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Another thought exercise on this movie -If this technology were real, it would quickly become a service style business model. People living in 2009 (or whenever the technology became available) could now retrieve any person from the past right at the moment of their deaths - particularly people who have died unexpectedly from freak accidents or homicides. There would be intense demand for this. Aside from the "Freejacking" (placing one person's consciousness into another person's body) the retrieval of a person right before their death would be a major river of money ALL ON ITS OWN. It would and could eventually be used within hours or minutes of when the person was killed. Fatal car accident this morning? Bring the guy back by night and he continues with his life as if nothing happened. (Is there a Black Mirror like this?) I guess rather than a business it would probably be co-opted by the medical field and would be a fucking MARVEL of modern "medicine."

Yes, the opressive machine of institutionalized schooling. This is supported by the teacher ridiculing Pink’s poetry (I.e. the lyrics to Money from Dark Side. )

And of course, if you need a Pink Floyd concept movie - this is always the better choice. Great Gig in the Sky played over the tornado scene, IMO, is one of the most beautiful things out there.

And of course The Wall is also about Syd Barrett, one of their original members who went crazy. Pink Floyd: no other famous rock band ever made so much famous music about being a famous rock band.

Re Hammers: Hammers are tools of construction and destruction. The hammers represent Pink's ability to build the wall and destroy it. Re Pink the Nazi leader: This is a large rif on a thing that happened to Roger Waters. He found himself so disgusted with an overzealous fan that he spit in the guy's face and instantly felt like a nazi asshole. I think it's also supposed to be tied into the WWII imagery that is used throughout. Pink's whole life trajectory was changed due to, well, Hitler... and here he is metaphorically becoming him. Re Fantasy after Comfortably numb: The album has 2 sides. The first should be taken literally, and the second should not. The wall is built by the time we get to "Hey you" in the album - I think it's by the end of the last Brick in the wall reprise in the movie? The wall is built, and now we are inside Pink's mind/soul. Re Pink Floyd Fan: I am an enormous Floyd fan, before and after I was friends with Maryjane (IFYAKNOWWHATIMEAN... how could you not?) I find their music beautiful, sludgy, hard, dark, and dreamy... and all the concept stuff makes it extra meaningful for me. The Wall is a harder album to grab onto fer sure, the easiest "in" is Dark Side of the Moon which means a great deal to me. Wish You were Here, Meddle, and Animals are all just good fucking music. The Wall is most definitely Floyd's most concepty album... It is also Roger Water's opus as he still performs a stage version, but now with more Trump like themes I'm pretty sure.

Dude... Chopping MAL. You weren't far off. But of course we would need to go back in time and get Young NC to play him. He would do it if we somehow combined it with stealing the constitution.

I took my little Christian mother to see Knocked Up in the theatre... I didn’t realize it was Judd Apatow for whatever it’s worth. When the movie opened to the sound of bong hits and ODB I knew I had made it horrible terrible mistake.

Anyone surprised that Franco didn’t get nominated? A lot of people seemed to think he would, regardless of his recent controversies.

Absolutely. The comedy being peppered with a few creepy/disturbing/horror moments is one of the reasons it is such a great movie. Speaking of What We Do In The Shadows - now that's a movie that understands how to build some werewolf lore and draw the dividing line between werewolves and vampires.

And some of them are just bad at it.

Paul - you are one classy motherfucker and a great friend to come on here and address us directly, stand up for Tig, and speak your mind. MAD love.

Re Tig: I'll say this. She didn't seem into it and I think that's a shame also IMO Jason seemed to be annoyed by her blasé demeanor. I could care less if she slept through it, it's that she just didn't seem like she wanted to be there I guess? That being said - I certainly chuckled at her a few times and any episode of How Did This Get Made is better than no episodes AND the worst episodes of HDTGM are better than the best episode of most podcasts. Moving on. I wanted to add a semi omission: Paul mentioned that the film was partially filmed in Czechoslovakia - which of course is now the Czech Republic. I have had the great privilege of visiting its amazing capital City, Prague, a few times. Czechoslovakia had a peaceful revolution in 1989, so after that pretty much any movie that is supposed to look like Eastern Europe or a former Soviet country was filmed there. It's kind of funny then that Christopher Lee tells Ben he has to go to Transylvania and then *BOOM* it is a shot of Prague's extremely famous astronomical clock in their Old Town Square. It's been running since medieval times and is really f*cking cool. It works because of some kind of witchcraft magic (naw... JK... but it does have some kind of really old mechanism obvs.) It's beautiful and I hope everyone gets to see it sometime. Edit: Now that I think about it, It's sad that they didn't just say they needed to go to Prague instead of Transylvania because it is just as creepy and it would differentiate it from f*cking VAMPIRE lore. C'mon people... have some fresh ideas!

Also- Mystery Show from Gimlet. It’s Starlee Kine and she does serious research to solve these little trivial mysteries. It’s amazing and hilarious y’all. I cannot wait for season 2!

I’m late to the game, but I think LLL is on Tubi for free.

Yep... it was the Winnebago, I think. Did they all get picked off?

He “chose her” to be the caretaker of the baby... whatever the F that means!

Unless something changes, I'll be present tonight. I haven't seen this fine film so it will be a treat.

And these guys... ya hosers.

It's probably not worth it, unless you are just wanting to get a complete understanding of how they adapted it. I worked on a production of LLL many years ago. If I remember correctly, the prince has banished women from his kingdom, but then a princess and her ladies show up and want to hang... there's love letters and identity mix ups... There's a play within a play and at some point the Prince and his bros dress up like Russians in a hilarious ruse to observe the women... which the ladies figure out pretty quickly. The production I worked on was pretty delightful... set in the '20s and everyone looked like silent movie actors.

It would be fun to try to put that one together... it has to be that or it's just a testament to how badly written and cheaply made this movie is (I'm voting the latter.) It honestly makes no sense that when we cut to Preston's house that Wills is just taking it easy in the corner. They work in the city and so they would have had to make a concerted effort to get to the house in the suburbs. After a full day of putting up with Balki's ridiculous behavior you would think that Will's would be desperate to get a drink at a bar or go back to his sad bachelor pad and rub one out. Spending day AND night with your coworkers is an introvert's nightmare. Hmmm... I wonder what Will's is on the Myers/Briggs scale? Ha ha!

*** Has anyone else noticed that the three guys (Wills, Bobby, and Preston) are always together? Besides the sequence when Wills plays golf with the cardinals, they are barely a room away from each other. Particularly when they are together at Preston's house after work, late at night, and several other scenes. Does Will's live there? We know that Bobby lives with Preston and his wife, but you'd think a guy like Wills would need to have a private place to go to at night...Ifyaknowwhatimean.

Laroquette is tall with boyish charms... he's a lovable scamp. He kind of looks like a teddy bear and he's likable. It's such a strange and almost arrogant monologue. I wonder if he would have done that monologue if he had known it would be the only time he would ever be the host of SNL. You can tell, he - a man who is ultimately The Dexy's Midnight Runners of actors - takes this shit REALLY seriously.

Well... there's a difference between being sexy and being horny maybe? 80s Sitcoms have a great tradition of characters who were horny AF, and Dan Fielding is a great example. There was Sam Malone, Blanche Devereaux, Mona on Who's the Boss, David Leisure's character on Empty Nest... I'm sure there's more. Are these characters sex symbols or just lusty bastards? Does acting horny make you sexy?

Wow you guys... I mean... Please just watch the the first minute of this if you can. It's when Pinchot hosted fucking Saturday Night Live. The whole thing has to be the worst monologue I have ever seen on this show and that's saying something. https://www.nbc.com/...monologue/n9536