"You dig on multiverses?" Considering the year the movie was made, this line is somehow the most ahead-of-its-time and simultaneously the most dated line in a movie ever.
@@pheenmachine Nah, but I get what you mean. Like to make a dig at someone as in a comment. That means more to undermine someone by making a joke. Here it means you’re into it. You’re digging into it. Ya dig? It’s old beat speak. Beat as in Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsburg - the 1950s and 60s.
The scene where Ryan Phillipe is still digging through garbage, even though he is rich, was filmed right behind my apartment in East Chinatown, Toronto. This means that Mike, Rich and Jay looked at my apartment. This means that we are friends.
You live in East Chinatown? Do you live in a gigantic apartment where literally every thing is Chinese and own a bull statue whose hazardousness massively outweighs its negligible decorative value?
@@-0rbital- Exactly. I was like, Mike what are you doing lol. If the wish is "I wish I were rich" Genie = You win the lottery, but then your house gets broken into by robbers because they saw you're rich on the news, and they kill your husband when he tries to fight back. Monkey's Paw = Your husband dies, but he took out a big life insurance policy so now you're rich.
Ki Hong Lee, the actor who played Ryan, was 31 years old during the making of this movie. He played a skateboarding highschooler with a cousin who is a slut for wontons
Ryan Phillippe's character is way more interesting than the protagonist. He lives in a mansion, spends his days picking through garbage with his best friend, and spends his nights playing gigs on his saxophone.
@@drpibisback7680 isn't that most DnD characters; inexplicably the group is awarded a large estate. You go picking over abandoned dungeons and other run down places for treasure. The only thing you need is musical instrument proficiency and the saxamaphone
@@ChalkiePerfect Rodger Ebert is the younger but still old brother of Roger Ebert who also reviewed movies and had some role in Butterfly Effect 2... maybe.
Was surprised you guys didn't bring up how this movie flat-out took the first three wishes from "The Craft"(1996). Cursing the girl bully with a physical condition, Getting an inheritance, live in a new swanky place and wishing for hunky guy to fall in love with main character.
I have loved The Craft since I was a kid, seen it a million times and still never put that together 😮 I only drew comparison to the crush wish. In the voice of Rich Evans, "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT!"
As a trash picker from a family of trash pickers, I can assure you that there is no rich uncle's fortune big enough to keep me from picking up shit off the side of the road.
I love how Mike tried to correct Rich regarding the Monkey's Paw but was completely incorrect. Rich literally referenced the movie and explained the concept correctly. The reason the guy got the money in the original story was because his son died, and the money was the life insurance payout. So yes, the wish is connected to the bad thing, just like with genies.
This movie was released 3 years after roger ebert had died, meaning it was reviewed by someone else on his website. This guy 1:00 was correct, Rodger Ebert really was too old to be reviewing movies anymore!
The funny thing about Mike's little spiel about the difference between a genie wish and a monkey paw wish is that he got the plot of the original story completely backwards. The reason he got the money was because of his son's death. His son was killed in a factory accident and the father received the life insurance money. Which falls much closer to how Mike describes a genie type wish. I demand a Tums Festival level apology video within the week.
Yeah. I think the distinction he wanted to make is that the Monkey's Paw really does give you what you wanted, but at a cost you aren't willing to pay. The Genie doesn't actually give you what you wanted, he just fucks with you through pedantic loopholes because he's an asshole.
@@rolandoftheeld exactly, a genie's wish is more of a semantics battle usually. Like if you wished to have all the money in the world, but instead of becoming rich, everyone else just became broke instead
Frankly I'm upset they didn't bring up Leprechaun as an example of genie wish. Though I recall scenes where you don't have to explicitly state your wish, sometimes the Leprechaun just delivers the most ironic wish for the situation without being asked.
Joey King’s face in the sax scene clip is hilarious. Why is she looking at her Dad like that? Also the fact that they think making the dad play jazz for two underaged girls and his daughter makes him captain cool is top tier comedy
Monkey's Paw (for the argument at around 16:00), strikes me more as "Your wish is granted, but the means by which it is granted makes it not worth it." "I wish for money" and you get it through the Life Insurance of a loved one. "I wish this obscure franchise I loved was more popular" and it ends up in the hands of a company who rewrites everything you loved about it. "I wish to find someone who loves me for who I am" and she straps you to a bed and breaks your ankles. Meanwhile, the Malicious Genie takes fulfills the literal wording of your wish in the worst way possible. The result could end up the same as the Monkey paw, it could be obnoxious wordplay, or simply structured in a way that's impossible to take advantage of. "I wish for money" and it's given in monopoly dollars. "I wish my franchise was more popular" and it becomes famous for being terrible. "I wish for love" and you fall in love with a goat.
Supposedly, New Line have greenlit a sixth one, again. Maybe if they ever actually _make_ it, he and Josh can do a retrospective the week before it comes out.
I noticed 1-2 years ago that he seemed less depressed, more affectionate (in his own Mike way) and more open to others' opinions. Like he had perhaps started seeing a therapist, gotten a dog, or started SSRIs (much to Rich's benefit). I have no basis for this other than my parasocial observations, and respect that the RLM guys are pretty private about their lives, but if he really is happier, then that's quite the feat given how the pandemic has only plunged more people into a deep depression. I guess Mike always was a contrarian, though. Some things never change.
What Mike's missing about the Genie Wish vs Monkey's Paw is that they both twist your wish into something horrible but the Genie's wish is more malicious about TECHNICALLY giving you what you wanted in a way you don't like while the Monkey's Paw is about giving you exactly what you wanted at a terrible cost. The genie wish is also usually more actively malicious because it's being given out by an active participant (The Genie) whereas the Monkey's Paw is more of a cosmic "You can't cheat fate" kind of thing. For instance if you wished to be famous, a Genie wish would make it so you were famous because you're a suddenly a wanted man and you're the target of a nationwide manhunt. The Monkey's Paw would make it so you're famous because you're the only survivor of a tragic accident that befell your entire family.
You got it. I think Mike's misinterpretation of The Monkey's Paw placed the crack in the seam of his infallible intellect that Rich exploited to win Star Trek trivia against and him and ultimately led to the chapter 1 bankruptcy filing of Redlettermedia. As a result, Rich lost his job, so even though he got his wish to beat Mike, it was at a terrible cost.
The Actar babies were designed as a low-cost alternative to full CPR dummies. Traditional CPR training dummies can easily cost hundreds or thousands of dollars apiece and are difficult to operate let alone sanitize. The Actar babies can be gotten by the crate, allowing whole classes of people to learn the fundamentals for cheap. However, physicians have since found that the breathing part of CPR is much less important than chest compressions, so the need to clean the spittle-filled heads idiot is nowhere near the selling point it used to be. And yes, it happens that the company who sell the Actar babies are experimental visual artists who aren't afraid to go hog wild on a training video because being memorable is the most important thing a training video can possibly do (see also: Surviving Edged Weapons).
As a CPR instructor, I can confirm. The only thing creepier than the baby manikins are the "Annie" models. Those are modelled after the death mask of a very famous anonymous woman's body that turned up on the shore of the Seine more than 100 years ago. So every time you do mouth to mouth, you are kissing the face of a corpse. Fun, right?
I'm horribly disappointed that you guys didn't talk about how after Joey King calls the mean girl "ultimate smegma," she then proceeds to hold up a phone so she can *read the dictionary definition of smegma out loud to everyone* and then when they start fighting, her friend goes "Kick her ass, Clare! Drop her like a red-headed baby straight out the VAGINA!"
I do believe that she would have to pull out a dictionary and explain what it means because I was around the same age as the characters when this movie came out, and one time I was playing Cards Against Humanity with a group who were a few years older than me, but when the word “smegma” appeared on a card, I was the only one of the group who knew what that was and had to explain it to them.
The writer wasn't witty enough to emulate a witty teenager's roast. This is where research comes into writing. There's teen culture all over the internet to tap into. If you're going to write a screenplay about teenagers, you have this invaluable resource literally at your fingertips that can help you really enter the mind of teenage characters; it's a writers dream tool and she didn't even bother to try to use it.
Mike during the FNAF segment of their catch up video sounded like he had never touched a video game in his life, yet said the phrase "gacha game" with full confidence and knowledge of what the term means.
Mike pretends, it’s for the show. In reality he’s a nerd videographer that used to make music videos for late 90’s post punk bands and is into Star Trek…he knows much more than he lets on.
@@evangel1460 yeah, I forget the name, but if you remember the old half in the bag set, they used to have little picture of the band. Wait…I remembered as I was typing, they were called “Greely Estates”
Funny, Gene Roddenberry had a story idea about how the crew of the Enterprise somehow cancelled the Kennedy assassination by going back in time, thus disastrously screwing up history to the point where Spock would end up being the man with the rifle in the schoolbook building. True story.
@gspendlove It's weird how so many of these type of stories end with, "So you see, we *have* to let Hitler rise to power because the alternative is so much worse!"
@@gspendloveFunnily enough Red Dwarf covered that exact concept except the alternate timeline version of Kennedy wound up publicly disgraced due to philandering so the Red Dwarf crew convince him to assassinate himself for the good of his legacy and history.
Loved how that was cut. I can't recall which episode it was, but the one where Jay sneezes and they freeze him in place while Mike keeps talking gets me every time, too. Sneeze edits ftw.
I like how Mike's detailed research into trying to find a connection between the Leonettis didn't include simply reading the second sentence of John's wikipedia page.
Just typing John's name into the Google machine shows they're brother. Took 3 seconds😂. Would of loved if Jay or Rich Google it right on the spot and told Mike.
My Buddy and I chose to believe that Dumpster Daddy rummages through garbage because the mom used one of her wishes to make him appreciate things and quit throwing them away.
Macaulay Culkin finally got his star on the walk of fame for appearing next to Rich The birthday boy Evans. No really look it up it happened this week.
OMFG! I've watched this episode multiple times and I always thought they were joking that the dad LOOKS like Ryan Phillippe, I never realised he is actually in the movie. What a fall from grace. Hot hollywood star to dumpster daddy. Wow.
This was the first movie my girlfriend and I ever rented together from a little store called Family Video nearly 6 years ago.. she doesn’t remember it, but I’ll never forget and I believe it’s the glue that still holds us together today.
49:00 As someone who knows a lot about voice over work. Not only can you get other soundalike voice actors to ADR scenes if you can't get the original actor back due to scheduling conflicts, but there are talented people who do that for a living.
We HAD the crotch-level garbage disposal switch. Even worse, it was one of those panel looking switches. You couldn’t do the dishes without accidentally turning it on. Fun times!!!!
@@joachimb5721 Idk how no one's noticed this yet, but it's pretty obvious hes getting Plinkett to dub the voiceover for him so he can pretend hes good at the voice
If you think Wish Upon is a cadaver in autopsy, Mike theorizing the production details in a whiteboard is like a detective connecting the dots to figure out who did the murder.
I like Jay's take on the Final Destination movies; "the best comedies you will ever see." I actually agree. The over the top deaths in them are just hilarious.
I saw this with a friend in a crowded theater when it came out and it was a blast. I remember saying aloud "the music box wouldnt forgot" after her last wish and at least one guy in front of us nodding in approval.
I’m currently at the dentist office, Jerry O’Connell hosting Pictionary is on the television in the waiting room. Rich Evans wasn’t wrong…he’s never wrong.
The beauty of the house's establishing shot is that they looked at the rusted bike, the messy lawn, the desaturated colors, and thought "this isn't enough", so they put a black guy in frame to really solidify in the audience's mind that their quality of life has deteriorated. They really needed that black guy, or else people wouldn't have understood.
Were they living in squalor or living in Arkansas. Oh wait there's a black person, it's squalor. If it were Arkansas there wouldn't be a black dude. Cuz of segregation WINK WINK
@@DeflatingAtheism Hell when I put old furniture out for trash it's gone sometimes before I even make it back to my door and I don;t live ion a bad area! LOL
40:54 When Mike's sneeze gets cut off I lost it lol. Why is it so funny when a sound or a word gets edited off partway thru to jump to the next part of the video? It gets me every time over multiple videos/channels
I like how they say they've watched it 4 or 5 times at studio movie nights but then say Rich has never seen it. insinuating he is not invited to movie nights.
This was like an "After School Special" of horror movies, and if I remember correctly this came out around the time when bullying was the hot topic of the moment in schools, in between mass shootings, so my guess is that "consequences" for tweens was the target selling idea. But all this aside, it is the dad that really makes this movie. Most people aren't aware (including myself) that school dumpsters are right outside the front door, and that dumpster diving is a profitable occupation. Look at that house! Forget perusing secondhand stores looking for donated vintage, go straight for garbage! And you can do it at night! Most likely it comes with free food too, so garbage is where the money is at kids
I mean, it’s not like teenagers haven’t been embarrassed by their dads for far less than rummaging through garbage while dressed like a hobo in a dumpster directly in front of their high school.
I though this and was suprised. But when I listened a few times I think he says Gotcha. As in got you, caught you. He is just aware you catch pokimans, gotcha, caught you. He had no idea what happened in 5 nights at freddies last video. The idea that he knows Honkai star rail is impossible. Its at around 27:00
Got jumpscared @19:56 because my partner works in the commercial furniture industry, so I immediately recognized the name Haworth! The "fake store" looks like it was filmed in the Haworth furniture showroom in Toronto - if you look through the images of the location on Google Maps, there are some posted 7 years ago that are nearly identical to these scenes.
Yep, the Leonetti's are brothers. John was the cinematographer on the first Mortal Kombat in 1995 and directed the sequel. He asked his older brother Matthew to be the dp for the second one. I wished Rich was there in the theater when I saw the second one back in 1998. I'm sure everyone would have wished for that back in the day.
The best friend guy broke the long standing record for oldest actor playing a high school student held until now by Gabrielle Carteris. Does that count as elder abuse?
The crazy thing is I would have NEVER have expected Joey King to have later been so good in The Act and Bullet Train. She seemed destined for schlock what with Wish Upon, The Kissing Booth, and Slenderman. (And yes, I am a YMS fan, so I've been watching her for a while.)
@@clolspike That's more a genie's wish. I think it would be more like "I wish my husband would love old things more." for a monkeys paw to result in the picking compulsion - being compelled to take things from the trash because they must be old
@@huma474 They could also have literrally made it about how something she owned with very much sentimental value was thrown away by him. So he compulsively does it out of regret over having her driven into bein desperate enough to make a pact with a demon. Thats already kinda fucking stupid, but still cleverer than anything the movie does.
Knowing how old this movie is in relative terms I though this video was from 5-6 years ago and my eyes bulged out when I saw it was uploaded 4 hours ago. Happy to see a review of this masterpiece!
Mike was close with the Genie vs Monkeys paw. The Genie twists your words while the monkeys paw gives you what you want but in an inconvenient way. A good example I saw was: You: I wish to be rich! Genie: What is your second wish, Richard? Monkeys Paw: Your house burned down with your family inside but the insurance paid out HUGE!
I love that after the wish upon box makes them rich, Ryan Phillipe STILL is dumpster diving. He simply can't let go of the trash, he's addicted to the lifestyle
I’ve always loved the brief section of one of the RLM annual Catch-Up videos where Mike and Jay talk about this movie, but I always wished it was longer. You cannot believe how excited I was to see this pop up in my feed, Christmas came early!
I think every time I've watched Wish Upon for shits and giggles has progressively rotted my brain because the line between ironic and sincere enjoyment is being blurred to where I can now recite lines by heart.
A good way for old writers to write for teenagers is to have the movie set to when they were a teenager. That way they actually know what the fuck they're talking about.
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"Does he dig through trash for a living?" Said by the RLM crew with a complete lack of irony.
This comment deserves top billing.
I mean we wouldn’t have Dick the birthday boy if Mike wasn’t a garbage rat
hahhahahahahah
Bravo!
We wouldn't have Dick the Birthday Boy if it wasn't for trash digging
“I wish I was rich”
Monkeys paw: your son dies and you get the life insurance money
Genies wish: you turn into Rich Evans
Oh god, I can't tell which is worse!
Surely that's a blessing rather than a curse.
That’s how you trick the genie into giving you your actual wish.
Wish Upon: both happen
a fate worse than death....
"You dig on multiverses?" Considering the year the movie was made, this line is somehow the most ahead-of-its-time and simultaneously the most dated line in a movie ever.
Same for "Slut for wontons"
The combination of 70s slang with the word "multiverses" is what makes it - it's like a terrible outfit, the elements are all wrong
Doesn't "Dig on" mean make fun of? Like if you dig something you like it. But if you're digging on it, you're mocking it, no?
@@pheenmachine Nah, but I get what you mean. Like to make a dig at someone as in a comment. That means more to undermine someone by making a joke. Here it means you’re into it. You’re digging into it. Ya dig? It’s old beat speak. Beat as in Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsburg - the 1950s and 60s.
@@ammosophobia I dig it. But I don't dig into it lol
The scene where Ryan Phillipe is still digging through garbage, even though he is rich, was filmed right behind my apartment in East Chinatown, Toronto. This means that Mike, Rich and Jay looked at my apartment. This means that we are friends.
You live in East Chinatown? Do you live in a gigantic apartment where literally every thing is Chinese and own a bull statue whose hazardousness massively outweighs its negligible decorative value?
@@DeflatingAtheism That giant bull statue really tied the room together.
What a bizarre thing to film on location. It just looked like a non-descript dumpster
@@sgtjonson i just wanted to be part of this dumpster discussion
Now we all know where you live. Just in time for the surprise party.
Genie Wish: Something bad happens as a result of the wish. Monkey Paw: Something bad happens in order to fulfill the wish.
At least that explanation makes sense. I had no idea what Mike was trying to say.
That makes sense. Genies directly grant the wish, monkey’s paw makes it so that the thing you wish for comes true by itself
Thank you for this
@@-0rbital- Exactly. I was like, Mike what are you doing lol.
If the wish is "I wish I were rich"
Genie = You win the lottery, but then your house gets broken into by robbers because they saw you're rich on the news, and they kill your husband when he tries to fight back.
Monkey's Paw = Your husband dies, but he took out a big life insurance policy so now you're rich.
Thank you for the clear explanation. I didn't really understand the difference the way Mike explained it.
Watching Jay actually start a conversation about Star Trek is either borderline experimental or the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I've ever seen.
😂
I thought the same damn thing!
Stoklasa Syndrome...
@@shoggoshoooh my gaaaaaaaaawd
I just realized: the dad picks through garbage because the writer once heard about grief and trauma turning people into junkies.
And the 'sax scene' was the result of him mishearing a producer.
@@count69 god tier
@@count69”I want a sax scene with the dad, his daughter and her two friends” says a fat producer with a cigar in his mouth.
@@count69 You are God
@@count69 oh god, not the “sax scene” with both of her daughter’s class mates 💀
Ki Hong Lee, the actor who played Ryan, was 31 years old during the making of this movie. He played a skateboarding highschooler with a cousin who is a slut for wontons
@breathoffreshair7314 Asian don't raisin.
He's also in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
@@Tunkkisuntil exactly age 65 at which point they all look absolutely ancient.
@@guthax30 They're like glass that way. Very strong, until very suddenly not.
@@Tunkkis They look 16 until age 55. Then at age 56 they look 110.
she literally says "I wish he would fall *madly* in love with me", it's absurd how bad she is at wording her wishes
And her last wish is "I wish that I wanted to go back to [some day]", which would change absolutely jack all because she already wants that.
@@Tunkkis "I wish that all my problems would just die!"
*people start dying*
"Oh my god what's happening?"
Ryan Phillippe's character is way more interesting than the protagonist. He lives in a mansion, spends his days picking through garbage with his best friend, and spends his nights playing gigs on his saxophone.
Someday this will be the basis of my D&D character.
@@drpibisback7680 isn't that most DnD characters; inexplicably the group is awarded a large estate. You go picking over abandoned dungeons and other run down places for treasure. The only thing you need is musical instrument proficiency and the saxamaphone
Kinda sounds like an alternate Frank & Charlie from IASIP
@@GingaWolfExactly, a perfect Bard.
The more I think about it, the more I want to see the movie about the trash-picking, mansion-dwelling musician
Roger Ebert was such a legend, that he reviewed this from beyond the grave
Was that the last wish?
*Rodger
*Roger Rabbit
He hated it so much he came back to life to review it.
@@ChalkiePerfect Rodger Ebert is the younger but still old brother of Roger Ebert who also reviewed movies and had some role in Butterfly Effect 2... maybe.
Watching an elder die in a bathtub, Mike Stoklasa is not amused. He is ecstatic. He writhes his clothes in a sickening delight.
I saw this in the theatre high when it came out, and I've never cried laughing so hard in my life at that scene
@@turnthonkee Adding "high" made you very uncool.
@@DirectInputwatching trash movies while high is a favorite pastime for me, personally
I think Mike would enjoy movies like Hostel if only seniors were the victims.
I'm not sure if you meant "writhes in his clothes" or "wrings his clothes". "writhes his clothes" makes no sense.
Mike and Jay: "It's so awkward to hear these old writers try to appeal to young people with dated slang."
Rich: "Aw, snap."
god i love rich so much
That wasn't him trying to appeal to a demographic though.
@@MochaRitz someone will tell you "it's a joke!" But really, it wasn't.
@Yohoat of course it wasn't lol. Just joshin
@denkerbosu3551 Lol I just replied to him saying I was just joking. I really was though. Gotta give you props on calling it though
Was surprised you guys didn't bring up how this movie flat-out took the first three wishes from "The Craft"(1996). Cursing the girl bully with a physical condition, Getting an inheritance, live in a new swanky place and wishing for hunky guy to fall in love with main character.
I have loved The Craft since I was a kid, seen it a million times and still never put that together 😮 I only drew comparison to the crush wish. In the voice of Rich Evans, "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT!"
As a trash picker from a family of trash pickers, I can assure you that there is no rich uncle's fortune big enough to keep me from picking up shit off the side of the road.
I appreciate a person with principles. Good luck with your trash based hoarding and God bless you
The above is perhaps the best exchange I've ever come across in a RUclips comments section. @@Eightsixseven23224
Living your best life escaping from the rat race, god bless you.
The Human Possum cannot be bribed!
most recently, what'd you find that was most notable?
I love how Mike tried to correct Rich regarding the Monkey's Paw but was completely incorrect. Rich literally referenced the movie and explained the concept correctly. The reason the guy got the money in the original story was because his son died, and the money was the life insurance payout. So yes, the wish is connected to the bad thing, just like with genies.
Thank you for pointing this out.
30 seconds into the 5 minute diatribe you realize the whole talk is pointless and a little sad. Like a drunk teasing a man for slurring his speech.
I'd like the analogy but I feel like the wish is more dangerous to the actual owner.
Monkey paw seems bad for those around the owner?
@@babytoshiro7014 losing your son is probably bad for you, not just the son
He wasn’t incorrect at all though, Rich just also wasn’t incorrect haha
This movie was released 3 years after roger ebert had died, meaning it was reviewed by someone else on his website. This guy 1:00 was correct, Rodger Ebert really was too old to be reviewing movies anymore!
The funny thing about Mike's little spiel about the difference between a genie wish and a monkey paw wish is that he got the plot of the original story completely backwards. The reason he got the money was because of his son's death. His son was killed in a factory accident and the father received the life insurance money. Which falls much closer to how Mike describes a genie type wish. I demand a Tums Festival level apology video within the week.
Yeah. I think the distinction he wanted to make is that the Monkey's Paw really does give you what you wanted, but at a cost you aren't willing to pay. The Genie doesn't actually give you what you wanted, he just fucks with you through pedantic loopholes because he's an asshole.
@@rolandoftheeld exactly, a genie's wish is more of a semantics battle usually. Like if you wished to have all the money in the world, but instead of becoming rich, everyone else just became broke instead
I wish Mike would apologize. *Finger curls*
Frankly I'm upset they didn't bring up Leprechaun as an example of genie wish. Though I recall scenes where you don't have to explicitly state your wish, sometimes the Leprechaun just delivers the most ironic wish for the situation without being asked.
Thank you for not forgetting the face of yer father.
Joey King’s face in the sax scene clip is hilarious. Why is she looking at her Dad like that? Also the fact that they think making the dad play jazz for two underaged girls and his daughter makes him captain cool is top tier comedy
He needed to have sunglasses on though....then lower them to reveal a cross eyed Steve Bruhl.
😅@@teejay1824
Monkey's Paw (for the argument at around 16:00), strikes me more as "Your wish is granted, but the means by which it is granted makes it not worth it."
"I wish for money" and you get it through the Life Insurance of a loved one.
"I wish this obscure franchise I loved was more popular" and it ends up in the hands of a company who rewrites everything you loved about it.
"I wish to find someone who loves me for who I am" and she straps you to a bed and breaks your ankles.
Meanwhile, the Malicious Genie takes fulfills the literal wording of your wish in the worst way possible. The result could end up the same as the Monkey paw, it could be obnoxious wordplay, or simply structured in a way that's impossible to take advantage of.
"I wish for money" and it's given in monopoly dollars.
"I wish my franchise was more popular" and it becomes famous for being terrible.
"I wish for love" and you fall in love with a goat.
This guy wishes!
Great explanation.
Yeah, Mike's description was surprisingly terrible lol. You defined it correctly.
Guys we gotta remember that for every wish it grants, it takes...
I don't know how Mike had such a bad brain fart there. I think the dementia might finally actually be setting in.
After hearing Jay say he loves the Final Destination series, I demand a 2 part Re:view video on the five different movies! lol
Lol yeah I really hope they do that. All those movies are hilarious, especially the two most recent ones
Yeah great 👍
They should watch em all at the same time.
Supposedly, New Line have greenlit a sixth one, again. Maybe if they ever actually _make_ it, he and Josh can do a retrospective the week before it comes out.
Agreed!
"He's a slut for garbage" absolutely obliterated me 😂 bless you, Jay; bless you, you sweet prince.
Bless that awful hair.
Mike is openly laughing at more and more things lately... it brings me happiness.
And not only the elderly this time!
He must be happier. My heart swells with parasocial pride.
I noticed 1-2 years ago that he seemed less depressed, more affectionate (in his own Mike way) and more open to others' opinions. Like he had perhaps started seeing a therapist, gotten a dog, or started SSRIs (much to Rich's benefit). I have no basis for this other than my parasocial observations, and respect that the RLM guys are pretty private about their lives, but if he really is happier, then that's quite the feat given how the pandemic has only plunged more people into a deep depression. I guess Mike always was a contrarian, though. Some things never change.
@@washedblueOld habits die hard... as well as John McClanes
@@darkshadowslayer”Parasocial Pride” would be a great band name 👏 a relateble one too 😂
The Skee-Lo reference immediately sent me down a rabbit hole of ‘90’s rap for almost two hours.
Did you blast some Positive K?
Did you think about your tender 'roni while you were doing so?
Cee-lo green, and steelo brim (metal hat)
What Mike's missing about the Genie Wish vs Monkey's Paw is that they both twist your wish into something horrible but the Genie's wish is more malicious about TECHNICALLY giving you what you wanted in a way you don't like while the Monkey's Paw is about giving you exactly what you wanted at a terrible cost. The genie wish is also usually more actively malicious because it's being given out by an active participant (The Genie) whereas the Monkey's Paw is more of a cosmic "You can't cheat fate" kind of thing. For instance if you wished to be famous, a Genie wish would make it so you were famous because you're a suddenly a wanted man and you're the target of a nationwide manhunt. The Monkey's Paw would make it so you're famous because you're the only survivor of a tragic accident that befell your entire family.
You got it. I think Mike's misinterpretation of The Monkey's Paw placed the crack in the seam of his infallible intellect that Rich exploited to win Star Trek trivia against and him and ultimately led to the chapter 1 bankruptcy filing of Redlettermedia. As a result, Rich lost his job, so even though he got his wish to beat Mike, it was at a terrible cost.
And instead, _Wish Upon_ just stole elements of _The Omen_ and had friends and family die in freak accidents.
Whoever got away with selling those cpr babies is a genius. They’re still used and about as effective a teaching tool as they look lol
Oh absolutely. We had a CPR training at work and their collection provoked intense feelings of disgust and violence from all my coworkers.
The Actar babies were designed as a low-cost alternative to full CPR dummies. Traditional CPR training dummies can easily cost hundreds or thousands of dollars apiece and are difficult to operate let alone sanitize. The Actar babies can be gotten by the crate, allowing whole classes of people to learn the fundamentals for cheap. However, physicians have since found that the breathing part of CPR is much less important than chest compressions, so the need to clean the spittle-filled heads idiot is nowhere near the selling point it used to be.
And yes, it happens that the company who sell the Actar babies are experimental visual artists who aren't afraid to go hog wild on a training video because being memorable is the most important thing a training video can possibly do (see also: Surviving Edged Weapons).
As a CPR instructor, I can confirm. The only thing creepier than the baby manikins are the "Annie" models. Those are modelled after the death mask of a very famous anonymous woman's body that turned up on the shore of the Seine more than 100 years ago. So every time you do mouth to mouth, you are kissing the face of a corpse. Fun, right?
@@mikeycrackson You mean Lal.
@@simonblair9936, it would be accurate to the low rate of CPR survival, right?
I'm horribly disappointed that you guys didn't talk about how after Joey King calls the mean girl "ultimate smegma," she then proceeds to hold up a phone so she can *read the dictionary definition of smegma out loud to everyone* and then when they start fighting, her friend goes "Kick her ass, Clare! Drop her like a red-headed baby straight out the VAGINA!"
Oh... my God...
...
I might have to watch this movie.
I do believe that she would have to pull out a dictionary and explain what it means because I was around the same age as the characters when this movie came out, and one time I was playing Cards Against Humanity with a group who were a few years older than me, but when the word “smegma” appeared on a card, I was the only one of the group who knew what that was and had to explain it to them.
That sounds amazing.
big "i dont care that you broke your arm last summer" energy
The writer wasn't witty enough to emulate a witty teenager's roast.
This is where research comes into writing. There's teen culture all over the internet to tap into. If you're going to write a screenplay about teenagers, you have this invaluable resource literally at your fingertips that can help you really enter the mind of teenage characters; it's a writers dream tool and she didn't even bother to try to use it.
It's when you see stuff like this you start appreciating what a creative mastermind Neil Breen really is.
Leo Fong also likes to end all his fight scenes with a senseless murder thrown in. He just does it more writ small than Neil does.
His new movie is about to drop.
@@gyromurphy i know, but i still haven't watched twisted pair yet. I feel like I need to see that first to fully appreciate Cade 😂
Why can I only imagine the half life 2 bad guy?
Glad to see Actar Baby settling into the RLM cast, they offered such insightful commentary.
I love how unhinged the video description is, Mikes' creative writing lessons are really paying off!
“YES” cried thousands of RedLetterMedia fans simultaneously
Butterfly tears
Mike during the FNAF segment of their catch up video sounded like he had never touched a video game in his life, yet said the phrase "gacha game" with full confidence and knowledge of what the term means.
He's a mobile gamer like the average old person
Mike pretends, it’s for the show. In reality he’s a nerd videographer that used to make music videos for late 90’s post punk bands and is into Star Trek…he knows much more than he lets on.
@@eightcoins4401this is the most likely answer
@@dogshake Did he actually make videos for post punk bands? Is this confirmed?
@@evangel1460 yeah, I forget the name, but if you remember the old half in the bag set, they used to have little picture of the band. Wait…I remembered as I was typing, they were called “Greely Estates”
At this point, Mike can probably find the killer of the Kennedy Assassination through Star Trek trivia alone.
Funny, Gene Roddenberry had a story idea about how the crew of the Enterprise somehow cancelled the Kennedy assassination by going back in time, thus disastrously screwing up history to the point where Spock would end up being the man with the rifle in the schoolbook building. True story.
@gspendlove It's weird how so many of these type of stories end with, "So you see, we *have* to let Hitler rise to power because the alternative is so much worse!"
the Kennedy Assassination was better in the original Klingon
@@gspendloveFunnily enough Red Dwarf covered that exact concept except the alternate timeline version of Kennedy wound up publicly disgraced due to philandering so the Red Dwarf crew convince him to assassinate himself for the good of his legacy and history.
Probably a Q episode.
I'm amazed that Roger Ebert was able to review this movie four years after his death.
It was so bad he had to get up from the grave to shit on it
Poor Rich keeps trying to cram up on obscure Star Trek lore to appease his oppressor, but it is never enough
That perfectly timed cut on Mike's sneeze was AMAZING.
I was hoping someone would mention that.
Loved how that was cut. I can't recall which episode it was, but the one where Jay sneezes and they freeze him in place while Mike keeps talking gets me every time, too.
Sneeze edits ftw.
40:50 You're welcome 🤗
@@lograythewiseThat's from the 2021 Halloween episode.
Dumpster Daddies should the official name for these three now.
They dig through garbage to make something to entertain us.
I love this
Would you like to meet hot Dumpster Daddies near you?
ALERT! HOT DUMPSTER DADDIES IN YOUR AREA!
That sounds a lil queer
I think Joe l'Escola already has that market cornered.
I like how Mike's detailed research into trying to find a connection between the Leonettis didn't include simply reading the second sentence of John's wikipedia page.
Where's the fun in that?
Mike is an old man, he doesn't know about these newfangled Wikipedia thingies.
Read Wikipedia or booze? Mike chose booze and we all win.
He also missed that John Leonetti and Jerry O'Connell both worked on Piranha3D, a connection he was looking for.
Just typing John's name into the Google machine shows they're brother. Took 3 seconds😂. Would of loved if Jay or Rich Google it right on the spot and told Mike.
My Buddy and I chose to believe that Dumpster Daddy rummages through garbage because the mom used one of her wishes to make him appreciate things and quit throwing them away.
I love that RLM _knows_ their audience will find it funnier to cut _just before_ Mike sneezes than to leave the full sneeze in. Genius.
I almost ruined a first date by laughing so hard during this movie
If you laughing at this movie would have ruined the date, it was never meant to be. LOL
We get it, you have a nice car and are good with your fingers
Did she dig on the multiverse?
I bet he was getting pretty pissed
You didn't go out and get her wontons after did you??
Nice to see Aktar finally getting a place at the table. We have overlooked our silvery plastic baby overlords for too long.
Aktar even got top billing over Rich Evans
I have one question, what happened to the other 4547 medievalfolkdance accounts?
@@neliz2k They spoke ill of Aktar
@@neliz2k Same place as the 1999 neliz's I guess.
@@Lordeightbane Rich gets the "and" billing. If you cant get first, get last with an "and".
Macaulay Culkin finally got his star on the walk of fame for appearing next to Rich The birthday boy Evans. No really look it up it happened this week.
Some of those stars, poop has been on!
Oh there's a little dirt on Cary Grant's star! 😂
@@Kidd724Some?
People pay for those. You’re not chosen to get a star. You ask for one and then you pay for the privilege.
Glad to hear it.
Mike just casually invoking Rich's dead grandmother
OMFG! I've watched this episode multiple times and I always thought they were joking that the dad LOOKS like Ryan Phillippe, I never realised he is actually in the movie. What a fall from grace. Hot hollywood star to dumpster daddy. Wow.
This was the first movie my girlfriend and I ever rented together from a little store called Family Video nearly 6 years ago.. she doesn’t remember it, but I’ll never forget and I believe it’s the glue that still holds us together today.
Time to make her more than a girlfriend.
@@dr.johnbarron746 Haha, I’ve been married once, it was the literal manifestation of all your wishes turning against you..
The descriptions under each video RLM uploads keep getting better and better. This is currently the peak.
Wtf did I read
Needed that laugh, just perfect
Ooo good call
Whew
Holy crap I almost missed this one, thank you!
The description alone had me laughing. They get more deranged every year.
Truly an incredible read
I swear it's like they gave an ai chat bot dementia and forced it to write these lol
I always forget to read them, thanks for the reminder
do they have these on every video? Jeez I gotta go read every single one now.
I have to wonder what Rich's Nanoo ever did to Mike that forever imprinted a cruel bend towards the elderly within him.
49:00 As someone who knows a lot about voice over work. Not only can you get other soundalike voice actors to ADR scenes if you can't get the original actor back due to scheduling conflicts, but there are talented people who do that for a living.
I'm very supervised mike didn't know this, hes got no shame in being an ignorant hack
We HAD the crotch-level garbage disposal switch. Even worse, it was one of those panel looking switches. You couldn’t do the dishes without accidentally turning it on. Fun times!!!!
Oh Ryan Phillippe. You looked like an angel in Studio 54. Here you are again, a dumpster-diving saxophone dad.
Wait this guy says "you dig on multiverses !?" more than once ? Oh my god I love this movie !
Mike actually does a really solid Mr Plinkett impression
I find it interesting how he never uses that voice while being seen on camera.
Lol
@@joachimb5721 Idk how no one's noticed this yet, but it's pretty obvious hes getting Plinkett to dub the voiceover for him so he can pretend hes good at the voice
@@joachimb5721I think he did for a prank phone call once
There's nothing embarrassing about Weird Al. Once more Rich Evans proves himself a man of enlightened culture.
I looked it up, and I can confirm that John and Matthew Leonetti are in fact brothers.
If you think Wish Upon is a cadaver in autopsy, Mike theorizing the production details in a whiteboard is like a detective connecting the dots to figure out who did the murder.
By "detective" you mean, Charlie Day right? And by "connect the dots" you mean figure out where the mail goes.
And Rich is the creepy coroner that keeps poking it in the eye and laughing
Scientist Man
Pepe silva!
Cos you need to figure out what killed it... or who killed it
I like Jay's take on the Final Destination movies; "the best comedies you will ever see." I actually agree. The over the top deaths in them are just hilarious.
I saw this with a friend in a crowded theater when it came out and it was a blast. I remember saying aloud "the music box wouldnt forgot" after her last wish and at least one guy in front of us nodding in approval.
I’m currently at the dentist office, Jerry O’Connell hosting Pictionary is on the television in the waiting room. Rich Evans wasn’t wrong…he’s never wrong.
Plinkett needs to return for a series where he just reads misspelled internet comments that people don’t read back to themselves before posting.
The real reason Jerry O'Connell is in this movie is he's still trying to find the slide that will take him home to his Earth.
Does this world have the squeaky fence door? 🚪 Or maybe the next?
Does he still dig on multiverses?
Lol he used the box to wish his way home instead of sliding, and it just took him to the end of episode 1 again
Jerry is looking old enough for Mike to laugh uncontrollably at.
Haha! Was Sliders any good? I remember an episode where the Golden Gate Bridge, was actually gold haha
Finally, a multiverse where RLM discusses Wish Upon.
I can dig this multiverse
The beauty of the house's establishing shot is that they looked at the rusted bike, the messy lawn, the desaturated colors, and thought "this isn't enough", so they put a black guy in frame to really solidify in the audience's mind that their quality of life has deteriorated. They really needed that black guy, or else people wouldn't have understood.
Were they living in squalor or living in Arkansas. Oh wait there's a black person, it's squalor. If it were Arkansas there wouldn't be a black dude. Cuz of segregation WINK WINK
Could have been eight years of grass growth, around the bike, or if its the South, maybe some kudzu...
The bike is practically on the sidewalk. Wouldn’t someone have at least STOLEN it by now?
@@DeflatingAtheism Hell when I put old furniture out for trash it's gone sometimes before I even make it back to my door and I don;t live ion a bad area! LOL
@@DeflatingAtheismThat's why the black guy was there.
Wish Upon makes Netflix's Death Note look like a masterpiece
40:54 When Mike's sneeze gets cut off I lost it lol. Why is it so funny when a sound or a word gets edited off partway thru to jump to the next part of the video? It gets me every time over multiple videos/channels
I like how they say they've watched it 4 or 5 times at studio movie nights but then say Rich has never seen it. insinuating he is not invited to movie nights.
Rich doesn’t watch movies for fun. He’s in it for the paycheck.
Brutal
@@MartyParty23joke aside, isn’t his reported net worth aprox $40 million dollars? RICH Evans 😎
Rich doesn't dig on multiverses.
"Roger ebert is getting too old to review movies" Thats defnitely a true statement because he'd been dead for four years
knowing that the writer is/was a writer for lifetime movies is very helpful for understanding this movie.
I had my doubts, but Actar Baby has really become one of the group! Insightful comments and great jokes from it
This was like an "After School Special" of horror movies, and if I remember correctly this came out around the time when bullying was the hot topic of the moment in schools, in between mass shootings, so my guess is that "consequences" for tweens was the target selling idea. But all this aside, it is the dad that really makes this movie. Most people aren't aware (including myself) that school dumpsters are right outside the front door, and that dumpster diving is a profitable occupation. Look at that house! Forget perusing secondhand stores looking for donated vintage, go straight for garbage! And you can do it at night! Most likely it comes with free food too, so garbage is where the money is at kids
I mean, it’s not like teenagers haven’t been embarrassed by their dads for far less than rummaging through garbage while dressed like a hobo in a dumpster directly in front of their high school.
40:54 - This is one of the most unique build-ups I have ever seen, followed by one of the best and funniest cuts I've ever seen.
Hearing Mike say “Gacha game” was a surreal experience
Mike plays Honkai Star Rail on his off time
@@catv6930He mains Fu Xuan and is a Blue Archive player too.
I though this and was suprised. But when I listened a few times I think he says Gotcha. As in got you, caught you. He is just aware you catch pokimans, gotcha, caught you. He had no idea what happened in 5 nights at freddies last video. The idea that he knows Honkai star rail is impossible. Its at around 27:00
@@catv6930He exclusively mains Xianzhou units, and maybe Welt Yang too.
Jesus, I know I was whining to have Jack back but if he's just going to sit there then never mind
Got jumpscared @19:56 because my partner works in the commercial furniture industry, so I immediately recognized the name Haworth! The "fake store" looks like it was filmed in the Haworth furniture showroom in Toronto - if you look through the images of the location on Google Maps, there are some posted 7 years ago that are nearly identical to these scenes.
Mike’s long-winded rambles in the description never fail to be amusing
So true. Good stuff.
If you aren't reading the RLM descriptions, you're only getting a partial experience.
Thank you for this public service announcement, it benefitted me greatly.
I went back to read it after this comment and was subjected to the phrase "chastity diaper."
I never really paid attention to the video descriptions. Now I need to go back and rewatch all 791 previous videos. For a third time.
So exciting to hear them talk about it after referencing this movie years ago!
Where did they reference it?
Where did they reference it?
@@thegpome the only time I remember them talking about it was in their 2017 Catch Up video. It was at the end, I’m pretty sure.
You know Mike is about to obliterate a movie when he pulls out a piece of paper and the music starts creeping in
Rich, I immediately caught your Star Trek VI reference. This is why you're the most valuable member of the team. You GET your audience.
Yet another unhinged and delightful video description. Mike edits are always my favorite.
I love how Mike and Rich are both massive Trekkies and have been consistently mispronouncing the Kurlan Naiskos for like 11 years.
Rich pronounces everything wrong though.
They might really believe it's "Niskar" now. Kind of like how Picard was almost ready to see five lights.
@@JaDav40 And like how Picard knows how to bottle wine, or retconned his mother's death, etc.
Yep, the Leonetti's are brothers. John was the cinematographer on the first Mortal Kombat in 1995 and directed the sequel. He asked his older brother Matthew to be the dp for the second one. I wished Rich was there in the theater when I saw the second one back in 1998. I'm sure everyone would have wished for that back in the day.
Mikes genuine laughter at elderly abuse and people getting hurt really warms my heart ❤️
The best friend guy broke the long standing record for oldest actor playing a high school student held until now by Gabrielle Carteris. Does that count as elder abuse?
Picture yourself seated alongside Rich Evans at the dentist's office, sharing a laugh over an episode over Pictionary.
this exercise is providing relief for my anxiety. ty
@DubtrackerFM it cured my ED too!
The crazy thing is I would have NEVER have expected Joey King to have later been so good in The Act and Bullet Train. She seemed destined for schlock what with Wish Upon, The Kissing Booth, and Slenderman. (And yes, I am a YMS fan, so I've been watching her for a while.)
I think she's a sucky actress tbh. She has an amazing agent.
The way I always took the dad's garbage picking is that it was a result of a wish the mom made that caused him to compulsively do it.
🤔
I doubt they were that clever...
“I wish to have everything in the whole world!” cue trash picking consequence
@@clolspike That's more a genie's wish. I think it would be more like "I wish my husband would love old things more." for a monkeys paw to result in the picking compulsion - being compelled to take things from the trash because they must be old
@@huma474 They could also have literrally made it about how something she owned with very much sentimental value was thrown away by him. So he compulsively does it out of regret over having her driven into bein desperate enough to make a pact with a demon.
Thats already kinda fucking stupid, but still cleverer than anything the movie does.
Knowing how old this movie is in relative terms I though this video was from 5-6 years ago and my eyes bulged out when I saw it was uploaded 4 hours ago. Happy to see a review of this masterpiece!
“‘We’re going to Saks 57th Ave.’” -Rich Evans.
That must be where the retail store sells high-end ketchup.
You can really tell Mike is passionate about Wish Upon, because of how rapidly he oscillates between defending it and shitting on it.
Mike was close with the Genie vs Monkeys paw. The Genie twists your words while the monkeys paw gives you what you want but in an inconvenient way. A good example I saw was:
You: I wish to be rich!
Genie: What is your second wish, Richard?
Monkeys Paw: Your house burned down with your family inside but the insurance paid out HUGE!
Missed opportunity to have the genie refer to him as rich evans
I love that after the wish upon box makes them rich, Ryan Phillipe STILL is dumpster diving. He simply can't let go of the trash, he's addicted to the lifestyle
He's the trashman
people discard useful cool shit all the time 🤷♀😂
Only now he wears a $1200 Haworth hobo hat while dumpster diving. Steal his look!
He's a functioning garbage addict. But he'll end up like Oscar the Grouch eventually
Well, anyone who watched scifi shows in the 90s knows Jerry O'Connell digs the multiverse.
Quinn is all about them!
At least until the last season of the show when he bails out.
I’ve always loved the brief section of one of the RLM annual Catch-Up videos where Mike and Jay talk about this movie, but I always wished it was longer. You cannot believe how excited I was to see this pop up in my feed, Christmas came early!
Jerry O'Connell of Sliders fame also dug on multiverses. The plot thickens.
the sounds effects of the naked old man falling in the bathtub and hitting his head while mike rich and jay proceed to laugh is just great
I love how Rich pretended to not remember he has the entire Skee-Lo discography on LP just to sell Mike's joke. So heartwarming.
The moment Disney hits rock bottom with "Wish", we finally get this. This is proof that you can make a selfish wish and something wonderful follows.
Most disjointed film series though
I'm sure they'll bounce back with "Upon"
I’m glad everyone silently mutually agreed that the new disney movie looks fucking awful. I feel like it really brought us all together as a society
@@jswp5 yes, it was like the whole world experienced profound second hand embarrassment at the same moment.
RLM doesn't chase the algorithm like other channels. They subvert your expectations .
I think every time I've watched Wish Upon for shits and giggles has progressively rotted my brain because the line between ironic and sincere enjoyment is being blurred to where I can now recite lines by heart.
You dig multiverses too?
when the line between irony and sincerity is blurred, you find camp.
@@shollyboster9115 Then kitsch, then you cycle back to sincere. It's the postmodern roundabout.
A good way for old writers to write for teenagers is to have the movie set to when they were a teenager. That way they actually know what the fuck they're talking about.
Unironically a brilliant idea
I watched this movie in theaters when it was released. Most of the audience laughed at the final scene, I will never forget that 😂
11:54 "I think you're a selfish bowl of bitch sauce" actually goes really hard. Excellent delivery