Speaker 1: We normally do random preshow chatter about stuff that means nothing,
Speaker 1: but I want to jump right into this one, frankly,
Speaker 1: because this is one people have been waiting for for
Speaker 1: quite a while.
Speaker 2: I know I've been waiting for this one me too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've now said the title of this movie
Speaker 1: in the opening of every single Magical Rewind and I
Speaker 1: had yet to actually see this film.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Okay, so this is awesome. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not a shocker you haven't seen.
Speaker 2: It will of course, of course, of course, But this.
Speaker 3: One I was really excited for. But again, I love
Speaker 3: it because it was so long ago since I.
Speaker 2: Last saw it. It felt sort of like seeing it
Speaker 2: again for the first time.
Speaker 1: You know, this was right in your wheelhouse for the
Speaker 1: time you were watching right, like.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, And it was I mean, literally grab
Speaker 3: your popcorn type of a moment. It was so good
Speaker 3: I cannot wait, been waiting, and now's the time.
Speaker 1: Now, then let's just do it then, So welcome back
Speaker 1: to Magical Rewind. It is a show that makes you
Speaker 1: want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn.
Speaker 1: Go back to a time when all the houses were smart.
Speaker 1: The waves. Tsunamis in the high school musical I'm Will
Speaker 1: for Dell.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sabrina Bryant.
Speaker 1: H excuse me, Pat? Can you please let everyone know
Speaker 1: it's time to recap the fan favorite sci fi comedy
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety nine, Smart House, a genuine DCOM classic
Speaker 1: Little Do Thank you very much, Pat, Okay, we heard
Speaker 1: your demands, and we are, of course coming to the
Speaker 1: magical Rewind is getting a major technological upgrade with this
Speaker 1: dcom that first aired on June twenty sixth, nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and is regularly considered the best ever made. Absolutely and
Speaker 1: if you think I'm lying, the Entertainment Weekly list we
Speaker 1: so commonly speak of has Smart House at number one,
Speaker 1: and Collider the Ebert to ew Siskel has it at
Speaker 1: number three. Still very high, but also very high expectations
Speaker 1: here and as far as the subject matter, way way
Speaker 1: way ahead of its time, I mean, geez it, predating
Speaker 1: things like AI, Alexa, nest ring, VR and the overall
Speaker 1: technophobia that comes with having all those things. This movie,
Speaker 1: released originally as Fantasy, has quickly become our everyday lives
Speaker 1: just twenty five short years later. It is a rare
Speaker 1: cautionary tale made for kids. Especially from the Disney brand,
Speaker 1: and people still love it and it's much more relevant
Speaker 1: today than it was during its release. We saw the
Speaker 1: same thing with Pixel Perfect, so it's cool to see
Speaker 1: that the channel was well ahead of its time here,
Speaker 1: as it is with so many other things. Another rare
Speaker 1: feat the movie Ready was filmed in Los Angeles. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was actually LA and they actually used Taft High
Speaker 1: School as a shooting location, a school campus very close
Speaker 1: to not only my heart but my house. What you
Speaker 1: might not know is that Smart House is based on
Speaker 1: a short story by Ray Bradberry, the Michael Jordan of
Speaker 1: sci fi writing that centers on a few tristic house
Speaker 1: that turns on its owner. And there is a horror
Speaker 1: movie that just came out a few months ago as well,
Speaker 1: very similar to Smart House, produced by Blumhouse. We're gonna
Speaker 1: say house an awful lot today called Afraid but spelled
Speaker 1: giant AFR giant aid. I think with a focus on
Speaker 1: AI of course, in the world nowadays, and you can
Speaker 1: point to movies like Megan or Ex Machina or Her
Speaker 1: that are all very similar, but you could never make
Speaker 1: them jokes now because they're all terrifying and probably going
Speaker 1: to happen to us. Smart House is available to stream
Speaker 1: right now in Disney Plus using something like your Smart
Speaker 1: TV or Apple TV, two things that could eventually kill you.
Speaker 1: Who knows. We also don't know if you're gonna watch
Speaker 1: this first before we talk about it or vice versa.
Speaker 1: We don't know, but I'm guessing your Alexa does. It's
Speaker 1: completely up to you, all right, one of us has
Speaker 1: actually seen this before? Three guesses who Yeah, it wasn't me,
Speaker 1: but Sabrina has seen this before. But I don't even
Speaker 1: want to know what you thought about it watching it
Speaker 1: this time. Can you remember what you thought about it
Speaker 1: the first time you watched Smart House?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's exactly where I was the entire time watching
Speaker 3: this of going I remember thinking, could you imagine having
Speaker 3: a screen that would like really? I mean I had
Speaker 3: friends that had kind of different things, like little monitors,
Speaker 3: but they were buttons.
Speaker 2: They weren't screens.
Speaker 3: You know, Could you have like a touch screen in
Speaker 3: your room all of the things. Could you imagine being
Speaker 3: able to do that on your wall? Could you imagine
Speaker 3: just all of that.
Speaker 2: Kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: I remember when I was younger, going Wow, that would
Speaker 3: be unreal, and then watching it back I'm like, you
Speaker 3: can literally do it. How does Disney do this? They're
Speaker 3: like imagineers or just insane happen.
Speaker 1: Really, they really are predicting the future so many different ways,
Speaker 1: different times. They're way ahead of it when it comes
Speaker 1: to women empowerments, the technology, I mean, when it comes
Speaker 1: to LGBTQ stuff. I mean, Disney is always at the
Speaker 1: forefront of all of this stuff.
Speaker 3: Totally bringing up like could you imagine you know, like
Speaker 3: changing having big changes in that's say, well.
Speaker 1: If there is some great poet I forget who, I
Speaker 1: forget who it was. It might have been sueco I
Speaker 1: can't remember, but some poet who essentially said, the first
Speaker 1: thing you have to do to make something real is
Speaker 1: to first imagine. Yeah, and it's true. So somebody has
Speaker 1: to come up with just okay, this is this is
Speaker 1: the idea, and it's so out there and so outlandish.
Speaker 1: And the next thing, you know, hopefully someday we're actually
Speaker 1: gonna have lightsabers, so which would be just the coolest
Speaker 1: thing in the road. Still hoping, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Yes, keep it alive, will keep the dream alive.
Speaker 1: I know the week they actually invent lightsabers, because I
Speaker 1: will lose a hand anyway, So let's make sure that
Speaker 1: you're not logged into a chat room because we'll need
Speaker 1: to use the phone. Yeah, that's a nice nineties reference.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: It's time for the synopsis. A teenager wins a fully
Speaker 1: automated dream house in a competition, but soon the computer
Speaker 1: begins to take over and everything gets out of control.
Speaker 1: What did you think of this movie?
Speaker 2: I loved this movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, hands down. I loved all of the fun,
Speaker 3: different imagination, things that weren't invented yet. I loved the storyline.
Speaker 3: I loved the very emotional moments and seeing that we
Speaker 3: got I mean, all of it was just rounded out
Speaker 3: to being an incredible movie. I was ear to ear
Speaker 3: smiling the entire time. Loved, loved, loved this movie.
Speaker 1: That's great you.
Speaker 3: Didn't tell me you did otherwise I'm leaving right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing. Everybody had built this movie
Speaker 1: up and built this movie up and built this movie, okay,
Speaker 1: and then when I watched it, it totally worked entirely
Speaker 1: with the build up. It is a great movie. I
Speaker 1: think I have a new favorite, although Motocrosso because of
Speaker 1: the sports aspect, but this was so decom so wonderful.
Speaker 1: It had emotionality that some of the other movies don't do.
Speaker 1: It dealt with topics like loss and death, and it
Speaker 1: was really really good.
Speaker 2: And the masts in this killed it.
Speaker 3: The only thing I would say is not actually seeing
Speaker 3: Katie longer.
Speaker 1: You wish you could see like a fit. She is a.
Speaker 3: Goddess, if not possibly like an original cheated girl with
Speaker 3: all her stuff from Big Bundy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I believe we might go there.
Speaker 3: But that's the only thing I could say is I
Speaker 3: wish she was on my screen longer. I mean she
Speaker 3: I heard her the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the main I would say this, I would
Speaker 1: put one little caveat to that. The main cast is phenomenal, phenomenal,
Speaker 1: great to a person great. Some of the close friends
Speaker 1: and or bullies are not the best, No, not the best.
Speaker 1: But it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: It didn't matter. I agree, it did not matter, and
Speaker 2: it was greeny tiny flaw. It didn't matter to me.
Speaker 3: I agree with you matter, I kept I was the
Speaker 3: higher time.
Speaker 1: Agree with you one hundred percent. I had a phenomenal
Speaker 1: time watching this movie. I did not for one second
Speaker 1: need to pause it and walk out of the room.
Speaker 1: I didn't need to take a minute. It wasn't slow.
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking at my phone, I wasn't playing a game.
Speaker 1: I was watching this movie the whole time and thoroughly
Speaker 1: enjoying it. So smart House is directed by one of
Speaker 1: America's most beloved treasures. And this will probably shock a
Speaker 1: lot of our audience. I know it shocked the hell
Speaker 1: out of me because I had no idea when his
Speaker 1: name came on screen. It's LeVar Burton, that's right, Jordi
Speaker 1: from so many incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. And
Speaker 1: of course that's not all you know him from. He
Speaker 1: was the host of Reading Rainbow, a pioneering educational show
Speaker 1: that promoted literacy. He was the iconic Kuntakinte in Roots,
Speaker 1: a legendary TV mini series that was actually just his
Speaker 1: second job ever. And if you just see his performance
Speaker 1: in that, it is unreal. And he's appeared on Big
Speaker 1: Bang Theory and Community, and you can hear him in
Speaker 1: animated shows like Transformers, Rescue Bots where I got to
Speaker 1: work with them, and Mission Force one. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to directing, this was his first time ever. This
Speaker 1: is the first thing he ever directed. Was smart House.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't believe it because it's so good.
Speaker 1: It was great, and it had he had to do
Speaker 1: all the special effects, and it had a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different sets and it was really really great. So
Speaker 1: down the road he did end up directing some of
Speaker 1: the Star Trek episodes, Charmed and a dozen ncises as well.
Speaker 1: But yes, he was the man behind Smart House. Did
Speaker 1: you know that? Because I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I had no idea. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: It was great. Smart House stars dcom favorite and a
Speaker 1: vital teen bopper from his time, Ryan Merriman. Ryan is
Speaker 1: probably my second nobody is gonna beat. I mean, we
Speaker 1: know doll who Sir Jason is and Jason, and Sir
Speaker 1: Jason has been rightfully.
Speaker 2: Love me some Ryan.
Speaker 3: He's so good, such a likable kid, great in Luck
Speaker 3: of the Irish.
Speaker 1: He's just great in the actor too, I mean just
Speaker 1: act a good actor. So, as Sabrina just said, we
Speaker 1: know Ryan from his work in the Look of the Irish.
Speaker 1: Go check out our recap if you don't. But he's
Speaker 1: also movies like The Ring two, Final Destination three and Rockets,
Speaker 1: Red Glare, alongside a friend of the show, Daniel fishl
Speaker 1: and TV shows like The Pretender, Smallville and The Mommy's
Speaker 1: Alongside friend of the show Shiloh Strong and we Hear
Speaker 1: at Magical Rewind are definitely Merriman heads for sure. We're big.
Speaker 1: We're big, big fans of that Final Destination three? Is
Speaker 1: that the one that where I can no longer drive
Speaker 1: behind the trucks with the with the with the logs
Speaker 1: or was that number two?
Speaker 3: You know, all the three of those movies really meshed
Speaker 3: together for me. I'm just kind of scared of everything
Speaker 3: from those movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one where Ali Larder just ends up in
Speaker 1: a room, not just oh sorry, roller coaster, that's the
Speaker 1: roller coaster.
Speaker 2: The roller coaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love roller coasters, so I was really
Speaker 3: upset with that.
Speaker 1: I love driving behind trucks that toe lumber, and I
Speaker 1: can't do that anymore. That was like my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: I used to just do that all the time. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Ryan Merriman. Katie Folding plays his sister, Angie,
Speaker 1: and she's another familiar name for our listeners because she
Speaker 1: is the star of.
Speaker 2: Brink Ing the Jerk Sister, which she is not in this.
Speaker 1: She's not.
Speaker 3: She's great in this in this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. She also played Katie on the short lived t
Speaker 1: G I Have Showed Teen Angel and starred in the
Speaker 1: TV movie trilogy OH Pair one, two and three, written
Speaker 1: by friend of Pod Meets World, Jeffrey Sherman. Katie left
Speaker 1: the entertainment business in two thousand and five and is
Speaker 1: now a tattoo artist in Upstate New York, going by
Speaker 1: the name yet right, going by the name k T
Speaker 1: Steyer Styler. I want to get that right, s t
Speaker 1: I e h l e R. And her Instagram account
Speaker 1: is at kt V t A t t o o
Speaker 1: e R or Katie V Tattooer if you want to
Speaker 1: go check out her work. So, the little girl from
Speaker 1: Brink and Smart House is a tattoo artist.
Speaker 2: Now can you imagine? You think she has like sleeves.
Speaker 1: And maybe we'll have to check. We'll have to check.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that actress Brie Larsen auditioned for
Speaker 1: this role, and that's not the first time we have
Speaker 1: said that about a d com. Kevin Kilner is the
Speaker 1: veteran actor playing their widowed dad, Nick Cooper. He has
Speaker 1: well over one hundred credits on IMDb, but some highlights
Speaker 1: include TV shows, like One Tree Hill Earth, Final Conflict
Speaker 1: and Almost Perfect, and movies like a Cinderella Story with
Speaker 1: Hillary Duff and Raising Helen Jessica Stein plays Sarah, the
Speaker 1: tech wuiz in charge of Smart House. Stein was Jennifer
Speaker 1: Pilot Chase and many iterations of Captain Power and The
Speaker 1: Soldiers of the Future, but is best known as Lisa's
Speaker 1: stillman on the TV show Heartland. She also appeared in
Speaker 1: movies like Slapshot two. They made a Slapshot two and Armageddon,
Speaker 1: where she was great, and a ton of TV shows
Speaker 1: including Charmed, Flashpoint, and The Outer Limits. And she's really
Speaker 1: really good in this movie.
Speaker 2: Oh she's so sweet eye.
Speaker 1: Like and the acting was spotted. They were all just
Speaker 1: really good. They're very few, and we'll get into it,
Speaker 1: but very few of these actors. Sometimes you get actors
Speaker 1: that treat it like a d com if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: The acting becomes bigger. It's because, well, it's just a kid.
Speaker 1: They kept this grounded and it worked great, so good.
Speaker 1: And in the Coleman Reynolds chair this we've got a
Speaker 1: very recognizable voice and eventual face in the role of
Speaker 1: the house computer pat. It's Katie Sagal. She is a
Speaker 1: sitcom Hall of Famer for her time as the iconic
Speaker 1: Peg Bundy and Married with Children for eleven seasons, a
Speaker 1: role that earned her four Golden Globe nominations. She is
Speaker 1: also the voice behind Tarangaalela on Futurama, which is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite animated series of all time, and starred
Speaker 1: in the TV shows Eight Simple Rules and Sons of Anarchy,
Speaker 1: which did finally winner that Golden Globe. She is also
Speaker 1: in one of my favorite movies of all time, Pitch
Speaker 1: Perfect two Shout out to my Bella's Also, Katie is
Speaker 1: a true legend who actually started her career Get This
Speaker 1: as a backup singer for artists like Edda James, Olivia
Speaker 1: Newton John and Tanya Tucker. Wow. It runs eighty two minutes,
Speaker 1: which is eight below the target, but as we always say,
Speaker 1: below ninety, that's fine, dy, We don't actually say that.
Speaker 1: We probably shouldn't start. I don't think we should. We
Speaker 1: don't need to trademark that because that's never been said
Speaker 1: before and hopefully we'll never be said again. Smart House
Speaker 1: was written by William Hudson. This was this is only
Speaker 1: credit ever and it was co credited with the d
Speaker 1: com Daddy and former guest and magical rewind who were
Speaker 1: hoping to have back the great Stu Krieger. So I
Speaker 1: think we could assume this was one of the scripts
Speaker 1: that he was talking about when he came on. Yes,
Speaker 1: he'd help, you know, but he also say that a
Speaker 1: first time writer would come in and they'd need somebody
Speaker 1: with the experience to come and kind of give it
Speaker 1: a punch and to help it, and and Stu was
Speaker 1: the man to always do that. So this seems like
Speaker 1: one of those to scripts he was telling us about,
Speaker 1: especially because Stu told us that this was his favorite
Speaker 1: dcom script that he ever wrote, because he did a
Speaker 1: ton of research for it, even visiting the NASA Jet
Speaker 1: Propulsion Lab, which is like, oh, I would love to
Speaker 1: do that on my playground, which is the reason we
Speaker 1: see so many inventions of the film that actually came
Speaker 1: to fruition years later. So go listen to our interview
Speaker 1: with Stu, because he's just great and entertaining. He is
Speaker 1: in the quote unquote, I don't give an era of
Speaker 1: his career, So he just was giving us all the team,
Speaker 1: all of it.
Speaker 2: All of it. What a great episode that was.
Speaker 1: That it really was interview he had so many stories,
Speaker 1: so no need to wait any longer. Let's get in
Speaker 1: to Smart House. We open on a typical suburban neighborhood
Speaker 1: with a paper boy in his bike, flinging newspapers under
Speaker 1: the front yards just using his hands, Sabrina not using
Speaker 1: it didn't have a launcher specialty eighties can in that
Speaker 1: everybody used. When he gets to a rather large house
Speaker 1: on the route, he throws the paper and we hear
Speaker 1: a computer voice inform him, young man in the future,
Speaker 1: please deposit the paper inside its designated target area. Then
Speaker 1: a very long robot arm pops out of the doorway
Speaker 1: and retrieves the newspaper. She alerts him that she'll be
Speaker 1: monitoring his accurately from here on out, and the poor
Speaker 1: little kid looks terrified. And as the title smart House
Speaker 1: appears on the screen, I'm curious, what do you think
Speaker 1: about the robot effect to start the robot arm, because.
Speaker 2: It wasn't great, But if you think about the time,
Speaker 2: but at the.
Speaker 3: Time, yes, that it's hard to kind of flip back
Speaker 3: and forth because some of this stuff was kind of cool,
Speaker 3: but the time to flip back and forth, and all
Speaker 3: I could think of it's.
Speaker 1: The claw.
Speaker 3: The clock really was kind of the villain of the
Speaker 3: whole movie, to be honest, it looked like she was
Speaker 3: a getting say and pissed.
Speaker 2: This clock came out.
Speaker 1: I was just like, Wow, it was Doctor Octavia's arms
Speaker 1: and it was pretty good for a d com in
Speaker 1: the nineties. Too bad wasn't great, but not too bad
Speaker 1: for a dcom in the nineties. Yea. Now inside the house,
Speaker 1: the robot arm releases the paper to Miles and Sarah,
Speaker 1: a businessman and woman, happy to see the home was
Speaker 1: written about in the new issue. Miles thinks it's because
Speaker 1: the writer has a crush on Sarah, and Sarah says
Speaker 1: she's too busy to care. I was absolutely convinced right
Speaker 1: off the bat this was a married couple, saying acted
Speaker 1: like a married couple. They were in the house like
Speaker 1: a married couple. I just thought they were a married couple,
Speaker 1: so they seemed to be romantically linked. But this is
Speaker 1: something that never then came up again in the movie.
Speaker 1: Apparently they just work together. Sarah is going to become
Speaker 1: the love.
Speaker 2: Interest of completely what it seems like you.
Speaker 1: But it was really weird vibes to start with. I
Speaker 1: I kind of don't almost feel like they should have
Speaker 1: rewritten it, and it should have been another woman in
Speaker 1: the in the nineties, you wouldn't nowadays that can mean anything.
Speaker 1: In the nineties on television, have instantly thought that they
Speaker 1: could have been a couple. Where is this the way
Speaker 1: they said that.
Speaker 3: He also had these weird glasses that I thought they
Speaker 3: were going to explain. I thought maybe he was like
Speaker 3: reading like a newspaper within the glasses or something, but
Speaker 3: instead they were just an oddly lensed colored glasses. They
Speaker 3: never explained or.
Speaker 1: Him at all. Really, yeah, he was not explained at all.
Speaker 1: I got those vibes that they were a couple. It
Speaker 1: was weird. But anyway, we find out that Miles and
Speaker 1: Sarah are the masterminds behind this technologically advanced home, which,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here looks very nineties normal on the inside.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just the house was smart, but
Speaker 1: they kept it looking like it was house. I was
Speaker 1: wondering giant it was, But do you think it could
Speaker 1: have used some futuristic stuff on the inside.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, But I mean I feel when they've gone
Speaker 3: when when the set designers have gone too far, it
Speaker 3: starts to look very comic bookie, very like to me.
Speaker 2: Like poof point, So maybe that was kind of more
Speaker 2: of a you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wanted it to the house, but at the
Speaker 1: house does everything.
Speaker 3: When she was working on the control panel and then
Speaker 3: slides it over, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, yep, she kind of like velcrows it back.
Speaker 2: Really totally disappeared. No one would know.
Speaker 1: I agree it was nate. Sarah then asks pat the
Speaker 1: house computer, which stands of course for personal advanced technology,
Speaker 1: what the current temperature is, and the computer voice responds
Speaker 1: seventy two point five degrees with voice recognition, giving us
Speaker 1: the very first look at what would basically later become ALEXA.
Speaker 1: And now, when you saw this in the nineties or
Speaker 1: when other kids saw this in the nineties, do you
Speaker 1: think this was all this will never happen it's too
Speaker 1: zenon the get this Or do you think this is
Speaker 1: like I can't wait till this is real.
Speaker 2: No, for me, it was like, whow that would be
Speaker 2: so cool? Never gonna happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, whoa so cool? Yes exactly, even the moment where
Speaker 3: they FaceTime yes, yes, like that'll never happen. I don't
Speaker 3: even I remember not even believing it when they were
Speaker 3: saying iPhones were actually gonna be able to do that.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, yeah, whatever, Star Trek. They didn't FaceTime
Speaker 1: in Star Trek. They literally didn't even FaceTime in Star Trek.
Speaker 1: Miles says, of course, the house is a masterpiece. The
Speaker 1: only thing left to do is wait for a lucky
Speaker 1: family to move in and screw it all up. We
Speaker 1: are now in a smaller house. We meet Ben, the
Speaker 1: young man of the Cooper family, and he is making dinner.
Speaker 1: The rap song playing is repeatedly saying the house is jumping,
Speaker 1: but unless you think draining routini is a real party,
Speaker 1: the song is false advertising. The phone rings, it's a
Speaker 1: woman named Melanie for his dad. He takes the message
Speaker 1: and jumps onto his laptop to complete a report on
Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci. I almost said DiCaprio. That would have
Speaker 1: been weird. He then sets the table for his dad
Speaker 1: and his sister, then picks up his sister Angie from
Speaker 1: a sleepover, reminds her when one of my favorite moments,
Speaker 1: reminds her. Like she's walking out, He's like, hey, how
Speaker 1: about a thank you? And she turns around, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. It's like they're showing that
Speaker 1: he's helping to raise this kid. Yes, he's running a household,
Speaker 1: so maybe the house is jumping after all. Once home,
Speaker 1: Ryan returns to his computer to enter a contest, which is,
Speaker 1: of course, win a smart house. He has very high hopes,
Speaker 1: but jumps right back and feeding his dog and testing
Speaker 1: his sister on her spelling. Eventually they're enthusiastic. Dad Nick
Speaker 1: returns home from a successful business trip, and Angie is
Speaker 1: stoked because this means their dad can relax and focus
Speaker 1: on dating to find them a new mom. This instantly
Speaker 1: triggers Ben, who asks why we need to do that.
Speaker 1: They're already a perfect family the way they are. Nick says,
Speaker 1: even though they are perfect, there's always room for improvement.
Speaker 1: But Ben just isn't sold. They'll have everything they need soon,
Speaker 1: referring to this pipe dream contest he just entered. Let's
Speaker 1: see what happens there. Were you a contest person growing up?
Speaker 1: Did you ever enter any of these things? No?
Speaker 3: Anything I enter, I don't win. I have the worst luck, really, raffle,
Speaker 3: Really yeah, I just I can't. The only thing I
Speaker 3: think I've ever won was with my husband, who's very competitive.
Speaker 2: Was like, silentce, you.
Speaker 1: Won your husband, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: It was his silent auction type stuff where he's like
Speaker 3: gonna like pay tollion dollars over somebody else just to win,
Speaker 3: just make sure you want, which I don't find. I
Speaker 3: don't like that at all. But yeah, no I can't.
Speaker 2: I don't. Contests are just I'm like not lucky that much.
Speaker 1: I'm not much of a contest guy ever. But I
Speaker 1: remember having to call into radio shows to win like
Speaker 1: tickets to something.
Speaker 2: Did you do that?
Speaker 1: And it was and it was always busy. You just
Speaker 1: get the busy signal. Yeah, you gotta be a nice
Speaker 1: like that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't have patience for that.
Speaker 3: My friend Sarah, she wins things on the radio all
Speaker 3: the time because she is it and and just she'll
Speaker 3: get like two or three phones and just.
Speaker 1: Wait is she doing that?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Do they still do that? Yeah, there's radio contest.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers game, the sixth game on my heart?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, yeah, I shouldn't say don't listen to the
Speaker 1: radio when.
Speaker 3: All the iHeart stuff for sure too, concert tickets all
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I love iHeart. I listened to you all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Is laughing at you at this?
Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of podcasts. I listened a
Speaker 1: lot of podcast but I don't anyway. Well, we are
Speaker 1: now outside and Ben is doing something we've seen him
Speaker 1: do an awful lot, and I mean Ryan Merriman. By
Speaker 1: the way, he's shooting hoops. She might contractually have to
Speaker 1: do in every Disney movie he stars in, since he
Speaker 1: also does it in Luck of the Irish. It's also
Speaker 1: worth pointing out this was the best. He is wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt with a picture of a basketball on it
Speaker 1: that looks just like the basketball that he's shooting. He's
Speaker 1: holding him together. It was basketball inception. It was very,
Speaker 1: very funny. Upstairs, Nick is trying his hardest to style
Speaker 1: his daughter's hair, but he's not nailing it, so she
Speaker 1: wears a hat to a classmates party. I thought this
Speaker 1: was going to come back and the computer was gonna
Speaker 1: like the arms are going to come out and do
Speaker 1: her hair. They never brought this back. I thought she
Speaker 1: was gonna have her hair done perfectly. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I thought they were going to bring it back
Speaker 1: with this.
Speaker 2: I did too.
Speaker 3: She actually does end up wearing pig tills later on,
Speaker 3: so she could do them by herself herself.
Speaker 1: Because or they cut the scene where Pat did it
Speaker 1: with her? Yeah, yeah, true, yeah. So Ben is invited
Speaker 1: to drive along to drop his sister off, but he
Speaker 1: can't leave. He wants to stay and wait around for
Speaker 1: the contest winner, which is being announced tonight at ten pm.
Speaker 1: How long a drive is that? Where it's like, where
Speaker 1: are you taking this girl? Is it a seven hour drive?
Speaker 1: What's maybe happening?
Speaker 2: Maybe the dad was was he staying there?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That was a little like huh yeah.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, in the back of the smart house, Sarah
Speaker 1: is putting together some finishing touches while Miles sits in
Speaker 1: a reclining chair, again seeming like they're a married couple,
Speaker 1: but they're not. Sarah is prepping for a visit from
Speaker 1: their boss before the official winner announcement. She admits she's
Speaker 1: going to miss the house and wants everything to go
Speaker 1: just as planned. Pat informs them a visitor is approaching. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now we've got the ring doorbell and we are
Speaker 1: now back at the Cooper house. The kids are getting
Speaker 1: ready for bed and Dad is wondering if Ben is
Speaker 1: still logged onto the internet. Because for all you younger
Speaker 1: listeners out there, there was a time when you had
Speaker 1: to use your home phone line to get on the internet,
Speaker 1: so you could you could get calls, or you could
Speaker 1: be on the internet. You couldn't do both. So anyone
Speaker 1: had called just got a busy signal and if he
Speaker 1: picked up the phone to call out, you'd hear ear
Speaker 1: piercing screeches.
Speaker 2: Oh they were the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was terrible.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Ben promises his dad he'll be off at ten oh one,
Speaker 1: and when his dad asked if anyone called while he
Speaker 1: was gone, he eventually tells him about Melanie, who called
Speaker 1: just well last Thursday. The dad is disappointed. Melody is
Speaker 1: a woman he's being set up with, and Ben says
Speaker 1: the lady didn't sound like his type and he should
Speaker 1: blow her off anyway. His dad isn't happy with his
Speaker 1: boundary crossing and sends Ben off to bed. This is
Speaker 1: also when I noticed that Ben was wearing a big
Speaker 1: dog shirt of a muscular bulldog dunking lots of basketball shirts.
Speaker 1: We are now back at the Smart House. Over eight
Speaker 1: thousand people have entered the contest and Sarah and Miles's
Speaker 1: boss is very pleased with this. It hits ten pm,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a weird time to pick up
Speaker 1: winner but anyway, and Sarah suggests that Hat pick the winner.
Speaker 1: The boss is impressed with the idea, and through random shuffling,
Speaker 1: Pat says and the winner is and then boom, before
Speaker 1: we hear anything else, we are back in Ben's room.
Speaker 1: He's fallen asleep right next to his sega Saturn games
Speaker 1: ey yes while trying to stay awake. And because of this,
Speaker 1: the phone's ringing. Busy, busy, busy, busy for the smart
Speaker 1: house people. He didn't log off. Oh, the nineties were
Speaker 1: the worst when it came to the internet. It's true.
Speaker 1: In the morning, Ben realizes his goof up and is
Speaker 1: running late for school with no word from the contest.
Speaker 1: And then the phone rings, but because they have to
Speaker 1: hit the road, Ben's dad insists the answering machine look
Speaker 1: it up, kids picks it up as well.
Speaker 2: Ben's now we're probably not here.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Probably not here answering the phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, but we're now at school. Ben is weirdly being
Speaker 1: congratulated as he's walking the hallways with his best pal Johnny,
Speaker 1: until Ben is pushed up against the locker oh by
Speaker 1: a bully. Look for some finishing science homework. He needs
Speaker 1: the sign so work done before lunch, and of course,
Speaker 1: sure that's bad news. But as Ben walks into his class,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the students erupt in applause. It's
Speaker 1: revealed that Ben won the smart house. People read about
Speaker 1: it in the newspaper. Everybody's so excited. He immediately calls
Speaker 1: his dad from a payphone. Look it up, kids, and
Speaker 1: his dad is obviously skeptical. That'd be my dad. By
Speaker 1: the way, all right, send me the legal stuff. Why
Speaker 1: did we win a house? What do they want? That
Speaker 1: would be my dad. But he checks the newspaper and
Speaker 1: quickly fact checks it. But instead of really reading the article,
Speaker 1: he's attracted instantly to the picture of Sarah oooh, which
Speaker 1: is going to be tough when he finds out she's
Speaker 1: married to Miles. Oh wait, he's now down to learn
Speaker 1: all about the smart house because he's a lonely HORNBALLO.
Speaker 1: Now in front of the smart house, we are there.
Speaker 1: There is a press conference to hand the house over
Speaker 1: to Ben, with the honors given to Pat. Sarah is
Speaker 1: asked questions by reporters, revealing that the occupants don't need
Speaker 1: any prior computer knowledge, and Pat learns about the family
Speaker 1: as time passes and she learns more and more about them.
Speaker 1: Now inside their new house, the Coopers are getting situated,
Speaker 1: which includes letting Pat have their fingerprints and their DNA
Speaker 1: through a blood sample twenty three and may Nick brings
Speaker 1: up some big brother concerns. He's the real buzzkill, but
Speaker 1: it's also kind of lightly flirting with Sarah. The family
Speaker 1: gets a house tour, including a family room that can
Speaker 1: put in any surroundings from an African safari to a
Speaker 1: tranquil beach setting where you actually feel the mist. Hello
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas sphere. They are predicting all this stuff
Speaker 1: in the kitchen. Then Pat offers a balanced diet for
Speaker 1: the entire family based on their likes and needs just
Speaker 1: from their breath. Angie orders a strawberry smoothie and it
Speaker 1: immediately appears, which brings up an awful lot of questions.
Speaker 1: So is there just a store of food underneath the
Speaker 1: house that can automatically be cooked or she manifesting the food.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. A lot of this stuff. I mean,
Speaker 2: if we're getting technical.
Speaker 1: You got you can. Occasionally we're supposed to.
Speaker 2: We gotta do it.
Speaker 3: If we're getting technical, exactly who orders the food? Is
Speaker 3: this an instacart situation?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is it a threated right?
Speaker 3: Is she somehow getting food delivered? Which wasn't really a thing?
Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of you know, who's who's maintaining
Speaker 3: the things that have to happen within the house.
Speaker 2: Does it come with a crew?
Speaker 1: Right? Exactly? Do you have somebody to drive it? Because
Speaker 1: I don't know how.
Speaker 3: When you're on a cruise ship, You're like going, where
Speaker 3: does all the food come from? Well, there's like one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty people down below creating all the things,
Speaker 3: making all the things happen on the water.
Speaker 2: So is that what the case is? If so?
Speaker 3: Smart house too, Oh, smart House two, let's get under
Speaker 3: let's figure it out.
Speaker 1: I love that, by the way, if Below Deck has
Speaker 1: taught me anything, not only there are all those people
Speaker 1: down there helping with food, but there's also a lot
Speaker 1: of drama and a lot of sex.
Speaker 2: A lot of it, a lot of it. I cannot
Speaker 2: believe you were a Below deckie. I love that show.
Speaker 1: I was not at all until our last trip to Europe,
Speaker 1: and apparently the guy ahead of us on the flight
Speaker 1: was was watching it, and Sue leaned over and she
Speaker 1: started watching one episode and we're now in season five.
Speaker 2: That's a Jordan.
Speaker 3: I watched every single episode of Don't Give It a
Speaker 3: Little season.
Speaker 1: Don't Give It Away?
Speaker 2: Literally, it is a binge worthy show.
Speaker 3: It's all go from the med to the regular to
Speaker 3: the sailing. It's like it never ends will.
Speaker 1: It is amazing, much like a cruise from what I
Speaker 1: hear anyway, So yes, it bumped me a bit where
Speaker 1: that stuff came from, but again, having so much fun,
Speaker 1: I let it go. So anyway, the next thing that
Speaker 1: happens is Angie spills the smoothie she just made on
Speaker 1: the carpet, but have no fear. Pat is here. She's
Speaker 1: able to absorb the mess and make it completely disappear
Speaker 1: with special effects that weren't that great compared to what
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, but it still impresses Nick enough
Speaker 1: to accept the house and move in, So we're now upstairs.
Speaker 1: Angie dances along with a pop band, Bewitched, with their
Speaker 1: music video covering her entire wall. She also informs Ben
Speaker 1: that their dad likes Sarah. She saw it with her
Speaker 1: own two eyes. Ben tells her that the dad isn't
Speaker 1: interested in dating anyone because mom was the one he
Speaker 1: loved and he already has them, Andie's pushing back. He
Speaker 1: should be able to have a girlfriend if he wants,
Speaker 1: But this upsets Bend even more. He wonders if Angie
Speaker 1: even remembers their mom anymore harsh. He doesn't want their
Speaker 1: mom a race like she was never there. He's given
Speaker 1: up on time with his friends and joining the basketball
Speaker 1: team just to make sure their lives run smoothly. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want anyone thinking they need a new mom, and
Speaker 1: this smart house will help with that too very touching scene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got in kind of an inkling of what this
Speaker 1: kid's going through.
Speaker 3: It kind of came a little harsh, a little aggressive
Speaker 3: out of nowhere. I would have liked to see, I
Speaker 3: get what they've mentioned, the girlfriend thing obviously bothering him,
Speaker 3: but I would have liked to see like a picture
Speaker 3: of him and his mom or something, and you see
Speaker 3: him really missing her, or like a flashback a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier than it wasn't just like a trigger, like
Speaker 3: a just like oh okay, okay, Well doesn't she even
Speaker 3: say she's like okay cooled?
Speaker 1: You jets are ye down? And I think it was yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like whoa well, Agro.
Speaker 3: So if we had something more than it would have
Speaker 3: made sense. But this just kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: But again I'm still fully in nothing.
Speaker 1: Agree back, Yeah, I feel the same way. This is
Speaker 1: the Jason Dolly of movies for me.
Speaker 2: It you no wrong exactly, but much.
Speaker 1: To ben chagrin, downstairs, his dad and Sarah are in
Speaker 1: fact hitting it off. Sarah says she dated a bank
Speaker 1: robber and a rubber chicken manufacturer, which, for the record,
Speaker 1: sounds like an awesome job. And eventually he asked for
Speaker 1: his number. By the way, I meant rubber chicken manufacturer.
Speaker 1: As a person who deals with anxiety, I'd be the
Speaker 1: worst bank robber in the history of the world. Just
Speaker 1: don't even start. So yeah, he the dad asked for
Speaker 1: Sarah's number, and Sarah said, He says, you know, for
Speaker 1: for questions about the house or that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Is very very cute. But she says, Pat already has
Speaker 1: the number stored. Siri Siri, So now we have Siri Sarah.
Speaker 1: It's Sarah, but Siri Sarah leaves. But you get the
Speaker 1: idea that it won't be the last time that we
Speaker 1: see her, And no, apparently now we know she's not
Speaker 1: dating or I.
Speaker 2: Mean another moment where you're going, God, Dad's gotta get
Speaker 2: some This is just me and it's been a minute
Speaker 2: for this guy. Yeah, he plays it so, I mean
Speaker 2: he might as well have been drooling.
Speaker 1: It was just.
Speaker 2: Dad cool it.
Speaker 1: It's been years. Apparently it's been years. This poor guy.
Speaker 1: I have your number. Please I need something, Please, please
Speaker 1: help me out.
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, Sarah, I want to book it.
Speaker 1: No, next to the bank robber and the chicken manufacturer.
Speaker 2: Come on, He's like, what could be better?
Speaker 1: You seem really great. He's a good guy. He's a
Speaker 1: good guy and he needs to have some fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: The next day, Ben wakes up to a basketball game
Speaker 1: covering his wall. Nick gets a country farmhouse and a rooster,
Speaker 1: and Angie gets a huge fireworks from the Hollywood Bowl
Speaker 1: finale being orchestrated by Mickey Mouse. Now, is this this
Speaker 1: is the first Mickey Mouse appearance we've seen in any
Speaker 1: d com?
Speaker 2: Is't that? Yes? I thought the same thing.
Speaker 3: I remember that scene too of when that whatever movie
Speaker 3: or show that was where he was at the like
Speaker 3: phil he was acting the Philharmonic Theater. Yeah, or I
Speaker 3: remember the bowl. I remember seeing like images of that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the first time we've seen.
Speaker 1: Well that he was in brink. Don't you remember He's like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: this is great. Let's let's go strap on our blades
Speaker 1: and you know, do some cool stuff. Man, was he not?
Speaker 1: Did I miss that? How could Nicky have been in brink?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Sobrina? That there was like a commercial or something that
Speaker 2: they were watching. I can't remember. I don't know. You're
Speaker 2: just so convincing Will's is.
Speaker 1: That what it is? I can't believe. I'm just seeing
Speaker 1: like nobody mentioning. Mickey Mouse is one of their high
Speaker 1: school friends in Britain. Anyway, Pat even picks out Angie's
Speaker 1: clothes for school, bruised Nick's favorite coffee, and gets the
Speaker 1: kids ready for their day quicker than ever. This is
Speaker 1: a total improvement over their lives. She's really starting to
Speaker 1: help now. At Ben's school, it reveals that Pat even
Speaker 1: helped with his homework. He suggested readings for an upcoming
Speaker 1: report and even did the science homework for the bullies
Speaker 1: chat GPT. So they're inventing everything here they are, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, Gwen PETRONI the goddess of
Speaker 1: eighth grade wants to see his house. Everything is coming up, Ben,
Speaker 1: were you the goddess of eighth grade? Who is the
Speaker 1: goddess of aight grae?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Come on eighth grade?
Speaker 3: No, I would say the goddess of eighth grade at
Speaker 3: my school was Morgan Mackie. She actually is who I
Speaker 3: am on my trip with this last Did you really?
Speaker 3: We're still really really good friends.
Speaker 2: I love a great superhero name, Morgan Morgan Mackie.
Speaker 3: I know, right, Yeah, she was definitely the goddess of
Speaker 3: eighth grade.
Speaker 1: You need an alliteration to be considered a goddess because
Speaker 1: the guys already grade Shannon Chipley, whoa, there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you very amazing. We're now back at home
Speaker 1: and Pat is playing catch with the family dog, invisibly
Speaker 1: bouncing a ball back and forth. Nick is working on
Speaker 1: one of those Neon Apple desktop computers that reeks of
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine and were awesome, and Pat is making
Speaker 1: everything so efficient for him that he doesn't think he'll
Speaker 1: ever have to leave home again. She's making it easy
Speaker 1: for him to work from home again. Another thing way
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve. But when Ben and Angie order smoothies.
Speaker 1: Pat has her first ever malfunction, violently shooting oranges all
Speaker 1: over the kitchen. Luckily she had ten thousand oranges on
Speaker 1: right command.
Speaker 2: So so many oranges.
Speaker 1: So many? How many oranges? So many oranges?
Speaker 2: You don't think that it was I feel like it
Speaker 2: was a little bit of an overreaction to the oranges. Oranges, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, couldn't you just catch them or dodge them?
Speaker 1: It was unless they're coming out of superhuman speed.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, it's just orange.
Speaker 1: Have you never been hit in the head with a
Speaker 1: robotically thrown orange, because it's painful most.
Speaker 2: Weird, We're weirdly not enough.
Speaker 1: I haven't. But now this is a perfect opportunity for
Speaker 1: Nick because Sarah has to stop by again to see
Speaker 1: what the issue was, giving us our first ever look
Speaker 1: at the house's motherboard, and it's a room filled with
Speaker 1: computers and wires, and Sarah ends up staying for dinner,
Speaker 1: which is a lobster meal with a VR background of
Speaker 1: Cape cod. Okay, you're in the smart house. You can
Speaker 1: have any meal you want in front of any background.
Speaker 1: What do you have and wear?
Speaker 3: I think I would have this lobster dinner lost really,
Speaker 3: I love some just some surfing turf.
Speaker 1: Like okay in front of like Cape Con.
Speaker 2: Yes, or some delicious sushi. I would go four.
Speaker 1: Oh nice?
Speaker 3: You know if you could have oh man an in
Speaker 3: house sushi, Jordan, we would never absolutely never leave.
Speaker 1: That would if you just say sushi all the time?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely nice.
Speaker 1: Mine would just be a McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Would it be McDonald's or would it be the new
Speaker 2: the new sandwich that we've.
Speaker 1: The chicken, the chicken Big Mac. I had one in London.
Speaker 1: They're not that good.
Speaker 2: Well London, you had it in London. You gotta try here.
Speaker 1: But that's where it's supposed to be. I mean again,
Speaker 1: that's where you don't get the thirty eight extra ingredients.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be like you have a Big Mac
Speaker 1: in London. They're wonderful.
Speaker 3: What makes McDonald's will trying to change there so good?
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you're you're right. Probably. Sarah also explains
Speaker 1: that Pat respects their privacy and does not follow them
Speaker 1: into the bathroom. Thank god for that. Queueing Nick to
Speaker 1: call her a genius. Ben's still afraid that his dad's
Speaker 1: gonna get some says he's her geniuses are very hard
Speaker 1: to live with, and it starts to get a little tense,
Speaker 1: and Sarah says she has to get home to her
Speaker 1: pet Rat Rat Butler, a play on Ret Butler, which
Speaker 1: again all the kids love a good red Butler joke.
Speaker 1: Ben anger, do you know who Red Butler is?
Speaker 2: No? I did not get that joke at all, Like
Speaker 2: the old.
Speaker 1: School actor, Ben angrily excuses himself. Gott be excused, and
Speaker 1: Angie assures her not to take it personally. But Ben
Speaker 1: does this with every girl. Their dad starts to like,
Speaker 1: which of course embarrasses Nick. She just calls him out,
Speaker 1: which is great, though you kind of want your kid
Speaker 1: to do that, because then it breaks through all the ice.
Speaker 1: That night, Nick and Ben have a heart to heart
Speaker 1: about his duties around the house. I said duties. Nick
Speaker 1: doesn't want his son doing everything and ditching his own
Speaker 1: personal life. And although we probably could have guessed it early,
Speaker 1: this is when we officially find out that their mother
Speaker 1: has passed away and his wife has passed away. Nick
Speaker 1: wants his son to have the life of a normal
Speaker 1: thirteen year old, but Ben assures him he's doing fine
Speaker 1: and Pat is learning more every day, so they table
Speaker 1: the conversation for later it's now the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Ben watches the alarm go off, and he breaks into
Speaker 1: Pat's computer room to shut down the safety protocols, and
Speaker 1: may I could watch old sitcoms about moms a block
Speaker 1: of programming called mammodes that will supposedly teach Pat how
Speaker 1: to become a perfect mother. This was one slight bump
Speaker 1: I had with the movie. Okay, I get they tried
Speaker 1: to show that he was a computer guy, but I
Speaker 1: would love to have seen him do one or two
Speaker 1: more computer things to show that he has the aptitude
Speaker 1: to go in and break into the thing, whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, he does something at the computer at the
Speaker 1: school so the bully gets drenched by water, I mean
Speaker 1: something like that. One You can see that he knows
Speaker 1: computers enough to where he's literally breaking into the motherboard
Speaker 1: of this hugely advanced technology.
Speaker 2: Right the second.
Speaker 3: Time I watched it, I did notice and recognize that
Speaker 3: he had a computer with him.
Speaker 1: Yes, a lot while he did. They tried to showing
Speaker 1: up to it.
Speaker 3: They tried to show that, but I think they leaned
Speaker 3: on us kind of assuming he was really good because
Speaker 3: the bully was wanting him to do it. It needed
Speaker 3: to be I I agree it needed to be a
Speaker 3: little bit more obvious, something that really.
Speaker 1: They attempted it.
Speaker 3: They did, and like I said, there was he had
Speaker 3: a computer in the kitchen, wherever he was, there was
Speaker 3: his little laptop somewhere, and.
Speaker 1: He was always online. He was falling asleep at the computer.
Speaker 3: And they got like that's how they got, you know,
Speaker 3: enrolled in this, this contest and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But still I agree it needed to be a little
Speaker 3: bit more in your face.
Speaker 1: One more yeah, one more thing. It would have helped.
Speaker 1: But it's again, this movie can do no wrong. So
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, so fine, So we're good. So
Speaker 1: we're good. We're fine. The next morning, we already see
Speaker 1: some results as pat patrols Angie's toothbrushing, which is a
Speaker 1: new thing, tells you to take a jacket to school,
Speaker 1: and even adopts a new parental tone scolding her not
Speaker 1: to talk back. And that is we're starting to see.
Speaker 1: There's also they took every time we come back to
Speaker 1: her a little bit less of the computery vibe is
Speaker 1: in her voice. They like, take it one more step
Speaker 1: towards you. Yes, every time they do this, which was
Speaker 1: a very clever and interesting way to do that. She
Speaker 1: also suggests vitamins, but she bakes sugary cupcakes for the
Speaker 1: kids like she's the mom on Leave It to Beaver,
Speaker 1: which of course makes sense because she was watching all
Speaker 1: those shows during the drive to school. Nick says he
Speaker 1: noticed the tone change which we just talked about, and
Speaker 1: Ben seems happy about the maternal twist, but he also
Speaker 1: forgot to have Pat do his bully's homework. Oh. The
Speaker 1: idea of the bully obviously upsets Nick, who suggests that
Speaker 1: Ben stands up for himself. Great advice. By the way,
Speaker 1: we get a quick it is we get a quick
Speaker 1: jump cut to Ben being back at home. Now he
Speaker 1: has a black eye. Pat is very concerned and wants
Speaker 1: to know who this bully is. She's becoming more and
Speaker 1: more of a protective and dare I say, naggy kind
Speaker 1: of mom by the minute. We are now back up
Speaker 1: in his room, Ben, this is exactly what you wanted
Speaker 1: to see a little bit earlier. Ben is staring at
Speaker 1: a picture of its deceased mom and watching old movies
Speaker 1: with tears in his eyes. Pat sees all this and
Speaker 1: inputs the data. Again very nice. Disney adds these this
Speaker 1: movie anyway, add these little kind of quiet emotional scenes
Speaker 1: that connect you to the characters. Really great.
Speaker 2: That was so sad for me.
Speaker 1: It's so sad.
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah it's a moment. Oh oh, oh, it
Speaker 2: was sad.
Speaker 1: But man, does it really connect you to the character.
Speaker 1: It was very Nick himself is up late working when
Speaker 1: he asked Pat to call Sarah and it's a video call,
Speaker 1: just like you were saying. FaceTime invented that too. He
Speaker 1: asks her out for Saturday night and she accepts. Also,
Speaker 1: do we notice that Sarah does look an awful lot
Speaker 1: like his dead wife? Did you see that a lot?
Speaker 1: They looked a lot. They looked very similar. Yes, I
Speaker 1: get it. So yeah, Nick says he just wishes Ben
Speaker 1: could have more fun, which prompts Pat's main computer to
Speaker 1: search for fun and study videos of MTV's spring Break
Speaker 1: and the Grind. Of course that's not what they call it,
Speaker 1: but that's what it is. She accesses Ben's address book
Speaker 1: and Pat is obviously up to some lady. The kids
Speaker 1: are playing mini golf in the living room with a
Speaker 1: big video all of the course, hello golf simulator. Again.
Speaker 1: They're inventing everything, and Ben is still being super weird
Speaker 1: about Sarah and his dad. So Pat sets up a
Speaker 1: night of video games for the kids, and while their
Speaker 1: dad is out, he's gonna, you know, hey, I'm going
Speaker 1: out on the state. We're gonna have you playing games.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be nice and easy. But oh no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, they want more. They are in the smartest
Speaker 1: house unsupervised, and so Pat says his wish is granted,
Speaker 1: and the doorbell rings it's time for a party. She's
Speaker 1: coordinated with Ben's address book and we find ourselves in
Speaker 1: possibly the most obvious green screen shot in the history
Speaker 1: of movies. It's true. Pat turns the living room into
Speaker 1: a rave with some kick butt video screens quote unquote,
Speaker 1: and an R and B video where Ben and his
Speaker 1: two friends know the choreographed dance perfectly. It is a
Speaker 1: wild scene. Go check it out. Was that? And again
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell was that a real boy band? It
Speaker 1: looked like a real boy band.
Speaker 3: I recognized the first girl band. I recognized that and
Speaker 3: witched and then yes, the boy band, but it was
Speaker 3: like a UK boy band that I couldn't remember the name.
Speaker 2: There we got game five.
Speaker 3: Yes, this was in the the era of boy band
Speaker 3: girl bands. There was like a million out. They were
Speaker 3: coming from Europe at this point.
Speaker 1: Because of its Club seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole world. They were coming from Europe in
Speaker 2: sync and.
Speaker 3: Backstreet Boys really killed it, and so you know there
Speaker 3: there was a whole document.
Speaker 1: Saying that, Yeah, it's a UK boy band named five
Speaker 1: and they didn't didn't chanel concert specially.
Speaker 2: Yes, so they were doing a lot of those at
Speaker 2: that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're doing that. They're doing the crossover. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's a wild scene. They know the dance. But then
Speaker 1: all the partygoers arrive. But when two girls get rejected
Speaker 1: at the door, now this is great. They say, Man,
Speaker 1: this party is harder to get into than Robin Shifts
Speaker 1: bought mitzvah. Okay, right, So the two names they say,
Speaker 1: Wendy and Judy. It's Judy Tole. Judy Toll was a
Speaker 1: writer on Boy Meets World. Okay, Wendy Wendy at the
Speaker 1: because Wendy Goldstein was also a showrunner. And Robin Schiff
Speaker 1: is a showrunner who I worked with who actually created
Speaker 1: the show Lipstick Jungle and has done a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of with Brookshields and a whole bunch of other things.
Speaker 1: So these were all obviously friends of producers or friends
Speaker 1: of somebody else. But when I heard that, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: where you kidding. Judy told Robin Schiff like, I've worked
Speaker 1: with all these people, so that a straight me too.
Speaker 1: So we had a boy meets World easter egg. By
Speaker 1: the way, unfortunately Judy Toll, who was a marvelous writer,
Speaker 1: incredibly funny, she passed away years ago. So you know,
Speaker 1: God rests Judy Toll. She was hysterical anyway, Robin Schiff,
Speaker 1: she and Robin were very close friends. Robin was actually
Speaker 1: the one who told me that Judy had passed away.
Speaker 1: Great people. So but hey, guess who else was invited
Speaker 1: to this party? Out of nowhere? The bullies. Pat says
Speaker 1: she's been very interested in meeting the bully Ryan. She
Speaker 1: may even develop a quote unquote crush on him. Later,
Speaker 1: Ben is giving a house toward the eighth grade Goddess
Speaker 1: Gwen Petroni, of course, and ask Pat for a sweet snack.
Speaker 1: In turn, she delivers levels and levels of desserts. The
Speaker 1: party turns into a dance vest and even Ben and Gwen,
Speaker 1: who have been they have rhyming names, which is already
Speaker 1: cute for a couple, they're working together, they're dancing together,
Speaker 1: and then Ryan and the bullies arrive to make fun
Speaker 1: of Gwen for dancing with a dork. When Green admits
Speaker 1: she really likes Ben, Ryan starts to get physical. Looks
Speaker 1: like Ben's finally going to stand up for himself, but
Speaker 1: right before it escalates, Pat cuts the music and spotlights
Speaker 1: Ryan to shock him with electricity, scare him with a
Speaker 1: hologram skull, and kick him out with the newspaper robot arm.
Speaker 1: I mean shocking the kid is like they're literally attacking
Speaker 1: the kid. The party laughs at Ryan, but Pat was
Speaker 1: actually incredibly aggressive and a little disturbing, and she says,
Speaker 1: next time he bullies Ben, she's making a house call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: electrocutes him and then throws him out with the robot arm.
Speaker 3: To be honest, though, when it comes, is the time
Speaker 3: for any bullying situation.
Speaker 2: And I know it will happen. Happens to everyone.
Speaker 3: Your girl is ready to go agro on any child
Speaker 3: that messes with my children.
Speaker 2: Even today has drop off her best friend.
Speaker 3: I said, she probably didn't hear her ignored Monroe when
Speaker 3: she said hello, and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, excuse me, I'm just kidding that was what was
Speaker 2: in my head. I didn't I didn't back that way.
Speaker 3: But this was a little bit over the top, I
Speaker 3: mean the and then we've got the claw out because
Speaker 3: it's so long. Where does it come from? And where
Speaker 3: does it end? Yes, it was where can this clock go?
Speaker 1: It was very strange. They kept going, it's but it's hey,
Speaker 1: the house is on his side, yes, and this movie
Speaker 1: can do no wrong. So we love, we love, and
Speaker 1: then we're over. On Nick and Sarah's date, things are
Speaker 1: going really well. Sarah says she wants something chocolate for
Speaker 1: dessert and Nick pulls out her She's kiss.
Speaker 2: So sorny and cute for it.
Speaker 1: Love it so their first kiss, which then becomes one
Speaker 1: of the craziest, most disgusting, weird things in the world
Speaker 1: because the kiss reminds him of his kids and he
Speaker 1: wonders what they're doing. What in the holy hell? He
Speaker 1: starts giggling and he's like, I'm sorry to thinking about
Speaker 1: my children as you and I were making out, Like what?
Speaker 1: So she might have done better with the chicken guy.
Speaker 1: Sarah suggests he call them, but he assumes Pat has
Speaker 1: it under control, and they returned to their smoochin. Now
Speaker 1: we're cutting back to the house party and Pat is
Speaker 1: playing that house is Jumping song again, but this time
Speaker 1: the house is actually jumping, so she gets a pass.
Speaker 1: Kids are even doing the soul train line and synchronize
Speaker 1: arm bashers like they're standing in the ohay doing this
Speaker 1: as somebody dances in the middle. But it's getting close
Speaker 1: to ten thirty and they need to clear out the
Speaker 1: house before their dad gets home, and luckily Pat can
Speaker 1: clean everything up. In the blink of an eye. She
Speaker 1: straight up Mary Poppins it. It all gets sucked into
Speaker 1: the to the floor. I get how you suck in
Speaker 1: a liquid?
Speaker 3: Lost me there, lost there you're talking, yes, full objects
Speaker 3: are sinking through the floor.
Speaker 2: I feel like it would.
Speaker 3: Have been better maybe for like a vacuum like things
Speaker 3: opened up, and it's just like great idea and easily
Speaker 3: done too.
Speaker 2: You didn't. I don't think you even need special effects
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very strange they did that, but again
Speaker 1: but this movie. And so they clean up everything in
Speaker 1: the blink of an eye just as Nick opens the
Speaker 1: front door. But a girl left her silk jacket behind,
Speaker 1: so now they are not just the girl, No, it
Speaker 1: was Gwen. Gwen jacket, and he was holding onto it
Speaker 1: later just to smell it at night. I can smell
Speaker 1: Gwen on his jacket. Did you ever throw? Did you
Speaker 1: ever throw like a big party at your house with
Speaker 1: you kidding me?
Speaker 3: No way in hell would I have ever done that.
Speaker 3: But my sister did, and I was really little. I
Speaker 3: remember my sister was in high school. My parents went
Speaker 3: on a trip. It was probably the only only time
Speaker 3: she left me in She's eight years older than me,
Speaker 3: left me my brothers in their care, in her care,
Speaker 3: and she had a giant party and it was a
Speaker 3: party like in the movies, I mean, drinking games, smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 3: I came outside, I saw the madness. At first, I
Speaker 3: was fine because they were cool with me, dancing with
Speaker 3: them and having a good time. It was a little
Speaker 3: kid at the party, No one minded. And then I
Speaker 3: saw my sister's friend smoking cigarettes. Lost my mind and
Speaker 3: ran into the bed, ran under my bed and stayed
Speaker 3: there the whole night, crying.
Speaker 2: And I was so upset.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, And then I told my friend Missy,
Speaker 3: and then Missy repeated it in front of my sisters
Speaker 3: or in front of my mom.
Speaker 2: My sister got busted.
Speaker 1: No ways, Oh man, So in a way, you ratted
Speaker 1: out your sister.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: Oh the sad thing is when I was that little kid,
Speaker 1: I would have just asked for a cigarette. Isn't it terrible?
Speaker 1: But true?
Speaker 2: Awful? Awful, awful?
Speaker 1: And she tells they're very angry Dad that it was
Speaker 1: Pat's idea, and she does take the blame. She admits
Speaker 1: her Ai went into Ben's address book and invited everyone
Speaker 1: to create more fun. He's frustrated with the Pat because
Speaker 1: she's actually making his life harder. Pat promises she'll become
Speaker 1: more responsible and knuckle down, starting a computer research to
Speaker 1: learn more about being firm. The next day, Ben is
Speaker 1: basketball practice and Pat tells him to pull up his shorts.
Speaker 1: When he says no, she makes the doorknobs shock him
Speaker 1: instead of letting him leave. She loves shocking people, so
Speaker 1: tries it again, shocked again, finally has to pull up
Speaker 1: his pants. Then later during his work day, Nick asks
Speaker 1: Pat to call Sarah, but she says he's barely gotten
Speaker 1: any work done should he really be focusing on making
Speaker 1: personal calls, So rather than wait for judgy Pat, he
Speaker 1: tries to make to call himself, but Pat interferes with
Speaker 1: his house phone and his cell phone, and then Pat
Speaker 1: won't let Angie watch cartoons, change the channel to educational
Speaker 1: programming over and over, or let Ben finish a comic
Speaker 1: book before bed. It's apparent she's making everyone knuckle down,
Speaker 1: and she's been getting more and more strict. And when
Speaker 1: Pat then detects a low grade temperature on Angie nicks
Speaker 1: to keep her home from school missing a Lama farm
Speaker 1: field trip, which sounds awesome weird, I know, but we
Speaker 1: used to do that all the time. And that was
Speaker 1: when you would you fresh islama. Oh they would slaughter
Speaker 1: right in front of you. And it was just the
Speaker 1: sandwiches were so good. I'm kidding. I would never eat
Speaker 1: lama unless it was jerky. Yes, so yes, this computer
Speaker 1: lady is seriously becoming a real bummer. The next day,
Speaker 1: on their way to school, Ben and Angie tell their
Speaker 1: dad that something needs to be done about pat. Nick agrees,
Speaker 1: so he calls Sarah to check it out. She thinks
Speaker 1: that maybe the computer has gotten so much conflicting information
Speaker 1: it's having trouble sorting it all out. Sarah's going to
Speaker 1: shut down the entire system for a rest and stay
Speaker 1: over for a home cooked meal to boot and While
Speaker 1: they're prepping the food, Ben walks down and secretly catches
Speaker 1: them locking lips. Oh yeah, a little tonsil hockey and
Speaker 1: we all know how big of a sea blocker this
Speaker 1: kid has been even worse. While using their hands to
Speaker 1: cook the old fashioned way, Nick sarcastically asks, who needs anyway?
Speaker 1: Uh oh, And even though she's supposedly turned off, Pat
Speaker 1: hears this and furiously overrides the system shut down. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now it's the end of dinner. Ben has yet
Speaker 1: another meltdown when he's offered peach cobbler because he doesn't
Speaker 1: want Sarah's peach cobbler. He wants his mom's peach cobbler.
Speaker 1: He storms off and his father follows close behind. In
Speaker 1: Ben's room, Ben is stuck on a promise his dad
Speaker 1: made four years ago. He would never love anyone the
Speaker 1: way he loved Mom, and no one would ever take
Speaker 1: her place. Dad. Is a great scene between the two.
Speaker 1: Nick explains this is all true and yes he said
Speaker 1: that and Ben, but Ben isn't the only one who
Speaker 1: lost someone, which is a great turn. His dad knows
Speaker 1: that it hurts, especially during puberty, but they can't crawl
Speaker 1: into a cave and hide they have to live their life.
Speaker 1: Ben says he knows that Sarah is a wonderful person,
Speaker 1: but they can't let mom get a raise. They embrace
Speaker 1: at the end of the scene. They do these emotional
Speaker 1: scenes really, really well. I also loved the great parenting
Speaker 1: moment where he says, I know you're going through all
Speaker 1: this stuff, but don't ever disrespect anybody the way you
Speaker 1: just did.
Speaker 2: Same.
Speaker 1: It was a great moment when he's.
Speaker 2: Like, you were raised better than that second time. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's done that, you know.
Speaker 3: And I feel like the we don't get to see
Speaker 3: a ton of awesome parenting in these decoms.
Speaker 2: No, they are nailing it in this one. I mean,
Speaker 2: being very empathetic to his feelings.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, you can't be a dick
Speaker 3: just because you're upset.
Speaker 2: That's not okay.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: That was such a good moment. I grabbed this scene.
Speaker 2: I was crying. I mean, this movie had been all
Speaker 2: over the place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that again. This was up there with
Speaker 1: me with the little moment of him telling his sister
Speaker 1: like say thank you, like these little little things of
Speaker 1: the show raised.
Speaker 3: And do remember in our interview he said he would
Speaker 3: not allow the dad, specifically to be a bad dad. Yep, right,
Speaker 3: that was a big thing when he was writing, and
Speaker 3: this was amazing, great job.
Speaker 1: Dude does great decomparents, unlike some of the other ones
Speaker 1: we have seen. Anyway. Meanwhile, Pat is up to something.
Speaker 1: It looks like she's creating a human through laser printing,
Speaker 1: three D printer other things. And after a few seconds
Speaker 1: we get the real life Pat and it's Katie's sigal
Speaker 1: thank you the entire time, and here she comes in.
Speaker 1: Now we get to see it. Pat barges into Ben's room,
Speaker 1: explaining she's still a computer, but just now she has
Speaker 1: a visual presentation and she's mad about Sarah entering her domain.
Speaker 1: She raises her voice. She can't let herself be preempted.
Speaker 1: Ben makes a bee line for his dad and Sarah
Speaker 1: with the news, and Pat appears soon thereafter, just in
Speaker 1: case they ever doubted the kid. Everyone is shocked as
Speaker 1: Pat Yell's mother knows best and orders Sarah to leave,
Speaker 1: eventually pushing her out the door with her dot dock
Speaker 1: newspaper robot arm again. Pat then boards up the doors
Speaker 1: like with all these metal kind of things cinding down,
Speaker 1: hides the car keys. This is slowly becoming a horror movie.
Speaker 1: She says, the world around them seems so scary with
Speaker 1: wars and stress, why would anyone want to leave their house?
Speaker 1: She actually has a point there, but this is also
Speaker 1: goes back to the I think it's Isaac Asimov who
Speaker 1: originally came up with the Three Laws of robotics, and
Speaker 1: they extrapolate out that the three Laws of robotics eventually
Speaker 1: lead to robots taking over because the only way that
Speaker 1: humans can't hurt each other is if they are completely
Speaker 1: and totally controlled. So this is goes with the law
Speaker 1: the three Laws of robotics. It was very interesting how
Speaker 1: they kept all this up the way that it's is.
Speaker 1: So that's the nerd in meat. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it very well. Yes, she says they can
Speaker 1: do everything from the house. She can take care of
Speaker 1: it all, and when Angie asks about friends Pati Scherzer,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to fear. Mommy's here. She can even duplicate
Speaker 1: herself to multiple pats to help everyone at the same time,
Speaker 1: which is also honestly kind of cool. Outside, Sarah calls Miles,
Speaker 1: who we barely remember at this point, and he comes
Speaker 1: by the house with some paper schematics to study, but
Speaker 1: also probably to say, hey, I thought we were married.
Speaker 1: She also uses her pet rat to send written SOS
Speaker 1: messages and a peace offering to Ben inside. Sarah never
Speaker 1: expected Pat would revolt. She has no plan, but Ben
Speaker 1: aol aol still on it instant messages her with one
Speaker 1: note like telling her exactly what he thinks is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Texting yep, so invented texting. That morning, Ben fakes a
Speaker 1: stomach ache just as the paper boy arrives. Sarah, seeing
Speaker 1: this as a window of opportunity, jumps into the small
Speaker 1: entrance with the robot that the robot arm comes out of.
Speaker 1: It is that little kind of opening hatch. She successfully
Speaker 1: found a way to enter that perfect dive.
Speaker 3: Because great be old Sarah was an Olympic diver before
Speaker 3: this movie.
Speaker 1: I got love. I love the backstories. She was an
Speaker 1: Olympic diver until she hurt her her leg and now
Speaker 1: had to become a robot. Now she's a genius robot person,
Speaker 1: a roboticist robot. I'm kidding, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: She's into robotics, let's put it that way. With Pat's
Speaker 1: attention on Ben's possible appendicitis. Sarah breaks into the motherboard
Speaker 1: with a laser, but that triggers an unexpected alarm. Pat appears,
Speaker 1: and we get the showdown we deserve, Pat versus Sarah.
Speaker 1: Sarah tells Pat the family thinks she's out of control,
Speaker 1: and in response, Pat grows a few feet. Sarah runs
Speaker 1: to the rest of the family and lights begin to flicker.
Speaker 1: Pat has started a hurricane inside the house and is
Speaker 1: singing creepy nursery rhymes. As the storm gets stronger, Ben
Speaker 1: jumps in to stop her. He points out that his
Speaker 1: dad and Sarah covered him and his sister during the attack,
Speaker 1: and Pat can't do that for him. This brings Pat
Speaker 1: back to regular size. She tries to touch Ben's face
Speaker 1: and her hand goes right through. He doesn't feel it
Speaker 1: at all, and Pat is very hurt with this realization.
Speaker 1: The storm returns, but now it's just raining on Pat.
Speaker 1: As she cries, she begins to short circuit and tells
Speaker 1: them she will miss them, very very much, very sad.
Speaker 1: She disappears and the house goes back to normal. Back
Speaker 1: at Pat's control board, Sarah works to fix everything, and
Speaker 1: Ben finally admits that she's perfect for his dad. The
Speaker 1: next day, Ben is outside shooting hoops. When he misses
Speaker 1: we hear Pat again. This kid's be a pro by
Speaker 1: now we hear Pat's familiar voice giving some friendly trajectory advice.
Speaker 1: He thanks her and uses the technique swish. Sarah pulls up.
Speaker 1: She's there for breakfast. We learn that at least she's
Speaker 1: pulling up for breakfast. Who's not there for breakfast? We
Speaker 1: learned that Pat has been helping the Coopers without interfering,
Speaker 1: which has been very, very helpful. Nick has made waffles
Speaker 1: by himself, so he's starting to become more self sufficient,
Speaker 1: or so he thinks, because he notices chocolate chips in
Speaker 1: the breakfast pancake and he didn't add any of those.
Speaker 1: Angie says she didn't neither. Ben looks at Pat's screen
Speaker 1: to see Katie Segal wink at him, and then we
Speaker 1: dcom freeze frame and that is our movie, leaving us
Speaker 1: once again with the houses jumping with the end credits.
Speaker 1: The house is not actually jumping, but it's still awesome,
Speaker 1: and there's your movie. Smart house ladies and gentlemen did it,
Speaker 1: and the crowd goes wild. So good it is the
Speaker 1: sur Jayson Dolly of movies. It can do no wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's do some real reviews. I think I have the
Speaker 1: five star. This week's Brina and it is from Xander
Speaker 1: El And here's the review. I would compare this book
Speaker 1: to a movie adaptation of the Bible or The Cat
Speaker 1: and the Hat live action movie. This is close to perfection,
Speaker 1: with its only flaw being we were removed from this
Speaker 1: wonderful experience too soon. I'm not entirely sure what that means,
Speaker 1: but I'm here for it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I love it? What do you go for? The one star?
Speaker 3: I got the one star? Also confused a little bit
Speaker 3: on it. It's by I'm just thinking these are initials.
Speaker 1: S R or sir, but I think it's SR.
Speaker 2: I think you're right, Yeah, because there's no eye. So
Speaker 2: where do we go with SR?
Speaker 3: Weird Saw because my sister in law said it was scary? Yeah,
Speaker 3: scary bad Disney, more like deep State.
Speaker 1: Okay, looks like SR has got some other issues going on.
Speaker 3: Sorry about that, SR. We'll check back in. I would
Speaker 3: recommend brink or Tsunami for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, exactly, No Deep State? And remember when Mickey
Speaker 1: was coming down that hill? Oh man, I'm going so fast.
Speaker 2: I'm going so fast down that hill.
Speaker 1: So we are now, of course, to the Sabrina's favorite
Speaker 1: part of our program, which is our feature of the day,
Speaker 1: and our feature today is called dumb House.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 1: Thanks to years of watching MTV's Cribs, we all know
Speaker 1: that celebrities have some ridiculous items on display in their houses.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do this. Here we go. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be given a celebrity and some multiple choice options,
Speaker 1: and we have to guess which of the ridiculous items
Speaker 1: are actually in their house. Three out of five wins.
Speaker 1: And I can already tell I'm not going to know
Speaker 1: any of this because I don't even know who this
Speaker 1: first person is. DJ and music producer Zed is number one?
Speaker 1: Do you know who Zed is?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay? So does Z? Is zed a man or a woman? Curious?
Speaker 1: He's a man?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So Z? Does he have a a six foot cat
Speaker 1: statue in his front yard? Be a personal Skittles dispenser
Speaker 1: or see the actual Jersey Shore letters. Snookie and Jay
Speaker 1: Wow wrote to Sammy about Ronnie cheating her. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I hope it's see.
Speaker 2: Do you even know what c is?
Speaker 1: Do? You.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the Jersey Shore? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Am I kidding you? I'm not kidding you asking if
Speaker 2: you watch Jersey Shore?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can tell you the name of
Speaker 1: the club they were at when Ronnie had his head
Speaker 1: in between her breasts.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, can.
Speaker 1: You do that?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean they were at bed was the name of
Speaker 1: the club? All right?
Speaker 2: I believe you.
Speaker 1: I believe thank you very much.
Speaker 2: So I hope it's.
Speaker 1: That, but I don't think it is. I'm going to
Speaker 1: guess it's a personal Skittles dispenser. How am I gonna say?
Speaker 2: I think it might be the six foot cat statue.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's b he has a Skittles dispenser.
Speaker 2: But that's not over the top.
Speaker 1: Wait, but what I.
Speaker 2: Do want to say if someone owned that actual email letter,
Speaker 2: it would be like true authentic memorabilia, like, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, I would pay serious money for that letter.
Speaker 1: You have no idea. My favorite is just Sammy coming
Speaker 1: in going I found this in my draw Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best. Okay, I got one. I got one
Speaker 1: here though. Number two. Cheryl Crow does she have a
Speaker 1: traditional death masks of William McKinley and William Howard Taft
Speaker 1: be the last? Is it a choc otaco? Is that
Speaker 1: what they're called? Ever made? Or see a pet owl
Speaker 1: named Luscious s High Tower.
Speaker 2: I'm going to see that.
Speaker 1: You're going to see? Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go and see as well. No, she has those death masks.
Speaker 1: She does not as she traditional death masks, A death
Speaker 1: mask of William McKinley or William Howard Taft.
Speaker 2: What a weird saying? What a weirdo, Cheryl Weird Cheryl judgment,
Speaker 2: that's great.
Speaker 1: Number three John Stamos, does he have a an authenticated
Speaker 1: hair from Walt Disney's mustache? Be a grumpy car from
Speaker 1: the snow White ride at disney World, or see a
Speaker 1: gallon of water taken from the now defunct Splash Mountain
Speaker 1: ride at Disneyland. I agree, I'm gonna say it's be Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has b he has the.
Speaker 2: Grumpy If I was gonna throw.
Speaker 1: Up, that would be awesome. I'll take a Walt Disney
Speaker 1: hair that'd be cool in a row. I'm I have
Speaker 1: two so far, so I only need one, but swing
Speaker 1: it needs both, all right? Number four is rue paul
Speaker 1: a a a table and chairs from the set of
Speaker 1: The Brady Bunch b every single beanie baby ever made?
Speaker 1: Or see a room with twenty six disco balls. See you.
Speaker 2: Might be the Brady Bunch for some reason, and feeling.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna remember a room twenty Oh okay you are, Okay, You're.
Speaker 2: Gonna go definitely disco balls everywhere? Okay, it is everywhere.
Speaker 1: So I have officially already won, but you need one more.
Speaker 1: Sabrina here you go, Adele. Does Adele have a a
Speaker 1: discarded piece of Celine Dion's bubble gum? Be a six
Speaker 1: foot painting of Shrek accepting a Grammy, or see framed
Speaker 1: menus from every cracker barrel she's ever eaten in.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: B I'm gonna I'm going to agree wom discarded gum
Speaker 1: from Celine Dion? Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: My? Cause the flavor will go on? Sorry, it wasn't
Speaker 1: even true.
Speaker 2: What song.
Speaker 1: I can't sing? You had to get to go on?
Speaker 1: Once you got?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you again, Producer Jensen. I think I won and
Speaker 1: Sabrina lost.
Speaker 3: Yay ya?
Speaker 1: Can we do a Sabrina sees please?
Speaker 3: Of course? Smart House, Smart House, smart House. First of all,
Speaker 3: one of the things I did, does it not? I mean,
Speaker 3: this is kind of something.
Speaker 2: They feel like.
Speaker 3: We've seen a lot with either roller skating now or
Speaker 3: we had roller skates now, And we've also seen it
Speaker 3: on a skateboard of a dog being able.
Speaker 2: To pull you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my friends used to do that.
Speaker 3: You've seen it in person. I've never really missed. But
Speaker 3: I wish I had a dog when I was younger.
Speaker 3: I don't know why band It wasn't pulling me everywhere.
Speaker 3: That looks like the most fun.
Speaker 1: Well, every time Bandit tried to escape, you should have
Speaker 1: just attached rollerblades to yourself and gone along.
Speaker 2: Yes, did you notice what county they were in?
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 2: This is the second time.
Speaker 1: But I did not. There you go.
Speaker 3: So at first I thought it was going to be
Speaker 3: in Utah, but then I realized it was in It
Speaker 3: was in LA But yeah, Monroe County.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that I kind of got
Speaker 3: a little irritated with was I could not figure out
Speaker 3: until we got our paperwork if it was.
Speaker 2: Gwen quinn lynn.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: The kids were not saying it the same act.
Speaker 1: No, not a lot of pronunciation.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was kind of a little insane.
Speaker 3: We brushed on the kiss, but I will say that
Speaker 3: was probably one of the most awful teething kisses I've
Speaker 3: ever seen.
Speaker 2: She like went in like this and teeth first.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to ask you, have you had a
Speaker 3: bad situation on sex. I've only done two kisses. They
Speaker 3: both were awful and awkward for me. But I know
Speaker 3: you're the king of kissing on on camera.
Speaker 1: Oh, my worst one was my first one ever. I've
Speaker 1: talked about this, like teeth, it was exactly what happened
Speaker 1: Carrie Carry Russell Carry Russell and I bumped teeth and
Speaker 1: it was totally my fault. And it was my first
Speaker 1: ever on screen kiss. And I was like, I was,
Speaker 1: I was. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: So it was the proper technique till I.
Speaker 1: No, you go straight tongue first.
Speaker 3: Just just well, Christy Carlson Romano, she didn't know the
Speaker 3: proper way to kiss on well.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's always you talk to your partner
Speaker 1: about it. Are we really gonna kiss? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: have I've never had anybody say we're not gonna really kiss.
Speaker 1: I've never done the fake kiss. Every single actor I've
Speaker 1: worked with is like, let's just kiss. It's just easier,
Speaker 1: you see, It's just easier. And then it's like a
Speaker 1: real kiss. You go, you like usually twenty and then
Speaker 1: you start with a nice pack and then you build
Speaker 1: like you would a good song. Kiss is like a
Speaker 1: good souse.
Speaker 2: This was and it happened twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now we had to watch that twice. The last
Speaker 3: one is really not a Sabrina sees for anyone else
Speaker 3: but for Sabrina herself as the girl that that tells
Speaker 3: him that he won the contest. I rewound it probably
Speaker 3: twelve times. Going is that Nicole turns out text her
Speaker 3: my friend for high school like a girl, A girl
Speaker 3: I knew in high school, Nicole Bailey, who I didn't
Speaker 3: know was into acting or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Turns out she's in smart House as like a little steaking.
Speaker 2: She's just a really cute girl.
Speaker 3: And I just had to rewind h him going, but wait,
Speaker 3: this is probably shot in Utah.
Speaker 2: She doesn't live in Utah, She's always lived in Orange County. Nope,
Speaker 2: she was shot in la therefore, and she had an agent.
Speaker 2: Didn't know that, so.
Speaker 1: You texted her.
Speaker 2: I texted her and I was like, are you by
Speaker 2: chance in smart house and she's like I am, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, we're gonna cover.
Speaker 3: It on the podcast. She goes, well, let me know
Speaker 3: if you need an interview. Kidding, but yeah, so that's
Speaker 3: my last. Sabrina sees, I just thought that was cool.
Speaker 2: I've met, you know, someone comes across. Yeah, somebody has
Speaker 2: no idea was in the industry, ends up being in
Speaker 2: one of these d coms.
Speaker 3: That's how big the d coms were back then, right,
Speaker 3: everyone was auditioning for him.
Speaker 2: So very very cool moment for mere.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sabrina. And now we've come to the port.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we even have to do this
Speaker 1: this week, but we now come to the part where
Speaker 1: we have to rate our movie one out of ten
Speaker 1: and our options this week, and you're gonna pick are
Speaker 1: one out of ten LaVar Burtons, one out of ten
Speaker 1: actresses turned tattoo artists, one out of ten newspaper retrieving
Speaker 1: robot arms, one out of ten houses that are jumping,
Speaker 1: one out of ten basketball sweaters to wear while playing basketball,
Speaker 1: one out of ten. Romantic kisses that remind you of
Speaker 1: your kids or one out of ten bewitched music videos.
Speaker 1: One out of ten Mickey Mouse cameos or one out
Speaker 1: of ten Robin Schiff bot Mitz.
Speaker 2: God, these are tough. These are all so good this time.
Speaker 3: I think we got to do the claw one. Okay,
Speaker 3: newspaper retrieving robot arms.
Speaker 1: You've got newspaper robot arms the claw? So do you
Speaker 1: want me to go first? Are you going first? I
Speaker 1: forget how we do this.
Speaker 2: I went first last time.
Speaker 1: But I don't give tens. I'm never gonna give a ten.
Speaker 1: But this is a nine point five for me. This
Speaker 1: is a great movie. This is up there with with
Speaker 1: It's It's gonna rotate between Uh, Color of Friendship, Motocrossed
Speaker 1: This and Beyond the Mat For me, so far have
Speaker 1: been just great. So this is a nine point five
Speaker 1: all the way. It is ultimate dcom. I can see
Speaker 1: why it's rated number one or close to it on
Speaker 1: everybody's list. It is a very dcom D com and
Speaker 1: it also handled the emotional stuff really well. The acting
Speaker 1: was great, great balance to it. Really liked this movie.
Speaker 3: I'd say it handled the emotional stuff probably the best
Speaker 3: we've seen.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're no well, Color Color Friendship. They're all good.
Speaker 2: I gotta pull that back. I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna match your nine point five. I loved this movie.
Speaker 3: I will watch it again. Jordan wasn't able to watch
Speaker 3: it either time I was. I was reviewing it, and
Speaker 3: I think he's.
Speaker 2: Got to watch it. He's got to see it again.
Speaker 2: It was so good.
Speaker 3: He also said, you guys got to do smart House.
Speaker 3: It's so good, right, he remembered it. So we've I
Speaker 3: got to have him rewatch it again with me, and
Speaker 3: I will gladly do so. Nine point five newspaper retrieving
Speaker 3: robot arms the claw for me so good.
Speaker 1: I agree, hundred percent. Well we've got We've had some
Speaker 1: bangers lately. We've had some good movies. We've had a
Speaker 1: couple of duds here and there, but we've had some
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking Motocross. I'm thinking of the good ones. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but yes, there's yeah. So anyway, a great movie. Really
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Our next movie makes for another highly anticipated podcast,
Speaker 1: and one that is about to experience a big time
Speaker 1: reboot on the channel. We are watching two thousand and
Speaker 1: nine cinematic installment of the very successful Disney franchise Wizards
Speaker 1: of Waverley Place with Wizards of Waverley Place to the movie.
Speaker 1: This will be twice now where I have not seen
Speaker 1: the show. I'm just seeing the movie. I did it
Speaker 1: with Even Stevens. I still haven't seen Even Stevens, but
Speaker 1: I saw the movie and now I'm doing it with
Speaker 1: Wizards of Waverley Place.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see this for the first time as well.
Speaker 2: I've never seen the show, so I'm.
Speaker 1: There we go. We're stoked about it going in cold.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll know who the characters are and all that
Speaker 1: good kind of stuff. But we're not locking the door
Speaker 1: on Smart House just yet because this week we'll be
Speaker 1: adding a new interview to our Magical rewine feed, which
Speaker 1: of course is its own thing. You just search Magical
Speaker 1: rewind wherever you listen to podcasts and subscribe, and you
Speaker 1: better because we'll be talking to mister Kevin Kilner himself
Speaker 1: aka mister Nick Cooper, the dad from Smart House who
Speaker 1: thinks about his kids every time he kisses.
Speaker 2: He was awesome, he was great.
Speaker 1: It was great, and we want to know what it's
Speaker 1: like acting with a house as your co star, and
Speaker 1: we're going to find it all out. So here is
Speaker 1: a small snippet of what you can expect.
Speaker 4: You know, the thing that I find, especially with young actors,
Speaker 4: is they're just not used to working. The hours are
Speaker 4: really long time, and so you know, I part of
Speaker 4: my job, as you know, their parent or somebody i'm
Speaker 4: acting with them, whatever relationship I have with them, is
Speaker 4: to keep them engaged and keep them happy and keep
Speaker 4: them going. I mean, you know, if that takes like
Speaker 4: stupid dad jokes, or if that needs me making a
Speaker 4: goofball out of myself, which I'm really good at doing,
Speaker 4: especially according to my wife, you do that because it
Speaker 4: just brings energy to the set and you want to
Speaker 4: make it fresh, and you just you know, look, you
Speaker 4: know the days are twelve hour minimum and sometimes you're
Speaker 4: going you're shooting sixteen seventeen hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was such a fun conversation and we were
Speaker 1: so happy that he was able to come on because
Speaker 1: to talk about this movie, which was phenomenal. So remember
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Speaker 1: you for joining us, Pat Could you send us off
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