November 6, 2025 • 57 mins
Aaron and Darlene watch some classic sci-fi from the 1950s and '60s, good and bad. They talk about what makes these films memorable and fun, and if you should take a trip back in time and enjoy these films as well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But aren't you fellows ever positive only about doomsday?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
What could be worse than disappointing a little girl disappointing
a big girl.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I have other ways of securing your cooperation.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sorry, miss I was giving myself an oil job. When
was it just a zumbly as we've seen attitude to
it since we gave to a few low cabbages an
intellectual carrot.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That mind boggles you see you see your stupid lives.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Stupid, stupid, I said Santa Claus. Long enough, we will
bring him to Mars. I've been afraid a lot of
times in my life, but I didn't know the real
meaning of fear until until I kiss peck me. One
thing will be clear. It's not from man to interfere
in the ways of God's life.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think everybody, and welcome to Earth Versus Soup Episode
two eighty one. I'm Aaron Poullier.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm Darlene.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We are still going on with Abbitt and Costello because
we needed a break from Paul Nashy and Hammer and
a lot of other sci fi. We're just kind of
trying to do Abbot and Costello. And this week's episode
is Abbot Costello meet The Invisible Man from nineteen fifty one.
This is not the second one. There's like a couple that, well,
(01:37):
it might be the second one, but I know that
there's a couple more that we have not yet done.
There's ab and Costello meet Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde,
and there's Abant Costello Meet the Mummy that we have
not yet done. There's also a couple other abb and
Costello ones that might indirectly be Earth versus soup ish
kind of movies. But yeah, we're we're gonna We're gonna
(02:01):
do some of them. Okay, we're gonna do some of them.
So this one is interesting, and we were talking about
it right before we began recording in that this has
more of a story then Ebing and Costello meet Frankenstein.
(02:25):
But it's also it's just a very different movie. It
does not feel like it does not feel like the
Frankenstein one. It has a very different feel, a very
different feel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, Yeah, the frank is the Frankenstein had one had
lots of monsters and a lot of names there. This
one does doesn't. It has one monster.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, it has one monster.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
It is obvious and it's not even and it's not
Vincent Price, No, which is wh where I was depressed
on that one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Which is a shame because Vincent Price is fantastic. Is
the invisible man. So let let's let's get into the plot. Well, actually,
let's talk about let's talk about the cast first, cast
abb and Costello. As we know, and we have a
couple leading ladies in this that I think are in
(03:29):
general underused. Our leading lady is played by Nancy gild
who plays Helen Gray in this. She's a striking woman
that actually did she was She did pin up during
the nineteen forties and she actually ended up getting into
acting and actually is a very good actress. We have
(03:52):
another woman that kind of plays a fluozy. In my notes,
I always call her the gun Mall because she's involved
in organized crime and she's kind of like the mob
mob guy's girl. Her her character's name is Boots Marsden,
but that's Adele Jurgens, Jurgens, Jurgons. It's a jay at
(04:14):
the beginning of her last name. It could be a
silentery or Jurgens. It could be a y, could be
a y. That's what I said. But she is kind
of under used as well, even though she actually seems
to have acting chops.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think she's used where she needed to be.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because her character was only supposed to be there for
that tantalizing part of trying to get h Lulu too
throw the game.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Okay she is. I don't know. I think she probably
could have been in it a little more. But we'll
get into it. We'll get into it. Let's let's talk
about the plot. We get another animated beginning. We get
another animated beginning, and it actually shows Abin Costello looking
(05:11):
like detectives doing detective ish things.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's not like it's fully animated. It's like drawings, right,
they are like stills, and it shows them basically screwing
everything up and uh then ending up in a shrink's office. Now,
the shrink's office comes into play in the movie repeatedly,
in a very.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Now this one, I will say, they took this a
little bit too far.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh oh, you think they took it a little too far?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I mean too many times.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So the joke was the first time it went too far? No, no, no,
you're right, the joke got old joke. It's the first time,
at least in the Abbot Costel's Okay, So in two
Abbic Costello movies, it was the first time to me
that a joke got old. Yes, that out of all
the jokes. So this is a first.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
This is a check against them on this.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, but we haven't even gotten to that point in
the plot.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm just saying letting the people know that this would
be one of those things that we put a check.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, okay, this does not work. Okay, So we actually
end up now going live and we see Abbot Costello
graduating detective.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
School DDT and I didn't get one.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah where that was? It's like something detective training or
something like that. Yeah, it doesn't matter where it is,
because does any of it matter in this film. No,
where it is, it's in a city, that's all that matters.
Costello is crying as the audience sings the school song,
(06:49):
and we have this there's this idea in the movie,
and I think it's supposed to be funny, and it
probably was in nineteen fifty one, But the past is
a different country, Like, this is a different humor. And
while like there's a lot of abb and Costello humor
that is perfectly applicable to today, the.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Joke is that is that Abbot past he had to
bribe the the what do you call him, principal, the
dean to graduate Costello.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's not what I'm talking about. I am talking about
the fact that all of the graduates of this college,
of this training school are all wearing tweed, all having
cigars in their mouths, all have bowler hats.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh that went clear over my head like a seven
forty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, yeah, I know. That's why I was like, I
just stopped. I let you say what you thought was humor.
That didn't work, And then I was like, no, because
actually that is I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Thought you were talking about whole movie, because all the
way through the movie, even though Loun never actually graduated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
From the he's actually the most common He's the.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Competent of the two, and Abbit actually passed.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That is with flying colors.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That is actually funny. That is funny. It holds up.
I'm saying that everyone that is a graduate from this
is all out there with cigars, bowler caps, and tweed jackets.
It is this funny. In nineteen fifty one, it was not.
And here's all the other Habbit and Costello stuff that
we've watched. Everything else seemingly holds up. I did not.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I didn't realize that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It has to be. It's just so beyond me, I
guess why.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So today you'd either be somebody like me going not
even noticing it, so the joke doesn't fail, or it
fails on somebody like you, because it's.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Not it's just funny. But it's not funny because even
in the opening credits, all the drawings of them have
them smoking cigars with bowler caps, wearing tweed, Like, yeah, anyway,
it's just it's just not funny. But so we learn that, yes,
(09:19):
abb Abbott has actually bribed the Dean twenty bucks to
let Costello graduate, and he's like, oh, you're such a
good friend, thank you for doing this. Yeah, that's a joke.
But twenty bucks, even in nineteen fifty one, isn't that
much money. So the fact is is that, like I
bet you it was, that Costello actually was going to
(09:41):
graduate and the Dean just took twenty bucks. Like okay,
I'll take twenty bucks, big deal, because it's still only
like two hundred and forty dollars, Like, who's going to
take a bribe of.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The Dean looks at Lou Costello like he's.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Trash, because he probably was is aggravating to have in
the school because he acts like a screw up, so
that that's probably why. So we have them now at
an office and a guy comes in, and this is
(10:17):
where I instead of like thinking, okay, this is a comedy,
I started thinking this is a situational drama that has
comedians in it. Okay, because this guy comes into the office,
and as comedians, this guy comes in the office. You
(10:38):
see these guy come into the office. He's wearing like
a long trench coat, a fedora, he's turned up, he's
acting clearly suspicious.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You're missing a part where Costello Lou was dressed as
Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, and they bitch about it, like why are you
dressed like that? Because I'm a detective and it's Abbott says,
you look like an idiot. And Abbott has on the
tweet jacket, the freaking bowler cap and a cigar in
his mouth. He looks like an idiot. At least he.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Is wearing the hunting's cap the yeaham folks, and he's
even got the pipe in his mouth.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Remember that Sherlock Holmes does not look like that. The
traditional Sherlock Holmes look is what you think. Jack the
Ripper looks like, you know, tuxedo or at least a suit,
a proper Victorian suit, a top hat, a cane, all
of that. That's what Sherlock Holms.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That outfit is the one that he was wearing. Annund
of the Basker.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Fills, which is legitimate if you're like I am. I
am cosplaying in Sherlock Holmes and Hound of the Baskerville,
including the pipe, but that's not his favorite favorite pipe.
Cherry Stumb pipe. That is Sherlock Holmes's favorite. See. I
like Sherlock Holmes, and if I have not said it
before on this podcast, I would be very shocked. Watch
(12:02):
the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes shows. They are superior. And
I cannot read the Sherlock Holmes stories now without hearing
Jeremy Brett's voice in my head. That that is how
Sherlock Holmes sounds. Jeremy Brett, sir, thank you for the
gift that you have given by playing Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Anyway, Yeah, the guy comes in with a fedora. Yeah,
he looks suspicious as shit and he's got his collar
up and it's a great jacket. That's all that went
through my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Great hat. But he's acting suspicious as ship because he
comes in immediately turns off the lights, while like Admic
Costell are just kind of looking at him, and I'm thinking, Okay,
it's going to be it's going to be a drama.
They're going to do something that actually makes sense because
this guy is way over the top. He goes and
closes the blind.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
He looks out the window first.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, he's like peering out the window. This is it
is so far camp.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
This guy is like that goes unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
He has it dialed up to eleven. Right, it is,
and it wasn't funny. I think it was again supposed
to be funny, but it was dialed up so hot.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And during this time, the radio is going on and
it talks about I was talking about Tommy Nilson has
escaped from custody, custody he.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Killed killed his manager, he.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Killed his manager, and everybody's looking for him. And he's
five foot ten blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And Costello is like, that's him, that's him, your Tommy Nelson.
And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
And Abbott does not believe it, does not believe that
this guy is Why would Tommy Nelson come into a
detective agency if he's wonn And like, like I said,
(14:06):
there are parts of this movie that I they are
not funny because they are so dialed up that it
just comes across as ludicrous and a bad drama rather
than or even soap opera ish. But that's not all
the time. That's not what this whole movie is. That's
the thing. It's just like this opening stuff seems to
(14:28):
be that way in my mind, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Get that that that. I just thought it was just
opening stuff. And then the next thing you have is
him dragging these two to a house.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He needs he needs a ride, He needs a ride.
I'll pay you, blah blah blah. Okay, fine, So they arrive,
Tommy goes inside and a woman is there and her
name is Helen. Helen is Wow, she is she is striking.
She's not your classic beauty. I already said she was
(14:59):
a pin girl in the nineteen forties, but she's not
your classic like blonde beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, she's got a distinctive chin.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
She is she is. She is a very striking woman.
And uh, she has a presence on screen because because
of not only her looks, but the way she presents
herself and speaks. She's and I know that we're again
devating from the plot and talking about what works and
what doesn't. She clearly has screen presence.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, in this scene, we're going to talk about something that, yeah,
doesn't work, and.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Oh, you say it doesn't work, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Actually what I've read, No, I'm questioning whether I gotta
classify it as Okay, it didn't work or it worked
it will, because I don't know whether this was the
same dog on face.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's not, so let's get to it. It's not. So
we meet Helen and Tommy asks Helen to see the doctor.
Now we get to meet this doctor and all doctor Gray,
doctor Gray. On the wall, we actually have a picture
of Claud Raines, who played the original Invisible Man in
the original.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
As Jack Griffin.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yep. So it turns out doctor whatever his name is Gray,
it has been experimenting with the invisibility serum. Okay, now,
I will immediately give credit WHEK credits due before we
get into the special effect shot. I will immediately give
credit where credits due that out of all the Universal Monsters,
(16:29):
quote unquote, Universal was always extremely consistent, not perfectly because
there's weirdness with like the Invisible Woman, let's say, but
very consistent with the rules of the invisibility serum. Okay,
they tweak it a little bit in this movie. There's
(16:49):
a couple but I think that's for comedy sake. The
fact is is that this guy has been working on
the original invisibility serum, but there's problems. It makes you crazy,
it makes you megalamaniacal. There is a way of actually
getting there's actually a way of getting the invisibility out
(17:10):
of you. We have already learned those ways, but they
are difficult and not perfect. Okay, So this reversal serum,
which has been invented multiple times, now okay, I guess
has never been like passed along.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But they drop the fact of alcohol in it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Oh yeah, because Tommy gets wrecked later on, doesn't he. Yeah. Well, see,
Invisible Woman is its own thing. The Invisible Woman is
its own thing because the rules in that movie are
totally different, like not all of them. It wears off
on its own. It doesn't drive her crazy, even though
I will argue that she is immediately crazy as soon
(17:51):
as she takes the invisibility serum, but her is it's immediate,
whereas with everybody else it's takes time to develop the mega.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It was a person thinking that a female versus a male.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't know, but that seems like that's never said.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's never said. But there are different hormones in that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I understand that, but it's never said, and it's never
explained that way, which would also be a little a
little sexist. I don't know. I mean, there are medical
differences in like drugs and things with men and women,
but still, this is like the nineteen forties and fifties.
It probably would have been framed in a kind of
sexist way rather than a legitimate biological way.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So we actually end up getting a shot of the
doctor experimenting. Now, you said, I question whether this was
reused footage.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, I questioned whether it is not. You were looking
things up at this point because you stopped the movie.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, because I was like, no, they are not doing that,
because that would be super cheap if they just use
the special effect of the doctor injecting a guinea pig
and going to it's an excellent special effect, but it
is an almost reuse special effect. They actually got the
(19:14):
original special effects guy from The Invisible Man returns and
they actually redid the special effect. And the reason I
say that, well, I mean, I've read it. But it's
also that later on in the film we get some
special effects that I had not seen in the other
Invisible Man films that I was a bit shocked to
(19:36):
see at how good they were. This is an Abbot
and Costello movie. There were some really good special effects
in this.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
But my thought was, is this was exactly how they
did it before.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yes, but it's probably because they had like the whole
setup to be able to do it, and they could
just reshoot it for super cheap. Because the guinea pig
doesn't move in the exactly in the in the same way.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm not gonna remember how I know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Anyway, it's slightly different, at least in my viewing of it,
it was slightly different.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So Tommy has warned about the uh.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Tommy wants to take it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Tommy wants to take it, but he's warned that it
causes insanity.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It drives you crazy, and Tommy's like, look, I need
to clear my name, so I'm going to have to
shoot up this drug. Give it to me, Doc tap
my vein. But he's he's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna
take it right, So hops around the house because everyone
assumes that he's going that Tommy, when he escapes, is
gonna go see.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
His and they're knocking on the door.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah yeah, So uh they present Helen with a search warrant.
My god, how many of these films do we have
cops come in and actually present a search warrant? Very rarely,
but good job, good job movie. You actually have cops
following the law. So Abbot and Costella are going to
(21:03):
capture Tommy for the five thousand dollars reward. No, Abbot
is well, Abbot is. Costello is like, I'm terrified to
this guy because he's a killer. Right, there's a five
thousand dollars reward. That's a pretty big reward. You can
do a lot of You can buy a lot of
war surplus aircraft with that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's what you're driving during this Metal I was like, uh,
you could probably put a really nice down payment on
a house.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You could probably buy a house. Okay, So anyway, Costello
is like, buddy, you know, I'll help prove your your innocence.
They shake hands, but like Tommy starts to disappear at
this point because he shot up when the doctor and
Helen ran off. Tommy starts laughing and taking off his clothes,
and we see that Tommy did not have underwear on.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I said, I go at this point, I'm like, he
didn't have underwear on, Henry to rewind it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He chicks off his shirt. Okay, I can see not
having like an undershirt on. That that's fine. But then
he starts taking off his pants and there's no underwear
on underneath, and I'm like, wow, Tommy was going commando.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
That's but Aaron didn't catch that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I did, Yeah, you did for some reason, because you
were looking.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I was thinking at the fact that there was there
was the big seam in the back of the pants,
and I was like, dang, that's a big scene.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So I wrote down.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Then I went there is not where I got any underwear.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Costello passes out and we see that Tommy is going commando.
The cops all think Costello is nuts at this point
because he's telling him look, I saw Tommy disappear. I
saw Tommy disappear.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He even says how he disappeared. I was like shaking
his head, then the hand. Then I looked up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And so here's here's the joke that is funny old
most well, I think it's actually it goes on too much.
At the first go around, it's too much, but then
it gets funny when at the conclusion of it, let's
put it that way, the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Very conclusion of it. By that time.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Oh, in this first scene, it like it goes over
this cliff and then finds another plateau.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But then they do it again.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then they do it again and again. So they take
Costello to a police psychiatrist. And everything that Costello was
saying is completely honest because we as the viewers, have
seen it. He's like saying, look, of course it's Costello.
He's coming across as an idiot, right, But everything he's
(23:38):
saying is completely honest, and it's driving the shrink crazy
because he's like, none of this can be real, right,
So the shrink starts to try to hypnotize Costello, but
unlike and and Costello meet Frankenstein, Costell just can't seemingly
have the whammy put on him by like a non vampire.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Maybe it's because of the vampire.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Maybe it's because of the vampire. Yeah, the brain scramblings
have made him immune. I know it's a different character.
But the Shrink ends up hypnotizing being hypnotized by Costello.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
And then basically what happens is is that we learn
that Costello is like the Master from Doctor Who, that
he's basically able to mind control everyone without knowing it,
without even knowing it, without.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Without effort. He is able to hypnotize an entire police department,
the cleaning staff, and.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Like they do cut it and then you go to
you go back to the detective Roberts.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, and he's calling the police.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
He's calling the police department, and there's nobody answering.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Because everybody is knocked out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
In the way in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
In the shrinks room, everyone and Costello's trying to like
wake everyone up, but no one will. No one will
wake up because he's just knocked everyone out. Now, I
will say at that point, like the the the sequence
of him like screwed while getting screwed with by the
(25:15):
Shrink and then like doing his like baby like with
the it's hard to describe. If you know Abbot and Costel,
you know Abbitt Costel where he's like twirling the watch
at the shrink to like do whatever that gets that
gets stupid, and then it like goes to this whole
like the entire police precinct is knocked the f out
(25:36):
And I love that. That was funny. That got funny.
Now we go back to the shrink having to talk
to every single detective and police person.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Later it deals with Abbot, that deals with the invisible
man because everyone thinks they're crazy when they're seeing like
a car driving itself or whatever, and that gets really old.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, because finally you get a detective that's never listened
to uh lou.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, and he's just like, you know, I saw man,
Like I don't know, it's in my notes, but the
point is is that I expected to see our favorite
cop from the Edward movies show up and say, you know,
I saw the dead rising from the grave. I saw
aliens in a UFO and a cemetery. Yeah, like then there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But they wouldn't. But the Paramount would not. It would not.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Then I saw there was a giant octopus.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Sorry sorry sorry, they would not have done that today.
We would have done.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That, and I would I would. I think I would
have pissed myself laughing. If he just showed up like
he was just a random actor in a cop uniform
in there, then then it would have become immediately headcannon
that all the Abbot Castello movies are linked to Edwood.
Like it would have made sense. I don't know anyway, anyway,
So let's see here, Helen Higher, there's abb and Costello
(27:01):
to take a briefcase of clothes to the locate for
a to a location on the woods for Tommy. Uh,
he's wrapped up quick, and then all the cops are
there again because they're just following Abbit and Costello down.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
No, Abbitt called the and he's trying to get the reward,
and in this whole thing, every time Abbot cheats.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
On the condition, breaks his word.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Uh, Tommy is kicking him in the butt, punching him out,
and Lou is getting blamed for it.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, So the cops show up because I guess Abbot
called them, and Tommy immediately strips out all all of
his clothes. Why did you get into the whole invisible
man like mummy wrap.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Because he was not want he was not going to
get they were going to pick him up and take
him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, yes, and I understand that, and logically I understand that,
but like in the in the sense of a movie,
he immediately gets dressed and then has to get under It.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Wasn't intent, It wasn't meant to be him.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
He was not meaning to do then don't get him
into the clothes. Let him get into the clothes later.
Oh whatever, Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But I'm saying that it was It was a show
that he was trying to become visible, so.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
He wasn't going crazy. Well, notice that he wanted to
be warm, because when you're an invisible person, you're cold.
You're cold.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because anyway, he had to get out of those clothes
immediately because of Abbot.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, he then threatens Abbot and Costello, and ab and
Costello have to sit in the back of the car
while Tommy drives. So then we see the patrol cop
trying to pull him over, and he goes to a psychiatrist,
and the patrol cop has to go to the psychiatrist
because he sees no one driving the car. Abing Costello
go with Tommy to the boxing gym because they think
that whoever killed Tommy's manager and blow.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
O hair o hair like the Chicago.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I think it's uh, let's see here.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
He's never in this movie. He's just an uh oh.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
The Yeah, I don't know they I don't know his
manager name what sure O'Hara whatever, that he was at
this gym. There's probably like mob guys that that knocked
him off because he, uh, Tommy didn't want to take
a fall. He knew that that the mob guys were
paying everybody off to like take a fall so that
they would certain boxers would take a fall so they
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would make money on bets. And he figures the mob
mob guys are.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
There, which is the manager Morgan.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, so let's see here. Tommy makes Costell look like
the best boxer of all time, like because behind the scenes,
Costello actually was a boxer as a kid, I shouldn't
say a kid as a young adult, and he won
a ship ton of matches and only stopped boxing because
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he lost a match and had like a broken nose
and his mom found out and told him stop boxing,
and I like, okay, But supposedly Costello was actually a
pretty damn good boxer as a young man. I mean, okay,
but anyway, they're at this gym and Costello is like
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barely making any kind of effort to look like he's
punching the punching bag. But since Tommy's there invisible, Tommy's
there just rattling away at this punching bag, and it
makes it okay, you as the viewer can see Costillo
is doing nothing, but everybody there because it's a comedy movie,
thinks he is he has the fastest hands in America.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, he knocks out somebody to begin with.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, yeah, and then he throws the punch after the
guy or is already going through the air, Like, oh
my god, do you see how fast he was. We
couldn't even see the bunch, like my, oh my lord. Okay,
it's a comedy film. It's a comedy film. But like
there are multiple points. There were multiple times in this
movie that I rolled my eyes, which is different than
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and ebon Costello meet Frankenstein, Like I didn't do that,
and I have at Costello meet Frankenstein, and this there
was like times where I was, oh, come.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
On, yes, this was oh my god. And it's supposed
to deliberately be that way. That's why I didn't have
a problem with it. Well, because it's deliberately supposed to you,
as the viewer, is supposed to know Lou is not
doing anything.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It's funny, but it's also eye rolling, because I mean
I rolled my eyes, but I laughed through a lot
of it. Let's be fair. I'm not like completely shitting
on this movie. There's there's things that work and don't
work at the same time. Anyway, we get we get this, uh,
we get this, we get the we get to the
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point where they're ending up. They they've shown the mob
guys that Costello is an amazing boxer, and now he's like,
I forget what name they give him, like Lou the
Looper or something.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Like that, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I don't And they're gonna hire him to go and
fight in the ring against this other guy, Rocky. Yeah,
whatever is it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I think it's Rocky because the other one was Mela Melon.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Melon Melon, Okay, Rocky Hanlin, Is that who you're talking about? Rocky?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, that's the person that he's supposed to go He's
gonna go up against the one that Rocky was supposed
to go up against was this melon guy or something.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
All right, So the mob guys are gonna hire Costello
to go up against Rocky, and so they get money.
They get money ahead of time, like a little bit.
But the mob guys are all like, yeah, we're gonna
pay him off. We're gonna pay him like fifteen grand
or something like that. It was a huge amount of money.
I mean, it was actually a large amount of money
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for nineteen fifty one. It's a shit ton of money.
But they're in the hotel room, and I think this
is one of the better gags that like intellectually makes
a lot of sense, and it made me chuckle. They're
playing poker and Tommy's winning a lot and no one
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can figure it out except Costello, who's like, Tommy has
to be holding the cards where we would think he
would be holding the cards, and he's peeking over the
table at my hand to make sure he knows what
I have in my hand because Tommy's just cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yes, because because lou is more smart than he looks.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah it is. Collard just doesn't doesn't get a dnd.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Costella abbitt is is more dumb than he looks.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, so let's see here we have. Helen comes to
the hotel. She says that Tommy is starting to act
like he's a megalamoniacal son of a bitch. I'm I
can be powerful like this, I can take over people's
minds by playing tricks on them. Blah blah blah blah.
You know, like no one can see me coming. And
Helen's like, dude, dude, this is the serum. Calm your shit,
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like come back down to earth. And cops show up
because they've been chasing after Helen and they can't find
Tommy in there, even though like Tommy, this is okay.
There's a joke where Costello's like, hide underneath the sheet.
Tommy could literally hide in the open. He's invisible. Why
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are you putting him under the sheet so everyone can
see where he is? And then like the detective pulls
the sheet off and there's nobody there, and like that's
really kind of eyebrow raising, right, Like you think you'd
think that like maybe it was possible that the detective
could have actually just clocked the guy that was hiding
underneath the sheet, thinking that was Tommy, and it would
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have knocked him out, and he would have been there
and as like the detective was searching, like, what the
hell happened? I heard something hit the floor? They would
feel a naked man there that was invisible, and thus
the movie can't work. So everyone has to be idiots
for the movie to work.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Idiot plot.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's an idiot plot. Okay, So the only.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
One that's anywhere not an idiot is lou and he
and he acts like one. That's the whole joke.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
So Tommy's then like, well, we need to go to
the bubble room where the mob guys hang out, so
we can make sure that everyone knows knows what's going on.
So at the at the bubble room.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Where is the where they they're they're messing with the money.
That was just so a me definite Abbott and Costello.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's that's like six scenes ahead from here.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
This is taking it from his hands and putting in his.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Pocket, and yeah, that's that's you're talking about a different
money thing. That's right at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That's right at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's it's I'm not going through every single joke.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yes, but that is really good.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
There's really good slight of hand, physical humor stuff that's
going on. And I will give them movie credit for that.
There are a couple good sight gags in this that
are that are more than just an instant sight gag.
It's like a long bit and it's very well done.
But anyway, they go to the bubble room, and here
is where Robby decides to screw with everybody by like
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acting like he is there even though he's invisible, to
make everyone question, and like eb and Costello are both
like freaking out because Lou's being kind of on that Lou,
I'm sorry, Tommy's being a bit of a jerky ass,
like just yelling out that he wants a steak or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, because Lou kept on asking for spaghetti and then
steak steak.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Well what do you want, sir, Well, I want spaghetti steak.
Like it's it's very clear that there's somebody that you
can't see.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yes, but if you weren't, even if you weren't getting
that there were two different voices. You're missing a third voice. Yeah,
you would have asked a waiter got him spaghetti and
a steak a steak. You would have sat there and
questioned it twenty times like this going on.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
In there here. Well, here's the thing that was what
was made clear bye by Abbott saying spaghetti and a
steak and then like what he ordered? Did the steak
ever come? No, it's a joke that does not pay off.
But then there's like this weird spaghetti eating sequence where
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it's almost like Lady in the.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Tramp with it did a Lady in the which is.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Before Lady in the Tramp? This is before it, right,
I'm pretty sure he is.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, lou gets seen where.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
The go ahead and talked early.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
He's he's uh getting trying to get his spaghetti back
from from Tommy and the at the time that there's
soaking up the huge roll of spaghetti.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah, and he's like sucking it in and he finally.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Just cuts it with his fingers.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
This is four years before Lady in the Tramp, but
it's a basically Lady in the Tramp without a kiss
at the end, like good job. It's actually a pretty
good site gag, and the special effects are pretty good
because you can tell that the person is composited out
through like they're cutting things out. There's some special effects
of the invisible man effects that are like super.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm gonna explain this one. Is that spaghetti used to
be cut and rolled into a ball, and that ball
you would put in the.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Not always but yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
They were not a lot. The new fangle thing is
the striped ones that we get in the store. But
that's that was not how I got it when I
was in Monterey from the Italian store.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
So the gun mall comes over, flirts with Costello and
convinces Costello to take the dive. She invites him to
her place later. There's lots of gags about eating food
with Tommy there and then boots the gun malls in lingerie.
When when Costello gets there, she flirts and convinces.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
He shuts the door. And the funny part is they've
stole a flower arrangement from downstairs.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It has like a phonograph recorder in it. It's huge
because okay, that makes sense, it's nineteen fifty one, but
like she seemingly doesn't even recognize the fact that there's
this huge contraption inside this.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
When she sets it down, yes.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Like that that blows my mind. And like Costello has
to take the record out and then he sits on
he sits, he puts.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It on his backside, and then she pushed.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Him down in lane and to me that telegraphed exactly
what was gonna happen. But anyway, it's it's an okay gag.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Sometimes their acts are supposed to telegraph what they're supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Back of the bubble room, Tommy gets completely blitzed on
everyone's liquor by like just stealing drinks and downing them,
and he's.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Fed up, and.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
So the head detective ends up well, okay, so ebbing
Costello while they're there, and Tommy is drunk. Tommy ends
up like getting into fights with people and knocking him out,
and everyone thinks Costello is like a psychopath.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Everybody thinks that somebody else is taking the drinks too.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, but everyone thinks that lou the Looper is knocking
everyone out and is just a murderous f soob because
everyone's terrified of him. He hits so fast you can't
even see him take these people out, like he's still
sitting on his seat and a guy is like flying
across the room like it's that actually is kind of funny.
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The ongoing gag that loula Looper is this like true killer.
Like anyway, the detective sees at Costello like carrying an
invisible body.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I was trying to carry a body through an through.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
A revolving door, and they're doing a really good job
of trying to mimic the fact that they're holding anody.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That somebody knocks out lou Yeah, and what's his name?
Tommy and Abbitt tried to carry him, but then Tommy
starts drinking.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
More ship and he gets knocked out and they have
to carry him out. Well, the detective sees sees this
and he has to go to the shrink and say,
I saw two men carrying another man that I couldn't see, Like.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Get a clue.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
God, I'm the Look the first shrink scene, it went
over the top. It was fun with the whole like
everyone just completely knocked out. Then the patrol cop happened,
and I'm like, okay, I'm done with this. That's fine,
but I'm done now. Like the head detective is off
duty after this. I feel like he's on medical leave,
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but he's not. He's perfectly in charge. Like in the
next scene, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Yeah, but they did this a one too many times.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
They did too too many times, because it was three
times that they did it.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
There's the guy that's.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
The patrol cop, the head detective, and then Costello knocking
everyone out through hypnosis at the precinct three times. Once
was fine because it was way over the.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Top and it was and I could see you having
the detective that wouldn't listen to him because here's here's
this one that you really understand is if the if
everything is logical and it doesn't fit, then the impossible
has to be.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah. So the doctor straps Tommy down when they bring
him back to the hell house because he's like, you're
going crazy. We have to find the reagent that will
take this all out, and Tommy's like, dude, I need
to clear my name. I need to get to this
fight tonight because otherwise Costello is gonna get his ass kecked. Right,
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which is gonna so right before the fight, Abbant Costello
will get fifteen thousand dollars to take a fall in
the fifth round. Holy crap, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Of money and he's almost gonna die out on the
second round, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Well we haven't gotten there, but there's a really good
joke where they start Costello starts divvying up the money,
goes a thousand for me on thousand for you, four
thousand for the other guy, and Abbot's like, what the
hell's going on and he goes, well, we have to
pay the tax man.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, that was Joe.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
That was fun That was funny because like, how are
you going to claim like an illegal payoff? Like that's
funny in a couple of different ways, like that he's
thinking about the taxes on it, but also that that
would be the worst thing you could possibly do with
that money. So Tommy actually ends up showing up because
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he like breaks out of the bonds. The main fight
starts up and at first, like Costello just gets his
ass kicked by this this other fighter.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
First.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Now, what's really funny is that it's a middleweight boxing match.
They mentioned Rocky's weight, they like one hundred and forty
five pounds or whatever. They never say anything about Lose weight,
which I thought because I thought, oh, they're gonna make
some sort of like comment like five foot two two,
one hundred and fifty pounds or something like that. But
then it wouldn't have made sense because it's supposed to
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be a middleweight match and lose actually not that fat,
Like he's not, he's just a regular dude. Right, so
he almost gets his ass kicked. And I actually said
in my notes, this is actually a pretty good sequence
in the boxing ring, like him stumbling around not knowing
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how to fight, like the fact that lu Costello actually
knows boxing that that takes effort to like not be
able to fight in the ring. Like he's doing a
really good job with it. It's actually kind of a
joy to watch. And the mob Boss thinks, all this
is really fishy, and he asks like this one guy
(45:22):
to get into his cop outfit and get ready to
kill Abbot Costello if if you know this, this whole
deal falls apart because after a little bit, Tommy gets
in the ring and starts completely laying waste to this
other guy. Right, man, I can't even see how how
Loula Looper is hitting me. He's hitting so fast. I've
never you know, I haven't had anybody hit me like
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this since Tommy, you know, Like, what the hell? So
let's see here. The doctor comes in. He says, I
have the reagent. Tommy jumps onto like the mob boss
after like after the after the fight, Costella wins and like,
you know, okay, this is amazing because the Rocky just
gets the shit kicked out of him, and they go
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back to the room the mob boss and everything is
already in their like dressing room, ready to kill him,
and Tommy's in there and jumps on the mob boss.
There's gunfire, like a steam pipe explodes from a radiator.
You can see Tommy, which again is a very nice
callback to like the Invisible Man returns with Vincent Price
(46:27):
that the fog and rain can make you be seen.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
And that's when somebody throws a knife and stabs Tommy.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Yeah, it's like one of the mob guys that was
like knocked down. He throws a knife into Tommy and like,
oh yeah, goes right into him, and you see like
the outline of him fall over. Pretty good, pretty good.
Then we get a shot of Tommy in the hospital
and they inject him with the reagent. But it's also
they have costello hooked up to him as like a
blood transfusion because.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
They didn't get that is the horrible.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
This is just okay. This is arguably the worst part
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
This is the stupid part of the movie.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
They did not forget the Invisible Man returns that blood
transfusions can also help with the invisibility but they give
them the reagent and they do a blood transfusion, and
I guess some of the reagent gets into Costell because
start be you know, I don't know. I guess they're
just giving them. They've tied them both together, so there's
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blood going between them both. I don't know, because they
want to have everybody kind of evened out. They like
Costello could have like said here, here, here's a pint,
put it into him. No, they're not gonna do that.
They're gonna tie them all together. No, So anyway, he starts,
Costello starts disappearing. But that's that's after a really good
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special effect where Tommy starts to reappear and we actually
get like blood vessels starting to like appear and pulse
with like a heartbeat. I'm like, wow, that's pretty freaking
good that I was surprised. I did not expect that.
It looked very good. The veins kind of like go
out into muscles, like the muscles fade in and then yeah,
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then Lou disappears and he's like, come on, come on, uh,
come on, Abbot, let's let's let's let's let's freaking go.
And I want to I want to live life while
I'm invisible, and and the doctor's like, well, very little,
very little of this yearum got into his blood. He's
not gonna stay invisible for long. So now it is invisible.
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Woman rules that you can only stay invisible for a
certain amount of time. I guess that that that's worse
than that. So Abbot chases after him, and they go
into an elevator with a whole bunch of nurses, and
Costello sexually assaults a group of nurses by like goosing
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them and like kissing them while he's invisible, and then
he mind you, he's also nude.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
He also kisses a woman another nurse after all.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Of them ran out screaming, and they were all slapping
Abbot because they thought Abbot was the one goosing them.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
And then you have lou being half invisible.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Yeah, so he starts turning visible again, and he wraps
like a towel around himself, and then his legs come back,
but they're on backwards, yeah somehow, And then he runs
through a door like wiley coyote, leaving a shape of
himself in the door. The end.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Let's just leave, you know, if you're gonna watch this movie,
let's cut it at the point where you have the
invisible man coming back into being visible. The rest of
the movie sucks and destroys the rest of it after
that point.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
So, okay, what works. A lot of the the humor
in it actually does work. I have over I have
to put it into the category of it does work.
Even though there were certain things that did not.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
The comedy work that except for a few the last
part in the.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
Overdoing physical like him slight of handing the money.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Funny, and then the money with the the I R S.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
This thing was really funny. Him in the boat.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
And the constant Abbiten Costello joke that always occurs is
that he's trying. Lou always tries to tell Bud something
and Bud is never listening to him and keeps talking
and blurbs out everything that should possibly be like they
did with the two Morgan and yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Yeah, yeah yeah. So the comedy works. The pacing, I
will say, also works. The pacing is very good. You're
never really bored. The special effects work. I really do
think that. I think the acting is good. I would
have to actually put it into the category if it works.
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Is there much for the people that aren't Abbitt and
Costello to do in this movie. Not really, but what
they do do is pretty good, pretty good. I'll say
that there are actors and actresses that are better than others.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
I'd still give it a five.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
You're giving it a five or jumping ahead? You're jumping ahead.
What doesn't work well?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
I said that one joke went too long, too long,
too far. We did both. Yeah, the very last jokes
just made me angry.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Yeah, the last the last like thirty seconds forty five
seconds of him like just assaulting nurses and in the
in the elevator and then like his legs are on
backwards like that. That's not funny. It's not funny.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
That just to me took it down from six to five.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Really five. See, here's the thing beyond a couple of
the jokes, beyond like some of the logic in the
movie not really working as a comedy. This is fine,
this is good. If I was rating this as a comedy,
like i'd say six and a half.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
But Invisible whatever is really needs to be a comedy
because they tried with The Visible Man not to be
a comedy.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
No, it's it gets a little too dark. Invisible Man
returns with Vincent Price there's more humor in it, but
it's still serious and it worked better. Like I think
that's actually a superior movie. Even though I liked Claude
Rains the original movie, I did like it. That second
movie with Fincon Price was much better. But Invisible Woman
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and The Invisible Agent both had way more humor. Invisible
Woman much more humor, right, and it worked better. And
so I overall like an Abb and Costello Meet the
Invisible Man. It does work. Overall. You think it's gonna
be a five down from a six just because of
those last.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Well, I have the last part, and then there's that
I expect a little bit more out of Abbit and
Costello of timing and not overdoing a joke, and they
overdid that joke.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
That's that's an Yeah. The shrink thing is a little overdone.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
A little overdone, and one more one too many times.
Speaker 3 (53:33):
See, before we started recording, in my head, I thought,
you know what, I'm gonna give this a six. And
and the reason is is that there really isn't categories
that don't work in this movie. There's there's things that
are that are very average, there are things that do work,
and there's a couple things in each category that you're like, eh,
but they really the movie definitely has more positives than negatives.
(53:59):
But I think because we can't really say there's any
category that's negative, I can't just give it a six.
I have to think. I think I have to give
it a six and a half. But I'm very it's
a very lukewarm recommendation. For me. It's a lukewarm recommendation
because I think there's better Abbot Costello things. If you're
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an Abbot and Costello fan, this is clearly oh yes,
you need to write.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
Yeah, if your abell this is a Abit and Costello
thing would be the watching Us.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
If you're wanting an invisible man story, Yeah, actually this
isn't bad. So that's why I'm saying, like, I can't
give it a five. I can't give it really a
six because it does work on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
On an invisible man point, That last part.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Was just oh God, look that that that's almost a
completely different movie to the extent like it's tough for
me to actually include it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Like, but they did include it, and that just made no.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
That's why I'm not gonna give it like any higher
than maybe I have to say six six and a half.
I can't. I can't give it anything.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
We're great to disagree.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
So no, that's okay, you're giving it a five. But
are you so you're recommending it. You're falling on that
line calling and to.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Watch it.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yes, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
But I'm telling people not to watch once the visible
man becomes visible. Shut the dog one thing off, because
the next one's gonna make you mad. Whether you're unobited
Costello fan or not.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
I think if you're a super amic Costello fan, maybe
it would be funny because it's a weird special effect
of him, like running like wily coyote through a door.
Like it's weird, But I don't know it's it's as
soon as the invisible man turns visible. Yeah, you can
just stop the movie, but I don't know if your
(55:53):
experience will be better or not for it for us.
If I watched it again, I would stop the movie there.
I'd be like, Nope, this is the end of the movie.
We don't need Costello goosing or doing what and kissing
on nurses in an elevator. That's just unnecessary, unnecessary, so
we should leave it there. We did enjoy the movie.
(56:14):
So again, this was in Abbott and Costello Meet the
Invisible Man from nineteen fifty one. I'm erin, I'm darling.
Good evening, keep watching the skies. At no point in
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Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think everybody, and welcome to Earth Versus Soup Episode
two eighty one. I'm Aaron Poullier.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm Darlene.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
We are still going on with Abbitt and Costello because
we needed a break from Paul Nashy and Hammer and
a lot of other sci fi. We're just kind of
trying to do Abbot and Costello. And this week's episode
is Abbot Costello meet The Invisible Man from nineteen fifty one.
This is not the second one. There's like a couple that, well,
(01:37):
it might be the second one, but I know that
there's a couple more that we have not yet done.
There's ab and Costello meet Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde,
and there's Abant Costello Meet the Mummy that we have
not yet done. There's also a couple other abb and
Costello ones that might indirectly be Earth versus soup ish
kind of movies. But yeah, we're we're gonna We're gonna
(02:01):
do some of them. Okay, we're gonna do some of them.
So this one is interesting, and we were talking about
it right before we began recording in that this has
more of a story then Ebing and Costello meet Frankenstein.
(02:25):
But it's also it's just a very different movie. It
does not feel like it does not feel like the
Frankenstein one. It has a very different feel, a very
different feel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Right, Yeah, the frank is the Frankenstein had one had
lots of monsters and a lot of names there. This
one does doesn't. It has one monster.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, it has one monster.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
It is obvious and it's not even and it's not
Vincent Price, No, which is wh where I was depressed
on that one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Which is a shame because Vincent Price is fantastic. Is
the invisible man. So let let's let's get into the plot. Well, actually,
let's talk about let's talk about the cast first, cast
abb and Costello. As we know, and we have a
couple leading ladies in this that I think are in
(03:29):
general underused. Our leading lady is played by Nancy gild
who plays Helen Gray in this. She's a striking woman
that actually did she was She did pin up during
the nineteen forties and she actually ended up getting into
acting and actually is a very good actress. We have
(03:52):
another woman that kind of plays a fluozy. In my notes,
I always call her the gun Mall because she's involved
in organized crime and she's kind of like the mob
mob guy's girl. Her her character's name is Boots Marsden,
but that's Adele Jurgens, Jurgens, Jurgons. It's a jay at
(04:14):
the beginning of her last name. It could be a
silentery or Jurgens. It could be a y, could be
a y. That's what I said. But she is kind
of under used as well, even though she actually seems
to have acting chops.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I think she's used where she needed to be.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Because her character was only supposed to be there for
that tantalizing part of trying to get h Lulu too
throw the game.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Okay she is. I don't know. I think she probably
could have been in it a little more. But we'll
get into it. We'll get into it. Let's let's talk
about the plot. We get another animated beginning. We get
another animated beginning, and it actually shows Abin Costello looking
(05:11):
like detectives doing detective ish things.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's not like it's fully animated. It's like drawings, right,
they are like stills, and it shows them basically screwing
everything up and uh then ending up in a shrink's office. Now,
the shrink's office comes into play in the movie repeatedly,
in a very.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Now this one, I will say, they took this a
little bit too far.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh oh, you think they took it a little too far?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I mean too many times.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So the joke was the first time it went too far? No, no, no,
you're right, the joke got old joke. It's the first time,
at least in the Abbot Costel's Okay, So in two
Abbic Costello movies, it was the first time to me
that a joke got old. Yes, that out of all
the jokes. So this is a first.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
This is a check against them on this.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, but we haven't even gotten to that point in
the plot.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm just saying letting the people know that this would
be one of those things that we put a check.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, okay, this does not work. Okay, So we actually
end up now going live and we see Abbot Costello
graduating detective.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
School DDT and I didn't get one.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah where that was? It's like something detective training or
something like that. Yeah, it doesn't matter where it is,
because does any of it matter in this film. No,
where it is, it's in a city, that's all that matters.
Costello is crying as the audience sings the school song,
(06:49):
and we have this there's this idea in the movie,
and I think it's supposed to be funny, and it
probably was in nineteen fifty one, But the past is
a different country, Like, this is a different humor. And
while like there's a lot of abb and Costello humor
that is perfectly applicable to today, the.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Joke is that is that Abbot past he had to
bribe the the what do you call him, principal, the
dean to graduate Costello.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's not what I'm talking about. I am talking about
the fact that all of the graduates of this college,
of this training school are all wearing tweed, all having
cigars in their mouths, all have bowler hats.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh that went clear over my head like a seven
forty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, yeah, I know. That's why I was like, I
just stopped. I let you say what you thought was humor.
That didn't work, And then I was like, no, because
actually that is I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Thought you were talking about whole movie, because all the
way through the movie, even though Loun never actually graduated.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
From the he's actually the most common He's the.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Competent of the two, and Abbit actually passed.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That is with flying colors.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That is actually funny. That is funny. It holds up.
I'm saying that everyone that is a graduate from this
is all out there with cigars, bowler caps, and tweed jackets.
It is this funny. In nineteen fifty one, it was not.
And here's all the other Habbit and Costello stuff that
we've watched. Everything else seemingly holds up. I did not.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I didn't realize that was a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It has to be. It's just so beyond me, I
guess why.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So today you'd either be somebody like me going not
even noticing it, so the joke doesn't fail, or it
fails on somebody like you, because it's.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Not it's just funny. But it's not funny because even
in the opening credits, all the drawings of them have
them smoking cigars with bowler caps, wearing tweed, Like, yeah, anyway,
it's just it's just not funny. But so we learn that, yes,
(09:19):
abb Abbott has actually bribed the Dean twenty bucks to
let Costello graduate, and he's like, oh, you're such a
good friend, thank you for doing this. Yeah, that's a joke.
But twenty bucks, even in nineteen fifty one, isn't that
much money. So the fact is is that, like I
bet you it was, that Costello actually was going to
(09:41):
graduate and the Dean just took twenty bucks. Like okay,
I'll take twenty bucks, big deal, because it's still only
like two hundred and forty dollars, Like, who's going to
take a bribe of.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The Dean looks at Lou Costello like he's.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Trash, because he probably was is aggravating to have in
the school because he acts like a screw up, so
that that's probably why. So we have them now at
an office and a guy comes in, and this is
(10:17):
where I instead of like thinking, okay, this is a comedy,
I started thinking this is a situational drama that has
comedians in it. Okay, because this guy comes into the office,
and as comedians, this guy comes in the office. You
(10:38):
see these guy come into the office. He's wearing like
a long trench coat, a fedora, he's turned up, he's
acting clearly suspicious.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You're missing a part where Costello Lou was dressed as
Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, and they bitch about it, like why are you
dressed like that? Because I'm a detective and it's Abbott says,
you look like an idiot. And Abbott has on the
tweet jacket, the freaking bowler cap and a cigar in
his mouth. He looks like an idiot. At least he.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Is wearing the hunting's cap the yeaham folks, and he's
even got the pipe in his mouth.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Remember that Sherlock Holmes does not look like that. The
traditional Sherlock Holmes look is what you think. Jack the
Ripper looks like, you know, tuxedo or at least a suit,
a proper Victorian suit, a top hat, a cane, all
of that. That's what Sherlock Holms.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That outfit is the one that he was wearing. Annund
of the Basker.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Fills, which is legitimate if you're like I am. I
am cosplaying in Sherlock Holmes and Hound of the Baskerville,
including the pipe, but that's not his favorite favorite pipe.
Cherry Stumb pipe. That is Sherlock Holmes's favorite. See. I
like Sherlock Holmes, and if I have not said it
before on this podcast, I would be very shocked. Watch
(12:02):
the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes shows. They are superior. And
I cannot read the Sherlock Holmes stories now without hearing
Jeremy Brett's voice in my head. That that is how
Sherlock Holmes sounds. Jeremy Brett, sir, thank you for the
gift that you have given by playing Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Anyway, Yeah, the guy comes in with a fedora. Yeah,
he looks suspicious as shit and he's got his collar
up and it's a great jacket. That's all that went
through my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Great hat. But he's acting suspicious as ship because he
comes in immediately turns off the lights, while like Admic
Costell are just kind of looking at him, and I'm thinking, Okay,
it's going to be it's going to be a drama.
They're going to do something that actually makes sense because
this guy is way over the top. He goes and
closes the blind.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
He looks out the window first.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, he's like peering out the window. This is it
is so far camp.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
This guy is like that goes unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
He has it dialed up to eleven. Right, it is,
and it wasn't funny. I think it was again supposed
to be funny, but it was dialed up so hot.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And during this time, the radio is going on and
it talks about I was talking about Tommy Nilson has
escaped from custody, custody he.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Killed killed his manager, he.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Killed his manager, and everybody's looking for him. And he's
five foot ten blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And Costello is like, that's him, that's him, your Tommy Nelson.
And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
And Abbott does not believe it, does not believe that
this guy is Why would Tommy Nelson come into a
detective agency if he's wonn And like, like I said,
(14:06):
there are parts of this movie that I they are
not funny because they are so dialed up that it
just comes across as ludicrous and a bad drama rather
than or even soap opera ish. But that's not all
the time. That's not what this whole movie is. That's
the thing. It's just like this opening stuff seems to
(14:28):
be that way in my mind, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Get that that that. I just thought it was just
opening stuff. And then the next thing you have is
him dragging these two to a house.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
He needs he needs a ride, He needs a ride.
I'll pay you, blah blah blah. Okay, fine, So they arrive,
Tommy goes inside and a woman is there and her
name is Helen. Helen is Wow, she is she is striking.
She's not your classic beauty. I already said she was
(14:59):
a pin girl in the nineteen forties, but she's not
your classic like blonde beautiful.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, she's got a distinctive chin.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
She is she is. She is a very striking woman.
And uh, she has a presence on screen because because
of not only her looks, but the way she presents
herself and speaks. She's and I know that we're again
devating from the plot and talking about what works and
what doesn't. She clearly has screen presence.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, in this scene, we're going to talk about something that, yeah,
doesn't work, and.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Oh, you say it doesn't work, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Actually what I've read, No, I'm questioning whether I gotta
classify it as Okay, it didn't work or it worked
it will, because I don't know whether this was the
same dog on face.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's not, so let's get to it. It's not. So
we meet Helen and Tommy asks Helen to see the doctor.
Now we get to meet this doctor and all doctor Gray,
doctor Gray. On the wall, we actually have a picture
of Claud Raines, who played the original Invisible Man in
the original.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
As Jack Griffin.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yep. So it turns out doctor whatever his name is Gray,
it has been experimenting with the invisibility serum. Okay, now,
I will immediately give credit WHEK credits due before we
get into the special effect shot. I will immediately give
credit where credits due that out of all the Universal Monsters,
(16:29):
quote unquote, Universal was always extremely consistent, not perfectly because
there's weirdness with like the Invisible Woman, let's say, but
very consistent with the rules of the invisibility serum. Okay,
they tweak it a little bit in this movie. There's
(16:49):
a couple but I think that's for comedy sake. The
fact is is that this guy has been working on
the original invisibility serum, but there's problems. It makes you crazy,
it makes you megalamaniacal. There is a way of actually
getting there's actually a way of getting the invisibility out
(17:10):
of you. We have already learned those ways, but they
are difficult and not perfect. Okay, So this reversal serum,
which has been invented multiple times, now okay, I guess
has never been like passed along.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But they drop the fact of alcohol in it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Oh yeah, because Tommy gets wrecked later on, doesn't he. Yeah. Well, see,
Invisible Woman is its own thing. The Invisible Woman is
its own thing because the rules in that movie are
totally different, like not all of them. It wears off
on its own. It doesn't drive her crazy, even though
I will argue that she is immediately crazy as soon
(17:51):
as she takes the invisibility serum, but her is it's immediate,
whereas with everybody else it's takes time to develop the mega.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It was a person thinking that a female versus a male.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't know, but that seems like that's never said.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's never said. But there are different hormones in that.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I understand that, but it's never said, and it's never
explained that way, which would also be a little a
little sexist. I don't know. I mean, there are medical
differences in like drugs and things with men and women,
but still, this is like the nineteen forties and fifties.
It probably would have been framed in a kind of
sexist way rather than a legitimate biological way.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
So we actually end up getting a shot of the
doctor experimenting. Now, you said, I question whether this was
reused footage.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yes, I questioned whether it is not. You were looking
things up at this point because you stopped the movie.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, because I was like, no, they are not doing that,
because that would be super cheap if they just use
the special effect of the doctor injecting a guinea pig
and going to it's an excellent special effect, but it
is an almost reuse special effect. They actually got the
(19:14):
original special effects guy from The Invisible Man returns and
they actually redid the special effect. And the reason I
say that, well, I mean, I've read it. But it's
also that later on in the film we get some
special effects that I had not seen in the other
Invisible Man films that I was a bit shocked to
(19:36):
see at how good they were. This is an Abbot
and Costello movie. There were some really good special effects
in this.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
But my thought was, is this was exactly how they
did it before.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yes, but it's probably because they had like the whole
setup to be able to do it, and they could
just reshoot it for super cheap. Because the guinea pig
doesn't move in the exactly in the in the same way.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm not gonna remember how I know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Anyway, it's slightly different, at least in my viewing of it,
it was slightly different.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So Tommy has warned about the uh.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Tommy wants to take it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Tommy wants to take it, but he's warned that it
causes insanity.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It drives you crazy, and Tommy's like, look, I need
to clear my name, so I'm going to have to
shoot up this drug. Give it to me, Doc tap
my vein. But he's he's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna
take it right, So hops around the house because everyone
assumes that he's going that Tommy, when he escapes, is
gonna go see.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
His and they're knocking on the door.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah yeah, So uh they present Helen with a search warrant.
My god, how many of these films do we have
cops come in and actually present a search warrant? Very rarely,
but good job, good job movie. You actually have cops
following the law. So Abbot and Costella are going to
(21:03):
capture Tommy for the five thousand dollars reward. No, Abbot
is well, Abbot is. Costello is like, I'm terrified to
this guy because he's a killer. Right, there's a five
thousand dollars reward. That's a pretty big reward. You can
do a lot of You can buy a lot of
war surplus aircraft with that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's what you're driving during this Metal I was like, uh,
you could probably put a really nice down payment on
a house.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You could probably buy a house. Okay, So anyway, Costello
is like, buddy, you know, I'll help prove your your innocence.
They shake hands, but like Tommy starts to disappear at
this point because he shot up when the doctor and
Helen ran off. Tommy starts laughing and taking off his clothes,
and we see that Tommy did not have underwear on.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I said, I go at this point, I'm like, he
didn't have underwear on, Henry to rewind it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He chicks off his shirt. Okay, I can see not
having like an undershirt on. That that's fine. But then
he starts taking off his pants and there's no underwear
on underneath, and I'm like, wow, Tommy was going commando.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
That's but Aaron didn't catch that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I did, Yeah, you did for some reason, because you
were looking.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I was thinking at the fact that there was there
was the big seam in the back of the pants,
and I was like, dang, that's a big scene.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So I wrote down.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Then I went there is not where I got any underwear.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Costello passes out and we see that Tommy is going commando.
The cops all think Costello is nuts at this point
because he's telling him look, I saw Tommy disappear. I
saw Tommy disappear.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He even says how he disappeared. I was like shaking
his head, then the hand. Then I looked up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And so here's here's the joke that is funny old
most well, I think it's actually it goes on too much.
At the first go around, it's too much, but then
it gets funny when at the conclusion of it, let's
put it that way, the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Very conclusion of it. By that time.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Oh, in this first scene, it like it goes over
this cliff and then finds another plateau.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But then they do it again.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then they do it again and again. So they take
Costello to a police psychiatrist. And everything that Costello was
saying is completely honest because we as the viewers, have
seen it. He's like saying, look, of course it's Costello.
He's coming across as an idiot, right, But everything he's
(23:38):
saying is completely honest, and it's driving the shrink crazy
because he's like, none of this can be real, right,
So the shrink starts to try to hypnotize Costello, but
unlike and and Costello meet Frankenstein, Costell just can't seemingly
have the whammy put on him by like a non vampire.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Maybe it's because of the vampire.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Maybe it's because of the vampire. Yeah, the brain scramblings
have made him immune. I know it's a different character.
But the Shrink ends up hypnotizing being hypnotized by Costello.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
And then basically what happens is is that we learn
that Costello is like the Master from Doctor Who, that
he's basically able to mind control everyone without knowing it,
without even knowing it, without.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Without effort. He is able to hypnotize an entire police department,
the cleaning staff, and.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Like they do cut it and then you go to
you go back to the detective Roberts.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, and he's calling the police.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
He's calling the police department, and there's nobody answering.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Because everybody is knocked out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
In the way in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
In the shrinks room, everyone and Costello's trying to like
wake everyone up, but no one will. No one will
wake up because he's just knocked everyone out. Now, I
will say at that point, like the the the sequence
of him like screwed while getting screwed with by the
(25:15):
Shrink and then like doing his like baby like with
the it's hard to describe. If you know Abbot and Costel,
you know Abbitt Costel where he's like twirling the watch
at the shrink to like do whatever that gets that
gets stupid, and then it like goes to this whole
like the entire police precinct is knocked the f out
(25:36):
And I love that. That was funny. That got funny.
Now we go back to the shrink having to talk
to every single detective and police person.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Later it deals with Abbot, that deals with the invisible
man because everyone thinks they're crazy when they're seeing like
a car driving itself or whatever, and that gets really old.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, because finally you get a detective that's never listened
to uh lou.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, and he's just like, you know, I saw man,
Like I don't know, it's in my notes, but the
point is is that I expected to see our favorite
cop from the Edward movies show up and say, you know,
I saw the dead rising from the grave. I saw
aliens in a UFO and a cemetery. Yeah, like then there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But they wouldn't. But the Paramount would not. It would not.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Then I saw there was a giant octopus.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Sorry sorry sorry, they would not have done that today.
We would have done.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That, and I would I would. I think I would
have pissed myself laughing. If he just showed up like
he was just a random actor in a cop uniform
in there, then then it would have become immediately headcannon
that all the Abbot Castello movies are linked to Edwood.
Like it would have made sense. I don't know anyway, anyway,
So let's see here, Helen Higher, there's abb and Costello
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to take a briefcase of clothes to the locate for
a to a location on the woods for Tommy. Uh,
he's wrapped up quick, and then all the cops are
there again because they're just following Abbit and Costello down.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
No, Abbitt called the and he's trying to get the reward,
and in this whole thing, every time Abbot cheats.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
On the condition, breaks his word.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Uh, Tommy is kicking him in the butt, punching him out,
and Lou is getting blamed for it.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, So the cops show up because I guess Abbot
called them, and Tommy immediately strips out all all of
his clothes. Why did you get into the whole invisible
man like mummy wrap.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Because he was not want he was not going to
get they were going to pick him up and take
him somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Well, yes, and I understand that, and logically I understand that,
but like in the in the sense of a movie,
he immediately gets dressed and then has to get under It.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Wasn't intent, It wasn't meant to be him.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
He was not meaning to do then don't get him
into the clothes. Let him get into the clothes later.
Oh whatever, Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But I'm saying that it was It was a show
that he was trying to become visible, so.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
He wasn't going crazy. Well, notice that he wanted to
be warm, because when you're an invisible person, you're cold.
You're cold.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because anyway, he had to get out of those clothes
immediately because of Abbot.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yeah, he then threatens Abbot and Costello, and ab and
Costello have to sit in the back of the car
while Tommy drives. So then we see the patrol cop
trying to pull him over, and he goes to a psychiatrist,
and the patrol cop has to go to the psychiatrist
because he sees no one driving the car. Abing Costello
go with Tommy to the boxing gym because they think
that whoever killed Tommy's manager and blow.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
O hair o hair like the Chicago.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I think it's uh, let's see here.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
He's never in this movie. He's just an uh oh.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
The Yeah, I don't know they I don't know his
manager name what sure O'Hara whatever, that he was at
this gym. There's probably like mob guys that that knocked
him off because he, uh, Tommy didn't want to take
a fall. He knew that that the mob guys were
paying everybody off to like take a fall so that
they would certain boxers would take a fall so they
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would make money on bets. And he figures the mob
mob guys are.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
There, which is the manager Morgan.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, so let's see here. Tommy makes Costell look like
the best boxer of all time, like because behind the scenes,
Costello actually was a boxer as a kid, I shouldn't
say a kid as a young adult, and he won
a ship ton of matches and only stopped boxing because
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he lost a match and had like a broken nose
and his mom found out and told him stop boxing,
and I like, okay, But supposedly Costello was actually a
pretty damn good boxer as a young man. I mean, okay,
but anyway, they're at this gym and Costello is like
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barely making any kind of effort to look like he's
punching the punching bag. But since Tommy's there invisible, Tommy's
there just rattling away at this punching bag, and it
makes it okay, you as the viewer can see Costillo
is doing nothing, but everybody there because it's a comedy movie,
thinks he is he has the fastest hands in America.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, he knocks out somebody to begin with.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, yeah, and then he throws the punch after the
guy or is already going through the air, Like, oh
my god, do you see how fast he was. We
couldn't even see the bunch, like my, oh my lord. Okay,
it's a comedy film. It's a comedy film. But like
there are multiple points. There were multiple times in this
movie that I rolled my eyes, which is different than
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and ebon Costello meet Frankenstein, Like I didn't do that,
and I have at Costello meet Frankenstein, and this there
was like times where I was, oh, come.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
On, yes, this was oh my god. And it's supposed
to deliberately be that way. That's why I didn't have
a problem with it. Well, because it's deliberately supposed to you,
as the viewer, is supposed to know Lou is not
doing anything.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
It's funny, but it's also eye rolling, because I mean
I rolled my eyes, but I laughed through a lot
of it. Let's be fair. I'm not like completely shitting
on this movie. There's there's things that work and don't
work at the same time. Anyway, we get we get this, uh,
we get this, we get the we get to the
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point where they're ending up. They they've shown the mob
guys that Costello is an amazing boxer, and now he's like,
I forget what name they give him, like Lou the
Looper or something.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Like that, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I don't And they're gonna hire him to go and
fight in the ring against this other guy, Rocky. Yeah,
whatever is it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I think it's Rocky because the other one was Mela Melon.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Melon Melon, Okay, Rocky Hanlin, Is that who you're talking about? Rocky?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, that's the person that he's supposed to go He's
gonna go up against the one that Rocky was supposed
to go up against was this melon guy or something.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
All right, So the mob guys are gonna hire Costello
to go up against Rocky, and so they get money.
They get money ahead of time, like a little bit.
But the mob guys are all like, yeah, we're gonna
pay him off. We're gonna pay him like fifteen grand
or something like that. It was a huge amount of money.
I mean, it was actually a large amount of money
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for nineteen fifty one. It's a shit ton of money.
But they're in the hotel room, and I think this
is one of the better gags that like intellectually makes
a lot of sense, and it made me chuckle. They're
playing poker and Tommy's winning a lot and no one
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can figure it out except Costello, who's like, Tommy has
to be holding the cards where we would think he
would be holding the cards, and he's peeking over the
table at my hand to make sure he knows what
I have in my hand because Tommy's just cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yes, because because lou is more smart than he looks.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah it is. Collard just doesn't doesn't get a dnd.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Costella abbitt is is more dumb than he looks.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, so let's see here we have. Helen comes to
the hotel. She says that Tommy is starting to act
like he's a megalamoniacal son of a bitch. I'm I
can be powerful like this, I can take over people's
minds by playing tricks on them. Blah blah blah blah.
You know, like no one can see me coming. And
Helen's like, dude, dude, this is the serum. Calm your shit,
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like come back down to earth. And cops show up
because they've been chasing after Helen and they can't find
Tommy in there, even though like Tommy, this is okay.
There's a joke where Costello's like, hide underneath the sheet.
Tommy could literally hide in the open. He's invisible. Why
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are you putting him under the sheet so everyone can
see where he is? And then like the detective pulls
the sheet off and there's nobody there, and like that's
really kind of eyebrow raising, right, Like you think you'd
think that like maybe it was possible that the detective
could have actually just clocked the guy that was hiding
underneath the sheet, thinking that was Tommy, and it would
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have knocked him out, and he would have been there
and as like the detective was searching, like, what the
hell happened? I heard something hit the floor? They would
feel a naked man there that was invisible, and thus
the movie can't work. So everyone has to be idiots
for the movie to work.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Idiot plot.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's an idiot plot. Okay, So the only.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
One that's anywhere not an idiot is lou and he
and he acts like one. That's the whole joke.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
So Tommy's then like, well, we need to go to
the bubble room where the mob guys hang out, so
we can make sure that everyone knows knows what's going on.
So at the at the bubble room.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Where is the where they they're they're messing with the money.
That was just so a me definite Abbott and Costello.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's that's like six scenes ahead from here.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
This is taking it from his hands and putting in his.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Pocket, and yeah, that's that's you're talking about a different
money thing. That's right at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That's right at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's it's I'm not going through every single joke.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yes, but that is really good.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
There's really good slight of hand, physical humor stuff that's
going on. And I will give them movie credit for that.
There are a couple good sight gags in this that
are that are more than just an instant sight gag.
It's like a long bit and it's very well done.
But anyway, they go to the bubble room, and here
is where Robby decides to screw with everybody by like
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acting like he is there even though he's invisible, to
make everyone question, and like eb and Costello are both
like freaking out because Lou's being kind of on that Lou,
I'm sorry, Tommy's being a bit of a jerky ass,
like just yelling out that he wants a steak or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, because Lou kept on asking for spaghetti and then
steak steak.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Well what do you want, sir, Well, I want spaghetti steak.
Like it's it's very clear that there's somebody that you
can't see.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yes, but if you weren't, even if you weren't getting
that there were two different voices. You're missing a third voice. Yeah,
you would have asked a waiter got him spaghetti and
a steak a steak. You would have sat there and
questioned it twenty times like this going on.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
In there here. Well, here's the thing that was what
was made clear bye by Abbott saying spaghetti and a
steak and then like what he ordered? Did the steak
ever come? No, it's a joke that does not pay off.
But then there's like this weird spaghetti eating sequence where
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it's almost like Lady in the.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Tramp with it did a Lady in the which is.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Before Lady in the Tramp? This is before it, right,
I'm pretty sure he is.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, lou gets seen where.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
The go ahead and talked early.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
He's he's uh getting trying to get his spaghetti back
from from Tommy and the at the time that there's
soaking up the huge roll of spaghetti.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah, and he's like sucking it in and he finally.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Just cuts it with his fingers.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
This is four years before Lady in the Tramp, but
it's a basically Lady in the Tramp without a kiss
at the end, like good job. It's actually a pretty
good site gag, and the special effects are pretty good
because you can tell that the person is composited out
through like they're cutting things out. There's some special effects
of the invisible man effects that are like super.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm gonna explain this one. Is that spaghetti used to
be cut and rolled into a ball, and that ball
you would put in the.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Not always but yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
They were not a lot. The new fangle thing is
the striped ones that we get in the store. But
that's that was not how I got it when I
was in Monterey from the Italian store.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
So the gun mall comes over, flirts with Costello and
convinces Costello to take the dive. She invites him to
her place later. There's lots of gags about eating food
with Tommy there and then boots the gun malls in lingerie.
When when Costello gets there, she flirts and convinces.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
He shuts the door. And the funny part is they've
stole a flower arrangement from downstairs.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It has like a phonograph recorder in it. It's huge
because okay, that makes sense, it's nineteen fifty one, but
like she seemingly doesn't even recognize the fact that there's
this huge contraption inside this.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
When she sets it down, yes.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Like that that blows my mind. And like Costello has
to take the record out and then he sits on
he sits, he puts.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It on his backside, and then she pushed.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Him down in lane and to me that telegraphed exactly
what was gonna happen. But anyway, it's it's an okay gag.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Sometimes their acts are supposed to telegraph what they're supposed
to be.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Back of the bubble room, Tommy gets completely blitzed on
everyone's liquor by like just stealing drinks and downing them,
and he's.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Fed up, and.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
So the head detective ends up well, okay, so ebbing
Costello while they're there, and Tommy is drunk. Tommy ends
up like getting into fights with people and knocking him out,
and everyone thinks Costello is like a psychopath.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Everybody thinks that somebody else is taking the drinks too.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, but everyone thinks that lou the Looper is knocking
everyone out and is just a murderous f soob because
everyone's terrified of him. He hits so fast you can't
even see him take these people out, like he's still
sitting on his seat and a guy is like flying
across the room like it's that actually is kind of funny.
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The ongoing gag that loula Looper is this like true killer.
Like anyway, the detective sees at Costello like carrying an
invisible body.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I was trying to carry a body through an through.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
A revolving door, and they're doing a really good job
of trying to mimic the fact that they're holding anody.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That somebody knocks out lou Yeah, and what's his name?
Tommy and Abbitt tried to carry him, but then Tommy
starts drinking.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
More ship and he gets knocked out and they have
to carry him out. Well, the detective sees sees this
and he has to go to the shrink and say,
I saw two men carrying another man that I couldn't see, Like.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Get a clue.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
God, I'm the Look the first shrink scene, it went
over the top. It was fun with the whole like
everyone just completely knocked out. Then the patrol cop happened,
and I'm like, okay, I'm done with this. That's fine,
but I'm done now. Like the head detective is off
duty after this. I feel like he's on medical leave,
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but he's not. He's perfectly in charge. Like in the
next scene, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Yeah, but they did this a one too many times.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
They did too too many times, because it was three
times that they did it.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
There's the guy that's.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
The patrol cop, the head detective, and then Costello knocking
everyone out through hypnosis at the precinct three times. Once
was fine because it was way over the.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Top and it was and I could see you having
the detective that wouldn't listen to him because here's here's
this one that you really understand is if the if
everything is logical and it doesn't fit, then the impossible
has to be.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah. So the doctor straps Tommy down when they bring
him back to the hell house because he's like, you're
going crazy. We have to find the reagent that will
take this all out, and Tommy's like, dude, I need
to clear my name. I need to get to this
fight tonight because otherwise Costello is gonna get his ass kecked. Right,
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which is gonna so right before the fight, Abbant Costello
will get fifteen thousand dollars to take a fall in
the fifth round. Holy crap, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Of money and he's almost gonna die out on the
second round, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Well we haven't gotten there, but there's a really good
joke where they start Costello starts divvying up the money,
goes a thousand for me on thousand for you, four
thousand for the other guy, and Abbot's like, what the
hell's going on and he goes, well, we have to
pay the tax man.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Yeah, that was Joe.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
That was fun That was funny because like, how are
you going to claim like an illegal payoff? Like that's
funny in a couple of different ways, like that he's
thinking about the taxes on it, but also that that
would be the worst thing you could possibly do with
that money. So Tommy actually ends up showing up because
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he like breaks out of the bonds. The main fight
starts up and at first, like Costello just gets his
ass kicked by this this other fighter.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
First.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Now, what's really funny is that it's a middleweight boxing match.
They mentioned Rocky's weight, they like one hundred and forty
five pounds or whatever. They never say anything about Lose weight,
which I thought because I thought, oh, they're gonna make
some sort of like comment like five foot two two,
one hundred and fifty pounds or something like that. But
then it wouldn't have made sense because it's supposed to
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be a middleweight match and lose actually not that fat,
Like he's not, he's just a regular dude. Right, so
he almost gets his ass kicked. And I actually said
in my notes, this is actually a pretty good sequence
in the boxing ring, like him stumbling around not knowing
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how to fight, like the fact that lu Costello actually
knows boxing that that takes effort to like not be
able to fight in the ring. Like he's doing a
really good job with it. It's actually kind of a
joy to watch. And the mob Boss thinks, all this
is really fishy, and he asks like this one guy
(45:22):
to get into his cop outfit and get ready to
kill Abbot Costello if if you know this, this whole
deal falls apart because after a little bit, Tommy gets
in the ring and starts completely laying waste to this
other guy. Right, man, I can't even see how how
Loula Looper is hitting me. He's hitting so fast. I've
never you know, I haven't had anybody hit me like
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this since Tommy, you know, Like, what the hell? So
let's see here. The doctor comes in. He says, I
have the reagent. Tommy jumps onto like the mob boss
after like after the after the fight, Costella wins and like,
you know, okay, this is amazing because the Rocky just
gets the shit kicked out of him, and they go
(46:07):
back to the room the mob boss and everything is
already in their like dressing room, ready to kill him,
and Tommy's in there and jumps on the mob boss.
There's gunfire, like a steam pipe explodes from a radiator.
You can see Tommy, which again is a very nice
callback to like the Invisible Man returns with Vincent Price
(46:27):
that the fog and rain can make you be seen.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
And that's when somebody throws a knife and stabs Tommy.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Yeah, it's like one of the mob guys that was
like knocked down. He throws a knife into Tommy and like,
oh yeah, goes right into him, and you see like
the outline of him fall over. Pretty good, pretty good.
Then we get a shot of Tommy in the hospital
and they inject him with the reagent. But it's also
they have costello hooked up to him as like a
blood transfusion because.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
They didn't get that is the horrible.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
This is just okay. This is arguably the worst part
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
This is the stupid part of the movie.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
They did not forget the Invisible Man returns that blood
transfusions can also help with the invisibility but they give
them the reagent and they do a blood transfusion, and
I guess some of the reagent gets into Costell because
start be you know, I don't know. I guess they're
just giving them. They've tied them both together, so there's
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blood going between them both. I don't know, because they
want to have everybody kind of evened out. They like
Costello could have like said here, here, here's a pint,
put it into him. No, they're not gonna do that.
They're gonna tie them all together. No, So anyway, he starts,
Costello starts disappearing. But that's that's after a really good
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special effect where Tommy starts to reappear and we actually
get like blood vessels starting to like appear and pulse
with like a heartbeat. I'm like, wow, that's pretty freaking
good that I was surprised. I did not expect that.
It looked very good. The veins kind of like go
out into muscles, like the muscles fade in and then yeah,
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then Lou disappears and he's like, come on, come on, uh,
come on, Abbot, let's let's let's let's let's freaking go.
And I want to I want to live life while
I'm invisible, and and the doctor's like, well, very little,
very little of this yearum got into his blood. He's
not gonna stay invisible for long. So now it is invisible.
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Woman rules that you can only stay invisible for a
certain amount of time. I guess that that that's worse
than that. So Abbot chases after him, and they go
into an elevator with a whole bunch of nurses, and
Costello sexually assaults a group of nurses by like goosing
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them and like kissing them while he's invisible, and then
he mind you, he's also nude.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
He also kisses a woman another nurse after all.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Of them ran out screaming, and they were all slapping
Abbot because they thought Abbot was the one goosing them.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
And then you have lou being half invisible.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Yeah, so he starts turning visible again, and he wraps
like a towel around himself, and then his legs come back,
but they're on backwards, yeah somehow, And then he runs
through a door like wiley coyote, leaving a shape of
himself in the door. The end.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Let's just leave, you know, if you're gonna watch this movie,
let's cut it at the point where you have the
invisible man coming back into being visible. The rest of
the movie sucks and destroys the rest of it after
that point.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
So, okay, what works. A lot of the the humor
in it actually does work. I have over I have
to put it into the category of it does work.
Even though there were certain things that did not.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
The comedy work that except for a few the last
part in the.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
Overdoing physical like him slight of handing the money.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Funny, and then the money with the the I R S.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
This thing was really funny. Him in the boat.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
And the constant Abbiten Costello joke that always occurs is
that he's trying. Lou always tries to tell Bud something
and Bud is never listening to him and keeps talking
and blurbs out everything that should possibly be like they
did with the two Morgan and yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Yeah, yeah yeah. So the comedy works. The pacing, I
will say, also works. The pacing is very good. You're
never really bored. The special effects work. I really do
think that. I think the acting is good. I would
have to actually put it into the category if it works.
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Is there much for the people that aren't Abbitt and
Costello to do in this movie. Not really, but what
they do do is pretty good, pretty good. I'll say
that there are actors and actresses that are better than others.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
I'd still give it a five.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
You're giving it a five or jumping ahead? You're jumping ahead.
What doesn't work well?
Speaker 1 (51:30):
I said that one joke went too long, too long,
too far. We did both. Yeah, the very last jokes
just made me angry.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Yeah, the last the last like thirty seconds forty five
seconds of him like just assaulting nurses and in the
in the elevator and then like his legs are on
backwards like that. That's not funny. It's not funny.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
That just to me took it down from six to five.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Really five. See, here's the thing beyond a couple of
the jokes, beyond like some of the logic in the
movie not really working as a comedy. This is fine,
this is good. If I was rating this as a comedy,
like i'd say six and a half.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
But Invisible whatever is really needs to be a comedy
because they tried with The Visible Man not to be
a comedy.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
No, it's it gets a little too dark. Invisible Man
returns with Vincent Price there's more humor in it, but
it's still serious and it worked better. Like I think
that's actually a superior movie. Even though I liked Claude
Rains the original movie, I did like it. That second
movie with Fincon Price was much better. But Invisible Woman
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and The Invisible Agent both had way more humor. Invisible
Woman much more humor, right, and it worked better. And
so I overall like an Abb and Costello Meet the
Invisible Man. It does work. Overall. You think it's gonna
be a five down from a six just because of
those last.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Well, I have the last part, and then there's that
I expect a little bit more out of Abbit and
Costello of timing and not overdoing a joke, and they
overdid that joke.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
That's that's an Yeah. The shrink thing is a little overdone.
Speaker 1 (53:29):
A little overdone, and one more one too many times.
Speaker 3 (53:33):
See, before we started recording, in my head, I thought,
you know what, I'm gonna give this a six. And
and the reason is is that there really isn't categories
that don't work in this movie. There's there's things that
are that are very average, there are things that do work,
and there's a couple things in each category that you're like, eh,
but they really the movie definitely has more positives than negatives.
(53:59):
But I think because we can't really say there's any
category that's negative, I can't just give it a six.
I have to think. I think I have to give
it a six and a half. But I'm very it's
a very lukewarm recommendation. For me. It's a lukewarm recommendation
because I think there's better Abbot Costello things. If you're
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an Abbot and Costello fan, this is clearly oh yes,
you need to write.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
Yeah, if your abell this is a Abit and Costello
thing would be the watching Us.
Speaker 3 (54:30):
If you're wanting an invisible man story, Yeah, actually this
isn't bad. So that's why I'm saying, like, I can't
give it a five. I can't give it really a
six because it does work on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 1 (54:43):
On an invisible man point, That last part.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Was just oh God, look that that that's almost a
completely different movie to the extent like it's tough for
me to actually include it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Like, but they did include it, and that just made no.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
That's why I'm not gonna give it like any higher
than maybe I have to say six six and a half.
I can't. I can't give it anything.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
We're great to disagree.
Speaker 3 (55:07):
So no, that's okay, you're giving it a five. But
are you so you're recommending it. You're falling on that
line calling and to.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Watch it.
Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yes, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
But I'm telling people not to watch once the visible
man becomes visible. Shut the dog one thing off, because
the next one's gonna make you mad. Whether you're unobited
Costello fan or not.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
I think if you're a super amic Costello fan, maybe
it would be funny because it's a weird special effect
of him, like running like wily coyote through a door.
Like it's weird, But I don't know it's it's as
soon as the invisible man turns visible. Yeah, you can
just stop the movie, but I don't know if your
(55:53):
experience will be better or not for it for us.
If I watched it again, I would stop the movie there.
I'd be like, Nope, this is the end of the movie.
We don't need Costello goosing or doing what and kissing
on nurses in an elevator. That's just unnecessary, unnecessary, so
we should leave it there. We did enjoy the movie.
(56:14):
So again, this was in Abbott and Costello Meet the
Invisible Man from nineteen fifty one. I'm erin, I'm darling.
Good evening, keep watching the skies. At no point in
your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything
that could be considered a rational thought.
Speaker 6 (56:33):
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