Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Review

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Two whole months. I can go to the beach. I can

stay out as late as I want. I can do anything.

I'm a free woman. Hi. Hello, dear. I'm a steward.

I'm a babysitter. What? All right, you little

maggots, now line up. Are you serious? I'll make

your summer a living. Help! Ow! Hey! TV rots

your brain. It's time we let her know the rules.

Yeah, we outnumber her. Let's kick some butt.

Mrs. Sturrock. Mrs. Sturrock? Oh, my God. She

died in her sleep. No problem. They blame us.

Hey, be careful. I got her. No, I mean my skateboard.

Don't tell Mom the babysitter's dead. Rock and

roll! Now, Christina Applegate and her brother...

What? bounce back for a summer with... How's

my baby? No rules. In your dreams, babe. No curfews,

no nagging, no pulse. Oh, how you doing, Mom?

No, Mrs. Dirac's not here. She, um... She went

to the yarn store. So, what do you guys want

for breakfast? Cheese omelet. Spaghetti -os.

Breakfast is served. Blow the lawn today and

don't forget to do the dishes, okay? Dishes are

done man. Don't tell mom, the babysitter's dead.

Hello and welcome to episode 136 of Movie Vegan

Review. I'm of course TFG1 Mike. Joining me is

JT from Saskatoon. Hello. the dishes are done

man oh god and i didn't know homer simpson could

sound so girly don't even get me started on that.

We are here to talk about a 1991 classic movie,

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. When did

you first see this? Because I was 11 when this

came out, so... This would have been... Let's

see, when did it get released? 91. Just like

when? 91 said like June 7th, so Probably would

have been somewhere. I'd say spring or summer

92 this I commented on Facebook You know prior

recording here This was like one of the first

big kid Non -family friendly movies that I got

to pick when we would go to I think it was that

movies are us back home in Yorkton You know because

they used to have like seven movies seven days

for like ten bucks you know all the healthy on

days of the video cassette and I picked this

one mainly for my unrequited crush slash obsession

with Kelly goddamn Bundy because Christina Applegate

is a babe yeah and but no I love this Just as

I say it when I say this is one of the big kidneys

I mean this is like it's not that you can't show

kids this but you want to make sure they're like

10 or 11 like they've seen some Not that they've

seen some shit, but they've seen some stuff and

Yeah, I know this is like getting out of that

80s mentality of like the goonies or the monster

squad where you kids are in the line of the danger

and it ends with the parents hugging them and

asking they're all right not you know nowadays

if you try to make movies like that the producers

and the Director would be you know hung by their

toes and burned his heretics so this is a nice

middle ground yeah I mean this is a family movie

but it's not your average happy -go -lucky family

movie that's only because he was it was enhanced

happiness I mean I'm saying this This isn't an

episode of The Cosby Show. This isn't an episode

of Small Wonder. This isn't an episode of Politically

Incorrect Family Ties. I mean, this is, you know,

that movie where, again, 1991, we were three

and a half years after Married With Children

had debuted in 89. So, and obviously Christina

Afflegate was Kelly Bundy on Married With Children,

as you said. And it's one of those things where

most people pretty much typecast her as Kelly

and some people just can't think of her in any

other role. And that's fine, I guess. But for

me, this was one of those offbeat family comedies.

It wasn't your traditional wacky dad, you know,

25 ,000 twinkle light kind of movies. uh... this

this was not the state it's safer than the other

nineteen ninety one movie that i remember so

well the hand that rocks the cradle and he he

he he he he he you know i i i'm not saying i

haven't seen it but i don't recall if i have

seen that or not what how do you know it before

you start treating me like he's mr neil but uh...

I said that the caveat I'm not I I'm pretty certain

I have seen the hand that rocks the cradle but

it might be one of the many films that I've only

ever seen once and for one reason or another

have never gone back to it this was a film that

uh you know I I know we rented a couple more

times you know once it came on video because

this was a favorite of mine growing up and and

I think it was like would have been like the

spring of 96 because i was still living i was

still in high school still out in the farm my

dad i guess you know he decided to pop and we

got one of the big old c -band satellite dishes

like that you know the eight foot across you

know looked like it's catching radio signals

from saturn and uh this for a time was in very

heavy rotation on i believe it was cinemax You

know back in the day when cinemax played like

they played like big movies, but there's a lot

of B grade action we's a lot of American Ninja

a lot of house party two and three But no, I

like I watch this whenever I can but in recent

years You know, I've only seen it. I think maybe

twice in the last ten years Maybe like it's it's

a movie that whenever I dig through the $5 bin

at Walmart I'm you know, there's that mental

list you keep in the subconscious No, no, no,

no. Aha! That sort of thing. Man, I just... If

I hadn't seen the movie... If I had just been

coming into this fresh, having never seen this

movie, and I know I thought this back in the

day when I saw the trailer for this in front

of some movie that we rented. I would have put

money down that a subplot in this movie is the...

besides the kids looking them after themselves,

is them having to constantly hide the body? Thank

god that didn't happen. That's the thing though,

in 1991 they could have gotten away with like

a 10 minute subplot, like just a couple of days

of them trying to deal with the dead body before

they take it to the funeral home. No, thank god

that never happened. This movie would be so bad

if that was part of the plot. That's what happens

when you have Canadian people thinking up plot

points. Hey, you know Other members of the cast

we have We have Joanna Cassidy who we would have

seen her back in 88 as Dolores in who framed

Roger Rabbit Yeah John gets as Gus Brandon Keith

Coogan as Kenny Crandall josh charles oh my god

josh charles dead poet society everybody as brian

uh consetta tome no relation to marissa tome

is mrs. krandle mr. x -file over there david

decovney is bruce that was odd to me even at

11 years you know 11 years old seeing this that

was odd yeah the funny thing is with that Like,

I remember seeing him in the movie and just thinking,

like, wow, that guy's a complete bag of douche.

You know, and that's kind of his claim to fame

at the time before he hit X -Files. But I must

have been watching X -Files for like two or three

seasons before I really, before I ever saw, like,

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead again. It's

like, oh yeah, both of them was in this movie.

Robert Gorman. as Walter Crandall as the youngest

brother, Danielle Harris as Melissa Crandall.

Christopher Petit as Zack. Sadly, he died 17

years ago. Yeah, it's... Yeah. And as I said

earlier, you know, Homer Simpson as the animated

Mrs. Sterak. Because there are some movies in

1991 that had animated intros. 1991, even earlier

than that, I mean, you look at It's a Mad, Mad,

Mad, Mad World, that has an animated intro. Yeah.

And I'm like, really? homer simpson as a woman

great i mean i like it i enjoy it i'm not going

to sit here and sinning against dan but it's

one of those things where i was not expecting

that to be homer simpson yeah i mean you're looking

at the cast here there was a time that throughout

the mid to late 90s where i would see josh charles

in movies and tv's joe's most notably sports

night and uh it's on the tip of my tongue help

me out uh the guy that voiced superman in justice

league george newburn george newburn now those

guys were very active in the 90s in a lot of

movie and tv shows and i would sometimes mistake

them for each other or think they were the same

guy i mean i was a kid what did i know but uh

josh charles was a guy that i've always kind

of been a fan like i'm not a super fan but anytime

he shows up in anything I'm in like when he shows

up as the man in black in Muppets in space, you

know having a kung -fu fight with Miss Piggy

It's like I love that guy. He was in the SWAT

movie with Samuel Jackson Farrell like he's always

that dude is a that guy's a team player like

he works and he deserves everything he gets and

You know, like I said, it's Christina Applegate

in 1991 And the thing the thing about the thing

about Josh is when I saw him in this and I'm

like and I remember seeing him in SWAT from 2003

and I'm like It was more this than SWAT obviously,

but because by the time SWAT came out I'm like,

oh, hey, it's knocks over straight from Dead

Poets Society He's What the fuck is wrong with

you A great many things and we don't have enough

time to cover them. No, we don't. Some television

stuff Josh has done. He was on four episodes

of Six Degrees back in 2007. He was in an episode

of Law and Order SVU in 2008. I don't know why

the heck he's four episodes on Inside Amy Schumer.

Apparently he's gonna be Blake in wet hot American

summer ten years later, which apparently is a

new series Well, he was in you know, first day

of camp and yeah I Mean again How have I not

seen that? Yes, I get it Mike. I haven't seen

every episode of drunk history I was not aware

that he was he did an episode of drunk history,

which you know, I gotta go back and check out

Even look at some of the movies he's been in

I mean he was in the original hair spray like

a great John Waters film Dead Poets Society You

know going down few of these up until Muppets

in Space I haven't really no things to do in

Denver when you did I have seen that movie I

don't remember him in that you know Muppets in

Space what Four Brothers, that's the one I couldn't

remember. I know I'd seen him in a movie with

Marky Mark And I know his name's Mark Wahlberg,

folks. Don't send me an email. It's Marky Mark,

we know. You're marked for life. You might not

want to sing that song in a concert when your

brother pulls you up on stage, sir, but you sang

that song. You'll do it anyway. He'll go up on

stage, but there was a video I saw a couple years

ago of... 50 cent was throwing a show and he

saw the new kids and mark were in in attendance

and he brought them on stage and I was like guys

I gotta get you to sing this song mark you know

the words and then good vibration starts playing

mark just like kind of weighs him off and walks

off stage like he will he will walk out of out

of a christening if somebody tries to get him

to sing that song that's how much he he doesn't

deny it but he will not sing it out loud so And

yeah, that's I haven't really seen in any movie

since then, you know, the TV show sports night,

which was a brilliant series, you know Wish I

could find that DVD set You know looking at Jack

Keith Coogan, I think I've seen Huh, I would

have thought he had done some TV like I'm just

going off the wiki not I am I've seen I think

about half the movies on his wiki List of like

his filmography. Mm -hmm, you know seen Fox and

the Hound. Yeah ventures and babysitting Vincent

D 'Onofrio is the one true Thor Toy soldiers

which I have seen that multiple times and I'm

fairly certain I own that in a four pack with

some other action movies Forgot he was Brad and

Neil even asked if don't tell mom was the sequel

to adventures and babysitting Hey, we're coming

off a really really bad Sonic cartoons both of

those 90 series are just awful so give Neil a

break There's no excuse I don't I give none I

expect none. Yeah uh... yeah i mean in the army

now yeah he's keith coogan's done some stuff

recently uh... upcoming he's got uh... limelight

later this year i guess beautiful garden uh...

tale of two quarries isn't that supposed to be

about the the dead people uh... yeah Feldman

and Haim Well, Feldman's still alive, but Haim

isn't. Sadly. Yeah. He's one of those guys, like

maybe you haven't seen a lot of what he's been

doing lately, but he's kept busy. He hasn't really

hurt for work at any time, working on the IMDB.

The soundtrack for this is so great. But you

gotta stay here and watch the kids, okay? Hey,

no problem, twisted sister. Okay. I can get a

job at a clothing store or something. I mean,

they'll hire me in a second. It'll be great.

You just finished reading Dianetics or something?

Oh, no. He's just on helium. Ryan! Another happy

delivery! Well, you gotta put chili on those

clown dogs and keep it movin'! Absolutely love

the soundtrack. You got Dragon Align, Perfect

World. eyes for you you know life's rich tapestry

I just this movie has some of the best songs

from that era I think at least for what this

movie is I mean yeah you're not gonna sit here

and get you know Phil Collins or a new kids on

the block or whatever the music that's done in

this film fits the fits the movie perfectly for

every single scene i don't think it really like

at the time like i i enjoyed it but it's not

stuff that i was listening to at that time in

my life so i mean outside of the twilight zone

theme which was probably the only thing that

i would have recognized like while watching this

movie back then i mean a lot of these artists

i don't recognize outside of alias and uh spinal

tap gave me some money We got, uh, you know,

Alias, was that the... That's Perfect World.

Yeah, no, I'm just... I was thinking of a different

band when I said, Alias, no, because there's

the remake of the blob from 1988 has this band

called Alien that has a really good song in there.

Doesn't seem really appropriate for the subject

matter, but that's another podcast in and of

itself. But yeah, no, the soundtrack is perfectly

fine. Like, you know, I watched it last night

and prepped for this. Like it's good, and it

works It's just it doesn't hook me. You know

it doesn't have the same You know attractiveness

to me that it does for you, so yeah Because I

just this is just one of those movies that I

just absolutely love to to watch and I hadn't

seen it in a Number of years actually you weren't

even going to be But go host on this. Originally,

because back, you know, before I went to California

and my heart sank into the Pacific Ocean, my

ex and I were actually going to cover this. Yeah.

Poor substitution. Anyway, just to go back to

the cast for one thing, I got it. We did mention

Daniela Harris is part of this. She's a former

child actress. She is very much the modern definition

of the scream queen. from horror movies uh if

anyone's ever seen like i think it's parts four

and five of the original of the halloween series

you know she's uh how was it jamie loyd who is

basically she's like the daughter of jamie lee

uh jamie lee's character from the original halloween

you know okay she's like the last family member

of michael meyers And she's been in other stuff,

too. It's, uh... Have you ever seen The Last

Boy Scout? Mm -hmm. Nope. You haven't seen that?

Nope. How can you not have seen that movie, Mike?

I... You know... Reasons? There's just certain

things that I just did not pay attention to.

It's... it's not the greatest and if you mention

any any single like if anyone asked me why haven't

I seen all of the Halloween movies or all of

the other Freddy movies or all of the other Jason

movies at all it's one very simple answer I watched

about four of them between the ages of five and

nine and I was scarred for life and I just do

not watch horror films anymore horror is not

my thing it's great if everybody else likes it

that's fine it ain't for me Yeah, no, that's

cool. I'm saying I guess are in this I had a

mad crush on her as a kid I still have a bad

crush on her now because she grew up And but

no if you ever watch the last voice don't highly

recommended Damon Wayans Bruce Willis You know

stuff like that. But yeah, the soundtrack is

like I said decent Just looking some of the trivia

and IMDB for this movie apparently Chris the

applicant had to gain ten pounds for this role

and then she had to lose the she lost that weight

again when she went back to working on married

with children because apparently fox wanted her

to be that thin because kelly bundy would never

gain weight like that oh my god and apparently

like i i did not know i like i have not looked

at christina applegate's uh Filmography in a

very long time. I had no idea She was the voice

of Brittany in the chipmunk sequels. Oh My god,

why Justin long from the Mac PC commercials was

Alvin and Matthew great Googler from criminal

minds is Simon Jesse McCartney is Theodore God

help me. I love the first one of those movies

That one was tolerable at best The squeak will

any of the squeak wills the squeak will and the

the squeak will and shipwrecked Yeah. And I tried

watching that new cartoon and I was just recoiled

in horror. The new cartoon was okay, but the

movies were just weird. I will say right now,

I don't care what anyone tells me. I will always

have a negative reaction to this, but... It's

nice to see her on screen with Chevy Chase, but

I'm sorry vacation was a horrible sequel I would

rather watch Vegas vacation than be the 2015

vacation because 2015 vacation pretty much is

the last five to ten years of Every stupid adult

kid like fart joke. Oh my god humor these days

sucks in movies It just does It doesn't always

hit the mark. No, but I'm looking at Christina.

I will gates filmography here She has some of

my favorite movies in the last while like she's

got you know Don't tell mom the babysitter's

dead Mars attacks Jane Austen's mafia, which

is one of my favorite parody You know airplane

style movies all time She was in the big hit

you know he's looking down the thing these other

ones dot anchorman that's two or both of them

too and wake up oh okay it was both of them okay

i wasn't sure if it was just the second one huh

i'm just looking at this shoot there was a sequel

to cats and dogs yes sadly there was oh dear

god i feel the intense urge to watch that movie

no don't Cuz I don't think it has spider -man

in it so don't even Yeah, well we need to get

the cast out of the way yeah, but the plot of

this pretty much to sum it up. It's Girlfriend

from Roger Rabbit goes on vacation leaving the

kids No, no, you've already fucked it up Eddie

Valiant's girlfriend is Rose Lindsay the boss

not the mother See uh -huh so basically Sue Ellen

Crandall and the other Crandall kids their mom

goes to Australia for three months leaving the

kids Supposedly home alone with Sue Ellen in

charge, but mrs. Sterak Drives up in this classic

car that apparently Liza Minnelli will steal

later And Mrs. Sterak is, she seems like a sweet

little old lady, but she is a wretch and a half

once the mother leaves. She's the babysitter

from hell. Yeah. And she seems like such a nice

lady until the claws come out and then you know

like Zach is on, Zach is on the Mac. I can't

believe you just said that out loud anyway Zach

is is wooing his his moon goddess Cynthia and

She pulls the two of them out of the car tells

the little trollop to go home tells him to be

in bed She tells Melissa to get out of the tree

or something or other to stop doing. Oh, no She

she dresses her up, you know sugar and spice

Melissa just flips her off and she turns the

TV off and tells little Walter to write a ten

page report on the life of an aardvark by tomorrow

morning. Oh god, I'm glad she died in this movie,

this woman. I can honestly say I have never,

and again the actress that played Mrs. Sturrock,

you know. She is one since passed away I'm sure

she was a lovely lady in life not her character,

but I have never wanted a character in anything

I have watched to die in a fire as much as Mrs.

Sturrock and I'm gonna say this and I do not

say this lately I would put almost almost but

the slimmest of margins put here on the same

level of douchebaggery as the johnny storm from

fantastic four world's greatest heroes good that's

i do not say that lightly people and if you go

back that's bad listen to the tune cast episode

that we recorded on that because i loathe that

johnny storm anyway yeah mrs sterak dies and

they have this great kind of horror comedy like

bill that where mrs sterak and Sue Ellen going

in to You know check on her because they haven't

heard from her in a while And she's sitting in

this easy chair and it turned around and it's

kind of like the reveal and psycho where they

spin the Mummified body of mrs. Bates around

and she's dead And the reason why she is dead

is because she had a heart attack I guess again,

you know go back to the scene of her Telling

all the kids to stop doing what they're doing

and do what she wants them to do She ends up

going into Kenny's room And that's what gives

her the heart attack because, you know, posters

with skulls on nipples and weed. There's some

Slayer posters up there. Yeah, all kinds of scary

stuff that little old ladies aren't used to.

And, you know, when I was watching this earlier

before we started the recording, I'm like, Lady,

did you not see the caution sign on the front

of the door before you opened it? And she opens

it and her face just goes wide -eyed with terrors.

Oh my god. I'm not saying, like, I don't hate

any of the kids. There was a point with his drug

use that Kenny needed to be beaten with a sack

full of doorknobs and bricks. Yeah. But that's

neither here nor there. I think you're right.

The thing with Kenny is all of these characters

start out as one point, and one point in their

life. Throughout the film, each of them, even

Sue Ellen learns things as you go along. And

I think Kenny has probably, out of the other

siblings, outside of Sue Ellen's character arc,

he has the best character arc of instead of blowing

off school to have a beer buzz or a weed session

or whatever else, he's going to go back and he

betters himself as the movie goes along. Oh,

yeah. Outside of... You know, Zach Walter and

Melissa, who are, they've still got that, you

know, the glorious ignorance of youth to, you

know, go on. But yeah, it's the two oldest siblings

do the most growing up. I mean, particularly

Kenny, because like he gets sober and learns

how to cook like Julia God damn child, which

is one of my favorite scenes when they get to

that. But what is it? And I'm not. I'm not saying

that mrs. Crandall was a bad mother How damaged

are these kids because they get over a dead body

in like five minutes flat Throw her into a steam

trunk drop her off at though at the mortuary

and then they're like, okay, but we still got

the money Oh shit. She had it on her But but

but again going to your you know trying to find

the money thing going to your plot of Supposed

a plot about messing with the body. I'm glad

they got to a point where they realized that

that was not an option That's one of them was

gonna have to get a job so I liked that the movie

went in that angle versus trying to go back there

and You know And I'm not gonna lie like just

the dawning look of horror on their faces when

they realized they don't have any money And the

even worse because of what you know Sue Ellen

wanted to go in like a true was it a trip to

Europe? with her friends and she couldn't because

Yeah, she had to stay home with the kids. The

creeping dawning of horror on her face is like,

I have to be an adult now. Yep. And in the years

since I've seen this movie, whenever I have rewritten

my resume, when I've been looking for jobs, I

always flashback that I say, God, I wish I had

a book like that right now. Because you know,

when you think, and I'm saying like the jobs

I have have been bad, it's just. There's not

a lot to work with with my job history, so I

can't get all that creative without being an

outright liar Yeah, you know and and I always

think about that scene where Sue Ellen is Fabricating

this resume. I love how she's This is after she

gets her initial job of working at Clown Dog.

Yeah working at Clown Dog working at Clown Dog.

Oh God It's not that job that I would hate. It's

mr. Egg. Mr. Egg can go die in a fire. I mean

Seriously, well given the looking at the Health

violations that were readily apparent at that

place. I'm surprised Josh didn't die in a fire

Three days from falling apart from all the roaches

Yeah, okay wasn't quite that bad. But yeah, they

was a horrible job. She does meet Josh and Kind

of get to know her Brian Yeah, Brian's character

name. Yeah get to know if she forges her resume

and she just went fight for like a receptionist

job Yeah, she just well again. It's you know

part of the story that she goes to the reception

point upstairs When you know Carolyn the you

know the mouse brown hair chick who has a chip

on her shoulder You know you are to go down to

personnel You know this that and the other thing

and that's when Rose comes in the thing about

the thing about her and and and Brian You know

watching the Grunion run the this their dates

in this movie remind me so much of a movie that

would come out You know six years after this

goodwill hunting with Will and Skyler that's

what their dates here remind me of you know because

in goodwill hunting we had you know you know

you you're hoping for a good night kiss I was

hoping for a good night lay but I'll take a kiss

anyway and you know they do a whole Burger kiss

scene that's what these dates here kind of remind

me of is that kind of fun? Kind of whimsical

type thing and who hasn't bounced on one of those

bouncy things in the toy store I mean come on,

and I'm not talking about his kids either You

did it last week don't lie Last month wow talk

about a one horse town oh there are several horses

some of them they're dead and people keep beating

them but back to the movie yeah that's disgusting

but yeah so sue ellen gets this job and she discovers

she's got a kind of a knack for fashion design

like who knew Well, she's got a knack for fashion

design. She just doesn't have a knack for using

the computer or doing the QED report or any of

the analytics. Well, yeah. I mean, it becomes

quite a juggling act. I do love when she's going

out, the scene where everyone's like, we're hungry.

We want breakfast. Just jug of milk, Captain

Crunch, big -ass bowl, multiple spoons. Enjoy,

ladies and gentlemen. Oh, man, it's... God, I

love this movie, but I also wanted to punch David

Duchovny so many times. Didn't we all? And there's,

like, I love... Like, again, like we said, Kenny

has, like, not to knock too long, because she

is, like, the, you know, Christine Abelgate is

the quote -unquote star. She's the focus of the

story. But they have that, like, oh, my God scene

where... Walter's just watching cartoons and

You know, they they don't have cable. They've

just got like an old TV aerial Like Jesus like

this is like I said, this is like that middle

of the road. This is probably one of the last

kids doing dangerous things in Film and where

he crawls on the roof to fix the aerial And I

believe this is after dishes are done Where they're

throwing where Kenny proves that he's quite adept

at shooting a gun while stoned And But Walter

climbs on the roof to fix the aerial and he ends

up falling off and breaking his arm and They

have that great scene where Sue Ellen loses her

shit with Kenny Mm -hmm and after that like he's

bummed out because you know his little brother's

hurt and yeah He feels guilty for not paying

attention and he starts watching all the cooking

shows and like By the end of the movie is that

i'm not saying he's like a cordon bleu chef,

but jesus christ, man You can cook. Yep. Like

when you look at that spread He makes at the

end there and he gets one of his for the his

one friend with the chainsaw or he's trying to

like just use the little Hammer to chip away

at the ice and he hurts himself. He grabs the

other thing. He just starts wailing on the ice

for the big presentation, because Sue Ellen,

did she? OK, I just watched it last night. Did

she offer to host the party, or was it her boss

said, we can show it? No. So what happens is

the buyers and all that stuff hated the uniform

thing. And Rose says, you know, we're all gonna

be out of jobs tomorrow, GAW is gonna go down,

yada, yada, yada. And then that's when Sue Ellen

goes down and starts designing stuff and coming

up with designs and whatever else. And then we

get to a point in the movie where, you know,

she's like, oh, you should have plenty of money

and petty cash, you know, to rent a banquet hall.

And she says, oh, but those are so impersonal.

We can do it at my house. My house is fabulous.

And that's how they get... the presentation at

the Crandall house and I think they built that

pool because I don't remember that pool being

there before that I don't remember. Like I said

folks I watched this last night and I worked

this afternoon or today so it's just a touch

fuzzy. I think they might have had it but it's

just like run down because when you see the house

it's you know the grass is all brown and yeah

the whole area just vaguely looks like a demilitarized

zone. Yeah, yeah with all the kids like it's

one of those great things again You don't see

this in family comedy movies anymore where the

whole family comes together Wow, we actually

had a kick -ass place all along You know because

they almost look like they're like with the fence

and everything like we're mrs. Sturrock parks

It just kind of looks like they're out and like

some house out in the sticks Yeah, and they kind

of are but I mean by the time they hope the parties

together like they have transformed this place.

Yeah It's actually the house that was actually

used is located in Canyon Country, California

It's in Santa Clarita, California Santa Clarita

diet. I still have to watch that show Okay, then

that's discussed out there Everyone's having

a good time and then her mom comes home and it

all falls apart Yeah, it all falls apart and

another plot line we haven't really mentioned

is Gus and his philandering, because that comes

to a head at the party. But Gus, who is supposedly

supposed to be Rose's main squeeze, keeps coming

on to Swellen and whatever else. By the time

we get to the party, she takes Melissa's squirt

gun and squirts. Gus in the pants and she tells

Rose, you know, Gus has been coming on to me

yada yada yada We get Carolyn and Bruce and they

get their car back all toilet papered up And

there's that whole subplot where they find out

that Suella's as old as she is and she's lying

and they're kind of they're planning on blackmailing

her Yeah, I love how Brian kind of saves the

day with the show We're where he shows up in

the clown dog truck in his uniform and Sue Ellen

kind of plays off of that before a mom comes

home, but you know it all worked, you know, she

apologized to Rose and She works out it kind

of works out in the end where she finds out her

designs have saved the company You know she and

and she it's that I love it's this ultimate moment

where Sue Ellen has learned true responsibility

Rose offers her a job as her actual assistant

and so Ellen declines in favor. I need to go

to school and get an education first. This is

one of those movies where I was like, I know

the first time I saw it, I was like, no, take

the job. And then years later when you see it

again, it's like, no, you made the right call.

I honestly, if I was in her position, I probably

would have taken the job because let's face it

the national college debt this today is astronomical

so I mean and I know that you know and that's

one thing we never really talked about but mrs.

Crandall is going away for three months she had

to leave enough money them to survive for three

months with Mrs. Sturak and obviously that money

went to the two guys that you know buried Mrs.

Sturak, but it's one of those things where Mrs.

Crandall must have a job good enough to get or

they must have savings enough to get them by

for Three months because it seems like they live

a fairly rich lifestyle. I mean well I mean She

had to leave enough money for the kids for three

months, and she could also fork to go to Australia

for three months. So clearly she had been saving

a while. But yeah, so Sue Ellen, she's going

to school. Rose is going to pull some strings

to get her into Vassar, which is, is that just

a straight up design school or? Vassar is, yeah.

I've heard of it, I know not a lot about it,

but he's gonna she's gonna go to school and they're

still gonna be friends and presumably she's still

gonna get that job at Gaw. I love how when Carolyn

and Bruce show up and they're like trying to

pull their shit and they it's just it's not gonna

work now they just I love it when douchebags

in the movies at this period where it all comes

undone and they realize they're not gonna get

anything out of this and just that look like

the schadenfreude is so good in this movie. No,

you know and sue ellen and brian make up and

then I love that cntn. Where's mrs. Sturrock

and they go to the the morticians who They they

they don't know what her name is So they take

the words off the note the kids put with her

corpse nice old lady inside died of natural causes.

Yeah Vassar is it's the co -educational liberal

arts college in in the town of pog Poughkeepsie,

New York, here in the U .S. It was founded in

1861 by Matthew Vassar. It was the first degree

-granting institution of higher education for

women in the United States. It became co -educational

in 1969. Okay. So it's a liberal arts college,

so design obviously is one of those, you know.

But yeah, again, like we said at the top we both

love this movie. Mm -hmm Again, it's one of those

movies. It's one of those movies like when you

look at the poster I gotta say this is one of

the first movies that I really remember where

the That I remember just being like this setup

photo sort of thing like a lot of posters are

nowadays But it's not like a lot of like in the

last few years, and there's videos on YouTube,

multiple videos dedicated to why the movie posters

suck now. You know, because you look in the day,

we've gone from the epic art of Drew Struzan

to teal and golden yellow being predominant colors

and posters. And even when those colors aren't

really used in the movie at all. It's yeah, this

is like a great poster like, you know, he's got

Christina Applegate. She's the star You got the

kids banned out behind her Mrs. Sturrock Her

legs are sticking up out of thing with the Yeah,

now the lights no rules. No curfews. No bass.

No nagging no pulse absolutely don't tell mom

the baby stirs dead for me it's always been a

nostalgia thing but it's always every time I

do watch it I enjoy it I'll give it a I really

don't have any negative I mean there are certain

things like Kenny's pot usage and things like

that or wondering what kind of job the mother

has where she can afford you know a three month

vacation to Australia plus being able to support

the family for three months while she's gone

even though obviously they don't get that money

because it's part of the plot but Overall child

protective services would have been all over

her they had caught witness. I know I know I'll

give it a four and a half. What about you? Four

and a half to like I said, it's it's certainly

time is taking some of the shine off the movie

that sort of thing Didn't nothing really stop

Christina Applegate from being funny because

she's pretty much been funny her whole career

Mm -hmm, especially Jesse which I wish I could

find the DVDs for that But that's been out of

print for years, but no it's a great It's a great

movie. It's not a must -see, but I would highly

recommend it You know, this is one of those like

it's Friday night. You're don't really want to

go out You know if you come across this on the

Netflix or the Hulu's Well, my points ends Regardless

of reality if you happen to find these on the

Netflix's and the Hulu's watch it You won't be

disappointed, but you can't watch it because

it's not on them But yeah, but the joke is dead

because I would say something about you know

Finding it on you know Amazon DVD for like five

bucks or something, but it's because it's not

streaming anywhere sadly So yeah We're gonna

take a quick break, come back to close the show

after this. Every Friday on the Geekcast Radio

Network We are back here on movie interviews

time to close out episode 136 don't tell mom

the babysitter is dead I Had not I've seen this

twice in the last year and a half once with my

ex and once you know When we're getting ready

to do this podcast. It's a movie. I can go back

to every now and then But I had not seen this

since about 93 before last year, I think. I do

love the movie. I do think it still holds up

for me. Nothing about it really angers me or

irks me or anything like that. I'm glad we only

saw Cynthia once because, I mean, she just seemed

like a total bitch. Because you know we have

those where are they now things that's how I

found out about Zach's character Zach's actor

I know I'm sitting here smiling and laughing

and I shouldn't because the guy's been dead for

17 years, but it's one of those things where

If you don't keep up with these people or if

you don't keep up with certain people You just

never know what happens to them and when you

do you're like, oh wow you know i don't know

if you read this like i did some research on

that and like how production on don't tell mom

almost shut down because of his drug use then

like that's how bad it was for him at the time

yeah and the fact that he survived like another

nine years and finally you know like he finally

passed i don't mean that any good or bad way

it's always sad like that but dude yep It's crazy.

It's so so crazy Yeah, so that's gonna do it

for us here on M wire this week We're gonna come

back next Sunday with another matinee JT will

be back for episode 137 sadly We can't make any

clerks jokes because we won't be talking about

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