Speaker 1: When you were in I'm going to say middle school,
Speaker 1: since we're going to try to keep it real here.
Speaker 1: When you were in middle school, were you part of
Speaker 1: a small, strange click or were you part of like
Speaker 1: the large, cool, popular kids or were you totally friendless Sabrina,
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I'm guessing it wasn't.
Speaker 2: See, I wasn't friendless. That was really when I really
Speaker 2: started in the industry. So I was kind of in
Speaker 2: and out of a lot of different things. I was
Speaker 2: playing soccer at the time, I was dancing a ton,
Speaker 2: I had my industry dance friends. I had friends I'd
Speaker 2: made on set for like commercials, So I kind of
Speaker 2: had a lot of different things that I was kind
Speaker 2: of popping in and out of. I would say, as always,
Speaker 2: like us, dancers were kind of weird, so I guess
Speaker 2: that would be my like weird click at Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what about you? Was it your Was this the the
Speaker 2: the bike era?
Speaker 1: Yeah? This was dirt bike era and middle school I sixth, sixth,
Speaker 1: and seventh grade and part of eighth grade were pretty good.
Speaker 1: Then there was a straight up political power upheaval in
Speaker 1: the eighth grade class, Okay, and the kids that were
Speaker 1: cool and at the top were literally taken down. I
Speaker 1: heard one kid literally say at a party, it's time
Speaker 1: we take him down, as if it was a coup
Speaker 1: in some country. It was amazing. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into avon middle school falcon politics. Yeah, geez wow.
Speaker 2: No, nothing was happening like that in my era. But
Speaker 2: I would say middle school was rough for me. I
Speaker 2: And when I look back at pictures, I don't I
Speaker 2: remember feeling out, you know, my my body was changing.
Speaker 2: I remember it just being like rough, like it just
Speaker 2: I the boys didn't like me. I wasn't really. I
Speaker 2: was very short, you know, I just as opposed to now,
Speaker 2: as opposed to now where I grew that that you sprouted,
Speaker 2: you sprouted, You're huge, awesome. I was short. I was
Speaker 2: like four to nine for ten, What are you now?
Speaker 2: I'm five foot so it was like a three inch difference.
Speaker 2: But that was little compared to my friends, my guy
Speaker 2: friends that were doing these huge gross spurts. My all
Speaker 2: my girlfriends were their bodies were developing, and I just
Speaker 2: looked like a little boys like.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you know when you have five feet did
Speaker 1: the basketball coach Tretter curuit you.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I figured, perfect gymnastize, right, yes see,
Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. I was just curious
Speaker 1: because we got one today that really is a little
Speaker 1: bit about clicks. Yeah, and some of the stranger clicks
Speaker 1: and some clicks where I go, huh, that's never been
Speaker 1: a click in any school ever in the history of
Speaker 1: the world. But we'll get into that. First. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Magical rewind, the show that makes you want to
Speaker 1: grab your friends, your pj's and your popcorn and go
Speaker 1: back to a time when all the houses are smart,
Speaker 1: the waves, tsunamis and the high school's musical I'm Wilford
Speaker 1: all Brian and oh the movie we're talking about today.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, spit clean the mighty Apple Trophy until
Speaker 1: it shines, because we're hit the lanes, daddy O. Let's
Speaker 1: break down. Two thousand sports comedy Ali Kat's Strike, which
Speaker 1: was not about Cat's bowling. Part of me says, thank god,
Speaker 1: part of me was like, huh, I kind of wish
Speaker 1: it was about Cat's bowling. Disney made this dcom combining
Speaker 1: interests you never saw coming. Bowling and swing music, you know,
Speaker 1: two things kids In early two thousands, loved. It debuted
Speaker 1: on the channel March eighteenth, two thousand, my mom's birthday,
Speaker 1: and includes a young actress that would become one of
Speaker 1: TV's biggest stars just a mere seven years later. It
Speaker 1: was filmed in Toronto. The script also delves into the
Speaker 1: world of vintage clothing, and it's worth noting this was
Speaker 1: four years after the release of the movie Swingers, a
Speaker 1: film that helped repopularize big band and swing music and
Speaker 1: brought back the wardrobe and slang from the twenties and
Speaker 1: fifties which we'd sorely been lacking in the nineties. While
Speaker 1: many of the decoms we cover find themselves on best
Speaker 1: of lists or part of recent splashback intorrelevance, the truth
Speaker 1: is there's just not a lot about this movie ally,
Speaker 1: catch strike online. It's one of those completely forgotten films
Speaker 1: we stumble onto every once in a while and we'll
Speaker 1: get into what we thought about it. I don't you know,
Speaker 1: is it my favorite movie ever? No, but you know
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be forgotten. But anyway, the film did have
Speaker 1: a memorable soundtrack, though, and that included ska music from Fishbone,
Speaker 1: pump rock from a band called Squirt Gun, a pop
Speaker 1: song Pedal to the Metal from Hollywood Records, boy band
Speaker 1: Youngstown featuring Kel Mitchell of all People, and a plethora
Speaker 1: of swing and big band tunes from pianist and bandleader
Speaker 1: Bill Elliott and the Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra, which kids
Speaker 1: were just digging at the time. They weren't. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: no one's heard of him except people who were big
Speaker 1: Bill Elliott fans, and I'm sure there were a ton
Speaker 1: of them. Did you were you in the swing dance?
Speaker 1: You were a dancer, So.
Speaker 2: If a new dancing swing dancing loved it. I've loved
Speaker 2: the fifties era and vibe my whole life. I loved
Speaker 2: poodle skirts. I loved you know, that was like my
Speaker 2: favorite thing to do dressing up when I was younger. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: that was I loved it. And then when the gap
Speaker 2: commercials started coming out, it was like, Mom, how come
Speaker 2: they're not having any kids in these gap commercials because
Speaker 2: I need to be one of these gap dancers sowing dance.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can swing it a little bit. I haven't
Speaker 2: done it in so long, but yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Were you ever like have a partner that was like
Speaker 1: throwing you around and doing all that stuff like behind
Speaker 1: the back and everything.
Speaker 2: There was a guy at the studio that I was
Speaker 2: dancing at that him and I went and took a
Speaker 2: couple lessons and kind of would go to some of
Speaker 2: the It was it kind of infiltrated the Latin ballroom
Speaker 2: world at time. Bit and his dad had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a something in there, so we would go
Speaker 2: to those, but we would be with all older people,
Speaker 2: older older people in their their sixties and seventies that
Speaker 2: compared to us as twelve and thirteen year old, so
Speaker 2: people that were alive. Just him and I and we
Speaker 2: were like, you know, going at it and it was fun.
Speaker 2: It was a good time. But I love swing dancing.
Speaker 1: So that's great. I stopped shopping at the Gap because
Speaker 1: of those commercials. Now, wow, I'm kidding. It is true
Speaker 1: that Ali Cat Strike has been lost a bit to
Speaker 1: the test of time, but it did hold one very
Speaker 1: important record when it comes to its presence on the internet.
Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what that might be, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: No idea? Okay, you ready for this?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, Ali Kat's Strike was announced by Slate
Speaker 1: as the record holder for the longest movie plot summary
Speaker 1: on Wikipedia and know there is absolutely no reason for
Speaker 1: that whatsoever. Just a fan of the movie decided to
Speaker 1: write a forty two hundred and sixty six words synopsis
Speaker 1: of the film because they apparently had a ton of
Speaker 1: free time on their hands. Now, to put that into perspective,
Speaker 1: Saving Private Ryan, The Godfather, and Titanic all had summaries
Speaker 1: under seven hundred and fifty words. Wow, Shindler's List, which
Speaker 1: is a two hundred minute movie. There thereabouts one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety seven minute movie about the Holocaust, was broken
Speaker 1: down with just seven hundred and three words. Again, four thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty six words about Ali Cat Strike.
Speaker 1: It's important to give our listeners an update. However, now
Speaker 1: ten years later, it appears this has changed and the
Speaker 1: summary was adjusted to better represent the stylings of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: Some of us choose our legacies, others have it thrust
Speaker 1: upon him. Okay, Sarena, did you know anything about Ali
Speaker 1: Cat Strike before we watch this movie?
Speaker 2: I thought that I did, and I do. As the
Speaker 2: movie was going on, I feel like there was an
Speaker 2: older version with like older care, like there was another
Speaker 2: version of Only Nolly movie that I was thinking of
Speaker 2: or something, because I didn't recognize a lot of it
Speaker 2: except for the final bowl of them, okay, And I
Speaker 2: was like, no, this is the movie that I was remembering,
Speaker 2: so I won't give away because we're not anywhere near there.
Speaker 2: But when that happened, I was like, no, this is
Speaker 2: it because I remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, all you're gonna have to tell Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't wait. You want to take a
Speaker 1: guess on whether I've heard of this or not?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, of course not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you have actually, because you love swing dancing.
Speaker 1: Swinging swing dancing. This awesome. Do you bowl?
Speaker 2: I do? I love bully me too. I love love
Speaker 2: love bullying me too. I actually meant to wear my
Speaker 2: bowling shirt. I forgot to put it on when when
Speaker 2: I got ready, I do. I I love bowling. It's
Speaker 2: one of those things that I stopped doing for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: don't have time, And then anytime I go bowling one time,
Speaker 2: I'm bowling for the next like a couple weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like golf. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you ever bowl at Jerry's Pins in La? Of
Speaker 2: course as epic. It's so sad, it's gone right.
Speaker 1: You always told me that I was there you're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, there's no way that you were that lame
Speaker 1: in high school and bubblah. So I had no friends.
Speaker 1: I met one friend who was a year ahead of me.
Speaker 1: I think this was sophomore year. His name is Jeremy Conover.
Speaker 1: Shout out Jeremy, and he and I. He would pick
Speaker 1: me up in his caravan and because we could smoke
Speaker 1: cigarettes in his caravan, and we would go bowling every
Speaker 1: single weekend for an entire year. Wow, and we just
Speaker 1: kept trying to break two hundred. We finally both did it.
Speaker 1: We were so excited. But that was high school for me.
Speaker 1: Was bowling. And then I picked it up again as
Speaker 1: an adult and I was getting back into it. And
Speaker 1: then I dropped it for years. And then I went
Speaker 1: bowling with Danielle Fischel and producer Jensen carp I even
Speaker 1: forget what city we were in. Danielle decided to film
Speaker 1: me for my first bowl, you know, going and I fell,
Speaker 1: and she has it. I think she posted it. We'll
Speaker 1: post it again. I wipe out my first ever bowling.
Speaker 1: So did you.
Speaker 2: Hit your back or your front? Did you go?
Speaker 1: No? I caught myself. I caught myself going forward. But
Speaker 1: I fall on, fell down, and I looked back at
Speaker 1: her and she's just laughing hysterically while she's filming me.
Speaker 2: Oh, do you have shoes and your ball and your
Speaker 2: own ball?
Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely so.
Speaker 2: My parents were in a league and I found my
Speaker 2: mom's ball and her shoes, and immediately those were minds
Speaker 2: from them.
Speaker 1: You gotta do that, so rad, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun. But before any of you out
Speaker 1: there line up your own seven ten split, let's get
Speaker 1: into a briefly worded synopsis, because we're not going to
Speaker 1: go forty two hundred and sixty six words.
Speaker 2: Thank god.
Speaker 1: A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in
Speaker 1: an interschool bowling rivalry. What are your thoughts, Saberena. Did
Speaker 1: you like this movie or not?
Speaker 2: I did? I liked it. I loved first of all,
Speaker 2: we haven't gotten there yet, but the cast is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: There are so many familiar faces, just a ton of fun.
Speaker 2: And I liked bowling. I really did. I think it
Speaker 2: was a fun, differentferent different movie, different than what I
Speaker 2: thought we would ever really probably come across.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I I hoped for more. I did, because this,
Speaker 1: to me is like it's set up the school rivalry,
Speaker 1: you get a sport like, to me, this is the
Speaker 1: dance off, this is the you know, school against school,
Speaker 1: This is the surf off, this is the bike off.
Speaker 1: This is rad Like, oh man, I'm so in. And
Speaker 1: then it was kind of like, oh okay, it's a movie.
Speaker 1: Like it was just I wish they did more with bowling,
Speaker 1: with all of them learning how to bowl, with teaching them,
Speaker 1: but like make it like, you know, you've got to
Speaker 1: learn to ride the bike, you've got to learn the dance,
Speaker 1: You've got to learn that. So I was hoping for
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Again, the cast will get into
Speaker 1: the cast. They're all great, they've all gone on to
Speaker 1: do amazing things. To me, I didn't love this movie.
Speaker 1: I didn't hate this movie. It was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: watched I watched a movie. Yeah, I didn't have to
Speaker 1: stop its. I was bored, but I also wasn't riveted
Speaker 1: by what I was seeing on the screen.
Speaker 2: I definitely had to remind myself this was an earlier Yes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of.
Speaker 1: That post Johnny Tsunami and Brink Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, but I feel those were not those were more
Speaker 2: with those two kinds of sports. That was different. Those
Speaker 2: are a lot more energy entertaining, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: and so I think what they This one seemed more
Speaker 2: like a It wasn't a big Johnny tsunami. It was
Speaker 2: just the one that you know, comes the month after it,
Speaker 2: you know what. I feel like they had. They've always
Speaker 2: done these banger ones and then there's filler ones, and
Speaker 2: they off. This one was more of a filler one.
Speaker 2: But I liked it. I liked it nonetheless.
Speaker 1: I did it. I didn't dislike it. It just it's,
Speaker 1: you know what, it is, exactly like the Internet two
Speaker 1: weeks from now. I'm not gonna remember anything about this movie.
Speaker 2: Got it, okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like I can still wat I can still close
Speaker 1: my eyes and see zombies. I know. It's a bad example.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna remember Ali Kat Strike anytime.
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna have to disagree with that one,
Speaker 2: I really think. I mean, just the these young actors
Speaker 2: in it, A lot acts are great visuals. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna get rid of it.
Speaker 1: And one of them stole the movie, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into that. But anyway, Ali Kat Strike was directed by
Speaker 1: Rod Daniel, a TV director whose first job earned him
Speaker 1: three Emmy nominations as a director of the classics sitcom
Speaker 1: Oh Wait for It, because it's one of the best
Speaker 1: sitcoms of all time. W Kops and Snati.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: That's well, that's that's Oh my god. Les Nessman is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest characters ever. Anyway, he would soon
Speaker 1: after have a string of theatrical hits, starring Oh the Ultimate,
Speaker 1: Michael J. Fox, of course, The Juggernaut, Teenwolf, one of
Speaker 1: the best movies ever, leading to Like Fatherlike Son, Canine,
Speaker 1: The super and Beethoven Second. He's kind of a get
Speaker 1: for Disney at the time, though in all fairness it
Speaker 1: was later in his career, but still again and the
Speaker 1: movie stars. Here's the amazing caster talking about Kyle Schmid
Speaker 1: as Alex Thompson. Schmid was Toronto born, so a bit
Speaker 1: of a local hire who was known as the star
Speaker 1: of the Canadian Kids show I was a sixth grade Alien.
Speaker 1: He is of course recognizable to our listeners and my
Speaker 1: co host here as Derek in another d The Cheetah Girls,
Speaker 1: and would later be seen in movies The Pacifier, History
Speaker 1: of Violence, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and just
Speaker 1: to see her on the TV show and Cis origins.
Speaker 1: Were you and Kyle friends at this point or did
Speaker 1: you hate him for ruining your chances at winning the
Speaker 1: Disney Games and you're never going to speak to him again.
Speaker 2: No, Kyle was actually not at the Disney Games, but
Speaker 2: I was. I really liked Kyle. He was at a
Speaker 2: you know, obviously before even the Cheatah Girls, he had
Speaker 2: done so much and in Toronto he was awesome in
Speaker 2: taking us around. For me, it was my first time
Speaker 2: being eighteen on my own, you know, exploring a brand
Speaker 2: new city. So he was very cool to hang out with.
Speaker 2: And then as we would come back around to Toronto
Speaker 2: throughout the Cheetah Girls days, we would make sure we
Speaker 2: called Kyle and and would hopefully try to meet up
Speaker 2: with him when we could catch up. Yeah. Absolutely, And
Speaker 2: I mean following his career there after the Cheaterah Girls,
Speaker 2: I mean he's still working a ton. It's really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's somebody who you knew on the way up. Just
Speaker 2: really do well.
Speaker 1: I love this killing it. The movie co stars Robert
Speaker 1: Richard as Todd McLamore, an actor best known as Bobby
Speaker 1: Walker on the TV show Cousin Skeeter, but his resume
Speaker 1: is exceptionally long and he's still working a ton. He
Speaker 1: was in movies like Coach, Carter, House of Wax, and
Speaker 1: The Comebacks, while he's played big pivotal roles on TV
Speaker 1: shows like Meet the Browns, They're Rich and The Ruthless
Speaker 1: and UPNS one on one, And I thought he stole
Speaker 1: the movie. He is so good, he's so charismatic, and
Speaker 1: he lights up the screen. I thought he absolutely stole
Speaker 1: this film. All the way around.
Speaker 2: When we get into his character had me I like him,
Speaker 2: I hate him.
Speaker 1: I like that, which was what was so great about
Speaker 1: it because I think that's how you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: where he is, Like I'm trying to I'm the cool guy,
Speaker 1: but I got to be with this guy. But I'm
Speaker 1: also the athlete. But I thought he absolutely stole the movie. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then we have a refame very young Kiley Quoco
Speaker 1: as Eliza Bowers just two years before we should be
Speaker 1: cast as Bridget Hennessy on the TV show Eight Simple Rules,
Speaker 1: and seven before she'd become a household name as Penny
Speaker 1: on the sitcom Hall of Famer The Big Bang Theory,
Speaker 1: Quoco became one of the most recognizable and highest paid
Speaker 1: TV stars of the Oughts, and most recently started and
Speaker 1: produced the cable dramedy The Flight Attendant, and she was
Speaker 1: the voice of Harley Quinn on HBO's cartoon of the
Speaker 1: same name. Did you know she was in a dcom?
Speaker 1: I didn't know she was in d No.
Speaker 2: When she popped up, I'm go, wait, who, because she
Speaker 2: doesn't look exactly like you can tell as she grew her,
Speaker 2: like her face kind of transformed a little bit. Not
Speaker 2: saying anything weird, I'm just saying she grew up out
Speaker 2: of she matured her baby face into her mature face.
Speaker 2: So it looks like her, but until she really get
Speaker 2: into the movie, it's not an obvious I went on IMDb,
Speaker 2: like Fridaway, I usually for all the producer's stuff, to
Speaker 2: like check out that. I was like, I had to,
Speaker 2: I'm like, who is that? And then I went, oh,
Speaker 2: my gosh, because I love her. Oh love her.
Speaker 1: She is in a very roundabout way, but also in
Speaker 1: kind of a very direct way responsible for me having
Speaker 1: my dog Sammy, whoa So my wife follows her on
Speaker 1: Instagram and she works a lot with Pause for Life,
Speaker 1: and my wife found Pause for Life through her, and
Speaker 1: then we found Sammy and Pause for Life. Thank you
Speaker 1: Kelly for my dog Wow. And then we have Mimmy
Speaker 1: Paley plays Delia. She was first seen as Little I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, Little Buffy, It's Little Buffy Summers on
Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and would later appear on X Files,
Speaker 1: Malcolm in the Middle, and Entourage and a name I
Speaker 1: am very familiar with for a strange reason. Matt McCoy
Speaker 1: plays mister Kevin Thompson. Matt is a staple in TV
Speaker 1: and movies that you've seen for years and years and years,
Speaker 1: most notably as the husband in the Hand that Rocks
Speaker 1: the Cradle and as Lloyd Brawn on Seinfeld. But to me,
Speaker 1: he will always be the first Alan Matthews on Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World. He and I never met because there was
Speaker 1: a different Eric Matthews and a different Alan Matthews when
Speaker 1: they shot the pilot. He was the original Dad. He
Speaker 1: worked with the original Eric and what the world could
Speaker 1: have been if both those characters never change, you just
Speaker 1: never know how the world's going back. So it never
Speaker 1: aired that pilot, of course, But he was then replaced
Speaker 1: by William Russ, who was my dad when we went
Speaker 1: to series, but Matt was also seen on TV shows
Speaker 1: like The Nanny, Grace, Underfire, Silicon Valley, and a few
Speaker 1: late franchise Police Academy movies. He really is a character
Speaker 1: actor that has been around forever. We also get a
Speaker 1: small turn from Canadian local Laura Vandervoort as Lauren vander
Speaker 1: Volt would later become Kara Zorrel or Carrazrel depends on
Speaker 1: which version you like, or Supergirl for c W Smallville,
Speaker 1: and Lisa on the sci fi show V but t
Speaker 1: You and I, she will always be Chelsea in the
Speaker 1: d com Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And then we have the actors that play Mayor Maclamore
Speaker 1: and Kathy Macklamore, the parents of basketball star Todd Maclamore,
Speaker 1: who were actually married in real life, that is Tim
Speaker 1: and Daphney Reid. Tim was a WKRP star Awesome, which
Speaker 1: of course makes some sense when you think about the
Speaker 1: direc but you might recognize him from Sister Sister or
Speaker 1: the original IT TV movie, and Daphne was infamously the
Speaker 1: second Vivian Banks on Fresh Prince of bel Air, which
Speaker 1: was a controversial replacement for actress Janet Hubert. It is
Speaker 1: a stacked cast all the way. To me, it really
Speaker 1: is amazing people that went on to do some great,
Speaker 1: great things from Ali Cat Strike.
Speaker 2: Absolutely yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the movie we always talk about this. It's
Speaker 1: eighty eight minutes long, two minutes from the target. But
Speaker 1: as we say, we are on the right side of
Speaker 1: history when you're shorter rather than longer. Take of that
Speaker 1: what you will. It was written by Gregory K. Pinkus,
Speaker 1: whose first replayed was the movie Little Big League, and
Speaker 1: we've already covered his work as the writer of Quints,
Speaker 1: a d com that also came out in two thousand.
Speaker 1: Pinkus seems to be a fan of meta narration from
Speaker 1: his lead character, since we see this in both Quince
Speaker 1: and Ali Cat Strike. Do you like it when the
Speaker 1: characters turn and talk to the camera.
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I do sometimes sometimes it jars me.
Speaker 2: I love it in now how they I feel like
Speaker 2: the older versions had a harder time figuring out how
Speaker 2: to do it right. You jump to modern family and
Speaker 2: it's like perfect.
Speaker 1: Perfect, right, right, because that's like an actual interview totally.
Speaker 2: But the way it does it sometimes I don't unless
Speaker 2: it's the way it's going to be throughout the movie
Speaker 2: when it's just randomly, you know, like in Quins. We
Speaker 2: saw this in Quinn that was done multiple times but
Speaker 2: on purpose, on purpose throughout the movie, and I honestly,
Speaker 2: you know, it's just different. If it's not enough or
Speaker 2: it's too much, there's like a perfect Goldilocks.
Speaker 1: This breaking of the fourth wall is just right. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I liked it in Quins because it seemed like it
Speaker 1: was written to be like that. In Quint's this like
Speaker 1: it was put in as an afterthought.
Speaker 2: Right, like we shot the movie exactly like they shot
Speaker 2: the movie and went, you know what, that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: We need to kind of do an extra.
Speaker 1: Like it was a network note. The network came back
Speaker 1: and said, we don't like this cut, maybe explain a
Speaker 1: little more. Well, we can't. We don't have any more
Speaker 1: money to shoot. Okay, well you know we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna free frame it. We're just gonna dub in
Speaker 1: some voiceover. It seemed like kind of an afterthought this time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get in to Ali CAATs Strike and
Speaker 1: hopefully we won't roll a gutter ball boom. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be using a lot of bowlers. We opened, We own
Speaker 1: gutter Ball. We opened with some big bang swing music,
Speaker 1: and like so many dcoms before it, we get a
Speaker 1: tour of a teenager's bedroom, so we know immediately what
Speaker 1: we're into. In this case, we see bowling pins and
Speaker 1: an old, smelly, vintage bowling shirt. But it's somehow the
Speaker 1: two thousands. We get the voiceover we were just talking
Speaker 1: about from the boy while he gets ready for his day,
Speaker 1: and it's Alex from West Appleton. He and his friends
Speaker 1: all dressed up like hipcats and a gag commercial from
Speaker 1: the time, and walking out of an old fashioned diner
Speaker 1: taking to the streets. It seems like they've been told
Speaker 1: by this movie's director to look like they're having the
Speaker 1: best time of their lives, and it looked like a
Speaker 1: Mento's commercial. They are laughing and hanging all over each other,
Speaker 1: and that's when we meet Ken, Eliza and Delia his crew.
Speaker 1: You noticed this more than I do, but it was
Speaker 1: so front and center in this movie. What did you
Speaker 1: think of the wardrobe? Like, are you a vintage clothing fan?
Speaker 1: You said you said you loved the poodle skirts and
Speaker 1: stuff going up as a kid. Did you wear it
Speaker 1: when you're older too. Well.
Speaker 2: I first, when the first part of this movie came,
Speaker 2: I went, wait, is this are we going to have
Speaker 2: our first like time period piece?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Well, I guess maybe Xenons of the Future.
Speaker 1: But we also started in the fifties with the Amy
Speaker 1: Joe Johnson movie where she dies in the car accident.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I get but not a that's not
Speaker 2: that wasn't a d com right.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm going, wait a minute, is this gonna
Speaker 2: And I got really excited and I went, oh no,
Speaker 2: it's just these four.
Speaker 1: No, no, just these four, just the four of them
Speaker 1: looking strange. It's great.
Speaker 2: I would have a love that. I would have love
Speaker 2: love loved that.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, I like that. We've got Ken who's the
Speaker 1: music guru if the music is from fifty years ago?
Speaker 1: Eliza is a fashionista queen of the poodle skirt and
Speaker 1: Bobby socks. She's also a great bowler and Delia she's
Speaker 1: the brainiac, but not so good on the lanes. Now
Speaker 1: this is important because Alex's dad owns a local bowling
Speaker 1: alley and they go there in the morning to blast
Speaker 1: swing music and roll a few frames. These kids might
Speaker 1: just be living absolutely in the wrong decade. We then
Speaker 1: cut to the school day and we have a big
Speaker 1: outdoor pep rally for the basketball team, a ton of
Speaker 1: extras here like we've seen in so many decoms. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I've started to notice things like that
Speaker 1: when there's you know, more extras, less extras, we're inside,
Speaker 1: we're outside at all. It's like, Oh, I'm saying where
Speaker 1: we're shooting and when? Right The star players, Todd mcklamore
Speaker 1: and he couldn't be further from our dorky little swingers.
Speaker 1: Todd and his team are vying for the Mighty Apple
Speaker 1: Trophy regional bragging rights of sorts. If the Wildcats win
Speaker 1: the upcoming big basketball game against East Appleton, they tie
Speaker 1: up the fight to claim it forever because the trophy
Speaker 1: is being retired since the schools are combining. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny because we get questions asked of us, And
Speaker 1: one of the questions one of the producers asked, was
Speaker 1: is this a thing? And this happened in my town,
Speaker 1: The same thing happened. There were two elementary schools, Towpath
Speaker 1: and rowing Brook, and a few years after my class
Speaker 1: left they combined them into Pine Grove and got rid
Speaker 1: of both the schools, built a new one and it
Speaker 1: just became one big school.
Speaker 2: Mind did the opposite a giant high school, and they
Speaker 2: ended up creating a space. They took over what was
Speaker 2: I think it was some sort of school, was like
Speaker 2: a community college or something like that, right built on
Speaker 2: top of it, created another high school and split the
Speaker 2: high school in half.
Speaker 1: Which one was the cool one? Which one did people
Speaker 1: want to go to?
Speaker 2: They started calling the new one. I mean, the new
Speaker 2: one was brand new. It's gorgeous. It's the one I
Speaker 2: coach at now.
Speaker 1: A lot of but you didn't go to that one.
Speaker 2: He moved, No, he moved from Esperanza to yor Belinda.
Speaker 2: It was a big for a long time.
Speaker 1: So you went to busted ass high school.
Speaker 2: It wasn't at the time. It just it sort of
Speaker 2: became that a little bit for a while because really, yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of the head head of the departments and
Speaker 2: the athletic programs went to the new school. It was
Speaker 2: where the future seemed like it was going to be
Speaker 2: of the area. And but now both schools are thriving.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, opposite, how weird?
Speaker 1: We both have that we both had the opposite thing,
Speaker 1: so yes, apparently that happened. I also love how this
Speaker 1: the trophy is awarded for every sport, right because they
Speaker 1: talk about baseball and basketball, and he played for the
Speaker 1: tennis team. So this one Apple trophy is for every sport,
Speaker 1: which I.
Speaker 2: Have a Battle of the Boulevard trophy that used to
Speaker 2: happen between the two schools that. Oh, so there's like
Speaker 2: a battle of the Boulevard.
Speaker 1: I think it would have been cool if it was
Speaker 1: your Belinda and my Belinda, but they didn't do that anyway.
Speaker 1: The coach steps up, who looks an awful lot likely
Speaker 1: of Schreiber, takes the podium to hype up his troops,
Speaker 1: and mac More follows. He wants to see everyone at
Speaker 1: the game. Our voice over asks, how could Todd, Maclamore
Speaker 1: and Alex's life ever collide? I just don't see it,
Speaker 1: And guess what, that's what our movies about. Baby. The
Speaker 1: bowlers don't plan on attending. They're just gonna bowl. Then
Speaker 1: some of the basketball team approaches the crew, including Todd,
Speaker 1: and they gently start bullying our main characters, calling them
Speaker 1: strange dudes four times in a row, which is kind
Speaker 1: of strange. Delia fights back by saying she knows math
Speaker 1: and force and formulas and angles and could probably beat
Speaker 1: them in horse. I don't believe her, and neither should
Speaker 1: anyone else. Next thing you know, we're at the big game.
Speaker 1: It is crowded with a band and cheerleaders and some
Speaker 1: big game energy. We've got Sweet Glue from WWAP radio.
Speaker 1: He's calling the plays and West is down by eight points.
Speaker 1: Maclamore hits an easy layup, and then they mount a
Speaker 1: comeback with just over a minute left in the first half.
Speaker 1: This is where we're also introduced to Todd's parents, the
Speaker 1: town's mayor, Jeff and his mom, who was never actually
Speaker 1: mentioned by name in the movie, So we're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to honor the film's inherent sexism by doing the same.
Speaker 1: Maclamore starts to own the game, scoring the exact same
Speaker 1: layup two more times, leaving our squad down just six points.
Speaker 1: Going into the second half, we are back at the
Speaker 1: bowling alley. We see Alex's dad listening to the game
Speaker 1: on the radio while Eliza rolls. Delhia works on some calculations,
Speaker 1: and Alex helps fix the alley, which is apparently falling apart.
Speaker 1: Empty all the time and close to being sold. We're
Speaker 1: starting to get a view that this is really a
Speaker 1: business that is on the decline. Yes, vain holding onto this.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We also learn here that if the West wins and
Speaker 1: there's a tie for the trophy, there are tie breaker
Speaker 1: procedures set up, but since it's never happened before, no
Speaker 1: one knows what it is. Very cool little plot point
Speaker 1: to put in there. Keep that in mind. It will
Speaker 1: come back people. Now we jump right back to the
Speaker 1: basketball game. West is down by one point with three
Speaker 1: seconds left. McLamore has one more shot to save the day.
Speaker 1: In the stands Todd's dad, the West Appleton mayor is
Speaker 1: talking trash with the mayor of East Appleton and his
Speaker 1: name is Mayor Hamburger. Mayor Hamburger. Gonna say that again
Speaker 1: for everybody. He sadly is not part of McDonald's land.
Speaker 1: He did not beat out Mary McGee's, which would have
Speaker 1: been awesome. But Mayor Hamburger. Where does his name fall.
Speaker 1: It's still not Jackal Johnson, no, but Mayor Hamburger. And
Speaker 1: it's certainly not mister fister.
Speaker 2: But below them, but it's it is okay top ten, I.
Speaker 1: Guess Mayor Hamburger. I mean, come on, so we're at
Speaker 1: the buzzer now. Todd begs for the ball. Be in
Speaker 1: double team Todd, give it to somebody else, Give it
Speaker 1: to somebody else. No, I'm going to win this game.
Speaker 1: Todd takes the ball and hits a three for the win.
Speaker 1: We are now all tied up for that weird trophy
Speaker 1: that's the trophy for everything they do. This throws Alex's dad,
Speaker 1: who used to play for the team, into an excited
Speaker 1: fit back at the alley. He wants that trophy to
Speaker 1: stay in his town. He thinks it's the glue that
Speaker 1: keeps the community together. But the kids who are bowling
Speaker 1: do not care at all. They don't know why anybody
Speaker 1: would care about this. Then we're back with Mayor mcchee, sorry,
Speaker 1: Mayor Hamburger, and Mayor McLamore, who decides they'll figure out
Speaker 1: the tiber when they check the rules tomorrow. While Todd
Speaker 1: is going off to get interviewed by Sweet Lou and
Speaker 1: the Appleton News, but he seems very uncomfortable with the attention,
Speaker 1: showing that even though he's the star of everything, he
Speaker 1: has a side where he's like, I'm he's not a
Speaker 1: jerk about it, or he doesn't want to be a
Speaker 1: jerk about it. He might come off as a jerk
Speaker 1: to other people, but they've layered him in a way
Speaker 1: where he's like, I don't I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to be the best at everything. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go do the interviews like they made him real. And
Speaker 1: this is where he started to steal the movie from me,
Speaker 1: which I thought so easily be the two dimensional jerk
Speaker 1: Disney character. I'm the star of everything and your sports
Speaker 1: stupid and I'm the best. But they didn't. They already
Speaker 1: made him a little bit nuanced and layered. I was
Speaker 1: there for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now we're back at school and the victorious bee ball
Speaker 1: dudes are invited to cool girl Lauren's party, and she
Speaker 1: seems a little bit interested in Todd. But things, of course,
Speaker 1: quickly fall apart when the p informs them that the tiebreaker,
Speaker 1: which is the only option where both schools have clubs,
Speaker 1: so the only thing they can use is bowling bowling.
Speaker 1: How is that the only club both schools have is bowling, Well.
Speaker 2: It seems like they've they're tied in all other clubs,
Speaker 2: so it's.
Speaker 1: Just but you're making this up as you go along,
Speaker 1: aren't you. I can tell by your shifty eyes that
Speaker 1: you're making this up as you're going on.
Speaker 2: Well, because I mean, at least the bowling, because I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about what clubs they actually have at chess, right,
Speaker 2: you know, speech and debate could have maybe been a
Speaker 2: cool thing.
Speaker 1: That's it. You just exhausted the list.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't. I mean, I just I guess I
Speaker 2: did just have time to chess would be not a
Speaker 2: fun movie.
Speaker 1: No, so they had to do something. Did you have
Speaker 1: a bowling team at your school? We didn't have a
Speaker 1: bowling team.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't have a bowling team. I think I
Speaker 2: would have done I did. There was a bowling You
Speaker 2: could do bowling as a credit in the college I
Speaker 2: went to. You could do like a bowling class and
Speaker 2: say something.
Speaker 1: I know I would have done that in tuesdays.
Speaker 2: It was on nights. I couldn't do I remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because you don't say some type of pe thing anyway, Yes,
Speaker 2: that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Anyway, bowling. They're bowling now, and Mayor Maclamore is so
Speaker 1: mad he wants to sue the other school, or at
Speaker 1: least hold tryouts to find superstars of bowling in the
Speaker 1: student body, but the team can only include bowlers who
Speaker 1: had signed up for the bowling club at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. However, West Appleton did win a coin
Speaker 1: toss for home field advantage, so it'll take place at
Speaker 1: their local alley. And we all know now where this
Speaker 1: is headed. The principal meets with our bowling outcasts and
Speaker 1: they figure out that Todd maclamore was actually signed up
Speaker 1: for bowling clubs by his friends as a prank, which
Speaker 1: is the dumbest, weirdest prank ever in the history of
Speaker 1: the world, because how would he ever know?
Speaker 2: Right, I don't that. The only thing it did in
Speaker 2: a good way was lead up to the scene where
Speaker 2: he goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm on the bowling class that.
Speaker 2: We are prank for a job.
Speaker 1: Weird prank. How would you ever know? But it did
Speaker 1: keep Todd in the story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I guess it's not a class. He didn't
Speaker 2: sign up for a class.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever would have known that Todd had signed up,
Speaker 1: and they would never have told him like three years
Speaker 1: later after they graduated, like, hey, by the way, man,
Speaker 1: three years ago, we signed you up for bowling and
Speaker 1: nothing everything just weird prank. Hinda shoes or something. We'll
Speaker 1: figure it out at the alley. Though Alex's dad thinks
Speaker 1: this could mean a financial windfall for his business, Alex
Speaker 1: not so much. He likes it bowling isn't the next
Speaker 1: big thing, and apparently enjoys the fact that his dad
Speaker 1: needs to file for bankruptcy. We also find out that
Speaker 1: Alex's mom is away taking care of her dad and
Speaker 1: might just make it back in time for a big match.
Speaker 1: Keep this in mind, it's very very important. I'm lying.
Speaker 1: It means nothing to the story, and there was no
Speaker 1: reason for this in any way, shape orformed to be
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: No I why was the mom character there at all?
Speaker 2: Was she just in and out so they didn't have
Speaker 2: to explain a divorce or a loss of a parent
Speaker 2: like what I Also, if you want to mention there,
Speaker 2: just say, you know necessary.
Speaker 1: You know, kiddo, your mom would love to be here
Speaker 1: with you, but she's taking care of grandpa. I know, pop,
Speaker 1: It's no big deal.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's all you need.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need to actually come in because she doesn't
Speaker 2: affect his storyline for even slightly. He's not worried about
Speaker 2: his mom or no.
Speaker 1: Grandpa's fine, he'll he'll hop in here when he needs to.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. Then we go back to Sweet Lou.
Speaker 1: He is on the air at WWAP with Todd, who
Speaker 1: says he's already led the school to victories in basketball, baseball, tennis, football,
Speaker 1: and track and now I personally think you should be
Speaker 1: tested for steroids anyway. He doesn't think bowling will be
Speaker 1: any different. And again, if you are a multi sport athlete,
Speaker 1: you pick up sports quickly, golf, tennis, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen one of the most amazing videos
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my entire life is and I
Speaker 1: know people be like, well, it's kind of similar, but
Speaker 1: they videoed or they filmed Tony Hawk the first time
Speaker 1: he ever went snowboarding, and he went with like Sean White, huh,
Speaker 1: never been on a snowboard in his life, and he
Speaker 1: was doing flips and tricks and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, of course because crazy. So that I
Speaker 1: know people are like, come on, but that track. So
Speaker 1: you're that good an athlete. You can pick up sports
Speaker 1: quickly totally. Now it's time for Bowling Club's big practice
Speaker 1: with the principal Mayor Macklamore and Alex's dad. Watching on,
Speaker 1: we noticed that Alex's dad and the mayor have assorted
Speaker 1: history with a big sports mishap from their school days
Speaker 1: that they don't like to talk about. Alex is very,
Speaker 1: very good at bowling and Todd is, let's just say not,
Speaker 1: but he guarantees a one hundred score after some practice,
Speaker 1: not knowing the perfect game is a three hundred and
Speaker 1: one hundred actually stinks. He's way behind here, but he's
Speaker 1: determined to win that apple back at Todd's. His dad
Speaker 1: is really putting it on the pressure to win. He
Speaker 1: even calls may Or Hamburger, I can't even say that
Speaker 1: with a straight face and ups the anti. If the
Speaker 1: East winds, they'll get forty gallons of West signature applesider,
Speaker 1: and if East winds, they'll get forty gallons of the
Speaker 1: West's signature apple cider. If West winds, they'll get forty
Speaker 1: East Appleton apple pies. This is the biggest stakes in
Speaker 1: the history of sporting events. Amazing. What kind of cider
Speaker 1: is I love? I know exact what's in your cider?
Speaker 1: Bro is the cider to vac him? So curious?
Speaker 2: Forty gallons?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's world famous.
Speaker 2: Were you gonna give them too?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's world famous. We are now at Tony's
Speaker 1: Lasagna Heaven, a place I want to go that also
Speaker 1: appears to be a real restaurant in Toronto. Lauren also
Speaker 1: tells Todd she wants that apple trophy and that's not
Speaker 1: a euphemism. Believe it or not, Take that as you will.
Speaker 1: And we're now back at the alley and the practicing
Speaker 1: it is intensifying, but Todd isn't getting any better. Eliza
Speaker 1: offers some advice, but he's barely listening to her. He's
Speaker 1: confident he'll get better and asks Alex if he really
Speaker 1: gets his clothing from the back of the bowling alley.
Speaker 1: He says this with the same implied shame he'd use
Speaker 1: if he asked Alex if he murdered anyone. Alex says, nope,
Speaker 1: that's a lie. He gets his clothes from a catalog
Speaker 1: he found at the back of a bowling alley. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're starting to become friends. They're starting to rib each
Speaker 1: other a little bit. It's getting better. Also, this is
Speaker 1: not the only thing that Todd doesn't get. What is
Speaker 1: happening with the music going on? He's like, what is
Speaker 1: going on with this swing music. He likes the Backstreet Boys,
Speaker 1: Savage Garden, and Aerosmith, a grouping of musicians no one
Speaker 1: kid has ever liked at the same time in the
Speaker 1: history of the world.
Speaker 2: These two parts same time frame, big big bands of
Speaker 2: the same type.
Speaker 1: Of course, these two have to get along, though. If
Speaker 1: they plan on winning and there's only four weeks left,
Speaker 1: they should have made it longer. They should have given
Speaker 1: him a month. Alex finally offers Todd some help and
Speaker 1: his own vintage bowling shirt in hopes that a win
Speaker 1: could save his dad's alley. So now it's more about
Speaker 1: saving his dad's alley. He's starting to care about that
Speaker 1: as well. Todd also offers Alex a deal if he
Speaker 1: teaches him how to bowl. Again, we're seeing the Disney deal.
Speaker 1: That's a big thing, the Disney deal. Yes, if he
Speaker 1: teaches him how to bowl, Todd he'll will bring him
Speaker 1: to Lauren's party. But Alex, now the hot shot, possible
Speaker 1: Apple Trophy winner, gets an invite all by himself. Boom.
Speaker 1: All this as over at East they've recruited a big
Speaker 1: deal new bowling coach. Oh the East is pulling out
Speaker 1: all stops. East Appleton that night, Laurence party is going off,
Speaker 1: and oh my god, okay, so here, No, this to
Speaker 1: me was great because, first of all, they all look
Speaker 1: age appropriate. They all look like they're in middle school.
Speaker 2: Yes they do.
Speaker 1: It's great. And this to me so looked like a
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth grade party. Yes, I mean it brought
Speaker 1: me right back to Karen de Boor's basement. This the party,
Speaker 1: so it really, I mean it did it?
Speaker 2: Did it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, don't give me. It looked like a seventh
Speaker 1: or eighth grade party. And for the first time in
Speaker 1: a while, I was like, Okay, I buy that they're
Speaker 1: all in middle school totally.
Speaker 2: I think the same thing. And it honestly was just
Speaker 2: a few scenes before this and this scene that went,
Speaker 2: you know what, that's when it all came together, going,
Speaker 2: these kids are really in junior high. They're cute, they're adorable.
Speaker 2: The things that they're talking about the way they're behaving
Speaker 2: to each other is so perfect middle school.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I'm in For the first time, I feel like on
Speaker 2: a d com thinking these kids actually look this age
Speaker 2: that they're portraying. They're not, you know, looking twenty two
Speaker 2: year old.
Speaker 1: Is yeah, remember what was she twenty five when she
Speaker 1: was doing Yes.
Speaker 2: Sezip with it, Yes, Gotta kick it up, Gotta Kick
Speaker 2: it Up, twenty five years old playing in middle school.
Speaker 1: These were actually looked like middle schoolers. So yes, I
Speaker 1: was in. That was great. So that night, Lauren's party
Speaker 1: is going off, but Alex seems out of place. He
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to dance to hip hop, so he
Speaker 1: gets nervous and leaves. But on his ways home he
Speaker 1: stops at Eliza's, who is nervous she's gonna lose him
Speaker 1: to the popular kids, another famous Disney trope. The next day,
Speaker 1: at the alley, Todd is getting better, but he still
Speaker 1: isn't listening to Alex. Alex's dad is trying to ease
Speaker 1: the tention to but when Mayor Maclamore walks in, they
Speaker 1: insult each other over that mysterious past Ooh. The mayor
Speaker 1: announces it's going to be a four on four match
Speaker 1: with a possible substitute pinch bowler on the bench. Delia
Speaker 1: volunteers herself as a sub since she thinks she sucks.
Speaker 1: He also says the winner will now get a parade,
Speaker 1: which makes me think the mayor has a serious gambling problem.
Speaker 1: Why do the stakes keep elevating, Please calm down. Mayor mccheese, yes, Todd,
Speaker 1: like a real proper athlete, decides to go scout East.
Speaker 1: Appleton and Alex joins him on their bikes, leaving the
Speaker 1: old crew in the dust. It's kind of a far drive.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be through like picturesque streets,
Speaker 1: and the first cut they're on like a highway, so whoa,
Speaker 1: oh god, there's like cars zipping by them. This is
Speaker 1: a drive, right.
Speaker 2: I thought it'd be like maybe a mile on a bike.
Speaker 1: Right, which is you know, whoever wherever they're going to
Speaker 1: build the new school better be in the middle because
Speaker 1: some a bunch of kids are gonna have to travel.
Speaker 1: East's bowling alley is clearly nicer, and their players are incredible.
Speaker 1: They're all all star athletes in matching green jumpsuits, and
Speaker 1: their new coach is Whipsaw McGraw. The PBA Tour Championship,
Speaker 1: And do we need to add Whipsaw McGrath to the
Speaker 1: DCOM Hall of Fame alongside the Mayor.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that better than Mayor Hamburger whipsomgra.
Speaker 1: I just love hearing you say, Mayor Hamburger. That is
Speaker 1: going to be my new ring tone. A ringtone is
Speaker 1: still a thing. I don't know how that works. But
Speaker 1: eventually Alex is caught spying on the East, which I
Speaker 1: don't know how he got caught because this is hiding
Speaker 1: in plain sight behind that one plant. Yes, and Todd
Speaker 1: saves him from getting his ass kicked. They're loosening up
Speaker 1: a bit, but they're still bickering, and they decide to
Speaker 1: practice together the next morning. Apparently the kids don't actually
Speaker 1: go to school anymore, but that's okay. They don't need to.
Speaker 1: They got to win the Apple Trophy for the It's
Speaker 1: the one trophe, the handout for every sport, all the time.
Speaker 1: The next morning, the gang wants to teach Todd quote
Speaker 1: unquote style, so with a swing music montage in the
Speaker 1: movie's title song, Ali Cats Strike, they show him how
Speaker 1: to dance, have fun, and integrate all of this into
Speaker 1: his bowling.
Speaker 2: Probably one of my favorite scenes.
Speaker 1: It's a good scene scene. It's a good scene.
Speaker 2: This scene. It made me really just kind of go,
Speaker 2: this movie's cute.
Speaker 1: It is. I like it. I'm in it was fine,
Speaker 1: but this scene, this scene was good. It's like it's
Speaker 1: also like, dude, just relax, we're bowling. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: it's both. I liked the idea that with. You know,
Speaker 1: Alex is trying to teach Todd it just relax, we're bowling.
Speaker 1: Let's have some fun and enjoy it. That's how you
Speaker 1: get good at bowling. And Todd is trying to teach Alex. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's great, but you also need to want to win
Speaker 1: and strive to win. And and it's a good combination
Speaker 1: of the two characters. Yes, that was fine. It's not
Speaker 1: a problem. But so that's they're dancing, they're having fun. Uh,
Speaker 1: and is starting to get it. He thinks that if
Speaker 1: bowling can be sold with a fun party, including a
Speaker 1: light show in music, the alley can actually be saved. Alex,
Speaker 1: of course, isn't convinced, but Delia names the event the
Speaker 1: Bowling Ball very clever, and everyone is in. Todd uses
Speaker 1: his winning smile to get free party supplies and convinces
Speaker 1: Sweet Lu to promote the event, which will include lasers.
Speaker 1: Apparently they got free lasers too. Alex is a little
Speaker 1: nervous about the alley changing, but Alex's dad lets his
Speaker 1: son know he got his real estate license today and
Speaker 1: he's already drafting up a listing to sell the alley.
Speaker 1: This is all happening very fast for a new real
Speaker 1: estate agent who apparently doesn't even need some days in
Speaker 1: the job to start the profession.
Speaker 2: Also a lot to put on your kid, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't want to make this about me. However, if you
Speaker 2: don't win, there's a big chance we're definitely gonna lose it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right, I'm up to you.
Speaker 2: It's up to win this bowling game.
Speaker 1: Save our family.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I just both parents put a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure on yes, middle schoolers.
Speaker 1: Yes, as Plus I'd hate for your mom and grandpa
Speaker 1: to come back to I have no home.
Speaker 2: To have the fate of these of everything. It's just
Speaker 2: a keeps stacking and we're not even done yet.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we're not even close to the stacking that's
Speaker 1: going to come. Alex and Todd are now besties and
Speaker 1: are flying up the school for the bowling ball and
Speaker 1: the whole school is coming, which would be a good
Speaker 1: time to reveal to everyone that Todd is really starting
Speaker 1: to bowl like a pro, even though he can't hit
Speaker 1: the seven ten split if his life dependent on it.
Speaker 1: No one can because by the way of course, with
Speaker 1: all the amazing research done on this show, the producers
Speaker 1: have told us that the official odds of hitting a
Speaker 1: seven to ten split are less than one percent, accomplishing
Speaker 1: it roughly one in one hundred and forty five attempts.
Speaker 1: So maybe this isn't something you can really perfect. If
Speaker 1: you want to have fun, though, go down the YouTube
Speaker 1: rabbit hole and check out some people that have picked
Speaker 1: it up. It is a very difficult split, and this
Speaker 1: is exactly why I did not have friends in high school.
Speaker 1: Everything's coming together. The bowlers are even becoming popular at school,
Speaker 1: and Alex and Todd appear on Sweet Loes radio show.
Speaker 1: In all all the fun of promotion, he stands up
Speaker 1: his original friends at the diner. Oh man, he's making
Speaker 1: choices new friends and popularity over old friends. Another good
Speaker 1: Disney trope. Okay, so then his friends come out and
Speaker 1: they see him at all places Tony's lasagna. Haven't raging
Speaker 1: with all of the cool kids. Ooh. The next day
Speaker 1: of bowling practice, Alex isn't knocking down the pins. He's
Speaker 1: feeling the pressure, and the crew is mad that he
Speaker 1: ghosted them. But it's the night of the bowling ball
Speaker 1: and guess what there's lasers, lazers.
Speaker 2: Can you say it like that one more time for lazers?
Speaker 1: Ah? The alley looks great and they ditch the swing
Speaker 1: music for some rock and roll. The place is packed
Speaker 1: all night, and Todd bowls with his sunglasses on, but
Speaker 1: no one knows where Alex is. Another Disney trope. If
Speaker 1: you want everything to be awesome, change exactly who you are,
Speaker 1: yes sunglass. Todd takes to the mic and introduces Alex,
Speaker 1: who's now wearing a cool guy sweater and also sunglasses.
Speaker 1: He has officially changed into a douche and his dork friends.
Speaker 1: But after the event, Alex hears Lauren and her friends
Speaker 1: making fun of him. Once a geek, always a geek.
Speaker 1: They say, after the Apple Trophy, they won't have to
Speaker 1: hang out with him anymore. This hurts our little guy,
Speaker 1: and we hear very sad music. We're now cleaning up inside.
Speaker 1: Alex AND's dad have a really nice talk about the
Speaker 1: mighty Apple and how it's making everything different. His dad argues,
Speaker 1: doesn't have to make Alex any different, which is easy
Speaker 1: to say for a guy who just made a ton
Speaker 1: of money as a bowling alley owner. At the next
Speaker 1: day's practice. Alex is still struggling, but Todd is peaking
Speaker 1: at two seventeen, which is a darn good score in bowling.
Speaker 1: Mayor mclamour arrives with new Wildcat uniforms that are read
Speaker 1: and ugly and don't take into consideration any of the
Speaker 1: original club members love for a vintage or just bowling
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 2: It was just a T shirt.
Speaker 1: It's a T shirt. Yeah, help us out here.
Speaker 2: I would be disappointed with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spend some of that cider money, mayor, right, geez. Also,
Speaker 1: the Mayor still appears to be gambling. Now, whoever wins
Speaker 1: gets the naming rights to the new junior Hi. This
Speaker 1: man really needs to make some calls because it's intervention time.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the pressure finally gets Alex to snap and quit
Speaker 1: the team. He walks out, even with the team begging
Speaker 1: him to stay. Delia pretends to faint, realizing that she
Speaker 1: now has to bowl herself. Todd goes to Alex's house
Speaker 1: to apologize. I didn't understand why he apologized, but he
Speaker 1: goes to Alex's house to apologize and admit he likes
Speaker 1: bowling and their friendship. Todd says, look, they're just different people.
Speaker 1: He plays sports because he's good at it, but not
Speaker 1: because it's fun. He knows Alex loves bowling. If they win, great,
Speaker 1: If not, who cares, They'll have fun. Todd leaves, but
Speaker 1: he wants Alex to play at the championship and even
Speaker 1: got the team new vintage looking bowling shirts. And these
Speaker 1: are very cool shirts with an awesome logo of a
Speaker 1: cat on them. I would wear that shirt today. That
Speaker 1: would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Back in the house, Alex's dad reminds Alex that his
Speaker 1: wife and her dad are coming to the match tomorrow,
Speaker 1: a detail that everybody, including the director and the other
Speaker 1: people in this movie, I'm sure forgotten by this point.
Speaker 1: With his his son's bowling glemon mind, he solves the
Speaker 1: mystery that has been plaguing us to the entire movie.
Speaker 1: We don't know what had gone on between the dad
Speaker 1: and the mayor, and we're about to find out that
Speaker 1: when he and the mayor were on the West Appleton
Speaker 1: baseball team together, it was the bottom of the ninth
Speaker 1: and they messed up a double play. They both think
Speaker 1: it's the other one's fault, and it caused them to
Speaker 1: stop being friends. The apple changed them, but it was
Speaker 1: just them who changed. He says, letting it happen has
Speaker 1: been the stupidest thing either of them have ever done,
Speaker 1: and boom, a lesson has been learned, a nice way
Speaker 1: of saying, your friendship is far more important than this
Speaker 1: golden apple. It is now the day of the big match,
Speaker 1: and the alley is full of spectators. The band and
Speaker 1: cheerleaders and sweetlu himself are there for a junior high
Speaker 1: bowling match. Let's keep that in mind. But hey, the
Speaker 1: whole town is online. And then we've been waiting for it.
Speaker 1: Alex's mom walks in with her dad, who's on crutches.
Speaker 1: I like to think you hit himself at a motocross
Speaker 1: race during another dcom, but that doesn't matter. And then
Speaker 1: they go, hey, it's so good to see you, and
Speaker 1: then they walk away and we don't ever see them again,
Speaker 1: and it meant nothing. There was no reason to even
Speaker 1: hire these actors. What the hell was the point of this?
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for showing up to our bowling meat.
Speaker 2: We see the mom one more time, and that's it was.
Speaker 2: So it was pointless and anyway, no, so weird.
Speaker 1: The team is waiting for Alex, but he's not there
Speaker 1: the Mayor's team up to welcome the fans to the
Speaker 1: last Mighty Apple event ever and introduce their squads, and
Speaker 1: just in time, of course, Alex arrives. He's in the
Speaker 1: alley Cats and ready to roll. We're once again reminded
Speaker 1: of the substitute option. We're reminded several times of the
Speaker 1: substitute option, so we can guarantee that this is going
Speaker 1: to happen at some point. Yes, they did this, there
Speaker 1: was nothing subtle about And don't forget there's also a
Speaker 1: chance to substitute. And of course there's the substitution, but
Speaker 1: don't forget we could also substitute. Like, okay, I get it,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a substitution. Oh man, And now boom.
Speaker 1: Our match is underway and both teams are off to
Speaker 1: a start, hitting strike after strike. This is a very
Speaker 1: close contest. Everyone has brought their a game. East Appleton
Speaker 1: leads going into the tenth frame, but West needs three
Speaker 1: strikes from Alex to stay in the race. Now, three
Speaker 1: strikes in a row has a name called a turkey,
Speaker 1: and getting a turkey can be difficult, very difficult. First roll,
Speaker 1: Alex gets it strike. He then bowls a second strike.
Speaker 1: He's now in his last ball with his dad and
Speaker 1: also his mom for some reason watching on and the
Speaker 1: grandpa we know nothing about who hurt himself for some
Speaker 1: reason that has nothing to do with the movie. All
Speaker 1: are watching On as he bowls again, follow the ball
Speaker 1: down the lane, Boom, strike, three in a row. Everybody cheers,
Speaker 1: including his parents who again Mom and Grandpa no need
Speaker 1: to be there, but they are yay. But now the
Speaker 1: game's on the line and the East needs three strikes
Speaker 1: and they just cut three strikes together right click, click click,
Speaker 1: three strikes like they took nine minutes for Alex to
Speaker 1: do it, and the East High team did it in
Speaker 1: four seconds. Strikes in a row. What are we going
Speaker 1: to do? West is now down by nine going into
Speaker 1: the final frame, and Todd is the anchor. He just
Speaker 1: needs a strike or a spare to win. He's nervous
Speaker 1: and his winning attitude is starting to crack. He throws
Speaker 1: the ball and leaves no the dreaded seven to ten split.
Speaker 1: He's never hit any of these before. We know this
Speaker 1: is his weakness. He can't hit this. What are we
Speaker 1: going to do? They think we're going to lose, And
Speaker 1: then Delia speaks up the math, Whiz says she can
Speaker 1: make this shot. The crowd wants Todd, but he knows
Speaker 1: substituting Delia is their best chance. Hearkening back to the
Speaker 1: first game where he's like, I need the ball. I'm
Speaker 1: the only one who can win this. He's a team player. Now. No,
Speaker 1: he calls the ref over and removes himself. And it
Speaker 1: was at this point I just wish that they'd let
Speaker 1: us know that they were allowed to substitute.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't, I was I was what. I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: what where is that in the rule?
Speaker 1: What what he can substitute? Why didn't somebody repeatedly tell
Speaker 1: us that. Now his dad, of course, is furious, but
Speaker 1: Todd stops him and says, sometimes he's not the best,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, which is great. He sends his dad
Speaker 1: off to root for the team. He's like, Dad, go
Speaker 1: root for the team, not just me. Go root for
Speaker 1: the team. And again I thought this guy stealed the movie.
Speaker 1: Delia steps up, and, of course, being inside, she checks
Speaker 1: the wind. Don't ask me why she places the.
Speaker 2: Is that what it was? Condition?
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's the equivalent of doing the local weather
Speaker 1: for the football game that week when it's played in
Speaker 1: a dome. Yes, okay, it's gonna rain this week. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough on the team. Really, it's in a dome.
Speaker 1: That's the same thing, So of course she checks the wind.
Speaker 1: She places the ball on the floor, sticks one finger
Speaker 1: inside it, and starts to spin it around. Eventually, she
Speaker 1: pushes the ball out slowly, similar to how maybe someone
Speaker 1: will release a wounded duck back into the lake. It
Speaker 1: takes off down the lane and we're watching for what
Speaker 1: seems like ours. She smiles in confidence and gets up
Speaker 1: and just walks away as the it slowly makes its
Speaker 1: way to the pins, just spinning. The entire alley watches
Speaker 1: on it. That spins back and forth at a literal
Speaker 1: snail's pace. Delia doesn't even need to look at it,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of badass. She makes her
Speaker 1: way back to her team eventually after a very long time.
Speaker 1: At a comically long wait, the ball's about to hit
Speaker 1: the pins, but the voiceover freezes the action. It is,
Speaker 1: of course Alex again, and he admits that while he
Speaker 1: bowls for fun, in the end, he really wanted to
Speaker 1: win the trophy. And guess what he did. She hits
Speaker 1: the seven to ten split and West Appleton takes home
Speaker 1: the trophy once again without ever explaining how she could
Speaker 1: be substituted into the game. But most importantly, bowling is
Speaker 1: still fun according to his grandfather, who leaves without saying
Speaker 1: anything to him. Alex and Todd are congratulated by their parents,
Speaker 1: and Todd says the team shouldn't have to name the school.
Speaker 1: No city should have to lose their identity, so they
Speaker 1: all decide to pick Appleton Central Junior High. The mayors agree,
Speaker 1: probably both more afraid of their bookiy problems than naming
Speaker 1: the stuff. Anyway, we end the movie and the whole
Speaker 1: alley is swing dancing bowling and they're buying in the style,
Speaker 1: which actually includes Alex's sick grandpa pool queueing a bowling
Speaker 1: ball down the lane with his crutch. Alex suggests any
Speaker 1: beef can be settled in the alley, and there's your movie.
Speaker 2: Boom Man, my cheets are whoo.
Speaker 1: Oh what a game?
Speaker 2: What a game?
Speaker 1: With a match people? Oh Man had me on the
Speaker 1: edge of my seat. Now can I ask, since we
Speaker 1: got there, unless you're gonna do it in Sabrina Seas,
Speaker 1: what made you watching the last scene remind you that
Speaker 1: you knew this movie.
Speaker 2: The Spinning of the Ball. And I remember being younger,
Speaker 2: I mean not I wasn't in junior high at that time,
Speaker 2: but being in you know, probably a freshman sophomore and
Speaker 2: going to a bowling alley and someone going, we've got
Speaker 2: to try this. I've gotten the and it being like
Speaker 2: a thing that you tried the spin. It never worked.
Speaker 2: It never like talk about snail pace.
Speaker 1: It never come down, of course not. But she knew it.
Speaker 1: She had the physics so many times.
Speaker 2: The employees at some point were like, all right, you guys,
Speaker 2: you need to stop. It's not gonna work. You stop
Speaker 2: having us because they had to come out. You know,
Speaker 2: you can't go down the sides and push the ball.
Speaker 1: They have to come out. If you want to see
Speaker 1: one of the most amazing videos, and a couple people
Speaker 1: have done it now. It's it's a guy who he
Speaker 1: so he's adding a lane and he bowls a regular
Speaker 1: ball and as the ball goes down the lane, he
Speaker 1: then slowly spins the second one. Have you seen this? No?
Speaker 1: So the first ball then, so, now there's two balls
Speaker 1: in the lane, one going fast, one going slow. The
Speaker 1: first ball hits the pins explodes them for a strike
Speaker 1: while the other ball is still slowly moving. The whole
Speaker 1: pin thing comes down, clears the ally, resets all the pins,
Speaker 1: puts a new one on right as the second ball hits,
Speaker 1: and hits the second strike right in the round. Wow,
Speaker 1: it it's really cool. You should check that out. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna do some real reviews and Sabrina, you got
Speaker 1: the five star review this week. Can you read us?
Speaker 1: Can you read us? What's happening here?
Speaker 2: This five stars from Jerry M loved this movie. I
Speaker 2: will never forget the ending scene when the nerdy girl
Speaker 2: got both of the pins down and won it for
Speaker 2: her team.
Speaker 1: Same well said.
Speaker 2: And I really realized I've seen this.
Speaker 1: I have seen I have lived this movie before, is
Speaker 1: what Sabrina is like. I have lived this.
Speaker 2: It looks familiar, but I didn't remember anything at all.
Speaker 2: And then, oh my gosh, it's actually a big like
Speaker 2: younger memory for me, like a core memory, unlocked, unlocked
Speaker 2: where it came from. Well, that's where it started.
Speaker 1: I guess I have the one star and it is
Speaker 1: by our favorite one star, our favorite comment or named
Speaker 1: uhmous back it's unnamed, of course. The one star review says,
Speaker 1: I guess this movie didn't aim to accurately portray the
Speaker 1: sport of bowling, but this could have done a lot
Speaker 1: of good for the declining sport if they had shown
Speaker 1: that bowling takes a lot of finesse and skill and
Speaker 1: endurance and consistency. Instead, all talks about is modernizing and
Speaker 1: making it quote unquote fun. Putting laser lights and fog
Speaker 1: machines in loud music undermines the integrity of quote unquote
Speaker 1: real bowling. I sure wouldn't go there. I think you're
Speaker 1: reading a little too much into it in nomed I
Speaker 1: really do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, we did kind of feel
Speaker 2: like we wish we had seen more training.
Speaker 1: Yes see, I'm always down for training, But again, I
Speaker 1: am the person who does not like when they just
Speaker 1: pick up the instruments and know the song to keep
Speaker 1: you got it.
Speaker 2: Rehearsal absolutely pussed just over the nineteen minute mark, which
Speaker 2: is not something we are here for.
Speaker 1: No, we're good, We're good. We'll take that. We'll take it.
Speaker 1: We'll take it. We'll take the trade off. We'll take
Speaker 1: the trade off. We've got our favorite. Sabrina's favorite of
Speaker 1: our podcast. Now, our feature Hang four is back people,
Speaker 1: the game that originated with Beach Movie and came back
Speaker 1: for motocross is ready for an ally cat strike. Addition,
Speaker 1: to remind us of the rules, we'll get four terms
Speaker 1: associated with a sport, this time with bowling and according
Speaker 1: to bowling dot com, and we have to guess what
Speaker 1: they stand for. From a list of multiple choice options,
Speaker 1: three out of five wins.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Number one. Again, none of us know what this is.
Speaker 1: We haven't looked, so here we go. Number one. Cherry
Speaker 1: is cherry A when a ball is thrown so perfectly
Speaker 1: it's an instant strike on contact B to knock down
Speaker 1: the front pin or pins. See a red mark on
Speaker 1: your thumb you get from long bowling sessions or d
Speaker 1: the best snack to eat before a match. Ooh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say a.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say a. Two. There is because there is
Speaker 2: a way there. I mean, I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 2: professional bowler, but it does seem like you can hear
Speaker 2: by the sound and certain well it's.
Speaker 1: Called I know that's called hitting the pocket because there's
Speaker 1: a pocket between the headpin and the two pins behind
Speaker 1: it that you want to hit that's a strike that's
Speaker 1: called hitting the pocket. But never heard of cherry. But
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like, ooh, something's cherry, So I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it's something with perfect involved with it.
Speaker 2: A yes, A for me as well.
Speaker 1: It's b ah to knock down the front pin or pins. Yikes,
Speaker 1: Oh damn damn it. Number two hambone? Is this A
Speaker 1: the name given to a player who show boats too much?
Speaker 1: B A seven four split, C four consecutive strikes or
Speaker 1: D the best snack to eat before a match. Going
Speaker 1: with B, you're gonna go with B. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with C four consect because turkey is three, so it
Speaker 1: makes sense that it would also be a food product.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say four is hambone. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say you're gonna go B. I'm gonna go see will
Speaker 1: is correct? Guy?
Speaker 2: It is C four. I've never heard of it. I've
Speaker 2: never heard that they had like that was the thing
Speaker 2: for strikes.
Speaker 1: Get it possible, because you guys have never had four
Speaker 1: in a row and I've never had I've never done
Speaker 1: a hanmdbone. I don't think I've done a turkey. No.
Speaker 2: I feel like Jordan has and I haven't seen you
Speaker 2: know how they'd have a turkey come up on the screen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they always have never seen a ham bone.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'd like to like to point out,
Speaker 1: I've never seen Jordan. I don't know Jordans. I don't
Speaker 1: believe Jordan exists. And now he's this amazing athlete too,
Speaker 1: is great at everything. I don't buy it. I think
Speaker 1: you're making him up as we go along. And that's
Speaker 1: just the way it is, hid all right? Number three
Speaker 1: goodtingly good at my wife's like that Number three? Sour apple?
Speaker 1: Is it a a five seven ten split B A
Speaker 1: pin that refuses to fall? See the worst player on
Speaker 1: a team of four or d the best snack to
Speaker 1: eat before a match? One of these has to be
Speaker 1: the best nott would be.
Speaker 2: The sour apple? Would be me? Who is the worst at.
Speaker 1: All these worst at all these games? That's a that's
Speaker 1: a no. That's also the girl who just sits in
Speaker 1: a party. What's wrong, Becky? Nothing, that's the sour apple? Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you got?
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna keep trying to go. If I
Speaker 2: hit one of these number ones, go for a five
Speaker 2: seven ten.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's b A pin that refuses to fall.
Speaker 2: That's probably what it is, actually, but she's tied it up.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 1: It was a wo wow, one and one.
Speaker 2: Nice. I had to get a number one. Yeah, like,
Speaker 2: you just keep shooting.
Speaker 1: That way, you'll get it. Number four. A shleefer s
Speaker 1: C S C H L E I F E R.
Speaker 1: I think it's a shleefer is a strike where the
Speaker 1: pins appear to fall one by one, I think is
Speaker 1: what that means. B the air blower used for sweaty hands,
Speaker 1: commonly found on the ball returner CE four consecutive spares,
Speaker 1: or D the last name of the lawyer for the
Speaker 1: Professional Buller's Association.
Speaker 2: Of the Lawyer.
Speaker 1: There's only one exactly. Oh, it's either gonna be It's
Speaker 1: either it could be.
Speaker 2: The air blower. That's what I'm thinking, the air blower.
Speaker 2: I think it could be that one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with you.
Speaker 1: We're ride or die on this. I think it's the
Speaker 1: air blower used to sweaty hands. I'm so wildly proud
Speaker 1: that that is a fake answer and real it sounded
Speaker 1: is really it's one of my best pieces of work.
Speaker 2: I know, because the name of that thing.
Speaker 1: Is it just called an air just a blower? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the blower because it is such a slave, the sleeper.
Speaker 2: And they did it in the movie too, they did
Speaker 2: a couple of them did.
Speaker 1: By the way, for the record, it is now officially
Speaker 1: known as a sleeper. I'm just waiting, what is it?
Speaker 2: Thought?
Speaker 1: The pins appear to fall one by one? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and last, but notn't wait.
Speaker 2: When that happens next time. I'm wow, I'm going to
Speaker 2: walk back. Go oh, those damn sleeper.
Speaker 1: Such a shleefer. I'm trying to hit a handbone, but
Speaker 1: not with that shleefer. All right, so our final we've lost,
Speaker 1: but our final, damn it is a clean sheet? Is
Speaker 1: that a a scorecard before a game starts? Be a
Speaker 1: scorecard for a perfect game? See a scorecard where every
Speaker 1: spare was made? Or do a scorecard without any nacho
Speaker 1: cheese on it. I so want it to be d
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking it's going to be a scorecard for
Speaker 1: a perfect game because it's just exits all the way across.
Speaker 2: Right boom boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you guys are apparently golfers. This is a
Speaker 1: c This is what every spare is picked up. This
Speaker 1: is why I fail.
Speaker 2: Why would they have a term for that?
Speaker 1: I don't know what? What? What do you?
Speaker 2: Did you look up at all what a perfect Game
Speaker 2: card would be called?
Speaker 1: I just called the perfect Game really sorry.
Speaker 2: I didn't do any of that.
Speaker 1: I just I picked the ones I know you'll get wrong.
Speaker 1: They actually call it a chatting with you, Jensen. They
Speaker 1: call it a for Dell. It's all, oh man, Well,
Speaker 1: can we do some Sabrina ceas please?
Speaker 2: Yes? And there's a couple I can't believe we didn't
Speaker 2: actually get to within our stuff, but there is obviously
Speaker 2: so much bullying to talk about. This is now the
Speaker 2: third time we have had the wild Cats, which is
Speaker 2: right musical, yes, third time, and they're red and white too,
Speaker 2: which I just, I mean, this is Disney's favorite, like mascot.
Speaker 1: I wonder why where it came from.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't know if it was originally from somewhere,
Speaker 2: like if that's what was in high school musical the
Speaker 2: high school they used or what. But this is the
Speaker 2: third time, so I just that has to be set. Agree.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, did you notice I felt like almost every single
Speaker 2: time they were outside the VEO was so apparent.
Speaker 1: All of this was bad in this movie. I had
Speaker 1: to put on the subtitles. First of all, the music
Speaker 1: was too loud, and then they dubbed all the outdoor stuff.
Speaker 2: All the out agreed, even some that were indoors were dubbed,
Speaker 2: but a lot of the outdoor stuff was dubbed.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: There was there was one guy that was so hyped
Speaker 2: when they it just kind of made me giggle when
Speaker 2: they go when they show the team, we know it's
Speaker 2: not the characters haven't seen the team, but we see
Speaker 2: the team for the first time, the first bowling team,
Speaker 2: and the guy gets to strike and he's like like
Speaker 2: he go crazy, and I just like I had to
Speaker 2: just giggle and write it down because I thought it
Speaker 2: was so funny and over the top. And then my
Speaker 2: last one with the movie was they called our girl
Speaker 2: Kaylee Kaylee, Right, yeah, Okay, they call our girl Kaylee.
Speaker 2: Her character the queen of poodle skirts and bob socks,
Speaker 2: and she does not wear one poodle skirt her parapot
Speaker 2: sock in the whole movie. I was waiting for it
Speaker 2: because I thought her attire was super cute and very
Speaker 2: on her character, but they actually say what she wears
Speaker 2: all the time and never wore it once. And then
Speaker 2: the last one was the guy that stole the show
Speaker 2: every ting fule time. I'm looking at him, going, what's
Speaker 2: the I knew coach Carter, but I'm like, why do
Speaker 2: I feel like I've worked with him before? What did
Speaker 2: I work with him before? What did And then it
Speaker 2: popped up and it's a it's a dance job I
Speaker 2: did so long ago. I was little, like I was
Speaker 2: probably in junior high at the time. He was in
Speaker 2: a show called Cousin Skee or Cousin Skeeter. I was
Speaker 2: in the open the very first season, the opening credits
Speaker 2: of it as a dancer, and I'm wearing all silver
Speaker 2: and those those like getting jiggy with google headbands and
Speaker 2: so I went on and you can't really see me
Speaker 2: with the one I am, But so I was like,
Speaker 2: I've got a show. Lisa would love something like that,
Speaker 2: you know, like, we.
Speaker 1: Can't see you.
Speaker 2: You can't really because my hair is brown. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: really recognize me. They pop in and out. I was
Speaker 2: like a background dancer. But I do remember meeting him,
Speaker 2: him being such a sweet guy, and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. But it was funny because I'm going. I
Speaker 2: know I've worked with them somewhere, but where are we
Speaker 2: trying to know? That Randy background dancer of his fir
Speaker 2: his show's opening credits.
Speaker 1: That's all I got for today. Oh I love that. Well.
Speaker 1: Now we are to the point of our film where
Speaker 1: we have to rate it, and we are rating, of course,
Speaker 1: one out of ten, one being the worst, ten being
Speaker 1: the best. Here we go this week's options. We've got
Speaker 1: one out of ten old smelly vintage brown shirts, one
Speaker 1: out of ten, coach Leev Schreibers one out of ten
Speaker 1: West Appleton Applesiders and East Appleton apple Pies one out
Speaker 1: of ten, Mayor Hamburgers one out of ten, Tony's Lasagna
Speaker 1: Heavens one out of ten, gambling problems one out of ten,
Speaker 1: nameless mayor wives, one out of ten, Lasers Lazers, one
Speaker 1: out of ten very fast working real estate agents, or
Speaker 1: one out of ten slow moving balls. What would you like?
Speaker 1: Is that your pick? It sounds like it seems like
Speaker 1: that's your pick, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: That's why we could go.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna do one out of ten slow moving balls,
Speaker 1: and I think you went first last time.
Speaker 2: I did, so I will not sway me with my story,
Speaker 2: and I will just say that you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: So my here's look, it was fine. That's how I
Speaker 1: look at this movie. It was fine. There were there
Speaker 1: was nothing super special about it, but there's nothing awful
Speaker 1: about it. The acting was good, The story was muddled
Speaker 1: and a little bit messy. The one you know, the
Speaker 1: idea that it's one trophy, and it seemed like it
Speaker 1: was shoehorning in a bunch of things. We're gonna do bowling,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do swing dancing, we're gonna do vintage clothing. Again.
Speaker 1: I am going to I did not hate it. I
Speaker 1: watched the movie. It was a movie I'm gonna forget.
Speaker 1: I saw this movie a month from now. That's why,
Speaker 1: to me, this is a perfect five slow moving balls
Speaker 1: to me again, not a great movie, not a bad movie.
Speaker 1: And anyway, it's not like this was the worst movie
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, not at all. It just kind of
Speaker 1: I'll even go five point five. This is a five
Speaker 1: point five. This nudging a six only because the young
Speaker 1: performers were so good. Yea. The acting was great, it
Speaker 1: really was. This was a solid cast all the way around.
Speaker 1: So between five point five and six slow moving Balls
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna give this movie, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: I I like you said, I was in again this
Speaker 2: movie did because I was a kid that came home
Speaker 2: and watched these d coms. This was the time that
Speaker 2: I was watching them. And again there were bigger ones
Speaker 2: like Drink and but there were other ones that were
Speaker 2: coming on on the other weekend the months that that
Speaker 2: those big ones weren't. So I still have a big
Speaker 2: appreciation because these were the kinds of movies I loved
Speaker 2: watching and I took it for what it was. I
Speaker 2: do think it was way earlier. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: Disney has honed in exactly what a d com is
Speaker 2: at this point. The music was a little off for me.
Speaker 2: Some of it was kind of not the best, but
Speaker 2: I really liked it. I loved again watching this cast
Speaker 2: and how they're adorable and good they were and knowing
Speaker 2: where they all took their careers was just awesome for me.
Speaker 2: I just feel like that was like the dream back
Speaker 2: in the day. So I was really stuck in nostalgia
Speaker 2: on this one. And I'm gonna give it a seven
Speaker 2: point five. Oh wow, So moving Balls, I know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying with the other things. But
Speaker 2: at the same time this it swept me back into
Speaker 2: nostalgia with the swing dancing.
Speaker 1: I love bowling crazy, I.
Speaker 2: Love a Kyle, I mean, I love the rest of
Speaker 2: the cast. And you know that that that's my seven
Speaker 2: point five.
Speaker 1: There you go, Well, a well earned seven point five
Speaker 1: from Sabrina. Well, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Our next movie is going to be Stuck in the Suburbs,
Speaker 1: a boy band pop star life trading comedy from two
Speaker 1: thousand and four that apparently delivers some impressive frosted tips
Speaker 1: to check that out. And this week we are finding
Speaker 1: our way back to Zombies. We sat down with Meg Donnelly,
Speaker 1: the star of the massive Disney franchise, prepping for a
Speaker 1: new sequel soon. We were so honored to get her
Speaker 1: to call on the show. Really really cool royalty. So
Speaker 1: let's hear a little snippet of what you're in for.
Speaker 2: What was your actual audition process for this amazing movie
Speaker 2: that you ended up being the star of.
Speaker 3: When I was like, I had just turned sixteen and
Speaker 3: I was auditioning, and I said it like a self
Speaker 3: tape first, and then there was just a bunch of
Speaker 3: like chemistry. So like you go in person and it
Speaker 3: was a bunch of Addison's and a bunch of Z's,
Speaker 3: like all reading together, and we're all being mixed and
Speaker 3: matched and in like the waiting room, Milo and I
Speaker 3: even if we were matched up with other people, like,
Speaker 3: we were just talking to each other the entire time,
Speaker 3: and so I think they kind of saw that and
Speaker 3: then they paired us up together, and then from then
Speaker 3: on we were kind of like always paired.
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