The Worst Idea Of All Time - 02: John Hughes Was An Ass Man

Episode Date: May 3, 2020

Tim 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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,
Starting point is 00:01:03 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
Starting point is 00:01:39 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
Starting point is 00:02:01 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.
Starting point is 00:02:20 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.
Starting point is 00:02:50 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
Starting point is 00:03:27 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
Starting point is 00:03:53 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.
Starting point is 00:04:44 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,
Starting point is 00:05:12 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
Starting point is 00:05:31 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
Starting point is 00:06:12 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.
Starting point is 00:07:00 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
Starting point is 00:08:03 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
Starting point is 00:08:54 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,
Starting point is 00:09:32 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.
Starting point is 00:10:05 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.
Starting point is 00:10:28 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
Starting point is 00:11:14 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,
Starting point is 00:12:05 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
Starting point is 00:12:37 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,
Starting point is 00:13:28 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
Starting point is 00:13:52 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,
Starting point is 00:14:28 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
Starting point is 00:15:16 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
Starting point is 00:15:38 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.
Starting point is 00:16:11 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
Starting point is 00:16:31 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
Starting point is 00:17:13 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.
Starting point is 00:17:30 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
Starting point is 00:17:53 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
Starting point is 00:18:34 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.
Starting point is 00:19:15 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?
Starting point is 00:19:47 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?
Starting point is 00:20:16 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
Starting point is 00:20:33 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
Starting point is 00:21:00 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
Starting point is 00:21:54 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
Starting point is 00:22:52 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
Starting point is 00:23:10 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
Starting point is 00:23:19 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
Starting point is 00:23:45 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
Starting point is 00:24:25 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,
Starting point is 00:25:09 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,
Starting point is 00:25:24 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
Starting point is 00:26:06 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
Starting point is 00:26:21 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?
Starting point is 00:26:42 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
Starting point is 00:27:45 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
Starting point is 00:28:46 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
Starting point is 00:29:39 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.
Starting point is 00:30:15 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.
Starting point is 00:30:37 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
Starting point is 00:31:19 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
Starting point is 00:31:54 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
Starting point is 00:32:48 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
Starting point is 00:33:28 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
Starting point is 00:34:22 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,
Starting point is 00:34:37 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
Starting point is 00:35:14 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
Starting point is 00:35:48 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
Starting point is 00:36:06 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
Starting point is 00:36:58 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
Starting point is 00:37:09 insane it was wild

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