August 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Grab your Big Bamboo cocktail and join us for a hilariously critical look at Disney's 1960 adventure classic, Swiss Family Robinson! We're sipping on this tropical concoction from Animal Kingdom's Yak and Yeti restaurant while breaking down why this beloved film might be the most delightfully implausible survival story ever told.
From the impossibly quick construction of an elaborate treehouse to Francis's supernatural ability to tame wild animals in seconds flat, we dissect the charming absurdities that make this film both frustrating and endearing. How does a supposedly Swiss family speak with perfect British and American accents? Why would you bring a harpsichord to shore but leave the cannon on the shipwreck? And most importantly, how does Francis repeatedly avoid death despite his best efforts to court disaster at every turn?
The final battle sequence draws our special attention as we compare it to the Ewok scenes from Return of the Jedi – complete with improbable booby traps, physics-defying coconut throws, and pirates who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn despite the Robinson family standing in plain sight. We even cast our dream lineup for a modern remake, with Hugh Jackman leading our fantasy Robinson clan.
Whether you're a longtime fan who grew up dreaming of living in that magnificent treehouse or you're discovering this Disney classic for the first time, our affectionate roasting celebrates everything that makes Swiss Family Robinson the perfect family-friendly adventure film – logical flaws and all. Pour yourself something tropical and join us for this journey into nostalgic Disney absurdity!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, where today
we're sipping on a Big Bamboo.
A Big Bamboo sold at Yak andYeti in Animal Kingdom.
It's made with Don Q CoconutRum, don Q Crystal Rum, Banana
Liqueur and Tropical FruitJuices for the low, low price of
$14.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I noticed a lot of their drinks are $14.
Yeah, I just saw that.
It's a good meal at Yak andYeti and a fairly inexpensive
Disney drink.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right, and if you're holding a 10 and a 5 in your
hand, you're good to go.
You got a dollar extra when youleave.
Get a dollar for tip If therewere no tax.
Oh yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, anyway, I forgot about tax, esky tax.
Yeah, so I've eaten at Yak andYeti.
I didn't have a cocktail, butI've had food there.
Yeah, not bad Big portions.
It's one of those restaurantsthat isn't owned by Disney.
It's owned by oh, a companythat Some outside company that
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runs it, and I can't rememberthe name park.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How many are?
How many of those are there?
This is something.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's a few I don't know about, okay, and I can't
remember the, the, the company.
It's like a big restaurantcompany that owns several chains
, I think, and then they ownthese one-off restaurants,
really yak and yeti.
Oh, I'll have to look that upand I'm trying to remember the
other ones but I can't off thetop of my head Interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Maybe we should do an episode on that.
Which is why Restaurants notowned by Disney.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, we could Reviews, because if you join their
points club, yeah, you canactually use, use the discount
card there In Disney, or thepoint card loyalty card at that.
Really, yeah, whoa Aninteresting tip we learned.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I mean, animal Kingdom also has Rainforest Cafe
and we know that's not Disneyowned.
No, it's not, and it's inAnimal Kingdom.
So yeah, so I guess that'sright, I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Rainforest Cafe.
Restaurants that I'll never eatat right pretty good gift shop,
though for a for a restaurant,it's cool.
I ate at the one at the sanfrancisco wharf once, uh-huh,
and I'm good I never have to eatthere again.
Yeah, that's not importantaverage food.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
thank you, thank you, disneyland, yeah, for taking it
out, yeah, and and puttingnothing there, really.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So let's talk about this drink.
Oh yeah, Very alcohol forward.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I would say For a reason because we filled a glass
up with alcohol before we addedthe juice Because it had, yeah,
coconut rum, banana liqueur,regular rum.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So very strong coconut and banana flavors, Very
strong coconut and bananaflavors.
And then we put passion fruitpuree, guava puree and mango
puree Right.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think that's really what helped us out there,
because it added more flavor toit.
Yes, the purees don't take upso much room, because we didn't
have much room for the juiceleft in the glass.
Afterwards, christy thought Iwould think this is too sweet,
because I don't like reallysweet drinks.
But I don't like sweet likepuckeries.
Oh, tart, tarty drinks right.
I like like tart candies, butnot drinks Right.
(03:15):
That makes you like pucker yourlips when you have it.
Yeah, we've had a few of those.
Yeah, that's not my favorite,but this is not like that.
This is this doesn't make you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
this doesn't have a sour or a tart, or it's too
sweet of a taste.
It goes down.
It's pretty smooth for how muchliquor and juice we have in
here, and we did.
We did top it off with a littlebit of of an orange juice blend
.
That's what the the bottle said.
It had like orange and appleand pear juice all mixed in, but
, yeah, mostly orange juice.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, this, I bet this is not how it would taste
really in the parks.
It might be kind of close.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I have a feeling it would be less alcohol forward
and more fruity drink.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I think we're a little far.
I think this is one of ourfurther off of the drinks.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It probably because I put the whole shot and we use
Key Largo coconut rum and andyeah, I think this Captain
Morgan white rum and what was it?
The 99 banana liqueur.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I think this is like 19, 1950 or something, if we
made our drink in the park, yeah, but I probably could have done
.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
A half bottle we got, we got minis for everything
except for the white rum.
A half bottle we got, we gotminis for everything except for
the white rum.
I probably, with both thebanana liqueur and the coconut
rum, probably could have splitthe one bottle into two probably
, instead of we have three shotsof booze in each of these.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So yes, but we're only recording one today, like
you said.
Yes, we usually record twoepisodes a day and today we're
just doing one because ourguests didn't come.
That we talked about having theshow?
Yes, we talked about it.
Yeah, we couldn't scheduleproper guests.
I think their fees were toohigh.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
They wanted to go.
We're still negotiating.
Yeah, negotiate table.
Yeah, yeah, I think they'reunion.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I know they're union and they're union rep.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
yeah, I know their union, then their union rep.
You know the jerk right.
We're negotiating for newguests on the show, but you know
there's a lot of intangibles inthe whole thing there is and
that's just kind of the way itgoes, so and we couldn't get
anyone to come on this showtoday to talk about our topic,
because we're the only twopeople, probably in the
tri-state area, who has watchedthis movie in the past like two
(05:30):
months.
I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Today we're talking about Swiss Family Robinson,
which is why we went with Yakand Yeti, right, because this
takes place on a tropical islandin Southeast Asia, somewhere.
They're all lost.
And we went with yak and Yetibecause it's it's an Asia
section of animal kingdom.
So that was the connection.
At first, we were going to gowith something from the
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Polynesian and I'm like no,because I thought they were in
the South Pacific.
And then, even though I'vewatched this once or twice
before, and then, even thoughI've watched this once or twice
before, I'm watching it thistime, it kind of dawned on me
mid viewing that oh, no, wait,they're in Southeast Asia.
We should probably change upour cocktail and change up our
location and whatnot.
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But Swiss Family Robinson, swissFamily Robinson 1960.
So 1960 version, right, andthere's a 1975 version and a
1940 version.
And there's a 1975 version anda 1940 version.
And then there's a TV show.
I know, I saw that I think theTV show would have been a better
idea.
Really.
I think so because when youbuild this, when was that made?
(06:37):
It was in the 70s as well, okay, okay.
So when you build a home, a biggiant tree house, in the span
of like what seems like three orfour days.
It doesn't lend to thebelievability and, I think, a TV
show where you got more of asense that they were there for a
few years, which they weren't,because the kids didn't grow at
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all.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I know, but that's not what they have for their
timeline of the show, no, soanyway we'll get into that.
I think a lot of this.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We're gonna be trashing a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So trashing it as I think it's an okay 1960s Disney
movie.
It is Like off the top.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Let's start off.
We'll say the good things aboutit.
It's a great, campy, old campyDisney live action movie, like a
lot of them are, and they'reworth it for the entertainment
value because even the stuffthat annoys you is is
entertaining, so good, wholesomefamily fun.
Right View depictions that theygive you a warning about ahead
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of time.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I think I think that if you have kids, yeah, and
sit down and watch this, it's afun time to.
It's a fun thing for, like backin the 60s, is how they made
movies, just like, yeah, allyour favorite disney movies,
yeah, happened at a college,those aren't my favorite, but oh
yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But but see those have the same.
You're all on yourself, man, no, no, my favorite disney movie
is follow me boys okay, we'vebeen talking about that.
It's not on disney plus butthese all the old 60s, early 70s
, that stuff is just good campyfun yeah, this isn't the worst,
(08:25):
I mean as far as productionvalue for the 60s, it's done
pretty well and these movies,this one in particular, these
kind of hit a nerve with me asfar as why I enjoy them.
So it's with a grain of salt,admittedly, but the survival
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aspect, because I always kind ofput myself so, thinking of,
even like Stand by Me which tome is one of the best movies
ever A couple of kids, or youknow four kids, striking out for
a few days walking 20, 30 miles, 30 miles.
(09:10):
You know there's that campingoutdoors, survivalist type of I
don't know theme to it gordy gota goochers.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So to me those are always kind of like interesting
or stuff that resonates to I'mabout ready to quit all of stand
by me right now, so let's moveon.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But like there's.
There's an aspect of thosemovies that appeals to me, so
which is why, yeah, I like thisone.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So I?
I mean it's at the tip of beinga survivalist movie.
It's not really.
It's not at all.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No not at all, but it's still.
I'll sit there and think, okay,what would I have done in that
situation?
Right, and I wouldn't have doneanything that that stupid kid
did.
But you know who?
Francis, francis, the youngestboy.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The only good name of a child they had, though, I
mean, francis isn't a horriblename, but their other two kids'
names are horrible Ritz, ernstand Francis.
Ritz and Ernst, yeah, so, yeah,so we're still on good stuff
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I think the number one thing is the
production value though it was,it was good because it was shot
like cinematography back then.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, the animals they used.
Yes, animal trainers must'veworked their butts off.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
There was one I was reading that they because they
had people running away from thetiger, which sets off the
tiger's instinct to go attack itbecause they think it's prey.
So the trainer is actually inthe shot trying to control the
tiger so it doesn't kill theactors.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, the tiger was a good character.
It was, he was good.
The elephant was pretty good.
The zebra the zebra was great.
Riding a zebra is like a dreamfor me, really.
Oh, I love Zebras are one of myfavorites.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh, okay, I love a zebra, yeah, anyway.
I don't know where that evencame from.
I don't know where to go withthat, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That came from.
You know everybody, that's thekind of review of a movie.
This is those are the goodspots.
Yeah, I think we're about donewith the good stuff, like the
really good stuff.
Yeah, I think we can get intothe weird stuff.
It's all, that's all.
This is all off the top of myhead because everything I wrote
down is not good.
Not good, it's not good stuff.
It's weird or cringy or stupid.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yes, that's what I have.
Yeah, so let's run through that.
So let's be honest, they wouldhave all been dead in a week had
this been an accurate movie.
Yeah, maybe the dad and theolder brother would have
survived a little bit longer.
Everybody else would have beendead.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The middle brother is pretty smart.
He's smart.
He might have figured stuff outwith them if they were all
three together.
Potentially, yes, I think thatFrancis would have killed them
all right away.
Probably he would have gottenthem killed.
He would have gotten themkilled.
He tried to get them killed abunch of times.
The pirates over here, thatkind of crap.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it was an interesting aspect, a tidbit
about this movie, an interestingfact.
So a tidbit about this movie,an interesting fact.
So John Mills plays the dad andhe is the father of Hayley
Mills, who went on to do ParentTrap Pollyanna.
So an interesting connectionthere, you know, to Disney.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Lore Lore, I was a huge Parent Trap fan as a kid.
Oh, I did.
Hayley Mills was my favorite.
Lore Lore, I was a huge Parent.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Trap fan as a kid.
Oh, I did.
I liked it too.
Hayley Mills was my favoriteyeah.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Me and my cousin used to always say Hayley Mills and
Hayley Mills, with Hayley Mills.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But interesting, a Swiss family and the whole
family has American and Britishaccents, right?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So yeah, so that's my first point.
I wrote down too.
Yeah, so I could do.
We could do any in the 60s.
We could make a movie about anyethnicity.
Yes, Because we just use oursame accents.
Exactly it didn't matter.
Because they just say, they'reSwiss.
Yes, hey, I'm German.
Hey, aaron, how are you?
I'm German too.
Oh now, I'm French, but here Iam talking in my French accent.
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There was nothing.
They just said we're fromSwitzerland.
Your name's Ernst.
Your name's Ernst and Fritz.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's about it, and we won't even delve into trying
to name mom and dad.
They'll just Mother Robinsonand Father.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Robinson.
Yeah, we won't even try to talkabout Swiss traditions or
anything.
We're just from Switzerland.
Yeah, we'll just say that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I could go back and forth between things about
this kid or just things aboutthe movie.
The first thing about the movie.
So when they're you know, it'skind of a mix, Like do we follow
chronological stupidity in themovie or do we just pick and
choose here?
But I'm thinking of whenthey're getting off the.
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So their ship crashes againstthe rocks.
Nobody else survives except forthe family, or they all abandon
ship and let the family onthere with all of the supplies
and the goats and animals andstuff, Right.
So they start making a raft sothat they can get to shore,
because there's still a couplefew hundred yards offshore.
So Francis, the young dumb kidstarts loading up.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We agree on this.
I thought we were going toagree.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Look what I found.
And it's like, no, you didn'tfind, it was the captain's two
great names.
It's like, kid, you didn't findthem.
They were there all along.
It's like he found them.
And, hey, look what I found Twogreat names that have been on
the ship for months along withus, right.
So he puts them into the raftand he names them like that.
And he names them like that,right.
(14:38):
Because obviously the captaindidn't have a name and didn't
tell them what the name was atsome point, because you know he
was harassing those two dogs thewhole trip, right.
But then he starts loading theducks into the raft.
Right, not quite grasp thatducks, being an aquatic bird,
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can either fly or swim to theisland and don't need to be
transported via raft.
So, first major stupiditymoment for the kid.
Or the second after look what Ifound, right.
So yeah, that was that.
And then getting to shore theonly other thing that was.
So they're having a hard timepaddling to shore.
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Then they see this giant seaturtle swimming and they get the
idea, hey, let's lasso the seaturtle and have him drag us
ashore, like a sea turtle isgoing to put up, but not pull
him out to sea he's going totake, and somehow a sea turtle
is able to pull this, this raftthat weighs a couple thousand
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pounds at least, to shore right,and he does it willingly.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The amount of animals wild animals they turn into
beast of burdens in this moviewas a little weird yeah, so, so,
so, so, francis, I just I justthought of this, okay, Because I
was thinking of I have a bunchof Francis stuff about his
animal.
Oh, yeah, he tames them in likefour seconds.
Yes, he names and tames, yes,name it and tame it.
(16:11):
Right, like I didn't write downany of the names.
But he names the animal andsays this is my elephant, this
is his name, and he jumps on hisback and starts riding it yeah,
right.
Or it says animal, step in thisright, step in this rope.
And then the, the elephant,steps in the rope, the dogs
attack the tiger, yeah, and getsrid of it, right, and he just
la, la, la, right, oh, there'san it in a jockey style yeah,
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right, yeah.
So he tames him.
So you know who he is, who thenew francis is, and disney is
disney lore, that's our word ofthe day.
Yes, is antonio from incanto.
Oh, maribel's youngest brother,yeah, I just thought of that?
oh, because francis tamesanimals like in 10.2 seconds,
like he can talk to them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm going to put a tiger in this hole.
Yeah, oh, I got a tiger in myhole now, like 14 seconds later.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, tiger's not going to be wary about that.
You know what's interestingabout that?
The tiger's when later on inthe movie, when the pirates
attack, somehow that tiger wasable to throw two pirates.
I was just gonna say that theygo fly it out not injured, not
injured, but they're completelylaunched out of this pit they
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fall in the pit and they fly outlike it was a trampoline.
Yeah, that was great but youknow, but it was kind of funny
with, also with the animals,like he.
He finds this baby elephantnames it, claims it, you know,
and everything.
And then, like the next scene,they're using it to build their
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treehouse Because they see thetiger and they're like well,
let's go up into the tree andbuild a treehouse, we'll be safe
.
No, that's not how, becausetigers can climb.
But anyway, I think thatactually the mom brought that
little bit of like common senseto him.
Yeah, but they had rails ontheir stairs?
Yes, they had rails on theirstairs.
That was very important, butwhat was funny is they captured
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this baby elephant and beginusing him as a beast of burden
instead of the ox and the donkeythat they domesticated.
Ox and donkey they already had.
No, no, why use thedomesticated animals?
Let's capture a wild animal,domesticate it and then use it.
That just makes much more sense.
(18:30):
That's hilarious.
So you know one of the thingsthis is towards later in the
movie.
They have well, okay, before weget to that.
So as best I can figure it is,and at one point the pirates are
actually speaking Indonesian toeach other.
They're not at all, though.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, they actually are.
I looked it up and they justspeak whatever came out of their
mouths at the time.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
They speak gibberish, but some of them, actually a
couple of them actually werespeaking.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
A couple of them, the main pirate guy yeah, I was
listening to him talk.
I'm like he's just saying thesame word over and over again.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But at one point and I could actually hear they were
speaking Indonesian.
So, leaving Europe, sailingaround the is it the Cape of
Good Hope?
Around South Africa, they wouldbe passing through, going to
Papua New Guinea, which is atthe end of Indonesia.
So somewhere on one of thoseislands is where they crash
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landed their ship, crash landedtheir ship.
So interesting fact that theyhad both southeast asian animals
on this island and africansavannah animals.
Right, so not necessarily theelement zebra, ostrich, right,
yeah, everything hyenas, hyenas,because the hyenas the zebra
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scene.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
when he got stuck in the In the mud pit.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
In the mud pit.
Yeah, they rescued the zebra,which obviously in zebra mind
means I'm forever indebted toyou for saving my life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, and speaking of the animal scenes, the Python
scene was rough for me.
Yeah, I watched the whole thing.
That was rough.
So, and how he I don't know howhe found his head and hit it, I
don't know what, and then thesnake still slam off.
Yeah, I don't understand.
He just gets scared.
Yeah, oh no, I'm out, I'm outof here now, yeah, I believe you
(20:27):
guys.
I thought they killed the snake, but then you see the snake
swimming off in the water fritztook him.
Yeah, you know.
Oh, it's Fritz, I'm out of here.
So just to keep on, francis,before we exhaust our hatred for
Francis.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I was going to end on Francis.
Oh, you didn't want to end on,francis, I have a ton of Francis
.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, so I have more Francis stuff.
We'll save that.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The only other thing, well, the only other one that I
wrote down, even though I havelots of other things about the
movie, so even though I havelots of other things about the
movie.
So they find Roberta and hergrandfather who have been taken
captive by the pirates.
They rescue Roberta, thegranddaughter, and so they're
still under threat of pirateattack.
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Once Fritz and Ernst andRoberta get back to the family,
they're still under threat ofpirate attack and they set up
like their Alamo, basically thetop of the hill, and they have
booby traps and everything.
Yeah, great, there's, they'reready for, but at no point do
they have a lookout watching forpotential pirates.
Like you would have a lookout24 7 for pirates coming ashore.
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I would think, yeah.
And then, in the midst of thisnot having a lookout, you decide
to have a carnival with animalraces where everybody's riding
like the ostrich or the donkeyor the zebra, and having races
along the beach.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's one of my scenes I have here.
I have a list of ridiculousscenes.
Okay, let's hear some of yours.
Okay, here.
So I have a list of ridiculousscenes.
Okay, let's hear some of yours.
Okay, so, so I have the entirethe tree house.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's.
That's a ridiculous scene.
Yeah, building a tree house sofast.
The internet says it's a spanof 10 years.
Okay, that none of them age.
They don't age at all, okay,right, they don't age at all.
Okay, right, but that'sridiculous, right In 10 years.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I could believe that they could have some form of a
tree house, but not I don't know.
There was some intricacies tothat tree house that I thought
were a little overdone, right.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Francis, animal collection yeah, got that.
The animal race, yeah.
And then the booby trap scene.
The whole booby trap scene, thewhole booby trap thing with the
pirates when they're up on thetop of the hill.
Yeah, they kept killing all thepirates, but there were still
500 of them.
This is true After he killedthem all before the second wave
came in.
Yeah, the second wave did comein and that's legit, but they
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would kill them all, right, andtheir booby traps sucked as far
as, like, all the trees wouldfall on them.
And then still 500 pirate.
The first one was the arrows.
They shot at him.
Yeah, shot him on the legs ofthe arrows, but they kept
running, just as fast.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I love how francis kept popping out in the open to
throw those coconut oh yeah, inprecise precision so that's
another one laying in arms, likelike the world's worst
quarterback.
He's right, his arms areflailing and somehow those are
landing by actual people.
Right, that whole fight scene.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I call it the Ewok scene.
Yes, because it's so Ewok orHome Alone.
That's exactly what it is.
It totally is.
That's exactly what they did,roberta being a, even them
thinking she's a boy.
Yeah, she looked like a boy allthe entire time.
She didn't or did.
(23:44):
I don't think she looked like aboy when they first saw her.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, no, no, With that little hat on.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, she still looked like she had makeup on.
Yeah, like still looked like agirl the entire time.
That's the worst disguise ever.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And then they're.
They're laughing about her orwhat they thought were his
delicate hands, and it's likeokay, you, you two are a couple
of idiots.
Right?
Did you not encounter any womenin switzerland before you left?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
no, no girls, no, they're.
New guinea is where they'regonna be.
All the girls.
Yes, the robinson commandosquad is what I call them.
All of a sudden, they can sweepfrom ropes.
Yeah, precise, and likeprecision bombing on everything,
the exact time to light a wick.
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Oh, yeah, right everything wasprecise.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They use I don't know some bamboo straw looking for
wicks and it burned like aregular wick and it's like
that's just the grass.
No, he had his little candleflame two feet from the wicks
for hours, yeah, right, but likewhen they the first bombs that
they lit and they had the reallylong fuses that went down to
(24:56):
the bottom of the hill, right,and it's just tearing off really
fast fuses and it's like, yeah,that's just rolled up straw.
Right, that's not a fuse, andit wouldn't burn that fast.
Of course not.
It would smolder over like thespan of six hours.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah right, but to know how fast that would burn,
yeah, in the first place theyroll up a bunch of straw, light
it.
No, not yet.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
No not yet.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, hold Now.
Now that's going to hit himright.
I want to get it where thepirates be right there.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Really.
And then my last one I have forridiculous scenes was all the
crap they go through for thewhole movie.
Uh-huh, and there's noresources on the island to
survive for the next 20, 30years, yes, and they all say I
want to stay.
I want to stay, except forErnst.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
This is a great idea, Because they bribe him with
like hey, we'll help you getinto university.
Right Bye, fam.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Right, I'm out of here.
And then, yeah, that was afunny part too, that Ernst and
his brotheritz yes, we'refighting over the girl the whole
time, but at the end he's likebye fritz, see ya.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So, and it was funny.
It's like they they had theirgoodbyes.
And then ernst is like paddlingoff with all the.
So the grandfather escapes andcomes back with another ship,
uh-huh, and they scare off thepirates, right.
So he's like 50 feet out in thewater they're paddling back to
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the ship.
Goodbye, goodbye.
It's like, wait a minute.
Didn't you already say goodbyeon land, right?
Why would you wait to saygoodbye when you're like 50 feet
away on this robo?
So grandpa comes back and he'sin it and it's really
interesting.
So they so, and grandpa speaksbritish or english as well, but
(26:49):
british english.
And they're like well, youcould stay here because this
will be a colony, maybe you'llbe mayor type of thing.
Yeah, because they're going tostart bringing people back to
colonize it.
And I'm like and how stoic helooked.
Yeah, but when were the Swissever known for colonizing
foreign lands?
It's like this is a British guy.
(27:10):
You're yeah, you're colonizingit because you're a bunch of
Brits, right, let.
Colonizing it because you're abunch of brits, right, let's
just be honest, that's hilarious.
So, yeah, the goodbye scene wasall kind of hokey, but if it
was spanned over 10 years itwould have made sense supposedly
the, the period of when.
This was sometime between 1804and 1815, so during the, the
(27:34):
napoleonic wars, when I wasdoing some research on some
backstory because I was like,when did this supposedly happen?
You know all that type of stuff.
Yeah, 1804 to 1815.
Another thing when they're onthe lookout or the Alamo, what
did you call it?
(27:54):
The final battle where they'refighting off the, the Ewok, the
Ewok battle.
Yes, the Ewok battle is howgood they were with musket
rifles, with hand-to-hand combatwith a musket rifle and
hand-to-hand combat With amusket.
Even Mother Robinson, that'stough to swing.
She's like she smacked one guy,they had swords, they were all.
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That's tough to swing.
She smacked one guy and shot.
They were all deadly accuratewith these muskets that are
notoriously not accurate.
But the pirates couldn't hitanything.
They're all standing out in theopen, all the Robinsons
shooting at them and runningaround.
Francis should have been shotlike 20 times.
Pirates couldn't hit anythinglike they just looked in that
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general pointed the rifle ingeneral direction of pirates and
they shot someone you're right,and when they hand-to-hand
combat, yeah, they had swords,yeah, and they're.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Guys have muskets, the musket one.
Every time it did, they blockedthe musket and, like butt,
stalked them off the and thenthey fall to their death.
I've never seen that withoutlike a bayonet attached.
Yeah, I've never seen that in abattle in my life.
Oh, I know, and that's not howMarines train and we'll ignore
how they got those massive logsall stacked up at the top of the
(29:10):
hill to collapse them down ontothem, we'll just ignore.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's Ewok style, yeah.
Logs all stacked up at the topof the hill to collapse them
down onto them, we'll justignore.
That's Ewok style, yeah.
But like a guy and his wife andsome teenage girl and a bunch
of teen and preteen boys Right,all got these massive logs up
the side of a cliff, yeah, andstacked them.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's exactly what Ewoks did, no problem.
Ewoks are like three feet tall,yeah, and they got that's
exactly what Ewoks did, noproblem.
Ewoks are like three feet tall,yeah.
And they got all these hugeboulders, yeah, stacked in the
same exact way and had them allready to go exactly where the
stormtroopers were going to comeup the hill, right the same
exact path.
They knew exactly where theywere coming.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It was such an Ewok battle, yeah, it just didn't
make a whole lot of sense.
That was like the mosteffective way of getting rid of
them.
I did like how, when they shoota pirate and they would show
they'd throw a dummy off a clifflike in in pirate clothes.
They were just and I like thatfor a disney movie let's show
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some killing here.
But the, the, the dummy is justbouncing down this cliff and
arms are going everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't respect.
They didn't show actual killing, they did because some didn't
get up.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
No, in 1960 that's pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, that was legit.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I didn't respect that .
When I was watching, I watchedfor one guy who fell off the
cliff onto a rock yeah, and Iwas waiting for him to get up,
get up.
He didn't.
Yeah, he didn't get up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No that was good.
The robinson family you knowthey kill and you don't.
You don't come back from their,their wrath right.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So before we finish off on francis, let's talk about
their christmas time.
So they have christmas, theyright, they have christmas.
But they all only know onechristmas song.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yes, and they all know it because they're singing
it in the thing, in their thing,and then when, when the kids
come back from being lost fordays, they're singing the same
exact song as they're walking upI do like how francis and maybe
they got it before the kidsdecided to sail off the two boys
(31:21):
, but they thought it wasimportant to go get the
harpsichord off of the ship andhaul it up the tree so that mom
would have something to play.
But not the cannon.
But not the cannon.
Leave the cannon grab theharpsichord.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Grab the harpsichord.
Right, leave the gun, take thecannoli.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Right, we haven't had a good mafia like godfather
reference in a while, didn't weused to make those like every
episode, every episode yes,their one christmas song was
hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and it was the oh christmas tree song.
Yeah, right, which, if you wantthe best version of the oh
christmas tree song and this isway off of cheers to Ears lore,
because that's our word of theday yeah, it's a South Park
Christmas episode where Hitler'ssinging O Town of Moth in Hell.
(32:13):
So listen to that.
And that's the best version ofO Christmas Tree ever made, ever
made.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Okay so let's get into talking about Francis.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Let's talk about Francis to end this thing.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I got a couple things .
He's just a stupid kid.
He yells way too often.
He is.
He's very excited, yes, andit's like kid, I'm two feet away
from you.
Why are you yelling?
It's just.
Why are you yelling, kid?
And yeah, just want to smackhim.
I went into the duck thing Likehe thought the ducks needed to
(32:50):
be ferried to the coast, youknow.
But one of the things I'm mostdisappointed in this movie is
they had so many opportunitiesto kill off his character and
they didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I thought of that.
I thought a few times in themovie that if this was a modern
movie, one of the characterswould get killed off.
Yeah, someone would get killedat some time.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Just to have that little heartbreaking moment
Right Now.
Granted, it would have lastedabout 90 seconds and then they
would have moved on to someother thing and he might have
been comic relief back in 1960,.
But so nobody threw him overthe boat.
No, Before the boat crashed, Iwould have thought the sailors
(33:26):
would have gotten annoyed withhim just chucked him overboard.
I don't know what happened tohim.
Oh, he must have fallen over atnight going to the bathroom or
something.
Yeah, so why the sailors on theship didn't kill him before
they even got shipwrecked, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ooh, in my modern take, sorry for interrupting,
yeah, in my modern take I justFrancis.
Francis makes a mistake, right,like he did about 10,000 times,
by calling the pirates over orsomething, gets Roberta killed,
ooh, and then the brothers arepissed at Francis for a while.
Yeah, that's my modern take onthe movie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Most of it.
I just wanted to tell Francishey, why don't you go just stand
underwater, stand underwater.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Count to 5,000.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
So you know, when he sees the monkeys and he climbs
up the tree and he's grabbingthose monkeys, a slip and a fall
they could have killed off hischaracter man.
He's your Sven.
Easy peasy Francis.
Is your Sven elephant attacklike that elephant realistically
would have turned on him,stomped him.
No more.
(34:32):
France's better movie, crossbowaccident at christmas.
If you're his parents and youknow what kind of kid he is, are
you giving him a crossbow?
That's asking for some familymember to die he willingly
shoots that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, he doesn't even , he doesn't even look where
he's aiming.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm surprised he wasn't looking down at it like
is this thing loaded right,shoot himself in the forehead
and then, when they're, he'sthrowing grenades just
willy-nilly, uh-huh.
Why didn't he just hold on toone like two seconds too long?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
well, it looked like he was.
He held that thing forever.
Yeah, he kept running aroundthe whole island with it.
Wait, maybe one of these.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And the way the wind can't be longer yeah, they blew
a chance to kill off hischaracter.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm just saying so my two things fritz and erntz
getting a, getting a fight.
During this fight, francis isthe most annoying person ever
Because, like, fritz hits Ernst,yes, right, punches him in the
face.
And then he says, ernst, gethim, get him now, ernst, punch
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him, fight, fight.
And then Ernst punched FritzOkay, fritz, hit him in the face
, punch him.
He's a jerk in the whole fight.
Right, he's rooting for bothteams.
He has no idea what he's doing,he just wants to fight.
Until the dad hears it, he'syelling, fight the whole time.
And then during the this is themost.
This is one of my funniest, thefunniest scenes.
(35:59):
I started laughing out loudwhen I was watching.
I don't know if it was therocks that were falling to the
logs that were falling, I forgetat the moment it was one of
those two scenes.
But he yells look that guy'ssquished.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Can you imagine what that would have really looked
like?
Right, that's really squished.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Look that guy's squished.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's like innards spurting out of somebody, type
of squished.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, I think Francis is your spin.
He is, I think.
So.
I think I've came up with thisBecause you had ways to.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You wanted spin off.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Well, I think there's no reason Disney shouldn't.
Yeah, I still believe that Ithink they should make a movie
just to do that.
Make a new Frozen movie just todo that of them.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Make a new frozen movie just to do that wouldn't
it be funny if they had a frozenmovie and at the start they're
eating caribou steaks?
They don't and they don'texplain anything.
They just have like his hornshung up over the fireplace and
they're just eating big steaksright at the start and that is
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the only explanation to whathappened to Sven and they move
on with the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
We apologize to Addie , one of the top 10 guests in
our show history, because sheloves Sven and we argue about
this all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, I'm Sven indifferent, right, but I can
think of creative ways to killhim and you're in your career.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You've like thought lots of ways to go, francis,
just now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah.
So you know, I don't know ifyou have more, but I thought
they need to do a new version ofthis.
You did and I just recasted itOnly the main characters.
So, father Robinson, I had HughJackman Ooh, it was either him
or John Krasinski, but see, Ithought Hugh Jackman, we needed
(37:53):
a little bit more of thattoughness, yeah, and I thought
he was a little better there.
I like Hugh Jackman.
So, mother Robinson Okay.
So Kate Winslet was apossibility.
Rachel Weisz was a really closeone, but I went with Naomi
Watts.
Well, you thought a lot aboutthis.
Yeah, wow, I was like, well, Iwanted the right age group.
(38:14):
So that's one of the things Ijust did a search for and then I
kind of thought about them, butNaomi Watts was the one that,
okay, I want to go with her.
Roberta, I wanted to go withElle Fanning, but I thought she
was, she does look really youngand you could potentially use
(38:36):
her.
But there was this otheractress called Thomason McKenzie
.
Okay, so you'll have to lookher up, but I thought she would
be a good fit and I should havewritten down like what they were
from.
But she had.
I think she had the right lookand she had kind of a comedy in
her background, a little bit ofcomedy, and I think it would be
(38:57):
good like an action comedy, likecomedic moments in this Fritz.
So, going back and forth, Ithought Timothee Chalamet, but
he's a little bit too old.
There was an actor, jacob Elordi, don't know him, and yeah,
don't know him, and I can'tremember Again.
I should have written down whathe was in.
(39:18):
But he looked right, okay.
So he looked like he could passoff as Hugh Jackman's son.
Then Ernst Jaden Martell, so hewas the older brother in the
new it movie, okay, and he's abit of that bookworm nerdy kind
(39:43):
of look to him.
So I thought he would have beengood Francis.
So there's this new youngDisney actor named Walker Scoble
Okay, scoble.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You're crazy, you're going crazy here.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But he also I thought he looked kind of like he could
pass as Naomi Watts' son, soyou know, you could get kids
that kind of look, and then onethat looks like he might have
been the milkman's and thepirate chief, simu Lui, chang
Shai Chang what was the oh inthe Marvel?
(40:15):
Yeah, the Marvel.
Chang Shi, yeah, okay.
So he was Chang Shi, right,great, yeah.
So I thought he would have beena really good pirate chief
captain.
That's pretty good, yeah.
And then I thought you could dothat there could be an emphasis
on all of them doing the Swissaccent.
(40:35):
But then I thought, nah, letthem all just speak English, or?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
British English.
American and British Englishjust because I thought that
would be funny.
I got a controversy.
Or Roberta pick just now.
I don't have any othercharacters, I couldn't think of
any just off the top, butRoberta, here's who I'm casting
Miley Cyrus.
I think she'd be amazing.
She's gruff and rough.
(40:59):
We know she can act.
She's got the pot.
Smoker voice.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
She can act.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yeah, she can play that boy part at the beginning.
She can probably get away withthat and she's just an amazing
human.
That would be great in themovie and would boost the box
office huge.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Potentially because she's got that Disney pedigree
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
And soundtrack, if I'm going that way.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm going, I think, with Elle Fanning.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm just thinking just a
different kind ofnon-traditional actress.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, I don't know if she has the Well, I mean makeup
, you just change their looksand stuff.
I think I think she's amazing,but is but?
Is she getting a little too oldto be playing like a don't know
, I don't know teenager?
20 year old?
And that was the thing.
That's why I thought el fanningmight have been 10 years.
Yeah, now, let's keep it realand they could do it over 10
(42:04):
years instead of just and thengrow the kids and have multiple
actors two cast members.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Like, yeah, like the latest game of thrones, yeah,
had 10 different actors forevery role, exactly.
But yeah, that's our, that'sour take on swiss family
robinson.
It went different than Ithought sit watch with your
family.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, it's good.
Can't good camping fun andthink of ways that wife Frances
needs to die?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know, death to Frances Cheers.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Cheers.
Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears, where today
we're sipping on a Big Bamboo.
A Big Bamboo sold at Yak andYeti in Animal Kingdom.
It's made with Don Q CoconutRum, don Q Crystal Rum, Banana
Liqueur and Tropical FruitJuices for the low, low price of
$14.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I noticed a lot of their drinks are $14.
Yeah, I just saw that.
It's a good meal at Yak andYeti and a fairly inexpensive
Disney drink.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Right, and if you're holding a 10 and a 5 in your
hand, you're good to go.
You got a dollar extra when youleave.
Get a dollar for tip If therewere no tax.
Oh yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, anyway, I forgot about tax, esky tax.
Yeah, so I've eaten at Yak andYeti.
I didn't have a cocktail, butI've had food there.
Yeah, not bad Big portions.
It's one of those restaurantsthat isn't owned by Disney.
It's owned by oh, a companythat Some outside company that
(01:03):
runs it, and I can't rememberthe name park.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How many are?
How many of those are there?
This is something.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
There's a few I don't know about, okay, and I can't
remember the, the, the company.
It's like a big restaurantcompany that owns several chains
, I think, and then they ownthese one-off restaurants,
really yak and yeti.
Oh, I'll have to look that upand I'm trying to remember the
other ones but I can't off thetop of my head Interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Maybe we should do an episode on that.
Which is why Restaurants notowned by Disney.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, we could Reviews, because if you join their
points club, yeah, you canactually use, use the discount
card there In Disney, or thepoint card loyalty card at that.
Really, yeah, whoa Aninteresting tip we learned.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I mean, animal Kingdom also has Rainforest Cafe
and we know that's not Disneyowned.
No, it's not, and it's inAnimal Kingdom.
So yeah, so I guess that'sright, I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Rainforest Cafe.
Restaurants that I'll never eatat right pretty good gift shop,
though for a for a restaurant,it's cool.
I ate at the one at the sanfrancisco wharf once, uh-huh,
and I'm good I never have to eatthere again.
Yeah, that's not importantaverage food.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
thank you, thank you, disneyland, yeah, for taking it
out, yeah, and and puttingnothing there, really.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So let's talk about this drink.
Oh yeah, Very alcohol forward.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I would say For a reason because we filled a glass
up with alcohol before we addedthe juice Because it had, yeah,
coconut rum, banana liqueur,regular rum.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So very strong coconut and banana flavors, Very
strong coconut and bananaflavors.
And then we put passion fruitpuree, guava puree and mango
puree Right.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think that's really what helped us out there,
because it added more flavor toit.
Yes, the purees don't take upso much room, because we didn't
have much room for the juiceleft in the glass.
Afterwards, christy thought Iwould think this is too sweet,
because I don't like reallysweet drinks.
But I don't like sweet likepuckeries.
Oh, tart, tarty drinks right.
I like like tart candies, butnot drinks Right.
(03:15):
That makes you like pucker yourlips when you have it.
Yeah, we've had a few of those.
Yeah, that's not my favorite,but this is not like that.
This is this doesn't make you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
this doesn't have a sour or a tart, or it's too
sweet of a taste.
It goes down.
It's pretty smooth for how muchliquor and juice we have in
here, and we did.
We did top it off with a littlebit of of an orange juice blend
.
That's what the the bottle said.
It had like orange and appleand pear juice all mixed in, but
, yeah, mostly orange juice.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, this, I bet this is not how it would taste
really in the parks.
It might be kind of close.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I have a feeling it would be less alcohol forward
and more fruity drink.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I think we're a little far.
I think this is one of ourfurther off of the drinks.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It probably because I put the whole shot and we use
Key Largo coconut rum and andyeah, I think this Captain
Morgan white rum and what was it?
The 99 banana liqueur.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I think this is like 19, 1950 or something, if we
made our drink in the park, yeah, but I probably could have done
.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
A half bottle we got, we got minis for everything
except for the white rum.
A half bottle we got, we gotminis for everything except for
the white rum.
I probably, with both thebanana liqueur and the coconut
rum, probably could have splitthe one bottle into two probably
, instead of we have three shotsof booze in each of these.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So yes, but we're only recording one today, like
you said.
Yes, we usually record twoepisodes a day and today we're
just doing one because ourguests didn't come.
That we talked about having theshow?
Yes, we talked about it.
Yeah, we couldn't scheduleproper guests.
I think their fees were toohigh.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
They wanted to go.
We're still negotiating.
Yeah, negotiate table.
Yeah, yeah, I think they'reunion.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I know they're union and they're union rep.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
yeah, I know their union, then their union rep.
You know the jerk right.
We're negotiating for newguests on the show, but you know
there's a lot of intangibles inthe whole thing there is and
that's just kind of the way itgoes, so and we couldn't get
anyone to come on this showtoday to talk about our topic,
because we're the only twopeople, probably in the
tri-state area, who has watchedthis movie in the past like two
(05:30):
months.
I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Today we're talking about Swiss Family Robinson,
which is why we went with Yakand Yeti, right, because this
takes place on a tropical islandin Southeast Asia, somewhere.
They're all lost.
And we went with yak and Yetibecause it's it's an Asia
section of animal kingdom.
So that was the connection.
At first, we were going to gowith something from the
(05:56):
Polynesian and I'm like no,because I thought they were in
the South Pacific.
And then, even though I'vewatched this once or twice
before, and then, even thoughI've watched this once or twice
before, I'm watching it thistime, it kind of dawned on me
mid viewing that oh, no, wait,they're in Southeast Asia.
We should probably change upour cocktail and change up our
location and whatnot.
(06:16):
But Swiss Family Robinson, swissFamily Robinson 1960.
So 1960 version, right, andthere's a 1975 version and a
1940 version.
And there's a 1975 version anda 1940 version.
And then there's a TV show.
I know, I saw that I think theTV show would have been a better
idea.
Really.
I think so because when youbuild this, when was that made?
(06:37):
It was in the 70s as well, okay, okay.
So when you build a home, a biggiant tree house, in the span
of like what seems like three orfour days.
It doesn't lend to thebelievability and, I think, a TV
show where you got more of asense that they were there for a
few years, which they weren't,because the kids didn't grow at
(07:00):
all.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I know, but that's not what they have for their
timeline of the show, no, soanyway we'll get into that.
I think a lot of this.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We're gonna be trashing a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So trashing it as I think it's an okay 1960s Disney
movie.
It is Like off the top.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Let's start off.
We'll say the good things aboutit.
It's a great, campy, old campyDisney live action movie, like a
lot of them are, and they'reworth it for the entertainment
value because even the stuffthat annoys you is is
entertaining, so good, wholesomefamily fun.
Right View depictions that theygive you a warning about ahead
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of time.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But I think I think that if you have kids, yeah, and
sit down and watch this, it's afun time to.
It's a fun thing for, like backin the 60s, is how they made
movies, just like, yeah, allyour favorite disney movies,
yeah, happened at a college,those aren't my favorite, but oh
yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
But but see those have the same.
You're all on yourself, man, no, no, my favorite disney movie
is follow me boys okay, we'vebeen talking about that.
It's not on disney plus butthese all the old 60s, early 70s
, that stuff is just good campyfun yeah, this isn't the worst,
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I mean as far as productionvalue for the 60s, it's done
pretty well and these movies,this one in particular, these
kind of hit a nerve with me asfar as why I enjoy them.
So it's with a grain of salt,admittedly, but the survival
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aspect, because I always kind ofput myself so, thinking of,
even like Stand by Me which tome is one of the best movies
ever A couple of kids, or youknow four kids, striking out for
a few days walking 20, 30 miles, 30 miles.
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You know there's that campingoutdoors, survivalist type of I
don't know theme to it gordy gota goochers.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So to me those are always kind of like interesting
or stuff that resonates to I'mabout ready to quit all of stand
by me right now, so let's moveon.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But like there's.
There's an aspect of thosemovies that appeals to me, so
which is why, yeah, I like thisone.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So I?
I mean it's at the tip of beinga survivalist movie.
It's not really.
It's not at all.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No not at all, but it's still.
I'll sit there and think, okay,what would I have done in that
situation?
Right, and I wouldn't have doneanything that that stupid kid
did.
But you know who?
Francis, francis, the youngestboy.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The only good name of a child they had, though, I
mean, francis isn't a horriblename, but their other two kids'
names are horrible Ritz, ernstand Francis.
Ritz and Ernst, yeah, so, yeah,so we're still on good stuff
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I think the number one thing is the
production value though it was,it was good because it was shot
like cinematography back then.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, the animals they used.
Yes, animal trainers must'veworked their butts off.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
There was one I was reading that they because they
had people running away from thetiger, which sets off the
tiger's instinct to go attack itbecause they think it's prey.
So the trainer is actually inthe shot trying to control the
tiger so it doesn't kill theactors.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah, the tiger was a good character.
It was, he was good.
The elephant was pretty good.
The zebra the zebra was great.
Riding a zebra is like a dreamfor me, really.
Oh, I love Zebras are one of myfavorites.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh, okay, I love a zebra, yeah, anyway.
I don't know where that evencame from.
I don't know where to go withthat, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That came from.
You know everybody, that's thekind of review of a movie.
This is those are the goodspots.
Yeah, I think we're about donewith the good stuff, like the
really good stuff.
Yeah, I think we can get intothe weird stuff.
It's all, that's all.
This is all off the top of myhead because everything I wrote
down is not good.
Not good, it's not good stuff.
It's weird or cringy or stupid.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yes, that's what I have.
Yeah, so let's run through that.
So let's be honest, they wouldhave all been dead in a week had
this been an accurate movie.
Yeah, maybe the dad and theolder brother would have
survived a little bit longer.
Everybody else would have beendead.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The middle brother is pretty smart.
He's smart.
He might have figured stuff outwith them if they were all
three together.
Potentially, yes, I think thatFrancis would have killed them
all right away.
Probably he would have gottenthem killed.
He would have gotten themkilled.
He tried to get them killed abunch of times.
The pirates over here, thatkind of crap.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, it was an interesting aspect, a tidbit
about this movie, an interestingfact.
So a tidbit about this movie,an interesting fact.
So John Mills plays the dad andhe is the father of Hayley
Mills, who went on to do ParentTrap Pollyanna.
So an interesting connectionthere, you know, to Disney.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Lore Lore, I was a huge Parent Trap fan as a kid.
Oh, I did.
Hayley Mills was my favorite.
Lore Lore, I was a huge Parent.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Trap fan as a kid.
Oh, I did.
I liked it too.
Hayley Mills was my favoriteyeah.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Me and my cousin used to always say Hayley Mills and
Hayley Mills, with Hayley Mills.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But interesting, a Swiss family and the whole
family has American and Britishaccents, right?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So yeah, so that's my first point.
I wrote down too.
Yeah, so I could do.
We could do any in the 60s.
We could make a movie about anyethnicity.
Yes, Because we just use oursame accents.
Exactly it didn't matter.
Because they just say, they'reSwiss.
Yes, hey, I'm German.
Hey, aaron, how are you?
I'm German too.
Oh now, I'm French, but here Iam talking in my French accent.
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There was nothing.
They just said we're fromSwitzerland.
Your name's Ernst.
Your name's Ernst and Fritz.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's about it, and we won't even delve into trying
to name mom and dad.
They'll just Mother Robinsonand Father.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Robinson.
Yeah, we won't even try to talkabout Swiss traditions or
anything.
We're just from Switzerland.
Yeah, we'll just say that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I could go back and forth between things about
this kid or just things aboutthe movie.
The first thing about the movie.
So when they're you know, it'skind of a mix, Like do we follow
chronological stupidity in themovie or do we just pick and
choose here?
But I'm thinking of whenthey're getting off the.
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So their ship crashes againstthe rocks.
Nobody else survives except forthe family, or they all abandon
ship and let the family onthere with all of the supplies
and the goats and animals andstuff, Right.
So they start making a raft sothat they can get to shore,
because there's still a couplefew hundred yards offshore.
So Francis, the young dumb kidstarts loading up.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We agree on this.
I thought we were going toagree.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Look what I found.
And it's like, no, you didn'tfind, it was the captain's two
great names.
It's like, kid, you didn't findthem.
They were there all along.
It's like he found them.
And, hey, look what I found Twogreat names that have been on
the ship for months along withus, right.
So he puts them into the raftand he names them like that.
And he names them like that,right.
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Because obviously the captaindidn't have a name and didn't
tell them what the name was atsome point, because you know he
was harassing those two dogs thewhole trip, right.
But then he starts loading theducks into the raft.
Right, not quite grasp thatducks, being an aquatic bird,
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can either fly or swim to theisland and don't need to be
transported via raft.
So, first major stupiditymoment for the kid.
Or the second after look what Ifound, right.
So yeah, that was that.
And then getting to shore theonly other thing that was.
So they're having a hard timepaddling to shore.
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Then they see this giant seaturtle swimming and they get the
idea, hey, let's lasso the seaturtle and have him drag us
ashore, like a sea turtle isgoing to put up, but not pull
him out to sea he's going totake, and somehow a sea turtle
is able to pull this, this raftthat weighs a couple thousand
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pounds at least, to shore right,and he does it willingly.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The amount of animals wild animals they turn into
beast of burdens in this moviewas a little weird yeah, so, so,
so, so, francis, I just I justthought of this, okay, Because I
was thinking of I have a bunchof Francis stuff about his
animal.
Oh, yeah, he tames them in likefour seconds.
Yes, he names and tames, yes,name it and tame it.
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Right, like I didn't write downany of the names.
But he names the animal andsays this is my elephant, this
is his name, and he jumps on hisback and starts riding it yeah,
right.
Or it says animal, step in thisright, step in this rope.
And then the, the elephant,steps in the rope, the dogs
attack the tiger, yeah, and getsrid of it, right, and he just
la, la, la, right, oh, there'san it in a jockey style yeah,
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right, yeah.
So he tames him.
So you know who he is, who thenew francis is, and disney is
disney lore, that's our word ofthe day.
Yes, is antonio from incanto.
Oh, maribel's youngest brother,yeah, I just thought of that?
oh, because francis tamesanimals like in 10.2 seconds,
like he can talk to them.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm going to put a tiger in this hole.
Yeah, oh, I got a tiger in myhole now, like 14 seconds later.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, tiger's not going to be wary about that.
You know what's interestingabout that?
The tiger's when later on inthe movie, when the pirates
attack, somehow that tiger wasable to throw two pirates.
I was just gonna say that theygo fly it out not injured, not
injured, but they're completelylaunched out of this pit they
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fall in the pit and they fly outlike it was a trampoline.
Yeah, that was great but youknow, but it was kind of funny
with, also with the animals,like he.
He finds this baby elephantnames it, claims it, you know,
and everything.
And then, like the next scene,they're using it to build their
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treehouse Because they see thetiger and they're like well,
let's go up into the tree andbuild a treehouse, we'll be safe
.
No, that's not how, becausetigers can climb.
But anyway, I think thatactually the mom brought that
little bit of like common senseto him.
Yeah, but they had rails ontheir stairs?
Yes, they had rails on theirstairs.
That was very important, butwhat was funny is they captured
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this baby elephant and beginusing him as a beast of burden
instead of the ox and the donkeythat they domesticated.
Ox and donkey they already had.
No, no, why use thedomesticated animals?
Let's capture a wild animal,domesticate it and then use it.
That just makes much more sense.
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That's hilarious.
So you know one of the thingsthis is towards later in the
movie.
They have well, okay, before weget to that.
So as best I can figure it is,and at one point the pirates are
actually speaking Indonesian toeach other.
They're not at all, though.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, they actually are.
I looked it up and they justspeak whatever came out of their
mouths at the time.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
They speak gibberish, but some of them, actually a
couple of them actually werespeaking.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
A couple of them, the main pirate guy yeah, I was
listening to him talk.
I'm like he's just saying thesame word over and over again.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But at one point and I could actually hear they were
speaking Indonesian.
So, leaving Europe, sailingaround the is it the Cape of
Good Hope?
Around South Africa, they wouldbe passing through, going to
Papua New Guinea, which is atthe end of Indonesia.
So somewhere on one of thoseislands is where they crash
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landed their ship, crash landedtheir ship.
So interesting fact that theyhad both southeast asian animals
on this island and africansavannah animals.
Right, so not necessarily theelement zebra, ostrich, right,
yeah, everything hyenas, hyenas,because the hyenas the zebra
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scene.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
when he got stuck in the In the mud pit.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
In the mud pit.
Yeah, they rescued the zebra,which obviously in zebra mind
means I'm forever indebted toyou for saving my life.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, and speaking of the animal scenes, the Python
scene was rough for me.
Yeah, I watched the whole thing.
That was rough.
So, and how he I don't know howhe found his head and hit it, I
don't know what, and then thesnake still slam off.
Yeah, I don't understand.
He just gets scared.
Yeah, oh no, I'm out, I'm outof here now, yeah, I believe you
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guys.
I thought they killed the snake, but then you see the snake
swimming off in the water fritztook him.
Yeah, you know.
Oh, it's Fritz, I'm out of here.
So just to keep on, francis,before we exhaust our hatred for
Francis.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I was going to end on Francis.
Oh, you didn't want to end on,francis, I have a ton of Francis
.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, so I have more Francis stuff.
We'll save that.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The only other thing, well, the only other one that I
wrote down, even though I havelots of other things about the
movie, so even though I havelots of other things about the
movie.
So they find Roberta and hergrandfather who have been taken
captive by the pirates.
They rescue Roberta, thegranddaughter, and so they're
still under threat of pirateattack.
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Once Fritz and Ernst andRoberta get back to the family,
they're still under threat ofpirate attack and they set up
like their Alamo, basically thetop of the hill, and they have
booby traps and everything.
Yeah, great, there's, they'reready for, but at no point do
they have a lookout watching forpotential pirates.
Like you would have a lookout24 7 for pirates coming ashore.
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I would think, yeah.
And then, in the midst of thisnot having a lookout, you decide
to have a carnival with animalraces where everybody's riding
like the ostrich or the donkeyor the zebra, and having races
along the beach.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's one of my scenes I have here.
I have a list of ridiculousscenes.
Okay, let's hear some of yours.
Okay, here.
So I have a list of ridiculousscenes.
Okay, let's hear some of yours.
Okay, so, so I have the entirethe tree house.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's.
That's a ridiculous scene.
Yeah, building a tree house sofast.
The internet says it's a spanof 10 years.
Okay, that none of them age.
They don't age at all, okay,right, they don't age at all.
Okay, right, but that'sridiculous, right In 10 years.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I could believe that they could have some form of a
tree house, but not I don't know.
There was some intricacies tothat tree house that I thought
were a little overdone, right.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Francis, animal collection yeah, got that.
The animal race, yeah.
And then the booby trap scene.
The whole booby trap scene, thewhole booby trap thing with the
pirates when they're up on thetop of the hill.
Yeah, they kept killing all thepirates, but there were still
500 of them.
This is true After he killedthem all before the second wave
came in.
Yeah, the second wave did comein and that's legit, but they
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would kill them all, right, andtheir booby traps sucked as far
as, like, all the trees wouldfall on them.
And then still 500 pirate.
The first one was the arrows.
They shot at him.
Yeah, shot him on the legs ofthe arrows, but they kept
running, just as fast.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I love how francis kept popping out in the open to
throw those coconut oh yeah, inprecise precision so that's
another one laying in arms, likelike the world's worst
quarterback.
He's right, his arms areflailing and somehow those are
landing by actual people.
Right, that whole fight scene.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I call it the Ewok scene.
Yes, because it's so Ewok orHome Alone.
That's exactly what it is.
It totally is.
That's exactly what they did,roberta being a, even them
thinking she's a boy.
Yeah, she looked like a boy allthe entire time.
She didn't or did.
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I don't think she looked like aboy when they first saw her.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, no, no, With that little hat on.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, she still looked like she had makeup on.
Yeah, like still looked like agirl the entire time.
That's the worst disguise ever.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And then they're.
They're laughing about her orwhat they thought were his
delicate hands, and it's likeokay, you, you two are a couple
of idiots.
Right?
Did you not encounter any womenin switzerland before you left?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
no, no girls, no, they're.
New guinea is where they'regonna be.
All the girls.
Yes, the robinson commandosquad is what I call them.
All of a sudden, they can sweepfrom ropes.
Yeah, precise, and likeprecision bombing on everything,
the exact time to light a wick.
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Oh, yeah, right everything wasprecise.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They use I don't know some bamboo straw looking for
wicks and it burned like aregular wick and it's like
that's just the grass.
No, he had his little candleflame two feet from the wicks
for hours, yeah, right, but likewhen they the first bombs that
they lit and they had the reallylong fuses that went down to
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the bottom of the hill, right,and it's just tearing off really
fast fuses and it's like, yeah,that's just rolled up straw.
Right, that's not a fuse, andit wouldn't burn that fast.
Of course not.
It would smolder over like thespan of six hours.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah right, but to know how fast that would burn,
yeah, in the first place theyroll up a bunch of straw, light
it.
No, not yet.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
No not yet.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, hold Now.
Now that's going to hit himright.
I want to get it where thepirates be right there.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Really.
And then my last one I have forridiculous scenes was all the
crap they go through for thewhole movie.
Uh-huh, and there's noresources on the island to
survive for the next 20, 30years, yes, and they all say I
want to stay.
I want to stay, except forErnst.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
This is a great idea, Because they bribe him with
like hey, we'll help you getinto university.
Right Bye, fam.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Right, I'm out of here.
And then, yeah, that was afunny part too, that Ernst and
his brotheritz yes, we'refighting over the girl the whole
time, but at the end he's likebye fritz, see ya.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
So, and it was funny.
It's like they they had theirgoodbyes.
And then ernst is like paddlingoff with all the.
So the grandfather escapes andcomes back with another ship,
uh-huh, and they scare off thepirates, right.
So he's like 50 feet out in thewater they're paddling back to
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the ship.
Goodbye, goodbye.
It's like, wait a minute.
Didn't you already say goodbyeon land, right?
Why would you wait to saygoodbye when you're like 50 feet
away on this robo?
So grandpa comes back and he'sin it and it's really
interesting.
So they so, and grandpa speaksbritish or english as well, but
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british english.
And they're like well, youcould stay here because this
will be a colony, maybe you'llbe mayor type of thing.
Yeah, because they're going tostart bringing people back to
colonize it.
And I'm like and how stoic helooked.
Yeah, but when were the Swissever known for colonizing
foreign lands?
It's like this is a British guy.
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You're yeah, you're colonizingit because you're a bunch of
Brits, right, let.
Colonizing it because you're abunch of brits, right, let's
just be honest, that's hilarious.
So, yeah, the goodbye scene wasall kind of hokey, but if it
was spanned over 10 years itwould have made sense supposedly
the, the period of when.
This was sometime between 1804and 1815, so during the, the
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napoleonic wars, when I wasdoing some research on some
backstory because I was like,when did this supposedly happen?
You know all that type of stuff.
Yeah, 1804 to 1815.
Another thing when they're onthe lookout or the Alamo, what
did you call it?
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The final battle where they'refighting off the, the Ewok, the
Ewok battle.
Yes, the Ewok battle is howgood they were with musket
rifles, with hand-to-hand combatwith a musket rifle and
hand-to-hand combat With amusket.
Even Mother Robinson, that'stough to swing.
She's like she smacked one guy,they had swords, they were all.
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That's tough to swing.
She smacked one guy and shot.
They were all deadly accuratewith these muskets that are
notoriously not accurate.
But the pirates couldn't hitanything.
They're all standing out in theopen, all the Robinsons
shooting at them and runningaround.
Francis should have been shotlike 20 times.
Pirates couldn't hit anythinglike they just looked in that
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general pointed the rifle ingeneral direction of pirates and
they shot someone you're right,and when they hand-to-hand
combat, yeah, they had swords,yeah, and they're.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Guys have muskets, the musket one.
Every time it did, they blockedthe musket and, like butt,
stalked them off the and thenthey fall to their death.
I've never seen that withoutlike a bayonet attached.
Yeah, I've never seen that in abattle in my life.
Oh, I know, and that's not howMarines train and we'll ignore
how they got those massive logsall stacked up at the top of the
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hill to collapse them down ontothem, we'll just ignore.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's Ewok style, yeah.
Logs all stacked up at the topof the hill to collapse them
down onto them, we'll justignore.
That's Ewok style, yeah.
But like a guy and his wife andsome teenage girl and a bunch
of teen and preteen boys Right,all got these massive logs up
the side of a cliff, yeah, andstacked them.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's exactly what Ewoks did, no problem.
Ewoks are like three feet tall,yeah, and they got that's
exactly what Ewoks did, noproblem.
Ewoks are like three feet tall,yeah.
And they got all these hugeboulders, yeah, stacked in the
same exact way and had them allready to go exactly where the
stormtroopers were going to comeup the hill, right the same
exact path.
They knew exactly where theywere coming.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It was such an Ewok battle, yeah, it just didn't
make a whole lot of sense.
That was like the mosteffective way of getting rid of
them.
I did like how, when they shoota pirate and they would show
they'd throw a dummy off a clifflike in in pirate clothes.
They were just and I like thatfor a disney movie let's show
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some killing here.
But the, the, the dummy is justbouncing down this cliff and
arms are going everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't respect.
They didn't show actual killing, they did because some didn't
get up.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
No, in 1960 that's pretty good.
Yeah, yeah, that was legit.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I didn't respect that .
When I was watching, I watchedfor one guy who fell off the
cliff onto a rock yeah, and Iwas waiting for him to get up,
get up.
He didn't.
Yeah, he didn't get up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No that was good.
The robinson family you knowthey kill and you don't.
You don't come back from their,their wrath right.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So before we finish off on francis, let's talk about
their christmas time.
So they have christmas, theyright, they have christmas.
But they all only know onechristmas song.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yes, and they all know it because they're singing
it in the thing, in their thing,and then when, when the kids
come back from being lost fordays, they're singing the same
exact song as they're walking upI do like how francis and maybe
they got it before the kidsdecided to sail off the two boys
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, but they thought it wasimportant to go get the
harpsichord off of the ship andhaul it up the tree so that mom
would have something to play.
But not the cannon.
But not the cannon.
Leave the cannon grab theharpsichord.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Grab the harpsichord.
Right, leave the gun, take thecannoli.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Right, we haven't had a good mafia like godfather
reference in a while, didn't weused to make those like every
episode, every episode yes,their one christmas song was
hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, and it was the oh christmas tree song.
Yeah, right, which, if you wantthe best version of the oh
christmas tree song and this isway off of cheers to Ears lore,
because that's our word of theday yeah, it's a South Park
Christmas episode where Hitler'ssinging O Town of Moth in Hell.
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So listen to that.
And that's the best version ofO Christmas Tree ever made, ever
made.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Okay so let's get into talking about Francis.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Let's talk about Francis to end this thing.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I got a couple things .
He's just a stupid kid.
He yells way too often.
He is.
He's very excited, yes, andit's like kid, I'm two feet away
from you.
Why are you yelling?
It's just.
Why are you yelling, kid?
And yeah, just want to smackhim.
I went into the duck thing Likehe thought the ducks needed to
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be ferried to the coast, youknow.
But one of the things I'm mostdisappointed in this movie is
they had so many opportunitiesto kill off his character and
they didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I thought of that.
I thought a few times in themovie that if this was a modern
movie, one of the characterswould get killed off.
Yeah, someone would get killedat some time.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Just to have that little heartbreaking moment
Right Now.
Granted, it would have lastedabout 90 seconds and then they
would have moved on to someother thing and he might have
been comic relief back in 1960,.
But so nobody threw him overthe boat.
No, Before the boat crashed, Iwould have thought the sailors
(33:26):
would have gotten annoyed withhim just chucked him overboard.
I don't know what happened tohim.
Oh, he must have fallen over atnight going to the bathroom or
something.
Yeah, so why the sailors on theship didn't kill him before
they even got shipwrecked, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Ooh, in my modern take, sorry for interrupting,
yeah, in my modern take I justFrancis.
Francis makes a mistake, right,like he did about 10,000 times,
by calling the pirates over orsomething, gets Roberta killed,
ooh, and then the brothers arepissed at Francis for a while.
Yeah, that's my modern take onthe movie.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Most of it.
I just wanted to tell Francishey, why don't you go just stand
underwater, stand underwater.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Count to 5,000.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
So you know, when he sees the monkeys and he climbs
up the tree and he's grabbingthose monkeys, a slip and a fall
they could have killed off hischaracter man.
He's your Sven.
Easy peasy Francis.
Is your Sven elephant attacklike that elephant realistically
would have turned on him,stomped him.
No more.
(34:32):
France's better movie, crossbowaccident at christmas.
If you're his parents and youknow what kind of kid he is, are
you giving him a crossbow?
That's asking for some familymember to die he willingly
shoots that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, he doesn't even , he doesn't even look where
he's aiming.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm surprised he wasn't looking down at it like
is this thing loaded right,shoot himself in the forehead
and then, when they're, he'sthrowing grenades just
willy-nilly, uh-huh.
Why didn't he just hold on toone like two seconds too long?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
well, it looked like he was.
He held that thing forever.
Yeah, he kept running aroundthe whole island with it.
Wait, maybe one of these.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
And the way the wind can't be longer yeah, they blew
a chance to kill off hischaracter.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I'm just saying so my two things fritz and erntz
getting a, getting a fight.
During this fight, francis isthe most annoying person ever
Because, like, fritz hits Ernst,yes, right, punches him in the
face.
And then he says, ernst, gethim, get him now, ernst, punch
(35:38):
him, fight, fight.
And then Ernst punched FritzOkay, fritz, hit him in the face
, punch him.
He's a jerk in the whole fight.
Right, he's rooting for bothteams.
He has no idea what he's doing,he just wants to fight.
Until the dad hears it, he'syelling, fight the whole time.
And then during the this is themost.
This is one of my funniest, thefunniest scenes.
(35:59):
I started laughing out loudwhen I was watching.
I don't know if it was therocks that were falling to the
logs that were falling, I forgetat the moment it was one of
those two scenes.
But he yells look that guy'ssquished.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Can you imagine what that would have really looked
like?
Right, that's really squished.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Look that guy's squished.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's like innards spurting out of somebody, type
of squished.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, I think Francis is your spin.
He is, I think.
So.
I think I've came up with thisBecause you had ways to.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
You wanted spin off.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Well, I think there's no reason Disney shouldn't.
Yeah, I still believe that Ithink they should make a movie
just to do that.
Make a new Frozen movie just todo that of them.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Make a new frozen movie just to do that wouldn't
it be funny if they had a frozenmovie and at the start they're
eating caribou steaks?
They don't and they don'texplain anything.
They just have like his hornshung up over the fireplace and
they're just eating big steaksright at the start and that is
(37:07):
the only explanation to whathappened to Sven and they move
on with the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
We apologize to Addie , one of the top 10 guests in
our show history, because sheloves Sven and we argue about
this all the time.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, I'm Sven indifferent, right, but I can
think of creative ways to killhim and you're in your career.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
You've like thought lots of ways to go, francis,
just now.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah.
So you know, I don't know ifyou have more, but I thought
they need to do a new version ofthis.
You did and I just recasted itOnly the main characters.
So, father Robinson, I had HughJackman Ooh, it was either him
or John Krasinski, but see, Ithought Hugh Jackman, we needed
(37:53):
a little bit more of thattoughness, yeah, and I thought
he was a little better there.
I like Hugh Jackman.
So, mother Robinson Okay.
So Kate Winslet was apossibility.
Rachel Weisz was a really closeone, but I went with Naomi
Watts.
Well, you thought a lot aboutthis.
Yeah, wow, I was like, well, Iwanted the right age group.
(38:14):
So that's one of the things Ijust did a search for and then I
kind of thought about them, butNaomi Watts was the one that,
okay, I want to go with her.
Roberta, I wanted to go withElle Fanning, but I thought she
was, she does look really youngand you could potentially use
(38:36):
her.
But there was this otheractress called Thomason McKenzie
.
Okay, so you'll have to lookher up, but I thought she would
be a good fit and I should havewritten down like what they were
from.
But she had.
I think she had the right lookand she had kind of a comedy in
her background, a little bit ofcomedy, and I think it would be
(38:57):
good like an action comedy, likecomedic moments in this Fritz.
So, going back and forth, Ithought Timothee Chalamet, but
he's a little bit too old.
There was an actor, jacob Elordi, don't know him, and yeah,
don't know him, and I can'tremember Again.
I should have written down whathe was in.
(39:18):
But he looked right, okay.
So he looked like he could passoff as Hugh Jackman's son.
Then Ernst Jaden Martell, so hewas the older brother in the
new it movie, okay, and he's abit of that bookworm nerdy kind
(39:43):
of look to him.
So I thought he would have beengood Francis.
So there's this new youngDisney actor named Walker Scoble
Okay, scoble.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You're crazy, you're going crazy here.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But he also I thought he looked kind of like he could
pass as Naomi Watts' son, soyou know, you could get kids
that kind of look, and then onethat looks like he might have
been the milkman's and thepirate chief, simu Lui, chang
Shai Chang what was the oh inthe Marvel?
(40:15):
Yeah, the Marvel.
Chang Shi, yeah, okay.
So he was Chang Shi, right,great, yeah.
So I thought he would have beena really good pirate chief
captain.
That's pretty good, yeah.
And then I thought you could dothat there could be an emphasis
on all of them doing the Swissaccent.
(40:35):
But then I thought, nah, letthem all just speak English, or?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
British English.
American and British Englishjust because I thought that
would be funny.
I got a controversy.
Or Roberta pick just now.
I don't have any othercharacters, I couldn't think of
any just off the top, butRoberta, here's who I'm casting
Miley Cyrus.
I think she'd be amazing.
She's gruff and rough.
(40:59):
We know she can act.
She's got the pot.
Smoker voice.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
She can act.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yeah, she can play that boy part at the beginning.
She can probably get away withthat and she's just an amazing
human.
That would be great in themovie and would boost the box
office huge.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Potentially because she's got that Disney pedigree
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
And soundtrack, if I'm going that way.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm going, I think, with Elle Fanning.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm just thinking just a
different kind ofnon-traditional actress.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, I don't know if she has the Well, I mean makeup
, you just change their looksand stuff.
I think I think she's amazing,but is but?
Is she getting a little too oldto be playing like a don't know
, I don't know teenager?
20 year old?
And that was the thing.
That's why I thought el fanningmight have been 10 years.
Yeah, now, let's keep it realand they could do it over 10
(42:04):
years instead of just and thengrow the kids and have multiple
actors two cast members.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Like, yeah, like the latest game of thrones, yeah,
had 10 different actors forevery role, exactly.
But yeah, that's our, that'sour take on swiss family
robinson.
It went different than Ithought sit watch with your
family.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, it's good.
Can't good camping fun andthink of ways that wife Frances
needs to die?
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know, death to Frances Cheers.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Cheers.
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