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Is the new Garfield movie reboot worth your time, or just another nostalgia cash-in? Join us as we dissect the new characters Vic and Jinx, speculate on Garfield's father-son subplot, and debate whether Jinx might be more than she seems. We'll also voice our disappointment with the lack of adult humor and ponder the tropes and pitfalls common to children's movies. 

How does Chris Pratt stack up against Garfield's iconic lazy persona? Our discussion heats up as we argue whether Nick Offerman would have been a better fit for the voice role. From the buddy dynamic of Garfield and Odie’s original film to the father-son reunion theme of the reboot, we evaluate which plot resonates more and share our mixed feelings about watching the movie with kids. Plus, we reminisce about the charm of actors like Hannah Waddington and Brett Goldstein, and critique the quality of the CGI rendering.

Lastly, we take a nostalgic journey through Garfield's rich history, from plush toys and comic strips to Sunday comics and the 1988 TV series. We touch on fascinating trivia, like the Easter egg of Garfield's comic strip debut date, and chuckle over the peculiar 90s trend of cartoon characters on car windows. As we wrap up, we share our excitement for a slew of upcoming movies and shows, including the much-anticipated Deadpool 4, Dog Man, and the Atlas series on Netflix. Don’t miss out on our lively debate and hearty laughs in this episode!

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Episode Transcript

Andrew (00:44):
you In this episode.
We're filled with rage thatwe're recording this on a Monday
and we find ourselves deep inthe depth of pet ownership,
overfeeding our tabby cat withsome delicious Italian cooking
in this cartoon classic thatBill Murray apologized for.
In a zombie land, garfielddeals warlock come on in.

Jessica (01:06):
Come to the place where fun never ends.
Come on in.
It's time to party withGarfield and friends wow core
memory unlocked yeah, well, Iclearly just has that memorized
by reading it slowly, I couldhave done the whole thing.

Mike (01:24):
I could have forgot about that like theme song until you
started singing it and it waslike you know, it was like
something went off in my head.

Andrew (01:34):
It was like I am she more spoken, worded it let's.
Let's be honest, she's spokenoff of wikipedia listen,
whatever the point remains Icould still sing the beginning
part, not the whole thing.

Jessica (01:46):
I can sing a lot of it though we have some exciting
news and developments.

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(02:32):
All right, well, let's go aheadand get a summary from our dear
sweet listener, jess.
Well, I'm host.
Well, you listen to the podcast.

Rob (02:45):
And you also host it.

Jessica (02:52):
Our hostess, our little Debbie.
Hostess Jess Garfield, odieLasagna, mondays, there you go
All right.

Andrew (02:58):
Well, jumping into our differences in the reboot, we're
going to go ahead and keepkicking off this new format here
for season three, and so I wantto talk a little bit about the
protagonist and the antagonisthere in the reboot.
So in this in the reboot in theGarfield movie 2024, here we
added Vic and his former partnerJinx, to the film.

(03:19):
Jinx is the primary antagonistwhich sets up the main conflict
for the movie, which is, ofcourse say it with me, mike, the
milk ice, yeah, uh, which is,let's be honest, the best kind
of ice you could possibly have.

Mike (03:36):
well, I don't know.
I would rather get the cheese,but I mean well, I mean, the
milk makes the cheese like.

Andrew (03:42):
you can't go into the cheese plant and the cheese
stands alone.

Mike (03:46):
Yeah, except it does.

Jessica (03:47):
You can't go in the pine cone.

Andrew (03:49):
That's true, alright.
So how did adding this missionand or goal, so to speak, to the
movie help drive the subplot ofGarfield meeting his dad, and
do you think it worked?
Or was there just another waythey should have went with the
meeting with his father?
Or was this just another waythey should have went with the
meeting with his father, or was?

Rob (04:10):
this, just you know, a typical fetch quest in Fallout
it was definitely a fetch quest.

Andrew (04:16):
Yeah, like is his dad even in any other Garfield media
?
I don't think so.
I actually was looking in thetrivia to see if they were
pulling this story fromsomewhere and I didn't see
anywhere where it was mentionedhis dad in any way shape or form
.

Mike (04:30):
Yeah, I think they just went with it Cause I mean, it's
like the Garth the new movie is.
It's like very much a kid'smovie and I feel like this is
like pretty much a you could dolike a whole podcast of along
the lines of sci-fi camp withkids movie tropes, and I feel
like this like estranged parentwho's really not as bad as the

(04:50):
kid thinks they are, and kind ofgaming moment at the end, like
this is like textbook, likemodern kids storyline, like it.
Just it's low-hanging fruit,it's familiar, it's, you know,
there's relatively low stakes,you know, and it's just it.
It works.

Andrew (05:10):
It works well for a movie targeting, you know, young
children right, which I thinkand that was actually something
I mentioned to jess when we leftthe theater was yeah, I found
it like I think the reason whyand spoiler here did not care
for this remake or this reboot.
I think the reason why, though,was because there was no part

(05:32):
of it that was meant for adults.
Like you know, like a lot ofkids movies, like dreamworks
movies or pixar movies orwhatever, a lot of times they
have like adult only jokes, youknow, like things that go over
the kids heads, but the adultsfind funny.
I couldn't think of one in thismovie I, there were, there were
a few.

Mike (05:51):
There were a few very like subtle things.
Especially there was onetowards the end of the movie
where he's like walking acrossthe street or actually I think
it was the beginning.
He's walking across the street,it's like a two-lane road and
cars keep keep stopping as hewalks through, but then there's
like a point where two carsgoing up is a direction stop in
the same lanes, like that wouldhave been a head-on collision
that made Andrew so mad it madehim very angry well, yeah, but

(06:17):
that's not like a, that's likean adult joke.

Andrew (06:19):
I mean, that was just like a visual gag, I guess you
know, yeah, or just a failure ofanimation.

Mike (06:30):
They just put the guys in the scene.
I don't know, maybe my innerchild wants to give them the
benefit of the doubt.

Rob (06:36):
Speaking of tropes, I spent the entire movie waiting for
them.
To say that Jinx was Garfield'smom Was too Right, because it's
like, oh, they have thisdramatic history, there's all
this drama, and I'm like justwaiting on the end scene where
they're up on top of the trainfor her to be like and I'm your

(06:56):
mom, and he'll be like oh no, ohno, I'm Chris Pratt.

Mike (07:02):
Possibly with his paw covered in spaghetti lasagna
sauce, so it looks like it wascut off.

Rob (07:08):
It didn't happen, it never happened.

Mike (07:10):
So there's still a mystery .

Rob (07:13):
I did, I saw what you did.
There there's still the mysteryof Garfield's mom.

Jessica (07:20):
Yeah, that'll be in the sequel.
I don't think they wanted totouch on cat procreation.

Andrew (07:24):
in this it was again very kid oriented.

Jessica (07:27):
They had a father who was trying to provide for his
son when they were starving andhe had to leave his, abandon,
his son, to find food.
I mean, that's not exactly thehappy go lucky part of the movie
.

Mike (07:41):
Somehow, I think parents I mean Bambi got Bambi's mom gets
shot in the first like 10minutes of the movie.

Andrew (07:48):
Somehow I think parents I mean bambi got bambi's mom
gets shot in the first like 10minutes of the movie.
Somehow I think parents areokay with the child abandonment,
more so than cat on cat sex inthe movie just show it I'm just
saying, you know, I think allthey had to say was that that
was the mom.

Rob (08:01):
They didn't have to like what the hell?

Andrew (08:06):
giant sensor bar across the screen so I was just getting
it ready for Nana Rogers andMike.

Mike (08:12):
That's all you guys are ridiculous his mom's 12 nipples
oh wow, nana.

Andrew (08:22):
Rogers definitely taking him to see that look at him.

Jessica (08:27):
There's 12 boobies.
Oh man, how I mean.
I know this was our firstepisode, but how did we not talk
about Nana Rogers and the threeboobed woman in Total Recall?

Andrew (08:39):
should have came around, then we should, we should
reboot that episode.

Rob (08:42):
I think that was before, before the bit became legend
wasn't even here yet.

Jessica (08:48):
I mean, the bit came from titanic.

Andrew (08:50):
So, yeah, okay, so, uh.
The other thing I want to talkto you guys about, though, as
long as we're deep in the nana,rogers slash, garfield slash,
whatever's happening here story,I want to talk a little bit on
the central conflict, the.
You know the plot, as it'sclearly the biggest difference,
as in, you know, most rebootsactually, um, and I think the

(09:15):
interesting thing here is thatwe're taking, you know, the
entire width of the of thegarfield franchise, both the
newspaper syndication, thecartoon from the 80s and 90s,
the bill murray movie, the billmurray sequel, the, or
squeakwell, if you will, um,wait, that wasn't that, uh but
what do you think?

(09:38):
about the plot choices, I mean,and you would talk about this
really for both movies, becausethe first one was kind of a
buddy movie.
Second one was kind of like thekid finding a strange daddy,
but not really as strange, likeMike said, you know.
So I'm curious.
You know the first movie dealtwith, you know, horny John
picking up Odie, and then Odieis a tale as old as time, with

(10:05):
the father and son you reunitingand finding out that he really
was scratching a tree the wholetime.
What do you guys think?

Jessica (10:14):
uh, you know, the original one I think is actually
better plot wise, like I meanhim, and like it was basically
an odie garfield movie, which Ithink makes a lot more sense
than, but I think you know, as akid's movie.
The new one had a betterexecution because I mean, let's
be real here, this movie was notfor us.

(10:35):
The new one, this was for ourkids.

Mike (10:39):
I'm saying if we liked or not doesn't matter, because it
was not for us although sittingnext to a six and a half year
old just cackling the entiretime, especially when he is like
ping-ponging back and forth,like over the train, like you
mean the worst scene in themovie but there's yeah okay, but

(11:00):
like this is.
I know I am the cynical old manin all things, but you are
absolutely the cynical old manwhen it comes to animation and I
feel like maybe your perceptionof the experience of watching
this movie with your child isskewed by that you know limited
crotchetiness of you because itis like there's something fun

(11:23):
about watching a kid's moviewith the kids that it's
targeting, like it's just likeit.
It's like that episode, it'slike that episode of of of bluey
where, like they're trying tofind uh coco in the pharmacy and
at the very end, like all thekids are dancing on the screen
and the bandit looks up and he'slike kind of like just like

(11:45):
smiles a little bit and kind ofstarts like loosely dancing with
him.

Jessica (11:48):
It's like when the kids are having fun, it brings out
the fun for you I thought youwere gonna say with the uh, the
one where they're at the movietheater and he's like, oh man,
they're songs that is also theone that I think of when I think
of andrew at a kid's movie.

Andrew (12:07):
Oh the singing that was what I said when we went to see
wonka and I sat down and Iopened right away with a song
and I was like you mean when youwent to see wonka with jake and
didn't invite me and we cuddledin the front seat.
He actually said to me today.
He said something about when hewent to go see wonka.
I was like you didn't see that.

Jessica (12:23):
Oh wait, you did see that me, and we cuddled in the
front seat.
He actually said to me today.
He said something about when hewent to go see wonka.
I was like you didn't see that.

Mike (12:27):
Oh wait, you did see that the thing that stands out for me
is that I think, like there'sso much of like who garfield is
as a character from like thecomic and from the cartoon, and
even you know bill murrayplaying garfield that, like
chris pratt has has too much pepyeah, garfield, I agree, he's

(12:48):
he's too, he's too playful and Iand I, like I I know I said
this in discord, but like, forthe sake of you know the people
actually listening.
Now I'll say like I feel like ifyou took this exact movie, like
the new one changed nothingexcept replace Chris Pratt with

(13:09):
Nick Offerman and it'simmediately better.
Because I feel like Ron Swanson, energy for Garfield is way
better than Andy Duarte.
Yeah, tell me, I'm wrong.

Jessica (13:29):
I completely agree when you said that I was like that
would have been perfect.

Andrew (13:34):
So yeah, and I don't disagree with that, I think it
would have been.
It would have definitely fitthe character of what you think
of when you think of Garfieldyou know.
Kind of based on that.
I mean, the only Garfield Iremember is this is the Garfield
Friends show where you actuallyheard his voice, but in that he

(13:54):
wasn't as like Ron Swansondeadpan, he was a little, but he
wasn't like Andy Dwyer, likeChippy either.
So like neither casting I Ithink would fit based on what I
remember from that tv show, butthat's also taking a very narrow
slice of the garfield you knowfranchise and then using that as

(14:18):
something to base on you justhave this, like there's like the
slacker energy, like lazyenergy to him, but I just just,
I don't.

Mike (14:26):
I don't think Chris Pratt captures well.

Andrew (14:30):
No.

Jessica (14:30):
And I would say they should have just done Garfield
without Garfield or whateverit's called, and just had the
whole movie be John and Garfieldand just John responding to
Garfield, not actually sayinganything.

Andrew (14:43):
Well, it wasn't clear in this.
Well, I guess it was prettyclear, but it was again.
Again.
It was kind of like so isgarfield talking to john or not?
Because garfield's spendingcredit card information.
I guess they did in the movieconvey that over the phone.
They just heard the catsmeowing.
So I guess he did just heargarfield meowing.

Jessica (15:03):
But apparently an app exists that you can talk, so why
is not everybody doing that?

Andrew (15:08):
Well, didn't Homer Simpson invent an app to figure
out how babies were saying that?

Jessica (15:13):
was his brother and we've had this conversation I'm
pretty sure the last episode,right.

Rob (15:23):
Getting it wrong, bringing it back.

Andrew (15:26):
So, I will say one thing I was excited about with this
movie, mike.
There was something I waslooking forward to that was uh,
hannah waddington and brettgoldstein being in it, just
because I love ted lasso so much, and I will tell you they did
not disappoint in their voiceacting it was, it was good.
I was hoping for some kind ofTed Lasso reference.

(15:49):
I did appreciate BrettGoldstein making the joke that
he was speaking in a Britishaccent for Jinx's sake, but then
his Brooklyn accent wasterrible, so I'll give him that.
But yeah, that was fun.
I also did love I do got tocall out to snoop dog showing up

(16:10):
in it.
Yes, that was pretty good.
Um, I mean, I'll say they wereon point with some of that kind
of stuff.
Some of their jokes like snoopdog showing up, and even even
samuel jackson playing vic waspretty good.
I think nicholas holt was abetter john than breckin mayor
and our uh murder robot has somecomments about that later we'll

(16:31):
get to.
I was also, of course, veryexcited to see steven tablowski
in the original bill murraymovie.
I mean, talk about, you know wehad hannah and brett from ted
lasso.
Well, we had had Steven andBill from Groundhog's Day.
So I do like seeing thesegroupings together together.

Rob (16:52):
Should have just had that on rebooted Groundhog's Day and.

Mike (17:00):
I mean it can't be any worse than Palm Springs, right?

Andrew (17:04):
Hey, Palm Springs at least had looping in it yeah.

Rob (17:08):
All right.
Well, it's a central, centralconflict of Groundhog's Day is,
of course, he hates Mondays.
They hate the hatred for NedRyerson.
So that's true.

Andrew (17:20):
So I guess, antagonist.
The 2004 Garfield movie, thenis the reboot of Groundhog's Day
.
There you go, all right.
Well, let's finalize this yearwith our points of nostalgia and
let's get cracking on Garfieldhere, and let's just people the
Garfield checklist for me hatesmondays no, okay, yeah, say yes

(17:49):
oh yes, I don't know what youwant from me all right when I
ask you for the garfieldchecklist, just be like yep, and
then make a check noise when Iokay, mark.
So, jess, let's go ahead andget that Garfield checklist out.

Jessica (18:06):
All right, got it right here.
Yeah, let's do this.

Andrew (18:09):
He hated Mondays.
Check.
He loved food.
Check.
He loved lasagna.
Checkeroonie, he was lazy AF.
Check, he was a dick to OdieCheckeroonie.
And I don't understand thepoint of the cartoon check.
All right, how about you guys?

(18:32):
Did this movie check thoseproverbial garfield itches of
yours, and if so, you shouldprobably get that looked at.
Um, but did they?
Did you feel like they missedan opportunity to include any of
like the characters from USAcres, especially given that
they were on a farm, ass farmshould have even been background
characters exactly I that blewmy mind that like none of the

(18:58):
characters showed up?

Mike (19:00):
it's not entirely true.
None of them showed up.

Jessica (19:06):
I was gonna say normal, but that was like two seconds
and he didn't even say anythingand I was very disappointed it
doesn't matter, it counts.

Mike (19:11):
That was absolutely, that was 100% Nermal and it was well
done.

Jessica (19:17):
And Nermal was awful in the Bill Murray one too.

Rob (19:21):
He was a real cat.

Jessica (19:22):
Cute, sweet, nermal, like in the cartoons slash
comics.

Rob (19:28):
I was very upset that was also weird because garfield was
the only one animated, so he hadall these other animals who
just did the homeward bound,like talking, or the the dr
doolittle, like lips moving onan animal thing, and it was very
weird and the cgi was so badwith garfield.

Jessica (19:47):
Anytime someone had to hold garfield you could see like
the fur going through theirarms and stuff.
Really weird and like there wasjust so much gap between, like
the arms and garfield.

Mike (20:00):
It was so weird, it was so bad was it better or worse than
the so clearly weightless Groguin the early episodes of
Mandalorian?

Jessica (20:13):
I don't remember that.

Rob (20:15):
But he was a prop.

Andrew (20:17):
Jess says I will not, I do not remember that and I will
not remember that.
How dare you.

Rob (20:22):
But Mike he was.
I do not understand thequestion.

Jessica (20:24):
I will not respond to it.

Rob (20:26):
In those episodes he was a question I will not respond to
it.

Mike (20:29):
In those episodes he was a prop.
That was the same kind ofenergy where it's like it calls
attention to the production ofit when you can see those edges.
It's like the obvious greenscreen on the ABC drama and it
just immediately pulls you outof that.
Like obvious green screen onthe you know, you know ABC drama
and like it's just likeimmediately pulls you out of

(20:51):
that like imaginary world whenyou're like, yeah, I can see how
the sauce is made.

Rob (20:57):
So I will say, as far as points of nostalgia, that I
think this new film was madebased on just the things that
Andrew listed in the checklist.
It was like I've never actuallyseen Garfield.
But I'm going to give you achecklist and he's a tabby cat

(21:18):
and that's what you have to goon and that's how they made.
And they just set out to makelike a fun kids cartoon but not
really like match the energy ofgarfield yeah, which in that
regard they succeeded at thatmission, I think right, and I
think the reason for that,though, is because they geared
it only towards our children andnot towards us at all.

Andrew (21:40):
Really, there isn't really a nostalgia to be had,
right?
I mean, they know that.
They know garfield, that he wasa plush that's stuck on the
side of a window, they know heloves lasagna and they know he's
orange and a cat and he's lazyand hates mondays.
That's cultural osmosis, right,but anything beyond that there,
anything like from garfield andfriends, or from the old sunday

(22:03):
morning cartoon strips orwhatever the newspaper, our kids
don't know that, nor will theyever know that, or whatever.
So to them they don't there'sno nostalgia for them to have.
We'd love to know what you guysthink about this.
You know what was your pointsof nostalgia, what is things
that you guys thought about?
The central conflict, or didyou even watch the movie?

(22:24):
I mean, I'm guessing for a lotof our listeners you didn't, but
thank you for listening to thisepisode anyways.
I know that a lot of times,people are not necessarily
listening episodes they haven'tseen, but we try, our, we're
trying to add the summariesenough content that it's at
least still interesting.
So let us know.
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(22:46):
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Hit us up on our social mediathingies.
There I'm clearly the old onein the group because that's what
I call social media.
So one area where both filmscaptured.

Rob (23:01):
One of our you know both films captured.
One of our you know big itemsof pop culture is just the idea
of the Garfield plush, like withthe suction cups, like being
splayed on on ours across theland.
And so in both films Garfieldbites it and he smacks into into

(23:27):
a car windshield and he's allsplayed out um, and it's just.
It's just a fun little thing,you know.
It's like, uh, it's Liz's truckin uh in the 2004, because Liz
is in in that one played byJennifer Love Hewitt, which fun
piece of trivia was one of myhigh school pop culture

(23:49):
celebrity crushes.
So I was watching this moviegoing oh, like, but that
couldn't, even even thatcouldn't keep me interested in
watching this movie.
I fell asleep twice, actuallyWere you a big Ghost Whisperer
fan.
No, but Can't Hardly Wait islike one of those movies where
it's just like oh yeah, well,that's a movie.

Andrew (24:10):
I thought you were saying you couldn't hardly wait
to see Ghost Whisperer.

Rob (24:13):
No, it's that movie.

Andrew (24:16):
Did you fall asleep because Jennifer Love Hewitt was
in it and you were dreamingabout her?

Rob (24:20):
It was just that High school Rob.
It was just that boring.
It was just a very slowly pacedmovie, which is weird for an
hour and 20 minute movie to beslowly paced.

Mike (24:34):
I feel like that's like in character for Garfield, though
Just very slowly paced, I guess.

Andrew (24:40):
I can't, but you bring that up, rob, we didn't mention
that, but I cannot believe thismovie didn't even hit a cool 90.

Rob (24:47):
And it couldn't even hold you.
It could not hold me, it didnot hold me tender like.
Jennifer Love Hewitt so anyway,there's those points of
nostalgia.
I guess, if we can go back tothe points of nostalgia as well,
like this idea of like Garfieldbeing the plush which of all of

(25:10):
the animated or comic stripcharacters he is the most plush
like, so I guess he that reallyaligns for a physical
merchandise for him to be alittle plushy.
But both times we are two fortwo on hitting cars and being
flattened, so great job.

Andrew (25:31):
You know, what I find interesting is that that even
existed.
The suction cup, plushieGarfield Like why, why was that
a thing?
It's like.
It's like the Calvin peeing onsomething.

Jessica (25:45):
I think it was slightly different.
What is it with cartoons beingon cars?

Andrew (25:49):
in the 90s.
I don't know Calvin peeing onsomething.
I think they're slightlydifferent.
What?

Rob (25:53):
is it with cartoons?

Andrew (25:53):
being on cars in the 90s .

Rob (25:54):
I don't know Also, garfield's like the laziest
character, and so why would hebe like hanging from a window?
He'd be like no, I'm at homesleeping in bed, dreaming of
lasagna.

Andrew (26:08):
Maybe Beetle Bailey's on something.
Do you guys remember the sundaycartoons where you had garfield
, you had foxtrot, beetle bailey, hi lois?
You know all these things.
Family circus, family circus,with the little hash marks going
around following the kidsthere's always like a prince
caspian or something, or it waslike this super detailed one
with like novel, like panels,and you never read it.

(26:32):
You're like that's too manywords for a cartoon and I just,
you just skip it.
You're like no, it's like a,like a corn of thorns and roses
or something I don't know umguitar.

Rob (26:51):
It was the high art of the Sunday news clippings.

Andrew (26:55):
I just remember those ones were there and I never like
read them because there weretoo much words.

Mike (27:01):
I don't remember that at all well listeners.

Andrew (27:04):
If you know what I'm talking about, write it in to
our social media that Rob willpost yes, I'm gonna, if I can
find it.

Rob (27:13):
Yeah, wait social media.

Mike (27:16):
It's already posted.

Jessica (27:18):
That's kind of how social media works we'll go find
it when Andrew was asking aboutthe run length of the new one
he goes is it a cool 90?
And I said it's actually 104.
I said it's 140.
It's like this is 140 minutes.
I was like no, it's an hour,it's so long.

Rob (27:42):
I'm like so say cool 100 next time.
Yeah, shout out.
Shout out to back in the daywhen you'd read the back of the
VHS cover to see how long theruntime was.
That's right.

Mike (27:58):
My kids were convinced that the movie was five and a
half hours.
When we walked out of it theysaid I can't believe it's still
light out.
We were in there for five and ahalf hours.
I was like like, well, notquite.

Rob (28:09):
Garfield extended edition yeah, directed by Peter Jackson
yes yeah, okay.

Mike (28:18):
So the first thing is when he gets left behind in that
little like waste container atthe beginning of the movie.
There's a number on there.
The number on there is the dateof the movie.
There's a number on there, um,and the number on there is the
date of the very first garfieldcomic strip that was a nifty
little subtle easter egg likethe, like that pixar number that
I can't remember what theactual number is 42.

(28:40):
So it's not 42, I know that butthat's.

Rob (28:44):
That's the answer to all life's questions that's a
different number.

Mike (28:49):
And then the other thing that I thought was interesting
was the 2004 movie with Mike,what's the number?
Mike refuses to tell you thenumber.
It didn't say the number it'snot right there but it's there.

Andrew (29:06):
It's the number but I'm not gonna tell you you're gonna
have to go google it everyoneyou can guess the month.
I gave you 12 chances.
I'll give you 30 chances forthe date, the year, about 6,000
you think Garfield could haveexisted 6,000 years ago?
Yeah, they were drawing catsand porn back then.

Rob (29:29):
I want to say that there's probably a comic strip out there
where Garfield was in oldancient Egyptian pharaoh garb.
For some reason I have this oldmemory stuck in here of them
dressed up like pharaohs.
That might have been from thecartoon, actually probably

(29:50):
probably probably all rightanyway, all right.

Andrew (29:54):
6 1978 yeah um yeah, all right, mike, go ahead, give me
another trivia yeah, I thinkwe're gonna just keep it.

Mike (30:09):
Let's just keep it um, yeah, so anyway, uh, the other
piece of uh little tidbit here,um, that I will give you all of
the information for, um, wasthat, uh, the 2004 movie with
bill murray marks the first timethat garfield uh like, talked,
like, truly talked, like withhis mouth moving on the screen.

(30:31):
Like in most other cases, likein the comic strip, it was
always like thought bubbles inthe old cartoon.
I know like, uh like.
I've heard people refer to itas voiceover.
I don't really feel like it waslike true voiceover.
It was almost like telekineticcommunication because there was
like dialogue that he was havingwith people, but his mouth
didn't move right him and Odiealways seemed to interact like

(30:54):
know what each other were saying.

Andrew (30:57):
Odie still just like licked and barked, but like knew
what Garfield was saying to himbut would do it like in
response to the things thatGarfield was saying.

Mike (31:05):
So it was like this weird, like telepathic, you know.

Jessica (31:10):
It's very C3PO and R2D2 .

Andrew (31:12):
Like how Snowy responds to Tintin.

Jessica (31:16):
Something like that, Andrew you gotta have more broad
pop culture references.

Andrew (31:21):
Broad like the breadth of Europe, and we are in America
.
America Is Tintin more popularthan the French president Is
Tintin the dog I'm going to cutyou off, mike, wait, listen,
this is America.

Mike (31:42):
I'm thinking of Mr Peabody and Sherman.

Rob (31:46):
Yes, that's Mr Peabody and Sherman.
Yes, that's Mr Peabody andSherman.
I just always assumed in thecartoon that they had the
voiceover, but the lips didn'tmove.
Just because that's how lazyGarfield was, like he just
wouldn't even open his lips totalk, he just kind of minded
because he couldn't take it.

Jessica (32:04):
Because I remember sometimes they did understand
Garfield, but sometimes theydidn't, was weird yeah, well,
it's like you were in the panelsanimals show

Mike (32:15):
like I have memories of people like understand garfield,
but other times they didn'tunderstand him you're talking
about like gags, like playing onthe laziness and of garfield,
and I think like that was one ofthe other things in the new
movie.
That was like a joke that Ithought.
That I thought was funny and Ithink kind of went mostly over
my kid's head, was when they'reclimbing into that vent and like

(32:37):
Vic, just like shimmies rightup on in there and is like
cruising on down the vent andGarfield gets stuck there's,
like well, how did you get inhere?
Like you're small, you'rebigger than I am, am I?
It was just like a very subtlelike play on.
You know, garfield as the lazyfat cat that I thought was just.

Jessica (32:58):
I don't know, I laughed at that, but you know,
sometimes I'm a child, so in themovie you can see Garfield
going across like the street andhe goes past the music store
that says Lorenzo's music, whichis funny because the original
voice actor for Garfield goingacross like the street and he
goes past the music store thatsays Lorenzo's music, which is
funny because the original voiceactor for Garfield was named
Lorenzo music not funny, butmore cool his name.

Andrew (33:16):
His last name was music apparently yeah, that tripped me
up like five times when I wasreading the trivia and writing
the trivia, because I sawsomewhere else his name was
Lorenzo music and I was likewait, I thought that was the
name of the company.
Or when I was reading thetrivia and writing the trivia,
because I saw somewhere else hisname was Lorenzo Music and I
was like wait, I thought thatwas the name of the company or
something.
I was very confused, but no,apparently his name was Lorenzo,
or is Lorenzo Music?

Mike (33:37):
his middle name must be like Danger or something.

Jessica (33:41):
Danger.

Andrew (33:42):
Lorenzo Danger Music yeah.

Mike (33:46):
I'd want to hang out with a dude named lorenzo danger
music personally, like thatfeels.
What do you want to know?

Jessica (33:53):
um.
So in hindsight, it's 2020.
Bill murray said that he reallywishes he would have said the
line in the original movie dogsand cats living together mass
hysteria, which is a famous linefrom Ghostbusters, but he did
not think of it until after hehad already been finished
recording his lines.

Rob (34:14):
How did no one else On that set say something to him like,
hey, there's that one line.
He was one of your most famous.

Jessica (34:25):
Oh yeah, he would have been recording.
He was on set, he was recording, he would have been recording.
Well, no, no, no, he recordedfrom a boat while he was filming
the Life Aquatic.

Mike (34:33):
That's amazing yeah.

Jessica (34:37):
Probably.

Rob (34:40):
Which I mean that's pretty amazing acting to be to portray
your voice that lazy while on astimulant, you know, I think I
say well on a boat he's probablylike sitting there in a lawn
chair not a lawn chair like in adeck chair with a cocktail in

(35:01):
his hand.

Jessica (35:03):
Cocktail in one hand, mike in the other he's like I'm
just riding the wave.

Mike (35:07):
Mike in the middle of the air listen, they're soft and
comforting I think, I think sheneeds over over the head if only
there was a pair of over thehead headphones that belonged to
her these don't belong to her.

Andrew (35:28):
My dad put her name on them because she took them to
school, because she broke theones I gave her that were
actually very expensive.
Pebble Beach or whatever thefuck those are called.
Turtle Beach, turtle Beach,yeah, your mom beach.
Bum, bum, bum bum, as they say.

(35:53):
Opinions are like anchovies.
You only like them if you'reItalian or a crazy person, mike
our resident Italian.

Mike (36:02):
You're up first.
Ooh, all right.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
I liked the new movie.
I liked it, I enjoyed it, I hadfun, like you, know, am I glad
that I brought my kids to go seeit and didn't go see it by
myself?
Yeah, absolutely.
It would have been weird if anyou know late 30s man was
sitting in this theater byhimself watching what is

(36:25):
decidedly a kid's movie.
Um, but I, I liked it and Iwould, you know, I would watch
it.
You know, I don't.
I don't feel like I wasted mymoney on it.
I'm happy with it.

Rob (36:36):
I'd say, if you were going to do that, you should have worn
a Garfield onesie you just gofull on weirdo.

Andrew (36:43):
That would have been worse.
That would have been way worse.

Rob (36:46):
He's got to lean into the weirdo, just go all the way in
to the weirdo.

Mike (36:52):
I don't think I, out of all of us here, I don't think I
need to lean into the weirdo.
Listen, I don't think.
I don't think I have any.
Out of all of us here, I don'tthink I need to lean into the
weirdo any more than I alreadyhave.
I feel like the world can onlyhandle so much of that.
But yeah, I know, and then,like the Bill Murray one, I feel
like Bill Murray is such like aperfect choice for the Garfield
character, like it's just likeit's a shame that like the rest

(37:20):
of the movie wasn't like up topar with that perfection, like
that's, that's kind of.

Andrew (37:23):
that's kind of where I'm at I see we're using the word
perfection pretty loosey-gooseyhere.

Mike (37:27):
Well, bill murray is a perfect cast for garfield.
Like casting wise bill murrayis perfect.

Andrew (37:35):
All right, ok, rob, give me your opinions and rating.

Rob (37:40):
You know I'm going to agree with Mike.
I think that Bill Murray was aperfect casting for the voice of
Garfield.
It's it's very telling that herecorded all of his dialogue on
a boat and was nowhere near theproduction of the actual movie,
because I'm sure he would havebeen like, wow, I'm connected to

(38:01):
a really boring movie.
I fell asleep twice trying towatch this thing and it was an
hour and 20 minutes.
So that's kind of I would saykind of a feat in itself.
Um, didn't enjoy it, it wasvery boring.

(38:21):
Uh, and the 2024 movie I got towatch it with my kids and they
really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it for the fun timethat it was.
I I wouldn't say it wasnecessarily a Garfield movie.
Um, there were parts of it thatpaid homage to Garfield and
that was kind of it.
So I wouldn't say I enjoyedeither of them really.

(38:45):
I'll give the original toJennifer Love Hewitt and I'll
give the remake.
Super Mario Brothers.
One, just one.
Super Mario Brother.
There you go.

Jessica (39:02):
Which one?

Rob (39:05):
You only get one, and I'm not going to tell you which one.
It is Luigi, it's Luigi, it'salways Luigi.

Andrew (39:11):
Alright, jess.
What do you think of this movie?

Jessica (39:16):
Both of those movies had a lot of problems, but for
very different reasons.
Like did you notice at the likewhen they're when they're
running through the terminal atthe train station?
And she's just like holding?
She's holding John's hand inone hand Jennifer Love Hewitt is
and she's holding her jacket inthe other.
Like why did you bring yourjacket?
Why are you running around withit in your hand?

(39:38):
And she had it the whole timeuntil they left.
Like why are you just?
Why don't you leave it in thecar?
like why it's called fashionsweetie no, you don't hold a
jacket for fashion.
She had it like over her, likeshe had a jacket like through
the whole movie, like she had itover her shoulders in that
Richie McGee way that people do.
But anyway, moving on, that wasweird.

(39:59):
And then in the remake heordered 100 drones of pizza for
zero reason.
He didn't do anything withthose 100 drones.
They literally could have justgotten three, jumped on them and
gone away to safety, butinstead he was jumping across
them to like John will neverrecover from this.

Andrew (40:21):
Why didn't they just jump on them?

Rob (40:24):
Why didn't they just jump on them and fly away?

Jessica (40:26):
on them.
What was the point?
What was the reason?
There was no reason, especiallylike it didn't do Having a
hundred of them did nothing.
What was?

Rob (40:34):
the point Like that was the drama yeah.

Jessica (40:40):
So they were both pretty terrible, but so I'm
gonna say the better one was the1988 television series yeah, I
will actually agree with that.

Andrew (40:53):
Just the better one was the 1988 television series,
because that's the one I watched.
Um, I did not enjoy eithermovie.
Uh, I will just say it wasdifficult to watch them and I, I
don't know, and here's thething have not been, I'm not a

(41:14):
big Garfield fan in general,like I was never, like that was
never a cartoon strip I soughtout, uh, on Sunday, more likes.
It was no Foxtrot, so to speak,it was no Calvin and Hobbes.
Um, so I don't have a lot ofnostalgia for this property,

(41:34):
which I guess makes it a littledifficult as well.
So I think my rating is goingto be 12 on the scale.
So I'll let you guys figure outwhat that one is, so litter.
Anyways, I think I will say, ofthe voices I've heard Play

(42:03):
Garfield, I like the one fromthe 1988.

Jessica (42:06):
TV show the best Lorenzo music.

Andrew (42:07):
Was that Lorenzo music?

Jessica (42:08):
Yeah, so yes we had trivia about it.

Rob (42:12):
Well, lorenzo, music yeah.

Andrew (42:15):
So His name wasn't even Lorenzo.
By the way, it was gerald davidmusic.
There you go, mike.

Rob (42:22):
I just looked him up but his last name was still music
yes yes, oh, kudos to him yeah,did a good job.

Andrew (42:32):
Did a good job getting a last name.

Mike (42:34):
So you know I always thought like that Norm McDonald
sounded a lot like the originalvoice of Garfield well, the
original voice of Garfield was acomic drawn in a newspaper like
animated.

Rob (42:53):
Whatever the first time you heard Garfield's voice, the
first time we heard garfield'sfirst time you heard his voice
like I always thought normmcdonald would be a good
garfield too so did you know?

Andrew (43:03):
by the way, garfield's first appearance was in a comic
strip named john.
The comic strip was named johnand wait.

Jessica (43:11):
Did you first say yawn, no, and then?

Andrew (43:16):
and then nope, he says, he says hi my name is hi there,
I'm john arbuckle, I'm acartoonist and this is my cat,
garfield.
And then a rather scary lookinggarfield says hi there, I'm
garfield, I'm a cat and this ismy cartoonist, john.
And that is where he came intobeing, but I didn't know that

(43:42):
John Arbuckle was a cartoonist.
Now we do there, you go there,you have it everyone.
So, robert, you are our king oflisteners.
I am the king.

(44:07):
What questions do we have today?

Rob (44:13):
Well, welcome to the kingdom everyone.
The bounty of horrible takesare upon you and we've already
laid waste to them.
But we have two great commentsfrom listeners, one of which I
don't know how to pronouncetheir name Jairo, jairo, jairo,
jairo Our first listener, jairo.

(44:41):
He comes in in.
He has a comment, really aquestion, that he wanted to ask
all of us.
Uh, so we have this too, thatwe have the 2004 movie with bill
murray.
2024, bill murray is stillaround.
Why didn't they just bring backBill Murray for the reboot?
It would have been much betterthan Andy Dwyer, because Chris
Pratt is top shit right now.

Jessica (45:01):
I mean, I don't think Bill Murray wanted to do another
one.
He made that pretty clear inZombieland.
Yeah, I was just saying.

Andrew (45:06):
I think the Zombieland comment lands that one.
I'm sorry, Garfield.

Rob (45:14):
It did get 16% on Rotten Tomatoes yeah.

Andrew (45:20):
I mean it did make a lot of money.
I mean it's a $50 millionbudget and they pulled in $203
million globally, which actuallyto kick that off to answer
Hiro's question here by notanswering his question.
The first movie 2004 movie cost500 million dollars to make.
This new one cost 60 million.

(45:40):
No, sorry, cost 50 milliondollars to make.
The new one cost 60 milliondollars to make.
As of the time of thisrecording, the 2004 gross 75
million in the us and the 2024gross 78 million in the US and
the 2024 grossed $78 million inthe US.
The 2004 did $203 millionworldwide and the 2024 did $217

(46:01):
million worldwide.
So it's very close in numbers Imean within billions, but still
.

Mike (46:07):
It's so weird, but I think the first one had the Bill
Murray pull.

Andrew (46:15):
I can't believe they're that close in money though.
It's just crazy you know 2004money though.
That's true, that 2004 money.
It's always so sneaky when Robdrops that in Rob's like hmm
year money, year money.

Rob (46:33):
20 years ago, year money, year money.
You remember 20?

Andrew (46:36):
years ago Year money, year money.

Jessica (46:37):
You know who should have voiced Garfield?

Andrew (46:40):
We're still on this.

Jessica (46:42):
I just thought of it.

Rob (46:44):
The ghost of.

Jessica (46:45):
Norm.

Rob (46:45):
Macdonald.

Andrew (46:46):
Andrew Laura Dern.

Jessica (46:49):
No, andrew Me, Not you.
Andrew.

Mike (46:52):
No, andrew Garfield, andrew Garfield me, not you
andrew, no andrew garfield goodtimes um actually the other one
that I would have taken.
I think like it took differentkind of energy.
Um I I still feel like nickofferman.

(47:13):
Offerman is the best choice.

Jessica (47:16):
I agree.

Mike (47:17):
But and this is another case of Mike being terrible with
acronyms Nick Miller from NewGirl would also be a good choice
.
I think Nick Miller from NewGirl would make a pretty solid
Garfield as well.

Jessica (47:31):
And then Schmidt could have been John.

Rob (47:36):
The voice of Garfield should have been Ron Perlman.
Mondays, mondays never change,mr Krabs.

Mike (47:46):
Do you see what I did there?
That was intentional.

Jessica (47:50):
Just have Squidward be Garfield.
Odie be Spongebob, liz be Sandy.
Odie be Spongebob.
Liz be Sandy.

Mike (47:56):
Odie is Patrick and everybody knows it.

Andrew (48:00):
Why.

Rob (48:03):
Because Patrick's not Patrick.
Okay.

Andrew (48:07):
You know who would have made it interesting Garfield
would have been the crotchetyHugh Laurie.

Jessica (48:17):
American House, hugh Laurie.

Rob (48:18):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds good, mm-hmm.

Mike (48:25):
I actually think Andrew, like this Andrew the one next to
me on the screen would make,would be a pretty good Garfield
energy.

Rob (48:34):
Moving right along to our second fan-submitted question is
actually from Eric, who hasbeen on the show before.
So shout out to Eric, he's apretty awesome dude.
He has a two-part question forall of us.
So first one what are youropinions on Mondays and describe

(48:58):
your ideal lasagna, ooh, so.

Jessica (49:04):
Well, I think the real question when it comes to
lasagna is ricotta or cottagecheese.

Mike (49:10):
Don't you effing dare.

Rob (49:12):
Ricotta.
Oh, it's ricotta, yes.

Jessica (49:13):
Yeah, okay, cottage cheese, las it's ricotta.
Yes.

Mike (49:16):
Yeah.

Jessica (49:16):
Cottage cheese lasagna is inedible.

Mike (49:19):
Cottage cheese should not even be in the running as an
option for lasagna.

Jessica (49:26):
I didn't know lasagna was good, because I only ever
had cottage cheese.

Mike (49:30):
Don't you dare Andrew, don't you dare.
No, you're wrong, stop it.

Andrew (49:36):
No.

Mike (49:36):
Cod cheese.
Lasagna has its place and it'sjust fine, cod cheese has its
place in the garbage.

Andrew (49:44):
When you go to a church basement potluck and they have
cod cheese lasagna, that'splenty fine, uh-uh.

Rob (49:50):
It's the same people who put raisins in mac and cheese
yeah.
Or make oatmeal raisin cookies.

Mike (49:53):
Those are delicious, it's the same people who put raisins
in mac and cheese, yeah, or likemake oatmeal raisin cookies.

Jessica (49:58):
Those are delicious no, they trick you.
You think that they'rechocolate chip cookies, and then
there's the raisins and you'redisappointed.

Mike (50:08):
How did cheese lasagna?

Rob (50:10):
we didn't care about the movies at all, but we are
arguing to the death aboutlasagna.
Okay, oh, I can't.
Even we didn't care about themovies at all but we are arguing
to the death about lasagna.

Mike (50:16):
Okay, oh, I can't even.

Rob (50:19):
Okay, so there's an additional question here.
The take is on Mondays what?

Mike (50:26):
is your take on Mondays I like Mondays, that's when we
record rebooted.

Jessica (50:29):
Aw.
That's true, I don't work atypical Monday through Friday
job, so I don't really haveweekends.
So Mondays isn't really In myweek.
Sometimes I work, sometimes Idon't.
What's your take?

Mike (50:45):
on olive garden lasagna I don't think I've ever had olive
garden lasagna I always go withsoup and salad and the old like
olive garden like you, just yougotta.

Andrew (50:56):
You gotta keep it simple at all at a place like olive
garden olive garden lasagna justmakes me sad, because the
pieces have gotten smaller andsmaller and smaller as I've
gotten older and the price hasgone up or I've just gotten
bigger and they look smaller,but either way the, the.

Mike (51:12):
The lasagna point that I want to go back to, though, is
that the best lasagna is likeall inside pieces.
There's like I know it's likesome people really like the
crunchy edges of the pan thathave been toasted absolutely
hate, with a fiery passion, thecrunchy edges of the pan yeah,

(51:33):
but mike, somebody's got to eatthat.

Rob (51:35):
Yeah, that's fine, I will agree like that.

Mike (51:38):
I want all inside pieces.

Andrew (51:40):
I want no crunchy noodle on my lasagna that's why when
they, when they have thatass-shaped pan where
everything's on the edge, I'mlike who is a psychopath who
wants that?

Jessica (51:51):
I do for brownies and cake.

Andrew (51:53):
Negative.
No, middle's the best.
Yes.

Mike (52:00):
I never want the crispy edge.
When you make a pan of cinnamonrolls, you want the center
cinnamon roll.
I'll agree with that.
You want the goo.
When you make a pan of cinnamonrolls, you want the center
cinnamon roll.
True, I'll agree with that.

Andrew (52:07):
You want the goo, you want it to be a little bit
doughy, you want the center ofeverything.
You never want the sides.

Rob (52:12):
But cinnamon rolls have their own built-in center, but
the outside of a cake has themore frosting.

Jessica (52:19):
That's exactly why you don't want the outside, because
the frosting is the worst part.

Rob (52:28):
The frosting is the worst part of the cake.
No, you got to surgicallyremove the frosting.
I just feel like that.
Andrew has, like I have moneyyears.
He has lasagna years.
He's like man.
2004 lasagna was like just atier compared to 2024 lasagna at
Olive Garden.

Mike (52:44):
My grandma makes a real good lasagna at Olive Garden.
Yeah, my grandma makes a realgood lasagna.

Andrew (52:49):
Oh yeah, anna Rogers, does she use that real breast
milk?
Just kidding, I will say Iagree, homemade lasagna is the
best lasagna, it's just the best.
It's so, so good and you getthat middle piece and it's

(53:09):
delicious and it's stacked highand it's full of all the stuff
you love, and it's full of lovecheese, right.
So I mean perfect, perfect,right there also mondays?
uh, I don't care, mondays arejust another day.
I mean, I like the Mondays thatstart the week where my payday

(53:31):
is on that Friday.
I like those Mondays betterthan the other Mondays.

Rob (53:35):
Where there's no payday Right, just a desolate landscape
.

Andrew (53:41):
It's just a week in between.
You know, I don't know Once afortnight.
I don't like that Monday, Iguess.

Rob (53:48):
so that's my answer alright .
I want to know Andrew okay, sothat is not really a hot take I
want to know a legitimate hottake that you have alright, and
now for our newest segment, thehot takes with a murder robot.

Andrew (54:05):
So last episode, season one, season three, episode one,
our good friend make three gamgave us a very hot take that rob
got little red in the facereading and um, because he was
so utterly shocked.
But our good friend make threegam gave us another hot take on

(54:25):
this movie.
So it just seems like if she'sgoing to keep running in, we're
going to have some hot takeswith a murder robot.
So this week's how did breckinmayor get any work after
clueless?

Jessica (54:38):
I love clueless.
I love clueless.
Why can't mike respond?

Mike (54:43):
he was also in canvas he was why can't Mike?

Rob (54:45):
respond.
He was also in Can't HardlyWait with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Jessica (54:50):
There you go.
He was like the theater kid.
It has Paul Rudd in it inClueless Come on, that's true.

Andrew (55:00):
But what about Breckin Mayer?
Was he good?

Jessica (55:02):
in Clueless.
I don't even remember who hewas.

Mike (55:05):
I don't even know who that is.
That's probably why I can'trespond.
I'm like, did he play?
Mr Krabs, he played.

Rob (55:10):
Mario, don't worry, he was John Arbuckle in 2004.

Jessica (55:16):
He played Mario.

Andrew (55:18):
He played Mario.
I meant John.
He played Mario, he playedMario.

Rob (55:23):
I mean John, mario, mario, you played Mario, I mean John.

Andrew (55:26):
Mario, All right.
Well, thank you for that hottake Murder Robot.
We will catch you in the nextepisode.

Jessica (55:31):
I like how you did.
You even tell her that she'spart of the show now.

Andrew (55:37):
I mean, if she keeps writing in these hot takes,
she's going to stay part of theshow Yo yo.
All right.
Well, we'd like to take amoment to talk about our
upcoming movies and things we'reexcited to see.
We also want mike quickly checkback and say what we thought
about the movies we wanted tosee.
That's a hint hint.
Tell us what you thought offuriosa kiddos.
Uh so, mike, what do you gotupcoming that you want to see?

Mike (56:01):
well, at uh, at this point I'm still waiting on deadpool
and it's gonna be amazing, it'llbe out yeah, I uh.
Yeah, at the point of recordingthis, deadpool is not out yet
and I'm really looking forwardto deadpool.
I think it's going to beamazing.
I saw something recently thatdeadpool has already been
greenlit for a fourth movie, um,which I am absolutely thrilled

(56:23):
about.
If true, I love Deadpool and Ilove Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool.
I'm also really excited forBorderlands, because I
remembered it this time.

Rob (56:37):
That is saying something.

Mike (56:40):
And since we're talking about kids' movies today, I'm
also actually pretty excited.
They're making a dog man movie.
Um, and if you're not, ifyou're not familiar with dog man
, it is a series of graphicnovels for young children.
That is really funny, reallywell like written lots of like

(57:02):
subtle, like jokes that parentswill get.
The kids might not like a robotnamed 80 hd, um, and it's just
like little things like that andthey're they're turning it into
a movie.
It's very fun.
It's the uh, the same guy doesuh, captain underpants and uh,

(57:23):
yeah, it's.
I'm, I'm looking forward tothat movie.
I think my kids will love itand I think I will love watching
it with them, much like I didGarfield.
So, yeah, that's where I'm at.

Andrew (57:34):
All right, perfect, rob.
What do you got coming up Nice?

Rob (57:39):
I'm interested, intrigued, by the Dune prequel series it's
going to be coming out.
That should be coming out onMax or HBO Max or whatever
they're calling it now.
Just want to see more Dune.
I just want more Dune and I'lltake it however I can get it.

(58:02):
I know there's also an MMO Dunegame coming out, but that one
is like an Elseworlds kind ofthing.
The background on it is like ifPaul Atreides never was born.
It's like an alternate timelineDune for the game.
Both of those things I'm reallyinterested in.

(58:25):
That's it right now.
But both of those things I'mreally interested in, and then
that's it right now.
Did you end up?

Andrew (58:32):
getting to see Furiosa Rob.

Rob (58:34):
I did not.
I haven't been able to see ityet.
Well, we'll check back nextweek yes, jess.

Andrew (58:41):
What about you?
What are you looking forward to?

Jessica (58:43):
so I'm looking forward to Stranger Things coming back
soon-ish Final season, veryexcited about it.
For movies so now there's thisthird movie called Maxine.
It's the third in a franchise,maxine with triple X.
But I haven't seen the previoustwo movies, but I've been

(59:04):
wanting to see them.
So since the new one's comingout, I'm going to put in X as
the movie that I want to see,and then I like it Pearl, and
then with Finn.
Diesel no, it's an A24 movie.

Andrew (59:17):
Okay, oh yeah, that's triple X, yeah.

Mike (59:20):
Next scene with three X's Sounds like a movie that my
grandma would enjoy.

Jessica (59:26):
Oh.

Andrew (59:27):
Yes, she would.
Was that from Parks and Rec,brandy Max Alright and for me?
I saw a trailer recently.

Mike (59:39):
This podcast guys.

Andrew (59:42):
She must be glad that she's popular.

Rob (59:44):
We're covering a kids show, a kids show property and we're
like this is the most unhingedwe've been so I saw a trailer
recently for a movie calledGodzilla minus one apparently in
Japanese and I guess it cameout last year, but I really want
to see it.

Andrew (01:00:03):
I love kaiju movies.
I mean they're like, they'relike a guilty pleasure for me,
so it's on netflix.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's whyI saw the trailers for it, and
so I'm really excited to see it.

Rob (01:00:13):
Um, should be good I think they're also releasing a black
and white version.

Andrew (01:00:19):
Yeah, yeah, the godzilla minus one, minus color, or
whatever it is.
Yeah, have you guys, it's like,it's like post-World War 2.
Yeah, I don't know, because Ihaven't really seen it yet, so I
look forward to that.

Mike (01:00:33):
That reminds me.
Have you guys seen any trailersor anything for Atlas on
Netflix?
Mm-mm.
The movie is called Atlas.
I shit you not.
It is titanfall the movie.

Rob (01:00:51):
It is titanfall as a movie and it's like the one with
jennifer lopez in it.

Mike (01:00:56):
Yes, oh yeah, I think that , yeah, and it like it is, it is
, it is like it is everythingthat like.
I don't think it's actuallyconnected officially to the
titanfall franchise, but I think, like the creative team behind
it have very like openlyadmitted like, oh yeah, we were
definitely inspired a little bitby titanfall.

(01:01:18):
Like I think it is the closestthing that we're gonna get to
titanfall 3, um, and it looksawesome wait, but atlas was a
titan.
Yes, yes, like, yes, 100, yes, Ithink in this atlas is like the
is the name of the pilot of the, the giant mech.

(01:01:38):
Um, yeah, no, it's, it's likeit like the like visually.
If you could find it, if youcould find the trailer.
If you haven't seen it yet andyou play titanfall, go look it
up because like the aestheticsof the, of the, the max and like
everything about it justscreams titanfall, like I
remember watching it.

(01:01:59):
It came up like while laura andI were watching something on
hulu and it was one of the likeyou know ads that we got stuck
watching and it was like, andI'm sitting there on the couch
going Laura, laura, laura, laura, it's Titanfall, it's Titanfall
, it's Titanfall.
She's like what the hell isTitanfall?
I was like, just trust me, thisis amazing.

Rob (01:02:27):
And then it fuck is Titanfall.
It's a.
It's a first person shooterwhere you climb into a giant
mech robot.

Mike (01:02:30):
Yeah, titanfall is easily one of the like greatest first
person shooters ever.
Titanfall 2 especially.
No, like seriously, no,seriously, hands down, no
contest.
Like Titanfall 2 is like no, no, no, I'm serious like Titanfall
2 is like no, no, no, no, I'mserious.
Like Titanfall 2 is like I'veplayed it, Mike.

Rob (01:02:49):
That's why I'm going.

Mike (01:02:50):
Peak first person shooter.
It is so much fun.
And maybe part of that isskewed by the fact that I was
actually pretty good at it,which is not common for first
person shooters, but still.
Titanfall 2, one of my favoritegames of all time.

Rob (01:03:06):
It was made by the studio.
It was the the guys who createdthe call duty 4 and modern
warfare 2 okay then they brokeoff and formed a new studio and
then that was the first gamethey made was tight what was it
on?

Mike (01:03:20):
I was it was cross platform, I think I played it on
.
I must have just missed it orxbox one no, no, you played with
us yeah, I've never played this.

Andrew (01:03:33):
I've never played this game?

Mike (01:03:34):
no, you're, you're gaslighting him out a long time
ago I've never played this game.

Andrew (01:03:39):
Mike, you're thinking of pf chang?

Mike (01:03:41):
probably no you probably should try it, though it's
pretty cool I swear you playedus like the the parkour
mechanics, like the wall runningmechanics.
The thing that I loved about itis like you had what's called
dying light.
No, you had very complex like itwas before dying, like movement
like mechanics and likegrappling hooks and stuff that
you could like zip around likethe battlefield, but it was very

(01:04:04):
like fluid, very tight controls, it was just.
It was like it was all of thebest things of every first
person I think you lost me atparkour no, no, no he's like
jumping puzzles, I'm out.

Rob (01:04:21):
No, it's not jumping, I have when there's a jumping
puzzle.

Andrew (01:04:23):
I have to hand my remote to my wife and say, no, it's
not.
That's the thing.

Mike (01:04:28):
But that's the thing that was really good about it is that
it wasn't jumping puzzles.
It was like very fluid, verynatural.
It was like you didn't reallyhave to do a lot of that, like
typical like jumping puzzlestuff.
Oh know, it was all getting cut, but I'm trying to sell Andrew
on Titanfall because it'sfantastic.

Rob (01:04:44):
It would be a fun game for you to try out.
I think that's all he's saying,and you could probably get it
for like nothing.
It's actually probably on GamePass now.

Andrew (01:04:55):
I'm not paying for Game Pass anymore.

Rob (01:04:57):
Oh, no, okay, All we've been playing is Helldivers.

Andrew (01:05:01):
I paused it until we go back to the Xbox.

Rob (01:05:09):
I don't know.
I kind of want to go back toFallout just because they added
all that expansion.
I don't want to go back toFallout.

Andrew (01:05:12):
I don't want to go back to State of Decay, I don't know.
Anyways, merc, alright, well,thank you for joining us on this
episode of Rebooted.
We are, of course, your fourformer film majors trying to
make sense of these hollywoodremakes.
Join us next week for insertmovie name here, as we discuss

(01:05:33):
the hollywood reboot that set usall free, or something, all
right.
Well, thank you for joining usand don't forget to support our
patreon and all that stuff thatrob will tell you all about
later.
All right, bye, hope you findyour dad.
Bye, nana rogers.

(01:05:55):
Shout out to the nana's, to allthe nana's out there, shout out
that was weird.

Jessica (01:06:07):
And scene.

Rob (01:06:09):
Well, that was a cool hour and 18 minutes In this cartoon
classic that Bill Moore.

Jessica (01:06:16):
Bill Maury.

Andrew (01:06:19):
Alright, alright, mark.

Jessica (01:06:22):
I got to put this on my ear.

Rob (01:06:28):
I do like that.
We the first 20 minutes of usjust trying to get everything
set up nothing.
Then we start recording andit's like the gremlins come out
to play.

Andrew (01:06:42):
Close the door.
I thought I was the mean one.
The gremlins come out to pay.
Close the door.

Rob (01:06:44):
Close the door.
Close the door.
Two of you cowards.

Mike (01:06:47):
I thought I was the mean one.

Andrew (01:06:50):
I mean you still are.
Yeah, okay, that's fair.
So, rob, why don't you bang usoff here with our first Pieces O
trivia?

Mike (01:06:58):
That is a really poor choice of phrasing there.

Rob (01:07:01):
I think it was a great choice of phrasing, phrasing,
phrasing.

Mike (01:07:06):
He likes cottage cheese and lasagna.
That's a hot take and it'swrong.

Rob (01:07:12):
I was trying to segue you into the next segment.

Andrew (01:07:16):
I don't like hot cheese on a cottage cheese, cottage
cheese, cottage cheese, cottagecheese.