Sunday, April 26, 2015

337 - "The 6 Million Dollar Laxative", "Keeping Up With The Beta Reticulans", Something Went Wrong With The Brown Boys, A Hot Star Freezes, Kramp-bo, and River Cop Adventures Are All Wet

Mr. Brown
Wow! 500 dollars to save a goldfish.
I wonder how old the fish is by now.
8:27 AM Mr. Silver
(dramatic music...montage of explosions...medical procedures...field testing) "Stone Cold...goldfish. A fish barely alive.  Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology.  We have the capability to build the world's first bionic fish. Stone Cold will be that fish.  Better than he was before.  Better...stronger...faster."
8:29 AM Mr. Brown
They paid 500 dollars to fix its constipation.
Um no.
8:33 AM Mr. Silver
That's just sad...my version is glorious.



10:52 AM Mr. Brown
Somebody moved into a house on my road.
They have a stone that says “The Greys”.
11:06 AM Mr. Silver
Aliens, Mr. Brown?
11:07 AM Mr. Blue
Heh... Nice sitcom idea: “The Greys”
11:11 AM Mr. Silver
Mrs. Jones "Honey? The Greys invited us over for barbecue again.  Wanna go?"
Mr. Jones "I dunno...Can we pass?  Nice family, but I can never remember what we talked about and I'm uncomfortable sitting down for a couple days after."
(audience laughs)
Mrs. Jones "Mrs. Grey was telling me they have a new probe they want to show off."
Mr. Jones "A new Probe?  Ford ended the line in '97."
Mrs. Jones "Well, that's what she said.  (looks out window) Nothing in the driveway.  Maybe they are out."
Mr. Jones "Hmm...you know me, I'm a Ford man.  So, a new Probe huh? They must have brought it back.  Yeah!  Tell them we'll be there...tails a' waggin'." (bends over, shakes behind)
(audience laughs, hoots)
11:26 AM Mr. Blue
I picture a lot of "wooooOOOOHHHH!" noises from the audience when they insert the probe – like in normal sitcoms when 2 people kiss.
"So what kinda work you in Mr. Grey?"
"Cattle."
"Ahh, agriculture! Selling? Raising?"
"Dissecting."



12:30 PM Mr. Brown
I gave my new son a nickname.
I call him Bobo.
LOL
And Junior gets Doodles.
We will see if they stick or if they grow to new ones.
12:35 PM Mr. Silver
(headline) "Local Children Hate Nicknames, Parents"
12:37 PM Mr. Blue
The future Menendez brothers.
12:38 PM Mr. Silver
Known in crime history as "The Bobo-Doodles Tragedy"



Mr. Silver
So, my favorite bit from New Years Eve...
12:58 PM Mr. Brown
I stayed up till midnight but I did not watch the ball.
1:02 PM Mr. Silver
Well we ate fondue, had some drinks, and giggled at Kathy Griffin tormenting Anderson Cooper...the usual.
And right at the end we decided to switch to “Dick Clark's Undead Rockin' New Year” in time for Taylor Swift's performance.
She's grown on me a bit.
So I had no problem watching her strut about on the stage.
But...
She came out in tight pants, a wee halter top with a lot of exposed skin, and a silver sequined jacket...a thin and none-too-big jacket either.
She did song #1.
And took off the jacket for song #2.
I said "Jesus! She HAS to be freezing!"
She wasn't showing it though – all bright smiles and pep.
1:15 PM Mr. Blue
She’s attractive, and I’ve heard 1-2 songs from her that are good. Most aren't, but 2 good songs (to me) is better than a lot of other pop artists.
1:21 PM Mr. Silver
Yes.
Anyway, she finishes to roaring applause, and there’s a commercial break.
So we come back to the show and:
#1. Ryan Seacrest turned out to be a wee little elf of a man…I'd never noticed before.  They were side-by-side and she looked a foot taller than him.
#2. She was dying of hypothermia and getting delirious.
(Seacrest) "Hey! Great performance out there!  Are you having a good time?"
(whimper as Taylor suffers traumatic age regression) “…This was a bad outfit."
"Haha!  Grea-* OH! Lemme give you my coat!"
(dazedly watches Ryan struggle with audio wires to get coat off.) "What are you doing? Are you a pervert?  Why are you undressing?"
1:31 PM Mr. Blue
LOL
1:31 PM Mr. Silver
Meanwhile all of One Direction are standing right there, bundled up for the Arctic, doing nothing.
Seacrest wraps her up.
(Taylor sluggishly registers this) "Oh... Ok... Thank you."
1:32 PM Mr. Brown
SSSH SHHH SHHHAke it off-ffff-fff-ffff-ffffff



Mr. Brown
Ok, Mr. Silver, so I was looking at the Krampus card that jake has, and was thinking: “Hmm. That face looks a bit familiar to me. Tony Danza? No. Hmm. Oh! Yes, its Stalone.
Then we got on the subject of a Krampus movie starring Stallone.
LOL
1:31 PM Mr. Brown
(Movie voice ) This Christmas you thought all was jolly...
(Stallone voice) “Eh yo! Kid you've been a bad boy. Get in the sack, I am the Krampus."
1:31 PM Mr. Blue
LOL
1:35 PM Mr. Brown
Look out its Krampbo.
Standing in the dark woods. Horns, and what looks like the outline of a M60 in the moonlight.
1:44 PM Mr. Silver
So a Krampus vigilante/loose cannon cop thing? 
1:44 PM Mr. Brown
Or an in the forest Rambo like thing.
1:46 PM Mr. Silver
(dark wet streets, bad part of the city, Stallone in fur and horns is surrounded by goons. The Boss steps into the circle)
"So...you're the big bad Krampus.”
(Stallone) “Yeah. I'm the big bad Krampus.”
Looks like you have a problem, big bad Krampus.”
(Stallone) “I ain't gotta problem.”
I think you do. See, we've got all the guns, and you've got...what does he got, Manny?"
(Manny) "Looks like a big cow bell and a buncha weeds, boss."
"A bell and weeds.  That's great."
(Shots of thugs all laughing)
(Stallone) "Yo. Don't forget the basket."
"OOO!  Manny!  How rude of you to forget the basket.  So Krampus...what do you think you can do, huh?"
(Stallone) "You boys been bad?"
"Huh?  Bad?  What's that mean?"
(Stallone) "I'll talk slow for you. Have ... you ... been ... bad?"
"Bad?  Yeah.  Yeah!  We've been bad.  What of it?"
(Stallone)  "That's all I need."
(10 minutes of unimaginable violence requiring filming in black and white to get NC-17 rating)



9:39 AM Mr. Blue
I started watching a documentary, or really more like a school project, called “Los Angeles Plays Itself”.
It just shows clips of movies with prominent LA locations, buildings, etc.
Like the Ennis House and the Bradbury Building - both used in Bladerunner and like 15 other movies.
It was funny when they'd point out movies set in places like Chicago but you can see they have, like, palm trees in the background.
There's a McDonald's restaurant in LA that is permanently closed...it's only used for filming. It looks like any other McDonald's, except there's a gate blocking the entrance.
9:42 AM Mr. Silver
Hehe
9:43 AM Mr. Blue
They also brought up something I noticed from “Cobra”. The chase scene drastically changes to different parts of LA. In 5 minutes they cover a few hundred miles: the
Venice Canals, Port of LA, some commercial district.
10:07 AM Mr. Brown
Chase scenes are always like that. If you know the area they are in, you can always catch them jumping miles.
10:08 AM Mr. Blue
Cobra's was pretty ridiculous
Jumping from a residential neighborhood... round a corner... massive loading dock with
huge container ships...
10:10 AM Mr. Silver
Striking Distance” made most Pittsburghers giggle, as I recall.
10:12 AM Mr. Blue
Hmm, you mean the river one?
10:14 AM Mr. Silver
Yeah.
10:15 AM Mr. Blue
I don't think I ever saw it.
10:15 AM Mr. Silver
It had those teleporter chase scenes in it.
10:16 AM Mr. Blue
It seems like a concept that was doomed.
"Cops... but with boats!!!"
10:17 AM Mr. Brown
The boat cops idea is good but the story was dumb.
10:17 AM Mr. Silver
I saw it in the theater. The entirety of my memory of the movie was a 1 second clip of Bruce Willis driving a boat...from the TV commercial.
10:18 AM Mr. Blue
Boat cops is a bad idea.
10:18 AM Mr. Brown
I still think boat cops is cool idea.
10:18 AM Mr. Blue
It is bad.
10:18 AM Mr. Brown
But it needed a better story.
It would be better if it was about something a boat cop would take care of, for sure.
Like they catch terrorists coming in on the rivers.
10:19 AM Mr. Blue
(Villain on the boat radio) "There's a coal barge on the Mon... if it slows down to 5 knots per hour, the barge blows up. If you try to remove the coal I blow the barge.  Let's see what you got, hot shot!"
The rivers are dumb because there's locks every 5 miles, so nobody can sneak around on them.
10:21 AM Mr. Silver
(Bruce Willis, intense river cop, yelling on PA) "Hey!  15MPH guys!  You got beer on there?  All closed? OK. Got a picnic spot?  Good.  I'm swinging back in 10...I better see you there!"
10:25 AM Mr. Brown
I guess the premise of the film was not all about boat police. It was just about the hero getting thrown into the one police job nobody wants in Pittsburgh.
But they sold it like boat cops.
Bad boys bad boys, what ya gonna do? Jump into the river, current gonna get you.”
10:38 AM Mr. Blue
They did a spoof of a river cops TV show on The Simpsons.
The bad guy would escape on land... "Oh damn, looks like he got away. No wait, there's a canal!"
There'd always be a canal.
11:05 AM Mr. Silver
Heh

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