Muppets From Space

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Hurry, hurry, hurry down to Paramegia Theater.
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Gather round as four friends share, rewatch,
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and possibly ruin favorite films from their childhoods.
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Be sure to come early and get a good parking
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spot because there's always a good show at the
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driveway. Now that'll be $5 a ticket, please.
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Buckle up, listeners, because we're blasting
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off on this episode. I'm here at the theater
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with my nearest and dearest found family, Anna.
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Hello. Riley. Heyo. And Tam. Hi, hi. And I'm
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about to pull a little switch up on everybody.
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Ooh. So, listeners, after we stopped recording
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last session, I had said I was going to bring
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World. However, I looked
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it up and the runtime was three and a half hours.
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My God. It's so long. It's so long. I had said
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it had an intermission, but I didn't remember
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it being that long. So, yeah, I'm going to table
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that one for now. And I'm going to do my best
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to redeem myself from last episode's rating.
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So today at Paramnesia Theater, we are watching
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Muppets from Space. Back to back Muppets. Yes.
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I'm glad you're continuing the Muppet trend right
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now. I feel bad that I didn't really like Muppets
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Take Manhattan that much. And I wanted to try
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to redeem it. And I'm real excited to watch this
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movie because I haven't seen it since it was
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in theaters. I also saw it with you in theaters,
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and that was the last time I saw it. Yes. In
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July of 1999, we saw that movie. Good Lord. My
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brother and her sister were like, let's go to
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the movies. Oh, no. Was it your sister? Yeah,
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it was. Okay. Oh, Anna's sister. My sister. Not
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your sister. That'd be weird. No, no, no. You
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said your brother. My brother. And her sister.
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Uh -huh. I was like, whose sister are we talking
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about? Your brother's sister would be you. I
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was also there. Yes, our siblings were best friends,
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which is why we're best friends now. Gotcha.
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Yes. The only reason. Oh, so this is a big nostalgia
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movie for me and I'm assuming you, Anna. Yeah.
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Yeah. This is where we find out where Gonzo comes
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from. I know. And I'm excited. And that's like
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the biggest spoiler. But I think everyone here
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knows the big spoiler. I mean, I just know that
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he's. Which, if I'm being honest, was pretty
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apparent almost forever. Because he's not a frog
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or a pig. Well, there are other aliens as well.
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I don't think so. There's like monsters. Yeah.
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But I don't think there's another alien. Alien
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Muppet? Yeah, I think Gonzo's the only one. Huh.
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So I didn't look too much into the actual synopsis
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of the story because I didn't want to spoil anything
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for myself because I have such little memories
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of it. But I did look up some other things like
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that. This has a much more reasonable hour and
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27 minute runtime. OK. Yeah. So that feels good.
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Had a budget of 24 million. OK. It only grossed
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22 .3. Oh, wow. Unfortunately, this underperformance.
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led to it being the last theatrical Muppet film
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produced by the Jim Henson Company before they
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sold to Disney in 2004. That's depressing. That
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is really depressing. So this is our last real
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Muppet movie, chronologically speaking. With
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Jim Henson being involved. Well, yeah, his company.
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Right. Frank Oz is in this one. I found conflicting
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things. Most things said that the director was
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Tim Hill. One thing did say that Frank Oz was
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the director, but I don't think that that's true.
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So who knows? He was involved in some capacity.
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He was involved. He plays his typical Kermit
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and I think Miss Piggy and a bunch of other voices.
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I feel like we've had other movies that we would,
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you know, in the intro we read who the director
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is. And the writers were. And then when the actual
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like crawl came on, it was like, oh, these are
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entirely different people. Yeah. So maybe we'll
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we'll figure that out when we hit play. Yeah.
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The only thing I can find that the director is
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known for is he is a writer in SpongeBob for
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like all of SpongeBob. Oh, interesting. So which
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I would lead me to believe that it's a really
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good movie, but its ratings are not great. I
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feel like SpongeBob writer is the perfect. person
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to work on a muppet gonzo centric yeah movie
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yeah it's just a shame that it only has a 6 .3
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on imdb and a 53 meta score and a 61 on rotten
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tomatoes and worse a 58 on the popcorn meter
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well we're gonna make our own decision about
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how good this muppet movie is yeah definitely
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it's like the 6 .3 doesn't bother me that much
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because we hit a lot kind in the six range um
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So I don't know. I mean, we'll see. Yeah. I think
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we're going to have a great time. I think we're
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going to have much better ratings than this.
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I feel like I remember there being some sort
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of desert scene where Gonzo's like alone in the
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desert. Oh, that's sad. I want to see if that's
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true. I feel like Gonzo has some sort of existential
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crisis. I think it's really sad for a bit. Yeah.
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I do remember it being sad. And I think it's
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because he finds out that his family's aliens
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and he can't. get to them or he doesn't know
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who they are i wonder if it's like an allegory
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for adoption or something something like that
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yeah like an abandoned child yeah with that so
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not to be a downer but uh yeah that happens tim
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looks like he's got a fact that he wants to drop
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drop it do you guys know there's a movie called
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the great muppet caper yeah no cool So are you
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doing that one next, Riley? Not this time. It's
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not one that I'm intimately familiar with. I've
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never even heard of it. It opens with the most
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epic multi -Muppet bike ride. I was about to
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say, I just saw a quick scene of bicycles, and
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I was like, Riley is going to be so down for
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this. It is the opening scene. They have a lot
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of Muppets on bikes because it's a pretty big
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puppeteering marvel, actually, to have a Muppet.
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or a puppet on the bike, which is why it happens
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so often, especially with Kermit, because they
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were so fascinated that they were able to pull
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it off. They were like, we need to do this any
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time we fucking can. Didn't we see a Muppet on
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a bike the last movie? Yeah, Miss Piggy. Oh,
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she was on Rollerblades. No, she was on Rollerblades.
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No, that was entirely different. Somebody, yeah,
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was on a bike. Was it Kermit? I think it was
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that nerdy guy. Scooter. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Riding
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into the distance during the goodbye song. But
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Kermit is featured on a bike in Emmett Otter's
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Jug Band Christmas, where it's mostly about,
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you know, not the traditional Muppets at all.
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He rides a bike. He runs into a post, a signpost,
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because he's like looking at the camera and talking.
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And then he runs into a sign and he's like, and
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he flops all around with his little frog body.
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That's like a really cute movie. Yeah. It pisses
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me off. I mean, I know it's, I love the movie.
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But it's like that, I don't know, you'll probably
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know. It's like Gift of the Magi. Right. So his
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mom's like, oh, my God, Emmett deserves this
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Christmas gift. And he's like, oh, my God, I
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got to do this so that I can get my mom what
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she wants for Christmas. And then it just totally
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ruined their lives. It's not like, oh, I got
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him a pocket watch string. It's, oh, my mom's
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a, she does laundry for people in her laundry
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bin. I'm going to drill a hole in the laundry
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bin. And hopefully we win. Hopefully we win so
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I don't ruin my mom's whole life. They don't
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win. Spoilers. It's all right. You'll forget
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by the time I bring it for next Christmas. Hell
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yeah. Did you bring any snacks? I did. I don't
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know what time it is for our listeners out there,
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but for us, it's a pretty good brunch time. So
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I have a raspberry cheese danish. All right.
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A little sweet, a little savory. Feels good time.
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Good movie to have a Danish with. So has there
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been a Muppet movie? Oh, yeah, there's been one
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with Jason Seagal. Yes, Jason Seagal. Seagal.
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It's called The Muppets. Seagal. I think it's
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Seagal. I think it's Seagal. Seagal. Jason Seagal.
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Jason Flock of Seagals. Is that the only one
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that's come out after this? There's one with
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Tina Fey from 2014, Muppets Most Wanted. That
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one's pretty good, too. Oh, okay. I forget there's
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the bad guy in that is like super famous. Conan
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O 'Brien. It's not like Mads Mikkelsen or something.
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You don't know who Mads Mikkelsen is. You're
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right, I don't. Ty Burrell or Ricky Gervais.
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Ty Burrell, he's from Modern Family. That's Phil.
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Ah, and Ricky Gervais. Yeah, I mean those are
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the... Those are the bad guys. Yeah, I remember
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now. Maybe, I don't know. There's only three
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humans on the front. I assume one of them is
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the bad guy. That one was good. And then I think
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there was another one after that. But maybe that's
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the new show that they brought back that I'm
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thinking of. I saw a couple episodes of the Muppet
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original show from the 70s. No, it was 2010s
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maybe. Oh. And now they're doing another season
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of it, I guess, which is really cool. I liked
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it. It was like they're in a TV production. Yeah,
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we watched it. The Muppet show. Who was the guest?
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Sabrina Carpenter was the new one. I vaguely
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know who she is. She sings. I'm very out of touch.
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That's okay. There's the Muppets do Wizard of
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Oz. Dope. That's a 5 .2. They need to do more
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literary. 2005. That must have been right after
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they, oh, that was. That was the first movie
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they put out after, I would imagine, after buying
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the Jim Henson. Oh, yeah, that does make sense.
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2004, Disney bought it. Right, 2005, they come
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out with this, and then it seems like they've
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really just tried to stick to original Muppets
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ideas and not redo things. Good. I assume it
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was the idea of Muppet Treasure Island, so they
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thought it would be a good idea, but you can't
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redo that movie. Oh, my God. No way. That and
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Dickens' Christmas. Oh, yeah. That one slapped,
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but that one, if you read into the history of
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that one, is really pretty depressing because
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Jim Henson died. right before that one it's the
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first muppets that doesn't have jim henson actually
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in it and so they changed a lot pre -production
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um because a lot of the muppeteers were very
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depressed about it and like it really shows through
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in people's performances and um not in a bad
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way like they really you know did a lot to to
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pay homage to it and it's really interesting
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to look at all the things that that changed in
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the people and how they worked on it Interesting
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to look into sometime. But not this day. No.
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We're going to space. We're going to space. Rocket
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man. Do you think we'll see Uranus? We'll see.
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Is Rizzo in it? Probably. I can't imagine a lot
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of Gonzo without Rizzo. Yeah. That's his buddy.
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I hope. You know, I'm a big Rizzo fan. And Pepe.
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Yes. I thought Gonzo was the one that always
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hung out with the chickens. Oh, right. Who hangs
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out with the rat? Gonzo. Gonzo and Rizzo are
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best friends. Gonzo and the chickens are love
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interests. They're a polycule. Yeah. I don't
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know. He's Mormon. A harem of hens. There's one
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of them that he's like married to or a girlfriend
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of. Camille or Camilla. Yeah. And the rest are
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just there. Them his ladies. Yep. Maybe we'll
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find out why he likes chickens so much. Ooh,
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I would love to know. Show starts in one minute.
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So we should go get our seats. We're happy to
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have you with us this evening and want you to
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enjoy every minute of your stay here. And while
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you relax and stretch, visit our concession where
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you'll find something to please you. There are
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ice cold drinks, delicious sandwiches, ice cream.
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coffee and snacks, and many other pleasing treats.
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Our foods are fresh and tasty, our drinks satisfying
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and refreshing. And we're back from outer space.
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What did everyone think? It was a really great
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trip. It was. Wait, you guys went to outer space?
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Well, somebody did. I was on Earth the whole
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time. Oh. I thought we never went to space. At
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one point, I realized that's why the movie is
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called Muppets from Space and not Muppets in
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Space. It does make more sense. All these years,
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I thought it was called Muppets in Space, and
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I thought I remember a part where they're like,
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the Muppets blast off in a spaceship and do go
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to space, but that didn't happen. It's probably
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the Gonzo falling back to Earth scene. Maybe,
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yeah. That's the only scene that I recognized
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from this whole movie. Yeah, I didn't recognize
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anything. That was really surprising when he
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got lightning bolted and then was just in space
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doing the backstroke and talking to cosmic fish.
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Love the cosmic fish. That was fun. They are
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fun. They were full of wisdom. The whole movie
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was fun for me, actually. I settled right in
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almost immediately because the opening scene
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was fun and then the whole rest of the movie
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was as well. Yeah, the opening scene really set
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the pace for don't look away from the TV for
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a second or you're going to miss a bunch of cool
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shit. It was awesome. Yeah, the dream sequence
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with Noah's Ark and him being the only one of
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his kind. And he's like, yeah, you're not getting
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on this. You're doomed. When he handed him the
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umbrella, though, that was great. You're going
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to need this. That was happening and I was like,
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this is either a dream sequence or the craziest
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origin story ever. He's just been wandering Earth
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for thousands of years and then found the rest
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of these people. The Muppets are an ancient race
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that have always been on Earth. Just Gonzo. Just
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Gonzo. He's lived the lives of a thousand men.
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You look like you want to say something. I do,
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but I don't know what. I was just glad to see
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all the Muppets living in a house together. It
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seems like that's probably the most likely scenario,
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especially after watching how close they were
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in the last movie. Muppets take Manhattan and
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they all kind of live in the, in the lockers
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together and stuff. And they, they seem so tight
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knit that in that movie, when they all went separate
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ways, I was like, what are they going to do?
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They're all going to be so sad, not living together.
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So to see them many years later, reunited and
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cohabitating somehow in a house with one bathroom
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was very fun. I really enjoyed it too. And I
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realized that the theme throughout all of the
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Muppet stuff is Kermit just wants to help his
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friends and make them feel better. And that is
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the sweetest thing. I am very curious to watch
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a Disney one and see if there is that same thread.
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Because I just don't think they hold on to that
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as much. I wouldn't think they would hold on
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to it as much. It seems really like Jim Henson's
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life project is to spread that vibe. And I think
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Disney's more like, it's the Muppets. Everyone
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wants to watch them. It's the nostalgia. Yeah,
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I think Disney's probably like, oh, it's money.
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We could make some money here. Yeah. I think...
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Now that Disney owns it, though, it becomes a
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lot of different celebrities' passion projects
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because Jason Segel really wanted to make a Muppets
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movie and he was the one that pushed for that.
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And then I feel like the new version was something
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similar. Oh, Seth Rogen. Yeah. He was the one
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that really pushed for the new series. And produced
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the new Muppet show episode that came out. So
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I do like that you're now getting different variations
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of how people perceive the Muppets and how they
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want to show off what the Muppets are up to.
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Yeah, I would prefer if it was, you know, actor
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led than Disney's cash grab. Yeah, I do feel
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like it mostly is because I've seen the new Muppets
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one. Yeah, I haven't. I will say the Wizard of
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Oz one looked terrible and I will not watch that
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one. Yeah, that looked strange. I feel like this
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movie is like the quintessential Muppet movie.
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Like we see them in their element in this movie
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a lot, especially with the house and how like
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everything's. There's specific areas for specific
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Muppets, and they all cohabit, and then they're
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dealing with this really big issue of Gonzo's
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identity crisis. It's just perfect. And they're
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all so concerned. They don't believe him, and
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he's right, but still, they're all so concerned
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about his mental health that they're like, oh,
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we should really do something about this. And
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I think that's cool, too. They support him the
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whole time. They're like, all right, let's go
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to the beach. Even though we do not believe you,
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we'll go. If you ever get the chance to have
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a friend like Kermit, you make friends with that
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person. Because he was skeptical all up until
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he was like, you know what? This is our friend.
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Fuck it. We're going to the beach. Yeah, it's
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not hurting anything. Yeah. Just try it. He's
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a good guy. I did very much like in this one
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how big of a spotlight Pepe the Prawn got. Yeah.
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He's one of my favorite Muppets, especially New
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Age Muppets. And I was very happy with how much
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screen time that little king prawn got. Him and
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Rizzo got a lot of screen time together. Yeah.
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And that was cool. They're fantastic together,
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quite frankly. Yeah, I thought the prawn really
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brought a lot. If he hadn't been there, it definitely
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would have been a different movie. Yeah. He was
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a lot of fun. One of my delicious dialogue was,
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I'm not a shrimp. I'm a king prawn. Love him.
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Love his confidence. He is fantastic. I like
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the door in the jar or whatever the hell that
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was. A lot of great D &D items in this movie.
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Yeah, there really were. The door in the jar,
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when they throw it at the wall, it looks a little
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wonky, I'll say. It looked worse than the spaceship
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did. When I saw that, I was like, oh, the spaceship's
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probably not going to look that great. But you
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made a comment that a big part of the budget
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probably went towards that spaceship, Tim. I'd
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have to agree because that spaceship looked 100
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times better than that door jelly. But they also
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did a really good job on the invisibility stuff
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and having just Fozzie's hands there. Like, really
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good job. Yes, the rubber ducky invisibility
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spray. So good. Very good. Miss Piggy's spray
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that she had to make people like her. yeah the
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mind control spray yeah that was good i really
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enjoyed the 007 ask montage they did to get all
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the uh special gear and shit like that was a
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lot of fun just you know because i love 007 too
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so i liked when uh kermit was like all right
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we're gonna go save our friend and then they
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all pulled things out of their pockets and like
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king prawn had jello he wiggles it just a little
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yeah it's so weird and then he's like oh no we
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have to go downstairs They got the good stuff.
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There were a lot of celebrities in this movie.
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Yes, I had looked that up and I was like, you
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know what? I'm going to let everyone go along
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for the ride and discover them. Ray Liotta was
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one of my favorites. Oh, man. Killed it. What
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a performance. Yes, he was a lot of fun. Rob
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Schneider did a great job. David Arquette was
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like, you don't often see him in that. slightly
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deranged kind of asshole character he's usually
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like kind of a nice guy uh really fun with him
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and all the the lab rats i thought it was fun
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because he easily could have been like trying
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to be funny but it really felt like he was like
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my character is just to be this complete insane
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lab guy and i'm just gonna full send it and not
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like the jokes will land i'm just gonna be this
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crazy character like he really man that was that
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was fun to watch he really seemed deranged yeah
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he he did a good job and i feel like when you're
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an actor dealing with muppets you have to not
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try to treat them like there's something different
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and he did a great job just interacting with
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the rats as if either he was a muppet too or
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the rats were really talking rats that he was
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just trying to torture there was they really
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had great energy and synergy there yeah i feel
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like it could have been a cage of real rats yeah
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that that person would have still been just as
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deranged and talking to real rats that way the
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fucked up part i would watch a whole movie of
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like david arquette and those rats like they
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could just have made an entire movie about them
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escaping the lab or something that would probably
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be yeah it'd be so fun Yeah, I really liked all
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the characters from the cage there. The big guy.
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Bubba. Bubba, yeah. He was great. I loved how
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he introduced everyone. I know. I liked shakes.
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Yeah. I liked when they were doing the little
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rat maze and he was like, just don't step on
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the red button. And he's like, what's that for?
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Yeah. Oh, man. It's also funny because you look
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at the Muppets and there is like... they're obviously
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intelligent and rizzo is one of them and he's
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he's held jobs and all this shit and yet you
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put him in a maze where a rat should be and he's
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getting zapped he can't find his way around he's
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like obsessed with cheese anyway they do such
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a great job being like oh yeah this is this is
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a character that's obviously more than a rat
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but he's still very much a rat and not you know
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a fully you know uh humanistic character reinforcing
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it with the He's like reading the signs. Cheese,
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rat poison. Bees, rat poison. I'm going to choose
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rat poison, right? No, I'm not stupid. And then
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he goes for the cheese and just gets punched
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in the face. And that was the minute where I
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was like, oh, this is more like a crazy brainwashing
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experiment than anything else. Yeah. It's also,
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I found it really funny when they're in the cage
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and he's like, it's four feet down, 12 feet to
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the door and four feet to the doorknob. And Rizzo's
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like. that's like 18 feet. And Bob was like,
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nah, it's 20. And you're like, dude, rat math
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has its own, you know, conversion tables is fantastic.
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Rats can't, you guys can't open doors. You don't
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have opposable thumbs. And I was like, I definitely
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feel like I've seen a Muppets movie where the
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rats specifically opened doors. Yeah, definitely.
00:23:18.210 --> 00:23:20.130
I was waiting for that to happen. And that was
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going to be the joke was like, no, they don't
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need opposable thumbs. They can open the door.
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They know how to work a doorknob. I really liked
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Rizzo's outfit in this movie. He had like the
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letterman jacket that said Rat Pack on the back
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with his backward facing ball cap. Yes. He looked
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great. He is one of the most stylish Muppets
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consistently. They do a great job. I love that
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he's like a classic city slicker. He's got the
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outfits. He's got the accent. Yeah. He's great.
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Did you see the pillow in his bed that he falls
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asleep on when Gonzo's gone off? It's just like
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a cityscape and it just says New York on it.
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It's like, oh, they really built the backstory.
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Well, all of the rooms were amazing. You had
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the, whoever it was that pointed out that there's
00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:04.519
flies on the wallpaper in Kermit's room. Gonzo's
00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:07.160
tie had a chicken on it. Yep. And his pajamas
00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.980
earlier on was just covered in chickens also.
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It was just a bunch of different kinds. And Kermit's
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chair had lily pads on it. Yep. The amazing thing
00:24:17.089 --> 00:24:19.410
they do is how they just build this universe
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in the set. I mean, the people that design this
00:24:22.809 --> 00:24:26.309
stuff, their passion just bleeds through everything.
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I mean, these little things that I feel like
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I would have noticed as a kid, but as an adult,
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you see all this gentle care. The houses always
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astonish me, like the farmhouse in A Muppet Family
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Christmas. uh this one here but there's a lot
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of spot where they they spend a lot of time in
00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:45.720
one area and they make it look worn like you
00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:46.700
would have thought they've been living in this
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house forever like we're really just getting
00:24:49.619 --> 00:24:52.119
a glimpse into their life yeah but no this is
00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:54.579
a whole set that was built specifically for this
00:24:54.579 --> 00:24:57.099
movie but it just felt so lived in and natural
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and oh wild how they do that yeah there there's
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.750
a level of dedication that you don't get from
00:25:04.750 --> 00:25:07.470
a lot of other other studios like and the best
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part it's unnecessary honestly like it would
00:25:10.329 --> 00:25:12.769
have been a muppets movie without it but it just
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makes it makes it all so much better by adding
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it in there well the nice thing too about i just
00:25:19.029 --> 00:25:21.990
put together this movie's 99 so this would have
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been the first generation of muppet stuff that
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those kids grew up with the original muppet stuff
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So like they're extra inspired because they're
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like, this is my childhood. And now I get to
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do all these designs and make sure everything
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makes sense and looks really cool. And that's
00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:40.079
kind of a neat way to think about it. Yeah, I
00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.019
do feel like the Muppets have their own soul
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and like so many people recognize it and are
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able to tap into that. Just this love for these
00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:50.559
ensemble of really great characters that have
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been with us through childhood. They're just
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amazing. I think I missed it in our last episode,
00:25:56.099 --> 00:26:00.210
but. The actress that played Jenny, there's that
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scene in the park when Muppets take Manhattan.
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And I guess something happened with the equipment.
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There was a little bit of an error. They kind
00:26:06.230 --> 00:26:08.329
of shut down for a second. But Jim Henson was
00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:11.410
still there in the park with Kermit. Like, they're
00:26:11.410 --> 00:26:13.970
all still there, you know? And then somehow a
00:26:13.970 --> 00:26:16.730
boy, like, comes through and starts talking to
00:26:16.730 --> 00:26:19.650
them, but to Kermit. And so Jim Henson just starts
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talking as Kermit and interacting with his kid.
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And then there's just, like... a gaggle of kids
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that are all like talking with Kermit. Like they
00:26:25.769 --> 00:26:28.549
don't even realize Jim Henson is there. Yeah.
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Because they're just so engaged with like it's
00:26:30.630 --> 00:26:34.109
Kermit. So, I mean, yeah, it's just back to the,
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like the passion, the soul is there because like
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the, man, the actors really care about what you're
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doing. The Muppets are so amazing. It's so amazing
00:26:43.750 --> 00:26:45.410
that they really take on these personalities
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and like they're treated as real people. Yeah.
00:26:48.430 --> 00:26:51.789
I mean, it just goes, it shows so much about.
00:26:52.190 --> 00:26:55.170
how their creator loved them and you know all
00:26:55.170 --> 00:26:57.769
the people that work on the project and create
00:26:57.769 --> 00:27:00.609
these things really put so much care into and
00:27:00.609 --> 00:27:03.029
i think it speaks you know obviously i haven't
00:27:03.029 --> 00:27:05.089
like followed the career of the puppet people
00:27:05.089 --> 00:27:08.549
but i haven't heard anything terrible about you
00:27:08.549 --> 00:27:11.309
know these guys coming out which is really nice
00:27:11.309 --> 00:27:14.390
because um jim henson i read a quote from him
00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:16.950
the other day it was less of a quote or statement
00:27:16.950 --> 00:27:21.190
he said he really envied trash trash men the
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ones that walk along the side of the road and
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pick up little pieces of trash with the um long
00:27:26.109 --> 00:27:28.930
sticks or whatever it was like they get to do
00:27:28.930 --> 00:27:32.430
good every day they do a thousand little good
00:27:32.430 --> 00:27:34.910
things and they get to just focus on that and
00:27:34.910 --> 00:27:37.789
it seems so nice and they're making a positive
00:27:37.789 --> 00:27:39.650
impact and you're like damn dude the guy's just
00:27:39.650 --> 00:27:42.490
appreciating everybody and you can feel that
00:27:42.490 --> 00:27:44.990
in kermit too like kermit seems like the kind
00:27:44.990 --> 00:27:47.009
of guy that would have kind of frog that would
00:27:47.009 --> 00:27:51.509
appreciate you know the small things You know,
00:27:51.549 --> 00:27:54.670
I almost have no more notes because I wrote down
00:27:54.670 --> 00:27:58.150
hard to look away long enough for notes. But
00:27:58.150 --> 00:28:01.329
one thing I did write down is what was with Hulk
00:28:01.329 --> 00:28:05.509
Hogan's facial hair? I could not tell if they
00:28:05.509 --> 00:28:08.950
put the black part of his beard on there or if
00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:12.509
his natural hair color is black. And he just
00:28:12.509 --> 00:28:15.930
like. grew it i yeah that was it was perplexing
00:28:15.930 --> 00:28:18.789
at first i thought he had like a mask on but
00:28:18.789 --> 00:28:20.809
he was wearing it down on his chin and then i
00:28:20.809 --> 00:28:25.170
was like oh oh no that was weird another thing
00:28:25.170 --> 00:28:27.250
i didn't get is they kept calling him hollywood
00:28:27.250 --> 00:28:30.130
hogan which no one really did in much of my lifetime
00:28:30.130 --> 00:28:32.589
yeah they did he was hollywood hulk hogan as
00:28:32.589 --> 00:28:35.609
that's like his official official wrestling title
00:28:35.609 --> 00:28:39.230
i never knew that until now oh Yeah, I like how
00:28:39.230 --> 00:28:41.910
he broke the fourth wall like immediately. He
00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.390
starts doing his whole wrestling thing, you know,
00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:46.849
getting everybody hyped. And then they're like,
00:28:46.930 --> 00:28:49.609
yo, just take the rat out. And he's like, all
00:28:49.609 --> 00:28:52.029
right. Yeah, I liked seeing everybody else look
00:28:52.029 --> 00:28:55.289
kind of like bored. Like, okay, come on. Yeah.
00:28:55.670 --> 00:28:58.849
The other thing I liked is, you know, there was
00:28:58.849 --> 00:29:01.250
a couple Muppets in there that were standing
00:29:01.250 --> 00:29:06.230
in for actors like Andy Dick. Yes. Andy Dick
00:29:06.230 --> 00:29:08.609
played the voice, but you're like. This is way
00:29:08.609 --> 00:29:11.210
better than Andy Dick playing this role, having
00:29:11.210 --> 00:29:14.630
him replaced with a Muppet version of himself
00:29:14.630 --> 00:29:19.049
for Dr. Neuter. Dr. Neuter? Neuter, yeah. Oh,
00:29:19.109 --> 00:29:22.130
wow. Oh, it really was Andy Dick's voice. Yeah.
00:29:22.529 --> 00:29:25.589
Oh, no way. I think it's great. I'm like fairly
00:29:25.589 --> 00:29:28.490
99 % certain. I think too many more people and
00:29:28.490 --> 00:29:30.950
it would have been too many people. Yeah, I agree.
00:29:31.109 --> 00:29:33.329
I like that this one really does focus on the
00:29:33.329 --> 00:29:35.430
Muppets. There's all the cameos you want in there,
00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:38.230
but it's... the muppets are the story like the
00:29:38.230 --> 00:29:40.849
bear assistant to the crazy government guy was
00:29:40.849 --> 00:29:42.650
really nice because they could have easily had
00:29:42.650 --> 00:29:45.369
like some underling human actor in that position
00:29:45.369 --> 00:29:48.349
but they chose to do a bear and thank god they
00:29:48.349 --> 00:29:50.650
did i fucking love that bear here's here's the
00:29:50.650 --> 00:29:52.470
thing though who does the bear work for because
00:29:52.470 --> 00:29:55.309
the bear introduces us to coven at the beginning
00:29:55.309 --> 00:29:59.660
and he's talking about a secret undercover project
00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:02.640
but he sabotages it almost every step along the
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.859
way and so i'm like left wondering is the bear
00:30:05.859 --> 00:30:08.259
himself talking about an undercover project that
00:30:08.259 --> 00:30:13.539
he's on to ruin jeffrey tambor's project or because
00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:16.259
like his sentence didn't really seem to line
00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:20.779
up with what was going on inside and so i was
00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:22.319
under the impression the entire time that the
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.819
bear was like a spy i thought he was maybe employed
00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:30.160
by kermit which seemed wild though like wild
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:33.240
speculation yeah but like maybe some other muppet
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.900
centric or you know alien friendly government
00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:42.599
agency yeah he's like a muppet uh secret mole
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:44.720
to make sure that no one messes with muppets
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.549
yeah that was my theory I like the theory. I
00:30:48.549 --> 00:30:51.250
figured he was sort of into working with them
00:30:51.250 --> 00:30:52.990
at the beginning. I mean, we find out later that
00:30:52.990 --> 00:30:54.730
he's being bribed into working there, but I think
00:30:54.730 --> 00:30:57.009
he didn't have a problem until he made friends
00:30:57.009 --> 00:30:59.589
with Gonzo. Yeah. And then he was kind of, because
00:30:59.589 --> 00:31:01.690
he overheard and he could have told, but he was
00:31:01.690 --> 00:31:04.049
like, I didn't hear any of that. He did eventually
00:31:04.049 --> 00:31:07.349
tell, though. Yeah. So he was very wishy -washy.
00:31:07.349 --> 00:31:09.970
Well, because he was being bribed with going
00:31:09.970 --> 00:31:13.059
to the zoo. Oh, yeah. He's being blackmailed.
00:31:13.059 --> 00:31:15.759
Yeah. Yeah. Blackmailed is the word. I keep saying
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.400
bribed, but whatever. It was a punishment. Yes.
00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.440
Rather than a reward. The other part that doesn't
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.619
line up super great is why is his work car a
00:31:26.619 --> 00:31:30.299
cement truck? That's their cover, I think. It's
00:31:30.299 --> 00:31:32.400
like a cement. I guess that would have to be
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.519
the only thing that makes sense. That's what
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:36.500
they spelt out in the beginning when he's doing
00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:38.279
it. Oh, because the bear does the introduction
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:42.059
to the government thing. Yeah. And we hide our
00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:43.579
identity as a cement company, and the camera
00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:46.579
comes out of the front of the sign. Oh, I missed
00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:48.500
that somehow. Okay, yeah, when they're coming
00:31:48.500 --> 00:31:50.180
into the building, the whole idea is that they're
00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:53.160
a cement plant. That's right. I remember that
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.619
line now. Yeah, I missed that. I think I was
00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:59.779
eating Danish at that moment, and it was a little
00:31:59.779 --> 00:32:02.900
transfixed on that. That was really yummy. That
00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:05.180
was good Danish. I wish there was cheese in it.
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.359
Listeners, there was no cheese. I misread the
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.299
label. Just a raspberry Danish. But it was fucking
00:32:10.299 --> 00:32:13.460
good. I couldn't even tell. I just kept saying
00:32:13.460 --> 00:32:17.799
cheese in my head. Believe in it. Katie Holmes
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.119
and the Dawson Creek. Well, one other person
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.640
from Dawson Creek was in it, too. I didn't recognize
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.200
them. Dawson's Creek was a weird age group. Katie
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.740
Holmes and Joshua Jackson had cameos because
00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:32.039
Dawson's Creek 1998 was being filmed on a neighboring
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:35.779
soundstage. Oh, that's fun. They're probably
00:32:35.779 --> 00:32:37.599
just like, can we get in this real quick? Yeah,
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.240
probably. That must be the coolest part about
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:41.980
working in Hollywood is you can be like, can
00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:45.220
I just cameo over here real fast? I only know
00:32:45.220 --> 00:32:49.240
Joshua Jackson because of the Mighty Ducks. That's
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:50.880
the only reason I know that kid. I was actually
00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:52.299
surprised at how young he looked. I was like,
00:32:52.380 --> 00:32:54.619
those are children. That's weird. She looked
00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:58.640
very young, too. I mean, she still looks actually
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:01.460
really pretty young. I don't know how old she
00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:05.099
was in 99, but. I was saying last night that
00:33:05.099 --> 00:33:06.960
it was Katie Holmes that was in Dawson's Creek,
00:33:07.099 --> 00:33:12.630
but. It didn't go over. I wasn't believed. No,
00:33:12.670 --> 00:33:14.450
you thought Jennifer Gardner was, I thought.
00:33:14.710 --> 00:33:18.470
No. You were having two different conversations.
00:33:18.750 --> 00:33:20.970
I also have never seen Dawson's Creek, so I have
00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:22.930
no idea. Me either. I have no concept of that
00:33:22.930 --> 00:33:26.210
show. I have only watched one episode that I'm
00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:29.609
not very proud of and won't speak about. It's
00:33:29.609 --> 00:33:32.109
the one where Drake gets shot. That's Degrassi.
00:33:32.250 --> 00:33:36.140
Oh. I only watched one episode of Degrassi, too.
00:33:36.779 --> 00:33:41.460
It's the one where Drake gets shot. I've never
00:33:41.460 --> 00:33:46.039
seen any Dawson's Creek. I haven't seen any Dawson's
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:48.160
Creek, either. Remember when James Van Der Beek
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:52.779
shoots Drake? Oh, he's dead. Yeah. He passed
00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:57.720
away. Yeah. Drake got him back. The long con.
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.579
I really liked all of Miss Piggy's fight scenes.
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.420
She had multiple. Yes. Her against the agent
00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:11.159
was really funny. That one was so good. Yeah.
00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:13.960
I usually don't like Miss Piggy, but I think
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.519
in this movie she was great. When she came in
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:19.460
all sexy in her outfit and then she fell down
00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:22.719
in her heels. That was perfect. Everyone kept
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.780
calling her Coffee Pig. So mean. Felt very offensive.
00:34:25.780 --> 00:34:28.059
Somebody called her, I forget who it was, somebody
00:34:28.059 --> 00:34:30.960
called her a sow. Oh, yeah. At one point, I'm
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:33.440
like, man, they are really mean to Miss Piggy.
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.059
Like, way meaner. Although she's really mean
00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:40.019
most of the time to everybody. Well, one of the
00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:43.500
Muppets made a... Oh, Statler and Waldorf made
00:34:43.500 --> 00:34:45.780
a joke about the bacon being gone in the morning.
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.380
Oh, breakfast? I don't know. Well, the bacon
00:34:48.380 --> 00:34:51.840
just left. Fuck, man. You'd think the Muppets
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.480
would at least ease off. I do like how Statler
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:57.880
and Waldorf live with them. But I do feel like
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.880
this is not their permanent home. I feel like
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.719
Sattler and Waldorf probably have a brownstone
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:05.300
in the city or something. And they're just kind
00:35:05.300 --> 00:35:07.960
of hanging out. Kermit's on vacation. They're
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:09.760
like, oh, we'll go spend some time with Kermit.
00:35:11.619 --> 00:35:15.440
Yeah, I agree. I don't think he's their boss,
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:19.019
though. I think they just hang around and howl.
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.159
They're just hecklers. They're just rich Muppets
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:24.059
that like to watch other Muppets flounder. What
00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:26.219
sucks is they're probably old money. Definitely.
00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:29.219
It's definitely family inheritance. Those rap
00:35:29.219 --> 00:35:34.260
bastards. I feel like if they were people, they
00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:40.280
could be Martin Short and Steve Martin. They're
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.199
like the human equivalent of them. Yeah. That's
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.389
funny. I really like the Independence Day reference.
00:35:48.769 --> 00:35:51.030
I know you haven't seen Independence Day because
00:35:51.030 --> 00:35:53.369
you confuse that with the day after tomorrow.
00:35:54.349 --> 00:35:58.090
Not even close to the same. Same directors. Hey!
00:35:58.230 --> 00:36:02.170
That is true. But that was very fun to watch.
00:36:03.250 --> 00:36:06.429
Yeah, it was like, release me! Yeah. I haven't
00:36:06.429 --> 00:36:07.829
watched that movie in so long. Has everybody
00:36:07.829 --> 00:36:15.159
seen it here? Yes. Independence Day? No. Really?
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.940
That's true? You haven't seen that? I know the
00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:26.400
clip with Randy Quaid, that meme about Will Smith
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:29.480
yelling at an alien or something or dragging
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:33.179
its carcass or something. It's one of those ones
00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:34.320
that if I have seen it, it's through a bunch
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.539
of commercials. It wasn't exactly like I sat
00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:38.650
down to watch the movie at all. Oh, my God. That's
00:36:38.650 --> 00:36:40.309
more knowledge than I have. I just know Will
00:36:40.309 --> 00:36:42.889
Smith's in it. I really hope I get the 4th of
00:36:42.889 --> 00:36:45.750
July pick for this year because we will be watching
00:36:45.750 --> 00:36:49.030
Independence Day. All right. And you will see
00:36:49.030 --> 00:36:51.570
how hard people fought for the independence of
00:36:51.570 --> 00:36:55.130
this country. From aliens. From the aliens. Just
00:36:55.130 --> 00:36:57.190
the country, though, not the world. The aliens
00:36:57.190 --> 00:36:59.730
are only. We can get there when we get there.
00:36:59.750 --> 00:37:02.710
Yeah, don't spoil it. But, you know, they definitely
00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:06.800
want to take over America. Awful lot of delicious
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.659
dialogue in this movie. Too much. That's a problem
00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:12.800
with all Muppet movies. I actually tried a little
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:19.940
bit. I got quite a bit. So I found who voiced
00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:25.679
the doctor. Who was it? Brian Henson. Oh. Son
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.079
of Jim Henson. Yeah. All right. Well, I was wrong
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.039
then. Well, I mean, because there were times
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:32.420
where it's like that does kind of sound like
00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:33.739
what's happening. And maybe that was just the
00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:36.289
inspiration for the. The character, because I
00:37:36.289 --> 00:37:38.250
could easily have gone in that direction with
00:37:38.250 --> 00:37:42.989
you. Yeah. That's kind of weird, but I was like,
00:37:43.030 --> 00:37:45.329
Henson, that sounds so familiar. It's like, oh,
00:37:45.329 --> 00:37:47.809
it's his son. I was like, oh, wow. Who was he?
00:37:48.630 --> 00:37:52.170
Brian Henson, Jim Henson's son. Dr. Phil Van
00:37:52.170 --> 00:37:54.889
Neuter. Oh, it wasn't? What's his name? No. He
00:37:54.889 --> 00:37:58.769
also voiced Sal Minella. I'm assuming that's
00:37:58.769 --> 00:38:02.210
the guy who was with the cake. Oh, Jody's coming.
00:38:02.550 --> 00:38:07.829
Gun's right there. Who got this man's cake? The
00:38:07.829 --> 00:38:10.949
sauna scene was so funny. Or not the sauna, just
00:38:10.949 --> 00:38:14.510
the backyard party. Oh, yeah. It was so funny.
00:38:14.650 --> 00:38:17.090
I love that the jacuzzi tied back in at the end.
00:38:17.389 --> 00:38:21.849
Yeah. One thing I don't understand is... Why'd
00:38:21.849 --> 00:38:25.630
they have me build the jacuzzi? Oh, yeah. Rizzo
00:38:25.630 --> 00:38:28.710
and the prawn were scheming. They're a great
00:38:28.710 --> 00:38:31.469
pairing. I like how Rizzo felt bad about it,
00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:34.500
though, because Gonzo's obviously... his friend
00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:37.719
and like his best friend and pepe king prawn
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:42.420
there is very he's a very shady character honestly
00:38:42.420 --> 00:38:45.960
like he he helps out but i feel like a lot of
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.239
the things that he does is purely for him he's
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:51.019
chaotic neutral oh i was literally about to say
00:38:51.019 --> 00:38:56.460
that yeah 100 that's funny you know while we
00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:59.440
were watching this i was like muppets dnd campaign
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:04.070
would be fantastic so fun So hard to run though.
00:39:04.969 --> 00:39:07.530
I would not want to be that DM. I feel like that
00:39:07.530 --> 00:39:09.090
might also, so like that seems like something
00:39:09.090 --> 00:39:12.650
Jim Henson Muppets would be able to do, but I,
00:39:12.769 --> 00:39:18.710
excuse me. There's an interesting amount of like
00:39:18.710 --> 00:39:21.090
adult humor that gets tossed into a lot of these
00:39:21.090 --> 00:39:22.929
Muppet movies where like it has those moments
00:39:22.929 --> 00:39:26.130
so the adults can laugh as well. I haven't seen
00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:28.369
any of the Disney ones, but do they have that?
00:39:28.489 --> 00:39:31.829
Yeah. Really? Oh yeah. Man. All right, I guess
00:39:31.829 --> 00:39:34.090
I'm going to have to watch one of these. The
00:39:34.090 --> 00:39:38.869
Jason Segel one's really good. Kermit is in it.
00:39:38.869 --> 00:39:40.429
I haven't seen it in a long time. Kermit's in
00:39:40.429 --> 00:39:44.690
it, but I think they made a new Muppet for that
00:39:44.690 --> 00:39:48.050
movie to be the main character with Jason Segel.
00:39:48.369 --> 00:39:51.699
Because him and this Muppet are brothers. i think
00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:53.679
but they don't know like i just put this on the
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:56.659
other night actually did you like it i i fell
00:39:56.659 --> 00:39:58.659
asleep unfortunately halfway through but it was
00:39:58.659 --> 00:40:01.559
really good but yeah the muppet that is with
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.239
jason siegel that's his brother is has grown
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:07.280
up watching the muppets and the muppet show and
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.360
like he just wants to go and meet the muppets
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:13.280
not really putting to like he doesn't know he's
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:16.539
a muppet he he he does know he's a muppet for
00:40:16.539 --> 00:40:19.010
sure because like Everything's completely different
00:40:19.010 --> 00:40:22.289
for him than does Jason Segel. But it's not like,
00:40:22.369 --> 00:40:23.869
oh, I'm looking for family. He's like, I want
00:40:23.869 --> 00:40:26.730
to go and meet my heroes. Kermit the Frog is
00:40:26.730 --> 00:40:29.949
my hero. And they set off on this adventure and
00:40:29.949 --> 00:40:32.670
go to Muppet Studios, but it's pretty much closed
00:40:32.670 --> 00:40:37.050
by the time that they get there. Kermit, nobody's
00:40:37.050 --> 00:40:39.329
there. So I really want to watch the rest of
00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:43.809
it because it was really good so far. And it
00:40:43.809 --> 00:40:46.309
had a good Muppet feel. I just didn't see the
00:40:46.309 --> 00:40:48.150
rest of the Muppets yet. Because I probably fell
00:40:48.150 --> 00:40:51.130
asleep like 20 minutes in. Yeah. That one's really
00:40:51.130 --> 00:40:54.570
good. Definitely worth watching. So we are going
00:40:54.570 --> 00:40:56.630
to be a Muppet podcast now. I think we're just
00:40:56.630 --> 00:41:01.590
a Muppet podcast now, yeah. I really, really
00:41:01.590 --> 00:41:06.809
loved the soundtrack. Yeah. Like, stupendous.
00:41:06.809 --> 00:41:09.670
They paired that with what was happening so well.
00:41:09.789 --> 00:41:13.929
It kept the vibe just like... perfect yeah it's
00:41:13.929 --> 00:41:16.230
like the only muppets movie with no original
00:41:16.230 --> 00:41:19.030
muppet songs it says this is the first muppet
00:41:19.030 --> 00:41:21.670
film not to be a traditional musical film with
00:41:21.670 --> 00:41:25.869
original music but i mean man like for having
00:41:25.869 --> 00:41:28.579
to be the first one whoever they handed the keys
00:41:28.579 --> 00:41:31.940
to for that they they were very respectful i
00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:34.360
think they just stayed in the van or excuse me
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.820
stayed in the line like perfectly they didn't
00:41:36.820 --> 00:41:38.719
go out of bounds they were like this is where
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:40.300
it's got to be and this is where it's going to
00:41:40.300 --> 00:41:42.559
be they did great kicking it off with brick house
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:45.699
yeah bam i i'm you're gonna hear me say this
00:41:45.699 --> 00:41:49.480
in my in my final synopsis as well It felt like
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.500
I was listening to Gonzo's playlist throughout
00:41:52.500 --> 00:41:55.239
it. Especially once you meet his people and they
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:57.420
come out and they're singing like the same fucking
00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:00.159
disco songs that have been throughout the whole
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.679
movie. It really made it feel like Gonzo likes
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.019
this music because his whole fucking, you know,
00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:11.260
people enjoy this music too. And it's just like
00:42:11.260 --> 00:42:13.940
what he would listen to throughout the day. I
00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:18.670
love that take. I also love that. Everything
00:42:18.670 --> 00:42:21.690
Gonzo does down to the cannon is like this inherent
00:42:21.690 --> 00:42:26.150
thing in his feces. That's so awesome. Yeah,
00:42:26.210 --> 00:42:27.710
I know. And they're like, oh, we're going to
00:42:27.710 --> 00:42:33.210
do the most, the best. Fuck, what is it? When
00:42:33.210 --> 00:42:34.349
they put him in the cannon, they're like, oh,
00:42:34.369 --> 00:42:36.989
this is our biggest celebration or whatever.
00:42:37.489 --> 00:42:39.630
And he's like, I love these people as he gets
00:42:39.630 --> 00:42:43.090
fired out of a fucking cannon. It's like the
00:42:43.090 --> 00:42:45.469
highest honor we can. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I could
00:42:45.469 --> 00:42:47.590
not think of any of those words to put together.
00:42:48.750 --> 00:42:52.110
It was the spaceship thing made me very excited
00:42:52.110 --> 00:42:54.010
because it tied together all the music in a different
00:42:54.010 --> 00:42:57.809
way, which it was. That was very reminiscent
00:42:57.809 --> 00:43:00.230
of like George Clinton and Parliament or like
00:43:00.230 --> 00:43:03.829
Funkadelics. Like that's how they look on stage.
00:43:03.929 --> 00:43:06.110
It's a giant spaceship and they're in these crazy
00:43:06.110 --> 00:43:08.590
costumes and like that's their whole thing. Yeah.
00:43:08.630 --> 00:43:10.610
And then one of their songs came in on the credits
00:43:10.610 --> 00:43:14.559
there. but i was just like what if that's the
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:17.840
whole that was interesting to me i i wish that
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.880
they had maybe actually brought in george clinton
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.260
that would have been freaking awesome i did like
00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:26.860
at first the first space object that comes down
00:43:26.860 --> 00:43:29.099
is the little like tractor beam thing but it
00:43:29.099 --> 00:43:31.760
looks like an egg and i'm like man maybe that's
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.679
why he likes chicken so much oh see i would love
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.699
like Maybe not a sequel, but like a short or
00:43:39.699 --> 00:43:42.960
something where we get to see life on their planet.
00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:46.039
Like all that kind of stuff. Or like Gonzo goes
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:48.960
for a visit now that he knows where his people
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:51.320
are. Be like, hey, why don't we still stay in
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.780
touch, though? Yeah, that would be super cool.
00:43:54.059 --> 00:43:56.619
Yeah, I teared up at the end, though, when he
00:43:56.619 --> 00:43:59.340
stayed. This is the second Muppet movie we've
00:43:59.340 --> 00:44:05.280
had tears on so far. Only the second. In a row
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:07.539
at least. Oh, okay. I don't know. I didn't cry
00:44:07.539 --> 00:44:10.260
at a Muppet Family Christmas. You didn't? No.
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:14.880
That's such a fun movie. Tim probably did. I
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:17.619
thought a few of us did. At Muppet Family Christmas?
00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:20.320
That one was pretty moving. I guess. I probably
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:22.840
did. I don't know. Is Jeffrey Tambor still alive?
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:25.000
Because, I mean, he would be a very important
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.159
part of this sequel. Yes, he is. Is he? Then
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:31.960
they got to do it. Yeah. Show how his ambassadorship.
00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:36.639
is going yeah i loved how that was his pretend
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.460
title when they were tricking gonzo and then
00:44:39.460 --> 00:44:41.500
they actually made him the ambassador of earth
00:44:41.500 --> 00:44:44.659
yeah without knowing or like without any like
00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:46.820
yeah it was full sincerity where they were just
00:44:46.820 --> 00:44:48.699
like we want you to do this and gonzo didn't
00:44:48.699 --> 00:44:51.019
even be like no he was just like all right he
00:44:51.019 --> 00:44:53.059
only tried to suck my brain out but like i'm
00:44:53.059 --> 00:44:56.880
fine it's fine this might be a hot take i didn't
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.579
like jeffrey tambor's performance very much in
00:44:59.579 --> 00:45:02.599
this movie I felt like he did what you're not
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:05.099
supposed to do with Muppets. Like he didn't.
00:45:05.699 --> 00:45:10.179
Tim Curry was a Muppet. Yeah. Michael Caine.
00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:12.699
Michael Caine treated them like they were humans.
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:14.300
Like it felt like they were very much the same.
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:15.860
And maybe that was his character because he was
00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:18.400
trying to find and suss out aliens. And so it
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:22.300
just felt like I am a human. You are not. And
00:45:22.300 --> 00:45:24.900
that showed through in the performance. I felt
00:45:24.900 --> 00:45:28.519
for me pretty like pretty distractingly throughout.
00:45:31.150 --> 00:45:32.969
Yeah, I don't think he gave the best performance.
00:45:33.050 --> 00:45:34.690
I think there's been others that we've enjoyed
00:45:34.690 --> 00:45:38.869
more. He didn't have the same psychotic flair
00:45:38.869 --> 00:45:41.730
as, like, the lab scientist guy. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:42.130 --> 00:45:45.190
Like, he feels like he's acting. Yeah. Yeah,
00:45:45.230 --> 00:45:47.230
that was a thing. Maybe it was just a bad performance.
00:45:47.750 --> 00:45:49.610
Maybe he was going through some shit. I think
00:45:49.610 --> 00:45:52.150
it was just a bad performance. I don't really
00:45:52.150 --> 00:45:54.570
know his history of acting, but, like, 99, I
00:45:54.570 --> 00:45:57.750
don't know what he was. I mean, he was definitely
00:45:57.750 --> 00:46:00.610
out there. I only know him from Arrested Development.
00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:04.369
Yeah, and he plays a fantastic person or character
00:46:04.369 --> 00:46:06.750
in that. I forgot it was so new. You guys just
00:46:06.750 --> 00:46:10.030
said 99, and I was like, what? I forgot it was
00:46:10.030 --> 00:46:14.190
that new. Yeah. Yeah. It seems so new. Only 27
00:46:14.190 --> 00:46:20.449
years old. Ouch. Almost three decades old. Oh,
00:46:20.449 --> 00:46:24.650
my God. That's gross. Yeah. Don't put numbers
00:46:24.650 --> 00:46:28.840
on things sometimes. I guess I remember the beach
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.840
as the desert scene in my memories of this movie
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:33.719
because they were on the beach and it was sort
00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:36.780
of, I don't know, barren. But I loved that the
00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:40.980
alien party included the human party goers. Yes.
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.480
That was really fun. It was a huge rave between
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.320
species. It was really, I was so excited. I knew
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:49.079
the ending was going to have like these people
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.619
like either standing up for him at the end or
00:46:51.619 --> 00:46:53.619
like being involved somehow. I really enjoyed
00:46:53.619 --> 00:46:55.639
that they were all like, we're going to the beach.
00:46:55.940 --> 00:47:01.360
Yeah. I like how nobody else except for Jeffrey
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:03.739
Tambor was concerned, like on a governmental
00:47:03.739 --> 00:47:07.019
level. Yeah. Like nobody else tried to be there.
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.099
Of course, it is like the only thing he came
00:47:10.099 --> 00:47:13.420
out on was like kook TV with, you know, the worst
00:47:13.420 --> 00:47:16.500
TV show that I've ever seen. He also, I think,
00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:18.519
could not convince the general that this was
00:47:18.519 --> 00:47:21.159
a real thing. No. He's like, look at the swirl
00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:24.380
on this globe. Yeah. His evidence was really,
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:28.639
I mean, obviously right, but really not. Great
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:30.900
to present to somebody that's basing their entire
00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:33.460
thing on facts doesn't seem scientific No, he
00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:36.139
didn't seal the deal on a spiral It makes sense
00:47:36.139 --> 00:47:37.699
because if right where this is the inner part
00:47:37.699 --> 00:47:40.699
the last dot is like where they were Yeah, it's
00:47:40.699 --> 00:47:43.280
like the US on that like I'm like, yeah, that
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:45.960
makes total sense Mm -hmm, but he didn't it's
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:47.260
almost like he didn't even realize about a spy.
00:47:47.380 --> 00:47:50.079
He's like look. It's a spiral. It's like Maybe
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.079
maybe we were supposed to me the audience's is
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:53.519
supposed to be the ones that's like solves that
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:57.590
clue on their own Yeah figures it out, but it
00:47:57.590 --> 00:48:00.070
was weird they got all caught up in the are you
00:48:00.070 --> 00:48:03.329
there part yeah and not where the spiral ends
00:48:03.329 --> 00:48:04.730
because that was my first thought too like i'd
00:48:04.730 --> 00:48:06.610
go immediately to the center of this fucking
00:48:06.610 --> 00:48:09.409
thing yeah the the other evidence what he tries
00:48:09.409 --> 00:48:11.349
to like show that gonzo's on the table getting
00:48:11.349 --> 00:48:15.110
his brain extracted i don't understand what his
00:48:15.110 --> 00:48:17.289
end game was there because like gonzo's a muppet
00:48:17.289 --> 00:48:19.409
yes he's an alien but he's still a muppet and
00:48:19.409 --> 00:48:21.650
the bear's a muppet and the doctor's a muppet
00:48:21.650 --> 00:48:24.030
and there's there's just a lot of muppets that
00:48:24.030 --> 00:48:28.010
don't look like people strewn about this world
00:48:28.010 --> 00:48:30.210
and his evidence was to show him yet another
00:48:30.210 --> 00:48:34.170
muppet that doesn't look like a person yeah and
00:48:34.170 --> 00:48:35.630
you're sucking his brain out like what's the
00:48:35.630 --> 00:48:37.449
evidence behind that to prove that that thing
00:48:37.449 --> 00:48:39.929
is an alien also gonzo's been living on earth
00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:42.610
his whole life so presumably he has like documentation
00:48:42.610 --> 00:48:45.750
of like employment he probably plays his friend
00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:49.610
like he has to have an i9 social security number
00:48:49.610 --> 00:48:52.389
at least because he's been he's been paid in
00:48:52.389 --> 00:48:55.170
official capacity so You think Kermit holds all
00:48:55.170 --> 00:48:58.070
their passports? Yes, definitely. He has to.
00:48:58.329 --> 00:49:00.829
It's not like a control thing. It's a responsibility
00:49:00.829 --> 00:49:03.190
thing. He's probably so stressed out, that poor
00:49:03.190 --> 00:49:05.909
little frog. He's got all the documents locked
00:49:05.909 --> 00:49:09.690
away in one of those safe boxes at a bank. He's
00:49:09.690 --> 00:49:12.409
like, I don't even let this near the house. These
00:49:12.409 --> 00:49:14.269
guys don't even know that we have a bank account,
00:49:14.389 --> 00:49:17.630
and I'll never tell them. At the beginning of
00:49:17.630 --> 00:49:19.750
the breakfast scene, he was like, we need a new
00:49:19.750 --> 00:49:22.889
oven. And he's like, why? And it explodes. That's
00:49:22.889 --> 00:49:26.170
why. Poor Kermit does have a fun. He's on vacation.
00:49:26.750 --> 00:49:28.750
He's like, I'm just doing this house painting.
00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:31.869
And then I'm relaxing. His little nephew is there,
00:49:31.929 --> 00:49:34.329
though. I know. It was nice to see him. Very
00:49:34.329 --> 00:49:39.110
briefly. Yeah. I don't need him anymore. He's
00:49:39.110 --> 00:49:41.789
a fun little frog. Yeah. This was really Gonzo's
00:49:41.789 --> 00:49:45.619
movie anyway. Get out of here, nephew. You've
00:49:45.619 --> 00:49:47.300
had your moment. It's not Christmas anymore.
00:49:48.119 --> 00:49:52.519
You can't play Tiny Tim. You can't play Concerned
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:59.280
Frog number two. Damn, I love the Muppets. What
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:01.300
was some of the delicious dialogue you had, Rebecca?
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:10.219
I think it was right as the breakfast scene ended.
00:50:10.300 --> 00:50:12.960
Somebody said... Way to get down with your bad
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.360
selves. It was Kermit. Yeah. Yes. He's congratulating
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:19.679
them. That was a good one. And then to comfort
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:22.400
Gonzo when Gonzo first approached him. And then
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:24.579
Kermit got distracted by the painters leaving.
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:27.000
And he's like, you know what you are, Gonzo?
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:30.880
Distinct. It was just so nice. Such comforting
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:34.239
words. Yeah. I had a Kermit quote from like around
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.679
that time where they were talking. And he noticed
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:39.420
that Gonzo was like not feeling upset, I guess.
00:50:40.090 --> 00:50:41.710
You never miss the chance to be shot out of a
00:50:41.710 --> 00:50:47.230
cannon. Is there something wrong? I have one
00:50:47.230 --> 00:50:50.190
that I should have made some context around.
00:50:50.650 --> 00:50:53.730
Just says, works for me. Adios. I imagine it
00:50:53.730 --> 00:50:56.090
was King Prawn at one point, but I have no idea
00:50:56.090 --> 00:50:58.510
in reference to what. Is that when he went through
00:50:58.510 --> 00:51:01.389
the little door? Because I think he was like,
00:51:01.570 --> 00:51:03.630
someone should knock to see if Barbie's there.
00:51:03.929 --> 00:51:05.969
Yes, that was a great line. I didn't know it
00:51:05.969 --> 00:51:09.440
down. Oh, yeah, because my next one was about
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:12.059
not being a shrimp, being a king prawn. So it's
00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:16.079
got to be right there. After they tricked Gonzo
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:21.679
into building the jacuzzi, King Prawn, no, Rizzo
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:24.000
said, well, he built it. And King Prawn says,
00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:29.619
and we came. Great reference. Yep. Ray Liotta's,
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:34.719
what a handsome family. Oh, my gosh. I wrote
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.860
when he wrote buh -bye to match animal saying
00:51:37.860 --> 00:51:42.300
it. He was really good. That was another very
00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:46.139
D &D -esque turnaround. His very well -acted,
00:51:46.139 --> 00:51:49.039
curmudgeon, get the hell out of here to immediately
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:53.079
just like, so how can I help you? How can I help
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:57.599
you? Beautifully done. Full commit. Ray Liotta
00:51:57.599 --> 00:51:59.820
worked way better with the Muppets than I would
00:51:59.820 --> 00:52:02.219
have guessed not knowing or having seen this
00:52:02.219 --> 00:52:05.239
movie. Yeah. He doesn't seem like he should be
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:07.500
able to throw down with the Muppets, honestly.
00:52:07.619 --> 00:52:10.059
But he killed it. He did. He was great in every
00:52:10.059 --> 00:52:12.440
scene. I wanted more of him, honestly. He did.
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:15.159
You know who we got a lot of that I liked was
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:19.219
Animal. Yes. He was fantastic. Bringing him along
00:52:19.219 --> 00:52:25.320
is always risky because it's Animal. But his
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:27.280
scene where he just chased the lady off and started
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.179
attacking her, and then by the time they come
00:52:29.179 --> 00:52:32.289
back, she's like... kissing him and like declaring
00:52:32.289 --> 00:52:36.730
her love and he's like just staring blankly around
00:52:36.730 --> 00:52:40.210
is it was so good he's an animal he's my favorite
00:52:40.210 --> 00:52:44.090
muppet i love it he's so much fun i really liked
00:52:44.090 --> 00:52:47.110
his uh leash and collar that was around his neck
00:52:47.110 --> 00:52:49.230
like i feel like in some muppet movies you don't
00:52:49.230 --> 00:52:51.889
see him quite that way yeah And I really liked
00:52:51.889 --> 00:52:54.570
it. He had a chain for a collar that was broken
00:52:54.570 --> 00:52:57.550
at the end. It's really funny, though, because
00:52:57.550 --> 00:52:59.170
we went back and watched some trailers for a
00:52:59.170 --> 00:53:02.030
bunch of other Muppet stuff after this. The Muppet
00:53:02.030 --> 00:53:05.250
show, the original 1979 movie, he's in the theater
00:53:05.250 --> 00:53:08.309
and he is chained to the chair with the chain
00:53:08.309 --> 00:53:10.670
around his neck. And so it's like canon from
00:53:10.670 --> 00:53:12.369
the very beginning that he should have this,
00:53:12.449 --> 00:53:19.250
which is so awesome. When... Gonzo was starting
00:53:19.250 --> 00:53:22.030
to lose it. He said, well, you see, I was contacted
00:53:22.030 --> 00:53:25.769
through my cereal. And then he just, like, sounds
00:53:25.769 --> 00:53:28.769
crazier and crazier from there. It was so great.
00:53:28.929 --> 00:53:32.230
And then I talked to the cosmic fish. Yes. His
00:53:32.230 --> 00:53:34.989
friend's concern is so funny to watch, too. He's
00:53:34.989 --> 00:53:37.170
wearing, like, the tinfoil thing that the two
00:53:37.170 --> 00:53:40.230
-scientist guy had him dressed up as. Yes. Wild
00:53:40.230 --> 00:53:44.949
-eyed. Oh, the wild eyes. Right after he gets
00:53:44.949 --> 00:53:47.690
electrocuted on the roof, and then he just goes
00:53:47.690 --> 00:53:57.550
like this. Sorry. Sorry. It's okay. I did want
00:53:57.550 --> 00:53:59.949
to know when that happened, because then I assume
00:53:59.949 --> 00:54:01.769
if you didn't get a call, then the call worked.
00:54:04.630 --> 00:54:12.570
Yeah, we're good. Nice. Thank God. The wild eyes
00:54:12.570 --> 00:54:14.849
and then he like he like takes the keys and they're
00:54:14.849 --> 00:54:15.550
like what do you think he's doing with those
00:54:15.550 --> 00:54:18.250
keys? And also they hit a lot more startup happening
00:54:18.250 --> 00:54:21.849
and that just the way they did the lighting like
00:54:21.849 --> 00:54:26.050
he looks fucking Yeah And then they don't even
00:54:26.050 --> 00:54:29.130
try to stop him. I love how like The Muppets
00:54:29.130 --> 00:54:31.789
support each other should they really no no cuz
00:54:31.789 --> 00:54:38.750
he ran over a cat so like no they shouldn't stop
00:54:38.750 --> 00:54:41.110
him but they're like in full support but then
00:54:41.110 --> 00:54:43.010
like at the card game they're all giving up a
00:54:43.010 --> 00:54:44.510
bunch of or they're betting a bunch of stuff
00:54:44.510 --> 00:54:47.389
and rizzo's like a cheese from like the 1980s
00:54:47.389 --> 00:54:49.429
that's never even been sniffed and then his cards
00:54:49.429 --> 00:54:52.070
light on fire and he loses four aces and ended
00:54:52.070 --> 00:54:55.670
up losing to uh king prawn with a pair of twos
00:54:55.670 --> 00:55:00.670
it's just it's so dumbly stupid and fun i loved
00:55:00.670 --> 00:55:02.809
it too because gonzo runs in with all this like
00:55:03.699 --> 00:55:05.820
stuff going on and they're just like yeah yeah
00:55:05.820 --> 00:55:08.119
yeah what do you got in your head yeah you in
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:12.199
or out what's up he went like full graham hess
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:15.300
from signs which is actually why i really enjoyed
00:55:15.300 --> 00:55:17.239
when all of a sudden there was a gonzo face made
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:19.659
out of potatoes at one point yeah there's also
00:55:19.659 --> 00:55:22.039
later on i think it might have been the same
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:24.519
lady maybe it was somebody else had a like fruit
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:29.030
arrangement that was also gonzo head um Speaking
00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:31.690
of crazy eyes, when the bear is like, oh yeah,
00:55:31.769 --> 00:55:34.449
we just got optical security or whatever. He
00:55:34.449 --> 00:55:37.610
puts his eyes in a retinal scanning and like
00:55:37.610 --> 00:55:40.230
blinds him and he comes out and his eyes are
00:55:40.230 --> 00:55:42.809
just so different. They look so good. It's so
00:55:42.809 --> 00:55:46.190
funny. Did not see that coming. No. No, that
00:55:46.190 --> 00:55:48.030
was great. Because you always see the bears just
00:55:48.030 --> 00:55:49.769
like heavily hooded eyes. It looks like they
00:55:49.769 --> 00:55:54.010
just came out of like a Snoop Dogg fest. Yeah.
00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:57.099
And just to see him that wide open, yeah, man,
00:55:57.179 --> 00:55:59.280
that was hilarious. I really liked how much they
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:02.659
gave the bear spotlight in this one, too, because
00:56:02.659 --> 00:56:06.519
he's usually not the most main character. And
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:09.679
he was funny. He honestly killed it. He had some
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:12.239
really great lines. Yeah. I don't have any of
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:13.880
them in town, but I know that they were good.
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.659
Yeah, but he did have a lot of them, and he'd
00:56:16.659 --> 00:56:20.869
be so infuriating to work with. He listens to
00:56:20.869 --> 00:56:22.769
your boss ream you out and then get fired and
00:56:22.769 --> 00:56:25.949
he goes, how'd that go for you, bud? Fuck you,
00:56:25.969 --> 00:56:28.849
man. Fuck you, bear. He was really optimistic.
00:56:29.530 --> 00:56:32.489
I like that he was just always eating. That was
00:56:32.489 --> 00:56:35.630
very, very fun. I didn't notice that. He gave
00:56:35.630 --> 00:56:37.949
the sandwich to Gonzo, too. Yeah, yeah, just
00:56:37.949 --> 00:56:40.170
very food heavy. He comes back and he's like,
00:56:40.269 --> 00:56:42.750
gotta have jalapenos. Jalapenos are important.
00:56:42.949 --> 00:56:48.929
Gotta have those jalapenos. My last line of dialogue
00:56:48.929 --> 00:56:52.010
is when the aliens were finally leaving at the
00:56:52.010 --> 00:56:56.429
end and the king alien, whatever, said, people
00:56:56.429 --> 00:57:04.170
of Earth, later. So cash. Love it. Yeah, I loved
00:57:04.170 --> 00:57:07.590
when the... uh the mad scientist is about he
00:57:07.590 --> 00:57:09.969
finds the rat and he's like rats i hate rats
00:57:09.969 --> 00:57:11.710
and the whole gang is there and they go then
00:57:11.710 --> 00:57:15.929
today ain't your lucky day yeah oh i that whole
00:57:15.929 --> 00:57:18.730
scene i actually love like when rizzo shows up
00:57:18.730 --> 00:57:20.869
and he's like i'm gonna try to chew your bonds
00:57:20.869 --> 00:57:23.829
away and he sneaks under the blanket and then
00:57:23.829 --> 00:57:28.090
the the doctor comes over and he oh he pulls
00:57:28.090 --> 00:57:30.329
the blanket down. Rizzo says, do you mind? And
00:57:30.329 --> 00:57:32.429
he's like, oh, no, sorry. And he covers it back
00:57:32.429 --> 00:57:36.710
up. It's just such a classic Muppet trope. It's
00:57:36.710 --> 00:57:38.769
like a little bit dirty, but just also innocently
00:57:38.769 --> 00:57:42.469
funny as well. Also, when the rats came to the
00:57:42.469 --> 00:57:44.570
rescue and said that it's not your lucky day,
00:57:44.630 --> 00:57:49.110
I like that he had a Q -tip as his weapon. Perfect.
00:57:49.250 --> 00:57:53.280
Yeah. Did you notice the doctor's gloves? I noticed
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:55.539
something, but I don't know. They looked like
00:57:55.539 --> 00:57:59.400
heavily bloodstained. Yeah. Like heavily bloodstained,
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:03.679
which was a wild choice. Because that means he's
00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:08.079
done this with humans or at least mammals. Muppets
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:11.340
don't have blood to my knowledge. Never caught
00:58:11.340 --> 00:58:14.619
a muppet. Yeah. I really hope not. That would
00:58:14.619 --> 00:58:17.380
be a horrific canon there if all of a sudden
00:58:17.380 --> 00:58:21.739
they're filled with blood. Oh, my God. It feels
00:58:21.739 --> 00:58:27.320
like some Dave made a maze bullshit. Yeah. I
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.360
really liked the they find the mad scientist
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:32.840
at the party and they're all like, oh, no. And
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:34.380
he's like, no, I'm fine. And he's waving his
00:58:34.380 --> 00:58:36.639
marshmallow stick around, which is a syringe
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:38.900
tied to a stick. And he's roasting the marshmallow
00:58:38.900 --> 00:58:41.719
off the tip of the needle. That was completely
00:58:41.719 --> 00:58:45.000
on fire, too, by the way. Flaming marshmallows
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.059
like from that one movie. New guy, right? Yes.
00:58:50.949 --> 00:58:56.730
Yeah. Classic Riley Groves pick. I've got no
00:58:56.730 --> 00:58:59.530
more notes, quite frankly. I've got no notes.
00:58:59.550 --> 00:59:03.670
Does anybody have any recasts? One. Two. I have
00:59:03.670 --> 00:59:06.510
nothing. I have recasts. All right, let's hear
00:59:06.510 --> 00:59:09.730
them. My only one, I would replace Jeffrey Tambor
00:59:09.730 --> 00:59:12.489
with Danny DeVito. Love it. That's a good choice.
00:59:12.510 --> 00:59:15.030
Oh, okay. That's where my Danny would go. He
00:59:15.030 --> 00:59:17.199
would have done great. For my government bad
00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:19.920
guy, is what I called him in my notes, John Hamm.
00:59:20.659 --> 00:59:23.820
Oh, that would be fun. Hell yeah. I think that
00:59:23.820 --> 00:59:26.280
would be really good. Yeah. Oh, he would do a
00:59:26.280 --> 00:59:29.739
great job. He would. That's a really good one.
00:59:30.099 --> 00:59:32.699
What do you got, Tim? Anna has a second. I have
00:59:32.699 --> 00:59:35.360
one more. Oh, I was excited for the Jeffrey Tambor
00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:38.539
replacement. The security guard that Peggy sprays
00:59:38.539 --> 00:59:41.480
with her mind control. Ray Liotta? Yeah. Kevin
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:46.869
Hart. Oh, yeah. That'd be a good one, too. I
00:59:46.869 --> 00:59:51.429
could see his change -up be really funny. Okay,
00:59:51.570 --> 00:59:52.889
yeah, I would watch it. I'm usually not the biggest
00:59:52.889 --> 00:59:54.869
Kevin Hart fan, but I think I could see that
00:59:54.869 --> 00:59:57.809
happening. I can take, you know, 30 to 45 seconds
00:59:57.809 --> 00:59:59.789
of him. Yeah, I feel like it's a small enough
00:59:59.789 --> 01:00:03.510
role that it would drive you insane. Oh, man.
01:00:04.889 --> 01:00:10.010
So for K. Edgar Singer, who was Jeffrey Tambor,
01:00:10.150 --> 01:00:14.510
John Malkovich. Oh, that'd be scary. That'd be
01:00:14.510 --> 01:00:16.809
a horror movie. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted it to be
01:00:16.809 --> 01:00:20.750
more emotionally intense, but like in a way that
01:00:20.750 --> 01:00:26.030
seems more natural and less unhinged. I don't
01:00:26.030 --> 01:00:29.769
know. What? John Malkovich? Yeah, you do. You
01:00:29.769 --> 01:00:33.849
know who John Malkovich is? He's bald. Okay.
01:00:34.289 --> 01:00:39.780
Hold on. He's sometimes bald. He's got crazy
01:00:39.780 --> 01:00:43.159
eyes. He has a very particular speech pattern.
01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:46.239
Yes. He's in that movie being John Malkovich.
01:00:46.619 --> 01:00:49.079
Yeah. He is in that movie being John Malkovich.
01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:52.579
Because he is John Malkovich. You know. What?
01:00:53.380 --> 01:00:59.019
He's like super famous. I don't know him. You
01:00:59.019 --> 01:01:02.219
do. You do. Yeah, that guy. He's in that TV show
01:01:02.219 --> 01:01:04.519
with Steve Carell. They go to... It's about space.
01:01:05.539 --> 01:01:07.099
Space... Oh, I didn't watch that one. Space Force.
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:13.769
Space Force. Oh, man. It's so funny. Okay. I'm
01:01:13.769 --> 01:01:16.570
still confused how you don't know who John is.
01:01:16.570 --> 01:01:18.469
It's okay. I don't know a lot of people. All
01:01:18.469 --> 01:01:19.690
right. Well, hopefully you know some more of
01:01:19.690 --> 01:01:22.469
these people because I have a lot. Yay. For the
01:01:22.469 --> 01:01:25.110
bear, I want the bear to be recast as Seth Rogen.
01:01:25.690 --> 01:01:28.809
Just the voice? Nope. The bear. Oh, just completely
01:01:28.809 --> 01:01:30.590
Seth Rogen? Yeah, I think that'd be really fun.
01:01:30.590 --> 01:01:33.280
Can it be Seth Rogen in a bear costume? Yeah,
01:01:33.340 --> 01:01:35.539
but his face has to be visible. Oh, yeah. Perfect.
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.619
That's a deal. Like, what's that one show with
01:01:39.619 --> 01:01:44.820
the dog? Oh, Wilfred? Yeah. Oh. Yep. Yes, that
01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:47.599
exact situation would be great. Okay. I would
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:53.300
love that. For Dr. Tucker. Which one was Dr.
01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:57.329
Tucker? The lab rat guy? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:57.349 --> 01:02:01.130
David Arquette there. I did Javier Bardem. Oh,
01:02:01.150 --> 01:02:04.210
my God. Oh, my God. How scary would that be?
01:02:04.210 --> 01:02:07.289
All right. That would be terrifying. No country
01:02:07.289 --> 01:02:10.449
for old men. The guy with the bowl cut? Oh, yes.
01:02:10.750 --> 01:02:15.309
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Female armed guard? Mm -hmm.
01:02:15.369 --> 01:02:17.829
One who fell in love with animal? Melissa McCarthy?
01:02:19.050 --> 01:02:22.190
Yeah. That's so good. Replace Kathy Griffin with
01:02:22.190 --> 01:02:26.000
anybody. Yeah. Yeah, it's not that hard. I thought
01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:29.500
Melissa McCarthy would be fun. Yes. Shelly Snatz.
01:02:29.940 --> 01:02:36.460
Yeah. Maya Rudolph. Oh. Love me some Maya. Man
01:02:36.460 --> 01:02:40.820
in Black. Otherwise, Hollywood Hulk Hogan. John
01:02:40.820 --> 01:02:43.559
Cena. Yeah. For today's audience, that would
01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:45.280
make way more sense. Yeah. I think it would be
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.019
a lot funnier, too. I think he'd do a better
01:02:47.019 --> 01:02:50.260
performance. I mean, the Hulk did pretty good,
01:02:50.260 --> 01:02:54.719
considering. For General Luft, the old guy. Yeah.
01:02:55.219 --> 01:02:58.800
The general that is not impressed. Harrison Ford.
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:04.059
You know who I kept thinking of? It's named Brian
01:03:04.059 --> 01:03:06.639
Johnson. The guy that plays Agamemnon in Troy.
01:03:07.380 --> 01:03:10.679
I don't know his name, but yeah. It's Brian something
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:14.760
at least, I think. Not Cranston. Nope. It's a
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:18.099
different Brian. I don't know his name. I can
01:03:18.099 --> 01:03:22.480
see his face, though. Tim's on it. I'm going
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.599
to take some water. Oh, Bryan Cranston? No, not
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:29.000
Bryan Cranston. Bryan Cox. Bryan Cox. Yes, that's
01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:33.260
right. Let me see Bryan Cox. It took me a minute
01:03:33.260 --> 01:03:35.400
to realize who you were talking about because
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:43.840
I only know him as Big Cox. Clifford? Who was
01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:45.559
a new... You're going to replace Clifford? Clifford
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:49.039
is not new, by the way. No, I've never seen Clifford
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:51.219
until this movie. Who's Clifford? Clifford is
01:03:51.219 --> 01:03:56.119
the... Kind of Rastafarian -esque Muppet. Was
01:03:56.119 --> 01:04:01.380
he the catfish guy? No, I mean he had dreads.
01:04:01.380 --> 01:04:04.960
He was a catfish. He has the whiskers that come
01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:08.119
down. He did have the whiskers. I just assumed
01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.739
it was Mustnash. His face was oddly fishy as
01:04:11.739 --> 01:04:13.760
well. I think he was supposed to be a catfish.
01:04:14.739 --> 01:04:21.940
Anyway. I recast him as Ice -T. Okay. Clifford
01:04:21.940 --> 01:04:25.599
actually made his first appearance 10 years before
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:29.699
this movie came out. He was introduced in 1989.
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:32.619
And he was a member of a different band than
01:04:32.619 --> 01:04:36.559
the Electric Boogaloo or whatever. Yeah, whatever
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:39.400
Janice is doing with anime and stuff. Yeah, whatever
01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:43.179
their band is. Mr. Teeth. It's Electric. Fuck.
01:04:43.340 --> 01:04:45.619
Why can't I remember? I don't know. But anyways,
01:04:45.780 --> 01:04:48.760
he's in a different band. Huh. I don't suppose
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:52.219
he's in... No, he's not in the rival band in
01:04:52.219 --> 01:04:55.239
Emmett Otter. No, no, because that's like a snake.
01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:57.860
That would have been too old. Yeah. Yeah. That
01:04:57.860 --> 01:04:59.059
would have been crazy, though, if that's where
01:04:59.059 --> 01:05:02.000
he came from. Electric Mayhem. Electric Mayhem,
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.539
yes. That's a great band name. It is. I also
01:05:04.539 --> 01:05:07.989
loved at the breakfast scene when... I don't
01:05:07.989 --> 01:05:09.650
know whose quote it was that Kermit was like,
01:05:09.769 --> 01:05:12.130
you love being shot out of the cannon. Yeah.
01:05:12.210 --> 01:05:13.670
I thought it was funny when he's like, electric
01:05:13.670 --> 01:05:17.289
mayhem's covering for me. They've got this. I
01:05:17.289 --> 01:05:21.590
love their costumes. Yes. Yeah. Animal's pushing
01:05:21.590 --> 01:05:22.909
the cannon and he gets one point and he just
01:05:22.909 --> 01:05:27.010
goes, oi. Yeah, because they're clearly headed
01:05:27.010 --> 01:05:29.949
to a bar mitzvah or a bat mitzvah. They said
01:05:29.949 --> 01:05:31.730
bar mitzvah. They talked about it. Yeah. At the
01:05:31.730 --> 01:05:34.750
beginning they said, shalom. Kermit's like, you
01:05:34.750 --> 01:05:36.989
still. doing that bar mitzvah and he's like no
01:05:36.989 --> 01:05:38.969
i gave the gig to electric mayhem and then they
01:05:38.969 --> 01:05:41.469
walked by and he had the hats and everything
01:05:41.469 --> 01:05:47.210
it was great um for the cosmic fish oh both of
01:05:47.210 --> 01:05:52.670
them uh flight of the concords oh all right but
01:05:52.670 --> 01:05:54.769
they're humans they're just floating through
01:05:54.769 --> 01:05:57.849
space no no no to voice them oh okay yeah they
01:05:57.849 --> 01:06:00.679
would be great with the voices For the mad scientist,
01:06:00.820 --> 01:06:04.059
before we realized it wasn't Andy Dick, I put
01:06:04.059 --> 01:06:07.760
Andy Dick. Right on. It should have been. I think
01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:12.280
that would be, it would have been, as much as
01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:13.940
it's possible considering it's a human replacing
01:06:13.940 --> 01:06:16.099
a Muppet, I think it would have been that much
01:06:16.099 --> 01:06:20.099
crazier if it actually was Andy Dick. Yeah. And
01:06:20.099 --> 01:06:21.539
then the last one, of course, my Danny DeVito
01:06:21.539 --> 01:06:25.329
would have been Agent Barker. Is that the guy
01:06:25.329 --> 01:06:27.429
she fought? That's the agent that she fights
01:06:27.429 --> 01:06:30.710
and then ends up tying up. And I was like, this
01:06:30.710 --> 01:06:33.690
would be a really fun scene with Danny DeVito
01:06:33.690 --> 01:06:36.530
fighting Miss Piggy. That guy, I crossed it out.
01:06:36.809 --> 01:06:39.789
But my only replacement was originally the agent
01:06:39.789 --> 01:06:43.409
that Piggy fights was Tim Robbins. But I'm putting
01:06:43.409 --> 01:06:45.329
him in too many things lately. I didn't want
01:06:45.329 --> 01:06:48.769
to bring it up. But here it is. Tim Robbins.
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:51.900
That could have been fun. He's insane. We watched
01:06:51.900 --> 01:06:54.380
the movie Friendship last night, and it was so
01:06:54.380 --> 01:06:56.739
fucking unhinged. He would have been so good
01:06:56.739 --> 01:07:00.099
fighting Miss Piggy. Except he's not a fighter.
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:02.400
He can't fight for shit. Neither did the agent.
01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:05.320
No, but he punched Paul Rudd in the face in that
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.400
movie. Yeah, true. And it was totally like a...
01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:10.659
What do you call it? Like a cheap shot? Sucker
01:07:10.659 --> 01:07:15.480
punch. Yeah. Yeah. He could also replace Rob
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.300
Schneider, who I thought did an excellent job.
01:07:19.239 --> 01:07:22.159
But he could be replaced with Charlie Day. Oh,
01:07:22.260 --> 01:07:24.900
yeah. Especially for that role. Yeah. I'm not
01:07:24.900 --> 01:07:26.800
saying always sunny Charlie Day. I'm just saying
01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:28.880
Charlie Day overall. It's his voice. Yeah. He
01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:35.559
does a good job. Yeah. And not to. Yeah. I can't
01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:38.599
think of it now. The Day Man episode. When he
01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:40.880
freaks out, he's like, I'm to here. I'm to here.
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:45.420
Yeah. It's perfect. I had tried thinking of one
01:07:45.420 --> 01:07:50.559
for him. I couldn't find it. Hmm. Well, if that's
01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:53.719
everybody's everything, then why don't we jump
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:57.420
into final thoughts? I don't think it matters
01:07:57.420 --> 01:08:01.739
where I start. Tim, what do you think? I can't
01:08:01.739 --> 01:08:04.019
believe I've never seen this movie. It is such
01:08:04.019 --> 01:08:07.420
a fun time. The soundtrack is unbelievable. It
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backs up the vibe of the movie so well. It feels
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so strange for the movie to have not been a musical
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because that's what I always expect from the
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Muppets. The soundtrack gave it a very different
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energy and it was amazing. The sets and props
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were outstanding displays of craftsmanship. I
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am always amazed at how lived in they can make
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homes appear. It looks like the Muppets have
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been renting that house for the last 15 years.
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I am excited to watch this again. It is definitely
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on my rewatch list. 10 out of 10 handsome families.
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Yay! Perfect score. Great score. Anna? This was
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an incredible Muppet movie about my favorite
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Muppet, Gonzo. He is grappling with his identity,
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then kidnapped by a crazed government agent,
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and gets lightning zapped with a message from
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Cosmic Fish, all in the name of finding his real
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family. He is put through constant peril and
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emotional turmoil. It was heartbreaking and deeply
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funny. The entire Muppet cast was in their element
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for this movie. Witty dialogue and physical gags,
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along with a really great plot, made this a superior
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Muppet movie. I'm already looking forward to
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watching this again soon. Every song was a bop.
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Spaceship was sick. Great fucking movie. 10 out
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of 10 spray bottles containing mind control spray.
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Oh, man. Nice. All right. What do you think,
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Riley? Had a terrible time. Oh, man. Garbage.
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Zero out of 10. Got to bring that rating down.
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Uh, no. This was a fantastically fun movie. It
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did not deserve to lose money, and it deserves
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a much higher rating amongst the fans and everybody
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else. This is definitely now one of my favorite
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Muppet movies immediately. The cast is pretty
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great, and they did a fantastic job highlighting
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the main Muppet cast while also giving fun moments
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to others who weren't in it as much. The soundtrack
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didn't feature any Muppet songs, but it really
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felt like we were listening to Gonzo's personal
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playlist. Fun all around, and I agree completely
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with everything that Tim and Anna said as well,
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because they did a much better job reviewing
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this movie. But I give it 10 out of 10 inappropriate
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King Prawns. Oh. All right. This is the best
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of chaotic Muppet goodness. The Muppets are meant
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to be a spectacle, and this movie more than pulls
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it off. If you looked away for even a second,
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you were missing out completely. And even with
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all of the silliness, The movie doesn't shy away
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from human emotions and the need for connection
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and belonging. This movie was a thrill for me
01:10:39.140 --> 01:10:40.920
start to finish, and I really loved everything
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about it. 10 out of 10 exciting breakfast sequences.
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Nice. Perfect fucking score. And it's a Muppet
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movie? Yeah. You know what wasn't a perfect score?
01:10:51.409 --> 01:10:54.109
I think it was the perfect score. Yeah. This
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is awesome. We should rename this movie The Perfect
01:10:56.689 --> 01:10:59.569
Score. A 10 out of 10. Fuck yeah. All the way
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around. 40 out of 40. Yeah. One out of one. All
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right, Riley, you've got to top this. All right.
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What are you bringing next time? Muppet Treasure
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Island. Yay! Can I do that? That was a joke.
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I didn't think we could do that. Everybody's
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seen that movie. I don't care. I don't care at
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all. Must watch. Hell yeah. Nothing would make
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my day more. I could change mine from what I
01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:24.699
was going to watch to Muppet Treasure Island
01:11:24.699 --> 01:11:26.920
really pretty easily. I'm in a fucking Muppet
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mood, guys. Did we make this the first must watch
01:11:30.020 --> 01:11:33.260
episode? Yeah. Because I haven't seen this since,
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I mean, early teens. It's been a long time since
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I've seen this movie. Then let's watch another
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Muppets movie. We'll come back to this other
01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:45.720
movie that I had. I don't remember that one very
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.239
well at all anyways. So I do, however, remember
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the Muppet Treasure Island. Fuck, that's going
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to be awesome. Can't wait. Can't wait to see
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what snack comes along with this Muppet Treasure
01:11:58.699 --> 01:12:05.000
Island movie. Fluff. Stuffing. Sand witches.
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Well, that's going to do it for us. Please feel
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free to keep your tinfoil hats as a memento and
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