Too Scary; Didn't Watch - SHAUN OF THE DEAD with Jack Quaid

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

Cornettos, cricket bats, and zombies (don't say the zed word) - we're recapping Shaun of the Dead! We are joined this week by Jack Quaid (The Boys, Scream, Hero Club) to discuss this absolute masterpiece of a film. So sort your f*cking life out and join us!Shaun of the Dead is available on StarzDon't forget to see Jack in the new Scream this weekend! (It might just be our movie next week!!) Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily, and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley, and I'm also too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies and so I watch them and I tell you about them. But before we get into this week's movie, I got to ask you guys if anything scary happened to us this week. So many things. Well, it's a new year. So that's number one.

Scary, exciting, full of possibilities. Passage of time is inherently scary. The impermanence of everything. Exactly. So there's always that. Sure. But that's not what I'm going to talk about. What I'm going to talk about is it's cold out. So this week I made soup. Oh my God, Emily. Okay. But, um, I've gotten my soup ratios down pretty, you could freeze soup. So it's not,

I'm not, I'm, I do fine now in terms of the amount of soup that I've made. I make, and, but that's, so this week, this week I made, um, tortilla lime soup. I showed you guys a picture. We tend to send each other pictures of the soup we make. It was really good. It was really good. I'm like really pleased with it. So I got there's chicken in it. And you guys know that I don't

cook a lot of meat. I grew up not eating a lot of meat. I don't cook any meat. It's not as scary as it could be. Don't worry. But so I don't trust myself to like buy raw meat and then cook it in a dish. I just don't know how to tell if it's done. The idea of like putting raw meat in a pot and then you get – and then it – like it doesn't make sense to me. extends to me.

So, my plan for the soup was to get like a rotisserie chicken, but even more basic than that, what I've done before is that Gelson's, they have it, like they've pre-shredded it. It's like, it's a rotisserie chicken, it's already cooked, they put it in a container for you, it's a

shredded chicken, you get it, you just put it in the pot. Great. I was like, I'm going to do that. I went to Gelson's, all they had was the full rotisserie chicken. They didn't have the shredded chicken. You get it. You just put it in the pot. Great. I was like, I'm going to do that. I went to Gelson's. All they had was the full rotisserie chicken. They didn't have the shredded chicken. Maybe a lot of people like me are making soups. So I was like, you know what? I'm going to buy the rotisserie chicken. I'm going to do it. I can do this. So I looked up a video about how to get the meat off your rotisserie chicken. You did a video? I did it chicken and I was really proud of myself I don't like touching meat I don't it's like it is gross chicken also does gross me out the bones it's body it's a whole body it's a whole body yeah it's gross and I was I was so proud of myself as I was doing I was like

you're really doing it like you're doing like I just like felt really proud of myself and I got through most of it. But there's like what looks like organs there at some point or something. I got to the middle and there was stuff there that I didn't like. You didn't like what you saw. I didn't like seeing it. There aren't supposed to be like organs. Well, maybe not organs. seeing it. There aren't supposed to be like organs. Well maybe not

organs but it just was a part of it that didn't look like anything I wanted to touch or knew what to do with and it was like in the middle. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you about that. I don't know. I don't know. Thankfully it happened at the end and so I

got enough chicken off of it for my soup and it was really good. And I really, I face a lot of, like, I have a lot of internal conflict about this because I do feel like if you're going to eat meat, if you're going to do it, you should get in there. You got, well, you should, you should be aware that you are eating the body of a thing. You should like respect that.

You should eat as much of it as is possible to eat because it's like more ethical but but i am so freaked out by it and i have a really hard time eating something that isn't like white meat off a chicken that doesn't look like it came from a body anywhere and i can completely disassociate that i had and so i'm like i'm juggling those two things at once. Yeah, it sounds like it was a little traumatic for you. It was a really big day for me. But the soup was really good.

Good. It looked really good. All I can think about is my mom, who I'm sure is listening to this podcast, who anytime anyone has ever vocalized not wanting to touch raw meat, she's always like, what is wrong with them? Like, get over it. Look, she's always like what is wrong with them like get over it look she's probably right i don't know i just don't understand how you can touch it do you know what i mean you should teach me how to next time we're together teach me how to cook raw meat because i don't it's not i don't know how to do it um okay well that was that was great emily thank you thank you so much.

I would love to give a quality judgment on what everybody says after they say it. So who's next? Henley, you're up. Oh, God. OK, well, so something actually did really genuinely scare me right before the podcast, which is I was putting Tim wasn't home and I was putting Silas down for a nap and he like made some noise and I went into his room and I was shushing him. And then I like left the door cracked open and I turned around and Tim in his like full raincoat and like dark outfit was just standing in the threshold of the doorway. And I didn't think he was going to be home yet

like I was not expecting him he came in silently silently hadn't made a noise that's terrifying I honestly screamed I was like I always wonder if I would scream in like a situation because my response is so freeze oriented that I think I'd be like think I just turned invisible and just like stare quietly like bunk so interesting yeah exactly me and my cat have the same scare response did you scream and wake up Silas I definitely made him more um awake yeah it didn't help with the nap at all it didn't help with the nap it really did like my heart was beating so fast for the next like minute. And then the only other thing that's scary is that I go back to work tomorrow. You guys.

That is scary. I'm sorry. I don't like that. I know. Work stinks. Work stinks. Work stinks. I've had a very generous maternity leave.

Six months. Great. That's true. Thank you. Thank you. maternity leave. Six months. Great. That's true. Thank you, Netflix. Yeah, thank you, Netflix. But, yeah, it's time to go back. Time to go back to the grind. Honestly, you know what?

I am excited because it'll be nice to get out of the apartment. It'll be nice to, like, be in a different part of the city. Going into work in person. Wow. So, well, so that's the... Wow. Okay, okay. Can you believe, that's the sentence I just said, and I was honest about that blowing my mind.

You're going into work. So, so that's a little bit up in the air. I mean, I have to go somewhere else besides the apartment. Okay. Because I won't get anything done here. But I don't know if I'll necessarily be working from the office that often. I mean, obviously, it's really bad in New York. And I bet most people aren't. But I kind of want to at least for one day, just to like experience it. I don't know. Okay, Sammy. I thought that was good. Just I thought that was good. Checking. I thought it was good just i thought that was good in case we're checking i thought it was good

okay so this week i bought cryptocurrency oh my god sammy and i joined the cryptocurrency subreddit of course you did which happened first i bought it first and then i was like well i better hear what reddit has to say about this literally every post on reddit i like none of it makes any sense to me i don't understand cryptocurrency is the thing but i have been told that i should buy some and i just don't know what this means for me i don't know that i like it but i did it um i bought fifty dollars worth of cryptocurrency bitcoin specifically no like seven years ago and it's worth like a thousand dollars now yeah that's the thing is it's like it's a bummer because you know 10 years ago was

the time to do it but it's like some of it's gonna keep going up in value it's just like you don't know which it's just like the stock market so i was like which one do i buy so there was one called shiba inu that really fucking blew up and made a lot of people a lot of money. And I'm like, which one's that next one of that? What'd you buy? Nobody knows. I don't actually remember. I bought some Avalanche, some Cosmos, some Ethereum.

I diversified. You diversified? I diversified. Wow. Sammy, we saved the best for last, baby. This is huge. And this is huge. Can you use it to buy like real estate in the metaverse?

Is that a thing? Yeah, I think that's a thing. You can use NFTs. I just think this whole new world is scary is basically what I'm what I'm trying to say. I don't understand any of it. You know how when you're younger than we are, you think you'll never get to a point where you don't understand. You're like, no, not understanding things is like the generation before me.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but things keep happening. But it is inevitable and it has happened and we are definitely there. I'm not going to learn any of this stuff. I'm just not. I know that I'm like already at the point of my life where I'm like, I don't care.

And I've also arrived at a place where I think teenagers look stupid. They look at them and I'm like, I know what you're wearing is cool. You look dumb. You look stupid. Your clothes look bad. I don't know what you're doing. And I know that makes me really fucking lame, but

they look stupid. Emily, you're gonna piss off our teenage listeners. I'm sorry. Look, I acknowledge you're cooler than me, but I think you look stupid. Emily, you're gonna piss off our teenage listeners. I'm sorry. Look, I acknowledge you're cooler than me, but I think you look bad. It's because all of us have had like bad fashion experiences the past few years being really

confused about what we're supposed to wear. We've looked to the teens for inspiration and they have just let us down. They've let us down. Can you imagine if we dressed like teens? We would look that's really when you look stupid you're supposed to look stupid though as a teenager right though like i feel like we look stupid and there was a moment where all teenagers looked like models and really cool and i didn't like that personally i prefer a teenager to look stupid yeah it's where it's it's more right it's more right it's more right. It's more right. It's more right. It's more right. Wow.

Wow. But okay, scary weeks all around. Huge. Really huge. And everything that was said is on the same scale. That's right. But let's talk about this week's movie, which is Shaun of the Dead. It was directed by Edgar Wright, written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield,

Lucy Davis and Dylan Moran. And it is available to rent for $3.99 or get that star's trial on Amazon for 99 cents and then cancel it. That's what we like to do. But we have a guest with us today that we are so freaking thrilled about. Jack Quaid, welcome. Hello.

Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me, guys. This is just, this is amazing. I love this show and I can't believe I'm on it right now. This is great. We can't believe it either. we're so happy to have you oh my god no i just i i first of all i just i love this movie so much and i'm so happy i i i get to talk about it out loud with people um i think for the first time since this was like a big sleepover movie for me when i was when i was a teenager and I swear to God I did not look cool as a teenager ever okay thank you good not once good to know I think I still basically dress the same to be honest with you guys that's that's basically what happens is we just keep wearing our same

shit but then they start wearing other weird stuff and yeah it's like I don't know I've also seen people my age dress younger and it's weird sometimes you're like oh that makes you look way lamer but then randomly sometimes people can pull it off and that pisses me off you just don't know which way it's gonna go if you're gonna look stupid or cool

like anyone that can make a fanny pack look cool is my hero honestly who's like my age who's like Who's like my age? Who's like 29, 30? Like that's, I, oh God, it's so frustrating. I'm just, I can't, I could talk about this all day. I really, I think about it so much.

I really do. I think about it all the time. Like, cause like low, super low rise jeans are back. And I, I just, I literally, my thing is like, I don't think an adult woman's body can sustain low rise like you sort of have to be like

actively growing for that to work and so I'm like I don't know I don't know so as a teenager this happened to me quite a bit where occasionally the laundry would get mixed up in my house. And there was a time in which my mom and I were the same size of person.

Because I shot up really quick. So when I was about 13, it like all, we were the same size. And I didn't know like at the time, like what like women, adult women's jeans looked like in comparison to my like teenage boy jeans so like i would say half the time i would wear my mom's jeans to school yeah no i haven't really i stopped doing that but other than that i haven't really improved how i dress did anyone did anyone ever call you out on it do you ever get roasted for that i think my mom called me out on it. She was like, wait a second. Is my son wearing mom jeans? I thought all my pants were disappearing.

Yeah. Why do I keep it? I don't know. Then like my jeans were like too big for me. I was always like, I was always growing. So I think they were always buying like a size up as well. So they were always like like a size up as well so they were always like way like the the leg i would always be tripping over my own pants legs like constantly like that was a

that was a real that was a real time in my life buying pants was horrible i feel like now you can buy pants basically in every single size but like in the early 2000s like that was not really accessible yet. I feel like all my pants were way too short for me in a way that wasn't cool. Like maybe it would look cool now. But back then was not cool. Yeah. Oh, man.

Maybe I should go easy on the teenagers. You know, it's hard. It's a hard time. It's a hard time. They're doing what they can. They're also inside all the time. They don't they don't know. They don't know how they look.

They haven't. It hasn't know how they look. It hasn't been peer reviewed. True. Let's give them a one year grace period to get peer reviewed. Yeah, part of fashion when you're a teenager is having another teenager just really make fun of how you look. It's a big part. It can't happen now. It's a big part. So we have to do it.

We have to do it. I'll take it upon myself to make fun of children. We're stepping up to the plate. It's our job. Yep. That's it. Well, Jack, did anything scary happen to you this week? Oh, man.

Well, speaking about what Sammy was saying in terms of, like, Bitcoin, I didn't buy any. But this new world does scare me as well. Like, I don't know. But this new world does scare me as well. Like, I don't know. My brain immediately jumps to like, okay, one day are we just all going to be like, you know, brain stems in a server room, basically. Or it'll be like that episode of Black Mirror with the afterlife that's like a computer program. Everything about it makes me sad and scared and I hate it. So I don't want that to happen to me but

i think the closest i've gotten to bitcoin is that i was like wait a minute i i know in a in like a locker somewhere or like in my closet there's got to be like some pokemon cards from my youth because i remember like collecting these things and being like, one day it'll be worth a ton. And I like, I have books. I have like so many Pokemon cards from back then. And I like went online to like see if they were worth anything. None of them. None of them are worth a single thing.

Oh no. Disappointing. That's fucked up. That was about as close as I've come to Bitcoin. It's like, it's just Pokemon cards. Because that's like a thing now. People are like, oh, I traded in this Charizard and I got a million dollars.

And that's not the case at all. Well, didn't our friend Jenna, doesn't she have two Beanie Babies that are worth a lot of money? She has the Princess Diana Beanie Baby. What? But doesn't everyone? No, I don't think so. I think it's pretty rare.

I think it's pretty rare. I just watched. There's a documentary on HBO about Beanie Babies. About Beanie Babies. That's right. I want to watch it. I think it's pretty rare. I think it's pretty rare. I just watched, there's a documentary on HBO about Beanie Babies. About Beanie Babies, that's right, I want to watch it. Yes, it's great. And they're saying like the Princess Di one is the one. Like that's the one that's worth all the marbles. Okay, Jenna, you gotta sell that shit.

Jenna, if you're listening. Stop holding it. Sell, sell, sell. Sell, sell, sell. Doesn't she still have like the plastic cover on it and stuff? I think so. Didn't she like keep the whole thing? Knowing Jenna, it'll be in mint condition. It's perfect. It's

never been touched. Love from a distance. Does it still have the tie tag? Of course. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. Of course. That's her retirement fund. I mean, yeah, she should get on that. Wow. Okay, okay, so this movie, Shaun of the Dead, we'll get to.

You love it. It's a sleepover movie. Sleepover movie, yeah. it was kind of the I don't know it was the glue that held so many friendships together back in the day it was yeah

it was just it I don't know it means a lot to me in a lot of different ways I feel like I've I hadn't seen it in a while up until now

and now I watched it last night just to refresh my memory and Sean is now 29 and I'm 29 and it was this weird stuff it was weird it was a weird thing where I was like oh man and I felt like I could relate to it even more you know like I went from enjoying it to kind of relating to it uh you know and it's like

yeah and it was that was scary that happened to me yesterday. Passage of time, man. Passage of time. It's tough. It really is. Yeah, realizing like adult characters from things you liked as a kid are like, they're younger than me. Oh, that's very cool. Yeah, younger or older than you. Yeah, or younger or the same age as you.

Love this. Love this for us. I have this thing with reality TV shows where if I watch them as a kid, everyone was always older than me. If I watched them as a kid, everyone was always older than me. And then I think the moment where that first hit, like that thing of like, oh, someone on TV is younger than me is when I watched like a current season of The Bachelor. I was like, oh, no. I get it big time on The Bachelor. Oh, no.

They're all like 22. Yeah, they're all so young. Or like the people that are your age, like I'm 29 and the people that are 29, I'm like, that's not a 29 that I know. Like that's a different kind of 29. And they all, like, comment on it like, oh, she's, like, much older than the rest of us. Oh, I hate it. I hate it so much.

That's tough. Wait, Jack, okay, so how do you feel about scary movies generally? Obviously, you're going to be in one coming up very soon. Yeah, so I have an odd history with scary movies. And Scream in particular particular and this movie so it all it all kind of uh it all kind of culminated when i was a kid scream had just come out i think the first time i went trick-or-treating that was the year that scream came out and then every everyone on those streets were dressed like ghostface and it oh yeah there was a huge moment for Ghostface.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Ghostface was, like, almost everyone trick-or-treating that Halloween was in a Ghostface costume. And I remember, in particular, there was this one kid that had kind of, like, a translucent Ghostface mask where you guys, this is such a thing that I remember so vividly. It's, like, you had, like, a thing you could pump, like, a thing that led, like, a tube that led to the mask. Yes's like you you had like a thing you could pump like a thing that led like a tube that led to the mask oh yeah yes i fucking remember those scared the shit out of me like i was straight up traumatized by ghostface himself uh just when i was like four or whenever that was and so i just never watched scary movies after that i just like when i was a

kid i i swore off of them forever. I took everything very literally. I remember going to Disneyland and there's like a Snow White ride. And like the title is Snow White's Scary Adventures. And I was like, I'm not going to go in there. It's scary. Why would I want that? I just hated it. So I swore off them for forever. And then when I was a teenager, I started getting into them a little bit more.

And Shaun of the Dead was kind of the movie that, you know, it's not particularly scary. It's not like a gateway. It's kind of a gateway. Yeah. And so Shaun of the Dead got me into the genre in a really big way. And then I started actually watching Scream, getting over my fear. And then, you know, all the new horror movies that are coming out that are so great. And now I'm a bona fide fan of the genre.

I love it. Wow. What a 180. A real turnaround. I love to hear it. Real turnaround. I'm inspired by this because I'm like, I'm still in the beginnings. Like, I will go see the new Scream in theaters but it's gonna be tough for

me personally I gotta say I'm so I I don't even know if this sounds condescending but I'm so happy for all of you guys because as a longtime listener of the show I've seen this like arc with you guys every now and then you'll watch a movie as well you you you you get a little bit more confident with the genre, with every episode. And I'm just I'm so happy for you guys. That's awesome. It's great. I can relate to it.

Emily has definitely made the most progress. I would say that I've advanced to where I can maybe watch like I know you did last summer, Scream, like kind of the teenage kind of campy horror I'm into. But man, there are too many to count that I'm still like I don't know what really helped me at least get back into the beginning like get back into the genre in the beginning of it was I I just always remember thinking that no movie was ever as scary as my imagination made it out to me to be because I would come up with all these like ideas of what theoretically I would see if I were to go see that scary movie. And then I would sit down and be like, oh, OK, I am a way more fucked up person than this movie.

Yeah. My brain is way scarier. I can't let myself imagine this movie. Oh, my God. No. I'm a monster. This is horrible. Like, I think I was more scared with what my brain came up with in the movie itself.

Although I will still watch a scary movie in a theater. I will plug my ears with my thumbs and then kind of form a mesh over my eyes. Like so I can peek out just at the right moments. It's more the noise that gets me. If I can tell a sequence is leading to a jump scare. I do the plugging of the ears too, always. And I look at a corner of the screen or at the exit sign in a theater.

I'll just watch a movie through my peripheral vision if I'm really scared. I just sort of look at the ground so I can see that movie's happening above me and I just sort of wait until I feel like I can look up. You just hardcore remind yourselves

that you are in, in a theater. Yeah, you just look at the physical space. It's like how Sammy learned. If you get really out of body anxious, you hold an ice cube. It's like that thing. It's like, I'm in a room. I'm in a room with chairs. I'm in a room with other people where something's happening on a screen.

There's techniques. I do that all the time. Although I did not know about the ice cube thing. I'm going to start using that. Yeah, it brings you back to your body it makes you realize that life is real and it makes you look normal you look very normal very normal oh man finally i get to look normal this is so wonderful i don't know why it became Swedish or whatever the hell that was. But yeah. I am.

This is a movie that I have seen, Shaun of the Dead. Yes. But I had not seen it until quarantine. Like, I think last year I saw it for the first time. Because I think it was one of those that I always, when it first came out, I maybe thought it was still going to be – like zombies are still a little hard for me. I thought it was going to be like too gruesome or something. So I had avoided it. And then – so I finally watched it because I love Simon Pegg from my favorite movie franchise, Mission Impossible. Oh, the best.

And so – but it's great and it's not – yeah, definitely not too scary. There is like some – definitely some zombie violent stuff, but it's like playful. Yeah. I would say. Yeah. It's playful gore. It's playful gore. Which I couldn't even, I didn't even used to be able to handle that.

Now I can pretty much do playful gore. Yeah. This kind of, the zombie genre as like a horror subgenre is so fascinating to me because it was really like, I mean, Night of the Living Dead was such a pioneering horror movie. This movie, I think kind of in a lot of ways started to bring back the zombie genre. I think I remember a bit of trivia about this is that they were when they were conceptualizing this movie, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were like, oh, this will be great. No one's done a zombie thing in forever. And then while they were developing the movie, they were hearing that like, OK, Zack Snyder's remaking Dawn of the Dead.

Right. And Danny Boyle is going to do 28 Days Later. And they were like, damn it. Like, everyone's just going to think that we're a parody of those movies when in fact we're kind of our own thing. I think what probably didn't help that was the fact that it's Sean of the dead, that it's just like a,

but while they were conceptualizing, they were like, okay, that those movies were forever ago. No, you know, it'll be like a playful homage. That's like when,

you know, ants and a bug's life came out. It's like all those things just time up and come out at the same time. Or the illusionist and the prestige. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck's happening? I need to hold an ice cube because that really makes me think.

Truly, I started just getting caught up in like, oh, it's none of it's real. None of it's real. It's all just getting like moments thrown into being like, now it's time for ant movies. Now it's time for me. The way that I always picture it is like some studio executive whips around in his chair during like a morning meeting and just goes, ants, what do we have? Give me all the ant projects. Put them on my desk. And everybody here is like, okay, we're looking for bug.

We're looking for bug things. Everybody, everybody, get your bug movies. Bugs, bugs. Magicians, what do we have? Well, that being said, we probably should watch this trailer. Let's do it. Do you ever think that modern life is not for you? Do you do the same dead-end job every day?

Is your love life dying on its feet? To a wonderful mum? Have you ever felt that you're turning into... The queen of the world? A zombie? Maybe you're not alone. It's sad. Although no one official is prepared to comment, religious groups are calling it Judgment Day.

It is vital that you stay in your homes. Avoid all physical contact with the assailants. Oh, he's got an arm! So, what's the plan? Bash him in the head, that seems to work out. Why have you got a girl Lizzie? Because I love her. Alright, gay.

He's got something! Wait there. Hold it there. I'm coming! John! I mean, it's fun. That music choice at the end was so specific. I forgot what like early 2000s trailers were like. Oh yeah, that felt extremely 2004.

It's also so interesting to rewatch this movie because now so many of the things that happen in it, like the editing style and like the like that Edgar A. does all the time is like we're so used to it now, but we were not when this first came out. No, we weren't used to like someone filming, someone making a sandwich like a Kung Fu movie. Like we weren't used to that. Those like quick flashes. It's so cool. And it's just. It's so cool.

You can tell just how much care went into this thing. These movies are so rewatchable. Yes. It's one of my favorite things. In fact, I would say they must be rewatched to fully appreciate. Well, that's why I think I need your help today, Sammy, because this movie is the densest film I think I have ever seen. There are so many. It's a masterclass in like setups and payoffs like they

set up so many things almost like everything that happens in the first act gets repeated later in some way it's so cool and they're all cool and they're all interesting and it's just it's true like I was rewatching it last night I'm like this is daunting this is

there are so many things that come up later. It's just such a well-written movie. It's insane. I, you know, I've technically seen this movie, but I got to say, watching that trailer reminds me how I have forgotten absolutely everything that happens. I'm pretty sure I watched it very stoned in college and, you know, not a recipe for remembering a lot of things. So I'm excited. I'm really excited to hear about it. It's awesome.

I have a slight personal connection with this movie. Well, not only was it like my the thing that got me into horror movies when I was a kid. After that, like Simon Pegg quickly became a hero of mine because not only does he star in this thing but he wrote it he wrote it with edgar wright which i just thought was so cool that i didn't really know at the time like oh you can do that that's awesome and that's kind of been a dream of mine for a while and then i've always just appreciated simon pegg as like an actor and a person and then a nerd but then then i got to uh i i do a show i do the boys um my character on it huey this is kind of a long story but basically in the comic books of the boys my character is

based uh the look of him is based off of simon pegg in this era yeah so this era he was on a show called space uh that's not where he met edgar wright but that like they kind of that's how the the idea of this movie came together they did this episode where like simon pegg's character was on drugs and playing a lot of resident evil and they kind of did a zombie thing within that like if simon pegg's character was in a resident evil type universe or something like that with a lot of references to Dawn of the Dead so then they were like oh we should just make this a movie we both really appreciate the zombie genre so yeah so around that era that's what

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And then it's a reveal that Ed is right there and playing this horror-themed... What is the game that he's playing, Sammy? I have no idea. I don't know, some old arcade game. It has a lot of blinky lights on it, and it makes a lot of sound. Yeah, the noises of a pinball machine, but it's not a pinball machine.

Exactly. It's one of those magical movie machines. And then they start talking about, oh, you spend a lot of time. If you are always going out with Ed and always spending so much time with Ed, that's why I always bring my flatmates along. And then Sean is like, well, look, it's not like I don't like Diane and oh, my God, David. Guys, it's not like I don't like you. And they're also right there, which is amazing.

And so we get just kind of a sense of who all these characters are. We get the sense that Liz, she says, like, I'm almost 30 and I want to do more with my life. I want to see the world. I want to do things. I don't want to just be coming back to the Winchester every night. I don't want to just constantly be hanging out with you and your roommate slash best friend who's not going anywhere in life.

And then David, one of Liz's flatmates. And I'm saying flatmates like I'm. It's very British. Yeah, it's very British. But I'm going flatmates. I'm saying it in the flat. Flatmates. Flatmates.

I'm not going to do. They're in the pub. They're in the pub. We are in Britain. So, David chimes in and he's just like, well, you haven't been introduced to

Sean's mom and he's giving a lot of side eye. We don't like David almost immediately. But eventually, Sean is like, okay, I'm hearing you out. We're gonna start our lives basically tomorrow. I'm gonna get a dinner reservation at that place

that does all the fish. I think that's what he says. And then we fade out and we go to... What happens after that? The title sequence where we just get kind of like shots of people looking zombie like but they're just regular people in their daily lives like looking on their

phone going around the grocery store and everyone that we see in that sequence comes back later as a zombie which is so this is what i'm saying like the scene that i just basically glossed over there are so many things they set up in that scene that that that happened later like that machine that we none of us know what that machine is that machine comes back later in a big way like everything but yeah almost every extra you see in like the first act as a normal person walking around london comes back later as a zombie and they're all pretty distinct that you even if you didn't consciously remember them like it's still they still look familiar to you then we get to sean he's in his apartment he's waking up um it goes from his feet uh the camera pans from his feet up to his head and he's yawning but it

kind of he's shambling in a way that almost makes him seem like a zombie. And it's just a great shot and such great foreshadowing. He goes to brush his teeth. There's the kind of classic mirror gag where he just kind of touches the bathroom mirror and it shifts and reveals that his other roommate, Pete, played by the brilliant Peter Serafinowicz, is right next to him and right behind him. He's so good.

Yeah, he's amazing. There's kind of a lot of fake jump scares in this movie. Yeah. Anytime anyone enters a scene basically, they play kind of a dramatic sting and it's supposed to kind of jolt you a bit. And basically Pete is like, look, Ed

needs to move out. he is he never cleans up he doesn't work he doesn't bring any money in um and they have this kind of you know pete's kind of their roommate from college and they're kind of reminiscing on old memories and i think my favorite line is like uh pete's like all right i admit that he's actually kind of fun like we had a great night when we stayed up all night drinking apple schnapps and playing Tekken 2. And Sean's like, when was that? And Pete just goes, that was five years ago. It's such a, again, it's like a kind of late 20s thing where you're like, I related to this movie so hard in terms of like, oh, we're all, we're kind of expected to leave the teenager early 20s that was kind of cool in your early

20s we're supposed to leave that behind and how sad that is it just makes me sad yeah it is sad anyway anyway yeah this is a comedy this is a full-on comedy um sean's like all right i'll talk to him like he talk to him. Like he needs to start cleaning up. He needs to start, you know, actively taking responsibility. He goes downstairs. Ed's still playing video games. He's playing some sort of shooter. And Sean keeps trying to like ask him to, you know, pull his own weight. But then he keeps getting distracted by the screen.

He's like, hey, listen, man. Oh, no, top left. OK, reload. And then at one point he goes, oh, nice shot. And then later in the movie spoilers for later in the movie they're shooting zombies in the bar and it's it's the exact same dialogue just reversed who the characters are ed is saying to sean top left reload nice shot it's so cool and i don't think i even really realized that until this viewing

it's amazing that's what i mean it's like the the re-watching is so key because you miss all this stuff the first well not all of it but a lot of it and then yeah it's really very impressive it's so cool uh basically ed comes in and he or pete comes in he's like please just like write down the messages uh uh don't leave the front door open that's like a big sticking point with pete is that they always leave the front door open. That's like a big sticking point with Pete is that they always leave the front door open at night. Pete leaves and then Sean says to Ed basically, like, really, can you do this for me? Like, I know you're not gonna do this for Pete. Can you please do this for me?

And then Ed goes, I'm sorry, Sean. And Sean goes, it's okay. And then Ed goes, no, no, no, I'm sorry, Sean. And then Sean, it's okay. And then Ed goes, no, no, no. I'm sorry, Sean. And then Sean inhales a little bit and Ed let out a big fart and it's hilarious. And you can tell that they're great friends. I love Ed in this movie. He's just like-

He's so good. Nick Frost is, yeah, he really kills it. He's just, he's perfect as like that friend that you love so much. Like that character could have easily been unlikable and like, you know's that's that you love so much like that character could have easily been unlikable and like you know he's holding Sean back but the way that Nick Frost plays him is just so

endearing and incredible okay all right so after that Sean goes to the shop to the shop there it is again and there's this great kind of one-er shot that is to me so iconic in this movie uh in where he's like walking to like essentially in the states we'd call it a

bodega uh but there's like a kid that uh is like kind of kicking around a soccer ball it almost hits sean sean's like oh you're dead um and then he he interacts with all these people going to the shop there's like a homeless man that like outstretches his arm Sean gives him a little bit of change there's like a jogger walking by and then all this stuff gets repeated later it's amazing

Sean goes to the shop there's like all these newspaper headlines about like mutilated cattle or like the crops are to blame for the super flu. There's always like conflicting origins potentially for this for this virus. And Sean kind of like he's looking at it, but he's kind of zoning out. And before he starts to get the idea that something might be wrong, Nelson, the guy that runs the shop, kind of interrupts him. Behind Sean is this dude who's like in a he almost seems

like he's like a groomsman or like a like a i was about to say a husband a groom he's in like a wedding he has like a boutonniere or something and he's in like a he's just like an extra but he catches your eye and i'm only bringing him up because he comes back later which is you guessed it yep yep he's coming back a bit of trivia about him actually is that uh when you see his zombified self uh he's missing an arm so that guy that actor actually is an amputee he doesn't have that arm so in this scene where he does have an arm that's a fake arm which is so interesting to me Yeah. Sean is on his way to work. He sees, I think it's like a person passed out, passes out at a bus stop and like hits her head. And he kind of looks at it again. He's like everyone in this movie in the beginning is kind of sleepwalking through life.

Like there might be something wrong, but I don't know. It really kind of brought me flashes of like the early days of COVID, to be honest. Like there was this thing that was always kind of encroaching upon us but we were i don't know i remember having a meeting with somebody being like is this a thing do we need to start you know right it's like real feels like there's some stuff going on but we don't have to worry about it right this isn't it's probably nothing it's probably it's probably nothing it's all good uh yeah so everyone so okay so then we get to sean at work he's a senior staff member so he's like kind of overtaking the boss position today because

their boss is ill again there's stuff's creeping in uh he gets a bunch of shit from this kid, Noel, who's actually a very, very, very young Rafe Spall. I know. I didn't know that previously. And in this rewatch, I was like, holy shit, that's Rafe Spall. I rewatched it this time. I thought I remember it being Rafe Spall, but I was like, that looks nothing like Rafe Spall. He's just so much younger than the Rafe Spall we know. I mean, I guess it's six, 17 years ago.

He says he's 17, and I don't know if he actually was, but he looks it. Yeah, he does. Oh, my God. Time. Time. Scary. Again, cryptocurrency, Pokemon cards, aging, being 29. Time is the enemy. Time is greatest uh scary thing of all um

sean at one point like puts like a red pen in his pocket and it starts like leaking down it's like a shirt pocket and it leaks leaks down into his shirt and at the end of this exchange one of my favorite lines from the movie uh rave spall says, you got red on you, which is my favorite thing. So good. His stepdad, Sean's stepdad, comes into the story to remind him of his mom's

upcoming birthday. And the stepdad is played by Bill Nighy and it's incredible. I love him. He's the best. I love him. He's so great.

And every time- I would watch him in anything. Oh, he's incredible. Every time I see him, I always wonder if Bill Nighy and Bill Nighy have met. I feel like they must have, right? Because I would need to meet.

That's gotta... I would need to meet. If I were one of them, I would make that meeting happen and be like, hey, cool name. There's gotta be a picture somewhere. Cool name. We don't have anything else to talk about. Pretty cool name, huh? Pretty cool name.

Cool name, though. Cool name, though. You're a science guy. I'm an actor guy. hey cool name we don't have anything else to talk about but cool name huh pretty cool name though cool name though you're a science guy i'm an actor guy we have nothing in common but cool name bro uh okay so basically yeah he's in he's in there and the way that bill nye whips around in this scene is so funny like he almost is kind of as not like the way that he plays his character is almost kind of like he's a zombie. He's very deadpan. I don't know. I love everything he does. He's so weird in this movie, and it's so specific.

Basically, after that, he goes to a florist to get flowers for his mom, because Philip reminded him. And then he looks out the window and sees a homeless man eating a pigeon. It's just like a guy. You're kind of not sure if he's a zombie or not or he's like it's far away so you're like okay is this just kind of a distressed mentally ill man or is this like a real zombie but it's kind of the first instincts the inkling you get of like okay something's really really wrong like he it starts he picks up a pigeon, starts to put it in his mouth

and then like a bus wipes the frame. And then when the bus is gone, he's not there anymore. It's like a very, it's just a very intense image. He runs into his friend, Yvonne. I guess they like knew each other like back in the day from college.

Yvonne's played by Jessica Hines, who was Simon Pegg's co-star in Spaced. She's so funny. Also, just to assuage our... Rafe Spall is 38, so, you know, he was a bit older. He wasn't actually 17. We can calm down. He's older than us. It's fine.

Thank God. Thank God. So, Yvonne's like, she asked about Liz. she's like oh yeah um you guys doing anything special for um your anniversary which I guess was last week uh he's like oh we're going out to a nice place to eat she's like oh where and he's like damn it he forgot to make the reservation um yeah the amount of stress I got in this movie simply by just i've been in that scenario before just not remembering to do something very important for a significant

other and the stress i could actively feel so sean goes back home he's like on the phone with a restaurant they're full up he's like damn it he uh calls liz and he's like hey uh i uh uh you know they're full up there's been a mix-up she's like you didn't get a reservation did and he's like hey you know they're full up there's been a mix up she's like you didn't get a reservation did you he's like no Ed suggests the Winchester and he's like damn it no we can't do the Winchester but I have no other option so he's like do we want to go to the

Winchester and then Liz immediately hangs up she just doesn't want to you know that was kind of a thing that she kept saying in the beginning of the movie that was the whole conversation I was like I don't want to, you know, that was kind of a thing that she kept saying in the beginning of the movie. That was the whole conversation. I was like, I don't want to be at this pub every fucking night. No, this is too much. They don't even have food. No, they don't have food. Right. That's another thing. They don't even have food.

All they have are like snacks, like just pub snacks. So then he, she hangs up. Sean rushes over there. He can't get in through like the door, the front door, because Liz is mad at him. So he just climbs up the fire escape and lets himself in. There's this whole kind of back and forth with Sean and Diane and fucking David are all there.

David, I also have to say, I have to give it up to, what's his name? Dylan. Oh, God. Dylan. Dylan Morton. Dylan Moran. It is so hard to play an unlikable character like that.

That is a very thankless job. Like, you know, afterwards people are just going to fucking hate you. He did. He did great. And he did a great job. And like,

this is probably the only praise I will put onto David because he really is a piece of shit. We can praise Dylan while hating David. Separate art from artists. Exactly. This is the only time where I think I can do that. This is the only time.

It's important. When the real life guy is better than the fictional person, I think that that's. That's when you're allowed to do it. That's when you can. Makes it easy. I also, my brain, I feel like Dylan Moran and Peter Serafinowicz is how you pronounce his name?

My brain combined them to be Matthew McFadden. Together, I feel like they make Matthew McFadden. I see how you got there. Visually, I was like, hmm, interesting. Liz is just kind of pissed off at Sean and then David goes, basically, I think your nine lives are up, Sean.

And the face that Simon Pegg makes when this line, like, I don't think I've ever seen someone, like, contort their face in just sheer unabashed anger and frustration. He squints his eyes so hard. It's amazing. And he just goes, get fucked eyes it's incredible um and then he says why don't you go out with her you love her so much and david's like i don't know what you meant by that and then sean leaves and there's a very awkward moment between him and diane like oh i don't know what he meant by that uh fuck david and then uh sean sean goes to uh oh i should also mention that he brought over the flowers that were for his mom, like from the florist shop. He's like, this will work.

It was kind of like a last minute, terrible gesture. Sean gives her the flowers. She's just like, wait, are these for your mom? And he's like, oh, no, it's like a joke. It's like, you know, because you haven't met my mom yet. So I figured it'd be, you know, like funny. Oh, God. And then, no, it's like a joke. It's like, you know, because you haven't met my mom yet. So I figured it'd be, you know, like funny. Oh, God. Yeah, it's just terrible.

And then she goes, these are for your mom, aren't they? And he's like, yeah, yeah, they are. And then Liz basically breaks up with Sean. She says, you know, I'm going to I'm afraid I'm going to end up in that pub every night for the rest of my life. Like those other sad old fuckers drinking myself to death wondering what the hell happened. And it hits Sean and immediately cuts to him outside the apartment. It's raining because of course it is. And then it's Ed and Sean back at the Winchester.

Sean is like crying. He's so depressed. His girlfriend just broke up with him. And nothing compares. Oh, wait, is it nothing compares to you is on the jukebox oh i'm looking at the script right now apparently that was the original song that's fun and they couldn't get yeah they couldn't get the right they couldn't get it they couldn't get it because it's it's not that it's uh it's if you leave me now i think it's that yeah Yeah, it is that way. Yeah. And they're like, fuck, who put this on?

And then Sean, it's an amazing line delivery from Simon Pegg. He just goes, it's on random. It's so good. And so basically, Ed is just trying to cheer him up. And this is the thing that I found that I thought is so cool. Essentially, Ed then outlines what happens in the entire rest of the movie he's like look we're gonna we're gonna get you back in your feet here's here's what's gonna happen tomorrow and he goes we're gonna keep drinking have a bloody mary first thing uh the first person that they like the

zombie that they kill she has a name tag that says mary uh get a bite at the king's head. Later on, Philip is bitten in the head by a zombie. Grab a couple at the Little Princess. I guess that's the name of another pub, but it's also a reference to the fact that Sean then goes to pick up Liz and Diane and David. So a couple at the Little Princess,

I guess because like Liz is the princess of the movie. That was the explanation I found online. I guess it holds up. Who knows? I buy it. Sure. Stagger back here.

They pretend to be zombies at one point in the movie. So they're staggering back to the Winchester and bang. We're up at the bar for shots. They they shoot zombies at the bar. It's amazing. I love that. It's so incredible. Then Ed tries to basically cheer him up.

They're talking about the guy that runs the bar, Bernie. Ed makes up a story that he's connected in the mafia. It's like, why do you think there's a rifle over the bar? And they see that right over the bar, there's a Winchester rifle. And he makes up this whole story like Big Al says that he keeps it loaded just in case. And then Sean says, yeah, but Big Al also says dogs can't look up, which is my I think my favorite line of the movie. And it keeps coming back. This is so funny.

Dogs, can they look up? Honestly, when I watched this movie as a kid, it sincerely made me wonder. I was like, am i am i crazy sean is very much like they can of course they can of course they can and everyone else is like i don't know like everyone kind of has to think about it it's so it's so great that's really funny they basically stack her out of the bar and there's the amazing scene that's in the trailer uh they're singing the song white lines there's like a clear zombie in the background just kind of shambling along you don't really see his eyes or anything but he's kind of a silhouette and it's in the trailer where they're kind of doing this musical bit with the zombie they're

drunk and singing like doobie doobie doobie doobie doobie doobie and then the zombie just goes they get back home somehow they still don't know that the zombie apocalypse is happening they're like playing records very loud Pete comes down he's like a fucking gen no this is I have work tomorrow and I have to be there at 4 in the morning

because everyone in my or 8 in the morning because everyone in my department's ill. We see that on his hand, he has like a kind of bandage and they're like, what the fuck happened to your hand? He's like, oh, some crackheads or something mugged me. One of them bit me on my way home. And they get into like a pretty big fight, Ed and Pete. There's a line here where Pete says,

I think he says to, about Ed, he's not my friend. He's a line here where Pete says, I think he says to about Ed, he's not my friend, he's a fucking idiot. And Ed says, what's that supposed to mean? And it really makes me laugh. And then he says to Sean, like, do you like just having, does it make you feel better having someone around that's more of a loser than you?

And Sean again is like, what's that supposed to mean? Not just like the most explicit statements. They're like, what is that supposed to be saying just really made me laugh oh it's hilarious um pete leaves he's like oh the fucking front door is open again on his way out sean's drunk as hell he goes into the kitchen he like falls asleep in a chair but not before he writes on like a refrigerator whiteboard uh go round moms get liz go round mums i say in my american accent get liz back sort life out uh also in the scene with pete i think at one point pete like points at sean and just goes sort your fucking life out man and it's just like

that was good that was a good accent i, guys. I've been working on it throughout this recording session. I think about that mentally every time I'm like, oh, God, like like every time I'm like maybe a little too drunk or like I just feel like I'm not getting enough done. I think about Peter Serafinowicz shouting in my face. Sort your fucking life out. It's just embedded in my subconscious. It's the best. Yeah, it's the best yeah it's the best okay so uh sean wakes up he sees what he wrote he's like okay i gotta get my shit together

goes downstairs sees ed on the couch uh he says you want anything from the shop ed says cornetto which at the time was just kind of a very british joke apparently audiences didn't american audiences did not get it brit British audiences loved it. Um, but that's what they is kind of the unofficial name of this trilogy of movies, uh, is Sean of the dead hot fuzz and the world's end,

uh, the Cornetto trilogy. So that's what kind of started this. so then Sean goes on that kind of walk to the shop again. The guy jogging by is now a guy running by, like away from zombies. The kid, I believe, is also a zombie at this point, or maybe we don't see him till later. But the world is clearly in shambles. And, you know, there's things in the background happening.

It's the exact same walk. Like he slips on some blood in the store. But Sean's still kind of like hazy and not really aware of it. And it's just amazing. He like calls out for Nelson, the guy that runs the shop. He's like, Nelson, I don't know where you are, but I owe you about 15p, which I think is pence. I think that's correct. That sounds right.

Nailed it. Sounds cheap. Yeah. Yeah. So goes back home uh there's an amazing thing that happens on the tv where it's kind of like a jumbled bit he's like changing the channel uh and it's cutting between news and other shows that are like still airing and it's like all all of the things are kind of cobbled together to make one consistent sentence. So it's like a news reporter saying like religious groups are calling it Judgment Day. There's and then cuts to like the Smiths singing panic on the streets of London.

It's great. I think my favorite thing is when they go serious attacks on and then it shows. Or it's like people who are literally being, and then it shows like nature. It cuts to like a nature show. It shows like lions eating a gazelle. And somebody, like a Richard Attenborough type just goes, eaten alive. It's great. And then Ed says another one of my favorite lines.

There's a girl in the garden, which is incredible. So this is Mary, who I talked about before. At first, they just think she's like really drunk. And then she kind of like pounces onto Sean. She's a slow zombie. And I should probably point that out, that all of the zombies in this movie are slow zombies. They're not the fast zombies from 28 Days Later or anything. They're all slow, which I think works for this movie so well.

Yeah. So at first I think she's really just kind of like a lost drunk person. And then she kind of mauls Sean. And then Ed gets him up and kind of they push her away a little bit. And she's like, look, she she keeps advancing onto them. And Sean's like, look, if you keep doing this, I'm going to have to get physical. I'm sorry. And he gives her fair warning.

And then she comes at him again and Sean pushes her. And unbeknownst to the two of them, I guess there's kind of like this. How would you describe this, Sammy? It's like a bottom of a umbrella. Umbrella stand is what it looked like. Yeah, like a cut off just a two foot metal pole that looks like maybe it was the bottom of an umbrella

stand. So they accidentally push her onto that and it impales her right through the torso. It took me a while to find that word. Torso. And there's a great shot where they're like, oh shit, we killed a girl and then she gets

up and there's a great shot that's looking through the hole in her torso back at Sean and Ed and it's the first moment where they're like, oh yeah, zombies. Zombies are happening. They actually fully realize what's going on. They say, what should we do have a sit

down and they just sit down which i really like so i'm i feel like that's what i would want to do be like let's just sit down i would want to have a sit down let's just process this they go uh oh then they turn around before they go back inside they turn around and see a gigantic man who is like definitely a zombie like a kind of an on the nose zombie uh so they're scared by him they go back inside uh they're like what should we do should we call an ambulance or a fire engine and sean's like okay well i'm on the phone with them right now it's all busy there's also something like on the tv a news report again on the tv and ed says do you think this is the same thing? Does he say, do you think this is the same thing?

Or do you think this is something? Because I think it's same. But the way that I first, I think you're right. But the way that I first read it, I thought that was so relatable to like the COVID era too, which is like, do you think this is something? Either way, great line. Either way, the answer is yes. Yeah. So the newscaster is still on and he is like, do you think this is something? Either way, great line. Either way, the answer is yes.

Yeah. So the newscaster is still on and he's like, we're urging people to make sure that your homes are secure with all the windows and doors firmly locked. That's when Sean and Ed look at each other like we, you know, not saying it, but like we never leave the front door locked. So immediately the guy from the wedding, like the guy who's dressed up like he's a husband or a groom. The husband-looking guy. A husband on the loose.

The loose husband comes in. And Sean and Ed scream. And I think that's when Ed takes an ashtray and splits his skull open. And it's this really, really intense moment. It was like more intense watching it this time than I remember it being. It was like Ed, you could see Ed like thinking about like, oh, okay, I did just kill a guy. Like I think Ed starts to, I think Ed has a little subplot like him going slowly, more kind of deranged and crazy throughout this entire movie. So after that, Ed and Sean get the idea from the newscaster who says we're getting reports that the the infected can be stopped if you remove the head or destroy the brain.

And so they go outside and they just have like a bin full of things that they could throw at the zombies' heads, at Mary and the big guy. And it's like, I don't know, like a clock radio. Like it's very like, it's not, none of them are gonna work. Nothing's gonna work.

It's like clear that they're just throwing random shit at them just random shit that happened to be in this bin uh and when that doesn't work they they decide to throw uh oh sorry at one point the one thing that does hit is um the electro record

then it cuts to like an amazing scene where they get the idea like okay records hurt them so they're just going through all of Sean's records and deciding which ones to throw and which not to throw. I love that they're like, they don't want to throw, I think it's like Prince or something like that, but they're okay with throwing like Dire Straits and the Batman soundtrack.

And it's so great. Throw it, throw it. Yeah, throw it. Then they're like, okay, this isn't working. So they break into the shed. That's where Sean gets the iconic cricket bat. And Ed gets a shovel. And then they start just wailing on these zombies for like,

and they hold on this shot for like a little too long. Like just all of the blood starts getting on them. And then it immediately cuts to them on the couch, just watching TV zoned out it's such a great cut and then immediately like uh ed goes you've got red on you and that's a reference to sean having all of the blood on him which is incredible they hear on the news if someone has been bitten uh like that's when they get infected and they kind of look at each other and realize, oh, Pete had that bite on his hand.

And so they're calling upstairs to Pete. No answer. It's a great scene because they're just saying things that they know would piss Pete off. And he just doesn't come down. Like Sean's very careful. He's like, Pete, Pete. And then Ed just goes, oi, prick.

And when they hear nothing, they go, Nah, he's not here. They're like, He must have gone to work. So then a phone rings. Sean immediately answers it like, Liz?

And it's his mom, Barbara, who we only have heard mentioned before, but never actually seen. We still don't see her here. We just hear her voice. And we get the sense that uh barbara basically says like there we're okay philip and i are fine uh some people did try to get into the house and they were a bit bitey and then sean i love how she says that and also the woman that plays the mom i don't know her name but she's she's like

the quintessential mom and like not only that but british mom it's just she's so sweet and amazing i i love that part so much penelope wilton she's incredible uh so uh you know uh she basically says like they were a bit bitey sean's really worried he's like have you been bitten and she's like no but philip was oh no sean's like oh phew there's a phew. It was a big phew moment. I got to say phew on your podcast. I'm so excited about it. Yes.

Big phew. Hell of a phew. Sean's just like, oh, we may have to kill my stepdad. And Ed's like, yeah, it doesn't skip a beat. Yeah, sure. Yeah, fine. So they're like, okay, we have to go get you and then an amazing reference in this scene is at the at the very end of it barbara goes um i don't want to cause a fuss

and then ed shouts into the phone we're coming to get you barbara which is so great but i i don't know how i never caught this that's a reference to night of the living dead um when that i don't even know the guy's name the guy in the glasses just goes they're coming to get you barbara but you know you're not alone because when george romero watched this movie he didn't even catch that reference right oh really apparently simon pegg had to like like called him later was like did you see the the thing yeah we put it and he's like we did the thing for you so okay then they're like kind of outlining, okay, we'll go get my mom, we'll kill Phillip. Then Sean's like, okay, we also have to go get Liz.

So they're about to go pick everybody up. They're about to go outside. There's an amazing scene where Ed says, what's the zombie situation? As Sean's looking outside and Sean goes, don't say that. And then Ed goes, what? The Zed word, they say Zed. British. Very British. Again, British. British. don't say that uh and then ed goes what the zed word they say zed british very british again british british which i i love that sean rejects the zombie like the word zombie in this it's

yeah i'm always interested in certain zombie movies or even like superhero movies like i'm always wondering like does the term superhero exist in this universe sometimes it does or does the term zombie exist in dawn of the dead or do they i mean that's why in like the walking dead they never say zombie they say like walkers i love that stuff or like yeah when when you're inside of a movie or a show like some pop culture exists to them. Some doesn't. Like the rules are so interesting. I just watched, what was that Marvel movie? Eternals. And at some point I think they referenced Superman. And I remember it blew my mind.

I was like, wait a minute. So DC exists in a Marvel movie? I'm pretty sure it was in Eternals. And it kind of, it really took me out. I thought it was going to work. And it was like, oh no, that doesn't. That doesn't. So this whole time, everyone's had a frame of reference for Superman when like Iron Man's flying around.

It was odd for me. Right. Yeah. Or like I am doing the Superman thing. It's like, but wait, what are you, though? Yeah, exactly. Those are made up, but you're real. Yeah.

Do you understand the logic here? So I guess them saying zombie in this movie is like, okay, so I guess Dawn of the Dead must exist in this world. I don't know. That's always interesting. For this, it works. I was not thrown at all by them saying zombie. Sean has to go pee, I guess, before they leave. Oh, he says, I got to do a wee first.

British. British. I bet he went to the loo. I bet he went to the loo. I bet he goes to the loo to do it. He goes to the loo. He's been in the loo. It'd be fun to be British. Yeah, it would be so fun to be British.

I wish. I really wish. Okay, so Sean goes upstairs. The exact same mirror shot happens where he just finished having a wee and he's looking in the mirror and he moves it a little bit and they notice a silhouette. He notices a silhouette in the shower.

That's for sure. Pete. Yeah. Still in the shower. Zombified. Completely naked. Sean quickly gets out of there and all of a sudden they're they're off. Ed is driving.

He is driving Pete's car. He's speeding so much. He's putting on very loud music. He, Ed is driving. He is driving Pete's car. He's speeding so much. He's putting on very loud music. He's loving his life. They get to Barbara's place. Uh, right before Sean goes in, Ed's like,

I'm going to stay out here with the car. Uh, Ed's like, don't forget to kill Phillip, which is amazing. I love that line. Uh, Sean goes in and we actually meet Barbara.

She's so sweet and cool. Sean's like, where's Philip? And he's like going into this other room with the cricket bat. And right before he's about to like land a blow on Philip's head, he's kind of framed away from us. He's looking at a TV and we're like not sure if he's a zombie yet or not. And Sean goes, I'm sorry, Philip. And we hear Philipilip go why sean is like immediately scared uh and he like puts he puts the bat down and uh you know they're

kind of debate sean's trying to get a gauge of like how infected is philip and uh an amazing line happens where sean's like, you should stay here. You should wait for the doctor. And then Philip goes, I'm quite all right, Barbara. I've run it under a cold tap. That's my favorite. Like, that'll get rid of any infection. It's like my favorite thing.

That's so good. Sean and Barbara go off. Sean's like, how much do you really love philip like basically trying to get a gauge on like whether or not i should kill him uh sean should kill him barbara's like what do you what are you talking about and there's kind of some uh history they get into here of like sean uh philip is sean's stepdad and sean never really liked philip sean keeps saying like he used to chase me around the garden with a bit of wood that's what he like they just never really got along and their relationship is kind of estranged and uh yeah so obviously sean was very excited to kill philip uh for a reason so um

sean's walking outside of the house his mom and philip are behind him uh and ed's there and ed's like what happened and he's like i you know i i basically i didn't have it wasn't the right moment to kill philip um and uh earlier they established when they pulled in that philip drives like a really cool like jaguar car um not the animal he just drives a car uh and and then it's revealed that ed has crashed uh pete's car it's over there and and there's it's a great line reading from uh nick frost he's just like yeah it just came out of nowhere i guess we'll uh i guess we'll have to take the jag he's like you were parked yeah yeah you were burnt it's so good there's also a good running gag about uh like ed just keeps making

comments about sean's mom barbara like he like has a crush on her and for sure when barbara comes out she's like oh hello edward my how you've grown and he says yeah you better believe it it's so good just the entire time him flirting with Sean's mom, like pretty much till the end of the movie. It's incredible. They all get in the car. Ed is driving like a maniac. Again, there's a line where Philip is really pissed that they're driving this fast.

And he goes, you do realize this is a 30 mile an hour zone? And Ed goes, oh yeah. And looks directly at barbara and winks at her and it's incredible uh okay then they get to they get to liz's sean leaves the car but philip for some reason still has the child locks on which i guess they can't undo from the front so sean gets up and out of the car out of the the sunroof, and then tells Ed to keep driving around their neighborhood. And then he goes in, tries to get Liz. He winds up climbing up the same fire escape,

and he convinces Liz to come with them. David and Diane are also coming along. They go back to the car. Ed's just, like, circling, and so they get back into the car. Right? And they all, like, shove in, and Ed's just like circling. And so they get back into the car. Right. And they all like shove in and there's a bunch of them. And in the back, I mean, Philip is not doing well. He's like bleeding out.

Yeah. He got bit again, like at his neck. Yeah. So it's like really bad. Oh, yeah. He totally got bit before. As they were picking them up. Yes.

Yeah. I completely glossed over that. They get attacked again, I think. Yeah, they get attacked again. They get attacked by more zombies. That's the bite of the king's head that Ed talks about earlier. Then they start driving.

Ed is hitting every single zombie he can see. I think to impress Barbara. The music is still on. Philip keeps going like, please turn that down. Please turn that down. They're arguing why they should go to the Winchester. They're like, it's secure. They have deadbolts.

There's a locked door. Then Philip keeps trying to get Sean's attention throughout this entire scene. And usually it's always about the radio. And when they finally turn it down, Philip's still still like sean uh he doesn't say it like that he goes sean you know it's very weak and then sean's like i turned it off all right and then philip goes into this very touching thing actually about how um you know he he always loved sean but never really had a way of expressing it and just said that you needed motivation. You needed someone to prove yourself to after your dad passed away.

And I thought it could be me. And it wasn't. But that's OK. Take care of your mom. And then Sean starts crying. It's a very touching scene. It's very sweet. Yeah.

This movie, I always always forget is very emotionally impactful it's very you know for like a movie that's a comedy it really tugs on the heartstrings like very intensely um so eventually sean's like ed you have to pull over because you know philip is clearly dead uh there's this moment where sean has to say to his mom that that that Philip's dead. And Barbara goes, no, he's not. And then we look over to Philip and he's a full on zombie at this point. Everyone screams, tries to get out of the car, but the child locks are still on. So they all like go up off the out of the sunroof.

So they leave their the cricket bats and all the stuff they've been using this whole time to like bash zombies brains in. They leave it in the car. It's trapped in there with Philip. There's a great moment where Barbara is like, we have to get him out of there. And Sean's like, no, there's no part of your husband that's still alive in that car. He's not even he's not even there anymore. And then immediately the zombified Philip turns the music down in the car, which is such a great moment. They get out of the car.

They walk a little bit. They're on foot. They have no weapons. They then bump into Yvonne again. And this is, I think, the most fascinating scene in the movie for me. So Yvonne is there, his co-star from Spaced. She has her own

gang of survivors and they are a mirror a complete one-to-one of Sean's group so it's Sean and Yvonne like Yvonne is having her own movie which is Yvonne of the Dead and it's all of these like very famous British comedians that are in

her group of people like I noticed Martin Freeman and I noticed, uh, Martin Freeman. And I noticed, uh, Oh my God, that guy who was in little Britain. What's his name? Matt,

uh, Matt Lucas. Oh, Matt Lucas. Matt Lucas is essentially the like ed of, of, of that group. And there's a great moment where they all,

they all pass each other and they all say hi to like their counterparts. Uh, they then go to like, they kind of wind up in this backyard and then they do this gag that they do in all of these cornetto movies where there's like all these series of fences sean goes what did i tell you the pub's just over there and then david goes uh what about the 20 garden fences and then sean says the thing that every simon pegg character in all of these movies says when when this moment happens He goes, what's the matter, David?

Never taken a shortcut before? And he attempts to vault the first fence and the fence immediately collapses. And he falls to the ground. They play around with that gag in other movies, but it's like the same in every movie. They always have that shot. So, they realize

that Barbara's missing. Then they hear Mom screaming. Sean goes to take care of it. And then Sean and this zombie come crashing through the fence. Sean wrestles this zombie. How do they take down this zombie eventually, Sammy? So Diane tosses Sean a tetherball thing. Right. And he grabs it and starts like winding the ball around

and uses the ball end to hit the zombie. And it's like, oh yeah, no, this is crap. And they're like miming to him, no, like stab him with the pole. And he's like, oh, oh. And so he impales him and pins him to a tree.

But it's still alive they never destroyed the head and they get this idea that they can study this zombie and kind of mimic um the way that zombies the way that zombies look so the pub is like right over the fence but there's like so many zombies surrounding the winchester pub so they're like okay we should try to act like zombies maybe they maybe they won't notice us if we act like we're one of them. So Diane, this is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Earlier, they kind of allude to Diane being like a struggling actress,

but she leads this like zombie acting class of like how to mimic a zombie's movements. And it's so great. It's so amazing. And it's a great scene where they're all trying to outdo each other in terms of how well they can act like a zombie. They start to get by the Winchester pub.

They're right outside of it. They're acting like zombies, but they're getting the sense that the zombies are kind of starting to notice them more and more. And then when they get closer to the front door, they start kind of speeding up and them more and more. And then when they get closer to the front door, they start kind of speeding up and walking more like humans.

And they're trying to get through the front door, but it's definitely locked. At that moment, Ed gets a call on his cell phone and he's kind of been talking to this guy the whole movie. Like intermittently, he'll be like answering the phone. I think he deals weed and I think he's dealing weed to Rafe Spall. I think that's the, I think that's what we're because because uh in the scene where ed's or where

sean is uh at his job and and going with the team rave spall gets a call like midway through sean's speech uh that kind of interrupts him and it's the same back and forth like it's the same like hello mate what you got oh i got nothing it's that's that same that's fun yeah i like that rave spall is kind of throughout this entire movie kind of you know still calling ed asking for weed which is amazing um sean and ed get into a big tiff uh basically sean's like i've spent my whole life sticking my neck out for you like you're an idiot you always fuck shit up you're you're holding me back um and then

Liz just goes Sean this entire time Liz is trying to get their attention and Sean finally uh whips around and he sees that all of the zombies are now not moving anymore staring directly at them and silent and they're just honed in on these

people uh they start advancing date fucking david panics and uh uh just grabs a trash can and breaks one of the windows uh leaving them totally exposed when they're in when they're in there uh yeah so it's not good david i know david's a real piece of shit uh sean starts drawing the zombies' attention. He gets them away. He's like, over here, over here, over here, and leads all the zombies away so that everybody else can sneak in.

And then they're all in the Winchester pub. Sean's not there yet. Presumably he's leading the zombies away more. So eventually Sean comes back. And I love how at this point the group is very much in like on sean's side yeah like he's led that he's led them this far and there's kind of this like glow to sean within the group like everyone's like sean's coming back i promise like everyone is especially at this point like when he returns i feel like there's something's like changed like he's like more reliable now he's like proving himself through this yeah everyone kind of looks at him with this like newfound respect

uh the the power's off um they're trying to see if they can reset the power to like watch tv and maybe like get some info of like where to go or where people are hold up uh there's a moment where um david refers to Ed as Sean's boyfriend. And Sean goes, he's not my boyfriend. And at that exact second, Ed pops up from the bar with a beer. And he goes, might be a bit warm. The cooler's off. And Sean goes, thanks, babe.

And it's just so wholesome and amazing. I love it so much. So Sean goes into the other room. And he's flipping some of the breakers on. And he hits one switch. And a light goes on on this door that's behind him leading to the outside. And as soon as it goes on, you see all of the zombies seemingly in London outside of that one door, like wrapping up against the wall. It's terrifying. Sean immediately turns off the lights and closes the window.

He kind of slowly gets back into the room like there's something's wrong. We we have a problem. He basically is just like, we need to be really quiet because they're all outside. And Ed is asking someone for a coin to play that loud ass pinball ish game and makes a really really loud noise and they're like oh fuck they unplug it but it's too late and we hear the hordes of zombies like they're now surrounding the whole building we see their like silhouettes in the windows and hear their moans and they're closing in and then there's one already inside that they're like how the fuck did this guy get in and then maybe my favorite uh scene of of the movie comes on where they um they're like okay how do we take care of this guy and there's pool cues there and they start wailing on this one dude with pool cues but because they've been like fucking around

with the power this whole time uh the jukebox comes on and it starts playing um queen's don't stop me now and they start hitting him and trying to kill him in to the music it's like in in on rhythm yeah it's so great it's such an edgar wright thing that he does like in all of his future movies after this he does even more ornate versions of this scene like in baby driver like timing steps to certain songs and stuff like that it's so it's amazing it's also like the least effective way to kill a zombie like they're just like smacking its body yeah and i think i really noticed this time watching it because that scene lasts a while they try to kill this one dude for a very very long time and

i could really like notice that that guy was wearing all of the pads in the world he's just covered in padding yeah because they also only hit his body right they like never even hit his head which is the one thing you're supposed to do yeah i i think they're trying to make it look like they're they could be hitting his head maybe they're using like fake uh pool cues where does this where does this uh factor in the whole actor's rights thing yeah i don't know he's an old man too so i feel like smacking him with even with padding is it's a little uh questionable i'd say yeah and you know when you shoot something you're shooting that all day yeah he got hit a lot of times he got hit a lot of times i'm sure they threw a stunt guy in for any shot that was not on his

face, but my god, that was a lot of beating up a poor old man. I don't care if he is a zombie. Diane starts throwing darts at them, and he's like, aim for the head! And she throws one in Sean's head, which I

think looks like it would have maybe killed him. It looks like it pierces his skull. If a dart pierces your skull and a little bit of that dart, it touches your brain. That's what that means. Yeah. I'm like, he bounced back from that a little too quickly. He pulls it out and like blood squirts out of it.

I'm like, okay, yeah, that's not just a surface wound. No, not at all. But for the sake of the movie, it is. Yes. Yeah. He's got to live at least a surface wound. No, not at all. But for the sake of the movie, it is. Yes. He's got to live at least a little longer. He's got to see the end of it, at least. So I think at that point, they decide, I think the big zombie, the old zombie is still alive.

And they decide, okay, let's use the gun. There's a gun above the bar uh and and sean's like it's not loaded there's no way that that's loaded and they're like we have to try uh sean grabs it and then just takes a shot at the old zombie and uh shoots him right in the head and there's a great line where ed just goes, I fucking knew it. And Sean pulls the dirt out of his head. He goes, okay, but dogs can look up.

And it's incredible. I think that, I don't know. Maybe I think that may be my favorite moment of the movie is, is that entire, that entire sequence. And then ending with that line. It's, it's perfect.

So funny. It's just kind of mayhem. I mean, there's, they're coming at them from all sides. We've got that line. It's perfect. So funny. It's just kind of mayhem. I mean, they're coming at them from all sides. We've got that window that's broken open. So they're like starting to crawl in through there. We're shooting at some of them, but none of them are very good at shooting. There's a great moment where like

they're all instructing Sean where the zombies are coming out of and Ed's like three o'clock. Sean knows exactly where that is. And then David says 11 45 it's great it's just like and then sean just goes please just keep it simple i love that so much that's really funny in here there's a moment where liz like goes to barbara and notices something is wrong with Barbara and Barbara eventually shows her that she has

been bitten and she didn't want to make a fuss yeah she says the man in his pajamas that was a zombie that they impaled on the tree I didn't want to say anything I thought you'd be upset really really dramatic scene

here it's sad it's really really sad I thought you'd be upset. Really, really dramatic scene here. It's sad. Yeah, it's really, really sad. Sean's devastated. They're, you know, eventually she dies. I think the last thing that she says is, it's been a funny sort of day,

which is just so British and so sad um kind of once she's faded or dead more or less we hear uh like a gun clicking and it's david uh who has just cocked the gun and is aiming it right at barbara and he's like she's gonna come back um and sean is understandably upset and he's like no you can't shoot my mom you can't don't point that gun at my mom Liz is like listen I hate David as well but David

is right like eventually she's gonna come back like we have to take care of this and then that's when Barbara gets up she's definitely a zombie and this is I think the thing that makes me hate David the most, is he hands Sean the gun and just goes, you do it immediately. Oh, it's awful.

Yep. David. I believe that's when Sean has to kill his own mom, and it's so sad. And everyone in the scene, by the way, is acting the fuck out of this scene. They really are. It's incredible. Everyone is like, their eyes are filled with tears. And it's just, it really hits everything.

And then Sean, I think, whips around and punches him. And I think David has the gun now somehow. Or maybe he hit him with the butt of the gun and then David took it. David then has the gun in his hands points it as sean and pulls the trigger it clicks it does there's no bullets in the gun but it he was going to kill sean yeah yeah david he just went from just being shitty to being as maybe he's kind of the worst um so uh i think david at that point realizes like okay i'm the shittiest person in the world i'm just gonna leave everybody uh to their business so he goes out he goes towards one of the doors

and they're like please don't go out that door you'll you'll get them all in here uh and then right before he's about to like change his mind and apologize to everybody um a zombie he's already kind of towards the doors and the windows a zombie hand bursts through one of the windows grabs david uh and then david is taken out and just torn apart absolutely by by all of these zombies it's like kind of kind of an incredible feat of like practical effects too were you also thinking that it's like it's definitely i think like the goriest part of the movie i think because they yeah they like pull out all of his intestines his arms and legs get pulled off they the whole time you see his face like going like oh no that's my spleen like like it's yeah oh man oh damn uh yes so and then and then diane kind of goes insane she tries to

go out after him right i yeah she's like i'm coming david i'm just like i think she's ripped apart diane she actually has one of his legs yeah in her hands because they're trying to like pull him back in and like all the parts of him are getting severed and they wind up like getting thrust back because they're pulling and they just have diane just has one of his legs and it just goes out there into the crowd of zombies out the front door with this leg and it's trying to like beat the zombies back well i guess trying to find david she just went completely mad with grief i I guess. She's just, she's out. She's out of the movie. She's probably dead.

We never see her again. Okay. Poor Diane. So now we're just left with Liz, Sean, and Ed. They go behind the bar. They, Ed is trying to, like, basically create

essentially a Molotov cocktail and he has one in his hands and he's about to throw it at all the zombies that are still coming through all the windows uh again uh a zombie breaks through something that's behind him i think it's the door to the little room where the breaker switch is and he gets pulled into there and then wrestles free and then right before ed is about to leave that area and go back towards Liz and Sean, he's like, hey, Sean, look who it is. And it's Pete.

It's a naked Pete shambling through that room. Sean still has the gun. Pete has now kind of grabbed Ed and we see Ed get bitten by Pete. And it's very sad. Sean is holding the gun. No, Ed. Yeah, Sean shoots Ed right in the face.

Shoots Pete. Oh, sorry. Sean shoots Pete right in the face. Sean and Liz then take cover behind the bar and then Ed just kind of flops in. He's for sure been bitten. It's for sure his last moments, but I don't know. He's just, been bitten. It's for sure his last moments. But I don't know.

He's just he's still human and still alive and with them. Sean pours some whiskey on the bar and then lights it on fire, which buys them a little bit of time because none of the zombies want to crawl over it. But they've left all the shells on the bar. And so they all like spark up and start like shooting in a million different ways. Is that how bullets work? Can you light a bullet on fire and have it shoot? I wondered this too.

It feels like, I mean, I guess you light gunpowder on fire and that's what shoots it out. I'm not going to pretend like I know how guns work, but I. Yeah. So maybe there's excess gunpowder littered around. I do a thing I've realized.

Talk about things that doing a podcast makes you realize. I guess I feel like I always have to answer a question. I've done this so many times where a question gets asked and I go like, yeah, I'll answer it. I have no fucking clue. I don't know how bullets work. I don't know. What am I talking about? I have no idea.

No idea how bullets work. It's fun to guess. It's fun to have a hypothesis. I mean, it'd be kind of fun if they worked this way. It leads to a great little sequence here. It's cool that it works this time. Yeah, like the zombies are coming behind the bar.

They're encroaching. It's their last second. There's a woman that comes through and gets one of the bullets, I don't know, fires in that way where if you apply fire to a bullet yeah they're just ricocheting everywhere and it shoots her in the head so it buys them a little

bit of time to go down to the cellar so they get down there Ed's basically on death's door there's a very sad scene between Liz and Sean where they're like wondering like alright how many bullets do we have left how many like could we kill ourselves and I guess one

person would have to do the other one and like it's very sad I felt like was this is this maybe a reference to the miss it's uh oh certainly I thought about it I thought about yeah that because I yeah and then

it's like okay I'll here's the plan we have enough bullets left to kill ourselves which is very sad that's a very sad thing to be confronted with by the way

I love that mist the Frank Darabont the mist it's so good that ending is rough it destroyed me it truly

I can't believe I brought it up again why on earth would I have done that just him screaming in a car is just the worst. But this movie doesn't go there, though. No, it doesn't do that.

This movie doesn't get that sad. They consider it, but they don't do it. I think Sean says, like, I don't have the heart to shoot my flatmate, my mom, and my girlfriend in the same night. And she's like, well, we're together again. And he's like, you don't want to die single do you and it's it's great um there's kind of a hash that leads out to the out to the street and they can't get it open but they discover that there's actually like a lift down there where if

you press a button it'll lift you up there so they're like oh shit we actually have a way out uh so sean goes over to ed and he's like look we you can take uh we'll take uh you with us ed's like look you can't take me with you i'll only hold you back and all that sean apologizes for uh shouting at him ed says i'm sorry too uh sean goes it's okay and then ed goes no i'm sorry sean and he's farted yet again it's so good a little tearful fart smelling joke like a little touching fart moment it's the saddest i've ever been with a fart scene it's great and then uh yeah then then sean and and liz are off um they leave ed the gun because sean's like i'm rubbish with this i'm terrible with this you you take it um And then they go out into the street and there's all these advancing zombies

and it looks like their number's up when all of a sudden, like all the military trucks from the world show up. They shoot all the zombies down and then it fades out and we cut to like news footage and now they're calling it Z-Day. It's like six months later.

Do we get that marker, I think? I think it's six months laterDay. It's like six months later. Do we get that marker, I think? I think it's six months later. Yes, it's six months later. They're watching Trisha and there's a great segment where this woman's like, yeah, I know he's dead. I know he's a zombie,

but he's my husband and I still love him. And then Trisha, the host, is like, you go to bed with it? It's just such a great... This new post-zomb post zombie world some of them are working at um supermarkets like pushing carts they're like no yeah no it's no it's no he's back there's a cold play cameo out of nowhere which i only noticed this time they're like they're uh

they're in a show or they're part of some charity organization called Zombade. And they're on like a talk show talking about it. And then we cut to Sean. He's now living with Liz. Same flat that Sean was living in earlier. But instead of Ed being there now, Liz is there and they're like planning out their day. And it's very sweet. They're, you know, they're doing great. And at one point, Liz is like, all right, let's start our day.

And Sean's like, you know what? I think I might go out to the shed for a little bit. And Liz is like, all right, let's start our day. And Sean's like, you know what? I think I might go out to the shed for a little bit. And Liz is like, OK. And Sean goes out to the shed. We see him pick up a video game controller. And then all of a sudden, zombie Ed enters frame. And he almost bites Sean's arm. And Sean's like, Ed, stop it.

Quit it. And now we kind of widened to reveal that Ed is now like living in their shed chained up and uh it's just like a zombie who is kind of sort of playing video games with sean like as best he can uh and queens you're my uh queens you're my best friend comes on and then the movie fades out and it's uh it's amazing it's a great movie oh my god that was so good it's so fun It's a great movie. Oh my God. That was so good. It's so fun. It's so great. How do you guys do this all the time?

It takes a lot of practice. I mean, I know it's mostly Sammy and the few times I've had to do it, I'm always like, oh my God, I gotta go take a nap. This is crazy. I'm like, I don't even know if I am saying anything

that's a coherent thought right now. I had a full, I had an existential crisis during that. It was fun. It happens. That'll happen. My God. No, the other thing that often happens, which didn't happen here, is people think that they know the movie and then they like go to recap the movie. And it's like, wait, I don't actually remember anything that happens in this movie.

It's hard to recall a whole movie from memory. This also really makes me want to watch Hot Fuzz again. Yeah, because Hot Fuzz is so good. And I'll throw my hat in the ring for World's End. I think it's a great movie. I want to rewatch it. I've never seen it. It's really great.

But I know that people don't like it as much. I kind of disagree with them. I'm the person that it's one of my favorites of the trilogy i think it's just so i don't know i i have to re-watch it maybe it doesn't hold up as much as i think it does but i i love that i want to re-watch it i went to a screening of all three at the arc light when the world's end came out and so it was just like all day in the movie theater watching them them back to back. But that's the only time I've seen the world's end. So it's the only one I haven't seen multiple times,

which I'm the one who said the rewatching is important. Yeah. So I got to do that. God, I miss, I miss the arc light so much. It'll be back. It'll be back.

Will it, will it please? Yes. Did you not? I don't know. It's coming back. It's coming back. Just the dome or all of it?

Maybe it's just the dome. Still, I mean, I'll take it. It is reopening. I'll try to send you guys a article. Oh, that's such good news. I'm so happy I know that. I know. I just found out, I think just a couple weeks ago,

I think it's the same people, but they maybe got bought and are reopening it. But it is the same people who had it before. Oh, it's the same people, but they maybe got bought and are like reopening it. But it is the same people who had it before. Oh, it's such a great place. That was like my movie theater. Oh, my God. It's the best movie theater in the whole freaking town. I can't keep going to the Grove.

What is this? Oh, you're going to the Grove? No way, my friend. No way. It's just convenient for me. But oh, my God. We've been hitting up Universal City, which is also a very funny place to have to go just for the movies. Yes, both involve a panic attack about parking for sure.

Oh, big time. Yeah, we need the heart light back. We need it. We need it. We need it. Their parking's easy. I could talk about parking in movie theaters on your podcast for so long. That's the new podcast, parking.

on your podcast for so long. That's the new podcast, parking. That's why I only wanted to go, when I lived in LA, I only wanted to go to the movie theater in Highland Park because it was like no one was there. You could park so easily. Tickets are like half price. So convenient. But you don't get the

huge movie experience. I was like an Arclight member. I liked the culture. I miss that movie port. I miss the culture of the Arc. I liked the culture. I miss that movie part. I miss the culture of the Arc. I miss the culture of the community there. Who are you going to see at that bar? You never know.

It's always interesting. God, I love that bar. You always ran into at least one person you knew at the Arclight. And it's never someone you love running into either. No, it's not a friend. It's not a friend. It's someone you know. Yes. And those are two different things.

Now this, Jackie did it. You really nailed it. It's been incredible. Hey, thanks for having me, guys. That was so much fun. Thank you for, panic attack, existential crisis aside, that was a really good time, and thank you so much for having me. We love to provide that for someone.

Glad our podcast can be a vehicle for that oh yes so Jack we've got I mean obviously we our listeners I'm sure are going to be checking out the new scream ah yes it'll be on when is it coming out January 14th which will be two

short days after this episode comes out listeners go see it this weekend. You got two days to get those tickets. We've listed a couple of LA local movie theaters where parking is hard. One of which may be not available when it comes out. I don't think the art club's gonna be open. That might, make your plans, make your plans.

There you go. You got two days. Is there anything else you would like for our listeners to check you out in on social media? Things to watch? Sure. Podcast. Yes, I do produce a podcast called Hero Club. It's a D&D

podcast where we basically whittle down our campaigns to a really fun radio play that all adheres to the rules of D&D. But we cut out all the cross-talk so it's just character lines and what's happening, and we have our own original music.

It's very, very fun. It's also very rarely ever like a classic fantasy campaign. We do one that's like a noir, Lovecraftian detective story. Oh, cool. Yeah. That's very cool.

We did one, oh God, what was it? We had like a, we've had a Western, we've had a western we've had uh that's a bunch of stuff it's really really fun um yeah come come check that out hero club it's a good time and uh yeah that's about all that's about all i need to plug scream and hero club that's about it thanks guys love it perfect all right well i think that we know what accent we have to do. I think we know.

British? That's right. Jason, if anybody was wondering, it's going to be British. So from all of us, oh my god, what was that? I didn't have the practice that Jack did. Jack, you were doing a good job.

No, Jack was doing like an excellent job. I feel like he needs to do it. I'm watching your brain deteriorate. I can't remember how to do it. What a British accent is. Okay, British, British, British. Like, oh, like, go to the pub. I think I was trying to think about that type of British.

Yeah, like, you know, like British. All of us here are too scary to watch. That's this movie's style of British, I think. It's less proper. All of us here are too scary to watch. That's this movie's style of British, I think. It's less proper. All of us here are too scary to watch. Yeah, that's nice. That's nice. I like that.

That's nice. Hey, goodbye. Goodbye. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Hi, everybody.

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