Ep. #441 - Spice World, LIVE

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Speaker 4 On this episode, we discuss Spice World

Speaker 5 live from Oxford, England.

Speaker 1 USA, USA,

Speaker 5 oh no, oh no, oh no,

Speaker 1 wrong audience.

Speaker 1 You can talk to the most liberal, progressive audience in the United States. If you start chanting USA, it's like a switch flips in their brain and they can't stop it.

Speaker 11 That's the beauty of having three initials in your country name.

Speaker 12 Like,

Speaker 9 you know, like, there's many wonderful things about the UK, but it doesn't have the same rhythm.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 12 Calm down, sir.

Speaker 1 This is an interesting hobby horse for Dan that I was not aware of ahead of time.

Speaker 16 Take a heel turn in the second show.

Speaker 17 And now

Speaker 1 it's taught. Now at the end of local news, a local citizen will have a chance to express his editorial.

Speaker 19 How come countries don't all have three initials?

Speaker 1 Won't somebody step in and stop this?

Speaker 20 Hey, everyone, and welcome to the Flop House.

Speaker 22 I'm Dan McCoy.

Speaker 23 I'm Stuart Wellington.

Speaker 1 I'm Elliot Kalen. Thank you.

Speaker 2 You got him back.

Speaker 21 This is a podcast where normally we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it.

Speaker 25 Tonight, however, we watch Spice World.

Speaker 26 And we're about to talk about it.

Speaker 25 We're about to talk about it.

Speaker 10 Stuart, I believe you have the reins for this one.

Speaker 27 Now, before we get into the plot of Spice World, which is dense and layered,

Speaker 30 did you guys see this movie?

Speaker 1 I think Tom Stopper did a rewrite on this one. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Did you guys see this movie when it first came out?

Speaker 34 Did you see it in the theater?

Speaker 11 I didn't see it in the theater.

Speaker 8 I definitely watched it on home video because I liked the Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 Some movies Dan preferred to watch alone at home with no one else in the room.

Speaker 24 And, you know, I...

Speaker 36 Yes, I did. I saw it at the time.

Speaker 2 Elliot, though, I believe, saw it for the first time.

Speaker 1 My first viewing of it was last night when we watched it en masse as a group.

Speaker 1 That's Latin for with mass. We all have physical being.

Speaker 1 And yeah, I'd never seen it. When it first came out, I was not a Spice Girls fan.
I just wasn't into that stuff. As I said to Dan's wife last night, when I was a teenager, my girl group was Elastica.

Speaker 1 And she said, who?

Speaker 4 No, I yeah, I loved Elastica.

Speaker 12 Yeah, great.

Speaker 1 But I mean, they stole that one song. Well, what are you going to do? Anyway,

Speaker 1 so I had had not seen it before. The Spice Girls were to me a gimmick.
Nay, a joke. But now the scales have fallen from mine eyes.

Speaker 1 And I finally see not through a glass darkly, but through a spice clearly.

Speaker 1 It's almost as if I can now see through space and time thanks to a totally different spice on a totally different spice world.

Speaker 38 So you're saying you spiced up your life?

Speaker 1 I did spiced up my life.

Speaker 1 They commanded every boy and every girl to spice up their lives. And I said, I'm a boy.
I've got to do it.

Speaker 23 Yeah, you're no longer a wannabe.

Speaker 39 Okay, that was labored, I admit.

Speaker 41 So I, yeah, I didn't see this at the time either.

Speaker 33 I wasn't a, like, you know, I was a teenager.

Speaker 44 I wasn't a big Spice Girls fan at the time.

Speaker 46 I think part of it is that, like, watching it, I feel like it's a movie that works better now almost.

Speaker 8 And I would say that, like, at the time, I didn't realize it, but like, I feel like the spice girls were not like they were not male gaysy in the way that I think I had expected like pop stars to be.

Speaker 8 I mean their boobs are falling out of their shirt a lot.

Speaker 22 But I don't know.

Speaker 7 Like I feel like

Speaker 45 I feel like they're sexy, as my wife was describing it, sexy more for like a teenage girl than for a...

Speaker 1 They're like aspirationally sexy. Like you want to be a spice girl rather than be with a spice girl.
Eminem can't decide which one he wants to impregnate.

Speaker 1 But for most guys, yeah. But I think there's a controversial thing I'll say about this movie, I think this movie, comedy-wise, is about 10 years ahead of its time.

Speaker 1 Like, that's the time, when this movie came out, what was a hit comedy? Was like something about Mary, you know, which is, it's like, ugh gross, ugh embarrassing, ugh.

Speaker 1 Whereas this movie is like random, random, non-secular, non-secular. You like that joke? Forget about it.
It's gone. On to the next one.

Speaker 1 Which is like, that's comedy now. You know, they saw it way ahead of time.
I mean, it's also comedy like 30 years earlier, too.

Speaker 11 And I also think when you're saying it plays better now, part of that, too, is at the time, critics at least were probably like, uh, this is a package thing that is, like, they're trying to shove this down.

Speaker 24 Like, why did the Spice Girls have a movie?

Speaker 22 Whereas now it's just like, yeah, I remember the Spice Girls.

Speaker 24 I like them.

Speaker 36 You know, like you have, there's like a little more perspective on it where it's not, like, clouded by this idea of, like, weird authenticity.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, I mean, and also the fact that when you turn on the radio now, one, what do you do? And nobody listens to the radio anymore. But two, you don't hear the Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 So when this came out, it was like the world, we were living in a Spice World.

Speaker 45 I do like your critic voice opens with a uh

Speaker 45 that's just like that's some shorthand for like don't whatever I say just discount it yeah okay so Spice World the movie opens with uh we get some credits and what a cast in addition to the fab five that's right the spice girls we have uh man everybody's in this movie everybody in the world is in this movie.

Speaker 28 You got Richard E.

Speaker 33 Grant, you got Alan Cumming, you got Roger Moore, you got George Wendt,

Speaker 12 Mark McGee, Barry Humphreys.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is a Spice Girls movie. It does not need to have one of the kids in the hall, Dame Edna, not as Dame Edna, and Riffraff from Rocky Horror in it, but they're all in it.

Speaker 15 Yes.

Speaker 22 Okay. And Richard E.

Speaker 1 Grant has so much screen time. It's fantastic.
Yeah.

Speaker 32 Yeah, yeah, he's great. And so the movie opens with a performance by the Spice Girls.

Speaker 45 There's many of them.

Speaker 26 Who are they?

Speaker 32 Well, we have Melsey, Melby,

Speaker 54 Emma,

Speaker 31 Jerry, and Victoria.

Speaker 18 Okay, the...

Speaker 22 Okay. And their personas.

Speaker 19 Now they're personas, Stuart.

Speaker 34 We got baby, posh,

Speaker 57 scary,

Speaker 57 sporty,

Speaker 62 and uh and

Speaker 54 ginger.

Speaker 63 Yeah.

Speaker 12 You did it.

Speaker 24 You did it.

Speaker 27 Sorry, I got distracted. Sporty's my favorite.

Speaker 64 I've said this before, but sporty's my favorite too.

Speaker 1 It's hard not to have sporty as your favorite, I feel like.

Speaker 11 I do think that the movie, this movie best serves the spice girls who have like a clear bit, you know, where it's like, okay, it's like sporty or baby, like there's like a thing to hang your hat on.

Speaker 3 Like, I feel like

Speaker 14 Jerry struggles more because it's like, well, her bit is she has red hair.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 1 they give her the characteristic of she's always spewing trivia, like factual trivia, and it's a weird thing for them to do.

Speaker 1 I guess she's supposed to be like the brainy spice, but also at least one of her trivia facts is wrong, and I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a joke or not.

Speaker 1 So it got me so mad, almost as mad as I was during Stuart's erroneous dinosaur presentation,

Speaker 1 was when I was watching it, and she's like, you know, the manta ray is the biggest fish. And I'm like, the whale shark is the biggest fish, Jerry.

Speaker 1 Ginger spice, what are you teaching the girls of the world?

Speaker 67 Yeah, Ellie was squirming in a seat.

Speaker 42 Okay, not for the same reason Dan was squirming in his seat.

Speaker 40 So

Speaker 32 in the credits, it does say, based on an idea by the Spice Girls, which is great.

Speaker 39 Fuck yeah, everything. The idea seems to be, we're the Spice Girls.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 40 Okay, so it opens with like a performance in like a dinner club or a supper club.

Speaker 62 They got a band, they play one of their songs.

Speaker 49 We get a little bit of a taste of who they are.

Speaker 45 Sporty has some amazing solos.

Speaker 8 I love it.

Speaker 63 Okay, afterwards, the girls are rushing to their tour bus through the halls.

Speaker 27 They're accompanied by their manager, Richard E.

Speaker 31 Grant Clifford, who wears a lot of really great,

Speaker 60 colorful, like monochromatic suits, and he has a soul patch.

Speaker 12 Yes. Does a lot of acting.

Speaker 24 There was a period of time, I was attempting to get an outfit to dress like Richard E.

Speaker 11 Grant for the show.

Speaker 26 You should get it just for normal life, dude.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 72 There's a cheap green suit that I was having delivered to me because

Speaker 14 that was like the most doable one because like the first Richard E.

Speaker 11 Grant, I'm like, what did he wear? And the first picture that came up was like a leather jacket with a leather tie.

Speaker 3 And I'm like, I don't think that's a look I could do.

Speaker 61 A powerful but smelly outfit. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Okay, the girls all, you know, they say hi to Elton John.

Speaker 54 They rush past a documentary crew that is following them, led by Alan Cumming.

Speaker 41 Yeah, they...

Speaker 1 This is one of the few things that I feel like the movie fails to reach the potential of, is that Richard E. Grant and Alan Cumming on the screen together,

Speaker 1 it never achieves the sparks and the action, you know, the high-intensity acting that I want it to, of two indelible personalities slamming against each other.

Speaker 1 I think because Alan Cummings, his character is a character who keeps getting, you know, pies in the face metaphorically. So he's just, it's, I want to see the two of them argue at some point.

Speaker 1 Maybe dance?

Speaker 8 Didn't happen.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so he's like.

Speaker 39 And also, he has superpowers.

Speaker 1 I don't know why he's not just teleporting all over the place.

Speaker 8 That's the thing, yeah.

Speaker 46 Yeah, so throughout the movie, he and his film crew are chasing the Spice Girls around, trying to get footage.

Speaker 75 And it doesn't really matter, nor is it really jokey.

Speaker 76 No, yeah.

Speaker 45 It's kind of weak. It's too bad.

Speaker 44 I feel like there's a waste of potential, but that's fine.

Speaker 7 So they, I feel like, like a lot of things, it's like, no, don't worry about it, just keep going.

Speaker 28 Just like when Elton John wanders in, and they're like, he has two seconds to film, so kiss him and get the fuck out of there.

Speaker 1 What's so funny about it is is they have the real Elton John, and most of the scene is with his back to the camera. And I don't think it's because they used a stand.

Speaker 1 I think they were like, we'll get the Spice Girls first, then we'll get the reverse shot with Elton. And halfway through the Elton shot, he was like, gotta go.

Speaker 39 Okay, so they board their bus.

Speaker 67 They're in a double-decker Union Jack draped bus that is larger on the inside than the outside, and a phenomenon that's never been explored in British entertainment before.

Speaker 46 So, and we get like an idea of their like personalities and their quirks.

Speaker 44 You know, Sporty is like on a on a bike or like kicking a soccer ball.

Speaker 47 Football, sorry, shit.

Speaker 61 They're talking about astrology, and I'm like, what?

Speaker 70 What sign is each girl?

Speaker 11 You unmasked yourself as an American.

Speaker 15 Oh, I know.

Speaker 1 You could get arrested for doing that.

Speaker 54 I know.

Speaker 73 Okay, and we learn at this point

Speaker 54 the ticking clock of the movie, and that's that they have a show coming up at Albert Hall, which I think I am inferring is a big deal.

Speaker 1 Well, yep, you are inferred. It is a major venue.

Speaker 8 I know that it takes a lot of holes to fill it.

Speaker 1 Not as many as you think. They know how many.

Speaker 62 And how do you get there?

Speaker 61 Practice, practice, practice, practice.

Speaker 70 Come on.

Speaker 1 Yes, it's the same directions to get to Carnegie Hall as Albert Hall, or all halls, really. The halls of medicine, yeah.

Speaker 16 They built them on the same Indian burial ground.

Speaker 80 That's the practice, practice, practice.

Speaker 1 Dan, I don't know if you know about the history of England, but there's

Speaker 1 not a lot of Native Americans.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Okay, so now we cut over to George Went and Mark McKinney,

Speaker 70 who are, I guess, film producers who see them performing on TV

Speaker 45 or see them doing an interview preparing for their show, and they realize, you know what, there's something here.

Speaker 43 These girls have got it. Let's start, let's come up with a movie pitch.

Speaker 1 We can sell a movie with the Spice Girls. And Mark McKinney is, I think, the writer of the two, and he's wearing wearing a Harvard shirt, which is a very funny touch.

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 1 that's someone who knows screenwriters. They all went to Harvard, and they all want to tell you about it all the time.

Speaker 82 Okay, so the Spice Girls are practicing for their show.

Speaker 39 They're doing a rehearsal, and it is interrupted by the arrival of their pregnant friend, Nicola, who is not a Spice Girl, and I was not familiar with her before this, but she seems like she's part of the gang who has gotten kind of pushed out of it due to life or having a baby.

Speaker 75 So the girls kind of cluster around her, they talk about it, then they have a dream sequence where they imagine what they'd be like if they were moms.

Speaker 67 And there's a couple of these sequences throughout the movie where the camera gets all swirly, and that's basically your cue to see a really good bit.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I love, yeah, whenever something this happened, I'm like, ooh, great, because

Speaker 20 the whole movie is padding, but in the best way possible.

Speaker 38 Like, nothing is relevant, so everything is beautiful.

Speaker 1 It's essentially a sketch movie.

Speaker 1 I think at a certain point they were like, people really care about the plot of a Spice Girls movie.

Speaker 1 And the people who,

Speaker 1 the director I know at least of this, was a longtime television comedy director. Like he did the second series of Halty Towers and he did most of Absolutely Fabulous.

Speaker 1 So it's like, I think there, and he did a lot of comic strip also. And so it's like, it's like, look, let's just do jokes.
Like, this is what we're known.

Speaker 1 And so I really like that they embrace that sketch aspect. I also think, again, it's not not something that is presented as a joke, but it is very funny the idea that a band has a best friend.

Speaker 75 Well, and she's like their collective best friend.

Speaker 1 Oh, they're all her best friend, and she treats them like one undifferentiated mass that is all her best friend.

Speaker 1 And she walks in pregnant and they're like, hi, and they break up rehearsal. And I remember I'm like, I don't know the Spice Girls mythology, but is this like a character?

Speaker 1 Like, is she mentioned in the albums?

Speaker 12 Like, what is it?

Speaker 17 Yeah, Yeah, if you get the action figures, it's like, oh, this is the accessory.

Speaker 21 The Spice Girls' best friend.

Speaker 7 Yeah, which is the pregnant Barbie?

Speaker 45 Thank you. It's Midge.

Speaker 5 Okay,

Speaker 43 so, and we learned that there's an element of the Spice Girls worrying that they're losing touch with their pregnant friend who has also been abandoned by the baby's father.

Speaker 1 They don't go too deeply into that, which is probably the right choice for a Spice Girls movie.

Speaker 45 Okay, so back on the tour bus, the girls are starting to kind of push back against the roles that they have been assigned by their names and interests.

Speaker 33 They want to be known as more than just the sporty one, who, because sporty also likes other things.

Speaker 45 So that carries on to a photo shoot where they are being photographed by a photographer played by Dominic West from The Wire, which is really cool.

Speaker 33 And they decide to change it up and then they dress like each other.

Speaker 27 I thought this was pretty fun

Speaker 26 and not as racist as I was expecting it to be.

Speaker 11 I also enjoyed it, you see this in a lot of movies, but I felt like it was especially underlined here that every time they did a freeze frame, it's like that would have been a terrible photo.

Speaker 22 That's the one they picked.

Speaker 1 I don't know much about the real-life Spice Girls, but the impression I get from the movie is they either are very good at faking enjoying being around each other, or they do like being around each other.

Speaker 1 I don't know which it is.

Speaker 26 I don't want to know which it is.

Speaker 61 I It's like Schrödinger's cat.

Speaker 1 I don't need to know if it's alive or dead, you know.

Speaker 28 But I think that it almost doesn't matter at this point.

Speaker 47 Like, it feels like it's sold.

Speaker 62 Afterwards, they go to a press party with a few more British celebrities.

Speaker 1 Big celebrity cameos.

Speaker 1 Should we talk about the cameos that didn't make it into the film? Because there are a lot of cameos in the movie, but there are a few cameos that were cut from the film before release.

Speaker 1 Should we talk about those now?

Speaker 26 Yeah, why not? Sure.

Speaker 1 Two big ones. There was apparently at least one scene with Gianni Versace, who unfortunately was murdered between the filming and the release.
And so they cut him off.

Speaker 71 Unrelated to the movie.

Speaker 1 Unrelated, not because he was in Spice World.

Speaker 1 That was not the case of the Spice World kill.

Speaker 18 They tracked him down.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And of course, there was a cameo by Gary Glitter, who was brought up on charges between filming and release, and that was cut from the release of the film. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So this, when you put a lot of cameos in your movie, you are dancing on a knife edge.

Speaker 1 You don't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 26 Okay,

Speaker 57 so at this press party, their friend Nicola shows up.

Speaker 75 Their collective best friend Nicola shows up.

Speaker 80 Still pregnant.

Speaker 42 They kind of, they're a little bit too busy to spend time with her, so she ends up leaving and they feel bad.

Speaker 75 I feel like I've missed a very important thing.

Speaker 45 The Spice Girls at this point have become so popular that they've drawn the negative attention of the

Speaker 45 local trade, what the magazine, the date paper.

Speaker 22 The tabloid music. The tabloid.

Speaker 18 The tabloid music, yeah.

Speaker 54 Where the evil tabloid owner enlists his, what, number one fixer played by Jason Fleming, and they bring in the ultimate paparazzo

Speaker 44 named Damien, played by Richard O'Brien from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Speaker 1 And the editor is Barry Humphreys.

Speaker 18 Let me explain that.

Speaker 31 Wait, who plays the editor?

Speaker 1 The editor is Barry Humphreys, better known as Dame Edna, but not being Dame Edna in this.

Speaker 8 Oh, okay.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 58 So, who's Australian?

Speaker 49 They have decided they need to ruin the Spice Girls, and they'll stop at nothing to do it, and all of a sudden it starts raining in the office.

Speaker 12 It's kind of great.

Speaker 65 And I also love how like capricious this is because it doesn't seem like there's any particular reason they want to ruin the Spice Girls other than like there's a spinning newspaper that with a headline just Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 He has as much reason to destroy the Spice Girls as J. Jonah Jameson has to destroy Spider-Man.

Speaker 25 Although he brings

Speaker 1 Spice Girls, Spider-Man.

Speaker 22 Sometimes words sound alike.

Speaker 42 One thing I love about the editor's performance is how much he spits all the time.

Speaker 33 It's like he's fucking Denithor chomping on cherry tomatoes.

Speaker 52 I love it.

Speaker 70 Okay, so me, so that's all kind of going on in the background, and at this press party, they get lured.

Speaker 75 Alan Cumming lures them into

Speaker 33 some questions for his documentary, one of which involves the Pope.

Speaker 45 And Jerry makes a comment about is the Pope Catholic, and that leads to some bad press where they publish a headline that the Spice Girls are questioning whether or not the Pope is Catholic.

Speaker 62 And obviously, there's a minor uproar that doesn't seem to affect anyone other than Richard E.

Speaker 45 Grant.

Speaker 57 Just makes him very stressed out. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Richard E. Grant, yeah, is very stressed the entire movie.
And I love the fact that he seems to be taking license of, like, okay,

Speaker 36 I'm in Spice World.

Speaker 10 This means I can fulfill my dream of acting as hard as I ever have.

Speaker 24 But he is going for it in a beautiful way.

Speaker 73 Yeah, would you say this is a small performance with him?

Speaker 1 His name is Richard Enormous Grant.

Speaker 84 I read this article where Richard E.

Speaker 11 Grant was reminiscing about it that I sent to you guys as well. And he has so much affection for doing this.
And I was so charmed by how much affection.

Speaker 9 And I was thinking about like,

Speaker 13 I love...

Speaker 79 a thing that I think is very characteristic of British actors where it's like we think of England like having actors having so much training, so much theater in their background but they also just love being like yeah it's a job you're gonna pay me i'll do it yeah and i love that like it's so beautiful dame judy dens i'll be an elemental or whatever in your riddick movie yeah yeah i'll tell riddick how cool he is yeah sure i'll give it 110

Speaker 43 and also i do want to point out that richard e grant is feeling stressed out because he's receiving both pressure and kind of strange uh advice cryptic aphorisms yeah from his boss played by Roger Moore, who is stroking a different farm animal in every scene.

Speaker 1 There's a scene later on where Roger Moore is giving this cryptic, very calm advice while he bottle feeds a pig, and the pig starts squirming in his hands, and he does not let on for a moment that this is going to bother him, that he has a squirming pig in his hands.

Speaker 12 That's a pro.

Speaker 1 And it's a pro. And it's also one of those roles where you're like, I know they shot all of this in one day on one set.

Speaker 1 And Roger Moore, like, you know, he probably just walked in, was like, what am I doing? Carrying a rabbit and then feeding a pig? Sure, whatever.

Speaker 12 They're like, you have to wear a silk robe.

Speaker 26 Oh, you're already wearing one?

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 22 And at the very end of the year.

Speaker 8 You brought your one from home?

Speaker 1 And then it's just, cheers, fellas, and then back to his life, yeah.

Speaker 63 Okay, so after this

Speaker 73 snafu about the Pope, they end up flying to Milan to participate in a photo shoot where they bring in a group of scantily clad men and the girls object to it.

Speaker 45 So then they put on different outfits on those men and Richard E.

Speaker 1 Grant gets to have a good argument with the the Italian director it's fun it's it's a borderline offensive depiction of an Italian

Speaker 69 I don't think it's offensive to do an attack like do that but it pays off with men dancing in butless pants so everyone's happy yeah international male catalog uh quality outfits okay so they fly back uh as soon as apparently as soon as they land they end up boarding their tour bus and they their the bathrooms on the bus break down.

Speaker 1 So the Milan thing is not related to the Pope thing, right?

Speaker 39 It has nothing to do with it, but it feels weird to happen right after.

Speaker 1 I wonder if at any point they were like, should we make it explicit that they're doing this show in Milan in order to get back in with the Italian audience after offending people about the Pope?

Speaker 25 And they were just like, do we give a shit?

Speaker 1 Does this get them over there?

Speaker 24 Come on.

Speaker 45 So speaking of scenes that I think don't make the most sense, but I still love.

Speaker 45 So the bathroom on their bus breaks down.

Speaker 27 Bus driver played by Meatloaf.

Speaker 64 Will not, he loves the girls, but he won't fix the bathrooms for them.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I will do anything for them, but I won't do that.

Speaker 7 Huge applause break in the theater.

Speaker 12 Yeah, we lost the ball. We lost our lives.

Speaker 22 People were like running around, high-fiving each other.

Speaker 1 And if I'm correct, right, this was not the first time Meatloaf played a bus driver in a movie because he played a bus driver in Leap of Faith with Steve Martin, right? I think that was Meatloaf.

Speaker 1 So Meatloaf, he's either

Speaker 1 a musician who loves to play bus drivers or the most talented bus driver in the world.

Speaker 75 Don't look up his politics.

Speaker 12 So

Speaker 75 the bathrooms break down. The girls go running off into the dark woods to use the bathroom.

Speaker 45 Of course, at this point, they run into an alien spaceship,

Speaker 41 which

Speaker 41 lands.

Speaker 62 Three aliens get out.

Speaker 45 They are clearly there to see the Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 Huge Spice Girl fans.

Speaker 68 They're huge Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 They speak an alien language that the Spice Girls don't understand at first and then do understand perfectly.

Speaker 28 How would you describe the appearance of these aliens, Dan?

Speaker 24 Uh, they're little, they're little hunched over men, and then they've got a tiny little rubber face in the middle.

Speaker 22 Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 There's something kind of space ghoulies about them. Yeah.

Speaker 71 Uh-huh.

Speaker 57 They're, I would say they're slightly aggressive as far as fans go.

Speaker 19 Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 Considering they squeeze, is it Scary Spices boob and then demand Ginger kiss one of them on the lips? Yeah, it's, I think it's aggressive fan behavior.

Speaker 12 Yeah, but the Spice Girls, you know, handle it with a plum.

Speaker 27 Yeah, they're pros.

Speaker 53 Okay, so the,

Speaker 54 you know, Clifford, their manager, is a little concerned about them talking about these aliens they met.

Speaker 77 But despite his misgivings, he still has to cancel their morning off, okay?

Speaker 45 And at this point, you think there's going to be a big fight that the girls are going to be fighting with Clifford, but nope, they turn around, they're like, no, we'll go back to work.

Speaker 47 We don't care.

Speaker 1 It's a little bit like, so

Speaker 1 the movie is clearly following the pattern of a hard day's Night, where it's like the Beatles are having adventures, they're on the road, they're trying to get away from having to do Beatles stuff.

Speaker 1 So there's this band. They were insects that through surgery were turned into men.

Speaker 1 And people were so astounded by the science.

Speaker 21 They had mop tops.

Speaker 10 They were used to clean up floors.

Speaker 23 They kind of sound like the monkeys. Are they like the monkeys?

Speaker 73 They were the British monkeys.

Speaker 84 That's what they were known as.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so when America invented the monkeys, Britain was like, we got to get in on that. And they started with the Beatles.
And then the prototype was a bunch of hermits led by a Herman,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 in that went, like, they're always trying to get away. And it's as if the Beatles would try to get away for a couple seconds and then be like, no, at heart, we're just rule followers.

Speaker 1 We're not troublemakers. Because the Spice Girls always give in.

Speaker 75 Okay, so.

Speaker 1 Except for one time. We'll get to it, Stuart.

Speaker 46 So despite their disappointment in their day being canceled, they still go to dance instruction with a special drill sergeant, dance instructor Mr.

Speaker 60 Step played by Michael Barrymore.

Speaker 1 This was interesting.

Speaker 1 Another instance of the Spice World curse hitting a real celebrity.

Speaker 72 And it's also interesting to

Speaker 55 see a screening of this in England where

Speaker 38 there are a lot of these stars who are huge that we're familiar with.

Speaker 9 This was very specifically British.

Speaker 11 There was a huge reaction from the crowd and I'm like, I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 5 I don't know what this is.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's a famous person, famous character, if it's a reference to a real thing that happened in politics. I don't know, yeah.

Speaker 75 Yeah, let's pull up his Wikipedia page.

Speaker 70 Oh, wow, there's a long section on controversy.

Speaker 1 Reminds me of Norm McDonald's podcast bit where he's learning who Hitler was on the air in real time.

Speaker 1 He's like, oh, a decorated veteran of the First World War. Ooh, I don't like this.

Speaker 56 Oh, no, I don't like that.

Speaker 61 Okay, so after their dance instead.

Speaker 23 But it feels like

Speaker 1 this happens,

Speaker 1 it's like my wife and I are watching a Marvel movie, and like Star Fox shows up, and I'm like, what? They put Star Fox in a movie? And she's like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 44 So after their dance instruction, they have to spend the night in a spooky house.

Speaker 43 While they're in bed, the paparazzo, played by Richard O'Brien, sneaks inside, which would be scary, I admit.

Speaker 1 Sneaks in through the toilet, right?

Speaker 23 Sneaks in through the toilet like an aforementioned ghoul.

Speaker 1 Like a ghoul.

Speaker 36 Yeah, if Richard O'Brien snuck through my toilet, I'd be scared.

Speaker 1 I would fathom to go to the top.

Speaker 1 If any human being snuck into my house through the toilet, I'd be at the very least surprised.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And probably scared.

Speaker 2 After being scared, I'd be like, you know, I love your work, you know.

Speaker 1 Yet follow-up was

Speaker 1 really underrated, you know, Rocky Hart follow-up. And he'd be like, thank you, thank you very much.
Anyway, I think it came up through the the wrong toilet.

Speaker 57 So the spooky house scares the girls.

Speaker 45 They all end up in the same bed talking about things they're frightened of.

Speaker 43 And they're all sharing some concerns about the upcoming big show.

Speaker 60 And at this point, Richard O'Brien

Speaker 43 records what they say.

Speaker 85 They have some more bad press that

Speaker 60 they're scared of their upcoming gig.

Speaker 45 George Went and Mark McKinney then,

Speaker 86 the movie is interspersed with the scenes where George Went and Mark McKinney are pitching the Spice Girls as movie stars to Clifford, who is never interested.

Speaker 86 And this time they pitch Spice Force 5, which is another dream sequence where we get to see what the Spice Girls would be like if they were like secret agents, right?

Speaker 54 And they all kind of have their own little superpowers.

Speaker 86 There's some bits.

Speaker 49 A personal favorite is when Ginger Spice goes into a telephone box and transforms into Bob Hoskins.

Speaker 1 She she gets in the telephone box, she spins around, Wonder Woman changing costume styles, and turns into Bob Hoskins.

Speaker 1 And Bob Hoskins, because he is a consummate thespian, acts dizzy as he walks out of the telephone box. He's like, tell me, okay, my character was just spinning around.
You got it.

Speaker 1 I know how to play this, okay.

Speaker 33 And when that happens, of course, I'm like, so her superpower is becoming sexier?

Speaker 8 Bob Hoskins.

Speaker 44 Okay.

Speaker 77 So then they have a little visit with some contest-winning kids who ride around on their bus for a little bit.

Speaker 86 They're a little sick of their situation, so they sneak off the bus with these kids, board a nearby speedboat.

Speaker 14 This is very funny to me because it was like, I didn't quite see what was so terrible about the situation.

Speaker 24 Like the kids were in there, like there's a bunch of candy for the kids, and they're like, this sucks.

Speaker 20 We're going to rush off and get on a speedboat and

Speaker 4 sing the song

Speaker 4 like,

Speaker 36 I don't know the lyrics.

Speaker 1 You sound just like the Spice Girls.

Speaker 17 I sound exactly like the Spice Girls.

Speaker 1 There's a, so Scary Spice, she looks out the window and sees the water, and she's like, This is it. When I say go, go.

Speaker 1 And I thought they were going to escape out the window, and they just get off the bus, the regular window

Speaker 1 just out the door, past Meatloaf, who's like, is this the scene? Oh, no, it's later on. Later on, they take the bus, and Meatloaf goes, My bus, after getting up off the ground for some reason,

Speaker 1 I don't know, was he camping out next to the bus?

Speaker 45 His body, at nighttime, his body dissolves into the ground.

Speaker 58 Okay, so

Speaker 22 the

Speaker 46 so they escape with the kids.

Speaker 45 There's like kind of a boat chase as they sing lollipop over and over.

Speaker 49 And then they have to dodge a piece of driftwood.

Speaker 77 And some kids and some of the girls get in the water. It's

Speaker 43 a little bit of drama where they're concerned that they might have accidentally drowned some kids.

Speaker 21 Posh is mad that her dress got wet.

Speaker 39 Posh is upset.

Speaker 1 If this movie really had guts, those kids would have drowned.

Speaker 1 And then it would have spinning headline would have said, Spice Girls Kill Two Kids. And then it would move on to the next scene.

Speaker 12 The movie Lost Me When They Killed Kids.

Speaker 1 Spice World chickened out.

Speaker 75 Have the courage of your convictions.

Speaker 45 So, of course, this is more bad press because Richard O'Brien catches them in the act of almost killing kids.

Speaker 46 All this stress is really getting to Clifford, and at rehearsal, he yells at them, and that leads to the Spice Girls breaking up for kind of reasons.

Speaker 80 I'm not 100% sure why.

Speaker 1 It's clear why they break up rather than just going on strike. Like, they're not mad at each other, they're mad at him, but he goes, I think I just broke up the Spice Girls.

Speaker 68 And it's like, at worst, you've lost your job.

Speaker 1 Like, that's the Spice, the Spice Girls still like each other, you know?

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 46 So, this leads to a sequence.

Speaker 47 This is, you know, this is where you'd expect with the beginning of the third act or whatever, where the girls are upset, they're in their separate homes,

Speaker 54 like staring out the window, holding a football,

Speaker 73 lying in the bath,

Speaker 67 being scary, whatever they're doing.

Speaker 75 And they have a collective...

Speaker 1 Baby Spice is just wetting her diapers.

Speaker 45 They have a collective flashback to when they were newly, they were not yet stars, and they're at their friend's coffee shop, their friend who is an actor who I recognize, but I don't remember.

Speaker 1 He's in a lot of stuff. He's in a lot of TV, a lot of movies.

Speaker 8 Well, I also thought it was funny that this character, they're like, I wonder whatever happened to him, and there's no payoff.

Speaker 7 No, whatever.

Speaker 1 He's introduced as if he is a character who is vitally important to their past, and then he is discarded.

Speaker 1 And it's not like I expected him to come back at Albert Hall. No, that doesn't happen.
But here's what I like about the sequence.

Speaker 1 Okay, other than the fact that I love the idea that there's just like five young ladies trying to make it big

Speaker 1 in the music biz. Like they came up at school together.

Speaker 1 They have different accents, but that's okay. I guess they grew up the same.

Speaker 1 They're all having this flashback together, and the movie is like they're all remembering the same thing. I like to believe they have merged on a psychic level.

Speaker 1 They now share one pan-conscious spice mind, and they can call to each other that way, because they do call to each other that way. Stu, what happens next?

Speaker 9 Well, I also, before you get it, I also love this flashback because it shows what good sports they all are, like how tongue-in-cheek the thing is.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 55 Because it posits this world where they were all friends when they were young and they all had their bits when they were young.

Speaker 1 And she's like, They're like, let's show you our new song. And they sing what wannabe?

Speaker 45 Well, their friend Nicola, who is there pre-pregnancy, and she pops on.

Speaker 1 And dressed like a big Madonna fan, like an 80s-style Madonna fan, fingerless lace gloves, big bow in the hair, all that stuff.

Speaker 43 And yeah, they sing, they perform wannabe, it's great.

Speaker 33 One thing that I found very charming in all the performances is how generally unchoreographed all the dancers are.

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 1 The choreography is light.

Speaker 1 And it was while I don't spend a lot of time usually listening to Spice Girls music. I apologize.
It's not a judgment, not a quality judgment.

Speaker 1 It's literally that, look, like I said, my women's group at the time was Elastica. My women's group now is Arashi Gako.
I only have time for one lady's group at a time. But they are,

Speaker 1 it's my choice. I'm not saying don't listen.
I'm not saying they don't aren't good. But so I haven't really listened to the Spice Girls' lyrics lyrics much before this, and I love it.

Speaker 1 It's like the music is so catchy, and the lyrics have just enough meaning to convince you that something is being said in the song.

Speaker 1 And there are times when I'm like, wait a minute, this verse doesn't really make sense, it's the last verse, and it almost feels like it was written, each verse was written by someone else, and they folded the paper over and then handed the next person, or like someone with dementia who forgot what they said in the song before that.

Speaker 25 I really like that. That's poetry, Elliot.
There's poetry.

Speaker 10 Your brain fills in the gaps in meaning.

Speaker 8 Wow.

Speaker 1 So you're saying the Spice Girls are Britain's greatest poets.

Speaker 10 I'm saying, Easy E don't come for free.

Speaker 46 She's a real lady.

Speaker 16 And as for me, well, you'll see.

Speaker 16 Slam your body down.

Speaker 1 Was that really what you were saying?

Speaker 2 That's part of the breakdown to want to be.

Speaker 16 Oh, I see, I see, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, Dan, what's ziggazig aweing?

Speaker 9 If you have to ask, you'll never understand it.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I just assumed it was masturbating like this.

Speaker 9 Most things are.

Speaker 27 So, back to present day.

Speaker 1 Flashback over. We saw them in their early times.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 44 Yeah, so back to present day, the girls meet up outside of the coffee shop now, closed, and they're like, I wonder what happened to that guy again.

Speaker 8 We'll never know.

Speaker 45 I wonder what happened to that old bapony-tailed jazz man who used to serve us coffee.

Speaker 49 Okay, so they go off to eat chips

Speaker 47 by the river.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 7 Okay, meanwhile, Clifford.

Speaker 7 That is what they call rivers here.

Speaker 76 Meanwhile, Clifford is drinking his sorrows away.

Speaker 53 He has basically lost his job.

Speaker 76 And then his assistant, who up to this point I have not mentioned, Deborah, who is kind of like the grounding agent in this situation,

Speaker 73 they get drunk together and presumably hook up, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's the implication.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 77 I mean, Richard E.

Speaker 44 Grant is super charming, I guess.

Speaker 1 She says something about hooking up to forget their troubles, and he gives her the creepiest smile in the hit. Like, Richard E.
Grant briefly becomes a lizard person,

Speaker 1 and then it just cuts the next scene. So, my guess was that they didn't hook up, but maybe they did.
I don't know.

Speaker 26 So, they make the decision, the girls make the decision to reach out to their friend Nicola, who's over a week past due, and they all go to a club.

Speaker 61 They're like, let's hang out together.

Speaker 75 Nicola, let's go down and dance.

Speaker 28 And she's like, no, I'll just watch the five of you dance.

Speaker 44 That's fine, whatever. It's not quality time, but I'm not going to cut, you know.

Speaker 1 I mean, if she, I mean, as the thing is, if she had danced, it might have caused trouble because the little bit of kind of bobbing that she does, it shakes a baby out of her.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so she goes into labor.

Speaker 45 So the girls bundle her onto the spice bus, forgetting Meatloaf entirely, and drive to the hospital.

Speaker 1 So the bus was outside the club. Meatloaf seemingly is lying on the ground outside the club.

Speaker 61 Yeah, no, that's later on.

Speaker 1 They steal the bus

Speaker 17 from outside the hospital.

Speaker 1 So Meatloaf's just not there. I forget.
Where was Meatloaf?

Speaker 65 I think Meatloaf drives them to the hospital.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah, Meatloaf's there at this point. That's later on.
Later on. I got colours.

Speaker 1 I'm having trouble remembering all the pieces of the intricate puzzle that is Spice World.

Speaker 27 So while at the hospital, they're waiting for Nicola to have the baby.

Speaker 45 They don't want to leave, even though it means giving up some of their rehearsal time.

Speaker 60 At one point, they get interrupted by a couple whose child is in a coma.

Speaker 31 So they...

Speaker 1 This scene did not turn the way I thought it was going to turn.

Speaker 1 Wait, let's crowdsource this for a moment. You see a movie, the Spice Girls are in a hospital.
They're told there's a child in a coma. Can you please help us in some way?

Speaker 1 You expect they are going to sing this kid out of their coma, right? Much as in the movie Break in Two, Electric Boogaloo, where the power of breakdancing brings someone back to life in a hospital.

Speaker 1 But Stuart, what happens?

Speaker 57 So they go over there and Victoria's like, Cherry, get your boobs out.

Speaker 73 And she's like, his no, and his eyes aren't even open.

Speaker 33 Kid immediately wakes up from his coma.

Speaker 3 She's got resurrection boobs.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 80 Just the promise wakes the kid up.

Speaker 67 So Nicola has the baby.

Speaker 45 They, of course, say, now that's real girl power.

Speaker 27 Everyone gives high fives.

Speaker 1 I mean, I do like, because it literally is the, that is the power that women have, that no one else has, yeah.

Speaker 5 So creation of life.

Speaker 1 Whereas men, all men can do is hang around waiting for something to happen. And every now and then someone goes like, you're fine, you're okay, right? Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 Guys, you've never been there when your loved one is having a child. That feeling of, but I'm supposed to be the star of the show.

Speaker 19 Hold on a second.

Speaker 1 Where's my spotlight? And then you're trying to make a baby come out of you and it's not happening, you know?

Speaker 21 No, I have two cats.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Elliot, you were at the bar passing out cigars, right, when your kids were being born?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 I was in the bar passing out cigars.

Speaker 1 But that was just because that was my job at the time.

Speaker 19 I was a cigarette girl at a club.

Speaker 1 I had a tray, and I was going, cigars, cigarettes, and so I was like, hey, hey, Elliot, you're old ladies giving birth to the baby.

Speaker 1 And I took off my little round hat and my tray tray and I said, gotta go, fellas.

Speaker 56 And then I ran off.

Speaker 75 That's the thing.

Speaker 45 American healthcare is so bad, he needed to work an extra job.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 22 around now,

Speaker 45 Clifford is getting pitched a Spice Girls movie, which is also strange because at this point, he has to assume he lost his job.

Speaker 62 And they are pitching.

Speaker 46 At this point, Mark McKinney is pitching what is happening on screen.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 53 So we see the Spice Girls catch Richard O'Brien in the act of trying to take paparazzi photos.

Speaker 45 He gets bonked on the head and he changes his evil ways.

Speaker 39 It's actually pretty fun.

Speaker 40 I really enjoy this performance.

Speaker 1 Another scene where you expect him to be changed by the power of music, the thing the Spice Girls do, but instead it's a short chase through the hall of a hospital and then he's like, you know what?

Speaker 19 I shouldn't do this anymore.

Speaker 62 And then we learn that he goes on to turn around and betray his former employers.

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 45 They then take the Spice bus to race to Albert Hall so they can make it in time for their performance.

Speaker 46 We get some thrills and chills.

Speaker 44 The girls end up on top of the bus.

Speaker 45 Victoria's driving, having abandoned meatloaf on the side of the road.

Speaker 34 Chills?

Speaker 26 Yeah, that's chilling.

Speaker 70 They find a bomb under the bus.

Speaker 53 There's a very good stunt where the bus flies over an opening bridge.

Speaker 1 That is a very funny joke. He's like, the bridge is opening.
The bus is going to go over. Jump over it.
And Richie Grant goes, or George Wenton goes, that sounds expensive.

Speaker 1 And then they cut to it, and it is a toy bus going, stop motion going over like a toy bridge.

Speaker 11 And this all leads up to perhaps the best joke in the movie, where like

Speaker 11 the fantasy that is being spun of this possible Spice Girls movie that happens to coincide with the actual reality, like fully coincides.

Speaker 72 Where he's like, and then they burst through the door and they all turn to the door as if they expect the Spice Girls to burst through.

Speaker 9 And Richard E.

Speaker 72 Grant, after a moment's pause, grabs Mark McKinney by the throat and goes, You lied to me!

Speaker 45 Yeah, he straight arms him in like a movie, like a Marvel villain way.

Speaker 44 It's amazing.

Speaker 57 So they're in despair.

Speaker 45 The girls haven't shown up yet.

Speaker 33 Richard E.

Speaker 75 Grant spins a fantasy where he will then have the band start up, go out on stage, and then hang himself.

Speaker 5 He goes, this is another.

Speaker 1 After this, the movie at this point is so, like,

Speaker 1 they'll do anything. So

Speaker 1 the choking moment is really funny. And then he goes, goes, he's talking to Alan Cumming, right?

Speaker 1 And he goes, I'll simply go out there and have the band start up and I will come out on stage and then he pulls out a noose and goes and kill myself

Speaker 40 and it's so

Speaker 1 the way he talks about that is so funny he's talking about how much he hates the spice girls of course at this point they burst in and he's like I love them that is and that is a that I was gonna say that joke is a rough joke that's like a hard-edged joke for a movie that is just exploiting the existence of a pop group that that young girls particularly like but the movie still didn't have the guts to kill those two kids earlier.

Speaker 12 So

Speaker 72 on your deathbed, Ellie will be like, oh, Spice World should have killed those two children.

Speaker 1 And then I'll be like, so much fried chicken I didn't get to eat.

Speaker 42 So the girls get there in time.

Speaker 53 They come out, they perform, what, Spice Up Your Life. It's great.

Speaker 67 Everybody's loving it. Everybody's,

Speaker 43 you know, the world is a better place.

Speaker 1 And the world is noticeably more spiced up.

Speaker 28 And then we have some post-credit stuff where where

Speaker 86 it's like filming the Spice Girls movie, the Spice Girls movie.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like behind-the-scenes footage.

Speaker 1 And you see, the Spice Girls are talking to people. Richard E.
Grant is on the phone with his agent asking if his career is going to survive this movie.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 they're just like.

Speaker 45 They're like staring at the audience through the camera, calling out people.

Speaker 1 It's great. They're doing the same bit that Daffy Duck does in the credits of Gremlins 2, where they're like, why are you still around? The movie's over.
Get out of here.

Speaker 8 But

Speaker 3 from that Richard E.

Speaker 85 Grant article that I cited before, the other thing I really loved was

Speaker 79 the interviewers like, in the end of the movie, you're shown on the phone with your agent saying, will this kill my career?

Speaker 36 Like, what did your agent think of you being in the Spice World movie?

Speaker 38 And he said, well, my agent was very money focused.

Speaker 63 So

Speaker 5 when he saw how much money I was being paid, we were all very happy.

Speaker 1 But the movie is not really over yet because, right, they say, what is the audience waiting for? Uh-oh, maybe that bomb that we found, and then it explodes off camera, right?

Speaker 36 Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 22 End of movie.

Speaker 70 End of movie.

Speaker 28 The crowd goes crazy.

Speaker 19 It's amazing.

Speaker 1 This screening we were at, they were tearing the seats out. They ripped the screen down.

Speaker 1 It was amazing. Bottles were being thrown through the air.

Speaker 84 That movie gave us everything.

Speaker 36 All the joy it brings.

Speaker 17 This I swear.

Speaker 27 So that was the summary of the movie, Dan.

Speaker 57 Can we do, what's the next part?

Speaker 23 Final judgments?

Speaker 11 Yeah, final judgments. I think we tipped our hand, but we talk about whether there's a good, good, bad movie, a bad, bad movie, or a movie kind of liked.

Speaker 65 Like, I liked the movie okay before I thought it was kind of, I did a total 180.

Speaker 45 I'm like, this movie plays.

Speaker 66 Like,

Speaker 11 especially in a crowd, it was so much fun to watch it.

Speaker 55 Like, so many laughs, applause breaks.

Speaker 12 Yeah, two thumbs up is the movie I like.

Speaker 69 Yeah. No kinda involved.

Speaker 67 I liked it.

Speaker 1 Movie I liked also, but I'm glad I saw it the first, the way I saw it, like Dan says, with an audience that is super into it.

Speaker 1 But it makes me, I genuinely am am watching it, I was like, oh, so the reviewers didn't realize this is a funny movie? Like, I don't know,

Speaker 1 because it's a very funny movie.

Speaker 18 It's really funny.

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Speaker 35 Hey, Dan here, breaking in for some quick plugs. Tonight, on this episode's day of release, January the 4th, we will be discussing Ski School 2 on Flop TV,

Speaker 35 which airs, of course, at 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 Eastern.
That's live when it airs. If you want to see us and chat along with other viewers, tickets at theflophouse.simpletics.com.

Speaker 35 I'll be handling the summary for this episode. I believe Stuart will be doing the presentation and Elliot will handle the special report.
And of course,

Speaker 35 you know, this movie,

Speaker 35 Ski School 2, after Hot Dog the Movie Last Year, will will fill the important ski-based sex comedy slot in our rundown. We hope to see you there.

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Speaker 35 And now, back to our Oxford Spice World show.

Speaker 79 Checking the time. Woo!

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 66 Yeah, we, we, we.

Speaker 61 Dan, don't start checking your mail.

Speaker 21 What do you.

Speaker 9 We're running a little late, so yet again, I'm going to cap the number of

Speaker 21 questions.

Speaker 1 Dan, you're just looking at your texts now. What are you doing?

Speaker 22 The first five questions.

Speaker 5 Dan, don't start playing Candy Crush.

Speaker 52 What are you doing?

Speaker 12 Run to the center.

Speaker 13 We're going to ask some questions. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're gonna ask some questions. There's only a limited amount of time because there's a bomb under the bus.

Speaker 1 Just kidding, there isn't really.

Speaker 8 Hello, hello. Hey,

Speaker 51 Daniel Lastner withheld.

Speaker 51 So when the movie came out, I was like seven, eight years old. And I distinctly remember that everyone...

Speaker 54 Must be nice.

Speaker 18 Salting his youth in front of us.

Speaker 22 Sorry.

Speaker 94 Everyone had to pick a spice persona. My sister was, I think, sporty spice just because she kind of looked like it.

Speaker 19 and so I'm wondering have you ever have you given this any thought you know who's who which of us which yeah which spice what's our spice yeah the problem we were so this is this was a big topic of conversation backstage it was

Speaker 1 who is what spice the problem is Stuart absorbs a lot of the spice personalities

Speaker 1 He's the baby, he's sporty, he's a little scary.

Speaker 12 I don't know, Ginger

Speaker 46 seems to be really interested in inane facts and things.

Speaker 22 I feel like

Speaker 1 that doesn't feel natural for character, but I'll take it.

Speaker 18 I looked into this originally.

Speaker 2 Elliot often calls me baby boy Dan McCoy.

Speaker 1 And my children call you that, which I find adorable.

Speaker 71 I'm a little bit posh, a little bit sporty.

Speaker 44 No, I'm all things.

Speaker 25 A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. Okay.

Speaker 9 I guess that doesn't answer your question.

Speaker 94 Maybe to add, so ginger spice was originally meant to be sexy spice, but they changed it, so I guess you also have that covered, right?

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 82 bless your heart.

Speaker 19 Well, when they're just encouraging him.

Speaker 1 When they have a spice girl who knows her shit about dinosaurs, I'll be that one. Because that's something Stuart showed to us before this show.

Speaker 37 He does not know.

Speaker 12 Thank you.

Speaker 25 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll give you dinosaur spice. That'd be pretty fun.

Speaker 2 That sounds delicious.

Speaker 1 It does. I've always wondered, dinosaurs, are they red meat? Because they're big, or are they white meat? Because they're chickens?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 2 We'll never know.

Speaker 1 We'll never know, unfortunately.

Speaker 88 Was that a question for me?

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is the part where we ask you questions. Yeah.

Speaker 78 6'3 and single meal.

Speaker 88 You said something at the start about mushrooms.

Speaker 50 Can we talk later, Hon?

Speaker 9 I mean, I have a connection, but they live in, you know.

Speaker 88 That's too far. Never mind.

Speaker 81 Mike, last name withheld.

Speaker 81 I was actually going to ask about what your spice names would be as well, but I'll I'll pivot.

Speaker 88 I completely forgot that Richard O'Brien and Michael Barrymore were in this film.

Speaker 88 Some strike-it-lucky fans at the back. When I was growing up, they were both like really big game show hosts before I knew about Rocky Horror or anything else.

Speaker 88 Apart from them and Bob Barker, are there any other game show hosts in films that have done really well that you enjoyed?

Speaker 37 Game show hosts in films.

Speaker 21 I mean, are there game shows we want to see in films?

Speaker 25 What's the name of the film?

Speaker 19 I mean, scrambling for something.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that's, yeah, that was a good pivot. That was a solid pivot.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 1 Game show host, I want to say, I don't know of any other game show host. I feel like...

Speaker 36 There's the Gong Show movie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that's about a game show host. He's not in it, you know.
So that the, but I wonder if, no, but you know what? So Alex Trebek was in the video for I Lost on Jeopardy, right?

Speaker 1 The Weird Al song.

Speaker 27 Is that a movie?

Speaker 56 It's not a movie.

Speaker 17 Also, the X-Files episode he showed up in is not a movie.

Speaker 1 No, that's not a movie either. But Drew Carey, he was on, he's the host of Prices Right Now, and he was also on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Is that a movie?

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 3 None of these are movies, Stewart.

Speaker 73 Steve Harvey was in the Steve Harvey show.

Speaker 45 Is that a movie?

Speaker 1 Steve Harvey is in the original Kings of Comedy, which is a movie.

Speaker 46 I mean, I feel like Steve Harvey is such like a big, crazy personality.

Speaker 31 And like,

Speaker 43 that like, what was it, Miss America or Miss Universe contest that he misread?

Speaker 67 Like, I love that.

Speaker 1 He's crazy. He must have been in a movie at some point.
There's got to be one.

Speaker 8 Harvey, the movie.

Speaker 1 Harvey.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it was just a movie Harvey.

Speaker 1 This guy, Jim and Jimmy Stewart, thinks that Steve Harvey is walking around with him all the time.

Speaker 88 There's definitely going to be a movie made about, is it Dana Carey's experience at Fish a couple of weeks ago, was it? I don't know if you saw anything about that.

Speaker 15 Wait, say again?

Speaker 80 What's his name?

Speaker 81 The Price is Wright host.

Speaker 25 Drew Carey? Drew Carey.

Speaker 88 He went to see Fish at the Sphere a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 6 You've not seen anything about that.

Speaker 19 I need to see that movie.

Speaker 1 I won't hear anything against Drew Carey. You know why? Because when our union was on strike last year, he spent a a lot of money on food for us, which was amazing.

Speaker 56 It was great.

Speaker 1 He was like,

Speaker 1 he said, these two restaurants, I'll cover any Writers' Guild members bill. And then afterwards, he was like, I didn't think it was going to be that expensive.

Speaker 36 Very nice, still.

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 37 Hey, floppers, number one, dinosaurs.

Speaker 12 Cool.

Speaker 5 Oh, cool.

Speaker 87 Sorry, hey floppers, high peaches.

Speaker 25 Sorry.

Speaker 95 So the Spice Girls were a massively influential girl band. A massively influential boy band was one direction.
When they split up, Harry Styles had a fantastic career as man in boat, son of Thanos.

Speaker 87 And if the Spice Girls split up, brother of Thanos.

Speaker 56 Sorry.

Speaker 1 Let's, okay, you know, it's time to get real.

Speaker 29 Right, okay, okay.

Speaker 12 Let's talk about this. Okay, there's a Lars also known as the Spanish.

Speaker 22 Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, we got to get out of here at some point.

Speaker 80 Okay, baby Thanos.

Speaker 87 If the Spice Girls split up, which of those do you think would be an effective Marvel character? And who would they play?

Speaker 48 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 78 Let's see.

Speaker 1 Who would be a good one for them?

Speaker 47 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Trying not to be racist in my girls for Scary Spice.

Speaker 47 I feel like Posh could be like an Emma Frost, like aloof.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for sure. She could be Emma Frost.

Speaker 6 And Ginger Spice is like a girl.

Speaker 1 I mean, Ginger Spice is kind of a rogue type. I can see her being rogue.
Let's think of some non-X-Men characters, okay, everybody? They're not making those movies right now. That's a cartoon show.

Speaker 1 What are the other Spice Girls? Let's see. Baby Spice.

Speaker 12 Donner, Blitzen.

Speaker 1 Blitzen Spice.

Speaker 1 Sporty Spice.

Speaker 33 I gotta say, this is not related, but when they're dressing up as each other and Sporty is dressing up as posh, I'm like, she looks a lot like Lady Gaga,

Speaker 70 who is not a Marvel character.

Speaker 61 But if she was...

Speaker 1 Lady Gaga is a DC character. She's in the New Joker movie.

Speaker 56 Oh, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 I think,

Speaker 1 yeah, that's a good question because I wish I knew the Spice Girls as well as I know the Marvel characters. Obviously, I don't really wish that.

Speaker 1 This is a wish just for this question. Because the Marvel characters live inside my brain all the time.

Speaker 1 And I think if the Spice Girls lived inside my brain all the time, I'd never stop dancing, you know?

Speaker 1 I wouldn't get any work done.

Speaker 3 I think that answers the question.

Speaker 17 That's fine. Thank you very much.

Speaker 56 Thanks very much.

Speaker 12 Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I'll think about this for a long time now.

Speaker 95 Danny, last name with Nail?

Speaker 48 Not really.

Speaker 95 My last name is I.

Speaker 66 You told us the secret.

Speaker 72 Now we have control over him.

Speaker 95 So, this is probably an obvious comparison, but

Speaker 95 looking at Baby Spice's hairdo and the kind of

Speaker 95 anarchic feminine energy of the movie and the explosion at the end, I was reminded of Vera Kitilova's Czech new wave film Daisies.

Speaker 1 Not the first person on this trip to talk to me about it being like Daisies.

Speaker 19 My wife said this last time.

Speaker 81 So, I guess what other

Speaker 48 sort of

Speaker 95 arty serious films have that kind of shit posting energy?

Speaker 1 Interesting. I mean like if you look at the two movies Dolly and Bunuel made together,

Speaker 1 Un Shannon DeLu and Laj Dor, it's very similar where it's like, this is art, by the way, fuck you.

Speaker 34 Like we're gonna do crazy things.

Speaker 1 And let's see, there must be other ones like that, where it's just like

Speaker 1 they are,

Speaker 1 I mean there's a lot of movies, a lot of artsy movies where they're like assaulting you.

Speaker 1 And I feel like the Spice Girls is not assaulting you so much as like grabbing your hand and being like, let's run away somewhere together, you know?

Speaker 26 Spice Girl, like,

Speaker 12 it's like us,

Speaker 36 it's like a slumber party was turned into a movie, kind of. It's like if at the end of the Spice Girls, like, summer at summer camp, they did a skit show about being Spice Girls.

Speaker 21 Which is part of what's charming about it.

Speaker 1 But it's something that you do.

Speaker 1 It's interesting that

Speaker 1 there's like a,

Speaker 1 it's not a a pole-to-pole thing, but a continuous circle where on one side is art and on the other side is trash. And if you go in either direction far enough, you go back around to the other one.

Speaker 1 And so, the what?

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. And a movie like this, which is like, let's be honest with ourselves.

Speaker 1 A Spice Girls movie made at the height of their fame with a script that seems, let's charitably say, thrown together.

Speaker 1 Like, it should be, like, it should be kind of trivial throwaway stuff the same way that like other movies based on bands or trying to exploit a band's brief popularity usually are but instead they like they're like unlike like say cool as ice or something that still manages to be

Speaker 1 i wouldn't hear anything bad against cool as ice either but uh the the one david lynch movie david lynch didn't direct but but but it's but it's like if you put if you it's so this i'll get personal for a second my son recently had a video assignment for school and he was like oh i don't want to do this i hate doing work blah blah blah i'm going to be a professional baseball player anyway so why do i have to do this and

Speaker 5 I was like, well, okay.

Speaker 23 Kids still want to be professional athletes.

Speaker 46 I thought they just wanted to be like YouTubers.

Speaker 1 Well, if you could be a professional athlete with a podcast or a YouTube channel, I think that's the sweet spot.

Speaker 1 But I was like, what you need to do is have fun with this. Like, make this something that's fun, and then you're going to do something really good.

Speaker 1 And it's going to be better than if you just do the assignment. And I feel like the Spice World, they were like, let's have fun with this.
Like, let's not do the minimum. Like, let's have fun.

Speaker 1 And any, whether it's an art movie or a junk movie, if the people are making it are not one of those things where it's like we had a blast on the set and you watch the movie you're like what the hell is this but if they're like in the creation of this thing let's have fun changing ourselves what we're doing we didn't even talk about the like fantasy sequence where hugh lorry plays poirot and he's like

Speaker 23 baby spice been murdering people

Speaker 1 and she's got bullet bandoliers all over her and she's holding an axe in her hand or like with stephen fry as the judge who sentences them to be to being at the bottom of the charts because their new song isn't very good like everyone's having fun in a in a good way.

Speaker 1 They're having fun in that way of like, if I'm doing this thing, I'm going to do it to the utmost. And like, that's when art comes out, guys.
That's when you make art.

Speaker 36 I have to be, you know, bad spice right now and move us along. Okay.

Speaker 1 Bad cop spice.

Speaker 36 Bad cop spice.

Speaker 96 Hi, yeah. My name is Colin.

Speaker 96 I hope you don't mind like a very short 1.5 question.

Speaker 96 Just the first bit is...

Speaker 96 Like the two movies you guys talked about, Spice World and The Avengers, the credit sequence really emblematically represents the movies of Avengers being an absolutely horrendous trip of spirals and upsetting imagery.

Speaker 96 And then of Spice World, you know, the title sequence really setting up, you know, who the girls are.

Speaker 96 I was wondering if there's any credit sequences that you guys really love and like really set the movie into a good spin.

Speaker 96 And second part, this is just for Dan. I'm really sorry to stalk you, but you've got a list on Letterbox that is 291 movies, and the title is Asploitation.

Speaker 22 And

Speaker 27 it features some classics of cruising and female trouble.

Speaker 12 But what's up with that, my dude?

Speaker 24 I have an explanation.

Speaker 1 The first question, let's set it aside. We don't need to talk about credit singles.

Speaker 25 Yeah, we don't.

Speaker 22 Yeah, I don't think I have.

Speaker 12 The first question

Speaker 40 was to get in the door.

Speaker 36 Let's go where the money is.

Speaker 84 I have an explanation that is not necessarily...

Speaker 83 You mean an explanation?

Speaker 7 An explanation that's not necessarily an excuse, which is I follow an Instagram account called Asploitation

Speaker 23 that posts funny ass-related movie clients.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 It's just joke. It's just joke.
It's a funny joke.

Speaker 55 And they have a Letterboxd list that I cloned.

Speaker 9 So it's not, I didn't compile it, I'm just an appreciator of it.

Speaker 1 I love that Dan's explanation was basically, yes.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 15 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Dan,

Speaker 1 I need to spend more time on Letterboxd so I can learn your secrets.

Speaker 88 Hello, Tobias, last name of Held.

Speaker 50 So this was a perfect

Speaker 46 movie that really represented what it actually means to be in a you know, in a band, really accurately, perfectly.

Speaker 50 I just wondered if there were any similarly accurate depictions of your own professional careers that you can think of in films?

Speaker 1 Dan and I were talking yesterday about an American TV show called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Speaker 1 This is a show, as Dan's wife Audrey said, if you only know comedy writers, you would think this was the most popular television show in the history of the United States. It ended for one season.

Speaker 1 It is about a Saturday Night Live TV show, and it is so incredibly inaccurate in every detail.

Speaker 1 We've been talking about it for years.

Speaker 9 Comedy writers love this show because it's so bad.

Speaker 11 It gets every single thing wrong.

Speaker 25 So it's the precise opposite of the question

Speaker 21 you are asking.

Speaker 1 So you buy the premise that the Spice World is a great red, it really shows you what it's like to be in a band.

Speaker 66 Sure, sure.

Speaker 72 But the weird thing is, like, as silly as Spice World is,

Speaker 10 I watched it thinking, like, this kind of reminds me of being in a podcast with my friends because we do travel together.

Speaker 59 We're all the Spice Girls.

Speaker 22 And we have to.

Speaker 1 Meatloaf drives our bus, his ghosts, yeah.

Speaker 65 It captures, like,

Speaker 49 like, we'd be friends anyway, but it captures the enforced closeness of touring together in a way that I enjoyed.

Speaker 36 So my answer is spice movies.

Speaker 71 I would say the movie Cocktail starring Tom Cruise and Brian Brown is not very accurate

Speaker 45 to being a bartender. I would say the most accurate movie to being a bartender is still Darren Arnofsky's mother, the movie

Speaker 33 where she's like in this house and like people just keep coming in. They're like sitting on things and breaking shit.

Speaker 19 And you're like,

Speaker 19 God damn it.

Speaker 1 That scene where she's like, please don't sit on the sink, it's fragile. And they get off, and every time she turns around, they hop back on it.
That's the scariest scene in the history of filmmaking.

Speaker 45 That is what being a bartender is like.

Speaker 58 That is my bartending stress dreams.

Speaker 59 Yeah, so that's that.

Speaker 35 Thank you.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I believe that the name of that movie is Mudo!

Speaker 93 Hi, my name's Alex Lastwell.

Speaker 92 Nast Name With Health.

Speaker 93 And this isn't Spice Girl related, but it is a question I've wanted to ask you guys for ages because you are Muppet experts.

Speaker 12 Dan is, yeah.

Speaker 93 And I love all the Muppets, but one of my favorite types of Muppets is one that I would describe as, and I want to make this term official, a goober.

Speaker 93 And a goober is something that is not one of the human-type Muppets, is not one of the discernible

Speaker 92 animal types.

Speaker 93 I would put like Gonzo in that, as well as like the little guy in Muppets Christmas Carol, where it's on the screen for like two seconds, and I pause every single time, watch that film, it's like a little eee!

Speaker 93 But if you were to say what your favorite goober was that wasn't a Muppet, what would you say?

Speaker 10 I don't know if it's my favorite, but the one that immediately comes to mind is like, there are like those Muppets that are kind of like pink slinkies, basically.

Speaker 72 Uh-huh.

Speaker 25 And then at the end of the scenario, as happens with a lot of

Speaker 18 Muppet things,

Speaker 18 it blasts the other one off the screen.

Speaker 36 Like so many Muppet sketches and explosions.

Speaker 12 They're like, well, it's done now.

Speaker 36 Something will blow up.

Speaker 12 I remember

Speaker 1 Spice World. Reading an interview.

Speaker 1 Remembering an interview with Frank Oz, I think, where he's like, yeah, pretty much if we didn't want to end the thing, then they either blew up or one of them ate the other one.

Speaker 1 I'm going to stretch the rules, because it's not an official question on a government document or something like that. But Jim Henson was involved in developing these at some point.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say, in Return of the Jedi, there's that little guy who zaps his tongue out and eats another thing and then burps. And it's such a funny

Speaker 5 moment to include what?

Speaker 26 Yeah. He rules it.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's the second best character in Turn of the Jedi after Salacious Crumb, of course.

Speaker 30 He is a goober.

Speaker 19 Salacious Crumb is a goober. Superstar goober, yeah.

Speaker 1 But I love that they took the time to do it because it's one of those things like a lot of work went into that. And it's on screen for just a moment.
It doesn't matter to the plot.

Speaker 1 It's just a silly thing to have happened. But it makes you feel like you are on a world where silly things happen.

Speaker 8 I just love how that burp echoes.

Speaker 5 It's like, damn.

Speaker 61 What's that guy's been drinking?

Speaker 25 Thank you.

Speaker 48 Thank you.

Speaker 1 These are good questions. This is a great audience and good questions.
We really appreciate you coming out tonight when you could be doing other stuff, I guess.

Speaker 1 You know, England, it's full of late-night towns, places people hang out really late at night and do stuff at night. Yeah.

Speaker 27 Like Batman does stuff.

Speaker 18 Is Batman a good job? We got one more question.

Speaker 12 It's all right. You can let him go.

Speaker 16 I don't want to anger the venue.

Speaker 1 So Colcheck the Night Nightstalker. That was in England then, right?

Speaker 1 Okay, yes, that's the question. I'm just irritating Dan now, yeah?

Speaker 78 Hi, yeah, James, last name withheld. Uh, before we came out, I read the Wikipedia article on Spice World, which is surprisingly long, mostly because of the cast list.

Speaker 78 And it did say on there that there is plans to do a sequel, which is going to be animated, and they're all going to be superheroes.

Speaker 97 So, my question is, if this does happen, what powers do you think they'll have?

Speaker 78 And will you be disappointed if one of them isn't turning into Bob Hoskins

Speaker 1 I mean I would definitely be disappointed if Ginger's Power was not turning into Bob Hoskins yeah

Speaker 48 I love it

Speaker 48 man

Speaker 59 so scary spice is scary

Speaker 1 So Scary Spice, she's got like a scary, she's like the shadow. She's got like a voice that can strike fear into people's hearts.

Speaker 1 Because the instinct is to go physical. She beats people up.
No, it's all mental.

Speaker 18 It's all vocal.

Speaker 24 And baby's power is she can hide inside of people's stomachs yeah

Speaker 1 for up to nine months at a time

Speaker 1 not technically a stomach you know but if that and uh let's see

Speaker 12 wait really

Speaker 1 but baby's not in a in the mother's stomach no no well we'll talk about this later steward they should have taught you this in school but okay let's see uh posh spice i mean she you could go the batman route she's super rich she buys herself all sorts of fancy stuff iron man suit or something Yeah.

Speaker 36 Yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 10 Ginger can combine with honey and lemon to soothe people's throats.

Speaker 56 That's true.

Speaker 57 And just leave Sporty, who I guess.

Speaker 27 No, no, telepathy can fly.

Speaker 1 No, Sporty Spice has fire powers, Stuart.

Speaker 21 Fire powers.

Speaker 1 Because then she can do flips

Speaker 18 and leave fire footprints behind.

Speaker 82 I know I said we got to get out of here, but why does fire powers lead to flips?

Speaker 25 No, no.

Speaker 1 The firepowers don't lead to flips. She can do the flips already.
She's Sporty Spice. and she leaves fire footprints behind, and she flips and kicks the guy in the face, and his face catches on fire.

Speaker 18 It all checks out.

Speaker 25 I can't argue with that.

Speaker 12 No, actually, that's pretty well thought out.

Speaker 22 I like it.

Speaker 73 Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 I just want to say one last thing.

Speaker 1 Thank you. I won't even say it.
Forget it.

Speaker 72 So much for having us. Thank you.

Speaker 70 This has been a dream.

Speaker 45 We've always wanted to come over here, and you guys have been so lovely.

Speaker 84 We hope to come back someday, but until then, I have been Dan McCoy.

Speaker 1 I've been Stuart Wellington. And I will always be Elliot Kalen, no matter how hard I try.
Thank you very much for being here.

Speaker 29 Appreciate it.

Speaker 83 Thank you.

Speaker 46 Thank you so much for coming out and not going to see Furiosa tonight.

Speaker 43 I know that's a sacrifice that we're all making.

Speaker 1 Does that open the same night here as it does in the United States?

Speaker 12 I think so. I don't know.

Speaker 15 Just Just for the assumption of my joke, just go along with it.

Speaker 73 I'm sorry, sorry.

Speaker 57 Yes, and me for a change.

Speaker 34 That's not what we do, Stewart.

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