WEBVTT - Flubber 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.600 On the beck Del Cast. The questions asked if movies 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.320 have women and um are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.479 and husbands or do they have individualism? The patriarchy zef 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:19.000 invest start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Caitlin, Yes, Jamie, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.680 we started this podcast many moons ago. I feel like 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.280 we weren't really honest with our listeners who we were 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.159 doing this podcast for, really, and so I just want 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.360 to take this opportunity right here, right now to say 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:42.440 we're doing it for wee bow Welcome to the back 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:51.680 dol cast. Um, yes, welcome. My intro was gonna be 0:00:52.280 --> 0:01:00.560 something like, um, hey, Jamie, I invented some green flying rubber. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.840 Do you want to come try it with me? I 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.440 hope it doesn't hit me in the head with a 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:11.080 bowling ball, and I go ALLEI there there the bowling ballsy. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.119 I mean, this is the flabber episode of the Betel Cast, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.360 So get ready for some serious discorse the bowling balls. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.959 I thought it would have been so much funnier if 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.880 the spy like guy if his head just like exploded, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.280 Like what is that movie where the head like fully explode, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.440 Well that's what would happen if a ball you're just 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.399 pulverized skull would be all over the pavement. Yeah, that 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.440 is I'm trying to think of that. Do you know, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.120 like the gift I'm talking about where someone's head Just 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.280 I don't, I mean probably I've probably seen that. I'll 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.960 think of it. Anyways. This is the Flabber episode of 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.680 the Betel Cast. This. I don't know if this has 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.360 really been a request. I feel like it's been like 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.600 a joke request. I don't think anyone's ever wanted this 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.280 to happen. Also, we should stay right at the top here. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.480 So this is the episode that is being released the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.760 week of the US election, and the reason if if 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.839 you don't know the read if you're if you don't 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.920 know the reason because you're like, what do you mean? 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.280 I love elections? They're so fun, you know, it's just 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.079 no matter the outcome. And that really didn't feel good 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:32.560 to say everyone's fucking exhausted and upset, and so we figured, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.640 you know, why not when not released an episode on 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.560 the Flubber. We're not trying to make you like, well, see, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.760 this is where it gets complicated. We were saying, you know, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.080 let's not make you be strenuous with anyone's brain this week, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:53.880 because we're usually geniuses, but like, let's not like choose 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.480 any material that is like really dense. But then it 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.839 turns out we for got so much of a flubber 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.680 and there's actually quite a bit to talk about. Well, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.080 there's a bit to talk about, but it's I think 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.480 totally upset you. It's not gonna upset you totally. This 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.799 episode will still be light either. And we are recording 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.600 this well before the election, so we do not know 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.800 two weeks the outcome. So this is either going to 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.919 be a we just don't know, I guess celebration or 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:36.560 away for listeners to escape the tragic result of the election. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.960 We don't know. But here, but here's flubber. We don't 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:47.560 know what's going on. Here's flubber. And so here's so 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:53.080 the backtel cast. If this is your first episode, change that, No, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.960 listen to this and only this episode. Oh that's really 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.920 fun that, I mean, it would be kind of mean 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.200 to us. But if like, you know, when someone's like, oh, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.200 I want to try this podcast, but it's been on 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.400 for a long time, what episodes should they start with? 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.400 And they're like the flubber episode changed with the way 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:16.200 I watched movies u um. The Bechtel Cast is our 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.800 podcast where we take a look at some of the 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.800 movies of the world that I've had a cultural impact, 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.719 and we look at it using an intersexual feminist lens, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.760 and we use the Bechdel Test as a jumping off 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:36.600 point for discussion. And I'm spoiling it. I can't believe 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.000 this movie passes the Bechdel Test. I'm actively upset by it. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.240 It's like, may I enter, Yes, you may like okay. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.880 I was like, I'm aware of a couple of different conversations, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.599 but I forgot to pay close enough attention. As per usual, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:59.000 there's a conversation between feminist icon we and feminist icon 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.279 Dr Sarah where she's like, hey Sarah, let me in. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:09.120 I'm a robot I can't use and Dr Sarah's like, okay, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.440 DOAK come in? And you're like, well, god damn it. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:16.400 Well if it doesn't pass the damn test, well I'll 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:22.799 be gosh darn't. Wait, Kayla. What is the test? It's 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.479 a media metric created by queer cartoonist Alison Bechtel, sometimes 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.800 called the Bechtel Wallace Test. It requires for our purposes, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.800 our version of the test. Two people of any marginalized 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.880 gender must have names, they must speak to each other, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.640 and their conversation has to be about something other than 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.239 a man, and that conversation must last at least two 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.279 lines of dialogue. Hey, Dr Sarah, let me in the window. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:56.479 I'm a robot. Okay, come in. Now back to talking 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.960 about Robin Williams and what a talks life partner he 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.520 is in this movie. I don't know what's going on 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:10.080 in this movie, but it's the Flabber episode Flabber directed 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.280 by Les Mayfield, produced by John Hughes, and it's We've 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.440 talked about John Hughes a few times on this show, right, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.080 I mean, we definitely get the Breakfast Club. But he's 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.440 come up quite a bit. He has a couple of 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.520 good movies and then it's really like deadlock between a 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.320 lot of movies for worst. And this is by no 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:37.479 means his worst, but it's since it's not very good. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.479 I think other of his movies are more competently written. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.400 I think this might be the least competently written movie 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.240 he's ever worked on. Right, he has movies that are 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:55.000 more problematic. Do adhere to store story structure a little better, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:07:05.400 whereas Flubber has third act problems the problems first act problem. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.360 The movie ends in the middle of the second act 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.880 and then it just kind of starts again. I was genuinely, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.920 I mean, you have a master's in the damn thing. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.000 This is sud film, But where is it from. I 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.320 would never bring this up on my own, so thank 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.520 you for doing it for Meg. You on a little yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.200 it is a master's degree in screenwriting from Boston University, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:37.840 not Medfield or whatever. This is only because it's not real. Also, okay, 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.280 this is fun. Uh. Friend of the cast Slash, one 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.320 of the closest people in my whole life, Julia Claire 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:50.800 is from Medfield, Medfield, Massachusetts. Medfield College does not exist. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.960 But I guess the reason this movie takes place in Medfield, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.600 Massachusetts is because Walt Disney's best friend is from there, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:05.320 and their use to be a like special tiny airport 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.720 in Medfield, so Walt Disney could visit his friend. And 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.680 that's the fun fact I learned. So to all our Medfield, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.280 Massachusetts listeners, they don't need to hear about Flubber from us. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.640 It's Medfield Cannon. Well, may I share my fun fact 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.520 yes please. So towards the end of the movie, Philip 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:31.760 and Sarah are trying to pitch Flubber to Ford Motor Company, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:37.080 and she holds up a sign with Philip's email address 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.200 on it, p Brainard at Medfield dot e du. Now, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.920 I took it upon myself to email you did that 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.240 email address? Did anything happen? I said, Hi, Phil, I 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:55.560 would like to buy some flubber please. He in response, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:01.520 I got this address not found peperin Ard at Medfield 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.720 dot e d U. The message was not delivered because 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.080 Medfield dot e du could not be found. There's no 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.040 such thing. It turns out that's a really hard way 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.200 to find out that they made up of college for 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.760 the movie. Like usually I forget who I was talking about? 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.439 Was it? Were we talking about this on a different 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.319 episode where it's like usually when there's like fake phone 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.960 numbers and emails, they lead some somewhere and it's usually 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.559 like donate here or like, ha ha, here's the movie's website. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.800 They couldn't even bothered, They couldn't even be bothered to 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.720 make up Medfield dot e d you for this movie. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.319 I can't believe this. Yeah, I think we talked about 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.680 we talked about that on an episode that is coming 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.880 out in the future post this episode. What if we 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.120 were like, what if everyone was like, wait, they don't 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.960 record live, Um, so you'll hear us talk about that 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.160 and you'll be like, oh my god, wow, there it is. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.480 So we don't have a guest today. We know we 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.560 don't have a guest. We just thought we would goof 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.680 around today because it's a tough week here in the US, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:11.480 and so you know, we wanted to speak to none 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.480 of it and hopefully offer you a little bit of escapism. Yes, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.640 so actually Flubber Flubber is our guest, and here in 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.679 spirit we have here with this flubber. Do you think 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.320 there's are flubber toys? It's so weird. There's like there 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.960 was a lot of I remember I had a Flubber 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.160 Happy Meal toy for sure. Yeah, that sounds familiar. They 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.400 had these like Disney Happy Meal toys where it would 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.560 be like the base of the toy was like a 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.680 va a fake v A just tape, and then on 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.439 top would be a little flubber wearing sunglasses. Oh I've 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.839 got oh Jamie, you're a little memory. Wow. I'm so 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.800 proud of myself. That's literally what it is. It's wearing sunglasses. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.080 I love when Flubber wears sunglasses. I will say the 0:10:54.520 --> 0:11:02.240 dance scene in Flubber Necessary is iconic. And there we're 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:07.600 big fans of super Flubber here and Flubber, and you 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.760 know how Superocky will do shirts that are like credits 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:18.000 in movies. I want a shirt that says Flubber Mambo 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.120 by Danny elf Danny Elfman. That was such a good credit. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:27.520 I like, is there it says like score by Danny Elfman, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.160 and then there's a separate title card that says Flubber 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.240 Mambo by Danny Elfman. Why is that its own thing? 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.560 I I wondered that too, and then I came up 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.960 with a theory, which is I feel like, if you 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.320 really make a point to single out a song, it 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.000 says to me, you're trying to get trophies for that song. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.319 Do you think they submitted Flubber Mambo for Best Original? 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.080 I mean it definitely wasn't nominated, but I wouldn't rule 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.000 it out. I like that theory. Yeah, I think that 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.600 they were like flabber Mom was gonna sweep it is 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.680 good that whole like, I love the Flabber dance sequence. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.680 I was still like, you know, we are like weirdly 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.880 gendering the flabber at one point, but but outside of that, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.760 it's a great dance sequence. The flabber turns into drums, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.679 the flabber turns into the horns the flabber. What can't 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.160 the flabber do? And that's the question we never really 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.400 get answered. No, you're right. I thought there was going 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.880 to be a lot of gender issues with the Flabber, right, 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.280 but it's really the Flabber ends up kind of being 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.720 genderless icon, genderless icon at one point where the skirt, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.439 but we don't really I mean, that could mean anything 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.160 that's true. So we're doing what's your history with Flabber? 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.480 My history with Flabber. It came out when I was 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.320 I guess eleven, so I was like pretty much the 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.520 target demo more or less. I was like getting to 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.480 an age where I mean, this was the same year 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.160 that Titanic came out as well. This movie comes out 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:16.760 mere weeks before before Titanic. Yes, and as soon as 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.640 Titanic came out, that was it for me. I watched 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.800 nothing for an entire year besides Titanic. But I got 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.720 a few weeks worth of a flubbering, so I seen it. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.680 Do you think Flabber was like the last movie you 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:34.040 saw before titan Like in theaters? I don't even know 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.199 if I saw Flubber in theaters. We didn't. We definitely 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.920 rented it. We never owned it on VHS, but I've 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.440 I'm so sorry. Yeah, I think we must have just 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.160 rented it a couple of times because my sister was 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.199 like eight at the time, and she would have been 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:57.800 I think, a little closer to the target demo. So 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.679 I had seen it a couple of times as a 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.960 probably like and I have not. I had not seen 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.320 it since then, so it was a pretty big cultural 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.080 staple in the late nineties. But yeah, I just I 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.840 never bothered with it again as soon as I discovered Titanic. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.800 Most people know about Flabber, but no one remembers what 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.040 happened in Flabber. It's very much like a Wes Anderson 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.440 movie in that way where you know what it is, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.040 and you remember three things that happened in the trailer, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.600 but you really are not able to answer any further questions. True, Yeah, well, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.040 what's your history with it? We definitely owned this NBA. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.280 But I have a very early formative memory of seeing 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:44.239 Flabber in theaters because I was my my brother, my baby. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.600 My brother was born shortly before this movie came out. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.240 I remember this was like he was, well, act, he's 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.400 born in April seven, so he would have been like 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.440 an infant, but not like the tiniest infant, like not 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.400 completely ridiculous to bring an infant to Flubber, but like, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.160 I see where this is going. So your mom brought 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.520 a baby to my guess is that me and my 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.040 cousins really wanted to see Flubber and my mom brought 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.720 a tiny baby and was like, let's see how it goes. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.320 But I was like, yeah, I was, I was four 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.360 and my brother was baby, and I just remember he 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:27.640 kind of wrecked the Flubber experience what with being allowed baby, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.560 and so I just when I it's this movie. And 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.680 then weirdly Eddie Murphy Doctor Doolittle, which I think comes 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.880 out in the ninety eight. I'd have to check that, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:43.400 but those were two movies about wacky professors that I 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.560 was really excited about. That my brother cried as a 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.440 little baby head off the whole time and ruined it, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.040 and so Ben ruined Flabber the first time, but then 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.200 we did get the VHS tape and I saw it 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.400 many times after, but I haven't seen it for uh 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.960 twenty years at least, Like I think that probably we 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.120 got Flabber n VHS. I watched it fifty times and 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.680 then I haven't watched it since. Sure, so there was 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.120 a lot I didn't remember about it, but I yeah, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.760 early early memory, me and me and Flubber and uh, Ben, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.120 if you're listening, he fucked Flabber all the way up 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.120 for the whole family been. Honestly, it's on my mom. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.200 She shouldn't have brought a baby to Flabber, but it 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.600 was worth a try. Maybe he would have slept through Flabber, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.840 but it's too compelling. He just couldn't get see, I mean, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:43.560 the bouncy, the flying rubber, he's Flabber. I think I 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.640 remember the trailer for this movie more clearly than the 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.160 movie itself, because there were a few moments that I 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.120 was like, oh, that's a trailer moment, such as when 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.440 he says it's Flabber. That's definitely in the trailer, or 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.960 when he says what a bang, that's definitely in the trailer. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:03.960 I didn't watch the trailer, but I'm pretty sure. And 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.080 then and then when what's his name Christopher McDonald is 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.080 dancing with the flubber, that's definitely in the trailer. And 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.800 then when the basketball player jumps with the flubber. There's 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.440 no women in the trailer, is what I'm saying. There's well, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.400 there's barely women in the movie. So poor Marshall Ghart. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.680 I didn't know who Marsha gay Harden was the last 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.320 time I watched this movie me either, And now that 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.200 I watched it, it was like in her career wise, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.720 it was a pretty early role for her, and uh, 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.159 we gotta get her out of this movie. Good Escaping. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.040 I know, by the way, Dr Doolittle did come out 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.920 in and it was directed by a woman, Betty Thomas. Wow, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.040 so I guess we have to cover it. I bet 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.040 that movie sucks, but I remember really, really liking I 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.119 have two formative memories that d do little, which is 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.200 first that my brother cried the whole time, and second 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.119 that because I would always go to movies with all 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.840 like ten of my cousins because my mom ran like 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.040 a fake daycare out of our house and so we 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.800 would all go together, and I remember someone got like 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.160 a roll of Starbursts and they were like just past 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.879 the starburst down the row, and for some reason, I 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.560 thought my cousins were unwrapping my starburst and I had 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:30.919 like four starbursts that with the full story before. But 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.800 I didn't realize it was that movie. It was any 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.000 Murphy talking to and it was so embarrassing because I 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:44.600 was like, ha ha, what a crunchy starbirsts my cousins. Yeah, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.880 clearly it hasn't effected me at all because I don't 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:54.560 even remember it happened. Oh my god. Okay, alright, so 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.440 should should I just do the recap and good luck? Yeah, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.639 I'll try to come in on the assist where I 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.280 can thank you so much. All right, First of all, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.879 there's an opening sequence that is very similar to the 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.120 opening sequence of Back to the Future, and we're like, oh, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.000 I guess you know lest Mayfield watched Back to the 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.600 Future and just copied it. I had not connected that. Okay, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.720 I do enjoy the opening of the movie, and a 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.960 Danny Elfman score cannot be denied. Unfortunately, Um so I 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.640 was you know, there are moments when on the rewatch 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.800 of this where I was kind of like dancing with 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.320 my dog. Let's say, I mean, there's a mambo, the 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:45.399 Flower Mambo snubbed the snub of the Century, but just 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.840 that that part where like you see all the robots 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.080 like making breakfast and stuff like that, something very similar 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.640 happens in Back to the Future. I wrote that down 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.520 is I think that that is safe to say a 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.240 full on movie troupe because I thought of two other 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.240 movies that happen and in that are not Back to 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.520 the Future. Oh wait, what also happens in Pee's Big 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.600 Adventure at the very beginning, and it also happens at 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.240 the beginning of Wallace and Grommet in a lot of 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.640 the shorts. And then I think also in the movie 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.120 where I don't I don't know what it says about 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.000 the movie other than like there's an inventor in this movie. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.760 That and the lengths that men will go to to 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:30.000 not do household chores. But it's like breakfast breakfast machine 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:38.760 is definitely some sort of movie length something something something 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:45.560 semiotics is breakfast machine semiotics. We don't know anyways, Um, yeah, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.639 he does have a breakfast machine. And then I immediately 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.720 tried to think of all the other breakfast machines that 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.040 I've seen, Well, we've got four. Four that's too many. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.880 That's a lot. Listeners. If you can think of any others, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.760 please in like a twenty years fan to too many? Yeah, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.879 that's true. Okay, So, um, it's two movies with a 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.679 Danny Elfman score. Sorry, what was the other one? Peewee? 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:10.960 I think so it was the Tim Burton movie Safe 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.840 to Assume, right, Yeah, anyways, continue, this is not important. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:21.480 So this breakfast machine belongs to Philip Brainard. That's Robin 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.960 Williams brain get it right. And yeah, if you're like, oh, 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.240 is this movie subtle? His last name is brain This 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:33.720 movie is adapted from another Disney movie. I think when 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.440 like every live action Disney movie that came out in 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.199 the nineties sixties except Mary Poppins, I was like, no, 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.240 thank you. Um, but it's one of those. So there 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.000 is a precedent for this character, right, but that doesn't 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.080 make his name less really bashing you over the head 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.359 of a mallet. So this movie, so the property is 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.800 based on a short story by Samuel W. Taylor and 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.840 it's also by st On the movie The Absent Minded Professor, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.359 which I did you We talked about this a little 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.159 bit before, and as soon as you mentioned it, I 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.600 was like, oh, maybe it's like right there on my 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.199 Disney Plus I'll hit play. So I watched like of 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.879 it just to like see if there's anything worth talking about. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.879 I watched clips and I was just like, m my takeaway, 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:29.199 I don't like it, but it definitely had I was 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.120 active the only thing I found in my research, and like, 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.480 I watched a few clips of it that I didn't 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.399 realize that there was. I thought that flubber wasn't a 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:44.600 nineties naming convention, but flubber it's been with us as 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.520 a culture. It's been there. Flubber has been there for 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.320 for you know, almost sixty years at this point. So 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.800 that's the thing about that, which means we're do We're 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:58.639 about due for another Flubber the thirty If the thirty 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.640 years cycle is true, gird your loins. We're getting Flubber 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.800 in the next couple of years. Honestly, it would be 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.440 an honor to be involved. You will be the most embarrassing, 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:17.080 like classically, this this moment in time mistake to be 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:19.960 Do you see where I'm going with this all female 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:25.720 rebit of Flabber. Okay, Okay, I don't hate it was 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.640 a woman in step. You're just like, please just let 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.359 a woman direct a movie. That's literally we didn't ask 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:37.040 for girl Flubber. Um. But would I watch it? Yes, 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:39.440 I would watch. But now that you mentioned it, we're 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:44.360 getting it. But hold on, hold girl Flubber, Girl Flabber. Okay, 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:50.800 I'll watch it. Okay. So anyway, so this is an adaptation, 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:55.040 which I didn't realize until I went on Wikipedia. Yeah, 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:58.000 I didn't know that before like researching for this right. Yeah. 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.480 The one thing I'll say about up amount of Professor 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:04.480 is that there is another female character who they eliminate 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:08.840 in Flubber because the Professor has like a housekeeper that 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.800 I think they replace with we Bow. I think they 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:18.000 combine a housekeeper and a dog into that was read. 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:21.320 I was like wow ee, wowee wow, where to where 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:24.880 to even begin? Or I think they turned the housekeeper 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:29.560 into Webber the other robot, and then the dog Charlie 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.560 in the first movie gets turned into we Bow. So 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:37.720 for everyone listening, if you I remembered there was a 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:43.919 robot assistant, I did not remember the extent that she 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:46.960 is involved in the movie. Then that how much she 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.880 wants to have sex with him. I do not remember 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:54.680 how horny, horny horny she was. I yeah, I remembered 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.879 that I did. Two things I remembered about her was 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.840 that she was a robot assistant and that she some 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.639 times played I remember that she played a clip from 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:06.240 Dumbo on her screen at one point, because she communicates 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:12.479 only in Disney owned clips, yes, which is like, uh, 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:14.480 fun as a kid, but as an adult kind of 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:20.320 embarrassing to watch. Yeah, exactly. So okay, let's sorry, where 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:24.320 are we know? It's it's it's no one's fault. It's 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:30.000 clubber's fault, all right. So um Philip Brainerd. He is 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:34.480 a science professor at Midfield College, which is at risk 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:37.960 of closing down because it owes a lot of money 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:41.399 or something. There's it's there in dire financial streets. And 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:47.480 then we learn by Philip telling his robot wi bow oh, 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.199 if he could just discover this new source of energy, 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:54.320 he could save the college. And once you listen, if 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:55.960 you're if you've gotten this far in the episode, you 0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:01.399 gotta watch flubber. Um. I didn't really lies until I 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.479 looked at the I had like scholarly journal Wikipedia up 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:07.439 as I was watching the movie and it said Jody 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:09.760 Benson as we Bow, I was like, wait a second, 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:14.120 Jodie Benson is Ariel. And then once you find out 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:16.720 that the voice of Weibo is the voice of Ariel, 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.359 you cannot unhear it, and you're just like, why does 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:23.919