Ray Walston

So I kind of thought Jeff was going to turn out to be like the good son, you know.

and that what would happen is you know like he'd be terrorized like they come kind of be terrorized but ultimately kind of win the Adams over like like by showing like oh we love granny's like weird cooking or something right so they would kind of win the Adams over and then the Adams would kind of help them become the actual heirs you know because everyone's trying to get Ray Walston's money Ray Walston is in this too

Yeah.

Ray Walston is the grandparent that is the head of the family and is not shy about announcing, I literally hate every single one of you.

Yeah.

So on a previous episode, friend of the pod, Morbius, has spoken about how much she dislikes Ray Wolston.

That's typing.

Yeah, I do like when he's at the pool demanding a drink and he's just yelling, drink, drink, drink, because I can't help but think that's got to be an homage to Father Ted.

I love the entire cast of this film, like all the other guys who are the apartment users.

Ray Walston in this movie.

The stud.

Ray Walston, the stud.

Oh, my

God.

do.

Which brings us to Kiss Me Stupid, Wilder's 1964 bawdy sex comedy starring Dean Martin, Ray Walston, Kim Novak, Cliff Osmond, and Felicia Farr.

It's a movie that just might prove there are some things that Wilder can't do.

It possesses some of his best qualities as a writer-director, but also some of his worst.

Kiss Me Stupid was the amuse-bouche to Sellers taking on the role of Dr. Watson.

As we all know, Sellers did not go on to star as Orville in Kiss Me Stupid.

That role went to the star of My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston.

But the change in leads didn't happen without delicious drama.

Lori Loughlin, Bart Conner.

Ray Walston.

Mr.

Hand.

I can't believe it got such bad reviews, man.

It had such an awesome cast of, like, 80s.

Like you said, Ray Walston.

This was after Fast Time.

You are so fired.

Ray Walston.

The legendary-

Walston

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Ray Walston.

I get a little dyslexic.

I mix letters around.

Right.

um so i got hired and i started writing episodes and uh it was great it was great fun i loved it i mean i as i say i always bring my a game and part of my a game is entertaining myself and coming up with something that i'd want to watch and uh or i'd want to read in case of the twilight zone companion i wrote the book i wanted to read and so um And it was really fun because we could cast actors that I grew up loving, like Ray Walston.

He was in one of our episodes.

But also because of my deep knowledge of science fiction and horror and fantasy and comic books.

I mean, I knew about Siegel and Schuster being screwed out of their Superman profits.

And so the one I wrote with Ray Walston, it was about that, basically.

And someone getting screwed out of their profits.

And in that case, their character comes alive and starts killing people.

So much fun.

And what I love about Ray Walston is that there is always this kind of dark edge to his comedy.

He does a lot of comedy in his career, clearly, but there almost always is this sinister side to it.

So I really liked his Luther Billis.

Yeah.

And once they land, we get to the song Bloody Mary.

which is where we intro the Seabees and Ray Walston as Billis.

The problem is you look at a story like this that was written at the time it is a contemporary story and like you said a lot of people watching this reading this uh they were there um but we're also taking liberties here and we're also painting with a broad brush about some of these characters so bloody mary is this this archetype character you know this uh this woman who is an Islander, is a wheeler dealer and kind of the, the truly the matriarch of, of her, you know, the, the rest on her Island.

Um, yeah, the, uh, Other executives are also really well played.

Ray Walston, my favorite Martian, I think.

Yeah.

We

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Born on this date in history, Charles Ringling in 1862, Ray Walston, 1914, Adolph Green, 1915, Leo Gordon in 1922, Maria Callas, 1923, Alexander M. Haig, 1924, Julie Harris in 1925, Kathy Lee Crosby in 1948, Dan Butler in 1954, Stone Phillips, 1954, Dennis Christopher, 1955, Stephen Bauer, 1956, Sidney Youngblood, 1960, Rick Savage from Def Leppard in 1960, Tracy Austin in 1962.

Nat Mendel from the Foo Fighters was born this date in 1968.

Jimmy Ha Ha, J- uh, from Jimmy's Chicken Shack, 1968, and Britney Spears in 1981.