Rob: 1:17

Welcome to Matt and Friend Rick the Universe!

Andy: 1:27

Lame.

Matt: 1:28

Tried to do a double two and it like let me let me say start times a charm.

Andy: 1:35

Oh, that was good. Well done.

Matt: 1:39

That's why he hosts the podcast folks.

Rob: 1:41

That was some ass murder if I've ever heard it.

Matt: 1:43

Yep. Beer opener level 99. Thank you. Light, camera. Spirits. Welcome back, everyone, to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe. This is our Halloween episode, and today we're gonna do something a little different. We're gonna watch the 90s classic children's show, Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Andy: 2:09

I've been looking forward to this since we first mentioned this in the summer.

Rob: 2:13

Yes.

Matt: 2:14

Happy Halloween, bitches. So who watched this show when they were younger? Let's start off.

Rob: 2:19

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I did not. I did not like scary things usually. And I was I was more of a goosebumps fan. So I was watching Goosebumps, and that was plenty of scariness for me. I grew up reading those books, so I was a little bit more into that show.

Andy: 2:36

I was always into that, like just kid enough level of spooky stuff. You know what I mean? Like the Are You Afraid of the Dark The uh we just mentioned Areo Monsters because that's also on the screen there. Um, gosh, Goosebumps, read the shit read the books as well. Like that was all my brand.

Matt: 2:56

So this uh show for the younger children out there who don't remember because you were born after the ball dropped in the year 2000, you youngins. This ran on Nickelodeon from August 15th, 92 to February 1996 and had a short revival in 99. The original Pilot was a special October Halloween episode on the 25th, 1991.

Andy: 3:19

Way older than I thought. Yeah, also a longer run than I thought. Yes, yeah, that's I would say that for sure. I I would have guessed 12 episodes and it was done. Yeah, season two, season. Yeah, is what I'm seeing up on the screen. It looks like 10 episodes per season. So 50 produced episodes is crazy.

Rob: 3:37

That's about the same amount of produced episodes we have here on this podcast. Oh about that.

Matt: 3:41

I think maybe we're beyond 50 now, but uh we are approaching 60, actually. It's like 57, I think. So this was part of Nickelodeon's SNCC, the uh Saturday night programming for kids. The original lineup were all that Kanan and Kale and Kenan and Kale, sorry. Kenan and Kale. And Clarissa's favorite new dial and Clarissa explains it all. That is correct. The show that taught us it's okay to put a ladder next to a girl's window and just climb on in.

Andy: 4:09

All that being like the kids' SNL was the best thing ever. Oh, yeah. And it's crazy that Keenan Thompson basically went straight from that to Sire Night Live and it's just sketch comedy since the mid-early 90s. That's crazy. Well, he's also incredible at it. Know who also was in all that? Gabriel Iglesias. I don't remember that. Yes, he was. Really? Yeah.

Matt: 4:39

So I I did watch this as a kid on and off. I wasn't really big on the scary stuff either. I do remember this costing me a couple of like good night's sleep. There's a couple of funky, especially when you're a young kid. There's a couple episodes in there. I'm anxious to see what we're gonna get here. Just 90 is fantastic, slightly spooky. I'm I'm curious.

Andy: 4:58

Did we see these on reruns? Because like there's no way I was throtting this at four years old. Seven years old? Yeah. Like I don't I don't feel like 91. We were six. Six, yeah. Yeah. No, it says TVY7, by the way. So if we were seven, we could have watched this. We could have. There weren't ratings back then, though. No. Yeah, I think by this point there are. I don't think there were TV ratings.

Rob: 5:24

I think it was like uh Clinton era when they started doing more serious ratings.

Andy: 5:29

I do I do remember though that my grandparents were like really strict, and because we we would often be watched by my grandparents like on Friday and Saturday nights, and they were very strict about like you can't watch stuff that's you know too old for you. But they may have just been judging it themselves. You're right, you're you're absolutely it's it's plausible that you seem to remember like my memories locking on like when that started. Like I that was within our lifetime. Oh, for sure within our lifetime, yeah. It started with Mortal Kombat the video game. Yes. Yep. That started uh ratings definitely on video games that was less on video games, but I think it stemmed a TV thing as well. Which that's like 95. You're you're right. It's like 95, 95.

Rob: 6:14

It was late in the Clinton era presidency, and and I love the tools. Nah, no fun. There used to not be a PG 13. It was PG or R. Yes. And like that that was there was no divide for a while.

Andy: 6:29

I don't know off the top of my head what movie it was that got the first PG 13 movie, and it was something surprising. I think it was Jurassic Park. TV age ratings started in the United States on January 1st, 1997. So this definitely predates that. Yeah. But I mean, the fact that it was Are You Afraid?

unknown: 6:48

Right.

Andy: 6:49

I kind of my grandparents would have been like, no, you're not watching that. I do remember watching this whenever I did, so it must have been like in reruns and not being scared at all. But I also watched like The Exorcist when I was like nine. Oh, yeah, yeah. So Exorcist and Poltergeist. Yeah, those, yeah. Way too young, but I'm not sure.

Matt: 7:08

My grandfather showed me Predator, I was four years old. He was like, he'll be fine. I was not fine.

Rob: 7:15

Okay, fun fact, I was misremembering the PG 13 thing. Uh that happened in the mid-80s. Okay.

Andy: 7:20

What was the first movie?

Rob: 7:21

Red Dawn. Oh, parachuting in and shooting everybody's in. The reason they came up with the ratings is because Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom got so disturbing. Yes. Oh, collie.

Andy: 7:34

So I think what I'm most looking forward to are the special effects.

unknown: 7:40

Okay.

Andy: 7:41

There is something great about whether or not special effects age well or not. And I I'm really looking forward to that. I'm assuming this is in the era I remember is the the dust and the fire making the different colors. That's it. I'm sure there is tons of practical effects that we'll see. I would assume. It's still in that era before like Star Wars.

Matt: 8:01

Episode one ruined, you know. So I wrote down a couple of fun facts that I found out about the show. So you mentioned the practical effects. So Steve Cole is the SFX chief for this. He went on to win numerous Emmys for his work on anybody want to guess? Uh Avatar. Who? No? Lord of the Rings. TV. It is a TV show. Oh, TV show.

Rob: 8:23

TV show. Um West Wing. Can you give us a channel that it was on?

Matt: 8:29

HBO. Game of Thrones. It is Game of Thrones. I was going to start singing the theme song. But yes. And he credited this with teaching him how to operate with no CGI and no budget. CGI.

Andy: 8:43

Alright, so we're getting a lot of practical effects then.

Rob: 8:46

Yeah, so what what episode are we going to do here first?

Matt: 8:48

So we're going to start out with uh I I Googled like what's a good episode, what's one of the top episodes? We're going to start off with the tale of the shiny red bicycle. This one was up there. And by the way, I do have other people here. You've heard their voices. Introduce yourselves. Oh, yeah.

Rob: 9:02

Hey guys, it's Rob. I'm Chris. And I'm Andy. I I think we should have a dramatic reading of the synopsis. Who would like to do that? And you just nominated yourself.

Matt: 9:12

Go for it. Okay.

Rob: 9:13

The tale of the shiny red bike.

Matt: 9:15

That's not nearly dramatic enough. Try again.

Rob: 9:18

The tale of the shiny red bicycle. Mike Buckley is often tormented by a repeated nightmare in which he relives the tragedy of his best friend Ricky, who died five years ago.

Andy: 9:39

I love this is season three. Ricky be dead! Ricky be dead! There's this kid with PTSD. Let's uh explore that. Yeah. Here we go. This was also the age of the uh after school specials, too. So for sure. Oh yeah.

Rob: 10:01

Guys, there's ads. You would think that this podcast could afford Paramount Plus Without Ads. Nope. This is Paramount Plus Without Ads. Oh. I stand corrected. I'm already creeped out.

Andy: 10:16

Which, Chris, what's your first thought re-seeing this? What game are you thinking of right off the bat? Game.

Rob: 10:23

Friday Night and Freddy's card game.

Andy: 10:28

Oh, uh betrayal? No. Lunch money. Oh, yeah, okay. It's like directly pulled from that style of art right now.

Matt: 10:35

So we got the spooky match, the the abandoned boat. Oh, and they always have a blue.

Rob: 10:41

The campfire, I forgot. Let's get them a few more minutes. Hey, is that the the guy from Mighty Ducks 2? Yes, it is. Oh my god. Sorry, we're late. Emilio. Hey, I heard about your bike getting stolen. You okay? Dwayne Puckman or something? I thought about your brother. It really ticked me off that someone could take something that was so important to me. Because once you have the right bike.

Matt: 11:19

No matter who else. So I kicked him in the nards.

Rob: 11:22

But it's not a total loss. David came up with a story about it. It's about this kid. Guy's got a unibrow. A bike that meant. He's like three hairs away from a unibrow.

Andy: 11:37

Actually, it looks like he tried to fix it and did a bad job at it.

Rob: 11:43

Submitted for the approval.

Andy: 11:45

Oh, here it comes. We all thought this was so cool. Oh shit. Just buy that crap online now.

Show Character : 11:54

The shiny red device.

Rob: 11:55

You know, they could have thrown like some boron in there and made it go like blue. Yeah, blue. I wasn't prepared. Music by Raymond Fabby. Written by Cassandra Shopping.

Andy: 12:17

We've got golf parts of this point.

Rob: 12:22

That's T Bushemi.

Andy: 12:24

No. My nose goes for days, by the way. That that is quite the schnapp. This is the PSK pokey call. Not uh playing in in uh oh my god, right into the damn release. Right into it.

Matt: 12:51

Oh, are they gonna run into it?

Andy: 12:53

Children are on body. Well we're talking about trauma. Is this how the kid dies? Yeah. Oh, you're about to watch a kid die? Oh yeah. Oh my god.

Matt: 13:07

Oh no. That board's like a little kid.

Show Character : 13:10

I'm stuck. Now my dad's thinking of more for real and cleaning it this weekend. Maybe this year, we try to catch a bat.

Andy: 13:17

Is this what inspired Jack? Oh no.

Rob: 13:22

There comes the bike.

Matt: 13:27

Oh, the clinging he's trying to save him. The slippage.

Andy: 13:35

Oh Ricky! Oh, Ricky, you're so fine. You're so fine. You blew up my heart. No, no, no, no, no. It's it's uh Hey Ricky. Oh, Ricky, you're so dead, you're so dead. Well, damn.

Show Character: 13:50

You're having another bad dream.

Show Character : 13:53

It's okay, Ben. Go back to sleep.

Show Character: 13:55

Honestly.

Rob: 13:55

You don't have to narrate what we just saw. Wow. That guy's real sweaty. I wonder if he's doing steroids.

Andy: 14:02

You had a bad dream, so I went and got a glass of water before I came to check on you. Yeah.

Rob: 14:10

Mikey, you had another nocturnal emission.

Show Character : 14:12

Are you okay? Jesus Christ.

Rob: 14:23

Looks like someone's gonna fall asleep in this corn wackies. What?

Show Character : 14:28

Are you alright, honey? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just a little tired, that's all.

Rob: 14:36

Trouble sleeping? No, I'm just Dreaming about my dead friend. Did anybody notice how he poured the milk in his cereal from his drinking glass of milk? That's an odd move.

Show Character : 14:48

You can stop blaming yourself for Ricky's death.

Rob: 14:56

I think I've seen him in a few of his other works in the early 90s.

Andy: 14:59

Yeah, but he's at he's now at every brewery. That exact guy.

Matt: 15:07

Anybody's dad sitting eating breakfast in a suit and tie? Just curious. I don't think I ever saw my dad.

Show Character : 15:12

Yeah, like last year. Hey, it was out half the season. Yeah, and you'll probably get beat up again. You heard it here first.

Rob: 15:22

It's the bike, everybody. Ominous music.

Andy: 15:27

I dress just like the bicycle.

Show Character : 15:37

Is that meant? Okay. Did you just see what?

Andy: 15:50

Early prediction, there's a gas leak in his room. Let's go. Strong, strong.

Show Character : 15:56

And so, only months to go, NASA met John F. Kennedy's challenge to put men on the moon before the end of the decade. The three chosen for this historic fight were Buzz Alder and Michael Collins.

Andy: 16:15

And I literally had to take a course on how not to be this teacher.

Show Character : 16:21

Mr. Buckley, are you with us?

Rob: 16:23

Mike Buckley!

Show Character : 16:28

Paying attention, are we? And maybe you would tell everybody what we were talking about before I had to stop and bring you back to work.

Andy: 16:40

So for the teachers in the audience.

Show Character : 16:43

Not quite. This is We're not covering I or U.

Andy: 16:46

You know what I'm talking about when I say we have to go through professional development for trauma-informed care. No. This is it, right here. The kid who's usually pretty good and is spaced out. Don't just embarrass that kid in front of everybody.

unknown: 17:02

Okay.

Andy: 17:02

Talk to him in a non-embarrassing way and find out what's wrong.

unknown: 17:05

Good.

Matt: 17:06

Take him out to the hallway and privately berate him, not in front of everybody else.

Andy: 17:12

Especially you got the kid who's normally pretty good, right? Oh Ghost Kitty's back. Ricky. You didn't save me, Mike. That was Ricky the Grey. I am Ricky the Drite.

Rob: 17:36

Ride, you fools.

Show Character : 17:38

Ricky? What? Who was Ricky? You mentioned the name Ricky in the classroom. As Westwood said, you kept repeating it. Why? He was a friend. Did you two have a fight?

Andy: 17:51

I pushed him off a bridge and killed him. Did Timmy fell in a w fall in a well?

Show Character : 17:58

You said he was your friend. Did you fight he was my friend? He's dead. I'm sorry. You're talking about the Haggerty boy. Leave it on. I still have a hard time with this guy. Sometimes. How so? Once in a while I get these dreams. They're nightmares, really. I'm always trying to save Ricky's life, but just like at the bridge, I can't. I keep hoping that the next time I'll be able to, the next time I can help. You know, they never even found his own.

Rob: 18:45

When he turns around, it's gonna be Ricky.

Show Character : 18:46

But you know that when the dream does come out the right way, it won't change the fact that your friend is gone. It's just a thing. He's not really gone. I saw him today. What? I mean.

Matt: 19:00

Reminder, I have a psych degree. That's when you call somebody.

Andy: 19:03

I'm gonna let you know. I will say that at least nurse is on the right path. Nurse is at least like talking it out. Trying to figure out what's going on.

Show Character : 19:14

You better have your parents. But now you've gone the wrong route.

Matt: 19:21

She did say, have the parents call the family physician.

Andy: 19:25

She the whole tone was wrong, right? Contact the parents. Well, oh, I just called it too early. Ghostly hypnoviolation.

Matt: 19:35

Ghostly hypo violation. He's holding his chart.

Andy: 19:41

I think I had that guy. Is that my Ford Tour station wagon?

unknown: 19:46

Mistakes.

Andy: 19:48

This dad is so pissed.

Rob: 19:49

Why'd you have to take me to see Dr. McBride anyway? Oh, I don't know. Maybe going into shock at the nurse's station and raving about seeing your dead best friend might have had something to do with it. You'll never miss the first day of fishing season? Not once. Not even the Yuriki. Mike.

Andy: 20:07

Can you get your shit together though?

Rob: 20:09

The doctor said bed rest, and that's exactly what it's gonna happen. Just believe work. I was just banging the secretary.

Andy: 20:16

And your principal called me.

Rob: 20:17

I also believe the doctor when he says that you should be in bed.

Andy: 20:21

Just at a cold play concert.

Show Character : 20:23

What? Who would slam on the brakes? I just saw Ricky riding his bike down Hanover Road. Dad, please, this will prove I'm not crazy.

Andy: 20:30

But you are, son. You are. That is definitely Timu Paul Giamatti.

Rob: 20:34

Paul Giamatti, yeah. What if it actually was Paul Giamatti? You didn't see Ricky Kidd! That was a terrible Paul Giamatti.

Andy: 20:42

That's a hard one to impersonate. I tried and then I started laughing. Run him over. Then we know he's dead. Three points. Man, we're tired squirreling that station wagon hard. Sorry, ma'am, my son's crazy.

Rob: 21:02

Sorry. That's it.

Show Character : 21:05

It's bedtime.

Andy: 21:06

Bedtime, middle of the day, by the way.

Rob: 21:15

He didn't? Also, just because he fell into uh some running water doesn't mean that he could have died, right?

Andy: 21:23

I mean, that those uh floodgates. That that's some fast moving water.

Rob: 21:29

I guess so, but uh but I don't know. That's what she said.

Matt: 21:37

You're taking his temperature.

Show Character : 21:39

I knew it. 99.6. Good.

Rob: 21:41

When he hits 190, 99.6. I don't get it. That was a good stock market joke. I'm gonna go get a movie. Can we get you anything while we're up? They're going to blockbuster.

Andy: 21:54

West Coast City Yo, bring home the entertainment.

Rob: 21:58

He's only gonna be here for a little while.

Matt: 22:00

Make it a blockbuster night.

Rob: 22:02

Alright. But the minute Mike starts nodding off, you hit the road.

Andy: 22:07

Thanks, Dad.

Show Character : 22:11

You're very smart, I'm gonna miss you not going fishing tomorrow. I wish you could go. Yeah, me too. I've never been to the river without you. I was going there when I was 10. Besides, uh, if you'll have your friends with you, that'd be cool. Just like you used to go with Ricky.

Matt: 22:29

Hopefully, your friends want to drop you in the river.

Show Character : 22:33

Mike, did you really see it? I swear I did, Ben. Everyone thinks I'm a few sandwiches short of a picnic. What a great line! This is a great line. If everyone did, I wouldn't be stuck in bed all stinking my head.

Andy: 22:50

He just starts rattling them all off.

Show Character : 22:52

I'll tell you what.

Andy: 22:53

I'm a few croutons short of a salad. A few clowns short of a circus.

Show Character : 22:59

You will? Sure.

Show Character: 23:02

Cool. So what did Dad's joke before me? Was it dirty?

Show Character : 23:09

No, it was just too grown up for you to understand it. Besides, it wasn't that funny. I think yours are much better. Wanna hear one? Okay. Ask me why I'm a great comedian. Why are you a great comedian? Tell me.

Matt: 23:39

I love the ethereal lighting on the door.

Andy: 23:51

Does Ricky have tiny hands? No, I guess they're kind of normal. Kind of normal. This is the angle.

Matt: 24:02

He's much less decomposed than I'd like him to be. What are you gonna do?

Andy: 24:13

What in the world? What kind of direction did that kid get?

Rob: 24:18

What do we think is coming up the stairs?

Show Character : 24:23

Where do you think you're going?

Show Character: 24:30

I need my taco.

Show Character : 24:36

Is everyone here going wacky? Come on, go get your shot. Mom and I will give you a ride to go with your dad. Don't be ridiculous. It's a long hike. I don't sound so excited about it.

Andy: 24:52

This is the best dad in the world. If that dude's not related to Paul Giamatti, I'd I'm on it. It's gotta be. Like it that looks like Tim Giamatti. Like he acts like him. Giamatti. How many rocks into a break cylinder? Right? That wasn't too easy.

Rob: 25:43

Mark Camacho is the man's name. Not a Giamatti. Is that a UN representation? What is it?

Andy: 25:54

All his flags sit in there? Wonder how many of those flags are still at the Like there's gotta be at least one that's like Czechoslovakia or something, yeah?

Rob: 26:07

The country formerly known as.

Andy: 26:12

Is that a flag for the Ottoman Empire? Wow. Save me.

Matt: 26:17

This room has a very odd decor going for it as well.

Rob: 26:20

Whoa. Cowboxers, everybody. Oh no, it's is that heifer? No. I thought it was rock, I thought it was cross-promotional. Oh, there's Ricky again in the front yard.

Show Character : 26:35

He wants me.

Andy: 26:39

I'm gonna murder that kid again. Alright, yeah, yeah. Going back to finish the job.

Show Character: 26:46

You don't understand. Isn't that where your brother's bringing our?

Andy: 26:50

We should go there.

Show Character: 26:51

Keep moving. I don't want to hear any more about breaking.

Andy: 26:57

Oh, now there's a danger sign. How convenient. Yeah.

Matt: 27:04

That strikes me as rather.

Andy: 27:06

Why is he looking on top the roof? Like I know it's your ghost friend, but of all places for your ghost friend to be, I don't think on the roof.

Matt: 27:15

He's behind you. No.

Show Character : 27:17

Ricky!

Andy: 27:20

There he is. There's the cold breath.

Show Character : 27:21

Here I am, Mike. Here I am.

Andy: 27:29

Rock you like a hurricane? Damn it, you gotta be touched.

Show Character : 27:32

Here I am. What do you want from me?

Andy: 27:34

He can touch him. Can't touch a ghost. Watch your body.

unknown: 27:46

Hey!

Andy: 27:46

Knocked over my beer. That had nothing in it. Yeah, what was that?

unknown: 27:50

Yeah.

Andy: 27:55

A bobber.

Show Character : 27:57

Sorry, another accident.

Andy: 27:59

Kick him in the nerds. Ra rah. Kick him in the knee. Ra rah rash. Kick him in the other knee. Your brother's gonna die.

Show Character : 28:14

I tried to save you, alright?

Andy: 28:16

Just like.

Show Character : 28:16

I tried, I did whatever I could. If that wasn't good enough, do whatever you want to me. I'm not here to hurt you, Mike. You're my best friend. You try to save my life. Why do you keep coming after me? I'm here to warn you. Warn me? That's great. Warn me! You know? What's so important that you have to come up here and what's giving me like he's about to be an idiot.

Rob: 28:45

Yeah, a little bit. So little bit. Fun fact the dad character primarily does video game voiceover work.

Show Character : 28:52

He's in danger, Mike.

Rob: 28:54

All the Far Cry games, some of the Assassin's Creed games, all in his IMDB. Oh shit. Wow. Get him on the pod. I wonder if Justin was in. And he played. He played President Nixon in X-Men Days of Future Past.

Matt: 29:08

Oh He somehow got his boot stuck under a rock. Trying to get his bobber back that his friend threw.

Andy: 29:16

Is he gonna ride the ghost bike? Kick him in the head. Ride the ghost bike. Does this make him the ghost trader? Yes. Where it all starts.

Show Character : 29:26

I miss you, Ricky.

Andy: 29:28

I'd miss you more if you'd leave me alone.

Show Character : 29:31

Get going. It's a long ride, and we don't want to bend on this side just yet.

Rob: 29:37

Ghost bike ride.

Andy: 29:42

Couldn't afford the rights. I don't miss ghost bike out of the boot.

Matt: 29:51

That's the ghost bike. I was really hoping he peddled twice and the bike would just disappear anyway.

Andy: 29:58

That's not a real bike, you idiot. Now I've got a gold bike. I've got a ghost friend in the skin knee. That was still in Florida. Please tell me that's exactly what's gonna happen right now. Now why 100%?

Rob: 30:19

Why wouldn't he tell the man? He doesn't know how it works. Oh, it's a different man. No, it's the same.

Andy: 30:26

Look at that for the guy with big old shots.

Rob: 30:36

I'm in his gears turning. The same time every day that release the damn, that makes nothing to the damn 2080s.

Andy: 30:44

They don't fucking know. That's a weak scream.

Matt: 30:51

Take your boot off, you idiot!

Andy: 30:55

You'll uh do a sick trick. He's just gonna dump the bike.

Rob: 31:01

Betcha it's not gonna be there when he comes back to Better Fencing for the win.

Andy: 31:13

I mean, I guess it's better than the Rickety Woods. Huh? Rickety Woods.

Matt: 31:20

We got some serious PTSD going on here.

Andy: 31:23

Guarantee a bike's not there when you beat me.

Matt: 31:37

The rock is moving!

Andy: 31:42

Oh shit. Decent size boulder is without the buttons.

Matt: 31:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's quite plastic, it's quite good.

Andy: 32:25

It's been there the whole time. Chris, we were wrong. Ah, the bike looks like it's been run over. But the tires look shockingly new, right? That's true, yeah. For how beat up and rusted up the bike is. The tires look really fresh.

Rob: 32:41

Why had it taken so many years to find him? Mike Buckley will tell you that it's because he wasn't even down there. Not at least until he had paid back a favor.

Andy: 32:54

Or eyebrow.

Matt: 32:59

So the favor he had to pay back for letting him die was to save his younger brother.

Andy: 33:03

That's a little convoluted. Yep. You couldn't save me, but you could save your brother, but only with my help.

Matt: 33:12

And they pour out. Somehow the fire went out. Instantly. Yes. Almost like someone turned off a gas burner somewhere.

Andy: 33:24

It was also like he was strategically pouring the bucket so no water went in the gas burner. Right, right, right, right. So you missed it, Chris. The bike was there, but it was old. It was rusty and old. It was there. What a twist. But the tires pressy. How do you age tires? We don't know how to do we don't have the technology for this. Don't put the tires on, right?

Matt: 33:52

Like so I I mean, as an adult, no impact whatsoever. As a kid, though, I can see that being a little PSA, right?

Andy: 34:02

Is that Ryan Gosling? We had a lot of good PSAs in there. Indeed it is. The importance of trauma-informed care. If the kids freaking out in class, try and figure out why they're freaking out. You got the importance of I don't think that was apparent at all. The teacher told me the teacher just bullied him. Well, I'm making that PSA. Okay, there you go. We've got the importance of uh not playing near a floodgate. Like Yeah, when there's a danger sign, maybe pay attention to the danger sign. But I don't think there was a danger sign. No, not not when Ricky. There's no danger sign for Ricky.

Matt: 34:38

Ricky became the danger sign. Yes, yes.

Andy: 34:40

Most importantly, if you put your foot in something and it gets stuck, your first try should be just to pull it right back the way it came from.

Rob: 34:50

Yeah.

Andy: 34:51

Most likely. Insanity. Most likely. I mean, maybe if there was a bear trap down there, it'd be more believable. Also importantly. Who left a bear trap in the river?

Rob: 35:01

It's about the bikes we rode along the way.

Matt: 35:06

You never know. So we're in between episodes here. We're gonna move on to the tale of the ghastly grinner. And we gained a friend. We did. Hi, Shabai. Hello!

Siobhan: 35:34

Great to not see you all. But but I've been here for you to listen to.

Matt: 35:39

So Chris unilaterally nominated you to introduce the old fashion.

Siobhan: 35:43

Oh, great. I just sat down, but I will do that. Um, it you used honey in it, just double checking before intro. Great. He's probably really sad about that because he texted me about it. But um, this is a fall old fashion that I found on the great old Google, and it has bourbon. I I don't know what kind.

Matt: 36:02

Buffalo Trace.

Siobhan: 36:03

Perfect.

Matt: 36:04

Um this is this is our we're apologetic. Thank you, Buffalo Trace, for what we did to it in the roll for cocktail episode. Oh yeah, for real. So I legit dry heaved.

Andy: 36:14

You did. I was just listening.

Siobhan: 36:16

You weren't even there. You didn't have to look at all. So this is classic old fashioned for those of you that don't know, even though at this point, if you've heard enough episodes here, you probably should know. It's bourbon, bitters, simple syrup, and usually orange or some kind of other type of thing that kind of mixes with it. But this has some cider included and a little bit of honey for some sweetness for the fall. Um, yeah, and it's a good, pretty much good ratio. So that's all that really is.

Andy: 36:44

Three ounces of bourbon to one and a half apple cider. Perfect. So it's gonna have a kick. Yeah. And I garnished it with a cine stick and an apple slice. Cinnamon sugar rim. And a cinnamon sugar rim. Okay, cheers for us.

Matt: 36:59

Pretty tasty.

Rob: 37:01

That's quite lovely.

Matt: 37:02

Delightful.

Siobhan: 37:03

That's good. The recipe that I found online is actually equal parts bourbon to cider. And I thought that was kind of lame. So I I suggested that we cut the cider in half. Because you want to taste the bourbon in an old fashioned, right? I definitely got bourbon.

Andy: 37:18

That's one of my like late autumn go-to drinks, is just take like three-quarters of a pint of cider and then a quarter pint of bourbon to lift that up. Especially like not a like top shelf bourbon, like a like a maker's marker. Evan um Evan Williams, Evan Williams, yeah. Which has got a little bit more of a of a bite. We were disappointed by that in the uh bourbon tasting. No, it's not good on its own. Yeah.

Siobhan: 37:47

Yikes.

Andy: 37:48

You just don't feel bad coming soon.

Matt: 37:50

Yes, absolutely.

Siobhan: 37:51

Delightful.

Matt: 37:52

So while we're enjoying an old fashioned, I have Susan, the old fashioned. I know how much Siobhan loves some fun trivia facts. Yes, I think. There we go. Famous people that before they were famous were in episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? Love it. Ryan Gosling. Yep. We saw his picture. Jewel State.

Siobhan: 38:12

Oh, cool.

Matt: 38:13

So she's from uh Firefly.

Siobhan: 38:16

Played Haley and Firefly.

Matt: 38:17

Yeah, yeah. Yep. He was famous already, but uh Gilbert Gottfried. Wow. I seem to remember that. Yep. Tia and Tamara Maori.

Andy: 38:26

What the hell? That checks out because they were Nickelodeon standards, yeah. Yep. Melissa Joan Hart. Yep.

Rob: 38:33

I mean, I think she's about to be in this episode. I think I see her face right there.

Siobhan: 38:36

Oh.

Rob: 38:37

In the thumbnail to the left.

Matt: 38:38

Carol Lipinski.

Siobhan: 38:40

What?

Matt: 38:41

The figure skater. That's correct. Nev Campbell. These are cool.

Rob: 38:46

Is it a Neve?

Matt: 38:48

Sure.

Rob: 38:48

Well I'm joking. He did not have anywhere.

Matt: 38:54

He wanted to be and Anakin Skywalker himself, Hayden Christensen. Oh, that tracks. Yep. So did he kill kids in this as well?

Siobhan: 39:03

Oh no.

Andy: 39:05

I mean too soon in this. True. True.

Siobhan: 39:08

He was technically a kid when he killed kids as well.

Matt: 39:12

So if anybody was wondering every season they would film the campfire scenes up front on a soundstage in Quebec, so they're all done in one week, back to back for the whole season. Canadia. Is this a Canadian show?

Siobhan: 39:25

Yeah. I think so.

Rob: 39:27

And I think a lot of these TV studios uh would get tax credits to film in Canada.

Siobhan: 39:32

Well, that's a lot of people.

Rob: 39:33

Like a lot of the CW stuff films in Vancouver. Oh yeah. Well it did be when they existed before you know DC merged with uh Warner Brothers and HBO and all that other discovery.

Matt: 39:46

And the original title for this is the worst dad joke ever. It was supposed to be Scary Tales.

Siobhan: 39:52

Okay.

Andy: 39:55

Sorry after the dark. Big improvement. Yeah. Okay. Well that also reminds me, another one of the 90s spooky favorites was those scary stories. Scary stories to tell the dogs. Those were a mess, yeah. Those were amazing. That's what I was gonna say earlier. Uh so inspired by this with a bunch of kids around a campfire telling ghost stories, a bunch of friends of mine. We used to go up into the woods and do the same thing, and those were the ones that we would typically read.

Siobhan: 40:21

Those were those will mess you up.

Andy: 40:23

The stories weren't as terrifying as pictures in them. Good God, the spider crawling out of a face. Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely.

Matt: 40:33

Do you remember the look it up? There was one in there. An ice, like some guy like hearing tapping on the ice over and over again, and then he wakes up and it's like a clock in the room. That that one messed with me. That was the thing.

Siobhan: 40:46

We gotta read those. We should do that. Another one.

Rob: 40:50

Who would like to be the dramatic reader of this particular synopsis?

Siobhan: 40:58

Sure. Okay. Uh we are about to watch The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner. And it says Ethan's dream is to become a great comic book artist, but his dream turns into a nightmare when he accidentally brings a hideous cartoon character to life.

Rob: 41:14

Bump, bump.

Siobhan: 41:16

Right?

Andy: 41:17

See, I told you it is. We talked about it maybe off pod, so we'll bring it now up. Is that we're not sure if this is the episode where they've got the clown and then the kids like laugh with the blue goo coming out of their face. So that may be from King's.

Siobhan: 41:32

We weren't sure if it was goose bumps or this, and I feel like we're gonna see that the special. Hang on. That was different goo.

Andy: 41:40

Different goo. Different goo. But is it the same origin?

Rob: 41:44

I miss that cocktail, by the way. That was a surprisingly good cocktail. That was a good one.

Andy: 41:49

We don't think so. That was another one. I was not on that episode of the Black Cherry Jelly. I'm like, that doesn't sound good at all.

Matt: 41:54

It was surprisingly good.

Siobhan: 41:55

To be fair, it was still better than any of the ones that we really, most of the ones that we had during the roll for cocktail.

Matt: 42:00

Yeah. Do you have still better than the Mescal?

Siobhan: 42:03

And here we go. Hey.

Rob: 42:06

We're gonna get commercial again, aren't we? We might. T V Y 7. There's the bone B bone. We're swinging creepy swings. Creepy shutters.

Matt: 42:22

Oh, creepy clown. Key ho!

Siobhan: 42:30

I think I had this CD-rom game.

Matt: 42:33

This was a CD-rom game?

Siobhan: 42:35

I think so.

Matt: 42:36

Really? Doesn't surprise me.

Siobhan: 42:37

But like yeah.

Rob: 42:44

Come on! What's the holder? Keep the flashlight still.

Matt: 42:50

Yeah, I can take it. A little aggressive there on the flashlight snatch.

Show Character : 42:54

The logs are wet.

Rob: 43:00

That's not good.

Show Character : 43:01

Oh, right. No way! It's a comic book. It's not a comic.

Siobhan: 43:14

Or anyone that knows who that is.

Rob: 43:15

I thought it was uh one of the Bash brothers from D2 Mighty Ducks.

Andy: 43:22

I guarantee that comic book's worth a hundred bucks today.

Show Character : 43:27

Anchor pizzas before bed?

Siobhan: 43:29

I know that.

Show Character : 43:29

Chicken the checker. What if it's not made out? How would you describe that sweater? Something more.

Siobhan: 43:37

90s.

Show Character : 43:38

Ghastly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A guidebook to another dimension.

Matt: 43:44

That's believable. She managed to start a roaring campfire and light bow sticks on fire. You're a wizard, Harry. Incendio.

Show Character : 43:57

Comic books take you into a world of fantasy and adventure.

Andy: 44:01

Legit, somebody made that sweater.

Show Character : 44:03

It was like somebody's imagination or somebody's experience. Submit it for the approval of the Midnight Society. I call this story the tale of the ghastly grinner.

Matt: 44:23

That sweater is Native American versus meets old Navy.

Siobhan: 44:26

Yeah, and Crayola.

Andy: 44:29

Anne Frank. Needs a little more glitter, but Lisa Frank. Shit. Shit. I'm sitting here. I'm like, that's not right. It's the wrong one. Damn it. Lisa Frank. Definitely not Anne Frank. I was so confused. It's bad enough that you couldn't hear it.

Matt: 44:56

Oh, we know this kid.

Andy: 44:59

Is that the sticker from corn? No.

Siobhan: 45:06

Yes, it is. No.

Matt: 45:08

Oh, he's ripping up that room.

Andy: 45:12

Ripped up like a freak on a leash.

Unfiltered Studios Announcer: 45:14

That's a pretty good event for the letter.

Matt: 45:18

Where'd it come from?

Andy: 45:20

We just got a letter.

Matt: 45:22

You have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcrafters.

unknown: 45:27

Whoa.

Matt: 45:27

Welcome to the grand opening of Books Inc. Fun prizes. Come early.

Siobhan: 45:34

Somebody took a scrapbooking class. Oh, Superman's been working out. Yeah, Jesus.

Andy: 45:43

Ah, there's lights on.

Matt: 45:45

Avoid the crowd.

Andy: 45:48

I forget what else this kid is in, but he's definitely in other stuff. I'll tell you in a moment.

Rob: 45:53

Yeah.

Siobhan: 45:54

Oh my god. These signs are scary. Yes, X-Men. Oh. Clarissa.

Show Character : 46:03

What are you looking for? Cakes? Cakes. Got a big sale on Dusk Boy. Dollar a piece, four for five. Fish man. Reported by day. Radioactive trout by night.

Andy: 46:14

I know it was the joke to call it four for five, which made it more expensive.

Matt: 46:20

I got this.

Siobhan: 46:21

That isn't Melissa Doner.

Rob: 46:23

No, it's not.

Siobhan: 46:24

Okay. I thought it was her for a second. She has like Roy Liechtenstein map like lifting on.

Show Character : 46:31

Did you bring some of your drawings? How did you know I draw?

Siobhan: 46:37

This is some stranger danger.

Show Character : 46:39

Come on, I'm a professional. He was also in goosebumps. A lot of those Zoomers wouldn't know that. Well, that's unfair. Uncas. Pardon? You're a little rough around the edges, cakes. But you draw like one of the greats.

Andy: 46:59

Billy Madison. Oh, oh yeah, it's the friend in high school. One of the two kids that he befriends.

Show Character : 47:10

Uh no.

Rob: 47:14

It would have been only one year after he shot this. So it would have been about the same age.

Andy: 47:20

Getting a lot of work.

Show Character : 47:22

Could reduce his victims.

Andy: 47:24

Oh, that's the old school Dungeons and Dragons book in the background there. Hell yeah.

Siobhan: 47:28

This is this is definitely.

Andy: 47:31

Yep. Oh, yeah.

Show Character : 47:36

Drawn by Sylvester.

Andy: 47:37

Very dramatic.

Show Character : 47:39

He was a genius, but didn't have the guts for the grinner. It was so frightening. Ugh. He only drew one issue, and then he disappeared. This is the only copy left. It's all yours. I can't afford this. Grand opening special. That's on the house. Thanks. Don't thank me, cakes. Thank Sylvester.

Siobhan: 48:15

I can't. She's like from Little Shop of Horrors. And they put her into a comic book shop.

Andy: 48:22

What in the hell?

Siobhan: 48:24

What the fuck does that mean? Science class is this. How did we get the science class?

Show Character: 48:31

Microwaves. Who can tell me how they work?

Matt: 48:33

We hate you.

Show Character: 48:34

Of course you know Miss Pecolaro. Let's give someone else a try, shall we?

Matt: 48:39

He also hates you. She looks like um, oh my god, what was the cartoon? The thorn berries?

Siobhan: 48:45

Come now, show me those. Yes. Oh my god. Oh my god, I'm so gross. The drawing is bad.

Show Character: 49:02

Try to comic book, Mr. Wood. We have only so much room in our minds. We mustn't seek to fill it with tribe. You can't. It's one of a kind. Correction! It's non-white.

Siobhan: 49:19

What a good joke, teacher. Comic book and the fish. No wonder no one respects teachers now who kids from the 90s.

Andy: 49:26

Also, exciting the movie. There was never a science teacher who lived that would not have been all in on the comic books. That's very true. Winning parents number two.

Rob: 49:42

Is that Benicio del Toro in a fatsuit?

Show Character : 49:47

Yes. He just doesn't want to see you wasting your time on comic books.

Rob: 49:52

This is Deanne's son. We'll get one more call like that, and there'll be no comic books for you until you finish.

Matt: 49:58

And no math either.

Show Character : 49:59

What? It's funny that they think he's going to college.

Siobhan: 50:08

Oh, look at that microwave. It's hard to make popcorn in the microwave, right? Just ask me. I suck at it. He retreats.

Andy: 50:30

To be fair, we haven't seen any out of it yet. So we're just going to be popcorn.

Matt: 50:35

Oh, brilliant idea. He's gonna microwave for comic. I this kid ain't going to college.

Siobhan: 50:42

Dead science teacher is so mad. This kid ain't going to college.

Rob: 50:46

If there's any heavy metals in the ink, it's gonna let on fire.

Siobhan: 50:51

Take a message. Staples mom. Also, do you put in for nine minutes? Okay. And walked away. Are you trying to say for nine minutes?

Andy: 51:02

Are you trying to say your microwave does not have a warm up the comic book settings? No one's gonna mention the rotary phone.

Show Character: 51:10

Nobody's gonna call that out. I guess I'm a nerd. Oh, right. I mean, you're not a nerd. That's okay. I think a person should know what they are.

Siobhan: 51:20

She's a self-aware nerd. We love that for her. This is that's this is Chris's nightmare, you guys. Oh my god. Except that it's also his living office.

Matt: 51:34

If anybody remembers Christmas vacation with Clark Griswold's thousand plugs, that was 30 times worse. With kitchen appliances. Yeah. Oh my god.

Andy: 51:45

What is that? Oh, look, there's still a couple open outlets.

Matt: 51:49

House fire. My grandparents legit had those connectors.

Siobhan: 51:55

Look at that crock pot. This camera work is straight out. That's all that happened? I guess we're glad.

unknown: 52:06

Did your house just explode?

Matt: 52:08

Yep. Bye. Dad? Mom?

Siobhan: 52:15

I can't see.

unknown: 52:17

Dad, I'm right.

Siobhan: 52:18

I really hope that there's not real smoke in this and he's just acting.

Andy: 52:23

Well, they were saying it was all practical effects. We talked about that a little bit earlier. See, it works.

Matt: 52:30

Wow. That's not how physics works at all.

Andy: 52:33

I mean Oh, look at that cutout. It's almost like the clown ran through the Maybe you should open the door to get rid of this.

Show Character : 52:48

Oops. Too late.

Andy: 52:53

There's the one.

Siobhan: 52:55

There it is. This is messed up, you guys.

Rob: 52:59

There's a commercial break. Where's the blue goo?

Siobhan: 53:03

There it is.

Rob: 53:05

You're coming blind. That's blue goo.

Show Character : 53:08

Dad, something's happened to mom. Made any good jokes lately?

Siobhan: 53:15

Listen, you're better off, kid. Let them laugh and live their lives.

Andy: 53:22

Again, middle of the day. We're filming at nice cost more. You gotta have light.

Siobhan: 53:28

After school, even pay for all that lighting. I really need him to brush his hair.

Show Character: 53:34

Any good jokes lately, Ethan? What? It's only me, Hoover B. Get down! What are you doing here? I heard the explosion over the phone. What's going on? I don't know how, but I think I just brought this guy to life. Gassy grinder? Grinner. Oh my god.

Rob: 54:00

This is what inspired the name of the act.

Siobhan: 54:02

That's it, you guys. Let's look at her.

Rob: 54:04

Nobody wants a gassy grinder.

Siobhan: 54:07

I'm not outing this girl, but let's be real about our lives. If she has Doc Martins on, we might know why. Okay?

Rob: 54:13

She's driving us Uber.

Siobhan: 54:16

She's got that U-Haul ready. Here we are.

Show Character: 54:29

Well, I don't have an Uncle Bob.

Siobhan: 54:35

What? Because that's who they were welcoming into the house. Uncle Bob. And it's like, so we don't know who this is as somebody.

Matt: 54:44

We're getting on a bus to get the hell out of town.

Siobhan: 54:46

This is the the bus in town. Like, where what is happening?

Andy: 54:49

Whoa, the back of the head grab. Yeah, that was quite a time. Yeah, she just discovered.

Siobhan: 54:56

I think she might have known. I'm looking at just parents.

Matt: 55:03

Grab me grinning, daddy.

Siobhan: 55:07

Volume two.

Andy: 55:12

Oh. There's no other way he can look at the road while his head's turned around. You kids like Mexico!

Siobhan: 55:22

Where's Sandra Bullock? Woo! I can't let this bus go under 55.

Rob: 55:28

Where's Tiamu?

Siobhan: 55:30

Indeed. Oh no, she's falling. Oh. He's like, I've always wanted to pull this emergency break.

Andy: 55:40

Oh my god, this bus in yellow is so good. It's totally not moving. Like, look out the window. That's great. That's great. Oh no. Oh. See, he should have wanted to see. Couldn't afford a smashed windshield. It's a rental bus.

Siobhan: 55:59

Them Canadian buses are expensive. Oh no. Okay, that's messed up. That's mildly creepy.

Show Character : 56:06

Why is this happening? It's not real. It's just a comic book. Not if you believe in the Uncansian theory.

Andy: 56:13

We've got another book of the dragon.

Siobhan: 56:15

Right, yep, in the bow. With a bow? Like why is it wrapped up with a bow? That feels too cool.

Show Character : 56:23

Real worlds. Like a nutcase. That's what everyone thought. Until he drew the gas in the greener.

Siobhan: 56:31

Let me just tell you, I'm pretty sure this woman's in QAnon now.

Show Character : 56:35

There's no way she isn't. And he wanted to put a stop to it before it was too late. This was to be the final issue.

Rob: 56:47

There's a numerology there.

Show Character : 56:49

It's not done!

Siobhan: 56:51

You must finish it. Before you can finish. I can't imagine that they're actual Star Wars.

Matt: 56:58

Does anybody remember the like late 80s, 90s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Hell yes. He doesn't exactly where her costuming was done.

Andy: 57:06

Do you mean the movie or the movie?

Show Character : 57:09

How do you know all this? Sylvester Uncas was my father.

Siobhan: 57:16

Oh. Oh my god, the dramatic look. Yeah, how long have you been waiting to do that? That's why I'm not sure. 30 seconds. Okay, good. I love that.

Andy: 57:26

He was my father, and he never hugged me. Clearly. Uncas backwards. Is it is the name something backwards?

Show Character : 57:33

Bring my father back.

Andy: 57:35

How son? I'm not microwave. Sunko.

Show Character : 57:41

That's who ronzo in the first place, right?

Andy: 57:44

Okay, definitely nothing.

Matt: 57:45

And that's where we lost listeners for this episode.

Show Character: 57:48

What if I can find a microwave oven that big? Not an oven. Mr. Ritzman. No. The only way to stop the Not the Goo.

Matt: 57:57

Oh god. Look up. Look up.

Siobhan: 57:59

It's the screenshot. Thumbnail. There he is!

Rob: 58:07

What is the matter?

Siobhan: 58:11

Okay.

Rob: 58:12

Oh, geez.

Siobhan: 58:16

Okay, girl.

Andy: 58:17

The strength to pull someone up.

Siobhan: 58:21

He's ghastly.

Matt: 58:22

Six feet in the air.

Siobhan: 58:24

I don't know about six feet.

Matt: 58:27

Are we gonna bat a microwave or jester? Is that what's gonna happen here?

Siobhan: 58:31

Yes.

Matt: 58:32

If only I paid attention in science class.

Siobhan: 58:34

Yeah.

Andy: 58:35

They need to make sure he can't.

Siobhan: 58:36

Guess what?

Show Character: 58:37

This nervous can't reproduce. Yeah, I know. You sit across from me in Mr. Reigns in science class. I think this will work. As long as a paraboloid can sustain the initial microwave intensity and the focal region is sufficiently agitated.

Matt: 59:01

Yeah. Listen, Hooper. It might get dangerous.

Andy: 59:09

You do your science shit. What about you? I'll pretend I'm a man. I started this right.

Siobhan: 59:14

I got nerd girls saving the world once again.

Andy: 59:17

Children about to get eaten. That's just gonna I am just an explanation for this. Well, clearly. Is that uncus?

Matt: 59:24

Um not one that you'd buy. This is no hey, this guy.

Andy: 1:00:05

Micro Labor know how I got these cards. I'm gonna go.

Siobhan: 1:00:15

Yeah, get him. Wait, what? How did they get out and brought?

Matt: 1:00:21

Somehow magically escaped.

Siobhan: 1:00:23

Okay, that was a big old change. What are we doing, Benny?

Rob: 1:00:29

We're wondering as well.

Siobhan: 1:00:32

This girl has to check her hearing if them took away.

Rob: 1:00:37

This is the kid today.

Siobhan: 1:00:39

Oh, I thought that was a ghastly grinner for a second.

Andy: 1:00:42

That looks like a glad he got a haircut.

Rob: 1:00:44

Wow.

Show Character: 1:00:45

Microwaves are the answer. We just weren't using them right. There's only one.

Rob: 1:00:50

This girl looks like Timu MyMBalic.

Show Character: 1:00:52

Yes. Sure. Glasses.

Siobhan: 1:00:56

It was height of blossom, was it not? I think so. It's probably lining up pretty close.

Show Character: 1:01:03

She believed in you.

Siobhan: 1:01:05

But if you don't believe in yourself, she's an Aneogram, too. Everybody. Nobody cares, but I'm telling you that's true.

Matt: 1:01:16

If you say so.

Siobhan: 1:01:18

Yep, I do. Montage! Time for a montage.

Matt: 1:01:22

She got her pencil case out now.

unknown: 1:01:24

Oh.

Matt: 1:01:25

Drawing people with big fists. Yeah. Andy's waiting for her to get out her uh Anne Frank folder. It's hidden really well.

Siobhan: 1:01:36

Oh it is. Yes.

Matt: 1:01:40

How much longer? I'm almost finished.

Andy: 1:01:46

Quick, it's gooein' us.

Matt: 1:01:48

Ew.

Andy: 1:01:49

Oh god.

Show Character : 1:01:52

It sure sure is gooey. I wonder where he is.

Siobhan: 1:01:57

Okay, you got some shit to learn.

Andy: 1:02:02

Obviously, it's a big gun.

Matt: 1:02:08

Let's just say noise. Oh, by the pigtails. Cake number two unlocked.

Show Character: 1:02:21

This is the best part. I don't have much of a sense of human.

Andy: 1:02:24

Oh, she's German.

Show Character: 1:02:26

Hey Smiley.

Matt: 1:02:30

Who's laughing now?

Show Character : 1:02:37

Whoa.

Andy: 1:02:41

And we never saw him again.

Siobhan: 1:02:43

He said now. Bye.

Andy: 1:02:55

Some Jumanji shit.

Siobhan: 1:02:56

Yeah. For real. Oh.

Show Character: 1:03:02

Stay with me. We're getting out. I'm with you, Kid. Let's go.

Show Character : 1:03:09

You can't.

Show Character: 1:03:14

Microwaves didn't work in my world, but they're yours.

Matt: 1:03:27

Microwave bad guys after all. I mean, where did you go? Into the other world.

Siobhan: 1:03:35

Sad and cakes.

Andy: 1:03:37

I don't get it.

Siobhan: 1:03:37

I don't know.

Rob: 1:03:39

Weird.

Andy: 1:03:39

Yep. I think it might be. Clearly.

Rob: 1:03:48

Her name is Hooper?

Siobhan: 1:03:50

Yeah. I'm sorry. She's only said it like eight times.

Rob: 1:03:53

Hooper.

Siobhan: 1:03:55

Oh. We can only hope. Oh, nope, we're good. Whoa. Oh, it's on fire.

Matt: 1:04:11

Wow. Ethan!

Andy: 1:04:16

I how did they not get an enemy for this? I know all right.

Siobhan: 1:04:21

Right? Oh my god.

Show Character: 1:04:24

I guess I'm glad you're not dead.

Siobhan: 1:04:26

I guess.

Show Character: 1:04:27

So am I.

Siobhan: 1:04:28

We don't care. You're crazy. Horrifying.

Show Character : 1:04:34

Is that Ricky? I wanted to be my father. Sylvester Uncas.

Siobhan: 1:04:41

Wow, you're allowed to do Ethan. That'd be great if there was like continuity between episodes, right?

Matt: 1:04:52

Apparently there are a lot of other episode Easter eggs throughout this show.

Siobhan: 1:04:57

That's kind of cool. We always encourage towns, didn't we, dear? Okay, the sunglasses too much. Yeah, Anagastar, for sure.

Rob: 1:05:16

It was giving me Anagastar. Yeah, absolutely.

Show Character : 1:05:18

Sylvester Uncast never drew a comic again. He had enough excitement for one lifetime.

Siobhan: 1:05:26

He also looks like a member of the city.

Matt: 1:05:28

And now she's gone full goth like what happened. She's so cool now.

Siobhan: 1:05:31

She's Charlie XCXing all over us.

Matt: 1:05:34

She went from the nerdiest outfit ever. She was the matrix. What happened?

Siobhan: 1:05:38

Yep. That's a glow-up right there.

Rob: 1:05:40

That's baby Trinity.

Show Character : 1:05:44

Continued next issue. That was really uh ghastly.

Rob: 1:05:50

Okay.

Show Character : 1:05:55

Thanks for running with world. That was awesome.

Siobhan: 1:05:59

I feel like someone should say to check that the fire went out. And they don't really do that.

Rob: 1:06:03

They turned off the gas, it's fine.

Siobhan: 1:06:04

Oh, great. Okay, well, good.

Rob: 1:06:07

Well, dude, do you think that's the first one? This one was definitely edgier and more scary than the first. I will say that 100%.

Siobhan: 1:06:14

I'm glad that I picked this one.

Rob: 1:06:17

This is a solid selection here. This is some pretty cool outro music, if I may say so.

Matt: 1:06:31

Gelodian. There we go. Apparently.

Siobhan: 1:06:33

Yay!

Matt: 1:06:34

You know what? What do we think?

Rob: 1:06:37

The person, first off here. The person who I thought was Melissa Joan Art is the boy.

unknown: 1:06:43

Oh!

Siobhan: 1:06:46

That's fun for you to admit. That's good. Well done.

Matt: 1:06:49

Well done. Okay.

Siobhan: 1:06:51

All right.

Matt: 1:06:52

Anyway, go on. Well, I was gonna say, I one of the things I want to start doing with this show going forward is picking one drink from the episode to name the Stellar Zip. Oh, yeah. That said, we've had such a plethora from this episode today. We did start out with Sam Adams' Oktoberfest, which is one of my favorite beers, if not oddly my favorite beer overall. But this fall old-fashioned. Absolutely wonderful. Yep. Does anybody disagree that I pushed that I, you know.

Siobhan: 1:07:21

Alright, and you can shut up if you do.

Matt: 1:07:25

100%. Nice. For sure. Yeah. Delightful. Oh, I found the cinnamon stick. It was a very easy down there at the bottom.

Siobhan: 1:07:34

Mine's gone.

Matt: 1:07:35

Alright. You ate the cinnamon stick?

Siobhan: 1:07:37

I did not eat the cinnamon stick.

Andy: 1:07:39

No, no, her cocktail is gone.

Siobhan: 1:07:40

The drink is gone.

Matt: 1:07:41

I don't think I'm gonna eat the apple either, but I'm definitely gonna eat the apple. Yeah, it's gonna happen. I gotta say, there's obviously a lot more comedic value at age 39 than it was at age nine. There's a bit of a difference there.

Andy: 1:07:54

Fair enough. I'd actually be really curious for you to watch these with your daughter and see what she's doing. See if they're still spooky for the right age group.

Matt: 1:08:03

That would be rather interesting. She doesn't typically do things that are very scary at all, so it might be a good like. Okay, I don't I don't know many kids.

Andy: 1:08:11

I'm not saying do it for a podcast, but but I posterity. At the age we started watching like legitimately scary stuff. Not just this. Right. But like, you know, like I said earlier, I watched Poltergeist and Exorcist. Exorcist way too young. Um I kids don't do that now. Like I feel like, because like Five Nights at Freddy's is a big thing right now. Is it still? I don't think that's a thing for kids who are like. And they're also like a lot of surprisingly young kids have watched Wednesday.

Siobhan: 1:08:43

Is that that scary? I don't think so. I mean, it's scarier probably than what was on TV. I'd put it in this.

Andy: 1:08:49

Minimum on par with this. It's like the dark funny though. Not really the dark scary. It's also got some really bad acting. I didn't love it.

Rob: 1:08:56

Well, like we just watched a bunch of a better word, gore. Yeah. Like a little bit more gore.

Show Character : 1:09:04

It's got some gore to it, yeah.

Rob: 1:09:05

Um I mean, it's like kind of like a a tween murder mystery type situation going on. Which is not bad. I don't know, but it's not bad. Yeah. I like the first season better than the second. I thought they were both kind of.

Andy: 1:09:21

We just finished it like yesterday or the day before.

Rob: 1:09:25

Yeah, I just finished it over the weekend myself.

Andy: 1:09:28

I definitely think this kind of style doesn't exist much. So, Drill. One thing I will say is Stranger Things. Yeah. Because I feel like Stranger Things had like a little bit of a kid angle to it.

Siobhan: 1:09:40

Yeah, and because it called back to the 80s, 90s too.

Andy: 1:09:43

This is that like Monster of the Week style show, which I don't think really happens much anymore. Yeah. Like Matt referenced the Buffy, right? Like that style of show that was like they battled a different monster in the episode of the show. Even back to like Scooby-Doo and stuff like that, where there was a weekly episode and there was a bad guy, and there was some scariness to it, and then oops, okay, was something funny in the end.

Siobhan: 1:10:07

A weekly episode isn't really even a thing anymore, right? Like there it there is in a lot of ways, but like you gotta gate yourself in so many ways. Like you really are like given whole seasons sometimes or groups of episodes.

Matt: 1:10:21

So well, to that to that point, like they're doing like old people now. They're doing a scrubs reboot reboot. I'm fine with that. And apparently Scrubs is gonna be like on network television, like not released, like here's not 10 episode drop. So I'm interested in seeing like you don't see that much anymore. That's like there are shows like that, but this is still fun though.

Siobhan: 1:10:41

I feel like there's a level of nostalgia, obviously, to this for all of us.

Matt: 1:10:45

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. This was like, and then you know I love it. Legends of the Hidden Temple was on after this.

Siobhan: 1:10:51

Oh, hell yeah.

Matt: 1:10:53

Because this eventually became like Saturday morning. Like it went from it was a night show and it was in the middle of the day. I don't remember watching this random night.

Andy: 1:11:01

And I would stay up after this because then it got to There was something else, yeah. It got to the monsters.

Matt: 1:11:06

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Siobhan: 1:11:08

It wasn't. I guess monsters wasn't the Nick and I was like, and then Nick and Knight.

Andy: 1:11:11

And Nick at Knight would show the monsters and the Addams family. Dick Van Dyke is on Nick and Knight and TV land. The monsters.

Matt: 1:11:18

That's good. Now I'm gonna tangent again. You remember the lesbian?

Siobhan: 1:11:23

What's up?

Matt: 1:11:24

Thank you for that. Thank you for that transition, right?

Siobhan: 1:11:27

Oh the I love that you said Van. Like we couldn't come up with a different Vaughn of Vaughn and V-O-N.

Rob: 1:11:35

Yeah, I'm sorry. It's my bad.

Matt: 1:11:36

The original Nick and Knight was like Green Acres and Mr. Ed. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was all those both shows.

Andy: 1:11:43

Which were so good.

Matt: 1:11:45

Oh yeah.

unknown: 1:11:45

Green Acres.

Matt: 1:11:46

They're also like 12 minutes a piece.

Andy: 1:11:49

Yeah. Oh, yeah. If you go back and watch you know, even Dick uh Dick and Knight.

Rob: 1:11:53

Dick and Knight.

Matt: 1:12:00

Start editing now.

Siobhan: 1:12:02

Mr. Dick! Mr. Dick. That one was the fuzzy channel.

Andy: 1:12:07

Yes.

Siobhan: 1:12:09

Skin American.

Andy: 1:12:10

You had to get the dial just right. Oh, the 90s were a ton. Oh boy.

Siobhan: 1:12:23

Everybody get ready.

Andy: 1:12:24

In the immortal words of Yako. Good night, everybody. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening.

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