Hucklebug, Episode 107: No RIPs this week! Shout-outs, Jane Walker revealed, movies (Stennie: Lust Caution, The Music Man, Advise & Consent; Bet: none!), lowlights & highlights, late-breaking shout-out, fuck-offs and you-rules, this week’s topic: Good Movie Titles, Bad Movies! Also, join us as we play one round of “What Would Bet Do?”
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This is for Bet:
“Why, I haven’t seen Iowans so up in arms since the night Frank Gotch and Ed “Strangler” Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle! Ooh, that was exciting.”
Here are some of my favorite titles and most are absolutely horrible movies too:
1) The Terror of Tiny Town. A 1938 singing cowboy western with an all midget cast. The hero walks under the swinging bar doors. It has to be seen.
2) Surf Nazis Must Die. A pistol pack’n momma goes after the skinheads who killed her son. Amazing.
3) Hell Comes to Frog Town. Rowdy Roddy Piper has to impregnant the last fertile girls held in the clutches of mutant frogmen. You gotta love it.
4) I Dismember Mama.
5) Manos: The Hands of Fate.
6) The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
7) I Want To Live!
8)Stop The World: I Want To Get Off
There are a lot more too but I won’t bore everyone with them.
Excellent HB this week!
Don’t worry about the birthday shout out please. I was kind of hoping you’d forgotten, actually. I was wondering about my normal shout out. I left a pretty sizable comment on episode 106. I don’t see it in the list, but I know I wrote one.
A wagon is indeed a “shopping cart”. I’ve always called it that, and I’ve figured it was just a carryover from my youth on Long Island. LilyG? Do you use that word?
Betster: I’m so impressed that your videos attract so much attention that Google zinged you! It sucks that they put that kind of advertising on your site, yes, but you’ve got the famus!
Here’s an idea for the HB store: ring tones. I suggest “FUCK OFF!” (Stennie)“Lowlight!” and Bet’s laugh.
I can’t believe I was caught because of my ignorance about ISPs. I thought I’d be caught because of the multitude of clues I provided. I feared I was making them too easy, but in talking with Heidi, I see now that I was wrong. If I had known that people were not taking on multiple roles on the podcasts, and that Mr. Middlebrow, Mike, Sal, and Mr. M were different people, I wouldn’t have bothered. I had even scripted the ending where I would be caught. I was going to have a member of my classic film list write two paragraphs in German that were alleged love letters from an ex-lover of Bet’s who suspiciously vanished during her time at the cryogenics lab. In reality, they were going to reveal the whole joke in a nod to WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. Yes, I have too much time on my hands.
I grew up listening to pop music, watching SOLID GOLD, and waiting anxiously for Casey Kasem’s top ten program to hear which songs made it to number one. I was rarely exposed to other music. Juice Newton’s Queen of Hearts is my first non-pop music memory. My references are boy bands, disco music, and adult contemporary. As a young girl, I wanted to be a SOLID GOLD dancer and a Charlie’s Angel.
I subscribe to over 20 magazines, but I read about three. I’ve had s subcription to The Economist for over a year and i’ve yet to read an entire issue.
Question:Why do you think some men are threatened by female friendships? Why are female friendships typically depicted so negatively in films? Do you think it harkens back to what Margaret Atwood says? Women are afraid of being killed. Men are afraid of being laughed at.
P.S. Heidi is right. DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY is torture. I adore Fredric March, but this movie is just do damn dull. You wish death would do its job and kill off everyone so you wouldn’t have to endure the endless film.
I think BELLE DE JOUR and CHRIST IN CONCRETE are fantastic films. It’s interesting because I’ve yet to meet a man who likes BDJ and the two professors who taught that film were females. Nancy Friday came to our campus to extol the “female empowerment” in Bunuel’s film.
Actually, Nick and I are the same person. Lily’s a good mom.
Btw, nice going Spain!
Crystal, I understand how you thought we’re all schizophrenic here at the Hucklebug but we don’t manifest it by using multiple names.
It’s also possible you horribly offended Mike, Mr. Middlebrow, Sal and everyone else by implying they were me under a different Nom de Plume. That’s a serious accusation which would piss off anyone.
You might consider apologizing. Tell them you don’t really mean it.
I am Spartacus!
Impulse-buy magazines: I’ve been burned so many times picking up Dwell, only to be disappointed. OTOH, Saveur (which I’ve had on again, off again subscriptions for going on 15 years), is always awesome, just the best food magazine ever (Bon Appetit can suck it)! Also, the Utne Reader piques my interest sometimes. BTW, EW is much more respectable than People, if I say so. And, FWIW, I let my EW subscription lapse and ignored the three-month-long fusillade of email and snail mail pleas to re-up. They finally relented and offered me a year’s subscription for $10. Woot and hoo. YMMV.
I love how aptly on the heels of the George Carlin’s exit the titties talk comes up. “Tits shouldn’t even be on the list. It’s like a snack food — Cheez tits, tater tits!” “Titties” just ups the comic ante.
Also, my birthday is July 28; do with that what you will.
Bet, sorry to hear about your copyrighted music woes. I almost had a video rejected from Revver.com because it featured footage of me on hold with a computer support line… with hold music playing in the background. It was that hold music that Revver had trouble with. I then had to explain that “Fair Use” (a section of copyright law) allows for such use of others’ copyrighted material if used for commentary, parody or if it is part of an historical event. I cited the last bit since I was trying to document my experience on hold. A little flimsy, but it got Revver to back off.
What I’ve now done is start asking musician friends to send me tracks they don’t mind me using. I’ve also tracked down royalty-free music libraries that allows limited, non-commercial use of music for free. As in, if you don’t make money off the video, you can use their music, assuming you credit them. I used music like this for episode 3 of “The 5 Minute Show” way back when.
That commercial sounds hilarious—“we’re used to prices being high”?? Speak for yourself!! Sheesh…
Do either of you know if the “Death Takes a Holiday” remake with Brad Pitt any better? I know Bet said it sucked, but any more info?
“Space Cowboys” looked stupid to me. What about “Astronaut Farmer”?
“Hebrew Hammer” was pretty stupid. Getting tired of “comedies” that think simply invoking stereotypes is the same thing as joking about them.
Awww! I was here all along! Me and Dr. Goldfoot are chillin’ in the city!
And I agree—no way to make a good movie with a title like that, but it is fun.
“Santa Clause Conquers the Martians” was on MST3K and is one of TheWife’s and my favorite eps. “Oh, Droppo! You’re the laziest man on Mars!”
I thought “His Girl Friday” is a reference to “Robinson Crusoe”. Wasn’t the lead guy’s sidekick called Friday?
I’d go “woohoo, 10 bucks!”
YAY, TITIES!
See that’s funny because I say that all the time. Sten’s seen my wife so she can tell ya why WINK-WINK.
Question for Duke: A bunch of those movies you mention in your comment above have been featured on MST3K—did you see them there or on their own? I have seen a handful of movies that ended up on MST. Like “Laserblast” and the truly useless “Alien from L.A.”
So sad Crystal was outed. I would have enjoyed seeing her plan unfold. 🙁 Damn Meddling Stennie!
5 more days until Mr. MB’s bday! Happy Early Birthday, Mr. Middy!!