Sorry for the lack of updates last week! Rando was on vacation and we didn’t record, so I pushed back this one. Ok, the truth is, I forgot to put it up on Friday. Sorry. But Rando is on vacation!!
We tackle the Boston Marathon bombing and the state of modern journalism this time around. Our most serious episode to date.
I don’t think either Treat Williams or Joe Piscopo deserve these overly dramatic opening credits
Whoa! Vincent Price! Cool!!!!
The credit’s font looks like the one used by Aaron Spelling throughout the 1980’s.
These Mexican wrestler bandits look like they just got off work at the oil refinery
Somehow I think sticking a full loaded sub-machine gun down the front of your pants is not a good idea.
OK, I hate Joe Piscopo’s character already.
Yeah, I really hate him.
And a cameo appearance by the holographic doctor from Star Trek: Voyager.
That’s the LAPD for ya! Say drop your weapons then open fire.
These cops have worse aim than stormtroopers.
This movie has all the feel of TJ Hooker. Sadly, it would be greatly improved by William Shatner’s presence.
Seven minutes in and we’ve already established every buddy cop movie cliché in the business.
Ah, the ’80’s! When you could still smoke in the office.
It’s a fake aquarium, you dipshit!!
Ah, the ’80’s! When you had to print out information to give to the police instead of sending it to their smartphones.
Why does this idiot think a PR lady would know what a drug was used for?
An “asphyxiation room” with a viewing window. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? And which one of our “heroes” do you think will get locking into it?
Isn’t that the giant computer that Richard Pryor built in Superman III?
I see we also have a guest appearance from Fat Bastard.
And there goes Treat into the asphyxiation room!
And a mystery person wearing black gloves starts to remove all the air from the room. How much you want to bet it’s Darren McGavin?
Wow! They actually killed a main character! Only to bring him back as an indestructible killing machine, I’m sure.
This lady is one of the worst actresses I’ve ever seen. Her delivery is as bland as melba toast.
RoboTreat has arisen!!! The streets shall flow with the blood of the unbeliever!!
Is this a TV pilot? It sure feels like one.
Favorite line so far; “I’m not deader than you are!”
So, Treat is dead, then he’s brought back as RoboTreat, now he’s only got 10-12 hours before he becomes a pile of goo. And his first thought is to buy makeup at the drugstore so he won’t look like a corpse. Priorities RoboTreat: you got ’em!
This PR lady is whiney, but she’s a better actress than RoboTreat’s girlfriend.
And she’s Vincent Price’s daughter, apparently. Must have been a surprise, cause she’s easily 60 years younger than he is.
A PR person delivers drugs from a pharma company to a guy in Chinatown. I’m sure that happens all the time!!
Bob Guiccone must have bankrolled this film. So far, we’ve seen two people reading magazines: Penthouse and Omni.
Now we’ve got zombie chickens, pigs, and fish. This movie just jumped the shark in a big way.
Oh, and zombie ducks! Don’t forget those.
And a headless zombie bull. That’s just wonderful.
I love how RoboTreat can wrestle with what appears to be a zombie liver and get crushed by a zombie bull, but still not have his hair mussed.
How do police officers manage to drive Thunderbird convertibles? That never happens in real life.
I just got it: RoboTreat’s character’s name is Roger Mortis. What a terrible joke!
How can someone like Joe Piscopo, who was so funny on SNL, be so lame in this movie?
Darren McGavin just put in an appearance. Probably so the audience won’t forget he’s in the film and totally not the bad guy! Of course not!
This is an awfully well lite graveyard.
Why is there a phone and a lamp inside the tomb?
The director must have some fixation on aquariums. There have been three or four in the film so far.
We have boobies! They’re decaying zombie boobies, but boobies nonetheless!
So, is Joe Piscopo dead? Was that him with his head in the aquarium? I’ll be demanded if I can tell.
And RoboTreat just figured out who the bad guy is! And they totally didn’t telegraph it through the entire film. No way!!
So, when you bump and ambulance’s front fender on another car, it’s light’s automatically turn on. Huh. Didn’t know that.
RoboTreat’s been in a fire! And his hair got mussed!!
So, Vincent Price isn’t a zombie in this film? Least he’s still creepy.
I’m really surprised there hasn’t been a Wilhelm Scream so far.
Funny how bullets don’t stop the zombies, but electricity does.
Guess that was Joe Piscopo in aquarium. And apparently now he’s a brain dead zombie. How can you tell, I want to know?
Yeah, Darren, shoot the zombie cops. Bullets have worked so well on them to this point.
So, Darren killed himself, now the cops are bringing him to life to kill him again. That’s just petty.
Oh, and he exploded.
And they walked off into the light. Jesus.
And in the end everyone in the film dies!! Fun!
We’re back with another exciting episode of MLCTF! This week, we discuss current events, advertising, video games, review our B-Movie, Dead Heat, and make a lot of random references to the Hamburgler.
Here’s the trailer for Dead Heat:
BTW, that’s Joe Piscopo’s expression through most of the film.
And a link to the Kool-Aid man revamp that Lefty mentioned:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130412/NEWS07/130419931/kraft-to-juice-up-kool-aid-man-look
Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying the pod casts and the posts on the blog. I just wanted to share a site I have been enjoying for a while now. It is for you comic book fans out there. It is called “Super-Team Family-The Lost Issues”. It has fake comics that the blogger thinks should have been made. Some are silly, but they are always entertaining!
I hope you guys enjoy!
We talk about it in good ol’ show #13, but here’s why Johnny Quest is the best damned American cartoon ever! There was an updated version called The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest but someone sold their soul to the devil to get that piece of shit off the ground.
Accept no substitutes for the 1960’s Johnny Quest!
Enjoy!
It’s available on DVD. Too bad Warner Bros messed with it.
Welcome back! In our latest show, we pay tribute to the late Roger Ebert, discuss movies we’d like to see made as well as one’s that we think never should have been made in the first place. We like to think Roger would have approved.
A few years back, my wife got some tickets to a Carolina Hurricanes hockey game from her workplace. We took one of our friends and invited my Dad to come along. He’d never been to a hockey game before and immediately became a fan. In fact, so much of a fan that I had to start following the sport myself in order to keep up with him. Then the Canes made a thrilling, and unexpected, playoff run that culminated in an appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals. Needless to say, we were all hooked from that point on.
Sadly, my interest in that sport has waned due to a series of labor stoppages. If they don’t feel playing, I don’t feel like watching. Simple as that.
Now, I’m picking up baseball and I’m finding it interesting how learning it differs from learning hockey. Besides the obvious difference in play and speed, I went into hockey pretty much blind. I knew a few of the teams and had a general idea of how it was played, but the in’s and out’s of it were completely new.
Now I’m the process of learning the in’s and out’s of baseball, but I’m coming from a more secure base than when I learned Canada’s national pastime. I know the teams, I know how it is played (hell, I played it myself in grade school), and I am familiar with the flow of the game. Some of the more esoteric rules I’m still learning, but I’ll have that down in a little while. It’s a much different feeling than learning hockey. But, that shouldn’t be a surprise as the two sports are about as different at night and day.
Hockey is fast, baseball is slow. Hockey is physical, baseball, well… isn’t. Hockey is a constant blur of movement, while baseball has long periods where not much is happening. It’s a completely different mindset, in other words. You approach watching a baseball game from a much more leisurely place than watching hockey. Not that that’s bad, mind you. Just different. So far, it’s been an adjustment, but one I’m enjoying.
No new episode this week. We were unable to get out shit together enough to record. Should have a new one soon, though!
In the meantime, here’s a quick outtake from a previous episode:
I’ve never been a baseball fan. I found the sport to be too slow and somewhat old fashioned. Some things have been have happened over the past year or so that have started to change that opinion.
One, was watching the excellent Ken Burns documentary Baseball. Being out of work, I finally had a chance to sit through the whole thing and found it to be fascinating! Seeing the passion that some of the people who participated in it showed toward our National Pastime really opened my eyes to how the game is played and how much it impacts our culture. I started looking at it with fresh eyes, I suppose.
The other thing that happened was I started listening to AM Radio in the evenings. This began when I restored my father’s old shortwave receiver and starting listening to it before bedtime. In the summer, there’s a lot of baseball on AM and I discovered that this was a good way to enjoy the sport. I find it to be too slow on TV, but on the radio it’s just the right pace.
So, taking all that in mind and needing something to write about here, I’ve decided to start paying attention to the sport and blog about my experiences here. Since I don’t have a local team to root for, I had to find one to follow. I picked the St. Louis Cardinals for two reasons. The first being that one of the AM stations I pick up strongly in the evenings is KMOX 1120 out of St. Louis, which carrys the Cards’ games. The other being that I typically tend to pull for teams that are underdogs and don’t win very often. For once, I wanted to support a team with a pedigree!!!
The Cards play their first game tomorrow night! Hopefully I’ll get a chance to tune in! And I hope you stick around to enjoy it with me!
Pancho
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