Little Shop of Horrors

phone ho look in terms of box office this movie was the most successful musical of the 1980s which sounds like we're qualifying too much until you remember that like fame came out in the 80s like all of these like Footloose came out in the fucking 80s like all of these movies where it's like oh yeah musicals kind of had a little moment in the 80s and this one reigned supreme of the decade

Yeah, this is Little Shop of Horrors time we're talking about.

This did better than Little Shop of Horrors.

Yep, absolutely.

And again, this cast, fresh off of the massive...

yeah and i do know that they did film the actual ending of the book i know that nicholas rogue did go ahead and do that but they also knew damn well About Focus Group.

I think they probably, well, again, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, they probably learned from what happened on Little Shop of Horrors.

Right.

They're like saying, you might want to, might want to film a happy ending because I guarantee they're going to want you to.

That's a bit of a kick in the nuts after everything you go through leading up to that point.

You do feel like you kind of get deprived of a bit of a payoff.

It's not like Little Shop of Horrors where the whole point of the entire piece is that it's a Faustian story and that Seymour has to pay the price.

We'll get into that if we ever do an episode on it.

actor, you think, well, if I'm going to see a Steve Martin film, I know he's going to be pretty much Steve Martin.

Unless, as I said to some of the earlier ones, you think like Little Shop of Horrors, he plays that sadistic dentist, or Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, or George's favourite, The Jerk.

Yeah, I can't remember that.

George loves the joke.

A whole fucking song.

Hello, Little Shop of Horrors.

All of these things.

But I also think that it's underrated because I don't think a lot of people clock into how he used that blind preacher.

I, I was about to say no, it's not.

It's Little Shop of Horrors, because I had that on VHS as well.

Okay.

And that's probably, like, that was probably the big thing, 'cause that was, I was just looking, uh, 1986.

So there's always, I feel like, opportunity to do it again.

As a person who likes spooky and kooky and is named Audrey, I would love to be Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors.

Of course.

Yes.

I mean, there's others involved.

But from Labyrinth to Little Shop of Horrors to Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Star Wars, Return of the Jedi to Dark Crystal.

Yeah.

Do you, at what point did you kind of realize that, yeah, it was only a short period in your life But are you able to kind of process and fully realize how much your work has meant to generations like mine? Or is it just this was a job and I did it and for some reason people seem to enjoy it and talking to me? Is there a part of you that kind of – because it doesn't – you seem almost too modest.