2006, Ep. 7: "THE SHAGGY DOG" (with Steve Carlson!)
Box Office GROSS: The Top 50 Hit Films of 2006
FOLKS! Our beloved fellow Cinemasochist Steve Carlson (guest of The Amityville Horror and The Dukes of Hazzard episodes) returns for what is, unexpectedly, perhaps Rob and I's most CONTENTIOUS DISAGREEMENT on a film yet: Tim Allen in THE SHAGGY DOG!
We discuss this shambling, wooly franchise, from its unexpected origins in Weimar-Republic-era German literature, to its massive original late '50s hit that set the tone for decades of Disney live-action cinema, to its ultra-wacky and bizarrely canon-faithful(?!) belated follow-ups, to the career of one Tim Allen, starring with an insanely overqualified cast in in a completely forgotten resurrection of the IP that one of our hosts unexpectedly found a lot of philosophical animalistic value in, that had host and star feelin' like a big dog, woof, feelin' like a big dog, ayyy.
Other topics of discussion include the sad legacy of original star Tommy Kirk, downloading films off of Morpheus, how Spencer Breslin taught us it was okay to be weird, the existential philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, me being a "badminton savant" and whatever the hell a "Wibberly" is.
It's always a blast when Steve stops by and this episode is so fun because we're just so DAMN ROWDY, woof woof, feelin' like a big dog, ayyyyyyy. Check it out!
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