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Hello people of Washington D. We are live at the Warner Theater to talk about, thank you, we are live at the Warner Theater to talk about the 1987 classic Munchies. Oh, Munchies.
Munchies! It's like Gremlins, but cheesier. Munchies are a bunch of perverted aliens, and if you've not seen the movie, let me tell you a little bit about it. An archaeologist finds a strange creature in Peru and takes it home. He dubs the creature a munchie, but is unprepared for the ensuing chaos when the beast starts to mutate. Things get even more complicated when a con man...
steals the munchie. And that's what happens in a movie that took 12 days to shoot. In a movie in which the puppets don't move their mouth. In a movie where there are more call-outs to gremlins than in the movie Gremlins. I love munchies. And I cannot wait to break it down with my two co-hosts. Please welcome to the stage Mr. Jason Manzoukas. What's up, jerks?
That's right! That's right! How we doing, DC? Fuck yeah! We did it! We fucking did it! Holy shit! Oh, boy. Oh, man. I'm going to admit, good. Great, great looking crowd. Great audience energy. I love every minute of it. But they seemed to watch the trailer for Munchies as if they were genuinely interested in the movie, which I found chilling.
It was disturbing to me. We've done six nights on the road. Six nights! And as many movies per night. Yes. In six days. We've been watching these, I've at least been watching these during the day of the show. Just finished it in the hotel room.
Do I jerk off now? Like, what do I do here? But I will say, every night, there has been a reaction. Something. Oh, yeah. Here, it truly was a moment of, like, polite enjoyment. And maybe that's just good Washington, D.C. behavior. You've all seen some crazy shit.
And you've had to have been like, yes, okay. And then you go home later and then you unpack it there. In a public space... At this point, they're like, we gotta chill out, we gotta be cool, we can't storm the stage. Yes. A lot of people... Big pop for that. Big pop for J6. That's right, everyone. I will say, a lot of people...
In this room, there's a lot of Reddits that say that munchies were responsible for January 6th. A lot of people are saying that munchies were able to vote and they shouldn't be. Well... Because one of the munchies got voter registration but then kept cutting itself in half. Suddenly, they're stacking up these goddamn munchies. Technically, in Georgia, that's still legal. So...
They have these weird anti-Munchie laws, or I guess pro-Munchie laws. Anyway, we're going to get into a lot. I came so close to watching Munchie. I just want you to know. I know. I was nervous about that. Because when I was punching in, and it was like one of the first ones that came up, and I was like, well, this has got to be it. No. And it was not. And I'm so glad. I'm so glad. I would have been out of my mind.
Not only is Munchies a ripoff of Gremlins, but it also, the poster is also a ripoff of Lady in Red or Woman in Red, that Gene Wilder movie. Remember that Gene Wilder movie where the woman's standing with her lady in red. The Munchie is taking the same position as Gene Wilder. Wow. Wow.
This movie, I could say so much about it. And you're telling me Munchie, singular, is not a sequel, a prequel, a spiritual sequel? No, Munchie has its own set of sequels. Munchie's one and done. Well, you know, because they respect the craft. They nailed it. They were like, we can't improve upon this.
DC's got to give it their stamp of approval, but otherwise we're good. Someone did put on the Discord, are you picking Munchies because of the rumored Gremlins 3, which was supposed to take place in DC? No. I didn't even know there was a rumor about Gremlins 3 taking place in DC. Only DC would be keyed into the rumor. Like as if, well, everybody must know about the Gremlins 3 rumor. Get it together, assholes.
But there is one woman who knows a lot about a lot of things. But I don't know how much she knows about munchies. We're about to find out. Please welcome to the stage June Diane Raphael. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's a week into tour. That is next level flexibility. That is... Thank you so much.
I want to just quickly, I need to discuss DC's reaction to the trailer. Yes. I need to say something. I need to weigh in. I need my voice to be heard. Because you all were silent. And at one point, see, where my mind went is I was like, did they think we made this movie? Yes.
Are they being polite? Are they being like, we should not laugh because they chose it for us. Thank you. Thank you. There was such a very kind reverence for us and the show. And the thing was, they laughed at all the videos in the pre-show. Everything else. The Jay Marks video. Everything, like, generous with laughter and applause and reaction. And then what? And then the trailer, you were like...
I got nervous. Oh, this is the show. The show is now. Okay, everybody, shh. I got nervous that the audience left. It was absolutely shocking. Or had been, like, put to sleep. Let's talk about Munchies. The opening of Munchies begins with a young man named Paul who wears sneakers like mine, who is clearly in... AKA Calabasas, California...
And he is with his dad. And this opening moment, I want to play it up top because I want to just unpack where this movie starts. Because yes, the munchies are weird, but the interpersonal relationships between father and son in this movie, across the board. This movie has more to say about fathers and sons than every Wes Anderson movie put together. Truly. Truly.
Let's watch. If Wes Anderson were to watch this movie, he'd never make another movie again. Let's watch clip one here of Paul and his dad. Paul, quit trying. You're not going to L.A. to become a comic. Dad, come on. No, you're not Paul. First of all, you're not funny. Second of all, you don't know what L.A. is like.
It's like New Jersey with earthquakes. Come on, let's go. The early bird catches the worm. Oh, is breakfast ready? Doctor, doctor! We found someone to translate the stone. Oh, great, Ramon. Isn't that exciting, Paul? Yeah, I'm psyched, really.
Love it. I love that Paul is in a straight up Marty McFly. Everything in this movie is referencing a beloved movie of its literal time frame. Not even as an homage to something nostalgic from the past, but remember this from eight months ago? This is, to me, the closest that we'll get to seeing what an AI-generated film is.
It's like... And suddenly I'm on board? It's like people like Gremlins, people like Back to the Future will just mash it all up and it won't make sense, but it will...
a plot kind of? Sort of. Sort of. I mean, have you guys ever seen this? No. No. Okay, me neither. I've never heard of this movie. I had because, again, the VHS box, I remember very vividly, it was very crazy for me to watch this because I am the age these kids are supposed to be. 40? Yes. Yes.
So all of the styles, all of the references, everything in the movie is from my high school era, including like the convertible VW Rabbit. I love that car. The coolest cool girl car in school. It was like, oh my God. It's a sexy car. It's so, when you look at it now, if you took it out of context, you'd be like, what is that ugly car? It's the hottest car in the world to me. Yeah. I love that car.
Well, yes, this was made during a time where high schoolers, all high schoolers were 37 years old. And were consumed with the Cold War. Yes. Commies and the big one and spies. But what's so weird about this relationship is... Which I loved. I did too. They're still together.
In my mind, yeah. In my mind. Long live Paul and Cindy. Paul and Cindy, first of all, let's start with the positive. They did have a lot of chemistry on screen. They were so fun. They really did. They were very natural together. I love their choice not to react.
To anything. Me too. Nothing. They never seem phased. But they're like, meh. Absolutely nothing. And that goes forever. That extends to the rest of the people in the world. Nobody has a reaction to any single thing in the world. I will say, another way this movie mimics my childhood is those were the only kinds of sex toys in bed ever.
that we would have allowed also an inflatable hammer, a laser gun.
No, here's my question, though. Were those, were we supposed to in the world, first of all, I didn't even know whose house it was. I thought it was Cindy's house and then she was an older woman for about half of the movie. So I had to do a complete, like, reset. When they said they were teenagers, I was like, I don't think so. I do not. Respectfully, no. Yes, yes.
With all due, with all due, I disagree. And we might look back on it and find out they were both 18, but in 1987, it just was weird. It doesn't make sense. It was a weird time where people looked older. So then I realized, and the reason why I thought that it was Cindy's house and that she was already out of high school and that this was a crime was because...
It was because she's also with the police guy? Well, no, because when they get back to the house, and I guess we'll talk about the art direction and the sets for roughly two hours. Do you think we need to? What on earth could we talk about? Not much to say, I guess. But the father says that he's going to go to a hotel.
Now, so I think he's staying at a hotel and that it's Cindy's home. And I was in a different movie for a very long time.
But once I realized, I was like, okay, wait, no, this is Paul's house. This is his father's house and the uncle of Cecil. The father goes to a conference. We got to just say the father is played by Harvey Korman. Yes. Comedy legend. Yes. Not getting nearly the applause he should be right now. This audience, which I believe should be full of moms and dads night out, should all be. Wait, I'd like, can everybody who's here on moms and mom and dad's night out stand up?
Yes! Yes! Look at this! Mom and Dad's night out! This is incredible. I love it. Harvey Korman plays two roles, two brothers. I just want to go back. I just want to reiterate. Harvey Korman plays two roles. And they almost never share the screen. They can't.
But it's like Harvey Korman, the dad of Paul, needs to leave so that the uncle can arrive? As if it's a play. The movie feels like a play. It also, that plot line...
You can't tug on it too tightly because it will fall apart immediately. I don't understand the larger implications, but I want to just go back. Tug on it too tightly and it will fall apart completely. That's a t-shirt. Just like a munchie. Don't tug on their string too tightly or they will fall apart. The sun opens up the movie...
pretending to be Kirk but not doing a Kirk impression from Star Trek. He's like, "Star date two three five point four and I'm with my dad who's a Klingon." So when the dad says, "You're not funny," hard agree. At the end of the movie, at the end of the movie when he decides to not go to college but pursue comedy, I was like, "Go to college."
He is doing nothing. When you set up a main character and the first thing another character says is, you are not funny, it is hard to laugh at that character because we understand the world thinks he is not funny. The number of times I wrote...
Oh, Paul isn't funny in my notes because Paul is trying the whole movie to be quippy and funny and he's got comebacks for clever things and none of them work. He says one thing, which I wrote down, he goes...
What about my sports rundown? End of scene. That's not an out. That's not the end of scene. She's giving him the rundown of Battle of the Network Stars as if that's his sports, which is not funny as well. But I'm saying that they leave that scene. He walks up to the camera. What about my sports rundown? Cut to car. Cut to car as if the audience is going to be like, yes!
It's so tough. I mean, the other thing, Paul, Paul Shear, not Paul from the movie. The other thing is that, so once I realized that this was his home, then I put together that those things that were in his bedroom, the sex toys, were a part of his prop comedy. Yeah.
It's gotta be. It's gotta be. Otherwise, he's too young to be having sex. Right, because he has that big hammer. Inflatable hammer. Which he would have had to inflate before the sex. Imagine if you were making out and then I was like, hang on a second. And he keeps the hammer...
Like within arm's reach because she's surprised by it. Like, want to play doctor? Yes. Click, clank. Okay. But I will say, even with all of the preposterousness, the laser gun, all the stuff, they still had legitimate sexual chemistry that I was on board for. 100%. I thought he was attractive. I felt like a munchie. I felt like a creepy munchie. I felt like a creepy munchie as well.
I didn't understand, though. Is that the T-shirt? I feel like a creepy munchie. I genuinely didn't understand parts of the sex scene, though. And I didn't like that. I didn't like that feeling of not knowing. When she says, Paul, that she doesn't understand, she says, I wrote it down. She said, that's not a watermelon. What is that? I didn't understand that.
That's not a watermelon. Where she said I'm behind the watermelon? What was that? Does anybody know what that was? I think somebody's saying a Gallagher reference. Oh, maybe you're right. I bet you're right because it's comic. I think that he is a prop comic on the rise. Um...
Maybe he turns out to be Carrot Top. I don't know. Is this Carrot Top's origin story? Biopic? Is this Carrot Top's biopic? I'm on board to say yes. I mean, they also are in a twin bed playing Space Invaders. I didn't like that. You know, I don't.
Yeah, I'm not interested in comedy sex. That made me feel like they were too young to be having sex. There was too many little kid toys there. And not for nothing, we haven't mentioned this, the munchie gets in on the action. And I didn't care for that one bit. I didn't like that the munchie crawled in. I didn't like that she was like, that's too rough. I didn't like that. Listen, I had a realization while I was watching munchies.
which was like, there's so many movies we've watched like this. I don't know. I don't remember them. Can you name four? No, I can't. I don't remember them because I have to remove them from my files. But I feel like the creatures in this time, late 80s, early 90s, they were always teenagers. The creatures were always like hormonal teen boys.
They were never female. Like, I don't remember any gremlin. I think you're forgetting about the lady gremlin. The? The sexy lady gremlin in Gremlins 2. Who wore lipstick. Yeah, you know because she has lipstick. But you're right. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. It's a Smurfette situation.
It is, and it's so interesting because they're always like hormonal teen boys who are looking at porn and eating junk food. And you would think the gremlins would be women because if you get them wet, they go crazy.
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Not to go too far down the rabbit hole of getting Gremlins wet, but I will say this. I respect Gremlins for having three rules clearly stated at the top of the film. This movie makes no rules. There's one, which I understand, which is don't cut them up.
Which is a dark rule. Not only are there no rules, but like gremlins, you get rules, but the gremlins don't talk. The mistake was the munchies are constantly learning speech and getting better and better at talking in a way that nobody then is like, how come the animal we got is talking? It now speaks English. It says pyramid language.
Clearly in the opening scene. I was like, how come they're not being like, did this fucking thing just say pyramid? It says adios immediately. First of all, let's go back. And I want to hit that moment you talked about earlier as if it's a play. Because they walk into this cave in Peru, Machu Picchu. And okay, the centerpiece of a small set is this giant Incan god.
Harvey Korman walks to the side walls. Ooh, ah. And then what is this? As if...
as if it was like a giant set that he did not see. And then the son says to a piece of cardboard, and it's made out of gold. It's like, we all have eyes. This is not a radio play. That is cardboard. That thing was in the center of the room that you, you didn't just stumble into it, but they are acting multiple times as if we can't see it. Yeah.
And then when they find the munchie, when they find the munchie, it's in the dark and you can't see it. For me, the first, my first, the thing that tells me very clearly this is something rare is that the munchie is wearing its own clothes.
The munchie is wearing clothes that have, like, a belt and, like, metallic pieces. And once again, nobody seems to think it's weird that the munchie speaks English, that the munchie is wearing munchie clothes. And then when the munchies split and then split and then split, they all wear clothes as well. They sure do. And so what...
Give me munchie rules, please. And they come out with personalities. When the munchie is split open, one of the munchies goes, oh, what did I drink last night? Yes, nothing. You were not last night. One of the munchies is French? When did we get a French munchie? Get the fuck out of America.
It's so hard because it does seem like one of the rules is that munchies have been existing on some plane that we don't know about. And they are not, I didn't get the sense that they had been born, but they had been resurrected. And so they have been on paws on ice. Well, they had literally been, I think, statues.
Oh. I think they had been statues, then exposure to something caused them to become... Somebody in the crowd is coming. There's a man in the crowd who's coming. Guys, please don't fuck during the show. I love your enthusiasm, but I worry for the people next to you. Is that it? Okay, so now I'm understanding this. No, I think you're right. Because that's what happens later is they get turned back into stone. No, but wait, hold on. But wait.
They can get turned into stone if they get electrocuted, which is a rule that we don't learn until it actually happens. And we're not even positive that that's a rule. It just happens. But what Jason's saying, though, is that once they're electrocuted and turned into stone, the reason... Now I'm understanding this. The reason why he smashes them is because if he doesn't...
They will come back at the very end of the movie when he gives the stone guy the stone version, the recently petrified munchie. They give it to the bearded museum curator. He's driving away in a pickup truck.
I don't think so. Lightning hits the back of the pickup truck and the munchie comes back to life. And you hear it go like, hey! See, I thought munchies would only come back to life, though, if they were sort of like regenerated, like a new piece of an old munchie. A new piece of an old munchie. Coming this fall on NBC. A new piece of an old munchie.
I thought that's when they came back to life. I didn't realize that lightning also brought them back. I want to be very clear. I don't think the movie is interested in interrogating the rules of munchies at all. But late in the movie, Paul does figure out that lightning or electricity petrifies the munchies. So my assumption is the same thing must have freed them. From a person maybe who really is a munchie expert. Are there any munchies?
munchie expert here? Unless you are Roger Corman, the producer or the director. Did something happen at the beginning of the movie that tied lightning to the munchies waking up? I believe that something in Machu Picchu is tied to that. The man who's coming is still coming. This gentleman is wearing a munchies shirt. Oh, wow.
Oh yeah, it is. What's your name? Tim. Tim, you are dressed as the dude. Oh yeah, oh, the dude, not the dude from Big Lebowski, but the dude from this movie. Yes, absolutely. Okay, so tell me what you know. So when I watched the trailer, there was a scene that was not in the movie where you see lightning strike the statue, and that's how the first Munchie comes to life. Why would they cut that?
I guess maybe because, well, no, it doesn't make sense. You know what? We need a director's cut of munchies? Here is my bigger issue. The father, Harvey Korman Prime, not the evil Harvey Korman. Evil Harvey Korman is essentially, did anybody else feel like evil Harvey Korman was Mike Lindell?
Yes, the MyPillow guy. I could not get that out of my mind. Both in look, entire ethos. I feel like Mike Lindell has built his entire character off of Harvey Korman's Cecil Waterman in this movie. But wait, I want to talk about this moment here. We were talking about these munchies. They find an alien.
And the father comes home and says, okay, well, I have to go to a lecture. Watch the munchie. Can I back up? Yeah. Wait, why wouldn't, I mean, it seems like, why would you go to a lecture? You've found an alien. Wouldn't your first priority be like, let me get the word out. Let me figure it out. And by the way, is it an alien? It could be a baseball glove with a mouth. Yeah.
I agree that nobody is really interested in the most interesting thing in the movie, the munchies, right? Paul and Cindy want to have sex. Harvey Korman's got to go to a thing. Cecil Waterman is only interested in his toxic waste food empire. Little Ed and Big Ed are just trying to do law enforcement. We haven't even touched on Melvis.
Give me a Melvis spinoff now. Melvis is MVP of the movie. I literally watched that and I was like, oh God, there are no roles like Melvis anymore. There aren't. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. When they do Lights Up in the Elevator and Melvis and Big Ed are making out. Best part of the movie. I was like, this movie's a home run.
There are so many things though that go on in this movie that we just accept. And I feel like, first of all, how does Cindy know that the munchies will enjoy a striptease? I think for Cindy because Cindy turns it on a number of times in the movie. Right.
With little Ed, like a number of times. So I feel like Cindy's just at a point where she's like, if I need something, I'm going to like strip tease. Who did she almost run away with? Was it like a impersonator in Hawaii? It was like,
Joe Montana impersonator. She almost married or ran away with a Joe Montana impersonator. This is the thing that I love so much about the movie. There are these references to people we never see. There's a reference to Duke's girlfriend, Denise. And they talk about her, the two women in the beach just playing with a tire. Yeah.
And a ball. A tire and a ball. So there was a game. They were like, do you want to go play tire ball at the swimming hole?
They are, I want to say, like 18 years old. And they're all at the golf course at the end. Every character from every scene. The 36-hole mini golf course. This movie is very special. It's very, very special. That scene alone, the tire scene where they're just floating around having a conversation. And they're in high school. They're in high school. They are 40-year-old women.
They discuss. Which is great. They discuss dude's girlfriend and they reference her. She's a woman named Denise who runs the salad bar. She's a salad bar manager at that restaurant. Beefland?
Western beefling. Western... I wrote that down too. Western beefling. And I... Once she was brought up, I was like, when are we going to see her? When are we going to see her? Like, I could not wait to meet this woman who runs the salad bar. They also so derisively described dude as a burnout Santa Cruz deadhead. Like...
What a savage takedown of dude. But we never meet Denise. And we go to Western Beefland, but she's not there. And I was just like, and that's the thing about that woman. What's her name? Melvis? Melvis? There are these characters, some who we never even get to lay our eyes upon, who are so rich.
Including many of the munchies. To just backtrack a moment to when you said, when Paul and Cindy are pinned down by the munchies outside the model home from Arrested Development that they appear to live in. Let's be clear. They appear to live in the model home from Arrested Development. Which is trying to be bought.
by Harvey Korman's brother because he needs more land to hide more toxic waste? I mean, but he has like acres and acres of land under the city. Which, when you get to the final battle, seems very empty. When, yes, oh yeah, when Cindy and
all are pinned down because the munchies have a shotgun and Cindy does the striptease, one of the munchies says, must be jelly because jam don't shake like that.
And do you remember... Who taught the munchies how to be creeps? Who taught the munchies how to be creeps? And can I take a class? I don't know. Jason. Ramon? I don't know. Do you not remember? No. This is what was said in my household. When? Must be jelly because jam don't shake like that. That was a... This isn't a podcast episode. No.
Our podcast? Yes. What episode? You guys, which one? Talking Cat. Why do you remember that? What is that? You weren't there for that. Honestly, this podcast is taking up too much space. You're all mom and dads on a night out. Remember your children, not the episodes that we talk about stuff from our childhoods. You idiots.
My stepfather had a little bit of a belly and my mom would rub his belly and go, must be jammed because jelly don't shake like that. And you were privy to that? Saw it happen all the time. You honestly should have been removed from that house.
And maybe this is word for word what I said the last time, but that is reason to call Child Protective Services. I don't think you should have had to hear that, know that, see that. I jumped out of my seat because you and Jessica told me that is not a thing that people say.
Well, I'm happy to be proven wrong, except I'm sad for you. This victory is heartbreaking for you. But I will say, maybe you're right, people don't say it, munchies do. Munchies are from another planet. Wait a minute, was your mom dating a munchie? Was it Arnold? They call him Arnold because of the pig from Green Acres. The movie has no original ideas at all.
I do want to talk about the Lynchian vibes in this film, which is the evil brother is always on TV. Incredible commercials. I have some commercials to take a look at here. I loved every one of them. Clip three. Let's take a look at some of these commercials. There must be over 60 brands of wine food around the market now, but there's only one original.
Cecil's all-natural wine cooler made out of wholesome California products. Cecil's is the real, real thing. The Valley's best steaks and crunchiest tater featuring the mile-long 700-item salad bar. This steak is so tender, it doesn't even taste like meat. I just love those tater tots. Yep, for beef so tender it melts in your mouth, it's Western Beefland. Four convenient Valley locations.
There's nowhere to go and nothing to do. Let's go break some windows at the junior high. I'm up for some vandalism, too. You see?
That's what happens when American youth doesn't have the proper recreational facilities. When they don't have a video arcade they can go into to develop the necessary hand-eye coordination that's so vital in the computer age. When they don't have a CalSnacks emporium to go into where they can get good, wholesome food so they can grow up to be big and strong. And why do those special interest groups oppose the solar bowl for their own selfish reasons? Okay, so stop it for right there. Here's my thought. That is Mike Lindell.
The movie begins as they drive into Sweetwater or Sweet Valley, whatever the community is. Is the community...
only like Ferris wheel or amusement park things because it seems like the entire community is a mini golf course and multiple food stands and he also controls all the televisions and has an elaborate system of listening in on all the houses. - Why does he need his brother's house? He has everything.
And you're right, the listening stuff is real Creep City. Here's my question. In that commercial about video games and arcades, are those two kids Paul and Dude?
When they were younger? I don't think so. I think these are modern, contemporary. Yeah. Okay, because they sure did look like pollen, dude. I thought it was your son's cousin, Sam. The movie, I will say, genuinely has a very anti-meat message.
Multiple characters are vegetarian, anti-red meat, anti-eating meat. I appreciated that part of it. Including Big Ed. The movie has a real... If there's a message to the movie, it's don't eat red meat. But our main character, our Paul, is so upset that his girlfriend's gone vegetarian that she's really explaining it to him. She's like, no, we can't
still go to other places. And he's like, well, maybe Filet-O-Fish. It's like, well, actually not there because that is fried and beef fat. Which felt like... Like, I'm like, wow, what is the... Why are we going down this rabbit hole? It felt like that was the movie telling the audience, you know, McDonald's Filet-O-Fish, fried and beef fat. I felt like that was them, like, trying to be like, no, red meat is bad and here's a strange place you might not know it is. But in a movie in which we are...
putting up vegetarianism, we are also brutally treating animals because the way that Mike Lindell... That fish tank is disgusting. So gross. It is green. It is so... So gross. And this is before any attacks. This is... He is overfeeding those fish. Oh, yeah. He is not cleaning that tank. And he's... When he... You are right, though, that this movie...
This movie is more interested in interrogating the mystery of red meat than the mystery of aliens. Or whatever they are. Or just talking animals. And I like that about it. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because Mike Lindell, Harvey Korman, is so much more upset by the death of his tropical fish than he is by his stepson, Dude.
And even Dude's stepmother? Because isn't it revealed that she adopted Dude from a previous relationship? If anyone knows how Dude was adopted and what the circumstances were, please raise your hand. I want to say... Because I could not... I've rewound that. I listened to it twice. I have a theory, but I want to say...
This movie is the music, the look, the poppy, the colors is fun. It's constantly telling you we're having fun, right? Dude's storyline is a tragedy. It is. If the movie was about dude, it would be heartbreaking.
He is adopted by Melvis when Melvis was with his father, who I believe has perished. I don't know that that's true. I thought he was adopted when Melvis' cousin abandoned or died. Okay, so that's it. Which actually endeared me more to Melvis because I don't think Melvis had a romantic relationship with dude's parents.
Yes. Yes, you're right. I don't think that Melvis is really in love with anybody, truly. I think she's in it for the money. Well, I have a question. If I'm Melvis, I'm like, why didn't you cast me in this commercial? Yeah. Cecil, there is a perfect part for her to eat that tater tot. Maybe she had to leave early that day.
on the 12-day shoot. I felt so bad for... I felt so bad for Dude, even though he, like, cuts a munchie, the first munchie, in half. But his life, he is just trying to listen to the dead. He's just trying to listen to the dead. But how? Let me ask you a question. How is he killed?
Oh, Paul. I believe he's killed when the munchies turn the volume on the stereo up so loud that he's listening to trucking, I think, and it kills him because the jam is so powerful. Is that right? These munchies are super violent, yet they just raise the volume. He could at any point take off the earphones.
But he is killed by loud noise. By volume. And like, the munchies should turn it up and he'd be like, all right. Like, he feels like, to me, the bus driver from The Simpsons.
The relationship between the father or the stepfather and the son is so violent. He punches him, kicks him in the balls, slaps him in the face. He almost strangles him to death.
And only because he likes the dead? He did ask for $500 for the weekend. Just for the weekend. While he hacky sacks alone indoors? As someone who went to Middlebury in the early 90s and has extensive experience with hacky sacking, it is strictly outdoors.
And with a group. I spent a lot of time as the movie progressed wondering, what happened to Dude's body? Was it... I also wondered that because I was like, when they're there and they're getting ready to... They're getting all physical, Mike Lindell and Melvis. They start to get all physical. I was like, is Dude's body still right there in the chair? 100%. And is that like juicing it a little? Yeah.
This is an era. There's so many movies like this. And Paul, earlier you ran them down. Critters. Critters. Ghoulies. Gremlins. Ghoulies. ALF on TV. There's so many movies that are like this, that have this whole thing. Cindy, from this movie, looked it up also in Critters. Yes. Also in Critters. By the way, Cindy was amazing. Cindy was electric. Amazing. Love Cindy. Harvey Korman, electric.
It's so good. I will just say that there's a couple things I want to talk to and then we'll get to the audience, but I would be remiss if we didn't just for a moment discuss the grandma.
The grandma in the car. Incredible. Does she have a grenade or did they have a grenade? The grandma... They have the shotgun still. And the grandma is fighting them as if we're in some sort of Mad Max world. Which I would love. I would love that. Grandmas versus munchies? Well, I had missed that it was the 4th of July, so when she started throwing fireworks at them, I was like, wow, this woman... They explode her car.
The Munchies are... The Munchies steal dude's car, which is a Gremlin? Yes. Right? It is a Gremlin, right? I believe the license plate says, Oh No Gizmo. Does it really? Incredible. Sure it is. Wow. So that's incredible. Oh Gizmo. So they steal a Gremlin. The Munchies...
proceed to joyride in this gremlin for, I'm going to say, 50 to 60 minutes of the movie. It's just them driving.
That's it. Them driving, creating havoc, and then the other 40 minutes are them just playing at a miniature golf course, not interacting with humans at all. I'll be honest. The humans in this movie are reprehensible in every single way. I side with the munchies. I think the munchies get it. I want to live a munchie life.
I don't want to be Paul or Cindy or Harvey Korman Prime or Mike Lindell Harvey Korman or Melvis or Big Ed or Little Ed. I want to be with the munchies cruising around getting girls bikini tops off. Here's the thing. At a certain point in the movie, I'm like, oh, the humans are the munchies. And what I mean by that. What do you mean by that? Hold on. What I mean by that.
is that the humans have been ingesting toxic waste. Yes. For, I don't know, a decade? How many years has he been in business? In myriad ways. Yes. As well as asbestos. Oh my God. So I was like, oh, I think maybe where we're headed is finding out that the munchies have more humanity and have more
I think they do. That humans are about to turn into aliens that we can't recognize. We are talking about creatures, if you've not seen the movie, that have... Stop the podcast now and watch it. That are the equivalent of, and maybe some of you will remember this or not, but like...
a little thing that you would put on the tip of your pencil that just has... They don't move. Munchies are on sticks. Their mouth doesn't move. Their eyes don't move. They are just being... This munchie here...
This Munchie on the poster that you have on the screen behind us, for those listening at home, is so much more realized and so much more... I have to say, Paul, I don't think that Munchie's from the movie. Is this Munchie from this movie? No, that is... I didn't see this Munchie at all. I never saw this Munchie. That is an artist's representation of a Munchie because every... This Munchie looks like the X-Man long shot.
I could not find a high-res image of a munchie because munchies are not ready for prime time. Munchies are truly mostly robed. And they are like Jawas with the head of Gonzo's rats from The Muppet Show.
Right? That's what they're like. It's like Gonzo's Rats from the Muppet Show, but with Jawa robes.
And they never move. We never see them move. They just jump up and down. I want to say before you jump out there, I found the quote because we were talking about dudes lineage before and I knew I wrote it down but I just found it. Mike Lindell Harvey Korman says, why'd you adopt that kid? And she says, I guess I felt sorry for him since he was so ugly and stupid. Yeah.
Justice for dude. This poor kid was doomed from the start. Paul has every opportunity afforded to him and is only rewarded with childlike sex and more opportunity. Give something to dude. All right, I'm going out to the crowd to see what people have. Be careful, Paul. Hi, how are you? What's your name? Madeline. Okay, and your question? Well, headmistress Raphael. Yes. Yes.
I would, first of all, like to know if these creatures that we see in these movies, they're horny teenagers innately or looking at a titty magazine is what makes them weaponize women's bodies. So it's such a great question because when...
When we're in Peru and we're first introduced to our first Munchie, I was like, oh, I like this guy. Arnold? Yeah, I like his little voice. And I was very endeared to him. And then, yeah, he became a man and
He gets cut in half first. And then when he gets cut in half... One of the first things that they do is put a pornography in front of him. Well, they give him candy first, like E.T. Right, then he throws it away and they go, oh, we got a litter bug.
Oh yeah. Hilarious joke. Then they take him on a 12 hour flight back to San Francisco. I feel like when he gets cut in half and suddenly is multiple munchies, that's when they're super creepy. Yes. But I do think that there's something said in Peru that seemed really important, but it happened super fast where the Paul's dad talks about how quickly munchies can learn.
And so I think that they are learning there. That's the reason why they speak Spanish in the beginning of the movie because of where they are. And then they are very quick learners. So I do think that one of the reasons why they become sexualized and so obsessed with boobs is because of what's happened with that magazine. But that's not a bad thing, right? No, it's devastating. Actually, it's devastating to me.
All right, your name and your question. Hi, my name's Maya. I wanted to discuss the fact that Big Ed was at a riot control convention and then came back with a massive gun. Is this movie ACAB? Is that like what we're supposed to take away from it? I mean, keep in mind, Little Ed says earlier, if she wasn't so cute, I'd mace her.
After a routine police stop where he's using his power to keep her under his thrall. It is very not cool at all, little Ed.
It's so funny because I didn't hear that about Big Ed and I missed it and I did wonder why he had that riot helmet on for most of the... He was just coming and he picked up the helmet, the gun, all of it came from the convention. I think some of it though was because he was bald.
Paul? I think that... Interesting. Say more, Paul. This is insight that only you can provide, Paul. I think, as a bald man, I can say that in 1987, times were unkind to the bald.
He felt like his masculinity might have been... He felt that way? He has so much testosterone. That's why he doesn't have hair. But yet... Wait, you're saying he doesn't have hair because he has too much testosterone? That's the truth. Look it up. He's so manly as to be... As to eschew the need for hair? That's the way it works. Anyway... Is it? That's true. I'm fucked. That is a scientific... Oh, God. Too much hair. So...
He was trying to keep himself very masculine with having that chrome dome because at one point when he does take it off, they make fun of him. Yeah, no, they do when he takes the chrome dome off. This is a sad story. This movie has a lot of sad stories. This is, like I said, a Lynchian tale of small town suburban America. Well, keep in mind, Harvey Korman Prime and Paul's Home...
Well, no, maybe I'm wrong. Sorry. Mike Lindell and Dude and Melvis' home has like a gun rack in the living room. That's right. I thought that was a pool cue rack that all sat on the other house. Here's what was in that room. A pool table?
A pool cue where there are... That came from like stamps of some sort. Yes, from a bunch of green stamps. I didn't know what that meant. Then there's also like a fondue maker and platter. Can we talk about where the munchies get into the kitchen? Beth, can you put that kitchen picture up? And one of the munchies goes, this is the ugliest kitchen I've ever seen. Again, I agree with the munchies.
But how do they know what a kitchen is? I think I'm Team Munchie. I've just been given a Robert Picardo ice cream helmet back here. I was just, I have it in my notes. I have it in my notes. Has anybody come with the ice cream cone hats? And you've gotten one. Great. Anybody else ice cream cone hats? Yes.
Where? Stand up if you're wearing an ice cream cone hat. There's one. Oh, there. There's two. Up there. Up there. Where else? Right there. Right there. Ice cream cone hat. Ice cream cone hat. Amazing. Yeah, you did it. You did it. Amazing. It's worth it. Mom and Dad's night out. We made ice cream hats.
By the way, the Ice Cream Cone family, I love them. Incredible. Little buddy Holly. But I will say this. Beth, the other slide here too. This movie is so janky that when they pull up to the realty sign, they clearly just tape. Oh, yeah. End clinic. End clinic.
I loved this. I was so upset we didn't get to go into the red coat realty and clinic because I wrote it in my notes thinking, here we go. And then when they get to the clinic, the next slide, the one that you just showed, you will see they just masking taped a little cross on the door, the one that we just saw before this. I mean, that car is sexy as hell. Yes, great.
It is, that is the clinic. I loved that the ice cream dad kept getting mauled by munchies and that part of his personal mythology is that he'd previously been mauled by a bear. What a fucking hero. I'm saying this movie gives backstories and narratives to the most unsuspecting characters.
I loved it. Everybody's got a story. You could make a spin-off of every character. The women from the lake who were cheerleaders. Cindy's own story. The munchies get their story. Denise. Everybody. We didn't even talk about the smaller people who worked at the French fry station. Yes.
Yes. I'd watch a whole movie about that. Of just the work conditions at Burger or whatever it was called. What's it called? And one of them seemed to be a child. Western Beefland? Beefland? Western Beefland. What?
Burger Land. It was called Burger Land. Wait a second. So Burger Land is not Western Beef? No. No, different. Western Beef Land is a restaurant. Burger Land is a side of the road burger shop. I mean, you all watched it, you idiots. This is crazy.
I am up here in the balcony. Wow, Paul, that was quick. What an amazing crew. Look at this crew. Be careful, Paul. Amazing. The DC balcony is absolutely dangerous. What do we got? We got so many. I want to talk to these three guys who are dressed in the Fry Guy costumes.
From the just aforementioned roadside burger stand. All right, so the three of you, four of you, okay. Welcome, hi. You're adult men. Please post pictures. All right, here we go. How you doing?
Great. How are you? I'm great. Great. Oh, boy. Wasted. Oh, boy. The balcony is wasted. This is my first time here. This guy has never seen the show before. Never seen the show before. Have you heard the show before? No. Wow. And yet he is in full costume. This is a hero, DC. Did you see the movie? He has not seen the movie. He's not seen the movie. Why are you laughing?
He was abducted by friends, put into a costume, brought to this show, and is in the balcony, of course. And is so confused about what's happening. Does anyone... I'm confused as well, too. Great. Oh, boy. Anyone have a question of these Fry Guys? I have one. All right, great. What's that smell?
Dookie from... Holy shit. DC, it's Sunday night. You guys have to work and run the country tomorrow. What the fuck are you up to? Get it together. The balcony is full of monsters with 40s taped to their hands. Respect yourselves.
I am back with someone from the Discord who had an interesting point. How do you know? What is Discord? What is Discord? I think Discord is people who are at odds with each other. Is that what it is? Well, the Discord has a lot of different people, but this person that we'll be introducing has a very special greeting for Jason.
fellow hunter. Are you kidding? I am not. My family started the tides. Fuck you. Yeah. Well done. Oh, wow. This is wild. Do I know you? You're about 10, 15 years older than me. Okay, be cool.
Okay, be cool, guy. 10 to 15? Just because I'm 50 and you're in the balcony doesn't mean you can condescend to me. You think you're fucking better than me? You think you're fucking better than me? I'll fucking kick your ass. I'll meet you at fucking Short Beach and I'll fucking beat your ass, dude. All right, so this gentleman...
has not only a question, brought with him an expert to help us unpack his question. I hope it's a munchie. So Cecil talks about how he would have had to bribe NASA for an endorsement. Now, I don't believe NASA does endorsements, but my colleague here is a space lawyer, and he can speak to that. Space lawyer! Oh, shit. All right. Man, man.
Is that your official title? Space lawyer? Space law counsel. Holy shit! That's right! That's right! People from Nahant hang out with space lawyers. Alright, so the question stands. Will NASA take bribes? Now, I'm not counsel for NASA, so I can't speak on behalf of NASA. But as I understand, they do not do endorsements.
NASA does not do endorsements. Can I ask, just out of curiosity, what is the most interesting space case you've had? I can't talk about clients, sorry. Whoa! Wow. Wait, let me ask you this. Have you ever represented anyone who was attacked by a munchie, a space creature, or not? I don't know. Has there ever been any munchies in court? Well...
They're not alive anymore, so I can't talk about them. Is there anything, is there anything, again, cut this from the podcast. Nobody's going to talk about it. Is there any space specific that you have knowledge of that you can share with us? Don't blow it.
No. No? His friend has advised him no. Whoa! Now, I have a friend who's here. I'm not going to blow up his spot unless he wants me to. All right, here we go. All right, you have more? So, go out on top. Now the Nahant guy wants to talk more? Classic Nahant. All right, so my question is about the business of his bribing the USSR.
So he says the Soviets endorsed it because I cut them in for a percentage. How is that not more expensive and more illegal than bribing NASA? Good question. Unclear. You would need a space lawyer to answer it, except this asshole's real tight-lipped. Next time...
Hang up with gossipy space lawyers. Yeah, you brought him up there. He gave us nothing. You know? You're going to give me a space lawyer? This guy better fucking show up with details. He better be like, I know where the munchies are buried. All right, what do you got? Okay, so towards the end of the movie, in the factory, we see a shot that has graffiti in the background that says, Stop Apartheid. Yes.
I wrote this in my list of things that were from my high school experience. Go ahead. Okay, my question is, based on your assessment of their behavior throughout the movie, are the Munchies against apartheid and did they write that? Wow, now that is a question. That would be incredible. I feel like, yes, give it up for this hero.
I do feel like the munchies are the only people, are the only beings in the movie that understand the truth. So yes, I believe. Again, the munchies have more humanity than the humans in this movie. Yes, I agree. Full stop. I will also say though, the munchies do refer to Harvey Korman as a honky. That's true. So what are, this, this opens up, I don't know. I wish I knew.
All right, so obviously we had opinions about this film, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions. Naughty little munchies blowing up old ladies' cars. Running online to give this movie five stars. Don't you know how it goes when you give a munchie a porno? Whatever you do, don't go and chop them up. Ooh, chop, chop, chop. Ooh, chop, chop, chop.
- Yes! - Joni! - What are your names? - Jocelyn and Owen. - Jocelyn and Owen! With a Joni Mitchell song. - Let me just tell you, Jocelyn and Owen killed it. Costumes, check. Duo, check. Hit that moment, got out. - Got out. And their song choice was based on Joni Mitchell, "Home Run."
Alright, our final one. Our Fry Guy. He's wearing fries that say BM. Well, that's from the movie. Balcony Monsters. Not bowel movement. Also, a tank top that says Dookie. That's right. No holds barred. And a headband. Let's do this. That's how I'm keeping cool, man. This could go
Like one of two ways. And I will say this. I'm excited for either outcome. By the way, I'll say this. I'll say this, DC. Every single person has crushed. This is going to be the icing on the cake. Get ready, my guy.
- Turn that microphone up so it gets you. There you go, yeah, push it up. - We're here, hold on. - All right, here we go. - Give me a second to breathe here, hold on. - All right, take your time, take your time. - Take your time. You need to do any vocal warmups? - You ready to tell me how you-- - All right. - Do you wanna do a theater vocal warmup? - No, no, no. - A silk slip stop. - Go for it, man, I'm good. - Let's run another show on tour. - And now it's time for second. - I've got a pocket, got a pocket full of french fries. I've got a second opinion that's all mine, oh.
You should walk away now. I'll be honest. You should walk away now. You want to keep going? Okay. You want to gamble? You want to let it roll? Let's see what you got, my guy. Hold on, hold on, hold on. All right, all right. Try as you might and you're never going to screw me. Cut me in half and now you got two me's all.
Okay. Okay. Pretty good. Keep going. Keep going. Let's see what you got. You don't have to stop between each verse to check in with us. You can't hear me. You can't hear me. 30 minutes later. You're on the microphone. We can hear it. Let's finish this. I'm bringing it home. All right. We're done. We're done. Some toxic waste makes cow snacks taste good on plate. Some toxic waste.
Some toxic waste Down in the caves Some toxic waste Munchies are great Thank you. What's your name? Pretty good. We didn't need the chorus. We didn't need the chorus. Get out of here. I loved it. Escort that man from the building.
Holy cow, DC. DC, wow. Great job. We're still going to get you home in time to relieve the nanny. Here we go. These are five... Incredible stuff. All right, here we go. There are 144 reviews of Munchies on Amazon. 56% are five-star reviews.
Aaron Smith from the UK in 2019 titles his review, If You Like It Growing Up, You'll Like It, and writes this, I watched this as a kid and it was amazing. For years I've been trying to find it but no luck until it was on Amazon. It's in Spanish but you can change it to English.
It was done in the 80s, so if you've never watched it growing up, you might not like it. It's the something as like Gremlins and Critters, but cheaper. Five stars. This one written by Drew Campbell says this. Support women directors. Five stars. And then, I didn't see this until right now, and I love it.
Michael Margettis writes this. It's like a really weird play. Five stars. Agree. I agree. Mount this as a stage production.
Munchies on stage. Now here's a couple things that are interesting about munchies. Budget, unknown. When you Google munchies and budget, you get advertisements for the 420 Carl's Jr. snack sack. Because it's when you have the munchies but are on a budget? I guess so.
And Molly Reynolds, our super producer, Molly Reynolds writes, opening weekend, unknowable. Domestic gross, who knows? Now, Jason, to answer your question, Munchies 1987 has no connection to Munchie 1992. Which I think we have to do. Yes. Next time we're in D.C., we're doing Munchie. I'm calling it now. This guy is freaking out.
Oh, it does. He says they are related. Okay. It's, it says in this in name only sequel to munchies, a new kid in town, Gabe Dodgson can't find his place in the new environment. Despite having such a cool name, the kids at school bully him and the girl he likes and his mom is about to marry is a scoundrel. Everything changes for gauge. When he stumbles into a munchie, a friendly gremlin like creature that dresses like a lounge singer and Stan,
and sounds like a stand-up comedian and has magic powers. Ooh, I wonder if it's Paul having been turned into a munchie. Have you seen it? In the trailer for Munchie, it says... All right, so this gentleman says, in the trailer for Munchie, it said, if you like the movie Munchies...
Well, this seems like a kid's movie. What a crazy tagline. Yeah, because that really isn't related. It's just like, hey, if you like that movie, here's another movie. Yeah, with a similar title. It's unrelated entirely, but if you like that, you might like this. I don't know. Here's what I'll say. If you like...
I will say this about this movie, whether or not I recommend it. I kind of do recommend it. It's insane. But I also felt like it was full of missed opportunities. I wanted more. Are they violent? Are they mean? Or do they just want to do some cosplay? Because they really feel like they're more content playing pirates on a mini golf course than killing or attacking people. Munchies just want to have fun. Yeah.
At one point, the munchies say something that I was like, munchies, I get it. They go to the video store and they say, I want to see a naked woman. And I was like, these munchies just want to hang out. I believe munchies are just stoned people. They just want to watch movies, eat food, mess around, joyride in a gremlin. They're just hanging out. And I will say this about the munchies.
There is something really chaste about this film. Like, it is a little perverted. They are a little weird. But there's no nudity. And I was surprised at the restraint. It's a PG movie. Oh, yeah. So this is for kids. There's almost no cursing either. No. There's very little, like... I'm surprised. I didn't... That was not my experience watching this movie. I thought for sure at one point I was like, I think I'm listening and watching a munchie jerk off.
It felt to me very perverted. Do munchies have dicks? They seem like- No? DC, you're not into that? After second opinion songs, you don't want to think about munchie dicks? I think that munchies probably are into dry humping. Munchies are into petting.
I don't know. I did not like when the munchies were at the golf course and looking at, you know, those girls, the tube girls bend over in, you know, full coverage briefs. One of the munchies... Always full coverage undies in the 80s. One of the munchies floats away on balloons.
The munchies are just messing around. I mean, Paul, I would not show this movie to our children. I will say one of our children was watching over my shoulder. Was it one of your children or was it a munchie? And he started laughing so hard at what those munchies were getting up to. I mean, and he wasn't even listening to the sound. He was like...
We really, we never find out what the munchies want. Like, what is their goal? They want to live. They want to live. They just want to multiply and just keep, because that seems to be, when they're in the tunnel at the end, they seem to be purposefully getting themselves chopped in half so they can regenerate. They just want to keep on trucking. They, oh. They do. Well, then let me just. They do. So good. That's true. Just want to keep on trucking.
Then let me ask one final question. No, it's the end of the tour. We've got to do at least an hour more. Am I right? Am I right in saying the munchies only kill one person and that is the person who's a stoner, which would be their biggest enemy because...
They hate what they see because they are him? I feel like, dude, I feel like dude should have been in league with the munchies. Yes! They seem to have... Paul should have been dude. For me, it seems antithetical that dude, a stoner, Santa Cruz deadhead, would shoot anything with a shotgun. Immediately, his first reaction is, must kill this violently, but
People who hurt people, or people who are hurt, hurt people? I don't know, there's something there. Hurt people, hurt people? Hurt people, hurt people. Melvis, I did write Melvis when they're in, Michael Lindell, Harvey Korman, appears to drive an ice cream truck everywhere he goes, and when he picks up Melvis, she's reading a tabloid with gremlins on the back.
She's like reading a... I know, what was that? I couldn't make heads or tails out of the movie's meta moments. The thing that I'm most disturbed by, I have to share with our audience, is that we were on a train from Philadelphia to D.C. last night, and Paul and I both had our computers open, and I knew he had started to watch the movie, and I was pretending to watch the movie, but I wasn't ready to. And Paul passed me a few times, then we got to the hotel, my computer was out again...
And I knew he thought I was watching the movie. And then this morning he said, because again, he had passed by my screen a few times. And this morning he said, wow, you were really up late finishing the movie. And I was like, I didn't watch it. And he said, no, I saw the movie on your computer. And I said, no, that wasn't the movie. And then he said, what was it? I said, The Real Housewives of Orange County. Yeah.
Wait, of which? Which one? Orange County. Orange County. To be fair, a lot of them look like munchies. Well, that's what I... You really did catch a number of glimpses of my computer screen last night. And they were always in the water on a lake. And I was like, oh, that's... I clearly haven't watched up to the point. They went on a girl's trip to Montana this season. So... Just them and a couple of munchies and a ball and a tire. I don't like... I don't like... I love that both of us are trying to do the same joke right now. Go ahead.
I don't have it. Go for it. I'm dating a munchie. I was going to do the turn to camera like, I like to eat garbage out of the fridge. Does it make me a bad munchie? I don't like that Janice brought a munchie to this weekend. Hey, cool out. Would you both recommend the film? Yes. 100%.
Should we make the sequel? Yes, I have never, I had never heard of this movie before. I had never seen it in a VHS store. I was stunned at what I was watching.
I was shocked that we haven't done it before. This seems to me to be like everything I want in a movie. I know. There are times with this podcast where I'm like, well, surely like we'll wrap it up. You know, we'll wrap up the podcast. We've done it. Yes. It's over. It's over. We did it. We've overstayed our welcome. We did it. And it was great that time. And then I see something like this and I'm like, wow, there's more work to do, huh? We have it.
Before we go, we need to decide on a shirt. I mean, there's been so many different things we've said tonight that could be great for a shirt. I don't even know where to begin, honestly. I feel like the dude is... These guys are freaking out right now. They've got a good one. What do you got? Oh. Okay. I like this. How about Harvey Korman holding a munchie like a MyPillow and it says, MyMunchie.
Does it say my munchie or my munchie pillow? No, my munchie. My munchie. My munchie. That's pretty good. We like that? Okay. Thank you so much. On the last show, our merch is out of the way. Thank you for coming. We will be back. Don't shop a munchie. Eat shit, DC.
Thank you so much to the staff of the Warner Theater, our amazing tour manager, Beth Thomas, and everyone in the audience who made it possible. What a great show. We love being out on the road. D.C. is such a fun town. If you want to keep the show going,
the magic of munchies with you. Well, you can check out this shirt that we designed live with the audience that night. It is, well, I mean, my pillow, but with Harvey Korman. I can't really describe this shirt. It's just amazing. It's my munchie, the shirt. You can get a sticker, a laptop case, whatever you want. Just go to tpublic.com slash stores slash hdtgm. And if you're in the buying mood, make sure you check out our ugly munchies.
holiday how did this get made sweaters they're on pod swag if you go to podswag.com bonkers you can get 30 off any of the amazing ones and we were giving these away
on our last tour, Geostorm, Team Fred, Team Sanity. I'd rather have no dad than a snow dad or snow dad, but no dad, whatever it is, you can get it. Just go to podswag.com slash bonkers. By the way, people, I'm going to be in a brand new holiday movie. It's called Family Switch. It's on Netflix. Me, Jennifer Garner, and
Ed Helms. So many good people. Check it out. I think you will like it. It's a Switch movie, and it's a Christmas movie. And, by the way, just a heads up, we are taking Last Looks off for Thanksgiving, but don't fret. In its place, we will be re-releasing our favorite episode of all time. That's right, the Nick Cage, John Travolta action classic Face Off. If you want to find out what our next movie is going to be after that, make sure you tune into that Face Off re-release, because I will announce our next movie at the top
of that episode. And don't worry, we will still be covering munchies on a future supersized last looks episode. So don't forget to send us your corrections and omissions or leave us a voicemail at 619-P-A-U-L-A-S-K. That's 619-Paul-Ask. Or just keep on writing your comments in our Discord at discord.gg slash HDTGM. Remember, you can find us everywhere online. If you love the show,
tell your friends. It really does help. I mean, that really is the best way to promote the podcast. Word of mouth. Plus, it's more fun when you can watch these movies with people you know. And last but not least, I gotta say thank you to all the listeners who support this show every week and our entire behind-the-scenes team who keep this show running. I'm talking about our producers, Scott Sonney, Molly Reynolds,
Averill Halle, our engineers, Casey Holford and Rich Garcia, and our associate producer, Jess Cisneros, who makes those amazing social media videos. That's all I got, people. Bye for now. Averill Halle.