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Uninvited (1987) So bad, it's good...A surprising horror comedy

• Ryan Dreimiller and Shanny Luft • Season 1 • Episode 43

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Hey Slashers - you're officially invited to join SlashBack Cinema as we dig into 1987’s shlock-tastic horror oddity Uninvited!
Not to be confused with Uninvited (2024), The Uninvited (2025), The Uninvited (2009), or even The Uninvited (1944). Nope...this is Greydon Clark’s 1987 mutant cat classic where the horror is questionable, but the unintentional comedy is off the charts.

 Bonus: we’ve got a special guest riding along for this one!


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Shanny Luft:

Welcome back to slash back cinema, the podcast where we dive into the VHS bins of the 70s and 80s to see what weird treasures were coughed up

Lesa:

on today's episode. Forget sharks, forget zombies. Today's monster is furry, fuzzy and fatal.

Ryan Dreimiller:

We're talking about yacht parties gone wrong, questionable science experiments and creature FX, so terrible, we're surprised the cast didn't die from laughter.

Shanny Luft:

So grab your catnip a lint roller and check your life preserver, because today we're talking about 1980 sevens. Uninvited, you might have noticed a new voice in our intro. Less. Do you want to introduce yourself? What connection do you have to slash back cinema?

Unknown:

So my name is Lesa, and Brian is actually my dad. So that's my big connection.

Shanny Luft:

So have you?

Ryan Dreimiller:

Are you a big connection?

Shanny Luft:

Are you a fan of horror movies,

Lesa:

some of them, but I haven't really been that into, like, older horror movies in the past, but I accidentally watched uninvited with my friend when we were trying to watch a different horror movie by the name of uninvited. And originally, I kind of thought the movie was a joke.

Shanny Luft:

That's actually the reason why we're watching this movie, is you accidentally saw this movie, and you recommended that we talk about on the podcast. So we thought you'd, we'd have you on to get your perspective.

Ryan Dreimiller:

So which, which movie were you trying to watch? Lesa,

Lesa:

we were trying to watch the one that has a like evil stepmother and two daughters. We watched the trailer for it, and then when we actually clicked on, I think it was on Tubi. It brought us to the embedded Leslie.

Shanny Luft:

Was there any point in which you thought, Wait, this is the wrong movie. Let's turn it off and find the right movie. Or did you get so sucked into it? You thought, Wait, what is this disaster?

Lesa:

It was kind of like when there's like a dumpster fire and you just like, can't seem to make yourself look away like and

Ryan Dreimiller:

you know, I do feel like a proud father when my daughter started watching this horrible movie from 1987 and was like, Dad, oh my god, this movie is so bad, I thought of you instantly. So maybe I've done some good parenting over here. Shanny,

Shanny Luft:

all right, so we normally start off with a plot overview, Ryan, you want to tell us what this dumpster fire is about,

Ryan Dreimiller:

absolutely uninvited from 1987 or some places say 1988 is about this sketchy multi millionaire who decides he's heading to the Cayman Islands due to some of his shady business investments, and A group of Spring Breakers sort of tag along. Originally, he's invited two girls, and then they bring their friends and decide to also bring a cat, which you would think a sketchy multi millionaire would be, like, Hell, no, you're not getting on the boat. But anyway, he invites them all into this boat, and the trip suddenly takes a turn to the deadly side of the equation when the seemingly normal house cat begins killing everyone because it actually hosts a grotesque mutant from genetic a genetic lab experiment gone horribly wrong. So there's a lot of layers to this. This isn't just about a crazy cat, you know? It's you got a multi billionaire, you got Spring Breakers. They've really layered in a lot of elements to this. This fine piece of cinema.

Shanny Luft:

It's like lifestyle solution famous plus Gremlins plus a dumpster fire, all mixed together to make one movie

Ryan Dreimiller:

and a little bit of a little bit of sci fi thrown in there, like for a little spice.

Shanny Luft:

Now, this movie was directed by Graydon Clark. Have you ever come across any of his other movies?

Ryan Dreimiller:

You know that the name was not ringing a bell. But then, when I went into IMDb and looked at his his history and his film credits, he's done a lot of bad movies, the one movie that stood out to me that he had done, that I was aware of, was it looked like a Porky's knockoff called joysticks from the early 80s, about like an arcade themed a movie that just seemed extremely 80s and really badly done. But did you know him?

Shanny Luft:

I never heard of him, but he's got movies like 1977 Satan's cheerleaders and 1975 psychic killer. I feel like, um, Graydon Clark is going to be in our future, Ryan. I feel like we're going to be spending more time with this guy.

Ryan Dreimiller:

I did read a quote from the guy that like his measure of success was if he made a movie that enabled him to make another movie, you know. So it's a pretty low bar. And, you know, I think if you see that show up in this film,

Shanny Luft:

I mean, he was successful at making these, I was gonna say B movie, but it's more like a C movie. So let's talk about, I feel like the movie has three parts. Part one is just getting to the boat. And that part of the movie, I I was kind of bored and a little confused, like none of these people kind of knew each other. I feel like the effort that had to be put the effort that went into trying to explain how this mob boss guy and his two henchmen, plus these two teenage girls, plus the. Three guys on spring break and this cat all end up on a yacht together, and none of them know each other. I was having a hard time following it, so I was not immediately gripped, but the second part really picked up for me. So let's talk about part one, the first part of the movie, when they're getting to the yacht. Anything stand out to you about that part of the movie?

Ryan Dreimiller:

I think that the one thing you mentioned less was the outfits, yeah,

Unknown:

like they were completely just, like, way out there, especially for going to, like, a really nice dinner. Just like, wow.

Shanny Luft:

How would you describe their outfits? Lessa, um,

Lesa:

I think kind of like what an old guy would want, like teenage girls to wear like in the 80s.

Shanny Luft:

That's a great description, yes, yeah. And, I mean, they're not the brightest. I mean, what stood out to me about them is, holy cow, the bad acting like I felt like I was. These people were not really selling their character, and it was just a lot of moments of Yikes.

Clip:

Tell Martin what you told me.

Audio Clip:

Well, it all happened really fast. I don't know it didn't look like the cat, but it had to be. I don't know his face was distorted or something. I don't know. I mean, it sounds crazy. I don't know. Did it look like a normal cat to you before Suzanne? Course, it's just a cat.

Shanny Luft:

What I found remarkable about this movie, it took me a while to understand. While to understand. So it's the opening scene is like in a science lab, and they're doing experiments on this cat, and then the cat, a like creature, crawls out of the cat's mouth, then it goes crazy and kills people, and then it just crawls back inside the cat. But the creature, am I wrong in saying that the creature that comes out of the cat at a certain point in the movie seems bigger than the cat he crawled out of?

Lesa:

I was thinking that too. Like the very last scene, the cat is just like it looks like it's so much smaller than the creature comes out and it's like twice the size of the cat.

Ryan Dreimiller:

I think it was very varying sizes, basically what's going on. And also, early in the film, I didn't realize it came out of the cat like, I just thought it was like, like, sort of like Alien style, like, like, kind of like hanging out and getting people that way. But later in the film, they do reveal that it sort of sort of sheds the it's cat skin, and is this other creature, which you're right? He seems to scale up and down based on the scene in the situation, yeah.

Shanny Luft:

And so the middle part of this movie, that's where the gold is. That's, that's where I feel like this movie really shown, because it then just becomes cat slowly starts to take out each person on the boat, kind of like Ridley Scott alien style, like, it's like their yacht, yeah, middle of the water, and the cat is releasing his inner evil cat. It would go out and cause mayhem and then climb back inside the regular cat. So here's the next thing I want to ask you, too, about. I was for a moment puzzled that, okay, they're these two girls and they're these three guys. So the math on that doesn't work because, because I know 80s movies, I know that there's going to be some hookups happening here between these girls and guys, right? I thought, right, what about the poor guy that's going to be left out? Well, it turns out the movie has a little surprise. There's a captain of this ship who also is an attractive young woman who doesn't, I was, I was not sure about her boating experience. She also looks like a teenager, roughly the same age as the other two. And so now there's three young women on this boat and three young men, and then they all kind of partner off.

Ryan Dreimiller:

You know, they really tried to develop her character with the backstory, because apparently there was some something with her father being the captain of the boat, and it's unclear, you know, did he die like was he offed by the billionaire guy? But anyway, now, by default, she's the captain on the boat, but you're right, her boating experience seems questionable, although she seems to know what she's doing. She can't get the boat started. But you know,

Audio Clip:

so how is my captain this morning? Be a lot better if we hadn't lost an entire crew. You mean, you still haven't replaced them? Walter, do you know what time it is? Besides, if you didn't treat them like slaves, we wouldn't have to replace them. Okay.

Shanny Luft:

And so let's What did you think about like the pairing off? Did you feel like there was any actual these actors? Do you feel like there was any connection between them? Did you like buy any of their romantic relationships?

Lesa:

I think the only one that was really like developed was the relationship between the captain and the guy with, like the mustache, yeah. But I was also kind of confused on how he ended up with the other two guys, because he kind of seemed like the polar opposite of them.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Oh, the biologist, the smart guy,

Shanny Luft:

because he was smart. Is that what you mean? Yeah. Yes. He is, like, a MacGyver who has knowledge of science and biology and chemistry, and he, like, on the boat, he he builds a microscope,

Ryan Dreimiller:

yeah, out of a sextant. She's like, that's dues for navigating. He's like, No problem. I'm a biologist.

Audio Clip:

Suzanne may be onto something. Yeah, there's a great deal of experimentation on lab animals. Maybe somehow this cat system has got some type of experimental chemical in it.

Shanny Luft:

Okay, now, so we have to get into these deaths, because, yeah, favorite scene, it's hard to pick. So Leslie, do you have like, a favorite scene in the movie, or a favorite death,

Lesa:

okay, I think that my favorite. It's kind of like tied between two, but like the scene where the boy with the broken arm, and like, one of the girls are making out, and then all of a sudden they, like, look over and they realize that the cat's eating his arm, lost all feeling in his arm. And then all of a sudden they're like, running overboard and like, they like, fall into the water. And I just don't understand why they didn't at least try and swim like they fell off the boat and they just sank like rocks like that. That might be my favorite.

Shanny Luft:

That was at the top of my list as well, some quality cinema right there. I was confused by the fact that he's making out with the girl, and then he says his arm is numb. And so she pulls back the blanket, and it turns out the cat has eaten his fingers. But he hadn't realized the cat was had eaten his fingers until after the cat had eaten his fingers.

Ryan Dreimiller:

I would love, I love to have seen the script for this before they shot this scene. And then what happens next? Well, yeah, the cat eats his fingers and he doesn't know it.

Shanny Luft:

So yes, less I 100% agree with you that might be number one scene in the movie. Kind of romantic scene, right into guys fingers are eaten by an evil cat. Great.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Doesn't get better than that. All right, what else you got? Lesa, scene number two,

Lesa:

well, what's

Unknown:

your favorite scene, dad? Because I think we had a similar one.

Ryan Dreimiller:

There were a couple. I had three. They're all great for different reasons. Maybe, maybe I'll just go with the death of Cory. So this is the blonde haired money hungry 20 something, and he goes down to the lower portion of the boat. So he's like in the mechanical room, and the cat shows up, and it's doing it's like a demon cat thing, and, you know, running around scaring him. And he pulls out his gun, he just starts shooting all over the place. While he shoots the boiler, the boiler explodes, and it's unclear if the cat attacked them or he's damaged from the boiler. The reason I love this scene so much was this is where the first time you saw the mutant cat go back into the cat body, yes, and so they have this little shot of like the mutant cat crawling back over, and it's got a little mutant claw hand, and it reaches in and grabs the cat's mouth and opens it wide enough, and then it crawls back inside of the cat. And I was like, oh, that's what's going on with this monster. That was the first time I really understood that, oh, it's not inside the cat. It can be its own thing, and it's using that's like, it's cat costume. So, you know, that was a nice moment of clarity and clarification during this movie.

Shanny Luft:

It is like a Russian nesting doll of cat, because the thing that crawls out of the cat also kind of looks like a cat. It looks like an evil cat. I feel like that moment, really, the special effects were shining through, though, with a little cat hand opening the mouth, I was like, Yep, here we go. There's one more death. I want to ask you both about, yeah, what do you got? What do you got? Shanny, because I wanted you to help me understand it. So one of those two girls, but I don't know which one it was, goes to look for the cat, and then, I don't know how to explain this, she explodes. She like, looks at the cat, and then, and then her face kind of boils, and then she just dies. The cat has not even touched her. What happens in that scene?

Ryan Dreimiller:

So, so there was another layer to the cat, if, if this was really confusing, but apparently, if the cat, like, went near or touched the food, the food became poison. Oh, so then they've got this whole thing where, like, they're rationing the food that hasn't been contaminated by the cat. Suzanne's gone a little bit off the rails there, and she's really hungry, so she sneaks into the locked room, and she has that little piece of bread, and apparently that was the poisoned bread. And then, of course, the cat's in there and witnesses her, apparently like the cat, like you would be infected by the cat germs or whatever. And so she, like dies from the inside from eating the poisoned bread. So one thing I wanted to call out is my favorite scene in this film. Is the ending.

Shanny Luft:

Okay, wait, we got to set it up. So it's Rachel and Martin. Where are they set it up?

Ryan Dreimiller:

So Rachel, again, is the boat captain, and Martin is our biologist, MacGyver guy. Yeah, they've escaped onto the lifeboat. It's just the two of them with a briefcase of money also. And so it's just cutting to them. They're on the boat, like, Oh, my God, we made it, and we've got millions of dollars. He's like, you can buy a boat. And she's like, you can become a psychologist. I mean, biologists, like, they flubbed the line there, which is hilarious. And then the boats sinking, the yacht sinking, the background. And that's like, the toy model in the tub and, and you're like, oh, it's gonna happen. Be ending, but it's a horror movie, so mutant cat comes flying out of nowhere and tries to jump on to Martin there, rip his face off while they proceed. She knocks him off, and the boat is in the water. And then they're like, oh God, we we've survived. It's a happy ending. And then he's like, look out. There's here. He comes again. The cat. They just repeat the scene. The cat jumps back out. It's on his face. They knock it into the water.

Shanny Luft:

Yeah, this is, this is the cast. They're just hurling a stuffed animal at these two people on a boat, and they're trying to dodge it. It is. This might be the best thing in the movie.

Ryan Dreimiller:

And then I forget which of them says this, but they're like, he's gonna keep coming back because he needs a floating object. So he grabs the briefcase full of money, and then she stops him, like, you know this, I really appreciated this moment. And she takes all the cash up, throws the briefcase, and the mutant cat grabs on top of the briefcase, is like, I'm a mutant evil cat, and like, floats off into the distance.

Shanny Luft:

Yeah, so the logic that the biologist comes up with is, the reason the cat keeps attacking them. It's because they're on a boat they have and if they could just throw something into the water that floats, the cat will get on that instead. And I'll be damned if it doesn't work. But what I love about that logic is they then throw the briefcase that they've emptied, and then you see the monster just sitting on top of the briefcase, looking at them that shot in the movie is worth the entire movie. It is remarkable.

Ryan Dreimiller:

It's kind of like sad like that. He's been less alone, and he just has this like Grumpy Cat fist to see. Like, yes, goes into the distance.

Shanny Luft:

This is a wet, evil cat puppet sitting on a briefcase floating into the ocean.

Ryan Dreimiller:

They also, like, they could have ended the movie there, but they had to go on to the 80s, like, ending where, like, the two of them are suddenly in like, customs office and maybe the CAI men's islands, and they've got a buffalo bag, which you assume is full of the money, and they're sort of, like, joking with the customs guy, like, and like, bar open that bag, and then somehow they sneak out with a bag of money. You know, happy ending. But then you see the cut to a scene on the beach, and then there's the briefcase, yeah, and it's this beautiful, like, kind of beach, and they see this little boy walk up, and he sees the cat, and he's like, oh, here kitty. Kitty picks up the cat. They stop it. And then it's like, the camera zooms in on the boy's face, and then closer and closer the end,

Shanny Luft:

and then nothing happens. Yes?

Lesa:

So, like, I was just a completely different cat, like, at the end,

Ryan Dreimiller:

oh yeah, the Black Cat, right?

Shanny Luft:

Yeah. I was confused by that. The little boy picks up a cat and it doesn't look like the cat we've been watching the entire movie.

Ryan Dreimiller:

It's because it's like a hermit crab. He found a new shell. He found a new cat bags skin to crawl into. Like, that's what.

Shanny Luft:

That's actually pretty good. I because I had, I'm not, I don't mean to flex here, but I did figure out that the evil cat was crawling in and out of the other cat. Sorry, Ryan, I picked up on that earlier than you did.

Ryan Dreimiller:

That's why we call you Dr Luft. Yeah, Dr Luft.

Shanny Luft:

And so what I thought was going to happen in the movie is the evil cat was going to crawl into other things, like people, because of the movie, alien, right? When they're on the first Ridley Scott movie, they're on the spaceship, and there's this alien creature. And part of the plot is, alien goes inside your body and then bursts out of your body. So I thought that's this movie. Seems like it's inspired by that to some degree.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Well, I think he was trying to tap into that with, like, if you ate the poison food or the cat scratched you, you would see people like, bubble up and dies because, like, the cat infection was inside of you. But, yeah, it's, it's not quite the same effect as Ridley Scott's Alien.

Shanny Luft:

It's not quite the same effect, not quite just a shade worse.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Just missed the mark a bit, just tiny bit.

Shanny Luft:

Yeah, well, so that seems like a good segue, because we normally do stabby scores. I feel like we should do fur ball. What a cat's cough up again. Hair balls. Hair balls.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Or, you know, cat scratches like that's another way to frame this up. So. So what do you think less? What should we categorize this as? Cat Scratch? Cat Scratch?

Shanny Luft:

Okay, how many out of five? How many less? How many cat scratches would you give this movie?

Lesa:

God, I feel like, maybe like two cat scratches. There was, I don't think there was a single point in the movie where I felt genuine fear. I think it was more just, it was really entertaining to watch.

Shanny Luft:

What do you think, Ryan, how many cat scratches out of five?

Ryan Dreimiller:

You know, watching this film, I watched it through once and had an opinion, and then I went back to watch different scenes, you know, just to kind of like soak in and make sure I had my facts accurate, because, you know, accuracy is really important on this podcast. And my takeaway is this movie is so bad it's good it circles around itself. So I found it highly enjoyable, even though it's it's a god awful movie. I'm giving this three cat scratches out of five. It's pure. 80s cheese effect so terrible. They they're actually entertaining. You know, the vibe is really peak VHS, and it's, it's, it's a horrible piece of cinema that is so bad, it's good. Where are you at?

Shanny Luft:

Shanny, this is definitely why we've been friends all these years. Yes, I really puzzled over my score, because is this a good movie? No, it's a terrible, terrible movie. On the other hand, parts of it were, I was laughing so hard, it was so entertaining that I might actually watch it again. And so because of that, I'm giving it three and a half cat scratches. Yes, yes. I completely agree that it is one of those. It's so bad. It's good. It's like it it starts off like in part one, where it just seems like a bad movie, but then the more you watch it, the more you realize, oh, this is an incredibly entertaining, horrible movie where people do ridiculous things, where people are saying lines that they've never seen before, apparently, and they don't know why they're saying that

Audio Clip:

genetic laboratory. This must be a lab animal. Must have gotten away. You mean they're gonna cut it up and experiment on it? No, not necessarily, but

Shanny Luft:

where the every single special effect is horrible, nothing is frightening, and actual plot barely makes any sense, and yet, somehow I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Yeah, dumpster fire.

Ryan Dreimiller:

You're right. Absolutely, this episode of slash back cinema brought to you by Meow Mix. Consider sponsoring. It said slash back cinema.com.

Shanny Luft:

Okay, so I have a surprise for you two now. So we finished the main part of the podcast, but I have brought back the trivia. So Ryan and less, shall we play a game?

Ryan Dreimiller:

Why? Yes, I would. Lesa, how do you feel about this?

Lesa:

I feel amazing. I'm really ready.

Shanny Luft:

I appreciate the confidence. You're each gonna get six questions. Oh, so Leslie, you have your own questions. And Ryan, you have your own questions. Wow, going deep. Half of the questions are about things that happened the year you were born, Ryan, 1972 and half the questions are things in the year you were born, Lesa, which I was told was 2008 is that correct? Yes. Okay, right. So Ryan, you are going to answer the questions about 72 I'm ready. And then I have a comparable question about 2008 So Ryan, you will go first. Okay, Lay it on me. Question number one is about politics. Ryan who was president of the United States in 1972 was it Lyndon, Johnson, Gerald Ford, or Richard Nixon?

Ryan Dreimiller:

Goddamn. I'm gonna go Ford?

Shanny Luft:

It was actually Richard Nixon. Was it? Nixon, all right, Lessa, who was president of the United States in 2008 Your choices are Barack Obama, George W Bush or Bill Clinton. Wait like who got elected? No, who actually was running the country in the year 2008 like from January to December, your choices are Barack Obama, George W Bush, or Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, it was actually George W Bush. It's not easy. You know what? It's easy to be smug if you are alive in 2008 Yeah, if it's not your year, then yeah, when you have to do the year you were born not quite as easy digging back into the past. Yeah, all right, so apple doesn't fall far. We did not do well with politics, but luckily, we're moving on to a different a different category, okay? And I want to stress this one. I'm not expecting you to know the answer to this question, but maybe you could, like, logically, figure it out, but, but no pressure. Ryan, what was the number one song in America in the year 1972 here are your three choices. Roberta flax, the first time I ever saw your face. Love will keep us together, by Captain and 10 Neil, or Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon and Garfunkel. Which one of those three songs was number one in 72 the first time I ever saw your face, love will keep us together, or Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Ryan Dreimiller:

I'm just going with vibes here. Love will keep us together.

Shanny Luft:

That actually came out in 7519 72 was the first time I ever saw your face. Wow. All right, let's say what was the number one song in America in 2008 here are your three choices, crazy by Gnarls Barkley, California Girls by Katy Perry, or low by Flo Rida.

Lesa:

I feel like it has to be California Girls.

Shanny Luft:

California girls came out in 2010 it was low by Flo Rida. Oh, so right now I'm just gonna say tie score.

Unknown:

Dreiller's going down in flames!

Shanny Luft:

Question number three is about movies. All right, Ryan, what was the highest grossing movie of 1972 you? Your three and again, only one of these movies came out in 1972 your choice Bazaar, The Exorcist, by William Friedkin, the godfather by Francis Ford Coppola, and jaws, by Steven Spielberg.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Man, I feel like Jaws came out later, and so that drives me to not gonna go godfather.

Shanny Luft:

It was the Godfather board. All right. Lessa, same question, what is the highest grossing film of 2008 here are your three choices, The Dark Knight, by Christopher Nolan, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows Part One, and Kung Fu Panda.

Lesa:

Harry Potter,

Shanny Luft:

it was actually the Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan, which I thought was really surprising. Also, check out the set. I feel like the 70s are killing it with the Exorcist, the godfather and jaws. I feel like, if you put those three movies against the Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Kung Fu Panda, I don't know. I feel like the 70s are really showing up. What do you think? Hard to top kung fu. Panda, yeah. All right, here we go. Next category television right now, the score is one to zero. We're on our fourth question, Ryan, what was the number one TV show in 1972 was it mash? Was it Marcus, Welby, MD, or was it all in the family?

Ryan Dreimiller:

It's either mash or all in the family. But, man, I feel like MASH was still running. I feel like that ended like 82 or three or four and 1010 year run. I want to go all in the family.

Shanny Luft:

All in the Family is correct? Yes. Mash actually came out in 72 which I was blown away by, because I used to watch that show, you're right. It was just on the air for like, a decade. So, yeah, wow. Less, uh, I feel the same way about the TV examples as the movie examples. I feel like the 70s are really kicking ass in terms of quality. But Lessa, what was the number one TV show in 2008 here are your three choices. CSI, American Idol or house.

Lesa:

American Idol.

Shanny Luft:

American Idol is correct. Lesa on the board. American Idol was like the number one show the year before and the year after. It's like crazy. How popular that show has been. I don't know. Are you? Either of you fans of American Idol? Do you watch it now? I know I didn't. I guess I'm familiar with it. I did not realize it was the cultural juggernaut that it is.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Although I hear there's a the next season they they're featuring a mutant cat as one of the judges, so I'm tuning in.

Shanny Luft:

Oh, I would watch every episode of that. Yes, all right, here's, here's a last two questions. The next question is about culture. Ryan, what was the number one most popular girl's name in 1972 like the most common name people would name their babies in the year 1972 Your choices are Ava Chloe or Jennifer. That would be Jennifer. Jennifer is correct. Yes. Well done. Ryan Lesa, what was the most popular girl's name in 2008 Here are your choices, Kimberly, Emma or Heather. Number one, most popular girl's name is Emma. Emma is correct.

Unknown:

Oh, wow, let's turn up the heat.

Shanny Luft:

Yes. I, the wrong answers, I reversed them so that Jennifer, Kimberly and Heather were all three popular 1972 names, and Emma Chloe and Ava were all popular 2008 names. So when you see the whole list, you're like, wow, the 1972 names are all these. It's Ryan. If you think about like kids you went to school with, it was a lot of Jennifer's and Kimberly's and Heather's, and let's say you probably know Emma's and Chloe's and Ava's, right? Totally. All right. The score is now three to two. So Ryan, you're ahead, but it's anyone's game with the final question. Oh, final question. All right, whoo, the final question. I have to slightly change your questions, as you'll see, but here we go. Ryan, what was the most popular arcade game that debuted in 1972. Here are your three choices, Pong asteroids or breakout

Ryan Dreimiller:

72. Go, get, read them one more time.

Shanny Luft:

Yes, most popular arcade game that and it debuted in 1972 Pong asteroids or breakout Pong. Pong is correct. Ryan with four right answers, yes, yes. Lessa, at this point, you can't win, but at least you can show you can get a silver medal. What was the best selling video game console in. In 2008 which console sold the most of the box? Was it the Xbox 360 was it the PlayStation three or was it the Nintendo Wii?

Lesa:

Like everyone had a Nintendo Wii,

Shanny Luft:

everyone did have a Nintendo Wii, and in fact, the Nintendo Wii sold more boxes than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation three combined. Oh, my God, it's like Xbox 360 and PlayStation three sold about 11 million units each, and Nintendo Wii by itself, sold 26 million units. So our final score, I feel, you know what? There's no losers here today. Not bad at all. The final score, Lessa is three, and Ryan, you got four. Congratulations, Ryan, do you feel proud to have beaten and humiliated your family in this contest?

Ryan Dreimiller:

I feel like we both showed up. I was getting pretty nervous early on in this quiz that this was a house going down in flames. But, you know, respectable apartments all across the board.

Shanny Luft:

You really turned it around. So before we do our outro, let me just say we've had two people in the last month go to our show notes and throw us a couple of bucks. There's a very easy way to do that. We need to give a shout out to Paula and Eric in Arizona, and we need to give a shout out to ora in Maryland. She was actually on an earlier podcast episode. She did one of these quizzes.

Ryan Dreimiller:

Yeah, click that link. Drop us a few bucks. Every little bit helps, and we appreciate

Shanny Luft:

it absolutely. Thank you so much Paula and Eric and aura helps pay for the software and helps pay for the bandwidth to keep our podcast up and running. So we really appreciate it. That wraps up another trip down memory lane. Hopefully you enjoyed uninvited as much as we did.

Lesa:

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Shanny Luft:

Lesa, have you given us a five star review? Yes, of course. Good answer, excellent. And if you look forward to each episode of flashback cinema, check out the show notes. Click support the show.

Ryan Dreimiller:

And most importantly, we do want to hear from you. If you've got a favorite memory from the 70s or 80s, a classic movie you'd love for us to dissect. Drop us a line at slashback cinema.com

Lesa:

because your suggestions keep the conversation alive!