Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Summary

Pod Meets World – "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (May 5, 2026)

Episode Overview

Hosts Will Friedle and Sabrina Bryant (with guest input from producer Michaela) take listeners on a vibrant, nostalgia-fueled journey back to 1989, breaking down the Disney classic "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." They recall memories of childhood fandom, provide fascinating production history, critique the film's effects with a gentle hand, and debate what makes it an enduring family entertainment staple. Generous helpings of personal stories and humorous banter help set the episode’s inviting, lighthearted tone.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

Would You Rather: Tiny or Huge?

• [02:39] The hosts open with a “would you rather” – be way too small or way too big? – paralleling the movie’s theme.
  • Sabrina: Prefers being small: “I think I’d want to be way too small. … Way too big would be like, where do you go? Where do you sleep?” (03:03)
  • Will: Points out the constant dangers of being tiny: “It would take you two years just to get to the gate at LAX. That would be your vacation.” (03:41)
• Both agree each extreme brings serious downsides and unique adventure potential, setting the tone for discussing the film.

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Movie & Cultural Context

The Moranis Moment

• [06:06-08:12] In-depth Rick Moranis appreciation:
  • Will: “It’s difficult to even say this movie’s title without thinking of the man, the myth, the legend himself, Rick Moranis.” (06:06)
  • Will and Sabrina lovingly list Moranis’ hits: "Ghostbusters," “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Parenthood,” “Spaceballs,” “Strange Brew,” “The Flintstones.”
  • Nostalgia for Moranis’ comedic genius pervades: “He is a national treasure. …He’s a world treasure.” (07:10–07:28)
  • Discussion of Moranis’ career hiatus and recent news.

The Box Office & Franchise

• [11:39–14:08] “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” wasn’t expected to become a hit, but grossed $222 million globally ($575M adjusted for inflation), temporarily becoming Disney’s highest-grossing live-action film.
• Spawns not just sequels and a TV spinoff, but beloved theme park attractions (notably “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience”).
• Memorable quote: “He just solved world hunger. … The man has literally just solved world hunger. Think about it!” – Will on the laser’s potential (74:18)

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Production Deep-Dive

Casting & Origins

• [15:06] Role was written for Chevy Chase; John Candy also passed, suggesting Moranis for the part instead—a characteristically generous move from a beloved icon.
• Will shares a personal story of meeting John Candy while dressed as a Romulan for a kids’ TV pilot. (16:24)
• Filmed primarily in Mexico City, not L.A., with heavy use of practical effects (giant props, puppets, animation, stop-motion).
  • “None of it holds up in 2026. It doesn’t look great, but I just didn’t care.” – Will (17:21)
  • Both hosts agree charm outweighs any “dated” visual flaws.

Direction & Crew

• [23:08] Director Joe Johnston’s impressive visual effects pedigree:
  • Art director on the first three “Star Wars,” designed Yoda and Boba Fett, led VFX on classics like “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” created “The Iron Giant.”
  • Johnston’s feature directorial debut, followed by “The Rocketeer,” “Jumanji,” “Jurassic Park III,” “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

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Cast Recap and Fun Anecdotes

• Rick Moranis: Career highlights, versatility, and personal stories about his kindness.
• Marcia Strassman: TV legend (“Welcome Back, Kotter”; “MAS*H”), and Will’s childhood crush.
• Christine Sutherland: Noted for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
• Jared Rushton: Familiar from “Big” and “Overboard,” left acting for music.
• Amy O’Neil: Former child actor, later a circus performer (“Girls on Stilts”).
• Robert Oliveri: Played Nick, also in “Edward Scissorhands”—Will once interviewed him as a kid.
• Lou Cutell (Dr. Brainerd): Known for “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (as Super Dave’s dad).

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Scene-by-Scene Recap & Key Moments (Timestamps approx.)

Opening & Family Dynamics

• [35:51–41:12] Opening animated credits, introducing the suburban Zelinsky and Thompson families.
  • Wayne Zelinsky: Distracted inventor Dad, wife Diane, teens Amy & Nick.
  • Thompson family: Blue-collar, masculine Russ Sr., sons Russ Jr. and Ron.
  • Lots of comedy drawn from clashing neighbor personalities and quirky family moments.

Shrinking Incident

• [41:22–43:56] Ron’s baseball breaks into Wayne’s lab; accidental laser activation shrinks all four kids.
• [44:00] Wayne unknowingly sweeps the shrunken kids into a trash bag and tosses it outside – launching the heart of the adventure.

Backyard Peril

• [45:26–47:00] Kids’ journey becomes a fraught trek through a jungle-like backyard, battling hazards like mud, bugs, and massive water droplets from the sprinkler.
  • The practical sets and oversized props ignite both childlike exhilaration and real suspense.
  • Memorable moment: Nick’s plan to whistle for the dog, Quark, to ride him to safety (46:44).

Action Setpieces & Practical Effects

• [53:04] The harrowing ant (“Auntie”) scene — the kids befriend, then tragically lose, their giant ant companion in battle with a scorpion.
  • “He dies, guys. … It was so sad, dude.” – Sabrina (65:54)
  • Both hosts note the emotional impact and unexpected darkness for a “family” movie.
• [67:16] Remote-controlled lawnmower sequence: A genuine near-miss thriller, full of creative visuals.

Rescue & Ending

• [71:06–74:26] Nick uses Quark the dog to finally reach his dad—narrowly avoiding being eaten with a Cheerio in a now-iconic giant cereal bowl sequence.
• Wayne and Diane frantically repair the shrinking machine, bringing the kids back to size just in time.
• Finale: Neighbors reconcile over a literally massive Thanksgiving dinner (giant turkey courtesy of Wayne’s invention).

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Lighthearted Banter & Personal Reflections

Nostalgia & Real-Life Connections

• Will describes interviewing Robert Oliveri as a child and being mesmerized by set stories (19:50).
• Both hosts reflect on how much more immersive practical effects were for actors (“So much better for actors and so much more fun!” – Will, 45:05).

Pop Culture & Generational Humor

• Running jokes: Will’s ignorance of certain 80s/90s blockbusters (never seen “Moana” or “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”), and the world's “tiny couch” meme.
• Quips comparing “French class” to French kissing and recounting awkward first kiss stories (94:09).

Notable Quotes

• On enduring charm: “I had a smile on my face the whole time. … I literally didn’t care [about the FX] because that’s the way they all looked. Right. I just didn’t care. [This is] such a feel-good movie that you can literally watch over and over.” – Sabrina (97:22)
• On nostalgia’s power: “It made me want to apologize to people for how I’ve been talking about movies that they’ve attached nostalgia to, because I get it.” – Will (97:53)
• On practicality winning over effects: “The charm outweighs any ‘dated’ visual flaws.” (17:21 summation)

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Fun Segments & Games

The “Shrunk King” Quiz (80:07)

• Who’s the shortest Hollywood star? (e.g., Michael J. Fox, Seth Green, Paul Simon, Joe Pesci, Josh Hutcherson).
• Hosts playfully compete, shocked by some stars’ heights (“Paul Simon is 5’3”!” – 82:17).

Sabrina’s “Things You Might Have Missed” (84:10)

• Observations about odd details: red truck continuity, Saturday science conference confusion, animal size discrepancies, stop-motion FX history, TV counterbalance gag, and new understanding of the “French class” euphemism.
• CPR accuracy rant: “That was the worst CPR I could ever see. Like, he would have not saved her at all. He just blew into her mouth.” (88:40)

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Critical Take: Final Ratings

Both hosts rave about the film’s enduring warmth and agree it’s nearly perfect for families:

• Sabrina: 9.5/10 “good uses for cigarettes by kids” – “Just such a feel-good movie that you can literally watch over and over again.” (97:22)
• Will: 10/10 “good uses for cigarettes by kids” – “Even now at 50, I was jealous of them shooting this back in 1988. …This was a great movie.” (98:39)

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Visitor & Listener Feedback

• Read aloud a five-star and a one-star review, with Will hilariously roasting the negative reviewer: “Go [bleep] yourself.” (79:40)

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Closing Thoughts

• The movie stands as a prime example of '80s/'90s family filmmaking—funny, scary, inventive, sentimental, and visually extraordinary (despite now-dated effects).
• The hosts’ genuine affection for the film, peppered with personal and industry tidbits, makes for both a fond trip down memory lane and a useful primer for the uninitiated.
• Next episode teased: 2016’s “Adventures in Babysitting,” with more Sabrina Carpenter stories to come.

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Handy Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:39 – Would you rather be tiny or huge?
• 06:06 – Rick Moranis appreciation & “career era”
• 11:39 – Box office and Disney history
• 15:06 – Casting: Chevy Chase, John Candy, Rick Moranis
• 23:08 – Director Joe Johnston’s legendary resume
• 35:51 – Scene-by-scene plot breakdown begins
• 53:04 – Auntie the ant’s emotional moment
• 67:16 – Remote-controlled lawnmower sequence
• 71:06 – Quark/cereal bowl rescue
• 74:10 – Massive turkey/finale
• 80:07 – The Shrunk King (shortest actor quiz)
• 84:10 – Sabrina’s “Things You Didn’t See” roundup
• 94:09 – French kissing stories
• 97:20 – Final ratings

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Notable Quotes

• “He is a national treasure…a world treasure.” (07:10)
• “None of it holds up in 2026. …I just didn’t care.” (17:21)
• “He just solved world hunger!” (74:18)
• “Even now at 50, I was jealous of them shooting this in 1988.” (98:21)
• “I had a smile on my face the whole time.” (97:22)

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Summary

This episode is a love letter to “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”—embracing both its technical jank and its immense, enduring heart. Rich with memories, jokes, and behind-the-scenes facts, it’s a lively primer for anyone who missed, or misses, the family adventure heyday of the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Transcript

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[Will]

Hi, Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Hi, Will.

[Will]

So, quick question before we start today. Okay. Would you rather be way too small or way too big?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, there's so many advantages to both of them, I think.

[Will Friedle]

And disadvantages.

[Will]

You're a glasses half full kind of gal. Because I would have said there's a lot of disadvantages to both.

[Will Friedle]

You have right to advantages. It's very sweet.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think I'd want to be way too small. I think it would be, I don't know, like, way too big would be like, where do you go? Where do you sleep? Like.

[Will Friedle]

But Way too small.

[Will]

It's like, I imagine way too small is constantly dangerous.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, that is true. I agree.

[Will]

So I don't know. You're right. Pros and cons to both.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And you can't go far. Right. Like you're never traveling.

[Will Friedle]

Right. I mean, how do you get a car that small?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah. If you got yourself to like the airport, maybe you'd just always be traveling.

[Will]

Well, nobody would know that. I mean, you could just sneak through.

[Will Friedle]

But then again, think about like, let's just take.

[Will]

Let's just take lax.

[Will Friedle]

Think about just from the door to

[Will]

LAX to the, to the plane itself.

[Will Friedle]

It would take you two years. That would be your vacation. Would just be getting to the gate.

[Will]

Exactly.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And it would be like you said, dangerous. Like, I feel like you are possibly going to be stepped on and like all of everywhere, constantly. And even the. The tiniest, most like nothing animal. Right. Is just like up.

[Will Friedle]

That's what I'm saying.

[Sabrina Bryant]

To eat you like crazy. Crazy.

[Will]

You know, being too big.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like, I just feel like that's just even I feel like being a tall person. Like I was just around somebody who is like over seven feet. And I'm going, can you comfortably sit in even like a cow? Like, and in the sense of like, I mean comfortably, but like in the sense of like laying straight out. Like.

[Will Friedle]

No, I think people like Shaq have their bed made.

[Sabrina Bryant]

They had to have like a custom bed.

[Will]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And by the way, at one point his bed was like a circle bed or something. It also bed.

[Will Friedle]

You can't.

[Will]

For this game, it. It has to be extremes.

[Will Friedle]

It has to be so you either. Well, I do think he's microscopic type.

[Will]

No, no, I'm talking microscopic tiny or 100.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like a giant. Yeah, yeah, like a giant giant.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

See, but I feel like that. That would be so hard. It would be so.

[Will Friedle]

They both would. They'd both be terrible.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah. Anyway, but it would be cool. And I would love. I would have loved to live in this movie that we are reviewing today. Because I just kept thinking this set would be so cool. It'd be like being at Disneyland all the time. Oh, so cool.

[Will]

I talked to. Well, we'll get into it.

[Will Friedle]

Anyway, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs and your popcorn and go back to a time when our houses were smart. The wave tsunamis. And we could decide whether it was

[Will]

better to be big or small. I still don't know.

[Will Friedle]

But still no hit Sabrina up in the comments. I'm Will Friedle.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I'm Sabrina Bryant.

[Will Friedle]

This week on Magical Rewind, we're taking it back to the blockbuster era, people. When celebrities attended Planet Hollywood openings and

[Will]

Bruce Willis released a blues album.

[Will Friedle]

It's time to get theatrical with 1989's massive family entertainment hit, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Yes, Sabrina. It's difficult to even say this movie's

[Will]

title without thinking of the man, the myth, the legend himself, Rick Moranis.

[Will Friedle]

Are you a Moranis head, which we're gonna start calling it?

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, but I am a big fan of him in this movie.

[Will]

Just this movie. I mean, come on.

[Will Friedle]

Little Shop of Horrors.

[Will]

Ghostbusters.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Ghostbusters. Oh, man. Yeah.

[Will]

Or one of the greatest comedies of all time, which are gonna be like,

[Will Friedle]

I've never seen it and I'm gonna

[Will]

leave the zoo because we're not friends.

[Will Friedle]

Strange Brew.

[Will]

Oh, oh.

[Will Friedle]

Strange Brew is one of the greatest,

[Will]

most underrated comedies in the history of the world. I will die on that hill.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I will. I will then stream it. If it's streamable. Is it streamable?

[Will]

It better be. I mean, it is so good. It's. It's.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, he's an incredible actor. Like, I could not stop thinking. Parenthood, everyone. Parenthood.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

He's got Spaceballs. I mean, he's got banger after banger after banger.

[Will]

Yeah, man.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And this was his era. Like, his era.

[Will Friedle]

He is a national treasure.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, A national treasure.

[Will]

He is 100% a national treasure.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, this was his era, which is

[Will Friedle]

ironic because he's Canadian. So is he a Canadian national treasure?

[Will]

He would be that too, but we'll take him. We'll take Rick Moranis in a trade. Are you kidding me? Yeah, He's a world treasure. Lisa's right. Producer. Lisa's right. He's a world treasure. He is.

[Will Friedle]

Yes. So, and as we said, he's been back in the news recently, returning from an almost 20 year hiatus from acting to star in the new Spaceball sequel.

[Will]

So excited. It's basically unheard of to even just leave the business the way he did. Especially when you're a comedic legend still churning out great work. But this really was one of his biggest roles. Are you gonna see the new Spaceballs?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I might wait for it. To stream what?

[Will Friedle]

Everything you're saying is hurting me.

[Will]

Right in my space. I can't believe that you're. Yeah, you're. It's. God, you gotta go support your local theaters, people.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's true. I do try to get to the theater as much as I possible because I'm so scared they're gonna shut them down.

[Will]

Exactly.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Which they will get.

[Will Friedle]

So you know why?

[Will]

Because people say, I'll wait for it to come out on streaming.

[Sabrina Bryant]

You know what? I won't do that.

[Will]

Wait.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The Moana movie. I will not be waiting. I will see that probably 17 times in the theater.

[Will]

You ready to shut off the zoom on your end?

[Sabrina Bryant]

You've never seen Moana?

[Will]

Never seen Moana. Never seen Moana.

[Will Friedle]

Never seen Frozen 2.

[Will]

This time it's personal. The first Frozen, I was like, okay,

[Sabrina Bryant]

they're coming out with a Frozen three.

[Will]

Is it even more frozen this time? Is it, like, super frozen?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't know, but they're coming out with a Frozen three. At Frozen three.

[Will]

I didn't.

[Will Friedle]

The thing I remember about Frozen one

[Will]

was it started to snow for, like, a week and a half in this village, and they all freaked out. It's like, I'm from Connecticut. That's just normal. It's like, well, oh, my God, it's snowing. It's Tuesday. Like, what? This is.

[Will Friedle]

This is a movie.

[Will]

Anyway. Okay, let's get this out of the way, because we. We talked about a little bit at the beginning, but if you were shrunk down to a quarter of an inch, what's the first thing you're going to do?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Ooh, I feel like I. What they did in this movie, I would be in heaven with, like, a cookie.

[Will]

Like, right.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Eating, like, just ice cream. Like, so much of it to, like. I mean, I just think it would taste different. I don't know why, but it would just taste different, and it would just be incredible.

[Will]

Double from In N Out.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh, the French fries. Oh, wow. Amazing. Yeah. So I think food would be cool. I think I loved, again, this movie. It's just like, all of the, like, creating, like, normal day stuff, but, like, creating it into, like, now a ride. Like, you could slide down a chair or. You know what I mean? Like, finding those, like, stocks and all

[Will]

that kind of stuff.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, that kind of stuff would be so cool. Finding that kind of stuff to be able to do would be rad. What would you do? What would be yours?

[Will Friedle]

You know, probably stuff like you. I'd want to do things like ride an anti.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Maybe like, try to grab a little

[Will]

sword and battle a cockroach or something.

[Will Friedle]

You know what I mean?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like, oh, my God.

[Will Friedle]

Something post apocalyptic.

[Will]

It'd be kind of fun.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It would. It would be crazy. Like, I mean, I just think it would be so, like, the world would be so fun. Like, Just a regular tree trying to climb up it. You know what I mean? Like, that kind of stuff would just be so cool. Or like, stuff in your house. Like, I'm looking around my house, like, oh, man. Climbing up, like, this little bookshelf.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

But it would take forever down the side. It would take forever. And then slide it down. Oh, that'd be so cool.

[Will]

It'd be cool, though. Yeah. We'll figure it out.

[Will Friedle]

We'll find a way to get it done, and we'll figure it out. We work for iHeart.

[Will]

They can do anything.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Exactly.

[Will Friedle]

This movie was released on June 23,

[Will]

1999, in over 1300 theaters with a

[Will Friedle]

heavily promoted Roger Rabbit cartoon.

[Will]

Before the credits, get ready to shut off your camera again.

[Sabrina Bryant]

What?

[Will]

Never seen who Framed Roger Rabbit?

[Sabrina Bryant]

What?

[Will]

I've never seen.

[Will Friedle]

I'm an animation fanatic and I've never seen.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Responsible for you. For you.

[Will]

I don't know. Never saw it.

[Will Friedle]

We're going to have to do on

[Will]

this podcast, we're going to have to do who Framed Roger Rabbit? We're going to have to do Moana.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, we have. You have got to see.

[Will]

I haven't seen it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And Moana is one of the best movies.

[Will]

Strange with our. Strange Brew. Doesn't fit with our podcast.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Doesn't fit with our podcast. I'm going to make.

[Will]

Have you seen Clockwork Orange? Where they strap him to the chair and then hold his eyelids open and make him watch stuff. That's what I'm going to do with you and Strange Brew. Because you got to see it. But we'll figure it out.

[Will Friedle]

Yes. It wasn't expected, by the way, to become a hit at all, but it was a massive hit. It reportedly cost only $18 million to make, and it grossed 222 million worldwide

[Will]

at the time, which now translates to $72 trillion, thanks to inflation. No, 575 million, thanks to inflation.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Wow.

[Will Friedle]

And at the time, it was the highest grossing live action Disney movie of all. All time.

[Angel]

Dang.

[Will Friedle]

A title. It held only for just five years, though. Can you guess what dethroned it without reading? You already read it, didn't you?

[Will]

No, I didn't read what dethroned it five years later. So it would have been 1994.

[Sabrina Bryant]

1994.

[Will]

And it was not season one of Boy Meets World. Just for the record.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay, all right, that's fair. Ooh, man. I don't know what could have live

[Will]

action starred the biggest TV star of the time,

[Sabrina Bryant]

Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

[Will Friedle]

You are very close.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Really?

[Will]

Yes. Very, very close.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Was It.

[Will]

No.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, no, same show. Oh, Santa Claus was. It wasn't.

[Will]

The Santa Claus is the one that. The thing I remember is we were. We were shooting next to Home Improvement. They were. We were on stage two. They were on stage one.

[Freddie Prinze Jr.]

And.

[Will]

And Tim Allen had just filmed the Santa Claus and it became such a smash hit that we walked out. He always had these amazing cars in his parking space. There'd be two or three in his parking space. They were all better than the last. And he came out one day and Disney had bought him a brand new Porsche with the license plate clause one. And it was because the movie did so well. We came out, we're like, oh, that's the ultimate goal is you do so well that the company buys you a car for real.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh. What did you guys film on Disney?

[Will]

We were on the Disney lot. For the first two seasons we were on the Disney lot, and then the next two seasons were at ktla. And then the next two seasons we were at Radford. And then the last season we were back at Disney.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Will]

So they kept.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That would be so cool to film Disney lot.

[Will]

It was great. Yeah, we were there for three of the seven years. It was awesome.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That's awesome.

[Will Friedle]

Honey I Shrunk the Kids was also the seventh highest grossing film of the entire year. A massive smash for Disney, launching an

[Will]

unexpected franchise with two sequels, a TV

[Will Friedle]

show, and several theme park attractions, including a stop on the studio backlot tour, the Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie set adventure, and most famously, Honey I Shrunk the Audience. Do you remember that 3D movie at

[Will]

Disneyland replaced Michael Jackson's 3D movie, Captain Neo? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was great. Yes.

[Will Friedle]

By the way, I'm going to start talking very fast while shaking my leg.

[Will]

I'm having an actual cup of coffee this morning. I'm three sips of normal caffeine in

[Will Friedle]

and I'm already feeling it. People, let's get this going. I hate to tell you this, but this movie was originally titled Teeny Weenies,

[Will]

which coincidentally was also the title of my memoir.

[Will Friedle]

It was first brought to Disney to appeal strictly to kids. Then, during development, they decided to shift it for a more mature audience and change the title to grounded, a title

[Will]

that then was rejected again and it

[Will Friedle]

became the Big Backyard. And then taken from a line of

[Will]

dialogue straight from the film.

[Will Friedle]

The studio settled on the final title,

[Will]

of course, which was Honey I Shrunk

[Will Friedle]

the Kids, which for years has been debated because of its grammar. It technically should have been titled Huddy. I shrank the kids. Does that bother you, Sabrina?

[Sabrina Bryant]

No. Shrank is worse. I like shrunk.

[Will]

Honey, I shrank the kids. Doesn't sound nearly as good.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Honey, I shrank the kids.

[Will Friedle]

Honey, I shrank the kids. Wah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, no, no.

[Will]

I agree.

[Will Friedle]

As much as Moranis became synonymous with this movie, he was not the first choice. It was actually written for Chevy Chase,

[Will]

but he was filming Christmas vacation. I announced this, the Griswold family Christmas tree.

[Will Friedle]

So he had to pass.

[Will]

They also considered another absolute Canadian legend and one of my favorite actors of all time.

[Will Friedle]

And I got to meet him, John

[Will]

Candy, who passed on the project.

[Will Friedle]

But instead of rejecting the idea, he did what every single person who I've ever heard anything about, John Candy, who

[Will]

said he was the greatest human being to ever walk the planet, he didn't

[Will Friedle]

just pass and say, no, thank you. He suggested his very good friend and

[Will]

fellow Canadian, Rick Moranis.

[Will Friedle]

So, hey, I don't want to do

[Will]

this, but give it to my buddy. I everything I've heard about this man, he was just a legend. I love him every day, so much. Very quick story. I met him on the Paramount lot. I was there. I was 15 years old. I was shooting a pilot. This is before Boy Meets World. I was shooting a pilot for National Geographic. And my job was to go to the Star the Next Generation set, interview all of the cast members of the set, and then be brought through full makeup by Mike and Bud Westmore, who dressed me up as a Romulan. I still have all of the appliances that they signed for me. And as I was dressed like a full Romulan, I went to the commissary with all the directors and the producers. And John Candy was there and said,

[Will Friedle]

hey, you're a Romulan, right?

[Will]

And I went, uh huh. And that was how I met John Candy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh my gosh, that's so cool.

[Will]

Full Romulan regalia. I ended up meeting John John Candy. It was the coolest.

[Will Friedle]

And the movie was filmed in. Ready for this big shocker here, one we haven't said yet on magical rewind, Mexico City.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Wow. That's right.

[Will Friedle]

The Beverly Hills Mall quote, unquote.

[Will]

And all the attempts to make it look like LA was actually shot in the backlot of. And I'm going to say this wrong, so I apologize.

[Will Friedle]

Churubusco Studios, I think is how it's said, but again, I could be wrong. Now, for the most part, the crew did rely heavily on practical effects, with

[Will]

some special effects here and there. Some of the insects in the movies were electronically controlled items or motion stopped,

[Will Friedle]

but a lot of the perspective moves

[Will]

were just camera tricks. They also utilize stuntmen, puppetry, animation and

[Will Friedle]

gimmick kind of lenses and unfortunately. But I don't give a shit.

[Will]

None of it holds up in 2026. It doesn't look great, but I just didn't care. I don't know about you.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Not at all.

[Will]

Didn't care even a little bit.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I will say like the ant and the scorpion looks so much grosser than what I remember it being like. It was like, like the stuff. When we get there, I'll keep mention it. Like the stuff that they have definitely looked like, like. Oh, I don't know. I don't remember being like grossed out.

[Will]

Well, it just the. The scorpion especially gave me straight up flashbacks to my favorite movie growing up or one of my favorite movies, which is Clash of the Titans where he fights the giant scorpion. So it was that stop animation, really creepy stuff. But I'm not even going to ask

[Will Friedle]

if you like Clash of the Titans because I'm holding on to a shred of our friendship, Sabrina.

[Will]

Just a shred moving forward.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, here's the thing though. That doesn't mean that this property is by any means dead. Because a sequel called Shrunk was in

[Will]

development and announced in 2020 starring Ready for this? Josh Gad and Rick Moranis. But it appears to have been stalled, especially since Gad and Moranis ended up putting their energy together for Spaceballs.

[Will Friedle]

I wouldn't hold my breath for that ending up in theaters. But maybe if Spaceballs does great, I would also will throw my tiny or large hat into the ring.

[Will]

Whichever they want to do anything in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Seriously.

[Will Friedle]

I will do the voice at the beginning going, hey everybody, welcome to Honey

[Will]

I Shrunk the Kids.

[Will Friedle]

It would be safe to say that

[Will]

the original Honey I Shrunk the Kids Shrank the kids. Either one was an absolute classic for an entire generation and impossible to ignore when you're recapping the early 90s for family films. Now, you knew this movie existed, right? Do you remember the first time you saw it or the first time seeing it at all?

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, I don't remember. I mean I was. I was younger for sure. And I don't. I just remember I watched this movie on repeat. Like I watched it over and over. It was such a favorite of mine and I just like, it was just again, like, this is the best. This is what makes this podcast so amazing is like the nostalgia of like I Remember having popcorn and all that. I don't think I saw it in theaters. I don't think I saw it in theaters. But I definitely had like the VHS on repeat at my house.

[Will]

For sure. This was the close. I'm sorry, I was just looking something up because I was hoping to find the clip. I still haven't been able to find the clip. So in 1989, I was on a show called Don't Just Sit There on Nickelodeon.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay.

[Will]

It was like a young Saturday Night Live. We did. Had special guests and interviewed bands or had a band and did skits and all that kind of stuff. And one of my first interviews was Robert Oliveri, the kid from this. The main kid from this movie, who plays Rick Moranis son. And so in New York, before the interview, I went and saw Honey I Shrunk. The kids fell in love with it. The next day I went and interviewed Robert. We became friends on the set and hung out that day. He was telling me all the behind the scenes stuff of making the movie. It was the coolest. It was like a behind the scenes look at this movie, which I'm 12,

[Will Friedle]

I think at the time, or 13. It was like the coolest movie as a young actor. Exactly what you said. Where you're on these sets with, you know, these giant props and all. Hey, we gotta climb into a Lego

[Will]

today and go to sleep. Ugh.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So cool. I mean, what an. Yes, exactly. Especially a young actor's dream, right? Like just these, like, just the coolest sets. Such a cool experience, I'm sure. Yeah, I bet you they had so much fun. And again, this is like another opportunity for kids to be working with other kids too. Right. Like the main cast, you can tell, like they're. They were. They probably didn't film very often with Rick. Like, they probably didn't film that much because there wasn't a lot of scenes with him. Right, right.

[Will]

I don't know.

[Will Friedle]

I mean, I think they were kind

[Will]

of all on the set all the time. But yeah, it was just. Yeah, the idea.

[Will Friedle]

And again, this movie honestly makes me

[Will]

slightly want to apologize to our listeners.

[Will Friedle]

Well, because the movie doesn't look good. I mean, let's be honest, they don't. It doesn't hold up. I mean, a lot of it. No, it didn't bother me at all either. That's what I'm. My nostalgia attached.

[Will]

This movie made it to where I didn't care. So I get people that for a lot of the movies where I'm like this because I have no nostalgia attached

[Will Friedle]

to it where I'm like, this movie isn't good.

[Will]

This doesn't look good. It's not. This movie is good. Doesn't look great, doesn't hold up.

[Will Friedle]

But at the time was amazing.

[Will]

So my nostalgia, I finished and I was like, I need to apologize to some people for the way.

[Will Friedle]

That being said, Double Team still sucks.

[Will]

That was for our producers, of course. Yes.

[Will Friedle]

And a new gener generation out there. All of you old, new, whatever fans, original fans, new fans, go find it. Because right now you can check it

[Will]

out on Disney plus.

[Will Friedle]

You can cram it before we start recapping, or just check it out first,

[Will]

then watch the movie. I think it's the safest thing to do, no matter what. But either way, look both ways before you cross the street. Trust me, take my word for it.

[Will Friedle]

And now let's break out the magnifying glasses, suspend ourselves in the backyard, because

[Will]

this is the synopsis.

[Will Friedle]

An eccentric inventor accidentally shrinks his children and the neighbor's kids down to a microscopic size. And now, while trapped in the backyard, they must survive a dangerous world of insects and obstacles while trying to make

[Will]

their way back home.

[Will Friedle]

Now, with that synopsis in mind, despite the grammatical issue, is Honey I Shrunk the Kids, one of the best titles in Hollywood history. Some other good ones. We got Jaws, There Will Be Blood, Snakes on a Plane. Dude, where's my car? Star Wars.

[Will]

It's up there. It's up there. Okay, I think we've both said this. We don't even need to get in this. We both love this movie, right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will]

Okay, great.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Hands down. Hands down. Easy. Watch fun. Watch one for the whole family.

[Will Friedle]

Honey I Shrunk the Kids was directed by a legend who cut his teeth

[Will]

in visual effects on some of the most legendary. I'm gonna keep saying legendary because it's apartment movies of all time.

[Will Friedle]

Working at ilm, which is, of course,

[Will]

Industrial Light and Magic, he was the

[Will Friedle]

art director on the first three Star wars movies.

[Will]

Damn.

[Will Friedle]

Battlestar Galactica and Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's even the guy who designed Yoda and Boba Fett. All because he answered an ad from

[Will]

George Lucas while at Cal State Long

[Will Friedle]

beach looking for employees. He would later also design another absolute classic cinematic character. Ready for this?

[Will]

The Iron Giant. Yikes.

[Will Friedle]

So to say he's a visionary would be an understatement.

[Will]

We are, of course, talking about Joe Johnston. And he eventually transitioned into acting because

[Will Friedle]

he was encouraged to do so by George Lucas. Imagine somebody coming to you and being like, it's like you Know the Shakespeare

[Will]

coming up and going, you should write. So, yeah, crazy.

[Will Friedle]

And Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was

[Will]

his first ever movie.

[Will Friedle]

Just listen to his career since the

[Will]

Rocketeer, Jumanji, Jurassic Park 3, Captain America, the First Avenger.

[Will Friedle]

He was also the producer on Willow.

[Will]

It's just like one after another. Insane.

[Will Friedle]

Can we get up on the podcast? Can we get up on the podcast?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Seriously, can we try?

[Will Friedle]

Can we try? And like I.

[Will]

And like I mentioned, it stars an absolute legend.

[Will Friedle]

If this podcast was three days long,

[Will]

I'd spend two and a half of it talking about this guy, Rick Moranis as Wayne Zelinsky.

[Will Friedle]

He began his career on sctv, which

[Will]

was a Canadian sketch show, which led

[Will Friedle]

to the movie Strange Brew. There's no point steering. Hey, take off. You're steering this thing.

[Will]

It's one of the greatest movies of all time, my brothers, and I quote it ad nauseam. It's the best.

[Will Friedle]

Have you ever heard, take off, hoser. Like, take off, Eh?

[Will]

Oh, God. You got. It's based on. Okay. It's based on a duo of characters they created on that show.

[Will Friedle]

And he'd appear in some of the

[Will]

best comedies of the 80s and 90s. Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Little Shop of Horrors, Spaceballs, Parenthood, My Blue Heaven, the Flintstones, One After Another.

[Will Friedle]

Is there one that is the favorite of the bunch there?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, I didn't even think about Flintstones. Flintstones is probably one of my favorite movies too. I loved that movie. Oh, and the dance sequence. I mean, it's so good. Oh, it's so good.

[Will Friedle]

We say that movie genius. Like, we throw that out there.

[Will]

Rick Moranis is literally a genius.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He is.

[Will Friedle]

It's one go watch his under, like his sub, kind of completely mellow, underplayed

[Will]

character in something like Parenthood or My Blue Heaven.

[Will Friedle]

And then go watch Ghostbusters or Strange

[Will]

Brew and you're like, that's the same guy.

[Will Friedle]

And then Little Shop of Horrors, where he's singing the whole time and is freaking amazing.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, I forgot that he sings in that.

[Will Friedle]

Kidding. Suddenly, Seymour.

[Will]

Oh, God.

[Will Friedle]

Greatest.

[Will]

The greatest.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I love it. So good.

[Will]

Yeah. So Also, back in 2020 and this very few things aggravate me as much as this story. It got buried during the pandemic because obviously there was a lot of stuff going on.

[Will Friedle]

But he was assaulted in New York City, punched by a stranger on the

[Will]

street on camera for absolutely no reason at all.

[Will Friedle]

So whoever sucker punched Rick Moranis, I don't know if they caught the guy or not, but special place in hell, Marcia Straw.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Seriously, I can't imagine why you would. He seems like the nicest guy.

[Will Friedle]

And he was literally just walking on

[Will]

the street one morning just by himself, and the guy just punched him in the face for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

[Will Friedle]

If there is such a thing as karma, it's coming, buddy.

[Will]

Mar. And then, ooh. Another person who is very important in my life. Marcia Strassman plays Diane Zelensky, his wife.

[Will Friedle]

She was a legacy TV star best

[Will]

known as Julie Cotter on the TV show Welcome Back. Cotter, which was huge. But she was also in the first two, if not the first three seasons of MASH as one of my favorite reoccurring characters. And when I was a little kid, I had such a crush on her.

[Sabrina Bryant]

She's a pretty lady. She really was.

[Will]

She was. Unfortunately, she passed away very young from cancer, but she was a television legend. Rest in peace, Marcia Strassman. I see you. I love you. You were amazing.

[Will Friedle]

Christine Sutherland is Mae Thompson, the neighbor. Our listeners may recognize her as Joyce

[Will]

Summers on the TV show Buffy the Vampire.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, yeah, that's true.

[Will Friedle]

She was great. And then Jared Rushton plays Ron Thompson.

[Will]

Now, this was one of the cool things, because as a kid, he was kind of my contemporary, and he was in everything. Rushton is recognizable from a few of the greatest movies of the 80s.

[Will Friedle]

He played Tom Hanks's best friend Billy

[Will]

in the movie Big and was in Overboard alongside Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Another fun Will Friedell story they were

[Will Friedle]

gonna do Big in after the movie

[Will]

came out, they were gonna make into a television show. And I was one of the people that, at the very end, before they decided not to film it, was gonna play. It was between me and, like, one other person to play Billy. And the person who was gonna play Tom Hanks growing up and who I met and talked to in the audition

[Will Friedle]

for a while was George Costanza from Seinfeld.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No way.

[Will Friedle]

So I actually got to sit there

[Will]

and talk with him, and I think

[Will Friedle]

we read a scene together, and it

[Will]

was all like, they were gonna do Big as show. I was 12.

[Will Friedle]

I think it was one of the

[Will]

first shows I ever got, quote, unquote, close on.

[Will Friedle]

But Jared Rushton retired.

[Will]

By the way, I'm going to turn everything into a story about me today. It's the caffeine, Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's the caffeine stories. I love them. I love them.

[Will Friedle]

Jared Rushton retired from acting in the

[Will]

90s to focus on music and has

[Will Friedle]

played guitar and been a singer for bands like Withdrawal and Deal by Dusk. Who Knew Amy o' Neil played Amy Zelinsky.

[Will]

Good casting when it's the same name.

[Will Friedle]

She was a child actor who appeared in various sitcoms before 8th 30 episode run as pregnant teen Molly Stark on the Young and The Restless in 1986. Luckily she didn't know she was pregnant

[Will]

because she was also her own twin who had amnesia.

[Will Friedle]

She also reprised her role of Amy

[Will]

Zelensky in Honey I Blew up the

[Will Friedle]

Kid, but was only in the opening scene where she leaves for college. She then retired from acting in the 1990s, joined a circus style entertainment troupe

[Will]

as part of the trio Girls on Stilts.

[Will Friedle]

Focusing on stilts, fire breathing and juggling. She returned to acting with two short

[Will]

films and a television episode in the late 2000 and tens.

[Will Friedle]

And I would love to get her

[Will]

on the pod because what a cool kind of. You go from being a child.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Need to know about how this happened.

[Will Friedle]

Circus stuff.

[Will]

I need to know. We've got so like the coolest job it is.

[Will Friedle]

So we are calling out to you Amy o'.

[Will]

Neil. We want you to come on the pod. We are coming to find you.

[Will Friedle]

And then my old friend Robert Oliveri is Nick Zielinski. You might recognize him from Edward Scissorhands. And it appeared he retired from acting in 1992.

[Will]

And I would love to find him and redo the interview I did. Because at the end, one of the things I remember and you can hear it if you find the interview as it's fading to black. I mispronounce his last name and I

[Will Friedle]

say ladies and gentlemen, Robert Oliveira.

[Will]

And it cuts to black as people are clapping and you hear his voice

[Will Friedle]

go e Robert Oliveri.

[Will]

And that was the end of the interview. So I really wanna follow friendship. And that was it. We never spoke again. Quite literally.

[Will Friedle]

And one last credit I wanted to point out.

[Will]

Actor lou cuddle plays Dr. Brainerd a

[Will Friedle]

very small part, but he's made appearances

[Will]

on Grey's Anatomy, How I Met yout

[Will Friedle]

Mother and was Super Dave's dad on Curb youb Enthusiasm.

[Will]

But most importantly, he played Amazing Larry in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, a part

[Will Friedle]

that is only mentioned once by name and shown for three seconds when Pee Wee angrily asked him, is there something you want to share with the rest of us? Amazing Larry.

[Will]

And he's shown with a ridiculous rainbow mohawk that never shown or mentioned again. Great little cameo. Unfortunately passed away in 2021. But amazing Larry will live on forever.

[Will Friedle]

One thing we don't want to live on forever though. A movie we hear at Magical rewind like a 90 minute film even when there are very successful blockbusters. And so did they shrink this movie or they blow it up? Well, it comes in at 93 minutes. We now have to acknowledge that this film is three minutes off target on

[Will]

the wrong side of history. Not happy about that. But I admit I don't give a It was great.

[Will Friedle]

It could have even been 94 and I wouldn't have said anything about it. Yeah, on the writing side of things,

[Will]

since this movie went through a few iterations, it is a very crowded house.

[Will Friedle]

We have story credits by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, weirdly a cult horror

[Will]

duo with credits like Reanimator, Great Movie and Body Snatchers.

[Will Friedle]

Then we have screenplay by Tom Schulman, an Oscar winning writer for Dead Poets

[Will]

Society with Robin Williams.

[Will Friedle]

He also wrote what About Bob? Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag and Holy man with Eddie Murphy. Murphy.

[Will]

Some great films.

[Will Friedle]

And he shared his credit with Ed Naha, the writer behind Chud 2 Bud.

[Will]

The Chud. I swear to God I did not make that up. And the TV show, the Adventures of Sinbad.

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[Will Friedle]

So everybody, let's take a bite from the gigantic cookie and study for French class.

[Will]

This is Honey I Shrunk the Kids Now.

[Will Friedle]

A very common way to start an 80s film and it's been a while since we've seen this trend was to open the movie with animation or stop motion.

[Will]

Some of the more classic examples of this are better off City Slickers and Problem Child. It's almost like its own animated series for the credits.

[Will Friedle]

And Honey I Shrunk the Kids is a perfect example.

[Will]

We see the actors names amongst animation of a small boy and girl trying

[Will Friedle]

to avoid the names, then flying in a paper airplane, then becoming a flea and a dog. And this had me thinking the movie could have been a pretty good Saturday morning cartoon. Once the cartoon ends and the cartoon

[Will]

kids get sealed in a letter, we

[Will Friedle]

enter live action and see a mailman delivering parcels in a suburban neighborhood.

[Will]

He stops at the Zelinski house and

[Will Friedle]

hands the little family dog Quark a letter. The dog runs inside where it's breakfast time and teenage daughter Amy is gossiping on the phone. Her little brother Nick is working on a science project waiting for food. This is when Amy reveals their parents got into a fight last night and

[Will]

her mom stayed at their grandma's.

[Will Friedle]

Hey Amy, maybe keep your family stuff to yourself. Just saying, maybe nobody's business. Amy, let's work this out as a

[Will]

family as the Zelinskis.

[Will Friedle]

She'll be back home in the afternoon from work, though. She then presses a button that reads breakfast and it starts a chain reaction leading us to an attic lab, where we meet quirky inventor and dad, Wayne Zelensky. He's wielding a huge laser, a real one, not like the little toy that

[Will]

his son Nick is holding.

[Will Friedle]

But when he sees the breakfast button has been pressed, he tells his kids

[Will]

he'll be down in five minutes. Minutes.

[Will Friedle]

Over at the neighbor's house, Russell big Russ Thompson Sr. Is awoken by Zelensky and the laser. So he begrudgingly gets out of bed and yells out the window, zelensky, give it a rest. It's Saturday. When the noises don't stop, he rushes outside and hits a trip wire from

[Will]

his son Ron's booby trap, shooting a

[Will Friedle]

rubber arrow with super glue right onto his forehead.

[Will]

And they've quickly rushed inside to remove it.

[Will Friedle]

Meanwhile, back at the Zelensky's, young Nick enters his dad's lab despite signs telling him to keep out. Wayne is still working on the huge project and Nick tries to tell his dad about his mini laser. But his dad is just too busy to care. Nick leaves disappointed. Alone again, Zielinski turns on the machine while the laser is pointing at an apple. He attempts to shrink the fruit, but instead it explodes.

[Will]

He notes, hey, at least it's an interesting way to make applesauce.

[Will Friedle]

Back at the Thompsons, Big Russ asks

[Will]

his oldest son, Little Russ, if he's

[Will Friedle]

ready for their big fishing trip. Little Russ is, in fact, not at all excited. As he retreats to his bedroom, it's revealed that he was cut from the football team for being too small. Big Russ is mad, but his wife warns him emotionally, he's making his son feel even smaller.

[Will]

Big Russ thinks if he wants to feel big, he should start acting big. A lot of size stuff in this movie.

[Will Friedle]

And next door, Amy has burnt breakfast for her brother and dad. Not even the dog wants it, but I thought pretty nice that she's there making breakfast for everybody. Wayne says he's got the laser working, but there are a few more bugs that need to be ironed out. He's late for a conference, so he rushes out the door. But his wife Diane calls the house

[Will]

phone and he jumps on it quickly.

[Will Friedle]

She called to wish him good luck at the conference and tells him she'll be home this afternoon to talk. He says as things go well at the conference, everything for the family will change. He hangs up and tells the kids to clean up the house and mow

[Will]

the lawn before their mom gets home. In the backyard now, Nick offers his

[Will Friedle]

friend Tommy the chance to cut the

[Will]

grass with a remote control lawnmower. And an excited Tommy says he'll be back to do it later.

[Will Friedle]

Meanwhile, Big Russ is going outside and going over the fishing trip checklist. Ron asks his dad to play baseball, but Big Russ isn't interested. Defeated. What? Which I. I found a little weird.

[Will]

I get it. But it's like you've got one kid you're forcing into sports and another kid who wants to play sports with you, and you're like, don't have the time, right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

Which was weird.

[Will Friedle]

Defeated, Ron walks outside and sees Nick in the Zelinsky's yard with an odd

[Will]

vacuum, then bullies him. Big Russ then yells out for help packing up his car.

[Will Friedle]

So while Little Russ carries things to the rv, he seems to Amy dancing in the kitchen. Oh.

[Will]

Big Russ notices Little Russ was ogling

[Will Friedle]

at Amy and turns it into a pep talk about his size and football career. He Challenges him to take. I imagine it's steroids. If he works out for three months on them, he'll be running faster and hitting harder than anyone on the team. Did you get that vibe that it

[Sabrina Bryant]

was like, Yes, I. That it's in my. Sabrina sees, like, did his dad just encourage him to, like, take supplement?

[Will Friedle]

Seem like it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

What's going on here? Disney.

[Will]

I know, I know. Again.

[Will Friedle]

Well, steroids. Little Russ says weights aren't his thing, but we'll keep him posted.

[Will]

But either way, he's being forced still to go on this fishing trip. Now, outside, Big Russ doesn't know what

[Will Friedle]

he's doing wrong with his son. He pops a cigarette in his mouth. Smoking.

[Will]

In a Disney movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

In a Disney movie. Twice. Twice.

[Will]

Well, that was.

[Will Friedle]

The thing is, I thought when he popped it in, then spits it out,

[Will]

I thought, okay, he's never gonna actually light it. But then he did.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And then he did.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I was amazed.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

Yeah. So his wife walks out, he spits

[Will Friedle]

out the cigarette, they continue to load

[Will]

the car, and Ron starts to play baseball by himself, eventually hitting the ball

[Will Friedle]

right into Zielinski's attic lab, shattering a window in the process. It hits the machine and as a result, turns on the laser, eventually making

[Will]

a sofa disappear, unknown to the results, of course, Little Russ grabs his little brother and drags him over to the

[Will Friedle]

Zelensky's to rat him out. When Nick and Amy answer the door, Little Russ fumbles to get the words out, but eventually explains that Ron will

[Will]

use his own allowance to fix the attic window. Amy tells Nick to take Ron upstairs to get the ball and clean up the mess. Now, alone, little Russ admits he likes

[Will Friedle]

Amy's dancing, which is exactly what a stalker would say. And once Nick and it was like, oh, creepy vibes.

[Will]

I've been watching you dance through the window.

[Will Friedle]

A little creepy, but they're kids.

[Will]

It's fine. I don't care.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, it doesn't matter. It's cute. He just has such a big crush on him.

[Will]

I know, I know.

[Will Friedle]

And he's a cute kid.

[Will]

Come on.

[Will Friedle]

Cute Disney kid.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

And she was adorable, by the way.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

And once Nick and Ron walk into the attic, the laser zaps directly at the boys and we hear a scream. We're now at the science conference. Wayne Zelensky is lecturing about how to

[Will]

shrink things, but people are leaving in droves.

[Will Friedle]

One professor in the audience asks for proof. The only thing he managed to shrink is the audience. Then everyone leaves, except one guy, his

[Will]

friend, Dr. Brainard, aka Amazing Larry, who Encourages him to keep going.

[Will Friedle]

We're now back at the Zelinskis. I gotta keep saying Zielinskis. Back at the Zelinskis, Amy and little

[Will]

Russ are wondering what's taking Nick and Ron so long.

[Will Friedle]

So they head upstairs to the attic. And when the boys are nowhere to be found, the laser goes off again. Now shrinking Amy and making him littler

[Will]

Russ, thank you very much.

[Will Friedle]

They're all truly tiny. Crates look huge.

[Will]

The ceilings are so high and the cracks in the floor look like massive fault lines. Amy is of course confused, but they

[Will Friedle]

quickly find Nikki and Ron. They are the size of, well, boogers.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Then Quark, funny line. We're the size of boogers.

[Will Friedle]

It's true too. Then Quark starts barking and it's ear piercingly loud.

[Will]

They also find the couch we saw

[Will Friedle]

disappear and it's also tiny. Then, just in time, Wayne returns home. And Quark leads Wayne upstairs to show

[Will]

that the attic door is open.

[Will Friedle]

When he enters, the laser almost zaps him. But he doesn't see anything out of the ordinary. The kids are screaming at him, but he can't hear them.

[Will]

He tries sitting on the couch and

[Will Friedle]

falls to the floor instead, creating an earthquake for the kids. And bewildered, his couch is gone. He notices the broken glass window. The kids also see a dead fly, which to them is the size of a dinosaur. Okay, now this is where the logic

[Will]

gets me a little bit. And I'm sorry, I am going to point out some things, even though I still love this.

[Will Friedle]

I assume he thinks the laser broke the window and is still so mad about the conference, so he decides to destroy the machine. Is that right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Well, I feel like he's just at

[Will]

the end of his.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Defeated from the conference, end of his role. He's just defeated and he's just. And him and his wife have been at odds because. Because of him being consumed and that was it. I don't really know if. Because that was one of the things I was putting. Like, where did the ball go?

[Will Friedle]

Like, where was it?

[Will]

It. It fl.

[Will Friedle]

It flew in, hit the machine, hit a bunch of things, but didn't. It landed in front of the laer.

[Will]

It did.

[Will Friedle]

It landed in front of the laser.

[Will]

The laser blocked it. But then it fell off when it moved again, which is why it didn't turn on again when Zelensky came in, I believe.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Isn't that what it was? I think.

[Will]

I think that's what happened. I'm pretty sure.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, I kind of was like, yeah, where did the ball go? Like, I think that's how did he not see that? The ball, like, that's the thing.

[Will]

It's because he didn't see it. It fell and it rolled onto the ground.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I'm pretty sure got it. Okay.

[Will]

Pretty sure that's what happened.

[Will Friedle]

Pieces of the machine are flying everywhere, forcing the kids to run around, dodging

[Will]

what to them is huge debris.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne eventually picks up a broom to sweep away the shards, and now the kids are terrified, sprinting away from the massive bristles. Despite their best efforts, they do get stuck in the broom, pushed into a dustpan, and dumped into the trash. Clueless, Wayne ties up the trash bag

[Will]

and throws it outside in the backyard. And even that, just like, here we go with the big screws coming at them and the broom bristles coming. It's like, we are in this world now, and I'm here for it, especially at 13.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So cool. It's just, like, giant, you know, and totally cool. It's awesome to look at it now and, like, and see the way that they filmed it. I really liked going, okay, that makes sense. Wow, that was smart. Or, you know what I mean? Like, that was very cool to do.

[Will]

And you see, I know that you must have, as a kid actor, you must have gone to the set and then been like, oh, we're shooting the giant broom scene today.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

All right, here it is, everybody. We got the puppet tree going in, giant broom bristles. Everybody grab on.

[Will]

It must have just been so much fun.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my God.

[Will Friedle]

So much fun.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh. Yes.

[Will]

So much fun.

[Will Friedle]

That's the other cool thing about practical effects.

[Will]

You know, you look at. I go back to Star Wars. You look at the 1, 2, and 3, the prequels of Star wars and the actors, and you see the behind the scenes, and it's literally them in their outfits in a giant green screen. That's all it is. And then you see even the newer ones are the older ones where they're actually sitting in, like, the Millennium Falcon and stuff like that. And it's like, oh, so much better for actors and so much more fun.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne returns to the house, and we hear the kids yelling from inside the trash bag, eventually cutting through it to reveal what looks like a jungle. They quickly realize it's the backyard. Amy's still hoping her dad can fix this. They just have to get back to the house. Ron slides down a piece of grass

[Will]

like it's a water slide, hoping to get next door and still go fishing. Little Russ slides down next, then Nikki, then Amy.

[Will Friedle]

Once amongst the scary grass, they hear a butterfly hovering overhead. And find cover under a mushroom.

[Will]

Then, back on the walk to the

[Will Friedle]

house, Nikki realizes that they are 64ft

[Will]

away, which is the equivalent to about 3.2 miles. They better get moving. And I love how he's the smart kid who's figuring all this out.

[Will Friedle]

I know, it's great. Meanwhile, in the front of the house,

[Will]

Diane returns home and tells Wayne she sold a house.

[Will Friedle]

He admits the conference went poorly and

[Will]

says he's just going to try to get his old job back.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne says he hasn't seen the kids

[Will]

since the morning, and Diane assumes, like

[Will Friedle]

all kids in 1989, they went to the mall. Wayne also reveals that his quote unquote

[Will]

thinking couch is gone.

[Will Friedle]

We're now back in the grass. The kids are still pushing their way

[Will]

through the jungle, and I'm starting to realize why. This movie is almost called the Big Backyard, which isn't an awful title, but

[Will Friedle]

not as good as. They run into one of Ricky's lost toy dinosaurs, which is now huge, and they end up at a dirty puddle that's the size of a river.

[Will]

Once they see a dead bee floating

[Will Friedle]

by, they refuse to swim in it. Then Nick has an idea. They're going to whistle for Quark, then ride him to the house.

[Will]

Kind of brilliant idea.

[Will Friedle]

Nick suggests that they get higher up, so they attempt to climb up on top of a flower, which seems as

[Will]

high as a skyscraper.

[Will Friedle]

We're now in the Zelensky's kitchen. Diane's on the phone with Amy's friend's parents, realizing her kids are nowhere to be found. Quark is barking at the backyard, though, so Wayne lets him out and wonders

[Will]

if maybe the kids are at the

[Will Friedle]

Thompsons and in the grass. Quark finally arrives from the whistling, and he is huge. But just as things are looking up, the Thompson's cat jumps onto the fence and chases Quark back inside. Then Nick falls off the flower right into a patch of pollen.

[Will]

His sister warns him he's allergic to pollen, but Nick says it's too big to breathe in. And then he sneezes. And now, in regular sized life, Mrs.

[Will Friedle]

Thompson, still getting ready for camping, asks Diane if she's seen Ronnie or Russell.

[Will]

And now they realize all their kids are missing.

[Will Friedle]

They'll let each other know if they hear anything. Back in the grass, the kids hear

[Will]

a swarm of bees. And this is a true nightmare for tiny people stuck in a backyard. One bee grabs a hold of Nick and flies away.

[Will Friedle]

Ross jumps onto the bee to help, and now they're both hanging on for

[Will]

dear life as it flies through the backyard, weaving in and out of obstacles.

[Will Friedle]

Terrified, Ron is blaming Amy's dad.

[Will]

This is all his fault.

[Will Friedle]

And now Diane is obviously getting nervous. She's going to run to the mall and try to find the kids. She tells Wayne to stay at the house in case they come back.

[Will]

Also, the Borensteins might stop by for the escrow papers.

[Will Friedle]

And now Big Russ thinks it's the perfect time to tell his neighbor Wayne that his lawn is beginning to look like the Amazon. As they chat, the bee carrying Nick

[Will]

and Russ flies right in front of

[Will Friedle]

Big Russ, then Wayne, who both try

[Will]

to swat the bee, which in essence, would kill their children.

[Will Friedle]

The bee crashes back to the grass,

[Will]

tossing the two boys off.

[Will Friedle]

Now alone and split up, Amy motivates

[Will]

Ron to get back to walking. Wayne notices he's using a baseball bat from their backyard to swat at the bee.

[Will Friedle]

And Nick. Well, he doesn't play baseball.

[Will]

He looks at the broken window upstairs

[Will Friedle]

and starts putting two and two together.

[Will]

And two and two equals tiny, miniature little children. He rushes to the attic. He accidentally steps on a miniature sized

[Will Friedle]

chair, then bends down and notices his tiny couch. Wait a minute.

[Will]

It worked.

[Will Friedle]

His laser worked.

[Will]

Wow. But oh no. He realizes he may have shrunk the kids.

[Will Friedle]

Hey, wait. It's a good title for the movie. He bumps into the broom and panics. Did he sweep them up and throw them in the trash? Yeah, he did.

[Will]

We saw.

[Will Friedle]

He rushes into the backyard and he sees the tear in the trash bag

[Will]

and is now convinced he shrunk the

[Will Friedle]

kids tiptoeing through the backyard so he doesn't step on anyone. He decides to climb along the fence instead. And Mrs. Thompson watches her from his

[Will]

window, confused, thinking he's probably on drugs.

[Will Friedle]

In the grass, Ron is trying to

[Will]

wake Nick up after falling off the bee.

[Will Friedle]

They have no idea where they are,

[Will]

assuming they're still in the Zelensky's backyard.

[Will Friedle]

Worth noting here that Russ is also now bleeding from the mouth. So they're showing that it has gotten pretty serious. Elsewhere, Ron is going off on Amy

[Will]

about how her dad will probably go

[Will Friedle]

to jail for this. Amy thinks the opposite. They're going to be rich because the machine worked. Then Ron instantly changes his tune. He wants in on this grift. Also in the backyard, Wayne is now using crutches as stilts with binoculars on him, trying to find the kids. And of course, the logic question is, wouldn't the crutches crush them too?

[Sabrina Bryant]

This, it's just a. A smaller possible crushing. Yeah, they're like, yeah, I feel like it's like instead of his shoe now it's like a small, you know, quarter size dot. But still it was funny. I.

[Will]

This is my.

[Sabrina Bryant]

These. This his whole shtick that he does from doing the. The side yard like tiptoe on. On the fence to this. So then when it gets. Gets to the next part with him, it was great. I remember being like, he's so cool. Like this is. That is such a good idea.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Will]

He's the best. He is the best lover.

[Sabrina Bryant]

His little inventions.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, they're great.

[Will]

I love that.

[Will Friedle]

What was the other movie we saw

[Will]

where you thought that's how you delivered the newspapers with the. The kids and the kids in foster care. That same guy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Love that stuff. I live where.

[Will]

Yep, it's so true.

[Will Friedle]

He then accidentally gets caught on a hose, causing the sprinkler system to go off. And now Amy and Ron are dodging

[Will]

massive raindrops that would probably drown them. They run to find shelter, as does Nick and Russ, who are indeed in the backyard.

[Will Friedle]

Still, Wayne does end up losing his balance and falls onto a clothing line

[Will]

holding onto it to avoid hitting the grass.

[Will Friedle]

And as all this is happening, Diane's clients, the Borensteins, have arrived for the escrow papers. Wayne screams at them to get off

[Will]

the grass and he looks insane.

[Will Friedle]

And we're now in the grass while dodging the chubby rain.

[Will]

I see you, Jensen. I see what you did there. Do you know what you get? Chubby rain.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's from Bowfinger.

[Will]

It's from the movie Bowfinger. Great film.

[Will Friedle]

Amy finally spots Nick just as she's hit with water and falls off a ledge. Russ dives into the mud to save her and eventually is able to pull

[Will]

her out, but she is not breathing.

[Will Friedle]

Russ gives her mouth to mouth and

[Will]

she eventually comes back to life.

[Will Friedle]

We're now at the mall, which is

[Will]

what we used to call a large

[Will Friedle]

center of commerce for our younger listeners. Diane is using the payphone, which is

[Will]

what we used to call.

[Will Friedle]

You know what?

[Will]

It's too hard to explain. Sorry, kids. Google it.

[Will Friedle]

Ask chatgpt. Anyway, she calls Wayne, but he isn't answering because he's floating over the lawn in a makeshift apparatus that allows him to hover and look for his tiny kids.

[Will]

Great idea.

[Will Friedle]

Over at the Thompson's house, the parents are still wondering where their kids are. An RV pulls up and it's Don and Floria Forrester, the family they're supposed to go fishing with. Russ regrettably tells his best pal Don he doesn't think they can go anymore. And Floria spots the neighbor Wayne, in a very odd contraption. She's curious and assumes he's flying.

[Will]

Meanwhile, Don is upset and tells Russ

[Will Friedle]

if they're not there by six, he'll lose his $80 deposit. So Russ lies and tells them that May isn't feeling well. It's her plumbing.

[Will]

So he sells her out and says she has the shits.

[Will Friedle]

Also $80 deposit.

[Will]

You couldn't go see this movie with a family for $80 nowadays.

[Will Friedle]

I know. God. Remember back in the day? He tells Don to hook a big

[Will]

one for him and sadly walks away.

[Will Friedle]

The Foresters head out as Russ returns

[Will]

home and tells May the kids because he lost his 80 bucks, we are

[Will Friedle]

now back in the grass. Amy thanks Russ for taking care of Nick and saving her life. Russ says he learned CPR in French

[Will]

class, and Amy likes that joke. Nick, of course, doesn't get it.

[Will Friedle]

The kids think they're halfway to the house, there or thereabouts, and continue to trek, daydreaming about food. Then they run into one of Nick's cookies, now the size of a house.

[Will]

They start pulling off chunks and chomping away.

[Will Friedle]

But guess who's also eating the cookie? A massive anti.

[Will]

The kids scream and hide under some leaves.

[Will Friedle]

And I think I forgot what happens

[Will]

next until I saw the ant and I was like, oh, I remember this getting really sad.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, yeah. Same, same.

[Will]

Yes. Yes, it was awful. Oh, my God. Yes. Absolutely.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I did, too. I completely forgot about that part. And I was like, me too. Wow. Was that necessary?

[Will]

No, it is. It is. But anyway. The kids scream and hide under some

[Will Friedle]

leaves, but Nick has an ide. Since ants are fast and this one

[Will]

is just a baby.

[Will Friedle]

And of course, they've got to point out it's a baby, they could ride

[Will]

the ant back to the house.

[Will Friedle]

They try to mount the ant, but

[Will]

no one can stay on, especially when they are flung off, rodeo style.

[Will Friedle]

The ant eventually turns its attention to Amy, and she's able to finally wrangle the ant with a piece of cookie, now above the grass. Wayne continues his searching, now battling Quark,

[Will]

who is pulling on his rope.

[Will Friedle]

The dog spins Wayne around, making the rope tighter and tighter.

[Will]

So when Quark lets go, Russ spins

[Will Friedle]

extremely fast and is flung over the fence to his neighbor's yard.

[Will]

Hard. Russians.

[Will Friedle]

Russ sees him land in the pool

[Will]

and says, that man has serious problems in the grass.

[Will Friedle]

The kids have finally managed to ride the ant. They're teasing and motivating the ant with a piece of cookie hanging in front of them. And at this rate, they could be home by dinner.

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[Will Friedle]

the Zelinski's, Diane pulls up to see

[Will]

a police car outside the Thompson's home.

[Will Friedle]

She runs inside yelling for her family, but when no one responds, she picks

[Will]

up the phone and calls the police herself. At the Thompsons now, the police are there and they think there's nothing to worry about.

[Will Friedle]

Kids run away all the time and

[Will]

it's probably because of a spat about football. But Russ isn't buying that his kids are just runaways.

[Will Friedle]

The police return to their cars and notice another missing kid report from right next door. So we're at the Zelensky's now. Wayne shows Diane his tiny little couch, not a euphemism, and she realizes his invention worked. She's very excited for him and wonders

[Will]

if the kids know. He then says they do because he shrugged shrunk them and the Thompson kids and they're in the backyard and he threw them out.

[Will Friedle]

And just then the police arrive, asking Wayne and Diane if they reported kid missing. If they reported kids missing. Wayne tells them there must be a mistake. His kids are in the backyard.

[Will]

And then Diane faints. By the way, just for a medical point, you always faint forward. It's true.

[Will Friedle]

In the grass, the kids are still riding the ant, but it's getting tired. They probably won't make it home before dark after all. So they decide to let the ant go, thanking him and sending him on his way. And the ant goes off and lives a happy life.

[Will]

That's all we need to know. But of course, that's not what Happens.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No. What if they name the aunt? What was Auntie or Andy, Was it okay?

[Will]

But the aunt is still following them.

[Will Friedle]

And now it's nighttime and both. And then I got into my head, I'm like the ant following you. Because now your family, it doesn't know its own family.

[Angel]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I kept going. You never really see one ant. There's always more. Where are these other ants?

[Will Friedle]

Well, they mentioned that, though.

[Will]

They did. Which was the way that I thought the clever way of doing it was like, it's a scout. Which you do see one or two.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, yes.

[Will]

So if I ever find them in

[Sabrina Bryant]

the bathroom, scouts they are.

[Will Friedle]

Well, they are scouts.

[Will]

That's what they are.

[Will Friedle]

They are.

[Will]

So you kill the scout and you leave the scout's body there with a little sign saying, this is what we do to ants in this town. And then the other ants don't come back.

[Will Friedle]

It's like the Old West.

[Will]

Everybody knows that. That's what you do.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I was just thinking about. Oh, man, we're almost in ant season.

[Chiquis]

Ugh.

[Will]

Yeah. No, you gotta hate them. I know, I know. They're evil little creatures.

[Will Friedle]

They're not, actually.

[Will]

They're very cool and they're fun to

[Will Friedle]

watch, but not when they're in your home.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So annoying.

[Will]

I know.

[Will Friedle]

It doesn't mean they have to do what they did to Auntie. And now it is nighttime.

[Will]

Both Diane and Wayne are hovering over the yard, looking. Looking for the kids. They decide they have to tell the Thompsons. Just as Russ Senior walks out to

[Will Friedle]

have a cigarette, he sees the insanity

[Will]

happening next door, Lights his butt, takes a few puffs, then flicks the lit cigarette into the Zelinsky's yard.

[Will Friedle]

But as a result of the cigarette flick, it lands near the kids with ashes burning them.

[Will]

And the ant cool again. The effects aren't great, but it's still just so cool.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, the Thompsons thought their dad quit, but they know it's his brand.

[Will]

They realize it was my brand too, by the way.

[Will Friedle]

Although mine were lights. He was smoking filters. They realize they can use the cigarette

[Will]

to light torches to lead the way.

[Will Friedle]

So, yeah, honey, I shrunk the kids.

[Will]

Sponsored by Camel.

[Will Friedle]

And now in the lab, Mr. Thompson can't believe what he's hearing. May wants to know how this all happened.

[Will]

So Wayne shows him his tiny couch under the microscope. Again, not even Russ assumes it's. Sorry, just want to see.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Cut it out.

[Will]

Did you see Wayne's tiny couch?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my God.

[Will]

Thank you.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I won't.

[Will]

I won't do it anymore.

[Will Friedle]

I promise. Russ assumes it's doll furniture from the swap meet.

[Will]

I don't know who. What kind of doll is microscopic.

[Will Friedle]

But Wayne is positive he shrunk the kids. Russ calls him a nutcase and leaves. But back at the house, Russ wonders

[Will]

if Wayne was telling the truth.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It'd be a Polly pocket.

[Will Friedle]

Are that small?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah. And Polly pockets were big then.

[Will Friedle]

So, like. I mean, they're like. They're like an ant size Polly pocket. Yeah.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

You have like, she's tiny, and then her little couch and stuff that she sits on is. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

All right, fair enough. I stand corrected. I don't know why it would be

[Sabrina Bryant]

from like a. I don't know why the mention of, like, a swap meet, whatever.

[Will]

Maybe there's a lot of polygons.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The swap meets were big back then, too. Like, that was like a Saturday thing.

[Will]

I love a good swap meet.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Swap meets are great. The kids are making their way through the grass now with their cigarette lit lanterns guiding the way. It's true. It's true. Hey, they're using what they got.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

They find one of Nick's. And the thing that was interesting is they never noticed there's never open flame.

[Will]

It's just, like, glowing.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

They never actually light a fire. It's just like a glowy torch.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Which you think? I think probably one of the reasons they did that is because you would think if they lit a bunch of little flames, which would be the smart thing to do. Like, if I was them, I'm in

[Will]

the backyard, A cigarette lands. Oh, thank God.

[Will Friedle]

You go and you grab as much

[Will]

tinder as you possibly can, you put it in a pile, and you light it on fire. So you signal where you are to your dad.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Smoke signal. Yes.

[Will]

I mean, exactly. That's what I would do. You know, your dad's got to be looking for you, so you send up that fire as much as you can.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I'm right here. But at the same time, not move.

[Will Friedle]

I don't think I can always move.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Move.

[Will Friedle]

Always move.

[Sabrina Bryant]

If you're.

[Will]

If you're sitting, it's like, it's. Yeah, you got. You got to keep on the move. Gotta keep on.

[Will Friedle]

They eventually stumble on one of Nick's Legos to sleep in, but there's not

[Will]

enough room for Russ. Oh, that's how it starts. Yeah. Ain't enough room for Russ. So he takes the floor.

[Will Friedle]

He actually.

[Will]

He's a very gentlemanly about it. He takes the floor, and in the last ditch effort, he asks Amy if she'll be warm enough. But she just smiles and says good night.

[Will Friedle]

And now Wayne and Diane are outside sitting on the steps. She's scared.

[Will]

This is all their fault. Wayne says it's his fault, which, true,

[Will Friedle]

he should have been more careful. Diane knows they just got to get

[Will]

their family back together.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne promises to get the machine working

[Will]

again and tells her to get some sleep. But Diane can't sleep knowing her babies are out there.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne says they're fine because the Thompson boys are with them, and Amy hopes they behave. They're fine, the Thompson boys are with them. And of course, Diane hopes that they

[Will]

behave themselves with Amy. And right on cue, Amy and Russ are still awake.

[Will Friedle]

Amy wonders why Russ never came over before. He admits he wanted to, but assumes she was too popular to notice him.

[Will]

And I love this. She said she was too popular and stupid, then leans in and starts just making out with him.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And it was like, remember this kiss being.

[Will]

I don't either.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Graphic.

[Will Friedle]

This is a straight up with Christy Carlson.

[Will]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Will Friedle]

High school makeup kiss.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh my God. What's going on?

[Will Friedle]

French kissing from French class. No, this is a. This might be. And again, this was not a dcom. So different category, right.

[Will]

80s different category.

[Will Friedle]

But this might be.

[Will]

Of all the movies we've seen, this is probably up there with Christie, if not more so.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, more so than Kristy, honestly.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, I think so too. Bigger, more passionate.

[Will]

Yeah. This is a full on screen kiss right there.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. Each other before on screen. Are you good with tongue? They were like, yeah, I'm good with tongue.

[Will]

Excuse me. This was the 80s. You didn't ask. Your director came over and said kiss and that's what you did.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And you just did. Oh, wow.

[Will]

It was. It wasn't until the early 90s when we started asking. Yep.

[Will Friedle]

And as Amy and Russ are kissing, a stop motion Harryhausen style scorpion appears.

[Will]

And again brought me right back to Clash of the Titans.

[Will Friedle]

Everyone screams and tries to get away, but Ron is trapped inside the Lego. And this was genuinely terrifying for if you were a little kid watching this movie. My God.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Hell yeah. Oh my gosh.

[Will Friedle]

Crazy. And that's when their ant friend jumps into action and attacks the scorpion. They get into a no holds barred insect royal rumble. As the group runs for safety, Ron demands they help the ant. He's just a baby. They have to point out. He's just a baby again.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Again. I know.

[Will Friedle]

So as the ant is pinned down, the kids start throwing stuff at the scorpion, giving the ant some time to get away. They pelt the scorpion with rocks and javelins until he scurries off, but they catch up with the ant, who's doing his best to recover because he was stabbed by the scorpion. Ron then holds and rubs his slimy little head, and then he dies.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He dies, guys.

[Will]

He dies.

[Will Friedle]

It's so sad.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It was so sad, dude.

[Will Friedle]

It was.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I'm not even kidding, 100%. I think I lied earlier. I forgot. Up until this point, I forgot that the ant died.

[Will Friedle]

I remembered when I saw the ant,

[Sabrina Bryant]

and I was like, oh, my God, this little baby. I didn't remember. I think I lied earlier. I think I might have said that. But when it happened, like when the. When the scorpion came, I went, oh, I forgot. I forgot. No.

[Will]

Oh, man.

[Will Friedle]

So horrible. And it really.

[Will]

It gets you right, Right in the microscopic couch. It just hits you because. Yeah, it's. Ooh, it was tough.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It was sad.

[Will Friedle]

At the Zelinski's, it is now very early morning, but who cares?

[Will]

Auntie's dead.

[Will Friedle]

Wayne has been up all night fixing the machine. And in the grass, the kids are

[Will]

just waking up from a nice, sound sleep after killing their friend, but they're sleeping in a Lego.

[Will Friedle]

Meanwhile, Diane walks through the attic to

[Will]

find Wayne to sleep.

[Will Friedle]

She recognizes how hard he's been working

[Will]

and tells him that she loves him. It seems like the family's gonna be okay.

[Will Friedle]

And then, in a plot point that

[Will]

you've definitely forgotten because we all have,

[Will Friedle]

Tommy arrives on his skateboard to mow the lawn, as promised. Remember that guy? No. Okay, well, he's there. And he still throws on his headphones and gets to work with the remote

[Will]

control lawnmower in the grass. And clueless to the visitor, the kids hear a buzz. The ground starts to shake.

[Will Friedle]

The kids can hardly stand up. It's an earthquake. Wait, no. It's even worse.

[Will]

It's a lawnmower. Tommy's having a blast with the futuristic

[Will Friedle]

tool and just misses running over all of them. The kids are sprinting around the backyard

[Will]

as everything around them is being chopped

[Will Friedle]

up and sucked up and eventually retreat

[Will]

into a tunnel, which Nick recognizes as

[Will Friedle]

a burrow built by an earthworm. In the lab, Diane and Wayne are now working on the machine together until she hears something, and she wonders if it's a chainsaw, but Wayne knows it sounds like a. A lawnmower. And they run outside screaming together for Tommy to stop. And he does finally stop with the lawnmower just above the kid's wormhole.

[Will]

This, of course, makes it even worse.

[Will Friedle]

Nick starts to get sucked up, holding on by just a small root very

[Will]

close to the mower's blades.

[Will Friedle]

Diane and Wayne are furiously trying to

[Will]

get Tommy to shut the mower off,

[Will Friedle]

but he can't really hear them thanks to the headphones. Eventually, all the kids get sucked up. But instead of being chopped into pieces, Diane and Wayne turn off the remote control at the last second, now throwing everyone to another part of the backyard

[Will]

as the engine finally shuts down. What did you think of this whole holding each other kind of.

[Will Friedle]

It was crazy. I.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, I would. This was. Was just another cool part that I was like, this movie was so cool, especially when I was little. I was like, I mean, even though this was scary, this was the scary part of it. Like, you literally think he's going to die. Auntie has just died. So all bets are off.

[Will Friedle]

Disney Channel movie you've showed us. You'll kill people, bro.

[Sabrina Bryant]

We are definitely getting people out of this movie. So, I mean, it just. This was the scary part, but this was so, so cool. And I love. Then we've got another invention. I'm like loving the remote, going, why do they have remote lawnmowers? They should.

[Will Friedle]

I think they kind of do now. I think they have the equivalent of

[Will]

like a Roomba, but for your lawn. So like you just leave it in a robot, like an eye lawn mower kind of thing.

[Will Friedle]

Pretty sure they do.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay.

[Will]

I'm in Southern California where I have

[Sabrina Bryant]

no lawn, so we have turf.

[Will]

We don't even have that. We just do. We have rocks and desert places, plans.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, really? Okay.

[Will]

Though alive.

[Will Friedle]

Everyone is banged up as Nick peeks

[Will]

out from the patch of grass.

[Will Friedle]

He sees his mom and dad still searching the backyard. The kids all scream, but neither Diane nor Wayne can hear them. And they eventually walk back into the house.

[Will]

Nick is devastated and crying.

[Will Friedle]

They were so close. Amy comforts him, promising they'll be safe.

[Will]

By the way, we. We haven't talked about this. All of the kids in this movie, everyone in this movie, but especially the kids.

[Will Friedle]

They're great.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No good.

[Will Friedle]

They're all. So the casting is wonderful. They're all good. You buy them all. The adults are all good. It's the right level of sentimental and cheesy and kids movie and physical comedy and real threats and really being in peril. It's just really good.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I love the relationship. Amy is so protective of her little brother. The other two boys, they seemed like a real brother duo, you know what I mean?

[Will]

And holding his little brother accountable for

[Will Friedle]

breaking the window and everything.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. I mean, was that a. Was that a way to get to some FaceTime with Amy, but I'm okay with that.

[Will Friedle]

Who cares? Yeah, you can have. Two things can be true. Two things can be true. Two things can be true.

[Will]

It was. No, this. The. The cast was really, really wonderful. The young cast, especially. Just really wonderful. And again, I was going to say Roberto Olivera as a joke, but no, Roberto Laveri. I'm getting it right this time. As opposed to being 11. He killed it in this movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He killed it.

[Will]

Absolutely killed it in this movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He did.

[Will]

And I don't understand why. And it could have just been his choice because he retired in 92, so only three years after this movie. After doing the next one, he must have just said, I don't want to do this anymore, because, man, did he have the talent to keep.

[Will Friedle]

And the looks, the cute kid.

[Sabrina Bryant]

He was so cute.

[Will]

Yes, Absolutely.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will]

Amy comforts him, promising they'll be safe,

[Will Friedle]

just as panic starts to kick in. Quark's big nose starts to sniff around. The kids grab onto his fur, and

[Will]

Amy screams for the dog to go inside and find her dad, which he does. This might actually work, but when they

[Will Friedle]

get closer to the back door, the

[Will]

Thompson's cat is waiting for them again. Unlike their last encounter, though, instead of

[Will Friedle]

running away, Quark just growls. And just like that, the cat retreats.

[Will]

And now there's a clear path to home.

[Will Friedle]

Quark runs right up to Wayne, who's

[Will]

eating breakfast at the kitchen table to alert him of the situation.

[Will Friedle]

Nick loses grip on the fur and falls right into his dad's bowl of cereal. He ends up on the spoon, but just before he's placed into his dad's mouth, Quark bites Wayne's leg. And even though I knew it was

[Will]

gonna happen, I was on the edge of my seat.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I know.

[Will Friedle]

No, don't eat him. Another.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like, think of the set like, another. The set where he's diving into, like. It had to have been milk, right? Like, yeah. I mean, it.

[Will]

I mean, it was probably just white water, so it looked better on the thing. They did some. Some movie magic.

[Will Friedle]

But the giant Cheerio.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I had to. I had to jump into milk before I had to jump into milk. A commercial for one Saturday morning. We all, like, jumped in, like. And it was like, the camera was high. We were jumping in this giant tub of. Of milk.

[Will]

Was it for, like, a Got Milk

[Will Friedle]

campaign or something like that?

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, it was just like, they. We were just like.

[Will Friedle]

It was.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It ended up being colored in the, like, actual. What they actually ended up doing. But, yeah. So crazy. It was all milk. Like, this is the most milk I've ever seen.

[Will Friedle]

This is a lot of milk.

[Will]

A lot of milk.

[Will Friedle]

A lot of milk.

[Will]

But yeah, totally cool.

[Will Friedle]

Those startled at first. This is when we Wayne finally sees Nick on a spoon. And now he sees all the kids. And as the kids hug, Diane rushes

[Will]

to get the Thompsons.

[Will Friedle]

We cut to the attic where everyone

[Will]

is hoping the machine will work, but

[Will Friedle]

it just keeps blowing up.

[Will]

An apple. The Thompsons are getting restless. Just as Diane notices the kids are trying to tell them something. They're acting out something.

[Will Friedle]

Baseball. Wayne figures out it's the laser. The ball came through the window and activated the machine and it got in the path of the laser. Why didn't he think of this before? Nick again has saved the day.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Day.

[Will Friedle]

But Big Russ isn't comfortable trying that machine on his kids.

[Will]

Fair.

[Will Friedle]

Until they test it on something living first.

[Will]

Again, fair.

[Will Friedle]

Quark knows where this is going, so he runs out of the room. Very cute. Wayne thinks he should test it on

[Will]

himself, but Big Russ volunteers. He kisses his wife and assumes the

[Will Friedle]

position as Wayne activates the laser. And just like that, he shrunk down

[Will]

to smaller than an inch. Then quickly brought back to regular size.

[Will Friedle]

Great Scott.

[Will]

He's got it.

[Will Friedle]

The kids are next.

[Will]

Strangely though, and this is a fun little thing, Russ's hat is a little big on him now.

[Will Friedle]

And while they're waiting to be saved, Little Russ asks Amy if this works, will she go to the dance with him on Friday?

[Will]

She smiles and says she'd love to. They hold hands and await the laser. Super cute. It heats up, then eventually zaps them.

[Will Friedle]

And the kids have returned to their normal sizes. They all hug and it also seems

[Will]

like the Zelinski marriage has been saved. As the families regroup, Big Ross offers Wayne a handshake.

[Will Friedle]

It's time they put the past behind

[Will]

them and celebrate as the neighbors.

[Will Friedle]

And celebrate they do, because it is suddenly Thanksgiving. The Thompsons and the Zelinsky's are eating together and cheers to many more dinners as families.

[Will]

The turkey is huge, the size of

[Will Friedle]

the entire table clearly blown up by Wayne's machine. And again, that alone shows you. I mean the.

[Will]

The man has literally just solved world hunger.

[Will Friedle]

I mean, think about it.

[Will]

He just solved world hunger.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I you instantly start going like, what would you do with this laser now? Like, what are you gonna do with it?

[Will Friedle]

I don't remember.

[Will]

And people will write in because I'm sure they do. I don't remember the next one. I don' Honey, we I. I blew up baby.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think is an Estate I don't remember.

[Will Friedle]

Me too. And I can't remember our.

[Will]

Because how they would not come back and have him be a billionaire at this point, I don't understand. Like, I don't know if he's rich or maybe he gave it to the world, I don't know. But he's obviously just changed the world forever.

[Will Friedle]

Well, I mean, think about it.

[Will]

Exactly what he was talking about.

[Will Friedle]

Think about taking every major cargo ship

[Will]

on the ocean and shrinking it to this big and then flying it somewhere and you could fit a thousand of them on a plane. A hundred thousand of them on a plane and you've just shipped everything with the cost of one flight as opposed to all. I mean, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Think about just.

[Will]

It's amazing.

[Sabrina Bryant]

You could get amazing things it could do. It'd be so crazy.

[Will]

Incredible. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So the turkeys decides.

[Will]

The entire table blown up by the machine. Amy and Russ are playing footsies under

[Will Friedle]

the table and Quark is nibbling on

[Will]

a massive laser enhanced dog treat.

[Will Friedle]

And then as they dig in, Nick finally gets it. French class. And he starts laughing. What a callback.

[Will]

And that is our movie

[Will Friedle]

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[Listener Eva Longoria]

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[Sabrina Bryant]

the house last night and he got back to me super quick.

[Will Friedle]

See, that's the premier host move right there.

[Listener Eva Longoria]

I wish I had had a premier group chat.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I asked them where we should have

[Listener Eva Longoria]

dinner last night and they left me on red.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I know you saw it.

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It says it.

[Will]

Classic group chat move.

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[Will Friedle]

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[Freddie Prinze Jr.]

Hey, I'm Freddie Prinze Jr. And I talk a lot about twists, turns and the unexpected moments that happened inside the ring on Wrestling with Fred. But the one thing I've learned, never turn your back on your opponents in the ring unless you have your tag partner with you. It helps to have backup, like real life backup. The kind you can call when life throws you something unexpected. That's when I recommend you reach out to your State Farm agent. They can help you choose the coverage you need before anything happens. And they're ready to help you file a claim when it does. When it's something out of the ordinary or just part of everyday life life. It's good to know someone's in your corner. Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. And thanks to State Farm support of Michael Tura Podcast Network, you can catch new episodes of Wrestling with Freddy wherever you listen to podcasts.

[Will Friedle]

Sabrina, can we do some real reviews?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yay. Yes. This week I have the 5 star from Ava S bro

[Will Friedle]

bro.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I low key love this movie. We watched it in school and I think it's just a wonderful movie.

[Will Friedle]

There we go.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Thanks Ava.

[Will]

Five stars Bro.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Bro.

[Will Friedle]

I have the one star and it's our old friend.

[Will]

Unamit is back again and Unamit is not happy this time.

[Will Friedle]

Unamit left one star.

[Will]

He is pissed.

[Will Friedle]

Disney. How could you make a piece of garbage like this. The acting is poor, the kids are annoying, and it's wasted potential for a great comedic genius like Rick Moranis. It's possibly one of the worst performances I've seen in a talented comedian. Plus, the visual effects are cheesy and completely dated. I was bored out of my life.

[Will]

It may have had its fans, but

[Will Friedle]

I'm not one of them. One star unamid. I say this for everyone else out there.

[Will]

Go yourself.

[Will Friedle]

And now is our feature Are Shrunk Kings.

[Will]

Okay, I don't know this one for Honey.

[Will Friedle]

I shrunk the kids. A film where its main characters must do their best.

[Will]

With the size of a quarter inch,

[Will Friedle]

it's time to celebrate those in Hollywood who are small.

[Will]

Okay, okay.

[Will Friedle]

Not quite a quarter inch, but small nonetheless. We'll be given a list of actors, and we have to guess which of the names is the Shrunkest.

[Will]

So, okay, who's the shortest? Three out of five win. Wow. Okay, so it's just guessing, essentially.

[Will Friedle]

Number one, is it A, Tom Cruise,

[Will]

B, Jack Black, C, Michael J. Fox. Or D, Dave Franco?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Who are we playing with? This one?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, good question. Who are we with?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Mikayla.

[Will Friedle]

All right, Mikayla. All right, Mikayla. By the way, who don't people know, is 6 foot 4? Mikayla's very tall producer. It's tall producer.

[Will]

Michaela is what we always call her.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I'm gonna go with C, Michael J. Fox.

[Will]

Okay, so I've met Mr. Mr. Fox. It is a dream of mine. I met him a couple times, and

[Will Friedle]

he's short, but he's not, like, crazy short.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, he's not.

[Will Friedle]

I'm gonna say D, Dave Franco.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Sabrina, you're correct. It's Michael J.

[Will Friedle]

Fox. Is Michael J. Fox. I feel so bad.

[Sabrina Bryant]

5, 4.

[Will Friedle]

Is he really?

[Wilmer Valderrama]

Yep.

[Will Friedle]

God, he didn't seem that short. Okay.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No way.

[Will Friedle]

Five, four. I didn't know that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Wow.

[Will Friedle]

Number two, is it A, Daniel Radcliffe,

[Will]

which again, he can just say Engorgio

[Will Friedle]

and then he'll be bigger.

[Will]

Sorry. Harry Potter joke.

[Will Friedle]

B, Dustin Hoffman. C, Ken John. Or D, Seth Green.

[Will]

Green.

[Will Friedle]

I know Seth.

[Will]

Seth is not a tall guy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, Seth Green.

[Will]

I'm gonna say D, Seth Green.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Set. D, Seth Green. Yeah, same. I was thinking of someone else.

[Will Friedle]

By the way.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I was like, correct.

[Yo Astro]

Yeah.

[Will]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah. How tall is he? 5 4.

[Will]

He's another. Yeah, he's short. By the way, how both those people. Michael J. Fox and Seth Green. That's a hell of a lot of talent in that short.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh. Yes. I love Seth Green.

[Will]

I've worked with Seth several times, and every time I do, I walk out just because going, God damn, that guy's good.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Really?

[Will]

Every single. Yeah, every single time. And also couldn't be a nicer person, but he's just uber talented.

[Will Friedle]

Number three, Macaulay Culkin. Frankie Muniz. Paul Simon, or Rami Malek.

[Listener Eva Longoria]

Mack isn't tiny, is he?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think it's Frankie New Munoz.

[Will Friedle]

I'm going to agree with you. I'm going to say B, Frankie Muniz is.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's C, Paul Simon.

[Will Friedle]

Really?

[Listener Eva Longoria]

He's five' three.

[Will Friedle]

Paul Simon is five' three.

[Will]

I didn't know that. Wow.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. Number four, Richard Dreyfus.

[Will]

That's why I said his name.

[Will Friedle]

Nathan Lane.

[Will]

Joe Pesci or Jason Alexander.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, I just talked about Jason Alexander, Joe Pesci. He's going to agree.

[Will Friedle]

I'm going to say C, Joe Pesci.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Correct.

[Listener Eva Longoria]

He's five.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Three. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Three. Okay.

[Will]

What?

[Will Friedle]

So I'm a clown.

[Will]

I'm funny. I am.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Use.

[Will Friedle]

You know. You know the funniest thing about it?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Talk about a great actor. Oh, my good God.

[Will Friedle]

You know how good an actor he is? So he's five three.

[Will]

The character he was playing in Goodfellas, the actual guy was like, six four. And the people who knew him came out and said, that guy might be five' three, but he was exactly the character. Like, that's the energy that he has. Insane.

[Will Friedle]

Number five.

[Will]

And this is our final one, which,

[Will Friedle]

again, have we won yet? You might have won.

[Listener Eva Longoria]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Sabrina won. I won.

[Will]

I need one more, I think. Right. Okay. Number five. A, Josh Hutcherson. B, Al Pacino. C, Ben Stiller. Or D, Rick Moranis.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, Rick Moranis, huh?

[Will]

Josh Hutcherson isn't a big guy.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Al Pacino.

[Will]

I'm gonna say a Josh Hutcherson.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Will is correct.

[Will Friedle]

It is.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Will is correct.

[Will Friedle]

We both won. I think we both won.

[Will]

Nice.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yay. Can we. How tall is he?

[Will]

Yeah, good question.

[Listener Eva Longoria]

He's five' five.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So my height.

[Will]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, that's not short.

[Will Friedle]

You're not five' five.

[Will]

We talked about this. You're six' four.

[Sabrina Bryant]

We talked about this.

[Will]

We talked about this already.

[Will Friedle]

Can we do A, Sabrina C.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes. There's things you did not see or didn't mention it at all, at least not from the script. So I've got to point them out because they were driving me bonkers.

[Will]

Okay. You got it. Do it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

There is a. At the very beginning of the movie, before we even go into the. It's right after the cart cartoon part, right when the dog gets it, the, like, envelope. You see this bright red truck that's parked on the lawn behind a white picket fence. Like, okay, it's the weirdest thing. I had to rewind it, like, because I kept going. It's so obvious because it's like a bright red truck going, like, is there something in the movie with this truck? Cause I don't remember it. Like, it's so weird. It's in the front lawn behind a white picket fence.

[Will Friedle]

So it's the neighbor. It's the Thompson's train truck.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's. I think, yes, it's the Thompson's truck, but it's like a red truck that's, like, behind a white pick. Like, how did it even get there?

[Will]

And then it's never mentioned again.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's just like. No, it's just like, the weirdest thing. I was. I felt like there was a little bit of a bobble here in the script, because it didn't really make sense in the sense of he wakes up and he's like, it's Saturday. Give it a rest. Right. But he has a conference on a Saturday, and she's working. I mean, I guess my. Duh. I just answered that part for myself because she's a real estate agent. My parents are real estate agents, so I do know they work mainly Saturdays. So there's that. But, like, the conference, being on a Saturday didn't really make sense to me. Like a work conference.

[Will]

No, you're right. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it does make sense, though. I guess they had to technically make

[Will]

it a Saturday because the kids can't be at school.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Right.

[Will Friedle]

And they're going on a trip.

[Will]

So that makes sense. But you're right. Why the. Why would a science conference.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The work part of it was kind of weird. Yeah.

[Will]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I guess. I mean, I did just answer the real estate agent situation, but that makes sense. That makes sense. So, okay, his VW Bug that he parks so weirdly in, when he gets to the.

[Will Friedle]

In the.

[Will]

The no parkings, it's like, clearly says no parking.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah, like, he's just parking. It was just so funny. It's like. Like, no, there's no other cars around. Like, what was the reason?

[Will Friedle]

I think because he was. I think they were trying to show

[Will]

that he was late, so he just pulled up to the front. Right in the front.

[Sabrina Bryant]

All right, fine. That's fair. Okay. The size of the ant and the scorpion didn't proportion out to me to be. To make sense.

[Will]

Like the scorpion, like a hundred times bigger, right?

[Sabrina Bryant]

So much bigger.

[Will]

Agreed.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So much bigger than an ant. Like that was like supposed to be a baby scorpion.

[Will Friedle]

Was that a baby fight? Oh, God. Is that a fight between two babies? Did I just say it's a baby fight?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Baby. But yeah, that scorpion would have been so much bigger. I wanted to ask you about the still time, like, effect that they did with it. Like to explain it. I don't think people really know the stop motion. I don't think people really know about it.

[Will Friedle]

I think what it is, I think

[Will]

if that is stop motion, which I think it. It is, is it's like the old school thing where it's like claymation. You know, you. You take a shot and then you move it a little and you take a shot.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Okay, a little.

[Will]

And you take a shot.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Shot.

[Will]

That's why it's called stop motion. Because it's like you stop shot little bit. Shot little bit.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will]

And then when you put it all together that whole long.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's what I've taken them to film then.

[Will Friedle]

And again, it's.

[Will]

It's the. That's why the Harry Howen way, like, again, go. You should watch the original Clash of the Titans. But it is. It's. Yeah, stop motion takes can take a very long time. It's like claymation, but with. I think. And again, I don't know enough about it. I'm sure I'm wrong with a lot of it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It.

[Will Friedle]

But I think parts of it are practical. I mean, I don't.

[Will]

The ant was certainly practical. Like it was something they could sit on and interact with. That was undoubtedly a puppet of some sort that was remote control or something.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will]

But yeah, that was stop animation. You could tell when it. When they came in.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I did. Yeah. It definitely looked different from what we were watching with the app.

[Will]

100%.

[Sabrina Bryant]

The mud part of it. When, like after the rain, I was like, that mud look looks so gross. I think that would be my least favorite day on set.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, but it's so much fun. It's like, you gotta get covered.

[Will]

And yes.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It was so crazy. But then, like, again, this was so much more extreme to watch now versus then, like her, like having to like, come. I was like, oh, my gosh, that looks so wild. It looks so crazy.

[Will Friedle]

The worst part to me, when they

[Will]

do those, when you're shooting something like that isn't the first day you do

[Will Friedle]

it, it's having to come back the

[Will]

next day where they have to match what you look like, and now it's morning and you're cold.

[Will Friedle]

Cold.

[Will]

And it's like, we got to get you wet and put the mud on

[Will Friedle]

you and do everything.

[Will]

Now go shoot again. You're back in the same clothes that are now stiff and, like, that's where it sucks.

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's like your hair just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger as the movie went on. It was so funny. The CPR he did was like. I mean, I have to take CPR class for what I do. For coaching. I am. Yeah. And I do every other year. I don't think there. So I've now been doing CPR for over 20 years. Right there. That was the one worst CPR I could ever see. Like, he would have not saved her at all. He just blew into her mouth.

[Will]

I know.

[Will Friedle]

They keep changing CPR. Is it still 15 and two?

[Sabrina Bryant]

No.

[Will Friedle]

15 pumps, two breaths.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, no.

[Will Friedle]

What is it?

[Sabrina Bryant]

It's 30. 30.

[Will Friedle]

30 chest compressions and then two breaths.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That's still staying alive beat.

[Will Friedle]

Right, right, right.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Staying alive.

[Will Friedle]

Staying alive.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Staying alive. That's still that. It's still that.

[Will Friedle]

But then two breaths. So 30 compressions and then two breaths or what? One breath?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think just one. I think you just do one.

[Will]

Okay. And it's still ABC, the breathing. Okay. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

30 and two. Oh, I got 30 and two. See?

[Will]

Okay, I gotta go.

[Sabrina Bryant]

20 years is still not enough.

[Will]

I gotta go get.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Gotta go do that again fixed up again. And then the. So, yeah, the cbr. And then I also loved the TV that. The tv, when he was on the polls and then he was. The tv, was it that.

[Will Friedle]

The counterbalance.

[Sabrina Bryant]

That's like a. A mem. Like a. A core visual memory of this movie for me. And then lastly, I have to admit, it wasn't until I watched this that I understood what French class was. This was the first time I got it.

[Will]

Really?

[Will Friedle]

Because you didn't get it as a kid. Oh, my God.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I didn't. I never understood it. And of course, when I'd ask my parents, they would be like, I don't know.

[Will Friedle]

I don't get it. I don't know what it is.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I don't know either. And so I was like, oh, my gosh. So this is the first time which class made sense to me. Ta da.

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[Diego]

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[Will]

where to next? I'm gonna ask you something that might be way too personal, but this is what we do on this podcast.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes.

[Will]

How old were you? Your first French guest?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, I remember it was.

[Will]

Mine was two.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I believe I was 12.

[Will Friedle]

I think I was too.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

And it wasn't good either.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Mine was. I just. All my friends had had had their first kiss. I wanted to get it over with. We had just had pizza. He had braces and it just was like I knew it was gonna happen. We were out swimming, you know, my parents, like, I was at my house swimming with my friends that we. A bunch of us were in and it was like, oh, we like met in the jacuzzi. I kissed him and then it was like, oh, you.

[Will Friedle]

You kissed?

[Will]

You.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Like we kicked. He kissed and it was like done. I jumped right back in the pool and was like, thank God I finally had my first kid.

[Will Friedle]

Did you date him or anything?

[Will]

First of all, a French kiss tastes like pizza and isn't the worst thing in the world.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, yes, it is. When it's someone else's beads. Will. It was traumatizing. I couldn't believe it.

[Will]

Oh God, that's so funny.

[Sabrina Bryant]

So bad. So bad. Yeah. We dated for a little kiss.

[Will]

Isn't great?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

Most people.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yeah.

[Will]

French kisses.

[Chiquis]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, my God.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I can't. You don't know what you're doing. It's just so bad. I'm so glad I don't have to go through that part.

[Will]

I know.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my God was rough. And that's it.

[Will Friedle]

That's my. Well, it is time to score our film we're gonna do one to ten.

[Will]

I'm not even gonna joke about it. Ten's gonna be the best.

[Will Friedle]

And our options this week, one out of ten Bud the chuds, apple sauces. One out of ten remote control lawnmowers, steroids from dad, one out of ten amazing Larry's. One out of ten big backyards, which

[Will]

can mean a lot of things.

[Will Friedle]

One out of ten Borstein escrow papers, plumbing issues. One out of ten $80 deposits. One out of ten good uses for cigarettes by kids or one out of ten baby dead ants.

[Will]

I'm gonna let you pick this week. What do you got, Sabrina?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Oh, my gosh. This is so hard. These are.

[Will]

I know.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I think we got to do good uses for cigarettes.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Because it was shocking. It was shocking.

[Will Friedle]

I told you, the best use for a cigarette by kids is smoking it.

[Will]

They're joyful.

[Will Friedle]

All right. I think you go first this time, don't you?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I do. I. This movie, I had a smile on my face the whole time. I had to remind myself to write down stuff for, like, Sabrina portion because it was just such an easy watch. Again, you know, like you said it, the, the special effects don't really hold up as far as what we now have today. Of course, not even comparison, but it just, it held up in the sense of, like, I literally didn't care because that's what it was back in the day. Like, that's the way they all looked. Right. I just didn't care. I loved it. I loved it. Love the storyline. I love that there's a little bit of, like, you know, magic that happens between the mom and dad. I loved the characters, their relationships. Like, it was. It's just such a feel good movie that you can literally watch over and over again. I'm excited to eventually, when we do move on to seeing the second one, because I legitimately have zero memory of what that one.

[Will Friedle]

Me neither. And I think the third one is a deco.

[Sabrina Bryant]

First one's so good, and then the third one is a decom.

[Will]

Yeah, we're. We're working up to it.

[Sabrina Bryant]

We're working our way there. But I can't wait to. To watch the second one because I really don't remember. And this one was great. This was an amazing trip down memory lane. I am scoring it a 9.5 good uses for cigarettes by kids. So ridiculous.

[Will]

Yeah. I mean, again, it's all been said. This is, it's. It's a pretty close to kind of a perfect kids movie.

[Will Friedle]

Adults can watch it too, and, and get it? And, yes, didn't care.

[Will]

It made me want to apologize to people for how I've been talking about movies that they've attached nostalgia to, because I get it. I mean, yes, you know, it does not hold up for the time, but I don't care.

[Will Friedle]

The same way you go back and

[Will]

you watch kind of some schlocky 50s movies with aliens that are attacking the planet, and if you grew up watching that kind of thing or 50s horror

[Will Friedle]

movies, that kind of stuff.

[Will]

Yeah, you didn't care that. It doesn't hold up now because at the time, it was great. Loved this movie. Cast is amazing. Rick Moranis, a genius.

[Will Friedle]

The idea of putting yourself on that,

[Will]

watching it as a child, someone who was a child actor, you just sit there. Even now at 50, I was jealous of them shooting this thing back in 1988 because it came out in 89. So this was a great movie. I'm giving it 10 good uses for Cigarettes by kids.

[Will Friedle]

It was perfect.

[Will]

It was perfect again, because it just didn't.

[Will Friedle]

I didn't care.

[Will]

I'm like you. I didn't care. I. I had fun. I never once looked at my phone. I wasn't watching it in clips. I put this movie on. I wanted popcorn halfway through. Like, I was just. It was great. So, yes, that's what I.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Perfect. Perfect score.

[Will Friedle]

Great movie. Great movie.

[Will]

Great movie.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Is this your first 10? No, no. Color of friendship was a 10.

[Will Friedle]

Color of friendship was a 10.

[Sabrina Bryant]

And I think I always say going to the mat, and that's not the

[Will Friedle]

theme of the movie. Yeah, no, going to the mat, but I don't think. I think that was a 9.5.

[Will]

I. I think the other 10 was Miracle on Lane 2, which was a pretty great yes.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Will]

Yes. So, yes, we've had a couple tens, but this was. This was just great. This was exactly what a kids movie, quote, unquote, kids movie should be.

[Sabrina Bryant]

Absolutely. A family movie.

[Will Friedle]

Honestly, 100%, you're right. Kids is wrong. Family movie.

[Will]

Perfect way to say it.

[Will Friedle]

Our next movie. Let's see what we think of this one.

[Will]

Tough act to follow. It's like, you know, the dancing, dancing monkey that came on after the Beatles.

[Will Friedle]

Good luck with that. It definitely has a title I recognize and even a star that I know personally, but I've never actually seen it.

[Will]

It is a 2016 remake of Adventures in Babysitting and.

[Angel]

Oh.

[Will Friedle]

Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina, I'm telling you right now, I know I've known you for years, but I'm telling you right now, the first

[Will]

Adventures in Babysitting is one of my favorite movies of all time. So heads up, Sabrina.

[Will Friedle]

I'm coming for you.

[Will]

If this movie is not good, it's

[Will Friedle]

available to stream right now on Disney. So get motivated and watch it early. You know you can do it. By the way, if you're falling asleep during the movie, try some espresso.

[Will]

See what I just did there?

[Sabrina Bryant]

I was actually at the premiere for this movie.

[Will Friedle]

Were you?

[Sabrina Bryant]

Yes, I sat right behind her and.

[Will Friedle]

Did you throw popcorn at her?

[Will]

She loves that.

[Sabrina Bryant]

No, I sat right behind her and. Sophia Carson. Yes.

[Will]

Yeah. All right, good.

[Will Friedle]

Well, we can't wait to hear all the.

[Will]

All the Ish. The goss. Ish.

[Will Friedle]

The gossip.

[Will]

I don't know. Just tell us what happened at the premiere when we do it.

[Will Friedle]

It'll be great.

[Will]

I can't speak kid anymore.

[Will Friedle]

I said it's available to stream on Disney Plus.

[Will]

Go watch it.

[Will Friedle]

All of our other recaps and interviews are available just by searching. Magical Rewind. Wherever you get your podcast, make sure you subscribe. That way you never miss another episode.

[Will]

Or all the jokes that Sabrina makes about little couches. I tried to stop her, but she wouldn't stop.

[Sabrina Bryant]

I couldn't help myself.

[Will]

I could.

[Will Friedle]

She couldn't help herself. That's the way it is.

[Will]

Thank you everybody, and we'll see you next time. Bye Bye.

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It's the book club for your ears.

[Freddie Prinze Jr.]

Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Chiquis]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.