ER & Duck Dodgers

ER

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review an hour of film stuff from men whose criticism skills are as questionable as Harvey Weinstein's workplace conduct. This week we're going full Tarantino, which means excessive dialogue, gratuitous violence, and an an uncomfortable fixation on female feat.

Basically indistinguishable from any other week. Then first up we're talking about the top five Tarantino moments, not just his movies, but anything associated with the man. And then following that, we're taking a detour from our usual cinematic blood bath to examine Tarantino's foray into television with er season one, episode 24 motherhood where we, and by that I mean everyone but me find out if his signature style works when the only thing being chopped, chopped off is an umbilical court.

And the kids TV segment. We're checking out Duck Dodgers season three, episode 11, master in Disaster, which does indeed have a Tarantino connection more obscure than whatever was in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase. All that's left to do is introduce the dad, starting with Dan. He so old.

He remembers when Tarantino was in diapers, and at this point probably needs one himself.

Dan: Ah

Reegs: just barely participating is delightful. Chris, he believes any movie longer than 90 minutes is the equivalent of waterboarding and his taste in films is narrower than Vincent Vega's tie. If it doesn't involve a heist, he considers it art House bullshit.

Next up, his pullout game is so weak that the maternity ward has a loyalty card with his name on it and his living room looks like a un refugee camp populated exclusively with children who have his unfortunate genes making a triumphant return to the pod. It's Peter.

Yeah, that's good, isn't it?

Yeah. And bringing the gimp out of storage, it's the man who this week has taken up smoking his meat. I'd make a joke about him jerking his brisket, but that would be way too obvious, really. And then there's me res Hello? Hello. You all right?

Sidey: very good. Yeah.

Reegs: So, Pete, you're back. That's nice.

Pete: I'm, yeah, yeah, yeah. This does, this, this evening does often clash or it does all, almost always clash with some extracurricular stuff that one of my offs, one of my many offspring do. So I struggled to get here on a

Monday,

Reegs: it's been a while, isn't it? Yeah.

Dan: We used to do it on a Tuesday.

Sidey: We did right Back in the day.

It was a Tuesday Fest, wasn't

Pete: do Tuesdays better

Dan: than,

that's why we do

Pete: yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Understandable.

Pete: So,

yeah. And also, like most of your company is intolerable. Yeah.

So that,

Sidey: that, yeah. Well, let's not get into what you've watched 'cause there's probably a million things, but I, I do know that there was something I I do know that you enjoyed the Joker f

Pete: Well, that, that was gonna be the one I was, I mentioned, so I, I'd never seen the Joker.

And

so I watched that and I really liked it.

And I know you are not that much of a fan, so, but I, I thought it was a really good film. Enjoyed it. And then I watched the first 35 minutes or so of the second one and thought, what the actual fuck am I watching? And turned it off

it.

Total fucking, and apparently it, it was just like all done to just like troll people.

Like

Sidey: just to kill it

Reegs: oh, we made it shit on purpose. Yeah. That's a good idea.

it makes sense

Pete: Yeah, no, it was, it was really wan and I haven't seen all of it and I don't care to either. And I watched loads and loads of other stuff, but I mostly in my hiatus have been watching Tarantino content.

Reegs: Yeah.

Hence this week's stuff. And we did Jackie Brown just before stumbled our way through that

Pete: for the midweek. Yep.

Yeah.

Dan: The thing is about Tarantino, he is got some great lines. I mean, great dialogue.

I know we're gonna get into it all, but that ultimately for me is what's made him really cool. Through Pulp Fiction and all the rest of the Reservoir Dogs. Just the, the dialogue of, of the films. I'm just reading one of the quotes, you know, you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize. It's just so clever.

It's there, there's a ton of them, so hopefully you've, you brought your A game for this.

Reegs: Oh yeah. No, I've bought some really mediocre stuff.

Dan: stuff. Brilliant. That is your A game. Yeah, yeah, mine too.

Sidey: I watched the Captain America Brave New World or whatever it's

Dan: What?

Sidey: It's really bad. Yeah. Didn't like it at all. This

Pete: the one with the guy who wasn't Captain

Sidey: America.

Yeah. Now

Pete: Captain America and he used to be called something

Sidey: else before. Yeah. Falcon. Yeah. And it's got Harrison Ford as a kind of Hulk thing. It's poo's. Really? Poo.

Reegs: Yeah. Red Hulk.

Dan: None

Sidey: turns it is a red hat. Yeah. And I I haven't watched adolescents, but it seems like the rest of the entire world

Reegs: I have, and it's good. The first, the first episode is amazing.

Pete: Yeah,

Dan: Yeah, that adolescence. I spoke to her, my mom about that and she went round to watch her at my sister's place and they did all like the whole series four episodes I think, isn't

Sidey: there? Yeah, yeah.

Reegs: we, we watched Boiling Point, right? And that was Stephen Graham and the same director Philip Barini. And this is the same but

Dan: better,

but it's just harrowing kind of stuff.

And it's really not what I want.

Sidey: I know I've just watched 45 minutes of Jared Bone and I dunno if I've got

Pete: is,

Sidey: I will at some point wouldn

Pete: think Steve, Stephen Graham, like I wouldn't wanna see him in like a whimsical comedy, if I'm honest. Like he's a fucking stellar actor. But he does bleak real, I mean all the, like, this is England stuff and he is done other things on like Netflix series and, and a couple of other bits and pieces.

It's all pretty like, yeah, bleak and harrowing and he does it really, really well.

Reegs: Yeah. But it's not just that,

Pete: Like it's all one, one take, like

Reegs: all one take and it feels plausible. And somehow they found the most incredible cast, like literally

Sidey: debut. Right.

Reegs: the kid's amazing. The lead actor is amazing. Everybody in it, even the bit Parters, they just seem to have found like a real.

Incredible thing that they've done. Yeah. It's, it's really great. I's urged to watch

Pete: and, and it's, it is not, it's restored a bit of my faith in Netflix, in, in the most of what I'd watched on Netflix series especially. Right. First 15, 20 minutes of everything.

Unbelievable. They've got me hooked in. This is a brilliant premise and it always starts straight into the action. 'cause they know that the first 15 minutes is like, they're like prime time engagement. Like, you know, period. And then after that just diminishing returns to some sort of wishy-washy, bollocks ending.

Reegs: would say that the very first one is absolutely

Pete: brilliant. It's, and it's straight

Reegs: one drops off slightly, but it has quite a lot of heavy lifting to do in setting out its main themes and stuff, so, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah,

Pete: no, it is

Dan: Yeah, I, I'm, I'm not gonna watch it because it's just, I want something a little bit lighter, I think. And I like Steven Graham he's doing something called A thousand

Reegs: Yeah.

Name of your 16th.

Dan: I wish. But,

Sidey: heard it's not so great.

Dan: yeah. But probably lighter in subject matter. But I haven't actually watched very much this week.

Sidey: I watched Tintin as well,

Dan: the film,

Sidey: the spiel, the Spielberg one. Yeah.

Reegs: Oh, it's good because

Sidey: I was at home with man and I thought, let's chuck that on. It's good. Yeah. I enjoyed it. It's good.

Reegs: I'll

Pete: it's good. I'll really quickly, something that I've seen that I, that I'm looking forward to is coming out at the end of the, the month is a new, like, I dunno if it's Guy Richie, but he's definitely attached to it. Is it Mob Land?

Dan: Alright.

Pete: it's a prequel series to Roy, Ray Donovan. Roy Donovan, one of those.

Sidey: Oh, Ray Donovan.

Pete: Yeah. It's like a prequel, but I don't think you have to have watched that in order to enjoy this. But it's but it's got, like Tom Hardy's the main guy. It's like Patty Considine Helen Miran. Pierce Brosnan. It's like a really good, like British cast. It's an American, like it's on show, what's it, Showtime or whatever it is.

A guy Richie's attached to it somehow and it sounds really good.

Okay.

So I'm gonna watch that.

Sidey: See,

Pete: Chris, did you watch anything?

Cris: Oh

yeah. Well, I watched some Mexican film about, I can't remember the name of it.

Sidey: Amelia

Cris: No. Fuck that. No, I'm not watching that again. No, there was a, it's a kind of like a, like a soldier's team that like kind of, they fight against the cartel and they get ambushed and it was Mexican and I just fancy the foreign movie and I quite enjoyed that.

And I've also started watching a movie, I think it's a series on Netflix, but it said limited series, which kind of draws my interest because hopefully they never do the second season again. It's based on a true story about a Korean guy that goes to somewhere in, I, I'm gonna say Columbia, but it could be, it could be Ecuador.

And it's like these south Koreans end up, it is like a, he's a teacher and he ends up in south in I'm gonna say Colombia, but I think it's one of the other, I think it's Ecuador and they, and he becomes a drug dealer and blah, blah, blah. But I've only watched the first episode, so I'll tell you how it goes.

It's quite good actually. Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: We had a norm online for a top five bangs.

Dan: Oh,

Sidey: Oh, bang, bang, Reeves and Mort.

Reegs: oh

Sidey: that was Darren Luthy. Not

Pete: the strongest series.

Sidey: but still,

Pete: from, from those two, but still

Sidey: Bangers.

Should we get into this week? Top five?

Pete: Yes.

Sidey: Top five Tarantino moments.

Dan: There's quite a few. This is Pete's Tarantino week, isn't it?

Sidey: Yeah. Big time.

Dan: I feel that,

Pete: being teed up here.

Dan: No, I, I feel you know that. We

Pete: go first.

Dan: week. Should go first.

Pete: Okay.

So you can interrupt him.

Reegs: Yeah.

Is that what's gonna happen?

Here's

Dan: No. There's none of that shenanigans.

Stay professional.

Reegs: He, I, he's got synesthesia. Did you know that?

Pete: is that?

Reegs: It's you see words and colors.

Cris: What?

Pete: What?

Reegs: Apparently it's a, it's a condition that,

Cris: when

you read, when you read words, they appear in different colors.

Yeah,

Reegs: I guess.

Pete: Yeah. Oh, not like you look at colors and there are words in them.

Reegs: No, I, well, I, I dunno, it's

Pete: Well, words in colors. To have either of those two meanings.

Reegs: So

Sidey: Is that like a form of dyslexia?

Pete: like you've researched this very heavily. Re

Reegs: don't

I haven't an explanation. God, I've only got about three

Pete: I hope the rest of your content is better than this.

Reegs: Well, you'll have to find out when you have a go now.

Pete: Is that, was that

Reegs: Yeah, yeah,

Pete: Yeah. That's one of

Reegs: I've started. That's

Pete: Tarantino moments. Yeah. Is he's got something and I'm not sure what it is. Yeah, okay.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Pete: Strong start. Who's next? Yeah. Well, no, we can't, we have to go either clockwise or anything. We can't jump around

Sidey: gun approach. We're going non-linear. It's a non-linear

Pete: Okay. Mainly because I started doing this about four o'clock today. I'd just gone with scenes. So it's, it's, it's Tarantino scenes. We don't wanna like, you know, go all the way through all of his stuff because we have spoken about it

Sidey: game kicks off

Pete: And, and also, yeah, the, the football kicks off again soon.

Dan: Jack Rabbit, Slims dance scene in Pulp Fiction. You know, that's when John Travolta and Owen the Thurman got

Sidey: that. Why can't you get her name? It's three letters.

Cris: It's not Irma. It's not

Sidey: we had this last week.

Dan: when, you know as well as I do, she

Cris: all right, you

Sidey: oh, is this a pet name thing?

Dan: and they have that, that dance sequence. And, and anybody who's seen me dance on the pod before knows how good these kind of movements are.

Pete: You've, you've got some moose? Yeah.

Yeah. You've got some jagged Jagger esque

Dan: And,

Reegs: gotta say. I didn't like that. Whatever that was, that was more like the

Sidey: was like Rod Hamu

Cris: It's like a gi ga like a weird

Dan: Well, I think if you watch it again, you'll realize where that came from. And it's one of well it's one of cinema's most. Kind of iconic scenes really, isn't

Cris: What are you Dancing?

Dan: dancing me dancing. And also that

Sidey: she wants to dance,

Dan: you know, there's that

Reegs: $5 milkshake

Dan: them a little bit.

There's

Sidey: he is been instructed to take her out, isn't he?

Dan: yeah, there's that scene where he goes back and then everybody says it now when they go, oh, I love it when I go to toilet and my food's there when I come back. And, you know, all those kind of, you have

Reegs: that little square on the

Pete: but she draws a rectangle. Like don't, don't

Reegs: a

Pete: a rectangle and doesn't say it and then draws a rectangle like that. That's all, that's quite annoying. Michael Madson was meant to play Vincent Vega, but he had like a, he had something else or whatever, and I saw an interview with him and he was saying, I'm so glad 'cause that that scene was in the film.

And he's like, I cannot dance But obviously Travolta

Dan: Travolta, we all realized how cool Travolta was because he another one that. His career had just kind of fallen off a cliff. He was doing what? Two men and a baby. Or three men and a baby, all that kind of stuff. It was, well, he takes two or baby

Sidey: and he's a Scientology nut,

Dan: Yeah, he

Sidey: Scientology. So his career

Cris: draw flies his own planes. So you

Sidey: because

Reegs: yeah. It probably hadn't leveled up enough.

Sidey: Oh yes.

Pete: he'd ne he'd never done anything. I mean, like, you know, Saturday Night Fever is a bit, is an edgy film, but he does a lot of like, really cool dancing in

Dan: Grease

Pete: and grease. That's very edgy.

Sidey: Griggs loves that.

Pete: But he'd never done things where he is like, you know, firing guns and

Cris: off.

Sidey: carry.

Pete: that was after, that was after Pulp Fiction. We're talking about

Sidey: No, he did carry, he was an asshole. And Carry, wasn't he?

Dan: But it was after that. His resurrection, erections erection, career erected.

Over to you. Go now side, I guess.

Sidey: I wasn't ready for that, was I?

He well, I think what stands out really is his acting career. Yes. Above,

Pete: above everything else

he

Reegs: cameos

in all of his movies. Does he?

Cris: Except for one?

This is the only my, that's the only bit of knowledge I have because everything else is being talked about because he's so famous.

Reegs: he cameo in Jackie Brown is the voice on the

Sidey: the

Pete: the Answerphone machine message

Sidey: Interesting. And anyway he does believe, I think that he's a great actor. I would probably not agree as vehemently as he, you know, we see him in, he's not so bad in Reservoir Dogs to be fair. He's sort of dweeb be character that he does in Pul Fiction.

I'm not so into, no, the one in Django is fucking terrible. He

Reegs: the N word doesn't he

Sidey: Yeah.

Pete: A few. Yeah.

Reegs: himself a chance to say it.

Dan: Dust to Dawns his best bit. But which one hadn't he been in, do you say?

Sidey: Is

he in death proof?

Cris: No,

he hasn't been in, but he, you can hear the sound of his voice.

Pete: Oh, that's Jackie

Sidey: Brown. That's Jackie Brown.

No. Oh no. There is a picture of him actually. He's a dead guy in Jackie

Cris: Yeah, no.

there is the narrator in the Hateful eight.

He cast himself as the

Reegs: Yes.

Pete: is. Yep.

Reegs: Yes. good knowledge Chris.

Pete: That is, that is strong knowledge. Yeah. I don't think it like,

Sidey: he, he's in planet Terror. He has his crotch melted off by a zombie as he's about to rape someone, which is

Reegs: it's the way you'd want to go, isn't it?

Pete: Mm. I think he's, he's solid in in from Doil Dawn, but it's because he's playing like a creepy, like spectrum weirdo. Yeah. Which is essentially himself. Yeah. And he's, and there's foot content in there as well.

Reegs: Yeah. It's off

Pete: she's Yeah. Juliet Lewis in the in the camper van or whatever you call it.

Yes. Winnebago.

Reegs: He's a soul man, isn't he?

Pete: Yeah. Is there, was there anything in particular that was a highlight of

Sidey: Yeah. The crotch melting zombie bit. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: It is. Good. Is it?

Dan: he's

Sidey: anyone, just shout

Pete: Chris or myself.

Cris: I can also go again with a cameo of his, where you only see him very briefly in once upon a time in Hollywood at the very end, in the Red Apple cigarettes,

Pete: Oh yeah. Yeah. he's like the,

director of the, the advert or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Cris: So, so that's again, one of them that he kind shows himself, but. Not, not completely shows himself, but you know, he, he puts himself in his own movie, which can be or can be. He also apparently has a, he is been famous for repeated actors that he works with for, for most of his movies because apparently he's got all these idiosyncrasies and he is a bit weird on set and he doesn't get on with all the actors, but the ones that he actually gets on and they understand his ideas and what he wants to do, he'll cost them again and again and

Dan: You, you see that in er and yeah. And Dust. Who Dawn with Gloria Hill?

Pete: Well, and Clooney as well. Yeah. But yeah. I dunno who Gloria Hill

Dan: Gloria Hill is. Gloria Hill's, the, the bank clerk that

Pete: Yeah. So this is the, and the woman whose like son or daughter or whatever doesn't make it. Yeah, I recognize her.

Yeah.

She

Dan: is. Like, and she hasn't been in much, but. Tarantino

Pete: I can't believe you knew her name

Dan: back from Oh yeah. She's she's very

Reegs: well 'cause he's got an encyclopedic knowledge of, of cinema. He is seen like absolutely

Pete: I still haven't had a go down. Shut up the fuck up.

Dan: Zoe was another one that Tarantino, he was executive producer on, but he wasn't really much involved as you'd know. Pete, go on. Have a go.

Pete: No, he is a good film there. Yeah, I That's what, in fact, that's one I didn't revisit 'cause I was doing all sort of

Dan: Well he wasn't, he was really only involved in the promotion of it

Pete: Oh right, okay. We just said it was good.

Dan: Yeah, no, he was executive producer,

Pete: Yeah. That's, that's not worthy of a credit. Well, if we are gonna talk about hi. His, his acting, one of my favorite scenes of the film Desperado

Sidey: the joke, Is it the joke?

Pete: Yeah. Well, it's sort of joke. It's, it's the, it's it's the bar scene. Yeah. So obviously got like, you know, Cheech and the other guy who's also in from Dust Dawn and stuff, and he comes in with like a, like a, a, a faceless goon and they check out and then they get to sit at the bar and drink Piss warm Chango is is the, like the, is the beer that they have.

But

Tarantino

tells the, the joke about the bartender like pissing. He bet. Have you seen this, Chris?

Cris: Derado? Yeah.

Yeah.

Pete: But you know the scene I'm talking about. So he comes in and sits down and so like, but he tells a story about a guy who bet the bartender that. It that he, he could like piss in a glass, like right down the end of the bar and da da da.

And what the, the joke is that he made a bet before with some other people that he could piss all over the bartender and the bar, et

Reegs: guy would give him money or he'd give him some money

Pete: he'd give him some money. So then he pays, he pays what he owes to the bartender and keeps the rest and so on, and then they're laughing about it, and then the guy next to him just gets, like, executed straight away.

It's like his ID didn't check out. And that's, I think that's where Tarantino works. Like as an actor. I'm not saying, you know, he's not even known for being an actor. And I think he's got some sort of like, level of credibility in like quirky little things like that.

Reegs: Well, just his like nervous

Pete: Yeah.

Like the way

Reegs: a character in itself, isn't it?

Pete: The way he's like going like, like pissing all over the bar and all of this sort of stuff. It's yeah. It's a good, it is a good film. I, I re-watched Desperado only got about halfway through once upon a time in Mexico

Reegs: Yeah, it's quite long as

Pete: Yeah. And I've never seen El Mariachi, but That's good. I'll have to give

Cris: Yeah, that is good.

Pete: Anyway. Someone else's turn.

Reegs: Well the, probably your favorite on my list, I would think. Danny is the Golden Girls.

If you remember that one, it was the classic sitcom where Betty White was like the dumb but sweet one, like the joey of the group and Blanche was the slutty grandma, which is really disgusting when you think about it. And you know, then they had the Dorothy, it was the sarcastic, no fucks giving type one.

I fucking hated this program. It was really

Sidey: I hate it. So

Pete: My mum used to watch it all the

Dan: I loved it.

Reegs: But our friend Miss, well he's not, is he friend of the

Sidey: party? Yeah,

Reegs: dunno. Yeah. Quentin Tarantino makes an appearance in one of the golden Girls episodes. You see this as

an

Pete: that episode, but I've seen the, the excerpt.

Reegs: Yeah. He's an Elvis impersonator in a group of them in a Golden Girls episode. And he used the residuals that he got from that screening to fund Reservoir Dogs.

Sidey: Oh, that's good. It said

Reegs: Yeah. Which would've been a lot.

Pete: big for

Reegs: 88 maybe. Yeah, yeah. Something like that. So, yeah, you can go and see it.

He's in the second row wearing a kind of cream colored jacket and a black shirt in the episode

Dan: That's Big Bucks Today. Imagine

Pete: bucks today. Yeah, yeah,

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: that would've been tons. And maybe somebody did him a

Pete: about this like haphazard like order thing, is that who we have to keep saying?

Who's go? Is it next?

Sidey: don't, we just set that out. We just set it out. What about the feet thing out of all his films that they've actually directed, which

Pete: I think you are more obsessed about his

Sidey: obsession Feet.

I am a bit than

Pete: is about feet. No,

Sidey: No, I don't think so, but I am a bit, it's the same

Reegs: level

Sidey: Yeah.

Which film? Which is the only one that doesn't have Bare Dogs? Yes. It does not have a women, a woman.

Pete: doesn't have any women in it

Dan: which is one of my top moments as well.

Just that classic scene when they're all looking really smart. Walking down dun.

Sidey: But they do it, they, they, he pays Hom to it in the hour. We'll see that. Sure. Yeah, so, his weird foot thing. I, yeah. I'm, I'm a bit obsessed by it.

Pete: yeah.

Another interesting fact about Reservoir Dogs is the torture scene because I'd watched an interview with Michael Manson about it, and which is where I found out about the, you know, he, Vincent bag couldn't dance, but the the torture scene where he cuts the policeman's ear off and stuff. So in, when he got the script, it was like, you know, his character, Mr.

Blonde, I can't remember who. Yeah, he's Mr. Blonde. Like dances around, like manically and he was reading this going like, I can't fucking dance with shit. And like, I've, I've now got to do this. And, and like, I think Tarantino had him like literally like whirling and twirling around like, and everything.

And then he put the music on. And they were, they were, they were rolling, but this was just like a run through sort of thing. And he came up with the, with the dance that he does, which is like far more kind of, you know,

Reegs: sinister.

Pete: Yeah, yeah. Like understated. But makes it even more sinister that he's just like, he's almost like a guy who's just put a jukebox on.

He is, had a couple of drinks and he's just gonna like slowly groove to it a little bit. Yeah. Just as he

Reegs: he's gonna take his time and enjoy this

Dan: cold calculated professional, like just absolute psycho shit, isn't it?

Yeah.

Pete: But he was a, but Madson literally came, like, made it up on the spot.

And that was what, like what? Stuck. Nice and nice little, nice little like Easter egg, I think it's called. His cutthroat razor

comes up somewhere else. Anyone remember it?

Dan: hateful Eight

Pete: Correct. Kill Bill. When the bride gets buried

in the

coffin, she's got a cutthroat razor in a, in a

Dan: Ah,

Reegs: the same

Pete: she eventually gets, and it's the same razor from Reservoir Dogs.

Dan: There you go. Yeah, no, that is, that is a classic one that I had down the Royal Cheese conversation. It's a another. Just really memorable Tarantino moment. I, I was just thinking then, like, which actors would you have liked to have seen, or what, what ones do you think would suit a Tarantino film?

Because I always thought Jack Nicholson would be a great Tarantino type actor. Must be a few others that would, you just think he does choose the people, as you said, Chris, that he's worked with before and you see them repeated in his movies and playing different characters. De Niro just did the one, didn't he?

Pete: Yeah,

They

Reegs: didn't get on.

Pete: But then he is also, he's also then got, he does like a sort of a, like a Scorsese esque thing as well, where it's like. You know, the ones that he got. 'cause then he, he started getting like DiCaprio involved. Yeah. In And why wouldn't you? He's a fucking

Dan: Well, DiCaprio's moment when he's. He's doing that talk and in Jango, and he, he bangs his hand down.

He actually

Sidey: carries on, yeah.

Dan: hand for reels. But you know what? A professional actor just carries on, brings that into the scene, makes it all the more kind of sinister again, and all the more sickening. And it's, it's like, isn't he start wiping his hand over? You know, you

Pete: yeah.

He wipes it on someone's face, doesn't he? Like, he's

Sidey: I've had aids. He,

Pete: well, he's gone. He, but did you see the interview with Jamie Fox, where like, DiCaprio had like, really like a massive problem with the M word. He was like, I, I'm fucking really struggling with this. And Jamie Fox is like, mate, get like, get on with it.

Like, we are here to do a job. Yeah. It's a word. Like, get on with it. Like, don't worry. And like DiCaprio was struggling every day on set and then he, he went

Reegs: couldn't stop saying it.

Pete: And

then, and then he went, like, he went away and came back in the next day. Jamie Fox like, said hi to him, whatever. And De Campari just blanked him and he just went like, full method and just basically became like the guy

Reegs: that was the way he was gonna deal with it.

Pete: Yeah. The only way he could deal with it was just to like, like immerse himself into the character and just be a fucking like really horrible, like degrading, like piece of

Reegs: Not gonna talk to

Dan: just so he knew he could turn it off

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. Yeah.

Cris: He can turn off the 21-year-old girlfriend's thing, but We can't let,

Pete: and why and why would

Cris: Or 24, whatever it is. But we'll let him off for that one. My last thing is, and it is also my norm it's a guest directed episode in the Itchy and Scratchy Show.

which is called Reservoir Cats.

Pete: Wow.

Cris: And Tarantino directed that. And it's in the middle of the cartoon. He comes out in the scene Yeah. And he explains that there's violence everywhere and blah, blah, blah. And one of them cuts his head off. Yeah. And then they dance around his corpse.

You knew that. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know that. I just did a, a, a bit of a

Reegs: that's always the Simpsons for every top five.

Cris: That's why, that's why I thought, because normally side is with a Simpsons reference. So I thought yeah,

Sidey: didn't have that one down.

Reegs: no, I forgot about

Cris: Be before him saying anything, I thought I'll nip in and this is my norm as well.

Reegs: is that what, what stage we're at?

Sidey: Not, yeah.

Cris: Well, no, I'm, that's where I, I am at because I've just finished. I've, I've, alright. You know.

Reegs: I've probably got one more up for discussion. I was gonna talk, I've got my norm after this, but I was gonna talk about his uncredited rewrites because we know about his filmography, but he did polishes and passes on the Rock and Crimson Tide.

Pete: Right. I knew about The Rock, but Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: And apparently a movie called It's Pat the movie which is ta sub lined the com comedic misadventures of a person of indeterminate gender. I haven't seen this one. But it's one of many Saturday Night Live spinoff movies. And it is, it really does revolve around the fact like a single joke that you can't tell what gender this person is and everybody is trying to find out.

So it sounds really homophobic, really, and very anti LGBT. But yeah, he, he wrote, did an uncredited rewrite on that one,

Sidey: Cool.

Pete: I feel like so side's got a fucking, absolute, like encyclopedia of references there.

Sidey: Yeah, I'm looking for one in particular, but that's my noob. We're not

Pete: quite on that.

I know Chris is numbed, but no one else has nommed yet, so why, why don't,

Dan: a nom

Sidey: well,

Pete: we've all got noms, but let's, let's rattle. Rattle through a few of those.

Sidey: really.

He has quite a history of kind of getting the arse with people that are interviewing him.

Pete: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: And he has one with, oh, what's his name?

Kristen Murphy. Guru

Reegs: Oh yes. Yeah. And

Sidey: And then he really loses it and they, it is always when they're asking, he, he's, when he gets asked about the violence of his films, that's when he gets the ars. And he's loads of times you, well, look, it's fun to see on screen. Yeah. And he gets asked it again and he says, I'm shutting your butt down.

He just fucking starts shouting him and he, he gets, takes the mic off and fucking leaves there. Yeah. But he is had it quite a few times. He,

Reegs: Jimmy Kimmel, he had a run in with him

Sidey: Howard Stern and a few others. I think he's lost it with, yeah. So, it doesn't like people

Dan: doesn't like it up him.

Sidey: methods. No.

Yeah,

Dan: no,

Pete: And what's not like to like about the violence?

It is because I'm not a horror fan, as we know, but his stuff is like comedic gore, like in a, in a lot of way. Like you think like the

Reegs: Marvin.

Dan: Yeah. No, you're right Pete. You go to a horror movie and you're gonna get a hell of a lot worse than that. You know? So

Reegs: Well I don't, in glorious

Pete: don't, don't list every horror film though.

But things like, like, like the Kill bill, the, what's it? The showdown at the House

Reegs: The crazy 88.

Sidey: yeah,

Pete: yeah. Just like people getting limbs, like chopped off, left, right and center and Big Spurting blood. All the stuff in the hate for eight, like people pretty much exploding when they get shot.

Reegs: in glorious bastards is

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Daisy do McGoo is, is getting like, as well as beaten up. She's getting like bloody vomit her brother's brain's, like splattered all over her and all, and all of that sort of stuff. Sexy. It is, it is pretty sexy. Really quickly. There's a lot of comedy in there as well. Things like the in Django and chain, like the, the KKK like bag head scene.

Yeah. It's just fucking brilliant. Where they're like ar arguing about they can't see out the eye holes. And then one of the guys, it's his wife who's been spent all afternoon making the bags and he's going like, he's getting a bit upset. She's like, well, you know, she tried her best, like she's working there all day and like one of one of them is Jonah Hill.

Yeah. Like you don't even get to see his face or anything. And then they all start riding around. They can't see anything. That's that's all pretty amazing. And, and like,

Reegs: do they end up getting burned to death in there or something? What happens to them? I can't

Pete: can't

remember. No, he shoots

Cris: the cart.

Pete: the, the, the dentist

Reegs: Oh yeah.

Pete: He's like got explosives on it. And another one, I know we've done the hatefully, but what's it? Samuel Jackson's description like, like the whole section to Bruce Stern, his character, general Smithers or whatever, about how his son died. And it's like every single time he keeps talking about basically how he made his son sock him off and he's going like, I put that big black Johnson like in his mouth.

And so, and like, he just like lingers on all the words around like his describing his dick and so on. So there's some fun bits and comedy in there as well. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: Is it

Norm's time? Let's have him go on Dan.

Dan: I'll go last.

Reegs: Okay, go on. Chris, you've been chomping at the

Cris: I've

numbed already. I, I can't say anything

Sidey: What was it?

Cris: The itchy and scratchy.

Reegs: yeah. Reservoir Cats.

Dan: Chy.

Reegs: I'm gonna go for maximum potential. It's a do Undre fitness video that he was a production assistant on. You can see some of it online, I can't confess to have watched it all. But it's comprised of body sculpting, boxing, shadow boxing, running, jumping rope, yoga, martial arts and more.

But it's also got like a stress management and mindfulness component to it. And Dolf re's a pretty clever guy. I watched about Five Minis. Five minis.

Sidey: sounds like a Jewish word.

Pete: watched

Sidey: watched

Reegs: five minutes of it online. And there was a baffling sequence where he described eating cereal, but putting apple juice instead of milk in it.

So I decided that was enough for me. But Colonel John Matrix said it helped turn his life around and gave him the body of the nineties.

Pete: John Matrix is, is is a

Sidey: a Schwarzenegger

Pete: schwartzenegger

Reegs: It is, yeah. But he, he is also is living a life online where he posts comments on No. Do longer and fitness videos.

Sidey: My norm is going to be that he was a guest judge on American Idol in 2004 and 2009. Ooh.

Reegs: Ooh.

Sidey: Because his self-proclaimed fan of the show.

So he appeared as the guest are

Reegs: Is that a singing one?

Sidey: Yeah. Which to me seems like the opposite of what, like I would never have expected him to be involved in something like that. There they go.

Dan: Or like maroon five. Yeah. But there you go.

Pete: Yeah, that's, I wish he hadn't told me that. I,

Sidey: think he's not as cool

Dan: He's got a

Pete: That's worse than the foot fe thing.

Sidey: Like Yeah. King Mar five.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: There's nothing wrong with maroon five.

Pete: No. You think you're wrong

Sidey: Nothing good about him. And to, to, I don't have a problem with him having a foot fe. That's fine.

Pete: Okay. Okay. Glad we cleared that up. My nomination, I mean, I haven't got anything as as interesting as what you guys have come up with. It's just

Sidey: No,

that's,

Dan: No. Doesn't surprise us,

Pete: and that, that isn't surprising and I was just thinking like his, his, you know, so many scenes that are iconic and everything, but I like his last film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

That whole finale is just fucking next level. Like, 'cause it's got

Cris: why just you just like it because he beats up women?

Pete: Yeah. Well,

Cris: Oh, okay.

Pete: no, I,

Reegs: also gave us that meme as well, didn't

Cris: Oh yeah, that one. Yeah. The,

Reegs: the pointing one.

Pete: Yeah. But yeah, obviously like Brad Pitt's character with, you know, he's, he's just had smoked some acid and doesn't think any of it's real.

So you've got like the comedy element there, but then like the

Reegs: like the flame thrower

Pete: ridiculous. Yeah,

Sidey: just waiting for it to pay off.

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Flame Throne and the, and the fact that it was like set up, like right. The, at the beginning of the film with like DiCaprio's scene yeah. Who

Reegs: I always think of the scene with DiCaprio on the set of the the, the movie that they're making.

Sidey: himself a pep talk.

Yeah, yeah. Amazing.

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I'm just going for the whole finale of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

Reegs: Lovely

Dan: And and as you said, it was his last film. That is my my top five moment that the fact that he said he is. Only gonna make 10 films. That will be his last film.

Sidey: No, he is, no, I think he's

Reegs: got one more

Pete: He's got one

Sidey: Bill as One

Pete: K Bill is one. So he is got one

Sidey: Just got

Dan: yeah. No, but the fact that he's said that he's only going to make 10 films, he'll count Kill Bill's

Sidey: As I also

Reegs: think it's awfully presumptuous to say that really early in your career.

Sidey: anyway. Yeah, but they don't have to be successful films because you look like loads of shit.

But he made, or

Dan: documentaries after

Sidey: an interview where he, he was talking about after, just after pop fiction, he said, you know, they were talking about Jackie Brown, why'd you make that? He goes

like completely

honest with you. Apart fiction, so successful, I don't have to work anymore.

Dan: No. Right.

Sidey: gives me the freedom to do exactly what I fucking want to do.

Yeah. So that's quite, you know, liberating as an artist. Yeah. If you wanna be pretentious about it. Yeah.

Dan: Absolutely. And, and, and so the fact that he wants to, and they're gonna be somehow connected through

Sidey: well, they're all the same universe sort of thing, isn't it? Red apple, sies and all that.

Dan: Well, there you go. That's my top five. So, we need we've got five top

Pete: Yeah, but we're gonna have a top six.

Sidey: Yeah. Top six this week.

Dan: have one.

Pete: Let's drink some hot wine.

Sidey: Bowen's had one

Dan: E

Sidey: Er

Cris: is that the American version of a and e,

Sidey: right? Yes. Emergency room.

Nce

Cris: okay. And it stands for emergency resuscitation, right?

Dan: room,

Pete: No,

Sidey: room. Just the room, just the location, the locale. This is set in Chicago and it is conceived and created by Michael Creon.

Dan: of

Sidey: Jurassic Park World.

Cris: Okay. Wow. The windy city.

Sidey: Yeah, it is the Wind City.

Yeah. I'm a big fan of the show.

Cris: Are you,

Dan: this is the first episode I

Sidey: in days gone by. Yeah. I watched loads of this. There are 311 episodes to

Reegs: seen 'em all?

Sidey: and we watched no I didn't, I haven't seen it to its finale. 'cause I didn't want I will, I will finish it. This,

Pete: Hang on, hang on. You, you. 'cause I didn't want to. And then you didn't wanna let

Sidey: but there wasn't really a reason to be honest. I think 'cause what used to happen was this used to be on, on a Thursday evening and the Thursday evening comprised of on E four when I lived at home. I think there were two episodes of friends, which I would watch.

Then there was Buffy and then er, so it was like three hours of solid just

Pete: sounds

Dan: I I think you, you didn't

Cris: so you, you spent three hours of your life just doing that every Thursday.

Sidey: Yeah. That's

Pete: waste of life.

Dan: for in a few wanks in between, I would imagine.

Sidey: I was watching it with my mom, so Yes.

Yes, I did.

Cris: That's, yeah.

Pete: ranking.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: But did you just not watch the last episode? 'cause you didn't ever want it to end?

Sidey: No, I think I'd moved out of my parents' house. So that kind of routine just kind of fell away. Yeah.

Dan: Well, I've got 310 episodes to go then if I wanted to

Sidey: complete this.

Yeah,

Pete: I I'm like you, Dan. I was an virgin.

I'd never seen

Sidey: So what I would say about is that it is it kind of looks and feels like your kind of standard hospital drama thing. You know, patients come in and blah, blah, blah. But what it does is it sets up load of things like plot things, but it doesn't generally give you the happy ending.

It kind of, what's the expression? or, I was gonna say something else. But yes, it does do that. So in this, in this one, you see there's stuff, it's the episode's called Motherhood. And it starts off with Susan Lewis and she lives with her sister, who's a bit of a fuck up. I think she's a drug addict.

And in this one where, 'cause we are perishing into episode 24 of the first series.

Dan: Do you know the reason I never watched this?

There's a, there's a doctor with glasses,

Sidey: Anthony Edwards, Dr. Green.

Dan: Dr. Green kind of balding.

Pete: He's in this one. Yeah.

Dan: I didn't like his face, so I never watched it.

Sidey: Top Gun.

Dan: Yeah.

Just didn't get on with him. Okay. I thought, no,

Sidey: He's kind of the lead in this. He's got top billing over Clooney. 'cause Clooney was, it was only on the up and up. When he is coming into this. He'd only done like, attack of the killer

Dan: Yeah, he was pretty big at the time, but I

Reegs: Yeah. What year was this?

Dan: just not carrying

Sidey: it was through the nineties.

So then Clooney, so in this, he's the pediatrics one, so he's like good with kids, but he's also a bit of a womanizer. We see him in this one. He's dating, he's got two women on the go and he gets caught out. But he's also, you might not have picked up on it, but there's one of the nurses who's arranging her, she's got her wedding about to kick off, but clearly and her have got a bit of a thing and they start dating.

Oh, yeah, yeah. All that shit going on. Wow. Is

Pete: So it's, it's got more. So

Sidey: but this

Pete: plot line and stuff then, or, or like

Sidey: Yeah, I mean it's like a casualty.

Pete: example. Casualty is like the British equivalent of,

Sidey: button to me on casualty. It's

Pete: Because like casualty doesn't really sort of

Sidey: this. This has a real strong through line because, you know, it's this, the, this season one is 25 episodes to it, so there's a long, you know, time that you get to explore people's journeys and whatever. This episode though that we chose is because it's directed by Quentin Tarantino. So I wanted to kind of watch it and see if he had, you know, his directorial flare and style impacted on this particular

Pete: is the thing. And you are probably then as a, obviously a complete er

Sidey: Mm.

Pete: Mm. Probably best place to determine that and you can leave the reveal to the end if you wish.

But I have nothing else to go by. I've got no kind of like, you know, control. So I

Sidey: leave it to the end because, it's quite integral to the whole chat really.

I would say that generally speaking, I was watching it going, I'm not seeing a lot in here that if I didn't know, you know? Yeah. If you didn't, he

Reegs: write any of the dialogue or do

Sidey: No. So this is like one of the first sort of things that he was doing where it wasn't his prop, you know, his ip, his thing, he didn't have real control over it.

And he said afterwards that he realized then that TV was really controlled by the execs and you would just like the camera operator, you know, point and click and stuff like that. And they wanted to have real control over it. So what he did was just did one take of everything. So they had no choice but to use all of his stuff.

So that was quite cool. And it does get crazily violent at one per at one

Pete: Well, what I was gonna say is that, and I don't know how much of the, you know, how much was his influence, but there's a couple of nods to things that either had already happened.

Yeah. Probably this is 95. So when was pulp Fiction? 94. Right? So last year. So there was, yeah, it was, yeah. So there was, there was a bit where like a bird got like, it wasn't quite the stabby needle, like Uma Thurman bit, but there was a girl, a girl got sort of injected, kind of hit and then immediately bolted up, right?

So like screaming and all of that. And then there was, and then in the same scene another girl came in who'd had her ear cut off, which was also very reservoir doy. Which was quite, it was all quite funny. I mean,

I

Sidey: yeah, it gets really violent that bit because there's girls on the gurney. One of them's dying, I think in the one because the camera will pan, you know, will just track through from one trauma room. There's a door, interconnect door goes through to that one, and then another woman bursts in and she has to be taken out by security.

And that was, to me, that was like the most Tarantino moment. But there's other touches where they're wheeling people through on a gurney. And they'll put the camera like a steady cam shot on there, so it looks quite stylish and stuff like that. Right. So there's, there's a few touches. There's a scene where Susan Lewis and Hathaway are on the roof of the Yeah.

Thing on a couple of sun lounges are sitting there and when they come back into the er, they're wearing the sunglasses. I think that was supposed to be the Reservoir Dogs kind of nod to the guys walking through. I thought it looked more like f and Louise to be

Dan: Well, at that scene they kind of both stroll through and it's wordless, isn't it? And it's just all done with an eyes and the nod because they see the sister sat on the stairs, despondent over, realizing she's a bit of a fuck up because she's brought a baby down into the ER ward that's about four hours old or something.

And Clooney said, oh, you want to get this baby back up stairs? Really don't wanna bring her down here. And it all kicks off in front of him.

Pete: Yeah. There's like a girl like coming, she's ODing and then there's all kinds of

Dan: and and then she realizes, what the fuck am I doing? And she just hands the baby over to her nurse, says, you take him back upstairs please, or her up back upstairs.

And the sister. Then yeah, as they say, they've just come down from the roof, they've got the sunglasses. They're looking very cool. It's not quite the slow motion walk, but it, it tracks them along and they just kind of nod.

Pete: It was quite, there was quite a bit of nipple action in that.

Dan: there was,

Sidey: yeah.

Pete: that I noticed,

Dan: was Joe Samy Sam on the t-shirt.

Pete: I wast Yeah,

I was looking at the T-shirt, but I didn't notice the you, that Sam

Sidey: Yeah, I know it's both of those things. I quite had the hotspot. So, in this one, Clooney is dating, I think he's stringing along one of the kind of big pharma execs.

And then he is got another girl on the go. He's he's a bit of a player, but also Anthony Edwards, Dr. Green, the one you hate 'cause he is his

Pete: you don't like bald

Sidey: yeah. His wife appears in this one, but he eventually, that doesn't work out because he loves Susan Lewis, the one whose sister's had the baby.

And that's one of the big setups. So I think it's maybe season two where she leaves, she, she decides she's gonna fuck off from the ER and she goes to the train station and bit like in Jackie Brain, like, will you follow her? Willie, this one, he does follow her. He goes down to the train station to profess his love for her and she's like, yeah, no, I'm, I'm not, I don't feel the same.

And she fucks off and leaves and you're like, oh man. That's the kind of defeating expectations was the term I was trying to think of before. Right. It's like that quite a lot. They'll just set up this big stuff and then it's quite miserable all the time.

Pete: It's quite like, I dunno again, if all the episodes are like there, but this is like, it's fucking fast

paced.

Sidey: they're all like that, like

Pete: from beginning to end and I mean, I guess obviously it's an emergency room. The thing is, it's like. Like I said, anyone been like, especially like, been in an intensive care unit and it, it's fucking honestly completely

Sidey: quiet. Yeah. Yeah. It's nothing like this

Pete: and quiet and all you can hear is beeps and stuff like that.

But

Cris: you also looked amazing in it. Like you also looked amazing in that picture

of you at the hospital. I dunno if that was the emergency room, but it was,

Pete: I dunno what you're talking about, Chris, but I I'm sure it did look amazing. Yeah. But it's, it's kind of like you got cash, you

picking

Dan: up your shoes? For those of you who, dunno, Pete's got some orthopedic shoes on.

Pete: Aren't they? Yeah.

Yeah. You just got jealous when

Dan: They're nice,

Pete: them. Yeah. And lucky you can't afford these.

Sidey: But it needs a certain level of drama. So you will have you know, there'll be the human elements where the people are talking and someone will crash through the doors.

They'll be like, we need a gurney, then we need a blah, blah blah. I picked up loads of terminology about what things were gurney

Dan: definitely got gurney down. Where was she get,

Sidey: They said, they said in this one that one of the kids needed a spinal tap. Oh yeah. And then when they start talking, he goes, lb. And I'm like, lp. I'm like, that's lumbar puncture.

'cause my son had that when he was in hospital and they won't let you be in, in the room for that 'cause it's fucking

Dan: spinal tap sounds

Sidey: And they really downplay it and the kid just comes back from it, like, as if nothing's happened. I'm like, I know that that procedure is fucking grim.

Dan: jumping

Pete: One thing I did notice, and I know again, this is just general stuff as opposed to Tarantino stuff, is that the amount of people who aren't, who are like, you know, relatives or just people who have come in to see their friends or relatives who work in the emergency room, whatever, who

Sidey: to stroll around. Yeah,

Pete: into

Sidey: theater. Yeah.

Pete: like while still, well it is not like theater, theater, but it's like the, the like the emergent, the different

Sidey: rooms. Yeah. I think the mother walks in, doesn't it?

The mom walks

Pete: in at the, and gets like, put out the, like this, this doctor is like saving someone's life. And it's like, oh no, no, just gimme five minutes. Like something that, you know, this kind of like CPR going

Dan: you can't really go in there mom.

It's like, what are you doing

Pete: like, what the fuck is completely lawless

Sidey: But, but they will try and show you like the hierarchy of the hospital. So you get the surgeons who are obviously like the top dogs. And then in this one you've got Noah, wild character. He's on his rotation and he wants to be a surgeon and he's told, actually, we haven't picked you. Yeah. But he's also already told the er guys that he doesn't, he's not taking that role, so he's kind of left in limbo.

You get all this, you know, all the character acts, the politics. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. You get the, the doctor who's has to go and tell. And we Gloria Hill that her son has died.

Sidey: Yeah. And in this one, the same language comes back at him. 'cause his mom dies in the nursing home later on. Yeah.

Dan: And as we said in the midweek, Gloria Hill was also connected with Tarantino Tarantino in dust Hill. Dawn,

Pete: Tarantino rapes and murdered her in from

Dan: dust Dawn. Yeah. Yeah.

Pete: And obviously.

Dan: her.

Pete: yeah, true, true. Yeah. We just saw it in like Flashes. It was like Clooney obviously. Also er,

Dan: I believe she was married to a TV

Pete: Benny Hill, that's, yeah. She married to Benny Hill. Yeah.

Sidey: But I think it was Clooney's influence that got Tarantino involved with this through Dust Dawn working together on that.

And he said, well, you know, come and do this. And yeah, I will, they, they do try and try and, you know, freshen it up. They'll get different people involved. Like Tarantino, they did one episode that was entirely broadcast live, so, so the choreography with that would've been quite intense.

Pete: I imagine back in the day it was quite sort of groundbreaking.

As a, as a,

yeah. 'cause you think this is like obviously 95, but that was this episode

Sidey: They had this 20 odd, it's 20 odd. Didn't, there was 94

Pete: that it kicked off

Sidey: or there was another. Hospital drama. American one, it set in Chicago called Chicago Hope running at the same time.

And to me that was a lot more prosaic. It was not anywhere a patch on er. So I'm a big fan of this. Did you,

Pete: you, were you in, you felt, I feel like you were invested in the, in the characters and their various arcs and stuff.

Sidey: quite a lot of people in it as well,

Pete: but I, I'm not a fan. Like I don't have to have happy endings with everything. But I found all the British soaps, like Coronation Street in East Enders and everything like that, all the, ultimately all the people you were rooting for, like, it never really worked out well for them.

And this sounds like one of those as well.

Sidey: Yeah. I mean, Anthony Edwards

Pete: ever any like, happy endings with anyone or

Sidey: No, not really.

Anthony Edwards has like a, he, he, I told you about the woman with the Trainman. He goes to Susan Lewis. He eventually gets together with an English doctor. He'd recognize her.

I can't think of her name. And they, they're happy for a little while, then he gets a brain tumor and dies. So stuff like that, it's just always happening. It's a drama at the end of the day. So. They gotta keep the dramatic

Pete: Yeah, I suppose

once, once you've got the happy ending, that's kind of finished that arc, hasn't

Sidey: So tar, this is Tarantino. I think it was his first foray in something where he wasn't like completely in control of it. But he also, I think he did a double episode of CSI, which is like really formulaic and like complete garbage in my opinion. And so I'm surprised that he would get involved with that.

Dan: They were just huge shows though, weren't

Sidey: Bigger than that, Dan.

Dan: bigger than that. And I dunno, maybe it was a strategic thing to grow his audience and just put out his name into these

shows.

Sidey: he has, he has like been on record of saying that he just doesn't like tv. As a viewer he says, you know, you watch, I can't remember like Chris, he'll say I watch a series.

I can't remember like who the villain was or what happened, but you know, any movie, they just seemed to stick with him more, you know, just you get more time for character development, stuff like that.

Reegs: He's a big Star Trek fan though, isn't he? He was.

Sidey: was. There was rumor of a Star Trek movie Yeah. That he is not gonna do it.

No,

Pete: no.

but what you said, but earlier aside in this episode was about Tarantino and pulp fiction especially.

So this Pulp fiction had already

happened. Before

this was that he had made enough money to then just

Sidey: be able to

Pete: do whatever he wanted. So I don't think it's as cynical as that, that he's like, I'm trying to like, you know, further my reach and audience and, and stuff like that. I think it maybe he was a fan of the show and, and

Dan: well, he, he did.

What would you say? America's Got Talent or something like that?

Cris: I,

Sidey: American

Idol. Yeah. Yeah. Just as things that he likes, I guess.

Dan: out. Yeah, that's right.

Sidey: But

Reegs: I'd like to see him do sci-fi or something like

Sidey: yeah. That's the one genre.

It's just not been anywhere near apart from the cartoon we're gonna talk about. But I wouldn't say that like, you know, if it wasn't Tarantino directing this episode, I don't think it would really make that much difference, I don't think, you know, that it's like, has a huge. You know, Tarantino footprint on what we've seen in this episode, but I still really like the show.

It was great.

Dan: Yeah, I mean, for me, the only bit that I recognized it being Tarantino was that Gloria Hill actress who was in Dust Hill, Dawn other than that,

Having based it on seeing absolutely no other ER episodes. It was fast paced, it was all the things I expected er to be. I wasn't into it really then. I wasn't hugely into this to be honest. I watched it, but it wasn't the kind of thing that I could really get involved in too

Pete: It didn't

Sidey: with the next 310 episodes,

Dan: Yeah,

Pete: did, it didn't make me want to go and watch more episodes of er if I, if I'm honest, but I felt that it was more, there were quite

Sidey: a

few.

Was it better than you were hoping? You feared?

Pete: yeah. Well, yeah, because I, I, I, I dunno, I couldn't tell you exactly why I can't, Ima, I'm not a massive fan of like American comedies, like series or a ma like, or dramas or anything along those lines.

I just find them all to be like. Too cliche or like just where the comedies are concerned, not funny. And it, and it was, it was entertaining as an episode. I didn't want to like, I wasn't like, oh, I can't wait for this to end or it didn't drag, it's only 45 minutes. Something like that. Yeah, I thought, I felt like there were nods too, but maybe I was reading too much into it.

Like I say, like, you know, the, that scene as those scenes especially, which all, you know, girl comes in ODing and the guy's like, I save her pulp fiction, like the puncture thing into the, and then she comes back, pulp Fiction, the ear being cut off Reservoir Dogs. There was like quite a few things that nodded to that.

But I dunno if they had already been written and were already included. But yeah, other than that for me. Did you watch this, Chris?

Cris: Not this episode. I have watched er when I was growing up, it was on Romanian television and it was a big thing. I can't remember if it was I think it would've been a Friday night if I remember correctly. And it would be, like you say on Thursdays, it would be one of them that it would be seven o'clock right before the news.

Right. And news were at eight. So big prime

Sidey: over here?

Cris: Pardon?

Sidey: was post watershed after, over here after nine o'clock.

Cris: Oh, was it? Okay. No. Romanians, they don't give a shit, especially back then. Yeah. But it was never, I was too young. To understand and, and this drama as a child, for me as a, at the time when this was shown, my interest was Cartoon Network and MTV, not, not a serious drama.

So

Sidey: do you and you dodged this Riggs?

Reegs: I, I didn't really get a chance to be honest. I just about got it. Was this or Jackie Brown. Really? Basically that was the time I had available.

Pete: And we know you love the brown.

Reegs: Yeah, I got amongst the

Sidey: brown. Where's a strong recommend from me?

Dan: Yeah. Strong recommend.

why not

Pete: strong recommend.

Reegs: Absolute horse shit. Just to redress the ballads,

Sidey: lies. Duck Dodgers. Yeah, I about a minute in and I realized what the gag was.

Pete: what were, can, can we just address like how

Sidey: I didn't know it was gonna be Daffy Duck for a start?

Pete: Well, how completely blindsided I was. But the fact that Tom Jones sings the fucking theme

Reegs: Yeah. And it's arranged by the flaming Lips as well, so

Pete: Like I,

Sidey: should we put it in here?

Reegs: here? Yeah. Yeah. It's a kind of,

Pete: Tom at his

Reegs: of boss Nova Big,

Sidey: Really

Dan: Tune

Pete: it's, it's abundant. It's Thunderball really, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It was immediately recognizable as Sir Tom. Yeah. But I'd never ever heard of Duck Dodgers.

Sidey: but as soon as I searched it, I'm like, oh, it's like Daffy Duck then, and then they're doing the thing.

I'm like, oh, I get it right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Dan: I tell you what, I

Reegs: Duck Dodgers.

Dan: this, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Doug Dodgers in the 21st

Reegs: 24th. and one half

Dan: yeah, yeah, yeah. I,

Sidey: he's been cryogenically frozen.

Dan: Like, Chris's

Sidey: The episode that you put on the chat Yeah. Was series three episode 11.

Yeah. But it's the, where I found it, it was episode 18.

Pete: Did you find it on

Minority Box? yeah, yeah. yeah. So it was episode 18 on mine. I found

Reegs: but it, well, I watched it on daily motion, which missed the very ending of the thing off it.

You'll have to tell me what happens

Sidey: Oh,

okay.

Pete: Well, we will do.

Reegs: Yeah. And also, it's served up a minutes advert for every two minutes I

Sidey: watched. Ouch.

So

Reegs: it took me like 25 minutes to watch this 10 minute episode. Yeah,

Pete: Well, it was a 12 minute episode, but you missed the last two minutes. So, yeah.

Dan: As, as I remember it, and it's been a while since I, I've seen this and I, when I say a while, I'm, I'm thinking like 30 years or something.

This is

Cris: He's watched it before he came out

Dan: odd.

Sidey: He invented it.

Dan: Is he in a black suit?

Sidey: Yeah,

Reegs: sometimes. it's, it's it's got the sort of CSO dynamic where he's a sort of clownish, self confident but kind of incompetence like agent with his hyper competent cadet alongside him.

Sidey: And

Pete: Who is, is that

Sidey: Porky Pig. Poy pig.

Reegs: was Porky Pig. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah.

Yeah,

Reegs: Voice by a real pig. I think

Dan: This is older than 2003. I'm sure

Sidey: There's, there's someone in charge. They're sort of, they're doing some sort of spy slash espionage slash

Reegs: they're

in a museum, aren't they? And there's all these things getting they, they're like trying to protect these valuable artifacts and the whoosh turns

Sidey: a video call on his

Reegs: yeah, from the

Sidey: personal said

Pete: like,

like Porky Pig. The cadet has got like an aliens suit on or whatever, but it just seemed to be in like the normal

Reegs: Yeah. I couldn't understand that. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. I think you just have to suspend your disbelief for this re

Reegs: mm-hmm.

Sidey: willing suspension of disbelief.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: call on his Apple watch from

Sidey: the guy says Right. The whoosh. And they, and he's like, they always come up with these stupid names and we can see the guys like got all the name ideas behind them. And, but basically this guy is kinda like the flash. They can just zip around and steal things and people can't see him doing it.

Reegs: Yeah. And literally under their noses, stealing things and getting away from them and blah, blah blah.

Dan: Sorry, just to correct Pete duck Dodges in the 24th and half century 1953 first appearance.

Pete: when you, when you were a

Reegs: saw the

Pete: Yeah, yeah,

Dan: I knew I'd seen this when I was back in my sixties. Yeah.

Reegs: And they go somewhere else to kind of, they, after the museum, they go to like a donut van to stake him out.

And he appears in the van and all this sort of stuff, doesn't he?

Sidey: Yeah. His boss then says, I've been studying him from some CCTV footage that we've recorded him, and he moves exactly like this guy,

Reegs: master Mooch.

Sidey: master Mooch.

Master Mooch, who's a sort of wise old kung fu teacher.

Reegs: He taught, he teaches agents how

Sidey: Yeah.

Do their,

Reegs: do the kung fu moves that he is got.

Pete: yeah. And, and this guy, this character is voiced by none other than Q

Sidey: Qt ENT

Reegs: Tarantino.

Sidey: which,

Pete: is the tie in here now? We've seen this character before, haven't

Reegs: yeah. 'cause this is Pie Mai,

Pete: Yeah, it is. It's pi me Pi

Reegs: pay

Sidey: And it's, it's baboon fist. What was the gibbon fist? Gibbon fist. Gibbon fist Kung fu. Yeah. Is his particular niche. Yeah.

Reegs: He lives on the tallest tree on the top of the tallest mountain. And they seek him out and he's, you know, they invite him to teach him kung fu and, and he's had, there's some challenges, which includes getting a lotus flower from these like hanging glass lanterns

Pete: three

Reegs: seconds, in three seconds and all that.

Pete: Yeah. Yeah. And, and the, the, the character itself is a sort of a gibby monkey type humanoid thing. Yeah. But with like pie maze, like white, long, white

Sidey: that he even

Pete: like the, the stroking of the beard

Sidey: It does. Yeah.

Pete: the same. And with this,

Reegs: and it's the same

Pete: was 2003, like not

Sidey: but Porky Pig is able to do all of the challenges. He is, yeah. All of the lessons, he completes them,

Reegs: He finds himself very adept. He can run across the water. Whereas Daffy, like he's got his swimming tr he's got an inflatable on, hasn't he? And he sinks as soon as he, whatever. Yeah. So that's the kind of vibe that

Pete: but I was trying to work out is this pre or post kill Bill

Reegs: 2003? I think. That's

pre, isn't it?

Pete: Okay.

So clearly the

Sidey: for there would be no kill bill

Reegs: Without this, Yeah.

I mean it is based on an old Gordon, what's his chops character, but I can't

Dan: in, in the original you had Marvin the Martian

Sidey: He is in this, but he is not the, the focus of this story until the very end.

Reegs: So anyway, yeah, we get the training sequence from Kill Bill and anyway, Daffy and Hi Porky, they both pass the test and get the powers, don't they, basically,

Sidey: don't they? Basically, yeah.

And then they, they're doing a stake out there in the museum, aren't they? Inside to PHA guy?

Reegs: Yeah. Oh,

Pete: great.

Sidey: Great

Reegs: but this time the whoosh gets beaten up by Porky. Yeah. And he's really surprised, like, oh, he's been teaching you the moves. And then Master Mooch turns up and they do actually have a pretty good like Yeah.

Kung fu style fight in the background. And it's revealed that the whoosh is actually Dennis,

Sidey: Dennis

his best ever student. Yeah. It's like Kylo Ren, basically.

Reegs: Yeah. But he,

Sidey: gone rogue.

Reegs: he was the finest student in life, but he went mad because if he, he gave him a B minus, he's like, if I

Sidey: he had his final

Reegs: student, how could I get a B minus?

That, that thought alone drove him to a life of crime, didn't it? Yeah. And then Dennis is taken away and Daffy is sort of the hero, even though Porky did most of the stuff, you know, that particular dynamic. And then there is a little bit where you see Dennis had a protege that he trained in Gibbon fist martial art, and then the clip

Sidey: It's Marvin the Martian.

Oh,

so you most probably missed about 10, 10 seconds then. 'cause it just, yeah, it just reveals Marvin the Martian said, imagine it is a stupid voice. And it faded to black.

Reegs: Well, and the voice is Michael Dawn of Marvin the Martian from You like it, star Trek. He's,

Sidey: okay. Yeah.

Wolf. Yeah. Wolf. Yeah.

Reegs: And Tia Carrera does a voice in this as well.

Sidey: hot.

Pete: yeah. Flames.

Reegs: And

it has, have you seen the list of people who are in this? No. Dave Mustain, Tom Jones, Jeff Garland, Clancy Brown, Bruce Campbell, Tim Curry, Burt Reynolds, Kevin Smith, Henry

Pete: Burt Reynolds.

Reegs: Yes. And a billion others as well. Yeah. No, a lot of

Dan: Mel

Pete: Gibson

Dan: played the Marvin Martian

Reegs: original in the original.

Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah.

Sidey: So this is quite fun. It's about 10 minutes in a bit. Pretty breezy.

Pete: Yeah. I, I, it it is again, it

Sidey: moves. I mean it's that loony tunes kind of you obviously thing 'cause it's that ip

Dan: it was

Reegs: did a good job of updating like an old franchise. I didn't, I dunno if I really loved this, but it,

Sidey: it, I love it. I wouldn't say I loved it,

Dan: it. He is always one of my favorite though.

Daffy.

Sidey: I actually watched it and then they said that's the most engaged. You've been watching one of these kids things for ages is like, yeah.

Okay. I,

Pete: I, I feel like that's because I've not been around. I, I normally nail it with it where I normally nail it, where kids are concerned.

Sidey: So, name a sex tape.

Pete: you don't look like you watched this Chris?

Cris: I haven't, no.

Pete: Oh, you missed out.

Sidey: Miss it. Miss out. Yeah. It's as strong.

Dan: else don't miss out because there's a strong recommend.

Sidey: Yeah. It's bigger than that. That's the ready? Briggs, I think it's gonna be over to you then for noms. I'll

Reegs: the nos out. Yeah.

Sidey: Sweet. We're just gonna lads barrage you with abuse until you get it done. Yeah. Sweet.

Reegs: I'll try and get it done on Tuesday

Sidey: Strong Tarantino week, I would say We do occasionally we do a, we do occasionally do a, a focus on one particular individual, don't we?

But not that often. So it's nice to dip in every now and then. Yeah. Well done Pete.

Yeah. All that remains is to say society's signing out's gone.

Reegs: R's left the building. Oh no, we fucked.

Cris: A lot of it there.

Dan: Z's dead baby.