Cinco DeNio

If you've heard the Oingo Boingo song Forbidden Zone then you've heard the movie's title track.

I remember the story in the Teen Witch episode where June's sister said June pronounced it as SepulVEEda when JDR first moved to Los Angeles.

The other reason for picking this movie is 2020 had a lot of nice, family-friendly movies (lipstick nipples aside). I wanted to put 2020 in the rearview mirror.

Are your dreams coming true?

If you like Dr. Demento's theme song, Pico and Sepulveda, it's included in the movie as a set-up to showing where the dad works.

Here is a color trailer.

The movie was originally in black-and-white when released but has since been colorized. I highly recommend the color version. It's easier on the eyes and to distinguish various details. If anyone wants to see the black-and-white version I plan to Kast it on Thursday night at 9 p.m. Eastern and Friday night at 7. The colorized version will be Kasted on Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern. It's available for free at TubiTV, and for rent on other services. It's also available if you have subscriptions to various services, Fandor being one of them. I own it on Prime so I will probably show that service's copy on Friday. It's not much different from the Blu-Ray. Here's the Justwatch page. EDIT: It's only 70-some minutes long so you won't have too much of your time to ask to get back.

So, before there was the band Oingo Boingo, led by Danny Elfman, there was a performance troupe called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, led by Danny's brother Richard. Danny was in the group as well as Richard's now-ex wife Marie-Pascale. Richard wanted to capture the spirit of the performance troupe as well as the energy and created this movie. It is decidedly NOT family-friendly nor good taste-friendly. Starring Herve Villechaize and the bartender from Rockula, I give you

"If you enjoyed this, read the book." I hope you all did your homework! We watched

@Cameron H. is a wizard!

That is an excellent point and I admit I was taken in by it. I didn't research that when I posted my comment, although I did see that it had been available on VHS and such. On reflection it is weird that there were multiple videos on YouTube for a supposedly "missing" song. So much for my critical thinking skills.

It's not curently in the Disney+ version but it will eventually be. They're restoring it for the 4k Blu-Ray. Here's a decent-quality version in the meantime.

I watched Scrooge yesterday for the first time (because several had noted it on Letterboxd) and enjoyed it very much. I would second that as a selection but we don't have to wait until next December if Christmas is every day.

Speaking of One More Sleep 'Til Christmas, the artist Kevin Wilson created two amazing posters based on the song.

OK, which one of you writes for The Guardian? This article came out last week.

I like these posters. Let's throw Scrooge to the back or do without him completely, because, he's not central to the story or anything!

My room is open for tonight's viewing. I'll do one tomorrow night as well so people don't have to subscribe to Disney+ if they don't want to.

My Kast room is open.

This is awesome. The original version of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds will be on YouTube from tomorrow afternoon (12/25 @ 2 p.m. Eastern) until January 5th. I've listened to the Next Generation version and prefer the original. This will have more cast members, including some of the original singers (like Justin Heyward from The Moody Blues).

I don't expect anyone to join but I plan on Kasting The Muppet Christmas Carol tonight at 9 and tomorrow night at 9. I thought we covered this one before but nope, just Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (for Muppet Christmas movies). I've seen MCC before but not in years. Looking forward to revisiting it. Gonzo defines the phrase "you little dickens, you".

Is this what While My Guitar Gently Weeps refers to (the breakup) or is it something else?

Makes perfect sense. Not everyone is cut out to be the frontman. I know I'm not. I'm happiest in the background or behind the scenes.

Drat! I thought we were doing Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular!

My apologies for Friday night. I didn't set my alarm and didn't realize the time until almost 10:00.