Hey guys, honestly I love your videos. I've been around since the long long ago chad vader days and you always seem to just make videos (beer and board games, rated rpg, etc) that YOU want to make and I've always enjoyed it. You are like my friendly family on youtube and I appreciate you for it. Long days, pleasant nights, and much love.
Aha! The Dutch Girl was singing: "Sinterklaas kapoentje, gooi wat in mijn schoentje." Literally translated: Santa Claus kapoentje, throw something in my shoe. It's Dutch tradition that Sinterklaas comes to the Netherlands and the children can lay their shoe beside the fireplace. The next morning the shoe will be filled with presents and candy. fun fact: kapoentje actually means castrated turkey.
I've never seen "Running on Empty," and only just learned of it from the end of this episode. Have either/both of you seen "The Mosquito Coast," which also stars a young River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton? Just curious.
Top 5 Christmas movies (in no particular order): 1. Gremlins 2. A Christmas Story 3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 4. Scrooged 5. Krampus (the Michael Dougherty one)
Some short film suggestions for this season's year end special: Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising", David Lynch's "The Cowboy & The Frenchman", Jacques Tati's "The School For Postmen", Werner Herzog's "No One Will Play With Me", Jean Vigo's "Zero For Conduct", Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates", Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks", George Lucas' "Freiheit", Alexander Payne's "Carmen", or Tim Burton's "Vincent"
Now you should watch the remake of Miracle on 34th Street and see how it compares. I think a lot of people hate on it, but I don't recall thinking it was too bad.
Scene it: Seven Psychopaths? I keep posting this movie because I really loved it and In Bruges. The film is really great because it subverts and plays straight action movie tropes and has great performances from everyone. Please notice me senpai and discuss this film!
Have either of you seen "Leave Her to Heaven"? Scorsese has put it in his top 10 favorite films from the Golden Age and cited it's almost "too perfect" cinematography as his inspiration for most of 2004's "The Aviator".
Having been a cartoonist in Boston in the 1980's and 1990's, I can attest a lot of that suicide "humor" was just to underline two things: 1) The intensity of the hopelessness of a situation to add drama, 2) The cartoonist likely is feeling despair as the cartoon itself is an outlet. Consider very early Charles Shultz comics where Charlie Brown is depicted as a cartoonist himself and mutters he wants to commit suicide. Not quite "humor" as "drama" and an "outlet" for the artist himself. The outlet actually is drawn and the need to do so is "exorcised" from the artist that way.
D But Sinterklaas and Santa Claus are the same guy, just a different interpretation of the same icon of Saint Nicolas. So it's kind of appropriate, I think.
FLHBR although they share a similar name and (thanks to coca cola) look alike, they quite a different origin story. Santa being based in peagan tradition and Sinterklaas having strong Catholic roots.
@BlameSociety - "get back to work Chinaski" - I got drunk with Chuck Bukowski's wife one night in 1980 in West Hollywood. I think her name is (was?) Linda. I had just finished reading Hollywood (the novel) and I laughed myself silly. Linda got Charles off the hard booze and into fine wine in the last few years of his life. Check out Robert Crumb's portraits of Bukowski. Good show.
Hey speaking of the comic suicide; Have you guys seen The Wounds (Rane - 1998)? It's a cult Serbian coming of age/historic movie, filled with "stereotypical" old-school comedic moments.
I think suicide is funny as a concept because it is an example of the classic "comedy is about defying expectations" thing. The expectation is that people want to live. It is also an expectation that morbid things are not to be played for laughs. However, the combination of someone defying the expectation that they want to live creates a joke, and that joke being morbid further defies expectations, and having met those two criteria, creates comedy.
It's a t-shirt a fan made for us (Matt has one, too). It says "Hello, My Name Is STU" in honor of Matt's on-going movie hopping interloper Stu (original appearance in All That Jazz).
Walking on water is lame compared to giving someone a house. Yeah yeah, that's very nice Jesus, but this guy over here is giving me a house, so unless you have something more important to show me, I'm gonna go live in this 112,000 dollar house now.
Damn, what's Craig's beef with the Catholics? Also, my family and I watch this movie every year....along with It's a Wonderful Life. They're great, but maybe I have my nostalgia glasses on.
I have no beef with the RC's. I was raised one myself, and though I am no longer practicing, it is part of who I am. Which is to say, I kid because I love.
Matt is starting to look quite a bit like Orson Welles with that beard and all. You should take up smoking again just to make my observation even more accurate!
I had to stop eating trail mix so I could hear you guys properly. That's how much I love you. More than trail mix.
4:36 "I...gotta go pitch a float."
I laughed waaaaaay too hard at Matt's "Santa Claus is currently in town".
The real miracle is this consistently awesome show! Never change, love you guys.
Edmund Gwenn’s performance is so good that over 75 years later, he’s still one of the most charming portrayals of Santa in cinema history.
Hey guys, honestly I love your videos. I've been around since the long long ago chad vader days and you always seem to just make videos (beer and board games, rated rpg, etc) that YOU want to make and I've always enjoyed it. You are like my friendly family on youtube and I appreciate you for it. Long days, pleasant nights, and much love.
One of your funniest episodes guys! Well done!
A pun that stops an entire room in it's tracks.
Dayum, Craig!
Great episode, as always. Thanks fellas.
Love the comments you put in your videos, thanks for making me laugh each week!
Thanks for the video guys. Your Welcome to the Basement vids are the highlight of my youtube subs.
so excited for next week! this was a fun episode!
Have you guys seen 12 Angry Men? it's one of my favorite classic films.
Aha! The Dutch Girl was singing: "Sinterklaas kapoentje, gooi wat in mijn schoentje." Literally translated: Santa Claus kapoentje, throw something in my shoe. It's Dutch tradition that Sinterklaas comes to the Netherlands and the children can lay their shoe beside the fireplace. The next morning the shoe will be filled with presents and candy. fun fact: kapoentje actually means castrated turkey.
Stu for Hall of Fame 2016!
Thelma Ritter needs to become the first ever contested entry in the Basement hall of fame!
New Ken Loach movie, "I David Blake'. Seen it? Incredible film
I couldnt stop laughing when Matt shrugged X'D
Spatula city!
Buy nine spatulas, get the tenth spatula for just one penny.
We got it all on UHF!
Jamie Gordon we sell spatulas... and that's all!
what better way to say "I love you" than with the gift of a spatula.
most underrated show on all of youtube
I loved the intro ! For a moment I belived that Craig was going to pull the Montgomery Brogan's "Fuck you" scene as Donald Duck XD
I like this show because i can just watch it and be able to pretend that i know a lot about movies in conversation.
matt is turning into orson welles again.. love it
He's a werewelles.
Choosing Donald Duck is too obvious. Goofy--now there's a cartoon character who's hiding his angst with tomfoolery.
I LOVE IT!
I spit my drink out at that parselmouth joke, completely unexpected.
Did you guys ever watch the berserk movies someone sent?
I thought I was watching Rifftrax! LOL
The Elephant Christmas Story
I've never seen "Running on Empty," and only just learned of it from the end of this episode.
Have either/both of you seen "The Mosquito Coast," which also stars a young River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton? Just curious.
Great movie. So wonderful to see Harrison Ford cast against type. Matt & Craig featured it on the "Seen It" segment of Episode 53: Miami Blues.
Cool, thanks T.A.!
I'm only 3:58 in and I'm crossing my fingers that you guys like this one, it's one of my favorites.
EDIT: 20:56 and all is well!
The mailman was Grandpa Joe from the original Charlie and the Chocolate factory!
Josiah Martuscello Oh my god! I never would have realised if you hadn't said. His voice is so distinctive though
I predict that Nicolas Cage, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Grodin, Beethoven and/or fighting will be this years hall of famers.
I have mixed feelings about a woman in a black&white movie saying "it was just my silly common sense"
Holy... what ate the odds? Matt said "president elect" and I'm watching this on the day Biden was announced as president elect.
Matt, what did you do to your hand!? (note:. I'm only at 1:49 into the episode. Maybe you address it...).
He hurt it hitting Dylan.
Top 5 Christmas movies (in no particular order):
1. Gremlins
2. A Christmas Story
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. Scrooged
5. Krampus (the Michael Dougherty one)
Is the FPS kind of lagging in this video or am I going crazy?
Let's find out. Who was the first president of the United States?
Have you ever seen The Savage Is Loose?
It's weird seeing the character of Susie and knowing her actress became this gorgeous woman.
Hehe, have you not yet endured the Norman Mailer 3 movie pack I sent? Or are some memories best not brought back?
I want a fraggle stick car for Crimbus.
That was propper dutch btw
Oh man funny episode. Not a lot of jokes made me break but when I broke I broke hard.
Have you guys seen "The Quiet Man"? Another Maureen O'Hara movie, but I think she is great in it.
Greg benson and yeshmin often do the suicide gun to the head bit.
Sorry you seem to be having wrist trouble Matt. Have that same brace.
Craig, why did you say nothing about Thelma Ritter? I have heard great things about her.
I went on at length, but it all ended up on the cutting room floor.
Craig Johnson We need the Craig Johnson cut of this episode.
It would be nothing but 25 minutes about how essential Ms Ritter is. Matt has done us a service.
Literally EVERYTHING you said about T. Ritter is in the episode. It seems short because I EDITED IT ALL TOGETHER.
Watch Possession (1981)
"pervert..pervert" im so using that now when i see people in trenchcoats! XD
How was Hamilton?
Did I spot an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader reference? Goddamn.
Some short film suggestions for this season's year end special: Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising", David Lynch's "The Cowboy & The Frenchman", Jacques Tati's "The School For Postmen", Werner Herzog's "No One Will Play With Me", Jean Vigo's "Zero For Conduct", Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates", Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks", George Lucas' "Freiheit", Alexander Payne's "Carmen", or Tim Burton's "Vincent"
& I invite anyone who cares to, to add on to this list...
laughed too hard at Santa is a parsel mouth
I wonder what a miracle on 34th in Chicago would look like.
Rewatching this because Matt told me to. I forgot how good he looks with that beard.
i forget to push the like button sometimes and it makes me feel terrible when i go to show it to someone and its not there >
Craig, I did not say Santa.
How dare you, sir, how dare you.
You should have watched the remake, they really spared no expense on that one!
it's funny, Macy's windows this year are all about Virginia and her letter. I walk past them on the way to the RW every day.
& I caught that Bukowski reference, sly-boots
I could swear you guys did a show on Darkman...weird.
Now you should watch the remake of Miracle on 34th Street and see how it compares. I think a lot of people hate on it, but I don't recall thinking it was too bad.
Scene it: Seven Psychopaths? I keep posting this movie because I really loved it and In Bruges. The film is really great because it subverts and plays straight action movie tropes and has great performances from everyone. Please notice me senpai and discuss this film!
Well, now I've seen everything.
Merry ChannuChristmaKwanzaa
Have either of you seen "Leave Her to Heaven"? Scorsese has put it in his top 10 favorite films from the Golden Age and cited it's almost "too perfect" cinematography as his inspiration for most of 2004's "The Aviator".
YOU TWO DESERVE A BIGGER AUDIENCE.
whats up with matt's wrist brace? hopes okay and didn't sock no body. ;)
In The post office, wasn’t that Chico’s Man?
Having been a cartoonist in Boston in the 1980's and 1990's, I can attest a lot of that suicide "humor" was just to underline two things: 1) The intensity of the hopelessness of a situation to add drama, 2) The cartoonist likely is feeling despair as the cartoon itself is an outlet. Consider very early Charles Shultz comics where Charlie Brown is depicted as a cartoonist himself and mutters he wants to commit suicide. Not quite "humor" as "drama" and an "outlet" for the artist himself. The outlet actually is drawn and the need to do so is "exorcised" from the artist that way.
So you brought up Nuremberg? I did not see that coming. Wait, no. That's not right.
I wonder how this movie would look if directed by Leni Reifenstahl?
wait we dont sing sinterklaas kapoentje during christmas :O thats the other December holiday
D But Sinterklaas and Santa Claus are the same guy, just a different interpretation of the same icon of Saint Nicolas. So it's kind of appropriate, I think.
FLHBR although they share a similar name and (thanks to coca cola) look alike, they quite a different origin story. Santa being based in peagan tradition and Sinterklaas having strong Catholic roots.
You both have hand injuries this episode! What happened?
It was not a trial, it was a hearing.
Surprised neither of you noticed Grandpa Joe sorting mail
@BlameSociety - "get back to work Chinaski" - I got drunk with Chuck Bukowski's wife one night in 1980 in West Hollywood. I think her name is (was?) Linda. I had just finished reading Hollywood (the novel) and I laughed myself silly. Linda got Charles off the hard booze and into fine wine in the last few years of his life. Check out Robert Crumb's portraits of Bukowski. Good show.
Dumbo is a Christmas movie ?!
Hey speaking of the comic suicide; Have you guys seen The Wounds (Rane - 1998)? It's a cult Serbian coming of age/historic movie, filled with "stereotypical" old-school comedic moments.
I'll be forwarding the medical bill for the removal of food from my sinuses caused by the comment, "The only game I play is 'Strict Empiricist.'
I think suicide is funny as a concept because it is an example of the classic "comedy is about defying expectations" thing. The expectation is that people want to live. It is also an expectation that morbid things are not to be played for laughs. However, the combination of someone defying the expectation that they want to live creates a joke, and that joke being morbid further defies expectations, and having met those two criteria, creates comedy.
Nailed it.
Castle Doctrine? huh? what is she gonna do, build a sand castle on the front lawn lol
you still need help with that one?
@@miguelnewmexico8641 nah it was just a quick snap joke at him mispeaking I think
My favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard.
The Dutch girl scene makes me cry
Seen It?: 'Delirious' with John Candy? As comedic auteurs, I think you'll find that it is (or should be) required viewing.
No Matt broke his hand!!!
Why does Craig have a "Hello my name is. ." sticker on?
It's a t-shirt a fan made for us (Matt has one, too). It says "Hello, My Name Is STU" in honor of Matt's on-going movie hopping interloper Stu (original appearance in All That Jazz).
There's actually a week's worth of comic strips from 1930 in which Mickey Mouse makes multiple suicide attempts.
I am really embarrassed to admit that I didn't know this was the original. :-/
Silly Craig and his silly shenanigans...
So.. what colour clothing did this Santa wear? I thought it was Coca Cola that made him red, but would that predate this film?
Matt totally Rolphed Donald Duck
Walking on water is lame compared to giving someone a house. Yeah yeah, that's very nice Jesus, but this guy over here is giving me a house, so unless you have something more important to show me, I'm gonna go live in this 112,000 dollar house now.
I mean he didnt give them a house they still had to buy it, a gift is not something the gift reciever buys themselves by definition XD
Damn, what's Craig's beef with the Catholics?
Also, my family and I watch this movie every year....along with It's a Wonderful Life. They're great, but maybe I have my nostalgia glasses on.
I have no beef with the RC's. I was raised one myself, and though I am no longer practicing, it is part of who I am. Which is to say, I kid because I love.
i grew up with daffy duck constantly getting harmed by his own hand. imo, the best duo was him and bugs. next best was him and marvin the martian.
sweet Bukowski joke
Matt is starting to look quite a bit like Orson Welles with that beard and all. You should take up smoking again just to make my observation even more accurate!
Matt, you look damp.
Craig, we Dutch don't have Krampus. That's a German thing. good effort though.