- aka Follow That Magic Kid, Catch That Kid
Audio Note 🎧 "Before we start tonight, just a warning: the sound quality dips for a while in this episode [@12:25 to 19:15], for reasons that will later become clear. But stick with it. Everything works out in the end."
Tag[]
- "On this episode we discuss the film The Golden Child."
Official Show Notes[]
- "It's a super-sized, super-fun, super-technical-glitch-filled CONTEST WINNER SELECTION EPISODE! Tom Horstmann requested that we watch the 1986's The Golden Child, AKA "Don't worry about rewriting the screenplay; Eddie Murphy can improvise any action movie into a comedy!" Meanwhile Stuart uncovers the racist motives of the BK Kids Club, Elliott takes down beloved dead comedian Bill Hicks, and Dan advocates the Morvern style of menswear."
Movie Summary[]
Premise[]
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Story[]
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
Final Judgments[]
- Good-Bad Movie (Elliott) @1:10:00
- Movie I Kinda Like (Stuart) @1:10:10
- Movie I Kinda Like (Dan) @1:10:25
Episode Highlights[]
Tangents[]
- King Midas masturbating @03:00
- Fateful Findings @05:00
- Jean-Claude Van Damme @06:15
- The Golden Girls @08:05
- RoboCop @09:40
- Just One of the Guys @10:25
- ninjas @15:30
- The Flop House Curtain @22:35
- skatesboards @23:20
- Smash Cut @24:35
- Morvern Callar @25:35
- Fisher Stevens @27:35
- The X-Files @32:00
- Ghostbusters @32:20
- Vampires @36:10
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure @36:40
- Victor Wong vs. James Hong @42:45
- Yoda @44:10
- Fireproof
Movie Pitches[]
- The Burger King Jet Set Kids Club @41:05
Quotes[]
- “We almost had a Babylon A.D. situation, where this was a lost episode.”
—Dan @20:05 - “George! George! What's the name of a guy?!”
—Dan @30:10
Listener Mail[]
Mailbag Song[]
- @1:17:25
Letters[]
- "Winter's Tale" from Firstnamewithheld Lastnamewithheld @1:18:20
- "Greetings from Rainy England" from James Lastnamewithheld @1:21:50
- "Castle Freak IMDb Trivia" from Steven Lastnamewithheld @1:27:05
- “This film is a running joke on the popular podcast The Flop House. The film was the source of a year-long controversy, dubbed by fans as 'Ding-Dong Gate,' centered on co-host Stewart Wellington's insistence that Giorgio rips off his own genitals. The debate was seemingly put to rest when actor Johnathon Fuller, who plays the titular castle freak, wrote in to the show to confirm that no, Giorgio did not rip off his own ding-dong. Regardless, the film is referenced nearly every episode of the podcast, alongside two other Wellington favorites, Head of the Family and The Invisible Maniac.”
—Anonymous
- “This film is a running joke on the popular podcast The Flop House. The film was the source of a year-long controversy, dubbed by fans as 'Ding-Dong Gate,' centered on co-host Stewart Wellington's insistence that Giorgio rips off his own genitals. The debate was seemingly put to rest when actor Johnathon Fuller, who plays the titular castle freak, wrote in to the show to confirm that no, Giorgio did not rip off his own ding-dong. Regardless, the film is referenced nearly every episode of the podcast, alongside two other Wellington favorites, Head of the Family and The Invisible Maniac.”
Recommendations[]
- Coming to America (1988) by John Landis (Elliott) @1:42:05
- The Hateful Eight (2015) by Quentin Tarantino (Dan) @1:34:55
- Man Up (2015) by Ben Palmer (Stuart) @1:33:15
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) by J.J. Abrams (Stuart) @1:32:45