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157. The Haunted Mansion (2003) · Inside Quotes

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when you think about it, they added Jack Sparrow into the ride after
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the movie did so well. If
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Mm-hmm.
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this movie did well, would they have added Eddie Murphy to the haunted mansion?
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Whoa.
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Hello and welcome back to Inside Quotes,
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the show where my brother and I rewatch,
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review, and relive the staples of our childhood.
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This is episode one hundred and fifty seven.
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I'm your host Jeremy and with me today is my older brother Jonathan.
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Jonathan, welcome back to the show.
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Quack quack everybody. It's great to be back on the show.
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Jeremy, it's Halloween. It's that spooky time of year.
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And you know what time that is for us on Inside Quotes.
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It's time for us to have a special guest on the show.
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Our resident artist, not really resident,
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but artist Groovy Bridge himself,
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He resides somewhere.
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Bryce Bridgman, on the show. Bryce,
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welcome back to Inside
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Woo!
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Quotes.
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Welcome, foolish mortals. Thank you again
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Yeah.
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for having me.
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Yeah.
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You're welcome, of course.
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Now I'm gonna turn off my phone's flashlight so the battery doesn't die.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's probably wise.
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~ yeah, so every year if you're new to our podcast,
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every year we have
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Bryce Bridgman. if you don't know him,
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he does our artwork for our show.
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And he's an expert on Halloween.
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So this
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He he is.
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week in order to continue our ~ actually continue
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and finalize our series, ~ on the Disney movies that were Disney
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attractions turn movies, ~ we figured we would Dardoms,
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Dardoms. That's that's the acronym we came up with.
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that's right. We we just Yep, we came up with that,
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yep. Dardoms.
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Good old Artems.
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we
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figured we'd finalize this one with the good old two thousand and three version
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of the Haunted Mansion.
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Starring Eddie Murphy. Yes, certified.
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A certified classic. yeah.
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Certified classic. had y'all seen
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This was a
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this one in a long time?
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before this year had been ~ quite some time,
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but I will tell you that back in the day when me and my brothers were kids,
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this was prime ~ watching the back of the van material for us.
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We would just like replay
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Ooh, okay.
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the scenes with the singing busts over and over when we were kids.
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It would it would annoy the crap out of Logan when we would do it.
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Yeah.
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So this is technically a certified staple for you.
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You'd consider that.
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I I'd say so.
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Yeah, yeah. It's like I I don't care I don't care what ~ critical scores
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or or your tomato meters have to say this movie is a classic,
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alright? You can't take
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Mm-hmm.
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it away from me. I don't care if you remake it twenty years later,
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alright? You can't take this
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Mm-hmm.
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from me.
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That's true. They did make this movie three times.
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Which is a lot, 'cause
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They kid they just keep trying to get it right.
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I don't think they've made they've done that how many times
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has Disney remade a movie three times?
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In general. I don't know.
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I don't know. It's a good question.
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Jeremy, when was the last time you saw this movie?
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yeah. ~
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dude I don't even know if I've seen this one all the way through.
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I think I've seen it a bunch of times,
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but never finished it. I don't think we ever had this one on D V D or VHS.
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Okay. No. ~
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So I was
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To the mercy of the cable TV I was near,
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you know, which wasn't
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Mm-hmm.
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often. So
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Yeah, if if it ever came on at all.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right,
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yeah. So maybe around Halloween they'd show it at school or
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Yeah. I I I've only seen this maybe a couple times.
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I I feel like I remember watching it at like some relative's house one time
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and then I feel like we got it from the library.
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Probably the first time we watched it.
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Genuine question for you guys.
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He wouldn't shout out back.
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because this is something that happened to me recently.
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If you have actual dreams with Freddie Krueger in them,
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should you be concerned?
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Yes.
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I
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y you should.
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I was about to say, 'cause it's like that actually happened to me and I woke
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up and I thought, this could be a problem
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Is that the kid for my Carly?
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That's neither
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No, that'd be terrifying.
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That's scarier.
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No no no. Unrelated but a little spooky anecdote I thought I'd share with you guys.
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Yeah.
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Yeah,
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Hey, you know what, Jeremy? I think we've reached that section of the podcast.
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Let's talk about the ride.
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Yeah.
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Wow wee, what an organic and completely natural transition!
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Now ~
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Bryce, so we all grew up in Florida.
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~ I'm assuming you went to Disney as as a kid at some point.
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Did have you ridden the
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you bet your bottom dollar?
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Haunted Mansion attraction?
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I did and it's one of my ~ two favorite attractions in all the Disney parks.
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Can you guess what the other one is?
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~
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Well
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~ The Country Bears Jamboree.
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Star Tours.
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No, it's me we're talking about fellas.
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If my if one of the rides I like is Haunted Mansion,
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the other one I like is ~
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The Hall of Presidents.
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yeah, that's really scary. I was gonna say ~ Tower of Terror,
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my friend. ~ yeah.
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Tower of Terror, okay.
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Those those two.
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Would you believe that
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we just did that movie?
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Really?
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Yes. The T V movie. Y yeah.
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Did would you believe there is a movie based on the Tower of Terror?
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first time hearing about it, I did not know this.
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It was a nineties
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It is not good.
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TV movie.
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You would love it, maybe.
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I was about
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Yeah.
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to say, someth if it's Halloween related and it's not good,
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that doesn't necessarily stop me.
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~ so I'm gonna tell you that much.
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It'll make it on your list your monthly list.
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Yeah. For sure.
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I know you've got yeah,
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every year you've got your Halloween calendar all planned out of how you're gonna
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yeah.
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celebrate. So you gotta add that one into the rotation at some point.
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I got I got the whole itinerary for this year and everything all ready to go.
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I gotta show next year when I do it again,
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I'll show you guys. But ~
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Okay. It it
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Not
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is very hard to find on D V D.
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this year when you've done it this year.
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Next year
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when you do it.
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We're we're well into this year,
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my friend. It's it's it's ~
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you know, it's old and yeah,
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He's already halfway through.
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it's been sitting out for a little while now.
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It's still candy. You gotta wait for the good stuff now.
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Yeah. Hmm.
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But ~ I do ~ I I always make it a point where if I'm in Magic Kingdom I I have
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to go to Haunted Mansion at least once.
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Mm-hmm. Okay, okay. Yeah.
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It's like a it's a rule for me.
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And ~
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the latest time I went was actually just last summer.
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~ not the one that just happened,
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but twenty twenty five. ~
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Mm-hmm.
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~ I went to Disney and like me and do you remember Joseph Hole from Florida College?
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Yeah, yeah. So we of course you did.
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Yeah, I lived with him. Is he still down there?
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Right, right, right. So it I we I Yes,
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But do you remember him?
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Nah.
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do you remember him though? 'Cause
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it so what happened was we went on a little like Disney adventure together.
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We hit up some of the parks and we went to Magic Kingdom.
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We're on Haunted Mansion, loving it.
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~
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The ride breaks down in the Madame Leota room,
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so we're just stuck there in a dark void with a crystal head,
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just in in the middle
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Yeah.
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that's lovely.
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of it,
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and we're all just sitting there and I'm thinking,
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hmm. Interesting. This
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Yeah.
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it's like I don't know what this means,
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what the what the implications of this are,
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but I guess we'll just wait for the ghosts to let us all go or something.
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I don't know.
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I feel like it's a it's a stroke of luck or some it's just a nice thing
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to be stuck on your favorite ride at least once.
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I was th I mean, it's it's air conditioned,
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it's nice and dark, it was like it there
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That's true.
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there are worse places in Disney to get stuck in,
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I'll tell that much.
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Yeah. Man.
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What about you, Jeremy? Have have you ridden Haunted Mansion?
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I
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haven't been to Magic Kingdom since probably like eighth grade.
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I'm itching to get back there.
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~
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So but
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you don't remember if you did it before?
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no, I rode I rode Haunted Mansion then,
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Okay. All right.
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for sure.
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~ I was just scared out of my wits.
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Just kidding. I was not. It was great though.
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Yeah.
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There's some jump scares in there.
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Yeah.
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But No.
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Yeah, I
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I went on it for the first time this this summer of this year,
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twenty twenty six. So ~ th that was my first experience going on the ride.
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And I was a little bummed because they were like doing some like construction
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on the outside. So like the whole facade of the front,
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it just had like a like a big poster just like covering up like the whole
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the whole house and they were like doing there was scaffolding and stuff
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Wait, hold hold on a second.
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Work in progress.
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it was trying to hide and so
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Facade
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Yeah.
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you
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~ it's not a real haunted mansion?
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~ well, ~ there's some debates,
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That's what they built the park
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you know.
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around.
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It's a it's it's on an old
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Yeah.
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burial ground, Jonathan. This is the lore,
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okay? It's a real haunted mansion.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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Somehow
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somehow they found four different haunted mansions on Disney property
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Mm-hmm.
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before they built. ~ and they're scattered.
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That's how they decide where to open a park.
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Yep.
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Is like where
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Yeah, exactly.
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where is the Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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They look for the most haunted places they can find.
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Those ghosts
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put on hundreds of shows a day for very little pay.
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I'll have you know.
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They're just they just they're in it for the love of the game.
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I will say the ride broke down while I was on it this year as well,
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so maybe it's it's got some age to it,
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That's just good luck. Maybe it's part of the ride and y'all just don't know.
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you know, but maybe. Yeah.
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You're like
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Maybe it's some
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sort of inside quotes curse and we're all part of it.
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Yeah.
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~
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Can't wait to I I'll let you know if I ever get on it and then I get stuck.
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Yeah, that it's your
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yeah, your decks you get on the broken down haunted mansion,
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Yeah. Yeah.
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right?
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Unless I'm the final one in the trio,
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then it just like breaks forever when I'm on
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man.
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it. I don't know how these curses work,
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Don't put that don't put that evil into the world.
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you know?
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I don't know why I can't I can't
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live in a world without the haunted mansion.
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Alright, caught it. Put it away.
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We're good.
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~ okay.
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Feel like Universal needs
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to do like the monster house version,
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you know? That would be pretty cool.
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D does do they own Monster House IP?
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Actually I d I don't think so.
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'Cause
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that would be incredible.
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it's Sony. Sony Pictures, Columbia
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Mm
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Pictures.
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~
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Mm.
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Always got that soundboard set up.
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Yeah. You've always got the wrong movies sound bites on the on the soundboard.
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No, that was for Monster House.
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Pre pre loaded, ready to go.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay,
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well, I think we should get into some of the behind the scenes here for
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the ~ for the history of the attraction,
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if you guys will allow
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Alrighty.
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me a minute. I watched the Haunted Mansion episode of Behind
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the Attraction on Disney Plus.
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It's a whole documentary series about the whole history of the parks.
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It's pretty interesting. this is episode two of the first season,
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so it's a classic ride that they wanted to to cover.
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Some of the main takeaways I got from the history was they had the idea,
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Walt had the idea of some kind of haunted haunted house,
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haunted mansion that he wanted to institute.
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But he kind of like like some of these other rides,
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that's kinda all it was, you know.
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And then he he sends it off to his people,
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you know, his imagineers to like come up with some ideas.
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And so the episode kind of talked about how,
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~ they they never really could settle on like a tone.
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Like, is it c supposed to be scary?
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Is it supposed to be funny? You know,
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and and so he would kind of like work with one imagineer and say,
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Yeah, to like make it more scary.
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Then he'd work with another one and tell them like kind of working against each
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other al almost, like to to see how they how they would ~ you know,
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what they'd come up with. And ultimately,
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like it's a little bit of both.
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Like they just never picked. They just kinda made it a little bit scary,
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a little bit funny, a little bit just kind of weird.
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There's a lot of different imagineers that
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kinda had their put their their stamp on it.
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~ the other thing I thought was pretty interesting
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was they started building it and then ~ Jeremy and I talked about this
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on a previous episode. The the World's Fair in the sixties happened
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and Walt was like we're going all in on the World's Fair.
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And so all the the production
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Right.
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and development of rides at Disneyland was like placed on hold for a while,
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including the haunted mansion.
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And there was a period where they had had it built and it just
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sat abandoned for years. So it kind of created this like natural like curiosity
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about it. Like people are wondering,
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like, man, this this really is some like haunted,
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Already starting the lore. Woohoo.
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cursed place, you know? And it just sat there,
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A re a a bona fide abandoned mansion out there.
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you know. So Yeah.
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Hm.
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So just add to the spookiness of like the haunted,
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you know, aspect of it and the ghosts and things like that.
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So everyone was really
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sorry. Sorry to interrupt.
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Everyone was excited to ~
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What was that?
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to go on
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opening day.
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Was that you, Jeremy?
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Hey, whoever smelt it dealt it.
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some some other facts was Walt wanted the the mansion to be like pristine
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and clean on the outside because the parks are supposed to be clean
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and and inviting. So they wanted it to look good on the outside,
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but then on the inside is where they kind of made it like s more spooky
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and like falling apart and like,
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you know, decaying over time and things like that.
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But those were some of the main takeaways.
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Kinda the rest of the episode just kinda talked about the different versions
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of the ride in different parks and for the most part they're all the same,
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except for the one in Hong Kong,
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because
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Okay.
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I think they're they they don't like ghosts over there.
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So they changed the whole storyline.
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This yeah. Yeah.
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There's there's like huge like cultural taboo with just like dead stuff in general,
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Okay.
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Mm-hmm.
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so they just
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made it like a magic like a kind of like vaguely magic themed mansion instead.
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Yeah.
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It was like ma
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is it even called Haunted Mansion?
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No,
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it's like Mystic Manor or something.
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I'm not actually sure. Yeah.
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That's right, yeah. And it's all about like mysterious
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~ interesting.
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artifacts and things like that and I don't know how they Yeah.
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So that was kinda interesting.
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Okay. Sounds like they got
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How how they kind of have to adapt
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it.
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It's it's a good compromise, I think,
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like for the most part, yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Sounds like they can do a sequel with that.
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They could, yeah. Yeah.
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So they are this
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movie is based on the original three,
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I guess. Is there one in Paris?
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~ so there is one in Paris. It's an exact copy of the one in Disneyland.
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~
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okay.
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there are some slight differences between Disneyland and Disney World.
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The one in Disneyland is in New Orleans Square.
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And so that's why this movie takes place in Louisiana.
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They they mainly based
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Okay, that makes sense now.
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it off of that one, but then ~ the one in Disney World is in Liberty Square.
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So they kind of changed the look of the of the mansion and they even added
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on that that side room, that glass like solarium side
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Mm-hmm.
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area. So in the movie th it's kind of a hybrid of both.
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But for the most part it's supposed to be kind of in that like Louisiana ~ area.
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Yeah, and I noticed that where I I thought it's like it doesn't quite look like
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one version of it or the other.
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It's like a like a fusion between the two.
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Mhm. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Which I kinda liked it, you know,
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they took the best pieces of all of it and put it together.
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but that's like as far as like my takeaways from the episode,
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that's kind of my like history of the attraction.
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So it's it's a long standing ~ Disney ride that's been there for decades.
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And it's one of those things that people don't really want them to change
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it up too much. They just wanna go.
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They wanna ride in their doom buggy,
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they wanna hear the the narrator,
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they wanna see the walls, you know,
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stretching at during the pre show.
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Mm.
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And ~ so
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You know, it's a good good time to and it Yeah,
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Except it sounds like it breaks all the time.
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Exactly.
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good way to get out of the heat.
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Yeah.
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~ I
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Not the parts that matter though.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right, right, right, right, right.
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As long as you're there, it doesn't it it doesn't have to work for you to love it.
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So ~ I in the movie I found a couple hidden Mickeys.
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I always put the hidden Mickeys in as a part of the the theme park section.
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~ I found my own hidden Mickey this time.
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I didn't have to look it up. One
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Hmm.
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of ~ was on the axe blade where it almost hits him in the face.
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And it's like cut into the axe blade.
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That's pretty
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wow.
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cool. And I was like half a second,
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I was like, is it I had to rewind.
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I was like, is that a hidden Mickey?
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Yeah.
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~
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Almost got killed by a hidden Mickey.
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almost. and then the other one where I I I didn't I just looked this one up,
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is when he's running from the flying instruments after speaking to Madame Leota.
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all the windows on the door are in the shape of Mickey.
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~
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Okay. Very nice.
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Yeah.
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And of course the ~ there's a lot of homages to lots of different things
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in the park in this movie. ~ one of ~ was I noticed the tiki room.
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That theme like Trader Sam's, I'm pretty sure is what it's called.
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~ that's what that whole bar was at the beginning,
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that tiki.
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I didn't put that together. Yeah.
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Okay.
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And then ~
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You gotta
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get a volcano while you're there.
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It's a real drink.
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Ha ha
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Okay.
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ha
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~
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and then of course the the barbershop quartet,
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the Dapper Dans, ~ they made a special appearance as the singing busts.
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Sure. Mm-hmm.
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So real actors right there. Real singers.
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~ but yeah.
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~ shall I do some quick facts and stats?
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Yeah.
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I think we can go for it.
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Alright, well this movie came out in two thousand and three,
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which was twenty-three years ago.
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It's the one hundred and ninety-first live action film produced by Disney,
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directed by Rob Minkoff, known for a little movie we like to call Lion King.
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Directed Stuart Little II and also Lion King Two,
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Simba's Pride.
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Okay.
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And we usually in the Disney animation world,
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especially in the nineties, we f tend to find that a director of a movie really gets
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his roots from being on the animation team.
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~ sort of like Gary Trousdale.
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Friend of the Pod. ~ and so
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I looked up his like animation credits and he had worked on like the Black Cauldron,
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the Great Mouse Detective, and The Little Mermaid.
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So
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~ okay.
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Various
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various versions. I think he was the supervising animator for
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the Great Mouse detective. He was just on the team for Black Cauldron.
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And then I'm pretty sure he was like the head honcho for Little Mermaid.
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So pretty cool. Pretty cool stuff.
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Just all lineup right there, yeah.
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Or no, he was a character
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he was a character animator for Little Mermaid.
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That's right. which was a book.
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And speaking of books
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Are you following along with us on our Inside Quotes Book Club?
18:46
Episodes dropping every Thursday until Christmas Day,
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'cause we're reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
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and we'd
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Mm-hmm.
18:52
love for you to do that. Because we love this book.
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And furthermore, if you are already following along,
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have you even joined our Discord so that you can discuss said book?
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Bryce did. He's there. Do that.
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Price joined.
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There right now.
19:04
So you can talk to Bryce, basically.
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Bryce
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is gonna be online, ~ from
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eight AM to nine PM every single day.
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There's his office hours.
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~
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just weekdays. So just just chat up,
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let know. He'll be there. Okay.
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Sorry, I got possessed by
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Or if not, I I
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I got possessed by a ad read, my bad.
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I mean, if not, I mean I'll just wander around in your digital walls,
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you know, no big deal. I'll just be there.
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Yeah.
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He does that anyways.
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Alright, this movie is rated PG.
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It has a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of a whopping fourteen percent
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and an audience score of thirty-two percent.
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Whoa.
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So put those together, we still have less than fifty.
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~ the tagline on the post
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Mm-hmm. That's less than failing.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. The tagline on the poster,
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there's a bunch of them, but my favorite one was two bathrooms,
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his and hers.
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'Cause they're like real estate agents,
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get it?
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Yeah, they're
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This movie is hour and twenty eight minutes long,
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which is one minute shorter than the TV movie we just did,
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Tower of Terror. That doesn't make much sense.
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Interesting. Yeah.
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~ and this one is currently on Disney Plus as of this recording,
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so go check it out.
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And ~ and with that, I guess for those who haven't seen this movie,
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Jonathan, do you have a storyline for us?
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I do have
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a storyline. For those who haven't seen this yet,
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a realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion,
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which they soon discover is haunted,
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and while they attempt to escape,
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he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.
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Hilarity ensues and
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Hilarity
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ensues.
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Hilarity ensues.
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A little spookiness.
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Here and there.
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In
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spoos.
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Mm-hmm.
20:54
Shall we get started with this IQ test?
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We shall
20:58
Let's do it.
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Alright.
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We have a test that meets our IQ standards.
21:04
We have a series of binary and quantitative tests to help best categorize these
21:08
movies as staples, stapleist, or just plain quacks.
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Movies must collect at least ten points,
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or seven points to become a staple,
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ten points to become stapleist,
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and if it makes six or less, it's a quack.
21:21
But don't fret because we have a bonus round to soften the blow for
21:25
the movies we really love.
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And with that, shall we get started with the first ever test?
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The quotable quotes test. Now guys,
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is this a quotable movie to you?
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Bryce, I'm I'm gonna throw it off to you for to start us out on this one.
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When you were driving around in the back of the van,
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Haunted Mansion was playing over and over again.
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What was that one line you just loved to quote?
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It wasn't
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so much a w one line as it was just every single song that the singing busts would
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Ha ha ha.
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sing
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Okay, okay.
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all
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the time, ~ to the degree where we were basically recreating the ~ the road trip
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at the very end of the film because of like how often we were just
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~ driving our parents crazy with the singing.
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~
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Yeah.
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So the
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Bridgman brothers were were the ~ the singing bus.
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~ yeah. Okay, okay.
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We we were the singing bus all along,
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it was us. That's exactly right.
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Wow.
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Halloween costume idea for next year or this year if you have time.
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We just we
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we w all we have to do is just remove our heads from our bodies and become black
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and white.
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Yeah.
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Or
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all you gotta do is just get a huge refrigerator cardboard box and spray paint it.
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Then that's like your base, your pedestal.
22:35
Can you imagine just like four guys just walking around with like
22:38
a table connecting all of them and you're like awkwardly trying to like navigate
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a neighborhood? That'd
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It's amazing.
22:45
be great. aside from those, I mean I'm also pretty partial to like a few things,
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you know, like forever's and ever's.
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Like that's a good one.
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Mm-hmm.
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~ him just pretty much everything he says ~ to Madame Leoto when he's first meeting
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her, like, no dark spirits, no,
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no dark spirits, no? Like that
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Mm-hmm.
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kind of thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, those are great too.
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I don't wanna look
23:03
within. I wanna look without. I liked that.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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Yeah. There's so many
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quotes from Eddie Murphy. He basically it's all improv,
23:12
I'm sure. He's just like it's almost hard to keep up with him because he's saying
23:18
so many things. That was kind of a a negative thing for me actually when
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I was trying to think of quotes as
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Mm-hmm.
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they were coming along. I like,
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That's a good quote. I couldn't remember as soon as he said it,
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but there was a lot that stuck
23:31
Mm-hmm. Because it just kept on coming.
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out.
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They just kept on coming. ~
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Rapid fire.
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one of my favorite ones was Man,
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Bob Vila would have a field day with this place.
23:43
All those home improvement fans out there would would know who Bob Feela
23:45
Mm. He was the villain of that show.
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is for sure. He was. And he was a real person,
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Yeah.
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so. ~
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Yeah.
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I I had one of the quotes I remember,
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I I'm pretty sure it was in the trailer and it wasn't it's like it's kind of funny,
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but it's it's more of how he delivers the line.
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It's like, hey honey, they've got dead people in the backyard.
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Like the way he says backyard.
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In the backyard
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I
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just always thought that was funny as a kid.
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Yeah. ~
24:18
Maybe like leave
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that out of like the when they're previewing it to people,
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Yeah.
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but yeah.
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Then he's like, we could have one heck of a weenie roast in this thing,
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huh?
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Mm-hmm.
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~ it's not exactly ~ quotable,
24:32
but I did appreciate the performance that ~ Ramsley's actor gave like throughout
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the whole film where he he talks
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Yes.
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like this the whole time. Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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He's good at that. Yeah.
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Old ol old General Zod still had it,
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let me tell ya.
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Yes. Yes.
24:49
And
24:49
the voice of Jorel in ~ Smallville.
24:52
It's another Superman
24:52
Yeah.
24:53
connection there. I I got to. T
24:53
You always gotta bring up smallville connections,
24:55
huh?
24:56
it's the twenty fifth anniversary this year,
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you know? Yeah.
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my.
25:01
Somebody saved me. ~
25:03
Ha ha ha.
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okay, so another one was the way I see it,
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you only go around the track once and when you do it,
25:10
you do it well.
25:15
There was a couple of references to just like other movies 'cause like he's like
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Yeah.
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it's like Dad, I see dead people.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then Eddie
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Murphy ~ okay, what Jim Evers.
25:27
I should should I call him Eddie Murphy or Jim Evers?
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Eddie Murphy's fine with me.
25:30
I'm gonna go back and forth. Yeah.
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I was about to say l let's let's be honest with ourselves.
25:32
Yeah. Eddie Murphy then. Then
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It it's it's Eddie Murphy. Eddie Eddie Murphy's playing himself.
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It is Eddie Murphy. Yeah.
25:35
He's it's it's Eddie Murphy.
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he's like, ~ the butler did it.
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You gotta be kidding me.
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Yes, yes. ~ there's a reference to the Princess Bride,
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almost. W it just made me laugh so hard when ~ he said That's unspeakable.
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Unspeakable Even though it's Wallace Sean,
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When w Wallace Wallace Sean's character said that?
25:57
yeah.
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Yeah, 'cause it's like it's like we all know what you want to say.
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You're not saying it, but we know what
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Yes.
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you're going to say.
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It made my pull out quote for the marquee for sure.
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Mostly 'cause it was one word.
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~ and then the kids had a couple of funny things to say.
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They were like, How should I know?
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I'm not the weatherman I was like,
26:18
Wouldn't you like to know weather boy?
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Energy
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I I
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st I still use that to this day when someone like asks me a question
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Ha ha
26:25
I I will respond wouldn't you like to know weatherboy?
26:28
That's gotta
26:29
be one of the best quotes from a from a meme.
26:35
~ another one was ~ I don't like Latin.
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Just 'cause he was scared of it.
26:39
Yeah.
26:39
I don't know.
26:40
Scared of everything.
26:40
There
26:41
there's a a part where the Master Gracie has he says to Eddie Murphy's wife,
26:46
he's like, You have very beautiful children And then Eddie Murphy's like,
26:49
Well I kicked in some chromosomes too,
26:51
I kicked in some corposomes
26:51
you know.
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too.
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I r
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~ man, dude yeah, no, this a lot a lot of stuff that flew over my head when
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I was a kid. ~ they they
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Yeah.
27:02
really earned that PG rating with this movie,
27:04
let me tell you. ~
27:05
Yeah.
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I completely forgot that within the first three minutes of the film they show
27:10
a guy hanging. That is crazy work.
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~ yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
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I don't remember that at all. I cannot believe I forgot about that.
27:20
Also just like skipping to the end,
27:22
like this this movie has depictions of heaven and hell,
27:25
Hell We saw a man fall into hell.
27:25
like in the movie. Where yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
27:29
Yeah.
27:31
So and it's PG.
27:32
A move that Disney hadn't
27:33
pulled since Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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~ look, he's not really kissing your mom.
27:40
That was so weird. Yeah. Yeah.
27:43
What do you need? We're
27:44
going to heaven. You can't take it with you.
27:48
And then the heck I can't.
27:48
That's another good one.
27:49
The heck I can't. I
27:51
the one thing I remember about this movie is that we watched this movie
27:55
one time with mom and she like ooh,
27:57
I do she did not like that line.
27:58
She she was like upset about that.
28:00
I don't blame her. I don't blame her,
28:01
Right, because you can't really take stuff.
28:03
but yeah.
28:06
one of the lines that I feel like is a callback to the ride is when Wallace Sean's
28:10
character is just like, Well, there's always my way
28:18
Yeah.
28:20
So I mean I I feel like this passes.
28:22
I feel like there's plenty of quotes here.
28:23
for sure. I had at least ten.
28:24
Yeah.
28:25
Yeah.
28:26
They're a lot they're kinda hard to find,
28:28
but, you know, they were great.
28:29
Nothing takes twenty minutes, but this segment did.
28:29
We we scrounged up. Yeah.
28:33
Yeah.
28:35
It's like we we we've scrounged up a few there.
28:37
I was actually pretty impressed with that.
28:39
Well, let's just go ahead and pass that one then.
28:41
Okay.
28:42
Ding dung. Our next category is the Magnificent Music Test.
28:47
~ can you name or identify the sound or the theme by heart?
28:52
Or it does it have just great written songs,
28:56
you know? What kind of iconic music is associated with this
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Bryce already talked about it.
29:01
let me just say, I don't think the score is all that great.
29:04
It's just kinda generic. But Grim Grinning Ghost is a is a bop,
29:07
I I Yeah.
29:09
you know?
29:09
yeah, absolutely.
29:11
I I actually thought that the music was was very good.
29:14
I I I see
29:15
my
29:15
what you're saying with it, but I feel like it is very reminiscent of the ride and
29:21
Yep.
29:21
I felt like it was higher quality than even this movie is sometimes.
29:26
~
29:27
Okay.
29:28
the composer Yeah.
29:28
You thought the you thought the music was too good for the movie,
29:31
some parts.
29:33
~ the composer was Mark Mancina.
29:37
Okay.
29:38
~ you will know him from some of his his work on Disney films.
29:42
As a collaborator with Phil Collins on Brother Bear and Tarzan,
29:46
he worked with him to do the score.
29:47
Automatic pass. Automatic pass.
29:49
he also worked
29:50
on Lion King, I believe. ~
29:53
Okay.
29:54
but you know, I could see how I I feel like the music is really good music
29:58
you could just like throw on. If you were like having a Halloween party
30:01
Halloween party. Okay.
30:01
or you had your own
30:02
ha haunted house, you could just play the soundtrack to this and
30:05
Okay.
30:05
it would be perfect,
30:06
you know.
30:07
And you know what? You make a good point.
30:10
my original thought was like, it's kinda generic like Halloween haunted house music.
30:15
But that's literally what the movie is about.
30:19
Yeah.
30:20
So like this is the one time where something generic should work.
30:23
Mm-hmm.
30:24
Yeah, it's nothing that gets stuck in your head,
30:26
but it has this i i it carries this sort of like whimsical ~ sense of adventure
30:31
Yeah.
30:31
to it. Like it gets dark when it needs to get dark,
30:33
it ~ it it just scores the whole film like pretty decently.
30:37
~ I will say again, if for anything that does get stuck in your head,
30:41
~ same as the quotes, the the singing busts are carrying a little bit here,
30:45
'cause it's like every single thing that they sing.
30:48
I would say they
30:48
make up about twenty five percent of our love for this movie.
30:51
Probably and I and you just
30:54
Ha ha.
30:54
know that that sequence like drove the parents crazy,
30:57
but I I
30:57
Yes.
30:58
I can't help it, man. I d I I like the singing bust.
31:01
It's a cool effect on the ride,
31:02
it's a fun scene in the film. I I I can't I can't help it.
31:03
Yeah. Huh? Yeah.
31:03
Yeah. Yeah,
31:06
I'm I'm with ya.
31:06
We've
31:07
got ~ a medley of down by the old mill stream,
31:12
by the light of the silvery moon,
31:14
she'll be comin' round the mountain,
31:15
Yep. Yes.
31:16
by the beautiful
31:18
sea. I left my heart in San Francisco
31:21
No, you left your key in the mausoleum.
31:25
Ha ha.
31:25
W
31:25
when the Saints go marching in,
31:27
they they just kept
31:29
Yeah.
31:29
going during that scene. I I thought that was pretty funny.
31:32
Just responded to everything.
31:32
That was good. It was cutting off and everything.
31:35
one other call out for music I would like to point out is Wallace Sean's character,
31:41
his organ playing during the wedding march,
31:43
that was pretty awesome. 'Cause
31:46
Yeah.
31:47
it was creepy and iconic. It was like I don't know,
31:52
dissonant? Is that how you say that?
31:56
I guess kind of, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
31:57
It wasn't it was like poorly done.
31:57
I think it's a d dissonance a good word,
31:59
yeah.
31:59
It was poorly played,
31:59
Mm hmm. Yes, yeah.
32:03
but it also was it clashed with each other.
32:05
Yeah. It gave it an ominous sound to it.
32:05
So it was like a creepy version of the wedding march.
32:05
Yeah.
32:07
Yes. Yes. So I thought that was funny.
32:08
Yeah. ~
32:10
D the discordant, one might even say.
32:13
Yes.
32:13
I
32:14
I thought you were gonna call out the Nelly song in the in credits that samples
32:18
the People's Court theme.
32:21
We don't talk about that, Jonathan.
32:25
I just was listening to it and I was like,
32:27
that sounds like the people's court.
32:28
Da ding.
32:29
And then I looked
32:30
it up and I was like, yep, that's that's what that is.
32:32
That's crazy. Okay.
32:32
~
32:33
Lo lo and behold, there it is.
32:35
another thing I saw ~ music-wise is apparently Raven Simone
32:41
did a cover of Stevie Wonder's Superstition for the movie,
32:46
but it is not featured in the movie.
32:48
But it was something
32:49
Okay. Is it like a Disney
32:51
channel promotion?
32:52
Yeah, they did like a music
32:53
video and it would like it aired as promotion during the during that time
32:58
on Disney Channel and they're like in the haunted mansion.
33:00
Like and it's like
33:01
Okay.
33:02
her singing, there's background dancers.
33:04
They're like in different rooms of the mansion.
33:04
That is
33:06
that's so raven. I I
33:08
gotta give that a listen because superstition is ~ love that song,
33:11
listen to it every year. It's a great song.
33:13
Yeah.
33:14
Like I saw that listed
33:14
Yeah. It's a good one.
33:15
on the IMDV music and I like, Well,
33:17
I didn't hear this in the movie.
33:18
I felt like it was mostly the score,
33:19
Yeah, we would have Would it be on the special features,
33:19
Yeah, where is that?
33:20
so yeah. So I looked it up.
33:23
perchance?
33:25
It could be. I don't know. Hmm.
33:27
The D V D menus
33:27
It better be. Yes.
33:29
I looked it up
33:30
on YouTube, so
33:32
Yeah. Okay.
33:33
~
33:33
but overall I think I think it's worthy of the point.
33:36
Simply I I feel like the
33:37
Yeah, me too.
33:38
score is good and then with the you know,
33:40
the singing bus I it takes it over the top for sure.
33:45
Alright,
33:45
let's pass that. I was kinda worried about the the score there,
33:49
but but you really changed my mind.
33:52
Okay.
33:52
Okay, so the go ahead.
33:54
I I was gonna say that was one thing that Kelsey really appreciated
33:57
too about the about the movie.
33:59
Was that the ~ that she liked the music a lot and there was more references
34:04
to the ride than she remembered,
34:06
were kinda a couple of the big takeaways.
34:08
Yeah.
34:09
Alright. Well our next test, Jonathan,
34:11
if you want to take it over.
34:14
The next test is the story test.
34:16
This is where we talk about the story,
34:18
what works, what didn't. from page to screen,
34:21
is the script a masterpiece or was a second draft needed?
34:25
So what what do you
34:27
Hm.
34:27
guys think about the the story ~ of this movie?
34:31
Basically you've got a real estate ~ agent couple that
34:37
are very overworked and they get called to to this haunted mansion.
34:44
to t for a tour. Well, both of them don't.
34:47
The wife gets called, so immediately there's a red flag there.
34:49
Like, don't bring anyone else.
34:52
Come alone.
34:53
But yeah. They come in, they think they're there to like see if they want
34:58
to sell it, but the the owner has other devious plans at work,
35:03
you know.
35:05
Yeah. The only reason the ~ they knew to call
35:10
her was because somebody some little paper kid ~ was on
35:15
his route and dropped a whole stack of flyers with their faces on them.
35:19
Of flyers, yeah. Mm-hmm.
35:22
He he done got spooked by that two thousand three CGI.
35:26
Yeah.
35:26
y I I gotta give the movie credit for like for what it is worth,
35:30
the it it uses that hour twenty-eight minutes.
35:32
It it's surprisingly well paced.
35:34
I I didn't remember it like moving along as well as it did,
35:37
but like the I I wasn't bored.
35:39
I was not bored while I was watching it.
35:40
Yeah.
35:40
Yeah.
35:43
I I kinda disagree. I I thought the pacing was a little off on this one.
35:47
I
35:48
Well I agree. You
35:50
W
35:50
w you ag y you agree with him or
35:50
know why? Because it feels like
35:52
me? Yeah.
35:53
Who do you who do you agree with,
35:54
Jeremy?
35:54
No, I agree
35:55
with Bryce because you know what?
35:56
Okay.
35:57
There's some slow parts, but all that means is that the ride got broken down.
36:02
Yeah.
36:03
Yeah.
36:04
You're supposed to be stuck in this house.
36:06
You're supposed
36:06
Okay.
36:07
to get that feeling of ~ no, how do I get out of this?
36:10
Even if it's
36:10
I think we're the
36:11
hitting the pause button.
36:13
I think where the pacing bothered me a little bit was the Eddie Murphy storyline,
36:18
yes, was it kept going from one thing to the next,
36:21
fairly rapid paced. But then like the B story,
36:25
so to speak, was like his wife seemed like she was slowly walking around
36:29
the the mansion with this creepy dude for like a solid hour of the movie.
36:34
And she did not get the hint, like Yes.
36:34
Th she was she she was a very patient listener.
36:35
Yeah.
36:38
She
36:39
Yeah.
36:39
she really
36:40
wanted to hear that story.
36:41
It just
36:42
like you get piecemeal, you get a little bit more,
36:45
a little bit more, you know, every
36:47
Bit by bit.
36:47
time they cut back. But yeah. I mean I did appreciate that it was just you know,
36:52
just under ninety minutes. Like I I feel like it didn't it did what it wanted
36:55
to do and it didn't stay too long.
36:57
But yeah, there w there was some like pacing stuff for me anyway with the story.
37:02
Yeah.
37:02
okay, I've got a couple other notes here about the story.
37:05
there's a whole like side story too with the son being like scared of spiders
37:09
and so that kind of pays off
37:09
Yeah.
37:10
later. He's gotta face his fears.
37:11
It's very predictable.
37:12
Relatable.
37:13
~
37:14
Yeah.
37:15
I also thought that rolling up a magazine to like try and kill a spider
37:20
is a very inefficient way of killing a spider.
37:22
I don't know. What what are your methods
37:23
It's yeah.
37:24
of trying to kill a spider? I'm kind of a smother kind of person.
37:28
Like I get a paper towel and I just smother it to death.
37:28
Smother?
37:30
Mm.
37:31
What is your what is your ~ your technique?
37:35
I used a croc yesterday.
37:37
Okay,
37:37
okay. That's a little bit wider surface.
37:40
I feel like you could, you know,
37:41
give it a good hit. Than like a rolled up magazine.
37:41
Yeah. And it's bouncy, so it's like in good impact.
37:44
Yeah.
37:45
I don't know, rolled out magazine is pretty solid,
37:47
but I feel like you don't
37:47
Yeah, but you gotta throw away the magazine.
37:49
You can't clean that off.
37:50
It's it's a waste of a perfectly good sports illustrated swimsuit edition.
37:53
Yeah.
37:54
Yeah, are you trying to keep that?
37:57
It's very valuable. That was crazy.
37:59
Okay, well that we can throw away.
38:00
That was like that's crazy for a kid's movie.
38:01
Yeah.
38:03
I'm I'm completely I relate to the sun in that regard.
38:07
I ever tell you guys that story?
38:08
It's like when I was a little kid,
38:09
I I used to think spiders are really cool,
38:11
and then I saw the that scene in Spider-Man 1 where the CG spider like sinks
38:16
its fangs into Peter
38:16
Yeah.
38:17
Parker, and I was like, I was like,
38:19
they do that?
38:20
Look
38:20
at the ~
38:20
They bite.
38:21
I like, they they bite people and I got so scared
38:23
They fly now? They fly now.
38:24
and ever since then Yeah, they fly now And I got really scared and ever
38:28
since then I've been scared of spiders because of a
38:30
~
38:30
Well.
38:31
weird two thousand one CG spider.
38:37
If you're gonna be scared of any spider,
38:38
that's a pretty cool looking one to be scared of anyways.
38:40
The radio the radioactive one.
38:40
So yes.
38:41
Yeah.
38:41
See See that that movie
38:43
freaked Jeremy out too, but it was more whenever it it did the zoom
38:47
in on the fingerprint and you got like the little like spider spiky claws coming
38:51
~ yeah.
38:51
~ Yeah, that freaked me out.
38:52
out, you know. That bothered him.
38:56
For sure.
38:57
Okay,
38:58
the other thing I thought as far as the story goes is so the mansion wants
39:03
to lu lure this woman to the mansion because he wants to marry her because
39:07
he thinks that she's been reincarnated of the the woman that ~ that
39:13
he loved that died in the prologue.
39:15
Okay, so what are Ghost's views on marriage?
39:18
Because I kept thinking like she's already married.
39:21
What's what's the deal here? Is it she can just marry this other guy too?
39:26
How d how does this work, you know?
39:28
there was never a plot to kill Eddie Murphy's character though.
39:31
They just like locked him out.
39:32
Like I thought
39:33
Right.
39:34
they w I felt like that was a missing piece of the story.
39:36
Like they should have like tried to kill him or something like that,
39:39
you know? I don't know.
39:39
Yeah, but he's dead
39:40
already, so I guess
39:42
I guess, yeah. Or were they trying to kill her and then like she joins
39:47
him in the afterlife, you know?
39:49
That that's what I was thinking,
39:50
I don't understand.
39:50
because you know,
39:51
till death do you part and all that,
39:53
so I mean i I mean it makes sense.
39:53
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
39:58
I'm
39:58
not so sure. I mean, I feel like that's kind of just a a blurry
40:04
They just weren't concerned about the the ramifications.
40:05
concept. Like I don't think they cared but also it's just like
40:10
it the she was like reincarnated into this person
40:16
so like however how old she is,
40:18
I don't know how old this this ghost is,
40:21
but
40:22
But she wasn't actually, though,
40:24
right? They just thought she was.
40:28
I don't I don't know anymore.
40:28
Just a a really identical
40:30
See, this is where I was getting confused
40:32
stranger.
40:33
with the mummy franchise because I feel like the first
40:35
Hm, mm, mm.
40:36
mummy, like the the emotev, you know,
40:39
wants to sacrifice her and bring back ~ his love.
40:42
And then in the second one, you find out like she is the reincarnated person
40:47
of his love or something like that,
40:49
you know, so I just I kept getting the mummy vibes from this movie.
40:52
Which that opens up a whole another can of worms because it's like
40:55
if you're the reincarnation of somebody,
40:57
how does that person also exist as like a spirit or a mummy or whatever is?
41:02
If you're reincarnated, you're the same you're the same soul,
41:04
Yeah.
41:04
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
41:06
you're
41:06
just in a new body down the road.
41:08
That doesn't make sense. So it's
41:09
Mm-hmm.
41:10
it's like I I d I don't know how that works.
41:13
And and you think they would because this comes up so often in
41:16
Yeah.
41:20
horror films.
41:21
Yeah.
41:21
Yeah.
41:22
Yeah.
41:23
Maybe this is a fail for the story test.
41:25
Well, I
41:26
I just had some some questions,
41:28
that's all. So look, there's three of us here.
41:30
So I'm gonna vote no, but if the other two if you two vote yes,
41:35
then I'll defer to the guest on this one.
41:40
You know, I'm gonna say I've been I've been really nice to the movie so far,
41:43
but
41:44
I also have to give criticism where it's due,
41:47
and it definitely it definitely feels like a lot of things in this movie just happen
41:54
for the sake of it. Like it it sort of is turning its wheels.
41:58
I mean the even the premise in and of itself,
41:59
like family man who's too busy for his family.
42:02
It's we we've seen these tropes before,
42:04
you know, been there, done that.
42:06
Yeah.
42:06
And what makes this so egregious is that this is this is like hot off
42:11
the heels of Pirates of the Caribbean.
42:12
It would amazing movies.
42:14
Yeah.
42:14
You took a
42:15
Great writing.
42:16
took a ride I didn't care about and then turned it into like a a a film,
42:20
~ which also leads
42:21
Yeah.
42:23
to more questions because when you think about it,
42:25
they added Jack Sparrow into the ride after the movie did so well.
42:29
If
42:29
Mm-hmm.
42:29
this movie did well, would they have added Eddie Murphy to the haunted mansion?
42:33
Whoa.
42:34
Is the question.
42:36
Yeah, possibly. Yeah.
42:37
Yeah. But
42:39
yeah, no, I'm gonna I'm also I'm I'm with you on this one,
42:41
Johnny. I I'd say that it's just kinda story ~ n not a strong suit.
42:46
You you could do anything Yeah,
42:46
Objectively I think we can say yeah.
42:48
Okay. Okay.
42:49
you you
42:50
you could do anything with the premise.
42:51
It's haunted mansion and it's just kind
42:52
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
42:53
of whatever.
42:56
Have
42:56
y'all seen the newer ones?
42:57
Okay.
42:59
I have not seen the newest live action.
43:00
I wonder if the story changes in that.
43:01
Yeah.
43:04
I think it's a yeah, it's it's a kind of a different premise,
43:06
I feel like.
43:07
Okay.
43:08
Well, if that's the case, I'm hopeful,
43:11
but I think we're all three somewhat in agreement that this can be a fail.
43:17
So I'm gonna go ahead and do that.
43:20
~ I I like that word agreance there,
43:23
Agreance. Is that a real word?
43:23
Jeremy. Yeah.
43:25
I don't think so, but I I make up words too.
43:29
I I'm no better.
43:30
Is agreance
43:32
a word? Yes, agreance is a real word,
43:36
though it is considered archaic,
43:38
obsolete, or non standard in modern English.
43:41
okay.
43:41
I just be reading books like that,
43:43
you know?
43:44
Yeah, he easy
43:44
You do. 'Cause Inside Coats
43:45
Book Club.
43:47
Right, right, right, right. It's
43:48
They don't call
43:48
him Learned Jeremy for nothing.
43:53
We we read a lot of books at like,
43:53
They haven't called me that in a long time.
43:54
you know, like at a fourth grade reading
43:55
Yeah, I know. They they call you that for nothing.
43:56
level, you know, so yeah. We're doing pretty good here.
43:58
Yeah. I I'd
43:59
Yeah.
44:01
even I would even bet that the word agreent shows up at least once
44:05
in the entire series. I'll bet you a dollar.
44:07
I don't know. It's probably not.
44:09
Okay. I'll take that bet.
44:10
It's probably hard to find.
44:12
No, never mind. Maybe in Pride and Prejudice.
44:16
The
44:16
stakes are too high. I I can't participate in this.
44:18
Like a whole dollar? No. Mm-mm.
44:19
~
44:20
Yeah. Because of that,
44:22
I'm out. All right, next
44:23
Alright, well, whatever.
44:25
test.
44:26
Our next test is the acting test.
44:29
So, we like to do this as like Robin Williams versus the Rock in a kid's movie.
44:36
You know it's Robin Williams, but he bleeds himself into every single character.
44:41
It's so well done. And then The Rock is the Rock in every movie he's in.
44:48
So he sinks to the bottom. ~ so yeah,
44:53
I I feel like in this particular leading man,
44:57
Eddie Murphy is doing Eddie Murphy in prime Eddie Murphy comedy era.
45:02
Everybody wanted him, obviously.
45:09
But is he just he's pretty much playing himself?
45:12
I don't know if is that like a is that a good
45:16
No, I mean it's it's what we said earlier.
45:16
Yeah.
45:17
or a bad thing?
45:17
It's i I mean i i for trying to sell me on like this individual character,
45:24
like not really, but it I also I I don't hate Eddie Murphy,
45:29
so i I I
45:30
Yeah.
45:30
don't know if it's a point against it that he's just playing himself.
45:33
~ I I will say I think for the most part,
45:35
~ I I thought the movie's casting was actually pretty fantastic.
45:39
I thought everybody did
45:39
Yeah.
45:40
a good job with the rules that they were given.
45:42
~ the only one that I thought was maybe like a little little
45:46
questionable was the casting for Madame Leota,
45:49
but ~ I
45:49
Yeah.
45:50
have I I have a huge crush on Jennifer Tilly,
45:52
so I'm just not going to even bother with that.
45:54
~ I'm just gonna leave
45:55
Okay.
45:55
that alone.
45:57
Alright. ~ I one thing that makes me a little
46:02
bit mad is Eddie Murphy's attitude about this movie.
46:07
He's quoted as saying that this movie is not good and he is not a fan of it.
46:13
And you could obviously
46:15
Yeah.
46:16
if it's not good, I feel like Eddie Murphy just is better than everybody.
46:21
He thinks he is. And I think
46:25
He was offered a cameo in the twenty twenty two version or whatever,
46:29
the new one that came out, and he declined it because they didn't
46:32
pay him enough money. So just like
46:34
man.
46:34
kinda like come on, man.
46:36
Yeah. I mean
46:37
You're well loved,
46:37
Yeah.
46:38
obviously it from Shrek, but come
46:42
I mean,
46:42
on.
46:43
to be fair, th this movie didn't really,
46:45
you know, become a thing, you know,
46:48
after it came out. It kind of like came out it
46:50
Yeah.
46:50
did okay at the box office, but like critics didn't really like it.
46:54
You know, it wasn't like it's it's definitely not anybody's favorite dardom,
46:59
~ on the list, you know.
47:00
Right, that's true. And it's not objectively the best dardom.
47:03
You know, and it just didn't pay him,
47:05
you know, the kind of residuals that the Shrek franchise,
47:07
you know, as the dividends that he's received from that,
47:09
you know, so I
47:10
Yeah.
47:11
don't know.
47:11
I don't know, it just I it just felt cocky.
47:11
But I I d I didn't think
47:14
it was yeah, I I get that. I I didn't really think any of
47:18
the family characters acting was like ~ particularly good.
47:23
I liked Ramsley, I liked Terrence Stamp,
47:24
I thought he did good.
47:25
Yep.
47:26
I liked
47:26
Mm-hmm.
47:26
the the staff, Wallace Sean and
47:29
~ Dina Spybee is her name.
47:34
Yeah. I liked her a lot.
47:34
~
47:36
that kind of duo I thought they were pretty good.
47:39
I would even say Wallace Sean is playing himself in this movie.
47:42
I feel like people didn't have to try hard,
47:42
Well that's true, yeah. That's true.
47:42
Yeah, yeah.
47:44
I guess, but you know.
47:45
It's true. Yeah.
47:46
Ed Eddie Murphy and Wallace
47:47
Sean are just like those kinds of actors where it's like the
47:49
the character that they're putting on is just timeless.
47:52
It it's always gonna work. Just go ahead and just be Yeah,
47:54
They don't really know if the camera's rolling or not.
47:56
it's it's it's like it's like ~ Jack Black.
47:58
It's like yeah, just you just be you.
48:00
Yeah. It's true.
48:00
It it it'll work. Yeah.
48:03
Yeah.
48:03
I
48:04
I'm willing to to give this one a a zero on this ~ this test here.
48:08
I think I'm with ya. I'm with
48:10
ya on that. one
48:12
Not groundbreaking acting.
48:13
one side thing is originally Don Knotts was cast as the groundskeeper seen
48:19
at the entrance in the cemetery in the ride.
48:20
~ Hm. Yeah.
48:22
Er like in the like in the ride.
48:24
~
48:25
Mm-hmm.
48:25
the character was a living resident of the mansion and he's the only
48:29
one who subtly warns the Evers about the dangers of the place.
48:32
I feel like that would be awesome to have Don Knotts as that character.
48:37
Because we know him from another haunted house movie,
48:40
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Certified Hood classic.
48:42
That's good one. man. I always I
48:44
Dude, one of my favorite Halloween
48:44
Mm-hmm.
48:47
movies.
48:48
I keep forgetting about that as a Halloween like potential movie to pick.
48:52
Yeah. Maybe next year. Attaboy Luther.
48:52
Yeah. Maybe. Hada boy,
48:54
There's so many.
48:56
Luther. That's fun.
48:56
Have you seen that one, Bryce?
48:59
No, I actually haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet.
49:01
And
49:02
It's a classic.
49:04
on the list it goes.
49:08
Yeah, so yeah, let's
49:08
All right. Next, Jeremy.
49:10
give that a little fail. Yeah,
49:13
we'll do that.
49:14
Okay,
49:15
the next test we are going to go over is the characters test.
49:18
we have a vast array of types of characters like the hero,
49:23
the villain, side characters, any like supporting or minor characters.
49:28
are there any cameos? Are there any scene stealers or dynamic duos?
49:33
~ so I guess we'll start with our protagonist,
49:39
the Eddie Murphy, Jim Evers.
49:43
I guess this is more story, but I love the idea of having the protagonists
49:47
be real estate agents that are interested in the house.
49:52
A lot of it's just like kids that are trick or treating wanna go find
49:56
the the haunted house and like see what's up.
49:59
Like 'cause there was a dare.
49:59
Yeah, or
50:00
yeah, i I mean they could have just as easily made it ~ you inherited
50:04
the house from an uncle you didn't know you had or something,
50:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
50:06
so I'll
50:07
I'll at least give them props there.
50:08
It's like a little interesting to have a a real estate agent go to a haunted house.
50:12
It's it's kind of fun.
50:14
Yeah. And he's obsessed with work and they can't pass up a good lead,
50:18
you know. So I think it's cool.
50:20
He's job obsessed. He's gotta learn that family is more important and maybe
50:22
Yeah. Yeah.
50:24
ghosts are to help show that,
50:28
you know. Scare him out of his mind.
50:28
Yeah.
50:31
P appreciate the life that you have because you could lose it at any moment or
50:37
Yeah. I he I don't know,
50:40
he's not a strong hero for me.
50:44
But he's compelling.
50:46
Yeah.
50:47
~ he's funny.
50:49
No, I I mean I I I think he's the the hero.
50:52
I mean, I know we talked about it being kind of a cliche trope about like
50:55
the workaholic dad, you know, but ~
50:57
Yeah.
50:59
but I thought the concept of the real estate agents was funny and just like
51:02
the name Evers and Evers
51:04
Yeah.
51:04
was was a funny pun kind of thing.
51:06
~ and he does kind of he's always I don't know,
51:13
he he tackles everything head on,
51:15
you know, as he's there and
51:17
He's kind of just like over ambitious is kind of his problem.
51:20
Yeah.
51:20
It's
51:20
just like he you know, everything is like twenty minutes tops,
51:24
you know, like we'll go we'll have one drink,
51:25
you know, we're just well we're gonna have dinner with him,
51:26
Yeah, yeah.
51:28
you know, we'll just have some soup and then we'll leave,
51:29
you know. But so it's
51:31
also his downfall. But yeah, I I feel like it's you know,
51:35
it's worth ~ it's worth a good character ~ point there.
51:39
~ as far as the the villain, we'd have to give that to Ramsley,
51:44
I feel like. Yeah.
51:44
absolutely.
51:46
Ramsley's the goat. Creepy he's so creepy,
51:47
One of the better parts of the movie,
51:48
characters. Mm-hmm.
51:50
yet
51:51
you could also I mean I guess the actor,
51:53
you could see him like watching football on Thanksgiving.
51:55
But
51:56
Yeah.
51:59
I don't know, yeah, he's very creepy.
52:00
let's go for the supporting characters.
52:02
I would I put that as the wife and the kids.
52:05
I did too, yeah.
52:07
I like their little side story of he's scared of spiders and he conquers his fear.
52:11
This whole movie you just gotta buy into the cliches.
52:14
Like the characters are
52:14
Yeah, definitely.
52:16
gonna be very cliche, but this whole movie is about a haunted house.
52:20
Like everything has to be a little campy,
52:22
you know.
52:22
It might it might
52:23
be going against what I said a tiny bit,
52:25
but no no no, I I I'll say this that I I don't have anything wrong with cliches
52:29
in particular, as long as it's done well,
52:31
i is my thing. It's like
52:32
Yeah, yeah.
52:32
Yeah.
52:33
as long 'cause it's I don't know,
52:34
nothing new under the sun. You you have every trope imaginable.
52:38
I mean ~ anything original these days is like pretty hard to come by.
52:42
So as long as you're delivering something
52:43
True.
52:44
~ compelling and i you can have the most cliche ~ trite plot possible,
52:49
but I mean if if the directing is good,
52:51
if the acting is good
52:52
I'm I'm not gonna complain about it,
52:54
you know? Yeah.
52:54
Yeah. No, I'm I'm with
52:55
Yeah, yeah.
52:56
you there. Yeah.
52:58
But does this
52:58
All right.
52:59
movie do that?
53:00
Sure,
53:01
sure, sure.
53:02
I don't know. the minor characters we've
53:05
got ~ Wallace Sean.
53:09
A gaggle of grim grinning ghosts,
53:10
yeah.
53:11
I was gonna put them for the scene stealers actually.
53:14
okay. I
53:16
Or the the singing busts.
53:18
I forgot about that. See what I did for the minor character was Madame Leoda and
53:23
Okay.
53:24
and then the scene stealer I put Ezra and Emma,
53:27
the the mansion staff. 'Cause I I I really liked them.
53:28
Okay. Okay. Well
53:30
But the singing bust too. Yeah.
53:33
you could put them as dynamic duo.
53:35
Okay, okay. There we go.
53:38
Sounds
53:38
like we've ~ sort of filled out every single
53:41
Yeah, I think so. E even if the story
53:43
So I guess this passes.
53:44
Yeah, I mean
53:45
wasn't like that great and the acting wasn't great,
53:47
I th I think we still
53:48
Characters are fun.
53:49
we still appreciate the characters.
53:51
give that a pass.
53:52
Sounds good.
53:54
Okay,
53:55
so one of my favorite ones is the set design test.
54:01
does the set design blow your mind?
54:03
Is it based on anything? Do they have any iconic film locations?
54:07
~ obviously, yeah.
54:10
With a with something
54:10
Yeah.
54:11
like called the Haunted Mansion you have to have a good set.
54:14
It's almost like a given.
54:17
I don't hmm. ~
54:20
Yeah.
54:21
Ha ha
54:21
ha.
54:22
No, ~ I I will not complain about the the scenery.
54:25
I I thought everything was really good.
54:27
It it I mean there are
54:28
Yeah.
54:28
like a lot of there are a lot of moments in the film where you're kinda you're
54:30
watching and you're thinking, I remember that.
54:33
I was there. You
54:34
Yeah.
54:34
know, that kind of thing. Maybe a little different,
54:36
but ~ for the most part, like the set design was great.
54:39
shout out the one scene with the ~ the secret passageway that opened
54:43
and closed when he would like to put the bus' head up and down.
54:44
Dude, yes.
54:45
Mm-hmm.
54:45
yeah, like, you know, cliches,
54:47
but sometimes they're cliches for a reason.
54:49
That's what we're here for.
54:50
Yeah, you ca yeah I mean you can't beat that.
54:52
They're so good.
54:52
Like
54:53
Scooby Dooisms are always gonna be good in my book.
54:55
It's like y you can't go wrong.
54:56
I'm pretty sure I'm
54:57
pretty sure they did that in the ghosted Mr.
54:59
Chicken as well. Yeah. Not no s not trying to spoil it for Bryce,
55:00
Yeah, yeah. That was like a secret staircase.
55:05
but
55:06
Yeah. I
55:06
I'm just gonna nod my head in agreement.
55:08
Yes, they did do that, yes.
55:10
yeah, I took note I felt like this was one of the strong suits of the movie
55:14
was the production
55:15
Yeah.
55:15
design here. I while there was a good bit of like early two thousands
55:20
CGI or like sections of the museum that were like,
55:24
you can tell you know, off in the distance is like a green screen.
55:28
for like every shot like that,
55:30
like the rest of it would still like like be very detailed kind of sets that like
55:36
they actually built and stuff and I I thought it was pretty good.
55:38
Sure.
55:38
Like the mausoleum scene when they go
55:40
Mm-hmm.
55:41
Dude. Yeah.
55:41
in there to retrieve the key,
55:42
I thought that looked really good.
55:44
The study scene, like you said.
55:46
there was some really good like production design and like that felt like
55:50
a lot of money went into it, you know.
55:52
Shout out to whenever the they would use practical effects too.
55:55
I mean, i they're they're here and there and
55:57
Yeah.
55:57
whenever it happened it it w it was like wow that's pretty cool.
56:00
They're actually standing in front of something.
56:01
That's scary.
56:03
This is also
56:04
one of those things where the a lot of times characters or a lot of times props
56:10
get blended in with set design,
56:11
but this time a character gets mixed with set design and that's Madame Leota.
56:16
She's pretty much a set design or piece of set.
56:18
Yeah, I
56:20
I mean, not to get ahead of ourselves,
56:21
like I was wondering, like, is she a prop?
56:23
I don't know. Like, you know. But no.
56:27
She kinda is a prop, yeah.
56:27
Yeah.
56:29
Kind of you
56:29
know, roll rolls around.
56:31
Mm-hmm.
56:31
Yeah.
56:32
I did write down some of the the references.
56:34
We've already talked about the singing bus.
56:36
~ the Madame Leota character, that there's a whole section of the ride there.
56:40
~
56:41
yeah, the spinning stuff around the room.
56:43
Yes. ~
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Yeah, yeah.
56:44
The Ghostly Ballroom, ~ is is featured here.
56:49
The hitchhiking
56:49
Okay.
56:50
ghosts. ~ and
56:52
Classic.
56:53
yeah, so I it there's a few other ones,
56:55
but just
56:56
I I did feel like there was a lot of ~ I they made an effort to to tie
57:01
it into the ride still. And tie it in with their original story.
57:04
Like I felt like they tried.
57:05
Mm-hmm.
57:06
Yeah.
57:07
Yeah, I agree. They also bonus points for the tiki room themed bar.
57:11
They didn't have to do that.
57:11
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
57:13
But they did and we thank them for it.
57:15
Yes, yes, yes. another side thing about the set design is the chairs
57:20
in the dining room were later added to both the Disneyland Haunted Mansion
57:26
and the Pirates of the Caribbean attractions.
57:28
In the Haunted Mansion, the chair appears in a portrait of the updated attic.
57:36
belonging to one of the bride's murdered husbands.
57:37
In both updated versions of the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom Pirates attractions.
57:42
It's in the final treasure room scene as the chair Captain Jack Sparrow
57:47
is sitting in.
57:48
Mm-hmm.
57:49
So n they didn't just add they could have added Eddie Murphy,
57:52
but they added the chair.
57:54
So if so we got that.
57:56
It could be anyone.
57:57
So yeah.
58:00
So
58:01
that's kinda cool that Jack Sparrow is sitting in Eddie Murphy's chair.
58:04
~
58:06
We got something.
58:07
but yeah, so I think we're definitely good to pass this one,
58:11
right guys?
58:13
Yeah, I think so.
58:14
yeah.
58:15
Alright.
58:16
It's
58:16
one of the movies strong suits,
58:17
I'd say. Yeah.
58:18
I agree, I agree.
58:19
We've got the cinematography and animation test.
58:22
~ this is like a sort of catch-all
58:26
for how creative the camera work or the animation can be,
58:32
~ basically with visuals. We've c sort of added like special effects under this
58:38
category as well. And I just wanna say I'm a big fan,
58:43
actually. Not necessarily of cinematography.
58:48
wasn't jumping out at me, but a
58:50
Mm.
58:50
lot of the effects were good and a lot of the effects were bad.
58:54
But one of my favorite ones, Abby actually pointed it out,
58:57
was whenever he was hitting the window and it was cracking and it
59:03
was just self healing with every single
59:04
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
59:06
hit. That was a pretty cool ~ animation there.
59:09
And I have a question. I couldn't
59:12
Mm-hmm.
59:13
tell because I don't know.
59:17
the lighting of our projector or whatever.
59:19
But was the singing busts claymation or were they like animatronics?
59:26
'Cause they moved
59:28
~
59:28
like animatronics, but they I could I thought they were claymation.
59:33
I I'm pretty sure they they just kind of like filmed the faces separately
59:39
and then superimposed them on the bus.
59:41
I think I saw that.
59:43
Okay.
59:45
Are we talking about like four for the ride
59:46
you ~
59:47
or for the movie?
59:48
yeah. You know what? I what I saw was
59:50
For the movie.
59:51
for the ride actually. So what they d the ones for the ride they're they like
59:53
I was like, that doesn't match.
59:55
they like projected like you know,
59:57
the film of the people moving the faces on
59:59
Uh-huh.
59:59
like the blank bus. But I I don't know about the movie,
1:00:02
how they did it.
1:00:03
The movie looked like it was claymation,
1:00:05
and if that is the case, automatic point for me.
1:00:09
I think it was i I I think it was C G,
1:00:11
but it was just sort of done in this stilted s like kinda
1:00:13
It it was yeah.
1:00:15
deliberately stuttery sort of way to replicate what it would look like if
1:00:19
a a stone character's face was moving.
1:00:21
~ yeah, yeah. ~ one of
1:00:21
Yeah. Like the Rankin Bass,
1:00:22
Okay.
1:00:24
like the
1:00:25
you know, the Claymation Rudolph Snowman specials,
1:00:27
Yeah. Right, right, right.
1:00:29
the way he's like
1:00:31
Yeah, ~ one
1:00:32
Okay.
1:00:32
of one of the busts looking ~ weirdly like Walt Disney himself,
1:00:37
interestingly enough. Yeah,
1:00:38
Yeah, I n I thought that. Yeah.
1:00:39
Yeah.
1:00:40
had the had like the had like the pencil stash
1:00:42
and everything.
1:00:44
Yeah.
1:00:47
Okay. I'm looking it up 'cause it's pretty important for me to know this.
1:00:51
Yeah. I mean I w while you're doing that I will say that ~ as
1:00:54
far as like cinematography goes,
1:00:56
I I don't think the movie did anything crazy with like,
1:00:58
you know, camera angles or shots or anything,
1:01:01
you know, like no good old
1:01:01
Yeah.
1:01:02
fashioned Dutch angle or turn reveal,
1:01:04
blah blah blah, that kind of stuff.
1:01:06
But
1:01:07
For the most part, I I think the special effects aren't too bad.
1:01:12
~ I do want to shout out the ~ like the the monster in the mausoleum.
1:01:17
That was ~ a really cool practical effect that they did.
1:01:20
Yes.
1:01:21
That I that that that scene is actually like a pretty good one in in the movie.
1:01:24
It's scary.
1:01:25
Yeah, it's it's pretty intense.
1:01:28
Yeah
1:01:28
I don't do zombies, they stress me out.
1:01:30
But man,
1:01:32
that was that was a scary one.
1:01:34
Yeah.
1:01:35
Yeah, I I think going into this,
1:01:38
I was probably gonna say no, but you've kinda brought up some good points for me.
1:01:42
Like I feel like there was some some good shots and some some interesting stuff
1:01:46
done. I the
1:01:47
Dude.
1:01:47
one thing I was gonna say is I really did like the prologue,
1:01:51
like the opening of the movie.
1:01:52
~ I felt like that was actually shot in a way that
1:01:55
was like more cinematic or i like a
1:02:00
Mm-hmm.
1:02:00
little bit different for the time,
1:02:00
Yeah I I mean
1:02:01
more
1:02:02
stylized of like
1:02:05
I don't know. I just a a dark evening in the past,
1:02:08
you know, of this period piece.
1:02:08
Yeah, just the the parts of it that didn't
1:02:10
look like a Playstation Two cutscene,
1:02:11
yeah.
1:02:12
Yeah.
1:02:14
Yeah.
1:02:15
~ and then like some of the other parts just kinda felt like an early
1:02:18
two thousands comedy, the way it was shot,
1:02:20
but
1:02:21
True.
1:02:21
it did have some good moments.
1:02:23
I I'm gonna almost guarantee like ninety nine percent sure that they did
1:02:28
not do stop motion animation for this movie.
1:02:31
No, it's that feels a little bit too high effort.
1:02:34
~ th what I'm getting right now is not stop motion,
1:02:39
but it's not CGI either. I might have wrong information.
1:02:44
You think someone would do that?
1:02:45
Someone would just go on the internet and post lies?
1:02:48
Yeah.
1:02:51
Okay, it is a blend of CGI but they used they took
1:02:57
the Dapper Dans and they did heavy makeup on them to make look like
1:03:04
that. But then they made it like they got rid of their arms and stuff.
1:03:09
So it was like hair and makeup.
1:03:11
Heavy, heavy concrete makeup
1:03:16
and I guess touching it up and
1:03:19
Hmm.
1:03:20
doing CGI. So that is kinda sad,
1:03:21
but still cool.
1:03:21
Yeah.
1:03:22
Yeah. Well, so
1:03:24
the the movie ~ had R Rick Baker working on it,
1:03:30
who did a lot of the ~ the the makeup and
1:03:31
Ricky Baker. Ricky Baker.
1:03:34
like effects and stuff like that.
1:03:35
He actually has he's he's very famous.
1:03:38
He won an Oscar ~ or an Academy Award for makeup,
1:03:42
~ on American Werewolf in London was one.
1:03:44
~ man, great movie.
1:03:46
Okay.
1:03:47
but he's he's done a ton of movies,
1:03:49
like looking through his his list here.
1:03:51
all through I mean he worked on like the the original trilogy Star Wars movies.
1:03:55
He's been working for years since the seventies.
1:03:57
Yeah.
1:03:58
~
1:03:58
He's he's got some pedigree.
1:04:00
yeah.
1:04:00
Yeah. That's pretty good.
1:04:02
Yeah.
1:04:02
~
1:04:03
worked on Gremlins too. He worked on Norbit and you know that had a lot
1:04:08
of makeup to that character.
1:04:08
You should have led with that.
1:04:10
Yeah, an another another fantastic Eddie Murphy
1:04:13
masterpiece just right up there.
1:04:15
my.
1:04:16
I made Jeremy watch that with me 'cause I wanted to see it and ~ we we laughed.
1:04:20
It's a rough one.
1:04:21
Not a good movie, but we laughed.
1:04:23
I w
1:04:23
I was way too young when I saw that movie.
1:04:26
Ha ha ha
1:04:26
Mm-hmm.
1:04:31
Yeah. I so I I just wanted to to mention that.
1:04:34
Like they had someone working on the effects with the costumes and and
1:04:37
the and the makeup for this movie.
1:04:39
Okay. Well where does it sit? Are we wanting to pass or fail?
1:04:45
I'll leave it up to you two. I could go either way.
1:04:48
Feel like it's lean and yes.
1:04:50
I mean yeah I I'm gonna be charitable but I mean it is t it's two thousand three,
1:04:54
you know, it's like the C C G's not gonna be amazing or anything,
1:04:58
but ~ for I I thought for what it was,
1:04:58
Yeah. Hold up. Pirates of the Caribbean CG
1:05:01
it it
1:05:04
Incredible.
1:05:05
That's yeah, that is a good point.
1:05:06
The skeleton pirates look pretty good.
1:05:08
Well, maybe the skeleton pirates weren't pretty bad.
1:05:08
I liked I thought they like look.
1:05:10
But the next movie The next movie was even better,
1:05:13
I I'm gonna
1:05:14
but
1:05:15
say this. It's like when when you have something like ghosts or skeleton pirates
1:05:19
or whatever, people will be like,
1:05:20
that doesn't look realistic. How do you make
1:05:23
A a ghost look
1:05:23
Exactly.
1:05:24
realistic. That's not their ghosts aren't real.
1:05:26
So like how do you make that look real?
1:05:28
You know? It's like you it it's going to look fake.
1:05:31
I I don't know how you do a convincing ghost.
1:05:33
I I I've yet to see one.
1:05:34
Yeah. That's fair. That's fair.
1:05:37
Yeah.
1:05:37
I I I'm gonna
1:05:37
I
1:05:38
say yes and if I'm alone on this hill then I'll I'll I will stand here with
1:05:41
my flag raised and that'll be it.
1:05:42
Wow, can you believe he said yes?
1:05:43
Yeah.
1:05:44
Yikes.
1:05:45
Yeah.
1:05:46
It's how it was always meant to be.
1:05:47
It's me versus
1:05:48
What?
1:05:48
the Jones brothers.
1:05:50
Which way were you leaning, Jeremy?
1:05:51
When I mean you brought up some some cool effects and stuff,
1:05:52
I really I'm I'm on the fence
1:05:54
so Mm.
1:05:57
with it because it just didn't show much cinematography wise.
1:06:00
But the the effects in the animation I did like a lot,
1:06:05
so I'm willing to I'm willing to pass it,
1:06:07
I think.
1:06:08
Okay.
1:06:09
~ and if the listeners are outraged by it,
1:06:11
let us know in the Discord and we will maybe adjust it.
1:06:13
Alright. Mm hmm I feel like we gave
1:06:15
But yeah.
1:06:17
some some good evidence to give it a pass,
1:06:19
even though it might not be a the best,
1:06:20
Yeah. It was just barely passing though,
1:06:22
you know. Yeah. Okay, we'll give we'll give it the point.
1:06:24
I feel. So Yeah, well let's do
1:06:26
it. Alright.
1:06:28
It
1:06:28
the movie brings the vibes, you know.
1:06:30
That you know?
1:06:30
It does.
1:06:32
You're right. Okay, so the next test is our sound design test.
1:06:37
What do y'all think about that?
1:06:40
What's what's the sound design feel like to you?
1:06:44
~ for me, I did not really write down any like you know,
1:06:49
iconic moment as far as the sound effects and stuff like that go.
1:06:53
Yeah.
1:06:54
I liked, you know, what the music was doing,
1:06:56
~ for that category. But as far as this goes,
1:07:00
like I I didn't feel like there was any like jump scares or any like iconic moments
1:07:06
to where like the sound
1:07:07
Mm-hmm.
1:07:08
made an impact on me. But I don't know,
1:07:11
maybe you guys remember some some moments?
1:07:14
~
1:07:15
I mean nothing in particular stands out,
1:07:18
but there was I also can't say that there was anything that necessarily broke
1:07:21
my immersion. ~ I I thought for the
1:07:22
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
1:07:23
Yeah.
1:07:23
I thought for the most part the ~ like the und underscoring,
1:07:28
like the ~ the ambiance one might say.
1:07:31
~
1:07:31
Mm-hmm.
1:07:32
for the most part it was it was all pretty solid.
1:07:34
The only thing that stuck out to me was that they would use this it it's very like
1:07:38
late nineties, early two thousands.
1:07:40
There there would be a lot of moments,
1:07:42
I think it's like part of the soundtrack or something where there
1:07:45
just be this sound like this one sound effect that's kind of like
1:07:49
in the background or whatever.
1:07:50
It w as soon as you notice
1:07:51
Mm.
1:07:52
it you start noticing it a lot.
1:07:53
And and I just remember
1:07:54
Yeah.
1:07:54
thinking, okay, this is taking me out just a little.
1:07:56
That was the only complaint I had was that there was just this
1:07:59
one particular sound effect they really liked using in the score.
1:08:02
Yeah.
1:08:03
There were some things that were good,
1:08:04
some things not great.
1:08:06
let me let me ask you this. Whenever he pulled back the bust to reveal like that
1:08:13
hidden passage, you know, what did that sound like?
1:08:16
Did it sound good?
1:08:17
Okay.
1:08:17
I mean,
1:08:18
how how many hidden passages have you come across,
1:08:20
Jonathan? It's like do you d do you know what it should
1:08:22
N not in real life. I've just I've just seen a
1:08:24
lot in movies, you know. I feel like that would be a prime thing for that
1:08:28
to be like a good sound effect right there.
1:08:30
Mm.
1:08:31
I if it I there's another thing where like if we weren't taken out of the movie,
1:08:36
that's a point for it. Like that's good.
1:08:39
And I don't
1:08:40
Mm-hmm. Sure.
1:08:41
think it was bad enough for me to be taken out,
1:08:46
you know?
1:08:47
Yeah.
1:08:47
One thing that was immersive that I liked,
1:08:49
~ was when they're in the ballroom and like some of the larger rooms,
1:08:55
you can really tell how loud
1:08:57
Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah.
1:08:57
Or how big the room is that you're in based off of the the echoey sound.
1:09:00
Mm-hmm.
1:09:02
~
1:09:02
Yeah,
1:09:02
yeah.
1:09:04
I thought that was good. It's kinda like and it's very like up close
1:09:07
and personal when you're in like the passageways and stuff.
1:09:10
Mm-hmm.
1:09:11
So that's a point for me in that regard,
1:09:14
but you know
1:09:15
Okay, okay.
1:09:16
although nothing else really stood out to me,
1:09:18
so I'm okay with failing this if y'all want to.
1:09:24
Yeah, I I I I didn't think it was particularly noteworthy.
1:09:31
I I felt like the soundtrack was kinda carrying a lot of the sound on this one.
1:09:35
That's true.
1:09:37
I that that's kinda where I was leaning.
1:09:39
Okay. Yeah, I'm good to feel that.
1:09:42
yeah, you know, I I I think I might if I'm thinking more on it I I might give
1:09:46
it a fail as well, just 'cause it's y when you're really thinking about
1:09:48
all the kind of stuff you could be doing with like,
1:09:51
you know, the haunted mansion,
1:09:52
it kinda feels like they didn't take it far enough.
1:09:55
Yeah, let's fail that. It's an objective test.
1:09:58
We have to be hard on it too. We'll go easy
1:10:01
Fortunately.
1:10:02
on it in the bonus test though.
1:10:03
so the cool credits test, ~ worth one point.
1:10:08
Does this movie have great opening credits?
1:10:11
Does it have good ending credits?
1:10:13
Is there anything at the end of the credits that like like an in credit scene
1:10:17
or just any motion graphics that make it just not black words on a screen?
1:10:22
Yeah. ~ did you stay for the post credit scene for this one?
1:10:27
No?
1:10:28
Apparently there was a
1:10:28
You you didn't see the part where
1:10:29
Nick Fury and invites the ghosts that are still there to the
1:10:32
put the Avengers initiative?
1:10:32
Yeah.
1:10:35
I did not
1:10:37
Mean
1:10:37
Th
1:10:37
there is a little tag at the end of the the credits with Madame Leota where
1:10:42
she comes where she basically ~ she I think it's I could be wrong.
1:10:48
I feel like it's something possibly from the attraction where you hear her say,
1:10:52
like, hurry back, hurry back, be sure to bring your death certificate
1:10:55
if you decide to join us. Make final arrangements
1:10:57
Ha ha ha.
1:10:58
now. We've been dying to have you.
1:11:00
So you kinda see her like floating around and
1:11:01
And I say yes I say yes
1:11:04
anything for you Jennifer Tilly Yes
1:11:06
Yeah.
1:11:10
Yeah. Well
1:11:12
So it had a cool little, you know,
1:11:14
post credit scene. And then I thought the opening scene was really cool.
1:11:18
'Cause they you get the whole flashbacks of the the origin
1:11:22
and they interspersed that. Yeah,
1:11:22
I was getting Beauty and the Beast vibes from that.
1:11:25
a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm.
1:11:26
Ver very masquerade ball. Very
1:11:28
Yeah.
1:11:28
~
1:11:29
yeah.
1:11:30
So I I thought the credits were cool.
1:11:33
Yeah, no, they're they're good.
1:11:34
I like
1:11:34
Yeah. As a motion graphic designer I will say the opening credits were pretty rough
1:11:43
visually, but story wise it was pretty good.
1:11:44
Okay. Mm-hmm.
1:11:45
The aforementioned PS two cutscenes,
1:11:46
Yes, yes.
1:11:47
you didn't like those?
1:11:49
Yeah.
1:11:50
However, they did try to make it interesting,
1:11:53
and that's good enough for us.
1:11:55
~ I could have used a narrator,
1:11:59
I think. It was pretty long for the intro,
1:12:02
but I don't know.
1:12:05
Well at the the start of the movie it opens with the line from the ride,
1:12:09
like, Welcome, foolish mortals.
1:12:10
Was there no narrator for that?
1:12:12
Was that just text on screen?
1:12:16
I think for that part.
1:12:17
Okay.
1:12:18
It th it could have d it could have
1:12:19
I just mean for the rest of the sequence.
1:12:21
Okay.
1:12:21
done for ~ I mean if they wanted it to be like more true to the ride,
1:12:25
it definitely could have done with a an opening sequence that
1:12:27
was like being narrated. Like that w I think
1:12:30
Yeah.
1:12:30
that would have like stepped the movie up a little bit in my books for sure.
1:12:34
Yeah.
1:12:35
~
1:12:36
It's like someone's like reading
1:12:37
through a storybook and then y it turns out to be Shrek.
1:12:40
Ha ha
1:12:44
Like that'll ever happen.
1:12:46
Yeah.
1:12:47
Yeah.
1:12:48
Well, ~ so what do you think, Jeremy?
1:12:50
Is it is it worth the point? Okay.
1:12:51
I'm passing that. Yeah, I mean I was nitpicky with it,
1:12:53
Mm-hmm. Okay.
1:12:54
but I think it's definitely worth a point.
1:12:55
Some
1:12:56
movies don't even have opening credits,
1:12:58
so ~ I'm here. I'm here for it.
1:12:58
Mm-hmm. Okay.
1:13:01
They got the spirit.
1:13:01
So
1:13:03
they do. They do. Alright, so our final test of the objective section is the
1:13:09
Rewatchable review factor. Now most movies rarely achieve
1:13:15
the impossible, like Stealing the Declaration of Independence.
1:13:19
Is this a movie that you want to watch over and over again?
1:13:23
How rewatchable is this movie?
1:13:26
Can
1:13:26
I think it's nostalgic enough for me that I didn't even watch it that much.
1:13:29
Obviously Bryce is just dancing across the screen.
1:13:34
I'm
1:13:34
just thinking.
1:13:37
I think this is rewatchable for Bryce easily.
1:13:39
As someone who didn't grow up with this movie as like a constant staple,
1:13:46
~ I also agree this is a rewatchable movie.
1:13:50
It's not good, but it's almost a comfort movie.
1:13:52
To me. It's it's it's silly.
1:13:56
Mm-hmm.
1:13:56
It's a good, easy Halloween movie to throw on.
1:13:59
~
1:14:00
Yeah, I was about
1:14:01
to say just put it on in the background.
1:14:02
Like if you're at the Halloween party or something,
1:14:04
or just I don't know for the heck of
1:14:05
Yeah.
1:14:06
it, just p I put it on. Per completely inoffensive movie.
1:14:10
Mm.
1:14:10
Yeah.
1:14:11
Yeah, ~ one one of the thoughts that Kelsey had was that she
1:14:15
she doesn't necessarily like think it's the best movie or anything,
1:14:19
but it is something that she'll like let play in the background
1:14:23
and not pay attention to it, you know,
1:14:24
if she wants the vibes or whatever,
1:14:26
if she's working on something else,
1:14:26
A watch is a watch.
1:14:28
you
1:14:28
know. ~ I think for me I I I didn't I didn't love
1:14:34
the movie that much. I think you guys might like it a
1:14:36
Yeah.
1:14:36
little bit more than than I did.
1:14:38
~
1:14:40
But I can kind of appreciate it as a a Halloween rewatch,
1:14:44
but other than that, I don't know.
1:14:48
Yeah.
1:14:49
I mean, I I feel like that's the e essence of a rewatch though,
1:14:52
is like if
1:14:52
Mm-hmm.
1:14:52
you could see yourself going through a movie like once a year,
1:14:55
I I I'd definitely argue that's a point in its favor for sure.
1:14:58
You I'd be hard pressed to find any film I'd want to see more than
1:15:00
one time during like a month or something.
1:15:04
If you're going to pick three from our series on Disney Attractions turned rides,
1:15:09
this would be the third one I would want to watch.
1:15:12
On my list. The rest of them I don't really
1:15:15
Okay.
1:15:16
know. I want I would I don't think I would want to do that.
1:15:18
I'm talking Country Bears number one,
1:15:22
Pirates of the Caribbean number two,
1:15:24
Haunted Mansion three. I think it's our third best one.
1:15:28
Maybe.
1:15:30
I'll
1:15:30
have to w see the results of the IQ test.
1:15:32
I
1:15:33
don't know, yeah, we'll see. ~
1:15:35
Mm-hmm.
1:15:35
I I think me and Bryce are gonna outnumber you and pass this one.
1:15:38
Okay. Okay.
1:15:39
Yeah, I I
1:15:40
mean, you know how I feel about this movie.
1:15:41
I I I I can't deny
1:15:42
Mm.
1:15:43
it.
1:15:43
Yeah.
1:15:44
It's a good one.
1:15:44
I'm not itching
1:15:45
to rewatch it, but I probably will at some point,
1:15:47
you know, during Halloween.
1:15:48
Does
1:15:49
does it give it a negative point?
1:15:52
Does it take away from this test that they tried to re do this movie twice since
1:15:58
it came out?
1:16:01
I d not necessarily. I mean, there's some movies that
1:16:03
Yeah, I mean does it say it
1:16:05
get remade because they're classics,
1:16:07
you know? Just throughout the years.
1:16:07
That's true. The Muppets don't touch just anything.
1:16:08
But I I would also say do does
1:16:11
it say anything that like this is the version that,
1:16:15
you know, you come back to.
1:16:19
Yeah.
1:16:20
Alright, we'll just have to pass it then because I think it's
1:16:22
I mean it, mm-hmm.
1:16:22
a good one. Yeah. Okay, so let's tally up s what we've got so far.
1:16:28
okay. So we've got one, two, three,
1:16:30
four, five, six, seven points on the ejective test,
1:16:35
which makes this already a staple.
1:16:38
Let's see if we can make this into the stapley category.
1:16:41
Stapleyest category.
1:16:43
~ starting off with a D V D menu test.
1:16:46
did either of you guys watch this on D V D?
1:16:48
I pulled it up on Disney Plus,
1:16:50
so I didn't I didn't see the D V D but well I did
1:16:50
Okay. Okay.
1:16:53
look it up on YouTube though.
1:16:54
Okay. What were your thoughts on it?
1:16:58
~ I I wasn't impressed to be honest.
1:17:02
Really? Okay.
1:17:03
Like I I thought I thought the the first part,
1:17:07
like they I mean, it was kind of just a shot of the the haunted mansion
1:17:12
out in the distance. There was kind of some ghosts like,
1:17:15
you know, floating back and forth and the music was playing.
1:17:19
~
1:17:20
Yeah.
1:17:21
but the wal like the walkthrough of the menu
1:17:23
I watched was kinda lame to me.
1:17:25
Like it kind of just like you would click on something and then it would just kinda
1:17:28
take you to like a static shot of something.
1:17:30
Okay.
1:17:30
Like I dunno. I don't know.
1:17:34
No it's like I I I agree, you know,
1:17:36
have a little fun with it. If we we
1:17:37
Yeah.
1:17:38
we had this and I I don't remember if it was like rental or anything,
1:17:41
but like we we definitely had it on D V D and ~ yeah,
1:17:47
no, well as far as my memory goes,
1:17:48
the D V D menu doesn't really stand out to me all that much.
1:17:51
So
1:17:51
It's pretty inexcusable too 'cause
1:17:53
O three is peak D V D time.
1:17:56
Like I feel like had this done better they would have spent more time on the menu.
1:18:00
But I don't know.
1:18:01
Maybe.
1:18:01
Sure, sure,
1:18:02
sure. ~ there is one thing on the D V D that I d did not see,
1:18:08
so I don't I can't really judge it based off of it.
1:18:10
But I've heard there's a virtual tour of the film's mansion set with Ezra
1:18:16
and Emma as a special feature.
1:18:18
That's kinda cool.
1:18:19
there is a ghost host character from the ride that gives directions
1:18:22
on how to proceed. ~ the actor for the character was the late Tony J.
1:18:29
So I I feel like that's pretty cool to do a house tour by yourself.
1:18:33
I also can see that becoming really clunky.
1:18:38
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
1:18:38
Like there's a D V D game on the Chamber of Secrets where it's like
1:18:42
you escape the Forbidden Forest.
1:18:44
It was very f never.
1:18:45
I love those. Those things those games never worked properly.
1:18:48
Those were there's the Like threw together.
1:18:48
Yeah.
1:18:48
Another cutscene.
1:18:51
Some poor some
1:18:52
Mm-hmm.
1:18:52
poor intern like put that thing together in like a week and slapped it
1:18:55
Mm-hmm.
1:18:56
Yeah. So
1:18:56
into the DVD files. Yeah.
1:18:58
Mm-hmm.
1:18:59
I feel like y'all are leaning towards no,
1:19:01
but something cool like that would give it a good point for me.
1:19:04
What's bonus feature though, you know?
1:19:05
That's a bonus feature.
1:19:05
Yeah yeah. Well, ba part
1:19:06
Is it
1:19:07
a menu?
1:19:08
of it
1:19:08
though, I mean they they could have easily have not had it in the D V D,
1:19:11
but at the same time, if you wanted my personal opinion,
1:19:15
~ I don't know if that necessarily saves it.
1:19:17
I'd probably have to say that the DVD menus are a fail.
1:19:18
Yeah, if why
1:19:21
you know, why put so much effort and energy on that if you're not gonna have
1:19:24
a good home page for your D V D menu,
1:19:27
you know? So, I agree with you.
1:19:28
Yeah. Man, have fun with it. It's Haunted Mansion
1:19:30
D V D menu, bro. Have fun, you know?
1:19:32
Yeah.
1:19:34
Yeah, we'll we'll definitely fail that then.
1:19:38
Okay, this is our funniest test because it's ironic.
1:19:43
But ~ the theme park attraction test.
1:19:46
Could this movie be turned into a theme park attraction?
1:19:49
Yes.
1:19:50
I I don't I I just don't know.
1:19:52
I mean I I really don't know. I I just can't see it.
1:19:56
I think we've been giving all of these,
1:19:58
even if it's a horrible movie,
1:19:58
Yeah. ~ automatic point, yeah.
1:19:59
an automatic pass.
1:20:01
You don't you don't think
1:20:02
Yeah.
1:20:02
this one would be dead on arrival?
1:20:06
Yeah.
1:20:08
I don't think so. And it the fact
1:20:09
Well, in this case it'd be
1:20:10
a good thing, right?
1:20:12
Yeah.
1:20:14
The fact that this is one of the first ever Disney attractions and it's still around
1:20:20
today speaks a lot, you know? So this is a special especially a good one.
1:20:26
Yeah. Especially 'cause it's not based on ~ like any particular franchise that they
1:20:31
have or anything. 'Cause
1:20:32
Yeah.
1:20:33
I I mean that's th that's something that they do too,
1:20:35
is like some rides will get retooled to ~ like feature a franchise or something,
1:20:41
like Splash Mountain got turned
1:20:41
Yeah.
1:20:42
into a princess in the frog ride and everything.
1:20:44
Right, right, right.
1:20:44
~
1:20:45
i it's sort of a testament to how timeless the haunted mansion is that
1:20:49
it it never they never changed it,
1:20:51
they never like ~ added anything crazy,
1:20:54
they just kind of improved and iterated on what was our
1:20:56
already
1:20:57
there. It's just a non-specific
1:20:58
Yeah.
1:20:58
general haunted mansion and and the hitchhiking ghosts are c like characters unto
1:21:03
themselves, you know, like the the
1:21:05
Yeah.
1:21:06
the ride is ~ the attraction is the attraction,
1:21:09
you know?
1:21:11
Yeah. Automatic point.
1:21:13
Alright. Automatic point. Boom.
1:21:14
Yeah.
1:21:16
Okay, then we've got the proprietary props test or iconic props.
1:21:21
~ what is there a standout prop that you can see whether you're
1:21:27
in a museum or like you just see this prop and you're like,
1:21:31
that's specifically from this movie.
1:21:33
And it can't be Madame Leota 'cause she's a character.
1:21:38
I
1:21:39
I did not have anything that stood out to me.
1:21:41
Like I felt like the thing that stood out the most was like the key that they were
1:21:45
trying to find for the for the chest.
1:21:46
Yeah, yeah.
1:21:48
But that's like that's just generic,
1:21:50
you know. Are are we missing something giant?
1:21:54
Very much.
1:21:55
Okay. The flyer, the Evers and Evers flyer?
1:21:57
It's not it's not
1:21:58
great. It's not amazing. But I would
1:22:01
It it's it's hard to name something
1:22:02
that isn't like a character or part of the set design itself,
1:22:05
am going to put forth a suggestion for the the iconic prop of the movie
1:22:10
For the consideration of the Midnight Society.
1:22:10
and that one pr
1:22:10
Okay.
1:22:13
precisely it is the candelabra with a dozen candles
1:22:19
and cobwebs on it.
1:22:20
Iconic enough? Probably not. Probably not.
1:22:23
Well if you saw that in a museum you probably just think,
1:22:25
wow, they haven't they haven't dusted that candelabra in a while.
1:22:29
Yeah.
1:22:29
Feel
1:22:29
like it could be a lot of different it could be a lot of different,
1:22:29
It could be Phantom of the Opera,
1:22:31
it could be Yeah.
1:22:32
yeah.
1:22:33
Can I really not count Madame
1:22:34
Good point.
1:22:34
Lioda's orb? I I I really feel like the orb
1:22:37
We
1:22:37
we can't because he she's a character.
1:22:39
Yeah.
1:22:40
That's basically a costume for her in our logic.
1:22:42
Ha ha.
1:22:42
Mm-hmm.
1:22:46
So and if anything it's set design.
1:22:47
Yeah, man, this movie
1:22:49
Yeah, this movie really needed like a like a MacGuffin or something.
1:22:52
Like a something really iconic.
1:22:54
Yeah.
1:22:54
And
1:22:55
and that's the thing, like the ma the objects are enchanted
1:22:58
and they become characters, like the singing bus or Madame Leota.
1:23:01
So it makes it hard for like some of those moments to
1:23:03
Yeah.
1:23:04
to like pick a cool prop.
1:23:07
Alright,
1:23:07
well Yeah, I guess we'll just have to fail that one then.
1:23:11
The the movie worked against itself.
1:23:14
Unfortunately. Doesn't pass our subjective test,
1:23:17
but whatever. Alright, ~ boom.
1:23:20
Failed. Unfortunately. Okay,
1:23:24
this brings it up to our second to last test,
1:23:27
the fantastic foods and where to find them test.
1:23:31
What ~ what foods stand out to you in this movie?
1:23:39
That made you want to eat.
1:23:41
Why don't you kick it off, Jeremy?
1:23:44
All I wanna say is that as soon as those cookies came on stage,
1:23:47
Abby was like, Ooh, cookies sound really good right now.
1:23:51
So we paused the
1:23:51
Mm-hmm.
1:23:52
movie and I made some cookies.
1:23:53
That's a that's a call to action if I'm gonna ever gonna see one,
1:23:58
That's that's a pretty
1:23:59
What
1:23:59
you know?
1:23:59
strong
1:24:00
point in its favor, I will say.
1:24:01
If it like made you
1:24:02
What?
1:24:02
stop everything and go get the food that was being featured.
1:24:06
Yeah.
1:24:06
What
1:24:06
what cookies though? I don't remember.
1:24:08
What scene are you talking about?
1:24:08
~ Jonathan. Jonathan, Jonathan,
1:24:11
Jonathan.
1:24:13
~ the where Ezra and I already I already forgot her name.
1:24:19
When they meet up with the kids
1:24:19
~ yes, yes, okay. Yes,
1:24:23
they were gonna bring them cookies.
1:24:24
Okay. Those did look good.
1:24:29
I can't say that there were any particular foods that stood out,
1:24:32
but there were I I I r I remember getting pretty thirsty while I
1:24:36
was watching this movie. I will say there
1:24:37
Ha ha.
1:24:37
was a lot of like delicious looking drinks here and there.
1:24:40
Yeah.
1:24:43
How about some soup?
1:24:44
Yeah. Alright, some soup in like twenty minutes,
1:24:46
get some soup, head out, you know.
1:24:49
Didn't even see the soup really.
1:24:51
~ yeah.
1:24:51
Yeah. Secret soup.
1:24:51
Yeah. Yeah, like th
1:24:54
like we didn't really see them eat anything at the dinner table,
1:24:56
right? When they get invited in.
1:24:58
Right. I don't think so.
1:24:58
Yeah.
1:25:00
So it'd be based on the cookies,
1:25:01
but I feel like that's pretty good evidence if it made you want to get
1:25:05
up and go bake some cookies upon seeing them.
1:25:06
Mm mm.
1:25:07
It's true. I mean
1:25:08
that's i it's a cookie, so it's like
1:25:11
It's it's hard to not Yeah.
1:25:12
It it's pretty enticing in general,
1:25:14
but
1:25:17
They were good cookies. They
1:25:18
Yeah.
1:25:19
weren't movie screen accurate.
1:25:20
They were just the Trader
1:25:21
Mm-hmm.
1:25:21
Joe's cookies and cream cookies,
1:25:24
Okay. Okay.
1:25:24
but they were good.
1:25:25
Yeah.
1:25:26
Can't
1:25:26
dude, can't go wrong with Trader Joe's,
1:25:28
especially at this time of year.
1:25:29
They got like pumpkin flavored everything over there.
1:25:29
Yeah. ~
1:25:32
Go to your
1:25:32
Mm.
1:25:32
local Trader Joe's, kids. You gotta get everything that's pumpkin flavored.
1:25:36
Buy their whole stock.
1:25:38
Yeah.
1:25:41
I dude, I I remember when
1:25:43
I was still in Sarasota going to art school,
1:25:45
That's his Halloween costume this year.
1:25:46
I would
1:25:46
I would like beeline it
1:25:47
Yeah.
1:25:47
for Trader Joe's and just start grabbing stuff.
1:25:50
Okay, well, based off of the cookies,
1:25:53
are we wanting to pass this? Because I it was a good call to action.
1:25:56
It's a bonus point. I'm okay. I'm okay with it.
1:25:57
It's a good
1:25:59
call to action, but it it's not really like I'm gonna see that tray
1:26:02
of cookies and know it's from this movie.
1:26:04
So
1:26:06
At the same time though,
1:26:07
the the cookies served ~ an integral part in that sequence because it w
1:26:12
it it sort of hinted
1:26:12
That's true.
1:26:13
to Ramsley the kids might be here because why else would these
1:26:16
two idiots bring cookies up into the attic?
1:26:19
Yeah.
1:26:19
You know, that kind of thing. And and and they lingered
1:26:22
on the cookies for a while, you know.
1:26:23
I don't know, I'm gonna I might give it I might give this one.
1:26:27
Okay.
1:26:28
Let's pass it.
1:26:29
Yeah.
1:26:30
Alright. Okay, this brings us to our last and final test.
1:26:35
We've got the cool costumes test.
1:26:37
Now, can this is especially great because this is our Halloween episode,
1:26:42
but
1:26:43
Mm-hmm.
1:26:43
can you take a costume from a character in this movie,
1:26:47
wear it at a Halloween party, and people will know that ~ you're Jim Evers for sure.
1:26:54
From Haunted Mansion.
1:26:56
n none of the none of the human cast and it's kinda cheating
1:27:01
Okay.
1:27:01
'cause it's based on a r on a very popular Disney ride,
1:27:04
but I mean if if anybody was going Yeah,
1:27:07
So is this movie.
1:27:08
I was gonna say
1:27:09
if anyone was dressed as a disembodied ghost head or a hitchhiking spirit
1:27:14
or something or other,
1:27:15
Yeah.
1:27:15
it's like you'd you pretty easily identify like what what it's in a reference to.
1:27:20
~ I don't
1:27:20
Okay.
1:27:21
think this movie did anything like,
1:27:22
you know, too crazy with the costume design or anything.
1:27:26
But like for what it was, it was good,
1:27:28
you know. I
1:27:29
Sure.
1:27:30
yeah.
1:27:32
question is if someone was watching this video right now,
1:27:35
would they mistake Jeremy for Eddie Murphy in his gray suit?
1:27:38
It's
1:27:38
If you put them side by side with each other.
1:27:38
No.
1:27:42
the same person.
1:27:43
It's the best I can do.
1:27:45
Yeah, I wouldn't
1:27:45
be able to tell them apart.
1:27:46
I I I see what you're saying with the with the ghosts and stuff.
1:27:50
I feel like that would be a hard costume to actually pull off as far as like a
1:27:53
Yeah.
1:27:54
like you'd have to be stationary,
1:27:55
like have a box that you're in and then you kinda stick your head up through like
1:27:59
a for like the singing bus like a Madame Leota costume.
1:28:00
Think Yeah.
1:28:02
I felt like the
1:28:02
We talked about this, can you and three of your friends walk around with
1:28:05
a big clunky
1:28:06
Mm-hmm.
1:28:06
refrigerator box? You can do it,
1:28:08
Yeah.
1:28:09
sing
1:28:09
Yeah.
1:28:10
all night, annoy your friends,
1:28:11
get kicked out of the party.
1:28:12
You'd have to you would have to
1:28:14
if you were a barbershop quartet,
1:28:15
you'd have to dress up as them.
1:28:17
That's the only
1:28:18
That
1:28:18
way to do it.
1:28:19
that would rock, actually.
1:28:20
I think
1:28:20
That that has to have been done.
1:28:22
Aside from that, like people are just dressed up in suits and old like,
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you know clothes from
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Yeah.
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the period and stuff like that.
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And I I don't know that it would you would tie it directly to this movie.
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So I was leaning no on this one.
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I I I'm
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also leaning no, I think. Are are also
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But I would be really impressed if
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someone did dress up like someone on T for Halloween,
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you know. Yeah.
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That's really hard to do, but I would
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really yeah, I would be impressed as well.
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Our other criteria is if it was if the costume was in a museum,
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would you know that it's from the movie?
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And I don't really think that you know,
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without reading the plaque, I won't I wouldn't figure that out,
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I don't think.
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Yeah,
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probably not.
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Yeah.
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Okay, okay.
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Alright, let's
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go ahead and fail that. And that concludes our IQ test with a total of
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Let's tally up.
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It has nine out of ten points.
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But it's still a good nine
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Staple.
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out of fifteen. It is still a great movie.
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And it is not a quack.
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Congratulations to the Haunted Mansion for being a staple
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of our childhood. How about that?
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Okay, another day, another staple.
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Well everyone, our only questi
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Another day, another staple.
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Our only question left is, what's your favorite version of this movie?
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Is it the Eddie Murphy version?
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Is it the Danny DeVito version?
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Or is it the Muppets version? Answer wisely.
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Yeah,
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that's what I'm gonna be spending my Halloween doing.
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No tricks, just treats.
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Heh Not going to a party? Will you be dressing up for that?
1:30:29
Mm-hmm.
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I just might have to.
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