Gooby w/ Nathan Fielder (Classic)

Summary

How Did This Get Made? – "Gooby" w/ Nathan Fielder (Classic)

Podcast Release Date: August 4, 2026
Main Hosts: Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas
Special Guest: Nathan Fielder

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the "How Did This Get Made?" team (Paul, June, Jason) are joined by comedian Nathan Fielder to break down one of the strangest children's movies to come out of Canada: Gooby (2009). The group untangles the baffling choices, unsettling moments, and surprisingly dark undertones of this "family" film about a boy and his seven-foot-tall, terrifying teddy bear friend. With a mix of genuine confusion and sharp wit, they debate what Gooby was trying to achieve, its deeply odd plot, and why anyone thought it needed to be made.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. What Even Is "Gooby"?

• No One Knew This Movie: Despite being a cult bad-movie favorite in some circles, the panel had never heard of Gooby before except for Paul, who says, "I've heard about it through people who like bad movies… it's been on my radar.” [02:46]
• Mental Health Allegory?: Jason wonders if the film is about "kids dealing with mental illness" and questions whether the main character, Willy, is supposed to have psychological issues or just an overactive imagination. [02:54]
  • June counters, "I would argue that he's just a kid with an active imagination… and he moves, and that's a big change for anyone." [03:32]
• Fantasy or Reality: The crew is confused by the blending of fantasy and reality, especially since EVERYONE can see Gooby, not just the protagonist—"Not true. Everybody can see Gooby as a giant monster. There's a monster in the world!" [04:49]

2. Gooby, the Monster/Teddy Bear

• Terrifying Design:
  • “Gooby is legit terrifying to look at.” —June [10:17]
  • “Gooby is not lovable… what is his personality? What is his age?” —Jason [10:22]
  • The look is compared to a budget Fozzie the Bear: “He does look like a taller, much, much cheaper, more menacing Fozzie the Bear.” —Jason [20:06]
• Middle-Aged Man Vibe: They agree Gooby seems creepily adult: “I felt he was a middle-aged man.” —June [10:37]; “There was a middle-aged man taking this young boy out in the middle of the night…” —Jason [10:38]
• Inconsistent Logic: Gooby exhibits strange behavior—eating raw hot dogs, throwing food, fearing the dark, and being obsessed with cookies. His powers and purpose are never clearly defined.

3. Creepy/Sinister Undertones

• Disturbing Dynamics: The panel repeatedly highlights the inappropriateness of Gooby’s actions.
  • “Gooby acts like a child molester throughout this whole movie. Sit on my lap." —Paul [10:44]
  • "Tomorrow, I want you to go on an adventure with me. Don’t you trust me? …the answer should be NO!" —Jason [10:55]
• Gooby’s Butt: Unsettling discussions about Gooby’s worn, threadbare costume and the focus on his naked “ass” add to the trauma. [21:21]
• Questionable Parenting: The parents are written off as negligent, with Paul declaring: “The parents in this movie are assholes.” [05:53]
  • The hosts joke about the film being a “scathing indictment of two working parent households.” —Jason [05:55]

4. Eugene Levy and the Bizarre Side Plots

• Eugene Levy's Role: The Canadian comedy legend plays Nerdlinger, a teacher obsessed with fame and exposing Gooby to the world. His subplot is mostly explained with quick ADR and off-screen dialogue, confusing everyone.
  • “He wants to get famous… so he’s going to reveal Gooby.” —June [24:29]
• Nonsensical Structure: "You could argue there is no plot to this movie." —Paul [15:21]
  • The group discusses long, slow scenes and a total lack of connected logic. The world feels inexplicably empty—"The entire… ‘oh, crazy supermarket scene’… there isn’t a single person in the supermarket." —Jason [15:32]

5. Canadian Taxpayer Cinema

• Canadian Funding: Nathan, himself Canadian, is shocked to discover Gooby’s $6.5 million budget was taxpayer-funded. [29:00]
• Financial Disaster: Lifetime gross: just over $3,000. “The lifetime gross is $3,234.” —Paul [31:02]

6. Notable Absurdities

• Gooby’s Abilities: Can dial cell phones, withstand public scrutiny, and shrink down to plushie form only at the very end.
• Gooby’s Purpose: Unclear. Is he helping Willy? Parenting lessons for Dad? There are hints he "must move on to the next unhappy child" — “Gooby will pay attention to you when your parents won’t…” [52:38]
• Illogical Scenes:
  • The "flying" supermarket run [26:21]
  • Holding hands in public, pretending to be Willy's father [45:15]
  • Gooby scaring bullies, making them pee their pants (upsetting and unnecessary) [27:07, 36:54]
  • The ending: Gooby creepily "chooses" a new child to haunt/help [51:13]

7. The Movie's "Lessons" and End

• "Boys don’t need things. They need parents." —Paul [59:11]
• Willy’s unreliable narration and the lack of resolution for Willy’s “hallucinations”/imagination lead the crew to label Gooby as confusing, incoherent, and emotionally manipulative.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “Gooby is legit terrifying to look at.” —June Diane Raphael [10:17]
• “Gooby acts like a child molester throughout this whole movie. Sit on my lap.” —Paul Scheer [10:44]
• “The parents in this movie are assholes.” —Paul Scheer [05:53]
• “You could argue there is no plot to this movie.” —Paul Scheer [15:21]
• “My thing is this: It’s clearly not a real bear, because it does not look like a real bear. Right. There’s nothing about it that looks like a real be. Looks like a man in a costume.”—Paul [09:00]
• “Not true. Everybody can see Gooby as a giant monster. There’s a monster in the world.” —Jason [04:49]
• “I just want to reiterate this. This appearance of the magical bear come to life is appearing to a child who is already experiencing hallucinations.” —Jason [19:22]
• “It’s October 31st Day.” —Nathan (on Canadian Halloween) [32:39]
• “There are so many ways to get him there. And the way that they get him there is that… something happens at school where…” —June [54:18]
• “There’s a pull quote right there for the DVD…‘I am not upset that I saw Gooby’.” —Jason [65:57]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:54] – Is the film about childhood mental illness? Imaginary friend, hallucination, or both?
• [04:49] – Everyone sees Gooby; the "monster" in the real world.
• [10:17] – Panel discusses Gooby's terrifying appearance.
• [15:21] – "There is no plot to this movie."
• [20:06] – Comparing Gooby to a creepy Fozzie the Bear/Muppet.
• [26:21] – The supermarket flying scene.
• [27:07] – Gooby makes the bully pee his pants on Halloween.
• [29:00] – Canadian taxpayer funding and $6.5M budget reveal.
• [31:02] – Box office bomb: “Lifetime gross is $3,234.”
• [36:54] – More on the Halloween/scaring bullies scene.
• [43:09] – Eugene Levy's (Nerdlinger) character arc.
• [51:13] – The ending: Gooby selects his next "project."
• [59:11] – Movie’s unsubtle lesson: “Boys don’t need things. They need parents.”
• [62:33] – Willy’s bizarre closing narration about life lessons from Gooby.

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Should You Watch Gooby?

• Consensus: No. "I really would not. This was upsetting." —Jason [63:34]
• June's Soft Take: “I’m not upset that I saw Gooby… but it’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.” [65:57]

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Recommendations

Watch only a few key scenes for the experience:

• The first Gooby reveal in the backyard
• The supermarket chaos
• The Halloween/bully scare sequence
• The dad’s childhood apartment “resolution”

Otherwise, spare yourself—but if you’re committed, the hosts challenge fans to double Gooby’s lifetime box office gross by renting it online as a public service to the Canadian arts community. [65:38]

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Closing Thoughts

Gooby is a baffling, deeply strange, and unsettling children’s film best enjoyed (if at all) with a group; the podcast panel’s comedic confusion, incredulity, and horror make for a hilarious and insightful breakdown. For those fascinated by cinematic oddities, this episode (and Gooby’s “monster butt”) will not disappoint.

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For More

• Listen to "How Did This Get Made?" for full comedic context
• The episode also features snippets of Gooby dialogue, breakdowns of production weirdness and misfires, and much more in the original, raucous HDTGM style.

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“There’s a pull quote right there for the DVD… ‘I am not upset that I saw Gooby.’” —Jason Mantzoukas [65:57]

Transcript

[Paul Scheer]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[June Diane Raphael]

some failure, not just be a hater.

[Paul Scheer]

Cause you know you wonder how did this get made?

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's wallow in the mediocrity of subar art. Perhaps we'll find the answer to the

[Paul Scheer]

question how did this get made? Hello people of Earth and welcome to how did this get Made? I am Paul Scheer, joined as always by Jason Manzoukas. How are you Jason?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, I'm terrific. Paul. How are.

[Paul Scheer]

Very good. And June, Diane Rayfield. How are you June?

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm good, Paul. How are you?

[Paul Scheer]

Very good. We have a very special guest today from the hit TV show Nathan for your. Please welcome Nathan Fielder. Give it up for Nathan. Welcome Nathan.

[Nathan Fielder]

Thanks for having me.

[Paul Scheer]

And your show comes back on June 24th. If you've not seen the show, put your dvrs. It's amazing. It's so funny. June 24th. Set those DVRs now.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But we will wait. So please go to. Yeah, we'll wait.

[Paul Scheer]

We'll give you, like, what, like three minutes?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, like I was gonna say, like two. Two and a half minutes.

[Paul Scheer]

I'll give you three.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Okay. Just in case you're powering up this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby. Holy moly. People have talked about this movie.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Really? I've never heard of this.

[Paul Scheer]

I've never heard of it. I've heard about it through people who like bad movies. Like, have you seen Gooby? And so it's been on my radar.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I had a question just straight out of the gate. I didn't do any research on this film, and at a certain point, I started to feel as though this might have been a film made for kids dealing with mental illness. Well, I wrote that at all.

[June Diane Raphael]

Is that mental illness?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Mental illness? Like. Like, as if to say, like, here's a movie. Here's one for you guys. Like, you're dealing with a lot. Like, the world is like. Like, the kid is definitely having, like, some sort of, like, spells.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, see that? I really want to get into that because that was my biggest question, too. Which is the setup of Gooby's arrival.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Correct.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because it actually, I would argue that he's just a kid with an active imagination. He's not. And he moves, and that's a big change for anyone.

[Paul Scheer]

I just felt that his active imagination was not. It wasn't like, oh, he's so creative. It was like his mom says, hallucinations.

[June Diane Raphael]

Here's my question. Were the problems starting before he moved out of that house or not?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

So, okay, so he's already been to

[Jason Manzoukas]

the therapist, the woman, the mom says, you know, doctor. Remember what Dr. Such and such said?

[June Diane Raphael]

But here's my question. It seemed like he enjoyed the town, and he had friends at his old school.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Sure.

[Nathan Fielder]

She didn't want to move.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is what's hard to wrap your mind around. Because you want to think that it's circumstantial that something major happens, which is that he's totally uprooted from his life. And then he's so scared of new experiences, and Gooby comes to the rescue. But that's not what happens. Which makes me wonder, where was Gooby all along? Yeah, if he was having those problems,

[Jason Manzoukas]

where was Gooby all along? But also, I felt at a certain point I was like, oh, this is going to be a Calvin and Hobbes kind of scenario where the Gooby character, only he sees the Gooby as the person. No, everyone sees Gooby.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

No, not true. Everybody can see Gooby as a giant monster. There's a monster in the world. And so the kid imagines other monsters. Remember that blue monster that it's in his backyard.

[Paul Scheer]

That's one that he's really afraid of. That two headed.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah, I didn't understand that part. Is that monster is called a hooby.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hoonies.

[Paul Scheer]

Hoonies. Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

Right. Which is really close to Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby. Gooby. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Now I will.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh yeah. There's a real consistency. They're all part of the same phylo.

[Nathan Fielder]

But in the setup of the movie, the kid is kind of telling you his struggle and you don't really empathize with him. Right. Because he seems like he's troubled. Like he seems like he has harder, a harder time than the average kid would dealing with what are kind of basic things. Right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Well, it seemed like as much as he loved that, he seemed like he wasn't healed the proper way either because from some trauma.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I don't know. Was there trauma?

[June Diane Raphael]

I think maybe it was just like systematic bad parenting like his.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, well, this isn't real.

[Paul Scheer]

The parents in this movie are assholes.

[Jason Manzoukas]

The movie is a scathing indictment of two working parent households.

[Paul Scheer]

Here, take a listen to the mom and how bad she is.

[June Diane Raphael]

This has gone on long enough. Okay, we're moving today. But you're wrecking all my stuff. Unbelievable.

[Paul Scheer]

Six weeks we've been dealing with this. You're way too old for this behavior.

[June Diane Raphael]

Way. Wait six weeks. But those are my battle plans, my models. And this is my aim of the fire. Keeps me safe from danger. Okay, now I'm hearing new things from this section of viewing. She's saying that this has been going on for only six weeks.

[Jason Manzoukas]

No, the move, the move. This is to establish the time jump. Because this scene comes after he starts

[June Diane Raphael]

preparing for the move. The hoonies.

[Jason Manzoukas]

No, he's drawing the hoonies in like the first scene. Like they are. He is having full blown into the hoonies. He's having full blown like hallucinations that aren't just like a wife to me, that aren't just an active imagination because we see them brought to life, like in his world. Like when he's visualizing them, he's like, oh my God, there's a hoonie over there. And he gets really still and whatever. But then also Gooby comes to life and he's standing over there and so.

[Paul Scheer]

And Gooby is not also a toy that, like, you would think in a movie like this, like in Calvin and Hobbs, Hobbs is like his toy that he plays his best friend. His best friend, but not the case. But Gooby is not his best friend. It's a discarded toy.

[June Diane Raphael]

If anything, in the first 10 minutes,

[Paul Scheer]

he left it at the house.

[June Diane Raphael]

Absolutely. In the first 10 minutes, you think the amulet's gonna come back?

[Jason Manzoukas]

He did. You thought this movie was gonna be about the amulet?

[June Diane Raphael]

There are so many references to the amulet and how he's close to that

[Jason Manzoukas]

amulet that I would love it if the amulet instead came to life as an amulet. Yeah, Booby. Booby. The amulet.

[Paul Scheer]

But I wasn't there. There was. I mean, well, whatever. I feel like Gooby. By the way, the movie's original title was a Ted named Gooby, which I like.

[June Diane Raphael]

My other question is, I didn't think of Gooby as a monster. I thought of him as a teddy bear.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I. But everybody keeps referring to him as a monster.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay. Which I have an issue with. Cause he doesn't like.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, there was the craziest thing, too, where, like, people who saw him would see him as a monster.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

But then when Halloween hit. I'm jumping out of order.

[June Diane Raphael]

Please, please.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah, it's like, it keeps going. Like, Halloween comes, and then everyone sees it as a man in a costume.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Nathan Fielder]

And then also throughout the movie, there's just. It's not consistent when someone says, oh, it's just a guy in a costume, which they use to cover him. Sometimes people all believe it immediately and aren't even. No one's even saying, that's an amazing costume. That's the greatest costume I've ever seen. People just think it's, oh, that's just a man in a costume.

[June Diane Raphael]

Nobody says, oh, my God. For a second, I thought that that was a real monster.

[Nathan Fielder]

Right.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Or a bear.

[June Diane Raphael]

Or a bear.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Or a bear.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, my thing is this. It's clearly not a real bear, because it does not look like a real bear. Right. There's nothing about it that looks like a real be. Looks like a man in a costume. And so when Eugene Levy's character.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, Eugene Levy's in this movie?

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Manzoukas]

If you're wondering if Eugene Levy's in this movie, he is, and he's awesome.

[Paul Scheer]

I love Eugene Levy, and I'm excited that he did this, but his character has a lot of things we have to talk about. But when he wants to get a picture of this, what would stop anyone going, well, that's just a picture of a man in a Costume. Cause like, that was my issue with it too. Like, look at this creature. But then they'd be like, well, that's the guy in a. Like, we don't believe in Bigfoot creatures.

[June Diane Raphael]

Did anyone else notice that they were referring to him a lot as an orange monster? And maybe I'm colorblind, but I didn't think he looked orange. Now I know this is a small detail.

[Nathan Fielder]

He was like, brown.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's brown.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

As I know it.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I would say that as well.

[June Diane Raphael]

But everybody kept calling him and did you see the orange monster?

[Nathan Fielder]

I think they already had the script written.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh.

[Nathan Fielder]

So there were no changes, prop or whatever, his costume. And then they just said, well, we're not gonna change every word to the boy.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's the weirdest thing about the look of Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, here's. This is the weirdest thing about the look of Gooby. All right, great.

[June Diane Raphael]

Gooby is legit terrifying to look at.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Not a fun creature.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby is not lovable. Is not like, Gooby is like, what is his personality? What is his age? Cause I also had a real problem with this be.

[June Diane Raphael]

I felt he was a middle aged man.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There was a middle aged man taking this young boy out in the middle of the night, deep into the woods. I was like, what is happening?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, my big concern about this movie was that it was like, Gooby acts like a child molester.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Throughout this whole movie. Sit on my lap.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Do you trust me? He says at one point, tomorrow, I want you to go on an adventure with me. Don't you trust me? I was like, the answer should be no. The lesson we should be teaching children is no. I don't trust you to take me

[June Diane Raphael]

to the woods because you're very uncomfortable the very end. Not to reveal anything, but reveal away the very end. When Gooby finds another friend, another child in need who's like this young, very young girl with pigtails. I felt a visceral like, no.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah. Don't give, don't give.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby did not want to share his relationship.

[Nathan Fielder]

Okay, here's maybe it's about like a child dealing with sexual abuse from his father.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

So he's trying to act like it's a fun doll.

[Jason Manzoukas]

It could also be that. It could also be, by the way,

[June Diane Raphael]

it could totally be that. Because I thought for a while that Gooby was going to be. We were gonna reveal that Gooby was also in the dad's room.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That's what I thought too.

[Paul Scheer]

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[Jason Manzoukas]

This makes Jack Frost seem totally normal.

[Paul Scheer]

There's nothing. There's no. There's not like, literally, I'm not, like, exaggerating, like, oh, there's literally no plot there. There is no plot.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There's no plot. There are five actors. It's almost like Brechtian. What's happening? It's like so few people in an environment that has no other people. The entire, like, hokey, kind of, uh, oh, crazy supermarket scene. Like, somebody's gonna see Gooby. They're not. It's empty. There's not a person in the supermarket.

[Paul Scheer]

But by the way, Gooby does not also try to hide in front of people either.

[Jason Manzoukas]

No, he loves talking to everybody.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, that's why I ask again, what is Gooby and who is he? Because there are times where he seems like, I would love to say, oh, Gooby always forgets how big he is. And Gooby always forgets his stature and so just runs out and he thinks he's a. That doesn't seem to be the case. At points, he seems very savvy. Very savvy, very insightful.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Well, he brings Willy to the father's old home.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby is like going like Stanley Tucci and lovely bones on this kid. He's bringing him down to weird. Well, no, Gooby is not like. I wouldn't even. I couldn't even describe Gooby like as a character.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

What is he?

[Nathan Fielder]

One of the first things he did was blow a fart in the kid's face.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that.

[Nathan Fielder]

Right.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That was the important part.

[Nathan Fielder]

That's their bonding moment.

[Paul Scheer]

And he also is eating out of a giant Tupperware of raw hot dogs. And he goes, watch this. He takes a bite of a hot dog and just throws it at the kid's face.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's disgusting.

[Paul Scheer]

As if that's a fun game.

[June Diane Raphael]

There's also the scene where Gooby first. Gooby first goes to. When he. Willie's trying to find out where to put Gooby in the house.

[Jason Manzoukas]

It's a very like E.T. kind of scenario.

[June Diane Raphael]

And he takes him out to the shed and Gooby says, I can't. Could anyone hear? I also had trouble with like the sound mix in this movie. I couldn't hear a lot of the words. But doesn't Gooby say, I can't stay here because there's. Why doesn't he stay in that shadow in the basement?

[Jason Manzoukas]

He doesn't stay in the basement. Cause it's too dark. And he's clearly afraid of the dark.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, that's the first night out in the shed.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Then they move from the first shed. Then he moves him to the shed. And then Gooby. That's when Gooby's reading comic books and drawing pictures. And at a certain point I was like, he can't sleep. Like he's definitely gonna jerk off. Right? Like that's what's coming next. He's like so like, oh, I'm up. I can't fall asleep. Oh, I might as well pound my Gooby.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's also watching TV shows. Like watching very old movies and stuff.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, like a 40 year old man. Yeah, like a 45 year old man in a shed.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Well, also Gooby is voiced by Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies, Robbie Coltrane. So that should be noted as well. He sounds like an older Scottish gentleman.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, let's actually play the scene where we meet. Where we meet Gooby for the first time or. Yeah, let's hear that one. To get a sense of what Gooby is like.

[June Diane Raphael]

When you're. But you're Gooby.

[Nathan Fielder]

The bell.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You guessed it. I thought it would take a Lot longer than that.

[June Diane Raphael]

Not. Not hoonies. Hoonies.

[Paul Scheer]

So Gooby is also afraid of hoonies?

[Nathan Fielder]

No, he doesn't know what they are, though. After that, he's like, wait, what? The hoonies.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, okay. So that, you know, that's just sort of the Gruff. The Gruff. Lovable again.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I just want to reiterate this. This appearance of the magical bear come to life is appearing to a child who is already experiencing hallucinations.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes, but he's not a hallucination.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But Gooby is not a. Like, it's not a. It's a Mr. Snuffleophagus kind of feeling.

[Paul Scheer]

But the only way that they describe Gooby is he goes. The kid. At one point with narration, it says, little did I know something magical was going on at my house.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

In which Gooby just gets, like, hit by, like, a wave of electricity.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Magic lightning.

[Paul Scheer]

Like magic lightning.

[June Diane Raphael]

See, the problem I have with the way that they have made Gooby the Muppet or whatever. Not Muppet.

[Paul Scheer]

I would say you calling him a Muppet is actually really a.

[Jason Manzoukas]

He does look like. He does look like a taller, much, much cheaper, more menacing. Fozzie the Bear.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

He looks like the characters that hang out on Hollywood and Highland. Like, if you were dressing like Fozzie, like, this is like the $70 version of that guy.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Like some sort of public domain Muppet.

[June Diane Raphael]

And that's what's so upsetting about the way he looks, because he's adult sized. He's the size of an average man. And so when I'm looking at him and he's a little bit wider, but he's essentially like. If you just saw a figure go by, you'd be like, that's an adult man, but he has a scarf on and no other clothes. And that's an image to me that I find deeply unsettling because it's. When you're just wearing a scarf, I. I look at him and I think, Gooby's naked. Gooby's a naked man because he wears a scarf running around. And I know he's an.

[Paul Scheer]

Do you feel like that with Donald Duck?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I don't, but that's because of his size.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And he's always. And he's always animated, too. Like, yes, there's something about an animal wearing no clothing, which is fine, totally fine, but an animal wearing a little clothing. So you know what? Then this is a choice. Well, my issue, and this is aggressive. You know what? You are forcing this on me.

[June Diane Raphael]

I did not.

[Paul Scheer]

I didn't like his ass was threadbare either. Like his butt cheeks were threadbare.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Did you notice that? Oh, whenever he's running away, hey man, stop checking out Gooby.

[Paul Scheer]

Checking out Gooby's butt. But I thought that was an odd choice for, for a, an anime. Like a puppety character like that. Whenever he ran around there.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I hope the director was like, to the, to the props department or whoever was making wardrobe or whatever was making that costume was just like. But you know, there's gotta be some areas where there's been a lot of wear, you know, like the kid always holds it there. There's gotta be a lot of wear. Like maybe the ass cheeks. Like the ass cheeks.

[Paul Scheer]

That's also a weird place to get wear on a.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That's true.

[June Diane Raphael]

I thought it was supposed to be like an, like a bear's actual ass. Like it wasn't that it. They were trying to make it look worn, but they were trying to replicate

[Jason Manzoukas]

the actual ass of bears.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, well, by the way. Oh, yeah, go ahead.

[Nathan Fielder]

No, he just had the tag, which was like a larger. At first I thought it was just a bad costume thing where that's where the actor got in.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. I didn't understand what that was.

[Nathan Fielder]

But it was just like the blown up version of the tag.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's right.

[Paul Scheer]

But cut off kind of like. Or was it was.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah, I couldn't tell.

[Paul Scheer]

Now I will say that Gooby, while a confusing character, I find this kid's parents to be really upsetting.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Cause there's one point, and this is a moment that really called out to me. Like the kid is. He's covering for Gooby. There's noise upstairs.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

And so the parents are hearing the noise upstairs and the kid tries to be like, oh, I'm getting sick. To distract his parents. At which point, like when he's getting sick, his parents protect the Chinese food in such a way. It's like, ah, don't get it on our chainsaw.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, don't barf on our food. Gross kid.

[Paul Scheer]

Like they don't want. Like they're terrible parents. Really bad parents.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, you sort of find out what is going on with the dad later on when you realize, like, he grew up in a very, you know, poverty stricken neighborhood and his father was always working. And so you kind of understand his drive. But the mom I have more questions about. Cause she's also working.

[Jason Manzoukas]

She was going back to work.

[June Diane Raphael]

What do you mean she was going back to work?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Wasn't that part of the thing? She was going back to work full time. For the first time.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, I didn't hear.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That's why they get Mary Poppins. That's why, inexplicably, there's a nanny that shows up in the middle of the movie. And then Mary Poppins.

[Paul Scheer]

The nanny just.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I thought she was gonna be like, Snoop, who's trying to always, like. Like, under uncover Gooby doing laundry for days. Yeah, she loves folding.

[Paul Scheer]

I will.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

That again, none of these characters work in tandem. Like, it could be interesting if the nanny was trying to get one up on Gooby, not the school teacher. Who's Eugene Levy, who's played his character's name, which is great. Nerdlinger. Just in case you wanted to just set it out there for everyone. They say nerdlinger about 15 times before he's introduced.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, he's an interesting character. So he's introduced as their regular teacher's gone off on maternity leave. So he comes in, and he has written three books about a fish.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah. Like children's books.

[June Diane Raphael]

Children's books. And none of the kids know the books or know of them. And so he's very upset. And so he. His whole thing is like, he wants to get famous. And I'm just trying to make the leap with the film. Like, he wants to get famous. So in order to do that, he's gonna reveal Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I guess he's gonna take a picture of Gooby and be like, hey, look, I proved there's a monster.

[Nathan Fielder]

There were two voiceovers that established that. One was the kid just said he wants to be famous. Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right. It was all an adr. You're right. It was not.

[Nathan Fielder]

And he said something.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Eugene Levy says, like, not all of us can be famous or something like that. Like, he makes a scene.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was also off camera. It was, like, thrown in there.

[Nathan Fielder]

Same thing.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There was scenes where there were so many lines off camera that people on camera are just reacting to just because they simply did not have actors that day. Like, they would be running through the supermarket, and it would be just on the kid in Gooby. And then somebody would be like, hey, you, get out of here. And they'd be like, whoa, that's true.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby in the supermarket. That's when Gooby really makes his presence known. Cause Gooby likes cookies. Obviously Gooby loves cookies. And also, just to show his parents not being interested at all, they go, oh, you know, they go, that boy's name. I'm sorry, I forget the kid's name. Willy. They go like, oh, Willy's sick today. Oh, why is he sick? I don't know. I found 50 cookie wrappers, but they don't seem to be even like, oh, he shouldn't have eaten 50 cookies. They're just like, whatever. And they're leaving him. So Gooby goes to get cookies at the supermarket. And that scene is way too like. That's like the fun montage. Like you would think, like, they're running around having fun, but all they are doing is running down, up and down aisles in a supermarket. And at one point, Gooby pulls him so violently that the boy is suspended in air. Like he's flying. His socket would come out as I was.

[Nathan Fielder]

That was a weird choice, that flying thing. Cause that is the first time it's established Gooby has this strength or something or speed that you never see utilized anywhere else.

[Paul Scheer]

And he never. It doesn't come back. Like, that's the other thing too. Nothing comes back like, that doesn't. Like, even at the end when the boy is in peril, there's no. Gooby doesn't use that speed, doesn't use that.

[Jason Manzoukas]

All Gooby's able to do is dial a cell phone. When the kid is in peril. The kid.

[June Diane Raphael]

Do you think Gooby's really. Cause, okay, I think what Gooby's purpose is ultimately because Willy also wanted to build some sort of a cart, right?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Like a spaceship kind of thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right. And he's got issues at school where there's a bully and he has to stand up to him. Although he doesn't really.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby does. Gooby does on Halloween and makes him pee his pants.

[Paul Scheer]

That was really upsetting to me, that whole sequence.

[June Diane Raphael]

First of all, they shouldn't have done that.

[Paul Scheer]

It's Halloween.

[June Diane Raphael]

They really shouldn't have done that.

[Nathan Fielder]

They shouldn't have done that.

[Paul Scheer]

Now, this is a. A Canadian movie. I realized that midway through when I saw the Captain Crunch.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Nathan Captin Crunchy.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

So I didn't know anything about this going in. And then there were two kind of bombshells I saw when I googled it after that. It was made in Canada. And the thing that blew me away the most was that it was made in 2009.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Nathan Fielder]

I honestly thought this was made in, like, 1985. Yeah, it is the way it looked. And because there's this issue where, like, there's this one scene too where it's a big plot point, but the guy, the dad has to go at some point, leave the house, and he says to the mom, like, you have to stay here in case the police call, implying that cell phones don't exist.

[Paul Scheer]

I wrote that down too. And yet Gooby has a cell phone because Gooby calls. Gooby uses the kid Willy's cell phone to call the dad.

[Nathan Fielder]

10 year old. How old's that kid?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, he's like 10 or 11 years old.

[Nathan Fielder]

He has a cell phone. And the mom doesn't even object. Oh, you know, and the son's missing and he's like, I'm going, I'm not saying where.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, the weirdest thing about that scene too is that she's like, she's very upset. And he's like, don't worry, I've spoken to the police. They've assured me that they will call as soon as they know anything.

[Paul Scheer]

That's the best. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Which is like. He's not saying, don't worry, everything's gonna be okay. He's just like, they've told me they'll call.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And then he's like, I gotta go out for a minute. And she's like, where are you going? And he does, he goes, you stay here. He's like really emphatic about it. And that's what I wrote in my marriage is terrible.

[Paul Scheer]

This is back to my question about Canada. And this is. I don't mean to be naive about this, but.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But you're from Canada, so you better know.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, I mean something else about this movie. The budget was $6.5 million. I saw. And. And Canadian films are funded usually if not entirely, a large percentage of them with taxpayer money.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

So this film was made with taxpayer money.

[Paul Scheer]

Do you want to hear the stats?

[June Diane Raphael]

So you were there in Canada in 2009 and paid for this?

[Nathan Fielder]

Yes, I did pay for this there in 2000.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So you're one of the backers of this movie. This is the conflict with the original conflict.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yes, I invested.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Cause I didn't see your name enlisted in the producers.

[Nathan Fielder]

We don't get credits for it. We don't support the art.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You should arbitrate. You gotta get a credit.

[Paul Scheer]

That's probably why Eugene Levy is in this movie. Because he's a Canadian citizen, right?

[Nathan Fielder]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

So I imagine like. But now here's.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So he has to. You mean.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, no, I.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So they make him. They can call anybody back and be like, you gotta do this. I think there is a thing though

[Paul Scheer]

where you have to do like, you have to do some sort of art in like if you still share citizens citizenship, you have to do some. But here's.

[Nathan Fielder]

Wait, what's the rule you're saying?

[Paul Scheer]

I thought there was a rule that if you if you are still, if you share citizenship, if you're still, then you have to do something in Canada in the arts of that. But I could be totally wrong.

[Nathan Fielder]

No, that's not a rule. That's so crazy. No. Can you imagine being like mandated to go back to Vietnam?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Like some sort of prison? Like, where are you going now? Oh, well, you know, I'm half. You know, I was born in Canada, so I still have Canadian citizenship. So I gotta go up and I gotta make a terrible kid.

[Nathan Fielder]

So you don't.

[Paul Scheer]

You don't have to go back to Canada to make a TV show.

[Nathan Fielder]

No, but for you to get Canadian funding for a movie, it has to be like the mate. The leads in the movie have to be Canadian. Okay.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So since he qualified for that money.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah. So they'll try to get people. Yeah. So that's why it was definitely community funded.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, do you want to hear how much money it made? You said it cost 6.5. Which you're right about the opening weekend gross.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And this is.

[June Diane Raphael]

This was released in theaters, I guess.

[Paul Scheer]

But listen to the opening weekend gross. $706. 706. That doesn't even seem possible to me. The lifetime gross is $3,234.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Whoa. I kinda said it's like Delgo numbers.

[Nathan Fielder]

Also, this is one of the higher budget movies to come out of Canada in the past decade.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a lot of money. Yeah, yeah, that's a lot of money that I did not see.

[Paul Scheer]

On. Where are you directed in the movie? Not on the.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Not on extras. Not on the screen.

[Nathan Fielder]

If you look it up. I mean, telefilm is the place that funds movies in Canada. I wonder what they did kick into

[Jason Manzoukas]

this because I will tell you, maybe we are. We should investigate.

[Nathan Fielder]

Or it could have just been he invested his own money, but I don't.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. The writer director, Cony Bear, his name is Conybear 2012. Wilson Cony Bear. He's the writer, producer, creator. He also did shining time station.

[June Diane Raphael]

$6.5 million on this movie.

[Paul Scheer]

That is kind of fast.

[June Diane Raphael]

Locations. There are no extras.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There are no extras in the movie whatsoever. Except for the students in the classroom scenes.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, let me ask you this. This is the question that I had before about Canada on Halloween. They make it like they go out to go to the movies on Halloween. And that doesn't seem like.

[June Diane Raphael]

Is that a tradition?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Is that a thing?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Explain yourself.

[Nathan Fielder]

But did the movie take place in Canada?

[Paul Scheer]

That. I mean, all I know is that

[June Diane Raphael]

in the supermarket crunch was Halloween though. Do you remember they kept on saying October 31st.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yes, that's true.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, what does that mean?

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, it clearly was Halloween.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I mean, it's not called something different in Canada, is it?

[Nathan Fielder]

It's October 31st day.

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[June Diane Raphael]

weird thing in that October 31st scene where he. So he goes up to the kid, the bully, the red headed bully who's been, you know, harassing him and Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I could listen to you say the name Gooby for an hour.

[June Diane Raphael]

Gooby.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

It's like the goo you put in

[June Diane Raphael]

the giu in Gooby actually does become a monster for a moment at the movie. Scares the shit out of the kid, which makes him piss his pants.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, that was like. That's probably where the 6.5 went because for that moment of CGI where his face Gooby is a. His mouth is not moving. Like whenever he's eating, he's just shoving things to his mouth.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's what was really. That's honestly the biggest problem I have with this movie. Yeah, it did move a little bit. His mouth did move a little bit.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Guys, don't fight.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay. But not enough so that it seemed like he was talking so little that we're just buying into the fact that

[Paul Scheer]

it seemed like an air hole that had some give to it or something.

[Jason Manzoukas]

The ending, I had, like, some real. I got real upset when the ending was Gooby takes the kid, like, stand by me style to like.

[Paul Scheer]

You want to go see a dead body.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, basically, you want to go see a dead body, but not a dead body. Back to the dad's old. Where the dad grew up, the apartment building his dad grew up in. They find the dad's apartment, fall through a hole in the floor. The dad comes to visit. The scene where the dad goes into his own secret room felt really uncomfortable.

[June Diane Raphael]

That felt really weird.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Didn't in all honesty, think the dad's version of Gooby was gonna be there as well?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, that would make sense.

[June Diane Raphael]

We all did.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, the idea would be like that. Cause Gooby also takes the dad into that room. He's like, you know when you're a child and this. I'm not doing the Scottish accent. I apologize.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But he's like, how do you rob us of it? Because we all know you do a perfect Scottish accent.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't want to brag. I don't want to. But he's like, when you're a child, you forget things from your youth, and you just forget about it. Oh, this is so great. He's gonna forget about Gooby. No, it was just like, his dad had, like, pictures of trucks and stuff on the wall, and Gooby was not a part of it. Nor did the dad freak out when he saw Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

No, no. He was like, I'm totally cool with this Gooby situation.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, it was like, oh, you're my kid's toy. But you're like, but you're 8ft tall and you're talking big. You're alive. Yeah, and you're alive. Like, there is no reaction.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Again, I don't.

[Paul Scheer]

Maybe he's trying not to be rude.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I hesitate to go back to something I talked about in Jack Frost, but Gooby eats.

[Nathan Fielder]

Oh, I know. This is.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And never shifts. He is full of stuffing.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, but wait.

[Jason Manzoukas]

He cuts his arm and he's full of stuffing. So. Come on, guys.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, don't you just.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby, there's no organs in there.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, first of all, you also talk about it like you see normal people. Movie is shit. You never see Tom Cruise take a shit in a movie.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I do. I do. In almost everything he's in.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm gonna guess when. Gooby's eating himself in gummy bear form in that sequence in the movie where he was. That's the other thing, too. Gooby has a knowledge of the world that is not.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, he knows what everything is.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. He's never like, what is this? He ends up.

[Jason Manzoukas]

He's not ET in that sense.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't think that Gooby's masticating, by the way. I think it's just lying on. He may have a smell because the hot dog is laying on top of the cookies and stuff like that.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

The thing is that. That's what's weird about the movies. We don't know. Did Gooby have other adventures with other kids before Willy?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, please. I'm sure Gooby's been terrorizing children for a while.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, he must have been bought as a toy new from a store, right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, that's actually.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know.

[Paul Scheer]

Well. Cause I hear he's like Chucky. Like, I think he's like Chucky. Like, you know how Chucky gets the spirit of a serial killer inside of him? Or a killer. Like, Gooby is just a doll. Like, he didn't. He seems like that scarf. And I know that scarf upsets you, but that scarf seems like he is. They make gummy bears out of him. Like he had.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's. So that's not Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That wasn't Gooby, though. He says it looks like him, but it's not.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jason Manzoukas]

All right.

[Nathan Fielder]

That's like a clarifying scene that he wasn't a bear. The significance of that. Right. Because he was saying, that's me. They made toys like, they made food like me. And the kid said, no, that's not you. Those are bears. So what if that was a scene in the middle shot that widened from the.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There was a bunch of. There was a bunch of scenes that I was like, this is an. This is an interminably long scene for nothing to be happening.

[Paul Scheer]

And by the way, the movie is only an hour, like, 30 minutes at the most, 95 minutes. Yeah. It is a short movie that has a lot of long scenes. I'm also gonna put out on the thing and just see what you guys react to. I think that the kid, Willy, is an unreliable narrator because I don't believe anything that he's saying throughout the whole movie. The one thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Voiceover is like. And that's when the trouble started.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, he did say that. He goes like. He did say the whole thing about the traffic jam. Like we were in traffic. And everyone saw it in traffic. It wasn't traffic. It was a stoplight with three cars at it. And then he also was able to recognize as he was flying past in this flying, like, go kart that his teacher was in one of those cars. But I don't understand how he knew that either. And who is he telling this story to?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Who is he telling this? No, that little guy. Probably to his therapist, years later, probably. I mean, like, I would love that if it was to the therapist, the scene. Cause the thing. What I was like, I really believe for a good portion of the movie that the reveal was going to be that he. His hallucinations were causing the Gooby doll to come to life, much like Calvin and Hobbes. And then when an adult is in the room, Hobbs is just a stuffed tiger. And when he's not in the room, he's like, you know, Calvin's buddy and partner in crime. Like, when they're on the go kart reminded me of Calvin and Hobbs sledding. Right? But then, so. And I was like, okay. I'm almost willing to buy that the kid who has hallucinations and all this stuff is in a tough time is his imaginary friend. Like, what's the imaginary friend movie? Russell Brand was gonna remake it. Drop Dead, Drop Dead Fred, Drop Dead Ted, whatever.

[Paul Scheer]

Russell Brand was gonna remake Drop Dead Fred. Oh, my gosh.

[June Diane Raphael]

I love that movie.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Like, that. You know, like that kind of imaginary friend movie. But there was a way in which when everybody saw Gooby and Gooby brings everybody together or whatever, that I genuinely was like, I have no fucking clue what's now happening, because now anything is possible. Like, this is a weird magic universe that backs up the kid being, like, having hallucinations and stuff like that all worked out in favor for, like, I was. I'm worried for this kid, basically, guys, I'm worried for Willy.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm very upset by this whole.

[Nathan Fielder]

Strangely, I thought the weirdest part of the movie was the Eugene Levy storyline, which I know you were talking about before June a little bit. But that is entirely motivated by him saying in one line, like, really quickly, like, anyone who takes a photo of Gooby will be famous. Yeah, he says that. And that motivates his whole obsession.

[Paul Scheer]

And it's not even, like, the town.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That and his love for Canada.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, he's mandated to work.

[Nathan Fielder]

He was mandated to do the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

It's a slavery. But that is interesting because also, the town is not being afflicted by Goobies. It's not like people are like, oh, thank God you found this picture. Like if he was. Again, I will go back and say if he was to hand that picture to someone, someone would go, yeah, that's a guy in a chicken.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes, Paul. But the bigger question to me about his character is whereas ET Was something different. Well, he set out, he wrote these three books. He is a teacher. He's in the world of children and probably children's literature.

[Paul Scheer]

Clearly unsuccessful, unsatisfied.

[June Diane Raphael]

But it's interesting that he would. He wrote three books that I guess didn't do very well, but it seems like that is sort of in the world of things that he wants to do.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, he hates Alice Carroll. He was really shitting on.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. But like it's lined up to his profession in a way. And so it's such a huge character leap to just believe that this guy who, that he was writing those books from the get go just to be famous.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Just to be famous. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's crazy. That's really crazy.

[Paul Scheer]

So he wants to be taught like Alice in Wonderland.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But I don't even know if that's. I don't even know if that's important to him or if he just wants to be a famous children's book author.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And then, but then he's, you know, like those kind of folks that we

[June Diane Raphael]

all know so willing to abort that dream.

[Paul Scheer]

Wouldn't it be more interesting if you were a teacher to be like, oh my gosh, I'm inspired to write a book about Gooby. And that becomes like the new book.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Here's what's weird. One of the things that's weird is when on Halloween it begins, I think, but then it recurs a little bit, is Gooby when in public, will frequently pose as Willy's father and they will hold hands.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't like that one bit. I didn't like that one bit.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, he even says Gooby says the most absurd things.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I'm this boy father.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't like it.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And they hold hands a whole lot.

[June Diane Raphael]

A number of times. Well, and this is the weirdest thing. So the cool kids from school. I actually did think that one actor who played like the super popular boy was great.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, real talent.

[June Diane Raphael]

So he. So Willie gets in with the cool kids because Gooby posing as his dad got him into the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby. Gooby gets him into an R rated movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Maybe I'm forgetting what it's like to

[Paul Scheer]

be 11 year old. Should not be.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, like a Saw type movie or something. Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

Maybe I'm forgetting what it's like to be a kid. But it also seems like a jump that just because one of your parents is cool, you would be deemed also cool.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, I was super cool because my dad was cool. No, that's lunacy.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a crazy thing.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, it seems like they would want to hang out with Gooby.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right?

[Paul Scheer]

I didn't like, at the end of that scene, though, someone after the kids are like, when the kid. You know, the kids think he's really cool and they say, maybe you can join us and play soccer at school tomorrow. That was like, he's in now with the cool kids, which is the most polite inclusion into their group. And Gooby says, I like being your dad. And I think they.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't like that part at all.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And then later he says, later. I'm pretty sure I imagined him saying, who's your daddy now?

[Nathan Fielder]

What were your favorite parts?

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a great question. Okay, there was a line. Well, this is not really my favorite part, but there was a line that I loved, which the dad said in the beginning about why they were moving, like, what had happened in their lives, where he said, you know, change happens all the time. He goes, you remember when Joey's dad and I even started this business? That was a big change. Yeah, that was one of my favorite parts. Because we've never. I don't know who Joey is. We've never even met Joe first at. I don't know what this man does. It was just so absurd. But favorite sincere parts of the movie. I did enjoy some of the, like, the shots from behind of Gooby running because I know Paul and I spent a lot of time on Gooby's ass, but his ass was like. So why do like you like that? It was just satisfying to watch. It was just comedic.

[Nathan Fielder]

I was like. I feel like that's the. Those are the moments where you kind of. You're more thinking about the man in the costume. And it was just how he's able to.

[June Diane Raphael]

Some joy to it.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, the guy in the costume is working hard. I feel like he's really physical and, you know, eating those hot dogs.

[Nathan Fielder]

I feel like if people. Yeah, if people don't want to watch the movie, but they're interested in seeing some taste of it. I would say if you just watch the supermarket scene, I don't think you need real context for it. And you kind of like, that might be the best or, like, the most interesting part.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I would watch, like, the. I would watch the first. The reveal of Gooby in the backyard with the rake. I would watch the supermarket scene, and then I would watch from the. From When Willy Falls through the Floor till the end.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So I would watch. So that's probably, like, max 15 minutes of watching. And you're gonna get some pretty rad stuff.

[Paul Scheer]

I just want to just. Because I feel like we haven't heard enough Gooby. Can we just hear Gooby talking about how what his name sounds like in the markers here? Just take a listen to this clip just to kind of remember this.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby sounds like Snot.

[Nathan Fielder]

Snot.

[June Diane Raphael]

What sounds like snot?

[Jason Manzoukas]

My name when you were young. So I can't complain. But I always thought it sounded like

[June Diane Raphael]

great big gobs of snot.

[Nathan Fielder]

Markers.

[Paul Scheer]

He loves markers.

[Nathan Fielder]

I love markers. I don't think you should be.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I very much think I should. Markers are about the best thing in the world. Next, of course, to those window cookies.

[Paul Scheer]

So that's kind of character. That lovable character

[Jason Manzoukas]

that's, like, in this movie. They were like, yep, we got it. That scene cut together. Well.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, not to, like, reveal the ending, because I don't want to end our conversation, but I do want to just talk about the ending about another thing. At the end of the movie, obviously, the dad sees the error of his ways and decides that he needs to be a better dad. So he quits his job to build a treehouse, which seems a little bit reactionary.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, I thought he was gonna. I thought. He didn't quit his job, by the way.

[Jason Manzoukas]

He went on sabbatical.

[June Diane Raphael]

He went on sabbatical. And the man named Raleigh.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Became a partner, apparently. Joey's dad. I'm sorry, Raleigh.

[Paul Scheer]

It does seem like there are a couple movies going on, and we're just checking.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's what I'm saying. I think there were a lot of scenes cut in the beginning. I think they added that voiceover later on. I think there was a lot of, like, just seems lifted.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Well, this was supposed to be a trilogy. This was supposed to be like, by

[Paul Scheer]

the way, they definitely leave it to that. Because this is what I'm getting to at the end when the dad, like, everything's fine in Willy's household. The dad and him are gonna build a treehouse. Dad's on sabbatical, Raleigh's taking over. And the kid and Gooby are talking as they're leaving Home Depot. At which point. And Eugene Levy has been foiled. At which point Gooby just kind of walks off frame, and they're like, oh, where's Gooby? And we see him creepily staring down a young disillusioned girl who is also in the parking lot. Just also kind of. It doesn't seem like she's being totally neglected by her parents. It just seems like she's in her

[June Diane Raphael]

head and he's like, she's staring at

[Paul Scheer]

something and he's like, I. That's.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I likey.

[Paul Scheer]

I like her. I like her. I want you to help me put her with her. Which is super creepy.

[Jason Manzoukas]

So.

[Paul Scheer]

At which point, another thing that we've never seen happen or referred to. Gooby shrinks down into inanimate stuffed animal form. Stuffed animal form. And then he is. Then the Willy brings it over to the girl.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, here, let me saddle you with. Let me saddle you with a nightmare for the rest of your life.

[June Diane Raphael]

By the way, it would have been useful for him to do that many different parts of the movie. Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

To shrink down and become a doll.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sure. That's a great.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But I think this is what I think. I think he has to remain as Gooby.

[Nathan Fielder]

Oh, God.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I think he has to remain as Gooby until his task is completed and then he can, like, move on. I think that's what it was.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait, wait. You wait. So you think that

[June Diane Raphael]

I am realizing

[Paul Scheer]

only activated by longing of a child?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, I think you're on something. I think what the movie is actually really about is you're supposed to think the whole time Gooby's there for the kid.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then you realize at the very end, he's really there for their parents.

[Jason Manzoukas]

He's really there to reunite the kid and the parents, basically.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay, but the problem with that is that in the scene with the little girl, they're just focused on the little girl. Like they don't.

[Nathan Fielder]

Right.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's. But now he can pass on Gooby.

[Paul Scheer]

Gooby will pay attention to you when your parents won't or when your parents are not. When your parents are not paying attention to you.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I think that's the idea.

[Paul Scheer]

Because he says a little bit of

[June Diane Raphael]

the idea is like, Gooby will also help you with facing your fears.

[Paul Scheer]

No, because Gooby was equally afraid. Because basically the parents go, yeah, he's not afraid of those hoonies anymore since we moved to this house. I don't know. The logic of this movie is flawed. Cause Gooby just makes the kid piss himself.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Well, Gooby just. Gooby, when he brings Willy to the apartment building, his dad's apartment building, he says, I think I know why I'm here now. I think I'm supposed to bring you Here, you know, he thinks he recognizes that whole thing. He recognizes that. I felt like that he has been brought to life in order to achieve a purpose or a task.

[June Diane Raphael]

Jason, earlier on, when Gooby's in the attic and they're looking through all that stuff and they find that photograph of the dad outside this like shack, the kid starts to look at it and Gooby goes, no, no, no, no, not now.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh, interesting.

[June Diane Raphael]

Did anybody else think that also the, the new house was not that much nicer than the old house.

[Jason Manzoukas]

It was a little bigger. It was a little bigger. It had that big yard.

[Nathan Fielder]

What was the reason they moved again?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Cause they're making bank now.

[Nathan Fielder]

Is that why?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah. If the dad went out on his own. Holy cow.

[June Diane Raphael]

But not on his own since he partnered with Joey's dad.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh yeah, yeah. As a construction company that Gooby winds

[Paul Scheer]

up at one day. Oh yeah, Gooby doesn't get there.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Just keep in mind this is a giant monster. This is the craziest thing about the

[June Diane Raphael]

movie is there there's so many ways to get him there. And the way that they get him there is that something happens at school where.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, this is. I want to talk about the guy. So they show us a scene of the kids playing soccer after October 31st. After October 31st, that's probably November 1st.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Happy October 31st. Ooh, scary. October 31st.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, everyone knows that Halloween is a copyrighted name. You can't say it without paying a lot of money to Halloween. So it's like the birthday song. So the soccer ball is coming down, at which point Willie runs to push Colin, the cool kid that June really likes. And he's like, watch out. And he pushes Colin out of the way and it looks to be like he's gonna take a soccer ball on the head. But. But that somehow seriously injured him. So much like.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, it didn't.

[Paul Scheer]

Who did it injure?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Colin.

[Paul Scheer]

So wait, I thought that was a miscommunication. So Colin just got injured from falling down cuz Willie pushed him.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't know what actually happened. What I do know is this. A message was left on Willie's household answering machine.

[Paul Scheer]

I know this.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, where they said there's been an accident.

[Paul Scheer]

Like a head injury.

[June Diane Raphael]

A head injury. So of course Gooby assumes that it. Well, this is the crazy logic to get Gooby to the construction site. But Gooby assumes it's Willy.

[Paul Scheer]

So are you telling me that the school called up Willie's house to say another kid in your school got in here today?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes, because. Yes, because Willie says later on I had to go to the nurse's office

[Paul Scheer]

with him to be fair.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Nathan, does that happen in Canada?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Where everyone in the class is called

[Jason Manzoukas]

notifies all parents when one kid gets hurt.

[Nathan Fielder]

It's like three person classes. I thought it was Willy, that guy. I didn't get that either, but I was really loosely. Did you guys watch it together?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, we did.

[Paul Scheer]

We watch it together. Yeah.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah. And you, you watch it?

[Jason Manzoukas]

I just watched it alone. Like a very sad, A sad man in his 40s who purchased this movie.

[Nathan Fielder]

And I mean, I don't know if it's more fun or like you guys are discussing it, but like it's an infuriating experience to have to watch that. And like I, it's depressing.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm talking about it with some amount of joy. But believe you me, I was very angry at this.

[Jason Manzoukas]

We do a lot of movies on this show, some of which are unusual.

[Nathan Fielder]

I know you guys have to do this. Yeah, a lot.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You know, this was, this felt like punishment, like I. This was retribution of some kind.

[Paul Scheer]

I will say this. I just found out something interesting. It was produced by John Calvert, who I just googled and he is a famous magician. So I don't know what that means either. But that's a very odd partner to be. He is an American magician. So that's who produced this movie. A weird older magician. June, talk to me about the construction site because I didn't want to cut you off about how he gets there.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, no. So there's a message that's left on the home phone of Willie and saying that there's been an injury and Willie's I think in the nurse's office. So the dad happens to be at home and runs out to the car. So of course Goopy thinks he's going to school.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You're not just full on saying Goopy.

[June Diane Raphael]

Goopy thinks that he's going to school to be with his son. So to Gooby's surprise, they head to the construction site. And so I think this is all supposed to further our idea of like this dad really doesn't give a fuck about his son. But then what we'll find out later is that his son was never hurt.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Correct, Colin was. Cause Gooby says, how's your head?

[June Diane Raphael]

Right. But did the dad know that or did the dad knowingly neglect his son?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yes. I don't know. I mean, I mean, I think probably he doesn't. I think probably a little bit of both, but I think probably not, not full on neglect.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Jason Manzoukas]

But they are neglecting him. They're passively neglecting him. But I think if he was. If true trauma had occurred, I feel like they would have jumped into action.

[June Diane Raphael]

But why do you think they didn't have any other kids?

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oh. Cause I think he got a vasectomy. I think he got a vasectomy. But I think. You know what I think? I think he cheats. I think he's fucking. I think he's a real cheat.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. There was something about his newfound love of like.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I felt like his reveal was gonna be that he wasn't going to work. Work all the time. He was like, boning somebody else.

[Nathan Fielder]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[Jason Manzoukas]

And then. Cause. Right. Cause he's like, doesn't come home for the kids on Halloween.

[June Diane Raphael]

He cancels the family vacation.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Guys, I'm really.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Did you guys. Were you guys worried as soon to be parents? Was this like a real wake up call for you in terms of parenting style?

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was a cautionary tale. It's like if Gooby shows up at some point.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, we know.

[June Diane Raphael]

We have not done a good job.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, look, we also learned something really important, that boys don't need things. They need parents.

[Jason Manzoukas]

They need dads.

[Paul Scheer]

I will tell you this. I just was looking. I'm doing some research.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You better fucking build a fort or a tree house with your son or they're gonna spend the rest of their life.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, I'm gonna take a break to do that.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can I just say one thing, though? Willie was not the one that wanted the fort.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yes, he did.

[June Diane Raphael]

So both Willie and his dad both wanted forts.

[Jason Manzoukas]

They both wanted forts that both of their fathers did not give them.

[June Diane Raphael]

Specific.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Yeah, it was like. That's exactly what it was.

[Nathan Fielder]

Fort. Gene.

[Jason Manzoukas]

I say Willie's was supposed to be like a space fort or something, Right.

[Paul Scheer]

He had a very big space.

[Nathan Fielder]

He also said forts are in trees, right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Nathan Fielder]

And that's not true, right? No. Yeah. Because we made forts.

[Paul Scheer]

You can make forts anywhere. Yeah.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Tree houses are in trees. But I assumed in Canada that was the thing.

[Paul Scheer]

I looked on IMDb, like the ratings on IMDb, to see who liked this movie the most. And I will tell you the number one, the Highest rating are females, 30 to 44.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Oof.

[Paul Scheer]

And males, 45 plus. Those are the two. Those are the two demos that it spiked in.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

Which is very interesting. Now, obviously we had an opinion about this movie, but there are other people who thought better. Now it is time for a second opinion.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Second opinions from top to bottom. Crazy movies.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're not your first but they're gonna be your second.

[Paul Scheer]

From the tips of Amazon they come second opinions for everyone. Second opinions. Alright, so these are five star reviews culled from Amazon. Here we go. This is from Cool dude. There weren't many 5 star reviews for a movie that made 3000. So here we go. This is the first time I ordered from Amazon.com received the item as described in the mail very quickly. DVD was reasonably priced. I'll be making more purchases. 5 stars for a Gooby that does not really. So the delivery service of Amazon should be getting the five stars really. And then this one is by B. Reed from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I rented this off of on demand for my cable provider for my 3 year old son. Although I did not enjoy it that much, he loved it and has begged me to watch it over and over again. So six months later and after repeatedly renting it from my cable provider, I'm breaking down to buy it for him. Cause he won't stop begging to watch it. 5 stars.

[Jason Manzoukas]

5 stars for a 3 year old.

[Paul Scheer]

For a 3 year old who mom hates it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I would say too this. It's not like the look of Gooby. I found it to be terrifying. I found it to be terrifying. It's not a. I can't imagine that kid. Well, from behind, you know, as I said before, I didn't enjoy him.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You're obsessed with Gooby's monster butt. It's so weird, playful.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, the proportion of the head to the body too. Because on the original doll it's a big head and a small body. And then on the real when he gets big it's a big body and a tiny head.

[Paul Scheer]

I want to just play this one clip. This is the end narration of the boy saying goodbye to Gooby. And I found this to be amazing. Coupled with the song, the Gooby song at the end too, which we haven't talked about. But here's the end narration. Take a listen.

[June Diane Raphael]

Final and most important rule of having a big fuzzy wench monster. Realizing what you leave behind. What I mean is Kubi may have gone on, but he left me with all sorts of stuff like how to build a space car, the best way to go grocery shopping and how to defeat the hoonies.

[Paul Scheer]

None of these things.

[June Diane Raphael]

How to be a friend. Oh, and he gave me something else as well. He gave me back my dad. And maybe because of that crabs. Because when it comes to family, where we belong isn't a place. It's with each other.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh shit, that. By the way, that sounds like the end of A movie. He did not help him with the hoonies.

[Nathan Fielder]

Nope.

[Paul Scheer]

He did not help him to go supermarket shopping the right way. The way of going supermarket shopping was just eating everything in the aisles, basically stealing. He didn't do any of that stuff. Would you guys rec. Well, I think we've already covered this, but would you recommend this movie?

[Jason Manzoukas]

I really would not. I really would not. This was upsetting.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't want to put you in jeopardy with Canada at all, Nathan, but.

[Nathan Fielder]

Well, I'm like, I'm wondering, I mean, did you know the director hasn't. You know, I'm sure he's going to listen to this, right? Like, I'm sure he's.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You think he's got a Google alert

[Nathan Fielder]

for his first feature for Gooby, I just looked at IMDb. I don't think he's worked since the movie, but he's been in the Canadian TV industry since 1981.

[Paul Scheer]

He created a show called Majority Rules in 2009, the same year as Gooby. But it looks like that show is canceled. Monster Warriors.

[June Diane Raphael]

I wouldn't put all of this on the director. I mean, I think there's.

[Nathan Fielder]

He wrote it too.

[Paul Scheer]

He produced it with a magician.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Here's a very real reality, and this is for the sake of our audience. If we. Through very little action, the audience of. How did this get made? Through renting this on. What was it? Amazon?

[Paul Scheer]

Amazon or it. Itunes.

[Jason Manzoukas]

It's on itunes or itunes. We could match the.

[Paul Scheer]

We could double it.

[Jason Manzoukas]

We could match the amount of money this made in theaters, through rentals very easily. We could double the amount of money this movie has made. And I will challenge our audience now

[Paul Scheer]

just to give it back to the people of Canada, just to give it

[Jason Manzoukas]

back to those people and to show that this director. Writer. Director. Deserves another shot. Maybe a Gooby two.

[Paul Scheer]

I would love a Gooby two. Gooby.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Gooby two. Where are you?

[Nathan Fielder]

That one's a good idea.

[Jason Manzoukas]

You don't think that's a good idea? What if. What if. Only 11.

[Paul Scheer]

Only 11,000 people need to rent this on itunes to double the gross.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Only 11,000. Now we get. We get plenty of those people. So fucking step up, everybody. And now I guess there's no way to track this. So maybe on Facebook we can put up a little thing or on Twitter we can make a hashtag that's like, I rent Gooby.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, I rent a Gooby. Yeah, Yeah, I have a rent now.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That's the thing. If some of you buy Guby, it's even fewer people because that's like 9.99.

[Paul Scheer]

Exactly.

[June Diane Raphael]

And I'm not. I'm not upset that I saw Gooby. You know, that I watched it.

[Jason Manzoukas]

That's very ringing endorsement.

[June Diane Raphael]

I could have a conversation about it.

[Jason Manzoukas]

There's a pull quote right there. For the, for the, for the dvd. I am not upset that I saw Gooby June Diana.

[Nathan Fielder]

If I wasn't doing this, I would be upset that I watched it.

[Paul Scheer]

We should point out, by the way, that the dad is. This is a star. I realize why women, older women like this. The dad is the star of jag. That's one of my grandma's favorite TV shows.

[Nathan Fielder]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

So I would imagine if for you JAG fanatics out there for you, JAG Henry.

[Jason Manzoukas]

Or are they called the Jag Offs?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, that was an experience. I was glad to share it with all of you. And a big thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Our engineer Sam. Our clip puller, Avril Halley. Also, Nate Kiley does all of our researching and Leanna Waldron, who just kills it on all of the graphic designs. And of course, Katie Dyer, who does all of our social media. Thank you, guys. Without you, the show would be nothing. We will see you next time. But until then, follow us on Twitter and on Facebook. And follow me, Paul Shear on Twitter. Bye. Bye. I'm Shankar Vedantam, here to tell you about a great mystery. That mystery is you. As the host of a podcast called Hidden Brain, I explore big questions about what it means to be human. Questions like where do our emotions come from? Why do so many of us feel overwhelmed by modern life? How can we better understand the people around us? Discover your hidden brain. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

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