Episode 203 - The Ultimate Horror Sequel Villain: The Scary Scuffle Sequel Part 1

[static] Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of The Lunatics Radio Hour Podcast.

My name is Abby Branker.

I'm sitting here with Alan Kudin.

Hello.

And today we are also joined by two very special guests.

First, Kate Rotunda.

Hello.

And our friend Dan Roberts.

Hi there.

And both of these guests have been on the podcast a couple times this year, and today we're very excited because we are continuing our exploration of horror sequels, and we are also continuing a series that we started many years ago called The Scary Scuffle.

I love The Scary Scuffle.

Alan, this was your brainchild, so why don't you tell us about it?

This is something that we used to do growing up where we all just sat around...

It actually was- it was inspired by, um...

Dan, what's, what's the song?

Oh, the great battle.

The, the-

Come on.

What's the name?

Uh, the most epic battle of all time.

I don't-

Something of ultimate destiny.

Oh yeah, the big battle of ultimate destiny, or the battle of ultimate destiny.

Is it?

I think.

Something like that.

I don't know.

Anyways, whatever that was, like, a big thing in the early aughts.

Uh-

What song is this? Is it from a video game?

No, it's, it's-

No, it's just a-

It was like-

It's like, it's like a weird Al Yankovic-

A rock song?

... kinda like jokey song.

Yeah, this was like, uh, the, the, during the time of Ebaum's World and-

The Ultimate Show-

Ebaum's World

...

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

There it is, yes.

By Lemon Demon.

Yes.

Okay.

Uh, we, w- we can watch it during our break.

Sure.

[laughs]

But, uh, the, the idea is that we just picked a bunch of people from fiction, we drew them out of a hat, and then we would just debate who would win in a fight, 'cause that's what teenage boys do.

Yes.

It was a lot of fun.

So we're doing it now for the second time with horror movie villains, and but this time we are doing with sequels.

This is only people that have appeared in-

The second

... a, a movie and a sequel to that movie.

Yep.

And we are counting feats from the first and second movie.

We are not counting feats if the franchise continues.

Is that clear?

No, that makes perfect sense.

Can you also talk us through, for those who are not, um, big sports betters, how-

[laughs]

...

the bracketing tournament will work?

Uh, no.

Dan? [laughs]

[laughs] I like how sports is framed from, like, the betting perspective, because basically watching sports just means gambling now.

But I mean the bracket.

Oh, yeah.

March Madness.

Yeah.

Uh, so yes, we're, we're doing a, a pretty true bracket, uh, tournament this year.

It'll be 32 teams in head-to-head match-ups.

And by teams, we mean individual combatants.

Sorry.

30-

No, not all individuals.

Oh, that's-

That's true.

That's true.

I'm sorry.

I, I misspoke.

32-

Looking at you, Five Gremlins

... 32 entries, we'll say, uh, or entrants.

Yes.

And so they'll be going in a head-to-head match-up in rounds, so there'll be a round of 16 matches, and then eight, and then four, and then two, and then we'll have a head-to-head match-up-

And-

... determine a winner

... and whoever wins gets the, the coveted trophy of The Scary Scuffle.

That's right.

And Dan, why don't you tell us a little bit about the arena situation?

Right.

So I have been handed a very, very fun spinner, which will determine the location for each head-to-head match-up.

And each of them has a water feature, because if anyone remembers from many years ago with the first Scary Scuffle, that immediately took Jaws out, and I, I thought that wasn't fair.

That's, that's true.

We fe- I felt bad.

Jaws hasn't, uh, been the same since then.

Nope.

So if anybody listened to the episode last week, we talked a lot about the history of some of these sequels, so if you missed that, that will give you a little bit of context before we get into this today.

And of course, there's gonna be spoilers.

These movies all kind of need to be spoiled to some extent for us to kind of talk about them the way that we're gonna talk about them today.

That is correct.

I, I'm so excited.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Alan's been waiting for this for years.

It, it's such a...

I mean, uh, first off, th- this whole process is dumb and fun, but it's just such a good ex- excuse to go watch a bunch of very specific movies that you wouldn't otherwise.

Scary Scuffle is the summer event of the season.

I mean-

It is.

That's right.

Yeah.