Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
50:06 – 52:56… we made one. Don't know if that's true. All I know is his kids were cut out of his estate, so I'm not sure how much he cared about his kids. That's all I got. Apex Mountain, Terry Garr, I guess, even though she's not good in this movie, but this Tootsie, Mr. Mom combo, Letterman. This is like the apex of Terry Garr. Okay. Keaton, no. No. Martin Mull, probably not. John Hughes, no. John Hughes, no. The concept of a Mr. Mom, probably this is the apex. Yeah. Because they created it. That's all I got. Detroit? Detroit as a movie city? No. Because Detroit also had Gung Ho. I don't think this is the apex. Beverly …
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Aaron Spelling said he wanted to make the movie because I couldn't find a film that was suitable to take my kids to, so we made one. Don't know if that's true. All I know is his kids were cut out of his estate, so I'm not sure how much he cared about his kids. That's all I got. Apex Mountain, Terry Garr, I guess, even though she's not good in this movie, but this Tootsie, Mr. Mom combo, Letterman. This is like the apex of Terry Garr. Okay. Keaton, no. No. Martin Mull, probably not. John Hughes, no. John Hughes, no. The concept of a Mr. Mom, probably this is the apex. Yeah. Because they created it. That's all I got. Detroit? Detroit as a movie city? No. Because Detroit also had Gung Ho. I don't think this is the apex. Beverly Hills Cop. Okay. A year later. Things are happening in Detroit. Okay. All right. That's all I got. Pick a nits. I wrote down, does anyone care less about her kids than Terry Garr? We've already covered this. I mean, she could have come back and there would have been two kids instead of three and she might not have noticed for like a day and a half. Right. Probably. Where's little Bobby? Yeah. Oh yeah. He's gone. He was kidnapped. I mean, that happens all the times in movies from the 80s. Even in this movie, Mike Huckett just loses all of his kids in the grocery store. Yeah. That's realistic. Just all of them. Yeah. That's realistic. Have you lost both children in a grocery store? My wife in 2012 in London lost Ben at a giant park. Oh no. And we didn't know where he was for 11 minutes. Oh no. Yeah. Kids can, kids are like, they're like dogs. They'll just run off and they're way faster than you think they are. And they're just gone. You look over and you thought they were here and they're there. Okay. So I actually thought that was realistic. Okay. But it's also, that's it. Now I have to go back to Home Alone, the most controversial movie. Well, that is ridiculous. But okay. But I'm just saying. That's ridiculous. You don't get on a plane without your kid. They did this. When there are a lot of kids in the mix, you know, people were not attached at the hip to their children the way they are now. Yeah. I'm not saying she's a terrible mom. I'm saying she's a terrible parent. Okay. I think dad or mom, her, her lack of interest in her own children is kind of startling. It's like, congratulations, you got a job. That doesn't mean you can't. Can you read a bedtime story to one of your kids once? What are you doing? The schooner tuna ad that they end up with, that they show on TV is really terrible. Yes, it is. I don't know why they didn't try to make that like 3% better. My fellow Americans, I am Howard Humphrey, president of Schooner Tuna. All of us here at Schooner Tuna sympathize with those of you hit so hard by these trying economic times. In order to help you, we are reducing the price of schooner tuna by 50 cents a can. When this crisis is over, we will go back to our regular prices. Until then, remember, we're all in this together.
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