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Longtime friends and bandmates Bridget and Wendy review one movie each week over fancy coffees every Sunday morning. Includes lots of swearing, laughing, and dog panting. Sometimes other friends join in.
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EP 67: Hot Frosty | Gretchen Weiner's Girthy Carrot
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This week we learn that you can only get a perfect man if you make him yourself by choking him with a magic scarf. Settle in for Gretchen Weiner and the story of the girthy carrot in Hot Frosty!
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Foreign. Good morning.
Wendy:Good morning.
Bridget:I'm Bridget.
Wendy:And I'm Wendy and this is Flicking Beans. Welcome.
Bridget:Oh, welcome yourself. Oh, that was for listeners. I'm sorry. It's like when someone honks. I turn when someone waves at you.
Wendy:But they're really waving at the person behind you. Oh, that's so awesome.
Bridget:So cool. Where if you don't know us, we are super cool.
Wendy:Yep.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:That's our whole thing.
Bridget:Yep. You want to hang with us? You want to honk at us? Anywho, let's celebrate the winter season.
Wendy:Yeah. With a little hot Frosty, which I didn't look it up on. I am B. Or not. I be the urban dictionary, but I should have. Oh, I bet a hot Frosty.
Bridget:Something like a Cleveland steamer.
Wendy:Yeah. Or a pearl necklace. That kind of thing.
Bridget:Did tell you that. God, I was watch. It was a celebrity and they said, yeah, for Christmas I'm going to give my son a Dutch oven. I died. And then I repeated it and I had to explain it to someone what that was.
Wendy:Whoa. Ew. This is. This is amazing. Okay. A really good looking corpse that makes you seriously consider necrophilia. What? That's a hot frosty.
Bridget:Wait, say it again.
Wendy:A really good looking corpse that makes you seriously consider necrophilia. In a sentence. Example. Edward Cullen is a total hot frosty. I'd like to do a little sucking myself.
Bridget:Gross. I was reminded of Twilight when she kisses him or whatever and she says, you're so cold. Like Zoe's. What's this? Edward.
Wendy:Edward Covenant. Yes. So that's very appropriate for this film because the basic plot is it's sort of a Frosty the Snowman take.
Bridget:Yes. They show his hat blowing in in the beginning. Yeah, I recognized it. And I was like, frosty's dead.
Wendy:Yeah, I was triggering for you. Frosty lives in this one. So. But a snow sculpture in a small Christmas town which is just like a torso of a hot dude.
Bridget:Oh, was it just the torso? I'm gonna say. Kind of reminded me of the statue of David.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:And he had his arm and his hand while it was separated from his body. And I was like, no f****** way you can sculpt that out of snow without some kind of armature. Let me just say. I mean, there were fingers. It was very lifelike.
Wendy:Very. Yes. He gets a magic red scarf put on him and comes to life by Gretchen Wieners.
Bridget:That's her name.
Wendy:No, that's her name in Mean Girls.
Bridget:Oh, stop. Okay, well, it's Lacey Chabert's Character.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:This is a Hallmark movie, right?
Wendy:No, this is actually a Netflix movie.
Bridget:Oh, I'm so surprised.
Wendy:But she's very, like, she's in a lot of Christmasy Hallmark type movies.
Bridget:Hallmark has a lot of Christmas. Speaking of, like, I think it's like, on the third hour of today, they'll do this every once in a while where they will have to say, that's a real movie or it's not a real movie. And someone reads the synopsis. So it would be something like this. And they'll probably say, that's not real. It is real.
Wendy:It is real. Yes.
Bridget:So the magic scarf brings him to life.
Wendy:He's now running around naked in the snow with just a scarf. And he breaks into a clothing store to steal some clothes. So what does this remind us of?
Bridget:Time Traveler's wife.
Wendy:I was gonna say Splash, kind of, because.
Bridget:Oh, yeah. She needed some clothes.
Wendy:Yeah. She shows up. She doesn't realize that being naked is bad. And he doesn't really notice that either at first, until, like, people are looking at him like, what? So parallels between that and Splash made me laugh.
Bridget:This is sort of funny.
Wendy:A reverse, like, mannequin or Splash kind of.
Bridget:Exactly.
Wendy:Because it's the guy.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:Instead of the girl is the object.
Bridget:Because he's so innocent, doesn't know what things are.
Wendy:But he can talk somehow.
Bridget:Yes, he can.
Wendy:Right away.
Bridget:And he can smile.
Wendy:Yeah. Right away he's, like, waving at that guy naked outside. Just like, hi, how you doing? And you're like, oh, he can speak.
Bridget:Yeah. But Frosty could speak. It was a magic scarf.
Wendy:It was a magic scarf. You're right.
Bridget:It was given to her with the sole purpose of bringing her love. The person who gave it to her, it worked for her.
Wendy:That's right. She met her husband when she was wearing it. So let's just say that's the basic premise. And everything else about it is pretty thin, you know, Christmas movie, rom com. But there's a lot of little quips, you know, like he learns more stuff from tv. Like Splash.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:He learns how to cook from the tv and all these things he does. Fixes stuff around the house. All because he watches tv.
Bridget:Right.
Wendy:TV is educational.
Bridget:Right. And happens that we learn right in the beginning that her furnace isn't working.
Wendy:Oh, right. Yeah.
Bridget:It's freezing in her house. Which is why it's also so perfect that she brings home a snowman.
Wendy:Exactly. Because for some reason he still needs to have the cold or he'll melt.
Bridget:And at one point, he is trying to Sacrifice himself for the good of the school dance.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:And he's just sweating buckets. They throw him down in the snow.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:The funny thing is that when he goes to the Doctor, the doctor immediately believes them. Okay. He's a snowman. That's cool. Cool, cool.
Wendy:Yeah. The Doctor is funny in this, and a lot of the town people accept it really quickly, too. That's sort of the opposite of most of these movies.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:Nobody ever believes them. And in this one, they're like, oh, it's Christmas.
Bridget:Like, I'm gonna say, yeah, it's Christmas. And everyone, like, believe is one of the themes of Christmas. Why not?
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:If you just believe how many. Okay, back to mannequin then. Remember at the end when the janitor tries to kiss all the mannequins to see if he could get one to come to life?
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:I'd be all over snowman.
Wendy:Smooch, and carrot.
Bridget:Just the hot ones.
Wendy:Just the hot one. What about a snowman would make him attractive to you? Like, what would make a snowman hot?
Bridget:Like a real snowman.
Wendy:Yeah. Versus. Yeah. What would be the characteristics you look for in a snowman to bring to life?
Bridget:Not a round head.
Wendy:Okay.
Bridget:Definitely a good set of snowballs.
Wendy:You like big carrots, small carrot, Baby carrot.
Bridget:I like a. I like a nice, girthy carrot.
Wendy:Okay.
Bridget:Man, I had those home chef things one time, and they sent me the biggest carrot I've ever seen. It's like, how deep is the earth? The. Anyway. Yeah. I took a picture of it in my hand.
Wendy:And then you made a snowman and hoped you would come to life.
Bridget:I wish. What about you? Hot snowman?
Wendy:I like a tall snowman.
Bridget:How many bumps? How many. How many boulders?
Wendy:I'm thinking, like, four boulders.
Bridget:Yeah, that's pretty tall.
Wendy:Yeah. Like four boulders and a real solid base. Like, I want him to be sturdy.
Bridget:Sturdy. Yeah. When you said he fixes things around the house, who doesn't want that?
Wendy:This guy is the every woman's fantasy, right? He is. Yeah. He's fixing, he's cooking, he's fixing things around the house without being asked. Yeah. Everybody wants that, right?
Bridget:Yeah, they do. Takes care of her immediately. Trusting 100%. Loves her unconditionally.
Wendy:He's even loyal because there's a few people that hit on him and he's like, I don't know. I really like Lacy or Lucy or whatever her name is.
Bridget:I think it's meant to imply that he's there for her forever. I was like, if he cheats on her, the town is coming after him.
Wendy:True.
Bridget:It just seems like it's a happily ever after and that's never, ever, ever gonna happen. And they're, you know, they're perfect. Yeah.
Wendy:You can only get a perfect man if you make him O. And you can't do that in real life.
Bridget:Yeah. It's a good theme. I also think love is not as complicated as we make it to make it out to be.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:We stand in our own way a lot out of fear of rejection. Why didn't the sculptor speak up when his. The best snowman was stolen or disappeared?
Wendy:Yeah. Never find out who made it.
Bridget:No. They'd be mad.
Wendy:Yes. Like, where is my sculptor? Yeah. Yeah. Nobody else notices that it's missing more mentions.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:Yeah. And I don't know. And it's like a contest. So they should know who did what.
Bridget:Maybe that's why the town believed is because that snowman disappeared and looked just like him.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:You know who that was the whole time I was going, gosh, what has he been in Schitt's Creek? He's the veterinarian.
Wendy:Okay, I don't.
Bridget:Adorable.
Wendy:I haven't watched that show.
Bridget:What?
Wendy:I've tried, like three times and I just can't get into it.
Bridget:Wow. Okay.
Wendy:So sorry, I don't. I think you have to watch it for a while to like the characters. And I just couldn't get that far.
Bridget:Oh, there's no likable characters.
Wendy:Okay. Maybe that's.
Bridget:They're all horrible.
Wendy:Yeah. I need somebody to like. Not always, but. I don't know. I know that people get shocked that. That I haven't seen.
Bridget:Not sure which one you can like that guy. He's a sweet pea.
Wendy:Oh, the veterinary.
Bridget:Yeah. Yeah. And one time they do a live. Live stream cam on a bunny rabbit to drum up business, but he comes in from running, forgets it's there or doesn't realize he's actually in the shot. He starts undressing. He didn't realize it till the next day when they get ready to go to the dance. She ties his bow tie.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:Who the f*** knows how to tie a bow tie? No one.
Wendy:Gretchen Wieners.
Bridget:Gretchen Wieners.
Wendy:Did you catch the mean girl joke? So they're watching TV and they're flicking through, like, Christmas movies. And one of them has Lindsay Lohan in it. And that girl goes, she really looks like a girl I went to high school with. And then she keeps flipping through.
Bridget:Oh, that's great. Good one.
Wendy:Yeah. A little call back there.
Bridget:Do you remember when Lacey Chabert's character was talking to, like, the deputy and inviting him into the cafe. And she goes, how does a bowl of soup sound? And he goes, like, okay, good.
Wendy:Soup. Soup.
Bridget:Another theme of the movie. And I think that hot Frosty said it was, I want to make the most of my time while I'm here. Live it, baby.
Wendy:That's a frosty theme that you just wanted to play and play.
Bridget:I know, I know. Frosty's dead. His hat was blowing across the street.
Wendy:But some. Some kind of Christmas miracle happens. And Jack doesn't have to be a snowman anymore. Like, turns full human.
Bridget:It's that true love's kiss.
Wendy:Oh, right.
Bridget:That's what. That's what it was. Turned him into a real boy.
Wendy:Yeah. Awoke Sleeping Beauty.
Bridget:Right. And he gets. And he doesn't recognize what this feeling is. And it's being cold.
Wendy:Right.
Bridget:Because he's never been cold before. I mean, he eats ice cubes.
Wendy:Oh, yeah. That's a funny scene between the sheriff and him in the restaurant, which the sheriff is Craig Robinson, who I love. They're just eating fistfuls of ice.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:Trying to like. It's like a p****** contest.
Bridget:Fist falls. Yeah. The other thing about the cops is the keyboard and the singing songs about the town.
Wendy:Yeah. I think it's like in Craig Robinson's contract that he has to play keyboard in anything.
Bridget:Are you kidding? That's so cute.
Wendy:It feels like it, though. If you see him in something, you're like, oh, he's gonna play the keyboard at some point.
Bridget:Yeah.
Wendy:They don't need it in this movie, but I love it.
Bridget:His songs are all about Hope Springs and cop stuff.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:It's so funny. And the deputy in the background just going along with singing some back. You know, she told to lay low because he stole some clothes.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:Literally some galoshes and an over. No, what's that called? A jumpsuit.
Wendy:Oh, yeah.
Bridget:Over overalls. No, it was like a sleeveless mechanics jumpsuit.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:With the name Jack on it.
Wendy:That's how he decides. That's his name.
Bridget:That's a good name. He was so just innocent. So when she tells him to lay low, he's decides to fix the roof that day.
Wendy:Yeah.
Bridget:Shirtless in the winter when a little lady puts her car into the. I'm sure it was on purpose. Gets her car stuck right in front of his house. So of course he comes to help. And she is just losing it because he's so ripped. I mean, his abs. Wow, wow, wow. Nobody can do that. It's yeah. I've heard you have to have really thin skin on your abdomen to really have those show and pop out like that. I'm just going to go ahead and believe that.
Wendy:Yeah, you have. Yeah.
Bridget:It probably means no fat under there. Oh, forget it.
Wendy:There's fitness people and people in movies that have six packs like they. It's not maintainable. No, most people can't just keep a six pack all the time. They're that thin for that shoot or whatever and then they. It's not really even healthy to have that low body fat.
Bridget:It's just like doing some push ups before you do a shirtless scene. I mean I do. Right all the time. I think I'm going to do some push ups before I go out to my brother's wedding ceremony. I'll be sleeveless. So. So somehow the ladies convince him or let him know that they need some volunteers for the junior high. Junior high school dance. And he's just so agreeable with everything. Everything.
Wendy:Well, doesn't he get a job working for the school to a maintenance job? No, he is it just for the dance?
Bridget:It's just for the dance. And he creates this winter wonderland even though he has to keep going outside and like rubbing snow on himself or whatever.
Wendy:I don't know.
Bridget:Anyway, and then he asks Lacey Chabert out on a date and it's so sweet. It's the same exact thing as the little junior high kid who asked his girl on a date. Like you've never done it before so you're kind of awkward but you know, she can't say no. Look at that. It's lovely. It's right after that though that he ends up crashing on the lawn. Yeah. And the whole town is there. Why is the whole town at a junior high dance? I mean they're not at the dance, they're just in the street.
Wendy:In the street in winter.
Bridget:Just they're waiting for all their kids to come out. Anything else on that? Did we do it?
Wendy:We did it. We flicked some beans. Okay, love you. Bye.
Bridget:Bye.
Wendy:Why did I add a trumpet?
Bridget:I thought it was a trombone.
Wendy:Oh, okay. It was definitely some kind of.
Bridget:It was like from eight Crazy Nights, your casual trombone playing. Okay.
Wendy:Okay.
Bridget:Bye. Bye. Party all night long.