Chunder Down Under: The Hilarious Havoc of Barry McKenzie

Dive into the wild world of the "Barry McKenzie" movies with guest Matt Fulton. These cult classics from the '70s embody the irreverent and bold humour that makes them stand out in cinema history. Join us as we balance laughter with a look at the cultural impact these films have had.

In this episode, we explore "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" and "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own." Our exploration sheds light on Barry Crocker's iconic role as Barry and the memorable characters that made these films beloved by many. We delve into the nuances that define these movies, from their quirky humour to the unique blend of slapstick and song.

We'll also tackle the peculiarities and outlandish humour that set the Barry McKenzie films apart. From their unconventional language to the memorable slapstick and the soundtrack, these elements underscore the films' distinctive charm and audacity. Join us as we celebrate the eccentrics and 'ratbags' of cinema, reflecting on an era where nothing was too sacred for the silver screen, and a good laugh was integral to the viewing experience. Grab your slouch hat and get ready for a nostalgic trip through a series that redefined comedic boundaries.

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Exploring Barry McKenzie Australian Films

Speaker 1 0:00

G'day everyone, and welcome to Dingo Ate my Movie. Before we jump into today's episode, I want to give you a quick heads up. Today we're discussing the adventures of Barry McKenzie and Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Films that are very much a product of their time, with humour and themes that might be considered offensive by today's standards. These movies include crude language, stereotypes and humour that some might find inappropriate, and then, of course, our discussion may reflect this content. So listener discretion is definitely advised, especially for those who might find such material upsetting. Now let's get cracking into the heart of Australian cinema and explore the legacy of Barry McKenzie. You're listening to a Monster Kid Podcast.

Speaker 1 1:13

Hi and welcome to A Dingo Ate my Movie, a podcast that features classic exploitation and other weird, wonderful, overlooked and underappreciated Australian films from the 70s, 80s and beyond. My name is Pete and I'm your host, the Knight Rider that is his name. The Knight Rider, remember him when you look at the night sky. Welcome to A Dingo Ate my Movie, a podcast about the weird and wonderful Australian films from the 70s, 80s and beyond. I'm your host, pete, and today Matt Fulton joins me again to somehow discuss the Adventures of Barry McKenzie from 1972 and its 1974 sequel, barry McKenzie Holds His Own G'day. Matt, thanks very much for joining me again.

Speaker 3 2:16

Pete, it's an absolute pleasure that you've invited me back. You've given me. I thought this would be easy to do, but after watching these and I hadn't seen them for a long time I'm going oh, how can I say stuff without being taken out of context?

Speaker 1 2:33

I've already recorded a disclaimer, don't worry.

Speaker 3 2:37

Thank you for inviting me back on. Yeah, these movies hold a real nice soft spot for me. Oh, that's good. I always get you for the strange ones. Last time it was Alvin. Yeah, these movies hold a real nice soft spot for me.

Speaker 1 2:45

Oh, that's good. I always get you for the strange ones. Last time it was Alvin.

Speaker 3 2:48

Yeah, yeah which that was a mental challenge for the second one at least. Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:55

We'll talk about it later, but there's a little bit kind of in common with these movies actually. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 3:02

Nice looking forward to it. We'll go through it later.

Speaker 1 3:05

I'm sure you'll see it as soon as I bring it up. So it's great, all right. So the first movie we're going to talk about today is the adventures of barry mckenzie and uh. Quick synopsis for you on the movie. Barry mckenzie and his aunt, edna everidge navigate the eccentricities of british society, experiencing a series of comical misadventures and cultural clashes during their lively journey through London. Cast includes Barry Crocker, barry Humphreys, dick Bentley, peter Cook, avis Landon Spike, milligan Dennis Price and Paul Bertram. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Barry Humphries and Bruce Beresford. The thing that gets me is just like how dated it is now for one.

Speaker 3 3:58

It is yeah, and I don't know where to start with this. I know I'm the same.

Speaker 1 4:06

How do you talk about these movies? I mean, these movies are very much of their time and there is no way you could make these movies today. Well, you could, but you would probably be like tarred and feathered, I think.

Speaker 3 4:22

And there's no way that they would be able to be broadcast on, say, free-to-air or anything like that. Streaming, yes, because that's no holds barred, but just the warning note right at the beginning of Barry McKenzie. It just sums up. I'm not going to repeat it, but it sums up what you're about to be in for. But the whole thing is just complete, you know when the phrase well, the tongue in cheek. Well, that tongue has pierced that cheek and gone right out.

Speaker 1 5:01

Yeah, when you see the censorship, the, what is it? The ratings?

Speaker 1 5:09

the commonwealth of australia. Censorship. Classification of npa. Yeah, it pretty much tells you what to expect. You can read into npa however you like. If you watch the movie, you'll definitely see it and you'll definitely be offended by it. Yes, barry mckenzie is based on a fictional character created by barry humphries in 1964 for a comic strip in the satirical british magazine called private eye, and he was drawn by a new zealand artist, nicholas garland. Private eye is a british magazine that was founded in 1961 and then purchased, uh, in 1962 by English comedian Peter Cook. So I think that's a bit of the link there between Peter Cook and this movie as well. The film was entirely funded by the Australian Film Development Corporation for $250,000 and it recouped the budget in just three months. Wow, in fact, it was actually the first Australian film to crack $1 million at the box office and it was also the first commercial R-rated Australian film. Interesting, it made its money back very quickly.

Speaker 3 6:21

Yeah, and that's going by 1970s standards too correct, I think.

Speaker 1 6:26

I think if you were to work it out today, I think you'd be looking at around around nine million dollars, which isn't a fortune, but you know, for a little comedy film it's not bad and the fact that, anything now, they need borderline instant returns, so you'll have to try and earn it back within two weeks yeah, it's like everything these days has to be done.

Speaker 1 6:51

You want the money back straight away yesterday bruce beresford has said both this film and barry mckenzie holds his own were detrimental to his career. He stated that it was like a massive mistake to make this movie because the films were so poorly received. Of course, bruce Berriford would go on to direct Don's Party in 1976 and then Break a Morant in 1980. He's also known for Money Movers, tender Mercy, crimes of the Heart and, probably most most famously, driving Miss Daisy. So it's amazing he went from Barry McKenzie to Driving Miss Daisy. He could have had like Jessica Tandy, as like Barry's mum, instead of Edna Everidge.

Speaker 3 7:38

Well, there was a part. I don't know if you've got the Blu-ray edition, don't you?

Speaker 1 7:45

Yeah, I watched it, the Blu-ray edition, don't? You?

Speaker 3 7:48

Yeah, I watched it on Blu-ray. Yeah, Did you watch it with the intro from Dame Edna?

Speaker 1 7:51

Dame Edna, yeah, I've seen the intro.

Speaker 3 7:53

Yeah, because that's where she does highlight the fact that she was in Driving Miss Daisy.

Speaker 1 7:59

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 8:01

But she was going to be, and then she passed it on to someone who was a lot younger and up-and-coming talent Jessica Tandy.

Speaker 1 8:08

And we can't, speaking of Dame Edna, we can't really talk about this film without talking about Barry Humphreys and the rising star of Edna, everidge Humphreys actually began performing Everidge, as I read I think. I looked this up the other other day and it was in like the mid to late 50s. He started, uh, he kind of created that character yeah, auntie edna and yeah, back in.

Speaker 3 8:34

I think it's somewhere. I've got it on dvd somewhere or, you know, in one of those archives from that channel nine released or something like that where Auntie Edna appeared as the suburban housewife with just the standard dark hair style, nothing curly or fluffy like how it ended up being, but it was just straightforward, brushed down, suburban housewife style and, yeah, just did a piece to the camera.

Speaker 1 9:10

Quite amazing how it sort of all turned out. I'm not sure, though, whether, like was, do you think this is the first time she was on screen, or would she have been on screen sometime before this? Oh, before, definitely before on screen, because I know he was doing like shows and things On the silver screen.

Speaker 3 9:27

No, this is probably the first time, my apologies, I thought you were referring to TV.

Speaker 1 9:32

Yeah, she was probably on TV right.

Speaker 3 9:34

Yeah, especially during the Graham Kennedy era.

Speaker 1 9:36

Oh, that's right. Yes, exactly, exactly. Humphreys also played Hoot in this movie, the little hippie guy and the psychiatrist. What was he? Dr Lamprey, I think his name is the guy that gets vomited on in both movies.

Speaker 3 9:51

Yeah, so just he played many hats in the film.

Speaker 1 9:58

He's a big loss. Barry Humphrey, some of his characters are just fantastic. I've always had a a uh, you know, a soft spot for a lot of the characters he does, and I'm just trying to think of my favorite now, I don't know. Edna's always really good well.

Speaker 3 10:15

It's funny that when he started to, when he appeared other than the regular specials which I grew up that would be shown on ABC or whatever commercial network throughout the 80s and 90s. Originally I didn't like Dame Edna, but I grew up appreciating it a bit later on because I just didn't understand the humour Appealing to a newer generation would have been when Barry Humphries voiced Bruce the Shark in Finding Nemo. And so when you have your kids being fans of Bruce and then it's like, oh Barry Humphreys, Like when they do a deep dive, I guess at today's day and age, when they're now a lot older and they go, oh Barry Humphreys, who's he? And then they discover, oh my goodness, yeah, Times have changed.

Speaker 1 11:09

I've always had a real soft spot for Les Patterson as well.

Speaker 3 11:13

Oh, yes, yes, yeah, the head of the. Was it the chair on the cheese and wine board? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 11:21

There's actually a movie we could do of his as well Les Patterson Saves the World.

Speaker 3 11:24

Yeah, there's actually a movie we could do of his as well. Liz Patterson Saves the World All right. Well, our bags are spot for that. There you go, yeah, so that'd be fun.

Speaker 4 11:30

I've got it as well.

Speaker 1 11:31

Yeah, definitely a big loss to Australia, the other thing I've got about this movie. Just moving on to the movie itself, to me this movie is kind of ostensibly like a series of skits. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I think it's probably really reminiscent of its origins in, you know, in a comic strip.

Speaker 3 11:53

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:54

So we've got, you know, the way I saw it, we've got like leaving Australia and the trip, you know, being ripped off by the Poms everywhere as soon as he arrives. And then the bit about the cigarette ad and the, the little gallivanting he does with his little co-star in the ad, um, the gorts and the daughter, the hippies and the gig, the psychiatrist. You know, there's like all these bits that are, yes, they're scenes in the movie, but they're kind of almost like to in the movie. They're kind of like extended skits.

Speaker 1 12:28

They don't really relate much. It's like he goes from, you know, like the gorts bit. He leaves the house and gets picked up and then we're into the next skit, which is him with the hippies and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 12:42

Well, wasn't the whole thing with Barry McKenzie? It created as you explained how it was all created and developed, but the storytelling was just in a way of Barry Humphreys explaining his point of view of how he sees the culture or the oka the Aussie oka of it all, and how he despises it, and then he also got everything that comes out of the motherland. So it's just his view or views of the cultures behind it and it's just no filter none whatsoever yeah, filter, what's filter?

Speaker 1 13:26

well, I get the feeling from some of the stuff I watched. Um, I watched on with barry mckenzie holds his own. I had a panic last week because I thought, oh yeah, I'll be able to watch this on brolly or something like that. It's nowhere.

Film Buffs Discuss Barry McKenzie's Legacy

Speaker 1 13:42

It's nowhere on streaming, right yeah so right, you've got it I got on dvd yeah, I had to order from ebay and I was so lucky it came in time. Oh, a three pack and it had the adventures of barry mckenzie barry mckenzie holds his own and some dame edna thing. Okay, it was an umbrella release from years ago and I was so much panicking I was going to say I was thinking, oh shit, am I going to have to message Matt and say, oh, we're just going to have to do Barry McKenzie, I could have sent you.

Speaker 3 14:14

You know, the funny thing is I've got the original. Well, I've got the DVD release when it first came out.

Speaker 1 14:20

Yeah.

Speaker 3 14:21

And I still remember the day where it was being promoted on Rove Live and Peter Hellyer was plugging trying to sell this movie on Rove and he's like, oh, this is amazing, showing clips of it, and a lot of people would have gone directly over their head but I went, oh, that's interesting, I'll get it. Well, I've got that copy then, which I still have. So it was 2003, so I still have it. And then I was collecting those Oz Portation Classics bundles that Umbrella had released around the time of Not Quite Hollywood, and so there's a copy of Barry McKenzie Hold His Own in one of those compilations. So I've actually got two copies You've got it twice.

Speaker 3 15:07

But yeah, adventures of Barry McKenzie, because I've also got the original DVD and Blu-ray and also Holds His Own, so it's like you just call me next time.

Speaker 1 15:16

Well, I needed it for my collection anyway.

Speaker 3 15:19

I could have driven down the road and dropped it off to you.

Speaker 1 15:21

And it had a nice extra on the DVD. I don't know if it's on the Blu-ray, I haven't checked it out. On the DVD of Adventures of Barry McKenzie you probably got it there. There's actually a PDF script.

Speaker 3 15:31

Yes, I just noticed that earlier. I had a look at it.

Speaker 1 15:34

I was looking at it yesterday and there's like a whole scene at the beginning of the movie that's not there.

Speaker 3 15:40

Oh.

Speaker 1 15:41

Where the film opens, with Barry McKenzie having a surf at Bondi Beach. And what's his mate's name Is it Curly Curly? Yeah, coming down to get him from the beach because his father's passed away. And that's where the whole thing starts. And then they cut to the lawyer's office. But there's these whole scenes about them going back to the house and his father lying there and his father had died with not a beer or something, he had some alcohol in his hand or something like that.

Speaker 3 16:15

Well, they might have filmed it but they probably cut it for time or it just didn't have a flow, because it starts off sombre and then it goes directly into it. So the fact that at that beginning of Barry McKenzie that everything is, you could definitely tell it was filmed in Sydney I'll put it that way because of the harbour backdrop in nearly every frame.

Speaker 1 16:37

Well, that's very much of the times, right. Every time there was a movie filmed in Sydney in the 70s or the 80s, you always saw the harbour Bridge, the Opera House, like I think. When you listen to Brian Trenshaw Smith talking about the movies he made, he was always like oh well, my movies were almost like a promotional film for Australia. I always tried to make sure I had the Opera House or the Harbour Bridge. Look at the man from Hong Kong, right.

Speaker 3 17:03

Yeah, exactly when.

Speaker 1 17:04

Jimmy Wang Yu like? Well, probably not him, it's probably Grant Page, you know sort of kites through the harbour and stuff.

Speaker 3 17:15

Yeah, it's just trying to sell it and I guess if they do that they go. Maybe if Tourism Australia hey, you've done some heavy lifting, here's some money. Yeah, you know, get them to piggyback off onto the promotions to make it a bit easier.

Speaker 1 17:33

Yeah, but going back to the movie, I think it's pretty obvious that Barry Humphreys wrote this as like a massive satire.

Speaker 1 17:41

Yeah, and like you were getting at, I think I read a couple of places where he was kind of like, yeah, this is really all about the overblown cliche of the aussie bloke sort of thing. Yeah, and it is. It's an overblown cliche, although there's really interesting one of the other I think it's the holds his own disc that I was looking at has like a 50-minute documentary that was made in like 70-something and it's all in black and white. He interviews people you know that were at the premiere and all this stuff. And he interviews this other guy and the guy is like such a cliche of Barry McKenzie. He's talking about how much he loves Barry McKenzie and he'd love to be Barry McKenzie. He's talking about how much he loves Barry McKenzie, he'd love to be Barry McKenzie and he's got his chick there with him and they zoom in on his face because he's got like he's dribbling a little bit and you can see the cameraman's going oh beauty, I'm going to zoom in on this guy dribbling while he goes on about everything.

Speaker 3 18:44

Well see, I'm going to zoom in on this guy dribbling while he goes on about everything. Well see, here's the thing With the DVD releases if you can track them down, they're just chock full. If you want a good Australian film that's got a lot of extras, these ones are the way to go.

Speaker 1 18:59

Yeah, they are.

Speaker 3 19:00

So you're getting your value for money, even though, whatever you feel about the film, so you're getting your value for money, even though, whatever you feel about the film, it's just bonds of features, so to speak, and yeah, it's a goldmine of Humphreys.

Speaker 1 19:17

Yeah, it's quite amazing. Before I watched these again for the show, I hadn't seen the Adventures of Barry McKenzie for God knows years. Right, I've had the Blu-ray, because it was the first Blu-ray that Umbrella released with the slip casing the Ozploitation Classics one. I think it was the first disc that they released. I've had it for so long I'd never watched it. And I pulled it out to watch it and I was like, oh wow, I didn't realise. And when I was watching some of the extras on that Blu-ray and there's millions of them and there's one in particular, there's like a documentary on that that I kept thinking, oh, this is going to finish soon, this is going to finish soon. It must have gone for nearly two hours. It was amazing.

Speaker 1 20:03

I started watching it. I finished watching the movie I think it was Wednesday night at like 9 o'clock. I thought, oh, I'll watch this documentary. It's probably only half an hour long or something. It's like an hour and a half or something like that and I never realised how deeply Barry Humphreys was ingrained. I never knew right, for instance, that he actually wrote or co-wrote the script with Bruce Beresford and how much input he had in this film. I thought he was just really there for Dame Edna and a few other characters, right.

Speaker 3 20:32

Yeah, and I don't know, is he showing away still from it that he had done Barry McKenzie?

Speaker 1 20:42

Who? Bruce Beresford.

Speaker 3 20:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:44

I don't know. He's still alive, right, I think so. I looked him up on Wikipedia. He's still alive as far as I can see, but I don't know. All I can think of is he probably. You know, like he said, that it kind of ruined him for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 21:00

Yeah, but now it's a magical classic.

Speaker 1 21:05

Yeah, I don't think you would hide that you did a movie like that. He might have done so, you know, in some years. But I think as you get older you learn to realise that it's movies like that that probably make you as a director right.

Speaker 3 21:15

Yeah, and you cut your teeth, and the fact that, yeah, and he's still kicking on 83 years old at the time of this recording, and I'm just amazed that you can see how low budget Barry McKenzie, the first one, is, even though they did a pretty good job at filming in the UK with some parts, and Hold His Own is just. It's backed by Reg Grundy, who is his name is slang itself or the colloquialism.

Speaker 3 21:51

So yeah, barry got backed by undies and you can just see how much they've invested in it, but it just feels like that they really stretched the idea. However, it's a lot of fun. Completely wrong, but a lot of fun. Completely wrong, but a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 22:05

Like the, the ocherisms are just to the extreme oh yeah, it's like I think I I actually noted down some yesterday. Where are they? This is basically through those. It was like things like you know, the usual one we're talking about, the one that they always quote, about him going to the bathroom, splashing the boots and pointing Percy at the porcelain and calling someone a rat bag. With that great song Bangs like a dunny door. Fair, go blimey, don't come. The raw prawn, pommy bastards, stone the crows. Chinwag drongo, whoop, whoop. Shoot through dry as a dead dingo's Donger, which I still use today.

Speaker 3 22:47

Yeah, I hear that a fair bit. Yep Chunder Technicolor Yawn like a rat up a drain. I love that one.

Speaker 1 22:54

And then the old more nookie than you've had hot dinners, yeah, and the Bum's Rush. I remember going back to school and I'm sure at some stage some teacher we had you know you always had that like one teacher that taught something like I don't know, some sort of art thing or one of the more not you know mainstream subjects. That was always like edgy and and was kind of like one of the guys and everyone kind of liked him because he was like that. I remember him at one stage I can't remember his name saying something like I've had more nookie than you guys have had hot dinners.

Speaker 3 23:35

Yeah, it's just those little mannerisms where you go, oh, and when you watch these movies you just go, oh, that's where they got it from. Yeah, some of them are very dated.

Speaker 1 23:43

I don't really watch these movies, you just go oh, that's where they got it from. Yeah, Some of them are very dated Inspired. Yeah, I don't really hear Stone the Crows anymore.

Discussion on Explicit Language in Films

Speaker 3 23:48

Yeah, and the only ones that the current day and the most cleanest ones are, you know, referring to Al Stewart Flaman, yeah, yeah, and that goes from there.

Speaker 1 23:56

Now this podcast is rated as explicit, so I'll have this conversation and say the words I was saying to May last. I was talking to her last night my wife May about the movie because she hadn't had the chance to watch them with me because she was working. It was a weird shift this week and I said do you know what's really interesting about these movies? They have some of the most politically incorrect terms. They have some of the worst things you've seen and you will see in a movie. But I don't recall ever hearing the word fuck or I don't recall ever hearing the word cunt in either of these movies. That's a good point. There's no bad language in the movies. It's bloody, but bloody is not even a rude word.

Speaker 3 24:45

Well, the only thing that I can think of is they get as close as maybe saying shit, because it's saying shit creek.

Speaker 1 24:51

Yeah.

Speaker 3 24:51

Because the amount of times that he goes you know I'm up shit creek. And I think it was what's the one that he's paddling out on a boat and was that Holds His Own.

Speaker 1 25:05

I think it's Halsey Zone.

Speaker 3 25:06

But he's out in the Thames, I think.

Speaker 1 25:10

I think it's Halsey Zone, isn't it?

Speaker 3 25:11

Yeah, and then he gets in the boat and then he goes. Oh, I'm definitely up Shit Creek without a paddle and he's using his hands to get out into the water.

Speaker 1 25:22

So I mean that's the one when they're crossing the English Channel right, is that the one? I think so In Hold His Own. Is that Hold His Own it?

Speaker 3 25:28

is. This is the interesting thing.

Speaker 1 25:31

He's wearing blackface.

Speaker 3 25:33

Yes, that's the one where I just got. Oh goodness gracious.

Speaker 1 25:38

But it's unbelievable. Like the only things, there was no Americans in this movie, so the only thing I didn't hear was seppos Right, but I heard all the other ones. You know Pommy bastard, every second word.

Speaker 3 25:52

Yeah.

Speaker 1 25:53

I think if you're British, you're going to be quite offended by this film.

Speaker 3 25:56

That's right. Yeah, he does turn up in blackface. This is Barry McKenzie as Abdul McKenzie.

Speaker 1 26:04

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 26:05

Yeah, because he's trying to be smuggled, because Barry's been banned from returning to the UK after the farce from last time, and so this is where they are trying to. This is where Barry McKenzie holds his own, by the way, and he's going to go to France. Where were they?

Speaker 1 26:28

heading off. They were in France and they were heading back to England.

Speaker 3 26:31

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, and he's just being smuggled out and that's where okay, oh, and this is probably where you're going to have to might censor it, but this is I'm only quoting the movie and this is how afraid I am of it. But this is I'm only quoting the movie and this is how afraid I am of it. But Barry escapes and then the guy goes oh, I know, basically boat smugglers saying wogs are tinted people.

Speaker 3 27:01

It's like layer upon layer of a fence and then they're on the back of the truck or whatever with some Indian people. And then the one joke which I frigging love is when the lady is reading a book. She's reading a book about Immanuel Kant, right so the philosopher. And so oh I to the accent and the delivery of it, saying because Barry's like, what are you doing? And she's going oh, I'm studying Kant, and he says same here, but I keep failing the practical.

Speaker 1 27:45

It was a quick one. So that's as close as they get to like a bad word right.

Speaker 3 27:50

Yeah, exactly In two movies.

Speaker 1 27:52

Yes, not bad, yeah, but they say so many other bad words that like and not considered like curse words.

Speaker 3 28:00

No, no, exactly. And Immanuel Kant, his surname's spelled K-A-N-T. So because of the English accent, it's like Kant.

Speaker 1 28:12

Yeah.

Speaker 3 28:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:13

One of my favourite bits is like the section with the family the Gorts. Is it the Gorts? The Gorts, yeah, and their daughter, and then the hippie section in the middle. That's quite funny, right, like the whole them thinking that Edna Everidge or Barry McKenzie is rich.

Speaker 3 28:32

They have inheritance, yeah.

Speaker 1 28:34

They're rich and there's like this big misunderstanding and they're trying to marry off their daughter, who is kind of quite weird and not very attractive.

Speaker 3 28:48

Yeah, not very attractive, but she's a well-known English actress.

Speaker 1 28:52

She was in Upstairs, downstairs or something, was she, I think so yeah, I was looking.

Speaker 3 28:56

I can't remember her name, my apologies, but yeah, well accomplished. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 29:03

It was funny because when I was watching one of the documentaries, they were saying that I think it was the director of photography or something was saying well, what do you say to someone that's cast to be ugly right? He can't say.

Speaker 4 29:16

He said it's very hard to say Ugly yourself up, you look great.

Speaker 3 29:23

You look great and you're ready for your shot, yeah, yeah. So I just love the fact that during the adventures of Barry McKenzie and they try to hook up Barry and Sarah, and they go to the social and while you know Barry's being haunted by an English upstart, you know, saying all the mannerisms and everything and saying, oh, there's a whole bunch of Australians out the back, and so when he goes out for the nice frosty ales, golden ales, and then there there's his mates and John Clarke as well.

Speaker 1 29:55

Oh yeah, john Clarke's in both these films, right.

Speaker 3 29:57

Yeah.

Discussion of Barry McKenzie Films

Speaker 1 29:59

Is he in both? No, he's not in the second one. He's not in the second one, he's not in the second one.

Speaker 3 30:02

The person who plays one of Barry's mates, who's in the film twice, the film twice, is Clive James.

Speaker 1 30:12

Clive James, that's right.

Speaker 3 30:13

Yeah, he plays that In the first movie.

Speaker 1 30:15

He was basically just a man passed out at a party.

Speaker 3 30:18

Yeah, but in the second one he plays a bigger role. Out at a party yeah, but in the second one he plays a bigger role. It doesn't speak much, but every time you see a frosty, golden nail froth up in the screen or can opening, it's him. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 30:31

Apparently he said about the first film that he was basically just there to lie down and be passed out and for some reason it made him classified as like a stunt person and he got paid more the fact is.

Speaker 3 30:46

I wasn't aware that Clive James was part of these movies and I grew up watching his satirical talk show.

Speaker 4 30:57

Yeah.

Speaker 3 30:59

Just late on in the early 90s on the ABC. So just his dry humour when he's doing those chat shows, and so to see him doing this, being very active, and I'm going, whoa, I did not expect that. So yeah, and I've seen these movies before, but I saw them at such a young age.

Speaker 1 31:22

You don't realise or they don't have the impact that they have now.

Speaker 3 31:26

yeah, no, exactly and just that extra layer of appearances by certain people and going oh, okay they're in it.

Speaker 1 31:34

The actress that played Sarah is Jenny Thomason.

Speaker 3 31:38

That's it yes, yeah. Yeah, fantastic actress too.

Speaker 1 31:42

She was really good. I think she was really good. I don't think she was particularly ugly. Obviously they made her up to be that way. They put terrible clothes on her.

Speaker 3 31:50

I think it was, yeah, the character just trying to downplay.

Speaker 1 31:54

But Barry still had a go.

Speaker 3 31:56

Yeah, tried to he tries to. Yeah, and that's when Mrs Gort was trying to marry them off. Yeah, but Mr Gort with his fetish, dennis Price right.

Speaker 1 32:11

Yeah, apparently this was like one of Dennis Price's last movies and at this time he was deeply alcoholic, effectively Wow. Deep into like he was deeply alcoholic, effectively Wow. And the scene where he falls asleep next to his wife Was legit. Wasn't scripted for him to fall asleep?

Speaker 3 32:30

Oh, because when Mrs Gort is rambling on and then he falls asleep, that actually suits it.

Speaker 1 32:35

It did, but it wasn't scripted to do that. Apparently he just did that, wow, so yeah, so I think he died not long after this movie, but his character like even this character is kind of offensive. He's almost like he's one of those, I guess once again it's kind of like a satire on the closeted British kind of bisexual or suppressed sexuality sort of thing where he puts on a school uniform.

Speaker 3 33:09

Yeah, wants to be punished.

Speaker 1 33:11

Wants to be punished by Barry, who thinks it's really strange and anyone would.

Speaker 3 33:17

And Mrs Gort's just like, oh jeez, Like she's grown up to live with it.

Speaker 1 33:22

Yeah.

Speaker 3 33:24

But that's when he escapes. Oh, I've got to mention, though, too beforehand, right at the very beginning, or near the very beginning, where Barry does arrive in the UK and stays in the hotel, that it's the hotel or the hostel, or whatever you want to call it. Run by Spike.

Speaker 1 33:44

Milligan, spike Milligan. Yeah, he's really good as well.

Speaker 3 33:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:49

I learned lots of things about him because I used to listen like I had friends when I was going to school. He used to listen to the Goon Show and all that sort of stuff and I used to listen to him a lot. Then it was interesting to hear in some of the stuff I watched on the disc about him being kind of very insecure about his performances and things like that. But he was really funny Like the whole thing with him pulling his sleeve down. So when Barry shook his hand he's pulling his sleeve back. That was all kind of just ad lib by him sort of thing. All the subtleties, funny guy. That's a great scene too, especially when the lights go out and he shows him the box to put money in.

Speaker 3 34:34

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:34

Just do that every 20 minutes Exactly yeah, I don't know if that sort of thing ever really existed.

Speaker 3 34:40

I don't know, I don't know, I sort of thing ever really existed.

Speaker 1 34:42

I don't know I don't know.

Speaker 3 34:43

I've seen something like that happen in movies a fair bit, but I don't know if that's an actual thing.

Speaker 1 34:48

Well, you know it's yeah, could have happened.

Speaker 3 34:51

But the fact that Barry Crocker playing our mate Barry McKenzie again it's known him as a fantastic performer, singer and everything else like that, and when you get him to do this, he's just the complete opposite.

Speaker 1 35:09

Yeah.

Speaker 3 35:09

But just shows that he's got a sense of humour. His character, his performance as his character, is just so goddamn perfect.

Speaker 1 35:17

Yeah, he does a great job and it's so against cast right.

Speaker 3 35:20

Yeah.

Speaker 4 35:21

For him.

Speaker 3 35:22

Oh, exactly.

Speaker 1 35:24

He's totally one of those really nice guys. He's a bit of a smooth singer and I think he was, like you know, someone that really appealed to the housewives and all this sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 35:35

You know, with his records and things like that, yeah, it's the audience of, say, IMT slash, Burt Newton and then Don Lane Show just that calm, wonderful performer and knows how to hold a note. And then suddenly he's like you know, oh, I'm dry as a dead dingo's donger.

Speaker 1 35:56

I don't know that he did anything else Like he did these two movies. Did he do any other? I don't think he did right. I think he was mostly. Obviously he's a singer. I'm just having a quick look while we talk about it here we go.

Speaker 3 36:10

No, he did nothing after Barry McKenzie until 93. Yeah, that's it, Shotgun wedding. But there was a voice. But he made an appearance as himself in Muriel's wedding in 1994.

Speaker 1 36:22

And, of course, between 85 and 92 he was the voice singing the theme song to Neighbours.

Speaker 3 36:28

Yes, exactly the first time around, the first ever audition.

Speaker 1 36:32

He was host of a TV series, I think right, or a leading performer on the Sound of Music, or something like that.

Speaker 3 36:39

Yeah, but he's popped up in various places as an entertainer of sorts MC and everything, but he's very good in this film, in this film.

Speaker 3 36:48

Yeah, in this film, yeah, the one part which I did get a good giggle out of was when, jumping back to when they were at the Gortz and just out of nowhere, aunty Edna had the clippers and it's like I hope you don't mind if I could take a little clipping. And then the next scene she comes back to the window and it's like this full-on amount. It's like, yeah, interesting, that's a good visual joke, yeah.

Speaker 1 37:17

Yeah, and your first thoughts are like, how's she going to get these home? And it's so typical of like a house. Once again it's the old, the satire right on people that would come to your house. And I've seen my mother do it, and they would see people come to our house. They'd be like, oh, do you mind this is beautiful? Do you mind if I have a small cutting of this to take?

Speaker 3 37:37

yeah well, I remember watching, uh, being at my grandparents' place growing up, and then you would have the neighbour or an aunt or whatever. They'll be coming over. It's like, oh, they'll take a little sample or a seedling, or a clipping yeah.

Speaker 1 37:53

The other thing I'll talk about. We can talk about it with both films, but I think what I really like about this movie is I love the scenes with the hippies. Yes, with the musical performances, with the musical performances and you know, like Julie Covington is in this, she plays Blanche, which is a weird name for a hippie. It's really strange. And their bus isn't the bus called or the band name called the Judas Iscariot Chariot or something like that.

Speaker 3 38:27

Something like that. Yeah, but they're all heading out to perform at the leprosy benefit.

Speaker 1 38:34

Well, there's this theme of leprosy running right through the movie. Did you notice that? No Like later on there's a scene where someone's reading a newspaper and it's got like an update on the leprosy epidemic oh goodness gracious, see subtlety.

Speaker 3 38:48

I'm gonna have to re-watch it again.

Speaker 1 38:49

It's amazing you see so many easter eggs yeah there is, but those scenes are great like it looks like the cavern club. I don't think it is amazing.

Speaker 3 38:57

No, I was going to point that out. It looked like, uh, the like the old Beatles or where they had their first performance, but it looks familiar.

Speaker 1 39:07

I'm not sure it is, but it does look like it.

Speaker 3 39:10

Yeah.

Speaker 1 39:12

And it's got these two great songs in these scenes, like the One-Eyed Trouser Snake song.

Speaker 3 39:18

Yep.

Speaker 1 39:19

Which is fantastic that I'll probably play right now.

Speaker 2 39:25

Because that was bloody delightful man. We've got some pretty grouse songs back in Australia too. You know, you mean friend, you could sing us some authentic, viable Aboriginal protest song. Oh, come off it sport. No, I mean some of those ditties me and me mates used to sing down at Bondi Beach. Well, give us a guitar. Here's one. We made curly rope. Oh, I've got a little creature. I suppose you'd call him a pet, and if there's something wrong with him I don't have to call the vet. He goes everywhere that I go, Whether sleeping or awake. God help me if I ever lose my little one-night-trouser snake. Oh, the one-night-trouser snake, oh me one-night-trouser snake. God help me if I ever lose me one-night-trouser snake. One day I got to reading in an old Sky Pilots book About two stark as bastards who made the Lord go cruel. They reckoned it was a serpent that made Eve the apple take Tribes. That was no flaming serpent.

Speaker 1 40:26

It was Adam's one-eyed trouser steak.

Speaker 2 40:28

Oh me one-eyed trouser steak. Oh me one-eyed trouser steak. God help me if I ever lose me one-eyed trouser steak. I met this arty Sheila who I'd never met before and something kind of told me she banged like a Donny Dog. I said come up and see me etching. She said I hope it's not a fake. I said the only thing that sets you at ease Me one-eyed trouser snake.

Speaker 4 40:53

Oh me one-eyed trouser snake. Oh me one-eyed trouser snake. Gotta be if I ever lose me one-eyed trouser snake.

Speaker 2 41:00

Come all you little sheilas and listen to me song the moral of the trouser snake is short as it is long. Beware of imitations. Don't lock your bedroom door. When me pyjama python bites you, you'll be screaming out for more.

Speaker 4 41:17

Oh, my one-eyed trouser snake. My one-eyed trouser snake Grunt up me in fire. The loo's. My one-eyed trouser snake. Oh, the one I chose is fake. Oh, the one I chose is fake. Got to be a fire in the room. My one I chose is fake, oh the one.

Speaker 1 41:24

I chose is fake, oh the one.

Remembering the Barry McKenzie Movie

Speaker 4 41:26

I chose is fake. Got to be a fire in the room. My one I chose is fake. Fantastic, barry, wasn't that fantastic.

Speaker 2 41:37

Listen here, man, we're doing a little gig tonight at the Freedom Arch Factory.

Speaker 1 41:42

It's a very heavy little place and this other song called the Old Pacific Sea, which is basically about throwing up from the side of a boat.

Speaker 3 41:51

Oh yeah, because it was all about how the word chunder came about. Yeah, Watch under.

Speaker 1 41:57

That's right. Watch out under Watch out under or watch under. So that's where chanda came all. So they wrote into this script anyway and then shortened down to just chanda chanda so aussie, so aussie, yeah, yeah the songs are great. The the scenes in the like in the club whether it's a club or not, I don't know they're quite funny and Drink it up.

Speaker 1 42:21

Yeah, it's such a great song, I'll play it. It'll be on here somewhere. I think I'm going to discuss some people and put these songs in, because they're just great ditties May thought when I played one of them to her, she said and somebody else said it on Twitter I was talking to was like was it you? It was like, or was it you, it was you, I think. Like they remind me of Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Speaker 3 42:46

Yeah, that was me, it was you. Yeah, it was me?

Speaker 1 42:49

Yeah, and it's very true. Right, you could imagine Kevin Bloody Wilson singing these songs.

Speaker 3 42:54

Oh, 100%. I won't even quote the ones that I can think of that would be suited for the movie. But yeah, they're just not right to say out of context. But I was going to say that when they were doing the live performance at the leprosy benefit that the record exec the character's name, maury Miller, who wants to sign up Barry. Now, when you think about it, I haven't listened to any of the commentary on the movies or anything like that. But one thing that I did know was I feel like I worked out was Maury Miller looked very like a certain promoter, which was Harry M Miller promoter, which was Harry M Miller, and Harry M Miller the M in Harry's name stands for Morris. So I'd say that there would be Murray Miller would be a homage because he just looked like Harry. Yeah, yeah, interesting. So I thought that's a nice little homage to him.

Speaker 1 43:59

And once again that whole storyline in the middle goes nowhere. It's just a bridge to the next sketch.

Speaker 3 44:05

Oh yeah, especially the dream sequence when he passes out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 44:10

Yeah, which is really strange. It's almost like the dream sequence in Razorback. Yeah.

Speaker 3 44:17

Oh, there's a movie, yeah, it's almost the same.

Speaker 1 44:20

And once again it's got these Aboriginal people sort of chasing him.

Speaker 3 44:27

And he's a convict.

Speaker 1 44:28

And he's a convict and it's kind of like, where did this come from?

Speaker 3 44:32

Yeah, I swear, I don't remember that scene anywhere. Yeah, I don't remember it either I don't know if it's been inserted into the because I watched it on Blu-ray. I really should watch the DVD version of it to see if it's in there.

Speaker 1 44:44

If it's in, but I just don't remember that scene. No, I don't either. Unless it's one of those ones that's just easily forgettable.

Speaker 3 44:50

Yeah, forgettable, regrettable, it's a bit of a strange one.

Speaker 1 45:03

Well, you know, like, yeah, I was trying to work out why it was in there. Whether it's in there because he's always saying things that are quite derogatory of Aboriginal people or that sort of thing, I don't know he was coming back to haunt him. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, it's quite weird.

Speaker 3 45:12

But then after when he's trying to, basically when he's invited to go on TV as well and what is it when?

Speaker 3 45:23

he ends up meeting Leslie. Then he gets in Leslie's ex years, a TV producer, which is played by Peter Cook. So there's your connection with Peter Cook and Barry McKenzie when they go on to the talk show and when they go live on air and Barry ends up dropping his dacks in front of everyone because, I'm sorry, the TV show Midnight Oil, that's what it was called and, yeah, he drops his dacks to prove a point or make his point, Taking it out of a misunderstanding, so to speak.

Speaker 1 46:04

It's quite funny that whole scene and it's really ludicrous at the end how there's a fire.

Speaker 3 46:08

Yeah.

Speaker 1 46:09

And they're putting it out. They've got like this chain of people bringing fosters along the chain to the guys standing at the top pissing on the fire.

Speaker 3 46:17

Yeah, the fact that they did that and you go. Well, how about you pour it out with a beer? It's like no beer's alcoholic, so therefore it'll ignite it even further, so you've got to water it down.

Speaker 1 46:28

Yeah, it's another one of these movies that kind of gives foreign people the wrong impression of Australia because Foster's is in the movie and, as you and I both know, nobody drinks Foster's in Australia.

Speaker 3 46:41

There's a reason why we export it.

Speaker 1 46:43

It's exactly right because we don't like it. So I'm not sure why it's in this movie. The other interesting thing about this film is that the Qantas figure quite a lot in this movie. You know, the flight going out, the flight going out and those Qantas bags.

Speaker 3 47:03

Oh, we've got to track down one of those. I do remember my nana having a bag like that. Yeah yeah, those were all the rage.

Speaker 1 47:13

And they've got them on them all the time. They've always got them on their shoulder.

Speaker 3 47:17

Oh, it's fantastic.

Speaker 1 47:19

It is, Bring them back. That was in the old days and I was looking at it and I'm like, look at the size of those seats and they're probably flying economy. I'm like the seats are massive. There's so much leg room and pitch between the seats.

Speaker 3 47:34

It's amazing. Yeah, and they were smoking on the flight too. They were smoking on the flight. I don't condone. Sorry, I don't support smoking, but you can tell the era as soon as you see smoking on a flight, you go yep, that was definitely. It was the 70s, yeah.

Speaker 1 47:49

Well, as soon as you see smoking anywhere indoors, you know it's the 70s. Oh, yeah, yeah, I used to. Well, even the 80s, right, because I don't think smoking was outlawed in pubs for a long time, and and I used to play pubs all the time with bands in the 80s, and when I would get home from gigs uh, even in the 90s, I think I would basically go from my car to the laundry, take off all my clothes that I was wearing at the gig, put them in the washing machine and start the washing machine before I even thought of coming to bed, and then I was in the shower because I just smelt like cigarettes.

Speaker 3 48:27

Oh, yuck it was terrible.

Speaker 1 48:28

And then I would get to rehearsal during the week and I would open my drum cases and all you could smell was like stale cigarette. Oh, good and the cymbals and the drums. I was always cleaning because there was always like a film on them.

Speaker 3 48:44

It was just terrible. I will say, though, that I still remember working. You remember when Chili's existed?

Speaker 1 48:54

Yeah.

Speaker 3 48:54

Yeah, I was a busboy at the time, so first job ever 14 to nine months. And I still remember the Chili's restaurant being halved down the middle when you walk in. On the right would be non-smoking, on the left would be smoking and the smoking side would be a bit more smaller. And I just remember, just as you're talking about that, just going home and I remember my shirt.

Speaker 1 49:19

I just remember smelling of stale cigarette smoke, yeah, yeah, it's the most terrible smell and it like sticks to everything, so it was awful. Before we stop talking about this movie, I want. The guy who I think is great in this movie and really underrated is Paul Bertram, who plays Curly.

Speaker 3 49:40

Yeah.

Speaker 1 49:41

I think he's like Baz's best mate, and the relationship they have together seems really actually quite real.

Speaker 3 49:51

Yeah, there is a great chemistry.

Speaker 1 49:54

Yeah, really good chemistry, and John Clark's in this as well. Yeah, has a really small part.

Speaker 3 50:00

Yeah, he delivers it well, drops his New Zealand accent.

Speaker 1 50:06

It's like they pulled everyone out. It's one of these movies that you get rewarded by seeing these different people that you're like oh it's him, oh it's him, you know.

Speaker 3 50:15

Yeah, it's like a loose Fred Dagg performance A little bit a little bit.

Barry McKenzie's Performance Analysis

Speaker 1 50:21

But yeah, curly's a good character. I like the relationship they have. I actually like right at the end of the film, when bazaar's going off with edna and in the studio and he's leaving him behind, the kind of the look on his face. He has this really great look and it's like, oh, my mate's going, sort, going, sort of thing and it's kind of, yeah, it's really really good. I really like it. One of the things I noticed there's a scene early where they're sitting in the pub and I think it's when Baza is being talked to by the executive, the advertising guy.

Speaker 3 50:53

Yes.

Speaker 1 50:53

And there's four pictures on the wall behind them. I don't know if you noticed them. I did I them, I did I. I've actually got that in my notes, rolf harris, I think, robert menzies is the prime minister.

Speaker 3 51:07

Yeah, errol flynn, I think yeah, errol flynn, I knew it had to do something yeah, like he looked familiar yeah, yeah, and barry humphries yes, yeah, that's it. But yeah, barry humphries played four characters, he played lots, he played himself and three others.

Speaker 1 51:20

Yeah yeah, and also I didn't notice until this viewing once again because I haven't watched it for a long time that, um, I did not know. Until right near the end I was like, hang on, claude's, not a guy that.

Speaker 3 51:38

That's the joke behind it all.

Speaker 1 51:40

Yeah I know right well accomplished actress as well as well I'm right, oh okay, because at first you're like, oh, this is, he looks very british or she looks very british, and I'm like, oh okay, something interesting there. And then later on I'm like, hang on, that's not a good one. So, yeah, it's pretty good, I think with these movies in general, but this one especially, I think I just get the feeling with Barry Humphreys that he just likes outraging people.

Speaker 3 52:13

Yeah.

Speaker 1 52:14

And I think that's why this movie goes and the next one go as hard as they do, because I think he just likes watching people's reactions to things like this.

Speaker 3 52:24

Yeah, it's trying to be controversial, like it's their front and centre.

Speaker 1 52:30

Yeah.

Speaker 3 52:30

And then when someone watches it and then they get upset about it.

Speaker 4 52:35

It's like well, it was right there, I don't get why you still watched it.

Speaker 3 52:39

I don't get why you still watched it when yeah, again, it's his vision or his way of his thoughts and feelings on the culture. Yeah absolutely how much he disdains or does not like I guess the ochre and bogan Very much.

Speaker 1 53:02

Yeah, I think he says himself in one of the interviews that he is effectively a bit of a snob. Yeah, so he sort of. You can see it when you watch his movies.

Speaker 3 53:12

He's aware of it and it's like yep.

Speaker 1 53:14

Yeah, yeah, I'm going to have him dig at these people.

Speaker 3 53:16

Exactly, yeah, just an easy target.

Speaker 1 53:18

Absolutely All right. So let's have a quick look at. Barry mckenzie holds his own and in this movie, I guess this synopsis is when barry's beloved aunt, edna is mistakenly kidnapped by a group of vampires who believe she's the queen. Barry must navigate the peculiarities of european culture and rally his mates to rescue her, just that mistakenly kidnapped by a group of vampires who believe she's the queen.

Speaker 3 53:49

Coo-wee.

Speaker 1 53:51

It tells you everything. This movie is batshit crazy, but I think it's actually better than the first one.

Speaker 3 53:59

Yeah, because it's got a bigger budget. I believe it's got a bigger budget I think it's like the than the first one.

Speaker 1 54:01

Yeah because it's got a bigger budget. I believe it's got a bigger budget. I think it's like the budget was $450,000, so it wasn't a great deal more, but it was a bit more. And it stars Barry Crocker, barry Humphreys, donald Pleasance, dick Bentley, ed Devereaux, desmond Tester, chantelle Contori, clive James and a great cameo by Gough Whitlam.

Speaker 3 54:25

Yes, also, don't forget Roy Kinnear as well.

Speaker 1 54:28

Oh okay, who plays?

Speaker 3 54:30

you know, aka Veruca Salt's, dad from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Speaker 1 54:35

Oh, yes, correct.

Speaker 3 54:36

Because he plays, I think, the bishop or Is he the bishop?

Speaker 1 54:40

The bishop's pretty funny in this.

Speaker 3 54:43

Or he's in the church with Barrington's twin brother, as we discover.

Speaker 1 54:50

So this is where, as I was saying to you earlier, these two movies have a lot in common with Alvin Purple and Alvin Rhodes. Again, the second one is better than the first. The second one has the main character or the actor playing two different parts. There's more of a story, it's a little bit crazier, but this story is nuts Like I was just thinking, like Donald Pleasance, right, this is three years after Wake in Fright and four years before Halloween that he was in this movie and I don't know whether the movies he was doing in this period. I know he did the race for the Yankee Zephyr, but I don't think that was till after Halloween. That was an 80s movie, I think, or was it around this time?

Speaker 3 55:42

I'm not 100% sure.

Speaker 1 55:43

But, anyway, how he goes from the performance in Wake and Fright to play Count Plasma in this movie is nuts and I've got to say he pretty good like for this movie. He's pretty funny, like the part he plays.

Speaker 3 56:08

Yes, like he does it well. And do you think, though, like the movie's introduced by the Minister for Culture, which is Humphreys, and then, you know, a big slap with Reg Grundy presents? So I feel like that Reg Grundy enjoyed the Adventures of Barry McKenzie and was like, hey, make another one, and then just throwing this movie together and just make it more crazy Because they're on the plane at the beginning. I'm not sure, but does that mean that they've picked up directly from the first one, the previous film? I don't know.

Speaker 1 56:50

Yeah, In the first film I thought they were flying home to Sydney.

Speaker 3 56:55

Well, that's what I thought too, but there was just a couple of things in this one where it just seems like they mentioned that, but I don't know if it was another trip.

Speaker 1 57:09

Yeah.

Speaker 3 57:09

But yeah, I just couldn't quite work it out.

Speaker 1 57:12

And this one. You know, the French are front and centre for lampooning.

Speaker 3 57:17

Oh yeah, the frog air.

Speaker 1 57:19

Frog air. Yeah, and it was interesting. Apparently, after the first movie I was reading or watched, qantas did not want to borrow this movie.

Speaker 3 57:30

Ah, okay, that's why there's no Qantas involved with this movie?

Speaker 1 57:33

Yeah, they didn't want anything to do with it, which is a bit of a bummer, but you know. So that's how we ended up with Frog Air.

Speaker 3 57:41

Yeah is a bit of a bummer, but you know.

Speaker 1 57:41

So that's how we ended up with frog air, yeah, um, and we get the, the, you know all the usual stuff, with the stewardess in the cockpit, with the, with the pilot having a bit of a tryst, and yeah, the drunken pilot the drunken and, uh, the you know that he runs into barry, runs into the psychiatrist again on the flight. So it's really weird they're all on the same flight again and Barry's mates are sitting down the back.

Speaker 3 58:10

Well, that's what reminded me, or made me think, that it was a direct continuation from the first one because the doctor has decided to catch the same flight. That's what gave me the impression.

Speaker 1 58:23

I think it all starts. I think the whole storyline starts off because Edna Everidge puts on like a tiara which God knows where she got it. And then these two lackeys of Count Plasma that are on the plane. They're on the plane, right.

Speaker 3 58:39

Yeah, they're on the plane and they think, oh, that shit looks like it's the plane.

Speaker 1 58:42

They're on the plane, right yeah? They're on the plane and they think, oh, that shit looks like it's the queen, yeah, and they decide they're going to kidnap her.

Speaker 3 58:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1 58:48

It's so funny. Count Plasma wants to kidnap her for her blood because of the. You know, he's kind of got like this lair where he has all different types of blood in bottles, almost like wine that and also to help with the tourism of Transylvania. Oh, that's right, tourism yeah.

Speaker 3 59:04

It's like, oh, if we've got the Queen here, I can, yeah, tourism.

Speaker 1 59:08

Yeah, but apparently the rescue could only be done on Sundays because it's the only day they have tourists in there. Yeah, that's right, and I love seeing Ed Devereaux in these movies. It's so good. I mean it must just take me back to probably watching Skippy as a kid. But have you seen him in Money Movers?

Speaker 3 59:30

No, but I've got Completely opposite. I'm like you with the Blu-rays from Umbrella, where I've bought it, and it's just sitting there on the shelf. I'll get around to watching it.

Speaker 1 59:39

Yeah, I've probably watched lucky if I watched half of the ones I've got. He's excellent in money movers. Ed devro he's really good. This one as well has some really cool songs as well yeah it has uh the uh the song about uh the rat bag song, which I think is quite funny. Funny when he's explaining what a ratbag is to everybody in the church, when he's swapped with his brother.

Speaker 3 1:00:08

It gets temporarily kidnapped yeah.

Speaker 1 1:00:13

So it's quite weird, like he's got this whole scene or this whole thing where he's got a brother. I can't remember his brother's name. Is it in the? Is it? Yeah, it's Kev. Yeah, yeah, kev McKenzie.

Speaker 3 1:00:26

And the only difference is the hat is a different colour. It's like a grey-esque type, like the suit, and everything's just a pale lighter. Yeah, grey-ish.

Speaker 1 1:00:40

So yeah, so we have Kev McKenzie and he gets taken out because the bad guys think that that's Barry McKenzie or something like that. Yeah, he ends up putting on the thing? And what's the name of the? The?

Speaker 3 1:00:55

exhibition.

Speaker 1 1:00:56

The exhibition. Is it something about?

Speaker 3 1:00:57

Christ and the Orgasm.

Speaker 1 1:01:02

Just to be a bit more outrageous and piss people off, I guess.

Speaker 3 1:01:06

Because after they touch down in France and then they go through to security and Barry has got Foster strapped to him and he gets all shot up by it.

Speaker 1 1:01:18

Totally forgot about that bit.

Speaker 3 1:01:20

Yeah, strapped to his torso and yeah, but they also try to poison Barry as well and that's where he ends up feeling a bit sick. This is the goons. Yeah, they try to poison him and then when they go up to the Eiffel Tower for a tourism part and then he's going, oh, I've got a bit of a feeling in me, ned Kelly, I'm going to cry, ruth. It's like, well, do it Cry, ruth, over the side, Ruth. And the fact that when they go down, they beat the vomit falling.

Speaker 1 1:01:57

That's hilarious. There's something about vomiting Apparently. Barry Humphreys mixed all the vomit for both the films. He has this thing.

Speaker 3 1:02:05

Pea soup and he gave a list of ingredients of what he did with it and all gone. That's really, really cool. That sounds quite appetising.

Speaker 1 1:02:15

He used to mix it up in bags or something.

Speaker 4 1:02:17

Yeah, it's kind of gross really.

Speaker 1 1:02:20

Yeah, he seems to like a lot of things like that. Yeah, it's an interesting movie. The songs are great. This one's more to me, much more of a complete movie, where it actually has a beginning, a middle and an end. It has like three acts, yeah, but it still has that little bit of you know, kind of like here's this bit, here's this bit, and they're very much just getting from one to another, and I know that's normally how all movies are made but, I, think with the first movie it's just very obvious that it's kind of like they wrote skits and just linked them all together well, what are the most iconic lines that has?

Speaker 3 1:03:05

that's been mentioned in the movie and you see that a lot in the promotions for anything that has to do with, say, not quite hollywood or just like anything that scott aren't here in a day.

Speaker 3 1:03:17

Medina, and that's when they're at the family reunion, the unofficial family reunion at the yeah, well, when they all catch up. And then Dame Edna, and that's when they're at the family reunion, the unofficial family reunion at the yeah, when they all catch up. And then they're talking about homosexuality and stuff. And that's when RT Edna says that quote I may be old-fashioned young woman, but lesbianism has always left a nasty taste in my mouth.

Speaker 1 1:03:40

They play that clip on everything.

Speaker 3 1:03:42

Yeah, when I heard that I went oh, that's where.

Speaker 1 1:03:48

Yeah, it's pretty funny, both these movies, right, and going back to the disclaimer and all that sort of stuff, both these movies. Sometimes when I laugh at them a lot, when something happens and I laugh a lot, I'm kind of like I don't know if I should be laughing at this.

Speaker 3 1:04:03

No, the amount of times I've felt so wrong, like there's one, are you allowed to censor? Can you please censor what I'm about to say?

Speaker 1 1:04:11

I'll try Can.

Speaker 3 1:04:12

One. Are you allowed to censor, Can you please?

Speaker 1 1:04:14

censor what I'm about to say. I'll try.

Speaker 3 1:04:15

Can you put a beep in it please? Yeah, I'll do something like that. I'll get more lawyers on you, but they're talking about well, Barry says something in regards to and I just went. Oh goodness, I don't know how long I can put up with this.

Speaker 1 1:04:30

It just made me feel so uncomfortable. There's a section, if you end up watching the documentary, that's on the Barry McKenzie Holds His Own DVD. There's a section where they've got clips from the movie Because the documentary is meant to go on TV. There's bits of dialogue, and there's this one bit of dialogue where somebody starts talking and it's just da-da-da-da-da beep, beep beep, beep.

Speaker 3 1:04:58

It's hilarious, it's really good, yeah, throughout the whole thing where he just goes through all these escapades and they're being kidnapped and then Kev escapes and ends up fighting Barry, because you know the twin rivalry. Of course Kev is meant to be the highly strong, very religious, just a preacher, and Barrington is the more loose cannon.

Speaker 1 1:05:25

He's the most loose cannon. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:05:27

But actually when he says Barrington, if you've got a copy of Sean McAuliffe's the McAuliffe Tonight, when he did his talk show in 2003 on Channel 9, he's actually interviewing his hero, barry Humphries, and Sean actually says can I call you Barrington? So I think that's a nice little homage.

Speaker 1 1:05:54

Nice little homage there, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:05:56

Yeah, so I just want to point that out. There's a little thing for you. But the fact that when they get locked up and Barry gets told by a ghost how to escape because it's his long-lost Uncle Arthur, it's like, oh, I built this hole to get it and that's where he goes, you know, they get out and it leads into the sewerage pipes. He's up, literally up Shit Creek.

Speaker 1 1:06:23

And that's where they end up, getting on the boat to England. Yeah, that's right, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:06:27

And then when they're walking through the streets of London, there's shit all over the footpath.

Speaker 1 1:06:32

Yeah and then when they're walking through the streets of London, there's shit all over the footpath. I was going to say when we were talking about the first movie I don't know if it's so much with this movie, but the first movie apparently they were really like guerrilla filmmaking, like they had no permits to film so they would just turn up and start filming and in the boarding house that was like all messy where Curly lived and stuff like that they were throwing stuff on the floor and dog shit and stuff like that just to make it look like that. I don't know where. You know. Once again, this is Barry Humphreys overdoing things, of course, and the dog shit all over the road.

Speaker 3 1:07:10

Quality stuff.

Speaker 1 1:07:12

And it's in the same scene where he's slipping on the dog shit all over the road Quality stuff. And it's in the same scene where he's slipping on the dog shit and he gets reintroduced to his psychiatrist again. That's right and he vomits on him for the second time.

Speaker 3 1:07:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:07:24

It's hilarious.

Speaker 3 1:07:25

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:07:26

I laughed, even though I felt bad.

Speaker 3 1:07:29

But then later on, when they go to the immigration department or, you know, when they're showing the thing where the immigration department's actually in quiz show. Yeah, yeah, so this is how they do it, and then you know who the host was. No, he looked familiar.

Speaker 1 1:07:44

I didn't look him up though.

Speaker 3 1:07:45

The host is Don Spencer. Oh, it is, and if you're my generation, you grew up with Don Spencer hosting play school.

Speaker 1 1:07:55

That's right, I knew his face was familiar.

Speaker 3 1:07:58

The father of Daniel Spencer.

Speaker 1 1:08:02

All right, and the ex-father-in-law of Russell Crowe. Okay, did he also have a song called Feathers, furs and Fins or something? Was that him? It sounds familiar, but Don Spencer, wow have a song called feathers, furs and fins or something is that him sounds familiar, but don spencer wow, that's great.

Discussion on Barry McKenzie Comedy Films

Speaker 3 1:08:19

That's really good for him to be really harsh. I feel very ochre uh, and you know what is the uh? What's what country is the arsehole of the world?

Speaker 1 1:08:31

it's really funny that sequence, because they get they give them two questions that are like obviously the answer is australian, australia, and then they give them the one question where obviously the answer is england, right yeah, and it's like this is how you get into the country and the fact that they uh, he quizzes him on his sexuality as a throwaway, and then it's like, well, beg your pardon.

Speaker 1 1:08:55

And then he goes straight to the camera, the section, whatever it is yeah, yeah, I'll say the word they use a lot and I won't beep it out, but just beware, they use it a lot and they use the word poofters all the time in these two movies. Yeah, and it's scary, you know, like I'll get a bit serious here, like the amount of times that that word was just used in the vernacular in the 70s and I remember right because I'm that old, but I remember and it wasn't. It's a terrible thing to use. It's a terrible thing to use. It's a terrible word to use now. And it probably was, and it definitely was then. Not probably, it definitely was then, but just the fact that it was said so freely in those days, yeah, it was like it was unbelievable. It changed it was crazy.

Speaker 3 1:09:50

Put the bat up.

Speaker 1 1:09:52

Yeah, and I think this film and I think the other thing that gets this film and I made a note before in the first movie when Barry first meets up with Curly and they go to the bar and then something else happens. They come back and Curly's in his room with the, with the shayla, and they start wrestling.

Speaker 3 1:10:15

They're drinking and wrestling yeah, with his mate and uh and it's almost like this, um homoerotic kind of fighting that's like in fright.

Speaker 1 1:10:26

yeah, that's what I think it kind of reminded me of is waking fright, where it's kind of like, and then I think about it and I'm like this is a thing that blokes do Like, not in a homoerotic way, get pissed and wrestle. Get pissed and wrestle.

Speaker 3 1:10:43

Yeah, they go, you having a go, yeah, and they get into it.

Speaker 1 1:10:47

It's really bizarre. I've seen it. I've seen it right no-transcript. I've seen it right, it's nuts and once again it's Barry Humphrey's observations, right.

Speaker 3 1:10:58

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:11:00

And it's quite interesting all this sort of stuff. Chantelle Conturi is still beautiful in this movie and I love like is she Zizi? She's like the vampire, the woman vampire, right.

Speaker 3 1:11:14

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:11:14

Yeah, and she's quite funny in this movie as well. She doesn't have any lines or anything.

Speaker 3 1:11:19

But I love the fact, when they do confront Count Plasma and the big brawl and stuff, where suddenly the chef who is the. Chinese guy. Yeah, the cliche just kicks everyone's ass.

Speaker 1 1:11:37

Until they spray him with beer.

Speaker 3 1:11:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:11:39

They spray him with Fosters and that's it. It's like the demise of Count Plasma with the crucifix made of Fosters cans.

Speaker 3 1:11:51

Yeah, from good old Kev who puts that together.

Speaker 1 1:11:54

And they're steel cans. They're big cans.

Speaker 3 1:11:57

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 1:11:57

I don't know if you buy those size anymore. They're full-on steel cans.

Speaker 3 1:12:01

Everything will be in tallies now. Yeah, yeah, but I just love that Collard, who was their French mate, who was helping him everywhere, every scene that he went, basically them being the tourist guide for him, and he always had the French bread with him. And when one of the plasma's goons, you know, went to attack Barry and Colin steps in front of him and stops the thing and the gun gets impaled by the French stick Because we see them on the plane. The baguette yeah.

Speaker 1 1:12:43

When they're flying to Transylvania to get dropped. It looks like they've just taken stock footage of parachuters getting dropped into, I don't know, somewhere in the back of Camden or something like that. Right, and they're sitting there and they're whittling steaks. Right and he's whittling his baguette, yeah that's right. That's what he uses.

Speaker 3 1:13:06

Well, I just love the fact that the best line which I was in stitches laughing because it just tickled my bones right where Barry goes oh poor, this is after Colin's passed away he goes. Oh poor old Colin, he'd give away his arsehole and shit through his ribs.

Speaker 1 1:13:26

Well, that was brilliant. Yeah, there's some good lines in this one. Yeah, I do like, like I said, I keep coming back to the song, but I do like the song about you know, the song about Rat Bag. What's a Rat Bag? I think it's quite clever, even if it is politically incorrect in a lot of ways.

Speaker 3 1:13:46

You mean this movie's politically correct Shock horror.

Speaker 1 1:13:51

Especially the line about someone he starts off. It's his uncle or something he talks about being a rat bag and his uncle thinks Hitler's a Jew. Yeah, something like that that sort of stuff and it's really funny, but they're all very vaudevillian kind of songs.

Speaker 3 1:14:09

And it kind of breaks the tension too.

Speaker 1 1:14:11

It does a bit yeah.

Speaker 3 1:14:12

It's like just a reminder. Hey, this is a major parody, this is do not take this movie seriously.

Speaker 1 1:14:20

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:14:20

So it's like that it breaks that. It just breaks that tension.

Speaker 1 1:14:25

Yeah, my recommendation would be like if you've got an open mind, you really should check these movies out. It's it's kind of like you'll see a lot of stuff that will blow your mind in regards to what's acceptable today versus what was acceptable then yeah but. But I think has a has a bit of a time capsule of comedy.

Speaker 3 1:14:49

They're perfect well, the best way to think about it is if you're after something, that is, if you want to look up the definition of vulgar and tasteless, you'll see Barry McKenzie under that. So if you're really after that, then this is the perfect example of really leave your brain at the door and then Paul Foster's all over it. So just be prepared. Leave your brain at the door and then Paul fosters all over it. So just be prepared. If you want something that's offensive, then yeah, go for it.

Speaker 1 1:15:17

Yeah. So before we close this out, I have two questions. One is Barry McKenzie a virgin?

Speaker 3 1:15:25

Good point, he gets close to it, but all I can keep thinking is that he keeps failing the practical.

Speaker 4 1:15:37

He seems to like for want of a better term pull out.

Speaker 3 1:15:43

Well, I guess it's because he doesn't have any of the beef and prawn curry down his pants. Oh my God, I forgot about that from the first movie, I'd say that after maybe this he does get laid or whatever. But I'd say that he gets close, probably to second base or anything, but never gets any further.

Speaker 1 1:16:06

I don't know if he's a virgin, because he tends to early in the first movie. A few of his mates are ragging on him about being a virgin or something like that, or making some sort of saying that he is and he's pushing back and they're asking him about women on the flight and all this and he's like, oh no, everything was good and she was fantastic and all this sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 1:16:29

And then he did lie about something.

Speaker 1 1:16:31

Typical bloke. Right yeah, Typical young bloke.

Speaker 3 1:16:35

Always talking himself up.

Speaker 1 1:16:37

We've probably all done it when we were young. I get the feeling he's a virgin. I don't know. I'll go with that.

Speaker 4 1:16:45

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:16:46

But I'd say, after all these events, especially after when his aunt gets knighted, becomes a dame thanks to Goth and Lady Flo.

Speaker 1 1:16:58

How good is the scene, lady.

Speaker 3 1:17:00

Flo, what am I saying?

Speaker 1 1:17:01

What's his wife's name?

Speaker 3 1:17:04

Lady Flo's bloody Sir Joe. Yeah, my apologies, that's offensive.

Speaker 1 1:17:09

Joe Biolchi-Peterson got to remember that guy Jeez. Who'd Got to remember that guy Jeez? Who would want to remember him? Don't you worry about that, margaret, margaret Wickham. Yeah, margaret, my apologies. I remembered it. Without the internet, how's that?

Speaker 3 1:17:23

Yeah, so Margaret, and meeting him at the airport, and then that's when Aunty Edna became Dame Edna.

Speaker 1 1:17:33

Yes.

Speaker 3 1:17:33

And that's where, from there on, auntie Edna was referred to as Dame.

Speaker 1 1:17:38

And that's kind of like the beginning, right? If you're looking for a point of where Dame Edna became Dame Edna, that's it that movie Went from Suburban Housewife to Dame because of these movies. So it's like that evolution with these movies but what a coup to get the prime minister of australia in your movie as a cameo oh yeah it's.

Speaker 3 1:17:59

It's just fantastic, like obviously the money was a bit right. So or he's because he loves his goff, loved his uh drinking um and he loved being the. He always appealed to the Aussie larrikin, kind of like Bob Hawke type thing. Yeah.

Barry McKenzie and Australian Culture

Speaker 1 1:18:16

I think Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke would have loved the Barry McKenzie movies.

Speaker 3 1:18:21

Well, the fact that Bob Hawke, he did make an appearance in a country practice and wasn't he part of. Did he make an appearance in Kingswood Country as well?

Speaker 1 1:18:31

Might have.

Speaker 3 1:18:31

Well, I know that Graham Kennedy did, yeah, but like Bob Hawke, they just love their culture, their arts and culture.

Speaker 1 1:18:39

Yeah, yeah, it's true.

Speaker 3 1:18:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:18:42

Well, they did a lot for the arts right.

Speaker 3 1:18:44

Exactly yeah.

Speaker 1 1:18:45

That's why I like Labor government, so let's not talk politics there. Yeah, I think the other thing that got me that scene where they come back there's a brass band playing. So give you some background when I was really young, at school, like in year seven, I started playing musical instruments and I was in a school brass band at St Pat's at. Sutherland. If anyone went there, hey, how you doing.

Speaker 3 1:19:12

Delete the podcast.

Speaker 1 1:19:15

Anyway, after I finished school, or near the end of finishing school, before I left school, I joined the Sutherland Shire Silver Band, which was like the Shire Brass Band in Sutherland, and their uniform was exactly the same as the uniform in the movie of the brass band so do you think they're associated with?

Speaker 1 1:19:39

I'm trying to find out and I can't find out. So I don't know if anybody that has any link to the Sutherland Shire silver band knows. I thought I would have known, but when I was in that band I had no interest in these sort of movies or anything like that really. So if anyone knows I would love to know whether it was like a cameo by them. Then, when I was watching the documentary on the same disc at a premiere, there was a brass band at the premiere. It was the same band, oh wow.

Speaker 1 1:20:06

Now it could have been a different Shire band in New South Wales or in Sydney, because there was plenty of them, but the uniform looked absolutely identical right down to like the thing on the sleeves and it was amazing. So I don't know I've got to make. I'm going to ask him if he knows anything about it, because he was in the Southern Shire Silver Band as well.

Speaker 3 1:20:29

Yeah, If anyone was in the movie, part of the band in the movie please write in.

Speaker 1 1:20:36

Let me know.

Speaker 3 1:20:37

Yes.

Speaker 1 1:20:37

Email peterdingomoviepodcom. I think that's it. The other question I have for you was could you make these films today? No, no. If you were going to, what changes would you have to make and would the resulting film have the same impact?

Speaker 3 1:20:59

What changes would be made?

Speaker 1 1:21:01

It would be a very short film. It would be a very short film.

Speaker 3 1:21:04

Yeah, In fact it will probably be just the film, would be just the credits and then everything else. The main parts that would have been cut from the silver screen would be known as deleted scenes on the Blu-ray edition.

Speaker 1 1:21:22

So yeah, you couldn't make this movie.

Speaker 3 1:21:24

No, you get close to it Like if anything that would be, dare I say to it, like if anything that would be, dare I say, partially resemble, would be anything that comedian Paul Fenwick would make.

Speaker 1 1:21:39

Yeah, maybe.

Speaker 3 1:21:39

That's the only thing that I'm thinking of, or it would be Crocodile Dundee. Yeah, which is?

Speaker 1 1:21:45

basically what it is, in a way.

Speaker 3 1:21:47

Yeah, so it would be something similar to that in a way. Yeah, so it will be something similar to that, say, if you watch your Howzo's or Fat Pizza, like that type of humour. That would be the closest of this generation of that Barry McKenzie type thing.

Speaker 1 1:22:04

Yeah, you could get to, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:22:06

Yeah, but then again, these days, if you make anything like that, you'll just slap it on YouTube or TikTok or whatever. Get your clicks.

Speaker 1 1:22:13

It's interesting. I don't know how you couldn't the words they use in this film, like there's so many derogatory terms for sexuality, race, all sorts of stuff in this film. There's no way you could Culture as well. Culture right.

Speaker 3 1:22:27

So racism, oh, you mentioned that Sorry. But if you want an unholy, yeah, culture as well, culture right. So racism, oh, you mentioned that sorry.

Speaker 1 1:22:32

But if you want an unholy trinity, you've got these two films and the TV series Kingswood Country.

Speaker 3 1:22:40

Oh yes.

Speaker 1 1:22:40

Which you could never make today either.

Speaker 3 1:22:42

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:22:43

All right. Do we have anything else about these two movies? This has been one of these episodes that we've been all over the shop, so my apologies to anyone that's been trying to keep up. I think go watch the movies if you haven't seen them, and you'll figure out where we're going Exactly, yeah. So we've had to skirt around little bits and pieces. But yeah, my summary is they're both fun. The second one for me is better than the first, but there's some charm about Barry McKenzie himself, right?

Speaker 1 1:23:19

I think it's because he's oblivious to what he's saying half the time. It's not because he's saying it because he wants to be racist or he wants to be homophobic, it's just the language of the time and he's not even aware, right?

Speaker 3 1:23:38

Yeah, quite docile about it. Yeah, yeah, for me it is. If you want to know the history, I see this as the development of Edna to how she became like this big star. So yeah, the evolution of Auntie Edna.

Speaker 1 1:24:03

Yeah, I think it's a good place to start if you want to look at that.

Speaker 3 1:24:06

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:24:07

Well, I'm just thinking how different this is going to be from the episode I'm recording next week. I'm doing Talk To Me next week.

Speaker 3 1:24:13

Oh goodness, Couldn't be more different Wow.

Speaker 1 1:24:17

So yeah, exactly. Anyway, it's all good, I don't have anything else. Do you have much else to add? Anything else to add?

Speaker 3 1:24:25

In regards to these movies yeah, no, I enjoyed these. Yeah, I liked the first one. I, no, I enjoyed these. Yeah, I liked the first one. I just wish it had the budget Like the second one had more structure, dare I say, and more money. But they incorporated that into the first one. The first one was very rough, but I enjoyed the first one a lot more because to me, the second one seemed like the Ockerisms phrases were just, you know, turned up to 11. I felt like they had to seg some stuff in. But, barry McKenzie, the first one was just a bit more laid back and more acceptable.

Speaker 3 1:25:08

That's my thoughts anyway.

Speaker 1 1:25:09

Yeah, yeah, cool, all right, Okay, so let me know what's happening with the Champagne Comedy podcast. Where are you up to with that?

Speaker 3 1:25:20

At the time of this recording, we're halfway through Frontline Season 2, but we're still going strong with it, trying to tag down people who have starred in the show or have a connection. So we've got some things, I've got some ideas up my sleeve, but once we get through Frontline we're also going to do Funky Squad and all that other stuff and yeah, it's still going strong, not bad for a COVID podcast.

Speaker 1 1:25:49

I was going to say yeah.

Speaker 3 1:25:50

Yeah, it started in 2020 and yeah, four years later, we're still going strong.

Speaker 1 1:25:57

Yeah, mine's a bit of a COVID podcast too, actually. Yeah, same sort of thing. So excuse my ignorance, because I'm probably going to tell you that I haven't listened. Are you doing things like Bajas and stuff like that?

Speaker 3 1:26:11

We've done Bajas in the olden days when we did the Late Show.

Speaker 3 1:26:16

So, we've already covered all two seasons of the Late Show and if you follow on social media such as TLS, champagne, on Twitex, whatever you want to call it, but on TikTok as well, I'm trying to do little videos and throwbacks of our episodes from like four years ago, uh, and just do little visual highlights. Now we've covered those as they went through the episodes. So we watched them broken up and with the audience laughter, which gave it a whole new perspective since the original broadcast. So, no, we're doing pretty good and it's a fan TV recap thing. And then we talk about all the other news that is associated with the DJ and Working Dog and other bits and pieces. But yeah, and we also go on tangents. So we'll talk about one thing. Next thing you know we're talking about program guides of the time and Healthy, wealthy and Wise gets a lot of the mention. So yeah, and it just goes on from there. So if you want something, if you want to throw back to something that happened in the 90s, yeah, champagne Comedy podcast and just nerd out.

Speaker 3 1:27:34

And yeah, the episodes are quite long, so be prepared to fall asleep on the couch while Mrs Gort's ranting.

Speaker 1 1:27:43

And what other projects have you got going for socials and stuff like that?

Speaker 3 1:27:47

Well, I still run my pop culture site, my Geek Culture, so it's taken not a hiatus, but it's coming back shortly with some extra content like interviews and stuff. It's just trying to find the time to do it on top of a full-time job, so, um, but yeah, and I'm quite active on tw, so mattfultoncomau, and yeah, I'm just around the traps so I tweet too much.

Speaker 1 1:28:19

Yeah, Simple as that. I see quite a bit Well, so do I, but you know.

Speaker 3 1:28:23

Well, I do that because I'm bored, I'm in bed and I just go oh, I'll see this and I'll just take the mickey out of it.

Speaker 1 1:28:29

Yeah, yeah, all good, all good.

Speaker 3 1:28:34

And yeah, but that's pretty much what I'm up to. So, other than that, mattfultoncomau is my extensive CV of pure crap. Excellent, excellent.

Speaker 1 1:28:44

All right. Well, thanks for coming on. It's great. It's always good to have you on.

Speaker 3 1:28:48

Thank you, peter. It is again. I'll say it every single time and I'll say it again it's an absolute honour that you allow me to nerd out on these Aussie films.

Speaker 1 1:29:01

No worries, it's always good doing films with you. I think we've done some good ones. We did Houseboat Horror.

Speaker 3 1:29:06

Yep, I always throw back to that every time especially like. Infinity.

Speaker 1 1:29:14

I was only looking at the Blu-ray again the other day when I was actually putting my Dead End Drive-In set that I got from Umbrella into the thing and I was like, oh, I really need to watch Houseboat.

Speaker 4 1:29:26

Yeah, it's a golden classic. It is a great one.

Speaker 3 1:29:29

Yeah, I'm looking forward to all the stuff that Umbrella released anyway too.

Speaker 1 1:29:33

So much, so much coming up. Yeah, cool, cool, all right, man. Well, thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 3 1:29:38

Thank you.

Speaker 1 1:29:39

And when we come back we'll talk about what's coming up next.

Speaker 2 1:29:46

And now preview time. When it comes to entertainment, you can't beat a good film, so let's take a look at what's coming your way.

Speaker 4 1:30:03

You visiting tonight. You want a turn? Eh, my mum leaves at nine.

Speaker 1 1:30:08

See you at ten.

Speaker 4 1:30:09

My mom leaves at 9. So you're 10. Where'd you get it from, anyway?

Speaker 1 1:30:18

Apparently, it was the hand of someone that could connect with the dead. I heard it was the hand of a Satanist. The other hand's just out there, white people, shit man, I tell you you all right, let's do this, you know the drill say talk to me, talk to me next on a dingo ate my movie.

Speaker 1 1:30:48

I'll be'll be joined by Brandon Hardy to talk about the 2022 film. Talk To Me. Thanks for taking the time to listen to this episode of A Dingo Ate my Movie. I want to thank all my guests who give their time to make this podcast possible, and a special thanks to you for listening. Don't forget you can follow A Dingo Ate my Movie on social media On Twitter, it's just Dingo Movie. Facebook and Instagram is dingo movie pod and, of course, you can check out our website, dingo movie podcom. So until next time, stay safe and I'll see you soon.

Speaker 2 1:31:36

A rat bag is a sheila or a bloke. Or a bloke, who's kind of funny, but like who never sees the joke. Now take me mother's brother, uncle Graham. He's a raven, bloody ratbag through and through. He collects old kettles, makes his own wine out of nettles and he reckons that old Hitler was a Jew. He's always seen flying saucers landing bringing ratbags to the earth from outer space, and he's written in his will that when he dies we have to spill his ash on Melbourne Cup Day underneath the race. Oh, yes, he is. Ah, ratbag, that's him.

Speaker 2 1:32:19

The Raven Ratbag, that's him. He's a screwball, he's a nutcase, there's no doubt. And if you think you're Ratbag free, then just shake your family trees. He's a great big Raven Ratbag's, thank you. Or you pin your face on Scientology.

Speaker 2 1:32:50

If you grow organic food, go horse riding in the nude, there's a very faintest chance that you could be, could be, a ratbag, a raven ratbag. You're a scrooge or you're a nutcase, there's no doubt. And if you think you're ratbag free, then just shake your family tree. See, the great big raven ratbag's born now. You're a ratbag if you turn on your alarm clock, though you know it never, ever makes you wake. You're a ratbag if you rise with a burst of exercise, a count of 40 every time you chew your steak, you're a ratbag. If you live upon a commune or you sail the seas alone upon a yacht, ratbag, ratbag, flare, coal squatters, housewife potters, anonymous phoners, sperm bag donors, pakistani waiters, book deliberators, mystics from Thailand, everyone in Ireland, in fact. Looking round this hall, I ascertain out of us all that there's just one bastard in here who is not, who's not? Ah, ratbag, a raving Ratbag, a screwball, a nutcase, there's no doubt. And if you think you're Ratbag, free, then just shake your family tree. See the great big raving Ratbag's falling out. Ah.

Speaker 4 1:34:15

Ratbag, a raving Ratbag © BF-WATCH TV 2021.

Speaker 2 1:34:25

Raving, raving, rat-bag-balling time.

Speaker 1 1:34:47

Next, on A Dingo Ate my Movie, we'll be taking a full 180-degree turn and we'll be talking about 1920. Next, on A Dingo Ate my Movie, we'll be talking about the 2020. Next,