John Vernon

Yes.

John Vernon.

John Vernon.

My heart.

From point blank.

Okay, yeah.

John Vernon.

Yes.

Born Adolphus.

Hard Bodies on Tubi, which I had, it was one of those ones I saw when I was, you know, late at night when I was younger, but I never sat down to watch and study the whole movie of Hard Bodies, but other than those three losers who hire Grant Kramer, who's in Killer Clowns, who was at the Monsterpalooza last year, which inspired me to finally watch Killer Clowns, which I had never seen for whatever reason, because it just sounded goofy.

But John Vernon in that is hilarious, and those colors, those crazy colors in their lair, and it was so wacky.

Those brothers, is it the Chiato brothers? They're at every, not every con, but they've been there a lot, and people line up for them.

And the girl from, well, I'll get to this in a second, but the girl from Return of the Living Dead 2 is... is the female lead from Killer Clowns, and she was in Weird Science, but I'll talk about that momentarily.

Yeah, you had

Stephen First and John Vernon.

Yeah, yeah.

Bruce McGill, D-Day.

In the movie Dirty Harry, there was another actor that played the mayor.

His name was John Vernon.

He was usually a bad guy.

But in other movies, he was a very, very funny guy.

But in this movie, John Vernon was the worst guy of all.

Burn, who is this man?

This year, we're going to grab the bull by the balls and kick those punks off campus.

What movie was that, Byrne? That is Animal House.

And this is Anna.

And that was Suzanne Snyder as Debbie Stone, Grant Kramer as Mike Tobacco, and John Vernon as Officer Curtis Mooney in 1988's Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

Holy shit indeed.

Yeah, and...

Pretty much what I expected, and I mean that in a good way.

I expected it to just be bonkers.

I didn't know John Vernon was in it, but I recognize him from a lot of other movies.

He kind of plays...

Let me say something about the...

John Vernon, who's, you know, a guy who from back in the day, you know his face, maybe not his name, but he's placed the director and the one who calls all the women here to his house to audition for this role.

Dude.

He may be one of the most sleaziest men I have ever seen in a horror movie.

distracts one of the victims.

Yeah.

And you know another thing about this that I noticed? the entire way through is how many fake outs are in this movie and I mean fake out after I mean it opens well I mean spoiler I mean basically John Vernon has his girl committed yes so she can get more in touch with this Audra role but that thing is a whole fake out because she like attacks him and you're like oh you know she's attacking him and then it turns out they're in cahoots and then as you said the first girl that gets murdered before even making it to the to the house is like there's like the whole like rape fantasy thing and then that's a fake out and then there um there's several others and oh the the kind of like almost like the may almost like make out scene where vernon pops i mean there's this thing is full of like i let i think they thought they were being clever so like they're exploring madness.

Right.

I was going to be the first person we talk about.

So in this movie, we have John Vernon as Jonathan Stryker in this episode,

AKA officer

Mooney.

He's got some

voices in Baldur's Gate.

Who? John Vernon.

Uh-oh.

You know, he's on the side of the angels because he's trying to do the right thing, but he's frequently doing it the wrong way.

And he's always butting heads with the establishment, which in that film is represented by Henry Fonda, which is sort of the role that John Vernon ultimately sort of plays, I think, in...

Dirty Harry, although I'm not sure about that, actually.

It's one of those interesting things about the film when we look at it more closely.

In the series, you know, we'll talk about that eventually.

And then you have, well, I'm referring to him as the bureaucrats.

What do you think about the bureaucrats? Because I think John Vernon gives a really odd, interesting, slightly eccentric performance as the mayor.

Because he's billed as the mayor in inverted commas.