Batteries Not Included

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

As it turns out, none of us actually remembered all that much about Batteries Not Included except for a few key images. We knew we had seen it, we were pretty sure we'd enjoyed it, but this definitely wasn't an instance where it was difficult to take off those rose-tinted glasses. Which is not to say we didn't enjoy it! The film certainly left us with A LOT of questions, but there was something so nonchalant about its weirdness that we couldn't help but be won over by it.

Topics include: the project's origins as an episode of Steven Spielberg's anthology series Amazing Stories and which elements we're guessing they added when the narrative had to be expanded, how well most of the robot effects hold up, a great deal of confusion over the layout of this apartment building, conflicting feelings over how little we know about the Fix-Its, some surprisingly dark and salacious moments, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember batteries not included?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.7	I'm Chris.
0:32.4	I'm Donna.
0:33.2	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.1	And today we're revisiting Batteries Not Included.
0:53.6	Yeah. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Batteries Not Included. Before we talk about our memories of the movie, there were just a couple of listener comments that I wanted to read.
0:59.2	The first one is from Zach, who says, I haven't seen this one since daycare.
1:04.3	All I remember was a dude busting up a gumball machine.
1:07.8	Also, I thought this was a weird sequel to Cacoon.
1:12.8	Had only seen the trailer for Cacoon, I thought it was the same group of old people, but with robot friends. Then again,
1:17.5	I was about four at the time. That makes sense. You're showing them out of order, Teach.
1:24.5	Can you follow any of this. I do. I make sense if you haven't seen Cocoon.
1:28.8	I love the idea of the bizarro sequel or that like this group of elderly people, they're the lightning rod for extraterrestrials.
1:34.7	Like just all these different kinds of aliens.
1:36.5	Yeah.
1:36.8	That's the franchise.
1:38.9	And then the other one I want to read is from Niles.
1:43.4	I think that's wrong.
1:44.2	I think it's probably pronounced Niels.
1:46.6	Maybe.
1:47.2	Neals?
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