The Incomparable, number 791, November 2025.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

We're going to revisit a Pixar movie, which we haven't done in a little while.

And this is, this is, okay, one of my favorite podcasts of all time is the Flop House, where they, uh, this is, this is, okay, I, one of my favorite podcasts of all time is the flop house,

where they, uh, their premise is they watch a bad movie and talk about it.

But the other way you could read their premise is they watch a movie that was considered a

financial flop or a critical flop. And they talk about it. And and therefore this movie actually qualifies for the

flop house in the sense that it was a financial flop nobody went to see it strangely

everybody who did see it liked it because spoiler alert it's actually a very good movie

that for some reason we'll get into it.

Nobody bothered to see.

But you can get it on Disney Plus now.

It's 2025's Elio.

And joining me to talk about it are these wonderful members of some sort of weird alien

conclave.

Annette Weirstra is here.

Hello.

Hello.

Just let me tap my, um, my translator, and you'll be able to understand me the whole episode. It's very nice. Uh, Moises Chuyon also

joins us. He looks really intimidating, but I assure you he is soft and cuddly underneath his

exoskeleton. Hello hello can i trouble you for a

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