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Show Notes[]
The Super Mario Bros. live show had a thrilling, good-humored, and completely unexpected special guest in Parker Bennett, one of the film’s (many) writers, who showed up in the chat purely to enjoy the show, but was happy to join us for a few minutes to talk about his experience making the movie.
Time constraints prevented us from talking to him as long as we’d like, so we decided to have him on a minisode, where he could dish about the behind-the-scenes details at greater length.
A NOTE: since we usually release all our podcast episodes on Saturdays, but access to the SMB live show was scheduled to end at midnight this Sunday, we decided to release this mini a little early, AND also extend the live show one more day (till midnight on Monday, 10/4), so that anyone listening who’s curious for more Super Mario Bros. shenanigans could still get a chance to see the show. [Wiki Note: Not anymore!]
Episode Summary[]
- Introduction @0:03
- Parker reached out from the Live Show audience @0:59
- Stuart's jack-off blackmail emails @1:25
- Parker finally gets introduced @3:37
- "How did you come to be in the audience for our show?" @4:45
- Dan being Wickermanned @06:15
- Parker being one of the 3 credited writers @6:48
- A brief history of the Super Mario Bros. pre-production @7:28
- The Munsters and Monsterology @11:22
- Was Parker a fan of Super Mario Bros? @12:27
- Mario's lack of character @15:39
- "Do not jump on a turtle" (Elliott) @16:00
- "What direction you were pointed in?" @16:50
- tried to make it in the style of Ghostbusters
- premise probably cribbed from Doctor Who
- As much Brooklyn as possible for budget reasons @19:02
- Casting Mario @19:58
- "Mario Mario" credit @21:35
- Parker became the "Keeper of the Game Flame" @22:51
- Dennis Hopper, scarier than Bowser @24:13
- vestigial Die Hard draft @24:44
- cutting 25 pages out of the script @26:30
- same cement factory set as The Crow @32:00
- Patrick Tatopoulis, creature design @33:18
- Samantha Mathis was making two films @34:42
- the Stuart Gordon connection @36:11
- "Dennis Hopper is very unhappy" @38:39
- "There was no ending" @39:56
- "Hope springs eternal" @41:00
- Test audiences were confused; "nobody got it!" @41:30
- Intro animations and ADR @42:04
- Disappointed parents @43:27
- The Ending, and the Next Adventure @44:11
- Goodbyes and Plugs @45:34
- The Flop House Bump and buzz around the new movie @47:50
- Outro @49:04
Episode Highlights[]
Movie Pitches[]
- Super Mario Bros
an actual successful movie pitch (Parker) @10:51
- The Munsters
an actual unsuccessful movie pitch (Parker) @10:51
Quotes[]
“Here on the Flop House podcast, on other weeks — every other week—we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. And then on these — not those weeks, the other other weeks (is this... easy to follow?) — we do minis where we talk about whatever we wanna talk about.”
—Dan @0:21
“It's almost as if Stuart's tangent about his jack-off blackmail email was unnecessary in this episode. And I refuse to believe that; that doesn't fit into God's plan for this show.”
—Elliott @4:08
Elliott: I mean, the Munsters are a flawed concept to begin with, but that's not your fault. I mean, the genetics don't make any sense that a Frankenstein plus a Vampire would make a Wolfman. It doesn't — you know? But anyway, that's besides the point. ...unless they're both carrying the recessive gene for Lycanthropy, I dunno, I'm not a scientist. Uh, Stuart, sorry? Stuart: Wait. So wait. If you were a scientist, you'd be able to answer questions of Lycanthropy? Elliott: Well, if I was a biologist who specialized in Monsterology, sure, yeah!
- —@11:39
Parker: I was a big Donkey Kong addict, so Mario has a place in my heart. Dan: But Luigi can suck it! Elliott: Hey, where was he when the ape needed stopping? I dunno, but he wasn't helping!
- —@13:43
“Nobody apologizes in Hollywood”
—Parker @40:47
Sponsors[]
- Betterhelp @29:35
Stinger[]
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