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I just want to say Judy's suit jacket look? ICONIC!!!

I have to say, I literally gasped when comic relief guy broke the tractor. I was horrified.

I screamed out loud "NO!! You monster!" . I was so upset I hid my face in my hands and peeked through my fingers. I physically felt pain at that.

Ha! What's with those feet? I mean naturally I too jumped to hobbit but is it suppose to be a slam on country folk. How or why? "So guys, I'm working on this new show. She my lady friend is from a farm and she said we can put on the show in her barn. Ain't that swell? Now here's the kicker, we make it farm themed as well! Won't those folks dig it. So the big act one closer will be me and another fellow dressed as two farmers and making horrible animals noises that attracts dogs. You see the country folk aren't talented singers like us city folk. For costumes I want the shabbiest hats you can find and patched up long johns and oversized ratty pants. Yes, that'll show them. Also don't forget to blank out some teeth because those bumpkins have bad dental hygiene and will eat that up. However, the most important thing is we have GIANT FEET! Take that you bumpkins!"

Although similar, Summer Stock is far more flavorful and well-rounded than Summer Broth. We watched;

Judy with Liza on the set

So this was Judy's last film with MGM and it ... Did not go well. She was supposed to be in Annie Get Your Gun but she got suspended from the studio and went to rehab. So this was her first picture back. Gene Kelly did the film as a favor to her. So you have Judy whose shaky both emotionally and according to the director at times physically. They had to nail down parts of the scenery so she would have supports . Apparently he had to cheat a shot when she was unable to walk up some steps. According to the costume designer she was absolutely paranoid about her weight and her view that she was not working at her best and the more she tried to keep it all together worse she got. There were times when she literally did not show up on set. She was supposed to be in the Heavenly Music number but just... Never showed. Yet even with all of this the movie wasn't over budget and was on time. With the exception being Get Happy which was shot several months after the movie wrapped. Judy had been to a hypnotist for weight loss and that's why she looks so different there. The cast and crew loved Judy Garland and wanted to help her be a success. Even Louis B. Mayer her sometime arch nemesis said, when asked if maybe they should stop production, " Judy Garland has made this studio a fortune in the good days, and the least we can do is to give her one more chance. If you stop production now, it'll finish her." After Summer Stock Judy tried to film Royal Wedding with Fred Astaire but her old problems came back and she was fired. She and MGM both agreed that it would be best to let her out of her contract after that. http://www.thejudyroom.com/summerstock.html For some more reading on this time in Judy's life

Gene Kelly definitely explained the plot of the barnsical at one point, right? But the song and dance numbers on the day of the show seemed kind of random, no?

I was wondering the same thing! I was wondering if had the yokel thing already in mind before the farm or if it was written afterward. I also found it extremely difficult to imagine Harrison playing a hick hobbit.

So what kind of show exactly was it that Gene Kelly was trying to put on? It just seemed like random song and dance numbers with no unifying theme or anything. Some of them were farm related or themed but not all of them. Was this a kind of common show? I know it's the kind of thing the Ziegfeld Follies did but this seems almost too late for that. Maybe I'm wrong. Also, I find it odd they set up that big shot booking guy shows up to show only to never pay it off.

I've been enjoying everybody's picks so maybe I'll keep this going awhile long. For the last (offical) day of posting these songs I am going to take a risk and post some songs you'll probably won't listen to all the way through but might find interesting. So I've been living in Japan now for... 15-16 years and to me one of the things I miss is Christmas. Now Japan does Christmas but it's for little kids and lovers. New Years is just around the corner and that's the big "return to your family's home and have a big meal" holiday. As a result while Christmas decorations are everywhere they don't celebrate in the same way. When it comes to Christmas music you basically just get one Christmas song and some generic pop song played non-stop everywhere (All I Want for Christmas is You and Last Christmas) so when Japanese singers write Christmas songs they tend to be love songs because Christmas is for lovers. Some are Christmas themed in word others are not. Every so often one of these songs will break through and become a "classic" destined to be played in December. Here are some. The children's Christmas song of Japan. Flustered Santa! Christmas Eve by Tatsuro Yamashita. This song was used in special Christmas Japanese Rail ads throughout the 90s and even early 2000s. It is THE Japanese adult Christmas Song and if a Japanese person heard it would either say "Ah, Christmas" or just laugh. My love, Santa Claus by Yumi Matsutoya is somewhere between I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Backdoor Santa. Originally recorded in 1980 and covered by most every pop idol since. Everything by Misia. Is a really beautiful song and a personal favourite of mine. It's not really a Christmas song per say but actually a love song. But it happened to be released around Christmas, deals with love and was on a hit drama which used this song in a Christmas context. You'll hear it outside of Christmas but has kinda defacto became a Christmas song. So great was it Boyz II Men covered it!

Red leather, yellow leather. Red leather, yellow leather. Thus concludes my description of Hulk Hogan's living room.

I thought it was a revue ? Revues don't typically have a full plot they are like sketches, songs and dance numbers with a theme. What this theme is I have no idea. Love?

Yeah, there was a moment where he explains that sometimes you a boy needs to sing “I love you” to a girl, but then they were only in, like, two skits together...

Chlamydia? I hardly know ya!

I went to the Pomona Louse Farm and T-Shirt Outlet and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

here's the upcoming schedule with a bit more specificity. also for the record, i tried to ask Paul & Amy if they had any suggestions of what films to watch to prep for their discussion this week, but they didn't reply. Dec. 5 - EP 83. BEST OF THE DECADE PART 1 Dec. 12 - EP 84. BEST OF THE DECADE PART 2 Dec. 19 - EP 85. Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope Dec. 26 - EP 86. BEST OF THE DECADE PART 3 Jan. 2 - EP 87. BEST OF THE DECADE PART 4

I have an important question about the Transformers DVD guessing game. Do the ones given away at the live show count? Because I think at least 200 then. I also have a random question inspired by the "baby chairs" caller. I know Paul is a big fan of rides and Disney so maybe I should call in. But I would welcome forum input as well. How young is too young to bring a kid to Disney? We are having a disagreement in my family. I know some people bring infants and such, but is that a huge pain? My mom is insistent that a child has to be old enough to walk the entire time (no baby chairs) and old enough to remember.

Thinking about it more, there are an awful lot of movies from the 1990s with a similar aesthetic. You know, future dystopias taking influences from the same movies (the aforementioned The Warriors and Escape From New York and the like), often adaptations, that take comic book, cartoon, and/or video game imagery and utilize a very literal interpretation in formulating its imagery. I'm thinking this film, Super Mario Bros., Tank Girl, Johnny Mnemonic, and the like. We could do a limited series podcast on these kind of movies; call it "Pixelated Dystopia" or "Four Color Apocalypse."

Just wanted to call attention to Bong Joon-ho’s (The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja) latest. It’s really fucking good. I won’t say anything more than that, because it’s best going in without knowing anything about it. Well worth watching if it’s playing near you. He is a master of switching tonal gears within a movie.

I just wanted to say how proud I am of June for getting arrested today at the weekly climate change protest. I'm miffed that all the articles about it talk about Robert Kennedy Jr. Like we care about him when Actress/Activist June Diane Raphael is in the mix! I feel like that should be the next teepublic shirt.

I wondered about that too. Seems like they're going for dramatic irony here, where the wealthier man is lower-ranked than the working-class guy, and they find their status reversed in civilian society. Just speculating here, but I wonder if things were different during the WW2 era with so many people needed for the war effort? Perhaps it was easier to get promoted even without a degree.

Agreed, really great film. Got to see it at our local film fest a month or so ago. Apparently it has had a deep impact on Korea, which makes sense.

It was also mentioned at the Space Jam show in Chicago and it did not sound like it was going to be out.