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[0:15] Jesse McAnally: Hello, I'm Jesse McAnally.

[0:17] Alan Seales: And I'm Alan Seales.

[0:18] Liz Eston: And I'm Liz Eston.

[0:20] Jesse McAnally: And welcome to Carrey'd Away, a podcast where we explore the films and television shows starring the one and only James Eugene Carrey.

[0:27] Liz Eston: Um, get the bah.

[0:30] Jesse McAnally: I'm a divine.

[0:35] Liz Eston: Somehow that alien language feels racist to a race that I'm not even sure it's, I don't know.

[0:41] Jesse McAnally: I'm a dumb woman.

[0:42] Liz Eston: I don't understand.

[0:44] Alan Seales: Uh, is that how you feel like the movie represents women?

[0:48] Liz Eston: Sometimes, yes.

[0:49] Jesse McAnally: Okay, okay.

[0:51] Jesse McAnally: This is a wild, wild treat for anyone that hates sci-fi and romantic comedies.

[0:57] Alan Seales: Um, if there is an insane person out there.

[1:00] Liz Eston: I would say somehow it offends people who love musicals too.

[1:02] Alan Seales: Oh, yeah, uh, it it's like the most half-hearted.

[1:05] Liz Eston: It's not committed to being a romantic comedy, it's not committed to being a musical, and it's not committed to being a sci-fi.

[1:11] Jesse McAnally: So what is it?

[1:12] Liz Eston: It is a creature all of its own.

[1:14] Alan Seales: Uh, Hedwig, if you will, something that exists with no partner.

[1:18] Jesse McAnally: Is this Earth Girls Are Easy?

[1:21] Liz Eston: She's a girl from Southern California, looking for Mr. Wright and finding Mr. Wrong.

[1:27] Alan Seales: Rare aliens lost in space, looking for somewhere to land.

[1:31] Jesse McAnally: It's love at first frise.

[1:35] Liz Eston: Earth Girls are easy.

[1:45] Alan Seales: Released at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th, 1988, with a later release nearly a full year later, on May 12th, 1989 in the US, written by Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey, and Terrence E. McNally, not to be confused with the famous playwright, Terrence McNally, uh, directed by Julian Temple, starring Gina Davis, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, and Julie Brown.

[2:08] Jesse McAnally: So, I do want to actually talk about this, because if you look at the poster, it is like the most interesting, like, order of actors.

[2:16] Alan Seales: So Gina Davis gets top billing, makes sense.

[2:18] Jesse McAnally: Second billing is Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, and then Jeff Goldblum gets the "and Jeff Goldblum" credit, and Julie Brown gets "and introducing Julie Brown."

[2:29] Liz Eston: W, I'm looking, okay, so this is 1988. Where was Julie Brown's MTV VJing career at this point?

[2:37] Alan Seales: I think it was post the mid-VJ career.

[2:40] Liz Eston: So why is she getting introduced?

[2:42] Alan Seales: I guess this is her, because I don't think she's had a leading role in a film, like as a performer, as an actor before.

[2:49] Jesse McAnally: Would you call this a leading role?

[2:50] Liz Eston: I would say, you know, like, I call it best supporting actress if we were nominating it for an actor.

[2:57] Alan Seales: Yeah, yeah.

[2:58] Liz Eston: Uh, supporting, that's what I was getting at. It's definitely still not a leading role.

[3:01] Alan Seales: Gina Davis is the lead.

[3:03] Jesse McAnally: And one more, you know who's not in there who I think has a lot more screen time than everyone else, and that's Charlie Rocket, but we'll go into that later.

[3:10] Liz Eston: The plot of which, in this musical comedy, sure, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool.

[3:20] Alan Seales: Once the furry beings are shaved and at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath.

[3:27] Jesse McAnally: After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

[3:35] Liz Eston: Um, this is a weird movie, right?

[3:37] Alan Seales: I love how like there's this, the shaving machines that they all go into.

[3:42] Liz Eston: Right?

[3:43] Alan Seales: Just the giant vertical tanning beds that you walk into and come out with perfectly cut hair on your head and no body hair.

[3:51] Jesse McAnally: That's what I need. Liz, isn't that what ladies go to? Like they choose to go get Brazilians and get their asshole waxed in like the most uncomfortable ways.

[4:00] Liz Eston: Well, they just don't want to deal with the easiness of the giant shaving machine.

[4:04] Alan Seales: Yeah, no, the giant shaving machine is something women don't do anymore. Like, why would you go to the giant shaving machine nowadays? That's ridiculous.

[4:14] Liz Eston: It's only made for furry aliens. Like that's just the secret in salons. Everyone knows that.

[4:20] Jesse McAnally: It's made for the Robin Williams of the world.

[4:23] Liz Eston: Um, I feel confused by this movie. Liz, correct me if I'm wrong. This was a vanity project for what I would call the first tertiary lead in Julie Brown who wrote the novelty song "Earth Girls Are Easy," and then they turned it into this film, and then Julie Brown would later turn it into a proper musical with 80s songs, which was cancelled due to 9/11.

[4:48] Alan Seales: Um, I think we've brought this up previously, but what a ride this film has been and what an almost non-existent cultural impact it has had, aside from like, what was Jim Carrey's first sci-fi role?

[5:03] Liz Eston: Jeff Goldblum and Jim Carrey were in this film together, and then you're like, what were the, was it Ace Ventura?

[5:10] Alan Seales: Is Ace Ventura a sci-fi?

[5:12] Liz Eston: Yeah, totally.

[5:13] Alan Seales: Okay, okay, cool.

[5:14] Jesse McAnally: No, dude, we're at the late 80s now, and I'm, you know, through this podcast, we're revisiting things, movies that I watched on TV or watched with friends as a young teen. Well, God, in '88 I was seven or eight years old, so I probably didn't see this until the early 90s, hopefully.

[5:36] Liz Eston: But at what point do we start getting out of the trope of all women are stupid, and when three alien men land in your pool, you just keep your bikini on for the next half hour of the movie?

[5:51] Alan Seales: Well, in fairness to her, it is Southern California.

[6:10] Jesse McAnally: Oh, great.

[6:15] Liz Eston: Oh, this is too good. There's a giant blow dryer in my pool.

[6:20] Alan Seales: I will strike the movie this after, uh, evil fiancé, who we'll get to later, uh, in more detail, cheats on her openly. Uh, she ends up lip syncing a terrible song about how men are evil, and she doesn't immediately take off her sexy clothes to impress him.

[6:35] Liz Eston: And she just keeps them on. Any other woman would have immediately put on a t-shirt and some leggings and been like, I'm going to destroy my home now. Fuck you.

[6:44] Jesse McAnally: I think it was an empowering statement that she doesn't, she's now wearing it for herself and not for a man.

[6:52] Alan Seales: That's true. I'll give you that.

[6:55] Liz Eston: But then spaceship lands in your pool. You think it's a hallucination, you swim into it, knock yourself unconscious, get saved by said aliens, and then they're like, okay, cool, yeah, let's just all hang out now. That's normal. Must be California.

[7:08] Alan Seales: I think that in the argument of the film, she's a little distracted by the furry aliens to really focus on that being the next, like, that'll be the defense.

[7:18] Liz Eston: However, the other defense is I see some really ugly, like, producer character. You paid for Gina Davis. How long can you keep a like in that bikini? And it's like, what's the case?

[7:32] Alan Seales: And you can see her nipples the whole time she's wearing this bikini. Like, no comment.

[7:38] Liz Eston: She does look incredible in the bikini.

[7:40] Alan Seales: She looks great in this. The outfits they give her when they let her put on clothes, she wears so well.

[7:41] Liz Eston: Let her put on clothes. That denim jacket with the buttons on the collar is kind of iconic. Like, I want that jacket.

[7:53] Alan Seales: The only outfit of hers that I really hated was the blonde kind of look that she was trying to put on for her fiancé, Charlie Rocket.

[8:02] Liz Eston: Yeah.

[8:03] Alan Seales: Um, that whole thing, uh, oh, oh, oh, tell me if you caught this in the opening kind of thing where Charlie comes home and he's being introduced to us, the viewer, and, uh, and she's like getting ready and she pops her birth control pill. Like she pulls it out of the nightstand drawer, pulls it out, and next to, like inside the drawer, next to her birth control pills is a whole mannequin hand.

[8:27] Liz Eston: Did you notice that?

[8:28] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[8:29] Liz Eston: No.

[8:30] Alan Seales: Why do they have a whole open-fisted, it's not a fist even. It's just an open-hand mannequin hand.

[8:37] Liz Eston: Well, you can make it into a fist.

[8:38] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[8:39] Liz Eston: Okay, okay, you know, for that, if you're into that kind of thing, I guess.

[8:47] Jesse McAnally: Eat me on a cut!

[8:51] Liz Eston: I'm sorry, I'm so embarrassed. I didn't know Ted had company.

[8:55] Jesse McAnally: I, I, I'm Valerie. I don't usually dress like this.

[8:59] Alan Seales: Here comes Dr. Love.

[9:04] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Robin, a pile up. Who's your friend?

[9:08] Alan Seales: This is the first collaboration where Jim Carrey and Charlie Rocket are in the same film together.

[9:14] Liz Eston: Um, there's one more in Dumb and Dumber, where it is very similar the relationship where Charlie Rocket is the straight man antagonist to Jim Carrey's weird insane thing, and it's interesting.

[9:28] Alan Seales: But do you, I think Charlie Rocket is a very interesting comedic presence in films and very, very tragic end. Do you guys know what happened to Charlie Rocket?

[9:37] Liz Eston: No.

[9:37] Alan Seales: Not the top of my head, no.

[9:39] Liz Eston: Um, he did a lot of work in very underserved but popular roles. Like he was the dad in Hocus Pocus, he was the bad guy in Dumb and Dumber. He was the main weird obsessive in its pat. In very bad movies, he tends to be the most shining part of it.

[9:55] Alan Seales: And here he's still very good at playing the douchebag, but after his career took a, uh, a downhill dive in the mid-90s, um, he sadly committed suicide in like the most horrendous way I could imagine.

[10:08] Liz Eston: Oh.

[10:11] Alan Seales: Like truly a, uh, terrible end, but it's not like the deaths of like Jim Belushi or Robin Williams, where his work is remembered very well. Like most people don't even bring up Charlie Rocket and the influence he had on SNL or things like that.

[10:26] Liz Eston: And I'm just like, every time I see him, I'm like, you're, you know the role that you're supposed to play in this film, and you're doing it well.

[10:32] Alan Seales: Oh, yeah.

[10:33] Liz Eston: And I just kinda wanted to take a moment, and I will do this again in Dumb and Dumber, because he is also very good in that comedic foil role too. Um, here it's, it's very interesting. It's an interesting thing to watch.

[10:47] Alan Seales: He was 56 when he killed himself.

[10:50] Liz Eston: That's a really, a really sad end to a very talented person.

[10:54] Alan Seales: Real name was Charles Clavery.

[10:57] Liz Eston: I would have chose the last name Rocket too.

[10:59] Alan Seales: Yeah, but let's get back to Earth Girls Are Easy now that I'm down after Alpha My Soapbox, my Rocket Soapbox.

[11:05] Liz Eston: Um, Rocket Box. Liz, based on your research, this film was apparently not, was a mess to make, like a horrendous behind the scenes disaster.

[11:14] Liz Eston: Yeah, yeah.

[11:15] Alan Seales: Uh, I mean this entire goddamn history of this movie's weird.

[11:18] Liz Eston: Like it was—

[11:20] Alan Seales: Tell us a little bit about it.

[11:20] Liz Eston: It was recast like four different times.

[11:23] Alan Seales: Probably Madonna was considered as for the lead.

[11:26] Liz Eston: Instead of Gina?

[11:27] Alan Seales: It was Molly Ringwald, but they said no, correctly.

[11:30] Liz Eston: I mean arguably this put Gina on the map, right?

[11:34] Alan Seales: No.

[11:34] Liz Eston: No, no, she was in The Fly two years prior.

[11:36] Alan Seales: Oh, that was prior.

[11:37] Liz Eston: Okay.

[11:38] Alan Seales: Okay.

[11:38] Liz Eston: And wasn't she in Beetlejuice?

[11:39] Alan Seales: Like, she was in Beetlejuice a couple years prior to that.

[11:42] Liz Eston: Oh, that was all prior.

[11:43] Alan Seales: Okay, I thought this was the precursor to the book.

[11:45] Liz Eston: Yeah, this is the sequel to The Fly no one wanted.

[11:50] Alan Seales: No, this is the version of The Fly with a happy ending where you put him in the machine, he becomes hot.

[11:54] Liz Eston: He becomes hot, a hot alien, hot fuzzy alien.

[11:57] Alan Seales: It's like, oh, you're beautiful. You gave me a mutated glide baby, but you're beautiful.

[12:04] Liz Eston: Um, okay. Speaking of weird mutated fly baby, I want to get back to the history.

[12:09] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[12:09] Liz Eston: Did it imply that he impregnated her because now she has two heartbeats? Was I the only one that missed that?

[12:13] Alan Seales: Uh, no.

[12:15] Liz Eston: Wait.

[12:16] Alan Seales: When it was in the hospital, you mean?

[12:18] Liz Eston: Yeah.

[12:18] Alan Seales: No, no, no. That was to gaslight Charles Rocket into letting them escape.

[12:22] Liz Eston: No, she's not pregnant.

[12:23] Alan Seales: I thought, like, oh, you have two heartbeats, two different hearts, too.

[12:26] Liz Eston: I don't think it's a good one.

[12:28] Alan Seales: Jeff Wilbon was in his ear imitating the heart double heartbeat sound to gaslight him to thinking that everyone has a double heartbeat.

[12:34] Alan Seales: Gas is crazy.

[12:37] Jesse McAnally: Excuse me, doctor.

[12:38] Alan Seales: This doctor is here to pick up these patients.

[12:41] Jesse McAnally: Oh no, no, no. These guys aren't going anywhere.

[12:42] Alan Seales: I'm admitting them both for observation under my care.

[12:46] Jesse McAnally: They seem okay to me, doctor.

[12:47] Alan Seales: Nurse, why don't you listen to their hearts and tell me what you hear?

[12:51] Jesse McAnally: No, that's impossible.

[12:52] Alan Seales: They each have two distinct heartbeats.

[12:55] Jesse McAnally: Try me, Doctor.

[12:57] Alan Seales: Yes, yes, I could try you.

[13:06] Jesse McAnally: Oh my god.

[13:08] Alan Seales: You too.

[13:09] Jesse McAnally: So they could escape.

[13:11] Alan Seales: Uh-huh.

[13:12] Jesse McAnally: The movie.

[13:12] Liz Eston: The movie gaslit me.

[13:13] Jesse McAnally: The movie gaslit you.

[13:15] Alan Seales: And somehow the nurse ended up in her bikini.

[13:17] Jesse McAnally: Um, yeah, the male gaze doesn't exist.

[13:19] Alan Seales: What are you talking about?

[13:20] Jesse McAnally: True.

[13:21] Alan Seales: True, true.

[13:21] Jesse McAnally: Swiss Bros didn't exist in the 1980s.

[13:23] Alan Seales: They just wore whatever browser I had in hand.

[13:25] Jesse McAnally: Uh, but yeah, apparently the first cut of the picture was a huge issue, and they had to cut a few songs, and like the budget is highly disputed.

[13:37] Alan Seales: There's no source that tells me how much this movie cost.

[13:40] Jesse McAnally: Oh, in a con affirmative manner.

[13:44] Alan Seales: What what are the ranges?

[13:45] Jesse McAnally: It's rumored citation needed to have cost 10 million dollars.

[13:50] Alan Seales: In 88.

[13:51] Jesse McAnally: That's that's a that's a lot.

[13:53] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[13:53] Jesse McAnally: So that's it.

[13:59] Alan Seales: I was gonna say the even the opening scene, the uh the weightlessness and then like when they're s when he's slicing up this the superimposed beef or whatever, that was like state of the art for the 80s.

[14:10] Jesse McAnally: They're like, let's just throw it all in there and that's gonna be cool.

[14:13] Alan Seales: And then we'll never see anything like that again.

[14:15] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[14:20] Alan Seales: That entire scene didn't exist for most of the production.

[14:23] Jesse McAnally: They just filmed it later.

[14:24] Alan Seales: Well?

[14:25] Jesse McAnally: Because I'm blonde.

[14:26] Alan Seales: I don't have to think.

[14:27] Jesse McAnally: I talk like a baby and I never pay for drinks.

[14:30] Alan Seales: Don't have to worry about getting a man.

[14:33] Jesse McAnally: If I keep this blind and I keep these stand, cause I'm a blonde.

[14:33] Alan Seales: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[14:33] Jesse McAnally: Cause I'm a blonde.

[14:39] Alan Seales: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[14:42] Jesse McAnally: I see people working and just makes me giggle.

[14:46] Alan Seales: I just catch the jiggle.

[14:47] Jesse McAnally: Cause I bomb H-O-M-B.

[14:53] Alan Seales: The more you know.

[14:54] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, also the c the production company that made this movie uh to file for bankruptcy.

[15:00] Alan Seales: They were really hoping that this was gonna be a success.

[15:03] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, it was not.

[15:04] Alan Seales: It earned he earned less than a third of its production cost at the box off.

[15:09] Jesse McAnally: So I guess it opened it it went to theaters.

[15:12] Alan Seales: There was was there a state.

[15:14] Jesse McAnally: It did go to theaters.

[15:15] Alan Seales: Did straight to VHS exist in 88?

[15:18] Jesse McAnally: Not think so.

[15:20] Alan Seales: No.

[15:21] Jesse McAnally: Like I'd love to see what's direct-to-video kind of like the only thing that really went direct to video are like video nasties, and that was usually just in the UK.

[15:29] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[15:30] Jesse McAnally: Also the reason it took so long to come out was not due to like it not being picked up.

[15:34] Alan Seales: It's because of huge legal entanglements, according to Wikipedia, that the movie could be released for a year.

[15:40] Jesse McAnally: They aren't elaborating on it.

[15:41] Alan Seales: What legal entanglements did Jim Carrey like apparently the distribution rights are like kinda like fucky and like the potentious stereotypes is a giant list, and like it just couldn't pick couldn't pick one or something like that.

[15:55] Jesse McAnally: Well, fair enough.

[15:57] Alan Seales: Um this film uh I don't hate it, but I also don't like it at all.

[16:02] Jesse McAnally: Like, that's the thing.

[16:03] Alan Seales: I can't think of a thing that I liked about it aside from just the genuine charm and strange chemistry between Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis.

[16:12] Jesse McAnally: Like that works for me.

[16:13] Alan Seales: Everything else doesn't work.

[16:15] Jesse McAnally: Jim Carrey, god bless him, trying to make something out of this.

[16:18] Alan Seales: There's nothing there.

[16:19] Jesse McAnally: And you know what?

[16:20] Alan Seales: Julie Brown has has a screen presence.

[16:23] Jesse McAnally: I am surprised they didn't do more acting outside of, you know, like the one line she has in a goofy movie.

[16:29] Alan Seales: And why are you so tardy, young lady?

[16:31] Jesse McAnally: Oh, I was up for a little late last night with Ted.

[16:34] Alan Seales: Oh, Dr. Doolittle finally came through, huh?

[16:37] Jesse McAnally: No, he was dead on arrival.

[16:39] Alan Seales: Again, Sanka?

[16:42] Jesse McAnally: Sure.

[16:43] Alan Seales: You know, at the rate we've been having sex, we might as well be married already.

[16:47] Jesse McAnally: What's it been like a week?

[16:49] Alan Seales: Two weeks.

[16:52] Jesse McAnally: Valerie?

[16:54] Alan Seales: Ted is obviously a victim of PMS.

[16:57] Jesse McAnally: What?

[16:58] Alan Seales: Premarital stress.

[17:00] Jesse McAnally: Oh.

[17:01] Alan Seales: What'll snap him out of it?

[17:02] Jesse McAnally: A new woman.

[17:03] Alan Seales: Well, she's got she's got that on air, uh, that on air hootzpa that that landed her her MTV VJ career.

[17:11] Jesse McAnally: Oh, you're right.

[17:12] Alan Seales: You you are correct.

[17:14] Jesse McAnally: Um, how dare I forget that?

[17:15] Alan Seales: Um what is a VJ?

[17:18] Jesse McAnally: Like, explain this to me.

[17:19] Alan Seales: Explain this to me like I'm five, because I was not alive then and I don't understand.

[17:23] Jesse McAnally: Oh my goodness.

[17:24] Alan Seales: Uh remember the legends of lore of the things we call radio stations.

[17:31] Jesse McAnally: And the music that gets controlled on those radio stations is controlled by a DJ.

[17:37] Alan Seales: A disc jockey.

[17:39] Jesse McAnally: And then when MTV came and put music on the TV, how do you translate a DJ to the TV?

[17:48] Alan Seales: You put a V in front of it and call it a VJ.

[17:51] Jesse McAnally: Grandpa Alan just go to sleep.

[17:55] Alan Seales: Remember back in the day when Carson Daly used to have even less personality?

[18:01] Jesse McAnally: Yes, I watched the Woodsuck 99 documentary.

[18:04] Alan Seales: Yes, I know.

[18:06] Jesse McAnally: Carson Daly that I I don't know how.

[18:09] Alan Seales: David Letterman touched touched my heart and soul every night at 1135.

[18:14] Jesse McAnally: But it but it was like VJs were like, they were the shlubby ones that got to stand on the beach with all the the shirtless bikini clad, bare chested men and everybody behind them who were like, yeah, we're cool, look at us.

[18:29] Alan Seales: It was like kind of the the I think it set up the culture for real world and road rules.

[18:36] Jesse McAnally: How many college kids can you stuff into a small seaside Florida town?

[18:40] Alan Seales: Way too many.

[18:42] Jesse McAnally: And MTV will be there with live concerts, party zones, guys in shorts, world in McQueen and Big Star co-hosts.

[18:50] Alan Seales: The sun, Kin, stars, and psychos from Daytaba Beach on MTV Spring Break 87.

[18:56] Jesse McAnally: We go live starting March 27th.

[19:01] Alan Seales: Uh-huh.

[19:02] Jesse McAnally: Which is the first reality TV I want to say that even like really did some cool shit.

[19:06] Alan Seales: Someone call me out on that.

[19:08] Jesse McAnally: Alright, call them out in the comments.

[19:09] Alan Seales: Um Spotify has comments now, so you can't.

[19:12] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, call out Alan.

[19:14] Alan Seales: I love Spotify comments.

[19:16] Jesse McAnally: That is not a good idea.

[19:16] Alan Seales: That's our default.

[19:17] Jesse McAnally: Our default question after every episode on Spotify.

[19:20] Alan Seales: Do you need to call out Alan about anything stupid?

[19:22] Jesse McAnally: But what does she do?

[19:24] Alan Seales: Lau Laura.

[19:25] Jesse McAnally: Did I get that wrong?

[19:26] Alan Seales: Laura Brown?

[19:27] Jesse McAnally: Julie Brown.

[19:27] Alan Seales: Julie Brown.

[19:28] Jesse McAnally: Julie Brown.

[19:29] Alan Seales: But like, what is she?

[19:29] Jesse McAnally: I think he's a downtown Julie Brown, who's also a VJ whose name is Julie Brown.

[19:33] Alan Seales: Yes.

[19:35] Jesse McAnally: That seems intentionally confusing.

[19:36] Alan Seales: I know, right?

[19:38] Jesse McAnally: You did that just to make me upset.

[19:40] Alan Seales: Wait, wait, what do you mean what does she do?

[19:42] Jesse McAnally: What does she do in Earth Girls Are Easy?

[19:44] Alan Seales: Or what does she do?

[19:44] Jesse McAnally: No, what does she do? Like in what is like what is she known for like as a performer as a presence?

[19:45] Alan Seales: What is she known for?

[19:51] Jesse McAnally: I just know her as MTV VJ.

[19:54] Alan Seales: And I forgot she was in Earth Girls.

[19:56] Jesse McAnally: Okay, okay.

[19:57] Alan Seales: Well, she is the driving force behind Earth Girls.

[19:59] Jesse McAnally: To this day, she is trying to make this work.

[20:01] Alan Seales: She is trying to make Fetch happen no matter what, and it's just not happening.

[20:05] Jesse McAnally: Um she can't is the only cast member to return for the musical playing the same role.

[20:09] Alan Seales: It's not a successful film, but she's also the only one that got a golden raspberry award for the worst supporting actress for this film.

[20:17] Jesse McAnally: And I think that's unfair.

[20:19] Alan Seales: She is fine in this film.

[20:20] Jesse McAnally: The film is the problem with this film.

[20:22] Alan Seales: Yeah, Kristen Chen was the late in the stage reading.

[20:25] Jesse McAnally: So you know, and that was right before she was put into Wicked.

[20:25] Alan Seales: That was right before the Wicked Bounce uh uh scenario.

[20:33] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, also the uh the stage reading was mere days after the 9-11 attacks.

[20:39] Alan Seales: So it was not cancelled.

[20:41] Jesse McAnally: And it never became an actual show.

[20:43] Alan Seales: It was just a stage rating.

[20:45] Jesse McAnally: But it has such a good cast.

[20:46] Alan Seales: It's got Hunter Foster, it's got Kristen Chenowith.

[20:49] Jesse McAnally: It's not a the it's not a slouch of a show.

[20:52] Alan Seales: Yeah, and it's got great song choices too.

[20:54] Jesse McAnally: I I wanna I wanna correct us slightly.

[20:58] Alan Seales: I'm looking at Julie Brown's information.

[21:01] Jesse McAnally: Okay, I don't think she was an actual VJ.

[21:03] Alan Seales: So downtown Julie Brown, I believe was the was the VJ, but at 89, Julie Brown from Earth Girls Are Easy was on MTV's music video show Just Say Julie.

[21:14] Jesse McAnally: She was the a demanding, controlling, pessimistic glamour puss from the valley making fun of popular music acts while at the same time introducing their music videos, and also called herself Miss Julie Brown to differentiate herself from downtown Julie Brown.

[21:40] Alan Seales: Every week.

[21:43] Jesse McAnally: She's the hottest land on Hannah Head on MTV.

[21:47] Alan Seales: Just said Julie.

[21:48] Jesse McAnally: That's me.

[21:50] Alan Seales: I just changed your name, but how did MTV let that happen?

[21:54] Jesse McAnally: Like, that's what fucking Katie Perry did.

[21:56] Alan Seales: Wait, what was her original name?

[21:58] Jesse McAnally: Her name is Kate Katie Hudson.

[21:59] Alan Seales: Oh yeah, don't do that one.

[22:01] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[22:01] Alan Seales: Matthew McConaughey.

[22:03] Jesse McAnally: My name is Matthew McGonney.

[22:04] Alan Seales: I'm sticking to it.

[22:07] Jesse McAnally: Um, like Michael Keaton.

[22:09] Alan Seales: His real name is Michael Douglas.

[22:11] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, or Michael Jordan.

[22:12] Alan Seales: Michael B. Jordan had to be Michael B. Jordan because Michael Jordan had a sag card already and he couldn't be Michael Jordan.

[22:19] Jesse McAnally: Once again, you're ruining everything.

[22:21] Alan Seales: But it made a great joke in the new one, I will say.

[22:24] Jesse McAnally: Yes, that is the one.

[22:26] Alan Seales: I don't know if this counts as a miracle, but I found Michael Jordan.

[22:35] Jesse McAnally: Oh man.

[22:36] Alan Seales: That's Michael B. Jordan.

[22:37] Jesse McAnally: The actor.

[22:38] Alan Seales: We couldn't get Michael A. Jordan.

[22:41] Jesse McAnally: So we got Michael B. Jordan.

[22:43] Alan Seales: What a time that we have a Space Jam too, but not an Earth Girls are Easy 2.

[22:47] Jesse McAnally: Um I would I want to see what their planet looks like, sincerely.

[22:52] Alan Seales: I felt like I was a little um um alien cocktail.

[22:56] Jesse McAnally: It's all it's all furry.

[22:58] Alan Seales: It's all furry furries.

[23:00] Jesse McAnally: I mean, apparently they have regular penises.

[23:02] Alan Seales: Oh underneath the fur.

[23:04] Jesse McAnally: It's like Grinch logic.

[23:06] Alan Seales: What is weird though is that they all still wear diapers on like over their their f I well, I guess if they were real aliens that their wee wees would be hanging out.

[23:16] Jesse McAnally: So they do wear diapers because aliens have modesty too.

[23:19] Alan Seales: Well, I guess that's a question, but they got all that fur.

[23:21] Jesse McAnally: Does it like the shit get matted into their fur when they use the restroom and things like that?

[23:26] Alan Seales: Do you have to shave it like a cat or a dog?

[23:28] Jesse McAnally: I know there is a scene where Jim Carrey does learn what a toilet is, so I don't know.

[23:32] Alan Seales: Oh, does he just shit himself like a crinkler or something?

[23:35] Jesse McAnally: No, he tries to piss in the letter box, and Jeannie Davis is like, no no no no no.

[23:39] Alan Seales: I just show you what a toilet is.

[23:44] Jesse McAnally: Oh, no, no, no.

[23:46] Alan Seales: Not there.

[23:47] Jesse McAnally: No, come with me.

[23:58] Alan Seales: Okay, so you you go in there.

[24:02] Jesse McAnally: So no.

[24:05] Alan Seales: Come here.

[24:05] Jesse McAnally: No.

[24:06] Alan Seales: So you go in there.

[24:09] Jesse McAnally: Go in there.

[24:10] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[24:11] Jesse McAnally: And then she flushes it and he goes, Oh, now I get it.

[24:13] Alan Seales: Like, because you don't want to you want too much potty humor in this high-class movie.

[24:17] Jesse McAnally: Um Jeff Goldblum speaks nothing but positively about his experience working on this.

[24:22] Alan Seales: He was like, it was a fun summer, you know, we were all hanging out.

[24:24] Jesse McAnally: It was a lot of laughs.

[24:26] Alan Seales: He got to play piano.

[24:27] Jesse McAnally: Like, he's loving his best life.

[24:29] Alan Seales: Was he really playing?

[24:30] Jesse McAnally: Can he play?

[24:30] Alan Seales: Oh, he actually plays Bietta.

[24:32] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, he plays jazz beat out.

[24:33] Alan Seales: Really?

[24:33] Jesse McAnally: He's gonna be the wizard in Wicked.

[24:35] Alan Seales: He's got musical attack.

[24:36] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[24:37] Alan Seales: But I don't f I feel like we've talked about this movie, and I'm the only one that said an opinion.

[24:42] Jesse McAnally: Is this movie any good?

[24:43] Alan Seales: Really?

[24:44] Jesse McAnally: It's growing on me more that I've like finished the movie.

[24:48] Alan Seales: Like, I don't hate it as much as I initially thought I did.

[24:52] Jesse McAnally: I mean, compared to last week's episode, um, well, not last week, because our schedule's a little our last recording session, uh, Peggy Sue got married.

[25:00] Alan Seales: Like, what's the difference?

[25:01] Jesse McAnally: Because that is also a romantic comedy that has weird gender politics just like this one is.

[25:06] Alan Seales: Um, but like I I think the Peggy is Peggy Sue takes itself like way too seriously in some of those gender politic regards.

[25:14] Jesse McAnally: Like, it's not like kitschy and like a joke.

[25:16] Alan Seales: I think Earth Girls are easy to kind of aware that how this premise is bad and like women aren't like this to a degree.

[25:24] Jesse McAnally: I mean we don't I I feel complicated.

[25:29] Alan Seales: It is complicated.

[25:30] Jesse McAnally: I feel guilty saying I like something that doesn't respect any gender the way this movie does it respect women.

[25:39] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[25:40] Jesse McAnally: It doesn't respect women.

[25:41] Alan Seales: But it doesn't respect men, I think.

[25:43] Jesse McAnally: It doesn't respect humans.

[25:44] Alan Seales: I think it's aliens.

[25:46] Jesse McAnally: It just doesn't respect.

[25:48] Alan Seales: Yeah, it has no respect.

[25:50] Jesse McAnally: It is this is what Rodney Dangerfield was talking about.

[25:52] Alan Seales: Rodney Dangerfield's no respect.

[25:55] Jesse McAnally: Everything is about Earth Girls.

[25:57] Alan Seales: No respect.

[25:58] Jesse McAnally: Well, tie that to uh now I can finally tell the Rodney Dangerfield story connected to Jim Carrey.

[26:04] Alan Seales: Rodney Dangerfield was basically Jim Carrey's mentor.

[26:07] Jesse McAnally: Jim Carrey opened for him for years, and they became like really close friends, and one day Rodney Dangerfield in a robe, Jim Carrey's just hanging out with his dad who came to see the show.

[26:17] Alan Seales: Rodney Dangerfield's smoking a blunt and he offers it to Jim Carrey's dad and he's like, You wanna try?

[26:22] Jesse McAnally: And he's like, Oh, if you give that to me, I'll be up to a pack a day by noon.

[26:26] Jesse McAnally: And then everyone starts laughing, and he's like, Well, the fuck do you get this guy!

[26:33] Alan Seales: No respect.

[26:34] Jesse McAnally: Or all the respect.

[26:36] Alan Seales: Well, how about we compare our opinions to those of the real real critics from the time?

[26:41] Jesse McAnally: It let's look at the New York Times, Karen James, uh, who said, with a scattershot style that includes lengthy, often lame song and dance parodies, as well as special effects slapstick and satire.

[26:52] Alan Seales: The film can't begin to sustain its lunatic premise when Valerie and her ditzy boss Candy shave off the aliens for a make them over to look like Valley guys.

[27:01] Jesse McAnally: Predictable disasters follow, including tr dead tropical fish and bad driving.

[27:06] Alan Seales: I I don't see any satire in this film.

[27:09] Jesse McAnally: I feel like that's uh being a little too kind.

[27:11] Alan Seales: Yeah, there's no satire at all.

[27:13] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[27:13] Alan Seales: I mean, it it's well, are they making fun of musicals?

[27:16] Jesse McAnally: I don't think fun of rom coming.

[27:18] Alan Seales: Are they making fun of the musicals?

[27:20] Jesse McAnally: Because Julie Brown makes music professionally at this time, so they wouldn't make fun of her own songs.

[27:26] Alan Seales: But it uh I mean, okay, so she's on MTV.

[27:30] Jesse McAnally: She's making her own music.

[27:32] Alan Seales: She's wanting to get it.

[27:34] Jesse McAnally: I guess was there anybody I was gonna say, was there anybody doing the same thing of writing original music and putting it into a feature-length movie when it was not a ac an actual stage musical?

[27:44] Alan Seales: Yeah, um UHF.

[27:45] Jesse McAnally: Um, I think the next year.

[27:47] Alan Seales: Or no, that same year.

[27:48] Jesse McAnally: Uh no, it was 89.

[27:49] Alan Seales: It was next year.

[27:50] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, it was the Batman, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, to like three hand punch where it flops because they all opened on that same weekend.

[27:59] Alan Seales: But UHF.

[28:00] Jesse McAnally: Like original songs by Weird Al, original story, basically a vanity project for this comedy musician, and a significantly better film.

[28:08] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[28:09] Jesse McAnally: And you guys could argue like Pop Star is kind of like that.

[28:12] Alan Seales: I mean, it wrote the songs for the movie, but it's a Lonely Island vehicle.

[28:15] Jesse McAnally: Well, then you've got Walk Hard too.

[28:17] Alan Seales: Yeah, Walk Hard as well.

[28:19] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[28:19] Alan Seales: Which is one of my favorite comedies of all time.

[28:22] Jesse McAnally: So can I wrangle us back to talking about Jim Carrey?

[28:24] Alan Seales: We can because he's he this is the beginning of the faces that I know that we know as Jim Carrey.

[28:30] Jesse McAnally: I mean, we see little traces in the past, but then this is like go full-on weirdo alien man.

[28:38] Alan Seales: And uh and I and I like that that he's been kind of giving that creative freedom to explore his alien side, which becomes kind of his go-to shtick for the rest of his life.

[28:48] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[28:48] Alan Seales: Um, and he does the best out of the three.

[28:51] Jesse McAnally: Like Damon Wayans, God bless him, has a lot of talent in a lot of other places.

[28:57] Alan Seales: Slapstick comedy of this sort, not really his vibe.

[29:01] Jesse McAnally: He gets into a five-minute dance off.

[29:03] Alan Seales: It's impressive.

[29:04] Jesse McAnally: That's the only part that I liked him in.

[29:07] Alan Seales: Like that part really works.

[29:09] Jesse McAnally: But every other scene where he like does imitations or is he he looks a little lost.

[29:14] Alan Seales: Uh, where Jim Carrey is like, oh yeah, I can do this in my sleep.

[29:17] Jesse McAnally: Uh, make a goofy face, go all rubbery.

[29:19] Alan Seales: Like, there's a moment where Julie Brown just grabs his face and he just like it it goes like mush in her hands.

[29:26] Jesse McAnally: It is so hilarious.

[29:30] Alan Seales: The ice cube out of the glass.

[29:37] Jesse McAnally: I'm going home with him.

[29:40] Alan Seales: I'm going home with him.

[29:43] Jesse McAnally: I'm going home with him.

[29:46] Alan Seales: Candy, I can't believe you're fringing an alien in front of all these people.

[29:50] Jesse McAnally: He would have hooped me roused the Nora sound.

[29:55] Alan Seales: Okay.

[29:57] Jesse McAnally: Candia.

[29:58] Alan Seales: I'll call you.

[29:59] Jesse McAnally: Oh, wow.

[30:00] Alan Seales: What was it like?

[30:01] Jesse McAnally: Oh my god, you're so lucky.

[30:02] Alan Seales: You can just remember.

[30:05] Jesse McAnally: I want his baby.

[30:07] Alan Seales: Heck me.

[30:07] Jesse McAnally: Heck me.

[30:08] Alan Seales: I mean, that is the obvious gag, but the thing that makes me laugh is how like squishy his face becomes in her hand.

[30:15] Jesse McAnally: Oh, yeah.

[30:15] Alan Seales: Yeah, she disintegrated it like it was putty.

[30:18] Jesse McAnally: And then tongued him.

[30:19] Alan Seales: A lot.

[30:20] Jesse McAnally: She said she wanted to have his babies.

[30:22] Alan Seales: She did.

[30:23] Jesse McAnally: She did.

[30:24] Alan Seales: I wanna have his babies.

[30:26] Jesse McAnally: And then she doesn't because he goes off with uh Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis.

[30:30] Alan Seales: True.

[30:31] Jesse McAnally: She brought margs and nobody drank the margs.

[30:34] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[30:34] Jesse McAnally: Listen.

[30:35] Alan Seales: Because if, as you know, give me one margarita.

[30:38] Jesse McAnally: Don't know this phrase.

[30:39] Alan Seales: Oh, you don't know it?

[30:41] Jesse McAnally: It's that biblical lady.

[30:43] Alan Seales: It became a sound on TikTok where it's like, give me one bigger gorita and I'll open my legs.

[30:47] Jesse McAnally: Give me two margaritas and I'll give you some uh give me a three margaritas and I'll put it in my puss.

[30:52] Alan Seales: Give me four margaritas and I'll put it in my tush.

[30:54] Jesse McAnally: It's a weird song.

[30:57] Alan Seales: Give me one margarita, I'ma open my legs.

[30:59] Jesse McAnally: Give me two margaritas, I'ma give you some legs.

[31:02] Alan Seales: Give me three margaritas, I'ma put it in my puss.

[31:04] Jesse McAnally: Give me four margaritas, I'ma put it in my tush.

[31:07] Alan Seales: Give me five margaritas.

[31:09] Jesse McAnally: I'ma get some fun, give me five margaritas.

[31:10] Alan Seales: I'm gonna have to look this up for the edit, don't I?

[31:13] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[31:13] Alan Seales: Yeah, look that up.

[31:14] Jesse McAnally: Umpare it to the Christian lady screaming it out, and then the the college kids are cheering for each margarita, and then a rapper made it into a proper hip hop.

[31:23] Alan Seales: So it's wonderful.

[31:25] Jesse McAnally: Amazing.

[31:25] Alan Seales: Amazing.

[31:26] Jesse McAnally: Buy her one margarita.

[31:30] Alan Seales: She will spread her legs.

[31:35] Jesse McAnally: When I heard it, I said, this sounds like a rap song.

[31:40] Alan Seales: But again, and she had about four margaritas there.

[31:42] Jesse McAnally: I like Marlon Wayans dance, the end of his dance move when he put the other guy to shame, and it's just because he could spit in place and cause smoke to come out of his shoes.

[31:49] Alan Seales: That was pretty that was a pretty cool scene.

[31:50] Jesse McAnally: It's a good bid, and it's like as far as movies go, we don't get a lot of movies with setups and payoffs like this anymore.

[31:59] Alan Seales: Like a lot of films things just kind of happen, and this at least has a competent structure to it.

[32:04] Jesse McAnally: And if I'm just complimenting you on your basic structure, I don't think that's a great sign.

[32:10] Alan Seales: Now, how about we compare our opinions to those of the real critics over on Letterboxd.com.

[32:14] Jesse McAnally: It's time for the letterbox game.

[32:16] Alan Seales: One star, five stars.

[32:21] Jesse McAnally: Anyway, letterbox game.

[32:23] Alan Seales: One or five stars.

[32:25] Jesse McAnally: I'm ready.

[32:26] Alan Seales: Insert it into my veins.

[32:28] Jesse McAnally: Give it to me, letterbox daddy.

[32:30] Alan Seales: Now that you said that I don't want to.

[32:34] Jesse McAnally: Like I was gonna pass.

[32:36] Alan Seales: May I got all these five looking at reviews and I'm like, eh, nobody.

[32:39] Jesse McAnally: May I please have a letterbox?

[32:42] Alan Seales: You can't because you didn't say daddy.

[32:46] Jesse McAnally: Okay, the rules of the all these letterbox reviews are real letterbox reviews.

[32:51] Alan Seales: They're either one or a five.

[32:52] Jesse McAnally: Jezz and Allen gotta figure out which one it is.

[32:55] Alan Seales: You're learning.

[32:56] Jesse McAnally: Alright, you ready, Alan?

[32:58] Alan Seales: I was born ready.

[33:00] Jesse McAnally: The fly used to be sexy.

[33:02] Alan Seales: That sounds like a review for the fly.

[33:04] Jesse McAnally: Right?

[33:06] Alan Seales: Used to be.

[33:07] Jesse McAnally: So wait, Fly came out first, though.

[33:10] Alan Seales: So used to be sexy, which means that they saw this one before the fly.

[33:15] Jesse McAnally: Um I'm gonna go with five on that one.

[33:18] Alan Seales: That is correct.

[33:18] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[33:19] Alan Seales: Alright, Jess, you ready?

[33:21] Jesse McAnally: I like to show my work.

[33:23] Alan Seales: I suddenly really want to visit Paris with Gina Davis and Jeff Goldblum.

[33:28] Jesse McAnally: That's a five.

[33:29] Alan Seales: That is a five.

[33:31] Jesse McAnally: Um I don't show my work.

[33:33] Alan Seales: You'll never understand my thought process.

[33:35] Jesse McAnally: I don't want to know your thought process.

[33:37] Alan Seales: It's scary in there.

[33:39] Jesse McAnally: Alright.

[33:39] Alan Seales: So basically, if Grease was better.

[33:42] Jesse McAnally: One.

[33:42] Alan Seales: Correct.

[33:43] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[33:45] Alan Seales: Grease is a significantly worse film than this.

[33:48] Jesse McAnally: If he looked like Jim Carrey, I'd be easy to That's a five.

[33:52] Alan Seales: Correct.

[33:53] Jesse McAnally: Five for horny.

[33:54] Alan Seales: Too horny.

[33:55] Jesse McAnally: This is when the horiness starts, because people are starting to be horny.

[33:58] Alan Seales: Horny box.

[33:58] Jesse McAnally: It's time for a horny box review.

[34:00] Alan Seales: Oh, that was the review.

[34:01] Alan Seales: Would you?

[34:01] Jesse McAnally: That's the review.

[34:02] Alan Seales: Would you?

[34:02] Jesse McAnally: Would you?

[34:03] Alan Seales: Yes.

[34:03] Jesse McAnally: The letter U.

[34:04] Alan Seales: No, I'm reading.

[34:05] Jesse McAnally: Is it W-O-O-D or W-O-U-L-D?

[34:05] Alan Seales: W-O-U-L-D.

[34:09] Jesse McAnally: The question is, would you?

[34:11] Alan Seales: I think it's I I'm reading it as would you?

[34:13] Jesse McAnally: Inflection down at the end.

[34:15] Alan Seales: Like, that's gross.

[34:16] Jesse McAnally: One star.

[34:17] Alan Seales: That's a five.

[34:18] Jesse McAnally: No.

[34:20] Alan Seales: I mean, I would.

[34:22] Jesse McAnally: I would.

[34:22] Alan Seales: I mean, have you.

[34:24] Jesse McAnally: You seen the way he uses that litter box?

[34:28] Alan Seales: That's a letterbox daddy.

[34:31] Jesse McAnally: Litter box, not letter box.

[34:33] Alan Seales: Well, he used that letter box as a litter box.

[34:36] Jesse McAnally: By eating the fish.

[34:39] Alan Seales: Eating the bluegill.

[34:40] Jesse McAnally: My bluegills.

[34:42] Alan Seales: My bluegills.

[34:44] Jesse McAnally: I'll take those of yes.

[34:45] Alan Seales: Um.

[34:45] Jesse McAnally: Well, yes.

[34:46] Alan Seales: I'm sorry.

[34:47] Jesse McAnally: Man boobs.

[34:48] Alan Seales: Sad emoji.

[34:50] Jesse McAnally: Man, that sounds like a letter from my father.

[34:53] Alan Seales: Um, I'm gonna give that a one.

[34:55] Jesse McAnally: That is a five.

[34:56] Alan Seales: Woo-hoo!

[34:57] Jesse McAnally: Tied up two to two.

[34:58] Alan Seales: We're still tied.

[34:59] Jesse McAnally: Alright.

[35:00] Alan Seales: Ready, Alan?

[35:00] Jesse McAnally: Oh yeah.

[35:01] Alan Seales: I just want to cry.

[35:03] Jesse McAnally: Ellipses, period.

[35:04] Alan Seales: No punctuation.

[35:05] Jesse McAnally: I just want to cry.

[35:06] Alan Seales: That's the sentence.

[35:06] Jesse McAnally: How does it end?

[35:07] Alan Seales: With a question park?

[35:08] Jesse McAnally: Or a net has no punctuation.

[35:09] Alan Seales: Damn it.

[35:10] Jesse McAnally: That's reading.

[35:11] Alan Seales: Is there any capitalizations?

[35:13] Jesse McAnally: Actually, none.

[35:14] Alan Seales: I just want to cry one star.

[35:16] Jesse McAnally: I just want to cry.

[35:17] Alan Seales: One star.

[35:18] Jesse McAnally: W-A-A-N-N A.

[35:19] Alan Seales: One star.

[35:19] Jesse McAnally: Correct.

[35:20] Alan Seales: Yes.

[35:21] Jesse McAnally: Alright.

[35:22] Alan Seales: Who was it was Jess's turn.

[35:24] Jesse McAnally: Jess's turn.

[35:24] Alan Seales: Jess' turn.

[35:25] Jesse McAnally: Julie Brown really did that.

[35:27] Alan Seales: Did all that.

[35:28] Jesse McAnally: That's a five.

[35:29] Alan Seales: Yes.

[35:29] Jesse McAnally: I love Julie Brown.

[35:30] Alan Seales: Damn it, Jess.

[35:32] Jesse McAnally: Alright, we're tied again.

[35:33] Alan Seales: There's three or few slept, so if you tie there's a tiebreaker.

[35:36] Jesse McAnally: Cool.

[35:37] Alan Seales: Admit it.

[35:37] Jesse McAnally: You would too.

[35:39] Alan Seales: But that's the same as you would.

[35:40] Jesse McAnally: No, that would you was the other one.

[35:42] Alan Seales: This is a different version of that review.

[35:43] Jesse McAnally: Wait, so would you was what?

[35:45] Alan Seales: That was a that was a five.

[35:47] Jesse McAnally: So and then this one is what?

[35:49] Alan Seales: Admit it.

[35:49] Jesse McAnally: You would too.

[35:51] Alan Seales: Admit it, you would too.

[35:53] Jesse McAnally: That is a one.

[35:54] Alan Seales: Correct.

[35:55] Jesse McAnally: Jess.

[35:56] Alan Seales: Alright.

[35:57] Jesse McAnally: Rageus.

[35:58] Alan Seales: I am.

[35:58] Jesse McAnally: The most important film ever made.

[36:01] Alan Seales: Five.

[36:02] Jesse McAnally: One.

[36:02] Alan Seales: Yes.

[36:03] Jesse McAnally: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[36:06] Alan Seales: And the last review, which is my favorite.

[36:08] Jesse McAnally: Going to the doctor, because I have a few questions.

[36:12] Alan Seales: And not Doctor?

[36:14] Jesse McAnally: Dr.

[36:14] Alan Seales: Love, Charles Rock.

[36:20] Jesse McAnally: Uh that's a five.

[36:21] Alan Seales: I'm not sure.

[36:22] Jesse McAnally: Yes, that was a five, Jess.

[36:23] Alan Seales: So you actually tied it up.

[36:25] Jesse McAnally: Well, it was my turn.

[36:26] Alan Seales: I did it.

[36:26] Jesse McAnally: It was.

[36:27] Alan Seales: But I you you didn't answer, so I thought I'm gonna call that a tie in this case.

[36:32] Jesse McAnally: Fine.

[36:33] Alan Seales: Fine.

[36:34] Jesse McAnally: Alan, you've won the most of these rounds.

[36:36] Alan Seales: Let Jess have some wins.

[36:38] Jesse McAnally: Listen, I'm I'm of the generation where not everyone gets a trophy.

[36:41] Alan Seales: You don't need a trophy.

[36:42] Jesse McAnally: You gave us those trophies, though.

[36:44] Alan Seales: So this is your fault.

[36:45] Jesse McAnally: That's true.

[36:46] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[36:47] Jesse McAnally: Um, and also, like, I don't know where I'm going.

[36:50] Alan Seales: Either way.

[36:50] Jesse McAnally: Earth Girls Are Easy as a weird movie, but I kind of appreciated the surreal moments.

[36:55] Alan Seales: I really like the weird dream sequence.

[36:58] Jesse McAnally: I really like the opening animated piece for the opening credits.

[37:01] Alan Seales: I was really impressed by that.

[37:03] Jesse McAnally: Check it out.

[37:21] Alan Seales: Like, we already talked about the alien design.

[37:23] Jesse McAnally: Like, I think that's a really creatively designed alien creatures.

[37:27] Alan Seales: Nothing looks like that aside from like maybe Chewbacca, but even then, it's a little bit more late 80s, early 90s neon colors.

[37:36] Jesse McAnally: I love what a cynical take it is on Southern California.

[37:40] Alan Seales: I love the pieces of just 80s culture.

[37:44] Jesse McAnally: Like, when we let's take a look at the Duck Factory, which makes LA look like this horrendous hell town that you drive through at night and you feel like you're gonna die.

[37:52] Alan Seales: Or this makes it look like Disneyland.

[37:55] Jesse McAnally: True.

[37:56] Alan Seales: The difference between the mid-80s to the late 80s representation of LA is so fascinating.

[38:02] Jesse McAnally: Even like the difference between this br representation of LA and LA in once bitten is so decidedly different.

[38:10] Alan Seales: That's very true.

[38:11] Jesse McAnally: I wonder if it is the uh the mindset of the production team slash director slash writer as we go bigger budget.

[38:21] Alan Seales: They tend to enjoy LA and Hollywood in general a little bit more.

[38:25] Jesse McAnally: So they're writing the scenes that that that speak to them.

[38:29] Alan Seales: Maybe.

[38:30] Jesse McAnally: I think I think that's probably true.

[38:32] Alan Seales: I also feel like this also didn't know what it had to say about LA, so it just kind of feels like a hodgepodge of like, well, we want it to look pretty because we want our movie to look pretty and we want everything to look pretty.

[38:43] Jesse McAnally: We want Gina Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim K.

[38:45] Alan Seales: They all have to look really pretty.

[38:47] Jesse McAnally: Um I think this is like the most it's like if a five year old tried to make a movie.

[38:54] Alan Seales: But it w I d but mm yeah, good you bad I'm speaking their language again.

[38:59] Jesse McAnally: Jeff Goldblum got last billing, but he had just done the fly two years prior.

[39:04] Alan Seales: So let's talk about the and m thing.

[39:08] Jesse McAnally: There's the and and with and an introducing.

[39:12] Alan Seales: There's and an introducing.

[39:13] Jesse McAnally: Right.

[39:14] Alan Seales: So and is something you negotiate in with your contract as it's introducing.

[39:18] Jesse McAnally: These are things that are worked in through agents and contract negotiations.

[39:22] Alan Seales: So there was no way Jeff Goldblum was ever getting top billing in this film.

[39:26] Jesse McAnally: So you negotiate down.

[39:28] Alan Seales: Why?

[39:28] Jesse McAnally: He had just done the fly.

[39:29] Alan Seales: Why are we gonna why are you gonna give them free advertising with your name if you're not the lead?

[39:34] Jesse McAnally: But Jim and Marlin were bigger names at the time.

[39:37] Alan Seales: No, that doesn't that doesn't matter.

[39:39] Jesse McAnally: Why would you lend your name to help promote this film if you are not the lead?

[39:44] Alan Seales: But he won. Okay.

[39:46] Jesse McAnally: Um, so that is my talk about unions and actors' billings, um, for the day.

[39:53] Jesse McAnally: Um, so Earth Girls are Easy. Did anyone have anything else left to say about this?

[39:58] Liz Eston: I enjoyed the comic bit of them being small when they landed in the pool. I always thought that was funny.

[40:04] Liz Eston: I like that. I think Gina Davis is a very fine lead. Truly a very charming lead in a very, I won't say self-conscious role. Like, it's a really goofy role.

[40:18] Liz Eston: Um, and also, this is just my thing. I think the poster for this movie sucks.

[40:26] Alan Seales: Which one?

[40:27] Liz Eston: All of them.

[40:28] Alan Seales: Oh, yes.

[40:29] Liz Eston: 'Cause there's a few. Like, all of them just look like cutouts of Gina Davis and Jeff Goldblum.

[40:35] Liz Eston: And they have this beautiful VHS design that they never used outside of like foreign markets.

[40:41] Liz Eston: And I think this looks incredible. Like, look at this. This sums up the whole movie, and it looks good.

[40:45] Liz Eston: Gina Davis, her breasts don't look like that at all.

[40:49] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[40:51] Liz Eston: Obviously, but that is not an accurate representation of this movie.

[40:55] Jesse McAnally: I mean, if that's the only thing we're looking at.

[40:57] Liz Eston: Yeah, there's other things here.

[40:59] Liz Eston: There's the fuzzy blue alien.

[41:01] Alan Seales: Well, he looks like the fuzzy blue aliens, right.

[41:03] Liz Eston: The spaceship behind him, totally wrong.

[41:06] Alan Seales: Coming out of a pool.

[41:08] Liz Eston: Okay, we're in a pool.

[41:09] Alan Seales: Yeah, we got the pool.

[41:10] Jesse McAnally: Arab and the voter rolls of the movie.

[41:12] Alan Seales: Right. Uh, wait, how come the tagline is in what is this?

[41:17] Liz Eston: This is French?

[41:17] Alan Seales: Yes, this is uh foreign market.

[41:19] Liz Eston: I think this was um just European.

[41:22] Alan Seales: Well, yeah. The tagline is not English, but the title is.

[41:25] Liz Eston: I guess it doesn't translate.

[41:27] Alan Seales: Uh goes a is it.

[41:29] Liz Eston: As goes out, is it?

[41:31] Jesse McAnally: Oh, that blue man, that's almost as hairy as all French women.

[41:37] Alan Seales: Jesus.

[41:38] Liz Eston: Jesus Christ.

[41:41] Alan Seales: That's French, right?

[41:42] Liz Eston: That's getting cut.

[41:44] Jesse McAnally: Oh, French lady is very hairy.

[41:47] Liz Eston: Chess.

[41:48] Jesse McAnally: I don't know how many times I have to tell you to not do accent spoon.

[41:53] Liz Eston: I don't know how many times I'm gonna tell you.

[41:55] Jesse McAnally: I'm gonna keep doing it.

[41:56] Liz Eston: I know.

[41:58] Jesse McAnally: I support accents.

[41:59] Liz Eston: I don't support calling all French women hairy.

[42:02] Jesse McAnally: Um, have you been to France lately?

[42:04] Liz Eston: I have.

[42:05] Jesse McAnally: Not lately.

[42:06] Liz Eston: Have you looked?

[42:08] Jesse McAnally: Okay then.

[42:10] Liz Eston: Uh, I don't think they would own that, honestly.

[42:12] Jesse McAnally: I think they'd be like, and so what you American pig dogs, I don't get shot in my schools unlike you guys.

[42:16] Liz Eston: I just have a little extra hair.

[42:19] Jesse McAnally: Honestly, I respect the hell out of French women for not shaving. Like, fuck that. Like, you don't need to shave for anybody.

[42:27] Liz Eston: I respect French women for that.

[42:29] Jesse McAnally: I don't respect the French for anything else.

[42:32] Liz Eston: Because fuck the French, they're assholes.

[42:34] Jesse McAnally: Jesus.

[42:35] Liz Eston: This is not gonna go well in France.

[42:38] Jesse McAnally: Oh god, for we just lost our three French listeners.

[42:41] Liz Eston: I am a quaker.

[42:45] Jesse McAnally: From earlier. So I said this I said in the doc this was not ready for we're supporting actress.

[42:50] Alan Seales: Julie Brown wasn't nominated.

[42:52] Liz Eston: Who was?

[42:53] Jesse McAnally: You know that weird blonde lady at the gas station who like had three lines and had like giant boobs.

[42:59] Alan Seales: Her?

[43:00] Jesse McAnally: She was nominated for supporting actress.

[43:03] Alan Seales: Whoa?

[43:03] Jesse McAnally: Okay, I guess.

[43:05] Alan Seales: So just correcting the records.

[43:07] Jesse McAnally: That is like picking on the dude that cleans the pool in this movie. Like, what's the point?

[43:11] Alan Seales: Why are we bullying such a bit player?

[43:15] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, exactly.

[43:16] Jesse McAnally: Um, I just wanted to correct that. So from what I found about this movie, her name is Angeline.

[43:22] Liz Eston: That's her industry name.

[43:24] Jesse McAnally: She has a okay, okay.

[43:25] Liz Eston: I know exactly who she is.

[43:26] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, she's a very famous model, known for Pate Corvette.

[43:30] Liz Eston: I know exactly why they did this.

[43:32] Jesse McAnally: LA people being assholes again.

[43:34] Liz Eston: So, Emmy Rossom just played Angeline in a new uh Peacock series.

[43:38] Jesse McAnally: Um, she was this famous model that had one big billboard that was everywhere and everyone was fucking sick of it.

[43:45] Liz Eston: So they gave her a tiny cameo in this film, and then of course the golden raspberry is like, fuck that woman.

[43:51] Jesse McAnally: I have to see her on the fucking billboard.

[43:53] Liz Eston: I'm gonna give her and yeah.

[43:55] Jesse McAnally: Wait.

[43:55] Liz Eston: That sums up LA.

[43:56] Jesse McAnally: What was that again?

[43:57] Liz Eston: LA for you.

[43:58] Jesse McAnally: I missed that whole rant.

[43:58] Liz Eston: You gotta do the whole thing again.

[44:00] Jesse McAnally: No, you'll have to listen to the channel.

[44:01] Liz Eston: Just listen to it back.

[44:01] Jesse McAnally: It won't get cut.

[44:02] Liz Eston: Yeah, you'll listen to it when the episode releases.

[44:04] Jesse McAnally: It was really good.

[44:05] Liz Eston: Um, it's gonna win me a golden raspberry award.

[44:08] Jesse McAnally: Um, what is our overall thoughts on Earth Girls are Easy? And is it an alrighty then or a no spank you?

[44:15] Alan Seales: Alan, you're first.

[44:17] Alan Seales: I'm gonna go with, and I hate myself for this, an alrighty then.

[44:22] Jesse McAnally: What the fuck?

[44:23] Alan Seales: I'm gonna alrighty then this one.

[44:27] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[44:27] Alan Seales: I know spank you.

[44:29] Alan Seales: Yeah, no, light alrighty then. It's like very, very light alrighty then.

[44:34] Alan Seales: Again, because I feel very guilty liking anything that just doesn't respect people the way this doesn't didn't respect people, but alright, because I like Jeff.

[44:45] Alan Seales: Marlin was a throwaway. He could, his whole character could have been cut. That's fine.

[44:49] Alan Seales: I like Jeff. I like Jim. I like Gina. I like the pool guy buddy.

[44:53] Alan Seales: Like, I think we, and Julie Brown, Julie Brown, like they worked together chemistry-wise, and it held my attention.

[45:02] Alan Seales: I don't like that it held my attention, but it did. So there you go. Very light alrighty then. Eat that.

[45:05] Liz Eston: Liz, what is your thoughts?

[45:09] Liz Eston: I didn't think I'd be this upset right now.

[45:12] Liz Eston: It's the fever talking.

[45:13] Jesse McAnally: It's the fever.

[45:14] Liz Eston: Don't take it personally.

[45:15] Jesse McAnally: Oh no.

[45:17] Liz Eston: I didn't hate this, like immediately.

[45:21] Liz Eston: I think it's very, I said immediately. It's incredibly sexy.

[45:27] Liz Eston: Yeah, yeah.

[45:29] Liz Eston: And misogynistic in a lot of ways.

[45:31] Liz Eston: Like she's constantly going back to her cheating fiancé every 10 seconds because she can.

[45:35] Liz Eston: Like, he's still gonna cheat on her. Like, it's ridiculous.

[45:38] Liz Eston: Uh, and none of the people in this movie are, they don't have respect for them at all.

[45:42] Liz Eston: Uh, but I love Jeff Goldblum.

[45:44] Liz Eston: I love Gina Davis. The Fly is like my number two movie ever, like of all time.

[45:49] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[45:50] Liz Eston: So seeing these two on screen together gives me a mild soft spot.

[45:53] Liz Eston: See where this is. I'm gonna give it, I'm tempted to give it a very light alrighty then, but I'm gonna give it a very light no spank you.

[46:00] Jesse McAnally: No!

[46:01] Liz Eston: Mainly because I wouldn't, I would give it alrighty then if I wanted you wanted people to watch this, I don't think it's worth watching a ton.

[46:10] Liz Eston: Like, it's kind of a musical, but not, it's kind of funny.

[46:15] Jesse McAnally: Wait, wait, wait. We, how many, we're 10 episodes in now, and we're just now defining our judgment criteria.

[46:22] Alan Seales: I've been evaluating this for me.

[46:24] Jesse McAnally: What do I like it? Not do I want others to like it.

[46:27] Alan Seales: We all have our own criteria, okay?

[46:29] Jesse McAnally: We all have our own criteria, okay?

[46:31] Alan Seales: We all remain voice differently.

[46:34] Jesse McAnally: Quiet, Cisco!

[46:35] Liz Eston: Do I like, if you want to experience this, go for it?

[46:38] Liz Eston: Just take a couple shots of vodka.

[46:40] Liz Eston: Like, it makes it probably a little better.

[46:42] Liz Eston: But do I, I enjoyed watching it, kind of?

[46:46] Liz Eston: It wasn't like great in any aspects.

[46:49] Liz Eston: I thought it was kind of funny.

[46:50] Liz Eston: I thought it was kind of enjoyable.

[46:51] Liz Eston: The songs are kinda good, but it never goes into actual good at any point, for me at least.

[46:58] Jesse McAnally: Maybe, maybe it's okay, okay.

[47:00] Jesse McAnally: Let's hear Jess.

[47:01] Alan Seales: So that's my, it's a very light no spank you.

[47:04] Jesse McAnally: I've, I wanted to want to dissuade you from watching it if it sounds interesting.

[47:08] Jesse McAnally: Check it out.

[47:09] Liz Eston: You're like 49%.

[47:10] Jesse McAnally: I'm 51.

[47:11] Liz Eston: We're right there.

[47:12] Jesse McAnally: We're right there.

[47:13] Liz Eston: Kind of, yeah.

[47:15] Jesse McAnally: 48, 52.

[47:17] Jesse McAnally: This film upset me.

[47:21] Alan Seales: Alright.

[47:21] Jesse McAnally: Alright, tell me more.

[47:23] Jesse McAnally: She had one or two good lines.

[47:25] Jesse McAnally: It has two compelling leads.

[47:27] Jesse McAnally: There is not one moment in this film as good as the five moments I bring up constantly about Peggy Sue Got Married.

[47:36] Jesse McAnally: Um, where I feel like this has no emotional core, this has no pathos, it has no characters, it has pawn that it pushes through the moments to get to the end of the film.

[47:46] Jesse McAnally: And especially like they want a romance between the two leads, but one of our leads has the mental fortitude of a toddler.

[47:55] Jesse McAnally: Um, and the other one is aware of the situation.

[47:59] Jesse McAnally: It's not like a situation like George of the Jungle where they discover each other and find each other.

[48:06] Jesse McAnally: It is very much a I have the full context, but I'm gonna have sex with you anyway, despite knowing that you don't have really an ability to consent as a human being.

[48:16] Jesse McAnally: And I know it feels icky to me.

[48:20] Jesse McAnally: And the fact that she is so wishy-washy between herself, Charles Rocket, and Jeff Goldblum only lends to the fact that she doesn't know who she is because I'm betting the writers don't know who she is.

[48:33] Jesse McAnally: She is a person that is different depending on what scene she's in.

[48:38] Jesse McAnally: There is no consistent characterization, there is no consistent filmmaking, there is not running jokes, there is not an effective storyline.

[48:46] Jesse McAnally: Every other scene is in a different movie.

[48:49] Jesse McAnally: This is a mess, and despite one or two shining moments, it is truly not a fun thing to watch and find entertaining.

[48:58] Jesse McAnally: Um, I am giving this a pretty hard no spank you.

[49:01] Jesse McAnally: I did not like this at all.

[49:04] Alan Seales: Dang, dude.

[49:05] Alan Seales: You just totally, I mean, that is a respectable, very respectable case.

[49:09] Jesse McAnally: Respectable.

[49:10] Alan Seales: But I still give it a like.

[49:13] Alan Seales: I get both of your opinions.

[49:15] Jesse McAnally: No, I don't like, it's, I'm with you.

[49:17] Jesse McAnally: I don't like this.

[49:18] Alan Seales: I think I'm just, I think I just like, I just, I agree with you on a lot of your points.

[49:22] Alan Seales: You make very solid points.

[49:24] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[49:24] Alan Seales: And I don't believe in like, oh, just turn your brain off. It's a movie.

[49:27] Jesse McAnally: I'm like, yes, I can see that.

[49:31] Alan Seales: But even in films that are quote unquote great, these things bother me.

[49:34] Alan Seales: It's, it reminds me a lot of American Werewolf in London, where there's like, I think that film is actually very bad, and we just remember the highlight moments and think that, oh, that's the totality of the film, and it is not that.

[49:48] Jesse McAnally: So you like the howling more in the howling American Real from London debate.

[49:52] Alan Seales: Yes, the howling is significantly better.

[49:54] Alan Seales: Um, I also would include Fright Night in there because that is a kind of in the same remake or original.

[50:00] Jesse McAnally: Oh, the original.

[50:00] Alan Seales: No, I was gonna say the remake.

[50:02] Jesse McAnally: Um, but yeah, werewolf movies are interesting, and they're a lot like alien movies.

[50:07] Alan Seales: Um, but you know who else is a lot like alien movies?

[50:10] Jesse McAnally: Jim Carrey.

[50:11] Alan Seales: Thank you guys for listening to our Jim Carrey podcast.

[50:13] Jesse McAnally: Please follow us on iTunes and Spotify at Carrey'd Away with Jess and Alan or on Twitter at Carrey'd Away Pod.

[50:17] Alan Seales: Instagram Carrey'd Away Pod, email us at Carrey'd Away Podcast or gmail.com.

[50:21] Jesse McAnally: Our title card is created by the amazing Grace Aki.

[50:24] Alan Seales: Go follow them on Instagram at it's GraceAki.

[50:28] Jesse McAnally: This show is produced and edited by the incredible Elizabeth Eston.

[50:32] Alan Seales: Our theme song is I Choose You by the Band.

[50:34] Jesse McAnally: Thanks.

[50:34] Alan Seales: Thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network for having us on the platform and not kicking us off for inviting three sexy alien men into our letterbox daddy.

[50:42] Jesse McAnally: Um, alright, is there anything else we have left to say?

[50:46] Alan Seales: I think you only had one cringe-worthy transition this whole episode.

[50:49] Jesse McAnally: I'm gonna give you props for that.

[50:51] Alan Seales: Oh, I'm cutting down, you know.

[50:53] Jesse McAnally: Um, I'll be back up to it by the time we do it next.

[50:57] Alan Seales: Good, good.

[50:58] Jesse McAnally: Maybe we should do a David Fincher rewatch podcast.

[51:02] Alan Seales: Next.

[51:04] Jesse McAnally: How about David Lynch?

[51:05] Alan Seales: David Lyncher.

[51:07] Jesse McAnally: David Lynch?

[51:08] Alan Seales: Oh god, there's too much.

[51:09] Jesse McAnally: So much Lynch.

[51:10] Alan Seales: We'd have to pick like top-rated Twin Peaks episodes or something.

[51:14] Jesse McAnally: No, there's no way to go.

[51:17] Alan Seales: And the reboot and the movie.

[51:19] Jesse McAnally: Or maybe it's just a Twin Peaks recap.

[51:21] Alan Seales: We can just focus in on Twin Peaks.

[51:22] Jesse McAnally: I love Twin Peaks.

[51:23] Alan Seales: I've never seen Twin Peaks.

[51:24] Jesse McAnally: I've always wanted to watch it.

[51:26] Alan Seales: It is.

[51:30] Jesse McAnally: You cannot just watch Firewalk.

[51:34] Alan Seales: What if we do another podcast later when this is all done? Just called What the Actual Fuck.

[51:40] Jesse McAnally: And we start with Donnie Darko.

[51:44] Alan Seales: I love Donnie Darko, though.

[51:46] Jesse McAnally: I have feelings about Donnie Dark.

[51:48] Alan Seales: I haven't seen a long ass time.

[51:51] Jesse McAnally: I know, me neither.

[51:52] Alan Seales: Um, I won, would we cover the director's cut or the original cut?

[51:56] Jesse McAnally: Of course.

[51:56] Alan Seales: No, the director's cut.

[51:57] Jesse McAnally: The director's cut expression is the first one.

[51:58] Alan Seales: Their just cut is the bad one.

[52:02] Jesse McAnally: It's like the original is like a good title.

[52:04] Alan Seales: Or one of us could watch both.

[52:05] Jesse McAnally: One of us could watch the director's cut, one couldn't watch the original cut, and we can all just compare notes.

[52:10] Alan Seales: I feel like that movie is confusing enough without the added ripple.

[52:16] Jesse McAnally: Alright, folks, we'll see you next time on Carrey'd Away.