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You ever know whatever happened to the life of a mysterious glam rock megastar? Which is why my next pick for this series is... Velvet Goldmine by Todd Haynes, and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ewan McGregor, Christian Bale and Toni Collette!

oh man this is enough to get me back on the MM train (sorry I've been away, I got a promotion at work and it got CRAZY)

I approve this choice. It's on sale for $4.99.

Awesome! I’ve always wanted to see this!

I have this soundtrack on cd, it's awesome. It's been years since I watched the movie!

Don't be sorry! I haven't been around in forever and yes go ahead slot me back in please

Sorry, I just skipped your pick Congrats on the promotion! I hope you can be around more often. Do you want me to add you to the end of the rotation?

I thought I was dunking a donut in my morning latte, but turns out I was just dipping my butt in the breakroom coffee pot and saying, "Ouch, that's too hot."

Ah yes the pinball machines, which nine times out of ten were usually better than the shitty movie they were based off of. Every year when I go to Las Vegas, I always make sure to stop at the Pinball Hall of Fame and without fail the machines for Last Action Hero, Johnny Mnemonic, and Demolition Man are still the best adaptation machines in the whole place.

Crank and Crank 2: just good movies that are crazy (though they don't really do those anymore).

Fred MacMurray was so popular that the superhero Captain Marvel (SHAZAM) was modeled after him. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Did anyone else feel like Pinocchio’s lies at the end of the movie we’re pretty fucked up and cruel? Like, I get that he’s trying to hit the monster’s gag reflex with his massive wooden nose, but there’s no rule in the movie that the growth in his nose has any correlation to the magnitude of the lie he’s telling. Instead of looking his caregiver and guardian in the eye and calling him a piece of trash, couldn’t Pinocchio have just said, “Snow is hot” or something else equally prosaic? Gepetto might be a big old sack of who-gives-a-fuck as a character, but he did risk his life to save your ass, you ungrateful little abomination. He was swallowed by a rival puppeteer. His day has been bad enough.

So I actually spoke at the lie show AND I WAS WRONG. I felt so bad I called the Paul help line to correct myself. I told everyone that they were turned into donkeys for their skin. But I thought I had mis-remembered. Only boys who don't study get "donkey fever" . And only Pinocchio was going to be turned into a drum because he ended up breaking his leg ( as a donkey) in a circus and being sold to a guy who wanted him for his skin for a drum. So I go to double check and now I'm more confused than ever. Because it looks like I found a short story called Donkey Fever . I usually listen to the episodes and look things up that I want to talk about and somehow found this. So then I went back and ended up reading the chapters in the original book. It turns out that I was sort of right and sort of wrong? So the Coachman basically lures children to ToyLand where they get Donkey Fever from not studying and being good. This is apparently his business model. He then sells the former little boys. ( When he meets Pinocchio and his friend Candlewick he fucking bites a donkey's eat off but pretends he's giving it a kiss? HOW DO YOU FAKE A KISS FOR BITING A GIDDAMN EAR OFF!!?) Pinocchio is then sold to a circus where he breaks a leg or something to that effect ( the book says he goes lame) while performing. He's THEN sold to the man who wants to turn him into a drum and that man throws him into the sea. And Candlewick you ask? Well I have the 1916 version which isn't as hard core but apparently he FUCKING DIES FROM BEING OVERWORKED AND ABUSED . I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW THIS WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN IN A CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE Should I call again and apologize for calling in very late and tried and messing yet again? Should you guys just start a shame bell walk for my lack of clarity! I'm normally so precise on research! ( Tbf at the show I had a really awful time with the theater management and if you saw two women having panic attacks on the lobby that was me and my friend hi!)

OK, so I'm no expert on Italian culture or the original Pinocchio novel, but at 59:21 into the movie am I insane or are these kids eating rocks out of a bottle?

Seems to not have made the cut on the ep but at the show Jason started in almost immediately at how weirdly pervy and sexual this movie could be and I agreed completely. The very first sentence that we hear Martin Landau speak is "This log has a will of its own." To which I could only respond, "That's what she said." This totally set the tone for me for the whole rest of this bonkers movie. So many wood puns turned double entendre. The wallpaper on Paul's Mac would attest to the perv quotient of this movie as well. Both shows were so great! 6 for 6 at Chicago shows and they just keep getting better! Thanks guys! And check out this Jason-being-a-creeper progression during our photo op, had no clue why the lady taking the photos was taking so many pictures and laughing so hard until hours later!

One thing that I thought was funny that wasn't touched on in the episode was at the beginning of the whale scene. When Pinocchio enters, Geppetto says that Pinocchio looks so skinny and asks if he has eaten. First, it's been like 3 hours since he last seen him, it's not like he would be withering away. And secondly, he's a puppet. He doesn't lose weight. My only thought is that maybe he was referring to the bullet holes after being shot. But that didn't make him skinny. P.s. loved the show and it was great meeting you.

I think the Fame reboot should be directed by the Safdie Brothers (Uncut Gens, Good Time)!

Waiter! I asked for sand and this is COUSCOUS!

I share your affection for it.