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I also made a playlist reflecting Scott's resequencing, and I called it Fables Reconstructed. You're welcome! Best moment on any episode of either show! I laughed SO hard.

This might be the easiest Yes vote I've ever cast. To say that the challenges Atreyu faces aren't substantial enough is to take only a surface-level reading of them. To look for your reflection to find that you only exist within someone else's imagination would be TERRIFYING if you encountered it in real life. And when you consider that Bastian is escaping into his own private fantasy world to avoid having to face the pain of his mother's death, then shouting her name into the storm to save Fastasia is not an insignificant event. And by the way, I'm positive that the audience is not supposed to be able to understand the name, because it gives us the opportunity to perhaps hear a name that would be more significant to us personally than any Bastian could have given; especially considering that is the moment when the Empress is pleading with us, the audience, to use our own imaginations and not to let the magic die.

I felt the same way. Like "Wait, what does Fight Club have to do with anything?" And then I realized that Amy and April consider them both films about masculinity, or just "male-ness" in some way. I actually think Fight Club is the very rare instance of the movie being a little better than the book, but I don't think either one belongs in the canon.

Ellis was on Maron, and Maron asked him if Bateman really did any of it. Ellis said "I don't know."

Also not to mansplain here, but American Psycho was most definitely a musical on broadway that recently ended its run: https://www.broadway.com/shows/american-psycho/

This is a yes vote for me. I admit that toward the beginning of the show I started to get a little impatient with the way Amy and April were describing what the male characters are "really" saying and how it's really the same thing that Bateman is saying, and I was thinking "Oh here we go, another episode where two women talk about how men are basically the worst." But as the discussion went on, I thought about how this film was written by a woman, and directed by another woman, and how it makes sense that female viewers might pick up on subtleties that I as a man would miss. Or as April described it as an instructional film that illustrates how women are sometimes made to feel, it made me realize that perhaps I've just never had to think about things from that angle because as a straight white guy I have the luxury of ignoring it if I want to. This episode, like The Brood, made me want to dig out my DVDs of both films and watch them; and I think I will have to do that very soon.

So...about the hot pepper/pogo stick guy: I'm going to get pedantic for a second. First off, it was a nerdy white guy. He was on Jenny Jones or Ricki Lake because he had set the most records in the Guinness book. That was his whole deal, he was obsessed with the Guinness book. One of the records had involved a pogo stick. Also it wasn't "mind over matter" exactly, so much as "you can accomplish anything if you set your mind to it," which was why he loved the book so much. Even nerdy white guys could do useless crap and get into a book. Well at some point he popped the hottest pepper into his mouth and Jenny is like "You're just eating that???" and he's all "I've had hotter," with a big smirk on his face. A little while later, the camera cut back to him and his eyes were watering and he was really in a bad way. I remember he wiped his nose and a HUGE glob of snot came out. So they spirit him away backstage, and after the commercial break he comes hopping back onto the stage on a pogo stick and explained that he had gotten some of the oil from the pepper in his eye. I do not remember him crashing through any glass table, I think the John might be conflating that detail with something else.

The first one is definitely Canon worthy. When my wife and I throw one on a lot of times we put in part 2 just because it has more thrills and spills, but it's a more frivolous movie. I understand wanting to take the trilogy as a whole but when the first one was such a complete film and the other two were retrofitted onto it, I don't feel like it necessary. It's Part One only, for me.

I searched and didn't see a separate topic for it. I know Tobe Hopper just passed, so what better way to honor him than contemplating exactly what him and Robert Englund were thinking when they made this batshit crazy hunk of crap. Ted Lavine (Buffalo Bill) turns in a pretty entertaining performance as a good cop.

You MUST do this coocoo bananas, terrible horror movie for Halloween.

Kevin Thompson [Ali Gator] was on an episode of I Was There Too for Return of the Jedi, in which he played an Ewok. http://www.earwolf.com/episode/return-of-the-jedi-with-kevin-thompson/

Right. In the moment I took Quiff City to mean P**sy City, or "the place where the hot girls are."

I thought it was a lot of fun back when it came out, and I was not a Spice Girls fan.

To my ears, Skank is not referring to the swimming hole as "Queef City," but Quiff City. My hunch is that the writers confused the word quiff which is a pompadour-like hairstyle popularized by Smiths singer Morrissey, with quim which is British slang for ladyparts. That or it was their sly way of calling Morrissey a pussy.

All I will say is until you are married with kids yourself, you have no idea what people who are married with kids go through.

Inland Empire had a similar screen. I didn't actually follow the instructions because I have THX blue filter glasses and several of my DVDs have calibration screens that allow you to properly adjust brightness, color, tint, and contrast. I know Lynch likes things to fall off into darkness on the screen. That being said, the only way I've ever seen Eraserhead is on a bootleg VHS I bought off the internet as a teenager. it's widescreen but it has Japanese subtitles. So take my opinion for what it's worth.

All the episodes, like the whole new season? Or just the ones that have been released so far? And thanks!!!\ "You've got to swing your hips now." *snap

DANG IT! I don't have Showtime!!!! Also while Inland Empire is far from perfect, it's the one that made an official Laura Dern fan out of me. edit: I ended up voting for Eraserhead. While Blue Velvet is probably the superior film, Eraserhead is the most distilled Lynch we've yet seen. It's like Lynch concentrate. Also, it seemed like Blue Velvet was winning and I feel like Eraserhead deserves some points for cultural relevance.

That's the year I was born...

I've forgotten how to do the spoiler thing but spoilers for The Wraith: Anybody else think they revealed Charlie Sheen as The Wraith like WAY too early? They could have drawn it out a lot longer, showed little clues like the scars on his back, but wait until at least the end of act two to confirm it?

Also on Blue Velvet being full of classic noir tropes, the scene that was described by the hosts as one of the most difficult in the movie where Dorothy finds Jeffrey peeping in her closet is also a fairly standard fetish story. One needn't look too hard to find many examples of fetish literature told from the POV of a voyeur who is discovered in their hiding place by the subject of their peeping, are humiliated and made to strip, and in the process the person being peeped at finds themselves intensely aroused by the whole affair and the two of them engage in passionate lovemaking.

I was all set to vote for Blue Velvet, but after hearing the episode I don't know how I'm going to vote yet. i will however offer a few tidbits by way of Lynch geeking out: When you look at it, Blue Velvet is almost as steeped in the Wizard of Oz as Wild at Heart is. Rossellini's character's name is pretty obvious (Dorothy), but consider a few other links. View Frank Booth as the Wicked Witch with Brad Douriff and Jack Nance as his flying monkeys. Ben, smoking and illuminated from underneath with a work light, represents The Wizard. Dorothy's kept relic of her kidnapped child is a pointy cone-shaped hat that resembles the one worn by The Tin Man. The ear, removed from her husband, could be related to the Tin Woodsman's origin story [kept accidentally cutting parts of his body off and replacing them with tin until the entire man is made of tin]. There are many others, but I'll let you examine them for yourself. I just can't decide how Kyle MacLachlan would figure into the metaphor. Would he be Toto? A lot of what Amy said about post pardum depression in fathers really struck a chord with me. I'd never really researched the subject myself, but I went through some very heavy depression after my first child was born. It felt very validating hearing someone say that.

While I don't like hearing it either and find it gross, to be fair Paul did say he wanted more calls like that after the first one.

The Wraith is on regular Netflix streaming.

This is a yes for me. Not a lot to say that hasn't already been covered. I will have more to say next week about why Blue Velvet deserves canonization over Eraserhead.