Episode 224: RIP Elizabeth Taylor, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Man of the House, Inglourious Basterds), New Favorites, What’s Up With That?, Google voice, fuck offs and you rules, Ten Greatest Movie Moments EVAH.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra.
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I am so far behind on listening that I just finished episode #221 but I just had to post that I absolutely got the Valleydale jingle. One of my all-time favorites because of the marching band theme. They revived it two or three years ago and I was so glad because Janet had never seen/heard it. Pigs marching and playing musical instruments — I’m pretty sure there was a trombone and a trumpet….and a drum major, right, Bet?
Yeah, I wondered if/when anyone was going to notice the understudy (impostor) KaZee. I did receive an official purple one, which I intended to use; in fact, I was positively giddy at the prospects. But, after fruitlessly scouring the house for about a day and a half, I finally gave up and bought the green one. What can I tell you–given the Bermuda Triangle formed by a six-year-old, a 16-month-old, and a rapacious mixed-breed puppy–things vanishing without a trace is a daily fact of life at Cozy Home.
Regarding this week’s topic, I must say: This is exactly what I love about the podcast. When you two get to talking about movies, the show really starts firing on all cylinders. There’s so much joy and genuine affection in your voices. It’s an absolute pleasure to listen to and feel like I’m part of the conversation (even though I haven’t seen KILL BILL, which is nobody’s faulty, not even the Romans).
The way Stennie can go from Kurosawa to GALAXY QUEST–with equal reverence and appreciation for each–is, for me quintessential Hucklebug. This episode, and this topic, should go down as one of the ten great Hucklebug moments (too meta?).
I thought of you and the Vaginal Spa while listening to the Stuff Mom Never Told You – “Kegels” episode, and how there are vagina exercise spas organized by some women…why can’t the Vaginal Spa (owned by ThePete as soon as he wins the lottery) have it’s own getaway vacation spot?
Bet & Stennie need to do a documentary about MANOS!
I LOVE “Siskeeter”
All the Hucklebug mascots could be put into the show. But they’d have to be professional and show up to rehearsals every day, and performances every night!!!
Best Worst Movie is next on our queueueueu, so we’re going to do a double or maybe triple feature. Now, is it better to see Troll 1/2 first, then Best Worst Movie, or watch Best Worst Movie, then the Troll movies?
Pete & I LOVE to read the Google Voice transcripts to each other…they’re hilarious!!! Your Mom sounded like she wrote for The Bible once…Linden Perry?
Just left message(s) on Stennie’s Google Voice…tee hee!
I agree with most of your Movie moments, but I hated the Pulp Fiction moment; ThePete will attest that it really angered me and put me off…I wasn’t laughing.
And I thought of leaving a Shakespeare monologue on Stennie’s voicemail before I got to the end of the podcast…kudos to me!
My, how soon they forget. I most certainly was at podcastathon 2. I hung in there until almost 5 am. You didn’t think I’d miss it did you?
Quentin Tarantino loves exploitation movies. He takes genres like the Shaw brothers fung fu movies (that were cheaply done) and makes good versions of them. At the begining of Kill Bill you’ll notice he even used the Shaw brothers opening credit. He tells you exactly what’s he’s doing. Quentin isn’t stealing anything. He just works within established genres which is no different than Spielberg did when he decided to make a quality version of a 1940’s serial cliffhanger called “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Grindhouse is another example of how Tarantino took the 1960’s revenge driven redneck epics from the drive-in to new heights. Inglourious Bastards is his homage to “The Dirty Dozen”, behind enemy lines, WW2 movies that made up so many exploitation films. He wanted to make a tight, well acted, high quality version of them. I think he suceeded in spades. Tarantino is taking on the western genre next. I’m sure it will be a brilliant focus on what made them great. He has the ability to amplify what we like about the genres without losing the goodness that made us love them to start with. Quentin Tarantino is amazing at what he does.
You two did my topic proud! Kudos to you both and to some great movie moments.
I really don’t want to buy the Vaginal Spa. No offense to vaginas or spas.
I always find that http://damnyouautocorrect.com brightens my day no matter what.
Yeah, the racist UCLA girl thing was pretty surprising. This is the beauty of the Internet–it lulls people into a false sense of anonymity, allowing their true (hatred of) colors show. I did enjoy watching the response videos people posted, including the one you guys referenced. Reminded me of “Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah, that Means I Love You” from the Jetsons.
I think you pronounced Inagawa just fine, Stennie! I think the Japanese might say it faster, though 🙂
Bet I laughed my ass off at the same moment in Pulp Fiction. I didn’t even like Pulp Fiction but I laughed out loud in the theater. Best moment of the movie for me. Poor Sierra. 🙁
Gotta disagree with Duke on what is stealing and what is working within a genre. I may be biased, having written several screenplays, but I think you can use archetypal characters while making them unique and interesting. “Star Wars” was Lucas’ version of a Flash Gordon serial and “Raiders” was Lucas’ version of an adventure serial. I get that, but I don’t feel like QT is doing his version of kung-fu movies. I think he’s just doing kung-fu movies. Maybe they’re more funny than traditional kung-fu movies or more edgy for modern audiences, but I see a much bigger difference between “Raiders” and adventure serials than I do between QT’s movies and the kung-fu movies he loves. To me, it’s better to say “Raiders” is to adventure serials what “Crouching Tiger” is to kung-fu movies.
Sorry to wax-on about QT again. I PROMISE to never mention those initials again!
My nomination for best movie moment ever has to be the climax of “Dead of Night”. Most folks never heard of that movie, but it freaked me out when I saw it film school. 1st runner-up: ending of the original “Manchurian Candidate.” I almost shit myself when I saw that moment for the first time. 2nd runner-up: “The Omen” when Peck is creeping through his house, gathering the sacred knives to go kill Damien when the rottweiler shows up. It helped scare the crap out of me that the phone rang at the exact same moment. 3rd runner-up goes to a scene toward the very end of “Prince of Darkness”. It’s just after the climax. No spoilers. It literally made me yelp. It might have helped that I was watching it on my old, B&W, portable 5-inch TV, late at night. One last one: “Tron: Legacy” the lightcycle scene. The way they reimagined the game, itself, was, in hindsight, obvious, but it really blew my mind sitting there watching it in 3D Imax. Not sure if anyone else would agree with me.
Bet, you nailed it with the arrow scene in “Throne of Blood”. I’d compare it to the ending of “Das Boot”. The ending of “Das Boot,” when I saw it in the theater, made me feel honored to have been able to see it in a theater.
Oh yeah and spring has yet to arrive in NYC. Bitch is fucking LATE!! Damn weather people LIED!! I want the groundhog’s head on a PIKE!