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(I loved the episode, I love the show, but I’m so fucking glad we can finally stop talking about Drop Dead Fred) Congrats to Triple Lindy for the win! 🥳

2:22, Fateful Findings, and the Visitor. Oh i thought it was the one with Roberto Benini when I saw the poster. I haven't seen the JTT version but the donkeys in the Disney version scared me as a kid so I am not a Pinocchio fan. You're spot on about it being a commercial. I just learned today from Google that it was originally a commercial but it got too long and they, like ended up making it into a movie. I sort of wish they made the Larry Bird/Jordan McDonald's commercials into a movie. I did rewatch it like a year ago, and it is like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon, but I loved Tiny Toons and Animaniacs too so maybe I just liked that shit. Also I did go see Hobbs and Shaw today and I have a lot to say about Vanessa Kirby's eyeliner so get ready for that.

I really hate to be "lol millennials" but does anyone actually like Space Jam who wasn't born between (approximately) 1982-1992? It is its generation's Goonies where everyone in a certain age saw it and loved it but it's appeal seems lost on everyone outside of that general age range (unless maybe you really love Looney Tunes or something).

They announced some of the movies for the tour today. I am trying to figure out why I am so deeply upset about Space Jam being on there. I have concerns about three white people covering a movie that is beloved by urban audiences. I hope they have a person of color as the guest. Or at least someone who knows basketball? Like, intellectually I know it was not a great film. And I have no problem mocking the Looney Tunes or DeVito or the acting of the athletes. But, R. Kelly the notable exception, if you come for the soundtrack we are going to have a problem here.

I agree that the national anthem might have been a lot more on people's minds at this time given the bicentennial and cultural changes the country was going through with civil rights, women's right's and Watergate. I ended up just buying this movie and watched it start to finish for the first time yesterdsay. I decided to watch it before listening to the Ep all the way because Paul had mentioned going in without any idea what was going to go on, and I wanted that same experience. I found some of it kind of hard to follow, but I think this is definitely one of those movies that will be more rewarding on re-watches. There's so much going on that I'm sure I'll find all kinds of new threads and details I didn't catch the first time around. Most of the music I really could have done without (but I'm not really a country fan), but I'll say I loved that last song Barbara Jean did going on about the road trip with her parents. There was something that felt like it was poking fun at the genre and I can only imagine some of that had to be improvised, but it was genius. It fit the character and the placement in the film perfectly. I also really loved the set the trio did followed by Tom's song staring at Lily Tomlin. That whole storyline was great too. But, ugh, political assassinations. The shooting (and all dramatized shootings) really caused me anxiety. That was hard to watch. Do I think it deserves to be on the list? Eh... I think I'd say so. This is really a break in form, and while it didn't hold my attention 100% for its very long run time, Paul and Amy kind of sold me on it. One bee in my bonnet: I take umbrage at the "get lawyers out of Congress" line I'd prefer the people writing the laws to understand the law. But I'm biased. ETA: I think a great companion film to this is Coal Miner's Daughter, which i only just realized came out 5 years later. It is excellent.

Up here in Halifax (very much a college town) it could be pizza - we have an area called "pizza corner" with various places catering to the local young drinkers - but it could also be a magical food called the donair, which is recognized as the city's official food. Some people confuse this with shawarma or doner kebabs, and they are certainly related, but the classic Halifax donair is shaved spiced beef and/or lamb, some onions and tomatoes, all wrapped in a fresh pita and slathered in donair sauce, which is essentially just condensed milk mixed with sugar and a bit of vinegar. I happen to live perilously close to two of the best donair places in the city and now that I have written so much about it, I know I will be buying one sometime this weekend. Also popular are a thing called garlic fingers; essentially pizza dough buttered with garlic butter and sprinkled with shredded cheese and baked, then sliced into thin strips and often dipped in donair sauce. And, not surprisingly, we also sometimes have donair pizza. Here is a CBC video from a few years ago explaining this wonderful, wonderful food. (Before you comment: yes, donair sauce looks like jizz, and yes, our mayor's name is Mike Savage. He's kind of an idiot but at least he cast the correct vote for once in his life.)

Drunk food is entirely location-dependent. Southern California has to be late night taco shops; in San Diego it was -Berto's (there are like 10 places with that suffix). In Seattle it's gotta be Dick's. At home it's popcorn.

IT'S HAPPENING!!! (Chicago late show according to hdtgminfo.com)

They're doing the Pinocchio movie with Jonathan Taylor Thomas?! I hope they discuss the donkey transformation on the rollercoaster scene because that freaked me out when I was little.

I’ll say this for Space Jam: I saw it for the first time a few months ago, and it was absolutely fine for what it was.

Just joined, but had to, since I can't wait for this episode. I was a production assistant on the film in Cleveland. So many stories. Okay, well, a few stories. And, of course, somewhat new to the podcast, I started recommending this film AFTER it was already announced. Oy.

Instead of Eddie & The Cruisers they should have called the movie Jersey Boys.

I found it very effective and enjoyable, insofar as one can enjoy such a thing. Sorry dude! I don't think it was a perfect movie by any means, nor as good as Hereditary, but then Hereditary was also more of a surprise and that counts for a lot with me. I liked the idea with both films of taking a horror classic (The Exorcist and The Wicker Man) and dressing them in a new skin. The director was saying in an interview I read that he wants to explore all kinds of genres, so I don't know if he plans on doing more of these horror remixes, but if he does I'd love to see what he could do with, say, early Cronenberg.

One other thing about Joey Pants' character. He says how he's never gotten a break all his life. It's why Joanne gives him the tapes. Then he makes all kinds of statements about how he's going to make the sweetest deal ever, how they're all set, etc. Yeah, right! He hasn't gotten it done in his life so far and he thinks he's going to take the corporation and their lawyers for a ride? (Also IIRC, Tom Berenger didn't even look in the wooden box at the dump just to make sure the tapes were in there and in good condition. I imagine being somewhat exposed to the elements in a wooden box for 18 years didn't do the tapes any favors.)

My only point is that it’s BS to continue debating your point when the people you’re debating against no longer have the opportunity to respond. I don’t care that he did, but it’s a pretty disingenuous way to debate.

I'm #TeamSanity on this film. It's not that fun to sit through. There's good characters and some great scenes, but it just doesn't add up for me. Paul did sell it pretty well, and I think critics like it because it's fun to dig in to after the fact, but I feel like the #TeamFred side here is a bit too focused on the technical process on display.

My memory is hazy, but those were more discrete and each story usually had a distinct main character. I think Short Cuts is the main Altman I haven't seen, but I think that one might be more similar. Nashville is more fluid and as memory serves (I'm only partway into this rewatch and it's been a couple of decades), you aren't left with the sense of "this is the central character." Paul said the movie is more character-driven rather than plot driven, but I'd posit it's societal-fabric driven, which is composed of a lot of individual units coalescing into a messy whole. As primed by the beginning song focusing on the state of America.

22 Stories from Springfield seems like it may have been influenced too

They said something at the end of the episode to the effect of , “If you’re going to an Altman film on the AFI list, why not Nashville” so I can only assume both Amy and Paul share my negative opinion of MASH For me, I thought Nashville was fine, but I was not nearly as blown away as they were. I don’t believe that means I need a cleanly plotted film, just that very few of the hooks Nashville cast reeled me in. Also, I wasn't particularly by the boarding house assassin and was expecting the shooting from relatively early. Perhaps that’s because I didn’t see a young Steven King, but rather Mark David Chapmen (John Lennon’s assassin). It blew my mind that this five years earlier or I would have said it was referencing Lennon’s murder. However, despite my lack of interest overall, I get how someone with an improv background, like Paul, would want to be a part of a movie like this.

Sounds like SOMEONE needs a good Care Bear Stare...

Well. That was devastating. I've never read "Jude" and am not reading along; I'm just letting Michael read it to me bit by bit. And lately I was wondering, why exactly is this book famous? Why has it been remembered beyond its own time? The novel felt to me like a fair amount of ado about nothing. Then this chapter happened, and now I see why it's remembered. Holy moley. I echo the other commenters in admiring Michael's reaction to, and handling of, that scene. It's got to be one of the worst things I've ever read/heard in literature. Wow.

Talk about the rug being pulled out from under us Hardy...Jesus... I will admit to not visiting the show page here until now, and only seeing the episode titles on my iPhone podcasts app screen, which uniformly cuts off the last half of each episode title. So I didn't see how the note from Father Time was written, with that spelling of "many" punctuating the end of his life and reminding the reader of how young he was. That was maybe the most devastating part when I got home from work yesterday and re-read the section from this episode in my paperback version I found at a thrift store for $1 and bought so I could follow along with the podcast. I'm somewhat surprised MIB didn't comment on that specific aspect of the scene (or did he and I missed it?). Maybe he was too shocked to really dig deep and we'll hear more about it next episode? Either way...oof.

To add to this, I actually thought these two were at best acquaintances who were spending the day getting to know each other. When they have that whole conversation about whether a miracle occurred, Vincent seemed completely taken aback by Jules's sincerity. I thought they became close over the course of the movie, but not that they started that way.

DDF is a great movie. I will live, die, resurrect, and be staked in the heart on this hill.