Crocodile Dundee

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This is definitely one of the most dramatic examples so far of there being a huge disparity between the movie we all remembered and the film it actually is. There's no question that Crocodile Dundee remains a very beloved property and that its title character is one of the most iconic from this era. Everyone knows the name and everyone can quote a few of the more famous lines. So all three of us were a little surprised to discover that so many aspects of it felt problematic. This is not the episode we imagined we'd end up with when we picked this one.

Topics include: what playing Crocodile Dundee as a kid might have looked like, the problem with not giving either of your main characters any flaws, how much Chris likes the unconventional structure of the story and why Carlos thinks it should have been split into two films, the way Sue and her boyfriend suddenly become different people in the second half, the fact that even stories with low stakes still need conflict, a lot of pitches for more effective versions of this premise, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Crocodile Dundee?
0:07.1	Hello and welcome, 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.
0:32.0	I'm Chris.
0:32.7	I'm Donna.
0:33.5	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.4	And today we're revisiting Crocodile Dundee.
0:53.2	Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Crocodile Dundee. Well, we got a really great message through our Facebook page that I want to read before we get down to business.
0:58.7	All right.
1:00.1	So it was probably a year ago that we asked our listeners to write us iTunes reviews that referenced running jokes from the show, no matter how obscure or nonsensical they might be.
1:09.5	And that was something we did in the early days to give
1:11.7	everyone an incentive to help us bump up our standing in the iTunes store and maybe have some
1:16.3	fun doing it. But because we've been fortunate enough to be picking up new listeners week to week,
1:22.9	someone's always hearing that back catalog and that request for the first time. So even though to me, that feels like something we did way back when and then kind of
1:30.4	forgot about every once in a while something pops up, a new review.
1:33.6	And you go like, oh, yeah, I see what you did there.
1:36.7	And that brings us to Joe, Joe from Trussville, Alabama.
1:40.2	He wrote to us to say that he had recently discovered the podcast.
1:43.8	I think he found it after watching Masters of the Universe on Netflix and then he found our episode about that movie. Ain't that always the way? I love that. Yay, Joe. And he had a lot of really nice things to say about us and the show. And so Joe, I just want to say, I am thrilled you found us. I'm so happy you're enjoying it. And I love the gauntlet this dude just threw down because here's the deal.
2:04.6	Joe decided he wanted to leave us the mother of all iTunes reviews.
2:08.7	Oh, my God.
2:09.7	The end-all, be-all of self-referential reviews.
2:12.7	But he ran into some issues submitting it to iTunes.
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