Final Thoughts and Movie Rankings

This is Free withith adds, the podcast that ask the question, why pay Disney plus twelve bucks a month for a bunch of family friendly entertainment when you could go online for free and watch a family friendly movie about Bigfoot that's also a screed about America's out of control gut culture? That's right. E Bigfoot is woke now. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Harry the Hendersons The classic family movie that taught a generation of kids that if you need an animal to go back home, all you have to do is yell, Go on, Get out of here. We don't want you anymore. With us as always is the super prodroducer, the he freak Matt Leib hitting us with those crypto zoological drops Can't just see, we don't want you anymore. Leave us alone. How do you He's so bipolar, just at the end there. Goodbye. Goodbye my friend. I can't believe that you use that as the sound clip. I mean that's what everyone remembers from Harry and the Henderson, right? Well, it's what I remember from White Fang. I always call that White Fanging sound. Oh interesting. Oh yeah. I haven't G out of here t watch you anymore. Like that is the thing that you see it in a lot of movies, but this one made me cry harder than White Fang. I was like, I can't watch this. I can't I watch it At this point when John Lithgau was saying goodbye my friend to a Bigfoot, he has an Oscar. dud he' bght an Oscar and now he's saying goodbye to Bigfoot. He's probably an egot. Like let's be real. This guy definitely He has a Tony, he definitely has an Emmy and he's got an Oscar I mean If this dude doesn't have a Grammy, he's fucking up You know, he'll figure it out. But wait, what did he get an Oscar for? I think it's the world according to. Okay. I don't yeah, I don't know about Garp nor the world according to him. It's ye You know what? You know what?? I might have fucked up there nominated. So maybe that's the reason he had to take the Bigfot movie. He was just waiting to see if he won and as soon as his name wasn't announced, he was like, fuck Call my agent. I'll do whatever. I'll do the bigigfoot one. And this is kind of like a spiritual prequel to Predator. Be it is It was our last episode I heard I heardter is in the suit who played the Predator was a wonderful fun fact Emily brought into the episode, which naturally led to us Googling Har and the Henderson and S if it was free. and it was and it seemed seemed just just too perfect. I don't know if you guys have listened to the episode yet, but throughout it Every time you told me, you know, what Sting to play or told me that Harry and the Hendersons was the movie you were choosing. I kept playing this thing over and over I don't want to So if you If you haven't the episode yet, C respond. Yeah, just it was my way of, you know, sticking my fingerprints on the episode Unfortunately wasn't able to be on, but it was a great episode. You guys, it was fantastic Do you have any thoughts on the original Predator you w to share? I thought the Predator was a good movie. good moie. I was a fan of it when I saw it and as you guys were talking about it, I was like, yeah, you guys bring up a lot of good predator points. So than you. I would have been really useful in that episode with my insight. So I was going to mention that as I was watching this movie, Harry The Henderson's free with A ads on Tub be beneath it was the option to watch the sitcom. Yeah. so this is this is One you know, I think when we were kids, I I don't want to When we were kids, I had a little bit of a hard time. and I think this happened a lot of like being unclear on what someone's deal was. For instance Mrter T. rapped, but he was in GI Joe and also he wrestled and was a serial Yeah Marry and the Hendersons, I'm just like, I think I Until I watched the movie had a lot of memories of the show that I thought were in. Wha. I didn't know there was a showait and there areill seenty episodes of it. And I also yeah, surpriseed, surprise, it's free with ads.. I browsed just the list of episodes. I did not watch any, but the summaries are just insane eighty sitcom bullshit. Harry becomes a pro wrestler and Harry's grandpa Bigfoot moves in and they start a magazine. It's like they just They just went and needed to crank out episode. It is crazy because like you watch content from the eighties and at this point I'm convinced that it was like, oh, the whole world was just coked out because people could just make elf and everyone would be like, okay Or we just had money back then. There was just money around And it was And it was seventy episodes and I'm sure it was considered a failure.ight Eactly. Imagine a show going seventy episodes in twenty twenty six. Yeah, Netflix could never. Yeah, it's like four times the amount that Andor got. Yeah. How is that fair? But we gotta watch it eventually even if you don't wanna U I don't wna I'll be using that a lot. Harry. Well, hey, there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Harry and his Hendersons. But first, we're gonna talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Mother free stuff There it is. So the big movie news this week that I had been seing all over the place. they are they are throwing out they're throwing out the fishhing hook. and trying to reel in a new James Bond. So they are casting a new James Bond There's a deadline article that says that the casting director is insisting that he must quote ooze sex appeal So if you ask this podcast, James Bond will either be Bruce Dern, the Bob or the kindly toy Maker from Godzilla All Msters Aack. As long as there's ooze involved Oh yeah. There was a little video I wanted to play in relation to this, but I just wanted to throw it out. Do y'all care about boond and do you care about who Bond is? No I'm care about Bond because I've never I've seen a few of the Bond movies. I don't like them I like them in Yeah they just they I find them like incredibly boring and I don't really know why The classic ones are pretty boring. The sixties ones. E even the the nineties ones that everyone loveved like Golden Eye and you know all of the Piers Brosin ones. And then I remember, you know, they got what's that guy with the you Daniel Craig and I was like, you know what? now I'm going to enjoy it because you know, I liked him in Munich or whatever. And I was watching He's great in that. And I was watching Quantum of Solace or whatever the And I was just like, I just I can't get into it. I don't know why, but I will say I do a little bit care about who gets to play Bond So I even though like, you know, I I won't watch it. I'm like, it kind of excites me when I find out that like Remember when Uh Egis Elba was possibly going to be bond. That was exciting. I was like, oh, but I don't It would have been great. likeike I don't know why they didn't just do it. I think they just don't want audiences to have so much control Right Eactly. They don't want to give them everything they want to right It's like if the internet just would have shut the fuck up, they might have just made itlb a bond, but because everyone was being a weird being a weird chick about it. Exactly. Eactly. Here's the here's the question Um There's a certain kind of boy that is in vogue these days or at least was in R boy. I was going ask, willill Bond be a rat boy? We have our first rat boy Bond Do we still have Rat Boy manania as a world, I guess because I do as a global you still love Rat Bys. I still love rat Boys, but I don't know if the world has moved on from rat Boys. Yeah, I'm just trying to think of English than rat Boys. I mean, we do there's a few There's a few because that movie the Challengers there that had a rat boy It' a couple of rat boys. Yeah. And one of them is a British rat boy. He I forget his name Josh O'Connor. He's good. He was in the most recent like knives out movie He played Prince Charles in the crown. I sure did. very rat boy like. But he's got a little bit of a sex appeal, but he's a little bit more unlikely, I would say. Yeah the other bonds that we've had. But I I think that he might get it. I do think it's like I don't know. It would be good to have someone who's just not another little white boy, but like you know we'll see. Spice it up. like do something different. Yeah, I have a feeling that it'll be another white boy and worse it'll be another British white boy. Yeah. I think he like I think the like family that owns Bond is Race. So he is Well yes, the broccoli family. Yes Wait are there other names. Do you say the broccoli family? Yeah, guy's name is broccoli Yeah I think like his daughter has control over it. Her name is Barbara Broccoli. and I think they have definitively said that Bob. Yeah, that Bob making. Oh, I know. Bb. I knowound it sounds like a clue character. It tell broccoli and hch So they have to be English. I think they do have to be British. Okay. All right. Really quick, just just this was the best bond related media that I saw in reaction to this news. Hey, George Wallace, that's basically the funniest person on eararth. right. If you ever he's, I think in Vegas every single night, if you're ever there, go see George Wallace. He sells burned DVDs of his standu loobby afterwards. Yeah, and it's so much It's the most jo fucking laugh. He's a legend. He posted this on Blue skky. This is George Wallace' Bond audition. I'm George Wallace. I'm auditioning for the role of James Bun Hey do You know you're being an asshole with that laser beam. If you hit me with a laser beam one more time is works not. I put my put up in your ass and whatnot. D Wh we end with such an idiot? idiot. Stop hitting me with that laser beam.. And this is if you don't know who George Wallace is, imagine a seventy year old man in a Kangle hat. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And he's like, huge, isn't he? Is he like super tall? bigig man. bigig man. Yeah. George Wallace. onene of the funniest people ever. Not to be confused with the bad George Wallace, the one from history. h Yes, no, no, no, this is the standup commee. I should have said that's not Rac Governor George Wallace. Oh I think you're talking about Braveheart for a second. Willam Wallace. That's William Wallace. And I'm not sure if William Wallace bad. I think he good. But guy who played him played by Mel Gibson, who bad? Who bad? Yeah. That's the Wh bad? bad Who bad, who good? Wh can say? Which sucks because there's so many movies that are free that he's in. I sure. never watch apocalypto We're missing out too. C slide what we can watch Harry and the Henderson. So yes, as I mentioned, we watched this movie a lot as kids, but also the show was on and my memory of it is a soup U Emily, Matt, did y'all had seen this as kid? I talked about it the last episode how I had to be put into a car for time out because I wouldn't stop screaming at this movie scared the shit out of me. I can do that Yeah, and I see that it was this was produced by Amblin. It was involved, which boy does it feel that way. Boy, I'm starting to think that Spielberg's kind of a one note kind of guy. I'm like, I didn't really. I know he did other good things. He's like war Children make an unlikely friend. And that's it. Epace. I mean, that's three notes. Three notes. pretty good notes. I don't know I. Yeah I I got one note and it's sting It's wasting funnyent funny moment. That's it. Yeah. But yeah, no, it's so it scared the shit out of me as a kid and I was like at a We at some kind of family vacation thing with other families and I was just inconsolable. And my dad put me car, a hot car and just watched me calm down in this car. but I was really probably just suffocating in there. Yeah. It's okay to put a kid in a hot car as long as you're watching. Well, if they're being an asshole And if they pass out, they stop crying. I did ask my dad about that and he's like, I'm pretty sure I crack the window. And I was like right. Yeah, you probably yeah. Mike you cracked the window. Yeah, probably. But yeah, no, watchatching it this time, there's a few burned memories into my brain involving a corsage that I will always remember I didn't know what a fucking corsage was U And then I wanted one so bad. So yeah, that's that's my experience with Harry and Henderson. Matt Harry and the Henderson You know, I thought I saw it and then I watched it, and I don't think I saw it. U it's strange, but like the movie had such like a cultural like impact that I just assumed as a kid I had seen this movie. I definitely, you know, did the like Harrying the Henderson' Universal Studios experperience thing they they had a experience. Yes you're right They did. It was like you would go and it was like sort of a multic cam sound stage type thing and I forget what they would do with you Yeah you teaching kids about fooley artists Yeah And then you like while there was a scene with like rain and you get to like ray a hose at a window or something or like shake some sheet metal to make it sound like thunder. You guys don't understand how shitty Universal Studios used to be. No them park. It was the shittiest theme park ever and was kind of like part of the magic of it was like how God awful it was. It really like it was banking on you just being excited to see how movies were made. Watch clips from movies. But once you got there and saw Fley artists, you were just like, wow, this kind of sucks though. I don't know what I wanted to be a Foley artist. For me, I was like this wow, this really did take away the magic. seeeeing how the sausage was made ruined it for me So no, I had not actually seen this technically my first time watching the movie. Speaking of Universal Studios real quick before you answer Jordan Are you guys gonna ride that fucking fast and furious mess can't wa I didn't know that they were doing it It is the most insane roller coaster I've ever seen.'s a rollter every If you're listening to this and you haven't seen the videos of it, go watch it because I ain't no way I'm getting on that thing. A There's a fast and furious themed roller coaster opening up pretty soon at Universal. and yeah built it on a hill. It does it if I got on it'll be a It will be a proud, noble death I would love to do it I will die with my family. That's right. you will write the intros. Oh that's Yeahah, that's a great one a quest I'm not gonna fking do it. It's Jordan's ghost. Listen I'll just before I get on the ride, I'll just bank. hundred intros for movies I think you'll watch and then I'll pass away. And yeah Well kin will get a lot of money from Universal The only place in theious ride that I remember was there was a section of the tram ride Uh, you know, of like the it's like the Universal stududios tour ride. you guys an knowoma where they would They would do like a fast and the furious section and in that section. Um used to be something different. used to be earthquake. And they would I' heard of that. You would go into you take a tram into basically a recreated subway station and then water I think earthquake is still there. Oh is that still there? Okay. Yeah, I think what Fast and Furious replaced is that thing where it it's like rotating and you think you're in some sort of avalanche. That sucked. I love. If you do have an earthquake memory, feel free to share because that is a really fun part of the tram. It makes you see me an earthquake. Yeah, no, I mean, my memory of it is is like, man, I really in the movies this looks so much more exciting. That was my memory. I love Universal Me too. It's great. Jordan, so had you seen it? Yes, we this was a frequent like, you know, weke can rental for the Morrises, go down to Long's drugs, R up a movie Grab a pizza from Rabbinooss. haveave the best fucking family night ever yeah, so we rented this a lot, but also like we watch the TV show. So yeah, I had a Harry and the Henderson soup in my head that I, you know sifted through while watching the movie. Well yeah, let's talk about what actually happened It starts out of a first person camera view, something tramping through the woods, heavy breathing. You know it's first person because you can see how much ammo Harry has left in his armor u you sure this is did you watch the right movie? Oh, I just played halo, sorry. I played Halo for five hours. excuse me. Oh sorry. Anyway, but Harry Harry he's a watching A family. Is it the Hendersons? Yeah. you bet it is because this movie starts fucking fast. That's right. It's the Hendersons. They're on a camping trip and they're hunting, Dad's teaching nerdy son Ernie to hunt love Ernest E Ernest. Yeah, you don't have to see a lot of child earnies these days. suchuch a good name. Ernest is an amazing name and after hearing it, I madebe think about You know? Enest scared stupid our buddy. And I'm like, if I get a dog, its name is gotta be Ernest. That's for sure. Hell have a little little denim vest. Yeah. and he'll go E this. Heyern. Hey Fern. Eern. Fern fern. Vern will be the dog up. Vern will be the cat Yeah Oh, that would be cute to have a dog nameed Ernest and a cat ned Vern. That'd be c U so the family they're on a camping trip. they're doing some hunting, hunting, they start the drive home and this and so this is where you get the credit sequence This drive is so beautiful. There's this beautiful score behind it. You're getting all these nature shots Fucking Bury me in the opening of Harry and the Henders my God, what what a vibe. I almost just want it to be their entire drive home them driving from, you know, wherever to Seattle, Yosemite. But they don't. We don't see the entire drive because they hit something A And you know what? It's a Bigfoot. Yep, this movie fucking starts I know I liked that. I really liked that So they they wonder so Lith Go gets out of the car. Lith Go' the dad. He gets out of the car and with his like gun and he sees that it's a bigigfoot and his instinct is to say to his family, you better come take a look at this. calling his kids over to this thing that can rip off. I mean, I think he was calling his wife, but his little precocious brats just do whatever the fuck they want. likeike The little boy, Ernest is so funny. He such sitcom kids. Bad things keep happening and he thinks it's awesome every time. So any when a thing breaks, he's like, wow, cool. every And it makes it kind of more fun to watch. Nobody's freaking out too bad when the house breaks or the car like gets, you know, reamed or whatever So there's so they they think it's dead Lithgu his plan is to like take it back and become rich and famous somehow. They they riick him up on on a pretty ingenious little pulley system that they just threw together there where they like kind of lift him up with a tree and drag him on top of the car Um But wouldn't you know it because he wakes up and kind of looks down in the windshield. Harry, he's alive And then they stop the car and they kind of think he's dead, but he's not dead again. They think he's dead again. so funny when he wakes up on the top of the car. It's a really fun moment. Eyes are so funny. I know. The beautiful expressive eyes on Harry. Wow what a what a non verbal performance this is. And I think in the there's a couple posters for the movie where it's just Harry's eyes staring at you because like they knew like this guy just just like acting the shit out of this just with his looks and stuff. It's such, I mean, the character looks fucking awesome. Yeah just like the magic of practical shit, it still looks cool and It still looks like a bigfoot. It looks like they got a Bigfoot who has beautiful soulful eyes. Yeah What I love is that they killed him twice, but of course he doesn't actually die. It reminded me of you guys know that Colin Crawford tweet It's like Cullen Crawford is a comedy writer. He wrote a tweet like a few years ago that says, me and my friends would have killed ET with hammers. I can tell you that much. a hundred percent. It's very much like it's ET, but they keep trying to kill it. And eventually it gets into the like schchmaltzy like, you know, family dynamic The movie starts out with being t pretty greedy about this dead animal or supposedly dead animal that they just marked with their car. The mom is the mom from a Christmas story. I know. I know It took me forever to figure it out, but she has those little mannerisms that she did in a Christmas story that were so sweet. Yeah. And she' great Wonderful. either just I like everyone here is just a great eighties comedy actor Yeah And yeah, and like they're it's very it's a very sitcomy movie. You could tell why they wanted to make a sitcom out of it, but yeah, everyone is like doing that at a very high level Yeah. Rick Baker is who created the suit for this and he did the like werewolf makeup in thriller. He also did American wereerewolf in London and he won an Academy Award for Matt's favorite movie How The Grrench Stole Christmas. Oh wow. I didn't know sarcasm. He hates that movie. I didn't know he had one bad movie Um, but I mean, no, the costumes, I mean, you know, the makeup and costumes and We're really good. So, you know, credit credit just due to that. It's just, you know, the story kind of sucked at. But it's true, the suit is amazing. He looks so soft like you want to go hug him and Yeah they keep saying he smells bad and I'm like, I don't buy. I look I face straight into the fur. Yeah he smells like old spice for sure. For sure. but physical like thatad before he left. But yeah, the physical performance also, the body performance is so funny and clumsy Props to the actor RIP. Yeah. It's crazy how the yeah, this Big fooot is simultaneously You know, adorable and very human like and also the scariest thing you've ever seen Yeah at the beginning. Like it can do both, which is really impressive. He's so huge and then his eyes are so close together. They could kiss each other. His little eyes go like that. That' sweet So the family, they make it home and wouldn't you know it? in the middle of the night, Harry is in their kitchen. As Emily mentioned, he's eating the daughter's birthday corsage. Emily, what about this is something that like stuck out for you? I don't know. I was just like, what's a birthday corsage? I've never had one. And I was getting kind of like, well why didn't And then Why my parents bought me a corsage. covetous of the Henderson. I know. And I was probably like four, like and I saw this like in somebody's house And u But yeah, I just remember the flour, the eating the corsissage thing really stuck out to me. I don't know why that's a core memory. And then he like, you know, he tries to make up for it and gives teenage daughter flowers at the end. And as a young kid, I thought that meant they were dating No And then they quickly fixed that by him like b like bopping her head over and she falls to the ground. But I thought as a four year old, you thought the teen girl was dating the but bigigfoot He brought her a bunch of flowers and he's like bat with eyelashes at her. That's true Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. Yeah, so I wasn't sure, but now I know that's not the deal. So because dad's a hunter, they have a bunch of taxidermy in the house. So Harry sees a like deerhead on the wall This is at once really hilarious and really heartbreaking. He's looking for the other half of the deer And when he realizes that when he realizes that like The deer's body isn't on the other side of the wall. He gets really pissed. He kind of realizes what's going on Um, you know, John Lithgowu has a gun, obviously he tries to shoot him. he can't do it because he looks in those looks in those soulful eyes. thenen he just starts hiding all the taxiderermy. they have so much of it. It's like really hilarious how much taxidermy they have and have to like shove in the closet And so he's trying to get in while Lithgau is, you know, hiding all this taxidermy and he's yelling at his wife stall him and she says, how? And he says, showh him the pasta maker. Yeah' really funny line. Show him the pasta maker. is something about like the way that this movie portrays like sort of white suburban life in the eighties that is so funny to me. like there they have this big foot Um, you know, they' discovered the missing link scientific breakthrough and they're just like, we have to get it, you know, over in the car. quuick, show it some hamburgers.row It' No, it'll love hamburgers. Every creature loves hamburgers. It's just There's something about this movie is so U it's it's a statement on sort of the times and you know, the excesses of culture, but it's also just inccredibly funny Speaking of the times or whatever, did you guys notice that their station wagon had automatic windows Oh, I didn't advanced for the time In nineteen eighty seven. Yeah. I don't think we got a window button until like Yeah, that's until the ninet two thousands like they had I was like, okay, rich. like Well right. they were rich. They own Seattle's most famous gun store, I guess. wear a suit and tie to sell guns. It's a family business too. Yeah, you know. Yeah. hisis dad, who we've seen that guy in a million. Emmet Walsh. Yeah This is a real this movie's a real like who's? Character actor Lo DiCiaprio pointing at the screen when a guy shows up. Yeah Walsh th Ten years older than John Lithgaow and he's playing his dad I mean, John L is one of those has always looked old guys. R Um, But yeah, yeah, Immment Walsh being his dad does not track. They look like guys who were in the army together. Oh yeah So it look like they could run for president together. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be a good movie. them as dueling presidential candidates. Oh yeah U So yeah, they decide that they're going to like keep Harry because of his beautiful eyes But wouldn't you know it their nosy neighbor comes to their nosy neighbor, who iss bringing the dog back. u that they were watch the dog while they were on vacation. And you know how she's a nosy neighbor? Because when she comes over, she says, Y h Yeah Wh just no one say you hoo anymore? It's a thing in the eighties neighbors That who want to brring back youhoo. I sugar and saying Yhoo to people You gott to go down to the docks, flirt with some sailors, say you who. She's amazing. That's like Lany Kazan, I guess is her She was in my B fat Greek wedding. Which I watched recently and oh my God, that movie's so perfect. I think that's we gotta watch that eventually. It's in my top. I've never seen it. Oh. I saw that mov three times in theaters. loved my big Fat Greek wedding as a kid. He watched it or whatever. The Flemings watched it on my birthday vacation. We had to watch that. Oh, nosy neighbor. Oh yeah, he's like completely destroyed their house. Yeah. And they have the most. so he tips over the fridge and they have the most eightyies ass shit in their fridge. They got Peter pan peanut butter s in a glass jar and they have Hawaiian punch, a big o old fucking tin can of Hawaiian punch. eightyiess fridge. Yeah anyay straight up. I want my shit in glass jars. L I think that peanut butter in a glass jar makes so much more sense than plasticy. Yeah Okay, so they've kind of like decided to keep Harry, John Lithgaow says we're going to get on magazines. We could go on the Carson show which the two indicators of success in the eighties gettinget on a magazine and going on Carson But But Harry He escapes. So he Lithgau says goodbye Harry friend and the sn's like, since when does he have a name Um anyway right now since right now, Harry, Harry in the Hendersons. Very cute. Okay, so I'm gonna make a little executive decision. Let me know what you guys think of this. So Harry escapes I portion of the movie is pretty boring. Yes. Yeah. I think the end of this movie is fucking sterling silver. I think the end of this movie is beautiful. Yes. The middle is very boring. I'm gonna breeze through some of this so you can really dig into the ending Pint by point So yeah lets as we mentioned, he works at a gun store where they wear suits and ties. I guess I don't buy guns. Maybe people do wear suits and ties in gun stores. I This is how you sell a gun wearing a fucking tie Anyway, ye Yeah, looks at his job as being an artist So I think what is going on here is that he's a gun salesman, but being an artist is his hobby. It's like what he wanted to do. Okay and his there's like this dad story that is just so you slowbarred in this thing where he's like, I wanted paints for my birthday and dad wouldn't get them for me. Dad's like because so Harry's like going around the neighborhood scaring people. so there's like bigfoot mania. Everybody's flooding into the store to buy guns. It's like Yeah, it's a pretty like, you know, pretty toothy satire of gun culture, I think. Yeah sururprisingly in this family Bigfoot movie. So you know, the dad's like, oh, you should draw a big fooot to like put in the window and the dad wants it to be scary, but John Lhow knows deep down that Harry is nice. so he doesn't want to draw him all scary U They meet this is another kind of beloved character actor, Donna Michci, Dononna Mich. He's the guy who runs museum. Oh yeah, he's in a lot of stuff. He's another guy from that thing. Maybe my favorite performance of this dude, he's the Golden Retriever in homeome Rebound. Oh Oh knew I recognizeed shadow Yeah Wonderful VO performance from this guy And so there's him, he owns the Big Foot Museum and there's this like French Big foot alter guy. What I don't understand what the French did to become the villains in so many kids movies. Well, that actor is also Detective Poireaot. in L in the television show And I know this because my papa and I would watch Puirot like every night that I'd stay over at my grandparents house, he watched like masterpiece theater Yeah Puirot. So I was like, oh my God, this is so and he's a bad guy in this. Yeah fun. And he's French. I guess use Frenches per too.. But yeah, it is it is but I don't fully understand Why the character is French? I'm trying to think is there like a French you know, Jane Goodall, like an evil version of Jane Goodall that's French and wants to kill Big fooot or gorillas or something. It just was very strange to have this evil French villain throughout. and I'm like, all right, fine. I'll accept this. He does have a very intense like Like H his eyes are very intense. I guess I didn't even question the fact that he was French. I just went, okay Yeah, sure Wh. So yeah, so this guy's like chasing him around for the whole movie. They have like a fight in the back of a garbage truck eventually Harry, Harry comes back home And he sees the closet full of taxidermy and kind of like you know, gives John Lithgow the stink eye and John Lithgow iss like, I know what we need to do. So they have a they have a mass burial for all the taxidermy in the yard. And notot a great one. It's like not ye, some of the horns are sticking up Um then But then yeah, D Aichi Dam Mich to my D Aichi. Yeah, let's say Amiche. He comes he comes to the house and like brings a bunch of flowers to them Pre preparing dinner for' kind of a classic eighties. Somebody's coming over for dinner thing and there's no meat. He's like, Oh, are you vegetarians? And the mom's like, the roast is resting in a shallow, unmarked grave.. Oh, they said that he was a vegetarian, like Harry was a vegetarian. Yeah. He ate a goldfish. He's a Pescatarian. He's a Pescatarian. Yeah, I think there's maybe no word for Pescatarian at this point, but I think he eats a fish sandwich as well at some point.' He' like a filet of fish. Yeah. ye, yeah, yeah He takes out the burger patty. I love I love woke Harry and the Hendersons. Like I didn't realize how movie. How much it was, you know, sort of an environmentalist movie. It makes it makes sense. I mean, given the time, it was like a thing that You were allowed to critique about the world because it wasn't a critique of America. It was a critique of the entire world. But it wass like, saving the world. good huh? We didnt all agree. all. Yeah, ye. like no Now it's mad to do that. Yeah sa the world. What are you a communist? We had like Smokey the Bear and it was like cute ool to care I had the plan in it. like it was it was fine. It was like just f cool. you know. L now it's just people go, oh my go, shut the fuck every the whales. We talked constantly about saving the whales. and' all we talked about for free wh years. It' like sureure. Yeah. But now too woke can't sa the whales. Everything woke stop trying to save whales. kill whales better Whale do show, then get killed killa fun after do show. Make America great again, makeake whale dead now. Make whale jump, then kill whale Anyway, sureure love living in the now Yeah me too. That is just something that could be on trruth social, right? Yeah. And then with the weird AI thing whales Yeah Trump shooting a whale. Yeah, we'd be like fine. That's normal now Um Donamiche, he knows a place to take Harry where he'll be safe. and that's when the thrilling conclusion of this movie happens, which we'll talk about when we come back Hey Max fun listeners. It's me, Jackie Cacishation. I have a podcast with Laurie Kil Marton. sayy, Hi, Lurie. Hi, Jacqueline. Hi Max fun listeners. But not very formal. We have a podcast and it's about stand of comedy and how much we love it and how much we dislike some of it. So listen to that podcast. It's called the Jackie and Laurie Show. We drop new episodes every Wednesday that gives us plenty of time to decompress from our comedy weekends and discuss things with sane level heads. No, it doesn't. If you are a woman our age or a man our age. orr you know what? any person of any age, I think you'll enjoy your. Jackie and Laurie S showow on maximfun. orgot bye Hey, We're back. It's free with Ads. We're going to talk about the thrilling conclusion to Harry and The Hendersons' Okay. so Donamiche, he's like, I know a place we can take Harry and they just They drive him up the highway and they pull a little bit off the highway. near the main road. They like let him out a traffic the freeway. Yeah. seven hundred eleven in the shot. It's kind of like when you catch a mouse or a squirrel in a little cage, then you go, well, it's time to drive him away so he won't find his way back to us. and that's just pretty much what they did Yeah, I'm always catching squirrels in a kid. Well, that's a Fleming thing. I was gonna say maybe that's a Tennessee thing. Oh yeah. have we don't family reunion, you have a squirrel catching contest. Well, honestly, that does sound crazy, but we don't own gun guns. That's not what we're about. but we do have BB guns. So my dad'll sit out there and just shoot squirrels. Yeah well, they eat up like all of the we like birds and they eat all the bird seed and stuff. and that's not good. All of the plants. so all my dad keeps trying to grow tomatoes. They just eat all of it. Yeah. sometimes you got to shoot the pests. Gots to go Absolutely. absolutely Um, So yeah, Harry, he doesn't want to go into this little Tree grove near the I ninety five And that's when we get the scene. Get out of here. C you see we don't watch you anymore slaps him Oh my God, when he held his face o God, I couldn't do it. I held my t shirt over my head and I was like bawling. I know in this. he's acting. He's like committed to doing this in foot scene. In the little face, the face on Harry that's so expressive and He's just so sweet. when he slapped him, I just couldn't I was like, I can't watch this. I have to let go. It made me crazy how effective the scene is because it's so stupid to describe. I think like it is in In isolation as a clip, it plays kind of funny you know, but when you actually sit and watch the whole goddamn movie and you get to this point with Harry you are feeling awful for him and you're feeling awful for for John Lithgow because he he's like he doesn't know how to get him to leave. So he just starts doing, you know, starts telling him, We don't want you anymore G back to where you came from. like he starts being Bigoted towards Bigfoot. Yeah. And And then as he's like walking away, it's just like, I'll miss you friend. I was like, wait, why am I? I swear of God if I start crying from this movie. I was balling. I was balling. It made me so sad. I hate that. I hate in movies where they scare the off or like hurt some's feelings that they actually love. Oh fuck. I googled another one that I remember from childhood. You guys remember Sheetah Sheetah. It was a Disney movie where some kids get a cheetah and they and they have to do a get out of here go on. We don't want you anymore. I love that trope. There's got to be more movies with a get out of here We don't watch you anymore for your own good. I guess Say And Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones where he just starts, you know, calling her All sorts of names, but that comes, you know, back to Bite him in the ass when she hooks up hooks up with his father But spoiler alert for Game of Thrones heads out here who haven't It's only been as for fifteen years. like come on ye. So so he runs off in the woods, but the hunter, French hunter Poirot guy is still like on their tail. I'm still in this movie. I'm still very French. I've taken a break, smoke a cigarette. An turn entire baguette. I have a road here on my tiny bike I'sidited by. It's really good I have told my mistress I will not be home because I am haunting the bigig foot Oh wow. Anyway, the French. A B Wston Wells once. Champagne California champagne. All right, I want to the whole thing. There was a whole idea. Literally nothing funnier than that except for the colonel, the real cololonel from KFC, Colonel Sanders trying to do radio ads. Oh I'ard not heard that. There is this whole recording of him struggling to do a crispy Trun like he can't figure out how to say the ad and it's. And he gets more and more frustrated and angry and it's very funny. So That's amazing. Check that out. Aspires ye same French excellence It's fermented in the bottle and like the best and chicken. My favorite part of that is when Orst and they say action and he goes, just do anything? All right You've been in so many movies, you invented whole genres, right? You' too drunk. do got what to do That definitely inspired the Sitz Creek thing with Oh Catherine O'Hara. Yeah. Yes, one hundred percent. All right, Harry Henderson Hry. Yeah. So the French guys after them, they the whole family puts on these like shoes Where did they fucking get these from? Maybe from the guy's museum. Maybe he's se Yeah I they would have shown us that because yeah, it's really confusing. you're like, what are they doing? but they just had them anyway. Yeah. Yeah, just ADR line saying somebody saying like, I'm glad you we got these from your gift shop. Totally of think Ernie would have said But the French guy still after him. he catches their dog, their family dog and he like throws the dog and then Harry catches the dog. It's the most funny like Hilarious because it's practical thing of like this guy's throwing a fake dog and bigigfoot catching it. ye, it's great. And it's a callback too to when the he catches the dog the first time in the movie. There you go. Yeah fun. Fun little callback. Um So, you know, Harry, he's saving the family and then but they kind of realize that this French guy isn't gonna stop. So there's this like pretty intense scene where you think Lithgau's going to kill him. I thought the dog was gonna die. No, yeah. that have been a bummer. That would have Noope dog's fine Very cute dog, too, greatreat dog. Good dogive stillill al longive He currently he currently u runs a hot air balloon tourist companys New Mexico, takes people up in his hot air balloon. They have little brunches up there. It's fun. He's Benjamin Bowwow There Yes, there you go. Benjamin getting younger and younger. He's a little He's a little puppy now. A puppy anyyway. No U So like Harry stops with Gal from killing the French guy and unusually intense an unusually intense ending for this kids movie. That's when the French guy realizes Bigfoots. they all right And so Harry goes back off into the woods and there's a great shot where All these other bigfoots camouflaged. They were there the whole time. They all turn around, follow Harry, there's a baby another connection This is basically the end of Predator two where this guy also plays the Predator. There is a basically the same scene but with predators in Predator two. This guy can't get away from this sh show. He's also he was in the tree when Harry was in the tree with a bunch of doves on his shoulder. I was like funny.' like oh my God Disney princess, a bunch of fucking gums. And I'm like, this is the predator up in the tree looking down at the the prey and he's just up in there doing it too. I was like, this guy's just always up in a tree. pry Okay And yeah. so then, you know, that's that's the end. We have a very, very emotional Joe Cocker song over the credits. and I think you're supposed to be seeing what I guess you're supposed to be John Lithgau's drawings but they look like the aha take on me video. Yeah anyway, that's what happens in Harry and the Hendersons. We're going to tell you what we thought about it, but first Wh he didn't know we gotta do the hunk watch. hunk watch. Um Any strong opinions about the Hunks I'm Marary Anderson and Harry Harry Yeah. He's also the tallest guy Oh tallest guy. Wonderful point, Emily, let's hear that st. Same tallest guy from the last movie just in a different. No matter what movie this guy's in, he's always the tallest guy. Yeah Let go Liftaow on this I't lt hot. He's so good in this. He's funny. And you know, listen, I know You know, maybe we're all kind of cranky at him for being in this Harry Potter thing. He's in the Harry Potter he's made some kind of crumy comments, But here's what I want to believe. He just thought it was a Harry in the Henderson sequel. Oh, I like that theory. like I gott to be in that and then, you know, I like got And I will now set a Google block on anything that has his name in it so that I don't learn otherwise. Now we all just think that. You just block out anything that, you know, any news story about him so that I can forever think he thought he was in Harry The Henderson. And he's like, when's the Bigfoot gonna get here? He doesn't understand. E J Rowling is JK Simmondons, the great character act He's like I made a lot of assumptions about this project. I me pictureures of Bigfot. There's something about him that makes me think he talks dirty really good hundred percent Lith I know that he does and he's got like fak. He's very good gets it in And yeah, and he's got like no inhibitions, but he's like He knows what to say. hits the back wall. a hundred percent. Oh yeah. I'd hit the back wall from the scum spraying. Oh gosh. I get it. I get it. I don't like say. say whatever I don't like it. This is about a kids movie. I just can't You're an adult. Can'tot talk about Grown up and ts in this podcast, willill we ever get a sponsor Yeah Someday maybe a come sponsor. Oh yeah, maybe one of those one of those like products that are supposed to give you hge loads. Yeah. sponsoring. Gas station Dick pills. Yeah. Gas stationor goat weed. There's gott to be a Bigfoot on one of those we Okay, We'll do a bunch of bigigfoot movies. We'll all take the pills. That's what happens. I don't want to know what would happen to me What would happen to you? Well, I would get a big clit. Yeah, that clit.. Oh man, this clit doesn't fit in my pants U ye, I think I think we can agree Th are Th these are the hunks of the film. now we have to say what we thought about it. Oh, but wait We're gonna take a break first Are you a celebrity? Are you searching for meaning, connection, and a little levity these days I'm Camella Nanciiani, actor, writer, and yes celebrity too And I've got four words for you Bullseye with Jesse Thorne. Are you tired of junkets Red carpets, sick of the endless spicy snacks you have to eat? 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I think if it had just been the French hunter and like maybe some scientists or something, I would have been fine with that. I didn't need the whole town involved. If it weren't for that boring part It would be like I don't know, an eight, but I'm going with like a six point five on this. veryer fair, very fair It's good. It's good. but it's not something that I'm going watch a lot, you know, over and over. It's not one of those movies. but Yeahah, I'm right there. I'm right there with the Emily. It's very fun. I think for me, it's like an honorable six. I think I was kind of going five until the end just got so crazy. I'm like, o, I got to bump this up a little bit higher because the end is fun. Yeah, and I think you can like clips of this movie and see how cool Harry is and, you know, some of the more fun moments. The movie does get a little bit of boring. but I do think this would be a fun like throwback to watch with a kid. I think for sure. And they don't make this kind of like live action family movie anymore really. So yeah, fun a fun throwback if you're looking for something U you know, that's like not super annoying to watch with a kid. Matt, what'd you think? U I'm gonna give it an eight I really was surprised at how much I liked it. mostly because I had such I don't know, strong memories of not being interested at all in it. And I think it's because I thought I saw it, but I instead just saw the like Harry in the Henderson stage experience at University stududios. like whyy am I Matt not involved? Exactly. I was just like, I'm not even making thunder sounds. This sucks. But no, then watched it and it starts off, you know, right away with this really stupid premise and it doesn't look back. It doesn't hedge. it just is what it is of in the same way Alf isn't spending all of its time explaining itself. It's just like not, just Alf, you know. This is the same thing. Een lives with the family exactly. Heats what do you want It's the same with this movie and I was just so impressed with the you know, the costume and u I also thought it was sort of impressive that the movie had any message at all. The fact that it was, you know, like sort of about u, you know, the way that u you know, we have We have left nature in favor of the pasta maker machine and Peteran, you know, peanut butter or whatever. Like, you know go back to nature kind of movie. I thought it was, I don't know. I was like, this is good. This is a net good for society. So I it's kind of like I think some of the message was like constantly think what you can get out of Yeah. stop trying to friend animals for profit, you know Or stop like exploiting everything. your friends for things. Maybe this was like a very like Hollywood writer who was like, I'm tired of