WEBVTT - Smart House 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.720 We normally do random preshow chatter about stuff that means nothing, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.800 but I want to jump right into this one, frankly, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.880 because this is one people have been waiting for for 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:22.640 quite a while. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.560 I know I've been waiting for this one me too. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.200 I mean, I've now said the title of this movie 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.559 in the opening of every single Magical Rewind and I 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.400 had yet to actually see this film. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.720 Oh wow, Okay, so this is awesome. I mean, it's 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.120 not a shocker you haven't seen. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.199 It will of course, of course, of course, But this. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.640 One I was really excited for. But again, I love 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.400 it because it was so long ago since I. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.960 Last saw it. It felt sort of like seeing it 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:50.960 again for the first time. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.000 You know, this was right in your wheelhouse for the 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.400 time you were watching right, like. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:59.400 Yes, yes, yes, And it was I mean, literally grab 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.880 your popcorn type of a moment. It was so good 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.839 I cannot wait, been waiting, and now's the time. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.600 Now, then let's just do it then, So welcome back 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.560 to Magical Rewind. It is a show that makes you 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.600 want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.120 Go back to a time when all the houses were smart. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.880 The waves. Tsunamis in the high school musical I'm Will 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:19.560 for Dell. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:20.920 And I'm Sabrina Bryant. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.520 H excuse me, Pat? Can you please let everyone know 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.000 it's time to recap the fan favorite sci fi comedy 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.560 from nineteen ninety nine, Smart House, a genuine DCOM classic 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.319 Little Do Thank you very much, Pat, Okay, we heard 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.280 your demands, and we are, of course coming to the 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.800 magical Rewind is getting a major technological upgrade with this 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.520 dcom that first aired on June twenty sixth, nineteen ninety nine, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:50.680 and is regularly considered the best ever made. Absolutely and 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.760 if you think I'm lying, the Entertainment Weekly list we 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.400 so commonly speak of has Smart House at number one, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.840 and Collider the Ebert to ew Siskel has it at 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.040 number three. Still very high, but also very high expectations 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.919 here and as far as the subject matter, way way 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.880 way ahead of its time, I mean, geez it, predating 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.840 things like AI, Alexa, nest ring, VR and the overall 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.799 technophobia that comes with having all those things. This movie, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.800 released originally as Fantasy, has quickly become our everyday lives 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.079 just twenty five short years later. It is a rare 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.839 cautionary tale made for kids. Especially from the Disney brand, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.600 and people still love it and it's much more relevant 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.640 today than it was during its release. We saw the 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.679 same thing with Pixel Perfect, so it's cool to see 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.960 that the channel was well ahead of its time here, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.359 as it is with so many other things. Another rare 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.480 feat the movie Ready was filmed in Los Angeles. Yes, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.680 it was actually LA and they actually used Taft High 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.960 School as a shooting location, a school campus very close 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.920 to not only my heart but my house. What you 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.680 might not know is that Smart House is based on 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.280 a short story by Ray Bradberry, the Michael Jordan of 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.639 sci fi writing that centers on a few tristic house 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.480 that turns on its owner. And there is a horror 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.040 movie that just came out a few months ago as well, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.880 very similar to Smart House, produced by Blumhouse. We're gonna 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.680 say house an awful lot today called Afraid but spelled 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:15.080 giant AFR giant aid. I think with a focus on 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.320 AI of course, in the world nowadays, and you can 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.880 point to movies like Megan or Ex Machina or Her 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.320 that are all very similar, but you could never make 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.880 them jokes now because they're all terrifying and probably going 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.000 to happen to us. Smart House is available to stream 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.040 right now in Disney Plus using something like your Smart 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.560 TV or Apple TV, two things that could eventually kill you. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.880 Who knows. We also don't know if you're gonna watch 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.880 this first before we talk about it or vice versa. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.360 We don't know, but I'm guessing your Alexa does. It's 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.920 completely up to you, all right, one of us has 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.720 actually seen this before? Three guesses who Yeah, it wasn't me, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.080 but Sabrina has seen this before. But I don't even 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.400 want to know what you thought about it watching it 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.280 this time. Can you remember what you thought about it 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.760 the first time you watched Smart House? 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.840 Okay, that's exactly where I was the entire time watching 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.520 this of going I remember thinking, could you imagine having 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.040 a screen that would like really? I mean I had 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.440 friends that had kind of different things, like little monitors, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:13.240 but they were buttons. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.360 They weren't screens. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.640 You know, Could you have like a touch screen in 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.479 your room all of the things. Could you imagine being 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.200 able to do that on your wall? Could you imagine 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.200 just all of that. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:23.760 Kind of stuff? 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.040 I remember when I was younger, going Wow, that would 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.440 be unreal, and then watching it back I'm like, you 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.800 can literally do it. How does Disney do this? They're 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.920 like imagineers or just insane happen. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.039 Really, they really are predicting the future so many different ways, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.000 different times. They're way ahead of it when it comes 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.880 to women empowerments, the technology, I mean, when it comes 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.320 to LGBTQ stuff. I mean, Disney is always at the 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.640 forefront of all of this stuff. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.360 Totally bringing up like could you imagine you know, like 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.440 changing having big changes in that's say, well. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.760 If there is some great poet I forget who, I 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.839 forget who it was. It might have been sueco I 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.599 can't remember, but some poet who essentially said, the first 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.640 thing you have to do to make something real is 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.400 to first imagine. Yeah, and it's true. So somebody has 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.159 to come up with just okay, this is this is 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.640 the idea, and it's so out there and so outlandish. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.440 And the next thing, you know, hopefully someday we're actually 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.159 gonna have lightsabers, so which would be just the coolest 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.400 thing in the road. Still hoping, Sabrina. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.200 Yes, keep it alive, will keep the dream alive. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.240 I know the week they actually invent lightsabers, because I 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.599 will lose a hand anyway, So let's make sure that 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 you're not logged into a chat room because we'll need 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.520 to use the phone. Yeah, that's a nice nineties reference. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:43.760 There. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.479 It's time for the synopsis. A teenager wins a fully 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.320 automated dream house in a competition, but soon the computer 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.280 begins to take over and everything gets out of control. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:54.960 What did you think of this movie? 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.960 I loved this movie. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.920 I mean, hands down. I loved all of the fun, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:06.880 different imagination, things that weren't invented yet. I loved the storyline. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.800 I loved the very emotional moments and seeing that we 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.559 got I mean, all of it was just rounded out 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.000 to being an incredible movie. I was ear to ear 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.600 smiling the entire time. Loved, loved, loved this movie. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.280 That's great you. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.920 Didn't tell me you did otherwise I'm leaving right now. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:34.039 Okay, So here's the thing. Everybody had built this movie 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.880 up and built this movie up and built this movie, okay, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.120 and then when I watched it, it totally worked entirely 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.520 with the build up. It is a great movie. I 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.120 think I have a new favorite, although Motocrosso because of 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.159 the sports aspect, but this was so decom so wonderful. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.880 It had emotionality that some of the other movies don't do. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.200 It dealt with topics like loss and death, and it 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.200 was really really good. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.000 And the masts in this killed it. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.800 The only thing I would say is not actually seeing 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.160 Katie longer. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.360 You wish you could see like a fit. She is a. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.680 Goddess, if not possibly like an original cheated girl with 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.840 all her stuff from Big Bundy. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.080 Oh yeah, I believe we might go there. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.920 But that's the only thing I could say is I 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.520 wish she was on my screen longer. I mean she 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:26.800 I heard her the whole time. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.560 Yeah, But the main I would say this, I would 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.119 put one little caveat to that. The main cast is phenomenal, phenomenal, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.679 great to a person great. Some of the close friends 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:44.720 and or bullies are not the best, No, not the best. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:46.400 But it didn't matter. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.760 It didn't matter. I agree, it did not matter, and 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.640 it was greeny tiny flaw. It didn't matter to me. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.400 I agree with you matter, I kept I was the 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.320 higher time. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.000 Agree with you one hundred percent. I had a phenomenal 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.480 time watching this movie. I did not for one second 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.200 need to pause it and walk out of the room. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.440 I didn't need to take a minute. It wasn't slow. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.880 I wasn't looking at my phone, I wasn't playing a game. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.720 I was watching this movie the whole time and thoroughly 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.840 enjoying it. So smart House is directed by one of 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.560 America's most beloved treasures. And this will probably shock a 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.320 lot of our audience. I know it shocked the hell 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.240 out of me because I had no idea when his 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.360 name came on screen. It's LeVar Burton, that's right, Jordi 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.840 from so many incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. And 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.040 of course that's not all you know him from. He 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.680 was the host of Reading Rainbow, a pioneering educational show 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.400 that promoted literacy. He was the iconic Kuntakinte in Roots, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.160 a legendary TV mini series that was actually just his 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.640 second job ever. And if you just see his performance 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.079 in that, it is unreal. And he's appeared on Big 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.920 Bang Theory and Community, and you can hear him in 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.240 animated shows like Transformers, Rescue Bots where I got to 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.560 work with them, and Mission Force one. And when it 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.960 comes to directing, this was his first time ever. This 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.080 is the first thing he ever directed. Was smart House. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.840 I can't. I can't believe it because it's so good. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:09.920 It was great, and it had he had to do 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.560 all the special effects, and it had a whole bunch 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.920 of different sets and it was really really great. So 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.199 down the road he did end up directing some of 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.800 the Star Trek episodes, Charmed and a dozen ncises as well. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.880 But yes, he was the man behind Smart House. Did 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.040 you know that? Because I didn't know that. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.120 I had no idea. I had no idea. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.800 It was great. Smart House stars dcom favorite and a 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.840 vital teen bopper from his time, Ryan Merriman. Ryan is 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.200 probably my second nobody is gonna beat. I mean, we 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.760 know doll who Sir Jason is and Jason, and Sir 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.880 Jason has been rightfully. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:44.839 Love me some Ryan. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.920 He's so good, such a likable kid, great in Luck 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:49.839 of the Irish. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.920 He's just great in the actor too, I mean just 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.880 act a good actor. So, as Sabrina just said, we 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.480 know Ryan from his work in the Look of the Irish. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.559 Go check out our recap if you don't. But he's 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.760 also movies like The Ring two, Final Destination three and Rockets, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.400 Red Glare, alongside a friend of the show, Daniel fishl 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.319 and TV shows like The Pretender, Smallville and The Mommy's 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.800 Alongside friend of the show Shiloh Strong and we Hear 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.319 at Magical Rewind are definitely Merriman heads for sure. We're big. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.760 We're big, big fans of that Final Destination three? Is 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.360 that the one that where I can no longer drive 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.920 behind the trucks with the with the with the logs 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:26.800 or was that number two? 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.520 You know, all the three of those movies really meshed 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 together for me. I'm just kind of scared of everything 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:32.600 from those movies. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.120 Yeah, there's one where Ali Larder just ends up in 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.160 a room, not just oh sorry, roller coaster, that's the 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:38.720 roller coaster. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:39.720 The roller coaster. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.079 Yeah, and I love roller coasters, so I was really 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:43.760 upset with that. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.960 I love driving behind trucks that toe lumber, and I 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.240 can't do that anymore. That was like my favorite thing. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.920 I used to just do that all the time. Well, 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.800 thank you, Ryan Merriman. Katie Folding plays his sister, Angie, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.000 and she's another familiar name for our listeners because she 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.080 is the star of. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.000 Brink Ing the Jerk Sister, which she is not in this. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:04.520 She's not. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.960 She's great in this in this one. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.079 Yeah. She also played Katie on the short lived t 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.360 G I Have Showed Teen Angel and starred in the 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.520 TV movie trilogy OH Pair one, two and three, written 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.559 by friend of Pod Meets World, Jeffrey Sherman. Katie left 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.480 the entertainment business in two thousand and five and is 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.440 now a tattoo artist in Upstate New York, going by 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.240 the name yet right, going by the name k T 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.240 Steyer Styler. I want to get that right, s t 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.600 I e h l e R. And her Instagram account 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.880 is at kt V t A t t o o 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.520 e R or Katie V Tattooer if you want to 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.240 go check out her work. So, the little girl from 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.720 Brink and Smart House is a tattoo artist. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.680 Now can you imagine? You think she has like sleeves. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.480 And maybe we'll have to check. We'll have to check. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.240 It's also worth noting that actress Brie Larsen auditioned for 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.760 this role, and that's not the first time we have 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.720 said that about a d com. Kevin Kilner is the 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.520 veteran actor playing their widowed dad, Nick Cooper. He has 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.120 well over one hundred credits on IMDb, but some highlights 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.240 include TV shows, like One Tree Hill Earth, Final Conflict 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.959 and Almost Perfect, and movies like a Cinderella Story with 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.040 Hillary Duff and Raising Helen Jessica Stein plays Sarah, the 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.760 tech wuiz in charge of Smart House. Stein was Jennifer 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.440 Pilot Chase and many iterations of Captain Power and The 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.880 Soldiers of the Future, but is best known as Lisa's 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.280 stillman on the TV show Heartland. She also appeared in 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.559 movies like Slapshot two. They made a Slapshot two and Armageddon, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.480 where she was great, and a ton of TV shows 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.400 including Charmed, Flashpoint, and The Outer Limits. And she's really 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.960 really good in this movie. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.320 Oh she's so sweet eye. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.720 Like and the acting was spotted. They were all just 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.480 really good. They're very few, and we'll get into it, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.040 but very few of these actors. Sometimes you get actors 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 that treat it like a d com if that makes sense. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.600 The acting becomes bigger. It's because, well, it's just a kid. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.840 They kept this grounded and it worked great, so good. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.600 And in the Coleman Reynolds chair this we've got a 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.720 very recognizable voice and eventual face in the role of 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.679 the house computer pat. It's Katie Sagal. She is a 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.480 sitcom Hall of Famer for her time as the iconic 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.000 Peg Bundy and Married with Children for eleven seasons, a 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.520 role that earned her four Golden Globe nominations. She is 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.320 also the voice behind Tarangaalela on Futurama, which is one 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.720 of my favorite animated series of all time, and starred 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.160 in the TV shows Eight Simple Rules and Sons of Anarchy, 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.679 which did finally winner that Golden Globe. She is also 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.560 in one of my favorite movies of all time, Pitch 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.640 Perfect two Shout out to my Bella's Also, Katie is 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.960 a true legend who actually started her career Get This 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.160 as a backup singer for artists like Edda James, Olivia 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:43.200 Newton John and Tanya Tucker. Wow. It runs eighty two minutes, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.480 which is eight below the target, but as we always say, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.280 below ninety, that's fine, dy, We don't actually say that. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.720 We probably shouldn't start. I don't think we should. We 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.160 don't need to trademark that because that's never been said 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.440 before and hopefully we'll never be said again. Smart House 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.560 was written by William Hudson. This was this is only 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.760 credit ever and it was co credited with the d 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.319 com Daddy and former guest and magical rewind who were 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.120 hoping to have back the great Stu Krieger. So I 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.800 think we could assume this was one of the scripts 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.040 that he was talking about when he came on. Yes, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.520 he'd help, you know, but he also say that a 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.160 first time writer would come in and they'd need somebody 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.640 with the experience to come and kind of give it 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.720 a punch and to help it, and and Stu was 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.400 the man to always do that. So this seems like 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.960 one of those to scripts he was telling us about, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.560 especially because Stu told us that this was his favorite 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.120 dcom script that he ever wrote, because he did a 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.240 ton of research for it, even visiting the NASA Jet 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.920 Propulsion Lab, which is like, oh, I would love to 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.160 do that on my playground, which is the reason we 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.600 see so many inventions of the film that actually came 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.920 to fruition years later. So go listen to our interview 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.600 with Stu, because he's just great and entertaining. He is 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.960 in the quote unquote, I don't give an era of 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.480 his career, So he just was giving us all the team, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:55.320 all of it. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.720 All of it. What a great episode that was. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.640 That it really was interview he had so many stories, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.760 so no need to wait any longer. Let's get in 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.840 to Smart House. We open on a typical suburban neighborhood 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.120 with a paper boy in his bike, flinging newspapers under 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.640 the front yards just using his hands, Sabrina not using 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.240 it didn't have a launcher specialty eighties can in that 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.480 everybody used. When he gets to a rather large house 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.200 on the route, he throws the paper and we hear 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.400 a computer voice inform him, young man in the future, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.200 please deposit the paper inside its designated target area. Then 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.600 a very long robot arm pops out of the doorway 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.480 and retrieves the newspaper. She alerts him that she'll be 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.760 monitoring his accurately from here on out, and the poor 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.840 little kid looks terrified. And as the title smart House 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.040 appears on the screen, I'm curious, what do you think 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.120 about the robot effect to start the robot arm, because. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.240 It wasn't great, But if you think about the time, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:48.720 but at the. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.080 Time, yes, that it's hard to kind of flip back 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.360 and forth because some of this stuff was kind of cool, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.400 but the time to flip back and forth, and all 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:56.800 I could think of it's. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.560 The claw. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.280 The clock really was kind of the villain of the 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.960 whole movie, to be honest, it looked like she was 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.760 a getting say and pissed. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.040 This clock came out. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.560 I was just like, Wow, it was Doctor Octavia's arms 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.720 and it was pretty good for a d com in 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.440 the nineties. Too bad wasn't great, but not too bad 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.960 for a dcom in the nineties. Yea. Now inside the house, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.360 the robot arm releases the paper to Miles and Sarah, 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.440 a businessman and woman, happy to see the home was 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.280 written about in the new issue. Miles thinks it's because 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.320 the writer has a crush on Sarah, and Sarah says 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.160 she's too busy to care. I was absolutely convinced right 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.040 off the bat this was a married couple, saying acted 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.920 like a married couple. They were in the house like 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.480 a married couple. I just thought they were a married couple, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.320 so they seemed to be romantically linked. But this is 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.240 something that never then came up again in the movie. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.560 Apparently they just work together. Sarah is going to become 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:53.000 the love. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.960 Interest of completely what it seems like you. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.640 But it was really weird vibes to start with. I 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.120 I kind of don't almost feel like they should have 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.520 rewritten it, and it should have been another woman in 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.080 the in the nineties, you wouldn't nowadays that can mean anything. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.080 In the nineties on television, have instantly thought that they 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.120 could have been a couple. Where is this the way 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:14.600 they said that. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.760 He also had these weird glasses that I thought they 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.199 were going to explain. I thought maybe he was like 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.760 reading like a newspaper within the glasses or something, but 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.440 instead they were just an oddly lensed colored glasses. They 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:35.320 never explained or. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.200 Him at all. Really, yeah, he was not explained at all. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.359 I got those vibes that they were a couple. It 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.680 was weird. But anyway, we find out that Miles and 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.359 Sarah are the masterminds behind this technologically advanced home, which, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.080 let's be honest here looks very nineties normal on the inside. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.119 I mean, it was just the house was smart, but 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.200 they kept it looking like it was house. I was 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.080 wondering giant it was, But do you think it could 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.320 have used some futuristic stuff on the inside. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.680 Maybe yeah, But I mean I feel when they've gone 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.879 when when the set designers have gone too far, it 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.800 starts to look very comic bookie, very like to me. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.080 Like poof point, So maybe that was kind of more 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:12.520 of a you know. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.800 Yeah, they wanted it to the house, but at the 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:16.960 house does everything. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.160 When she was working on the control panel and then 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:20.480 slides it over, I was. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.240 Like, yep, she kind of like velcrows it back. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.040 Really totally disappeared. No one would know. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.560 I agree it was nate. Sarah then asks pat the 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.360 house computer, which stands of course for personal advanced technology, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.360 what the current temperature is, and the computer voice responds 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.120 seventy two point five degrees with voice recognition, giving us 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.320 the very first look at what would basically later become ALEXA. 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.920 And now, when you saw this in the nineties or 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.359 when other kids saw this in the nineties, do you 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.840 think this was all this will never happen it's too 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.840 zenon the get this Or do you think this is 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:57.200 like I can't wait till this is real. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.879 No, for me, it was like, whow that would be 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:01.280 so cool? Never gonna happen? 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.960 Yeah, whoa so cool? Yes exactly, even the moment where 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:11.800