Too Scary; Didn't Watch - THE BLOB (1958)

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

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This is a headgum podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies I'm Henley and I am also too scared to watch scary movies I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them so that you don't have to and we have a real throwback today

we don't do a lot of older movies and I'm very excited me too and if you dear listener are so excited that you want to get straight to that recap there are timestamps in the show notes because first I have to ask my beautiful, stunning, amazing, wonderful co-hosts. Oh, my God.

Did anything scary happen to you guys this week? Not anymore. Everything's perfect now, baby. Yeah, I mean, I went to the desert this weekend, which I love to do. Went to Joshua Tree, which I don't do as much as I go to Palm Springs. I more often go to Palm Springs. But it was very lovely.

But we stayed in this pretty big house in kind of the middle of of no or is a group of us. But the way that the house was set up is it was like a main house and then like some steps away like a little guest house. And so some of us had to stay in the guest house. And those some of us were me and Joel. So every night I had to like walk through the dark to get to this separate house. And I like to go to bed earlier than Joel likes to go to particularly when we're like out hanging with friends and I was like well I'm gonna and I can't lock the door because he has to come in later yeah so just all the time I was a little bit like well this could be it and it's dark it's really dark it's really dark you could you would not be able to see if someone was lurking this shower there was a window at the top of the shower that like was really the perfect height for a man to just come and walk right up and and like look in as if preparing to murder me. Yeah.

And so I would be like, every night when I was showering, I would be like, don't look in the window, don't like in the window, just be here to shower. Just don't worry about it. And I would just like, look at the window. And I'd be like, no, it's fine, just keep talking to ignore the window. Like, I couldn't not. Like, I was thinking about how talking about so many scary movies has, in a way, has made me braver in life.

But it has also made me more aware of just all the many possibilities of the situations that could happen in a place like this. yeah so I was just I was on just high alert the most pretty much all weekend the most scared I've ever been was in Joshua Tree for no reason I also have like a scary Joshua Tree memory it's it's you're really isolated which probably means you're safer but like the thing is if you're not you're fucked exactly so I mean all the cabin in the woods every single one the strangers the rental I mean I'm thinking about I'm thinking about all these things um yeah We went and we, I probably smoked a little bit too much weed.

And then everyone wanted to watch Halloween, the one with Jamie Lee Curtis. Obviously, I wasn't going to do that. The one with Jamie Lee Curtis. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. The one with Jamie Lee Curtis is come back. I think she's not in season of the witch. So the new, like the Halloween.

Halloween, the one, yes, when she returned. Like the like, you know, Jamie Lee Curtis resurgence. She's an adult. Yes. Well, she went, yeah, but. Yeah, you get it. How do we get it? Anyway. So I then had to excuse myself and go to the bedroom by myself and listen to, I listened to NPR, Terry Gross, fresh air. Not even sure what interview, what the content was because I was so just the idea of Halloween, just the concept of it without watching a single frame of the movie, scared me so bad. I was thinking in my head, how do I escape this place? if someone attacks how do I like looking at a map well and that's just good sense come like figuring out

like a route to the nearest road if I need to go by foot how are we going if I can get a car how am I get in the car like going through all the scenarios when I was in the bathroom bathroom with the door shut I was like okay if I open this door and there's someone out there what I was like hair dryer I'll grab the hairdry I'll whack him with it when I was back at my bed I was looking around like there was like a ceramic snake thing on my bedside table and I was like well I grab this and I like you just The heaviest object. Yeah, you just need to be aware of, like, what you can use in your media surroundings to have, like, a moment, a momentary weapon.

And that, again, is just good sense. So I realize this recently, and I don't know whether this is on purpose or not, but subconsciously, every lamp I've bought can be shattered and used as, like, a glass weapon. Like, every single lamp that I have in my house has, like, a glass feature that I'm pretty sure subconsciously, I'm always thinking, well, I could smash that and use that to hurt someone That isn't good to have at the bedside just in case. Just in case. I agree, though.

I do, for the most part, I don't get too scared outside of watching scary movies and even inside of watching scary movies. But sometimes what will happen to me, if I wake up at like two or three in the morning after having a bad dream and I'm alone, I get like, I have to really ward off the scary movie thoughts. And the one that always comes for me is Gerald's game. just the big man in the corner of the room when she's handcuffed to the bed and I'm always like he's not in the corner he's not in the corner he's not in the corner he's not in the corner it's yeah yeah and he's not which is really one he's not and that's really great and no one came to murder me or if they you know maybe people were lurking about but they didn't try to kill us you know yeah and I think I also think too when I'm getting scared in that moment as I'm like

probably this isn't going to happen odds are low and if it is going to happen it's happening like what am I supposed to do you know I'll fight it. I'll fight it best I can. But other than that, it's happening. So anyway, I made it. But the desert's a scary place. And honestly, really the scariest thing that happened is I spent a weekend with friends and I was up too late every night and I'm tired. This didn't get enough sleep. That's the real scary thing. That's the real scary thing. It's terrifying. What about you guys? My beautiful, perfect, sensational, incredible friends. I have an actual kind of scary thing that's a PSA for all of our listeners, which I didn't know about this. I think I told you guys about this, but maybe I didn't. So in my family, we've recently discovered that we have a genetic disorder. It sounds more intense than it is. But my uncle figured it out, and then we all had to get tested. And I have something called LPA cholesterol.

And this is not something that is measured during a normal cholesterol blood exam. You have to ask specifically for this test, and it's a genetic condition. So there's no controlling it. There's nothing you can do to control this. My brother and sister don't have it. My mom does have it, and her brother has it, and skipped over my brother and sister, landed with me. And basically, I just have like a super elevated type of cholesterol called LPA that does affect

me. and I have to go see a cardiologist. So I'm going to see a cardiologist in January. That was the earliest appointment I could get. Is this lipoprotein A? I guess so. Yeah, lipoprotein A. I have this too.

I know about this because all my cholesterol is good except for the genetic one that, like, you can't do anything about. Wait, do I have this? I might have this. Well, see, for me, like you have to, the reason I'm saying it's a PSA is because you have to specifically ask. Yeah, they don't usually do it in regular blood tests.

Yeah, for this to be. tested and yeah so mine's super elevated and super elevated yeah it's really high um i know but you wouldn't know unless you ask for this specific test well that's not right i know um and also clearly common sammy you have it too it seems like they should just start testing people for them let's just test for this one too well we're at it why not anyway so i might have to like start taking a statin or i don't know I don't know what I'm going to have to do. Wow. But I feel like old age is really coming for me, you know?

It's really, it is really wild to be like, we're not old. We're not. In fact, several people commented in the hocus pocus bonus recap that we just did. We were all really laughing about the tagline in the trailer. Like, they love to fly and it shows. And we're like, what the fuck is out? That's so stupid. Apparently that's like from a very, very famous commercial in the 80s.

Oh, really? Too young So I know we're young I know we're young But we're not so young That our bodies aren't starting to fail us Like we are at the We're like kind of approaching

Slash our in middle age Age Yeah It's just like we're not so young That our bodies are not affected By our lifestyles I suppose Is like just the reality I also I mean

And this is like gonna get dark So I'll move on quickly But like yeah just to dip a toe To dip a toe like There are a lot of bad things in our diet and health and like I think it's affecting young people earlier

and I like saw some tweet that was like people in their 20s and 30s should not like actually be feeling like they're aging and and their bodies are breaking like that's actually not normal and we live in a world in which that is kind of accelerating

so let's not dwell too much on that now we're going to just skip like a rock skipping on water we're just going to And just we're just going to go right on past that. But I think it is a good reminder. Everybody, you know, advocate for yourselves at the doctor, get the blood tests that you need and do what you can to keep yourselves healthy. Oh, boy, oh boy.

And also be aware of grifters because there are so many people out there. Oh, my God. You know we're scared about this and are like, buy my supplements, do this thing, be angry about this thing. This is the like far left to far right pipeline. It's in the health industry. I feel like this is kind of a... See your doctor, trust your doctor,

but be questioning and do your own research, but make sure you're doing your research in the right place because people are going to try to take you the wrong thing when you do your research. And they're going to say... It's very hard. It's very, very hard. Yeah, all of a sudden, you're like following RFK Jr. And we don't want to be going that far.

We did, and we did recently start to somewhat question human design. So I feel like, you know, if somebody claims to tell you they have all the answers, they probably don't. But if they mean it and it's true, tell me because I do want to know. It would be really nice. If someone has all the answers for real and only for real, let me know. Yeah, like, for example, I want to see another psychic soon.

So if anyone has any suggestions for like a great psychic, let me know because I want to get on the wait list now. I did see a shooting star in the desert. Oh, that's fun. Which is really exciting. And I made a wish. So that should be coming true. So that, I'd just all just say that like, so your psychics, wish on your stars, find the answers where you can. It's exactly, exactly.

It's hard out there, you guys. Yeah, I do need to get that tested again, although I'm guessing it's still high since there's nothing you can do about it. I think that it just stays. But if you need a statin or something, you should get one of those. Well, and also, I think I might, I think your lifestyle does, I think eventually I will have to maybe just. stop subsisting off of scotch and pizza. I think that that's probably... But I don't want to.

I don't want to. No, it's not fair. My scary thing is not too scary. It's pretty light, pretty light. But it was upsetting to me, which is that long time listeners will know are not that long if you've been listening in the last few months. You'll know that I recently moved to a new house, and it is a house. I was previously always in apartments.

And for Halloween, I never would get trick-or-treaters. Oh, did you get trick-or-treaters? I would be, like, my front door was, like, in the driveway behind the apartment building or whatever. So I was so excited because now I'm in a house and I had decorated it, made it look very welcoming. So cute. Orange lights, purple lights. open the gate. I told nobody to park in front of the gate so that it wouldn't discourage anybody from trying to approach the house. I bought so much Halloween candy. Oh, my God. And not one single

trick-or-or-treater. Wait, this happened to me in New York, and it's heartbreaking. Oh, so sad. It's heartbreaking. Because there was a lot of talk in our New York City apartment about how, like, all the kids were going to go to every apartment and trick-or-treat and blah, blah, blah. And I don't know what happened. They just like didn't come to our apartment for some reason. But I was like there with the trick or treat like with the candy like I'm ready to go. It's like getting stood up for a date. Like it's like you're like all dressed up. You're excited. You've got big plans. It's really sad. You don't know when to like call it. Call it quits. Maybe. Maybe if I wait just a little bit longer. It was too early before. I did a little bit suspect that this might happen only because we're pretty near. a very good flat neighborhood where all the houses were really decorated and I live in just a little bit hillyer of a section of it. And so I kind of was like, I bet people are going to take their kids to just like those six blocks away. It's like so close, but. Yeah, I don't know if this is like an everywhere and everywhere thing these days or if it's an LA thing. But like people like go to a place

to trick or treat now in LA. Like everyone I know with kids is like, well, you go to to this area with all the trick-or-treating. Like, people don't just trick-or-treat in their own neighborhoods, which is that like a thing everywhere? I don't know, but we also discovered this the hard way last year because in Greenwich, we went to a Halloween party and then we thought, like, oh, we'll just trick-or-treat on this street afterwards. And then we started knocking on these doors and people are like, uh...

What the fuck are you doing? I might have some candy in the back here. And we were like, oh, clearly this is not a street for trick-or-treating, I guess. And then we had to text people to be like, where did we go now? So weird. Like, I grew up in a very, like, family-oriented neighborhood in the fucking suburbs, but, like, you literally just, you'd walk to your neighbor's house and then their neighbor's house. And it was like, you just, you walk out your front door and you do a lap and you get your candy and that's that. I definitely, as a kid, drove to a different neighborhood, was driven to a different neighborhood to trick-or-treat because I didn't live in, like, the suburby part.

But would it be, like, a friend's neighborhood? Was it just like you go to like a spot? It was like near the high school. Like all the like by all the schools was kind of the spot that everybody would go to. But I feel like my current neighborhood just looks like there could be trick or treaters. I know. It's really it's like it's a real little neighborhood. You would think it fits the bill visually.

I don't know what. I think you have to like start a grassroots campaign, you know. Yeah. Start start start campaigning now. To my house. It's normal. I just want your kids to come here. But, okay, should we talk about this week's movie?

Yes, please. This week we're going to be talking about the blob. The 1958 movie, The Blob. Wow. Correspondent, Wes from Tooth and Claw, was telling me that he was, like, surprised I had never seen this movie. And so he put it in my mind, and it is also an hour and 22, minutes and I I realized I had to watch a movie for this at 9 p.m. on Thursday night and was like, what's the shortest movie I can find? Because I got to be in bed by 10.30 or I'll turn to dust.

So the blob it is. And the blob was directed by Irvin Yeworth and Russell Doughton, written by Theodore Simonson and K. Linneker, story by Irvine H. Militate. That might have been an auto-correct that I feel like. I don't think that's his name. Starring Steve McQueen, Anita Cressott, Earl Roe, Stephen Chase, John Benson, and George Karris. It is streaming on Hulu. Have you guys seen this movie? Nope.

Never. Is it what Flubber's based off of? I'm sure there was some influence. Some inspiration on Flubber. Yeah. I do know that my mom saw Steve McQueen at a shopping mall one time and like Peter Pants. Like Steve McQueen was like the coolest, hottest guy around. That can't possibly have been his real name, right? Steve McQueen, that's a great question. I don't know. I've only seen my God. He only lived to be 50? Yeah, I was reading, I'll talk a little bit about that

because there's some relevant trivia. Who played him in Once Upon Our Time in Hollywood? That I do not know. But yeah, this was my first time seeing this movie as well. It's very fun. It's not too scary for our listeners that are scared of scary movies. This one's pretty manageable. Oh, it's the red-headed guy.

Oh, oh, that makes sense. Oh, yeah, yeah, from... I know, he's at Homeland. From Homeland, yeah. Damien Lewis, Damien Lewis. Yeah. That's his name? That's, doesn't ring any bells to me.

It's not weird. Yeah, but that is his name, though. So Steve McQueen seemed to be, his name was Terrence. Terrence Stephen McQueen. Oh, McQueen was his actual last name. That's pretty cool. Kind of like how Tom Cruise is a longer name and that, but his last name, like, Cruz is in the name.

sometimes you just get a cool name. And if Steve's his middle name, that's like, he didn't really change his. Like, I know people that go by their middle names. No, that's, he was allowed. And you know what? He does look like Damien Lewis. Wait, you guys, he did use an alias, though. When he was racing cars, he referred to himself as Harvey Mushman.

Harvey Mushman. Oh, wow. Mushman doesn't really. Which is interesting, because then in the movie Cars, the main cars name is Lightning McQueen. I was going to say Steve McCorm. sounds like a faster name than Harvey Mushman. But maybe that was part of the strategy. They'll think he's slow.

Throw a loft. You know what else? Mushman kind of reminds me of? A blob. Same. Wow. It's all coming together. The blob has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 58 on Metacritic, and a 6.3 on IMDB.

The budget was 110,000, and it made 4 million. So quite successful. It's 110,000 in 1958. You have no idea. Couldn't possibly find out. But 4 million is a lot more. It's a lot more. Yeah.

Kind of any which way you slice it. Yeah, exactly. This was Steve McQueen's first starring role. He was offered $2,500 or 10% of the profits. And he took the $2,500 because the film was not expected to do very well. That's a bummer. Real bummer because it did, as we just said, make $4 million.

Yeah. I am going to have to do this math here and see 10%. It's about like $400,000. I mean, less than that. $400,000 versus $2,500. So more again. So more, a lot more. A significantly more.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I think he did fine. Yeah. And, yeah, there was a piece of trivia that he, He smoked nonstop during this movie and presumably throughout his whole life, but was like such a heavy smoker that he could not like make it through takes without smoking. So there's certain scenes where you see him like hiding cigarettes behind his back. So you don't actually see him smoking in the film, but, um, ooh, that makes me feel really gross.

And yeah, he did die of lung cancer. So that. To need to smoke so badly, you like, it's like air to you. Well, and I'm not positive, but this might have been the time where people were like, well, smoking's really good for you. No, yeah, I mean, I don't blame him, but that, just imagine that feeling, that, like, physical sensation. Yeah. Would be tough. Yeah, it's tough.

The blob was created mostly with silicone mixed with red vegetable dye, and it still exists today. The original blob is kept in its original container somewhere. It's not on display. It's just somewhere. I was like looking it up like oh can I go see it I was like no no no but it's it's somewhere but nobody can see it oh very funny and it is in the criterion collection spine 91

which just means it's an old movie I guess or it was like oh 91 it was so low and then this really made me laugh the original title for this movie was The Glob It's not quite right It's not quite right But I do like the vibe

Of it The Glob the plob The blob The blob The blob We're so close We're so close God what is it

What is it what is it? Yeah the glob Blob is better than Glob for sure I agree So that's all the trivia I have This trailer is spoilery But you know Who cares? Who cares?

I'm excited to watch this trailer I want to see a trailer from 1958 Yeah I think let's take a look Let's do it Dave Doc Hallan's been killed Doc Hallin what happened It's over at his place

You gotta come now Oh wait a minute Steve Tell us what happened Well I'm trying to tell you Now this thing had killed The doc. What was it? Stop with it, kid.

Well, it's kind of like a mass that keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's... Every one of you watching this screen, look out. Because soon, very soon, the most horrifying monster menace ever conceived will be oozing into this theater. Two teenagers see it first. Two teenagers see it first, like a falling star from outer space. Boy, that was close. Come on, I want to see if I can find it.

An old man finds it, touches it, and this is the shocking result. From then on there's no stopping the blob as it spreads from town to town. It's indestructible, it's indescribable. Nothing can stop it. This town is in danger. How can it be stopped? How can it be stopped? Mob hysteria sweeps one city before long the nation. And then the world could fall before the blood-curdling threat of the Bob.

Starring Steve McQueen and a cast of exciting young people. Nasty. A cast of exciting young people. I also love, it's like, Steve McQueen, they're like, two teenagers. Like, this man looks like he's been. smoking nonstop for fucking 20 years. It's crazy. He looks 45.

He is 28 if it was 1958, but he, this is when 28 year olds looked 50. Yeah. So many things. One kind of fucked up that Steve McQueen died of cancer, died of like a mass growing inside of him. Oh, sorry. I'm so sorry, but that was like the first thing I thought of. That was top of mind for me.

and then also it would suck if this happened I mean it would It would really suck It seems like You could probably run away from it It does seem very slow But like pretty bit Like you can see it

You know you can see it Yeah But I mean I guess you'll tell us what happens But my first thought is like Well just don't be where the blamas It's like be somewhere else Right right right But it can sneak up

Sure sure And I mean that one guy who touched it And oh man touches it And look what happens Well he didn't know But I wouldn't touch It? No.

If I could avoid it? No. No. Ew. Is it red because of all the bodies it's absorbed? It's like filled with blood? I think so because it kind of, it doesn't really start red at the beginning. Ew.

Nasty. Oh, yeah, it's pretty gross. It's pretty gross. It really does just look like thick red jello in like a nasty way. Yeah. The trailer was fun just because I love these like re-reel. stylized or what's it called refurbished old films and being able to see it so clearly the like technicolor is really really fun and really really like it and also makes it even

more ludicrous the way they're talking to each other which is like they're talking in that 1950 speak which is they've moved away from mid-Atlantic a little bit but it's still that like hey they're like come check out this it got the dark yeah yeah It's very funny. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm ready to find out about the blob. The blob, formerly known as the glob.

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And if you're looking for the perfect gifts for everyone on your list, the Skims Holiday Shop is now open at skims.com. we start with the opening credits old movies you know how they do the credits at the top so we get a couple minutes of credits a couple of cool minutes of all the things and there's an original song that has been composed for it that's like be careful of the blob the blob it creeps and crawls and the blob the blob it's a pretty catchy song and then we see our two main characters ste and Jane, his name is Steve in the movie, Steve McQueen, and they are at some sort of makeout point on like a little cliff in the woods, turn off, and they are making out. It's a pretty weird scene to start off with

because they're making out, and then Jane kind of pulls away and accuses him of like doing this with all the girls type of thing. she feels like like she's been played he's a young teen boy exactly and he's reassuring

her and saying I've never taken anybody else up here before and she feels like suspicious of him but then he does seem very sincere and so she kind of softens and it's like okay I believe you and

then they see what looks like a huge shooting star or a meteor I guess more so that crashes into the ground nearby and Steve who was previously like really trying to make out with Jane is like oh a thing crashed over there like let's go see it he's just like we got to go see the thing fair and Emily does this make you worried about seeing more shooting stars in the future no no because I'm like once again if it's happening It's happening, man. Yeah.

That is so Buddhist with you. What am I supposed to do? I'd rather see it than not see it. Yeah, that's true. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And this does look distinct from a shooting star. It's, like, definitely a meteor.

It's pretty big. Mine looks typical. You see it crash all the way into the, like, horizon line, whereas shooting stars usually start in space and in space. You just see them for a second a little. Yeah. Oh, it is so nice to see a shooting star, you guys. It's very happy to see it. um so they head off to try to find it we're in small town pennsylvania by the way 19 the years

1957 so they drive off to try to go find it cut to an old man being woken up by his dog barking and barking and barking at something outside he goes out to what kind of dog i don't know it's the kind it's like a scruffy little dog it's not a yorky but it's like a little carrier, like a wiry guy? Yeah, it's something like a terrier. And he goes outside to investigate, brings a little lantern, and walks to find the side of the meteor crash. There's just like a big, you know, caved out part in the earth with a small, like, like a basketball sized rock in the middle. He grabs a stick immediately starts poking it, poking it. Now, this much I might do.

Yeah, you're going to poke it. You got a poking. And it cracks open like an egg, and there's some goo inside. And again, he's got a stick and he's poking, poking, poking. It's like a really jabbing at this goo. And the goo wraps around the stick. And he's kind of mesmerized by it. He picks up the stick now.

He's looking at it, twirling it all around. It does look cool, and it is pretty clear at this point, not red. And it's like dripping down the stick towards his hand, and he kind of flips it over at the last second to be like, oh, I don't want to get this on my hand. And then it moves against gravity and wraps around his hand. Okay, I forgive him. I forgive him a little bit more. Yeah, it, I mean. Still probably should have stopped poking it when it became an egg.

but yeah curiosity killed the cat you know that's i was just about to say and he recoils drops the stick he looks like it's painful and scary and he's kind of stumbling backwards uh yelling for help and as he's kind of running through the woods he's like running out towards the road it's pretty isolated there's not like a lot of houses around but he runs into the middle of the road just as Steve and Jane are driving in that direction. They slam on the brakes, almost hit him. And he, like, falls down and he's calling like, help, please help me. Doesn't really explain what has happened, but shows them his hand is covered in goo.

And he's like, a doctor, I need the doctor, I need the doctor. And he's like, well, let me get the goo off your hand. And he says, no. And he's like, okay. So they load him into the back of the car and say, I sure hope the doc is. is in, cut to the doctor in his home office, I believe, calling a neighbor saying, okay, I'm closing up shop. If you could keep an eye on the place while I'm gone, I'll be back tomorrow. And he's locking up and about to head out when Steve and Jane and the old man pull up.

They catch him just in the nick of time. Oh, and we had seen as they were driving there, Steve's driving very fast. Steve McQueen, after all. Yeah, of course. Or Miss Harvey Mush. Hushman. Mushman. Mr.

Mushman. And he... Steve McQueen is slow. Steve McQueen is fast. Yeah, exactly. So we saw him driving fast and overtaking a car with three other high school, quote-unquote, guys inside this car. And they kind of are like, what the heck?

That's Steve. put a pin in that we're coming back to that okay so now steve and jaden bring the old man to the doctor they say doc doc we need your help and the doc's like all right bring him in unlocks the office they go back inside they get the old man onto a like a little table thing lay him down he's saying it hurts it hurts it hurts we get another look at at the blob and it's gotten bigger. It seems like it has spread further down his arm. Steve is very shocked by this.

He's like, that's not what it looked like before it's changing. It's growing. The doctor is scratching his head. He's never seen anything like this. He's like grabbing medical books off the shelves and like thumbing through them. Like, what is this blob? What the heck? And he's, I think he gives the old man something for the pain and kind of,

of covers him up and it's like, yeah, I've got to do my, got to do some research here and figure out what's going on. And he asks Steve if he can go back to where he found the old man and see if there's anyone who saw anything or if he can get any information that might be useful. So Steve and Jane leave the doctor's office to head back towards the old man's house. But as they get into their car, the three other guys we saw are waiting for them by the car and confront them. And they say, hey, Steve, you broke my record, like high speed record back there. And now you're, now you have the crown. And I want it back.

And so I have to challenge you to a race. Oh, my God. And Steve is like, yeah, okay. Well, at first he's like, he's like, I don't want the crown. You just take it. And they're like, no, no, no. This is what people were doing before cell phones. Right, right.

Let's just. I guess we have to race now. Just race in the middle of the road. I'm fucking bored. In the middle of the night. And the lead guy is, I can't remember his name, Tony or something. I'll call him Tony. Tony's like, yeah, you can't just say that you don't want the crown.

I have to take it back from you. I have to beat you in a race. And I could, I'm going to beat you so good. This is how the crown works. I could beat you backwards, even if we were going backwards. And Steve is like, all right, let's have a backwards race. And Tony's kind of like, what? And he calls his bluff, I guess.

And so they are racing backwards. Oh, my God. Driving fast backwards through the night. The original Too Fast, Too Furious. Yeah. But it's like kind of hard to tell what really happens in this race, I think. Steve wins again, or maybe he doesn't, I don't know, because they, a cop sees them. And so.

Yeah, and that's illegal. It's illegal, yes. Yeah, because they are taking up also both lanes of the road and both driving backwards as fast as they can. So it's extremely dangerous. Several laws are broken here. The cop catches Steve. Steve seems to know this cop. His name is Lieutenant Dave.

and he gives him a good like scolding and is Steve's trying to be like oh I don't know what you're talking about like I wasn't driving the right way oh I swear I thought I was he's playing dumb at first but then eventually he's like okay I'm sorry Dave and Dave lets him off with a warning tells him to go home it's late cut back to the doctor's office

we see that the blob is now covering the old man's entire arm and part of his torso. It's really spreading. Doctor does not know what to do. He covers the old man with a blanket and goes to his office to make a phone call. And we're seeing in like a mirror reflection the blanket moving and kind of like growing and getting like lifting upwards in a very unnatural way. So something's going on underneath that blanket. Okay, this blanket work is fun. Movie magic. It's very fun, movie magic.

And the doctor is calling his nurse and saying there's something has happened, something's come up, I need you to come in as soon as possible. We might have to do an amputation. So pretty tough once it's covering his torso. Yeah, too late. Yeah, it might be a little late for that. We see that Stephen Jane have grabbed the three guys, all five of them. them now are going out to the meteor site to check it out. They're like friends, but also a little and they're just having some fun. You know, boys will be boys. Boys will be boys. We can all be friends,

but there is just one crown and one way to get it. So they go back to the meteor site. They're looking around. They find the like broken rock eggshell type thing and they're tossing it around like, whoa, space rock. This is crazy. They hear the dog barking inside. They go inside, seeing if there's anybody else home, but nobody else is there. Jane takes the dog, which is, I think, kind of a weird move, but it is a cute dog, I guess. So she's just, she's like, finders keepers. Finders keepers my dog now. We see the nurse arriving at the doctor's office, and the doctor's pretty, pretty stressed.

and it's like, okay, we need to get ready for surgery right away. This is like time is of the essence. Come on, come on, snap, snap. And she goes into the operating room where the old man is on the table. Or is he because she lifts that blanket back and nobody is on the table. The doctor runs in, what the heck is going on? And the nurse turns and screams and we see the blob in the corner of the room. slowly rolling towards them.

Oh my God. Is it like a human-sized blob now? How big is it? It's like, yeah, I guess a human if you smushed it into a blob. Okay. So like a beach ball, like a... It's a little bigger than a beach ball. Big bouncy balls that used to get at the store in the big basket.

Yeah. Cages, I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, or like, yeah, one of those like yoga balls or exercise. Yeah, the yoga ball. And is it red? Yes, now it is red. Now it's red.

Can we see any, like, human? parts in there? Is it just silicone and dye? Got it, got it. And is it like opaque? Yes. Okay. It's just a cloudy, cloudy red big yoga ball. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Of glob. Of glob, glob, glob. And she's screaming. The doctor says, quick, like, grab that acid, splash that acid on it. So there's a little vial of some, some acid that she pours on top of it. It briefly kind of shrinks, but then seems like shake it off and return to its previous size. Nothing can stop this blob. The doctor says, I have a gun. Have they tried water?

They didn't try water. They went straight to acid and nothing else and said, well, it can't be killed. So the doctor says, I have a gun. Let me go grab my gun. That's probably going to work. she says please no don't leave me don't leave me he goes to grab his gun and we hear her screaming and when he comes back with the gun nurses nowhere to be seen blob is a little bit bigger that was fast really fast and as she has fallen over or as the little kerfuffle happened with her

in the blob she knocked over a lamp and so now we're in darkness and it's short-circuited so the whole office has lost power now. So we're just seeing the blob kind of shadowed. The doctor does have eyes on it. He's got his gun. He shoots it. And it kind of, you know, gets a little like gunshot wound, but then just immediately reforms into its blob shape.

Kind of as you would think would happen if you shot a blob. Sure. This just reminded me of a scary thing from this weekend in the desert that I had forgotten about, which was that the second night, I went to sleep before Joel, so I was, like, in the little second cabin house. And there's no service out there at all, but there was Wi-Fi. So we could all communicate on the Wi-Fi. But I was in bed and I went to, you know, use my phone to check the ring cameras in our house to look at our cats as I do. And the Wi-Fi was out. And so I was like, oh, well, I can't do that. And then I was like, I can't communicate

with anybody. Like, you know, if anything were to happen to me in this little house, I can't text Joel I can't reach out to anyone I can't nobody would know and then I thought what if this is by design what if someone is cutting us off from the world starting by taking the internet away and then it was really scary but then Joel came to bed and then when I woke up with the morning the internet was back but it was scary yeah I do I do have that thought now if the internet goes down for one second I'm like well civil wars happening civil wars on its way oh yeah I just thought somebody is here to get us and they're like starting slow you know right you thought someone was like lurking outside cutting the internet wires cut the internet yep cut the internet wires

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the window the like window blinds he's like pulling at them and falling clearly being consumed by a blob oh gross steve screams falls backwards runs back to jane kind of collapses on the side of his car and it's like oh my god oh my god he's really shaken up by this but he's also again like not really saying what happened and jane's like what happened he's like oh my god oh my god it's horrible Oh, my God. And eventually does say I saw the doctor being eaten by the blob. Actually, they never say the blob in the movie. It's always like that thing or...

Because they couldn't decide it if it was going to be blob or globby. Just don't say it. Yes. And so they decide they have to go to the police. They got to tell the police that the doctor has been killed. Got globed. Got globed. In this scene also, the dog just runs away.

Oh, well, that solves that. And I'm like, you just like... I mean, like, the old man is dead, so I guess, you know. I don't know. What was the dog probably wouldn't have been better off being left in that house. But still, I'm like, seems like we're not being super responsible with this dog. Anywho, we see at the police station, lieutenant, oh, what is his name, Dave that we saw earlier, and two other cops, Officer Bert and Officer Richie. There's a funny little scene where Bert is playing chess by himself and lieutenant Dave is asking him

about it and he's like, yeah, just like get really bored and when I'm working nights, I like to play some chess and you ought to take up chess and you could loosen up your gray matter. Just a lot of very strange little asides that I was like, huh, okay. And then Jane and Steve bust in, and Steve yells, the doc's been killed. They say, what happened? He was like, I don't know. It was some sort of mass that, like, kept getting bigger and bigger. I don't know how to describe it.

It's crazy. And Bert and Richie are very much not believing him. Like, oh, you're saying it was a monster, some sort of monster got him. He's like, yes, no, I don't know. But, like, right from the beginning, Dave is. is more on board, not on board, but kind of like hearing them out. He's like, okay, what, like slow down. What did you see? Describe what you saw. He's trying to describe it, but he's like, it's better if you just see it for yourself. And the other two cops are saying,

Dave, come on. Obviously, this is a gag. We're not going to go make fools of ourselves. And Dave says, they said the doctor's dead. We have to go check it out. Like, we're going. Yeah, I mean, it's not the best police work to automatically assume it's a prank. Right. So they leave the chess playing cop to watch the station, and the other two go with Jane and Steve to check out the doctor's office. We see, again, that the lights are off. No one is responding when we're calling out. The door's unlocked, so they go inside.

Steve is freaking out saying, you can't just go in there, like, what if it's right there? He's clearly really scared, and Dave, sees this, like, as kind of proof that it's, he's not fucking with them. He's like, he's really scared and he really saw something. And so we want to, we want to figure out what's going on here. They can't turn the lights on because it's like blown a, blown a fuse. And, but they can see with their flashlights that there's definitely been some sort of, uh, fight here. There's the knocked over lamps turned over like operating table. Something went down here. So it was, this is, this is suspicious.

and then they go to the doctor's office and that room is locked. And Steve says that's, I'm pretty sure, the room where I saw him from the outside from the window being attacked. Like, we got to get in there. So Dave sends the other cop to go around outside and, like, check if the window's open and, if not just to break the window to get in there to find out what's going on. and as he goes off, Dave goes to find the circuit breaker, turns the lights back on. And so now we're getting an even better, like, look at the scene. There's, you know, shattered glass. Oh, the other cop gets through and opens the door for them.

Again, nobody in sight. That room is empty. But they know it has been locked from the inside, so it's confusing. And they find the doctor's gun in there. And they say that it has been fired. And the other cop, Bert or Richie, I think, like points, it's a shotgun. And he's, like, pointing the gun, like, straight in his face, like, sniffing the barrel. Like, oh, yeah, it's been fired.

And then just then, you know, they're trying to piece together what's happened here when the neighbor comes, like, over. this older woman, the woman that we saw the doctor calling in the beginning that's supposed to be watching the office while he's out of town. And so she comes in and she's like, oh, the doctor's going to be so mad when he gets back from his trip. And the police are kind of trying to piece together this information. Like, what do you mean? He's out of town. Like Steve and Jane said he was just here. And the neighbor's like, no, no, he left. He called me right before he left. He was out of town. and so it's like putting some suspicion back on Steve and Jane of like are they lying and they're trying to figure out what's going on and they're like okay well let's check

if his car's here and the neighbor's like no no even if his car's here like he still might be gone because sometimes he catches a ride to these conferences she's like she's really making their story seem less plausible and then she's like oh my god I better clean all this up and starts, like, hands and knees, like, sweeping up potential evidence. Lieutenant Dave is telling her, ma'am, you have to stop. You have to stop. Like, this is potentially a crime scene. She, like, the blob's friend?

She cooots with the blob. No, she just seems like a nosy neighbor that is, like, um, really wants to be right. Too involved in, yeah, being, like, everything is fine. And I got to take care of this and you guys get out of here. but everyone's still like you know something something's definitely happened and we still need to figure out what's going on

cut to an auto repair shop we see two mechanics kind of one's closing up shop getting ready to go the other one's finishing up some last minute mechanic business he's on one of those little rolly things under the car scary and he's saying bye to the other one

and just as the other one leaves we get shot where he looks up, like tilts his head back under the car, and we see the blob approaching right behind him. And it... How big to the blob now? You know, it honestly stays about the same size for the... Well, not for the whole rest of the movie, but for a little while here. So it stays at this size until it's, like, absolutely enormous.

It goes from this size to huge. Okay. And we see that it starts descending upon this mechanic, and we just get a shot above the car. of his legs sticking out from underneath that's shaking and him screaming going Oh my mom Classic classic

Being eaten by that blob Consumed absorbed by the blob Back at the police station They've brought everybody back to the police station now And they've called Steve and Jane's parents It's the middle of the night And these are Children

Very young teen So So their parents Jane's dad gets their first. He looks to be the same age as Steve. It's very funny. He's, yeah, like another man in his 30s, but they've done, they've sprayed his hair gray. He's like clearly just a hair color spray. And he's looking very upset with Jane. Then Steve's dad comes in and both of them are kind of like pleading with their parents like, I'm telling you something bad is going on.

there's like a there's some sort of mass or blah thing uh i don't know how to explain it but we need to we need to see it the town's in danger and steve steve's dad i appreciated this was like says to the cop like steve's not in the habit of making up stories like i that's a good yeah he's like if he says he saw something he saw something and they turned to jane and say did you see it kill the doctor and jane is kind of like well no technically no no i'm like say you saw the blo you did see the blob yeah but she's kind of wishy-washy in this moment not in a like mean way but the answer to that specific question is no she did not see it kill the doctor which she didn't but she's you know she's saying she's still standing up for steve and saying

that we're not lying something is wrong The two cops still are like, it's a prank. It's a prank. It's a prank. It's a prank. And Dave, the level-headed cop of the bunch is like, okay, let's you kids go home, get some sleep. We're going to figure this out tomorrow. And that seems like a good idea to everybody. Okay, let's sleep on it. Come back in the morning. Except for Jane and Steve, who are like, no, I think we should really be keeping focusing on this now. But they kind of play along with it. And Steve whispers to Jane. like meet me outside your house in like 20 minutes or whatever so they're planning to continue their investigation without the help of their parents or the cops so they leave to go home and we stay in the police station with the three cops or no it's two cops the other one richie is still out investigating something but i'm only saying this because there's one line in here that is absolutely insane where bert and dave are talking about and Bert is saying, like, if it were richy, these, we wouldn't be looking into this at all.

He, you know, he hates those kids and, like, it would be no question case closed immediately, like, that it's a prank. And Dave says, just because some kids smacked into his wife on the turnpike doesn't make it a crime to be 17. So there's this, like, weird back story that, like, a teenager killed this cop's wife. and that's why he hates kids so much and there are a lot of lines where he's like kids are the worst I fucking hate kids well at least they explained

his hatred of the kids and it seems like he should continue being a cop and he's well adjusted and good enough to do so exactly so we do see also calling it like smacked into it's like

Jesus I know it's really shocking it really took me by surprise we see Jane sneaking out of her house after her parents, like, think that she's gotten into bed. And then we see a little brother following her down the stairs as she's trying to tiptoe out. He looks to be six or so. And he's asking if he can come with her. And she says no and tells him that if he stays here, she'll give him a dog.

You let the dog go? like you don't have the dog you better go find that dog and this convinces the boy he's very excited and he says can i name him a william sure weirdo she says that's a perfect name and i'm like jane is it is it for me yeah it is it is the dog it's a pretty funny sweet but so she says you need to stay here and you need to protect mom and dad so he's he's perching on the couch. He's been given a job and he's proud to do it. So she goes out. She finds Steve. They're trying to come up with a plan. What do we, what do we do now? And Steve kind of has this moment of questioning his own memories. Like maybe I, maybe I was confused. Maybe I didn't see it.

I think all this stuff is pretty interesting. And kind of the whole movie in general has this metaphor for like a threat of something that people can't necessarily see and aren't like fully believing that it's real until it's too late which I think can apply to like many many things I wonder I've been wondering if that's why they put the chest thing in there to show like a rational being not being able to accept like the concept of a mysterious object yes that cannot be proven. And I will say there, because this was during the Cold War, kind of the, the metaphor at the time would probably have been communism and like the blob is a big red blob. Yeah. Yeah. So, but it applies to basically any threat to society that like people ignore and think is like not a big deal until it's too

late. No, we don't do that anymore. And the importance of having a name for things, being able to name something. because they didn't have a name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would have been better. Better than nothing. But he's kind of questioning his own memory, saying maybe I'm, maybe I am like, maybe I saw some, didn't see what I thought I did.

And Jane in this moment is like very reassuring. And she says, I believe that you saw something. And I believe you're the kind of man who can't ignore something you know to be. true and gives him this kind of hype up talk and she's basically like I'm with you I saw it too it's real and we can't like pretend it's not and so he's like okay so what do we do how do you get someone to protect themselves from something they don't believe is is real this is when we're seeing a lot of cigarette smoke behind coming up plumes coming up behind oh god the metaphor Oh, sorry.

So she says, I don't know, but we just got to find a way to convince them. And so they decide they want to, like, go get their friends, the three guys from earlier, they're going to need more people because we're going to be trying to go door to door to, like, convince people that something bad is happening and the town is in danger. So as they're going to try to find the guys, they pass Steve's dad's. grocery store. I guess he owns the town grocery store. And they see that it's unlocked and the door is open, which is, you know, not how it's supposed to be. So they're like, oh, that's not right. We should go check that out. And as they're walking down the aisles of this dark grocery store,

Jane turns and sees the blob and does this huge dramatic scream and fall backwards into like a pyramid of canned food that just knocks all these cans over it and looks like it would be incredibly painful. I wonder if she actually did just like fall into a big old bottle of cans. And Steve hears her scream

and runs to find her. They did find the dog at some point because the dog is here in this scene again. They just keep kind of find the dog, losing the dog finding the dog losing the dog sure uh we're hearing the dog barking and barking barking at the blob but steve grabs jane and they run to the back of the store because the blob is blocking their way out the front of the store so they move back further into the store and are trying to find a place to hide and they eventually find the meat locker fridge decide to hide in there

Jane is absolutely freaking out. Steve is trying to console her, saying like, it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay. We're going to figure something out. And as they're, you know, holding each other and trying to calm each other down, we see the blob seeping underneath the door. Oh, no, it can see. It can see. Stop it, blob. And this reminded me.

Of when I was a kid, I had a hamster. Do you guys know how hamsters can like basically flatten into pancakes to like crawl under things? It's so funny. And he would crawl under a door and basically look like this. Oh, my God. Ew. So we see it coming now and there's nowhere else to escape to. So we're holding each other.

Yeah, they should not have put themselves in this room. Yeah, you don't want to be backed into. corner like this, but just as it looks like it's almost all the way inside of this freezer, we hear the dog barking close by, and the blob retreats back outside of the freezer. To get the dog, or is the blob scared of dogs? That's kind of the implit. It's, I think the implication is that it's going to attack the dog. Fair enough. And we hear the dog barking go quiet. And just, Jane is sobbing like, oh my God, it got the dog, it got the dog.

Jane, get out of the freezer. And so they do wait like a beat and then it's silent. They open the freezer doors. It seems like coast is clear. So they just beeline run out of the supermarket and they run into the friends from earlier. And Jane is crying. She said, oh, my God, it's in there. It's in there.

It killed the dog. And they say, no, the dog, we just saw the dog. It like ran out past us. And she's like, oh, thank God the dog is live. And they're like, it's in there. We got to call the police. We've got to get them to come here. So one of the guys goes to a phone booth, calls the police.

But it's Richie who answers and he hates kids. And he's like, all you teens, are you all in on this? Like, just prank and you think this is funny. Hangs up on them. So the cops aren't coming. So what the heck are we going to do? To be fair, the cops wouldn't help. No. I mean, what are the cops going to do?

I don't know. I don't know. But we did see at one point them like knocking, not the cops, the kids like knocking door to door and being like, hey, there's a blob and you need to be careful. And being just laughed at and laughed at, nobody's taking them seriously. Perhaps the police would add some credibility. Yeah. So. In this 1958 world. But the police are not coming, it seems.

So what now? And they decide to just start making as much noise as possible. So they get into their cars and just start honking and honking and honking and honking and honking. And the whole neighborhood is hearing it, this whole little small town. We see inside this like older couple's house as they're hearing all this happening. And the old man has like a. He jumps out of bed. He's like, oh, I need my civil defense outfit and puts on this funny little, like, hard hat and is like, there's problems.

There's problems. But then a fire alarm starts going off. And he's like, oh, I need my fireman outfit. What do I wear? I don't know what to wear. This has never happened before. And it's kind of a funny, funny little bit. Judy's parents wake up and realize that Judy is, excuse me, Jane.

Jane? This is funny because they do actually call her Judy once in the movie. That was a piece of trivia that they also just, like, kind of forgot her. her name at times. What's that girl's fucking name? But so they realized Jane is gone and everyone's hearing this honking noise and the cops are hearing it as well. And so the whole town basically gathers in front of the supermarket. And Steve is a good idea. Yeah. And Steve's trying to get everyone's attention says, please, we had to we had to get you all here. somehow we need your attention the cops have arrived here too and the fire firemen just everybody's

here steve gives this speech about how the town is in danger and you know we can't prove it but it's killed it's killed a bunch of people already and it's probably going to kill more and like we need to be safe and figure out something to do to save ourselves and dave walks up and i can't remember what he says exactly, but like he backs him up in this moment and says, I think something is happening and we need to figure out what's going on. And so he tell, but he's like, but until we like get a plan, I need everybody to clear this area, go home, lock your doors and like stay inside and we'll be in touch over the radio. We'll like tell instructions of like what we think is going to be best for everybody and try to stay calm.

Cut to in a movie theater in the projectionist's booth and through the air ducts or air vents there starts seeping some red goo and the projectionist is distracted not noticing this and the blob sneaks in and absorbs him and we see the audience watching. the movie as the reel doesn't get changed. And so the movie just stops because the projectionist is not there to change to the next real. Sure. And everybody's like, what the heck is going on?

What the freaking heck? And we're looking up at the projectionist booth when through all those like little windows, the red goo just starts dripping out. And this is when the whole movie basically turns to like miniatures. Fun. It's really fun. You can like definitely tell this is. just like a small little cardboard thing that they're pushing some gooo through yes but it's very

fun and we hear everyone start screaming and running out of the theater and as they run through these like swinging doors the blob is following and now it's when it's getting like really big because presumably it's absorbed a good amount of these theater goers and so now it's pretty massive. We're back at the supermarket. Most of the townspeople have left, but the cops and firefighters and Steve and Jane are still there. And they hear all this screaming. So they're like about to go home too. And then Steve's like, oh, something's going on. They run over. We see the blob pouring out of this movie theater. And also people just like running in such fear and falling over themselves in a way that I'm like, oh, these people really did just, like, fall and probably

really hurt themselves. It doesn't look like a fun extra to, yeah, I wouldn't want to be doing it. It looks pretty chaotic. And we see that like Jane's parents are running up and Jane's little brother is here with like a toy gun and he's running towards the blob. Like he's going to like save him from the blob and like shooting pew, pew. Oh, buddy. And Jane turns back and is like, Danny, no, or Bobby, whatever your name is. And there's a diner across the street from the movie theater, and the little brother runs into the diner. And Jane and Steve run in after him.

And now the blob is like right in the middle of the street. And so they're like, it's too late for them to outrun it now. So now they're like hunkering down in the diner. there's the you know chef and and waitress in there and they're like what's going on and just as they look out the window the blob like tsunami falls on top of the diner it's one of those like it's almost like a

RV style diner you know it's like oh yeah yeah yeah wait is it like pop's diner in Riverdale yeah but even a little smaller and also it is like a miniature yeah but is it like a like almost like like like a train car silhouette kind of like train car like those kind of it's like like a tube yes it's like a tube uh it's a diner kind of like a tube it's kind of like a trailer i don't know why that like seen in kill bill is coming to my mind where it's just like uh-huh uh-huh a shape and size of which a huge blob could completely consume and wrap around. They are inside as they're like, whoa, is the whole place shakes.

And the, again, effects of this are all very funny because the exteriors are all like 100% miniatures. And it's just, I don't know, just delightful to see these like old classic effects. It's just, I love it. They don't know what to do now. What the hell do we do now? We just have to like stay in here and hope that. doesn't need us. Someone can save us or that it just moves on. When we see the cops and firefighters

outside kind of trying to come up with a plan to save them, Dave calls into the diner so that they're able to talk and he says, we're going to, we think we're going to try to electrocute it. So I need you to get everybody down into the cellar. So even though this is like a train car tube, apparently it also does have a cellar. Perfect. And he says, get everybody into the cellar. cellar, we're going to cut the phone lines and electrocute it, like cut the wires so they fall on top of the blob. Hopefully that works. So Steve

and the gang go down into the cellar and they shoot at the telephone wires, which fall down onto the blob, electrocuting it, which does nothing except for light the diner on fire.

Oh, no. So now they are wrapped, trapped, wrapped inside of the blob that is now on fire. And this is all done on the faces of the cops. We're just seeing like flickering lights like a fire. And they're like, well, now it's on fire. And darn it to heck. They're all stuck in there. Oh, boy.

And it does get to be like a pretty dark, sad scene. And we see, like, them inside the diner hugging each other and the little boy's in there, too. And he's like, is like, is this, is everything going to be okay? And Jane is, like, holding him. She's like, yeah, sweetie, of course, like, just go to bed. It's late. Like, we'll deal with this in the morning. Oh, my goodness.

And the little boy is, like, falling asleep on her shoulder as, like, tears are coming out of her eyes. And Steve's, like, wrapping his arms around her. and he's like, they're just giving each other this knowing look like they're about to die, but just like, it's just pretty intense. Oh, my God. When the chef or like a diner owner or whatever, like has a fire extinguisher that he's spraying, like holding off the flames as best he can, when Steve notices that when the fire extinguisher touches the blob, it retreats a little wherever the fire extinguisher has hit in.

And so he grabbed the fire extinguisher from him and starts, like, spraying it at all the little nooks and crannies where the blob is seeping in. And it's starting to retreat. And he says it doesn't like the cold. And remember when we were in the freezer, it pulled out of the freezer once it, like, realized it was cold. So the CO2 of the fire extinguishers is cold and it doesn't like that. And so they still have the phone and they call Dave and say, get as many fire extinguishers as you can. So they go to the nearby high school, which has lots of fire extinguishers,

grab all of those and bring them back and are spraying the blob down, freezing it, while Dave is on the phone with, like, some government entity being like, we have a situation. year we're going to need your help we're going to need something airlifted and i think we're going to want to set it take it to the arctic like i don't think it can be killed but it's absorbs whatever it touches how you're going to airlift that thing that it in a big freezer bag we don't actually see it happen i feel like it kind of just cuts to the blob not being on the diner anymore everyone coming out from inside like being rescued like oh my god that was so close. Dave lets them know, we've gotten it airlifted down to the Arctic.

Oh, already, yeah. Is this what the thing is? Is the thing, like, based off of this? Yeah, it's maybe it could be a sequel. Oh, that's fun. And then they're talking and they're like, yeah, I think as long as it's frozen, it can't grow and it can't do more damage, but I don't think you can be killed. So this is as best as we can do. And Steve says, well, as long as the Arctic always, stays frozen i guess we'll be safe and that's the end of the movie stop that's brutal stop that is really tough in 2025 fuck wow do you think this is exon mobile's big plan do you think

they want to warm up the Arctic enough so that the so the blob can take us all wow oh my god yeah and i mean the whole movie works as a metaphor for climate change as well of just like how do we get people to believe in this thing if they don't want to. Wow. We. So really applicable to lots of different real life situations. The movie itself is like very silly, but I had a good time. Me too. And I also was left with some existential, a little bit of existential dread. So little. And intense that they did in 1958 having a scene with movie goers getting consumed by the blob is fun. Like I'm kind of surprised horror movies don't do that more. They would never these days. They would never.

Well, do they, are there, like, can you think of examples? Scream two. Scream two. Okay. I barely remember that, but I believe you. I just feel like that's like a device that could be used more often in horror movies these days. I wouldn't like it. I don't like, yeah, I don't like to see theaters being scary places, but that's exactly why it's effective.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sammy, that was a fun one. Thanks for picking a fun one. I mean, we did Antichrist last, so, yeah. And just need a couple, couple of easy softballs. It's a little softball for us all. Softball. I was going to watch the brood.

And then it was like, I think it was the brood that was like, a therapist is talking to a expectant mother lens. Let's take a break. It's literally all about motherhood. And mothers, I don't, I think we've, we've had enough of that for a little bit. We can hold on that for a little while. Can I just tell you guys so I can like get this. out of my head. The only thing I can think I've been thinking about this whole movie is you know

the meme on TikTok of got a Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you guys seen that with that music? I can't even say it out loud. I keep thinking about the blob having a Bob. Bob having a Bob and shaking back and forth. That's fun. I just needed to say it out loud. Someone else is someone's got to make that. I'm truly so unaware of what's happening on TikTok. I'm so unaware of it. I'm so unaware of it. That means your brain has... Yeah, and I like that for you. Yeah.

More solid. Your gray matter. Mine's like Swiss cheese. Still definitely too online, but just not there. So... Okay, well, this was fun. Yeah. This was fun.

I had a good time. We learned a lot about Steve McQueen. We did. And... Yeah. And that's all we needed today. That's all I needed. That's really all I needed.

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