Harry And The Hendersons: A Xennial Girl Summer Rewatch

We rewatched the 1987 fantasy comedy Harry and the Hendersons -- and ended up in our feels for some of the film. From the behind-the-scenes facts, to the Academy Award winning makeup, to the stars who humanized the otherwise outlandish tale, we get into the "why" of this movie still holding up in 2026.

Don't miss any of our rewatches in our Xennial Girl Summer!

This episode was made possible with the following sources:

Harry and the Hendersons on IMDB

Maggie Langrick.com 

Harry and the Hendersons on Wikipedia

Episode topics and mentions:

Dazed and Confused
Beverly Hills Cop II
The Untouchables
The Rocketeer
E.T.
Predator
Predator 2
Big Top Pee-wee
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Footloose
Terms of Endearment
The Manhattan Project
Raising Cain
The Pelican Brief
Shrek
A Christmas Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Absence of Malice
The Prince of Tides
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Magnolia
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
My American Cousin
Cold Comfort
Frankenstein: The College Years
Death of a Cheerleader
Flatliners
SpaceCamp (upcoming rewatch)
Fire in the Sky
The Lost Boys
Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)
227
Third Rock from the Sun
Camp Wilder
Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)
What a Dummy
Perfect Strangers
ALF
The Crown
21 Jump Street
The Twilight Zone
Masterpiece Theatre
Dawson's Creek
Little House on the Prairie
Sweet Valley High
Anne of Green Gables
Little House on the Prairie
Actors & Celebrities
Matthew McConaughey
John Lithgow
Melinda Dillon
Kevin Peter Hall
Rick Baker
Steven Spielberg
William Dear
Gene Siskel
Roger Ebert
Alaina Reed Hall
Tom Cruise
Sandy Dennis
Linda Hamilton
Steven Dorff
Joaquin Phoenix
James Van Der Beek
Jay Mohr

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Transcript

Gum Ritual And Cold Open

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Yes, most of the time we're just having fun. We're trying gum. I love gum. We're trying gum from the 80s and 90s. Always kind of bring in the gum. Gum must arrive in every episode.

Welcome Back To The Zennial Rewatch

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Generation in Between, a Zennial podcast where we revisit, remember, and sometimes relearn and re-watch all kinds of things from being 80s kids and 90s teens. My name is Danny. Hi, I'm Katie.

unknown 0:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Hi, I'm Katie.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

Okay. All right. That was weird.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

All right. Uh, you are back on our City O Girl Summer Track today. We took a little detour. Now we're back. Um, we're actually recording this before our live event, but when this airs, it will be long after. So we can't tell you how it went because we don't know yet. We can't see into the future. But when you hear this, it will have been done. Hopefully you were there. If you weren't, sad for you.

The Dazed And Confused Comment Storm

SPEAKER_02 1:02

Um, but okay, before we jump into our next installment of our movie rewatch for the summer, we gotta talk about what happened on our social media from our last rewatch. Yes. It was bound to happen eventually. Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long. Me too. Me too. I I mean, generally, we don't usually have a lot of like super intense, serious opinions on things, like controversial opinions. No. And this honestly is a weird, I don't think it's controversial. Anyway, so let me just tell y'all the little we if you're listening, you probably follow us on social media and you probably know what happened, but some of y'all are new here and have just started listening. So hey, hello. Uh, we posted a clip about when we re-watched uh Days and Confuse, which we still pretty much enjoyed. There was just something that didn't land right with us re-watching it as women in their 40s was the character of Wooderson, who was Matthew McConaughey's character, and how um he uh was preying on teenage girls as a grown man, teenage children as a grown man. And that just wasn't funny to us. And like we said, it wasn't like it wasn't like he was an outcast or anything. People thought he was cool, he had a he they he had a cool car, they hung out with him all the time. They liked him, and they just kind of brushed off him smacking young girls on the ass and hitting, and they're like, oh huh, you're gonna get arrested. Like it was not set up as a oh my god, this guy is gross. Right. In the movie, it was not. And we talked about that in the episode, but the clip we posted online didn't go into all that because guys, it's highlight reels. Like, obviously, you can't put a whole discussion. Well, can't tell them what happened, Katie.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

What happened in the comments? So, yeah, just a little part of the reel was us saying how we didn't think that character was funny. That's it. Um, nothing's personal about Matthew McConaughey, who we later in the episode went on to talk about how much we actually really liked her earlier in the episode, how much we like him and have followed his career, blah, blah, blah. Um, every, I don't know if we ended up on like a toxic man message board somewhere online. We must have every man we don't know on the internet, literally, came for us in the comments.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

And it literally, y'all, you can go look at the comments because we're not gonna take it down. Like, whatever. We said what we said, and we still stand by it. They showed their ass. It was all men, literally, all men except one person. There was one female out of like all these hundreds of comments. It was men, and they were so pissed off that we didn't think that was funny anymore. Like, yeah, first of all, I mean, there's so much to be said, and we won't go into it, but like the time people spend on the internet just being like fuck you and stuff is so crazy to me. Like, you know what you can do is scroll past, right? And also, like, I understand if somebody's out there having an opinion on something that is hurting our society, like if you're saying racist shit or homophobic shit, like you should be called out. If you are two middle-aged ladies who are just saying that they think a pedophile in a movie is not funny anymore. Like that's it. Keep scrolling if you don't agree. If you find that humor funny, fine. We're not for you, sirs. Yeah. We're not for you at all. But okay, so we thought it'd be funny to kind of just share with y'all some of the more unhinged comments that were on the uh the shit storm of male comments. So we're just gonna go one by one. I'm gonna start with the worst one that I saw, and I'm gonna apologize in advance because a lot of these men, of course, use offensive gross language. Um, in fact, some of the comments were hidden by Instagram because they were really ridiculous. Um and then some were insults that ended up being compliments, yeah. Which I bet Katie will share. Oh, don't worry, I will. Okay, so here's mine. Apologies in advance. Let me find it. I cannot hold on, hold on. Okay, apologies. There is a homophobic slur in here. This comment says, get over it, you two dykes. You weren't even alive when this movie came out. Now, y'all, this movie came out in 1995. So thank you, sir. We were definitely alive. 1993. Oh, 93.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

I'm 93. I keep saying 95. So you were 13 or 12 or 13. I thought it was 95. No, it's 93. When I was real episode, I was like, oh, it's 93.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Okay, okay, okay, okay. So anyway, that was hilarious. Um, and also like because we were like at least in middle school or getting there at that point. And then so many people said comments about this movie was 30 years ago. Uh P.S. It wasn't made in the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

No, they're like, you know when this was made, it was set in the 70s. Correct. Which again, we address in the in the movie. That's why we re-watch things, right? Because we do view things differently now, things that were quote unquote uncepta acceptable, which really they weren't, but that people maybe laughed at more. Yeah. It's okay to look back now and be like, oh, like that didn't age well. Like that's not funny. It it never was, but we're very aware that it's not funny now, which is all that we were saying.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Well, and I've like, I'm not gonna get on the comments and defend ourselves to these fuckers. No, we because there's you can realize really quickly when somebody's commenting if they want to discuss with you something that they think is problematic, or if they just want to yell at you. These fuckers just want to yell at us, and that's fine. And they're not gonna go listen to the episode, they don't care what we're right. I'm not gonna be like, well, actually, bli bla bla bla blu. No, I don't care. Either go listen to the episode or don't. All right, tell me one that you had.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Um, let's see. Oh, hold on. I had one. Okay, okay, okay. Someone said this movie is super authentic to what it was like during the 70s. These guys who are in their 20s that never grew up from high school were absolutely real. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of ways about it. That's just good storytelling to be authentic, even if it's ugly.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

But they that's the thing. In the movie, he's not seen as gross. Right. He's seen as cool. That's what we were saying. Right. But wait, read the one that this person said about you. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Um, I don't know where it is, but essentially he said something about so many.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

I know, you guys. We it it's go if you if you enjoy reading unhinged comments, go on to that comment section and just then we had a few of our listeners, uh, females, go in and just rail on these guys, which was hilarious. Yeah. Um, and they just went in and just they were like, nope.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Because we said we weren't gonna respond. And they were like, Well, is it okay if we do? We're like, of course, you know, do whatever you want. Okay, I found it. Okay. So one commenter said, Um, girl on the right, that was that was me, by the way. That was Katie. You're in, first of all, all the yours are wrong. Yeah, of course. Wrong, um, spelled wrong. You're in your 30s or late 20s. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

I might just stop there. Stop, stop there.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

No, keep going. Why do you have little girl braids in your hair like a teen? What is that? Who cares? And I I think he was trying to say, like, stop trying to look younger. But I must, I'm like, I must always do my hair like that because if people think I'm in my 20s or 30s, I'm 44, guys. 44. That's her neutral hair stuff. Two adult children and almost a third adult child. So I was like, this guy is trying to be mean, but I'm like so excited. And what's funny about it is I kept talking about it that day. I said something to my husband, and then I'd like to tell it to my kids, and then I'd like, guess what this man said? I put it on my stories on Instagram, and people were commenting. They're like, Oh, this is great. This is so funny. It is. And finally, my husband's like, I compliment you every day. And it's just some like no big deal. And it's this mean stranger on the internet that like makes you feel good. And I was like, Yeah, I mean, that's kind of how it works. It's the unexpected, but also he was trying to be mean.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

I mean, he was trying to comments. Some somebody said, uh, your stance is not only illogical, it's an insult to women. Do better. Um, sure. And then his also he also started his comment with the movie took place in the 70s. It was normalized then. Well, it's still behavior we don't like. Right. Like, here's my thing that people annoy me about. When people say the phrase, well, it was a different time. Okay. Especially like I'm thinking about like segregation and slavery and um things related to racist acts. Um, people like, well, it was a different time. Okay, that still doesn't make it acceptable. Right. What do you like? 12-year-olds used to be married off. They haven't even had their periods yet, some of them. Yeah. Still not acceptable, guys. Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Like, yes, it was a different time, but also gross, which is again the entire point of this podcast. Yes, most of the time we're just having fun. We're trying gum. I love gum. We're trying gum from the 80s and 90s. She always got a brand in the gum. Gum must arrive in every episode. We're always like most of the time, and the point of this podcast really is to be lighthearted and to be an escape from those real things. But of course, like when you see something, and again, our conversation in the scope of the entire episode was pretty small. We could have talked about it a lot longer. Still, it's a big deal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

And like I said in the episode. I mean, we're telling you guys this, but you already know all of that. You probably listened to it. Uh you know, but you might be new, and so hey, go listen to it. Um, and the where was I going with that? I just said it wasn't that much that we we didn't talk about it that much. Oh, but we that was the biggest factor on why we didn't like it as much, re-watching. Correct. It was that. Because he wasn't, and we even said if they would have portrayed him as like, eh, there's this, like, if he would have not been friends with them all, not hanging out, not seen as some like, I don't know, cool guy, you know, that they want to go to a concert with, if he would have just showed up and they would have been like, oh no, like Wooderson's here, great. That would have been very different. Now, whatever, like that, oh, your phone's ringing. Are you okay?

SPEAKER_00 11:23

It says it's on voicemail already, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

I guess so. I mean, anyway, I'm not we don't need to rehash up. No, I had to share with y'all.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

So if for some reason you missed the social media, everything is there. Please go take a peek. It's mostly on Instagram. I saw a comment or two on TikTok that didn't really go too crazy either. You know what? And there was at least one on Facebook.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

And go see what Instagram is where it's at. Our friends and listeners uh responded is hilarious. One of them just, I swear, pulled up Sarah, just pulled up her popcorn and she said, I'm gonna just do this real quick. I'm gonna reply to all these people. And man, I was so entertained just swiping through because I'm like, I'm not gonna waste my time.

Pivot To Harry And The Hendersons

SPEAKER_02 12:02

No. So speaking of wasting time, let's get on to our actual topic today. We rewatched the movie Harry and the Henderson's, which Katie, had you seen it?

SPEAKER_00 12:12

I feel like I must have seen this because there were parts I remembered.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

Well, Troy was like, Oh, yeah, I've seen it. And then he was like, actually, I think I saw the TV show. It may have been. It may have been. And so I think a lot of people are like get them confused. Um, he's like, I don't think I actually saw the movie. Okay, so I saw this movie, I think in the theaters, and of course loved it because, you know, it's silly. It has all the things that make old 80s movies fun. Like it's got some kind of dumb costume and makeup. Love that. It has like physical comedy, which I love. Then it's supposed it's has like a heartwarming message at the end that kind of ties it all up. So it's just cheesy and campy and fun, and I like it. Okay. Did you like it? We'll go into more details later. Yeah, I did like it.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

I actually liked it. Yeah. I think because honestly, because Harry was so humanized. I know. And he wasn't an animatronic. Right. It was like a costume. Y'all know she hates animatronics. I hate animatronics, and also because he was so nice to other animals, including Bob the Dog. I was like, oh. I was like, she's gonna love it when I'm gonna give him a pass. I'm gonna give him a pass. So yeah, I really liked it. Okay. Yeah. It's a little Jack Russell, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Yeah, a little Jack Russell. Uh my friend Amber had this Jack Russell named JD for when we became friends years and years ago, who lived forever. He was so annoying. The funniest thing, every time I think about Jack Russell as I think about this story, he was fixed, but he never stopped humping. You know how some dogs be doing that? Yeah, for forever. Yeah. So he had this one pillow that he just liked to hump, and they called it his girlfriend. I swear to God. And like every time I go there, they'd be like, Oh, JD's on his girlfriend. Let me get him off. And I'm like, what? Like, this is why dogs are gross to me. One of the hundreds reasons.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Like, cats do not be humping, okay? No. Some dogs. I mean, it's an anxiety thing more than a no, I'm serious. I believe you're like a coping mechanism.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

I mean, I think people sometimes do that too. Yeah, well, that's true. It's all related. All right. So let's talk facts and then we'll talk opinions. Okay. Or we'll just mix them in. Whatever. We'll just do it here and there. I have to admit, when I was watching, I didn't really take notes. I was just watching it. I don't have a ton myself. I did. You're gonna be shocked. I did kind of fall asleep a little at the end. I have seen this movie a bunch of times. I knew what was happening. Like, I knew what was gonna happen. But Troy and I had gone out to dinner and I'd had a couple cocktails, and I was like so sleepy, you know? Like I was just so sleepy, and I was like all cuddled on the couch, and I was like, ooh, I was pulling a Katie. Okay, so let's talk history.

Plot Summary And 80s Movie Context

SPEAKER_02 14:53

Um, here's the summary of the movie. If you have never seen the cinematic classic from the 80s, the Henderson family adopt a friendly sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of Bigfoot a secret. Yes. Um, I mean, obviously. He's Bigfoot. Yeah. Also, another thing I love about old 80s comedies is like, I mean, obviously, like it's they're so preposterous, so crazy. Like, obviously, your neighbors would know immediately. Okay, so this was written in 1987. It is a fantasy comedy that was written, directed, and produced by William Deer. He also did the 1991 film The Rocketeer. Do you remember that movie? I do remember that movie. Um, and it was executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Harriet and the Henderson's. Okay. I forgot about that. Very cool. Yeah. It grows 50 million worldwide. Um, it was like not really a hit, uh, but it was third at the box office their opening weekend after the movies Beverly Hills Cop 2 and The Untouchables. Uh so um, y'all gotta remember too, back in the 80s, like your opening weekend box office sales were a huge deal. And it was going up against some pretty big movies. So, anyway, so before the film was released, the filmmakers actually kept the character of Harry a secret in all the promos. So, only glimpses were shown on like posters and previews, and um they never showed him in its entirety. They wanted to be like a reveal, I guess. But the film's poor box office returns um eventually were blamed on the failure to sell the fact that a Bigfoot was the star. So it kind of shot him in the foot. So they renamed it for its overseas release, Bigfoot and the Henderson. And then they changed a lot of the artwork too to feature Harry on there. Okay. I mean, so did people not have any idea that a Bigfoot was in the movie? Well, it's alluded to. Okay. But you don't, I mean, you don't know what it is because Harry could be anything. Well, and it's Harry H A R R Y. Right. And it's alluded to, like, you can look up, there's a poster where it has like his eyes or like some paws, but they don't they allude it, but they don't show any like clips of him, which they should because I mean that's the selling point. Like we just said, you liked Harry. Yeah, I did. I mean, you can't you have to, he's so lovable. He's so lovable. The way he moved his face was just so cute, right? Really cute. I know. So it was originally written not as a movie, but as a sitcom. Okay. Okay. But they made it into a full-length movie, and then a few years later in '91, it did become a sitcom. And it actually ran from 91 till 93. Oh, okay. Yeah, it ran a while. Uh the TV series, though, flipped the plot of the movie. So instead of like, you know, at the end of the movie, Harry goes back to the wild. Um, instead, the family takes him in permanently, and the whole sitcom is the antics of like the chaos of keeping him hidden from the neighbors and family and all the things.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

What's funny is when I was saying what I was gonna watch, my oldest daughter was like, I was like, Oh, it's this movie, and it's like Harry, and he comes and lives with his family. She's like, Oh, is that the alien one? I go, Are you talking about Alf? And she was like, Yeah. And I was like, No, it's about a Bigfoot. And she was like, Oh, weird. And then I was like thinking about the sitcom premise where you have this like not of this world being living with you, and all I mean, Alf is obviously a lot different than Alf, the character is much different than Harry, but like I was like, that is kind of like a plot line that ran through some sitcoms.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

And Perfect Strangers was just somebody from a different country coming to live here and the antics that ensues. Yeah, yeah. I mean, uh yeah, it's it's a good, it's a good formula, yeah. It's a good way to storytell. I mean, you know, um, yeah, so that was the and I'll tell you what happened with the TV series in a little bit, but this movie actually won an Academy Award for best makeup. Yeah. I mean, think about the 80s, like that was a full thing he had on. There were no animatronics. Um, Bill, Bill, oh no, I always call him Bill Baker. Is there somebody named Bill Baker? In the world, probably. I mean, like public vernacular. I don't think so. Okay, well, anyways, his name is Rick Baker, the makeup artist, and he has said that Harry was his greatest and most favorite character he ever made. Oh. Yeah. 1988 is when he won that Academy Award. So he won it. It was him personally. Well, I mean the movie. The movie, but it went to the makeup artist. Yeah. Okay. Correct. Just like if you win Best Actor, like Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay, so Siskel and Ebert reviewed the film very negatively. And Siskel called it a very manipulative movie that anyone who's seen E.T. has seen before. Oh. And Ebert said, what it lacks is any sense of awe about the fact there could be a Bigfoot, an unknown creature living in the woods with a mind of its own. Harry is so cute, so gentle, so lovable that there is no sense of mystery and no sense of awe. There's no belief that he's really Bigfoot. I mean, I can see their points, but I think the fact that this movie is not that is what makes it fun. Yeah. Because if it was that, it would be a different movie entirely. Right. So, I mean, I get it, but you know, again, they can have their opinions. I think that would be 100%.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

I mean, to that point, I think the the point that Bigfoot is supposed to be this scary monster. Yeah. And he ends up not being that was the point. Right.

When A Comedy Raises Moral Questions

SPEAKER_00 20:37

That like we're all connected, like, no matter where you like stand in the world order, right? Like, like when he's taking, when Harry is taking all the like animal heads off the wall and stuff. You know, you feel so sad, and he's looking for the rest of the deer on the other side of the wall.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Oh, that part. I remember that. That stuck with me.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

I was like, it made me so sad. And so it was just kind of like that was the point, though, that it's not all these things that we make mystical and scary and like right, whatever, probably have more in common with us than than we think.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Um, I have to text this. We have a new pool company. Oh. And they are coming in 30 minutes. I need to let them know not to knock on the door because I don't want Cooper to be gone. We'll just pause for a second. No, we'll just gotta pause for a minute. And I'm gonna do this because guys, real life don't start when we record this podcast. We are not there, but back porch screen door is unlocked for you. And let me in case Cooper's awake, which he's probably not, because guys, it is summer, and when you're a teenager, you can check all day.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

We will. I did last time when you peeked. There was another one we didn't, and I just thought it was a while back. It was funny that we left it in.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Let me ask her directly if she's feeling okay. Because I left before anyone was up. I walked all three of my dogs at the same time this morning. And oh, she says she feels better. Good. Um it was an it was kind of a nightmare. I didn't go very far. Yeah, because our new routine is Brant takes the golden doodle one way, and once they're like out of sight, I take the other two the other way. Because the two girl dogs are older and like chills, so I can walk them. And he's got Leo like trained with him. Oh but when Leo's with me and the other dogs, he's just like, What are you doing? What are you doing? And so I'm trying to walk hilarious pulling on all these leashes. And I was just we went a little bit and we came back. Never mind. Forget it. They think they gotta walk. They the the excitement of it still exists. Yeah. Just short. Okay. Okay. We I'm gonna say we're starting back up here.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Okay. So I remember watching this movie as a kid. So I was raised, even though I was raised in the South, guys, I had anti-gun, anti-hunting parents that were they're not, that was not their jam. Uh, and it's not my jam, but I remember like that scene with the deer part. I was like, oh my god, like it bothered me so bad because I had already been raised in a now, we weren't vegetarians, but right we, you know, I I well I was, I was a vegetarian for a lot of years when I was a grown-up. But anyway, I remember seeing that and be like, oh my god. And like fast forward, one of the jobs I had when I was moving all around with Tory in the beginning of our living together adventure, I had to do a lot of temp work and stuff like that. I worked for a CPA in Georgia, and it was just him and another guy, and he was a huge hunter. Like he was like super into it, and his entire office was dead animals of some sort on the wall. And do y'all know what I had to do? At Christmas time, they decorated the freaking animals. I had to climb on a ladder and take Santa hats off deers. I was like, this man, I don't know, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Anyway, and depending how deep you want to get in that, again, Bigfoot is monster who shall hurt us. But then Bigfoot comes into your house. All right, and just for fun, yeah, not even for like food or survival, you have all these animals on the wall. So right. So, like who's actually the dangerous monster in this scenario? Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Anyway, and that's supposed that's the question that you're supposed to be wondering in this movie. All right, so we'll talk more about the little thingies as we go, but we'll talk

Cast Deep Dive And Surprising Trivia

SPEAKER_02 24:43

about the cast. Um, some of them we've already talked about before, which is fun. And um, so I won't go too in the details, we'll just do little highlights. Again, we can't include everyone. I only did Harry and the Hendersons. I didn't go into the side characters. Okay. Just because we sometimes we spend too long on that. So I'm just trying to get myself in gear. I say we, I mean me. So here we go. So let's start with the guy who played Harry. His name was Kevin Peter Hall. Um, some other things I and I tried to have Xennial film credits that you may know them from. He played the Predator in Predator and Predator 2 in the late 80s. He was the he was the scary alien, right? Isn't Predator is like an alien, yeah. Um, he also played Big John and Big Top Pee-wee, which I forgot about, 1988, and he was in seven episodes of 227.

unknown 25:33

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

And the I tell you that because that's where he met his wife, and they got married on the show and in real life. Oh. So I'll tell you more about that in a second. Uh he played Harry in the sitcom version of the movie until he died in 1991. Oh. And it was very tragic. He was in a really bad car accident and he got a blood transfusion where he contracted AIDS. What? Yeah. And he died not very long after. Like, yeah, it's really sad. Um, so that was in '91, which you can remember was before they had all the protocols that they have now for blood and transfusions and testing and all of that. Um when he died, he had just been cast to play Super Shredder and the Teenage Meet Ninja Turtles 2 movie, The Secret of the Ooze. That would have been good. I mean, it was good anyway. Um, but he didn't, they didn't start filming anything. And uh, he had just got the part right before he died. Um, he actually was over seven feet tall. Some places say he was seven two, some say seven four. So I don't know exactly where he landed, but it was very tall. Um, this movie actually made him over eight feet tall.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

I was gonna say, compared to like John Lithgow.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

And John Lithgow is 6'2.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Yeah, so he's not a short guy.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Right. He was so much taller than that. So much tall. So they made him eight feet tall. Um not surprisingly, he was amazing. He was an amazing high school basketball player, and he actually won a scholarship his senior year uh to play college at George Washington University in DC. Um, and he did, but he only played there when it didn't interfere with his major, which was theatrical arts.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Cool. So I don't know how he worked that, but well, if you're 7'4, let's say, I know they probably like whatever play your own cards. Exactly. They're like, I'll be at half the game, five minutes before the game starts, and I'll just I don't have to practice, I'll just dunk on everyone and it'll be fine.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

And the funny thing is, well, he didn't have a mask in big in Big Top Pee-wee, but you know, the two roles he's majorly known for in Zenial or 227, obviously. Um, he his face was covered, but he was a very attractive man. Oh, yeah. I don't I don't Google this picture. Okay. He was a very attractive man. Um so after he graduated college, he moved to Venezuela to play basketball, but he just lost interest after a year. Um so he relocated to LA and he found his college friend by the name of Jay. And what they did together, they created two nightclub acts slash musicals.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

I'll wait till you I forgot his full name. Kevin, what did I say? No, I thought you said John something. No, it's not. Oh. Uh Kevin Peter Hall. Kevin. Yeah, she's looking up his picture. She wants to see how hot this goes. He's an attractive man. Oh. Oh, that's him? Yeah. He's a very attractive man. Oh, so yeah, this says 7-2, but like you said, depending on the source. Yeah. That's great. Yeah, you wouldn't necessarily know feel like that's what he looked like. I know. Because he's there's the big stuff he's got to do.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Google's picture is an attractive man. And I'm just saying, you wouldn't, unless you saw him in 227, but you probably wouldn't relate that he was also a predator and hairy. Right. So, anyway, so him and his friend Jay started making nightclub acts slash musicals together. One of them was um a semi-autobiographical two-man musical called In Five, and the other was a two-man show called The Worst of Friends. Um, and they played those in nightclubs all over LA. They were pretty popular. Um, they also had a business together where they did promotional acts in department stores for new products. Fun. So kind of like, kind of like in a living infomercial, I guess. Remember back the day of department stores when they were just like they would like demo the stuff. Yeah. So they did that. Um, like I said, and then, you know, obviously Hollywood came and calling. He actually got I I never found how he actually made that transition from the nightclub axe into Hollywood, but you know. Um, like I said, he met his wife when he was on 227, uh, Alania Reed Hall, who played Rose. Now, I don't know if you ever watched 227. I did. She was like the sweet, which is funny because I was like, oh yeah, her name was Rose. And then they had a Rose on Golden Girls at the same time. Who was like sweet and kind of um, but yeah, Rose. And then um they married in the show Animal Life and they had two kiddos together. Cute. So that's just a little bit about him. Now we're gonna talk about John Lithgow, who played George. Now, we talked about John Lithgow before when we did the Twilight Zone movie. So I'm just gonna say a few things in case you missed it, guys, and or you forgot, like we do. So, but if you want to hear more about him, Twilight Zone movie from last summer, right? No, was it October? That was in October. I was a scary that was squeaky sweetie. Okay, so Xennial film credits. Uh I mean, guys, y'all know this man. He's been in so many things. Everything, but just some 80s and 90s stuff and early 2000s, terms of endearment, footloose, the Manhattan Project, Raisin Cane, the Pelican Brief, Third Rock from the Sun, obvious. And then Shrek. Oh, yeah. It was Lord Farquh. Oh my god, so good. Um, he has won two Tony. Now, I've said all this before in a past episode, but I'm saying it again. He has won two Tony Awards in his life. In 73, he won Best Supporting or Featured Actor for David Story's The Changing Room. The ironic thing about that, what I which I still think is crazy, that was his Broadway debut, and he debuted, and 18 days later he won a Tony for that role. Jeez. That's insane.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

That's like if you're looking for a sign from the universe that you're on the right. That's the one. That's the one.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

And then years later in 2002, he won Best Actor in a musical this time, uh, for Sweet Smell of Success, which I've never heard of. Me either. Okay. I don't even know the music from it. Um, he graduated from Harvard, y'all, and uh Magna Coon Lawed, and he had a degree in history and literature. So smarty.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

I think that helps, like um, well, d depending what other background information you have, that helps you as an actor, I feel like. Like I think about him, this is way later than the years we're talking about, but in the crown. Oh, I was just thinking about that. The fact that he is a history major and a literature major and like probably feeds into being able to be good at because he had to play a real historical person, um, plays into being good at that. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

He a good he is such a good actor because he is he's one of those people who can do it all. You know, well, I don't know, can he dance? Question mark. Um, but it can be hilarious and also very good dramatically. Like a lot of actors have a niche, but he kind of doesn't. I feel like he's just good at everything.

SPEAKER_03 32:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Um, okay, so fun little fact M. Emmett Walsh, who played uh his dad in the movie, the one that owns the store. He's only 10 years older than John Lithgow. Oh, isn't that funny? That is funny. They just make him look older. Yeah. And he's shorter and heavier, so like they could kind of do some more stuff with him. But then the another funny thing is when John Lithgow played the dad in Footloose, he is only 12 years older than the girl who played his daughter. So I'm like, you just never know, guys. Yeah, Holly would be playing tricks on us. Holly would be playing tricks. All right, so that is a little bit about John Lithgow. Let's talk about Melinda Dylan who played Nancy. Now we talked about her on our Christmas story episode. Love her. I have a personal connection to her. So great. Um, but we'll just do a little recap about her too. And I mean, once you know her from Christmas story, that's all you I can only see her. Then you only see that. I I can only hear that. I always see it. I mean, Troy was like, well, her hair is different, but that's about it. I'm like, really? Yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

She I kept wondering if that was a wig that she had on. You think they just did her hair that way? No, I think it was so blonde. Yeah, I think they just cute.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Okay, so other things y'all know her from besides Christmas Story. She was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that, by the way. Uh, she was in Absence of Malice, and she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for that one. She didn't win. Obviously, she was in Christmas Story, she was in Prince of Tides. I forgot she was in Too Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 33:47

I didn't write down the character she played. Um, and she was also in Magnolia with Tom Cruise. Yeah. So that's just some things. You've seen, you've seen this lady. Um, she won a Theater World Award as the very first actress to play the role of Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Okay, she won an award. That was her Broadway debut. The ironic thing is she was passed over for the movie casting, and the role was given to Sandy Dennis, who won an Oscar for the role. Ugh. Knife and heart. Ugh. As a performer. That'd be like, what do you mean? I originally like I was the one who brought that character to life. And uh one in my role. I was not good enough to do it on screen. And then she went, ugh, anyway. No. So I had to throw that in for my peeps out there who understand that that would be painful. Um, so she I threw this in for you. She actually played two Indiana residents. Are they called Hoosers?

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Hoosers. Who? Who? Like a owl Hoosers. Like a big, yeah, Hoosers. Why what is that word about? I actually don't know. It's what people in Indiana were called for some reason. No, seriously. It's like the term meaning people from Indiana. I don't know. Okay. I actually don't know. Look at that. She don't know. I'm sure at one point it was told to me, but I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

Well, so uh she played one in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That takes place in Muncie, Indiana. That's where Ball State is, where I went to school. Really? Yeah. Well, look at that. And then Christmas story took place in Homan, Indiana, which was which is right by where I grew up. So I guess I have a close person too. Look at that. Yeah. And Homan is actually the name of the main avenue that passes through the historic district of the city of Hammond, Indiana. You already knew that, I think. Yeah. Okay. Katie's like, that I knew. Yeah. Get out of here. Um, she also appeared in two films that were selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. That was Christmas Story and also Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

We need to do a rewatch of that. Have you ever seen it? I've never seen that one. It's really good. And now that I know it's in Muncie, I better watch it. Yeah. Was it filmed in Muncie? I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Okay. I mean, you know what it's about, right? Like a kid gets abducted by an alien and then well, I don't want to tell you too much.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Don't tell me. Okay. We're just gonna watch it. She plays the mom. Is that a spooky season one, or is that just an anytime one? Maybe it's sci-fi. So just anytime. Anytime one. I don't think it's really spooky.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

Cool. Um now, fire in the sky. That's spooky. That one's fucking scary as hell. Uh anyway, okay. So she's she's known for playing moms a lot. Yeah. So, but you know, if there's a niche for that, I'm all for it. Find it and go. Let's go. Find it and go. So now we're gonna talk about the two kids. Uh, Margaret Lanric played Sarah. Now, both of them were not in the Hollywood sphere very long. Okay. Um, they went on to do other things, and you're gonna be interested in what she went on to do. So, other things that you saw Margaret Lanric in, she was in My American Cousin, which is a movie from 1985. She was in two episodes of 21 Drum Street. She was in a movie called Cold Comfort, she was in Frankenstein, the college years, which was a TV movie. Oh my! I would totally watch that. She played, we talked about this show before. She played Beth on Camp Wilder that came up, that sitcom came up, uh, from '92, '93. And she also played a character named Beth on the TV movie Camp Bignel. And I don't know if they're related, if they like made a TV movie about the show. I don't know. Probably. I know that's a different, maybe like same character. Well, no, they're not at a camp. Remember, it's like you researched this when we did uh I'm trying to remember when like Jay Moore was in it, and it was like somebody's dead parents died, and she's raising her siblings. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 37:41

Yeah. So it's not really a camp. So I wonder if maybe totally hypothesizing, and the listeners are getting mad if they know the true story. I wonder if she like gets married and that's the new one I have to look at while. So now she's still taking care of her family, but she's a married lady. I don't know. That just feels like a very 90s sitcom premise.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

So Camp Wilder's original show, and then Camp Bitnell was the TV movie. But she was also in another TV movie that I remember called Death of a Cheerleader in '94. That was the one where the mom was like conspiring with um it was it was a true, true story where the mom conspired to kill this other cheerleader. Now I don't know if she actually if it actually happened, but yeah, we'll check that out. I know. Camp Big Null TV movie. Yeah. Uh let's see. What's it gonna say? Uh yeah, it was the original pilot to what would become the sitcom, Camp Wilder. So there you go. So I guess the movie was first. In the in the IMDB, it said after, but I don't know. Maybe they're maybe it's a prequel or something.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Well, that's what I said. It was the original pilot. That's what I'm saying. So yeah, maybe it came out after Camp Wilder, but it was. Oh, that's what you're saying. Yeah, they just released it later. Okay. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

Now we figured out that mystery. Um so she's actually from Vancouver, and she retired from um acting in the late 90s. Okay. So after Death of a Cheerleader, she was kind of like, eh, I'm not. So she's a writer.

unknown 39:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

Um she was the arts and life editor for the Vancouver Sun. She's also founder of a nonfiction publishing company called Wonderwell. And she publishes like like books like yours, Katie. Wonderwell. Okay. I gotta look her up. Yeah, gotta look her up. I was like, oh my god, they need Katie's book. Yeah. Or your next book, but you're gonna have to deal with somebody. But, anyways, maybe the one after that. So send her your book.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Okay. We just talked about you on our podcast. And here's the episode, here's the link. Like when I wrote to James Vanderbeek. Oh my god. I left on our IP. And I was like, She said, go go Google it, find us. We literally could have just put a clickable link in the message. But for this person, yeah, I've been actually mailing books to people, so maybe I'll mail her one. That's so fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

All right, and then the little boy who played Ernie. So cute. He was adorable.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

How old was he in this movie? I think he was supposed to be like eight or nine-ish. Okay. Yeah. I just wondered if he was older than that, but played young because he was so like mature, but looked so little.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

You know? His name uh is Joshua Radoy, R-U-D-O-I. I probably said that wrong, but anyway. Radoy. Okay. Uh other things you know him from, he was in three episodes of the Beauty and the Beast TV show with um what's her face? Uh she was in Terminator. What's that actress's name? Jamie Lee Curtis? Girl, no. What? Is she in Terminator? Linda Hamilton. There we go. Oh. Have you never seen Terminator? I guess not. Wow. Okay, we gotta watch it then. I'll be back. Anyway, I'm assuming you never saw this TV show. No. Oh my god, it's so stupid. Okay, I remember watching this with my mom. It was on in the late 80s, and it was basically a modern day the beast lived in the sewers of New York. Oh my god. And it's like a soap opera drama kind of situation. Anyway, that little boy was in three episodes of it. You gotta look it up. Okay. Um, he was in the movie Flatliners. Okay. Uh, he was in a TV series. This is so crazy. It was called What a Dummy. It was on from 1990-91. Steven Dorf was in this movie, was in this show, and let me tell you what it's about. Their great uncle dies, and they find he and he was a ventriloquist. They find his dummy and realize that it can think and talk. Ooh. But this is a comedy. It sounds like a Twilight Zone episode because there is one. There is one. Yeah. So, but they made it a comedy. I was like, that I would not watch that. It wasn't around very long, and then try why. Anyway, I really couldn't find much on him after after he left Hollywood as a young actor. All I found was documented that in 2012 he lived in LA and was working as a senior investment advisor at Argyle Capital Partners. Okay. So I guess so he left the booze too. Yeah, they both left. Okay. So that's all about the actors.

Easter Eggs And Production Fun Facts

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Now I'll just give you some fun little facts, little Easter eggies. Uh, you know how they show that drawing of Harry that appeared in the film? That was the original design of Harry done by the makeup artist, like Baker. So that was fun. Uh the statue, I don't know if you noticed this. They had a statue in Dr. Wrightwood's office. It's the gremlin from Nightmare at 20,000 feet in the original Twilight Zone episode 1963. Okay. Um, I was like, why does that look familiar? And then I saw this, I was like, oh, that's what that is. Which ironically, John Lithgow was in the remake of that Twilight Zone episode in the movie Twilight Zone. In the movie, yeah. So I thought that was a fun little Easter egg they put in there, which Steven Spielberg dire, you know, directed. I don't think that part of it. He did the he directed the older people stuff. Yeah. Okay. Uh for the night scenes in which George goes to rescue Harry, the producers had to pay the city of Seattle to keep the lights on the space needle lit. Cause it was like past the hours or whatever. Oh. I just thought that was funny. Yeah. I wonder how much that cost.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Honestly, probably not that much. You don't think it depends how many nights they needed it on for the shot, but I mean, it's a lot of electricity, man. True. There's a reason they turned it off.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

I know. Yeah. Okay. Apart from this is so random, and I don't know why the internet found this. Apart from the opening camping trip and then the climactic escape at the end, Melinda Dillon is barefoot through the whole film. Cause she's in the house and like running around and all that. That's true. So she only has shoes on in the beginning and the end. That's so funny. Which is funny because I don't ever wear shoes in my house either. Yeah. I I don't either. Like, whenever I can be barefoot, I am. Yeah, same. Yeah. Um, so our the bottom of her feet are real cute, guys. Anyway, in a brief scene, John Lithgow is Carrying a Bigfoot lamp. Remember when he goes and then he likes to buys a bunch of shit at that store? Which was the throwback for Melinda Dylan because when she was in Christmas Story, they had the leg lamp. Oh so they did that. Also, two other references to Christmas story is in the beginning, you know how Ernie has the BB gun. Yeah. Same it's a red wider. And his glasses are the same exact style as Ralphie's. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. So I just love that little connection. So that was fun. And I think I only have like a couple more. Awesome. Yeah, the last one, Harry only speaks, well, Harry speaks at least two words, possibly three. We can't really tell. When he's near the freeway and he sees the mountains from far away, he wails, and it's supposed to kind of sound like he's saying mama. Oh, I know, heartbreak. When he sees the man cleaning up the dog poop, yeah. And he says yuck. Yeah. That one we knew he's at. And then at the end, when he says, Okay. Okay, yeah. Oh. Troy was shook, you know, at the end, which I, you know, I remember certain scenes very distinctly. The deer was one, the dog when he holds the Donnie holds that one. And then the end when he goes to walk away, and then all the trees are actually other Bigfoots. We're sitting there and it shook Troy goes, whoa. That's how it's supposed to feel. I said I knew I used to love that scene so much. Okay. So those were all the facts. Cool.

Ratings Nostalgia And What Holds Up

SPEAKER_02 45:26

Tell me more. You said you liked it. Yeah, I liked it.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

I didn't know the nice thing sound. Yeah, I don't have very many. That's it. Um I couldn't remember how I knew the mom at first. Oh, so then I was like, mom from Lost Boys. And then the more I watched her, the more I was like, no, that's not her.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

And then I eventually I figured it out.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

I figured it out. Um, I love their station wagon. Is that station wagon in every family movie?

SPEAKER_02 45:49

Well, version of it. Station wagons like came out around the early 80s, like late 70s, early 80s, right? And there were only a few ones.

SPEAKER_00 45:59

Yeah. So probably they were popular. Um, no CGI. I just love that, especially when they're in the forest and there's that scene where they're like driving, it's all green. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, that's real. Like someone set up a camera and they drove down there so that they could saw real animals. Real animals. Yeah. It was it was really cool. Um, we kind of already talked about this, but I just said, like, in general, like game hunting just kind of like is bleh.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

I hate all hunting.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

Um I just said it does make you feel bad for animals killed for sport. And then I said, Little Bob is such a cute name for a dog.

SPEAKER_01 46:35

I know.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

I I you know, you're I always this is kind of weird, but I always ask people how their dogs got their name. Not just dogs, cats too.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

But I would watch it again. I wish they would explain why he's called little Bob.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Where's Big Bob? Okay, so then what what do you say when people ask you how your dogs got? I tell them the whole story.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

Well, would you like to share with that? Very quick. I mean, I have three, but very quickly. Uh Matilda had that was her middle name when we got her. She had a different first name, so we changed it to her first name. And also my kids were in a production of Matilda that summer. Okay. And then our dog Annie is actually named Andrea. But we all hate it. Did you know that? That's her full name.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Wait, that fits her so much better than that.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

Her name is Andrea. That dog needs to just be called Andrea all the time. And did we all give her the name Annie? They all adopted her. So we started calling her Annie because none of us well, when we first got her, we're like, Andrea's not a dog name, but now it's like, no, it's not, but she's basically a small human.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

I love pets that have names that are not that don't feel like pet names. Yeah. Like, you know, um, we have lots of friends named Sarah, but the other Sarah from fitness class, she adopted a cat whose name is Robert, and it is the funniest. That's just adorable. And Troy always wanted us to get a cat and name it Larry. That's cute too. Oh, I love it. Okay, so third dog's name.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

So, so Andrea, who we call Annie, but when we're mad, we yell Andrea at her. We'll go, Andrea! And that's how you're you know she like ate something or peed on something or whatever. Um, Leo, we knew him from puppy because he was born next door, literally next door. So we were hanging out with him before we decided to adopt him. And Leo was like the second choice for a bunch of people in our family, and everyone was very passionate about what they wanted him to be named. Um, Chewbacca was one, Fozzie was another. Fozzie, but no one could have no one's number one matched, but everyone was okay with Leo. So we went with Leo because he looks like a little.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

We just our cat just has the name he came with.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

And then we were like, we missed an opportunity though, because we have like names of musicals for our other dogs, Matilda and Annie. So we're like, we should have done like Hercules or something and called him Herc, but oh well, maybe there'll be a musical that comes out called Leo. He's not a Hercules, he's not unfortunately, unfortunately for him. No, no, no, no, no. He's a little baby. Some of his siblings live in our neighborhood, and like we'll be on walks, and he is so much smaller than the rest of them.

SPEAKER_02 49:10

He's not a small dog, but they are like big, he's like the runt.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

We ended up with the runt.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

I could not handle having an animal that large living in my house.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

Yeah, him and Matilda are about the same size, so we have two. That's a duck. Andrea huge. That's so much. Matilda's a black lab, by the way. And then Andrea. That is so six-pound papillon, six-pound French dog. She mean as hell. Mean.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

She's totally like, I could just sit here being like, my name's Andrea.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Well, there were two other puppies in her litter, and so they had to do emergency surgery on the mom to get the puppies out.

SPEAKER_03 49:47

That's so sad.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

So they ended up naming one puppy, and the mom was okay, and the puppies were okay. They named one puppy after each vet tech.

SPEAKER_01 49:53

Aww, one of them's named Scott, the other one's named Joe and Andrea. Scott, Joe, and Andrea.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

Yeah, and Joe, my sister is my sister-in-law's dog. Cute. So yeah, so that's why. But still, it's a good name for her. Um, I just said I like the way that Harry was so kind to all the other animals, and then it was actually really a sweet and emotional movie.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

Well, you know, Troy and I both said, God, we didn't remember it being so deep. Yeah. Like it is a pretty deep movie. Like it really it has you asking like existential questions about like what living things are better than others, or e quote unquote is what I mean. And like, and you know, I'm trying to hold on, let me see. I I didn't remember. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

I I I know you only I know you only I hope it was on camera. I wasn't looking at the camera.

SPEAKER_02 50:45

The back of the microphone about took her out, guys. She almost I bent down and hit the microphone and then swung around the back of the head.

SPEAKER_00 50:55

Little love tap. It's fine. Oh, it's well, you didn't write anything about him, but the guy who played the game hunter before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I I I just recognized him because he was like how do you say it? Perot, Piro.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

Perot. That's what Troy kept saying. And I was like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 51:12

Um Inspector Perot on some BBC show?

SPEAKER_02 51:15

Yeah. Okay, Troy kept saying that. I was like, what what?

SPEAKER_00 51:18

And I was like, I didn't look more up on him, but yeah, that's who that's what I'm saying. Troy kept saying that too. He's like, Charlene loved that show. My parents loved that show.

SPEAKER_02 51:26

They watched it.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

It was on Masterpiece Theater too. Yes. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:29

So I what'd you say? Oh, I loved this. Is I loved the camera shots that they did, like how they had the family in the windows, and then like the close-ups they did of Harry's face. I thought the cinematic, I don't know. I always noticed that. Like I just thought it was smart filmmaking. What like cute little pictures, you know what I'm saying? Um, I think I just said I missed the vibes of silly 80s movies. I just miss those. Because now I feel like it's just not the same. And and again, CGI and also Troy was like, they're in the car and they're camping, and he's like, look, no cell phones. Like now you can't help but notice in old movies. Of course. Yeah. Cause it's so, what's the word? So embedded. Yeah. Like in life right now. Like the only way to escape from the other people in your car was to put on your Walkman. Yeah. If and then if you forgot it, you're like, no, or your batteries died. Yeah. It happened to me a few times. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. You always had to remember like carrying extra batteries with you on long trips. Absolutely. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I love this movie. I thought, okay, so star rating. I think I'm gonna give it a five. Yeah. I do too. I think it's just fun. It was really fun. What a Tegan thing. Did she watch it? She watched part of it. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 52:47

She's kind of like this summer, just kind of in her own little she's always up to something. Let's just put it that way. Okay. And without school, she's got all these projects happening simultaneously. So she was kind of like, Well, I'm in the middle of this. So she sat for a few and then she's like, How much longer is it? I said, You can go do whatever. She said, Are we done yet? I don't so she didn't say much. She's she thought Harry was cute. She's like, He's he's cute, he's cuddly. And I was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

Okay, we're had no desire to watch this. Yeah. He's like, What are y'all watching? And he's like, Oh god, is that about the Bigfoot thing? We're like, Yeah, he's like, Nah, I'm not watching that. Nah. But then he does this thing where he'll kind of walk in and out and then he'll like go get a snack and be like lingering, you know, like watching it.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

My husband was doing that. Oh, I had to be like an um, he he was like aware of it culturally. So he's like, I think maybe I watched the TV show because when I was trying to pull it up on I think Netflix, yeah, the TV show. Um, the TV show came up and I started it, and it had like the whole theme song, which is kind of fun. But I was like, but this is not actually what I'm supposed to watch. And thank God I didn't start it. It's three seasons or whatever, it's long. So um, so he was kind of doing the same thing. He was like, Oh god, 80s movies, blah blah. But then he'd be like, Oh, John Lidcombs. Yeah, he's like, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_03 53:58

Oh, da.

SPEAKER_00 53:59

So he kept kind of like walking through to like do stuff, and he'd like linger. And finally I was like, You can watch if he's oh no, no, no, I I got like all this stuff I got to do. I'm like, okay. But yeah, he was very like intrigued. So you watched another one alone. I did. I mean, my family was up and about and like okay weighing in on what I wasn't like in isolation or watching at 4 a.m. Yeah, I was watching at a normal hour and I but I fell asleep.

SPEAKER_02 54:22

This one's fine to kind of watch and just have fun with.

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SPEAKER_02 54:25

Agree. Days of confusion and company.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

Yeah, and space camp. I think you need a buddy. I think that would be fun. I think I can get Tegan to watch that one with me. I could probably get more than Tegan to watch that with me. I'm interested to see if Brandt saw that movie. I because he asked me what else we were watching. I showed it to him. He said he didn't remember that one, but then when we looked at the like the casting. Oh my gosh, everyone's in it.

SPEAKER_02 54:45

They used to play it on like HBO or something all the time. Because my sister and I, I remember would watch it, or maybe we had it on VCR tape. Tara, let me know if we did. And um I it's it's a great movie. Yeah, and there's a lot of famous people in it. Yeah. A lot of famous people.

SPEAKER_00 55:01

We were both like commenting just on who's in the poster.

SPEAKER_02 55:03

Isn't Walking Phoenix like the youngest? It looked like it, yeah. It's like the the funniest thing is you guys, we'll just do this a little preview, is it's these kids who go, you know how the Space Center does like space camp. Well, they accidentally get launched in space.

SPEAKER_00 55:16

I just think that's so great. Like the amount of effort that goes into getting launched into space, even back then, probably even harder back then to access, but I mean it's a fun premise.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

Well, and I can't remember exactly how it all went down, how it happened, but my sister wanted to go to space camp so bad.

SPEAKER_00 55:35

I was just gonna say, when you like research it, yeah, I'd be interested to know if there was like a spike. I'm sure people wanting to go to space camp.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

I'm sure. And they were probably very sad when they realized that they were not gonna accidentally launch. Right. And then, of course, I ended up having to do like a mission. Yeah. While you're there, I can't wait to watch it. I'll watch it this weekend. It's fun, it's a fun movie. Well, when you have time because next week, now well, we have a we have a little break in recording, although y'all won't because we recorded ahead of time. Because look at me on organization.

SPEAKER_00 56:05

Our next one is Sweet Valley High, which I couldn't find the physical book. I brought it to you. So Danny got it from Did you get it from Thrift? I did. So she just brought it to me, so now I can read it. Yeah. I think Sarah said she was having trouble finding it, so maybe I'll pass it to her next. Yeah. It won't take you long. It took me a few days.

SPEAKER_02 56:22

I can't wait. I have a mosquito bite on my leg. It's driving me nuts.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

So we've got one movie left and two books left. Is that right?

SPEAKER_02 56:29

Anna Green Gables.

SPEAKER_00 56:30

What if you end up loving Anna Green Gables? What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 56:33

It's fine. I'm gonna read it. I won't, because that's not my kind of book. I read it when I was a kid. Okay. No, I don't like it. Like that prairie stuff, that's not for me. That prairie stuff. Like that frontier life book. I don't know. I don't like those. Like when I was a kid, I read Little House on the Prairie, but my sister loved them. She loved the show. I need like, I need something else. But I'm gonna read it.

SPEAKER_00 56:56

Yeah, and we're gonna do it. And then we'll have all kinds of fun stuff coming up in the fall. We'll have to plan all that.

SPEAKER_02 57:03

We might have a little changes in the fall where our recording schedule is gonna change a bit, so we'll figure it out. Yeah. But for now, the Zendio Girl Summer.

SPEAKER_01 57:10

But for now, we do Zendio Girl Summer. Don't forget. Was that a bark? I think that time it was. Oh my god. Let's try again. I did the last time. She was so pumped that that face was like ready.

SPEAKER_02 57:26

And then I was like, take it back. I'm ready to watch that in a clip to see what my face looked like. Oh, you mean the air horn? You go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 57:35

There it is. That's the Xennial Girl Xennial Girl summer 2026. That wasn't very good either, but that's okay. You get the idea, guys. Maybe one day we'll have enough money to have real sound effects, which I think you can find for free on the internet, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

What? Well, what are we gonna okay? When we have this live event, which y'all already hear about because we're the episode will be posted before this one. We will. So you will see the shenanigans that took place, but I'm wondering what in the world is gonna un unfurl. It's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 58:03

I can't wait. It's gonna be fun. We got this. All right. And um, join us again for our next installment of Xennial Girl Summer. If you are new and you haven't listened to our live episode or any of the other summer episodes or any of our 175 plus, we're getting close to 200 episodes. What? Yeah, I need to look when which one that will be, but it's coming up. But that's crazy. You can just scroll. We were just talking to a new friend of ours uh who's in our musical with us in nine, and we were like, you don't have to listen in order. You can just scroll, find a topic you like, and hit play. And um, if you're new, we would suggest well doing that.

SPEAKER_02 58:39

Our content will slow down a bit because we're not gonna be doing like y'all know, we've been doing our Dawson's Creek rewatch plus a regular episode. We're not gonna do that no more because when we do our next rewatch, that's gonna be our episode. That's right. Remember? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:51

So um you can catch up. On what? People can catch up on episodes if they're behind. Because they won't, we won't be coming at them. So rapid fire.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

Well, and to like it's just we realize very we started it and then we're like, this is very hard to keep up with. Uh, because we don't get paid for this podcast. No. And we have other things that we do get paid for if we go to spend time at and families. So we're not gonna be having two fers every week, it'll just be one episode every week, even when we do a rewatch series, which is coming up in the fall, and we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 59:25

Yeah. So awesome. All right, guys. Well, thanks for tuning in. Thanks for joining us. And we will see you next time here on Generation in Between. Bye. Bye.