Episode 230: Monster Trucks
Audio Note
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“ We had a bunch of technical difficulties…”
Tag [ ]
Dan: On this episode we discuss Monster Trucks .
Stuart: You're welcome…guysss! ('Cause I made you watch this movie.)
Official Show Notes [ ] "We discuss the movie based on a not-really pun, Monster Trucks . Meanwhile Elliott talks about 'Love in an Elevator' for waaay too long, Stu asks some Saved by the Bell penis habits are described at length, and we're all sorry about the technical problems in this episode." Movie Summary [ ] Premise [ ] “ It's like your classic alien-being -befriends-a-kid, and-they-have-to-go-save-the-other-aliens-from-an-evil-company-or-government-or-whatever. Like, it's as template of that as it could possibly be.” Story [ ] Smash Cut @07:55"Dogs Love Trucks" @09:10
Aerosmith's Pump @09:15
The Sky Was Dark @17:40Creature Design
Other Names for the Creature, instead of "Creech" @24:00
Chur
The
Slippy
Tentacool
Gas Guzzler
Oiliver
Octoboy
Squidsy
Tentleclabular Final Judgments [ ] A Movie I Kinda Liked (Dan) @38:35
? (Stuart) @1:00:50
? (Elliott) @1:02:55 Better Than [ ] Worse Than [ ] Episode Highlights [ ]
Announcement: Fire—the untamed element, oldest of man's mysteries. Giver of warmth, destroyer of forests…right now, this building is on fire!
Woman: What?!
Announcement: Yes! The building is on fire! Leave the building! Enact the age old drama of self-preservation!
Dystopian Saved by the Bell
Based in the universe of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " by Harlan Ellison, sort of like in The Matrix
Casting Choices
Quotes [ ]
Elliott: It struck me as like an adorable version of the squid from Prometheus
Stuart: Oh, I was thinking that too! Not quite as sexy, though. The squid from Prometheus was very sexy.
Elliott: Oh, tell me about it! Just leave me alone with that squid for a couple minutes!
—@21:05 “ You were trapped in a vortex of vocal fry.”
Dan: Yeah, the long periods of silence are not because you guys are fucking yappin', and yappin', and yappin'. Anyway—
Stuart: That describes ten years of my life, Dan!
—@59:10
Stuart: I mean, I guess this has been an episode where I've made fun of Dan masturbating a lot. [cf. @02:00, 06:20, 21:45, 27:35, 29:20, 1:00:20, 1:44:10]
Elliott: Me too. Dan: I'm sorry. You don't masturbate. You're sexless.
Dan: It's fine. I know everyone does it.
Stuart: I mean, it's cool—
Dan: Elliott has a look on his face like: ‘Not me!’
Elliott: Not me! Well…are we on the record here?
Stuart: Elliott says a little ghost comes and jacks him off.
Elliott: Look, Dan Aykroyd tipped me off to this ghost blowjob service.
Stuart: It's incredible.
Elliott: It's amazing. And the best part is, they unbutton your pants for you.
Stuart: That's crazy! Why does it even do that?
Elliott: Yeah, I don't know…
Stuart: Just do it inside the pants.
—@1:44:05 [ ] Listener Mail [ ] Mailbag Song [ ] @1:23:25 Letters [ ] "Good and Bad Theater Audiences" from Rebus Lastnamewithheld @1:23:45Scream (1996) by Wes Craven @1:23:45Logan (2017) by James Mangold @1:27:20Bad Boys II (2003) by Michael Bay @1:29:50The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) by David Fincher @1:31:45The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) by Betty Thomas @1:32:20"Bad Moments in Good Movies" from Mason Lastnamewithheld @1:33:15Hellboy (2004) by Guillermo del Toro @1:33:25Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) by Joe Johnston @1:34:45The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) by Peter Jackson @1:36:05"Divisive Movie Recommendations" from Julie Lastnamewithheld @1:37:45Raw (2016) by Julia Ducournau @1:38:10Blade II (2002) by Guillermo del Toro @1:39:15Possession Manchester by the Sea (2016) by Kenneth Lonergan @1:40:35The Taking of Pelham One Two Three "Why Are You So Mean to Dan?" from Dan McCoywithheld @1:43:45
Stuart: I like to think that we're being mean to the Dan character .
Elliott: Even when we text mean things to you.
—@1:44:50 Recommendations [ ] Creed (2015) by Ryan Coogler (Elliott) @1:50:00
The Void (2017) by Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski (Stuart) @1:45:25
Stinger [ ]
Dan: You seem to be…
Stuart: How do I sound? Do I sound good?
Dan: Fine. Well, you weren't talking when that was going on. You were only talking during the beep-boop, beep-boop, boop-boop, beep part of things.
Stuart: How did that sound, then?
Dan: Uh, it sounded like beep-boop-boop-boop-beep-boop-boop .
Elliott: "Yes, but what was all that beep-boop-boop stuff you were saying?"
Stuart: Uh, it's this new sound I'm trying out.
Dan: Yeah, that new sound you're looking for? Well listen to this.
Elliott: beep-boop-boop
Stuart: I'm trying out this new thing on podcasts. Trying to reach a new binary market.
Elliott: That's the future, you know.
Dan: Mhm.
—1:54:00 