Most Underrated 80s Movies & TV Shows, Ranked

Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. As always, I have the boys with me today, Kevin, Mark, and Dongo. What's up, Bastages? How's it going? Oh, eight. Awesome. Awesome. And I'm AJ. And what we are gonna do today, we are gonna do our seven most underrated movies slash shows. Underrated is the only way I can think to word it, yes? Yeah, maybe. Sounds good to me. Yes. Perfect. Um, as always, what we like to do before we get underway is give a shout out as we're getting some new listeners from around the globe. Kevin, if you may.

Uh yes, I'd like to welcome our new listeners in Goldthwaite, Texas. Shellerin, Zurich. Uh if I might have said that anywhere close to what it's supposed to sound like. Cardiff, Wales, and Rutherford, New Jersey. Welcome all. Thanks for listening.

Yes, Rutherford. Rutherford.

Rutherford. Now I've always heard of East Rutherford, New Jersey. I didn't even know there was trying to make sense that there would be a regular Rutherford.

Is there a North, South, or I don't know.

West Rutherford. I don't know. Always like with the Virginias, I always found that to be creative. What's your name? Virginia? Well, we'll be West Virginia then.

What's your daughter's name? West Virginia. Yeah. Uh, too funny. I I got a squeak kiss in, as always. Saw them in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Oh, you didn't there we go. Got it in. Awesome, boys. Well, anyway, as always, we like to get right underway with the subject. And Dongo, you have the on hairs today. If you want to bang it right out, it's you. Sure.

But I'll I will do a little pre pretext to the topic. And of course, this is very subjective, so it may not be quote unquote. There is no definition of underrated. It is a very subjective term. Um, it could be something that did poorly in the box office, but then maybe later in its uh existence gained popularity, maybe cult classic type of things. Um, it also could be something that you just personally didn't feel got the accolades that it should. You know, we'll we'll start there. And my first pick is one that is kind of way out, I believe, in left field. But it was a movie that really, to me, was kind of I thought it was an incredible drama. And it was the Spitfire Grill 1996, and it's it's it's just a you know, melodrama, I believe they classify it as, where it's a young, young girl, her name is uh Alison Elliott is the actress, and she plays uh Percy Talbot, who is just a young woman who's just released from prison. It's staged in New England, which I like. You know, it's in like a main town that it borders New Hampshire.

Love that.

And it's uh it's got uh Will Patton in it. He was on uh what was that, Armageddon? He was popular in that movie. Excellent actor, and it's just a great movie. You know, it's a tearjerker and and one that I felt uh should have gotten more uh acclaim. It it it didn't do well critically, and it didn't I don't believe it did well in the box office either, but uh it's a great movie if someone's in for a you know a rainy Sunday afternoon, want to watch a drama.

I don't know that I've seen it.

Yeah, I've heard of it though.

Yeah.

Do you think it had anything to do with the menu with this uh what is it? The spit Spitfire Grill. Spitfire grill. What do they have on the menu? I mean, I don't know if that had anything to do with a poor review.

It's like a diner, and it's in Gilead, uh Maine, which borders New Hampshire. I've never been up in that neck of the woods.

Larry was attempting a joke, but Donnie's serious here, Mark. Yes, no, I know.

I'm I'm serious about, I mean, is Gilead a fictional town like Collinsport, Maine?

Oh well, gotcha. Like Castle. I don't know.

I'd have to Google it real quick, but I believe I've looked it up in the past, and I believe it is a town that is on the board of story, or is it is it based on a true story?

No.

There is a bombing killing to heal the worry, soul. There is a bombing killing to make the wonder.

There is indeed a Gilead Maine. It's in Oxford County.

Yeah, okay. Where we saw Monsters of Rock.

We kind of saw Monsters of Rock.

We tie it all in here, boys.

It always goes back to Monsters of Rock when I die. The most miserable experience of my life. Oh, horrible, horribly disappointing. But I will say that I agree with Mark on that one. You know, um, I'm not saying I'm an expert, but 40 some odd years in the food service industry, having spit in the name of your restaurant is maybe not even a spitfire.

My mind was right there. Yeah.

Well, the term used for the Spitfire uh airplane that was uh in World War II. Yeah. Gotcha.

Okay. Yeah. And you can call somebody a Spitfire. Whatever good energy, feisty, or yeah, yeah. I get that. It's just, you know, again, right. The etymology is there, but just using the word spit when you're talking about food as well.

I mean, I love dried beef gravy on toast, but I'm not putting shit on a shingle on my menu. Yeah, exactly. Right? Right, right. Awesome pick though, Donnie. Um, definitely would consider that underrated for sure. And that you sit mentioned something about, you know, maybe it's a cult classic. And I feel like a lot of these movies are might be those, you know. Yeah. I think a lot of our subjects, not a lot of them, but some of our subjects are gonna share certain things, you know.

But yeah, but yeah, that was probably more personal to me than any type of cult classic type of thing.

But yeah, that's what matters, man.

Yep. Awesome, Kev. That's to you. All right. So, yes, I agree with with Dongo that um, you know, I think a lot of my picks are gonna be things that came out in the theater and then didn't really get their due until either television or replays or video, which brings me to my first pick, which was released on 88 screens. I don't know why. There was money in this. It starred uh it starred the MS4 Turbo Interceptor and starred Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, the good-looking Howard brother. It was called the Wraith. And part of the problem might have been that Wraith, meaning a ghost or spirit, when you're talking about a movie that has car races in it, might have confused, might have confused people. The movie called The Wraith. Are they Wafing?

So can you spell the title, please?

It is W-R-A-I-T-H.

I I hear race, but it's Wraith. Yes. With a bad lift.

An evil spirit, and it ain't cool.

Yes, yeah. Um, so the the bad guy or the bad guys, Packard is the is the bad guy. He's played by Nick Cassavetes, who is John Cassavetti's son, who you would probably remember from The Dirty Dozen. Victor Franco, I think, if you if you recall that, another classic movie. But so it was a experimental car, and it was so cool, and of course, the exhaust sounded wild, and it was uh actually created in 81, even though the movie came out in 86. Uh, it was a pace car in the Indy 500, but it was a mid-engine four-cylinder turbo, and it just looked well beyond anything else that was out at the time. And um, so the bad guys liked to meet people on dark roads at night and race them for pink slips.

There's a kid out there using his car to kill people. Not that it's such a big deal since it seems to be your gang has got it in for the rape. If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear.

And basically steal their cars illegally. And there's uh a flashback to a murder, and Charlie Sheen shows up. Um, Sherolyn Fenn awkwardly shows her boob. So those are the high points of the movie. But like I said, Clint Howard was fantastic as rug head. He was like the tech guy, and it was just it's you got skank and gutter boy. Nice, great games. Skank is chugging like hydraulic fluid throughout the whole thing, sniffing WD-40. I mean, it was really it was like uh 80s kind of punk culture off the wall, but it had a fantastic soundtrack. There had to have been money behind it. Right. I don't know why it had such limited release. Um, a lot of songs that were really popular at that time.

So I just it's never heard of cool. What's that? I said I've never heard of it, so clearly underrated.

I thought we talked about it, AJ. Well that I guess it would be underrated if you're not going to be able to do it. I don't know. I honestly thought that it would be a pick that you'd be pissed at me for taking.

No, it's but I did want to say one thing about it, and don't quote me on this because I may be getting the name wrong. But they did a a show, had like two or three seasons, I think, on television not long ago, Nosferatu. But it was like the letters and numbers right, yeah. But for the car that Noseferatu drove was called the Wraith. Oh, interesting. There we go. That's pretty dark.

So absolutely. But if you haven't seen the movie, I mean it's this is this is not the Godfather, this is not Gone with the Wind. This is a very fun 80s movie. You know, uh the consistencies, I think I want to say it was on um Amazon Prime.

I think that's oh, so you can get it, you think?

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's it's it's it's definitely available for for no cost at all. So you can you can check it out. Or well, I mean, no cost if you have a subscription to whatever, but it's not it's not one of the ones. Like a lot of these movies, you look them up and they're like, oh yeah, it's on Apple TV and this streamer and that streamer.

Couldn't even watch the Clinching game last night because it was on Apple TV. 90% of Red Sox fans. Oh, not much, yeah.

Yeah, that's a whole subject there, too. I can't find a football game sometimes. I'm like, where who what unbelievable?

Supposedly you're supposed to be able to just put up an antenna and get it free. I mean, for your local, but right.

Yeah, well, this wasn't local.

Unbelievable. Was it the Red Sox?

It was the Red Sox. They clinched a playoff berth last night.

Well, how could that not be local?

That's because Apple TV had a a streaming contract with uh Major League Baseball. Way to go, Major League Baseball. Piss off your most loyal fans.

All right. Well, that was a great pick, Kev, for sure. Thanks. I'm gonna definitely check it out.

Absolutely. I I again I'm stunned. I thought we had talked about it, AJ. I really thought we'd be able to do it. I was waiting for you to like grunt and get mad at you for stealing it.

And Mark, before I go to you, the song, I think you might be thinking of the writ, the black.

I'm sorry, you're right, you got it.

Awesome.

Well, take it away, then, brother. Just an A and an H. All right. Well, oh boy. I'm going with uh Quantum Leap.

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime. Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change in history for the better. His only guide on this journey is a map, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself deep in light life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next week will be the becoming.

Which ran from March 26, 1989, all the way to well, not all the way, it's not that long. May 5th, uh, 1993. This obviously starred Scott Bekula. Bacula. No, Bekula is how you produce it. Really? Yes, it is. I looked it up. Well, actually, while I was yeah. So it was just a fun show. I mean, you had uh um well, he played Dr. Sam Becker, but you had uh Al Calavici. He was the hologram from the future. Yeah, he was awesome. He was great, and uh, you know, he would just go to right wrongs in all these people's lives, and he would look in the mirror and see what he actually looked like, and he'd go, Oh boy. I'm retarded. And it was always different, different time periods. It was really cool. In fact, one of the episodes I I actually watched the other night, I think it was episode three on season one. There's a girl named Terry Hatcher who played uh Donna Elise. And I like oh my god. She's my age. She's born in 1964, which would make her an air. Um she'll be 61 very soon, this December. And she was wearing a you know, a nice little sleeveless halter top with a gorgeous skirt on. She had the most the cutest smoke.

Oh my god. Mark, do you need a minute? We can pause. Like a roof.

Oh, she was brunette, you know. I just wow. Wow, wow, wow. But no, this this show was a lot of fun. I used to watch it every week.

Awesome.

And um I think it's underrated because because of I mean, not totally, but I think Yeah, like say subject subjective video.

You can definitely get the accolades it it deserves. Right. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, and it was just it was a lot of fun. Oh, I love that show. He was just fun. He reminds me of a little bit, Honey.

Wasn't Terry Hatcher on one of the Superman shows? Yes, yes. I think that was her biggest, yeah, yeah, biggest thing. But yes, I definitely remember from Seinfeld as well. But yeah, that was a great show. I've actually been watching a few episodes of it recently because it's still it still holds up. Oh, absolutely. It's still a great concept. Yeah, yeah. He's got to set something right to and then it always I love the way it always ended with him flipping or whatever it was and transporting to the next place. So you're always like, you would see what he looked like in the next episode. Right. You're like, oh, what the hell is this gonna do? Prep yourself.

Was he a woman?

He was in one episode where he was in a band like Kiss. Nice, yeah. Yeah, so I remember this little blurb. So yeah, that's what I had for my uh you know, number seven pick. There, I mean, coming up with the order was kind of a semantics kind of thing.

Awesome.

Nice call.

Yes, indeed. Thank you, huh? Great show. All right, so seven and me. Let me see here. This is the one where I would say the only one on my list that is subjective, like we said. Um, and it's my also not necessarily my least nostalgic, but it's I mean, it's the newest one on my list as well, and it's from 1996. It's a movie called Sleepers. The reason you would think it's not underrated is it had such an ensemble cast in it. I mean, De Niro's in it, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, uh, Jason Patrick. Uh I'm I'm forgetting a ton of them, but it's just fucking incredible. And it's um they're Hell's Kitchen Boys, uh, four best friends from New York. They're probably, you know, never heard of any of them, but early teens. Early teens, they they commit this crime and get sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys. Yes, that is a great movie. Yeah, the Wilkinson Home for Boys, you see. Yeah, it's like a juvenile, you know, pr you know, whatever you call it back then. Reform school, YDC. YDC basically jail for kids. Of oh, Kevin Bacon's another one in it. Yes, you know, and he's one of the prison guards, and these boys are taken advantage of terribly, I mean, raped, beaten. It's it's brutal, and it's a great scheme they come up with later in a court case as uh two of the boys wind up killing Kevin Bacon, the guard. It's a it's an awesome movie, and it definitely did not do that great, and isn't it's forgotten, in my opinion.

That is a fantastic movie.

That that might be my only that's the only one I think that Mini Driver, Billy Crutup, Ron L.

Dar.

Yes. There's some title. The lawyer who was also in the youth detention center is the lawyer represent he's either the prosecutor. Oh, no, that's Brad Pitt. That's Brad Pitt.

He's one of the four boys. Which I can I ask a question quick.

I'm sorry. That so this is based on what they were in uh YDC, if you will, back years before. And then well, yes, yes.

When they become adults, they see the guard and kill him. Yes, correct.

Okay, but I I did not get that part.

There is one thing though that kind of bothered me about the movie, and that's that Brad Brad Pitts, the prosecutor, the guard they interview, you know, they they actually call him out for being a pedophile on the stand. Yeah, like how did they never look in and be like, you know, I recognize this guy, he's one of the kids. They're they're setting me up here, you know what I mean? But right, yeah, figure it out. Anyway, it's just amazing. Dustin Hoffman's hilarious in it. He's like a dumb, drunk, druggie lawyer, and can't, you know, he steps on his own feet the whole time.

But is it dark comedy in any way, or is it no god no?

It's no deep.

It's like real. Sleepers. Sleepers. You gotta watch it, Mark. It's a great movie. There was one scene that we used to repeat a lot when we were kids, and it's probably the only happy time of their life. It's before they got in trouble, and they're like tanning on the roof. Yeah, hey, I'm trying to catch my burn.

You guys shut off the reason trying to get my burn. It's 93, Jones.

You remember my bird. Yeah, hey, I'm trying to catch it. They're all oiled up.

Yeah, yeah. Great movie, though.

You gotta like their age of innocence before everything went to hell for them. Yeah.

And the way Hell's Kitchen, like, uh, is so tight.

You want a Ross Royce? You don't come here. No, no. You go to England or wherever the fuck they make it. If you want champagne, you go see the French. If you need money, you find a Jew. But if you want dirt or scum buried under a rock somewhere, or some secret nobody wants anybody to know about, there's only one place to go. Right here. Hell's Kitchen. It is the lost and found of shit. They lose it and we find it. Forget about it, man.

Like all the you know, adults, everyone's involved in this, like the you know, the crime boss, and you know, they all help set it up. It's fucking awesome. They're tight, no rats, just great. All right, I will shut up now, Dongo, and go to you for number six.

Cool. My number six, um, again, is one that I liked, but a lot of people didn't, and it's called Purple Hearts. It was a um war movie, but it was also like a romance, but uh had a lot of it was set in Vietnam, and it's got uh there's multiple movies by this name. So this one was the 1984 Purple Hearts, and it stars Ken Wall and Cheryl Ladd. Ooh, really. So Ken Wall, he you know, you'd recognize his face, he was in a lot of the wise guy movies, you know. Gunny, everybody knows Gunny from from uh Full Metal Jacket Arlie uh Kirmery. You know, he's in this movie, you know, because he plays that Marine so perfectly, and it had a lot of cool uh Vietnam war scenes. So he um Ken Wall is a doctor in Vietnam, and he he meets uh Uh Cheryl Ladd, who's a nurse, and they have a little brief romance. But then you know, he goes to like different battle scenes and stuff. And I think the battle scenes are really good. Like if you like war movies, it had some really cool war movie scenes. And uh you know, there was like a part where he gets like um he's part of a like a SEAL team that goes to try to rescue prisoners in a POW camp. Uh so there's there's a lot of cool action scenes in it too. Uh it just didn't, it wasn't, didn't get received very well, but I think it's a good movie.

Awesome. I this that's the third pick so far that I haven't seen. So I'm gonna have quite a while. Same here.

The only one I've seen so far is the one I picked.

I haven't even seen the ones I picked.

All right, good pick, though, Don. Yeah.

Yeah awesome, Cav. So do you. All right. I'm gonna go back into television with just it still holds up today, and there's no reason why it was canceled. It's police squad.

The girls from the typing pool will be there when the producers of the hit comedy movie Airplane crash onto television with police squads. Is this some kind of thrust?

Yes, it's very impressive, but we'd just like to ask a few questions.

Well, come on in.

And meet the new read of cops stepping into the 80s. Why don't you run along now, Katie?

And next week I'll show you why women can't play professional football.

Leslie Nielsen is a detective on his way up in Police Squad. Coming Thursday at 8-7 Central Mountain.

Here on ABC.

It was it it was so so the story behind it was after Abrams Zucker and Abrams did Airplane, they realized they really liked working with Leslie Nielsen because obviously that combination worked. So they wanted to make a movie based on Lee Marvin's TV show M Squad, but uh they didn't have like a fleshed out enough concept. So Michael Eisner, who was I believe, at ABC at the time, was like, Well, I'll get you a TV show, a six program deal. So they shot six programs, and then they canceled it after four of them, which is just mind-blowing to me, because it was that humor was so spectacular. We we love it, and I think a lot of people do. Um you got a little something on your face. Cigarette, yes, I know those all those gags, the sight gags, they're walking in, they're walking into a murder scene, and the orderlies are pulling out uh a stretcher and it's covered, and the stretcher just goes on and on and on, and then they do the interior shot, and the stretcher's still coming from the back. So it's like there could have been 40 people on the stretcher, and you have no idea.

Or a really tall person.

Exactly. Exactly. So I think ABC's ABC's excuse for canceling it was that I'm trying to see how they put it, was something like it was too hard for people to think about the jokes, and that's why they canceled it. And somebody responded with that's the dumbest reason to cancel a show ever given.

Yeah, in other words, people are too stupid to get it. Exactly.

That's basically what they were saying, absolutely. Um back in the day, back in the early ones, because that didn't become naked gun until years later. Um, obviously, um George Kennedy came in as the captain, uh OJ came in as Nordberg. It was originally um Peter Lupus was Norberg. So there's a huge change right there. They did a lot of rewrites going from from a tall white guy to OJ, OJ, adding a D to his name, so major, major rewrites, and then just specially for you, Mark, because I know you love this and you might remember it. 1994 WWE SummerSlam.

WWF at the time.

What's that?

K Fabe was not broken yet. That was WWF. Okay, go on.

Right. So they did TV promos, and George Kennedy and Leslie Nielsen actually were there, and they were the whole thing was they were supposed to the Undertaker was missing, and they were trying to find the Undertaker.

Organization, discipline, intelligence. But the most important thing of all is uh yeah, Domino's, send it right up. The most important thing of all is never go to work on an empty stomach. No, where'd I put my pin?

Yes, pizza. Put it on the desk.

Oh, it suddenly gets colder out here. The girls were feeling macho.

Macho, man, you're so big.

Easy now, girls. It's family entertainment. Yeah. I had work to do. I was scanning around the globe for clues to the biggest mystery of our time.

And he was like right behind them, and he was like, I think he delivered a pizza in the ad or something like that. Just showing how doofy they were, but I thought you liked that little WWE tie-in there.

Nice. All right, brother, to you. Come out and play, Warriors. Come out and play. All right. This movie came out uh February 9th, 1979. I think it might have had a lot to do with that inspired the uh gang wars up in uh Littleton, specifically the borough of Apthorpe against Whitefield. But I I won't get into that. I mean, this is a little emotional for me because it the it was really rough time in my life. But anyway, the move the the acting is some of it's a lot to be desired on this movie, but it was just it was just fun. I mean, you know, you had the the baseball furries going around with bats. I think they were mimes. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, you had the Lizzy's, the orphans, which uh anyway, so basically it's uh at the beginning of the movie, there's all the gangs are meeting and they want to take over the city. Uh the the leader that was speaking, which was uh Cyrus, I believe. Cyrus. Cyrus, he ends up getting murdered.

You dig it.

Yeah. And they tried to blame it on the on the Warriors. And as a matter of fact, uh Clean was the Warriors, uh was the leader at the time, and he was killed, and uh Swan takes over, and you know, there's a guy, one of the Warriors, that actually uh reminds me a little bit of Paul Stanley. He has actually turns out to be the gay guy. Surprise. Yeah. But I mean, because he went when they were with the Lizzy's, they the Lizzies were setting them up and everything. Anyway, so a lot of different gangs in it, and you know, you had the punks. Incredible movie. One of the things I wanted to say, and I'll bring it up in a different movie, is forgive me, people, but I mean they used the word, are you going all fag on me and everything? That's something you would never hear in a movie now. Of course. Lots of that was back then, they would know I don't know. I mean, the Warriors oh, so can the spoiler alert, do I have to I mean, this is an old movie. It's quite okay in 70s. Okay, the same guy that was trying to go after, you know, pin it on the Warriors was the actual shooter. Of course. Yeah. And it is it's just the pant, of course. Yeah, and you also have the uh, you know, you have the Eagles song in the city. I mean, some of the gangs, I mean, I I guess Ace Really's duckies would have fit right in with some of these guys.

Well, it had Deborah Deborah Van Valkenberg, who was just so sweet, and she was in Streets of Fire and Quantum Leap, as a matter of fact.

Look at that. Okay, was she the girl that she was with the uh orphans and she befriended the warriors? Is that that one? Yes, yes, okay, yeah. Awesome.

And she was she was in a lot of stuff in that era, but yeah, that's definitely like you did in the beginning. The warriors come out and play, is is that's everybody, everybody it's known refers to that.

It's great.

And the great part of that is is that the director was kind of at a loss, and he told the actor, he's like, just do something, come up with something. So he walked down to the beach and he found these empty bottles, and he just started clinking it together and doing it was something from his childhood, I think, and he just kind of improvised that whole thing, and it's the most memorable part of the whole movie, which is pretty awesome.

Awesome. Luther Luther was the guy from he was the one from the the rogues, and he was the actual murderer, and he seemed about as masculine as uh the guy that played Rembrandt for the Warriors.

Yeah, I wanted to bring him up because I believe, and Donnie's the only one who may get this reference, but he reminded me of Mark Fitzmeier so badly. Which uh Luther? Yes, Luther. I'm pretty sure it's Luther. But anyway, come out and play. Yeah, you'd have to know with the guy, but yeah, someone we used to hang out with, pretty fucking funny.

Awesome pick. He was he was like the bad guy in a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah.

I think he was in a Clint movie once, but uh don't quote me there. Don't know.

Yeah, I almost want to say he was, and maybe I'm just thinking it because his name was Luther, but was he Luther in 48 Hours? Ooh, that I don't know. Sorry about the door and shit. Yeah, that looked real painful.

It looked like it hurt. Awesome. Okay. Number six to me, correct? You are correct, sir. This is 1983. This actor had several movies that were not underrated and shows, but this would be uh Dr. Hafhar.

Dr. Furrier. That's Hofhar. I'm sorry. That's all right. A lot of people mispronounce it, but it sounds just the way it's spelled. H-F-U-H-R-U-H-U-R-R. Hoffar. That's good. You just went a little past it there. Just put the brakes on.

Steve Martin in The Man with Two Brains. Oh, so uh, he's a brain surgeon who invents the cranial screw top, if you will. And anyway, uh it also has Kathleen Turner in it. She gets hit by a car and has to come in for emergency brain surgery, and he falls in love with her. One of the greatest scenes is her tits are out, and he's like, cover that up. Uh just a stupid, stupid movie. Um perfect.

That's right up our rally.

Right. It did not uh have the alkalades like the jerk hat or Roxanne, and it should, because there are just so many funny parts in this. He falls literally falls in love with a brain, and winds up marrying Kathleen Turner, and she's a raging baitoch, and yeah, she ends up getting killed, or I can't remember now, left me. I can't remember if he kills her or not, but puts in a Melma Hayes brain in her, and that's that. But just stupid little clips of it are just you know, he's got a little dancing doll on his dashboard. The the guy in the passenger seat is just like, is that your wife? No, no, that's just a statue of her. You know, dumb shit like that, right? Sweat on upper lip, remove sweat, or get that cat out of here. Yeah, met and bomb scissors.

D UI stop your tests are hard.

The D Wee is all right. Now juggle this, do a tap dance, and sing the Catalina Magdalena Lupensteiner Wallenbeiner song.

God damn, your drunk tests are hard.

Catalina Magdalena Lupastine All right, Joe, not drunk.

Awesome.

Is that the one where he tells the little girl to run to the hospital and he gives her all this medical and she like spits it back at repeats it, per verb yells back at her like when you're a first-year intern, don't you ever talk to me like that again or something?

I want you to do something very important, all right? Okay. I want you to run home and I want you to call the ER of North Bank General Hospital, 932-1000. Tell them to set up OR6 immediately and contact anesthesiologist Isadora Turek, 472-2112-BEEP12. Have them send an ambulance with a paramedic crew, light IV, D5, and WFKVO. You got it?

We are North Bank General Hospital at 931000. OR6 contact, anesthesiologist Isadora Turek, 472-2112-B12, I'm doing paramount and IV D5 and W KVO.

That's good.

Sounds like a subdural hematoma to me.

Oh, it does, does it? Well, it's not your job to diagnose. But I thought You thought, you thought, just go! Three years in nursery school and you think you know it all, but you're still wet behind the ears. It's not a subdural hematoma, it's epidural. Ha! God damn, that makes me mad.

Now, now was put Edwina back in bowl. Yes, yes, back in bowl. That was the why am I thinking Lily Tomlin was you have battering ram?

Uh, you bring back anyway. Great friggin' movie. Oh, that's an awesome movie. Go ahead, Kev. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, no, that's it.

I just all right, Dongo to you. So this one, all right, all right, alright. Didn't do good originally, but later got a lot of fame after, and that's dazed and confused. Incredible.

Alright, alright, alright. Oh gosh. How you doing? Uh pretty good. Cool. You heard about the party being busted, right?

Uh yeah.

Uh not to worry. There's a new fest in the making as we speak. Start at the moontown. Full kegs. Everybody's gonna be there. You oughta go.

Okay.

Uh it was 1993, had an awesome cast, but uh, you know, it when it originally came out, didn't have the popularity, but it just kind of grew into a cult classic teenage, coming of age, um stoner fun movie. I love high school girls.

Yeah. That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

That's what I like about high school girls. I keep getting older and they stay the same rate. And it's that's McConaughey, and McConaughey is like the same dude. Like, isn't he in fucking everything? Yeah, right.

Pretty much he's he's Matthew McConaughey.

But just all the students in that dongo. I mean, it's such a good portrayal of like late 70s. I think it's late 70s, right? Great fucking soundtrack, too. Yeah, yeah.

And I think that that one, I mean, there's there's a lot of teenage movies from that era, but I think that one's pretty accurate to you know what our lives were, at least mine was at that time. We we you know, hanging out somewhere and just driving around. Oh, we do nothing.

It's brutal. Yeah, yeah.

Partying out in the woods. Yeah.

Kind of reminded me, McConaughey's character kind of reminded me of uh you know Paul Doherty, like in the you know, who was you know at every high school party, you know, 10 years old. But way older.

I remember him.

Yeah. So I don't believe he's with us anymore, but he was he was a good guy. Paul was a good guy. He was right, yeah, yeah.

All right, Kev, so to you.

All right, number five.

Yes, yes.

Here is I don't know. This is this is the only one that I really feel could be maybe not underrated by everybody's standards, but it certainly is by mine, and that would be um 1995 to 1999, News Radio was such a great show. It was the vehicle that Phil Hartman was doing full time when when his wife I still, you know, I don't want anybody to kill themselves. I I don't I I hate any of that, but good Lord, woman, couldn't you have just she took herself out afterwards? So you could have skipped and left him for us, right? Exactly. Yeah, taking yourself. I am not trying to be heartless, but he was such a genius, and he was so great in this role as Bill McNeil. And obviously, as the name states, it was a news radio station.

Aren't you worried about losing your job? Why should I have my job secure?

Well, what if they change the format?

Yeah, what if they don't need a news announcer?

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. I have other talents.

W NYX, you're home for the hits in New York City. WNYX, all country on the western all the time. There's W NYX, get in those hits, it's gonna be one of the W. Thank you.

W NYX, okay, okay, you made that one up.

And Dave Foley comes in and he's taking over, um, running the place and trying to get it out of the out of the gutter. Steven Root is awesome as as the owner, the somewhat disconnected millionaire owner, um, who may or may not be aware of what's going on around him. Um Maura Tierney played the Lisa, the female role, um, Dave Foley's love interest, and she was just such a great actress and and such a sweetheart. Um, you had obviously Hartman and Andy Dick, who I'm not a huge fan of, but he was absolutely fantastic in this.

He's randomly good in things. Yeah, yeah.

He played such a good dimwit in this. At one point, he's in the booth, which is in the middle of the stage, in the middle of the where the show goes on. So you can't hear what's in the booth unless the speakers are on. And he's mispronouncing, he's talking about Joey Butafuco. And everybody's like, oh my god. So finally he comes out of the booth and they look at him, they go, It's Butafuko.

Bell. Thank you, Matthew, for that unusual report. W NYX Newstime, 1245.

They didn't kiss.

What's going on, Matthew?

Um, Matthew, I think you mispronounced that guy's name a few times.

What uh it it's Joey Butafo. No, it isn't Matthew. It's um But Foucault. Um what did I say? Matthew, all the possible mispronunciations of that name. You seem to have stumbled upon absolutely the worst one. I don't know what you mean. Think about it.

Matthew, my god, I'm really gonna take a money. We wouldn't be doing a story about Joey, but a foo. Oh my god.

I for one amount. Oh my god, Joe, I'm sorry. I can't believe you pulled it off. I didn't pull anything off. That was a mistake. Joe got it on the tape. We can make puppies. 10, 15 bucks a pumpkin. We'll bang it up with a money. No, no, it's a big market. Two people buy sports bloopers. Oh no, Joe. Don't worry about your cut. I'm breaking up a piece. Just uh keep it up with the mistakes.

Oh, who called first? The FCC or Mr. Bud of Fuco's lawyers. And he's like, oh my god.

So obviously he was mispronouncing that in the worst way of course. And then the other thing that's great about that is Joe Rogan was the handyman. And he was not only Joe Rogan? Yeah, he was like genius level kind of that that guy that could fix anything and always creating something, but he also had a lot of conspiracy theories, which is kind of funny. Surprising. Considering where you know, where Joe is. Now. Yeah. Just very cool. And such a great watchable show. And it was so much fun. And sadly, it made it one season, I think, after we lost Phil. They brought John Lovitz in who and nothing against Lovitz. He's awesome. But it just, I think there was a darkness there from losing Phil. And he just couldn't. There's just people you can't replace.

Even care, not even people, but characters at the same time. You know what I mean? It's right.

But just a just a great fun show, and I never believed that it got the it's just desserts. I always thought it was a fun, fun show.

Awesome pick. And Kevin, uh everyone out there, you ready? I'm about to get berated. I've never seen it. Oh, geez. I need to watch it though. I know it's one of the ones I need to see. But Foley out of Kids in the Hall was definitely like the only one that really, you know, had uh was pretty successful, if you will.

Yeah, he stepped out of kids and and and made it somewhere. Yeah.

A few times. Absolutely.

Yeah. All but oh my god, for and again, kids in the hall. I mean, you and I have talked about that for a million years, and it's just such a great sketch code. There's so many quotable things. And every one of them, even though they didn't have huge Hollywood careers afterwards, every one of those guys was hilarious in their in their own right.

Oh, absolutely.

Well, then again, was it Christopher Um uh no McKinney? He got onto Saturday Night Live and and did a couple of things.

Remember, did a few things, but Foley actually kind of kind of made it, if you will.

Yeah, not to the level that Foley did. No.

All right, brother, number five to you.

All right, well, five. I'm going with Third Rock from the Sun. Um it was uh it aired from January of 96 to May of 2001, but it started in '96. And um, it's just absolute hilarious show. Jonathan Lithgow, did I say it right this time?

You did, you got it.

Yeah, and I and I have picked this in a previous cast. You know, that it was the Solomon family. You had uh, let's see, Kristen Johnston was in it, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and uh French Stuart. French Stuart is a kind of an odd duck, you know, even in real life. But you also had Jane Curtin and, of course, Wayne Knight. He was a cop on this show. He's famous for Newman. Newman.

But I mean Newman.

Hello, Newman. And you know, we we me and Valerie, it was it aired on Wednesday nights, and we used to that was the night she would come over and we we would watch it every night or every Wednesday, and she doesn't even remember you know how old night she Yeah, yeah, yeah, but she doesn't remember, but whatever.

Anyway, um I think one of the things No wonder you liked the show, Mark. You got to get late every Wednesday.

Yes, I did.

Yes, yeah, it was a sure thing back in those days. But uh yeah. A little casual sex. Casual sex? You know a passionate tryst with a stranger. Yes, yes, that's exactly what I had. Casual sex. Wham bam, thank you, delivery man.

Nothing could be sweeter than a neater in the theater.

Wait, Dick, so you just met her and did you uh did you use a three-pack?

Ribbed for her pleasure. But I turned them inside out.

Anyway, uh my point is it's just you know, they were from outer space and they were in human form, and every show they sit on the roof and talk about how you know weird humans are and just trying to learn from them. And it was the big giant head know about it, of course. Yes, it was just a riot. It was just and another alien show, not to uh cross-reference or whatever, but it's out now. It's the one that Chris Sheridan produced and wrote.

Yes. Resident Alien. Resident Alien, which I'm glad you brought up because when Donnie brought up David being on Family Guy in a previous episode, we were trying to say that Chris had something to do with this wrote this one as well, but we couldn't come up with the name of it. So there it is, everyone. Resident Alien.

They actually mentioned Saltmarsh Pond on one of the episodes. I think little call back. His humor comes out a lot. Oh, absolutely. Of course it does. He's the writer. I understand that. But it's just, you know, we played at Saltmarsh Pond. Of course. His band did that I was in with him. But anyway, getting back to uh Third Rock from the Sun, one of the reasons I think it's underrated is the fact that it couldn't compete with must see TV Thursday nights. You know, it was on Wednesdays, so it was a brilliant show, though.

Absolutely.

It was just a just a delight to watch.

Yeah, Lithgow was killer on that. I mean, they oh they oh they were all great, but he just the things the things that they didn't understand about being human just made for great, great humor. Oh yeah.

Wow. I don't know, but I want another one.

Oh, yeah, but his relationship with Jane Curtin, and she just it was stunning some of the things he said to her, you know. Genius. Awesome.

Imagine two people in a relationship totally misunderstanding each other.

Never mind. I understand it, but this listen to the you know on steroids.

Awesome pick. Okay. Yes. Yes, yes. We are at number five to me, 1985, written by Stephen King, Cycle of the Werewolf. The movie, however, is called Silver Bullet. Now Silver Bullet. Many that were just pretty much terrible, but so many that were just brilliant. I mean Shaw Shank, Green Mile, so on, so on. Just it flew under the radar. Is it a great, great movie? No, but is it entertaining to a kid, a teenager? Absolutely. You know, it had Corey Haym in it as the kid who's in a in a wheelchair. His wheelchair is actually where the it got its name. They called it the silver bullet, because his uncle, who is absolutely incredible in the movie, and it's Gary Beusey.

I gotta talk to you.

You won't let go of it, will you?

I saw what I saw.

Psychotics are more active when the moon is full. And this guy's a psycho. When they catch him, you're gonna find out he's just as human as you and me. There are no such things as werewolves.

He just awesome, you know, kind of a drunk, loves his nephew, builds him this kick-ass wheelchair, it goes like 4550. You know, just incredible. It's kind of like a trike, really. But and it's you know, about a werewolf in a small Maine town, always in Maine.

It's always Maine. That's what I was gonna ask Donnie. Was it was that a Stephen King movie that you picked away back? But that couldn't have been, it was too wholesome.

But his sister narrates it. Um, uh Corey Haym's sister in the movie, you know, is the one telling the story, and it's just a lot of fun. And the the main reason I wanted to pick this is it just made me think of being a kid um in a town that I wasn't insane about, but just being alone, like uh, and when I say alone, I mean off like in the woods on my own and just exploring and in the middle of nowhere. Um, and that's how he kind of is on his wheelchair, he's just able to go anywhere, and you know, you just see him in the wilderness a lot by himself, and the priest in it is the werewolf. Spoiler, everyone, but just it's it's pretty funny um in some parts. Gary Busey's a riot in it, so it has bits of humor. I mean, it's a fun fucking movie, you know. So revisit that. Like, if you guys got into those two idiots back in the day, like Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, like they they made some fun movies until they both got well, until one of them passed away, but the other one just turned ridiculous and embarrassing. But anyway, it's what's that? Yeah, Feldman. You know, it was credible musician. It's that sarcasm big talk. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that.

Yeah, but anyway, just I actually cut one of their films from my list today.

Ah, really? Yes. Nice. I I'm quite curious now.

Well, I'll wait because I don't want to. I mean, there's a chance of about one in a billion that somebody else picked it, but I'll wait just in case. You just never know.

Awesome.

Okay, dongo, number four. Number four for me is gonna be one that actually um did well in the box office, but it's hard to do um, it's hard to gauge that because the operating budget was only like 200,000, so they did like 4.3 million.

Big three.

So they definitely went over their budget, and I don't think it got a lot of um uh uh mainstream popularity, but it was definitely like cult classic, and the movie is Swingers. Ah, yeah. With with Vince Vaughn and John Fadro. Just it's just for me, it's a 1996 movie. Um, it just reminded me of that time very much. Like there's a scene when they're like playing um NHL 93. Uh that was like Sega. That was like the the game. That was the game, Dongo. Like playing hockey and just you know, group of group of dudes playing NHL 93, you know, having tournaments and shit.

Bitch!

Oh bitch! Why is Gretzky on his ass again? Gretzky's a little bitch. God, this is such bullshit, man. This is bullshit. The kings suck in this game. We should play another team.

I took the kings to the cup against the computer with the offsides. They're a finesse team, they're a fucking bitch team. Score!

Oh bitch, uh, but Vince Vaughn is funny. I I think that might have been his intro. I'm not sure. Um, but you know, he's like so money, my baby's all grown up, you know. Vegas, baby. I always use that, you know, Vegas baby.

I was like, Vegas, you're so money, and you don't even know your money, and that makes you more money.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that was just a fun, fun movie. Yeah, yeah.

Favreau is incredible too. He's a big time director, right? Now, yeah, well, he does all the Star Wars stuff now and Disney, and you know, as well as the Marvel universe, which means he's gotta be worth some ridiculous amount of but he acted in one of his movies that won't come to me right now, but I just remember it was a a great performance. And yeah, I'll spit it out on the I'll put it in the notes, people. Well, the the sh uh chef. Oh, that was awfully a couple years ago. That was a great movie. That's not where I'm going, but yes, yeah, awesome movie. Yeah, for sure. Great pick, too. Uh 93 and 94 dongo. I think those were the two years where that Sega hockey, the NHL 93 and 94, were the greatest. Like, yes, even now, like if you go and you play like NHL 2023, yeah, they have the version of 93 or 94 on it. That's how big it was. One timer. The one timer was huge. I was just gonna say missing nose with the gangs.

The duo from the Pittsburgh Penguins that were unstoppable.

Yer, Yager, and it was the Mew and Jagger, yeah. And Jeremy Roanick. Yeah, yeah. Fucking Blaze always kicked my ass with a wraparound goal with Jeremy Roanick. It used to piss me off.

It's not even so much me as it's Roanick. He's good. Oh, is that right? CO steals to Roanick. You bitch! Score Chicago! Oh my shit. Oh! Such fucking bullshit! But that was pretty soon. Check this out on the Instagram.

Because he wasn't a Canadian. You know, Ben's a Montreal Canadian fan, and that fucker always picked Roanick's team. Kick my ass every time. He's the one person I couldn't beat at it, and it angers me to this day. Great pick, though, Don. Yeah, Kevin. Nice.

All right, so my number four pick actually came out in '82 and ran to '84, but I didn't get to see it until 85 because it was a British show and it didn't come over here and get played on MTV until that time. I'm talking about the young ones.

Once in every lifetime, it comes about like this. Oh, I need you, you need me. Oh my darling, don't you see young ones? Come in with a young ones. Shouldn't be afraid.

Yeah, Rick Mayall, who went on to be um uh drop dead Fred and a couple of other things, so you might recognize him, but there was uh Ben Elton was one of the writers. He did Black Adder and Mr. Bean with Rowan Atkinson. It was four undergrads living together. They were going to scumbag college in in downtown London.

I got accepted on my first attempt. I couldn't believe it when I was they let me write in.

I got a full scholarship. It was such an over-the-top thing. I mean, so one guy had like four stars, like a four-star general on his head, always like the the metal stars in his forehead and a and a red mohawk. He was a heavy metal fan, viv Rick Mayall's character was a sociology student, and he and he had every like malady that somebody could possibly have. He was antisocial, he was um a fascist by all means and just yelled at everybody. And then there was Neil who was the hippie, and he like kept the place clean and did all the work, and nobody paid any attention to him unless they needed to blame stuff on somebody, and then it would be him. And then there was Mike the cool guy, who was just like a handsome dude with some like uh Ray-Ban sunglasses on, and he he just came in and kind of calmed everybody down. But one of the greatest things about the show is they had music guests every week, and they had uh Motorhead, they had Madness at the peak of Madness's career, uh, the specials, the damned Dexies Midnight Runners. And one of the groups they had, I'd never really I don't know if I ever saw that episode or I didn't know who they were, but it was an English band called Rip Rig and Panic, and their lead singer was a young lady named Naina Cherry, who you might remember from Buffalo Stance. And through that, I looked up some of the music and it was pretty pretty good music. I I really enjoyed Rip Rig and Panic. Uh, but the young ones was just it's still out there. I think it's Mark, it's uh it's on Apple TV if you want to try to so you can see the baseball game. Uh but just one of those great British programs that you just at first the time you turn it on, you're like, what is happening? This is just absurd, and it certainly continued with that absurdity as well. The British human.

Nice yeah, awesome tech. I I another one I need to look at. So we are going deep, boys, I believe. All right, Mark, number four to you.

All right, Matthew Modine is the star of this movie. It is Vision Quest. Ah, great movie. Um yeah, uh the 15th of February, 1985. And uh, you know, it hit home in a couple ways. First of all, it has a really good soundtrack. Yes. Um, and uh great soundtrack.

Yeah. Yeah. At first, all Loudoon Swain could think of was getting in shape. But since he met the girl of his dreams, all he can think of is her shape.

You're not from around here, are you? Are you kidding me? Trent, New Jersey.

I've always wanted to be a hippie cult leader, and uh, you know. Now what the hell is a hippie cult leader? Yeah. So I do uh like a lot of the cult films. He meets this girl named Carla, and you know, she's moving out to uh San Francisco, and anyway, her first scene, um, you could see her headlights. Oh my god, could you see her headlights? She looks so damn good. And well, they end up taking her in, and you know, that's you know, you have a brief romance with the two, and uh one thing I wanted to say also I mean, is there an age where you're allowed to still be a senior in high school?

Because they were both, you know, um, he was like almost like in Greece, right, right, right.

Yeah, so he I mean, he was already past all that. He he was in the prime of his life. No wonder he beat that other kid. Yeah, you know?

Yeah, I think I think Linda Fiorentino was uh yeah, she was supposed to be like 21 in it, but she was really probably closer than 30.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, Kathleen O'Den was you know what I love about that too is his his buddy um Cooch that's riding the motorcycle bike is Jake in 16 Candles. Oh yeah, and then I think he disappeared after that. I don't remember anything after those two movies.

I think he just walked away.

Yeah, yeah, two completely different characters, and you have to like stop. Is that the same guy? Right. Awesome.

So yeah, there's a scene in where uh Madonna's on it, she sings a couple songs, and this, I mean, it's funny because she's back then she was, you know, the queen. She was everything.

Yeah, she was massive at that time for sure.

Massive, and she was, you know, nice to look at and everything. I mean, right now, like you said, I mean, I've planned it, I should see her in Africa running with a bunch of uh pack of lions somewhere. But exactly.

But you know, you talk about the how great that soundtrack is. You know, a soundtrack is great when even today, when I hear a song from that's on that soundtrack in a different space, I expect the next song from that soundtrack to come in afterwards, whether it was only the young, um, the the journey one or the uh what was the what was the uh Hagar one that was on that? Anyway, though that's when you know it's a great soundtrack, when somebody takes popular music of a time and puts it together in such a fashion that those songs are married forever in your mind.

It was a fun movie and uh great movie. And I believe it was underrated because it's again more of a cult classic.

So, real quick before I go to my four, that's another episode, boys. Uh, actors and actresses in movies that were way older than their part.

That's all of those. Daniel LaRussian. It's not gonna be the opposite. You don't have to on the opposite.

Can you believe Ralph Macchio was 22 in co in uh the first karate kid? That's what he did. He looked like a little pencil neck geek.

Yeah.

Well, it's like everybody everybody does a joke about um uh dirty dancing. Nobody puts a baby in the corner. I'm her dad, you old man. I put her in the corner. Get out of here because Swayze was like 50 at that time, and Jennifer Gray was 12.

All right, number four to me, back to 1982 with Mark Singer and Tanya Roberts. Hot. And that would be The Beastmaster. All right. Now, this is your typical like sorcery magic type of movie, and I loved it. This I was obsessed with, but just it starts out basically your typical prophecy in so many movies where the king's son is going to kill you after they're, you know, the king's unborn son. And this witch takes that baby out of that woman's belly and puts it like into a bull's belly, cuts it out, and then off he goes, and he's raised, and he is one with wildlife, if you will. Makes friends with so many different animals, like he uses a hawk for his eyes. You know, he he has uh Kodo and Podo, his two ferrets that steal for him.

I'm gonna name you Kodo. You get a name to Podo. Kodo and Podo. My friends.

It's just an incredible movie that John Amos is in this, also. I love John Amos. You know, to see John Amos with like almost undressed in a spear going around in this world. It's just fucking funny, but it's really good. It's really well done. Tanya Roberts is so hot in it. Um, he has the ferrets actually at one point go down to the river and steal her clothes, which was great. But uh, I don't know if you guys remember this movie. I don't know if you remember these creatures that were like in a cave that had like red bat wings. They were like human-shaped with these massive wings. They were all veiny and they would like wrap around a human and it would just suck the blood right out of them and they'd disintegrate. But just the whole movie in itself was a lot of fun. It made me think a lot of Clash of the Titans, like one of those types, you know, just the talent of the one warrior they call the Beastmaster.

Mark Singer is Dark, Daniel Roberts is Carey, Rip Thorne is Mayak, John Amos is Seth. Together they take us on a fascinating journey back into unexplored times and discover the incredible link between man and animal, and all that is phantasmagorical in the world of dungeons, dragons, and dog. The Beastmaster.

But man, I loved that movie. Number three, Dongo.

Cool. Um, so this one was hard because my number two and one are kind of locked down, so this space was kind of wide open for me to pick. And uh I kind of been batting around a bunch of them, and and I kind of kind of landed on one. There can be only one, and it's a lander.

There can be only one.

Another time, McClellan!

Uh so it was a only one pretty big movie, but it didn't it didn't get super popular. It later got fame in like um kind of like spin-offs and stuff. But the Christopher Lambert uh movie where he's like a time traveler, it's got Sean Connery, it's got Clancy Brown, Mr. Krabs. Um, you know, it's awesome, you know. It's it's cool how he he you know, he never ages kind of thing, and how he's been in all kinds of wars and and uh stuff like that. And it was just a pretty cool movie.

Incredible movie, and definitely fits this category for sure. Yeah, I mean it's all it is a massive cult classic, yeah. But yeah, you have to chop their heads off to kill them. Right. And Clancy Brown is the the Kurgan. Kurgan, K-U-R-G-A-N Kurgan. What the hell is a Kurgan? Yeah, yeah. He was the bad guy, man. He was the Kurgan.

Mr. Crosby specifically said there can be only one.

Actually, this challenge makes sense. Like the epic conflict between Connor McLeod and the fearsome but misunderstood Kurgan. You must both fight for the prize. You will fight only in the shadows, never in wood shop. Consider this holy ground because I don't want you touching my stuff. The sword touches your neck or your lower head, you are out. The last one standing earns the right to lead his own Highlander Club.

Or maybe there can be two?

No, there can be only one. Highlander Club. See you in the hallways, dorks.

With that, and also Mr. Krabs. So that is spectacular to watch Spongebob and listen to him and just picture him going, There can be only one. Right.

What was that? Mr. Krabs you said? Yes. Do you have to get one of those uh things from the drugstore? A package of red.

Yeah. No, he was never the voice of Mr. Exactly. Too funny. Sorry.

But uh you remember what the story was back in the day. Yeah. You had to shave half of your stuff and light the other half on fire.

You gotta move an ice pick. Yeah, you gotta stab them with an ice pick when they jump over. My dad used to tell us all the time.

I'll go with the sob, thank you.

Did I tell the story yet on a previous cast of Mark? Well, I'm gonna tell it right now, and if I did, I will edit it. Oh, but my brother Mark told our father that he got crabs from a toilet seat, which everyone knew was a blatant lie. I I well, it was absolutely the truth. But anyway, uh I was a virgin until my wedding night. They have the uh what do you call it, the little uh rid. The the medication is called rid to get rid of crab lice and lice.

To kill lice and their eggs get maximum strength rid. It's so effective it kills lice completely, and rid leaves no active residue behind. Nothing is more effective or safer than rid.

Well, I took a black piece of construction paper and cut out a perfect crab, cut out the stop sign from the rid box and pasted it to the stomach of said crab. The crab had a tiny little neck on it, and then people out there can't see me, but I found a picture of my brother with the biggest smile on his face, and it was like this. And I pasted that to the neck and put it on the bathroom mirror so when Mark got home, he would see it.

It was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.

So, Mark, Frank, Frank Zappa has your back. He had a song called Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? And it says, I got it from the toilet seat. It jumped right up and grabbed my meat.

There you go. Oh man.

Okay. So the UK, number three. Oh, right. So we're at three, and I'm gonna go with one that, you know, there's a few of them here that were like borderline or whatever else. We've had some that were definitely like buried and never had their due. This one I still I could never figure out. It's the young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

My name is Henry Jones, but my friends call me Indy.

Just such a great program, and they never got any accolades whatsoever. Um, the first one ran from 92 to 93. There was another one um in 96, and then another one in 2002, but I really loved the original one in '92, '93. You've got Sean Patrick Flannery, um, who was obviously in Boondock Saints, and then recently in Nefarious. It was just so well done, and it just gives you, it all made sense because it was the background of how Indiana Jones became Indiana Jones. He's traveling around with his father. I love the way that they kind of did the um uh the Forrest Gump thing.

Fell in love more than once. I've had many great adventures, and a lot of amazing people, visited hundreds of fascinating places, and lived a life beyond imagination. All before the age of 21.

There was kind of, he kept meeting people Roosevelt, Hemingway, uh T. E. Lawrence, Picasso, Woodrow Wilson, Norman Rockwell, Poncho Villa. They kind of worked all of these historical figures into the show. Perfect. His travels. And it was like I said, it's just it was every one of them, the the f usually the first episode was like two hours, and then they were full 45 minutes, so an hour broadcast, and it was like a well-done George Lucas Steven Spielberg movie every episode. Unbelievable.

Just amazing. I can't believe, too, and when you think of that audience, you know what I mean? Like, was it not advertised enough? Was it not pushed to the right demographic? Because it would have just had a following rather than a gate. You know what I mean? Crazy. Yeah, good check.

Such a solid, watchable program, entertaining, and just don't understand why it fell on deaf ears.

I want to go back and watch it again. Yeah. I think I will spot it.

I was trying to find it. I don't I don't know if anybody's casting it right now, but it is unavailable. Unavailable.

All right, Mark, number three to you. My number three is a show that first started Aaron. It was a started in 86, or forgive me. No, 86 to 88. And uh it was it's called Spencer for Hire, Spencer with an S, not a C. It starred Robert Urick, and um, you know, you also had Hawk, who was played by Avery Brooks, and the uh Sergeant Frank Belson was Ron McCarty, and you had Barbara Stark, who was only in there for season one and three. He was Robert, she was Robert Urick's love interest. Well, she was only there one and three, and she came back in three because the ratings went down. This show was an incredible show. It ran it started on Friday, then they changed it to Saturday, so right there they're not expecting much. But my favorite thing about the show, it was based in Boston. I mean, it was filmed in Boston, you know, you kept seeing the the tea and everything. And back when this came out, I spent a lot of time in Boston going to Red Sox games, and uh it is it was just a fun show. Um incredible show. It was awesome. Yeah, he was a he was a uh private investigator, and Sergeant Frank there, he was funny as hell, and Hawk was a badass, battle ass badass. You know, and uh so me and Big Al used to watch that, and I know I've told this story, and uh I do believe it was Shay for beer, and we would be like the cone heads. You know how they drank in mass quantities, and they would open the whole six pack. Well, we basically opened all our cans of beer to assured that we would uh these these uh they were like Doritos, but they weren't actually the brand Doritos, and they were the hottest freaking things you could ever eat, and that would force us to pound. We newly didn't really remember the show all that much, and it was always at the Oxpo. I mean, you wouldn't remember to Kevin, but Donnie, you would, right? That was yeah, so right on the line.

Donnie and I used to crash there all the time.

Yeah, so it was just uh it was Boston, Boston, Boston, you know, and it just really seemed like it was near to us.

Something about when things are local like that that makes them more endearing to you, you know what I mean?

Yeah, Robert Urak was a great actor, God rest his soul. He was also in Vegas, I think, was one of the things.

I was gonna say this is after Vegas, right?

Yes. Nice pick. Yeah, but it just didn't get the run it deserved. Did not get the run. And um good pet. What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? That was a warm memory of me and good old Big Al. God rest his wonderful soul. What a good dude he was.

Yes, he was. All right, number three to me. Uh, 1987 with Patrick Dempsey, and that is a movie called Can't Buy Me Love. Yeah, this movie is it's one of my favorite all-time teenage high school movies. Um, has Amanda Peterson in it, who I believe passed away not long ago from a drug overdose.

Yeah, that's terrible.

Uh, but it also had uh Courtney Gaines, you know, which is Malachi from Malachi. Children of the corn, but you know, his best friend, you know, you'll never forget the line. If you've seen this movie, you know the line, and that's you shit on my house.

You shit on my house. You shit on my house.

And it's really heart-wrenching when you think about it because you know it's the whole geek to chic thing where Patrick Dempsey's the dork and wants to be popular, so he fucking buys a dress. Girl, you know, ruins her mom's dress. It was a thousand dollar suede dress. He was going to buy a telescope, but instead buys the dress for the girl to replace her mom so that she will date him. I forget if it's two weeks or a month, whatever it is, but because he wants to become popular.

And Bobby.

Cindy Mancini and Ronald Miller live on the same street, but they're in totally different worlds. Wouldn't you like to be popular? Cindy's hot. Ronald's not. But he's got a plan that could change all that. I want to rent you.

Rent me?

Yeah. You pretend you like me. And we go out for just a few weeks.

Just going out with me is not gonna make you popular. Well, I have a thousand dollars, it says it will.

So he dates the popular girl, and it's obvious what happens. You know, she winds up actually liking him, and he winds up turning into a fucking prick and forgetting about his real friends, but it's really endearing at the end. You know, he realizes what an asshole he is, and he comes back, but it's just such a it's so much fun. It's a coming of age movie, and it's it's very funny in parts, too, because it's I think it might be Seth Green's debut. He's Patrick Dempsey's younger brother, and he's a friggin' riot. You know, he's always following him around and trying to spy on him and see what's going on. But if you haven't seen this movie out there, folks, it's it's a lot of fun. If you're around our age, then I think you'd really enjoy it. Anyway, I loved it.

You mentioned um uh Courtney Gaines, and one of my favorite roles of his was Rags in um God, what are oh Hard Bodies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Such a great movie, and and his best, well, it wasn't his line, it was Scotty's line. He says somebody insulted him or something, they're sitting on the beach, and so Courtney starts doing all these motions. What's he doing? Yeah, yeah. He's flipping you off in 57 different languages.

That was like the best part of the preview. Yeah, you can I always remember watching that in the preview, and the boobs. Oh, there in this town, there's only one other titty quite this pretty, and here it is. It's great. Awesome! All right, Don, go to you. Number two, number two to me.

This is one that um did poorly initial release, and then later got you know immense fame. But it is probably one of my most favorite movies. I could put this in my favorite movie category as well, and it's a wonderful life.

Yes.

Um, so when it originally came out, it did really poorly in the box office. It had a high budget and it didn't, you know, get its returns back. It was you know 1946, so was immediately following World War II, and there was a lot of war references in the and people weren't ready for that at that time, but it really didn't pick up fame until like 1950, 1960s, like late 50s into the 60s, where they started playing it, you know, on TV prior to Christmas, and then now it's a staple in most most people's you know, oh yeah repertoire of Christmas movies. But I love the movie, it's just an awesome movie, it's an endearing movie. Um, it's just interesting that you know, something that does poorly initially and then kind of grows into a gem over time.

So you see, George, you really had a wonderful life, Mary Cornrad.

A try.

Yeah, absolute classic after it was Jimmy Stuart, like you say, if it was panned in the beginning. But I mean, and it's it's mind-boggling today to think of it.

It's bottling, Kevin.

Mind-bottling, I'm sorry, it bottles the mind. Will Farrell. Um that that I mean, Donna Reed and James Stewart at that time should it should have been a hands-down hit, and it's such a great story.

One way you can help me. You don't happen to have 8,000 bucks on you, dude. No, we don't use money in heaven. Oh, yeah, that's right. I keep forgetting. Comes in pretty handy down here, Bob. Oh, I found it out a little late.

Just interesting. I have no idea where you would look it up. But what movie would that go up against? Because I guarantee you none of us have ever heard of it. Right, right, exactly. What movie was in the theater in 1946 that people were like, yeah, that held that one down.

Exactly. Yeah. Awesome pick, Dawn. Great movie.

All right, Kev. Three, two, three. All right. A long ways away from It's a Wonderful Life is 1984's Repo Man, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. Emilio Esteves. So he's now I've got both of the Sheen Boys. I got Charlie and Emilio. Harry Dean Stanton, uh, who was uh Brett on Alien, and uh was two on on the Green Mile, if you guys aren't familiar with Harry Dean Stanton. Just an amazing movie. It was not a high budget thing, it was kind of bizarre. Um, I always felt like it was a pretty good representation of the nihilistic punk scene of that time. You know, he goes home and his parents are just staring at the TV set, and he finds out that all the money that they were gonna give him for graduating college they've sent to a television evangelist. And so he's like, Well, now what the fuck am I gonna do? Um, quits his job at the supermarket and uh ends up meeting Harry Dean Stanton, who kind of tricks him into repossessing a car.

Meet Otto. He's a clean cut kid in a dirty business. He repossesses cars. He's a repo man.

You're gonna give me my car back, or do I gotta go to your house and shove your dog's head down the toilet?

His mission is to repossess a 64 Chevy, but hidden within its trunk. What you got in the trunk? You don't want to look in there, is the most important discovery in the history of our planet.

And then decides that you know he's gonna do that. Of course, the subplot is a scientist driving around with alien bodies in his car, and everybody's looking for that car, and it ends up getting stolen. And and it's just it's just wonderful weirdness, is what it is. And again, just great soundtrack. Uh you get described yourself. What's that? Wonderful weirdness? Yes. Thanks. It's a compliment. It's a compliment. Uh you got uh black flag, circle jerks, suicidal tendencies, the plugs, um, just such great punk meetings. Yeah, so just love it. Um Jimmy Buffett and Michael Nesmith have small parts in it. Michael Nesmet from the monkeys. So it's just like again, I think, and Nesmith, I think, came in to produce it because not a lot of people were very excited about doing it. And Nesmith was always on the cutting edge of stuff like that. He kind of I don't know if you guys knew this, but Nesmith kind of invented MTV. Before the MTV people stole it from him. He was putting together a or had put together a music video channel, and then MTV came in and and became what they were.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, just a great, great movie.

Awesome pick. Mark, to you for two.

All right. Going back to February of 1987, this movie is called Over the Top. Love it.

Speaking of drinking motor oil.

Yes. Yep. Well, that was uh Bruce Way, I believe. Uh he drank some motor oil. But uh yeah, so so this movie, I mean, everyone thinks of it as the arm wrestling movie, which it is, but it's more to do with a father um reacquainting with his son, and the son actually um being won over by his dad.

And I don't have a father.

The world has always bet against Lincoln Hawk.

Why'd you leave us?

It won't happen again. How do you do it? Do it.

But a winner never listens to the eye.

All I want to do is early off the table. All I care about is you. My boy, you understand?

Nobody nobody has way. Now is it time to do for yourself?

Sylvester Stallone over the top.

Um, Lincoln Hawk, played by Sylvester Stallone, left the family like years ago. And as it turns out, it's more because of the grandfather, the mega incredibly rich grandfather. Yeah. David Bendenhall. Um okay, well, the problem is, is he's the one who friggin' broke them apart because he didn't think that uh uh Lincoln was uh good enough for her. Of course, at the end of the movie, where uh uh Rick Zumwat, he played uh Bull Hurley actually defeats Hawk, and it's a double, it's a double elimination. He uh he makes it to the finals and then he defeats Bull. And his kid, uh his kid Mike stole one of uh the grandpa's friggin' cars. He gets there, he's out there cheering them on, and the kid's going nuts, and the grandfather's out there just seeing he's it fine, he finally sees the light that his son, his grandson, absolutely adores his dad. He won him over. He won him over. Sorry, people, this movie gets me very excited, very emotional. Larry Green, he plays the song uh at the end of it. It's called Take Take It Higher. It makes gives me friggin' goosebumps. And lastly, what I want to say is this movie did not do well with the critics. You know how they have what is it? It was a bomb. Yeah, it was a bomb. I thought it was an incredible movie. Me too. It's a cult classic for sure. The movie gives me goosebumps.

I love it. Look how it look how that movie changed society, because I'm glad that you mentioned it about going to the gym. I'm pretty sure any of us know that by spinning your hat around backwards, that you increase your muscle mass by like 20%. Naturally. Yes, you do. And the other thing is that I believe that the family courts now settle custody disputes uh with arm wrestling.

So yeah. Of course they do. It probably be more fair than how they do do it.

Well, it would be, yes. It's a doo-doo. Um has a critic ever liked a Stallone movie?

No, probably not.

Rocky One, the first Rocky movie. Yeah, Rocky One, and after that, and they probably pan that most of the way too. So, you know what? Screw you, critics. What do you what do you think? Fuck them all. Talk about other people all day.

Unbelievable. All right, so that's number two to me. All right, and I'm gonna go back to this is 1999, actually. It's my newest, newest one here, which that's our cutoff, I believe, boys. All right, correct. But this is created, well, written, uh, one of the writers is Judd Apatau. I hope I said that correctly. You got it, but you know, he did a lot of movies like Knocked Up, and you know, you'll notice a lot of these characters through this show I'm picking, and that would be freaks and geeks. Okay. I mean, the the the freaks in this, you have Seth Rogan, uh Jason Sagal, James Franco, uh Linda Cartellini, who kind of moves into that role. You know, she kind of wants to become a freak later on. Quite beautiful. Still has the Gene Simmons lines around your mouth that always drove me nuts. But anyway, and then the uh the kids on this, though. Sam, Bill, and Neil. Uh, Bill, always one of my favorites. It's Martin Starr, who was in Knocked Up, by the way, but several other things he's in. He's in Tulsa King right now. But the three friends, you know, young middle school kids just sitting at the lunch table, just hanging there, they're DD fans, you know, just geek movies, just they love hanging out and just doing stupid shit. And they're just it's such a feel-good show. And you know, just being here on past times at 80s high and going back in time, this is like the perfect bridge to it. And you guys, if you haven't seen it, you need to see it because I'm gonna look that up. This is the exact reason we do this show, and that's because of the friggin' 80s and the 70s, and just the nostalgic way life was back then, and it's just perfect. It's the perfectly done show, and it's frustrating that they only did one season of it because it I mean, you know, maybe it ran its course, maybe they did such a good job with it that that they felt that was it. But fuck, leave it on time. Yeah, but before I end on that note, I must say the dad. Uh Linda Cardalini's dad and uh Sam's dad, they're brother and sister, the two of them. And incredible. I can't remember the kid's name who plays him, uh Sam, but anyway, he's he's the geek in waiting that gets the job in the movie waiting. But anyway, weird-looking kids, but John Francis Daly.

Yeah, Sam Weir.

Yep, yeah, it's him. Yeah, but just the dad in that is he's a friggin' riot. You know, every one of his friends, like, no matter what happened to them back in the day, they died, you know. I had a friend who went to a party in high school. You know what happened to him? He died.

You know, I had a friend that used to smoke. You know what he's doing now? He's dead. You think smoking makes you look cool? Let's go dig him up now and see how cool he looks.

Just any of that stuff. But that's all I'll say about it. Just anyone out there listening, you know, you love you enjoy this stuff, you enjoy this show, you will love freaks and geeks. And it's such so worth checking out. Yeah. And with that, being a binge shed. Yes, you will love it, Dongo. Cool. Up to you now to wrap it up, Dongo.

All right, number one. I gotta go with you know, I'm wearing the shirt. It's definitely got a cult following, it's seen as popular, um, but it's never like massive popularity. It's always been kind of a subgroup for Star Trek.

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Going back to the original series. So the original series only ran for three seasons, and the three seasons that it did run were were kind of a struggle. Like they struggled with the ratings. They were put into what was called the death slot, which was like Friday night at 10 o'clock, which you know, most people are out either working people are in in bed, and you know, young people are out doing stuff. Uh, so they they never got good ratings for the first three seasons, and they never got renewed. So it went into syndication. But when it went into syndication is when it you know took off. That's when it reached multiple audiences. It was one of the first shows to go into syndication, you know, because it, you know, the first original series was like in 1966 through 1969. Um, but I I found it in syndication as a kid, you know, so watching it when I got home from school on whatever channel it was being run on. So yeah, Star Trek, the original series, you know, never reached the meat meteoric height of like Star Wars, but it's certainly got its uh following fans syndication. And then you know, and then there's been multiple spin-offs, obviously. Oh yeah, which have all kind of they've all kind of reached some popularity, but mostly it kind of stays like under a line. Um, it never reaches that like meteoric popularity.

Well, but it's all the one in the 90s. I thought that one kind of generations.

There's next generation and next generation. Yeah, yeah, next generation popularity more so thanks.

There's Deep Space Nine. There's one that's got Mark's character from a movie he he mentioned earlier. I can't remember his name, but uh he plays uh the uh captain in one of the Star Trek series.

Robert Urick? Yeah. If it was not for syndication, then it would be intensely underrated, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah.

Well, didn't Lucille Ball save it?

She was the one that brought it to the the, you know, brought it to TV. Um she funded it as much as she could, but yeah, it was the syndication that saved it, but she did what she could to actually get it to you know being filmed and and all that.

But yeah, I remember reading that it was like nobody even wanted to make it, and she was and she was a champion of which is imagined that not making that. I mean, we never know, but fuck. That's like a staple of life. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Awesome, Donnie. All right, Kev, number one.

All right, well, I'm just under the wire here in 1998, and I'm gonna have to keep this short because I could do not only a whole episode on this movie, I could probably do a whole series on this movie. One of my all-time favorites, the big Lebowski. I knew it was no surprise there. Just just, I mean, I think one of the most amazing things about it is the Cohen brothers wrote the script and they didn't change anything. With the exception of Jeff Bridges refers to the other Lebowski as a human paraquat. That was the only improvised line. That was the only improvised line in the whole movie. The rest of the entire script is exactly as the Cohen brothers wrote it. And I swear to God, every line in that movie is quotable. If you run into genius, yeah. If you yeah, if you run into a Lebowski fan, you're yeah, it's nobody's quoting the big lines anymore. It's down to like what would be a throwaway line because there's still fucking genius. The nitty girl. I mean, the whole scene with with Saturro, um, as the patter ass, and you know, the bowling, and and it just, you know, the him and his his um uh parole officer polishing their bowling balls and and just all the stuff he's like when he walks by and and Goodman's uh I mean shemi says, Jesus, he goes, That's right, man. Nobody fucks with it, Jesus. You pull out that gun on the lanes on Saturday, I take it from you, I stick it up your ass, and I pull the trigger until it goes click. Just it's just and he's so great at that character, Tataro, and and and it's actually based on Bridge's character is based on a guy that the Cohen brothers knew, and he was just somebody that was very much like him, just did the absolute minimum to get by, yeah, and was just like you know, hey man, like that's like your opinion, man. Right, you know, you see him in the first scene of the movie, and he's writing a check for like 39 cents at the supermarket. I've been there, but it's but you can tell he lives there. He did he didn't sink to that level, he exists in that level. It's like you know, the the landlord. It's 10 days, it's a tenth of the month already, dude. Cool, man. Yeah, I still haven't got oh, oh, all right, yeah. Just slide it under the door, you know. He's just that, that, and again, Goodman's character is just so over the top and wonderful.

I mean, I'll roll on Saturday, Walter.

I'm Schomer Shabbos.

What's that, Walter? Yeah, and in the meantime, what do I tell Lebowski?

Saturday, Donnie is Shabbos, the Jewish Day of Rust. That means I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't handle money, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit, don't fucking roll.

Sheesh.

Shomer Shabbos!

And they actually, I think I might have mentioned this before, but he does one scene where he's everything for him goes back to Vietnam, and he's sitting in the in a coffee shop and he bangs his fist and he starts yelling. And the woman, the waitress comes over and she's like, Sir, you need to keep it down. He's like, I'm not keeping it down. The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior constraint. And there's actually a court case where a judge quoted that movie. Yes. I remember you saying so it's just it's just legendary.

Yeah, it's nihilism is being very popular nowadays, too.

Like it's who's that? That's Uli, he's a nihilist. Looks exhausting.

I gotta ask this question because you guys know me with the Lebowski. I'm I definitely like it more, but I'm still trying to get to that level you guys are at. So I've revisited now. I must ask, is it true that Goodman's character is a figment of dude's imagination?

So there's a theory that actually Steve Buscemi's character is a Buscemi.

Right, right, right. Yeah, that he was a buddy of his killed in Vietnam kind of thing. Right, right.

I'm sorry, that the uh Walter, because Bridge's character never addresses him directly, with the exception of leaving the bowling alley after the car gets stolen, and he says, Your phone's ringing, dude. Thank you, Donnie. Which could have been him making fun of Walter at the same time. But yeah, you got Flea, like I said, John Taturo, uh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, uh Tara Reed. Awesome actor, uh, Peter Stormar, who's like every Russian bad guy in every like uh Don John Wick movies and whatever else. He's just he was the nihilist, um, or the head nihilist or whatever. My girlfriend lost her toe. Shut up, you freak with a nine-toed girlfriend.

Right.

Uh, just sheer beauty.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie. Donnie, it's you you're like a child watching a movie. You just come in in the middle of it and accept everybody to stop and explain it to you. Just shut the fuck up, Donnie.

Oh, man. All right, brother.

Number one to you. Okay, it's uh it's a TV show from ABC. Ran from 76 to 79. It's called What's Happening? Yeah. And uh it was just such a funny, freaking hilarious show. Great opening song. Everything, and all the the actors' names were very similar to their uh their character names.

Yeah.

Yeah, like Ernest Thomas uh played Roger Thomas. Uh Hayward Nelson played Dwayne Nelson. This one's different. Daniel Spencer, she, God rest her soul, she just passed away this year. D. Thomas, the daughter, who to me stole the show. She was a friggin' riot. She was always trying to get uh, you know, Roger in trouble. I mean, kind of like on uh Phineas and Ferb with that sister, but 60 billion times funnier. Fred Berry played Freddie Reron Stubbs, Shirley Hemphill played Shirley Wilson, or vice versa. And uh Mabel Kims played Mabel Thomas, and she was funny too. You know, she always took them up to beat them with a belt after, and um, she left the show after two years, unfortunately, because she did not like how it portrayed the black family without a father. And and uh yeah, she that really bothered her, and um you know, Shirley took over for at the house, but you know, Shirley was a wise ass too. She had the soda shop down there, and friggin' one of the best dancers of all time was rerun. Fred Berry. Oh yeah, he could friggin' dance, man. And uh, you know, of course, uh freaking Dwayne, he was afraid of everything. But it just I remember this show big time, and it started when I lived in Littleton, it ended when I lived in hell, and um it was do you guys recall the show? Of course, Mark.

What's his theme song's been going through my head since you started talking?

Oh god, they're playing the dribbling the basketball, running up and down the sidewalk, headed to school, and you know I'll never did not, oh my god, she suffered, did not suffer fools gladly. I would not mess with her.

What's happening? What a great picture! I love that show. Awesome show. All right, so I guess I'll wrap it up at number one, and this is gonna be probably no surprise for you guys, and probably for half the audience that has heard me talk about this before. Can't be Kiss Meets the Phantom. No, it is not Kiss Meets the Phantom.

That's what I was thinking. Wait, did Kids have a TV show? No, 19.

It's 1987, and it's the it's North Shore. I mean, of course, this movie is just friggin' spectacular. Just Matt Adler, kid from Arizona, wins a uh uh surf contest in a surf tank and wins 500 bucks, which apparently back then was plenty to get you to Hawaii and spend the summer there. So, anyway, kid goes to Hawaii, he meets uh John Philbin, who you guys might know from Tombstone as well. A surfer dude, shaper, who just they become friends and I'd like to learn how to say it.

Yeah, you kind of gotta learn how to surf first of all. Yeah, I'm pretty good. Yeah, I can tell you're lame by the way you wear your shorts.

He meets the girl over there. It's every 80s movie that ever happened. Like they did it with surfing, they did it with BMX biking, they did it with diving, they did it with every sport made to man, you know. Kid just starts out loving this sport, you know, and excels at it. And it's really coming of age. If you watch the movie, it's it has countless, countless one-liners. It's one of the most quotable movies I've ever watched.

Plenty of Holly Surfers, but we'll blow them away, bro. Whatever.

A few of my friends still quote it every time we speak to each other, including DeGee, Chris De Gange. Rubit, oop, one of my good buddies who is now a loyal listener. So thank you, Chris. Uh my buddy Ben uh constantly quotes it with me every time we're hanging out together.

From Arizona, that's what you mean.

Yeah, he went hot ripper.

He went bad shredder, yeah. He bought his sticky shred so bad.

Go back to Arizona, Harley.

There's so many one-liners in this movie. It's so much fun and just I I can't say enough about it, but I'll end it at that because I've talked about it over and over. But you guys, if you haven't watched it, just check it out. I mean, is it gonna play as well as it did in the 80s now? Probably not, but if you fucking watched it back then, you would have loved it.

And that's kind of funny, you know. We were talking about like you with Lebowski and and whatever else. I think to sometimes there's an arc with movies that the time and place is important, without question, and if you miss that moment, and the other thing I think is that if you hear somebody talk about a movie or a show so much, like when when you're that guy on the outside that hasn't seen the movie, and then you the hype gets too much, and then you watch it and you're like, Yeah, it was okay. Yeah, I mean, I'm just not saying that's gonna happen there, but that just sometimes absolutely when everybody loves it, right, and you don't know it and you're late to the game, you're kind of like, yeah, you know, I don't see it.

I don't see it, I don't see it. Hey, everyone likes what they like, we say that all the time.

Yeah, but I think what Kevin says has so much truth to it because I like what I like, and maybe I would have fucking loved it if I watched it then, you know. So I think our age and everything has to do with that, just like he's saying. Oh, absolutely. Awesome boys. Well, yeah, a fun episode that we can definitely nail down countless episodes. Well we could do over 82, obviously. Well, yeah, so much fun. I just love going back in time, and it's like I was in the 80s for a couple hours, you know, and I love that shit.

Yep, which is exactly what we're about, the cast that brings you back.

That's right.

Yes, forget all that other stuff that's going on. Remember when shit was funny, and we didn't care.

Remember then when people actually laughed at shit, and you go to a movie that was actually worth paying the the four dollars for instead of the 40. Right. Unbelievable. Awesome boys. Well, I guess we'll just wrap it up then, Kevin. Thank you. Thank you, yes, brother Mark.

Hey, it was a lot of fun, guys, and uh hope y'all listen and we'll talk to you soon.

Awesome, and dungo. Eight was a lot of fun, thanks. Yes, indeed, and thank you all out there for listening. We can't appreciate it more, and we are out of the way.