Monkeybone with Justin McElroy

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for Brendan Fraser’s big comeback, we’re taking a look back at his misguided collaboration with Henry Selick - 2001’s bizarro flop MONKEYBONE. Justin McElroy (no relation to Bridget Fonda’s Dr. Julie McElroy) returns to the podcast after having watched this film a whopping seven times (!!) to unpack all the madness. Why are there no rules or logic to the film’s “Dark Town” underworld? What was the appeal of Chris Kattan’s “Mango” character on SNL? Was this film the nail in the coffin for the kitschy retro-revival genre of projects that dominated the 1990s? Can we write the money we spent to rent this movie off on our taxes?

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0:00.0	The woman I love is living with a horny little podcast that looks like me.
0:26.6	What a lucky girl.
0:29.0	She's more swoony when she says it.
0:31.0	I don't know.
0:32.0	I've only seen this movie once.
0:33.0	You're making me like, what?
0:34.0	What?
0:35.0	What do you mean what?
0:36.0	Like, you don't know, I don't know who I am.
0:39.0	When TNT does their annual April 1st, 24 hours of monkey bone marathon.
0:45.0	Uh huh.
0:46.0	You're telling me you don't tune in?
0:48.0	I finished big watch number seven before coming in.
0:50.0	So it's kind of fresh still.
0:52.0	You never did the annual boxing day watch of monkey bone with your family?
0:56.0	Are we recording or not?
0:58.0	What's going on?
0:59.0	This is the episode.
1:00.0	The episode's happening.
1:02.0	David, we're confused that you don't know every scene of monkey bone backwards and forwards.
1:08.0	It's monkey bone.
1:09.0	It's monkey bone.
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