Glen

Really? I don't know.

[laughs] I thought Glen or Glenda was-

[laughs]

... was pretty cute.

I love, I, we, oh, we can't wait to talk about non-binary icon.

Oh, well actually, I will make an argument that Glen/Glenda is not a non-binary icon, but rather a bigender icon.

Okay.

I don't know what bigender is.

Okie dokie, let's see the IMDb logline, please.

"Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent gender-confused child, Glen/Glenda, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the killer doll's murder spree is underway." As always, very concise and neat.

So the movie opens with sperm running through a canal, a vaginal canal assumed, but you know, you never know.

Um, uh, no, actually, we do know because it finds an egg in the end.

Chucky thinks that Shitface is a boy.

Tiffany thinks that Shitface is a girl.

They're like, "What are you?" So they pull down its pants, and he's smooth like a, a Ken doll down there, and they're like, "Okie dokie." So Chucky decides that he's a boy and calls him Glen.

Tiffany decides that she's a girl, names her Glenda.

She doesn't have to be a major part, but she has to show up.

And I really had hoped we were setting up for a trio and that Glen was gonna be a whole thing, but they weren't.

Looked good.

I mean, I watched this three-minute, uh, Chucky family vacation where tho- those three go off on a little family vacation.

Who woulda, who coulda known? Damballa.

Okay.

You think about it, Glen and, and Glenda are under, are Damballa's kids.

Do a Jesus storyline but with them.

Wow, it's taken us this long? 17 years? Anyway, [laughs] uh, uh, th- that we are gonna be tackling the fifth movie of the series, 2004, The Seed of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Billy Boyd, and Redman.

IMDb breaks down the plot like this, "Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their innocent gender-confused child," oh, God, "Glen/Glenda, and hit Hollywood, where a movie depicting the Killer Doll's murder spree is underway." Oh, I love it.

I love a meta film.

Rotten Tomatoes, uh, rates this film a 36 on the Tomatometer, and Carla Meyer from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Were there an award for the most bizarre and dispiriting comedy-horror hybrid featuring killer dolls, the latest installment in the Child's Play series would have it locked up." Well, that's a real mouthful there from Carla.

I mean, did that wake her up, or did the [laughs] or did the sound of her mom screaming as she died wake her up, you know? Both.

But who cares about that? Glen and Glenda are dead.

We found them dead in the hospital- Well- ... after- After Jennifer Tilly- Jennifer Tilly's best acting performance ever ... uh, she joined the cast of Scrubs.

Yeah, I'm a doctor.

Hey.

Hey.

And it's like, oh, yeah, we're doing the ritual, but the whole time I'm like, "Are we putting just Glen in the doll? Are we doing both?" You gotta do both.

Glenda, Glenda's like, "You know what? Maybe I am evil for a second, even though I've been saying I wasn't," and decides to take the knocked out guard and go ahead and, uh, use the defri- defibrillators.

We also- This is my, this is my son and daughter, Brendan.

[laughs] It used to be in one- This is Glen and Glenda ...

it used to be one person in a doll.

[laughs] They're from a d- they're from Japan- In a doll ...

[laughs]

Yeah.

And let's see, Glenda gets a lot more screen time in this episode, 'cause sh- now we get to see from her angle, 'cause in the last one Glen was with Jennifer Tilly.

Glenda's with Nica and Kyle, and trying to come to grips with, uh, their father being in Nica, and that's when they get, they're like, "Yeah, we're gonna get you out of there." And, uh, I'm kinda with who, who said it later? Someone said it, it's like, "I didn't really know what side you were on." Maybe Nica said it to her, to Glenda.

So Tiffany in this one is supposed to...

Or it's either Tiffany or the doll is also supposed to mention what has happened to Glen and Glenda, uh, but that got cut.

We'll find that out later 'cause they were, they were also just in human form, two separate kids.

They weren't...

He doesn't have multiple souls in him.

We don't know that.

Do we know that Glen and Glenda actually had multiple souls?

We do because they're in two different people.

Tilly’s performance was instantly iconic, adding a new twist that revitalized the franchise.

Then several years later, 2004, Seed of Chucky expanded the family with Glen/Glenda, voiced by Billy Boyd.

The film embraced meta-comedy and Hollywood satire, earning polarized reactions, but becoming a cult favorite for its boldness.

Then several years later, the franchise pivoted again with Curse of Chucky in 2013.