July 6, 2025 • 49 mins
Jimbo is invaded by the podcast of Dark Discoveries! Join Jimbo, Dustin, and Jackae as they talk about the cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Also, jump over to the Dark DIscoveries podcast to enjoy a companion episode about real killer clowns! Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
Lights Shingle Jota Sights eighty three, Lights in the Realm
of Pocket, Light movies and TV food through the stories.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We all know some screen tails are food in the magic,
say the start any stem of the very shimmer.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
So if we tell the tels we have the most, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It was a night like any other night. Then something happened.
You see that, something different?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It's start shooting star.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Why here?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Why now?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Why?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He clount? They've been knocking and dead all over the universe.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
What are you gonna do knock my block off.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Soon.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
They will be doing it at a theater near you.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Killer Clowns from Space.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Maybe they're just cruising through the galaxy and stopped here
from by.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You need a police, you need a psychiatrist.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
They want to play games. They're messing with the wrong guy.
What are you win for?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Killer clowns from outer space? It's crazy?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
All right, guys, welcome back to the Tragedy of Sema podcast.
I am your host, Jimbo, and today this is a
very very special episode of the podcast because we have
been overrun.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You say that every time I pop on this show.
It's a very special episode and I want to get
my stuff in. First, the most professional part of that
movie was the voiceover in that trailer.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Well for Killer Clowns.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That was the most professional thing we're going to talk about.
Was that guy's voiceover work. I bet you he had
no idea what movie.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
That was for.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
They said, Hey, here's your fifty bucks, here's your lines,
just read it.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, let me go ahead and introduce my guest tonight
before it's totally taken over. So I am Jimbo. I
am joined by the fabulous Jackie Johnson. Hey, and the
clown Dustin dastardly Dustin. Let's get it right. Come on,
So we want to do something fun. We have started
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another podcast called Dark Discoveries.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
It is totally a serious podcast where we talk about mermaids,
anything that's happened in history, right, because that happened yesterday,
it's history, right.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Also maybe some things in the future.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Mm hmm. I like conspiracies myself, right, that's history because
it happened.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Crypts history too, No, because those are fake.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
So what we decide to do is cover killer Clowns
from outer space, and it's going to be really simultaneously
on the Dark Discoveries podcasts. But not only that. If
you jump over to the Dark Discoveries podcast feed, you
will get to hear a bonus episode of Killer Clowns
in real life. So I thought that would be pretty cool.
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Segue to the Dark Discoveries podcast. If you haven't listened,
you might want to come up there and check us out.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Sorry to all our fans that expect serious content from us,
because this is gonna probably scare you guys away.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
But in typical Jimbo fashion, I have a question for you.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
For me or Jackie, well me, because I know you
always come up with some off the wall stuff, so
we'll probably go to you first. Dustin, give me your
top five clowns of all time. Pogo, Bozo, Lardo.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
That's about. That's about all the I'm gonna say. Chuck E.
Cheese is probably a clown, So I got three for you.
That's about it.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Thank you, Chucky, Jesus, maybe Ronald McDonald, ok yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Ok, maybe, okay, thank you be penny Wise, maybe Art
the Clown.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I like, oh I forgot about Kresty yea, oh, thank
you Jackie forgotting what it's good?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Right, So if there's any other clowns that we may
have missed, don't look at me.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Side show Bob, it's not a clown.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
He's been a clown, but he's not a clown.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
He's a clown.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, he's not.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
He's a serial killer.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, that's a totally different subjects. He's still a clown,
all right.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So we're gonna let Dustin take the reins of this
at the beginning, but before we do, I want Jackie
to give us a plot summary of this movie off
the top of her head without looking at notes. Because
this should be interesting. I would have asked Dustin, but
he'd been like, I don't know if something it's not real.
I got notes, and I got notes for that. You
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have notes for that, Yeah, copied and paste of that stuff.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Okay, So I've been watching this movie for about the
last twenty years, so I can give you a pretty
good summary. It's one of my all time i'm favorites.
I hate to admit that because it's so bad.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That it's good.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Still better than Howard the Duck.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh no, I love Howard's Duck too. So yeah, A
long story short, bunch of kids out on makeout point.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
A dude in an ice cream truck comes up, tries
to get them all to buy ice cream.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
They run them off.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Well, yes, it was a nipple pop or something like that.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
He's got all kinds of terrible names. So anyways, Yeah,
they're all making out and there's a shooting star and
it lands very close, so they take off and instead
of it being ware the shooting star should be, there
is a circus tint and to sneak.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
In and all hill breaks loose. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Dustin all right, So this movie was released on what
I say released probably a little like, you know, giving
it too much credit because I.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Don't know who he places.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
This movie actually played in I'm Gonna Go Buy The
box office numbers about ten. It was released actually thirty
seven years ago today that we're recording, on May twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
It was filmed.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Around you know, just find it ironic. Filming started on
four to twenty nineteen eighty seven, mainly in Santa Cruz, California,
so we know what they were doing. The budget was
an estimated two point well, it was like one point
eight million to two millions what they're saying. The US
box office for this movie was a astonishing one thousand
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and sixty dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
But did you do the inflation? No?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
No, because it's a thousand in one thousand and sixty bucks,
it doesn't get to.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
But do you know how many white castles you could
have bought with that thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Back then?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The whole crew and it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Rob Probably the international box office was a whopping three
hundred and fifty two dollars. It's so bad, we don't
need double it. That's probably about inflation. So you made
like three grand total a worldwide box office was fourteen
hundred and twelve dollars and tickets were probably what three
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or four bucks back then.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
There thirty years later, here we are and it has
a massive cult following, and I'm.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Sure the DVD sales is probably a little bit more
than the thousand dollars. Yes, it was written, directed, and
produced by the Uh, you're gonna have to tell me
because I already forgot how to say Kyoto Kyoto.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it's Kyoto Kyoto brathers. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
The musical score was by John Massari and he was
all done in Dolby stereo. Back then, run times an
hour twenty eight minutes, unless you're in this weird country.
I can't remember, it was like an hour thirty so
one of the foreign countries got two extra minutes. It
was filmed with a Panavision camera with thirty five you know,
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thirty five millimeter film was used. I'm sure it was
the most outdated camera you could use back then. And
then the aspect ratio is one thirty three to one.
It was nominated for two awards, did not win either
one of them, which was the Saturn Award for the
Best Music and Costumes. The music was okay. The sound
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effects on this whoever did sound effects, hopefully he never
worked in Hollywood again because they were terrible sound effects.
The costumes weren't bad, like I said, sadly, no wins.
Are we surprised?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
No or not?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
So, Jack, you go and tell me about the cast,
because I have heard of only one of these people.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Well, the reason you've only heard of one of these
people is because the brothers the oh no, no, I
can't say it, say it again, Kyoto, that's the ones.
The Kyoto brothers actually cast their floor long term life
friends to play because they needed to cut their budget
for making this film down. So as Mike Tobacco, it
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was Grant Kramer. Grant Kramer appeared in movies such as
New Year's Evil, Hard Bodies, Mock two Followed The Prophet,
and Willie's Wonderland. Suzanne Snyder as Debbie Stone. Suzanne has
made appearances in Weird Science, Pretty Kill, Return of the
Living Dead Part two, and she appeared in episodes of
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Seinfeld Family Ties Silver Spoons. She unfortunately stopped acting in
nineteen ninety six and has not returned. John Allan Nelson,
who was Officer Dave Hanson. He is probably the most
recognizable of the cast. He went on to Baywatch and
did several episodes of Baywatch twenty four, Crazy Ex Girlfriend,
and something called Hunk, which I've never heard of, so.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That was kind of a funny one.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Did you like Baywatch?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Who doesn't?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I'm sure I did.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Tell my wife, but we were watching this driving on
the interstate. That I've seen better acting in adult films, that's.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Fair, okay.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
John Vernon, who plays Officer Curtis Mooney, you might recognize
him from Animal House.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dirty Harry, the Outlaw, Josie Wales.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Uh. Then there is the great Royal Dano, who played
farmer Jean Green, and I absolutely love this man.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Can you guess what he is most known for? Wait
until you harrit you're gonna laugh.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Hot dogs and tacos.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
No, they're They're gonna have hot dogs and tacos.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
I was talking about, you know, film or theater, but
you know hot dogs are good to any guesses James.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
No, I'm not gonna stupid dust.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Okay, So long story short.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
He voiced Abraham Lincoln in Disney Great Moments with mister
Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents, and he appeared in
several cowboy shows such as gun Smoke and on Twin
Peaks as Judge Clinton Sternot would.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Four score and seventy Hot Dogs Ago.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
The Old Man looking for poo Bear is really the
voice of Abraham Lincoln, distinguished, fantastic. I love that so much.
And then we had.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
A Christopher Titus as Bob mccreed, which I could not
find anything on mister Christopher Titus.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
So I never watched that Christopher Titus's TV show.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I don't think this is the same Christopher type.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
The same Christopher titles tell me all about it. So
he's a comedian. He had pretty sure. It was just
the tightest show. I used to watch it.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Well, I could not find anything on him, So that's
quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'm glad that you could.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
All right, cool well does the same age as I am,
and you never watched it. Like I said, he was
hit his own TV show on phone.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Now, I've been watching clowns for the last twenty years.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
We only watch good TV shows.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I beg the difference. I highly beg the difference. If
you don't watch mash and this is your favorite movie,
how are we all?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You're watching it the wrong way? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
How are we all at the same table.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
As a matter of fact, the brothers actually took inspiration
from the Blob, Zombies and Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
which is all represented throughout the film.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I'm sure Dustin hasn't seen any of those movies.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
That would not surprise me. I'm highly disappointed. Yeah, he's
not even acknowledging us.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think he is swine. I do have the names
of the clowns, if you care to hear.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Okay, I know Charles Kyoto was Jojo the clown Zilla.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Yes he was.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You left that out, so you know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I just said I was clown.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
But how do you cover him after Christopher Titus's.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Because he was with clown I had Jumbo Fat So
Shorty here at the table, Spikey.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Shorty, Slim Bibo, Chubby, Jojo, and then there was lesser
known clowns mentioned as well, which is Joe, My Gore Talls.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Frank, Baco, Rosebud, and Daisy. So those are the clowns.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
As Dustin took the wind down of my sale on
that one, Jojo was actually played by one of the
director brothers.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
On that one, I had a Jimbo. I just had
to take the.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Yeah, so Charles actually voiced Jojo the clown Zilla.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Did he just voice it or did they actually wear
the suits?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
He wore the suit.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
You gotta wear the suit. You can't get credit if
you don't wear the suit. True?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
True?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Are you done?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm done? Now before it, Matt.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I've got like, I don't know, four or five double
sided pages of notes here.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I love that I have a ton more.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
I just didn't want to jump in on more than
just people yet.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I didn't know that, uh, whoever played Ralphie and a
Christmas Story had a second role in this movie. That
the guy with the red glasses in the beginning total
Ralphie from a Christmas Story rip off.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You guys didn't noticeent.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
I think the uh, I think the movie was made
before that one too.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Ralphie's look and he was like that that's who I
want to be.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
A fat old movie. Nobody will ever see it.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
No, now that Dustin has derailed this entire episode, let's
get to some trivia. Yes, so, the scene in which
a car is thrown off a cliff was initially intended
to be far more spectacular. The car was to fly
over the cliff and crash down to the ground. Unfortunately,
the sling rope snap because effects crew members neglected to
remove the stoppers from underneath the cars. Result was the
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scene in the final film the car slowly tumbled over.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It becomes.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That'd be my first day on the job.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
Dang it, guys, probably your last thing, the right, oh man.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
So the two million dollar budget was I went primarily
on the production cost. The clowns and visual effects were
created almost entirely by the filmmakers.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Have very little cost. Obviously, can we refilm that? No,
we don't have the budget for it.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
They went down to Goodwill and pick your own clown
clothes out.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
For We spent you know, fifty dollars on this car,
and we cannot afford another one.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
The Dickies, the band who wrote and performed the film's
theme song, had actually not seen the film prior to
writing the song.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
I got a fun fact about that that song was
actually written for Jason Vorhees, not for the Killer Clowns.
The Killer Clowns. It was turned down and they ended
up picking it up that way.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
So yeah, John Keith, Nope, it is totally the wrong
note there. I wrote it down in one of these.
I'll come to it in a moment. It's good.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Though it was not a hit when it was in
the theaters, This film has since become a cult classic
and made revenue in action figures, DVDs, and T shirts cells,
as well as an assortment of animatronics and other decorations
from where Jackie was once a former general manager or
manager of.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A district manager of Spirit Spirit Halloween.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yep, I think dustintronic of Jojo.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
I would love it. He's so cute. Shorty was an
animatronic a couple of years ago. From that, they did.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
So as John Massa Sorry Masori returned the music master
tapes to the studio. People in the accounting and legal
department completely dismissed Killer Clowns as being quote a complete
failure that will die a quick death.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He responded, well, you don't get it. There are people
that will love this movie, and I'm one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Been like thirty years. They're going to come out and
be like, you know what, they had it right.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
So I did misspeak. It wasn't the intro music. It
was clown Zilla's entrance. Theme music was originally written for
Jason Vorhees but was rejected by the producers.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of Jason Lives. So it was not the entrance. It
was the clowns interest the big bad boy. Yeah, I
got you.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Originally, clown Zilla was supposed to be made with stop
motion animation, but due to production costs unlimited time to shoot,
they made a suit instead, Dustin, would you have liked
it better if they were stop animation? Like Clash of
the Titans? Have you ever seen classes?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Haven't seen Class? The time?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I told you I'm a uncultured swan. As you said,
have you seen Clash of the Titan.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yes, it's one of my favorite. The great Ray Harry Housen, No,
noting all, Okay, okay, it's gonna be a long night.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
This is a movie your dad should to cover because
doesn't he like the This was a movie movies.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Yes, The characters of Mike and Debbie were meant to
be a role reversal of horror movie archtypes. Mike is
the dumb blonde who doesn't realize bad things are happening,
and Debbie is the smart one who catches on quickly
that place.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I just liked how they were at makeout point and
they're drinking these big old glasses of Champagne.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I think that my favorite is at the very end.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
She totally allows the boyfriend to like kiss on her
and everything in front of mine.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yeah, like is she what all gave.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Long awkward pauls with the hug. Then he was like,
oh wait, where's my hug? Let me ask you a question.
How long was that shower she took? Because it was
like twenty minutes of the movie. It was other things
were going on.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, either that or she just took a long time
getting home. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I don't know. It was really weird.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
The original distribute distributor, trans World Entertainment, a small theatrical
studio that mainly specialized and direct the video B level
horror and action. Fair was initially supported of the concept
of the film and was going to put up a
relatively decent Prince and Edward tizing campaign for a theatrical release.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
According to the Chiyoto Brothers or however you say, how
do you say? Destin Kyoto?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
The Kyoto Brothers twe heads Moshi Diamont and Helen and
Edward sarloo Lee booked the film, and only a couple
of theaters nationwide in the peak at the summer season
rather than around Halloween, and the film bombed.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
It was in a bombed no matter what.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
TWE also had no interest in merchandising rights to the film.
In the subsequent years, video rentals and late night cable
showings of the film found a small audience. In nineteen
ninety three, TWE was folded during the Credit Lionas Entertainment
banking scandal and sold its assets, including Killer Clowns from
Outer Space, to MGM Studios. In two thousand and one,
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MGM asked the Kyoto Brothers to do a DVD commentary
of the film for its Midnight Movies release, and the
film eventually found a huge audience and became a major
cult classic, and in subsequent years has also on merchandising
and a Killer Clown Maze at Universal Studios annual Halloween
Horror Nights.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Why couldn't this be on dinner? In a movie on
T and T back in the day? Do you just
have popcorn? Just pop some popcorn and watch the movie.
Ain't gotta cook nothing.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Originally, the film was to be titled simply Killer Clowns. However,
the brothers feared it would sound too much like a
basic slasher movie, so they added from outer space to
acknowledge the humor in the film up front.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
At least they didn't take theirselves too serious.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Soupy Cells was originally concidered for the part of the
security guard killed by the clowns acidic pies.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What are you gonna do with those pies?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Boys?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
He was for receiving pies in the face on his show,
this television show, Lunch of Soupy Cells. Transfer Entertainment turned
down the idea of feeling that audiences would not know
who sells was which I know Dustin didn't know who
he was no clue. The jeep that is covered and
filled with cotton candy webbing was loaned to the production
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by a local car dealership. They were told by the
effects department that if they sprayed the jeep with PAM,
the webbing wouldn't normally stick and could be riped from
right off.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
However, the solvent and the.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Webbing caused major damage to the inside of the car,
particularly to the seats and finished. This necessitated three thousand
dollars in repairs of a different card dealership before the
production could return the jeep to the Oh no.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
That was a three thousand dollars was hard.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
The iconic Killer Clown's March was originally written by John
Sorry for his high school rock band Crisis. The band
members did not like it because the notes of the
song spelled out an F major seventh chord, which they
felt sounded too much like jazz.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I'm not a music guy, so that means nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I don't know what any of that was.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
You're pretty suave and air guitar, but I can't play
a chord asama, so we're okay.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
All right.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
The car chase, in which the clown is driving an
invisible car, was meant to be shown before the opening credits.
The character driving the car is Joe Lombardo, who Mike
and Debbie find in a cotton candy cocoon several scenes
earlier in the film.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I found out funny how fast that ice cream truck
could go.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
It was flying, Yeah, yeah it.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Was, And it's top heavy. Do you see it shake
the whole time?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
I might just run the clown off the road. You
know you're heavier, move them.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
The first day of recording the music score took place
on October thirty first, nineteen eighty seven. Many of the
characters in the film, including Mike Tobacco, the Tarnzi brothers,
and Joe Lombardo, were real names based on real childhood
buddies of the brothers. Mike Tobacco was known for bringing
girls to make out point with champagne in his glove
compartment and a rubber raft in the back scene.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I did think the rubber raft was a nice touch.
What the champagne was.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
The rubber raft makes me laugh because if you look
at it, it is patches.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, it's not like you're not the first girl to pop.
You've been using that raf for a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Wonder if he uses something else.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
So the Tonsi brothers really did rint an ice cream
truck with the hopes of getting girls.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
So this is actually true stories.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Of something hilarious. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
You said we could have all the ice cream we won.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You didn't shame we were parking.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You know what's funny is when they they end up
in the ballpit on the spaceship.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Well, if you notice at the end they got the
kiss mark all over.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Are these her hot roommates?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh man? So.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
An earlier version of the restaurant scene was shot showing
the brothers sitting at the table in the background as extras,
and there is a Wilhelm scream it's heard when the
King Clown or clown Zilla as he's often referred to,
throws Rich and Paul's ice cream truck. I'm around the
same time, MGM began production of two low budget horror films,
one of them being Killer Clowns from Outer Space and
the other Clowns House by Victoria Salva. Both films are
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very different, but with the concept of killer Clowns. Have
you ever seen that one?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Dustin? That would be a no?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I haven't even heard of that one, so I have
to watch that one.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Yeah, the popcorn gun included a compressor inside that would
fire real popcorn.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man, I need that. I love popcorn.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It was the most extensive prop in the movie, costing
how much Dustin to make to shoot real popcorn one
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Dollars seven thousand, seven thousands.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
It took six weeks to build it. They were not
frugal with their money.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Oh you know what, we can't afford to redo that
car scene.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
But you know what we can do.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Let's build a seven thousand dollars popcorn gun.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
It only worked for one take as well.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't expect nothing else.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
When Mike pulls the cotton candy off the body to
reveal the bloody face of farmer Jean Green, a nicely
smaller cotton candy cocoon of scene hanging me hind this
is his dog.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I never put that together.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I just assumed it was like wet cotton candy that
was melton.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
It was bloody. It was like his skin was I
thought it was.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Melted cotton candy. I love the balloon dog.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, I never put you and you together that the
poo bear was in it.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
The balloon dog, the clowns.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Did you know what happened with the balloon dog?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
It kept popping so they had to coat it in
liquid latex to get it through the scene.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Did you ever at a Disney World? Did you ever
get that invisible dog leash? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Gosh yeah?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
They Yeah, dust is like what we were too poor
when we got to go to Disney. We just it's like, hey,
you're gonna you don't get Mickey Mouse ears, you don't
get an invisible dog leash. You're gonna get maybe lunch
if you're lucky.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
There was approximately forty clowns used in the Climax and
the space ship Big Top. It was John Vernon's idea
to have the clowns scored him twice in the face
with the flowers for great comedic relief. Replays the clown
that squirts the water in Officer Mooney's face. Let's see here,
Oh here you go, Dussin, this is right up heure
ally the Insane clown Posse sample dialogue for this film
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for the stillness on their two thousand and two Jokers
card album The Wraith Shinger Law.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
That brings back some memories.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Everybody listened to icp in like nineteen ninety eight, Are you.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
A Hatchetthead or whatever they're called? There were juggalos but
then yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Because most of the vehicles were rendered for this film,
the production was not allowed to crash any cars, even
though there are several scenes featuring a car crash. Only
Joe Lombardo's car, which drives off a bridge is damaged.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Oh here we go.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Debbie's shower scene lasts for twenty minutes of screen time
and potentially covers hours of time in the chronologic order
of the film itself.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Wow She was really taking a shit. She just felt dirty. Yeah,
I mean, you know what it was. It was that
raft she was.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
She got something she couldn't get rid of.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
The brothers were interviewed on the podcast called Classic American
Movies to talk about the making of Colors Clowns, as
well as where their love of film began.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
So I want to check that out, Dustin, I'm good.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
The character of Bob Mcreid, who is the blonde guy
with glasses who crosses the street in front of Officer
Mooney at the top of the film, is played by
young Chris Titus.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
This was his first film role.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Told you like I said, he's the most popular. I
can't believe you guys didn't watch the Titus show. That's
I remind her that it was just okay. Did you
watch Everybody Hates Chris? Did you watch anything good Malcolm
in the Middle. The Malcolm in the Middle wasn't better
the original arrested.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Development a couple episodes. It was fantastic. It's okay, all right,
dust In.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
The line it looks like it was decorated by clowns
r Us was voted as the worst line in the
movie by a fans.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Really, I could think of a few others that this
movie cotton candy cocoons.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
That sounds like another door, another door.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
If you had told me you were to give me
the worst line of the movie, I would have held
the worst ten lines of a movie from the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But no, you didn't give me no heads up. No
nos it mean But I don't know. I'm older than
you guys. So do you remember, you know, the spaceship
what it looked like. Do you remember that top you
could get and pushed down on, like the metal one.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Inn Oh, yeah, and it had stuff that would spin
around inside. Yeah, that's exactly what that looked like.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah, So I could have saved them a lot of
money by it right.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
For perception cost reasons, the interior of the Spaceship Big
Top was made with a modular tinker toy design. Various
elements were built that could be put together different to
make different rooms, rather than designing and building multiple sets
at great expense. The brothers described the design as a
combination of Memphis design and doctor suits.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
See, I thought they missed the mark when they went
into when it was the amusement park they went into,
and they went in like door number one. They totally
missed the chance of going in like door number one,
what's in door number two? Door number three?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
They did, Oh, they did it. Another door, another door.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
They went in the one door and Okay, I must
have missed that part because I was driving, But I
was like, they missed the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Well they they came back out and then they went
in like the green door. Yeah, so they went in
the middle door. Then they came out, went in this.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I don't know if they it was very Scooby Dewey.
I was driving Scooby Dooby.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Or I was in a vehicle that was driving. I'm
not gonna say that I was drive.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
The movie originally ended with the brothers as the survivors
of the exploding spaceship. All Dave perished after killing the
giant clown, but since the executive needed an upbeat ending,
the Kyoto Brothers filmed a second inning that is in
all the versions, where Dave and the Trenzay brothers survived
the exploding spaceship by hiding in the clown car.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I was thinking, if they kid nap the little girl
at the restaurant, I was going to turn it off.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Right then and there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, that part is it's kind of creepy.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Yeah, it's it's the one part where you're kind of like, ooh,
that's is that crossing the line.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's a it's a killer clown. But yeah, it's a
little weird.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
You were watching and she's like, they're not going to
kill the little girl, are they?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I'm like, if they do, we're not going to finish it.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Oh man.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
The name Jojo comes up at least twice in the movies.
It turns out that's the name of the largest and
meanest of the clowns. When Dave leaves with Mike and
Debbie to investigate their story about the alien clowns, Mooney
says to him, go ahead, Dave, make a dummy out
of yourself, but you're not going to make a dummy
out of me. It foreshadows what happens to him later
on in the film The Dummy.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
It is a cool scene, though, I have to say
it's actually my favorites. How they like slump him around
with that, it's very very creepy.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Puppy's pretty cool, all right, Dustin, what is your guess?
Because Jackie will notice, what does your guest on the
body count how many bodies are in this movie?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
The body, the death uh dead people.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
We had the biker that got his head knocked off,
the sheriff, the dog.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Seven you don't remember him eating like that whole crowd
of with the shadow puppets or is it gonna go seven?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
It's forty at least forty. There wasn't a lot of
There was a lot of cotton candy cocoons in.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
The lit room. I love that they're painted on. At
one point.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Background, I was assuming some of those cotton candy cocoons
were from other towns.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Oh, it could be, it could be.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, And I'll stop with this one. There's some other ones,
but we'll just stop with this one. When Mooney gets
phone calls about people seeing the clowns, which he ignores,
a man reports his wife being abducted and taken away
in a balloon. If for shadows Debbie's fate later in
the movie, she's carrying around in the broom.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, the littly yellow balloon.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
So uh if you ever watch Ernest Scared Stupid, Oh yeah,
might recognize some of the trolls.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
They actually the Ko Ko, the brothers Kyoto. That's the ones,
all right, they guys, aren't.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
UFC fans, are you?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Because there was my Kyota probably still saying wrong.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
It's going to pronounce something different, doesn't just act like.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
They were hired to work on the creature effects for
this movie, and instead of sculpting all new characters, they
just took two of the molds of the four molds
and repurposed them. They painted them differently and added some prosthetics.
But any true fan can totally spot the killer clowns
in there.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
It's fun.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Have you ever seen Ernest Scared Stupid?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
I've watched as a kid's been thirty years, but I
watched the Earnest movies.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
That was that was the thing you had to watch.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We watch it, you'll see them.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Yeah, he's a great guy. He's a great guy.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Great. He still is in my heart, in your heart,
Slinky Dog.
Speaker 9 (34:56):
I absolutely love to uh the pizza delivery when she
answers the door in her little nightgown and here's three
ugly clowns.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And she's like, oh, pizza.
Speaker 9 (35:07):
It is ten pizza boxes stacked on top of each other,
and then a puppeteer underneath it, with Shorty inside. The
pup inside this box. It's the funniest behind the scenes. Look,
if you ever get a chance to do it, so dust.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
What was your favorite scene of the movie.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Well, I'm still baffled with the scene where he's taking
stuff out to the dumpster and you hear like sounds
like rats in the dumpster. Yeah, so you're a restaurant.
You hear something scurring in the dumpster. It's a rat
or a rat coon. I'm just gonna throw my stuff
in there and leave it. But no, I'm gonna go. Look,
I'm gonna take my head and hair and look. Yeah,
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he got killed by a clown. He got put in
a cotton candy cocoon. What was your favorite scene? I
was hoping the bathroom scene was gonna be a little
bit better than it was. We need some soapy boobies
to make this movie a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You're gonna say it was what Pg thirteen back in
the eighties?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well Titanic was PG thirteen two, wasn't it?
Or was that R? He may have been right at R.
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
I thought you would say where the clown takes the straw?
The straws in the cocoon?
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Strong, all the blood.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
I like the I like the scene.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
I I liked watching the uh the ice cream truck
just fly down the road is like as fast as
it could go, the world's fastest ice cream truck.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
I think the shadow up it's just probably funny. They're like,
oh look, it's George Washington.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
The only thing that saved this movie was they knew
it was the B movie. They didn't try to make
anything other than a B movie.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
I have to say, I absolutely love like the nerdy
guy that walks into the Gizzy bo and he's watching
the Puppet Show and he's just like nodding with it
and like, you know, carrying on a whole conversation with
himself in his head.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
It's the best.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
That and the two like punk goth kids that are clearly,
you know, very old men with receiving hairlines that go
to the college and are drinking on campus, and movie
is all mad about it. It's it was a beautiful night, We're.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Going to college for drinking.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
It's great.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
It's the casting from Greece all over again, and it's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
Yes, all right, Dustin, So we're gonna let you kick
this off with your rating. What are you gonna get
this on skettle one to ten, What you liked, what
you didn't like, and do you recommend for somebody to
watch this movie.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
I'll recommend it as a one time watch.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Maybe some alcohol could help the the movie. It's it's
one you can definitely watch and not pay attention. Hour
and twenty eight minutes, perfect timing, it's not too long,
it's not too short. Not my favorite thing. But now
I'm learning. If I'm gonna do some stuff with you
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on this, I'm gonna have a lot of movies. You're
not gonna give us good movies to do unless we
just hijacket and be like, hey, we're gonna do this.
The last good movie you did was Who for and
Roger Rabbit. That's a fact. Look at the statistics.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
That's a good one.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Look at the statistics. You can't judge it as a
a list movie. So we're not gonna talk it. You know,
it's an eight out of ten because it's not. So
we're gonna go like, on a scale of one to four,
a b Liss movie one to four, it's a solid
three and a half.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
So if you take that on a scale of one
to ten and make it a one to four. So
you're giving it a.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Oh if you put on a on a normal Hollywood release,
is it still a three to four?
Speaker 6 (38:35):
No, it's like it's like a half star. Wow. Ouch,
you just can't compare them. They're just two. Did you
laugh at all? We cringed a lot more than we laughed.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Like I said, the sound of If the sound effects
weren't so nineteen eighties technoy garbage it though, it would.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Have been a lot better.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
I personally love it because it's of a time when
effects were done by them.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
That's what makes it good is because it was you
had to make it. You couldn't go buy it. Yes,
you couldn't put it in front of a screen. It's
like a clay mation movie, right. You gotta make everything.
You gotta spend time. Somebody spend a lot of time
on these these outfits, these these masks that if you
look at them, they kind of look like your hand
or something like that. When you look at like the
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wrinkles on your hand and the way the skin is,
it looked a lot like real skin.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
It didn't look like facial skin.
Speaker 9 (39:36):
They used real pies in this too. In fact, they
even created a wristband that would attach to all the
clown's hands, so the tin would stay in their hand
and the pie would launch out at the people, which
is genius in my opinion, right.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
I mean that's where the other half of the budget went.
All the pies and all the pie filling falls down.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Is this over? And you're like, oh, there's some little
specs fall it?
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yeah, boom pie everywhere.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
Pie clowns got the last joke.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
So I'm assuming now, how do you want to go
really dark and say that was still the guy that turned.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Because the where is the giant cherry? The little shorty
puts on top?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
So cute, and it leaves it to where they didn't
really kill him, so you just they went somewhere else.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Mmm uh, well, the brothers have talked for the last
thirty years about a sequel, it's never actually come to fluition.
Speaker 8 (40:31):
So you know, is even like a TV show a series, Yes,
would be really cool to be a remake would be
really cool.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
And then you can only if they bring back the
same cast because the acting was amazing.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
The uh who was the main character that was running
through was that Mike to Tobacco his voice, He's like
I hate his voice.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
It's terrible.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
I'm like, I don't think he's probably trying to sound
that way. That's probably how he sounds.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
It really is an interesting group of people. There is
some talent in it, but yeah, some of the acting
is just it's so bad. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
And yeah, it'd be hard to make this movie again
because you really need to film it the same way.
You can't put a bunch of you can't see giet, yeah,
because that takes away from the lore of it. You
can't film it on new technology cameras, like you could
go five or ten years newer than the eighties, but
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when you start getting too much detail, you start seeing
the flaws and everything.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yeah, it loses some of the magic.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
Yeah, so the way the mask wore, you'd have to
find a way to film it in that eighties B
movies type vibe or it's going to be ruined.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
You couldn't do a high death version. So, Jackie, what
are you going to rate this movie?
Speaker 9 (41:50):
Just because I've been watching it for twenty years and
I freaking love it. It's in my top ten personally
because it makes me laugh like an idiot every time,
and I can tell you many many nights growing up.
This was like my friends and I would sit and
watch this and way we would just laugh our butts off.
It was fantastic. So as far as if you've never
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seen it, see it. If you're into campy horror, this
is definitely the way to go. If you are not
into campy horror, don't come after me, because you still
need to see it.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
It's not really.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Horror though it is, but it's it's like Michael Meyer's
Horror where you you They did drama like you know,
music and getting your heart, yeah, to get you that
jump factor.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
It wasn't bloody. It wasn't the beauty of it though.
That's nice because I don't get into that.
Speaker 9 (42:43):
Yeah, it's one of those things that I mean, honestly,
I have an eleven year old.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
She could watch this. She would probably laugh hysterically. She's
not normal.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
We know your little daughter would probably little one would
have a blast.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, I have a five year old. But gosh, you
know what, guys, I just found our Halloween.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Coming out of a pizza.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
Ca Yeah.
Speaker 9 (43:10):
Okay, so my family clearly loves it. Uh So, Yeah,
it's it's one that it definitely enjoy. You can watch
it with the family.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
It just take it for what it is.
Speaker 9 (43:20):
It's an old, crappy movie that is a lot of fun,
and it's like what a bunch of friends would do
if they were in college trying to make a buck.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
It's kind of what it looks like. It's great.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
I love it. So what are you rating it though?
Or are you gonna go my one to four? My
B list movie.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
If it's a B list, it's a four.
Speaker 9 (43:40):
But if it's you know, I'd say it's a seven,
just because it's just nostalgia fun for me.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Very eighties.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
It's great, very very eighties.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
Yes, all right, Jimbo, Now it's your turn.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
This is obviously ten. No I am kidding. Doesn't so
you're saying it's a ten. That's perfect.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Will make another better movie than Thank you for joining
the Tragedy of Cinema podcast as we wrap up the
very last episode we will ever do. Because we have
a perfect movie. You no longer need to go find
these movies. We don't need the top one hundred movies
of all time because Jimbo just found it. Sorry Kyle,
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by a way to send Kyle off, we love you, Kyle.
In all honesty, I go years without watching this movie.
It's probably been ten years since I've.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Seen it at least once every three months.
Speaker 8 (44:34):
So when you pull it back out, and you can
pull this movie out and you can laugh again and
again and again every time I watch so dust on
the next time you watch it, you'll be like, this
is hilarious.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I'm gonna watch it in the car. I tried to
watch it today. Yeah, after you know, you might missed
very important, you know, key moments.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, I gotta pay attention to the road every now
and though too so.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
But if I'm being serious all jokes aside, I would
probably give it a five out of ten.
Speaker 6 (44:59):
So that's fait.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
I think it's it's a fun movie to watch. Is
it gonna win any awards?
Speaker 2 (45:04):
No?
Speaker 8 (45:04):
Is it a but it is a cult following. I
put it kind of up there with Rocky Horror Picture
Show very much. So Rocky Horror Picture Show is so crazy?
Have you seen Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
No?
Speaker 7 (45:13):
But I will say I was a lot happier watching
this movie at one o'clock in the morning than I
was Howard the Duck.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
So yeah, I'd say if you haven't seen it, at
least give it a shot, especially around Halloween time, and
then you might actually understand why some of those kids
are dressed up as room in your neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Cloud. We'll just watch it when this drops. Because you're
so close to the anniversary of this show. We missed it.
Speaker 7 (45:37):
We should have did this last week, and we could
have dropped it today because we don't look ahead to
the future.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
Right, So hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode. We hope
that you will come over and listen to the Dark
Discoveries episode on killer clowns in real life, because we
are going to be talking about some John Wayne Gacy
and some other creepy.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
And some real clowns like Jack the Ripper h H.
Speaker 7 (46:03):
Holmes. Mermaids, Uh yeah, these these mythical things in Jimbo's
brain called mermaids and possibly even what do we call them,
wampus cats. But we're gonna talk about serious stuff too.
We're gonna talk about, you know, really what happened with
NASA and the moon landing and probably some things like
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that jeffk conspiracy, right, and.
Speaker 8 (46:27):
We also have a little something called the Forget Me Nots,
which is one of our more serious topics we talk about,
which is the missing children's podcast episodes. We do because
we want to be known for something not just goofy
and fun, which we are. But we know when to
be serious, and we know when to have fun, and
we know when we can just let loose and cut
up and that's what makes this podcast so fun to do.
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So but with that being said, I think this episode's
coming to closing. That's a wrap and cut.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
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Speaker 4 (48:01):
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Speaker 9 (48:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
Lights Shingle Jota Sights eighty three, Lights in the Realm
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Speaker 3 (01:05):
We all know some screen tails are food in the magic,
say the start any stem of the very shimmer.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
So if we tell the tels we have the most, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It was a night like any other night. Then something happened.
You see that, something different?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It's start shooting star.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Why here?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Why now?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Why?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He clount? They've been knocking and dead all over the universe.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
What are you gonna do knock my block off.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Soon.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
They will be doing it at a theater near you.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Killer Clowns from Space.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Maybe they're just cruising through the galaxy and stopped here
from by.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You need a police, you need a psychiatrist.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
They want to play games. They're messing with the wrong guy.
What are you win for?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Killer clowns from outer space? It's crazy?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
All right, guys, welcome back to the Tragedy of Sema podcast.
I am your host, Jimbo, and today this is a
very very special episode of the podcast because we have
been overrun.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You say that every time I pop on this show.
It's a very special episode and I want to get
my stuff in. First, the most professional part of that
movie was the voiceover in that trailer.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Well for Killer Clowns.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That was the most professional thing we're going to talk about.
Was that guy's voiceover work. I bet you he had
no idea what movie.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
That was for.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
They said, Hey, here's your fifty bucks, here's your lines,
just read it.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, let me go ahead and introduce my guest tonight
before it's totally taken over. So I am Jimbo. I
am joined by the fabulous Jackie Johnson. Hey, and the
clown Dustin dastardly Dustin. Let's get it right. Come on,
So we want to do something fun. We have started
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another podcast called Dark Discoveries.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
It is totally a serious podcast where we talk about mermaids,
anything that's happened in history, right, because that happened yesterday,
it's history, right.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Also maybe some things in the future.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Mm hmm. I like conspiracies myself, right, that's history because
it happened.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Crypts history too, No, because those are fake.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
We'll see about that.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
So what we decide to do is cover killer Clowns
from outer space, and it's going to be really simultaneously
on the Dark Discoveries podcasts. But not only that. If
you jump over to the Dark Discoveries podcast feed, you
will get to hear a bonus episode of Killer Clowns
in real life. So I thought that would be pretty cool.
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Segue to the Dark Discoveries podcast. If you haven't listened,
you might want to come up there and check us out.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Sorry to all our fans that expect serious content from us,
because this is gonna probably scare you guys away.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
But in typical Jimbo fashion, I have a question for you.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
For me or Jackie, well me, because I know you
always come up with some off the wall stuff, so
we'll probably go to you first. Dustin, give me your
top five clowns of all time. Pogo, Bozo, Lardo.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
That's about. That's about all the I'm gonna say. Chuck E.
Cheese is probably a clown, So I got three for you.
That's about it.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Thank you, Chucky, Jesus, maybe Ronald McDonald, ok yeah.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Ok, maybe, okay, thank you be penny Wise, maybe Art
the Clown.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I like, oh I forgot about Kresty yea, oh, thank
you Jackie forgotting what it's good?
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Right, So if there's any other clowns that we may
have missed, don't look at me.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Side show Bob, it's not a clown.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
He's been a clown, but he's not a clown.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
He's a clown.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, he's not.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
He's a serial killer.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yeah, that's a totally different subjects. He's still a clown,
all right.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
So we're gonna let Dustin take the reins of this
at the beginning, but before we do, I want Jackie
to give us a plot summary of this movie off
the top of her head without looking at notes. Because
this should be interesting. I would have asked Dustin, but
he'd been like, I don't know if something it's not real.
I got notes, and I got notes for that. You
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have notes for that, Yeah, copied and paste of that stuff.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Okay, So I've been watching this movie for about the
last twenty years, so I can give you a pretty
good summary. It's one of my all time i'm favorites.
I hate to admit that because it's so bad.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That it's good.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Still better than Howard the Duck.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh no, I love Howard's Duck too. So yeah, A
long story short, bunch of kids out on makeout point.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
A dude in an ice cream truck comes up, tries
to get them all to buy ice cream.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
They run them off.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Well, yes, it was a nipple pop or something like that.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
He's got all kinds of terrible names. So anyways, Yeah,
they're all making out and there's a shooting star and
it lands very close, so they take off and instead
of it being ware the shooting star should be, there
is a circus tint and to sneak.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
In and all hill breaks loose. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Dustin all right, So this movie was released on what
I say released probably a little like, you know, giving
it too much credit because I.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Don't know who he places.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
This movie actually played in I'm Gonna Go Buy The
box office numbers about ten. It was released actually thirty
seven years ago today that we're recording, on May twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
It was filmed.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Around you know, just find it ironic. Filming started on
four to twenty nineteen eighty seven, mainly in Santa Cruz, California,
so we know what they were doing. The budget was
an estimated two point well, it was like one point
eight million to two millions what they're saying. The US
box office for this movie was a astonishing one thousand
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and sixty dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
But did you do the inflation? No?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
No, because it's a thousand in one thousand and sixty bucks,
it doesn't get to.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
But do you know how many white castles you could
have bought with that thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Back then?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The whole crew and it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Rob Probably the international box office was a whopping three
hundred and fifty two dollars. It's so bad, we don't
need double it. That's probably about inflation. So you made
like three grand total a worldwide box office was fourteen
hundred and twelve dollars and tickets were probably what three
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or four bucks back then.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
There thirty years later, here we are and it has
a massive cult following, and I'm.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Sure the DVD sales is probably a little bit more
than the thousand dollars. Yes, it was written, directed, and
produced by the Uh, you're gonna have to tell me
because I already forgot how to say Kyoto Kyoto.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it's Kyoto Kyoto brathers. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
The musical score was by John Massari and he was
all done in Dolby stereo. Back then, run times an
hour twenty eight minutes, unless you're in this weird country.
I can't remember, it was like an hour thirty so
one of the foreign countries got two extra minutes. It
was filmed with a Panavision camera with thirty five you know,
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thirty five millimeter film was used. I'm sure it was
the most outdated camera you could use back then. And
then the aspect ratio is one thirty three to one.
It was nominated for two awards, did not win either
one of them, which was the Saturn Award for the
Best Music and Costumes. The music was okay. The sound
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effects on this whoever did sound effects, hopefully he never
worked in Hollywood again because they were terrible sound effects.
The costumes weren't bad, like I said, sadly, no wins.
Are we surprised?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
No or not?
Speaker 7 (10:41):
So, Jack, you go and tell me about the cast,
because I have heard of only one of these people.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Well, the reason you've only heard of one of these
people is because the brothers the oh no, no, I
can't say it, say it again, Kyoto, that's the ones.
The Kyoto brothers actually cast their floor long term life
friends to play because they needed to cut their budget
for making this film down. So as Mike Tobacco, it
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was Grant Kramer. Grant Kramer appeared in movies such as
New Year's Evil, Hard Bodies, Mock two Followed The Prophet,
and Willie's Wonderland. Suzanne Snyder as Debbie Stone. Suzanne has
made appearances in Weird Science, Pretty Kill, Return of the
Living Dead Part two, and she appeared in episodes of
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Seinfeld Family Ties Silver Spoons. She unfortunately stopped acting in
nineteen ninety six and has not returned. John Allan Nelson,
who was Officer Dave Hanson. He is probably the most
recognizable of the cast. He went on to Baywatch and
did several episodes of Baywatch twenty four, Crazy Ex Girlfriend,
and something called Hunk, which I've never heard of, so.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That was kind of a funny one.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Did you like Baywatch?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Who doesn't?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I'm sure I did.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Tell my wife, but we were watching this driving on
the interstate. That I've seen better acting in adult films, that's.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Fair, okay.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
John Vernon, who plays Officer Curtis Mooney, you might recognize
him from Animal House.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dirty Harry, the Outlaw, Josie Wales.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Uh. Then there is the great Royal Dano, who played
farmer Jean Green, and I absolutely love this man.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Can you guess what he is most known for? Wait
until you harrit you're gonna laugh.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Hot dogs and tacos.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
No, they're They're gonna have hot dogs and tacos.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
I was talking about, you know, film or theater, but
you know hot dogs are good to any guesses James.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
No, I'm not gonna stupid dust.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Okay, So long story short.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
He voiced Abraham Lincoln in Disney Great Moments with mister
Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents, and he appeared in
several cowboy shows such as gun Smoke and on Twin
Peaks as Judge Clinton Sternot would.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Four score and seventy Hot Dogs Ago.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
The Old Man looking for poo Bear is really the
voice of Abraham Lincoln, distinguished, fantastic. I love that so much.
And then we had.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
A Christopher Titus as Bob mccreed, which I could not
find anything on mister Christopher Titus.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
So I never watched that Christopher Titus's TV show.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I don't think this is the same Christopher type.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
The same Christopher titles tell me all about it. So
he's a comedian. He had pretty sure. It was just
the tightest show. I used to watch it.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Well, I could not find anything on him, So that's
quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'm glad that you could.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
All right, cool well does the same age as I am,
and you never watched it. Like I said, he was
hit his own TV show on phone.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Now, I've been watching clowns for the last twenty years.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
We only watch good TV shows.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I beg the difference. I highly beg the difference. If
you don't watch mash and this is your favorite movie,
how are we all?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
You're watching it the wrong way? Buddy?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
How are we all at the same table.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
As a matter of fact, the brothers actually took inspiration
from the Blob, Zombies and Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
which is all represented throughout the film.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I'm sure Dustin hasn't seen any of those movies.
Speaker 9 (14:32):
That would not surprise me. I'm highly disappointed. Yeah, he's
not even acknowledging us.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think he is swine. I do have the names
of the clowns, if you care to hear.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Okay, I know Charles Kyoto was Jojo the clown Zilla.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Yes he was.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You left that out, so you know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I just said I was clown.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
But how do you cover him after Christopher Titus's.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Because he was with clown I had Jumbo Fat So
Shorty here at the table, Spikey.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Shorty, Slim Bibo, Chubby, Jojo, and then there was lesser
known clowns mentioned as well, which is Joe, My Gore Talls.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Frank, Baco, Rosebud, and Daisy. So those are the clowns.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
As Dustin took the wind down of my sale on
that one, Jojo was actually played by one of the
director brothers.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
On that one, I had a Jimbo. I just had
to take the.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
Yeah, so Charles actually voiced Jojo the clown Zilla.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Did he just voice it or did they actually wear
the suits?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
He wore the suit.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
You gotta wear the suit. You can't get credit if
you don't wear the suit. True?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
True?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Are you done?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm done? Now before it, Matt.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
I've got like, I don't know, four or five double
sided pages of notes here.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I love that I have a ton more.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
I just didn't want to jump in on more than
just people yet.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I didn't know that, uh, whoever played Ralphie and a
Christmas Story had a second role in this movie. That
the guy with the red glasses in the beginning total
Ralphie from a Christmas Story rip off.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You guys didn't noticeent.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
I think the uh, I think the movie was made
before that one too.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Ralphie's look and he was like that that's who I
want to be.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
A fat old movie. Nobody will ever see it.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
No, now that Dustin has derailed this entire episode, let's
get to some trivia. Yes, so, the scene in which
a car is thrown off a cliff was initially intended
to be far more spectacular. The car was to fly
over the cliff and crash down to the ground. Unfortunately,
the sling rope snap because effects crew members neglected to
remove the stoppers from underneath the cars. Result was the
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scene in the final film the car slowly tumbled over.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It becomes.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That'd be my first day on the job.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
Dang it, guys, probably your last thing, the right, oh man.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
So the two million dollar budget was I went primarily
on the production cost. The clowns and visual effects were
created almost entirely by the filmmakers.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Have very little cost. Obviously, can we refilm that? No,
we don't have the budget for it.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
They went down to Goodwill and pick your own clown
clothes out.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
For We spent you know, fifty dollars on this car,
and we cannot afford another one.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
The Dickies, the band who wrote and performed the film's
theme song, had actually not seen the film prior to
writing the song.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
I got a fun fact about that that song was
actually written for Jason Vorhees, not for the Killer Clowns.
The Killer Clowns. It was turned down and they ended
up picking it up that way.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
So yeah, John Keith, Nope, it is totally the wrong
note there. I wrote it down in one of these.
I'll come to it in a moment. It's good.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Though it was not a hit when it was in
the theaters, This film has since become a cult classic
and made revenue in action figures, DVDs, and T shirts cells,
as well as an assortment of animatronics and other decorations
from where Jackie was once a former general manager or
manager of.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A district manager of Spirit Spirit Halloween.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yep, I think dustintronic of Jojo.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
I would love it. He's so cute. Shorty was an
animatronic a couple of years ago. From that, they did.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
So as John Massa Sorry Masori returned the music master
tapes to the studio. People in the accounting and legal
department completely dismissed Killer Clowns as being quote a complete
failure that will die a quick death.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He responded, well, you don't get it. There are people
that will love this movie, and I'm one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Been like thirty years. They're going to come out and
be like, you know what, they had it right.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
So I did misspeak. It wasn't the intro music. It
was clown Zilla's entrance. Theme music was originally written for
Jason Vorhees but was rejected by the producers.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of Jason Lives. So it was not the entrance. It
was the clowns interest the big bad boy. Yeah, I
got you.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Originally, clown Zilla was supposed to be made with stop
motion animation, but due to production costs unlimited time to shoot,
they made a suit instead, Dustin, would you have liked
it better if they were stop animation? Like Clash of
the Titans? Have you ever seen classes?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Haven't seen Class? The time?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I told you I'm a uncultured swan. As you said,
have you seen Clash of the Titan.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Yes, it's one of my favorite. The great Ray Harry Housen, No,
noting all, Okay, okay, it's gonna be a long night.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
This is a movie your dad should to cover because
doesn't he like the This was a movie movies.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Yes, The characters of Mike and Debbie were meant to
be a role reversal of horror movie archtypes. Mike is
the dumb blonde who doesn't realize bad things are happening,
and Debbie is the smart one who catches on quickly
that place.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
He's an idiot.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
I just liked how they were at makeout point and
they're drinking these big old glasses of Champagne.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I think that my favorite is at the very end.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
She totally allows the boyfriend to like kiss on her
and everything in front of mine.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yeah, like is she what all gave.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Long awkward pauls with the hug. Then he was like,
oh wait, where's my hug? Let me ask you a question.
How long was that shower she took? Because it was
like twenty minutes of the movie. It was other things
were going on.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, either that or she just took a long time
getting home. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I don't know. It was really weird.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
The original distribute distributor, trans World Entertainment, a small theatrical
studio that mainly specialized and direct the video B level
horror and action. Fair was initially supported of the concept
of the film and was going to put up a
relatively decent Prince and Edward tizing campaign for a theatrical release.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
According to the Chiyoto Brothers or however you say, how
do you say? Destin Kyoto?
Speaker 8 (21:07):
The Kyoto Brothers twe heads Moshi Diamont and Helen and
Edward sarloo Lee booked the film, and only a couple
of theaters nationwide in the peak at the summer season
rather than around Halloween, and the film bombed.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
It was in a bombed no matter what.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
TWE also had no interest in merchandising rights to the film.
In the subsequent years, video rentals and late night cable
showings of the film found a small audience. In nineteen
ninety three, TWE was folded during the Credit Lionas Entertainment
banking scandal and sold its assets, including Killer Clowns from
Outer Space, to MGM Studios. In two thousand and one,
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MGM asked the Kyoto Brothers to do a DVD commentary
of the film for its Midnight Movies release, and the
film eventually found a huge audience and became a major
cult classic, and in subsequent years has also on merchandising
and a Killer Clown Maze at Universal Studios annual Halloween
Horror Nights.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Why couldn't this be on dinner? In a movie on
T and T back in the day? Do you just
have popcorn? Just pop some popcorn and watch the movie.
Ain't gotta cook nothing.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Originally, the film was to be titled simply Killer Clowns. However,
the brothers feared it would sound too much like a
basic slasher movie, so they added from outer space to
acknowledge the humor in the film up front.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
At least they didn't take theirselves too serious.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Soupy Cells was originally concidered for the part of the
security guard killed by the clowns acidic pies.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What are you gonna do with those pies?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Boys?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
He was for receiving pies in the face on his show,
this television show, Lunch of Soupy Cells. Transfer Entertainment turned
down the idea of feeling that audiences would not know
who sells was which I know Dustin didn't know who
he was no clue. The jeep that is covered and
filled with cotton candy webbing was loaned to the production
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by a local car dealership. They were told by the
effects department that if they sprayed the jeep with PAM,
the webbing wouldn't normally stick and could be riped from
right off.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
However, the solvent and the.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Webbing caused major damage to the inside of the car,
particularly to the seats and finished. This necessitated three thousand
dollars in repairs of a different card dealership before the
production could return the jeep to the Oh no.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
That was a three thousand dollars was hard.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
The iconic Killer Clown's March was originally written by John
Sorry for his high school rock band Crisis. The band
members did not like it because the notes of the
song spelled out an F major seventh chord, which they
felt sounded too much like jazz.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I'm not a music guy, so that means nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I don't know what any of that was.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
You're pretty suave and air guitar, but I can't play
a chord asama, so we're okay.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
All right.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
The car chase, in which the clown is driving an
invisible car, was meant to be shown before the opening credits.
The character driving the car is Joe Lombardo, who Mike
and Debbie find in a cotton candy cocoon several scenes
earlier in the film.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I found out funny how fast that ice cream truck
could go.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
It was flying, Yeah, yeah it.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Was, And it's top heavy. Do you see it shake
the whole time?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
I might just run the clown off the road. You
know you're heavier, move them.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
The first day of recording the music score took place
on October thirty first, nineteen eighty seven. Many of the
characters in the film, including Mike Tobacco, the Tarnzi brothers,
and Joe Lombardo, were real names based on real childhood
buddies of the brothers. Mike Tobacco was known for bringing
girls to make out point with champagne in his glove
compartment and a rubber raft in the back scene.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I did think the rubber raft was a nice touch.
What the champagne was.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
The rubber raft makes me laugh because if you look
at it, it is patches.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, it's not like you're not the first girl to pop.
You've been using that raf for a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Wonder if he uses something else.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
So the Tonsi brothers really did rint an ice cream
truck with the hopes of getting girls.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
So this is actually true stories.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Of something hilarious. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
You said we could have all the ice cream we won.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
You didn't shame we were parking.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You know what's funny is when they they end up
in the ballpit on the spaceship.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Well, if you notice at the end they got the
kiss mark all over.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Are these her hot roommates?
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh man? So.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
An earlier version of the restaurant scene was shot showing
the brothers sitting at the table in the background as extras,
and there is a Wilhelm scream it's heard when the
King Clown or clown Zilla as he's often referred to,
throws Rich and Paul's ice cream truck. I'm around the
same time, MGM began production of two low budget horror films,
one of them being Killer Clowns from Outer Space and
the other Clowns House by Victoria Salva. Both films are
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very different, but with the concept of killer Clowns. Have
you ever seen that one?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Dustin? That would be a no?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I haven't even heard of that one, so I have
to watch that one.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Yeah, the popcorn gun included a compressor inside that would
fire real popcorn.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man, I need that. I love popcorn.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
It was the most extensive prop in the movie, costing
how much Dustin to make to shoot real popcorn one
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Dollars seven thousand, seven thousands.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
It took six weeks to build it. They were not
frugal with their money.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Oh you know what, we can't afford to redo that
car scene.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
But you know what we can do.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Let's build a seven thousand dollars popcorn gun.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
It only worked for one take as well.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't expect nothing else.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
When Mike pulls the cotton candy off the body to
reveal the bloody face of farmer Jean Green, a nicely
smaller cotton candy cocoon of scene hanging me hind this
is his dog.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I never put that together.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I just assumed it was like wet cotton candy that
was melton.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
It was bloody. It was like his skin was I
thought it was.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Melted cotton candy. I love the balloon dog.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, I never put you and you together that the
poo bear was in it.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
The balloon dog, the clowns.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Did you know what happened with the balloon dog?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
It kept popping so they had to coat it in
liquid latex to get it through the scene.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Did you ever at a Disney World? Did you ever
get that invisible dog leash? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Gosh yeah?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
They Yeah, dust is like what we were too poor
when we got to go to Disney. We just it's like, hey,
you're gonna you don't get Mickey Mouse ears, you don't
get an invisible dog leash. You're gonna get maybe lunch
if you're lucky.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
There was approximately forty clowns used in the Climax and
the space ship Big Top. It was John Vernon's idea
to have the clowns scored him twice in the face
with the flowers for great comedic relief. Replays the clown
that squirts the water in Officer Mooney's face. Let's see here,
Oh here you go, Dussin, this is right up heure
ally the Insane clown Posse sample dialogue for this film
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for the stillness on their two thousand and two Jokers
card album The Wraith Shinger Law.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
That brings back some memories.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Everybody listened to icp in like nineteen ninety eight, Are you.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
A Hatchetthead or whatever they're called? There were juggalos but
then yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Because most of the vehicles were rendered for this film,
the production was not allowed to crash any cars, even
though there are several scenes featuring a car crash. Only
Joe Lombardo's car, which drives off a bridge is damaged.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Oh here we go.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Debbie's shower scene lasts for twenty minutes of screen time
and potentially covers hours of time in the chronologic order
of the film itself.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Wow She was really taking a shit. She just felt dirty. Yeah,
I mean, you know what it was. It was that
raft she was.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
She got something she couldn't get rid of.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
The brothers were interviewed on the podcast called Classic American
Movies to talk about the making of Colors Clowns, as
well as where their love of film began.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
So I want to check that out, Dustin, I'm good.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
The character of Bob Mcreid, who is the blonde guy
with glasses who crosses the street in front of Officer
Mooney at the top of the film, is played by
young Chris Titus.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
This was his first film role.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Told you like I said, he's the most popular. I
can't believe you guys didn't watch the Titus show. That's
I remind her that it was just okay. Did you
watch Everybody Hates Chris? Did you watch anything good Malcolm
in the Middle. The Malcolm in the Middle wasn't better
the original arrested.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Development a couple episodes. It was fantastic. It's okay, all right,
dust In.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
The line it looks like it was decorated by clowns
r Us was voted as the worst line in the
movie by a fans.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Really, I could think of a few others that this
movie cotton candy cocoons.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
That sounds like another door, another door.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
If you had told me you were to give me
the worst line of the movie, I would have held
the worst ten lines of a movie from the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But no, you didn't give me no heads up. No
nos it mean But I don't know. I'm older than
you guys. So do you remember, you know, the spaceship
what it looked like. Do you remember that top you
could get and pushed down on, like the metal one.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Inn Oh, yeah, and it had stuff that would spin
around inside. Yeah, that's exactly what that looked like.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah, So I could have saved them a lot of
money by it right.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
For perception cost reasons, the interior of the Spaceship Big
Top was made with a modular tinker toy design. Various
elements were built that could be put together different to
make different rooms, rather than designing and building multiple sets
at great expense. The brothers described the design as a
combination of Memphis design and doctor suits.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
See, I thought they missed the mark when they went
into when it was the amusement park they went into,
and they went in like door number one. They totally
missed the chance of going in like door number one,
what's in door number two? Door number three?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
They did, Oh, they did it. Another door, another door.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
They went in the one door and Okay, I must
have missed that part because I was driving, But I
was like, they missed the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Well they they came back out and then they went
in like the green door. Yeah, so they went in
the middle door. Then they came out, went in this.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I don't know if they it was very Scooby Dewey.
I was driving Scooby Dooby.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
Or I was in a vehicle that was driving. I'm
not gonna say that I was drive.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
The movie originally ended with the brothers as the survivors
of the exploding spaceship. All Dave perished after killing the
giant clown, but since the executive needed an upbeat ending,
the Kyoto Brothers filmed a second inning that is in
all the versions, where Dave and the Trenzay brothers survived
the exploding spaceship by hiding in the clown car.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I was thinking, if they kid nap the little girl
at the restaurant, I was going to turn it off.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Right then and there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, that part is it's kind of creepy.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Yeah, it's it's the one part where you're kind of like, ooh,
that's is that crossing the line.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's a it's a killer clown. But yeah, it's a
little weird.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
You were watching and she's like, they're not going to
kill the little girl, are they?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I'm like, if they do, we're not going to finish it.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Oh man.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
The name Jojo comes up at least twice in the movies.
It turns out that's the name of the largest and
meanest of the clowns. When Dave leaves with Mike and
Debbie to investigate their story about the alien clowns, Mooney
says to him, go ahead, Dave, make a dummy out
of yourself, but you're not going to make a dummy
out of me. It foreshadows what happens to him later
on in the film The Dummy.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
It is a cool scene, though, I have to say
it's actually my favorites. How they like slump him around
with that, it's very very creepy.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Puppy's pretty cool, all right, Dustin, what is your guess?
Because Jackie will notice, what does your guest on the
body count how many bodies are in this movie?
Speaker 6 (33:01):
The body, the death uh dead people.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
We had the biker that got his head knocked off,
the sheriff, the dog.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Seven you don't remember him eating like that whole crowd
of with the shadow puppets or is it gonna go seven?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
It's forty at least forty. There wasn't a lot of
There was a lot of cotton candy cocoons in.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
The lit room. I love that they're painted on. At
one point.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Background, I was assuming some of those cotton candy cocoons
were from other towns.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Oh, it could be, it could be.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, And I'll stop with this one. There's some other ones,
but we'll just stop with this one. When Mooney gets
phone calls about people seeing the clowns, which he ignores,
a man reports his wife being abducted and taken away
in a balloon. If for shadows Debbie's fate later in
the movie, she's carrying around in the broom.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, the littly yellow balloon.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
So uh if you ever watch Ernest Scared Stupid, Oh yeah,
might recognize some of the trolls.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
They actually the Ko Ko, the brothers Kyoto. That's the ones,
all right, they guys, aren't.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
UFC fans, are you?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Because there was my Kyota probably still saying wrong.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
It's going to pronounce something different, doesn't just act like.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
They were hired to work on the creature effects for
this movie, and instead of sculpting all new characters, they
just took two of the molds of the four molds
and repurposed them. They painted them differently and added some prosthetics.
But any true fan can totally spot the killer clowns
in there.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
It's fun.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Have you ever seen Ernest Scared Stupid?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
I've watched as a kid's been thirty years, but I
watched the Earnest movies.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
That was that was the thing you had to watch.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We watch it, you'll see them.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Yeah, he's a great guy. He's a great guy.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Great. He still is in my heart, in your heart,
Slinky Dog.
Speaker 9 (34:56):
I absolutely love to uh the pizza delivery when she
answers the door in her little nightgown and here's three
ugly clowns.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And she's like, oh, pizza.
Speaker 9 (35:07):
It is ten pizza boxes stacked on top of each other,
and then a puppeteer underneath it, with Shorty inside. The
pup inside this box. It's the funniest behind the scenes. Look,
if you ever get a chance to do it, so dust.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
What was your favorite scene of the movie.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
Well, I'm still baffled with the scene where he's taking
stuff out to the dumpster and you hear like sounds
like rats in the dumpster. Yeah, so you're a restaurant.
You hear something scurring in the dumpster. It's a rat
or a rat coon. I'm just gonna throw my stuff
in there and leave it. But no, I'm gonna go. Look,
I'm gonna take my head and hair and look. Yeah,
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he got killed by a clown. He got put in
a cotton candy cocoon. What was your favorite scene? I
was hoping the bathroom scene was gonna be a little
bit better than it was. We need some soapy boobies
to make this movie a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You're gonna say it was what Pg thirteen back in
the eighties?
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well Titanic was PG thirteen two, wasn't it?
Or was that R? He may have been right at R.
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
I thought you would say where the clown takes the straw?
The straws in the cocoon?
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Strong, all the blood.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
I like the I like the scene.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
I I liked watching the uh the ice cream truck
just fly down the road is like as fast as
it could go, the world's fastest ice cream truck.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
I think the shadow up it's just probably funny. They're like,
oh look, it's George Washington.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
The only thing that saved this movie was they knew
it was the B movie. They didn't try to make
anything other than a B movie.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
I have to say, I absolutely love like the nerdy
guy that walks into the Gizzy bo and he's watching
the Puppet Show and he's just like nodding with it
and like, you know, carrying on a whole conversation with
himself in his head.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
It's the best.
Speaker 9 (36:54):
That and the two like punk goth kids that are clearly,
you know, very old men with receiving hairlines that go
to the college and are drinking on campus, and movie
is all mad about it. It's it was a beautiful night, We're.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Going to college for drinking.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
It's great.
Speaker 9 (37:11):
It's the casting from Greece all over again, and it's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
Yes, all right, Dustin, So we're gonna let you kick
this off with your rating. What are you gonna get
this on skettle one to ten, What you liked, what
you didn't like, and do you recommend for somebody to
watch this movie.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
I'll recommend it as a one time watch.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Maybe some alcohol could help the the movie. It's it's
one you can definitely watch and not pay attention. Hour
and twenty eight minutes, perfect timing, it's not too long,
it's not too short. Not my favorite thing. But now
I'm learning. If I'm gonna do some stuff with you
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on this, I'm gonna have a lot of movies. You're
not gonna give us good movies to do unless we
just hijacket and be like, hey, we're gonna do this.
The last good movie you did was Who for and
Roger Rabbit. That's a fact. Look at the statistics.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
That's a good one.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Look at the statistics. You can't judge it as a
a list movie. So we're not gonna talk it. You know,
it's an eight out of ten because it's not. So
we're gonna go like, on a scale of one to four,
a b Liss movie one to four, it's a solid
three and a half.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
So if you take that on a scale of one
to ten and make it a one to four. So
you're giving it a.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Oh if you put on a on a normal Hollywood release,
is it still a three to four?
Speaker 6 (38:35):
No, it's like it's like a half star. Wow. Ouch,
you just can't compare them. They're just two. Did you
laugh at all? We cringed a lot more than we laughed.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Like I said, the sound of If the sound effects
weren't so nineteen eighties technoy garbage it though, it would.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
Have been a lot better.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
I personally love it because it's of a time when
effects were done by them.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
That's what makes it good is because it was you
had to make it. You couldn't go buy it. Yes,
you couldn't put it in front of a screen. It's
like a clay mation movie, right. You gotta make everything.
You gotta spend time. Somebody spend a lot of time
on these these outfits, these these masks that if you
look at them, they kind of look like your hand
or something like that. When you look at like the
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wrinkles on your hand and the way the skin is,
it looked a lot like real skin.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
It didn't look like facial skin.
Speaker 9 (39:36):
They used real pies in this too. In fact, they
even created a wristband that would attach to all the
clown's hands, so the tin would stay in their hand
and the pie would launch out at the people, which
is genius in my opinion, right.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
I mean that's where the other half of the budget went.
All the pies and all the pie filling falls down.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Is this over? And you're like, oh, there's some little
specs fall it?
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yeah, boom pie everywhere.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
Pie clowns got the last joke.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
So I'm assuming now, how do you want to go
really dark and say that was still the guy that turned.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Because the where is the giant cherry? The little shorty
puts on top?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
So cute, and it leaves it to where they didn't
really kill him, so you just they went somewhere else.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Mmm uh, well, the brothers have talked for the last
thirty years about a sequel, it's never actually come to fluition.
Speaker 8 (40:31):
So you know, is even like a TV show a series, Yes,
would be really cool to be a remake would be
really cool.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
And then you can only if they bring back the
same cast because the acting was amazing.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
The uh who was the main character that was running
through was that Mike to Tobacco his voice, He's like
I hate his voice.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
It's terrible.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
I'm like, I don't think he's probably trying to sound
that way. That's probably how he sounds.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
It really is an interesting group of people. There is
some talent in it, but yeah, some of the acting
is just it's so bad. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
And yeah, it'd be hard to make this movie again
because you really need to film it the same way.
You can't put a bunch of you can't see giet, yeah,
because that takes away from the lore of it. You
can't film it on new technology cameras, like you could
go five or ten years newer than the eighties, but
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when you start getting too much detail, you start seeing
the flaws and everything.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yeah, it loses some of the magic.
Speaker 7 (41:36):
Yeah, so the way the mask wore, you'd have to
find a way to film it in that eighties B
movies type vibe or it's going to be ruined.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
You couldn't do a high death version. So, Jackie, what
are you going to rate this movie?
Speaker 9 (41:50):
Just because I've been watching it for twenty years and
I freaking love it. It's in my top ten personally
because it makes me laugh like an idiot every time,
and I can tell you many many nights growing up.
This was like my friends and I would sit and
watch this and way we would just laugh our butts off.
It was fantastic. So as far as if you've never
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seen it, see it. If you're into campy horror, this
is definitely the way to go. If you are not
into campy horror, don't come after me, because you still
need to see it.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (42:24):
It's not really.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Horror though it is, but it's it's like Michael Meyer's
Horror where you you They did drama like you know,
music and getting your heart, yeah, to get you that
jump factor.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
It wasn't bloody. It wasn't the beauty of it though.
That's nice because I don't get into that.
Speaker 9 (42:43):
Yeah, it's one of those things that I mean, honestly,
I have an eleven year old.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
She could watch this. She would probably laugh hysterically. She's
not normal.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
We know your little daughter would probably little one would
have a blast.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, I have a five year old. But gosh, you
know what, guys, I just found our Halloween.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Coming out of a pizza.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
Ca Yeah.
Speaker 9 (43:10):
Okay, so my family clearly loves it. Uh So, Yeah,
it's it's one that it definitely enjoy. You can watch
it with the family.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
It just take it for what it is.
Speaker 9 (43:20):
It's an old, crappy movie that is a lot of fun,
and it's like what a bunch of friends would do
if they were in college trying to make a buck.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
It's kind of what it looks like. It's great.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
I love it. So what are you rating it though?
Or are you gonna go my one to four? My
B list movie.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
If it's a B list, it's a four.
Speaker 9 (43:40):
But if it's you know, I'd say it's a seven,
just because it's just nostalgia fun for me.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
Very eighties.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
It's great, very very eighties.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
Yes, all right, Jimbo, Now it's your turn.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
This is obviously ten. No I am kidding. Doesn't so
you're saying it's a ten. That's perfect.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Will make another better movie than Thank you for joining
the Tragedy of Cinema podcast as we wrap up the
very last episode we will ever do. Because we have
a perfect movie. You no longer need to go find
these movies. We don't need the top one hundred movies
of all time because Jimbo just found it. Sorry Kyle,
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by a way to send Kyle off, we love you, Kyle.
In all honesty, I go years without watching this movie.
It's probably been ten years since I've.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Seen it at least once every three months.
Speaker 8 (44:34):
So when you pull it back out, and you can
pull this movie out and you can laugh again and
again and again every time I watch so dust on
the next time you watch it, you'll be like, this
is hilarious.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I'm gonna watch it in the car. I tried to
watch it today. Yeah, after you know, you might missed
very important, you know, key moments.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah, I gotta pay attention to the road every now
and though too so.
Speaker 8 (44:54):
But if I'm being serious all jokes aside, I would
probably give it a five out of ten.
Speaker 6 (44:59):
So that's fait.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
I think it's it's a fun movie to watch. Is
it gonna win any awards?
Speaker 2 (45:04):
No?
Speaker 8 (45:04):
Is it a but it is a cult following. I
put it kind of up there with Rocky Horror Picture
Show very much. So Rocky Horror Picture Show is so crazy?
Have you seen Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
No?
Speaker 7 (45:13):
But I will say I was a lot happier watching
this movie at one o'clock in the morning than I
was Howard the Duck.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
So yeah, I'd say if you haven't seen it, at
least give it a shot, especially around Halloween time, and
then you might actually understand why some of those kids
are dressed up as room in your neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Cloud. We'll just watch it when this drops. Because you're
so close to the anniversary of this show. We missed it.
Speaker 7 (45:37):
We should have did this last week, and we could
have dropped it today because we don't look ahead to
the future.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
Right, So hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode. We hope
that you will come over and listen to the Dark
Discoveries episode on killer clowns in real life, because we
are going to be talking about some John Wayne Gacy
and some other creepy.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
And some real clowns like Jack the Ripper h H.
Speaker 7 (46:03):
Holmes. Mermaids, Uh yeah, these these mythical things in Jimbo's
brain called mermaids and possibly even what do we call them,
wampus cats. But we're gonna talk about serious stuff too.
We're gonna talk about, you know, really what happened with
NASA and the moon landing and probably some things like
(46:25):
that jeffk conspiracy, right, and.
Speaker 8 (46:27):
We also have a little something called the Forget Me Nots,
which is one of our more serious topics we talk about,
which is the missing children's podcast episodes. We do because
we want to be known for something not just goofy
and fun, which we are. But we know when to
be serious, and we know when to have fun, and
we know when we can just let loose and cut
up and that's what makes this podcast so fun to do.
(46:48):
So but with that being said, I think this episode's
coming to closing. That's a wrap and cut.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
The Tragedy of Cinema where then Marie Shimmer joined us, says,
we toast to the tales we love the most, the
tragedy of said then Marie Shimmer joined us, says, we
toast to the tales we love the most. Those we
(47:28):
love the most, the tragedy of Cinema them Mary Shimmer.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
If we tell the tails we love the most, to
the tails we.
Speaker 6 (48:08):
Love the most, join us.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Set me tost to the tails we love the most, To.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
The tails were the tails we love the most.
Speaker 9 (48:33):
I'm Jojo, the ice cream clown. Will give you a
stick and you'll give it a lick, and it'll tickle
you all the way down. Ice Cream ice cream. We
brought our goodies here to you a tasty treat for
while you screw. Let's take a break. Cool off those
hot lips with our fruity frozen dr bars, icy icy
fudgy wodgie bars, and everyone's favorite delight, the liquor stick.
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