Tales from the Darkside S01E04&05 (The Odds - Mookie & Pookie)

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Full cast performances set in the haunted corners of the globe. Darkness is coming for you. That's the fear that taunts me. Dark Destinations by fatherm Alone at Weirdingwaymedia dot Com weird Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where this season we're taking a look at Georgia Abramero's nineteen eighties series Tales from the Dark Side Sharing the Midnight view with me. Are the Projection Boots, Mike White, Never tell Me the Ad and the culture Cast Chris Statue double or nothing.

Okay, We're taking a look at two episodes from season one. They are The Odds and Mooky and Pooky. It hurts, It hurts, that hurts. Yeah, and we became a children's podcast all of a sudden, real quickly, mok and bulky like. Okay, it is most certainly the title you were never expecting on tealess some the dark Side, So at least that's something now the odds.

This is season one, episode four. It originally aired on October the twenty first, nineteen eighty four. Happy Halloween, eleven year Old Me. This was written by James Stephen Sadwi from a story by Carol Luccia Santria. This is also directed by James Stephen sad With.

This one stars Danny Iello Tom Noonan, who also wrote the music for this episode, and also stars a Robert Wile who is a human cartoon character for ever seen. He ran the mail room at the Hudsucker Industries and Blue Letter. Yeah, yeah, exactly, and of course he was Marino back in Pelham have taken one, two, three, back in the day. Oh, come on, watch your language as a lady present he's so good. Also as a aagoon.

Also from the Hudsucker Proxy is Mario Tedisco, who has no lines in it, but was in the Hutsucker mailroom as well and was dropped Johnson in Miller's Crossing the Boxer. That the beats the shit out of the bellowing Man. That if that appears in every Cohen Brothers movie. This is the story of a bookie who won't turn down a bent and a mystery man who can't lose Chris Statue, What did you think of this episode? I enjoyed it.

I didn't. I did not see the kind of excuse me to use a wrestling parlance, the double twist or the double turn at the end. I did not see that coming. I thought that that was rather well well written. I think it was a pretty good Jesus.

I think overall, for me, it was a pretty good episode. However, I am glad once again that these episodes are only twenty two minutes, because it definitely felt like one that if we were watching it on another show read that as Night Gallery or something else, or some of the other anthology shows that we've done, I think they would have gotten a little too much with this story, and I think twenty two minutes is enough. I enjoyed it, and my previous feelings on some of the people in this episode aside, everybody is great. I really like this and talking about that twenty two minutes. Wow, so tight.

Not a shot wasted. Danny Iolo. He never even leaves the booth the entire time he's in this episode. I kind of love that he just is stationary this entire time. Everything worked for me with this episode.

It just flew by so that at the end of it, I was like, Wow, Okay, what an nice, tight story, nothing wasted, and I feel like I've been taken on a little journey. Thank you so much, Tales from the Dark Side. I concur this is a really great episode. It's a downer ending, that's a happy ending. That's quite a trick.

As it began, I couldn't help but also feel a little bit of night gallery going on here, just that it's this is an example of an episode that of a Rod Serling special, right, this simple man with a simple code battling this crushing outside for us while he's maintaining his dignity because he's a man. So it's exactly the type of story Rod would have written. But it's so contemporary and not purple prose at all. The dialogue is naturalistic and to the point, and as you said, Mike, economical. My god, this script is so goddamn time.

It's over a series of days. They have twenty two minutes to do it. It's insane. That's like, what's seven minutes per fucking you know, not even seven minutes, because there's a minute getting in a minute end. This is actually a twenty minute segment.

That's I don't know. I'm very impressed by it. Signed that this is nineteen eighty four. The ruler calculator combo that plays notes with every button, remember those very is so cool, such a so cool and so cutting edge. We're going to see a lot of bleeding edge technology here on Tails of the Dark Side this season.

Hey got a calculator that makes noise? Doo do do do? Do? Do do do? Go?

Oh my god? Like that, the fact that the episode stops and lets him do it. It's just like, Oh, this was such a magical thing, wasn't it. I can't wait to talk about voice Oh we're not on that one yet. Voice synthesizers another new technology coming soon from your friends at Tales from the Dark Side.

Yeah. Though, I do really like how they have the whole ticky, like literal ticking clock in this episode, and that each time an hour goes by you hear that little chime. That was a really smart thing. And I really like the twist at the end because I was like, I think I know what's happening here. This is nice.

So are we to believe that Danny Iella figured out how to change the clock on the calculator so it would match the clock on the wall that he also changed, Yes, which I was surprised because he fucking hates that calculator and that he was able to figure it out and change the time. I mean, what could he? Could he program a VCR as well? This guy's amazing. I was wondering the same thing.

Yeah. There is a moment midway through the episode where he says, get out here and show me how to work this thing. So let's after noon in has poisoned the betting pool in the area and is is taking him down. Hey, you fellows, want to go out for a soak? I feel like I feel like having a nice, tall, cold, perspiring soak.

You want to go for a Schwitz? I could go for a schwitz right now? Well, it's good. The schwitz makes sense to me. I don't know what the hell they're talking about, this colloquialism for beer.

Give me a soak. I've heard of the word soak used to mean a drunk, but never as a nestle of alcohol. Right, Yeah, it's kind of like when people call it SuDS. That's also weird. I've heard that, like, give me some SuDS, like their sun's foaming off at the top of it, a soak, like I don't want to put my hand in it.

Maybe Daniela wants to soak himself in the beer because this this episode looks pretty warm too. He's like sweating through a lot of it. It seems very humid. I mean not to say that what Tom Noonan is wearing makes him look like he should be in South Africa somewhere, but he definitely does look like the Great White Hunter wearing this like insane this outfit that you would stand out walking down the street regardless of the time, day or eight, like, and that's the thing he walks in and they go, well, I think we recognize this guy, boss, And it's like, how could you not, Like for real, he's he's dressed like he's literally gonna go shoot an elephant with a giant elephant gun like he's he's dressed like a ridiculous And if he looked anything like this in life, this guy would have been he would have stood out the moment he walked into your bar.

I don't think he was necessarily garbed this way in his day to day life. I think the all white villainous outfit might be a change of pace for lay some of that credit at the beginning quote unquote and Tom Noonan as Lacy and I'm like, why is this in quotes? That was weird? Well, it's not Tom noon and it's someone else who looks like Tom Nuton. Oh yes, double Hey, what do you think of Tom Noonan?

Chris So So this happened a long time ago on another show that I do, where I had the opportunity to talk to mister Noonan, And all I will say is, if you didn't want to do the interview, you should have said no, because me having to drag answers out of you is not fun. It does not make for a fun, exciting interview. And I do wonder to this day if he had just been dealing with a bunch of people interviewing him for a Noma Lisa, which I was interviewing him for, which he I believe was nominated for. I mean that movie was nominated at least, so I'm sure he was having to do the press circuit at the time, but like it kind of sucked because it kind of colored my judgment on tom Noonan, someone who I definitely love and everything I've seen him in, including but not limited to Last Action Hero, Manhunter, the X Files, Like those are three big places for me that tom Noonan, I mean, especially in the X Files, like kind of almost understated how big of a deal his role in the X Files is in terms of like a fake out almost, but I liked him here.

It's just again, I have a hard time whenever I see tom Noonan in anything kind of suspending my personal feelings. Also, was he eighty yard in this? Because it was he doing something with his voice, because he kind of sounded weird and he didn't sound like normal tom Noonan. He sounded like he was putting on like some sort of affectation. Not as bad as what I was doing, but you know something where it's like he's trying not to sound like tom Noonan, at least the way I'm used to hearing tom Noonan talk.

Well, he was going up and down the vocal range here, and he was whispering a lot, it seemed, and sort of giggling through his dialogue, so very mischievous, very like he's having a good time here with the role, which I definitely like appreciate that he understands the assignment. This episode really reminded me of some of those Twilight Zone eighty five ones with the Devil. It's kind of like that you think it's going there and then they kind of pull out at the end and do something different. But it's interesting because it is framed similarly to the way that Danhdea one was and then the Rawn Glass one on Twilight Zone, where it's like, here's a person who's having to deal directly with something that is, you know, nigh unexplainable apparent, And I mean in this episode, they more or less hang a lantern on the fact that he's dead.

They know he knows he's dead, Like Danny Iello knows that Tom Nowonan's character is dead. He's not asking himself like how did this happen? He even says it at the end. He's like, well, this is what's going on, and this is what's happening, and this must be what's going on. And I've just got to assume that the episode that is what's going on, because it seems like that's the logic it's operating under.

But I like that it kind of sets it up one way but then subverts your expectations right at the end. I love it the moment in all speculative fiction where a character sort of wonders aloud what possibly could have happened? And they're nailing it right right. Yeah, Well, the episode gives you the narrative, gives you nothing else to go off of, so I'm just gonna assume that's what you want it to be. And yet, yeah, this is like right, nail on the fucking head.

Danny Aello is just like and you must be dead, and you must have figured out how to figure out how to get all these bets ahead of time. It's like, like you said, Father Miller, like, yeah, yes, I believe so sure, why not? Yeah, anybody else's contradicting him at all, So yeah, makes about as much sense as anything else at this point. Yeah, makes as much sense as him traveling around with his doppelganger, the guy that you mentioned already, father alone and all them black. I'm like, who are these two tall dudes now coming?

Oh? All right, I guess he's got a friend. I love that we never see Tom Newton enter the place. He's just suddenly there, and you know, the same goes for his black garbed fellow demon. But Drop Johnson shows up as I ELO's a bit of muscle.

He's there to take the money away once the bed is complete, and it's like dressed from nineteen forty eight. They stripe suit if a door. I'm I was surprised he didn't have a Tommy gun in his hands. That was great, that was great. Yeah.

He I mean this whole thing with like, I know, it's very much set in the year that it came out because of the calculator, but this could have been a nineteen fifties thing, no problem whatsoever. And it almost makes more sense when it comes to that, because I mean, I always think of bookies and betting parlors and all these things as being a thing of the past, even though I'm sure that they were very well off in the nineteen eighties. Yeah, certainly, although you know they at least at the beginning. It's it looks like businesses in a downturn. Like you know, he's about to retire anyway, effectively, and he's going out of king.

He never was done a bit, never, he never turned down a bit. I'm the best maybe no, give me more of these stale old French fries. I tell yeah this, Like what's really weird is like all of this that just takes place in this bar. It's like he literally never leaves, huh. Like it's just gonna sit here, huh for the entire Okay, and it doesn't sleep that far.

Yeah, it never feels like claustrophobic and all. Like again, not only marveling is the economy of the script, but like how tight and how interesting it continues to be from beginning to end that you never tire of that place. Well, and what's really interesting is when it gets to the moment that you you know, again, like we've already mentioned, like Danny Aello's character refuses to well do on a bet Tom Nowtan just keeps winning, and so Danny Aello has to get to the point where he's like, Okay, you're still allowed to bet, but you can't keep telling people who are gonna win, like who's gonna win? Like I'm not gonna have any money. So he gives him kind of like all these stipulations and he still wins.

But then he makes the final stipulation, which is, let's bet that I know the time that you die and like all or nothing essentially, And I like where it gets to when he's like, like, you know the power of human will, like human will wills you know, it wills out. And I love that whole monologue because you see the entire narrative shift as Danny Iello was talking, because you realize, oh no, like, while Danny Iello may not necessarily be the best person in the world, Tom Noonan's character like clearly unlived himself because he made a lot of bad bets, leaving his wife and children without someone to provide for them. That's what I interpret happened. And that's because he was, as Tony Soprano puts it at the Januit, fucking gambla so and that's and like you think that he is going to be the hero just by the way it's you know, I guess positioned narratively.

And then Danny Iello just lets loose on this monologue at the end, and man, it's so like this this is one of the best moments of this show so far. It's so well done, and I was it was really unexpected because it you don't you really don't see what it's doing until it does it like there's no again, like you can you could kind of imagine maybe that's where this is going. But it really subverts your ex dictations in a really fun way. Agreed. I mean you said it.

Yes, that character, the Bill Lacy character abandoned his tubercular wife and two small daughters because he had racked up too much betting. But now he's here for revenge. And you know what, the other thing you said I thought was interesting. I actually was on tom Noonan's side from from the beginning of the episode, right, I think that's the point, right, Yeah, yeah, Like you know, I also look, I love Tom Noonan for you know, all the roles you mentioned Chris, particularly for me Manhunter, which he's just so goddamn terrifying. He's also like the best thing in RoboCop two, Like he's always creepy and weird and interesting, and I just fucking loved him here.

But I've got a thing about Danny Ayelo. I don't know, I just do not like him. Like I understand he's a skilled actor and he fulfills a role. If the role is Danny Iello, then it'll be a good performance. And luckily this role was written as Danny Iello, so he was perfect for it, but god, that guy just I don't know.

Something about him bugs me. Man, he speaks at one pitch and he just is always at that pitch. I think, yeah, and like his anytime he has to do anything with his face, it just bugs the shit out of me, Like the fake smile, like he's like pretending to be asleep, pretending to be dead, and then he smiled. Oohoo, I'm a whimsic, a little boy, like I don't know, Sorry, sorry Iellow family. I just I just don't like him.

I have only seen him in one other thing that I can think of, which is do the right thing and what's funny is like yeah, but is that like not just what this character is in a lot of ways, Yes, that's what I'm saying. If it's Dan, if your character is Danny Iyello, you're gonna get a good performance. Yeah. But it is kind of one note. But that's why I like that monologue so much, because that's kind of the one moment where he's he's doing something else, he's being asked to do something else, and that's I think it works.

But I also didn't need to hear him say like eight million times in this episode, I'm gonna die Leugh like, shut up, dude, Jesus right, your fucking will if you like, because that's the thing. At the end, we don't know how much time he's given himself. He apparently gave himself like five minutes, is what it seems like. Yeah, but it's like there's there was weird that there was no sense of urgency at the end of the episode when he needed to have a sense of urgency. Clearly he's like, I'm gonna die laugh, and it's like, just then die already.

Oh you know what, It would have been great had this all happened at daylight saving time period. H I forgot to set back the clocks. Boss. Pretty much what we got anyways. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's talk sound, gentlemen.

As many of our listeners know, I spent a goodly portion of our reviewing of Night Gallery pointing out the various sound effects that were present with Dark Side. I'm going to continue, but it's going to be a little different. I'm still going with sound cues, but in this case we're diving into the wonderful world of library music. Romero was always a bit like ed Wood, remember that scene with the editor like I could make a whole movie out of the stock footage. Well, he was like that with library music.

If you watch any of his films, there's going to be a few stock library cues in there. Most famous is probably this. That is the music that plays over the end titles of Dawn of the Dead. It is called the gonk absolutely fucking Ruined by Seth Green and his stop motion reference faest Robot Chicken. That was written by a fella by the name of Herbert Chappell.

It's off of his album Seeing and Doing the habit of using library music, which Romero did frequently. If you watch this episode the episodes that he cut together in Creep Show, it's all library music pretty much. I mean John Harrison feels in a little bit here and there. But anyway, that habit would continue and carry over here on Telsham The Dark Side, all the music cues that they use from libraries are almost exclusively from the Capital Production Library. It's since ninety four it's been called the Old George Company.

But anyway, Capital was this version of Capital was founded back in nineteen fifty six by a guy named John Seeley, with the release of the High Q record series. Those were music cues that could be used by any production. If you watch Night of the Living Dead, it's all High Q. Every track in that movie is a High Q track. But by nineteen sixty four, most of those tracks, which have been available to everyone had been used by and cannibalized and overused by shows like Yogi Bear and Ozzy and Harriet and Howdy Doody.

So over the next decade they amassed hundreds of hours of incidental music by dozens of composers. The one I'm singling out is a Danish fellow by the name of Ebe Glendaman. To call mister Glendaman prolific is an insult to the productive. He put out a vast amount of music. Music I guarantee you've heard in dozens upon dozens of films and TV shows and shorts and documentaries.

Here's one that appears both in Creep Show and Telsam, A Dark Sign that's off the Mystery and Suspense album from Capitol Records. Here's another one. All right, moving on here, Oh, you've all been waiting for it ready. This one is called Mookie and Pooky. This is season one episode five.

It debuted November fourth, nineteen eighty four. Written by Dan Kleinman from a story by Kleinman and Mark Fields, this one was directed by tim Na Ramone. This one stars Justine Bateman, Tippy Hedrin, Ron Asher, and George Simms. It's the tale of a twin brother and sister who are separated by death but reunited through that bleeding edge technology I mentioned earlier, mister White, what did you think of this one? Ah h, You know, for as much as I liked the previous episode, this one was a little tough.

I mean again, luckily it zips along. It doesn't feel like we're belaboring the point. But if anything, I would have liked a little bit more. I got to make sure I'm saying the right one. I would have liked a little bit more Mooky in this episode.

Wow, you're just about to do the right thing, and now we're talking about Mooky in this So I would have liked a little bit more Mooky, to see the relationship between him and his sister a little bit more, and just get a little bit more of this character, because as it is, it just feels like Justine Bateman versus George Simms. Through so much of this, and I don't know, it was just it was kind of odd and it felt like time was passing very very quickly as far as I want to sell this computer, and you know how many days has it been since the sun died and all this. So yeah, it just felt a little mess overall. I didn't think it was that bad. But I mean, also, I don't know when the first the idea of uploading your consciousness into the computer network was first round.

Maybe this is one of the first stories. But by now, by twenty twenty four, I've seen this story a thousand times of people trying to live on through being in a network. I mean, how Johnny Depp did it a few years ago, and boy wasn't that a fun time transcenden So I remember that movie You're one of the Few. Yeah, that's a nice way of putting it. I wonder why Jason Bateman didn't play her brother in this episode?

Did anyone else? Yeah? Yeah, I did not see filming his series at the time. Sure, Okay, well, at least he wasn't filming a Team of two at the time. Maybe he was.

Other than the fact that Jason Bateman's not in it, when he should have been given that they're playing Like the names alone are so goofy that you've got to get past the name of the episode being Mooky and Pooky. Fine, okay, what does that tell us about what the episode is about? Nothing other than there's gonna be two characters named Mooki and Pooky. And then when we get to the episode, it's such a like you said, Mike, like such a boilerplate story at this point. That's a glitch.

It's a computer word. Mooki uses it all the time, Like, oh no, he's just unix. I know this, Like, oh yeah, fucking joy. But I mean again, it it's nineteen eighty four and it's late nineteen eighty four, so computers are the magic of the day. But god, it feels like such an anachronistic episode at this point, like a vice synthesizer.

Mother, don't let her know this, Like how did she order this? Yeah, well, seventeen Baumer Like okay, like I don't, I don't know, Like the idea that the idea that that it was that whatever you gonna see him again, it's just gonna be like readouts on a screen. Was shocking to me that that's where this ended up going. I found it, I mean, I found it to be rather boring, just because like it was so obvious what this was again to me as someone watching it, you know, forty years on, obviously nineteen eighty four, a little different, but not much of anything really, Like it's fine, but you've seen this story a million times now if you're watching this in a contemporary setting, this episode horrified me as a child.

This was certainly my first introduction to the idea of uploading one's consciousness into a computer. This was nineteen eighty four. I hadn't fucking heard it. I was eleven, And you know, I agree that story has been done one million times since then. But I do appreciate that this was on American television in eighty four, and you know, it was an interesting concept at the time.

But you're right, Chris, magic. Magic is in the form of computers in the nineteen eighties, and we're gonna see quite a few times. We've seen it already in Twilight's on eighty five, A Bunch and Anything. Oh the irony young Justine Bateman pleading with us to embrace technology as a savior. AI essentially too did not miss the irony there, like, oh, what will you be doing forty years from now?

Justining, like fighting the good fight against that dirty AI. Do you think that she thinks about that when she's like up there giving speech as she's like and something something something, my brother Mookie start. In the end, I would love to have an audio clip of Mookie, just play it at a press conference or something. Stop well, let Pokey finish. Dad.

It's more funny, Like I laughed throughout the entire episode because all the weird little like computer interacting as the brother is just funny. It has aged so poorly, and it like the dad and mom reacting and then like those musical stings that they play underneath, like oh Joey, like but he's in the computer. Mom, don't you believe me? No? Mom, stop, like, oh my god, he's there.

It's like, oh God, these people are so astounded by the simplest things. What's funny is that Mooie is basically interacting with the family viotechnology anyway, he's sink in bed upstairs, he's talking to them through an intercom and then by the end, you know, I think the dad should be happy the computer's an upgrade at least he can see his moves on whatever Gord game they're playing now, bulliager dad, I watched this. Yeah, I think of Vegre from Star Trek the motion picture. This is Vejar. Justine Bateman, I gotta say, is actually pretty great here.

I watched this a couple of times, and I think she's a solid throughout, but then a couple of times she is absolutely sinister. Like if you take a look at how the look she gives her father when he's finally accepted that her brother is now part of this computer. I thought, at that moment, just Tem Pateman could basically just murder these two with an axe right now and it wouldn't be out of place like it was. It was that sinister a look. I thought that was very impressive.

I like the fact that right outside her hallway there was like a framed photograph of the sun, but it was like a sunset and was all read and basically looked like the hal nine thousand. I thought that was an interesting touch. Look, here's the thing the diggings. He's digging folks. They have Tippy Hendron in this episode, and she just plays the sort of supportive mom like browbeaten by the dad, And all I kept thinking was why didn't they switch those roles?

Why didn't they make the mom the one trying to get rid of the thing and her fighting with it and you know, and the dad the one holding out of it would have been a little more interesting. Would you give the tippy headman a little more to do than just sort of like look pensively through every scene. I love that scene at the end though, where the dad comes in and he's like, I got this letter from Mookie here read this. It's like, hooky, I am going away now. My planet needs me.

Let dad sell the computer that Mokie wouldn't write that, no shit, And the fact that it's yeah, it is weird because the dad, Like the amount of antagonism coming from the dad I get, but he's not in the episode enough, Like it should have been Tippy Hedron because like why have her in this episode otherwise? Like really, like what a thankless role to give such a great actress, Like I mean, really, what thankless roles to give all these actors in this episode? Because again, like even the dad just kind of being a stereotypical shithead dad is again, they don't do much with it, like if anything at all. Frankly, why was the dad not ready? Like so Mookie was available in the computer, he should have been talking to them, ask me something no one else would know Dad exactly like are you there?

Are you? There? Are you? Like he's stop asking if he's there, Like what is that going to prove? I'm sorry?

What? Like? Why is he Michigan Jay frogging the entire time, just like, oh, I know someone's coming. I'm not going to sing anymore? Like what you said you had a talking donkey.

Why isn't the donkey talking? Like yeah, well, I don't understand why he didn't. Why didn't he say anything? He never makes that clear. He's like, why haven't you It's like Dad, but like Dad, what like?

What about Dad? Like I don't think this guy, like even up until the moment like he's about to unplug the computer, which by the way, would have would not do anything realistically if he's in the network, right, But he waits until the last possible moment to tell him. And it's like, but but why you know I mentioned that this kind of freaked me out as a kid. It was only reinforced a couple of years later when Alan Moore started doing John Constantine Hellblazer one of his early stories. One of his friends does this, He logs it.

He gets his consciousness into a computer in order to figure out something for Constantine. When he's in there, his body ends up dying and he's stuck in there, and Constantine switches the thing off at the end, like effectively de resting him. It was so fucking herrific. But he's in the network here, he's eating the network in it. It's kind of like the end of that really incredible movie.

I think it's called under Siege two Dark Territory, whereby shooting the monitor you are stopping the Programingney, Yeah, okay, yeah, it's here. Don't unplug the voice synthesizer or he won't be able to gargle once in a while, no Dad, he won't be able to say no Dad. In Robot Boys, here's one thing I did like. It would have been easy to portray the Pooky character as getting more and more feral because this is over, like you know this is They do sort of mark the time in the episode, the father says it's she's done this all summer long. So and Mookie died at the beginning of the summer, so we're figuring like three months she's been up in that room.

But she's always taken care of herself, which makes me even more on her side when her dad is being a dick, because it's not like she's out, you know, like in a bath herself. Yeah, Like she's been up there for a couple of weeks now, like it's the summertime, asshole, Like, like, what does she's not out at the riding academy, So we got to freak out about her that she's up there perhaps learning a skill with these computers that will benefit her for the rest of her life. I love the way they frame it too. Well, now that your brother's dead, we can't afford for you to go to that camp. It's like, wow, Yeah, I'm real excited now to know that because we don't have to take care of my sick brother anymore, I can go have a fun summer, Like you know, maybe Mom, just just leave that part out, Just leave the part out why we can afford it now, I said the quiet part loud.

Yeah, Keaven's death will be funding this no pass. Yeah, I'm good. I don't care whatever, I don't care what I'm getting to do. I'm good. This seemed like something from Night Gallery.

I'll say, like this, it's it's in terms of like the not like the writing, but kind of like that like quaintness of it. At the end, it's like it's this is not a scary story at all, Like there's nothing about this that's scary, right. I know you said Father Malone like when you were of it was was yeah, that was right. But like the thing is like compared to like what we just saw with the odds or like the painkiller or what we're going to talk about on the next episode, like what are the stakes here? Like that the guy who's dead will be even more dead than he already is, will be dead or still don't you Yeah, we can't communicate to to him anymore through this giant VCR box.

I love that at the end of this episode he has effectively beaten death. He's now immortal, And what are they doing playing board games? Come on, Kevin, I'm not gonna call you Mookie anymore. The moment with the dad who he's like, he's like, you stay out of it, Kevin. Kevin is eventually going to be able to look at all the corners of the Internet and then determined that we don't deserve to live anymore like ultron Us.

Yes, Princess Pooky, thank you very much. Al Right. On the next episode of Midnight Viewing, we'll be taking a look at two episodes from season one. Those are Slippage and Inside the Closet. Midnight Viewing the Horror Anthology Podcast is a proud member of weirding Way Media and our theme song was composed by the always reliable, always fantastic mister HP.

Until next time, What are you working on? Where can people find it? Mike White? Well, you already said it. Weirdowaymedia dot com.

You can find all the stuff that I work on, including the weekly movie show that I've been doing for a little bit called the Projection Booth. So that's where some people know of me when I'm not working at White Lotus. Haha. How about you, Chris Dashu. Yeah, Weirdingwaymedia dot com is where you can find me and all the various and assorted things that I work on, including also a weekly movie podcast, some monthly shows, some biweekly shows.

All can be found there, and a lot of stuff that did none of us work on that are made by equally as entertaining and fun people over at Weirdingwaymedia dot com. What about you, Father Malone well as everyone else has mentioned Weirdingwaymedia dot com, where you can find all of my podcast forays, including dark Destinations and audio Drama. I write and produce. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight Midnight viewing. The Horror Anthology podcast is a proud member of Weirdingway Media.

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