Better Off Dead (1985)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
Shat on Entertainment
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Listener John Enright asked Shat The Movies a year ago to put the Best of John Cusack up for a vote. Then he waited month after month and heard nothing: no "Say Anything," no "Grosse Pointe Blank," no "Sixteen Candles."
Fed up, Enright decided to grease the skis of justice with some hard-earned cash and three words everyone had been dying to hear: "Better Off Dead."
Big D nearly fainted. Gene Lyons squealed. Roger asked, "Is that the one with the boombox?"
"Better Off Dead" truly is a movie that would not get made today: a little-known short-film director named Savage Steve casting an obscure young actor in a lead role about teen suicide, featuring Korean drag racers who only speak Howard Cosell, possible exchange student sex slavery, and stop-motion dancing hamburgers? What could be more '80s?
This warm blanket of nostalgia took us back to Dick Ebert's childhood memories of collecting G.I. Joe Flag Points and throwing piss bombs from his third-floor video gaming nest. And it unearthed Roger's woeful tale of the breakup that ruined him for life.
Meanwhile, Gene tells listeners why jumping is a terrible way to kill yourself and Old Man Dick Ebert rails against paperboy Johnny and his quest for $2.
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| 0:00.0 | Where did I know that voice from? |
| 0:03.0 | She's Tommy Pickles from the Nicktoons rugrats. |
| 0:07.0 | Did you guys know that? |
| 0:08.0 | She's also Butter Cup in the Power Puff Girls. |
| 0:10.0 | I have no fucking clue what any of that is. |
| 0:13.0 | You don't know. I have a child and I've never watched either. |
| 0:16.0 | Rugrats? No. Never. |
| 0:18.0 | Tommy Pickles? The Power Puff Girls? |
| 0:20.0 | No. |
| 0:21.0 | Remember when we first met John McLean. No. At the Christmas party and the terrorists were over zealous but it was sweet when they killed |
| 0:36.5 | Ellis and with a little help from Allen John McLean King dies. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back to Shatt the movies, Podcast, where we answer the question with the movies |
| 0:45.2 | we love and growing up really that good. Have you ever cut yourself thinking, why don't they make |
| 0:49.4 | movies like they used to? Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie |
| 0:53.6 | Rent-al-Let Blockbuster video? Do you even remember what Blockbuster video was? Have you answered |
| 0:58.0 | yes to this podcast for you. I'm one of your three co-host, Roger Roper, and alongside |
| 1:01.4 | we are my two co-host, Big D. |
| 1:03.2 | Geebert. |
| 1:04.2 | Good evening. |
| 1:05.4 | And Gene, how to pick up trashy women lions. |
| 1:09.0 | What's a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this. |
| 1:13.0 | And each week we take a look back in time and decide if our favorite film still hold up each week the audience selects from six movie choices that we then break out our race car VHS |
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