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The Flop House

The Flop House: Episode #28 - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

The Flop House

Dan McCoy

Movies, Bad, Badmovies, Dan Mccoy, Elliott Kalan, Film, Review, Bad Movies, Arts, Stuart Wellington, Tv & Film, Humor, Comedy

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

0:00 - 0:34 - Introduction and theme.0:35 - 5:04 - We spend the first five minutes talking about a movie about toys that WASN'T the one we watched, released more than a decade ago.5:05 - 11:14 - We make a brief feint at discussing Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, but quickly get sidetracked by Willy Wonka and old-time character actors.11:15 - 35:41 - We finally manage to focus on the topic at hand, the horrifying tale of a sentient toy store and its insane inhabitants.  What's that?  It's a kids' film? ...You sure?35:42 - 40:05 - Final judgments.40:06 - 44:10 - Copyright infringement, listener mail, and discussion of nude Lea Thompson.44:11 - 46:34 - The MOST IMPORTANT SEGMENT EVER.46:35 - 54:38 - The sad bastards recommend.54:39 - 58:30 - Goodbyes, outtakes, and theme.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just in time for the gift-centered holiday of your choice, we discuss the toy store film, Mr. Megorium's Wonder Emporium.

0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the flop house, I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. I'm Elliot Kalen.

0:40.0

So, we're all back together. Yeah, that's cool. Back together again. Sure, just like that song from up at the Seckman Hand.

0:48.0

I don't remember that part. It must have been a really good movie to draw us all together there, right?

0:53.0

What about reunited and it feels so good? That's not a movie. That's a song though.

0:58.0

Yeah, your mic's drooping really well. I know, this mic is having trouble staying erect. Yeah, it needs mic agra.

1:04.0

Yeah, it's not even a pun. Is this a thing?

1:07.0

Well, I just took a word and put it into another word. It's called a portman too.

1:12.0

Yeah, if my mic stays right for more than four hours, I have to call a mic doctor.

1:16.0

Nice. Before the end of this podcast, I'll thought of a good joke.

1:21.0

Okay, you got time. Okay, the word pry up isn't trying to work that in.

1:25.0

Okay, it's a really big word though. So, it is a very big word for a very big thing.

1:32.0

For the holidays, I know what they said. The holidays.

1:37.0

Because I'm part of a war on Christmas. I'm Christian. Stuart, you worship the old ones.

1:45.0

And Ellie, you're Jewish. Yes, I worship the oldest one.

1:52.0

So, we don't want to exclude anyone, but we watched a movie about toys.

1:58.0

Was that movie toys?

2:00.0

No, I'm Rob Williams.

2:02.0

I kind of wish it was. And then I remember that that movie wasn't very good.

2:05.0

Except I really liked how at the end of that movie with where LL Cool J gets in some action scenes.

2:10.0

And all the action scenes are really shaky, like really Scott shot it.

2:14.0

Really Scott didn't make that movie right? No, no, that was Barry Levinson.

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