Speaker 1: All right, Sabrina, old school drinking game. You have one wish?
Speaker 1: What is it? Go?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: What old school drinking?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because it's just your your friends are
Speaker 1: sitting around drinking and it's always ends up with the Alright,
Speaker 1: you got one wish and it can't be from fifty
Speaker 1: more wishes? What do you wish for?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't know. I'm so bad at stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I really don't have like a.
Speaker 1: You don't have something that you really thought you could
Speaker 1: wish for, like if you had. I wish I could fly.
Speaker 1: I wish I could. It's like nothing like that money. No,
Speaker 1: I wish I was six feet tall. Nothing.
Speaker 4: No, oh my gosh, no, no, I really, I mean.
Speaker 3: No, I wish I think so many memories. It's I'm
Speaker 3: the worst. So I would go down more like my memory.
Speaker 4: I wish I could relive, like meeting my kids for
Speaker 4: the first time, being in that first like couple of
Speaker 4: months with Jordan being on the.
Speaker 3: Road with the Cheetah girls, like I would relive. That
Speaker 3: would be my wish to be able to like relive.
Speaker 1: Can that be not like a do over? Life?
Speaker 3: Not a do over, just like to just go.
Speaker 4: Back and see it again. And see if I would
Speaker 4: see it differently or whatever. I wouldn't want to change anything,
Speaker 4: just like kind of relive that again.
Speaker 3: I love those memories that I have.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've had such incredible experiences so far
Speaker 4: that it'd be amazing. I don't know what else I
Speaker 4: could do to top off some of my experiences.
Speaker 1: That's great. Okay, that's fair. That's a good one. I
Speaker 1: like that. I like that.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 1: Oh God, I would want to relive the first time
Speaker 1: I meet your kids. That would be that. That would
Speaker 1: be that what I would pick? No, I would I
Speaker 1: would break my own rules and wish for one hundred
Speaker 1: more wishes. Everybody knows that, So yeah, come on, duh.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 1: want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn
Speaker 1: and go back to your time when all the houses
Speaker 1: are smart, the waves, tsunamis and their exclamation points at
Speaker 1: the end of movies. Yes we've got another one. It's
Speaker 1: another week of Magical Rewind, and your wish has been granted.
Speaker 1: We're covering two thousand and threes fantasy comedy, you wish,
Speaker 1: and yes, we're back with an exclamation point. A tradition
Speaker 1: we've celebrated a few times before with dcom's Brink, Bring,
Speaker 1: Jump In, and let It Shine, all movies we'd enjoy
Speaker 1: to some degree. I got somesh as the kids say,
Speaker 1: for my Brink recap, but that's okay. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: see if we can keep the streak of exclamation points alive.
Speaker 1: You Wish first aired on January tenth, two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: and once again it's based on a novel. This time
Speaker 1: it's Jackie French Callers If I Had a Wish, first
Speaker 1: released in nineteen ninety one. This is Caller's best selling
Speaker 1: book and the only one that was turned into a movie.
Speaker 1: And even though, of course we're seeing some similarities, there
Speaker 1: is one big glaring difference with You Wish. It was
Speaker 1: not filmed in Utah. It was not filmed in Canada.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't even filmed in the United States.
Speaker 1: You Wish was filmed in Ready, New Zealand, Sabrina. Did
Speaker 1: you notice the massive shift here? I mean, I'm nervous
Speaker 1: if it threw you off not to see the snowy
Speaker 1: mountaintops of Salt Lake City or the streets that are
Speaker 1: quite clearly somewhere in Canada.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I thought that.
Speaker 4: The city life looked like it was Toronto. That looks
Speaker 4: like to me when he was when the two of them. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: I noticed several I've noticed several of the actors hiding accents.
Speaker 1: I was like, why did they cast so many foreigners?
Speaker 1: And then I realized they're shooting at New Zealand. And
Speaker 1: then I thought to myself, Wow, they're moving an entire
Speaker 1: production to New Zealand. That where New Zealand isn't necessary,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not like Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings, where New Zealand is a character. This could
Speaker 1: have been shot anywhere.
Speaker 3: What's another movie?
Speaker 4: Uh, johnny Ssunami, the second one that's not called Johnnysunami.
Speaker 1: It's Johnny's back on the board. Isn't it like Johnny
Speaker 1: back on the board or something?
Speaker 3: Sometimes will I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't just instantly agree with you anymore. I thought,
Speaker 4: that's what it's called Kapijala back on board. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 4: that one I think Brandon told us was filmed in
Speaker 4: New Zealand.
Speaker 1: But that's like, you need exactly this one. You didn't
Speaker 1: need New Zealand, and it makes you wonder why. Maybe
Speaker 1: they save money by filming it there, but then you
Speaker 1: have to fly everybody over there. It was strange. But no,
Speaker 1: maybe they just like this movie. They couldn't find the
Speaker 1: coin to flip to find out where to go, so
Speaker 1: they ended up in New Zealand. See what I brought
Speaker 1: it right bracket, right round. And in addition to Studio
Speaker 1: West in west Auckland, New Zealand, they also shot scenes
Speaker 1: at Takapuna Grammar School. Now, this specific movie genre of
Speaker 1: a kid making a wish that doesn't come true, is
Speaker 1: very common. Some noble examples include Big Freaky Friday, which
Speaker 1: did get a decom version thirteen going on thirty Liar, Liar,
Speaker 1: and Disney's The Kid, which spoiler alert which will come
Speaker 1: up later. Are you a fan of this kind of movie?
Speaker 1: The kid makes a wish, it comes true and he
Speaker 1: finds out his life isn't exactly what he wished for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll get on board with it.
Speaker 4: It's not something that you're like, oh, I wonder what's
Speaker 4: going to happen when he goes to sleep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a little you know, predictable, but I'm
Speaker 3: on board with it.
Speaker 4: Why not if you can have a wish and wake
Speaker 4: up and it actually comes true, that'd be crazy.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's what. There's a reason why
Speaker 1: movies like they make fifteen versions of movies like this.
Speaker 1: It's because it works. You can play within the trope.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got an outline, mix up how you're
Speaker 1: going to do it. Am I want to be a kid,
Speaker 1: I want to be an adult. It's cool. I like it.
Speaker 1: I do too, It's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, once again the question we always asked, did you
Speaker 1: know anything about this movie before we started our wonderful podcast?
Speaker 4: Not anything, but I did recognize at least well the
Speaker 4: three of the main actors in it, so I was
Speaker 4: kind of right away they came onto the screen and
Speaker 4: was like, oh cool. So I knew nothing about the movie.
Speaker 4: I had no idea what it was going to be about,
Speaker 4: but I definitely recognized the actors from the channel.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Same, I knew nothing of this movie and I recognized
Speaker 1: two of the actors. But yeah, well, here we go,
Speaker 1: so get your coin collections out. It's time for the synopsis.
Speaker 1: After a teenager makes a wish that his annoying little
Speaker 1: brother would disappear, he wakes up in a world where
Speaker 1: his brother never existed, but he quickly realizes that life
Speaker 1: without his family isn't as perfect as it seems. Now
Speaker 1: before we go any farther, you, of course, can check
Speaker 1: out You Wish on Disney Plus, where it's currently available
Speaker 1: to stream. You can watch it now or watch it later.
Speaker 1: No skin off our back, but that's because we both
Speaker 1: have a medical condition where we have no skin on
Speaker 1: our back. It makes decisions like these very easy, but
Speaker 1: generally it's excruciatingly painful. Sabrina, what were your thoughts on
Speaker 1: You Wish?
Speaker 4: Like I said, Okay, I see where we're going this,
Speaker 4: you know, wish type thing. Okay, So I kind of
Speaker 4: felt like I already knew what to expect throughout the movie, and.
Speaker 3: My early thoughts were just kind of the relationship.
Speaker 4: I was really intrigued on the relationship between the two
Speaker 4: characters that seemed like they had a love interest, but
Speaker 4: then not because he was kind of being douchey. You
Speaker 4: want to go towards the light, cooler cheerleader. So it's
Speaker 4: kind of like I was interested.
Speaker 3: I guess that's what I say.
Speaker 4: I was really actually interested as it first started happening,
Speaker 4: and then my interest started to dive a little bit.
Speaker 3: What about you, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Had just started to die a little bit. I didn't
Speaker 1: get this movie. This was a weird, weird movie. Like again,
Speaker 1: we've said this now a number of times, where we
Speaker 1: look at young actors that are good. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of very strong actors in this cast. I thought
Speaker 1: the main guy was personal. The little brother plays a
Speaker 1: great little brother. He's played that in a number of
Speaker 1: different things. He's very good at that. The love interest
Speaker 1: she was great. I just didn't get the movie. The
Speaker 1: movie itself was really weird. Yeah so and and just
Speaker 1: some of the choices that were made with the script
Speaker 1: was kind of like this is it was weird and
Speaker 1: we'll get into it. My first thoughts were huh, and
Speaker 1: then it went to and then it went to what
Speaker 1: so all right, yeah that's what I was thinking. But well,
Speaker 1: just when we thought we were out, they keep pulling
Speaker 1: us back in. We've returned to our comfort. Director Paul
Speaker 1: Hoen another Paul Hoan movie. This man directs everything. At
Speaker 1: this point, our podcast should just be called Hoen, Sweet Hoen.
Speaker 1: He is the king of the medium. He really is.
Speaker 1: So Once again, as if we even have to keep
Speaker 1: saying this. He started his career directing TV shows like Sabrita,
Speaker 1: The Teenage Witch and the Secret World of Alex Mack,
Speaker 1: and then just lined up d com after dcom Luck
Speaker 1: of the Irish True Confessions. I'm just gonna keep quiet
Speaker 1: while our audience continues the list, Eddie's Million Dollar Cookoff,
Speaker 1: Read it and weep, just for kicks, jump in Cheetah
Speaker 1: Girls one World, Camp Rock two, Let It Shine, and
Speaker 1: of course the greatest film of all time, Dad Napped.
Speaker 1: He is now the man running the successful Zombies franchise,
Speaker 1: which it's about to get it's fourth movie very soon.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to do the second one. We hear
Speaker 1: at Magical rewind our true Hoan Bodies. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say hoan heads. That sounds weird. We're hoen Natters. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of ways we're paul ohen Bodies.
Speaker 3: I think we need it. I think we're still work
Speaker 3: shopping that one.
Speaker 1: Where we're work shopping the name that's fair. That's a
Speaker 1: fair workshop. You can hear our interview with the master
Speaker 1: himself right now in the dedicated Magical rewind feed. Really
Speaker 1: go check it out. The man has been at the
Speaker 1: helm of Just Banger after Banger and it was a
Speaker 1: really fun interview. And we'll hopefully get him on. We'd
Speaker 1: love to have him on for every movie, but then
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have another guest ever. So yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: stars and hopeful guests, the movie stars Aj Trouth as
Speaker 1: Alex Lansing. Aj is best known as Alan Twitty from
Speaker 1: the hit Disney show Even Stevens with my old friend
Speaker 1: Christy Carlson, a role he reprised for the spinoff DCM.
Speaker 1: Of course, he also appeared on Seventh Heaven Can Possible.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I did Drakens voice when that's
Speaker 1: not who I played House and Franklin and Bash and
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and two, he formed a band
Speaker 1: with his brothers called Maven, and they can be heard
Speaker 1: on the Herbie fully Loaded soundtrack. Man, I wish my
Speaker 1: brother's are musical, even slightly because it would have been
Speaker 1: cool to have a band with. And of course, Spencer
Speaker 1: Breslin plays that little brother Stevie. Spencer's first big role
Speaker 1: was in the Disney movie The Kid Told You It
Speaker 1: Was Coming Back That alongside with Bruce Willis. But then
Speaker 1: Spencer would appear in some big movies including Meet the Parents,
Speaker 1: The Santa Claus two and three, The Cat and the Hat,
Speaker 1: and The Happening. And he is the brother of actress
Speaker 1: Abigail Breslin, best known for It Little Miss Sunshine, which
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite movies ever. It was a
Speaker 1: great movie. Lelane plays Abby known by just one name
Speaker 1: like Scherzandia, Oh God, I Love that, Llane or Blippy.
Speaker 1: Of course. She is best known to our audience as
Speaker 1: Miranda on Lizzie Maguire and from the movie Easy A.
Speaker 1: She also had a record deal at Warner Music and
Speaker 1: played bass in the band Vanity Theft. Everybody that works
Speaker 1: in the channel is multi talented. It's crazy, and we've
Speaker 1: got quite the actor in the Dabney Reynolds chair for
Speaker 1: this movie this week. Tim Reid is Larry Pendragon. Reid
Speaker 1: is best known from a string of big TV shows,
Speaker 1: first as Venus fly Trap, a great character, great show,
Speaker 1: on the TV show WK p Insison, Sorry I had
Speaker 1: to do the theme song. Then as Downtown Brown and
Speaker 1: Simon and Simon, then as Ray Campbell on the TGIF
Speaker 1: hit Sister Sister. You might also recognize him from Stephen
Speaker 1: King's It That was the TV movie version and that
Speaker 1: seventy show or another dcom we have recent rely, Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it wasn't too recent ago was it reviewed?
Speaker 1: Ali catch Strike where he played the mayor. He has
Speaker 1: a ton of credits over the years and is still
Speaker 1: a working actor today. He's a great Hey that guy
Speaker 1: kind of actor. He's been in everything. Also worth noting,
Speaker 1: like we see in Canada, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: great New Zealand local hires in the movie. And that's
Speaker 1: where you could hear a lot of accents kind of
Speaker 1: being pulled back a little bit. Yeah, now we get
Speaker 1: into some unfortunates. The movie is wait for it, AE
Speaker 1: hundred minutes. Oh tough start there, as that's ten minutes
Speaker 1: past the bulls eye. And I think we all know
Speaker 1: by this point the perfect run time is ninety minutes.
Speaker 1: That is not an opinion, that is fact, people, So
Speaker 1: ten minutes later a true fact. Truly a nightmare here,
Speaker 1: but we have to say it. This movie is officially
Speaker 1: say it with me, Sabrina too low, it's too long.
Speaker 1: The writing credit is split up once again, starting with
Speaker 1: the writer of the book, of course, Jackie French Coohler.
Speaker 1: This is her only TV or movie credit. Then we've
Speaker 1: got the writing team of Christopher Reid and Cynthia Carl
Speaker 1: in charge of the screenplay. They are best known for
Speaker 1: writing the supernatural basketball movie of nineteen ninety seven, The
Speaker 1: Sixth Man, which they wrote together, but Carl was also
Speaker 1: an actressho appeared on Family Ties, Benson and The Client
Speaker 1: Three great shows. All right, everybody, why don't you finish
Speaker 1: your special pancakes and go save your family. Let's get
Speaker 1: into you wish. That's how I have to say it,
Speaker 1: because of course we have an exclamation point. We open
Speaker 1: with Alex Lansing and his little brother Stevie playing war
Speaker 1: in the woods. They're carrying super soakers looking for their enemies, which,
Speaker 1: of course are two of Alex's friends, one being the
Speaker 1: cute alt girl Abby, the other is James, but Stevie
Speaker 1: is ant exactly rambo. Alex commands his brother to check
Speaker 1: the blind spot, but just then they were ambush and
Speaker 1: blasted with blue slime. They've officially lost the battle, and
Speaker 1: Alex playfully of course blamed Stevie. Then Bear hugs him.
Speaker 1: They're trying to show that, hey, you know what great
Speaker 1: older brother bringing his little brother around everywhere. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: they're interesting how they're setting up this relationship. Alex now
Speaker 1: on rollerblades, which should be of absolutely no surprise to
Speaker 1: anybody watching. A DCM, says goodbye to his friends. There's
Speaker 1: some innocent flirting between Abby and Alex. Then James mentions
Speaker 1: their plan to hit up what do you do? What
Speaker 1: the kids do? Huh? Do you know what they do?
Speaker 1: They hit up the coin shop next weekend, like all
Speaker 1: kids love doing. Let's go shopping for coins, those kids
Speaker 1: and their coins. Did you have a coin collection? Oh god,
Speaker 1: here we go, sebraded. Did you have a coin collection?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: You know, okay, I tried so many times.
Speaker 4: It wasn't coins like this like cool different coins.
Speaker 1: Tried to have a coin collection, yes, but then i'd
Speaker 1: also someone failed to have a coin collection.
Speaker 3: It would just like end up wanting to buy something
Speaker 3: and I would use them and.
Speaker 1: Can I just you know, if you're just collecting quarters
Speaker 1: to spend on stuff, well, that's not a coin collection.
Speaker 3: I know, it's a biggie bag.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: No, I would try to get quarters. I would always
Speaker 3: like look at quarters to see the dates on them.
Speaker 4: I was trying to get like different years and like
Speaker 4: line them up and whatever. But then like something would
Speaker 4: come up and I'd need to get something and buy something,
Speaker 4: and you know, me and my friends would like, haven't
Speaker 4: We'd like go up to like the Vaughn's and buy
Speaker 4: something or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a coin collection, that's it's not I would try.
Speaker 3: That's what I love. Like, I would always try to try,
Speaker 3: and I would always fail. Like I was never good
Speaker 3: at that. I'm still not good at that. Guy's still
Speaker 3: saving Money's not my thing, it's my Luckily, it's my
Speaker 3: husband's thing.
Speaker 1: So I love. Yeah, I love coin collections I have.
Speaker 1: I have a very small one, none of them worth anything.
Speaker 1: It's more like the history of stuff. And fans have
Speaker 1: sent me. Knew that I loved like ancient Roman stuff,
Speaker 1: so they'd send me Roman coins. So I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of cool things. But I can't remember looking at
Speaker 1: my bros going hey man, this weekend, you me coin shop,
Speaker 1: Like I think the only.
Speaker 4: Coins I would have is like a collection or when
Speaker 4: I've travel out of the country and forgot to like
Speaker 4: put my again.
Speaker 1: Not a collection, that's just you not changing in your coins.
Speaker 1: And I are gonna start working on the word collection eventually.
Speaker 1: Alex and Stevie get home and are greeted by their parents.
Speaker 1: They explain there is a pet adoption at the park
Speaker 1: and they're thinking about getting a pet. The kids are
Speaker 1: obviously very excited, going back and forth between a rabbit
Speaker 1: or a dog. All smiles, and for the first time
Speaker 1: in a while, the family seems fully functional. There doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be any decom trope going on. Both the
Speaker 1: parents are together, it seems like a close family. You
Speaker 1: have a little brother friction, but that's totally normal in
Speaker 1: every family, so it seems like they're setting up. This
Speaker 1: is a completely normal, functional family. We now find ourselves
Speaker 1: at the County Park pet day and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of options, some very strange. It's almost like a farm.
Speaker 1: There's birds and hamsters and a bounce house. Alex stumbles
Speaker 1: on a bulldog and runs to his family to have
Speaker 1: them check it out, but Stevie has already picked a turkey.
Speaker 3: I don't get it turkey. This is when I went,
Speaker 3: oh no, are we gonna do? Oh no?
Speaker 1: Like it just this started, like, no one picks a turkey,
Speaker 1: even a little kid's not gonna pick turkey.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, okay, that okay, okay.
Speaker 4: So my cousin lives on a farm. She might pick
Speaker 4: a turkey. She might pay for parkins. She lives on
Speaker 4: a farm, she has a chicken coop, Like.
Speaker 3: A rooster is needed to you know what if there's
Speaker 3: a turkey that they have and she that's what they
Speaker 3: have for Thanksgiving, Like it's.
Speaker 4: Like that kind of look these kids, these people live
Speaker 4: in the suburbs, Like there's zero reasons where.
Speaker 3: Is this turkey? Like turkeys don't.
Speaker 4: They don't live in a house, which is what they
Speaker 4: tried to do. They they have to have like a
Speaker 4: pen like turkeys are aggressive. Also, by the way, it
Speaker 4: cannot be trusted.
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing Stevie's gonna cry when they slaughter this
Speaker 1: thing for dinner exactly, which is what having a pet
Speaker 1: turkey should be about. And I also Alex gets no say.
Speaker 1: They're setting up that this kid gets no say in life.
Speaker 1: Whatoever no say with the pets. The kid is always
Speaker 1: getting him into trouble. It was starting to be like
Speaker 1: did you have you had pets growing up? What was
Speaker 1: your turkey's name growing up?
Speaker 4: I should my turkey's name. No, I didn't have a turkey.
Speaker 4: I had nothing like that. There's no way my parents
Speaker 4: would have ever gotten something like that.
Speaker 1: I okay, that's not what did you get what? But
Speaker 1: did you grow up with pets your whole life? Yes?
Speaker 6: I had?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, I think my first pet was when I
Speaker 4: was probably six or seven. It was my dog Bandit.
Speaker 4: We've talked about him, how he used to roam around.
Speaker 4: He was, you know, the pimp of the neighborhood and
Speaker 4: the dog. And then I had a little kitt and
Speaker 4: I got after I did a movie with Angela Lansbury
Speaker 4: and my character's name was Fritzi and I loved that name,
Speaker 4: so I named her Fritzy. And then yeah, so then
Speaker 4: I got when I moved out, I got my first dog, Rocky.
Speaker 4: I've got another dog, Emily.
Speaker 1: And I probably I thought you were going to say
Speaker 1: you named your cat Angela Lansbury.
Speaker 4: Which that would have been awesome. I was a junior.
Speaker 4: I was like in six or seventh grade. I wasn't
Speaker 4: cool like that to think of.
Speaker 1: Something now that makes it makes sense. My first pet
Speaker 1: was named Charcoal and he was a Gerbil and he
Speaker 1: was killed by my second pets, who were cats.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into don't start with me
Speaker 1: and charcoals. I don't want to get into it. I can't.
Speaker 1: I haven't, I haven't put the pain behind me, and that.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, well that gal will never happen Gerbils
Speaker 4: or hamsters or anything love the sort in the house
Speaker 4: will not happen with me.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm getting you for Christmas. And you're
Speaker 1: now back at home and the brothers are getting to
Speaker 1: know their new pet, and Alex thinks, of course it's
Speaker 1: the grossest thing he's ever seen, because it is, and
Speaker 1: so do the high school athlete jocks who happen to
Speaker 1: stroll by. They're wearing their lettermon jackets, which is how
Speaker 1: we know we hate them. They're a bunch of douche
Speaker 1: I mean like they're just the douche team. They're holding
Speaker 1: a giant pizza and they're led by a jerk named
Speaker 1: Gary Gary shout out to my older brother Gary. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the jocks who uh are Alex's football teammates apparently, so
Speaker 1: it's not like he's the total lame. Oh he's also
Speaker 1: on the team. Ridicule him about the turkey, as I
Speaker 1: would too, And I don't like to bully people, and
Speaker 1: I still would ridicule you about your pet turkey. Stevie
Speaker 1: decides to not only stand up for his animal, but
Speaker 1: for his brother too, which of course infuriates the jocks.
Speaker 1: Alex sends Stevie back into the house just in time
Speaker 1: to miss Gary dump a full pizza. The pizza they're
Speaker 1: carrying on his big brother's head, all in front of
Speaker 1: the turkey, who's obviously judging them, but who weighs a
Speaker 1: perfectly good pizza that you've obviously gone out.
Speaker 3: To get thoughts exactly.
Speaker 1: I like, now do you all have to turn around
Speaker 1: and go buy Like, hey, thanks Gary, we're all starving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they had multiple pizzas, maybe that would have
Speaker 3: made me feel better.
Speaker 1: They just something taking a slice and smack it in
Speaker 1: his face. But you just ruined your whole pizza. Gary.
Speaker 3: It's like the weirdest way to like bully somebody. Somebody
Speaker 3: is strange.
Speaker 1: I also thought about a hot to cheese and the
Speaker 1: and the sauce would have bit on his head and
Speaker 1: he could have burned his face.
Speaker 3: This was weird to me, and it was just rude around.
Speaker 1: This is where the weirdness started. Yeah, we find out,
Speaker 1: of course, this is not the first time Stevie has
Speaker 1: gotten Alex in trouble. We see home videos of their
Speaker 1: childhood where Stevie barfed up milk on his brother as
Speaker 1: a baby knocked over his blocks. On Christmas Day, Stevie
Speaker 1: always takes center stage and he feels like he's wrecking
Speaker 1: Alex's life. And this turkey seems to be farting a lot. Again.
Speaker 1: We're doing farting animals in this episode. Is the last straw?
Speaker 1: This is what two movies in a row with farting animals. Okay,
Speaker 1: can we do a quick early two thousands hunk check
Speaker 1: on the guy who plays Alex Sabrina. He is a
Speaker 1: cute kid, right, Yeah, he was cute. Is this somebody
Speaker 1: you would have had a poster of on your wall
Speaker 1: back in the day? No, No, not your type. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find your type. We're gonna go through to feel.
Speaker 3: Like Disney didn't have my type, like I mean.
Speaker 1: I We're gonna find it. We're in this together, all right.
Speaker 1: Later that night, Alex is eating guacamole with his parents
Speaker 1: when he realizes his brother has been upstairs for a
Speaker 1: little too long, so he knows something's wrong, and of
Speaker 1: course he was right. It's TV is playing with Alex's
Speaker 1: coin collection one of the three things he's told him
Speaker 1: never to touch. The other two things fi are his
Speaker 1: skates and his bike. What what were you gonna say? Uh?
Speaker 3: This is it's happening in my house right now with
Speaker 3: with Monroe and Ledger. This is like I was just
Speaker 3: da no, not that.
Speaker 4: But it's like Monroe is at an age where she
Speaker 4: knows to pick up her room and do things like that,
Speaker 4: you know, pick up toys and stuff.
Speaker 3: And then Ledger comes in and just bulldozes everything.
Speaker 4: And then I'm not gonna ask him to do it
Speaker 4: because he's not gonna pick it up.
Speaker 3: He's just gonna throw it.
Speaker 4: Even more so she gets kind of in trouble a
Speaker 4: little bit and she's like, Ledger did that. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't care, you need to pick up the toys.
Speaker 4: And then Monroe just did it.
Speaker 3: Last week it was quiet, and she went, where's Ledger?
Speaker 3: And I went, I don't know. I I think he's
Speaker 3: in the He's in the cave. And she goes in.
Speaker 4: She goes oar and he had gotten in her makeup
Speaker 4: and he put it all over her and he like
Speaker 4: he like doesn't like do it nicely.
Speaker 3: He like gets the gel stuff out. He ruined it.
Speaker 3: And I was cracking up during this part, going, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I have.
Speaker 1: A question about Monroe. So if she cleans up her
Speaker 1: whole room and then Ledger comes in and wrecks something,
Speaker 1: she gets in trouble and has to clean it up again.
Speaker 4: Well, to be fair, I don't know that she was
Speaker 4: playing in the room with Ledger, so he might be
Speaker 4: making it more of a mess.
Speaker 1: But she's got there with them all right, fair enough,
Speaker 1: because I was gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, and I'm sure he does make it like messier,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: You know, she's kind of probably playing nicely with what
Speaker 4: she picked out to play, and he's taking everything and justus,
Speaker 4: you know whatever. Anyway, it just was funny. This part
Speaker 4: of I was like, oh my gosh, I feel so bad.
Speaker 1: It seems very real. Alex is, of course furious. His
Speaker 1: room is his room and his stuff is his stuff.
Speaker 1: Stevie responds by yelling for his dad, screaming that Alex
Speaker 1: is hurting him. Then a little turns out to be
Speaker 1: a liar too, because that never happened. Yeah, that's not cool, yikes,
Speaker 1: But that's such a little brother thing to do. Hi,
Speaker 1: youngest in the family, I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: In turn, their dad punishes Alex despite his oldest son
Speaker 1: swearing he didn't do anything, which of course he didn't.
Speaker 1: Alex also bars Stevie from his room for two weeks. Now.
Speaker 1: Despite the declaration, Stevie still tries to sneak into his
Speaker 1: brother's room, but Alex catches him. What is he doing?
Speaker 1: He's been banned for two weeks? But of course Alex's
Speaker 1: heart melts a little bit and he gives up, inviting
Speaker 1: Stevie in to watch a black and white horror movie
Speaker 1: together and play fight. He's a really good big brother, right,
Speaker 1: it's super coat yep. The next day, it's breakfast into
Speaker 1: Alex's dad warns him he may be a little late
Speaker 1: for today's game. Alex says, don't worry, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He only warms up the bench anyway, and he hates
Speaker 1: when Stevie cheers for him at the game, so please
Speaker 1: don't cheer for him. Alex's parents do wish they could
Speaker 1: send him a football camp, but they can't afford it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm now back to thinking it's a weird relationship. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can't root on his brother at the game. Stevie
Speaker 1: seems awful, but also this is really messed up. This
Speaker 1: is where everything just got kind of muddled, where it
Speaker 1: was like, wait, what is It's like, don't be in
Speaker 1: my room. I get, but don't don't cheer for me
Speaker 1: at the game, or I'm gonna yell at you. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't get.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's like he see it seems
Speaker 4: like and we don't know up to this point, but
Speaker 4: that he puts on like big spectacles or he like
Speaker 4: he's embarrassing about it.
Speaker 3: He's not yeah, he's not just like saying yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: or anything like that. It's like he's like embarrassing.
Speaker 4: And it's always like very upfront and in front of everyone,
Speaker 4: and it's big and loud.
Speaker 1: What I get it?
Speaker 3: What weirded me? And I can't believe you didn't say it?
Speaker 4: Why are they acting like they don't have any money
Speaker 4: when they live in a really nice house. We're back
Speaker 4: to that Disney trope of like, oh, we're so poor
Speaker 4: except for our kids' bedrooms are the size that.
Speaker 1: Some people's apart. It's true. I wonder though, to find
Speaker 1: better sets.
Speaker 3: If they're gonna keep going on this football camp expensive.
Speaker 1: Maybe football camp is really expensive. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I wouldn't know. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't think.
Speaker 4: And the whole they say it again because it comes
Speaker 4: out back later, is like they're acting like they're poor
Speaker 4: because they have a second child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which again you probably have left. But it's not
Speaker 1: like that kids in college right now, no, right, this.
Speaker 3: Is yeah, so yeah, So it just was a little like.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, I get it. Upstairs, Alex makes Stevie swear
Speaker 1: he won't cheer his name, but oh no, Alex notices
Speaker 1: something Stevie's wearing his roller blades, one of the three
Speaker 1: things he said do not touch. And angry, Alex tackles
Speaker 1: his little brother and tugs his skates off his feet,
Speaker 1: only to notice he got jelly on him. So to
Speaker 1: make him pay, Alex chases his brother downstairs, only to
Speaker 1: be reprimanded by his mom. Once again, Stevie gets away
Speaker 1: with everything, and now Alex has been forced to babysit
Speaker 1: him for the next weekend. The same week and he's
Speaker 1: supposed to hang out with his friends to go to
Speaker 1: the coin shop coin hangout Saturday, Mom. His mom suggests
Speaker 1: he takes Stevie along, and all Alex can do is
Speaker 1: just shake his head, and it does seem like this
Speaker 1: kid gets away with murder and Alex can't do anything
Speaker 1: about it. To let off some Steve, Alex goes rollerblading
Speaker 1: with his frosted Tip friend James and complains about how
Speaker 1: his ten year old brother rules the house. James reminds
Speaker 1: him Alex does care about Stevie, but Alex isn't hearing
Speaker 1: it right now. And I thought this was a fun
Speaker 1: scene where he's like, you really care about your brother's dude,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to bash my brother right now. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: you're right. I'm sorry, give me a second. Let me
Speaker 1: have a second. And he's like, you're right, you're right now.
Speaker 1: We are back at Harbor High's football game. Alex indeed
Speaker 1: is riding the bench but catches the eye of Fiona,
Speaker 1: a beautiful cheerleader. She approaches him and it feels like
Speaker 1: she's about to go flirt, but instead points out that
Speaker 1: Stevie has handed out go. Alex goes signs and is
Speaker 1: yelling into a bullhorn. She calls it so embarrassing for
Speaker 1: a bench warmer and laughs at him, and then Alex
Speaker 1: gets called into the game, the only person on the
Speaker 1: entire team with a bright white uniform. He looks nervous,
Speaker 1: and on his way out of the field, he accidentally
Speaker 1: pushes Fiona into the mud. Good deserved it.
Speaker 3: Smooth, kind of happy about it. But I was probably
Speaker 3: not the best thing for you, Alex.
Speaker 1: No, but she went out of her way to make
Speaker 1: fun of him. You belong in the mud, daddie. We
Speaker 1: are now in the field. Alex takes a spot in
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and just as the ball is hiked,
Speaker 1: Alex gets absolutely crushed and the quarterback gets sacked. The
Speaker 1: crowd goes silent as Alex is just laying on the ground.
Speaker 1: It's possible he's dead. Back at school, Abby is trying
Speaker 1: to console Alex about the game, but he's distracted when Fiona,
Speaker 1: now no longer covered in mud, drops paper in the hallway.
Speaker 1: He rushes over to get it for her and apologizes
Speaker 1: for the accident, but as a result, she totally insults
Speaker 1: him and walks away. Abby sees it all and does
Speaker 1: what you always do. Itmits out loud to yourself. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you like someone and they don't even know you're alive.
Speaker 1: Didn't really need that spelled out. We could have just
Speaker 1: had it doing that, but hey, I know it's a
Speaker 1: kid's movie, but it was like, why are you saying
Speaker 1: this out? She should have just looked at the camera
Speaker 1: and be like, I really like Alex, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: like me. So it's like, yeah, we get it. Now.
Speaker 1: We are at lunch with Abby and James. Alex thinks
Speaker 1: Jock Gary has the best life ever. He's all city
Speaker 1: in every sport, he dates Fiona and he doesn't even
Speaker 1: have a pest for a little brother. Abby invites him
Speaker 1: to skate with her on Saturday, but he already has
Speaker 1: those awesome coin World plans and for this bunch of
Speaker 1: coin collectors listening now, like, why do you keep on us?
Speaker 1: We're just trying to collect coins, not hurting anybody here.
Speaker 1: What's your problem? And you're right, and I apologize. It's
Speaker 1: a double eagle for.
Speaker 4: All of you.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that later too. And when she asked
Speaker 1: about after Awesome coin World, he says he has to
Speaker 1: clean the turkey coop. Uh huh, so he just doesn't
Speaker 1: want to hang out with her. She gets the hint
Speaker 1: and she leaves, which doesn't make any sense because She's adorable,
Speaker 1: an escape girl and super cool, and it's like, how
Speaker 1: do you not want to hang out with her? But
Speaker 1: you're also an idiot when you're in I look back
Speaker 1: at the girls I had a crush on in middle
Speaker 1: school and high school, and it was always the popular girls,
Speaker 1: and I look back now and go like, man, that
Speaker 1: art girl, she would have been the one. You want
Speaker 1: to hang out with her that you know, those are
Speaker 1: the cool ones. So anyway, it is now the weekend.
Speaker 1: Alex and James are in an elevator at the very
Speaker 1: very Neon mall. Alex has maybe a dozen bags of
Speaker 1: French fries and five dollars worth of quarters for Stevie
Speaker 1: to stay busy, and I was like, what are they
Speaker 1: doing with all of these French fries? So they're just
Speaker 1: giving them to the kid, like forty bags of French fry.
Speaker 3: I know it was a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is like an easy thing if you're
Speaker 4: taking a kid anywhere is just keep them loaded with food.
Speaker 1: Right, But why you can't throw a burger in there
Speaker 1: or something else. It's just gotta be friends.
Speaker 3: I don't know, not sure.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's it, Maybe that's it. Meanwhile, Stevie is waiting
Speaker 1: for his brother on a bench when he spots a
Speaker 1: man wearing a beret in a winter coat, carrying and
Speaker 1: struggling with a ton of boxes. Eventually, this man is
Speaker 1: accidentally pushed into a store, dropping everything onto the floor.
Speaker 1: Stevie jumps up to help without even thinking, which is
Speaker 1: very nice, and the man appreciates the good deed. Alex
Speaker 1: and James arrive and they know this dude, this is
Speaker 1: Larry from coin World. Obviously, Larry praises Stevie and invites
Speaker 1: them into his shop to see his new shipment of Romans.
Speaker 1: Did you know what Romans were at the time?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I like, I like Roman stuff, so I kind of
Speaker 1: knew what Roman coins are. That's just Roman coins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's coins with different because you know, every emperor would
Speaker 1: like have their face stamped on it. So it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: here's a Julius Caesar, here's an Augustus Caesar. I mean
Speaker 1: there's some that are more rare than It's like if
Speaker 1: an emperor was only emperor for a year or two,
Speaker 1: it's like being able to find his coin is there's
Speaker 1: some cool stuff. I I also didn't have just getting
Speaker 1: the dates. No, that's why I didn't have that what
Speaker 1: is the word? Friends? But before they dive into their
Speaker 1: new coins, Alex places Stevie back of the bench and
Speaker 1: tells him to eat his fries and not to move.
Speaker 1: He promises they'll go to the arcade soon and leaves
Speaker 1: him with some quarters to prove it. But Larry isn't
Speaker 1: done with Stevie. He gives the boy a very special
Speaker 1: coin he's heard it's good for one wish, and warns
Speaker 1: him to be careful, but to do something big with it.
Speaker 1: A little later, Now done with all the fries and
Speaker 1: surrounded by empty fry bags, Stevie's board. Obviously he's ten
Speaker 1: and he's been sitting on this bench for god knows
Speaker 1: how long. He ignores his brother's instructions and disappears off
Speaker 1: the bench, running straight to the arcade. Inside, he quickly
Speaker 1: loses a pinball and searches his pockets for another quarter,
Speaker 1: eventually rediscovering Larry's supposed wish coin. He's about to put
Speaker 1: it in the machine, but then remembers he has to
Speaker 1: do something big with it. Meanwhile, back at the coin shop,
Speaker 1: Larry's getting ready to close. It's already six pm, and
Speaker 1: you know what they say, time flies when you're looking
Speaker 1: at coins. So he opens the store and closes the store.
Speaker 1: So they have been standing at that bench looking at
Speaker 1: coins for like eight hours.
Speaker 3: Expecting Stevie to sit to just sit there.
Speaker 1: Not Stevie's fault. No, who looks at coins for eight
Speaker 1: straight out?
Speaker 3: I mean there are definitely other things in the store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they weren't sitting there. Do work in the
Speaker 1: accordion like the other guy. They're all about the coin.
Speaker 1: It was just it was like, wow, we've been here
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, it's a long nay.
Speaker 1: Alex still can't He can't believe that he's been in
Speaker 1: there that long. Neither can we. It's been way too long.
Speaker 1: He turns to find his brother, and of course Stevie
Speaker 1: is gone. Nobody could sit there for eight hours. He
Speaker 1: ditches James at coin World and sprints to the arcade,
Speaker 1: but Stevie isn't there. It is officially time to freak out. Actually,
Speaker 1: though Stevie is roaming them all in off trying to
Speaker 1: find his brother. He notices that coin World is closed too,
Speaker 1: so he asks them all security guard if he'll call
Speaker 1: his mom. And now Alex is definitely in massive trouble.
Speaker 1: We are now back at their house. The brothers are reunited,
Speaker 1: but Alex has been grounded for a month, which means
Speaker 1: no more coin World or rollerblades or whatever kids do.
Speaker 1: Both brothers are sent off to bed, and Alex believes
Speaker 1: his little brother has ruined his life. In all fairness,
Speaker 1: you left your brother to them all and the kid
Speaker 1: freaked out kind of your fall. In his bedroom, Alex
Speaker 1: is still stewing when an envelope is delivered under the door.
Speaker 1: It's a sorry note from Stevie and it includes the
Speaker 1: wish coin. It's engraved with an owl and reads one
Speaker 1: Wish in Latin, so apparently Alex knows Latin, which again,
Speaker 1: if you are big in Romans you might know. He
Speaker 1: doesn't believe it has powers, but still wishes he didn't
Speaker 1: have a little brother and goes to sleep. We see
Speaker 1: the coin spin and spin and spin, and eventually it
Speaker 1: comes to a stop. The next morning, Alex is awoken
Speaker 1: by an alarm clock, something he's never had to do before,
Speaker 1: but assumes it's part of his new grounding. And then
Speaker 1: slimy drool falls onto his face. It's a bulldog hovering
Speaker 1: over him. Wait a second, what dog? Is this also
Speaker 1: worth noting the dog farts, which now has become a trope.
Speaker 1: Suddenly we hadn't. We'd gone twenty five thirty movies, fifty
Speaker 1: movies without seeing that. Now of a sudden we've seen
Speaker 1: two or three in a row where this is a thing.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it won't be a thing that sticks around. He
Speaker 1: surveys the room and notices player of the Year trophies
Speaker 1: and celebratory football photos that he's never seen before. Also,
Speaker 1: his coin collection includes double eagles. Double eagles not double
Speaker 1: These are actually look them up. Can be very expensive,
Speaker 1: really yeah, very expensive sometimes I think like thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1: By the way, bashing the out of coin collecting the
Speaker 1: entire time, it seems like I know a lot more
Speaker 1: about it than I thought I actually did. For the record,
Speaker 1: here I am trying to throw everybody off the set,
Speaker 1: But I actually love coins, I really do you know what?
Speaker 1: I also have. I have Harry Potter coins behind me
Speaker 1: in the other room. I have the galleon and all
Speaker 1: the other stuff. Not going to get into that. Oh,
Speaker 1: I married a woman and I have a wife. I'm
Speaker 1: also okay good. Alex runs through a now blue hallway.
Speaker 1: Everything looks different. They have a game room with a
Speaker 1: pinball machine, air hockey, a big screen TV, and a
Speaker 1: drum set in the kitchen. His dad is wearing a
Speaker 1: very sharp suit reading the Wall Street Journal. His mom
Speaker 1: is also in a business casual look, and everything in
Speaker 1: the house just looks more expensive. So now they're ripped. Yep,
Speaker 1: apparently okay. Alex tells his parents he's onto them. He
Speaker 1: assumes this is a prank and it was Stevie's idea,
Speaker 1: very elaborate prank. They have no idea what he's talking
Speaker 1: about and don't know who Stevie is. His dad leaves,
Speaker 1: promising he'll see Alex at the game. So what's going on?
Speaker 1: Whose dog is this? Why is his coin collection? All
Speaker 1: of a sudden so cool? Alex even has a totally
Speaker 1: different haircut. His parents are concerned with their son's behavior.
Speaker 1: They think he might be sick. Alex runs upstairs. We
Speaker 1: get a glimpse of the family picture. It's now just
Speaker 1: two parents and just one kid, just Alex. Alex storms
Speaker 1: into what was his brother's room, it's now a home gym.
Speaker 1: He swears he had a little brother, but his mom
Speaker 1: wonders if he's just lonely is he wishing he had
Speaker 1: a brother? And then hearing the word wish, Alex figures
Speaker 1: it out. It was the wish coin. He's living his
Speaker 1: wish and the coin is now nowhere to be found. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: stick with me here, because this is where it goes.
Speaker 1: Poo in the house. The TV is playing a newscast
Speaker 1: where the reporter is about to interview the star of
Speaker 1: a new TV show called Where's Stevie? The young actor's
Speaker 1: name is Terrence Russell McCormick. And who is Terrence? Well,
Speaker 1: it's Stevie at least it's the Stevie we knew, but
Speaker 1: now being called Terrence and he's a big celebrity. And
Speaker 1: that's when I said, what the is going on?
Speaker 4: I heard you all the way from La say what.
Speaker 1: Say what? Serena? I can't remember what I said? What
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 3: Again? I'm like, oh god, we've lost somebody.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, did were you trip at this point?
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 3: Already said what's happening?
Speaker 4: Like right, I can't even remember. I'm looking at my
Speaker 4: notes and I still can't remember what. But it's in
Speaker 4: my notes twice, and I'm like, I wish I would
Speaker 4: have said, given like a little note of what I meant.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what is happening?
Speaker 3: Bit later, what's happened?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just it's at this point I'm going, wait.
Speaker 3: What so now he's and so yeah, so.
Speaker 1: He's he's a famous actor.
Speaker 3: To not take him out of this story completely, to
Speaker 3: keep him in. He's just living a different.
Speaker 1: Life, right that he loved.
Speaker 3: And they had already remembered.
Speaker 4: They did mention something about him acting earlier on.
Speaker 1: Right, But I mean, I also get the idea. I
Speaker 1: get the basic premise of you. They're trying to show that, Okay,
Speaker 1: Alex isn't going to care that his little brother's gone,
Speaker 1: because actually, in this new world, his little brother is living.
Speaker 3: This amazing he always wanted.
Speaker 1: Right, So I get doing that as opposed to just
Speaker 1: disappearing the character. But it was just so nutty that
Speaker 1: it was kind of it was very, very strange. So Alex,
Speaker 1: by the way, who now has the nickname Bling as
Speaker 1: in Bling Bling, watches his mom and dad leave for work,
Speaker 1: and Alex realizes his little brother, like I just said,
Speaker 1: is living the life. He's a TV star. So maybe
Speaker 1: the wish wasn't so bad after all, especially because he's
Speaker 1: now stoked that he is an only child, Alex or Bling. No,
Speaker 1: I can't do it, Alex, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't understand bling at all, at all.
Speaker 1: No, I just to show that he is so cool
Speaker 1: in this new world. But dad calls it. Why is
Speaker 1: dad that weird? Like weird?
Speaker 3: You know, yes, weird.
Speaker 1: So Alex Or Blaying drives to school in his dad's viper, which, again,
Speaker 1: when you've got three people in a family and is
Speaker 1: their only two seater car, is really stupid. But he's very,
Speaker 1: very popular. He's It's like, hey, I gotta go now,
Speaker 1: pick up your mom and bring her back to work.
Speaker 1: We have two seats. He's wearing one of those purple
Speaker 1: letterman jackets, and the girls love him. He eventually passes Fiona,
Speaker 1: the hot cheerleader that a push in the mud before,
Speaker 1: and she grabs and kisses him on the cheek. What
Speaker 1: she is his girlfriend and Gary is his best friend?
Speaker 1: Blinge quickly goes with the new situation. No, I can't,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Alex quickly goes to the new situation and
Speaker 1: learns he's throwing a party at his house after tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Alex just can't take it. He sneaks into the bathroom
Speaker 1: to give himself a pep talk and finds the courage
Speaker 1: to go to class. He sits next to Abby, who
Speaker 1: looks very surprised. Fiona calls out to him, that's not
Speaker 1: his seat, and he says he just wanted to say
Speaker 1: hi to Abby, which confuses everyone, including her. He's just
Speaker 1: too popular to be talking to her anymore. Even the
Speaker 1: teacher asks Alex to take his assigned seat, which is
Speaker 1: right next to Fiona. Okay again, I'm gonna need to
Speaker 1: stay with me here. He then does a full on
Speaker 1: flip and performs splits to land in the care eliciting
Speaker 1: applause from the class. And this never happens again. No,
Speaker 1: it never comes up again. It doesn't happen on the
Speaker 1: football field. He has superhuman powers for this one moment.
Speaker 3: Literally fifteen seconds, don't.
Speaker 1: Blink, and then never happen.
Speaker 2: What did you think of this? Well?
Speaker 3: I thought it looked great. I actually thought it looked
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I looked fun, but what the hell?
Speaker 3: But another time that I'm like, wait, what is this?
Speaker 3: What is this like? Okay, I guess it's just showing
Speaker 3: he's like super athletic.
Speaker 1: But right, yeah, which I thought they'd seen.
Speaker 4: Him I thought he'd be doing tumbling tricks like all
Speaker 4: that was like his like little thing, like I'm blaming
Speaker 4: here I.
Speaker 3: Go with my little glitter. But no, we don't see
Speaker 3: it ever again, ever again.
Speaker 1: It was so never happened again, never even an inkling
Speaker 1: of it happening again. The teacher passes out some test grades.
Speaker 1: Alex gets a B plus. He's proud, but Abby quickly
Speaker 1: calls out that king Bling got that grade only because
Speaker 1: he's an athlete, and even the teacher comes up and goes, hey,
Speaker 1: great game last weekend, so he kind of did well.
Speaker 1: Now we are at that game. It is game time.
Speaker 1: In the locker room, coach is going over the game plan.
Speaker 1: All offense runs through Alex, who he finds out is
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Oh boy, we are now in the field.
Speaker 1: His parents and cheerleading Fiona watch on as a very
Speaker 1: frightened Alex is literally picked up and driven back ten
Speaker 1: yards for a sack. The crowd is shocked. His dad
Speaker 1: thinks something is wrong, makes his way to the field
Speaker 1: and Alex is carried off. So his dad comes up
Speaker 1: to him and says, son, don't let those big guys
Speaker 1: psych you out, and he mentions football camp which really
Speaker 1: surprises Alex. Oh, that's right. They can afford camp now
Speaker 1: because he's an only child, so without his brother, he's rich. Okay,
Speaker 1: Coach sends Alex back into the game. Now he's got
Speaker 1: a little more pep inist step. He's completing passes, rushing
Speaker 1: for first downs, not flipping over anybody, not twisting like
Speaker 1: he could do, not doing any of those superhuman things.
Speaker 1: Eventually scoring the winning touchdown. The crowd goes wild, and
Speaker 1: Alex is opped up on his teammate's shoulders and carried
Speaker 1: off the field. That night, Alex's house party is going off.
Speaker 1: All the popular kids are there and some girls are
Speaker 1: checking out the newest issue of Women's Quarterly.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: To his surprise, his brother Stevie, now Terrence, the biggest
Speaker 1: TV star in the world, is on its cover. So
Speaker 1: Women's Quarterly.
Speaker 3: Is highlighting a six year old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a ten year old television star is on the
Speaker 1: cover of Women's Quarterly. They couldn't have made it TV Guide.
Speaker 3: That was just such a weird pick.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, there, well, this is where just
Speaker 1: everything's off the rails at this point. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just like, what's happening?
Speaker 4: It was there was a line somewhere because this little
Speaker 4: magazine comes up again, there was a line somewhere.
Speaker 3: Where he tries to.
Speaker 4: Like it was part of his the reason why he
Speaker 4: was looking at it or something like there was a
Speaker 4: line that that that they said that tried to make
Speaker 4: it make sense why it was a wig.
Speaker 3: Explain there was a women's magazine.
Speaker 1: Well, he just said it was my mom's. I think
Speaker 1: he's in My mom like that. She's a big Terence fan.
Speaker 1: But it's like you, why would your mom be a
Speaker 1: big fan of a ten year old? Right, which he
Speaker 1: says later too, is like, my mom's a big fan,
Speaker 1: like real, it's really strange. Yeah wow yeah. So Alex
Speaker 1: can only shake his head at what used to be
Speaker 1: his little brother. He is pulled away by Fiona, who
Speaker 1: wants to know why he seems so different at the
Speaker 1: start of the football game. He casually says it's because
Speaker 1: he's from an alternate reality, but she doesn't take him seriously.
Speaker 1: He sees Abby arrive with another dude and ask Fiona
Speaker 1: if she wants to rollerblade tomorrow. She says no way, Really,
Speaker 1: blading is for freaks, and tomorrow they're supposed to be
Speaker 1: taking pictures in their matching t shirts. Well, okay, so
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Obviously Alex knows nothing about this because this
Speaker 1: is his first day in this reality, but his attention
Speaker 1: is diverted when a fellow jock announces that the Chicken
Speaker 1: Geek is there. The party is chanting Chicken Boy and
Speaker 1: wrestling with someone dressed as a chicken delivering food. They
Speaker 1: take off his helmet and it's his friend from his
Speaker 1: other reality, James. Alexis instructed to drop a pizza on
Speaker 1: James's head. They're going to waste another pie on this
Speaker 1: guy and announce I can't okay. Alex doesn't know what
Speaker 1: to do, so one of the other jerks gets impatient
Speaker 1: and does it himself, forcing James to run out of
Speaker 1: the house and back into his delivery bike. Alex tries
Speaker 1: to stop him but can't catch up. So did somebody
Speaker 1: else deliver a pizza that they had? The full pizza?
Speaker 1: But they also had the Chicken Guy.
Speaker 3: I was confused because when we do see him later,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, why does he Why is he have a
Speaker 3: chicken costume? He's called Chicken Boy, but he delivers pizzas
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't pick up on that. It was
Speaker 3: like a chicken a chicken place. I don't know. It
Speaker 3: was weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I rewound the whole
Speaker 6: movie to figure that out. Okay, this place must serve
Speaker 6: pizza and chicken, because later when he delivers to food
Speaker 6: to Terrence, he has chicken, so he's still chicken geek.
Speaker 6: But I assume this chicken place also has pizza, which
Speaker 6: I guess some do.
Speaker 1: I so did he then have the pizza delivered right
Speaker 1: to the party just to then dump it on whoever
Speaker 1: delivered it to the cheek? It seemed like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's chicken geek delivering the pizza, right.
Speaker 6: They know chicken geek from dropping a pizza earlier in
Speaker 6: the other realities, So like, this must be something he
Speaker 6: does a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is the why order the pizza, throw something
Speaker 1: else at him and save the money. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. The next day, we're at the
Speaker 1: school library. Alex does try to apologize to James, but
Speaker 1: his old friend is just not interested. Also, Fiona is
Speaker 1: now jealous that Alex has even talked to Abby at all,
Speaker 1: and that her boyfriend is coming off as a real loser.
Speaker 1: Now I could be wrong. Did she misspell losers? Thank
Speaker 1: God I was right.
Speaker 3: She missed says anything about it? So I thought on
Speaker 3: my phone and typed it out just to make sure
Speaker 3: I knew how to sell it.
Speaker 1: She does a doubles, doesn't she?
Speaker 4: No one blinks an eye about it, no one, but
Speaker 4: no one says, okay.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell that was a joke or nobody picked
Speaker 1: up the fact that she missed. I'm so clad like.
Speaker 3: A missed like joke. I think it was supposed to
Speaker 3: be a joke and like, but someone needed to react
Speaker 3: to the fact that she has built it and nobody did.
Speaker 3: So I literally was like.
Speaker 1: Wait, I thought he was going to say like loss ers.
Speaker 3: Wait she did add an okay, God.
Speaker 1: That you picked that up too, because she added that,
Speaker 1: because oh man, that was a missed opportunity for a joke.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are they doing? Very Oh god?
Speaker 1: That was fun? Okay. At lunch, Alex is still trying
Speaker 1: and he goes to sit with Abby again. Who it's
Speaker 1: a prank? Why would the star quarterback want to sit
Speaker 1: with her? So if she does what everybody does and
Speaker 1: she pours milk on his head and leaves a lot
Speaker 1: of food on heads back at home, Alex's dad notices
Speaker 1: his son is back into coin collecting something he abandoned
Speaker 1: years ago. He also notices his son has the Woman's
Speaker 1: Quarterly with Steve slash Terrence on the cover. This makes
Speaker 1: him even more suspicious of his recent behavior, but Alex
Speaker 1: just wants to sleep. I guess catching your teenage son
Speaker 1: with Women's Quarterly can mean a number one.
Speaker 2: I think it's will.
Speaker 1: Is that what it's supposed to be?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I went to the dark side.
Speaker 4: I went to the What are you doing with that
Speaker 4: women's magazine?
Speaker 2: Woman's Courtly? I guess that's that's also a take.
Speaker 3: Neither one makes sense for the Disney Channel, am I right?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: This is kind of well, that's what I meant that
Speaker 1: the one you're thinking of, Sabrina. I think you're thinking
Speaker 1: of it rhymes with master right, right right?
Speaker 6: I mean I don't want to show our hand here,
Speaker 6: but it rhymes with jerking off right?
Speaker 1: Correct? Is that what you is? That what you thought
Speaker 1: it was? Sabrina?
Speaker 2: So wait, so wait, I have a question.
Speaker 1: I guessing by the red that that's wait, I have
Speaker 1: a question.
Speaker 2: Will that will?
Speaker 6: So we see gay panic a lot on our Podny's
Speaker 6: World show, like it's very common. But on D comms,
Speaker 6: wouldn't this reaction sort of happened in this movie about
Speaker 6: a football player if he wanted to do ballet, wouldn't
Speaker 6: we also get the gay panic there?
Speaker 1: Yes, I would think that I did.
Speaker 6: This is a poorly executed gay panic lot gay where
Speaker 6: ballet is turned it with women's quarterly.
Speaker 3: Well he does that, there's I put it in my
Speaker 3: Sabrina not a Sabrina seas.
Speaker 4: But there was like a moment that I went, oh,
Speaker 4: the football player when he said he was trying out
Speaker 4: for the musical or er show or whatever.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, we got a little bit of
Speaker 3: a high high school, little high but that didn't seem
Speaker 3: like it had the same situation.
Speaker 1: No, no, they didn't. They didn't go gay panic.
Speaker 3: It was just like you're talking to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so what did you think he was doing? Spreno.
Speaker 3: Remember, I don't know. I kind of skip past this part.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was choking. Maybe he was choking the chicken beet.
Speaker 1: Or the door choking the pet turkey.
Speaker 4: She guys, okay.
Speaker 1: The next she's like okay. The next day at school,
Speaker 1: we got I love how I just want to see
Speaker 1: the shades of red that we can. We could get some.
Speaker 1: The next day at school, we get a montage and
Speaker 1: you know, I love a montage, and everyone is still
Speaker 1: celebrating blame well through up my mouth. But Abby is
Speaker 1: with another guy and James won't even acknowledge him. We
Speaker 1: see Alex and Fiona at the mall wearing those matching shirts,
Speaker 1: and Alex looks very aggravated. H He also runs into Abby,
Speaker 1: who's busy selling Raffle tickets to feed the homeless. And
Speaker 1: alternate reality, Larry is there buying a few of the tickets,
Speaker 1: but he's now in a wheelchair because he fell outside
Speaker 1: of his store. Obviously he would have fallen had in
Speaker 1: the first reality, you would have fallen head step not
Speaker 1: been there, so Stevie wasn't there, so he did fall down,
Speaker 1: but decided to then close down the entire store to retire,
Speaker 1: which technically was also his wish, so that's a good
Speaker 1: thing it was. I couldn't tell if he made a
Speaker 1: wish for that, but anyway, Larry apparently wanted to get
Speaker 1: out of the cutthroat coin collecting business. Alex buys three
Speaker 1: raffle tickets and asks Abby to skate with him. One day.
Speaker 1: She thinks he's lost a bet or something. He asked,
Speaker 1: if is that really my reputation, then why is she
Speaker 1: even talking to him in the first place. The answer
Speaker 1: is obvious that he's buying raffle tickets from her, but
Speaker 1: she says she doesn't know. Gary and the jocks arrived,
Speaker 1: chanting about their upcoming game and punching wrapped hamburgers, not kidding,
Speaker 1: they're just punching hamburgers over and over again like jogs do.
Speaker 1: The next morning, his parents are off to work again.
Speaker 1: Alex doesn't get it. It's Saturday. Isn't it supposed to
Speaker 1: be a pancake day? But his dad kind of smiles
Speaker 1: and says he hasn't made pancakes like that in years.
Speaker 1: They rush out the door, but he says he'll see
Speaker 1: him at eight pm for his athletic award dinner. He
Speaker 1: realizes he doesn't have the dedicated in love parents that
Speaker 1: he used to have. Alex is wasting time until the ceremony,
Speaker 1: watching old horror movies and smiling. He misses Stevie. He
Speaker 1: even made a Stevie doll, which I also thought was
Speaker 1: a little creepy. He goes into the home gym, remembering
Speaker 1: this is where his little brother should be. We get
Speaker 1: some sad music and he eventually finds a box of
Speaker 1: giveaway at HIMS for Charity that his mom wanted him
Speaker 1: to bring to school. But as he's bringing the box downstairs,
Speaker 1: he trips on a football cleat that the dog's been
Speaker 1: chewing on and falls down a flight of stairs. Alex
Speaker 1: lays on his back covered in stuff. This scene doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense with the movie. It's another one that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with anything. Just there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of unexplained scenes in this movie. Why couldn't you have
Speaker 1: just looked at the box and say, oh, man, he
Speaker 1: really wanted to There was no point in him falling
Speaker 1: down the stairs or any of that stuff. He's just
Speaker 1: that's it. That night, at the Harbor High Youth Awards,
Speaker 1: which is packed with people including all of our main characters,
Speaker 1: Alex wins the big final award of the night, and
Speaker 1: in his speech he says he doesn't deserve this award
Speaker 1: because he's not the real Alex Lancing. This isn't now
Speaker 1: Lex Lancing from another reality, and that catches the interest
Speaker 1: of Abby, who as she's sitting there. She drove herself there,
Speaker 1: went to the entire award show, but then is reading
Speaker 1: a book the entire time about UFO conspiracy. During all
Speaker 1: the speeches, everyone is confused. He says his Alex Lancing,
Speaker 1: is a loser. He can't play football. He explains that
Speaker 1: he made his little brother disappear, and now the audience
Speaker 1: thinks he's on bath Stalz, but he quickly covers that
Speaker 1: up by pretending he was just joking, and the crowd
Speaker 1: is once again at ease. But he explains that there's
Speaker 1: more to life than just winning awards. You have to
Speaker 1: appreciate what you have because one day it might not
Speaker 1: be there. The crowd feverishly applauds, but still looks a
Speaker 1: little disturbed. Now, once the Lancing's get home, they notice
Speaker 1: now that Alex still seems down. His mom offers him
Speaker 1: a pop up waffle, but he just wants his life
Speaker 1: back and that's an ego, right. They just can't say,
Speaker 1: I go, it's a pop up waffle, gotcha upstairs? I
Speaker 1: didn't know if that was a New Zealand waffle. It's
Speaker 1: like a pop up waff. I'm not going to attempt
Speaker 1: at New zeale on that side. Upstairs, he paces trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to fix this when he
Speaker 1: notices a newspaper headline, TV star Terrence Russell McCormick, also
Speaker 1: known as his little brother Stevie, is coming to town
Speaker 1: to film a TV show Stevie is filming on the TV.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the way to fix this. How I have
Speaker 1: not made that rhyme to this point, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're thirty eight minutes into this, whatever it is Stevie
Speaker 1: and TV. So Alex travels to the Big City and
Speaker 1: hides in an alleyway garbage can, preparing to dart for
Speaker 1: an unmanned stage entrance door, but then boom, he's hit
Speaker 1: by a bike. It is Chicken James again with another
Speaker 1: food delivery. They tumble the floor before Alex admits he's
Speaker 1: just there to get Terrence's autograph. Coincidentally, James says the
Speaker 1: chicken order is for Terrence, but he has no idea
Speaker 1: who the actor is, so Alex pays him to change
Speaker 1: places to deliver the food so he can meet Terrence.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting James just leaves his bike in
Speaker 1: the alleyway, saying I need my bike in the outfit back.
Speaker 1: By eight o'clock tonight, we are now inside the studio.
Speaker 1: Alex sneaks around until he eventually gets to Terrence's dressing room.
Speaker 1: He overhears the actor complaining about his brother, the reason
Speaker 1: his entire reality was altered. So this is Alex's big chance.
Speaker 1: He thinks maybe he's talking about him, but when he
Speaker 1: barges in, he realizes the actor is just reading a script.
Speaker 1: Terrence starts complaining about the special sauce and throws the
Speaker 1: chicken out immediately, which fact they I don't blame it
Speaker 1: for since the chicken was on the ground after the bike.
Speaker 2: And I need to ask a question.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so he in this reality is in a movie
Speaker 6: about the thing that happened to him in the other reality.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, because his show is called Where Steve.
Speaker 2: The entire show is based on the other reality.
Speaker 1: Correct, So I think that's what they were going for.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Where's Where's Stevie? After all? Right?
Speaker 6: But I mean the family obviously knows what where Stevie's about,
Speaker 6: because she's a big fan and has him on the
Speaker 6: cover of Woman's Quarterly. So as soon as he starts
Speaker 6: to say this situation wouldn't She then say, like the show,
Speaker 6: where's Stevie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, her maybe acknowledgement of the show makes it very,
Speaker 4: very confusing.
Speaker 1: That's what the I mean, this whole thing is confusing.
Speaker 1: I still don't get what they were.
Speaker 6: Going on, Yes, so much. At some point, I I
Speaker 6: really do wish Stanos would have snap his fingers.
Speaker 1: I do as well. But at the same time it
Speaker 1: also made me wish for I could just call a
Speaker 1: chicken guy and there's chicken or pizza or pizza or
Speaker 1: pizza in your way. That's not the same. I want
Speaker 1: the guy in the chicken out. Yeah. So anyway, here,
Speaker 1: Terrence doesn't recognize his brother, and we're quickly realizing this
Speaker 1: version of Stevie is a little ahole. Alex is about
Speaker 1: to leave, but Terrence invites him back to watch Bad
Speaker 1: Magic Tricks. Alex asks if he likes his family, and
Speaker 1: he says, of course, but he never really sees them,
Speaker 1: just his wrangler, who then barges in to tell her
Speaker 1: boss he's not smiling enough and to prep for playing
Speaker 1: a normal, ordinary kid. But once she's gone, he admits
Speaker 1: he has no idea how he's going to be a
Speaker 1: normal kid. Alex then invites Terrence to stop by his
Speaker 1: house before he goes back to La and tell him
Speaker 1: all the nice things that they used to do together.
Speaker 1: And just when he thinks it's sinking in, Terrence screams
Speaker 1: for security, which makes sense, one of the few things
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Alex is then kicked out of the building.
Speaker 1: Now with the knowledge that Stevie's life isn't as happy
Speaker 1: as he thought, he finds himself just walking through downtown
Speaker 1: by himself, which also means he left his friend's bike
Speaker 1: in the alley, not gonna return that this poor chicken guy.
Speaker 1: He has visions of his childhood home movies and the
Speaker 1: past scenes from the movie. While Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand
Speaker 1: Miles plays. Great song, big fan of Vanessa Carlton. It's
Speaker 1: the weirdest song to have here. It's like about love interests.
Speaker 3: And it belongs to a different.
Speaker 1: Movie, totally different movie.
Speaker 3: Isn't that in White Chicks?
Speaker 1: Is it? I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 1: But it's about he's like he can't find his It's
Speaker 1: about I'd walk a thousand miles to see my love
Speaker 1: interest again. Yes, it's what Terry crew sings. Apparently according
Speaker 1: to producer Lisa, but it's now about his brother. It's
Speaker 1: a good song, but it was just so out of place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, this is one of my
Speaker 4: spirit sees. This at this point had been like one
Speaker 4: of the work. We could put it on the life
Speaker 4: of one of the worst soundtracks of a d D
Speaker 4: com because the music was kind of just garbage up
Speaker 4: to this and then all of a sudden, you're kidding me,
Speaker 4: We've got this great banger, which is like one of
Speaker 4: the songs that was just like a top forty hit
Speaker 4: for weeks and weeks and weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, this is all they spent their money.
Speaker 1: They couldn't any other song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just like, it just hits you out
Speaker 4: of absolutely nowhere.
Speaker 1: It does, and it's just it's just weird. It's a
Speaker 1: weird song. And anyway, Alex eventually spots a turkey being
Speaker 1: loaded into a truck and chases after it, just missing
Speaker 1: out as it pulls away. Another completely unexplained scene. What
Speaker 1: was he going to do with the turkey? Then the
Speaker 1: chikay moving on. Terrence's work for the day is done
Speaker 1: and he is in a limo driving back to his
Speaker 1: hotel when he sees Alex walking home. Terrence has the
Speaker 1: car pull over and now, without any explanation, wants to
Speaker 1: hang out with the guy he recently just called a
Speaker 1: lunatic and had security call out. Right now they're friends.
Speaker 1: They walk together with the limo find close behind, but
Speaker 1: Alex crafts a plan to ditch it. They split through
Speaker 1: the city, eventually shaking limo driver Ron and getting some
Speaker 1: time alone. Poor Ron, just trying to do his job.
Speaker 1: That guy was fired. Terrence gets recognized a few times,
Speaker 1: but wants to do some ordinary kid stuff like ride
Speaker 1: a little spaceship outside of a store. Alex lets him
Speaker 1: borrow a quarter and sees the coin, and that makes
Speaker 1: him realize in this reality, Stevie never got the wish coin,
Speaker 1: so it's probably still with Larry, and so even though
Speaker 1: Stevie has no idea what Alex is talking about, they
Speaker 1: rush to find Larry. Once at the mall, Alex sees
Speaker 1: that Larry's Coin World is out of business. Now we
Speaker 1: know this because it's in huge giant letters on the window.
Speaker 1: This was his big chance, So what is he going
Speaker 1: to do now? He scans them all, eventually spotting a
Speaker 1: movie theater usher taking tickets and that reminds him. Wait,
Speaker 1: raffle tickets. Abby sold Larry some raffle tickets. Alex and
Speaker 1: Steve Slash Terrence continue to run through the streets of
Speaker 1: New Zealand, getting in and getting in their steps for
Speaker 1: the day, certainly now ending up at Abby's front door.
Speaker 1: She obviously isn't thrilled to see them and is hardly
Speaker 1: impressed by the celebrity accompaniment. Aleck says that his speech
Speaker 1: at the awards ceremony was true and he needs her help,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't believe that they would be best friends
Speaker 1: in any world. But Stevie is starting to listen, and
Speaker 1: eventually Abby caves and says it's time to get busy.
Speaker 1: They search through the hundreds of raffle tickets trying to
Speaker 1: find Larry's entry while Abby quizzes him on her life,
Speaker 1: like Okay, what's my favorite food? And it turns out
Speaker 1: to be a mustard and sugar sandwich A sorry, choking
Speaker 1: back some bile. Eventually Terrence Slash Stevie finds it. Wait,
Speaker 1: this is it, This is it's Larry. They have his
Speaker 1: address now ready to go find him. They decide to
Speaker 1: disguise Terrence so he isn't as recognizable, which ends up
Speaker 1: being just a hat that they put him in great disguise. Kids,
Speaker 1: here's a hat, although in all fairness, Danielle Fischl puts
Speaker 1: on a hat and everybody still recognizes her everywhere she goes.
Speaker 1: Once at Larry's building, they climb most are going, Hey, Danielle,
Speaker 1: let's tipang a cute hat. Once at Larry's building they
Speaker 1: climbed flights and flights of stairs to his door. How
Speaker 1: much exercise they actually getting in today? This is a
Speaker 1: thirty thousand step, but it is empty and being painted.
Speaker 1: A neighbor tells them that he just moved. The stairs
Speaker 1: were too much, no people, he was in a wheelchair. Luckily,
Speaker 1: though the neighbors know that he moved to a place
Speaker 1: on Beeler Street. It was a retirement home, so the
Speaker 1: adventure isn't quite over yet. They take a trolley to
Speaker 1: Beeler and Terrence loves feeling so pedestrian. He's playing with
Speaker 1: the knobs on the thing and just enjoying being a
Speaker 1: regular person. Also, Abby and Alex are starting to really connect,
Speaker 1: which is nice. He admits that the closest thing he
Speaker 1: had to a girlfriend in his world was her, and
Speaker 1: it made me go, why can't the movie have just
Speaker 1: been these two connecting? It's like, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to see. This was cute and fun and they were great.
Speaker 1: Why can't this be the movie?
Speaker 2: Yees, he's got to go.
Speaker 1: Back and make her fall in love with them again
Speaker 1: in his new world. Let's do that. Now. It's nighttime
Speaker 1: and they arrive at the Sunnyville Retirement manor. They sneak
Speaker 1: in and appears empty and kind of creepy. They eventually
Speaker 1: pick a door and enter a music class filled with
Speaker 1: old people poorly playing the accordion, and one of them
Speaker 1: is Larry, who I'm sorry is way too young to
Speaker 1: be in the d No sense at all, No, none
Speaker 1: at all, add it to the no sense list. He
Speaker 1: thinks he won the raffle, but Alex explains he actually
Speaker 1: needs a very special coin. Larry reminds him the coin
Speaker 1: shop is closed. There's nothing he can do to help,
Speaker 1: but once they explain their interdimensional lives depend on it,
Speaker 1: they retreat to his room. I love that he explained
Speaker 1: to him. He's just like, okay, got it, But he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the owl coin, but does remember that he
Speaker 1: sold a coin just like that before he closed but
Speaker 1: has no record of who he sold it to. We
Speaker 1: are now back in the street. What hour is this?
Speaker 1: How long have these people been on the road. They
Speaker 1: drop Abby off at her house before she could end
Speaker 1: up on a milk carton and they say good night.
Speaker 1: That brother spotted dad in double Denham, carrying ice cream
Speaker 1: cones for the kids and finally taking a break to
Speaker 1: be sad, each wanting a traditional family, and as they
Speaker 1: long for normalcy, they're confronted by police and brought back
Speaker 1: to the lansings. Terrence's handler comes in to get him
Speaker 1: out and the two new friends hug goodbye, but Terrence
Speaker 1: is quickly ushered out. The next morning, Alex wakes up
Speaker 1: and still can't shake the depressed feeling about his His
Speaker 1: dad enters to invite him to a brunch, but he's
Speaker 1: not hungry at all. His dad, hoping to cheer him
Speaker 1: up and to get him off of those women quarterly magazines,
Speaker 1: gives him a gift he's been saving for his birthday.
Speaker 1: Alex unwraps it and it's a handful of ancient coins.
Speaker 1: Alex barely acknowledges the gift, and once his dad leaves,
Speaker 1: he throws the box across the room, spraying currency everywhere,
Speaker 1: But then we see a coin. One of his dad's
Speaker 1: gifts was the wish coin. It's got an owl on it. Ooh,
Speaker 1: they found it. Alex's dad is the one who bought
Speaker 1: the coins from Larry. Alex can't believe it. He slowly
Speaker 1: approaches the coin but fumbles it, dropping it to the ground.
Speaker 1: Now teetering on a grate, inches away from falling into
Speaker 1: whatever strange cavernous hole his room has, he successfully grabs
Speaker 1: it and runs downstairs to lock himself in the bathroom
Speaker 1: and finally put an end to all this madness. His
Speaker 1: parents knock on the door, but he's able to finally
Speaker 1: wish that he never made the first wish. He's instantly
Speaker 1: transported back into his bed. Now in his normal room,
Speaker 1: he rushes through the house, seeing the tannin green hallways
Speaker 1: of return. He's got the same hair. He barges into
Speaker 1: what should have been Stevie's room and no gym equipment.
Speaker 1: It's back to how he likes it. He even sees
Speaker 1: that fucking' turkey in the backyard and the four person
Speaker 1: family photo. His parents are their normal apparently poor selves,
Speaker 1: and Stevie is outside playing in the pouring rain for
Speaker 1: some reason, Stevie apologizes for crashing Alex's bike, but his
Speaker 1: big brother doesn't even notice. He just gives his little
Speaker 1: bro a big bear hug. He's so thankful to see him.
Speaker 1: Stevie explains, but I didn't go anywhere, and Alex agrees,
Speaker 1: that's right, you didn't go anywhere. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: like you do when it's pouring rain outside, all your
Speaker 1: friends arrived. Abby and James arrive. Alex embraces them to
Speaker 1: immediately asking Abby to goes skating with him. She shocked
Speaker 1: but says yes. Just as a yellow Volkswagen bug passes by.
Speaker 1: It's Fiona. Alex yells out to her, I'm not your boyfriend,
Speaker 1: which of course makes sense to her or anybody else
Speaker 1: in the scene. The movie then ends with Alex being
Speaker 1: taken away to a mental institution as everyone shakes their
Speaker 1: head in sadness. I'm kidding, that didn't happen at all.
Speaker 1: Alex's parents invite everyone in for his famous pancakes, and
Speaker 1: all is right in the world. We pull out to
Speaker 1: reveal her rainbow has just appeared, just as the sun
Speaker 1: peeks through the storm. Then we're in the park, Abby
Speaker 1: and Alex are teaching Stevie how to rollerblade, and then
Speaker 1: James pulls up on his bike, the one that was
Speaker 1: obviously stolen in the other world. Stevie takes a seat
Speaker 1: as the other kids catch up nearby, and he already
Speaker 1: seems bored. Stevie reaches into his pocket and finds the
Speaker 1: wish coin. He sees Larry nearby talking to his own
Speaker 1: dog and then wishes for something, and just like that,
Speaker 1: Alex jumps over the park bench performs a one to
Speaker 1: eighty and is now the best rollerblader who has ever lived.
Speaker 1: And that is our movie, and now it's time for
Speaker 1: our real reviews. Sabrina, you have got the five star
Speaker 1: this week? Can you read us through this show?
Speaker 3: And I do, and I've got a very excited Trevor
Speaker 3: Sanchez with lots of exclamation points, one.
Speaker 1: Of like the title of the film, like the title
Speaker 1: of the feltatly there you go.
Speaker 4: One of, if not the best Disney Channel movies.
Speaker 3: It's so funny with great acting. Take that hater's boo ya.
Speaker 1: Boom love that. Yeah, it can't go wrong with a
Speaker 1: good boo. Yeah, I of course have the one star
Speaker 1: and our friends back, Sabrina unamadus back once again. It
Speaker 1: is unnamed, and it simply says, if my sibling wished
Speaker 1: me away, I'd hate him forever. One star. Fair enough, Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's our favorite part of the podcast. And by
Speaker 1: our favorite, I mean Sabrina's favorite. I can take it
Speaker 1: or leave it, but she calls me about this fifty
Speaker 1: times a week. I cannot wait to do our feature,
Speaker 1: and this one, of course, once again done by producer Jensen,
Speaker 1: is called I Saved Latin. In the movie Alice can
Speaker 1: apparently read Latin or some type of ancient scroll, and
Speaker 1: then it's never mentioned again. So we're going to be
Speaker 1: given some introductory Latin phrases and we have to guess
Speaker 1: what they mean with a couple of multiple choice answers.
Speaker 1: If we get three out of five, we win. In
Speaker 1: all fairness, Sabrina, I took six years of Latin. Here
Speaker 1: we go our first question. I'm not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to pronounce anything anymore because I haven't taken it in years.
Speaker 1: But here we go. It's a more vincit omnia is
Speaker 1: that A hold love close, B love is blind, C
Speaker 1: love conquers all, or D love is never having to
Speaker 1: say it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with B. Love is blind.
Speaker 1: Ooh oh. For one, the answer is ce love conquers
Speaker 1: all am I right there, Producer Jensen.
Speaker 6: You're absolutely right. This is this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 6: This is gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be I mean everyone, now we're just
Speaker 4: like pulling out random freaking languages.
Speaker 3: So cool, all right, cool.
Speaker 1: That I actually know. Number two, we've got tempest fugit,
Speaker 1: which is either you're gonna hear some people say fugit
Speaker 1: and other people say fuge it. Both are actually correct,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna say temp is fugit? Is it? A
Speaker 1: pain is temporary? B time flies, see time waits for
Speaker 1: no one or D time passes slowly.
Speaker 3: D time passes slowly.
Speaker 1: Sabrina is over two. That is B time flies, this
Speaker 1: time flies B.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Number three, we've got men's sanna incorpore sano is that
Speaker 1: A A healthy mind is a healthy body. B. A
Speaker 1: man is measured by his power. C. A man is
Speaker 1: but what he knows or D. The measure of a
Speaker 1: man is what he does with power.
Speaker 3: Sabrina A man B A man is measured by his power.
Speaker 1: I believe it's a A healthy mind is a healthy body,
Speaker 1: is it not.
Speaker 6: I've got the beliefs that bring home the bacon, buddy.
Speaker 6: It's a.
Speaker 2: Dying, dying We gotta go.
Speaker 1: Number four, Number four pair aspera ad Astra. Is it
Speaker 1: a inside the heart rests love? B through hardships to
Speaker 1: the stars see in the eye of the beholder, or
Speaker 1: D the inside is out. Sabrina, what do you got.
Speaker 3: B hardship to the stars, through hardship.
Speaker 1: That is correct.
Speaker 3: It is I recognize Astra. That is me.
Speaker 1: Sabrina got one right. And number five labor, Omnia, Vincate
Speaker 1: or Vincent, depending on how you want to say it.
Speaker 1: Is it a work build strength, B work is the
Speaker 1: ultimate victory. C Work conquers all or D work overcomes obstacles. Sabrina,
Speaker 1: what do you got? C?
Speaker 3: Work conquers all?
Speaker 1: That is correct? It is C work is correct twice
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable to be fair, though, I just look back up
Speaker 4: because Vincent and Omnia were in the question of the
Speaker 4: first that.
Speaker 2: Work, that works.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to do that. Go back to the older
Speaker 1: sat question.
Speaker 2: That's what we do here, That's what we do.
Speaker 3: Thank you for Brina vacation.
Speaker 1: Thank you producer, Jenna is.
Speaker 3: Always you hunk of love. I love it.
Speaker 1: Can we please do a Sabrina sees.
Speaker 3: We can? So I feel like we did. I kind
Speaker 3: of gave up a few of them.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a ton of them because it was
Speaker 4: more so just confusion happening so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it was.
Speaker 4: Like what we basically popped over all of them.
Speaker 3: One little thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you caught, but she when uh
Speaker 4: when I when I say she, it's the cheerleader and
Speaker 4: her name. When Fiona actually goes up to Alex to
Speaker 4: give him a kiss, when he's trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: What's going on and he doesn't really see what his
Speaker 3: like new reality is, she doesn't even really kiss him.
Speaker 4: She just like pushes her lips on his cheek and
Speaker 4: like it's not even a kiss.
Speaker 3: I was like, so I kind of got confused at
Speaker 3: that moment, going, wait, are like what hold on?
Speaker 4: Is this no?
Speaker 1: And then it was just like no.
Speaker 3: It just was a bad kiss, that's all it was.
Speaker 4: And then I'm glad you pointed out the spelling because
Speaker 4: I had to tell you that.
Speaker 3: I was so embarrassed.
Speaker 1: I still thought I got it wrong.
Speaker 4: I was so embarrassed that it made me think I
Speaker 4: was dumb and like I had to like look it
Speaker 4: up myself because I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, this is not us, that's not the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is she spelling?
Speaker 4: But nobody responded to it. That was the worst part.
Speaker 4: Just make me think twice about it. The locker room
Speaker 4: that they had for the the football game, this and
Speaker 4: this is one of those things where you just know
Speaker 4: that there they must be pulling like just a room
Speaker 4: to try to make it look into something. And it's
Speaker 4: kind of frustrating because I just feel like how much
Speaker 4: in their budget would it have been to actually have lockers?
Speaker 4: Like it was weird to be in a locker room
Speaker 4: and there were like no lockers.
Speaker 3: Their stuff was hung up on.
Speaker 4: The walls, like their their helmets and their jerseys were
Speaker 4: hung up on a hook like on the wall.
Speaker 1: It was could that maybe be how they do it
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. I mean, maybe that's a locker room
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. Maybe because there's no American football, so
Speaker 1: you wouldn't you wouldn't have pads, okay, because they just
Speaker 1: played there.
Speaker 3: There was like a track they have track in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh yeah, sure, I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just was strange. But that's a good point.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about the fact that.
Speaker 4: They were filming in New Zealand, but they tried to
Speaker 4: make it into a locker and it just wasn't a
Speaker 4: locker at all. The next one is the matching shirts.
Speaker 4: Did you think that the matching shirts would be like
Speaker 4: a picture of him on her and her on him?
Speaker 3: Like that's what I was thinking or something like.
Speaker 1: I thought they were just gonna have different shirts. I
Speaker 1: didn't think it was gonna be photos of them.
Speaker 4: When you saw the photos. I saw one of them
Speaker 4: first and then I looked. It took me like a
Speaker 4: second to realize they were both wearing pictures of her
Speaker 4: face on him, which I just.
Speaker 3: Was like, that is the I mean, it makes sense.
Speaker 3: It makes sense for Fiona.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: I also me think of when.
Speaker 5: I my senior year of high school, when I went
Speaker 5: to Sadie's Sadie Hawkins is where the match with your
Speaker 5: with your date, and I've heard our whole group, by.
Speaker 3: The way, wasn't just me. Our whole group. We made
Speaker 3: these like super.
Speaker 4: Cute shirts at Knotsberry Farm with our boyfriend's names on them,
Speaker 4: and then we made them matching shirts, but they had
Speaker 4: like just black T shirts or a button down.
Speaker 3: But we put our names on him and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, I feel bad now, way to go.
Speaker 3: Cute idea. The pictures are adorable, but like for the dudes,
Speaker 3: it feels like super sad. I felt bad now. So sorry, guys,
Speaker 3: we definitely forced you to do that.
Speaker 2: Ah bad.
Speaker 4: Did you see this was over one of the many
Speaker 4: pores of food overhead?
Speaker 3: She says, got milk.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Isn't that like a like a trademark thing, got milk?
Speaker 1: No, I think anybody can say because it's just words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like they're slowgan in. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 1: think you can necessarily trademark milk.
Speaker 3: It was with milk, got milk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I don't I mean, it's not like they're going, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Cherry Coke. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're right. I don't know, because I think it's.
Speaker 4: Just you know, being on the channel or like being
Speaker 4: on Disney. Everything they were about making sure so you
Speaker 4: have to be right because Disney is so big on that.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, yes, the phrase got milk is a trademark
Speaker 1: slogan owned by the California Milk processor born.
Speaker 3: They say it in in the movie was she tours
Speaker 3: it over? So I was like, wait, wonderful. That seems
Speaker 3: kind of like that's that seems.
Speaker 4: It's like a brand, very very rebelish of our our
Speaker 4: friends at the Channel Rebel Disney Channel Ship also said
Speaker 4: the soundtrack was just awful until my I love that song.
Speaker 4: So that song yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: It just was yeah.
Speaker 3: And then the last.
Speaker 4: One was She's a little sluzy our agent friend who
Speaker 4: comes back in the house and is.
Speaker 3: Like, give me a call if you're ever in la.
Speaker 3: I was like, are you hitting on his dad in
Speaker 3: front of his mom? What is going on? Somebody get
Speaker 3: this girl out of here. You're out, You're late, You're done.
Speaker 1: Can I ask, is sluzy the combination of sleazy and fluozy?
Speaker 1: Because I love it? Okay, Now from now on they're sluzy.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're just making up word. Thank you, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: It's now time to rate our movie, Sabrina. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing. By the way, we just found
Speaker 1: out the trademark for got Milk was registered in nineteen
Speaker 1: o three, So our options for rating our film this
Speaker 1: week are farting, turkeys. First of all, I'm sorry I
Speaker 1: jumped the gun. Should we do one out of ten?
Speaker 1: Let's do one out of ten?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, thank you for what we were doing.
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, let's do one as the lowest and
Speaker 1: ten is the highest. So we're gonna do one out
Speaker 1: of ten farting turkeys, I hope not one out of
Speaker 1: ten frosted t friends, romans and double eagles, one out
Speaker 1: of ten, dozens of fry bags, one out of ten
Speaker 1: scenes that never come back into play, one out of
Speaker 1: ten punches to wrappt hamburgers, hang out with lunatics, or
Speaker 1: one out of ten mustard and sugar sandwiches. I'd also
Speaker 1: like to add one out of ten sluzies. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you pick, Sabrina, which one would you like to doyluy?
Speaker 1: One out of ten sluzy mcgoozies. I think you go
Speaker 1: first this time. How many sluzy mcgoozies you're gonna give
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Gosh, man, I this one was not one that I
Speaker 4: really jumped into, I know. Ever, like I said, I
Speaker 4: was interested because, as you brought it to talking later on,
Speaker 4: I was really excited about their chemistry and the friendship right,
Speaker 4: And yeah, this movie was what I feel like, another
Speaker 4: opportunity for those actors that are on the channel that
Speaker 4: don't have the full lead in their shows to get
Speaker 4: an opportunity to start.
Speaker 1: So I was really.
Speaker 4: Excited thinking she was going to have this driving force
Speaker 4: in this movie, and I don't feel like her character
Speaker 4: Wasn't it really.
Speaker 3: Enough for me?
Speaker 4: I agree, and I saw the storyline going definitely towards
Speaker 4: them and their journey, not necessarily about the little brother
Speaker 4: and stuff. So there were just too many choppiness and
Speaker 4: too many what's going on. I'm confused, and like I said,
Speaker 4: I'm at the point with us watching so many of these.
Speaker 4: My favorite part about watching them is literally just getting
Speaker 4: lost and like being like, I'm not even I forgot.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I gotta rewind because I'm just not even
Speaker 4: like picking it apart. I'm just enjoying this movie. And
Speaker 4: this movie just wasn't that for me. So I am
Speaker 4: going to give it six sluzy magoozies.
Speaker 1: Wow, you scored it higher than I really. I agree
Speaker 1: with every well, I agree with everything you said. I
Speaker 1: think this movie should just instead of you know, be
Speaker 1: called you should just be called confusion. It was it
Speaker 1: was strange. Good young cast, you know, a good young cast,
Speaker 1: which which is which is great? None of it was
Speaker 1: their fault at all. I thought the script was very muddled.
Speaker 1: There were scenes that made no sense. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it five and a half sloosey mcgoozies, and the half
Speaker 1: is just for the Vanessa Carlton song, which was used wrong.
Speaker 1: But at least we got to listen to it. So
Speaker 1: there you go. There's you wish. That's what we got.
Speaker 1: Her next movie will mesh the world of dcom fantasy
Speaker 1: with real life when we take on two thousand's Miracle
Speaker 1: in Lane two, a movie about soapbox racing starring Frankie Munez,
Speaker 1: who is now a professional race car driver. Very cool.
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