When they’re picking on Mike, I prefer him turning the tables on them. Such as in the beer-pouring bit from Girl In Gold Boots.
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What if we see a really good one of his?
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It’s hard not to compare this to Mitchell. And, I actually prefer Joel’s Mitchell to Mike’s Final Justice. That didn’t happen much to me as I prefer Mike as host. Don’t get me wrong, I love them both! Mike’s style just fits me better. I didn’t hurt him that I discovered the show in season eight, the high point of the series to me. 512 is just a classic though. And not just because it was Joel’s last. It was solidly funny all the way around. Riffing, host segments. The show was firing on all cylinders!
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lol I love that Joel Hodgson’s one-time assertion that both of them were “just doughy guys from the Midwest” actually has made it into one of the current episodes. Whichever one it is where the Mads and Doc K. are discussing which old host to retrieve.
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glasses of milk for everyone!
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At the end of their riffing of Mitchell, one of them (I think it was Crow) made a crack wondering how come Mitchell II never got off the ground. Well, this movie is that in spirit if not in name, as Joe Don Baker once again portrays a trigger-happy vigilante cop. What’s particularly sad is how the lead character is being presented as another Dirty Harry, complete with catchphrase. But Joe Don Baker is no Clint Eastwood and is further undermined by his pudgy physique.
The plot involves our Texan deputy lead T.J. having captured a Mafiosi, who he is escorting to Italy for extradition. The latter’s mob ties arrange for their flight to be redirected to Malta, where the car trip to the local hoosegow gets hijacked, letting him go free. T.J. then makes it a personal mission to recapture the miscreant (often at odds with the local authorities), all the while indulging in just about every Ugly American Tourist stereotype you can think of. It’s quite a slog. Helena Abdella, a former Miss Malta who portrays Maria Cassar in her only screen credit, likely does not look back at this production with much fondness. Seeing as how she’s currently a prominent fixture in the Maltese government (though mostly in what appear to be fluff posts), the movie’s often unflattering portrayal of that institution is probably something regarded as objectionable.
Though the depiction of the Maltese government here might be closer to truth than might be comfortable. During the last discussion of this episode at Satellite News, one of the posters brought up an article from his newsfeed that concerned the state of Malta’s government, which focused on the then recent assassination of native journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Apparently, the level of corruption there makes the Daly Machine and Tammany Hall look squeaky clean in comparison. Throw in law enforcement described as at best incompetent and maybe a psychotic vigilante cop would be a step up.
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Go 'head on.
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I don’t think it gets mentioned enough what a wet blanket the villain is. He gets on Geronimo’s radar because… he and his doofus brother can’t read a road map or find a service station, I guess? His four-pack-a-day growl is supposed to be menacing. But mostly it serves as a reminder that he’d be better in some tasteless sex comedy from the same era than in a crime drama. He should be parked in a cheap motel somewhere, wearing that same badly-laundered union suit from the scuffle at the villa, making obscene phone calls while he sulks about the existence of pay-per-view.
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It occurs to me it’s got the rhythm of a late 80s/early 90s SNL sketch that where the punch line is evident is early on and then it keeps doing it.
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Owner of a Lonely Heart.
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Every time I hear this song on the radio, this skit immediately pops into my head.
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Update: It was Dr. Mordrid, which I just got done re-watching. I don’t think every sketch in that episode reached its potential. But as a capper, the exchange between the Mads and Dr. Erhardt was perfection.
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The Goosio skit is so emblematic of the Married With Children/South Park/Seth MacFarlane style humor that seemed to dominate pop culture from
1987-2000. Not saying that’s a good or bad thing, it just helps make the episode a time capsule to that era.
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I’m not disagreeing but I’m curious what you mean by that specifically. I can definitely see the latter as “you killed this cute thing” aspect, similar to the lazy “the cartoon man just swore” that seems to still happen in a lot of adult-oriented cartoons, even good some otherwise good ones, as if the novelty was enough. …I think I just went off on a tangent there.
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You guys watch Joe Don Baker Movies?
This is a deleted scene from Deliverance, guess what happens next:
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Pass the Sausage
Here was the screen test version of Brian’s Song that went over very poorly, so they replaced JDB with James Caan and the rest is history:
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Joe Don Baker as John Lennon in Where Eagles Dare, staring Richard Burton:
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Honestly I wanted to see what became of “The Whammer”
Ersatz Babe Ruth or no.
Great movie by the way!
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