Last Looks: The First Power
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We're talking about last looks. We're talking about last looks.

No more looks after this. Yeah!

Plus, as always, I will reveal next week's movie. And at the end of the episode, I will share an exclusive bonus scene from our first power show live in Boston. First things first, a giant shout out to AC Gravy for that opening theme. AC, I love it.

and you've inspired me and I continue to sound the bell, ask you to pick up the gauntlet, get in the ring and submit a brand new How Did This Get Made theme song. We are looking to just spice up the show. Maybe we will find a winner that will replace the amazing song that we have. I mean, we love, we love the song that we have, but maybe it's time for something new or maybe we could just rotate it. I don't know.

Send us a song. Convince us that we deserve a new theme song. All right, so let's get into it. Last week, we talked at length about the first power, a movie that Discord user Anna Geddon thinks could add the tagline, Lou and me and the devil makes three.

I like that. I mean, it very much feels like a tagline this movie could have had. I like that in this tagline universe, they're just calling him Lou. Like, they're like, we don't care his character's name. It's Lou. We know it's Lou. I mean, we know it's LDP.

Reminds me of a story that I heard about Will Smith. A young actor was getting on a brand new show and he said, you know, if you have any power here, you have to use it to get them to change your character's name to your actual real name. And the guy's like, why? He's like, because when this show is a hit and it will be a hit, people are going to run after you and they're going to be shouting your character's name. And it's so much better for them to be calling you your name than somebody else's.

some character that you played 10 years ago. Take it from Will Smith. Any aspiring actors out there, when this strike is eventually over, just start calling yourself by your regular name on all shows. Why not? Why not? Ethan Hunt. Tom Hunt. Denzel. Always Denzel. We don't need a fancy name unless it's a cool name. Unless you have a really cool name. But you just keep your regular names. Keep your regular names.

Unless it really has a good ring to it. That's what I'd say. But, I mean, honestly, name me a Denzel Washington character. Name me a Tom Cruise character. Maverick. It's a call sign. Come on. It's hard. All right. Anyway, let's get into it. We had questions about the first power, and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. It is time for Corrections and Omissions.

On this podcast we do everything right, okay maybe not. Sometimes we get things wrong, some of the stuff we just forgot. But corrections and omissions is where we uncover it all. Enough about me, get over now to Paul.

Yes! Rob from Long Island, always hitting it out of the park. Love it. Let's go to the Discord. WRevCam writes, "...regarding the question of why the killer didn't just possess the main characters and be done with it."

Someone gave exposition when they were looking at the catatonic guy in the jail and said the killer could only take over people who are more susceptible, especially from drugs, alcohol, mental illness. Oh, okay. I think the cop boss was a drunk, but why the killer could have get the nun later. I'm not really that sure. Maybe she was already injured. Oh, does injury help there too? Okay. All right. I like this. Um,

Um, maybe the movie saying like religion's a mental illness. No, uh, that's an interesting thing that I totally forgot and it makes sense, but I also feel like the movie doesn't fully commit to that. Uh, cat, uh, says Paul rightfully. Thank God. Uh,

rightfully pointed out how bad of a shot LDP was in this movie, but no one mentioned that in one of the many chase scenes, he aims at a shadow and shoots. LDP sees a still shadow on a wall and fires at it. Yeah, this is a time in movies where actors playing cops shot at

at everything. I believe Lou Diamond Phillips gets out of bed with a gun in hand. So, uh, you know what? A shadow, look, maybe he saw Roger Abbott and he knows shadows can just like peel themselves off the wall. Uh, I don't know, but, uh, you got to shoot at a shadow just to make sure it's a shadow. That's what I would say. Always shoot at your shadow. Um, it's like trying to step on your shadow, but more violent. Joe Tangello writes when Tess

first called LDP. She made him promise that the killer wouldn't get the death penalty. She then got mad at him after he was executed. Now, I don't work in law or law enforcement, but does the detective that brings down a criminal have any say in their sentencing? I mean, I can't imagine they'd be able to tell a judge or a prosecutor how someone should be sentenced.

Yeah. It seems to me weird that even if you tried to lobby for such a thing for a serial killer, people would be like, huh? What? Get it. Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. I mean, the fact that he was interviewed on the courthouse steps even is a bold move. That was something that we saw so much in movies like when we were kids, like, oh, you got to interview the cop on the courthouse steps. I don't think I ever see a cop being interviewed ever. All right. Let's go to the phones. Greg from Montana. What do you got? Hey,

Hey, Fault. I wanted to talk about the pentagram medallion that she wields in the First Power. So, the pentagram was kind of co-opted as a Christian symbol once upon a time, and then it became associated with the occult with the idea that you could draw that figure on the ground with a circle around it. You could, like, stand inside of it, summon whatever demon, and a demon can't get you because you were protected by a holy symbol.

And then just like a crucifix, if you hold it upside down, it becomes evil or an abomination. So our guy draws pentagrams upside down on his victims. But then when she holds the medallion up, the pentagram is actually right side up. But that leads us to our standard evil guy trope, where if you're an extra powerful evil guy, you're not as affected by that kind of nonsense. And he's able to

grab her hand and flip it upside down and see if you're holding it upside down to make the pentagram upside down again. So I hope that helps. Love the show. Love you guys. Hope to see you live someday. Oh, shit. You see, this is why we do this, because we love to.

All right. Upside down pentagram. That's evil. Doesn't work. Right side up pentagram. You're protected. It's like State Farm. It's always on your side when it's the right side up. I don't know. I'm lost. Anyway, Anthony from Providence, what do you got? Hey, Paul. I attended the first Power live show in Medford. It was awesome. I just wanted to expand on something you mentioned. You did say that this was EZE's favorite movie, but also EZE's

He wrote a song called The First Power. It's the first track on his last album, and the track features the line, See you around, buddy boy. And interestingly, there's a lot of fans on YouTube who have definitely not seen the movie who are debating the meaning of the song even 20 years later. For people thinking that it's Eazy-E's satanic prayer to the devil, others thinking it's his way of tricking the devil. So I thought that was pretty funny.

Anyway, that's all I got. Just wanted to say again, it was a great show. Look forward to seeing you, Jason, and June again when you return to New England. Thanks. Bye.

Oh my God. I know this song. Okay. We got to play it. We got to play it. Look, people, we're all adults. It's an easy song. There's going to be some explicit language here, but I love that people don't know the movie enough. This is great. Oh, I'm so excited about this. Great, great, great. All right, Scott, hit it.

I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Shh, shut up, bitch. Fear not them which kill the body. Rather fear him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell. Get thee behind me, Satan, and push me along. All this power I will give thee. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

Come for me, bitch, as we walk through the door backwards. Heaven and art, which father our? Our father, which art in heaven. Hey, fucker!

See you around, buddy boy. It's a little taste. You can go find that wherever you listen to your Eazy-E. Mike from Orlando. Always love an Orlando call. What do we got? Hey, Paul. I just watched The First Power. So the psychic's house, I recognize. And I realize it's Tim Allen's house in Galaxy Quest. And I looked this up. It's called the Stall House. And it's a tourist attraction. So you live in that area, if I'm not mistaken. What's the story there? Thanks.

Thanks a lot. Love you guys. Okay. So we actually did mention it was a stall house in the episode. Um, but I love this connection that you pulled here, uh, to galaxy quest, which is something I totally forgot. Um, the stall house does offer tours to the public. Um,

If you want to go take a tour of the house, let me know. I think it is truly one of the... It's a beautiful historical landmark. You go on their website here and they'll tell you everything about it. It's a tourist attraction, but here's what I'll say. I'll read you what the website says. It's beautiful. It looks just like how it was left at Galaxy Quest. The Stahlhaus is a historical cultural landmark of...

the city of Los Angeles. It was deemed that in 1999. In 2007, the American Institute of Architects listed the Stahlhaus as one of the top 150 structures on their America's Favorite Architecture list.

One of only 11 in Southern California, the house was included in a list of the all-time top 10 houses in LA in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in December of 2008. And in 2013, the Stahl house became listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Wow. Very, very cool. I'm looking around and

I may go visit the Stahlhaus. You know, the caller said I live near there. I mean, I used to, but not anymore. That was like when I first moved out to LA. That's like kind of above the Whole Foods on that kind of Hollywood Hills area. Check out the Stahlhaus. Let's go.

Let's go. It's Field Trip, everybody. Let's go and dress as our characters, our favorite characters from the first power. Back to the Discord. Lizard Breath writes, when Tess has the vision of LDP getting an axe to the head at the hotel, she runs there and does the exact same thing she did in her vision. Why didn't LDP get axed this time? Shouldn't she have yelled something different or pushed him out of the way to create a different outcome? Yes, this movie is stupid.

I don't believe Tess. Tess, by the way, if she's a psychic, she would have known that the guy was going to get the death penalty to the point earlier in this. Oh, brother. Dennis C. Abrams writes this. Paul wondered if the nun was in nun jail. It does look like she was in a monastic cell, a pretty common living arrangement for a monk or nun, sparse accommodations to facilitate a focus on spirituality. She may have even been an anchoress.

who are especially aesthetic. Back in the day, they were instances where they were walled up in their cells and unable to leave. Now that is devotion. It felt like she was walled up in there because you only had that little, that little like keyhole to look out of or that little door slot. All right, let's find out. Was that nun an anchoress? I didn't even know what an anchoress was, but walled up in their cells. Does that mean like they put the cement bricks there and then

How do they get food in? I don't know. Probably not the first to point this out, but the first power sounds a lot like the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington, which came out eight years later. Okay, now Scott notes, he told me, Bazzaro's right, because here's the plot description of Fallen. After witnessing the execution of a serial killer, Edgar Reese...

Who he arrested, Detective John Hobbs and his partner, Jonesy, are soon investigating another murderer whose M.O. is eerily similar to Reese's. Okay? The trail leads to an unlikely foe, a demon who can leap from person to person and possess them at will. Fallen? When did Denzel make this?

Fallen has a 40% score on Rotten Tomatoes compared to First Powers, 25%, which means I think somebody...

Call Averill. We got to do it. We got to do it. I think we got to do Fallen. All right. So many great corrections and omissions this week, but there can only be one winner. One person who really brought it. And, you know, honestly, I learned a lot this week. I learned about Pentagrams. I learned about EZE. I learned about the Stahlhaus. But you know what? I think for the first time, somebody...

has picked a movie for this podcast right here in Corrections and Omissions without actually saying do this movie. And I believe that is Bat-Zaro. Bat-Zaro, you are our winner. And you get this amazing song from Caleb Gillow. Hit it! I'm so scared of feeling nothing

Thank you, Caleb. Awesome song. Remember, if you want to submit your movie tagline or chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up the Discord at discord.gg slash hdtgm or call us at 619-Paul-Ask. Coming up, Jason and I will answer listener phone calls and chat about forgotten TV shows and how we remember them. All right, stick around.

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For free. Terms and conditions apply. Welcome back. You've noticed that every Monday, How Did This Get Made? We are re-releasing older episodes. We like to put them back in the rotation. This week's Matinee Monday was Cellular with Ike Barinholtz and Aaron Gibson. This week, we're going to honor the news that the original Country Bear Jamboree show in the Magic Kingdom is finally going to be replaced. Now, that I don't think is full news because I...

No, it's pretty much closed everywhere else. It's not in LA. We went to go see the holiday show, but I dragged my dad when we were in Tokyo to go see the Country Bear Jamboree in Tokyo Disneyland or World or whatever they call it there. And it was amazing.

awesome, but they're replacing it. And so, you know what? We're going to celebrate these Country Bears a little bit more as we re-release our episode on the Country Bears with Kulap Vilesak. So keep on checking out our old episodes every single Monday and also check out Kulap's show, Add to Cart, which I love. You know, it's coming up Christmas, December. Well, not that much, but...

I will come back on that show to give my ultimate Christmases. I gotta get thinking. Anyway, let's get into just a little bit of chat. Me and Jason, we're going to answer some phone calls.

We really get off track very quickly. We go down rabbit holes. We're talking about old sitcoms. And honestly, I feel like this is a mini podcast right here. Oh, I also want to just say to this, would anyone be interested in June and I doing a Survivor recap podcast? Like in the How Did This Get Made feed? I don't think we're going to launch a brand new podcast, but I kind of want to do it. June and I are a little bit obsessed with it.

I feel like we should. I don't know if that's against strike rules. We've got to figure it out. Anyway, Anton Wellen, you don't have to worry about any of that. All you have to worry about is creating a theme for Just Chat, and here it is. Paul and Jason have things to say, and it's the fact that we cannot call it Just Chat. They're watching their movies. They're watching TV. They're going to tell me we cannot call it Just Chat.

Thank you, Anton. All right, Jason, let's go to the phones. Oh, yeah. Coming at you. W-H-T-D-G-M. The caller's on the line. Get him on. Get him on. Who are you? Where are you calling from? Zooks of the Shear Man. Listen.

This is Eddie from La Mirada. A little bit of trivia about Switch. There was a bizarre TV commercial where they just cut in the name Jimmy Smith at the end. Not starring Jimmy Smith, not with Jimmy Smith. Look it up. It became a running joke on Mystery Science Theater 3000 for years. Anytime a character said Switch, they had to say Jimmy Smith. So I think it's on YouTube if you look it up. Switch commercial number three. Very funny stuff. I think you'll enjoy. Thanks for the show. Love it. Bye.

All right, let's take a look.

After Steve died, God sent him back as a woman. It's okay. To make him a better man. Now he's putting aside male pride. Can't think with all this hair. And seeing life from the other side. Morning. Hello! Morning! Ellen Barkin. Unlucky. In Blake Edwards' new comedy, Switch. Jimmy Smith's Rated R. Now playing at a theater near you.

That's funny. You know what? I didn't know that was going to pay off. That's got to be because... Was he popular at the time? Was NYPD Blue on at the time? Like, was this a... I think this is way before that. It is before that. So, like, is Jimmy Smits, like... Is Jimmy Smits the second lead of the movie? I guess he is. Well, I think what it is...

is they had to say Ellen Barkin, like they had to billboard Ellen Barkin in the VO, but they only had like a 30 second spot. So they have to like jam it in. Jimmy Smith. That's funny. They don't even say all, like I have a feeling that it was also like, and Jimmy Smith. Yes, but they needed the and. They needed to cut the and rather. That's funny. Let me hear it one more time, Scott, because it's too good. I just need to hear it one more time.

Ellen Barkin. Unbelievable. In Blake Edwards' new comedy, Switch, Jimmy Smits. Rated R. Now playing at a theater near you. It's funny because it's like when Jimmy Smits comes on screen, it's almost like we need to identify the man on screen. Right. Jimmy Smits. But it doesn't even sound like...

He's saying and Jimmy Smith. It's like, you know, starring Ellen Barkin and Jimmy and doesn't even feel like it would take that long. I agree. It's just Jimmy Smith. It's it's pretty weird. That's funny. I like what you're because it sounds like this is a recurring Mystery Science Theater 3000 joke.

Well, yes, and that's something I did not know. I didn't know that either, and it led to me wanting to ask you, how much of Mystery Science Theater 3000 did you consume? Because I feel like I hit it a little bit, and I watched some of it, but then I didn't stick with it and become the diehard fan that I know a lot of people, a lot of people we know are obsessed with that show and feel very connected to it. Yeah, well, you know...

I feel exactly the same way, but I did like it. Every time I saw it, I liked it and I thought it was really funny and I recorded them and I thought, like, I actually liked the middle pieces more than the movie parts. Like, I like those characters, you know? Yep, like the sketches and all that stuff. But then once we started doing this, I've really, I've stayed away from it only because...

There's so much overlap and so much... No, I understand that. Were you like a fan of Comedy Channel or Ha? Like that? I didn't have them. Okay, that's where I first started watching it was on those channels. Like there was a late night talk show called Night After Night with Alan Havy. And that was like my...

That was my thing. I liked all the new shows. Yeah. Like, Judy Tanuta's hosting something or, like, this. And then History Science Theater felt like, oh, well, this is old stuff. I want to watch new stuff. We didn't get cable because those are all cable channels. Right. So we didn't get cable until I was, like, in college.

I feel like so. I didn't have X. I didn't grow up with a TV that you could throw on, you know, TNT and they'd be showing Air Force One and you just watch it. You know, I had like a TV where you turned on like Channel 38 and at four o'clock in the afternoon, they were playing like old I Love Lucy episodes and then Harold and Maude. This reminds me of my...

my week away with my family in Maine because I was used to cable and we went up there and the same thing. I was like, Oh, we have to watch Beretta. Yeah. Like,

And it felt like, whoa, yeah, Beretta Rockford files. Yes. And this was what you was on after. Like, I would come home from school. I would walk home from school. I would turn on Channel 38 and watch reruns of MASH as a child, as like a nine-year-old. Oh, coming home for me, it was, I mean, these are more kid shows, but it was always like a mix of everything.

Three's Company. Yeah. Different Strokes. Happy Days. A lot of Happy Days. MASH. Brady Bunch. Brady Bunch. But then for me, there would also be mixed in like a bunch of like old black and white shows.

as well. The I Love Lucy's and Leave It to Beaver. Exactly. Oh my God. Like the family block would include Leave It to Beaver and the Brady Bunch. You know what I mean? All of them would be clustered together. Yes. And you would, and I watched a lot of MASH and I hated MASH. I hated, like MASH to me. I loved it. I loved MASH. Like MASH to me was like this.

this is not for me. I want the show with the kid and the train. Like, like I, I was so angry with it. I want what's happening. Like I was angry at mash, always angry at mash. And maybe it was because my, my grandparents like mash. So we were forced to watch it. Like I was like, it was not my choice. Oh, that's funny. But I've, I've grown to, I've grown to like mash. My favorite thing is, and I'm, I wonder if it's out there and I'm sure somebody will point us to, uh,

a file folder that I will never click on or something. But, you know, MASH was shot, single camera, and a laugh track was added afterwards to the show. Right. So in America, the show MASH plays with a laugh track. Everywhere else the show MASH aired, the laugh track was not put in.

So there is a single camera version of that show without the laugh track that exists somewhere, I assume. Because that laugh track was really weird. Very jarring because it's all canned. It's all just like piped in. But every half hour show...

to me, had a laugh track. Like, it was something that I knew. By the way, I got into this conversation last week on the Twitch show by myself with Molly. Um, we were talking about this episode of Too Close for Comfort. Okay. That I remembered. Does this ring a bell to you? Too Close for Comfort, if you don't remember, uh, Ted Knight from Caddyshack. He was a cartoonist that kind of wrote, um, uh, a cartoon that I would imagine is similar to, like, Snoopy. It was called Cosmic Cow. He had two young, uh,

very vivacious daughters and a neighbor played by Jim J. Bullock, who is the psychic in the episode that we just recently did of Switch. He was the psychic Switch. Jim J. Bullock often on Hollywood Squares. Jim J. Bullock, who at the time on Too Close for Comfort was JMJ Bullock. No Jim, just JM. So I

I remember this episode. Oh, can I? Very briefly. Yeah, please. Just because you and I are connected to it. You and Adam Scott and some folks used to do an Adult Swim series of specials where you recreated shot for shot the opening title sequences of...

like 1980s sitcoms. Were they all 80s? We did Simon and Simon. Yeah, that's the one I remember. I was in the Too Close for Comfort one with John Glazer. Yeah, and Catherine Hahn and Chelsea Peretti. Catherine Peretti.

from SCTV and Schitt's Creek. What's her name? Catherine O'Hara. Catherine O'Hara. Jesus Christ. It was an amazing cast. It was incredible. We did four of these specials called the greatest show in the history of the world. That's what it was called. Hosted by Jeff Probst. And they actually are still available to be seen. Uh, if you just type in the greatest show in history of the world, they're very funny. Uh,

Oh, yeah. It was like they were like 12-minute long adult swim late night. Like the kind of specials you would stumble on and be like, what on earth is this? It was so much fun to do because they just let us do whatever we wanted. We did Simon and Simon, Too Close for Comfort, and now I'm... Oh, Bosom Buddies. Oh, that's a good one. And...

Gosh, I can't remember the fourth one. But each episode, we would kind of recreate everything. But Too Close for Comfort was... Oh, Heart to Heart was the fourth one. Oh, that's a great one. I always loved Too Close for Comfort. It was one of those shows that, like you said...

was just in this pack of things that I would watch. That one with the, also the show with the girl when her dad was an alien and when she put her two fingers together, she would freeze time. Yeah. Right. Like all these weird, what was that called? Was it, didn't she talk to the guy on a bedside? Yes. Like a crystal, a crystal talk box or something. Yes. He was like on an Amazon echo or something like that.

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And there was like another show called Double Trouble. Oh, I was in love with the Double Trouble Twins full stop. Same. Maybe one of my first like legitimate I have a crush was on the Double Trouble Twins. And then as we've talked about before, Michelle Pfeiffer in Ladyhawk.

I mean, like, these... And a lot of the times, like, I think my first crushes were all these, like, young girls on these shows. Like, whether it was Charles in Charge or anything like that. Sure, sure. Oh, yeah. And these shows double trouble, by the way. Like, if you...

you know, I felt like that show was on forever. It was on for like one season. Oh yeah. You know, uh, no, didn't they, didn't it, wasn't it one season and then they moved to like the city for the second season or something like there was some redo of the show or something. I feel like we do all these shows. Yes, you're right. They would like all of a sudden take them out of their spot. And, and you, we were talking about this, uh,

We were talking about this on the show because I had a distinct memory that on Too Close for Comfort, there was an episode where Jim J. Bullock gets raped by two women. And I Googled it really quickly and I found the episode listing of that episode.

Where he gets raped by these two women who are just super horny and they want to fuck. But one of the women was a very tall man in a wig. Yes, because they were trying to show how they, I guess, you

You know, really manhandled Jim J. because they threw him in the back of a van. They threw him back in the house and they put him in a tub full of jello. And it's played it's played up for comedy. I was just going to say, was this played for laughs? Oh, is this a special episode? Well, it's tricky to do a special episode like you're you're going for jokes. But then oddly, as we were watching the episode back like Ted Knight.

is kind of like a woke knight. He's very much on the right side of like, no, we can't make fun of this. We've got to go to the police. This is not funny. Oh, I see. It's a very, like he was doing the, like he was moving the right way. Everyone else is making fun of Monroe. And so I remembered at the end, I was like, okay, I remember that he goes to confront them. And I was right. He does decide. Ted Knight. Ted Knight decides that

The cops won't arrest these women, so they must do vigilante justice. So they have to go in the streets and find these women and then bring them to justice. I mean, this is an episode of... It's like where Ted Knight becomes Batman? When Ted Knight becomes the Dark Knight? This is truly what is going on. The Ted Knight returns? Ha ha ha!

Please make that poster. And please make Ted Knight's Batman costume in the style of the cow that is in the comic strip. The cosmic cow, yes. The cosmic cow, thank you. This will just be something for me and Jason to look at and enjoy. Yeah, we're not going to make a t-shirt out of this. So when he finally gets to confront the women...

They find out where they live. The women pull him into the room, throw him into a chair and start grinding on him. Like, you're going to give it to us. You're going to give it to us. Like, give it to us. And then Ted Knight's so afraid that he runs and jumps in like a Murphy bed and then closes the Murphy bed to escape the women. And luckily, he does not get sexually assaulted. Oh, my God.

Oh my God. The cops do come. That's incredible stuff. I would like a YouTube channel that is just all of these like wild.

80s sitcom episodes, like the ones that are truly atypical to the rest of the series because they take one big crazy swing or some, either it's a message episode or it's a particularly strange storyline they decide to try and pursue. Because they used to just do almost flights of fancy kind of like, well, now in this episode, this happens.

Right. Well, I was saying that some of these things burned into my head. This episode, this Monroe episode, is impossible to find. We actually played the whole thing on the Twitch stream because someone had it, sent it to us, and then we were able to play it and watch it in real time. But do you remember... Different Strokes was the show that really messed me up because... Oh, the child molester bike shop cartoon? That one was a mess, messed me up. But the one that got me in my gut was...

Sam was the young kid on that show, the redhead kid that they brought in after Willis and Kimberly were too old. They brought in a young kid, Hoyt Axton, the dad from Gremlins, was his stepfather. I don't know that I remember this. Okay, got it. So basically Mr. Drummond gets remarried to a younger woman who has a kid, and

The long story short is Sam is at a bodega in New York, in New York. And he's like trying to find the best bag of Doritos and, uh, a squeeze in different bags of Doritos. And, um,

And this guy's like, oh, you want some good Doritos? Come with me. And then kidnaps Sam. And what you find out is they bring him to his house in upstate New York. Oh, wait a minute. I do remember this episode. Because it ends with Jim Caviezel coming and saving him from the child traffickers.

Caviezel saves the day. And then they decided to branch it out into a longer form film. And that's what I love about Hollywood. The thing that sticks out to me in that episode is they bring him up to the house and they just don't kidnap him. They go, our son died.

You are now our son. I love it. And your name isn't Sam anymore. I love it. It's Chuck. You are now Chuck. And he's living in this house and the mama's like, Chuck, come here. And he's like, yes, mama. And he'd be freaking out too because he doesn't want to like, he's trying to play the game. What's amazing is it sounds like you're describing to me an episode of like SVU. Yeah.

Yes, I know. Or like a Law and Order, like grim kind of, I can't believe we're watching this horrible thing happen to a child, blah, blah, blah. And instead it's an episode of different strokes. Different strokes. And it's like, and it was so upsetting. Because I think that that was the thing

That really burned in my head. Like, oh, he had to pretend to be a different kid. And when you're a kid, that is like, wait, can this happen to me? Yes. What a wildly irresponsible thing to show on a show aimed at children. I don't know. You might be at the store. Somebody might grab you and force you into being a different kid.

And that was like – and that's why I look at the Monroe episode of Too Close for Comfort. And I'm also equally confused because I get it. Like on Blossom, you want to do a show about, oh, bulimia or you want to do a kidnapping show on different strokes because these are shows for kids where kids can learn a lesson. Hey, that bike shop owner has pornography. That's bad. You got to tell your parents. Like these are things that we need. Like don't do drugs. Yeah.

But yes, too close for these are legitimate social messages that should be delivered to children. Right.

But Too Close for Comfort is kind of like an adult show. It was like a nine nine thirty show. Yes. Where it's like that's not a special episode to have Monroe, who is, you know, pushing his mid 20s there. Oh, if not older. Yeah. Not older. This was an adult man. What is that? What is this story? And that's the thing that's so bizarre. It's like.

What like why did they feel like they wanted to tell that story? I don't know. TV would just like the people just were like, I don't know. Let's do what about this? You know, it just it felt like more was just possible in terms of we got to make 26 of these a year.

I mean, and look, we were making shows where a dad like worked in a factory and made a robot and adopted her as a daughter. The conceit of small wonder is at its core. So, so weird. So fucked up. Like how, like that's a perfect example of a show that in it's from the ground up is chilling and bizarre and is fully unexamined. It is.

It is really, I mean, and it was just like, we'll buy into this premise just to get you into this world. And that was it. And the idea was like, oh, yeah. It's a family sitcom. It's a family sitcom, just like the Hogan's and just like all these other ones, except one of the kids, just like Alf.

Except one of the kids is a robot. Don't worry about it. And then on the flip side of it, they would also just jettison things that did not work. It's like, okay, Charles in Charge, we think that this family's too old. Let's bring in hot girls instead. Get rid of them. Yep. Yeah, they brought in hot girls. It's like that was the thing. Or like when Laverne and Shirley moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. I forgot about that. And just lived in LA. Yeah.

By the way, I'm looking at Double Trouble. They also did that too. They got rid of the parents. Yes. Oh, yeah. And they had the short-haired aunt. Is she their aunt? Yes. Who they live in a New York City apartment with or a building with? Yeah. Barbara Berry. Yes. I love Barbara Berry.

Oh, my gosh. She was also, I guess, the wife of Barney Miller. Oh, that's funny. I forget that. Yeah. But I mean, these shows, it's so funny to go back and watch them because it's like it's like what our memory of. I want to go back and watch that Sam episode, too, because like but these images are burnt in my brain. It's like, yes, I guess it was effective. I mean, I guess what we're saying is, you know, you know, I will say, too. And people have to remember this.

which I think a lot of our listeners won't really understand, which is a lot of these TV shows, and especially the episodes we're talking about of these TV shows, we maybe only had one opportunity to see it, if not maybe two, if the episode replayed in the summer. We didn't grow up in an environment where we could re-watch seasons of a favorite show. If you were a fan of Too Close for Comfort or...

or any of the shows of that era, if you didn't see it when it aired, you missed that episode. There was no way to rent it, watch it. The TV shows weren't on VHS. There was nothing. There was no way to rewatch stuff. So stuff got not just imprinted in your memory, but then you would go over it and talk about it with your friends. And there was a way in which you would lock it in

By creating the lore around it communally, not just from re-watching it obsessively yourself. Right, because you couldn't do it. You didn't have access, you know? Well, then let me bring you this one episode to you that I also remember. Do you remember a show where a guy, I want to say it was Matthew Perry, I don't think it is Matthew Perry, he's way before Friends. He...

He dies in a car accident. And the opening theme song was like, he steps on a dial. And if one path lights up, you go to hell. And if one path lights up, you go to heaven. And when he stepped on that dial, both paths lit up. So he got a chance to go back and try to correct that.

his childhood version of himself. Like, I love these shows. I got into these shows. Super high concept. Super high concept. I mean, it's so... I don't remember that. Did you ever figure out what it was? No, I'm trying to remember. I'm looking into it, but I mean, that's... Okay, because I've been trying to remember a TV show for years that I cannot find any evidence of. And, um...

And I'm going to put it out to the fans now because somebody will remember. So these are not the correct pieces of information. Okay. But in my mind, they are.

In my mind, the show starred Michael Perry. It did not. I've looked through his entire filmography. But it must have been a Michael Perry type guy. And it was like a dramatic one hour. And it was almost like 21 Jump Street, except grittier in that it was young people. But they were in the service of like they were a gang. But but they helped solve crimes, I think.

It wasn't WizKids, to be clear. All right, this is good. I like this idea. It was very street level, and it was very Warriors, is what I keep coming back to, like the movie Warriors. Right, right, right. Like punks and bad kids. It was a lot of fights and rumbles. It almost felt like it was a 50s show, but I don't think it was. I don't remember any of the specifics. It would be called the Redhead Gang.

Or the Red Hand Gang. Ooh, I don't know. Maybe. Why is that? Each episode was an exciting tale about various adventures and escapades that the gang encountered from cops and robbers to strange and creepy folks. Ooh, that sounds great, though. What is it? I mean, yeah. It may be too old. It's from... This is like from the mid-'80s. Okay, this is 77. No, I don't think so. Although that sounds rad. The Red Hand Gang...

Yeah, I'm looking at it now. It's not, I don't think it's that. Okay. This does look fun. I mean, there's a chimpanzee involved in that one. Oh yeah, no, this was a deadly serious show. This was like a moody, noir-y kind of vibe. I like this. Let's throw this down to the... Let's throw it to the, yeah. This is a new segment we're doing called Shows That Paul and Jason Have Forgotten. Help us remember. But by the way, I'm going to tell you, I did this once on an episode and they helped me find...

A movie that I was obsessed with as a kid. Which? All right, so now I know all the details. It's a Jennifer Connelly comedy, and it's called Seven Minutes in Heaven. Love it. Love that movie. Right? Isn't that a great movie? I loved that movie. I loved that movie.

Wait, did you rewatch it? I bought the DVD. Yes. And I've been wanting to show it to June because I was able to. I got to rewatch that. That is a movie I did rent. Yes, me too. I was so obsessed with Seven Minutes in Heaven. I thought that movie was like. It felt like adult. The quintessence of eroticism. Yeah. Oh, 100%. As a kid.

I was like, like, because they're my age. So, yeah, well, like one of the girls is like having an affair with a baseball player. And yeah, it's like it's a. Oh, there's another movie I've been trying to think of that I can't remember. And again, I've got it all wrong because in my mind, it stars a youngish Jodie Foster and a youngish Josh Charles. Doesn't make sense. Right. Can't be either of them because of the ages. None of it matters. Right.

None of it makes sense. But those are the archetypes. And it is a summer romance movie. Like, one of them is in a summer town, and they have, like, a summer romance, and then it all goes sideways. And it's like a heartbreaker. It's like a tearjerker, like, rom-com teen romance movie, I think is kind of what it was. Anyway, that's the other one that I keep being like, what was that movie? Again, we've thrown down...

I love this. The gauntlet. And, all right, we will see what people come up with. I'm excited for it. Jason, it was great talking old sitcoms with you. Home run. Home run. All right. Pleasure. Oh, he's talking about those shows. Man, this really, that conversation really set me down a rabbit hole. I've been...

on a YouTube binge of old sitcoms and they're crazy. I love them. I know it's a crazy, like, Oh, they're crazy. No, but like what we took for entertainment, like things have changed. And I almost feel like I want to go back to some of that style of a sitcom. It'd be great. Just in break, like a minute and 22nd opening too close for comfort. Yeah. Get into it anyway. Um,

Call us anytime. Me and Jason are here to answer your questions. 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K. That's 619-Paul-Ask. Now that we got the first power out of the way, let's talk about next week's movie. We are going from Lou Diamond to Neil Diamond. That's right. Next week, we are watching the 1973 film adaptation of the best-selling book, Jonathan Livingston Siegel, with an original soundtrack written and recorded by the one, the only, Neil Diamond. Okay. This movie is bonkers. I'm going to tell you right now...

You're not going to like this movie.

At all. It's going to be a pain to get through, but I think it's one of the best movies we've ever done. It's insane. It is an art piece. It's crazy. What's the plot? Nonconformist seagull Jonathan is tired of his boring life and experiments with a brand new flying technique. But when the elders expel him from his clan, he decides to explore his newfound freedom. And yes, this movie is made entirely of real life seagull footage with human...

actors voicing the sequels. Yes. And animals were armed in this movie. Uh, we know, we know it has to be true. Um, uh,

Rotten Tomatoes gives this film an 8% score on Tomatometer. Roger Ebert walked out of the screening after 45 minutes, making it one of the only four films he ever walked out on. Normally, this is when I would play you a quick trailer of the movie, but the trailer is literally just footage of sequels set to a Neil Diamond song, so I thought instead I'd give you a little peek behind the curtain of how did this get made live show. What you don't normally hear on the podcast is that I play the trailer of the movie for the audience before we start the show, and we'll take a listen.

to how the audience reacted to watching this trailer. We're not recording yet, all right? But it seems to me like you want to watch more of it. So let's take a look at the trailer for Jonathan Livingston's Eagle. Lost in a painted sky Where the clouds are home for the poet's eye You may find him If you live

Okay, the trailer actually continues for over two more minutes. And then when it was over, I decided if they didn't like it that much, we needed to play it again. Oh my gosh, that was amazing. You know what? We actually did have a small technical difficulty. Let's play it again. We wouldn't do that. Holy shit. Holy shit. You guys are already the best audience. We haven't even started yet.

I love it. I love New York. Anyway, we are almost to the end of this episode, but before we go, check out this bonus scene from our first Power show where we discuss other actors who we'd like to cast in the movie's lead roles. What's your name?

Hi, I'm Elena. So the killer in the movie was, I don't know if people know this, but Nick Cave, the Australian goth rocker, auditioned for this role, which would have been amazing. And I'm wondering what other, like if this movie was recast, who would you cast? I have a vote for Joe Firestone as the... As the psychic test?

The lady at the front, the bag lady. That's just curly hair. I like this. You just want a different curly hair to be in that part. Well, look, I'm already saying that I believe that one of the shirts in contention should be

on the first Power poster. And I feel like we should just get that out there. But also imagine how good this movie would have been. Again, this always works. It works every single time. Instead of Lou Diamond Phillips, who I think is fantastic as an actor, but instead it's Nicolas Cage. The movie is just absolutely riveting.

Nicholas Cage going toe-to-toe with Jeff Goldberg? That would be incredible. I actually have an important recast for Tess. Okay. And I think this would have changed everything. Meg Ryan. Because I think you needed someone who was a little bit more kind of flighty, a little bit more all over the place, a little bit more charming. And...

Yeah, I just think my... All right. Can I prove... June, if you say that, I'm going to say Dennis Quaid as Lou Diamond Phillips, but then I'm going to go, let's go one step further and go Billy Crystal. Billy Crystal is a great homicide detective. Absolutely not.

All right, that is it for the show. Please remember to rate and review. It helps. And if you listen on Apple Podcasts, make sure you are following us. Visit us on social media at HDTGM. And a big thanks to our producers, Scott Sani, Molly Reynolds, our movie-picking producer, Avril Halle, our engineers, Casey Holford, and Rich Garcia, and Jess Cisneros, who makes our amazing social media videos. We will see you next week for, and I apologize in advance, Jonathan Livingston Siegel.

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