Kicking off our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re going on a wilderness retreat into blood-sucking, bug-boiling bedlam as we meet a horde of giant, hallucinogenic ticks in Tony Randel’s TICKS, starring Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro, Virginya Keehne, Clint Howard, Peter Scolari, and Rosalind Allen.
Kicking off our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re going on a wilderness retreat into blood-sucking, bug-boiling bedlam as we meet a horde of giant, hallucinogenic ticks in Tony Randel’s TICKS, starring Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro, Virginya Keehne, Clint Howard, Peter Scolari, and Rosalind Allen.
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Today we kick off our bugging out triple feature with Tony Rendell's 1994 wilderness retreat into bloodsucking bug boiling bedlam. The bite victims are tripping, the lava are multiplying, and long socks just aren't going to cut it. As we meet a horde of giant hallucinogenic ticks with blood on their brains and neurotoxin in their bloodstreams in ticks.
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You're listening to how I Met Your Monster. A podcast that explores the introductions to your favorite movie monsters. My name is Zack. I'm Danny and I'm Casey. And together, we dive into the world of horror to find out how filmmakers have introduced us to our favorite monsters time and time again. This is how I Met Your Mother.
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Box. You opened it. We met him. 15 years ago. I was told there's nothing left for you to. Explorers in coastal regions are curious humans to some, Asians to others. Oh, here we go.
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Oh. Surprisingly. Come on. I'm making a new.
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Welcome to how I Met Your Monster, the show where we discuss introductions to your favorite movie monsters. Today we kick off a brand new triple feature series. Bugging out and got some bug spray. I fucking hate bugs. Like, I like, like I'm one of those, like, I don't kill them. I don't kill them because you're not supposed to.
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Mama taught me different. Well, that's the thing. People are always like, no, they're really good. And, like. But they're bugs. But they're fun. It's interesting because they're good because they, like, eat each other. But it's like, if we just didn't have any of them. Yeah, yeah. So spread disease and bite you. Yeah. So, like, if we just didn't have any, then we wouldn't need the other ones to take care of the other one.
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That's a good plan. So. That's right. That's right. I like that I would have some words with us, though. I love bugs. Yeah, they're. I mean, they're good for something, but, But the what? We don't know what, but what's not good. Like, I can't see the benefit in anything. Ticks. Yeah. The fuck? Let's see the like. God is like one of those, like, personal trainers is like, you need something to motivate you.
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You know, like when you're in the woods, you're not just there to relax. You need to be on your toes. There's ticks. Ticks are a favorite a favorite food source of chickens, turkeys, and other ground birds like grouse. Strong. An important link in the food chain. I doubt that they couldn't find anything else to eat. Yeah, I doubt it.
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Don't they have, like, impenetrable, which they reinforce in this movie? They have like impenetrable shells. So, like, what are they? How are they? Maybe it's good roughage for their bellies. Maybe it's good fight. Maybe. Oh, yeah. Okay, so we're watching ticks. Are we watching ticks? I was just I thought we were just here to talk about bugs in general.
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I was like, let's do this. It's pretty scary. We're watching 1994 as ticks, directed by Tony Rendell, who directed Hellraiser two up, Down. Oh, it never like I always think Hellraiser. And I always think Clive Barker. Like, I know he didn't do the sequels, but like, in my head, what year did Hellraiser two come out? I will tell you, Hellraiser two, it was like 1991.
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Hellraiser two came out in 1988, so six years prior. Isn't that interesting? is Hellraiser two okay, I love six. I did. It's not a good movie by any means, but dude, it's exactly the movie that you think it is. When you hear there's a movie about it is. It is. It's great. I loved it, it is.
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But like Hellraiser, Hellraiser two is a really fucking good movie. Hellraiser two is so disgusting. It's so good. It never lets up. It's doesn't. It's great. I wish this guy would learn how to make a disgusting movie or consist of every single scene in Hellraiser two is just gross. I love it, there's never like so good between gross spit.
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It's just all gross strapped to the mattress in. It's like, so I can't make it's like so iconic to Hellraiser. It's not even the first Hellraiser. But like you think. Yeah. When you think about Hill Razor, you know? Yeah. But ticks is a solid, solid creature feature. It really is. It's fucking fun. I mean, like, yeah, there's some, like, corny bits to it, but for the most part it's just like, it's a good monster movie.
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It's it's fun and it's it made my skin crawl like, which it's supposed to do. And it just, like, succeeded on that level. Yeah. I mean, the jumpscares in this fucking got me. Yeah, they all got me. And it was really weird watching it. I, I don't know if it was because I enjoyed the whole thing, you know, but like the second half where it really, like, picks up.
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I don't know if I was just having so much more fun that it felt this way to me, but it felt like they got more like production value in the second half. Okay. Like the first half was like all shaky cams and like weird lighting. And, you know, the second half felt like somehow their production increased up the studio to really invest in like the big set pieces and the like.
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Otherwise you gotta redistribute that money. But yeah, but like I said, it's probably just because at that point I was like all in. And I was like really enjoying it, that I didn't notice those things anymore. Well, now I get it. Like, I, I don't know if they have like a 4K restoration of this or. Yeah. It would be sweet if they did.
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I'm all for it. But it needs an upgrade for sure. Yeah, yeah. Like the quality of, of, of it is a little lacking in the beginning. But like when, when Seth Green is like first dropped off under that fucking bridge by himself and like, with zero context. Yeah. And the camera is kind of all like wide angle just being like, he's like, be turning on this for some reason.
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Yeah. It's like what is going on here? It was so strange. And then fucking, was that guy from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Carlton, I could not take him. It's Alfonso Ribeiro. It was so funny, but I was thinking during this movie, I was like, he might be better at this than playing Carlton. It was funny. He's good.
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He was one of the best parts of the movie because he was clearly just having a lot of fun, and he had the most, like, defined, like, yeah, caricature. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. We understood where he was coming from. Totally. that was this a first time watch for you guys? Oh, yeah. No, not a first time experience with the tics of which I have had many, growing up in on the East coast, but.
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Sure. Yes, sure. Swatch first, let me tell you, I feel like I think I rented it once when I was a kid, because I remember like that the the cover art. but I didn't remember anything about it, so I was I was pleasantly surprised when I found out how good it fucking was. but, yeah, you know, knock on wood.
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I need to find some wood around here to knock on. I have never had a tick house. Yes. Tanaka as waiting for it. Well, guess you're taking a road trip there. Zach to go touch Danny's fucking heart. Penis.
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Must have never. You had to be. You had to be so clinical about it. I was gonna say something. I was like, tick, right? Here's rock hard talk. Tick tock. Better tick. I was going to say, my my swollen tick. But I was like, oh, God, a, yeah, yeah. That's nice. It was just too awful.
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And I still said it. So yeah. Good job. We got I absolutely love where this movie goes, like, the way the, the climax plays out, I was like, Holy shit. Did not expect that. Yeah. I didn't know what was going to happen. Yeah. yeah. It delivers on every, promise that you could possibly expect or anticipate from a movie about giant killer bugs.
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Yeah, yeah. and what I found out during the opening credits was that it was executive produced by Brian Jasna, which is fucking cool. Why does that name sound familiar? he directed society. Oh, okay. he. Let's see. Goofy body parts. Just first is, Bloop bloop. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Out of Pluto. Well, the funny thing about the opening credits is that this movie is only an hour and 20 minutes in.
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The opening credits were like six of those. So. I love the title card that just like. Yeah, just like, just bam, pops on ticks. yeah. He directed society. Bride of Re-Animator. Silent night, deadly night for now. Return of the Living Dead three. Just the dentist, the dentist two. but what? He might be more well known for is his producing credits.
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which include Re-Animator. From beyond. From beyond. Oh my God. from beyond is so good. So good. Warlock, which we just talked about, in our last episode. Let's see. Oddly enough. honey, I Shrunk the Kids. So that's body horror. And it was. Yeah. Isn't that your feature? But. Yeah. Big time. big time. Gary, my trying to say big time guy.
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Big time horror guy? Yeah, big time guy. I picked up guy. Big time guy. He's a big time guy. All right, well, are you guys ready to hop in this inner city van? yeah. We're so they they start in Los Angeles. I wonder where the woods are that they go to. This guy's got to be in California.
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Oh, it's probably like Big Bear, because Big Bear is where, that's like the closest wilderness area. Okay. Like, if you go a little more east, like northeast Big Bear big. They're very big digs. Very big ticks. yeah. So. All right, well, you guys ready to hop in this strange van with a bunch of inner city kids and head to, the wilderness.
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The wilderness with, Carlton and his basketball. Did he bring the basketball with them? Yeah, I think it's implied that he had the basketball around him. I thought it was implied that he brought the dog with them. Because they don't ever show the dog getting in the. Oh, yeah. In the. Despite playing in the van. A very significant role this movie.
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Yeah yeah yeah. And what I mean, what was that bit at the beginning with him like threatening Seth Green's life for like making a basketball shot. It's so strange. He's like, sink this. well, they play it as though, like, he's just he's actually, you know, because he find out that he's actually part of this group, but then he is still kind of threatening later.
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But then he's not just like, oh, yeah, where are we going with this? is it is. Yeah. It's definitely weird. By the way, this movie was filmed in at the National Forest in San Bernardino, California. San Bernardino, which. No, not Big Bear. It's about an hour and a half. outside of it. Okay. Okay. So once again, Daniel, you're wrong about your filming locations got damn to the list.
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Well, let's get in this van and head to San Bernardino or wherever the fuck. And don't forget the dog.
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And the.
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Anyway, went on the IMDb for this movie, and it's auto playing the trailer. It's always so. Scottsdale. It is gross. It's like forgot neither of you. So Archie was. I mean, she's like, nope, no fucking way. But it's gross because I'm. I'm very, I'm not picky. I'll watch anything, but like, I will you damn my appetite. Will you?
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I will, I think I've proven that so far. Watch my appetite for certain types of, like, gory horror is limited. But I like this kind because it's having fun. Yeah, you know. Yeah. So it's easier to digest it, so to speak. because all I can think about is how much fun it must have been like for the crew.
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Like making all of these effects. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which the, the visual effects were done by Doug Beswick, who has done, like, he's worked on, like, every movie. that ever needed a special effect could ever sounds busy. and actually, CNB had, did the effects for this. Oh, what did we just watch? Oh.
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The faculty, we just have to watch along with the faculty. And you guys made you had that realization. Same epiphany. Yeah. yeah. Greg Nicotero, Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger and a bunch of, slew of other people. did the effects for this. but it was based on an idea by Doug Beswick, who, I'm pulling up his IMDb right now.
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He's done everything from work on aliens to the Terminator to Ghostbusters. Man, like, his credits are just. There's too many to name right now. so this was kind of his brainchild. and I love your brain, Doug. This is fucking cool movie. All right, so this was my pick for our bugging out triple feature. so before we get started into our movie and our official monster reveals, I am going to read the synopsis, for Tex, okay?
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Via IMDb, a group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing that the woods they are camping in have become infested by mutated, bloodsucking ticks. Okay, so I wanted to make sure that I know we're just starting this off and you just read the synopsis I didn't want to get to. I didn't want to take us too out of, like, the flow of our conversation with that said, the movie does open up where we're getting some context.
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So I would like to ask the question how? What is mutating them? Does that question ever get answered? Yes, I know that there's chemicals, but do they? Is it just the well, he says, the vet says it. okay. The vet tells them that, she thinks it's an herbal steroid that the farmers use in that area to grow their weed crops bigger and faster.
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that's all they say about it. But you're. I think it's implied that Clint is using that. Clint Howard. What's his name? What's his name in the fucking movie? All of my notes. I have his name written. I don't have character. I just showed the ice cream man. Well, all of my notes until I fix them, said Ron.
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So to go back and fix something that's wrong, that's not even close. Mr. Howard, I let's see. Clint, our name in this movie is Jarvis Tanner. and the sheriff is actually played by Rance Howard. Right. Who is that? Papa Howard, or is that brother Howard? That's got to be Papa Howard, Papa Howard, I think what Disney ranch lets none of us Google it.
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That's what I'm thinking. Rance Howard, he was born in 1928, in Duncan, Oklahoma. He was my third writer, I think. You. Oh, yeah. Yeah. but. Okay. Yeah. So they were using, like, a steroid that, because he was grown weed, and they were, like, making it the crops bigger and and, bigger and better, you know, steroids.
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But. Okay, we have 11 official reveals, for tickets, and a few honorable mentions to throw in there. I'd argue one tick is bad enough, but 11 guys. Yeah, there were a thousand overkill. Yes. Oh, God. There was so many. And, you know, there was a party like it's a tradition here. how I Met Your Monster, where we talked about the ending as the beginning.
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Yeah, it's it's not a tradition, but I seem to do it a lot. And if you don't like, you can get the hell out of here. because, you know, they're saying there's so many tics. They were, like, swarming that fucking cabin, right? And then all of a sudden, they had a time to, like, stop and talk about what they were going to do.
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And I'm like, where did all the tics go? And then I found out they were using Panic's body like a fucking disco ball. And he was going, go in the fucking place. Yeah, it was fucking cool. When I was googling, I was like, it was all like a group of tics. And I was told that could be wrong.
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But the answer I got was cluster like this. That didn't work. A cluster of tics. Yeah. So I think in, in our captions, we were like a hoarder, like, wait, whatever you said, it was like, that's like a cluster tics. Sure. Go for it. It was. Yeah. Maybe it's a clusterfuck of text. That's what he calls multiple tics is a clusterfuck.
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but, yeah. So this movie starts out with, you see, what's the fuck's his name? I just read it. Jarvis. Clint Howard, Ron Grant's Rick. Yeah, that's Jarvis, Tanner. Jarvis. Tanner. Thank you. singer of pulp. So which Jarvis Cocker, right. Is Jarvis Cocker, the singer of cool. I don't know. Cut. Are you saying cult?
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What did I say? I thought you said pulp. That's what I heard. It's like an orange juice. Isn't that a band, am I, like, going absolutely crazy right now. The fuck is Cocker pulp? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Apologies for Jarvis Cocker for not knowing who the fuck you are, but, Yeah, yeah. Or your band pop. but you're in, like, his workshop and you're seeing, like, all his his, mechanical, his work.
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So this is disgusting bar. And it's like, it's it's so gross. Yeah, but yes, you're right. Sorry, but like, this chemical that he's making is, like, dripping and like, it's dripping on this lava, which is our first monster reveal in text, right in the opening credits. It's like the ending of the opening credits, you see? Like it dripping on this, like goopy, like pulsating little bloop.
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Yeah. The the captions. if you watch on Amazon, at least the caption sick poop. Oh, did you get it, too? Yeah, I did, yeah. And just right there, I was like, oh, this movie is going to be fucking gross and fucking awesome. But then we get this, then we, we start setting up the story where there's like this group of inner city kids that are going on this retreat with these social workers, to try to just like, like teach them about nature or like, chill out guys, make them look, it's so much more well-rounded or something, I don't know.
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Well, that was a big thing back in the day. Okay. Like, was it people would send their children to like, those schools that would take you out into the wilderness and like, gotcha, stuff like that for bad kids, you know, that's interesting. they were actually really horrible. Well, one thing that I had heard, a few years ago, which that kind of blew my mind, was that there are kids that grow up in the city that, like, there's no scope because they don't see the stars, they don't see the sky.
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It's all just like city life. And like, for those kids that, like, can't, don't have access to, like, get out of the city. They just grow up like with that as their world. And so they don't know, like the wilderness or the sky, like the stars in the sky. It's fucking it's that's pretty terrible. That's pretty wild. But I mean, I guess, I guess it can be a good thing.
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But there were a lot of like, wilderness therapy camps and like, all this kind of stuff, like Doctor Phil used to send a lot of kids to them, and it was actually really bad. Like, the kids were like abused and okay, it's like portrayed as in Doctor Phil. Jesus. Yeah. And they have schools just like that. okay.
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Like, not all of them are wilderness schools, but just schools for like troubled kids that are just not helping at all. Basically. What about kids who live in the wilderness? Do they get taken to the city? Have you ever seen mama? I have not seen mama, but I have seen Captain Fantastic with Viggo Mortensen, which is really good.
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Basically the same thing. It's interchangeable.
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you know, one thing that I thought was really cool about this movie was that when they go out to the wilderness and the the truck, like the one social worker, like the the dude, he's like, these kids are never going to connect. Like they're never going to bond during this trip, like it's fucking pointless. And then at the end, they all do bond because they have to work together to get away from these tics.
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And only one of them dies. Yeah, I didn't like that part. But, you know, like that, I guess you would like. That's a great point. I like that they faked us out and like, we thought he was going to live. Oh, yeah? Yeah, they killed the one guy that I actually, like, feel like I connected with. Yeah. But I, like, also the only kid who seemed like he needed to be up there.
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Everyone else seemed pretty fine. You seem quite troubled. Yeah. His name, he called himself panic. Well, that's because he never does it. Oh. That's true. Oh, yeah? What did he. They call me panic because I never do. I was like, I, I'm like corny, but I get it. I love suffering, too. I was very happy that something was in this movie.
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I used to have such a fucking crush. Like, if I would have seen this movie when I was a kid, I would have watched it on repeat. Yeah, he was in full, Scotty evil mode, though, for most of the movie. Just like angsty. Yeah, but I thought he was just, like, mad at the world. Oh my God.
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And can't hardly wait. I was obsessed with him. I was. Why are you talking about me? I love that movie. I love that movie. and he's so good in that he is so cool. But, Yeah. So. Right when they get out to the wilderness, we get our first honorable mention. As he finds. So panic has his dog, Brutus, that he brings along with him, and he immediately finds a tick on him.
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And in a little bit of foreshadowing, Seth Green's character. Is it Tyler? Tyler is like, oh yeah. Like you can't squish them. They're too tough. You got to burn them. And that will obviously come back to play later in the movie. because they don't like fire. We kind of go back and forth. we're intercutting essentially between the teens and their little retreat.
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And Clint Howard's character at the barn. Right. The farm, the farm, barn farm burned. and there's a scene where he lights up a joint and starts smoking. And I'm fairly certain that that was he was genuinely smoking weed. That was like, probably it's like there's a lot of smoke coming out of this thing. And he seems pretty slippery.
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Yeah. so, yeah, I just thought that was funny. Yeah. yeah. And it's funny because he, you know, he seems like this, like backwoods just kind of guy in the, in the, in this weird barn, but like, the radios on talking about, I don't know, some kind of I forget what the radio was talking about, but he's like, talking about how we don't have health care.
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And like, I really dislike what he's like. Yeah, but we don't have health care. It's like his fucking voice is just like. So is that his voice? Yeah. It's not voice, right? I he just puts it on. No, that's like a movie. No, I think that's his. Oh isn't that it wasn't that bad. I, I think it was his real voice.
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Yeah, it was real voice because it was the same one he had in the ice cream man. And I remember being like, it's just going to change it up a little bit. Yeah. and I say, okay, here is where, we just see he's not being attacked yet, so it's not quite our next monster reveal, but we're seeing that the lava is getting bigger.
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at this point. And then, like Danny, you had said, we were cutting back and forth between the kids and him. and now the kids are. They've made it to this small town outside the this wilderness area, and we meet Gerry and Sir, who are two fucking weird Gerry for some reason has, Cat of nine tails, like.
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Yeah, just walking around because they need it for the end when they're whipping the ticks. Yeah. It's just like you've been bad. You've been bad. Ticks attack.
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Yeah, a bad little tick, tick tick tick tick. Cool blood know big and white. You're back. You're you gorged, you're gorge. Okay. Yeah. I'll get out of here. Okay. Anyway.
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Oh my God. And then back to Jarvis in the barn. We get the big, the big reveal of the tick for the giant ticks for the first time. Which is such a cool. See, it had me squirming. first you see like the legs coming out of the floorboard. And then, does it run under his legs.
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So does it, do it like scurries across the fact. What I remember most about is when he puts his foot in the bear trap. Oh yeah. That's for some reason open in the middle of his, weird barn. Yeah. This is the hamster scene two when he finds the hamsters dead. Yeah, because the the tick that crawls out of the floorboard is scurries across the floor.
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It eats the, eats at the hamster, and then I don't know if they're, like, makes a noise or something, like, knocks something over and he starts to go investigate and then it jumps out, but like, gets stuck on the, like the pipes. And so it just scares him. And he falls backwards, steps on the bear trap and then the fucking.
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Oh the you look up and then the thing. Yeah. You see all the lava. Yeah. Starts falling on his face. Oh my God, it was so gross. And I just fucking loved it. I was, I was in after that. I was like, yeah, I'm so I'm just glad that that's the last time we see characters finding a bunch of giant tick larva.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not our next reveal. It's just not our number three reveal where, Tyler finds the goopy, pulsating tic larva in the closet of this tab. And then they go to. And they don't seem to care as much as they should. Yeah, yeah, they're like, there's this giant tickler in here, too. I can't close in here.
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You can't be there. You shouldn't have to imagine doing something like that. Like we fucking freak out when we see spiders that are the size of a dime. Can you imagine a fucking pulsating lava sack? Oh, crazy. God. And we'll find out later in the movie when Wendy. Oh, another one of the kids there on the camp, finds the lava.
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They're, like, all over the wall. She gets way too fucking close. Yeah, I mean, never maybe this is just kind of, you know, we talked about how these kids had no experience in the wilderness. Maybe they just assume, like, this is just how it goes. I guess. You know, they told us to anticipate, you know, wildlife. Maybe this is just part of it.
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yeah. They don't have those in the zoo.
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but in the closet scene is where Amazon gave us our first bloop, caption bloop. Because then they. Because it is it when they squish the lava so it like, it's like dripping out onto the floor. See? Yeah. I always gotta watch with the cat. I love that we are so old that we watch. I with you so much with captions.
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Even though I have trouble hearing it. Well, here's the thing. I never watched with captions until I met Nina and she's got, like, an auditory processing delay or something. So, like, when she's watching a movie, like they'll say something and it takes her, like, a second to, like, comprehend. So, like when we're watching a movie, like, I guess if the subtitles aren't on, she's always like two seconds behind.
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Yeah. It's like we're. So we started watching. She would always watch with the subtitles on, or captions and, I just got so used to it, and now I need them on. Yeah. Just. I feel like I can't hear without them. I'm like, yeah, you go see it. So. So, And so you get. You get that on things like bloop.
00;30;30;01 - 00;30;35;23
Yeah. You get gems like poop.
00;30;35;26 - 00;31;02;01
okay, so they've discovered the the larva in the closet. and now Melissa, who is Chuck's daughter, she's like the. Get out of here, dad, I have learned it from you. I learned it through watching you. her and Tyler are out gallivanting in the woods, and, she gets a tick on her back. I don't know, she keeps, like, on her back.
00;31;02;01 - 00;31;19;11
She keeps, like, backing up closer. Yeah, we stablish there's no real. And I don't mean this as, like, a diss. It's just because I don't think this movie really means that there's no real, like, plot. They're just kind of there. And yeah, we're getting a lot of scenarios where the people are happening upon. Yeah. Like these tics that we've established earlier.
00;31;19;16 - 00;31;37;26
Right. And this is one of those and she backs up into a larva and it like pokes this little legs out. Dude patches to her back. Oh God, it's so fucking gross. I love it though because he hits it. I thought it was going to be one of those things where there wasn't anything on her back, and he was just teasing her, and then we would get.
00;31;37;28 - 00;31;59;09
But I was like, oh my God, there's literally lava. Yeah. and then he hits it with the stick or he does something, he gets it off her back with the stick. And I love how it runs away, like, well, what did you what was the word? Scamper. Scuttle. Oh, it scampers away with the stick. Yeah. Which is like so horrifying.
00;31;59;12 - 00;32;23;24
It's like, well, it can, like, carry sticks. Yeah, yeah. Goddamn setting up. Like, how strong these things are, right? And the the sound effects that they use for these, for their movements is. So, it's like, so simple, but it just gets under your skin like. Yeah, well, they're very, like, heavy. So it sets it up that, like, these things have just so much weight to them.
00;32;23;24 - 00;32;45;09
And. Yeah, for it being such a, like low budget movie, the effects are really good. So good. Yeah. So, so good. yeah, I think I read that the budget was 2 million. Wow. Which back then would have been, I don't know what the equivalent is. Probably 5 million. Yeah. Or something like that. And what's crazy is the tick effects really sucked up most of the budget.
00;32;45;09 - 00;33;07;06
Yeah. I was gonna say it did not seem like let's talk about that. Let's talk about sucking. Okay. So, I love how all my notes, every time we go back to Clint Howard, it's just him hurting himself. So I when he when he stepped in the second bear trap I that's like it was he sets in to bear traps.
00;33;07;06 - 00;33;26;24
Yeah. You didn't catch that. Oh no. Like in the second half. He like like spins around. Does one of those like, things stands up and like spins around and steps in another very, it's like a horror equivalent of, The Three Stooges. It's like. Yeah, instead of standing at a shovel. Yeah, it's. Yeah, yeah, I like it working so hard.
00;33;26;24 - 00;33;54;02
And every time that I've, like, giggled in this episode, it's literally because I just keep thinking about that scene where he into like, well, this is where we see the tics that are like in him. Yeah, yeah. They've like they're like crawling under his skin. I can't stress enough. How gross is anyone? All right. If you've ever got a tick on you before they set it up in this movie that you need to make sure you get the head out so you don't just wanna, like, pull that tick off because it'll be embedded in you.
00;33;54;05 - 00;34;18;29
Well, this movie takes it even further. So obviously the head embeds itself inside you because it's so big. It's basically like taking over your if it bites in a like, you're like, you're like is now a tick. But in this case they go even further and they really explore this of what happens with these ticks when they decide to suck on your blood.
00;34;19;01 - 00;34;51;21
And it's burrow. Pretty burrow is a great word. Thank you. Yeah. To the point that he actually shoots himself in the leg. I get an idiot to get to. Which brings us back to the kids at the camp because they hear the gunshots and panic, and his dog kind of run off and Brutus the dog. brings us to our fifth official reveal, which we should mention if you are worried about dogs dying, does the dog time.com it do?
00;34;51;23 - 00;35;13;26
the the dog definitely dies in this, because the ticks burrow into him. Yeah. And I was going to say the only consolation with Brutus dying is the fact that it gives us my favorite sequence and scene in the entire movie. Yeah. Yes. That scene was so fucking good. so they take Brutus to the vet to kind of see what's going on.
00;35;13;26 - 00;35;31;26
Like, why he's not, why he died, and she starts to draw blood, but she can't find any blood, which is so fucking cool and so good. She does the one poke and does draw blood, but it sucks it back in. oh. So much.
00;35;31;28 - 00;35;54;04
So good. And then she finally cuts it out and it just fucking goes nuts and it's scampering all over the floor. that's it's a the size of your. If you haven't seen this movie, if you're listening to this episode, but you're like, I can't watch a movie about engorged dicks. It's about the size of, like, your fist.
00;35;54;07 - 00;36;12;06
They're bigger than one's, maybe bigger. Yeah, I would say it would be like, yeah, if you like. You opened your hand. Yeah. And it was like, that's better. Yeah. You know, what do you call that? It's not a it's like the opposite of a fist. What do you call that? Like a open, open hand five spreader called a fast five.
00;36;12;07 - 00;36;33;25
Yeah, yeah. It's as big as a five spreader. Use your imagination as to what that is. It's the size of a five spreader. All right. You probably can't imagine a giant take, but imagine a five spreader. That's what it looks like. Do you know what I think I want? I hear five spreader. Wow. Well, imagine I'll give you guys a visual.
00;36;33;28 - 00;36;59;20
Okay. so a baby being born or fisting the fuck does this sound like a baby being born? this is the way. This is clearly an asshole. Okay? This is clearly massive. How is that? Clearly. Now? Clearly it's an asshole. Yeah. You're making a you're making a ring with your finger. This. Yeah, clearly. And then this could be the big coming out of the giant.
00;36;59;23 - 00;37;18;15
this is a clearly a hand. We're putting it in this way like an Italian. Putting it in this way like an Italian. The Italian fighter go in the asshole, and then you spread your hand. So wait a second. I don't like the spreading of the hand. I don't like this at this point. This is freaking me out.
00;37;18;18 - 00;37;40;24
Make sure you trim your nails before you do this. Oh, my. Oh, no. That's what they like. Oh, okay. At least, file them a little bit, so they're nice. And so you're talking about fisting, right? Why do you immediately go to the asshole? Well, because everybody's got an asshole. That's true. Everybody does not. Everyone's got the other hole.
00;37;40;25 - 00;37;56;00
Everyone's got an opinion to. Yeah. Yeah. Ain't that the truth. So I heard that the ticks are the size of your outstretched hand inside. So that's all.
00;37;56;02 - 00;38;19;16
Specific. But that is this is grosser than the fucking movie. Okay. so yeah that vet scene is just man that. Oh, then you have a great scene when it's, I wrote scuttling around with the needle in its back. there's so many, like, little. It's always has a weapon. Yeah. Weapons. Yeah. They give it a stick.
00;38;19;16 - 00;38;37;17
They. Yeah. I like at the end I should have had, like a shotgun. Like just now. I should take the whip from my guy. Yeah, yeah, I switch switching positions there, but it does jump on Tyler's face. And like, when they're pulling it off, like its legs, like, hook on to his lips. Yeah. And, like, try to get it off is just.
00;38;37;20 - 00;38;57;15
I love the vet has, like, this line that's supposed to be like the cool button at the end of the scene when she goes, when in doubt, squish. And I was like, but where else does that apply? Like, what are you talking about? Yeah, okay, I can't talk unless you're doing the Italian five finger spray. Yeah. I mean, I thought about people stepping on balls with heels.
00;38;57;15 - 00;39;19;29
Okay, move. One bite. Let's move on. I don't know if they're squishing. You're not doing it right. I think you did it too much. Casey, do you have a side job now? Is this like you're saying, your side gig? No. We're learning so much. It's okay. We don't kink. Shame. It's. No. Oh, yeah. No no no no. I'm liking,
00;39;20;01 - 00;39;47;20
Okay. I just get paid for them. They're just your client. There you go. Yeah, yeah. okay. So back at base, back at the camp. Meanwhile, back at. Meanwhile back. She. Yeah. you get Kelly when this is the first time we're talking about Kelly. Kelly is a one of the inner city kids who, like, wasn't talking this whole time.
00;39;47;23 - 00;40;08;01
She was just quiet, and she kind of kept to herself. Holly, who is one of the social workers, tells Melissa to take Kelly fishing. So reluctantly, Melissa takes her and we find out that Kelly can talk. She's just been through some shit. She's just been traumatized, and she chooses not to talk, when she doesn't want to.
00;40;08;01 - 00;40;32;29
So, so they start to, like, kind of bond while they are out on this little fishing trip. which I feel like there's probably a lake or something. Somewhere better than this. Little, like mud hole, this puddle, this puddle that they get sent to to go fishing. but while they are there, Kelly, who just started talking, but now she's like, running the show.
00;40;32;29 - 00;40;52;14
She's like, I'm gonna fish the line like the fish doesn't want to come in, bitch, get in there with the net and get this fish. She's like, hurry up, don't catch. Get you have a goddamn fish. That's right. So, Kelly, where did you come from? Oh, my God, it easy. but they find the dead sheriff's in the water.
00;40;52;17 - 00;41;11;28
Like. Oh, like bloated and gross. The plot thickens. Yeah, that fucking scared me. Yeah, I didn't see that coming at all. and on top of that, they also, when they're like, now when they're scurrying out of the water, they find, like the cop car that's like hidden. it's got like a bullet hole in it, so shit's going down.
00;41;11;29 - 00;41;33;05
We did overlook, the seventh reveal comes before this one. Oh, shit. The, tick latches. It's fun to panic. Oh, yeah. And then, because after after Brutus is killed, panic is like, fuck this, I'm out of here. And so he goes off on his own to try to find his way back to LA. And, he gets a tick on them.
00;41;33;07 - 00;41;55;29
Yeah, yeah. And what's great is that's not going to go anywhere. He's fine. So he dealt with the problem. He stabbed the tick. We're good. Yeah. Moving on. We won't see him again. You know? Okay, now we're on to another couple that we haven't seen much of. We just little bits here and there. but now we're spending some time with Didi and Rome.
00;41;56;01 - 00;42;40;23
Oh, yeah. and they're, like, running off to, like, be scandalous out in the woods. and of course, how do they get separated? I missed that part. I think they just separate. They just separate it. Just wait for each other. Because defines Jarvis's barn. and she finds all the marijuana and or, as sir calls it, a little bit earlier, he says, Mary who on that and like Tracy like you'll know you were watching that with the captions on it says Mary Dash, Juana and Mariah Dash, and a, was really funny.
00;42;40;25 - 00;43;13;04
but okay defines, all of the marijuana plants in Jarvis's barn. And then she also finds, which I mentioned earlier, this wall of tick larva that is mutated and giant and disgusting, and she gets like a foot away from it. Yeah. Oh, she's like, what's this? I would be out of there so fucking fast. Yeah, dude. But in another jumpscare where you think something's going to come out of the larva and attacker, she actually gets attacked by Jarvis.
00;43;13;04 - 00;43;33;24
Yeah, that got me to, And he's got the tics like, in his face now, and he's like, he gives it a gun. And he's like, saying, shoot me, shoot me like kill me. But she doesn't. Oh, but he fucking, like, poops on your face. Yeah, yeah. You get her face tickler. Yeah. He like his cheek butts open and Atkinson lands on her neck.
00;43;33;28 - 00;43;57;10
Yummy. but when he was doing that, I instinctively, like, opened my mouth. Like I was like, oh, I wish I could catch it like, yeah, it. Because you could, like, drink it and chew on it. Dude. Stop it. I was going to pretend it's like resting like like a chipmunk. Like I'm just holding onto it back here, saving it for later.
00;43;57;12 - 00;44;21;14
So gross. when do we find out that the that this steroid gives them, like, hallucinations. Is that in the vet's office? Does she say that? Yeah. Okay. You had mentioned that earlier, and I remembered that she. She finds it and like, she knows exactly what it is. She's like, oh, I, I've seen this, it's classic case of hallucinogen.
00;44;21;15 - 00;44;47;17
Yeah. And she's like, just between us. She's like, I didn't tell, you know, but that'll come into play here, in just a little bit. When Didi hallucinates later and she sees Jarvis coming at her again. but before that, we get panic. Now that he's been bitten by the tick, he starts to hallucinate. And, he he really does see Jerry and sir.
00;44;47;19 - 00;45;06;24
but he thinks he's, like, in the city. He's like, in an alley with, like, a burning barrel and everything, because that obviously signifies that you're in the city if there's a burning barrel. yeah. But, we really start to see who sir and Jerry are here, and how bad they actually are. because what do they do?
00;45;06;24 - 00;45;33;18
They, like, are they trying to. Why are they trying to kill them? Well, they're basically like you found you're trying to rob us. Oh, and he found out I don't even care about your weed. Yeah, yeah. so they shoot him and the survivalist. That panic is, uses the steroids. Oh, he doesn't panic. He doesn't think, he had found Rome's stash of steroid pills earlier when he was digging through the bags.
00;45;33;24 - 00;45;52;24
And so he takes some of those to kind of slow down the bullet wound. which is interesting. I would think that would be a bad idea. Yeah, because doesn't it, like, probably make your blood pump more. That's what you. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like that would be bad. Unless he was like, fuck this. Like, I'm going out.
00;45;52;24 - 00;46;12;28
I'm going to go out fucking high. Or maybe. Yeah, I was thinking the adrenaline would just help him get moving. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's more of what it probably was. But who knows. And as we know with the context, having seen this movie, it does help him in the long run. So every decision he's making here is paying off.
00;46;13;00 - 00;46;41;23
He doesn't. That's right. Doesn't panic. He's going to be fine. He's going to be fine. Yeah. Trying to make a fresh Prince joke, but I can't think of anything. he's got fresh pints of blood coming out of him for the text. Okay, but I probably shouldn't even brought that up. Damn it. so then it's following. That is where we see D.
00;46;41;25 - 00;47;08;06
she finally links back up with Rome, and he's, like, trying to help her, but all she can see is Jarvis's face, and he's like, kill me, kill me. Go! They still that did. This. All of it. And based on the fire. Oh, wait. How did the fire start? Panic started the fire? Yeah. Didn't he? Oh, I didn't even catch on to that.
00;47;08;08 - 00;47;29;19
No, he didn't start the fire. It was always burning. I knew, you know, that's the world was turning. did he light a tick on fire? And then it, like everything else, caught on fire. He shot like a thing and it blew up. But I could be wrong. What did he shoot? Fire. I don't remember how the fire started.
00;47;29;21 - 00;47;58;15
so he does start the fire. However, he starts it. and the ticks now are all running away from this fire. That's growing larger and larger. and they all start to swarm the cabin where everyone seems to end up. Maybe all the ticks didn't flee to the cabin because of the fire. Maybe they were also all troubled teenagers, and they wanted to go on this wilderness retreat.
00;47;58;18 - 00;48;12;12
They're like, they've been watching these kids. Like it seems like it's working, but like, they just want to have fun and everyone starts burning them alive. They're like, oh, yeah. So, like, we're here to. We need help. Tell them.
00;48;12;15 - 00;48;39;20
So, guys, maybe it wasn't such a good idea if we all ran in here at once. Yeah, guys, one at a time. We're kind of coming on strong, but now this is kind of like the beginning of our climax here, where all, everybody except panic is in the cabin and the ticks are scurrying around from the fire and certain Jerry start coming from the outside.
00;48;39;20 - 00;48;58;28
They're like, let us in, let us in. And the kids like, don't let them in. And then Chuck fucking opens the door and they come in covered in ticks, which lets the ticks into the house. Way to go, Chuck. Yeah, you dummy. And this is where the like the threat of the ticks, which was initially like the antagonist of the movie.
00;48;59;01 - 00;49;23;06
Now it's kind of shifted a little bit to that's kind of just like part of the environment. Now, the real antagonist is sir and Jerry, who have taken over and they're like, we're the fucking bad guys. We're getting out of here. Fuck you guys. which is funny because when we talk a lot of well, we didn't talk a lot about it, but we had mentioned Campbellsville her earlier, and he has kind of an affinity for, you know, bugs and creatures.
00;49;23;08 - 00;49;44;22
You know, as you've seen in movies like we're doing mimic next week and Pan's Labyrinth, there's always like this bug element. and he also does the whole thing of like, are the monsters, the monsters? Maybe the human is the monster in this way. He does that too. I mean, obviously the ticks are the monsters, but really the humans are the ones who, like, kind of fucked them up.
00;49;44;25 - 00;50;09;11
And they're just kind of like living doing their thing. Yeah. So yeah it's what I'm trying to say. Is this basically a gamble del Toro movie basically in all but name. Maybe he'll do a remake. That'll be fun. Dude, I would love to see like a sequel to this to see, like with the ticks. Yeah. You know, this was actually thinking getting back this would be a good, if you're going to remake a horror movie, remake a movie like this.
00;50;09;12 - 00;50;28;22
Yeah. You know, it's not that beloved where people are like, don't touch rice. No, like, yeah, well, that's the thing. Like you say, it's not that beloved. Like, I never hear anybody talking about. No, never. And they should because it's fucking. It's a solid movie. It is. But like, they're talking about what The Crow how the remake will get people to watch the first one as well.
00;50;28;24 - 00;50;47;25
Yeah, yeah. You know, a remake of this would be like, well, I wonder what the original one was like. Yeah, totally. Yeah. And this at least the Crow had more of a chance of, you know, it has its fan base, but like. Right. Yeah. It's like, well, you don't even need to just make a sequel, but let's set it up tomorrow to do it in, to have the ticks in it.
00;50;47;25 - 00;51;07;25
Or do the alien flip instead of calling and call it tick. And it's just one tick. Yeah. The one that made it the reversal of. Yeah, yeah. And like, since they're in the city, like nobody knows how to survive in the wilderness. So it's just like, but what if the movie was, it would be so yeah, it would be that one tick at the from the end of the movie.
00;51;07;25 - 00;51;29;19
That's right. I was going to say, what if you did like, it was like this movie meets mimic. Wait, Zack, have you seen mimic? Yes. Yeah. Okay. I just want to spoil anything. Not that this is spoiling anything, but what if, like, the villain was like the giant tick using Carlton, like, panic as like, it's. So it's like getting around the city.
00;51;29;24 - 00;52;00;13
Yeah, I think it's insane. But it kind of isn't. Yeah, I was gonna say it's just about the tick trying to adapt to the city. So he's like a nice suit and tie, and he's going to a job interview, a little briefcase. Scuttling about going to work at the blood bank. But wait I think we're onto something though with literally calling it just tick doing an alien reversal and having it about the tick that latched on to the truck and just have it set in bonuses.
00;52;00;13 - 00;52;29;06
1994. this was 93. Yeah, in 93. And Seth Green, I mean, Seth Green is one of those guys who, like, did an age. He looks great. So just yeah, even playing the same teenage character, it could be like days after this movie. Oh, my God, that would be awesome. We're on to something here. Be awesome. okay, so our ninth reveal was, when the ticks swarm the cabin and sir and Jerry come in, we have an honorable mention.
00;52;29;08 - 00;52;55;06
about to reveal itself. Oh, before we get to that, this is around the time when panic shows up and he dies. Oh, yeah. Or at least we think he dies. I mean, he dies when he dies. Yeah, yeah. He literally dies. One thing that was so funny is when he dies his, he has like his like final words he goes I'm sorry.
00;52;55;09 - 00;53;17;20
And I was like why what are you sorry about? You haven't done anything. Was he sorry or does he know he's infested? No. I mean, I read it as because he was holding Tyler's hand and I read it as that. He was apologizing to Tyler. Oh, sorry about that bit earlier. Oh, he was like. Cause he, like, threatened to kill him.
00;53;17;20 - 00;53;38;25
And then, remember, because he was all upset about his dog, and then he threatened to kill Tyler, and then he took off. okay, I read it. That's him apologizing to Tyler. That makes sense. Okay. Because they, like, he's like what? They started out like, enemies or whatever. And then at the end, they kind of bonded. And we're lovers.
00;53;38;28 - 00;53;45;25
Yeah. Just kisses of don't.
00;53;45;28 - 00;54;07;17
You just, like, on the cheek. but this is that that's that's actually a really important because you find out that Tyler finds out that it was sir and Jerry who killed him. Because he's like somebody shot him. Yeah. Like he didn't die from whatever. Like he he got shot. So they're like well they know who we are now.
00;54;07;17 - 00;54;24;19
So let's just go all out and and be the bad guys that we were born to be. It's true. But sir makes Jerry wish, like you have to give them credit for that, right? Yeah. Like, good for you. Like, claim your identity, be you. You know, if you can't love yourself, how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?
00;54;24;19 - 00;54;28;10
Can I get an amen up in here?
00;54;28;13 - 00;54;57;05
Amen. That doesn't. That doesn't get it. It's okay. Is that, like, drag race? yeah. Yeah, it is a drag race. That's a great first guest. Well, I know she's like, what is that, like from RuPaul's Drag Race? It's, all star season right now. What is that from, like, season 12 of RuPaul's Drag Race? I think it it is that episode three.
00;54;57;08 - 00;55;20;04
that's funny, but we get an honorable mention where Jerry goes to get the, the van and he sees Sir, but he's since Jerry has been bitten and he's now hallucinating. And instead of seeing sir, he sees the sheriff. And he's freaking out because he's like, we killed you. He like, sees him as like a zombie.
00;55;20;07 - 00;55;40;28
and so he rams the van into the, the cabin. and that ruins all chances they had of keeping the ticks out of, out of the cabin, because now they're just like swarming in right? Yeah. And what I had mentioned earlier is that, like, all these ticks are swarming in, but then they had time to, like, speak.
00;55;41;01 - 00;56;03;26
They had time to, like, figure out, oh, you know, it's movie time every movie time. Right. But then I was like, where are all the ticks going? And we find out that, they are burrowing into their panic dead body and they start to, like, animate him again. And he, like, starts crawling around the room and, like, sliding around the room.
00;56;03;26 - 00;56;29;16
And it's like, what a cool fucking moment in this movie. So gross. but this brings us to our 10th and biggest reveal I think is panics, body splits, open. and like the this giant tick starts to come out, like busting out of his legs. It's so great. You get like the it's like Freddy Krueger. It's like Wolverine.
00;56;29;16 - 00;56;51;00
Exactly. Tick legs coming out. Well, out of sync and like, like make sure. Yeah. Where for where? Which is heavy in the cockroach. Yeah. The most disgusting scene I've ever seen in a movie in my entire life. I would agree, I still have. I still kind of hate it. I still can I watch it? Oh, I like, I do it through my fingers.
00;56;51;00 - 00;57;10;04
I mean, well, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it so much, but like, you know, good job to the filmmakers for doing. Yeah. Well, I like to see, like what they were able to make it better too, by like, keeping it really dim and stuff. So there was, like, no chance of us being able to see any imperfections, you know?
00;57;10;04 - 00;57;33;13
But it was totally. Yeah, yeah. There. I would argue that there are zero flaws in terms of the creature effects in this one. Oh, no, they were never once was I like what? Yeah. It just looked great. It was disgusting. Yeah. Even I were the were the ticks animatronic. Where were they? I just assumed at one point I thought that it was stop motion.
00;57;33;15 - 00;57;56;10
Yeah. like they did in the thing like that really short sequence in the thing. Like it kind of looked like that to me. yeah. Like you really didn't see their legs moving too much. like when they were running it, it was kind of just like they were probably on rails. Yeah. Or I like to think Clint Howard met up with the director and was like, hey, I accidentally spilled some neurotoxins onto some ticks.
00;57;56;10 - 00;58;05;25
They're all mutated in my little weed. You know, just for, you know, a tick trainer. Do we want to do something with this?
00;58;05;27 - 00;58;11;26
It was like a little tiny. Last is a job. You know?
00;58;11;28 - 00;58;39;17
Yeah. but the giant tick, they all start to the all the the kids, they all go upstairs and they're trying to climb up the window, to get into the van. And our 11th and final reveal in ticks comes when they're they're just about out of the house, and the giant tick bust through the door, which they had barricaded.
00;58;39;17 - 00;59;02;21
But it made its way through. And Rome is being attacked by the tick. And, Tyler climbs back up to try to burn it away with a torch. the best part is before this, when Tyler has his hero moment and he, like, swings down and they're like yelling at him to like trying to, like encourage him to like how to survive.
00;59;02;21 - 00;59;24;01
And one of them's like use the broom. And I was like, I that's, that's what you're offering to this situation. But it really works. So yeah, it's just such a funny like, use the broom, quit playing with your thingy.
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and so they get out, the they stuff again, they use the broom. He he likes it on fire. Uses the broom stuff. So the ticks mouse and the tick explodes. and in a and then all of a sudden there's, like, they show this trail of fire leading to, like, this big gas tank or, like, propane tank, and all of a sudden the whole world's.
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It's very convenient. Like, we've never seen that before. but then in a, in a very cool little button at the end, we get our last honorable mention where, tick lava has attached itself to the bottom of the van, and it's now in the big city and and city. Sending, sending. I love these endless ticks to tick in the city.
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Tick. That'll do. Tick. That'll do. I have a question for you. Did you either. Have you noticed this? When they're on the way back to LA, they do a bunch of like kind of establishing shots of the city. I swear to God, you guys have to go back and watch this. And if you're listening to this go back and watch it and please confirm or deny that this is what happened.
01;00;36;17 - 01;01;00;26
They do they have like shots of the city. But there's one shot and it's like a really beautiful shot. But I was like, why does it look so familiar? I'm pretty sure that it's footage from the 20th Century Fox logo, skyline without the logo in it. If you go back, I think you'll know what I'm talking about. It literally just looks like before they show 20th Century Fox, it just looks like the cityscapes.
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Like it looks fake. Okay, I'm gonna have to check it out. Oh. That's okay. Yeah, check it out. you heard it here first, folks. That's funny. Tony, that's logo. but guys, that's ticks in a tick shell ticks in a tick show. are you guys ready to talk about our favorite reveals and ticks? Yeah.
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And, oh, there. I don't believe it. It was. That's how they. You. They're under the goddamn ahead.
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So, a, quick rundown of our official reveals, excluding honorable mentions, for ticks, we have the larva at the end of the opening credits, we have the Jarvis sequence where the tick comes out of the floorboard and scares him, and the larva falls on its head. We've got the closet larva where Tyler finds the larva in the closet of the cabin.
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we have Melissa being attacked by a tick on her back that runs away with the stick. We've got Brutus the dog being infested with ticks. We've got the tick in the vet scene, panic being attacked by a tick on his leg. we've got seeing the wall of lava in the cabin and being, attacked by Jarvis's face.
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Tick. We've got the cabin full of ticks with certain Jerry. We've got the giant tick busting out of panic body, and we have Roman Tyler versus Rome. Roman Tyler to the south, the Roman soldier and Rome and Tyler versus the giant tick. what is your favorite reveal? Intex. My favorite was the the whole vet scene. Okay, okay.
01;03;16;27 - 01;03;37;29
Reminded me of that scene with the teacher in Gremlins. Oh yeah. Like an any horror kind of vibe to it, which. So, Yeah, loved everything about it. I was okay, no, I don't I mean, I love the movie as it was, but like if they had more sequences just like that sprinkle, that would be even more perfect of a movie, right?
01;03;38;01 - 01;04;01;05
Casey, what's your favorite reveal? my favorite reveal is when the ticks take over Panic's body and the giant tick explodes out of his body. Just because it was a lot. It was unexpected. Yeah. After everything we've gone through. Didn't know. Didn't. Wasn't expecting that to happen. Right? Right. yeah, that was my runner up. I'm going to agree with you on that, Casey.
01;04;01;10 - 01;04;26;15
That is my favorite. The vet scene is the vet scene itself was probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. but as a reveal, the giant tech coming out of panic spot was very unexpected and pretty cool because pretty. Yeah. You never think that. Like, you just think like, oh, there's all these little ticks. You never think there's going to be like a mutated giant one.
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which is cool. I'm so glad they did it, though. That's what makes this movie so fun. Yeah, yeah, it's got something for everyone, you know. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Well now it's time for a segment that we like to call the real monster.
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Run run run as fast as you can okay. I'm the gingerbread man. You're a monster. I'm not the monster. Here you are. You and the rest of that fairy tale crash poisoning my perfect world. Now tell me, where are the others? Eat me. You're. All right, so I have two real monsters for ticks. number one, the health care system, sucks.
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we need health care. Number two, Chuck, the social worker, for many reasons. Number one, he brings these kids to like, the the. He brings these inner city kids to the wilderness to, like, teach them about nature. But then they're trying to start a fire at night and, like, their first night there, and Chuck's trying to have sex with Holly in the cabin, and then he gets mad at them for using gasoline on the fire.
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Because if you don't know how to start a fire and you're from the inner city, I would say gasoline seems like a pretty smart choice. Try to start a fire. and it goes up in flames and he comes out, like, half naked and he's like, what the fuck are you doing? And they're like, you didn't teach us how to do anything.
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And he's like, yeah, okay, I'll do it tomorrow. Like I'm busy tonight. And they're like, oh yeah, we see you're busy. so for that reason, Chuck is a real monster. But also, at the end when he lets the fucking bad guys in the in the cabin. Yeah, he's, he's in it, like, dude, you're supposed to be keeping these kids safe.
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You're doing exactly, exactly. So fuck you, Chuck. Fuck! Chuck. he's my real monster for ticks. Casey, what do you got for real monster? My real answer is teen wilderness therapy. And people like Doctor Phil, who used to, like, glorify it and, send kids on these off retreats because they're not great. They don't normally encounter, giant mutated ticks.
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but it's still not a that, you know, I guess it could be in some sense, but a lot of them are really bad programs. Sure. Yeah. Fuck that. Fuck you, doctor Phil, I'm not going to lie, though, I love watching Doctor Phil. He's like, hey, what did I do? How do I get brought into this? Danny, what do you got?
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I got for you? I've got, my first two are specifically about the characters, sir and Jerry. The first one is for when Jerry creeps on. Melissa just being a creep. Oh, yeah. You know. Yeah, when they're in the. When they get to the town at the beginning. Yeah. It's like, sniff your hair and just being weird. don't do that.
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second, second on the list is Jerry and, sir, you find out that they're just, like, straight up homophobes. Okay? Crowd homophobes. so I didn't care much for that. Is that in the cabin at the end? No, it was when they're with, panic. Oh, out in the woods. Okay. Yeah. Because they do say, they do say the F-word in that they do.
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Okay. Well, that checks out there also. yeah. And then I have vets, veteran veterinarians who sniff glue.
01;07;54;25 - 01;08;12;24
Right. They do a lot of sniffing as a vet. Does your. But she like a girl goes, got to figure out what it is man. And then she knows what it is like. It does help. But, I don't have to like. But she had to sniff the goo to get there. Yeah, yeah. just just as a general rule in life, don't sniff goo.
01;08;12;26 - 01;08;27;17
Yeah, don't sniff goo. Unless that's your thing. Then we don't kink. Shame. You could do one of those things where, like, you know, like when you want it. They say like, if, when you want to smell like, you, when you waft candle, you want to waft it toward you so that you don't. Yeah. Get a little waft, you know.
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Yeah. And you can't just waft, you know, and you're good to go. There's that great scene that Elijah Wood has in the movie The Ice Storm, when he's talking about how scent particles are, he makes this connection between scent particles and like how we ingest them and how they basically when you smell something, you're essentially eating it. Okay.
01;08;53;22 - 01;09;30;21
And then he makes that joke about, like whenever you go into a girl's bathroom after someone uses it, you're essentially eating. Yeah, yeah. in this case, she's essentially eating this, like, gooey, bloodsucking, mutated, hallucinogenic tic and just, like, doesn't care. But my final real monster of this movie is actually for being so blasé about climate change. There's a scene where she talks about, having to stay in the shade because, quote, because of that ozone thing.
01;09;30;23 - 01;09;54;21
this is serious. It is. This is serious. Yeah, yeah. Fuck you. Yeah. In that vein, you wrote in on you climate change denying. Yes. Well, when they get out of the van and she steps in a puddle, but then they're like, don't move. They'll just kind of stand there in the puddle.
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yeah. So was climate change being talked a lot about in 1993? No, I, I mean, I think it was it was on the radar, I know that. So all I, I mean, I was a very young at that time, but I remember you weren't four years old studying climate change. I know, but did you guys have science fairs at your school?
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Was that like. Of course. Okay. I don't know, like, I don't know, like I was a so no really fancy kids in Connecticut, parents at science fairs. Well that's what I figured. Well, yeah. no, but for one year for the science fair, I did, global warming. Okay. And I remember like it. I did it because it was like a big topic.
01;10;38;22 - 01;10;59;01
I mean, it's like global warming. Is it new? But as far as being, like, part of, like, this cultural like, talking point. Yeah. I'm assuming to answer your question, I'm assuming yes. Because this idiot who, like, failed out of science was like doing it for a science fair project. But you are you, climate change hipster? You did it before.
01;10;59;01 - 01;11;21;29
It was cool. So I actually knew about it way before. actually, I get really annoyed when people talk about it, because I do. All I want to do is kind of step in and be like, guys, I know you told all of us. Yeah, like I've known about this before, actually. And they're like, okay. Like I've, I've known about this before actually.
01;11;22;02 - 01;11;34;09
Like kind of like an eight year old would tell a story. Yeah. Like if they stand awesome.
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But yeah, that's those are my real monsters. Okay, okay. solid choices, you guys for tics. and now on to our last segment of the day. Would you survive giant mutated ticks? And here we go. Yes, because the moment I saw those fucking larvae sacks, I would have left. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a pretty, a pretty easy choice there where it's just like, get in the van.
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Yeah. There's no there's fucking history as far as, like, is this a good place? Should I proceed? Yes, you should know that. With that being said, if they would have left, what it just it could have just gotten way worse. and take over cities. Yeah. So, bitch, you bring it up. But I like this scenario. Yeah. That's another reason why Chuck is a real monster.
01;12;36;28 - 01;13;04;23
Because they're like, Tyler is like, dude, Chuck, there was a giant bug thing on your daughter's back. And he's like, grow up, bitches. We're fucking woods. That's what he said. Yeah, like, dude, listen to these kids. You're a social worker trying to teach them to, like, be better human beings or listen to them. Yeah. I'm going to add to my list another real monster.
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Do a little less of this chatty listeners, this is not a visual medium. I'm doing the little hand thing where it's talking and a little more of this, and I'm I'm, I'm doing the same mouth thing, but I'm pointing it at my ear. So you see this little more of this little less talking, a little more listening. Yeah.
01;13;23;03 - 01;13;46;11
Okay. Yeah. But oh, this a this more of this. Yeah. More of that. Less of this person. Yeah. That's reversed it by the way. Yeah. You're thinking I just I'm still Okay. So to say the van is broken and there is no way back into town after seeing the giant bug larva. Would you survive what? That meant that.
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But that is why I'm just. Just like if you had to encounter the tics, like there was no, like, easy way out. Like you were being attacked. Okay? You're in the cabin at the end. Would you survive? I would, because they all did that. That's true. I would because I would wear tall socks. And everyone knows that is the best defense against ticks.
01;14;08;09 - 01;14;30;17
Tall sucks. Yeah. Tall sucks. And no underwear. Every time I would go into the woods as a kid, my mom would be like, put on some tall socks and take off your underwear. I was like, mom, I got this. Nope, not a fucking I think I would survive YouTube. Wait, what did you say about Underoos? I it's no, but it's nobody mentioning the two times I said take off your underwear and go.
01;14;30;19 - 01;14;53;13
I didn't hear you put on your tall socks. Take off your underwear or go to where? Where is what was the context of that? I. Where did this. It's like, Because they like like the warm, moist areas. So like your waistband, you check like under arms. Oh, can the sequel to this be called ticks swap as a swap as you check, like under your arms.
01;14;53;13 - 01;15;13;26
You check your waistband. You check your, you know, your ankles down their buttcrack your butt crack. Yeah. Did you do that little tick in your little like crease between your leg in your ballsack. Yeah, yeah yeah. Check all this. You gotta check all this. So if you just don't wear underwear then you're good to go. All right.
01;15;13;29 - 01;15;39;02
Okay. even if the van was broken, we would all survive to it. Good job guys. Yeah, we made it for this episode. We made it. Oh, gosh. Okay, guys, that was it. That was our first feature in our bugging out triple feature. what are we watching next? Next, we're watching a little ditty called mimic. Oh, yeah.
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Caramel del Toro. I love this movie so much. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I picked Bugging Out specifically so I can watch this movie. Oh yeah. Okay. See, this was your your this triple feature was all your idea. Yeah. That's right. Because I wanted to mimic okay. I if I remember right like text was very short an hour and 25 minutes if I remember right.
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Mimic is kind of long right. It's a five part series I believe there's a lot there's a lot to it. mimic is okay. It's not that much like it's an hour and 45 minutes. Okay. so it's hard to expect, like, maybe, like in the next movie. yeah. I'm excited to watch it again. so make sure to join us for our second feature.
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You know, our bug. An actual feature for mimic. and until then, make sure to follow us on social media at how I Met Your Monster. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok x. where can our listeners find you too? On social media? I am on Instagram at Wolf Mother Casey. Okay, Danny and I'm on. I'm on all the various socials at my name Danny, slim, Dan and Sally.
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Me that's two names like the candy melt in your but not your hand. Wonderful. I can't believe you still me. I still say it because I still do it. Okay, perfect. you can find me on social media at Zach Cohen. Sick. yeah. And until next time, get some bug spray. Actually, hold off on the bug spray because we need the bugs so we can finish this, triple feature?
01;17;21;08 - 01;17;42;29
Yes. The bug spray is not going to help you in the next episode anyway, so. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. I get what will help you. I don't see in a hot minute we're going to find out. Do you want to find out how to get rid of cockroaches? Check out our next episode on Mimic. and until next time, stay out of the woods.
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Wear your socks, take off your underwear, get your bug spray. Take off your underwear. and check that flap under your testicles. Yes. That's important, by the way. You shouldn't have a flap under your testicles. I mean, wait, extra one there. Yeah, like I know that that wasn't a thing. You know, we all have gills underneath. Are you.
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Are you sick? Dressed up in a denim suit? you know how we all have flaps under the hood? What? All right, until next time. Thank you all for listening. Now, go meet some monsters.