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Oh god, I didn't even notice that but I just rewatched the scene and it does sound off...he was The Worst. The most ridiculous part of the exchange is when she pulls at the wheel to get him off the road and they skid into the parking lot, then he asks, "Are you on something?" when he was just drinking out of a flask while driving. That's some nerve, Bible Salesman. I also want to talk about a particular line of Bubba's; when he calls for Emilio and Emilio says he's cooking eggs, Bubba responds, "I don't give a ladybug!" Is this a phrase people say outside this movie?

As was discussed, it wasn't quite clear what was affected by the comet (or aliens, or whatever was actually causing the problems). I was also confused by the notion that the Earth would be passing through the tail of a comet for an entire week. I am not an astrophysicist, but I think trajectory-wise, it might be hard for that to happen without the Earth and the comet itself coming pretty close to one another. I know comet tails are long, but to stay within the tail for days at a time, it seems like the orbits would have to overlap rather substantially. In any case, given what a big deal this damn comet was, shouldn't we have seen it in the sky? Did we see the comet, and I just wasn't paying close enough attention? I have now convinced myself that I must have missed it because it seems crazy not to include, but then again, in 1986, CGI wasn't what it is today... Side note: in trying (and mostly failing) to find out stuff about comets that I could understand, I discovered that on May 19, 1910, Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet for six hours. People predictably lost their minds, but nothing happened obviously, because we're all still here to talk about this garbage movie.

Is it ever explicitly stated that Kane made the dinosaurs super smart, and that in this alternate reality, dinosaurs didn't have the faculty of speech all along? I admittedly had a hard time paying attention. If that's so, are all restored species going to get super intelligence now? What would the world look like if every animal on the planet had their own neighborhoods and cultures, and participated in life fully alongside humans? I get the feeling we wouldn't last very long. It seems like that might just set humans up for destruction. If dinosaurs are the only class of animals that would receive such treatment, why? Bringing back dinosaurs seems like a cool idea (habitat-wise it would probably cause a lot of problems...but I digress), but this seems like such a bizarre way to do it...

I've been across the border once at San Diego, about five years ago. From what I remember, the way into Mexico is nothing - we just drove right through and I didn't notice anyone, but I was toward the back of a big passenger van and the memory is pretty hazy (I promise I wasn't being kidnapped). The way back, on the other hand, took FOREVER and involved a lot of waiting and passport checking and stuff...

I wonder if it's related to "major technical difficulty" Paul mentioned at the end of this mini ep....

I managed about half of this movie and I kind of wish I'd stuck it out now that I know they went to space. I'm glad they mentioned the daughter's new hair color (and the entirely different actress...) because all the hair stuff confused me so much. The line that really got me was when the daughter meets up with her friend at the roller coaster and her friend says, "You're hair is amazing, super rebellious." Her hair is just brown. I get that it's dyed, but brown hair is still a normal human hair color, and it's not like she has a crazy haircut or anything. I cannot claim to be an expert in rebellion, but an eighteen year old deciding to be a brunette seems like the lamest way to act out ever. Not to mention - what is she acting out against? Her "heroic" parents? Don't worry, I know I'm way overthinking it. Also: how many sharknados does it take before everyone decides to just move inland? The ocean's pretty sweet in non-sharknado times, but is it worth it? I mean, I know there are tornados in the midwest, too, but at least they are basically guaranteed to be shark-free...then again, I spend 18 years living on a fault, so maybe I'm not in the best place to judge.

HA no, he didn't, not really. I vaguely remember him bringing everyone who was wearing red dresses and tuxes onstage, giving people dog tags, and offering his commentary on circumcision for some reason...he was wearing 2 belts and I think he gave one to someone and demonstrated the proper way to put it on, cupping one's ass. He did say the fictional animal he most wanted to be was a tiger, so that is one question he actually answered. It was mostly just craziness.

I went to one too! The audio was so bad and so loud, especially when that lady ran around screaming over her lost chicken.... I'm a huge fan of The Room to the point that I've lost track of how many times I've seen it , so I felt like I had to try it out and see if it made more sense on Hulu, but I should've known better - it didn't. Usually banging out 3 episodes of a half-hour show is a piece of cake, but it was almost physically uncomfortable. I think there are more up, but I won't even try. Now that he's trying to be funny, it's aggressively unfunny. After the show my friends and I went to get a picture with him - it was like 3 A.M. at this point, and he told us to watch out for vampires because our necks looked good for biting...never a dull moment with Tommy.

The Sharknado franchise will always hold a special place in my heart because it was the first time someone asked me, "Are you okay?" while I was listening to the podcast - I was at work a couple months into what morphed into a 6-month QA project that broke my soul a little (but which was made better when I discovered and listened to all the eps of HDTGM...I scared a lot of people that summer by laughing at my desk), and when June did the monologue I just lost it. My office-mate thought I was crying. Oops. That being said, I didn't watch Sharknado 2 and probably won't watch this one, either. I figure that once you've seen one, you get the idea, and that the harder they try, the less funny it is. I imagine it wouldbe almost as painful as the time I tried to watch Tommy Wiseau's "sitcom" The Neighbors...

I'm about to start in on the ep - I just finished this movie. It was...something. This world seemed like a NIGHTMARE. Like, Tom Selleck's son was LITERALLY being raised by a robot. And all these people had robots they needed to call someone else to control! How is that safe? ALTHOUGH I might be convinced that a sushi robot is a good idea. I don't know if anyone else listens, but did it remind anyone else of the two most recent episodes of 99% Invisible about the automation paradox? Basically they talked about the benefits vs pitfalls of automation, specifically in planes and self-driving cars. It's super interesting, an a great podcast in general. This quote from the second episode's post is particularly relevant: This movie is basically this in the worst way - like, the people who do know how to deal with it turn it against you and then the robots try to kill you and you can't stop it. This is not the kind of future I want to live in. But now I'm starting to think it's imminent...damn it.

Yesterday I got three fillings and then watched this movie, and between the two I would legit rather have ALL THE FILLINGS than have to watch this movie again. I was a little young for the TMNT craze, though I remember my brother liking them. I thought I learned something through osmosis, but apparently not. I understood nothing. Like, why is April living with four turtles and a talking rat? Who is Shredder, and what did the turtles do to him? Why are there so many ninjas in New York sewers? WTF Vanilla Ice? Maybe I'd know if I had actually been able to pay attention, but I can't even bring myself to look at the Wikipedia page. BUT this ep was great. I had to stop listening at work so I didn't scare my new coworkers. I'm trying to ease them into the realization that me laughing like a crazy person is just a thing that happens sometimes and the answer is always "podcasts." I remember liking what TMNT stuff I saw as a kid (don't know if I ever saw this movie), but one of the things I found so grating about it was the nonstop teenager shtick. It probably would've worked for me as a child because teens seemed cool and mature...but I just felt like everyone five minutes the movie reminded us, through words and actions, "THESE TURTLES ARE TEENS" and it drove me nuts. I mean, I know "teenage" is in the name, but do all TMNT comics/shows/movies hit that point so hard? And now an unrelated bit of advice on public proposals from my high school journalism teacher that I can't not share whenever someone brings them up: you always say yes, then you talk to them later if the real answer is no. Her other advice was to never tell your current significant other how many people you've slept with. She was a wise woman.

Another thing I didn't understand was what exactly Hercules knew about the mortal world before going into it for the first time. When the taxi driver asks him for two bucks he seems confused by the concept of money, or at least the concept of him personally having to pay for something (leading to one of my favorite quotes of the movie: "Bucks? Does? What is all this zoological talk about male and female animals?" That line made me turn on subtitles). He also refers to cars as "chariots" multiple times. Yet, when Helen asks him what his father does, he says, "Uhhhhh he's retired" so I guess he sort of understands the concept of retirement? Or maybe he doesn't actually know what it means, but he picked up somewhere that s a more acceptable thing to say than, "My father's a god, duh" -- a tactic that didn't work when he tried it before. And on a related note, when none of the gods or goddesses are hanging out in the real world, if that ever happens, do you think they still just stare into their weird crystal ball and spy on randos? Or do you think they just send gods and goddesses down just to make it interesting? It doesn't seem like there's much else to do on Mount Olympus.

Oh man, I don't know what happened there, I wish I did...I am, unfortunately, pretty short, so I couldn't see much of what was going on on the floor with so many (taller) people around me (though I did have a good view of the stage)...I didn't see anyone try to get onstage or do anything weird, but I'd say he was almost definitely reacting to the antics of someone in the audience and not to one of the movie characters (though to be fair, "don't do that" is an appropriate reaction to basically everything Hercules does throughout the movie)....

I was at this live show! It was honestly one of the best things I've ever witnessed, and relistening to it I'm realizing there's so much I forgot about already... I was confused by the use of Greek/Roman names in this movie - I know almost nothing about Greek mythology (probably as much as the people who made this movie), so perhaps I'm wrong, but is it weird to refer to some gods (e.g. Zeus) by their Greek names, but others -- in fact, almost everyone else -- by their Roman ones, especially if you're making SUCH a big deal about being on Mount Olympus (unless that's also where the Roman gods chill)? It just seems like an odd choice, especially because I tend to think of the Greek names as being more recognizable, generally speaking. I, for one, had to look up who Juno and Pluto were, because I had the same question as Jason (regarding Zeus being married to Juno), and the movie ALMOST made a modicum of sense when I realized they were basically Hera and Hades, respectively....but maybe it's because I'm really bad at Greek/Roman mythology.

They touched on this during the show, but I was really confused by the time frame (probably in part because I wasn't paying very close attention...I just couldn't get into this movie); if Poe's family was in Alabama awaiting his arrival, how did they get to Nevada so quickly? How long was that plane in the air? I don't recall where the flight started from, but I only remember it being dark at the very end of the movie, meaning everything (from the time they got on the plane) happened over the course of one day, and I'm pretty sure that it was still light out when his wife and daughter arrived in what I assume is Nevada. It also felt like Larkin was able to move around VERY quickly. I'm sure I was thinking about it too hard, and I could definitely be totally wrong about everything, but it gave me a headache...

I'm so glad that Paul brought up Bridget Fonda's parents possibly being killed by crocodiles. She seemed so adamantly against the wilderness but possibly secretly knowledgeable and I thought there might be more to it... I hoped there was going to be some kind of Sharknado-style revelation that someone she loved was eaten by a crocodile. But no, she was just boring and whiny as hell.

Really loved both this movie and the episode. I guess I have a semi-omission/general clarification of the science: I work in Alzheimer's Disease research, and I found the entire premise BAFFLING. I don't have a PhD (yet...), and I'm not well-versed in animal research methods, but so much of this was just too out of control for me to handle. First off, there is no way animal surgery is like that scene where they "extract the protein." Animal research is very tightly regulated to make sure you're following guidelines for humane treatment (humane treatment = the exact opposite of everything happening at Aquatica, probably). Lighting cigarettes in research areas is definitely not okay. I also laughed really hard that there was just a HUGE GUN right behind some glass in the lab. That's way dangerous, and there have to be better methods of controlling sharks. (There is sometimes weird stuff sitting around though - In MRI environments where I work there are baseball bats for emergency depressurizing and monkey bite kits for...well, treating monkey bites. But definitely no guns). Also, I know they made the argument for using sharks because they don't show signs of aging in their brain activity or something. There actually are many species that don't develop Alzheimer's Disease pathology (namely amyloid plaques) - when scientists do AD research on mice, for example, my understanding is that they basically induce amyloid production and aggregation in their brains with certain genetic mutations. Just because sharks "don't develop AD," though, doesn't mean they offer a cure for humans. And even if droppering shark brain proteins on dead human neurons did work (...it wouldn't), how would you get it into the right spot in the brains of living patients without straight-up killing them? At best, this would be invasive and expensive surgery that may cause brain damage in its own right. Maybe the shark protein would just fix any neurons that were damaged by the surgery, too? I don't even know. I did find evidence that shark toxins might increase AD/ALS risk and that people have tried (and failed) to cure cancer with shark cartilage. But it seems no one has ever been like, "You know where we should look for an AD cure? Sharks." OBVIOUSLY. This is to say nothing of bigger brains = smarter. Or Saffron Burrows's apparent lack of understanding of how to interact with AD patients. Aging and dementia research is very boring compared to what's depicted in this movie, and I'm really okay with that.