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us and how excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Casting and with me as always is peek Boy Jonathan Strickland. I'm the geek Boy. Hey, Ariel, I got a question for you. All right, Dariel, You've got all the materials, all the skills at your disposal all the time. You need to make your dream causeplay. We both have been to dragon Con many times. Cosplay is a huge part

of Dragon Con. What is your dream causeplay? So this is this is difficult because I have many of them, um, but the one that I have yet to see anybody do. So I'm picking this because, like I could say, I want to be a realistic Little Mermaid or I want to be Jessica Rabbit. Those have always been like high on my list of things to play or fem ship from Mass Effect. But the one that I have yet to see anybody do that I would love to love to do is a really well is a female version

of the tick? Oh you know what. I don't think I've seen anyone ever play a female version of the tick either, And it's an interesting choice. But you know, since cause players like to role play their characters oftentimes, I just think it would be an awful lot of fun. I can very much relate to the Ticks non sequitors. Sometimes we would have to see if our our mutual friends Sasha would be your Arthur. Oh, that would be amazing. Yeah,

because you and Sasha whenever you're paired together. I mean it's been a while, it has been a while, but and Sasha has gone on to that. Yeah, and Sasha has gone on to do some like phenomenal causplays. Sasha is just if you've ever seen that picture by picture of tinker Bell next to thorign Oaken shield and it says, this is the same person. That's our friend Sasha, whom

we've known for years. Yeah, yeah, I would love to do that with Sasha, but I don't have the skills to actually build that costume, nor all the resources in the world to do so what would be yours? I gave this a lot of thought, and you know, because I like playing bad guys, because you know, I'm not a bad guy, So it's fun to kind of just play pretend. I think I would go Uber bad guy. I wanna really cool which King ring Wraith costume from

Glord of the Rings. Yeah, it would. That's so before we started recording, actually, just to peek behind the veil, I gave Ariel a bit of a heads up on this one because I felt like this particular question is one of those where you kind of want to think about it. You know, you just get you get that one dropped on your lap, and your chances are you're going to give an answer and then like twenty minutes later,

you're gonna say I hate that answer. So I wanted to give her a little time, and I said, yeah, this is one of those costumes that if I were wearing it at Dragon Con, if I did have the ability to put it all together, I would probably be stationary because I don't think I would be able to see very well in a witch King outfit, and um, i'd be worried about walking into people or falling down an escalator. Worse yet, falling down an up escalator, which

means you're just falling forever. It's that would be horrible, horrible, you know, I Honestly, I changed my mind like three times between the time you gave me time to think about it in the time you actually asked me the question during recording. But I mean because I've done a lot of cosplay, and it tends to be things that are easier to do because as much as I love sewing and I love costume design, I'm not actually fantastic at execution. So all of those I would love to

reado in a better format. And and lately when I've caused played, it's been very closet causeplay things like Street Close, Black Widow or Mary Jane on a business day, or you know, stuff that doesn't require specific pieces that are not normally viable at a story. Yeah, the last causeplay I did was Kabuky Mask from Big Hero six, the bad guy from Big Hero six. Um. I did that.

I had the three D accustomed three D printed mask for that that that I painted up and put reflective lenses inside and everything, So it was it is probably the most involved one I did. And that one was that was off the rack pieces that I just altered slightly because if you've seen Big Hero six, you've seen that Kabucky Mask wears a bunch of layers, and dragon Con happens in August in Georgia. So yeah, but it looked good. I got to see it. It looked really good.

Thank you well. I I hope that we can once again indulge in some cosplay and plus just really enjoy the incredible work that the cosplay community puts into their pieces. It's constantly the highlight of dragon Con for me is just seeing the creative costuming, everything from incredibly accurate replicas of pieces you've seen in film or television or even comic books, up to the crazy, you know, mash ups and offshoots that come up a lot of I think a lot of the spirit of large Nerdron Collider is

in those kinds of cosplay. It definitely is. I wonder when we get back to conventions with cosplay, dragon Con specifically, since that's the one right right outside our door, if we're going to get many knives out causplays. Yeah, that's an excellent question, because I mean, that's the thing is that one of the interesting bits about cosplay is that we've seen it branched far beyond the fantasy and science

fiction and superheroes and horror. It started to go all over the place and in all the areas where people have, you know, a deep fandom for the thing. And the reason you bring out Knives Out is because we've heard about yet another addition to the cast. We talked about Batista being part of the cast. Now we know that Leslie Odom Jr. Is going to be part of the cast. He played uh well, He's been in lots of stuff, but I think of him as Aaron Burr from Hamilton's

where he was phenomenal originating that role. I'm going to say, if he's the killer, then that's type casting and not fair. Maybe he accidentally shoots the victim or something. But yeah, we also know that Edward Norton is in the cast, as is Katherine han Um. So I mean, I don't know, it could have been Yeah, I think it might be

Kevin han because it was Agatha all along. So really, what you're saying is you expect Knives Out to to be Aaron Burr, the Hulk, Agatha from from One Division and James Bond and James Bond, Daniel Craig all in a room together. Yes. No, I'm just I'm just in Drax and I'm trying to figure out which Janelle Monet character I want to select for this. Yeah, so it's not gonna be individual characters. It's going to be all

the other characters they've played, yes, exactly. Also, it'll turn out to be kind of like Clue, where everyone ends up being a killer. Oh spoiler for Clue in case you haven't seen that movie. Jonathan came out in the early eighties. I think I think the Statute of Limitations is done. I've watched it like a thousand times. But I was going to say that you're making me redo my evening plans, but that's not true at all. Well, and I have to say I'm really excited about Knives

Out too. I very much enjoyed the first film. I was late to seeing the first movie. I knew that it was. There was a huge amount of buzz around it already by the time I saw it, so I didn't I was not on that that first like boat of folks who saw it. I was so lucky that no one spoiled it for me, so I got to go into it and enjoy the mystery for what it was.

Although I maintain that if you do watch Knives Out, if you haven't seen it before, I maintained that I'm I'm pretty sure most people are going to suss out who the killer is pretty pretty early on. But it was still a very entertaining film. Yes, and from a storytelling standpoint and an artistic standpoint, there are so many little clues enhanced that they put in throughout that's just

really fantastic. Um, Jonathan, I'm actually going to be a bit of a book and I'm going to change our show order after we decided it because I realized that if we're talking about Knives Out, which is a murder mystery, we should then talk about our other true crime murder story. Now, Dear Evan Hanson, got it. I'm sorry, that's what we were supposed to talk about. Okay, Right, so you're you're talking about the the Steve Martin and Martin Short series

that is coming out on Hulu. Yes, it's called Only Murders in the Building, which took me a bit because that's not really a name that like rolls off the tongue or makes a whole lot of sense. But it's Steve Martin, Martin Short, Amy Ryan and Selena Gomez and they are true crime podcast fans who then decide to solve true crime. Yes, a murderer, or at least a death happens in the apartment building where they all live.

They're all strangers to one another except for the fact that they all happened to share this love of true crime podcasts, and a death happens in their building, and collectively they decide that they want to investigate it because they all suspect that the death was in fact a murder um and they want to put the skills they have learned by listening to true crime podcasts to the test. Ariel, I gotta tell you this to me is kind of

my nightmare. I've thought it might be, uh, just just because I know that you have feels on true crime pod I do. I'm a I'm a podcast producer who works for a company that produces more than a few true crime podcasts. And the thought of fans taken it upon themselves to try and solve crime because of their received expertise because they listen to a lot of true crime shows fills me with a terror that is difficult to put into words. I mean, I totally get in

that being said. The trailer is so adorable, like so Steve Steve Martin and Martin Short. Oftentimes they're both comedic, comedically brilliant in many ways, but a lot of times, especially like when they rehash old characters on S and L or whatnot, they're so over the top. To me, they're just very very large, and so I was worried that watching this trailer they would both be very very large. Um,

and they're they're big, but they're not unbearably big. And then you've got Selina Gomez coming in is just this straight man like, very wry sort of personality that balanced it out really well in the trailer. I didn't expect to. I had to watch the trailer, but I didn't expect to want to watch the show. Now, I I agree with you, Like you know, when I think of Steve Martin and Martin Short together, my thoughts immediately go to the Three Amigos, um but which is great, fantastic, I

love it. But yeah, as you say, like the performances in that film are not at all subtle. They're not supposed to be. That's not the kind of movie it is. We By the way, fun fact, if you go back through our old YouTube videos, there's one of our YouTube videos where we heavily reference the Three Amigos when we talk about the seven Sons of the Seven Samurai. But yeah,

like I'm the same way. I wasn't sure what to expect, but everyone, like Steve Martin, especially in the past few years, has turned in some performances that are much more nuanced and subtle. Like he's not the wild and crazy guy at the seventies or the zany comedy guy of the eighties. Uh. He still has that incredible since the humor, but it's channeled in a different way now. Yeah. Yeah, I would definitely say that he's the more my old of the two h Martin's Yes, the Steve Martin short, Yes, Steve

Martin short Martin Steve Martin Short. Okay, So speaking of nuanced performances, Yeah, this is gonna be a fun conversation We're about to get into here. Um yeah, we wanted it,

so we do. Do want to talk about Dear Evan Hanson because the trailer for the movie adaptation of the Broadway show launched the day we're recording this, which is one and it surprised me because despite the fact that I'm on a show where we cover entertainment news, I wasn't aware that there was a musical version of this coming out, Like I had heard that it was happening, but it completely fell off my radar because it was just the beginning stages last I personally picked up on it. Well.

It surprised me also that you know, they actually cast the actor who played the character of Evan Hanson in the Broadway stage show as that character in the film, which, on one hand, is a neat thing because you very rarely see that, right. We usually see Hollywood actors who end up getting cast in these roles and maybe, if you're lucky, they can sing. But in this case, we're seeing the actual person who originated the part on Broadway doing the role on the screen. That doesn't always work out.

Rent was a disaster, but um, but we're hopeful on this one. However, it does bring up an issue that the Internet has more than jumped all over Yeah, which is the fact that Ben Platt is which you know, it's not always an issue in Hollywood. They are constantly people being in their Yeah, and we should point out

Evan Hanson. Dear. Evan Hanson's is a story that's set in like mostly in a high school with the main character feeling like an outcast at that high school, and he has a couple of encounters with a similar outcast in that school, and it appears that the two of them from the outside like people who are just casually looking. It looks like the two of them formed a friendship.

Then this other person, Connor, takes his own life, and that appearance of a friendship becomes uh kind of a lie that people just start to believe, and Evan is sort of wrapped up in it. Um. The story gets much more complicated from there, but the point being that you've got an actor in his late twenties playing a teenager, and a lot of people started sharing memes, especially of the Steve Boussimmi like you know what's up, young people, fellow young people that kind of meme as a joke

about being Evan Hansen. All of the kids are in their twenties, so a Lana Back, Zoe Murphy, Connor Murphy, Jared Klein. They're all in their twenties between twenty two and twenty six. So Ben Platt playing Evan Hanson is not so far off, but he looks way older than that he does, and so I feel weird about this areal. And the reason why is because every film depends upon a suspension of disbelief. Right, you have to suspend disbelief

because you know, this is a movie. People showed up to set, there was catering, there were lights, there were crew that are not in view if the movie is done properly, like I like, like, you know, it's all artifice, so you already have to buy into it. Now it

is asking you more to buy into it. When an actor is the wrong age to play a character quote unquote wrong age, it's a little easier, I would argue, uh, when you go to see a stage production, because then you're having to suspend your disbelief even more because you can just look around and see that you know, you're

not really you know wherever um. But I also like I get it where like you know, you're you're you're feeling a disconnect between the uh, the appearance of an actor and the supposed age of the character they're playing. But there are a lot of shows out there that have adults playing children and that's part of the show, Like like the annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is that way You're a good man, Charlie Brown is that way. So I guess it just depends on intent and the

way it's portrayed. But I'm not feeling a mental block here, I guess, is what I'm saying. Me neither. So like if you look at the movie Eighth Grade, where they used actual eighth graders, if they had used high schoolers and then put Ben Platt into that environment, I would have felt real creepy about that. But because they've cast everyone older, you know, you can kind of just age

up in your brain. I know that as I get older, and I'm not old by any means, but as I get older, all of a sudden, people my age look younger to me so well, and and I think about things like you know, like you said, it's not a new thing to cast adults as teenagers. Like the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, every single one of the principal actors, we're playing characters several years younger than themselves, sometimes like a decade younger than themselves. So it's not

an unusual thing. Um, I do get like the initial knee jerk reaction, It's not a big deal to me. I can get past it. Also, Like I think part of It's also that I kind of wanted to see Dear Evan Hansen when it was originally running on Broadway. But it's one of those things where like it's tough to see a show with its original cast. I mean, there's it's just it's an exclusive thing, right, So this is a chance to see the the guy who originated the part do it again. And when else am I

going to get a chance to see that? I agree? You know, I think I was going to say they could have done it because you run into work issues like how much time a kid can be on set if they're under eighteen. But I really think they It is so that people could see then Platt as Evan Hanson, which you know, when I listened to the soundtrack, that's who I love singing it. So I'm also quite excited. I'm I'm not having any hang ups. So he does look a little old to me, but I yeah, no,

I agree, I agree. Well, you know what, Ariel, I think what we should do is take a break and when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about some interesting mergers that are coming up, and then segue into some situational comedic conversation. Still living in and manually taking notes. Start the new year with auto dot ai

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into the realm of one of the other shows. We used to do Business on the Brink, where we would talk about like some big, big, big moments in business history that either led to incredible success or monumental failure. And we've got a couple of stories that could be like a turning point um And one of them is that Amazon is rumored to be on the prowl to pick up MGM, the one of the oldest movie production companies ever, which has had numerous financial difficulties throughout its

very long history. M hmm, yeah, which, you know, I get it. The The interesting thing to me is along with MGM comes things like getting the movie Fargo, but the Fargo television show is on Hulu, which is owned by Disney. But they get like the James Bond series that's got to be worth something, Hobbit, Rocky rebotop. I'm just reading through the list here, Get Shorty, which it's probably not a show a movie that like half our audience has ever seen, but I saw it in the theater. Yeah,

so yeah, it's It's really interesting. Um because as these big mergers happened, they kind of start overlapping in my brain. But at the same time, like I so, it feels a bit incestuous, and I get I have a hard

time keeping them all straight. But at the same time, I'm like, Okay, merge because I already have Amazon Prime, so I'll just open up my options for When I think of MGM areal, the two things that come to my mind are the original name for Disney Hollywood Studios, Disney's MGM Studios, Yes, which I still call it that so do I. Which I'm sure it irritates cast members like crazy, but you know that it was burned into my brain as a kid. But the other thing is

one of the greatest movies of all time. And I'm not this isn't me being like flippant, but Wizard of Oz was an MGM film like that is that is truly an iconic move. So it's interesting, Like I think, I look at MGM as a business and I think, yeah, that that's a company that's really that's really struggling. I mean, we would call it a business on the brink. And um, it's only companies, like massive companies like Amazon that would be able to come in and potentially scoop up those

assets and maybe make something out of it. You know, you wouldn't expect Amazon to just you know, liquidate everything. They would do something with it. What they would do with it is another question. But you alluded to the fact that it's hard to keep these things straight. It's not getting any easier because this is not the only merger story we have. No Warner Media is apparently being sold by A T and T and getting picked up by Discovery, which hurts my head a little. Me too.

I used to work for Discovery, so it hurts my head too. Um yeah, so A T and d is looking to spin off Warner Media and have it merge with Discovery, which is all sorts of strange to me. I mean, in some ways, I think it's a good thing because a T and D is you know, a telecommunications company, so they're in charge of making sure the connections exist between different entities, and then Warner Media as a content company, and I don't really like it when

content and delivery are merged together. It's why I really don't care for the the Comcast NBCUniversal massive conglomerate, I find, because that that's the kind of stuff that ends up threatening things like net neutrality. So I'm not a big fan of it. But yeah, so the part about them spending off Warner Media in order to focus solely on telecommunications and have Warner Media focused solely on content, that

part was easy for me to understand. It's the merger with Discovery that I also find like, that's the one where I had the big question mark pop up over my head. I you know, I wonder if Discovery was on board to get it, because like, so they've got Discovery Plus right, and a lot of their content is now on there, a lot of the shows that people like to watch, you know, like Dr Pimple Popper or

fix Er Upp or things like that. A lot of those shows are now on Discovery Plus because they want people buying their their streaming service, but there are just too many of them, So I wonder if that's a way for them to still maintain a streaming service, not admit defeat because I don't know what their numbers are, you know, um, but then roll it in under like HBO Max HBO Max because which is also hard because I get my HBO Max through Hulu, which is owned

by Disney. Yeah. No, it's it's. I thought the cable business was of confusing mishmash, but it was you know, streamlined and simple compared to the online streaming world that we're in today. Um, yeah, it's it's also it blows my mind to think that if things had been a little different, I could count Batman as my coworker. That that is a pretty cool thought, John. But I haven't

worked for Discovery for a few years now. Discovery spun off How Stuff Works several years ago, or actually sold off How Stuff Works several years ago, which then went through a whole series of things. And I don't even work for how stuff works anymore. Been in the same job for fourteen years. It's the bosses that keep changing. Yeah, but you you are constant. Yeah, like steadfast born in the side, Yes, but steadfast pillars. Speaking of pillars, one

of the pillars of comedy, one of the pillars of entertainment. Listen, I'm I'm grasping at any straw that i can see. But one of the pillars of entertainment, particularly in places like the UK and America, is the sitcom or situational comm Now, Ariel, what was it that that made you want to talk about sitcoms today? Uh? Yeah, So sadly it looks like we won't have much time to talk about it, so this conversation might lead into another week.

But ABC released trailers for a bunch of its fall lineup, and there was there was a drama called Queens, and then three sitcoms, one of which we knew about, The Wonder Years, which is a remake and it's starring Delay Hill, which I love Delay Hill, so I'll watch anything he's in um and then Abbott Elementary which is about a school, and then Maggie, which is a comedy about a psychic and I pulled up the article to watch the trailer about Wonder Years because I loved the original and I'm

very excited about this remake. I love I love how certain certain comedy, certain situational things are and sometimes hate to our are a part of the basic human conditions. So no matter when you look at them throughout your history, that they remain relevant. You know, there are some some things that remain relevant that I wish wouldn't, for instance, when they redid All in the Family and Jeffers since there's certain social topics that I wish we're not still

relevant that sadly are. But you know, a lot of comedy, a lot of family those the particulars might change, but the overall feeling of them stays the same. And so you can make remake something like Wonder Years, have it been new and have it still hit all of the same old fields, which is what I'm hoping for. There are certain sitcoms and certain shows that I think fall into the comedy range. They maybe don't fall into the

classic sitcom category like I wouldn't. I wouldn't think Wonder Years falls into sitcom, but it is more comedic than anything else. It's more of a kind of a drama series in a way. Um situations like like Doogie Howser is another one. That's another one that has the remake, right, so uh full House, you know, full House is like, We're gonna have so much more to talk about with full House in a minute. It had a sequel, Fuller House. Yeah, but but yeah, there are other there other like sitcoms

I think of from my childhood. Now. I grew up in the seventies and eighties, so a lot of the sitcoms I remember are not good. Some of them are like Golden Girls, pretty good sitcom. Designing Women was frequently a pretty good sitcom. Um, but there are others that, you know, we're varying degrees of corny or just uh, you know, not not particularly relevant, Like I don't know Perfect Strangers, not not so much. I love Perfect I did at the time, but I have things to say

about that that I'll tell you off Mike. Yeah, well I did rewatch it recently. It doesn't quite hold up as well as or like here's here's an example of one that totally like would not fly today for good reason, Bosom Buddies that would not fly. So if you don't know what Bosom Buddy says. It was a Tom Hanks was in it. It was a a comedy in which a couple of guys dressed in drag in order to be able to live in a um housing area that

only would allow women. And um, yeah, so you had a lot of jokes about men dressed up as women and that just would not like that. That humor doesn't work today at all. Um. I arguably it didn't work so great then either, But you know, you get by a long way on Tom Hanks's charm. Um. But yeah, it's interesting. So are there any Are there any sitcoms that you can think of that you would love to see a reboot of that you think could I mean, we know we're getting some like Punky Brewster. It's another

one that's coming back. But see the reboot of Punky Brewster. Again, it's not a reboot, it's a sequel. Um. It feels like it's banking heavily on this algia, which is not always a bad thing, but um, it felt it felt a little too force for me. You know, I talked about this in a previous episode, But I would love to see Family Matters reboot. Um, I don't know if they could, Like, I don't know if anybody could replace Julia White and Steve Urkel, and now that geek is

being a geek is so much more mainstream. I don't know how it would play, Um, but I'd be interested to see it. Um Yeah, Perfect Strangers, although I can guarantee that's probably because I haven't watched most of it in a long time. Um. That one's tricky because so much of the humor is all about fish out of water, and the the exaggeration of foreign nous makes it hard to do in a way that doesn't feel like it's

playing upon almost racist stereotypes. Yeah. Yeah, but like I've been really I've been watching through Blackish, which actually just got announced it's going to be in its final season. I'm not sure if it's already in or if it's going to be, but they did a take on Good Times in one of their episodes, and so I feel like, I feel like sometimes you can rebooted concept without having to do an exact reboot of a show. I think black is just a great example. I really enjoy that. Um.

You know, Abbott Elementary. I'm sure there have been other sitcoms about Elementary schools that that it's a reboot of maybe like Saved by the Bell, although it's more focused on teachers. But well, I'll tell you which one. What classic sitcom from my childhood I want to see rebooted? Sure, I bet you can tell already. This is going to be a flippant answer. Silver Spoons, I know I've seen it,

but I don't remember. Here we are face to face a couple of silver Spoons, hoping to find we're two of a kind, making a go, making it grow together. We're gonna find a way. Um yeah, no, So Silver Spoons had had Rick then Ricky Schroeder as a a very serious young man coming to live with his father

who is essentially a man child who's extremely wealthy. And it's kind of like the story of the father who is largely irresponsible and and living in a state of arrested development bringing the child out of his son and his son kind of encouraging the dad to be more um, you know, responsible and mature. But that's like from a very high level on an episode by episode basis, it was just an excuse for goofy things to happen by

wealthy people. Okay, I mean, but can you imagine Let's let's say let's say like the dad is obsessed with Instagram, like he's obsessed with being an Instagram influencer, and the kid it is like a much more kind of focused kind of person. Like you could you could easily update that concept to today and it would still work, isn't it kind of like Young Sheldon at that point. I've never watched Young Sheldon, so it's very possible. Uh So I've got it. I've got the perfect sitcom to reboot.

What's that? I knew you're gonna say alf. I knew you're gonna say alf. I mean, just think about like it was funny. It was a little a reference, which we know you like because you like always sending a Philadelphia I don't I sometimes do um, you know, but it could be done on such a higher level now. I think what you do is you do a new version of alf same puppet, so you don't update the

puppet at all. And in this version of alf everyone else in the family is aware that Alfh is a puppet and can see the puppeteer, but they they're scared for their lives of the puppeteer, and so they humor the puppeteer and treat Alf as if he is in fact an alien. I want to watch that so very well. You know, I'm all about taking things from our past and turning them dark, which is a great way for us to tease what's going to happen after we come back from the break with our mashup. What grows in

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your dad be like, why you're so down? So you told him you hate your job, and he said, well, you better talk yourself out of it. And then you thought, hmm, I love to talk. I could host a podcast. And then you went to Speaker from my Heart and started a podcast and got good at it, then monetize it, then quit your boring job and told your dad thanks for the advice. And he was like, well, that's not what I mean, and I don't understand what a podcast is,

but you seem happy. That's great, kiddo. You ever do that? Well, you could at spreaker dot com. That's spr e A k E R. Ask your dad. You actually don't. Okay, ariel uh. Let's talk for a second now that we're back, Let's talk for a second about monsters at work, because that serves as one of the two inspirational points for our mesh up today. Yeah. So the first inspirational point is full House um or fuller House in Jonathan's case,

because we are inspired by sitcoms. But there was also news that Disney Plus is making a Monsters at Work TV show that is a sequel to Monsters, Inc. And I guess by that account, Monsters University, Monsters You, that's a prequel. It's fantastic by the way, I mean it's it's unnecessary. It's totally unnecessary. It's a prequel that doesn't need to exist, but it is. It is legitimately entertaining

and adorable. Mm hm, well, so is Monsters Inc. And so I therefore think that Monsters at Work will also be adorable. Uh. But you know, when I was looking at I'm like, okay, sitcoms full House just is ripe for mashup. Yeah. Uh, And I don't know why. It's just like there was no question in my mind that we needed to mash it up with Monsters Inc. Unfortunately, I think both of our mashups got a little bit

more adult than maybe initially anticipated going into it. Yeah, and by adult you mean dark and or disturbing and or bleak. I mean mine's not super dark or disturbing. It has a moment, but so does Full House. Like both full House and Fuller House start on a sad note and then get happy. So that's where mine is since yours is apparently soul crushed, really depressing, I'm gonna let you go first this time, Okay, all right, well, um so yes, I did set Mine in the world

of Fuller House. So for those who are not you know, havn't ever watched it, first of all, thank you're lucky stars. But it is a sequel to Full House in which the character of Dj Tanner, one of the daughters of the the in the original Full House season. She's a grown woman. She's as the series opens, she has recently

lost her husband. She has three kids. Her younger sister, Stephanie comes to live with her, as does her childhood friend Kimmy Gibbler, and they all are working together to try and you know, look after the kids and just make it in a world that's tough and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So um Mine is set in the world of Fuller House, um and the world of monsters in so here we go. DJ Tanner has a problem. She's a widow and they're with three children, who now also has her younger sister,

Stephanie living in her house. And there's Kimmy Gibbler, who, for reasons I'm only vaguely aware of, has also moved into the Tanner family home with her own daughter. Anyway, the real problem DJ has isn't with all of this. It's that there's a monster under her bed. Not that DJ knows this though, but the monster is lurking quietly, just hiding there, because, as it turns out, the Tanner home is the secret to Monstropolis's energy crisis. Cut to

title fuller Monsters Flash Monstropolis. The city has grown exponentially since the events of Monsters Inc. Becoming a mega metropolis that covers most of the Monster World buildings more than a hundred stories tall tower in the incredibly dense hacked urban area. Though occasionally huge monsters do give the buildings a run for their money, and the monsters on the laft floor at the Monster's Ink Factory are close to

burning out. Even with the incredible juice supplied by laughter, which is orders of magnitude greater than screams, they are running dangerously close to not meeting the energy needs of the growing city. The Monster World is on the precipice of a true crisis. That is, until Mike Wazowski, already a legend, tries a door that hasn't ever been opened. That door leads to the Tanner Home in San Francisco. It was always there, ready to be used, but for

whatever reason, simply was never picked. Wazowski goes through a process of trying lots of doors in quick succession, trying to find a solution to his growing problem. Just as he's about to give up, he sneaks into the Tanner home and Wazowski slips under DJ's bed on a reconnaissance mission, and there he discovers something phenomenal. Laughter and endless supply of laughter. Not from the Tanner family or their surrounding sphere of weirdo friends. No, it's from some other source,

some source that the Tanners seem unaware of. But Wazowski hears it loud and clear. Whenever anyone says anything, even if it doesn't remotely resemble a joke, there's laughter, lots of it. Wazowski can collect enough power in half an hour to power all of Monstropolis for a week, and so Wazowski makes his way into the Tanner Home on a regular basis. He doesn't even have to do anything

at all. Sometimes a guy will just say have mercy in a way that you know, you can tell it's a reference to something, but there's not really any oof behind it anymore. But for some reason, the unse audience laughs at it, or Stephanie will say how rude and boom laughter, or heck DJ will say, oh, my lantern, there's a ridiculous amount of laughter. Monstropolis's energy problems are solved, but there's a cost. Day after day was Zowski sits under that bed, doing nothing but just being there to

help harvest the energy from the studio audience laughter. He becomes despondent. He the great Mike Wazowski, the monster known for doing anything for the sake of a laugh, the master of gags and jokes. He was being overshadowed by meaningless quotes and the occasional terrible musical number. He had put so much work into his craft, creating a real approach to comedy that would elicit after. But here was this weird family and even weirder friends who were making

it all happen without even trying. Hack at a little like no one was even willing to try, and why would they There was no need to try. The laughs would come even without the effort. Day after day, was Zowski slips further into a deep depression, even as he is surrounded by laughter. At home, people treat him as a hero. Monstropolis continues to grow unabated. It gets larger and more dense and more hungry for energy, and was Zowski supplies it. But every day another little part of

him dies inside. Every day he hides under that bed, not even paying attention to what's going on in the house anymore. The laughs come one way or another, and nothing was Zowski does has any effect on it. He's just there to channel the energy back home, slipping deeper into depression and on we the world appears to be black and white for Mike Wazowski. Laughter has lost all meaning.

There's no difference between a joke and a reference. There's no difference between a reference and just a random line of dialogue between two people. It all brings in the same, almost robotic laughter. Flash forward ten years. Monstropolis is a nightmare city. You can't even see the sun. The buildings stretch up so high and block out the light. The streets are lit with garish neon and bright incandescent bulbs.

Loud music spills out from buildings onto the streets. Monsters are all on their phones and computers and other energy hungry devices. There's a new craze in the monster world, crypto zoology currency, which Wazowski doesn't really understand, but he does know it requires a huge amount of energy to work. Wazowski himself is a shell of who he wants us. His colleagues have all retired. Why work at the monster in factory anyway? Was Wazowski is collecting more energy than

anyone needs. Wazowski's own fame has faded from the minds of the monsters. He's taken for granted and the backs of their minds. The monsters know that without Wazowski's work they wouldn't have their energy, but it's just a given now. Wazowski, now a sickly shade of his once vibrant green, puts his hand on the door knob to the Tanner home. He closes his one eye in despair. A single tear runs down the left side of his eye. He pauses for a moment, staring at his hand on that door knob.

We see a close up of that hand. It begins to move, but is it turning the knob or letting go? We'd oh no. The screen goes black and we cut to the credit directed by Lars von Trier. The end, Wow, I told you, I told you was bleak. It is bleak um and oddly a lot closer to my mashup than I thought it was gonna be okay. So I might have I might have put an awful lot of commentary on my opinions about Fuller House in that. I mean, I was gonna say salty much, but then you brought

it back from your ranch into a sad, depressing drama series. Um, but I'm gonna glass half full, your glass half empty. So this is called Uncle Sully and the Screamers. It's and Mary Gibbs, formerly known as Boo, is moving back to her childhood home. Her husband has perished in a car fire because heaven forbid Disney how more than one alive parent, and she is struggling to take care of for three children Donna, Boo, I, e dB Sullivan, and

Mike Ella. And she is also struggling to hold on to her job as a TV producer and pay her mortgage at the same time. Meanwhile, Mike and Sully are hard at work on the laughing floor of Monstropolis. It's been harder and harder to generate enough laughs to power Monstropolis over the years, as children have to become more cynical, and Mike and Sully are getting worn out trying to

meet the demand. Over lunch, one day, they are reminiscing of when they first discovered the power of laughter, how easy it all seemed back then, and how much they missed Boo. As they cleaned up their lunch trades, they got a warning light and rushed back to their office to see what was going on. The warning light was attached to Booze door, but that door hadn't been active

for years. They quickly rushed to the door and turned on a monitor to check out what was happening on the other side, just to see a sad, stressed out adult Boo. Mike immediately insists that they should go visit her. They were just talking about her, so it must be a sign. Sully, however, is hesitant, afraid that as an adult, she won't remember or believe in them, and that would

break his heart. However, Mike, through some loony tune level rabbit season duck season antics, get Sully to go through the door, and when they get to the other side, not only does Boo recognize them, but so do her children. It turns out she told her kids stories about the monsters duo, and the reunion is happy. The kids love love Mike and Sully, and with their help, Mary is able to catch up on some much needed chores and work,

and for a week everyone is blissfully happy. Hijen Sin Sue, and for a time the three forget their worries, enveloped in love and laughter. But at the end of a wonderful week of Sually yelling watch the hair and Mike saying cut it out to the kids, the two monsters realize that they need to return home. Monstropolis is counting on them. The kids all say a tearful farewell, and

Mike and Sully go back through Booze door. However, when they get to the other side, they find out that they had forgotten to turn off the monitor to whose house and while they were away. The feed was so hilarious and popular that it caught syndication and was broadcast to monsters and people all over the world. It had become a hit, and so many people were laughing that it was powering the whole town one hundred times over. Mike and Sully rushed back to tell Mary the news

and decided to move in with her. That way, Monstropolis would get its power, Mary would get her help, and the Hodgepodge family would live happily ever after. Oh yeah. Once they move in, Mike starts a spinoff show called Ranger Mike where he has a puppet sidekicks spider thing let's call it a spider called Mr. Waternoos, and Sully annacs lifelong dream of being a rockabilly singer with a great hair and starts the band Sully and the Screamers. Very very cute. I'm glad that yours didn't go to

Lauras von Cheer territory. No No. I debated, by the way, I debated when I got to the end of mine, whether the director of my piece was going to be Lauras von Trier or were Hurts hurt Zog and uh Lars von Trier one out. Either way, I feel like

there is kind of an existential dread in mind. So yeah, yeah, this was this was weird aerial because you know, obviously like the two properties that we picked, uh, neither of which are are dark or like, you know, monsters inc has some moments that might be a little, yeah, a little scary. For like, the whole premise is that the monsters are trying to scare kids, right, But but they're not dark. They're they're very fun, uplifting kind of things.

I mean, mileage may very for Full our House, but it is interesting that we both kind of took it to that place. I think that just tells us that when we do these creative endeavors where we try to tweak something that we're familiar with, we don't want to just repeat the stuff that's there, or you know, or just crank up the dial a couple of notches too, and you know, intensify whatever was there. We want to transform it. And I think we did that to I think we did some good work. I think so too.

I also think that when you take to comedic enterprises and you smush them together, uh, it brings out the genuine heartfeltness or sadness. Yeah, there was, there was a deep, deep comedy cancels it cancels each other out and all you've got left is the truth. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even have Sully in mind. I couldn't. I couldn't think of a way of incorporating Sully where I wouldn't do something equally terrible to him, so I thought, let's just

limit this. Shelly Um fair enough. Yeah, well that was that was fun for a given definition of fun for for mine anyway. So we look forward to doing a

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