Encino Man (1992)

[HipGuide 196]

This is definitely HDTGM-able, correct?

[Brockodile 0]

I watched it today for the first time in a long time. It is for sure HDTGM material.

[Bob Drillboids 181]

Awesome suggestion. Despite loving this movie when I was in fifth grade and seeing it twice in the theaters, I had completely forgotten about it. I also think it's amazing that in the UK they changed the name to "California Man."

[MarleeYule 6]

I came looking here specifically for this movie, it's one of my absolute favourite bad movies. Pauly Shore, Sean Astin and Brendan Fraser in a high school hi-jinx prehistoric comedy?? YES PLEASE

[jarrycanada 2483]

Don't see any reason why they can't get Pauly Shore to guest star on the podcast. he's doing hawaii five'o now along with john lovett's. I wish I was joking here. Mind you, would you really want them on even if they could get them on.

[Bugs Meany 69]

I also think it's amazing that in the UK they changed the name to "California Man."

It is a weird title if you think about it. We lived in LA when I was a kid so I understood it, but were non-locals expected to know where Encino was? Or that it was a place, not an adjective in Spanish? Burbank, which has Disney HQ and an airport, has more name recognition. What's in Encino?

[MarleeYule 6]

It is a weird title if you think about it. We lived in LA when I was a kid so I understood it, but were non-locals expected to know where Encino was? Or that it was a place, not an adjective in Spanish? Burbank, which has Disney HQ and an airport, has more name recognition. What's in Encino?

I think I thought when I was a kid that Encino was kind of like Jurassic, like a time period in history. I couldn't believe when I found out that it's literally just a neighbourhood in California. Makes absolutely no sense.

[MarcNado 28]

Classic movie gold love this film

[RussellCarey 0]

Encino Man

 

One of my all-time favorite bad movies. I bought the guitar sheet music because of the sweet sweet 90's electric guitar licks. I didn't know what era I lived in until the movie's tagline informed me that this was when the "Stone Age Meets the Rock Age" Here's your pitch meeting:

• Brendan Fraser + Pauly Shore + Sean Astin = Top-level talent
  
• Pauly Shore makes noises and wears mesh shirts
  
• Produced the dance craze the "Monkey/Encino Man"
  
• Basically the same movie as "Earth Girls Are Easy"
  
• Funk-metal supergroup the Infectious Grooves as themselves, including Metallica's Robert Trujillo, playing a high school prom
  
• Caveman + High School + Homemade Pool = Prom Party
  
• Driving a car on two wheels
  
• Objectified women and racial/ethnic stereotypes
  
• The villain is more relatable than the main character
  
• The caveman is more relatable than the main character
  
• BONUS: You can talk about how different this movie would have been if Nicolas Cage (who was in consideration) had been the caveman instead
  

[Lando 2019]

To be fair, this along with Airheads are probably Brendan Fraser's most watchable movies.

[mrrichardson 5]

To be fair, this along with Airheads are probably Brendan Fraser's most watchable movies.

Have you ever watched 'The Quiet American'? Brendan Frazier actually plays a serious role and he does fantastic in it, very surprisingly. It's a great movie.

 

Anyways, on to the suggestion topic, I would also like to see this get made into a HDTGM episode... HDTGM should most certainly do at least one Pauly Shore movie.

[wyldride 285]

I think I thought when I was a kid that Encino was kind of like Jurassic, like a time period in history. I couldn't believe when I found out that it's literally just a neighbourhood in California. Makes absolutely no sense.

Right, but that's how they name them. Neanderthal is also named after a place. They are named after their place of first discovery. The joke is how pedestrian a place it is to make such a discovery.