626: Don't Copy That Chip 'n Dale Floppy

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The release of the super-meta “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” with John Mulaney and Andy Samberg on Disney+ put us in mind of a movie from which it borrowed a hunk of its DNA: “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. We first toon, er, tune our dial to that classic, groundbreaking 1988 Robert Zemeckis-directed film, then look at its 2022 chip off the old block. Forget it, Dale, it’s Toontown....

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0:51.9	The incomparable. Number 626, August 2022.
1:00.0	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
1:01.7	I'm your host, Glenn Fleischman, appearing on this episode in Glorious OneD.
1:06.6	Jason Snell is painting the Zeppelin Hanger this week.
1:09.1	We offer to help, but there's a particular shade of blue, he insists on.
1:12.9	On this episode, we're talking about tune towns, past and present,
1:16.2	and the humor and nostalgia inherent in vacuuming up the intellectual property of conglomerate studios
1:22.4	and turning them to your own purposes, and movies that wink and nod.
1:27.3	That's right.
1:27.9	It's the 1988 movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a thinly veiled tribute to the movie
1:32.6	Chinatown, if borrowing a hunk of the plot, is a tribute, and the just-released
1:36.9	2002 Chippendale Rescue Rangers, a fully unveiled tribute to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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