The Worst Idea Of All Time - 02: John Hughes Was An Ass Man
Episode Date: May 3, 2020Tim and Guy rip into the film's soundtrack and specifically, dig into the briefly-lived pop punk band, Cartoon Boyfriend. Guy makes the argument once again that Home Alone 3 is a feminist text and Ale...x's dad is the worst salesman his company has ever seen. The fellaz explore the possibility that Mrs Hess is an absolute sex machine. And is John Hughes an ass man? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In Home Alone 3 the stakes are Alex who's 8 has to protect a proprietary microchip from terrorists who would use it in a missile to evade radar detection.
Presumably to be able to kill a lot of people without an anti-aircraft ammunition system being able to take it down.
What the fuck?
aircraft ammunition system being able to take it down what the fuck hello and welcome to episode two of the worst idea of all time emergency season
which uh largely involves a global pandemic slash quarantine and myself and my esteemed associate Tim Batt enjoying the wares of a group of collaborators from the year 1997
who worked on an art project named Home Alone 3,
a film or piece, I suppose you could say,
that we have both just absorbed, consumed, inspected,
admired for the second time.
It's 2.39pm on a weekday afternoon.
Tim, how do you do?
Very cold, thank you, Guy. How about yourself?
Yeah, it is. It's not warm in the room either.
I've had my little tootsies uh unsheathed all day not a sock to be seen but i did tuck them
under a sort of a shawl style woolen blanket um for a lot of the film i've since taken them back
out and i'm noticing it i'm feeling it so i'm probably actually even going to put those back
in right now um capital idea monty where are you feeling it? What extremities are cold on your end?
I think the feet's a good place to start
Even though I've been wearing shoes and socks all day
Still cold though
Very strange
Not here to talk about the fucking weather though
We're talking about the mixed media art project
That is Home Alone 3
Featuring the hit from cartoon boyfriend
Is it called My Town? What else would it be called? Home Alone 3 featuring the hit from Cartoon Boyfriend.
Is it called My Town?
What else would it be called?
This is my town.
Watch yourself if you come around.
I don't think I know you. Well, maybe it's time to show you.
This is my home.
I'll be standing here all alone.
And if you're ready to see hell Come on in and ring the bell
Nice. Ring the bell is what I would have called the song
rather than my town.
That's what I looked up.
So everybody listening, there is a pop punk song
that's in the middle of the movie
when little Alex Pruitt is setting his traps for I think round two of bringing the pain against the dastardly bandits.
It's sort of, it's round one.
I mean, it's confusing because they actually like the song so much they do use it twice.
In the same way another movie might do with a very expensive song they've got the rights to.
So they just absolutely slam it home
they um commissioned my town by carton cartoon boyfriend this song only exists on the home alone
three movie soundtrack and um because i was looking for their debut and seemingly soul album
nipples and i couldn't see it on the track listing there.
Wow, dude, if you're a member of Cartoon Boyfriend
and you're listening along right now,
you might want to plug your ears
because according to AllMusic reviewer Jason Anderson,
their debut album, Nipples, is unfocused and banal.
This debut release from Los Angeles rocker's Cartoon Boyfriend
reflects the group's diversity and eclectic influences
perhaps a little too well.
The artwork and titles present the group as a joke band but in contrast with their campy packaging many of the cuts on nipples possess serious messages that conflict with cartoon boyfriends
overdone and sophomoric image all of which leads to a sour listening experience um two-star review
that one yeah the it's like a three to me well the final sentence is finding
the right quantities of pop ingredients however proves to be a complicated task for the trio of
tommy tillman holly wright and boy one of the band members is not unlike beyonce or madonna
it's just boy spelt b-o-i three semi-talented musicians whose lack of musical definition burdens the unstimulating nipples.
It's like the proto-state of fuckboy is just B-O-I.
Before we had the fuckboy, before we had the 2000s, we simply had boy, member of Cartoon Boyfriend.
And before we had the gorillas, we had the concept of a cartoon band.
Not the concept, the wandering idea that someone said aloud.
But they used a song once while he's laying the traps
and once more after the success of the traps.
So it sort of bookends that quite prolonged booby trap sequence.
Yeah, it's called a montage, guy.
Look it up.
No, the entirety of that is not a montage.
That's a scene,
you fucking egghead.
You would not be able to...
That's a montage.
Yeah, but it doesn't bookend a montage.
You don't hear the song
scored over a montage,
and then at the end of the montage
when the next scene boots up they just start the same song again that would be chaos this this is uh
testament to how much i was paying attention i did not realize that song played twice in the movie
it's unmissable because i heard it the first time i was like i remember this from my first screening
and it is just so of its time i must know more and i looked it up and then
i was so excited to have the chance to sing along when it recurred for the second time speaking of
music in the movie tim i want to hark your mind back to an early phase of the film it's after
both of alex's parents are seen on the phone uh his mother talking to her boss his father talking
to his boss while preparing dinner
thus bolstering you know the idea that this is a feminist text as as of its release here 1997
and he's wearing this hilarious iconic iconic line is delivered by alex's father i couldn't
tell you how good the product is on the phone yeah i thought you'd have some ideas about that do you think this is
a man who is in over his head yeah big time i mean even the most rudimentary salesman can
attempt to talk up a product while on a tally conversation with someone you can begin the chat
there you're putting yourself into such a weak position. If within a phone call in which you are essentially teasing the product that you are hoping to sell,
you confess to the fact that a phone call simply is not enough face-to-face contact.
I mean, you could sell anything over the phone.
That was an entire business.
That was an entire sales model, phone sales.
It still exists to this day you wouldn't
read about it because that's a different kind of uh absorbing of information but telly sales
are still big yeah but um at the end of the uh the the second phone call we then see alex walking up
the stairs while scratching what he was soon discovered to be the chicken pox and they sort of plug in this absolutely insane instrumental like generic um
big pond garage band sort of getty images style you know just i'm gonna play it for you now it's
just remarkable are you picking it up um not really and i uh but you know i think i i get the gist it's like it
goes like this it's difficult because i'm uh talking to you through a microphone that is not
the microphone i'm recording the podcast into.
I understand.
It's like it belongs on America's Funniest Home Videos or something.
It seems so out of place.
It screams much more of TV show than feature film to me.
There's a lot of very cheap tracks, cheap sounding tracks i suppose what it is all of this conversation is opening up for me is the idea that maybe for how much i enjoyed the movie last time i found less to occupy myself
with this time i found it to be harder look who's come crawling back to old correct him bow as they call them no one says
that was this movie made as a direct to video film do you know have you encountered that question on
your travels i've not i think no if if only because the budget was somewhere in the family
of 30 million and it made back roughly 80 yeah 30 mil you don't see any of that
on screen eh like this is not a 30 million dollar looking picture you can make a fucking good ass
action movie for 30 mil yeah it's true it doesn't really i mean but they they kind of do again they
do explore two different genres of cinema early on.
Eventually they fuse the two,
but you can see some of the money coming out and that diehard style opening
sequence,
which sort of sets up the idea that this is a serious crime caper.
And then obviously we were transported back into the,
the kid world of Alex.
Suburbia.
I felt like the money comes out also in that in that uh booby trap sequence
which is really nicely teased and i feel like the first time that this movie really says hey
we're inside of the home alone franchise is um when it's uh we see alex feeding his fish with
a rube goldberg machine he's built in his room. He's feeding his goldfish speedy.
And there's that sort of old-style piano-driven jazz-sounding music beneath it.
Yes.
And that to me is like...
I even think it's like an old Bobby Darin track
or something that sounds like it would be one.
And I feel like they use one that they actually used in the first Home and Alone.
Home and Alone. Home and Alone.
Home Alone.
Home and Alone was the working title for the franchise, of course.
They realized not long after they could take out the conjunction.
Yeah, that to me feels like when we're actually inside of the Home Alone universe.
And it sort of does somewhat go downhill from there.
this and it sort of does it does somewhat go downhill from there um before we i guess get mired into criticisms or gripes or you know conspiracy theories associated with the film
tim i would love to know what your shining light was i don't have a fucking shining light there's
no shining light for this movie and i don't require one jesus christ oh i'll tell you what i left my bread in san francisco that's my shining light
and i don't know if mrs hess said that as a reference to the song if you're going to san
francisco but she says it in this whimsical way and the movie puts like a highlighter over the top
of the the line of dialogue and i'm just wondering what joke did i not get what reference went over my
head what's happening here it sounds like a song title and the thing is i believe it to be the same
number of syllables as if you're going to san francisco because i also i wrote that line down
because it is it's like a weird owl version of that song um i left my it doesn't even work i left my bread in san francisco
it can work it's also sort of bookended again there are all sorts of little tie-ins in this
movie if you just look out for them at the end when alice ribbons is tying up mrs h or mrs hess
the elderly curmudgeonly neighbor,
and says, I left my heart in San Francisco.
But I think that's a, you know, you say you don't have a shining light,
and yet here we are having a lot of fun with the idea of an elderly woman
leaving a loaf of bread from a toy store slash bakery.
So confused by that.
We need to drill into that that and what's it called again
it's got some weird parisian or parisian yeah parisian the famous toy store slash bakery what
kind of a fucking business venture i mean admittedly the sourdough appears to be so good
that mrs hess went across country just to get a loaf of it taking a big old plane ride to get to san francisco just to get a
loaf of sourdough um but i mean like i guess there's something to it dude parents love baked
goods kids love toys we'll put them under one roof we can slam the wallet twice take pot shots all
you want but we know from the airport scene when they are scouring the place to try and
recover their lost toy car containing the important chip that parisian is a very popular store i mean
the number of bags from that franchise that they have to sift through and sort of very sneakily
inspect tells me that at least in 1997 this was boon times for parisian. I don't know that it's a real store.
I've looked up Parisian General Store,
and one of the top hits is a guide to Paris supermarkets
and food shopping.
What we need to do is take a screenshot of the logo
and then reverse Google image search it
and see what comes up.
And I don't mean to be an asshole,
but is it pronounced Parisisian like the word because
that's how i've always like heard other people say it i think but it is you know is that incorrect
no i uh this might be a word where both are correct i really don't know and it's one of
those ones where i sort of liked the way that it felt to say Parisian. And so I just kept going,
even though it might be totally wrong.
I can't even imagine being told that it's wrong.
That would change the way I enjoy saying the word.
My shining light term.
I'll back off.
Is when we get a weather report from Mark Mercuso,
who is a weatherman for a local cable news network or some sort of news show,
and he's forecasting a snowstorm for Chicago, which is going to have various different ramifications for the plot of the film. But he's doing it from a sitting position behind a desk.
And it's so rare in this modern era of newscasts to see a weather person being given the same respect and treatment as your anchors.
For too long now, we have expected all of the ancillary presenters on the news to do it from their feet.
I mean, you know, the weather person is arguably working as hard, if not harder than the others.
They are doing a lot of their own research
i believe that the anchors traditionally just have an army of news bots who provide them with
an autocue to read it was just a delight to see um some of that hard work recognized and to see
my boy mark telling it how it is from behind a news desk and not even really getting up to walk
us around the map physically but just sort of vaguely gesturing at it and saying,
yeah, it's going to be fucking snowing.
It's Chicago in the winter.
What do you expect?
Yeah, allow me to take a seat while I tell you,
for this is the position in life I have earned.
The only person you would expect to have on the 6 o'clock news
with a college degree, like, you know, pretty sure thing,
would be the weather person.
Absolutely.
Hopefully a meteorology. Could ask you tim could you please rank for me uh or give me your power rankings on news
presenters in studio so from top to bottom sports is the bottom they are sleeping with the dogs
and waking up with fleas because they are low down in the list.
Then, now, is this how it should be or how it is?
This is how it should be.
That one is one and the same.
Okay, how it should be.
Well, I keep my sports presenter firmly at the bottom of the pile.
I'm going to put,
I don't know how many roles there are
apart from the anchor and the weather presenter.
Is there anyone
else there no there's not it's only four people in the studio there are two anchors i'm gonna put
the anchor in the middle and the weather presenter up top giving me relevant information everything
else you're telling me has happened and can have no effect on my life because you're reporting on events that are cast in iron however
the weather presenter is giving me a statistical probability of how my day will go tomorrow which
will influence my actions why are we relegating this person to some sort of glorified model in
front of a cgi map you know they're always treated with disdain.
We get the morning television show
where the person to fly out to parts unknown,
getting up before anyone else in the morning
to have to attend a library opening
in a city with a population of 280 people.
I mean, it's got nothing to do with the weather.
There's a trained meteorologist,
if you've got the right team.
What are they doing at this ribbon ceremony?
What have they placed there?
I couldn't agree more.
And you could also make an argument that news broadcasts
understand the value and draw of the weather
because they always tuck it away at the end.
You've spent a lot of time in radio production.
You know the value of a tease.
The entire news broadcasts are going,
and stick around, we've got weather coming up just around the corner it's time for weather hey don't
go anywhere you're going to find out about that weather they're all stuffed away back there without
any respect you know what they're meant to be on their pins for 55 minutes before they get to tell
everyone what they're literally watching the broadcast for this reminds me of an old saying
which is you don't sell that wait what
is it you don't sell the cow or else no one will buy the milk you know if they give away the weather
at the start of the news broadcast everyone's going to fuck off and tank your ratings so the
anchors know what they're up to but i'm willing to bet that they unjustifiably get paid way more
than weather presenters and i think that's an atrocity maybe we should change start a change.org yeah i guess that's because the theory would be that
the impact on the personal lives of the anchors is greater because they're featured more prominently
on the newscast but it's kind of it's kind of bullshit by that reckoning we should be paying
the subject of the news items a lot more money than anyone else for they are the most impacted
you're telling me that covid19 should be a very rich virus uh no we are talking about human beings
and i can't believe you would open up such a booby trap for yourself i'm not going to wander in
though because you're not going to take me down with you which is what i feel like will happen
without a third party to um officiate this conversation about your dastardly views on COVID.
I'm against it and I will fucking keep talking about it until the cows come home.
People aren't listening to the words I'm saying.
Can I tell you something?
Yeah.
We need to consider the stakes of Home Alone 3 versus home alone's one and two because i think this is um subconsciously
the thing that turned me off to this movie so much and that hasn't changed by the way i fucking
hated watching it today it's a bad movie absolutely hate it um and the franchise like if you oh well
i'll just say the first two movies because apparently there's five of these in total now
the first two movies are good and the rest is to be ignored.
Are they canon?
Is this canon?
Well, yeah, it's canon.
But what does that even mean in the Home Alone universe? Because it seems the movies just follow a kid.
I mean, in your eyes, you're an outspoken cricket and critic of Home Alone 3.
I keep chirping on about it. Yeah, that's right. You're an outspoken cricket and critic of Home Alone 3.
I keep chirping on about it.
Yeah, that's right.
To no one, do you think that this belongs in the same conversation?
No, it doesn't. That's why we're having a whole other conversation just about Home Alone 3.
But I'll bring Home Alone 1 and 2 into it, but it wouldn't work the other way.
but I'll bring Home Alone 1 and 2 into it but it wouldn't work the other way
Home Alone 1 and 2
the stakes are that Kevin McAllister
must outwit
the wet bandits who are trying to break
into suburban houses
to steal some valuables
they're petty thieves
they're cat burglars of a sort
but they're pretty unskilled at it
and in Home Alone 3 the stakes are
that Alex who's eight has
to protect a proprietary microchip from terrorists who would use it in a missile to evade radar
detection presumably to be able to kill a lot of people without an anti-aircraft ammunition system
being able to take it down what the fuck yeah i mean go big or go home really though it's
uh you got to respect the fact the franchise has left itself room to grow from the first two films
because you couldn't you couldn't have you couldn't reverse the order you couldn't have
the second film being macaulay culkin dealing with you know a high-powered crime organization who are smuggling
a missile cloaking computer chip you know on behalf of a different crime body like we've got
to remember that these four villains these are their middlemen do you think that based on this
trajectory home alone 5 is basically um like an avengers movie i see no do you think it's kevin mccallister
versus thanos that would be he's got to prevent thanos from assembling the the gauntlet um with
all the infinity stones and snapping half of existence wouldn't you wouldn't you watch that
though and also i mean why are marvel sleeping on this that's a crossover that would fucking rake in the cash you know put all of this put all of the avengers movies and both home both
the first home alones into a bot you know a script generator and just make whatever it spits out
this is so relevant to what i've been doing the last couple days because i treated myself to a little computer game i bought um injustice 2 which is a dc universe like it's really fucking cool too it's
all like based on this storyline where in injustice 1 superman went ballistic because the joker killed
lois lane who was pregnant with his child and superman started killing people starting with
the joker so then batman had to lock him up
and so like superman is a baddie now it's fucking sick but i bought the game while it was 70 off on
steam for like eight bucks because you could play as the teenage mutant ninja turtles and this is in
a game with like superman and batman and wonder woman swap thing and i was like this is the
silliest shit this is gonna be so good
And then I fucking
Bought the game
Downloaded the game
Played the game
And to get the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
As a playable character
Or any kind of
Visible content
In the game
I gotta shell out
20 bucks
To buy the
Downloadable
Turtle content
They got you by
The shortened curlies
I am so livid because i specifically
bought the game because i thought the concept of like superman versus the turtles is so silly and
i just so badly want to play uh that scenario out but i'm not willing i'm willing to pay eight
dollars for i'm not willing to pay 28 for it uh you wait until two hours from now
when your bloody eyeballs are rolling into the back of your heads and all you want to do is
you know explore two different universes at once in this economy i don't think so they're dreaming
yeah that's that's fair enough too um should we drive the conversation back to home alone 3 a
movie which you are on the record is not enjoying twice now and one that i
did enjoy once and enjoyed less the second time that's not to say i didn't like it it does feel
much more formulaic once you know where it's all going it's funny how that happens isn't it
isn't it i yeah watching it today i was like oh like they just hammer home the same story beats
three times in a row at the beginning they're like he's at the house no one believes
that there are baddies in the neighborhood but he knows and then eventually it reaches the point
where it's like just him versus the baddies that is a very short story that they have stretched
out to an hour and 40 something minutes um yeah but i don't know within it there there's like i
think mrs hess is doing quite a lot of hard work
the actor and the character i felt like this sort of curmudgeonly older neighbor who it's
insinuated pretty pretty heavily as a big time retired daytime drinker and smoker we see her
fixing a an iced tea a long island iced tea for herself at about what seems to be 10.30 in the morning.
She's smoking cigarettes in her own home,
which I respect, you know.
Yeah, she's fucking earned it.
If she's reached the age of retirement,
put your feet up, make yourself a fucking dark and stormy,
whatever, have at it.
She knows what she wants, she knows what she needs,
and she's not afraid to ask for it,
which means that in the eyes of the people around her and certainly the neighborhood,
she can be a bit of a weapon and a sort of someone who others are fearful of but when you open her
up you know she is sweet as a nut by the end of the film when it turns out alex has been telling
the truth and has done a fantastic job of capturing four highly trained criminals mrs hess is over and
they're all sort of breaking bread and having a laugh and he's he's freed her like she was kidnapped in essence and strapped down to a chair and he's responsible
for her surviving um and so early on she coins the phrase i left my bread in san francisco later on
uh they're all talking about the chicken pox as though the movie itself forgot that alex had the
chicken pox and that was an important vehicle for storytelling within it so we better you know
slap a conversation about it on at the end and uh i say have you had the chicken pox and that was an important vehicle for storytelling within it so we better slap a conversation about it on
at the end and I say
have you had the chicken pox Mrs Hess
and then she absolutely cuts everyone
in the dining hall to ribbons by saying
I had the chicken pox when Herbert
Hoover was in the White House
which I mean
even within the context
it's not a very funny sentence but
fuck I'll be damned.
It kills in the room, eh?
She murders at the Pruitt household.
If it doesn't represent sort of, you know,
a new direction for the relationship between Mrs Hess and the Pruitts.
Do you get the sense that Mrs Hess was going out to a date
at one point in the movie as well?
Because when she's very perturbed that she's got to stick around and watch young alex because um everyone's got jobs and needs to leave the
house she's like oh like i don't have somewhere to go so just i i don't know why but i always
read that as um mrs hess is uh trying to go catch dicks oh yeah i can sort of see it um she is she's like really taking care of herself and you know
there's no reason to think that anyone in this movie who is of age isn't when they're not on
screen actively pursuing a fulfilling and well-rounded sex life um you know it yeah i i i didn't pick up on that but i can i can see it
you know maybe part of the reason that she's so relaxed at the tail end of the film is that
somewhere between being tied up and catching up with the pruitt family she has been absolutely
railed or maybe even herself she's put on some sort of strap on and just pegged the living
shit out of someone else in the neighborhood um yeah i mean you know that's the kind of shit that
goes down um behind closed suburban doors that no one talks about absolutely and these sort of uh
upper middle class cul-de-sacs of the chicago and suburbs you know there's a reason that these streets are sort of hidden away from your
main arteries and that there's so much space between the houses because you know i think
we're all discovering at this point that noise is privacy like you know a lack of sound is what
represents privacy if you can hear what's happening in the room next door, in the house next door, in the house above you, that is a huge sacrifice of privacy.
And these big sort of old Victorian Tudor-style houses, while they might not be insulated or the windows might not be double glazed, so a few little peeps and murmurs are going to creep out into the outside world, people are doing all sorts of absolutely gnarly shit.
And there's no reason to think that
mr test isn't isn't one of those people i'd love to hear that um speaking of actually while we're
on sort of a sexual bent do you get the sense based on this movie that john hughes is an arse
man because there is a lot of attention paid and jokes made um with the focus of asses in this flick uh
interesting i i don't feel i'm gonna run you through i've got the evidence right here yeah
scarlett johansson's on the buttock region when they're asking about where alex gets chicken pox
um knock off fucking dime store buzz the brother of his saying scar butt at the top the dad not
wearing pants the suction cap sticking to the woman's butt on the exercise video on the tv
burton jernigan am i saying that right burton jernigan you've missed out jernigan thank you
you've missed out syllable probably the funniest syllable not in and of itself but as an operating syllable in the
bigger name can i also say burton jernigan remains as a standalone name the greatest comedy name in
the history of cinema but when there's a run on it together when the fbi detective is saying who
the criminals are and at one point brackets burton jernigan and Alice Ribbons. Yeah, yeah. Double billing.
That is a fantastic combo.
Sorry, Tim, as you were.
It's like a porno that was made in Sweden, eh?
Burton Jernigan and Alice Ribbons.
Like, fuck me.
What is it about those names?
I cannot stop thinking about them.
I walk around the house, you know, day after day,
and just the echoes of Jernigan bouncing around my mind.
I can't get the man out of me.
Sorry, Tim, as you were.
He basically gets given arseless chaps because of the electric chair that he sits in.
He's the guy with the piercing blue eyes who's super handsome, eh?
Is that Burton Jernigan?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's this sort of, he presents as quite an intelligent and put together and buttoned down operative i looked him up and i think he was in
twin peaks he was in twin peaks something i love that enough it was the yeah the series the original
series or what um but he like looks so out of place in this movie because he's obviously an
incredibly capable and super handsome actor and you're like you should be a bad guy in the real movies you know like in die hard
not in the die hard portion of home alone 3 i just quickly want to say that those asses
while featured prominently you know and thank you very much for compiling such a comprehensive list,
I think that they are a testament to the tone of the film,
less than John Hughes being an arse man, so to speak.
More of an arse humorist.
Like, all of the butt stuff is joke-driven.
It's less sexy.
And, you know, I mean, it's it's not a sexy unless you look for it like
we appear to be willing to do in certain pockets and moments it's not it's not a sexy film that's
not to say um that the people on camera lack sex appeal it's just not the the the focus or the you
know it's not the modus operandi for home alone the sexiest woman in
this movie for you oh man don't put me on the spot like that uh and yet if you think about it
long enough it's mrs hess but on the first two at first blush uh my answer would have to remain um what's her name again havelin morris karen pruitt alex's mom
she there's something there's something about her which i find very warm and welcoming and um as far
as the the men go i mean it's got to be burton jernigan funny name um but there's nothing funny
about this guy's eyes they are the piercing blue of a snow leopard,
and when he looks at you, he looks through you
and into your most guarded and guttural and deeply held desires.
Would I like to see more screen time between Burton Jernigan and Mrs. Hess?
That's a question for another episode,
but certainly if there is a
deleted scenes or bonus features part of this where we we see the two of them just fucking
railing each other i wouldn't be upset send that on through send that on through to the boys you
don't need to keep that to yourself you can share that one with the boys don't be a holdout
give the boys what they need can i uh i think we should probably be working towards a round off
now but i got the most huge era on screen that i've i think i've ever seen in a movie just in
terms of a continuity fuck up um i wonder if you saw it as well it involves a gun uh is it the painting of the bubble gun no as orange and pink
and none of that it's way more obvious okay what was it way more of oh yeah that's bad but this one
is like insane so at the start of the movie when we're introduced to alex pro at the star
and we need to learn that he's a mischievous little boy with some tech now
he first of all because like he he picks up a hand i think this happens before we see the rifle
he picks up a handgun that's in like a gun case and we're like why the fuck does this eight-year-old
have a handgun and then he shoots it at the tv and the suction cat fires onto the screen you're
like oh okay it's a's a very convincing looking toy.
Onto an ass.
The 90s.
No less.
Yeah, onto an ass.
As is John Hughes' way.
Then he pulls out a rifle.
And when he pulls it,
I think that one's out of a gun case as well,
but either way, he wields it.
And it looks like a black assault rifle.
It's fucking terrifying.
And then when he puts it to his eye, it and this is in the very next shot it is a remote tv remote control strapped to a
steel pipe oh um okay i know what you're talking about i believe that to be a slug gun uh and
yeah i i've also spotted the continuity but we are to believe that in the time
between him picking up the initial rifle and using the scope for the remote control that he
has somehow removed the rifle and attached the scope to a remote like i i've noticed it but
forgiven it oh so because it's in the next shot so that confused me so what he so he's just looking at the
through the scope that was on the gun and he's tied the remote to it yeah because we okay well
that's just bad editing but that's not as bad as we later do see him using the the remote with the
scope like multiple times in fact that is probably a good place to leave it and get excited for our
next screening tim because there was a lot of stuff I wrote down that we didn't get to today
in the world of tech
in Home Alone 3
there's a lot of really exciting stuff
that they were using and stuff that I'd love
to get your opinion on
so perhaps our next episode could be the tech
special where
we sort of explore the exciting world of
gadgets
100% I would love love that i would love nothing
more as we round off this episode i would like everyone to raise a glass whatever you've got in
front of you um to mrs hess and her sexual exploits may they be fulfilling and mutually
enjoyable for all parties absolutely pour some out for well actually don't pour some
out put put some in for the fantastic mrs hess because one thing we do all say is oh well never
have i ever seen an ass so better than magical mrs hess's booty works. We'll see you next time.
Go fuck yourselves. Wash your hands.
That's what leaving is.
I've only done that. There's only one
live show I can remember that I've done that to
and it was the
Green Day musical.
I would have loved to have it was the Green Day musical oh man that
I would have loved
to have been
that with you Tim
dude it was
insane
it was
wild