We Hate Movies - S5 Ep184: Look Who's Talking Now!

Episode Date: December 23, 2014

On the final episode of 2014, the gang talks about the ridiculous, Christmas-set sequel, Look Who's Talking Now! Why exactly is this woman chasing after John Travolta? Why are these dogs and babies bo...rn knowing everything? And just how close does Kirstie Alley's character get to a complete nervous breakdown? PLUS: Our Sucker Punchmentary is available now! Look Who's Talking Now stars John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito; directed by Tom Ropelewski. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, I'm Andrew Juppin. Steven Sadek. Chris Gavin. And we hate movies. Hello everyone. Welcome to the program. Thank you for tuning in, as always. This will be the final episode of 2014. What? Yeah, dude. Can you believe it? Taking a whole week off for ourselves. A bunch of selfish sallies. You awful, awful people, you. But before we have the holidays, we are talking about, look who's talking now from 1993, directed by Tom Rope Luski. And I wanted to put a Rope Luski around my neck while I was watching this one.
Starting point is 00:00:58 The author behind Madhouse. Oh, he directed Matt. Holy shit. Oh, yeah. They have a rope-loose retrospective in this house. You mispronounce the title. Actually, it's, look who's talking now. Oh, look, who's talking now?
Starting point is 00:01:12 What? The dog? Someone who just wishes someone would just shut up already. Yeah, exactly. Look who's talking now? I think that's like the 98-year-old executive producer. Oh, who's talking now? I don't care.
Starting point is 00:01:24 Just put it out on the screen. I think that's what it was, right? Because it was like, well, we did a baby boy. we did a baby girl, so who could be talking now? And then, like, a dog barked outside on the street, and they were like, wait a minute. Green light! What do we talk? Like, fish for, for, look who else is talking?
Starting point is 00:01:39 Cats, no, you got to do cats. Oh, you know, yeah, you're right, you're right. It would have been cats. If this movie wasn't such a horrendous debacle and failure and really just put a harpoon through the heart of this franchise. No, look who else is talking is when it takes place with Independence Day aliens voiced by, like, just Z-level comedians Like Jeffrey Tambor
Starting point is 00:02:03 Yeah Paula Poundstone's in there Oh Paula Poundstone's definitely in there Craig T. Nelson Craig Tee Nelson Is an Independence to Alien I would love it They would bring Brent Spiner back And he's the one who's just getting choked by all of them
Starting point is 00:02:17 All the whole movie Yeah why not That's sad for Brent Spiner Yeah he'd be happy Oh I'm sure he'd love it Nice paycheck You think they're gonna find some way to work in a relative of his. That's also a twin
Starting point is 00:02:29 that looks like him and that new one. Probably. Because he's dead in that first movie, right? They just kind of kill him. Yeah. It'll be a bore or something. Yeah. Doctor, oh, what is his name? Oh, no. It's stupid. It's a stupid thing that Bill Palmer has to say. You get, like,
Starting point is 00:02:44 do you get a frazzled Jim Parsons or something to play it? Oh, you get, get a frazzled Jim Parsons to play that strangled scientist. His son. It would be his son, yes. It's his son. He's got to, but he does actually have a little like voice thing. Oh, absolutely. The strangulation
Starting point is 00:02:59 had actually gone into him. So, it's 1993. There's already been two of these idiot movies. And they're all idiot movies. They're awful. They're all awful. There's nothing good about any of these movies. The first one I rewatched last year, it's horrendous. It might as well be a home
Starting point is 00:03:15 invasion movie. I watched that movie and I was like, my God, she doesn't want him in her life. And he just takes his big boot and shoves it right in. He kidnaps a baby. In the middle of the movie, he cutely kidnaps a baby. Well, that's adorable.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah, I guess so. Adorably terrifying. Like Chris Hansen, adorable, but... Speaking of Home Invasion, can I read the first paragraph? It's really quick. Oh, I was wondering why you're on your phone. I was like, are we bothering you of the Wikipedia entry? Sure.
Starting point is 00:03:51 James and Molly, after struggling to put their kids, Mikey, now seven, and Julie, now four, to bed, again have sex in their bedroom she tries to refuse but her husband charms his way through her resistant behavior I think you can sum up that whole marriage with charming your way
Starting point is 00:04:10 through her resistant behavior because she doesn't ever want any of it and it's just one yeah okay later and she's pregnant she wants everybody to leave the entire house needs to go away most of the movie that opening shot
Starting point is 00:04:26 is really annoying and it's a real like wow how about we try some birth control because it's just this one we're putting the camera on a tripod and just letting them run around with a high frame rate trying to put these two monsters to bed it's terrifying the second movie I think can be summed up in a joke is an early joke we see the Jim Henson
Starting point is 00:04:49 puppetesque fetus in Chrissy Alley and it's Roseanne Barr and she says huh Two pair of arms, a pair of legs, and a pair of lips. Oh, mercy, me. Like, holy Christ in heaven. What is the appeal of a crass-talking baby? Like, can we, I mean, and crass-talking dog, you know what?
Starting point is 00:05:10 I'm behind it. Yeah. I actually think that this movie is a little bit better than number two, because it's not Roseanne screeching about breast milk or God knows what, making me throw up. It's an actual rapscallion. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:05:23 the appeal of like bad talking children like that and those are jokes that you get in other family films sometimes where a kid's like oh well shit I get it but like Bruce Willis doesn't even do that Bruce Willis isn't even really like he's like kind of innocent dude if you just want to talk about the demon barber of Hollywood in Vine voicing a little baby
Starting point is 00:05:44 you couldn't find a bigger dumb asshole do a voice of a baby than Bruce Willis that's the worst part of that movie forget the fact that John Travolta is pulling a home invasion, which I already mentioned. Bruce Willis, voicing that baby is obnoxious. It's almost worse than Roseanne. It's the
Starting point is 00:06:01 voice he always uses when he's taunting terrorists. Yeah, you're totally right. Terrorist taunter? Oh, I'm sorry, Hans. Oh, what's the matter to kill all your men? What's that? A bottle? Oh, I'm going to suck on it. And like, that's the part that gets me all the time is the weird
Starting point is 00:06:17 babiness that he has to be like, oh, man, I'm hungry. I want my mommy's nipple. And it's like, oh, no. And this whole conceit is just weird too because they're born or even pre-born because there's all sorts of in utero scenes in the beginning of those first two movies and this one kind of. But like they're born with knowledge of things which always just fries my brain every time. Like Danny DeVito in this movie like comes out as a puppy and he's just like, hey, what's going on? It's this and that. I have a full vocabulary. And I'm like, that's not how this should work.
Starting point is 00:06:51 That's not what learning is. the funny thing is now that I'm thinking about it I kind of want this movie to be like yeah you can do the now the dogs are talking Lucas talking now but the voices of the girl Julie and Mikey are done by Roseanne Barr and and Bruce Willis respectively
Starting point is 00:07:08 like they dub over the kids it would be so creepy like they just came out talking like that and like John Travolta scared of them well not for nothing but the way that both of those babies act you think that Kirstie Ali's given birth to super babies, like a couple of baby
Starting point is 00:07:24 geniuses. Because they just know everything. And this dog is born knowing everything. This Danny DeVito dog. But actually would make sense because John Travolta does act like a scared puppy through most of this movie. This character
Starting point is 00:07:40 is the worst character John Travolta's played in any movie. I don't care. In any movie, this is his worst character. At least in the first one, he does have that stalker edge to him. This one, he's completely rounded out like he's totally in Tony Danza mode, which is the lowest
Starting point is 00:07:58 thing that an Italian actor could do. I still can't say his last name. The John Travolta's character. Oh my God, Ubroclio or something else? Ugachio. Yeah, I don't know. It's a real primavera last name. I don't know what's going on. You know what's great? You know what my favorite part of most family films is? Dog come!
Starting point is 00:08:19 Dude, why are we watching dog seem? in this movie. I guess because we want to keep with the other two, but like it's the grossest thing. Even that, though. The sequence are just repulsive. I don't need it. Look, we all watch the Miracle of Life
Starting point is 00:08:36 video in grade school. They all make you do it. It's fine. Whatever. I don't need it in my shitty family comedy that I'm watching. No, thank you. It's not funny. It's not fun. No one's entertained by it. I almost fast forwarded. Because it's just gross. I mean,
Starting point is 00:08:52 they're just wiggling around like semen and it's just the other thing too is we're making jokes and more so in this one because it's like it's danny de vito and we've got the whole thing of like well we got to make a dog litter so let's watch not just one zygote get formed but like six of them and it's all the voice of danny de veto getting dubbed over and it's like i get out of my way pal no you get out of my way hey i'm trying to impregnate this dog it's all like being on the channel that all like the yellow cab taxi drivers are on like it's a So I'm like, get out of my way, one lane here. Like, just like, all this shit. And it's a sperm going to an egg. Move it, pencil neck. It's like, we're all pencil neck. We're all sperm. Yeah. We're all actually sperm.
Starting point is 00:09:35 But there's also, like, the gross. So, like, you know they're fucking upstairs, right? And then we pan down and it's an alleyway. And it's like a fucking snooty spaniel. And this guy's like, hey, baby, I'm fixed. Can I just fuck you? It's like, I'm not going to get you pregnant. Also, I'm not going to get you into trouble.
Starting point is 00:09:52 They're coming off of a bad dog date. They are. Because she's like, wow, I sure did have fun tonight, Bluto. And he's like, oh, yeah, why you want to go home? Well, no, his name is trooper because he makes a point of like, tomorrow, they're shipping me off. To what? To the pound to get killed. Oh, what?
Starting point is 00:10:11 He's got a little stay of execution, like one last night? Yeah, that's what, no, he's like, that's his line. Oh, oh, you're right. Yeah. The dog uses a shitty dude pickup. line. Oh, by that logic, do you think those dogs with the Sarah McLaughlin commercial get all the ladies?
Starting point is 00:10:28 Hey, baby, you know what I just got done shooting? My Sarah McLaughlin commercial. Oh, my God. You poor dog. She scratched my ear. This ear. And just, yeah, like, I got kids here. You know what I mean? I don't want to see people get the moves
Starting point is 00:10:44 put on them in a sexually aggressive situations. I'm not that kind of spaniel. Yeah. Is the line. And I wanted to vomit all over my entire house. Well, it's like you're a dog. What kind of spaniel are you? I mean, you're cocker? I guess.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Springer. Are you in heat or are you not? That's the whole courting thing. Let's start with that. Yeah, I was like, do dogs have casual sex? I don't think so. I don't know how that works. I mean, I guess it's anything's possible. It's the third look who's
Starting point is 00:11:15 talking movie, so clearly anything is possible. Well, it just depends on who's talking now. so yeah he gets he comes out like the other thing though is this dog's a mutt it's a really adorable dog that he winds up being but it's not a spaniel at all like there's no i don't know why you chose a spanish like obviously like certain dogs are female dogs as we'll get to with diane keaton but like yeah because it's a spaniel has to be the lady it just doesn't make it he's not a spaniel at all like yeah i don't know he's like a boxer mix of some kind it's just a real junkyard mutt you know or i guess a train yard much more so um so john travolta has this job interview that like starts this whole movie off and it's like he this will sort of sum up like how annoying this character is as he's like okay i'm ready for my job interview and she's like you're gonna wear that tie and he's like oh you haven't seen the best pot yet and he like lights it up and she's like are you messing with me or are you actually
Starting point is 00:12:20 And the thing about it is, she's totally convinced, like, he is joking, but she's like, yep, my idiot husband thinks this light-up tie is perfect for a job interview. Did you count your pennies this morning? Did you do all your exercises before he came out and picked out that tie? Because like, holy shit. And then it turns out he has another tie. Yeah. That she also says is bad. She's like, oh, my God, you just dress like an idiot.
Starting point is 00:12:44 I mean, she's got a problem with every tie he owns. Yeah. A lot of things that he owns. Well, she's got a problem with him. Well, look, I kind of side with her on this part only because he's going to a job interview to be like a private pilot for this big CEO businesswoman and he's dressed like a bad 90s stand-up comedian. He looks like he should be on the comedy network at 11.30 p.m. I mean, he raided Arsenio Hall's wardrobe this entire movie. That jacket he's wearing, might as well have an eight ball on the back of the neon blue one. Yes. Insane. Yeah, straight out of a Salt and Peppa video. Like, it's so. bad the way he dresses in this movie
Starting point is 00:13:22 he looks like a clown he does it's really like it's that bad 90s like oh dick tracy was a hit you know whatever that was neon thank god that you see him in a pilot's uniform at least for a few scenes so he looks the least bit professional yeah because in the second
Starting point is 00:13:38 movie I mean we're carrying over the themes of the second movie which is he hates that she makes more money than him and he's got a big fucking fat chip on his shoulder about it yeah yeah that chip on his fat shoulder. And she
Starting point is 00:13:52 gets fired, actually, the first scene. Her thing is she's an accountant. She's like this high-powered accountant, et cetera, et cetera. They cut her friend out, by the way, who's in the first two flicks. I don't know what her name. This Geis from Clueless. Oh, yeah. I don't remember the actresses. Yeah, I forgot that she's got the buddy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:10 The horny buddy. Because this movie is, all three of these movies are just sitcoms. You know what I mean? They're just Herman's head three episodes of Herman's head stitched together. every single time they're all like season premieres of different seasons
Starting point is 00:14:26 of the same sitcom because it's always like well we just had a baby and now it's like adapt to the new season with the new baby but yeah they cut that out I feel like Olympia Dukakis has a little bit of a bigger role in this movie than she does in no because it's just the first one she's all over it
Starting point is 00:14:42 is she I couldn't remember as much I think she's always got like a good amount of scenes I think she's carrying most of these movies as much as anybody could carry these things. So he has this job interview and he is tanking this thing. So, I mean, I was uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:14:59 I don't care about this character and I was actually praying for failure. But this guy, I mean, you want to watch a great example of someone do quite poorly in a job interview. It's this movie. She says you're underqualified. I wouldn't really hire somebody
Starting point is 00:15:13 with this little experience. And he says, well, well, and then tells a story about how he sang along to a bar song yeah it's i mean it's really bad like he's like it's one of those things where he's like okay i know you think i'm underqualified listen to this this is gonna really kill you and then he tells like what he deems an hilarious story and she's just like stone face just looking at him it's not even but she she does she's wildly attracted to him it turns out
Starting point is 00:15:43 eventually just why why what are you talking about it makes no sense because she's not she's not laughing at the first story no and then we cut away and we come back he's telling the end of a different story and she cannot fucking stand it she is laughing her ass off she thinks this guy is the most might as well be james bond you're totally right i don't know i don't know what happened dick out in between them and he's just like oh excuse me got an itch and he's like down to his knee he does a dirt dickler he was like oh excuse me miss
Starting point is 00:16:17 I think I sat in some gum and then he pulls out his sack and she's loving it I don't I don't understand why she's so attracted to him and she this woman's a maniac what is this actually I mean this is like her movie
Starting point is 00:16:31 Lizette Anthony yeah I mean she's the love interest in without a clue that's the only other thing I remember I was without a clue with what else she's been in Dracula dead and loving it oh is she in that Oh, goo.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Yeah. And I mean, like, this is, but, like, her character is this, like, Cruella DeVille Maniac that wants to sleep with this guy who's married, like, who's just married, he's got kids, she's met the kids, met the whole damn family. Giving them presents. Has no qualms about destroying this family to have sex with John Travolta. It's like this mass scale plan. It's not like one night I'm just going to come in with, like, a negligee or something.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Yeah. Try it. Make your move. You're with this guy all movie long. Make your move. Why you choose to make your move on Christmas Eve of all night, the least sexy night of the year. Well, it depends upon who you're talking to. Someone's got a mixed CD if we might be fucking on Christmas to.
Starting point is 00:17:30 That's true. You know, who knows what's going on. Some people think Christmas is a very sexy holiday. I don't buy it, man. Especially if you're married and you have kids like you're, this is going to be. this guy should be wrapping presents and like pretending to be Santa Claus and she's like oh I'm going to get him hard
Starting point is 00:17:48 on Christmas you're depriving him of his children that is the Christmas of a lonely person right let's get drunk and screw you know a lot of old scotch a huge fire and you're going to teach me how to dance on Christmas
Starting point is 00:18:04 Eve give me a break I'll get there also let's just for a moment she's a captain of industry oh yeah she's a Titan in her field. She is like heading up this crazy merger that's apparently going to yield billions of dollars in what kind of industry I don't think we're ever
Starting point is 00:18:20 really told. She's a very attractive lady, super attractive lady. But she is objectively less attractive than Kirstie Alley because that was in Kirstie Alley's contract. Like you know what I mean? They picked an actress that's just not as good looking as Kirstie Alley. I guess so.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I don't know. I mean... Maybe I'm a big Kirstie Alley Fend. Maybe I outed myself. Well, we were kind of talking about this last night a little bit. Like, this is 1993. This is the last year of Cheers. That show went out as high as it was. I mean, 11 seasons didn't kill it. You know, they
Starting point is 00:18:52 were still doing their thing. And I posited to you this theory that I have, which I think this film is responsible for the switch in its star's career polarity, right? Because it's 93. Cheers ends. This movie comes out
Starting point is 00:19:08 and she disappears. Yep. And then 94 Tarantino lifts John Dravolta out of the ground with Pulp Fiction. I think you can pinpoint the... I feel like the end of PCU right now. Hackman and Kane in the same movie. I can stop watching TV. It was a whole four years before Veronica's closet. Which I watched an embarrassing amount of that show.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Well, I mean, you were the big Dan Cortez. I was going to say it was mostly because of Dan Cortez. He was good. He was, you know, give the man his credit. He was good. Do you think, like, Tarantino saw this movie, started Stewards? and then, like, wrote Pulp Fiction in a night? I think it's entirely possible. At least the Jack Rabbit Slims part, because I'll tell you right now,
Starting point is 00:19:51 the only redeeming quality about this film is that you get to see John Travolta dancing. And John Travolta is a phenomenal dancer. That's what he does. And he's just bebopping and scatting all over the dance floor in multiple scenes in this movie. There's an asterisk that wrote in one night after he flew to Singapore and found the cocaine in strippers.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Well, yes. So, I mean, he gets the job working for her. And all of a sudden it's a thing where it's like he's busy jet setting all over the place. And she gets fired from her big accounting job. And I mean, like, I guess we're supposed to care about these characters and they're supposed to have seen all three movies and like really been following the story up till now. We're really invested in the Pagliacci family or whoever they're called. And you would think it would be about her like being like, oh shit, I'm fired. I used to be the breadwinner.
Starting point is 00:20:42 No, he's... No, we're not going to touch on that at all. We're going to have her have a screaming fit at the airport where, like, John Travolta comes back from the first flight or whatever, or like, he just got the job, and it's like, this is great, this is, you know, come on, honey, blah, blah, blah. And she's like, I got fired! And you see all these people at this, like, U.S. Airlines Terminal will be like,
Starting point is 00:21:04 what is that one's deal? But to be fair, John Travolta is playing a baby man. He is a baby man who has not completely all their mental faculties. And, like, he is, so he, she comes to meet him with the kids. And he keeps on going, like, so what happened, honey? Oh, honey, did you get the promotion? Honey, tell me. Honey, tell me.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Honey, tell me. Honey, tell me. She's radiating despair right now. Like, are you getting that? What's funny is, I don't know if I missed the line, but I didn't know a big promotion was on the table. He just starts talking about a big promotion. And I was like, wait, did I'm... What?
Starting point is 00:21:41 He starts dancing. He's like, oh, you got the VP. Oh, you got the VP. Oh, here it comes. She's going to be the big VP. That's what it is. He just starts shooting out VP. And I was like, are you kidding me?
Starting point is 00:21:51 When was that ever in play in this movie? Look at her eyebrows right now, man. Like, get a social cue. Don't you think she would have said yes if the answer was yes? I suppose it may be a little of karma, though, because when John Travolta goes off for the job interview, All she does, there's a scene of Kirstie Alley, like, at the office right before she gets fired. She's talking to some workplace, buddy.
Starting point is 00:22:15 And all she is talking about is how her husband is a stupendous failure, loudly and in a public office space. Just blah, blah, blah. He probably won't get it. He always bungles these things up. I can't believe how long he's been unemployed. She is airing some dirty ass family laundry in this office. And everybody's like, my God, this is, I mean, it's juicy. but my god
Starting point is 00:22:40 and then she gets fired seconds later I mean it's insane and like he the thing is he's not unemployed he still has the cab gig they just drive that cab everywhere in this movie and like if you're a good cab driver
Starting point is 00:22:54 you've been doing it for that long and you've been like supporting yourself for that long I assume you're good at it you can do it and it brings in a good amount of money and she's got her own thing like she owns that apartment
Starting point is 00:23:04 she must she says at one point like well no I don't know if he is still doing the cab thing because her whole thing is like oh well you know we've been living if he doesn't get the job we've been living on my salary we've had to do it before which doesn't make any sense
Starting point is 00:23:19 though because if you have this cab presumably you've got your medallion you're good to go you can go like what are you doing John Travolta you just sit on your ass I mean somebody's got to watch those kids though right oh yeah I guess that's true you got those two monsters yeah those little goblins they are
Starting point is 00:23:34 goblins yeah not for nothing these are some child actor goblins And they're so precocious and smart in the other movies you would think it would be interesting if they were like prednaturally smart in this movie but they're just stupid as rocks. They're really dumb ass kids. These are some dumbass
Starting point is 00:23:51 paint chip eating kids. Mikey is played by David Gallagher from 7th Heaven fame also in Super 8 I believe. The stoner the stoner guy. This just drove me nuts for years trying to figure out because I saw Super 8. I saw him and I was like, I know that guy. And she's going IMDB.
Starting point is 00:24:07 It never occurred me to do it at the time. Yeah. Just like I thought back to it and I was like, whatever. That'll happen to me too. I'll like do the thing where I don't want to look on IMDB because I play mental trivia with myself and I always lose.
Starting point is 00:24:20 You know, but that's smart though because they say like nowadays we we don't let things like stay mysteries or try to use our brains to remember things and just look it up. And it's like fucking with us. Yeah. And they're saying that like it's going to ruin short term memory eventually. Well, I'm a genius.
Starting point is 00:24:36 This, the little actress. playing, the daughter went on to do nothing. She was in the hairspray movie with John Travolta, funny enough, but kind of not really a lot of things. She is, so he, Mikey's story such as it is, so
Starting point is 00:24:52 what should I call it? Christylla gets fired. She's been an accountant at what seems to be a really high-level accounting firm for decades at this point. So obviously what she would do is go work at Santa's Toy Shop as an elf, right? Yep. You would just do that immediately. Employable degree you can have like the most
Starting point is 00:25:10 you could get in a if you've been in an accounting firm of good accounting firm for over 10 years you can walk anywhere you like I mean maybe it's because it's like around the holidays and by the way like keep in mind everybody
Starting point is 00:25:23 it is Christmas time in this movie there's a reason we're doing it right now it's a Christmas movie a Christmas set movie at least it ends with a Christmas song there's some there's yeah I think you have a Christmas movie if the climax takes place on Christmas
Starting point is 00:25:38 Yes. Steve Sadex a climax on Christmas? I just had to toss that in there. The sequel. It's a sequel after you succeed in finding the condomime. Yeah, then I finally get a climax.
Starting point is 00:25:50 I'm scarring James Dean. And James Dean is Steve Sadeg. That is some miscasting. No offense, Steve, but that is some miscasting. What is it all like Forrest Gump animation? Like, how are we doing that?
Starting point is 00:26:05 No, James Dean, the porn star. Oh, okay. From the canyon. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, not a dead person. No, not the corpse. I was very confused.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Not the current, you know, corpse in the ground. Yeah. So she's working at Santa's toy shop. Maybe it's because accounting firms aren't hiring this close to Christmas. We'll get you after the new year. At least it's bullshit. You know what I mean? And introverts are making money now, too.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Like, you know what I mean? You can't be making all that much less. I don't know. So she's working there and she has to, she's got elf years on, which don't make sense. Like, no elves actually wear elf ears. No, because it's just a person in a green hat because you're working at a mall. There's no professional makeup artist putting ears on you. Yeah, Stan Winston isn't back there doing up all these elves.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Give me a break. And, you know, for the one guy in the audience. Yeah. Some kids giving her crap and she's like, he's like, what are you? A monster? He's like, no, I'm a Vulcan. I'm going to give you a neck pinch. And some guy's like, ha!
Starting point is 00:27:06 The one guy left in the third. theater. Hey Larry. Do you hear her? Dude, you should not have gone to the bathroom, man, because she made a Star Trek reference. Oh, man. You think there's going to be more, or should we leave? My wife told me to shut the fuck up. Oh, yeah, she just makes that. And you know what? Bad move movie, because I was like, wish I was watching my Rath-a-Con Blu-ray. Maybe I'll turn this off and put it on. Now here's the question the big Kirstie Alley like question mark. Is
Starting point is 00:27:40 her career better if she comes back for Star Trek 3 or is it actually worse? Hmm. Well, if she came back for 3, she would have been in 3, 4, 5, and 6. Like they wouldn't have killed a character. Spoiler alert of it. By the way her character gets killed in Star Trek 3 because she didn't come back.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Right. I don't know. I mean, those movies didn't launch any careers. I mean, they were already like the big players in those movies were already big from that TV show and that's just all they're going to do I mean but that would have been
Starting point is 00:28:13 in the time when she was most popular yeah that's true well she could have done that too yeah I guess if they were continuing but I mean who knows maybe it's the thing she's wrapped up and doing all these Star Trek movies they make her lieutenant Savick like a big deal character right and all of a sudden she can't do the cheers audition
Starting point is 00:28:32 all of a sudden who knows Roseanne replaces you know Diane who knows what can happen. Obama's never president like this whole everything's different. It's a timeline I don't want to know. But but but she gets a cameo and into darkness. That's true.
Starting point is 00:28:49 She does get that apple of a cameo. Oh it's an alternate timeline so this random Vulcan lieutenant is still alive or something. No she's part of the council. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
Starting point is 00:29:04 know if her career would have been bigger. I feel like Cheers was the right move. Yeah. Cheers is almost always the right move. Yes. When in doubt, cheers is the right move. So, Mikey, you know, basically he's like trying to find mom after her shift and like, oh shit,
Starting point is 00:29:20 oh my God, it's Santa Claus. Right. He's like, of course a degenerate gambler loser. Yeah. Like, sweating and drinking. It's a joke that's been done a thousand times. Like, it's not, people don't employ winos for these positions. You have to be good with kids.
Starting point is 00:29:35 You have to have, like, steady house. You know what I mean? But that's what's funny about this is because when they do have Mikey sit on Santa's lap, like, he's like, oh, I want a dog. And they're like, you know, behind the kid looking at the guy like, no dog, no dog. And he gives this kind of nice speech about, like, you might not get a dog this Christmas, but like, everybody has a dog for them. So maybe your dog's not born yet. Like, the guy really spins it nicely. it's a real like good move it's totally it's a beaut you know so i was like oh wow this guy's good
Starting point is 00:30:09 with kids and then yeah he's like yelling over the phone about you'll get your money that's the thing is he's not alcoholic he's a gambling junkie yeah and like that is just the worst it's the worst it's the worst of the worst when the kid sees him he's talking about how some guy's going to come around blow his legs out yeah he's like yeah you get over here pull my kneecaps off then we'll see what's what this kid just starts screaming i wanted to make a point about uh how fast and lose Kirse Allie is playing with this elf gig, by the way.
Starting point is 00:30:39 Oh, yeah. Because it's like day one, she's humiliated. She's really pissed off. Like, she's given all these kids' attitude and whatnot. And then John Travolta brings the kids up to be like, look, mommy's helping Santa. She lets these two kids of hers cut this line. You're telling me you're letting kids cut a Santa line day one. Are you looking to get fired? Well, I mean, we never go back to that
Starting point is 00:30:59 place. So maybe she is just shit canned at the end of her shift. Like, are you kidding me? What? Are you? You did. What? Did you see that line of children? You know one customer? We're one less elf now. Day one, what did I tell you? 6.30 p.m. family time. Tell him to come in at the appropriate time. What is wrong with you? The workshop closes at 6.15. That's when your dumb kids can call.
Starting point is 00:31:22 Gary offered his services for an extra 25 minutes. Did I hear that you broke character to make a Star Trek joke? Are you shitting me? To a girl who could never have ever watched that movie. You basically broke character to make an inside joke for, I don't know, as if this was a movie and a bunch of nerds were watching you. You told her gibberish. You yelled gibberish at a child.
Starting point is 00:31:50 So this son's like freaking out and he starts getting in the old, there is no Santa routine. And then we get this really obnoxious scene because they're just like a real golly G. Willikers family, they start doing, They're mime and Alpin and the chipmunks. Jesus, it just makes me sick. And I mean, this is the first instance of John Travolta kind of dancing. So I was like, let it go, let it go.
Starting point is 00:32:14 But I hate this Christmas song by the Chipmunks. It's obnoxious. It's worse when it's being pantomimed by Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and a little child actor. It's embarrassing is what it is to watch these people do this. It's sad. And they're doing it to try to like cheer up this. this Mikey kid so they're like he's tucked up in bed like the world's over there's no Santa Claus he's clearly not having it leave the room let the kid brood for a little bit exactly just let him
Starting point is 00:32:44 stew in it he'll get himself into a nice hate marinade and then you work it out after that don't force this kid feeling better well these kids I mean these parents don't exactly know how to deal with their kids as we'll get to with the deal with the dogs that's the dumb yeah it's the most moronic part of the movie but But these, they're not good parents. And I'm not a parent, so I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. But holy shit. I mean, there's, there's some bad.
Starting point is 00:33:13 They're providing parents. I'll give them that. Yeah, there's some bad choices along the way. But nobody's perfect. Sure. Nobody's perfect. Before we get to the dogs, can we address Charles Barkley in this film? Yeah, I was just going to, I was looking down at what I have here.
Starting point is 00:33:28 And it's about time to talk about Charles Barkley. You would think it's time to talk about dogs because they're the one. talking now. Now they're talking. Look at them. Not yet. But my God, why is Charles Parkley in this movie? So to set it up, the little girl, Julie.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Is it Julie? It's a little monster's name? So formerly Roseanne. Formerly Roseanne. She's grown out of her Roseanne voice. And her new weird tick is not sounding like Roseanne, but she's obsessed with watching 90s NBA games. Well, it was
Starting point is 00:34:01 contemporary at the time. I mean, yeah, I guess that's true. Well, no, it's like a jams tape. Like, it's like she's watching highlight tapes. Yeah. Yeah. But ESPN? I mean, ESPN was around.
Starting point is 00:34:11 Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that's what she's watching, but she's just watching these tapes of Phoenix Suns games. And she's obsessed with watching Charles Barkley. And I'm like, what is going on here? She has some Charles Barkley doll. It's this thing is a fake prop department doll and it's disgusting. It's a nightmare. It's a night.
Starting point is 00:34:30 She's carrying around a nightmare. It is a goddamn. stuffed nightmare with a Phoenix Sun's jersey on it. It's so weird. Who got this for her? Why? Did Olympia Dukakis knit this thing together? It's disgusting.
Starting point is 00:34:44 It's the worst toy you can give a child. And she's just you know, she's got this thing. It's like a cute little tick. You know, she likes basketball. Basketball was huge back then. Big time. As it is now, you know, there's the mid-90s which you didn't want to, you know, the late 90s and early 2000s. It's enough talking about basketball.
Starting point is 00:35:00 But she she has this and that's enough you know what I mean like it's kind of funny because Charles Barkley was such a you know a monstrous player
Starting point is 00:35:09 and like you know he was a guy didn't want to be anybody's role model would hit people the whole bit yeah and it's this fantasy scene
Starting point is 00:35:17 do you think this is like his answer to Shaquillo O'Neal like oh you want to do kids movies I'll do fucking kids movies pal I mean I don't know this is 93 when was when was Steel when was Kazam
Starting point is 00:35:29 I mean that's the big question around this time 94, 95, maybe, was blue chips around, maybe? Blue chips, I think is like 95. Okay. I mean, I don't get it. We just cut to one of several fantasy slash dream sequences in this movie, which you're patting that runtime if I ever called someone on patting a runtime.
Starting point is 00:35:50 And it's just this little girl in like, like, Jim sweats doing one-on-one with Charles Barkley. And even Charles Barkley is like, wait a minute. I'm Charles Barkley. What am I doing in this fantasy? It's weird to watch Charles Barkley be in basketball shape again because you're so used to see it. Not that he's like obese now,
Starting point is 00:36:10 but he's just like almost every pro athlete. He's a big old fat guy. He's a puffy guy. But he's like jacked. It's really weird to look at him like that athletic again. It was really, yeah, it was really unsettling. But so he's like, they do a thing
Starting point is 00:36:23 where it's like, okay, I'm going to mimic your moves or do a little mirror dribbling kind of a thing. And then this baby just dunked. on him. She just lifts off the ground like Mary Martin and fucking jams this basketball down. It's really weird because she doesn't even like dunk but she like goes like
Starting point is 00:36:40 12 feet above the rim and drops it in and keeps flying. Into the darkness where this fantasy belongs. And then holds herself in the mid-air to discuss with the Babaduke. I was wondering at that point because
Starting point is 00:36:56 it's from behind. You don't see the face of this little girl. The basketball is thrown with such force through the hoop. I was like, a little person stunt man on that wire acts probably, right? It's not a little girl. Well, I did see that
Starting point is 00:37:11 she did her own basketball skills in the trivia. Oh, really? Yeah, the through the leg was her. That's impressive because I can't even do that. I mean, I'm embarrassingly out of shape, but I can't do that. But a little baby did it. So that's, you know, whatever. And like that gets dropped. We don't do Charles
Starting point is 00:37:28 Barclay. It gets dropped, but like at one point she is watching basketball and they're like why do you love watching basketball we find out later why she loves basketball and it's the dumbest thing of all time so all of a sudden and again like this doesn't make any sense because the movie is on a pretty tight timeline she gets he gets a job she gets fired christmas is right around the corner rocks danny de vito's dog character is bored uh they get pregnant at some point uh in the beginning of the movie. You know, the guy slips a roofy dog drink or whatever.
Starting point is 00:38:04 I lost it all. Sorry. Well, no, there's illiterate dogs and one of them is voiced by Danny DeVito. And he's a puppy. Around Christmas and then we cut back at this dog 12 years old. It's a real flub. I mean, all jokes.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Great hairs. All jokes aside, I mean, this dog really must have blown them away in the dog audition. Because this dog is way too old to be playing this rock's dog you know what i mean it's like kevin spacing beyond the sea you're not a 16 year old bobby darren and nobody fell for it but what could the audition possibly have been danie de vito's doing all the work all the dog has to do is follow the treat behind the camera back and forth you know what
Starting point is 00:38:47 god damn you chris this is a pretty good dog actor he's got charm he's got pizzazz yeah but you know what it's poisoned because you don't know if you're feeling that charm because of the dog or because of Danny DeVito, because if there's one person in Hollywood who's more charming than most, it's Danny DeVito, sir. Steve, he's the Adam Brody of dog actors. He's hit and miss. Wow, that is an insult. To whom? To everyone? To Rocks the dog? Yeah. He's long dead at this point. Oh, my God. That dog is dead of the James Dean at this point. The actual James Dean. You mean, yes, okay. The porn star is still kicking, waiting for the canyons too. I mean, and, you know, he's down on his luck.
Starting point is 00:39:32 It's this weird, like, he meets Mikey for a second because they're giving him the dogs away. Randomly on the street, which here's a big problem for me in this movie is that it's filmed in Canada, first of all. Oh, for sure. But we're supposed to be living in Queens, but he's, like, walking. They're just in the middle of this huge suburban neighborhood. And, like, Queens has some suburbs, but not like this. Like, this is clearly not a New York City suburb of any kind. No.
Starting point is 00:39:56 And they're just walking down the street. know if it's like out in front of the wherever the school's supposed to be or whatever and there's just a box of dogs and like all these all these uh you know puppies are being picked up it's the most heartbreaking part of the film because danny de vito's puppy is the last one that's left in the box and he's like oh no i'm all alone oh don't leave me all alone please oh i hate being in this box hey that's my brother don't take my brother and i'm sitting here like near tears like this puppy like being all alone in this box and then he's picked up like a biker family sons of anarchy take them yeah totally it's like a little nelson munn's kid and a dad with a t-shirt
Starting point is 00:40:33 that says if you can read this the bitch fell off and it's just he's like all right put him in your bag and get on the hog we're late you know and danny de vito's just like ah you look like pretty shitty people guess i'll escape from you on mid bike ride by the way he jumps off it's it's a dog stun this is a really impressive dog stunt and now he's just an alley dog yeah which listen everybody an alley dog in new york city will not fly no there's way too much these dogs running around the streets of new york you would be picked up in a heartbeat it's not oliver and company all right it doesn't work that way oliver did not have rabies as it turns although that would have been an interesting turn can you imagine like the twist ending of this movie is like dan die de vito gets in a dog fight and then it's like a dog that has rabies and then danie de vito's dog has rabies they have to put him down like they really take that fucking heart hard turn. Like a real Turner and Hooch ending. Oh, yeah, dude. Just not a dry eye in the house.
Starting point is 00:41:34 So he gets picked up by the dog pound, obviously. Yeah. You know, I think Mikey's been sulking so much that they're like, you know what? We're going to get him the dog. We have an enormous house. Why not? You know, we'll get him a dog. And Travolta does it without Christialli's permission, which... Have you been married to this woman for 10 years, or have you not been married to this woman for 10 years? Totally. This is a real Homer Simpson bungal if I ever saw one.
Starting point is 00:41:58 Like, no, no partner should do this to their wife. But however, are you kidding me? This guy, this woman is so high-strung. Like, it's, you're asking for it. Oh, dude, every day, it's like a hairline difference between, like, doing okay and flipping out. Every day you're this close, John Travolta. Well, that's the things. I feel like he's like a stimp-esque figure in that, like, there's the red button, and he's
Starting point is 00:42:28 just like I have to touch the red button and then like he turns around after he's pressed the red button he's like and he turns back around there's another red button and like that's him the whole movie is he's just doing these things that he knows it's going to make her want to kill him oh yeah and here's the other thing he knows that unfortunately all he has to do once she gets really pissed off is put the moves on her which she somehow falls for every time. The moves, which is impersonate Elvis, which always makes me want to throw up. What is sexy about John Travolta doing an Elvis impersonation? Or anyone doing an Elvis impersonation
Starting point is 00:43:12 with that matter. I'm looking at you, John Stamos. Yep. Tarantino does it okay in that Golden Girl episode. Yeah, but Blanche wasn't lining up to fuck him? Precisely. Wasn't she, though? No, I don't know. It's Blanche. I don't know. It's Blanche.
Starting point is 00:43:28 give her a benefit of a doubt at all. No, that's true. Nobody was safe. And they're all about, and again, like, it's this gallows humor because Danny DeVito's like, well, I guess I'm about to get moided. Oh, yeah, all of these dogs are on death row. For some reason, though, Danny DeVito gets like, like six hours on the block. Yeah, you get bumped up to the top of the list. What did they do? What is the deleted? Like, piss on the dog catcher's foot. Especially the cop biters below him somehow. Well, that's the thing is I do think they found a bunch of diseases. They did test the immediate, you know, that's what they do. Immediately, you get the dog into custody and then you, you know. So he's just, he's that much of a mangy month that they were like, we got to kill this dog before Ebola breaks out in the city. The dog from the thing, that's what he is. He's got like this weird like spider on his back. All those tentacles infecting the other dogs.
Starting point is 00:44:20 Oh, sorry, kid. I wanted to bring the dog home, but he didn't want to be a dog. He wanted to be us. Christian Ali's like Why did you bring this dog home? And then he looks at her dead eyes and goes Like all these All these tentacles come out of Travolta
Starting point is 00:44:38 I love it Instant A plus movie What a left turn for this franchise Ah but so So whatever he's on death road John Travolta takes the kid down to the pound And it's like you're going to pick up a dog And I didn't talk to your mother about this
Starting point is 00:44:56 okay and you know it's like oh of course the Danny DeVito dog recognizes Mikey and he's like oh I recognize that kid because he smells like cookies and dight and so like he runs up and tackles him and he's like I want this one in any other situation it's like all right this dog just jumped on you like totally unprovoked like nope not bringing this dog home sorry oh and we're suing the whole the kennel here we're having we're owning this kennel now absolutely This dog handler got foiled by a dog and tackled my son. I don't think so. I'm going to own this municipal dog found.
Starting point is 00:45:34 You watch. Speaking of the thing, though, this is a thing that bothers me about these look who's talking. The look who's talking franchise. Yes. It's the implied telekinesis. Yes. It's a really weird thing. Like, even in the first, like, because in the first two movies, it's not just, it's one thing.
Starting point is 00:45:52 if we're just pretending like babies are hyper smart and they just have all these complex emotions and feelings that they couldn't obviously have or ways to express them. But the fact that they're communicating with each other by like looks. It's terrifying. And it carries over here. All these dogs are like talking to him
Starting point is 00:46:10 and not like bark. It'd be easy enough like they're barking and that's how they talk. But they're just like staring at each other. This is fucking eerie shit. Yes, no, it's creepy. And it's the same thing in that first movie. Bruce Willis is talking to all these babies And they're all just babies looking at each other. In the second one, though, isn't it like Mikey's old enough to talk so he can't communicate with the sister?
Starting point is 00:46:30 That's what's really stupid about that second one is that the kid is like mouthing the words. Yes. But the inner monologue is still happening. And it's still Bruce Willis. So Bruce Willis. Good God. It's really stupid.
Starting point is 00:46:43 It's incredibly stupid and I wish I hadn't seen it again. So does Mikey still have telekinesis is the question. I think that's the thing you grow out of it. Oh, X-Men prequel. Origin story, yeah. I think that's what it is. Yeah, he just, nice origin story. He learned to suppress it.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Like, I think that's what you're led to believe, right? All babies can do it. Then when you learn how to talk, you just let it go. Sure, why not? And I'm sure of one of those fucking different comic books, he has a sister, right, Steve? He does, actually. Okay, there we go. Cassandra Nova.
Starting point is 00:47:16 Oh, there you go. Not Julie. Damn. And that's Ben, the comic book minute. check back next week and yes then of course in typical sitcom fashion
Starting point is 00:47:29 this maniac that's been stalking John Travolta through employment arrives at his house completely unannounced with another dog because she knows that Mikey wants a dog
Starting point is 00:47:42 she gets a poodle which obviously most boys don't want a poodle and of course it has to be a lady fruffy poodle right and it's not just a poodle though this we're told is a dog that she's had Oh my god, I forgot about that. And she's just like, I heard your kid wanted a dog
Starting point is 00:47:59 So here's my dog, you can have it And you're just like, what? Because at one point Diane Keaton's like, oh, I'm seven years old Or something like Danny DeVito's like, you look great for Jeff Let's fuck. But she says like, you know, that she's an older dog or whatever And yeah, like she's just owned this dog Like has had this dog paid for this dog to go to the finest
Starting point is 00:48:20 boarding school this that and the other thing and she's like and now it's yours because i might want to have sex with this man oh there's no mites about it here's this dog and a bag of my hair bye bye movie see you later there's yeah they should have definitely made this woman a little crazier but it's crazy to give someone your dog right to show up unannounced and give someone your dog and all your dog shit yeah it's the stupid gag of like kirstie alley's like well now there's a dog and she goes to close the door and then like six delivery guys come in with all the dog's luggage.
Starting point is 00:48:56 You know what? Just throw it out. Just turn around and throw it in the garbage. Go to bed bath and beyond and get a pillow and put it on the ground. And it's so dumb. Like then we start having to hear Diane Keaton through this movie and she's just playing like
Starting point is 00:49:12 the snootiest of snoots and it is obnoxious. It's very irritating. And also why would you give kids a seven year old dog anyway. Enjoy burying this thing. Seriously. Or you get to high school. Or putting it
Starting point is 00:49:28 down the laundry chute. That's a big poodle. It's not fitting down the laundry chute. If it's a bad night and it happens. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And Christy Alley just doesn't want to deal with it. Just ditch it in the middle of the night. Oh, it ran away. Ran away to that farm
Starting point is 00:49:44 up state. Garbage shoot. It's a Christmas movie. Maybe it falls on Daniel Stern's face. He's trying to rob the building. Clause it all up, yeah. So, yeah. This is the craziest thing in the world. So Christy Alley is really pissed because not only did her husband go behind her back and invite one animal into her house,
Starting point is 00:50:05 he also, his crazy, like, horned up boss made sure that there were two dogs at once. And she's like, this is ridiculous. We got to get rid of one. And, you know, he's like, oh, we can't get rid of this. That is Anthony's dog because I'm going to get fafafi it. And we can't get the other one. He's on the gallows, baby. It's so ridiculous, like, the situation that he puts this family in.
Starting point is 00:50:26 It's like, I get it, like, the one angle, like, yeah, my boss gave me this dog. Like, I don't want to be rude about it or whatever. To me, that's like, find another home for Danny DeVito. That's what you do. Find another home for either of them. You're now in, you own the dog. The thing is, he's so stupid. He doesn't even understand this woman really wants.
Starting point is 00:50:50 to fuck him in this movie. Yeah, he's got no clue. Because he's a five-year-old. Anyone, any smart person would be like, oh man, this is really getting too much. I'm going to set boundaries right now and return this dog. Say thanks, but no thanks, baby. Yeah, exactly. It does not happen. Excepts it willing. Oh, geez,
Starting point is 00:51:06 it's so fantastic. The brilliant idea they have. Oh, this is some bad dog politics. Instead, we're going to keep them both until one of them fucks up. And then we're going to rip the dog away from the loving children And throw them in the fucking street Yeah
Starting point is 00:51:26 On Christmas morning preferably Oh Santa came be distracted with that While I throw this dog out the window I don't want it to be snowing I want it to be sleeting It's so insane And you know if that's what your policy is going to be Then you immediately write that and there
Starting point is 00:51:43 Have to get rid of one of them Yes just do it Look it's a dumb kid He'll be sad for a couple weeks, tops. He'll get over it. There's still a dog. At the end of the day, there's still a dog. Flip a coin.
Starting point is 00:51:55 One comes with much less luggage, by the way. Your house is filled with all of these things. There's actually one moment where, like, this guy brings in, like, a wardrobe of dog clothes. And Kirstie Alley looks at it, like, hmm, and kind of, like, puts her arm through it. Like, gee, could I wear this dog clothing? A dog jacket. Yeah, I mean, I know you're unemployed, but that is. some hard times wearing a dog's jacket.
Starting point is 00:52:20 Let me tell you, that's bad news, man. Start selling some furniture first. How about that? Or get a job. Like freelance accounting. It happens all the time. That's what you're doing the first one. The first one, she's doing freelance accounting.
Starting point is 00:52:34 Well, it's not tax season, man. It's the holidays. Nobody's doing anything. Everyone's spending money. They don't care about how much money they have. It's true. We're credit carding all over the place. It's holiday madness.
Starting point is 00:52:44 I imagine, though, the layoff pay had to be insane. They never really figure, you know, they don't address if she has some sort of severance of any kind. It's just, I know, fired! Which is, Kirstie Allie Kriing is one of the worst sounds you could hear. Like, all I was thinking about was that dumb and dumber scene. Like, you want to hear the most annoying sound of the world? It's Kirstie Allie crying. Sorry to burst your bubble Jim Carrey, but it's not your noise.
Starting point is 00:53:06 It's Kirstie Allie crying. Which he modeled. Ah, Christy Allie crying. But that's kind of her entire bag of comedic tricks, right? Like, is different modulations of crying. It's crying and whining and then like fast-paced snap. Frazzled. Talking. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:21 Thrasled is her central. She's good at like throwing out the insults and whatnot. Yeah. She's good at that. But yeah, crying is what's making up most of the bag of tricks. So yeah, they have this weird hunger games for dogs going on. Like one of them's going to die and the other one's going to be showered with riches. There's another instance when they're having this argument of John Travolta like using sex to smooth things over because she's like, We're going to, she's like, Dan, now.
Starting point is 00:53:48 So, you know, that's like the thing for we're going to have a fight. And we don't want the kids to hear. And they close the doors. And they're, like, freaking out about it. He's like, oh, come on, baby, it's going to be fun, right? Hey, do you like Elvis? And she's like, not now. I swear to God, there's two beasts in our home that you brought here.
Starting point is 00:54:05 I'm not having sex with you. And then I think they kind of have sex. It would be really annoying then if, like, the girl grows up to be, like, a couple years older and they get, like, a super Nintendo. They're playing NBA jam, and she's always the Phoenix Suns. And the kid, like, the Sun's just like, will you please play a different team? So, yeah, we're trying to see, like, who's the better dog. And of course, it's like Danny DeVito's a street dog.
Starting point is 00:54:31 So he's, like, a slob and he's pissing in the house and everything. Why should I worry? Why should I care? And I don't know. They go out for a night and there's like a- Not nearly enough dog antics. I mean, that's number one of my criticisms because that's the thing.
Starting point is 00:54:49 We want to watch things talk that shouldn't talk. I guess that's the only thing to watch in these movies, but they always trick you into watching a Kurtz-Diali movie. I mean, you know, look who's talking now. It's John Travolta's penis. He's doing the most work in this movie. Why would you, like, focus so much
Starting point is 00:55:08 story? Like, I get it from the other movies. It's like, it's just a baby, and you can't do much with it. And Bruce Willis is only so charming as a voiceover actor. So you have the adults doing things. And then like, same in the second movie. We're learning how to raise two kids and whatever. And it's fine.
Starting point is 00:55:26 And I'm fighting over having a job better than yours. But this movie, it's like, look, once you introduce dogs, it's a dog movie. It's not a people movie. I want dogs. Dogs up the ass. And the thing is, is that all their antics, like, you should have, like, a full, like, let's go to the dog park. I don't even know if they had dog parks back then. but like let's, hey, let's go out to where the dogs go.
Starting point is 00:55:47 Let's go to a park. Yeah. Doesn't have to be a dog park. Like, that's the best thing about, the only thing I will say for the second one is they have Damon Wayans playing another baby. Yeah. And that's what you have to do is you have to get other, you know, character actors to come in and say a line. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:56:03 Because Danny DeVito is like Henny Youngman in this movie. He's just got like these one-liners for fucking everybody. He's got the most dialogue in this movie. But this is when everyone's career had turned to poison. this point, right? Like, Diane Keaton couldn't get anything. It was before, she was in that weird, like, post-baby boom, like, first wives
Starting point is 00:56:22 club, what am I going to do in any movie thing? And Danny DeVito had nothing going on. Travolta had nothing going on. Travolta was about to be in this garage before they called this movie. Danny DeVito, it's almost the saddest one of all. This is a year after the penguin. That's true. And there's just
Starting point is 00:56:38 you're doing this movie. Like, come on. Use that. But everyone was repulsed by that no one wanted that on their set. They just assumed he wasn't wearing makeup in that movie. I guess that's true. Like, that's, like, probably hands down his best performance. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:55 And it cursed him. Yeah, it did. Because you just associate it with a monster, which is why Frank on Sunny is always so great because it's like, oh, yeah, it's that monster from Batman. Look, he's being a monster here. It's gross, too. So do we pay him in fish?
Starting point is 00:57:12 Do we have to get a specialty craft? services menu or what? Like, I got a whitefish guy, but it's all smoked. I don't know. I don't want to hear about him trying to find his parents. No. Next. So, most of this movie, because there's really no
Starting point is 00:57:28 dog antics, it's like, we know the dogs are on blast, and it's like, whoever messes up first is getting gassed or whatever. In the house. Oh, yeah, in-house gassing, for sure. So then the other part of it is we start, we're getting closer to Christmas, and it's like, John Travolta's getting
Starting point is 00:57:44 busier and busier. He's homeless. He's gone for weeks at a time. And we start getting into well, you're not going to have to work on Christmas, right? You'll be home for Christmas because he goes out on this big worldwide jaunt. And again, like they don't specify what this woman's business is, but she is globe-drodding. She's got some merger in the works. Is, you know, one of those vague mergers. Yeah, she's talking to all sorts of CEOs, something, something. And they're all being
Starting point is 00:58:12 real staunchy. Yeah. And she's a going to France, she's going to Europe, she's doing all this stuff, and she's apparently not making moves on this guy. Like, she's waiting for Christmas. Yeah. Like, I mean, and he he always comes back talking about, oh, we went out to dinner here and oh, this, that, you think this funny thing happened at the hotel, like, he's dumb and he's being charmed by her. But, like, she's not, make your move then, lady, like, let's go out for drinks, and I'll hear. Exactly. Get him drunk, you know, you're taking a stroll under the chancel lise. Like, come on. Let's go up to my hotel room, watch TV.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Cheers is on. Hey, is that your wife? Hey, let's make out. Exactly. It's just like, it's a weird waiting for Christmas. Like, she's waiting for all the pieces to fall into place. But he's so dumb. He doesn't understand what's going on. And there's a scene with, he takes
Starting point is 00:59:01 Kirsti Ali and the mother-in-law, Olympia Dukakis, out to dinner at this fancy restaurant. And like, he's, like, ordering a bottle of wine. The other thing in Olympia Dukakis is like, what's with your idiot ordering all this nice stuff and she's like oh he's picked up a couple things
Starting point is 00:59:17 did he also pick up that suit from Don Johnson oh dude I was just gonna say he's wearing a Don Johnson jacket it's so the Miami Vice outfit dude Crockett and Tubbs could come in at any second and be like give it back he borrowed that jacket from the the wolf from the fucking Paula Abdul video it's I mean he looks like
Starting point is 00:59:43 idiot in this thing. And it's like, you know, oh, fancy restaurant, new clothes, does that and the other thing. Wow, he's getting really cultured. He must be making money. And then it's like, no, she made the reservation and is paying for dinner. She bought him the suit because they were going to some fancy restaurant in Paris and he couldn't get in without one or whatever. Here's the thing, John Travolta, right away, why you're the biggest idiot of all time that doesn't understand what's happening here. When have you ever heard of some high-powered sewing? and so hanging out with the pilot spending I mean maybe you know you take bird out for drinks like once in a while whatever this much time restaurants buying you things
Starting point is 01:00:25 kind of sort of like letting you in on the professional side of what's happening here to the point where he like kind of has opinions about things because she'll be like oh no so and so is really riding me for whatever and he's like oh geez I thought that was done with last week well that's the thing is you do it once and you can tell
Starting point is 01:00:43 if he's into it or if he's not. And like she has this plan like she's going to lose her virginity to him. Like it's got to be this special place. It's got to be a special time. She's got to be in the right mood. But she's a captain of indigrant. Obviously princes have offered their fucking
Starting point is 01:00:58 kingdoms to her. Oh sure. And shit like that. Like that's who she is. She's that kind of powerful woman. And this fucking pilot who doesn't know what up is. Geez, I hope he knows what up is. He's a pilot. Up is literally his job. Yeah, most pilots, like, you tip them once at the end of the year, and, like, you have a big long talk with people and, like, figure out the least you're legally allowed to tip them, and then you tip them.
Starting point is 01:01:25 Exactly. Is that, like, 400 bucks? That seems like too much. Also, you did fly me five different times. Her job is so weird in that, like, she's going to put out all these fires in person, you know? Pre-email, man. I guess so, but, like, make a phone call with some of these things, you know? and I guess maybe it's a product of like
Starting point is 01:01:45 she wants him alone as much as possible so I'd imagine the person on the other end of this transaction is like no you don't have to come here we can just take this you know do a call we'll get on a call we'll figure out no no no no I'll fly to you don't worry about that I've got my personal pilot my lawyer is in New York just talk to him this is what the hell's wrong with you
Starting point is 01:02:04 no no no face to face business deals just like Italian business fans are going at the lunch like you're here what Oh, my, oh, my God. What are you doing here? I mean, I guess I have to take you out to dinner now. Look, what, this is weird. I mean, there's no one here.
Starting point is 01:02:20 Who did you think was going to be here? I guess we can have dinner. Who's your pilot? That's who this? Do I have to pay for him? I mean, okay. All right. Let's go.
Starting point is 01:02:33 I guess I care about this fucking merger. I guess that's what's happening now. Can I say this is quite out of the ordinary? I will also note. And it's Friday, 8 p.m. It's a little rich, is all I'm going to say. It's a bit rich. There's thorough.
Starting point is 01:02:52 And then there's whatever this is. Is the mechanic coming? Let's get the mechanic, too. So he's been on this whirlwind tour. And the whole thing is, I will be home for Christmas. Do not worry about it. And, you know, Rocks just keeps messing up. He's chewing shoes, pissing on things.
Starting point is 01:03:12 Right. at one point that I mean it's not even worth talking about the dogs man but like at one point they go out on a dog date the only thing that I'll mention about this I guess is that there's some impossible New York geography going on because we're told they live in Queens it's a queen suburb the next thing we know these dogs are in the middle of Manhattan running around so either they got on a train or a bus or were led to believe these dogs ran from suburban Queens to Manhattan which is a long run for dogs and you don't see straight dogs in Manhattan just having adventures. There's just, there's not dogs running down Fifth Avenue. It doesn't happen. Sometimes you see a cat under a dumpster. Maybe, that's it. No dogs. And of course we do our Lady
Starting point is 01:03:54 and the Tramp. Uh-huh. We were waiting for it. That's what we sold this movie on. Pretty much. You remember that cartoon a thousand years ago? This is kind of like it, but dumber and shittier. Hey, it's like Lady of the Tramp with Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito. Oh, that's just as precious.
Starting point is 01:04:10 Of course. There's, of weird like they hate each other you know what I mean like they have like a little sitcomy little flirtatious relationship A real Sam and Diane if you will These dogs do And it's really weird because he's like She's like mongrel and he's like bitch
Starting point is 01:04:26 And I know that bitch is a female dog But having Danny DeVito say bitch I know what's going on and I don't think my kids Should be hearing it Nope not at all and that's one of those things where then the kids quoting it and they're going to be like But the movie dog did it this is not a family film
Starting point is 01:04:44 You fucking bitch Jesus Danny So now it's Yeah They love each other She actually also Kind of for the plot She sabotages him
Starting point is 01:04:56 Like they have some dog fight But like they argue And then she's like Oh You know he gets his one last chance So she She goes in and betrays him By like chewing up a shoe
Starting point is 01:05:06 So they think he did it But they don't even set up That this is like A special pair of shoes Like it's just some fucking random pair of shoes She says something like It's a throwaway line of like Oh what does he get yelled at for the most
Starting point is 01:05:18 Oh the ones that are in the boxes So it's like I guess that's how she knows It's like important in some way Yeah because then it becomes heartbreaking So they have this wonderful night out And like nobody minds Like letting dogs into buildings
Starting point is 01:05:32 Or anything like that It's so dumb Also there's that really super duper weird scene Where she's in the mud Dant's run in the mud Dan's running the mud with me. And she says it's so sensual. It's so weird.
Starting point is 01:05:45 Oh, vomit. I think that mud rom cut off a few minutes early. That's all I'm saying. There's some stuff in that mud scene that we didn't see. I'm glad we did. Oh, I'm happy. I'm happy as a pig and shit. I mean, that would be my sub show, right?
Starting point is 01:06:00 Is I've got kids here. Every kid's movie, it's I've got kids here. And so she comes up. Christialli's like, that's it, rocks. You're out on your ass in an indeterminate amount of time now. Yeah. So in the meantime, just sit outside on this patio we have. You can't come in.
Starting point is 01:06:19 And so, all right, it's whatever. John Travolta, it's Christmas Eve, and it's like, I really hate to do this. We have to get in the air for one last thing. Because it's her crazy masterstroke. And I think she's been working towards this for weeks. Oh, yeah. And it's like, I got to meet with this guy at his cabin upstate. So off we go
Starting point is 01:06:40 We're flying of I don't know Plattsburgh somewhere in the mountains You know And it's like It's exactly what you think it is Right they take a limo to their house At first I was like Is John Travolta also driving this limo
Starting point is 01:06:52 Because you might as well The amount of money she's paying But that's what I didn't understand I'm like if you just have to fly her to the place Yeah Why are you going all the way To the fucking house Exactly drop her off
Starting point is 01:07:02 Here's Larry the limo guy You're done Just go Just go And I know okay You're going to be probably they're not going to let you fly in this storm. Yeah. But still, like, just you don't have to be here.
Starting point is 01:07:14 And he even says at one point, like, look, if I can get back, I can get a cab, I'll drive down, back to the city, whatever. I really just want to see my kids on Christmas. And she's like, oh, no, you don't. Yeah, totally. Like, she's insane. She's going around unplugging phones and fax machines. She makes up a fax. Oh, yeah, there's a fake fax in this movie.
Starting point is 01:07:36 She wrote it two weeks ago. She had a couple of drafts of this fake facts It's like Ocean's 11 with this shit This is thought out I think Elliot Gould helped her It's so insane So you wanna fuck John Travolta huh Okay fine
Starting point is 01:07:50 Well we're gonna need 12 guys So now they're at this cabin And it's snowing and he can't leave And she's like Okay well we're stuck here We might as well have some fun there's a fireplace that's hooked up to the clapper which is a dumb joke
Starting point is 01:08:10 and then she's like okay it sure is a you know cold in here by the way I don't know how to dance and we're getting like dance lessons never learned the box step I guess I hate to do this but we have to talk about the dream sequence really quickly
Starting point is 01:08:26 yeah you're totally right because we're talking about dancing this is during Christialli's and they're on opposite's ends of the globe they both have anxiety about what they're doing at some point so like he's imagining her having a sexy time with Santa Claus and she's imagining him
Starting point is 01:08:42 doing the tango with this lady and George Segal shows up and so for anyone who doesn't remember George Segal is the father of Mikey in the first movie and he's just he's back for this cameo his Santa he strips off his Santa costume and I don't think he comes back
Starting point is 01:08:58 I don't remember him the second one I think he's just like okay I have a kid I mean just shoot me was a few years away why not Let's just do this dumb cameo. Is he paying child support? He better be paying child support. That's the thing.
Starting point is 01:09:11 They don't really mention it. They don't discuss it. He would have to be. He would have to, in that situation. Yeah, you have to be throwing something towards this kid. Totally. He's like a rich CEO, too? Yeah, absolutely.
Starting point is 01:09:20 There's a fund. There's a fund somewhere. And like, it's a big John Travolta dance number where he's tangoing around, et cetera, et cetera. And then, like, George Segal reveals himself. I was like, imagine, Andrew, you've been married for a couple of years now. I have. Imagine living this entire marriage in terror that George Seagal is going to come and take your wife away.
Starting point is 01:09:41 I know. It's a weird thing to have to live with. Being terrified of George Segal. Sexually threatened by George Segal. Intimidated by George, like, happy how you do in George Segal. Like waking up in cold sweats after a dream George Seagal opens a bathrobe and says, what are we going to do about this? It's no way to live.
Starting point is 01:10:05 It's not. And it's John Travolta every day of his life, apparently. He's having these jealousy dreams. So it's, and then the dumbest thing is the dreams converge. Uh-huh. And so, like, Kirstie Alley, like,
Starting point is 01:10:18 notices what's going on, and John Travolta notices what's going on in these respective dream sequences. They come together. It's that telekinesis kicks in when you sleep. And it's a weird thing where, when they start talking to each other,
Starting point is 01:10:32 they're like, wait, are we dreaming? what's going on this is weird well at least we get to spend time together let's party and they just start to do it so let's dance yeah and it's like all of a sudden it's like a fred and ginger routine and John Travolta is blowing
Starting point is 01:10:48 Kirstie Allie out of the water by the way oh he's waiting oh my god I mean she's barely keeping up he is mopping the dance floor with her fucking Freddy Kruger's in the corner tickling those ivories oh man if Freddy just had not
Starting point is 01:11:04 highlighted this couple or she's like oh John she's got her hand against his chest and then she opens his shirt there's a bunch of little Freddy Krueger's on there and he was Freddy Krueger the whole time that would be pretty great so yeah and it's just like
Starting point is 01:11:20 they wake up from from that dream and it's like wow that was weird did I just talk to my husband in a dream world he must be fun and we cut back to Christy so yeah they're off having their adventure and like John Travolta is being idiotly fooled by her
Starting point is 01:11:36 and you know Christialli still thinks he's coming home for Christmas she realizes he is and she starts
Starting point is 01:11:43 doing her crying thing Olympia Dukakis tells this story about like when your father was in the war it's this crazy
Starting point is 01:11:51 it's like the story from jaws almost like there was like we had all these men and then these sharks kept eating them and like I was the last one left
Starting point is 01:12:00 your father was in the war you know there was a bomb thing and he was, you know, with a bunch of U.S.O. girls and he was on an island. And he kept on eating him. He was on an island all alone with these U.S.O. girls. And he never did a thing because he was such a good guy. Are you kidding?
Starting point is 01:12:17 The 1940s, this guy was knee-deep. Oh, oh, yeah. One thousand percent. And the way she says that she knows that it's true is that the U.S. She met the U.S.O girls and they said nothing happened. Well, case closed. oh yeah man that's all it takes for olympia jacoccas to believe it oh i fucked this guy what now 30 years ago oh should i ruin his life or yeah yeah no it was fine uh all he did was that talk about you the
Starting point is 01:12:51 whole time yeah that's the oldest one in the book man yeah i know and then like kirstiali's like oh well all right then guess i'll just go to this cabin in the woods and get him back oh she brings the kids because we're on a breakdown right now. Like, you know what? If it's not a breakdown you leave the kids, you're like, you know what? He might be stranded. He might be in trouble. I'm going to confront him. But when you bring the kids, you're having a break. You bring the kids and the dog.
Starting point is 01:13:16 She's Uma Thurman and Infomania. Yes, she is. Oh, my God. Dude, this is all or nothing is what she's in right now. Does she have a gun? This is my question. You know what? She takes that cab. There's probably one of the glove compartment in
Starting point is 01:13:31 1993, New York City. Yeah. Absolutely. he's packing heat. Why are you bringing the dogs? You've got the grandparents. Like, hey, grandma and grandpa, just watch these freaking dogs. She's like, she says to Olympia Dukakis, like, put a bunch of food in Tupperware. We're like taking, we're taking Christmas dinner and all the presents. Yeah. We're shoving it all in this taxi cab, and I'm driving God knows where to find him. We're bringing it to his infidelity. Yeah. Oh, boy, will his sexy face be red? And you're, you want to. you want your kids to see this? Exactly. No, exactly. It's all emotional leverage. It's all it is. It is. It's exactly an infamaniac. And that's amazing. So they hit the road. And, you know, they're driving along. They're passing some people. They're passing scatman crothers and the snow cat. He's going the other way because it's getting really bad out there. And she's speeding with this taxi cab in a snow story.
Starting point is 01:14:29 Like, you know how to get to the Overlook Hotel? Is that a left or right? Because I keep getting these shines. Oh no, better go tell Doc that his little romantic rendezvous about to get busted up. And she, of course, she drives the car
Starting point is 01:14:45 off the road. It crashes into a ravine. Everybody's okay. Yeah, because she's like driving with tears in her eye the whole time probably talking to herself. Mommy, you can use some windshield wipers for your eyeballs too. I think, you know, everybody's fine. The dogs and children
Starting point is 01:15:01 alike. I think the mashed potatoes stayed in the Tupperware. Jules' first record is playing on loop. My hands are small I know. Stay hard. Julius They are. I mean, like, why bring the dogs? Are the dogs
Starting point is 01:15:19 emotional leverage? Like, you're leaving two children and two dogs, you monster. I don't even want, maybe she's giving the dog back. Maybe that's the thing. And take your fucking dog. Oh, yeah. You're totally right. Here's this other shitty one, too. Good luck.
Starting point is 01:15:33 One of your kind. Voiced by Danny DeVito of all things. Really, John. Really, Danny DeVito as a dog? That's disgusting. And so they're like, all right, let's see where we are. And Kirstie Ali, like, steps out of the cab. And there's a wolf.
Starting point is 01:15:50 Oh, it's a sassy wolf. It's a sassy wolf. And it's like, oh, where you think you're going, sweet bang. I'm going to eat your whole family. It's so strange. It's like a jet and a shark. And so Danny DeVito rolls down the window, like all dogs do. To be fair, this is a dog trope, dog movie trope.
Starting point is 01:16:13 And this is not a dog movie, but it's ending like a dog movie. Because most dog movies end with dog v. Wolf. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Which, let me tell you something. This dog would be torn to shreds. Just straight up torn to shreds. Although Turner and Hooch is Dog v.
Starting point is 01:16:29 drug smugglers. That's true. It was the 80s. Everyone was v. drug smugglers, Chris. Yeah, it was the vague drug trade. So, like, Danny DeVito fights this wolf and, like, bats him away, I guess. And he's, like, kind of injured, but fine.
Starting point is 01:16:43 And so it's like, okay, the dogs decide that while the humans sit in the car, like, they'll go out and straighten everything out. So, Danny DeVito's like, all right, Diane Keaton, use your nose to go find people to get help. I'm going to go and find John Travolta for some reason. because he's got, like, the stench of him. This is the best part about dog telekinesis. They can multitask.
Starting point is 01:17:04 All right, you do this. I'll do that. We'll talk to each other with our eyes. Is there a distance range for dog telekinesis? That's a great question, right? Because, you know, eventually, like, they're so far enough apart. Like, they're not talking to each other. Well, I mean, as they get older, their concentration gets better, so then they can do longer
Starting point is 01:17:21 ranges. Oh, they get good at it, you're saying? So it's not like you have to have the person in your sights. No, I mean, like, they're, I mean, John Travolta, Christialla, are fucking dream talking. that takes years you're totally right scatman crothers driving the snow cat he hears this conversation
Starting point is 01:17:38 Lord I wish I could change the channel no that's actually why John Travolta is like more and more I'm not doing this is because Christy Alley is closer and closer and you're talking of a bitch you son of a bitch you're totally right you son of a bitch oh no wait
Starting point is 01:17:52 what are you trying to do to me oh shit she's trying to fuck you oh I thought these were just innocent dead lessons. Whoops. Dance lessons, you idiot. Sexy fireside dance lessons or something. He's like, oh, you don't know how to dance?
Starting point is 01:18:08 Let me show you how to dance. And it's like, you're stupid. And you know what's really obnoxious about this whole thing? Unless I'm remembering it wrong. I don't think she pulls off one kiss on him. No. Because the dog knocks on the door or like barks
Starting point is 01:18:24 outside the door and he's like, oh, hey, it's rocks my dog. What are you doing? he's five seconds away from hitting her though because he finds the oh you're totally right oh you're that's what that's taking a dark turn in this house that's what breaks the illusion because you're totally right because he does a little dip he dips her yeah and they're like face to face and you're like here it comes travolta throwing your life away and then he turns his head to the side and sees behind the potted plant that she's moved into the way that she unplugged the fax machine and he starts flipping out yeah it's it's getting little dark and there yeah you're right and then uh before he turns into frank booth uh there's a wolf at the door and he's like oh that's my dog i think that sounds like my dog that means my wife must be near what and the dog like comes in and pisses on this woman's foot and they leave great and so it's like we're we're gonna walk back the dog's gonna show you the way to the car diane keaton finds a family there's a tow truck that's fine encountering
Starting point is 01:19:28 the whole pack of wolves on this road they're all sass talking wolves by the way and then you're like okay what's gonna happen here is John Travolta gonna fight a pack of wolves because that would be pretty sweet you know what they are it's like all the weasels from Roger Rabbit you're totally right yep yep that's exactly what it is and then we it cuts we don't know what happens
Starting point is 01:19:48 Don Rickles is one of these wolves by the way is he yeah how does that wolf not insult somebody yeah what's the point What's the point of getting rickles If not to let him be rickles That's just a waste of resources Makes no sense So it's Danny DeVito being like
Starting point is 01:20:07 Come on just get out of here I got this And I'm like Is this dog sacrificing himself For John Travolta Okay dog decisions And did he hear the telekinesis in his head Like oh man I'm too close to this dog now
Starting point is 01:20:19 You sound like Danny DeVito You sound like that guy from taxi And I kind of look like Tony Dancer so they get to like a ranger station and this cop's like we're not going anywhere tonight like you know you're spending christmas at this ranger office and may i point out uh in the first movie uh chrissey ali's ob gyn is played by scully's father uh huh her the doctor who delivers joe uh baby joey is cancer man baby joe baby joey is cancer man baby joe Joey. The first, not Michael. Mikey, Mikey, Mikey. He's Cancer Man. And this guy is Pusher.
Starting point is 01:21:04 Oh, man. I think do you think it's a thing where it's like, we're filming these movies in Canada? Yeah. I think it's a Canadian character actors. That's kind of funny. So many X-Files connection. I was just like, wow, man, you just picked them all off. That's funny. I thought that guy looked familiar. I didn't look them up, though.
Starting point is 01:21:19 That's why, for the same reason, most direct-to-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-movies have six six-tenths of the Battlestar Galactica cast most of them so he's like you know just hunker down here for the night the storm's coming in or whatever
Starting point is 01:21:35 and it's like a you know the old horse shit how's Santa gonna find us blah blah blah they've been terrible how Santa got to find us I'm more worried about what's going on at the Overlook Hotel their their transmissions are down and so you know they're like getting ready to settle in for the night
Starting point is 01:21:52 and the kid thinks Mikey who the whole movie they're paranoid that now that Mikey's not believing in Santa they think that he's going to tell the little girl and ruin that but the kid's looking out the window and he sees like a person stumbling towards this ranger
Starting point is 01:22:07 station and he's like I think Santa might be outside not too sure hey mom come take a look at this door opens it's John Travolta just like sweating and covered in snow so this kid again is just I guess kind of like oh well for a second I thought my belief
Starting point is 01:22:23 and Santa was renewed. But no, it was just my idiot father. So Santa's still fake. Fool me twice, Santa Claus. So it's like, oh, everybody's happy. John Travolta's back. And John Travolta waits way too long to reveal that the dog is still alive. Because he's like, yeah, it's crazy.
Starting point is 01:22:41 Guess what happened? I got in a fight with a pack of wolves. And Rock saved me. Isn't that weird? And they're like, uh-huh. And at what length did he go to to save you? did he make the ultimate sacrifice for you or what and it's like pause pause pause pause and then the dog runs in it's like way too long of a delay but to be fair john travolta is always with the long pauses may i bring you to face off at the end where he's revealing that he brought home a bastard child into their family oh yeah you're totally right you're totally right he waits way too long to show joan that kid Way too long.
Starting point is 01:23:23 You know what we need after this psychological horror? Instead of picking ourselves up and figuring out who we are, let's focus on a new kid. That's got his own, the child of a drug dealer. Dude, now dead drug dealers. You know that Joan Allen had some words for him after the credits rolled and faced off. Den, den, dead. Yeah, getting that den. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:23:48 And so they're reunited. and that's the end of the movie. There's a Christmas song that starts playing. Well, the Seda Claus is revealed to be real at the end of the movie, right? Like, there's some weird transmission that they're getting. And it's like, I think that's a thing where the cop knows, like, hey, we're doing something for kids. It's like when, like, TV stations now do, like, Santa Tracker. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:10 You know, like the local news station or whatever does, like, Santa Tracker. Get Gary the Weather Guy to voice on. Yeah, exactly. The highlight of Randy Quaid's acting career. is when at Christmas vacation where they're talking when Chevy Chase is like, oh, you know, they heard on the news that Santa
Starting point is 01:24:28 they saw, you know, a jolly man and a couple of reindeer and Randy Quaid Stoneface like, are you serious, Clark? Man, he's a weird dude, but that's a pitch perfect performance in that Christmas vacation. But yeah, this Christmas, this video, in the credits,
Starting point is 01:24:46 by Jordi, the baby French rapper. I love that there was no build-up to this. You just went right into it like it's the next scene. You should have prefaced it with this is the weirdest shit you'll ever see in your life. It's a rapping baby. It's really strange. It's like a two-year-old kid.
Starting point is 01:25:05 He was a sensation. He had that one song that was like, it was French baby rap. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I'm limited on my knowledge of a baby rap. Really? Just a little under-listened on that one. So you're saying that this.
Starting point is 01:25:20 thing at the end of this movie isn't this child's only song? No, he's got some hit. So, okay, so ooh la, la, baby, I'll have to look it up. So was he like the French crisscross? He was. They just went a lot younger with it.
Starting point is 01:25:36 You can't even understand a word out of this mushroom's mouth. Yeah, I couldn't. It's insane. And he's just rapping about, it's the same, it's the same words yeah, over and over again. Yeah, it's Santa Claus and they're in this house and it's the two kids from the movie. because a direct tie-in
Starting point is 01:25:52 and a contractual obligation clearly. Oh, absolutely. It would have to be. And it's just completely non-sensual it's completely nonsensical and scary and it's terrifying. Because it's like you're like, all right, it's the two kids and they're dancing with this baby rapper.
Starting point is 01:26:10 I guess that's fine. And it's like you know, and they're in a house. They're in a house and I don't know if it's like Joya Noel, Merry Christmas. They keep alternating back and forth. Yes, no way. and then all of a sudden it's like cut to a bedroom and you're like ha ha they've just got some people playing the parents you're never going to see and then the dad sits up
Starting point is 01:26:31 and it's John Travolta in this music video and you're like wow John Travolta hard times and then the mom rolls over and it's Kirstie Alley in this music video and they're like what's all that racket they get out of bed and instead of going downstairs to look at these kids which is how this music video should go They just bend down to the floor And look in a dollhouse
Starting point is 01:26:53 They have on the floor of their bedroom In their room They have a full dollhouse A huge dollhouse And they look inside And that's where their two children And a rapping baby Are dancing
Starting point is 01:27:06 And you see like from inside the dollhouse And is their huge faces outside Like King Kong Solensky This is the mouth of madness Like whatever this thing is Dude, I was in no state to watch that after, look, who's talking now, got over with. And I was just shattered to pieces.
Starting point is 01:27:27 Well, here's the, hold on. Here's the name of the song. And you have to read the subtitle as well, because it's really great. Okay. Oh, so his name is Jordy. Yeah. So he achieved this number one charted single. He's the youngest singer ever.
Starting point is 01:27:41 This Guinness World Records is talking. Youngest singer ever to have a number one charted single in 1992 at the age of four a half with the song Dur Dur Deter Deterre Bebe It's tough to be a baby Coming up At the top of the chart
Starting point is 01:27:58 It's tough to be a baby Personal note I'm a huge fan Of Jordi Well here's my question Is it like Was this video shown in America Or was this
Starting point is 01:28:12 This was for the European market When you streamed it on Netflix Right? Yeah when I streamed this on Netflix this was in the credits. The credits happen. That is insanity. It's the craziest thing. Because it would make sense like fucking, you know,
Starting point is 01:28:25 Bradley Cooper will do Hogandah's commercials for, in France and stuff like that. Yeah. And that would make sense if they were like, hey, you know, it's the European market. They want to just see you for five seconds. You do this French baby video. It's only a day. You got to pretend like you're seeing your kids
Starting point is 01:28:41 dance inside a dollhouse. Don't act that terrified. But it's for the movie and the American audience as well. that is strange. It's so weird. I don't know if it was like a Netflix bumble or what. Like it makes no sense. I will yeah it my jaw dropped when this happened and that's like this is an, this music video that's not connected to the film was me saying this is an episode because I want to talk about this. Also and I mean we're done talking about the movie but the one thing that's left on the table is how on earth does Kirstie Allie's character not get to have some sort of and he's my husband you asshole? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:17 Like the punch in the face thing. Yeah, something. Throw her into the fireplace. That might be dark. It was a dark turn for look who's talking now. I'm not... The dog bites her leg. I'm not necessarily asking for that scene, but you know what you do need is the rocks and the Daphne puppies.
Starting point is 01:29:34 Yes, you definitely do. You're totally right. You're a dog movie. That is your ending. There's no question. And here it is, right? It's like you're wondering with all the hubbubs about, right? And then it's like, maybe it's Easter.
Starting point is 01:29:47 yeah oh yeah sure you know mom dad get in here and then like the two of them run around the corner he's like yeah what's going on and then he just looks and you see it's a shot it's this huge litter like a comically large litter of puppies right and he's just like oh no now what's happening something like now look who's talking yeah exactly and it's just all little like meo me yeah and they're all voiced by gilbert godfrey every last one of that litter is voiced by gilbert godfrey daddy david's like i gotta go get some cigarettes I'll be back in a minute. It's Rea Perlman and get over Godfrey. The women with the females are. Oh, shut her. Oh, and that's look who's talking now. Would anybody recommend this movie? Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:30:32 Stupid question. God, it's awful. I would recommend watching both of Jordy's music videos. Find the Jordy's, find Jordy's music. So in 1992, he was four years old. So that's what, 88 he's born? Yeah, something like that. Yeah, so he's in his like late 20s now.
Starting point is 01:30:50 You think Jordy's still making music? He's probably got a drug problem. You're darn too. So is he. That's look who's talking now from 1993, directed by Tom Ropoulouski. If you want to get a hold of us or find out more information about the show, check out our website, WHMpodcast.com. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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