We Hate Movies - S5 Ep184: Look Who's Talking Now!
Episode Date: December 23, 2014On 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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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.
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?
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.
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?
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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,
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
and
you know
Christialli
still thinks
he's coming home
for Christmas
she realizes he is
and she starts
doing her crying
thing
Olympia Dukakis
tells this story
about like
when your father
was in the war
it's this crazy
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
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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