Problem Child
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2013
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
With a scant 78 min. running time, Problem Child certainly doesn't have to worry about overstaying its welcome. It got in, got out, and happily surprised the HDYR gang.
Initially, our memories of this film and its sequel were all jumbled up. As a result, it was easy to forget that the first Problem Child actually has some witty satirical elements, a strong point-of-view, and an endearing overall message. Maybe we've just been watching too many convoluted movies lately, but there was something refreshing about the film's simplicity.
In this episode we discuss how effectively each character is set-up, how much we miss John Ritter, some of the misguided criticisms leveled against the character of Junior, how re-arranging a few scenes in the second act would give the story some more momentum, and the glorious majesty of a certain farting pig.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Problem Child? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome, 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 today. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.8 | And today we're revisiting Problem Child. |
| 0:37.4 | Florence, why can't we adopt? |
| 0:39.9 | Okay. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's get a kid. |
| 0:42.6 | Okay, you want a little baby. |
| 0:44.5 | Well, old babies are little. |
| 0:45.6 | It's no problem there. |
| 0:46.7 | Just this morning, I came upon a seven-year-old. |
| 0:52.6 | A smartest attack. A little rambunctious. A smartest attack. |
| 0:55.4 | A little rambunctious. |
| 0:59.6 | But weren't we all at that age? |
| 1:03.0 | Problem Child is a 1990 comedy that stars Michael Oliver as Jr., a seven-year-old |
| 1:07.8 | troublemaker who's been returned to his orphanage by 30 different sets of |
| 1:11.5 | parents. But will 31 be the magic number? That's what everyone's hoping when the helies, played by |
| 1:16.5 | John Ritter and Amy Yazbeck, show up to adopt him. Junior has no reason to trust them, but his new |
| 1:21.5 | dad is determined to kill him with kindness. And at one point, straight up kill him. Um, Donna, what do you remember about Problem Child? |
| 1:29.7 | Well, when we decided to do this movie, the first thing that I remembered was basically a 45-minute-long |
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