Gremlins 2: The New Batch

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a
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I'm Jesse, I'm Jason To survivea war.
You got to become war becausethis week we recommend Gremlins
2, a new batch baby, batch babyit's the first time you've had a

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quote from a movie within amovie.
Yeah, I know it just like popsup twice and I was like hell,
yeah, it's such a rad quote andI love when they, you know, when
gizmo comes out and he does hisone thing in the whole movie,
he like shoots the flaming, theflaming pencil and then like
they catch him and like theyhave him and then BBK goes.

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What happened to him?
They must have pushed him toofar and he just like has, just
like a bandana on.
That's like it, it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I could have watched.
If the whole movie was justwatching Gizmo, watch Rambo, I
would have watched it he seemslike a perfect companion to
watch movies, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
So I'm going to ask you a question.
This is a big question for me.
Alright, did you like thismovie?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
it was fun.
I don't necessarily think I'llever watch it again what Unless
my kids want to, but like Ithought it was pretty fun to
watch.
Dude this movie's wackadoo andI love it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's so insane it's like just put it in my veins,
Put all the weirdness in it.
Yeah, it was definitelyentertaining.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It's like they just were like all, all right.
What did everybody love aboutthe first?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
one.
The gremlins are wacky.
It's like what if we make themeven more wacky, even wackier?
Let's break the fourth wall.
Let's barely have gizmo in itat all.
Yes, that's.
That's probably the the mostnegative part of it.
It's like where's my boy, gizdude?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
because he like what he crowd tested as like the
least popular, gremlin, I thinkit's the main character.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think it was Joe Dante, the director of the film.
You know he loves makingcreatures and stuff, because
that's kind of what he did hemake makeup and creatures.
And I think he's just likeprobably had more fun making the
Gremlins than he did anythingelse, but they're like the best

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little dudes.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, they're the best part of the movies because
they get into so much shit.
I know they're gremlins theybreak everything.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
and I like the idea that in the first one you know
you have uh murray, uh the oldman, the neighbor guy that kind
of comes in and visits new york.
The first one he's always likethere's gremlins, they mess
everything up.
And then we go to New York andthey're in this clamp like
building that does fuckingeverything and nothing in there

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works properly and I'm like it'sso funny.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
What do they call it?
Automatic door?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, Constantly spins or never spins.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
They had a weird name for it and it's just like just
call it a door and it's greatbecause it's like, because they
did the rules of three.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Comedy comes in threes, where they show you at
the beginning, they show you notworking in the middle, and then
the third one, clamp, comes inand he's trying to go through it
and they try all of them and itdoesn't let them in.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
He just goes to the next door, the normal door.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just think I'm like oh so the first movie.
They're like.
I just think I'm like oh so thefirst movie.
They're like dang, foreignerscan't make anything good anymore
.
And this one they go to likewhere Americans kind of make
everything.
They're like no, this stuffworks.
It's like man.
That's so true.
Nothing ever works that long.
But so did you think it was tooweird, not weird enough?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Equal perfect amount of weird it was a weird, not
weird enough.
Equal, perfect amount of weird.
It was a good amount of weird,yeah, I just.
There's so much happening,there's like we don't have a
story.
We just got to make a bunch ofshit happen.
Yeah, and it's going to be funand it was the story is Gremlins
in a building and there's aresearch lab.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's going to be a buck-ass wild yes, which is
pretty much all I want in amovie with gremlins.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's all you need, and is this?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
You got to have shit that makes them weird and things
that they can destroy, like allthe characters are fun, like,
even the like, the obnoxiousones, because you know you have
the bank lady in the first oneand it's just like's nobody I
absolutely hate and they allhave pretty good funny moments.
Forrester would be the mosthateable one, it's like the
assistant guy.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, the assistant.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
He's kind of a douche .
Oh wait, no, no, no, I meanthis assistant, the guy that was
driving him, his chauffeur inthe very beginning.
He's such a kiss ass yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
He's like really the only one I hated.
Yeah, he's kind of the worstpart, but hey, he gets a chill,
he's he's forced to get marriedto a gremlin.
So you know, I guess it allworked out.
I'm trying to think what's yourfavorite gremlin in the whole
movie?
The brain one.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Brain one.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It was so funny when he popped up with glasses oh, I
drank some formula.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, I guess it made me have glasses whenever I
heard brain gremlin, I thoughtlike it was gonna have this big,
gross brain sticking out.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
The top of it, kind of like the vegetable gremlin
yeah, dude, the vegetable, whatthe?
fuck vegetable gremlin they use.
They take an olive out of themto put in their martini.
That's so that's so good.
Yeah, it's like a booger.
I think the third one should belike good brain, gremlin gives,
yeah, gives, good brain.
It's just the girl again, ohGod, by the way, I think they

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say the female gremlin in one ofthe like the cartoon.
I think she's in the cartoon.
Her name's Greta, oh nice, solater on I'll call her Greta.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I do not remember anything about that cartoon.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, I've never watched it, but I just looked up
like, hey, are any of thegremlins in from New Batch in?
Whatever?
The show is Completely forgotthat there even was a gremlin.
I think it's funny because thebrain gremlin he's the main
gremlin from this.
But the movie makes you thinkit's going to be Mohawk.
Yeah, who turns into a spider,which, fuck yeah, that's rad,

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but all Mohawk wants to do isjust beat the shit out of Gizmo
man.
Yeah, gizmo spends like a goodhour 15 minutes just getting
beat up in this movie.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
He gets the last laugh, though he's changed
forever he's changed forever butyou know he gets pushed too far
.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah alright, we'll hop into some facts.
So, following the massivesuccess of gremlins in 1984,
warner brothers immediatelysought a sequel from director
joe dante.
However, dante passed due tohis interest in other projects,
before returning seven yearslater, when he was given free

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reign by the studios, which iswhy everything's buck wild.
Yes, in his absence, severalplot ideas entertained the
notion of bringing gremlins toplanet Mars or the city of Las
Vegas.
According to the Gremlins 2 DVDcommentary, dante eventually
agreed to make the film whenWarner Brothers allowed him to
retain total creative control,at which point he conjured the

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Skyrise plotline.
So, uh, let's see.
Would you rather do it in Lasvegas the skyrise thing that we
actually got or mars?
Where do you want gremlins togo?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
uh, las vegas las vegas.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
That'd be great.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'd have been a great double feature with mars
attacks in yeah man, becausethey've got, there's so much
shit that they can do like theycan gamble.
Yeah, they can.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Oh, dude you know they'd be gambling.
Yeah, they'd be a whole scenewhere, like, they end up
breaking another gremlin's legsbecause he's cheated and
gambling, he's counting cardsyeah, there's like all those
live shows, man, and they're allabout musical numbers yeah,
it'd be um, who was in marsattacks?
What's that guy's name?
Yeah, yeah, uh, he'd probablystill be in it he's been he's

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been there for like 30 years,right?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh, you'd have the guys with the tigers Just
getting eaten by tigers.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
God, let's do it.
They do need to do Grimlands 3,right, I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I was thinking about what would it look like today?
It couldn't be as it has to.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
If it was all CG, I won't watch it I refuse it, I
want it to look, because evenwhenever they do the practical
effects and it's obvious thatthey superimpose a gremlin in it
and it kind of looks weird.
I prefer that over CG, I'drather, they do that.
All right.
So Daniel Clamp is a parody ofDonald Trump and other
billionaires.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm not going to lie, though If Trump acted like
Clamp, I'd be way more intoTrump.
This guy is just a little sweettreat in this movie.
He's kind of silly, ignorantand, you know, just kind of like
he's a good guy with a lot ofmoney and he doesn't even know
what half of his building isdoing at this point.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
And that's what I immediately thought when I saw
him.
I was like that's Donald.
Trump because he's a realestate, whatever.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Because he's kind of like a greedy power hungry real
estate tycoon.
Yes, Named Daniel Clamp.
The character is amalgamationof Donald Trump and media mogul
Ted Turner, and the film settingClamp Tower is a riff on Trump
Tower and while this is fairlyeasy to recognize, a deleted
scene found on DVD and Blu-rayreleases of the film features a
voice that states you know, I'vebeen thinking, Mr Clamp, you

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could make a great president 26years later Clamp, I'll put the
clamp down.
Back in the day, people werejust like Donald Trump's going
to be our president.
At some point he's going totake over.
I mean, they're like, wouldn'tit be funny if that happened?
That would be crazy.
There's no way, though.
Right, who would want abillionaire to be a president?
Oh, jesus, turns out a wholebunch of people, right?

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Oh, damn right, a whole bunchof states.
So the guy that you know wasbig into Looney Tunes, chuck
Jones.
He came out of retirement to dolike the opening and ending of
the film.
Oh, sure, you know, like BugsBunny and Daffy.
So you know, it starts withthose two, bugs Bunny and Daffy.
These scenes were constructedby Looney Tunes creator, chuck

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Jones, who was talked out ofretirement by Joe Dante to work
on the film.
According to deleted scenes andDVD commentary, the opening
cartoon short was much longerthan seen in the theatrical cut.
This is also a post-creditscene involving Daffy, duck and
Porky Pig.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
So yeah, it's pretty cool.
Yeah, I thought I turned on thewrong movie.
Yeah, Because I turned it onand walked to the kitchen to
pour some coffee and I'm like,oh, what the fuck.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, it kind of throws me off too every time.
I'm like oh yeah, forget aboutthis.
But you know, hey, if you wantto throw some Looney Tunes in a
movie, do it whenever you can.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
And Batman?
Yeah, because I think.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Warner Brothers owned Batman.
Yeah, they own the movie rightsand stuff to him.
I think just in general, theyown Batman.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
They just own him.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, batman's, you're mine.
So the critic in the movie thatlike is talking about Gremlins
1.
Oh yeah, and then he getsattacked by Gremlins.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
He's like it's a 10.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's a 10.
So that's Leonard Maltin.
He's like a famous.
He had a show, you know.
He talked about movies andreviewed them.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
So in the movie Police, guy blows the whistle,
yeah, so in the movie Police.
Guy blows the whistle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So he obviously has a cameo in this and he famously
gave the original Gremlins anegative review.
So, despite being offended bythe critique at the time, Dante
specifically cast Moulton torestate his criticism of 1984
film, during which he issavagely slaughtered by the
gremlins on the fictional moviepolice.
Tv show when the gremlinsassault him as a dismisses the

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video he begs.
I was just kidding, it's a 10dude.
I mean that's amazing, though,right like I would love to do
that.
It's like hey no hard feelings,come be my movie and I'll kill
you.
Let's see.
So I guess there was an alteredVHS scene.

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Oh, if you had it on VHS.
So Gremlins 2 features agimmick taken from William
Castle's the Tingler, in whichGremlin characters attack a
movie theater projection room toappear as if they're breaking
the fourth wall and appearing inthe movie theater itself.
However, two different versionswere constructed for various
release of the film.
For the theatrical release andcable airings, footage of pro

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wrestler Hulk Hogan is shownduring the project projection
scene.
In the VHS version, footage ofJohn Wayne from the movie
Chisholm is shown with an actoroverdubbing his voice.
This was done to make it appearas if the VCR has broken rather
than the theater projector.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, yeah, it's so good.
It was very confusing.
I could see how that would bevery successful.
Yeah, that's a funny-ass scene.
They're doing the shadowpuppets, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
And so apparently Joe Dante came out and said that
Warner Brothers kind of messedwith the release date of this
movie because apparently theywere going to do it a different
day.
But they thought this movie wasgoing to make so much money
that they actually put italongside Dick Tracy in June
1990.
And this was in order to keepthe record setting box office

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performance of Batman intact.
So they didn't want to messwith their record-breaking movie
.
So they kind of put this nextto a movie that you know like
wouldn't make as much money.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm like well, that sucks.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
How about we all just make a lot of money here?
And one of the last ones is JoeDante prefers the sequel over
the original.
Hell yeah brother.
Ones is john joe dante prefersthe sequel over the original.
Hell yeah, brother.
Um, although the 1984 originalearned more money and better
critical reviews, director joedante has stated on the dvd
commentary that he actuallyprefers the sequel.
According to dvd commentary forgrim original gremlins, dante

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stated that he still has no ideawhy the first movie was so
successful.
In addition, to have a biggerbudget, more creative control,
dante enjoyed making what hecalled a parody anti-sequel that
poked fun of the original andskewered movie sequels in
general.
That's wild yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Wild as hell.
I thought the bar scene in thefirst one was so incredible with
the flash dance.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, that was great with the flash dance.
Yeah, man, that was great.
I forgot about that, I know,but in like that one it's just
kind of like chaos.
This one's just like a partyfor the gremlins baby.
It's just a nice fun party.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's so much more ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I know In every way.
And it's just like one of thosethings, you know, I love it.
I love it, baby, I fucking loveit.
I was looking at the wrong one.
There's some more facts, but Imean, I don't want to go too
long on facts, so, um, I guesswe should probably just hip hop
into this movie oh, here's afact.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Uh, how much does grandpa fred look exactly like
al lewis as grandpa munster yeah, that is definitely what they
are going for.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
But it's played by Robert Protsky, who's just kind
of like this.
He kind of got his start.
I know he did theater in kindof like one of the, I think like
Chicago and he's very much aChicago guy and he's great in
this movie called Thief and he'slike the bad guy.
He's usually a bad guy and he'sgreat in this movie called
Thief and he's like the bad guy.
He's usually a bad guy andstuff and he's just.
He just looks it.

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I don't know, but he's so goodin Thief.
We should do Thief at somepoint.
Fuck yeah, love Thief.
It's a Michael Mann movie.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
He did Heat, collateral, things like that oh
cool, and I've never yeah Avideo game called Steve.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
So, yeah, pretty great cast.
Got Zach Galligan as Billy,phoebe Cates as Kate, howie
Mandel as Gizmo, which is thisbook as well, they should have
given him a goatee, yeah.
Tony Randall does Brain Gremlin.
John Glover is Daniel Clamp, myboy, so funny.

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Robert Prosky is grandpa fred.
Robert picardo is forresterchris for lee baby, dr catheter,
such a good name.
Um, and you know that's prettymuch like the main.
The main people, most peopleunderstand dick miller is murray
futterman.
Of course, love the guy so good.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Are the scientists like the twins?
Are they real twins?
Yeah, they're real twins.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
And their names is Martin and Lewis, and don't ask
me which one's which.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Doesn't matter.
This is the most interestingscientist experience I've ever
done.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
When I was doing notes and you know you first see
one, it says Lewis.
I tell you every time If youlook in the trash that's where
you find stuff.
And then I was like, oh yeah,this guy.
And then whenever it shows backup later and there's twins.
And I was like shit, I forgotthere's twins.
Which one's which?
This is going to make my noteshard.

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But then luckily they dideverything and the Loose, all
right.
Hell yeah, let's go baby, allright.
Gremlins 2.
A new batch we open up with theWarner Brothers Looney Tunes
opening.
It's like what, if I just didit all serious which is great,
you know, it's fine I feel badfor Daffy.

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Can we just talk about how,like you know's fun.
I feel bad for Daffy.
Can we just talk about how, how, like you know, bugs Bunny is
like the main Looney Tune, butlike mad respect and love for
Daffy, who's my favorite of allthe Looney Tunes.
I know he's so good, just wishhe'd win some.
Let him win.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Bugs don't have to win every time they don't let
him win because he's kind of ajerk sometimes, I guess.
But so is Bugs Bunny.
He's just more charismatic.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Bugs is the biggest jerk he's constantly seducing
men by being a lady and he'slike just kidding and they're
all like what?
I'm so confused and then hedrops like an anvil on their
head or something.
No, but I love Daffy Duck, madrespect.
It goes Daffy and then it goesMarvin the Martian and then it
goes Bugs for Me.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Mine was was always Wile E Coyote hell, I didn't
even think about.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Okay, no, it's Daffy, then it's Wile E and then it's
Marvin the Martian.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
I love Marvin, though I don't know he's got that cool
hair monster, or no, that's.
That's just an episode episode.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's just like its own.
Yeah, it's its own thing, itsown its own guy.
And then you got to, of course,what's his name?
Shooter McG.
Shooter McGavin yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Oh no, no, that's a.
What's his name?
Yosemite Sam.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yosemite Sam.
Oh, that got.
It's like it's New York City,baby.
This is all shots from Superman4, by the way, oh, really, yeah
, nice, just a little fun.
And then we get into Chinatown,and then we get the Chinatown
music, of course, because youcan't just go to Chinatown and
have normal music.
It always has to become somesort of Asian type of music.

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It's like no, I can tell we'rein Chinatown by the buildings,
guys.
So we see a limo drivingthrough.
Then we get a businessman whowill learn is Forrester, what's
a limo doing here?
Yeah, what In Chinatown what?
And we see Mr Ween, my boy Ween.

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Funny thing is he said if y'alldo a third one, I have to come
back, even if it's a flashback.
He's going to have kids, yeah,cause he, you know he sadly dies
in this way.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's horrible Thinking about him and his new
wife.
It's just so awful, who.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Forrester.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, the crippled lady.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
I hope it worked out for him.
Oh God, a man shows Mr Wing avideo of Daniel Clamp.
Daniel is trying to convinceWing to sell his business to him
.
Classic gentrification, youknow what I mean.
This big company is trying tobuy all these houses and
businesses His store is prettycool.
The ironic part is nothing inthere works either.

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It's just these movies areabout how nothing works.
And then the gremlins show upand then they're like it's the
gremlins fault.
I'm like I kind of think it'syour fault, guys.
Y'all just can't build things.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I just thought it was really funny after they talked
to Mr Mr Wing.
He just dies, yeah, like aminute later.
Your idea was so bad, I died.
Is it television that killedhim?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, I think so, but yeah.
So after they show him thevideo, mr Wing says step off,
bitch, they are mad and leaveand leave the TV.
Our boy Gizmo is caged andturns the TV to Rambo to survive
the war, you have to become war.
Mr Wing coughs and outside thebusinessman says he's probably
going to die.
Turns out he died.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
He's got like a counter.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, and then we cut to Clamp network.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
we see that mr wing died.
Fuck, the shop belongs to clampnow because the news is
covering it.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Wow, yeah, because it was like the last business that
would not like give in to him.
I guess now he owns all ofchinatown.
I guess, um, we cut to gizmo,who's just alone and sad in the
building.
Um, uh, and he looks so sad Ifeel like I could die.
Did my owner just die?
yeah did my owner that only keptme in a cage and never let me
do anything, die now.

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I'm sad, but let's be real.
Uh mogwai are just littleshitheads.
They might not be as bad as thegremlins, but they do not
listen and do whatever they want.
So they're cats?
Yes, let's see.
Yeah Also, they startdemolishing the building and he
has to run for his life.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Hey guys, let's check if there's any live animals in
there right, or and you thinkthat they at least get all the
crap out.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, there's got to be something in there.
I mean, I guess it's all.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Get your TV that.
You guess it's all.
Get your TV that you, if it'sall worthless, I guess?
Sure, but like man.
Has anybody really gone through?
Are there any terracottawarriors in?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
there, right, but I mean to a billionaire,
everything's worthless, right.
Yes.
Unless it's yours.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like how Martha Stewart or whatever.
I think there was a fan thatasked her if she could have one
of the flower arrangements thatthey had made on the show and
she's like, nah, we just throwthose out.
Those people don't deserve them.
God.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
I love that we just allow Martha Stewart to be a
terrible person.
We all idolize her for it.
It's crazy.
It's like she's allowed to bejust mean, but because she hangs
out with Snoop Dogg and doesn'tlook like a woman that should
go to jail, we're all just likehell.
Yeah, she's badass.
So yeah, he runs for his life.
It's cute.
I love when he's running andscared.

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It's just because it's justlike you know he's so animated
and he's there's that really badpart where he's walking.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It kind of looks like CGI, like bad.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
CGI.
Yeah, it's like they uh,superimpose them.
Yes, that's the word I waslooking for.
Yeah, um, and then we see himin the street laying next to
some trash and a man named lewisgrabs him.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, who the fuck he's like?
Gotta go downtown to find weirdstuff I don't know, maybe he
lives in chinatown.
This guy's just picking upanimals off the street for tests
in his lab.
I'm sorry if I see that I'mgonna be like I don't know,
maybe he lives in Chinatown,this guy's just picking up
animals off the street for testsin his lab.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
I'm sorry If I see that I'm going to be like I
don't know what this is, but Ihave to have it.
And then we meet up with Billyand Kate.
They think everybody is so rudein New York.
They're from a small town,classic New York stuff.
Hey, I'm walking here, I'venever actually been there, yeah
me neither.
So they go to clamp.
We see the weird-ass revolvingdoor.
This guy gets stuck in it andjust keeps spinning.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Billy and Kate.
He goes backwards.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Throws him out.
So good, Kate gives Billy a peptalk.
Billy draws up.
We learn that Billy kind ofdraws up concepts for rat-ass
buildings.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
That building looked insane man With the dragon
around it With a pair of thinglooked insane.
Man with the like the dragonaround it.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, I was like y'all really gonna build, that
it's gonna be.
There's gonna be so muchmaintenance on that like a fire
breathing out the mouth.
Yeah, it's so cool, um and this.
We kind of meet marlo, which ishis boss and stuff.
He gets into trouble becauseforster comes in.
He starts saying you have aplant?
Yeah, company policy, we'reonly allowed to have certain

(24:05):
things that the company allows.
And then he kind of looks atthe picture he drew his hometown
.
That looks really good, goodart.
Yeah, which is like blocks andcircles that don't look like
anything Fucking corporate art,classic, it's all very corporate
.
Yeah, it sucks, and I guessthat's the theme.
And I'm assuming Joe Dante iskind of saying something about
the movie business and sequelshere, because this place doesn't

(24:29):
like creativity, no, right,which I think this movie is
super creative, obviously.
Sure, you can't if you don'tlike it.
Or if you do like it, you can'tsay it's not creative, right,
and I think that's kind of thewhole theme of this movie is
just like joe dante was allowedto do whatever he wanted with
the sequel and it's like, hey,we could have got this toned
down, hey, basic art version ofgremlins, but instead we got

(24:53):
this like techno colorkaleidoscope of a movie here.
Yeah, um, uh.
Then we cut to.
We start seeing that they havethis crazy security system where
they can like zoom in and theyhave, if something's triggered,
they can they get an alarm forit.
And so there's this guy, theguy from the movie disney movie,

(25:16):
look of the irish.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, he gets fired for takinga smoke break.
It's like, damn, they did myboy like everybody just smokes
everywhere.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Like what is the problem here?

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I know, right next to a bunch of gasoline.
The problem is he was taking abreak.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
He's gonna take a break.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Smoking had nothing to do with it yeah and uh, the
guy that gets fired from, lookof the irish, he's also in the
burbs uh, joe dante.
Yeah, that's the one Irecognize him from, yeah which
we'll have, uh, the securityguard a little later.
That gets Billy.
It's also Tom Hanks' friend inthe burbs.
Oh shit, joe Dante did the burbsa little later, after this
movie, okay, or a little before,something like that.

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So then we see Kate.
She's a tour guide in the ClampBuilding the coolest hat, yeah,
I know.
And they make fun of the hatlater and it's like fuck off,
marla, that's stupid.
So then we cut to Grandpa.
Fred who's filming a vampirekid show?
Yeah, but they're like no one'sgoing to get scared at 3 am in
the morning.
I'm like, technically that'swhen people watch horror movies

(26:16):
if they're weird-ass fakes.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, that's whenever the Crypt Keeper would be on.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, but I love Grandpa Fred.
Yeah, he's fun.
He's a very fun character inthis movie.
He looks wild.
He's so down and out becausehe's like, oh, they don't play
the moan sound.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh, and his show's failing.
They bump him to 3 am and he'slike no one who watches TV at 3
am is going to be scared of across-eyed puppet.
It's like that's true, true,yeah, yeah, um, then fred brings

(26:51):
up and talks about the weirdexperiments clamp does.
We'll find out a little soon,as in the next scene we meet dr
catheter who is wanting diseases.
Um little quote peggy the labreceptionist says dr cath
catheter, this just came for you, dr catheter.
Oh, splendid, this must be mymalaria.
Sees, sees that it's not.
Rabies.
I've got rabies and I'msupposed to get the flu this
week.
I mean, dialogue like that isjust love it.

(27:15):
So funny.
This is classic humor.
A lot of prop humor in this one, yeah it's prop heavy, coming
from a man who loved to makeprops.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Joe Dante, this giant bean, or is it a peapod that he
comes out with later?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Right.
So in the research lab we seeelephants and monkeys and
apparently the monkeys werescared of the gremlins so when
they were, like you know, goingto release them out so that they
could kind of come out andinteract with the gremlins, they
all went to the corner of theircage and just hit.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Start throwing shit.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
They're just like terrified of them apparently.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm with two man.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
So we see the twin researchers Martin and Lewis.
They show the doc Gizmo.
They show how cute Gizmo is byplaying a song on the radio and
letting Giz cook baby.
But of course the doctor wantsto cut him open and do
experiments, you get this offthe street.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, let's fucking fuck with it.
Let's cut it open.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Let's do some experiments.
What did that brain look like?
And, of course, gizmo's scared.
What'd that brain do?
What'd that brain do?
Billy at his desk is frustratedbecause nothing really works in
his office.
Nothing in his office, nothingin this whole place.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
The flashlights, anything.
None of it works.
No, um, kind of like his dad,though, right, oh yeah, because
I thought he had something to dowith this, because they talk
about the self-cleaning ashtrayand that was something he made
in the first one yeah, I thinkso I believe it was like the
ashtray that had, or it was asmokeless ashtray that's what it
was smokeless ashtray, whichdoesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
No, no, um, but for if you're billy, you're like
golly dude.
Can I be somewhere wheresomething works for once in my
life?
Yeah, because he had all thosekitchen gadgets that just
destroyed everything the juicerthat just sprayed juice
everywhere and it's like, heyguys, just stop using this stuff
that's such a fun, likewhenever you have a character

(29:06):
like that.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Because they did it with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
You know you got the madscientist that makes just the
dumbest shit.
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I love it.
It's always fun.
Gotta love bad scientists.
And a funny thing at the end ofthis movie, when everything you
know is saved apparently hisdad was was there's supposed to
be a scene with his dad where hebrings Gizmo a wetsuit so that?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
he can't get wet.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
It was too long of a scene and there is already kind
of.
I guess they thought it was toolong.
So then he hears, oh yeah,Billy being frustrated.
And then he starts hearing amailman whistle the Gizmo famous
whistle song.
And he asked the mailman wherehe heard that song.
So he goes to the research area.
We see the twins injecting highvoltage serum and cheese to

(29:52):
give to a rat so they can powernew york.
They put a light bulb too.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
This reminded me of that.
The thing from step brotherswho's like r and d.
What do you got Like?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
put white out on a, b , yeah, so good, um so, um,
billy goes into rescue gizmo.
Extremely easy, yeah, it waslike went in there, got them,
walked out and it's like, well,damn, that was pretty easy.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Cause there's no form or like process going on.
It's just like what we're gonnado next guys like shoot.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, grab an animal I don't know, put some shit in
it so I don't know, like what ifwe made a bat, a porcupine
that'd be kind of crazy righthell yeah, um so genius yeah
billy rescues gizmo, he goesinto the men's room worst rip
men's room ever yeah, can you?

Speaker 2 (30:44):
imagine going in somewhere like, oh I'm sorry, Go
ahead.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's like it starts talking to you and you go in.
Hey, mister, welcome to themen's room.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Hope you washed your hands.
Yeah, what if one of them waslike hey man, nice cock.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, Wow, you're well endowed.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
It's like yeah, sir Jerry, you should get that
looked at you sit on the toilet.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Wow, you're so big you're about to touch the water.
Oh no, like it only sayspositive things, though, it's
like hell, yeah, it does, that'sright, nice stream, yeah.
But we get the.
They reunited gizmo and billyback together, um, and so he
takes them back to his office.
He tells gizmo gizmo to chilland hang out in the drawer and
not make a noise.
You know the thing that herefused to do and all of them

(31:31):
can't do.
And then suddenly Clamp pays avisit and it's the first time we
get to see him.
He's happy, energetic, he'skind of like a dimwit, almost a
little bit, or he just knowsnothing about his entire
business.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, because he's a real estate guy.
Yeah, Because he's a realestate guy yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
And he's just like he buys properties, sells them,
I'm sure for a lot of money, andthen just like doesn't know
what else to do with his lifebecause he's a billionaire.
Yeah, usually, I guess theyjust get so bored they decide to
get into politics, becausethat's where this movie goes.
Yeah, so he loves Billy'sdrawing that he sees, except
Marla earlier told him that oh,you need to put trees in it.

(32:08):
And then he does, and thenClamp comes in.
It's like there's too manytrees and it's like damn it.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I love when he picks up the picture of his hometown.
He's like what's this?
Can I own this?
Yeah, Do I own this.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It's like I own everything in here, right.
It's like I own everything inhere, right.
And then we cut to Marla, whois super excited about the visit
Clamp just paid and says thiscould mean a promotion for both
of them.
She asked him to dinner to talkabout it.
She obviously wants the bone,oh, billy.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, she just likes, power.
Yeah, she does.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
It's just you know a classic, something that doesn't
age well.
He tells Gizmo to stay put andsomeone will get him while he
goes to dinner.
He immediately gets out Withthe little paper clip rope.
Yeah, he doesn't even likereally use it, he just kind of
falls down.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
It's fun though.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I just love how you know creative these little
mogwai are.
And just you know he's justwatched so much TV.
He's like, oh, obviously I got.
I gotta throw this down even ifI don't use it.
So billy tells kate that he hasa meeting and tells her that
gizmo is there.
She flips her shit and isscared she's like please, no,
don't do this to me again.
Um, she doesn't want to takehim home.

(33:21):
Obviously he explains the rulesagain.
You know, no eating aftermidnight can't't get them wet,
and they love TV.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I know it's so funny when she says oh yeah, and don't
let them eat after midnight.
Good job, Good job.
You're good.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, so let's see he walks off and she follows after
him and sees that walks offwith Marla, who of course puts
her arm around his arm and it'slike Billy, Billy, step the fuck
up, Keep it professional.
Yeah, so Gizmo hangs out in thehallway and a janitor is fixing
a water fountain and Gizmotries to dodge the water.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Is this the dumbest way to get wet?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
I know, it's like dude Gizmo, just run further
away.
But he does drive.
But I mean he is staying in thelittle office section he was
told to stay in, so I guess youcan't get too mad at him.
This is so silly.
Yeah, he tries to dodge thewater, but the janitor guy just
keeps fixing it and making itworse and go everywhere and it
ends up going onto the paint,dripping on down and then, like,

(34:19):
slowly falls right on Gizmo andthen he starts popping out
little guys.
So something fun I read aboutapparently there was they're
going to be more colorful Mogwaiin this one because of the
paint.
oh yeah so the color of thepaint they kind of did it with
like the brown and white, andthen one's like black yeah, but
it didn't really show the paintrunning.

(34:40):
Yeah, where the water is yeah,they decided it was going to be
kind of too complicated and costtoo much money to do, so they
decided not to do it, but theydid.
Let them have like smallvariations of color Cool.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Were these?
The same things that popped offof them in the last one?
Yeah, so they just.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
So they pop out of them, and then once they eat hey
we're back.
Yeah, well, it's like they allhave like different.
Everyone that grows like has adifferent personality, like the
yeah, the crazy googly odd one,but you know what bro?
It's time to let the fun begincause now we're fully into the
movie, so we see a bunch ofgoofy mogwai.
They immediately start causingtrouble.

(35:18):
So you have George.
He's the black and white andhe's grumpy and he's always with
Lenny.
You got Lenny.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Not very bright, has buck teeth and hangs with George
those funny buck teeth.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
You have Daffy, the most childish of the gremlins.
He's the youngest.
So they kind of base it offlike age, on how they portrayed
him, because George is theoldest, lenny is the second
oldest, daffy is the youngest.
That's why they made him themost childish.
And you got Mohawk, who's likethe second youngest.
He's the badass, but he becomesthe leader of the Gremlins and

(35:49):
he's essentially thereincarnation of Spike from the
first movie.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, okay, so it's not the same exact person.
Yeah, but it's like Gremlin,it's the bad one.
Yeah, did you notice in thethree or Alvin and chipmunks?
Really, one of them wasTheodore and the other one was
Simon.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh my God, I didn't notice that at all.
Hell yeah, jason, that's rad.
Um, so, out of these four,which one's your favorite?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Uh, uh, the buck teeth one was pretty funny.
I guess.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Lenny yeah, fucking Daffy goes wild.
Mohawk looks rad, but Daffy, Ithink, is kind of my funny With
those crazy eyes, yeah, and he'sthe one that's getting into the
pain and gets taken home.
So Mohawk, george and Lennythrow Gizmo in the vents and
lock him in.
So cute.
And I guess, daffy, that thatone does not care about beating

(36:46):
up on gizmo like the other.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah what the hell, like he just gave birth to y'all
, yeah, well, it's like theyknow that he's he's, though that
he's, he's the I'm assuming,like mohawk wants to kill him
because he's like oh, he's, wecame from him.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
We got to kill him because he'll be the leader.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know how, uh, they're just
me, they're just bullies.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know how.
They're just me, they're justbullies.
I don't know how the society ofgremlins works.
Let's go, yeah.
So Moe, george and Lenny escapeinto the building.
Kate thinking Daffy is Gizmo.
She takes him home.
It's like hey, dude, did younot remember what Gizmo look

(37:19):
like?
Do you remember him acting likethis?
Okay, maybe we have a situationhere.
Okay, it's like did you notwatch the movie you're in?
Yeah, remember that one.
We talk about it a lot on thisone, yeah, and she thinks New
York made them hyper, becauseshe's like this is what New York
will do to you.
It's like no, it usually makesyou more grumpy and hate people.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I don't know.
You got to be on your grind allthe time, I guess.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, cut to the other three mogwai and they're
in the food court watchingpeople eat.
And then Marla and Billy areeating in a weird Canadian
restaurant.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, they clean the fish right in front.
Yeah, it's like oh yummy.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
She starts talking about their relationship and
puts her foot between his legs.
Then they bring out a moosedessert.
Do you want the antler?
He leaves, but Marla kisses himbefore he leaves, leaving
lipstick mark on his face, dang.
That's why man's gotta carryyou know, mirrors the little
pocket napkin yeah that's whatthat's for.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Is that what it's for ?
It's when you cheat on yourwife as a businessman don't
cheat on your wife, guys.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Come on, let's be good here, guys.
Kate is trying to take care ofDaffy, but he is fucking insane.
The guy can't eat.
That's all the model I want todo is eat.
They're tiny but they love toeat.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
So they can eat all day long, as long as they don't
eat after.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yeah, and I love, we'll get to it, we'll get to
this.
So Billy comes home, kate seeslipstick, she's pissed.
He immediately sees it's notgizmo and Daffy is going apeshit
.
And then the doorbell rings.
Oh, the poor Futterman, thepoor Futterman.
But it's great because Murray,like nobody, believed Murray

(39:03):
about his wife, didn't believehim about the Gremlins which is
funny.
So they came to visit.
Bad timing, looking at thechurch, yeah, it's like, damn
guys, y'all pick the worst dayto come.
But it's good for Murray, causehe gets to realize he's not
crazy, he's like finallysomebody believes me.
Um, so Murray's immediatelybeing racist, like he wasn't the
first one, but this timetowards Russians.
Um and K and and Billy.

(39:26):
They're like oh, our place isbeing fumigated and uh, so you
have to get a hotel.
And I'm like damn, dude in NewYork City.
Huh, the Futtermans are alllike damn, they really don't
like us, I guess.
And so back at the clamp.
Uh, studios are building, thegang is eating up a storm just
watching people eat, and they'reone's just got ice cream going
directly in his mouth.

(39:47):
Yeah, squeeze the juice.
Kate and Billy show up.
It's after midnight, bum, bum,bum.
So they get the idea to turnoff the water so that they can't
multiply.
But Rick Documan, right, yeah,I think that's how you say his
name.
It's a weird last name.
Show up to stop him.
This is a guy from the Burbs.

(40:07):
Oh shit, the best friend fromthe Burbs.
I love him.
He's so funny.
Yeah, he is really funny.
Satan is cool, satan is afriend.
God we got to do that soon.
Hell yeah, maybe next OctoberWe'll get Natalie on she's the
one that showed me it.
But Daffy goes crazy on him andbites his nose, bites Rick's

(40:28):
nose.
The guy, rick takes him awayand takes Billy away and he says
look guy, I'm pointing a gun atyou, even though I'm just a
security guard, you're not thataggressive, I don't know.
I'm pointing a gun straight atyour chest, touching you with it
, kill shot, crazy.
So Rick takes Billy away and wepan up to see some cocoons I

(40:52):
didn't know they cocooned.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, whenever they ate.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah, that's uh, okay yeah so, uh, then we cut to
kate goes to get him out of jail.
This was essentially.
The whole point of this was hey, we have to let them just say
so, let's make him just go tojail for a long time.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I think I missed this entire part of my dog, hit the
controller and fast forwarded itlike 10 minutes.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, I mean it's.
There's so little that happens.
You just miss some mimesgetting arrested, essentially.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
But this is fucking deserve.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah.
Those minds.
They're always puttinginvisible walls up, getting
stuck in them.
We have to help them.
Fucking talented.
So we cut to the cocoons,opening up the new gremlins,
though.
See Gizmo back in the vent.
He falls right.
Oh wait, no, Hold on.
So the cocoons open up.

(41:45):
We see Gizmo back in the ventsand of course he ends up falling
and falls right where thecocoons hatched.
Oh, brother, and the threegremlins grab him and beat the
shit out of him.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
You think for a second that he's going to?
It's going to be like a DieHard scene with Gizmo.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
I know it's like they went Rambo instead of Die.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Hard.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Wow, I think Die Hard was probably coming out while
they were filming.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
So they probably didn't.
I don't think it was out quiteyet because I think that was 89.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
No, I think that was 84.
We'll talk about when we do itso.
And then we see Kate and Billy.
They're gearing up while Gizmois being tortured Because that's
the favorite thing in thesemovies they love to torture
Gizmo, I don't know.
It's so sad.
And they're gearing up bygetting these flashlights super
bright flashlights that barelywork.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, they're like the weird boxy flashlights.
They're terrible.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Are they even what I'm like?
Are they supposed to bepyramids?
They're rat powered.
So then Marla shows up flirtswith Billy in front of Kate.
Kate says Billy is in bigtrouble if we survive all this.
Billy tries to tell Forresterabout the gremlins.
He's like comes in there.
Hey, you have to listen to me.
There's going to be all thesegreen things.

(43:00):
You can't feed them aftermidnight.
Blah, blah, blah.
And he thinks that Billy isgoing crazy because you know
it's insane.
Hey, and he thinks that Billyis going crazy because you know
they're like hey, we justarrested you.
Dude, what are you doing here?
How'd you get back in here?
So Kate shows a tour of theMicrowave with Marge show you
have the Asian tourist.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
that's like just wants to take pictures of
everything.
I am a camera.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
And how good does the bologna and bean dip roll up
sound to you in a microwave?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Not great, I'm gonna say, just to be honest here you
microwave that your house isstinking.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
but I do love the idea of microwave with Marge
it's just a show aboutmicrowaving things, but she
never uses the microwave.
I know they never show her thismakes really bad sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
I could go for a sandwich, though I love
sandwiches, yeah.
And then we cut to Billy, who'sgetting a bunch of questions
about the gremlins from all thepeople that watch monitors and
stuff.
Questions we all asked afterthe first movie, like what
happens about time zones, doesthat matter?
And Billy's like I don't know,okay.
I was just told to say thelines in the first movie.
But I love that.

(44:05):
I love how self-aware thismovie is.
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yeah.
What if he gets a seed stuck inhis tooth?
Yeah, and then eats it later.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Eats it later, he's like he technically didn't start
eating it after midnight.
He started before midnight.
But does that count?
Billy's like dude I don't knowhim.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
And then the chinese man died, like I can't ask him,
yeah, and then mohawk attackattacks for the computer like
what?

Speaker 1 (44:32):
yeah, how'd you get in there?
Just like punches the shit outof guy billy, blinds him with
the light and now forsterbelieves kind of.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
He still says he's crazy I know, but they're like
they.
They don't even really care,they're just like oh, that was a
thing that happened Well theyhave a research lab turning
things into bats.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
They're like it's just another experiment going
wrong, those crazy guys.
So we cut back to Marge, who'scooking.
She opens a pot and Daffy popsout.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
So I guess if it's like chicken stock, it doesn't
count as water or whatever.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah, I guess it's considered once it's considered
food.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
If it's too starchy, they can't.
It doesn't work like that.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, it's probably too thick to absorb into their
body, I guess I don't know.
Then George and Lenny pop out,they start throwing pots into
the microwave and turn it on,and then it explodes.
This was their bright idea toturn the sprinklers on.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Uh oh oh, so you think they knew that was gonna
happen yeah, that's what theywere planning to do.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
They wanted to start a fire cause they wanted babies.
I like to think that I mean Idon't know.
It seems like George is kind ofsmart.
He seems to hate that Lenny'sso dumb cause Lenny's constantly
doing something and hittingGeorge and George is like like
he throws the pot out of himwhile he's standing next to the
microwave yeah, so good Forsterhe would immediately murder him

(45:54):
with a gun.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, like he did the other guy yeah, yeah, the brain
.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
So Forster is watching from security and the
whole building is malfunctioningbecause of gremlins.
Classic Mohawk is stilltorturing Gizmo by copying him a
lot in the copy machine,because they're little shitheads
.
That was so funny.
Kate gets into the elevator butthe gremlins are controlling it
.
It's like go up to 34.

(46:20):
Up, up, up.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
It's like sounding alarm.
Yeah, that was a cool scene.
They're all on top, eww I meanmean the gremlins are.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I mean, minions are kind of based off gremlins a
little bit right yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
they have to be.
I think they make the same,they do the, they do the whole
laugh thing and that's why Ilike minions yeah, I love
minions, they're very similar togremlins and they wear goggles,
overalls.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
So Clamp, who is just bored and chilling in his
office, and he's like a bitbored billionaire in the offices
in the clouds it's so tall of abuilding While talking to his
secretary a gremlin, let's dosome memos.
We cut to the secretary thathe's talking to in the gremlins,
puts a rat trap sandwich andthen she just disappears.

(47:05):
Yeah.
It's in, I guess is a.
It ran away.
She died and went to hell.
I guess and it's like you knowthe way you hold a sandwich the
rat trap wouldn't work, do youstick?

Speaker 2 (47:14):
your tongue inside the sandwich before you think
about it's like it would be.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
It would be all over the.
It's like you'd bite into it.
Be like, oh, there's wood, andthen the bread would not allow
it to close, but it's a good bit, no matter what.
And then Clamp checks it out,gets attacked by one, he's able
to put it in the shredder thoughthat was sweet.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
All the goo yeah, that was awesome.
When the elevator crashes andthey all get splattered yeah, it
was awesome, so good.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
And then Billy enforcer show up.
Billy tries to tell him toclose the building down and not
let them out at night.
Um, kate, who's gettingattacked in the elevator?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Um, like, they're literally like punching at that
point grabbing at her axes, yeah, so good.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Um, then Daffy shows up and does what Daffy do and
messes with the elevator moreand plummets the elevator to the
ground, killing a lot ofgremlins, but Kate survives
somehow.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
I guess the bounce of the gremlins maybe.
Yeah, it kind of slowed it down.
She's like lifting off theground.
That's going so fast she wouldhave also been splattered.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
I think Gremlins make great, like you know, airbags.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
There's just a bunch of marshmallow gremlins.
Like you know, airbags.
There's just a bunch ofmarshmallow gremlins, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
It's like the Mike Lindell pillow gremlins yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
So Clamp tells Forrester and Billy that they
are taking care of it and thatthey want no media coverage on
this.
Turns out there'll be so muchmedia coverage on this you can't
stop them.
He tells Forrester toexterminate them and Billy is to
help, since he knows about them.
And then we cut to LeonardMoulton, the critic, giving the
first gremlins a bad review.

(48:54):
And then the gremlins show upand kill him.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
They tap it on his shoulder and then they put a
finger on his neck.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
He's like I'm just kidding, it's a 10.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
It's a 10 so I guess that show is being shot inside
the building.
Yeah, in the.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
TV studio yeah then we cut to Mohawk.
He's still torturing Gizmo withthe train and shit, yeah, it's
so good he's all tied to like adamsel in distress.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It's so wild it just kind of derails.
Yeah, it just derails andGizmo's like ow.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Poor and Gizmo's like ow.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Poor Gizmo.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
And then we cut to the twins, Martin and Lewis.
They are in a research lab in agremlin drinking vegetable
medley and start sproutingvegetables all over them.
What it's like okay, that's theone where it's like that's,
that's the other idea, that'sthe last idea.
And I will say, if you haven'twatched the key and pill, uh

(49:45):
sketch about gremlins, to go onYouTube right now.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Watch it.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
It's one of the funniest things yes, so good,
especially after you watch it.
It's probably good Even if youwatch a gremlin too.
It's like a great ad for themovie.
Cause it's like I have to watchthat.
Um.
One gremlin drinks a brainformula and becomes very smart
and can talk.
And also glasses I thought thatit was glasses now.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I thought that it was just going to be glasses.
Before he started talking, Iwas cracking up.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
It would be funny.
He's like oh, this actuallyjust gave me bad eyesight.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
And then he kind of sounds like a dude from Seattle.
What's his name?
Frazier?
It kind of sounds like Ithought it was going to be
Frazier.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Let's see.
Let's look up the Tony Randall.
Let's see what he's been in.
Oh, he does like a bunch ofvoices, for he's like in the odd
couple TV show.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
I thought his, his, his voice, stuff with this
gremlin is so good.
Yeah, he really is the dial,his dialogue is really good.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
The voice is what makes the brain gremlin, so
distinguished.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
And then he's supposed to be really smart but
he's still saying all thiscrazy-ass shit about gremlins.
But he's saying it smartly.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah.
And then Dr Catheter comes inand tries to reason with him,
and then he's just kind of longspeeches All his speeches are
very long.
And then, while Brimland talks,another Gremlin drinks a bat
formula and can now fly.
Let's go, baby.
Then he injects him withsunscreen yeah.
And then the Brimland is likeyou see, my boy, we'll put this

(51:19):
into you.
And then we can now go outsideDaywalkers, yeah.
And so he injects into the batGremlin the bat G outside
daywalkers.
Yeah.
And so he injects into the batgremlin.
The bat gremlin fires throughthe wall, creating a batman
symbol.
Hell, yeah, that's how you know.
We're just having some fun now,oh god.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
And now he's in the sun crazy I know, I thought they
were all gonna have sunscreenblood or whatever, but I guess
they only had enough for one.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, I know it's like brain gremlins should be
like all right, make more now.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Yeah, they did have a lot yes.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I don't know, so we get a bunch of scenes with
gremlins causing trouble.
You have them in the food courtpopping out of stuff.
You got them in the stockmarket, buy, sell, buy, buy, buy
, buy.
And then, like the brain,gremlin is like actually like,
oh, you see, we need to investinto this.
You see, the building iscompletely overrun at this point

(52:12):
.
We see this as Kate runsthrough the building, one
flashes her.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
That's what he was doing.
Yeah, that's what he did, yeahhe flashed her.
She kicks him right in the junk.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yes, which a little later to the Kate story, we'll
have to bring this scene back.
Oh good, kate pulls a firealarm.
I love this fire alarm.
Building announcements yes,fire, the untamed element,
oldest of man's mysteries, giverof warmth, destroyer of forests
.
Right now, this building is onfire.

(52:42):
Woman in corridor what Buildingannouncement?
Yes, the building is on fire.
Leave the building.
Enact the age-old drama ofself-preservation Dude, this
building fucking goes.
Oh yeah, I could work here,yeah it's great Every day would
be wild.
Yeah, so the Futtermans are outand about touring New York.
Then Murray spots the BatGremlin.

(53:04):
He's like no, he's coming afterme Bad day to visit new york
man.
He is able to throw the gremlinin concrete where the gremlin
gets covered and he also getslike a massive cut on his
forehead from its foot.
Yeah, that was one scene when Isaw that I was like shit, I
forgot about the massive cut.
It disappears immediately.

(53:24):
But I was like I hope ifjason's kids watch it that's not
too traumatizing watch itbecause they never want to watch
what I want to watch.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Well, they would love I know, although, what my
youngest daughter asked for.
She asked every person in ourfamily for Furbies, so she's got
two coming from ourgrandparents and, I think,
another two coming fromdifferent other people.
She just has so many fuckingFurbies she has to watch these.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
then she saw this.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
She wouldn't want her furbies anymore, which honestly
might be a good idea?

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Might be a good idea, I think, christmas Day you show
them both the movies.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Well, you just call it the Furby movie.
Yeah, did you ever watch theMitchells versus the Machines?
Yeah, I love that movie, thebig giant.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Furby.
Yeah, so good.
That movie's very good.
So yeah, Murray gets theBat-Gremlin covered in concrete
and then flies away, landing ona building and becoming a gargle
Fucking genius dude.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
It dries up.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
So clever.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Oh, did you see the fucking robot, the Tesla robots
that look exactly like theMitchells versus the Machine
robots?
Uh-uh, I haven't.
Yeah, you got to look that upAnyway please continue.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
So George now sporting his cigar, which is
kind of what he's known for Hellyeah, he's the smoking one.
That's how he looks.
Different and Lenny are playingin a toy shop where Mohawk runs
a train into Gizmo.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah, why?

Speaker 1 (54:47):
do they have a toy shop?
This building has a clamp.
Clamps got his thingies.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
In every part.
He's like hey, we're gonna havetours.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
I know they said they have yogurt yeah, but like oh,
yeah, whatever, yeah, okay.
And while dr catheter and billytalk, they're having like an
argument about something and thefilm cuts out and we see
gremlins making shadow puppetsyou got a bunny and then a
perfect abraham.
They start playing womenplaying naked volleyball.

(55:15):
A woman comes out in thetheater saying this movie is
worse than the first one.
So apparently this reallyhappened um when someone was
watching gremlins um, a womancame out with her daughter
saying this movie's too violentto I guess like the usher of
theaters or whatever andapparently the kid snuck back
into the theater to finishwatching it and hid the whole

(55:37):
time from her mom so she couldcontinue watching Nice.
It's like, yeah, fuck it.
It's like I mean the Gremlins,it's a lot of ooey-gooey stuff.
There's really no blood exceptfor that one guy.
If you can watch Goosebumps,you can watch this.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
I always thought Goosebumps was scary when I was
little.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yeah, and then in a theater.
Yeah, it was especially themask one.
It was scary to me.
Actually it was scary to thegnome one because the kid gets,
because during the day it staysstill, but then whenever it's in
the dark it attacks.
And then I just remember thegnome getting into the garage
with the kid and it was justlike you just hear screaming and

(56:18):
I'm like little things, man.
Little things scared me as akid.
It's crazy.
But in a theater the usher getsHulk Hogan baby to confront the
Gremlins.
Okay, you guys listen up,brother, people pay good money
to see this movie.
When they go out in a theaterthey want cold sodas, hot
popcorn and no monsters in theprojection booth.
Do I have to come up theremyself, brother?

Speaker 2 (56:40):
I'm doing a terrible job.
You have to rip off your shirt.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Do you think the Grimsters can stand up to the
Hulks?
Well, if I were you, I'd runthe rest of Gremlins 2 right now
.
Sorry folks, Won't happen again.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
He should have had a bigger role in this.
I want to see him body slammingsome Gremlins, maybe squishing
them against the wall, makingthem explode and goo.
Oh man, and the popcorn's like$30.
What are you doing?
I know you got money, yeah, butyeah, but fuck dude.
Yeah, exactly, although I willsay now I love the how they're

(57:12):
bringing merch popcorn buckets.
Yeah, dude, they're huge, thoughthey're so obnoxiously big now
we went to see we didn't go seewicked, but they were out of
moana too yeah, buckets.
So we got a wicked bucket.
Oh, really nice.
Yeah, I really, I used to getthem.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
And then I now I have a bunch of like cups and
buckets and I'm like what thefuck do I do with this?
Yeah, we've got like five orsix just from.
Yeah, I really I used to getthem.
And then I now have a bunch oflike cups and buckets.
And I'm like what the fuck do Ido with this?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Yeah, we've got like five or six just from Disney
World.
They're just laying around.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
It's like eventually this whole room could be filled
with junk.
I bought it at theaters butyeah, put all man.
If Hulk Hogan should have beenin every movie in the movies.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
He's tried.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
He's just so good at talking.
The.
He's just so good at talkingthe grimsters could stand up to
the Hulkster he's so ripped Hulkin his prime and they said, hey
, he didn't do steroids.
So back to the film.
And Grandpa Fred is in thestudio control room.
It's a lot of news about clampbuilding problems.

(58:07):
Fred gets the idea he goes toget the Asian guy to run the
camera.
He's.
It's a lot of news about clampbuilding problems.
Fred gets the idea he goes toget the Asian guy to run the
camera.
He's like I am a camera, oh God.
And then we cut to a gremlindrinking electric formula and
now we have an electric gremlin.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yes, that YouTube video is Key Peele, Key Peele.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Yeah, oh God one gremlin ends up throwing acid in
another gremlin's face.
I think I'm fat.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Another gremlin drinks sex, change formula and
now we have a female gremlinnamed greta me I love it yeah
it's so it's so forward of themand she's so she dtf.
And she DTF, dtf.
She's great, she's like theMiss Piggy of Gremlins.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
She's the Guido of the Gremlins.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
She could easily have been on what's that show called
?

Speaker 1 (58:58):
What Jim Tane Laundry baby.
So Billy Doctor, catheter,forrester.
They go back to the researchlab, where now it's just pure
chaos.
Greta gets a crush on Forresterand kisses him and humps his
leg a little bit.
Yeah, hell yeah, get it girl.
Doc has weapons.
He says I got weapons right inhere.
It's like what the fuck, I know.

(59:20):
He's got like an Uzi in there.
But the electric gremlin shockshim to death and he just like
turns into the skeleton classicpoor Dr Cather.
Then the mohawk gremlin he getsa hold of an Uzi yeah, he gets
an assault rifle, shoots him.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
It's got like a silencer or an Uzi at the end
yeah, it's like a little Uzi.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
I think we see Mo.
He grabs the spider form.
Oh Mo, I called him Mo in mynotes, mohawk gremlin grabs the
spider formula he's gonna be aspider.
That's a cool ass idea.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
It's so rad, it's so smart like I feel like if they
want to make another one, theyshould make it scarier.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Yeah, that'd be kind of cool yeah well, I always
wanted a gremlin del toro to dogremlins maybe.
Hell yeah man he can make itscary yeah, and then we see
another gremlin.
He drinks something but itstarts coming out of the bullet
holes and then he does.
Does the classic.
I love it because the minionsdo the same thing.
It's like when somethinghappens they just kind of look

(01:00:15):
around.
It's always good.
It always cracks me up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
So he's got like.
He has the glass, the beaker onhis head that gets shot.
He's just waiting to be shot at.
You know, it's like when youthink of movie making.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
It's just like who, I mean, who thought of a small
detail like that?
And it's like who just thought,hey, it'd be funny if we had
like a gremlin with holes in it.
And they stopped and laughedafterwards and it's like, yeah,
that's so funny, I wouldn't havethought.
I just wouldn't have thought todo that yeah, bring more coke
more coke.
That's true, everybody was oncocaine.
They're having fever dreamsafter doing a whole bunch of
cocaine.
So, gizmo, he's able to untiehimself from the train tracks

(01:00:57):
and he thinks about the Ramboquote to survival you gotta
become more.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, then the weird training montage.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Yeah, we'll see it, we'll see it.
It's so good.
So Clamp notices Grandpa Fredwho is making a live news
segment in the Clamp buildingtalking about the Gremlins.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Yeah, he's like I don't want any media coverage at
all.
It's like got media.
He's right behind him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah, tv Gizmo is preparing for battle by working
out.
He's like lifting stuff hefalls through the floor.
So good, he's got a bandana onnow like Rambo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
He's punching the bag yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
And then the Futtermans are at the clamp
building and Murray's like I'mnot crazy Looks at his wife, I
told you I'm not crazy, andshe's like you're not, you're
not crazy.
He starts taking more picturesright in front of his eyes.
Moha drinks the spider formulaand he rules even more.
Now Billy talks, the clamp andthe electric gremlin comes in

(01:01:52):
the room, but billy is able toact quick and puts him on hold
in the phone system that's sogood, so ridiculous how do you?
how do you uh, I don't know.
Figure that out later.
Yeah, I guess that's how theywork here.
Yeah, clamp tower it's likethat gremlin's like invincible,
now like can you even kill thatone?
I thought it was cool how theyhad him on the screen just like
screaming and they they weren'toriginally gonna do this because

(01:02:17):
they didn't think they weregonna be able to, like, do the
animation.
But then they came up with somesort of like a new cg animation
type thing came out and theywere like, oh, we can, we can
actually do it now.
So we ended up doing it andthen Clamp plays a Clamp video
building announcement because ofthe end of the civilization.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I never thought I'd get a chance to use this one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
The Clamp cable network now leaves the air.
We hope you enjoyed ourprogramming, but more
importantly, we hoped youenjoyed life.
Clamp's crying.
It's so beautiful apparentlyall news, like cnn fox news.
They all have a video like thisoh damn.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
It's a play at the end of the world.
It's like on wally.
They had one too.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Yeah, that had to be found it's like man that made me
scared reading that factactually I was kind of like my
butt clenched a little bit likethey're prepared for the end of
the world.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
We should make one for the show.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Yeah, just like.
Upload it real quick.
Please listen, rate andsubscribe please.
There's no need.
You're all dead.
So Billy comes up with a plan.
He has Clamp to move the clocksforward three hours so they can
trick the gremlins intogathering in the lobby.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
and they can kill them with the sun.
Pocus, pocus.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Yeah, don't bring up hocus pocus the movie's mid as
hell Hot take, I'm just not abig hocus pocus boy.
The second one was an atrocityto my eyes.
Yeah, it was bad, so bad.
Oh, what if we had a Walgreens?

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I did like it in the second one how they were like
leaned heavy in on like theirrelationship as sisters.
Yeah, it was very sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Yeah, I'm so glad we got it.
Just kidding, if you can makefun of Point Break, I can make
fun of Hocus Pocus.
You can make fun of whateveryou want, that's true, it's
America, baby.
Whatever you want, that's true,it's America, baby.
So Clampo has to block out thesunlight from outside.
He's excited to use his secretescape hatch and he loves the
idea that he can save the city.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Because he's just like a.
I would love to see him gettinginto this hatch.
I'm sure he has like a bigslide, Kind of like Batman.
He just goes into the slide andgoes down into the capsule.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
I love it.
Oh capsule, yeah, I love it.
Oh crap.
What was I going to say?

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
It's just because it's under a plant on the street
.
Yeah, it's so good.
We should all have one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Then we cut to George and Lenny.
They're watching movies andlove when they see humans die.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
It's like a giant tentacle takes a guy and they're
like yeah, the monster likepicks him up, yeah and they just
laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Then we cut to Marla who just walks straight into a
spiderweb because it's so darkin there.
We see Gizmo.
He starts punching a speed bagthat ended up punching some back
Classic bit.
Then we see Clamp rising fromthe ground.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
He's so happy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
He's just smiling because he loves that.
He just used it Hell yeah.
So he comes out of his secrethatch, he is bombarded by the
media and he, expertly, doesn'tanswer anything at all.
Mary goes into Clamp's hatch,though, to help Billy.
Way to go, mary, lenny.
He starts messing with the ACand air pressure, causing more
chaos.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Yeah, like a windstorm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Yeah, it's like they can control the like like I
don't know the environment Likesucking all the air pressure.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
And then, because of this, billy gets tricked by a
gremlin and gets knocked out.
It's by Daffy.
Gizmo starts creating weapons.
He makes a bow and arrow out ofpaperclips and pencils.
We see the time moving forward.
Behind him, though, grandpaFred, he sits down with the
brain gremlin to have a talkwith him on air.
I was going to do the wholequote, but it's like damn, it's

(01:05:50):
like three paragraphs.
I didn't want to do that.
The brain gremlin says theyjust want to create a
civilization, have all theniceties that humans have.
During this, he's all this thathe's saying he shoots a gremlin
.
That annoys him.
So you see, this is not how wewant to react, but because we
don't have the civilization thatthe humans do.
And then outside the buildingwe see the cover.

(01:06:11):
They're covering all thewindows like a night time
looking thing, so funny.
And then we man I love the newsprogram, grandpa Fred after he
brain gremlin shoots somebody'slike, oh okay, I should probably
exit now.
And then we cut to Billy, who'stied up in a dentist chair.
Daffy turns out to be thedentist.

(01:06:31):
Why is there a dentist?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
chair in this building.
I love how they all haveuniforms.
They find uniforms for allthese different jobs?

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Yeah, it's great and I love the idea that Clamp's
probably just like you know what.
Actually I don't want to haveto leave too much, so I'm just
going gonna have, like a doctor,a dentist an optometrist.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
Whenever they talk about how they came from the lab
, he's like we could have hadtwo psychiatrists and a plastic
surgeon in that room.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Yeah, and lucky for Billy Murray shows up and they
blind Daffy and he runs off.
Kate, looking for Billy, runsinto Marla who's caught in the
web.
Marla admits nothing happenedbetween Billy and her and that
it was mainly just all Marlastuff.
While cutting her out, marlaadmits nothing happened between
Billy and her and that it wasmainly just all Marla stuff.
While cutting her out Mohawkshows up in spider form.

(01:07:14):
Yeah, hell yes, looks rad insilhouette, oh God.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
His arms are coming out in the shadow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
It's just like not enough.
Mohawk, though, in the movieyeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
They're about to be killed, but Gizmo shows up with
a match and fires a flamingpencil arrow at the spider and
burns him alive.
Way to go, gizmo, you got yourrevenge.
Yeah, the whole montage for onescene, yeah, and then gizmo
pretty much doesn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Um, billy and murray show up to help the two women.
I just realized that I put billand then I put murray and I was
like, wow, bill, bill Murray,but they show up to help the two
women.
Kate, kate looks at Gizmo.
What happened to him?
Gizmo looking tough.
Now Billy, I don't know.
I guess they pushed him too far, so cute.

(01:08:00):
Fuck yeah, they just carriedhim around the rest of the time
as they watch Mohawk burningBilly wants to give up.
But Murray Futterman, we can'tgive up now.
Washington didn't give up,lincoln didn't give up Kate.
Please, murray, what's wrong?
Kate?
Don't mention Lincoln.
Something terrible happened tome when we were on Lincoln's

(01:08:21):
birthday what?
I was six or seven and I hadthe day off from school and mama
, let me go to the park.
She made me a peanut butter andjelly sandwich.
I was six or seven and I hadthe day off from school and mama
, let me go to the park.
She made me a peanut butter andjelly sandwich.
I was going through that peanutbutter and jelly sandwich phase
and this man with this Billyhoney I Kate beard and hat and
he looked just like Abe Limpkin.
Billy honey, I really don'tthink we have time for this

(01:08:41):
right now.
You know, Kate, he had thisraincoat.
I remember, oh God, he saidhello, little girl.
Oh, no, Flashing no.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
She got flashed as a kid, as Abraham Lincoln Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Yeah, and that's why she hated that flashing Kremlin
so much.
Took her back, but I love thatthey did this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
I love it Because of her insane speech in Kremlins 1.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
And they're like let's come up with something
super ridiculous.
Oh, about her dad dying in thechimney.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Yeah, this was just essentially like they're just
parodying that from the firstmovie, let's go, baby.
I want to know where thisLincoln guy is.
Is it the Lincoln guy at thestatue or what's the cliff face
with all the president's heads?
Oh, the, because there's a guythere that is always dressed as
Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Oh, is it really.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Like a super tall guy .
I've never seen it.
He's like a.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
You take pictures with him and give him tips.
It's gabe from the office.
Yeah um.
So now all the gremlins are inthe lobby getting ready to leave
, and then we get brain gremlinsinging new york, new york.
Dude, this is just pure joy.
At this point, when they startpartying, I'm like feed it into
my veins, straight to it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
So they're all excited that they're about to go
outside.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Yeah, they're about to see New York.
They're about to take over theworld, baby.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
The musical number.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Fred's like it's weird, they seem to be doing a
musical number now, and thenthey have all these signs or
whatever, and they all flip themdown and it makes the thing for
Greta's face, and then the eyehas something like a little
spiral thing that shrinks andthen she comes out.
It's so good, it's beautiful.
We cut to some gremlinspreparing for war.

(01:10:23):
They have bazookas.
They're like lighting dynamite.
Yeah it's like what the hell isgoing on here.
They're all so cute, clamp isabout to drop the giant tarp
covering the windows, butclassic Storms comes in just to
ruin everything.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Great, we get a shot of Gremlins just I thought they
were going to like say, get theweather machine.
Yeah, yeah, right, why doesn'the have them?

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
right outside we get shots of Gremlins, just you know
l-i-v-i-n.
Yeah, just living drinking.
They're getting wb tattoos oneof the tattoos we get the
phantom of the opera gremlin didthey do the whole bit?
I love like he's playing thepiano and then the one dressed
up as like the girl from phantomopera turns around winks, takes

(01:11:06):
the mask off.
He's like yeah it's like well,you were already ugly either way
.
It's like genius Billy comes upwith a plan, though.
He wants to flood the lobbywith water and then release the
electric gremlin to shock themto death that's probably why
it's in the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Yeah, they needed a way to kill these things.
Yeah, it's like how do?

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
we kill them.
Murray turns on the water andthey all start popping more out.
It's great.
I love it Because you see themwhen they zoom in.
You see the bubbles on them.
And then you like their littlebabies.
Little babies, so gross andbeautiful at the same time, god.
And so they're popping out,they release the electric
gremlin and they all start toget electrocuted and start
melting.
You got the one with the witchhat.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
I'm melting, of course they do I love when they
melt and all their bones areshowing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
It looks so rad it's all gooey, all the forms it's
melting.
Now that it's safe, a the clampSWAT team, come in the
revolving doors don't work.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
He's got a gun too.
He's leading the charge.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
It's like wait, this is just like clamp security has
a SWAT team come in therevolving doors.
He's got a gun too.
He's like the leader in charge.
It's like wait, this is justlike clamp security has a SWAT
team.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
It's like I'm not doing anything.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Like they try to go through all the revolving doors.
None of them work.
And then he like comes to theother door.
He slips, slips and falls onall the goo and then so
essentially we're just landingthe plane here.
Clamp decides to make GrandpaFred a news anchor, tells him to
get a tan.
It's new clothing.
Clamp congratulates the wholegang.

(01:12:38):
Clamp and Marla make eyes ateach other.
They go boog.
Clamp sees Billy's drawing ofhis hometown.
Clamp loves it and wants tobuild a version of it in New
Jersey.
What are these?

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
little people.
Can I own them?

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Clamp Corner where life slows down to a crawl.
Oh yeah, Gizmo pops out andClamp sees him and he thinks
that it would be a great toy andfloat in the Macy Day Parade.
They're going to be rich now.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
He's already.
He's just already merchandisingit yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
And Billy, like in this one conversation, just made
like half a million dollars.
I mean selling the plants to atown and then now also going to
have the rights to Gizmo, whichis essentially Furby's.
Oh, they're going to own hisass, yeah.
And then Gizmo says it's timeto go home.
Clamp gets a call, though it'sForrester and he's stuck in the
bathroom.
He has kisses all over his face.

(01:13:27):
Then Greta comes in with awedding dress.
Yes, they're gonna get marriedhe throws the bouquet, yeah, and
he's like kinda into it yeah,and then they do, like the
wedding, the gremlins are makingthe wedding song voice and we
end with a kiss wow, that'sgremlins too.

(01:13:47):
Baby, it's a wild ride.
I remember watching this withRichard, my friend, growing up.
For the first time we watchedGremlins 1, but we did not know
about Gremlins 2 like this andwe're into wrestling, so Hulk
Hogan was great.
We're kind of weirdo kids, soseeing all the wacky Gremlins,
we just ate it up.

(01:14:08):
It's just like candy for me.
I mean, I just like weird filmsand this movie is weird.
It is very weird.
It's like if you're going tomake a kid's film and make it
wonky and weird, then like, gofor the sequel.
You made a lot of money for thefirst one.
The sequel just go buck asswild.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Yeah, that's what they did.
I like that they made it.
I mean it's pretty kid friendly, yeah Right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
It's not too bad, there's not.
It's not very.
There's a lot of innuendos.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Yeah, sure, but like.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
I don't know, like by the time your kid's 10, he's
learned it.
Yeah, do the good, the bad, theugly, the fine.
It's where we talk about thegood of the film, something we
like, the bad, something wedidn't like.
The ugly, something that didn'tage well.
The fine, something that didage well.
What do you want for the good?

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
the good.
I think I just love this good.
I love the puppetry and the allthe puppets.
Yeah, it's so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
The gremlins, the gremlins, yeah, they're the best
, so good they look, amazing,they look they look.
When you watch it it's likethey're there.
It doesn't feel like they'refake.
Yeah, like ever.
It feels like when you watch itthere's just fucking gremlins
in this building.
It's wild, like it's soexpertly done.
Joe dante is so good and that'swhy he's in my good yeah,

(01:15:24):
they're so just fun like by thetime they show up after like a
couple of minutes, you're like,no, this is just, this is what
the world has.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
The world has gremlins.
We all know this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
I see him all the time and I'm not crazy.
Yeah, all right, so mine ispretty much gremlins and Joe
Dante.
What do you got for the bad?

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
I mean, there's some really bad like practical
effects.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
Only bad.
Like practical effects, uh, butonly a couple, but it's still.
It's very endearing, it's more.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
They're just kind of you know technology just yeah,
technology wasn't fully there,yeah, and I don't know.
It's just a movie like this isso fun it's hard to even the bad
stuff is really just you kindof forget about it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
You're just there to have a good time right, it's not
a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
That's like I have to think now I would really hate
to be in that bathroom, though,jesus it's like I have to think
now.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I would really hate being that bathroom, though yeah
jesus, it's like takingpictures of you, yeah my bad.
I said not enough gizmo and notenough mohawk.
Yeah, barely any gizmo ormohawk.
Yeah, it's like, come on, guys,let's get a little bit more of
that.
Training montage was bullshit.
Yeah, it's like he didn't learnanything.
No training like 10 minutes yeahI wish he came out like super
ripped, just swole like, shavedhis, shaved his stomachs and

(01:16:31):
just abs.
Or just like a Hulk Hogan gizmoyeah, just rips the shirt,
that'd be great.
Alright, what do you?
Got for something that didn'tage?
Well, you want me to do minefirst.
Yeah, go for it my ugly isnothing and I won't hear it.
Yeah, yeah, there's really nota lot to do, mine first.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah, go for it.
Ugly is nothing and I won'thear it?

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Yeah, yeah, there's really not a lot yeah just a fun
little movie.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
It's a fun little movie.
I don't think working in acorporate office is necessarily
an age.
Well, I've never done it before, but it looks awful.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Clamp is the president, clamp it, clamp it,
clamp it, and then we'll go tothe fine.
My fine was this movie it ageswell seriously it's so good and
fun and it's forgotten aboutbecause of the first Gremlins
movie which I want to watch.
I want to watch both of themagain.
What about you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
what about you?

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
what was the fine?

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
yeah, I mean I think anytime this amount of
creativity and, like all thesegreat, there's a lot of really
great actors in this movie andwhen they come together and it
looks like they're just having areally fun time yeah you know,
actually makes things age well,giving directors in, like the
80s and 90s free reign in moviesthat aged well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Now all it means is how much CGI are you going to
use?

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
no, well now it's just like oh, I have free reign.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Cool, my movie's 10 hours long.
Oh yes, that's my free reign.
I decided to make the longestmovie ever.
We'll call it the Jesse Cut.
Yeah, it's like dude, don'tever call it the Jesse Cut.
Very rarely do you hear me.
This movie's.

(01:18:11):
There's only like what?

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
two or three movies on this whole podcast where I'm
like it could have used a littlebit longer.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
Most of the time I'm like, oh man, cut it, cut it to
death.
I'd be a terrible producerPeople would be like fuck dude,
he keeps telling me to cutthings out of my movies.
All right, we're going to endthis with our final category.
That's where we discuss adouble feature, something that
goes well with this movie.
I chose the little, cute littlecritters from the movie.
Critters, critters.
They're just little fur balls.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
They got big old mouths and beady eyes and they
eat you in your flesh, tinylittle hands and big old feet.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Oh, it's so fucking rad.
I love it.
The movie's so bad and I loveit.
Billy Zane's in it, baby.
Oh yeah, directed by StephenHerc.
Everybody knows Gremlins orCritters, I don't really have to
discuss.
The director did Mr Holland'sOpus and Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure and theThree Musketeers from 93 guy had
actually a pretty good run.
Hell yeah, cool.

(01:18:59):
Alright, what do you got foryour double?

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
feature, I chose the Neverending Story.
I kind of came up in this doinga little research projects with
the.
It's got like the saddest horsedeath ever, like from your
childhood movies, kind of sad.
Yeah.
But it came really made me wantto watch that again.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
So yeah, I need to rewatch it Cause some people
will like talk about scenesother than that one and like the
boat scene where the goldenthings and those are the two
things and the rock monsterthose are the three things I
really remember and people.
Anytime someone brings upsomething other than those three
things, I'm like I have no ideawhat you're talking about
that's so hard to rememberanything about.
He flies on the dog dragon.

(01:19:38):
That's cool that's.
I remember that looks so fluffyso I do need to re-watch that.
Just need to watch a lot oflike old movies I watched as a
kid like indian in the cupboardand stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
I used to read all those books I had, like Darth
Vader in his cover,lightsabering things.
Hell yeah, that's Gremlins 2,baby Nice.
Hell yes, we did it.
And I guess everybody is inanticipation to see are we going
to do a Christmas movie at anypoint?
In December, I think we should.
I mean, we did Gremlins 2,because it's Christmas adjacent.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
It wasn't Christmas at all.
No at all.
There's nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Christmas about it.
I just wanted to do Gremlins 2.
Yeah, that's fine, it remindsyou of Christmas just because of
Gremlins.
Yeah, the first one.
So we're going to do one of myfavorite Christmas movies and
you can kiss, kiss my bang bangbaby Because we're doing kiss,

(01:20:34):
kiss, bang bang.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
It's totally Christmas adjacent.
It's Shane Black.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
If it's a Shane Black movie, if you wrote it or
direct it, it's a Christmasmovie Because he loves Christmas
and it stars Robert Downey Jr,val Kilmer, michelle Monaghan.
Like, come on, stars RobertDowney Jr, val Kilmer, michelle
Monaghan.
Like come on, three bangers ofactors right there and it's like
probably the last.
Like super good Val Kilmerperformance yeah and I also had
a Top Gun Maverick, but hecouldn't really talk that well

(01:20:57):
during that he got sick rightyeah, he died like shortly after
that filming.
That which was really sad, butit was a great scene still made
Still made me emotional becauseI love Val Kilmer.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, he's really funny in this one.
Yeah, oh, he's so good, robert.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Downey Jr is too, and it's like Downey Jr's back.
He's sober and Shane Black gavehim a chance.
It's before he became Iron man.
Yeah, it's like right before.
It's like the movie before, Iguess.
Well, because Iron man was like08 and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's 05
.
So make sure you join us forthat.
If you haven't seen Kiss KissBang Bang, seems like a good

(01:21:30):
time to do it.
It's a fucking good movie.
Good time to watch it.
So, yeah, join us next week forthat.
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a shit hell yeah classic anyother ones yeah, no, there's a
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Uh, it's all butt related mostly okay and like you
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