September 28, 2019 • 34 mins
On the penultimate episode of The Night Stalker, Carl takes on Helen of Troy (Cathy Lee Crosby) who has stayed alive all this time by stealing the vivacity of young hot single people. Carl is helped by his old friend Gordy the Ghoul (John Fiedler) and cabbie Kaz (George Savalas).
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Nowhere in man's history does he displaymore tenacity, more perseverance than in his
search for eternal youth. Holding.The relentless process of aging has been a
constant dream of man's and of woman'seach youth. Is it really a dream?
Or is it possible? At somewheresomeone found the secret. The following
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experience gave me a new attitude onthe whole subject of youth and aging.
September twenty eight, o five PM. William Cobby, aged twenty two,
deeply concerned with retaining his youthful vigorhis trim physique. This concern had made
him a dedicated jogger. Cobby wouldnever know if they jogging really helped.
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He was the first of a seriesof Chicagolans who were spared the ordeal of
seeing their youth slip away slowly.That was the voice of reporter Carl Kolchak
in The Case that We Are CallingThe Youth Killer. Originally released March fourteenth,
nineteen seventy five. It was directedby Don McDougall and written by our
old friend Rudy Borchett. Actually DonMcDougall's also an old friend. He directed
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Legacy of Terror and Rudy Borchett.Gosh, what was that? It was
the Trivy Collection. I am joined, of course by my co host,
supreme mister christass you no, I'mhere And this was this was an episode
of Colchack that we watched. Itwas definitely an episode, Yeah, it
was. It was. It wasinteresting. There were a lot of good
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parts and a couple couple of strangecolchacky things. But I actually liked this
episode a lot. Did you havea chance to read the script? I
did not have a chance to readthe script. There were some interesting differences.
The balance between the B story andthe A story was a little bit
better. So our A story isa series of murders that are happening that
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Kathy Lee Crosby, who we fine. So I remembered Kathy Crosby mostly from
That's Incredible, but I didn't realizethat That's Incredible was nineteen seventy nine,
eighty eighty one. She was knownprimarily as being a big tennis star.
Apparently she got her start in tennisand then she started doing the acting thing,
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and she was all over the place, both as herself in things like
Battle the Network Stars, and thena ton of guest appearances, including this
guest appearance here, and yeah,she's looking fantastic in this, and I
think it's very appropriate that she's basicallyHelen of Troy re not reincarnated, but
has lived. Oh god, she'slived forever, Chris, and she has
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to make sacrifices every few years inorder voice sounds like something we've seen on
this show multiple times, I'll tellyou what. Like, I'm not going
to go down the road of bemoaningthat again because we've done it too many
times now. But it's nice thatit was a female character. Yeah,
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it was nice to have a murderrest instead of our murderer this time.
However, it is the exact sameshit we've seen before, and I don't
need to see it again. Andguess what, They've got one episode and
I don't think we're seeing it again, So three times in twenty episodes.
Well, not only was I thinkingof Ericastrata in this episode, but I
was also thinking of the episode thatwe just recently saw of the Coal Check
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two thousand and five series, whereit was the woman with the super sharp
teeth and the boys that were maybeher son's, maybe not. But I
was just like, Okay, herewe go again. That's what it reminded
me of more than the original ColdCheck was the reboot almost like very beat
for beat. So she's going aroundand killing all of these people, and
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then it just so happens that hergig is that she has created an online
dating service so that she can orsorry, I should say a computer dating
service. Yeah, computer dating service, so that she can find the most
perfect specimens in Chicago, male orfemale, doesn't matter. She wants the
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most perfect people so that she cansacrifice them to hectate the goddess and then
be able to get this eternal lifethat she's had for however many years now.
And luckily, Carl has been puton for the best story. He's
been put on the case of tryingto write a story about or he's been
told by Vincenzo because New York wantsthat. New York wants a story.
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Carl wants a story about the singlescene, and you got to write about
it. Hecate is the god ofherbs and poisonous plants. Like she's she's
not the god of beauty. She'slike part of the underworld. That's where
she lives. In Greek mythology,in Greek religion is under the underworld.
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I don't understand why that was thecharacter that was picked as the one that
she's praying to. Yeah, itkind of reminds me again going back to
the Ericastrada one where it's like,well, katz a kuwadal would make more
sense than who you're saying, becausethat's supposed to be a good guy that
you're making sacrifices too. But whatever, it feels like, just just pick
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some shit and we're gonna go withit, and people aren't gonna I mean,
nobody's gonna go and do like us. And you know, look,
I mean that's that's fair, LikeI get it. But okay, like
that, that to me is justit's a I mean, look again,
we're overthinking it because the show cameout fifty plus years ago and they didn't
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they were just oh heckat sure,why not. But but again, that
whole the whole thing where it's justanother sacrifice, I kind of overlooked it
because this episode was a lot offun. There were some really fun side
characters like Dwayne Hickman is Sergeant Orkin. We get Gordy the goul back the
final time he's only been in itthree times. I was so happy to
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see Gordy. I was so excitedwhen I was reading the screenplay. I
read the screenplay before I watched it, and when Gordy the Goul showed up
in there, I was like,there's no way, there's no way he's
coming back. I mean, wehaven't seen him in what sixteen episodes or
something. There's no way he's goingto be there. Sure enough, there's
Gordony the cool I'm trying to rememberthe last episode we saw him, and
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I want to say it was theyare, they have been, they will
be. They have been, theyare, they will be, And that
would, like you said, thatwas a long time ago. I don't
know why he wasn't in more becauseif you go on IMDb and you look
at like the build buy and who'sbeen in every episode, he is like
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five people down. Darren mcavin,Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt,
Craig Arbaxley who played you know,mister Ring and then apparently he plays
the monster in the next episode,and then you have John Fiedler. Yeah,
he was a more of a stuntman than a behind the camera guy.
But other than him in front ofthe camera with masks on. So
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yeah, I was actually surprised becauseI was like, whoa shit, John
Fiedler's pack, Like what just randomly, It's like they're just acting like Dave
He's been in every episode, Dude, Hey, I'm back Gordy. It's
like what since when? And thenwe know that Jack Rennage wasn't in everything,
because there were a couple of timeswhere he was over in Europe or
doing other stuff and it was justlike, oh, yeah, Ron's on
assignment. But outside of the factthat we finally get to see Gordy again,
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we did get George Savalas, yes, Telly Savalas's brother, and Kathleen
Freeman who's great in everything, andalso Eddie Firestone playing what I can only
describe to be Gill from The Simpsonsin human form, like that's his character,
Like, Hey, I'm I ownmy own business, like okay,
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cool man. George Savalas being billedas the Masthenese in this episode. When
that title came up on the screen, I was like, who the what
am I missing? They were callinghim cat yeah, but his his actor
name. Yeah, that was kindof crazy. I don't know what that
was all about. That was alittle bizarre, but he's great, right.
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I kind of wish George saval Uswould have been a regular character because
he seemed to be like the manon the street guy that Carl really needed,
right like the oh, like he'smy guy who takes me places like
I would have I would have lovedthat if that had been a bigger part
of the show, because you know, Colcheck never really had someone who wasn't
in the office as like a reoccurringcharacter, and that's something I honestly think
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the show was missing as Like anothercomponent was the kind of on the beat
on the street person Johnny, theguy that polishes his shoes, like from
police squad or something. What's theword in the street Johnny. I don't
know. I hear a lot ofthings. Pick a topic. One.
Look, we were never going tohave a cop being that on the show
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because Colcheck has always had even inthis episode with Sergeant Orkin, like you
expect that you're almost going to havethis like changeup of his a changeup of
his relationship with the cops. Butthere's it's not that it ends up.
It ends up one scene and thenit's right back to the same you know,
antagonistic cop nonsense, which I waslike, oh man, this is
going to be different, and thenit wasn't, and I was really kind
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of disappointed. Honestly, I wantto say that there might have been like
one more scene that was in thescript, because after please help me out
here, because it's one of thoseweird things where I'm like, Okay,
I read the script and now Isaw the thing, and now I can't
remember which is which. Does heend up hearing back from Sergeant Orkin and
hearing your right, those prints matchthese old people. No, okay,
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nope, that's in the script.The the final scene is throwing of the
pin wheel at cool. Okay,yeah, there's more to it, which
is a bummer. That's a bummerthat there was not a bigger wrap up,
and you know, I always tryto read the script ahead of time.
This was the only time I haven'tgotten to read a script recently,
and I felt like if I hadread that, I probably would have been
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missing it too, because it neededit. It needed some little third bit
to put a cap on their relationship. So he's like, well, I
should have listened to Colchick, becausethere's never that moment, and to be
fair, there's never really that momentin the show anyway, so it kind
of tracks with the rest of theshow. This episode almost has too many
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things going on because there are justlittle shades of stuff that are missing.
It's like the whole thing of Tonyhas this whole subplot where he is going
to work out and he's eating rightand all this stuff, and there's more
to that as well, like whenCarl gets called into his office and Tony's
there, like stuck in the lotusposition. There had been a scene where
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Carl saw him in the lotus positionand was like, what are you doing?
And then he explains, you know, oh I'm now I'm mastering yoga,
and he's just so full of himself. And then when he finally calls
for help from Carl, that's thatbreaking point. So we get much more
of like Tony being in charge ofhimself and you know, bettering himself alf
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and like he even yells at Carlbecause Carl wants to rather than that donut,
Carl wants to tempt him by goingdown to like a greasy spoon diner,
and Tony's like, oh, you'renot gonna have me pay for your
lunch and try to get by onthe company dole and da da da da
da. So it's there's a lotmore to that. There's a lot more
to the whole dating thing. There'sone thing I want to read to you
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because it is amazing. He goes, he has Tony yells at him like
I had this kid go around townand get you all of these papers and
all of these different catalogs for thesedating places. And carl sits down at
his desk and he picks up acopy of a magazine called Singles Weekly,
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and he reads his voice over isthe single scene had indeed changed. Carl
leaves through the tabloid to the classifiedads. Reads one white female, twenty
two good bod digs, light Band D, passive SNL, classical music
and water sports. No weirdos orRepublicans please, there is no way that
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that would have That's exactly what Isaid. And then the next one is
Carlos thoughtful form for a moment,reads another ad group square dancing, old
time fund singles or couples refreshments,nudity optional. Yeah, and it just
this whole scene is like him saying, like the most conservative newspaper in Chicago
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had a classified column headed social clubs. The ads offered photo mating, Jewish
Polish, oriental introductions, computer matching, astrological matching. But it all boils
down to a simple need. Sothat's when he goes to see Bella.
Yeah, there's a lot more tohim with this hell Singles thing, and
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that's a bummer because, look,you know, ultimately at the end of
the day was something like this showthe time constraint. Look, you know
there is a time constraint, butit's not like another show that I'm watching
right now for another podcast, likewhere Wolf. It's not a twenty three
minute show. This is a fullhour long show. So there's some stuff
in this, like the whole subplotwith Irvin that could have been completely cut
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down. Well again, it's likeRudy is writing a script that seventy seven
pages long, and I'm like,this is not a ninety minute show where
you're leaving some room for commercials.What are you doing even handing in a
seventy seven page script Because maybe heknew that it was going to get cut
down anyways, could be, butI mean, every single one of these
pieces, and there's even a momentin the show where it like fades out
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kind of quickly, and I waslike, oh, there is more to
that. There's more to that particularscene. So it's like it almost looks
like they shot it and then justcut it out. It's a total bummer
because I actually kind of like thisepisode, even though we've talked about how
similar it is to some of theother ones. I thought it was.
Yeah, it was intriguing. Ireally liked some of the effects works they
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were doing. I mean, yeah, old age makeup has come very far
since then. Boy right, Butlike the scene of the woman on the
balcony who's doing aerobics and she goesdown, comes back up, and she's
older, goes down, comes backup and she's older still. I mean
that was it was a cheap effect, but it was really effective. Can
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I ask you something, though,why do you think with the character of
Irvin they had someone playing him asan old man versus everyone else? It
was just the young actor an oldperson makeet That was kind of a strange
choice. It's a strange choice consideringI mean, was it because we had
been following him? I mean,he just dies on a bench and then
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the next scene, we get anothercharacter who just dies in their bed.
But it would have made more senseif you're going to do it once,
to just do it every time andjust have like an older actor portraying that
person. It just seemed it wasan odd choice. Yeah, the person
that dies in their bed. Iwas really scratched my head over that one.
I was like, did we needone more murder here? This is
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kind of strange. The answer isno, because it felt just like,
oh, so I we get it. So it's it's just increasing the body
count. Two men and two women. Go oh okay. That's another one
where I was just like, Idon't even remember that being in the script,
So why would they shoot that andnot some of this other stuff that
actually like adds to the whole overallepisode. But can you please tell me
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what it is with Greek characters andhaving these bizarre home remedies, Because the
immediately when I saw him putting mayonnaisemayonnaise on Colcheck's hand, I thought of
Windex from my big fag Greek wedding. The whole thing of the cab and
them talking outside the cab and theconventionaire. You know you talked about Gil
coming to life from The Simpsons prettymuch? Was he not? I think
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that that's supposed to be in thecab And then they end up going to
a mechanics place and they put mechanicsgrease on his hand rather than mayonnaise,
because that was bizarre. Well,I mean even the show acknowledges how bizarre
it is, because Vincenzo goes,who the hell are you? Like,
Yeah, exactly who the hell isthis guy? This Telly savals his brother
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just in the you know, theions like building, Like, what the
hell? Like, why is hein there with him? It's bizarre.
He does not look like Telly Savalas, Oh doesn't he not. That's that's
fine, though it would have beena little distracted. Oh yeah, I
mean if he just had like theword schlub written across him, it was
amazing. Yeah, he's a bigold schluve, like an emphasis on the
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big because a big old guy too. But he's great. I like him.
He portrays exactly what I was expectingfrom that kind of character in this
kind of show. Oh. Anotherthing that I forgot to tell you was
Carl is arguing with Vincenzo about coveringthe singles and he was like trying to
give him other people to do it, so like, oh, miss Emily's
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too old. And then Ron itwas like he had like this whole thing
about Ron doing the singles thing,and I was just like, oh again,
we're trying to pretend that Ron hashad hersexual Okay, thanks, well
again, this is this is theseventies. But I know, I know,
but I mean, it can't haveLight B and D in here,
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but we can't have Ron being gay. Well they didn't have that in there
though, to be fair, well, but we did get that reference when
he's on the phone to the Yentaand he's just like, you know,
oh, I don't need a girlright now, and miss Emily is saying
good night and she thinks that he'sordering a prostitute. Yeah, that's true,
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but it's not as overt as hey, Ron's gay true, or Light
B and D and water sports whichwho in the seventies would have known that
water sports is being paid on.But again, I will say this much
about the end of the episode.It has one of the best shots in
the series together where Colcheck is gettingout of his car and all of a
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sudden it's like really lit well,and it's like a tracking shot. It
like zooms out and then follows himinto the building. It's really weird because
I was like, we don't getthese like kind of high class shots in
this show. And then on topof everything else, col Tex straight up
breaks the fourth wall, yeah,right, which is not common. He's
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like normally talking to you, butnot directly at you. And at the
end of this episode he is talkingat the audience like he is full on
facing the camera and I was like, what where did huh? Well,
that's kind of what they were tryingto do with that last episode where he
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looks at the camera that's in thewall and it's like you believe me,
don't you? Or whatever he wassupposed to say when he was in the
a scene asylum, right, Butin this episode it's it is that come
to fruition, but in a waythat is just it's not that it doesn't
work, but it doesn't work likeit's I am. I am appreciative of
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what it is, but honestly,it feels a little ham fisted, and
by a little I mean a lot, because it's just it's they haven't done
that before, and the time thatthey were thinking about doing it in the
last episode they bailed out of itfor whatever reason. Seems like there's something
else I was going to say aboutthis episode, and I'm trying to remember
what it is. Is it thatColchack destroying the temple is amazing? He
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is the laziest destroyer of a templeyou have ever seen. He's just oh,
walking around, just lazily throwing.He's like, it might be the
best thing I've ever seen in thisshow. Colchack just like a yeah there's
column, sure, oh there's bustwhatever. Yeah, this that whatever.
It's so lazy in the best way. It's lazy, and only the way
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I would believe it's actually Colchack doingit. When Colchack puts on that ring,
he's actually supposed to start getting older. And there's this whole thing again
where it's like, hey, Carl, you looks so good, and they
talk about how it looks like he'saged five years since the last time they
saw him. I'm almost glad thatthey didn't try to do that, because,
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like I said, the old agemakeup could be a little distracting,
but thematically, it doesn't make anysense right. Thematically, it makes no
sense act that he would get older, that he wouldn't get older, that
he doesn't get older because everyone elsewho has the ring on eventually gets older.
And if he's not, then what'sspecial about Colejack? He has the
mark of Kine. That's way.Oh is this not a crossover episode?
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Yeah? I keeps looking at thathalf a gumby hanging from his windshield.
Ultimately, this episode is pretty goodand Kathy Lee Crosby's a great female villain
and she's actually a pretty solid actressin this I like how apparently also,
a midnight interview, if you're ajournalist, means you're breaking and entering.
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We're going out for one of themidnight interviews, Coljack. That's b an
a dude, Like, that's straightup breaking and entering. Like, what
are you talking about? But Imean again, like we've had our issues
with this show, namely the waythe villain's arc is resolved, and in
this episode it's resolved really well.She turns into a statue, Like that's
great. That works thematically in thecontext of the story. And it's not
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that it's not believable, but itmakes sense for what they were going with
for the mythology behind the villain right, and that Caz says, like she
looks exactly like every statue I've everseen of Helen of Troy, and it's
like, okay, and if youdisappoint the gods, you get turned into
stone. It just fits perfectly.And it's not one of those like they
couldn't find any traces or turns intoa funny looking skeleton or something, or
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is stabbed with a stick right,or becomes a dog and never turns back
again, or is stabbed with astick. That's the one that will constantly
stick in my mind. The MATCHImideo who just gets stabbed with a stick.
Oh you know, you could justtake a battle axe and hold it
out and then the suit of armorjust falls around it. A werewolf just
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jumps off of a ship. Yeahlater, Yeah pretty uh you know.
In regards to the way the villainstie up in the show, I might
go out on a limb and saythat this is the best we've seen.
I think I'm there with you.Yeah, it's really good and it works,
and it makes it honestly makes alot of sense, Like it makes
more sense than anything else we've seenin the show. Regarding a villain dying
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in quotations. Yeah, this wasa surprise that it was this solid,
because it's like, yeah, Imean, like, okay, the Trevy
Collection had a little bit of aproblem with the way that he, you
know, that villain ended up,But like mister I n G, I
think this one, this goes inkind of the higher levels of of you
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know, episodes. For me,I would agree. I mean, we're
look, I don't want to spoilthe fun here, but we are one
episode away from the show being over, which something about one season shows I
know something about is that at theend of this we are going to want
more and we are not going toget anymore. And I am disappointed by
that because the last couple episodes havebeen pretty good and it feels almost like
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the show is settling into a grooveand the next episode is the last one.
Yeah, and I'm very curious tosee what the next episode brings because
that's another al Ford Neil and JohnHuff episode and they were the ones that
gave us mister r I n G. So really very curious to see what
the centuries like. Yeah, metoo, because again, this is a
really this was a really well doneepisode, and Richard if you're listening,
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You're welcome. I was positive foronce, so there you go. I
really can't find much wrong with thisepisode. No, and like you said,
those guest spots are fantastic. Ilove Dwayne Hickman, so was seeing
him in here. I was sohappy. And you're right. As far
as Kathleen Freeman, she is alwaysgreat. She is such a comic genius.
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She used to be in a lotof the old Cherry Lewis stuff and
she could take him toe to toe. She was just a solid, solid
comedian. I just think of herfrom the Third Naked Gun movie and obviously
from the Blues Brothers. Oh mygod, yes, yeah, so but
again, she's great in this andhonestly, with the way we've had this
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show going, with the way theshow has gone, with how great the
like supporting characters have been, it'snot surprising that she's good. But I
really like the fact that this episode'sside characters almost steal the show because they're
all memorable, especially Telly Savalas's brother. Poor guy. He's probably always known
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as Telly Savalas's brother, right,or Demosthites, Demo Steenies or whatever his
fake name is. I was lookingthrough his filmography to see if he had
been called that any other time,and I wasn't seeing it. I wonder
if it was just to not billhim as tells of all as his brother
could be kind of weird, right, well, not really. I mean
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when you and I talked about LoneWolf and Cub, I mean Wakayama Thomas
a Burro. His name is amade up name because he is Katsu Shintaro.
Yeah, Kartsu Shintaro, I think, is the guy who played Zatuichi.
He was more of a star thanhis brother, and so he didn't
want to have the same name andbe like, oh, it's the other
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you know guy, So he tooka completely different name. So I can
see Demosthenes doing the same thing.He was billed as Demosthenes to avoid confusion
with his brother. That's what itsays. That's what it says an IMDb
and IMDb would never lie. It'sgot to be true, then it must
be true. So next month weare back and we're going to be covering
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something a little different. We're notchanging into an X Files podcast, but
we are covering it. An episodeof The X Files, which was supposed
to be an episode of the CoalChuck reboot, which is called Molder and
Scully Meet the wear Monster. Itwas based off of the script The M
Word, so we'll be talking bothabout the M word and Molder and Scully
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Meet the wear Monster. What ahorrible title, that is? Why are
we talking about the M word orMolder and Sculling Meet the wear a Monster?
Meet the wear a Monster. Yeah? I think it kind of works
in like a Pope comic book way, but that's not it's a little too
on the nose for its own good. I mean, at least like The
X Files didn't try to do.There are like shows out there that have
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theme names to them. Now,so like you mean, like Chuck,
is that right? Chuck was likeChuck versus the That was the that was
the episode titles was always Chuck versusthe and then the real was one of
the episodes where Chuck versus the PinkBanana or some horseshit like Friends, right,
I mean, Friends were the onesthat came up with that dumb naming
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convention. The Friends Friends one wasthe one with something right. I've never
seen a single episode of Friends.So hashtag roast me, please, You're
better off for it, I guessso, but everybody loves it, not
me, everybody but you. Yeah, And honestly, your opinion is more
important than the general public. Thankyou, Chris. But here's the thing.
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I am an X Files fan.I didn't watch that episode of the
show. Well, I look forwardto seeing it with you for the first
time. Me too, I lookforward to finding out if it is as
bad as everything else that came beforeand after it, with those reboots,
because those reboots spoilers were not good. Ah. This is one of the
few that I watched from that season. I think I watched actually the first
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three, and I quit after watchingthis, So maybe that we'll say something.
I mean, I remember watching theMythology episodes and thinking to myself,
good, great, Chris Carter's backto his old bullshit again. He's back
on that bullshit, because that's Imean, anyone who's a fan of The
X Files, and I'm sure someof you listening are, you know that
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once Chris Carter got on that bullshitwith the Mythology, the show just nosedived
real hard. It just never feltlike he knew where it was going.
Well, it's like the jj Abramsmystery boxing right, I know what the
boxes, but I will never tellyou what the contents are. And once
I start telling you what the contentsare, it is immensely disappointing. And
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the X Files kind of had thesame problem. Yeah, I'm sure Ray
is related to the Skywalkers somehow.Oh dear God, Oh my god,
Chris, what is going on withyou in your life? Sir? Right
now, we are third episode ofthe one season shows coming out. If
we had never done this podcast,cole Check probably would have been a show.
We would have done a one seasonshow season because it only lasted one
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season. And honestly, the effectsand the influence of Colcheck cannot be understated
or overstated or stated enough, frankly, because I would say a lot of
modern television takes from Colcheck. Sowe're doing the one season show where we
talk about shows that only lasted oneseason. We are still talking about Werewolf
from nineteen eighty seven, which it'skind of like The Incredible Hulk meets I
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Don't Know a Werewolf. Just replacedthe Hulk with a werewolf, and you've
got Werewolf of the TV show.And also, I do a podcast called
the Culture Cast where we talk aboutmovies once a week you're on there sometimes
this month we're talking about weird ninetiescomedies and boy there are a lot of
them. And you and I doa little podcast with a good friend of
ours called Dreams for Sale where wetalk about twilds of nineteen eighty five,
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So a lot of kind of notvintage but you know, pre Golden Age
or Golden Age of TV, beforethere was such a term being used for
everything TV. Where can people findyou? What are you up to?
Well, we are in the midstof Chechtember over at the Projection Booth Projection
Booth podcast dot com, and yeah, we're just looking at Czechoslovakian Actually,
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we've got some Slovakian centric films,even one from Milan Nasa or whatever that
middle part between like Bohemia and Slovakiais. So I'm learning more about the
actual layout of Czechoslovakia right now,the former Czechoslovakia aka the Czech Republic plus
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Slovakia whatever. So yeah, that'swhat I'm up to. It's pretty exciting.
Come on down to the Projection Booth. You'll talk about movies and get
a history lesson, a little bitof geography, a little bit of history,
maybe some math. Oh the sadness. I can tell you that,
yeah, definitely. As someone whosefamily is from Eastern Europe, boy,
the Eastern European history is just onelong famine. They're not all Oldiita sax
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Nova, so there are some funnyones in there too. I'm just talking
about the country. That's true,that's true. I want to thank John
Walker for our theme music. Iwant to thank everybody for listening. Have
you stuck with us this long?You should be impressed. Pat yourself on
the back right now, do it. We love you, We too love
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you. I took some pictures,but it seemed pointless. The destruction of
the room would be labeled vandalism ora faulty sprinkler system. I don't need
any photographs of Helen is that shewould always be as she always was,
cold and beautiful and unchanging. Asa PostScript, I offer this bit of
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advice. Should you ever find aring, no matter how pretty or valuable,
consider well before you slip it onyour finger. You may never get
it off again. Bound h Chapter
Nowhere in man's history does he displaymore tenacity, more perseverance than in his
search for eternal youth. Holding.The relentless process of aging has been a
constant dream of man's and of woman'seach youth. Is it really a dream?
Or is it possible? At somewheresomeone found the secret. The following
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experience gave me a new attitude onthe whole subject of youth and aging.
September twenty eight, o five PM. William Cobby, aged twenty two,
deeply concerned with retaining his youthful vigorhis trim physique. This concern had made
him a dedicated jogger. Cobby wouldnever know if they jogging really helped.
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He was the first of a seriesof Chicagolans who were spared the ordeal of
seeing their youth slip away slowly.That was the voice of reporter Carl Kolchak
in The Case that We Are CallingThe Youth Killer. Originally released March fourteenth,
nineteen seventy five. It was directedby Don McDougall and written by our
old friend Rudy Borchett. Actually DonMcDougall's also an old friend. He directed
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Legacy of Terror and Rudy Borchett.Gosh, what was that? It was
the Trivy Collection. I am joined, of course by my co host,
supreme mister christass you no, I'mhere And this was this was an episode
of Colchack that we watched. Itwas definitely an episode, Yeah, it
was. It was. It wasinteresting. There were a lot of good
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parts and a couple couple of strangecolchacky things. But I actually liked this
episode a lot. Did you havea chance to read the script? I
did not have a chance to readthe script. There were some interesting differences.
The balance between the B story andthe A story was a little bit
better. So our A story isa series of murders that are happening that
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Kathy Lee Crosby, who we fine. So I remembered Kathy Crosby mostly from
That's Incredible, but I didn't realizethat That's Incredible was nineteen seventy nine,
eighty eighty one. She was knownprimarily as being a big tennis star.
Apparently she got her start in tennisand then she started doing the acting thing,
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and she was all over the place, both as herself in things like
Battle the Network Stars, and thena ton of guest appearances, including this
guest appearance here, and yeah,she's looking fantastic in this, and I
think it's very appropriate that she's basicallyHelen of Troy re not reincarnated, but
has lived. Oh god, she'slived forever, Chris, and she has
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to make sacrifices every few years inorder voice sounds like something we've seen on
this show multiple times, I'll tellyou what. Like, I'm not going
to go down the road of bemoaningthat again because we've done it too many
times now. But it's nice thatit was a female character. Yeah,
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it was nice to have a murderrest instead of our murderer this time.
However, it is the exact sameshit we've seen before, and I don't
need to see it again. Andguess what, They've got one episode and
I don't think we're seeing it again, So three times in twenty episodes.
Well, not only was I thinkingof Ericastrata in this episode, but I
was also thinking of the episode thatwe just recently saw of the Coal Check
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two thousand and five series, whereit was the woman with the super sharp
teeth and the boys that were maybeher son's, maybe not. But I
was just like, Okay, herewe go again. That's what it reminded
me of more than the original ColdCheck was the reboot almost like very beat
for beat. So she's going aroundand killing all of these people, and
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then it just so happens that hergig is that she has created an online
dating service so that she can orsorry, I should say a computer dating
service. Yeah, computer dating service, so that she can find the most
perfect specimens in Chicago, male orfemale, doesn't matter. She wants the
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most perfect people so that she cansacrifice them to hectate the goddess and then
be able to get this eternal lifethat she's had for however many years now.
And luckily, Carl has been puton for the best story. He's
been put on the case of tryingto write a story about or he's been
told by Vincenzo because New York wantsthat. New York wants a story.
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Carl wants a story about the singlescene, and you got to write about
it. Hecate is the god ofherbs and poisonous plants. Like she's she's
not the god of beauty. She'slike part of the underworld. That's where
she lives. In Greek mythology,in Greek religion is under the underworld.
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I don't understand why that was thecharacter that was picked as the one that
she's praying to. Yeah, itkind of reminds me again going back to
the Ericastrada one where it's like,well, katz a kuwadal would make more
sense than who you're saying, becausethat's supposed to be a good guy that
you're making sacrifices too. But whatever, it feels like, just just pick
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some shit and we're gonna go withit, and people aren't gonna I mean,
nobody's gonna go and do like us. And you know, look,
I mean that's that's fair, LikeI get it. But okay, like
that, that to me is justit's a I mean, look again,
we're overthinking it because the show cameout fifty plus years ago and they didn't
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they were just oh heckat sure,why not. But but again, that
whole the whole thing where it's justanother sacrifice, I kind of overlooked it
because this episode was a lot offun. There were some really fun side
characters like Dwayne Hickman is Sergeant Orkin. We get Gordy the goul back the
final time he's only been in itthree times. I was so happy to
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see Gordy. I was so excitedwhen I was reading the screenplay. I
read the screenplay before I watched it, and when Gordy the Goul showed up
in there, I was like,there's no way, there's no way he's
coming back. I mean, wehaven't seen him in what sixteen episodes or
something. There's no way he's goingto be there. Sure enough, there's
Gordony the cool I'm trying to rememberthe last episode we saw him, and
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I want to say it was theyare, they have been, they will
be. They have been, theyare, they will be, And that
would, like you said, thatwas a long time ago. I don't
know why he wasn't in more becauseif you go on IMDb and you look
at like the build buy and who'sbeen in every episode, he is like
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five people down. Darren mcavin,Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt,
Craig Arbaxley who played you know,mister Ring and then apparently he plays
the monster in the next episode,and then you have John Fiedler. Yeah,
he was a more of a stuntman than a behind the camera guy.
But other than him in front ofthe camera with masks on. So
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yeah, I was actually surprised becauseI was like, whoa shit, John
Fiedler's pack, Like what just randomly, It's like they're just acting like Dave
He's been in every episode, Dude, Hey, I'm back Gordy. It's
like what since when? And thenwe know that Jack Rennage wasn't in everything,
because there were a couple of timeswhere he was over in Europe or
doing other stuff and it was justlike, oh, yeah, Ron's on
assignment. But outside of the factthat we finally get to see Gordy again,
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we did get George Savalas, yes, Telly Savalas's brother, and Kathleen
Freeman who's great in everything, andalso Eddie Firestone playing what I can only
describe to be Gill from The Simpsonsin human form, like that's his character,
Like, Hey, I'm I ownmy own business, like okay,
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cool man. George Savalas being billedas the Masthenese in this episode. When
that title came up on the screen, I was like, who the what
am I missing? They were callinghim cat yeah, but his his actor
name. Yeah, that was kindof crazy. I don't know what that
was all about. That was alittle bizarre, but he's great, right.
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I kind of wish George saval Uswould have been a regular character because
he seemed to be like the manon the street guy that Carl really needed,
right like the oh, like he'smy guy who takes me places like
I would have I would have lovedthat if that had been a bigger part
of the show, because you know, Colcheck never really had someone who wasn't
in the office as like a reoccurringcharacter, and that's something I honestly think
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the show was missing as Like anothercomponent was the kind of on the beat
on the street person Johnny, theguy that polishes his shoes, like from
police squad or something. What's theword in the street Johnny. I don't
know. I hear a lot ofthings. Pick a topic. One.
Look, we were never going tohave a cop being that on the show
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because Colcheck has always had even inthis episode with Sergeant Orkin, like you
expect that you're almost going to havethis like changeup of his a changeup of
his relationship with the cops. Butthere's it's not that it ends up.
It ends up one scene and thenit's right back to the same you know,
antagonistic cop nonsense, which I waslike, oh man, this is
going to be different, and thenit wasn't, and I was really kind
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of disappointed. Honestly, I wantto say that there might have been like
one more scene that was in thescript, because after please help me out
here, because it's one of thoseweird things where I'm like, Okay,
I read the script and now Isaw the thing, and now I can't
remember which is which. Does heend up hearing back from Sergeant Orkin and
hearing your right, those prints matchthese old people. No, okay,
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nope, that's in the script.The the final scene is throwing of the
pin wheel at cool. Okay,yeah, there's more to it, which
is a bummer. That's a bummerthat there was not a bigger wrap up,
and you know, I always tryto read the script ahead of time.
This was the only time I haven'tgotten to read a script recently,
and I felt like if I hadread that, I probably would have been
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missing it too, because it neededit. It needed some little third bit
to put a cap on their relationship. So he's like, well, I
should have listened to Colchick, becausethere's never that moment, and to be
fair, there's never really that momentin the show anyway, so it kind
of tracks with the rest of theshow. This episode almost has too many
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things going on because there are justlittle shades of stuff that are missing.
It's like the whole thing of Tonyhas this whole subplot where he is going
to work out and he's eating rightand all this stuff, and there's more
to that as well, like whenCarl gets called into his office and Tony's
there, like stuck in the lotusposition. There had been a scene where
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Carl saw him in the lotus positionand was like, what are you doing?
And then he explains, you know, oh I'm now I'm mastering yoga,
and he's just so full of himself. And then when he finally calls
for help from Carl, that's thatbreaking point. So we get much more
of like Tony being in charge ofhimself and you know, bettering himself alf
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and like he even yells at Carlbecause Carl wants to rather than that donut,
Carl wants to tempt him by goingdown to like a greasy spoon diner,
and Tony's like, oh, you'renot gonna have me pay for your
lunch and try to get by onthe company dole and da da da da
da. So it's there's a lotmore to that. There's a lot more
to the whole dating thing. There'sone thing I want to read to you
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because it is amazing. He goes, he has Tony yells at him like
I had this kid go around townand get you all of these papers and
all of these different catalogs for thesedating places. And carl sits down at
his desk and he picks up acopy of a magazine called Singles Weekly,
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and he reads his voice over isthe single scene had indeed changed. Carl
leaves through the tabloid to the classifiedads. Reads one white female, twenty
two good bod digs, light Band D, passive SNL, classical music
and water sports. No weirdos orRepublicans please, there is no way that
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that would have That's exactly what Isaid. And then the next one is
Carlos thoughtful form for a moment,reads another ad group square dancing, old
time fund singles or couples refreshments,nudity optional. Yeah, and it just
this whole scene is like him saying, like the most conservative newspaper in Chicago
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had a classified column headed social clubs. The ads offered photo mating, Jewish
Polish, oriental introductions, computer matching, astrological matching. But it all boils
down to a simple need. Sothat's when he goes to see Bella.
Yeah, there's a lot more tohim with this hell Singles thing, and
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that's a bummer because, look,you know, ultimately at the end of
the day was something like this showthe time constraint. Look, you know
there is a time constraint, butit's not like another show that I'm watching
right now for another podcast, likewhere Wolf. It's not a twenty three
minute show. This is a fullhour long show. So there's some stuff
in this, like the whole subplotwith Irvin that could have been completely cut
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down. Well again, it's likeRudy is writing a script that seventy seven
pages long, and I'm like,this is not a ninety minute show where
you're leaving some room for commercials.What are you doing even handing in a
seventy seven page script Because maybe heknew that it was going to get cut
down anyways, could be, butI mean, every single one of these
pieces, and there's even a momentin the show where it like fades out
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kind of quickly, and I waslike, oh, there is more to
that. There's more to that particularscene. So it's like it almost looks
like they shot it and then justcut it out. It's a total bummer
because I actually kind of like thisepisode, even though we've talked about how
similar it is to some of theother ones. I thought it was.
Yeah, it was intriguing. Ireally liked some of the effects works they
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were doing. I mean, yeah, old age makeup has come very far
since then. Boy right, Butlike the scene of the woman on the
balcony who's doing aerobics and she goesdown, comes back up, and she's
older, goes down, comes backup and she's older still. I mean
that was it was a cheap effect, but it was really effective. Can
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I ask you something, though,why do you think with the character of
Irvin they had someone playing him asan old man versus everyone else? It
was just the young actor an oldperson makeet That was kind of a strange
choice. It's a strange choice consideringI mean, was it because we had
been following him? I mean,he just dies on a bench and then
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the next scene, we get anothercharacter who just dies in their bed.
But it would have made more senseif you're going to do it once,
to just do it every time andjust have like an older actor portraying that
person. It just seemed it wasan odd choice. Yeah, the person
that dies in their bed. Iwas really scratched my head over that one.
I was like, did we needone more murder here? This is
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kind of strange. The answer isno, because it felt just like,
oh, so I we get it. So it's it's just increasing the body
count. Two men and two women. Go oh okay. That's another one
where I was just like, Idon't even remember that being in the script,
So why would they shoot that andnot some of this other stuff that
actually like adds to the whole overallepisode. But can you please tell me
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what it is with Greek characters andhaving these bizarre home remedies, Because the
immediately when I saw him putting mayonnaisemayonnaise on Colcheck's hand, I thought of
Windex from my big fag Greek wedding. The whole thing of the cab and
them talking outside the cab and theconventionaire. You know you talked about Gil
coming to life from The Simpsons prettymuch? Was he not? I think
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that that's supposed to be in thecab And then they end up going to
a mechanics place and they put mechanicsgrease on his hand rather than mayonnaise,
because that was bizarre. Well,I mean even the show acknowledges how bizarre
it is, because Vincenzo goes,who the hell are you? Like,
Yeah, exactly who the hell isthis guy? This Telly savals his brother
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just in the you know, theions like building, Like, what the
hell? Like, why is hein there with him? It's bizarre.
He does not look like Telly Savalas, Oh doesn't he not. That's that's
fine, though it would have beena little distracted. Oh yeah, I
mean if he just had like theword schlub written across him, it was
amazing. Yeah, he's a bigold schluve, like an emphasis on the
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big because a big old guy too. But he's great. I like him.
He portrays exactly what I was expectingfrom that kind of character in this
kind of show. Oh. Anotherthing that I forgot to tell you was
Carl is arguing with Vincenzo about coveringthe singles and he was like trying to
give him other people to do it, so like, oh, miss Emily's
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too old. And then Ron itwas like he had like this whole thing
about Ron doing the singles thing,and I was just like, oh again,
we're trying to pretend that Ron hashad hersexual Okay, thanks, well
again, this is this is theseventies. But I know, I know,
but I mean, it can't haveLight B and D in here,
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but we can't have Ron being gay. Well they didn't have that in there
though, to be fair, well, but we did get that reference when
he's on the phone to the Yentaand he's just like, you know,
oh, I don't need a girlright now, and miss Emily is saying
good night and she thinks that he'sordering a prostitute. Yeah, that's true,
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but it's not as overt as hey, Ron's gay true, or Light
B and D and water sports whichwho in the seventies would have known that
water sports is being paid on.But again, I will say this much
about the end of the episode.It has one of the best shots in
the series together where Colcheck is gettingout of his car and all of a
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sudden it's like really lit well,and it's like a tracking shot. It
like zooms out and then follows himinto the building. It's really weird because
I was like, we don't getthese like kind of high class shots in
this show. And then on topof everything else, col Tex straight up
breaks the fourth wall, yeah,right, which is not common. He's
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like normally talking to you, butnot directly at you. And at the
end of this episode he is talkingat the audience like he is full on
facing the camera and I was like, what where did huh? Well,
that's kind of what they were tryingto do with that last episode where he
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looks at the camera that's in thewall and it's like you believe me,
don't you? Or whatever he wassupposed to say when he was in the
a scene asylum, right, Butin this episode it's it is that come
to fruition, but in a waythat is just it's not that it doesn't
work, but it doesn't work likeit's I am. I am appreciative of
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what it is, but honestly,it feels a little ham fisted, and
by a little I mean a lot, because it's just it's they haven't done
that before, and the time thatthey were thinking about doing it in the
last episode they bailed out of itfor whatever reason. Seems like there's something
else I was going to say aboutthis episode, and I'm trying to remember
what it is. Is it thatColchack destroying the temple is amazing? He
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is the laziest destroyer of a templeyou have ever seen. He's just oh,
walking around, just lazily throwing.He's like, it might be the
best thing I've ever seen in thisshow. Colchack just like a yeah there's
column, sure, oh there's bustwhatever. Yeah, this that whatever.
It's so lazy in the best way. It's lazy, and only the way
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I would believe it's actually Colchack doingit. When Colchack puts on that ring,
he's actually supposed to start getting older. And there's this whole thing again
where it's like, hey, Carl, you looks so good, and they
talk about how it looks like he'saged five years since the last time they
saw him. I'm almost glad thatthey didn't try to do that, because,
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like I said, the old agemakeup could be a little distracting,
but thematically, it doesn't make anysense right. Thematically, it makes no
sense act that he would get older, that he wouldn't get older, that
he doesn't get older because everyone elsewho has the ring on eventually gets older.
And if he's not, then what'sspecial about Colejack? He has the
mark of Kine. That's way.Oh is this not a crossover episode?
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Yeah? I keeps looking at thathalf a gumby hanging from his windshield.
Ultimately, this episode is pretty goodand Kathy Lee Crosby's a great female villain
and she's actually a pretty solid actressin this I like how apparently also,
a midnight interview, if you're ajournalist, means you're breaking and entering.
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We're going out for one of themidnight interviews, Coljack. That's b an
a dude, Like, that's straightup breaking and entering. Like, what
are you talking about? But Imean again, like we've had our issues
with this show, namely the waythe villain's arc is resolved, and in
this episode it's resolved really well.She turns into a statue, Like that's
great. That works thematically in thecontext of the story. And it's not
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that it's not believable, but itmakes sense for what they were going with
for the mythology behind the villain right, and that Caz says, like she
looks exactly like every statue I've everseen of Helen of Troy, and it's
like, okay, and if youdisappoint the gods, you get turned into
stone. It just fits perfectly.And it's not one of those like they
couldn't find any traces or turns intoa funny looking skeleton or something, or
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is stabbed with a stick right,or becomes a dog and never turns back
again, or is stabbed with astick. That's the one that will constantly
stick in my mind. The MATCHImideo who just gets stabbed with a stick.
Oh you know, you could justtake a battle axe and hold it
out and then the suit of armorjust falls around it. A werewolf just
(23:06):
jumps off of a ship. Yeahlater, Yeah pretty uh you know.
In regards to the way the villainstie up in the show, I might
go out on a limb and saythat this is the best we've seen.
I think I'm there with you.Yeah, it's really good and it works,
and it makes it honestly makes alot of sense, Like it makes
more sense than anything else we've seenin the show. Regarding a villain dying
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in quotations. Yeah, this wasa surprise that it was this solid,
because it's like, yeah, Imean, like, okay, the Trevy
Collection had a little bit of aproblem with the way that he, you
know, that villain ended up,But like mister I n G, I
think this one, this goes inkind of the higher levels of of you
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know, episodes. For me,I would agree. I mean, we're
look, I don't want to spoilthe fun here, but we are one
episode away from the show being over, which something about one season shows I
know something about is that at theend of this we are going to want
more and we are not going toget anymore. And I am disappointed by
that because the last couple episodes havebeen pretty good and it feels almost like
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the show is settling into a grooveand the next episode is the last one.
Yeah, and I'm very curious tosee what the next episode brings because
that's another al Ford Neil and JohnHuff episode and they were the ones that
gave us mister r I n G. So really very curious to see what
the centuries like. Yeah, metoo, because again, this is a
really this was a really well doneepisode, and Richard if you're listening,
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You're welcome. I was positive foronce, so there you go. I
really can't find much wrong with thisepisode. No, and like you said,
those guest spots are fantastic. Ilove Dwayne Hickman, so was seeing
him in here. I was sohappy. And you're right. As far
as Kathleen Freeman, she is alwaysgreat. She is such a comic genius.
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She used to be in a lotof the old Cherry Lewis stuff and
she could take him toe to toe. She was just a solid, solid
comedian. I just think of herfrom the Third Naked Gun movie and obviously
from the Blues Brothers. Oh mygod, yes, yeah, so but
again, she's great in this andhonestly, with the way we've had this
(25:33):
show going, with the way theshow has gone, with how great the
like supporting characters have been, it'snot surprising that she's good. But I
really like the fact that this episode'sside characters almost steal the show because they're
all memorable, especially Telly Savalas's brother. Poor guy. He's probably always known
(25:56):
as Telly Savalas's brother, right,or Demosthites, Demo Steenies or whatever his
fake name is. I was lookingthrough his filmography to see if he had
been called that any other time,and I wasn't seeing it. I wonder
if it was just to not billhim as tells of all as his brother
could be kind of weird, right, well, not really. I mean
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when you and I talked about LoneWolf and Cub, I mean Wakayama Thomas
a Burro. His name is amade up name because he is Katsu Shintaro.
Yeah, Kartsu Shintaro, I think, is the guy who played Zatuichi.
He was more of a star thanhis brother, and so he didn't
want to have the same name andbe like, oh, it's the other
(26:40):
you know guy, So he tooka completely different name. So I can
see Demosthenes doing the same thing.He was billed as Demosthenes to avoid confusion
with his brother. That's what itsays. That's what it says an IMDb
and IMDb would never lie. It'sgot to be true, then it must
be true. So next month weare back and we're going to be covering
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something a little different. We're notchanging into an X Files podcast, but
we are covering it. An episodeof The X Files, which was supposed
to be an episode of the CoalChuck reboot, which is called Molder and
Scully Meet the wear Monster. Itwas based off of the script The M
Word, so we'll be talking bothabout the M word and Molder and Scully
(27:23):
Meet the wear Monster. What ahorrible title, that is? Why are
we talking about the M word orMolder and Sculling Meet the wear a Monster?
Meet the wear a Monster. Yeah? I think it kind of works
in like a Pope comic book way, but that's not it's a little too
on the nose for its own good. I mean, at least like The
X Files didn't try to do.There are like shows out there that have
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theme names to them. Now,so like you mean, like Chuck,
is that right? Chuck was likeChuck versus the That was the that was
the episode titles was always Chuck versusthe and then the real was one of
the episodes where Chuck versus the PinkBanana or some horseshit like Friends, right,
I mean, Friends were the onesthat came up with that dumb naming
(28:08):
convention. The Friends Friends one wasthe one with something right. I've never
seen a single episode of Friends.So hashtag roast me, please, You're
better off for it, I guessso, but everybody loves it, not
me, everybody but you. Yeah, And honestly, your opinion is more
important than the general public. Thankyou, Chris. But here's the thing.
(28:30):
I am an X Files fan.I didn't watch that episode of the
show. Well, I look forwardto seeing it with you for the first
time. Me too, I lookforward to finding out if it is as
bad as everything else that came beforeand after it, with those reboots,
because those reboots spoilers were not good. Ah. This is one of the
few that I watched from that season. I think I watched actually the first
(28:53):
three, and I quit after watchingthis, So maybe that we'll say something.
I mean, I remember watching theMythology episodes and thinking to myself,
good, great, Chris Carter's backto his old bullshit again. He's back
on that bullshit, because that's Imean, anyone who's a fan of The
X Files, and I'm sure someof you listening are, you know that
(29:15):
once Chris Carter got on that bullshitwith the Mythology, the show just nosedived
real hard. It just never feltlike he knew where it was going.
Well, it's like the jj Abramsmystery boxing right, I know what the
boxes, but I will never tellyou what the contents are. And once
I start telling you what the contentsare, it is immensely disappointing. And
(29:37):
the X Files kind of had thesame problem. Yeah, I'm sure Ray
is related to the Skywalkers somehow.Oh dear God, Oh my god,
Chris, what is going on withyou in your life? Sir? Right
now, we are third episode ofthe one season shows coming out. If
we had never done this podcast,cole Check probably would have been a show.
We would have done a one seasonshow season because it only lasted one
(30:00):
season. And honestly, the effectsand the influence of Colcheck cannot be understated
or overstated or stated enough, frankly, because I would say a lot of
modern television takes from Colcheck. Sowe're doing the one season show where we
talk about shows that only lasted oneseason. We are still talking about Werewolf
from nineteen eighty seven, which it'skind of like The Incredible Hulk meets I
(30:25):
Don't Know a Werewolf. Just replacedthe Hulk with a werewolf, and you've
got Werewolf of the TV show.And also, I do a podcast called
the Culture Cast where we talk aboutmovies once a week you're on there sometimes
this month we're talking about weird ninetiescomedies and boy there are a lot of
them. And you and I doa little podcast with a good friend of
ours called Dreams for Sale where wetalk about twilds of nineteen eighty five,
(30:47):
So a lot of kind of notvintage but you know, pre Golden Age
or Golden Age of TV, beforethere was such a term being used for
everything TV. Where can people findyou? What are you up to?
Well, we are in the midstof Chechtember over at the Projection Booth Projection
Booth podcast dot com, and yeah, we're just looking at Czechoslovakian Actually,
(31:14):
we've got some Slovakian centric films,even one from Milan Nasa or whatever that
middle part between like Bohemia and Slovakiais. So I'm learning more about the
actual layout of Czechoslovakia right now,the former Czechoslovakia aka the Czech Republic plus
(31:36):
Slovakia whatever. So yeah, that'swhat I'm up to. It's pretty exciting.
Come on down to the Projection Booth. You'll talk about movies and get
a history lesson, a little bitof geography, a little bit of history,
maybe some math. Oh the sadness. I can tell you that,
yeah, definitely. As someone whosefamily is from Eastern Europe, boy,
the Eastern European history is just onelong famine. They're not all Oldiita sax
(32:00):
Nova, so there are some funnyones in there too. I'm just talking
about the country. That's true,that's true. I want to thank John
Walker for our theme music. Iwant to thank everybody for listening. Have
you stuck with us this long?You should be impressed. Pat yourself on
the back right now, do it. We love you, We too love
(32:20):
you. I took some pictures,but it seemed pointless. The destruction of
the room would be labeled vandalism ora faulty sprinkler system. I don't need
any photographs of Helen is that shewould always be as she always was,
cold and beautiful and unchanging. Asa PostScript, I offer this bit of
(32:44):
advice. Should you ever find aring, no matter how pretty or valuable,
consider well before you slip it onyour finger. You may never get
it off again. Bound h Chapter
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