Speaker 1: Hey, Sabrina, Hey will what was the best Christmas present
Speaker 1: you ever got?
Speaker 2: Present?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh, I could go real cheesy on ya.
Speaker 1: Was it the steak eating hot tub?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if that was a gift or not.
Speaker 2: Uh No. One year, well into dating Jordan, I had
Speaker 2: to do Chris a show I went to. I went
Speaker 2: and performed a show for like a week or so,
Speaker 2: and it was going to actually be over Christmas. So
Speaker 2: we had a Christmas Eve show and then we had
Speaker 2: a day after Christmas. It was all the way in Florida.
Speaker 2: And I was so sad because we really hadn't spent
Speaker 2: that much time away from each other. And so he
Speaker 2: ended up surprising me and coming and like missing Christmas
Speaker 2: with you know, obviously his family and everything to be
Speaker 2: with me on Christmas, and I like that was like
Speaker 2: the most magical and romantic thing. I was just so overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: They also I do also do remember when I was little,
Speaker 2: when I got the year I got my roller blades,
Speaker 2: was like came out and my roller blades and blades
Speaker 2: that year they were white with pink and teal, like,
Speaker 2: oh they were so hot. I love them. I was
Speaker 2: so stoked. I don't think I need home inside like
Speaker 2: the house. After I opened them, I was done for
Speaker 2: the day, just outside for you. What about you will?
Speaker 1: Mine's kind of similar, Susan and Night. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: It was the G I Joe Uss Defiant, which is
Speaker 1: the best thing I ever got. It was the big
Speaker 1: space shuttle that G I Joe made, and it was
Speaker 1: the coolest thing I've ever had. I still have you do.
Speaker 2: Do you have a lot of your stuff like that?
Speaker 1: I still have my first car.
Speaker 2: Well that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't throw anything out, so I still
Speaker 1: like all the stuff I have. I basically still have
Speaker 1: now some of it is beat to hell, right, But
Speaker 1: I mean, like.
Speaker 2: You made fun of me for having Kidget still my Dolly.
Speaker 1: You're demonic doll that is responsible for the deaths of
Speaker 1: several people. That's different. Yikes.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting though, a gift like that, especially with
Speaker 2: little kids, like I try so hard to hold on
Speaker 2: to stuff, but like letcher just like beats the hell
Speaker 2: out of these things. I don't know how I'm ever
Speaker 2: going to keep anything that you like.
Speaker 1: They don't field anything to last anymore. The toys in
Speaker 1: the seventies would kill a kid and they were great.
Speaker 1: Remember you were you were too young for lawn darts.
Speaker 1: Lawn darts were just giant spiked darts that you would
Speaker 1: just throw into the air and you're supposed to hit
Speaker 1: a thing, but you're just throwing them at your friends.
Speaker 1: So they had they literally discontinued them because they were
Speaker 1: just killing kids all over the place. They were too
Speaker 1: lawn darts. We used to have the most expensive, most
Speaker 1: most dangerous toys ever BB gun fights. It was awful.
Speaker 1: So yeah, these is it's it's thank god. That's why
Speaker 1: they did make things that don't last anymore, because when
Speaker 1: you go hit kid over the head with it, it's shatters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's all Ledger does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my Transformers, my original Transformers were metal, the metal.
Speaker 2: Yes, the transform Metal Transformer.
Speaker 1: Eight seven eight, No. I was eighty four, So that's
Speaker 1: when the show came out from Yeah, metal thing never
Speaker 1: that's how the toys were built. Yeah, your matchbox cars
Speaker 1: all the week, everything was metal.
Speaker 2: I don't even let him have like any of his
Speaker 2: balls that aren't like NERF like type material, you know,
Speaker 2: like the like squishy because he just threw I mean
Speaker 2: he's destructive, like he's just insane. Boy, energy is crazy.
Speaker 2: Now Monroe will sit in color she's cool. Led His
Speaker 2: mission is to destroy it, like.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Use it to destroy something else in the house. It's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, anyway, that's going to lead us to I
Speaker 1: think probably the next kind of chunk of movies we're
Speaker 1: going to be doing. Because we did all hollows.
Speaker 2: Look at your favorite. I didn't even really street, Yes
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. We didn't do that on purpose.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I wore this shirt this purpose. This
Speaker 2: gets me into the holiday spirit like no other. And
Speaker 2: anyone who can see this knows this is like from
Speaker 2: the nineties, early nineties.
Speaker 1: That was crystal methbear. I remember that. That's how they
Speaker 1: used to smuggle things into the country, was in crystal methbear.
Speaker 1: That's so cute. Did you not know that? No?
Speaker 2: Are you being serious?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So that's specific bear kittens and yeah no, but
Speaker 1: that specific bear was known for. They used to cut
Speaker 1: the back of it open and just fill it with
Speaker 1: drugs and ship it in. I'm kidding. Yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: like Christmas. Yes, I love it. Oh, I love it. No. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 1: that makes you want to grab your friends, your pj's,
Speaker 1: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 1: all the houses are smart, the waves, tsunamis, and the
Speaker 1: Teddy Bears held drugs. I'm Wilfred Dell.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sebrien to Bryant, he got me again.
Speaker 1: I did. I did. It's very good again. I did.
Speaker 1: Hang the stockings, settle the mistletoe, leave out the cookies
Speaker 1: of the milk, and spend your last dollar on gifts
Speaker 1: because we're celebrating the holiday season here on Magical Rewind
Speaker 1: and now reviewing the two thousand and one Christmas d
Speaker 1: com Twas the Night. It's a good title. Originally released
Speaker 1: on December seventh, two thousand and one. It's part of
Speaker 1: the channel's popular holiday programming Something we Know includes a
Speaker 1: whole lot of hocus Pocus in Christmas theme TV episodes.
Speaker 1: You have a favorite Christmas movie? What's your favorite Christmas
Speaker 1: movie of all time? Do you watch something every year
Speaker 1: every year?
Speaker 2: I have two and you can't get me to try
Speaker 2: to like.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing one of them's Elf Elf is the is.
Speaker 2: The movie we play every year while we're while we're
Speaker 2: putting the tree up. Okay, career and then The Grinch,
Speaker 2: and the Grinch is now one of Monroe's favorite movies.
Speaker 1: Original Grinch, like the animated one, or like the did
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey car Okay, never.
Speaker 2: See I haven't seen the animated one?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the original? You know I've got one. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: Jim Carrey just I mean him and then Will Ferrell like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah they killed those movies.
Speaker 1: Just so good good.
Speaker 2: So that both of those I watch them every year
Speaker 2: every year. I know, you watch a Christmas Story.
Speaker 1: Christmas Story every year by myself in my theater room
Speaker 1: with all my gifts. So I do my wrapping to
Speaker 1: the Christmas Story every single year. That's just my things.
Speaker 1: Who's like, go do your thing. So I've been doing
Speaker 1: that since I think since the year it came out,
Speaker 1: I've watched Christmas Story every single year.
Speaker 2: Wow. It is a perfect So it was a VHS
Speaker 2: tape well.
Speaker 1: I think originally. I think the first time I saw it,
Speaker 1: I probably saw it in the theater, right and then
Speaker 1: and then it was VHS yeah or no, and then
Speaker 1: they started playing it on TV. Every year. You could
Speaker 1: always find a Christmas story. Oh yeah, now it's everywhere,
Speaker 1: but even before streaming Christmas every Yeah. This is actually
Speaker 1: the second ever Christmas d com, the first being an
Speaker 1: old favorite of ours, The Ultimate Christmas Present, And much
Speaker 1: like that movie, Twas the Night gets frequently replayed on
Speaker 1: the Disney Channel during December's even to this day. The
Speaker 1: title of movie, of course, is a play on the
Speaker 1: eighteen twenty three poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas by
Speaker 1: Clement Clark Moore, something that has lived numerous lives and
Speaker 1: is still read today. And no shock here. The movie
Speaker 1: was filmed in Kenyata. That's right, Canada, Canada.
Speaker 2: Toronto of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's Toronto, Kanyata. Everybody knows that now, make
Speaker 1: absolutely no qualms about it. Twas the Night is basically
Speaker 1: a lower budget version of another Disney movie, The Santa Claus,
Speaker 1: which was released seven years earlier, and this film is
Speaker 1: nowhere near as successful. But that's not to say it
Speaker 1: can't become one of your favorite new holiday traditions. We
Speaker 1: don't want to sour it for you. It's just worth
Speaker 1: pointing out this is hardly an original premise for the studio,
Speaker 1: and by that I mean it was basically a directorpuff
Speaker 1: and you can make up your own mind twas the
Speaker 1: Night is available to watch right now in Disney. Plus,
Speaker 1: maybe Pairrott with a lit fireplace, some h Coco and
Speaker 1: a festive Christmas tree, or just mindlessly scroll on your
Speaker 1: phone while it plays in the background. Doesn't mean a
Speaker 1: thing to us, up to you Stop being so codependent, geez.
Speaker 1: Disclaimer not to listen to this with little kids who
Speaker 1: want to find out. Oh yeah, yeah, So did you
Speaker 1: know anything about this movie before we were assigned our homework?
Speaker 2: I did not. I did not.
Speaker 1: I'm amazing. Really, thousand well two thousand and one is
Speaker 1: kind of right in your wheelhouse, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It is it is to be honest. I mean when
Speaker 2: when the fact that the channel had Christmas movies at
Speaker 2: all shocks me because I don't. I literally, for the
Speaker 2: longest time just figured they just didn't touch like the holiday.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha ration right.
Speaker 2: Because I have never seen Yeah, and I watched so
Speaker 2: many decoms and I had just never seen one. I
Speaker 2: just figured they just never had them. So we've now
Speaker 2: watched too, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I obviously knew nothing of this film and have now
Speaker 1: seen it and still don't really know much of this film.
Speaker 1: The eggnog is getting warm, so let's hack into the
Speaker 1: sleigh hard drive and get our synopsis. A mischievous teen
Speaker 1: and his slacker uncle accidentally knock out Santa and are
Speaker 1: forced to deliver presents in his high tech sleigh. What
Speaker 1: were your early thoughts on Twas the Night? Did you
Speaker 1: like this movie?
Speaker 2: I thought, honestly, this was, like you said, a lower
Speaker 2: budget it was. It wasn't, you know, remaking it, reinventing
Speaker 2: the wheel as you say. It wasn't anything like that.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't. It was an easy watch, and it
Speaker 2: was a festive watch. I love Christmas time. I'm always
Speaker 2: down for it. I love Santa Claus, I love all things.
Speaker 2: And it being on the Channel, Like I said, I've
Speaker 2: never really even realized the channel had Christmas movies, so
Speaker 2: it was nice to see that this is what the
Speaker 2: channel would make of a Christmas movie. Oh okay, what
Speaker 2: about you will?
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know, you don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am a huge Brian Cranston fan, so I think
Speaker 1: I have a soft spot for anything he's in.
Speaker 2: I literally, out loud said, oh my god. When I
Speaker 2: I was so excited. He was gonna I was gonna
Speaker 2: be watching him for the next ninety some minutes.
Speaker 1: But a lot of this movie doesn't make a whole
Speaker 1: lot of sense. Some of it's weird. I didn't dislike it,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't come out going like man, that movie
Speaker 1: was terrible. But I also didn't come out going like man,
Speaker 1: this movie was really good. It was like I felt
Speaker 1: like I saw a movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how I feel. I mean, the end
Speaker 2: is the the was kind of the worst, like ah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It also for me, it was the end, the stuff
Speaker 2: in the middle. The beginning, I felt like it started
Speaker 2: off so strong, like so strong, and then it just
Speaker 2: kind of just kind of plateaued for me, you.
Speaker 1: Know, me too. I also get into the how does
Speaker 1: this work rules of things.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of the rules. The rules were
Speaker 2: not set in place, did we Yeah, some of them.
Speaker 1: But again, I love it. I love Brian Kratzen, I
Speaker 1: really do. And I thought it was great. I thought
Speaker 1: the act was really good. Kerman was great, Josh. You
Speaker 1: know who else was phenomenal was the sister. Yes, she
Speaker 1: was really really good in this movie.
Speaker 2: So watch that.
Speaker 1: I went and googled her. I googled her because I
Speaker 1: was okay, so she's really good.
Speaker 2: For the chance, I did not did she end up
Speaker 2: working for the Channel a lot? Because I'm like that,
Speaker 2: I don't. She's not a face that is really recognizable
Speaker 2: to me of the Channel of that era. Why, well,
Speaker 2: was the reason? Because she was a great Disney kid?
Speaker 1: I thought so too. She was very very good in
Speaker 1: this movie. You could just tell when a child actor
Speaker 1: is working at a different level than other child actors
Speaker 1: around them, and she, you know, Josh was obviously great,
Speaker 1: but there was a couple of little stumbles that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with him. But she, I thought was
Speaker 1: was really good. So yeah, my honest answer is I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do not know how I feel about
Speaker 1: this movie, and maybe going through the synopsis maybe will
Speaker 1: help me more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I you know, again,
Speaker 2: it wasn't in no way was it like some of
Speaker 2: the movies that we have been watching lately that were
Speaker 2: like no.
Speaker 1: But I also feel like, and there's a couple of
Speaker 1: people that I'd love to get on the show that
Speaker 1: are like the quote unquote dcom experts. I mean, Lisa's
Speaker 1: one of our producer, Lisa's one of them where there
Speaker 1: seems like a real time in the dcom world pre
Speaker 1: we've called this pre Cheeta Girls. I would say post
Speaker 1: Brink pre Cheetah Girls in that ninety nine, two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand and one era where you can tell
Speaker 1: they're pumping them out where some of them just kind
Speaker 1: of miss the mark. They seem a little cheesier, the
Speaker 1: writing isn't kind of on point for some of them,
Speaker 1: and this this fell a little into that category. For me.
Speaker 1: This feels almost like there's a two or three year
Speaker 1: stretch of dcoms where they kind of don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing yet because they're not doing Brink and they're
Speaker 1: not doing Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 2: Well, but they're doing them every They're they're coming out
Speaker 2: every like you said they're they're just a much so
Speaker 2: they're just not being as like the Nest or something right.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it is. Maybe I feel I don't
Speaker 1: know if this movie he felt rushed or it felt
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, anyway, we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: So we have now been reviewing d COM's for approaching
Speaker 1: two years now, and I'm not sure we've had a
Speaker 1: more surprising credit in the history of the show than
Speaker 1: who directed Twas the Night. So, Sabrina, does the name
Speaker 1: Nick Castle ring any jingle bells for you?
Speaker 2: It doesn't until I read it, until we read Okay,
Speaker 2: so we read what our producers put in our hands.
Speaker 1: Yet ready for this cow? So Nick Castle, who directed
Speaker 1: the film, is best known as Mike Myers, Yes, Michael Myers,
Speaker 1: in the original nineteen seventy eight horror classic Halloween. The actor.
Speaker 1: He played Mike Myers in one of the scariest characters
Speaker 1: in the history of film, one of.
Speaker 2: The most terrifying rions your dreams at night, Yeah characters.
Speaker 1: He'd also revisit the character in three modern day sequels
Speaker 1: by Danny McBride and David Gordon Green. But talk about scary. Yes.
Speaker 1: He's also a director, most famously for the cult kids
Speaker 1: movie Oh My God, Oh My God. This movie. I
Speaker 1: can't even say the title of this movie without putting
Speaker 1: reverence behind it. This movie meant so much to me
Speaker 1: as a kid, so much to me as a kid,
Speaker 1: The Last star Fighter. Oh. He also directed The Boy
Speaker 1: Who Could Fly, Major Payne, the Ellen de generous wedding
Speaker 1: movie Mister Wrong. I mean, this guy's so talented. He
Speaker 1: also has writing credits on two of my other favorite
Speaker 1: films of all time, John Carpenter's Escape from New York,
Speaker 1: Blisken Snake, Bliskin oh Man, and Hook.
Speaker 2: I mean one of my favorite movies, some movie that
Speaker 2: I watched on repeat.
Speaker 1: This guy's career is b a na nas Bananas. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it is amazing. So he's connected to all
Speaker 1: these kids' movies, but also a character is synonymous with fear.
Speaker 1: He is a regular at horror conventions these days. He
Speaker 1: is an icon. But can we seriously it's like finding
Speaker 1: out that Rob Zombie directed Brink.
Speaker 2: Yes, so just kind I am begging our producers to
Speaker 2: get this man on, just so you can see me
Speaker 2: turning ano eight year old.
Speaker 1: Kid watching talking about The Last Starfighter? Have you seen
Speaker 1: The Last star Fighter? No?
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: Oh do you You don't even know what it's about? Right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: God imagining it's somebody start fighting nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Four, nineteen eighty five. Oh, it's this kid at a
Speaker 1: trailer park. That was good. Come on, that was good.
Speaker 1: This kid at a trailer park starts playing this video
Speaker 1: game that was just left there called The Last Starfighter.
Speaker 1: When he beats the game. You find out it's basically
Speaker 1: an audition to become a starfighter pilot in this intergalactic war. Awesome.
Speaker 1: And so an alien essentially comes down to Earth and
Speaker 1: picks him up and brings him there right as the
Speaker 1: base is destroyed and there's one special ship left that
Speaker 1: he has to fly. It is the same as an
Speaker 1: eight year old boy. It's the sickest thing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Ever, so it was just I can't we got.
Speaker 2: To do that has to be so many guys like age.
Speaker 1: It was huge, It was huge.
Speaker 2: Favorite movie.
Speaker 1: It is just wow. Uh yeah. So I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that quite a bit. And twas the Night stars
Speaker 1: a very familiar name. Yeah, an actor who was the
Speaker 1: star of arguably a top five television show of all time.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about Malcolm in the Middle. It's
Speaker 1: Brian Cranston as Nick Wrigley. Cranston began his career in
Speaker 1: the early eighties working as a character actor with breakout
Speaker 1: roles on Seinfeld and in Saving Private Ryan, but it
Speaker 1: was in the year two thousand that he entered the
Speaker 1: mainstream as Hell the Dad on Malcolm in the Middle,
Speaker 1: a job that landed him three Emmy nominations, but it
Speaker 1: was his next job that no one saw coming. He
Speaker 1: went from lovable comedy goofball to high school science teacher
Speaker 1: turn meth dealer as Walter White on Breaking Bad, one
Speaker 1: of the medium's greatest roles ever, winning him four Emmys
Speaker 1: and becoming a true critical darling of the century. Amazing.
Speaker 1: He was also Oscar nominated for another movie, I Love Trumbo,
Speaker 1: and appeared in other films like Argo, The Power Rangers,
Speaker 1: A zord On, Little Miss Sunshine, and Drive. And he
Speaker 1: is still at the very tippity top of his game,
Speaker 1: winning the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy
Speaker 1: Series this year for seth Rogen's The Studio. So I've
Speaker 1: already asked this a few times, but is Brian Kranton
Speaker 1: the best actor we've ever seen in a dcom? I mean,
Speaker 1: we got Zendaya, Shaia, Debbie Reynolds, but it's freaking Brian Cranson.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just so shocking. I had no
Speaker 2: idea he was in this movie, nor would I have
Speaker 2: ever in my life guest that he had a guess
Speaker 2: that he actually was in a dcom. Ever ever? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, But I mean again, then I look
Speaker 1: at like the fact that he was zored on. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you start looking at it, he just wants to
Speaker 1: do fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And to be honest, like going back to
Speaker 2: like kind of just thoughts on the movie. This movie
Speaker 2: would be a completely different movie had he not been
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: It would not. I bet you I could have answered
Speaker 1: the question of whether I liked it or not had
Speaker 1: it not been Brian Kranston. Yes, he destroyed me because
Speaker 1: I love him.
Speaker 2: He made this movie. I mean, he really held this
Speaker 2: movie because it could have been because he's just so good.
Speaker 2: He's and he leaned into his character. He was a
Speaker 2: nasty man.
Speaker 1: He was. It was God, It's great. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear what he thought when he read the script.
Speaker 1: But I love it.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's crazy. So yes, I was
Speaker 2: shocked and but.
Speaker 1: Appreciated it the same same. And then we have Josh
Speaker 1: Zuckerman playing Danny Wrigley. Josh had already appeared on TV
Speaker 1: in The West Wing and The Amanda Show before Twice
Speaker 1: the Night, and would later play young Doctor Evil in
Speaker 1: Austin Power's gold Member. He also has been seeing a
Speaker 1: ton of other movies like Surviving Christmas and Sex Drive.
Speaker 1: He also appeared on TV shows like Kyle x Y,
Speaker 1: Desperate Housewives, and nine to two and zero. He was
Speaker 1: also in Freaking Oppenheimer. He's been in everything. We can
Speaker 1: also let you know, and I'll announce it again at
Speaker 1: the end, but he's gonna be our guest on our
Speaker 1: Poor Copper episode. We're very excited. We had a great
Speaker 1: conversation with him and it was really cool. And so
Speaker 1: director Nick Castle might be a horror legend who has
Speaker 1: terrified millions of people over the years. But you know
Speaker 1: what's the scariest thing of all the length of this movie.
Speaker 1: So how long was twas the Night? It was eighty
Speaker 1: seven minutes? All right? Sorry, that was nice. That was
Speaker 1: me being horror. So it's three off target, but on
Speaker 1: the shorter side of history, which we love to see.
Speaker 1: It's a true Christmas miracle. Thank you everybody involved. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Tiny Tim had something to do with that himself.
Speaker 2: More like a bed movie.
Speaker 1: Where is your head going? It's Christmas? I was trying
Speaker 1: to imagine stabbing somebody, not having sections though. God it's true,
Speaker 1: but nice. Too many jokes, too many jokes, I know.
Speaker 1: And on the writing side, we've got three credits. TV
Speaker 1: writer Jim Lincoln, who'd worked on Honey Ashrunk, The Kids,
Speaker 1: The TV show, Weird Science, The TV Show, and Desperate Housewives,
Speaker 1: and his writing partner Dan Studney, who also wrote the
Speaker 1: movies Jack the Giant Slayer and Reefer Madness the movie musical,
Speaker 1: which great movie. But it's the final writer that caught
Speaker 1: my attention. That's Jenny Tripp. And she doesn't have many
Speaker 1: credit story name, but she did contribute quote additional story
Speaker 1: material quote to a big Disney Milestone film, The Lion King,
Speaker 1: which is probably the reason she got this movie, but
Speaker 1: she didn't work again after. I'd love to hear a
Speaker 1: story because something feels weird here, so I want to
Speaker 1: know what it is.
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Speaker 3: what he thinks of Trey giving Charlotte a cardboard baby.
Speaker 4: Why would I bring her on cardboard baby? I was
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Speaker 3: When he found out Trey's shortcomings.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of excited to talk, but you know, I
Speaker 4: think he's a guy spends time in Central Park. You know,
Speaker 4: he's probably be some surgery stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: And I was like, all this.
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Speaker 4: and they said, but he's impotent, and I was.
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Speaker 1: And now hark the Herald Angels sing, Let's break bad
Speaker 1: and save Christmas. It's time to recap Twas the night
Speaker 1: we opened. During the holidays. Outside the suburban Wrigley family home,
Speaker 1: we see snow in Christmas lights, and a young narrator
Speaker 1: recites the poem for which the movie is based on.
Speaker 1: But when it gets to not a creature was stirring,
Speaker 1: not even a mouse, we hear a girl scream, and
Speaker 1: when he mentions the stockings hun with care we see
Speaker 1: them being pulled down in haste, and when Saint Nick
Speaker 1: gets name checked, we see color lights being pulled off
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree and used to tie Santa Claus to
Speaker 1: a chair. Our narrator can't believe the real Santa exists
Speaker 1: and is in his house, and then we flash back
Speaker 1: to the day before Christmas, John, the workaholic father the
Speaker 1: Wrigley family is rapping presents, while Abby the mom, is
Speaker 1: burning cookies in the kitchen. The obnoxious genius sister Caitlyn
Speaker 1: is upstairs reading in advanced trigonometry textbook, and a beloved
Speaker 1: little brother, Peter, is a I don't know why I
Speaker 1: said it like that, Peter. Weirdly British Peter is aimlessly
Speaker 1: roaming the halls. Very straight hook Peter, how about just
Speaker 1: Peter is roaming the halls, prohibited from entering his big
Speaker 1: bro's room, and that's where we find out our narrator, Danny,
Speaker 1: who is playing a flight simulator video game, has a
Speaker 1: real Ferris Bueller kind of vibe to him, and then
Speaker 1: he realizes something he's totally neglected. It's Christmas Eve. He
Speaker 1: checks his wallet and he only has a dollar. As
Speaker 1: he tells his family, he doesn't have enough money for presents.
Speaker 1: He narrates his own poem about having no money, disliking
Speaker 1: his dad, his sister's being too smart, and now he'll
Speaker 1: force his little brother to buy him of his old junk.
Speaker 1: And while Danny counts his manipulated brother's money, his parents
Speaker 1: are furious. Despite his no returns policy, Danny now must
Speaker 1: give Peter. Somebody keeps saying it a full refund. Danny
Speaker 1: argues it's like their Uncle Nick says he's just sharing
Speaker 1: the wealth. Uncle Nick is considered a bad role model
Speaker 1: slash con artist, and the mention of his name alone
Speaker 1: doesn't excite Danny's dad, But Danny defends Nick by calling him,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, the bomb, which in two thousand and one
Speaker 1: might be one of the first of the bombs we've gotten.
Speaker 1: While they argue, Peter walks off to get a cookie
Speaker 1: jar and in the kitchen ends up breaking into a
Speaker 1: million little pieces, spilling tons of change to the floor.
Speaker 1: He was getting the money to give it to Danny.
Speaker 1: What a sweet little kid.
Speaker 2: You know, says it's money for family right now.
Speaker 1: Upstairs in his room, Danny looks at a picture of
Speaker 1: him and Uncle Nick and calls him the coolest person
Speaker 1: in the family, though Peter thinks Danny is the coolest
Speaker 1: person in the family, and we might have a best
Speaker 1: Little Brother award in a d com What a twist,
Speaker 1: like a good little brother. Never thought we'd see that true.
Speaker 1: Danny bets Uncle Nick is somewhere making a big business
Speaker 1: deal right now. And then we get a Podmets World
Speaker 1: patented optical flip because Uncle Nick is actually blindfolded, tied
Speaker 1: to a chair and begging for mercy. And when he
Speaker 1: wrestles off the blindfold, we see it's just two young
Speaker 1: nerds yelling into a mug, claiming they were a swindled
Speaker 1: by Nick's phony website, realfastdough dot com, which, as our
Speaker 1: producers like to do, they actually check stuff out and
Speaker 1: is not currently a website. Okay, how did they get
Speaker 1: him tied to the chair without knowing who they were?
Speaker 2: Number? This is our first what.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a lot of people tied to chairs where
Speaker 1: I didn't understand how they got tied to chairs, correct,
Speaker 1: and so we'll get to that. But this is the
Speaker 1: first half of how did this guy get Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so Nick can't believe it, But these dorks Bill and
Speaker 1: Harry are furious about the thirty thousand dollars they lost
Speaker 1: and they want it back. Nick claims he made investments
Speaker 1: with the money and then lost it all, and so
Speaker 1: the nerds threatened to pour hot coco on his beloved laptop,
Speaker 1: which he calls, but instead they passed Nick off to
Speaker 1: their vice president of collections and intimidating henchman named Elliott,
Speaker 1: who grabs the con man by the nose. If Nick
Speaker 1: doesn't return their money by Christmas morning, Elliott will hurt
Speaker 1: a lot more than just his nose. They untie him,
Speaker 1: and as soon as they leave, he's running down the
Speaker 1: fire escape to skip Town, lappy in hand, but Elliot
Speaker 1: spots him leaving and it becomes a chase tide. Nick
Speaker 1: finds a building next to a long line of impatient
Speaker 1: children and parents waiting to take pictures with Santa. He
Speaker 1: goes through the line. He sees all the kids waiting.
Speaker 1: He knows all the kids are waiting. He hears the
Speaker 1: kids yelling, we want Santa Claus. So what does he
Speaker 1: do to escape? Escape unnoticed? He bumps into Santa, steals
Speaker 1: his clothes, and becomes mister Claus. Because that guy was
Speaker 1: taking a dump in the bathroom, so he steals his costume.
Speaker 1: So now he's dressed like Santa. That's the worst way
Speaker 1: to escape all the people waiting for Santa.
Speaker 2: Well, he was gyant. It was like a disguise, disguise
Speaker 2: everyone's waiting for right It's it was like, it was
Speaker 2: like why what?
Speaker 1: So I get why they had to do it because
Speaker 1: they needed him to be in the Santa pants for
Speaker 1: the rest of the movie, but still it was very strange.
Speaker 1: So he's able to fool Elliott and jump on a bus.
Speaker 1: We are back at the Rigleys. The family has gathered
Speaker 1: to read the actual visit from Saint Nick. When their
Speaker 1: doorbell rings, it's Uncle Nick, still dressed as Santa Danny.
Speaker 1: The kids are happy to see him, but John knows
Speaker 1: something's up. But before he can even question his brother,
Speaker 1: he's been called to the hospital. There's been a major
Speaker 1: outbreak of reindeer flu. Of reindeer flu.
Speaker 2: Gonna say again, I mean, I guess we didn't really,
Speaker 2: I had no idea what their occupation was.
Speaker 1: No, we had no idea what it was.
Speaker 2: So it was kind of like, oh, first of all,
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously the reindeer flu thing was like what absurdity.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, he's a doctor, and then it's like, oh
Speaker 2: and she's a doctor too.
Speaker 1: Like they're all doctors. Okay, all right, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask just a very simple question. Is it just a
Speaker 1: creative name or we supposed to believe it's real? What
Speaker 1: the reindeer flu? As? I guess there's.
Speaker 2: Another one that comes on and I actually is just
Speaker 2: looking into my notes and I didn't write it down.
Speaker 2: It's something else that comes up later on that was
Speaker 2: like a really weird situation too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's member. I think, well, it's another
Speaker 1: reindeer flu. They talk about it again, but anyway.
Speaker 2: It's another situation like reindeer flu. It is, yeah, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are these like? And he said it's
Speaker 2: so noginal, like oh like the reindeer flu, Like oh,
Speaker 2: like yeah.
Speaker 1: We get it every year common. Yeah, that's why Rudolph's
Speaker 1: nose is red. It's because of reindeer flu and you
Speaker 1: know some ha. So this covid like emergency forces them
Speaker 1: to leave the kids with Uncle Nick, which terrifies John
Speaker 1: of course, but Nick seems to be doing pretty well
Speaker 1: so far. He's now reading the poem as the kids
Speaker 1: argue about if Santa is even real, and Caitlin's being
Speaker 1: a real torp about it. She doesn't think it adds up,
Speaker 1: but Peter still believes thanks to Danny. But it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: you know your little brother still believes. Give the kid
Speaker 1: a break and let them be even Santa Claus for
Speaker 1: a little. It's like, come on, it's.
Speaker 2: Such a thing that parents do have to navigate at
Speaker 2: some point when the older kids start to It just
Speaker 2: actually happened with Monroe with an older kid when right
Speaker 2: before we were going to Disneyland and the older kid
Speaker 2: told her that those that Cinderella wasn't really Cinderella. She
Speaker 2: has a wig on and Jordan I have never seen
Speaker 2: him get so said about another old kid. He was like,
Speaker 2: she can't play with her anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's me.
Speaker 2: You can, come on, you can't. It's and it's her.
Speaker 2: It's her friend's older sister. And she's like, why does
Speaker 2: why haven't they talked to her about not like ruining
Speaker 2: the magic for the little kids?
Speaker 1: I remember, I was like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, she's not our kid. We will know to
Speaker 2: do that with Monroe and Ledger like that's not our.
Speaker 1: Kid, kid around, that kid, Come on, the kid's bad news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that kid's bad news in trouble. I'm completely on Jordan's
Speaker 1: side with this one.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a whole horrible thing. Like your
Speaker 2: little sister, little brother live in the magic for a
Speaker 2: little bit longer.
Speaker 1: It's part. It's it's a very specific part of your
Speaker 1: your life that changes when you find out that Santa
Speaker 1: isn't real it really is. And I remember I remember
Speaker 1: literally screaming and crying at the top of my lugs,
Speaker 1: begging my parents to tell me because I wanted to
Speaker 1: know as he real? Is he real? Is he real?
Speaker 1: I know he's not.
Speaker 2: Really your brothers that were really.
Speaker 1: So I just figured it out. It's kind of logistically impossible.
Speaker 1: So I was like, unless he's a wizard, and then
Speaker 1: if he was a wizard, because those are real, he
Speaker 1: would be doing.
Speaker 2: My big here is is that the kids finding out
Speaker 2: that we're lying to them for so long? Like, how
Speaker 2: has that got to backfire?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 2: I don't remember beings at my parents.
Speaker 1: My dad hated to have to tell me. We still
Speaker 1: talk about this story of this days like it would
Speaker 1: crush me that I had to tell you because it's
Speaker 1: I was the youngest and that's the end of it,
Speaker 1: Like that's for them until you get grandkids back and
Speaker 1: then it starts all over again. But anyway, reindeer flu,
Speaker 1: which I think is what I have right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it. It does right, Yeah, So she
Speaker 1: doesn't think it adds up, but Pete still believes thanks
Speaker 1: to Danny. And before John and Abby leave, they send
Speaker 1: the kids off to bed, even teenage Danny, and it's
Speaker 1: not even nine pm yet, but his dad does not
Speaker 1: want him hanging around with Nick. And now with the
Speaker 1: doctor's gone, Nick goes to work on Lappie. He's trying
Speaker 1: to get Alan, but it's immediately hacked by Elliott and
Speaker 1: the nerds. They're real time tracking his location. So Nick
Speaker 1: sends them a supervirus that scrabbles their hard drive and
Speaker 1: will mess with any computer within fifty miles. And that's
Speaker 1: when we look to the skies and here's something to
Speaker 1: sending fast to crash on Earth. Then there is a
Speaker 1: loud thud and some footsteps on the roof. Danny shows
Speaker 1: up downstairs to investigate, and Nick assumes it is a
Speaker 1: huge squirrel, and that's when everything freezes. Tons of molecules
Speaker 1: that look like gray killer bees come flying out of
Speaker 1: the fireplace, eventually combining to reveal Santa Claus with a
Speaker 1: huge bag of gifts. The special effects aren't very good,
Speaker 1: so I mean, let's be honest, the special effects aren't working.
Speaker 2: They yeah, they were the budget. They were the special
Speaker 2: effects of this budget.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: But I will say that was a cool way to
Speaker 2: do it. It wasn't him shimming down the chimney a
Speaker 2: creative way that I haven't seen before In additional movie
Speaker 2: of How Santa Gets, I thought, so it was. It
Speaker 2: was creative to me, So I let it go.
Speaker 1: I agree, great, but I let it go. He's also
Speaker 1: a good movie version of Santa. He's a great he
Speaker 1: really is. He is played by Canadian actor Jefferson Mapin,
Speaker 1: who's best known as Fatty Rossiter in the movie Unforgiven,
Speaker 1: And I remember that role. He was great. Yeah is
Speaker 1: oh man, but it was he was great. Santa is
Speaker 1: talking to an elf named Albert in his earpiece and
Speaker 1: is led to Lappie with uncle and nephew still frozen
Speaker 1: behind him. Yes, they are frozen, and we will get
Speaker 1: into that because anyway, Albert instructs him to put the
Speaker 1: virus in the computer trash, which apparently Santa had to
Speaker 1: use computers on his sleigh this year because the reindeer have.
Speaker 1: The reindeer flew again.
Speaker 2: This is real.
Speaker 1: So this is real. Now, this is an epidemic. This
Speaker 1: is something we're gonna have to get another whole thing
Speaker 1: of whether you have to get shots or whatever because
Speaker 1: of reindeer flew. But I here's okay. I get why
Speaker 1: they needed to do this, because they needed to steal
Speaker 1: the sleigh and all that stuff. But I did not
Speaker 1: like some of the changes to Santa. I don't like
Speaker 1: Santa without his reindeer. The reindeer important part of Santa.
Speaker 1: So I even if it's one rogue reindeer, give me
Speaker 1: a reindeer. Okay, I don't like. I don't like this
Speaker 1: thing that flies itself, because then why does he need
Speaker 1: the reindeer. Santa doesn't need the reindeer. He can just
Speaker 1: do this all like digitally. Yeah, it was. It's very strange.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's strange too because it's like two thousand
Speaker 2: and one when I don't feel like our internet and
Speaker 2: all that stuff was really like that savvy.
Speaker 1: No, but I guess in Santa land. It is also
Speaker 1: at one point he says in the movie, which freaked
Speaker 1: me out. He's like, I just should be lying on
Speaker 1: a beach somewhere letting one of the reindeer rub lotion
Speaker 1: on me.
Speaker 5: I didn't get that.
Speaker 1: Why not missus clause. Why wouldn't the line be missus Claus. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the reindeer is rubbing lotion on him, and
Speaker 1: just I still, I couldn't sleep last night because the
Speaker 1: visuals too much for me.
Speaker 2: I could sleep last night. I was wearing a red
Speaker 2: jump like a red sweater with red pants yesterday out
Speaker 2: shopping for stuff, and this man called me missus Claws
Speaker 2: and that really like.
Speaker 1: Rude. Wow.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, let me guess missus Claws. And I
Speaker 2: was like, sir, excuse me, sir, I know that old.
Speaker 1: Jeez Loly, Missus Claus is timeless. She's not old.
Speaker 2: She is an old woman with gray hair and.
Speaker 1: A red body. She's timing. You know, you know all
Speaker 1: this Santa Claus, by the way, was invented by the
Speaker 1: Coca Cola Corporation. Have you actually read that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: The Santa Claus that we know, the big cheeks, the
Speaker 1: ruddy cheeks, the white beard, the red suit. All of
Speaker 1: that was invented in like the twenties by Coca Cola.
Speaker 1: There is not a single Santa Claus like that before
Speaker 1: the Coca Cola company invented it, Like was.
Speaker 2: It like their advertisement or something.
Speaker 1: They wanted to know. They wanted to brand the holiday
Speaker 1: and they wanted people to associate Coca Cola with the
Speaker 1: winter holiday. So they literally invented that Santa Claus that
Speaker 1: we now know. Wow, it's all all invented by Big Soda,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Okay, now ready once again for
Speaker 1: the sky. Santa decides to start with the Wrigley House.
Speaker 1: While he's there, Peter and Caitlin are on the nice list,
Speaker 1: but Danny's on the naughty list. He blames Nick, who's
Speaker 1: on the naughty list for life. Santa goes to his bag,
Speaker 1: picks up some tiny rat presents and leaves him under
Speaker 1: the tree. This was brilliant to me, by the way, Yes, great,
Speaker 1: great idea for how Santa can do all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then I made it. Even in my head it
Speaker 1: was like if they did it nowadays, it's just a
Speaker 1: big bag of sand, because every grain of sand is
Speaker 1: a present from around the world. So it's just the
Speaker 1: idea that they're tiny and you can leave him, because
Speaker 1: then he could carry him all. Genius. Genius, genius. He
Speaker 1: reveals a magical gold ball from his pocket, presses a
Speaker 1: button and the tiny presence quickly inflate to regular size. Now,
Speaker 1: as genius as that idea is, the gold ball is
Speaker 1: really stupid, because of course you can lose it. It
Speaker 1: should be a watch or something that's.
Speaker 2: On Santa, because you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't do it. You don't you have your most
Speaker 1: important thing.
Speaker 2: Read all but that.
Speaker 1: Which is what he does.
Speaker 2: He lost it right along with it because I was
Speaker 2: so like, no at this point, that's what I said.
Speaker 2: I kind of went up and down. And you know,
Speaker 2: at the beginning, I felt like this had so much
Speaker 2: steam because I loved these creative ideas of Santa that
Speaker 2: we have not seen before. So I let the ball go.
Speaker 1: I would have I would have made it a thing
Speaker 1: that he wears on his wrist. And as Brian Cranston
Speaker 1: is checking his pulse or steps on his arm by accident,
Speaker 1: he makes the guy smaller and then he realizes it
Speaker 1: and he literally pulls it off of Santa Santa's arm.
Speaker 1: Because the idea that it's just something you can lose
Speaker 1: is really yeah, anyway, this is just these are the
Speaker 1: way my brains work. So he pulls the ball from
Speaker 1: his pocket, presses a button, and the tiny presents quickly
Speaker 1: inflate to regular size. But as the big jelly Man
Speaker 1: readies himself to leave, he drops the gold ball, accidentally
Speaker 1: releasing Nick and Danny from their spell. This is some
Speaker 1: of not okay. One of the easiest things to do
Speaker 1: in movies is freeze the frame so the characters don't move.
Speaker 1: These were actors that were just told the freeze that
Speaker 1: are clearly sitting there and moving moving because it's bad.
Speaker 1: Freeze frame. It's really bad. It's because it's just like,
Speaker 1: just freeze the frame. Don't don't make the actors stand
Speaker 1: there for forty seconds try because they're shaken all over
Speaker 1: the place. Nobody looks frozen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how many takes did it take to even
Speaker 2: get what they have?
Speaker 1: I know? It's great, terrible And.
Speaker 2: So it's like and at that point, for most of
Speaker 2: the time, at least he wasn't, the Santa wasn't in
Speaker 2: frame with them.
Speaker 1: No, they're just so easily shoot around that it's that's
Speaker 1: such an easy fix that. It's weird that they don't
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: It is strange. It's just weird, very strange choice.
Speaker 1: So Nick and Danny are released from their spell. The
Speaker 1: two are scared by the side of Santa, who tries
Speaker 1: to convince them that they're hallucinating. Santa tried to foot nice.
Speaker 1: Santa tried to fool them with the old look over
Speaker 1: their trick, but slips when he makes a run for
Speaker 1: it and knocks himself out. As he lays there on
Speaker 1: the floor completely still, Nick and Danny poke them with
Speaker 1: a stick and realizes this is the real Santa. Danny
Speaker 1: grabs a golden ball, accidentally pressing the button and shrinking
Speaker 1: Nick to the size of a thumb. What And when
Speaker 1: Danny presses the button again, Nick returns to normal height.
Speaker 1: So it's I guess you can do it with people too.
Speaker 1: Danny quickly realizes an unconscious Santa on Christmas Eve can
Speaker 1: ruin everything, but Nick insists they do nothing. It's not
Speaker 1: their problem. And when Nick now accidentally hits the golden
Speaker 1: ball button, it freezes Danny. Wow, this thing is very powerful.
Speaker 1: When he tries to unfreeze his nephew, quot unquote because
Speaker 1: nobody's actually frozen. They're shaking all over the place. He
Speaker 1: instead turns himself into floating molecules and floats out the
Speaker 1: chimney and into the sleigh on the roof. Nick has
Speaker 1: no way what to do when he wakes up in
Speaker 1: Santa's mode of transportation, but figures this is the miracle
Speaker 1: he needed. He fidgets with the stick shift. Who anybody
Speaker 1: who jumps into a new vehicle that's perched precariously on
Speaker 1: a rooftop is gonna start pressing buttons? Sorry, it's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing there? It's like, I'm gonna grab
Speaker 1: this joystick and start pressing buttons. What are you thinking? Yeah,
Speaker 1: fidgets with the stick. Nothing happens. He presses the gold
Speaker 1: ball button once again, sending his molecules back into the house.
Speaker 1: He can't believe the possibilities. He unfreeses Danny and now
Speaker 1: suggests to his nephew they pick up the gauntlet and
Speaker 1: take over for Comatos Santa. Since Danny is so good
Speaker 1: at flight video games, he can control the sleigh while
Speaker 1: Nick can deliver the presence. Danny surprises Uncle changes his tune,
Speaker 1: but they shake hands and become heroes. Danny wonders about
Speaker 1: his brother and sister. They can't just leave them home alone,
Speaker 1: but Nick argues they aren't alone. Santa's there, even if
Speaker 1: he's unconscious, and just like that, they're off flying over
Speaker 1: the city in the sleigh.
Speaker 2: Okay, who tied him to the chair, that's the next.
Speaker 1: What Who lifted this giant man man, giant uncus man.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's a big guy. He's a huge dude, and
Speaker 2: all we have is a sister.
Speaker 1: No, because it's that's it couldn't have been the two
Speaker 1: little kids.
Speaker 2: Oh they were sleeping still.
Speaker 1: Right, are we supposed to believe that they picked this
Speaker 1: man up and they put him on the chair unconscious,
Speaker 1: this huge dude, and then tied him to the chair.
Speaker 1: It's like I didn't get that. Who tied him to
Speaker 1: the chair anyway?
Speaker 2: And to use lights from the Christmas tree doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like a decision, like an adulthood wake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know any of it is. It was
Speaker 1: just these these again. Everyone's like, you're nitpicking. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: literally my job. Nick is still in Santa's outfit and
Speaker 1: suggests they start in the rich area of town, making
Speaker 1: up some excuse about lightning. The sleighs load. Back at
Speaker 1: the Wrigley House, Peter is awake at and downstairs. He's
Speaker 1: very surprised when he sees a passed out Santa, but
Speaker 1: assumes it's his uncle Nick. When he goes to pull
Speaker 1: off his beard, he realizes this is an Uncle Nick
Speaker 1: at all and screams at the top of his lungs. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in a nearby mansions roof, Nick realizes you can put
Speaker 1: your hand in Santa's bag and magically pull out Presence Brilliant.
Speaker 1: While inside the house, Uncle Santa has a completely different plan.
Speaker 1: He's frozen time as expected, but instead of delivering gifts,
Speaker 1: he's stealing expensive items and using the gold ball to
Speaker 1: shrink them into pocket size for travel. This guy's ayah.
Speaker 1: And when Nick Nick does return to the sleigh, Danny
Speaker 1: uses Santa's database and sees who's on the naughty list,
Speaker 1: and well, it's him. Danny's on the naughty list. Nick
Speaker 1: doesn't care who is this Santa to judge anyway, it's
Speaker 1: their turn to call the shots and decide who's naughty
Speaker 1: and who's nice. Back at the rig Leads, we return
Speaker 1: to the start of the movie, where someone has tied
Speaker 1: Santa to the chair again, it's Peter, who's now woken
Speaker 1: up Caitlin to help, and then Santa opens his eyes. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know who tied him the chair, but I
Speaker 1: can tell you even the four of them wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to move this dude. Yeah, he's so big,
Speaker 1: he explains, he's the reels also, So, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever tried to pick anybody up who's not
Speaker 1: like passed out or unconscious. It's just dead weight. It's
Speaker 1: so difficult to do. Don't ask me how I know that,
Speaker 1: And then Santa opens his eyes. He explains he's the
Speaker 1: real Santa improves it by mentioning the one time Caitlyn
Speaker 1: cheated in the third grade. Now convinced and with Santa untied,
Speaker 1: Katelyn notices Santa's sleigh is gone. Santa suggests someone decided
Speaker 1: to be charitable and help while he was incapacitated, but
Speaker 1: when he realizes it was Nick Wrigley, he knows this
Speaker 1: can't be good. He tries to communicate with the L's,
Speaker 1: but he needs the sleigh for that to work, and
Speaker 1: then he sees Lappie. Since that's what brought him down
Speaker 1: to earth, he asked Kitlyn for help, and she has
Speaker 1: a plan. She'll hack into the sleigh and override the
Speaker 1: flight plan to bring it home, but she needs a
Speaker 1: stronger signal, so they're off to the computer shop, with
Speaker 1: Santa driving terribly behind the wheel of Mom's car, which
Speaker 1: also noticed was bright red like Santa Santas.
Speaker 2: I did notice that Yah interesting.
Speaker 1: Now in a new rich family's home, Uncle Nick is
Speaker 1: stealing and shrinking stuff, but is surprised by Danny, who
Speaker 1: has now entered the house to change a naughty kid's gift,
Speaker 1: so wonders why his uncle's taking so long. Using the ball,
Speaker 1: Danny delivers a punching bag because the naughty boy's been
Speaker 1: fighting at school and maybe he'll get his anger out
Speaker 1: on this instead. Nick is impressed with Danny's thoughtfulness. He says,
Speaker 1: when he was a kid, he always wanted a very specific,
Speaker 1: beautiful Jimmy Hendrix's guitar. He asked for it every year
Speaker 1: but never got it. But his brother, Danny's dad got
Speaker 1: everything he wanted. It was just naughty versus nice. But
Speaker 1: maybe if Danny was around back then, Nick would have
Speaker 1: gotten the guitar and he turned into something, so it
Speaker 1: was like he was noticing good things about his nephew. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then before they leave, Danny notices Nick is a
Speaker 1: little lumpy, but makes nothing of it, at least for now.
Speaker 1: The real Santa and the Wrigley siblings have made a
Speaker 1: wrong turn and found themselves in a very sketchy alley.
Speaker 1: We hear rap music and see guys spray painting the walls,
Speaker 1: so we know that's trouble. Santa yells out and politely
Speaker 1: asks him to move, but when he honks, they don't
Speaker 1: seem very happy about it. The thugs surrounding the car,
Speaker 1: and they're quickly annoyed by his Santa ways, But weirdly,
Speaker 1: when Santa does get out of the car, exposing his
Speaker 1: full outfit and belly, the dozens of thugs are scared.
Speaker 1: Why would they be scared of him?
Speaker 2: First of all, but like also like he's an old man.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's an old man's dresses? Santa? What are you?
Speaker 2: What are you worried about?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It's also what kind of hooligans are out spray
Speaker 1: painting at like midnight on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 2: It's poligans, thugs. I believe that. I believe that. I
Speaker 2: just don't believe they'd be intimidated it and anyway by
Speaker 2: an older man dresses Santa.
Speaker 1: But the thugs are prepared for a fight, and Santa
Speaker 1: says he didn't want to do this, but then gets
Speaker 1: into a praying mant this defensive position, but instead of brawling,
Speaker 1: Santa starts feverishly tickling the gang leader, then define gravity
Speaker 1: with parkour, which did not look good, and tickling the
Speaker 1: man even faster, resulting in an all out surrender. The
Speaker 1: leader realizes Santa is a mean tickler and offers him
Speaker 1: a spot in his gang, because that's what every gang needs,
Speaker 1: is a good tickle guy. But Santa's in a hurry,
Speaker 1: and so to help, the gang escorts the family to
Speaker 1: comp you smart in the low Rider while listening to
Speaker 1: rap music. Santa thanks Pap and promises them good stocking stuffers.
Speaker 1: Inside the computer store, which is for no reason anyone
Speaker 1: can figure out whatsoever open in the middle of the
Speaker 1: night at like two o'clock in the morning or whatever
Speaker 1: it is on.
Speaker 2: Chrismas Eve, who would need to go in there my.
Speaker 1: Mousepad at three am. The store manager's obviously upset Santa's
Speaker 1: apparently late. He was supposed to be hired as a
Speaker 1: Santa for the shop this afternoon, but that guy didn't show.
Speaker 1: Caitlyn doesn't care. She's looking for the computer. We're now
Speaker 1: back in the sleigh. Nick has shrunk a sports car
Speaker 1: and Danny suggests maybe stopping by a homeless shelter to
Speaker 1: do some charitable work, but Nick leads them to a
Speaker 1: nearby mansion. Even though they don't have kids. Nick continues
Speaker 1: to hide his real plans by saying his goal is
Speaker 1: to switch out their dinner and force them to know
Speaker 1: what the other side eats like. And even though this
Speaker 1: idea is terrible, Danny loves it. Back at the computer shop,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn and Santa are working with a high tech computer.
Speaker 1: When an employee approaches Peter and he keeps saying it
Speaker 1: like that, their lookout jumps into action. He blocks them
Speaker 1: in and asks for the bathroom or he'll pee in
Speaker 1: the aisle, and it works, just as the computer boots up.
Speaker 1: Peter is the unsung hero of this movie, and when
Speaker 1: we return to the sleigh, Nick is loving life. He
Speaker 1: suggests they do it again next year, but Danny notes
Speaker 1: that Santa will obviously be back by then, but Nick
Speaker 1: explains head injuries can be serious, you never know, and
Speaker 1: then they arrive at the mansion, which is as big
Speaker 1: as Harry Potter School, and as they approach the landing,
Speaker 1: they lose control of the sleigh. It's been commandeered and
Speaker 1: they're descending fast. It's Caitlyn at Copy Serve. She's steering
Speaker 1: them in circles and sending them back to her house.
Speaker 1: Danny thinks on his toes they should turn off the
Speaker 1: slay to reboot it and disconnect the hack. It might
Speaker 1: damage the hard drive, but Nick loves the idea. Once
Speaker 1: they shut it down, they start a free fall to
Speaker 1: the ground and can't restart it. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is how you fix all computer programs. Unplug it, plug
Speaker 1: it back in. As they panic, they get it to
Speaker 1: reboot just in time and land in front of again
Speaker 1: what has to be Hogwarts. And now sat and the
Speaker 1: kids are depressed outside the computer store, which again is
Speaker 1: still open. Kitlyn can't believe she had them locked in
Speaker 1: and then lost control. Santa realizes that Danny is helping
Speaker 1: his evil uncle and banishes him to the naughty list forever.
Speaker 1: He may even tell the Easter Bunny about this, But
Speaker 1: Peter It's great little brother. Peter tries to defend him,
Speaker 1: and that's becoming more and more difficult to do. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we're now back in the mansion and there's literally people
Speaker 1: in tuxedos and tiars. Is this is this a weird
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve party?
Speaker 2: Or is this normal weird Christmas feed party? All right, good,
Speaker 2: I'm glad that wasn't just me the tiara's.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that your Christmas tiara?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, you know, I guess you could have kind
Speaker 2: of like a really fancy Christmas party, But it was
Speaker 2: the tiaras that were just like.
Speaker 1: Do you own a tiara? An actual tr not a
Speaker 1: fake one? Like, do you own like a nice tir? Beyond?
Speaker 2: Come, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't sit in the hot time eating steak with
Speaker 1: a tr on just checking?
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I mean, I'm not gonna say I would.
Speaker 2: Wants funny.
Speaker 1: My wife says the same thing. She's like, god, tirs
Speaker 1: are so stupid. But I mean, if I were to have.
Speaker 2: One, I know, wear an extra one, she can just
Speaker 2: like throw wear a tiara. I don't know, I don't know. No,
Speaker 2: A lot of women, I mean what a lot of
Speaker 2: women wear them for their wedding, like.
Speaker 1: We t at their wedding.
Speaker 2: Really, I feel like sometimes like tirs are like with
Speaker 2: like a like part of the veil, Like it's like
Speaker 2: a beaded kind of Tiara.
Speaker 1: I said Tiara this much in my entire life, and
Speaker 1: now it just sounds weird.
Speaker 2: No, but yeah, I mean I would love to have
Speaker 2: a real one. Oh my gosh, that'd be so cool.
Speaker 2: I just don't know where i'd wear it.
Speaker 1: I guess at Christmas party exactly. So yes. Now we're
Speaker 1: in the mansion. Nickas frozen a big high society party
Speaker 1: to steal some jewelry, eventually landing and swiping a massive
Speaker 1: diamond from Missus Vanderlip, who he also has kiss her cheek,
Speaker 1: which was weird. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Danny is traying
Speaker 1: out the fancy food as this terrible plan plan is
Speaker 1: taking Place's srinking a plump turkey and replacing it with
Speaker 1: a store bought underwhelming bird. But when he eventually walks
Speaker 1: out into the hallway, he stumbles on his uncle. Mesmerized
Speaker 1: by the diamond, he puts two and two together and
Speaker 1: calls him out for stealing stuff, using the gold ball
Speaker 1: to enlarge all the shrunken items in Santa's coat and
Speaker 1: we get a very cool kind of effect here. Now,
Speaker 1: with Nick balancing on top of a huge pile of things,
Speaker 1: including a ferrari at, a piano and a piano and
Speaker 1: everything else. Nick quickly tries to cover his track, saying
Speaker 1: he's collecting stuff for charity Bud. Danny shrinks the items
Speaker 1: back down and knows the truth. It's all been one
Speaker 1: big scam. Nick changes his tune, now pitting himself as
Speaker 1: a Robin Hood type, suggesting he cuts his nephew into
Speaker 1: the deal, but Danny says they're done, not just with Christmas,
Speaker 1: but their entire relationship. Danny makes his way to the
Speaker 1: sleigh and his uncle follows close behind. Nick admits he
Speaker 1: has a cash flow problem and says that this was
Speaker 1: a once in a lifetime opportunity to fix it. He
Speaker 1: apologizes and pretends nothing is wrong. Then Danny demands they
Speaker 1: go back home to actually help Santa, and even though
Speaker 1: Nick pretends it's a good idea, he swipes the gold
Speaker 1: ball and stays at the mansion. Danny takes off the
Speaker 1: sleigh and doesn't even say goodbye. Sanna and the Wrigley
Speaker 1: siblings are on the couch back home, depressed, without any
Speaker 1: idea how to fix things. Sanna doesn't even know how
Speaker 1: he'll get home, and that's when they hear a crash outside.
Speaker 1: Danny has returned. Caitlyn gets to work fixing the crash
Speaker 1: sleigh because for some reason now Danny couldn't land it
Speaker 1: when he could the first time. It doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense but anyway, but she's not sure what she can help.
Speaker 1: In time, Danny apologizes to Santa he wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: steal his sleigh, but Santa doesn't know what to believe.
Speaker 1: Danny also tries to defend Nick, claiming he was just
Speaker 1: in over his head, but Santa knows the truth. Nick
Speaker 1: is a scammer and Danny has been scammed, and that's
Speaker 1: when Caitlin finally admits defeat. The sleigh's hard drive is fried,
Speaker 1: and although the computer store was open at eleven, it's
Speaker 1: now closed at eleven forty on the other side of town.
Speaker 1: Nick is waiting for the boss, coping with his actions.
Speaker 1: He thinks Danny will forget all about this in a week,
Speaker 1: especially when he sends him an expensive gift, but it's
Speaker 1: obvious that this is affecting him, and that's when the
Speaker 1: two nerds and Elliot from the beginning of the movie,
Speaker 1: Remember them, Yeah, Well, they pull up. They're looking for
Speaker 1: the tracked location of their scammer, Wrigley House. Nick, who
Speaker 1: is still disguised as Santa, hides his face and lets
Speaker 1: him drive off, but quickly realizes the kids are now
Speaker 1: in danger. Then the bus arrives. Santa is having a
Speaker 1: mental breakdown. It's the first Christmas he'll ever miss, and
Speaker 1: now he's starting to spiral. Maybe he'll just retire to
Speaker 1: Florida and work in his tan. This is where he
Speaker 1: talks about Rudolph rubbing motion a little. He admits he's
Speaker 1: just depressed. Everything has gone wrong. Oh god, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: Rudolph in like a little like Italian kind of what
Speaker 1: a little speedo kind of thing, and he's, oh my god, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awful. It's awful. And I blame Mary, thank you,
Speaker 1: it's not me, it's them. Yep, everything has gone wrong.
Speaker 1: And then the Nerds pulling into the driveway looking for Nick.
Speaker 1: Danny reveals he's not home, but the Nerds don't believe him.
Speaker 1: They want in the house, and Thug Elliott is willing
Speaker 1: to go through Santa to make it happen, so Santa
Speaker 1: steps up, but guess who isn't ticklish? Elliot? Oh, this
Speaker 1: is a problem, and just as Elliot starts cracking his knuckles,
Speaker 1: they're interrupted by Uncle Nick. He's now returned, and though
Speaker 1: he has very expensive items in his bag to pay
Speaker 1: off the debt, he's not handing him over. The stuff
Speaker 1: isn't his to give. Maybe he's learned something. He'll be
Speaker 1: returning it all to their rightful owners, and so Elliot
Speaker 1: slowly approaches for a butt kicking, but Nick is one
Speaker 1: step ahead of him and uses the gold ball to
Speaker 1: shrink him down to an action figure. I thought he
Speaker 1: was the next step if it wasn't a dcom was
Speaker 1: he was just gonna crush him under his foot like
Speaker 1: a little aunt. But he didn't, and with the Golden
Speaker 1: Ball's power exposed the nerds an Elliot, now back to
Speaker 1: human size, leave in a hurry. Nick has saved everyone
Speaker 1: and hugs the kids. Even Santa is impressed when Nick
Speaker 1: gives him back the gold ball. Caitlyn is touched, but
Speaker 1: this doesn't fix the sleigh. Peter said it like that again,
Speaker 1: suggests they use Lappie, and though Nick is hesn't in
Speaker 1: at first, he allows it and it works. SAA says
Speaker 1: this is a great first step to rehabilitation for Nick
Speaker 1: and will return all the stolen items for him. Santa
Speaker 1: also makes the Wrigley family promise to keep all this
Speaker 1: a secret, and he emits the whole knotty versus nice
Speaker 1: thing might not be as black and white as he
Speaker 1: first thought, and with that, Santa flies away. Later that night,
Speaker 1: when the Wriggley's parents return home from crying the rain flu,
Speaker 1: remember that Uncle Nick is asleep on the couch, and
Speaker 1: John admits he may have been wrong about his brother
Speaker 1: after all. He even calls the surprise visit his big
Speaker 1: present this Christmas. The next morning, Uncle Nick is awoken
Speaker 1: by the family rushing in to see their presence under
Speaker 1: the tree. He seems to appreciate the love he's seeing,
Speaker 1: and then Caitlyn finds a present for Uncle Nick. It's
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Hendricks guitar he always wanted, and the card
Speaker 1: reads to my favorite naughty boy, Sorry for the delay,
Speaker 1: but better late than never, Love Santa. The family, completely
Speaker 1: unaffected by a random gift being under the tree, encourages
Speaker 1: him to play it, but Nick reveals he won't be
Speaker 1: keeping it. He has to sell it off to pay
Speaker 1: his debts, but Danny says, it's not like he's returning
Speaker 1: it today. Just play it while he can, so Nick
Speaker 1: puts it around his neck and begins the strum. He's
Speaker 1: terrible and not of tune at first, but then turns
Speaker 1: into Eddie van Halen with a superstar riff of jingle bells.
Speaker 1: The family applause as Danny finally finishes that custom Christmas
Speaker 1: poem from the start of the movie. The overall thesis
Speaker 1: is to spend time with your family, whether you're naughty
Speaker 1: or nice, and Merry Christmas everyone. And that's our movie.
Speaker 1: Whow I still don't know if.
Speaker 2: I like it or not.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's Wilfred Dell and Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: From the podcast Magical Rewind and we have a very
Speaker 1: special guest on this week's episode. He's the mastermind behind
Speaker 1: some of your favorite movies like Hocus Pocus, Newsy's The Descendants,
Speaker 1: and of course High School Musical. Yes, it is the
Speaker 1: one and only a living legend director Kenny or Tega.
Speaker 2: We sit down with Kenny to talk about his incredible
Speaker 2: career and the legacy he's created with his choreography and films.
Speaker 1: You seriously will not want to miss this one.
Speaker 2: Listen to Magical Rewind on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 6: Hi, it's Jenny Garth, host of the I Choose Me podcast.
Speaker 6: This week, I'm so excited to welcome my friend Gabrielle
Speaker 6: carteris the Andrea Zuckerman from Beverly Hills nine o two
Speaker 6: ONOH to the pod.
Speaker 5: We're choosing to get real.
Speaker 2: I applied to the networks about my age in contracts.
Speaker 2: They never would have hired me if they had my age.
Speaker 5: We're choosing to be honest.
Speaker 2: She looked at me, and she said, this business is
Speaker 2: about the mask, which you have.
Speaker 5: Neither of, and we're choosing to get nostalgic.
Speaker 6: Listen to I Choose Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
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Speaker 1: Final reviews. Let's do some real reviews. Please, here we go.
Speaker 1: I have the five stars. I'm very excited, and it's
Speaker 1: by our old friend who named h This is a
Speaker 1: great television film. I love the concept of Santa being
Speaker 1: able to stop time, not only as a gimmick for
Speaker 1: the plot, it's also the only thing that could explain
Speaker 1: how Santa does everything he does in just one night,
Speaker 1: and it would explain why nobody sees him. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it, That's how he does it. Thank you movie
Speaker 1: five stars. He's not wrong or not is not wrong.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: He got Sabrina, I got.
Speaker 2: The one star. And this might be one of my
Speaker 2: favorite names user names of that we've had one star
Speaker 2: review by you talking to Me three forty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: It's good this movie, but the whole Disney company to
Speaker 2: shame Santa is very soft, dull and stupid. Also, you
Speaker 2: may notice when the people are frozen, you can see
Speaker 2: them shaking.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: A few bucks could edit that you're talking to me
Speaker 2: three forty five is not wrong.
Speaker 1: It is not right.
Speaker 2: You could it didn't make sense. Well did they do that?
Speaker 1: It didn't. And now we are approaching Sabrina's favorite part
Speaker 1: of the program.
Speaker 2: That is, of course it's actually starting to because I
Speaker 2: say it, because I'm getting better and better.
Speaker 1: You're loving it. We've got I wonder what our record
Speaker 1: is at this point, but you've been killing it lately.
Speaker 1: But this one is called poetry in motion pictures. Oh
Speaker 1: on Wordswas the Night is a rare movie that was
Speaker 1: based on a poem, but it's not the only one.
Speaker 1: We'll be given a movie title and we'll have to
Speaker 1: guess what was based on a poem or not. You
Speaker 1: got a fifty to fifty shot here in three out
Speaker 1: of five wins?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Number one? Was Little Women a poem or not? Sabrina, Yes,
Speaker 1: is it a poem? I thought it's just a book.
Speaker 2: I know it was a book, but did the book
Speaker 2: start with the poem? Who are we playing with?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: That's why it's a good question. Who's with us today?
Speaker 2: You got producer MICHAELA Hey, he's good luck.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. I think Little Women's just
Speaker 1: a book. I don't think it's a poem.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't know poem.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say book.
Speaker 2: It's not a poem, damn right.
Speaker 1: Number two Brave Heart, which is one of the funniest
Speaker 1: movies to watch because I love it so much, but
Speaker 1: it's one after another of just horrible problems in the movie.
Speaker 1: My new favorite one that I just bought it is
Speaker 1: there in the scene in the woods and they're all
Speaker 1: from Scotland in the thirteen hundreds and literally in the
Speaker 1: background with all the actors. Just a dude in a
Speaker 1: baseball hat just walked by, like somebody from the crew.
Speaker 1: It's great. Oh you see airplanes in it. There's it's
Speaker 1: just are you serious? It is considered the most historically
Speaker 1: inaccurate film of all time, like to the point where
Speaker 1: kilts weren't even a thing at that point in Scotland. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's great, it's great. But yeah, no, they're wonderful. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Braveheart based on a poem. I think it is a poem.
Speaker 1: I think it's about William Wallace.
Speaker 2: I think it is will is correct, it is a poem.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Number three over here dangerous Liaisons.
Speaker 2: Sure, poem.
Speaker 1: I think it's a book.
Speaker 2: It is not a poem.
Speaker 1: You are for three.
Speaker 2: I can't even win at this point.
Speaker 1: Number four Troy poem or not a poem?
Speaker 2: Definitely a poem.
Speaker 1: It is a poem. It's based on the Iliad by Homer.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, Number five Mulan Oh I won, by the way,
Speaker 1: for the record, But yu was mulan a poem or
Speaker 1: not a poem?
Speaker 2: I could see it being a poem because.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's a Yes, you.
Speaker 2: Guys are corrected to I went five for five. You
Speaker 2: did well.
Speaker 1: Myself on the back. Can we do a Sabrina C's please.
Speaker 2: We can. I'm gonna start off with this one, and
Speaker 2: I feel kind of bad about it. This isn't necessarily
Speaker 2: a dig on like the acting. But we really didn't
Speaker 2: talk about Peter.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk about the acting. What I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say is I wish that they had actually it felt
Speaker 2: it felt a lot like Ocus Focus, where we talked
Speaker 2: about the word the voice coming out of the actor
Speaker 2: is not the this is I felt the same situation.
Speaker 2: I wish because I did like his character. I wish
Speaker 2: they actually cast somebody who was very young, like younger,
Speaker 2: because he was playing, Yeah, he was playing it's so young,
Speaker 2: you know. He was like the way he was like
Speaker 2: using his words and stuff felt like a little little kid.
Speaker 1: Do you think that was an act or do you
Speaker 1: think that was him? I think that was him because
Speaker 1: that was an act. If that was an act, then
Speaker 1: he's a genius.
Speaker 2: I thought he that's that was an act. I really
Speaker 2: I was saying, if they or regardless, if they liked
Speaker 2: how young his voice sounds, which would have been fine
Speaker 2: had he been younger to me, and so he threw
Speaker 2: me anytime he had a part in the movie kind
Speaker 2: of threw me off that I started to kind of go, yeah,
Speaker 2: it just didn't make sense.
Speaker 1: It also, I think being next to the other kids
Speaker 1: who were so good, so good. I mean, Josh was great.
Speaker 1: But again I can't get over the girl who I
Speaker 1: gotta find her name, the girl who played Caitlyn, because
Speaker 1: I kept going back to her, like, man, she's she's
Speaker 1: damn good.
Speaker 2: And it was crazy for me that she wasn't all
Speaker 2: over the channel. She was like a pure yep, perfect
Speaker 2: Disney kid.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Brenda Great. By the way, it's her name, Brenda Great, Brenda.
Speaker 2: Great, I be she was that she had done more
Speaker 2: stuff on the channel.
Speaker 1: She's known for Twas the Night as Caitlin, and she
Speaker 1: was in Tarzan two.
Speaker 2: Ask oh, okay, and that's it.
Speaker 1: I think so yeah, But she was Disney. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: was a Disney kid.
Speaker 2: Moving on, that velcro wallet got me. Did you have
Speaker 2: one of those?
Speaker 1: Yes? I don't even remember.
Speaker 2: I had so many of them. I loved those things.
Speaker 2: Those velcro Well, there was nothing better than the feel
Speaker 2: and the sound of a velcro wallet before you pulled
Speaker 2: out your cash, you had it.
Speaker 1: Susan. Susan does not allow Velcrow anywhere in the house.
Speaker 1: She thinks it's a cheat. So velcrow shoes or velcro.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, no, we don't. We don't do velcro
Speaker 1: in this house. No, Belcrow.
Speaker 2: That's that's an interesting thing. I might need to I
Speaker 2: might need to dive into her psyche, Like I have
Speaker 2: to ask you about this because, by the way, I
Speaker 2: live with Belcrow. With my kids, I'm not tying their shoes.
Speaker 1: Oh no, She's like, you're going to learn that. She's
Speaker 1: like kids, She's like, that's a cheat. You're gonna learn
Speaker 1: to tie your shoes.
Speaker 2: It's not for them. It's not for them. It's for me.
Speaker 2: For them, but those there's no there's no way for
Speaker 2: me to even double knot that. Ledger can't undo like
Speaker 2: he is, so he'll.
Speaker 1: Hole or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: He'll sit there in his car seat and just get
Speaker 2: it until he finally gets that thing out. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 2: Lappy killed me. That name of his computer killed me.
Speaker 2: I just I felt like it was like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it gave.
Speaker 1: Me the I know what you mean. It's it's such
Speaker 1: a it's such a basic trope. Yes, where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite shoe shoey Like it's like, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: that's I get it. Like they should have named it
Speaker 1: something else, like chuck something so weird.
Speaker 2: Yes, but Laughy was like I don't know it just
Speaker 2: I yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: First of all, I love the little Easter egg of
Speaker 2: Splash Mountain, like this is its Splash Mountain.
Speaker 1: He didn't you hear that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he mentioned it at some point when they're in
Speaker 2: the sleigh. Then the next thing happens, which was so weird.
Speaker 2: The soup in the hands when he's got like the
Speaker 2: dinner and he's holding it in his hands while there,
Speaker 2: and then the sleigh starts free falling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where does it go?
Speaker 2: Because he's holding on for dear life and then he
Speaker 2: picked it back up. I thought you were you would
Speaker 2: like fully be annoyed with that because it was like
Speaker 2: you can't lose it, or you lose it forever and
Speaker 2: it's gone.
Speaker 1: It was weird, you know, it was weird.
Speaker 2: And then though second to last thing is okay, I
Speaker 2: thought you were gonna say this too. The last time
Speaker 2: the like villain nerves right, see him go, he's in
Speaker 2: a Santa suit at a bus stop and he jumps
Speaker 2: on the bus. That's the last time they see him.
Speaker 2: Then the next time they see him, he's at a
Speaker 2: bus stop in a Santa suit. How were they not, Like.
Speaker 1: I don't they know he's somewhere around just the one,
Speaker 1: the one villain was supposed to have seen him in
Speaker 1: the Santa suit, but he didn't see him get on
Speaker 1: the bus. I don't think. I think that's how they
Speaker 1: were trying to shoot it. Okay, yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: that was Like, no, no, I get it. It's still
Speaker 1: the last thing.
Speaker 2: What was with all the knuckle cracking at this movie?
Speaker 1: There was a lot of knuckle cracked, because that's how
Speaker 1: you show you're a bad guy.
Speaker 2: How do you show you're a bad guy? And I've
Speaker 2: never understood that. Why your knuckles tough? No, I don't
Speaker 2: crack at all, No, not at all. She also his
Speaker 2: little sister cracks her knuckles when she's getting serious about yeah.
Speaker 1: Because that's like the whole that's like the that's like
Speaker 1: the I'm prepared, Yes, there you go. I'm either going
Speaker 1: to beat you up arms.
Speaker 2: God, there was just so much, too much anyway, that's
Speaker 2: it for Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Says, well, thank you, and now it's time to rate
Speaker 1: our film. God, I don't even know I'm gonna rate
Speaker 1: this movie. I don't know. I still don't know what
Speaker 1: I think. But anyway, let's do one to ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's make five the middle they there, you go, like,
Speaker 1: we can do one to ten bomb Uncle Nick's Sweety Decom,
Speaker 1: Little Brothers. One to ten, Santa's taking a dump, don't
Speaker 1: pick that one. One to ten Reindeer Flues, Gray Killer Bees,
Speaker 1: Santa Gang Fights, one to ten twenty four hour computer
Speaker 1: shops except for the one hour that they needed to
Speaker 1: be open when it wasn't one of ten Hogwart homes
Speaker 1: or one out of ten Vanderlip Diamonds. What do you
Speaker 1: want to do?
Speaker 2: Reindeer flu We gotta do it.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be gotta be I think first last time.
Speaker 2: I'm okay to go first this time. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: I was so in. I love Christmas movies. I loved
Speaker 2: the creativity of something that I've never seen done before,
Speaker 2: as far as explaining how Santa actually can fly around
Speaker 2: the world and get all of the kids their presence
Speaker 2: for Christmas within such a short period. I loved that,
Speaker 2: and then it again, like I said, it kind of
Speaker 2: just plataued, And I feel like for me it plataued
Speaker 2: around the time we saw the Gangsters and the low Ride.
Speaker 1: It was just kind of like weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now the choices are feeling weird. And then for
Speaker 2: sure at the end, just the he comes back. I
Speaker 2: guess I was like looking for like some fist throwing
Speaker 2: or something. I don't know, like there was like nothing
Speaker 2: really like that about how the movie ended for me.
Speaker 2: And then really, oh, that was one of this. I
Speaker 2: didn't write it down. The guitar playing at the end weird.
Speaker 2: It I found it weird. I don't know if well.
Speaker 2: First of all, I wanted to ask you, did you
Speaker 2: feel like it was good guitar playing? Like does he
Speaker 2: know how to play? Is that a thing like he's
Speaker 2: a guitar guy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I guess able to do that. But it didn't
Speaker 1: look good. The fake guitar playing didn't look good. It
Speaker 1: was a very odd choice.
Speaker 2: Well, I meant like that's what I was saying. Was
Speaker 2: it good? Did it look good? I don't know what
Speaker 2: it goes bike. I don't know what good guitar playing
Speaker 2: looks like or not.
Speaker 1: I can't, Well, you do you do know that the
Speaker 1: one we saw in poof points point that was bad.
Speaker 2: Guitar, I was I could tell that that was bad.
Speaker 2: This I felt.
Speaker 1: I bought it. It just seemed weird.
Speaker 2: Like I said, like the end of the movie was
Speaker 2: just kind of like but it started off so strong.
Speaker 2: So and because I feel like the actors they really
Speaker 2: did drive it for a lot of it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just sit on a six point five reindeer flues. It
Speaker 2: was not a great movie. It wasn't a terrible movie.
Speaker 2: It was just kind of like right in the middle.
Speaker 1: For me. I think I'm gonna be kind of right
Speaker 1: there with you. I agree with everything he said. I
Speaker 1: love I mean love Brian Cranston. Love some of the
Speaker 1: lore they added to Santa Claus, to the character. I
Speaker 1: was cool. I do like cause again, if he hung
Speaker 1: out with them all night long, essentially Santa's there for
Speaker 1: like four or five hours, right and can still get
Speaker 1: everybody in the world their gifts right near to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I didn't. I mean, I guess he has to
Speaker 1: freeze time. I don't know, the not not actually freezing
Speaker 1: the frame and everybody like shaky is just a strange choice.
Speaker 2: Just a crazy choice.
Speaker 1: There was no real resolution. The movie just kind of ends.
Speaker 1: Any Maybe I won't steal anymore. Yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: a little lower than you, but not much. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give this a six Reindeer Flues. I just I didn't.
Speaker 1: I still don't know if I might have hated this movie.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think you hated it.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Again, I can't had this been anyone
Speaker 1: but Brian Cranston, this is what I would have been.
Speaker 1: This would have been at four or three. But it's
Speaker 1: Brian Cranston. So it's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: three spots just because it's Brian Cranston. And again, the
Speaker 1: other kids weren't bad. Josh was not bad, Josh was good.
Speaker 1: The sister was great. Yeah, it was it just the
Speaker 1: story at times didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 1: But it's Christmas, so six and a six point five
Speaker 1: are pretty fair. Yeah. Uh, And now we get to
Speaker 1: announce our next movie, which I'm very very excited about
Speaker 1: because it brings us somewhere we very rarely go, and
Speaker 1: that's current day. We're gonna be watching, so our producers
Speaker 1: can't stand these people. They hate they hate this trio.
Speaker 1: They hate this trio like you have never heard. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna be watching. I'm lying.
Speaker 2: By the way, the west one has literally known this
Speaker 2: trio since the beginning of their careers, and the other
Speaker 2: would do anything in the world to marry any one
Speaker 2: of them even matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, we got I'm guessing this is
Speaker 1: MICHAELA who wrote pick Double Teamed over this movie. And
Speaker 1: you know what, so would I? Oh, double better than this? Okay,
Speaker 1: they even know what I rated Double Team. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what. I don't even remember what I read
Speaker 1: it too. No, I didn't give it a two, but
Speaker 1: it was I Yes, this movie Double Teams was better
Speaker 1: than this movie. But it's Brian Cranston. Put Brian Cranston
Speaker 1: in Double Teamed. Oh my god, forget it. If he's
Speaker 1: both twins, he's both twins. Forget it? Best movie ever? Yes,
Speaker 1: but back to the movie. Yes, it's the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five holiday release, a very Jonas Christmas movie. This just
Speaker 1: dropped on Disney Plus and marks the return of Nick,
Speaker 1: Joe and Kevin to the original Disney movie. And it's
Speaker 1: got a bigger budget than we're used to. That is
Speaker 1: for darn sure. So go watch it and follow La
Speaker 1: la La La La. Come back next week and we'll
Speaker 1: find out what we thought. But first we've got a
Speaker 1: pretty cool park Opper episode which we teased, and by teased,
Speaker 1: I mean told you exactly who's coming on. We interviewed
Speaker 1: the first Jesse Pinkman of Twas the Night. It's Josh
Speaker 1: Zuckerman aka Danny Wrigley. We talked all about his time
Speaker 1: working alongside Brian Cranston and helping to save Christmas. Let's
Speaker 1: get a little preview of what you're in for. Brian
Speaker 1: christ was probably already cast, okay, and so probably said
Speaker 1: that I didn't meet, but I didn't meet anyone. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like I did a chemistry read or anything. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty positive I meant everyone. And yeah, we definitely filmed
Speaker 1: in Toronto and probably had a table readed and that's
Speaker 1: where I met everyone, and including Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: may have auditioned with Nick Castle though. He was super
Speaker 1: cool and it was a lot of fun to talking
Speaker 1: him and we got to talk about so many of
Speaker 1: his projects. Oh my god, you you won't be a Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely shocked to go on IMDb. This guy, he's been
Speaker 1: in freaking everything. It's really amazing. But yes, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be available on our dedicated feed this week. So all
Speaker 1: you have to do is search for a Magical Rewind
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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, goodbye bye