JoelSchlosberg

This motion picture contains some very Freudian imagery.

This episode had much discussion of Can't Stop the Music being a PG-rated movie, and much discussion of its erotic cake store. But I believe the episode sorely omitted a discussion of the inclusion of an erotic cake store in a PG-rated movie! Although if it can be included in a family-friendly cartoon...

On Facebook: "Thanks you cameron esposito for screeching at me..."

Re the assertion that milk is the only way to make the Village People's mustache's bigger: given all their use of offensive stereotypes (the Native American headdress, etc.), why don't they have a member with a full-on Fu Manchu mustache?

"Or did they just write a song about liking to drink milkshakes?" Oh of course! Just as In the Navy is merely "an earnest celebration of sea life":

Reddit agrees that Cameron Esposito is unfunny and intrusive. I have never seen a HTDGM guest be so widely and roundly unpopular with the listenership.

The episode is the exact same length as the movie: 2 minutes, 3 seconds. Is that something that often happens?

Did they mention that the Amazon video of the movie is in pan-and-scan? This far into the widescreen-TV era, that takes dedication to not giving a shit.

Still, she hasn't seen the Kung Fu Panda movies?

Or having it before the events of Jedi, but close enough that he's still just going around being a bounty hunter.

Well, a presentation that's impressively fancy on first glance, but on second glance turning out to be mere gloss on repetitive, incongruous substance is The Quest in a nutshell. What's scary is that this infamous commercial put in more effort into a page of text that could easily have been a generic "Lorem Ipsum" placeholder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHhVyC1MHmA It's too blurry to make out the text in the video, but here's a legible screengrab. This is what it says:

What about Indiana Jones? And if JCVD is super old, why does he still have a full head of hair? Not only does he have a very non-receded hairline, but his hair isn't much thinned or even that grayed!

When Roger Moore says "one should never eat on an empty stomach" doesn't that lead to a paradox of infinite regress? One would have to have eaten before, and eaten before that, and so on without end.

When the reporter takes the photo, not only is it in color (as pointed out in the podcast), but it's in the film's widescreen aspect ratio! The shot of the team being coaxed into smiling for the camera is supposed to represent the photographer's field of view, but the 2.35:1 rectangle of the screen and the resulting photograph does not match the camera's more squarish viewfinder in the previous shot.

When Roger Moore says "we have an almost perfect plan", what in his mind is the minor flaw that makes it "almost"?

Why doesn't the cop who gets hit by the juggling club move out of its way or at least flinch? He could not be expected to anticipate that it would be thrown at him, but wouldn't a clearly visible object heading straight to his face from exactly where he's looking at produce at least an involuntary reflex? And it's not being hurled at him, it's just falling no more than a couple feet under the normal acceleration of gravity. In fact, the collision shouldn't have enough force (there's some additional impact from the spin of the club, but not that much since it's not rotating that fast) to knock him over.

The invitation says that the contestants are "from the four corners of the world." Doesn't that imply a belief that the world is flat, a somewhat outdated notion by 1925? If they're keeping the phrasing out of tradition, why do so when so much else about the tournament is changed from ancient times?

Although they do parallel Bloodsport/The Quest in not only their shift to a period setting, but their diminishing returns on a larger scope.

It occurs to me that maybe instead of trying to be another straightforward action flick like Bloodsport, The Quest is actually JCVD's attempt at a prestige picture. It all fits: the period setting, the lavish cinematography, JCVD stepping up to writer-director as his attempt at a Rocky, with the French mime getup being the cherry on top of perfect pretentiousness. (Using stilts instead of a unicycle is just about the only thing keeping him from being "objectively speaking, the most annoying person on earth" as A.O. Scott said of the French mime juggler unicyclist of The Walk.) "Pretentious" of course being the word in the English language that least applies to Bloodsport. I rarely say this, but Cannon's attempt at prestige movies are actually more successful. And when they failed, at least they gave us stuff like this:

But as accurate as that is as an objective description, Bloodsport does somehow make the Kumite feel like an epic event. It's hard to put a finger on exactly why. Is it the music? The fight choreography giving more of a sense of stakes and danger? The passage through the corridors (filmed at the actual Kowloon Walled City) giving both more of a buildup and, paradoxically, more of a sense of focus, while the globetrotting and larger scale of The Quest overshadows the tournament itself?

That would explain his inconsistent personality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6otx4oW8loI

You know what? I'd go so far as to say that Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is more cinematic than The Quest. There's a coherent plotline, the contestants have personalities and comprehensible motivations, the music is dramatic, and it has a training sequence!

Perhaps the Spanish fighter's matador schtick was an homage to Don Flamenco from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out? A game which is also a series of bouts featuring contestants based on blatant national stereotypes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyakEu37whs

Also, did you know that JCVD is female? Aspects similar to James Bond movies? In this movie? I would never have guessed!

HDTGMers definitely have different tastes in nudity than Beavis and Butthead (from their book Huh Huh for Hollywood, with some help from Larry Doyle):