JammerLea

I listened to this ep late, but gotta say, I appreciated it. This topic is fascinating to me no matter how many times I listen to people talk about it. I need to look up the Aftermath series sometime, it sounds really interesting. I feel so bad for the poor people who suffer through Scientology. It sounds dreadful. There's a Scientology mission here in San Antonio too and I'm just weirded out every time I drive past it.

I LVOE THIS FILM!!!!!!!

Yeah, I was pretty disappointed to hear that the forums aren't easy to access now, especially with this being a source of material Paul uses for corrections and omissions. If people can't easily find the forums to participate, then participation is going to continue to be low.

I can't help but think how terrifying this musical must've been to anyone who has had a legit fear of dentists lol I do think it was good to establish just how despicable his character is in setting up a reason of "this asshole deserves it" for being killed. It certainly is uncomfortable and was weird that it was one of the first songs replayed during the credits. Someone must've really liked it. (Also was really bizarre seeing Steve Martin with black hair lol) So, a question: Who was worse, the sadist or the masochist?

Honestly part of why I wanted to revisit this version before it gets sullied by a new remake which will undoubtedly have CG effects instead of these practical effects that still look INCREDIBLY GOOD. But yeah, my first time seeing this, I was, I think, older teens? It's so well done though, the music and how it's incorporated into the story, the cast, the atmosphere... I don't want to say it's a perfect movie, but hell, it sure comes close. (I haven't yet watched the original director's cut ending, but I did read up on it. I think it would have been interesting, but I understand how test audiences didn't respond well lol) Levi Stubbs is just... so soooo good in this role. I soooorta remember Mother Brain, but it's been so long... Uhh, gushing aside, my roommate and I were questioning how Audrey II knew Audrey's phone number to call her lol

GUYS I am so upset that I missed The Monkees movie Head! That had been on my list of possible musicals from the start! Ugh!

Can also find the 1960 version with jokes on Rifftrax for $9.99, which is the only way I've seen it tbqh https://www.rifftrax.com/little-shop-of-horrors-three-riffer-edition

Ahahaha! All the ninja turtles gifs! You know me well! I hope you all have been well during this time. I had a bit of a rough week last week, so hopefully this week will be better and perfect for watching a musical. After doing extensive research by asking my roommate for ideas I have decided to go with a classic!

Oh yeah. I think I got 3rd place once in my long distance event. Enough to get my '00 numbers for a letterman jacket, which I never owned. So I just have two 0 patches in a box somewhere. A fitting number for my life lol A friend and I used to rent NBA Jam for Sega Genesis a lot and I remember having fun playing it despite my lack of interest in basketball, so I can only imagine how popular it was with actual basketball fans. This makes me want to find a copy to buy lol

I forgot to answer this, but just a quick summation of my childhood sports, etc.: Dance (Tap and Acrobatics) Softball (Outfielder) Bowling Karate Track (Long Jump and some long distance thing I forgot) Can't say I was particularly good at any of these lol ------------ Last comment on Space Jam, which I sort of mentioned on Letterboxd... To be quite honest, I really found the talent-stolen basketball players failing at being human to be far funnier than any of the cartoon antics with the Looney Tunes. Completely failing at DRINKING WATER and walking into the door frame at the hospital got actual laughs out of me. I know it doesn't make sense since those though aren't directly related to the talent required to play basketball, but I DID NOT CARE because it was actually funny to me. I wish there had been more of those jokes throughout the movie. I was far more invested in these poor saps than anything else. Also I never noticed in the hospital hall scene that Muggsy was fake walking until it was mentioned in the podcast. But it's more like I KNEW he wasn't really walking, my brain just thought that he was in a wheel chair, because I didn't notice the shoulder movement.

Oof, yeah, that's true that's the origin of the name. Could do without that specific one though. First one I went too was Six Flags Great America in the Chicago area with my family as a kid. But that was just sad because I wanted to go on the roller coasters but my cousins were too small and the adults didn't want to go. As for the Six Flags here, I liked the Superman coaster. Haven't been in a good few years though. It's expensive.

I wanted to mention something similar about Six Flags too lol. Also been to Six Flags Over Texas a couple times and WB/DC characters and merch are quite popular. I have also talked to someone who used to work there as the Taz mascot and while I won't call it "slavery", working in those things under the conditions of the hot Texas summer definitely sounds like torture. I think he had some story too about someone vomiting inside the costume.

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Yep! Hulu is bringing back Animaniacs. I belieeeeve it's supposed to start this year, but I haven't heard an airdate. They're bringing back the core voice cast and I think the guy who wrote the songs on the original show. Rob Paulsen has some details on the reboot idea proposal in his autobiography he released this past year, I need to get back to reading it. I got to meet Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche (voices of Pinky and The Brain and so many more) at a convention in 2014 and they were absolute sweethearts! LaMarche voiced Pepe le Pew in Space Jam... I've technically met one of the Space Jam voice actors...