EP. 351 — Thunderpants LIVE!

Paul Scheer [00:00:00] Big news! How Did This Get Made is doing a virtual live show on September 6th. Mark your calendars because we are tackling the bad movie classic Troll 2, and we are very excited to partner up with MoveOn for this very special event. Tickets are pay whatever you can afford and all proceeds go to moveon.org, go to HDTGM.com right now to find out how to reserve your spot for September 6th live virtual show of How Did This Get Made doing Troll 2. See you there!

 

Paul Scheer [00:00:34] It’s a space movie. It’s an opera film. It’s a coming of age story. It’s a movie about the power of farts. We saw Thunderpants, so you know what that means!

 

Music [00:00:55] [Intro Song]

 

Paul Scheer [00:01:43] Hello people of Earth and hello people of Dublin! Well, well, well, we finally did it. The 2002 classic film Thunderpants. Oh boy, oh boy, this is a year. To put it in perspective, Gosford Park, A Beautiful Mind and Thunderpants, all of them saying something important about this world. Should this movie have been an Oscar winner? Yes, it’s a biopic and it’s got Ned Beatty in it. It’s got all the ingredients of an Oscar movie. What is it about? It’s about a small boy with a big problem who wants to be an astronaut, but sidetracked as an opera singer and then has a short detour after murdering someone. But he does achieve his dreams, even though I’m not quite sure how. But we will break it all down. The tag line. It’s time to blast off. And we are going to do that tonight. Indeed. Please welcome my co-host, Mr. Jason Mantzoukas.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:03:16] What’s up, jerks?! That’s right. Here we go, Dublin. Oh! Holy shit. People had to watch absolute dreck on this tour. Except the Beekeeper and you guys got the fucking gem. I loved it. I can’t even wait to tell you about it. I loved it. A movie that asks “What if Dudley Dursley was the chosen one and Ron was Hermione?” Come on. This is so plush.

 

Paul Scheer [00:03:57] Jason

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:03:59] Yes.

 

Paul Scheer [00:04:00] I refer to this film as the movie that broke Paul Giamatti into Hollywood. This is the movie. That kid’s got the goods.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:11] Holy cow! Every day I swear to God I’m watching this movie and I couldn’t. The first 20 minutes, I couldn’t make heads or tails.

 

Paul Scheer [00:04:18] Me neither. I was like, oh, no.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:19] I tried multiple times to adjust to the color saturation because everything was green.

 

Paul Scheer [00:04:27] Choice.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:04:27] Then Ned Beatty showed up on TV and I was like, what the fuck?

 

Paul Scheer [00:04:31] I mean, so much is going on in this movie, and my wife made the choice to watch it with our children. I know, and I want to hear how it was firsthand. So please welcome my co-host, June Diane Raphael.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:05:00] Jason, you weren’t kidding. It’s Cozy City over here.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:03] It’s too much.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:05:03] It’s so cozy.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:07] I need to be more engaged.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:05:10] Yeah.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:12] I need to be ready to rock if some of these fuckers come at me.

 

Paul Scheer [00:05:15] This feels like a chair that you might have, unintelligent discussion about Thunderpants. As if Thunderpants was a classic novel. And we were introducing it on Masterpiece Theater.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:31] If we were hosting a panel at Trinity College here in town.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:05:36] There’s no reason to be reclining discussing Thunderpants.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:05:39] Like, God help me if they bring an Ottoman out.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:05:44] Listen, Paul, you brought up our children watching Thunderpants. And here’s what happened. I was telling Jason backstage. So the beginning of the movie, one child was laughing hysterically and I mean howling, and the other one was crying. And so deeply upset about what was going on.

 

Paul Scheer [00:06:07] It’s an upsetting movie because the farting makes him an outcast.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:06:12] Well, and I just I guess it start at the beginning because at the very beginning, because as a parent and I don’t know how many parents are in the audience, but.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:06:22] Well, let’s start at the very beginning. If we’re going to talk about being a parent. How did you make these kids?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:06:26] Oh, God, here we go, here we go.

 

Paul Scheer [00:06:29] Showed up one day and I was like, where these guys come from?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:06:31] Here we go. So having a newborn, having a newborn and having them release gas is to me like the it was like, oh, it’s the most satisfying experience because, you know, it upsets them to have it. And so the reaction the way this movie begins is so confounding to me because these parents, first of all, why do these farts smell like there is a medical condition happening beyond two stomachs. But but like it has a parent. It’s such a relief to hear gas come out of a newborn. You’re doing massages, you’re lifting legs, you’re doing all this stuff. And when you finally hear it, I mean, I found it deeply satisfying.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:17] Wow, you have a real connection to this.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:07:19] I loved it. Oh, I loved it. I was like, let it out.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:21] When you gave birth both times, did the baby pop out without without an umbilical cord, fly over the doctor’s head such that he said it’s a flyer? As if they’ve got a name for this. What? It’s a flier.

 

Paul Scheer [00:07:39] I also, I knew the movie was about a young boy and his problems farting, but when he was in the womb and they had that image on the ultrasound, I thought that was a giant fart bubble that he was sitting on.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:55] I also thought that, and I believe it was that propelled him out.

 

Paul Scheer [00:07:58] Okay.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:07:59] I think that’s what rocketed him down the birth canal. I mean, that woman’s never been the same. Everybody seems to hate this kid, his mom included. I think I know why.

 

Paul Scheer [00:08:13] I mean, this what they show in these opening scenes is truly disturbing. His family disowns him. His father leaves home with his mother crying at the car.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:08:30] That’s when we want to get one of our children cried.

 

Paul Scheer [00:08:34] Everyone hates this kid. Period. Until he meets. What’s his name? Alan.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:08:42] Alan. Alan.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:08:43] Alan. Alan. Wait. What is Giamatti’s name?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:08:48] Johnson J. Johnson.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:08:49] Johnson, I. What is that? It is a recurring joke?

 

Paul Scheer [00:08:54] I guess so I’m. I’m the fact that you were able to.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:08:57] I think it’s a joke, but I’m not sure what the joke is.

 

Paul Scheer [00:09:00] Well, no. Here it is. Oh, it’s. Alan A. Alan is Rupert Grint. It’s Adam Godfrey plays.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:07] Now, I do want to just shout out that earlier in the tour, you called him Rupert Grinpert.

 

Paul Scheer [00:09:11] Which we made a shirt of.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:13] Which I am urging everybody to please. Let’s start a petition. We have to get him to change his name to Rupert Grinpert.

 

Paul Scheer [00:09:21] We did make a shirt of Rupert Grinpert. It’s not up yet.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:27] I will be the only person who buys that shirt.

 

Paul Scheer [00:09:31] The opera singer. His name is Placido P. Placido. And then it’s Giamatti is Johnson J. Johnson. And then it’s just a lot of smashes, and that’s about it.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:09:46] I loved when the doctor says Mrs. Umm Trash? And she says Smash.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:09:53] You know, I will say this movie has a tone that and a sense of humor. Bear with me. That is that is committed and consistent, like I will. I also I enjoyed this movie. Now I fell asleep several times because I was tired, but I woke up laughing. And, some of it I was like, am I still dreaming? I don’t know, but I found it went down really nice. Oh really nice.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:10:23] There are a couple of times when I was like, oh no, I haven’t taken notes in a while because I’ve been enjoying the movie, I’ve been watching cinema, Assholes. And I was like, oh, they’re going to be so mad. I don’t have more to make fun of. But this was fun.

 

Paul Scheer [00:10:43] I, I just love the bold choices that this movie makes. And one of them is, and we’ve already touched on it a little bit, everything is green and that at a certain point makes it not green. Right? If everything is green, then nothing is green. Yeah. And that was weird because I thought they could have gotten more with just making a couple of things green, but the green really got to me. Like, the green disturbingly.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:11:14] Started to be crazy making. Yeah. Started to be like, oh, okay. Wait a minute. Now we’re at the school and the school is painted green. Why?

 

Paul Scheer [00:11:25] He’s on trial and everyone’s green. This is the green.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:11:28] Is it just because farts are green? I only and I’m only.

 

Paul Scheer [00:11:31] Are farts green?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:11:32] I’m going to say this. I don’t think they’re green, but we see physical evidence when the bully opens the fart lunch box and gets a straight up green fart in the face.

 

Paul Scheer [00:11:41] And I need to get into that. I don’t even want to gloss over it, but I do want to.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:11:45] I’m not glossing over it. I want to foreground it right now. It is nuts and I loved it. He deserved it.

 

Paul Scheer [00:11:54] I just want to know why farts come out like spray paint. But. But I do want to just show my favorite use of green when they cut to the newscaster.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:02] The only newscaster in the world. He’s the newscaster for the NASA story. He’s the newscaster for the dead opera star story. He’s the only newscaster this world has.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:12:14] Because he’s covering such big stories and such small stories.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:19] Where does this take place?

 

Paul Scheer [00:12:20] Well in the past, which I was shocked by.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:24] Where in the past. I know it’s the past.

 

Paul Scheer [00:12:28] I did not know it was the past until John F Kennedy came out. Yes. John F Kennedy is in this movie. Oh yeah.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:12:34] Was that Kennedy? Well because but then they pulled out. I thought so too. But then they pulled out and it looked nothing like him.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:43] I think also as well, because the father is reading the newspaper, it says they’ve landed on the moon.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:12:47] Okay, okay.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:48] Oh, wait, but is that the false? Okay, wait a minute.

 

Paul Scheer [00:12:51] There’s so much going on. Because that second moon landing. Anyway.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:12:54] I’m starting to pull it the threads, and it’s almost like this movie doesn’t quite add up.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:00] Let me just show you the one use of green that really made me laugh from that newscaster. Everything that the newscaster broadcasts has this weird font that looks like something that you would put in iMovie. Everything. Was this, like, it looks like the way that they advertise the Matthew Broderick Godzilla film.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:18] Like, I was gonna say it looks like Armageddon’s Color scheme.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:23] I was like, what local news is like putting up a graphic package like that?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:13:28] But here’s the thing about the movie. The kid actors are so good.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:32] Well.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:13:33] I’m sorry, I thought they were great. I thought they were great. Well, by the way, is this pre Harry Potter? Where does this fall?

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:39] Yes.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:13:39] So he’s shot. So he hasn’t.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:42] Wait. No.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:43] 2002.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:47] (To Audience) Okay. One of you decide. Elect one of you to talk.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:13:50] Here’s my question. Had Harry Potter come out yet?

 

Audience [00:13:52] Yes.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:13:54] Wow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:54] Had Harry Potter two come out yet?

 

Audience [00:13:57] No.

 

Paul Scheer [00:13:57] Perfect. Between 1 and 2.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:13:59] Either way, it doesn’t matter. This is it. It’s not like this movie was the thing that got him Harry Potter. He they were they were coasting off of that.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:14:08] I just think it’s wild they got him. He’s so good in this.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:14:11] He’s incredible.

 

Paul Scheer [00:14:13] So my my gut, my gut might be that that is why this movie was released. So it was shot. It found no home. Then Harry Potter came out and they’re like, ooh, we have a Rupert Grint movie.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:14:30] Oh, yeah. Rupert Grint in this too. I’m going to let it die. Rupert Grinpert’s knocking on my door tomorrow morning. Like, hey, man.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:14:39] I love Rupert Grinpert.

 

Paul Scheer [00:14:40] He’s he’s great.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:14:42] Incredible in this. And I have to tell you, there’s a moment where, our main character is arrested. Patrick Smash for murder.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:14:52] Murder and sentenced to death. By firing squad.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:14:58] But when he’s first. By the way, I had to explain that to our children when they said, what’s happening? And I said, well, that’s a firing squad.

 

Paul Scheer [00:15:08] They are about to kill this child.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:15:10] Shot dead. What are we talking about here?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:15:12] Yeah, I said it. They’re all going to shoot him at the same time.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:15:15] So that so that no single one of them knows they were responsible, right. And they can alleviate their.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:15:21] That’s right. And they said, well, why is he blindfolded? And I said, I think that that’s I had to really go into it. I said, I think he’s blindfolded to actually make it easier for them to shoot him.

 

Paul Scheer [00:15:32] And then I guess my question was.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:15:36] I don’t know, but that was my best guess.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:15:38] Be like, I was looking him right in the eyes.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:15:39] Like that, and they wouldn’t do it.

 

Paul Scheer [00:15:41] I mean, but then my question is this, was the UK using firing squads in the 50s? No, right?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:15:52] I should hope not. I don’t think firing squad.

 

Paul Scheer [00:15:54] They were doing, they were doing the head chopped off still.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:15:56] This movie exists in a world that feels like they’re trying to pull off, like a Tim Burton. He kind of. It’s got its own look. And. Yeah, almost like what the Paddington movies have now. Like a real colored scheme.

 

Paul Scheer [00:16:10] Like Wednesday, but with farting.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:12] A real color scheme of this that. But they have a children’s firing squad?

 

Paul Scheer [00:16:20] By the way, I wish the firing squad was children.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:23] Awesome. They should have done that. But it would have tip the hat for for kid scientist for the secret room of all child’s genius scientists.

 

Paul Scheer [00:16:33] Well, I will say this, I, I feel like I feel like he committed two murders.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:16:40] I would believe it if Space-x was Elon Musk and 400 11 year olds. Oh. Oh, well thank you Dublin. Applause break? Don’t mind if I do.

 

Paul Scheer [00:16:56] But I feel like this movie kind of took them out of a second murder because he he for sure murdered that bully in the in the in the park. They brought him back for the trial. But I was like, that motherfucker’s dead.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:10] Wait when?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:17:11] Wait, I don’t remember that.

 

Paul Scheer [00:17:12] The the bully testifies in the trial.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:15] No, no, but why does he die?

 

Paul Scheer [00:17:16] Remember when he brings him out to the woods like Miller’s Crossing? And he’s like. And he rips that fart so hard at him.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:17:23] You think it killed him?

 

Paul Scheer [00:17:24] It ruptured the trees!

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:29] Oh, look into your heart.

 

Paul Scheer [00:17:31] I mean, that kid. First of all, that kid open a lunchbox full of farts, got the face full of farts and was running from this fart. And this kid knew. I don’t know how. I don’t know why he had a more powerful fart, but he was like, Now I’m coming for you, motherfucker. And he brought him out to that woods, and I’m like, he brought him there to kill him.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:17:50] What’s incredible is not until the end of the movie, and it’s not even literally done this way, but it is actually through mechanized invention. Thank you. Alan P. Alan. Alan P. Alan?

 

Paul Scheer [00:18:02] Alan A. Alan.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:04] They’re all this?

 

Paul Scheer [00:18:04] Alan. Alan. Alan.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:07] Oh, it’s the end of tour. I just got that they’re all the same goddamn initials. Anyway. It it surprises me that our protagonist never once thought to light his farts on fire. Something that the minute I found out it was possible. I was like, let’s go.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:18:24] It did. I will say, maybe I’m revealing too much right now, but it did make me think like, well, what could farts do? You know, I know, I know, you can light them on fire, but I don’t know. I genuinely don’t know what else they could do?

 

Paul Scheer [00:18:40] You know that Twitch stars sell farts in a jar?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:43] I’m sorry.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:18:44] Ew.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:45] You’re going to have to say that entire sentence again. But slowly.

 

Paul Scheer [00:18:49] You know that Twitch stars sell farts in a jar.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:18:54] That’s a tongue twister. Everybody ready?

 

Everybody [00:18:57] Twitch stars sell farts in a jar.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:01] Pretty good.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:19:01] I’m sure there are ways. I’m sure there are many ways that they’re fetishized and all that, but I just mean, like, what are they capable of?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:10] Yes. Why? Why isn’t science trying to harness the power of farts?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:16] Because it’s full of adults.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:18] One of the things that’s really doing damage climate wise, I believe, is cow farts. Yes. Is agriculture actually right? It is the the methane created by factory farming and all this.

 

Paul Scheer [00:19:28] That’s why I try to eat as much meat as possible to kill those cows.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:31] So that’s why. Exactly. This movie, this movie, this kid’s farts. That’s got to be like. I don’t know how many acres worth of cows this kid. This kid is contributing mightily to climate change and should be put in front of a firing squad.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:19:46] Here’s my question. So he’s had this condition since, honestly, he was in.

 

Paul Scheer [00:19:51] The womb.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:19:52] Utero. He doesn’t go to a doctor.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:56] The one time.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:19:57] Till he’s about 12.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:19:59] The doctor’s a fucking asshole.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:20:02] That doctor’s such a dick.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:04] Just like everybody is like, you’re a fucking idiot. He’s like the doctor the whole time is like that’s not what I said, idiot.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:20:13] But here’s what I don’t understand. And and this is the only flaw I found with the movie, honestly, is the only note I have is giving him a justification for having that much gas. Because him having two stomachs, it left me unsettled thinking about him with two stomachs. And I was like, oh, I think maybe he would just be very hungry or I don’t know how that affects other things, but I just wish he was super gassy with no explanation.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:42] Sure.

 

Paul Scheer [00:20:43] Yeah. We don’t need a reason. And the reason I mean, I don’t want to even get into the end because it seems like the issue is, how does this boy who wants to fart live a normal life?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:20:57] He doesn’t want to fart, Paul. He has to.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:20:59] This is need.

 

Paul Scheer [00:21:00] Well, I guess, like, he feels like he can never be an astronaut because he can’t control his problem. Like, I mean, like, I don’t know if farting would stop. Like, he seems to be dumb as shit.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:15] Hey, whoa.

 

Paul Scheer [00:21:15] They literally say Ned Beatty goes, this kid is a fucking moron. He’s a tool. He’s like, he’s failed every every test and every mental test. By the way, it’s been revealed he’s only been there two hours, and yet he has also eaten every leafy green substance this side of, not NASA and whatever that was.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:38] Then is launched into outer space.

 

Paul Scheer [00:21:41] And what does he do?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:21:43] I want to be clear. I want to be absolutely clear. This is after he has one of the most prolific musical careers in history. He’s like a Forest Gump character in that he’s part of all of these aspects of history.

 

Paul Scheer [00:22:01] He farts so loudly that a high note is created for Plaistow P Plaistow.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:22:09] And it’s not that it’s loud. I think it’s I think it is, yes. It’s hitting. No, but it’s high.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:22:16] It’s a note that can’t be sung, or that the Placitow P. Placitow Is pretending to hit.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:22:22] Right, but only one other person has ever been able to hit.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:22:29] Sure. The man that Patrick Smash murders.

 

Paul Scheer [00:22:30] And now that man puts it together that the boy is the fart. But the fact that he even is putting that together, like, oh, it’s the fart.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:22:42] No, he doesn’t know it’s the fart fart. When he first sees this, he sees Placitow P. Placitow, but he hears the note coming from somewhere else. Yeah. So he goes into the room and our our guy Patrick Smash full blown tells him, oh, I travel around, I make him tea, I do this, I do that. Oh and I sing the high note with my ass. And this guy’s like, blink, blink blink what now?

 

Paul Scheer [00:23:07] And then he pours. What, Mylanta? I don’t know what he puts in that thing.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:23:13] And why does he have it at the ready?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:16] Why, yes, he has a tincture that is perfect for this moment. A moment he couldn’t have imagined. He couldn’t have imagined what was happening.

 

Paul Scheer [00:23:27] And then. And then I felt like there’s definitely child abuse going on, because that little boy has the, cream mustache on. And it seems like hours later, after he’d eaten that cream and no one told him to wipe it off, no one even knows.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:45] This is a story about a boy who’s treated like a tool by everyone. Everyone. And I love when Placitow P. Placitow discovers him, it’s Keira Knightley.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:23:56] Oh my God.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:23:58] And Knightley was like, professor, did you hear that? What?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:24:05] Why was she there in that scene?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:24:07] Well, I think Princess Amidala was supposed to be there. And she’s got to be there whenever as her double. You fucking nerds!

 

Paul Scheer [00:24:20] And then when they see the Thunderpants, the titular Thunderpants, which have nothing to do with the film.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:24:27] Boy, was I disappointed, I really was.

 

Paul Scheer [00:24:30] Well, this is the movie that solves the problem in the first act. It’s like, and we are these Thunderpants at work. I was like.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:24:36] Here’s the problem.

 

Paul Scheer [00:24:37] No, I checked the progress and I was like, am I almost done? And then I was like, maybe at 14? Oh no.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:24:44] Here’s the problem with the Thunderpants, though, because because what Patrick smashes worried about is controlling his problem. And this is what makes my heart break for Patrick Smash. It’s that like he wants to control the problem, but wearing a set of Thunderpants is not really, how you say hiding that you have a major issue going on. Major, major situation is happening.

 

Paul Scheer [00:25:15] But it’s so much better. Like then when he has.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:25:18] Paul, to witness it to see those pants go, I’m like, just let it out. This is more distressing.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:23] Why can’t, why can’t, why can’t there be a second version that can fit under regular pants?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:25:31] V2?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:34] Thunderpants.2

 

Paul Scheer [00:25:35] I also feel like Patrick’s parents have done him wrong. Yes, he farts, but don’t dress him and cut his hair like that.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:46] Like he’s like. Like he’s Moe from the Three Stooges.

 

Paul Scheer [00:25:49] Why are we doing this? Why we’re doing this kid dirty.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:25:53] Like a mash up of Moe and Curly.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:25:57] That’s where the movie. It does have sort of Matilda vibes, where you just feel like this child, especially when there’s is is especially when he’s delivering his speech, when he’s delivering his speech, when he goes up in the rescue rocket and he basically says, like, I know.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:16] I’m so sorry. He delivers that speech, and I cried.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:26:19] I did too.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:26:22] Emotionally. Just very available for Patrick Smith.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:26:26] Me too. I cried when he was going into the paddy wagon. He was arrested and said to camera, I’m scared.

 

Paul Scheer [00:26:35] Here’s the thing too. And no offense to NASA, but they shouldn’t be broadcasting that conversation. Where they go, hey, there’s a 70% chance you’re going to die and you’re on live TV. We told you on live TV.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:26:51] So I actually rewound that scene, Paul, where the, one of the engineers comes up to to tell our main guy that that he only had a 21% chance of living. I’m like, where was this work about 24 hours ago? Like, why are you just crunching these numbers now?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:12] I actually have an answer. The entire thing was built by children. The answer is what do you think? 11 year olds did this whole thing? Absolutely not. Also like his mother is watching the TV. Like she did not know where he was.

 

Paul Scheer [00:27:29] She thought he was still with the opera singer or dead.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:32] We sold him to that molester. What’s going on?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:27:35] It was a different time.

 

Paul Scheer [00:27:36] I’m sure that. I’m sure that, the UK police made it seem like he was dead. The CIA took him and that was it. And all. This movie happens very quickly. Once that murder happens, the whole movie is over within 48 hours. Now, here’s my big question. And I don’t mean to poke holes in Thunderpants.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:27:54] What a fucking week for Patrick Smash. Opera star. Kills a man. Almost shot by a firing squad. In outer space.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:28:07] One week.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:08] What?

 

Paul Scheer [00:28:09] But my question is this. They needed him to power the rocket. I won’t even break that down too much.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:28:19] Because I did wonder. Why don’t they have fuel?

 

Paul Scheer [00:28:26] Same.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:27] It doesn’t, but there doesn’t seem to be a real reason given for why they need to power it with farts.

 

Paul Scheer [00:28:36] But the thing that I truly have a question about is so he farts. It goes up and the movie posits. That’s it. Like the astronauts are back.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:28:52] Well, we see the International Space Station or wherever he’s headed in the distance. So I don’t know. I’m assuming he’s going to dock with the space station. Fart them back to Earth?

 

Paul Scheer [00:29:04] I mean, he seems to be the only person on that ship.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:29:10] Oh, yes. Why were there other adult astronauts training? Yeah, he’s. He’s training on treadmills. There’s other adult astronauts, like. And I’m like, okay, he’s part of a team. I’ve seen the right stuff. I know how this works. Nope. Just him in a rocket. And they’re like, you’re definitely going to die. And he’s like, if I die, I die because I want to be doing my dream. And I was ironing, ironing my white shirt, like.

 

Paul Scheer [00:29:36] And he doesn’t even get it. He doesn’t even get to do the dream because in my mind, he wants to be an astronaut. This movie just posits he goes up and comes back down like he basically does what Jeff Bezos and William Shatner did. They just pop. Give him a moonwalk, give him a fart moonwalk. That they already got. Who did it better? Barbie or Thunderpants with, the homage to 2001.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:03] So funny.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:30:04] I think he just wanted to go up there and be a spaceman. Not an astronaut, a spaceman.

 

Paul Scheer [00:30:09] Well, what’s the difference?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:30:11] I don’t know.

 

Paul Scheer [00:30:13] He just. So his dream. His dream is shit.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:16] I would have loved a spacewalk. Yeah, just powered by farts across space and time.

 

Paul Scheer [00:30:21] But they couldn’t afford it. Because when he’s traveling the world, they have him on a black like. Like a black stage. And he was like, here’s a person dressed as a Canadian Mountie. Here’s a person dressed as a geisha. Here is the person dressed is like Attila the Hun. Whatever it was, it was just like there was no back. It was not even not even green screen. They’re like, who cares? Black.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:30:47] It was just just to go back to his monologue. That devastating monologue.

 

Paul Scheer [00:30:51] Should we hear it?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:30:52] Yes.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:30:52] I don’t know if I can. Okay.

 

Movie Audio [00:30:54] Hello, everyone. My name is Smash. Patrick Smash! And this is my dream. I’m going to try my best to be a good spaceman. I never had the whole world below me before. I mean, I do try to do my best at home. But that wasn’t what my mum expecting me to be. I did try to do my best at school too. But upset some of the other kids, and it was a bit of a disappointment to our teachers. Once I found someone to help me. We went around the world together. We sang together, but everything kept going wrong. But then my friend came and showed me that what the people in space need right now is a friend. And I’m going to try and be that friend. We’ll check in on the team. And with my gift. Your genius and our friendship. We can never go wrong, Adele. Thanks for remembering Sprouse’s time.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:32:00] It was such an indictment on all of us, honestly. And humanity. Like, I was like, wow, the way we’ve treated this person suffering from a chronic illness, they don’t believe they have any value in our culture and our system. And so the only way he’s truly ready to sacrifice his life because he has no spot down here with us, with you all.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:32:23] No, no, you all would have turned your backs on him and rejected him, made him some sort of pariah, Dublin.

 

Paul Scheer [00:32:32] All I’m going to say is that Allen A. Allen should build him another pair of Thunderpants. Because at the end of the movie, he’s back on Earth, but he’s still farting. He hasn’t controlled shit. He hasn’t changed anything.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:32:42] But I think what happens is that when. I hope what happens is that when he comes back, because he’s been such a hero and sacrificed so much and was so brave that when he farts around us, we love it.

 

Paul Scheer [00:32:57] I love my children. I love my children. When one of them farts near me, I’m like, get the fuck out of here. Like I want to get in the car and take off.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:09] See I really felt for Allen A. Allen because I similarly have basically no sense of smell.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:33:18] Oh wow.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:19] So like sometimes when someone farts or when someone is like, oh, a skunk, I’m like, really? Oh, I can’t, I don’t smell it.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:33:26] I have one of our friends has has the same illness. And.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:35] I don’t, I don’t like that.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:33:36] And I always feel like.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:40] The word choice or be how you said it.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:33:43] But I always think about it and I’m like, gosh, I would feel so scared walking in around the world, not having a sense of smell, like you don’t. You don’t know what you’re putting out.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:52] Oh, not at all.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:33:54] Sounds terrifying.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:33:55] So much so that I’m constantly trying to shower as much as possible because I’m scared. I don’t want to be out in these streets smelling like a bag of old mayonnaise.

 

Paul Scheer [00:34:03] Well, I remember that there was, a friend that we had back in New York who. And the issue that he had was he never knew when to take out his garbage because it was like he didn’t have a sense of smell. So, like, he the house smelled.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:15] What? What does that mean?

 

Paul Scheer [00:34:20] Here’s what I’ll say about this movie. Ned Beatty brings it in this movie, like, whatever it was, he sees a script.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:34:31] “You possess the most powerful tooter I’ve seen.” He says this to the little boy.

 

Paul Scheer [00:34:38] He says it with a gravitas. And I watched Ned Beatty and Paul Giamatti do a scene. I’m like, these are two fucking fantastic actors just going like, we’re here and we’re going to just commit, because.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:34:52] That’s why I think the tone of this movie is so successful. It really is. It’s like everybody is committed to this strange world and I loved it.

 

Paul Scheer [00:35:03] Yeah, I haven’t seen this clip. This is either an interview with Ned Beatty talking about the movie or Ned Beatty acting in the movie. Either way, I think it’s going to be worth it of watching, because I’ve read what happens in it.

 

Movie Audio [00:35:17] I want to be a spaceman, but I have a problem. I cannot control my arse. Should that be a worry? Love Patrick Smash.

 

Movie Audio [00:35:27] I’m joined now by General Ed Shepperd, commander in chief of operations at the United States Space Center. General, what makes an astronaut?

 

Movie Audio [00:35:37] I tell you what makes an astronaut, Todd, you’ve got to be focused, determined, and in complete control of yourself. But most of all, all of my astronauts, each and every one of them has worked hard to overcome their problems. And each one of them is a uniquely gifted individual.

 

Paul Scheer [00:36:00] I mean, that’s good.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:36:01] That’s just good. I was listening to it like, okay, is it me? Okay. It’s so inspiring.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:11] I can’t wait to show this movie to my kids.

 

Paul Scheer [00:36:14] And then I’ll say this. Do we like Paul Giamatti with hair?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:27] With hair? Yeah.

 

Paul Scheer [00:36:28] Yeah. I thought it was. I don’t like him that much with hair. I think.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:36:31] He’s better actor without.

 

Paul Scheer [00:36:33] Me too.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:36:34] And I don’t know why, but I do.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:36:36] I didn’t yeah, I didn’t mind it.  I agree with you, I like him. I like him without hair, but I like him with hearing in the same way. Here’s what I like. I enjoy and I’m. I’m as I’m rewatching moonlighting right now with young Bruce Willis losing his hair. I’m enjoying watching people who have these hairlines be on TV. Not everybody has either a full head of hair or absolutely.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:37:03] No hair at all.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:37:04] And that’s all we see in movies now is robust head of hair or no hair. And I like this. I like this, this. Same with teeth. You know, like everybody in movies now. Same teeth. Everybody’s got them. Bing bang boom. Mouth full of teeth. You watch a movie from the 80s. It’s like, this is the romantic lead with these teeth? And this hairline? All right, movie. You got me. Bruce Willis unequivocally looks good bald. Better bald. But boy and boy in Die Hard with his with his fine hair. Dynamite.

 

Paul Scheer [00:37:39] When I was a kid, I went to the, the haircut or the barbershop and. And I said to them, can you cut my hair like Bruce Willis? And now Bruce Willis. And they’re like, well, what does that look like? And I’m like, well, you know, in the front it goes down. And then there are like these, like, like I didn’t understand that that was a receding hairline. I thought that was a cool haircut.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:07] Put it in the book.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:38:07] I have to tell you, it’s not in the book, and it’s making me think we need another book. Yes, we need another book.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:14] Yes!

 

Paul Scheer [00:38:15] That I remember, like my babysitter at the time and the hair cutter having to explain that that is not something that we could achieve. And I was like, but no, no, it’s easy. Just cut up here and look.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:28] They’re like the only person that can give you that haircut, son, is time.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:38:35] Father time.

 

Paul Scheer [00:38:37] I got it. Got it eventually.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:38:41] So you send a picture to that barber in your face. I told you somebody could do this.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:38:48] I’m stuck on the fact that a babysitter took you for a haircut. But I’ll guess we’ll talk about that later. I’m like, where’s Mom and dad? Okay. That’s too important.

 

Paul Scheer [00:39:01] My dad. My dad is here tonight. Give it up for my dad. I never saw my mom more upset than when my dad’s girlfriend tried to cut my hair and I came home with a new haircut. She’s like, what? It’s like, well, my dad’s girlfriend tried to cut my hair, so it’s a tough one. Sometimes I still hear about that. I was like, I was too young to say no. If someone says can I cut your hair as a kid, you say, yeah.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:31] Too young to say no? Is that the title of the book? That’s volume two, baby.

 

Paul Scheer [00:39:39] I just. All right, so.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:43] Stephen Fry is in here?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:39:45] Yeah.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:39:46] As the barrister. I mean, come on. This this cast is remarkable.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:39:52] Remarkable.

 

Paul Scheer [00:39:53] My favorite thing, though, about it is there are moments that don’t need to be in this movie. For example, Paul Giamatti has saved this young boy from murder by firing squad, gets him on a private jet where the jet has made a bedroom for him. Now he’s just going from the UK to the States. So conservatively. What, like a, you know, let’s say the longest flight, 8 to 10 hours. They’ve made him a bedroom and they’ve given him multiple wardrobe changes, which is the same shirt and pants, like, well, how many times is he changing wardrobe? And but while you’re watching all of that, Paul Giamatti goes to the front of the airplane. He’s like, okay, so just keep on flying. Nothing happens in that scene.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:40:43] He’s intimately involved in every element. Because he’s also taking pictures of Alan A. Alan from the window of the limousine earlier in the movie. And I’m like, who is this creep?

 

Paul Scheer [00:40:56] It’s a movie about child predators because he’s taking pictures of kids.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:01] Sure I’ll send you to space. Sure. Yeah. Just just get over here. I’ll send you to space.

 

Paul Scheer [00:41:04] You want a you want some candy? Come in my limo. You want to come on tour? Come in my limo.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:09] The astronauts need your help.

 

Paul Scheer [00:41:13] Oh my gosh. And what I was most disturbed at was at one point when they’re ripping off the Thunderpants, they cut to one kid and his mouth is full of Thunderpants. Yeah, which meant that he went.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:24] Oh, he went down there. Yeah.

 

Paul Scheer [00:41:27] With teeth.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:28] Those kids attacked him with a ferocity that I found upsetting. And then when they walked away and he was in his underwear, I was like, I don’t need to see this.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:41:38] That was another I know it was another question from our children, which is like, what’s happening now? And I was like, I think they’re eating him.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:41:47] I think they’ve tied him to a jungle gym and are consuming him like piranha.

 

Paul Scheer [00:41:53] Like they tie him up, they crucify him for farting, and at a certain point.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:42:00] For our sins, it was just Easter. Hear me out.

 

Paul Scheer [00:42:06] I do want to go into the crowd. I want to see what Dublin has to say about.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:42:11] Wow. Okay.

 

Paul Scheer [00:42:13] Let me see if I can come down there. Hi. How are you?

 

Audience Member [00:42:17] Hi. I was just wondering, you did a Jason Statham movie in London and a Gerard Butler movie in Glasgow. Did you do this movie in Ireland because it’s green and Rupert Grint has red hair?

 

Paul Scheer [00:42:29] Yes. And is that stereotyping? Maybe. But you know what? It’s okay. You guys can take it. All right, so, is anyone dressed all in green tonight? Is anyone in costume?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:42:42] I see someone in a green and black striped sweater right here. Yeah. I don’t know if that was intentional or not.

 

Paul Scheer [00:42:47] Oh. Oh my gosh. We have somebody from NASA from USSC.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:42:56] Well done. Wait a second, Paul. Is that Michelle?

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:00] That’s Michelle.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:01] Michelle. Michelle from the Belfast show.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:43:05] Oh, wow.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:06] Michelle. The belle of the ball.

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:08] What is your question?

 

Audience Member [00:43:10] And my name is actually Doctor Michelle Port.

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:13] Okay. Yes.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:43:13] Good for you.

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:14] Yes. You got the doctor.

 

Audience Member [00:43:17] If Patrick allegedly killed someone in Italy, why was he judged in England?

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:24] Great question.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:43:26] I assume that Italy extradited him, and I’m not sure why. Well, because they didn’t. It was that. No, no, it was. The man he killed was Italian, wasn’t he?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:43:37] Well, I think so.

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:38] I have a feeling that because there are so many character witnesses for. Yeah. Yeah. They were like, you know what? We need him back because we have some unsolved business with them. All right, got it. Your name?

 

Audience Member [00:43:50] Emma.

 

Paul Scheer [00:43:51] And your question?

 

Audience Member [00:43:52] Hi. I actually have a question. And what I think is quite a fun fact. The fun fact is the, news anchor fella who is talking to Ned Beatty and stuff, he is actually more well known as Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:44:08] Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies? Tinky Winky.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:16] Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. And my question is a standing ovation from that single gentleman there. My question is.

 

Paul Scheer [00:44:25] The creator of the Teletubbies in the house.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:28] Wait, do you mean the voice of. Or. He’s inside the suit?

 

Audience Member [00:44:31] If you go onto his IMDb, it’s not a picture of him. It’s a picture of Tinky Winky.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:37] Wait a minute. So you’re telling me Tinky Winky, that character puts on a skin suit and is this guy?

 

Paul Scheer [00:44:45] And that’s how good he is.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:44:48] That’s a fucking performance.

 

Paul Scheer [00:44:49] Good. Fun fact. And now, what’s your question?

 

Audience Member [00:44:52] So my question is that Patrick kind of divides a lot of people. He, you know, some people love him and the U.S. government approves him. And some people think that he deserves to die, especially because, you know, his farts are so lethal. He, like, nearly kills a bully with them in the forest. Do you think this movie was an inspiration for Oppenheimer?

 

Paul Scheer [00:45:11] Oh, wow. That’s a good question.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:45:13] Wow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:45:14] I told you, this is an Academy Award winning film.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:17] I wouldn’t I wouldn’t be surprised. Also, because I believe in the deleted scenes, quite a bit of graphic sex.

 

Paul Scheer [00:45:26] All right, I’m going to go up to the balcony, but I almost set off the fire alarm. Sir, what’s your name, your question?

 

Audience Member [00:45:30] How are you doing? My name is Tom. My. My main thing I want to know is why are we making a shirt when we have a film called Thunderpants? Shouldn’t we be making pants?

 

Paul Scheer [00:45:40] Great idea.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:45:41] Can we make pants? Can we make Thunderpants?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:44] We can’t start making pants now.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:45:46] I love the idea of just an exclusive pant for this show.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:45:52] But that is like. That has, like, metal on it. And a lunch box in the lunch box. I felt bad about because we’ve seen him carry a lunch box full of nuts. Like it seemed like he carried a lunch box of squirrel food.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:46:11] And that was confusing too. Because doesn’t that stuff make you gassy?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:14] I think so. I think his mother is. I think his mother is Munchausen by by proxy. I think she’s a Gypsy Rose Lee situation. And I think, I think.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:46:26] Wow, Gypsy Rose Lee now out, by the way. Living life.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:46:33] Living life. This is some. Everybody’s like now. Kibitzing about Gypsy Rose Lee. Did you hear it? I heard she was doing.

 

Paul Scheer [00:46:43] I’m in the balcony.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:46:46] Oh, there you are.

 

Paul Scheer [00:46:48] Double balcony monsters let me hear ya. Here we go. What’s your name?

 

Audience Member [00:46:56] John.

 

Paul Scheer [00:46:56] Okay. What’s your question?

 

Audience Member [00:46:58] You’ve been referring to Placitow P. Placitow as the opera singer who took the Thunderpants, you know, around the country, around Europe. Do you know who Sir John Osgood is?

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:10] Oh, no. Is this gonna bum us out?

 

Audience Member [00:47:11] Yeah.

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:13] There’s sometimes these factoids that bum us out. All right, I’m going to come to you last only because.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:21] Get it out of the way.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:47:23] What did he do?

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:24] What did he do?

 

Audience Member [00:47:26] He was the man who took them around. Placitow P. Placitow was the man who was crushed by the light.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:47:30] Oh, so we just had the names wrong.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:33] Oh, wait a minute.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:47:34] Wow. Okay.

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:36] Oh.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:47:38] Yes, we were calling Plaistow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:41] I thought you were about to tell me that that guy was a child molester.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:47:44] I thought so, too. Wait, does that.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:47:46] He’s just letting us know we fucked up.

 

Paul Scheer [00:47:48] He did say they’re all child molesters. All right, sir, your name?

 

Audience Member [00:47:55] My name is Niall. Just, in terms of. You’re asking about the green. Methane is mostly what farts are. And under ultra spectrum light, it’s green.

 

Paul Scheer [00:48:06] Oh, wow.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:07] Wait a minute. Is this. Are you a scientist? I think that’s the answer I was looking for. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you sir.

 

Audience Member [00:48:22] I’ve been a professor of chemistry for six years.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:25] Professor of chemistry?

 

June Diane Raphael [00:48:26] Chemistry.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:48:27] Oh, okay. That’s nice. Imagine if you were in this showing your fucking professor was here. I would be like, what? I’m supposed to take you seriously now?

 

Paul Scheer [00:48:37] All right. Yes. Hi.

 

Raven [00:48:38] Hi, Paul. How are you? I’m raven. Hey.

 

Paul Scheer [00:48:40] Oh my gosh. Raven. Raven’s are a former intern for How Did This Get Made.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:48:43] Oh, wow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:48:46] Yes. Welcome. Good to see you.

 

Raven [00:48:49] It’s wonderful to be here. So, someone. I have a factoid, and it’s a fun one, but someone previously asked about the green. And if that’s why you chose Thunderpants. I think we’re forgetting about Dublin author James Joyce, who was partial to the fart as a form of sexual enthusiasm.

 

Paul Scheer [00:49:06] Look at this. This is why we had an amazing answer. Give it up for Raven. This is a James Joyce. James Joyce.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:49:15] Well, I remember reading Dubliners, and a lot of it was about farts.

 

Paul Scheer [00:49:20] Obviously, there’s a lot to talk about in this movie, and we we love this movie. And, you know, there. We’re not alone. There are people out there that also love this film. So I’m going to say that it’s not time for second opinions. It’s time for the same opinions. But for sake of this, it’s now time for second opinions.

 

Audience Member [00:49:40] Hi. I’m Alan.

 

Audience [00:49:41] Hi Alen.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:49:43] Wait. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on, hang on. Hang on. Everyone else has introduced themselves by name. Why did everybody respond to him? I’m sorry. Does everybody know this man? When did this happen? That’s nuts. Okay, this is wild. What is happening? Why did everybody say it’s Alan? It’s just because it’s Ala?n

 

Audience Member [00:50:32] Yeah.

 

Paul Scheer [00:50:34] Alan, a T-shirt that just says Alan.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:50:39] Alan. Alan. Alan. Alan, I’ve never been in a room that was so ready for a chant that they started it themselves. They’re like, if you guys aren’t going to start a chant. Whoever walks up next, we’re doing it.

 

Audience Member [00:50:56] Alan, you’re a fucking legend!

 

Paul Scheer [00:51:03] Holy shit, I love this.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:51:08] Also Alan, you can leave now if you think it’s best. Maybe it’s best.

 

Paul Scheer [00:51:16] No no, Alan you got to do it.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:51:16] Go ahead. Please, please, please.

 

Paul Scheer [00:51:18] And now it’s time for a second opinions.

 

Audience Member [00:51:26] He packed my sprouts last night. Preflight, zero hour, 9 a.m.. But I’m going to be high. On my own supply by then. I miss my mom so much. My sister too. But do they even know I’m gone? So it’s just, this flight, and I think it’s going to be a long, long time till I find a movie out there that’s so fine. I don’t even care about these reviews at. No, no, no, no, second opinion. Second opinion I’m giving it five stars on Amazon.

 

Paul Scheer [00:52:15] Amazing.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:34] Alan!

 

June Diane Raphael [00:52:36] Oh, my god.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:38] I’m worried about Alan.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:52:39] What is happening?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:52:41] I don’t know what’s going on. We’ve elevated. This is how gods are formed. This is how religion is born. People are like, I don’t know, we just follow him. What are you talking about? He’s. As someone said, he’s Alan. You don’t question him. You follow him.

 

Paul Scheer [00:52:59] I really do think I’ll just like a white shirt that just says Alan in black font.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:53:04] Love it.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:53:05] Alan, How Did This Get Made, Dublin 2024

 

Paul Scheer [00:53:10] All right, so, we go to Amazon. 292 reviews, 292 reviews.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:53:18] That’s it?

 

Paul Scheer [00:53:19] That’s it. Well, this is, you know, of course, 64% are five star reviews. Only 9% are one star reviews. Eagles still. Sorry. Well, sorry I should say that again. Eagles tail. Reviewed.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:53:39] No, no, no, I think you had it right. Because it’s like this. I think this eagle is stale. Don’t eat that eagle. I think it’s stale. It’s been out for days.

 

Paul Scheer [00:53:56] “Finally, a movie that all the boys and I can relate to. My entire family laughed hysterically, while at the same time learning to look at diversity in a whole new light. This film should be required curriculum for all fifth, sixth and seventh grade boys. Let’s hope that the filmmakers agree and produce more great films for our guys. Five stars. Thunderpants.” I do appreciate that fart noise out in the audience.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:54:31] I was just going to say I have a genuine question. Does somebody have a whoopee cushion in the audience? Because there was just an audible fart from the audience, and I appreciate the restraint in using it up until this point. But if you’ve got a whoopee cushion, bring it out. Keep your phones away, but whoopee cushion as much as you want.

 

Paul Scheer [00:54:52] Somebody did say it’s the Guinness. This this movie is from G. Browning. I really enjoyed this.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:55:01] G. Browning your underwear.

 

Paul Scheer [00:55:04] “I really enjoyed this movie and I think Rupert Grint did an amazing job. Ron Weasley was always my favorite of the three main Harry Potter characters, and going from Harry Potter to Thunderpants was quite a transformation for Rupert. I wish he would have made more movies during this period of his life. Dan Radcliffe steals most of the Thunder in Harry Potter and I would love to see Patrick Smash fart in Harry’s face. LOL. The extras on the DVD were wonderful to watch. And when Alan called Patrick, Damon’s little fart boy, I thought I would die laughing. My kids were amazed at the familiar faces in the film, especially the girl from Chronicles of Narnia. I would highly recommend this movie for a good laugh.” The title “The ugly ginger haired kid from Harry Potter? Five stars.”

 

June Diane Raphael [00:56:06] What? That’s insane.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:07] The text is full. The body, rather, is full of compliments. And then that’s the subject?

 

Paul Scheer [00:56:16] This is the clickbait kind of Amazon reviews. You know, you go, oh, oh, I like this one.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:56:22] Also, he’s never looked cuter and sweeter. Shut the fuck up.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:26] I thought he was a fucking homerun.

 

Paul Scheer [00:56:29] That’s why I read it, because I felt like it had no power.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:34] He was making huge choices throughout.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:56:37] He’s so good.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:38] I loved every one of them.

 

Paul Scheer [00:56:39] He’s very good. He’s very, very good.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:56:42] I loved when his dad was showed up, looked just like him, slammed the door in Patrick Smash’s his face. He was like, yeah, he’s gone. And the daughter thought he’s never coming back. Here’s a letter you get. Get fucking bent, you idiot.

 

Paul Scheer [00:56:56] All right, so. And we’ll finally end on Lorraine Crystal Myers, who writes this “This movie is the best. It was funny. It was cute. It was sad, but it ended so well. The little boy was so cute. We were all awing at the little boy. I also suggest the Muppets Wizard of Oz. Five stars.”

 

June Diane Raphael [00:57:29] I love her so much too, because she’s like, I’ll put my full name. All three names. Lorraine Crystal. What was her last name?

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:57:38] Oh. Wait, no, it’s Lorraine crystal.

 

Paul Scheer [00:57:42] Myers. Wow.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:57:43] Myers.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:57:43] Which is Michael Myers camp crystal lake. Somehow related.

 

Paul Scheer [00:57:47] I think that’s what I felt like it was there, too. Let me read you this thing. This movie has some interesting connections, and no one brought this up in the crowd. And I thought it was great. I thought someone would. This movie is being played in a scene from Five minutes of Heaven. Five minutes of Heaven is an intense drama, thriller and Sundance Award winner from 2009, starring Liam Neeson. In this scene, one of the characters is watching the TV with his family. After violently confronting Liam Neeson’s character, the man who had murdered his brother 30 years prior during the Northern Irish Troubles. They get into a gruesome knife fight, nearly killing each other, and then they both fly through a second floor window. Liam begs the other actor to off him and live his life for his daughters, but that other actor walks away. Cut to the other actor sitting and staring uncomfortably at his kids watching Thunderpants in the daytime.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:58:53] So that makes me feel like it is an Irish movie. Like, no, no, we don’t want it. Don’t give it to us. Please don’t attribute this movie to our people.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:11] All right. Very quickly, I’ll ask you.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:59:14] Like, somehow this is a movie that people are watching somehow during the troubles.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:20] The movie is an hour and 27 minutes. How many farts are in it? Oh, well. Yep, they got it. 50.

 

June Diane Raphael [00:59:27] 50 farts.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:59:29] Too many people did research. Hey, babe. What are you doing? We gotta go. Nothing. Scan, scan. Scan. Scan.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:38] Budget. $7 million.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:59:41] Wow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:42] Opening weekend $627,000.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:59:48] Wow.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:49] In the UK, this film made $2 million.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [00:59:55] Okay.

 

Paul Scheer [00:59:59] Pervert, someone yells.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:02] Someone in the creepy corner had something to say.

 

Paul Scheer [01:00:09] And the worldwide gross was $3 million. The movie came in, 2002, and it came out the same year as, Britney Spears Crossroads, the Country Bears, Master of Disguise, Rollerball, Jason X, Killing Me Softly, Shark Attack three, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. And it was, produced, written, and directed by the same guy who directed Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:35] Oh, wow.

 

Paul Scheer [01:00:36] And Garfield the Movie. Okay, there you go. Would you recommend this movie?

 

June Diane Raphael [01:00:42] Absolutely.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:44] Forever yes.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:00:44] Yes. I can’t believe, honestly, I can’t believe we hadn’t seen it yet.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:48] This is. I’m. I am also shocked. We haven’t seen it yet.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:00:52] But I had never heard of.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:00:53] As I wrote multiple times in my notes. I’m having a great time. So part of me is even. And I had a wonderful time here with you. Dublin tonight give it up for yourself. Yes. You guys killed it. Great questions, great songs. Engaged. You done your research. But even still, part of me is like. Should we have even done this for the podcast? This for me, qualifies as a “Thank God this got made” movie.

 

Paul Scheer [01:01:22] I do think when you see a movie like this, you go, oh, kids movies used to be weird and fun and not generic. Yeah, yeah, saccharin.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:01:31] And darker. Yes, a lot darker.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:01:33] To have real like boy. Like he goes through it. And one of the things we haven’t talked about is that, Patrick Smash is constantly evaluating. This is the best day of my life. This is the worst day of my life. And his life vacillates between those two poles, those two extremes. It is either the best day or the worst day. And that’s real.

 

Paul Scheer [01:01:58] And that’s like a fart. Sometimes you let it out. Oh, good. It didn’t smell. And sometimes you let it out. You’re like, oh, no, I cleared an elevator.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:02:05] Yeah. And also, I think what I really connected to, because I’m not sure this is the way he phrases it, but when he says, now we’re going to do my dream. Or you promised me we’re going to do my dream. It was so sweet and childlike, this idea that a dream or something you really want is a an experience that happens once. That’s why when you were saying Spaceman should be, he should have done more. I’m like the space man. I the idea of him being a spaceman was really just putting on the costume. Yeah. And sitting in that rocket. And that was enough for him. He didn’t even really need to go.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:02:40] He didn’t even need to fuel the rocket.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:02:41] So there were things in this movie that were deeply moving to me.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:02:47] As absurd as what you’re saying is June and I want to be clear, it’s truly, truly batshit bananas.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:02:54] But I guess it wasn’t. I want to live my dream. It was I want to do it, I want to, I want to experience it, and I want to get it done.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:05] And I loved I love that this movie suggests that through absolute suffering, you can achieve your dream.

 

Paul Scheer [01:03:15] And it’s all by pure happenstance. Yes, because he if if he wasn’t poisoned, he wouldn’t have killed somebody. If he didn’t kill somebody, he wouldn’t be rescued. And if he didn’t rescue anybody, he wouldn’t have saved the day.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:29] My guess is that Alan A. Alan would have when they came to the stage in development where they needed to propel the rocket with not rocket fuel, but instead farts. They would have come to get Patrick’s Smash anyway from wherever he was. It just so happened that he was being put in front of a firing squad.

 

Paul Scheer [01:03:54] Got it.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:03:54] And I can’t I I’m really serious right now. I know I’ve not been serious most of the show. I’m dead serious right now. If you haven’t watched this movie, watch it only for the scene in which they put a child in front of an adult firing squad and tell me this isn’t the greatest movie you’ve ever seen in your life. How great would it have been if one person just took a shot?

 

Paul Scheer [01:04:17] Scene 11, Beth.

 

Movie Audio [01:04:24] Take aim.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:27] What is this?

 

Paul Scheer [01:04:29] I didn’t even realize that he’s wearing a jumpsuit that’s the same color as his other shirt.

 

Movie Audio [01:04:34] And then it happened.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:37] Oh, his voice over. Ha ha. I wish Giamatti had been Agent Smith.

 

Movie Audio [01:04:44] United States of America special Forces.

 

Paul Scheer [01:04:46] Same color. Green. The green.

 

Movie Audio [01:04:48] The Secretary has authorized the transfer of prisoner Patrick Smash.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:52] Look at him in the background. What’s going on? Look at him.

 

Paul Scheer [01:04:56] This movie is brilliant.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:04:57] I mean, this kid’s a genius.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:00] So we’re up here talking about how great Rupert Grinpert is.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:05:03] But this is great. And here’s what I want to say about his performance. It could have been so overdone. The way he delivers lines. Like when he says, I sing out of my ass.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:15] He’s straight. Dead.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:05:18] Gives it nothing. Puts nothing on it.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:21] He he they I mean, and I and I want to reiterate, we are up here giving all the flowers to Rupert Grinpert. This kid deserves everything and more.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:05:30] Everything is underplayed.

 

Paul Scheer [01:05:32] And it’s true that I do think that that’s important to say for a child actor. He does underplay it a lot.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:05:41] He’s so good.

 

Paul Scheer [01:05:42] He plays melancholy better than any kid I’ve ever seen.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:05:47] No, this is a master class.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:05:48] Yes. He’s just taking every insult. Everything. Just like not. He’s not overdoing it. He’s not like, oh, pity me. Woe is me. He’s just like. And then the voiceover comes in, which he also kills. And it’s like, that was the best day of my life. That was the worst day of my life.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:06:09] I can’t remember the refrain that they say to each other, these two friends, but it’s it’s quite beautiful.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:15] Like, what am I? And he says, you’re a genius. Yeah.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:06:19] And we’ll get through it, through our friendship. And there’s nothing we can’t do. And something.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:24] About friendship. I would, I would show this to my children if I had them.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:06:29] Yeah, but you don’t.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:30] Oh, where are my kids?

 

Paul Scheer [01:06:32] Thank you. Dublin! Give it up for Jason Mantzoukas, June Diane Raphael.

 

Jason Mantzoukas [01:06:39] Paul Scheer, ladies and gentlemen!

 

Paul Scheer [01:06:40] Dublin. Beth Thomas, our stage manager. Our opening act, Bob. Thank you for coming. We will be back.

 

June Diane Raphael [01:06:49] Thank you!

 

[01:06:49] Eat shit, Dublin! Alan, Alan, Alan.

 

Paul Scheer [01:07:01] All right, everybody, that is a wrap on Thunderpants. Which means it is time to say cheerio to our UK tour episodes. Thank you so much to everyone who came out in Dublin and everyone who just supported us on the road. We will be back. We will be back and we will, do more shows. We’re also going be doing a show in New York in November. Dinosaur Jason and I, we do improv that’s going to be touring around as well. So keep your, your ears open, your eyes open for announcements about those shows. And just, another special thanks to Beth Thomas, our tour manager, and our recording engineer, Matt Rice. If you are obsessed with Alan as much as our live show us, you can snag yourself an Alan t shirt on sale now at Teepublic.com/stores/HDTGM. We still have all of our UK tour shirts on sale there for a limited time. And if you’ve been thinking about getting that Rupert Grinpert shirt, which I have and Beeoswarm shirt, now is the time, people. I gotta tell you, I own every one of those. My Alan sweatshirt is, I mean, truly great. And actually the material is awesome as well. How Did This Get Made, like I said, we’ll be in New York City on November 15th. Handful tickets are left. Just go to HDTGM.com. My book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma is available wherever you get your books, your e-books, or your audio books. If you want a signed copy of the book, just go to my website. You can order it through Chevaliers. I’ll write whatever you want in there. I’m also in the brand new Batman Caped Crusader show on Amazon Prime. And if you want to continue talking about. And I don’t know why you would, but if you want to continue talking about, the Thunderpants universe, please give us a call at 619-PAUL-ASK or write a comment on our discord at discord.gg/HDTGM. Then make sure you tune in next week to our Last Looks follow up episode on Thunderpants to hear me respond to your messages, announce our next movie, and Jason and I are going to talk with the legendary Jake Brennan from the Disgraced Land podcast, so don’t skip out on this one. Remember, if you listen to us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, make sure you are subscribed to our feed and have automatic downloads turned on in the show settings. It helps us and we appreciate that a lot. And last but not least, I got to thank our entire team for whom the show could not be done without. I’m talking about our producer Scott Sonne, Molly Reynolds, our movie picking producer Avril Halley, and our engineer Casey Holford, and our associate producer, Jess Cisneros. That’s all I got, people. We’ll see you next week for Last Looks. Bye for now.