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and with me, as always is the super Jonathan Strickland. Ariel, I have a question for you, considering that we are talking about super stuff, flight or invisibility. Classic question. Yeah, so I I had I think I'm gonna have to go with invisibility. I've had dreams all the time where like I'm a kid and I can fly, but it's never like high up in the air. It's always like you start running and then you're just a foot above

the ground. I'm kind of afraid of heights and falling, so uh I I don't think i'd want to fly, However, I do LARP and invisibility would be hilarious. I would never lose a module. What about you, You'd be peeping in the locker room. I understand, I got you. I know where you're coming from. You. I go with flight because I'm not a deviant like you. I like the idea of being able to travel wherever I want, whenever I want, soaring through the air jestically like some sort

of bald pigeon. Yes, flight for me all the way. I'm not I'm not gonna do that whole like like invisible Man, creepy motif. I'm not going to do a creepy motif. Look, I'm just gonna hide in the woods and jump out at people. You're right, that's I don't know what I was thinking. Flying anywhere you want, any time you want is not great because let's say you want to fly to Hawaii. You didn't say that super

strength comes with your flights. So you're just gonna be carrying that very heavy suitcase with you through there all the way to Hawaii're gonna get so much perfect. I plan on just buying everything once I get there. I'm gonna go to first stop in Hawaii, retail outlet, mall. Second stop in Hawaii, the beach, maybe maybe the Pokak because that that place is the bomb. Okay, well, we've got We've got that, but we have news to cover. But before we get to any of that aerial I've

got some fast breaking news. Here's the breaking news. It's super important. George Clooney has signed on to become an executive producer and star of a TV series Buck Rogers. Okay, oh that's great. What what details do we have on that? George Clooney has signed on to be an executive producer and star of a new Buck Rogers TV show. That's all I got. I guess it wasn't I guess I

wasn't that important. No, I mean it's something to possibly look forward to, so that, you know, in a couple of months when we get details about it, you go, oh, yeah, I remember that. I like Buck Rogers. Did you ever watch the TV series The Camp like nine seventies era? Oh? Man, I watched that too, And whenever I think about that, I think of mel Blank doing the voice of Tweakie,

the little robot Batty Baby Batty. Uh So, I'm not sure it's going to be the same, especially since I'm pretty sure they're going to go back to the original reference material, which doesn't have a spunky little sidekick robot. But yeah, I saw that news and thought, well, we should include this because you know, it's it's nostalgic for for me and you and all the young listeners out there are like what Buck who that? You know what?

It's okay, because the next news item we have is four young listeners, uh, which is that the Guinness Book of World Records is trying to do, uh like make is set a record of the most people singing a song from the Greatest Showman ever. So that the idea being that it's a it's a big collaborative effort, right, that you're going to have the most people singing and they're going to create a collaborative video of all these different people singing a particular song from the Great Showman,

which is is from now on. Uh. They are trying to get at least five thousand participants. It is a benefit for the Actors Fund, which, if you are not familiar, is a financial fund for the Broadway actors who really need it right now since Broadway is still closed a year later and probably will be for most of one Unfortunately, I want to go see my shows. I know me too. But as of listening to this episode, you can still

be a part. They want you to record the video and challenge four friends using the hashtag b Way World Record uh and shared on social media. They also say that you can tag Broadway stars and challenge them. You know that Hugh Jackman is going to be part of this. Yeah, they've already got some actors committed. They've got Alice Ripley from Next to Normal, John Tart tag Lea from Avenue Q, Kristen Anderson Lopez from Frozen, and Jay Armstrong Johnson from Family the Opera. Uh, you can be a part of

this up until February, which is the deadline. I think I think I'll give this one a skip because my singing voice isn't strong enough. And also, uh, I'm like, I'm at best a casual fan of the Greatest Showman. At best, I was about to say, like, they don't say anything about having to sing it, well, so that's just an excuse. But I do understand the Greatest Showman

I'm not a huge fan of. You know what, I would have actually would have enjoyed it a lot more if they had not said it was supposed to be P. T. Barnum, because I had real issues with the the lionization of P. T. Barnum, who was a much more complicated person than the musical would have you understand. But that's that's But I don't want to yuck anyone's yeah either. I know a lot of people really love the Greatest Showman, and there's nothing wrong with loving it. I mean, that's that's you do

you for me. There was one song in that show that I really loved and another song that I liked, but um, but that was that. Everything else neither of them are from now on fair enough. I mean, it is interesting to say they've gotten permission from Disney to do that. Yes, yes, this is this is something that's

got full clearance. To me. It's again another remarkable example of Disney giving the go ahead for some creative uses of their properties, which, as we've pointed out in previous episodes, is remarkable considering how protective Disney has been of its I P in the past. Also weird but delightful was the latest trailer for Raya in The Last Dragon. I really, you know what, I hadn't seen anything I knew about

this movie. I knew it was coming out, but hadn't seen any trailers, hadn't watched anything of it until we were making this episode. And uh, and the trailer is. First of all, the style looks amazing. They made Riya look like a total um kick butt warrior. I was trying to think of a good, family friendly way of saying it. She looks amazing in it. The antagonist is, at least from what I can gather from the trailer, also a woman, and then the dragon is a a

female dragon. So we've got a film where multiple characters, important characters to the story are all women, which I also thought was awesome. It's not no one draws attention to it in the trailer, but I noticed it just because it's something that we haven't seen a lot of until fairly recently, and I like that that trend is continuing.

I do too. I also really like that, Um. I like that the character is such a kick but character, Like you said, um, there it's it almost feels like Disney wanted their take on the Avatar the Last Airbender. To me, yeah, I was getting a lot of that. I was getting a little bit of Mulan vibes. Um. There were a couple of other like properties I would think of, even a kuba and the two strings. Um,

there's a little bit of that in there. There. There's there's definitely some stuff you can tell where some influences came in. Um. The attitude of the dragon feels like very much a nod to sort of Wosho and Mulan. Um. I mean, it's Aquafina and it's a it's a good trailer, and the action looks like it's going to be really really interesting. I am eager to see this. You know, it's interesting because it doesn't it doesn't look like the kind of typical feel good sort of Disney stuff like.

It doesn't seem all warm and fuzzy and squishy. It seems a little more action oriented. Um, which is great too. I think that looks really interesting. I think I haven't been as excited for a Disney computer animated movie as this since Record Ralph, which I know that you don't feel the same way about that movie as I do.

For me, I think i'd have to go with if we're not talking picks are, if we're just talking about Disney proper Big Hero six, Yeah, I can see that as well, which has a very similar kind of actionly vibe to it. This will be available on Disney Plus on their premier for premium on March five, which means

eventually you'll get it on your regular subscription, but I might. Honestly, I think I'm going to pay for it too, because I really want to see it, and I don't want I want that that experience of discovery and not have everything kind of laid out for me before I get a chance to see it, because the discovery part, you know, I'm sure we can talk about this in a longer section at some future or episode, but the discovery part of a new property is one of the great joys

for me. Like I can handle going in hearing spoilers, but I really love that that experience of discovering something as it's playing out. Um, you just can't really, you can't replicate that if you already know what's happening before you go and see it. It's different. You can still enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with it, but it is different. Mhm.

I agree. I agree. Something on Disney Plus that you I don't think you're going to have to pay premium for is the Black Panther show that's in develop or at least a Wakonda show. It's a show set in Wakonda. What whether or not it director, whether or not it involves a Black Panther character, uh played by sure, you would imagine, we don't know. It may be that it may not even be set in the quote unquote modern

day of the Marvel Cinematic universe. There's no real telling, but we know that the director of Panther is going to be behind the development of the show, and that it is set in Waconda, and bring it on. I am eager to see more of that world. Yeah. Yeah, it was such such great creation, and we only got a small part of it in the first Black Panther movie, so and and and a little bit in Infinity War

a little bit, not near enough, not near enough. You can tell that there's a whole bunch of written richness in that world that we didn't get to see. Uh. Something I did get to see this week. Uh is this? This was something Ariel shared with me that I had not seen, And I'm so thankful that I have a co host like Ariel to bring this into my life. Yeah. Is Uh. Some fans took the Jurassic Park trailer and mashed it up with pee wee Herman making all of

the dinosaurs pee wee Herman. When you hear that concept, you say, oh, I know what this is gonna look like. But no, it's way better than what you imagine in your brain. For for one thing, they resisted the urge of making a dinosaur sized peee Herman. It's a Peewee Herman sized pee Wee Herman, and the the integration of peee Herman shots into Jurassic Park scenes is done pretty

darn well. Like there are bits where you're looking at a Jurassic Park character and Pewee Herman is popping up from behind a tree, and you know, you can tell there was some compositing done, but it looks really good for for a for a joke. Yeah, And there's only one time where they skipped to like a not Jurassic Park scene and it's brief, yes, I think, yeah, yeah, where where it's him over at on the corner of a house and he's just doing his little pee Herman laugh.

Everything else is essentially Jurassic Park with some Peee Herman integrated into it, including the missequence where the t Rex is chasing the jeep and it's the must go faster, must go faster. And I don't want to say anymore than that other than you need to see it to really appreciate it. But we'll put that link in our show notes on our website when this episode goes live so that you can watch it too. We just wanted to give it a shout out since we love mashups.

We had to love on this mashup, yes, and that wraps up our quick headlines for this week. When we come back, we are going to have a deep discussion about the DC Cinematic Universe and what we would do if we were put in charge of it in order to kind of fix it. Seems like it's really presumptuous,

but I'm going to say fix it. And then also stick around because at the end of this episode with our mashup we are we have chosen a mash up topic that is in part a tribute to the late great Chloris Leachman, a phenomenal comic actor who we lost, uh just recently, and so you want to stick around for that too, But first we gotta take this quick break. Still living in and manually taking notes, start the new year with auto dot ai to generate automatic notes for meetings, interviews,

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we're back. Thanks for coming back with us. So we're going to talk about the d C EU and Jonathan, I'm taking it by uh you saying that it needed to be fixed before the break, that you are not a fan of how it is currently being laid out. I am not, Ariel. Thank you for asking me about this. Uh I know I I I've made it pretty clear.

Anyone who listened to old episodes of Large Nergron Collector the classic ones from like tent seventeen, you know that even back then I was complaining about the way d C was going about their cinematic universe, that that that dead horse is still continuing to be beaten by yours, truly, because I don't think it's necessarily gotten much better. I

have multiple problems with it. Problem one is that the whole Zack Snyder take on making everything dark and grim doesn't sit too well with me, largely because like, I think there should be some dark and grim nous in there. I think there need to be stinks, Like without steaks,

there's no conflict, and without conflict, there's no drama. But I feel like heroes need to occasionally be i don't know, heroic, yeah, and inspiring and that sort of thing, which is why Wonder Woman, the original Wonder Woman film from this this latest match is still I think my favorite of all the ones that have come out so far, with the possible exception of Shazam, which feels almost tangential, but it

was also pretty dark. It was pretty dark, but it had more lighthearted moment than any of the other DC films. And then the other part kind of ties into that tangential thing, which is that there is no coherent or cohesive strategy right like there are so many different DC properties, and there are disagreements about which ones actually fit into the mainline DC universe versus being some sort of offshoot like Joker. The movie Joker, which a lot of people loved,

is not part of the mainstream DC cinematic universe. There was talk of another Jared leto Joker movie, which never, as far as I know, is not happening, But that also wasn't going to be part of the mainstream DC universe, And you start to wonder, well, why are you bothering crafting these I mean, I understand the appeal of having heroes from different uh, different franchises, are different lines crossover. There's always like it's that dream, Oh yeah, it's Batman

and super Man. Like, I get it. That's a big deal in the comics, it's a big deal in the movies. But if you're not going to craft a really strong, coherent universe, then it almost seems like you should really just be developing one shot films that are good stories featuring these characters, but there's no necessary connective tissue to everything else. I agree. So I mean d C to the Dark thing. D C is not a Stranger two

Dark storylines in the comics. But I do feel like you need to you need to set up the hero in that story as the hero, like you said before, you can enjoy that journey down down a path that they maybe shouldn't go. You're more invested then, um and then yeah, the continuity is hard. I feel like they they tried so hard to catch up with Marvel, but by that time, they already had a bunch of TV shows, and they already had all of these one off movies. We've had so many Batman series, um, that it was

almost like an afterthought. I do feel like they up until the Snyder cut, I feel like they had been slowly edging away from everything being super dark, even through this latest wonder Woman movie. UM, but I still feel like trying to add that levity to what little through line there is, it just makes the stories extra long and extra convoluted. Yeah. Yeah, no, there's there's no efficiency

in storytelling in the DC Cinematic universe. Everything is a little too bloated and uh, I mean when when there are important block points that hinge on such silly things like the fact that two characters have mother figures who were named Martha and somehow that's what brings them together. I mean, I get it, like that's been that's been mean to death, right, but it's still ridiculous. It's why it's and mean to death. It is a ridiculous point

in a film. And uh, you know, there's just so many decisions that I disagreed with, especially in those early Snyder films, like without as you say, without making the hero heroic, you have no one to cheer for, You're It's like they decided they wanted to skip straight to the Frank Miller version of Old Batman and show him as you know, someone who is who is still plotting along, but it's very cynical and very um uh pessimistic about things and um pragmatic in a way that's extremely dark.

And they didn't want to get to any of the stuff that led him to that journey. They just wanted to jump to that. Same with them with the fact that they didn't go through the same setup that Marvel did when it began to establish all these individual characters and then the connection they had with one another to lead into the Avengers titles. And you know, we didn't even get into the Thanos storyline until we were probably

about halfway through those initial Marvel films. It was only in the back half that the Thanos storyline really started to play out, and to the point where some people were even asking like, why should we care about Thanos? And then in fanity war happened and everyone suddenly really cared about Thanos. But it just showed that they did a very long lead up to that, whereas d C was almost like, dump all the toys out on the floor, Okay, now they're all together, let's make them do stuff. But

they didn't build any of that individually. Like I said, I feel like it really was them playing a game of catchup to try to to try to get to Marvel success level before people were burnt out on superheroes, which has come and gone since the m c U

has begun. Um. I feel like when they said okay, now anybody can make any movie about any DC character, DC comic character, um, that it was their attempt to try to salvage the fandom without having to continue, like basically trying out alternate timelines to see if any of those stick better than their current prime timeline so then they can just switch over to that. I mean, like clearly the Harley Quinn movie as an example of that,

right where the Harley Quinn film. They saw how people responded to the character of Harley quinnin Suicide Squad, even though that movie is its own garbage fire. The first the first one, because I think the next one is gonna be really good, well until it comes out, I'm not gonna hold my breath, right, so they have to prove me wrong. Okay, I don't. I feel pretty comfortable

saying the first film is a garbage fire. Uh, But that that led to the ability for the Harley Harley Quinn film to come out, and I think people responded more towards that, which just showed that there are and Joker again. Joker is another movie that did phenomenally well. Um, i'll spare you my thoughts on Joker, but it did really well and again is not connected to the rest of the threads in the d C universe. So it's

a complicated issue. Like if it were me, I'd almost say like, all right, we're gonna have to start with a fresh slate. Um, some of the casting I might keep because I think that some of the folks who are in their roles are good for those roles, But like, we're just gonna do what the comic books do occasionally,

which is that you do a big reset. It happens in comics all the time, where you have some sort of cataclysmic event that destroys every relity so that it could start fresh and then you start screwing it up all over again, but at least you can start fresh. Well, And I thought that's what they were doing with the James Gunn Suicide Squad that's coming out, because it's just it's it's not a second movie, it's just another suicide

Squad movie. But then they talked. But and you know, James Gunn did great with Guardians of the Galaxy, and the cast for this new movie is pretty spectacular. Um, they all all of the actors ride a good line between action and intense and comedy. But then they did carry over some of the characters like Harley Quinn and Boomerang and things like that, so it's not quite as much of a reboot as I initially thought it was

going to be. Yeah, Um, so if you were trying to fix this, like my my argument is to scrap it all and start over. Um, but do you think it's something that you could see as being salvageable, like keeping everything that exists now and just building further upon it. Yes. Yes, And my reasoning for that is I've said since the beginning, and if you're a long time Lency listener you'll know this that I feel like the real problem with the Justice League is how dark it is. I feel like

they've been going lighter and lighter and lighter. Uh. Justice League, much like the newer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. The storyline was not strong, but they got the characters right. Um. Even at the end Superman got to be Superman and that was nice. But I enjoyed watching all the characters

and I enjoyed watching their chemistry. So all we need to do is have happy Superman fly around the world reverse time, and then we can continue on with the Justice League, because that movie did the poorest and to me it was one of the most one of the more enjoyable ones. Um. Maybe not quite a from a character standpoint, maybe not as quite as enjoyable as Wonder Woman or Aquaman, which were both I found both of them fun, but far too long. Um And mainly because

the Justice League villain was pretty milk chosty. But um, well, now you're going to get dark side in the Snyder cut. So yeah, I don't. Yeah, that's that's exactly how I feel aial, So don't don't feel badly about it. But Snyder cut, but more movies. I appreciate what you say, like I I, I don't deny that. You know, you could continue. Obviously they're going to continue to build on

the foundation they have laid. I think the reason, the real reason, if you really boil it down then I want to scrap it all and start over is fundamentally I despise the fact that the Kents we're trying to tell Clark to be selfish and to to value self preservation over helping others, because to me, that is fun dem mentally the opposite of what most versions of Superman's origin story point to, like the whole idea being that this is an alien who decides that he wants to

protect humans because he was raised by genuinely decent people. And when you take that away, it just like to me, it's like, well, you just ruined everything. You just you've soured the whole thing, and yeah, you can get him to come around and choose to be noble. But that's a different character arc art. It's not it's not invalid. It just to me, isn't Superman. I mean, I get it, I get it. You know. I enjoyed Man of Steel, which is is the movie that started that whole path

you don't like of Superman. But while I thought it was an entertaining movie, I did not think it was a great Superman movie. It wasn't it. It wasn't a great Superman movie to start off the d C EU with. Yeah, at the time, I didn't know there was going to be a d C EU, So yeah, I just to me, it was like it was, it started with a wrong turn and then it got more wronger. Fair enough, but you know what, we also admit like that that's down

to our personal tastes. There may be many of you out there who absolutely love the DC Cinematic Universe, which you know that's totally valid too, Like your opinions are just as valid as ours. Yeah, And you know, like you said, I've seen the d C EU movies and I will continue to see them. And you know, Marvel has had to scrap some of their properties, or has tried to scrap some of their properties multiple times to relaunch them, X Men, Fantastic Four, things like that, So

it's not just parent property specific. Yeah, no, I mean that. Also, Marvel has has caught some flak for not integrating some of their Netflix TV series into the overall Marvel Cinemaic universe. Like that direction only goes one way, where the stuff that happened in the movies gets referenced in the shows, but the shows never get the carry over into the movies, which is unfortunate because Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke

Cage are all awesome and Iron Fist is also there. Yeah, but we think that Daredevil is going to be in the New Spider Man, so that's what we're hoping, So maybe all the rest will follow suit. We'll see if it works, then they might continue it. Yeah, but you know, this was our our DC conversation. If we want to talk Marvel, we're going to have to wait till after the break with our mash up. After thirty years, it's time to return to the halls of West Beverly High

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to do a mash up. But let's explain what two properties you picked? Okay, So we picked the fantastic four mainly because of some conversations happening around one division that we're not going to get into because spoilers. Uh. And we also picked young Frankenstein. So let's talk a little bit about these properties, because at least in my mash up, I have some let's call them deep cuts that I reference that I think are going to be lost on

probably nine cinemaur audience. Sure, but the basic story is that there's this gentleman Gene Wilder who is uh Dr Franken Frankenstein. Uh, because he doesn't want to be confused with the crazy Dr Frankenstein Um. Who finds out he's got a like a familial house that he's he's earned when his great great grandfather passed away. Um, and he goes there and then he becomes the mad scientist and eventually accepts his name Frankenstein. But there's uh huge amount

of comedy. You've got I Gore, who is a play on igor. You've at Frod Blueckhardt, who's the character that Clos Leachman played, who every time they say her name, no matter where she is, a horse whinnies because it sounds familiar to the German word for glue um, which is never explained in the movie. But it just happens. It's a running gag that they never explain, and I love it. And it's just such a lighthearted, fun play on on a really great but kind of dark story.

Frankenstein Um. That is just brilliant. Yeah. Uh, Fantastic Four Okay, So in case you aren't aware of who the Fantastic Four are, it's a heroic group of four characters. Uh. There have been different members of the Fantastic Four over the years, but the classic four are Read Richards, who is Mr. Fantastic. He can stretch his limbs and get all bendy bendy. There's uh, Sue Storm later Sue Richards, who is the invisible first the Invisible Girl, but she

manages to it's grew the patriarchy and become the Invisible woman. Um, yeah, that comics were not the most woke back in the day. Uh. You have Johnny Storm, Sue's brother, who is the human Torch, and you have Ben Graham who becomes the Thing, a big rocky orange hulk like guy, and they end up being a radiated There's different versions of their origin story, but that's how they all get their powers. So they didn't start off with powers. They get them because they're

exposed to radiation. They typically are facing off against pretty weird and cosmic kind of of bad guys and problems, but they also have a enemy in Dr Doom. Dr Doom is frequently their antagonist, and for my story, one important thing you need to know is that, at least in one version of the Marvel timeline, Read Richards and Sue Richards have a son named Franklin Richards, who has like reality bending powers. That's going to be important in

my story. There's also other references that longtime Marvel fans are going to get and nobody else, So just a warning. Yeah, kind of kind of the same with mine. Um I actually I was on the opposite end. I was very excited about this at the beginning, and as I was writing my mashup, I quickly went, oh, this is I cannot meet Melbrook's genius. But yeah, this was a challenging one, I will admit, But once I came up with the terrible punchline, everything else was just like how long can

I delay getting to the punchline. It's it's a tribute. It's a tribute to something we love and a great actress. So uh, I apologize and here we go with the fantastic frow blue curtain. May okay. So Dr Read Richards pronounced Reshorts is speaking at a symposium at Hedgeman University one day when a mysterious figure enters and tells him

he has acquired his family's estate in lat Varia. While he doesn't like to be associated with his family legacy of mad science, Read leaves his then fiance Alicia masters to see what the ordeal is about. Upon reaching the estate in Latviia, Reshorts meets a beautiful blonde named Susan and her brother, who introduces himself as John I see. He thinks he's being clever picking on Reshorts his pronunciation of his name, but really he's just being kind of annoying.

These two are the Storm siblings, who are the assistance of the previous inhabitant, Nathaniel Richards. Read is so enamored by Susan that he doesn't even notice as the caretaker of the estate, Frau Evelyn Blucker, steps up behind him and offers to show him to his room. When he turns back to invite Susan to dinner, she's gone, foreshadowing

that evening. As Reshorts explores these date, he happens upon a staircase leading to the basement, whereupon he finds the Storm's siblings standing over a corpse in a lab as fraud Evelyn Blueger is about to put a brain into the corpse. Oh yeah, there's also a lab horse. Every respectable at Varian Lab has one. Uh. The name on

the jar holding the brain is a ben normal Uh. Reshorts, a surpride and yells out fraud Blucker's name, which startles a horse, who kicks the re animation machine, showering all of the inhabitants in the room with radiation. As Fraud places a brain in the corpse, all of a sudden, the corpses alive, but he is melted with the stone slab he was laying on to gain a stone skin. Susan is gone, but Reshorts can hear her yelling, and John I accidentally ignites, scaring the grim monster thing away.

Reshorts reaches for the door, realizing he doesn't need to move his feet to do so, but his stretchy arm reaches the door too late. Only fraud Blucker is not affected by the radiation, having assisted her loved, beloved Nathaniel for so many years that she had become immune to it. All did to do insites the local authority, Inspector von Doom, a man with one good eye, a metal mask, and

a metal arm, to come question Reshorts. However, all Reshorts can make out about what Inspector Doom is saying is that there's a monster and if he finds them, he will end him. You see, his mask is muffling too much of the other words, he's saying for Reshorts to even understand it. Uh. Now, the three and Frau must find this thing. Thankfully, Aba Normal was actually the love child of Nathaniel and Frau Evelyn Bluehurt, and she knows just how to find him with his childhood love of pizza.

There's only one pizza joint in life area, and tonight is open mic night. When they get there, they find the grim Thing doing stand up and enjoying his slice. They know they must protect him, being so unique and clever, so they bring him back to the estate just as reads fiance Alicia shows up. She sees the Thing, but instead of being frightened, falls in love with him, which is okay because Reshorts is kind of actually got a

thing for Susan. And as we pan out from the the estate, we see John I Storm hiding worldly behind a horse as Frau Evelyn Bluegert searches him for him longingly because she's also a bit of a pyromaniac. I like that. There seemed to be some references to the the the the original Fantastic Four film by that Roger Corman produced that was never released specifically for you, Jonathan because you can't understand doom in that version, all right, Well,

here here's mine. Um the title will become into it later. We open in the Baxter Building as the Fantastic Four's headquarters. The Fantastic Four are an established team at this point, having had many adventures under their collective belts. Read and Sue Richards are the proud parents of a young boy named Franklin, who has impressive powers of his own. Are heroes receive a distress call they must immediately have off to Latin Veria to battle the nefarious dr Doom. Little

Franklin is left behind in the care of others. The next morning, his caretakers are glued to the television, watching reports the Doom, the Fantastic Four, and indeed all of Latin Veria have disappeared. The scene dissolves and we see a title card saying twenty five years later, Franklin is an adult now giving a lecture at our prestigious university. He's an expert in linguistics in history, and it's clearly

attempting to suppress his past and his own superpowers. While giving the lecture, one determined student keeps asking Franklin about his famous parents. Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman and his famous uncle, the Human Torch, and also that big rocky dude known as the Thing. Franklin attempts to dismiss the questions with humor, but the student persists, and in a moment of temper, Franklin uses his reality bending superpowers to turn the student into a Jack in the box.

Class dismissed, he says after his lecture, an old man who had been sitting in on the lecture comes forward, revealing himself to be a messenger from lat Varia. He explains that without any warning, the entire nation that had disappeared is back. Much of it is in ruins, but not all of it, and that Franklin in particular is urged to go there to claim his birthright. Though the

old man doesn't have much information about what exactly that is. Franklin, overcome with anxiety, makes arrangements to travel to lat Varia right away. Arriving by train at the station, he has greeted by the humanoid experimental robot B type Integrated Electronics or Herbie, though it's pronounced her By. According to the robot, Herby and Franklin traveled to an old abandoned castle used to be doctor Doom's lair, but now it's practically unoccupied

as Doom and the Fantastic Four have not reappeared. Along the way, Franklin and her By encounter a young woman named Inga Summers, who was given instructions to help assist Franklin and any way. Oh, and I mentioned that Doom's castle was practically unoccupied, but no, there is one person there, Fraud Bluecher, who is secretly Cynthia von Doom, dr Doom's mother played by Cloris Leachman. Of course, At the castle, Franklin spends time exploring, attempting to find any signs of

what happened to the Fantastic Four. Bluecher tries to embrace him to encourage him to embrace his superpowers, but Franklin resists, unwilling to acknowledge that this is in fact his birthright. What follows is an adventure in which Franklin tries to make his own robot without the use of his superpowers. He builds a robotic human Torch, which just goes around insisting that no, he's the real original human Torch and

Johnny Storm was the second human Torch. You just gotta buy the comics to find out that the original human Torch was a robot, but Franklin points out that if you are a robot, you aren't a human torch, You're a robot Torch, and that goes poorly. Next thing, you know, the robot Human torches rampaging through the countryside. Franklin and team have to lure the robot back, insisting that it's

not evil, it's just misdirected. Franklin is able to coax the robotic human Torch back to the castle with promises of a special october Fest celebration, knowing that the robot is particularly fond of Oom Pah bands, and so Franklin inga Summers and Herby play Polka, luring the human Torch robot back to the castle. In the process, the robot discovers a hidden compartment in the castle, and in it

is a special German beer mug. Emblazoned on it are the Fantastic Four and on the bottom of the mug it's a message to Franklin with love from Mom and Dad. And then it happens. We finally smash cut to the title of the movie Young Franklin Stein cut to end credits post credit scene. I guess the Fantastic Four and Doom show up or something. I don't know. I you saw her was going, I did, and I'm I'm I

don't know whether to say thank you or I'm so sorry. Um, Young Franklin Stein, Yeah, yeah, we got it because it's a German beer mug. You see, his name is Franklin Okay, okay, So if any of you think you've got a better way to mash up the Fantastic for a young Frankenstein, better than Franklin Stein or the Fantastic frou, please reach out to us and tell us we would love to hear your mash up ideas and if we like, we

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