we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

i picked the wrong way to quit sniffing

blue light of my life

we enjoy your films

i thought they smelled bad on the

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

released in the 1980s in real time

over analyzing what you've seen and

spoiling what you haven't i'm patrick

o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm

richard wells and today marks the 40th

anniversary of the release of oh

heavenly dog

on july 11 1980 it was written by rod

browning and joe camp

directed by joe camp and released by

20th century fox

chevy chase told tcm host robert osborne

that he has never seen the film

and considers it his worst i don't know

how you can have both of those can be

true

if you've never seen it you don't know

for sure right yeah well and there's one

thing that i could say about this movie

that it was far better than a talking

dog movie

you know has any right to be that is

true um

maybe uh i'm guessing that whenever he

said this to robert osborne was on the

last day of the 1980s

because that's when he was done making

his good stuff oh what

i mean i like vegas vacation oh okay

like being in the 1980

like 1980 december december 31st 1989.

they were at a new year's eve party and

he was like

you know what i think my worst movie is

the worst movie i made in the 80s is the

first movie i made in the 80s

got it well if he's never seen it i mean

i based on just the facts alone

where he does voice over for a talking

dog who's trying to solve a murder i'd

say yeah

that would be my worst movie but then

you watch it and you're like okay you

know what it's all right

okay interesting um

um it was intended to be shot in england

but the required quarantine period for

the dog would have interrupted

production

so all the england stuff was shot in

canada and a tiny paris trunk was shot

in france because there was no such

quarantine there come on guys

quarantine's not that bad yeah and there

are some shots in england with a dog

that won a contest

because it looked enough like the dog in

the movie

that they could shoot stuff on location

with it i suppose this dog

is the most incredibly well-trained dog

i've ever

seen it does some neat stuff and then it

does some stuff that i think

i see what they're doing i'm going to

pull back the curtain on a few tricks

here

it's all peanut butter all peanut butter

he dialed that phone with the power of

peanut butter it's peanut butter all the

way down

chevy said that the script for the adr

stuff changed completely from before

they shot to after they shot

which makes sense because obviously

you're going to write jokes around what

you got footage of

with the dog but and what difference

would that make well he already didn't

like the script beforehand

and then it got way dumber and then he

was just really mad that he was still in

the movie and that he'd already shot his

scenes just read the damn lines

yeah benji the dog is a fictional

character

developed by joe camp starting in 1974

benji starred in six feature films

this is the third theatrical feature in

the series and the second to technically

star ben jean

the daughter of benji it was preceded by

benji

for the love of a benji starring ben

jean and then this

and then it was followed seven years

later by benji the hunted in 87

and then 17 years later by benji off the

leash

in o4 and then 11 years after that

blumhouse did a netflix benji movie the

netflix is the only one that's not

directed by joe camp

but it was directed by his son brandon

camp okay wait hold on let's back it up

a second

so obviously there's multiple dogs

throughout this thing correct like you

said but ben jean is in

the second third and fourth movie okay

so this wasn't even the original benji

dog in this movie

okay but benji as a fictional character

like you

like the dog's actual name was benji

right no

oh benji was the character and she was a

character in the in the movies but like

this isn't a benji movie it is a benji

movie

it says starring benji well yeah but

that's

it doesn't have benji in the title but

it's as much a benji movie as any of the

other benji movies

i guess i haven't seen any other benji

movies oh really

that's surprising is it a little bit

the first one they're just like herbie

movies but with more fur yeah

i'm most familiar with the first benji

movie which is

actually kind of disturbing it's about a

pair of

kidnapped kids and benji knows where

they are and he's about him trying to

communicate

to these people that he knows where they

are it's just lassie but they couldn't

afford a pretty dog

oh benji's cute sure

benji also had cameos in hops

a slapstick western about introducing

camels to the wild west

i'm sorry can you spell that h-a-w-m-p-s

and the double mcguffin about a group of

university students foiling an

assassination attempt

those are cameos by benji the first dog

to play benji was actually named higgins

which gets a reference as the name of a

supporting character in this film

benjin was reportedly terrified of omar

sharif's intensity on set

and as a result the two never interacted

directly whenever

they appear to the arms we see our

director joe camps wearing sharif's coat

because the dog was freaked out and omar

sharif was apparently very upset about

it

that the dog didn't like him okay but

i'm actually bothered by the fact that

they said it was starring benji

when the dog that was in this movie

wasn't benji and that benji isn't even

benji

this is like starring herbie yeah i just

don't think i'd put that in the credits

yeah but they did thunder crashes over a

shot of big ben

and the baseline of wing song arrow

through me kicks up i like this song

i like this song a lot he does i can

attest to the fact that he's been

singing it ever since he watched this

movie

we see a man carrying a red umbrella and

a sea of black umbrellas

i assumed very quickly that this was

chevy chase because he's about a foot

taller than everyone else right

because jeffy chase is like 6'5 and i'm

pretty sure he's like just legitimately

walking through traffic in london

yeah i don't feel like this is a closed

set with like professional drivers i

think he's just

he's just walking across the street i

wouldn't put it past him

he seems to have developed a cold on his

way to the taxi

and uh he gets his umbrella stuck in a

tree as he's trying to get into it

but he's stuck long enough for a girl to

intercept his ride

and so he crosses the street in front of

them as revenge

and then he tries to get into a second

cab and the driver gets out and yanks

him out into traffic

pointing to the sign on the roof as if

it were turned off and when

benjamin here points out that it is

actually on the driver slaps it and it

just automatically turns off

he runs back as if and again as if that

that's his fault

chevy chase's fault yeah because it's

this like you know what are you doing

see it's now it's off

clearly this guy's bad yeah benjamin

runs behind

a double-decker bus that pulls away

revealing it has left him behind

a gag we saw earlier this year in

baltimore bullet suddenly a friend

freddie played by laughing's alan seuss

is there to offer benjamin a ride

his voice sounds enough like paul lind

that lind evidently hated being mistaken

for this guy

benjamin opens freddie's sunroof to

stick his umbrella out because it won't

collapse

and he says benjamin it's raining you

must have noticed you're all

pruning after they pull away we get a

quick gay joke

with benjamin letting freddie know that

he has mistakenly grabbed something else

in place of the gear shift

we move into another full-length song as

freddy skids over curbs and dangerously

between cars

freddie drops him off he offers to drive

him closer to the office but benjamin

insists that the angel of death is after

him and he doesn't want to risk driving

any further with this guy

which it turns out was a good decision i

guess

doesn't really make a huge difference in

the long run but as he's getting out of

the car he says

wait a minute you're not driving with an

amateur benjamin

i'm a professional racer for god's sake

and then he drops back through his

sunroof into the car and drives away

benjamin makes a completely useless joke

about selling shares of freddy's life

insurance premiums

when jackie comes rushing down the

sidewalk carrying a box

and the two collide he catches the box

that she was running with and she lands

on his umbrella officially killing it

and they stare at each other captivated

for a moment and freddie leans out of

his car and goes

anybody hurt i guess not

and then ducks back into his car and

drives away he eventually helps her up

after uncomfortably long and they flirt

a bit he asks how he can get in touch

with her

before they part ways and she mentions

oh well i'm going to be in paris tonight

but maybe later

and then she gives a stranger her full

name and place of work but not her phone

number

and instructs him to call her friday so

i guess he could call information for

that place of business well he would

just call the the paper

and say can i get her desk or yeah and

he could leave a message there

possibly a third song kicks in and it's

again not

stock music nonsense so this was

probably an expensive soundtrack

benjamin heads up to his office and the

sign on the door reads browning and

shackleton private investigators

inside his secretary margaret is

watering plants

and hurriedly unbuttons his wet coat she

gives him notes on all the

calls that he missed over the course of

the day and he hands her the busted

umbrella

she asks if he wants it fixed again and

he says nah take it out back and shoot

it

would you actually fix an umbrella so

like this it seems like she's done that

before

yeah maybe it was like a lucky umbrella

i don't even know where you would take

an umbrella to get it fixed

well perhaps in england that that is a

trade yeah that's true

uh the first song starts up again the

one i liked a lot it's the best one

anyway so that's that's fine with me

browning sits in his chair and he sucks

down some formula 44 which i'm guessing

is some kind of

british cough syrup maybe it was here

too i just didn't recognize it

he rolls over to the window of his

office to light up a cigar

as a customer enters browning takes his

temperature while smoking the cigar

when suddenly the customer speaks to him

he introduces himself as quimby charles

and he says he's here to buy protection

for someone when browning explains that

he doesn't do protection

quimby says that he insisted on mr

browning

and throws a big stack of money at him

money quimby seems to know that browning

needs to keep his business from failing

this should have been the first red flag

if he's only asking you because you are

desperate and apparently not good enough

to keep your business running

i i really am curious of how

he came to select this person is

something that's never

never really brought up again but even

when he's like oh you're familiar with

my work like

you you know that i'm good at my job and

he's like no i have no idea if you're

good at your

job but i know you need this money

desperately it's like is that really how

you pick who you're gonna

hire to protect someone that seems like

a weird choice

see like in fletch a similar situation

happens yes

i made that note too yeah and and it

makes sense

in that context right because he's

playing a person who

is playing a person who's down on his

luck and living on the streets and

talking to horrible people

yeah in this he's got his own business

and things i would imagine

unless he this guy is using his station

to get information

but then i don't know like this whole

plot gets kind of a little convoluted

yeah

they mix it up a bit um brownie asks if

quimby's involved in organized crime and

he says that he's in parliament

and then browning says six of one

browning heads to the apartment of the

woman that he's been hired to protect

moments late it would appear the door

was open and he enters

slowly calling out to her and comes face

to crotch with a big silver statue of a

man

from the first angle it looks like he's

staring down the statue's half erect

penis

but in the wide shot we see that what we

were looking at before was a finger on

the left hand

but i'm pretty sure he is looking at the

crotch

yeah he steps into the kitchen and finds

patricia

the woman he's been hired to protect

dead on the floor and very suddenly

he is also killed stabbed in the back

with a shiny fresh blade

obviously a different one that was just

used to kill the woman a gloved hand

yanks the necklace off the girl and we

dip to white

and browning wakes up in higgins office

in purgatory i guess

i don't know what you would call this

place he informs browning of his death

and he puts him through basically an

exit interview browning also learns that

he's been deemed by the computer as

marginal material so that means that he

has to prove himself before he can go to

heaven or hell

this is like defending your life yeah

yeah that's exactly what i was thinking

it's very much

i'm not exactly sure why they sent him

on this task though

to prove himself like you would think it

would be do a good deed

and this is really just kind of clearing

his own name no it wasn't to clear his

name

it was it was to clear the name of

quimby who's been the guy that was

arrested

in his yeah but it's not like that that

was this was his fault

no i don't think so either but i think

it's just it's something good that he

can do

to make up for maybe bad things that he

did in his life that we didn't see

uh higgins whips out a lightsaber and

claims they had them before star wars

he uses it to gesture towards the

marginal material chart

that indicates he will have to prove his

worth to determine his final destination

here why were there separate charts for

male and female

uh because 75 percent of women go to

heaven but only 70

of men go to heaven if you look at the

percentages

makes sense yeah but why was there a

lightsaber yeah i'm not sure about that

he is assigned the task of returning to

earth to solve his own murder

in exchange for going to heaven and

avoiding damnation

higgins shows him a newspaper article

where quimby charles has been charged

with the murder

but the man in the picture is not the

guy who introduced himself as quimby

charles

he finds out that he was set up by

someone and

he curses the man aloud and higgins is

not a fan of that talk

he gets very uppity when people use

language in his

office because browning is a returnable

he has to go to a department that will

find him a new body to go back into and

he says why can't i go back in my own

body and he says

it has a hole in it higgins sends him to

the department where a young woman is

pointed

into the line behind him he asks her how

she died

and after refusing it first to go into

it she admits

my vacuum cleaner i'm not sure how she

qualifies as a returnable unless a

different vacuum cleaner was blamed for

her murder

see my first question at this scene was

why wouldn't he be allowed to talk to

patricia who should also just be

recently deceased that's true

i was like is just he at least get to

ask her what she saw or what she might

who who she was i felt like he's kind of

being

put into this a little bit blind when

that information should have been

available to him or maybe he's not there

because she went straight to heaven

heaven what she was dating a lot of

people at the same time

she's a woman though yeah but one in

four

don't make it at the front of the line

browning is manhandled by a german woman

with leia hair buns

she starts listing animal options

including a dog

a specific dog that will die in 45

seconds and she's clearly annoyed that

higgins has suggested an immediate

reincarnation for this person

browning takes advantage of their shared

hatred for higgins

um i did like that yeah uh he calls him

a bastard

and she's very turned on by this

extremely

and uh and more than a minute later she

finally surrenders him to the body of

benji who should have died 15 seconds

ago

he runs past the truck as it slams on

its brakes in an alley

first of all it doesn't seem like the

dog was gonna die since the car came to

a complete stop

but secondly keeping in mind i'm not a

student of religion by any means i

always thought reincarnation took place

at the birth of the second vessel it

doesn't make much sense that you would

dump someone into a full-grown dog

who didn't actually end up dying yeah i

mean if he if he weren't a lower grade

returnable would they have just being

john malkovich

him into uh an unsuspecting person like

get out

it also seems like like why does why is

it that

the creature has to be almost killed

is the is the implication that you're

not wasting any of benji's life because

we prevented his death or

or is it that benji's soul is was like

due to die so they took his

it was a vacated vessel that was

available yeah so

what he died of like terror yeah this

truck was approaching

terrier

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[Laughter]

anyway tune in next week uh no from his

new perspective and the body of a dog

browning observes that everything looks

much bigger from down here

and then he checks his crotch and jokes

well

not everything implying either that

chevy chase has a larger dick than a dog

or that he didn't realize that this is a

female yeah to be fair it is a female

dog

yeah yeah i i was i i was also curious

as to what this joke meant i also was

infuriated by the echoey

angelic voice like distortion that they

use for him as the dog

yeah it's like just have it speak like

look who's talking

and it does in some scenes sometimes it

just sounds like he's in the room with

everyone

yeah but whenever it's exteriors it

seems like it's very echoey

browning who i will start calling benji

now since he's a dog

fair enough uh realizes he's in paris

when he sees the eiffel tower

conveniently the woman he crashed into

on the sidewalk is here too

and he hitches a ride back to london in

her convertible but she's not actually

benji in this

movie the dog's name is bj his name is

benjamin

nobody uses the word benji in this movie

yes they do

they do do they yeah it's the last line

of the movie

okay once at the end of the movie they

call him benji

yeah you're welcome proceed

this woman jackie is arguing with her

publisher bernie i think his name is

bernie bernie

uh about an assignment that she has been

given

or she chose i'm not sure evidently

someone was murdered

mere hours ago and jackie has already

decided to write a novel about it

she notices the dog in her car but

steals it despite an obvious caller

well um i wanted to bring this up

because i was also wondering about the

timeline but since the newspaper already

had come out

that could be charles is in jail uh i'm

assuming

i thought that was just because it was

the next morning uh i i got the you know

i got the impression that he

that the trial was over i think some

time has passed

yeah i think he's in jail i don't think

he's been charged no

i i think when she went to visit him it

was in jail not in prison

well either way i think more than a few

hours has passed yeah

not enough yes i should write a book i

think it's the next day though

and i also don't know what drew her to

the story because

not knowing all of the facts all you

have is a second-rate

pi and a woman who is an interior

decorator was killed

and they're they're pinning it on this

guy we don't they don't really make it

clear how they decided that this guy was

responsible even

well i mean people do write books and

stories and teleplays and stuff like

that based on newspaper articles and

just random murders that's true

as they reach london jackie makes a

series of wrong turns based on benji's

desired destination

and he decides to ditch her so we're not

gonna we're not gonna mention that she

drove from paris to london

yeah makes sense i guess this is before

the channel

there's probably fairies or something

there was there are there were fairies

it would have been nice to have seen a a

shot of one

rather than just them on the road and

then suddenly they're in downtown london

from paris i was like yeah

what how did we get here yeah we just

see them driving down like country roads

and that's it

because that's actually a joke in young

frankenstein

where he takes the train to transylvania

yeah

it's it's like that's the joke is you

can't do that benji

ditches her he jumps out of the car and

she notices the dog leaving but makes no

effort to retrieve the dog that she just

smuggled into a country with a six-month

quarantine for dogs he tries to catch a

bus and is tossed off of it

and then he tries to get into carlton

court the building where he was murdered

and the doorman throws the dog down a

set of concrete stairs

oh this bothered me so much this is one

of two scenes that bother me a lot in

this movie

but the dog seems very confused about it

at the bottom the dog is like

why did that just happen and it like

takes a second to like reorient and get

back into the scene because

it's so confused about why it just got

thrown downstairs that's how you get a

dog to do a double take i guess

i guess he walks around the back and

finds a stairwell

instinctively he starts barking at a

nearby cat before he recognizes it

as fellow returnable freddy

it's freddy his friend from the car the

lord works in mysterious ways

he took a shortcut down a one-way alley

six blocks after he dropped browning off

at his office and was hit by a massive

truck

and died freddie the cat tells benji

which window he's looking for

i'm not sure how freddy knows any of the

details of this case

but this is the last thing he does

that's relevant to the film in any way

i don't even understand why this

character is in the movie at all i don't

either yeah

and and why later on in the movie

is there another different character for

no reason yeah

i was like why why couldn't this cat

just be freddy again yeah that makes no

sense to introduce another character at

this point yeah

um as he leaves the plot entirely he

says if you see higgins

tell them never mind about sending the

rats i tried one of them and i just

don't like them

like his delivery is just really fun

entering the room

benji knocks a small statue to the floor

and it shatters scaring a person inside

into hiding in the closet

inside the room there are two

overlapping silhouettes on the floor

in tape where browning and patricia were

murdered

benji wanders around looking at art for

like five minutes

way too long benji digs through photos

at a desk

and notices a small desk calendar and

that the date of the murders was torn

out which i'm sure the cops also noticed

there's no way they wouldn't have seen

that he tries to do a rubbing on the

next page but he gets nothing

or i guess the previous page no it would

be the next page page but

it seems that she writes everything in

sharpie yeah and so it wouldn't have

come through anyway and also he doesn't

have hands so it's trickier to get a

solid rubbing out of it he said sorry

[Laughter]

he notices a phone number on the day

before and he dials it on a rotary phone

with a pencil in his mouth

this is cited by a lot of people as the

most impressive thing that the dog does

in this movie

but the dog is i'm pretty sure just

using like a three foot long pencil

and they just got him to hold it in its

mouth while someone else controlled the

pencil in the rotary phone

and was moving the dog's head around but

the number connects to the needham

gallery

and benji hangs up and notices that the

closet door is starting to open when

suddenly jackie and the building owner

enter the apartment

well we should mention that the fake

quimby chambers

is in this charles quimby charles cooper

charles sorry uh is in the scene

yeah he's the one hiding he's the one in

the high-end closet he's peeking out we

see him full

fully that that it is him yeah cause

he's watching in disbelief yeah he's

watching a dog use a rotary phone

so evidently jackie introduced herself

to the building owner as a novelist

and was invited to inspect an active

crime scene

she's flabbergasted to find benji in the

room without claiming ownership of the

dog she admits that she found it in

paris this morning

and drove it all the way here but for

some reason it's still not her dog

and she's only fairly convinced that

it's not patricia's

it's like no no you found this dog in

another country today

yeah it's not patricia's dog it doesn't

make any sense just because it's here

now

it's here because you brought it here

but she also has this weird

like moment where she's making direct

eye contact with the dog like

she suspects this dog is somehow

involved yeah and she's like i wish you

could talk

the building owner moves to call animal

control on benji

and so i'm sorry i i when she says this

to him

i was like well you can dial a phone and

you can do a rubbing

why can't you just write stuff down yeah

that's true like i got really frustrated

or

or make barks in prime numbers or

something like that

yeah i'm sure that would have come

across right away they're like that's a

seven for sure

i don't know what that means

it was just like you can communicate

you're not like you you're choosing not

to

yeah it's not like you said mentioned

being john malkovich before

where you don't have control right at a

certain point

uh and you're just watching behind the

veil until someone takes a picture of

you as get out would have it

yeah and then you escape for a second

well all i do know is that after richard

dies i am going to watch out for animals

you know barking crimes numbers

that's incredible where did this dog

find a rotary phone

the building owner moves to call animal

control on benji when benji is suddenly

gone

benji is headed back to his own office

which is being emptied into the hall by

two movers

one being the director joe camp and the

other being producer

somebody somebody else

something wit i think jackie comes to

the door and asks

for mr shackleton because she believes

mr browning to be dead and mr shackleton

must be the

leftover investigator but it turns out

that margaret explains that she's mr

shackleton

because browning thought that two names

on the door would look more professional

so there is no other investigator here

right and we have to be sexist and

assume that it was a mister the whole

time right

jackie admits to margaret that she has

decided to write a book about mr

browning's murder

a maximum of 12 hours ago and jackie

takes a photo of mr browning directly

out of margaret's hands

and realizes oh my god this is the guy

that i bumped into yesterday

margaret says it's impossible that they

knew each other because

she keeps tabs on all of his lady

friends in case she needs to reach him

at their apartments

and jackie deduces that that must have

been the day he died that they met

which is also known as yesterday i don't

think it was i think

time has passed i i i feel also the time

has passed

they make it pretty clear that time

doesn't pass differently in the

afterlife when she says a dog's gonna

get hit by a truck in 45 seconds

with dog seconds

i'll give you that one margaret leads

jackie into the office where benji is

sitting at browning's desk holding the

cap to the formula 44 bottle in his

mouth

margaret asks if it's jackie's dog and

again she refuses to commit to the pet

she stole

back at jackie's place which she's done

at browning's office

she looks back to the benji dog and says

i'm going back to my place you know

where that is right

and then she leaves but then we cut to

the apartment she says where what

building she's in yeah

but yeah but then we come to the

apartment and and he's there as benji

yeah and she's feeding him he's like did

you bring him or did he arrive on he was

there on his own for sure

she's making a gross meal for him and

then she moves to strip down for a bath

and benji follows her into the bathroom

when he realizes that she's naked

and jumps in the bath with her next

jackie with benji in tow

meets with the man accused of the

murders the real quimby charles

for no reason she brings this dog into

the jail yeah it

it's purely for plot purposes yeah

because charles even specifically says

there's a rule here that forbids dogs

from coming into the jail

and she's like how'd you manage that

dogs are not allowed

seems they had an unfortunate experience

with one that like to eat prison

officers

i have special permission that's why we

have so much company yeah i know that's

why there's extra people in the room

it's like what does that mean the dogs

aren't allowed here well you didn't have

to make that rule

yeah it's purely so that benji can get

this information yeah

she tells mr charles that she hoped he

would recognize the dog because she has

reason to believe it may have belonged

to patricia

no she doesn't she stole this dog in

another country

why would she think it lives here

charles announces that a condition of

his interview with her

is that any information she uncovers in

the course of her own investigation

will be shared with his legal counsel

because he thinks that she'll be able to

prove

his innocence which i think is fair yeah

absolutely that's a fair deal

she acts very offended by it yeah i was

like no that's that's perfectly all

right

yeah like if you found out that he was

innocent why would you be like no

gotta wait gotta gotta save it for those

like fall release

yeah um you're not gonna ruin my

paperback sales

we learned from a recording of the

interview playing later

that this man was in line for the prime

minister position at one point but those

hopes are likely dashed now that he's in

prison for life

she's furious that this guy didn't kill

his girlfriend and might have cost her

a novel that she has spent most of a day

on

she she parks outside needham gallery

and locks benji in the car so the fact

that he found out about the gallery

doesn't matter because

somehow jackie also found out about it

well i guess he's just putting it

together

this is this is the place this is the

place inside there's lots of statues

like the one of a silver man in

patricia's home

uh at the gallery the host tells jackie

that patricia bought the artist's last

pair of works

a statue of adam and eve they are

interrupted by lady chalmers

apparently patricia was working

decorating lady chalmers flat when she

was murdered

the host leaves them to speak with each

other he tries to find the artist

to speak with because the artist just

got there lady chalmers points out the

octavia sisters

do you know about the octaviuses of

course you do

everybody knows the octave they're not

relevant to the plot not at all

neither is the next person she

introduces who came with two men but

then suddenly jackie hears a dog

sneezing

under a table and realizes benji has

snuck in to get information so she takes

him back to the car

and this time ties him to the steering

wheel before she relocks it

the artist fills a pair of champagne

glasses from a booby champagne dispenser

he's sad about patricia's disappearance

because she always bought his bad heart

he invites jackie to a late candlelit

snack at his place

and she counters with let's say an early

floodlit dinner at mine

they part and chalmers is shocked to see

alastair beckett

enter the gallery evidently he is likely

to fill the prime minister position

that quimby charles was up for she

introduces beckett to jackie

and mentions that the two of them were

introduced by a mutual friend who met

him in switzerland

swooshing down the hills is that the

proper word swooshing

beckett is particularly interested to

learn that she's writing a book about

patricia and quimby

benji chews off his leash and sneaks

back into the gallery

he finds jackie chatting with malcolm

omar sharif's character

and when malcolm sees him he looks

completely terrified as if the dog is

acting independently of any human

which i guess is because he saw him

dialing on the phone

and and although chevy chase

as browning as benji says when that when

it when he notices like omar sharif

looking at him he says you've never seen

me in this

in this suit before yeah he he has no

moment of revelation of like

that's the guy who paid me yeah like he

he's just taking everything matter of

fact and he even goes

so far to say who is this guy it's like

yeah he's the guy

who framed you yeah how do you not know

this already it's so infuriating

again she denies it's her dog and

malcolm leaves abruptly

benji moves to follow him when he leaves

but is locked into the gallery when

malcolm closes the door on his way out

benji pees on some art to try and get

thrown out on purpose

after some chasing around with a bigger

dog benji catches up with malcolm

who grabs him and starts manhandling the

dog against the sidewalk

somehow expecting to find important

clues in his mouth

i don't know what he's doing to this dog

an older woman with an umbrella

interrupts malcolm's assault

and the big dog comes back to chase

benji down an alleyway

jackie heads back to carlton court she

demands access to the crime scene

which has been understandably sealed

jackie asks her publisher

to help her get access but he just

published a book about scotland yard's

greatest blunders

so he thinks they're probably not

rushing to do him any favors

the big dog finds benji in a trash can

benji befriends the dog

and heads back to jackie's place where a

date with the artist is underway

when jackie leaves the room for a moment

the artist yells at the dog repeatedly

to get out of the way

and the artist tells jackie that

patricia was known to play the field

and also that she was missing for a

while before she died evidently

somewhere in switzerland

he repeatedly tries to grope at jackie

on their date but benji is constantly in

the way

we cut to jackie listening to the tape

recording of her conversation with

beckett

uh she's in the tub again with benji she

heads off to becca so gross

what being in the tub with the dog maybe

i'm just like you're

first of all wet dogs are gross yes

second of all you're naked

and it's help with an animal that's

weird and also

you we know that benji had just been in

a garbage can

well i think that's why he's in the bath

yeah but then you wouldn't bathe

in that garbage can juice water

dog trash water i don't need this she

heads to beckett's office where

a secretary tries to brush her off

before beckett caesar and invites her in

in his actual office benji notices the

artist montenero's art is all over the

place

specifically a silver woman holding an

apple

and he also notices that straight across

from his desk is a painting of the

matterhorn

jackie asks if becca can help her access

patricia's client list in her flat

and he refers her to his assistant

malcolm

here benji finally puts two and two

together beckett and patricia were both

in switzerland

and each has a half of montenero's adam

and eve sculpture pair

he finally realizes that malcolm malcolm

bart is the guy's full name

hired him as a pi so they could frame

him as a motive for the murder

the plot is actually reminiscent of

chase's later film fletch in which he's

also hired as an investigator by someone

pretending to need one thing but

actually needing his corpse

they agree to get her back in the

apartment but benji assumes they will

clear it out before then

because they're obviously trying to

cover their tracks for whatever reason

they don't expect the dog to break in

tonight though

on his way in benji hears freddie

complain about something in the alleyway

i'm guessing they felt like it was weird

that he was irrelevant for the whole

rest of the movie so they added a quick

adr line here

in the room benji remembers that the

closet door opened by itself

and he finally understands why bart has

been so weird because he watched a dog

make a phone call

bart enters and reads paperwork by

lighter light at first i thought he was

going to burn

stuff yeah but then i realized that he's

just holding it as a light source but

i feel like a lighter is a bad choice

for this benji is hiding by his legs

under the desk

and malcolm pockets a few pages and

heads out

higgins enters and turns on the lights

defeating the purpose of

malcolm not turning on the lights

earlier yeah but he's like a

i don't know what he is an angel sure

he's an angel maybe he's

you know maybe the lights aren't really

on it's not really happening yeah

but for whatever reason benji is now

browning again he turns back into chevy

chase when higgins is around because it

just makes conversation easier

higgins informs him that the german

woman at the returnable's office

accidentally gave him

to a limited returnable which means that

he will have to leave this body soon

also

and if he doesn't leave he will stay in

the dog's body permanently until the dog

dies

which i thought was the plan already but

apparently that's the new threat

jackie gets a call from beckett

apparently benji went to his office from

carlton court

and he tells her she can pick up the dog

from malcolm bart's office in the

morning

so after he left this place with higgins

he went to beckett's office to get

information but it's like

beckett's office isn't just an apartment

with a fire escape out the window like

you can't get into the building you

can't go anywhere yeah because it's

i'm assuming it's another it's a

government office parliamentary

offices benji does find a note though on

bart's desk that reads

beckett's birthday rathbone street and

wentworth road

and uh bart enters in the morning and

finds him at the desk just as jackie's

arriving to retrieve him

she also sees the note and assumes that

it's beckett's birthday

and that they're doing some kind of

party at that cross street as she passes

beckett on the way out he tells her that

he made some progress with scotland yard

and they can discuss it over lunch

and she says that she'll buy him a

birthday drink and he says it's

not my birthday it's nowhere near my

birthday my birthday is 3 3.

which is the first hint that that i got

that this guy's

not in on it because he wouldn't have

just given her that information

yeah if he thought it was important to

anything benji gets a ride in a fancy

car from hermione

remember hermione yeah remember the

character hermione there was like an

older lady with a fancy car that gives

dogs rides all over the place

no who is this character i don't know

she's just another returnable

he needs to get somewhere and i guess

it's further away than usual

so they just introduce a random

returnable character who we've never met

before

well do we even know that her name is

hermione he says thanks hermione when he

gets out of the car as i say the only

reason i realized it was returnable is

because she has the same necklace as

uh as he and uh freddie

freddie and i don't know if hermione was

like the vacuum girl

that's what i was thinking but we never

i don't recall her ever saying her name

yeah but either way it's just very

strange that they would

put this in here when we could have just

seen the dog walk up to a building and i

don't understand the purpose of

returnables i thought

thought it meant you had to do some kind

of mission right like some kind of

quantum leap

kind of thing so what's freddy doing and

what's hermione doing

i don't know uh hermione's giving dogs

rides

that's true and freddy is eating but not

liking rats

but i can't stop eating i can't stop

once you pop

he realizes that at this intersection is

a post office and he moves inside to

find post office box

33 he climbs over the counter at the

post office

and tries to pull an envelope out of 33

from the inside

because they're obviously locked on the

outside at the same time most of the

post office

staff are leaving for lunch leaving a

deaf man in charge

a deaf man played by the same actor as

the higgins character

which is i was like pointless well our

thought i thought this was like part of

higgins plan

yeah the joke is that he's there to

facilitate this theft yeah

but uh yeah they don't really make it

clear that he's doing it on purpose

benji gets the envelope just as bart

tries to pull it from the opposite side

eventually bart's arm is completely

through this

booth it's through the the hole in the

wall

and he's yanking on the dog he's holding

the dog off the ground by one

arm this bothered me so much for like 30

seconds

it's very uncomfortable to watch you

know between this and the

in the shot where they throw him down

the stairs and just

back then people abused animals in

movies to get shots like that but like

what kind of trainer who has this super

valuable dog who can do all this stuff

allows anybody to do this kind of thing

to the dog you could dislocate its

shoulder

not only that but joe camp invented this

character you have to assume that he at

least has

an affinity for dogs and that he would

let people do this to

the dog that he's already worked with on

two more is there is there a full shot

of the dog being suspended dog is like

bouncing up and down and yelping to like

get away well and it really bothers me

because

i know how films are made you don't just

do these things once

you shoot this 10 times and also when

when the arm eventually drops the dog

you see it like limping on the ground

because it was being held up by one leg

that's probably all strained and hurt

now

the whole time he's holding the dog off

the ground he's yelling for the deaf

employee to help him

and when he finally comes to the window

bart shouts

stop

yes i believe we do the doorman at

jackie's building drops benji envelope

and mouth into her apartment

and he opens it to find a necklace with

a matterhorn pendant on it

and then when he flips it over it says

alph on the back and he says well that's

a little redundant why the hell would

anyone write alph on an alp

and it's also very reminiscent of the

font on their own

on his own necklace yeah that's true he

deduces that alps stands for alastair

loves patricia

even though we've already covered that

they're in a relationship but this is

just

physical proof of it she can be seen in

many

pictures around jackie's apartment

wearing this necklace in photos

even on the night that she was murdered

he remembers that she was wearing it

when he fell on top of her

but it's missing from the police photos

of the crime scene

so he puts together that alastair was

having an affair with patricia

but she was a risk to his political

career and was likely murdered to get

her out of the way

he decides that he must interrupt

jackie's lunch date

because if he does something in public

he's less likely to just get murdered

because he's a dog so it bothers me

that he is going to now take this this

pendant

to not patricia to jackie

at her lunch date and not bring anything

else to sort of explain this because

he's not going to like

bark this out in morris code here as

we've established he doesn't communicate

in any other way

yeah so how does he plan to like

establish what she needs to know from

this necklace that

like you would just assume this is a

random necklace that the dog has why

would you think it's connected to the

murder in it i think he was actually

counting on what happens

which is that alistair will see it and

freak out about it

and think that she knows more than she

does and maybe spill the beans on it but

obviously you have a picture of her

wearing it and you have a picture of her

not wearing it just bring those along

with you

yeah that's true well he doesn't have a

picture of her not wearing it yeah

that's right

he also runs out of time because bart

breaks down the door

right but yeah he first he he goes to

page the doorman to let him out

and the doorman's like uh yes mrs what's

her name

howard yes mrs howard and he just barks

once and the doorman goes

ugh i'll be right up like okay dog i'm

gonna come let you out

but 30 seconds later bart is opening the

door and he's like oh that was fast and

it's like you know that's someone coming

to attack you there's no way he got up

here already

bart opens the door and benji just runs

right past him down the hallway

eventually after a long chase sequence

bart corners benji in front of a shop

and pulls a handgun and points it at

this tiny dog

and benji turns and runs between his

legs or just barely around him

across the street and bart just fires

shots into a crowd of people like that

what what movie was that where they were

firing it oh that was

the night of the jugger when he's firing

a shotgun across the street but uh these

are hitting like a keg that they're

trying to offload from a truck and it's

just spraying beer everywhere

benji hits an alleyway with a dead end

was this the part where he runs into uh

the weaver's moving a

plate glass oh yeah or was that with the

dog earlier well it's somewhere in this

chair it's no it's in this chase

the the thing that doesn't come into

play at all yeah yeah

um but eventually they set up for

wayne's world two

or where it's like all these people just

in an alley setting up fruit and

carrying play cast windows it's like is

something gonna happen with this window

what was the purpose of having a mover

carry a

playlist window across the screen but

benji comes to an alleyway with a dead

end

where higgins is there and he's human

again suddenly carrying this pendant in

his mouth still

suddenly another presumably returnable

human but not freddy because he's gone

for some reason

and uh this character is dressed like

batman's penguin sans monocle

complete with a fish in his mouth and he

says i was a pelican what were you

and it's like who are you why are you in

this scene

there wasn't even a pelican in this

alley before higgins showed up and why

is he wearing a top hat why is no one

else wearing

jeffy chase just has his like underwear

angelic robe

yeah but chevy chase is like jesus

christ like exasperated and the pelican

thinks that he means he actually was

jesus christ

but this hasn't been a time traveling

process so far

seems like time is continuing to move in

one direction you don't go

back in time when you get reincarnated

why would the pelican know who jesus

is yeah well he he was he was

reincarnated as a pelican

oh and then died again and then no i

think he was a pelican no his returnable

expired

oh oh so okay so this is

higgins shows up right to take back the

turnables

right okay bart skids around the corner

and comes face to face with browning the

man he killed earlier this week

possibly yesterday yeah wearing

a hospital gown in an alley

and he he asks if a little dog came

through here

apparently seeing browning not benji so

he actually

is looking at a human not at a dog

browning explains that

you know what i did but it couldn't have

been a dog because you know what it did

it ran

straight up this brick wall and it ran

all the way up there

and up and into the sky and the camera

is like

tilting up as if to follow the imaginary

dog from the story into the sky

i just like the feel of this like it's

very like spooky and weird

but uh the whole time like they're

they're cutting back and forth to bart's

reaction to this like is he buying it

is he freaked out about it is he freaked

out about seeing the man he just killed

standing there yeah

but then like i like that the way he

finishes the story

is he's like you know what that's it's

impossible that that happened please

don't tell people i said that

i'm gonna sound like a crazy person

because he wants to really sell this is

what happened and i'm not a crazy person

because i'm recognizing that

that sounds crazy bart then just wanders

away like dazed and terrified that this

ghost dog is coming after him

chevy tells higgins that he has

surrendered to staying a dog for the

remainder of its life

benji and bart chase each other some

more i think this is where they go past

the

the window movers and then eventually

they get to the patio where jackie and

beckett are having lunch

just as jackie is insisting that she

didn't know any of these people

before she decided to write a book about

them and they're still warm corpses

benji pops up with the necklace at the

edge of the table

and beckett turns dark very quickly he

is accusing her of being a liar

she's been lying this whole time and

then he go moves into like a

semi-confession where he speaks

wistfully about his relationship with

patricia

and she is trying to put this together

as quickly as she can and comes to the

conclusion

that he must have killed her and so she

makes that accusation

but then he denies it forcefully just as

bart gets to the table

and says no i did it because

you should be prime minister and i've

worked 12 hard years to get you to that

position and i wasn't going to let it go

to waste over this woman

so i did this for you and i kept that

necklace as proof that i did it in case

you ever needed proof of my loyalty

and uh he's just crazy yeah he's an

insane person

literally just crazy and he pulls a gun

again on the dog

because of these three people clearly

the dog is behind all of it

and as he raises it to fire it at the

dog

jackie takes the bullet and dies here in

the diner

which i was really not expecting this to

happen

but so she's dead benji walks along the

scene

playing the tames alone mourning her

death

and suddenly he hears a voice mocking

the front page photo of murdered

novelist

and he thinks it's her voice in his head

but then he realizes that she's a cat

now standing on top of the newspaper

dispenser

we cut to a dog and a cat having sex in

the river

no in the river in the river just

floating downstream no uh they can't

have sex

they're a dog and a cat is that the only

point of a relationship

yes what is she gonna go have sex with

freddy now

well i don't think he'd want that

i don't like it it's like i'm not a fan

of [ __ ]

and as they're walking away she

basically says oh yeah

you know i figured you came down and you

stayed a dog forever for me it's the

least i could do is return the favor

what so what should i call you bj

benjamin benji and he's like oh no not

benji i hate benji

and then he says i hate benjamin my

friends used to call me benji

oh okay but she says you're not the

benji type yeah and then we get our

credits

cause he's not benji he was bj this

whole movie he called him benji the

whole time his name is not benji

his friends call him benji no no

okay then i'm gonna make an even more

accurate case

that the benji in the movie benji is not

benji do they call him benji in the

benji movie it doesn't matter that's not

his name

his name was higgins what

the dog's name is oh right i forgot

about that

director joe camp literally only benji

stuff all of it except for the 2018

sequel

yeah i was like it's like joe camp i

know that name why do i know that name

oh literally from all of them

the writer rod browning just gave his

own name to the character

in the movie this was his first produced

screenplay

he has a few tv movies after that and

then watchtower in 2001 with tom

barringer

looks great mostly miscellaneous acting

credits from the 70s and 80s on his page

chevy chase was browning obviously he

started on snl for one season

and left to pursue movies like this at

first

i think he blamed his snl replacement

bill murray for

the the bad start he had in film despite

them both being in the same film that

we'll cover later this year yes well

that was the first one that didn't turn

out poorly for him

although wait when was vacation was that

70s or 80s 1983

okay like we said the two of them will

appear again later this year in

caddyshack

but their clashes are legendary i would

say that chase is best known as the

patriarch of the griswold family and the

five

vacation movies and he's fletch in two

movies or

i guess one movie and then a sequel and

uh he's also an amigo

he also stars in spies like us later

this decade which features another paul

mccartney song on the soundtrack

[Music]

ben jean is credited here as benji or

ben jean

and her next credit is her only

non-benji role in the chuck norris film

and eye for an eye

in 1981 then we won't see her again

until the next benji movie in 1987.

she also starred in the benji tv series

which was called benji

zaks and the alien prince huh sounds

great

jane seymour was jackie she was

solitaire and live and let die

yeah which features another paul

mccartney song i really am not a big fan

of live and let die

i know because you're weird about roger

moore you're not willing to accept his

greatness

uh they introduced psychic powers into

the james bond franchise

what's wrong with it but uh but she's

great and she's i like her a solitaire

no i actually she's one of my favorite

bonk girls she also obviously played dr

quinn medicine woman in the 90s

she'll be in somewhere in time later

this year in 1980

and she played kitty cat in wedding

crashers a very memorable scene

where she got motorboated um omar sharif

was malcolm bart

he's dr zhivago and dr zhivago he plays

ali and lawrence of arabia

we had him earlier this year as the

deacon and the baltimore bullet

and he will be agent cedric and top

secret later this decade

robert morley was bernie the publisher

he plays british gentleman

in great muppet caper he played

i knew it the second he opened his mouth

i'm like i know this voice

what is it i see him with muppets yeah

he played king louie

the 16th in marie antoinette in 1938.

what yeah that's pretty impressive he

also played oscar wilde in the 1960 film

oscar wilde

stuart germain was higgins slash def

postie

this was his last credit and he really

didn't seem to work much for as fun as

he is in the movie

alan seuss was freddy he started out

most of his work is from rowan and

martin's

laugh in he was also in a twilight zone

episode called the masks directed by ida

lupino

yeah that's a great one jon stride was

alistair beckett he plays a psychiatrist

in the omen

and he plays hughes in juggernaut which

is the the boat bomber movie

donnelly rhodes was montenero the artist

he played macon

in butch cassidy and the sundance kid

and grandpa flynn

in tron legacy oh

i don't i don't really remember i have

to assume that that's

jeff bridges dad if he shows up anywhere

in the movie yeah

but who knows barbara lee hunt was

margaret

the the secretary at the office she

plays the vice principal and billy

elliott

she plays brenda blaney in hitchcock's

frenzy

and she is judy dench's godmother huh

richard vernon was quimby charles the

actual quimby charles he plays colonel

smithers and goldfinger

he plays dr hugo fassbender and the pink

panther strikes again

and in the original hitchhiker's guide

the bbc special

he played slurry bart fast

[Laughter]

susan kellerman plays the german clerk

she was a waitress earlier this year in

where the buffalo roam for us

no relation to sally they spell their

names differently oh i was just going to

look her up to see if she was related

nope she also plays grace in beetlejuice

uh one of the people sitting around the

table i think she is

either dick cavett's date or is

goulet's at the table too i don't

remember

yeah i i mean grace is one of the people

around that table

goulet comes later but it's dick cavett

and a couple of other people i think

it's dick cavett's date okay at the

table

she also played the second doctor and

death becomes her

from the director of our next movie the

voice

in the purgatory area is for the

characters apparently named carlton

which i don't know if that's like a

reference to carlton court a building

that the people were murdered in

but the voice was provided by mr lorenzo

music

a message for new arrivals this is the

last day you can register for the same

class class

and don't forget ultra sports coach

diogenes is still looking for a few good

volleyball players

who most people recognize as the voice

of garfield uh he also shared the voice

of venkman on the real ghostbusters with

dave coulier

both both of which is why when the voice

comes on i'm like

is this garfield or is this bill murray

yeah

but he also played carlton the doorman

on rhoda so it's like a three-way

reference

uh like rhoda would have been after this

or before this

before i think it was before yeah and uh

he also wrote for bob newhart

immediately as soon as i heard his voice

i sent you a message i was like

is that lorenzo music out here he's

great his voice is music to my ears

that's what his podcast would be called

if he was still here music to your ears

there you go huh i'm gonna pitch that to

his ghost

derek cracknell sounds like a ducktales

character but he's not

he played the driver of lady hermione's

car

lady hermione of course a very important

character in this film

derek cracknell was also an assistant

director on a bunch of stuff

for example a shot in the dark 2001 a

space odyssey

diamonds are forever clockwork orange

live inlet die man with a golden gun

this movie mirror cracked later this

year

crawl supergirl life force oh my god

batman and king ralph was his last movie

he went out with a bang yeah uh he was

he was actually electrocuted in that

scene

where they take the picture of the whole

family dice uh no i don't know what

happened to cracknell but

uh he was a cool guy and he got to work

on a lot of awesome movies so

nice work derek yeah this movie was

okay i feel like there's a lot of loose

ends that don't really work out

and i feel like for a private

investigator he's played as very slow on

the take

piecing things together well i guess

he's

again we don't really ever cover why he

is selected

out of all the other people that he

could have hired it's not like

it's not even as well established as in

private eyes where they're like

oh i saw you on the front page because

you're bad at solving murders

yeah exactly like i needed some kind of

context

for him to to have specifically sought

out this person

yeah so but like when you think it's a

talking dog movie you assume it's going

to be a cheesy

family film you do this this wasn't that

and it was marketed as the first adult

benji movie

and the advertising made a point like

this isn't like a typical benji movie

don't bring all your kids yeah he's

gonna make dick jokes and say [ __ ] all

the time

i mean if i was a producer i'd be like

yeah this is a terrible idea we

shouldn't do

this but like it's not it's not like a

cheesy family film like yes

you know it's not uh you know this isn't

milo and otis or

homeward bound like this is an actual

okay i like pump the

we're mad that they threw a dog

downstairs here but a cat over a

waterfall that's fine

that's fine okay well okay insert cheesy

talking dog

movie here it's not look who's talking

now yeah okay

yeah i don't think uh anyone pointed a

gun at the child and herbie goes bananas

that's that's what it feels like when it

happens in this movie it does feel like

you're in a kid's movie that suddenly

veered left right and there was

definitely you know

statues with like you know naked bits

and

i definitely get the impression and

stabbings and i think this was rewritten

a bunch

because there's so many storylines that

are picked up and just dropped

completely

and like you said the freddy character

plays no part yeah in

the overall what's happening i mean he

might as well have just bumped into her

on the sidewalk outside of the hotel

and it would have made as much sense as

him getting a ride from his friend for a

few blocks

but like i'm gonna stand by the fact

that it wasn't bad

it was just it could have been better

okay that's fair i i mean there was

nothing that like stood out as being

specifically bad

i just felt like it was very scatter

brained and

it's not like this follows this

logically which follows this logically

in a straight path it was just kind of

like let's do this now let's do this now

but i stayed engaged throughout the

whole film sure

and i didn't want to give up on it like

so many films i've already watched

this year and it was it had a decent

story

yeah so i'm guessing up or down for you

i'll give it a nap

okay i'm not going to give it an up just

personally it's not

it's not my kind of movie i probably

won't watch this again and i

probably wouldn't wouldn't recommend it

i am also not

giving it up which i guess is giving it

a down

i feel like this is my first sideways

can i do that could i give it a second

you can only give one movie

feel neutral 40-year podcast

40 years and that movie will be sideways

i'm giving this a sideways exactly in

the middle of my list forever

i i had seen this movie as a kid the

only thing i really remembered was that

she also died

and yeah i was not expecting that at all

um that was literally the only thing i

remembered from this movie

um i thought it was more kid-friendly

only because i watched it as a kid

but uh watching it as an adult i thought

it was okay it was just i

um unless you're a benji completionist

yeah and we know they're out there uh i

definitely think that uh

chevy chase could go and watch this

movie it's not your worst movie chevy

i'm not saying that you should pick this

over almost anything else that's come

out in the past 40 years

but you you should see this

see it what do you think's his worst

movie fletch two

really i really don't like that movie

and and i think

maybe i judge it unfairly because it's

the sequel to fletch

and it's like fletch i think is his best

movie

and for me fletch two was such a

disappointment when i finally got around

to seeing it i was like

oh my god i totally forgot there's a

fledge too i have to rent this now

and i brought it home and it's just like

nothing there's nothing from the first

movie there

it's not none of it's real you know the

first movie feels like a thing that

actually happened to someone

the second one is cartoon birds in it

and [ __ ]

i i don't disagree yeah i think that was

the maddest i've been after a chubby

chase movie but i'm trying to think

i mean he's done a bunch of stuff in the

last five years that i obviously yeah i

was thinking like cops and robbersons or

jungle the junk not jungle the jungle

what was the other one oh yeah you don't

like uh

man of the house man of the house i like

that movie actually

yeah there's a lot i'm just looking up

this imdb there's a lot of garbage on

here

i'm telling you after 90 it's i think

it's just

vegas vacation and dirty work that i

would give thumbs ups too

and dirty work isn't really a lead for

him no i mean like i would

you can't i mean i wouldn't say like hot

tub time machine uh

for him i forgot he was even in that

yeah uh i mean i think his best stuff

of the l was it was on community this

isn't even his only talking dog movie

what else he's in an animated movie

called dougal

oh doggle doogle i'm guessing

but i think i'm actually thinking of the

one where sean connery does the voice of

a skateboarding dog

that came out like two years ago and it

was his last movie

oh god because he did like obviously i

think a league of extraordinary

gentlemen was his last

live-action movie right but then this

was he did a weird animated movie my god

he this isn't by far not his only

talking dog movie there's one called

the karate dog it's a tv movie that he

did a voice in

that sounds right you got to take what

you can get when you're chevy chase now

where's this going on your list richard

uh for me

i am putting this just below the nude

bomb

okay and just above hero at large all

right

jessaba that's actually a lot higher

than i thought you were gonna

we're a down yeah well here at large

isn't as high on his list as it is

yeah and well the but the hero at large

and the nude bomb are right next to each

other on my list which is much higher

than you thought yeah where i mean like

wouldn't do you have a concept of what

number that is

uh it would be 39. okay

roughly yeah mine's actually a little

bit lower than yours

because i'm putting it um putting it

just above windows

uh and below barely clears the windows

threshold it does it just barely

um but below folks so mine you know it's

probably around

the 50 mark some somewhere in there for

me

this is going just under serial and just

above privatize

actually that's pretty low uh yeah

wow well i know well i think i think you

guys liked

cereal more than i did because i have a

visceral hatred for that movie

second only to caligula yes for

for whatever reason i think that's

everything for this one if you guys have

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when we'll be discussing used cars which

imdb describes like so

when the owner of a struggling used car

lot is killed it's up to the lot's

hotshot salesman to save the property

from falling into the hands of the

owner's ruthless brother and used car

rival

we leave you now with the trailer for

used cars

coming this summer from columbia

pictures a movie that asks the question

would you buy a used car from this man

here at new deal used cars we are uh

stripping away

inflation we're taking off those high

prices

or this one we have a group of immoral

charlatans masquerading as businessmen

they will stoop to the lowest roy

would you buy a used car from this one

sign your name

right on or from this man

look inside i don't want to look inside

oh just get in the car get in

well these people did

used cars about a group of dedicated

businessmen who'll do

anything to sell a car we can't do a

commercial wearing this we'll come off

looking like a couple

695 you got

minute what the hell is this is this a

1977 450 sl

for 24 000 that's too

high

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used cars it's a dirty business

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