40 From Small Screen To Silver Screen

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Transferring hit TV shows to the big screen isn’t a new idea. This week Leonard and Baron discuss three films that have received this treatment: 1991’s dark and twisted The Addams Family, two unfortunate turkeys, and the underrated (and star-studded) SNL film Coneheads.

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0:00.0	There are the familiar strains of our theme song, Barron.
0:06.7	Yes, indeed.
0:07.8	Almost as famous as the Ballad of Gilligan's Island.
0:10.7	Maybe not as famous, but getting there.
0:13.3	In the running. It's in the running. Give it time.
0:15.2	All right.
0:15.4	Give it time.
0:16.2	Hi, I'm Leonard Malton.
0:17.1	This is Malton on movies with Baron Vaughn, and he's...
0:19.9	Baron Vaughn.
0:20.7	Yeah, so we're both here. We're back again. Yes, to our theme music.
0:24.2	To our theme music. Our beautiful Dobie Gillis-like theme music. That's right. I think it's kind of cool. I like it.
0:29.2	I do, too. Yeah. Well, themes, of course, have had a lot to do with the success of many television shows.
0:36.1	What I find amusing growing up and thinking back of the themes way back when is they had
0:42.8	whole songs.
0:45.1	I mean, songs with lyrics that you were memorized and you sang out loud.
0:50.0	And now they're so covetous of that airtime.
0:52.9	Yes.
0:53.5	They want to do it in four seconds.
0:55.4	Yeah.
0:55.6	I remember an era when the opening song was the first act.
0:59.2	It was just kind of like 10-minute long song.
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