Podcasts about Charles Rocket

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Mary Versus the Movies
Episode 186 - Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)

Mary Versus the Movies

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 41:57


A manicurist from The Valley dumps her cheating doctor fiance for a trio of hairy aliens in this campy sci-fi musical comedy that's better than its reputation. Starring Geena Davis, Julie Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey, and Charles Rocket. Written by Julie Brown, Charley Coffey, and Terrence E. McNally. Directed by Julien Temple.

Moonlighting The Podcast
A Trip To The Moon - Part Three

Moonlighting The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 66:30


SYNOPSIS:Maddie and David have been together for a month, and she is wondering where their relationship is going. David tries to resolve the situation by taking her out on a proper date. They get a late start on the evening and end up at a laundromat, where they discuss their relationship, dance to the Muzak, and express their love for each other, but she still doesn't know what she wants. Maddie leaves David in the laundromat saying she needs to be alone and think. She goes home, and the next thing you know, she's on a plane, flying off into the sunset.There are three fantasy sequences in this episode. Maddie receives relationship advice from Dr. Joyce Brothers. David gets relationship advice from none other than Ray Charles while he sings and plays the piano in David's living room. And the third is an homage to The Honeymooners filmed in black and white, in which Cybill, Bruce, Allyce, and Charles Rocket play the leads from the classic Jackie Gleason 1950's series.GUEST STARS:Charles RocketDr. Joyce BrothersRay Charles & The RaelettesHarold J. SurrattStephanie ShroyerMOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOWThe show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.FOR MORE INFORMATION:https://moonlightingthepodcast.comMOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:Join Our Facebook Group:Follow Our Facebook Page:Join Our Instagram Community:Follow us on Twitter/XPURCHASE:Moonlighting: An Episode Guide Bookon TuckerDS PressOR on Amazon:Moonlighting MerchandiseMoonlighting The Podcast YouTube Channel Learn more about Grace here:Learn more about Shawna here:Donate at Ko-fi.comPersonal Instagram:https://instagram.com/grace_chivellhttps://instagram.com/saari_not.saari Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moonlighting The Podcast
A Trip To The Moon - Part Two

Moonlighting The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 84:34


SYNOPSIS:Maddie and David have been together for a month, and she is wondering where their relationship is going. David tries to resolve the situation by taking her out on a proper date. They get a late start on the evening and end up at a laundromat, where they discuss their relationship, dance to the Muzak, and express their love for each other, but she still doesn't know what she wants. Maddie leaves David in the laundromat saying she needs to be alone and think. She goes home, and the next thing you know, she's on a plane, flying off into the sunset.There are three fantasy sequences in this episode. Maddie receives relationship advice from Dr. Joyce Brothers. David gets relationship advice from none other than Ray Charles while he sings and plays the piano in David's living room. And the third is an homage to The Honeymooners filmed in black and white, in which Cybill, Bruce, Allyce, and Charles Rocket play the leads from the classic Jackie Gleason 1950's series.GUEST STARS:Charles RocketDr. Joyce BrothersRay Charles & The RaelettesHarold J. SurrattStephanie ShroyerMOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOWThe show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.FOR MORE INFORMATION:https://moonlightingthepodcast.comMOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:Join Our Facebook Group:Follow Our Facebook Page:Join Our Instagram Community:Follow us on Twitter/XPURCHASE:Moonlighting: An Episode Guide Bookon TuckerDS PressOR on Amazon:Moonlighting MerchandiseMoonlighting The Podcast YouTube Channel Learn more about Grace here:Learn more about Shawna here:Donate at Ko-fi.comPersonal Instagram:https://instagram.com/grace_chivellhttps://instagram.com/saari_not.saari Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moonlighting The Podcast
A Trip To The Moon - Part One

Moonlighting The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 69:18


SYNOPSIS:Maddie and David have been together for a month, and she is wondering where their relationship is going. David tries to resolve the situation by taking her out on a proper date. They get a late start on the evening and end up at a laundromat, where they discuss their relationship, dance to the Muzak, and express their love for each other, but she still doesn't know what she wants. Maddie leaves David in the laundromat saying she needs to be alone and think. She goes home, and the next thing you know, she's on a plane, flying off into the sunset.There are three fantasy sequences in this episode. Maddie receives relationship advice from Dr. Joyce Brothers. David gets relationship advice from none other than Ray Charles while he sings and plays the piano in David's living room. And the third is an homage to The Honeymooners filmed in black and white, in which Cybill, Bruce, Allyce, and Charles Rocket play the leads from the classic Jackie Gleason series.GUEST STARS:Charles RocketDr. Joyce BrothersRay Charles & The RaelettesHarold J. SurrattStephanie ShroyerMOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOWThe show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.FOR MORE INFORMATION:https://moonlightingthepodcast.comMOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:Join Our Facebook Group:Follow Our Facebook Page:Join Our Instagram Community:Follow us on Twitter/XPURCHASE:Moonlighting: An Episode Guide Bookon TuckerDS PressOR on Amazon:Moonlighting MerchandiseMoonlighting The Podcast YouTube Channel Learn more about Grace here:Learn more about Shawna here:Donate at Ko-fi.comPersonal Instagram:https://instagram.com/grace_chivellhttps://instagram.com/saari_not.saari Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Gobeski/Wallace Report Podcast
Episode 288 - Lorne Michaels McDonald

The Gobeski/Wallace Report Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 53:22


Special guests appear and are EXTREMELY ENTHUSIASTIC about being on the show. In fact, both have new lines of fight sticks to promote, with multiple face plate designs and button configurations! Taste tests are interspersed. We all are hired by SNL by default.

Reviewin Rebels
Dom, Q, & ILL Get Dumb with Dumb and Dumber (1994) | Hilarity Ensues

Reviewin Rebels

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 60:18


The Say Whats Reel crewDom, Q, and ILLtake on the hilarity of Dumb and Dumber From the outrageous orange and blue tuxedos to the ultimate road trip chaos, we're breaking down every laugh, gag, and cringe-worthy moment from this 1994 comedy classic. Does it still deliver the laughs after all these years?Drop a comment with your favorite scene, hit that LIKE button if you love this iconic comedy, and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE for more movie reviewsLet's get dumb together—watch now and join the conversationDumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly,[1][2] who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. It is the first installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise. Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, it tells the story of Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels), two dumb but well-meaning friends from Providence, Rhode Island, who set out on a cross-country road trip to Aspen, Colorado, to return a briefcase full of money to its owner, thinking it was abandoned as a mistake, though it was actually left as a ransom. Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, and Teri Garr play supporting rolesFind the SWR Crew DOM CRUZETwitter: https://twitter.com/itzdomcruzehoe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itzdomcruzehoe/QTwitter: https://twitter.com/King_Quisemoe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/king_quisemoe/We hope you enjoyed the video and the content we put out here at Say Whats Reel Thank you for watching!

Will and Matt
Brain Smasher... A Love Story

Will and Matt

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 44:12


What's more 90s than an action movie from director Albert Pyun? Um, how about a movie starring Andrew Dice Clay and Teri Hatcher? Let Will and Matt whisk you away to a timeless "Ore-GONnah!" DISCLAIMER: Language and Spoilers!!BRAIN SMASHER... A LOVE STORYdir. Albert Pyunstarring: Andrew Dice Clay; Teri Hatcher; Yuji Okumoto

That Show Hasn't Been Funny In Years: an SNL podcast on Radio Misfits
That Show – The Malcolm McDowell Tragedy

That Show Hasn't Been Funny In Years: an SNL podcast on Radio Misfits

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2024 49:38


On November 22nd, 1980, actor Malcolm McDowell hosted "Saturday Night Live," and to put it kindly, it was a disaster. The episode started with a lousy Cold Open, followed by an uninspired monologue (which you will hear), a brutal bit involving an S&M "Leather Weather" report, many sight gags that bombed HARD, and a sketch featuring McDowell and Gilbert Gottfried in drag. To top it off, the talent-free Charles Rocket appeared as a stripping/flashing Prince Charles. These elements combined to create what many consider the worst SNL episode of all time—a claim that is arguable but the episode remains a train-wreck of biblical proportions. It all culminates in one of the most offensive, least funny, and ill-timed sketches ever aired on the show: "Commie Hunting Season." In this sketch, not only is the "n" word freely used by cast member Rocket, but murder, mayhem, and shock value are emphasized instead of satire. You will hear this jaw-droppingly awful sketch in its entirety, learn how it got on air (and BOMBED to a deadly silent crowd), and how it, along with two other horrible sketches, contributed to this nightmare. This episode marked the first chink in Executive Producer Jean Doumanian's armor, eventually leading to her inevitable firing. While many painfully unfunny sketches exist in SNL history, could this be the worst? You be the judge. [Ep79]

Saturday Night Jive Podcast
352: "Six Seasons And A Movie" - SNL Failed Pilots

Saturday Night Jive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024


This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking some television pilots that never got picked up to see a full season that feature some SNL alums.  We watched Norman's Corner starring the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and written by former SNL writer Larry David.  The also late and also great Charles Rocket stars as a spaceship captain in the sci-fi spoof Star Patrol.  There's also Supernerds starring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and one-season SNL alum Sarah Silverman.  We watched the practically flawless pilot for The Grubbs starring Randy Quaid and a pre-Arrested Development Michael Cera.  Then we cheated and watched Where's Rodney? starring one-time SNL host Rodney Dangerfield because we were enchanted by the theme song.  Should any of these shows have gotten the chance to entertain the masses?  We think two of them should, the other three are probably right at home in history's dustbin.  Enjoy!Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.comEmail us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.comDownload Here

The Bonsai Movie Crew
Pod 83 - Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

The Bonsai Movie Crew

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 104:41


Another week another weird ass movie! This week we Talk about Earth girls are easy from 1988! Our creator profile this week is the equally as odd Jeff Goldblum! https://twitter.com/bonsai_crewhttps://www.tiktok.com/@thebonsaimoviecrewhttps://discord.gg/8jCPe8T2kT

Hell Is A Musical
052 - Earth Girls Are Easy ("Tell Us About Vibes") (w/ Ashley Rogers)

Hell Is A Musical

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2024 64:07


Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 science fiction comedy film directed by famed music video director Julien Temple, and written by comedian/singer Julie Brown. Based off of a song previously released by Brown, the action follows a trio of space aliens landing upon Earth, and finding themselves under the care of a lovelorn manicurist in California. The film follows the group's efforts to blend in with the rest of humanity and eventually fix their crashed spaceship. It featured acting roles from Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Rocket, Michael McKean, Julie Brown herself, and early performances from Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, while also featuring music by legendary disco musician Nile Rodgers. Though not a major commercial success, the film has developed a devoted cult following over the years.On a new episode of Hell Is A Musical, Lilz and Scott welcome back all-star guest Ashley Rogers to the program for a screening of Earth Girls Are Easy. (Which we're only kinda sure counts as a musical in the first place?) Join them as Scott expounds upon the film's connection of golden age movie musicals, Ashley draws paralells between the film and the works of Bertol Brecht, and Lilz is thoroughly confused by whatever Angelyne's whole deal was....with Lilz and Scott!

Ian Talks Comedy
Doug Sivco (SNL key page 1980-1981, newcaster)

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 37:21


Doug Sivco discussed early kids TV; watching SNL in high school; going to Rutgers and being on the radio; trying out to be an NBC page; NBC Nightly News; Space Shuttle Columbia; Election 1980; literally bumping into to Ted Kennedy; Letterman morning show; getting the job at SNL; taking messages for the cast; remembering hosts Elliot Gould, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield; Burt Reynolds saves his butt; getting his brother in almost every week; carrying out Mick Jagger; escorting out Deborah Harry; Gabe Kaplan being a jerk; last episode and after party; the new cast; hanging out with Eddie Murphy; Joe Piscopo, Charles Rocket, and Charlene Tilton; finding Cheap Trick's guitar in the green room; working at WNBC; leaving to do news in Alexandria, La.; going to Wilmington, NC and then Harrisburg, PA; the grind of local news; covering Penn State & Philly sports; bloopers; R. Budd Dwyer; went to work for Dean Witter; his current job; living in Cape Cod; community theater; meeting Gilbert Gottfried and being smitten by Linda Ronstadt and Jamie Lee Curtis

The Cannon Canon
DOWN TWISTED (w/Frank and Geoff)

The Cannon Canon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 83:33


“The deal's going down. But it's going down twisted." The Cannon Bros travel back to the Pyuniverse and get down twisted about 1987's "DOWN TWISTED"! The Cannon Bros (Frank & Geoff) get disoriented with all the (down) twists and turns, contemplate the "comedic relief" of the late Charles Rocket, some Cannon Oingo Boingo reuse and...oh yeah! Hey, it's Masters of the Universe's (and nothing else) Courtney Cox for a quick minute! Ultimately, Albert Pyun's unique and signature style elevates what would normally be a static action crime adventure. But one thing's certain, it's...Down Twisted.

Analog Jones and the Temple of Film: VHS Podcast
Dumb and Dumber (1994) Movie Review

Analog Jones and the Temple of Film: VHS Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 57:08


For Harry and Lloyd every day is a no-brainer. Analog Jones continues its listener month with Dumb and Dumber starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.  Quick Facts Directed by Peter Farrelly Written by Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, and Bennett Yelin Distributed by New Line Cinema Release Date: December 16, 1994 Budget: $17 million Box Office: $247.3 million Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer 68% / Audience Score 84% Starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas: A goofy chip-toothed slacker who has been fired from several jobs. Banned from traveling to Russia. Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne: Lloyd's ditzy and air-headed best friend and roommate. Lauren Holly as Mary Swanson: A wealthy but troubled heiress. Was actually married to Jim Carrey Karen Duffy as J.P. Shay: A henchwoman of Nicholas Andre. Mike Starr as Joe Mentalino: A henchman for Nicholas Andre. He has a stomach ulcer and regularly takes medication for it. Charles Rocket as Nicholas Andre: A greedy, wealthy resident of Aspen, Colorado. And a former SNL cast member. Teri Garr as Helen Swanson: Mary's stepmother. Victoria Rowell as Beth Jordan (credited as "Athletic Beauty"): An FBI agent masquerading as a talkative young woman moving to Aspen to get away from her boyfriend. Cam Neely as Sea Bass (NHL player), Felton Perry as Detective Dale (Johnson from Robocop), Harland Williams as Motorcycle Cop How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at analogjonestof@gmail.com with any comments or questions!

Ian Talks Comedy
Chip Keyes (Gimme A Break, Valerie / Hogan Family, Shaky Ground)

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2023 103:07


Chip Keyes joined me to discuss Chip being a nickname for William, his mother being a working woman during the war; watching Howdy Doody & The Mickey Mouse Club and wanting to be in to show business; watching Disney and westerns; getting his comedy from his mother's sharp tongue; the influence of The Dick Van Dyke Show; his love of Maverick and James Garner; writing his first sketch in eighth grade; Laugh In becomes a hit and he sees Second City as a way to make sketch performing a career; forming the Portable Circus; becoming a local hit on campus; doing a gig in Hartford; getting George Sherman to be a director; taking the troupe to New York and around the country; a sketch using the word "shit" gets press and a talking to from a Jesus freak; auditioning and not getting SNL; becoming a page; his original plan was to become a teacher; leaving the page program to move to L.A.; SCTV; getting a play produced; his partner, Jeffrey Lippa wants to be an actor; he makes a critical decision; wins on Match Game to give him time to figure out what he wants; goes back to NYC and host a kids show; makes good money doing commercials; Taxi inspires him and his brother Doug to write a spec script; a great note made his spec script better; writes 2 episodes of Sanford; Mort Lachman becomes a mentor; gets hired on Gimme a Break; writes "The Chief's Gay Evening"; does a pilot with George Kennedy; gets job on Valerie; moved to Perfect Strangers; going back to Valerie and being told to come up with stories that could work for Valerie or a replacement; Valerie Harper was tense and a control freak; hard to write for characters who were so nice; Jack Carter; O.J. Simpson; PORKO; Dennis Burkely; getting a GLAAD Award; Valerie condom episode; episode had a warning and was exiled to late night in his hometown; NBC asks for Fire Prevention week and MLK episodes; not liking the AIDS episode after he left; Willard Scott; Edie McClurg doing an episode after almost dying from giardia; Christine Ebersole; Judy Kahan; turning Mrs. Poole from mean to magical; not bringing back Judy Kahan for season 3; the Paris episodes and working on the Eiffel Tower; Jason Bateman and his father direct episodes; Arlene Golonka & Gerald Gordon; Shaky Ground; not being sure of Matt Frewer as title character; George Kennedy was offer only but still read, Frewer would not read; wishing he could have recast with Phil Hartman or George Wendt; "Matt takes"; Matt improvs with a black dildo in front of a young Jennifer Love Hewitt; working with Chris Demetral, Betty White and Marie Osmond; Reagan jokes; Nixon, Reagan, and Trump; writing two episodes of Two of a Kind for the Olsen Twins; the brothers go their separate ways for a while; write Star Patrol; cast Charles Rocket; line producer shoots out of sequence, network doesn't understand; pilot is rejected

Ian Talks Comedy
Barry Blaustein

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2023 60:31


Barry Blaustein joined me to discuss watching political events of the early 1960's on a b/w TV; his comedy influences; going to school for broadcast journalism; "Broadcast News"; going to LA and getting jobs on specials; working on The Mike Douglas Show; submitting for SNL; Jean Doumanian asking him to write more, not doing it and getting hired anyway; the writing staff did not intimidate him; Elliot Gould and the Accordion Killer; Malcolm McDowell; Ellen Burstyn and Raheem Abdul Mohammad; his dad coming up with "Is that velvet" from "Coming to America"; writing "LFNY" for Eddie on the seventh show and having people upset; Tommy Torture and Ray Sharkey's erratic behavior; Karen Black episode; Charlene Tilton, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood and Charles Rocket's f-bomb; writing a Nick the Lounge Singer with Bill Murray; the Writer's Strike; first show back with Little Richard Simmons, Prose and Cons, and Khaddafi Look; show two with Buckwheat; John Mulaney was born in 1982 when he was at SNL; Ted Cruz being a fan of his work; Velvet Jones; Donald Pleasance and Fear; "Hidden Photo"; Michael O'Donoghue; writing the Mick Jagger variety special for Tim Curry; "retiring" Velvet Jones and The Jersey Guy; Gumby; Larry the Lobster; appearing on camera; Ebony & Ivory; going out to L.A. to write for Chevy hosting via satellite; Drew Barrymore; Eddie hosts and Steve Martin makes a cameo; Lily Tomlin; working with Rick Moranis, Sid Caesar, Stevie Wonder and Ed Koch; leaving the show and not being allowed to tell Eddie; Pam Norris; "Coming to America"; being a Mets and Clippers fan; writing the "Police Academy" movies and their humungous success in Russia; What's Alan Watching?; going back with Eddie in 2019 to SNL;

Debut Buddies
First F-Bomb on American TV (1981) with Michael J. O'Connor

Debut Buddies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 77:47


These days, people drop F-bombs everywhere! Why, you'd be hard pressed to find a place where you won't hear one! But when was f*ck first spoken on American television? For that, we have to go back to 1981, but we'll go back even further... to 1956. Guest Michael J. O'Connor (musician, writer, podcaster) sits us down and tells us a tale of Saturdays, Nights Live, and Charles Rocket among so much more. Plus, we play I See What You Did There.Have a First for us? Or maybe a cloaca? Just wanna try to convince Kelly to play a video game? Email us at debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: The First Skyscraper! 

Whatcha Been Watchin?
Episode #36 It's Pat! (Unfortunately)

Whatcha Been Watchin?

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 89:37


Yer Boyz review one of the worst movies ever and slip into madness. We got: Pat Facts! The worst movies of all time; The strict code of National Geographic; The importance of slowing down the plot; Charles Rocket is the s***! Plus: Training Day! Super Mario Bros. Movie! The Thing Reboot! Conan the Destroyer! Twins! Inside Man!

Telehell
EPISODE 85 - The Worst of Saturday Night Live (Volume 1)

Telehell

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2023 70:16


(Almost) Live From New York, we get to cause chaos around the Big Apple and look at just some of the Worst SNL Sketches of All Time. This episode would've been Impossible to put together without the help of the Following SNL/comedy related Podcasters: Andrew Dick of That Week in SNL Brad Robinson of the Not Ready for Prime Time Podcast Darin Patterson of SNL Nerds and Ian Fermaglitch of Ian Talks Comedy Listen to Their shows whenever you can. Also, because of how Densely Layered this episode is, for the first time, we offer you TIME CODES if you just want to skip the storyline and jump to the Criticism: 09:13 - Honorable Mention #1 11:42 - Our ACTUAL First Pick 15:00 - Pick #2 (Part 1) 18:00 - Honorable Mention #2 18:39 - Pick #2 (Part 2) 21:10 - Pick #3 27:23 - Pick #4 35:28 - Pick #5 41:06 - Pick #6 47:27 - Pick #7 56:13 - Honorable Mention #3 58:20 - Pick #8 SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our Patrons

That Week In SNL
Off Week 42: Down Twisted (1987)

That Week In SNL

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2023 82:43


We again return to the Albert Pyun-iverse for a Cannon Group take on Romancing The Stone starring Charles Rocket and Carey Lowell! Will it have the same subtle, goofball charms as Brain Smasher...or are we in for some more Cyborg manhole-ing? 

The 80s Movies Podcast
Vestron Pictures - Part Three

The 80s Movies Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 20:45


This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville)   TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to.   Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries.   As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.    But we'll get there in a moment.   Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents.   Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford.   Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year.   In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents.   Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release.   Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son.   When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till.   In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher.   A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams.   I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here.   Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever.   Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse.   Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till.   Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred.   As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets.   In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song.    Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround.   Which they did, in 1986.   It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.   The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself.   While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months  winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m.    The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid.   The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week,  losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold.   The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that…   In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive.   Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres.   But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron.   On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video.   Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film.   In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would.   Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack.   Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop.   Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out.   So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form.   Thank you for listening.   We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

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The 80s Movie Podcast
Vestron Pictures - Part Three

The 80s Movie Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 20:45


This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville)   TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to.   Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries.   As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.    But we'll get there in a moment.   Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents.   Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford.   Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year.   In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents.   Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release.   Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son.   When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till.   In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher.   A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams.   I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here.   Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever.   Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse.   Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till.   Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred.   As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets.   In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song.    Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround.   Which they did, in 1986.   It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.   The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself.   While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months  winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m.    The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid.   The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week,  losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold.   The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that…   In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive.   Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres.   But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron.   On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video.   Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film.   In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would.   Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack.   Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop.   Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out.   So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form.   Thank you for listening.   We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

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Cinema Poison
TV Revisited - Wings, Around the World in Eighty Years

Cinema Poison

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2022 34:07


The Charles Rocket episode. The views of TV Revisited do not necessarily reflect the views of Cinema Poison. This is a satirical show.Follow us on Twitter @CinemaPoisonContact us at cinemapoisonpodcast@gmail.com 

The Searchers
Down Twisted (1987) - Ep 8

The Searchers

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 128:36


Sup, guys? Bienvenido to this episode of The Searchers. This time we cover a very obscure crime/thriller/neo-noir/adventure film from B movie icon Albert Pyun (1953-2022): Down Twisted (aka Treasure of San Lucas) from 1987. The film stars Bond girl Carry Lowell and short time SNL host Charles Rocket. ¡Por favor, diviértete! Find a dodgy pan & scan print of Down Twisted on Amazon; on Prime until Jan 1, 2023. (Hint: it may also be on youtube...) The article Chris references: here Follow us on Letterboxd.com to see what we're watching and to read our individual movie reviews! Ben, Chris, & Kevin Our episode catalogue: https://searchersfilmpodcast.podbean.com/ Merry Christmas Eve!

Overlapping Dialogue
Stranger Than Paradise & Dumb and Dumber

Overlapping Dialogue

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2022 197:54


Big Gulps, huh? Alright...well, why you're here, you might as well get comfy, settle down for a spell, and catch up with old friends. This edition of Overlapping Dialogue has us hitting the highway for two road classics, Stranger Than Paradise & Dumb and Dumber! But before we arrive there, we take a few detours with a Blue Plate Special discussion of the surprisingly adequate Halloween Ends, the wickedly talented (iykyk) The Devils, and the considered brilliance of Tár, Todd Field's long awaited return to filmmaking. This week's duo is just as offbeat and eclectic: listen as we discuss Jim Jarmusch's 1984 portrait of hipster malaise, the Farrelly Brother's 1994 idiotic odyssey, and the curious connections both films have in depicting the joys and pitfalls inherent to the open road. As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at huffmanbrothersproductions@gmail.com with your questions, comments, and requests.

Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition
Bad Neighbors + The F Bomb

Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2022 43:35


Meg spreads juicy gossip about Griffin Dunne's summer with Ric Ocasek. Jessica tunes in for the perfect evening: Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Saturday Night Live.

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 544: Rod Lott

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 111:18


February 7-13, 1987 This week Ken welcomes listener and author of the new, must buy, book "Flick Attack", Rod Lott. Ken and Rod discuss Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, completing your life long dreams, John Brennan from the Real World, cowboys, hating most people, Near Dark, Lance Hendrickson, the importance of video stores, loving Ann-Margaret, mid season replacement season, grandparents putting back issues of TV Guide aside for you, the movie listings, feeling like you're in the future, Blade Runner, growing up in Central Time, the final season of The Facts of Life, Fall Preview, The Playboy Channel, Saturday Morning Cartoons, "Larry" Fishburne,  Bruce Willis' The Return of Bruno, Easy Street, Partners in Crime, Loni Anderson, Lynda Carter, Nothing is Easy the show formerly known as Together We Stand, Elliot Gould, reboots, Commander USA, Kate & Allie, My Sister Sam, the first live episode of SNL Ken ever saw, Pee Wee Herman, Drew Barrymore hosting SNL, Frontier Gynecologists, Vampire's Kiss, After Hours, how Motorama is basically The Wizard, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Len Sella's Silly Cinemas, Stillwatch, CBS Made For-TV movies, loving Charles Rocket, Not Necessarily The News, Carol Burnett, Perfect Strangers, Head of the Class, Gimme a Break, Family  Ties, Michael J Fox, Cheers, Friday Night Videos, The Paper Chase, CBN, The 700 Club, following up on 60 Minutes subjects, watching TV while eating dinner, and the mystery of George Cooker's The Corn is Green. 

90 Under 90
It's Pat: The Movie

90 Under 90

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2022 80:46


After the success of Wayne's World, the doors were clearly open for any character to be spun off into a movie. And that's how we ended up with 1994's "It's Pat: The Movie" starring Julia Sweeney, David Foley and the late Charles Rocket.

Fandom Podcast Network
Lethal Mullet Podcast: Episode #180: Brain Smasher A Love Story

Fandom Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 25:18


Lethal Mullet Podcast: Episode #180: Brain Smasher A Love Story Howdy there Mulleteers! I have an interesting film for you learn about tonight: BRAIN SMASHER: A LOVE STORY. Starring the awesome Andrew DICE Clay, Teri Hatcher, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Charles Rocket, and the always amazing Peter Kwong. Directed by Albert Pyun, the man behind: The Sword and The Sorcerer, Cyborg and Nemesis among others this film is filled with action, laughs and romance.  Give Lethal Mullet a listen: Website https://bit.ly/3j9mvlG IHeartRadio https://ihr.fm/3lSxwJU Spotify https://spoti.fi/3BRg260 Amazon https://amzn.to/3phcsi7 For all Lethal merch: TeePublic: https://bit.ly/37QpbSc #lethalmulletpodcast #brainsmasher #lovestory 

Saturday Night Jive Podcast
305: "The F**k Heard Round The World" - SNL S06E11 - Charlene Tilton / Todd Rundgren / Prince

Saturday Night Jive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2022


This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching another classic SNL episode from the notorious Season 6.  Lorne Michaels leaves the show and takes the cast and writers with him.  When the show comes back they've hired an all-star cast that includes Joe Piscopo, Gilbert Gottfried, Denny Dillon, Ann Risley, and of course, Charlie "Mutha-fuckin" Rocket.  This is the episode where it all came screeching to a halt.  Dallas star Charlene Tilton hosts with musical guests Todd Rundgren and "new talent" Prince.  Things are going as good as Season 6 goes, meaning the show is pretty terrible, and then all of a sudden during the Goodnights, Charles Rocket says one of the 7 words you can never say on television.  The cast reaction to the four letter word is one of my personal favorite SNL moments of all time.  Unfortunately the episode leading up to that glorious "fuck" is truly horrendous (minus the debut of Mister Robinson's Neighborhood).  Shortly after this incident the producer and entire cast were fired (with the exception of Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy) and they went back to the drawing board to re-tool the show a second time.  Sketches include Mister Robinson's Neighborhood, Pork Parade, Women Behind Bars, Submissive Sugar Daddies, Stevie Wonder in Fiddler On The Roof, a Rocket Report from the subway, and puppet boxing from Marc Weiner.  We're still trying to solve the mystery of Charles Rocket's murder and we're also on the lookout for the whereabouts of Yvonne Hudson.  Enjoy!Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive.blogspot.comEmail us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.comDownload Here

The Murphy Monday Podcast
The "How Eddie Murphy Saved SNL" Episode f/ Ferris Butler

The Murphy Monday Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 49:00


Last week.. We discussed Season 6 of Saturday Night Live which was Eddie Murphy's debut on national television. It was a rocky season. SNL hired an all new cast that the crittics hated. This season resulted in the firing of the whole cast except Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo. I had mentioned that I would love to know more about that season. Luck would have it that one of the listeners of the podcast knew a writer from that season. That writer's name is FERRIS BUTLER (SNL 1980-1981). In this episode... We talk about how he came to be a writer on this infamous season; How Eddie Murphy got on the show; His relationship with Gilbert Gotfried & much more. Most importantly.. We find out about how he was the inspiration for "FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF".Support the show

And Almost Starring
Episode 80 - Earth Girls are Easy

And Almost Starring

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2022 74:26


Follow us on Patreon at: patreon.com/andalmoststarring Our June-a Davis Month kicks off with the delightfully campy comedy-musical Earth Girls are Easy! Which brat-pack regular turned down Valerie? Which two actors in the film wound up swapping roles with each other? And who else clocked that vegetable oil standing in as sensual oil? Also – Jeff gets a bad case of wig blindness, and we go down a Corey Feldman-centric IMDB user review wormhole!   Earth Girls are Easy stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Charles Rocket, Michael McKean, and Angelyne; directed by Julien Temple     Follow the Podcast: On Instagram: @andalmoststarring  Have a film you'd love for us to cover? E-mail us at andalmoststarring@gmail.com   www.andalmoststarring.com   

You're No Fun Anymore
YNFA 022: Earth Girls Are Easy, or Extraterrestrials Prefer Blondes

You're No Fun Anymore

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 67:29


Prepare to crash land in a backyard pool and shave off all your candy-colored fur so we can have a Close Encounter of the Sex Romp kind with 1988's Earth Girls Are Easy. Why would Geena Davis ever pick Charles Rocket's Dr Love over actual Adonis Jeff Goldblum? Did you know Damon Wayans could tear up a dance floor? And why did Jim Carrey not spend his career being a hot blond guy? Was this movie just a feature-length vehicle for Julie Brown's excellent Cuz I'm A Blond music video? (We're ok with that.) Or was it a subversive comment on gender norms and sexual mores? (Even more ok with that.) We'd like to answer you, but we can't spell that good. Read Randall's full episode notes at yourenofun.com.And follow us on Instagram , Facebook and Twitter. 

Ian Talks Comedy
Phil Kellard and Tom Moore (Tonight Show / SNL / Thicke of the Night / Hooperman / Doogie Howser MD)

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 89:09


Phil and Tom talk about early influences (Phil - Marx Brothers, Preston Sturges, Tom - Little Rascals, Bob Newhart, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen); Tom's father being head of ABC; taking ratings books to school; having Elizabeth Montgomery over for dinner); Phil gets the acting bug in high school and becomes a playwright in San Fransisco; Tom breaks his leg and watches Johnny Carson every night and dreams of being a writer; Tonight Show position opens up; Johnny's writers are not segregated; Tom writes desk pieces; Phil wrote for Hollywood Squares; Phil on having to write for each character; infamous lunch break; Saturday night is biggest night for TV; Tom writes for Cos; Phil writes for Perry Como & Andy Williams; both write for Rock 'n' America; Tom writes for Richard Pryor Show; Richard throws out all sketches written in pre-production; working with Richard Pryor; various sketches; Paul Mooney; Thicke of the Night; Ralph the runner; writer Jeremy Stevens car gets crushed by Robin Thicke; massive ton of unused sketches; Arnie Kogan; Alan Thicke make sure theme song plays in and out of commercials to get royalties; Fernwood Tonight; Norman Lear; Fred Willard; being head writer for 7 episodes of Saturday Night Live; Charles Rocket; small staff and budget hinders show; Michael O'Donoghue; Tom writes a sketch for Eddie Murphy; Phil and Tom officially become a writing team on The Redd Foxx Show (1986); Sinbad, Pamela Segall Adlon, recurring cast changes; learning about writing a sitcom on the fly; writing on of the most popular episodes of My Two Dads; Dick Butkus; Hooperman; John Ritter; writing their best script - Hooperman episode "Who Do You Truss"; Doogie Howser, MD; Mayim Bialik's first tv role; Drexell's Class; introducing America to Tupac, Jason Biggs, and Brittany Murphy; Drexell getting canceled and moving on to the show that replaced it, Martin; working with Martin Lawrence; The Wayans Brothers; "Detroit" John Witherspoon; Phil teaches pilot writing at UCLA Extension Campus; why writers need to create show Bibles today; Tom being retired; the famous Pat McCormick helicopter and streaking stories; --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Death In Entertainment
Episode 20- The Life and Times of Charles Rocket

Death In Entertainment

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 107:34


On October 7, 2005, Charles Rocket was found dead with two self inflicted stab wounds to the throat. How did we get here? This week on Death in Entertainment. 

Let‘s Get Chatty About David and Maddie
Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 1: Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

Let‘s Get Chatty About David and Maddie

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 34:25


Kevin, Mike, and Liam are back to discuss season two of the classic 80s detective comedy Moonlighting! This time out: David Addison's brother Richie (played by guest star Charles Rocket) arrives into town with a crush on Maddie and a briefcase full of found drug money! The boys discuss the show's return, the characters breaking the fourth wall for the very first time, and go on various tangents: Charles Rocket's place in the Providence underground scene, the Matrix, Burger Chef, etc. We're back!

The Cannon Canon
THE WICKED LADY (w/Frank and Geoff)

The Cannon Canon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2021 105:12


"Don't let me die alone!!!" Picked by our Patreon members, the Cannon Bros (Frank and Geoff) dip our toes back in the scuzzy waters of Michael Winner with 1983's THE WICKED LADY! A movie the Cannon Bros are very conflicted about (but passes the "Pluto TV" test). In this episode, we talk about how much the "Razzies" suck, how the movie benefits from Faye Dunaway's gloriously unhinged and elated performance and of course- Cannon obligatory sex scenes. We also ask, could this be a camp classic? Would you buy a “Winner Winner, Bronson dinner!” shirt? Do we write an episode of Charles Rocket-era SNL with Michael Winner or Charles Bronson hosting? And THAT'S Commander Troi?! What else...what else…oh yeah...WHIP FIGHT!!! It's a 2 for 1 podcast because within this episode of The Cannon Canon you also get our "Talkin' Genesis" podcast. Steal your cousin's lover (twice), slowly poison a man of god* and enjoy this episode! (*reference to the movie DO NOT actually do this) OUR PATREON: patreon.com/thecannoncanon Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @thecannoncanon Instagram: @thecannoncanon Please rate and review us!

1991 Movie Rewind
Episode 38 - Delirious

1991 Movie Rewind

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 51:37


0:00-Intro and Movie Summary2:00-Movie Discussion31:17 - Cast & Crew41:46 - Pop Culture43:32 - TV47:00 - Music48:20 - Rankings & Ratings To see a full list of movies we will be watching and shows notes, please follow our website: https://www.1991movierewind.com/Follow us!https://linktr.ee/1991movierewind Theme: "sunrise-cardio," Jeremy Dinegan (via Storyblocks)Don't forget to rate/review/subscribe/tell your friends to listen to us!

Disturbingly Pragmatic with Dave and Paul
Our Favourite Halloween Costumes, Cemetery Visits, and Hocus Pocus!

Disturbingly Pragmatic with Dave and Paul

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2021 59:57


Email Us Here: Disturbinglypragmatic@gmail.comWhere To Find Us!:  Disturbingly Pragmatic Link Tree!This Episode has EVERYTHING!It's got:Elder Abuse!Poltergeist Used Real Human Skeletons!Thank Saponification for Soap Mummies!Soapy Pee Holes!Northern Lights Move South For a Day!Halloween Memories!New Friday the 13th Movie?! MAYBE!!Crazy Cat Lilly!Halloween Work Fun!Dave Has a Stroke!Trixie and Katya!Cemeteries Are Beautiful!Our Favourite Horror Movies!14 Pound Baby Destroys Mom's Vagina!Hocus Pocus!Time is Precious!Episode Links (In Order):Northern Lights!$9,000,000.00 Los Angeles Home Tour!Little Merrit Was Afraid of the Dark, So His Father Put a Window In His Tomb!Man Drives Cross Country With Body of His Dead Father!Hollywood Graveyard!Arthur Dark's Short Film: "The Spirits of Greenwood Cemetery!""The Changeling"!"The Funhouse"!"Thir13en Ghosts"!"Hocus Pocus"!Charles Rocket!"It Follows"!"Evil Dead, The Musical"!"Toxic Avenger, The Musical"!"The Omen"!Goofs and Gaffes!The Man who drove his father's dead body to Dave's funeral home came from California, not Florida!Charles Rocket wasn't fired from SNL because of saying "Fuck"; He was let go with almost the entire cast at the end of the 1980-1981 season!MUSIC CREDIT!Opening Music, "Dank Halloween", Graciously Supplied By: Shane Ivers

The Guys Review
Dumb and Dumber

The Guys Review

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 84:10


Dumb and Dumber Welcome to The Guys Review, where we review media, products and experiences.  **READ APPLE REVIEWS/Fan Mail**Mention Twitter DM group - like pinned tweetRead emails   Dumb and Dumber Directed by: Peter Farrelly Written by: John Hughes, but his name was stripped due to a deal he made with the studio Starring:  Jim CarreyJeff DanielsLauren HollyKaren DuffyMike StarrCharles RocketTeri Garr Released: December 6, 1994 Budget: $17M ($31.4M 2021) Box Office: $247.3M ($456.5M 2021) worldwide Ratings:   IMDb 7.3/10 Rotten Tomatoes 68%Metacritic 41% Google Users 87% Although the film did not secure any major American film awards, it was successful at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards. Carrey won for Best Comic Performance, Carrey and Holly (a couple who would later endure a short-lived marriage) won for Best Kiss, and Carrey and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo. Carrey was nominated for a Razzie Award for "Worst New Star," lost to Anna Nicole Smith in Naked Gun 33 1/3 In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Dumb and Dumber the fifth greatest comedy film of all time. The film ranks 445th on Empire Magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. First time you saw the movie? Plot:We open with a girl at a bus stop when a limo pulls up and Carrys, Lloyd pulls over and asks for directions. When he asks for directions, she tells him in an Austrian accent, which he confuses with Australian (SOUND 1). We then see that he's the limo driver. As he drives around the city, we meet Harry driving the dog van giving the dogs food, speeding, and tossing the dogs all over the van. Lloyd arrives at a large house, and annoyingly knocks on the door, Mary answers, and Lloyd is struck. He awkwardly chats with Mary in the limo. Harry arrives to deliver the dogs, and they're covered in ketchup and mustard. Mary tries to tip Lloyd, which he turns down, and he VERY awkwardly hugs her. He tries to hold it together. As Mary walks, shes followed by two nefarious looking characters and they discuss picking up the drop. Mary puts a briefcase down, and Lloyd swoops in and grabs it before the two bad guys can. Harry and Lloyd meet at an apartment building, both looking very defeated, and being followed by the two people from the air port. Harry and Lloyd talk about their days (SOUND 2), lloyd calls Harry a loser for losing his job. The two henchmen knock on the door, and they think it's the gas man, so they bail. The bad guys want to send them a message, so he kills their bird. Lloyd goes to the store, to get the essentials, and ends up getting robbed by an old lady in a scooter(SOUND 3). Back at the apartment they're depressed, and the birds head fell off. Lloyd suggest they go to Aspen. They argue, and Lloyd has a heartfelt moment of being sick and tired of not having anyone. Harry agrees to go, causing Lloyd to cry. The trip begins.  S:-My main issue with this whole movie and the premise is I find it hard to believe there are people ACTUALLY this dumb in the world. I get there are dumb people, but this level of willful ignorance is hard to imagine.-Why didn't the hench people just kick down the door. To get the briefcase, i would have.  On the road, Lloyd tells Harry he made some extra money by selling some of their stuff, including Petey the headless bird... Which we see the head has been taped back on, as the henchmen walk past. They find a note on the door addressed to the "gas man" which enrages them, and they assume Harry and Lloyd are pros and could've been trailing them for weeks to know he's got gas. Harry and Lloyd are eating at a diner when they give a waitress a hard time. Harry then spills some salt, who Lloyd advises to throw some salt over his shoulder, which hits Sea Bass, (SOUND 4) Who then hocks a loogie on his burger. Lloyd hatches a plan, goes to talk to Sea Bass and offers to buy them drinks. He then approaches the waitress and tells her Sea Bass is offering to pay for their bill. When she checks to confirm this, he waves at her, confirming. They take off, and Sea Bass comes running out pissed off. Lloyd tells Harry how he came up with the idea from a movie...and in the movie, they're caught and their throats are slit. Lloyd then has to pee, and finds relief using beer bottles. He fills up 4 four when they pass a cop, who unlike Tucker, is doing his job, and they're pulled over... Harry tells him its a cardigan, but appreciates it anyway. So they stop. The officer asks if they've been drinking, citing the bottles in the floor. He demands they give him one, and he takes a big swig... causing him to spasm, and tells them to leave. A large house in aspen, Mary and her parents, and Nick, a family friend, are discussing how her husband has been kidnapped, and the dropped briefcase was a money drop for the kidnappers. They advise she act normal, go skiing and go to parties. Lloyd has a fantasy, about him and Mary, a cheeky first meeting, Lloyd telling stories with friends, he defends her honor in a restaurant fight, and they kiss next to a fire, as Mary takes off her top, Lloyd sees the headlights of a truck and breaks his fantasy. They stop at a scummy hourly motel, where they're both in a heart shaped tub, and can hear the neighbors banging it out. Lloyd tells Harry if he has some "knockers" he'd be banging him already. It gets a little weird for Harry. Harry tells Lloyd about an ex, Freda Feltcher...and his heartbreak when she left, and he suspected she was seeing someone else. Which Lloyd acts very guilty. The hench-dude is on the phone, in a phone booth, with Nick, discussing who Harry and Lloyd could be and how he wants his money. S:-I remember the first time I saw this when I was younger and didn't know what a boilermaker was. Ha.-I wonder how many times people have tried this trick since this movie came out. It is pretty genius.-Peeing into a beer bottle while sitting has to be REALLY hard.  Joe the henchman hatches his own plan, posing like his car died, and is picked up by Harry and Lloyd. He immediately sees how moronic they are with them playing the "it" game across him and making up rules. I imagine this what it was like for Chris growing up, before they invented Tv and radio. Lloyd then makes the most annoying sound in the world(SOUND 5). They start singing the mockingbird song, as Joe is about to pull his gun and shoot them, when they pull over to pick a hispanic family up, they all sing along. They all stop at another diner, when they share a hot candy and have a severe reaction. Joe calls Nick and mentions he's going to put rat poison in their drinks. When he returns, Harry and Lloyd are shown putting the hot candies on Joes burger. He realizes they don't even know Mary, as he takes a bite of the burger. He has a very bad reaction because of his ulcer. He tells them to get his pills,(SOUND 6) Harry gets what turns out to be the rat poison. He realizes what it is, and dies. Movie investigators who are obviously doing a better job than Tucker are investigating. Harry and Lloyd stop to get gas; Harry chats up a woman also getting gas. Lloyd, using the bathroom sees a note on the bathroom wall, "For Manly Love, be here on March 25th at 2:15am" in Tuckers handwriting... Lloyd looks at his watch as it hits 2:15, someone enters. Lloyd tries to hide, but the door is busted open and he screams as Sea Bass is standing there. Harry keeps hitting on the girl, and accidentally sets himself on fire. As Sea Bass advances to sexually assault Lloyd, Harry barges in, knocking Sea Bass out, and puts his foot out in the toilet, saving Lloyd. Back on the road, Harry is making fun of Lloyd, and Lloyd does not like it. As Lloyd drives, he takes a wrong turn and heads back east towards Nebraska. We see Harry sitting in a field, angry that Lloyd has gone the wrong way. They argue and Harry starts walking home. As he walks, Lloyd comes riding up on a tiny motorcycle the same size as Tuckers old one. He tells Harry he traded in the van for it, straight up, and gets 70 miles per gallon, we get Harrys response: (SOUND 7). A musical montage of them. on the bike as they make it to Aspen. They walk around Aspen, and after trying to look up her name, Lloyd can't remember her last name. They argue and fight, as Harry tries to get rid of the briefcase, and throws it, it pops open and they see it's full of cash. They discuss getting reasonable accommodations and paying it all back with IOUs... They're then shown in the presidential suite, which they take, and pull up in a Lamborghini, full of boxes, and all new clothes. S:-All the smoking in the movie... Very 90's.-The whole bathroom/gay meet up thing and Harry making fun of him afterwards... I'm surprised this movie hasn't gotten canceled yet.-I still to this day will say to myself "woah, jeez... look at the butt on that..." In the hotel room, Lloyd finds a newspaper article about Mary, and that she'll be at a Gala the next day. Que another music montage a-la Pretty Woman, as they are prepped for the gala. They arrive in a horse drawn carriage in now classic orange and blue tuxes, top hats, canes, and ruffled shirts. As they enter, the lady henchman recognizes them and alerts Nick. They continuously make weird scenes, and Harry goes to introduce himself and try to buildup Lloyd and get Mary interested and prepped (SOUND 8). As they chat, Marys step-mom invites Harry to go skiing with Mary, and he doesn't get a chance to tell her about Lloyd. Harry tells him he's got him a date with her tomorrow, and to celebrate, they open a bottle of champagne; which the cork kills one of the owls. Harry is getting ready to go skiing with Mary, having told Lloyd she said she would meet him in the hotel bar. Harry makes an awkward entrance as Lloyd waits at the bar. Harry on the lift, gets his tongue stuck to some frost... obviously he never watched A Christmas Story. Lloyd is in the bar and a woman sits next to him, complaining about her ex-boyfriend. Harry and Mary make a snow man, and have an intense snow fight. Lloyd finds out where Mary lives, AND that we landed on the moon. Chris, what was that day like? Lloyd sees Harry drops off Mary... spawning one of the best gag gifs/memes of all time. At the hotel, Harry and Lloyd chat, and Lloyd makes Harry a laxative drink. At Marys house, it all hits explosively, (SOUND 9) when Mary tells him the toilet doesn't work. Lloyd shows up and tells her he has her briefcase. They go to the hotel to give her the briefcase back, but Nick and the female henchman are in the lobby. S:-How much do you think was in the briefcase to afford the presidential suite, clothes, and the Lambo?-If you found a briefcase full of money, what would you do with it? Depending on how much was in it? Lloyd practices what he wants to say to Mary, but he can't get the words out right (SOUND 10)... like Tucker, desperately wants to make love to a school boy...and we support you and your lifestyle. Mary shoots Lloyd down, but he sees a shimmer of hope (SOUND 11). When Nick knocks on the door and pulls a gun. Harry comes through the lobby, and we see the gas station woman, who calls out to him. Nick orders Lloyd to open the briefcase, revealing all the IOUs, and he's enraged. Harry comes in and Nick holds them at gunpoint. Harry and Lloyd argue and decide to end their friendship. Nick shoots Harry, but hes not hurt and he pulls a gun, and shoots at Nick, but doesn't hit him. Just then the FBI breaks in, arresting Nick and the henchwoman. Marys husband Bobby arrives, and they're introduced. He thanks them and cut to Harry and Lloyd walking, saying the police confiscated everything, when the Hawaiian Tropic bus stops saying they're looking for some oil boys, and Harry and Lloyd very helpfully send them to another town to find some guys to help oil them up. They walk down the road playing the it game, as the credits roll. S:-I like that nick is using a Walther PPK.-The whole FBI using Harry, giving him a gun, bullshit. What if he had killed Nick? Is he a murderer? Why would they give him a gun?  Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.comIG: @TheGuysReviewPodTW: @The_GuysReviewFB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/ Please, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts from!! Thank you,-The Guys

Ian Talks Comedy
Ron Osborn

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 103:31


Ron Osborn joined me to discuss his childhood as a horror fan; Art Center College of Design; giving blood for a living; meeting Jeff Reno; getting the job on Mork & Mindy and throwing up every morning; pitching stories; writing 12 Angry Appliances; 17 writers in the writers room but Robin gets credit for ad-libbing series; Robin never forgetting a joke; a typical week at Mork; Tom Poston; Too Close for Comfort; youngest writers on a staff of 6; Ted Knight; my favorite episode of Too Close; ABC tries to hip it up; Jm J. Bullock; Audrey Meadows; freelancing a Silver Spoons; Goodnight Beantown; decent ratings but still cancelled; pitching to Night Court; freelance episode leads to them getting hired; great writers room; creating the characters of Phil and The Wheelers;Selma Diamond; Ellen Foley; I Had Three Wives; having to write one more Night Court right before wedding; how I Had Three Wives led to Moonlighting; coming up with scenes on the fly; commenting on being a TV show; Bruce Willis gets the job because Rick Dees turned it down; making a scene longer to give Bruce & Cybill a day off; Allyce Beasley & Curtis Armstrong; "Atomic Shakespeare" pitch; claymation scene; writing & shooting "Atomic Shakespeare"; Paul Sorvino; Charles Rocket; 3 episode arc "Sam & Dave"; adding Curtis Armstrong; "Casablanca" homage episode; Cybill Shepherd's pregnancy changes the series; working with Eva Marie Saint; Dennis Dugan; leaving the show; Goldie and the Bears - the lost Hulk Hogan pilot; selling a Charlies Angels story; working with George Lucas on Radioland Murders; --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 487: George Pasles

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2021 97:44


This week Ken welcomes VCR Party Live's resident gal Friday, and the lord of Overlord, George Pasles to the show. Ken and George discuss armpit hair, Philly, on set romances, Phantasm, cigarettes, storm chasers, original art, dirt bikes, pearls and oysters, Simon & Simon, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, commandeering televisions after being dumped by your parents in a store, knowing things from Simpsons parodies, Joanna Kerns' Olympiad sister, Janet Jackson's Lethal Enforcers arcade cab, It's Your Move, blackface on Gimme a Break, Hardcore, Murder She Wrote and sports, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, John Carpenter, getting cable post high school, Bloopers vs Boners, sexual movies, Chip on Kate & Allie, bad paste ups, Jane Badler, Covenant of Evil, Dueling Danzas, Telma Hopkins world, Hiroshima Remembered, The Wall on network TV, Riptide, writing letters to Tom Bray, having a Commodore 64, Steel Collar Man, Charles Rocket, Rock N Roll Summer Action, NBC's Thursday Night Powerhouse Lineup, Skippy and Malorie trapped in a basement, Coach's learning songs on Cheers, the connection between Webster and The Golden Child, the beauty of Buckaroo Banzai, Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider, The A-Team, shows re-using clips, Arsenio Hall, racist former game show hosts blocking Ken on Twitter, and the WONDER of Still the Beaver.

Saturday Night Jive Podcast
271: "You Didn't Tell Me It Was A Magic Typewriter" - Delirious (1991)

Saturday Night Jive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2021


Poor Charles Rocket, gone too soon.  We watched Delirious from 1991 and, once again, he is the best part of a bad movie we watched.  This movie stars John Candy as a soap opera writer who gets sucked into his own show.  He discovers (almost immediately) that he can control the universe with his magic typewriter.  Lucky for him there exists a magic typewriter repairman in this fictional universe in case he wants to break it for no discernable reason.  This movie has a good concept but does little with it.  We pitch a better movie with the same concept, come closer to solving Charles Rocket's murder, and discover that George is pro Hitler.  Enjoy!Full archive of all podcast episodes available at saturdaynightjive@blogspot.comEmail us anything at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.comDownload Here

Ian Talks Comedy
Neil Levy

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 82:38


Neil Levy talks abut getting the job on SNL as its 1st PA; smoking extremely strong pot; the generosity of Dan Aykroyd; the first show; George Carlin's monologue; Jane Crowley, the censor; being an extra in a jury sketch; meeting President Ford; booking Miles Davis; Frank Zappa; Louise Lasser; injuring himself as an extra in a sketch; being a Killer Bee with Elliot Gould; writing the promos, coming up next and audience captions; impressing Mr. Mike with a sketch; being a writer on the third season; Funeral Magician; booking and un-booking Carroll O'Connor; Yvonne Hudson; Paul Reubens 1979 audition; finding and getting Jean Doumanian to hire Eddie Murphy; how Eddie saved SNL; A Fiddler Be on the Roof; Altered Walter; Eddie Atari; the afterparties; Charles Rocket, Prince and the f bomb; Dick Ebersol takes over; Dick gets Lorne's blessing; Dick hires Bob Tischler and Michael O'Donoghue; Denny Dillon bag lady sketch; Captain Beefheart and Jack Bruce & Friends; Rod Stewart; booking fear; Catherine O'Hara; Sunken Submarine; leaving the show; Rude Awakening; Lemmings Inc. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I Know Movies and You Don't w/ Kyle Bruehl
Season 1: Cult Flicks & Trash Picks - Earth Girls Are Easy (Episode 31)

I Know Movies and You Don't w/ Kyle Bruehl

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 75:50


In the thirty-first episode of Season 1, Cult Flicks & Trash Picks, Kyle is joined by actors Dan Bauer and Ben McGinley to discuss the haphazard blend of 50s surfer musical, nostalgia kitsch, and B-movie science-fiction that defines the exceptionally detailed mess that is Julien Temple's Earth Girls are Easy.

Foul House Mates Podcast
Joe Piscopo is Indeed HOT TO TROT (feat. Brandon Vincent Jackson)

Foul House Mates Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 113:58


Bobcat Goldthwait talking to horses? Top three stand up comics that bring your dander up? JOE PISCOPO AND CHARLIE ROCKET DISCUSSIONS?!? It must be another wild installment of Foul House Mates. Delaware stand up comic Brandon Vincent Jackson joins the lads to discuss Denver comedy for a little bit. This is a film filled episode when the lads talk movies for a vast majority of the cast. Some grand, others...are Hot To Trot from 1988. Other topics include Liam's view on SNL, great comics who release terrible specials, Yuengling prices in Camden, Charles Rocket, Dan Caprio's hatred of Billy Crystal, Gosford Park and wishing it was People Under The Stairs instead, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot and Rhinestone, John Mulaney being overrated and much more.

Ian Talks Comedy
Larry Arnstein

Ian Talks Comedy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 85:38


Larry Arnstein talks about growing up on Park Avenue but in an apartment in the back, going to prep school in the middle of nowhere, using the girl to boy ratio as a way to pick a college, meeting his funny and brilliant partner Matt Hurwitz, writing for the Chicken Little Show, writing a short film Purient Interest, writing for Eight is Enough and having to service all ten characters, getting recommended for SNL's 6th season, working 9 am to midnight, his forgiving wife, Peter Tauber and the Rockettes, how Gilbert Gottfried was always laugh out loud funny, Commie Hunting Season, Gail Matthius, Ann Risley, is Gilbert & Sullivan hip, the sobriety of David Carradine and Ray Sharkey, Charles Rocket and the f-bomb, getting fired, writing a Love, Sidney, Not Necessarily the News, watching hours of B-roll and seeing things politicians did not want the public to see, working with the Kroft puppets on DC Follies, You Asked to See It, Again, how Jimmy Brogan was funnier as the warm up comedian than most shows he warmed up for, This Just In , how his books are perfect for AM radio, what he's working on now. The Dogma of Rufus: A Canine Guide to Eating, Sleeping, Digging, Slobbering, Scratching, and Surviving with Humans The Bad Driver's Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around You The Ultimate Counterterrorist Home Companion: Six Incapacitating Holds Involving a Spatula and Other Ways to Protect Your Family The Dog Ate My Resume: Survival Tips for Life After College Cleopatra's Confessions: A Feline Guide to Coping with Dogs, Humans, and Other Pointless Interruptions to a Good Nap --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Saturday Night Jive Podcast
219: "It Just Doesn't Matter" - SNL Season 6 Episode 12 - Bill Murray / The Man Who Knew Too Little

Saturday Night Jive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020


We were supposed to watch The Man Who Knew Too Little but only half of us were able to fulfill that goal.  Turns out the movie is really boring anyway so we're not missing anything.  Instead, we called an audible and watched an old episode of Saturday Night Live.  This one comes from Season 6, hosted by Bill Murray and it is the last episode to feature the "new 1980 cast".  This is the last hurrah for Charles Rocket, Ann Risley, Gilbert Gottfried and producer Jean Doumanian.  This is arguably the best episode of the season but that doesn't mean it is without its faults.  Mostly an incredibly long drug trip with Walter Cronkite.  Enjoy!Download Here

Drop The Pilot Podcast
Steel Collar Man (1985)

Drop The Pilot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2020 32:28


Tysto joins me once again but this time to chat about the Dave Thomas written spoof, Steel Collar Man, starring Charles Rocket. It's basically an episode of "Jimmy explains what's going on to Tysto". Enjoy!

Shifty Bench Podcasts
Steel Collar Man (1985)

Shifty Bench Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2020 32:27


Tysto joins me once again but this time to chat about the Dave Thomas written spoof, Steel Collar Man, starring Charles Rocket. It's basically an episode of "Jimmy explains what's going on to Tysto". Enjoy!

Saturday Night Jive Podcast
209: "Taylor Swift Has The Clap" - SNL Season 6 Episode 2 - Malcolm McDowell / Captain Beefheart

Saturday Night Jive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2020


We have another SNL episode, this one from the dreaded season 6.  Lorne Michaels, Bill Murray, and Peter Aykroyd have all left the show so they got Gilbert Gottfried, Ann Risley and Charles Rocket.  This is the second episode from that season hosted by Malcolm McDowell and featuring Captain Beefheart as the musical guest.  This is a particularly notorious episode for a few reasons.  We get our first sighting of Eddie Murphy (although very briefly) and it makes liberal use of the N-word.  We also get the Leather Weather Report, a famously bad sketch, a commercial for milk brought to you by Alex DeLarge, sketches built on puns, and, in case I forgot to mention it, a sketch where Charles Rocket says the N-word.  This was a rough one to watch, even as a die hard SNL fan this was painful.Download Here 

The BreakCast
Dumb and Dumber 25th Anniversary Podcast

The BreakCast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2019 63:04


Things are about to get stupid! Senior Writer Aaron Sarnecky and Editor-in-Chief Bill Bodkin sit down to talk about Dumb and Dumber, which marks its 25th anniversary this week. The 1994 hit comedy stars Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Karen Duffy, Charles Rocket, and Teri Garr. It was directed by Peter Farrelly, who also co-wrote the film with his brother Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. Aaron and Bill discuss when they each first saw the film, the performances, their favorite gags, and Carrey and Daniels' careers. Aaron and Bill also reflect on how the movie is a product of its time and where Dumb and Dumber ranks among other Jim Carrey comedies.

Clamshell Case Files
028 - How I Got into College (1989)

Clamshell Case Files

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2019 103:16


An underachieving, obsessive stalker needs to convince an audience that he’s not a complete screw up in 86-minutes. If Underachiever creeps on Lara Flynn Boyle, spends his entire tuition fund on advice from Nora Dunn and Phil Hartmann, eats food off Anthony Edwards plate and makes Charles Rocket angry, how many Tichina Arnolds will get in college? The answer to this stress question and more in this week’s episode!

Reject Video Podcast
Episode 13b – Saturday Night Live Season 6 Ep 11 – Part 2

Reject Video Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2019 73:53


Eddie Murphy’s Mr. Robinson is a diamond in the rough as most of this episode flops. A running gag about the show Dallas leads to Charles Rocket getting shot. He responds by getting everybody fired. Kyle and Scott watch the carnage. Research From: Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales  https://amzn.to/2HjKIU8 Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live by Doug Hill & Jeff Weingrad https://amzn.to/2VLVVkr Ben Douwsma's SNL Reviews (https://www.bendouwsma.com/snl-review-index)

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 371: Bill McMorrow

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2019 132:05


October 10-16, 1987 This week Ken welcomes Boston comedian and co-host of the new podcast "Two Boys in a Balcony" Mr. Bill McMorrow to the show. Ken and Bill discuss Weymouth, MA, malls, 80s hair metal, Ken's junk, Building 19, giant underpants, the Harborlights Mall, Minor Threat, Prince, David Lee Roth's ALL Spanish album, destroying cars, drinking, Hit Parader, Circus Magazine, Carnival Mirrors, MTV, V66, Australian Toots, Judas Priest, Billy Squire, Nicole Eggert, notes on stage, Craig T. Nelson, E.T., Get a Life, Cabin Boy, Married...with Children, Fox, Martin Mull's History of White People in America, Kraft recopies, South Shore vs. North Shore, Morton Downey Jr, The Dead Zone, Crime Story, Dressed to Kill, how Parent Teacher night can ruin nudity, Soul Man, movies shot in and/or about New England, Cheers, deaths on television series, Night Court, Max Headroom, Charles Rocket, Spies Like Us, how great Vanessa Angel is, Private Eye, The Vietnam War, complaining about the cost of VHS tapes, Beatles reunions and Phil Collins' movie career.

Reject Video Podcast
Episode 13a – Saturday Night Live Season 6 Ep 11 – Part 1

Reject Video Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2019 76:21


Episode 13a – Saturday Night Live Season 6 Ep 11 – Part 1 Who shot CR Eddie Murphy’s Mr. Robinson is a diamond in the rough as most of this episode flops. A running gag about the show Dallas leads to Charles Rocket getting shot. He responds by getting everybody fired. Kyle and Scott watch the carnage. Research From: Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales  https://amzn.to/2HjKIU8 Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live by Doug Hill & Jeff Weingrad https://amzn.to/2VLVVkr Ben Douwsma's SNL Reviews (https://www.bendouwsma.com/snl-review-index)

We Want The D
WWTD 212 - Tom and Huck: Near-Sighted Joe

We Want The D

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2019 56:52


Weird to think that Disney went a little Mark Twain crazy in the 90s, isn't it? But they went whole-hog on film adaptations of quite a few of his novels, and this week on We Want The D we tackle TOM AND HUCK, their take on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer starring a couple Tiger Beat cover regulars. Yup, JayTayToe is back and he's brought tragic victim of how Hollywood treats child actors Brad Renfro with him for all sorts of 1840s era adventures. You know, classic old timey stuff like almost drowning, psychologically torturing your cousin, and witnessing a vicious graveyard murder that nearly results in an innocent man being lynched. But somehow between subject matter and the innate sadness of a movie featuring Brad Renfro and Charles Rocket, we still manage to have some fun with this one. 

Let's Face The Facts - A Facts Of Life Podcast by David Almeida
030 - S3E1 “Growing Pains” with Matthew Arter

Let's Face The Facts - A Facts Of Life Podcast by David Almeida

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 70:59


Matthew & I discuss and/or mention in passing: Karen Carpenter, The Ayds Diet Plan, Real People, That’s Incredible, Hello Larry, Diff’rent Strokes, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Skip Stephenson, Cathy Lee Crosby, Fran Tarkenton, Love Sidney, Tony Randall, Teachers Only, Jean Smart, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Reid, WKRP in Cincinnati, Joel Brooks, Norman Fell, Filthy Rich, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Designing Women, MTV, Fred Silverman, Mary Tyler Moore, Grant Tinker, The Cosby Show, Golden Girls, Family Ties, Dallas, Dynasty, Luke & Laura, General Hospital, SNL, Charles Rocket, Joe Piscopo, Eddie Murphy, Gail Matthius, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Dream On, Family Ties, Little House On The Prairie, The Katzenjammer Kids, Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Oreos, Fig Newtons, Ritz Crackers, 2-XL by Mego, Teddy Ruxpin, Willie Tyler & Lester, Gone With The Wind, Modern Family, Wine, Eve Arden, Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley, Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie Van Halen.

Escuchando Peliculas
Dos Tontos Muy Tontos (1994) #Comedia #Amistad #RoadMovie

Escuchando Peliculas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2018 97:46


País Estados Unidos Dirección Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly Guion Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bennett Yellin Música Todd Rundgren Fotografía Mark Irwin Reparto Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, Victoria Rowell, Joe Baker, Hank Brandt, Teri Garr, Brady Bluhm, Cam Neely, Felton Perry, Brad Lockerman, Rob Moran, Zen Gesner, Connie Sawyer, Lin Shaye, Clint Allen Sinopsis La vida de Lloyd y Harry, dos amigos de una estupidez supina, es un auténtico desastre. El primero trabaja como chófer de una limousina, y el segundo se dedica a transportar perros. Cuando Lloyd se enamora de una chica de buena posición, que deja olvidado un maletín en el coche, los dos amigos emprenden un viaje por todo el país para devolvérselo.

Beckett to the Future - A Quantum Leap Podcast
Episode 45 - S3E10 - A Little Miracle

Beckett to the Future - A Quantum Leap Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2018 114:53


We are joined by returning guest Russ Feder, of the Mad About Mad About You podcast. CW this week for some discussion of suicide, as we have a SECOND episode featuring actor Charles Rocket playing a DIFFERENT CHARACTER than we saw him portray in Leap For Lisa. This week's ep is quite possibly the new favorite version of A Christmas Carol for all of us, and hands down features one of the best Al outfits ever created. Did you know that Dawn's grandpa, Red Grey, got to pick his own name? And Russ has an uncle Red Redd! What's everyone's favorite chromatic name? Let us know! Let's hear everyone's elaborate explanations about how Sam drove across New York City via the Golden Gate Bridge! That's some pretty sloppy stock footage there, Quantum Leap. Special shoutout to Charles Dickens, who shockingly didn't even get a story credit for this script. You'll make it one day, Charlie. Keep at it. Next week’s episode is Season 2 Episode 20 Maybe Baby   Contribute to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/beckettfuture Or visit our website: http://beckettfuturepod.com Email us: beckettfuturepod@gmail.com Lastly, visit our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/beckettfuturepod/ Please like us and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher. We love you.  

We Hate Movies
Episode 326 - Murder at 1600

We Hate Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2017 84:02


On this week's episode, it's Snipesgiving the week of Thanksgiving as the guys chat about the Washington D.C. turkey-pardoning thriller, Murder at 1600! What's with all the huge battleground models Wesley's character has built in his apartment? Were those Kennedy sex tunnels real? And who in the world thought Dennis Miller would be a good fit for this film? PLUS: ED 209 dispatches with turncoat Alan Alda. Murder at 1600 stars Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Alan Alda, Ronny Cox, Harris Yulin, Charles Rocket, Diane Baker, and Tate Donovan; directed by Dwight H. Little.

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 242: Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad 13)

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2017 72:26


May 1-7, 1999 In this episode recorded LIVE! at the 5th Annual Philly Podfest at the Trocodero in Philly, Ken welcomes musician Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad13) to the show. Ken and Sadie discuss feeling old when you're young and feeling young when you're old, Must See TV, growing up in Manhattan, The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Babyface, Animorphs, crushing on Hawk boys, Calista Flockhart, Alley McBeal, lawyers in Boston, a pre-Goodburger world, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, SNICK, why nobody remembers Third Storee, Will Smith's singing, Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler, why the world is split into before and after Spongebob, Jerry Spinger's podcast, Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story, Ben Affleck's dating history, Mummy jokes, font issues, X-Files, Charles Rocket, Becker, Ted Danson, Bill Cosby's cross-over madness, Sweeps Week, Brooke Shields wrestling Hulk Hogan, Noah's Ark, Car Bras, Face Bras, breaking your knee, Ken's pants ripping off, Just Shoot Me, Hagfish, Sadie's fear of snakes, LifeTime Movies, Murder Most Horrid, John Lithgow, lesbians on Party of Five, The Scream movies, troubled jungle guides fighting mutant baboons, Kelsey Grammar falling into a hole, Sliders, when Charlie O'Connell replaces Jerry O'Connell, fact based TV, loving Archie Comics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, and having a crush on Salem the cat.

Nerd Lunch
Down the Rabbit Hole with Corey Chapman

Nerd Lunch

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2016 82:05


Welcome to the first episode of the "show within a show," Nerd Lunch presents Down the Rabbit Hole. Carlin Trammel, Jeff Somogyi and Paxton Holley welcome guest Corey Chapman (The Chap Report Podcast and formerly Under Scoop Fire and Mad Men Podcasts) to dive into Wikipedia. Can they get from Harvey (Play) to Charles Rocket? Or even more importantly, can they stretch it out so there's enough of a show? Dive in and listen!

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Tapeheads
10. Hocus Pocus

Tapeheads

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2015 45:37


In another very special Halloween episode, Lyndsey selects the wild and witchy Disney tape Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the dreaded Sanderson sisters, with supporting turns from Omri Katz, Thora Birch, and Charles Rocket. Boo! Talking points: Fuller House taping at AT&T Park. The Mystery of the Mary-Kate and Ashley Cruise Ship Cake Smash. Trailer talk. Children's sports movies. Hocus Pocus as a cult movie. Why was this released in July? Quick recap. Virgin. Salem. Fish out of water. California dude. Binx the cat. Child actors that aren't annoying. Ice and Jay. Billy Butcherson. Another racist children's horror movie. Gary Marshall as Satan. Hocus Pocus as a made-for-TV movie. Casting choices. Buy it/rent it/tape over it. James Bond.

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 59: Bryan Cook

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2015 93:36


April 4-10, 1992 This week Ken welcomes stand up comedian and mastermind behind the Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction empire Bryan Cook. Ken and Bryan discuss bi-coastal hoarding, the standard cleaning fee for removing TV Guides from a rental car, those sexy soaps, growing up in Maine cable-free, Satellite Dish culture, old people scent, Brian Dennehy's gift, Willfred Brimley's laundry, Gulf War trading cards, Cocaine busts in Boston, the birth of reality television, Billy's Head of the Class spin off, travel shows, UK Stand Up Comedy, TV kids having fast aging disease, Alyssa Milano leading to 4th grade troubles, bottle episode love, moving to LA for a writing job, the fashion police, Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, Roc, Mann and Machine, favorite Pun TV Show titles, In Living Color, the lonesome death of James Carey, Anton's pickle jar, the first time seeing a black person, Teacher bangin', Dollar Store TV, physical altercations over Star Trek, cold calling girls you like, future cops, Herman's Head, Tea Leoni, Basic Instinct loving Dads, hitchhiking, Get Smart, Grittas, way up in Maine, working at Electrical Supply Companies, renting mannequin parts, flea markets in New England, Rescue 911, disproving Home Improvement, Billy Crystal on Lifetime, bring comedy to the U.S.S.R., Wonder Years, the 60s portrayal of family life, being blamed for other kid's smoking habits, Davis Rules, Bonnie Hunt, Nell Carter is not the Fat Man, Duff, The Three Faces of Mike McDonald, Hocus Pocus vs. The Witches, The Simpsons vs. Cosby, Futurama, Mr. Rhodes, the toaster oven/TV Week parallel, the ladies of Cheers, Beyond 2000, Roy from Wings: Super Sleaze, Tim Daly: World's Best Superman, banned shows from CEFF, Charles Rocket, Dinosaurs, Uncle Buck TV vs. Movie, AMC's long strange journey, disdain of Tequila and Bonetti, Scorch, Nightmare Cafe, Fish Police, America's Serious Home Videos and country's own C+C Music Factory. 

Escuchando Peliculas
Bailando Con Lobos (Western 1990) (Parte 1 de 2)

Escuchando Peliculas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2015 97:22


Título original Dances with Wolves Año: 1990 Duración: 180 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director Kevin Costner Guión Michael Blake (Novela: Michael Blake) Música John Barry Fotografía Dean Semler Reparto Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Tantoo Cardinal, Robert Pastorelli, Maury Chaykin, Wes Studi, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Charles Rocket, Steve Reevis Productora Orion Pictures / Tig Productions Género Western. Aventuras. Romance | Cine épico. Remake Sinopsis Tras la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) y en plena colonización del Oeste (1785-1890), el teniente John J. Dunbar se dirige a un lejano puesto fronterizo que ha sido abandonado por los soldados. Su soledad lo impulsa a entrar en contacto con los indios sioux; así es como conoce a "En pie con el puño en alto", una mujer blanca que fue adoptada por la tribu cuando era niña. Poco a poco, entre Dunbar y los sioux se establece una relación de respeto y admiración mutuos.

Bonus Track
213b: The Kroeger Report

Bonus Track

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2014 18:29


Phil and Jason emulate Charles Rocket and Jenny Slate, but Lisa doesn’t! A digression about The Ben Stiller Show. And lots about Gary Kroeger. We love ya, Gary!