Gremlins (1984)

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Listening to the trading card discussion, I was thinking of some of the ones that I had. I know I had a bunch of James Bond cards (I think it was basically everything from Dr. No up through GoldenEye), Batman Returns, Alien 3, Terminator 2, The Shadow, and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (where some of the cards featured shots from scenes that were cut from the movie).

I had the “Ferngully: The Last Rainforest” card set. They were cheap and bad!

I got “The Shadow” cards from 1994, it’s a high quality Topps. My LCS has a ton of old new stock of these types of cards for a buck a piece. I scoop one up from time to time.

I used to collect 9/11 cards, but I can't find my holographic rannazzisi.

Just discovered I have what has to be a whole set of Last Action Hero cards.

Heard a story of Nancy Reagan sharing a tip with Sinatra to eat an apple, wait a bit then throw it up to coat his throat before performances. Now they've got appling AND grapefruiting techniques.

Bravo boyz. A great listen. My wife eavesdropped for a bit and chuckled. 🙏🏾

It's been a while since I last watched- this time around I couldn't help but think: is snow made of water?

My dad caught my brother and I shoplifting some Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey trading cards once. He made us go back in and fess up to the teen cashier who just let us keep them.

I still have a few Batman cards, a few Addams Family cards, I'm pretty sure my brothers and I had Street Fighter movie cards. Related to Sportstember but Topps made a few official Major League cards a couple of years ago. I have the Jake Taylor. At my local card shop they have a Wild Thing but it's like $90 and it's not even signed by Charlie Sheen(which you CAN find).

I was obsessed with the T2 trading cards as a kid

can't wait to hear the boyz talk about Seagal's new movie Order of the Dragon: The Return of the Legend if it actually comes

I don't know if my Mom still held on to it, but as a kid I got a whole mess of G.I. Joe trading cards. Hopefully they're still in a binder somewhere. I'm shocked I never paid attention to the voice cast of Gremlins until this latest watch. Frank Welker, Peter Cullen and Michael Winslow.

My kids were so terrified of this movie when they were younger. I think it’s the tone of it honestly. There’s others too that just something about them really got to them. Of course I clockwork oranged them and forced them to watch.

Omfg Mr Gameshow is so scary 🤣 my old roommates and I (in our 20’s) would hide a Cookie Monster toy we found in each other’s rooms or the fridge etc and try to scare each other. We’d tape a knife to his hand and leave him in their bed blankets. One time I opened the door to my room and he was hanging from a noose with a suicide note taped to his hand with “LIZ” written on the outside of it 🤣 I think I let him hang there for a while, maybe I took him down when I thought I’d get laid or something. Didn’t want to look too crazy 😏😅

Holy shit the live reaction to Mr. Gameshow… 🤣

Has anyone else connected this podcast and Wazey Waynes from The Chair Company? I feel like Mike Santini explaining why I’m laughing to my wife

I was just visiting San Francisco and there were those Waymu taxis everywhere. I asked someone getting out of one how they liked and and seemed to enjoy it. Those self cleaning restrooms are so annoying. We were at Twin Peaks in San Fran to watch the sunset and there were two there. Line was thirty people deep and had to wait forever because of its cleaning process between people I love Gremlins but was ten when two came out, saw in theaters and recall not liking it because of how different it was. Later I got it and loved it.

"...Carl Barks." "He's the dog communist?" Surprised myself at how hard I laughed at this

My submission for most obscure property to get a trading card set: 1997’s the Rocketeer.

1987 Topps baseball were famous for the wood grain border.

Glynn turman audtioned for han solo pretty sure

Got me a complete set of Harry and the Henderson cards.

What’s up with the youth

The bar scene was hilarious, and it contained a Peter Gabriel song I never knew existed called "Out Out".

Now is the time you watch space monkeys on tubi

Nobody talks about how good Stanger’s drunk impressions are!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325126550999 Here you go boyz

Thanks for the episode Boyz, really made me laugh. Hope you’re all safe with these storms and floods and evacuations. Merry Christmas !

I was just watching this old computer TV show and they bring up Mr. Game Show as a new hot toy. At 23:30 - https://youtu.be/bWXLDfbmpU8?si=WFz_QIpchsqNH2B_&t=1416

‘Let me get a little bit of that Mech-a-Neck, sweetheart’ HAHAHAHA

Such a fun episode, thanks for making me laugh out loud several times today 💙🎄

My brother sent me a pack of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” cards a few years ago and it’s not exactly a movie I would associate with trading cards. One card from the end of the film is just a bunch of dudes with rifles titled “National Guard alert!”

I remember the DVD has a deleted scene with Judge Reinhold in the bank vault that sort of fills in some backstory, but yeah, that whole plotline is dropped so fast

Whole bit about Masters of the Universe and no Gwildor mention? Historic!

JD’s Revenge is great young Glynn Turman, Cooley High probably the best

I'm an ABZ listener so already that makes me a fucking dork. But I am a trailer music producer and publisher in my day job so I sit around listening to music all day and needed something to do with my hands so I started buying UFC trading cards. Then I got into basketball because I was chasing Zach Edey and Caitlin Clark cards. My son started enjoying opening packs and we found they had Dune (2024) cards at GameStop so we've been opening a ton of those. Chris Walken has an auto in the set so I'm chasing one of those. But my son has pulled 3 fucking David Dastmalchian (Piter De Vries) autos. I'm also on the hunt for an Aliens Anthology Bill Paxton auto card.

No When I was in the Marine Corps, I brought my Empire strikes back sheet with me onto an aircraft carrier that I had to live on for six months and that was my blanket on my bed and I didn't get a code red shockingly

Happy holidays and merry Christmas as applicable, janitors. 🎄🎅🏻

Not necessarily a weird film for a trading card set, but I do have an E.T. set released by a UK-based cereal company called Weetabix. In the eighties, they ran a campaign that featured four cartoon biscuits, one of which was decked out in Doc Martens and a football scarf. So essentially, each one of these cards has a bootboy/hooligan biscuit taking up a huge chunk of the bottom left corner of each card. It doesn't fit the theme of the film at all, but I wouldn't trade them for anything.

I saw this in the theater as a child. It was my first time sitting next to a stranger at the theater (he looked like a punk from a Cannon Film) and I was a bit scared. During the bar scene when they cut to the flasher Gremlin, we both looked at each other and laughed quite loud. One of the those weird moments that I won't forget.

I also (still) got hung up on the no-feeding-after-midnight rule because "every moment is after the previous midnight" so really when was it safe to feed them?

I had Mork and Mindy cards

Saw this for the first time last week. Dont know why I didn't see it growing up. Ramona Slick brought a print to music box theater for their latest production of Rated Q where they pick a movie and do an amazing drag performance before showing the movie. Ramona was Greta, it was incredible. Check out her Instagram for pics, also ratedq .musicboxtheatre on insta for more pics.

Pet Bourgeoisie vs. ProLeashTariat

The sleigh behind the dad at the invention convention is the H. G. Wells The Time Machine and when they cut back to him on the phone it’s gone like it just went through time 😂

Holy shit I had to look up Tigersharks. Honestly don’t remember it, and I watched all that garbage.

Inventor dad genre

Was not expecting a Sloop John B reference. What a pull.

Home run episode for one of my favorite films of all time. Can’t wait till the boys do Gremlins 2 for a future Xmas.

Gremlins came out when I was 6. I remember my folks worrying i was gonna have nightmares about it afterwards, but I was pretty obsessed with it. I had a stuffed Gizmo, this bendable rubber Stripe, but my absolute favorite Gremlins merch was the Hardees read-a-long record books. They were the size of a 7 inch. Really great painted art in the books and i wore those records out.

"Deng Xiopeng died" is such a deep cut and I'm so disproportionately proud that I anticipated Gabrus dropping it right before he did

Also you guys should cover "The Beast" Jason Patric is a Soviet tanker and Steven Bauer plays a member of the mujahideen.

Hammered that download button when I saw the title. Can't wait to hear commentary on the Phoebe Cates chimney aside.

Get the sheets you want. I put a squirt blanket down on my Jurassic Park sheets after she didn't warn me the first time.

When I was a kid, I kind of wanted to develop a smoking habit so that I could have one of those cool smokeless ashtrays.

First time watching Gremlins. Holy shit. watching every day now

Lol the Corey Feldman song was called "What Up with Youth" or something, and I think over the years Corey has insinuated that it inspired the Eddie Murphy / Michael Jackson collab "What's Up with You"

Tiger sharks baby

My dog woke me up at 4:30am because she is afraid of the new sofa or really misses the old sofa. I’m a Barxist, though.

I confused so many adults as a child repeating the phrase "Goddamn foreign cars".

Never actually saw Gremlins. As a kid my family just kind of skipped it and I always figured it was one of those things if you didn't see growing up you wouldn't appreciate it as much.

Finally a good epishode

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Biker Mice from Mars and SilverHawks, the perfect lineup. Oh, and that Ghostbusters with the gorilla dressed like Indiana Jones.

Thank you for this episode!

Anyone else remember which episode had the impromptu Christmas Reggae gremlins song? I want to say Money Train. The sound of Gabrus's voice (complete with Ms. Cleo-esque Jamaican accent) singing "your fadduh's in the chimney and he's stinking now" will randomly pop up in my head and provide much needed entertainment. We should put AI to good use and make a full reggae song out of that. Maybe get a guest appearance from Chet Hanks on it.

Speaking of Christmas movies: I get home tonight from a long couple weeks of work and my 15 y/o boy says, “Dad! It’s almost Christmas, so… HEAR ME OUT… I think we should watch a Christmas movie… What do you think about… Die Hard?!?!” When I die, I will put it in my will that my ABZ Patreon sub should pass on to him. Obviously.

“Never feed the Stanger after midnight.”