WEBVTT - Smart House 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.960 On the Bechde cast, the questions asked if movies have 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.960 women and them all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.879 or do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, Eph and 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.960 bast start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.760 Jump Jump the houses jumping, you. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:29.320 Need jump jump the house jump? What an iconic party? 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.159 I mean Pat? Say what you will about Pat. She 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.879 knows how, knows how to throw a party. Yeah, she 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.519 knows how to get the house jumping. She is Yeah, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:47.000 oh Pat is Pat's an icon She is Megan. Uh, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.280 you know, we love Magan in this house. We love Magon, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.560 but but you know she Pat is the blueprint. Yeah. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.080 And then we're like, there's How from two thousand on 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.600 a Space Odyssey, and How wishes he was Pat? 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.200 Oh my god, how in How's Dreams and it's Pad, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:08.840 a direct obvious ripoff of How. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.040 No, no, not even a little bit. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:19.240 No. Sorry. I trailed off for a second because I 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.080 was trying to remember what Pat stood for. Oh, and 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:28.160 I was like, peep and toilet paper, hilarious. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.720 Oh that's correct. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.720 Yeah, No, brain is dust? What does it stand for? 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:38.040 Personal applied technology? Okay, which is so generic it could 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:38.720 mean any. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.840 I believe it. I believe it. Okay, this movie has everything. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.480 It has an evil house played by Katie Sigal. She 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.040 should have won an Emmy for this, but she did 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.160 it because she's only in five minutes of the movie. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.120 We have a girl boss that we are rooting for 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.640 even though she's clearly on a destructive pass. And oh 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.040 my god, fast forward Sarah's timeline twenty years. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.400 I don't want to know. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:12.840 Ooh, Tim Apple, there's this movie. Yeah, and also other things, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:17.160 but most importantly, those characters are so iconic and so 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.920 we are here to cover. Okay, wait, should we start over? 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:27.119 No? We okay, speaking of amazing paths, we are on one. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:28.440 This is the Bechdel Cast. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:28.760 Hello. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.839 My name is Caitlin Deronte. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.440 My name is Jamie Laftus, and this is our podcast 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.880 where we look at your favorite movies using an intersectional 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.560 feminist lens through personally applied technology that we have been 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.760 developing over the last seven years. Yes. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:49.160 Yes, yes, yes yes, and we use the Bechdel test 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.360 yes as a jumping off point to initiate a larger 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.760 conversation the Bechdel Test. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.040 Yeah, what is it? Caitlin, Get me up to speed. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.359 It is a media metric created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:07.359 sometimes called the Bechdel Wallace Test. It originally appeared in 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.720 Alison Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch out For in the eighties. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.920 It was intended as just like a goof a joke 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.760 a lark in the comic strip, but it has been 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.720 made into this media test many versions of it. The 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.880 one that we use is this two characters of a 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.840 marginalized gender. They have to have names, they need to 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.800 talk to each other, and the conversation has to be 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.480 about something other than a man. And we especially like 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:45.640 it when it's a narratively impactful conversation and not just hello, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.400 here's a strawberry smoothie. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.920 But iconically this movie passes the Bechels test quite a bit. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:57.560 And I think that there are several important exchanges between 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:02.560 particularly Pat and Sarah that you know this. I just 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:10.920 so we're covering smart house stunningly common request. Yes, but 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.240 I do think that it is one of the Disney 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.040 Channel original movie from nineteen ninety nine, directed by LeVar Burton. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.200 Hello Jump scare incredible. I know it is by most 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.719 people's metrics, considered to be one of the greatest d 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.000 cooms of all time. I think it is a millennial 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:33.640 classic and it holds up in a lot of regards 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:39.040 extremely well. And then in other regards, No, it's camp. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.440 It's camp Caitlin. When Angie is jumping on her bed 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.200 to Bewitched Sela V. At length, it's almost like Bewitched 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.480 just paying them to do it, which they almost certainly are. God, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:58.240 we have some real nineties deep cut like Bewitched Irish 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.240 girl group kind of a one hit wonder unless you 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.080 count their cover of Hey Mickey, which I thought was 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.200 pretty great. Okay, sure, but yeah, their big hit Seyla 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.640 V features heavily and then, oh my god, one of 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:18.080 my favorite songs of being like six was Ryan Merriman 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:24.000 and his Merry Troop of Boys do a choreographed d 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.400 I never get over this scene. It's I mean, it's 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.800 like a very popular scene if you grew up with 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.080 this movie. But it's to a boy band called five. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.760 Couldn't be more of a one hit wonder, And even 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.520 that's kind of a stretch, but I remember them, Yeah, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.240 and their hit song was called slam Dunk the Funky 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.560 and m Boy did they do a choreographed dance to 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.080 slam Dunk the funk. Okay, I crush it. At this point, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:56.200 I'm like, this is the most cute boy behavior in 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:57.040 the entire world. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.279 I'm in It was endearing. I I did not realize 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.600 that was an actual song, and I just figured it 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.640 was like one of those like corny song like fake 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.400 songs that was written for this movie and inserted into 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.159 the movie to pretend like this is a popular song 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.159 that everyone knows. I did not realize it was a 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.240 real ass. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.000 Oh my god. So I was so like I had 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.440 so many older cousins that I feel like I had 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.840 a wealth of boy band knowledge before it even made 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.600 sense to because it was like everyone was like five 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.960 years older than me. I mean, they're like, the cutest 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.120 boys are in Otown. No, the cutest boys are in 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.480 you know, in sinc versus Backstreet Boys as the obvious one. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.000 But you also have ninety degrees LFO ninety eight degrees, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.320 and then you have flops like Otown and five But 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.640 I but Otown. Did do you remember that song? Because 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:54.800 I want it all? Oh nothing? Oh my god, so 0:06:54.960 --> 0:07:00.640 many boys at this time, and we honor them boys. No, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.520 that song is real I think that the houses jumping 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:04.839 is not real. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.800 No, that definitely sounds like a fake. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.320 Feels pretty on theme. It would be wild. If that 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.400 song already existed, LaVar Burton would have been jumping for joy. Unfortunately, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:21.800 I think they had to commission the houses jump in incredible. Okay. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.440 So, and so the reason we're doing this movie is 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.560 that we discovered that all of the movies that we 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:33.440 are releasing in July, three of the four that were 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.480 like planned were live action Disney movies. Because we've got 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.960 the Hannah Montana episode that was a live show that 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.480 came out, we wanted to do, you know, a very 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:48.440 like American jingoist movie. So of course we were like two. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.400 The Haunted Mansion's coming out, So we're doing the Haunted Mansion. Yes, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.440 we also, I mean, I feel like even though we're 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.000 covering Disney movies and you know, we should go to 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.880 jail for that. But honestly, on a long enough timeline, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.920 every movie is going to be a Disney movie, and 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.200 then we would have to cancel the show. It would 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.559 be challenging. They're simply acquiring so many things are so scary. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.640 But even within these live action Disney movies, there's sort 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.080 of a wealth of different genres. You've got like the 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.640 action with National Treasure two, You've got the coming of 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:28.240 age movie with Hannah Montana, You've got the horror movie 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.400 with Haunted Mansion, and you've got the sci fi thriller 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.960 that we know as Smart House. Yes, I want an 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.360 alternate ending to this damn movie. I would also as 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.560 tired as this genre of movie is, and I feel 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.480 like it's already kind of dying off. I wouldn't hate 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.240 as long as LeVar Burton also directed it. I would 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.040 not hate Smart House too. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.240 Where extremely smart House. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:09:00.360 Sarah is ruining the world Pat Ben has fallen in 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.680 love with Pat. Oh they're secretly married. Wow, he's married 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.280 to the house. Interesting Angie has Angie hasn't spoken to 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:14.240 the family in years. She's a communist. The dad twist 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.400 he's dead. Yeah, well he's my least favorite character. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.520 Yeah, Sandra is basically on a path to becoming the 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.199 Oscar Isaac character from Ex Machina. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.440 One of the many movies that this Disney Channel original 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.440 movie that came out twenty years before shares a ton 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.000 of parallels with. Yeah, this movie is so brilliant. I 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.080 love it. What is your history with Smart House the 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.800 movie though I hadn't them in I had never seen it. Yeah, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.680 wow again, how do you feel? Well, the only time 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.880 I watched d COM's is for this podcast. I had 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.040 never seen any of them. That's true, and so I 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.920 but I just just sort of thought you would have 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.679 started watching them in your spirit. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.240 Well, okay, I did watch one, actually two of my 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.040 own accord and it was teen Beach Movie one and two. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.480 I remember, and those movies rock and roll they do 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.120 rock so and they roll and don't forget they roll, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.320 they rock, they roll and they rule. But aside from that, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.160 I've never seen any dcoms on purpose. Well, this is 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.520 an early one and it is a classic. It's the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.600 best I first saw this movie. I don't think I 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.160 would have seen it when it came out, as probably 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.080 too young when it came out, But they rerun these 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.160 damn things on the Disney Channel all the time, and 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.520 so I think probably I had seen it by the 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.160 time I was like ten. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:39.800 Yeah, it maybe. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:45.840 Even a little sooner. And it's just such a fun movie. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.880 But it also, like I don't know, I feel like 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.720 it captures it's definitely I think at its core a 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:58.680 cautionary tale. I would be so curious what the writing 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.480 process was in in terms of figuring out how to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.840 end this movie in a way that wasn't terrifying to children, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.880 because the ending is bizarre and feels dissonant with what 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.520 the rest of the movie is, especially because especially because 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.920 Pat essentially takes her own life at the end of 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.160 the movie, it's and then she lives in jail forever. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.040 But that's the happy ending. We'll come back to it. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.000 I understand why this movie can't end in a terrifying 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.920 cliffhanger because it is for eight year old But I 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.079 just think it's like a fascinating moment in time of 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:43.760 like excitement about technology but also fairly cautionary tale. And 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.000 at first I was like, Ooh, it's so random that 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.920 LeVar Burton would direct this, but it actually really isn't 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.920 because he at this point I will talk about some 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.040 like a couple of interviews that he did on this 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.360 movie's twentieth anniversary a couple of years ago, but like 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.040 at this point his career, he was mister Star Trek 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.480 and like he's playing Jordie Laforage, and he had directed 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.920 a ton of episodes of Star Trek, so you know, 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.880 like technological cautionary tales are in fact extremely in his wheelhouse. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.480 And he's probably one of like the most like the best, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.480 most interesting choices to direct this movie. And I feel 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.240 like this movie accidentally really packs a punch and I 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.480 love it. And the stuff that holds up is kind 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.640 of incredible and the stuff that doesn't is I was 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.719 mostly laughing. I also think it's so funny that the 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.719 guy that plays the dad, who is by far the 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.319 biggest flop character, can't stand him. He's, first of all, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.600 with all due respect to this guy, a very weird actor, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.120 where some of his lines of dialogue are like my 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.800 children and you're like what. He just sometimes will end 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.640 a conversation or like mark the entering and exiting of 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.320 Ryan Merriman by being like my children and you're like, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.960 what the fuck. I also love that his name is 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.560 Kevin Kleine. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.280 Er Kevin Kleiner, Yeah. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.520 Just like he's Kevin Klein but more so. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.520 No, wait it's not Kleiner, It's Kilner but close enough. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.640 No, it's Kevin Kleiner. Yeah. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.160 Okay, he had to. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.360 Change it because people were just like, what do you mean, Kevin, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.560 Klein's just enough. We don't need more. I like Kevin Klein. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.959 I know I like him too. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.520 I think that's still a safe opinion to have. I 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.840 don't know, I know, you never know in this world. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.040 I think that I think I like Kevin Klein. Yes, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.880 I can't say that for all we say cautiously. Yes, 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.959 I mean, there's no one's going to be the top 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.040 Kevin of all time. You know who that is? Kaitlyn, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:54.640 Kevin le Mignon, Kevin le Mignon. That's exactly right below. Okay, Bello, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:00.000 wake up. Smells it hot, bananas, smell the hot. But enough? 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.560 Oh my gosh, wait really quick, Okay, this is This 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.040 episode will have a bit of a Matreon feel to 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:07.720 it for those of you on our Matreon, because when 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.760 it's just the two of us, it's just tangents all day. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.080 My mom and I because we have my family's had 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:20.720 a biannual timeshare on the outskirts of Orlando for twenty years, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:26.000 and next summer is our trip and my mom has 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.680 specifically set it up so that I can meet her 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:34.320 in Florida to see Despicable Me for with her at CityWalk. Wow, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.800 she's so excited. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.040 Wait, Is there a Minions ride at Universal Inn Orlando? 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.880 Yes, and it's like it's it's kind of like Kevin 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.800 klein Er. Then the Minions ride at University Studios Hollywood. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.920 They they're building out like a whole new like land section. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.960 That's even. That's because I think at at Universal Studios Hollywood, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.600 it's sort of like just the theme park from Dispicable 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.800 Me One, but they're going full Minions. They're like, no, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.040 we're doing villain con. We're going for it. Okay, I 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.320 can't wait. It's gonna be great. The Minions are from 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.520 what I can tell, they're busting out of jail yet again. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.040 These rascals. I love them. The Minions are anti cars 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:24.720 role and that's canon. Okay. Smart House, I watched it 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.240 a lot when I was a kid. I actually had 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.640 seen it pretty recently because my boyfriend was homeschooled and 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.880 didn't have cable and hadn't seen Smart House, and so 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.000 I had to fix that. And now it's fixed. I'm 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:39.120 so excited to talk about it. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.160 Great. Shall we get into it. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:43.240 Let's do it. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.520 Okay, Let's take a quick break first, and then we'll 0:15:45.520 --> 0:16:00.479 come back for the recap. Poopye Bellow we're back. Margan's okay. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:06.160 So here's the recap of Smart House. We meet a house, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:12.400 but it's not just any house, Jamie. It's a smart house. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.680 Yeah, this house, This house has brains for days. I 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.400 love a good I was trying to think of other 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.800 movies that open with some sort of suburban paper Boy gag. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.760 I feel like there's other movies that start with paper Boys. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.160 Doesn't Barbin Star open, Oh. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.360 Yes it does. Oh my god. Okay, that's a superior 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.480 paper Boy scene. But I feel like, yeah, paper Boy 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.680 scenes or you know. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:41.680 Paper childer person, paper Person, paper Child is a little 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.480 scary sounding there, And I mean, and then you have 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:47.200 that's the ultimate. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.040 I mean, that's paper Boy the movie. God, I've been 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.640 listening to it. So I've been listening to the sound 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.040 truck so much it's going to show up on my 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.960 Spotify year endless. Very embarrassing. Anyways, we start with a 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.400 classic paper Boy scene which will pay off later, believe 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.640 it or not. I love, I mean love love. We've 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.320 got LeVar Burton at the Helm. There's not going to 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.760 be a loop left unresolved. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.200 No no, no, no, no. Okay, So we meet this smart house, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.679 which was designed by a woman named Sarah Barnes played 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:22.000 by Jessica Steen, yes, who designed this house and gave 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.600 it all of these like advanced capabilities which we will 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.760 learn more about in a little bit. But basically, the 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:35.760 house has this AI operating system called PAT, which stands 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.720 for peepee, poo, pooh and toilet paper. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:47.720 That's that's exactly. We are just really smart people. Yeah, yes, boy, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:52.000 smarter even than the house. Voiced by Katie Segal who 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.240 I never watched this show, but I know a lot 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.720 of people know her as Peggy Bundy, unmarried with children 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.120 as well as I didn't. No, she's also Leela on Futurama. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.919 Okay, so that's what I recognized her voice from. I 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.040 was like, right, whose voice is this? I know this? 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.639 And then turns out Futurama. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:14.000 She's a legend. Everyone loves her and she is also pad. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.679 I loved thinking about Katie Sagal in just like a 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.200 vo booth doing ninety percent of the work for this movie, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.520 where it's just like her saying Ben like fifty times 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:31.600 now Ben now Ben. Oh my god. She's so like mommy, 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.959 Like she's so I mean, it's wild. Yeah, yeah, I 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.159 am a mother like no other You're like, what, ugh, right. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:44.080 Yes, okay, So Sarah again, that's the designer slash engineer 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:49.199 of the house. Not really exactly sure what her job is. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.720 A little wonky, but it wasn't ex Moki and iye 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:51.280 as well. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.320 Right, she's a woman in stem it's safe to say yes. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:19:01.120 And she has launched this contest where some lucky family 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:06.719 will win the house. And that really begs the question 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.159 why would they not sell what would probably be a 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.200 very like lucrative house to sell, but they're just giving 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:16.600 it away. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.480 I wasn't as thrown by that as why have they 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.680 not had Sarah live there for a while or had 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.000 someone like test run the house that eats your blood 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:35.080 when you walk in. It seems like there would be 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.919 some sort of but I guess, you know, even with 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.880 a lot of tech today, the regulation just isn't there. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.920 And sometimes it takes the house almost killing a family. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.960 I mean to realize that maybe there should have been 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:46.800 some sort. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.280 Of self driving cars that run people over, et cetera. 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:52.920 This is one of my biggest issues with this movie 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.919 is like people should be more mad at Sarah than 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.600 they are, but they're always like, no girl boss, like 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.280 she's doing her best, and I was like, she made this, 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.480 she made the house is trying to eat you anyway. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.400 Well, my head canon was that the reason they're giving 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.600 it away rather than like putting it on the market 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.960 to sell is that it's like a prototype that they 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.200 want to test out via a family. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.560 Yeah, that would make sense, And it's also like that's 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.320 so dcom of like starting a movie with a kid 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.600 winning a contest that you're kind of like, yeah, happens 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.040 all the time in these movies. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.119 Got it? Okay? So then we meet Ben Cooper, who's 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:37.200 played by Ryan Merriman of Final Destination three. Oh fame? 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:38.320 Is that what the one? 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.560 That's not what he is most famous for. He is 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.679 sort of the king of d COM's for like he 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.960 is like running this channel for some time. He has 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.119 three classic Disney Channel original movies that he stars and 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:53.560 back to back to back. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:54.360 Okay. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:58.560 He is, of course Ben Cooper in Smart House? Who 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.000 could forget Ben Cooper? Smart House? Not me hang out 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.480 with mister Cooper basically. Two years later, he is in 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.480 iconic basketball film The Luck of the Irish, where he 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.480 plays himself as well as he but he's like a 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.200 basketball player He's always a basketball player in these movies. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:22.359 Disney loves because the characters in high school musical play 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:24.359 oh yeah basketball. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.360 Oh oh carbon blue. Well, I guess Zach got front. Yeah. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.560 Like the first one's very basketball code it yeah, just 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.880 like a thirteen year old playing basketball. This channel can't 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.280 resist it. So The Luck of the Irish is a 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.399 movie about Ryan Merriman, who's a like teenage basketball player 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.520 who then is turned into a leprechaun. And it's funny 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:50.040 because now he is too short to play basketball. Oh 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.720 and then he is in kind of a serious one 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.320 that I don't remember as being very good, but a 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.840 young Misha Barton is in it, and it's called a 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.520 Ring of Endless Life. Oh my, it's a sad one. 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.000 And then he was like, I need to get the 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.000 fuck out of here. I'm gonna go star in Final 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:11.040 Destination three and later iconically for big fans of Pretty 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:15.959 Little Liars, he does play a pretty pivotal early character 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.880 in Pretty Little Liars and he's killed by a bell 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:22.280 at the church and then he wasn't on the show 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:27.159 after that. He has really been exclusively in really campy 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.879 movies for his entire career. It's interesting. But yeah, I 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:35.119 think Smart House is sort of his big claim to 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.920 finish his first big or just like his first big thing. 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:40.600 But I think he's talented. I think he's a good 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:41.359 child actor. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.159 Yeah, I suppose. 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.080 Okay, Lukewarm, Yes, okay. 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.560 So Ben Cooper is a thirteen year old boy who 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:55.480 has been entering that contest to win the smart House 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:59.240 so that he and his younger sister Angie and his 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:05.160 dad Nick that's Kevin Liner Nill Nurse Slash Kleiner can 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:06.720 move into the Smart House. 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.600 I just want to add really quickly that to just 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:14.439 close the loop on this whole basketball thing. At the 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:17.360 beginning of the movie, you know that Ryan Merriman's character 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.000 likes basketball because he's playing basketball outside. But in case 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.000 that wasn't clear enough, his sweatshirt also just has a 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:27.960 picture of a basketball on it. And it's that cinematic 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:32.080 subtlety that leads me to believe maybe this kid likes basketball. 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:34.560 And so later when Kevin Kleiner's like, why don't you 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.240 play basketball, I'm like, why doesn't he play basketball? He's 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:38.760 obsessed with basketball? 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.240 Well, he tells us it's because he's too busy being 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:42.680 the body of the family. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:47.679 I think that Ben is an interesting character. Anyways, the 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.320 outfits are camp great, They're amazing. 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:55.560 I'm laughing at the picture you just sent me. 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:55.959 Okay. 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:00.399 So Ben, like we said, he's like quote unquote mommy 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:04.399 because he's doing a lot of the household chores and 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:07.360 a lot of the work to keep the family together, 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:11.280