Well, it stinks! Hello and welcome to Hello This is the Doom Show. I am Richard, folks in the news lately. I've been hearing about these Pod People and so I decided to talk to one of them. So in the studio is my favorite extra terrestrial visitor, Jeffrey? No, no, I can assure you you are not associated with Trumpi. I'm reading that character and taking him back too soon. We'll call him ETD. ETD – Trump, Trump home.
So before we dive into the meat of these potatoes called Extra Terrestrial Visitors from 1983, I have a very important question. Jeffrey, do you have a favorite mystery science theater 3000 episode? Yeah, it's called Pod People. Oh, is that really your favorite? It's up there. I also really like I accused my parents. That's a great one. I'll just see that one. It's really good. It's really good. It's really good. Of course, the final sacrifice, Rouse Dower.
Oh, yeah. Nice. The reason I ask is because I missed this infamous episode of MST3K. I watched a lot of it at my sister's house because my sister lived in Georgia where we lived in Florida and before we got Comedy Central or whatever Comedy Central was called at the time, I could only watch this show when I was visiting my parents. I'm visiting my sister and never saw this show outside of that. So whatever Comedy Central ran all the time, are my favorite episodes there.
One episode in particular, which I'll talk about momentarily because I can't resist. But I never saw Pod People. And as I was watching recently episodes I'd never seen before of the show, I found out about the Pod People episode and the whole it stinks thing and how that became part of their lexicon there. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude, who directed pieces did that? You bet. I'm out. I got to wait till I could see the movie.
And I kept holding off on the shitty VHS download for a long time. So I've waited years to see this. So you haven't seen the MST3K version. I have intentionally not seen it. I'm going to watch it soon now that we're covered. You definitely should. It is a classic. The voice that they do for Trumpi is really good. He sounds a bit like this. Perfect. Perfect. But no, my favorite mystery science theater 3,000 episode is Sidehackers. Oh yeah.
I see the thing is with me now as a horror movie like Collector and all this jazz of like cult film fun that I like to have. I don't want to watch a movie that I would watch on my own. So as a mystery science theater 3,000 episodes, I would never watch Sidehackers. I would never sit down and watch their shorts where they watch the 50s hygiene films that teach you how to be a human. Our teacher had to socialize. I'm going to have to ask Judy to the dance.
I would never like, I mean, I might possibly throw those on. But chances are now. My favorite is the one about the importance of springs. No springs. So yeah, that kind of stuff, that kind of stuff I definitely like, but when it comes to anything related to Spanish horror, Italian horror, anything like that, I'm going to wait until after I've seen the actual movie. And then I'll watch the MSD3K. See, but yeah.
While I totally agree with that perspective on this particular film, I've seen the MSD3K pod people like a hundred times. And this is the first time I've ever seen extraterrestrial visitors. And it's a totally different experience. I'm not surprised at it. A cut a bunch of it. They did. Yeah. And I think that we're both watching the Severin Blue Ray, the recently really, well, somewhat recently released one. And apparently it's, you know, it's a slightly different cut. It's longer.
It feels longer. I'm not necessarily bad. I'll agree with you there. And it's a really bad way. Yeah. And there's some important differences. If you've never seen the MSD3K one, I'll blow your mind with something that's coming up later unless you happen to see it when you were cruising Wikipedia on this one. But yeah, there's some interesting info about the alternate pod people version. Wow. But yeah, so this is very strange for me, but very much appreciated. I'm glad. I'm glad this is exciting.
This is a moment. It's a moment. Yeah. So anyway, extraterrestrial visitors from 1983, sadly, there is no freaking trailer for this. They did not want people to see what they're getting into because this was released as ET, the return, a bunch of other things, which we'll talk about some trivia later about how this went from being a straight up alien horror movie to the friendlier side of whatever baffling shit this movie is.
But instead of a trailer, I'm going to go ahead and play a product that is featured in the film, not the one you're thinking. I'm going to play a little commercial here for something at the breakfast table. Gee, Tony, this place looks harder. That'll help. Scarrow anybody who tries to steal a secret formula for Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes series. Steal it. Well, after all, the formula makes Frosted Flakes a delicious part of this nutritious breakfast.
Secret taste of Frosted Flakes makes no mistake. There go. Tony, here I am, a store of formula. I'd say he didn't have a ghost of a chance. There you go. That's all you need to know about this movie is. Don't you want to see pod people now? This Halloween themed Frosted Flakes commercial I found. So we should talk a little bit about our director, right? Yeah, yeah. I believe it's Juan Picare Simone, that accent mark throws me right off. Yeah, me too. Well, we know this guy.
We've covered him before. Satan's Blood from 1978 is one of his early films. And oh boy, did we love that one? That's a great, great, great film. Oh my God. Have you seen any of his other late 70s early 80s films like Super Sonic Man, Mystery on Monster Island, Lost Diablo Stelmar? I have not. I've seen this and I've seen pieces and slugs. And of course, everyone's favorite, The Mansion of Cthulhu. I've seen that as well. I've seen The Rift from 1990. My letterbox tells me I've seen it.
I don't remember it. It was like one of those undersea monster movies and they all came out around the same like two or three years. You bet. Like 88 to 90. And yeah, I've seen all of them and they're all the same. This one has Ray Wise in it. Oh yeah, is this Leviathan? Ray Wise in that trailer blows my mind every time. I feel like I'm hallucinating. Do you love slugs? Because I love slugs. I don't. I love the movie because it's crazy. They hurt some slugs in the movie that made me sad.
I felt it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now granted most of the slugs are fake, but there was a moment where I was like, that's not how you treat slugs. Come on. I'm getting such a light touch. Like this movie I was watching him play with that kid and so close. Oh my little boy. Be careful with that kid. Yeah, I heard in slugs that for the most part they just simply put slug costumes on docks and puppies, but they did hurt the docks and puppies. So yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
So the wildest thing here is that this movie, Extraterrestrial Visitors, was made the year after pieces. Folks, I was going to save this tribute for the end, but I couldn't resist. I did a common cast and crew comparison. 23 people, actors, lighting directors, camera people, everyone worked on pieces and everyone worked on Extraterrestrial Visitors.
And that's one of the reasons why I refuse, one of the main reasons I refuse to watch the MST 3K is because I needed to see this dude's follow up to pieces, needed to see it. What in it's in the way it was meant to be seen if that's possible. And you would agree with me that there's almost no similarities between them. They feel like the products of entirely different minds. Just the cast and the kids room. Yeah. The little kids room is the same room that the dude slaughters his mom in.
Wow, I didn't realize that. The time makes a lot of sense. Yep. I just thought that was the same thing. Maybe it's just like the Dick Randall touch on pieces because something's different. Good old Dick Randall. I can't get a Randall on him. So I found several VHS covers, two VHS covers and one poster for Pod People.
It was of course on this poster, it's a trying to get some investors to some distributors to pick up the movie and it says extra terrestrial visitors and has art that has nothing to do with the film at all. It's a silhouette of a spacey looking man with stars and a moon and all this stuff. And it says men were not ready to meet these extra terrestrial visitors. Now shooting ready September, 1983. I thought you guys say men were not ready to meet them. No, no, they were specifically not.
I couldn't handle it. I don't want stars on my head. So the VHS tape I have here is the short plots and obfses. It's a little movie called The Unearthed Link, which is one of this movie's many titles. I didn't know that one. And this sums the movie up as quickly as possible. It says a spaceship comes to earth leaving in its path, unhatched eggs containing extra terrestrials. One of the eggs is discovered by a young boy who takes it home.
Soon the extra terrestrial is born and strange things begin to happen. What is its mission? Exclamation point. I'm excuse me. Question mark, question mark, question mark dot, dot, dot. We never really find out the mission, do we? No, no. They're just here. The mission is get killed by poachers. And then the tagline in the front is an extra terrestrial from the forbidden zone. The Big Dipper is the forbidden zone. Ryan's belt. So the British VHS is the extra terrestrial visitors one.
And it has my favorite quote on the back. It's from an uncredited reviewer. Maybe it literally says in big pink letters, evil, addictive, powerful, electrifying. And that's in scare quotes. And then nothing. I can't believe they stole my quote. They didn't even credit me from Nessu and Timor. I've got blogspot. Yeah. And it says the fate of the earth is in their hands. But it's so good. It says at the top in beautiful, beautiful font that this movie is a futuristic thriller.
The fate of a container of peanuts is in their hands. The vacuum cleaner of peanuts. Fuck that. I hate that part. Oh, let's talk about it. So folks, we're going to jump into this movie. It literally doesn't matter if you've watched it before. Jeffrey, I'm guessing you recommend the NST 3K version. I recommend both versions. Watch them back to back. I recommend this version so you can see what's happening. Because man, I dodged a bullet with that VHS tape. It's the fog.
It's thick, dark fog for this movie. It's wild. You're not going to be able to see shit. Full disclosure though, you can barely see it on the blue race. 4K, why not? Oh man. So the movie opens with space and then a star or something pulses and then explodes. Wow. It explodes into a million tiny synthesizers, but also drum machine. It looks like a, you know, it's not the big bang. It's a big spaghetti bomb. It looks very bad for an explosion. This music is some toe tap and stuff here.
This is a librado pastor. He's credited as Libra Pastor here, which is funny because he's a Sagittarius atheist. Oh my God. But he did the music for little pieces and he did a Satan's blood. Is he one of the cam people or something? I don't know if he's associated with them or not. I love the music in this movie. And the crazy shit we're going to talk about later is completely awesome. The circus theme. Yes, yes, yes.
So an asteroid flies past the moon and the moon changes from like something that recognize we would recognize as the moon. Then it turns into the weird planet with the green astroturf moon. It just turns brilliant green for a second, which I don't think they intended, but it happened. We got three hunters correct that three poachers. Now the way they shot this opening sequence with the asteroid flying so close to the moon is this earth. Are we are these three poachers on the moon?
I don't understand. I wish. They're bickering about sweet F.A. in a foggy forest. I had to turn the subtitles on because I'm like, what is he saying? Oh, you know, sweet F.A. about sweet F.A. And I'm like, oh, sweet F.A. La, la, la, la, la. So they're trying to like make their fortune by stealing nightingale eggs. Is that a thing? Dude, my job, we have been digitizing like a thousand hours of bird watchers talking at their meetings.
We've been talking to like ornithologists from all over the country. I have scanned a billion pictures of birds, rare breeds, never heard of this. Never heard of this shit ever. It's weird. Apparently for this brief moment in time in the early 80s, if you had a couple of nightingale eggs, you could pay your rent for a while. People were using them to snort cocaine off of.
I was really hoping like when they find the nightingale eggs and they're like, wow, we hit the gold mine that one of them would just like pop one in his mouth. The Cadbury style. Man, he likes that shit raw. I love it. So there's strange lights and lightning going off in the sky. And randomly one of them says, hi, I'll hit learn to the other. The direct quote is, it's kind of like muttered to, jeez, jeez, hell, who? We don't can tell that. It was fucking weird.
Meanwhile, a kid, our hero, Tommy, is awakened by his kitten meowing. And this kitten steals the movie. Oh my god, I love this kitten so much. She's bold. Here he's trying to very actively eat a hamster. I'm innocent. I'm innocent. There's just turn these cameras off. So Tommy looks through his telescope with the lights in the sky. And then something just explodes on the forest floor when it crashes. Meanwhile, the poachers are bemoaning the fact that their pal Bill is now like with the Rangers.
Like, he's Bill is a sell out. He doesn't want to help them poach anymore. He's with the Rangers now. Man. We all have to join the Rangers. It's part of our active service as Americans or Spanish people. And now there's a glowing crater in the earth and or cave system. So this red light is glowing. And there's like slime coming off of it and dirt. It's really crusty looking. And then just eggs just like fall out. Like gross looking eggs.
And I'm immediately wrote in my notes, oh no, is this Luigi Causie? Is this contamination? Which I want to say Causie and Causie at the same time. So it comes out really weird. So I apologize to our pal Luigi. But he's very Causie. So we prefer Causie. He's a Causie sweater. This whole sequence here at the beginning. And then once again at the end where we're in the woods, we have tons of blue fog, like in penetrable blue fog. Here we have like slime too from the eggs.
It gives me like a very ex files Pacific Northwest Canadian vibe that I just love. But it's as hard to see as Frickin conquest by Fulji and some others. Yes. Yes. Wow. Maybe he consulted on this one. So one of the poachers is a Bispactical gentleman named Sam. And he finds that crater and boy, he never hesitates. He runs right into it. And that's when it just magically turns into a long cave. And he finds an egg and he lifts it up over his head and he smashes it.
And inside I wrote, it's got you a baby snooty or excuse me, baby snouty. It might be snooty. It'll never grow up because he killed it. And then he gets upset and he starts smashing all the eggs because obviously a poacher who steals rare eggs would immediately not see the value of alien eggs. You know, it's just one of those days when you want to break shit as Limpusket says.
He plays a solo game of whack an egg, but he doesn't get all the way there because he gets got before the final egg is squished. Yeah, he gets killed by an unknown assailant. I would start a Limpusket cover band, but I'd be plump biscuit. That's what I would do. So yes, he gets killed off camera. He took the truck to go see this shit happening and so our other poachers which are fricking Matt and Kurt or something, they are like, what the hell?
We're Sam. And they start hunting deer randomly, but they fail, which is good. Oh, it's a bird not Kurt. They fail because the animals are spooked by this meteorite crashing, good for them. Just a lot of jarring cuts in this movie. We go to breakfast where Tommy and his uncle Bill, what's this family situation? We got Tommy, his mom and then Uncle Bill. Is Uncle Bill really the uncle? Is this Uncle Bill? Is this Hamlet? I don't know. Oh, you know what it is actually.
So they're arguing over fricking centipedes because Tommy likes to collect bugs. To me, it's a centipede. It's always been a centipede. I will die on this hill. I will die on this hill. I don't understand pronouns. Uncle Bill needs to get with the times, man. But there's a nice big box of frosted flakes, which is why I played the frosted flakes commercial. And now we cut Jarringly to the recording studio. Oh, we get a radical song here. Radical, the first of our songs.
So of course, the MST3K episode has a great deal of fun with this song. Largely because the lyrics are basically unintelligible. And I know what the chorus of the song is, but all of the verses I have no idea. This is what I wrote down for the first couple lines. It's like... With a pickle in my eye and a virgin by my side. I'll accept that. Could be. I don't know. Is this when the engines roll song? Yes. Man, this is brilliant stuff. Here's the young just roll now.
Like the fact that this movie didn't take place at this studio, the whole movie, is kind of one of the problems I have with this movie, is that like it's, oh my god, it's just so funny. They had to clear out so the band from Paganini Horror could come in and cut their track. Yes, they don't stink. They smell sweet. So we cut back to the chorus. We're Matt and Bert are watching some Rangers. And before we can process what's going on there, we cut back again to the studio to hear more of the song.
And the singer of this sexy jam here, I can't tell if he's singing through his nose. Or through his nasal cavity in his forehead. Oh my god, it's not good. And we finally, we get the famous It stinks line, which, man, it's one of those moments I was building up for Leudo so big. And I'm like, there it was. There it was. And she's like, okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I know I have referenced it several times. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we were doing it. It stinks thing for something I forget.
Some of it could have even been the frickin Satan's blood up. So I don't know. Probably. Yeah. It's possible. Something I noticed during this recording session is that Sharon, who's, I guess sort of, what's the main guy's name? Is it Rick? Rick. Rick, yeah. Like Rick's, I guess, steady or girlfriend. He's got like a couple girlfriends, he's one of the backup singers. He's like kind of going cross-eyed with Jesus. Yes. I noticed that too, man. It's subtle, but it's there.
It's got to hurt himself. And he like really negs her afterwards when he says, this is a great line. You know, he says, you were really off. You were blasting out like a thaw corn. Root. Root. Oh my God. Yes, it's, oh, it's so bright. And he's blaming them for the shitty song. He's like blaming them for being off and all this crap. I'm like, you're a rote of buddy. We do have to mention the producer or audio engineer or manager or somebody who's wearing the IMA Virgin t-shirt.
Yes. Yes. Which you can buy from Severin Films. Oh my God. I'm a virgin. I know. Was it say I'm a virgin Islander? Like in real small letters, this is Islander. So cute. Which is just brilliant. So one of the engineers tries to flirt with Stacy. Excuse me, Tracy. Tracy is my favorite character in this freaking movie. Sadly, she was not also in pieces, but we forgive her for that. But yeah, she's like, just is not into it. She's not into it. It doesn't want to.
So this musical gang is they're getting together, getting an RV. They're going to go to something called Sender National Park, which I'm going to this up. Is this a real place? I don't know. Nope. Okay. Maybe it's a reference to the Alien movie The Sender. Oh, Man. It's a Maley movie. I can't remember that. No, that's psychic power. That's great. Well, you know what? We do have some telekinesis in this film. We absolutely do. Man, I want to rewatch this Sender. Man, that's good shit right there.
They're going to Sender and they're armed with some groceries and they get the best surprise of all. A Laura Stapleton. I love a character that introduces themselves so boldly that you can't you don't remember anything about them, but they're just, hi, I'm Laura Stapleton. I'm ready to die. And everyone else is ready for her to die. So she met Rick and he obviously had some kind of a fling with her serious or not who knows, but Sharon is poosed. And our buddy Brian is going to talk her down.
He was one of the guys who was helping out at the studio. And I guess he's like the band manager maybe. Sure. So now they're driving down to another weird freaking song, the Sarah song. Oh my God, this song, it's not as good as the engine roll song, but man, it is distinct. It's almost like the Shake Your Baby song from Bloody Moon. I know joke. I mean, ever since our episode covering that, I just randomly start singing Shake Your Baby weekly. Oh, and leave it to Simon.
Anytime Simon has any time off coming up, he posts that holiday feeling song from that movie every time, man. That's so good. The Rick sensing the tension, reading the room, he decides to play it cool with Laura. No, he fucking sits next to her in the front seat and makes googly eyes like he's a excited little boy to be with this girl. It's so awesome. Cut back to Tommy to he's going to go into the crater slash cave.
He grabs the last egg and right before he leaves, he sees Sam with the most original thing in this movie, the most original idea. So whenever someone gets killed by one of these aliens, they get a constellation branded on their head. So they have this constellation, it's like six or seven stars going across their head and they're reflective so they're using a little light. They're also making the dead person's eyes glow, which I really think is cool.
Do you think they were going to come back as zombies later? I mean, there must be something that they abandoned because it amounts to nothing, but it is cool. Yeah, it's like a calling card. E.T., the didn't return. Rick and Laura, when they get to the campsite, Rick and Laura Stapleton, they're getting firewood after she's like, I don't think anyone here likes me. Bitch, come on. I heard it was a great weather for a picnic. I read it in my horoscope. You need to get your money back on that one.
That did not come true. I'm a Libra pastor and I read it in my horoscope. Nice. So back at Camp Sharon, oh, no, back at Camp Kama, Sharon. I wish it was Camp Sharon. I dubbed Camp Sharon. Camp Sharon. Camp Sharon is very tense and Laura's just babbling about her mom's cooking and they're making fun of her because she's talking about how well her mother prepares meat and then she gets a face. She's not an insult to your mother like that.
She basically tells Sharon like, hey, whatever, all's fair in love and war, but not as smart as that. And Sharon just throws her water in her face and she storms off. What is this? You guys laughing at me all the time. You're very funny. Oh, yeah, sure. I know that you hate me. Your jealous, aren't you? Cause Ricky likes me. Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles, honey. Tell her what we did in the woods, Ricky. She loved to know, right, Sharon?
Ricky runs into the poachers and Laura Stapleton sadly is a half molested by the beardo of the trio of poachers, Matt and family-friendly film, everybody. Yes. This is, remember, this is ET2. This is going to be a horror movie, but the producer said, hold on. So she gets, she gets away from her would be assalters and his pal Bert is the no nonsense guy. He was one of the detectives in pieces and he's basically the same guy but in a, like, Hunter's outfit.
And she runs away from them and just runs right off a cliff because she's scared by Yeti. Now we still haven't quite seen the alien yet. All you see is it's fur, which I love this alien design. For some reason, it reminds me of... What is that really, really boring horror movie where it takes place in a science fiction movie from the 50s or early 60s? It takes place mostly in a cave where the monster is a big gorilla costume with a TV set head. I'm sure, MSTPK.
Do you mean robot monster, the gorilla in the... Yeah. Scoobasuit or... Yeah, yeah, yeah, robot monster. That's it. I always imagined as a TV on his head because of the antenna. Yeah. That, until we see further evidence. But she, poor thing, she runs right off a cliff and into a ravine. You know, she really committed to running and she ran too good. Man. Brian and Rick, who have gone to look for Laura Stapleton, rescue Laura Stapleton and take Laura Stapleton back to camp.
And they have to get her to black butte, apparently black butte is where she will get some medical attention. Well, thank goodness because they're just trying to like revive her with booze. Yes. It's not good. They don't, they're not qualified to help this person with traumatic bodily injuries. There is no city that I can find or town called black butte. So. I'm really... I can't get my GPS set to this shit. We're no wonder we're all lost.
I think they were trying to bring her to black beauty the horse and just like they're gonna lay her body in front of the horse and be like, horse, figure it out, help her. So we go, we got more Tommy in his egg fun. It has a pulse and my favorite moment with a kid logic, well this kid tries to gaslight his mom where his mom, uh, named Molly, she comes running in because she hears a ruckus going on in, uh, in his room with this egg bullshit. She's like, what's going on?
He's like, oh, uh, Kitty woke me up because, um, Kitty is hungry. And she's like, that kid he's been eating all day and he's like, yeah, I definitely shouldn't feed her again. Like Tommy, you're a kitchen already ate its hamster. No more than two hamsters a day for a growing kitten. Yeah, I love when kids try to do psychology on their parents.
I witnessed this so many times my friends have kids where their kids, you know, they're talking and they're running around and they try this really like, um, above their pay grade psychology. And no one buys it. No one's going to buy it. It's so cute. He goes to bed with the, uh, the egg next to him, you know, keep it warm and I wrote my nose, aw, then I noticed his Boston Bruins, uh, Jersey, his flag for the Boston Bruins. And I said, aw, that's meaningless to me.
So they finally get to Bill and Molly's house, Uncle Bill and Molly's house. And man, Bill is decidedly against helping people. His, his former poacher ways have, have made him a bitter, bitter man. To me that man is a centipede. It's, it just got appeared. It's just shared up here. It's just like on his deathbed blood pouring out of his nostrils and mouth, fired up here. Poor guy. Oh, so they go inside. He let Molly's the kinder of the two.
She lets them inside and we find out the phone doesn't work because of a quote unquote rock fall. Hmm, which I'm like, okay. I wrote my notes that the interiors of this house are definitely not in Spain. Absolutely. The portrait of George Washington on the wall. Oh my God. That's my picture. That's my picture. Yeah. My, my second favorite detail about this house will come up later. It's very important to me. So Tommy's egg hatches and it's disgusting.
And I wrote my notes, hey, little kids, they slime the bed all the time. So you just got to teach him. The design for a Trumpi is beautiful. Described as an unholy mix between a pig and a bear. But really what it looks like is like somebody like, okay. So if you ever watched survivor before the TV show, the TV show, yeah, the real game show. No, I never watched it. All right. We're spending like 40 some odd days on an island with only rice to eat, very little food.
Everybody loses like a substantial amount of weight generally. And so you see like the before and after, after they've gone through the experience. I feel like that's what's happened here to Elf. Elf went on survivor and he turned into Trumpi. Oh my God. I love that it looks like like an orangutan with an elephant head or something. Just so cute, so adorable. So meanwhile, poachers, Matt and Bert, they have their own close encounter where they do the titular titular.
That's not titular or anything. It looks like a crossbreen of pig and a bear. Just like they said, they try to capture it, but they are not success. And I didn't have room for the full. So I just wrote they are not success. And now we go back to Tommy and his alien baby that is giving a milk. And I put, I don't know why the milk scene made me do a sad face. It did a sad face. Then the kitten is also having some milk.
And the kitten has a little milk on his chin and next to that, I wrote a little happy face. Something like that. Yeah, Trumpi is disgusting. Trumpi slurps a lot of things. Sometimes vacuuming things up. He's real, as Tommy says, greedy Trumpi, you know what playing is? Oh my god. Tell you how would you rank Trumpi in terms of hideousness compared to Mac and me or Nukie or any of these other ET wannabe guys? I mean, it's disgusting as he is. He's by far the cutest.
Mac and me is disgusting, horrifying. Nukie is, Nukie's been on a few seasons of survivor in a row. Hey, hey, then, they're so gross. Trumpi is like pretty hot by comparison. It's a fashion model. Yeah, yeah. So the next morning, Trumpi is now child sized, which is great. The growth rate of this thing. By the end of the movie, it should have been Godzilla's size. That was in great. Oh my god. It was only, they could have afforded it.
Yeah. There is a moment when Tommy is trying to process how big Trumpi got overnight. And this little actor's head, like his eyes, like his pop out of his head, oh my god, this kid's so funny. I'll try to get a screenshot of that for the artwork, because man, that's, woo, man. We cut right to dead Laura. So apparently, Laura died and everyone's traumatized. I wrote in my notes, well, we hated her. I like that they tried to help her out by like, well, we're not going to seek medical attention.
We're just going to let Laura sleep it off, which is what you do. Anytime someone's injured, let them nap. And you know, she slept too well. Yeah, yeah. Trumpi has an encounter with animals, which is good. He doesn't eat any. He doesn't eat the kitten or anything. What if he did, though? Oh, man, this movie would be very different. He has an encounter with a toy robot. It's bad. He doesn't like toy robots at all. My favorite thing about the, the, the kitten and robot scene. All right.
So when he's like, so I guess Tommy has like a lot of different animals, right? He's got most of them in like terrariums, cages and such, you know, the hamsters and other stuff. Um, Trumpi is like examining them all and like walking alongside a table in the kittens following him and tearing at his nose the whole time. He's like biting it, trying to rip the nose off.
Like, I don't know if they like put catnip on the nose or it's just like that nose, whatever materials were made to produce it are just a normal cat attractant. Hey, if it's anything like my cats, it's just cigar. They just rub the cigar on it. My cats love the smell of the cigar. That makes perfect sense. Trumpi's nose is just a big cigar. There you go. Sometimes the cigar is just Trumpi's nose. So um, Tommy feeds Trumpi some, some peanuts. We get some nice planters peanuts commercial.
Sucking it up like a vacuum cleaner. It's totally crazy. Made even crazier by Trumpi's constant grunting, which he just grunts his whole fucking thing. Oh, I'm like, Tommy shows Trumpi how puzzles work. And I wrote my notes puzzle pieces. Oh my god. What if Trumpi solved the Jigsaw puzzle and it was the puzzle from pieces? Well, it would, no, what would happen was he'd open the box.
It was supposed to have a puzzle in it and it would be empty and he'd record a really long, ranting YouTube video about how he didn't get a puzzle. Here, Ellen, planters peanuts. Look at this, planters dry roast peanuts. Instead of chips, are we in the executive dining room? Platters dry roast peanuts are so crunchy and you're so full of delicious flavor. They make ordinary occasions special. I got a tie. Look what mom said to me. Platters peanuts. Mom always did like you best.
So Trumpi solves the puzzle with his mind. We have some nice stop motion animation here of the puzzle putting itself together, which I don't even know how they did. Man, I would fail if that was my job. Movie magic. Yeah, I believe him. That's all good. Tommy's blown away by this and it's like, whoa, you have to teach me how to do that. And then he busts out his Simon game, which is not, hello, this is the Doom show's own Simon. This is a different Simon.
But man, oh man, let me play this commercial for Simon folks. I have seen circuit bent Simon's where they make, give it an output jack and like do all this crazy shit to the soldering inside and rewire it to make crazy music. I have. But nothing they did. This is crazy is this song to promote the Simon games. I'm here it is. What does it feel like to play Simon? You got a lot. Listen. Remember, you got to react. Repeat the sounds in colors. Be fast. What does it feel like to play Simon? Intense.
Simon for milking for challenge. Intense. I have a man. Trumpi, he basically rewires it and basically he does it. He drops a beat. Yeah. I said that he freestyles some sick electro jams. Holy shit dude, it is off the hook. I freaking really love this moment. It is completely bad chick crazy. I love it. So we cut to our pals, the RV funsters. If it wasn't for the death of Laura Stapleton, these would really be some good time charles. And one of them says, wow, that's it. What a fuck up.
This back to nature crap is. Oh my god, I fucking love it dude. I love it. Oh, so anyway, Bill and Brian, our friend here, they go off the report on Laura's death somewhere. Maybe they're going to black be and Tommy draws a very unflattering portrait of his mother, which triggers Trumpi because he's like, Trumpi, don't you have a mother? And he's like, and Trumpi's like pointing. He's like, oh, oh, is, is, is, uh, your mother up a tree? Is your mother a bear, Trumpi? Oh, she's in a tree.
Wait, she's on a star. Oh, wow, fascinating. Oh my god. So we get Trumpi's glowing eyes. And is this the part where he looks through the telescope and sees Africa. Yeah, I did not write that part down. So yes, Tommy does this magical view master shit, a la Trumpi, where he looks through his, his telescope and sees far off lands. It's very cute. It's the stock footage portion. Trumpi with his kaleidoscope eyes then performs a flee circus for Tommy's enjoyment.
I wrote down that he married Poppins that shit. The whole room goes completely crazy. This insane, I put it in quotes, awful circus music starts playing because it's not awful. It's frigging great. And Trumpi is making his clothes fly out of the closet on their hangers. He's making his shoes dance. He's up on the ceiling. It's totally insane. The chairs are floating. Oh my god. It's whimsy. Mom comes in right out.
Because of course the whole thing with Tommy is he's constantly hiding Trumpi from his parents. It's like one of the biggest plot points of the movie besides running around in the foggy forest is this back and forth with Trumpi almost getting seen but never does. It's so stupid. But mom warns Tommy not to make her his bedroom into a zoo. I'm like, lady, you bottom fish. You bottom. Lady, you bottom. Look through that telescope. You'll see a zoo. That's a real zoo, your damn ass.
So Bill explains guns to Brian because Brian's like, if you're not a poacher, then how come you have a gun? He's like, oh, in case of trouble. Well, we're going to really see how Bill feels about guns later, which is one of my favorite scenes in the entire movie. He explains that Laura Stapleton would still be alive if she'd had a gun. Yeah, she would have shot gun blasted like her fall. Yeah. Like she shoots the ground and then she just bounces back up to the cliff. Yeah, that makes sense.
She's a good girl with a gun. Yeah. There you go. Back at the house, one another freaking great moment. The girls are relieved that the TV works so they don't miss an episode of Dallas like it had last week, which is like, oh, don't say that. Laura Stapleton died. It's true. You follow two weeks behind on Dallas. You're never catching back up. Dude, I'm lost. I'm totally lost. Meanwhile, Trumpi has been lost. Tommy can't find him.
So of course, Tommy asks the one person he can turn to or should I say the one animal you can turn to? We ask the kitten. He wakes up. This is the cutest moment. He wakes up the kitten to ask it. And the kitten's like, man, with a little angry face. Oh, man, I'm the same way, dude. You shake me from my nap to ask me where somebody is. You're getting that face. What the fuck? We get Bill and Brian. Now they're up in the mountains. It's snowing.
And I see the Massachusetts license plate, which I just gasped because I'm like, oh, my God, how close are they to the Boston with the pieces? Oh, boy. Tommy looks at Laura's corpse in the bedroom and it's got the glowing red eyes and the constellation ones for forehead. Bill and Brian get to the ranger station and something is a miss. The whole place has been freaking destroyed. But all of the booby, the naked booby model girls are stable to the wall in this children's film.
So we're good to go. Matt, the bearded O poacher and wannabe rapist is dead. And meanwhile, all this time, the cold smile of Ronald Reagan, a portrait of Ronald Reagan watches as the violence as he callously grins at Brian getting killed by the alien, the non-Trumpi. This is a movie about beginnings and endings George Washington's and Ronald Reagan. Yep. Yep. Man, it's also a secret sequel to bedtime for Bonzo. Trumpi is Bonzo. Not only our greatest president, our greatest actor.
Our greatest Bonzo. Oh my God. So Bill escapes barely and I'm going to play this entire exchange. She's going to come back to Molly and Tracy and Tracy is just the horniest. She is so desperate for a man like she was like, oh man, there's park rangers. I'll hook up with a park ranger. Oh boy, she's just telling Molly all about what men really want. And I love this whole part. I just, this whole, I'm playing the whole freaking thing right here. That's great stuff. You're a good cook, Tracy.
The usual with girls today. Well, my mother taught me. She always said that men like you for your meat and after for your dessert. You know how it is. If you haven't got a pretty face to begin with, there's nothing you can do. Believe me, I've tried everything, including the seven day beauty plan. Come on, it's not that bad. You got a lot of good points. Yeah. And I know the ones men like. These, this. But you're very intelligent. Yeah, I don't know what frightens the guys more.
My face or my intelligence. Meanwhile, Ricky says that Bill is as thick as two planks. That's not particularly thick. Well, they're thick planks, me. So Tracy, just my favorite character in this movie, she goes out to the RV for some reason. I don't remember what she's going out there for. And I burst out laughing as she was headed towards the trailer every time, whether it's like American horror story 1984 or stranger things or anything.
Whenever people in 2020s want someone to look like someone in the 1980s, they dress them up exactly like Tracy. Tracy is so ahead of her time that people think that's what 80s people dress like. I love her outfit. It's like, it's like, she's like a walking leg warmer. I love her. God bless this. Body warmer. And sadly, the non-Trumpy murders Tracy in the RV while Tommy watches and Tommy, who's a racist, can't even tell that's not the real Trump. Well, if you look the same, blood.
What an asshole. Bill comes back. He's freaked out by barely escaping with his life. And Bill and Ricky start arguing about this shit. Like, is it some kind of animal? Is it David Crosby on a rampage? Okay, that's my joke. I slipped in there. Okay, this is JNB siding. This is my favorite thing. This is my favorite shit. And there's three bottles on Bill's huge liquor cabinet, which means this is three yellow. That liquor cabinet is insane. It's like a bookcase for booze.
It just keeps going on and on forever. Oh my God. It's almost as much alcohol as we had a night have. Jellis. Yeah, we got booze. That was one of our pandemic shopping things. We started watching this nextologist guy named, named, how to drink. His name is Greg. And folks at home who if you're a fan of the hell of this is the doom show from way back, my pal, Noffa used to be on the show, but he passed away. This guy Greg reminds me so much of Noffa. It's hilarious.
He looks like him a little bit and talks like him. So Greg, how to drink? You need your Noffa fix. Go watch that guy. It's uncanny at moments where I'm like, whoa, Noffa, even say that. That's crazy. Anyway, so we've got a lot of booze in this house. Thank you, pandemic. My liver says nod, dude. Ricky proves that he's a real man by showing Bill just how good he is at guns. They're arguing about guns. So Ricky sure is pointing a gun at him.
Just pointing at Bill with a gun and then shoots a liquor bottle and it's the craziest chicken scene. I love this moment. It's nuts. Completely bonkers. That's manly stuff. I just sort of zone out. Give me Trumpi. Yeah. Trumpi's maybe a man, I don't know. Naughty Trumpi. So meanwhile, Kathy and Sharon, who I completely forgot about, I wrote in my notes, I forgot about these two.
They took some sleeping pills after Laura died to calm down and then just missed out on a big chunk of the movie while they were asleep. Tommy confronts Trumpi about Tracy's murder outside and totally blames him as we can't be friendly anymore. Why'd you do it, Trumpi? Meanwhile, the actual perpetrator, the other alien is stalking around. And for some reason, on the side of the house is a huge spright sticker on one of the shudders, someone just callously slapped a spright sticker.
I have no idea what it's on there. You know, you didn't want to let that one go. Tommy decides to help Trumpi out by disguising him. He puts him in his coat and Trumpi in a coat is the weirdly cutest thing on the movie besides the kitten. Yeah, it's like a big parka. He looks like, you know, like Kenny from South Park. Yeah. What is another thing that reminded me of? They reminded me of the maybe less cute, but the little girls from the brood, all the clone, the little hatchlings or whatever.
Much like those, Trumpi is a manifestation of our rage. So collectively as a society, while Kathy's taken a shower, very tasteful, we do because of the blue ray, we get a little sight of her pasty. She's like, I'm not getting nude for this shit. This evil alien attacks her and kills her. So Bill injures the alien, but he wants to go and finish the job. So while they're chasing the evil alien outside, Trumpi just wonders in and spoils everything and Molly wants to kill it immediately.
But I wrote in my notes, Tommy won't let Molly kill Trumpi because Trumpi. Because Trumpi wants to be our friend, but we won't let him. You're not ready. Trumpi is good. So outside, Tommy is approached by the mean alien, but Trumpi intervenes and I'm not like the others. He also starts stroking Trumpi's mom's chest. It's weird. Dude, on a stick. Oh, is it supposed to be Trumpi's mom? I think well, I don't know. They're aliens. We don't know who's mom is.
Man, get Luigi cozy in here to figure it out. He could explain it. So finally, Bill gets killed by a punch in the stomach from the alien. And I wrote in my notes that he must have had a pre-existing condition, untreated ulcer that got exploded. You know, centipede in this stomach. So the mean alien, I'm very confused. My note taking was just done at this point. Does the alien get killed by written? And then does it bury itself in the sand? That I don't know, but sure. I saw it.
They did a really cool sand effect. It looked like the sand was moving by itself or something. That sounds right. I mean, we're back in the fog now. The blue fog for miles and miles. Things get a little vague here. Tommy says goodbye to Trumpi. I hate you. Go away. Pretty harsh. And as I predicted, as Leon and I were watching this, both for the first time, Trumpi awkwardly like leaves. He like waddles. Waddles back into the forest. Boom. Credits roll. Holy shit. I was like, dude, I called it.
And I was like, man, that was great. And Leon is just sitting there shell shocked on her pain meds. Like, I don't know what the fuck just happened. I can't imagine watching this under the influence of anything. Oh my God. There's not much of a movie here. Oh my God. No, not even like leaving, not even like just showing anything of like, there was nothing to show. The Trumpi is out there. So there's not a lot of trivia about this thing. There's a lot of goofs.
But yeah, so according to the trivia, Tommy's bedroom was previously used as Timmy's bedroom in pieces. This was going to be a low budget horror movie about an evil alien, but ET, 1922, is too much money had to do it. I like the trivia from ET that not enough people talk about that ET is Carlo Rambaldi. Oh yeah. ET is just a little sculpture of the special effects guy who made him Carlo Rambaldi. I freaking love that. It's a door ball. Oh boy.
Also, folks, I don't remember who made it, but if you can find, there's a great video about what they had in mind for the real sequel to ET. There's a very real sequel to the actual film ET from 1982, but they were planning on making and the script was completely crazy, Elliott and family get kidnapped by evil aliens who are looking for our buddy ET and our torturing Elliott. And Elliott's cries of pain are what brings ET back to Earth to defeat these aliens. This is real.
This is a real thing they're going to do. It never happened because it was too weird. And I think Spielberg just didn't want to do the sequel. So he wrote something completely fucking unfilmable. But this was marketed as ET, the second coming in the film Ventures version, which is the people who distributed pod people. It has a whole opening sequence, the opening credits, scenes from the galaxy invader, which I have not seen, but it's from Don Dolores. I don't see that.
So I knew that because I've seen the pod people version is the one that's used on MST3K. And it's so weird to see the Don Dolor footage beginning this movie. But then watching this movie on its own, I kind of like forgotten that they used galaxy invader. And like when I was watching this and taking the notes, I was like, this feels like a Don Dolor movie. Why does it look like a Don Dolor movie whenever they're in the forest? And I was like, oh, yeah.
But film Ventures International had that same thought and so stole footage from Galaxy Invader. Folks, if you want to watch another alien go, goes berserk, watch Night Beast from Don Dolor. Yeah. Night Beast is great. Oh shit. Have you ever seen Night Beast? No, I have a magazine, a horror movie magazine. I can't remember the name of it. This is a weird boring short story. I hope I'll keep it short.
We were at, I believe it was at Universal Studios and they had like a movie memorabilia shop and they had a pile of film magazines and randomly they had this one horror movie magazine. It wasn't one of the big ones. It wasn't Fingoria, it wasn't Gore Zone, it was any of those. I never heard of this one before. But on the cover is fiend with the, the, the, that gnarly look and makeup.
And they, it was probably the cheapest thing at Universal Studios is this magazine and I picked it up for like 10 or 12 bucks. But yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, but I, but I, but I see long story short too late. I've never seen a movie. It's great. I love Don Dollar. I'm a big fan. I also recently picked up Mystic Vault. Put out the original scores from the Alien Factor and fiend on vinyl. Oh, I did pick those up recently.
But yeah, Don Dollar rules and I guess just by kind of looking like a Don Dollar movie, just movie rules too. Nice, nice. But yeah, like I was saying before at the, at the top of this episode, Frickin 23 cast and crew in common with pieces, which I, I'm saving pieces Sam, my buddy Sam, who's the drummer and gyro jets. We're saving that because he and I watched pieces together. He had never seen it and blue is mine. But the tour is brain out and just destroyed him.
And we wrote a song called Pieces and he contributed a lot to the lyrics. Like it's like one of the first songs where Sam really just like wrote, I had like pages and pages and notes of what I wanted the song to be about. And he's like, let me take a crack of this and basically wrote the whole thing. It's so fun. And we recorded it in one evening. I had three guitar parts to show him. I showed them to him. We played them a few times, hit record and then we had a song.
And then we did the vocals the same night too. It was just boom, boom, boom, I don't know where. The only thing we didn't do is the bass. We did the bass much later. Like a year later our, our pal played bass on that song. So you mean to tell me it came together in pieces? It's literally in pieces. The song has chapter stops so that it, it covers up the fact that we had no idea how to connect the pieces of pieces. So I'll tell you my favorite crew member from extraterrestrial visitors.
The closing credits say that material was provided by mole Richardson. What is that? Mole Richardson, I don't know. What? I just tried the IMDB. I mean, there is somebody named Mole Richardson but it doesn't, it does not list this movie. Do they still have the crazy credits thing on IMDB or they get rid of the crazy credits thing? Because that sounds like a crazy credit to me. IMDB's broken, who knows? Yeah, they, I think to stop messing with it, just leave it. Leave it.
Do you have this on tape? Do you have pod people? I don't have, well I, do you have the MST3K version on tape? Okay. I do not have the OG. I wonder how rare even the British tape is. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, Juan Picare Simone, he is incredible. I really wanted to watch that documentary on him that comes with the sever and I love the sever and release so much. But it is an hour and 46 minutes. I'm like, oh, that's another night.
That's as bad as I am about watching the extras before we do an episode of the show. That was too much for me. I did watch the interview with the actor who plays Brian. I don't know. The guy was probably in pieces. I don't know. He calls this film a masterpiece and I'm like, boom, nailed it. Actually, I need to check out the rest of Juan's films. Absolutely. Because all the ones I've seen have been, well I guess except for the rift. All of them have been great. I will. I love them.
I'd heard how bad Cthulhu Manchin was and then somebody else was like, hey, why did everyone say this was bad and he just had screenshots from it? I said, holy shit, I need to see this. And I got it and I have no regrets. I recommend that one. It's pretty good. Yeah. I mean, it looks like nothing compared to whatever nexus 2.43 is. That looks even better. That's a right. That's written by one per care. But it looks fantastic. So Jeffrey, how do you like this one?
So I would say this is probably maybe one of the least movie movies that we've ever talked about. It's like barely there. But if you know my taste by now, that is not a dimaret. No. It's a good sleepy time movie where you just sort of are lying on the couch and your eyes are barely slits and the fog just pours in. And then you open like something captures your attention like a fucking pig bear who's snorting peanuts and your eyes go really big and they start sparkling like stars.
That's how I feel about this movie. It's a really good movie. I think everybody should watch it. And then you should watch the MST 3K version right after or before. Maybe before watch it before. Yeah, get like your laughs out first and then go to sleep with with pod people, the original. One last comment is that Severin Films did recently put this out on Blu-ray. It looks okay. I mean, yeah, it looks a lot better than previous versions. It's still like impossible to watch.
When they released it at the same time, they released it in a bundle with a plush Trumpi. Oh, no. I did not see that until it was already sold out and I'm very sad about it. So somebody needs to mail me one. That's all I'll say. Did you get the plush, George Eastman? No. Oh, man. Yeah, they did the plush George Eastman from Anthropophagus and they also did a plush sinful dwarf, I think. I want to say Scott Eurocult. Scott got that. Maybe you didn't. I hope you did.
I want to know, I want to meet the person who has all three because I'll be friends with them. Yeah, that play time at their house is very interesting. So how do you like this one? I really enjoyed it. It's right on the border of something I love. I have a feeling I'll enjoy it more. A second feeling, especially not take furiously taking four pages of notes. I, it wasn't as crazy as I thought it was going to be.
It has moments that my jaw dropped, but then it also just has Trumpi hiding, Trumpi almost getting caught, Trumpi hiding and then forest, the foggy forest and the foggy forest. I cannot wait to sit down and watch the MST 3K. I cannot freaking wait. That was going to be so much fun. There's a lot of material there to have fun with. Yeah, I think in context, this movie is so much better than it did in actually. I mean, it's like, it's like 86 minutes and it can be a bit of a chore, I think.
But the context is what makes it because it's like, who was this for? And then there's no trailer. Like you and I were joking before we started recording about why they didn't have a trailer for it. If you showed any of this, no one's going to freaking go see it because it's so out there. But I, but you could cut, you could cut it to make it scarier. You can't cut it to make it look like a fun children's film. I don't think you can without it, without revealing how fucking dumb it is.
I think they had it and they were just like, you know what? We can sell this as a VHS box. Yeah. That's going to be good enough. That's what happened. I said to you, the film, Ambulent Entertainment doesn't want you to see. Because you know, they, I mean, like the film, one of the jaws rip off that got stopped from being released over here, you know, that kind of shit. I mean, they, I mean, how do they even call it extraterrestrial visitors and even have a limited run?
They must have, nobody must have heard this was happening. Great stuff. Great stuff. Well, folks, thank you for hanging out is so good to, to snort some peanuts with y'all. And here your engines roar. Yep. Here your engines roll. Roll? Yeah, it's roll when the engines roll, which makes even less sense. Well, so in MST3K, they, they, they miss here the lyrics as idiot control. Idiot control now. Idiot control. Oh, I got it. It's like the side hackers song.
They have a great song in the side hackers episode two that's better than the whole movie. But man, I, I'm telling you on that side hackers just that just stays with me. All the jokes from that episode are always with me like, why can't I get near you? There's a ladder in the way. I feel like there's just a barrier between us. There's a ladder in the way. You got tires? Why didn't you say you got tires? We love tires. Yeah, I can go on. Yep. I've watched that episode dozens of times.
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