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Hi everyone, welcome back to Faculty of Horror podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia.

I'm Alex Westwith, Andrea Subisati, and we are back literally in our horrid halls after a really fun trip to Salem.

Yes, indeed. These horrid halls, it's summer now. Yeah.

And we are sipping grapefruit mimosas. We are in the season. We realize that that means that our annual summer sabbatical is coming up.

But this is also the time of year where we turn to not necessarily lighter fare, but more summer-friendly fare.

We want to have some fun. Yeah.

And the first, well, one of the first things that comes to my mind when I think of this film, Child's Play, is fun.

Yes.

It is kind of like a little joy of a film.

To me, it's like the quintessential sleepover horror film of when I was growing up in the 80s, because it was scary, but it was also silly.

You can get scared, but you could laugh at it, especially as we get into the sequels, as we'll talk about a little later.

But also, if you haven't listened to our live episode that we recorded in Salem, when we announced that we were doing this movie,

the mixture of delight and awe, the gas was everything.

It was a gasp-slash-mone that let me know that this was a great idea.

But I also had the craziest Mandela effect. I mean, that I could not believe we hadn't done it.

Yeah. I feel like you're still not totally convinced.

I'm not having done it.

Even when I sat down to do my research, I was like, I said all this, but we haven't.

But we haven't. No, I found new stuff, and I think we touched on it somewhere in a fucking ten years of podcasting.

I'm sure we have, but today is the day. We are going to focus our analysis on the first film.

Alex and I were talking about it a little bit before we started recording that this has become a franchise with its own sorted history.

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