Speaker 1: Okay, so we're watching all of the Disney Channel original
Speaker 1: movies we can find. Yeah, and there is a real
Speaker 1: normally I ask you some random question now, like hey,
Speaker 1: when's last time you went on a roller coaster? I
Speaker 1: don't have it in me today. I don't have it
Speaker 1: in it. The one thing I do I did notice
Speaker 1: there is at least so we've talked about the number
Speaker 1: of different versions of dcom's back even during the zoog days,
Speaker 1: and like early early stuff. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people say that officially DCOM started in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: but there was a long list of stuff beforehand that
Speaker 1: could be considered or would have been considered a DCOM
Speaker 1: if such a thing had existed. But there's a real
Speaker 1: old jump around the two thousand, two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: two thousand and two era of just changing what the
Speaker 1: DCOM was. Because the one we watched this week, I
Speaker 1: don't even really know what to think or say.
Speaker 2: Frankly, yes, I am also a little lost for words,
Speaker 2: to be honest, because it is it. It had one
Speaker 2: of the channel's major stars in it, so like there
Speaker 2: was a big like she was one of the it
Speaker 2: girls on the channel at that time. So it's not
Speaker 2: that it did. Yes, Courtney Draper, Yes, she was on
Speaker 2: that show. We've talked about it called the Jersey which
Speaker 2: they put on, Yeah, put on like a magic It's
Speaker 2: a jersey that's like magical and they become like a part.
Speaker 2: And that show was huge, like huge it was, and
Speaker 2: it was so good. It was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: I really loved it. And it's kind of like the
Speaker 2: storyline of this one. It's not just like a micro world.
Speaker 2: It's like out of this world, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: and not.
Speaker 1: Even kind of in a clever way. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, we just I guess. Let's just get,
Speaker 1: let's get let's just chang into it and let's get
Speaker 1: let's just do it. Let's just jump.
Speaker 2: Somebody. I don't know, let's just go.
Speaker 1: Well we got this. Welcome back to Magical. Rewind the
Speaker 1: show that makes you want to go have your friends,
Speaker 1: your PJS and your popcorn and go back to a
Speaker 1: time when all the houses were smart, the waves tsunamis,
Speaker 1: and not all the movies were this one.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilfredell and I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: Okay, So every few decades a film comes along that
Speaker 1: not only wow's audiences, it defines a generation. And this
Speaker 1: week we approach one of those films, It's time to Talk.
Speaker 1: Two thousand's Stepsister from Planet Weird and of course being facetious.
Speaker 1: It debuted on June seventeenth, in the year two thousand,
Speaker 1: a film drenched in y two K optimistic fear, and
Speaker 1: it's based on the book of the same name by
Speaker 1: children's librarian turned author Francis Lance. Lance wrote over thirty books,
Speaker 1: many kids' best sellers, but she might be best known
Speaker 1: for the Luna Bay Monthly book series, made in collaboration
Speaker 1: with HarperCollins and Roxy. The California clothing company, Yes a
Speaker 1: clothing company. It was a surf clothing company, I believe, Yes,
Speaker 1: a California surf clothing company. She was a surfer herself
Speaker 1: who lived in Santa Barbara, so she was perfect fit
Speaker 1: for the theme. And in the original Stepsisters from Planet
Speaker 1: Weird book, surfing was included and it was obviously switched
Speaker 1: out for windsurfing because well, we'll get to that. Sadly,
Speaker 1: Lance passed away in nineteen ninety nine from ovarian cancer
Speaker 1: at the very young age of fifty two. Stepsister from
Speaker 1: Planet Weird was filmed in Australia, a recent trend we've
Speaker 1: been running into, but still part of the exclusive club
Speaker 1: of dcom's filmed outside of the US, and the movie
Speaker 1: was greenlit by Disney and boy did a show just
Speaker 1: three weeks before shooting began, putting the cast and crew
Speaker 1: on quite a tight timeline and maybe, you know, causing
Speaker 1: some plot holes and stuff. All right, okay, all right, now,
Speaker 1: this is the first time we run into this, and
Speaker 1: I am beyond skeptical that this is true. But in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, cabletv dot Com analyzed the entire dcom catalog
Speaker 1: at the time and utilize Google trends to figure out
Speaker 1: the most popular dcoms per state. Yes, that's a thing,
Speaker 1: and Stepsister from Planet Weird was the most popular film
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. Again, I don't believe this at all, but
Speaker 1: here are some of the other results from the poll
Speaker 1: that they conducted in case you're wondering. Nevada Mom's Got
Speaker 1: a Date with a Vampire was their favorite. Hawaii Come On,
Speaker 1: Easy One, Johnny Tsunami, New York was Get It Right,
Speaker 1: New York was Get a Clue? Oregon Halloween Town High
Speaker 1: makes sense Utah High School musical makes sense, and California
Speaker 1: was one called the Jenny Project or the Genie Project,
Speaker 1: Jenny Project, which Jenny. We don't know that one yet. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: no matter what state you live in, even if you
Speaker 1: were fraudulently told it was your favorite movie in penns Calvania,
Speaker 1: no matter where you live, you can watch Stepsister from
Speaker 1: Planet Weird on Disney Plus. It was actually part of
Speaker 1: their launch package and you can launch into it right
Speaker 1: now if you want, or you can listen to us
Speaker 1: and then see what we got right and what we
Speaker 1: got wrong. But either way, we suggest you continue with
Speaker 1: caution and only under adult supervision. Sabrina, before it was
Speaker 1: said as a podcast episode, did you know anything about
Speaker 1: Stepsisters from Planet Weird?
Speaker 2: I didn't. I did not know anything about this one,
Speaker 2: this Stepsister.
Speaker 1: I'm not even getting the title right yet. That's how
Speaker 1: that's what I thought of it. Okay, Stepsister from Planet Weird. Sorry,
Speaker 1: so you did not?
Speaker 2: No, I didn't. And this is like around the time,
Speaker 2: like I said, I was auditioning a lot for Disney
Speaker 2: Channel stuff, so I was watching the channel a lot,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if maybe this one wasn't one
Speaker 2: that was put on replay, like like the majority of
Speaker 2: them were at the time, you know, just except in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: except I guess maybe in Pennsylvania. Yeah, so this never
Speaker 2: came across my my TV box with my antennis.
Speaker 1: I'm not even an answer the question. I am too.
Speaker 1: I can't even answer it if I this or not.
Speaker 1: Of course I didn't know what this was. Now keep
Speaker 1: away from wind and drink some roop beer because it's
Speaker 1: time for the synopsis. When teenager Megan's mom gets engaged,
Speaker 1: her new soon to be stepsister, Ariel turns out to
Speaker 1: be a bubble based alien refugee hiding on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: It's directed by Steve Boyam, a legendary name here on
Speaker 1: Magical Rewind since he's the director of some iconic dcoms.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's not Daddy Owen, but the ones he's
Speaker 1: done include Johnny Tsunami, Motorcross, and a movie that's actually
Speaker 1: very similar to this one, Mom's Got a Date with
Speaker 1: the Vampires. Did you notice kind of the similarities between
Speaker 1: the films a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, it wasn't surprising to find that not
Speaker 2: but not Johnny Tsunami or different Mom's Got a date
Speaker 2: with the Vampire. Yeah, I saw some similarities for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it makes sense because he did Stepsister and
Speaker 1: Mom's Got a Date back to back in the same year.
Speaker 2: Wow, so this was you.
Speaker 1: Remember us talking about him. He's kind of a legend
Speaker 1: in the world here, especially of dcoms, because he was
Speaker 1: a stuntman turned director early, having worked on Apocalypse Now, Predator,
Speaker 1: True Romance, and Groundhog's Day. Before moving behind the camera,
Speaker 1: I'm having s's to the thing. I think it's just
Speaker 1: Groundhog Day. I don't know, before moving the camera. He
Speaker 1: also directed the movie You, Me and Dupree and now
Speaker 1: works in TV shows like The Boys, Goosebumps, Supernatural and
Speaker 1: Criminal Minds and The Cast. Okay, we have a truly
Speaker 1: kind of incredible group of actors who are just a
Speaker 1: little too old to be playing high schoolers, but great. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: we've got Courtney Draper as you were talking about as
Speaker 1: Meg Larson. Courtney is best known to us as Sam
Speaker 1: the Mermaid from the d com The Thirteenth Year, the
Speaker 1: Barbotsville movie. We always talk about. That's Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: status right there on its own, but she also appeared
Speaker 1: in almost one hundred episodes of Bold and The Beautiful.
Speaker 1: So she was on Bold and Back.
Speaker 2: That's where we worked together.
Speaker 1: Well, oh you worked with her, Okay.
Speaker 2: There you go, yes, on and on the jersey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's right. And I was gonna say, and
Speaker 1: she's on the jersey. But also in Buffy the Vampire
Speaker 1: Slayer CSI Miami Veronica and she has since become an
Speaker 1: always working voiceover actor in video games like Kingdom Hearts,
Speaker 1: I was in that, BioShock Infinite and Final Fantasy. Sevin
Speaker 1: and Tamara Hope plays Aerial Cola. The Canadian actress has
Speaker 1: been seen in movies like Crimson Peak and Shall We Dance?
Speaker 1: And TV shows like Murdoch Mysteries and The Transporter. She
Speaker 1: is a singer as well, and in the band Bruce
Speaker 1: Peninsula and her own project, The Weather Station, which just
Speaker 1: sounds like a great band. And then we've got Lance's
Speaker 1: guest and he's portraying a brand new nominee for best
Speaker 1: decom character name of all time. It's It's Cosmo Cola.
Speaker 1: Lance is best known as Yes, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: films in the history of the world, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: and one of the most important movies in my life.
Speaker 1: He played Alex Rogan in the nineteen eighty four cult
Speaker 1: classic The Last star Fighter. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: we Cannot be Friends, as well as Halloween two and
Speaker 1: Jaws The Revenge. Okay, fun fact Sabrina, Uh huh. The
Speaker 1: actual tagline and this is where I get it from
Speaker 1: from Jaws The Revenge was Jaws The Revenge. This time
Speaker 1: it's person Oh is it really actually the family down
Speaker 1: to the Bahamas to attack them because it killed their mom?
Speaker 1: Not even joking.
Speaker 2: Wait, this is the sequel to Jaws.
Speaker 1: This is just Jaws the Revenge. It's like the third one,
Speaker 1: the one that was three D. This time it's personal.
Speaker 1: This time where it comes from?
Speaker 2: Thank you? I love okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Now where do we think Cosmo Cola sits
Speaker 1: on the ranking of craziest character names? Where where is
Speaker 1: he in the Jackal Johnson verse?
Speaker 2: I mean it did, It didn't strike. I mean it
Speaker 2: just obviously was a weird name. But because they were
Speaker 2: portraying aliens, it didn't like it wasn't like Jackal Johnson
Speaker 2: was supposed to be like a real person.
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, Cosmic Cola was just kind of like
Speaker 2: a silly name. Of you know, like what you would think,
Speaker 2: like someone would bring into you know, not being a
Speaker 2: part of the this.
Speaker 1: World, right, And I'm guessing there was some scene somewhere
Speaker 1: in the book or somewhere where when they first land
Speaker 1: on Earth he sees a cola machine or something like that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that would make sense totally. Yeah, especially because
Speaker 2: Rupier is such a big thing. And yes, and they
Speaker 2: does such a big thing with any.
Speaker 1: The co two and all that stuff. Yeah, and we've
Speaker 1: got Christine Hay as the mom Kathy Larson. Christine is
Speaker 1: best known as Simon Foster on Head of the Class,
Speaker 1: but also appeared in shows like Law and Order, Bull
Speaker 1: and Parker Lewis Can't Lose. She's also, it says here,
Speaker 1: an Emmy winning environmentalist. And my question is, how does
Speaker 1: one win an Emmy for environmentalism?
Speaker 2: Did she do some kind of documentary?
Speaker 1: Would she have one in the one in an Emmy
Speaker 1: for being a documentarian, not for being an environment Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's so there's so many categories at the Emmys that
Speaker 2: don't hit the air, like I mean, it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I wasn't on camera at all last year and somehow
Speaker 1: won two Emmys, So everybody's getting stuff. Kid didn't Could
Speaker 1: you really believe it?
Speaker 2: Come on you winning em Absolutely, I would totally believe that.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, No, they kicked me out of
Speaker 1: the building. I don't want to know me anyway. They're
Speaker 1: not filled with chocolate. I found that out. And let's
Speaker 1: talk run time. Stepsister from Planet Weird clocks in at
Speaker 1: drum roll, please, but make it a quick one eighty
Speaker 1: five minutes. Ah, music to my ears. Though it is
Speaker 1: five minutes off the target, it's off the target in
Speaker 1: the right direction. So yes, it passes our test with
Speaker 1: flying colors staying under ninety and history. Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: And if there's any movie that I'm glad it was short,
Speaker 1: it was this one.
Speaker 2: I paused it at some point I only had fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Ye, yes, yes, I'm almost done. Oh my. Rounding out
Speaker 1: the cast, we have Miles Jeffrey is Trevor Larson. He
Speaker 1: is also in another dcom that we've watched again. We
Speaker 1: just spoke about Mom's Got a Date with the Vampire,
Speaker 1: directed by the same guy as this movie, and he
Speaker 1: starred in fifteen episodes of Beverly Hills nine two or
Speaker 1: zero and then round and everything out. We've got Lauren Maltby,
Speaker 1: who's Heather Hartman. She's best known in our world as
Speaker 1: Marge in all three of the Xenon movies. So a
Speaker 1: low key Disney legend right there. Now. The writing credits
Speaker 1: are pretty straightforward. We have the book's author, Francis Lance,
Speaker 1: getting an acknowledgment for characters and story, but the teleplay
Speaker 1: is credited to Chris Matheson, who's a bit of a
Speaker 1: legend when it comes to eighties and nineties movies. His
Speaker 1: first script ever was the nineteen eighty nine classic Bill
Speaker 1: and Ted's excellent adventure Great Man, your first ever film,
Speaker 1: and you go on to write the sequels, Bogus Journey
Speaker 1: and Bill and Ted Face the Music, Bill A. Ted's
Speaker 1: Bogus Journey is way funnier than it has any right
Speaker 1: to be. And the rest of his resume includes Banger
Speaker 1: after Banger, Mom and Dad Saved the World, Love It,
Speaker 1: The Ellen degenerous rom com Mister Wrong, and a Disney
Speaker 1: classic A Goofy movie. So it's safe to say that
Speaker 1: this movie is not his best. Okay, let's chill out
Speaker 1: in the Sink and Pine over finuwel we need to
Speaker 1: getting a stepsister from planet weird right now. We open
Speaker 1: up with some fast pumping dance music, only interrupted by
Speaker 1: a girl's voice that sternly announces wind. There's nothing else
Speaker 1: like it. Keep wind in mind because it's mentioned an
Speaker 1: awful lot. And you know what, She's right. It's one
Speaker 1: of our co leads, Megan writing in her diary. We
Speaker 1: see some windsurfer shredding waves, reminded by our narrator that
Speaker 1: this is extreme, another word that comes up over and
Speaker 1: over and over again in this movie. It's Megan on
Speaker 1: the board, or more specifically, her stunt double, and we
Speaker 1: go close up on her face a few times to
Speaker 1: pretend it's possible the actress is actually cruising this fast
Speaker 1: on a windsurf machine. What is it? Windsurfer board?
Speaker 2: One's actually the few water sports I've never done was windsurfing,
Speaker 2: and it looks inredibly hard.
Speaker 1: I tried it once when I was young, and like,
Speaker 1: even just lifting up the damn sail was a little
Speaker 1: bit heavy. So but you know what, I am good
Speaker 1: at one thing, and very good at one thing, and
Speaker 1: that's quitting when things are hard. So I never again
Speaker 1: very good at that and there's guys and you didn't but.
Speaker 2: You didn't quit on this movie.
Speaker 1: No, I just had to watch it in ninety second chunks.
Speaker 1: It took me two weeks. And there's there's then guy
Speaker 1: surfer Cutter, someone Meghan seems very impressed by, but I'm
Speaker 1: frankly not impressed because while show voting, he wipes out
Speaker 1: and Meghan has to save him. Once resituated back on
Speaker 1: the board, we get a surreal back and forth between
Speaker 1: Cutter and Meghan. He tells her that she quote flatly
Speaker 1: rules unquote and asks if she'll be his girlfriend. She
Speaker 1: says yes, and then her parents are just there, creepily
Speaker 1: standing nearby in the ocean. They announced they're getting back together.
Speaker 1: Then her redheaded little brother, Trevor, he pops up and
Speaker 1: says he's never gonna act like a freak again. Then,
Speaker 1: as if that wasn't enough, the prettiest girls in school appear.
Speaker 1: Heather Hartman They're a leader, welcomes Meghan into the popular group.
Speaker 1: Then we hear a smattering of applause because Meghan is
Speaker 1: actually asleep. This is all in a dream. Trevor rushes
Speaker 1: into the bedroom, yelling die elly and die okay, But
Speaker 1: movie just started. The siblings walk downstairs together talking about
Speaker 1: men in black and getting jiggy with it, so we
Speaker 1: know exactly what time this took place, and Megan remembers
Speaker 1: when they're all together. We are then transported to an
Speaker 1: old beach vacation. It seems her dad, even back then,
Speaker 1: was always on the phone, busy with work, and that's
Speaker 1: the reason her parents split up. And this guy was
Speaker 1: comically on his phone all the time, where it's like, really,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit in your car all beach day and
Speaker 1: be It's like, I get they're trying to show that
Speaker 1: he works a lot, but it was it was a
Speaker 1: bit too much sad, I know, but it was also like,
Speaker 1: come on, no nobody does that to that extent. But anyway, my.
Speaker 2: Dad was a real estate agent, and I feel like
Speaker 2: there were so many times where he had to Like
Speaker 2: calls would happen middle of anything we were doing, and
Speaker 2: we're like, h can't you just put it on silent,
Speaker 2: like getting so annoyed with it, but but he can't.
Speaker 1: Can't do it. However, Megan's mom, Kathy, seems pretty great.
Speaker 1: She's a little distracted since her husband left, but no
Speaker 1: one's really blaming her. She serves soup and crackers for breakfast,
Speaker 1: which of course is a negative. But she loves windsurfing
Speaker 1: and even owns a little windsurfing store, which is a
Speaker 1: major positive. But I assume this place doesn't make her
Speaker 1: a ton of money. And she's dated a little, but
Speaker 1: nothing's worked out. That's Kathy's life in a nutshell. We've
Speaker 1: wrapped it all up and now it's cool. Megan is
Speaker 1: not in the popular group, but she was for one
Speaker 1: week last year because she lied and said she was
Speaker 1: related to Jewel. Okay, interesting, but when they found out
Speaker 1: she wasn't, she got kicked out. But Megan's friend is
Speaker 1: Michelle or Mickey, someone nerdy that she can talk superpowers with,
Speaker 1: who is kind of in this movie but not really
Speaker 1: in this movie. It was, yeah, they needed to give
Speaker 1: her someone to talk to you before they could introduce her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they then want this character in.
Speaker 2: But it was I know, and she was like a
Speaker 2: pretty good friend, Like she was straightforward, she was you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. She was like a good friend
Speaker 2: for her to have. It's sad that they didn't like
Speaker 2: continue like that would have been really funny for her
Speaker 2: to like meet Ariel and also.
Speaker 1: Know something at the wedding at the end, and she
Speaker 1: just kind of wasn't there. Yeah, that was it. But
Speaker 1: Megan does want to be in the popular group just
Speaker 1: so she can be with Cutter, the most extreme boy
Speaker 1: in school. She thinks he's rad, but he's also a
Speaker 1: total Dodo brain. And this is also when we realize
Speaker 1: they cannot hide that they're filming in Australia. Everyone is
Speaker 1: either painfully hiding their accent or just letting it fly
Speaker 1: for no real reason. Megan says Cutter doesn't even know
Speaker 1: she exists, but he does win surf and visit her
Speaker 1: mom's store where she works. Again, he's really really stupid.
Speaker 1: There were times it was funny and times it was like, dude,
Speaker 1: this is kind of painful to watch.
Speaker 2: Remember, and it made me think of our interview with
Speaker 2: Joey Lawrence talking about like the like the cool guy
Speaker 2: kind of somewhat having.
Speaker 1: To be.
Speaker 2: Like ditzy ish or something, you know, but like but
Speaker 2: very and I was kind of like, this is just
Speaker 2: taking that, Like that made sense that interview did so much,
Speaker 2: but this is like, holy but the.
Speaker 1: Cue the cute guy. That the cute guy. He's kind
Speaker 1: of the antagonists are supposed to be the antagonist in
Speaker 1: in Team Beach two. Cute guy, super smart. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's like, why not do that? But no,
Speaker 1: they made this guy, Like how anybody would like this guy? Even?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. That was the thing, like, how is she
Speaker 2: have such a big crush on this guy? Guy? Goob yeah,
Speaker 2: goobe gooob.
Speaker 1: Also things have been changing. We come to find out
Speaker 1: Kathy has met a man, a man named Cosmo Cola.
Speaker 1: Trevor heard the name and immediately says he sounds like
Speaker 1: an alien from space, which again is quite a revelation
Speaker 1: this early in the movie. It's like the opposite of
Speaker 1: an m Night Shamalan movie. Kathy met Cosmo while windsurfing.
Speaker 1: He was yelling at her from the beach and eventually
Speaker 1: just sprinted into the water to save her from drowning
Speaker 1: in the waves. But she wasn't drowning at all. Kathy
Speaker 1: was just riding the wind, the definition of windsurfing. But
Speaker 1: they ended up talking for hours and she loves his
Speaker 1: childlike qualities. She says he's from Canada, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: a lot of people do mix up Canadians and alien
Speaker 1: So that tracks that was for all our Canadian listeners.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I love you all up there. You know what, boy,
Speaker 1: you know everything that I'm a boot, She says he's
Speaker 1: specifically from the Yukon that We then cut to a
Speaker 1: picture of yukonzo population low, which Meghan recognizes as an
Speaker 1: inhabitable missile range. We also find out this Cosmo character
Speaker 1: also has a daughter named Ariel. She's fourteen, the same
Speaker 1: age as Meghan. Then we get a montage, and you know,
Speaker 1: I love a montage of successful dates for Kathy and Cosmo.
Speaker 1: Megan always starts at home and plays her guitar, but
Speaker 1: she won't let anyone listen to her music. I also
Speaker 1: thought this was gonna be a much bigger part of
Speaker 1: the story, and then wasn't. And eventually the big night arrives,
Speaker 1: where everyone's finally going to meet Kathy, her kids, Cosmo
Speaker 1: and his daughter plan on having dinner together, and Cosmo
Speaker 1: has requested hot dogs. I like him already. I love
Speaker 1: a good hot dog. Kathy tells Megan it would mean
Speaker 1: a lot to her if she just tried to be
Speaker 1: nice for one night, because Cosmo makes her happy and
Speaker 1: he deserves a chance. Meghan promises that if her mom
Speaker 1: likes him, she'll probably like him too. It's very nice.
Speaker 1: And then the Nobel rings boom. It's Cosmo totally shot
Speaker 1: out of a cannon. He's screaming excitement and spinning Megan
Speaker 1: all around. Quite a first impression. Meghan says it was
Speaker 1: worse than she could ever have imagined. Trevor rushes up
Speaker 1: with his laser gun, asking Cosmo if he's a good
Speaker 1: alien or a bad alien. He answers earnestly good but
Speaker 1: sometimes bad. Wrestles the boy to the ground. He explains
Speaker 1: that his daughter's is still out by the car because
Speaker 1: she doesn't like the wind quote unquote weird. Trevor keeps
Speaker 1: talking about aliens. Actually, he is yet to have a
Speaker 1: line in the movie that doesn't involve accusing her mom's
Speaker 1: new boyfriend of being an alien or talking about aliens
Speaker 1: or being aliens. And by the way, he's right, he
Speaker 1: should work for our government. Kathy volunteers Megan to go
Speaker 1: find Ariel, and when she's outside, she can't find her,
Speaker 1: but she does see some footprints, only to find Ariel
Speaker 1: laying under the car. And that's when we enter a
Speaker 1: very fast rewind seeing everything we've seen so far in
Speaker 1: the movie passed by quickly. We hear a new narrator.
Speaker 1: It's Ariel now talking to her diary. She says she
Speaker 1: just doesn't understand Earth, and then we're in her bedroom.
Speaker 1: She summons holograms with her hands and talks about how
Speaker 1: grotesque she feels in her new body. She also reveals
Speaker 1: that she has the same dream every night. She's back
Speaker 1: on her home planet of Zirkolon, and once again a
Speaker 1: beautiful pink ball of gas floating next to her family
Speaker 1: and boyfriend, a boy named Finul. She misses her true
Speaker 1: self an essence. This is when I was like, it
Speaker 1: is looking down at the water. I was sipping, like
Speaker 1: who puts something in this? Because man, it was weird.
Speaker 1: But anyway, she understands.
Speaker 2: I did think the hologram part was cool.
Speaker 1: The hologram diary from her hand was great.
Speaker 2: That was really a cool thing. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: and wow, that looks pretty good too.
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing. And then we went to
Speaker 1: the planet circle on.
Speaker 2: And she's as a bubble.
Speaker 1: It's such a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Again. You're with the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're making I get you're making up aliens and
Speaker 1: they have to be different. But it was so strange.
Speaker 2: It's like a face looks like a bloated glove. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: like get their gas bubbles. I went, oh no, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Kind of did too. It's like, what's what's happening? When
Speaker 1: I pause?
Speaker 2: How much longer?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I was just like Susan, whatever I took,
Speaker 1: it's kicking in. So this though, this is where she understands,
Speaker 1: or we find out that she understands that she had
Speaker 1: to leave because her dad was a freedom fighter and
Speaker 1: his life was in danger. We get some very early
Speaker 1: computer graphics here as we see the alien planet and
Speaker 1: some of its fighter jets. It's not Tron, obviously, but
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, I guess it's not.
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, it was not. And the idea of
Speaker 2: like freedom fighter that kind of eyes kind of like
Speaker 2: all right, okay, yeah, the world we can look past
Speaker 2: the bubble, yep.
Speaker 1: But looking past the bubble was a tough thing to do. Ariel.
Speaker 1: Ariel just never expected she had to leave her planet.
Speaker 1: So suddenly she tells the story of her mother's pink
Speaker 1: gas orb that was shot out of the sky by
Speaker 1: the enemies and the rest of her family barely escaped
Speaker 1: to Earth. She does admit that Earth has an abundance
Speaker 1: of the one substance or specie needs, which is carbon dioxide.
Speaker 1: She takes a drink of soda, forcing her to speaking
Speaker 1: about gyrer alien lice, but now she wants to.
Speaker 2: She's like that alien.
Speaker 1: She takes a drink of soda, forcing her to smoke,
Speaker 1: but now she wants to know more about Earth, so
Speaker 1: she turned to her neighbor, a major cat lady psychic
Speaker 1: named Serena Sue. Serena is a yoga teacher type who
Speaker 1: says she knows that Ariel is different because she doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like she belongs there. Serena thinks that a past life,
Speaker 1: Ariel was a cow hand who was crushed by a cow.
Speaker 1: But none of this matters anyway. Ariel believes her life
Speaker 1: has been overrun by dreariness and dread. And on that note,
Speaker 1: we're in the Cola family's new home and it looks
Speaker 1: like a fourth grader designed it. There's a little rocket
Speaker 1: ride at barber's chair, a Knight's armor Cosmo is painting
Speaker 1: a frame around a mirror. It's like they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be very childlike. Ariel just doesn't want to be there
Speaker 1: and Cosmo admits he misses their home too. He wishes
Speaker 1: he was floating around as gas expanding in the heat.
Speaker 1: Ariel asks why they can't just go home then, so
Speaker 1: Cosmo reminds her he'd be in prison forever in a
Speaker 1: frozen cube. They're on Earth to escape and take advantage
Speaker 1: of the wonderful possibilities like becoming a ventriloquist. I'm not
Speaker 1: making any of this up. People, if you're listening along
Speaker 1: and haven't seen the movie, I'm not just throwing out words.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening. This is the movie we're walking through. Okay,
Speaker 1: not making this like.
Speaker 2: He literally brought out the doll and act quickly.
Speaker 1: But about this part of the movie, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: It's a random throne.
Speaker 1: Like it's like, seriously, no, no joke. At this point
Speaker 1: of the movie, I was like, huh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not a bad movie, double teamed. So it's like, I
Speaker 1: gotta watch that again. So while Ariel complains Cosmo is
Speaker 1: selling diamonds online, a mineral that is apparently abundant back
Speaker 1: home and worth a ton on Earth, is he getting
Speaker 1: shipments of diamonds? Did he when he had to flee
Speaker 1: last minute did he also happen to have hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 1: if not millions of dollars worth of diamonds on him?
Speaker 1: Because I don't I don't know how he's getting I
Speaker 1: maybe there's still some connection to the planet, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Yes, I don't know where they
Speaker 2: come from. I don't know if this is if this
Speaker 2: is Disney doing it again and making the diamonds that
Speaker 2: you can get now that aren't like I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The zirkulon diamonds. How is he getting them? Did he
Speaker 1: flee with these circle lot diamonds? How do you know
Speaker 1: they'd be worth money on Earth if they were, if
Speaker 1: they're that abundant in his planet? So many questions. So yes,
Speaker 1: it's and.
Speaker 2: Just and it also never comes back now.
Speaker 1: That there are parents parent millionaires.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, they're like they have like just millions of
Speaker 2: dollars and it just like never comes back.
Speaker 1: Ariel herself though, just wants to communicate with finuwel back home.
Speaker 1: But he's the son of the emperor, so that would
Speaker 1: get her dad in a lot of trouble. Who they're
Speaker 1: trying to throw in the extra level of and his
Speaker 1: dad's bay. Then Cosmo takes a swig of soda and Sabrina,
Speaker 1: what did you think of his alien voice?
Speaker 2: I mean, was that them doing something electronically too?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was definitely they weren't.
Speaker 2: Like doing that voice right. That's the only real thought
Speaker 2: I had towards it.
Speaker 1: I am, however, going to need you to do an
Speaker 1: impression of.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, no, I can't.
Speaker 1: Sound like, come on, take us a roop here, what
Speaker 1: it sounds like? Come on?
Speaker 2: It was like like gods will takes a swig of soda?
Speaker 2: What eating of his alien voice? I thought it was
Speaker 2: just like stupid, like there are some of this stuff
Speaker 2: I had just seen for the last five minutes.
Speaker 1: That was not bad.
Speaker 2: That was not bad. I just get really nervous around
Speaker 2: the god of freaking voiceovers out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's not me. But that's there's plenty better,
Speaker 1: plenty plenty better. Yes. Cosmo climbs a tree outside in
Speaker 1: Ariel can't stop talking about Fanuel until a little gusta
Speaker 1: wind picks up and she darts inside, completely afraid. Her
Speaker 1: dad swears it can't hurt her, but he's also a
Speaker 1: little bit scared himself. Eventually, he sprints inside, yelling we
Speaker 1: fear the wind to his neighbor. I think literally, anyone
Speaker 1: who meets the Cola family is going to think their
Speaker 1: aliens are not really hiding it. Well, so Trevor wasn't
Speaker 1: all that perceptive. It's pretty easy to notice. Back inside
Speaker 1: the Cola house, a bathroom sink overflows and a gaseous
Speaker 1: bubble floats on the top of the water. Ariel is
Speaker 1: stuck inside, crying out to Fanuel. Why must he be
Speaker 1: the son of the emperor? They're like the historic story
Speaker 1: of Glabba and Gronka to star cross bubble. She promises
Speaker 1: they will meet again. She then interpretive dances to what
Speaker 1: seems to maybe be her planet's national anthem, while singing
Speaker 1: to it again. I'm not making any of this up.
Speaker 1: This is the movie. The next morning, Cosmo tells his
Speaker 1: daughter about meeting Kathy in the ocean and how he
Speaker 1: was impressed she wasn't afraid of the wind. He's very
Speaker 1: into her, but Ariel is obviously hurt thinking of her mother.
Speaker 1: Cosmo assures her he will never forget her mom, but
Speaker 1: they live on Earth now and they need to make
Speaker 1: a life here. Mommy wouldn't want them to be unhappy
Speaker 1: and alone, and tonight's the night they'll visit the Larson home.
Speaker 1: He guarantees a wonderful time, but Ariel reminds him the
Speaker 1: night went horribly, horribly wrong. We're back in the Larson
Speaker 1: front yard with Ariel hiding from the wind. Still, Megan
Speaker 1: informs her that the wind has died down. When they
Speaker 1: re enter the house, the family dog barks at Ariel
Speaker 1: and then again cue the little brother, Trevor blast in
Speaker 1: his toy laser gun and accusing Ariel of being an
Speaker 1: alien kid could have ended the movie in ninety seconds.
Speaker 1: Ariel panics and grabs root beer and then heads for
Speaker 1: the bathroom. Kathy forces Megan to check on her, and
Speaker 1: when she opens the door, Ariel is drenched. She claims
Speaker 1: she fell in the sink, so Meghan takes her off
Speaker 1: to her bedroom to dry her off and change her
Speaker 1: into a very y two K baggy shirt. Ariel chugs
Speaker 1: another bottle of root beer and accidentally exposes her alien voice.
Speaker 1: This is all freaking out Megan, who tries to dry
Speaker 1: her off for the blow dryer, but the wind again
Speaker 1: terrifies Ariel, and if this can't get any weirder, Kathy
Speaker 1: then walks in and announces dinner's ready. At the dinner table,
Speaker 1: Cosmo is completely covering his hot dog and dozens of
Speaker 1: condiments and chomping away, but Aerro just sits and angst
Speaker 1: she doesn't like food. Megan jokes she's on the root
Speaker 1: beer diet, and now Ariel considers her the enemy. But
Speaker 1: then the unthinkable happens. Cosmo and Kathy announce they're engaged.
Speaker 1: Seems like they went on six dates and now they're engaged.
Speaker 1: They haven't known each other long and dinner isn't going well,
Speaker 1: but they're following their hearts. Everyone is surprised, but Megan
Speaker 1: waits to crash out until she's alone with her mom.
Speaker 1: Later that night, she calls Cosmo the freak of all time,
Speaker 1: like some sort of clown. Trevor actually digs them, but
Speaker 1: Meghan can't believe this guy is about to be their stepfather.
Speaker 1: And while she's at it, Megan calls Ariel whacked. How
Speaker 1: could she have fallen in the sink and why is
Speaker 1: she afraid of a blow dryer? Trevor defends he thinks
Speaker 1: she's really pretty, which is another theme we're about to
Speaker 1: get hit over the head with over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Kathy swears to Megan she would never marry
Speaker 1: someone that wasn't right for their family. Cathy suggests she
Speaker 1: makes music with Ariels since they both like to sing.
Speaker 1: Megan's not hearing it, and also Trevor again suggests she's
Speaker 1: an alien. Kathy reveals to Meghan that Ariel lost her
Speaker 1: mom a few years ago and she hasn't had it easy.
Speaker 1: So Megan agrees to take it easy on Ariel, but
Speaker 1: can't believe she's being enrolled in high school tomorrow, And
Speaker 1: so we're cutting to the next morning, where Megan and
Speaker 1: Ariel are biking a school together. Ariel is on training
Speaker 1: wheels and wearing a football helmet like a bit of
Speaker 1: a goob, or, as Trevor would call it, an alien.
Speaker 1: She blames being out of practice, but then crashes and
Speaker 1: performs a pretty dramatic flip over the handlebars above the
Speaker 1: bike rack in front of the entire student body. How
Speaker 1: unbelievably mortifying, But then apparently it wasn't, because to Megan surprised,
Speaker 1: two cute skater boys approach. They want to know who
Speaker 1: the girl is. Actually, a lot of the school is
Speaker 1: very interested in this new gorgeous transfer in unique clothes
Speaker 1: who apparently can't ride a bike, and that's turned on
Speaker 1: the entire student body. So now there's the new issue
Speaker 1: with having Ariel as a stepsister. She makes Megan feel inferior,
Speaker 1: so went from thinking she's weird to just feeling inferior.
Speaker 1: Even Mikey wants to hang out with Ariel, who has
Speaker 1: successfully convinced the school she is a visionary who wears
Speaker 1: a lot of layers to protect her essence. And then
Speaker 1: we're in math class. The teacher calls on Meghan for
Speaker 1: a volume of a swimming pool, but she has no
Speaker 1: clue how to answer, But guess who does Ariel? She
Speaker 1: knows to the point zero one kilometer and is instantly
Speaker 1: admired for her brain. And now the school is full
Speaker 1: of rumors. Ariel has a perfect iQue. She dated Prince William,
Speaker 1: she tutored Bill Gates, and Megan doesn't get it. In reality,
Speaker 1: Ariel is like an alien. And yes, there is now
Speaker 1: another child calling it out. How would adults not think
Speaker 1: something was up? Also, this time she says it's like
Speaker 1: she's from planet Weird. So that's how we got the title.
Speaker 1: Ariel is already at the popular table and Heather, the
Speaker 1: cool girl, is all over her. The popular girl say
Speaker 1: they wish Ariel was their stepsister. Ariel continues to wow
Speaker 1: the school by solving complicated math problems and playing piano perfectly.
Speaker 1: That afternoon, Ariel makes her way to the restroom, with
Speaker 1: Meghan and a teacher following close behind. They spy the
Speaker 1: new student holding a bubble in her hands and talking
Speaker 1: to it like it's Finul, her long lost boyfriend. But
Speaker 1: rather than cause alarm, the teacher finds Ariel to be
Speaker 1: a deep poet. This is Megan's absolute nightmare. Teacher's lover,
Speaker 1: and kids at school are already dressing in multiple layers
Speaker 1: and talking about their essence. She's starting a trend. She
Speaker 1: opens a door and comes out, and the entire school
Speaker 1: is wearing pink and all that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 1: it's her first day. Where did they get all the
Speaker 1: clothes exactly?
Speaker 2: It's like, she says, it's sixth period or seventh period.
Speaker 2: It's like, what, what weird? Did they just have all
Speaker 2: these random clothes to layer on? I mean they're wearing
Speaker 2: like three layers each.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes absolutely no sense with whatever the hell
Speaker 1: is going on there. I didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Even yeah, well it's just too extreme. That was just
Speaker 2: kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was I get what they were doing, but
Speaker 1: they should have done that gradually over time.
Speaker 2: So why is this teacher following them into the bathroom?
Speaker 1: It was so odd and then just sitting there and
Speaker 1: being like she's like a poet. Wait, what what's happened?
Speaker 2: The hell is happening? It was why this movie?
Speaker 1: You know what this movie was was just a series
Speaker 1: of strange beats. It was like one strange beat after
Speaker 1: the next strange beat after the next strange beat. Yes,
Speaker 1: what's happening now?
Speaker 2: And then the beats just like went away. It wasn't
Speaker 2: like there's only one and I will say it that
Speaker 2: comes back. That actually ended up being funny the second
Speaker 2: time it came back, like this little beat that they had.
Speaker 2: But other than that, it was like a moment and
Speaker 2: then gone, yeah, and that was it. That was really
Speaker 2: except for I guess the blow dryers at the end,
Speaker 2: Like that's really it.
Speaker 1: I know that Kathy is now forcing Megan to teach
Speaker 1: Ariel how to win surf, which seems like a bad
Speaker 1: idea because one of them is afraid of the wind.
Speaker 1: But when Megan pushes back her mom calls it good
Speaker 1: for bonding, then doubles down by calling Cosmo her soulmate.
Speaker 1: Megan agrees to teach Ariol how to win surf, as
Speaker 1: long as Kathy never says soulmate again. Deals struck Now
Speaker 1: out on the beach, Megan wants to show Ariel how
Speaker 1: it's done, and Ariel reminds her new tutor that she's
Speaker 1: scared of the wind. No one seems to care, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that the sport literally has the word wind
Speaker 1: in it. And while out catching wind, Megan looks back
Speaker 1: at the beach and sees Cutter Cutter, Oh Cutter, chatting
Speaker 1: it up with Ariel. The jealousy causes a total wipeout
Speaker 1: and a declaration of war. Then we're thrown into another
Speaker 1: immediate rewind. We're taken all the way back. You've got
Speaker 1: to keep watching this movie over and over again. We're
Speaker 1: taking all the way back to the moment where Ariel
Speaker 1: flipped over her handlebars, and now she's the narrator talking
Speaker 1: to her diary. Okay, good idea.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like rewinding it. And then you do it from
Speaker 1: somebody else's point of view. That's a good idea. That's
Speaker 1: a clever way to do this. This was not done well,
Speaker 1: but it was a clever like I would like to
Speaker 1: see this in a better version of this movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense because it's a cool it's a cool
Speaker 1: visual device.
Speaker 2: The girls worlds are getting like flipped upside down and
Speaker 2: you're watching how they aren't seeing each other's struggles, and
Speaker 2: like I do, the concept is really a cool way
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 1: It's sure very clever what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Just did it really amplifier like level up the movie
Speaker 2: in anything?
Speaker 1: It was a clever idea used in the in the
Speaker 1: wrong movie. Yeah, it's it's like they put this really
Speaker 1: cool new seat belt bracket in a Ford Pinto and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, that was the wrong place to put that.
Speaker 1: That's a weird analogy, but it works. Okay, we're taking
Speaker 1: all the way back to the moment where Ariol flipped
Speaker 1: over her handlebars, and now she's the narrator talking to
Speaker 1: her diary. Then we're back at the popular table for lunch,
Speaker 1: and Ariel, who finds them all to be useless and stupid,
Speaker 1: is living a nightmare. Also, other kids have been mimicking
Speaker 1: Ariel's big bike crash all day, cheering each other on,
Speaker 1: proving that absolutely everything she's done now is considered revolutionary.
Speaker 1: So even the crashing, the kids are like trying to
Speaker 1: imitate the strain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ones that we saw during this sea though,
Speaker 2: we're some pretty epic crash they Yeah.
Speaker 1: They had some good crashes.
Speaker 2: It was fucked.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We are now back on the beach. While watching
Speaker 1: Megan windsurf, she worries that the wind will destroy her
Speaker 1: new mentor. She walks into the water to help, even
Speaker 1: fully submerging herself at one point. That's when Cutter introduces himself,
Speaker 1: drenched in her street clothes. She explained she intended to
Speaker 1: rescue Megan Larson, and he quickly starts flirting. He admits
Speaker 1: he likes her body, and then she wishes she was
Speaker 1: gas and crazy enough. He immediately asked to be her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: but this time it's not a dream. He just impulsively
Speaker 1: and love bombingly starts hitting on her, and she's an alien.
Speaker 1: Ariel says. She finds him vapid and shallow, and he
Speaker 1: understands about half those words, and that's when Meghan angrily
Speaker 1: returns to pull Ariel away. Ariel agrees the clag has
Speaker 1: really hit the drawn now stomping off. Meghan says she's
Speaker 1: onto Ariel. She's just trying to come in and take
Speaker 1: everything Megan wants, but Ariel says she doesn't want cutter,
Speaker 1: she just wants to go home. Ariel hates these strange
Speaker 1: creatures and the planet's lack of dignity for bubbles, just
Speaker 1: like Meg. She doesn't want her parents to get remarried,
Speaker 1: and so an unlikely alliance is born. When their parents
Speaker 1: leave for a date that night, Megan and Ariel agree
Speaker 1: to babysit Trevor and immediately send him to bed to
Speaker 1: make a plan. They decide first thing they have to
Speaker 1: do is convince their parents they become best friends, so
Speaker 1: they take some polaroids together then sing a duet about friendship. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it honestly doesn't sound too bad, and at least
Speaker 1: the singing kind of comes out again, which is good.
Speaker 1: They'll also practice what they'll tell their parents about how
Speaker 1: now that their BFFs and making cookies together, everything's wonderful
Speaker 1: and their evil plan has begun. Later that night, after
Speaker 1: they return from a date, Kathy attempts to read her
Speaker 1: new love some poetry, but Cosmo immediately spots a spider
Speaker 1: on the wall. He's very concerned, and worse, when she's
Speaker 1: hurt by the interruption, he just grabs the remote quickly
Speaker 1: and watches some Hollywood squares. We also get some real
Speaker 1: Disney synergy here, with a scene from The Lion King
Speaker 1: quickly shown on the screen before Kathy turns it off.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't like hearing her read poems, then why
Speaker 1: would he want to marry her. He assures her he
Speaker 1: loves how fun and free and qute she is, but
Speaker 1: she wants to know how he feels about her mind.
Speaker 1: He says he's never seen her mind, and then the
Speaker 1: fight escalates. They call each other shrill and inconsiderate, and
Speaker 1: she storms out, noticing the girl spying on them on
Speaker 1: the way out. That night, Ariel sits in bed again,
Speaker 1: controlling holograms with her finger. One fight did not end
Speaker 1: the engagement, but she announces the next move is hers.
Speaker 1: She runs her lines in the bathroom the next day,
Speaker 1: tick now talking to a bubble with her dad's head
Speaker 1: in it. She says now that she's besties with Megan,
Speaker 1: who told her a secret. Kathy only acted the way
Speaker 1: she did because she was testing him. She needs to
Speaker 1: know that he can be a real man. We cut
Speaker 1: to Cosmo and Kathy having lunch, and now Cosmo is
Speaker 1: dressed like a cowboy, saying he'll take care of this
Speaker 1: little lady, except on Sundays, when he'll be watching football.
Speaker 1: He also barks at the waiter and orders a big steak,
Speaker 1: but it's a pizza parlor, so this is not working
Speaker 1: out the way he wants. The girls watch him afar
Speaker 1: as Cosmo pulls out the ventriloquist dummy again, now dressed
Speaker 1: exactly like him before. Kathy can't even say a word.
Speaker 1: Cosmo sweeps her up to a dance. He's throwing her around,
Speaker 1: trying to lead, but Kathy has had enough. Cosmo admits
Speaker 1: he's only been acting like this because she thought she
Speaker 1: wanted him to, and they quickly figure out who's been
Speaker 1: behind this entire thing. The plan has been foiled. Kathy
Speaker 1: and Cosmo are furious at their daughters, reprimanding them in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. Ariel breaks out in tears. She's disgraced
Speaker 1: her family for selfish reasons. Kathy attempts to console her,
Speaker 1: which makes Megan even matter, and again Trevor announces that
Speaker 1: she's an alien. No one listens to this kid, he
Speaker 1: might as well be in another family, so who cares,
Speaker 1: Let's just everybody save Trevor for oh that night. Ariel
Speaker 1: can't take this any longer. She's used some sort of
Speaker 1: weird alien tool kind of thing to signal for Noule
Speaker 1: to come save her, giving away her location, something her
Speaker 1: father begged her never to do. The message shoots out
Speaker 1: of her window and right up into the sky. Over
Speaker 1: in Meghan's bedroom, she's prepping for plan be but now
Speaker 1: worried if she's even doing the right thing. She admits
Speaker 1: that Cosmo has been growing on her and it's not
Speaker 1: even really Ariel's fault that everyone mistakes her weirdness for coolness.
Speaker 1: But the next morning at school, where everyone is still
Speaker 1: of course idolizing Ariel, Meghan has a new plan. They
Speaker 1: need to make their parents fall in love with somebody else,
Speaker 1: even though they admit that Cosmo and Cathy seem pretty
Speaker 1: perfect for each other. But still, Megan suggests her dad,
Speaker 1: and Ariel mentions the spiritual neighbor Serena sue. So the
Speaker 1: plan is set. They'll throw a party to say sorry
Speaker 1: for their behavior and invite everyone, including these possible love interests.
Speaker 1: Then chemistry itself will just take over. Later, Meghan finally
Speaker 1: tells Trevor he was right, Cosmo is an alien, and
Speaker 1: this poor kid finally feels a little bit vindicated here
Speaker 1: that Megan goes one step further and says he's a
Speaker 1: bad alien. Trevor doesn't believe her, but Meghan swears she's
Speaker 1: telling the truth and shows him a book titled by
Speaker 1: Plan to take Over the World and Step One Eat Trevor.
Speaker 1: He's immediately terrified and ready to do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: to help. I think at this point I paused it,
Speaker 1: walked away for a little while. Ye are sandwich, cookie,
Speaker 1: have some root beer? If that were watch Elzzie McGuire
Speaker 1: movie again, double teams everything we could do. This was
Speaker 1: you know, even as I'm reading it, this was a
Speaker 1: slog this movie. I'm sorry, this was a lot to
Speaker 1: get through this movie. It was yeah, okay, so yes.
Speaker 1: After seeing Trevor, Trevor's of course immediately terrified and ready
Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes to help. And now we
Speaker 1: are just minutes away from everyone arriving to the party,
Speaker 1: including her dad and Kookie. Serena Soue. Ariel gets ready
Speaker 1: by putting different foods into a blender, she says, because
Speaker 1: it all just ends up in the same intestinal track anyway,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, a pretty good point. And then
Speaker 1: the doorbell rings. It's Serena Soue, who thinks the dog
Speaker 1: used to be Mickey Mantle. And also Trevor peaks his
Speaker 1: head out. Megan has banished him to his room, and
Speaker 1: then Cosmon Kathy returned from a successful day of windsurfing.
Speaker 1: Cosmo actually liked it. Not sure how because he still
Speaker 1: hates Win, but sure. The couple notices party decorations, and okay,
Speaker 1: do they hate wind? Like all they do is float
Speaker 1: around their own planet? So do they hate win because
Speaker 1: they can't like it blows them away? Why do they
Speaker 1: hate wind so much? Because wind blows a gas away
Speaker 1: and it'll pop a bubble, right, Like that's the point.
Speaker 2: I guess that's what it is, because that's where we're
Speaker 2: getting to, right Like at the end, I I they
Speaker 2: just she just acts like she was just terrified. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know, Okay, it was It wasn't
Speaker 2: really ever actually explained why where the fear of wind
Speaker 2: comes from at all? Yeah, but it's weird because they
Speaker 2: do float around, So is.
Speaker 1: It just because they're gas so because their gas like
Speaker 1: wind blows gas away.
Speaker 2: I mean, but it doesn't up when there's it doesn't
Speaker 2: up in there when they're floating their ozone or wherever
Speaker 2: they're at, floating and flying, and when they're fine. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, the couple notices party decorations and Serena, who
Speaker 1: also has real alien vibes by the way, and Kathy
Speaker 1: immediately figures out the girls are up to something. But
Speaker 1: then the doorbell rings again. This time it's Megan's dad, Fred.
Speaker 1: Fred's back. Thank god he put the phone down long
Speaker 1: enough to be back in the movie. Kathy's surprised to
Speaker 1: see him, but he still has work to do. He
Speaker 1: just came to pick the kids up until them back
Speaker 1: to his place, not actually attend the party, And as
Speaker 1: the plan is falling apart in front of them, Megan
Speaker 1: thinks on her toes. She tells her dad that Trevor's
Speaker 1: sick and needs help. She rushes him upstairs, whi Trevor
Speaker 1: is totally playing along with the lie. He's laying in bed,
Speaker 1: coughing and yelling to the sky Elizabeth, I'm coming to
Speaker 1: join you, which was the funniest part of the entire movies,
Speaker 1: but he eventually breaks character and asks his dad, if
Speaker 1: you and mom get back together, can I still play
Speaker 1: with Cosmo? Sometimes? Megan can't believe what she's hearing. She
Speaker 1: quickly changes the subject, begging her dad to stay for dinner.
Speaker 1: He agrees, but nothing's going according to plan. We're now
Speaker 1: down in the kitchen. Cosmo tells Serena she's full of
Speaker 1: crap when she predicts he died in the Civil War
Speaker 1: and was a raccoon in prior lives. Then Fred returns downstairs.
Speaker 1: He's rushing to get back to work. He meets Cosmo,
Speaker 1: who's eating pudding with his hands. When he introduced himself
Speaker 1: as Kathy's fiance, Fred doesn't get it. When did this happen?
Speaker 1: Cathy says they're happy together, So Fred goes looking for
Speaker 1: an ant acid. He bumps into Serena sue on the way,
Speaker 1: and she suggests instead of an ant acid, he needs
Speaker 1: harmony and in the real opposite is a track turn
Speaker 1: of events. They immediately hit it off. Now to dinner table.
Speaker 1: The undeniable connection between looney Serena and workaholic Fred continues.
Speaker 1: She wants to cleanse his aura, which is probably a
Speaker 1: euphemism for doing things to his junk. Megan tries to
Speaker 1: sabotage her dad and Serena by spilling the multi entre
Speaker 1: soup arial made all over them, but instead of everyone
Speaker 1: getting mad like she planned, Cosmo responds by spilling the
Speaker 1: soup on himself in camaraderie, and that turns into an
Speaker 1: all out Seltzer war with adults spraying each other and laughing.
Speaker 1: And that's when I was like, oh my god, are
Speaker 1: they really just throwing in a food fight or seltzer fight? Now?
Speaker 2: Like what is just out of nowhere? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just out of nowhere?
Speaker 2: I know. And yeah, I honestly also don't understand what
Speaker 2: would make them I mean, I know wind is a
Speaker 2: part back to these rules that I'm trying to trying
Speaker 2: so hard to figure out. Because she goes in, how
Speaker 2: does she like change form into going into the sink
Speaker 2: and becoming the bubble? Is it from water?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Water is what make her makes her do that? Well?
Speaker 1: No, because then because then it was spraying each other
Speaker 1: and they can win, sir.
Speaker 2: So I was thinking that water was a part of
Speaker 2: the Nope, Oh yeah, and they both went into the waters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think they turn into the bubbles when they want to, because.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just think is the answer, because they.
Speaker 1: Can't because they didn't explain any of this. So, yes,
Speaker 1: we're in a water fight for no reason now, and
Speaker 1: Ariel's had enough. She sprints to the bathroom, and when
Speaker 1: Meghan catches up, she's already a bubble in the sink.
Speaker 1: The two girls scream at the sight of each other,
Speaker 1: and Meghan runs back to her mom and the guests.
Speaker 1: She reveals that Ariel is just a blob, and once
Speaker 1: a drenched Aarrol walks back into the dining room, Meghan
Speaker 1: leans more into it, calling her an alien, and then,
Speaker 1: in one of the most abrupt transitions in dcom history,
Speaker 1: maybe even in film history, we jump right to a
Speaker 1: doctor's office where a therapist is talking to and blaming Meghan.
Speaker 1: He says she's acting in fear of change and the
Speaker 1: alien is actually her and as long as the marriage
Speaker 1: is what Kathy wants, meant she has to go through
Speaker 1: with it. Who is this therapist? What type of a
Speaker 1: transition was it? What the hell is happening? I was like,
Speaker 1: if he in the middle just said you're the alien?
Speaker 1: Threw a pietor I would have been like, okay, like I,
Speaker 1: that's that's fine, that's tracks that tracks like it, just
Speaker 1: none of it. It's such a weird movie. It's such
Speaker 1: a weird and.
Speaker 2: Then pulls the mom in and says, oh, no, she's
Speaker 2: fine and she needs to get married. It's okay to
Speaker 2: get married.
Speaker 1: He's like, you have to get married. He says, you must.
Speaker 2: Uh, okay, the therapist.
Speaker 1: So strange. Yeah, has anybody actually checked this guy's license?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not real on his wall at all.
Speaker 1: And so if the transitions couldn't get any more abrupt, yep,
Speaker 1: making up a word any more abrupt.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's another very jarring cut, and it's a day of
Speaker 1: the wedding and Kathy is putting on her Gownikes, that
Speaker 1: was fast. Kathy promises Megan that this is all gonna
Speaker 1: work out, but Megan reminds her Cosmo is an alien.
Speaker 1: Now she's all on board with the alien stuff. Kathy
Speaker 1: assures her once they're married, he'll become a citizen, and
Speaker 1: Megan asked, one last time, is there anything she can
Speaker 1: do to stop the marriage. Cathy says she's thought about
Speaker 1: it long and hard, and even talk to that weird therapist.
Speaker 1: Cosmo makes her happy. If she thought anything her daughter
Speaker 1: said was real, she wouldn't marry him. They admit they
Speaker 1: love each other and embrace, but we see a big
Speaker 1: tear rolling down Megan's cheek. The tear then turns into
Speaker 1: a tiger, which attacks half the party. I'm kidding, but
Speaker 1: if that happened, you'd be like, yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: So that's that's right.
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing where everybody's still with us. Now at
Speaker 1: the wedding, Ariel is nowhere to be found. Cosmo tries
Speaker 1: to cover her by saying she needed a moment of
Speaker 1: meditation to collect herself. But she's in the bathroom trying
Speaker 1: one last time to talk to Finel, and then a
Speaker 1: cute boy walks in. It's phenoal. She's relieved to see him,
Speaker 1: but he demands she get no closer to him. Physical
Speaker 1: proximity makes him sick. Now, I was like, Nikes, that
Speaker 1: was ABRUPTO.
Speaker 2: I know it was another This is another rule of
Speaker 2: this other planet that we didn't get explained.
Speaker 1: Because they've been hugging as father and son, our father
Speaker 1: and daughter and all this kind of stuff. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: physical stuff is fine. With them, so they're not allowed
Speaker 1: to touch. It was very She explains they have to
Speaker 1: leave fast. But then Finul's evil emperor dad arrives and
Speaker 1: doesn't look anything like an alien. He looks like an
Speaker 1: extra in a Mafia movie. Yet he's here to arrest Cosmo.
Speaker 1: He commands Ariel to take him to her dad, but
Speaker 1: then Serena Sue accidentally walks in and the emperor laser
Speaker 1: freezes her into ice. Okay, so, A, what did you
Speaker 1: think of the effect? And B is this movie just
Speaker 1: completely off the rails at this point?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I even was just like I mean, even
Speaker 2: back at this time early two thousands, walking into a
Speaker 2: room like a young girl's room that she's supposed to
Speaker 2: be in, you know that this young girl's going to
Speaker 2: be there, and seeing an older man that you don't
Speaker 2: know and in a teenage boy that you don't know
Speaker 2: instantly is like a flare Like I think it would,
Speaker 2: it's not she and she literally says, oh, sorry, what
Speaker 2: I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: Was I interrupting you?
Speaker 2: I would be like, oh who are you? Are you? Okay?
Speaker 2: What's going on in here? That's that's the question.
Speaker 1: But no, apparently, because maybe she thinks good of everybody
Speaker 1: because she's that.
Speaker 2: But it is looney Looneyville. But like I mean, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know Looneyville. Uh yeah, the whole it's just off
Speaker 1: the rails this one, I mean really really off the
Speaker 1: rails this week.
Speaker 2: What did you think about this effect?
Speaker 1: It was like it was like, again with all the
Speaker 1: going on beforehand, if they turned her into bubbles and
Speaker 1: then used her to scrub the floor would be like
Speaker 1: all right, Like I just none of it made sense.
Speaker 2: So all of it made like, now you can freeze people, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: well we knew powers, like the powers.
Speaker 1: They said that was what he would be if he
Speaker 1: went back there. That's how he'd be in prisoned. Is
Speaker 1: they freeze you forever?
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's got that.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's got a freeze ray. And I guess if
Speaker 1: you gas the bed. They're trying to throw science in
Speaker 1: the bad the way that you would trap gases by
Speaker 1: freezing it turning into a solid. So that's what they're showing.
Speaker 2: But but looney villain Serena.
Speaker 1: Is not getting she's a meatbag, so I don't know
Speaker 1: what that's all we are is a bunch of meatbags.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I but it was like okay, and again
Speaker 1: the effect was fine. It was just it was the
Speaker 1: ninetieth thing on my list of weird stuff in this movie,
Speaker 1: so I was like, fine, okay. The Emperor says he
Speaker 1: hates humans, but Ariel stands up for them. She says
Speaker 1: they have warmth, kindness, and bravery inside, but her dad
Speaker 1: doesn't care. He still goes off to find Cosmo with fnuol,
Speaker 1: making sure she doesn't leave the room. Meanwhile, a delivery
Speaker 1: man with eighty two cases of root beers arrived at
Speaker 1: the party, and Cosmo and Trevor leave to help him
Speaker 1: carry it all in, and then Cutter arrives. For some reason.
Speaker 1: He's happy to be at the wedding, but admits he'd
Speaker 1: rather be windsurfing. Kathy needs Megan to go find Ariel,
Speaker 1: so Cutter joins her, and the Emperor is still by
Speaker 1: the way. Cutter's there, her best friend is, and the
Speaker 1: Emperor is still on the hunt for Cosmo, one wedding
Speaker 1: guest at a time. He eventually stops a Cutter who
Speaker 1: isn't an alien, but does wonder if some nearby chips
Speaker 1: are fat free. And when Meghan finally makes to Ariel,
Speaker 1: she's startled by the frozen Serena su and then locked
Speaker 1: in by Finuel. Ariel tells her the Emperor's arrived to
Speaker 1: kill her father. She admits their aliens, and they escape
Speaker 1: to avoid political oppression the only state on Earth because
Speaker 1: her dad fell in love with Kathy. Megan immediately realizes
Speaker 1: how hard this must have been for Ariel, which seems
Speaker 1: like something that maybe she should have realized when she
Speaker 1: found out that her mom died. Yeah, you think. Although
Speaker 1: Megan hasn't been much help so far, Ariel tells her
Speaker 1: that she can help now. Then, led by a grunting Emperor,
Speaker 1: Cutter is pushed into the room. The Emperor says he
Speaker 1: doesn't have time for these kids. He needs to find
Speaker 1: Cosmo at this party asap, and so, once again outside,
Speaker 1: Cathy has no idea who this uninvited stranger is at
Speaker 1: her wedding, reveals Cosmo is out front getting the root beer,
Speaker 1: and then that leads him right to the groom, who
Speaker 1: has Trevor on his shoulders. The Emperor asses, Arch Nemesis,
Speaker 1: are you ready to pay for your crimes? He then
Speaker 1: holds up the laser gun, which excites little Trevor. He
Speaker 1: thinks it's a toy. Cosmo tells the boy that he
Speaker 1: and his friend really like to play hide and seek,
Speaker 1: so he should count to one hundred and they'll come
Speaker 1: find him, which is technically the opposite of hide and seek.
Speaker 1: You don't want to find them after you hope to
Speaker 1: not he found, So okay, The boy leaves and Cosmo
Speaker 1: slowly walks away with his captor. Back in the room
Speaker 1: with Finuel, the girls are begging him to let them go.
Speaker 1: Cutter offers Fernul a mint, and the alien likes it.
Speaker 1: It bonds him to cut her for some reason. They
Speaker 1: quickly become bros, and Cutter admits he thinks Meghan is
Speaker 1: hotter than arial just out of nowhere and then right
Speaker 1: just right there, and as I keep is like I
Speaker 1: like the blown hair part, Like what the hell is happening?
Speaker 1: And then drops like go bad have it?
Speaker 2: Just like I like the blonde I like better than.
Speaker 1: The brown hair better She hunh yeah, so weird. And
Speaker 1: then Meghan has an idea. She praises Fanuel's power and
Speaker 1: wonders how he has any free time for hobbies like
Speaker 1: windsurfing or skating. Cutter even suggests mountain biking off a
Speaker 1: ledge into a river and then floating down the rapids.
Speaker 1: All these extreme sports sound awesome to Fnul. Cutter also
Speaker 1: praises the eighteen different types of potato chips on Earth
Speaker 1: because freedom of choice rules. It's the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: what Finul experiences on his planet from his freedom. Hating dad.
Speaker 1: Now Nuwel is starting to get it, so Cutter and
Speaker 1: everybody else suggests that he stand up to his father,
Speaker 1: and eventually he agrees and they all break out of
Speaker 1: the room, which again seem to happen very quickly.
Speaker 2: But also, how was he holding them hostage in this room?
Speaker 1: He said, you can't open the door.
Speaker 2: No, there's no, there was no nothing, just was keeping
Speaker 2: him in the room. I'm keeping them in their room.
Speaker 1: The whole movie is just no, it's just no.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Back out in front, the Emperor has opened a portal
Speaker 1: for Cosmo to return home. He sentenced him an Ariel
Speaker 1: to be frozen forever, and then without any warning, he
Speaker 1: freezes Cosmo just then Fanuel and Meghan arrives. She doesn't
Speaker 1: freak out at all when she sees her frozen soon
Speaker 1: to be stepdad, but instead just tells the Emperor to
Speaker 1: let him go, and then right before he shoots Megan
Speaker 1: Fanuel jumps in front of her. The human Shield demands change,
Speaker 1: but his dad explains the price for change is eternal freezing.
Speaker 1: And just as this tense standoff gets good, outruns Aerial.
Speaker 1: She's brought a handful of blow dryers and yells, don't
Speaker 1: mess with my family, dude. They all try to melt
Speaker 1: him with hot air from the from the hair dryers
Speaker 1: that out not plugged. Are they not plugged in? I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I looked, I couldn't tell if they were plugged in,
Speaker 1: but it's like, no, no, They've got four hair dryers
Speaker 1: from fifteen feet away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from where would they even be plugged in? And
Speaker 2: who extension chords? There was nothing And even there's one
Speaker 2: shot towards the very end where you can see one
Speaker 2: of them. I can't remember what character it is where
Speaker 2: it just doesn't matter a cord that's just there the ground.
Speaker 1: There you go. Also, who has four hair dryers in
Speaker 1: their house? That which is like, again, the least of
Speaker 1: my problems with this. Ugh. Yeah, so okay, don't don't
Speaker 1: mess with my family, dude. And they try to melt
Speaker 1: him with hot air. It seems like he's in pain
Speaker 1: as he turns into a bubble and floats a few
Speaker 1: feet off the ground. Out back, the wedding's been held
Speaker 1: up by Cosmo and the kids. Just as they realize
Speaker 1: the blow dryers are not killing the bubble Emperor. Instead,
Speaker 1: he actually looks scarier than ever, and right is he's
Speaker 1: about to attack, Little Trevor shows up with a leaf
Speaker 1: blower that does do the trick, and he blasts him
Speaker 1: until he bursts. This also unfreezes Cosmo, who rushes into
Speaker 1: the backyard to get married. Now that doesn't do it.
Speaker 1: It does the trick. He blasts him until he bursts,
Speaker 1: and then Finuel unfreezes Cosmo, who rushes into the backyard
Speaker 1: to get married. They make it just in time, but
Speaker 1: Cathy says she would have waited forever. The couple gets married,
Speaker 1: only interrupted once by Fred's work phone, who is of
Speaker 1: course in attendance with his new girlfriend Serena, but still
Speaker 1: the same guy as he was before.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 1: At the reception, Ariel is slow dancing with Cutter, and
Speaker 1: Meghan is cozied up to Fanuel, who apparently now is
Speaker 1: okay with touching a little old fashioned partner swap. There
Speaker 1: you go, Megan wishes Finuel didn't have to leave, but
Speaker 1: he promises he'll return after he makes some positive changes
Speaker 1: to his home planet. Then the party picks up and
Speaker 1: everyone's having a blast. Ariel explains to her diary she
Speaker 1: thought her life was over when she came to Earth,
Speaker 1: but instead it's just beginning. She has a new boyfriend,
Speaker 1: a stepmother, and a new best friend. So this hotty,
Speaker 1: most popular girl in school, who's the smartest person in
Speaker 1: the world, is with cutter. Megan tells her diary that
Speaker 1: she learned a lot and now there's always room at
Speaker 1: the popular table. We see her welcome the popular girl
Speaker 1: who wasn't sitting at the table with them to go
Speaker 1: sit with her in Aeriel and the stepsisters exchange a smile.
Speaker 1: We freeze on Megan, which is a weird way to
Speaker 1: end this movie, but was the ninety seventh weird thing
Speaker 1: in this movie. There's our film. Let's go watch double
Speaker 1: teamed Sabrina, let's do real reviews. You've got the one
Speaker 1: star this week. I wonder if they had to hunt
Speaker 1: for a five star. Here we go, what do you go?
Speaker 2: All right? My one star comes from Brandy Ferrell. There
Speaker 2: was clearly no budget for when they are in the
Speaker 2: alien form because it looked real dumb. I would have
Speaker 2: enjoyed this more if the father and daughter were just
Speaker 2: weird hippies or something. Do not recommend one star.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with anything that Brandy Farrell said. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've got the five star and it's it's somebody named
Speaker 1: honey Baby thirty six sixty nine and it reads as thus.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very great family movie. But
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen years old. If anyone that reads this knows
Speaker 1: some information about Henry Fagans, please email me, because I
Speaker 1: really want to find out stuff about him. Which one's
Speaker 1: Henry Fagans? Do we know? Is that just a random name?
Speaker 2: I don't remember that being a name. Okay, that's just
Speaker 2: something we just saw. But there was so many weird
Speaker 2: things I could definitely forgot. What about honey Baby three
Speaker 2: six six nine? Is that was such a two thousand's
Speaker 2: like AOL account, like use ther name like honey Baby three.
Speaker 1: Six sixth nine like that works.
Speaker 2: So it just it works. It's so good.
Speaker 1: Never had one of those. We're now coming to Sabrina's
Speaker 1: favorite part of the program, of course, which is the
Speaker 1: feature game that producer Jensen makes for us I hear
Speaker 1: this week, though we might have a bit of a
Speaker 1: reprieve because producer Jensen is not with us. I think
Speaker 1: we have producer Tara with us. I'm if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Are you a little bit more of like a better
Speaker 2: luck for me?
Speaker 1: She's also just nicer about it. She doesn't revel in
Speaker 1: your misery? Are you with us?
Speaker 2: Producer Tara?
Speaker 1: Okay, So our feature this week is called take Me
Speaker 1: to Your Leader. We dealt with some unique aliens in
Speaker 1: Stepsister from Planet Weird, maybe some of the most confusing
Speaker 1: and pop culture history, which is arguable, but with the
Speaker 1: very long history of extraterrestrials on TV and in the movies,
Speaker 1: it's important we give equal time to them all. So
Speaker 1: we're going to get the name of one of these
Speaker 1: famous beings, and with multiple choice options, we have to
Speaker 1: pick which planet they call home. Three out of five
Speaker 1: and we win. You ready, Sabrina?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right up?
Speaker 1: My alley number one Alf was alf from a Tartem
Speaker 1: B Narpak, C Melmac or d Cat Diner.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go a see.
Speaker 1: I believe it is c Melmac. If I'm not mistaken, you.
Speaker 2: Are both correct.
Speaker 1: It's one for us. Number two Mork is Mark from
Speaker 1: Sork Orc Zork or Pork b Orc b orc is correct?
Speaker 2: Is it two for two?
Speaker 1: There you go, Mark from Orc. Number three Predator.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is that really crazy looking alien.
Speaker 1: Movie, right, yeah, like awesome movie. Okay, okay, are there
Speaker 1: is the name of their home planet A Panita Sun Prime,
Speaker 1: b Ya Jeta Prime, ce Conaza Prime or d Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 2: Oh? Does it be again?
Speaker 1: It is b I know the Predator world and it
Speaker 1: is Ujita Prime. Am I correct? Three? Three?
Speaker 2: Never gonna believe it?
Speaker 1: This is great. Number four Stitch is Stitch from a
Speaker 1: truro b Sano see bupo or d Buka de Beppo?
Speaker 1: What you got Sabrina?
Speaker 2: Oh this is Stitch like the Disney Stitch right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I thought Stitch was made in a lab,
Speaker 1: but I think the lab is from a planet, and
Speaker 1: I think I know what it is. I was on movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there's that evil Yes, yes, you're right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, see bopo, but I don't think I
Speaker 2: believe it's a true Will's right, it's a.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So well we've already won. So now
Speaker 1: we've got five Roger from American Dad. Is he, hey,
Speaker 1: Jupiter's Twilight Path, B Mars's horizontal ring, see Earth's Central
Speaker 1: Galaxy or D How would I know? I've never seen
Speaker 1: American Dad. I don't know this one. And I was
Speaker 1: on American Dad too, you were hey, Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: an episode of American Dad.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I think it's a Jupiter's twilight path.
Speaker 1: And be Mars. It sounds like something like I'm from Mars.
Speaker 1: This horizontal ring like it sounds like something.
Speaker 2: He said, Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: All right, you were both wrong. It is C Earth
Speaker 1: Central Galaxy. Okay, there we go again. We gotta have
Speaker 1: produce a char back because we seem to win when
Speaker 1: is here, and it's because Jensen brings such bad vibes
Speaker 1: and anger.
Speaker 2: Had one right. I mean, I'm kind of like, I
Speaker 2: don't think he'll ever ever believe that.
Speaker 1: I know, and you did that we were here, We
Speaker 1: saw it for him. Yeah. Will. By the way, does
Speaker 1: anybody while I have your produced chart, does anybody know
Speaker 1: what Alf's favorite food was?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, it was cats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember he always wanted to eat cats. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and watch Alf. It is a
Speaker 1: serious acid trip, but better than this movie. Can we
Speaker 1: do some Sabrina.
Speaker 3: Ceas yes, and foremost my mom and dad's name is
Speaker 3: Fred and Kathy, So I thought that was k And
Speaker 3: then when I came and did, like, you know, my
Speaker 3: bit of like my homework for the movie, Kathy with
Speaker 3: the k is not normal.
Speaker 2: I think more people named Kathy are starts with the
Speaker 2: sea and okay, I've only really ever met my mom
Speaker 2: Kathy with the cake except for recently, okay. And then
Speaker 2: oh yeah, so I recognized the mean girl from Xenon,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I wonder if Xenon was before after?
Speaker 2: As always, I'm always like, what's that? I thought? I
Speaker 2: actually asked in the chat, I thought for sure, okay, no, wait,
Speaker 2: maybe I asked was the mom the mom from Luck
Speaker 2: of the Irish because.
Speaker 1: She looked very different? Okay, Lisa said no, okay.
Speaker 2: But that she I thought it was. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we've got like multiple de commerce you know in it.
Speaker 2: Something that always cracks me up, you know, is the wardrobe.
Speaker 2: This was like classic Disney Channel wardrobe, but the skinny
Speaker 2: spaghetti strap tank top. But it had to be on
Speaker 2: like a regular you know, at least two inch sure
Speaker 2: that that happened, or if they had some type of
Speaker 2: tank top there was like a vest of some sort,
Speaker 2: so that was always happening. Something that I always always
Speaker 2: throws me off a little bit is when they reference
Speaker 2: things that are not like Disney, like Men in Black?
Speaker 1: Was that a Disney movie?
Speaker 2: It was it ok is men in Black. Then they
Speaker 2: randomly referenced Jewel the artist, and then they referenced just
Speaker 2: not too long after that, Goodwill Hunting. They said, she's right,
Speaker 2: They said Ariel was straight out a good one. I
Speaker 2: was like, that's a lot of referencing of like just
Speaker 2: other yes, and then you already mentioned too. And then
Speaker 2: we've got our little clip of of Lion King in there,
Speaker 2: which is obviously Disney. Some of the funny little comments
Speaker 2: that were made. We talked about extreme. Then she's freak
Speaker 2: of all time, like this is like the lines of
Speaker 2: working on the channel. You kind of hope you don't
Speaker 2: have to say, right, the freak of all time like
Speaker 2: extreme was words. And then she's whacked, Like what to me,
Speaker 2: that's like someone whacked her? So those were crazy? Did
Speaker 2: you see the little bit of I thought it was
Speaker 2: not an easter egg. I don't know what you'd call this.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have a better name for it. But how
Speaker 2: her name, her character name is Ariel. And then when
Speaker 2: she's in the water when Megan's windsurfing, and then he
Speaker 2: cutters there and she walks out, and she's walking out
Speaker 2: and the water looks just like Little Mermaid all the time.
Speaker 2: It's like all sparkly, and she's just walking out like
Speaker 2: the way little like the way Ariel walks out at
Speaker 2: the very end of the movie. That's a good Easter egg. Right,
Speaker 2: we talked about my non appropriate the inappropriate random men
Speaker 2: in the room, So okay, so we didn't cover this.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: The dad, the the villain dad comes back and his
Speaker 2: son like helps kill.
Speaker 1: Him, Yes, with the like with the with the the
Speaker 1: hair dryers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like helps like yeah, he like basically did something
Speaker 2: similar to what happened to her mom. Right, he's gone
Speaker 2: and he's not afraid.
Speaker 1: Of the wind. He's just gotten there. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: they're all used to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm like, but wait, he like helped like
Speaker 2: murder rid of his dad.
Speaker 1: It's called fratricide.
Speaker 2: That is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Actually his father was a king, so it's actually technically regicide.
Speaker 1: Oh terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: And he even speaks on it later that he has
Speaker 2: to he's go back and ru go back and rule.
Speaker 1: It's not even like I froze my dad. And so
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna like, we'll see if he's ever gonna get.
Speaker 2: Cosmo like, yeah, he's dead, he's gone, He's dead.
Speaker 1: He's dead now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then the last thing is there's a song called
Speaker 2: Sunshine Girl, and there's a jingle that happened within this
Speaker 2: movie three or four times that sounds so much like that.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, And I was like, I wonder if
Speaker 2: anyone will recognize if they go back and watch this,
Speaker 2: if you recognize a song that sounds just like Sunshine
Speaker 2: Girl by You're Gonna Die Sunshine Girl by j Boot
Speaker 2: featuring Peta p e E t A. Wow. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 2: kept going and it comes in like three or four
Speaker 2: times throughout the movie, and I was like, what song
Speaker 2: is that? And I finally figured out a lyric I
Speaker 2: remembered and looked it up and that's it.
Speaker 1: Well, there we go, Thank you so much. Now let's
Speaker 1: let's rate our let's rate our movie, our options for
Speaker 1: this week. I'm not even gonna make a joke out
Speaker 1: of it one to ten. One's one's the worst, ten's best.
Speaker 1: We can do one out of ten. Ignored redheaded little
Speaker 1: brothers who can end the movie in minutes one out
Speaker 1: of ten. Financial concerns about a windsurfing store. Obvious Australian accents,
Speaker 1: Canadian aliens one out of ten, Glaba and Gronkas one
Speaker 1: out of ten. Layers to protect your essence, alien love
Speaker 1: bombing one out of ten. Mickey mantledogs or a handful
Speaker 1: of blow dryers? What do you got? I also want
Speaker 1: to add one out of ten. I need to watch
Speaker 1: Double Teamed again.
Speaker 2: Bring back Double Team, Bring Double.
Speaker 1: Team, back Double Team. You wanna do that, let's do that.
Speaker 1: One out of ten. Bring but we're gonna do one
Speaker 1: out of ten bring back Double Teams. I go first
Speaker 1: this week. I remember that, Yeah, this movie's not good.
Speaker 1: This is not a good movie. Okay, let's They're not
Speaker 1: all gonna be gems, some of them. I know. Some people, Well,
Speaker 1: you're not watching it the right way. No, you can
Speaker 1: watch I imagine if I was ten years old, I would
Speaker 1: have watched this movie and gone, what is this movie?
Speaker 1: At ten? So this is this? The book may be great.
Speaker 1: This might be just a poorly adapted book. It could
Speaker 1: be a great book. You can tell they greenlit this
Speaker 1: three weeks before they were going to start shooting it.
Speaker 1: You can tell their holes in it. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is just a strange, strange movie, and not fun strange, but.
Speaker 2: Just weird and confusing, bad.
Speaker 1: And confusing, and then they're gas and it's just this.
Speaker 1: This was this was a slog for me to get
Speaker 1: through eighty five minutes. I mean, I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: three point five bring back double Teams because there I
Speaker 1: just there's very little about this movie that was redeeming
Speaker 1: for me. I just I didn't think the script was good.
Speaker 1: The acting's okay, but it's nothing to write home about.
Speaker 1: The story makes no sense whatsoever. Some of the characters
Speaker 1: are just flat out annoying. This was not a good
Speaker 1: movie for me. And you can come at me all
Speaker 1: day long and we will talk film all day long.
Speaker 1: This was not a good one. So I'm gonna stick.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm I'm okay with three point five bring
Speaker 1: back double Teams.
Speaker 2: I yes, this one was. It was rough. It was rough,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's different to like kind of
Speaker 2: have the ability to like pick pick pinpoint and pick
Speaker 2: apart certain things because there's so much greatness in the movie.
Speaker 2: But for this movie, it was like it was a
Speaker 2: struggle just to find any type of like sunshine and joy.
Speaker 2: And you know, I live on a on a bright
Speaker 2: and shiny class, right, yes, you do.
Speaker 1: You live in happy sunshine land.
Speaker 2: I do. And so this one was difficult and hard
Speaker 2: for me too because it's like a friend of well,
Speaker 2: I mean, like we haven't talked in years, but like
Speaker 2: somebody I worked with and like have a lot of
Speaker 2: respect for and everything is like one of the main
Speaker 2: stars in here, and it's like she was the brunette. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and and it was like, man, like this is this
Speaker 2: is what Disney brought to you. I would assume. I'm
Speaker 2: assuming she didn't really even have to audition for this
Speaker 2: because of her status the channel, and just you know
Speaker 2: that was that's disappointing. But again, the whole time, you're like,
Speaker 2: you're easy need to be distracted because you don't even
Speaker 2: really understand what's happening on the screen. And that's nope,
Speaker 2: crazy to me. And usually we can find something that
Speaker 2: kind of like flips it in like at least a
Speaker 2: couple moments. The only funny part about it was his
Speaker 2: and I said earlier, his fall down the when she
Speaker 2: says he bladed down the mountain. When they brought that
Speaker 2: one back, because he's referenced it again, That's the only
Speaker 2: time I literally laughed in this whole ninety eighty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I laughed twice. I laughed with cutting back to the
Speaker 1: Yukon again where it's population still low, and then I laughed.
Speaker 1: He had one linery and cutter at the end where
Speaker 1: it's like, I know that you frozer and that's like,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be cool, but it isn't. That was it.
Speaker 1: That was the whole line. But the way he said
Speaker 1: I reroounded three times. The way he read it was hysterical,
Speaker 1: and I was like, why couldn't the whole movie have
Speaker 1: been that? Yes, so that is what gave it to
Speaker 1: point five. Yeah, breath, there you go.
Speaker 2: But I am going to go ahead, and this is
Speaker 2: going to be my lowest score. It has to be.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a movie that was that was
Speaker 2: worse than that. This scoring is a three point five.
Speaker 2: Bring back double teams, because I would watch that three
Speaker 2: or four more time loop than ever watched. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: really I'm sorry for the cast of the crew and
Speaker 2: everyone involved because that's not nice to say, but you
Speaker 2: know it is.
Speaker 1: This is a rough one. Uh you know again, they
Speaker 1: can't all be bangers. They can't.
Speaker 2: It's just it's so crazy how this time of the
Speaker 2: channel there was an adjustment that was happening and they
Speaker 2: were trying to figure out where they were going with
Speaker 2: their dcom world, and this was one of the ones
Speaker 2: that was jumbled up of like you could just tell
Speaker 2: they didn't have a clear direction at this point.
Speaker 1: Is what it seemed like, Well, it's yours, It's truly.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing we're starting to realize it's
Speaker 1: really your movie. There is pre Cheetah Girls d COM
Speaker 1: and then there's post Cheatagirls DCOM, which are two very
Speaker 1: different things. Because when the Cheetah Girls came out and
Speaker 1: it became more about the music and good acting and
Speaker 1: bigger locations they ran with that. Yeah, that that then
Speaker 1: became what the channel was about. It became high school musical,
Speaker 1: it became and now we see what it is now
Speaker 1: with zombies and forty million dollar movies. But it really
Speaker 1: can be You can point to the Cheeta Girls as
Speaker 1: the one. I mean, we're watching the Model. Ye you
Speaker 1: came out what two thousand and three are moo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we filmed two thousand and two, came out two
Speaker 2: thousand and three.
Speaker 1: Okay, great. So there's very few movies pre two thousand
Speaker 1: and three that we've been watching that are on the
Speaker 1: caliber of the movies after the Cheetah Girls. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's almost changed it.
Speaker 2: Ever, it wasn't if it wasn't a before, if it
Speaker 2: wasn't like a movie that was based on some kind
Speaker 2: of micro world or like some kind of sports thing, yes,
Speaker 2: like an extreme sport of some sort. It just was
Speaker 2: not finding the storylines that could carry the ninety minutes are.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. So well that's where we are. Everybody again,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go watch Double Teamed and apologize to everybody, especially.
Speaker 2: Take it all that.
Speaker 1: Bye, everybody used