The Flop House - FH Mini 93 - Happy Thanksgiving

Episode Date: November 25, 2023

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Hey, everyone, and welcome to the flop house. I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. I'm Elliot Kaylen. What are we doing on this episode today, Dan? Well, this is a mini. Normally on the flop house, we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it, but every other week we come to with a marginally shorter, usually episode where we just kind of do whatever. This time I'm in charge. Uh oh. When this release, don't tell mom the babysitter's Dan. When you're listening to this, we'll have just been Thanksgiving in America. And of course,

Thanksgiving in America. And of course, Thanksgiving and bad movies go together because. Okay, I'll buy into this premise. We call bad movies turkey sometimes. Oh yeah. The Golden Turkey Awards was a was a big part of that. And then of course, Mystery Science Theater has their annual Turkey Day marathon. There's a Turkey trot where you run to a movie theater to watch a bad movie. And then you get the trots. Let's not forget the nation of Turkey, the president, every year names his top worst movies of the year. Oh, wow. Yeah. And then everyone in Turkey has to watch them. We'll be thrown in jail. Oh, that's fucked up. In honor of this, but fair in honor of this film, food crossover, I have prepared a movie based Thanksgiving feast. How so? Well, I found a movie to represent each of the most

common dishes you might find at a traditional American Thanksgiving meal. And as we know, you know, when you have a Thanksgiving meal, it's it ends up being kind of buffet, family style, often where you take what you want and maybe you don't take what you don't want or you take just a little bit so it's not hurt anyone's feelings, but there's so much food. You don't you don't have to eat everything. So yeah, of course, yeah. Similarly here, I'm going to tell you a little bit about each movie. You're going to tell me whether you're going to add

that movie to your plate or not. I'll tell you one extra fact about that movie, see if that makes you more or less apps to take it. And lastly, for each of these, I'm going to ask in real life, this is a food that you enjoy. It's just something that you would add to your things giving plate. I look forward to asking you to remind me what the rules of this thing are. This is a food that you enjoy. Is this something that you would add to your Thanksgiving plate? I look forward to asking you to remind me what the rules of this thing are.

No, no, no. I mean, I, it's essentially a very simple idea, but I realize when writing it out, that it's, you know, it'll take a little time. Okay. Best way to do it is to just get to it. So, that's awesome. We're going to start with the big one, turkey. Oh, man, centerpiece. Big dish. So to represent turkey, the film that I've picked is a turkey

shoot from 1982. Okay. This is directed by Brian Trichard Smith, the Osploitation Director who did being Max Bandit's and Dead in Drive-In and also the flop house film Drive Hard and Turkey Shoot stars Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey. And I will give you the INDB summary in a dystopian future where deviants are held in re-education camps, a freedom, and an innocent prisoner try to survive their decadent oppressors game of kill or be killed. So you're going to add a slice of turkey to your cinematic plate is what does this entice you? Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm on the word. Everything you said about it makes me want to watch it. Yeah. Okay, not a lot of discussion on that, but

well, I mean, it's got a just a like it. It's called Turkey shoot. So I'm like, is this an art man movie? It's not apparently, but it's a Ozman movie because it's probably Australian. I don't recognize any of the actors because they're, you know, maybe, I don't live in a Hussie of Olivia Hussie from Zeffra Ali's, Romeo and Juliet and many of the Steve rails back from the stunt man and also Nuki. Guys, thank you so much. Thanks. That's why I'm here with Smarty Pants as they help me help fill in the weirdo's. Remember things.

Okay. Well, so I don't have to sell it to you. Now, I believe, I wonder if this is the fact you're going to tell us. I believe this is the movie they're watching in Dead End Drive-In. That is not the fact that is interesting to I have, I've seen this is the fact you're going to tell us. I believe this is the movie they're watching in Dead and Drive-In. That is not the fact, but that is interesting. I have seen this movie. I loved Dead and Drive-In, and I loved the not quite Hollywood, Osploitation documentary. I was like, oh, let me check out Turkey Shoot. I don't want to influence you too much, but this one bored me a little bit more than it's got its charms. but now you've already added some to your plate I'm gonna ask you see if we're gonna scrape it off Well, you scrape it up or scrape it off or add another place and get some seconds here

Here's the extra facts trivia The new dextras and the group shower scene were from a local hippie commune That do you think where you want with the. Makes me a little bit less interested. Yeah, I want only professionals, please in my nudity. I don't know. I mean, they're pretty professionally. That's all wasn't wasn't like a security camera footage. They repurposed.

Yeah. Okay. So you're a little mixed now on the turkey menu. No, I'll sit, look, dystopian, killer be killed. Steve Rails back and Olivia, I'll watch it. Yeah. Guaranteed shower scene. Okay. And now for the culinary side of this, turkey, as Thanksgiving food. You got to add that to your plate, what do you think? I've never been a big turkey fan. It's a little dry. It's not particularly exciting.

It's kind of like there to do it. I mean, I've definitely had good. It is there to do it. That's true. Well, it's there to do it. Love the two of us. You need to have like, you need to have the food, which is there for other reasons not to eat.

Yeah. I'm going to take some. I like turkey. I don't love turkey breast meat because it is a little dry. Turkey thighs though. Delicious. I love them. The thighs are the best part of the chicken. It's the best. I like turkey. I don't love turkey breast meat because it is a little dry. Yeah. Turkey thighs though, delicious. I love them. The thighs are the best part of the chicken.

It's the best part of the turkey. It's the best part. I haven't eaten a buffalo, but it's probably the best part of that too. That roast turkey skin too, pretty good. Oh yeah, wonderful. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's not my favorite meat,

but if I'm at a traditional Thanksgiving, we gotta take some turkey. Sure. Yeah, I mean, I'm not a huge fan, but I'll still have some. And also for the novelty, how often do you eat roast turkey for dinner? Very, very rarely. Yeah, with like a giant napkin tucked into your shirt, like a bib with giant cutlery to cut it up with.

And a hat with a buckle on it, like a pilgrim. That is like a required breeding turkey, but that's not fair. So you're gonna get that shit all over yourself, dude. Okay. All right, we're moving along. You can't have Turkey without stuffing, of course. And so it's represent stuffing. No, it's illegally, you can't do it. It's represent stuffing. I have chosen the film Stuffings from 2021. Not the movie The Stuff, okay, interesting.

Now I was expecting, it's directed by Matthew J. Wilkinson who seems to be a director of low budget horror also from Australia. And the I'm to be summary says, this is really good, I'm going to Australia in the new year. So this is really gonna be valuable knowledge for my kids. And I love that this quintessential American holiday is so far represented by

two Australian films. You're going to walk around being like, have you seen stuffings? Have you seen stuffings? And they're like, oh, oh, my, and I'm like, well, I don't know, I can't understand. The summary says, a self-obsessed social media celebrity couple, celebrity couple, sorry, camp out in the Adelaide Hills on Christmas Eve, only to stumble onto a community, hiding a secret tradition to protect the 25th of December. Hmm. Seems more like Christmas. Yeah, I mean, what is the sire or something?

Uh, this, the initial pitch has not warmed me to this stuffing. No, me either. I don't know how you would protect a day. I don't know what that means. We're going to have a minute more in here. Well, what about this trivia? Trivia, toward the end of filming, the police arrived on set thinking something may have happened to director Matthew J. Wilkinson after a local notice fake blood all through his

car. Does that do anything for you moving one? I guess not really. Blood. There's blood. Tell you there's blood. Okay. Well, no one ends up in a car. It just spilled while they were transparent. Yeah. All right. Well, sorry, stuffing. Cinematically, you're not on the plate, but what do you guys think about stuffing as a food? I'm a fan.

I mean, it's like bread, often some sausage, maybe some nuts for crunch or cranberries. Yeah, we often have celery and ours for crunch. I don't like it. I like it when it doesn't have raisins or cranberries in it, though. As Mike, as it's been stated, I am an anti-frute eater. Yeah. berries in it though, as Mike, as it's been stated, I am an anti-fruit eater. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not with you on the general anti-fruit. I'm not wild about it in stuffing. I'm also not wild about cornbread stuffing.

I'd rather that. You are wild about Harry. And Harry's wild about me. Yeah, that's Harry's law. We're talking about. Harry's law states that you are wild about Harry and Harry is also reflexively wild about you. Honestly, to me, stuffing is the king of the Thanksgiving table.

It is just carbs that has soaked up meat juice. And you can use it as a receptacle for gravy, which is the next. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Gravy. This is represented by the 2015 movie, gravy. All right, works out. This film was directed by James Rode Rodriguez, who you may know is TV's psych.

I don't know him as that. Well, just listen to this. There's the show. Didn't you write that show? Didn't you come up with the idea of that show? That's true. I did have the premise for that show. I'm like, that would be a good idea for a show.

And then a couple of years later, I'm like, oh, that's the show. I thought it would be a good premise. Anyway, I found that I lost it. I just, oh, then you don't have grounds for lost. No, I don't. No, no, no, no. I mean, if that's the case, then I can take credit for any number of premises that I thought would be good.

I just never told anybody about it. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, I thought I thought I have a tar, yeah. Uh huh. Yeah, only bragging rights I have was accurately thinking of a good print. Yeah. I did nothing. And doing nothing with it, yeah, sitting on it.

Yeah, but sounds like this has an impressive cast gravy for a movie that I am unfamiliar with. Michael Weston, Jimmy Simpson, Gabaret, Cidibet, Dulay Hill, Sarah Silverman, and a bunch of other people that I don't have time to mention. And here's the, wow. Here's the summary. And busy thinking up premises that he's not going to do a damn thing with. Yeah. The summary is it's all how it's all how those eve, a trio of costume misfits with very special dietary requirements sees a Mexican cantina and forced to stop.

Is this a mad lives movie? What's going on? They see is a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a night of gaming, food, and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu. So I was out, but then I heard they're doing the gaming. It's the gaming. It's the gaming that got me back in.

I can't wait. I want to see if they're like cracking out settlers or maybe doing maybe doing like a Twilight Imperium game. A few hands of Dominion. Yeah, yeah. I'm still slathering himself in gravy. What do you think? I thought it would be on when you heard that something was on the menus and says we know

in the Lord of the Rings films, they make a big deal out of meat being back on the menu. Yeah. Because they just, they're going to eat some, eat another orc. I'm going to say maybe it's just because I was expecting, I wasn't expecting a movie about a different holiday to rear its head yet again in our Thanksgiving game, but I'm going to say this one has not caught my attention. Just here. Okay, well, about this piece of trivia from IMDB.

This isn't the IMDB trivia section. All right. Here's some trivia for you. It's delivered in this shit like he's gerrous. Yes. How about this trivia? In this scene, in the scene with Anson and Kerry in the supply closet, he says, oh no, I've said too much.

She replies, you haven't said enough. This is paraphrasing a little hard. Hard pass. Hard pass. Hard pass. Absolutely my religion. Not interested. No thinking. Heart pass. Absolutely my religion. Not interested. No thank you.

Okay. Going in for seconds. I like what this movie served. Yeah. Speaking of liking what it's serving, what about gravy the food? How are you going to, you're going to take some gravy? I honestly don't usually take gravy, but sometimes I will. That is madness.

Yeah, don't you like your food wet? I like the, that's why I eat the thigh because it's the wet part of the bird All right, I guess you know what could be it could be drenched it could just be dripping. Yeah concentrated meat flavor. I'm into it in liquid form I'm not like super into like a country gravy Like a Somal Yeah, like a white rating like a wet nut. I like that, but not not a Somal. Yeah, like a white gravy. Like a white, not a lot. I like that, but not for this purpose.

I like that on business. Yeah, yeah, that's good, biscuit gravy. All right, you know what? I'll just drench my plate and gravy this year. And did you know that in some cultures, you would call a pasta sauce gravy. Yes, I do know that culture. It'll be Italian, Brooklyn, Italian. Italian American in a certain part of the Tri-State area, yeah? Okay, well, I remember, I think I've talked to before, possibly about when my landlords

in Brooklyn. I said possibly, right? Yeah, my possibility. It was a possibility that I might have said, my landlords in Brooklyn, they asked me if I wanted to come down because I lived above them for some macaroni and gravy. And I imagined macaroni noodles in turkey gravy. And I was like, that sounds terrible, but it was just spaghetti and tomato sauce. No, actually, I feel like that sounds pretty good. It's like I'm squirgin off almost. Okay, well, before we go to our break, there's one more food, cinematic food. I'm going to ask you about sweet potatoes, of course,

a part of the plate. They are part of the plate or their food you're eating off the plate. So they're food you're eating. I don't want to eat them. I don't have plates made of sweet potatoes. They're a component of a plate you might assemble at. So I have to make my own plate at a sweet potatoes before I can't food off of it. If you take these legos. And by the way, some of the legos are sweet potatoes. Did I forget to mention that? Yeah. Um, so. That's challenges are getting so strange in the later seasons of Lego masters. You know, you may just have them in potato form. Here from the Midwest, you might, or the south, you might slap some marshmallows on there.

Have a cast role. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't mind a marshmallow. We sweet potato cast role, but I agree with you that like, they're already sweet. It's in the name. You don't need the marshmallows. But anyway, but I do love to eat things from marshes. We picked these mallows out of the marsh.

What kind of mallows are these? Where are these mallows from? A marsh? These are fakes. Field mallows. He was selection of mountain mallows and desert mallows. The mountain mallows called to me. So to represent this, I have the film Sweet Potato Pie from 2004. And the summary goes like this, taking its cue from the successful American pie franchise,

Dale Steely's sex comedy Sweet Potato Pie follows the exploits of three friends named Chuck, Perry and Tray. The three some set out on a road trip to in order to try and shed their pesky virginity. Oh, it is pesky. It's not always getting in the way. And end up involved like a fly buzzing around your head like the fucking Scooby-Doo game. And end up involved with a Scooby-Doo game. Yeah. game and end up involved. Is that what the Scooby Doo game will on the road? Yeah, you were in their pesky virginity. End up involved with a

sexually seasoned woman named Anaconda, a horny and overweight neighbor, and the title food. So what are you guys gonna put a slice of this sweet potato pie on your movie plate? I mean, I would mainly want to watch it in the company of our friend Chris Whites to see how he feels. I mean, you can't copyright the idea of pie. Or else Darren Arnowski would have both of them in court. True. That's actually why that dude drilled a hole in his head. He's trying to lose his pesky opportunity.

This is, you know, I heard that having sex is like putting your penis in your own brain. So yeah, I'm going to pass on this one as well. Okay. Well, before you pass entirely, I'll just write there's the trivia. This will turn it around. Sure. Well, you're about to walk away from the table only to be pulled back in. Hold on, this is this. There's no trivia, but the one item in I'm DB's quote section is this from the character, Trey. Okay. Okay. Previously mentioned. What's Crackalacan? That's the quote. Yeah. Apparently, the sweet potato pie claims that what's crack a lachkin is a notable quoteable solely from that movie, not just a bit of slang that people might say.

Yeah. So is that making more or less interest to say? I didn't think it was possible to dial down my interest any further, but it is. It turns out this one much as spinal tap speakers go to 11. My speaker by interest fairly goes to negatives. Number one. The what's crack a lacan appears in brackets in the code section. I'm not sure what he's just thinking.

That's the feeling of what's crack a lacan. Yeah, but don't say it. Walking with the feeling of what's a crack a like. Yeah, but don't say it. Well, let's move on to what are your feelings about sweet potatoes, the food? What do you, what are you going to put on some sweet potatoes there? I might, we eat a lot of sweet potatoes in my house and I've, before, I don't really, I didn't love them growing up, but I like the way my wife cooks them. So maybe I'll have some, yeah.

I'm a fan. I kind of prefer them to be roasted, ideally, and not with marshmallows, because that or with like brown sugar. We always, we always roast them until they're crisp. We never, we never put any other sweet stuff on them. My wife is a, is offended by sweet potatoes because she doesn't think they deserve to also have the name potato to share the name potato with actual potatoes because they are. Interesting. Okay.

Yes, I can see how one would feel that way because I know that there's a potato mania among many, many people love potatoes. I am sort of mid on potatoes. I don't, you know, like they can be good. I'm not like, I've never been nutty for fries. Like some people are, I mean fries are delicious. I mean fried potatoes are objective. I will eat them. Like sometimes they're great. I'm just saying they're like, sometimes I don't have the craving for a potato dish that a lot of people do. I say, and uh, yeah, I would take some sweeps who's partly because as starches go, it's a healthy one.

And actually, that's why we, and that's why we have them in our house. We like potatoes in our family, but it is healthier to have a sweet potato than a, than a proper potato. Ironically, the one time, something sweet. Mm-hmm. It's healthy. Normally, if you want a tart, you don't want to eat sweet tarts because they're too bad for you. But if you regular tarts, they're fine.

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will be in Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theatre on Thursday, January 25th. We'll be in San Francisco at Cobb's Comedy Club as part of San Francisco Sketchfest on Friday, January 26th, and we'll be in Los Angeles at the Regent Theater on Sunday, January 28th. We're very excited. We haven't done a lot of live shows. We just had our videos shows and we're super fun.

We're going to be doing these again. We're going to pick the movies soon. It's going to be great. We can't wait to get out. I've been picking out all these outfits to wear. It's a stewards process. He starts with the outfits. We're going to be part of this.

We're going to be part of this. New shirts that he probably wants to wear. Probably. That's Stuart's process. He starts with the outfits. We're going to be part of things. We're going to be part of things. New shirts that he probably wants to wear. Probably shirts, probably pants. It's going to be part of San Francisco sketch fest, which we wanted to be a part of for years, and they finally let us in. So we're very excited about it. So that's important.

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If you're not on the West Coast, you can still see us just not in person, but through your computer screen, because FlopTV keeps a rolling on, just like Old Man River, but with funnier and also with us instead of some weird river that's really an old man. So our next episode is December 2nd. That'll be a Saturday night, 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific, and we're talking about a movie that, until we talk about it, I'm not quite sure that it exists. I'm not sure it exists.

And that's Ballistic X versus Sever. A movie that we had to go to extreme lengths to find a copy of in order to watch. It's gonna be fun. This is a movie we've talked about as a reference for years, but none of us have seen it. And it's gonna be super fun to find out who X and several. Yeah, we had to break into the blue sea.

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And we all play our part. Mm-hmm. The next dish is cranberry sauce. And the film representing cranberry sauce is from 1910. It's a short film. It's called a jar of cranberry sauce or the crime in room 13. And I'll add is this your favorite movie?

Yeah. Not not familiar with it. It is. It's probably your favorite movie, right? Yeah, yeah, probably. The, It's not even the kind of old movie I like the best. The IMDB summary is a long synopsis of the entire short from courtesy of something called

Moving Picture World. So I will just give the first paragraph of that. The story starts with the departure for the metropolis of Silas, a farmer, but nobody's fool. His wife, out of the goodness of her heart, insists on putting up a lunch for him, in spite of his protest that he is going to stop at a first-class hotel and buy the things to eat. She wins him over to her way of thinking by putting in a jar of his favorite cranberry sauce, and he takes his departure with it, and a cheerful countenance in consequence there

of. So that's the beginning of- I feel like I don't have to watch it now. A jar of cranberry sauce or the crime in room 13. That is just the very beginning of a long, long, yeah, that's a little moose boosh for this movie. So, I don't know, you slapping some of the- I see.

I'm going to find out what happens with that sauce. Yeah, I got to find out. I'll watch it. How long is this for you to know sauce for me? Let me look that up while you discuss cranberry sauce a bit more or this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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I'm sorry. Well, you like dips or do you have the answer to and it turns out there is no time listed on IMGB. So I don't know how long this short. It's five minutes to five million years. Here's the next part of it. To see whether I'll give you a little more, to see whether you're more or less enticed. And the little more is that I could not find any additional information about this film,

not just on IMDB, but by searching Google with the title. So does that mystery? Or not, if you look at that. Yeah, I want the answers to those questions now. Yeah, this, this, this, this, it is a very intriguing title. I got to say the jar of cranberry sauce, a semi colon or comma, the crime in room 13. I'm guessing it's not that exciting and crime. Like that's the kind of thing you see in a lot of those silent shorts. It'll be like, it'll be, you know, a hunk of ham or her indelicate proposition and turns out it's like, you know, somebody, it's like the world person to a party or something.

Yeah. Okay. Well, the food, let's move on to the food. You're putting, now, now, Elliot said no cranberry sauce. And I guess this is not surprising. No, thank you. Given his anti-fruit stance. Exactly. I'm nothing if not consistent in this one instance.

Sure. What do you guys think? This is my consistent instant with Elisa. No, I'm, I mean, I guess I'd be, I'm tempted if it isn't the like stuff that comes out of a can. The like, the like log of gel. Now, some people that is there prefer because of the first is what they grew up with. And they have an nostalgic attachment. I would say that I do not like the canned stuff. Sometimes take a little bit of the good stuff to go with the turkey. I understand how it might add a little like tartness to cut through the richness of everything else, but I agree I'm not really a fan.

Yeah, I mean, maybe if I had like a UTI or something, I might. Then it's very helpful. Then is it because cranberries do promote urinary tract health, which and as someone who has had more than one guinea stone, you know, I should be having more cranberry stuff possibly. And like marshmallows comes out of a bog, comes out of that swampy marshy ground.

So, yeah, this is, that's a good question, Ali. Do you drink juice? Do you like any juices? No, I don't. No, I don't. No, you should drink, I've been really into like beat juice lately. I don't do. It's good for your heart. I mean, I like beat for heart health. I don't know if I want to drink the juice though. How does it taste? I mean, it's usually like sweet and earthy. Yeah, it's earthy. I usually, I'll usually have it like mixed with some ginger. That sounds like it. It's got a little zing. I'll try it. You know, I'll try it.

I'll have that into the cranberry sauce. I'll have beet sauce with ginger on my, the main thing's giving me. Well, let's move on to mashed potatoes. And the film that represents mashed potatoes at this cinematic feast is called, it's also a short. This one's from 2020. It's called mashed potato face. And the summary is a potato-based killer intrudes upon a family in the middle of dinner.

Okay. That sounds terrifying. Yeah. I mean, it's a killer. I mean, to take something delicious like a potato and make it a, make it a danger. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay. Let's say I'm in sure.

I'll take, I'll take a scoop of mashed potatoes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'll try it too. Yeah, I want to see how he's, how this killer is potato based. Yeah. Yeah.

Is it like a carbon based life form? And this is a potato based life form? Yeah, it is a beat people to death with a Mr. Potato head or shove potatoes in their mouths until they they show up. Well, I've already won you over clearly, but does it, does it improve or deproved? I don't deproved. Yeah, I don't say that wrong. Does it entice you more or less to learn that the tagline for this movie is mashed potatoes? I don't like, I don't get it. I don't like that. Don't understand. Well, it's just mashed potatoes with extra A's in it.

Yeah, that makes me less interested. Well, I'm still watching it, I guess. I mean, so sure. I'm guessing that that's, you know, with, this is just my idea based on nothing that's probably what the killer says. Hmm. Walks around doing that. Check the code section.

Let me check the code section. Oh, no, it's, he says what's crack a lachon. Apparently they invented that. Oh, wow. Feel like that's, they're stealing that, huh? That's mashed potatoes. This is a classic food. I assume everyone's gonna have some mashed potatoes.

I actually, honestly, I'm, I've been pulling back from mashed potatoes lately because, especially if it's, no, it's the, uh, especially if I get them from somewhere else. It's too much dairy. It just bucks me up. Oh, I understand that. I love mashed potatoes. I had mashed potatoes in my dinner last night. I don't need to wait for Thanksgiving. I can have them whenever I, I can, I can do mashed potatoes all by myself, you know, oh, wow, that's really great. You can do the mashed potato. Can you do the twist though? I can do the twist. Now tell me, baby, uh,

wait, where'd you go? I was naming all the dancers that I do. I was mansplaining to you all the dances that I know how to do now and you left, hold on. Thousands of them, well, just 1,000. You know Stu, I had dinner. Well, he doesn't say he knows the thousand dances, just needs to be into the land of 1,000 dances. Uh huh, yeah. We had a friend's pre-thanksgiving dinner

that included our mutual friends, John and Mary. Okay, it was one that, wasn't one that I was throwing. I didn't deny you from this. This wasn't a party where everybody talked shit about me the whole time. No, no, no, no. This is people that you're not friends with

who invited us all. Is that possible Stewart as friends to all? He's like, dude. Yeah, I am a lot like fucking gamer. I'm a flying turtle, possibly with nuclear powers. But you know, Jack and Mary are vegan. We made vegan mashed potatoes, Audrey made them. And we're very good.

Okay. What's what's what makes us vegan butter? What vegan butter? What's vegan butter? That's from plant milk. Made mostly made with nuts. Okay, like a nut butter. Yeah, but I'm just saying like Vegan butter. What's vegan butter? That's from plant milk. Mostly made with nuts. Okay, like a nut butter.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, like peanut butter. But by nuts, he gets better. Like semen. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm just saying, you know, if dare is your problem, he learns that vegan mashed potatoes taste just as good. Yeah, don't blame the potato for it. Okay.

All right, up next. That was a maybe not an important digression, but it happened anyway. I'm glad we can get back to the very important business of the episode though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Key stuff, people are on Tinterhooks. The next food is green bean casserole.

Now, for the movie that I picked for this, oddly enough, there's not a lot of green bean casserole themed films out there. So I picked one of the first movies that popped up when I put in green bean casserole, and that is the life and times of Hank Greenberg from 1998. So this gets to be interesting, well, talk to us about it, because this gets to the interesting, well, talk, talk to us about it again, because this gets

to the interesting thing I want to say about Casseroles in general. Uh, yeah, the summary is the life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the major leagues. Mm-hmm. So this is what I'm going to say is growing up Jewish and being Jewish, there's not a lot of Casseroles in my life. Aside from like Cougal, there's not really a lot of casserole. I feel like in the Jewish American world that I grew up in. So we eat green beans, but they usually like, you know, like steamed or something

like that, salted, maybe a little bit, like, there's not, but they're not baked into a casserole. That being said, I have had green bean casseroles that I like, but you're not going to find them in our house. We don't do a lot of casseroling. And I don't think Hank Greenberg did a lot of it either. So come along, Hank, let's get out of here. Well, I'll speak to this issue more once we hit the food section, but you're, you're, you're, uh, so you're going to take some movie of, you're going to, I mean, slap some movie on your point. I'll take some, I mean, as the, as the, as the father, the, as the name of this episode, right? Slap some movie on your place. Yeah. As the father of a baseball

loving Jewish kid, I think I have to watch this movie. Yeah. Okay. Let's do what you say. I'm going to need more, I'm going to need more convincing. Okay. Well, it doesn't convince you more to learn that the tagline is when America needed heroes, a Jewish sluggers step to the plate. hero. I need a hero. The tagline is, so it's baseball question. Baseball player. He was holding up for a hero. A Jewish slugger has. I think I remember when this movie came out, I remember in the trailer, they talked to Walter

Mathew about being a fan of Hank Greenberg. Because it was like, it was the same way that Sandy Kofax was in the 60s. It was like all the, all the Jewish boys were, they finally had a player they could relate to, you know. Well, let's get back to the food, you know, as a Midwestern boy had a lot of green bean cash rolls. Everything's cash roll over there. Yeah. Stick it in the cash roll. Why not? Yeah, culture. Yeah. Cash roll is loom large.

Not so much in my particular household, but if we went to a church potluck or something, lots of casseroles. And your parents were a big fan of the music of Mama casserole. Mama casserole. Likewise to you though, like other cultures, I think that I made some a year or two back. I think that Audrey, as Filipino, was like, what is this? Yeah, what is why are you doing this? Why?

I'm like, the reason is it's a way to get fried onions. It is a delivery method for fried onions. Fried onions on their own would be sinful, but when you buried them in a casserole, Jesus can't see you. The baby Jesus can't method for fried onions on their own would be sinful, but when you've buried them in a casserole, Jesus can't see you. The baby Jesus can't notice the fried onions. Put some cream beans around and slops some cream of mushroom soup in there. It's okay.

I mean, the fried onions are the best part for sure. There's a reason you need them. Do you like the casserole soup? No, I don't know. There's something about cream and mushroom soup that never really worked for me. I don't like it on so and I like it as the ingredient. And there's something about the like combination

of something that I can't quite explore. Like when I can't, when I have trouble like dividing the ingredients in my head, it makes, I don't know. There's something about it. Okay. All right. So split on green green casserole, but it's time for you to do. I think there's a reason there's not a lot of casserole restaurants. Yeah. Uh, dessert time. We're going to pause. There's a space in the market, though, I guess.

Yeah. Maybe let's sharks. Sharks. I would like to pitch my casserole restaurant. Stuart Sharks eat fish. Come on. All right. Pumpkin pie. Fish casserole. Pumpkin pie represented in this case by the television movie. It's better not be about a movie movie where someone has sex with a pumpkin pie. We've already talked enough about pie sex. Now the movie is pumpkin pie wars from 2016. It's a TV movie from Stephen Arman Roe who started as a B horror director with films like The Remake of Ice Bit on your grave. But he seems to have pivoted into these television holiday romances with other titles, like a harvest wedding, a Bramble House.

I'm sorry, a Bramble House Christmas. Oh, because a Bramble House could be a good hard title too. And I like this title, USS Christmas. It's either some kind of Christmas ship or it's a Soviet movie, and the USSR is celebrating Christmas. So I'm going to read the summary of the plot of this. And let me know if this sounds familiar to you, but different. Ten years ago, Fay and Lydia each opened their own bakeries in Emoryville, Ohio after a personal and professional fallout during a local pumpkin pie contest. This is literally,

Natalie O'Leary. Yep, that's what I was thinking. Now there are children and co-workers Casey and Sam are set to carry on the rivalry as they go head to head in the same contest. There's only one problem. For these two people who are supposed to hate each other, they start to fall in love.

What happens? Little Italy, pumpkin pies instead of pizza pies. And I believe that Audrey and I watch this as we are fans of the holiday pap that gets churned out. The holiday work of Joseph Pap found to the public theater. Yeah. So what do you think? You into pumpkin pie wars? I'm going to say how dare they steal little Italy's what? How dare they, sir? Yeah, little Italy's original never been seen before.

Two houses at war. Yeah. I don't know. I'm going to say I'm kind of interested. Yeah. Well, I'm going to say, I'm going to say no, but maybe you, maybe you can tell me something that'll peak my interest. Well. Because the thing that little Italy had, which a movie I did not particularly like, what

little Italy had going for it was at least it was set in the world of New York Italians, which is a world I feel comfortable in and love as opposed to Toronto. It was Toronto, yeah, that was the thing, it was Canada. That's, but they still talk like New York. You're right, it was Toronto Italians, they're big city Italians. And Hayden Kriessen, he really brought it, man. Yeah, he really, he really believed his family came over here from, from, from a, from a Siberia or something. Yeah, Naboo. The kids, the kids got the juice, you know, not a lot of actors got the juice anymore, but he does. I forgot that movie was just right. But Toronto is the New York of

Canada. So, in the comments, people in Toronto, I also, I also, the idea that anyone in Toronto would be offended to be called the New York of Canada, bring them to me. I'll tell them why that's a nice thing to learn. Well, Elliot, let me try and convince you. This is the second one, Ohio, which is kind of a shadowy, strange world that I'm not familiar with. Let me see if I can convince you for this movie with the only trivia available. Okay. This was a clear point. Clans to appoint the phrase, what's crack a lackin? That'll be trivia in its trivia section.

Erred as the third of four original films in the Hallmark channels 2016 fall harvest lineup, which fulfills its obligation of being trivial. But it's a truly trivial piece of information. Who's in this movie? I don't know, you know, how these movies go. It's, you know, someone who was a star in some TV show 15 years ago. Oh, yeah. And the, it says, the family patriarch is played by burner hair, dog.

We must win this sweet potato competition. Is it sweet potato pumpkin? Oh, they're all the same, empty, empty at their heart. Yeah. You're right. It was a bit of a... Actually, he would say, he would say, son, it is time for you to take the reins of the pie shop. It would be a pie maker. Well, let's pivot to truly to make a perfect pie is to spit in the eye of God to say I too can create yummy yummy. There's nothing better than I'm pumpkin pie. So let's pivot to the food side of things. You're going to walk away with a slice of pumpkin

pie at the end of your Thanksgiving meal. Absolutely. I love that shit. Love it. Absolutely. Yeah. None for me, thank you. Not a fan of the taste of pumpkin. And especially in my house, we always make the same kind of chocolate pie. It is delicious.

So if I can have some of that, why am I going to need pumpkin pie? Come on. Chocolate, the best tasting thing that exists. I look, I like chocolate. I'm not a fan of chocolate pies. I don't, I, what do you describe yourself as a chocolate? I would not. As, as recovered chocolate.

I actually rarely have chocolate. I like pumpkin pie. I'll say that I, of the Thanksgiving pies, I prefer a pecan or a pecan pie depending on where you are. Well, you make the rules. You could have made that the pie that you were, you were, you were. But that's less traditional. You know, that's true. are. You make the rules. You could have made that the pie that you were here. It's less traditional. You know, it's going through the most, but yeah, of course, I'll have some pumpkin pie.

Good stuff. Two thumbs up. For me, there's only one holiday pumpkin should be part of H. Wean. Make that card that thing into a spooky face, make it a scholar something. And then throw it into trash. Let it rot. Let it rot on the lowly rod. Let it slowly rot on your doorstep. It makes it even scarier. Been throw it away. And it gets all wet and gross and it falls apart in your hands while

you're trying to carry it to the garbage can. That's what I call holiday mortality. Exactly. Okay. Well, thank you for being with us for this many. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate in this country. Thank you for sharing this time with us. If you liked this podcast, go over to maximumfun.org. Check out the other great podcasts they have there. Some of them are funny, some of them give information, some of them do both. This one barely achieved either.

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