Boo! It's our Bullseye Halloween Special! Elvira Mistress, Andy Daly And More!

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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It's a very special Halloween Spooktacular edition of Bullseye! We revisit our 2017 conversation with Cassandra Peterson, the woman behind Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She'll talk with Jesse about The Groundlings and creating the aesthetic behind her iconic character, her childhood growing up in the midwest and what it's like inhabiting such a sexual role. Next up, a very special visit from comedian Andy Daly (Review, Reno 911, Bob's Burgers), with the song that changed his life: the Monster Mash! Plus, De mero mero de Navidad pauses the Christmas movies for a moment to give us a Halloween treat! That's right, Alonso Duralde and April Wolfe from Maximum Fun's Who Shot Ya podcast and Switchblade Sisters share their favorite spooky flicks, and Jesse recommends a classic Halloween track!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.8	It's the Bullseye Halloween special.
0:22.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:24.1	My first guest this week is Cassandra Peterson.
0:27.6	You might know her better as Elvira, mistress of the dark, probably the most famous Halloween
0:33.4	character since Dracula.
0:35.8	For 36 years Peterson has rocked the giant wig, the tailored black dress, and the glossy
0:41.5	black nail polish.
0:43.0	She's appeared on countless TV shows.
0:45.6	She had her own movie.
0:47.1	She's performed live at theaters and amusement parks for years.
0:52.3	This year's Halloween is going to be very different.
0:54.1	Instead of live shows, she's doing virtual Halloween celebrations, recording music and
0:59.0	signing merch for fans.
1:01.0	But she is as always, Halloween's most vocal champion.
1:05.6	When Cassandra and I spoke in 2017, we kick things off with a classic clip from the
1:10.4	80s.
1:11.8	She'd just been hired to host the spooky B-movie TV show Movie McCobb.
1:16.4	You see her on screen sprawled out on a red velvet couch wearing all black.
1:21.6	Cassandra Peterson transformed.
1:24.1	Into Elvira.
1:25.1	Who's there?
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