The Weekly Planet - The First Skrull Invasion - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: March 12, 2019

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This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. The Skrulls are a formidable villain, making their way to cinemas in captain marvel 2018 but are you being paid by captain marvel to did you know mason i'm in the middle of a paid bit did you mind all right sure carry on this is not paid this is not the first time the scrolls have invaded earth oh what what what sure how do we know if they're among us because they're very good thanks for getting on board this paid bit

oh what it's not paid bit oh uh the invasion of the super scrolls is an episode of the fantastic four from the 60s what year was it i don't remember seven i reckon good because i i didn't i think it's 67 there was an animated series uh it's not still running for the fantastic four from that era uh 7 000 episodes and it's you know it's pretty basic in tone and characterization and yeah they basic and uh well it's and it also says in the intro title song they say invisible girl instead of invisible woman which is weird because reed richards and her are married and she is a woman if he married a girl he should be in jail he should be in jail yeah but he just stretches his way out of the bars you know what i mean yeah they're like we want to put him in jail for what he's done yeah but we can't you know what if you put him in a

concrete box and put him at the bottom of the ocean how tightly is the concrete box it's not that tight then he'd get out yeah he anyway the the opening the opening sequence, it's like, they're the Fantastic Four. They're fantastic. Watch out, villains, for these Fantastic Four people. Four of them. Fantastic. And they fight a weird, mis-coloured Galactus. Yeah.

And a giant Doctor Doom. Yeah. And some, like, gigantic knights in armour that are clattering at him with, like, little halberds and little bloody jousting sticks and whatever. Do you wish I'd have seen that in this episode? Yes. Why is Doctor Doom so big? Are they small?

I think they might be small. We don't know. Well, one of them's only a girl. Yeah, well, she's quite small, isn't she? I reckon in that, like we can only imagine, because all other copies have been destroyed except for this one episode. Yeah. We can only imagine what I reckon Doctor Doom shrunk him now you're probably why is dr

why is galactus so teeny tiny well he can change size also can't so yeah but he can't change color why is he green in this it's probably a weird coloring thing from that era yeah probably they ran out of green or something yeah so they just did blue whatever yeah the person who was supposed to do the green was drunk 500 cigarettes a day and died on the day he was supposed to do it. Get the blue guy. Get the blue guy instead. So it starts with some Skrulls. One of them's called Muscle Corf or Muscle Crof. I didn't catch you there.

They say it like four times and I felt like it was different every time. Okay, you see the king of the... You see the emperor of the Skrulls? I think he's the king. One of them's the king and the other one's Muscle Corf. One of them's his minion. There's the Skrull king and the Skrull minion.

And it starts off, they're on the Skrull planet yeah which i believe is called scrollos but maybe it isn't don't correct me if it's not uh see it could be a joke but i think it's actually called scrollos great anyway i'm assuming they're on the planet scrollos yeah and they're just watching the fantastic four on a screen yes they're all the fantastic four are just standing somewhere yeah they really are they're like we're Fantastic Four on a screen. Yes. The Fantastic Four are just standing somewhere. Yeah, they really are. And they're like, we're going to send a deadly raid and destroy the Fantastic Four. Let's do it now.

We'll watch them on the television and they push the button and they're like, oh no, there's an invisible force field that's bending back her rays. We can't kill the Fantastic Four. The invisible girl did it. Yeah. But she barely moves and they don't react nobody reacts yeah it's so strange and then when they actually cut to them later on earth they're not talking about

they're not like hey remember that when we felt that weird ray on us remember that yeah i don't know what that bit was yeah that's when they reveal their new great weapon something that is actually we've seen it in comics since. It's a pretty significant foe. Yeah, for sure. The Super Skrull. Yes. For sure.

And he arrives as dramatically as you might imagine the Super Skrull would. The scientist pushes a button on the wall and the section of the wall opens and a little wooden gangplank sort of drips out. And then he arrives on the gangplank. He's just been sitting in a wall for a while, I guess. Yeah.

And Muscle Crawfed. Yes. It's like, what's so good about this guy? And he's like, well, he's got, well, check out these powers. Watch this. See how far he can stretch. This is my favourite moment.

It's the best. Because he's like, well, the whole thing, this whole extended, two far extended sequence. First of all, he's like, watch him stretch a million miles and go into the ocean and get a fish.

And he goes in the ocean and he gets the fish and he comes back and then he stretches his arm and he gives the king a fish. That also implies that, like he caught a fish with his bare hands. That's pretty good. And also, what if he went in there and he's like, there's no fish, boss.

There's just no fish. I mean, I'm stretchy't like i also can't see underwater you got one of those tvs that could look anywhere that could maybe you can find me a fish give me a fishing rod or something i mean they're slippery i mean i've got stretch i'm stretchy but i'm not it's a slippery fish i couldn't get a fish anyway i'm sorry luckily musseldorf is impressed though yeah oh shit this guy's incredible and then he shows him more of his his powers he lifts an 100 ton cosmic generator that powers the planet yeah and i'm thinking don't pick that up like that's powering the planet yeah

what are you doing leave it yeah it's probably got wires connected to it just we cut to the hospital and the scroll doctors are like everybody's life support switched off i don't know what's happening this is bad i don't know he's also got This is bad. I don't know. He's also got fire powers, obviously. And then my... Here's my favourite part of it. Yeah. He goes, where's the Skrull gone? He's gone.

He's gone from here. He's just... Is he run away or something? I don't understand. Your Skrull's no good. Where's he gone? And I'm like, you haven't twigged at this point? He's got the powers of the Fantastic Four.

You idiot. He's turned invisible because it's the invisible woman's power set. He's got the powers, yeah. He's in one and you just, are you an idiot? He's an idiot. Your planet deserves to be destroyed or whatever's happening here. Whatever happens in this, yeah. So the Super Skrull promises to go to Earth so that the Emperor can rule Earth

because he wants it for whatever reasons. I don't know why. Fishing, presumably, because that impresses him the fantastic four in a department store and uh mrs fantastic the girl says i just love fashion she just loves fashion opening line and reads like well you can body stand here mate but i'm gonna go check out the books because i'm smart and you're dumb why'd they get married he's also holding a pipe he's holding because that's oh the golden era he can just smoke indoors i don't know that you can smoke a pipe indoors but i mean like because in the comic books currently you read richards is very is it is the smartest man in the world potentially but sue storm is also you know very she's she's way up

there she's also incredibly smart but not a prick like exactly but like i guess in the 60s she was just an idiot yeah 60s she was just an idiot yeah i think was she just arm candy for reed richards so yeah well she doesn't do much until she does the most important thing yeah she kind of they kind of stand her back for a lot of this she could have stopped a lot of this really just snuck in and snapped his neck yeah yeah anyway johnny says something along the lines of it must be a gas to work at this store because of chicks because of chicks there's so many chicks I thought he was going to say

because of all the great wonderful items on sale but he's like chicks baby that's what I love yeah classic Johnny Storm I'll harass whoever I want

I love it it's the era for it baby the thing hey toots the thing's also being a prick he's like you got a bowling ball big enough for me

and they're like yeah we've got one and then he's like crush and he crutches a bowling ball don't do that are you gonna pay for that doing yeah the guy was helping you he was trying his hardest it's not his fault that you can crush like 20 ton they don't have that they don't have a bowling ball for that get reed richards to make one out of a compressed diamond or some shit also here's the thing about a bowling balls have holes in them so you can put

because your hands are too small to hold a bowling ball the thing could just hold a bowling ball like it's a tennis ball you just throw it it's irrelevant to him if it's got little holes in it yeah just fill the holes in i agree yeah anyway cut to time square an alien spaceship has landed it is the super scroll himself he decides to plant the imperial flag this is my favorite bit it's just a red flag first of all First of all it's a red flag This whole thing's a bloody red flag Anyway but he gets his little flag

Even though he's got the strength of the thing Allegedly He just sort of taps it into the ground And it doesn't go in And there's some rando in the crowd It's made of cement you idiot You fucking muppet And he's like no matter So made of cement, you idiot. You fucking Muppet.

And he's like, no matter. So he uses Johnny Storm's firepower to drill a hole. But we don't see him put the flag in at any point. At one point it cuts to a news report of this guy. And he's just standing around. Flag's gone. Flag's gone. What's he up to? What's this guy up to?

I don't know. What's this guy up to? What's he doing? I wrote this quote down. What's this guy up to? I don't know. What's this guy up to? What's he doing? I wrote this quote down. This is what Mr. Fantastic says when he turns up. So there you are, whoever you are. Nice. Good.

There's some punching. Reid's going to punch you, but the guy grabs a dome from a neighboring building and Reid hits that. And he's like, my arm, it's numb. He immediately is down on his knees. He's out for the count. This show is great for if you didn't quite know what was happening from a visual standpoint, the characters will tell you everything they're doing and thinking and what they're going to do. So don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it.

It's cartons for dummies. That's right. Don't even worry. We got this. Luckily, the Thing busts him. And with his brute strength, they have a bit of a punch on. But the guy has a greater strength than the thing. He can lift 100 ton.

He can lift a generator that you shouldn't lift, as we saw. That's right. And then he goes, the thing, I'm going to stop you. And the way I'm going to do that is I choose to become a battering ram. And his head turns into a ram's head. Yes. And he battering rams him off the building yeah and the thing catches the spire on top of a different building is it the empire state building

it's yeah sure i mean i don't know what anything's supposed to look like yeah right let's say that it is so this is the point where the scroll starts using different powers against the fantastic four than the powers that they have like he's not just using the flame powers on Johnny Storm. Although he does that. He does that, yeah. And he gets him a bloody ripper. I thought they wouldn't do it. Me too.

So kudos for thinking outside the box, is what I'm saying. Yeah, right. But also, you can't use the Human Torch's flame against him. No. It doesn't work. He's involved in the fire. Well, it does, though, and it does work. No, but it does work.

But I'm saying, technically, it's almost like this wasn't particularly accurate to the original comic books. You can't have the Human Torch with the fire. It doesn't work. That's true. But I'm saying, technically, it's almost like this wasn't particularly accurate to the original comic book. You can't have the human torture the fire. It doesn't work. That's true. You'd be like, nah. But Johnny hits him with some fire, though. The thing throws the spire of what may or may not be the Empire State Building.

And then an arrow hits them. But they're like, where did that flame arrow come from? This guy has three of our powers. Yes. That's it, it would seem i mean of the three of us us three amazing superheroes and adventurers he's used all our powers and now he's gone he's invisible but he's not really invisible because he's holding a flaming bow on top of a building one of the invisible woman's powers is you can create invulnerable force fields yes just do Just do that.

Do that. Just put it around their heads and they'll all die. Yep, exactly. Put it around their heads and they'll all suffocate. I love this bit, though, where the Super Skrull explains, he's like, don't you see that I have all of your powers? We know. They probably know, too.

They know now. They know now. But they definitely know at this point, and everybody watching knows. So they decide to run home to the Baxter building. Cowards. Yeah, exactly. Waiting for an attack. The thing's looking out there with a little telescope.

I'm sure Reed would probably have some motion sensor shit set up, but I guess not. Just get the thing on a little telescope. Just looking out one side of the building. You'll probably see this invisible man approaching. so reed's working on a plan and this is when this is sue's chance to shine here we go what they need to do is get someone invisible but who to sneak up to sneak up and what about a man what about the thing in a sheet just cover him in a sheet and he could walk up slowly but he couldn't see out of the sheet. Cut holes in the sheet. That's good. Thank you.

Why didn't they do that? Yeah, right? It makes a lot more sense. I mean, the three of them. I mean, you know, he's... Of the three Fantastic Four. Then he's obviously the most capable, you know? I agree.

Yeah. But it turns out that the Super Skrull is getting his powers from back on the planet of Skrullios. Skrullos. Skrullos. I'm going to look that up. They're beaming the powers to him. So this, if they get this receiver on him, it will jam the powers. Yes.

Yeah. So there you go. How are they going to get it on him, though? That's a good question. I mean, Reed Richards could stretch over there and put it on him. Human Torch could fly over there and get it on him. Yep. The thing could jump over.

Sheet on. Sheet on him and jump over and put it on him. And that's all. That's all the things you could do. He'd probably see all that coming. So, I mean, they're stumped, aren't they? Anyway, they need to get him to a secluded spot, Crater Island, it's called.

So Reed sends out his public address system, which is a box with a megaphone on it. It's a flying box. He's a genius. It's not just a box. He doesn't mail it out. Which yells instructions at the Super Scroll to visit this place.

And he's like, yeah, all right, I'll do it. I'll meet you at this crater island on your Earth world. So anyway, they increase the Skrull's powers from planet Skrullos. He's just pulling this one lever. He's like, yeah, it's at max. This is going to be great. Well, pull it further. You can't.

It's at max. He says it's at max. All right. Musseldorf or whatever says do it, and he does it. They can't make a bloody dent in him. The thing's hitting away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Johnny Storm gets knocked down.

He's shooting his fire at him. That's not working. It's not working. The bloody Mr. Fantastic's getting his big old fists going. Yeah. That's not working. And that's all the Fantastic Four, you know? That's all they can do, unfortunately.

It's all three of the Fantastic Four. That's all their powers. Luckily, we don't know who. The receiver just appears on this super scrawl. Yeah. Somebody, we don't know who someone invisible or maybe the wind caught it we probably caught it yeah out of the fantastic car and then just landed on his back so it blocks his powers so he goes to use his johnny storm powers

but he can't and the scrolls back home they're furious they're ropeable and ben beats the shit out of him yeah and he's like I'll escape I would have loved yeah go ahead yeah yeah he turns into a bird a blue bird

he flies up and he's like I'm out of here but then Reed Richards catches him I'm catching birds mate yeah

what I would have loved then is just a 10 minute sequence where the Fantastic Four just beat him up he's powerless on the ground and they just beat him up they beat him senseless well

because what else are you going to do like just beat him up they beat him senseless well because what else are you gonna do he's gonna like he says he you know he just they put him in jail it's just gonna escape it's a good beat him up just beat him up like if you come back we will beat you up again but they realize that they can't put him in jail because they're fairly confident he'll escape yeah so reed grabs him and he's like spare me and they're like what are we gonna do and he's like i want to live i don't but i what are we going to do? And he's like, I want to live. But I can't go back to the Skrull home world. They don't like me because I'm bad at this thing that I'm supposed to be doing or whatever.

And they're like, I know what we'll do. We'll blot out his memory. And not only that, we'll get him to change into a cow. Now he's permanently a cow on a deserted island where there's no food or resources. He's going to die on an island and soon. Yes. Yes. Also a cow, not a bull, just to be clear.

Yes. But also, if you can blot out his memories, just blot out he's a bad guy. Yeah. That would work. Yep. He could do good. Yeah. Yep.

But I mean, Reed Richards wouldn't allow it because his ego wouldn't. Yeah. You can't have a guy who's got all four powers of the three members of the Fantastic Four. That's right. Whatever's going on here. Look, man, it's not that bad. It's pretty bad. It's kind of funny.

I liked it. It wasn't intentionally funny, though. No, definitely not. I don't think there was an intentional joke in it, but a lot of it was very humorous to me. And I would recommend whatever this show is called in whatever year it came out fantastic for 1967 it's also the one before they replaced the human torch with with robbie the herbie the robot robbie the robot herbie the robot herbie the robbie the robot herbie the robbie the robot excellent the scrolls originate from the planet of scrollos and were originally

a mercantile civilization primarily interested in free trade nice yeah then i guess they went to world domination and beaming lasers to other scrolls on other planets. I understand that, yeah. And turning into birds and such. Is that where this planet is going? Is that where we're heading? Yeah, I think so. Great. Beaming lasers, yeah. Cool.

Yeah, pretty good, right? Anyway, this has been Caravan of Garbage. We do this here every Tuesday, but there's also videos here on Sunday and Thursday. Yes. And listen up. There's an extended version of this below if you want to check it out. And hey, there's a video version of this if you want to check it out. You do two versions of that? Yes, I do.

And you were cool and casual with both of them. You turned your chair around and you straddled it and you put a cap on back as you knew it. Hey, cool cats. Listen up. Listen up. There's another. Let me wrap it to you.

There's another version of this. You know what? On a different format. It's a special occasion. I'm going gonna leave both in for the audio version so then we're gonna hear how things play out here a little peek behind the curtain incredible yeah uh look if you've got something to recommend for caravan of garbage it might be a video game it might be a comic book it might be a movie it might be a wonderful show from the 60s oh please there's got to be some there's got to be some hidden gems from the 60s because that's an era that's difficult.

It's harder than you'd think to track down because a lot of this animated stuff from back then just hasn't made it to home video, you know? That's right. And what a shame that is. We also have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. This is it.

That's out every Monday. We're definitely not a Captain Marvel episode. You know it. We hope you bloody swing by for that. Swing by just like Captain Marvel. That's very good. You know? Yeah.

Swing it on our webs. I understand that. It's Captain Marvel,ing by just like Captain Marvel. That's very good. You know, like swinging on her webs. I understand that. That's Captain Marvel, right? I like her cape. Me too. Anyways, have a good time, everybody. Grab that gem, you guys. We'll see you next week.

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fx is the veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.