Good call. Yeah. Where it's just, you're putting a lot on him, you know, and you really are.

It's, it's, I'm trying to, who's the quarterback in 2025 where it's just like, man, I don't know. This is a lot of offense to throw it. It's like,

JJ McCarthy right now. It's like, oh, Jesus. Yeah, he's not ready. Oh, no, he's got these two receivers and Kevin O'Connell, but I don't know if. he can complain a straight pass.

Yeah. Craig, as someone who like spent years with this movie, you just kind of tolerate him. You know, it's not right. He's our guy. Just like Wiley Wiggins, you tolerate him. He was, his voice is excruciating. Yeah.

He's like, I'm missile. I'm missile in my room. And Hughes casted him because he thought his voice was interesting. And he's like, yeah, I'll do you. And he's the guy who like does, he makes the rounds. He comes to the comic con type thing. and he'll speak. He's a professor now.

I know, I feel bad because he's probably listening, but there's like, it's same thing for Mitch Kramer. Like, the IMDB usually doesn't lie. Right. And you see the movies after the movie, and it's like, well, yeah, I think the IMDB speaks for itself. Yeah, it's just a heavy load to carry as a lead at this age. It's like, it's rare to find Anthony Michael Halls.

You know, it's tough. It's a tough casting move. Downey would have been the move. Downey, I think would have been good. And I think he could have played a nerd. because I don't think he gave off super cool guy jock vibes. Not that I guess he was a jock, but I think you could have realistically put him in that,

in that Wyatt spot and it would have played. Wow. This movie has a completely different showflife if it's Downey and Michael Hall as the two stars. After Iron Man, this movie vaults into some different stratosphere. And those two are like lifelong friends. Michael Hall's the godfather of Downey's kid. Like that, that would have been fed.

I mean, they reunited and stupid ass Johnny Be Good. again, which we're talking about. But that's a great call. Bill, I want to give one more of what's age the worst because this is pretty important. When we did the Wayne's World pod, we talked a lot about Wayne's World 2 and we're like, it's very, very dependent on knowing Oliver Stone's The Doors movie. That's pretty fucking weird. If you watch this movie and are not familiar with the Road Warrior, which is like the sequel

to Mad Max, you're like, what the fucking hell is going on here with these guys on the motorcycles. I am lost. It's very strange. I was one of those people who was lost. Okay, yeah, Craig, when you're watching these guys come in, and it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything. They're like doing an homage to it. What are you thinking? That everybody in the 80s could just get away with whatever they want. I mean, I saw there was like a job of the hut 20 minutes later. So I was like, you know, they're just, John Hughes is doing whatever he wants and he thought of this overnight.

Yeah, this is the lesson I've tried to teach Craig over and over again, is that just cocaine in the 80s, like, all bets are off. Well, and that movies back then could be more niche. Like, this movie is made for only boys between the age of 14 and 16 and people who saw that movie. Nowadays, they would never do that. Yeah. I mean, they don't even make SNL sketches about movies anymore because there's no monoculture anymore.

So it's one thing if Hughes wants to make an homage to the road wear. I get it. A little tip of the cap. This is a nine-minute sequence. It's the climax. It comprises 10% of the whole movie. It's an incredible investment in the road warrior. It's a good time to make popcorn too.

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Season after season in Pure Michigan. Find your season at experiencegr.com. All right, come back, Kyle. What is your flex category? Shit, you know what? My flex category was going to be about the Jamie Lee Curtis Unnecessary Nudity Award for Kim Malin. We already talked about Kim Malin and the run that she went on.

I also was going to go if this would be a porn title. And I was going to make it a gay porn called Queered Science in which Wyatt and Gary make a guy. And they just get after it. And it's Queered Science. So that's fine. How would you spell the Queered? Q-U-E-I-R-D science.

It might exist. I didn't even look. I didn't look. I would vote not looking. That sounds like a possible virus. The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford. The hottest take a word. I think you can make a case. This is the best 80s movie theme song

that actually has the title in the song. Oh, I love this. For the purposes of the song. So I had six. What else you got? And all them have a case. And Weird Science is one of them. St. Elmo's fire.

Yeah. John Park. I can feel the fire burning. That's a great one. But it doesn't really work the plot into it. So just keep that in mind. Foot loose. That's got to be the goat, right?

That's tough to beat. Well, I'm going to try to make the case for Weird Science. I'll help you. But foot loose. everybody's got foot loose. It ties into the plot. It's a good one. It's a good candidate.

Purple Rain. So Purple Rain is like intimately into the end of the movie. Right? It was a great list. But I don't really know what the purple rain was compared to what I just watched in the movie. It's basically just like he came up

with this awesome song that Wendy and Lisa wrote for him. And then he's like, uh, purple rain. it didn't really advance the plot. It's just basically him kicking ass with this song. Ghostbusters. Ray Parker, now that does work.

That does work the plot on dude. Who are you going to call Ghostbusters? I just don't think it's a good song. And then the last one is we're going stealth against all odds. Oh. Which is, CR and I have circled it a couple times for the rewatchables. I think we might be the only ones that like it.

But it's got Phil Collins and it's got. Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward and they're in love and it's against the odds. So those would be my six. So basically in the finals, I'd have footloose against weird science. This is so great. I love that you and CR are circling against all odds. Was there not a song called Proof of Life in that movie?

They didn't do one. No, they should have sit right there. The killers could have done it. Listen, I'm trying to think like the purple rain. The legacy for me is just Prince playing that at the Super Bowl halftime in Miami and it's raining. I think of it more than the movie. Ray Parker Jr. is a full phenomenon.

That song is huge. It's pretty good. I did consider it. So here's my case for Weird Science. Hughes clearly told Oingo Boingo. Yes. I'm making this movie. It's about these 15-year-old kids that create basically like the perfect woman

and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them. It's called Weird Science. Can you work some Frankenstein stuff? Can you have somebody say like, it's alive? Can you really like, I'll show you, I'll screen the movie for you, and then you guys can write it. It just has that vibe. So I think I would still pick it number one. Footloose, I feel like Loggins just made footloose.

I don't know if they went to him and said, yo, here's the idea. It's these kids dancing. They're dancing. They're not allowed to. You're saying it was specifically curated just for this movie and the concept as opposed to just being a catchy thing. I feel like Loggins did footloose. He wrote the song and then they were like, good song. We should name the movie Footloose.

Like it was almost like they had the song and then the title came after. This is clearly weird science. Can you write this? Plus, Loggins was just banging out so many hits for different movies at the time. Right. Spread the wealth around a little bit. I think that is a really, really good take. You know what the biggest loser in it is, though?

Thomas Dolby, who two years later did, she blinded me with science. He was like, God damn it. He had the science song, right? She was right there. He had to have been furious. What's your hottest take? My hottest take, Lisa sucks.

That's my take. And I'll tell you why. Right out of the fucking gates, she takes them to this terrible bar where they're totally uncomfortable at, stands by while Gary's coerced into drinking. Then lets Wyatt drink and drive home. She's constantly teasing them sexually,

including buying underwear just to turn them on. They don't want that fucking party. Wyatt says that 100 times. I don't want this party. They're not my friend. She's like, no, you're going to have a party. She pulls a gun on Gary's dad, which Gary is really pissed off about. Then she makes Gary's dad permanently forget that his son exists.

And then at the end of it, she's just like, I got to go. I have to leave. Why? Why the fuck do you have to leave? Then she just walks away. You left out the biker gang. Yeah. Oh, the fucking biker gang.

And you left out, she puts the grandparents in the closet. These poor people just wanted to see their grandson. You're exactly right. And those girlfriends, she got him. They're gone the next fucking day. They're not sticking around. She turned Ched into a toad. Yes.

So I think Lisa, like, is she that great? Like, what exactly does she do for them? Because there's a lot of shit that she does wrong. And Lisa sucks. I don't care. Yeah, there should have been. That's a pretty good one. By the way, like the counter would be she made them better people.

Yeah, for 10 minutes. And by the way, awful, awful preachy that they decided to try to make another girl. Like, why can't we decide it? We can make you disappear too. She's trying to lecture them and condescend them. them like they made you they can make another one I'm like her it's pretty good casting what ifs

initially Kelly Emberg a model who had been in Sports Illustrated was cast as Lisa left after two days for creative differences was not able to find out anything on the internet's about that she all I know about Kelly Amberg she was an SI model and had a kid with Rod Stewart in the 80s

but they didn't get married and then she sued him from Palmyone those are good nuggets yeah also auditioning for the part of Lisa and not getting it. Demi Moore. Let's go. Too young, probably at that point. She's like 20. But isn't 20 good? Don't we want they're closer to Wyatt and Gary? Like, I want someone close to them that they can sleep with. That's what I'm looking for here.

I don't want the Mary Poppins. That's fair. Well, the other one was Robin Wright, who would go on to become the most beautiful woman in the world in Princess Bride. So she's pretty young, too. Both of them were soap opera actresses who were like 18, 19 range. So, yeah, so it works from closer to the age, more realistic, but I'm not sure that's what he's wanted. Robin Wright's coming off Santa Barbara. Just absolutely. Yeah. Princess Prize 87.

There would be a different movie. I was not on Santa Barbara. No, I was on Days of Relive. But I've been to Santa Barbara. You never did Santa Barbara? Like three week, you were a doctor. You got killed? No, I think I was gone by the time I was in my soap phase.

Maybe he'll be back. The only other casting, what if Anthony Michael Hall had a choice. of doing National Lampoon's European vacation or this movie and he chose wisely chose weird science. This is the right move. Yeah, I don't like European that much. That's that guy word. Is John Capulosa that guy? Not for me, but I'm deep and a nerd in this. I don't think most people know John Coppola's name. Like Craig, he's in that guy. Yeah. I mean, he's the custodian in the

breakfast club. He's in 16 candles. He's in the huge movies. He wins. He wins. Yeah. I mean, it's either him or your guy, your guy Gary's dad, Brit Leach, as Gary's dad. He is a good that guy because I don't even know where I know him from. Where is he from? Was he a Terminator? He's no, I wish. Wasn't the beginning of Terminator?

No, Paxton's in the beginning of Terminator, but Britt Leach is not, as far as I know, is not. He's in, he has a scene in Father of the Bride when George Banks crashes out, as they say, at the hot dogs. He's the grocery store manager. And Britt Leach is also in the Great Outdoors, just a couple memorable roles. and he's just so good in this. Britt Leach. I have a scary bald biker guy with the ears.

Sure. He's one of those guys. He's been a scary guy. And then the lead biker guy of whatever that road warrior gang was was also one of the bad guys in Commando. Yeah, he's Bennett. He's like the number one guy with the chain mail. Like that's the same role, Vernon Wells. Hey, Bennett.

I'm going to take the knife in you, Bennett. You don't need the gun. I twist the knife. Come on, Bennett. let off some steam. That was years ago we did that. Dion Waiters Award. I have Gary's dad.

I know it's not the right choice, but I love Gary's dad. I love how much you love Gary's dad. I love Gary's dad. Who is this Gary character? What do you have for a Dion? Well, Dad, he's a plumber and he's into plumbing and he plums, right? No, I mean, I have I have Chet, Bill Paxton.

He's only in three scenes. He disappears for an hour. Oh, yeah, Chad. I forgot. I thought of Chad as like being an action, but you're right. If he's only in three scenes, he's eligible for Dion. You two donkey dicks couldn't get laid in a morgue. Like, just fucking awesome.

Awesome. I say it all the time. Maybe Gary's dad should just be a new category. What would it be? Gary's dad, I don't know why I love this character so much. Great. Gary's dad award. Recasting couch director of City.

So I mean, Downey being the, being why it is clearly the answer. I nailed it. Nailed it. I'd like to test drive dumping Downey's buddy played by Robert Rustler. And like, where Zabka? How is he down in this? Like Zabka just should have been in all this movies. It's four scenes.

He just has to be at a mall scene. He has to be at the party. Like, he filmed two scenes in the bedroom. Like he could have, there's three days he could have just jumped in and filmed here. I don't know where he was. You couldn't be more right. And here's why. It's like the key master and the gatekeeper getting together.

We need William Zabka bully to be bully and Anthony Michael Hall nerd. And that's what we need to get it. We never got it. It's like how we never got Sugar Ray Leonard versus Aaron Pryor. I wanted that for the entire 80s. We got to have it. Never had it.

Half Ascent Research didn't have a lot here other than the production was kept closed because they wanted to keep the film's plot a secret for some reason. But then the Elon Mitchell Smith has given in a couple interviews since. And he said that there's a scene that Bill Paxton love being around the filming. It just seems

like the greatest guy. But in the party scene, apparently he dresses up in his sunglasses and a trench coat, trench coat, and he's in the party scene and it's Chet. But you don't realize that it's him, but it's Bill Paxton because he just

wanted to be around. Everybody associated with this movie is like, so Chet's the biggest asshole of all time. They're like, Bill Paxton is the nicest person I've ever met in my life. Yeah, everyone loves Bill Paxton. You don't get him doing comedy much. It's like, it's here. It's true lies when he's hilarious.

And then even in serious movies, like aliens, when he's just like, game over, man. Like, that's so fucking funny. So when he does, it does it great. Apex Mountain. Yeah. Anthony Michael Hall, I'm going to say yes. It is.

This is like, right? This weird science breakfast club combo is right when it happened. Elon Mitchell Smith, definitely yes. Oh, yeah. Kelly LeBrock also a yes. Women in Red than this. Paxton, no. Asshole, older brothers in a comedy,

I'm going to say yes. I think Chet's like, Chet's as good as we did. He's competing against the home alone, older brother. Like, there's a couple. Buzz.

Stuff like Chet's the best. Buzz doesn't win because the home alone uncle, Frank, is worse than Buzz and he takes all his shine. But yeah, Chet is horrible. Shermer High School, probably Breakfast Club.

Definitely. John Hughes. Heat check time. Heat check. He's making a movie about a guy's making a woman and they're like, yeah, sure, do it.

Whatever you want. Same year as Breakfast Club. I think it's Breakfast Club, though, which comes out after. Right? Does it come out after or before? No, Breakfast Club's February 85. This is August.

Oh, Breakfast Club came out before. So I think it's Breakfast Club. Either way, it's Breakfast Club. Although some people would say it's the late 80s when he writes Home Alone and sure. But I don't even know. I've wrestled with this my whole life.

Do you like Breakfast Club or Ferris better? Breakfast Club, I've seen more times. They're both pantheon for me, but Breakfast Club's an all-timer for me. For years and years of my life, I would say Breakfast Club is my favorite movie. I don't really anymore, but I think it's just by a nose over Ferris.

I love Ferris, though. It's one of, especially as my brain's going as I've hit my 50s here, but it's one of the only movies I can still, like, quote accurately. I know. It's fun. It's really fun.

Larry Lester's buns, taping them together. And you know what they do in that movie? It's the same thing they do here. Hughes always makes you eat your vegetables. There's always going to be some sort of sentimental scene at the end. It's not just horny high school stuff, but Andrew Clark getting high and is crying about his dad. This is Gary and Wyatt being like,

I want you to like me for me. That's why that's not really my car. Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side. Toads, Apex Mountain for people being turned into a toad. I'm going to say yes. Greasy pork sandwiches on dirty ashtray. Like what?

Yeah. What is that creature? Is he a pile of feces? Is he a frog? I don't even know what it is. He's a feces, toad that eats flies. Yes.

Greasy pork sandwiches on dirty ashtray. How about this? 80s high school party scenes. I got it on my list. And I'll say as bold as I can, this is the one for me. This is number one high school party movie in any decade. It's just,

and the reasons why I think that fucking house is amazing, Wyatt has this huge mansion with like a lake outside and a gate. She uses magic. So like there's all this food and like the lighting's perfect. There's a full bar with bartenders and scotch and stuff. And like the music's cool. And this is the party I wanted to go to when I was a little kid. That's fair.

80s fantasy women, no. Unless they're created from a computer. Sure. And then 80s houses coming back together right before the parents get home. I still think it's risky business. Definitely. Well, the auction. Unloading Guido of the killer pimp.

Yeah. Pulling the carrying the egg, bringing the stuff back. So good. Great stuff. Cruise or Hanks? Cruz is Wyatt? Like early 80s cruise? Like outsiders cruise?

I was thinking of like, of losing it cruise. Losing and Cruz as Wyatt. And by the way, when's the losing it pod bill? When's that coming? Him and Shelley Long. I think Cruz bought. I think Cruz bought that out. I don't think it exists.

It's like how Johnny Depp bought up. private resort with him in a who's the guy, Rob Morrow. Yeah, you can't find that movie. The movie's gone. You can't find soul man. You can't find losing it. And I remember I read like a rundown once the cruise did with Entertainment Weekly where he gave like one take on all his movies that he did. And they're like losing it. He's like, yeah, that really made me learn about what projects to pick. And that was like his only comment. I don't think he's proud. It's not good. And then he went and bought every copy that was left. Scorsese or Spielberg, probably Spielberg.

I think the horny teenage thing would have resonated with him in some way. I think, how cool was it, dude? Hughes and Spielberg just holding down the 80s on totally different corners, totally different types of movies, never worked together,

never crossed over. Like, the closest they got was that Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone. If they could have movie swapped, I would have Spielberg directs, Weird Science, and I would have Hughes directs,

the Goonies, which he produced. But like the kids, kids and the fun that they get into. Like, that would be the perfect swap. I'd like what he used goonies. It's a good idea for a category movie swap. Yeah, movie swap. I'm going to say, marked that one down.

What role would Feeble, Philip Seymour Hoffman and played clearly Chet? How'd you like a greasy pork sandwich? Yeah. He would have played him as like son of a woman that, that whatever his character was and that. With the jacket, yeah. Yeah. All right, pick a knit.

Sure. We already mentioned the boys are getting the sex out of the way as soon as she's created. That's happening. This movie should just been rated R. Yeah. And what would they do with it? This is one of the things we figured out 20 years later in the Super Bad era. It's like, why are we trying to make PG movies thinking kids aren't just going to go buy a ticket to another movie and then sneak into this one?

Why aren't we building buzz? Why aren't we pushing the envelope? We, for some reason, none of that stuff really clicked until about 2004. And it's a shame. PG-13, brand new, brand-new at this point. On the heels of Gremlins. That was European vacation. Rusty saw some boobs.

Temple of Doom. So they're like, you know, we can give them a little action. We can kind of show a nude woman and say a few bad words, but we can sell more money by getting younger people in as well. It's always been like that purgatory rating. You know, that, like the new Predator movie is out. And people are like, holy shit. shit, it's PG-13, but it's really good still.

It must be amazing if they can be that good without an R rating, which is fascinating to me. Any other picking Nets? I mean, it's hard to pick a lot of Nits with this movie because it's so ridiculous. I just, like, okay, I grew up in the Chicago suburb. I basically grew up in Shermer in the mid-80s. The fact that these two kids are living in the north suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, of 1985, and they're not having every single conversation about the 85 bears is such bullshit is the biggest thing in the world.

Never mind Lisa, they'd be making Wilbur Marshall and Otis Wilson. and playing the Super Bowl shuffle. There'd be no onego oingo boingo. It would be refrigerator parry wrapping. It was everywhere. It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this. They just missed. Wow, that's great.

Well, you also have the 84 Cubs too. Yes. And Gary's wearing a cup cup hat. Leon Durham. You would add a Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, something. Rick Sutcliff for sure is up there everywhere. No wonder these guys were fucking nerds. Put on a Walter Payton jersey, guys.

He's right there. He's the best running back of his generation. Sucks. What are you guys doing? I don't know. By the way, Jordan showed up that year too. you're right so it's

Jordan's on the Bulls throw on on Jordan jersey be ahead of the curve Jordan shows up not until home alone later in Kevin McAllister's Christmas decorations they finally get back to it

the only other nitpicking I had is what is going on in that bathroom bathroom scene at the end like why it is taking a shit while Gary's in the room that doesn't make no one's ever done that

I don't I don't understand it's beyond a picking net I don't know what's I don't know what's going on like they share they share they share they share a They sleep together every night.

They're like taking shits together. They're in the showers together. Can you imagine being in the same bathroom as your high school friend while he takes a dump right next to you? It would never happen. It doesn't make sense. And why did they then let the two girls in to use the bathroom and then they just get into the shower instead of leaves? It makes me uncomfortable because I know it stinks in that bathroom. I hate it.

So why are there two twin beds in that room? Great call. I thought the same thing. Great call. It's set up for sleepovers. Who had twin beds? Yes. Yes.

Well, maybe the only thing I was thinking was maybe Chet. slept with Wyatt for a while before he got older. And they just never got rid of the twin beds. And at the end of the movie, Gary and Deb are in one of the twin beds together. And like, that's pretty tight. It is strange stuff. I had this later for Illinois.

And I'm an unanswerable question about Illinois, but I'll do it here. Because we had all these different houses and movies filmed in there in the 80s. And all the houses are like really nice and huge. And they're in these great suburbs. You know, good school system apparently. you can call the janitors your janitor. But this house you mentioned earlier

was like a really nice, almost like a mansion. So was the Home Alone house. So was the risky business house. Ferris had an awesome house. Cameron had an awesome house. Was Illinois just like the best, mid-80s Illinois, the best red fan you could have done?

Yeah. Which is like, oh, man. Were these houses expensive? Did just everybody have a nice house? I didn't understand it. I think it's a really nice. place to live and there's some neighborhoods that aren't. But listen, like, I, I know where Cameron Fry's house is. We used to drive by it. It's in, it's in Lake Forest. We used, and the crazy thing is,

Bill's facility is up there and the Bulls practice facility. So, like, Michael Jordan's house is like five minutes away from where Gary and Wyatt's houses. They're all up there in the north suburbs. Great place to live, ma'am. We should have given the Amanda Dobbins real estate category to the house because I just thought it was an awesome house. It is. Sequel, prequel, prestige, TVL blackcast are untouched. touchable. All black cast would have been interesting. Sure. Maybe like a 1994 range, all black cast.

You get like Alfonso Ribeiro is one of the nerds. I don't know, Hallie Berry is the weird science. Maybe it's like 92, 91 range. Okay. When there was like a black movie Renaissance just happening in general, maybe they're like, fuck it, let's make black word science. Let's go. I can flush that out for you.

And when they make Lisa, the first thing Lisa, does is take him to a bar of all white people listening to heavy metal. And they're listening to Megadash. She takes it to a country club. Yeah. Yeah. And there's just like, yeah, here, drink this martini. And they drink it and it's all switched like that.

That's the way it works. She takes them to the Shermer Country Club because it's martini night. Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Danny Treo, Bad Dog, Rousseau, Doris, Doris, Burke, Buffalo, Bill, Sam Jackson, Nell, Byron Mayo, Tony Romo, Chris Collins, or Daniel, Plainview, long legs, or Wilford Brimley in the firm. What do you have? All right. You're going to do it, aren't you?

I got to stretch out. So our guy this week, Gus Johnson's been in the news. He's been in the conversation for his call at the end of Indiana game. I'm Team Gus for life. And I think you start the movie with Gus. And I don't go, Boingo.

You got Wyatt and Gary sitting there and they're checking out the gym. And Gus comes on the call. Wyatt and Gary, young fellas. Ha ha! Pitching tents in the gym, watching girls gymnastics. Here comes.

Tony Stark! Oh! They're down at his ankles with the fruit of the loom! There we go. Wow. You actually lost audio on the Zoom because you went to... I went too back. Thank God you're recording from your end.

Wow. I'm at work right now, too. Sorry for everybody. They might actually think it's Gus Johnson, but it's just me. It's like Gus Johnson's in the closet. What's going on there? What do you got? I was thinking it could be funny if Buffalo Bill was in this movie.

Because, you know, it's middle America. Let's go. And there, somebody comes to see what happened to Lisa a couple days later. Sure. And she's in his basement, you know, with precious. He's already kidnapped her. And they're like, have you seen Lisa, like, just really hot British lady? She'd be British lady.

She wearing a thong and a cut off t-shirt. I heard about that. I don't know. Just put them in bonus content for the DVD. Yeah. It puts the woman on the computer like it's told her. It gets the hose again. Absolutely.

Just one Oscar who gets it. Yeah, tough one. Maybe Ongo Boingo. Danny Alpin. He would not accept that. He would refuse to accept it. Danny Alton's like, this movie never happened. Probably in answerable questions.

Did Gary ever have sex with Lisa? Did Gary? No, we don't even see him kissing her. Nothing. He'd get drunk and passed out. It was only a one-night thing because the second... This is all one weekend.

First night pass-out. Yep. Second-night party. Yep. So he's out. Nothing. And then did she have sex with Wyatt? No.

He wakes up the next day and he's wearing her panties. So that insinuates that something happened. he said she she makes out with him and says what do you want basically and he's like girls gymnastics it's all going exactly how you would want she's like what fantasy do you want me to do and then the next morning she says i was in the middle of my gymnastics routine and you passed out you fell asleep so ostensibly like she was going to have sex with him he would have to have been roofie to pass out yeah he's never had sex before he's not passing out he might be passing out because there's no blood in his head but he's not falling asleep i i don't think it ever happened

and they put that line into like, but again, the smoking gun for me is she is at a lingerie store buying underwear specifically that they want to look hot in. It just, it doesn't make sense.

And the next morning, at least for an hour, why it's going, what happened last night? I passed out. Did you have sex with her? What happened? What would you do?

Yes. They're just recapping every single moment of it. And Gary's just going, I can't believe I passed out. I got to wait, before we do anything today, I got a.

Yeah, Let's go take care of it. No. Now they're just going to a mall. What were Lisa's, I guess this is the Zawatne Award, too, but what were Lisa's next few days like in Shermer as the new British gym teacher with no credentials? I don't even know if she has a driver's license. Where does she live?

Did she get an apartment? Did she just magically make an apartment? Did she move into another house? Like, what was going on there? She can make all that stuff, I think, with magic. I wonder, like, what is her first gym class? Are we doing the pegboard? Are we climbing the rope?

Are we doing the presidential fitness test? Yeah. How are we doing? What are we doing? I don't know. Kick ball, but she's making the balls, like, go in crazy directions. Yes. Is she dating?

Does she want to date? Is she interested in meeting somebody? Yeah. Like Michael Jordan. And she's like, who's this guy in the bowls? I think that that's just going to be my new boyfriend. No, I don't know. We know that she, we know that she likes them very, very, very unathletic.

You know that. I mean, I'm talking Gary Wy. and SIGAL in both life. Did Lisa eat and go to the bathroom? Yeah, because we see her drinking. Yeah, I think we see her drinking. And I love that we're asking this. She smokes a cigarette at one point.

On the Star Wars pod, we spent 10 minutes, be like, so does Chubaka take his shit? And I was like, way in. I'm like, this is why I listen. Chubaka have an asshole? Like, what's his deal? Yeah, he's like a dog. And yes, Lisa does.

And she takes shits. and she might have even peed when she's in the shower with Wyatt and Gary. Sure, let her rip. Okay. I want to make sure. Did you have any answer both? Because I'm going to move on.

Just quickly, is this movie like spinning clock at the end? It's so short that they just, for some reason, inexplicably put in a chase scene with police that doesn't add up to anything. And they go in front of the train like it's Dukes of Hazard for no reason. I feel like they're like, we need three more minutes to make it a movie. It just does nothing. He was just like, we got to get to 88. minutes. That's what I told the studio. Ferrari chasing. What piece of

memorabilia would you want or not want from this movie? I just want to point out the jacket worn by Kelly LeBrock in this film was sold to a pawn shop in Beverly Hills for 25,000. A couple of years ago. The sleeveless one. Yeah. I would get that if I'd give it to my wife, but she's not wearing that. I would think of another family member, though. My souvenir bill will be Wyatt's incredible, full-ass treasure chest of Playboys. Oh, and with the trunk itself. With the trunk itself. Yeah, under the tree from my son when he's the right age on Christmas.

Have fun, son. Go with God. That'd be it. So I wanted, when they go up the stairs in Wyatt's house a couple of times, there's a family portrait of Wyatt and his family. And then later at the party, they all have the Hitler mustaches drawn on them. And I just think having that portrait, It would be hilarious.

It's awesome. People always say they want that the Tony Soprano portrait when he's with Paiomai with like the Holy takes. No, you're like, no, this is Wyatt's family from the home alone. The real, or from weird science, the real family. It's great portrait. Well, there was the Dirk Doug Diggler portrait. Yes.

Was available a couple times. And I went on the auction site because I was like, hey, this isn't. And it went for like some crazy price. Like five figures? Like crazy. like six figures. It's the worst painting of all time, too. It's horrible.

It has Jesse St. James in the bottom right as like she actually painted it. And I wanted it for the studio, but it just didn't work out. The coach Finstock wore a best life lesson. We could deal with shame. Death is a much bigger issue. It's a heavy line, yeah. Just put that in your high school yearbook, ready to go. What's your double feature?

Manikin. I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cottrell. Nothing's going to stop us now. A magical woman comes out of nowhere. You got Hollywood. You got the guy from Police Academy. And Bill, if the painting is too expensive for the studio, you should see if they have those those D-D drapes that they close that are embroidered with Dirk Tickler.

That's probably way cheaper. I'll look at that. I'll search for that later. My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason. Who won the movie pick is Anthony Michael Hall. I think, I just think it's an Anthony Michael Hall double feature where you're like, this guy should have, like,

this guy should have at least been how we talk about Jonah Hill now. Yeah. As popping in all these different awesome movies and just having a bigger run. And he became a really good character actor later in his career. But I just feel like it's just too bad, but this is the 80s. Like, weird shit happened.

And I know he had some issues, but it's too bad. He really carries Elon Mitchell Smith in this movie too. Like, Mitchell Smith is like Jake Browning. He's just carrying. Give me the ball, dude. Just get me the ball any way possible.

Who do you have for who in the movie? I had a LeBrock written down. I think Anthony Michael has been great and other stuff. She's just sensational. If she doesn't work, the movie's terrible. And I think it's really cool that she didn't do a movie for another five years. She just seems like a cool lady. She refers to hard to kill that movie.

If you ask her, she refers to it as hard to watch. Like, she's self-deprecating. She's cool. I think for her. Not hard to watch. for us. Hell no. Every time.

I watch it tonight. All right, Craig. You've intentionally held off your take. I can't wait. What do you got? Man. We throw this movie in the vault with the movies that need to be studied and revisited every decade. I think it's in the running.

I think it's in the running for the most 80s movie ever. Obviously, you guys can make that call better than me. But man, the clothing, the hair just prime 80s, the cheesy effects. the close-up facial reactions, like when they see Kelly LeBrock for the first time, they do like the head wiggle with the sound effect, which is so 80s. There's like a 10-minute offensive scene.

You got a mall scene, Road Warrior, Oingo Boingo, Anthony Michael Hall himself. Yeah. I will say, when I went into this movie, I didn't know it was, I intentionally don't,

I don't watch trailers, I don't look up anything about the movie, I just watch it. I, so I didn't know it was PG-13, assumed it was R, was kind of expecting Kelly LeBrock naked in like the first 10 minutes.

Yeah. Yeah. Like the shower scene, I was like, here we go. And then they cut off at the legs. So I was slightly disappointed there and it kind of like changed my calculus of what the movie was because it's John Hughes.

But I thought LeBrock crushed it. I thought her accent also worked. I think this movie is like, I don't know, five of the most inexplicable scenes of the 80s. Yeah. Like Anthony, Michael Hall talking like Richard Pryor.

Yeah. Everything is completely insane but also very wholesome. Like they don't know. what to do with Lisa, but stare at her. I don't know why. The one quibble I have, why did they make her as smart as Einstein? Why would you want to do that? You wouldn't, Craig?

No. Like, I know that sounds bad, but, like, you're 15 years old. Like, you don't want it to be that smart. Right. Why Einstein? Smartest person in the world makes no sense. That's great. I think they really had living a lot of that when they were making the perfect woman.

I think they probably would have done some do-overs. This movie is just. This movie is. This movie is just out of control 80s, everything about it. It's so goofy to me, but I have to remind myself that, like, the scarcity of male fantasy content that was available for teenage boys. You must have been like, holy shit, when I'm through all but five minutes of this movie, and I think I've seen it all.

And then when Chet turns into the piece of shit frog, what? That, right? The movie was like normal, kooky 80s until the road warrior people showed up, and then Chet turned into Jabba the Hut. Yeah. All right. I officially don't know what the fuck's going on. I don't think Hughes did either because.

he's, they're just trying to, he's just trying to finish it as past as possible because this was how he was allowed to make the breakfast club if he also agreed. So he's just trying to get through this because he wants to make pretty and pink. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Why wasn't LeBrock a bigger start? What happened there? She went our guy Seagall.

I can't believe she's with Seagall. I don't know if that makes me think better of Seagal or worse of LeBrock. Craig, if we could rewind this pod, the part where you had a natural reaction to Kelly LeBrock be married to Stephen Seagal was my favorite moments. Unbelievable. You were shocked, bro. I'm in shock. Kyle, you've been like, she's so cool.

She's so self-aware. Yeah, yeah. How is she so-aware? I don't know. Married in a long time. I don't know. They even survived when he had the no intimacy coordinator scene. What was that above the law?

That was hard to kill. Hard to kill. Yeah. No, it was it wasn't hard to kill. Hard to kill is the one she's in with LeBrock. Yeah. Yeah, but it was that that was the other Stephen Seagal movie when his wife gets shot to death. Right.

Was that the same movie? Before his wife is shot to death, he takes liberties with his wife's upper body that I've not seen in movies. That's right. Yeah. It's the same movie. Same movies with his wife.

Come on. Yeah. And that's how he went in the coma. Unbelievable. Can you imagine the red carpet premiere with that? Nope. She's like, I didn't realize you went like this crazy. Anyway, all right.

So, Craig, you enjoyed it. Yeah, of course. Like, it's 88 minutes. It's remarkable how many members, moments there are in 90 minutes. So many things happen. There are so many scenes that just will stick in your brain forever. It's an insane movie.

I can't. The 80s are just fucking crazy. Yeah, you really missed your calling, Craig. Feeding images and input into a computer to make the perfect specimen. Bill, is it true that that's how Robert Kraft made Drake May? I heard that that's the rumor going around the NFL. A little bit of Josh Allen, a little bit of, yeah. We love Drake May is a hero in New England right now.

He's even as his wife is doing cooking. stuff. Do you see all the Pats fans? Oh, yeah. They call her the first lady. It's just great. It worked out awesome. I think it's Mr. Kraft is there with this supercomputer. He's got pictures of Brady and Drew Bledsoe

and Doug Flutie and a little Brian Hoyer's brain and like he just puts them all in and it came out of Drake May. It's a beautiful thing. Jason Tatum he threw in there just for the hell of it. And they picked a good name. Drake May. They didn't pick Lisa. Yeah. All right. Thanks to Kyle Brandt. A pleasure as always. Thanks for pushing to do

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