Episode 356: The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

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Dan: On this episode we discuss The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee.

Elliott: [Australian accent] That's not a movie. [everyone laughs] This is... barely a movie.

Official Show Notes[]

Hey, remember Crocodile Dundee? Remember him? Croc? Ol’ Mick Dundee? Remember? Crocodile? Crocky D? Anyone? Well, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee is about how no one remembers Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, and he’s also somehow the most important star in Hollywood. Take this strange journey with us, and with our delightful guest Ben Harrison, of The Greatest Generation.

Movie Summary[]

Premise[]

Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.

Final Judgments[]

“There is a bit of enjoyment to be had out of what I call the 'old geyser' movie, where you get someone who used to be famous and late in their career they do something that's really playing off the zazz of being like, "Ok, here's a star that's old now doing a thing." ”
— Good-Bad Movie (Dan) @1:13:30

“Last night, when my wife was trying to fall asleep — she's been having neck problems. And my cat climbed off my chest (my 20-lb cat, Muscles), he climbed off of my chest and climbed basically onto her head and she started yelling because it was hurting her neck. So I tried to reach over and push the cat, and instead my hand reached under the cat and somehow I must have hit the wrong button because I managed to express his anal glands and he squirted fucking shit on my hands and on her pillow. And just what I'm trying to say is that was funnier than what happened in the movie.”
—Kind of a Good-Bad Movie (Stuart) @1:16:16

“Once you kind of relax into it it's, you know, fine. It just misses so many of the at-bats. For as thin an idea as it is, it does have a number of set-ups and they just never go anywhere. And it's almost amazing to watch something set so many things up that fail to be realized at all ”
—Mild Good-Bad Movie (Ben) @1:17:24

“There's just no reason to watch it. If you're on a space shuttle and its a generations-long flight to another planet and this is the only movie onboard in the on-ship library, then like... it could be worse, but there's just so many other choices even for Good-Bad movies to watch. Why bother? ”
—Semi-likeable Bad-Bad Movie (Elliott) @1:18:18

Episode Highlights[]

Tangents[]

KPODD1013 @0:44
Til Def Do Us Ppardy @1:22
Old People Ruining Our Love of Them @3:37
The Simpsons' Australia episode @5:03
Yahoo Serious @5:31
America's Obsession with Drug Subplots @7:23
[...]
New Years Glasses @1:34:24
About Recommendations @1:37:30
Don't Just Fill Yourself With Garbage @1:40:02
Ben Harrison Projects @1:41:00
Dan's Cartoonishly Hungry @1:43:37

Quotes[]

Stuart: That's right, it's Ben Harrison. Host of the Greatest Generation and... a thing he told me to say and I fucking forgot it.

Dan: It was just a string of letters and numbers.

Elliott: No, it's KPODD 101.3, it's another podcast co-hosted by Ben.

Dan: Ok.

Ben: The joke is that it's a radio station —

Dan: Oh, ok.

Ben: — but it does have the function of being a string of nonsense letters and numbers

Dan: Yeah, has it made it — I don't wanna bring you on and roast you right away, but has it caused trouble with people trying to find this show, the viewers...?

Ben: Uh, no, nobody's really trying to find it.

Elliott: I think it's just rich that Stuart, who had a podcast called Til Def Do Us Ppardy —

Stuart: Uh huh. Spelled phonetically.

Elliott: — was the one who was like, "this name is nonsense!"

Stuart: Wow!

Dan: A title that just confused me, like, I think until I was 6 episodes in —

Stuart: LEPISODES.

Dan: — I finally realized why it was spelled like that.

Stuart: Yeah, thanks for the lowkey drop on my pardcast there.

— @0:45

“Every movie has that Shelob moment. That's classic story circle structure, you gotta have a Shelob moment.”
—Elliott @1:23:53

Ad Break[]

Maximum Fun[]

Depresh mode @1:07:49
Feeling Seen @1:08:36

Sponsors[]

Lumi Microdose Gummies @1:09:23
Betterhelp @1:11:41

Listener Mail[]

Mailbag Song[]

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Letters[]

Movies or audio books to experience in 15-30 minute intervals between baby care from "Alexander the Great" @1:20:33
- "Your mind will be addled. You'll only be able to do one thing: curse the Gods" (Elliott)
- Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker kind of works; the Power Broker; everything is in 15-30 minute chunks while washing dishes (Elliott)
- lets you pay attention to story structure (Elliott)
- Chopping Mall; find weird stuff through Shudder or Amazon Prime (Stuart)

What are the lyrics to the Flop House theme? Tyler Perry @1:26:01
- it's like the Gene Roddenberry thing (Ben)
- "Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Ahh-AHHH!" (Elliott)

Recommendations[]

Last Night in Soho (2021) by Edgar Wright (Dan) @1:27:45

Riders of Justice (2020) by Anders Thomas Jensen (Stuart) @1:30:46

Parallel Mothers (2021) by Pedro Almodóvar (Ben) @1:32:38

Working Girls (1986) by Lizzie Borden (Elliott) @1:35:30

Stinger[]

Elliott: [autotuned to the theme song] Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Ahh-AHHH! Ahh-AHHH!

Stuart: Very into the episode, Ben, we will say our names —

Ben: Ok.

Stuart: — and then you will say your name after Elliott says his name.

Dan: Yeah

Ben: Ok.

Elliott: Yes

Stuart: He might do a fuckin' bit, you never know with this guy —

Ben: [sarcastic] Whaaaat?

Dan: We always forget to tell the guest that they're expected to see themself out by saying their name, and it's always confusing

Elliott: And it's just an awkward silence and then they go, "Oh, oh — Me too!"

Dan: Yeah

Stuart: And then we're like, "God, he looked like an idiot" [Dan and Elliott laugh] Why do we have him on our podcast? That's the only way that we can feel smarter.

`Dan:`	On this episode we discuss The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee.
`Elliott:`	[Australian accent] That's not a movie. [everyone laughs] This is... barely a movie.

`Stuart:`	That's right, it's Ben Harrison. Host of the Greatest Generation and... a thing he told me to say and I fucking forgot it.
`Dan:`	It was just a string of letters and numbers.
`Elliott:`	No, it's KPODD 101.3, it's another podcast co-hosted by Ben.
`Dan:`	Ok.
`Ben:`	The joke is that it's a radio station —
`Dan:`	Oh, ok.
`Ben:`	— but it does have the function of being a string of nonsense letters and numbers
`Dan:`	Yeah, has it made it — I don't wanna bring you on and roast you right away, but has it caused trouble with people trying to find this show, the viewers...?
`Ben:`	Uh, no, nobody's really trying to find it.
`Elliott:`	I think it's just rich that Stuart, who had a podcast called Til Def Do Us Ppardy —
`Stuart:`	Uh huh. Spelled phonetically.
`Elliott:`	— was the one who was like, "this name is nonsense!"
`Stuart:`	Wow!
`Dan:`	A title that just confused me, like, I think until I was 6 episodes in —
`Stuart:`	LEPISODES.
`Dan:`	— I finally realized why it was spelled like that.
`Stuart:`	Yeah, thanks for the lowkey drop on my pardcast there.

`Elliott:`	[autotuned to the theme song] Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Ahh-AHHH! Ahh-AHHH!
`Stuart:`	Very into the episode, Ben, we will say our names —
`Ben:`	Ok.
`Stuart:`	— and then you will say your name after Elliott says his name.
`Dan:`	Yeah
`Ben:`	Ok.
`Elliott:`	Yes
`Stuart:`	He might do a fuckin' bit, you never know with this guy —
`Ben:`	[sarcastic] Whaaaat?
`Dan:`	We always forget to tell the guest that they're expected to see themself out by saying their name, and it's always confusing
`Elliott:`	And it's just an awkward silence and then they go, "Oh, oh — Me too!"
`Dan:`	Yeah
`Stuart:`	And then we're like, "God, he looked like an idiot" [Dan and Elliott laugh] Why do we have him on our podcast? That's the only way that we can feel smarter.