Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Dummy Love
(S05E07) “You seen my fingers?” - Carl
Right from the beginning, I was ready to hate this episode. But I just couldn’t. At first, it seemed so corny and felt like a rip-off of Chucky merged with a bad R.L. Stine novel. But the character of The Dummy (despite his limited vocabulary) was hilarious and the decision to knock on every horror movie cliché imaginable was well done too. It’s always great when a show like ATHF branches out and tries to do something different like mocking an entire genre in ten minutes.
The episode began with a special delivery to Frylock. Someone sent him a homicidal ventriloquist’s dummy that could only say, “Kill!” After it was discovered that he had a pocketful of fingers, all the scary movie clichés played out. Cutting power to the telephone, leaving sharp objects (scissors, a battle axe) lying around, suggesting a trip the “the cabin,” the anniversary of the day a schoolbus full of children blew up, and on and on. Every line was delivered by Frylock and Shake with such deadpan deliveries and that made it even funnier.
Then it was discovered that Carl had a dummy of his own who could only say, “Die!” Both dummies fell in love (the montage of romance movie clichés was not nearly as good as the horror stuff) and then came to life because Meatwad wished it so. Little bit of a Pinocchio nod there… if Pinocchio were a gay, murderous dummy.
So here’s what’s on my mind…
- Anyone else notice the picture of Shake and Ezekial? What ever happened to him?
- Which dummy actually cut off Carl’s fingers? The black one (Die) or the white one (Kill)?
- I loved that Shake’s lounge act with the two dummies was at the same restaurant/bar that was in the episode “Super Trivia.” It was even better that the two dummies were eating Carl’s “bloody fart” Buffalo wings.
- For those that missed it, the name of the book that Shake was reading to Meatwad was “Skulldilocks and the Seven Scorpions” by Robb Zhombie. Meatwad would have preferred “Jimmy the Jet Engine.”
- Not that it really matters, but why does Shake have a battle axe in the first place?
- Anyone else notice the couple from “Robots Everywhere” in the audience at Shake’s show? Didn’t they get killed?
- Why is it that the dummies couldn’t die? Was it actually the same dummy each time? Or were they new ones just arriving to take the place of their departed comrade? And where did they get those fruity melon drinks?
Overall, really funny episode. Shake getting tossed in jail at the end was just the icing on the cake. Savor it though because there are only two left this season.
Alison Lohman to Replace Ellen Page in Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell
Blonds tells fewer blog jokes, it’s a fact, so maybe director Sam Raimi is onto something by casting actress Alison Lohman (Beowulf, Flicka) in the lead role formerly occupied by Ellen Page (Juno) in his upcoming horror thriller Drag Me to Hell.
Oscar nominee Page aborted the project days ago amid rumors that she was unhappy with the script by Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi. There was also the trusty rumor that Page forever hisses at her agent anytime she hears the words “how about a horror movie, Ellen” post-Academy Awards. As our pub brothers at FirstShowing have pointed out, Variety reported on Sunday that the real reason might have been, yep, “scheduling differences” after all…
“We were racing to start production so that we could accommodate Ellen’s schedule,” Ghost House and Mandate said in a joint statement. “But like so many other productions trying to start before the potential SAG strike date, this one needed more time, and we had to push back the start of production.”
Indeed, the SAG strike is fast becoming the new “forgot my homework,” or, sure, WGA strike. Lohman, who is almost 30 but looks teenish, is of Irish descent, an environmentalist and I’m sure she can belt out a scream with the best of them. But I dunno, does she have the spark, that hamburger phone aura, that Page has?
Discuss: Page versus Loh(m)an. What difference does this play in your anticipation of Drag Me to Hell?
2008 Razzie Award Winners
At the Academy Awards Hollywood reccognized the best of the best of 2007. But what about the worst?
The 2008 Razzie Awards were announced earlier this weekend while we were typing like madmen in Hall A at WonderCon. I Know Who Killed Me, which starred Lindsay Lohan sweeped with seven wins. Eddie Murphy took home Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Actress for his performance in Norbit. Full results below:
Worst Picture: “I Know Who Killed Me”
Worst Actor: Eddie Murphy in “Norbit”
Worst Actress (tie): Lindsay Lohan as twin sisters Aubrey and Dakota in “I Know Who Killed Me”
Worst Supporting Actress (tie): Eddie Murphy in “Norbit”
Worst Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy in “Norbit”
Worst Screen Couple: Lohan & Lohan in “I Know Who Killed Me”
Worst Remake or Rip-off: “I Know Who Killed Me,” based on several films
Worst Prequel or Sequel: “Daddy Day Camp”
Worst Director: Chris Siverston for “I Know Who Killed Me”
Worst Screenplay: Jeffrey Hammond for “I Know Who Killed Me”
Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie (New Category): “I Know Who Killed Me.”
Discuss: What was the WORST movie of 2007?
Do You Have The Crazy? Two Men Stabbed While Watching The Signal
Imagine this. It’s Sunday night and you’re sitting in a movie theater watching The Signal, an independent horror movie about a mysterious transmission which invades every cell phone, radio and TV, turning people into killers. And then suddenly, two men sitting in separate areas of the theater are randomly attacked and stabbed by an unknown man who was watching the movie. This isn’t just a scenario, this actually happened last night at the AMC Theater in Fullerton. Is The Signal real?
The unknown man supposedly started stabbing at the theater seat and then began stabbing the victim. As he fled, he stabbed another victim sitting near the exit. Both men were stabbed in the arm and were taken to separate hospitals. Neither men knew the suspect, who escaped without arrest. The film was paused while police conducted their investigation. When it was resumed, the fist scene was a stabbing. Coincidence?
Discuss: Is The Signal real?
source: msnbc