Episode 536: Ladybugs

In this episode, the Mullets celebrate a birthday in the weirdest way possible: a Rodney Dangerfield soccer movie that allows them to discuss sexualized teenagers in Hollywood, Jackee’s resume and RESPECT.

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Arcade Audio. Hello and welcome to this week's

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episode. I'm Married with Movies.
I'm one of your hosts, Samantha Mullet.
See you next. Me on the couches.
Your other host, my beautiful husband, Chris Mullet.
I don't like to normally talk about the movie during like the
opening times. I thought that you were going to
say you don't like to talk, period, and I was going to call
bullshit on you. I don't.

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There's only one other person who loves the sound of their own
voice more than you, and that's our daughter Jillian.
But in this case, I have to share with the fact I'm just
going to describe everything, hesaid.
I have to share with the fact that prior to starting you had
to ask me if the title of the movie was actually pluralized or

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not. The shows how little you pay
attention to fucking anything. No, I just was clarifying if
it's ladybug or ladybugs that was.
Why would it be Ladybug? I don't know Ladybugs very
popular. Jillian's got a lot of toys from
Ladybug. Everything I just wanted to
double check. It came out in 1992.
I don't care. Your silence is not great

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podcasting. Yeah, correct it is.
You don't even know the date. July. 45th, 15th.
The reason I know is because it was payday.
It was. Payday and it was your mom's
birthday. Not today.

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Well, this past weekend, yeah. Oh my God, I was trying to segue
into it. Terribly, I said try no.
Build up No. I said try.
You have the flow of clam chowder.
You. New England clam chowder or.
Is that the red or the white? I don't know the difference.

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So yes, so hello everybody. As you continue to traverse this
non existent schedule with us, which is basically we watched a
movie, what night do we feel like talking to one another?
Y'all lucky? Y'all lucky?
Y'all lucky get a podcast a week, particularly because of
the wild and crazy schedule thatwe are.

(02:53):
Currently on. You stop saying what you think
I'm going to say and just listento what I'm saying, no.
I am listening to what you're saying.
It just is surprising to me thatit's just a swerve that you're
saying something. That's not what I thought you
were going to say. Don't start swerving my actual
fucking words. It's bad enough you wasted a
year of my God damn. Life, I didn't waste any.
You did, yes. You don't watch the movies that

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begin with, let alone you doing your bullshit swerves of like
swerve he's got a hat Swerve there's a soccer ball Swerve
he's in a wig Swerve I. Mean, yeah.
What did you think I was going to say?
It's so entertaining and exciting to share.
I thought I don't remember what you were saying 'cause I wasn't

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actually. Listening, I would call you
something right now, but I'm being cognizant of our audience
and you know exactly what I mean.
No, thank you. That's great.
Hi, Carly. No, not talking.
About I know you're not talking about Carly.
I'm aware. Carly's too busy masturbating.

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Canines you. Put that out there.
I was like Cam with no context whatsoever.
So over the past couple weeks since we've recorded, I spent
some time in Miami. And yes, I put it that way on
purpose because that's what it feels like spending time
specifically in the Brickell area, which is like like not

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South Beach Miami, but like the out, not the outskirts.
It's like downtown Miami. It's but not but it's.
On South. Beach.
Specifically, it's downtown Miami for work.
I had had more of a good time that I anticipated to have, if
only because I didn't have to drive while I was there.

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I took the bright line, had someso so food, and went and saw an
even more so so movie. I did like the theater I went
to. So shout out to the CMX theater
in Brickell. Awesome bar staff, really,
really good. Like state-of-the-art facility.
They also have like a huge like sports bar like as you first

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come in there where they have like a giant screen that they
also house sporting event simulcast and things for.
But the actual theater itself was very nice, Very cool.
I saw Megan 2 point O. How was?
It because we have it for our movie league, which we are
currently in 5th place for just.Great.

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And out of six teams and that's.OK, it's not Are we 6?
No, that's angry and Tony Colt. So we're good.
OK. Yeah.
So it's fine. But part of the main reason why
we are in last place is because we have Megan 2 point O because
it is sucking a big old fat one at the box office.
Because it turns out, despite myexcitement for it initially

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because we liked the first Meganmovie, I thought people would be
into oh man, now it's kind of like TT2.
She's anti hero type thing. Awesome.
Now it turns out people just wanted memes and creepy shit.
Neither which this movie had. So in actuality, this movie kind
of blew. I full I full.
I fell asleep for like 20 minutes, woke up, had no fucking
idea what was going on. I don't think the movie did

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either. It just didn't have any of the
kitschy fun, in my opinion, thatthe first one had.
So take any of the horror elements out of it, take
anything out of it that the first one really had besides
like Megan kind of being funny in parts and like you didn't
have anything to really sink your teeth into.

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It was just a boring action movie with one or two kind of
funny scenes in it, and it was super convoluted, super
complicated for no reason at all.
Couldn't get it into it all. You remember that guy that was
on SNL for one season? Aristotle, Atari.
He's in that movie. But like, oh, that guy.

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Look at it. Because he's like, impossible
not to notice. He's one of those distinct
people I've ever seen. Like, yeah, he's in that.
So is Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords.
So is there's like a third person?
Like, why the fuck is this person in this movie?
So yeah, not not my favorite, not not at all.

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I also, while I was on the road to finish the third season and
the final season of the originalSquid Game, which also went
places, it was fine. I liked it was definitely the
worst season of the three just because there was a there is one
fantastic episode of that season.
I put it up with any episode from the first season, but the

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rest of it just kind of becomes like, what are we doing here?
Like why, why is this what we'redoing?
And also directly sets up the American version of it that's
coming with one of the wildest like cameos I've ever fucking
seen or anything. It's like, all right, sure,
let's let's. Do that.
Let's, let's do there. Let's do all that, huh?

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But besides that, I don't think I've watched anything else
besides the movie we're going totalk about.
Did you watch anything while I was gone or do anything of note?
No, yeah, I didn't think so. No, no.
I kind of watched a little bit of of a movie.
Jillian, watch today, Zombies 4,Dawn of the Vampires, but I

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didn't watch a lot because I wasworking.
I select the intro. Cool.
Don't call him the best in the business for nothing, folks.
And by that I mean nobody calls her the best in the business.
There are people who call me that.
So we referenced this last week because of our crazy schedule.

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That's we, we weren't sure what the next few weeks were going to
look like, particularly because we have The Hateful 8, which is
a two hour and 45 minute movie. We have Bamboozled, which is not
an easy movie to get through. What?
Do you? Mean and we have quick change,
which will be next week's episode, but we also knew we had
my travel we have both of our travel basically being apart

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from another for half of a week coming up and also being just on
the road for an entire week. So this past weekend was my
mother's birthday as Samantha mentioned she was here along
with other family celebrating and eating and playing games and
having a fun time. And we asked my mom what movie
do you want to watch for your birthday and of course she said

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I don't know. So so I went upstairs and I
picked 8 movies that I thought my mom would like to watch for
her birthday. Smoking the bandit was not a
party. Was not allowed.
Was not allowed. There were two other Burt
Reynolds movies, only one of which made the finale, and we
did a little makeshift tournament real quick for my mom

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to decide what movie. So there was Cannibal Run,
Stroker Ace, 9:00 to 5:00. I can't even remember all the
rest of them, so I just put themaway the other night Cocoon.
She's like, no one wants to watch.
That's about old people dying. And I bit my tongue.
And ultimately for my mom's birthday, she decided to watch
Ladybugs, the Rodney Dangerfieldgirls soccer movie.

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And I was like, there is no better like, encapsulation and
like method of celebrating my mom's birthday than watching
this movie that I saw in theaters.
You saw that in theaters. I saw this.
Movie Did you sit in between your parents?
My mom had not met my father yetto confuse the audience.

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So we saw this in theaters. This was 92, right?
I'm trying to find the actual year.
I'm pretty sure it's 92. Yeah, 92.
So I was five years old. I'm not positive if I think this
is before my grandmother even started going to movies with us.
So I think this is just the two of us, which as you'll come to
find out as we talk about this podcast, that's how about this

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movie was not an appropriate movie for a 5 year old.
We were going to let Jillian watch it, but ultimately, like
the way the day ran, it was better for us to just watch it
Sunday night when she was asleep.
And I'm glad Jillian didn't watch it because I don't think
it's an appropriate movie for an8 year old as somebody that just
let their child watch Missus Doubtfire.
So this is what we're doing today.
We were going to have my mom on the podcast, but again, we ran

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out of time and nobody wants that smoke.
So we are doing Rodney Dangerfield ladybugs.
Getting respect is 1 big goal. Oh my gosh, there's so much
writing on this. Comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield
is at the top of his game. Is Chester a salesman looking
for a little respect and a big job promotion to impress his

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boss. Chester becomes the coach of the
company sponsored girls soccer team, the Ladybugs.
When Chester and his assistant coach Jack A use their woefully
unskilled players, they realizedthe Ladybugs are going to get
squashed. What?
You said use their I was. Hoping you didn't notice it, you
didn't have your finger up. I was like.
Oh my, because I can't. I was trying to read but your
finger was in front of it so I couldn't tell if you got the

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word right or not. Woefully unskilled players.
I apologize. Chester decides the team needs a
girl who plays like a boy, so hesecretly enlists his fiance son
Matthew Jonathan Brandis, to become Martha the Ladybug's
newest member. With his harebrained planned in
place, Chester figures he has a what?
He said planned. Harebrained plan in place, he.
Said planned in place. Planned in place.

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Planned in place. Chester figures he has a shot at
winning the championship and saving his career or losing
everything. In the spirit of Kicking and
screaming, Ladybugs is a laugh out loud family comedy in a
league of its own. That's a bunch of bullshit.
Because Kicking and Screaming isthe movie that came out like 23
years after. 20 years after this?
No. 13 years. You can't reference a movie 13

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years after the fact. Yeah, you can.
You can do whatever you want you.
Don't reference the league of their own either just because
it's like girls doing sports. Man I keep looking at fucking 21
ladybugs. God damn it, mom.
When we. I still insist I only got one
there. No, you got 2RE.
Listen to it and you'll you'll hear you got two.
What? Doesn't matter, I'm still up

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what, 2? No more than that.
Oh, you'll try. You really suck our reading
challenge. You're such an ass.
Whoever. Whoever.
I'm a four and you're. What is your number at 23?
Oh, you're only two away from losing.
Yeah. Oh, fantastic.
Oh, this is fine. This makes it respectable for
you. Then I did the other kind of my
heart. Had you ever seen ladybugs
before? Chris, there's not a single

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thing that you've ever done out of the kindness of your heart.
We have. Watch Ladybugs with your mom.
I'll talk about just with you. Have you ever seen ladybugs
before? What do you think the answer to
that question I. Don't know because this is one
of those movies that it was a cable movie.
It wasn't that common of a cablemovie I honestly think.

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But I saw this movie in theatersso I've made it for a reference.
I've probably seen this movie like 20 times like so many.
Times. I think this is the distinct
difference between Ohio and Florida, OK.
You watch The Wizard of Oz everyday?
I watched this movie like twice a week.
Exaggeration. But no, it's not.
You know what I mean. It's not an exaggeration.

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So you've never seen it before, so I'll let you score it first.
What are you giving ladybugs? I don't know.
I mean, that's the point of podcast.
We have to give it give. It no, I'm well aware.
I I know, but I'm like, it's a very difficult movie to figure
out how to score it because likeyou said, it's not like the most
appropriate. It has not aged well at all.

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Talk about that. I think I'm going to give this
movie a A5. I think I've got to go MIT mid
Rd. here you're. Giving this movie A5.
Wow. I'm giving this movie A4 and I
thought I was pushing it becausereally I am skewed based on the
amount of times I've seen this movie and I knew what to expect.
On it. Oh OK, I probably going to go

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down in my score. It's my nose stretch.
A good movie, even when it came.Out funny parts because of
Rodney Dangerfield being Rodney Dangerfield but.
So I will say that that being said, this is a stark contrast

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from like 80s Rodney Dangerfield.
Oh, absolutely, but then you have to also like compare it to
other movies of its time too. What?
What you're did Misses Doubtfirecome out. 93.
Yeah, no, but misses Doubtfire did it better like.
Most movies. A lot of the scenes and stuff.
You know, like if you want to think of it in the regards of a

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man or a woman dressing as a woman.
Yeah. Yes, that does it better.
If you want to look at it from akid sports movie, Yes, every
other movie in this time did it better.
The problem with this movie is that it doesn't do anything
better except, in my opinion, like offending people.
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. There is plenty here that is

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just like Icky and. Yeah, no, I'm changing my score.
I'm going to give. This No no no, you change it at
the fucking we God fuck. Like no what to do?
Change it now it's built anothershow.

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Because you're going to lose my train of thoughts, I have to
call out you doing it wrong. The point I'm trying to make is
like in the 80s, like if this movie was made in the 80s and it
was made for like Rodney Dangerfield's ideal audience as
I could see this movie being really funny and really good and
also probably still really offensive.

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I think go back to school. I think a Caddyshack.
I think the easy money. I think of him like in his
element doing his shtick. It doesn't feel as forced as it
does in this movie. So often there are literally
just scenes in this movie where it's a setup just to let Rodney
Dangerfield say like 5 or 6 jokes in a row and then you go
on to the next scene and he feels like tired in this.

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He feels like he is obviously older.
The fact that he is in the position where he is like how
old was he when this movie came out?
Hold on. He was born in 1921.
He. Born in 1921, so he is.
November 22nd, 1921. So he is technically like 70
years old in this movie. Yeah, that's amazing.

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He was, oh, he was like the sameage as your mom.
He. Looks every fucking bit of it
what I was. Younger than your mom?
What are you talking about? He was younger than your mom in
this movie. Like your mom, right?
Oh, right now. I thought you meant Samantha.
You're gonna get fucking killed.My mother's mom.
My mother's father. I meant I meant I.
Got it now. I got it, now I.

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Got it now. So yeah, so like the movie does
all the the sports movies tropes, especially from a family
movie perspective, and it it's just a lot despite its 89 minute
runtime. Where to begin?
I actually have so many notes for this fucking movie and I had

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no idea I did. Let's start how we normally
start. What scenes did you like, what
were your favorites, or what didyou particularly like about the
movie? For those of you that didn't get
it from the back of the box, it's pretty self-explanatory.
Rodney Angerfield dresses his his future son-in-law.
No, his future stepson, always. Fuck that up out up like a girl

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to help him win a girls Soccer League so we can get a promotion
and marry his fiance. So talk to me, what did you
like? What did I like?
Somebody that gives me a 5. Well, I, I look at, I kind of
said before Rodney Dangerfield, I thought was, was funny.

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So I mean, like I liked some of the performances, you know,
particularly Rodney Dangerfield being Rodney Dangerfield.
I thought he was, he was funny. He tries.
Really hard. He's the only one who's.
Doing it though, no, but at least he's trying.
I don't have him as my. MVP of this movie.
You're dumb. Well, I mean, I, I, I'm.
Willing to thank you so much forthat being no, I'm just.

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Kidding your? Reaction and response I'm just
kidding. I I think because I have
experienced so much of his career that this feels like a
step below him. But like I do like when he goes
in and like asks for the promotion and he's being like
awkward and uncomfortable because the movie starts with

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him obviously having like confidence issues and him going
to what to me seemed like some Nazi ass rally he was at.
For whoever this Von Kemp self help fucking character is, that
doesn't come back at any in any in any 1000% in.
Any port? Part of the film, but like.
He. Is so nervous when he's like

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asking his boss for that scene, like he is doing a really,
really good job there. But then of course it pivots
right into like him getting lumped into or getting roped in
to teach the soccer team and then right back with the like
the corny ass fucking early 90s.Comedy.
Music and like him frantically, you know, telling Jack hey what

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they have to do and like any andonce again kind of like the
whale. Anytime there's a scene where
I'm like a glimmer of hope, a heart, or some actual genuine
humor humor, then it just reverts back to just like.
You know a. Veiled sexual molestation joke.
Yeah. Fucking shopping.
Yeah, so I liked. The stuff that wasn't the veiled

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sexual innuendo, molestation jokes, I liked.
Like the realism. Well, like, I liked how a lot of
it was. I meant like, can you let me
finish my sentence? Yes.
Like that? That realism of him being like
nervous to go in and ask for thepromotion and everything like
that. I liked all that kind of stuff.

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And like flirting, flirting withlike the secretary and you.
Know. Being real overt with that
secretary there is in A5. Minute span.
Rodney Dangerfield with his boss's secretary, just verbally.
Verbally. Me tooing her without, for lack

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of a better word. And then how he is with the sexy
wife of the smarmy boss. Oh my gosh.
And like the multiple hugs, the multiple hugs, and.
All of his little comments and all of his little stares And
then here's the problem. Also like Rodney in your field
at this point in his career verymuch knows who he is and knows
that like one of the keys to hissuccess is that fucking look on
his face like the bug eyes and reacting to things he.

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Does it crazy but when? He does it in this movie when
he's a character named Chester, cause of course he's named
Chester and he has. What's wrong with Chester?
It's just a very. Very Rodney Dangerfield looking
name. We're going to get a dog.
In name, in Chester, anything. Chester, we're going to name our
dog. In Chester.
He has the romanticism of like afucking slug.
So like the like him believably,especially in this movie versus

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something like back to school like like hugging even his
fiance and like seeming so like desperate and like grasping at
her and looking crazy. It makes it again just such an
icky fucking movie because like he is a good guy just like what
he does in this movie. It's just like the.

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Intentions were well, well, like, it was well-intentioned,
but 90s are fucking wild, man. Yeah, the 90s were wild so.
Absolutely. So.
So you talked about Rodney Dangerfield being Rodney
Dangerfield essentially being the stuff that that you liked.
Yeah. Looking back at my.
Notes. I think that's about it.

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Do you have any more? Specifics there because there's
a lot that happens and I don't want to have to just list and
read them all off. I.
We're still talking about stuff.We liked yes.
OK. I like some of like, like kind
of like the montage. I guess it wasn't really a

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montage, but when Matthew Marthais helping the team and like he
put butterflies on the ball and like like those different ways
that he helped the team, I likedthat the first.
Game like that was kind of like an.
Extended montage kind of thing, like the second.
Game of his where all of a sudden he's a great team player,

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right, right. Not an.
Asshole on the sidelines. And he get he get it's hit in
the penis with a soccer ball humor.
Yeah, that's a good scene. Yeah, I liked.
That I like, I like that. So there's.
When it comes to performances, none of these.
So I like the performances in this movie, but of so many

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little bit players. There are so many people that
have like 1 very very short teamscene that fucking go for it so
hard and I love it. I wish any of them were in like
1 more scene or else I'd give them MVP consideration.
So here's those people, the ladywho enters the elevator who

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thinks that Chester and Jack A are the couple and not Chester
and. Fiance and she's like.
Going all for talking about how great it is essentially because
it'd be a mixed race relationship.
She goes so hard like that Lady rules.
So she's one another one to givea shout out to is sorry, because

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I have so many notes I have to sift through them to find all
these bit character actually arecrushing it.
Oh, the lady in the dress shop, not the one that's reacting to
them in the locker room or in the dressing room, but the lady
when he first goes up in a bit, which is admittedly a funny
setup in premise. It's like, hey, I'm here to shop
for a dress and she goes, OK, what size are you looking for?
And he turns to look at his and Matthew goes, I don't know.

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What size are you? All of that lady's facial
expressions and comments to their interaction again,
crushing it. Yeah.
The the the woman who Rodney Dangerfield gets sent to the
men's room on accident. She's like this sweet old lady

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who finds it so funny she almostwent into the men's room.
And then she goes in the men room and is like.
She's awesome, yeah. That was cool.
And then sorry, I'm looking for one more.
Oh, and fucking fucking Blake Clark.
Fucking Slinky Dog 2 himself as Coach Bull later on to the

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movie. It's such a small.
Fucking part but like him makingparents do push ups I was not a
fan. He didn't like him.
Not I thought he was great. Not a fan of him or.
That that scene, oh, I loved. Coach Bowl because like that is
a that's a character that sticksout in the movie and it's it's
completely zany and silly, but it fits into the scope of the

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movie and he's absolutely owningit.
Same thing with like the lack ofa better word, like Butch female
coach. Like later, like earlier on in
the movie that's like like all of Chester's ass.
And then it ends up wanting to hug from him and being weird.
Like if you are in this movie and you recognize who you like
what you're in, take fucking swings and get fucking notice.
Hell the fuck yeah. So yeah, so I want to shout.

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Out those people there's in all honesty, not a lot of laugh out
loud stuff that happens because there's a lot of you're just
like, how were we a society in 1990?
Two that let things like this. Happen this fucking Ted Lasso,
but it's incredibly bad this didnot.
Age well at all like there's stuff that's.

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Like. Typical so like.
The when he first meets the team.
And of course, like, they all suck, even though he thinks it's
a shore thing. And like, they all have the
classic 90s comedy clerks. You have the prissy girl, you
have the ugly girl. You have the ethnic girl.
You have the other ethnic girl. Well, I meant I was talking.
About like Chew, the Asian goaltender, goaltender.

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And then also you have the blackgirl who ends up just being like
Sassy because Jackie talks to her.
Once you know, you have all of those like like that's typical
of this the stuff because each one of them has to have their
moment of realization later on. But the I'm sorry, I again, I

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I'm shocked at how much I fucking wrote down about fucking
ladybugs of all things. There is, there is some, like
there is some Marty Dangerfield stuff that I particularly really
fucking like. So his face when he gets the
idea to trust Matthew up in a dress is just, I mean, it's that
face I made earlier. But like, if you do it like once

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in a movie, it works. The other nine times you do it
afterwards, it doesn't work so bad.
And of course then it's juxtaposed by immediately like
some of the worst of badly aged drag humor and drag visuals
you've ever seen. An absolutely terrible soccer
montage. And it's like another bad
argument between the two. Afterwards in the car, it's
like, this is just bad and misguided in general.

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Then you have. Arguably one of the.
Best scenes? I mean not to.
Me, but maybe to you when you were five, you are not.
Even in the right order, the thing I was talking about was
afterwards, and we cannot discuss that in anything close
to the best scene in the movie category because I was being.
Sarcastic. No.
Yeah. No, no.
No, no, I appreciate it, but we're not there yet.

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I have to build myself up. OK, That's the wrong way to put
to put that. I bet you do.
But. There are a couple really really
sweet scenes as well. Like this movie is so fucking
stupid that it has no right having the scene with Rodney
Dangerfield and Pester where he.I love that scene.

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Like it's a. Really, really good scene
between the two of them where the the the heavier set, like
brace filled like, like shy nervous girl is, you know, kind
of emboldened by Rodney Dangerfield to go with the other
girls and talk to the boys and showing her like how pretty she
is. And in that scene, like, it

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doesn't seem like icky or gross like he is in every other
fucking scene. You see.
He's an actual good earnest dude.
It's still a little weird. It's a little weird, but.
Yeah, it's more of like that father, daughter, like uncle,
niece kind of thing. And then you have the call.
Back for it, of course in the the final game when Martha of
course can't play and the girls have to do it on their own and

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they each get their moment, whether it be shoe like going
back and goal and absolutely crushing it, the prissy girl
breaking her nail and everyone, everyone freaking get those
nail. Breakers.
That was a great scene, the nail.
Breaker scene is. Very funny.
I was like. What is this movie like?
Then I was there like doing liketwists and turns everything.

(30:09):
But yeah, I love when pester. Like was like puts her hair down
and looks at the coach and does it herself.
And he's like, you're beautiful.Like that's a good payoff.
That's. Yeah, that's just like good
fucking writing, good acting, a good filmmaking.
I like that. But.
This is ladybugs. Yes, and I like.
I like when he like defied the boss, like you know what good is

(30:30):
being the best if it brings out the worst and you're like, it's
got a good heart, good lesson. So that's why I gave it a five
man. It has a good.
Lesson in the way he stands up to his boss and kind of makes
his boss see like the air of hisways and ultimately, you know,
gets everything that he doesn't really deserve based on how he
got it I mean let's be fair froma rant perspective like this is

(30:51):
the most obvious thing of all time there's no fucking way that
that that happens but. It's also got.
Like some decent stuff as it relates to like like step
parents and step kids. Like the scene with him and
Matthew at the end were like, you know, they kind of come to a
realization that like they like one another and they're you
know, they're just trying to getthe same thing, which is, you

(31:13):
know, taking care of their mom slash fiance.
You know, it's it's it's a good it's a good fucking scene.
Me. Yeah, it is.
So there's there's a lot there that I'm like, you know what?
Fucking Hey, All right, let's talk about the rest of the
movie. Where were the?
Referees. There's there's so there's so

(31:37):
fucking much. So we already talked about I'm.
So sorry I have my favorite line.
Can I share it before we get into the stuff we didn't like?
I think my favorite line in the whole movie was after that first
game. Rodney Dangerfield said no
pictures please, I don't want tobe seen here.
I think it's probably my favorite line in the whole
movie. It was just hilarious.
He has a lot of 1. Liners that are pretty like that

(31:59):
was great. Pretty like eye rolly.
But he does have his fucking yeah like I love.
That I was like, yeah, I totallyget it.
Absolutely. There's another line that.
He has. I thought I wrote it down where
like, he says something and I'm like, that's just like, you
can't argue that. That's just very funny.
Like which one? I don't have it written down.
Oh, no, no, no, I have written down.

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When she's older I bet she marries a girl named Ralph and
wonders why. Doesn't even mean anything but
you get the context of it right away.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
The sub one liners just fucking work.
And that that's one of them scenes and stuff you didn't like
about the movie. Sorry I was yawning.

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OK, so I I referenced misses doubtfire earlier because there
was a like a a misses doubtfire esque scene.
And it's funny that miss da firecame out after this.
So technically like it kind of copied it.
I mean, but it doesn't show wellthe whole the whole double

(33:06):
personality got being two placesand then you make the mistake
the classic Bonnie and. Fred have the water Buffalo
game, and they also have like Pebbles and Bam Bam's birthday.
You know what I mean? Like you got to be in two places
at once or there's two differentpeople.
Is that why you and Steve? Went and played cornhole that
day. I'm sorry, what?
The fuck that was on it. Fucking attack out of nowhere.
I was just asking. No, we were playing.

(33:28):
And those girls just came up andjoined us.
And then a photographer came around and then the end.
Where the fuck were you going? Supposed to be in scenes we
didn't like? You like that scene or no?
No. Because I didn't think they did
it as well as Misses Doubtfire. Well, that's not fucking.
Fair, don't those bloody ladybugs my misses doubtfire.

(33:50):
I can't help but too. Because earlier, Jillian was
talking about how much she lovedMisses Doubtfire.
And she told my mom, She said tomy mom, Oh my God, I killed the
goddamn bastard. Great.
Wonderful, My mom. Was shocked.
I like that scene. Well enough the back and forth
into the reveal. Like, sure, when the boys want

(34:11):
to be girls, girls want to be boys.
Hey, it's very topical, you knowwhat I mean?
Hey, yo. So.
What other scenes you like before I just start going?
I mean you should. Well, the you yelled at me
before when I said I wanted to talk about this one scene.
Oh, first of all, wait, I do have one scene before that one.
I don't understand. I was once a 12 year old girl.

(34:33):
I wasn't talking about this. Now.
I wasn't ever on a. Soccer team.
Oh, but I don't know why, why they wanted to go, why they were
all go skinny dipping. I was going to save.
This for my rant, but I guess we'll just do it now.
I thought you were. Going to talk about the Tatas.
I'm sorry. I thought you were going to
talk. About the ladybug bikini yabos.

(34:54):
Yabos. We'll talk about it all.
All right, let's go on. Here is Mullet's.
Pervert Corner. Not that I'm the trademark.
No, no trademark. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm just ranting on the fact that these things happen.
But you know what? Hey.
Can I ask you something real quick?
How many people read your pod blog is like.
Oh hard as a rock. Fuck you, I'm going to whip this

(35:16):
at you for how many? I bet more people would read
them all. It's pervert corner.
We don't have metrics. On either 1 So let's talk about
your first thing. So after like a victorious game,
all the girls go over to you know the the owner's mom's house
for like you know after game party, which number one?

(35:39):
What the fuck would he drop themoff?
They're like why did she go or he go?
Why did why does Chester let himgo with that?
I know you're. Saying why did they go?
I should have. But then they are all in.
Middle school, but I. Think they're mostly supposed to
be high school? They're 12.
They're not 12. Vanessa Shaw has 16 in this

(36:01):
movie, which doesn't change whatI'm about to say for anything.
They're all 12. Jonathan Brandis was not. 12
years old. No, I mean the.
Characters and they none. Of them appear to be 12.
What so fucking up they're 12. But anyway, they are.
Hey, Siri. How old are the girls in the
Ladybugs movie? You.

(36:22):
Couldn't ask that any fucking worse.
This is the girl in the lady. Movies 14.
No, not that movie. The 1992.
That's wonderful. Yeah, wonderful.
But they go to hang out this house and they all choose
together to go skinny dipping with their mother home.
What mom? I mean, I get it.
They're like, hey, I'm a cool. Mom, they're rich hoity.

(36:43):
Toity, they're drinking fucking drinks on the sideline.
I'm a cool mom. Not a regular mom.
I don't know what's less. Believable.
That or Rodney Dangerfield dressed up like Martha's mom.
Like I. Love.
Total. Fucking bullshit.
Like how could you not? How could you not tell though?

(37:05):
Like I get it. I get it if it's like like just
Matthew. And what's her name?
Kim like hanging out, like becoming friends and the Kim has
the suggestion to be IE and thenlike hilarious because we've
already sexualized or dull hell before, so why not one more
thing, but the whole fucking team doing it preposterous and

(37:25):
absurd, which leaves them the other thing you talked about
earlier. So when Matthew first goes, per
Chester's request, to like watchthe team and just like, give me
some pointers, like, let me knowwhat I'm doing wrong because
Matthew is apparently the star athlete, even though he seems to
be the kind that's like a loser and too cool for anything 14.
Great. Wonderful.

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He observes like his crush, which of course is Kim, the
boss's daughter. And there's this whole fucking
dream sequence. This dream sequence.
That. Includes Vanessa Shaw, who I
think we've already established,probably in the podcast.
History is probably on my list. Oh oh.
Oh, specifically from. Hocus Pocus, please put it from

(38:10):
Hocus Pocus. Even though in the movie she's
playing high school girl, she was an adult in the movie when
she was filming the movie, so it's fine.
But here she is 16 years old. Your list is so.
Fucking long. Yes, I know.
We don't need. We don't.
Have time to go over it. We're 37 and 37 minutes in the
ladybugs. We still have a lot to talk
about. The podcast will be longer than
the movie. So Matthew has a dream sequence

(38:34):
where Kim is running towards himand while he's sitting in the
sidelines in a ladybug bikini. And she is in the movie supposed
to be a 14 year old and in real life she is 16.
Both of which are not cool. I Mean Girls.
Wear bikini they do. But they're not.

(38:56):
But then they don't run. Around in the bikini in slow.
Motion in that scene when they are as as established by Thora
Birch in 1993 well. Endowed.
Well endowed. And then?
It continues to happen. There's a whole sequence where
they are, they have money and they are going on planes and

(39:20):
getting burgers fed to them and then they get married.
And in every single one of thesescenes she is running in slow
fucking motion in revealing topsand it's like the 90s.
The 90s are wild. Why did it take us so long?
To figure out the things are going on the fucking Hollywood.

(39:41):
Like just watch the movies, they're right fucking here.
And again. As a child, you don't notice it.
If I if I I think the last time I probably watched this, I was
still a child. Like I probably have not seen
this movie in at least 30 years.It's not the kind of movie you
slap on when you're 14, unless you want to see those.
Girls go skating, but had I had I?

(40:02):
Known that Vanessa Shell was running and then I was 14.
I would would have worn out my VCR but now is that what a worn?
But now as. An adult broaching 40 with a
with. A8 year old daughter.
I'm like, kill everybody involved making this movie
without dare you do this. Oh.

(40:23):
Man, you're a piece of shit. No.
How am I a piece? Of shit, you just are so.
It just it highlights. Like this girl was sexualized
from the moment she got in Hollywood and now she's like
she's 48 she still has a career.God bless her and this dude.
Killed themselves, Brandis. Is dead, they dated.
I'm sure they did. I bet.
I mean, they were both like, youknow, Jonathan Brandis was like

(40:45):
1 of like the the hot like teen actors at the time.
And then Vanessa Shaw between this and I know because focus,
you know, she was she was notable and she ended up has a
really, really good career. Unfortunately, she acts like she
doesn't help that she also acts like she's in a porno in this
movie. Like she is not.
I don't think she knows. How to act?
She is not. Good in this movie at all.
And then she's not like like amazing and hocus Pocus either.

(41:08):
She is on my LVP list just basedoff of how like kind of one note
and, you know, kind of porny herperformance is, but it just like
it drove me fucking nuts that like this is what movies did
back then. The same thing goes for the I
wrote like we almost a Jillian watch this movie, IE I'm at the

(41:31):
molestation joke scene because there's a really, really like
it's played up for laughs so much where like they're trying
to dress on in this department store in a in a dressing room
and there's a mom and a daughteron the other side.
Like listening to what they're saying about trying to get the
dress on and it's just and it just and then they and then like
she passes out and they double down on it and it just keeps

(41:54):
going. It's that that.
Was AI was like what that whole.Montage were like they're like
the lady has a heart. Attack.
One thing's hard, actually. Just passed out from the shock
of it all. I'd have a hard.
But that whole stretch is also where like the the bathroom
scene happens where he covers the the women's sign up and the
woman goes in the wrong room. And there's also the scene where
like Jonathan is now like speed bag boxing in.

(42:17):
Front of a group. Of onlookers in his wig and like
he has to pull him out of here it's like we're doing too much
to heighten how crazy this is. It's yeah, it's.
Like, and I guess maybe it's because now in society, it
doesn't matter if boys dress up as girls, girls dress up as
boys. It doesn't matter if you try to,

(42:38):
you know, it doesn't matter if you are born in the wrong body,
all that stuff. Like to us at least, doesn't
matter. So I guess yeah, it's it's a
sign of the times it's played. Up as such like a funny ha ha
wow thing to happen when it's like now it's like.
OK, who gives a shit? Yeah, yeah.
The one thing I did, the main reason I didn't like that misses

(43:01):
Doubtfire seed. I just got to my note on it so.
Throughout. The entire movie Matthew just
talks normally. Thank.
You for pointing out I didn't remember the talk normally.
This scene, all of a sudden his voice is.
High like this? And I was like for what I
remember. You yelling?

(43:22):
At them. You guys fucking suck.
Like on the soccer field, like what do you think?
He doesn't say that, but. He basically said you.
Guys are the. World and the.
Car ride like he. Does say like, like, like
running Ninjavo recaps to him like everything that he did on
the on the game, that like, thatwas potentially problematic.
But yeah, when the first time he's Martha, I'm like, I thought

(43:45):
he put a voice on. And then I'm like, man, I just
totally misremember this movie. Son of a bitch.
You didn't. And then like, his last full
scene is Martha with Kim. He's just like you said.
I don't know if it's supposed tobe like a joke.
Like he's like puberty. Or something.
In that moment, or like he's trying to put it on the mask
himself. It doesn't fucking work.
Did you mean going through? Puberty.
Like because it was a boy going through puberty or a girl

(44:06):
because girls voices don't change.
No, no, I'm talking. About like he was.
Going through puberty at that time, he's got a girl in his
house. And whatnot.
I, I, it's not. Did that happen to you?
No, absolutely not. I have always sounded like this.
Hi, I'm Chris Mullen and I like.Hey, I'm Pablo, Santa's Mexican

(44:28):
reindeer. Let's go around the world.
Do I get it? I think I did.
Other scenes I didn't like. Man, there ain't nothing worse
than Jack Hay and Rodney Dangerfield covering Great balls
of Fire to to. I didn't know this was a.
Musical. It was not a.

(44:49):
Musical to like should have stayed that way to.
Like the montage? Of like the team turning it
around and winning everything. Also what fucking newspapers
writing about these games were? The Akron?
The Beacon? The Akron Beacon Journal
Whatever it was, not the. But number one, I'm glad you got
the paper right #2 go fuck yourself.
You can't tell me. That there's not an article,

(45:13):
probably either upstairs or in your mom's cedar chest from the
Akron Beacon Journal about Firestone Elementary, something
that happened at the school. There's a big.
Difference between an article about something that happened at
the elementary school like like a certain charity event, like

(45:35):
the Mexican. Reindeer shut the fuck?
Up there was not an article about me as a Mexican reindeer.
If we did, it would be framed and blown up to fit that wall.
Okay, what I'm saying is this isnot tied to a school.
This is not this is just a commute.
They don't fucking put communitysports results.

(45:57):
You know what the? Newspaper in the 90s, even an.
Akron when there's a lack of news you haven't gotten.
Me like like the that newspaper that I like the they don't put.
Local community sports scores and they don't they barely put
them online, they put them up if.
You're there. You know what?
The score. Is you ask a friend, you know
what the score is? Also why the is this company

(46:19):
having like drinks in their office revealing the scores of
the game? Like who gives a big they?
Got a lot of money riding on this, OK?
Absolutely. Fucking ridiculous.
By the way, all this is happening while Jack Hay and
Ronnie Dangerfield ruin Great Balls of Fire.
Appropriate because Jerry Lewis married a 13 year old girl.
So I guess it kind of fits in the movie more than you think.

(46:44):
I also didn't like the end of the movie because it is such a
Hackney joke of Oh well, let's wrap up everything here.
Chester got his promotion, we'reon the bus, we're chumming it up
with the boss. Now we're making sex jokes about
both of their kids really getting to know each other and
seeing more of one another. And then it leads into.

(47:05):
Like a really lazy cameo by at this point barely.
Tommy Lasorda was a famous football manager.
Particularly like in the in the 80s.
So he's already kind of passe atthis point.
He's he's Italian, so of course his name is Coach Cannoli, which
I immediately messaged Rich Cameluchi and said, hey, I'm so
sorry that Tommy Lasorda once played a character named Coach

(47:28):
Cannoli. I'm so.
Disappointed that Rich has neverbeen known as Coach Cannoli.
I wouldn't say he's. Known as him, I say he just
represents the title in general.I'm going to get him a.
Jersey that just says cannoli on.
The back wall. Either that or garlic not.
And then, of course, like the reveal is that there this is a
baseball team and all the boys are in drag now.

(47:48):
They're all putting their wigs on.
And then we get a, a, hey, I finally got some respect and
then a respect song. And it's like, we just basically
peeled everything back about whothis character was.
And now it's just it's blatantlyjust Rodney Dangerfield was
Rodney Dangerfield. Like, at least keep up
appearances for the full runtime.
Like we don't have to wink in a nod at who this person actually

(48:12):
is. It was a big woof of an ending.
I have one. I have.
I do have another rant that's going to be related to boys and
wigs later on. Hey, yo.
But yeah, that that's also, there's little things like the
halftime message. It's like one of the worst
halftime speeches of all time. You've got the vote.

(48:33):
You can burn your bras when you get them.
Like there's a time and a place.There's a time and a place for
some of this shit. So yeah, there's there's a lot
of little things like that that just add up to making it a
really, really rough. I did miss a couple scenes.
I actually did like the bad soccer montage when like he
first gets to the team and he sees how bad they are.

(48:54):
Some of his reaction and some ofhis lines are pretty good there.
I also liked after the jig is upfor both Matthew and Chester and
they both are at the bar slash the restaurant, like drinking
and talking to the bartender andthe waiter.
It is kind of like like classic,you know, what's the phrase I'm

(49:15):
looking for classic misunderstanding in terms of
what the person is answering to.So Rodney Dangerfield telling, I
remember the comics name, but he's a classic stand up
comedian. He used to do all the Friars
Club Bros. I think his name's Chuck McCann.
And they have a good rapport back and forth.
He's like, just tell me I can help me.
And he goes, well, I dressed herson up like a girl.

(49:36):
And then he gets like kicked outand Jonathan's doing this.
Matthew's doing the same thing at like a fucking, you know,
soda pop shop with a with a black shopkeeper doesn't
understand what's going on. It was weird watching a movie
that the song You are My specialAngel played.
Well, that was my parents song and my mom was sitting here.
So yeah. Was there any other scenes that

(49:56):
you particularly did not like that we haven't discussed or
moments? No.
No, I think I got everything in you got.
It all in good. Well, we're running long on
ladybugs, so let's get into MVP and LVP and try to wrap this
this mother up. But hold on.

(50:20):
Did you see? I'm guessing you've got the the
Jonathan Brandis and Vanessa Shaw thing from the IMDb page.
Yes. Yeah.
So two other two other things I did not know about this movie #1
Jack Hay was almost Whoopi Goldberg.
Yeah. Like.
She did sister act instead of this movie.
Like that is one of the craziestwhat if scenarios I've ever seen

(50:44):
in my entire fucking life. But the top one that apparently
a Jonathan Brandis's character keeps calling Chester
Chesterfield and I never I didn't get it except like is he
supposed to remind you of Chesterfield cigarettes?
Apparently he just in real life started refer to friends and
Jess by adding feel to their names and like he just started

(51:06):
doing it in the movie and they just kept it in.
It's like, OK, sure, why the whythe fuck not?
And also Dangerfield apparently thought that this was going to
be more of like his core audience, which is teenagers and
adults. And they focus it more around
family. And I do think that is one of
the biggest problems with the movie.
If this was like strictly a family movie, then I think it I

(51:31):
think it would be better if you peel back some of the the stuff
that doesn't, you know, necessarily gel with kids
playing soccer or if you like went full blown at it and it was
just kind of a little bit more like tongue in cheek, raunchy
PG13 of the time. Like I think it would have
worked. The fact that they kind of
mismarketed it and it flopped asbad.

(51:52):
I mean, it's fine. He does kind of have a point in
there. So something I want to point
out, MVP and LVP, where do you want to start?
Let's start with, I mean, I guess you already have like a
people who were not MVP. Let's start there.
So you. Said it.
Wasn't Dangerfield I thought it was.
I thought he kind of made the movie more bearable, I mean.

(52:15):
He's always going to be Rodney Dangerfield, so he's never going
to be the LVP in any situation. Yeah, but you also don't.
Cast him expecting him to be somebody different like you cast
him because of who he is. So I want to throw 2.
Other people at you just to see where they land.
Please don't. So the first.
One is Jack A look. Man, you're not gonna send me

(52:36):
with Jack A So, Jack. A is just Jack A in this movie.
Yeah, she just. Which like is.
There a problem with that. She's like, she is a perfect
like funny supporting character.Great foil.
She. There's a seed where I think in
the practice it might be a game where she just sitting there
eating a big ass hoagie the first.

(52:56):
Practice. She just sitting there eating
the same way and she's like. Like trying to help and like, I
just started giggling. So I'm like, that's very funny.
She always brings it. I don't like what is Jack A
doing? Why is Jack A?
Not a? Why was Jack A Jack A?
Jack A, Jack A Jack A? Why was Jack A not, like, the
biggest star in the world? Because she could just be Jack A

(53:17):
Yeah. That's fair.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, hey, she's.
Got she. She's got an Emmy Award.
She was the 1st. African American to win an Emmy,
Primetime Emmy Award for a supporting actress in a comedy
series. Absolutely.
That's fabulous. She's still.
Working. She's 68.
She's still working. Is she?

(53:39):
She does. Man she does so many holy shit.
Look at all these TV fucking movies I bet.
I'm OK. So don't watch them all.
Don't. All right, I want to read you.
All right, read them. From OH.
My God, when do I even start? I'm going to start the 90s.
Man, no the. 90s are too much. I'm going to start from 2010.

(54:00):
All these TV movies that Jack A is done.
You ready? Yeah.
This is the only thing that's marked as TV movies on
Wikipedia. OK.
Christmas Cupid. The ideal husband Shadow hills
JD Lawrence is the cleanup woman.
Brother White, the Love Letter Ladies book Club just love
broadcasting Christmas a husbandfor Christmas.
I have one of those. Christmas movies.

(54:22):
I don't think they own a single.Jack a Christmas movie and
that'll be fixed by the time Christmas rolls around My
Christmas in Pride and PrejudiceAtlanta The wrong tutor Carol's
Christmas a family reunion Christmas Christmas on my mind
love in store The wrong wedding planner a Christmas for Mary,
deceived by my mother-in-law Mommy's deadly con artist.
Her career takes a turn in the Ithink I.

(54:44):
Think we're going to start a Jack a collection here?
The wrong cheer I'm. Not done only in 20 she's 21.
The wrong cheer captain killer design every breath she takes.
If I can't have you so fly Christmas.
Tall, dark and dangerous $1,000,000 lethal listing Make
or break Christmas. That's as of 2024.
Are they? Are they?
All like Christmas romantic movies or more like horror

(55:06):
horror slasher movie Yes I. Think they're both.
I think she's got 2 distinct lines of income but I think Jack
Hay gets work. She's also apparently, like,
still on like Days of Our Lives.Yeah, she's still fucking on
all. She's a bunch of voice.
Oh, she's a voice in the Zombies, the reanimated series.
What? Voice is she who?

(55:27):
Who does she voice everyone still hates?
Chris, she's Jazz. Jack is fucking.
She voices the. Motherboard Jack is fucking
working. Man, fucking Jack.
Hey. OK, Jack.
Hey. Let's focus.
I'm just impressed. That is Jonathan.
Brandis, you can really see all the potential and the charisma

(55:50):
that he had and why he was doingso much stuff at the time.
He is better than most kids his age, and he does not need to try
as hard as I feel like he does in this movie.
So those would be the two that Iwould put ahead of Rodney
Dangerfield in this case. It's hard because like, this is

(56:11):
a movie that's just like, all right, we're going to put Rodney
Dangerfield in a movie. What then?
What do we drape around him? So of course he is valuable in
the sense of this movie is totally different and totally,
totally not what it is without him.
But does he do the best performance and the best job in
the movie? With what he's supposed.

(56:33):
To do, I mean, I think so. But I'll leave it to you.
I'm going to let you. Have it because the movie
couldn't. Be made without Rodney
Dangerfield. That almost makes me want to
argue the point again. I was like, sure it wouldn't

(56:53):
exist. Should this movie exist in 1990?
Two OK. All right, we'll go Rodney.
Hindsight's 20. 20 it is shout. Out to Jack.
A shout out to Jonathan Brandis.Yeah, I mean, Jack.
Hey. You you probably got a nom.
You probably secured A nomination.
You got you got a Primetime Emmy.
You about to get a mullet girl? Well.

(57:14):
Don't worry, we're going to see Jack Hey again this year. 1000
for example one of those movies.When we get when the Christmas
movies come out, Walmart season,I'm going to need at least 20
minutes off the island reading the cast, whoever, whatever Jack
A is in the first Jack A movie we find at Walmart that's a
Christmas movie is the bad Christmas movie we're watching
this year. It has to be LVP.

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I'm very curious to see who you have.
I don't have a lot because like I said, there's a lot of there's
there's for all the problems about this movie, I think it is
a pretty also well acted movie. Yeah, that's what I said.
I said it was, it was very well put together that I mean, it
doesn't age well from a from a story perspective, you know, the
plot. Yeah.

(57:58):
More than anything, but I didn'tI didn't have a a huge issue
with with the acting. Well, who do you have?
I do have. A little list.
I already mentioned that I like the dog the.
Dog I didn't the dog the dog wassucked.
I didn't like the. Dad or the boss?
The boss is. My LVP, I didn't like him.

(58:18):
Because it was just he was too smarmy.
Too smarmy, that it. Was off.
Putting and like I didn't, so I.Didn't I?
Just didn't. Like I didn't like the vibe he
said he sounded. Like a fake actor.
He did. He sounded like a game show host
of the like, oh, this guy's on alocal game show, let's put him
on and give him a try. He he couldn't play that rich

(58:40):
asshole with a hot wife to save his life.
There's a couple scenes like thescene where like he forces Kim
out of the game on Chester. Like, that's a pretty strong
scene on paper, especially in, like, what's essentially
supposed to be a family sports movie, right?
It's crazy that, like, he goes to that extreme about, like,

(59:02):
wanting to win and not caring about what his kid is in that
moment. But like, it also doesn't hit as
hard because of how bad he is atplaying.
Yeah. I'm like, I'm like.
Oh yeah, OK. The other one I had was
Chester's girlfriend. Oh, I like.
That she's a very. Sitcom actress which I think she
was on like Mr. Belvedere or something.

(59:23):
That's why I recognize her from the reason why it's not her so
fucking. Weird.
Why? Because I was.
Right. No.
Because you watched Mr. Belvedere?
Oh no, I just. Recognize her, but yes, also
she. Was on Mr. Belvedere.
Yeah. Thank you for five.
Years. Yeah, I'm so weird.
Being right at fucking trivia. Oh my God.
OK, tell me one. Other thing, she was in my first
name. We know, we know.
About Mr. Belvedere, Michael. Bob Euchre, One Other.

(59:46):
Thing this lady Oh, I. Used to know this and I don't
care. You're such a.
Bitch but. The reason why it's not her it
besides the fact that the the the the boss, Mr. Mullen, I
thought you wouldn't see. Mr. Bell, No.
She nails the reveal scene. Like, she really, really does a
good job in the reveal scene of,like, the way she lays in the

(01:00:07):
Chester and the way she treats the situation and everything.
She does good in that scene. So it's ultimately not her.
So yes, we're gonna go with the boss.
Yeah. I think his name is Tom Parks.
Tom Parks, Tom. Parks.
Go somewhere else. Yeah, get.
Get. Back to your local park, your
local Morning News show you seemto come from.

(01:00:27):
Go back on 100,000. Dollar pyramid.
What's your hey? Jack Cambridge, just on that
Wikipedia. Just like that.
You fucking You fucking. Memorized Jack Kay's
filmography, huh? What's is your dumb question of
the week? If someone.
Said I'll give you a raise, corner office.

(01:00:51):
I don't care about where the office.
Isn't stupid. Well, I mean, it's kind.
Of like a prestige thing. All right, well, they said I'm
going to give you a big raise, give you promotion, all that
stuff, but all you have to do isbe like the synchronized
swimming coach. Would you do it?
I just tried to pick something that you have absolutely no

(01:01:13):
idea. You'd be so out of your depth.
Literally I would need more information.
Like, do I have to win? I just have, Yeah.
No, no, you have to. Win and you have to like teach
them how to how to do the synchronized swimming.
No, Well, you're a billion dollars.
Yeah, but you should set up a raise.
Like, what's the percentage here?
If you're gonna be a billion dollars flat, I'm gonna be like

(01:01:36):
Jack A reading Soccer for Dummies on the sideways
swimming. OK.
Yes, for. A A billion dollars.
I will drown in the ocean for a billion dollars.
But then also. What size dress are you?

(01:01:58):
I haven't worn a dress in over 20 years.
Well, it seems like a. Missed opportunity.
Is it though because. I don't want to have to shop in
that that department. And I don't mean the girls
department. I mean the big and tall
department. I mean the I mean the what's the
plus size department Yes, because I already struggled
today with my 2X shirt keeping it tucked in all day long.

(01:02:19):
So that was fun as I'm trying toteach about managing first
impressions and my fucking shirttails hanging out the fucking
front of my pants only because you're like a fucking.
Fat slob. You're a sloppy boy.
I am a sloppy. Boy, also to help I had to
fucking fill the fridges becausesomebody needed their fucking
job and all this other shit was happening.
So yeah, seems like. Don't, don't.
Don't, don't. But yeah, I that reminded me of

(01:02:46):
another scene that I wanted to point out.
The first game is truly something you have like this,
the sheer fucking disaster of a game that it is.
Jackie's constantly reading thisbook and Chester's reacting to
it. There's also that, like, really
random rant about black people being better at sports.
Rodney just goes like in on it and keeps listing all these

(01:03:07):
sports that they're not good at.Batman.
Yeah. And of course you get all the
character shit like the girl checking her nails and Pastor
being, you know, a mess. And she just looking at the
butterflies like it's it's absurd.
My rant of the week, even thoughthe whole thing has been a rant.
Wait, you haven't done? Your rant yet?
No, I have not. So are you serious?

(01:03:29):
Near. So during the final game,
there's a lot of good stuff in the final game.
Jackie. Jackie.
Getting. Into the black girl's ear and
her being like feisty pastor putting her nail her hair down,
the NES music, the basically playing during the slow motion

(01:03:52):
montage, Kim scoring the final goal, the boss not carrying
that. He dressed a guy up and in drag
to win and that shows what a go getter is.
The thing that was the worst about that final scene is.
There are so. Many blatant dudes and wigs as

(01:04:13):
stunt double s. Oh my God.
Like. In ladybugs like you have to
find good teenage females or good smaller female stunt double
S that can play soccer. I think it.
Was intentional? No, it wasn't.
That if it's intentional, I'm knocking the score down on this

(01:04:36):
movie. That is one of the dumbest
things I've ever heard. Why?
Because everybody looks like they're they're doing what
they're not supposed to be doing.
In Ladybugs there was at least 317 year old skinny dudes in bad
wigs that were not even veiled in the in the montages of the
out of the soccer scenes just kicking the ball around and and

(01:04:59):
obviously playing better than what?
Also these girls would not be able to play this good again.
I suspend my disbelief with these sports movies, Mighty
Ducks and whatever else it made.It was the 90s.
You. Can't give me an excuse you use.
It all the time, as an excuse, as a junk.
You can't use it an actual excuse.
In the 90s it just totally took me out.

(01:05:20):
They ran out of so many fucking female stump people that we just
blatant dudes and wigs in ladybugs.
Come on now. And you kind of spoil.
The end of the movie with that too.
True, yeah, But I. Yeah, though I wrote that down
before the haha scene of oh, look at all these boys and wigs.
Now believe it or not, Yeah, this my mom. 8 choices of

(01:05:44):
movies. Yeah, and.
That's the one she tried and we.Watched Ladybugs.
Amazing what a world anything else on ladybugs absolutely not
did. You you only.
Played you played softball, right?
I did. That was only like, of course
I'm not. Athletic.
No, I I know. Surprise.
Yeah, I know. I want.
I mean, we would play like sports at camp and seven.

(01:06:06):
And I think it was either Carly or Carly's sister kicked a
soccer ball at my face. Perfect.
It might have been Carly. Both of them.
No. It was only once, I think it was
Carly may have been her sister. She'll let us know.
Is there anything else you'd like to talk about for ladybugs?

(01:06:26):
Let me just review. My notes real quick.
Oh boy. Oh, we're.
Doing that that new weekly segment where Samantha has to
read a part of her notes verbatim?
Absolutely not. I should be able to.
Read your notes. No.
No, because if that's going to be the case, then I have to
format them differently. I'm not doing it.
It's too much effort. Well, all you do is just.
Write in just continuous lines. You don't even separate the

(01:06:46):
notes. Yeah, because.
Then when I move them to my because when I copy and paste
them to my to my excel spreadsheet, if they are spaced
out then it makes my rows different and it and it I can't
have that you say, well you're. Not yeah.
Oh, that's psychotic. I delete mine as soon as the
podcast is over. I don't have photographic.
Memory like you, I can't remember some of the stuff so I

(01:07:08):
have to have the notes so I remember Oh yeah, this is what I
was. You could just say girl you.
Could just said you're a woman, it's fine.
Ladybugs. I'm gonna lock in my score of a
four. I think 4 is a fair.
The more and more I talk about it, the more and more I was
gonna come up to you. Actually, you know what?
Fuck it. I'm gonna go 4 1/2.
See, I'm gonna go 4 1/2. I'm better than you.
Because. I'm also going a four and a half

(01:07:30):
I'm. Gonna give it the half.
Point bump because this is so like quintessential early 90s my
life. This is a movie.
That this shaped you? I could watch.
It didn't shape me. Vanessa Shaw might have shaved
me then. As a.
Child enjoying this I still got some enjoyment from it for both

(01:07:53):
the good and the bad as an adult, it's not the worst thing
that's ever happened. It doesn't do a lot bad.
It does a lot that you wouldn't do nowadays, but it didn't know
any better, right? It's.
Offensive now. I mean, it was offensive then.
Too, well, less. Offensive then I think I, I

(01:08:15):
think it was like less offensivethan like I'm trying to think
like in the 90s, if I watch this, I wouldn't be offended by
some of it because like, we didn't know any better.
That's just like the way shit was now, you know, Well,
obviously, like the molestation stuff, whatever.
Like, yeah, that shit's offensive no matter what.
But yeah, I think it's kind of like harmless fun.

(01:08:37):
But I'm I'm also going to go down to a four and a half.
There is some of it. That is in poor taste, and that
is an Evergreen type of opinion,but sure I.
I. Could watch this movie again.
I could watch it again and pick up like a whole other list of
comments and notes to write. So happy birthday mom.

(01:08:59):
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minutes. We almost talked about this
movie. You could just people just watch
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It's. Itchy.
It was itchy. You're gonna scratch an itch
slide into my. DMS at your host mullet 3 date
on Instagram or mine at. Jam with your Sam.
You like itchy armpits? Boy do I got a lady for you next

(01:10:04):
week. Can't play?
Soccer, though, next week will be.
Quick change and then we'll get into the heavy stuff once we
return from our vacation. Hopefully now.
It's still itchy. Don't look at me, God, stop
scratching. Your fucking pits bro from
mullet this. Is Mullet signing out for this
week's episode of Married With Movies?
We'll catch you next time on ourcouch slash the movies.
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(01:10:25):
Oh, go on. No.
You do, your coming. First I was just going to say if
I. Was a boy.
You would never probably scratchmy armpit.
No, but you also. Wouldn't be like, oh man, my
hairy pits. No, no they're not.
Hairy I shave them last time I. Had a girl with a pit that
hairy. Oh, I thought I was giving a
noogie to a Peach. Why you're?
Andrew Dice Clay, you're not Rodney Daniel.

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