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Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published October 28, 2025 (1 h 12 min, about 12,740 words). It mentions 10 people, works and ideas, including June Diane Raphael, Mary Holland, Jason Manzukas, CISO, VEP.

What this episode is about

"Chopping Mall" explores the chaos unleashed when a group of teenagers is trapped in a furniture store with malfunctioning security robots, leading to a night of absurd horror and humor. The film examines themes of consumerism, youth rebellion, and the ridiculousness of 1980s cinematic tropes, highlighted by a lively discussion among its viewers about its cult status and memorable moments.

Key takeaways

  • Chopping Mall proves that retail therapy can be deadly, especially when robots decide to enforce store policies.
  • In an era of curated content, Chopping Mall's blend of kitsch and chaos is a nostalgic trip worth taking.
  • At just 77 minutes, this film challenges the notion that horror must drag on—brevity meets absurdity.
  • Sexuality and violence blend awkwardly here, exposing how 80s films often treated nudity like a shopping discount.
  • A shopping mall horror film that barely features shoppers getting slaughtered—talk about a marketing misfire!

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Mary Holland, Jason Manzukas, June Diane Raphael, Amazon Prime
  2. – 20:00: House of Almonds, Robocop, June Diane Raphael, Eating Raul
  3. – 1:00:00: House of Almonds
  4. – 1:12:07: June Diane Raphael

Notable quotes from "Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)"

  • Just a glimpse behind the curtain. I said I got excited genuinely in the middle of watching this movie that I was going to be able to talk about it with you in particular.
    about Jason Manzukas · at
  • JUNE, another peak behind the curtain. I showed you the poster for this movie this week and you said, What? I can't do this. I will not watch it. You were very upset by the poster of this.
    about Mary Holland · at
  • Our guest tonight is somebody we've been very excited to have on the show. She is fantastically funny. She currently is starring on the show Shrink, which is on CISO. You can…
    about CISO · at
  • There's a married couple on Amazon. On Amazon, it says next to the description of the movie, eight teenagers.
    about Amazon Prime · at
  • Yeah, they're very featured. very featured to not be mentioned or referred to any ever again. They are two characters from a movie called Eating Raul, which was another Roger Corman movie about people who are cannibals.
    about Eating Raul · at
  • June, how do you feel about robots?
    about June Diane Raphael · at
  • Works right. They put a robot into a crimeinfested city and oh everything goes crazy. This is that except the robots are tiny and cute and the and Detroit is a shopping mall.
    about Robocop · at
  • And it's not the Beverly Center inside.
    about Commando · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • June Diane Raphael — Person · Co-host · 3 mentions · first at
    Introduced as a co-host and drives multiple discussion threads (gore tolerance, robots, plot logic).
  • Mary Holland — Person · Main guest · 3 mentions · first at
    Featured guest for the live episode; reacts to the movie, adds observations, and plugs current projects at the end.
  • Jason Manzukas — Person · Guest (recurring / frequent guest on the show) · 2 mentions · first at
    Introduced onstage and participates throughout as a featured comedic panelist discussing the film.

Companies & orgs

  • CISO — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the platform where the show 'Shrink' is available.
  • House of Almonds — Company · Setting · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a store in the mall setting of the movie 'Chopping Mall'.
    There was a house of almonds. I don't know if you saw that. Did you guys see that? This mall was like none I've ever seen.

Products & tech

  • VEP — Product · Business focus · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the platform where the upcoming season of a show is available.
    Fantastically funny. She currently is starring on the show Shrink, which is on CISO. You can see her on the upcoming season of VEP. She also is one of the stars of Blunt Talk…

Media & podcasts

  • Robocop — Media · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in comparison to the robots in 'Chopping Mall'.
  • Eating Raul — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as another Roger Corman movie featuring characters from 'Chopping Mall'.
  • Commando — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as another movie that was filmed in the same mall as 'Chopping Mall'.

Sponsors

  • Amazon Prime — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Thanked for making the movie 'Chopping Mall' available for viewing.

Full transcript with timestamps

A movie that proves the age-old adage, don't [ __ ] in your dad's furniture store or you'll be killed by robots.

WE SAW SHOPPING MALLS, so you know what that means. Now it's time. How did Schwarzenegger grow baby in his belly rock like a rhinestone vest while ripping just in the Kelly or maybe see a burles show with Nick Crow and take a B of Speed Hitting Cruise control J man big Paul in the beautiful June going to take you from the groove all the way to the room games a street fight to help to blow off steam just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green sharp n the bird demic how we staying alive they call it in the bad ass and he's on the line cranking 88 minutes cuz they cool as ice Cuz a bad Jim Barney looking kind of nice. Paul and June getting literal.

Jason is getting laid. June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They judge a bunch of movies while they making the grade. Here's a real question for you. How did this get made? HELLO PEOPLE OF EARTH. AND HELLO PEOPLE OF LARGO. We are live once again at Largo, our LA home, and we have a great show for you tonight. Uh, the film is Chopping Mall, and this has been on our agenda for a very long time. Um, thank you Amazon Prime for making it available for all of us to see. Uh, let's get this show started. Let me introduce you to Jason Manzukus.

What's up, jerks? Welcome, Jason. How are you, Paul? Very good. I told you this backstage, but

so excited. Behind the curtain. Yeah, a little bit. Just a glimpse. A glimpse. Just a glimpse behind the curtain. I said I got excited genuinely in the middle of watching this movie that I was going to be able to talk about it with you in particular.

Oh yeah. Was was the part where you got excited the very uh busy women's locker room at the mall?

Cuz that's when I wrote this movie is awesome. I think the moment that switched over for me,

highly functional women's locker room at the mall. What? They got to get changed into those uniforms somewhere.

And by listen, as long as it gives us like more boobs in this movie, I am into it. I REALLY WAS LIKE, WHY DON'T WE DO MOVIES WITH MORE boobs in them? Like, our lives would be better. It's amazing to see that much nudity in a movie because I feel like it's been er that's been almost erased or it's done tastefully now. This movie it's just it's gratuitous. It's it's uh to a point where you feel uncomfortable. Um

you are wrong sir. Um let me introduce you. Or if that's uncomfortable then I was uncomfortable throughout the movie. Um,

I don't understand words. Let me uh introduce my other co-host, the lovely, the talented June Diane Rael. Dude, welcome welcome WELCOME. JUNE, another peak behind the curtain. I showed you the poster for this movie this week and you said, "What? I can't do this. I will not watch it." You were very upset by the poster of this.

Well, I don't do gore. Yeah, but this wasn't really gory. This was just It isn't though. There were multiple head explosions,

but they happened so quickly. Like, I'm okay with a head explosion. I'm not okay with a head like slowly dangling and seeing insides outside.

So, I was okay with that. I was okay with it. Well, I will say that the poster for this movie makes it way more scary. It's like,

what's the poster? The poster is like a um a decomposing hand holding a shopping bag where arms and legs are coming out of it. So it looks like Oh, it's a chopping like people are getting chopped up at the door where you go to get like human limbs like like a

Yeah, I mean that's the big and we'll get into this after our guest comes out, but that's the big confusion about this.

No, let's get into it right now. I was the closer makes it seem like and the opening montage makes it seem like we're going to see a lot of shoppers get killed.

Yes. It's not what happens. No. No. But well, we'll talk about I thought we were gonna say Neuvo Sweeney Todd, not the case. Um,

our guest tonight is somebody we've been very excited to have on the show. She is uh fantastically funny. She currently is starring on uh the show Shrink, which is on CISO. You can see her on the upcoming season of VEP. She also is uh one of the stars of Blunt Talk, and her show Wild Horses uh performs here at Largo all the time. PLEASE WELCOME MARY HOLLAND.

LET'S SEE. WELCOME. WELCOME. Party to the max. Um, I wrote that down, too. Oh, no. She said, "It's good times to the max."

Oh, good times to the max. I I had real like nostalgia uh during this movie. Did you ever say good times to the max

stuff? Like I feel like those were the kind of stuff like that was like the the lingo when I was in like high school or whatever is [ __ ] like that.

I have a question. Was I supposed to have notes? You don't have to have notes. You [ __ ] blew it. You blew it, Mary. I um well like Mary what what was your

obviously like what was your interpretation of the poster or anything what did you know like what like walk us through your journey of hey you got to watch this movie to do the show and then what happened

so there I was late last night and I thought I should watch this cuz I don't have much time left.

Yeah which is a good thing earth the movie is 77 minutes. 70 doesn't even make 80. Not even close to 90. 70.

I think it's technically a short. I didn't know you could make a movie that is 77 minutes. All right. So, yeah. So, you you

Okay. So, then I then I had it up and I had the same response to the to the poster as well. I I was like, "Oh, no. Oh, I'm not going to like this. I can't do this."

And then it really wasn't that. Yeah. It's surprisingly not that. The premise of this movie, just to clue you in if you've not seen it, it's about three malfunctioning robots that kill uh teenagers after a [ __ ] sesh.

Um, and by the way, this is and teenagers are in quotes. Yeah, those aren't those are not teenagers.

Those are not teenagers. And they specifically aren't teenagers. They're not teenagers so that they can [ __ ]

so that they can be nude and [ __ ] They are not teenagers. There's a married couple

on Amazon. On Amazon, it says next to the description of the movie, eight teenagers.

Oh, okay. Caught in a shopping mall at you know, whatever it says about the movie there. So, my question is, are I know the actors aren't teens, obviously. They're all 45, but they were teenagers at one point. Sure. Like it would have made more sense if Danny Tjo played one of the teenagers

present day Danny. Back to is are these characters teenagers? I believe this is what I think. I believe these cuz they two of them are married and the others are jobs.

Oh, that's right. I want to get into their business and financials. Pretty soon. I think they are meant to be post I think they are meant to be like collegeage people right

well I don't know because teens are the ones that have jobs at the mall not in this movie they are in the beginning of the movie they have like an all mall meeting to introduce the robots to the mall there is a doctor PRESENT THEY'RE LIKE OKAY DOCTOR fair point and I wrote why is there a doctor at the Here's the thing. Here's the thing.

It's as if this mall is the most important place on Earth. But this mall also has a store that sells dynamite.

Yep. Okay. There's a paint store and there might as well be like an office for NASA at this mall. Like it's it and everybody that works there appears like the the eye roll couple that we saw in the trailer. Like, oh boy. Like the guy that during the all mall meeting says that one of the robots looks ethnic. Oh my god, that was wild.

I was like, what is happening? I was like, those two people are the 1980s version of Difficult People. I was like, that's that is Julie Clausner and Billy Iikner right here. Like, like, oh, let's get them to cameo.

One week from tonight at closing, the protectors will begin their patrol of the mall.

Paul, they look like the three stooges. Each assigned to one of the three upper shopping levels.

I don't know, Mary. The one in the middle has an unpleasantly ethnic quality. Now, are there any questions?

Yes, Dr. Carrington. So, what do your machines there do besides kill criminals?

Well, first of all, doctor, the protectors do not kill. Wonder if they kill cockroaches.

They could probably be programmed to. They seem so violent. If they're called protectors, what do they protect?

Bloody. For starters, as seen in the film, the protectors do their work in the mall proper, not in the stores themselves.

Maybe we could use one at the restaurant. Get rid of people we don't like. I was sad that they didn't come back.

I was surprised they didn't. Um, I did find something out interesting about them because I was curious for why these two characters are so so snarky at the top of the movie and getting oddly a lot of screen time.

Yeah, they're very featured. very featured to not be mentioned or referred to any ever again. They are two characters from a movie called Eating Raul, which was another Roger Corman movie about people who are cannibals. So, this is a continuation of their characters.

So, this is the shared eating Raul universe. Yes. I wish I'd known we were in that.

The Me Raul universe. There's some way there's a good one there. Wait. So my my issue with this movie just at the the top level of it is this. I mean there's many but it's a problem that is not a problem that they've created an insane solution to.

So like there so it's well that's the thing at the all mall meeting there's no like has crime been up?

It's the movie is basically Robocop in a mall. Well here's what I like that presumes the mall needs Robocop and it does not. And this is the three Robocops.

But this is the problem. At the end, those robots only come out when the stores are closed.

June, how do you feel about robots? Don't like them. But by the way, these robots also are fairly friendly looking and affable looking. They don't also appear menacing. But the mall closes at night and these crazy gates lock everyone in.

Like space lock, right? This is my but that that's when the robots come out which begs the question like why do you need robot? Nobody's there. Nobody's breaking in. They can't get out.

There is no evidence given as to why this is even remotely necessary for a just regular shopping mall. This is not like

I guess my point is even if the even if the mall had a a spike in crime in the last few months, this still is not the solution.

I agree. I would argue that no mall is really getting broken into in the middle of the night. It doesn't seem like the best target. It's like let me go into a a maze of stores and it just didn't

that each have their own security systems in place. So you have to break into one security then another. Like it just seems

I feel like that was the pitch though. I feel like the pitch was like Robocop. It works right. They put a robot into a crimeinfested city and oh everything goes crazy. This is that except the robots are tiny and cute and the and and Detroit is a shopping mall.

I I I would go like this. They'd be like, "All right, we love Short Circuit. Johnny 5 comes alive, but what if Johnny 5 kills? Make that movie with boobs?"

Yes. But yeah, he doesn't fight adults, though. So, it's Red Dawn versus Tiny Robot Johnny Fives.

Yep. Well, here's the thing. I think as a a setting the mall I mean there's a lot of fun to be had.

Absolutely. There's a lot of fun to be had every mall. We all know there's different stores. There's different lifestyle brands. It's fun.

There was a house of almonds. I don't know if you saw that. Did you guys see that?

This mall was like none I've ever seen. This was the one that uh jumped out uh right here. Her scent is the name of one of the stores.

Her scent. Um Oh man, I used to go to that part of the mall all the time just to remember my mom.

Oh my god, that's really touching because she used to work in that section of the mall.

Oh yeah. Um, by the way, uh, we are we are a mere what, 200 yards away from the exteriors of this mall.

Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah. Yeah. So, uh, the Beverly Center is uh, a mere few feet away from here where they uh, just quickly show you exteriors as if the DP was in a car that couldn't stop. THEY'RE LIKE, "SHIT, GET IT, GET IT, GET IT." SHOT IT.

They shot this on a public bus. Yeah. There was no way a permit was given for whatever footage they used to get to Beverly Center.

And it's not the Beverly Center inside. It is um the same mall from uh Commando. That's the one thing I do know.

Oh, really? Yes. Um it's in the valley. Oh, and these robots also have lasers that can cut through debris, which is like, well, all right. First of all, you got these doors. Then you got these robots that are going to knock people out. But what kind of debris do they not these are not army robots like what? And then they also find out later they're equipped with C4.

Yeah. These are like war these are like robots that you would see in like dismantling bombs in the Hurt Locker. Yeah. You know what I mean? And and it's like, oh, we need those at the mall to protect House of Almonds.

And but I also found them like when they were presented and, you know, their features were shown, they just had little plastic pincers that didn't look sharp and didn't even seem to do it like they would launch it on a little string and but the string would look limp also. Yes. And the pace at which they moved was comical.

Yeah. I mean, they just slowly glided. Yeah. Like I feel like they never probably move more than like 8 miles an hour like

and are so loud. Are so loud. And then there keep being instances where they sneak up on someone which is frankly impossible because this it is empty empty devoid of sound and just and just like And they appear to my favorite [ __ ] part of this movie, this [ __ ] mental movie, is that the robots are continuously looking to each other to check in on [ __ ] that's going on. Like, like, bro, are you getting this? Bro, he doesn't even know we're awake. Like they keep like they they they're [ __ ] robots and they're having like subtle like weird relationships with each other. And the weird thing about these robots are they only malfunction because like something out of Frankenstein, lightning hits the highest point of the mall.

Yes. Three times. Three times. Three lightning strikes in like 30 seconds. And there's such terrifying lightning strikes, too. Like, and everyone's just walking to their cars like no one seems to react to the bolts of lightning.

And they're not attached to the the the thing that's getting hit. They just I guess that's like

I think they made a big point of like, oh, they're online. [clears throat] You know, the idea being like when whatever that was that whatever they hit

in the control room in the control room, they're always online. the control room for the mall that looks like it belongs in like a nuclear facility. Like it's a control room from like the China syndrome.

The other thing about this movie uh first I would say everybody in this movie is disgusting. Like there is something disgusting about every person like the chef.

Let's go person by person. Person by person, let's pick them apart. Why are you disgusting, chef?

This is like This is the smoking chef with a smoking fork on his which look like something out of like you can't do that on television. Barf like the uh the you know I'm just going to I'm going to pull him up but

there's so much setup. Yeah, there's Barf who wipes his spatula on his chest and then continues to make food.

By the way, he's at the front of the house. Like, could you imagine walking into a restaurant back in the kitchen that guy?

I sadly feel like I'm Max 4 years away from playing this card. Like I am like maybe four years away from playing this part. That's that's the world I'm living in, guys. And then there's like then I and then there's like the guy who's taking over for the security guy.

Wait, before that before that there's the restaurant patron. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, okay. Well, he asks for to eat a stick of butter.

He says says more butter. Honestly, I felt really disturbed by that moment. Well, he also they say is real handsy.

The one where Suz warns the other one be careful. He's real handsy. That's fine. But what I saw

No, of course it's not fine. June likes the man by that reveal. What I saw in that moment of him saying another stick of butter or whatever the line was, I saw the actor having to say a line like that and he looked so devastated. If you I wish we could watch it cuz he barely looks up. And it's not a choice, guys. It's not a choice.

This is It's a choice. It's a choice. He's not looking up because he's so enthralled by the meal.

No, it's not. He's like, "Here I am, you know, playing this part. I'm in a movie,

and this is what it comes to." Even this devastating This piece of pizza is disgusting.

A piece of pizza falls on the floor and it looks like it's more corn than pizza.

And they also they also stage this in a way such that it's only because they can bend down to pick up the debris that they can have a private conversation. It's like they have to break stuff to be like, "Hey, are we getting out of here or what?" Wait, what? You can't just talk to each other on the job. Um, the other thing like, well, then there's a security guard who comes in who's like, "Sorry, I'm late. It was all you can eat downstairs." And then proceeds to pick up the guy's like halfeaten donuts. Like, I'll eat this, too.

My favorite of all of these people, janitor bullies. Oh, janitor bullies. One janitor is like mopping up slop and two other janitors come by and are like, "Fuck you, nerd." Oh, look at this [ __ ] nerd mopping up, doing his job. You [ __ ] nerd. IT'S LIKE THESE ARE ALL JANITORS.

WHAT'S happening right now? What is the hierarchy of janitors? It seems like they're making fun of him like that. like he they're all doing the same job. Like uh you're going to be here all night cleaning up this stuff, but it's like yeah, like he's got to clean.

That's our job. That's the job. That's our job. And the janitor bullies look like [ __ ] nerds, too. Like one of them, like the mean one looks like Stephen Tolowski.

I was really hoping when when the robot came around, I was like, well, he's not going to hurt him cuz he works at the mall

and that's and he's protecting people at the mall. And I thought, just show him the badge. show him the badge.

And then he does show him the badge. Here's the thing though, Mary. I think the robots have gone [ __ ] nuts

from those lightning bolts. I think that's not that's not that's not in debate. That's not a debatable. They did. They like there's there should be no faking.

I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. I'll tell you what else is disgusting in this movie. The furniture store.

The furniture. Can you imagine in the store? No. Can you imagine buying furniture that people have been [ __ ] on?

Disgusting. I want I really want to talk about that sex scene for hours. Yeah. This is

I was surprised it was only 10 seconds long and then I fell asleep. You're the king. You're the king. this

I literally felt like I got an STD by watching this movie. Actually, I had the thought a fleeting thought of like I've been in a position where, you know, I've been told to just buy the model, you know, the car and the dealership like just buy the thing and don't, you know,

on display the on display model. Yes. Because it's always cheaper. Pushy. Well, it's always cheaper to just buy whatever's on the floor.

And watching this scene, I thought never again will I buy any floor models of anything. Although, they did say the sheets were clean. They they put clean sheets on everything.

But, by the way, these are But they're not going to take those sheets off, Mary.

I don't know. They put new sheets on for themselves, but those are the sheets that we would be Well, I guess we wouldn't be buying the sheets.

My point exactly. All right. Um, we got to play the the scene. Yeah, we have to play all of this scene.

Just so you understand what I think just cuz if you're listening to us, the first image that you think here, well, well, you know, we could take it bit by bit. Okay, so here we So this is the furniture store origin furniture store. But that's what I'm saying when you first talk about that though.

No, when you first see this, you think this is the married couple who have gone back to their house to [ __ ] That's at least what I thought. I had never thought.

Oh, I never thought that in my life. No, didn't occur to me. Oh, wow. So, you thought they were right. Did you think they were in the house?

Yeah, I thought they were in a home. Oh, no. I thought they were [ __ ] in the furniture store.

I guess that's the kind of perverts June and I are. cuz cuz um she the wife tempts the husband by going I got these clean white underwear and bra like not like

and he's like finally it's they were my favorite ad of a like a like a Hannes ad like that's how sexy this outfit is. I mean you know um all right here we go this is how it goes. Lady, you uh got a license for that outfit?

Why? Uh no, officer. I guess you're just going to have to take me in. So, they present themselves now.

Now, I see furniture store across the store. They are 7 ft away from these people store. Now, I will just say before we continue the next part, like they're roleplaying in a group sex. Like there's an orgy like we're going to role play. So vulnerable. Here's the thing. That's what's crazy about the idea that they're not teenagers.

Like if these people are, I don't know, like 25 even even in their 20s. I find this really strange.

What are they talking within 6 ft of each other? I find it odd. Why does a married couple have to go to a furniture store to [ __ ]

Why are Why are they married? Why are they married and if they're m and if they are married, which I am I suspect is not true. No, why are they still hanging out with the furniture store crew?

And why do they go home? Go home. Go to your home. Here's the thing. What's set up early on is that I don't Jenny or Jesse or someone's having a crazy party at the furniture store,

which is like six people. Well, that that woman, the married woman says, "We have to go to support her."

Oh, okay. Cuz she she gets so insecure about her parties at the furniture store.

The turnout. No one ever comes. I'll tell you what, I really liked Suz in the beginning, but she really goes crazy. Um, also, also, guys, heads up. If if your girl is still fully dressed, don't get down to your boxers. like don't you be in your boxers while she's still fully dressed. It's just it's a little eager.

The camera The camera now has panned over just a handful of feet to couple number two where this amazing interaction happens.

I like pepperoni. Oh wait. Oh. Oh my god. You smell like pepperoni. Well, that's the way you feel. Wait a minute.

What? I like pepperoni. Oh, in that case. So many bracelets. Mhm. Now, hold on.

Why did she start humming? This is WHY HERE'S what I think. I have a theory about this. I have a theory. The actress went up to the director and the scene ends as written. The scene ends with, "I like the smell of pepperoni." And then they're supposed to do it. She went up to the director and she said,

"Hey, here's the thing. I'm a singer. Can we do a take where I face out, I start humming a a like blues ballad and and then but I will sing and then you'll have that in the movie and then that will make the scene that much more romantic and sexy."

Do you have a theory about what happened next? He said, "Yes." I have a I have a I have a theory. I have a theory. So, you say that to me, I'll be the guy.

Okay. Um Oh, wait. Are you the director? Yeah, I'm the director. Okay. Hi. Um this is so fun. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

You're doing great, kid. You're doing great. Thank you. Um, I don't know if you know this, I'm a singer and I really think it would enhance the scene.

Uhhuh. If I were to, um, I don't know. At some point when he says I smell like pepperoni, I'm insulted, obviously. And I

I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm sorry. Hey, we have to shoot 95 more pages in the next hour.

Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. Thanks. Um, and anyway, so I was thinking I would just enhance the scene by like stepping out and like sort of having like a moment of being heard

and then I'll just disrobe, but I I'll hum a blues ball. You're going to hum a blues ball? Okay, great. As long as you pull your tits out, you can do whatever you want, sweetie.

You got a deal, mister. As long as you as long as you pull those B cups out, you can do whatever the [ __ ] you want.

Cups. This is the crazy thing about this song. You're right. It's like a lullabi

and what it all it sort of reads as though she's the character needs to kind of get herself

psyched up cuz she's like well she later is proven to be a straight up crazy person.

Um and then all right so then the camera pans from them as it goes over to a guy going down on his girlfriend.

No, he's trying to or trying to Michael, what now? You know I don't allow that. Well,

you allowed it last week, didn't you? What do you You know I don't allow that. I seem to recall.

That's right. Just another lady out there telling another guy how much she hates being gone down on.

I mean, I I have to say she may just be uncomfortable with it in a furniture store.

Yeah. Which I can understand. reps. Or maybe or maybe she just keeps finding gum IN HER [ __ ]

I KNOW HE NEVER STOPS CHEWING GUM. And it's like IT'S LIKE LISTEN, YOU KNOW I love it, but I don't allow it from you because you keep I got toxic toxic shock twice last year because there was gum in my [ __ ] [ __ ] this guy chewed so much gum. It's bananas. Um, she's like, I found a golf ball size big league chew.

Again, adding to my thing that everyone is discussing. And I think the idea is that the script was probably pretty bad. And everyone's like, I'm going to dress up this character. I'm going to give my Everyone's like, I'm going to give my character like a a thing.

Yeah. A thing. Like, what do I got? Like a little tick. Like a character thing.

And you think that there's a commentary there's three commentary tracks to this movie. Um, but I will let this one just

Wait, are they from Protector 1, Protector 2, and Protector 3? It's just a lot of choo choo.

Have a nice day. Have a nice day. I remember when we were shooting this scene. Have a nice day.

It was so hot on set this day. Have a nice day. All three of them are real estate agents now. They're great. Um, all right. So, this is um this is just great. a little insight.

You'll notice he is chewing gum in every scene. I mean, when he's in bed with the very, very attractive Susie Slater, he is chewing gum. He was chewing four four or five sticks at a time.

And it's really annoying and it's really funny and that's all because of John. He's an incredibly inventive actor.

But I agree. I thought John was an excellent actor. That that was my opinion. I was like, "This John guy is good."

He look, he made a choice. He's really good. I wanted to ask you guys about this thing because I I was confused about this. The um the full body lace leotard. Is that was that ever a thing? Like

it's actually a back. Oh, yeah. Like a bodysuit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That All right, then. That's normal.

All right. Cuz that checks out. I I didn't I never saw it. Look, I never saw stepping in and pulling up a lace.

Keep in mind that scene is at the shopping mall. The locker room at the shopping mall.

Um, there is where everybody from the mall just showers up and hangs out. See, I thought that locker room was just for the pizza place employees.

Really? Now that's even crazier. You're right. THAT'S THAT'S CAN YOU imagine the a pizza restaurant? Can you imagine working a shift at even pizzeria

where the front of the house looks like what we already saw? The guy's wiping his spatula on his thing and there is a fullon spa level locker room where people are just hanging out.

Oh, I would love that. Um there there's so much to kind of get into. I do like I do well you okay short circuiting.

Well I lasers killed four people in the audience. Um well and also like okay I love I loved that they had the idea sneak out through the vents. Well it's that okay it's that thing of like it was like they wanted it to be teenagers but it wasn't. And the idea that the first thing they decide to do is we need to get some weapons. The the guys are like, "We need to get guns." And that they go off and send the women into the heating vents. And then it they get overheated in less than a minute.

In less than one minute, it's as if the heating vent is 500° and they are being cooked inside.

They could They said the heat was turned up. Yeah, sure. And and look and the heat in those two people across heating vents really get hot. Like I've never seen that like I think they didn't figure out like the heating vents not that wide to be able to be like two people shoulder by shoulder. That's a lot. That's a

that's like a like a 5 foot wide heating vent. That seems big to me, right? Like Bruce Willis is in there and die hard and I feel like that's like it's it's supposed to be small.

This is a mall. Yeah, maybe you're right. A lot of area. Yeah. and a lot of just like very um easily accessible firearms.

They literally stores they haven't seen a paint store in a month off a discount rack. It says 30% off and the guy picks up a handgun. Like there's no case there. Like there's no there's no like they don't even pretend to go behind the counter. It's like it's like front of store items.

It's like where an impulse buy is. Yeah. It's like where they put like M&M's and stuff because you're like, "Ah, [ __ ] it."

Except that it's like a shotgun. A rack of shotguns. And then and the bullets seem close by, too. Oh, yeah. They don't search for anything. Like, load that [ __ ] up. One, two, three.

How do the robots find the humans? I don't know how they found them. They because they're they're patrolling each floor.

What's that? They're patrolling each floor, right? But what about do they smell them or

I think they can hear them but not very well because they get into a gunfight at one point with one of them. The other two don't show up.

Well, this is the interesting thing because to me the the at the very end of the movie not to jump forward, but the woman

No spoilers, Jim. The woman the our final gal saves herself just simply by hiding under a shelf. And

they could have done this the whole time. just all gotten under a table somewhere.

Here's the thing. The robots in front of them stayed there. The robots weren't looking for them,

right? They were going and finding the robots cuz the robots were just patrolling and killing anyone on patrol.

All they needed to do is them. What's that? I The robots were just doing them. They were doing themselves as robots. They weren't really looking for

So you're on the robot side kind of. Yeah. Well, this is Do you understand how big this is?

No, it's huge. That you were on the side of robots, your sworn enemies. It did really feel though that they were trying to rile the robots up.

Hey, I were possessed. All they had to do was hide until morning. That's it. All they had to do was hide until morning. Yeah,

which they easily could have done, but they didn't know that in any store under any display,

but they didn't know that because the minute they went to go hide, the robots kept on like lasering through doors to like go get them. I would love it too when the robots would hide somewhere and then like like when the one robot killed Gum Chewer and then like set his body so and she came and was like, "Oh my god, OH MY GOD, YOU'RE DEAD." AND then the robot was like, "Haha, I'm here." Like the robots had like real dramatic flourish to them. The robots seemingly also open door. Like their hands never seem to open doors, but the like there's one door that clearly looks like it should be opened by being pushed, but they're they just kind of like I wonder if I have that clip, but they I don't know if there's a tele.

Can you wait one second? Yeah, please. How do I know that actor? Well, I had the same.

Somebody tell me what movie from my childhood I know him from. I had the same thing. He is kind of around in like the I think a Jason movie, but I found it to be more interesting about where he is now.

Where is he now? He is um this gentleman. Oh, what are we going to see? Whoa. By the way,

by the way, I'm on board. He is uh he has a head shot up on his IMDb. His shirt is not a head shot.

Um his pecs are out. He's a silver fox. Uh is that a dad bod? No. Oh god. No. That's not a dad bot.

No. Okay. I'm still trying to still trying to hone in on exactly what a dad bot is.

That's like a um a Well, he's like that's a hunky bot, right? Does he have a Yeah,

we're still calling these guys hunks, right? He is uh he is now a talent uh agent. Um

what if that was your agent picture like that for your agent? What if you were like, "Hey man, I want you to keep repping me, but like you got to take those shots down. It's like it's super weird."

Yeah. Um but I think he is on General Hospital, too. I feel like Yeah. But I I I He looks so familiar to me, but I think he just looks like somebody else.

Um Well, he looks like John Travolta a bit. Yeah. So, every time you're kind of looking at him.

Sure. A little bit like Jason Gedric, Iron Eagle. Oh, yeah. How about that? This is Whenever they do come into contact with the robots, they get into this like firefight with them and it seems like a lot of firepower is being thrown at each other and it always is missing. Here's

nobody nobody uses. Yeah. They're just openly firing at this robot and seemingly hitting. And then the lasers are there's so many lasers that are everyone's a bad shot in this movie. Like so many lasers not hitting. Um, what I can't The tragic thing is this movie features people constantly just standing in the line of fire and not getting out of the way. Really? Well, I have a lot of issues with the way that people react when one of their friends catches fire.

I had that, too. They just like, "Oh, what a shame." They look they stare they stare their friend down like

and she and she's watch her burn. But by the way, that's Suzy or Suz. And you know what? It's her fault. They were safe in the heat ducts.

But there was a long time where she was she was laying in the middle of the floor like this.

Oh my god. Yes. She could have crawled away. Yeah. While while the robot slowly lumbers towards her from behind.

[screaming] [screaming] I thought it was going to like run her over. That's what I thought.

As if that was the setup, but I'm sure the robot couldn't do that. Um, and so instead it shoots a laser at the kerosene can she's carrying and she goes up in flames.

And she goes up in flames and no one does a godamn because they look at it. guys because I think what they realized is like

this lady's bringing us down. She's having a she's having panic attacks left and right. Like we're going to let her go right now.

Yes. And we're going to honor her from 10 ft away and watch her body burn out respectfully.

Yes. Watch her burn out. I think you're right. I 100% think you're right. I would love to just straight up rewatch this whole movie right now. Um, the also Oh man. Uh, I also like when they do kill one of the robots, he's like, "What's that?" And the guy's like, "Robot blood."

Oh, yeah. What? No, it is not. The crazy thing about this gang of friends, too, is whenever someone gets upset, like when the brunette woman has some sort of a moment where she's yelling at her husband or something.

Oh my god. They immediately immediately cover it with I'm so sorry. I'm just I guess it's just the situation.

She says this. She says this exact line. I guess I'm just not used to being chased around the mall all night by killer robots. I

I literally I just literally just pulled that up. It is the dumbest line of all unbelievable

cuz one of their friends like we're dead meat. I think you're you're you're freaking out. It's like really your friends have been killed. I just want before you press play. These jeans are too high-waisted.

First of all, they're khakis. They're khakis. These these Oh, these they're khakis.

These khakis are too high-waisted. By the way, I know women love high-waisted pants. It's got to stop.

Really? This is This is Wait, hold on. Jason, who sir, have you ever tried to wear low? I can see everything in this.

I also think she has an issue with clothing. I think she just likes tight and high clothing cuz she at one point gets injured on her arm, does not take off her sweater, just wraps her sweatered arm where the injury is. So she's put a bandage over her sweater where the wound is and then and then so it's bleeding through the sweater which is then bleeding through the bandage. Like

that is, by the way, a shorefire way to get a a wound infected. Yeah. Well, even before this scene, as soon as they're attacked in the furniture store, I mean, the women are all half naked, and as soon as they're attacked and like run to the back room, they all start putting on their shirts. They've all been [ __ ] in front of their very close friends, half naked, and like then get dressed for the robots.

Yeah. Well, they their their life they got to get out of the mall. Oh, they got to go. They got to go get a

But I agree with June. I agree with June. The rest of the movie they should have been naked.

I agree. I also think like June, the movie would have been better if the women didn't wear tops at all.

What I'm saying is like, ladies, once the tops came out of this mall, don't bother putting a top on. Let those things flop around. Get out of here. Get your priorities. June and I are on THE SAME PAGE ABOUT THIS.

FINALLY. FINALLY. UM, WELL, let's let's let's hear the dumbest line of all time.

I guess I'm just not used to being chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots.

Um, good boyfriend. My my favorite part is same same character uh brunette um is at one point has a calculator and is making calculations.

I got that too. And you have that too. Okay, good. I mean, you could explain it either way.

This I could not I couldn't understand what this was even about. I feel like this

before this scene when they're driving to the mall, they're in I think Okay, and correct me if I'm wrong. They have started a business with their wedding money.

Correct. Auto repair. Auto repair business, the two of them. And she's great at it and he's not so great. And I think I think

because I think what we're supposed to think is because they're not that great at it that the business is not doing that well,

but they're still going to try to have a fun night, right? I thought it was we spent all of our money on this auto repair shop. We can't go out and party, so let's go [ __ ] in a mall.

That's what I like that that's what I I thought I was like, we spent all our wedding money opening this business.

Oh, so you're saying they couldn't like go out to dinner? Yeah. I felt like they spent all their wedding money on the business and so now had to like [ __ ] in front of other people for money.

But I'm serious. What is this? Well, what is she calculating? Well, I think this is her having a mental breakdown. Um, but here like uh I have a theory here. According to my calculations, provided we survive the night, of course, we're going to be in hog to this place for the next 85 years.

How many tuneups is that? Just a sec. She's so annoyed that he asked 2 million 900,431.

Maybe we should raise our rates. That's That's the We're going to need a bigger boat of this movie.

What is she saying in the beginning of that? That she's 85 years. What did she say?

Now I think I got I got it. I know it. Yeah. Yeah. I think she thinks that they are going to they are going to be financially responsible for the damage to the mall. Look at the damage done to the mall by the robots that have literally murdered their friends. They should not be small business owners.

This is what's so so while hiding from the killer robots, she is calculating their financial responsibility. She's so convinced they're going to get [ __ ] somehow by the system. She's like, if we manage to survive the night against killer robots, we're for sure going to have to pay for the damage to them all.

Well, that's why I will, you know, not be responsible. We're going to be rich. for life.

But that's why I feel like she's having a clear mental break. It's like, should we just hide here? Well, I'll just calculate how much. And that means that she's also calculating damage. Like, we blew up that cigarette machine.

Flower vase. And say, it doesn't even look like she's hitting a calculator either. It looks like she's just tapping a notebook.

But look, uh, it's it's not even a long form calculator. So, that means that she's not made a single mistake. She's like 200 like it's like it's like it's a very basic calculator. Um well look I think that they basically were like hey look we need this scene because the movie right now is coming at 64 minutes. So by

by this logic she could just as easily be like oh no we killed that janitor. We did this like like she's taking personal responsibility for everything. And I thought for sure there that her mechanic skills were going to come back at some point to dismantle a robot. That never happened.

WELL, THEY DON'T EVEN LET THE girl who's good at shooting [ __ ] shoot a gun after she's shown like she can like sharp shoot like bam, it explodes. Then the next thing when everyone's shooting guns, she's like standing there without a gun like cowering behind a mannequin. It's like give her the [ __ ] gun. I've got another question. when they're like when it's her idea smartly to create a diversion using the mannequins, why are they hidden amongst the mannequins? If your idea is, let's put the mannequins out so the robots shoot the mannequins. Don't mix yourselves in cuz it's it's the mannequins allow you to go hide. THAT'S THE POINT. YOU'RE NOT LIKE, "OOH, now we're camouflaged within." CUZ THEY'LL JUST SHOOT EVERYTHING. What are you stupid? [ __ ] GO HIDE SOMEWHERE.

AND THEY'RE ALL like you [ __ ] [ __ ] Listen, I think when you know it's a mall movie, you expect that our characters are going to be pretending to be mannequins at some point. I think they worked backwards for a

This movie this movie needed more music. I feel like this movie needed more like weird '8s music. I mean, this is like this is rejected John Carpenter music. It's like it's like Yeah.

Um I do before we go to the audience cuz there's more to talk about. But I do want to talk about

montage. What? Like the opening montage? Well, the opening montage I want to talk about.

Yeah, that opening montage. Well, let's talk about that then cuz I wanted to Can anyone describe why the dads were fighting over the video game thing? Like so a kid is playing a video game. A dad or I assume a dad knocks the kid out. Then he starts playing. Then another dad's like, "Get out of there." And he starts playing. It just seemed like an odd like commentary on like is that what was happening in the video game places of

things that happen in a mall? You know, I guess it felt like the whole opening was okay, this is, you know, consumerism at its height, but it's also like clumsiness at its height. Like this is the the age of, you know, excess and also like we all forgot how to walk. Well, especially when you see some big boobs, like when those women in bikinis come out, the guy is like carrying a bunch of boxes like go. He falls and then he's like he's like a dog that eyes pop out of his head like an old like Tex Avery cartoon. He's like LIKE

I don't even understand that instinct of like a guy like like you know walking down I that's not a real that does not happen. I would love it if like the guy saw the women on the escar and just like [ __ ] his pants was just like [screaming] [groaning] like that's the equivalent of what's happening. He's just

and who were those women by the way? It was like a beauty competition and I do think at the mall

but they do do like they do they do guys they do do like modeling like searches and stuff.

Oh okay Mary I would buy that. I would buy that. That's a good segue. How were you discovered?

Well, there I was. I did work at House of Almonds. At House of Almonds. I did work at a Discovery Channel popup store in a mall.

Brad, and there was a locker room. Oh, wow. There was um was there a luggage tent in the middle of the mall floor that just in case you fell from an upper story, the the empty luggage would

also had stuffed animals in the tent. It was full of stuffed animals. Our hero falls off into a just oddly play. Not a luggage store, just like a a luggage popup because that's the most common thing that you would maybe have in a mall, a luggage store.

Oh yeah. Oh my god. Oh, I do want to talk about this is the thing that blew my mind. So whenever the robots would kill somebody like, "Thank you. Have a nice day." Right? They would say that. So, when our lead actress kills the robot that gets them all dead at the end, she says, "Have a nice day." And to me, I'm like, "Wouldn't you want to subvert it? Wouldn't you want to like like there's nothing clever about it?

I did have a nice day." Yeah. Or like, "Yeah, like have a nice life." Like, you know, like it's just simply like, "Oh, yeah, you said that. Now I say that." like like if

it's not even the full phrase either. Well, and also I couldn't understand why they were programmed to say have a nice day if they are

they're not robot. They're not like welcome robots at the mall. Customer service. They are only there

and they're only working at night. They're only there at night to catch thieves.

I agree. I did think though that that final line like I feel like they didn't nobody had like a line like you buck bolts like you know go back you know now you're on the discount rack like there's a million things you could say or like you know like I always thought you needed another coat of paint like whatever the thing was how many of these did you write two let me get my calculator out 2,415 No but it's like that. Like it just is so antilimactic. And then she walks away from saying her have a nice day line with that limp. And I really thought for a moment thought it was going to be like usual suspects like a Kaiser So moment where that limp went away and she was like the robots were all my idea. I

I'm a robot and lasers come out of her eyes. Um but yeah, the ending is really uh

antilimactic. I mean, they kill it and then the guy that they think is dead, it's like, "Nope, I I was fine."

And toilet paper. Toilet paper. And the only people who did not have sex survived the movie.

And that's how it should be. The foreigners were punished by the robot gods. Well, let's go into the crowd and let's talk to them about uh some stuff. All right, here we go. Oh my gosh, you are uh you've done this show, you've sang our song so many times. Let's see. Uh uh sir, your your name uh your title for this film and besides Chopping Mall and your question,

my name's Tim. I'd go with the original title Killbots. Yes. The movie was called Killbots. It was released in the theaters and then pulled because no one wanted to see a movie called Killbots. They released it a few months later as Chopping M was much more successful.

Uh, and the doctor that you talked about who's at the top of the movie, his name is Dr. Carrington. And I was wondering if it's possible that he's the father of Michael Carrington. And this is a shared universe with Greece, too.

Wow. Talk amongst yourselves up there. I mean, I'd say maybe, but he wasn't British and Michael is, so it just doesn't seem likely. So, stupid question, Tim. Stupid question. So, uh, next question. Let's see. Next question. What's your name, your alternate title, and your question?

Uh, my name's Chris. The alternate title, I think, should be um laserbots. Laserbots. Got it. Love it.

Cuz they didn't chop anybody. You're right. They did not chop. Uh, I was just sometimes throat punctured. Puncture bots.

They uh they roadhouse that first guy. Yeah, there's a lot of throat ripping and I don't understand why they wouldn't just use lasers at all to

always always use a laser. Well, I guess I don't also know like what what would a chop be?

Well, like a like a slicing them up. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. I was just wondering if they had any lawsuits from all the bigname advertisements that were in the movie like GE and Coca-Cola and all those.

Yeah. Nothing was covered in the movie. like nothing at all was I think all those companies were happy to have this uh as a rep a representation of their product especially probably the paint company that's like apparently our paint is incredibly flammable

and so many different shades. Look at all the different shades. That's not a good not a good sign for like somebody redoing their house.

I mean that store blew up. It really did. That was the one shot that was and how I mean she in what I'm going to say 1 and 1/2 minutes emptied 70 gallons of paint. They quick quick cut to her being like crank crank. She opened so much paint.

Um okay, your name, your alternate title, and your question. Uh my name is Bri. I'd go with furniture store [ __ ] sesh interrupted.

Say it again. Wait, what is it? furniture store. [ __ ] sesh interrupted. Okay,

it's a longer title, but I like it. I like [ __ ] sesh interrupted. What guest appearance from another How Did This Get Made U movie Allstar would be better to help improve the film? Would it be a Jean Simmons character in Runaway or Hollywood Mantros from Mannequin 2 on the Move?

Oh, wow. This is interesting. So, we've done a few mallbased films. Who would we like to see? or mall based and robot based movie. [clears throat] So we have Jean Simmons as the evil inventor of the spider robot from the Tom Sull movie.

I will say I I I don't I don't know that I would choose Hollywood, but I would have loved it if one of the characters in this movie was a come to life mannequin in the mall. So if if they were at the f the furniture store and were like and then one of the uh mannequins was just like I'm here too. Let's do it.

What if when the robots were firing at the mannequins, one came to life? Like, ah, I'M GOING TO DIE.

LIKE, there here's things I want. I don't want Aliens versus Predator. I want mannequin versus robot. Okay. Uh, MBR. Okay. So, uh, your name, your alternate title, and your

name is Robert. Alternate title would be Chop Till You Drop. Oo, like Oh, I like that one. Good.

So, there's no chopping. It's more pinching. Yeah. Okay. But I'll take it. Yeah.

And my question is, would the robots Are the robots possessed? Because like they're totally [ __ ] with that guy in the beginning of the movie, the guy in like inside the security station. What's going on with that?

That's I don't think they're possessed. I just think they're hil They think they're hilarious. That's what I meant by they kept like looking at each other like, "Get a load of this."

I also like the guy holding up a centerfold and just like, "Oh yeah." Did that does that happen at work?

[ __ ] yeah. But I think what your question speaks to a larger point and what you were saying too, Jason, like the ro the personality of the robots, it's hard to pin down cuz they don't I can't I'm going to say this. They don't feel evil to me.

Wow. It doesn't feel like their motivations are from someone who questioned the moral goodness of BB8.

I know. You are on board for three murderous robots. I think they felt misunderstood. Question mark.

They felt like spoiled brats, you know, but they didn't. So they were the teenagers of the movie.

Yes. They felt like teens, like a bunch of male, white male teens. That's the teen [ __ ]

That's the teen [ __ ] So they weren't invited to the [ __ ] so they went out. Interesting.

All right, we've uncovered something. I don't know what. Uh sir, your name, your alternate title, and your question.

My name is Bill. Al alternate title is Mall of Kill America. Question is, during the scene that they had the furniture stogy,

they a lot of good. It [ __ ] works. A lot of good [ __ ] works. Lot of good planning over here.

Doesn't it feel good to say? Doesn't it feel great to say? So storgy. the the song that was playing during that when they were dancing was a song called Street Walking

followed up with the line it's the best that I can do which is the theme for Roger Corman Street Walking

movie as well. So this is also a shared universe with street walking. Wow. All right. So we're going deep into the Roger Corman everything here.

The Corman verse that I love that uh street walking. You know, the one thing the one thing that I noticed in this movie too, and it's just again goes to like the laziness of some moments of it, some all of it is um there's a PA announcement was like, "Uh, attention. There's a lost child in the lingerie department." And then they go, "Answers to the name Steven." Answers to the name. So that mean that means somebody was like Mark, Peter, Billy, William, Frank Mitch Glenn Gary Marcus,

Ross. Why would you ever go like what when you But even when it finally works, when you go, whose name is Stephen? Through process of elimination, we found out.

I think I've done everything. It was Steven. Yes, it's Steven. Um, by the way, smart kid. Found him in the lingerie department.

Um, gets it. Your name, your all title, and your question. Uh, my name is Cesaly, and I don't really have a good title, like easily avoidable decisions, the film. Um, and then I just wanted to point out that on the Wikipedia page, there's a blurb where it says that it's one of the only films where when they aired it on TV, they had to make it longer by like 20 minutes. Like they extended it to a 90minute film. That is amazing.

What? Because it couldn't make I guess the they probably have a 2-hour slot that TV needs to fill.

So full credits and everything and commercials. Yeah. And opening montage. Well, it's only it's only 77 minutes. So even a 90minute movie is the normal 2hour filler.

That's crazy. What where did they find this extra footage? They they added like the scene where like the virgins are watching the old movie. Like they just extended that for a really long time.

Just watch. They showed they showed 11 minutes of that movie. You saw and you saw the third act of a monster movie just close up on a television in the in the in the furniture store. Who who has a good question? We have one last question tonight. By the way, everybody asking questions are getting some comic books from our friends over at Coliseum of Comics and also Zenes from Daniel Joel Catz uh who makes his own zenes about movies. Who has a good one? Who feels really confident? Oh, wow. This guy feels really confident. All right. No, no animated hands. All right. All right.

I'm going to take you cuz you have a book. I see a book. Books always make me feel like there is some thought here. All right. Let's see.

Oh, and a blazer. And a book and a blazer. All right. Let's see. All right, sir. Here you go. your name, your all.

We're going to Largo. I wore a blazer. I like it. It's respectful and a pocket.

I want people to start dressing up as the characters from these movies when they come here, but you didn't do that. Here you go.

Uh name's Brian. Uh Rambo Graham. Okay, great. So, I was I want to bring up the women in the beginning with the bikinis. They're in sashes and what they said were the Park Plaza Mall, the future is now, have a ball, and take the kids. So they were like a walking advertisement for the mall.

That's amaz The future is now. What if you just like saw them wandering independently? So there's just a woman with a sash that says take the kids.

Yeah, they have some creeps like I got the go-ahad. I got the go-ahad that I've been looking for. I finally got a message from God. Um, take the kids. Uh, this is the original poster for Killbots. Just a big picture of the robot, which they clearly then just replace with a mall. Obviously, we had an opinion about this film, but there are other people out there that had a different opinion. It's now time for second opinions. Here's David and Kate. I have an opinion, but here it does not matter at how did this get made. Second opinions are much better. Amazon has them all. Paul reads them out with glee.

Second opinion bring much joy to all of you and me. Kumate. And now here's Kate.

Hey. Hey. Just saw a really bad movie. Hey. Hey. It couldn't end too soon. Hey. Hey. It was a super bad movie, but I do just about anything for Jason, Paul, and June. Now, I've got an opinion, and it's pretty low, but there's just some people for whom that isn't. So, this is their opinion, their second opinion.

Amazing. Wow. Good job. Both winners. Holy moly. That's how it's done. That is how it is done.

Kate, David. Amazing. Wow. Those were awesome. Holy cow. That was uh that was just great. Um

a lot of people are going to be driving home tonight really angry. Like you should have gotten up there.

No. No. YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO. YOU SHOULD HAVE. That's the way to come. Come with some lyrics. Come with that was awesome. Very good.

Great. All right. So, obviously second opinions here were a little bit hard. Still waiting for a full band to show up someday.

Does anybody have anything like people like with saxophones and guitars? Where can we set up? Um, all right. This one is from

Can we get a sound check? This one here is from uh Robin B. McGor. Uh, this was back in 2013. Security robots, yes, they sound good. Trained to kill and shoot all trespassers, even forget to listen to all orders and commands. sound like little terrors to me. Well, on the first night, they do their job at a shopping mall that has some shop assistants staying for a bit of fun. The fun you do when your folks aren't home to interrupt your basic needs. When your folks aren't home at the mall. And then, uh, first class entertainment that will not be forgotten too soon.

Different and surprisingly marvelous to watch. plenty of action and suspense that you wonder where the little horrors are. So, you have to be on your toes at all times. Sit and relax, grab the popcorn, put your feet up, and I rate this an A+ grade for an unforgettable enjoyment of a wonderful show.

It's an odd a wonderful show. A wonderful show. And seems to have like this like idea like these little terrors getting in and mixing it up.

These scamps. Yeah. Um um this is the one encourageable killbots. This one like got me a little bit like I I want to unpack it a little bit. This is a uh this one was just written as one of my all-time favorite '8s horror movies. It's been a while since I last saw this movie and it still gives me that guilty pleasure of seeing robots kill those teenagers.

Uh-oh. That's not a guilty pleasure. That's a red flag, my friend. Just like the feeling I get when I put kittens into buckets of water, this movie makes me feel what other people call alive and then goes, "Favorite scene was when the girl gets her head blown off by the laser beam." Dot dot dot. Love it. So, if you

dot dot dot, I directed this movie. I'm a creep. If you uh ever encounter Robas, beware. Um uh all right. And then finally, uh this is from the Sultan of Sexy. Um

I believe it. F. It goes like this. If you were in your 20s back when this came out, like I was, all you cared about was how much skin you saw and how much gore got thrown at you. There could have been a bit more skin, but I guess we can't have anything. Everything. Um it's worth the money even if Miss [ __ ] kept her clothes on. Darn it. Five stars.

So, there we go. Were these all written by the director? These oddly also are all written within the the late 2000s. This was written in 2010. That last one, the guy who likes to see teenagers get killed. That was in 2017. And then the first one was in 2013. These people were checking into this movie a little bit later. Um, well, I think we talked about everything there is to talk about. We really got a whole uh viewpoint in here, but let's talk about what everyone's got going on. Mary, uh, what do you want to plug?

Um, you can follow me on uh, Twitter, mholland85, and I post about uh, shows that I'm doing here at Largo and at UCB and um, other other things coming up. General,

you're going to be on VEP this season, which is very exciting. Yes, VEP this season. I did an episode of Drive Share. Yes, which is on the show that Rob and I did, Rob People and I. And that's on Go90. Yeah. Super fun stuff.

Yeah. June breaking comes out March 24th, the third season. It'll be out by the time this is out. Yes, that'll be good. And then Jason.

Yeah, I ain't got nothing. All right. Uh, a big thank you uh to Brett Morris up in the booth. Everybody here at Largo Largo or Largo? Uh, everybody here at Largo Flanny changed the name. Largo.

Largo. Averil Hley who pulled all these amazing clips uh and listened to all these commentaries. July Diaz, Nate Kylie, Kelly Alto, Lyanna Waldron, and uh everybody at Earwolf. Thank you so much. And thank you for all for coming tonight. So great. THANK YOU TO DAVID AND KATE FOR SINGING THE SONGS.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)"?

Paul Scheer (Host), Jason Mantzoukas (Host), June Diane Raphael (Host), Mary Holland (Guest).

What is "Chopping Mall LIVE! w/ Mary Holland (HDTGM Matinee)" about?

"Chopping Mall" explores the chaos unleashed when a group of teenagers is trapped in a furniture store with malfunctioning security robots, leading to a night of absurd horror and humor. The film examines themes of consumerism, youth rebellion, and the ridiculousness of 1980s cinematic tropes, highlighted by a lively discussion among its viewers about its cult status and memorable moments.

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The episode runs 1 h 12 min; the transcript is about 12,740 words in 346 timestamped sections.

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