Cinco DeNio

I could do a couple. I have a surgery on Friday but it's just local anesthesia. I will do one on Thursday as well to make sure I get at least one night straight. Thursday and Friday at 9 Eastern. Maybe Sunday at 6 Eastern?

So you've been wanting to revisit this for the last five years?

Looks like the director also did Beautiful Creatures (an HDTGM episode) and P.S. I Love You (which I liked) as well as others. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=atv_dp_pd_dir?url=search-alias%3Dinstant-video&field-keywords="Richard LaGravenese"&rh=k:Richard LaGravenese%2Cn:2858778011&ie=UTF8

I just bought it on Amazon since it only cost $7.99, the price of two rentals. (I don't have Netflix and that would have been $13 for a month.) If I like the movie I now own it!

I haven't seen it either but I wanted to post this GIF in response. Found it while searching for my "I'm waiting" entry.

I am somewhat not ashamed to say Blue's Clues is one of the kid shows I enjoyed as an adult.

@taylorannephoto, you're up on Monday!

I don't see him either. At 00:50 there's a heavily bearded man in the background but it doesn't obviously look like Zouks. Could just be a generic bearded bad guy.

Sammy Fong wound up in Barney Miller later on. James Hong (the headwaiter at Celestial Gardens) showed up in lots of movies. The only other name I recognize is Virginia Grey as Rosalind but I don't remember her character.

I can finally jump in now. Watched the entire movie last night. I enjoyed Sammy's song "Don't Marry Me". I'd heard it elsewhere but didn't know it came from this show. I LOVED Helen's dream ballet. I wish the actress who played Helen had played Linda instead. She would have had greater exposure and more to do. I agree with the others who said Helen was wasted and never got resolution of her own. I guess that's the dark part of this one but isn't very dark. I think Helen's ballet was the nicest of the three I've seen. (The young girl Louise in Carousel and I think Laurey has one in Oklahoma but it's been years since I've seen that.) I am glad to see Wang Ta got his act together later in life. He became a successful executive of a multi-billion-dollar company

@Cameron H., you're a real cold cat! Sorry about flaking on Friday, if anyone turned up on Rabbit. I'm resigning from hosting unless it's my pick. As for this movie, I'm still working through it so I will refrain.

It's short notice but the movie is available through Amazon Prime. I'd be willing to host a Rabbit showing tonight at 9 Eastern if there's any interest.

Not sure I've even heard of this one. My only quibble with R&H is every show gets very dark for a while. Jud Frye in Oklahoma, Billy being an utter crook in Carousel, etc.

I should clarify that I was surprised Thomas Dolby was so goofy. I didn't know anything about him except for She Blinded Me With Science, so it appears he was having a lot of fun. I just didn't understand the character.

They were an actual band called Visiting Kids. At least one of them is a child of a Devo member, Mark Mothersbaugh. Not sure about the bride outfit though.

The actress in the Bat Dork outfit also played ET.

Dean Cameron mentions he did the bite the guitar shot as a joke. He said something like "Here's the bad version of the poster" during a photo shoot and that turned out to be the poster. He never intended that.

In the commentary and interviews they mention that during the cryogenic attempt on Mona, Stanley is singing a cover of Tom Lehrer's I Hold Your Hand in Mine. I love that song and totally missed it in the film.

I like this explanation but it's not what the filmakers were going for. On the commentary they said that Ralph was such a loser that even his reflection talks back to and make fun of him. That of course highlights that they didn't even try to think of vampire lore. I like Cam Bert's explanation better. It's like a manifestation of his desire to finally break the curse and get on with his life. That's why Toni Basil didn't have a reflection. She was happy with who she was. I also think his not aging, sunlight, etc., were part of the curse. He was a normal guy (not a vampire) when they fell in love and Mona died. He was then cursed to relive the same 22 years over and over but was made a proto-vampire. I'm assuming he will go full Drac after the events of this movie since he can't go back to being human.

OK, @taylorannephoto, what have you got for us?

I only had several problems with this movie. Stanley (Thomas Dolby) was just too off-the-wall for me. He didn't seem like a bad guy or much of a villain so his "comeuppance" at the end didn't mean anything to me. Ralph didn't seem to woo Mona at any time. He just took it for granted she would fall in love with him. I understand he's done this multiple times but she hasn't. I wondered why Mona had to be reborn as someone else each time. How could the curse ensure someone would have a baby right after Halloween and name it Mona? Since things are different now is another Mona still born? It would have to be since it was conceived well before Halloween.

Mirror Guy is the main reason I wanted to watch this movie. I knew Cameron was considering picking it and I might have if he hadn't. (Now I get to pick my heart's desire movie when it's my turn.) Anyway, I stumbled on this movie when I was flipping channels. It was during the "United States of Beat" number and he was arguing with Mirror Ralph in the bathroom. I had no idea what was going on but I knew it was bonkers. I immediately flipped channels so I didn't see any more until someone picked it for Musical Mondays. Now I think it's great!

I think he's been granted full autonomy. I'm not sure he appears every time Ralph looks in the mirror. (He certainly seems to in the movie though but that's when Ralph is indecisive.) Since Mirror Ralph came back like Elvis I'm wondering if he just showed up recently or maybe his mom put that "curse" on him around Elvis' time. 22 years from 1990 would be 1968 so maybe that's not the case. His mom definitely had something to do with finally breaking the curse. I'm just not sure what. However this puts the "Mickey" music video in a whole new light. That video came out in 1981 so maybe she finally had the money she needed to put her plans into motion.