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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Thing with Emily VanDerWerff

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the thing about THE THING - it might be the best movie we’ve ever covered? Emily VanDerWerff joins us (and joins the five-timers club!) to discuss Carpenter’s Arctic paranoia classic, which was unfairly maligned upon release. Topics covered include the “Brimley COCOON Line,” the film as a trans allegory, and dogs getting their faces peeled back like bananas.

Checkout Emily’s podcast What to Watch on the Vox Quick Hits feed or the scripted series Arden!

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0:00.0

I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIDE to this fucking

0:29.6

podcast that guys got great eyebrows I love it Donald Moffitt right that's on

0:39.9

a mouth yeah I love his eyebrows that guys I I could write them all the way home

0:46.0

you what you want to go on an eyebrow right I would would happily go on an

0:51.7

eyebrow is he the president in clear and present danger I think he is or is he

0:56.8

Secretary defense or something let's see he's the president he's the president

1:01.5

it's at the end Harrison Ford's like you've been a bad man Mr. and he's like oh

1:06.4

tell you and then he's like you're bad and he's like fine I'll resign he's

1:11.8

also he's he's lit it be Johnson in the right stuff yeah yes I feel like he is

1:18.9

always perpetually playing an evil old man who also possesses a lot of power

1:24.7

which is like a very specific type casting but also one where there's a

1:28.1

surprising number of times you can pop up as evil old man with a lot of power

1:31.8

well let's acknowledge his single most evil character the tax man and Robert

1:37.3

Altman's Popeye do you know what you know what I'm glad Carpenter won

1:44.7

March Madness but Altman if Altman had won March Madness I truly was going to

1:49.2

have a renewal of vows to my wife at Popeye Village and fly all the blank

1:54.3

check folks out do a wedding episode Emily but Carpenter won I know I know well

2:00.3

next year maybe do you remember his bit in Popeye he's really good because his

2:07.4

bit is he just keeps on coming in and telling people that there's a new tax

2:11.1

that they have to pay for like he's like oh baby on a dinner table tax five

2:16.1

cents the thing the thing about fucking Popeye is it captures the spirit of a

2:22.7

newspaper comic strip it does it is a perfect adaptation of a newspaper

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